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A04889
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A pleasant conceited comedie, called, A knacke to know an honest man As it hath beene sundrie times plaied about the citie of London.; Knack to know an honest man.
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STC 15028; ESTC S108089
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the gard Ser T is true my friends I heard the pullie creake The stirring crane did make a mightie noise And by a rope I sawe descending downe The cursed murderer Lord Lelio T is Brishio succors Lelio none else Mar What news my friends what makes Seruio vp Ser Captaine Lorde Lelio hetherto hath kept in Brishios house And this night from his lee is slipt awaie I sawe the ancor fisht the sailes new hoist Aske of this peasant if I tell not true Mar Sirrha didst thou see Lelio Fran I marie did I sir Ser What need we more Fran Marie to know when I sawe him last For the first time I sawe him was at his marriage For Vnbend thy musket souldier in the locke Presse me his thumbes and make the slaue confesse Here pinch him Fran O I confesse Lelio was shipt at our crane this night My master Brishio tooke him in I agreed with the shipmaster made clcane his shooes And so laide him in the rope of our crane And let him downe into the ship And he is gone into the Florentine campe Ma. So now let him loose the truth apparant is Fo Marchetto go prosecute the Senates will Attach Lord Brishio seize vpon his goods Come breake vp the doore Exit omnis manet Sempronio Seruio Sem. Soft gentle friend a word or two with you From whence proceed these troubles that arise Se For yong Sempronios death my honest friend Sem VVhy gentle sir is young Sempronio dead Se VVhy doubts thou that I tell thee I haue sought and found it so Sem. VVhere was he buried Se VVhy Sepheards brought me tidings of his death Some rauenous beast did seize him for his praie Sem And what hast thou lost or gotten by his death Se I haue annuall rents two thousand pounds The worth in plate of twice so many more A few such breakfasts friend would make me rich I le tell thee euerie daie throughout the yere I le loose a kinsman to possesse so much Semp Then not for loue thou bearest Sempronio But for a colour of thy honest minde Thou doest pursue Lord Lelio in this sort Se A foole were I so to accuse my selfe Thinke like a worldly man that so it is And so it is in deed who longeth to be rich Let him forget God but for a dozen yeres He shall be rich well landed stout and braue â—â—m Wipe out that water from thy eies my friend Se. VVhat ayleth me Sem VVhy thou art blind and canst not see Se. Thou wilt not make me mad I le take my spectacles Sem. Tush they auaile thee not for thou art blinde in deede Looke in thy heart and finde an honest thought Then will I saie thy eyes are perfect cleere Looke in thy conscience finde it not corrupt Then thou shalt see without thy spectacles Se. Awaie thou art a knaue I saie tempt me not Sem Yes but thou art an arrant couetous knaue for all mine vnkle Exit Seruio Enter Fortunio and Marchetto with Brishio and his two sonnes Bri T is true my Lord I fauord Lelios flight My loue hath crost the rigor of your lawes Fo Did you foreknow the penaltie my Lord That doomes you banishment and losse of goods Bri All this I knew but none of this I feare True friendship lightneth all these burdenous harme If Lelio be escapt I feare no wants My exile to me is libertie Go fruites of nature I will leaue you heere Go toward children thriue among my friends Glut you with my excesse of Vanities Feed your vncleane desires by spoiling me I wreake them not so Lelio liue to me Not irkesome age not lims with sicknes tir'd Nor you my sonnes nor all my other friends Not fortune nor intreate shall keep me backe Mar Whence growes thy resolution so austere Brish From honestie my friends which gouernes me First Lelio mongst our chiefest citizens Made me his father and his vowed friend Next to defend my daughter from defame He ventured life And shall a little pelfe These two yong boyes make me forget my friend That ventured life and vertue for my sake No I loue my Lelio do what fortune can Sem Why here 's a knacke to know an honest man Keepe him in Venice my Fortunio When he is gone few such will staie behinde For here our wonted faith is turn'd to fraud Our periuries are counted policies Our oaths are gates to catch the simple sort Our curtesie is but nodding of the head Discouering the cap or bending of the knee Swearing I loue your honor good my Lord The best dissembler hath the brauest wit Come let me loue thee for thy Lelios sake And when I meet him next I le tel him more Ex. Sem. Opre Deare father who shall succor vs when you are dead Brish Your diligence which can command the proudest miserie Zeph What if your friends repine and will not giue Brish Your hands my sons must teach you how to liue Courage and industrie can neuer want Vaine idlenesse growes wretched by itselfe But diligence inableth poorest men Well must I to prison Lordes or must I hence Tell me the Senates sentence speedily Fo Hie thee from Venice speedily for if thou stay But two houres space thou art adiudged death Brish Farewell my Lord and farewell gentle friend Adieu my sonnes nay weepe not Commend me to your sister loue her well Defend her honor as you loue your liues Zep Where nature parteth vs there sorrow thriues Exit Brishio Ma Come let vs let the Duke and Senate know The whole successe and fortune we haue had Exit omnis Enter Franco and Gnatto Gnat What Franco wel met whether art thou going Fran Faith my master is gone awaie and I am going a begging Gnat A begging why t is the best occupation thou canst vse A begger hath fiue of the seuen liberall sciences At his fingers ends he hath musike to sing for his dinner he hath logicke to cauel with the constable he hath rhetorike to perswade that hee should not go to the stockes he hath Geometrie to measure out his bed in the plaine field and he hast Astronomie to shew a warme sunne from a colde shade Nay I le proue that a begger deuours the foure morall vertues at one breakfast he 's valiant when he must needs fight he is liberall when he hath anie monie to spend and he is true if there be nothing to steale A begger why t is the ancientest occupation that is it began at Adam wil neuer end til doomes day But sirrha Franco I le tell thee what thou shalt do go professe thine olde occupation againe Fran. What 's that Gnat. O t is the best occupation that is for thee Fran Why what profit can that yeld Gnat. Why by being alwaies dronke thou shalt learne neuer to be sober O the vertue of a dronkard is much he speaks little because he sleeps much he stands not vpon opinion for euerie litle straw throwes him not
Where are the keyes that lockt the vpper loft Ph. Fast vnderneath the pillow where you sleepe Se. Go fetch them hether le ts see them straight Goe call vp my neighbors Fayries haunt my house Exit Phillida Ser. This ring was yesterday night vpon this thumbe Yet hath two deuils gotten it abroad And gotten passage through my castell gates And here a worse then Lucifer him selfe Doth bring it backe to haunt me with suspect Enter Annetta Lucida and Gnatto An. Hie thee good Gnatto bring vs to the house If yet my brothers bide with Seruio I le to the Duke and moue Fortunio For what they did was in my honors right See where old Seruio sits Gnat. T is such a wold fraud foole I am loth to speake Enter Phillida with the keies Phil Father heere are the keies Fetch forth the prisoners let me see their lookes Exit Phillyda â—n God speed you Sir in the way of honistie My mistresse would know whether her brethren bee prisoners in your house or no. Seruio I tell her and I hope ere noone to see them hanged Gnat. I told you what would come out He spake as though hee would spit his stomp in my mouth Enter Phillida Phil. Alas alas father we are all vndone Orphinio and Zepherius are fled Ser. Tell me that my soule hathe left my flesh How when where whether howe should they bee gone Gna. Fine and braue mistresse your brethren are gone Ser. Villaine why did they passe you minkes you Minion you haue let them loose Phil. Good father do not censure me amisse Ser. Hence callet harlot worse then nought For thou hast lost me and my prisoners I am vndon my credit 's crackt my honor 's lost gone I am a reprobate and cast away I le to the Duke Packe thou to hell thou wretch come not in my sight But get thee gone Exit Seruio and Phillida An How glad am I my brethren are escapt Come sirra vex the silly wretch no more Exit omnis Enter Orphinio Zepherius and Lelio Zeph. Good fortune to our brother Lelio Le. O happie relickes of a worthy man Young Zepherius and kinde Orphinio How wends the word in Venice with our frends How fares Annetta how liues Lucida Or. The worse doth still preuaile Marchetto hath attempted thy faire wife Fortunio sought to rauish Lucida And we rescuing them haue hardely scapt with lyfe Le. Like as the Palme vnto the Egyptian sagges That in three hundred daies and sixtie fiue Is seemliest and fully brought to passe Euen so your tydings to sad Lelio Importeth my excreding yeare of griefe That hath three hundred woes and sixtie fiue And sixtie fiue three hundred sorrowes more Zep. To greeue thy sorrowes without mending them is vanitie Lelio behold occasion fauoures thee Le. Why are your swords vnsheathd you noble frinds Doth pittie moue you by a blessed death to ende my wooes O welcome is that sword that slyts this hart Orp. Tho u seest our Father in declyning age Is banisht quite for sauing of thy life And we his sonnes vnlesse he doth returne Are neuer like to visit Venice more Resolue you then to hye you backe againe And by thy head reuoke our exiled Sire Or by our swords prepare thy selfe to dye Le. Is this the cause that makes you so vnkinde Will Lelios head or heart or any part Be comforters to Brishio and his sonnes Put vp your swords wee will not square for this That I may see my father ere I go And thank him for his many curtesies Enter Brishio Zep. See where he comes occasion fauours thee Bri. God blesse my sonnes ryse ryse speake to me Haue you not some Venetian frinds vnkinde Or. Their friendship with thy fortunes tooke an end Bri. I thought on lesse but why is Lelio so discontent Tut giue ouer man the streame wil run with vs at last Le. I come to thanke my father for his loue And pray him by those armes he honors most To daigne my dutiful and kind adew Le. Why whether goes my sonne so suddenly Bri. To Venice father to redeeme your banishment Bri. I am not banisht you wrong my fames Liuing for him I liue at libertie Zep. But Lelio must not liue vnlesse he be resolu'd To hie to Venice that thou maiest returne Le. These are thy children Brishio these exceede In kindnesse towards thee and towards mee Oh honors to your father and to mee Let me imbrace you for your curtesie Brishio fare well accept a thousand thankes Bri. Why who willes thee hence Zep. Father they will him hence that will be actors In his Tragedie vnlesse he to Venice go speedily And quit thee from this exile with his head Bri. These are not Brishios sonnes bids Lelio hence These are not Brishios sonnes that draw their swords Thou art my sonne these two are fortunes slaues Avant vaine boyes come not in my sight By heauen and heauens adorning sunne These are no sonnes of mine that sinne so much Or. Ashamd we beg a pardon at thy hands Br. Ashamd I beg a pardon at thy handes In rendring nature that hath lost thy power To breed such manslayers in an honest stocke Le. O bend not those knees to which nature bends Zep. O Lelio sue our pardons plead for vs Our iudgements were disgraced by our loues Le. Ryse father of kinde sonnes sonnes kinde to father Brothers vnkinde in kindnesse to your brother I kind to churlish of my kinde Do yeeld kind death to saue your liues Br Sweare puytence lewd boyes Submit to Lelio humbly on your knee Else will I neuer blesse you gracelesse youthes Or. We humbly craue submission of our brother Br. And thou my sonne nay more then sonne my frind Here plight thy fayth to bide and stay with me Or I shall thinke my loue but spent in vaine Le I vow to be as sequest to my Father And with my heart I do forgiue my brothers Bri. Then will I now incorporate these Lads And hug them in my arme and hold them deare Now wil I hold a festiuall to day For Lelio Zepherius and Orphinio Le. And I with fauour of my noble Lord Will first giue order to my souldiers And then returne to Brishio in his tent Br. Be carefull of thy charge my noble sonne I will not hinder thee in vertuous things But let vs meete againe before we march For I haue many things for to impart to thee Le. My busines past I will reuisit thee Exit omnes manit Lelio Le. In what a world of troubles am I tost To Venice Lelio rid thy fathers cares I but Brishio will accuse thy breach of faith But while I heere remayne his griefes increase I am resolud father frinds farewell I will to Venice with a merry hart And in what eare disguise I can prouide Visit Annetta my distressed wife And so redeeme my fathers banishment Exit Lelio Enter the Duke of Venice with the Senator Seruio bound Duke Bring tortors forth bring me