richer worth I le by and out-by the imprisond scope Of reaching blood what will not value doe Where strong abillitie dos reach his hand And they haue beautie too which ioynd to riches Will proffer faire tho not so quaint As courtly dames or earths bright treading starres They are maids of More-clacke homely milke-bole things Such as I loue and faine would marry well S. Rafe It was a promise in you to be kinde Sir William I le forward with that promise you loue my eldest Toures With my soule S. Wil. And pittie to deuide that loue then hearken me when shee s dead and liues againe shee s yours not till then Toures Then neuer but in death S. Wil. You loue my yongest daughter Filbon And will euer S. Wil. Pray ye doe but when you are from your selfe a woman she is yours in marriage Filbon Woman to woman ioynd t were wonderfull but in more maze of wonder I should be what I doe challenge to participate and from my selfe liue to deuide in other S. Wil. Faith not till such a wonder S. Rafe I st not enough to scandall thy true word But are we slighted thus with fantasies Impossibilities dead and aliue againe Manhood infuzd in woman t is not generous Exit Audi. Come sonne vpon my blessing Take from thy eies thy heart adoring shine Offer no more thy altar bearing thoughts To one so gyant-like whose reach sits hie Aboue the compasse of a gentill eie Exit Sir Wil. you haue your answeres gallants Toures We like it not Fil. Nor will we so except it S. Wil. Fore-warnd come neare my house Rapes fellonies and what may else be thought on I will with heauie impositions Surcharge ye with if not with pistoll shot I will defend my selfe and these I keepe Exit Toures Liue I to heare this Fil. Conuay them from him let vs Toures In disguise Filbon Or not at all Toures That way or none Exeunt Enter Iames and Humil Humil Iames when I put thee from my thought let me be hud wincht from all fortune thy pertaking gentlenes is such as I doe loue thee troth I doe Iames. God continue this good league Humil Wot'st what newes Iames. No Humil The louers are expulst and my faire hopes shine the clearer what wilt say when I doe marrie this Knights eldest daughter Iames. That you are then possest Humil She is mine contracted in her fathers word Iames. New broken sir Humil Ha Iames. T is true your mother challeng'd it but he as angry as the raging morne whose choller breathing shakes high battlements puts her off with a pause of contrarie I know it sir her ioynter is subscrib'd too which else to doe sooner should earth to heauen presume a progresse then the grant make firme what the antecedent challenges your mother vpon this abandons from his bed vowing bold absence he inrag'd giues way to all maligne and stubborne fashion of contempt such a cloze to day neuer had practise such a wedding night till this sad first neuer had purchase you shall well agree them sir to attone this iarre vse meanes I pray you t' will become ye well when wrangling wrestles with such violent iniurie t is the sonnes office Humil T is the diuels office and not mine to hell obedience if he breake his word Iames. You had a father loued ye better Humil He loud me as a king in a play his seruant who were seeing him giues kind applause but small vtilitie my father in my child-hoode loud and left me to the worlds eie in bold necessitie I thanke him for it since he di'de my mother hath her chance mine wants the proofe stand by times minion and inconstancie oh Iames. Haue patience Hum. Yes whereunto sith all my hopes ly leuell With despaire such milk-sops in whose breasts Lingers a lagging hope to thē is patience sufferable But to me horror and hels black motions tickles Me on to mischiese and I will Exit Iames. So Now swims vpon the maine such shipwrack-soules As the windes rage splits on the rocks of danger I my wife and sonne all three now heaue and Feare of sinking makes vs timorous Should we be sheluing on the shallow beach The seas rough gusts might scatter our intents So idle purchase might be gathered vp from our so sodaine shipwrack No my state Stands yet secure though maim'd yet is not foil'd But salu'd by wise occasion may make good This sodaine ouerflow of tide and flood Exit Enter Iohn i' th hospitall and a blew-coat boy with him Boy and Iohn Where had'st this bread and butter Ioh. The crow did giue it me Boy But take heede the kite tak 't not from thee Ioh. I 'le choake first Boy Iohn shal 's play at counter-hole i th cloister Ioh. I ha nere a counter Boy I le giue thee one for a point Ioh. Do and I 'le play hose go downe O sir Willy is a good man truly heer 's good custard and capon and good bread and butter too Boy Now Iohn I 'le cry first Ioh. And I 'le cry lagge I was in hoblies hole Boy I ha won this Iohn now for another Ioh. I 'le hate againe will I will ô. Nurse What 's the matter making my sweet lambe cry Come Iohn we must to London on with your cleane muckender and take leaue of sir William and his Lady Gods me your point where is it Iohn Iohn The crow has it and did win it at counter hole Nurs. I 'le whip ye for it take him vp loose your point lambe fie vp with him sirha Ioh. Good Nurse now no more truly ô ô Enter waterman Ferris Where 's this suck-egge where 's Iack a boy Come ye moueable matron where 's this tugegge away away Nurs I le take leaue of S. William and go away Exit Fer. Now my Iohn iuggler your nose is like Lothbery conduit that alwaies runs waste Boy What 's his name Iohn Sternigogilus ha ha Fer. What Boy A goggle eye a wanton eye a madcap so a meanes Fer. Wat VVat. Hollo Fer. Trim boat turne head we 're at hand muschrumpe We come boy we come Enter Nurse Nurs. Come Iohn our leaue is taken Iohn Haue ore the sea to florida and was not good King Salomon Tom Tyler sing Fer. O well sung Nightingale a boord a boord there ha rip there Enter Toures in a tawny coate like a tinker and his boy with budget and staffe Toures tincks vpon his pan drinking Tour. Boy you vnderstand me though the liquor haue renst me remember your businesse boy Boy Yes master Tou. T is rare to be a tinker boy worke inough wench inough and drinke inough is 't not boy I Maister Tour. Boy where shal 's haue doings I le clout any womans cauldren boy Boy Master tincke on t is time for we ha nere a penny Tour. Pawne budget boy I le ring in boy haye any worke for a tinker a ti ti tinker Enter Madge Madge By my maiden-head t is hee the merry
Why writ you dead in your last letters Sick was I and no likelihood of life Iames. What then was that a iust excuse To varnish ouer this base counterfeiting no I l'e make it knowne Lady I care not I will thus excuse it All opposite of iniurie was yours Putting to teast our weakenesse by your letters VVhich carrying credit woman in her will Guiltlesse is causer of this open ill Iames. Had I beene thus aduiz'd but all too late Acquainted with your speede I had preuented what now is past and done Lady Why did you not Baud to your owne misdeede Three quarters guiltie of this accident That might would not stop the hazard VVill ye now heape vp miracle And make it worse in note by adding too 't A bauins blaze t' is not so soone extinct Being fierce of flame quensht must it be By water-course of sounder pollicie Iames. I am from my selfe in this what shall I doe O I am madde and mischiefe mennass is vnwitting of all purpose Ladie Why did I cast my gloue Proclaim'd the finder stickler of our sports But to a point preuailing practise Iames. I know not how Lady Leaue all to me women that wade in sinne Haue their wits-charter to authorize it And they haue antidotes that to digest Which better iudgements lose themselues in let me alone Iames. To ly with him the while Ladie T is true to ly with him but not in sheetes To vse the flourish of a womans skill In windes and turnings other lying My new made husband iniures not the old As I am simply false I will be found Constant to death knowing my businesse Is to heale vp the fractures of the time And to salue vertue in her taint of ill Iames. I build on this Lady Some moneth VVhile I possesse the glory of my name Attendances according marrie our sonne Vnto his eldest daughter that 's the point Of all regaine my ioynter next T' is not amisse to satisfie your debts These two atchieu'd the third is bedding And if this braine beguile him not of that Say I am single no since blame sits nie Behooues giue care to vse true policie Iames. Our sonne Exit Lady Aside Enter Humil Humil Mother the noble guest expects ye The present meeting doos neglect it selfe VVhere our faire bride is wanting Pray come in you doe them wrong Lady I am not well and this commanding aire Retaines my health I came to fetch it Wherefore inricht with what was ours before VVe yeeld fresh duetie and attend them Humil Will you be mindfull of our marriage mother Begin so happily in yours Lady I shall indeauour in it come Exeunt Enter Marie Tabithe Toures and Filbon Tabithe Close and husht not a fly stirring VVhile they feede hungerly we that loues detie Doos proclaime pardon to presume and speake Challendge libertie now by my maiden-head Filbon Sweare not loue Tabithe Can you forbid my oath Sir I will sweare till I lacke it say nought shall confine me I had rather feast in fancies pittance then to seede gag'd with attention soothing euery bit with curiositie no I can fill my bellie in a minute satisfie my stomacke in a breath Louers digest their sighes and chow their spleene while other appetites fall hungry too t and let them greedily graze on Marie VVhat 's all this Toures Louers talke any thing Filbon I vnderstand ye not Tabithe I would not that you should for I speake Greeke Marie Regard her not for she talkes Id'ly Filbon Tabi. Be you aduiz'd then sister I 'me a foole Yet not so simple but I talke by rule I say dine they that list I will not for my dish Drest to my hand is here here let me feede Ti 's the maids modicum God send vs speede Marie In that I claime a part Who euer feedes this dish hath Maries hart Tabi. So then said I well ye wicked thing Toures Mot as I am of Louers vnion Contracted to a sollitarie life By thus retayning singlenes of heart Changing all doubts that the world affords But one so to thy sweetest selfe Which onely art idea of my thoughts I vowe a reconciled amitie Which violated doos command my life To yeeld his intrest to the shade of death May be your father alienates our choice And showes as sunne-shine threatning raine To the all-hoping haruest present VVhich to make cleare the honourable word And fatherly regard in present office Haue past their speede in our attention I know your father will receiue their on-set Soldier-like ioying the siege begunne VVhich tho resisted bids them gladly come Marie Pause in that trust giue eare Enter Iames with the musitions Iames. Sound proclamation It is inacted by the bride and bride-groome And by our selfe chiefe in authoritie That all receiue their pleasures From the most high in this assembly To the lowest all pastimes are made free Dauncing carding dicing reuelling And other dues oftimes fit merriments Vnto the bride and bride-groomes health Tabit. The daies short and the night's Filb. Stop there Tabit. I will to pleasure thee Iames. There take your places And in your sweetest key of musique strokes Sound pleasant melody eccho those sounds Which true-loue-hearts in concords chiefest grounds Haue their blest being vse art in times Which may giue welcome to our noblest guests Enter Humil Tour. We are betraid yong Humill is at hand Daunce and excuse it so Filb. Sound musique there Tour. Content a dance and in againe Content no daunce yet in againe Tour. It is vngently don to snatch her so Hum. I snatch but that which promise saies is mine Haue I offended Tour. I Hum. Right what is wrong Tour. Here Or where you dare go seeke in Brainford go Tour. Brainford Iam. Put vp or I shall be offending vnto one Against the brides sonne dare ye Hum. I repent not what is done come you with me Tour. So slaues by violence do hurry hence The rights of Iames. Peace we on you do impose command Yeeld duty in it hall a hall there Musique sound and to the bride do consecrate this round Enter all the traine to daunce S. Wil. Squire of the day cul out your gadding bucks Select your light-heel'd does open your Labits Turne them to the toiles we that are Venus Huntsmen may partake the sports Earle You 'r a gallant woodman sir Audit My sonne for one S. Rafe And mine the other S. Wil. Good my daughters for them both A course or so go too lead on the bucks that haue imployment for these does are not these giddy gamsters I 'le be the Forester and looke too 't Tour. Heare you that Mary A lightning before heat Filb. Your fathers aire is harrald to his tongue Tabit. A knowes the coate but thinkes not who shall weare it S. Wil. Ther 's two and two Iames. A coople more too makes no show our measure is for three Audit Why then the bride S. Kafe. And bridegroome S. Wil. O sir pardon me My ioints were oild to pleasure
thinke it so though common practise finds it furthering shifts doe the diuel resemble banckrout bacenesse makes good credit tremble like it not Tutc. Plese you Aunt harg you now knight was loue this virgin and God wil must make her wife shall be her laty go in Wales great worship God willing Sir VVil. O know this knight he was created tother day S Raf. Sir Rober Morgan ô sir such a one whose reputation reacheth to the best merits a good coniunction wer 't my daughter she should haue him ô beware when maiesty shines in a mans estate They long stand firme spread wide regenerate And though base borne yet honour makes them swell Like clusterd grapes till mature sweetnes brings Lussio us conclusion S Wil. I haue some mind to him sir you receiue Kind welcome let it store your thoughts with Those sweet motions louers wish to enioy she may perchance all things concluded on befor ye Tutc. Was a clad man Morris fetch trunck of parrel was lye here a foure weeke will not out now Was welcome plague on you was loue ye S Wil. Sir as for you being citty proud my daughters looke sits on a Courtiers brow what saist my girle Tabit. O sir a Courtier on my life I loue to sit vp late Ly long it 'h morning rot with sweete meates and To play at shuttle-cock me thinkes the games now In my narmes in any hand a Courtiers wife and Why not his black iet shewes best about Beauties necke and I am proude of such A suter if I vnderstand not his welche like A good peece of ordinance I shall ly fast vpon the Bulwarke and discharge my obedient English Must be a Lady sir S VVil. Yet welcome sir let it not grieue you Aud. Signior no you 'r welcome to the wife I wooe Henry And mistres might I be the man to strike the stroke Tabith. You or else none sir Henry S VVill. Troth she saies true but listen me for that come Gallants enter with me we will feast there 's little labour lost where tryall bids presumption scyrre the coast Henry Right to a haire t is mine and I must do 't I see my fees my rich aduantage sirha boy Shall wee haue worke in faith and shall we exit Aud. Conclude I le busie him Sir Rafe S. Raf. Sonne you see to what a happy issue this disguise Speakes faire you know the plots boldly proceede T is ours in action but your owne the deede I must Shunne all suspition by my presence looke to 't boy If thou failest now for euer loose thy ioy exeunt Tutc. Ha ha master I a Welchman a Hangman Tab. A tricke now on my maiden-head I did mistrust it Come leaue the rest to me this Priest shall marry vs incontinent Filb. I if I were the Welchman Because your father gaue him light thereto Therefore come sirha wee le shift clothes meete vs at Putney as my father shall mistrust ye Sir Rafe I will excusing your departure till anone Filb. do gentle loue Heauen on our venture smiles this to approue Tabit. O it cannot choose Fathers are fortunate in this good newes Go ye drones ye do not loue the hiue There 's hony in 't t is a sweet thing to winne Tutch. I must breake the ice for ye if I slippe vp to the chinne now you will pull me out saue mee from drowning mistresse Tabitha Feare it not Exit Tutch. I would bee loath betwixt Welch and English to bee hanged mistresse I cannot liue on the bargaine come sir I le shift with them and now I must shift with you Filb. I clothes good Tutch Tutch. And vse me no worse being your man then I vsed you being mine Filb. O better better Tutc. O loue thou art a begger yet I am thy debter exeunt Enter two sailers with a truncke wherein is Mistresse Mary in her winding sheete others with pick-axe and spades as on the sands Tour. Set downe the heauiest load That euer true affection vnderwent To you t is like the Anchor of your ship Heauy at first but easly waied seemes light To me that not supports her bodies waight T is heart deep in the burthen too pōderous Sad heauy is that load whose leaden poize Is as a sullen sorrow too too pressing Mr. Sir I would wish you to be briefe Tour. Dig ho this golden beach whose glittering sands Shewes with the sunne as Dyamonds set in gold Fitly intombs a iewell of much worth Whose liuing beauty staind all lapidary Mr. She was most gentle which was worth all riches Tour. And this nights tempest did a cruell deede To take from me a vallue of such price Mr. Sir though our seas kill women with their frownes vs their bug-beare threates are womanish and so we leaue e'm Tour. Leauing your selfe and all somtime Mr. Euen so no safer in our beds Or on the land but vnder deaths black stroke And he that is the surest sits in state Dyingly tended by the hand of Fate Tour. And yet me thinkes death should not Take her from me being scarce mine owne But newly wed neuer bedded yet So that the Ceremony burning bright Himen yet hath his tapers flaming red And the bold boastings of that good mans breath That all religiously made one of two Hardly disgesled in the freezing cold Little I thought the priests word being euer Should find his period in so short a time Mr. Sir but the gift was giuen ye on condition Till death depart better or worse Me thinkes this Catechizing little needes To humane guiding and to you the lesse Knowing what openly you do confesse Tou. Beare w'e me maister he that pines in griefe Liues as you sailors doe thinking at sea Euery storme ends when flattery flouts ye So to our loue-sick sorrow comes a calme By ease of fancies when t is furthest And many times the weapon that doth wound Is salue and Surgeon both to make all sound Mr. Are ye ready sir Tou. All fitted let me take my last farewel I am all gelly in my teares and sighes Wasted by waiting her vntimely losse So long I did consume in drops of woe That contrary I laugh to thinke it so He that weepes much hauing no teares to spend Smiles out the rest but inwardly does rend O God that I ventring so hard a chaunce Should loose my dice before my hand be out T is euen so in all things man intends The losse is ours the winnings not our friends Mr. For charity be breife should the wind Turne his beake into the southerne side Our ship would leaue vs dally not with griefe Once and no more let sorrow rule as chiefe Tou. Then thus and this the last Moll I take leaue yet on thy hersed selfe Dead selfe and selfe slaine Moll derest I am thy morning musike call thee vp To wedded rights I leade thee to the Church And there receiue thee dine with thee at noone Daunce all the after day bring thee at night Into the wedding chamber
all other I were onely happy Being the ey-marke of so faire a shot I. Lor Discharge bright beauty shoot home Make me the man so happy 2. Lor I or me Ear. Or any mongst so many liues free choice To one as principall to each a voice La. Then to the worthiest to our selfe my Lord By figure of the rest t is vnderstood By the kings nod he greetes his subiects freely Though his eye settle vpon one Ear. Euen so to me I answere acknowledge Receite of complement bestowed about On euery willing and right welcome guest Pray ye all memories All We do so and he giues a duty To gratulate such seeming courtesie S. VVill. Nurse Iohn vnlook't for better welcome This is kindly visitation faith Enter Filbon Tutch in blew like nurse and Iohn i th Hospital Filb. Sir t is my duty and my beggard boldnes Makes me presume to trouble ye Knowing how you affect this ignorant I brought him to giue welcome to your guests Hearing at London of this preparation S. VVil At London is it got so farre abroad You see a niggards bounty how it spreades Like to a nine daies wonder gentlemen And much the more because t is seldome seene That couetous misers are so plentifull Faith t is much in me Ear. We find it so sir VVilliam S. VVil. now my suck-egge tell me what 's thenewes at London Tutc. That honest men want and knaues get money I ha nothing nurse has some dogs are let loose and the beares vnodone ha ha ha S. VVil. Came ye by foot Iohn or by water Tutch. a horse-backe i th boat S. Will. Art no gal'd with riding Iohn Tutch. No but weary with sitting nurse shall sing a Geneua psalme and bids these beggars welcome S. William How beggars Iohn Tutch. All the world is so ha ha ha Ear. He saies true chide him not we are no lesse S. Wil. Daughter wecome Nurse all day at night be your bed-fellow Tabit. my nurse indeede my bed-fellow foreuer My Filbon welcome welcome as my husband My last and foreuer best beloued S. Will. Iames To seasons this good meeting Take hand in hand with our faire wife and dance Gallants my man can trick it with my Lady You shall see else make not squeamish to 't It is my will and what I will shal be Iames. Beseeke ye sir S WIl Befoole ye Sir wilt be wife make not coy Lad. Since you command it I am ready I trow so but I trust a potion pleades By this time to true purpose dos it not Hum. I would not be so sped for all the world T is done too late t is past S. Wil. Good i th beginning let her dance her last Who fronts me with a Cornu copian wreath Were she a wife sprung from the race of kings Such bitter breathing followes now ye lamps Of spotted Nemmisis burne blew let the fall Light on mischiefes selfe that dallied lately in our wretchednes tel her sad sorrow tombs and epitafes tend her amazing obsequies then liue free thou wrong'd soule from slanders cruelty Lady I am not well Sir pray ye leaue the daunce S. Will. Not well Iames be gone Iames. Sir you shall pardon me vnles with her being not well S. Wil. Ha Iames. Thinke you I will what leaue my country sir Vpon a slight a trifle t is more deare to me S. VVil. Wast not thy promise Iames. Pughe S. William Pughe Tab. Madame leane on me I le bring you to your chamber Lady Pre-thee daughter faith I 'me passing ill Your honour and the rest must beare with vs T is nothing vsuall a queasie fit Earl The mother Lady No the husband Good faith I am not woman sick though woman But earnest ill clog'd at the very stomacke with A sodaine calme I feare me t is my death S. Wil. Nurse help to bring her to her closset do Filb. Excellent fit supported by â—tod Tutch. Plague on 't shall I be left alone master make haste But t is my deede I am author of this shift hee s where hee would be now I me where I should be too but not wel back't yes now I am Enter Sir Rafe S. Rafe Besecke ye pardon me Sir William I am wrongd and to this company I make it knowne by comming of thy daughter Is my sonne made her indored husband shall I Suffer it call you this curtesie t is simple craft Cloak't vnder thy denial is this wel to ingraft with vs vnknowne and so to ioyne yonkers to heirs he is my onely all and married vnto thy daughter Enter Filbon and Tabitha S. Will. Ha Married Nurse how is 't within Filb. Shee s very ill sir and I feare S. Rafe That your disguise is knowne come iuggle not call you this Nurse O thou dissembling boy S. William Are you married Tabitha Sir I must needs confesse it he 's my husband the reason S. Wil. No matter for the reason I ha done God boy ye Conicatcht by a tricke and so perswaded good S. Rafe I am abus'd S. Wil. Yes questionlesse you are I haue all right Filbon You haue no wrong sir I to affirme your word When I was woman and from man I should and now I trust my shape dos challendge but your promise Tutch. I plaid but Iohn come kisse me now saies she I am Tutch your quondam seruant sir thrust out to thrust them in a lawfull marriage is no mockery sir I counterfeited welch to ioyne this constring English Enter Auditor and his sonne Foures Earle What at a gaze sir William cannot be recald S. Wil. No no more mischiefe nay come all together welcome Auditor Thanke ye sir My sonne return'd surrenders to your doombe his life for yours so lately lost deputed in your daughter for she is dead sir buried in the ile of Scillie S. Wil. Not amisse what 's the next Pagan all the craft of this is knowne Toures Sir had I too hearts to melt this frozen feare would thaw with passion the drops distil'd from our tormeÌ„ted braine witnessed by these sailers that inter'd her knowes how I parted with her when she dide Earle Is mistris Mary dead Toures She is S. Wil. VVell shall I haue Iustice for her death Earle Command it sir S. VVil. To prison with him them for she is murdred Sir cause you knew your rapine and your theft tied to your runnaway legs that clog you were vncertaine of her portion and our loue therefore to rid that feare you rid me thus of her to me most deare my owne my onely eldest of my daughters oh Audi. I le be his bale S. VVil. Sir tell not me of bale for my assurance pleads in his life and he shall die Earle You haue no president for that S. VVil. Yes remember Donningtons man Grimes VVho for an heire so stolne and married VVas hanged and the sergeant at armes For assisting them did loose his place If this were done your theft will hardly scape Earle I thought of that indeede Enter