unjoynted Her They have Musick Pla. A Lute only His Grace prepard they say the best of Italy That waits upon my Lord Her He thinks the Dutchess Is stung with a Tarantula Pla. Your pardon My duty is expected Her Gentle Lady a voice too Song within S. Come my Daphne come away We do wast the Crystal day 'T is Strephon calls Da What says my love S. Come follow to the Mirtle Grove Where Venus shall prepare New Chaplets for thy hair D. Were I shut up within a Tree I 'd rend my bark to follow thee S. My Shepherdess make hast The minutes slide too fast D. In those cooler shades will I Blind as Cupid kiss thine ey S. In thy bosome then I 'l stay In such warm Snow who would not lose his way Chor. WE 'l laugh and leave the world behind And Gods themselves that see Shall envy thee and me But never find Such joys when they embrace a Deity If at this distance I distinguish 't is not Church musick and the air 's wanton and no Anthem Sung to 't but some strange Ode of love and kisses What should this mean ha he is coming hither I am betraid he marches in her hand I 'l trust a little more mute as the Arras My sword and I here He observes Enter Cardinal Dutchess Antonelli and Attendants Car. Wait you in the first Chamber and let none Presume to interrupt us Ex. Serv. She is pleasant now for some art to poyson all her innocence Dut. I do not like the Cardinals humour he Little suspects what guest is in my Chamber Car. Now Madam you are safe Dut. How means your Lordship Car. Safe in my Arms sweet Dutchess Dut. Do not hurt me Car. Not for the treasures of the world you are My pretty charge had I as many lives As I have carefull thoughts to do you service I should think all a happy forfeit to Delight your Grace one minute 't is a heaven To see you smile Dut. What kindness call you this Car. It cannot want a name while you preserve So plentifull a sweetness it is love Dut. Of me how shall I know 't my Lord Car. By this and this swift Messengers to whisper Our hearts to one another Kisses Dut. Pray do you come a wooing Car. Yes sweet Madam You cannot be so cruell to deny me Dut. What my Lord Car. Another kiss Dut. Can you Dispense with this my Lord Alas I fear Aside Hernando is asleep or vanish'd from me Car. I have mock'd my blood into a flame and what My angry soul had form'd for my revenge Is now the object of my amorous sense I have took a strong inchantment from her lips And fear I shall forgive Columbo's death If She consent to my embrace come Madam Dut. Whither my Lord Car. But to your bed or couch Where if you will be kind and but allow Your self a knowledg love whose shape and raptures Wise Poets have but glorified in dreams Shall make your chamber his eternall Palace And with such active and essentiall streams Of new delights glide o'r your bosome you Shall wonder to what unknown world you are By some blest change translated why d' e pause And look so wild will you deny your Governour Dut. How came you by that Cloven foot Car. Your fancy Would turn a traitour to your happiness I am your friend you must be kind Dut. Unhand me Or I 'l cry out a rape Car. You wo'not sure Dut. I have been cozend with Hernando's shadow Here 's none but heaven to hear me help a rape Car. Are you so good at understanding then I must use other argument He forces her Her Go to Cardinal Strikes him Ex. Dut. Car. Hernando Murder Treason help Her An army sha'not rescue thee your blood Is much inflam'd I have brought a Lancet wi' me Shall open your hot veins and cool your fever To vex thy parting Soul it was the same Engin that pinc'd Columbo's heart Car. Help Murder Enter Antonelli and Servants Anton. Some ring the bell 't wil raise the Court My Lord is murder'd 't is Hernando The bell rings Her I 'l make you all some sport So now we are even Where is the Dutchess I would take my leave Of her and then bequeath my curse among you Her falls Enter King Dutchess Valeria Lords Guard K. How come these bloody objects Her With a trick my sword found out I hope he 's paid 1 Lo I hope so to a Surgeon for my Lord Cardinal K. Hernando Dut. Iustice Oh Iustice Sir against a ravisher Her Sir I ha' done you service K. A bloody service Her 'T is pure Scarlet Enter Surgeon Car. After such care to perfect my revenge Thus banded out o' th' world by a womans plot Her I have preserv'd the Dutchess from a rape Good-night to me and all the world for ever Dies K. So impious Dut. 'T is most true Alvarez blood Is now reveng'd I find my brain return And every stragling sense repairing home Car. I have deserv'd you should turn from me Sir My life hath been prodigiously wicked My blood is now the Kingdoms balm oh Sir I have abu'd your ear your trust your people And my own sacred Office my conscience Feels now the sting oh shew your charity And with your pardon like a cool soft gale Fan my poor sweating soul that wanders through Unhabitable climes and parched deserts But I am lost if the great World forgive me Unless I find your mercy for a crime You know not Madam yet against your life I must confess more than my black intents Upon your honour y' are already poyson'd K. By whom Car. By me In the revenge I ow'd Columbo's loss With your last meat was mixt a poyson that By subtle and by sure degrees must let in death K. Look to the Dutchess our Physicians Car. Stay I will deserve her mercy though I cannot Call back the deed in proof of my repentance If the last breath of a now dying man May gain your charity and belief receive This Ivory box in it an antidote 'Bove that they boast the great magistrall medicine That pouder mixt with wine by a most rare And quick access to the heart will fortifie it Against the rage of the most nimble poyson I am not worthy to present her with it Oh take it and preserve her innocent life 1 Lo. Strange he should have a good thing in such readyness Car. This that which in my jealousie and state Trusting to false predictions of my birth That I sh dy by poyson I preserv'd For my own safety wonder not I made That my companion was to be my refuge Enter Servant with a bowle of Wine 1 Lo. Her 's some touch of grace Car. in greater proof of my pure thoughts I take This first and with my dying breath confirm My penitence it may benefit her life But not my wounds oh hasten to preserve her And though I merit not her pardon let not Her fair soul be divorc'd
this your Answer was a free resign Col. Flatter'd with great opinion of her faith And my desert of her with thought that she Who seem'd to weep and chide my easie will To part with her could not be guilty of A treason or Apostacy so soon But rather meant this a device to make Me expedite the affairs of War I sent That paper which her wickedness not justice Applied what I meant tryall her divorce I lov'd her so I dare call heaven to witness I knew not whether I lov'd most while she With him whose crimson penitence I provok'd Conspir'd my everlasting infamy Examine but the circumstance Car. 'T is clear This Match was made at home before she sent That cunning writ in hope to take him off As knowing his impatient Soul would scorn To own a blessing came on crutches to him It was not well to raise his expectation Had you Sir no affront to ruine him With so much scandall and contempt K. We have Too plentifull a circumstance to accuse You Madam as the cause of your own sorrows But not without an accessary more Than young Alvarez Car. Any other instrument K. Yes I am guilty with her self and Don Columbo though our acts look'd severall waies That thought a lover might so soon be ransom'd And did exceed the office of a King To exercise dominion over hearts That owe to the prerogative of heaven Their choice or Separation you must therefore When you do kneel for Justice and Revenge Madam consider me a laterall agent In poor Alvarez Tragedy 1 Lo. It was your love to Don Columbo Sir Her So so the King is charm'd do you observe How to acquit Columbo he would draw Himself into the plot Heaven is this Justice Car. Your Judgment is divine in this K. And yet Columbo cannot be secure and we Just in his pardon that durst make so great And insolent a breach of Law and Duty 2 Lo. Ha Will he turn agen K. And should we leave This guilt of blood to Heaven which cries and strikes With loud appeals the palace of eternity Yet here is more to charge Columbo than Alvarez blood and bids me punish it Or be no King Her 'T is come about my Lords K. And If I should forgive His timeless death I cannot the offence That with such boldness struck at me Has my Indulgence to your merits which are great Made me so cheap your rage could meet no time Nor place for your revenge but where my eys Must be affrighted and affronted with The bloody execution This contempt Of Majesty transcends my power to pardon And you shall feel my anger Sir Her Thou shalt have one short prayer more for that Col. Have I i' th' progress of my life No actions to plead me up deserving Against this ceremony Car. Contain your self Col. I must be dumb then where is honour And gratitude of Kings when they forget Whose hand secur'd their greatness take my head off Examine then which of your silken Lords As I have done will throw himself on dangers Like to a floting Iland move in blood And where your great defence calls him to stand A Bullwark upon his hold brest to take In death that you may live but Souldiers are Your valiant fools whom when your own securities Are bleeding you can cherish but when once Your state and nerves are knit not thinking when To use their surgery again you cast Them off and let them hang in dusty armories Or make it death to ask for pay K. No more We thought to have put your victory and merits In ballance with Alvarez death which while Our mercy was to Iudge had been your safety But the affront to us made greater by This boldness to upbraid our royall bounty Shall tame or make you nothing Lor. Excellent Her The Cardinal is not pleas'd Car. Humble your self To th' King Col. And beg my life let cowards do 't That dare not dy I 'l rather have no head Than owe it to his Charity K. To th' Castle with him Madam I leave you to your grief and what The King can recompence to your tears or honor Of your dead Lord expect Dut. This shews like Iustice Exeunt ACT IV. Enter two Lords Hernando 1 Lord THis is the age of wonders 2 Lo. Wonderous mischiefs Her Among those guards which some call Tutelar Angels Whose office is to govern Provinces Is there not one will undertake Navarre Hath heaven forsook us quite 1 Columbo at large 2 And grac'd now more than ever 1 He was not pardon'd That word was prejudiciall to his fame Her But as the murder done had been a dream Vanish'd to memory he 's courted as Preserver of his Country with what chains Of Magick does this Cardinal hold the King 2 What will you say my Lord if they inchant The Dutchess now and by some impudent art Advance a Mariage to Columbo yet Her Say I 'l say no woman can be sav'd nor is 't Fit indeed any should pretend to Heaven After one such impiety in their sex And yet my faith has been so stager'd since The King restor'd Columbo I 'l be now Of no Religion 1 'T is not possible She can forgive the murder I observ'd Her tears Her Why so did I my Lord And if they be not honest 't is to be Half damn'd to look upon a woman weeping When do you think the Cardinal said his prayers 2 I know not Her Heaven forgive my want of charity But if I were to kill him he should have No time to pray his life could be no sacrifice Unless his soul went too 1 That were too much Her When you mean to dispatch him you may give Time for Confession they have injur'd me After another rate 2 You are too passionate Cozen Enter Columbo Colonels Alfonso Courtiers they pass over the Stage Her How the gay men do flutter to congratulate His Goal delivery ther 's one honest man What pity 't is a gallant fellow should Depend on knaves for his preferment 1 Except this cruelty upon Alvarez Columbo has no mighty stain upon him But for his Uncle Her If I had a Son Of twelve years old that would not fight with him And stake his soul against his Cardinals Cap I would dis-inherit him Time has took a lease But for three lives I hope a fourth may see Honesty walk without a crutch 2 This is But Air and Wildness Her I 'l see the Dutchess You may do well to comfort her 1 We must attend the King Her your pleasures Exit Her Enter King and Cardinal 1 A Man of a brave soul 2 The less his safety The King and Cardinal in consult K. Commend us to the Dutchess and imploy What language you think fit and powerfull To reconcile her to some peace My Lords Car. Sir I possess all for your sacred uses Exeunt Severally Enter Secretary and Celinda Sec. Madam you are the welcom'st Lady living Cel. To whom Mr. Secretary Sec. If you have
mercy To pardon so much boldness I durst say To me I am a Gentleman Cel. And handsome Sec. But my Lady has much wanted you Cel. Why Mr. Secretary Sec. You are the prettiest Cel. So Sec. The witiest Cel. So Sec. The merriest Lady i' th' Court Cel. And I was wish'd to make the Dutchess pleasant Sec. She never had so deep a cause of sorrow Her Chamber 's but a Coffin of a larger Volume wherein she walks so like a Ghost T' would make you pale to see her Cel. Tell her Grace I attend here Sec. I shall most willingly A spirited Lady would I had her in my closet She is excellent company among the Lords Sure she has an admirable treble Madam Exit Cel. I do suspect this fellow would be nibling Like some whose narrow fortunes will not rise To wear things when the inventions rare and new But treading on the heel of pride they hunt The fashion when t is crippled like fell tyrants I hope I am not old yet I had the honour To be saluted by our Cardinals Nephew This Morning ther 's a man Enter Secretary Sec. I have prevail'd Sweet Madam use what Eloquence you can Upon her and if ever I be usefull To your Ladiships service your least breath commands me Enter Dutchess Dut. Madam I come to ask you but one question If you were in my State my state of grief I mean an exile from all happiness Of this world and almost of heaven for my Affliction is finding out despair What would you think of Don Columbo Cel. Madam Dut. Whose Bloody hand wrought all this misery Would you not weep as I do and wish rather An everlasting spring of tears to drown Your sight than let your eys be curst to see The murderer agen and glorious So careless of his sin that he is made Fit for new Parricide even while his soul Is purpled o'r and reeks with innocent blood But do not do not answer me I know You have so great a spirit which I want The horrour of his fact surprising all My faculties you would not let him live But I poor I must suffer more ther 's not One little star in Heaven will look on me Unless to choose me out the mark on whom It may shoot down some angry influence Enter Placentia Pla. Madam her 's Don Columbo says he must Speak with your Grace Dut. But he must not I charge you None else wait Is this well done To triumph in his Tyranny speak Madam Speak but your conscience Enter Columbo and Secretary Sec. Sir you must not see her Col. Not see her were she cabled up above The search of Bullet or of Fire were she Within her Grave and that the toughest Mine That ever nature teem'd and groand withall I would force some way to see her do not fear I come to Court you Madam y' are not worth The humblest of my kinder thoughts I come To shew the man you have provok'd and lost And tell you what remains of my revenge Live but never presume again to marry I 'l kill the next at th' Altar and quench all The smiling tapers with his blood if after You dare provoke the Priest and heaven so much To take another in thy bed I 'l cut him from Thy warm embrace and throw his heart to Ravens Cel. This will appear an unexampled cruelty Col. Your pardon Madam rage and my revenge Not perfect took away my eys you are A noble Lady this not worth your ey-beam One of so slight a making and so thin An Autumn leaf is of too great a value To play which shall be soonest lost i' th' Air Be pleas'd to own me by some name in your Assurance I despise to be receiv'd There let her witness that I call You Mistress honour me to make these Pearls Your carkanet Cel. My Lord you are too humble in your thoughts Col. Ther 's no vexation too great to punish her Exit Enter Secretary Sec. Now Nadam Cel. Away you saucy fellow Madam I Must be excus'd if I do think more honourably Than you have cause of this great Lord Dut. Why is not All woman kind concern'd to hate what 's impious Cel. For my part Dut. Antonio is this a woman Sec. I know not whether she be man or woman I should be nimble to find out the Experiment She look'd with less state when Columbo came Dut. Let me entreat your absence I am cozen'd in her I took you for a modest honest Lady Cel. Madam I scorn any accuser and Deducting the great title of a Dutchess I shall not need one grain of your dear honour To make me full weight if your Grace be jealous I can remove Exit Sec. She is gone Dut. Prethee remove My fears of her return she is not worth Ex. Sec. Considering my anger 's mounted higher He need not put in caution for my next Marrage Alvarez I must come to thee Thy Virgin Wife and Widdow but not till I ha' paid those Tragick duties to thy Herse Become my piety and love but how Who shall instruct a way Enter Placentia Pla. Madam Don Hernando much desires to speak with you Dut. Will not thy own discretion think I am Unfit for visit Pla. Please your Grace he brings Something he says imports your ear and love Of the dead Lord Alvarez Dut. Then admit him Enter Hernando Her I would speak Madam to your self Dut. Your absence Her I know not how you Grace wil censure so Much boldness when you know the affairs I come for Dut. My Servant has prepar'd me to receive it If it concern my dead Lord Her Can you name So much of your Alvarez in a breath Without one word of your revenge O Madam I come to chide you and repent my great Opinion of your virtue that can walk And spend so many hours in naked Solitude As if you thought that no arrear were due To his death when you had paid his Funerall charges Made your eys red and wept a handkercher I come to tell you that I saw him bleed I that can challenge nothing in his name And honour saw his murder'd body warm And panting with the labour of his spirits Till my amaz'd Soul shrunk and hid it self While barbarous Columbo grinning stood And mock'd the weeping wounds it is too much That you should keep your heart alive so long After this spectacle and not revenge it Dut. You do not know the business of my heart That censure me so rashly yet I thank you And if you be Alvarez friend dare tell Your confidence that I despise my life But know not how to use it in a service To speak me his revenger this will need No other proof than that to you who may Be sent with cunning to betray me I Have made this bold confession I so much Desire to sacrifice to that hovering Ghost Columbo's life that I am not ambitious To keep my own two minutes after it Her If you will call me
remember By whom Alvarez dyed and weep and wake Another Iustice with my prayers Car. All thoughts That may advance a better peace dwell with you Exit Dut. How would this cozening Statesman bribe my Faith With flatteries to think him innocent No if his Nephew dy this Cardinal must not Be long-liv'd all the prayers of a wrong'd Widow Make firm Hernando's Sword and my own hand Shall have some glory in the next revenge I will pretend my brain with grief distracted It may gain easy credit and beside The taking off examination For great Columbo's death it makes what act I do in that believ'd want of my reason Appear no crime but my defence look down Soul of my Lord from thy eternall shade And unto all thy blest companions boast Thy Dutchess busie to revenge thy Ghost Exit Enter Columbo Hernando Alfonso Colonel Col. Hernando now I love thee and do half Repent the affront my passion threw upon thee Her You wo'not be too prodigall o' your penitence Colu. This makes good thy Nobility of birth Thou mayst be worth my anger and my sword If thou dost execute as daringly As thou provok'st a quarrell I did think Thy soul a starveling or a sleep Her You 'l find it Active enough to keep your spirit waking Which to exasperate for yet I think It is not high enough to meet my rage D' ee smile Col. This noise is worth it Gentlemen I 'm sorry this great Soldier has engag'd Your travel all his business is to talk Her A little of your Lordships patience You shall have other sport and swords that will Be as nimble 'bout your heart as you can wish 'T is pity more than our two single lives Should be at stake Colon. Make that no scruple Sir Her To him then that survives if fate allow That difference I speak that he may tell The World I came not hither on slight anger But to revenge my honour stain'd and trampled on By this proud man when General he commanded My absence from the field Colu. I do remember And I 'l give your Soul now a discharge Her I come to meet it if your courage be so fortunate But there is more than my own injury You must account for Sir if my sword prosper Whose point and every edge is made more keen With young Alvarez blood in which I had A Noble interest does not that sin benum Thy Arteries and turn the guilty flowings To trembling gelly in thy veins canst hear Me name that murder and thy spirits not Struck into air as thou wert shot by some Engin from heaven Col. You are the Dutchess Champion Thou hast given me a quarrell now I grieve It is determin'd all must fight and I Shall lose much honour in his fall Her That Dutchess Whom but to mention with thy breath is sacrilege An Orphan of thy making and condemn'd By thee to eternall solitude I come To vindicate and while I am killing thee By virtue of her prayers sent up for justice At the same time in heaven I am pardon'd for 't Col. I cannot hear the Bravo Her Two words more And take your chance before you all I must Pronounce that noble Lady without knowledge Or thought of what I undertake for her Poor soul Shee s now at her Devotions Busie with heaven and wearing out the earth With her stiff Knees and bribing her good Angel With treasures of her eys to tell her Lord How much she longs to see him my attempt Needs no commission from her were I A stranger in Navarre the inborn right Of every Gentleman to Alvarez loss Is reason to engage their swords and lives Against the common enemy of virtue Colu. Now have you finish'd I have an instrument Shall cure this noise and fly up to thy tongue To murder all thy words Her One little knot Of phlegm that clogs my stomach and I ba done You have an Uncle call'd a Cardinal Would he were lurking now about thy heart That the same wounds might reach you both and send Your reeling souls together Now have at you Alph. We must not Sir be idle They fight Columbo's Second slain Her What think you now of praying Colu. Time enough He kills Hernando's Second Commend me to my friend the scales are even I would be mercifull and give you time Now to consider of the other World You 'l find your soul benighted presently Her I 'l find my way i' th' dark They fight and close Columbo gets both the swords and Hernando takes up the seconds Weapon Colu A stumble 's dangerous Now ask thy life Ha Her I despise to wear it A gift from any but the first bestower Col. I scorn a base advantage ha Her I am now Out of your debt Columbo throwes away one of the swords They fight Hernando wounds Columbo Col. Th' ast don 't and I forgive thee Give me thy hand when shall we meet again Her Never I hope Col. I feel life ebb apace yet I 'l look upwards And shew my face to heaven Her The matters done I must not stay to bury him Exit ACT V. Enter two Lords 1 Lord COlumbo's death doth much aflict the King 2 Lo. I thought the Cardinal would have lost his wits At first for 's nephew it drownes all the talk Of the other that were slain 1 We are friends I do suspect Hernando had some interest And knew how their wounds came 2 His flight confirms it For whom the Cardinal has spread his nets 1 He is not so weak to trust himself at home To his Enemies gripe 2 All strikes not me so much As that the Dutchess most oppressed Lady Should be distracted and before Columbo Was slain 1 But that the Cardinal should be made Her Guardian is to me above that wonder 2 So it pleas'd the King and she with that small stock Of reason left her is so kind and smooth Upon him 1 She 's turn'd a child agen a madness That would ha' made her brain and blood boil high In which distemper she might ha' wrought something 2 Had been to purpose 1 The Cardinal is cunning and how e'r His brow does smile he does suspect Hernando Took fire from her and waits a time to punish it 2 But what a subject of disgrace and mirth Hath poor Celinda made herself by pride In her belief Columbo was her servant Her head hath stoop'd much since he died and she Almost ridiculous at Court Enter Cardinal Antonelli Servant 1. The Cardinal Is come into the Garden now Car. Walk off It troubles me the Dutchess by her loss Of brain is now beneath my great revenge She is not capable to feel my anger Which like to unregarded thunder spent In woods and lightning aim'd at senseless trees Must idly fall and hurt her not not to That sense her guilt deserves a fatall stroke Without the knowledg for what crime to fright her When she takes leave and make her tug with death Untill her soul sweat is a Pidgeons
K. This is some charity may it prosper Madam Valeria How does your grace Dut. And must I owe my life to him whose death Was my ambition take this free acknowledgment I had intent this night with my own hand To be Alvarez lusticer K. You were mad And thought past apprehension of revenge Dut. That shape I did usurp great Sir to give My Art more freedom and defence but when Hernando came to visit me I thought I might defer my execution Which his owe rage suppli'd without my guilt And when his lust grew high met with his blood 1 Lo. The Cardial smiles Car. Now my revenge has met With you my nimble Dutchess I have took A shape to give my act more freedom too And now I am sure she 's poyson'd with that doze I gave her last K. Th' art not so horrid Dut. Ha! some Cordiall Car. Alas no preservative Hath wings to overtake it were her heart Lock'd in a quarry it would search and kill Before the aids can reach it I am sure You sha not now laugh at me K. How came you by that poyson Car. I prepar'd it Resolving when I had enjoy'd her which The Colonel prevented by some art To make her take it and by death conclude My last revenge you have the fatal Story K. This is so great a wickedness it will Exceed belief Car. I knew I could not live Surgeon Your wounds Sir were not desperate Car. Not mortall ha were they not mortall Surg. If I have skill in Surgery Car. Then I have caught my self in my own Engin 2 Lo. It was your fate you said to dy by poyson Car. That was my own prediction to abuse Your faith no humane art can now resist it I feel it knocking at the seat of life It must come in I have wrackt all my own To try your charities new it would be rare If you but waft me with a little prayer My wings that flag may catch the wind but 't is In vain the mist is risen and ther 's none To stear my wandring bark Dyes 1 Lo. He 's dead K. With him Dy all deceived trust 2 Lo. This was a strange impiety K. When men Of Gifts and sacred Function once decline From virtue their ill deeds transcend example Dut. The minute 's come that I must take my leave too Your hand great Sir and though you be a King We may exchange forgiveness heaven forgive And all the world I come I come Alvarez Dyes K. Dispose their bodies for becoming funeral How much are Kings abus'd by those they take To royall grace whom when they cherish most By nice indulgence they doo often arm Against themselves from whence this maxim springs None have more need of Perspectives than Kings Exeunt Epilogue Within Mr. Polla'd wher 's Mr. Pollard for the Epilogue He is thrust upon the Stage and falls Epilogue I Am coming to you Gentlemen the Poet Has help'd me thus far on my way but I 'l Be even with him the Play is a Tragedy The first that ever he compos'd for us Wherein he thinks he has done pretily Enter Servant And I am sensible I prethee look Is nothing out of joynt has he broke nothing Serv. Nor Sir I hope Epi. Yes he has broke his Epilogue all to peeces Canst thou put it together agen Ser. Not I Sir Epi. Nor I prethee be gone hum Mr. Poet I have a teeming mind to be reveng'd You may assist and not be seen in 't now If you please Gentlemen for I do know He listens to the issue of his cause But blister not your hands in his applause Your private smile your nod or hum to tell My fellows that you like the business well And when without a clap you go away I 'l drink a small-bear health to his second day And break his heart or make him swear and rage He 'l write no more for the unhappy Stage But that 's too much so we should lose faith shew it And if you like his play 'ts as well he knew it FINIS A Catalogue of the Authors Poems already Printed Tragedies THe Traytour Philip Chabot Admirall of France Loves Cruelty The Maids Revenge Dukes Mistri The Cardinal Comedies and Tragi-comedies The School of Complement The Lady of Pleasure Hide-parke The Constant Maid Falsely ascribed to Jo. Fletcher The Coronation The Changes or Love in a Maze The Gratefull Servant The Patron of Ireland The Humorous Court The wedding The Ball or French Dancing Master The Gamester The Example The Bird in a cage The Royall Master The Opportunity The Witty Faire one The Imposture The Brothers The Sisters A Masque of the four Honorable Innes of Court presented before the King and Queens Majesty at Whitehall in the Banqueting house Poems FINIS