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A09232
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The old wiues tale A pleasant conceited comedie, played by the Queenes Maiesties players. Written by G.P.
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Peele, George, 1556-1596.
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1595
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STC 19545; ESTC S110404
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Enter the two Brothers Frol: Soft Gammer here some come to tell your tale for you Fant Let them alone let vs heare what they will say 1. Brother Vpon these chalkie Cliffs of Albion We are ariued now with tedious toile And compassing the wide world round about To seeke our sister to seeke faire Delya forth Yet cannot we so much as heare of hir 2. Brother O fortune cruell cruell vnkind Vnkind in that we cannot find our sister Our sister haples in hir cruell chance Soft who haue we here Enter Senex at the Crosse stooping to gather 1. Brother Now father God be your speed What doo you gather there Old man Hips and Hawes and stickes and strawes and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne 1. Brother Hips and Hawes and stickes and strawes why is that all your foode father Old man Yea sonne 2. Brother Father here is an Almes pennie for mee and if I speede in that I goe for I will giue thee as good a Gowne of gray as euer thou diddest weare 1. Brother And Father here is another almes pennie for me and if I speede in my iourney I will giue thee a Palmers staffe of yuorie and a scallop shell of beaten gold Old man Was shee fayre 2. Brother I the fairest for white and the purest for redd as the blood of the Deare or the driuen snow Old m: Then harke well and marke well my old spell Be not afraid of euery stranger Start not aside at euery danger Things that seeme are not the same Blow a blast at euery flame For when one flame of fire goes out Then comes your wishes well about If any aske who told you this good Say the white Beare of Englands wood 1. Brother Brother heard you not what the old man said Be not afraid of euery stranger Start not aside for euery danger Things that seeme are not the same Blow a blast at euery flame If any aske who told you this good Say the white Beare of Englands wood 2. Brother Well if this doo vs any good Welfare the white Bear of Englands wood ex Old ma: Now sit thee here tel a heauy tale Sad in thy moode and sober in thy cheere Here sit thee now and to thy selfe relate The hard mishap of thy most wretched state In Thessalie I liu'd in sweete content Vntill that Fortune wrought my ouerthrow For there I wedded was vnto a dame That liu'd in honor vertue loue and fame But Sacrapant that cursed sorcerer Being besotted with my beauteous loue My deerest loue my true betrothed wife Did seeke the meanes to rid me of my life But worse than this he with his chanting spels Did turne me straight vnto an vgly Beare And when the sunne doth settle in the west Then I begin to don my vgly hide And all the day I sit as now you see And speake in riddles all inspirde with rage Seeming an olde and miserable man And yet I am in Aprill of my age Enter Venelia his Lady mad and goes in againe See where Venelya my betrothed loue Runs madding all inrag'd about the woods All by his curssed and inchanting spels Enter Lampriscus with a pot of Honny But here comes Lampriscus my discontented neighbour How now neighbour you looke towarde the ground aswell as I you muse on something Lamp: Neighbour on nothing but on the matter I so often mooued to you if you do any thing for charity helpe me if for neighborhood or brotherhood helpe me neuer was one so combered as is poore Lampryscus and to begin I pray receiue this potte of Honny to mend your fare Old man Thankes neighbor set it downe Honny is alwaies welcome to the Beare And now neighbour let me heere the cause of your comming Lampriscus I am as you knowe neighbour a man vnmaried and liued so vnquietly with my two wiues that I keepe euery yeare holy the day wherein I buried thē both the first was on saint Andrewes day the other on saint Lukes Old man And now neighbour you of this country say your custome is out but on with your tale neighbour Lamp: By my first wife whose tongue wearied me aliue and sounded in my eares like the clapper of a great Bell whose talke was a continuall torment to all that dwelt by her or liued nigh her you haue heard me say I had a handsome daughter Old man True neighbour Lampr: Shee it is that afflictes me with her continuall clamoures and hangs on me like a Burre poore shee is and proude shee is as poore as a sheepe new shorne and as proude of her hopes as a Peacock of her taile well growne Old man Well said Lampryscus you speake it like an Englishman Lampr: As curst as a waspe and as frowarde as a childe new taken from the mothers teate shee is to my age as smoake to the eyes or as vinegar to the teeth Old man Holily praised neighbour as much for the next Lampr: By my other wife I had a daughter so hard fauoured so foule and ill faced that I thinke a groue full of golden trees and the leaues of Rubies and Dyamonds would not bee a dowrie aunswerable to her deformitie Old man Well neighbour nowe you haue spoke heere me speake send them to the Well for the water of life there shall they finde their fortunes vnlooked for Neighbour farewell Exit Lampr: Farewell and a thousand and now goeth poore Lampryscus to put in execution this excellent counsell Exeunt Frol: Why this goes rounde without a fidling stick but doo you heare Gammer was this the man that was a Beare in the night and a man in the day Old woman I this is hee and this man that came to him was a beggar and dwelt vppon a greene But soft who comes here O these are the haruest men ten to one they sing a song of mowing Enter the haruest men a singing with this Song double repeated All yee that louely louers be pray you for me Loe here we come a sowing a sowing And sowe sweete fruites of loue In your sweete hearts well may it prooue Exeunt Enter Huanebango with his two hand sword and Booby the Clowne Fant Gammer what is he Old woman O this is one that is going to the coniurer let him alone here what he sayes Huan: Now by Mars and Mercury Iupiter and Ianus Sol and Saturnus Venus and Vesta Pallas and Proserpina and by the honor of my house Polimackeroeplacydus it is a wonder to see what this loue will make silly fellowes aduenture euen in the wane of their wits and infansie of their discretion Alas my friend what fortune calles thee foorth to seeke thy fortune among brasen gates inchanted towers fire and Brimstone thunder and lightning Beautie I tell thee is peerelesse and she precious whom thou affectest do off these desires good countriman good friend runne away from thy selfe and so soone as thou canst forget her whom none must inherit but he that can monsters