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friend_n	ask_v	know_v	tell_v	1,111	5	4.7163	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59974	Andromana, or, The merchants wife the scæne Iberia / by J. S.	J. S.; Shirley, James, 1596-1666.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3459; ESTC R4872	35,568	65

his Unless deserving be a crime Who 's without there Go call in Plangus and bid him stay Enter Libacer For I must speak with him Exit King SCENA 2. Manet Libacer Lib. Nay then all 's dasht if once it comes to parly I must not have them talk But here he is Enter Plangus SCAENA 3. All health and happiness attend the Prince Pl. Pray tell me if you saw the King Be short for I am very melancholy Lib. He parted hence just now but With such a fury revelling in his looks There had been less danger in a Basillsk Pl. Went he this way Lib. Yes Sir He is going out but turns short Pl. But thou dost not know what mov'd him Lib. I heard some such words as these My Rival in the Kingdome There 's evidence against him The people's love deserving is a crime And somewhat else my fear made me forget Pl. Who was there with him lately Lib. I cannot tell but about a quarter of an hour ago He askt for you and every time he nam'd you he seem'd angry Pl. Named me thou art mistaken Lib. I had almost forgot Sir I have message to you from Andromana Pl. I will not hear one syllable Lib. No so she told me but she charg'd me speak it or dye For it concerned your life which she held dearer Then her own Pl. I value it not but speak the mystery Lib. When first her lips began to move a blush Oreflow'd her face as if her heart had sent Her tainted blood to seek a passage out Then with a showre of tears she told me how Inordinate desires had made her but this morning Tempt you to th' acting of a sin she would not name And that your vertue had so wrought upon her She had not left one thought unchang'd She loves you still but with affection That carries honour and converted thoughts And next she bad me whisper in your ear For time was short that if you loved her Or your self or did intend to cherish The peoples growing hopes you shou'd not come When the King sent for you For something had incenst him so highly Against you that there was mighty danger in it She bad me hast for time would not permit her to say more I was scarce out o th' chamber when Your father came and askt for you And bad me seek you out with speed Sir I should be most proud to serve you Pl. I thank thee friend but prethee tell thy Mistress Innocence knows no fear T is for guilty souls To doubt their safety If she would have me safe My only way is by present appearance to clear my self For I beleeve my false accusers wish nothing more Then that I should be absent Lib. The Devil 's in him sure he guesseth so right Aside She told me so Sir and would have wisht you to it But that there was a way to serve you better by She saith Ephorbas told her a few minutes hence Hee 'd call a councel where they 'd consult about you The place is hang'd so that behinde the wall Sir You may stand secure and hear what passeth And according to what they determine you may Provide for your safety only for more security She wisheth you would arm your self Sir pray resolve she 'l pacifie the King That you appear not presently Pl. Well I will be perswaded Tell her I 'me resolv'd I will not come Lib. Happiness attend you half an hour hence Exit Lib. I 'le wait upon you Pl. We shall reward thee SCAENA 4. Manet Plangus Pl. Whence should this kindness come and on a sudden too A strange alteration She who a day ago Forgot the vows her soul was fetter'd in And but this morning tempted me to a sin I can scarce think on without fear should on An instant be careful for my safety And that from a principle of vertue too SCENA 5. Enter to him Inophilus Ino. Who was that with you Sir just now Pl. An honest fellow certainly but one I know not Ino. An honest fellow call you him If he have not Rogue writ in great letters i•'s face I have no physnomy Pray Sir what was his business to you Pl. A message from Andromana Who out of love desires me not to go to my father Because something hath put him in a fume against me Ino. Did the King send for you Pl. He did so Ino. But upon her intreaty you forbore to go Pl. What then Ino. Then you are mad Sir And tacitly conspire to your own ruine Do take an enemies advice and dye the object Both of their joy and scorn Where are your senses Sir or pray whence springs This friendship of Andromana's Alas you should not Measure her malice by the smalness of your own She has injur'd you she knows it Sir And though at present she enjoyes her treachery She may soon fall beside it Ephorbas's not immortal nor can she promise to her self Security when you have power to call her ills in question Were 't nothing else her safety would make her To plot your death I hinder you in talking But pray be gone and when you see your father Speak boldly to him or you are gone for ever Pl. I tell thee once again Inophilus Since I have said I would not go both heav'n and thee Shall want a motive to make me stir one foot Were danger just there before me running With open jaws upon me and had my word been giv'n To remain here I would be forc't from life Before my place Ino. Here is a bravery now would make a man For swear all Gallantry to fool away your life thus In a humour I met the Court just now Sir As full of whispers every man's eyes spoke strong amazeme• My father 's sent for with two other Lords Eubulus and Anamedes and the Court Gates are lock't Resolve Sir and command me something wherein I may have an occasion to serve you Pl. Then I resolve to do as I am caution'd Walk in I 'le tell thee more SCAENA 6. Ephorbas Libacer Eph. What was his answer then Lib. Tell him I am resolv'd I will not come Those were The very words Sir Eph. ' •was very pretty resolute methinks If he be grown so stubborn already The next we must expect is action Lib. But yet he bid me if you askt why he came not To finde some excuse or other Eph. He could finde none himself then Call in the Lords we must be sudden in our execution But prethee one thing more who was there with him Lib. No body but I met going to him young Inophilus And heard one servant tell another in great haste Their Lord would speak with some oth'Captains of the Army Exit SCAENA 7. Enter to the King Rinatus Eubulus Anamedes Eph. Sit down my Lords we have a business with you Requires your hands and hearts both speed and counsel Our danger 's such that I could wish 't had flown Upon us without warning for so cross

story What dire effects the fury hath brought forth Kings make away their onely sons and Princes their fathers And when they have done they may dispair at leisure Eph. I do not think Plangus hath plots or on my Crown Or me he was virtuous alwaies and is still I hope But why is he so much from Court then and alone too I do but ask the question Rin. It can be no design believe me Sir For Crowns are won by other courses Aspirers must grow popular be hedg'd about With their Confederates then would he flatter you Be jolly still as if no melancholy thought were in him A guilty conscience would then teach him policy And he would seek to take suspition from all his carriages Innocence makes him careless now Eph. Thou hast almost resolv'd me The tempest in my soul is almost laid And wants but time to calm it Youth hath its whimsies nor are we To examine all their paths too strictly We went awry our selves when we were young Rin. Sir Eph. Thou maist be gone Rinatus Exit Rinat SCAEN. III. EPHORBAS SOLUS The blessing of an honest servant This Rinatus is truer unto me He loves the King as well as I Ephorbas And may I live but to reward him For hee 's too honest for a Court Enter Artesio How now Artesio thy looks speak strong amazement I am with child to hear the news Prethee be quick in the delivery Art The Prince an 't please your Majesty Eph. What of him Artesio Art I have observ'd is much retir'd of late Eph. So have I too this is no News Art And I can whisper in your ear the cause 'T was Chance no Policy of mine betrayed his privacies Ill Offices are not the Engines I desire to rise by Only love to the young Prince makes me reveal them Eph. Nay nay without apology If it vvere Treason it should not go dovvn the sooner For all the guilded preparation Nor am I of so Feminine a humour as To mistrust affection delivered bluntly Plain meaning should be plainly told Bad Wares may have false lights good can abide the day Art But I know The nature of my Office Though Kings still hug suspition in their bosoms They hate the causers Love to hear secrets too Yet the Revealers still fare the worse Being either thought guilty of ends or vveakness And so esteem'd by those they tell them to Either unfit or dangerous to be trusted Perhaps Sir vvhen the Prince and you are friends again You 'l tell me That had my love been real I should have whispered the Princes errors to himself Eph. Without a syllable of Prologue more Or I shall verifie your fears Art In this brave City take it as brief as may be There lives a Beauty fit to command Them that command the World And might be Alexanders Mistris were he yet alive And had added Empires as large as his desires She 's but a private Merchant's Wife Yet the Prince is so far gravel'd in her affection I fear Eph. Then there is hopes I may recall him Love is a childish evil though the effects are dangerous A Princes Errors Grown publick will be scandalous Poor boy perhaps the jealous Husband may commit a murder I would not have him cut off so young Love should be Princes recreation not their business What Physick must we give him for his cure Art I dare not counsel you But in my poor judgement Some gentle Fatherly perswasions will work upon So good a nature Eph. Could'st thou but possibly effect How I might take him napping Art That is beyond my skill But I can shew you the House and time He walks from hence in which will be About an hour hence for then her Husband Comes home from the Ryalto Eph. Time will not tarry for a King let 's go Exeunt SCAEN. IV. INOPHILUS Ino. What is become of this young Prince Or where Doth he bestow himself Doth he walk invisible Where have I been to look him The Horses are in the Stables His Page and I at home too that us'd to be as inseperable Companions Enter Nicetus Aramnes Ram. Well met Gentlemen where is the Hermit Plangus Nic. We cannot tell nor have we been to seek him If at the Court we should hear presently if not We might be too officious in his search And our enquiry might make his absence but so much the more Notorious and I 'me confident he 's well His virtue guards him still from all Mischances Ino. Though his company 's the dearest thing I love Yet for his good I could digest his absence But that I doubt a mighty mischief might spring From this small Grain of indiscretion The King is old and there are Knaves about the Court That if he knew it not would tell him so And men conscious to themselves of a defiancy Are still most jealous of a growing worth Perhaps a thinking Father for plodding is old age's sickness May take notice of his Son's retirement and misconstrue it so Nothing is impossible Heaven send it otherwise Ara. This care becomes you Sir but I dare swear 't is needless The King is but an ill dissembler and had he but the least thought of such a thing hee 'd hide it less then the Sun conceals his brightness Besides a man as great Euphorbus is whose rule of living hath been directed by the Line of Virtue cannot mistrust that Vice in his own Son of which himself was never guilty Had 's younger years been tainted with inordinate desires or had his Crown been the effect of some audacious crime perhaps his guilty Conscience might have mistrusted but 't is impossible where there is no guilt to fear a punishment Ino. You speak my hopes But this for certain Gentlemen The King who was admired for his matchless sleeping Whose night no noise disturb'd and it was difficult To wake before his hour sleeps but unquietly of late Will start at Mid-night and cry Plangus Is greedy after News and walks unevenly And sometimes on the sudden looks behind him and when One speaks to him scarcely marks one syllable Surely the mind of some distemper shakes His soul into this looseness Enter Messenger Mess My Lord the Prince desires To meet you half an hour hence i' th' Gallery Ino. Me Mess Yes my Lord Ino. I shall Your Servant Captains All Yours my Lord Exeunt at several Doors SCAEN. V. PLANGUS ANDROMANA Pl. It cannot be so late An. Believ 't the Sun is set my Dear And Candles have usurp't the Office of the day Pl. Indeed methinks a certain mist Like darkness hangs on my eye-lids But too great lustre may undo the sight A man may stare so long upon the Sun that he May look his eyes out and certainly t is so with me I have so greedily swallowd thy light That I have spoyl'd my own An. Why shouldst thou tempt me to my ruine thus As if thy presence were less welcome to me Then d•y to one who t is so long