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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00456	A new tragicall comedie of Apius and Virginia wherein is liuely expressed a rare example of the vertue of chastitie, by Virginias constancy, in wishing rather to be slaine at her owne fathers handes, then to be deflowered of the wicked iudge Apius. By R.B. The players names. ...; Apius and Virginia	R. B.; Bower, Richard, d. 1561, attributed name.	1575 (1575)	STC 1059; ESTC S104446	15,890	34

happy grace Doth dayly distill my husband so louing Graunting and geuing to all thing behouing Ioying in me and in the fruicte of my wombe Who would not requit it the Gods yeelde their dome And if it be I the Gods doo destroy mée Rather then sinne so sore should annoy me Virginius Oh wife refell thy wishing for woe My selfe thy faute right well do know And rather I wish my selfe to be slaine Then thou or thy daughter ought wo should sustaine Virginia Oh Father my comfort oh Mother my ioy Oh Deare and O sufferaigne do cease to employ Such dolorus talking where dangers are none Where Ioyes are attendant what néedeth this mone You matron you spouse you Nurse and you wife You comfort you only the some of his lyfe You housband you harte you ioye and you pleasure You King and you Keyser to her only treasure You Father you Mother my lyfe doth sustaine I babe and I blisse your health am againe Forbeare then your dolor let mirth be frequented Let sorow departe and be not attempted Virginius Oh wife oh spouse I am contente Mater Oh Husband Virginia Oh Father wee doo consent Sing heere ¶ All singe this The trustiest treasure in earth earth as wée sée Is man wife and children in one to agrée Then friendly and kindly let measure be mixed With reason in season where friendship is fixed Virginius When nature nursed first of all yong Alexander learned Of whō the Poets mention make in iudgement so deserned Oh what did want that loue procured his vital end well neare This is the hope where parents loue their children do not feare All sing this The trustiest treasure in earth as wée sée Is man wife and children c. Mater When time King Nisus would not let his daughter to be taught Of any one correcting hand to nurtue to be brought She void of duty cut his lockes and golden tresses cleare Whereby his realme was ouerrun and she was payd her hire All sing this The trustiest treasure in earth as we see Is man wife and children c. Virginia When Dedalus from Creete did flie With Icaru his ioy He naught regarding fathers words Did seeke his owne anoy He mounted vp into the skies Wherat the Gods did frowne And Phoebus sore his winges did frie And hedlonge flins him downe All singe this The trustiest treasure in earth as we see Is man wife and children c. Virginius Then sith that persualitie doth partly discorde mone And hatred often times doth creepe where ouermuch wee loue And if we loue no whit at all the faming trump will sound Come wife come spouse come daughter deare let measure beare ye ground All singe this The trustiest treasure in earth as we see Is man wife and children in one to agree Then friendly and kindly let measure be mixed Exit With reason in season where frindship is fixed ¶ Here entreth Haphazard the Vice VEry well sir very well sir it shal be doone As fast as euer I can prepare Who dippes with the Diuel he had neede haue a long spoone Or els full smale wil be his fare Yet a proper Gentileman I am of truthe Yea that may yee see by my long side gowne Yea but what am I a Scholer or a scholemaister or els some youth A Lawier a studient or els a countrie cloune A Brumman a Baskit maker or a Baker of Pies A flesh or a Fishmonger or a sower of lies A Louse or a louser a Leeke or a Larke A Dreamer a Drommell a fire or a sparke A Caitife a Cutthrote a creper in corners A herbraine a hangman or a grafter of horners By the Gods I know not how best to deuise My name or my property well to disguise A Marchaunte a May poole a man or a mackrell A Crab or a Creuise a Crane or a cockerell Most of all these my nature doth inioy Somtime I aduaunce them somtime I destroy A mayde or a Mussell Bote a wife or a wilde ducke As bolde as blinde bayerd as wise as a wood cocke As fine as phippence as proude as a Pecocke As stout as a Stockefish as méeke as a mecocke As bigge as a begger as fat as a foole As true as a Tinker as riche as an Owle With hey tricke how trowle trey trip and trey trace Trowle hazard in a vengeance I beshrew his knaues face For tro and trowle hazard kéepe such a range That poore haphazard was neuer so strange But yet Haphazard be of good chéere Goe play and repast thée man be mery to yéere Though vittaile be dainty and hard for to get Yet perhaps a number will die of the swet Though it be in hazard yet happely I may Though mony be lacking yet one day go gay ¶ Enter Mansipulus When Maud with a pestelence what makest thou no hast Of Baybery insence belike thou wouldest tast By the Gods I haue stayed a full great while My lorde he is neare hand by this at the Church stile and al for Maud mumble turde that mampodding madge By the Gods if she hie not I le geue her my badge Mansipula What drake nosed driuell begin you to floute I le frie you in a fagot sticke by cocke goodman loute You boaster you bragger you brawling knaue Zle pay thee thy fortypence thou brawling slaue My Ladies great busines belike is at ende When you goodman dawcocke lust for to wend You codshed you crackerope you chattering pye Haue with ye haue at ye your manhode to try Haphazard What holde your hands masters what fie for shame fie What culling What lulling What stur haue wee here What tugging What lugging What pugging by the eare What part and be freinds and ende all this strife Mansipulus Nay rather I Wishe hir the end of my knife Mansipula Drawe it geue mée it I will it receaue So that for the place it I might haue good leaue By the Gods but for losing my land lyfe and liuing It should be so placed he should haue ill thriuinge Mansipilus By the Gods how vngraciously the vicksen she chatteth Mansipula And he euen as knauishly my answer he patteth Haphazard Here is naught els but railing of words out of reason Now tugging now tatling now musling in season For shame be contented and leaue of this brawling Mansipulus Content for I shall repent it for this my tonge wralling Mansipula Thou knaue but for thee ere this time of day My Ladies faire Pue had been strawed full gay With Primroses Couslips and Violets sweete With Mints and with Marigolds and Margerum meete Which now lyeth vncleanly and all long of thée That a shame recompence thee for hindring mee Mansipulus Ah pretie pranck parnel the Coushen and Booke Whereon he shoulde reade and kneele are present here looke My Lorde when he seeth mee he will cast such an eye As pinch wyll my hart neare ready to die And thus wise and thus wise his hand wyll be walking With thou precious knaue away get thee packing ¶ Here

one but all My Iuels somtime precious do vade and beare no hewe My sences they do shun there course my lights do burne as blewe My willing wights are wared slow that once were swifte in speede My hart it throbs in wonderous sort my nose doth often bleede My dreadfull dreames do draw my woe and hatefull hazard hale These tokens be of euell hap this is the old wiues tale But yet O thou Virginius whose hoary heares are olde Didst treason neuer yet commit of this thou maist be bould In Mars his games in marshall frates thou wast his only aide The huge Carrebd his hazards thou for him was ofte assaide Was Sillas force by thee oft shunde or yet Adrice lande Laceface childe that Minnotaur did cause thee euer stande To pleasure him to serue thy leach to keepe all things vpright Thou God aboue then what is it that yéeldeth me this spight Sith nothing néede misdoubted be where grounded cause is none I enter will Iudge Apius gate reiecting care and mone But stay Virginius loe thy Prince doth enter into place Oh sufferant Lord and rightfull Iudge the Gods do saue thy grace ¶ Here entreth Iudge Apius and Claudius With tender hart Virginius thou welcome art to me I sory am to vtter out the things I here of thee For Claudius a subiecte here a man of mickle fame Appealeth thee before my Courte in deede of open shame And though in deede I loue thee so as thy deserts desirer Yet not so but I must Iudgement geue as Iustice doth require Virginius My Lord and reason good it is your seruaunt doth request No parciall hand to aide his cause no parciall minde or brest If ought I haue offended you your Courte or eke your Crowne From lofty top of Turret hie persupetat me downe If treason none by me be done or any fault committed Let my accusers beare the blame and let me be remitted Apius Good reason to Virginius come Claudius shew thy minde Let Iustice here if Iudgment may Virginus gilty finde Claudius Thou sufferant Lord and rightfull Iudge this standeth now the case In tender youth not long agone nere sixtene yeares of space Virginius a thrall of mine a childe and infant yonge From me did take by subtell meane and keepes by arme full strong And here before your grace I craue that Iustice be exstended That I may haue my thrall agayne and faultes may be amended Virginius Ah Gods that guide the globe aboue what forged tales I here Oh Iudge Apius bend your eares while this my crime I cleare She is my child and of my wife her tender corpes did springe Let all the countrey where I dwell beare witnesse of the thing Apius and Claudius go forth but Apius speaketh this Nay by the Gods not so my friend I do not so decrée I charge thee here in paiine of death thou bring the maide to mée In chamber close in prison sound she secret shall abide And no kinde of wight shall talke with her vntill the truth be tride This doo I charge this I commaund in paine of death let see Without any let that she be brought as prisoner vnto me Exit Here let Virginius go about the scaffold Ah fickle faule vnhappy dome oh most vncertaine rate That euer chaunce so churlishly that neuer staide in state What Iudge is this What cruell wretch What faith doth Claudius The Gods do recompence with shame his false and faithles minde Well home I must no remedy where shall my soking teares Augment my woes decrease my ioyes while death do rid my feares ¶ Here entreth Rumour Come ventus come blow forth thy blast Prince Eol listen well The filthiest fackte that euer was I Rumor now shall tell You gods bend downe to here my crie reuengemente duly showe Thy Rumor craues did Claudius lay and bring Iudge Apius loe That wicked man that fleshly Iudge hath hiered Claudius To claime a childe the only heyre of olde Virginius A virgin pure a Quéene in life whose state may be deplored For why the Queene of chaste life is like to be defloured By false Iudge Apius cruell wretche who straightly hath commaunded That she to keping his be brought Prince Pluto this demaunded To skies I flie to blase abrode the trompe of depe defame Reuenge you Gods this Rumor craues this bloud and bloddy shame Haue through the ayre geue place you ayres this is my dutye done The Gods confound such lecherers loe Rumor this I run Virginius O man O mould oh mucke O clay O Hell O hellish hounde O faulle Iudge Apius wrablinge wretch is this thy treason found Woe worth the man that gaue the seede wherby the first didst spring Woe worth the wombe that bare the babe to meane this bluddy thing Woe worth the paps that gaue ye sucke woe worth the Fosters eke Woe worth all such as euer did thy health or liking seeke Oh that the graued yeares of mine were couered in the clay ¶ Here entreth Virginia Let pacience deare father mine your rigor something stay Why do you waile in such a sorte why do you weepe and mone Virginius Oh doughter deare and only heyre my life is neare forgone And all for loue of thee Virginia A Gods how may this be Deare father do withdraw your dread and let me know the cause My selfe wyll ayde with lyfe or death without demur or pause Then tender your childe that craueth this bound Virginius Oh harken deare daughter attend thou my sounde Iudge Apius prickt forth with filthy desire Thy person as Lemmon doth greatly require And no kinde of intreatie no feare nor no shame Will he heare aledge defending the same And straight without staying in paine of my death I must bring thee thither wherfore stop my breath O Sisters I search I seeke and I craue No more at your handes but death for to haue Rather then see my Daughter deflourde Or els in ill sorte so vildely deuourde Virginia Oh father oh friendship oh fatherly fauour Whose dulset words so sweetly do sauour On knees I beseeche thee to graunt my request In all things according as lyketh thee best Thou knowest O my father if I be once spotted My name and my kindred then forth wil be blotted And if thou my father should die for my cause The world would accompt me as gilty in cause Then rather deare father if it be thy pleasure Graunt me the death then keepe I my treasure My Lampe my light my life vndefiled And so may Iudge Apius of flesh be begiled This vpon my knees with humble beheste Graunt me O father my instant requeste Virginus Then ryse vp my daughter my aunswere doo note From mouth of thy father whose eyes do now flote O daughter oh deare O darling oh dame Dispatch me I pray thee regarde not my name But yet as thou satest sith remedy none But Lemmon thou must be if I were gone And better it is to dye with good fame Then longer to liue to reape vs but shame But if thou do dye no doubt is at all But presently after my selfe folow shall Then end without shame so let vs perseuer With trompe of good same so dye shall we neuer Virginia here kneeleth Then tender armes complect the neck doo dry thy fathers teares You nimble handes for wo whereof my louing hart it weares Oh father mine refraine no whit your sharped knife to take From giltles sheath my shame to ende and body dead to make Let not the shameles blouddy iudge defile my virgins life Doe take my head and send it him vpon your bloudy knife Bid him imbrue his bloudy handes in giltles bloud of mee I virgin dye he leacher liues he was my ende you see No more delayes so kisse me first then stretch your strongest arme Do ryd my woe increase my ioy do ease your childe of harme Virginius O weary wittes of wo or wealth oh feble aged man How can thy arme geue such a blow thy death I wishe thee than But sith that shame with endles trempe wil sounde if case thou ioy By meanes of false iudge Apius he myselfe will thee destroy Forgeue me babe this bloudy deede a no meekely take thy ende Here let him profer a blowe The Gode forgeue thee father deare farewell thy blow do bend Yet stay a whyle o father deare for fleash to death is fraile Let first my wimple bind my eyes and then thy blow assaile Now father worke thy will on me that life I may inioy ¶ Here tye a handcarcher aboute hir eyes and then strike of hir heade Now stretch thy hand Virginius that loth would flesh distroy O cruell handes or blouddy knife o man what hast thou done Thy daughter deare and onely heyre hir vitall ende hath wone Come fatall blade make lyke dispatche come Atropos come ende Strike home thou careles arme with speede of death be not afrayde Here entreth Comfort Oh noble knight Virginius do stay he not dismayde I curing Comfort present am your doller to ayde Virginius Sith ioy is gone sith life is deade What comfort can there be No more there is but deepe despaire Heere entreth Haphazard I came from Caleed euen the same houre And Hap was hyred to hackney in hempstrid In hazard he was of riding on beamestrid Then crow crop on thee top hoist vp the sayle Then groned their neckes by the weight of their tayle Then dyd Carmtex put these three together Pays them their pasporte for clustring thither Apius Why how now Haphazard of what doest thou speake Me thinks in mad sort thy talke thou deest breake Those three words chopt all in one