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A69867	Amphitryon, or, The two Socia's a comedy : as it is acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Dryden ; to which is added the musick of the songs, compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcel.	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Plautus, Titus Maccius. Amphitruo.; Molière, 1622-1673. Amphitryon.; Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Amphitryon.	1690 (1690)	Wing D2234; Wing D2366; ESTC R16963	55,776	83

like an honourable Magistrate but if he has not had the wit to sell Justice he judges no Causes in my Court I warrant him Alc. My Lord you tell me nothing of the Battel Is Thebes Victorious are our Foes destroy'd For now I find you safe I shou'd be glad To hear you were in danger Jup. aside A Man had need be a God to stand the fury of three talking Women I think in my Conscience I made their Tongues of Thunder Bromia pulling him on one side I ask'd the first question answer me my Lord. Phaedra pulling him on to'ther side Peace mine 's a Lover and yours is but a Husband and my Judge is my Lord too the Title shall take place and I will be answer'd Jup. Sosia is safe Gripus is rich both coming I rode before 'em with a Lovers haste Aside Was e're poor God so worri'd but for my Love I wish I were in Heav'n again with Juno Alc. Then I it seems am last to be regarded Jup. Not so my Love but these obstreperous Tongues Have snatch'd their answers first they will be heard And surely Jove wou'd never answer Pray'r That Women made but only to be freed From their Eternal Noise make haste to Bed There let me tell my Story in thy Arms There in the gentle pauses of our Love Betwixt our dyings e're we live again Thou shalt be told the Battel and success Which I shall oft begin and then break off For Love will often interrupt my Tale And make so sweet confusion in our talk That thou shalt ask and I shall answer things That are not of a piece but patch'd with Kisses And Sighs and Murmurs and imperfect Speech And Nonsence shall be Eloquent in Love Brom. to Phaedra My Lord is very hot upon 't this absence is a great Friend to us poor neglected Wives it makes us new again Alc. I am the Fool of Love and find within me The fondness of a Bride without the fear My whole Desires and Wishes are in you Phaed. aside My Ladies Eyes are pinking to Bedward too Now is She to look very sleepy counterfeiting yauning but She shall ask me leave first Alc. Great Juno thou whose holy care presides Over the Nuptial Bed pour all thy Blessings On this Auspicious Night Jup. Juno may grudge for she may fear a Rival In those bright Eyes but Jupiter will grant And doubly bless this Night Phaed. aside But Jupiter shou'd ask my leave first were he here in Person Alc. Bromia prepare the Bed The tedious journey has dispos'd my Lord To seek his needful rest Exit Bromia Phaed. 'T is very true Madam the poor Gentleman must needs be weary and therefore 't was not ill contriv'd that he must lie alone to Night to recruit himself with sleep and lay in enough for to morrow Night when you may keep him waking Alc. to Jupiter I must confess I made a kind of promise Phaedra almost crying A kind of promise do you call it I see you wou'd fain be coming off I am sure you swore to me by Jupiter that I shou'd be your Bedfellow and I 'll accuse you to him too the first Prayers I make And I 'll pray a purpose too that I will though I have not pray'd to him this seven Years Jup. O the malicious Hilding Alc. I did swear indeed my Lord. Jup. Forswear thy self for Jupiter but laughs At Lovers Perjuries Phaed. The more shame for him if he does there wou'd be a fine God indeed for us Women to worship if he laughs when our Sweet-hearts cheat us of our Maiden-heads No no Jupiter is an honester Gentleman than you make of him Jup. I 'm all on fire and wou'd not loose this Night To be the Master of the Universe Phaed. Ay my Lord I see you are on fire but the Devil a Bucket shall be brought to quench it without my leave you may go to Bed Madam but you shall see how Heav'n will bless your Nights work if you forswear your self Some Fool some meer Elder-Brother or some blockheadly Hero Jove I beseech thee send her Jup. aside Now I cou'd call my Thunder to revenge me But that were to confess my self a God And then I lost my Love Alcmena come By Heav'n I have a Bridegrooms fervour for thee As I had ne'er enjoy'd Alc. sighing She has my Oath And sure she may release it if she please Phaed. Why truly Madam I am not cruel in my nature to poor distressed Lovers for it may be my own case another day And therefore if my Lord pleases to consider me Jup. Any thing any thing but name thy wish and have it Phaed. Ay now you say any thing any thing but you wou'd tell me another story to morrow Morning Look you my Lord here 's a Hand open to receive you know the meaning of it I am for nothing but the Ready Jup. Thou shalt have all the Treasury of Heav'n Phaed. Yes when you are Jupiter to dispose of it Jup. aside I had forgot and show'd my self a God This Love can make a Fool of Jupiter Phaed. You have got some part of the Enemies Spoil I warrant you I see a little trifling Diamond upon your Finger and I am proud enough to think it wou'd become mine too Jupiter taking a Ring off his Finger and giving it Here take it This is a very Woman Her Sex is Avarice and she in One Is all her Sex Phaed. Ay ay 't is no matter what you say of us What wou'd you have your Mony out of the Treasury without paying the Officers their Fees Go get you together you naughty Couple till you are both weary of worrying one another and then to morrow morning I shall have another Fee for parting you Phaedra goes out before Alcmena with a Light Jupiter solus Why now I am indeed the Lord of all For what 's to be a God but to enjoy Let human-kind their Sovereign's leisure waite Love is this Night my great Affair of State Let this one Night of Providence be void All Jove for once is on himself employ'd Let unregarded Altars smoke in vain And let my Subjects praise me or complain Yet if betwixt my Intervals of bliss Some am'rous Youth his Oraisons address His Pray'r is in a happy hour preferr'd And when Jove loves a Lover shall be heard Act II. Night-Scene of a Pallace Sosia with a Dark-Lanthorn Mercury in Sosia's shape with a Dark-Lanthorn also Sosia WAS not the Devil in my Master to send me out in this dreadful dark Night to bring the news of his Victory to my Lady and was not I possess'd with ten Devils for going on his errand without a Convoy for the safeguard of my Person Lord how am I melted into Sweat with fear I am diminish'd of my natural weight above two Stone I shall not bring half my self home again to my poor Wife and Family I have been in an Ague fit ever since shut of Evening what with the fright of

Sosia This is our House and when I am got in I ll tell you more Merc. Whose House is this Sawciness that you are so familiar with to call it ours Sosia 'T is mine in the first place and next my Masters for I lye in the Garrret and he lyes under me Merc. Have your Master and you no Names Sirrah Sosia His Name is Amphitryon hear that and tremble Merc. What my Lord General Sosia O has his Name mollify'd you I have brought you down a Peg lower already Friend Merc. And your Name is Sosia Lord Friend you are so very troublesom What shou'd my Name be but Sosia Merc. How Sosia say you how long have you taken up that Name Sirrah Sosia Here 's a fine question why I never took it up Friend it was born with me Merc. What was your Name born Sosia take this Remembrance for that Lye Beats him Sosia Hold Friend you are so very flippant with your Hands you won't hear Reason What offence has my Name done you that you shou'd beat me for it S. O. S. I. A. They are as civil honest harmless Letters as any are in the whole Alphabet Merc. I have no quarrel to the Name but that 't is e'en too good for you and 't is none of yours Sosia What am not I Sosia say you Merc. No. Sosia I should think you are somewhat merrily dispos'd if you had not beaten me in such sober sadness You wou'd perswade me out of my Heathen Name wou'd you Merc. Say you are Sosia again at your Peril Sirrah Sosia I dare say nothing but Thought is free but whatever I am call'd I am Amphitryon's Man and the first Letter of my Name is S. too You had best tell me that my Master did not send me home to my Lady with news of his Victory Merc. I say he did not Sosia Lord Lord Friend one of us two is horribly giv'n to lying but I do not say which of us to avoid Contention Merc. I say my Name is Sosia and yours is not Sosia I wou'd you cou'd make good your words for then I shou'd not be beaten and you shou'd Merc. I find you wou'd be Sosia if you durst but if I catch you thinking so Sosia I hope I may think I was Sosia and I can find no difference between my former self and my present self but that I was plain Sosia before and now I am lac'd Sosia Merc. Take this for being so impudent to think so Beats him Sosia kneeling Truce a little I beseech thee I wou'd be a Stock or a Stone now by my good will and wou'd not think at all for self preservation But will you give me leave to argue the Matter fairly with you and promise me to depose that Cudgel if I can prove my self to be that Man that I was before I was beaten Merc. Well proceed in safety I promise you I will not beat you Sosia In the first Place then is not this Town call'd Thebes Merc. Uundoubtedly Sosia And is not this House Amphitryon's Merc. Who denyes it Sosia I thought you wou'd have denyed that too for all hangs upon a String Remember then that those two preliminary Articles are already granted In the next place did not the foresaid Amphitryon beat the Teleboans kill their King Pterelas and send a certain Servant meaning some Body that for sake-sake shall be nameless to bring a Present to his Wife with news of his Victory and of his Resolution to return to morrow Merc. This is all true to a very little but who is that certain Servant there 's all the question Sosia Is it Peace or War betwixt us Merc. Peace Sosia I dare not wholly trust that abominable Cudgel but 't is a certain Friend of yours and mine that had a certain Name before he was beaten out of it but if you are a Man that depend not altogether upon force and brutality but somewhat also upon Reason now do you bring better Proofs that you are that same certain Man and in order to it answer me to certain Questions Merc. I say I am Sosia Amphitryon's Man what reason have you to urge against it Sosia What was your Fathers Name Merc. Davus who was an honest Husbandman whose Sisters Name was Harpagè that was married and dyed in a foreign Country Sosia So far you are right I must confess and your Wife's Name is Merc. Bromia a devilish Shrew of her Tongue and a Vixon of her Hands that leads me a miserable Life keeps me to hard duty a Bed and beats me every Morning when I have risen from her side without having first Sosia I understand you by many a sorrowful Token this must be I. Aside Merc. I was once taken upon suspicion of Burglary and was whipt through Thebes and branded for my pains Sosia Right me again but if you are I as I begin to suspect that whipping and branding might have been past over in silence for both our Credits And yet now I think on 't if I am I as I am I he cannot be I. All these Circumstances he might have heard but I will now interrogate him upon some private Passages What was the Present that Amphitryon sent by you or me no matter which of us to his Wife Alcmena Merc. A Buckle of Diamonds consisting of five large Stones Sosia And where are they now Merc. In a Case seal'd with my Masters Coat of Arms. Sosia This is prodigious I confess but yet 't is nothing now I think on 't for some false Brother may have reveal'd it to him Aside But I have another Question to ask you of somewhat that pass'd only betwixt my self and me if you are Sosia what were you doing in the heat of Battel Merc. What a wise Man shou'd that has a respect for his own Person I ran into our Tent and hid my self amongst the Baggage Sosia aside Such another cutting Answer and I must provide my self of another name To him And how did you pass your time in that same Tent You need not answer to every Circumstance so exactly now you must lye a little that I may think you the more me Merc. That cunning shall not serve your turn to circumvent me out of my name I am for plain naked Truth There stood a Hogshead of old VVine which my Lord reserv'd for his own drinking Sosia aside O the Devil as sure as Death he must have hid himself in that Hogshead or he cou'd never have known that Merc. And by that Hogshead upon the ground there lay the kind Inviter and Provoker of good-drinking Sosia Nay now I have caught you there was neither Inviter nor Provoker For I was all alone Merc. A lasty Gammon of Sosia sighing Bacon that word has quite made an end of me let me see this must be I in spight of me but let me view him nearer Walks about Mercury with his dark Lanthorn Merc. What are you walking about me for with your dark Lanthorn Sosia No harm

small a fault 'T was but a Jest perhaps too far pursu'd 'T was but at most a Trial of your Faith How you cou'd bear unkindness 'T was but to get a reconciling Kiss A wanton Stratagem of Love Alcm. See how he doubles like a hunted Hare A Jest and then a Trial and a Bait All stuff and dawbing Jup. Think me jealous then Alcm. O that I cou'd for that 's a noble Crime And which a Lover ●an with ease forgive 'T is the high pulse of Passion in a Fever A sickly draught but shews a burning Thirst Thine was a Surfeit not a Jealousie And in that loathing of thy full gorg'd Love Thou saw'st the nauseous Object with disdain Jup. O think not that for you are ever new Your fruits of Love are like eternal Spring In happy Climes where some are in the bud Some green and ripening some while others fall Alcm. Ay now you tell me this When rous'd desires and fresh recruits of force Enable languish'd Love to take the field But never hope to be receiv'd again You wou'd again deny you were receiv'd And brand my spotless Fame Jup. I will not dare to justifie my Crime But only point you where to lay the blame Impute it to the Husband not the Lover Alcm. How vainly wou'd the Sophister divide And make the Husband and the Lover two Jup. Yes 't is the Husband is the guilty Wretch His Insolence forgot the Sweets of Love And deeming them his due despis'd the Feast Not so the famish'd Lover cou'd forget He knew he had been there and had been blest With all that Hope can wish or Sense can bear Alcm. Husband and Lover both alike I hate Jup. And I confess I have deserv'd that hate Kneeling Too charming fair I kneel for your forgiveness I beg by those fair eyes Which gave me wounds That time can never cure Receive my Sorrows and restore my Joys Alcm. Unkind and cruel I can speak no more Jup. O give it vent Alcmena give it vent I merit your reproach I wou'd be curs'd Let your Tongue curse me while your Heart forgives Alcm. Can I forget such Usage Jup. Can you hate me Alcm. I 'll do my best for sure I ought to hate you Jup. That Word was only hatch'd upon your Tongue It came not from your Heart But try again And if once more you can but say I hate you My Sword shall do you justice Alcm. Then I hate you Jup. Then you pronounce the Sentence of my Death Alcm. I hate you much but yet I love you more Jup. To prove that Love then say that you forgive me For there remains but this Alternative Resolve to pardon or to punish me Alcm. Alas what I resolve appears too plain In saying that I cannot hate I pardon Jup. But what 's a Pardon worth without a Seal P 〈…〉 it me in this Transport of my Joy Kisses her Hand Alcm. Forbear I am offended with my self Putting him gently away with her Hand That I have shewn this Weakness Let me go Where I may blush alone Going and looking back on him But come not you Lest I shou'd spoil you with excess of Fondness And let you love again Exit Alcmena Jup. Forbidding me to follow she invites me Aside This is the Mou'd of which I made the Sex I gave 'em but one Tongue to say us nay And two kind Eyes to grant Be sure that none To Mercury Approach to interrupt our privacy Exit Jupiter after Alcmena Mercury and Phaedra remain Merc. Your Lady has made the Challenge of Reconciliation to my Lord Here 's a fair Example for us two Phaedra Phaed. No Example at all Sosia for my Lady had the Diamonds aforehand and I have none of the Gold Goblet Merc. The Goblet shall be forth coming if thou wilt give me weight for weight Phaed. Yes and measure for measure too Sosia that is For a Thimbleful of Gold a Thimbleful of Love Merc. What think you now Phaedra Here 's Pulling out the Goblet in a Case from under his Cloak a weighty Argument of Love for you Phaed. Now Jupiter of his Mercy let me kiss thee O thou Taking it in both Hands dear Metal Merc. And Venus of her Mercy let me kiss thee dear dear Phaedra Phaed. Not so fast Sosia there 's a damn'd Proverb in your way Many things happen betwixt the Cup and the Lips you know Merc. Why thou wilt not cheat me of my Goblet Phaed. Yes as sure as you wou'd cheat me of my Maiden-head I am yet but just even with you for the last Trick you play'd me And besides this is but a bare Retaining Fee you must give me another before the Cause is open'd Merc. Shall I not come to your Bed side to Night Phaed. No nor to Morrow-Night neither but this shall be my Sweet-heart in your place 't is a better Bed-fellow and will keep me warmer in cold Weather Exit Phaedra Mercury alone Merc. Now what 's the God of Wit in a Woman's Hand This very Goblet I stole from Gripus and he got it out of Bribes too But this is the common fate of ill gotten Goods that as they came in by Covetousness they go out by Whoring Oh here 's Amphitryon again but I 'll Enter Amphitryon manage him above in the Balcony Exit Mercury Amph. Not one of those I look'd for to be found As some Enchantment hid 'em from my sight Perhaps as Sosia says 't is Witchcraft all Seals may be open'd Diamonds may be stol'n But how I came in person yesterday And gave that Present to Alcmena's hands That which I never gave nor ever came O there 's the Rock on which my Reason splits Wou'd that were all I fear my Honour too I 'll try her once again She may be mad A wretched Remedy but all I have To keep me from despair Mercury This is no very charitable Action of a God to From the Balcony use him ill who has never offended me but my Planet Aside disposes me to Malice and when we great Persons do but a little Mischief the World has a good bargain of us Amph. How now what means the locking up of my Doors at this time of day Knocks Merc. Softly Friend softly You knock as loud and as sawcily as a Lord's Footman that was sent before him to warn the Family of his Honour's Visit Sure you think the Doors have no feeling What the Devil are you that rap with such Authority Amph. Look out and see 't is I. Merc. You What You Amph. No more I say but open Merc. I 'll know to whom first Amph. I am one that can command the doors open Merc. Then you had best command 'em and try whether they will obey You. Amph. Dost thou not know me Merc. Prithee how shou'd I know thee Dost thou take me for a Conj●rer Amph. What 's this Midsummer-Moon Is all the World gone a madding Why Sosia Merc. That 's my Name indeed Didst thou think I had forgot it