Selected quad for the lemma: end_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A28808
|
Marcelia, or, The treacherous friend a tragicomedy : as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesties servants / written by Mrs. F. Boothby.
|
Boothby, F. (Frances), fl. 1670.
|
1670
(1670)
|
Wing B3742; ESTC R19454
|
51,171
|
96
|
admittance Exeunt all but the King King Were Friendship half so diligent as Love's impationt Melynet had e're this crown'd my desires with some assurance of success or left me to the force of my Dispair for hopes and fears are the Gonvulsions of the mind Fantastick Fortune that madest me both at once a King and Captive fettering my heart when thou didst Crown my head By Acts like these 't is Love does make us know He in his Slaves does no distinction show When by a Sov'raigns right I Millions sway That makes me most a Womans Power obey I that my Neighb'ring Kingdoms keep in fear Can nothing bring to daunt this passion here Points to his heart It braves my Courage and my Honour too Oh Conquering Love what is 't thou canst not do Thou tumblest mighty Empires to the ground Nothing beyond thy Circulation's found Enter Melynet Mel. Welcome my dearest Friend beyond all wishes but Marcelia's Love I dare not ask thee yet I fain would know What I shall hear too soon or else too slow Mel. Sure Sir my Looks does not a Sentence wear To give your wishes reason to dispair My Face would ill interpret then the joy I have and bring you if it hopes destroy King Does my fair Mistris then my Love allow Tell me Melynet tell me quickly how I am impatient thou did'st never know What Passion was thy answer comes so slow Will she for me her lov'd Lotharicus quit Mel. Love is a Child she 'l rule it with her wit I find Sir nothing so powerful in her heart to give your Majesties hopes discouragement Something has lately hap'ned by which Lotharicus has lost some ground in her affection and that which makes me almost confident Sir of your success is she seems much more to doubt the truth I tell her of your Love then disapprove it and where that is strongly urg'd the Present never is unwelcome King 'T is true but their desires of taking in of heart proceeds not always from their Inclinations it is the general humor of that Sex to glory in the number of their Sacrifices yet hardly will allow in their whole lives to pay the interest of one Offering back Mel. Were they as cautious in their gifts of Love as you conclude them Sir their Sex had ne're bin tax'd of so much Levity King My fears are only now she will not change and if she does I then shall fear as much she 'll change again How can he happy be whose unkind Fate Gives in his grearest joy a doubting State Mel. Never give way Sir to thoughts so injurious to your quiet her Reason will soon shake off her Feverish Reliques of Affection to Lotharicus they will perhaps some little time make a weak opposition but the Antidote I have given her of your Majesties inclinations will infallibly expel that poyson King I 'l go and visit her presently Melynet that from my own experimented hopes as well as thine I may secure my heart Mel. Sir if I may without offense perswade your Maesty defer it till the solemnity of your Birth-day's past I then will bring her to the Court and there the particular honor that your Majesty may do her by a publick Address giving by that the Lawrel to her beauty from the other fair ones will infinitely conduce unto the conquest There is no surer way than baiting of their pride to catch their hearts King I will expect that seeming Age of time How I shall pass it none but those can tell That heav'n has seen and yet must stay in hell Exeunt The End of the Second Act. Act III. Scene I. Enter Lucidore Luc. I must go look my longing Lords and whet up their desires of seeing my Mistress with a day or two's expectation longer the sight will come too cheap else and lessen their obligations if I afford it at their first request Enter Valasco Almeric Peregrine Val. Oh my Lord you are well met we were coming to you for performance of your promise we could hold out no longer you have raised our hopes to such a height of expectation Alm. I' faith the fancy of her beauty does so hant our imaginations we cannot sleep nor eat quietly for conceiting of her what I dare swear shall never prove Luc. Well conceit her what you please you are not like to see her this two long days and so farewel Per. Nay we 'l go with thee and hant thy ghost till thou let'st us see the desired apparition Exeunt Scene 2. Enter Lotharicus at one door and Melinet at another Loth. I do not think but we were both of us upon one design going in pursuit of one another Mel. You have reason to believe my Lord I carry a passion in my heart sufficiently impatient till I know my doom which you ere this had found the effect of but that Marcelia has kept me some hours her Prisoner to make me promise to carry her to Court Loth. I then perceive I am discarded from that service and were you any but the person that you are I should grow jealous of you Mel. To divert you from that humor pray satisfie my wishes how do you find Arcasia's inclinations I durst not come my self and stand the Sentence Loth. I cannot give you hopes as you deserve her resolution seems at present to be fix'd still to be Mistress of her own freedom She says the service of no man living shall prevail to buy her out I hope time may change her humor Womens first resolutions seldome stand good in Law against their second thoughts This for your satisfaction you have no Rival that 's more fortunate Mel. If I must not possess her heart I 'le pleasure take at least to think no other does And hope while 't is to an Election free Fortune at last may kindly give it me Exeunt Scene 3. Enter Marcelia Marc. How shall I force my self to shew disdain Since still in spight of me he here will raign Love will not quit this place to rage or scorn Points to her heart But keeps his Int'rest as the Eldest born Reason and Honor whither are ye gone That I this Childish Passion find so strong Will you be slaves to Love resign the Field So many Odds and yet so poorly yield But 't is not much our weak Sex should submit Since Man's couragious Soul can't Master it Enter Page Page My Lord Lotharicus is come Madam Exit Page Marc. Well Enter Lotharicus at a distance He comes Grief now retire act here thy Tragick part Points to her heart But do not make my eyes betray my heart Loth. I 'm come Marcelia Goes to imbrace her Marc. Whither pray so fast Puts him back They often fall that make too much of hast Loth. Has my forc'd absence made you angry grow Marc. You do mistake your coming makes me so Loth. Ha! what 's this I hear I know it cannot be Thou art not chang'd thus to thy self nor me This coldness comes not
unworthily could find no other out to make an instrument to your abuse and her design but me I must be chose out that unhappy man to carry her to Court as if she thought the trouble would not be great enough unless she made your Friend to help it forward Loth. No it was not that she did believe your power there would make her more regarded that gave you the imployment Mel. Curse on the Cause if her desires from that did find success my power there made your affections ruine What fatal minute was my unhappy interest born in But I 'le revenge my self I 'le set all the Engines in the Court to work and blast her growing hopes of ever being a Queen 'T is those that puff her up to the contempt she does express of your affections Loth. Has she then boasted to you of her neglects Mel. I and gloried in her Falshood but I hope she shall be made repent from her lost expectations Loth. I must confess that would allay part of my misery to see her unsuccessful in her ambitious wishes the news of that would be acceptable when I am gone Mel. You gone whither my Lord Loth. I do intend to leave the Kingdom with all the speed I can Mel. I cannot wish it yet I must confess 't is wisely done I must approve what I would fain prevent But I believe you 'l then find most content And may be when she knows that you are gone Her pride may grow more weak her love more strong Loth. I know not that but I must beg your pardon sor I must go and take some Order about my Journey I will not now bid you my last Adieu but when we meet again I then believe that we shall part for ever Exit Lotharicus Mel. I shall be much deceiv'd else All things happen as I could wish Fortune has plotted for me She 's a good Assistant where she is a Friend Fix her but constant stars until the end Enter Du-Prette Du-Pr. My Lord the King has sent for you Mel. I 'le go to him presently but I must give thee instructions first concerning that I intrusted last night to thy fidelity Lotharicus intends to travel speedily make it thy business to know directly when he goes and follow him I 'le furnish thee with moneys this night Do it as soon as thou canst with any safety thy reward shall wait thee Be sure and speedy and make thy Master thine for ever and one more powerful then he to pay thy services Du-Pr. I want not courage Sir and for my Conscience it reaches I 'le assure you from one Pole to the other he cannot travel out of the compass of it Exeunt Scene 9. Enter Lucidore Peregrine and Valasco Per. What ail'st thou to laugh so To Lucidore Luc. To think how impatient you are to see one of the oldest Witches in the world For to deal ingenuously with you my Mistris is neither better nor worse but even so Alm. Why thou hast not brought us hither to put such a trick upon us Luc. Put her upon you As bad as she is I love her too well and have too much use for her my self to complement you so far to make you any such offer Per. We shall without any opposition in our inclinations leave you her possession Were she blind lame deaf or dumb or any thing else but Old 't were tollerable But Old do you say Luc. I as the Creation almost Per. Why certainly thou art turn'd Projector and think'st to go to heaven with a new invention by the mortified way of sinning you had e'en as good take the old Road for the Devil will way-lay you in the journey and where he sends a Post-boy for a Guide the Passengers commonly lodge at his Inns. Val. What is she Old does he say O most abominable insupportable intollerable Old Why art thou so mad in all things else and so tame in the choice of thy Mistris Old Oh Time what would women give they had you by the ears to pull you back again Per. We may let that string alone for there are some of our Sex would be bribing as deep as any of them for that benefit for many reasons First because they would have the World a little like Heaven by times going backward and forward and by that means prevented of coming to an end Secondly from a just belief that Ladies dout not of that in us which we so much despise in them they care not to marry Methusalem no more then we do the Witch of Endor Luc. And yet before any of your brains are worthy of the place of Privy-Councel Old Age must have lent you some of his Experiments as well as Nature Wit Alm. Then thou took'st thy Mistris to fit thee for a Polititian Luc. If she live so long with me till I come to be made use of in that kind I shall owe much to her power I dare swear Val. Prethee for laughter-sake let us see this Wonder-worker Luc. Well keep your distance and you shall Alm. Thou hast given us caution enough in her Character of Antiquity for that Per. I 'le be hang'd if she be either Old or Ugly she might be her own Guardian then he need not keep her under Lock and Key The Scene opens and there lies heaps of money up and down and there stands five persons about the Table with bags in their hands dress'd in Antick habit as others at the door They come out and dance and keep time with their Bags and Pockets Luc. What think you Gentlemen of her There she is and her Attendants Her servants shall give you a Dance They all laugh The Dance ended You see this is the Mistris of my heart and pleasure I purchase her by the sale of my Lands Per. And yet I 'le be hang'd if she does not run away from thee Luc. Well I am of thy mind for that But do you not all love her Confess confess Per. The truth of it is we should all lye horribly if we did deny that we all adore her and are her most humble and faithful servants for without her there is no satisfaction in this World Luc. No nor hardly a place in the other World in Hell or Heaven but what she helps to purchase You may send your Venture by her to which you please Val That 's true Lucidore but I believe thou only keep'st a Correspondence in the Lower Region Luc. I do so It was always my Fortune to keep company with such as you are all Merchants of that place I do not think yet amongst us all we have interest enough to make one Bill of Exchange so good as to pass there Per. There 's not one of a thousand that goes about to try till fifty or threescore nor so much as think of it the Seas are very rough thither and troublesome Luc. I hang 't and one shall be sure to be pleasure-sick all the way and must be still taking of bitter