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
not lie to you that your comming nowe in this wise into our kindred I might be acquainted with you aforehand that after my brother had married your daughter I his brother might borrowe some money of you Har. What Do you borrow of your kindred Sir Thom. Sfut what else they hauing interrest in my blood why shoulde not I haue interrest in their coyne Besides Sir I being a younger brother would be ashamed of my generation if I would not borrow of any man that would lend especially of my affinitie of whom I keepe a Kalender And looke you Sir thus I goe ouer them Frst ore my Vnckles often ore mine Aunts then vp to my Nephewes straight downe to my Neeces to this Cosen Thomas and that Cosen Ieffrey leauing the courteous claw giuen to none of their elbowes euen vnto the thirde and fourth remooue of any that hath interest in our blood Al which do vpon their summons made by me duely and faithfully prouide for appearance and so as they are I hope we shall be more indeerd intierly better and more feelingly acquainted Har. you are a merrie Gentleman Tho. T is the hope of monie makes me so and I know none but fooles vse to be sad with it Ioh. From Oxford am I drawne from serious studies Expecting that my brother still had soiournd With you his best of choyse and this good Knight Har. His absence shall not make our harts lesse merrie Then if we had his presence A daie ere long Will bring him backe when one the other meets At noone i' th Church at night betweene the sheets Wee le wash this chat with wine Some wine fill vp The sharpner of the wit is a full cup And so to you Sir Tho. Do and I le drinke to my new sister but vpon this condition that she may haue quiet daies little rest a nights ha pleasant afternoones bee plyant to my brother and lend me money when soere I le borrow it Har. Nay nay nay Women are weake and we must beare with them Your frolicke healths are onely fit for men Tho. Well I am contented women must to the wal tho it be to a feather-bed Fill vp then Enter Clowne Clo. From London am I come tho not with pipe and Drum Yet I bring matter in this poore paper Will make my young mistris delighting in kisses Do as all Maidens will hearing of such an ill As to haue lost the thing they wisht most A Husband a Husband a pretty sweet Husband Cry oh oh oh and alas And at last ho ho ho as I do Clar. Returnd so soone from London What 's the newes Clow. O mistris if euer you haue seene Demonicea cleare look into mine eyes mine eyes are Seuerne plaine Seuerne the Thamee nor the Ryuer of Tweed are nothing to em Nay all the rayne that fell at Noahs floud had not the discretion that my eyes haue that drunke but vp the whole world and I ha drownd all the way betwixt this and London Cla. Thy newes good Robbin Clow. My newes mistres I le tell you strange newes the dust vpon London way being so great that not a Lorde Gentleman Knight or Knaue could trauell least his eies should bee blowne out At last they all agreed to hyre me to go before them when I looking but vpon this Letter did with this water this very water lay the dust as well as if it had raind from the beginning of Aprill to the last of May Clar. A Letter from my Scarborrow giue it thy mistris Clow. But Mistris Cla. Prethee be gon I would not haue my father nor this Gentlemen Be witnes of the comfort it doth bring Clo. Oh but mistris Cla. Prethee begone With this and the glad newes leaue me alone Exit Clo. Tho. T is your turne Knight take your licquor know I am bountifull I le forgiue any man any thing that hee owes mee but his drinke and that I le be paid for Cla. May Gentlemen the honesty of myrth Consists not in Carowsing with excesse My father hath more welcomes then in wine Pray you no more Tho. Sayes my sister so I le be ruld by thoe then Do you heare in hope hereafter you le lend me some mony now we are halfe drunk le ts go to dinner Come Knight Exeunt Manet Cla. Clar. I am glad your gone Shall I now ope nt no I le kisse it first Because his outside last did kisse his hand Within this fould I le ca lt a sacred sheet Are writ blacke lines when our white harts shall meet Before I ope this dore of my delight Methinkes I gesse how kindly he doth write Of his true Loue to me as Chuck Sweet-hart I prethee do not thinke the time too long That keepes vs from the sweets of marriage rites And then he sets my name and kisses it Wishing my lips his sheet to write vpon With like desire methinkes as mine owne thoughts Aske him now heere for me to looke vpon Yet at the last thinking his loue too slacke Ere it arriue at my desired eyes He hastens vp his message with like speed Euen as I breake this ope wishing to read Oh what 's hear Mine eyes are not mine owne sure th' are not Tho you ha bin my lamps this sixteene years Le ts fall the Let. You do belie my Scarborrow reading so Forgiue him he is married that were Ill What lying lights are these Looke I ha no such Letter No wedded sillable of the least wrong Done to a Troth-plight-Virgin like my selfe Beshrow you for your blindnes Forgiue him he is married I know my Scarborrow constancie to me Is as firme knit as faith to Charity That I shall kisse him often hug him thus Be made a happy and a fruitfull Mother Of many prosperous children like to him And read I he was maried Askt forgiuenes What a blind Foole was I yet heere 's a Letter To whom directed tro To my beloued Clare Why Law Women will read and read not that they saw T was but my feruent loue misled mine eyes I le once againe to the Inside Forgiue me I am married william Scarborrow He has set his name too 't to O periury within the harts of men Thy feasts are kept their tongues proclaimeth them Enter Thomas Scarborrow Tho. Sister Gods precious the cloths laide the meate cooles we all stay and your father cals for you Clar. Kind Sir excuse me I pray you a little I le but peruse this Letter and come straight Tho. Pray you make hast the meat staies for vs and our stomacks Ready for the meat for beleeue this Drinke makes men hungry or it makes them lie And he that 's drunke ore night i th mornings dry Seene and approued Exit Clar. He was contracted mine yet he vniust Hath married to another what 's my estate then A wretched maid not fit for any man For being vnited his with plighted faiths Who euer sues to me commits a sinne Besiedgeth me and who shal marry me Is
and wee le stay here and drinke Tobacco Scarb. Thus like a Feuer that doth shake a man From strength to weaknesse I consume my selfe I know this company theyr custome vilde Hated abhord of good-men yet like a childe By reasons rule instructed how to know Euill from good I to the worser go Why doe you suffer this you vpper powers That I should surfet in the sinne I tast haue sence to feele my mischiefe yet make wast Of heauen and earth My selfe will answer what my selfe doth aske Who once doth cherish sinne begets his shame For vice being fosterd once coms Impudence Which makes men count sinne Custom not offence When all like mee their reputation blot Pursuing euill while the good 's forgot got Enter Ilford led in by a couple of Sergeants and Gripe the Vsurer Ser. Nay neuer striue we can hold you Ilf. I me and any man else and a fall into your Clutches Let go your tugging as I am a Gentleman I le be your true prisoner Wen. How now what 's the matter Franke Ilf. I am fallen into the hands of Sergiants I am arested Bart. How arrest a Gentleman in our company Ilf. Put vp put vp for sins sake put vp le ts not all suppe in the Counter to night let me speak with maister Gripe the Creditor Grip. Well what say you to me Sir Ilf. You haue arrested me heere maister Gripe Gri. Not I Sir the Sergiants haue Ilf. But at your sute master Gripe yet hear me as I am a Gent. Gri. I rather you could say as you were an honest man and then I might beleeue you Ilf. Yet heare me Gri. Heare me no hearings I lent you my mony for good will Ilf. And I spent it for meere necessity I confesse I owe you fiue hundred pound and I confesse I owe not a peny to any man but he wold be glad to hate my bond you haue already master Gripe If you will now take my word Grip. Word me no wordes Officers looke to your prisoner If you cannot either make me present paiment or put me in security such as I shall like too Ilf. Such as you shall like too what say you to this young Gent. He is the widgen that wee must feed vpon Grip. Who young maister Scarborrow he is an honest Gentleman for ought I know I nere lost peny by him Ilf. I would be ashamd any man should say so by me that I haue had dealings withall But my inforced friends wilt please you but to retire into some smal distance whilst I discend with a few words to these Gentlemen and I le commit my selfe into your hands immediately Ser. Well sir wee le wait vpon you Ilf. Gentlemen I am to proferre some conference and in especially to you maister Scarborrow our meeting here for your mirth hath proued to me thus aduerse that in your companies I am Arrested How ill it will stand with the flourish of your reputations when men of ranke and note communicate that I Franke Ilforde Gentlem whose Fortunes may transcend to make ample Gratuities future and heape satisfaction for any present extention of his friends kindnes was Inforced from the Miter in Bredstreet to the Counter i' th Poultrey for mine owne part if you shall thinke it meet and that it shall acord with the state of gentry to submit my selfe from the featherbed in the Maisters side or the Flock-bed in the Knights warde to the straw-bed in the hole I shall buckle to my heeles insted of guilt spurs the armour of patience and doote Went. Come come what a pox need all this this is Mellis Flora the sweetest of the hony he that was not made to fat Cattel but to feed Gentlemen Bart. You weare good cloaths Wen. Are well descended Bart. Keepe the best company Went. Should regard your credit Bar. Stand not vpon 't be bound be bound Wen. Ye are richly married Bar. Loue not your wife Wen. Haue store of friends Bar. Who shall be your heyre Wen. The sonne of some slaue Bar. Some groome Wen. Some Horse-keeper Bart. Stand not vpon t be bound be bound Scar. Well at your Importance for once I le stretch my purse Whose borne to sinke as good this way as worse went Now speakes my Bully like a Gentleman of worth Bart. Of merit went Fit to be regarded Bar. That shall command our soules went Our swords Bart. Our selues Ilf. To feed vpon you as Pharoes leane kine did vpon the fat Scar. Maister Gripe is my bond currant for this Gentleman Ilf. Good security you Aegyptian Grashopper good security Gri. And for as much more kinde Maister Scarborrow Prouided that men mortal as we are May haue Scar. May haue security Gri. Your bond with land conuaid which may assure me of mine owne againe Scar. You shal be satisfied and I le become your debter for full fiue hundred more then he doth owe you This night we sup heere beare vs company And bring your Counsell Scriuener and the mony with you Where I wil make as ful assurance as in the Law you 'd wish Gri. I take your word Sir And so discharge you of your prisoner Ilf. Why then le ts come and take vp a new roome the infected hath spit in this He that hath store of Coyne wants not a frend Thou shalt receiue sweet rogue and we will spend Exeunt Enter Thomas and Iohn Scarborrow Ioh. Brother you see the extreamity of want Inforceth vs to question for our owne The rather that we see not like a Brother Our Brother keepes from vs to spend on other Tho. True he has in his hands our portions the patrimony which our Father gaue vs with which he lies fatting himselfe with Sacke and suger in the house and we are faine to walke with lean purses abroad Credit must be maintained which wil not be without mony Good cloaths must be had which will not be without money company must be kept which wil not be without money al which we must haue and from him we will haue money Io. Besides we haue brought our sister to this Towne That she her selfe hauing her owne from him Might bring her selfe in Court to be preferd Vnder some Noble personage or els that he Whose friends are great in Court by his late match As he is in nature bound prouide for her Tho. And he shall do it brother tho we haue waited at his lodging longer then a Taylours bil on a young Knight for an old rekoning without speaking with him Heere we know he is and we wil call him to parle Io. Yet let vs do ot in mild and gentle tearmes Faire words perhaps may sooner draw our owne Then ruffer courses by which his mischiefe grown En. Draw Dr. Anon anon looke downe into the Dolphine there Tho. Here comes a drawer we wil question him Tho. Doe you heare my friend is not maister Scarborrow here Draw Here sir what a iest is that where should hee bee else I would haue you well know my
maister hopes to grow rich before he leaues him Io. How long hath he continued heere since he came hether Draw Faith Sir not so long as Noahs floude yet long enough to haue drowned vp the liuings of three Knights as Knights goes now adaies some moneth or there abouts Iohn Time ill consumed to ruinate our house But what are they that keepe him company Draw Pitch Pitch but I must not say so but for your further satisfaction did you euer see a young whelpe and a Lyon plaie together Iohn Yes Draw Such is maister Scarborrows company Within Oliuer Draw Anon anon looke downe to the Pomgranate there Tho. I prethee say heere 's them would speake with him Draw I le do your message Anon anon there Exit Iohn This foole speakes wiser then he is aware young heires left in this towne where sins so ranke And prodigals gape to grow fat by them Are like young whelps throwne in the Lyons den Who play with them awhile at length deuoure them Enter Scarborrow Scar. Whos 's there would speake with me Iohn Your Brothers who are glad to see you well Scar, Well Iohn T is not your ryot that we heare you vse With such as wast their goods as Time the world With a continuall spending nor that you keepe The companie of a most Leprous route Consumes your bodies wealth infects your name With such Plague-sores that had you reasons eie T would make you sicke to see you visit them Hath drawne vs but our wants to craue the dew Our father gaue and yet remaines with you Tho. Our Byrth-right good brother this Towne craues mainteinance silke stockings must be had and we would be loath our heritage should be arraigned at the Vintners bar and so condemned to the Vintners box though while you did keepe house wee had some Belly-timber at your Table or so yet wee would haue you think we are your Brothers yet no Esaus to sell our patrimony for Porridge Scar. So so what hath your comming else Io. With vs our sister ioynes in our request Whom we haue brought along with vs to London To haue her portion wherewith to prouide An honord seruice or an honest bride Scar. So then you two my Brothers and she my sister come not as in duty you are bound to an elder brother out of Yorkshire to see vs but like leaches to sucke from vs Io. We come compeld by want to craue our owne Scar. Sir for your owne then thus be satisfied Both hers and yours were left in trust with me And I will keepe it for ye Must you appoint vs Or what we please to like mixt with reproofe You haue bin to sawcy both and you shall know I le curbe you for it aske why I le haue it so Io. We do but craue our owne Scar. Your owne sir what 's your owne Tho. Our portions giuen vs by our fathers will Io. Which here you spend Tho. Consume Io. Wayes worse then ill Scar. Ha ha ha Enter Ilford Ilf. Nay nay nay Wil prethy come away we haue a full gallon of Sacke staies in the fire for thee thou must pledge it to the health of a friend of thine Scar. What dost thinke these are Franke Ilf. They are Fidlers I thinke if they be I preethe sende them into the next roome and let them scrape there and wee ll send to them presently Scar. They are my brothers Franke come out of Yorkeshire To the Tauerne here to aske their portions they call my pleasures ryots my company Leproes like a school boy they would tutor me Ilf. O thou shouldst haue done wel to haue bound them prentises when they were young they woulde haue made a couple of sawcy Taylers Tho. Taylers Ilf. I Birdlime Taylers Taylours are good men and in the Terme time they weare good Cloathes Come you must learne more manners stand at your Brothers backe as to shift a Treancher neately and take a Cuppe of Sacke and a Capons legge contentedly Tho. You are a slaue That feeds vpon my brother like a flie Poysoning where thou dost sucke Scar. You lie Io. O to my griefe I speake it you shall find There 's no more difference in a Tauern-haunter Then is betweene a Spittle and a Begger Tho. Thou workst on him like Tempests on a ship Io. And he the worthy Trafficke that doth sinke Tho. Thou makst his name more loathsome then a graue Io. Liuest like a Dog by vomit Tho. Die a slave Heere they draw Wentlo and Bartley come in and the two Vintners boyes with Clubbes All set vpon the two Brothers Butler Scarborrows man comes in stands by sees them fight takes part with neyther But. Do fight I loue you all well because you were my olde masters sonnes but I le neither part you nor be partaker with you I come to bring my mast newes he hath two sons borne at a birth in Yorkshire and I find him together by the ears with his brothers in a Tauerne in London Brother and brother at ods t is naught sure it was not thus in the days of charity What 's this world lyke to Faith iust like an Inne-keepers Chamber-pot receiues all waters good and bad It had need of much scouring My old mast kept a good house and twenty or thirty tall sworde and Buckler men about him and y fayth his sonne differs not much he wil haue mettle to tho he hath not store of Cutlers blades he will haue plentie of Vintners pots His father kept a good house for honest men his Tenants that brought him in part and his son keeps a bad de house with Knaues that helpe to consume al T is but the change of time why shoulde any man repyne at it Crekits good liuing and lucky wormes were wont to feede sing and reioyce in the fathers chimney and nowe Carrion Crowes builds in the sons Kitchen I could be sorry for it but I am too old to weepe Well then I will go tel him newes of his of-springs Exit Enter the two brothers Thomas and Iohn Scarborrow hurt and sister Sist. Alas good Brothers how came this mischance Tho. Our portions our brother hath giuen vs our portions sister hath he not Sist. He would not be so monstrous I am sure Io. Excuse him not he is more degenerate Then greedy Vipers that deuoure their mother They eat on her but to preserue themselues And he consumes himselfe and Beggers vs A Tauerne is his Inne where amongst Slaues He kils his substance making pots the graues To bury that which our forefathers gaue I askt him for our portions told him that you Were brought to London and we were in want Humbly we crau'd our owne when his Reply Was he knew none we had beg starue or die Sist. Alas what course is left for vs to liue by then Tho In troth sister we two to beg in the fields And you to betake your selfe to the old trade Filling of smal Cans in the suburbes Sist Shall I be left
then like a common road That euery beast that can but pay his tole May trauel ouer and like to Cammomil Flourish the better being trodden on Enter Butler bleeding But, Well I will not curse him he seedes now vppon Sacke Anchoues with a pox to him but if he be not faine before he dies to eate Acornes let me liue with nothing but pollerd and my mouth be made a Cooking stoole for euery scolde to set her tayle on Tho. How now Butler what 's the meaning of this But. Your brother meanes to lame as many as he can that is a begger himselfe many liue with him in the Hospital His wife sent me out of Yorkshire to tell him that God had blest him with two sonnes he bids a plague of them a vengeance of her crosses mee ore the pate and sendes mee to the Surgeons to seeke salue I lookt at least he should haue giuen me a brace of Angels for my paines Tho. Thou hast not lost all thy longing I am sure he hath giuen thee a crackt crowne But. A plague on his fingers I cannot tel he is your Brother my maister I would be loath to Prophesie of him but who soere doth cursse his Children being Infants ban his wife lying in childbed and beats his man brings him newes of it they may bee borne rich but they shall liue Slaues be Knaues and die Beggers Sist. Did he do so But. Gesse you he bid a plague of them a vengeance on her sent me to the Surgeons Sist. Why then I see there is no hope of him Some husbandes are respectles of their wiues During the time that they are yssulesse But none with Infants blest can nourish hate But loue the mother for the childrens sake Io. But hee that is giuen ouer vnto sin Leprosed therewith without and so within O Butler we were yssue to one father But. And he was an honest Gentleman Io. Whose hopes were better then the sunne he left Should set so soon vnto his houses shame He liues in Tauernes spending of his wealth And heere his Brothers and distressed Sister Not hauing any meanes to helpe vs with Tho. Not a Scots Baubee by this hand to blesse vs with Io. And not content to ryot out his owne But he detaines our portions suffers vs In this strange Ayre open to euery wracke Whilst he in ryot swims to be in lacke But. The more 's the pitty Sist. I know not what course to take me to Honesty faine would liue What shall I do But. Sooth I le tell you your brother hath hurt vs We three will hurt you and then go all to a spittle together Sist. Iest not at her whose burden is too greuous But rather lend a meanes how to releeue vs But. Well I doe pitty you and the rather because you sale you woulde faine liue honest and want meanes for it for I can tell you t is as strange heere to see a maid faire poore and honest as to see a Collier with a cleane face Maids heere do liue especially without maintenance Like Mice going to a trap They nibble long at last they get a clap Your father was my good Benifactor and gaue me a house whilst I liue to put my head in for I would be loth then to see his onely daughter for want of meanes turne punk I haue a drift to keepe you honest Haue you a care to keepe your selfe so yet you shall not know of it for womens tounges are like siues they will holde nothing they haue power to vent You two wil further me Iohn In any thing good honest Butler Tho. I ft be to take a purse I le be one But. Perhaps thou speakest righter then thou art aware of wel as chance it I haue receiued my wages there is forty shillings for you I le set you in a lodging and till you heare from vs let that prouide for you wee le first to the surgeons To keepe you honest and to keepe you braue For once an honest man will turne a Knaue Exeunt Enter Scarborrow hauing a Boy carrying a Torch with him Ilford Wentlo and Barley Scar. Boy bear the Torch faire Now am I armd to fight with a Wind-mill and to take the wall of an Emperor Much drinke no money A heauy head and a light paire of heeles Went. O stand man Scar. I weare an excellent creature to make a Punk of I should downe with the least touch of a knaues finger thou hast made a good night of this What hast won Franke Ilf. A matter of nothing some hundred pounds Scar. This is the hel of al gamsters I thinke when they are at play the boord eases vp the money For if there be fiue hundred pound lost there 's neuer but a hundred pounds wonne Boy take the wall of any man and yet by light such deedes of darkness may not be Put out the Torch Went. What dost meane by that Will Scar. To saue charge and walke like a Fury with a fire-brande in my hand euery one goes by the light wee l go by the smoke Enter Lord Faulconbridge Scar. Boy keepe the Wall I will not budge for any man by these Thumbs and the paring of the Nayles shal stick in thy teeth not for a world Lord Whos 's this young Scarborrow Scar. The man that the Mare rid on Lord Is this the reuerence that you owe to me Scar. You should haue brought me vp better Lord That vice should thus transforme man to a beast Scar. Go to your names Lorde I le talke with you when your out a debt and ha better cloaths Lord I pitty thee euen with my very soule Scar. Pitty i th thy throat I can drinke Muscadine and Egges and Muld sack do you heare you put a peece of turnd stuffe vpon me but I wil Lord What will you do Sir Scar. Pisse in thy way and that 's no slander Lord Your sober blood wil teach you otherwise Enter Sir William Scarborrow S. Will. My honoured Lord your happily wel met Lord Ill met to see your Nephew in this case More like a brute Beast then a Gentleman S. wil. Fi Nephew shame you not thus to transform your self Scar. Can your nose smell a Torch Ilf. Be not so wilde it is thine Vnckle Scarborrow Scar. Why then t is the more likely t is my Fathers brother sir wil. Shame to our name to make thy selfe a Beast Thy body worthy borne and thy youths brest Tyld in due time for better discipline Lo. Thy selfe new married to a Noble house Rich in possessions and Posterity Which should cal home thy vnstaid affections S. will Where thou makst havock Lo. Ryot spoyle and wast Syr willi. Of what thy father left Lor. And liuest disgracst Scar. I le send you shorter to heauen then you came to the earth do you Catechize Do you Catechize He drawes and strikes at them Ilf. Hold hold do you draw vpon your vnckle Scar. Pox of that Lord Wee le meet
at Miter where wee le sup downe sorrow We are drunke to night and so wee le be to morrow Exeunt Lo. Why now I see what I hard of I beleeu'd not Your kinsman liues S. wil. Like to a swine Lo, A perfect Epythite hee feeds on draffe And wallowes in the mire to make men laugh I pitty him Sir wil. No pitties fit for him Lo. Yet wee le aduise him Syr wil. He is my kinsman Lo. Being in the pit where many do fall in We wil both comfort him and counsel him Exeunt Anoyse within crying Follow follow follow Then enter Butler Thomas and Iohn Scarborrow with money bagges Tho. What shal we do now Butler But. A man had better lyne a good handsome payre of gallows before his time then be born to do these sucklings good their mothers milke not wrung out of their nose yet they knowe no more how to behaue themselues in this honest and needeful calling of Purse-taking then I do to peece stockings within This way This way this way Both Sfut what shal we do now But. See if they do not quake like a trembling Asp-leafe and look more miserable then one of the wicked Elders picturd in the painted cloth should they but come to the credit to be arraind for their valor before a worshipfull bench their very lookes woulde hang 'em and they were indighted but for stealing of Egs within Follow follow this way follow Tho: Butler Iohn Honest Butler Butler Squat hart squat creepe mee into these Bushes lye me as close to the ground as you would do to a wench Tho. How good Butler show us how But. By the Moone patronesse of all purse-takers who woulde be troubled with such Changelings squat hart squat Tho. Thus Butler But. I so suckling so sturre not nowe If the peering Rogues chance to goe ouer you yet sturre not younger Brothers call you em and haue no more forecast I am ashamd of you these are such whose fathers had neede leaue them money euen to make them ready withall for by this hiltes they haue not wit to butten theyr sleeues without teaching close squat close Now if the lot of hanging do fall to my share so then the Fathers old man drops for his young maisters If it chance it chances and when it chaunces heauen and the Sheriffe send me a good rope I wold not go vp the lather twice for any thing in the meane time preuentious honest preuentions do well off with my skin so you on the ground and I to this tree to escape the Gallows With Follow follow follow But. Do follow if I do not deceiue you I le bid a poxe of this wit and hang with a good grace Enter Sir Iohn Harcop with two or three other with him Har. Vp to this wood they tooke search neare my friendes I am this morne robd of three hundred pound But. I am sorry there was not foure to haue made euen money now by the Deuils hornes t is Sir Iohn Harcop Har. Leaue not a bush vnbeare nor tree vnsearcht as sure as I was robd the theeues went this way But. Theirs Nobody I perceiue but may lie at sometime for one of them climbd this wayes 1. Stand I heare a voice and here 's an Owle in an Iuy bush Bat. You lie t is an old Seruingman in a Nut-tree 2 Sirrah sir what make you in that tree But. Gathring of Nuts that such fools as you are may cracke the shels and I eat the kernels Har. What fellowes that But. Sir Iohn Harcop my Noble Knight I am gladde of your good health you heare your Age faier you keep a good house I ha fed at your boord and bin drunke in your buttery Har. But sirha what made you in that tree My man and I at foot of yonder hill Were by three knaves robd of three hundred pound But. A shrewd losse berlady sir but your good worship may now see the fruit of being miserable You will ride but with one man to saue hors-meat and mans meat at your Inne at night lose three hundred pound in a morning Har. Sirha I say I ha lost three hundred pound But. And I say sir I wish all miserable knights might bee serued so For had you kept halfe a dozen tall fellowes as a man of your coat should do they woulde haue helpt now to keep your money Har. But tell me sir why lurkt you in that tree But. Mary I will tell you sir Comming to the top of the hill where you Right worshipfull wer robd at the bottome seeing some a scuffling together my mind strait gaue me ther were knaues abroad Now sir I knowing my selfe to be olde tough and vnwieldy not being able to doe as I would as muche as to say Rescue you right Worshipfull I like an honest man one of the Kings liege people and a good subiect Ser. A sayes well Sir Got me vp to the top of that tree The tree if it could speake would beare me witnesse that there I might see which way the knaues tooke then to tell you of it and you right worshipfullie to send hue to cry after em Har. Was it so But. Nay t was so sir Har. Nay then I tell thee they tooke into this wood But. And I tell thee setting thy worsh. knighthood aside he lyes in his throat that saies so Had not one of them a white Frocke Did they not bind your worships knighthoode by the thumbs then fagoted you and the fool your man back to back Man He sayes true But. Why then so truly came not they into this wood but tooke ouer the Lawnes left Winno steeple on the left hand Har. It may be so by this they are out of reach Well farewell it But, Ride with more men good knight Har. It shall teach me wit Exit Har. with followers But. So If this bee not playd a weapon beyonde a Schollers Prize let me be hist at Now to the next Come out you Hedghogs Tho. O Butler thou deserust to be chronicled for this But. Do not bely me If I had my right I deserue to be hanged for t But come Downe with your dust our mornings purchase Tho. Heer t is Thou hast playd well Thou deserust two shares in it But. Three hundred pound A pretty breakfast Many a mā workes harde all his daies and neuer sees halfe the money But come Tho it be badly got it shal be better bestowd But do ye heare Galants I ha not taught you this trade to get your liuings by Vse it not for if you doe though I scapt by the Nut tree be sure you le speed by the Rope But for your paynes at this tyme There 's a hundred pounds for you how you shall bestow it I le giue you instructions But do you heare Looke you goe not to your Gilles your Punkes and your Cock-tricks with it If I hear you do as I am an honest theefe tho I helpt you now out of the Bryers I
he should ha sought thorough the worlde for her Prethy hart as I said I long and in good troth I do and methinkes thy first childe wil bee borne without a nose if I loose my longing t is but for a trifle too yet methinkes it wil do me no good vnlesse thou effect it for me I could take thy keyes my selfe go into thy Closet and read ouer the deeds and euidences of thy Land in reading ouer them reioice I had such blest fortune to haue so fayre a wife with so much endowment and then open thy Chests and suruey thy Plate Iewels Treasure But a pox on t al will doe me no good vnlesse thou effect it for me Sist. Sir I wil shew you al the wealth I haue Of Coyne of Iewels or Possessions Ilf. Good gentle hart I le giue thee another busse for that for that giue thee a new gowne to morrow morning by this hand do thou but dreame what stuffe and what Fashion thou wilt haue it on to night Sist. The land I can endow you with is my Loue The riches I possesse for you is loue A Treasure greater then is Land or Gold It cannot be forfeited and it shal neare be sold Ilf. Loue I know that and I le answer thee loue for Loue in abundance but come prethee come le ts see these deedes and euidences this Mony Plate and Iewels with ha thy Childe borne without a nose if thou beest so carelesse spare not why my little frappet you I heard thy Vnckles talk of thy riches that thou hadst hundreds a yeare seuerall Lord-ships Mannours Houles Thousands of poundes in your great Chests Iewels Plate and Ringes in your little Box Sist. And for that riches you did marry me Ilf Troth I did as now adaies Batchelers do sware I lou'd thee but indeed married thee for thy wealth sist. Sir I beseech you say not your oths were such So like falce coyne being put vnto the touch Who beare a flourish in the outward show Of a true stampe but truely are not so You swore me loue I gaue the like to you Then as a ship being wedded to the sea Dus either sayle or sinke euen so must I You being the hauen to which my hopes must she Ilf. True Chucke I am thy hauen and harbor too And like a ship I took thee who brings home Treasure As thou to me the Marchant-venturer Sist. What riches I am ballast with are yours Ilf. That 's kindly saide now Sist. If but with sand as I am but with earth Being your right of right you must receiue me I ha no other lading but my Loue Which in abundance I will render you If other fraught you do expect my store I le pay you teares my riches are no more Ilf. Howe 's this howe 's this I hope you do but Iest Sist. I am Sister to decaied Scarborrow Ilf. Ha Sist. Whose substance your Inticements did consume Ilf. Worse then an Ague Sist. Which as you did beleeue so they supposed T was fitter for your selfe then for another To keepe the sister had vndone the brother Ilf. I am guld by this hand An old Conichacher and beguild where the pox now are my two Coaches choise of houses seuerall sutes a plague on them and I knowe not what Doe you heare Puppet do you thinke you shal not be damned for this to Cosen a Gentleman of his hopes and compell your selfe into Matrimony with a man whether hee wil or no with you I ha made a fayre match yfaith wil any man buy my commodity out of my hand as God saue me he shall haue her for halfe the money she cost me Enter Wentlo and Bartley went O ha we met you Sir Bart. What turnd Micher steale a wife and not make your old friends acquainted with it Ilf. A pox on her I would you had her went Wel God giue you Ioy we can heare of your good fortune now t is done tho we could not be acquainted with it afore-hand Bart. As that you haue two thousand pound a yeare Went. Two or three mannor houses Bart. A wife faire rich and vertuous Ilf. Pretty infaith very pretty went Store of Gold Bart. Plate in abundance Ilf. Better better better went And so many Oxen that their hornes are able to store al the Cuckolds in your Country Ilf. Do not make me mad good Gentlemen do not make me mad I could be made a Cuckold with more patience then indure this We. For we shal haue you turne proud now grow respectles of your Ancient acquaintance why Butler told vs of it Who was the maker of the match for you Ilf. A pox of his furtheraunce Gentlemen as you are Christians vex me no more that I am married I confesse a plague of the Fates that wedding and hanging comes by desteny but for the riches she has brought beare witnes how I le rewarde her Sist. Sir Ilf. Whore I and Iade Witch Ilfacst stinking-breath crooked-nose worse then the Deuill and a plague on thee that euer I saw thee Bart. A Comedy a Comedy Went. What 's the meaning of all this is this the maske after thy marriage Ilf. O Gentlemen I am vndone I am vndone for I am marryed I that could not abide a Woman but to make her a whore hated all Shee-creatures fayre and poore swore I would neuer marry but to one that was rich and to be thus cunnicacht Who do you thinke this is Gentlemen went Why your wife Who should it be else Ilf. That 's my misfortune that marrying her in hope she was rich she prooues to be the beggerly Sister to the more beggerly Scarborrow Bart. How Went. Ha ha ha Ilf. I you may laugh but she shall cry as well as I for 't Bart. Nay do not weepe went He dus but conterfeit now to delude vs he has all her portion of Land Coyne Plate Iewels and now dissembles thus least we should borrow some Mony of him Ilf. And you be kinde Gentlemen lend me some for hauing payed the Priest I ha not so much left in the world as will higher me a horse to carry me away from her Bart. But art thou thus guld infaith Ilf. Are you sure you ha eyes in your head went Why then By her brothers setting one in my conscience who knowing thee now to ha somewhat to take to by the death of thy father and that hee hath spent her portion and his owne possessions hath laid this plot for thee to marry her and so he to be rid of her himselfe Ilf. Nay that 's without question but I le be reuenged of em both for you Minxe Nay Sfut giue em me or I le kicke else Sist. Good sweete Ilf. Sweete with a poxe you stinke in my nose giue me your Iewels Nay Bracelets too Sist. O me most miserable Ilf. Out of my sight I and out of my doores for now what 's within this house is mine and for your brother He made this match in hope to do you
murther one another O do but harken When dus the Sunne and Moone borne in one frame Contend but they breed Earthquakes in mens harts When any starre prodigiously appeares Tels it not fall of kings or fatall yeares And then if Brothers fight what may men thinke Sinne growes so high t is time the world should sinke scar. My hart growes coole againe I wish it not Tho. Stop not my fury or by my life I sweare I will reueale the robbery we ha done And take reuenge on thee That hinders me to take reuenge on him Io. I yeild to that but neare consent to this I shall then die as mine owne sinne affords Fall by the law not by my Brothers swords Tho. Then by that light that guids me here I vow I le straight to Sir Iohn Harcop and make knowne We were the two that robd him Io. Prethy do Tho. Sin has his shame and thou shalt ha thy due Exit Io. Thus haue I shewne the nature of a Brother Tho you haue prou'd vnnaturall to me Hee s gone in heate to publish out the theft Which want and your vnkindnes forest vs to If now I die that death and publicke shame Is a Corsiue to your soule blot to your name Exit scar. O t is too true there 's not a thought I thinke But must pertake thy greefes and drinke A rellish of thy sorrow and misfortune With waight of others teares I am ore borne That scarse am Atlas to hold vp mine owne And al to good for me A happy Creature In my Cradle and haue made my selfe The common curse of mankind by my life Vndone my Brothers made them theeues for bread And begot pretty children to liue beggers O Conscience how thou are stung to thinke vpon t My Brothers vnto shame must yeeld their blood My Babes at others stirrops beg their food Or else turne theeues to and be choakt for t Die a Dogs death be percht vpon a tree Hang betwixt heauen and earth as fit for neither The curse of heauen that 's due to reprobates Discends vpon my Brothers and my children And I am parent to it I I am parent to it Enter Butler But. Where are you Sir Scar. Why starest thou what 's thy hast But. Heere 's felowes swarme like flies to speake with you Scar. What are they But. Snakes I thinke Sir for they come with stinges in theyr mouths and their tongues are turnd to teeth to They claw Villanously they haue eate vp your honest name and honourable reputation by railing against you and now they come to deuoure your possessions Scar. In playner Enargy what are they speake But. Mantichoras monstrous beastes enemies to mankinde that ha double rowes of teeth in their mouthes They are Vsurers they come yawning for mony the Sheriffe with them is come to serue an extent vppon you Lande and then cease on your bodie by force of execution they ha begirt the house round Scar. So that the roofe our Auncestors did build For their sonnes comfort and their wiues for Charity I dare not to looke out But. Besides Sir here 's your poore children scar. Poore children they are indeede But. Come with fire and water teares in their eies and burning greefe in their harts and desire to speake with you scar. Heape sorrow vpon sorrow Tell me are My brothers gone to execution For what I did for euery haynous sin Sits on his soule by whom it did begin And so did theirs by me Tell me withall My children carry moysture in their eyes Whose speaking drops say father thus must we Aske our reliefe or die with infamy For you ha made vs beggers Yet when thy tale has kild me to giue my passage comfort from this stage Say all was done by inforst marriage My graue will then be welcome But. What shall we do sir scar. Do as the deuill dus hate panther-mankind And yet I lie for deuils sinners loue When men hate men tho good like some aboue Enter Scarborrowes wife Katherine with two Children But. Your wife 's come in sir Sca. Thou lyest I ha not a wife None can be cald True man and wife but those whom heauen instald Say Kath. O my deer husband Sca. You are very welcome peace we le ha complement Who are you Gentlewoman Kat. Sir your distressed wife and these your children Sca. Mine Where how begot Proue me by certaine instance that 's deuine That I should call them lawfull or the mine Kat. Were we not marryed sir Sca. No tho we heard the words of Ceremonie But had hands knit as fellons that weare fetters Forst vpon them For tell me woman Did ere my Loue with sighs intreat thee mine Did euer I in willing conference Speake words made halfe with teares that I did loue thee Or was I euer But glad to see thee as al Louers are No no thou knowst I was not Ka. O me But. The more 's the pitty Scar. But when I came to Church I did there stand All water whose forest breach had drownd my Land Are you my wife or these my children Why t is impossible for like the skies Without the sunnes light so looke al your eies Darke Clowdy thicke and ful of heauines Within my Country there was hope to see Me and my yssue to be like our fathers Vpholders of our Country al our life Which should ha bin if I had wed a wife Where now As dropping leaues in Autume you looke al And I that should vphold you like to fal Ka. T was nor shal be my fault Heauen bear me witnes Sca. Thou lyest stumpet thou lyest Bu. O Sir Scar. Peace sawcie Iacke strumpet I say thou lyest For wife of mine thou art not and these thy Basterds Whom I begot of thee with this vnrest That Bastards borne are borne not to be Blest Ka. One me poure al your wrath but not on them Scar. On thee and them for t is the end of lust To scourge it selfe heauen lingring to be iust Harlot Ka. Husband Scar. Bastardes Child Father But. What hart not pitties this Scar. Euen in your Cradle you were accurst of heauen Thou an Adulteresse in thy married armes And they that made the match bawds to thy lust I now you hang the heade shouldst ha done so before Then these had not bin Bastards thou a whore Bue. I cannot brookt no longer Sir you doe not well in this scar. Ha slaue But. T is not the aime of gentry to bring forth Such harsh vnrellisht fruit vnto their wiues And to their pretty pretty children by my troth Scar. How rascall But. Sir I must tel you your progenitors Two of the which these yeares were seruant to Had not such mists before their vnderstanding Thus to behaue themselues Scar. And you le controule me sir But. I I will Scar. You rogue But. I t is I will tel you t is vngently done Thus to defame your wife abuse your children Wrong them you wrong your selfe are they not yours