Sca. I know you did sir Doct. At which you promised both to God and men Your life vnto your spouse should like snow That fals to comfort not to ouerthrow And loue vnto your yssue should be like The deaw of heauen that hurts not tho it strike When heauen and men did witnesse and record T was an eternall oath no idle word Heauen being pleasd therewith bleste you with children And at heauens blessings all good men reioyce So that Gods chayre and footstoole heauen and earth Made offering at your nuptials as a knot To minde you of your vow O breake it not scar. T is very true Doc. Now sir from this your oth and band Faiths pledge and seale of conscience you ha run Broken all contracts and the forfeiture Iustice hath now in sute against your soule Angels are made the Jurors who are witnesses Vnto the oath you took and God himselfe Maker of marriage he that seald the deed As a firme lease vnto you during life Sirs now as iudge of your transgression The world informes against you with this voyce If such sinnes raigne what mortals can reioyce scar. What then ensues to me Doc. A heauy doome whose executions Now serud vpon your conscience that euer You shall feele plagues whom time shall not disseuer As in a map your eyes see all your life Bad words worse deeds falce oths and al the iniuries You ha done vnto your soule then comes your wife Full of woes drops and yet as full of pitty Who tho she speaks not yet her eies are swords That cut your hart-strings and then your children scar. Oh oho oh Doc. Who what they cannot say talke in their lookes You haue made vs vp but as misfortunes bookes Whom other men may read in when presently Taskt by your selfe you are not like a Theefe Astonied being accus'd but scorch with greefe scar. I I I Doct. Heere stands your wiues tears scar. Where Doc. And you fry for them here lie your childrens wants Sca. Heere Doct. For which you pine in conscience burne And wish you had bin better or nere borne Scar. Dus all this happen to a wretch like me Doc. Both this and worse your soule eternally Shall liue in torment tho the body dy Scar. I shall ha need of drinke then Butler Doc. Nay all your sinnes are on your children laide For the offences that the father made Scar. Are they Sir Doc. Be sure they are Enter Butler Scar. Butler But. Sir scar. Go fetch my wife and children hether But. I will sir sca. I le read a Letter to the Doct. too hee s a Deuine I hee s a Deuine But. I see his mind is troubled and haue made bold with dutie to reade a Letter tending to his good haue made his Brothers friendes both which I will conceale til better temper He sends me for his wife and children shall I fetch em scar. Hee s a Deuine and this Deuine did marry mee that 's good that 's good Doc. Maister Scarborrow Scar. I le be with you straight Sir But. I wil obey him If any thing doth happen that is Ill Heauen beare me record t is against Butlers wil Exit scar. And this Deuine did marry me Whose tongue should be the key to open truth As Gods Ambassador Deliuer deliuer deliuer Do. Maister Scarborrow sca. I le be with you straight sir Saluation to afflicted consciences And not giue torment to contented minds Who should be lamps to comfort out our way And not like Firedrakes to lead men astray I I le be with you straight sir Enter Butler But. Here 's your wife and children sir scar. Giue way then I ha my lesson perfit leaue vs heere But. Yes I wil go but I will be so neere To hinder the mishap the which I feare Exit Butler scar. Now sir you know this Gentlewoman Doct. Kind mistris Scarborrow Scar. Nay pray you keepe your seat for you shal heare The same affliction you ha taught me feare Due to your selfe Doc. To me sir scar. To you sir You matcht me to this Gentlewoman Doct. I know I did sir scar. And you will say she is my wife then Doc. I ha reason sir because I married you scar. O that such tongues should ha the time to lie Who teach men how to liue and how to die Did not you know my soule had giuen my faith In contract to another and yet you Would ioyne this Loome vnto vnlawful twists Doct. Sir scar. But sir You that can see a Mote within my eie And with a Cassocke blind your owne defects I le teach you this t is better to do ill That 's neuer knowne to vs then of selfe will And these all these in thy seducing eye As scorning life make em be glad to die Doc. Me Scarborrow scar. Heere will I write that they which marry wiues Vnlawfull liue with strumpets al theyr liues Here wil I seale the children that are born From wombes vnconsecrate euen when their soule Has her infusion it registers they are foule And shrinkes to dwell with them and in my close I le shew the world that such abortiue men Knit hands without free tongues looke red like them Stand you and you to acts most Tragicall Heauen has dry eies when sinne makes sinners fall Doc. Helpe maister Scarborrow Child Father Ka. Husband Sca. These for thy act should die she for my Clare Whose wounds stare thus vpon me for reuenge These to be rid from misery this from sinne And thou thy selfe shalt haue a push amongst em That made heauens word a pack-horse to thy tongue Cotest scripture to make euils shine like good And as I send you thus with wormes to dwell Angels applaud it as a deed done well Enter Butler But. Stay him stay him What will you do sir Scar. Make fat wormes of stinking carkasses What hast thou to do with it Enter Ilford and his wife the two Brothers and Sir William Scarborrow But. Looke who are here sir Sca. Iniurious villen that preuentst me still But. They are your brothers and allyance Sir Scar. They are like full ordinance then who once dischargd A farre off giue a warning to my soule That I had done them wrong sir Wil Kinsman Brother and sister Brother Ka. Husband Child Father scar, Harke how their words like Bullets shoot me thorow And tel mee I haue vndone em this side might say We are in want and you are the cause of it This points at me yore shame vnto your house This tung saies nothing but her lookes do tell Shee s married but as those that liue in hel Whereby all eies are but misfortunes pipe Fild full of wo by me this feeles the stripe But. Yet looke Sir Heere 's your Brothers hand in hand whom I ha knit so Wife And looke Sir heere 's my husbands hand in mine And I reioyce in him and he in me sir wil. I say Cose what is past the way to blisse For they know best to mend that know amisse Ka. Wee kneele forget and say if you but loue vs You gaue vs greefe for future happines scar. What al this to my Conscience But. Ease promise of succeeding ioy to you Read but this Letter sir Will. Which tels you that your Lord Guardians dead But. Which tels you that he knew he did you wrong Was greeud for t and for satisfaction Hath giuen you double of the wealth you had Bro. Increast our portions Wife Giuen me a dowry too But. And that he knew Your sinne was his the punishment his due Sca. All this is heere Is heauen so gracious to sinners then But. Heauen is and has his gracious eies To giue men life not like intrapping spies scar. Your hand yours yours to you my soule to you a kisse Introth I am sorry I ha straid amisse To whom shall I be thankefull All silent None speake whist why then to God That giues men comfort as he giues his rod Your portions I le see paid and I will loue you You three I le liue withall my soule shall loue you You are an honest seruant sooth you are To whom I these and all must pay amends But you I will admonish in coole tearmes Let not promotions hope be as a string To tie your tongue or let loose it to sting Doc. From hence it shall not Sir scar. Then husbands thus shal norish with their wiues Kisse Ilf. As thou and I will wench Brothers in brotherly loue thus link together Imbrace sca. Children and seruants pay their duty thus bow and kneele And all are pleas'd All We are scar. Then if all these bee so I am new wed so ends old marryage woe And in your eies so louingly being wed We hope your hands will bring vs to our bed FINIS
other her selfe Two feet and one of them is their husbands They haue two of euery thing onely of one Their Chastity that should be his alone Their very thoughts they cannot tearme them one Maids being once made wiues can nothing call Rightly their owne they are their husbands all If such a wife you can prepare to be Clare I am yours and you are fit for me Clar. We being thus subdued pray you know then As women owe a duty so do men Men must be like the branch and barke to trees Which doth defend them from tempestuous rage Cloth them in Winter tender them in age Or as Ewes loue vnto their Eanlings liues Such should be husbands custome to their wiues If it appeare to them they haue straid amisse They onely must rebuke them with a kisse Or Clock them as Hens Chickens with kind call Couer them vnder their wing and pardon all No iarres must make two beds no strife deuide them Those betwixt whom a faith and troth is giuen Death onely parts since they are knit by heauen If such a husband you intend to be I am your Clare and you are fit for me Scar. By heauen Clar. Aduise before you sweare let me remember you Men neuer giue their faith and promise mariage But heauen records their oth If they proue true Heauen smiles for ioy if not it weepes for you Vnlesse your hart then with your wordes agree Yet let vs part and lesse vs both be free Scar. If euer man in swearing loue swore true My words are like to his Heere comes your father Enter Sir Iohn Harcop Ilford Wentloe Bartley and Butler Har. Now maister Scarborrow Sca. Prepar'd to aske how you like that we haue done your daughters made my wife and I your sonne Har. And both agreed so Both We are Sir Har. Then long may you liue together haue store of sons Ilf. T is no matter who is the father Har. But sonne here is a man of yours is come from London But. And brought you Letters Sir Scar. What newes from London Butler But. The old newes Sir the Ordinaries are full some Cittizens are bankerouts and many Gentlemen beggers Scar. Clare here is an vnwelcome Pursiuant My Lord and Guardian writes to me with speed I must returne to London Har. And you being Ward to him son Scarborrow And know him great it fits that you obay him Har. It dus it dus for by an antient law We are borne free heires but kept like slaues in awe Who are for London Gallants Ilf. Switch and Spurre we wil beare you company Scar. Clare I must leaue thee with what vnwillingnes Witnes this dwelling kisse vpon thy lip And tho I must be absent from thine eye Be sure my hart doth in thy bosome lie Three yeares I am yet a ward which time I le passe Making thy faith my constant Looking-glasse Till when Clar. Till when you please where ere you liue or lie Your loues here worne your presence in my eie Exeunt Enter Lord Faulconbridge and sir William Scarborow Hunsd. Sir William How old say you is your kinsman Scarborrow Will, Eighteene my Lord next Pentecost Lord Bethinke you good Sir William I reckon thereabout my selfe so by that account There 's full three Winters yet he must attend Vnder our awe before he sue his Liuery I st not so Willi. Not a daie lesse my Lord Lord Sir William you are his Vnckle and I must speake That am his Guardian would I had a son Might merit commendations euen with him I le tell you what he is he is a youth A Noble branch increasing blessed fruit Where Caterpiller vice dare not to touch He is himselfe with so much grauity Praise cannot praise him with Hypperbole He is one whom older looke vpon as one a booke Wherein are Printed Noble sentences For them to rule their liues by Indeed he is one All Emulate his vertues hate him none Willi. His friends are proud to heare this good of him Lord And yet Sir William being as he is Young and vnsetled tho of virtuous thoughts By Genuine disposition yet our eyes See daily presidents hopefull Gentlemen Being trusted in the world with their owne will Diuert the good is lookt from them to Ill Make their old names forgot or not worth note With company they keepe such Reuelling With Panders Parasites Podigies of Knaues That they sell all euen their old fathers graues VVhich to preuent wee le match him to a wife Marriage Restraines the scope of single life Willi. My Lord speakes like a father for my Kinsman Lord And I haue found him one of Noble parentage A Neece of mine nay I haue broke with her Know thus much of her mind what for my pleasure As also for the good appeares in him She is pleas'd of all that 's hers to make him King Willi. Our name is blest in such an honoured marriage Enter Doctor Baxter Lord Also I haue apointed Doctor Baxter Chansellor of Oxford to attend me heere And see he is come Good maister Doctor Bax. My honourable Lord Willi. I haue possest you with this business maister Doctor Baxt. To see the contract twixt you honoured Neece and maister Scarborrow Lord T is so and I did looke for him by this Bax. I saw him leaue his horse as I came vp Lord So so Then he will be heere forthwith you Maister Baxter Go Vsher hether straight young Katherine Sir William here and I will keepe this roome til you returne Scar. My honourable Lord Enter Scarborrow Lord T is well done Scarborrow Scar. Kind Vnckle willi. Thankes my good Couz Lord You haue bin welcome in your Country Yorkshire Scar. The time that I spent there my Lord was merry Lord T was well t was very well and in your absence your Vnckle heere and I haue bin bethinking what gift betwixt vs we might bestow on you That to your house large dignity might bring With faire increase as from a Christall spring Enter Doctor and Katherine Scar. My name is bound to your benificence your hands hath bin to me like bounties purse Neuer shut vp your selfe my foster-Nurse Nothing can from your honor come proue me so rude But I le accept to shun Ingratitude Lord We accept thy promise now returne thee this A vertuous wife accept her with a kisse Scar. My honourable Lord Lord Feare not to take her man she will feare neither Do what thou canst being both abed together Scar. O but my Lord Lord But me a Dog of wax come kisse and agree Your friends haue thought it fit and it must be Scar. I haue no hands to take her to my wife Lord How Sawce-box Scar. O pardon me my Lord the vnripenes of my yeares Too greene for gouernment is old in feares To vndertake that charge Lord Sir sir I and sir knaue then here is a mellowed experience knowes how to teach you Scar. O God Lord O Iacke How both our cares your Vnckle and my selfe Sought studied found out and
grace at Court runne head-long into debt and then looke scuruily vpon the Citty I wil walke you into the presence in the afternoone hauing put on a richer sute then I wore in the morning and call boy or sirrah I wil ha the grace of some great Lady though I pay for t and at the next Triumphes runne a Tilte that when I runne my course though I breake not my launce she may whisper to her selfe looking vppon my smell wel run my knight I will now keepe great horses scorning to haue a Queane to keep me indeede I will practise all the Gallantry in vse for by a Wyfe comes all my happines Enter Butler But. Now sir you ha heard her Vnckles and how do you lyke them Il. O But they ha made good thy words I am rauisht with thē Bu. And hauing seen kist the gentlewo how do you like hir Ilf. O Butler beyonde discourse shee 's Paragon for a Prince then a fit Implement for a Gentleman beyond my Element But. Well then since you like her and by my meanes she shall like you nothing rests now but to haue you married Ilf. True Butler but withall to haue her portion But. Tut that 's sure yours when you are maried once for t is hirs by Inheritance but do you loue her Ilf. O with my soule But. Ha you sworne as much Ilf. To thee to her and ha cald heauen to witnes But. How shall I know that Ilf. Butler heere I protest make vowes Irreuocable But. Vpon your knees Ilf. Vpon my knees with my hart and soule I loue her But. Will liue with her Ilf. Will liue with her But. Marry her and maintaine her Ilf. Marry her and maintaine hir But. For her forsake al other women Ilf. Nay for her forsweare all other women Ilf. In al degrees of Loue But. In all degrees of Loue either to Court kisse giue priuate fauours or vse priuate meanes I le doe nothing that married men being close whoremaisters do so I may haue her But. And yet you hauing bin an open whoremaister I will not beleeue you til I hear you sweare as much in the way of contract to her selfe and call me to bee a witnesse Ilf. By heauen by earth by Hell by all that man can sweare I will so I may haue her But. Enough Thus at first sight rash men to women sweare When such oaths broke heauen greeues and sheds a teare But shee s come ply her ply her Enter Scarborrowes Sister Ilf. Kind Mistres as I protested so againe I vow I faith I loue you Sist. And I am not Sir so vncharitable To hate the man that loues me Ilf. Loue me then The which loues you as Angels loues good men Who wish them to liue with them euer In that high blisse whom hell cannot disseuer But. I le steale away and leaue them so wise men do Whom they would match let them ha leaue to wo Exit Butler Ilf. Mistris I know your worth is beyond my desert yet by my praising of your virtues I woulde not haue you as women vse to do become proud Si. None of my affections are prides children nor a kin to them Ilf. Can you loue me them Sist. I can for I loue al the world but am in loue with none Ilf. Yet be in loue with me let your affections Combine with mine and let our soules Like Turtles haue a mutual Simpathy Who loue so well that they together die Such is my life who couets to expire If it should loose your loue Sist. May I beleeue you Ilf. Introth you may Your life 's my life your death my dying day Sist. Sir the commendations I haue receiued from Butler of your byrth and worth together with the Iudgement of mine owne eie bids me beleeue and loue you Ilf. O seale it with a kisse Blest hower my life had neuer ioy till this Enter Wentloe and Bartley beneath Bart. Here about is the house sure Wentlo. We cannot mistake it for here 's the signe of the Wolfe and the Bay-window Enter Butler aboue But. What so close T is well I ha shifted away your Vncles Mistris but see the spight Sir Francis if you same couple of Smel-smockes Wentloe and Bartley ha not sented after vs Ilf. A poxe on em what shall we do then Butler But. What but be married straight man Ilf. I but how Butler But. Tut I neuer faile at a dead lift for to perfect your blisse I haue prouided you a Priest Ilf. Where prethe Butler where but. Where But beneath in her Chamber I ha fild his hands with Coine and he shall tye you fast with wordes he shall close your hands in one and then doe clap your selfe into her sheetes and spare not Ilf. O sweete Exit Ilford with his Sister but. Downe downe t is the onely way for you to get vp Thus in this taske for others good I toyle And she kind Gentlewoman weds her selfe Hauing bin scarcely woed and ere her thoughts Haue learnd to loue him that being her husband She may releeue her brothers in their wantes She marries him to helpe her nearest kin I make the match and hope it is no sinne Went. Sfut it is scuruy Walking for vs so neare the two Counters would he would come once Bar. Masse hee s yonder Now Butler But. O Gallants are you here I ha done wonders for you commended you to the Gentlewomen who hauing taken note of your good legs and good faces haue a liking to you meet me beneath both Happy Butler but. They are yours and you are theirs meet me beneath I say By this they are wed I and perhaps haue bedded Ex. wen bax Now followes whether knowing shee is poore Hee le swear he lou'd her as he swore before Exit butler Enter Ilford with Scarborrowes sister Ilf. Ho Sirrha who would ha thought it I perceiue now a woman may be a maid be married and loose her maiden-head and all in halfe and an hower and how doest like me now wench Sist. As doth befit your seruant and your wife That owe you loue and duty al my life Ilf. And there shal be no Loue lost nor seruice neither I le do thee seruice at boord and thou shalt do me seruice a bed Nowe must I as yong married men vse to do kisse my portion out of my yong wife Thou art my sweet Rogue my Lambe my Pigsny my play-fellow my pretty pretty any thing come a busse prethee so t is my kind hart and wat 's thou what now Sist. Not till you tel me Sir Ilf. I ha got thee with Childe in my Conscience and lyke a kind Husbande methinkes I breede it for thee For I am alreadie sicke at my stomacke and long extremely Now must thou bee my helpful Physition and prouide for me Sist. Euen to my blood What 's mine is yours to gaine your peace or good Ilf. What a kind soule is this could a man haue found a greater content in a wife if
Sca. Pretty pretty Impudence infaith But. Her whom your are bound to loue to raile against These whom you are bound to keepe to spurne like dogs And you were not my maister I would tell you Scar. What slaue But. Put vp your Bird-spit tut I feare it not In doing deeds so base so vild as these T is but a Kna kna kna Scar. Roge But. Tut howsoeuer t is a dishonest part And in defence of these I throw off duty Scar. Good Butler But. Peace honest Mistris I will say you are wronged Proue it vpon him euen in his blood his bones His guts his Maw his Throat his Intrals Scar. You runnagate of threescore But. T is better then a knaue of three and twenty Scar. Patience be my Buckler As not to file my hands in villaines blood You knaue Slaue-trencher-groome Who is your maister But. You if you were a maister scar. Off with your coate then get you for t a doores But. My cote sir Scar. I your coat slaue But. Sfut when you hate t is but a thred-bare coat Aud there t is for you know that I scorne To weare his Liuery is so worthy borne And liue so base a life old as I am I le rather be a begger then your man And there 's your seruice for you Exit scar. Away out of my doore Away So now your Champions gone Minx thou hadst better ha gone quick vnto thy graue Ca. O me that am no cause of it Sca. Then haue subornd that slaue to lift his hands against me Ka. O me what shall become of me Sca. I le teach you tricks for this ha you a companion Enter Butler But. My hart not suffer me to leaue my honest Mistris and hir pretty children Scar. I le marke thee for a strumpet and thy Bastards But. What will you do to them Sir scar. The Deuill in thy shape come backe againe But. No but an honest seruant Sir wil take this cote And weare it with this sword to sauegard these And pitty them and I am wo for you But will not suffer The husband Viper-like to pray on them That loue her and haue cherisht him as these As they haue you scar. Slaue But. I will not humour you Fight with you and loose my life or these Shal tast your wrong whom you are bound to loue scar. Out of my doores slaue But. I will not but wil stay and weare this coat And do you seruice whether you will or no I le weare this sword to and be Champion To fight for her in spight of any man scar. You shall You shall be my maister Sir But. No I desire it not I le pay you duty euen vpon my knee But loose my life ere these opprest I le see scar. Yes goodman slaue you shal be master Lie with my wife and get more Bastards do do do Ka. O me scar Turnes the world vpside downe that men orebeare theyr Maisters It dus it dus For euen as Iudas sold his Maister Christ Men buy and sell their wiues at highest price What wil you giue me what wil you giue me what wil you giue me O Mistris My soule weeps tho mine eyes be dry To see his fall and your aduersity Some meanes I haue left which I le releeue you with Into your chamber and if comfort be a kin To such great greefe comfort your children scar. I thanke thee Butler heauen when he please Send death vnto the troubled a blest ease Exit with children But. Introth I know not if it be good or ill That with this endlesse toyle I labour thus T is but the old times Ancient conscience That would do no man hurt that makes me do ot If it be sinne that I do pitty these If it be sinne I haue releeued his Brothers Haue plaid the theefe with them to get their food And made a lucklesse marriage for his Sister Intended for her good heauen pardon me But if so I am sure they are greater sinners That made this match and were vnhappy men For they caus'd all and may heauen pardon them Enter sir William scarborrow sir Wil. Whos 's within heere But. Sir William kindly welcome sir Wil. Where is my kinsman Scarborrow But. Sooth hee s within sir but not very well sir Will. His sicknesse But. The hel of sicknes troubled in his mind sir Wil. I gesse the cause of it But cannot now intend to visit him Great business for my soueraigne hasts me hence Onely this Letter from his Lord and Guardian to him Whose inside I do gesse tends to his good At my returne I le see him so farewell Exit But. Whose inside I do gesse turnes to his good He shall not see it now then for mens minds Perplext like his are like Land-troubling-winds Who haue no gracious temper Enter Iohn Scarborrow Iohn O Butler But. What 's the fryght now John Helpe strait or on the tree of shame We both shall perish for the robbery But. What i st reueald man Iohn Not yet good Butler only my brother Thomas In spleene to me that would not suffer him To kill our elder brother had vndone vs Is riding now to sir Iohn Harcop straight to disclose it But. Hart who would rob with Sucklings Where did you leaue him Iohn Now taking horse to ride to Yorkshire But. I le stay his iourney least I meet a hanging Exeunt Enter Scarrborrow Scar. I le parley with the Deuill I I will He giues his councell freely and the cause He for his Clyents pleads goes alwaies with them He in my cause shall deale then and I le aske him Whether a Cormorant may haue stuft Chests And see his brother starue why hee le say I The lesse they giue the more I gaine thereby Enter Butler Their soules their soules theyr soules How now mayster Nay you are my maister Is my wiues sheets warme Dus she kisse well Bat. Good sir Scar. Foe makt not strange for in these daies There 's many men lie in theyr maysters sheets And so may you in mine and yet Your businesse sir But. There 's one in ciuill habit sir would speake with you scar. In ciuill habite But: He is of seemly ranke sir and cals himselfe By the name of Doctor Baxtor of Oxford scar. That man vndid me he did blossoms blow Whose fruit proued poyson tho t was good in shew With him I le parley and disrobe my thoughts Of this wilde phrensey that becoms me not A table candles stooles and all things fit I know he comes to chide me and I le heare him With our sad conference we will call vp teares Teach Doctors rules instruct succeeding yeares Vsher him in Heauen spare a drop from thence wheres bounties throng Giue patience to my soule inflame my toung Enter Doctor Doct. God mayster Scarborow Sca. You are most kindly welcome sooth ye are Doct. I ha important businesse to deliuer you Sca. And I haue leysure to attend your hearing Doct. Sir you know I married you