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The love-sick king, an English tragical history with the life and death of Cartesmunda, the fair nun of Winchester / written by Anth. Brewer.
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Brewer, Anthony, fl. 1630-1655.
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1655
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Wing B4426; ESTC R6509
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sir Wife O my dear Husband Thorn Why how now Mistriss Wife O Mr. Thornton I never see you but I think of a good husband Rand. I marry Sister that 's a pretty cast Thorn Your pardon I beseech you gentle Mistriss Your Factor and my self have summ'd your state and find it cl•erly all your debts discharg'd in compleat value fifteen thousand pound Rand. Ha ha Sister a good Dowry to get a new husband trust me Wife No no I le nere marry again I le e'en follow Mr. Thorntons rule you see he lives a Batchellor Rand. Sir Methinks t were good you took a wife and so leave your own to your own posterity Thorn In all I le take my Mistress counsel Pray resolve me Had I a mind to marry which in your judgement were the sitter a Maid or Widow Wife Truly I think a Widow sir you may imagine I may speak somewhat inmine own Flattery but alas 't is a state I shall not change 'T is for your good I speak in love no hate A Widow sir will best secure your state Thorn You counsel well Mistriss and I le think on 't Wife The sooner the better too I can assure you you 'l find much comfort in 't you may elect some young green thing out of a Mayden choyce that may be fury and froward she may please your eye a little and other parts about you but vex your heart and be a gulph to swallow your estate If you 'l deal wisely as I hope you will take me a Widow that knows how and what to do that has been season'd in a husbands usage and one that will obey as you shall honor He that will quietly lay down his head Let him contract a Widow to his bed And still I say take me a Widow sir Rand. Why you say honestly Sister Do you understand her sir she bids you take her a Widow Wife You are merry Brother Thorn Nay you said so Mistriss speak 't agen then for by my Faith wer 't not for two things Mistriss I 'd come a wooing to you Rand. Two things Why three things shall not hinder it What are they Thorn My first fear is the marriage of so much wealth as ours compounded would choak all content and with the superflux change all to cares Rand. You take good course for that already sir your charitable works so well begun will help to disperse the o're-plus freely Thorn You have removed that well the other is that the remembrance of my poor estate which is so publickly proclaimed to all men might make my wealthy Mistriss here disdain me Wife Nay that 's your glory sir and cannot be accounted as your shame Rand. Why La sir she has helpt that her self now Thorn Yfaith say then Mistriss I am a bad Wooer 't is my beginning shall it be a match Wife I cannot so forget my late lost husband Rand. Why this repairs your losses Sister you lost a good one and find his equal with a wealthy purchase Thor Put me in hope that I may once injoy you Wife I will not marry sir these seven years trust me Rand. How this seven years Sister fie upon 't we may be all dead and rotten six years before it come come speak in compass sister Wife Truely Brother under half a year I won't here on 't Rand. I marry sir that was well bated Speak agen Sister and let it be a fortnight Wife A fortnight no no not this month beleeve me Ran. Away away a months too long hark you sister wee 'l clap it up privately to night and the Town shall not know on 't till a moneth hence Wife To night O fie upon'• an you love me Brother let it not be till to morrow morning I beseech you for the speech of people Ran. Afraid of wind tush let it vanish Sister I say he shall marry thee to night Thor Let it be so and here 's an earnest Mistris Kiss Wife Alas I kiss coldly in a morning Gown sir Thor Tush it shall off wee 'l marry then to bed Wooing is idle better to be sped Wife Use your own will sir Ran. Why so 't is as it sho'd be now imbrace him sister And live in love and wealth 'bove all admir'd Here 's seven years quickly in an hour expir'd Exeunt ACT. 4. Enter King of Scots Alured Malcome Edmond and Captains Drums and Colours K. Thus far tryumphantly with good success my Princely friends we have together march'd and from the North parts quite disperst the Danes alone the City York holds firm again whose buildings we will level with the earth unless they suddenly yeeld up the City give your advice most Princely Alured on your fair quarrel all our Fates depend Alu. Your Highness has been fruitful in your love bringing the best that Scotland can afford in honorable Armes to right our wrong let 's forward then and dare 'em to the Gates our horses hoofs shall furrow up their Land and sow the fields with blood instead of corn 1 Cap. Spoke like the Brother of dead Etheldred summon 'em to the Wals. Drums beat a parly Enter Above Harrold and Souldiers Har. The meaning of this Parly King Danes yee see all hope of Conquest has forsaken you quite Two thousand of your stoutest Souldiers are faln already by our conquering swords if ye will yeeld affirm it if not death shall in his meagre fury through your Host revel and catch your Jubile Then tell us do you resolve to fight it out or fly Mal. Or stay and have your throats cut in the fight Edm. Or leap the wals and break your necks before us Mal. Resolve so quickly and save us a labor Har. Yes with immediate speed set opo the gates And like a torrent on their heads wee 'l fall The Field and Air shall be their burial King If there we fall our fame out-lasts times date On to the field blest with propitious fate Exeunt Alarm Excursions Enter King Alured Malcome Edmond Captains K. All earthly honors are thine own fair Prince and Heaven fights in thy cause the Cities taken Alu. The Danes are all expuls'd and fled for safety Edm. The Danes are fled from danger not from shame That still pursues 'em wheresoere they fly And on their Tombs shall live eternally Mal. Let 's seek the Love-sick King Canutus forth And in one Battel try his valors worth Alu. That 's our intent most noble Malcome but we must war securely all their strength will now be band•ed to oppose our coming and therefore whilst you here refresh your Army Duke Edmond and my self will try our friends and in these North parts gather up new Forces to aid us 'gainst all Danish stratagems King We like it well assist us gracious Fate To seat a true Prince in his Royal State Exeunt Enter Thornton Wife Randolf the Partners Workmen and George with the table of the writing in golden Letters and Grims Speech Part. Y 'ave stoln a wealthy
Mr. Thornton my house is quiet my wife silent I have carried home your leaden iron return me my silver back agen and my wife and I shall pray for you when you are dead and rotten Thor Well sir withall my heart I received four pound Look you sir there 't is all your full sum to a penny Smith Sweet Mr. Thornton shall I not give you four pots for all this kindness pray sir 't is fit I should lose something Thor No no I 'm satisfied Grim. Do you hear ancient Iron-•ist the old Smith of Newcastle I can tell you one thing if the Almanack or Erra-pater be true you le hang your self ere to morrow morning Smith How hang my self Thor Nay prethee Grim thou wilt discover all anon Grim. No I warrant you sir I do it but to work a little profit Do you hear Smith what shall I give you for the ashes and rubbish that came off of that old Iron that you refused now Smith How the ashes marry I mean to sweep 'em out of my shop when I come home yfaith for fear they infect the rest What wilt thou do with 'em Grim. That 's all one Let me have all the ashes and the peeces you broke off that Bar you brought to Mr. Thornton and I le give thee five shillings Smith Five shillings I le not be said to gull you Mr. Grim but an you le give me a groat ready money th' are yours Grim. A bargain There 's your groat Smith The ashes and all the peeces of iron are yours sir Grim. Bear witness Mr. Thornton come I le go fetch 'em presently y'•d best make haste your dismal day 's to morrow you know what I told you and unless you rid your self of 'em quickly you will hang your self that 's certain Exeunt Manet Thornton Thorn Ha! Have my hopes ore-tane me think on 't Thornton and thank Heaven fo•'•t here at Newcastle first In low estate did Thornton enter in With hope a half-penny and a Lambs-skin And now my large Accounts of wealth scarce told I keep possession of six Tun of gold The blessings strange and I must now resolve To tie my vows to my auspicious fate Lest the world curse and Heaven call me ingra•e To make of this my gold a houshold God Were meer Idolatry no'• shall fly abroad Newcastle to thy good large sums of love My promise oweth which I le pay and prove To grace thy fame I le beautifie thy ground And build a wall that shall imbrace thee round Exit Musick Enter Cartesmunda and discovereth Canutus asleep Attendants Osrick Car. That Musick is too loud tread softly sirs How sweetly in his sleep Can••us looks I le not envy thee Iuno keep thy Iove here lies the soul of Cartesmunda's love Now by this kiss Canutus I do love thee thou needst not dream it fie fie sluggard fie beshrew the God of dreams what did he fright thee Or art thou fighting of some battel now wherein thou seest me taken prisoner and startst with fear of that There 's nothing else that could afright thee though it came like thunder for thou wert made for Armes and for these Arms and yet thy sword Canutus did not win me I saw these eies when I refus'd to love thee begin to lose their splendor and in tears drown their neglected brightness I have seen this face half dead when I have frown'd upon 't and with my smiles life has return'd agen go go you wanton by this kiss I le beat you Can. How now Sweet-heart Car. Art thou awake my Love then I am well Can. Well Cartesmunda sleep and I will watch as careful as the tender Pellican stands by her tender young give me a kiss potent as Bacchus to raise appetite and le•'s go sleep together if I get a Boy upon thy youth he shall be King and half the world shall be his Dower Knocks within Whos 's that knocks so rudely for his death hath not the slave describ'd the noyse Enter Hofman Hof Osr. It is Duke Harold sir intreats access Can. He does not chuse his time well Let him in Enter Harold Osr. The King is angry sir Har. Angry sayst thou holy Saints defend us ' has foes enough to vent his spleen upon and not to shrowd himself thus from his friends Most mighty Prince Can. Rise Harold •e co'd chide you But go on Har. Pardon my speech my Lord it is my duty and I must needs make bold to tell your Highness y 're no Souldier but a Love-sick Prince And while you dally out your daies in love the English all are raising head against you the Ga•risons that kept Northumberland are chas'd as far as York two thousand Danes died in that bloody slaughter And now again those warlike Princes all their Forces joyn and seek you forth Can. Fetch me some wine wee 'l drink to all their deaths that dare disturb us Cartesmunda thou shalt sweetly pledge me come faster slave Dance Thus in this wine wee 'l wash away all care My pleasures and my conquest all are here Come pledge me sweet Har. The Duke of Thetfords Forces raised in Norfolk have quite expuls'd the Danes the English Nobles bound to your State by conquest and by oath forsake Allegiance and with sound of Drums proclaim Prince Alured the English King Can. Ho ha ha Cart. Why laughs my Love Can. To see thee pledge me such a hearty draught Har. You see my Lord hee 's careless and neither minds us nor his persons safety Osr. Most Royal sir what order for your forces Can. Let 's have some musick strait Come Cartesmunda wee•l dance out half this day and that being done we will retire our selves and sleep agen Why when yee slaves do your souls sleep within you here 's good musick Dance Har. So was the warlike Drum and Trumpet once great Hardiknute the glory of the Danes Thy Son plays now the King Enter a Captain Capt. Hail mighty King Can. Thunder to thee Foot can we not be private Capt. Alas my Leige my news is of importance Can. So is my pleasure slave avoid our presence thou and the rest that come to fill our ears with tumults and with bloody Massacres frighting m• heavenly Love for whose sweet sake let men fall thicker than the checker'd leaves the stern winds rend and ravish from the tree• when yellow Autum turns them into gold Flourish Be gone come Cartesmunda let 's retire We will not stir were all the world on fire Osr. Is this the end of all our former conquests to be re-conquer'd now with wine and women Har. I this is she that bears so high a stroak we dare not shake our heads for fear we loose 'em if she but dreams a dream that not del•ghts her next morning there are some are sure to bleed for 't whose lot so ere it be Osr. Wo'd it were mine my Lords so she co'd dream and it would come to pass the Devil might fetch her Har. This twelve