Widow Be you very wise and be knighted and then give thanks for me Sir Savil. What sayes your worship to this mony Mor. I say he may have mony if he please Savil. A thousand Sir Mor. A thousand Sir provided any wise Sir his Land lye for the payment otherwise Enter Young Loveless and Comrades to them Savil. He 's here himself Sir and can better tell you Mor. My notable dear friend and worthy Master Loveless and now right worshipfull all joy and welcom Yo. Lo. Thanks to my dear incloser Master Morecraft prethee old Angel gold salute my family I 'le do as much for yours this and your own desires fair Gentlewoman Wid. And yours Sir if you mean well 't is a hansome Gentleman Young Lo. Sirrah my Brother 's dead More Dead Yo. Lo. Dead and by this time soust for Ember Week Morecraft Dead Young Lo. Drown'd drown'd at sea man by the next fresh Conger that comes we shall hear more Mor. Now by my faith of my body it moves me much Yo. Lo. What wilt thou be an Ass and weep for the dead why I thought nothing but a general inundation would have mov'd thee prethe be quiet he hath left his land behind him Morecraft O has he so Young Lo. Yes faith I thank him for 't I have all boy hast any ready mony Morecraft Will you sell Sir Young Lo. No not out right good Gripe marry a morgage or such a slight securitie More I have no mony Sir for Morgage if you will sell and all or none I 'le work a new Mine for you Sav. Good Sir look before you he 'l work you out of all else if you sell all your Land you have sold your Country and then you must to Sea to seek your Brother and there lye pâ—â—â—ed in a Powdering tub and break your teeth with Biskets and hard Beef that must have watâ—â—ing Sir and where 's your â—00 pounds a year in drink then If you 'l tun up the Straights you may for you have no calling for drink tâ—â—re but with a Canon nor no scoring but on your Ships sides and then if you scape with life and take a Faggot boat and a bottle of Vsquebaugh come home poor men like a tipâ— of Thames street sâ—inking of Pitch and Poor-John I cannot tell Sir I would be loth to see it Capt. Steward you are an Ass a meazel'd mungril and were â—t not again the peace of my soveraign friend here I would brâ—â—â— your â—ore-casting Coxcomb dog I would even with mâ— staffe of Office there Thy Pen and Inkhorn Noble 〈◊〉 the God of gold here has sed thee well take mony for th◠〈◊〉 haâ—â— and believe thou art cold of constitution thy 〈◊〉 unhealthful sell and be wise we are three that will adorn thee and live according to thine own heart child 〈◊〉 all be only ours and only ours shall be the black eyed beauties of the time Mony makes men Eternal Poet. Do what you will 't is the noblest course then you may live without the charge of people only we four will make a Family I and an Age that will beget new An â—als in which I 'le write thy life my son of pleasure equal witâ— Nero and Calâ—gula Young Lo. What mâ—n were they Captain Capt. Two roaring Boys of Rome that made all split Young Lo. Come Sir what dare you give Sav. You will not fell Sir Young Lo. Who told you so Sir Sav. Good Sir have a care Young Lo. Peace or I 'le tack your Tongue up to your Roof What money speak More Six thousand pound Sir Capt. Take it h 'as over bidden by the Sun bind him to his bargain quickly Young Lo. Come strike me luck with earnest and draw the writings More There 's a Gods peny for thee Sav. Sir loâ— my old Masters sake let my Farm be excepted if I b come his Tenant I am undone my Children beggeâ—s and in Wise God knows what consider me dear Siâ— More I 'le have all oâ— none Young Lo. All in all inâ— dispatch the writings Exit with Com. Wâ—d Go thou art a pretty forehanded fellow would thou wert wisâ— Sav. Now do I sensibly begin to feel my self a Rascal would I could teach a School or beg or lye well I am utterly undone now he that taught thee to deceive and consen take thee to his mercy so be it Exit Savil. More Come Widow come never stand upon a Knight hood 't is a meer paper honour and not proof enough for a Serâ—ant Come Come I 'le make thee Wid. To answer in short 't is this Sir No Knight no Widow if you make me any thing it must be a Lady and so I taâ—e my leave Mâ—â—e Farewel sweet Widow and think of it Ex. Wid. Wid. Sir I do more than think of it it makes me dream Sir More She 's rich and sober if this itch were from her 〈◊〉 say I be at the charge to pay the Footmen and the Trumpets I and the Horsemen too and be a Knight and she refuse me thou then am I horst into the subsidy and so by consequence should prove a Coxcomb I 'le have a care of that Six thousand pound and then the Land is mine there 's some refreshing yet Exit Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Abigal and drops her Glove Abigal IF he but follow me as all my hopes tell me he 's man enough up goes my rest and I know I shall draw him Enter Welford Wel. This is the strangest pampered piece of flesh towards fifty that ever frailty copt withal what a trim lennoy here she has put upon me these women are a proud kind of Cattel and love this whorson doing so directly that they will not stick to make their very skins Bawdes to their flesh Here 's Dogskin and Storax sufficient to kill a Hawk what to do with it besides nailing it up amongst Irish heads of Teere to shew the mightiness of her Palm I know not there she is I must enter into Dialogue Lady you have lost your Glove Abig. Not Sir if you have found it Wel. It was my meaning Lady to restore it Abig. 'T will be uncivil in me to take back a favour Fortune hath so well bestowed Sir pray wear it for me Wel. I had rather wear a Bell. But hark you Mistres what hidden vertue is there in this Glove that you would have me wear it Is' t good against sore eyes or will it charm the Toothach Or these red tops being steept in white wine soluble wil't kill the Itch Or has it so conceal'd a providence to keep my hand from Bonds If it have none of these and prove no more but a bare Glove of half a Crown a pair 't will be but half a courtesie I wear two alwayes faith let 's draw cuts one will do me no pleasure Abig. The tenderness of his years keeps him as yet in ignorance he 's a well moulded fellow and I wonder his bloud should stir no
howsoever The worthiness of friend may make ye stagger Which is a fair thing in ye yet my Patient My gentle Patient I would fain say more If you would understand Val. O cruel Woman Cell Yet sure your sickness is not so forgetful Nor you so willing to be lost Fra. Pray stay there Me thinks you are not fair now me thinks more That modest vertue men delivered of you Shews but like shadow to me thin and fading Val. Excellent friend Fra. Ye have no share in goodness Ye are belyed you are not Cellide The modest immaculate who are ye For I will know what Devil to do mischief Unto my vertuous friend hath shifted shapes With that unblemished beauty Cell Do not rave Sir Nor let the violence of thoughts distract ye You shall enjoy me I am yours I pity By those fair eyes I do Fra. O double hearted O Woman perfect Woman what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou was 't made a Devil What an inviting Hell invented tell me And if you yet remember what is goodness Tell me by that and truth can one so cherish'd So sainted in the soul of him whose service Is almost turn'd to superstition Whose every day endeavours and desires Offer themselves like Incense on your Altar Whose heart holds no intelligence but holy And most Religious with his love whose life And let it ever be remembred Lady Is drawn out only for your ends Val. O miracle Fra. Whos 's all and every part of man pray make me Like ready Pages wait upon your pleasures Whose breath is but your bubble Can ye dare ye Must ye cast off this man though he were willing Though in a nobleness â—o cross my danger His friendship durst confirm it without baseness Without the stain of honour shall not people Say liberally hereafter there 's the Lady That lost her Father friend herself her faith too To fawn upon a stranger for ought you know As â—â—â—thless as your sâ—lf in love as fruitless Val. â—ake her with all my heart thou art so honest 〈…〉 most necessaâ—y I be undone Cell With all my soul possess 〈◊〉 Exit Val. I 'll 〈◊〉 m nute I scoâ—nâ—d and hated ye and came to cozen ye I 〈…〉 those things might draw a wonder on me To make ye mad Fra. Good Heaven what is this Woman Cell Not did your danger but in charity Move me a whit nor you appear unto me More than a common object yet now truly Truly and nobly I do love ye dearly And from this hour ye are the man I honour You are the man the excellence the honesty The only friend and I am glad your sickness Fell so most happily at this time on ye To make this truth the worlds Fra. Whither do you drive me Cell Back to your honesty make that good ever 'T is like a strong built Castle seated high That draws on all ambitions still repair it Still fortifie it there are thousand foes Besides the Tyrant Beauty will assail it Look to your Centinels that watch it hourly Your eyes let them not wander Fra. Is this serious Or dos she play still with me Cell Keep your ears The two main Poâ—ts that may betray ye strongly From light belief first then from flattery Especially where Woman bâ—ats the parley The body of your strength your noble heart From every yielding to disâ—oneâ—â—â—nds Rig'd â—ound about with vertue that no breaches No subtil minds may meet ye Fra. How like the Sun Labouring in his Eclipse dark and prodigious She shew'd till now when having won her way How full of wonder he breaks out again And sheds his vertuous beams excellent Angel For no less can that heavenly mind proclaim thee Honour of all thy sex let it be lawful And like a Pilgrim thus I kneel to beg it Not with prophane lips now nor burnt affections But reconcil'd to faith with holy wishes To kiss that virgin hand C l. Take your desire Sir And in a nobler way for I dare trust ye No other fruit my love must every yield ye I fear no more yet your most constant memory So much I am wedded to that worthiness Shall ever be my Friend Companion Husband Farewel and fairly govern your affections Stand and deceive me not O noble young man I love thee with my soul but dare not say it Once more farewel and prosper Exit Fra. Goodness guide thee My wonder like to fearful shapes in dreams Has wakened me out of my sit of folly But not to shake it off a spell dwells in me A hidden charm shot from this beauteous Woman That late can ne'r avoid nor Physick find And by her counsel strengthen'd only this Is all the help I have I love fair vertue Well something I must do to be a friend Yet I am poor and tardy something for her too Though I can never reach her excellence Yet but to give an offer at a greatness Enter Valentine Thomas Hylas and Sam. Val. Be not uncivil Tom and take your pleasure Tho. Do you think I am mad you 'l give me leave To try her fairly Val. Do your best Tho. Why there Boy But where 's the sick man Hyl. Where are the Gentlewomâ—n That should attend him there 's the Patient Me thinks these Women Tho. Thou think'st nothing else Val. Go to him friend and comfort him I 'le lead ye O my best joy my worthiest friend pray pardon me I am so over-joy'd I want expression I may live to be thankful bid your friends welcome Exit Val. Tho. How do'st thou Frank how do'st thou Boy beat up man What shrink i' th' sinews for a little sickness Deavolo morte Fra. I am o' th' mending hand Tho. How like a Flute thou speak'st o' th' mending hand man Gogs bores I am well speak like a man of worship Fran. Thou art a mad companion never staid Tom. Tho. Let Rogues be staid that have no habitation A Gentleman may wander sit thee down Frank And see what I have brought thee come discover Open the Scene and let the work appear A friend aâ— need you Rogue is worth a million Fra. What hast thou there a julip Hyl. He must not touch it 'T is present death Tho. Ye are an Ass a twirepipe A Jeffery John bo peepe thou mimister Thou menâ— a left-handed pack-saddle out puppey My friâ—nd Frank but a very foolish fellow Do st thou see that Bottle view it well Fran. I do Tom. Tho. There be as many lives in 't as a Cat carries 'T is everlasting liquor Fran. What Tho. Old Sack Boy Old reverend Sack which for ought that I can read yet Was that Philosophers Stone the wise King Ptolomeus Did all his wonders by Fran. I see no harm Tom Drink with a moderation Tho. Drink with suger Which I have ready here and here a glass boy Take me without my tools Sam. Pray Sir be temperate You know your own state best Fra. Sir I much thank ye And shall be careful yet a glass
did bestow On SHAKESPEARES gentler Muse in thee full grown Their Graces both appear yet so that none Can say here Nature ends and Art begins But mixt like th' Elements and born like twins So interweav'd so like so much the same None this meer nature that meer Art can name 'T was this the Ancients meant nature and skill Are the two tops of their Pernassus Hill J. DENHAM To Mr. FRANCIS BEAUMONT Then living HOW I do love thee BEAUMONT and thy Muse That unto me do'st such religion use How I do fear myself that am not worth The least indulgent thought thy pen drops forth At once thou mak'st me happie and unmak'st And giving largely to me more thou tak'st What sate is mine that so it self bereaves What art is thine that so thy friend deceives When even there where most thou praisest me For writing better I must envy thee BEN. JOHNSON On Mr. FRANCIS BEAUMONT Then newly Dead HE that hath such acuteness and such wit As would ask ten good heads to husband it He that can write so well that no man dare Refuse it for the best let him beware BEAUMONT is dead by whose sole death appears Wit 's a Disease consumes men in few years RICH. CORBET D. D. On Mr. BEAUMONT VVritten thirty years since presently after his Death BEaumont lyes here and where now shall we have A Muse like his to sigh upon his grave Ah! none to weep this with a worthy tear But he that cannot Beaumont that lies here Who now shall pay thy Tomb with such a Verse As thou that Ladies didst fair Rutlands Herse A Monument that will then lasting be When all her Marble is more dust than she In thee all 's lost a sudden dearth and want Hath sciz'd on Wit good Epitaphs are scant We dare not write thy Elegie whilst each fears He ne're shall match that copy of thy tears Scarce in an Age a Poet and yet he Scarce lives the third part of his age to see But quickly taken off and only known Is in a minute shut as soon as shown Why should weak Nature tire herself in vain In such a piece â—o dash it straight again Why should she take such work beyond her skill Which when she cannot perfect she must kill Alas what is' t to temper slime or mire But Nature 's puzled when she works in fire Great Brains like brightest glass crack straight while those Of Stone or Wood hold out and fear not blowes And we their Ancient hoary heads can see Whose Wit was never their mortalitie Beaumont dies young so Sidney did before There was not Poetry he could live to more He could not grow up higher I scarce know If th' art it self unto that pitch could grow Were 't not in thee that hadst arriv'd the hight Of all that wit could reach or Nature might O when I read those excellent things of thine Such strength such sweetness coucht in every line Such life of Fancy such high choice of brain Nought of the Vulgar wit or borrowed strain Such passion such expressions meet my eye Such Wit untainted with obscenity And these so unaffectedly exprest All in a language purely flowing drest And all so born within thy self thine own So new so fresh so nothing trod upon I grieve not now that old Menanders vein Is rian'd to survive in thee again Such in his time was he of the same piece The smooth even natural Wit and Love of Greece Those few sententious fragments shew more worth Than all the Poets Athens e're brought forth And I am sorry we have lost those hours On them whose quickness comes far short of ours And dwell not more on thee whose every Page May be a pattern for their Scene and Stage I will not yield thy Works so mean a Praise More pure more chaste more sainted than are Playes Nor with that dull supineness to be read To pass a fire or laugh an hour in bed How do the Muses suffer every where Taken in such mouths censure in such ears That 'twixt a whiffe a Line or two rehearse And with their Rheume together spaule a Verse This all a Poems leisure after Play Drink or Tabaco it may keep the Day Whilst even their very idleness they think Is lost in these that lose their time in drink Pity then dull we we that better know Will a more serious hour on thee bestow Why should not Beaumont in the Morning please As well as Plautus Aristophanes Who if my Pen may as my thoughts be free Were scurril wits and Buffons both to thee Yet these our Learned of severest brow Will deign to look on and to note them too That will defie our own 't is English stuffe And th' Author is not rotten long enough Alas what flegm are they compar'd to thee In thy Philaster and Maids Tragedy Where 's such an humour as thy Bessus pray Let them put all their Thrasoes in one Play He shall out bid them their conceit was poor All in a Circle of a Bawd or Whore A coâ—ening dance take the fool away And not a good â—est extant in a Play â—et these are Wits because they 're old and now Being Greek and Latine they are Learning too But those their own times were content t' allow A thirsty same and thine is lowest now But thou shalt love and when thy name is grown Six Aâ—es older shall be better known When th' art of Chancers standing in the tombe Thou shalt not share but take up all his room JOH EARLE Upon the Report of the printing of the Dramatical Poems of Mr. JOHN FLETCHER collected before and now set forth in one Volume THough when all Fletcher writ and the entire Man was indulg'd unto that sacred fire His thoughts and his thoughts dress appear'd both such That 't was his happy fault to do too much Who therefore wisely did submit each birth To knowing Beaumont e're it did come forth Working again until he said 't was fit And made him the sobriety of his Wit Though thus he call'd his Judge into his fame And for that aid allow'd him half the name 'T is known that sometimes he did stand alone That both the Spunge and Pencil were his own That himself judg'd himself could singly do And was at last Beaumont and Fletcher too Else we had lost his Shepherdess a Piece Even and smooth spun from a finer Fleece Where softness reigns where passions passions greet Gentle and high as Floods of Balsam meet Where dress'd in white expressions sit bright Loves Drawn like their fairest Queen by milkie Doves A Piece which Johnson in a rapture bid Come up a glorify'd Work and so it did Else had his Muse set with his Friend the Stage Had miss'd those Poems which yet take the Age The World had lost those rich exemplars where Art Language Wit sit ruling in one Sphere Where the fresh matters soar above old Theams As Prophets Raptures do above our Dreams Where in a worthy scorn he
be Lys As Mask can be Strat. Yes they must commend their King and speak in praise of the Assembly bless the Bride and Bridegroom in person of some God th' are tyed to rules of flattery Cle. See good my Lord who is return'd Lys Noble Melantius Enter Melantius The Land by me welcomes thy vertues home to Rhodes thou that with blood abroad buyest us our peace the breath of Kings is like the breath of Gods My brother wisht thee here and thou art here he will be too kind and weary thee with often welcomes but the time doth give thee a welcome above this or all the worlds Mel. My Lord my thanks but thâ—â— scratcht limbs of mine have spoke my love and truth unto my friends more than my tongue ere could my mind 's the same it ever was to you where I find worth I love the keeper till he let it go And then I follow it Diph. Hail worthy brother He that rejoyces not at your return In safety is mine enemy for ever Mel. I thank thee Diphilus but thou art faulty I sent for thee to exercise thine armes With me at Patria thou cam'st not Diphilus 'T was ill Diph. My noble brother my excuse Is my King 's strict command which you my Lord Can witness with me Lys 'T is true Melantius He might not come till the solemnity Of this great match were past Diph. Have you heard of it Mel. Yes I have given cause to those that Envy my deeds abroad to call me gamesome I have no other business here at Rhodes Lys We have a Mask to night And you must tread a Soldiers measure Mel. These soft and silken wars are not for me The Musick must be shrill and all confus'd That stirs my blood and then I dance with armes But is Amintor Wed Diph. This day Mel. All joyes upon him for he is my friend Wonder not that I call a man so young my friend His worth is great valiant he is and temperate And one that never thinks his life his own If his friend need it when he was a boy As oft as I return'd as without boast I brought home conquest he would gaze upon me And view me round to find in what one limb The vertue lay to do those things he heard Then would he wish to see my Sword and feel The quickness of the edge and in his hand Weigh it he oft would make me smile at this His youth did promise much and his ripe years Will see it all perform'd Enter Aspatia passing by Melan. Hail Maid and Wife Thou fair Aspatia may the holy knot That thou hast tyed to day last till the hand Of age undo 't may'st thou bring a race Unto Amintor that may fill the world Successively with Souldiers Asp My hard fortunes Deserve not scorn for I was never proud When they were good Mel. How 's this Exit Aspatia Lys You are mistaken for she is not married Mel. You said Amintor was Diph. 'T is true but Mel. Pardon me I did receive Letters at Patria from my Amintor That he should marry her Diph. And so it stood In all opinion long but your arrival Made me imagine you had heard the change Mel. Who hath he taken then Lys A Lady Sir That bears the light above her and strikes dead With flashes of her eye the fair Evadne your vertuous Sister Mel. Peace of heart betwixt them but this is strange Lys The King my brother did it To honour you and these solemnities Are at his charge Mel. 'T is Royal like himself But I am sad my speech bears so unfortunate a sound â—o beautiful Aspatia there is rage â—id in her fathers breast Calianax Bent long against me and he should not think If I could call it back that I would take So bâ—â—e revenges as to scorn the state Of his neglected daughter holds he still his greatness with the King Lys Yes but â—â—is Lady Walks discontented with her watry eyes Bent on the earth the unfrequented woods Are her delight and when she sees a bank Stuck full of flowers she with a sigh will tell Her servants what a pretty place it were To bury lovers in and make her maids Pluck 'em and strow her over like a Corse She carries with her an infectious grief That strikes all her beholders she will sing The mournful'st things that ever ear hath heard And sigh and sing again and when the rest Of our young Ladies in their wanton blood Tell mirthful tales in course that fill the room With laughter she will with so sad a look Bring forth a story of the silent death Of some forsaken Virgin which her grief Will put in such a phrase that ere she end She 'l send them weeping one by one away Mel. She has a brother under my command Like her a face as womanish as hers But with a spirit that hath much out-grown The number of his years Enter Amintor Cle. My Lord the Bridegroom Mel. I might run fiercely not more hastily Upon my foe I love thee well Amintor My mouth is much too narrow for my heart I joy to look upon those eyes of thine Thou art my friend but my disorder'd speech cuts off my love Amin. Thou art Melantius All love is spoke in that a sacrifice To thank the gods Melantius is return'd In safety victory sits on his sword As she was wont may she build there and dwell And may thy Armour be as it hath been Only thy valour and thy innocence What endless treasures would our enemies give That I might hold thee still thus Mel. I am but poor in words but credit me young man Thy Mother could no more but weep for joy to see thee After long absence all the wounds I have Fetch not so much away nor all the cryes Of Widowed Mothers but this is peace And what was War Amin. Pardon thou holy God Of Marriage bed and frown not I am forc't In answer of such noble tears as those To weep upon my Wedding day Mel. I fear thou art grown too sick for I hear A Lady mourns for thee men say to death Forsaken of thee on what terms I know not Amin. She had my promise but the King forbad it And made me make this worthy change thy Sister Accompanied with graces above her With whom I long to lose my lusty youth And grow old in her arms Mel. Be prosperous Enter Messenger Messen My Lord the Maskers rage for you Lys We are gone Cleon Sâ—rato Diphilus Amin. Wee 'l all attend you we shall trouble you With our solemnities Mel. Not so Amintor But if you laugh at my rude carriage In peace I 'le do as much for you in War When you come thither yet I have a Mistress To bring to your delights rough though I am I have a Mistress and she has a heart She saies but trust me it is stone no better There is no place that I can challenge in 't But you stand still and here
mine enemy Should use me so extraordinarily scurvily Mel. I shall melt too if you begin to take Unkindnesses I never meant you hurt Cal. Thou 'lt anger me again thou wretched rogue Meant me no hurt disgrace me with the King Lose all my Offices this is no hurt Is it I prethee what dost thou call hurt Mel. To poyson men because they love me not To call the credit of mens Wives in question To murder children betwixt me and land this is all hurt Cal. All this thou think'st is sport For mine is worse but use thy will with me For betwixt grief and anger I could cry Mel. Be wise then and be safe thou may'st revenge Cal. I o'th'King I would revenge of thee Mel. That you must plot your self Cal. I am a fine plotter Mel. The short is I will hold thee with the King In this perplexity till peevishness And thy disgrace have laid thee in thy grave But if thou wilt deliver up the Fort I 'le take thy trembling body in my arms And bear thee over dangers thou shalt hold thy wonted state Cal. If I should tell the King can'st thou deny 't again Mel. Try and believe Cal. Nay then thou can'st bring any thing about Thou shalt have the Fort. Mel. Why well here let our hate be buried and This hand shall right us both give me thy aged breast to compass Cal. Nay I do not love thee yet I cannot well endure to look on thee And if I thought it were a courtesie Thou should'st not have it but I am disgrac'd My Offices are to be ta'ne away And if I did but hold this Fort a day I do believe the King would take it from me And give it thee things are so strangely carried Nere thank me for 't but yet the King shall know There was some such thing in 't I told him of And that I was an honest man Mel. Hee 'l buy that knowledge very dearly Enter Diphilus What news with thee Diph. This were a night indeed to do it in The King hath sent for her Mel. She shall perform it then go Diphilus And take from this good man my worthy friend The Fort he 'l give it thee Diph. Ha' you got that Cal. Art thou of the same breed canst thou deny This to the King too Diph. With a confidence as great as his Cal. Faith like enough Mel. Away and use him kindly Cal. Touch not me I hate the whole strain if thou follow me a great way off I 'le give thee up the Fort and hang your selves Mel. Be gone Diph. He 's finely wrought Exeunt Cal. Diph. Mel. This is a night in spite of Astronomers To do the deed in I will wash the slain That tests upon our House off with his blood Enter Amintor Amin. Melantius now assist me if thou beest That which thou say'st assist me I have lost All my distempers and have found a rage so pleasing help me Mel. Who can see him thus And not swear vengeance what 's the matter friend Amin. Out with thy sword and hand in hand with me Rush to the Chamber of this hated King And sink him with the weight of all his sins to hell for ever Mel. 'T were a â—ash attempt Not to be done with safety let your reason Plot your revenge and not your passion Amint. If thou refusest me in these extreams Thou art no friend he sent for her to me By Heaven to me my self and I must tell ye I love her as a stranger there is worth In that vile woman worthy things Melantius And she repents I 'le do 't my self alone Though I be slain Farewell Mel. He 'l overthrow my whole design with madness Amintor think what thou doest I dare as much as valour But 't is the King the King the King Amintor With whom thou fightest I know he 's honest Aside And this will work with him Amint. I cannot tell What thou hast said but thou hast charm'd my sword Out of my hand and left me shaking here defenceless Mel. I will take it up for thee Amint. What a wild beast is uncollected man The thing that we call Honour bears us all Headlong unto sin and yet it self is nothing Mel. Alas how variable are thy thoughts Amint. Just like my fortunes I was run to that I purpos'd to have chid thee for Some Plot I did distrust thou hadst against the King By that old fellows carriage but take heed There is not the least limb growing to a King But carries thunder in it Mel. I have none against him Amint. Why come then and still remember we may not think revenge Mel. I will remember Actus Quintus Enter Evadne and a Gentleman EVAD. Sir is the King abed Gent. Madam an hour ago Evad. Give me the key then and let none be near 'T is the Kings pleasure Gent. I understand you Madam would 't were mine I must not wish good rest unto your Ladiship Evad. You talk you talk Gent. 'T is all I dare do Madam but the King will wake and then Evad. Saving your imagination pray good night Sir Gent. A good night be it then and a long one Madam I am gone Evad. The night grows horrible and all about me Like my black purpose O the Conscience King abed Of a lost Virgin whither wilt thou pull me To what things dismal as the depth of Hell Wilt thou provoke me Let no man dare From this hour be disloyal if her heart Be flesh if she have blood and can fear 't is a daring Above that desperate fool that left his peace And went to Sea to fight 't is so many sins An age cannot prevent 'em and so great The gods want mercy for yet I must through ' em I have begun a slaughter on my honour And I must end it there he sleeps good heavens Why give you peace to this untemperate beast That hath so long transgressed you I must kill him And I will do 't bravely the meer joy Tells me I merit in it yet I must not Thus tamely do it as he sleeps that were To rock him to another world my vengeance Shall take him waking and then lay before him The number of his wrongs and punishments I 'le shake his sins like furies till I waken His evil Angel his sick Conscience And then I 'le strike him dead King by your leave Ties his armes to the bed I dare not trust your strength your Grace and I Must grapple upon even terms no more So if he rail me not from my resolution I shall be strong enough My Lord the King my Lord he sleeps As if he meant to wake no more my Lord Is he not dead already Sir my Lord. King Who 's that Evad. O you sleep soundly Sir King My dear Evadne I have been dreaming of thee come to bed Evad. I am come at length Sir but how welcome King What pretty new device is this Evadne What do you tie me to you by my love This
nature No Sir I boldly dare proclaim her yet No Woman But woo her still and think her modesty A sweeter mistress than the offer'd Language Of any Dame were she a Queen whose eye Speaks common loves and comforts to her servants Last noble son for so I now must call you What I have done thus publick is not only To add a comfort in particular To you or me but all and to confirm The Nobles and the Gentry of these Kingdoms By oath to your succession which shall be Within this month at most Thra. This will be hardly done Cle. It must be ill done if it be done Di. When 't is at best 't will be but half done Whilst so brave a Gentleman 's wrong'd and stung off Thra. I fear Cle. Who does not Di. I fear not for my self and yet I fear too Well we shall see we shall see no more Pha. Kissing your white hand Mistress I take leave To thank your Royal Father and thus far To be my own free Trumpet Understand Great King and these your subjects mine that must be For so deserving you have spoke me Sir And so deserving I daâ—e speak my self To what a person of what eminence Ripe expectation of what faculties Manners and vertues you would wed your Kingdoms You in me have your wishes Oh this Country By more than all my hopes I hold it Happy in their dear memories that have been Kings great and good happy in yours that is And from you as a Chronicle to keep Your Noble name from eating age do I Opine my self most happy Gentlemen Believe me in a word a Princes word There shall be nothing to make up a Kingdom Mighty and flourishing defenced fear'd Equall to be commanded and obey'd But through the travels of my life I 'le find it And tye it to this Country And I vow My reign shall be so easie to the subject That every man shall be his Prince himself And his own law yet I his Prince and law And dearest Lady to your dearest self Dear in the choice of him whose name and lustre Must make you more and mightier let me say You are the blessed'st living for sweet Princess You shall enjoy a man of men to be Your servant you shall make him yours for whom Great Queens must die Thra. Miraculous Cle. This speech calls him Spaniard being nothing but A large inventory of his own commendations Enter Philaster Di. I wonder what 's his price For certainly he 'll tell himself he has so prais'd his shape But here comes one more worthy those large speeches than the large speaker of them let me be swallowed quick if I can find in all the Anatomy of yon mans vertues one sinew sound enough to promise for him he shall be Constable By this Sun he 'll ne're make King unless it be for trifles in my poor judgment Phi. Right Noble Sir as low as my obedience And with a heart as Loyal as my knee I beg your favour King Rise you have it Sir Di. Mark but the King how pale he looks with fear Oh! this same whorson Conscience how it jades us King Speak your intents Sir Phi. Shall I speak 'um freely Be still my royal Soveraign King As a subject We give you freedom Di. Now it heats Phi. Then thus I turn My language to you Prince you foreign man Ne're stare nor put on wonder for you must Indure me and you shall This earth you tread upon A dowry as you hope with this fair Princess Whose memory I bow to was not left By my dead Father Oh I had a Father To your inheritance and I up and living Having my self about me and my sword The souls of all my name and memories These arms and some few friends besides the gods To part so calmly with it and sit still And say I might have been I tell thee Pharamond When thou art King look I be dead and rotten And my name ashes For hear me Pharamond This very ground thou goest on this fat earth My Fathers friends made fertile with their faiths Before that day of shame shall gape and swallow Thee and thy Nation like a hungry grave Into her hidden bowels Prince it shall By Nemesis it shall Pha. He 's mad beyond cure mad Di. Here 's a fellow has some fire in 's veins The outlandish Prince looks like a Tooth drawer Phi. Sir Prince of Popping jayes I 'le make it well appear To you I am not mad King You displease us You are too bold Phi. No Sir I am too tame Too much a Turtle a thing born without passion A faint shadow that every drunken cloud sails over And makes nothing King I do not fancy this Call our Physicians sure he is somewhat tainted Thra. I do not think 't will prove so Di. H 'as given him a general purge already for all the right he has and now he means to let him blood Be constant Gentlemen by these hilts I 'le run his hazard although I run my name out of the Kingdom Cle. Peace we are one soul Pha. What you have seen in me to stir offence I cannot find unless it be this Lady Offer'd into mine arms with the succession Which I must keep though it hath pleas'd your fury To mutiny within you without disputing Your Genealogies or taking knowledge Whose branch you are The King will leave it me And I dare make it mine you have your answer Phi. If thou wert sole inheritor to him That made the world his and couldst see no sun Shine upon any but thine were Pharamond As truly valiant as I feel him cold And ring'd among the choicest of his friends Such as would blush to talk such serious follies Or back such bellied commendations And from this present spight of all these bugs You should hear further from me King Sir you wrong the Prince I gave you not this freedom to brave our best friends You deserve our frown go to be better temper'd Phi. It must be Sir when I am nobler us'd Gal. Ladyes This would have been a pattern of succession Had he ne're met this mischief By my life He is the worthiest the true name of man This day within my knowledge Meg. I cannot tell what you may call your knowledge But the other is the man set in mine eye Oh! 't is a Prince of wax Gal. A Dog it is King Philaster tell me The injuries you aim at in your riddles Phi. If you had my eyes Sir and sufferance My griefs upon you and my broken fortunes My want's great and now nought but hopes and fears My wrongs would make ill riddles to be laught at Dare you be still my King and right me not King Give me your wrongs in private They whisper Phi. Take them and ease me of a load would bow strong Cle. He dares not stand the shock Atlas Di. I cannot blame him there 's danger in 't Every man in this age has not a soul of Crystal for all men
gods you swore by and as many More of my own I will have fellows and such Fellows in it as shall make noble mirth The Princess your dear Daughter shall stand by me On walls and sung in ballads any thing Urge me no more I know her and her haunts Her layes leaps and out layes and will discover all Nay will dishonour her I know the boy She keeps a handsome boy about eighteen Know what she does with him where and when Come Sir you put me to a womans madness The glory of a fury and if I do not Do it to the height King What boy is this she raves at Meg. Alas good minded Prince you know not these things I am loth to reveal ' em Keep this fault As you would keep your health from the hot air Of the corrupted people or by heaven I will not fall alone what I have known Shall be as publick as a print all tongues Shall speak it as they do the language they Are born in as free and commonly I 'le set it Like a prodigious star for all to gaze at And so high and glowing that other Kingdoms far and Forreign Shall read it there nay travel with it till they find No tongue to make it more nor no more people And then behold the fall of your fair Princess King Has she a boy Cle. So please your Grace I have seen a boy wait On her a fair boy King Go get you to your quarter For this time I 'le study to forget you Meg. Do you study to forget me and I 'le study To forget you Ex. King Meg. and Guard Cle. Why here 's a Male spirit for Hercules if ever there be nine worthies of women this wench shall ride astride and be their Captain Di. Sure she hath a garrison of Devils in her tongue she uttereth such balls of wild-fire She has so netled the King that all the Doctors in the Country will scarce cure him That boy was a strange found out antidote to cure her infection that boy that Princess boy that brave chast vertuous Ladies boy and a fair boy a well spoken boy All these considered can make nothing else but there I leave you Gentlemen Thra. Nay we 'l go wander with you Exeunt Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Cle. Di. and Thra. Cle. NAY doubtless 't is true Di. I and 't is the gods That rais'd this Punishment to scourge the King With his own issue Is it not a shame For us that should write noble in the land For us that should be freemen to behold A man that is the bravery of his age Philaster prest down from his Royal right By this regardless King and only look And see the Scepter ready to be cast Into the hands of that lascivious Lady That lives in lust with a smooth boy now to be Married to yon strange Prince who but that people Please to let him be a Prince is born a slave In that which should be his most noble part His mind Thra. That man that would not stir with you To aid Philaster let the gods forget That such a Creature walks upon the earth Cle. Philaster is too backward in 't himself The Gentry do await it and the people Against their nature are all bent for him And like a field of standing Corn that 's mov'd With a stiss gale their heads bow all one way Di. The only cause that draws Philaster back From this attempt is the fair Princess love Which he admires and we can now confute Thra. Perhaps he 'l not believe it Di. Why Gentlemen 't is without question so Cle. I 't is past speech she lives dishonestly But how shall we if he be curious work Upon his faith Thra. We all are satisfied within our selves Di. Since it is true and tends to his own good I 'le make this new report to be my knowledge I 'le say I know it nay I 'le swear I saw it Cle. It will be best Thra. 'T will move him Enter Philaster Di. Here he comes Good morrow to your honour We have spent some time in seeking you Phi. My worthy friends You that can keep your memories to know Your friend in miseries and cannot frown On men disgrac'd for vertue A good day Attend you all What service may I do worthy your acceptation Di. My good Lord We come to urge that vertue which we know Lives in your breast forth rise and make a head The Nobles and the people are all dull'd With this usurping King and not a man That ever heard the word or knew such a thing As vertue but will second your attempts Phi. How honourable is this love in you To me that have deserv'd none Know my friends You that were born to shame your poor Philaster With too much courtesie I could afford To melt my self in thanks but my designs Are not yet ripe suffice it that ere long I shall imploy your loves but yet the time is short of what I would Di. The time is fuller Sir than you expect That which hereafter will not perhaps be reach'd By violence may now be caught As for the King You know the people have long hated him But now the Princess whom they lov'd Phi. Why what of her Di. Is loath'd as much as he Phi. By what strange means Di. She 's known a Whore Phi. Thou lyest Di. My Lord Phi. Thou lyest Offers to draw and is held And thou shalt feel it I had thought thy mind Had been of honour thus to rob a Lady Of her good name is an infectious sin Not to be pardon'd be it false as hell 'T will never be redeem'd if it be sown Amongst the people fruitful to increase All evil they shall hear Let me alone That I may cut off falshood whilst it springs Set hills on hills betwixt me and the man That utters this and I will scale them all And from the utmost top fall on his neck Like Thunder from a Cloud Di. This is most strange Sure he does love her Phi. I do love fair truth She is my Mistress and who injures her Draws vengeance from me Sirs let go my arms Thra. Nay good my Lord be patient Cle. Sir remember this is your honour'd friend That comes to do his service and will shew you Why he utter'd this Phi. I ask you pardon Sir My zeal to truth made me unmannerly Should I have heard dishonour spoke of you Behind your back untruly I had been As much distemper'd and enrag'd as now Di. But this my Lord is truth Phi. O say not so good Sir forbear to say so 'T is the truth that all womenkind is false Urge it no more it is impossible Why should you think the Princess light Di. Why she was taken at it Phi. 'T is false O Heaven 't is false it cannot be Can it Speak Gentlemen for love of truth speak Is' t possible can women all be damn'd Di. Why no my Lord. Phi. Why then it cannot
you have talked enough on 't Arb. Talkt enough Will you confine my word by heaven and earth I were much better be a King of beasts Than such a people if I had not patience Above a God I should be call'd a Tyrant Throughout the world They will offend to death Each minute Let me hear thee speak again And thou art earth again why this is like Tigranes speech that needs would say I brag'd Bessus he said I brag'd Bes Ha ha ha Arb. Why dost thou laugh By all the world I 'm grown ridiculous To my own Subjects Tie me in a Chair And jest at me but I shall make a start And punish some that others may take heed How they are haughty who will answer me He said I boasted speak Mardonius Did I He will not answer O my temper I give you thanks above that taught my heart Patience I can endure his silence what will none Vouchsafe to give me answer am I grown To such a poor respect or do you mean To break my wind Speak speak some one of you Or else by heaven 1 Gent. So please your Arb. Monstrous I cannot be heard out they cut me off As if I were too saucy I will live In woods and talk to trees they will allow me To end what I begin The meanest Subject Can find a freedom to discharge his soul And not I now it is a time to speak I hearken 1 Gent. May it please Arb. I mean not you Did not I stop you once but I am grown To balk but I defie let another speak 2 Gent. I hope your Majesty Arb. Thou drawest thy words That I must wait an hour where other men Can hear in instants throw your words away Quick and to purpose I have told you this Bes And please your Majesty Arb. Wilt thou devour me this is such a rudeness As you never shew'd me and I want Power to command too else Mardonius Would speak at my request were you my King I would have answered at your word Mardonius I pray you speak and truely did I boast Mar. Truth will offend you Arb. You take all great care what will offend me When you dare to utter such things as these Mar. You told Tigranes you had won his Land With that sole arm propt by Divinity Was not that bragging and a wrong to us That daily ventured lives Arb. O that thy name Were as great as mine would I had paid my wealth It were as great as I might combate thee I would through all the Regions habitable Search thee and having found thee wi'my Sword Drive thee about the world till I had met Some place that yet mans curiosity Hath mist of there there would I strike thee dead Forgotten of mankind such Funeral rites As beasts would give thee thou shouldst have Bes The King rages extreamly shall we slink away He 'l strike us 2 Gent. Content Arb. There I would make you know 't was this sole arm I grant you were my instruments and did As I commanded you but 't was this arm Mov'd you like wheels it mov'd you as it pleas'd Whither slip you now what are you too good To wait on me puffe I had need have temper That rule such people I have nothing left At my own choice I would I might be private Mean men enjoy themselves but 't is our curse To have a tumult that out of their loves Will wait on us whether we will or no Go get you gone Why here they stand like death My words move nothing 1 Gent. Must we go Bes I know not Arb. I pray you leave me Sirs I 'me proud of this That you will be intreated from my sight Why now the leave me all Mardonius Exeunt all but Arb. and Mar. Mar. Sir Arb. Will you leave me quite alone me thinks Civility should teach you more than this If I were but your friend Stay here and wait Mar. Sir shall I speak Arb. Why you would now think much To be denied but I can scare intreat What I would have do speak Mar. But will you hear me out Arb. With me you Article to talk thus well I will hear you out Mar. Sir that I have ever lov'd you my sword hath spoken for me that I do if it be doubted I dare call an oath a great one to my witness and were you not my King from amongst men I should have chose you out to love above the rest nor can this challenge thanks for my own sake I should have done it because I would have lov'd the most deserving man for so you are Arb. Alas Mardonius rise you shall not kneel We all are souldiers and all venture lives And where there is no difference in mens worths Titles are jests who can outvalue thee Mardonius thou hast lov'd me and hast wrong Thy love is not rewarded but believe â—t shall be better more than friend in arms My Father and my Tutor good Mardonius Mar. Sir you did promise you would hear me out Arb. And so I will speak freely for from thee Nothing can come but worthy things and true Mar. Though you have all this worth you hold some qualities that do Eclipse your vertues Arb. Eclipse my vertues Mar. Yes your passions which are so manifold that they appear even in this when I commend you you hug me for that truth but when I speak your faults you make a start and flie the hearing but. Arb. When you commend me O that I should live To need such commendations If my deeds Blew not my praise themselves about the earth I were most wretched spare your idle praise If thou didst mean to flatter and shouldst utter Words in my praise that thou thoughtst impudence My deeds should make 'em modest when you praise I hug you 't is so safe that wert thou worthy thou shouldst receive a death a glorious death from me but thou shalt understand thy lies for shouldst thou praise me into Heaven and there leave me inthron'd I would despise thee though as much as now which is as much as dust because I see thy envie Mar. However you will use me after yet for your own promise sake hear me the rest Arb. I will and after call unto the winds for they shall lend as large an ear as I to what you utter speak Mar. Would you but leave these hasty tempers which I do not say take from you all your worth but darken 'em then you will shine indeed Arb. Well Mar. Yet I would have you keep some passions lest men should take you for a God your vertues are such Arb. Why now you flatter Mar. I never understood the word were you no King and free from these moods should I choose a companion for wit and pleasure it should be you or for honesty to enterchange my bosom with it should be you or wisdom to give me counsel I would pick out you or valour to defend my reputation still I should find you out for you are fit
to acknowledge her sorrow that you must take the pains to come up for so bad entertainment Wel. I shall obey your Lady that sent it and acknowledge you that brought it to be your Arts Master Rog. I am but a Batchelor of Art Sir and I have the mending of all under this roof from my Lady on her down-bed to the maid in the Pease straw Wel. A Cobler Sir Roger. No Sir I inculcate Divine Service within these Walls Wel. But the Inhabitants of this house do often imploy you on errands without any scruple of Conscience Rog. Yes I do take the air many mornings on foot three or four miles for eggs but why move you that Wel. To know whether it might become your function to bid my man to neglect his horse a little to attend on me Roger. Most properly Sir Wel. I pray you doe so then the whilst I will attend your Lady You direct all this house in the true way Roger. I doe Sir Wel. And this door I hope conducts to your Lady Rog. Your understanding is ingenious Ex. severally Enter young Loveless and Savil with a writing Sa. By your favour Sir you shall pardon me Yo. Lo. I shall bear your favour Sir cross me no more I say they shall come in Savil. Sir you forget who I am Yo. Lo. Sir I do not thou art my Brothers Steward his cast off mill-money his Kitchen Arithmetick Sa. Sir I hope you will not make so little of me Yo. Lo. I make thee not so little as thou art for indeed there goes no more to the making of a Steward but a fair Imprimis and then a reasonable Item infus'd into him and the thing is done Sa. Nay then you stir my duty and I most tell you Young Lo. What wouldst thou tell me how Hopps grow or hold some rotten discourse of Sheep or when our Lady-day falls Prethee farewel and entertain my friends be drunk and burn thy Table books and my dear spark of velvet thou and I. Sa. Good Sir remember Young Lo. I do remember thee a foolish fellow one that did put his trust in Almanacks and Horse-fairs and rose by Hony and Pot-butter Shall they come in yet Sa. Nay then I must unfold your Brothers pleasure these be the lessons Sir he left behind him Young Lo. Prethee expound the first Sa. I leave to maintain my house three hundred pounds a year and my Brother to dispose of it Young Lo. Mark that my wicked Steward and I dispose of it Sav. Whilest he bears himself like a Gentleman and my credit falls not in him Mark that my good young Sir mark that Young Lo. Nay if it be no more I shall fulfil it whilst my Legs will carry me I 'le bear my self Gentleman-like but when I am drunk let them bear me that can Forward dear Steward Sav. Next it is my will that he be furnished as my Brother with Attendance Apparel and the obedience of my people Young Lo. Steward this is as plain as your old Minikinbreeches Your wisdom will relent now will it not Be mollified or you understand me Sir proceed Sav. Next that my Steward keep his place and power and bound my Brother's wildness with his care Young Lo. I 'le hear no more of this Apocrypha bind it by it self Steward Sav. This is your Brothers will and as I take it he makes no mention of such company as you would draw unto you Captains of Gallysoists such as in a clear day have seen Callis fellows that have no more of God than their Oaths come to they wear swords to reach fire at a Play and get there the oyl'd end of a Pipe for their Guerdon then the remnant of your Regiment are wealthy Tobacco-Marchants that set up with one Ounce and break for three together with a Forlorn hope of Poets and all these look like Carthusians things without linnen Are these fit company for my Masters Brother Young Lo. I will either convert thee O thou Pagan Steward or presently confound thee and thy reckonings who 's there Call in the Gentlemen Sav. Good Sir Young Lo. Nay you shall know both who I am and where I am Sav. Are you my Masters Brother Young Lo. Are you the sage Master Steward with a face like an old Ephemerides Enter his Comrades Captain Traveller c. Sav. Then God help us all I say Young Lo. I and 't is well said my old peer of France welcome Gentlemen welcome Gentlemen mine own dear Lads y' are richly welcome Know this old Harry Groat Cap. Sir I will take your love Sav. Sir you will take my Purse Cap. And study to continue it Sav. I do believe you Trav. Your honorable friend and Masters Brother hath given you to us for a worthy fellow and so we hugg you Sir Sav. Has given himself into the hands of Varlets not to be curv'd out Sir are these the pieces Young Lo. They are the Morals of the Age the vertues men made of gold Sav. Of your gold you mean Sir Young Lo. This is a man of War and cryes go on and wears his colours Sav. In 's nose Young Lo. In the fragrant field This is a Traveler Sir knows men and manners and has plow'd up the Sâ—â— so far till both the Poles have knockt has seen the Sun 〈◊〉 Coach and can distinguish the colour of his Horses 〈◊〉 their kinds and had a Flanders-Mare leapt there Sav. 'T is much Tra. I have seen more Sir Sav. 'T is even enough o' Conscience sit down and reâ—â— you you are at the end of the world already Would ye had as good a Living Sir as this fellow could lie you out oâ— he has a notable gift in 't Young Lo. This ministers the smoak and this the Muâ—â— Sav. And you the Cloaths and Meat and Money yoâ— have a goodly generation of 'em pray let them multiplâ— your Brothers house is big enough and to say truth hâ—â— too much Land hang it durt Young Lo. Why now thou art a loving stinkard Fire of thy Annotations and thy Rent-books thou hast a weak brain Savil and with the next long Bill thou wilt run mad Gentlemen you are once more welcome to three hundred pounds a year we will be freely merry shall we not Capt. Merry as mirth and wine my lovely Loveless Poet. A serious look shall be a Jury to excommunicate any man from our company Tra. We will not talk wisely neither Young Lo. What think you Gentlemen by all this Revenue in Drink Capt. I am all for Drink Tra. I am dry till it be so Poet. He that will not cry Amen to this let him live sober seem wise and dye o' th' Coram Young Lo. It shall be so we 'l have it all in Drink let Meat and Lodging go they are transitory and shew men meerly mortal then we 'l have Wenches every one his Wench and every week a fresh one we 'l keep no powdered flesh all these we have by warrant under
Bless your good learning Sir Lop. And bless you also He bears a promising face there 's some hope toward Lea. I have a Letter to your worship Lop. VVell Sir From whence I pray you Lea. From Nova Hispania Sir And from an ancient friend of yours Lop. 'T is well Sir 'T is very well the devil a one I know there Die Take heed of a Snap Sir h 'as a cozening countenance I do not like his way Lop. Let him goe forward Cantabit vacuus They that have nothing fear nothing All I have to lose Diego is my learning And when he has gotten that he may put it in a Nut shell LETTER READ SIgnior Lopez Since my arrival from Cordova to these parts I have written divers Letters unto you but as yet received no Answer of any Good and very good And although so great a forgetfulness might cause a want in my due correspondence yet the desire I have still to serve you must more prevail with me Better and better the devil a man know I yet and therefore with the present occasion offered I am willing to crave a continuance of the favours which I have heretofore received from you and do recommend my Son Leandro the Bearer to you with request that he may be admitted in that Vniversitie till such time as I shall arrive at home his studies he will make you acquainted withall This kindness shall supply the want of your slackness And so heaven keep you Yours Alonzo Tiveria Alonzo Tiveria very well A very ancient friend of mine I take it For till this hour I never heard his name yet Lea. You look Sir as if ye had forgot my Father Lop. No no I look as I would remember him For that I never remembred I cannot forget Sir Alonzo Tiveria Lea. The same Sir Lop. And now i' th' Indies Lea. Yes Lop. He may be any where For ought that I consider Lea. Think again Sir You were Students both at one time in Salamanca And as I take it Chamber-fellows Lop. Ha Lea. Nay sure you must remember Lop. Would I could Lea. I have heard him say you were Gossips too Lop. Very likely You did not hear him say to whom for we Students May oft-times over-reach our memories Do'st thou remember Diego this same Signiour Thou hast been mine these twenty years Die Remember Why this Fellow would make ye mad Nova Hispania And Signiour Tiveria what are these He may as well name ye Friends out of Cataya Take heed I beseech your worship do you hear my friend ' You have no Letters for me Lea. Not any letter But I was charged to doe my Fathers love To the old honest Sexton Diego are you he Sir Dig. Ha have I friends and know 'em not my name is Diego But if either I remember you or your Father Or Nova Hispania I was never there Sir Or any kindred that you have for heaven sake Master Let 's cast about a little and consider We may dream out our time Lea. It seems I am deceiv'd Sir Yet that you are Don Lopez all men tell me The Curate here and have been some time Sir And you the Sexton Diego such I am sent to The letter tells as much may be they are dead And you of the like names succeed I thank ye Gentlemen Ye have done honestly in telling truth I might have been forward else For to that Lopez That was my Fathers friend I had a charge A charge of mony to deliver Gentlemen Five hundred Duckets a poor small gratuity But since you are not he Lop. Good Sir let me think I pray ye be patient Pray ye stay a little Nay let me remember I beseech ye stay Sir Di. An honest noble friend that sends so lovingly An old friend too I shall remember sure Sir Lop. Thou sayst true Diego Die 'Pray ye consider quickly Doe doe by any means me thinks already A grave staid gentleman comes to my memory Lea. He 's old indeed sir Die With a goodly white Beard For now he must be so I know he must be Signior Alonzo Master Lop. I begin to have him Die H 'as been from hence about some twenty years sir Lea. Some five and twenty sir Die You say most true Sir Just to an hour 't is now just five and twenty A fine straight timber'd man and a brave soldier He married let me see Lea. De Castro is Daughter Die The very same Lea. Thou art a very Rascal De Castro is the Turk to thee or any thing The Mony â—abbs 'em into strange remembrances For as many Duchets more they would remember Adam Lop. Give me your hand you are welcome to your country Now I remember plainly manifestly As freshly as if yesterdy I had seen him Most heartily welcome sinfull that I am Most sinfull man why should I lose this Gentleman This loving old Companion we had all one soul sir He dwelt here hard by at a handsome Lea. Farm sir You say most true Lop. Alonzo Tiveria Lord Lord that time should play the treacherous knave thus Why he was the only friend I had in Spain sir I knew your Mother too a handsome Gentlewoman She was married very young I married 'em I do remember now the Maskes and Sports then The Fire works and the fine delights good faith sir Now I look in your face whose eyes are those Diego Nay if he be not just Alonzo's picture Lea. Lord how I blush for these two impudents Die Well Gentleman I think your name 's Leandro Lea. It is indeed sir Gra'-mercy letter thou hadst never known else Die I have dandled ye and kist ye and plaid with ye A hundred and a hundred times and danc'd ye And swong ye in my Bell-ropes ye lov'd swinging Lop. A sweet Boy Lea. Sweet lying knaves What would these doe for thousands Lop. A wondrous sweet Boy then it was see now Time that consumes us shoots him up still sweeter How do's the noble Gentleman how fares he When shall we see him when will he bless his Country Lea. O very shortly Sir till his return He has sent me over to your charge Lop. And welcome Nay you shall know you are welcome to your friend sir Lea. And to my Study Sir which must be the Law To further which he would entreat your care To plant me in the favour of some man That 's expert in that knowledge for his pains I have three hundred Duckets more For my Diet Enough Sir to defray me which I am charged To take still as I use it from your custodie I have the mony ready and I am weary Lop. Sit down sit down and once more ye are most welcome The Law you have hit upon most happily Here is a Master in that art Bartolus A neighbour by to him I will prefer ye A learned man and my most loving neighbour I 'le doe ye faithfull service Sir Die He 's an Ass And so wee 'll use him he shall be a Lawyer Lâ—â— But
grave unpitied Assist Who would believe Such rage could be in woman Viol. For this fellow He is not worth my knowledge Jam. Let him live then Since you esteem him innocent Viol. No Jamy He shall make up the mess now strike together And let them fall so Assist Unheard of crueltie I can endure no longer seise on her Viol. Am I betrai'd Is this thy faith Jamy Jam. Could your desires Challenge performance of a deed so horrid Or though that you had sold your self to hell I should make up the bargain Live dear Brother Live long and happy I forgive you freely To have done you this service is to me A fair Inheritance and how e're harsh language Call'd on by your rough usage pass'd my lips In my heart I ever lov'd you all my labours Were but to shew how much your love was cozen'd When it beheld it self in this false Glass That did abuse you and I am so far From envying young Ascanio his good fortune That if your State were mine I would adopt him These are the Murtherers my noble friends Which to make trial of her bloudy purpose â—won to come disguis'd thus Hen. I am too full Of grief and shame to speak but what I 'le doe â—â—all to the world proclaim my penitence â—â—d howsoever I have liv'd I 'le die â— much chang'd man Jam. Were it but possible You could make satisfaction to this woman â—â—r joyes were perfect Hen. That 's my only comfort That it is in my power I ne're was married To this bad woman though I doted on her But daily did defer it still expecting When grief would kill Jacintha Assist All is come out And finds a fair success take her Don Henrique And once again embrace your Son Hen. Most gladly Assist Your Brother hath deserv'd all Hen. And shall share The moitie of my State Assist I have heard advocate What an ill Instrument you have been to him From this time strengthen him with honesâ— counsels As you 'le deserve my pardon Bar. I 'le change my Copy But I am punish'd for I fear I have had A smart blow though unseen Assist Curate and Sexton I have heard of you too let me hear no more And what 's past is forgotten For this woman Though her intent were bloody yet our Law Calls it not death yet that her punishment May deter others from such bad attempts The dowry she brought with her shall be emploi'd To build a Nunnery where she shall spend The remnant of her life Viol. Since I have miss'd my ends I scorn what can fall on me Assist The strict discipline Of the Church will teach you better thoughts And Signiors You that are Batchelours if you ever marry In Bartolus you may behold the issue Of Covetousness and Jealousie and of dotage And falshood in Don Henrique keep a mean then For be assur'd that weak man meets all ill That gives himself up to a womans will Exeunt Prologue TO tell ye Gentlemen we have a Play A new one too and that 't is launch'd to day The Name ye know that 's nothing to my Story To tell ye 't is familiar void of Glory Of State of Bitterness of wit you 'll say For that is now held wit that tends that way Which we avoid To tell ye too 't is merry And meant to make ye pleasant and not weary The Stream that guides ye easie to attend To tell ye that 't is good is to no end If you believe not Nay to goe thus far To swear it if you swear against is war To assure you any thing unless you see And so conceive is vanity in me Therefore I leave it to it self and pray Like a good Bark it may work out to day And stem all doubts 't was built for such a proof And we hope highly if she lye aloof For her own vantage to give wind at will Why let her work only be you but still And sweet opinion'd and we are bound to say You are worthy Judges and you crown the Play Epilogue THE Play is done yet our Suit never ends Still when you part you would still part our friends Our noblest friends if ought have faln amiss O let it be sufficient that it is And you have pardon'd it In Buildings great All the whole Body cannot be so neat But something may be mended Those are fair And worthy love that may destroy but spare WIT WITHOUT MONEY A COMEDY Persons Represented in the Play Valentine a Gallant that will not be perswaded to keep his Estate Francisco his younger Brother Master Lovegood their Vncle A Merchant Friend to Master Lovegood companions of Valentine and Sutors to the Widow Fountain Bellamore Hairbrain Lance a Falkner and an ancient servant to Valentines Father Shorthose the Clown and servant to the Widow Roger Ralph and Humphrey three servants to the Widow Three Servants Musicians Lady Hartwel a Widow Isabel her Sister Luce a waiting Gentlewoman to the Widow Actus primus Scena prima Enter Uncle and Merchant Merc. WHen saw you Valentine Vncle Not since the Horse-race he 's taken up with those that woo the Widow Mer. How can he live by snatches from such people he bore a worthy mind Vncle Alas he 's sunk his means are gone he wants and which is worse Takes a delight in doing so Mer. That 's strange Vnc. Runs Lamatick if you but talk of states he cannot be brought now he has spent his own to think there 's inheritance or means but all a common riches all men bound to be his Bailiffs Mer. This is something dangerous Vncle No Gentleman that has estate to use it in keeping house or followers for those wayes he cries against for Eating sins dull Surfeits cramming of Serving men mustering of Beggars maintaining Hospitals for Kites and Cuâ—s grounding their fat faiths upon old Country proverbs God bless the Founders these he would have ventured into to more manly uses Wit and carriage and never thinks of state or means the ground-works holding it monstrous men should feed their bodies and starve their understandings Mer. That 's most certain Vncle Yes if he could stay there Mer. Why let him marry and that way rise again Vncle It 's most impossible he will not look with any handsomeness upon a Woman Mer. Is he so strange to Women Vncle I know not what it is a foolish glory he has goe I know not where to balk those benefits and yet he wil converse and flatter 'em make 'em or fair or soul â—â—gged or smooth as his impression serves for he affirms they are only lumps and undigested pieces lickt over to a form by our affections and then they show The Lovers let 'em pass Enter Fountain Bellamore Hairbrain Mer. He might be one he carries as much promise they are wondrous merry Vncle O their hopes are high Sir Fount Is Valentine come to Town Bella. Last night I heard Fount We miss him monstrously in our directions for this Widow is as
ye were my Husband a thousand times I cannot do it At least a dozen posts are gone this morning For several parts of the Kingdom I can do no more But pay 'em and instruct ' em Men. Prithee good sweet heart I come not to disturb thee nor discourage thee I know thou labour'st truly hark in thine ear Leu. Ha! What do you make so dainty on 't look there I am an Ass I can do nothing Men. Celia I this is she a stranger born Leu. What would you give for more now Men. Prithee my best Leucippe there 's much hangs on 't Lodg'd at the end of Mars's street that 's true too At the sack of such a Town by such a Souldier Preserv'd a Prisoner and by Prince Demetrius Bought from that man again maintain'd and favour'd How came you by this knowledg Leu. Poor weak man I have a thousand eyes when thou art sleeping Abroad and full of business Men. You never try'd her Leu. No she is beyond my level so hedg'd in By the Princes infinite Love and Favour to her Men. She is a handsome Wench Leu. A delicate and knows it And out of that proof arms her self Men. Come in then I have a great design from the King to you And you must work like wax now Leu. On this Lady Men. On this and all your wits call home Leu. I have done Toys in my time of some note old as I am I think my brains will work without barm Take up the Books Men. As we go in I 'll tell ye Exeunt SCENE IV. Enter Antigonus Timon Lords and a Souldier Ant. No face of sorrow for this loss 't will choak him Nor no man miss a friend I know his nature So deep imprest with grief for what he has suffer'd That the least adding to it adds to his ruine His loss is not so infinite I hope Souldier Soul Faith neither great nor out of indiscretion The young men out of heat Enter Demetrius Leontius and Lieutenant Ant. I guess the manner Lord. The Prince and 't like your Grace s. Ant. You are welcome home Sir Come no more sorrow I have heard your fortune And I my self have try'd the like clear up man I will not have ye take it thus if I doubted Your fear had lost and that you had turn'd your back to 'em Basely besought their mercies Leo. No no by this hand Sir We fought like honest and tall men Antig. I know 't Leontius or if I thought Nâ—glâ—ct of rule having his counsel with ye Or too vain glorious appetite of Fame Your men forgot and scatter'd Leo None of these Sir He shâ—w'd himself a noble Gentleman Every way apt to rule Ant. These being granted Why should you think you have done an act so hainous That â—ought but discontent dwells round about ye I have lost a battel Leo. I and fought it hard too Aâ—t With as much means as man Leo Or Dâ—vil could â—uge it Aâ—t Twenty to one of our side now Lâ—â— Tuâ—n Tables Beaten like Dogs again like Owls you take it To heart for flying out a mile before 'em And to say the truth 't was no flight neither Sir 'T was but a walk a handsome walk I have tumbl'd with this old Body beaten like a Stock-fish And stuck with Arrows like an arming Quiver Blouded and bang'd almost a day before 'em And glad I have got off then Here 's a mad Shaver He fights his share I am sure when e'r he comes to 't Yet I have seen him trip it tithly too And cry the Devil take the hindmost ever Lieu. I learnt it of my Betters Leo. Boudge at this Ant. Has Fortune but one Face Lieu. In her best Vizard Methinks she looks but lowzily Ant. Chance though she faint now And sink below our expectations Is there no hope left strong enough to buoy her Dem. 'T is not this day I fled before the Enemy And lost my People left mine Honour murder'd My maiden Honour never to be ransom'd Which to a noble Soul is too too sensible Afflicts me with this sadness most of these Time may turn straight again experience perfect And new Swords cut new ways to nobler Fortunes O I have lost Ant. As you are mine forget it I do not think it loss Dem O Sir forgive me I have lost my friends those worthy Souls bred with me I have lost my self they were the pieces of me I have lost all Arts my Schools are taken from me Honour and Arms no emulation left me I liv'd to see these men lost look'd upon it These men that twin'd their loves to mine their vertues O shame of shames I saw and could not save 'em This carries Sulphur in 't this burns and boils me And like a fatal Tomb bestrides my memory Ant. This was hard fortune but if alive and taken They shall be ransom'd let it be at Millions Dem. They are dead they are dead Lieu. When wou'd he weep for me thus I may be dead and powder'd Leo. Good Prince grieve not We are not certain of their deaths the Enemy Though he be hot and keen Yet holds good Quarter What Noise is this Great Shout within Enter Gentlemen Lieu. He does not follow us Give me a Steeple top Leo. They live they live Sir Ant. Hold up your manly fate They live they are here Son Dem. These are the men 1 Gent. They are and live to honour ye Dem. How ' scap'd ye noble friends me thought I saâ—â—â— Even in the Jaws of Death 2 Gent. Thanks to our folly That spur'd us on we were indeed hedg'd round in 't And ev'n beyond the hand of succour beaten Unhors'd disarm'd and what we lookt for then Sir Let such poor weary Souls that hear the Bell knoll And see the Grave a digging tell Dem. For Heavens sake Delude mine Eyes no longer how came ye off 1 Gent. Against all expectation the brave Selenâ—as I think this day enamour'd on your Vertue When through the Troops he saw ye shoot like lightning And at your manly courage all took fire And after that the misery we fell to The never certain Fate of War considering As we stood all before him Fortunes ruines Nothing but Death expecting a short time He made a stand upon our Youths and Fortunes Then with an eye of mercy inform'd his Judgment How yet unripe we were unblown unharden'd Unfitted for such fatal ends he cryed out to us Go Gentlemen commend me to your Master To the most High and Hopeful Prince Demetrius Tell him the Valour that he showed against me This day the Virgin Valour and true fire Deserves even from an Enemy this courtesie Your Lives and Arms freely I 'll give 'em thank him And thus we are return'd Sir Leo. Faith 't was well done 'T was bravely done was 't not a noble part Sir Laeu Had I been there up had I gone I am sure on 't These noble tricks I never durst trust 'em yet Leo. Let me not live and 't
honour Sir Du. No Archas But all I can I will can you love me speak truly Hon. Yes Sir dearly Du. Come hither Viola can you love this man Vio. I 'le do the best I can Sir Du. Seal it Burris We 'l all to Church together instantly And then a vie for boyes stay bring Boroskie Enter Boroskie I had almost forgot that lump of mischief There Archas take the enemie to honour The knave to worth do with him what thou wilt Ar. Tâ—â—â— to my sword again you to your prayers Wash off your villanies you feel the burthen Bor. Forgive me e're I die most honest Archas 'T is too much honour that I perish thus O strike my faults to kill them that no memorie No black and blasted infamy hereafter Ar. Come are ye ready Bor. Yes Ar. And truly penitent to make your way straight Bor. Thus I wash off my sins Ar. Stand up and live then And live an honest man I scorn mens ruines Take him again Sir trie him and believe This thing will be a perfect man Du. I take him Bor. And when I fail those hopes heavens hopes fail me Du. You are old no more wars Father Theodore take you the charge be General The. All good bless ye Du. And my good Father you dwell in my bosom From you rise all my good thoughts when I would think And examine time for one that 's fairly noble And the same man through all the streights of vertue Upon this Silver book I 'le look and read him Now forward merrily to Hymens rites To joyes and revels sports and he that can Most honour Archas is the noblest man Exeâ—t Prologue WE need not noble Gentlemen to invite Attention preinstruct you who did write This worthy Story being confident The mirth join'd with prave matter and Intent To yield the hearers profit with delight Will speak the maker and to do him right Would ask a Genius like to his the age Mourning his loss and our now widdowed stage In vain lamenting I could adde so far Behind him the most modern writers are That when they would commend him their best praise Râ—â— the buildings which they strive to raise â—â—oâ—s best memory so much a friend Presumes to write secure 't will not offend The living that are modest with the rest That may repine he cares not to contest This debt to Fletcher paid it is profest By us the Actors we will do our best To send such favouring friends as hither come To grace the Scene pleas'd and contented home Epilogue THough something well assur'd few here repent Three hours of pretious time or money spent On our endeavours Yet not to relye Too much upon our care and industrie 'T is fit we should ask but a modest way How you approve our action in the play If you vouchsafe to crown it with applause It is your bountie and you give us cause Hereafter with a general consent To study as becomes us your content Rule a Wife and have a Wife Actus Primus Scena Prima Enter Juan de Castro and Michael Perez Mich. ARE your Companies full Colonel Juan No not yet Sir Nor will not be this month yet as I reckon How rises your Command Mich. We pick up still and as our monies hold out We have men come about that time I think We shall be full too many young Gallants go Juan And unexperienced The Wars are dainty dreams to young hot spirits Time and Experience will allay those Visions We have strange things to fill our numbers There 's one Don Leon a strange goodly fellow Recommended to me from some noble Friends For my Alferes had you but seen his Person And what a Giants promise it protesteth Mich. I have heard of him and that he hath serv'd before too Juan But no harm done nor never meant Don Michael That came to my ears yet ask him a question â—e blushes like a Girl and answers little In the point less he wears a Sword a good one 〈◊〉 good Cloaths too he is whole skin'd has no hurt yet Good promising hopes I never yet heard certainly 〈◊〉 any Gentleman that saw him angry Mich. Preserve him he 'll conclude a peace if need be â—aâ—y as strong as he will go along with us â—â—at swear as valiantly as heart can wish Their mouths charg'd with six oaths at once and whole ones â—â—at make the drunken Dutch creep into Mole-hills Juan 'T is true such we must look for but Mich. Perez â—â—en heard you of Donna Margarita the great Heiress Mich. I hear every hour of her though I never saw her â—e is the main discourse noble Don Juan de Castro â—ow happy were that man could catch this Wench up â—â—d live at ease she is fair and young and wealthy â—â—nite wealthy and as gracious too 〈◊〉 all her entertainments as men report Juan But she is proud Sir that I know for certain â—nd that comes seldome without wantonness â—e that shall marry her must have a rare hand Mich. Would I were married I would find that Wisdom With a light rein to rule my Wife if ever Woman 〈◊〉 the most subtile mould went beyond me â—ould give the Boys leave to whoot me out o' th' Parish Enter a Servant Ser. Sir there be two Gentlewomen attend to speak with you Juan Wait on 'em in Mich. Are they two handsome Women Ser. They seem so very handsom but they are vail'd Sir Mich. Thou put'st sugar in my mouth how it melts with me â—â—ve a sweet young Wench Juan Wait on them in I say Exit Servant Mich. Don Juan Juan How you itch Michael how you burnish Will not this Souldiers heat out of your bones yet Do your Eyes glow now Mich. There be two Juan Say honest what shame have you then Mich. I would fain see that I have been in the Indies twice and have seen strange things But two honest Women one I read of once Juan Prithee be modest Mich. I 'll be any thing Enter Servant Donna Clara and Estisania vad'd Juan You are welcome Ladies Mich. Both hooded I like 'em well though They come not for advice in Law sure hither May be they would learn to raise thâ— Pike I am for 'em they are very modest 't is a fine Preluctium Juan With me or with this Gentleman Would you speak Lady Clara. With you Sir as I guess Juan de Cast Mich. Her Curtain opens she is a pretty Gentlewoman Juan I am the Man and shall be bound to Fortune I may do any service to your Beauties Clara. Captain I hear you are marching down to Flanders To serve the Catholick King Juan I am sweet Lady Clara. I have a Kinsman and a noble Friend Imploy'd in those Wars may be Sir you know him Don Campusano Captain of Carbines To whom I would request your Nobleness To give this poor Remembrance A Letter Juan I shall do it I know the Gentleman a most worthy Captain Clara. Something in private Juan Step aside I 'll
it so 't is excellent It is her will too to have feasts and banquets Revells and masques Ser. She ever lov'd 'em dearly And we shall have the bravest house kept now Sir I must not call ye master she has warn'd me Nor must not put my hat off to ye Leon. 'T is no fashion What though I be her husband I am your fellow I may cut first Ser. That 's as you shall deserve Sir Leon. And when I lye with her Ser. May be I 'le light ye On the same point you may doe me that service Enter 1 Lady 1 Lady Madam the Duke Medina with some Captains Will come to dinner and have sent rare wine And their best services Marg. They shall be welcom See all be ready in the noblest fashion The house persum'd now I shall take my pleasure And not my neighbour Justice maunder at me Go get your best cloths on but till I call ye Be sure you be not seen dine with the Gentlewomen 〈◊〉 be have your self cleanly Sir 't is for my credit Enter 2 Lady 2 Lady Madam the Lady Julia. Leon. That 's a bawd A three pil'd bawd bawd major to the army 2 Lady Has brought her coach to wait upon your Ladiship And to be inform'd if you will take the air this morning Leon. The neat air of her nunnery Marg. Tell her no i' th' afternoon I 'le call on her 2 Lady I will Madam Exit Marg. Why are not you gone to prepare your self May be you shall be sewer to the first course A portly presence Altea he looks lean 'T is a wash knave he will not keep his flesh well Altea A willing Madam one that needs no spurring Leon. Faith madam in my little understanding You had better entertain your honest neighbours Your friends about ye that may speak well of ye And give a worthy mention of your bounty Marg. How now what 's this Leon. 'T is only to perswade ye Courtiers are but tickle things to deal withal A kind of march pane men that will not last Madam An egge and pepper goes farther than their potions And in a well built body a poor parship Will play his prize above their strong potabiles Marg. The fellow 's mad Leon. He that shall counsel Ladies That have both liquorish and ambitious eyes Is either mad or drunk let him speak Gospel Altea He breaks out modestly Leon. Pray ye be not angry My indiscretion has made bold to tell ye What you 'l find true Marg. Thou darest not talk Leon. Not much Madam You have a tye upon your servants tongue He dares not be so bold as reason bids him 'T were fit there were a stronger on your temper Ne're look so stern upon me I am your Husband But what are Husbands read the new worlds wonders Such Husbands as this monstrous world produces And you will scarce find such deformities They are shadows to conceal your venial vertues Sails to your mills that grind with all occasions Balls that lye by you to wash out your stains And â—â—lls nail'd up with horn before your stories To rent out last Marg. Do you hear him talk Leon. I have done Madam An oxe once spoke as learned men deliver Shortly I shall be such then I 'le speak wonders Till when I tye my self to my obedience Exit Mar. First I 'le unty my self did you mark the Gentleman How boldly and how sawcily he talk'd And how unlike the lump I took him for The piece of ignorant dow he stood up to me And mated my commands this was your providence Your wisdom to elect this Gentleman Your excellent forecast in the man your knowledge What think ye now Altea I think him an Asse still This boldness some of your people have blown Into him this wisdom too with strong wine 'T is a Tyrant and a Philosopher also and finds Out reasons Mar. I 'le have my celler lookt no school kept there Not no discovery I 'le turn my drunkards Such as are understanding in their draughts And dispute learnedly the whyes and wherefores To grass immediatly I 'le keep all fools Sober or drunk still fools that shall know nothing Nothing belongs to mankind but obedience And such a hand I 'le keep over this Husband Altea He will fall again my life he cryes by this time Keep him from drink he has a high constitution Enter Leon. Leon. Shall I wear my new sute Madam Mar. No your old clothes And get you into the country presently And see my hawks well train'd you shall have victuals Such as are sit for sawcy palats Sir And Hodgings with the hindes it is too good too Alt. Good Madam be not so rough with repentance You see now he 's come round again Mar. I see not what I expect to see Leon. You shall see Madam if it shall please your Ladyship Altea He 's humbled Forgive good Lady Marg. Well go get you handsom And let me hear no more Leon. Have ye yet no feeling I 'le pinch ye to the bones then my proud Lady Exit Marg. See you preserve him thus upon my favour You know his temper tye him to the grindstone The next rebellion I 'le be rid of him I 'le have no needy Rascals I tye to me Dispute my life come in and see all handsom Altea I hope to see you so too I have wrought ill else Exeunt Enter Perez Per. Shall I never return to mine own house again We are lodg'd here in the miserablest dog-hole A Conjurers circle gives content above it A hawks mew is a princely palace to it We have a bed no bigget than a basket And there we lie like butter clapt together And sweat our selves to sawce immediately The sumes are infinite inhabite here too And to that so thick they cut like marmalet So various too they 'l pose a gold sinder Never return to mine own paradise Why wise I say why Estifania Estifania within I am going presently Perez Make haste good Jewel I am like the people that live in the sweet Islands I dye I dye if I stay but one day more here My lungs are rotten with the damps that rise And I cough nothing now but stinks of all sorts The inhabitants we have are two starv'd rats For they are not able to maintain a cat here And those appear as fearfull as two Devils They have eat a map of the whole world up already And if we stay a night we are gone for company There 's an old woman that 's now grown to marble Dri'd in this brick hill and she sits i' th' chimnie Which is but three tiles rais'd like a house of cards The true proportion of an old smok'd Sibyl There is a young thing too that nature meant For a maid-servant but 't is now a monster She has a husk about her like a chesnut With basiness and living under the line here And these two make a hollow sound together Like frogs or winds between two doors that murmur
thee excellent Estif If I prove otherwaies let me beg first Hold this is yours some recompence for service Use it to nobler ends than he that gave it Du. And this is yours your true commission Sir Now you are a Captain Leon. You are a noble Prince Sir And now a souldier Gentleman we all rejoyce in 't Juan Sir I shall wait upon you through all fortunes Alon. And I. Altea And I must needs attend my Mistris Leon. Will you goe Sister Altea Yes indeed good Brother I have two ties mine own bloud And my Mistris Marg. Is she your Sister Leon. Yes indeed good wife And my best Sister For she prov'd so wench When she deceiv'd you with a loving Husband Alt. I would not deal so truly for a stranger Marg. Well I could chide ye But it must be lovingly and like a Sister I 'le bring you on your way and feast ye nobly For now I have an honest heart to love ye And then deliver you to the blue Neptune Juan Your colours you must wear and wear 'em proudly Wear 'em before the bullet and in bloud too And all the world shall know We are Vertues servants Duke And all the world shall know a noble mind Makes women beautifull and envie blind Excunt Prologue PLeasure attend ye and about ye sit The springs of mirth fancy delight and wit To stir you up do not your looks let fall Nor to remembrance our late errors call Because this day w' are Spaniards all again The story of our Play and our Scene Spain The errors too do not for this cause hate Now we present their wit and not their state Nor Ladies be not angry if you see A young fresh beauty wanton and too free Seek to abuse her Husband still 't is Spain No such gross errors in your Kingdom raign W' are Vestals all and though we blow the fire We seldom make it flame up to desire Take no example neither to begin For some by precedent delight to sin Nor blame the Poet if he slip aside Sometimes lasciviously if not too wide But hold your Fanns close and then smile at ease A cruel Scene did never Lady please Nor Gentlemen pray be not you displeas'd Though we present some men fool'd some diseas'd Some drunk some mad we mean not you you 're free We taxe no farther than our Comedie You are our friends sit noble then and see Epilogue GOod night our worthy friends and may you part Each with as merry and as free a heart As you came hither to those noble eyes That deign to smile on our poor faculties And give a blessing to our labouring ends As we hope many to such fortune sends Their own desires wives fair as light as chast To those that live by spight Wives made in hast The Laws of Candy A TRAGI-COMEDY Persons Represented in the Play Cassilanes General of Candy Antinous Son to Cassilanes and his Competitor Fernando a Venetian Captain Servant to Annophel Philander Prince of Cyprus passionately in love with Erota Gonzalo An ambitious Politick Lord of Venice Gaspero Secretary of State Melitus a Gentleman of Candy Arcanes a noble Souldier Friend to Cassilanes Decius Friend to Antinous Senators Porphycio Possenne Paolo Michael Venetian Ambassadour Mochingo an ignorant Servant to Erota Gentlemen Souldiers Servants WOMEN Erota a Princess imperious and of an overweaning Beauty Annophel Daughter to Cassilanes Hyparcha Attendant on the Princess Erota The Scene Candy The principal Actors were Joseph Taylor William Eglestone Nicholas Toolie Richard Sharpe John Lowin John Vnderwood George Birch Thomas Pollard Actus Primus Scena Prima Enter Gaspero and Melitus Mel. SIR you 're the very friend I wish'd to meet with I have a large discourse invites your ear To be an Auditor Gas And what concerns it Mel. The sadly thriving progress of the loves Between my Lord the Prince and that great Lady Whose insolence and never-yet-match'd Pride Can by no Character be well exprest Bet in her only name the proud Erota Gas Alas Melitus I should guess the best Success your Prince could find from her to be As harsh as the event doth prove but now 'T is not a time to pity passionate griess When a whole Kingdom in a manner lyes Upon its Death-Bed bleeding Mel. Who can tell Whether or no these plagues at once Hang over this unhappy Land for her sake That is a Monster in it Gas Here 's the misery Of having a Child our Prince else I presume The bold Venetians had not dar'd to attempt So bloody an invasion Mel. Yet I wonder Why Master Secretary still the Senate So almost superstitiously adores Gonzalo the Venetian Lord considering The outrage of his Countrymen Gas The Senate Is wise and therein just for this Gonzalo Upon a Massacre performed at Sea By the Admiral of Venice on a Merchant Of Candy when the cause was to be heard Before the Senate there in open Court Professed that the cruelty the Admiral Had shewed deserved not only fine but death For Candy then and Venice were at peace Since when upon a motion in the Senate For Conquest of our Land 't is known for certain That only this Gonzalo dar'd to oppose it His reason was because it too much savour'd Of lawless and unjust ambition The Wars were scarce begun but he in fear Of quarrels ' gainst his life fled from his Country And hither came where to confirm his truth I know Melitus he out of his own store Hath monied Cassilanes the General Mel. What without other pledges than Cassilanes Bare promise of payment Gas No it may be He has some pretty Lordship to retire to But thus he hath done now 't is fit Melitus The Senate should be thankful otherwise They should annihilate one of those Laws For which this Kingdome is throughout the World Unfollowed and admired Mel. What Laws are those Sir Let me so much importune you Gas You shall And they be worth your knowledge briefly thus Who e'r he be that can detect apparently Another of ingratitude for any Received Benefit the Plaintiff may Require the Offenders life unless he please Freely and willingly to grant remission Mel. By which strict Law the Senate is in danger Should they neglect Gonzalo Gas Right the Law Permits a like equality to Aliens As to a home-bred Patriot Mel. Pray Sir the other Gas Know Melitus The elder Cretans flourished many years In War in Peace unparallel'd and they To spur heroick Spirits on to Vertue Enacted that what man so ere he were Did noblest in the field against his enemy So by the general voice approv'd and known Might at his home return make his demand For satisfaction and reward Mel. They are Both famous Laws indeed Enter a Messenger Mes Master Secretary The Senate is about to sit and crave Your presence Gas What so suddenly Mes These Letters Will shew the causes why Gas Heaven thou nâ—t great And worthy to be thanked Mel. Your countenance Sir Doth promise
that speed too And kill as deadly Verd. You are as far from justice In him you praise as equitie in the censure You load me with Beaup. Dinant he durst not meet us Lam. How durst not Brother Beaup. Durst not I repeat it Verd. Nor was it Cleremont's valour that disarm'd us I had the better of him for Dinant If that might make my peace with you I dare Write him a Coward upon every post And with the hazard or my life defend it Lam. If 't were laid at the stake you 'd lose it Nephew Cham. Came he not say you Verd. No but in his room There was a Devil hir'd from some Magician I' th' shape of an Atturney Beau. 'T was he did it Verd. And his the honour Beau. I could wish Dinant But what talk I of one that stept aside And durst not come Lam. I am such a friend to truth I cannot hear this why do you detract Thus poorly I should say to others basely From one of such approv'd worth Cham. Ha! how 's this Lam. From one so excellent in all that 's noble Whose only weakness is excess of courage That knows no enemies that he cannot master But his affections and in them the worst His love to me Cham. To you Lam. Yes Sir to me I dare for what is that which Innocence dares not To you profess it and he shun'd not the Combat For fear or doubt of these blush and repent That you in thought e're did that wrong to valour Beaup. Why this is rare Cham. 'Fore heaven exceeding rare Why modest Lady you that sing such Encomiums Of your first Suiter Verd. How can ye convince us In your reports Lam. With what you cannot answer 'T was my command that staid him Cham. Your command Lam. Mine Sir and had my will rank'd with my power And his obedience I could have sent him With more ease weaponless to you and bound Than have kept him back so well he loves his honour Beyond his life Cham. Better and better still Lam. I wrought with him in private to divert him From your assur'd destruction had he met you Cham. In private Lam. Yes and us'd all Arts all Charms Of one that knew her self the absolute Mistris Of all his faculties Cham. Gave all rewards too His service could deserve did not he take The measure of my sheets Lam. Do not look yellow I have cause to speak frowns cannot fright me By all my hopes as I am spotless to you If I rest once assur'd you do but doubt me Or curb me of that freedom you once gave me Cham. What then Lam. I 'le not alone abuse your bed that 's nothing But to your more vexation 't is resolv'd on I 'le run away and then try if Dinant Have courage to defend me Champ. Impudent Verd. And on the sudden Beau. How are ye transform'd From what you were Lam. I was an innocent Virgin And I can truly swear a Wise as pure As ever lay by Husband and will dy so Let me live unsuspected I am no servant Nor will be us'd like one If you desire To keep me constant as I would be let Trust and belief in you beget and nurse it Unnecessary jealousies make more whores Than all baits else laid to entrap our frailties Beau. There 's no contesting with her from a child Once mov'd she hardly was to be appeas'd Yet I dare swear her honest Cham. So I think too On better judgement I am no Italian To lock her up nor would I be a Dutchman To have my Wife my soveraign to command me I 'le try the gentler way but if that fail Believe it Sir there 's nothing but extreams Which she must feel from me Beau. That as you please Sir Charl. You have won the breeches Madam look up sweetly My Lord limps toward you Lam. You will learn more manners Charl. This is a fee for counsel that 's unask'd for Cham. Come I mistook thee sweet prethee forgive me I never will be jealous e're I cherish Such a mechanick humour I 'le be nothing I 'le say Dinant is all that thou wouldst have him Will that suffice Lam. 'T is well Sir Cham. Use thy freedom Uncheck'd and unobserv'd if thou wilt have it These shall forget their honour I my wrongs We 'll all dote on him hell be my reward If I dissemble Lam. And that hell take me If I affect him he 's a lustfull villain But yet no coward and sollicites me To my dishonour that 's indeed a quarrel And truly mine which I will so revenge As it shall fright such as dare only think To be adulterers C ham Use thine own waies I give up all to thee Beau. O women women When you are pleas'd you are the least of evils Verd. I 'le time to 't but provokt the worst of Devils Exeunt Enter Monsieur Sampson and three Clients Samp. I know Monsieur La writ 1 Cly. Would he knew himself Sir Samp. He was a pretty Lawyer a kind of pretty Lawyer Of a kind of unable thing 2 Cly. A fine Lawyer Sir And would have sâ—k'd you up a business And out of this Court into that Samp. Ye are too forward Not so fine my friends something he could have done But short short 1 Cy. I know your worships favour You are Nephew to the Judge Sir Samp. It may be so And something may be done without trotting i' th' dirt friends It may be I can take him in his Chamber And have an hours talk it may be so And tell him that in 's ear there are such courtesies I will not say I can 3 Cly. We know you can Sir Sam. Peradventure I peradventure no but where 's La-writ Where 's your sufficient Lawyer 1 Cly. He 's blown up Sir 2 Cly. Run mad and quarrels with the Dog he meets He is no Lawyer of this world now Sam. Your reason Is he defunct is he dead 2 Cly. No he 's not dead yet Sir But I would be loth to take a lease on 's life for two hours Alas he is possest Sir with the spirit of fighting And quarrels with all people but how he came to it Samp. If he fight well and like a Gentleman The man may fight for 't is a lawfull calling Look you my friends I am a civil Gentleman And my Lord my Uncle loves me 3 Cly. We all know it Sir Sam. I think he does Sir I have business too much business Turn you some forty or fifty Causes in a week Yet when I get an hour of vacancie I can fight too my friends a little does well I would be loth to learn to fight 1 Cly. But and 't please you Sir His fighting has neglected all our business We are undone our causes cast away Sir His not appearance Sam. There he fought too long A little and fight well he fought too long indeed fâ—s But ne'r the less things must be as they may And there be wayes 1 Cly. We know Sir if you
neither his own person which is God like The world he rules nor what that world can purchase Nor all the glories subject to a Caesar The honours that he offers for my body The hopes gifts everlasting flatteries Nor any thing that 's his and apt to tempt me No not to be the Mother of the Empire And Queen of all the holy fires he worships Can make a Whore of Ard. You mistake us Lady Luc. Yet tell him this has thus much weaken'd me That I have heard his Knaves and you his Matrons Fit Nurses for his sins which gods forgive me But ever to be leaning to his folly Or to be brought to love his lust assure him And from her mouth whose life shall make it certain I never can I have a noble Husband Pray tell him that too yet a noble name A Noble Family and last a Conscience Thus much for your answer For your selves Ye have liv'd the shame of women dye the better Exit Luc. Phor. What 's now to do Ard. Ev'n as she said to dye For there 's no living here and women thus I am sure for us two Phor. Nothing stick upon her Ard. We have lost a mass of mony well Dame Vertue Yet ye may halt if good luck serve Phor. Worms take her She has almost spoil'd our trade Ard. So godly This is ill breeding Phorba Phor. If the women Should have a longing now to see this Monster And she convert 'em all Ard. That may be Phorba But if it be I 'll have the young men gelded Come let 's go think she must not scape us thus Thâ—re is a certain season if we hit That women may be rid without a Bit. Exeunt SCENE III. Enter Maximus and Aecius Max. I cannot blame the Nations noble friend That they fall off so fast from this wild man When under our Allegiance be it spoken And the most happy tye of our affections The worlds weight groans beneath him Where lives vertue Honour discretion wisdom who are call'd And chosen to the steering of the Empire But Bawds and singing Girls O my Aecius The glory of a Souldier and the truth Of men made up for goodness sake like shells Grow to the ragged walls for want of action Only your happy self and I that love you Which is a larger means to me than favour Aâ—ci No more my worthy friend though these be truths And though these truths would ask a Reformation At least a little squating yet remember We are but Subj cts Maximus obedience To what is done and grief for what is ill done Is all we can call ours The hearts of Princes Are like the Templâ—s of the gods pure incense Until unhallowed hands defile those offerings Burns ever there we muâ—t not put 'em out Because the Priests that touch those sweets are wicked We dare not dearest Friend nay moâ— we cannot While we consider who we are and how To what laws bound much more to what Law-giver Whilest Majesty is made to be obeyed And not to b inquired into whilst gods and angels Make but a rule as we do though a stricter Like desperate and unseason'd Fools let flye Our killing angers and forsake our honours Max. My noble Friend from whose instructions I never yet took surfeit weigh but thus much Nor think I speak it with ambition For by the gods I do not why Aecius Why are we thus or how become thus wretched Aecius You 'll fall again into your fit Max. I will not Or are we now no more the Sons of Romans No more the followers of their happy fortunes But conquer'd Gauls or Quivers for the Parthians Why is this Emperour this man we honour This God that ought to be Aecius You are too curious Max. Good give me leave why is this Author of us Aecius I dare not hear ye speak thus Max. I 'll be modest Thus led away thus vainly led away And we Beholders misconceive me not I sow no danger in my words But wherefore And to what end are we the Sons of Fathers Famous and fast to Rome why are their Vertues Stampt in the dangers of a thousand Battels For goodness sake their honours time outdaring I think for our example Aecius Ye speak nobly Max. Why are we seeds of these then to shake hands With Bawds and base informers kiss discredit And court her like a Mistriss 'pray your leave yet You 'll say the Emperour is young and apt To take impression rather from his pleasures Than any constant worthiness it may be But why do these the people call his pleasures Exceed the moderation of a man Nay to say justly friend why are they vices And such as shake our worths with forreign Nations Aecius You search the sore too deep and I must tell ye In any other man this had been boldness And forewarded 'pray depress your spirit For though I constantly believe you honest Ye were no friend for me else and what now Ye freely spake but good you owe to th' Empire Yet take heed worthy Maximus all ears Hear not with that distinction mine do few You 'll find admonishers but urgers of your actions And to the heaviest friend and pray consider We are but shadows motions others give us And thougn our pities may become the times Justly our powers cannot make me worthy To be your friend ever in fair Allegiance But not in force For durst mine own soul urge me And by that Soul I speak my just affections To turn my hand from Truth which is obedience And give the helm my Vertue holds to Anger Though I had both the Blessings of the Bruti And both their instigations though my Cause Carried a face of Justice beyond theirs And as I am a servant to my fortunes That daring soul that first taught disobedience Should feel the first example say the Prince As I may well believe seems vicious Who justly knows 't is not to try our honours Or say he be an ill Prince are we therefore Fit sires to purge him No my dearest friend The Elephant is never won with anger Nor must that man that would reclaim a Lion Take him by th' teeth Max. I pray mistake me not Aecius Our honest actions and the light that breaks Like morning from our service chaste and blushing Is that that pulls a Prince back then he sees And not till then truly repents his errours When Subjects Crystal Souls are glasses to him Max. My ever honour'd friend I 'll take your counsel The Emperour appears I 'll leave ye to him And as we both affect him may he flourish Exit Max. Enter the Emperour and Chilax Emp. Is that the best news Chil. Yet the best we know Sir Emp. Bid Maximus come to me and be gone then Mine own head be my helper these are fools How now Aecius are the Souldiers quiet Aecius Better I hope Sir than they were Emp. They are pleas'd I hear To censure me extreamly for my pleasures Shortly they 'll fight
against me Aecius Gods defend Sir And for their censures they are such shrew'd Judgers A donative of ten Sestertias I 'll undertake shall make 'em ring your praises More than they sang your pleasures Emp. I believe thee Art thou in love Aecius yet Aecius O no Sir I am too course for Ladies my embraces That only am acquainted with Alarms Would break their tender Bodies Emp. Never fear it They are stronger than ye think they 'll hold the Hammer My Empress swears thou art a lusty Souldier A good one I believe thee Aecius All that goodness Is but your Graces Creature Emp Tell me truly Foâ—â—ou dar'st tell me Aecâ—uâ— Any thing concerns ye Thaâ—'s fit for me to speak and you to pardon Emp What say the Souldiers of me and the same words Minâ—â—â—m not good Aecius but deliver The very forms and tongues they talk withal Aecius I 'll tell your Grace but with this caution You be not stir'd for should the gods live with us Even those we certainly believe are righteous Give 'em but drink they would censure them too Emp. Forward Aecius Then to begin they say you sleep too much By which they judge your Majesty too sensual Apt to decline your strength to ease and pleasures And when you do not sleep you drink too much From which they fear suspicions first then ruines And when ye neither drink nor sleep ye wench much Which they affirm first breaks your understanding Then takes the edge of Honour makes us seem That are the ribs and rampires of the Empire Fencers and beaten Fools and so regarded But I believe 'em not for were these truths Your vertue can correct them Emp They speak plainly Aâ—c They say moreover since your Grace will have it For they will talk their freedoms though the Sword Were in their throat that of late time like Nero And with the same forgetfulness of glory You have got a vein of fidling so they term it Emp. Some drunken dreams Aecius Aecius So I hope Sir And that you rather study cruelty And to be fear'd for blood than lov'd for bounty Which makes the Nations as they say despise ye Telling your years and actions by their deaths Whose truth and strength of duty made you Caesar They say besides you nourish strange devourers â—ed with the fat o' th' Empire they call Bawds Lazie and lustful Creatures that abuse ye A â—eople as they term 'em made of paper In which the secret sins of each man's monies Are seal'd and sent a working â—mp What sin 's next For I perceive they have no mind to spare me Aecius Nor hurt you o' my soul Sir but such People Nor can the power of man restrain it When they are full of meat and ease must prattle Emp. Forward Aecius I have spoken too much Sir Emp. I 'll have all Aecius It fits not Your ears should hear their Vanities no profit Can justly rise to you from their behaviour Unless ye were guilty of those crimes Emp. It may be I am so therefore forward Aecius I have ever Learn'd to obey nor shall my life resist it Emp No more Apologies Aecius They grieve besides Sir To see the Nations whom our ancient Vertue With many a weary march and hunger conquer'd With loss of many a daring life subdu'd Fall from their fair obedience and even murmur To see the warlike Eagles mew their honours In obscure Towns that wont to prey on Princes They cry for Enemies and tell the Captains The fruits of Italy are luscious give us Egypt Or sandy Africk to display our valours There where our Swords may make us meat and danger Digest our well got Vyands here our weapons And bodies that were made for shining brass Are both unedg'd and old with ease and women And then they cry again where are the Germans Lin'd with hot Spain oâ— Gallia bring 'em on And let the Son of War steel'd Mithridates Lead up his winged Parthians like a storm Hiding the face of Heaven with showrs of Arrows Yet we dare fight like Romans then as Souldiers Tir'd with a weary march they tell their wounds Even weeping ripe they were no more nor deeper And glory in those scars that make them lovely And sitting where a Camp was like sad Pilgrims They reckon up the times and living labours Of Julius or Germanicus and wonder That Rome whose Turrets once were topt with Honours Can now forget the Custom of her Conquests And then they blame your Grace and say Who leads us Shall we stand here like Statues were our Fathers The Sons of lazie Moors our Princes Persians Nothing but silks and softness Curses on 'em That first taught Nero wantonness and blood Tiberius doubts Caligula all vices For from the spring of these succeeding Princes Thus they talk Sir Emp. Well Wâ—y do you hear these things Aecius Why do you do ' em I take the gods to witness with more sorrow And more vexation do I hear these tainters Than were my life dropt from me through an hour glass Emp. Belike then you believe 'em or at least Are glad they should be so take heed you were better Build your own Tomb and run into it living Than dare a Princes anger Aecius I am old Sir And ten years more addition is but nothing Now if my life be pleasing to ye take it Upon my knees if ever any service As let 〈◊〉 â—ag some have been worthy notice If evâ— anâ— woâ—th oâ— trust ye gave me Deserv d a word â—pect if all my actions The haâ— of my youth colds burnings wants For you and â—or the Empire be not vices By that stilâ— ye havâ— stampt upon me Souldier Let me not faâ—l into the hands of Wretches Emp. I understand you not Aecius Let not this body That has look'd bravely in his blood for Caesar And covâ—tous of wounds and for your safety After thâ—â—â—eape of Swords Spears Slings and Arrows ' Gainst which my beaten body was mine armour The Seas and thirsty Desarts now be purchase For Slavâ—s and base Informers I see anger And death look through your Eyes I am markt for slaughter And know the telling of this truth has made me A man clean lost to thiâ— World I embrace it Only my last Pâ—tition sacred Caesar Is I may dye a Roman Emp. Rise my friend still And worthy of my love reclaim the Souldier I 'll study to do so upon my self too Go keep your Command and prosper Aecius Lifâ— to Caesar Exit Aecius Enter Chilax Chi. Lord Maximus attends your Grace Emp. Go tell him I 'll meet him in the Gallery The honesty of this Aecius Who is indeed the Bull-wark of the Empire Has div'd so deep into me that of all The sins I covet but this Womans beauty With much repentance now I could be quit of But she is sucâ— a pleasure being good That though I were a god she 'd fire my blood Exeunt Actus Secundus Scena Prima Enter the Emperour Maximus Licinius Proculus Chilax
through for if I offer To taâ—â—e my way without him like a Sea He b aâ—s his high Command 'twixt me and vengeance And in mine own road sinks me he is honest Of a most constant loyalty to Caesar And when he shall but doubt I dare attempt him But make a question of his ill but say What is a Caesar that he dare do this Dead sure he cuts me off Aecius dyes Or I have lost my self why should I kill him Why should I kill my self for 't is my killing Aecius is my root and wither him Like a decaying Branch I fall to nothing Is he not more to me than Wife than Caesar Though I had now my safe revenge upon him Is he not more than rumour and his friendship Sweeter than the love of women what is honour We all so strangely are bewitch'd withal Can it relieve me if I want he has Can honour 'twixt the incensed Prince and Envy Bear up the lives of worthy men he has Can honour pull the wings of fearful Cowards And make 'em turn again like Tigers he has And I have liv'd to see this and preserv'd so Why should this empty word incite me then To what is ill and cruel let her perish A friend is more than all the world than honour She is a woman and her loss the less And with her go my griefs but hark ye Maximus Was she not yours Did she not dye to tell ye She was a ravish'd woman Did not Justice Nobly begin with her that not deserv'd it And shall he live that did it Stay a little Can this abuse dye here Shall not mens tongues Dispute it afterward and say I gave Affecting dull obedience and tame duty And led away with fondness of a friendship The only vertue of the world to slander Is not this certain was not she a chaste one And such a one that no compare dwelt with her One of so sweet a vertue that Aecius Even he himself this friend that holds me from it Out of his worthy love to me and justice Had it not been on Caesar had reveng'd her He told me so what shall I do then Enter a Servant Can other men affect it and I cold I fear he must not live Serv. My Lord the General Is come to seek ye Max. Go entreat him to enter O brave Aecius I could wish thee now As far from friendship to me as from fears That I might cut thee off like that I weigh'd not Is there no way without him to come near it For out of honesty he must destroy me If I attempt it he must dye as others And I must lose him 't is necessity Only the time and means is the difference But yet I would not make a murther of him Take him directly for my doubts he shall dye I have found a way to do it and a safe one It shall be honour to him too I know not What to determine certain I am so troubled And such a deal of conscience presses me Enter Aecius Would I were dead my self Aecius You run away well How got you from me friend Max. That that leads mad men A strong imagination made me wander Aecius I thought you had been more setled Max. I am well But you must give me leave a little sometimes To have a buzzing in my brains Aecius Ye are dangerous But I 'll prevent it if I can ye told me You would go to th' Army Max. Why to have my throat cut Must he not be the bravest man Aecius That strikes me first Aeci. You promised me a freedom From all these thoughts and why should any strike you Max. I am an Enemy a wicked one Worse than the foes of Rome I am a Coward A Cuckold and a Coward that 's two causes Why every one should beat me Aeci. Ye are neither And durst another tell me so he dyed for 't For thus far on mine honour I 'le assure you No man more lov'd than you and for your valour And what ye may be fair no man more follow'd Max. A doughty man indeed but that 's all one The Emperour nor all the Princes living Shall find a flaw in my Coat I have suffer'd And can yet let them find inflictions I 'le find a body for 'em or I 'le break it 'T is not a Wife can thrust me out some look't for 't But let 'em look till they are blind with looking They are but fools yet there is anger in me That I would fain disperse and now I think on 't You told me friend the Provinces are stirring We shall have sport I hope then and what 's dangerous A Battle shall beat from me Aeci. Why do ye eye me With such a setled look Max. Pray tell me this Do we not love extreamly I love you so Aeci. If I should say I lov'd not you as truly I should do that I never durst do lye Max. If I should dye would it not grieve you much Aeci. Without all doubt Max. And could you live without me Aeci. It would much trouble me to live without ye Our loves and loving souls have been so us'd But to one houshold in us but to dye Because I could not make you live were woman Far much too weak were it to save your worth Or to redeem your name from rooting out To quit you bravely fighting from the foe Or fetch ye off where honour had ingag'd ye I ought and would dye for ye Max. Truly spoken What beast but I that must could hurt this man now Would he had ravish'd me I would have paid him I would have taught him such a trick his Eunuchs Nor all his black-eyed Boys dreamt of yet By all the Gods I am mad now now were Caesar Within my reach and on his glorious top The pile of all the world he went to nothing The Destinies nor all the dames of Hell Were I once grappl'd with him should relieve him No not the hope of mankind more all perished But this is words and weakness Aeci. Ye look strangely Max. I look but as I am I am a stranger Aeci. To me Max. To every one I am no Roman Nor what I am do I know Aeci. Then I 'le leave ye Max. I find I am best so if ye meet with Maximus Pray bid him be an honest man for my sake You may do much upon him for his shadow Let me alone Aeci. Ye were not wont to talk thus And to your fried ye have some danger in you That willingly would run to action Take heed by all our love take heed Max. I danger I willing to do any thing I dig Has not my Wife been dead two dayes already Are not my mournings by this time moth-eaten Are not her sins dispers'd to other Women And many one ravish'd to relieve her Have I shed tears these twelve hours Aeci. Now ye weep Max. Some lazie drops that staid behind Aeci. I 'le tell ye And I must tell ye truth were it not
hazard And almost certain loss of all the Empire I would join with ye were it any mans But his life that is life of us he lost it For doing of this mischief I would take it And to your rest give ye a brave revenge But as the rule now stands and as he rules And as the Nations hold in disobedience One pillar failing all must fall I dare not Nor is it just you should be suffer'd in it Therefore again take heed On forraign foes We are our own revengers but at home On Princes that are eminent and ours 'T is fit the Gods should judge us be not rash Nor let your angry steel cut those ye know not For by this fatal blow if ye dare strike it As I see great aims in ye those unborn yet And those to come of them and these succeeding Shall bleed the wrath of Maximus for me As ye now bear your self I am your friend still If ye fall off I will not flatter ye And in my hands were ye my soul you perish'd Once more be careful stand and still be worthy I 'le leave you for this hour Exit Max. Pray do 't is done And friendship since thou canst not hold in dangers Give me a certain ruin I must through it Exit Actus Quartus Scena Prima Enter Emperour Licinius Chilax and Balbus Emper. DEad Chil. So 't is thought Sir Emper. How Lici Grief and disgrace As people say Empe. No more I have too much on 't Too much by you you whetters of my follies Ye Angel formers of my sins but Devils Where is your cunning now you would work wonders There was no chastity above your practice You would undertake to make her love her wrongs And doate upon her rape mark what I tell ye If she be dead Chil. Alas Sir Empe. Hang ye Rascals Ye blasters of my youth if she be gone 'T were better ye had been your Fathers Camels Groan'd under daily weights of wood and water Am I not Caesar Lici Mighty and our Maker Empe. Than thus have given my pleasures to destruction Look she be living slaves Lici We are no Gods Sir If she be dead to make her new again Empe. She cannot dye she must not dye are those I plant my love upon but common livers Their hours as others told ' em can they be ashes Why do ye flatter a belief into me That I am all that is the world 's my creature The Trees bring forth their fruits when I say Summer The Wind that knows no limit but his wildness At my command moves not a leaf the Sea With his proud mountain waters envying Heaven When I say still run into Crystal mirrors Can I do this and she dye Why ye bubbles That with my least breath break no more remembred Ye moths that fly about my flame and perish Ye golden â—anker-worms that â—at my honours Living â—o longer than my spring of favour Why do ye make me God that can do nothing Is she not dead Chil. All Women are not with her Empe. A common Whore serves you and far above ye The pleasures of a body lam'd with lewdness A meer perpetual motion makes ye happy Am I a man to traffick with Diseases Can any but a chastity serve Caesar And such a one that Gods would kneel to purchase You think because you have bred me up to pleasures And almost run me over all the rare ones Your Wives will serve the turn I care not for 'em Your Wives are Fencers Whores and shall be Footmens Though sometimes my nice will or rather anger Have made ye Cuckolds for variety I would not have ye hope nor dream ye poor ones Alwaies so great a blessing from me go Get your own infamy hereafter Rascals I have done too nobly for ye ye enjoy Each one an heir the Royal seed of Caesar And I may curse ye for 't your wanton Gennets That are so proud the wind get's'em with fillies Taught me this soul intemperance Thou Licinius Hast such a Messalina such a Lais The backs of Bulls cannot content nor Stallions The sweat of fifty men a night do's nothing Lici Your Grace but jests I hope Empe. 'T is Oracle The sins of other Women put by hers Shew off like sanctities Thine's a fool Chilax Yet she can tell to twenty and all lovers And all lien with her too and all as she is Rotten and ready for an Hospital Yours is an holy Whore friend Balbus Bal. Well Sir Empe. One that can pray away the sins she suffers But not the punishments she has had ten Bastards Five of 'em now are Lictors yet she prayes She has been the Song of Rome and common Pasquil Since I durst see a Wench she was Camp Mistris And muster'd all the cohorts paid 'em too They have it yet to shew and yet she prayes She is now to enter old men that are Children And have forgot their rudiments am I Left for these withered vices and but one But one of all the world that could content me And snatch'd away in shewing If your Wives Be not yet Witches or your selves now be so And save your lives raise me this noble beauty As when I forc'd her full of constancy Or by the Gods Lici Most sacred Caesar Empe. Slaves Enter Proculus Lici Good Proculus Pro. You shall not see it It may concern the Empire Emp. Ha what said'st thou Is she not dead Pro. Not any one I know Sir I come to bring your Grace a Letter here Scatter'd belike i' th' Court 't is sent to Maximus And bearing danger in it Emp. Danger where Double our Guard Pro. Nay no where but i' th' Letter Emp. What an afflicted Conscience do I live with And what a beast I am grown I had forgotten To ask Heaven mercy for my fault and was now Even ravishing again her memory I find there must be danger in this deed Why do I stand disputing then and whining For what is not the gods to give they cannot Though they would link their powers in one do mischief This Letter may betray me get ye gone Exeunt And wait me in the Garden guard the house well And keep this from the Empress the name Maximus Runs through mo like a feavour this may be Some private Letter upon private business Nothing concerning me why should I open 't I have done him wrong enough already yet It may concern me too the time so tells me The wicked deed I have done assures me 't is so Be what it will I 'le see it if that be not Part of my fears among my other sins I 'le purge it out in prayers How what 's this Letter read Lord Maximus you love Aecius And are his noble friend too bid him be less I mean less with the people times are dangerou The Army 's his the Emperour in doubts And as some will not stick to say declining You stand a constant man in either fortune Perswade him he is lost else
Though ambition Be the last sin he touches at or never Yet what the people mad with loving him And as they willingly desire another May tempt him to or rather force his goodness Is to be doubted mainly he is all As he stands now but the meer name of Caesar And should the Emperour inforce him lesser Not coming from himself it were more dangerous He is honest and will hear you doubts are scatter'd And almost come to growth in every houshold Yet in my foolish judgment were this master'd The people that are now but rage and his Might be again obedience you shall know me When Rome is fair again till when I love you No name this may be cunning yet it seems not For there is nothing in it but is certain Besides my safety Had not good Germanicus That was as loyal and as straight as he is If not prevented by Tiberius Been by the Souldiers forc'd their Emperour He had and 't is my wisdom to remember it And was not Corbulo even that Corbulo That ever fortunate and living Roman That broke the heart-strings of the Parthians And brought Arsaces line upon their knees Chain'd to the awe of Rome because he was thought And but in wine once fit to make a Caesar Cut off by Nero I must seek my safety For 't is the same again if not beyond it I know the Souldier loves him more than Heaven And will adventure all his gods to raise him Me he hates more than peace what this may breed If dull security and confidence Let him grow up a fool may find and laught at But why Lord Maximus I injur'd so Should be the man to counsel him I know not More than he has been friend and lov'd allegeance What now he is I fear for his abuses Without the people dare draw blood who waits there Enter a Servant Ser. Your Grace Emp. Call Phidias and Aretus hither I 'le find a day for him too times are dangerous The Army his the Emperour in doubts I find it is too true did he not tell me 1. As if he had intent to make me odious 2. And to my face and by a way of terror What vices I was grounded in and almost Proclaim'd the Souldiers hate against me is not The sacred name and dignity of Caesar Were this Aecius more than man sufficient To shake off all his honesty He 's dangerous Though he be good and though a friend a fear'd one And such I must not sleep by are they come yet I do believe this fellow and I thank him 'T was time to look about if I must perish Yet shall my fears go formost Enter Phidias and Aretus Phi. Life to Caesar Emp. Is Lord Aecius waiting Phi. Not this morning I rather think he 's with the Army Emp. Army I do not like that Army go unto him And bid him straight attend me and do ye hear Come private without any I have business Only for him Phi. Your Graces pleasure Exit Phidias Emp. Go What Souldier is the same I have seen him often That keeps you company Aretus Are. Me Sir Emp. I you Sir Are. One they call Pontius And 't please your Grace Emp. A Captain Are. Yes he was so But speaking something roughly in his want Especially of Wars the Noble General Out of strict allegiance call his fortunes Emp. H 'as been a valiant fellow Are. So he 's still Emp. Alas the General might have pardon'd follies Souldiers will talk sometimes Are. I am glad of this Emp. He wants preferment as I take it Are. Yes Sir And for that noble Grace his life shall serve Emp. I have a service for him I shame a Souldier should become a Begger I like the man Aretus Are. Gods protect ye Emp. Bid him repair to Proculus and there He shall receive the business and reward for 't I 'le see him setled too and as a Souldier We shall want such Are. The sweets of Heaven still crown ye Emp. I have a fearful darkness in my soul And till I be deliver'd still am dying Exeunt SCENE II. Enter Maximus alone Max. My way has taken all the Court 's in guard And business every where and every corner Full of strange whispers I am least in rumour Enter Aecius and Phidias And so I 'le keep my self Here comes Aecius I see the bait is swallow'd If he be lost He is my Martyr and my way stands open And honour on thy head his blood is reckon'd Aec. Why how now friend what makes ye here unarm'd Are ye turn'd Merchant Max. By your fair perswasions And such a Merchant trafficks without danger I have forgotten all Aecius And which is more forgiven Aeci. Now I love ye Truly I do ye are a worthy Roman Max. The fâ—â—r repentance of my Prince to me Is more than sacrifice of bloud and vengeance No eyes shall weep her ruins but mine own Aeci. Still ye take more love from mâ— vertuous friend The gods make poor Aecius worthy of thee Max. only in me y' are poor Sir and I wo thy Only in being yours But why your arm thus Have ye been hurt Aecius Aeci. Bruis'd a little My horse fell with me friend which till this morning I never knew him do Max. Pray gods it boâ—d well And now I think on 't better ye shall back Let my perswasions rule ye Aeci. Back why Maximus The Emperour commands me come Max. I like not At this time his command Aeci. I do at all times And all times will obey it why not now then Max. I 'le tell ye why and as I have been govern'd Be you so noble friend The Court 's in Guard Arm'd strongly for what purpose let me fear I do not like your going Aeci. Were it fire And that fire certain to consume this body If Caesar sent I would goe never fear man If he take me he takes his arms away I am too plain and true to be suspected Max. Then I have dealt unwisely Aeci. If the Emperour Because he meerely may will have my life That 's all he has to work on and all shall have Let him he loves me better here I wither And happily may live till ignorantly I run into a fault worth death nay more dishonour Now all my sins I dare say those of duty Are printed here and if I fall so happy I bless the grave I lye in and the gods Equal as dying on the Enemy Must take me up a Sacrifice Max. Goe on then And I 'le goe with ye Aeci. No ye may not friend Max. He cannot be a friend bars me Aecius Shall I forsake ye in my doubts Aeci. Ye must Max. I must not nor I will not have I liv'd Only to be a Carpet friend for pleasure I can endure a death as well as Cato Aeci. There is no death nor danger in my going Nor none must goe along Max. I have a sword too And once I could have us'd it for my friend Aeci. I need no sword noâ—
friend in this pray leave me And as ye love me do not over love me I am commanded none shall come at supper I 'le meet ye and wee l drink a cup or two Ye need good Wine ye have been sad Farewel Max. Farewel my noble friend let me embrace ye E're ye depart it may be one of us Shall never do the like again Aeci. Yes often Max. Farewel good dear Aecius Aeci. Farewel Maximus Till night indeed you doubt too much Exit Max. I do not Goe worthy innocent and make the number Of Caesars sins so great Heaven may want mercy I 'le hover hereabout to know what passes And if he be so devilish to destroy thee In thy bloud shall begin his Tragedy Exit SCENA III. Enter Proculus and Pontius Pro. Besides this if you do it you enjoy The noble name Patrician more than that too The friend of Caesar ye are stil'd there 's nothing Within the hopes of Rome or present being But you may safely say is yours Pon. Pray stay Sir What has Aecius done to be destroy'd At least I would have a colour Pro. Ye have more Nay all that may be given he is a Traitor One any man would strike that were a subject Pon. Is he so foul Pro. Yes a most fearfull Traytor Pon. A fearfull plague upon thee for thou lyest I ever thought the Souldier would undoe him With his too much affection Pro. Ye have hit it They have brought him to ambition Pon. Then he is gone Pro. The Emperour out of a foolish pitie Would save him yet Pon. Is he so mad Pro. He 's madder Would goe to 'th Army to him Pon. Would he so Pro. Yes Pontius but we consider Pon. Wisely Pro. How else man that the state lies in it Pon. And your lives too Pro. And every mans Pon. He did me All the disgrace he could Pro. And scurvily Pon. Out of a mischief meerly did you mark it Pro. Yes well enough Now ye have means to quit it The deed done take his place Pon. Pray let me think on 't 'T is ten to one I do it Pro. Do and be happy Exit Pro. Pon. This Emperour is made of nought but mischief Sure Murther was his Mother none to lop But the main link he had upon my conscience The man is truly honest and that kills him For to live here and study to be true Is all one to be Traitors why should he die Have they not Slaves and Rascals for their Offrings In full abundance Bawds more than beasts for slaughter Have they not singing whores enough and knaves too And millions of such Martyrs to sink Charon But the best sons of Rome must sail too I will shew him since he must dye a way to do it truly And though he bears me hard yet shall he know I am born to make him bless me for a blow Exit SCENA II. Enter Phidias Aretus and Aecius Phi. Yet ye may ' scape to th' Camp we 'l hazard with ye Aret. Lose not your life so basely Sir ye are arm'd And many when they see your sword out and know why Must follow your adventure Aeci. Get ye from me Is not the doom of Caesar on this body Do not I bear my last hour here now sent me Am I not old Aecius ever dying You think this tenderness and love you bring me 'T is treason and the strength of disobedience And if ye tempt me further ye shall feel it I seek the Camp for safety when my death Ten times more glorious than my life and lasting Bids me be happy Let the fool fear dying Or he that weds a woman for his honour Dreaming no other life to come but kisses Aecius is not now to learn to suffer If ye dare shew a just affection kill me I stay but those that must why do ye weep Am I so wretched to deserve mens pities Goe give your tears to those that lose their worths Bewail their miseries for me wear Garlands Drink wine and much sing Peans to my praise I am to triumph friends and more than Caesar For Caesar fears to die I love to die Phi. O my dear Lord Aeci. No more goe goe I say Shew me not signs of sorrow I deserve none Dare any man lament I should die nobly Am I grown old to have such enemies When I am dead speak honourably of me That is preserve my memory from dying There if you needs must weep your ruin'd Master A tear or two will seem well this I charge ye because ye say you yet love old Aecius See my poor body burnt and some to sing About my Pile and what I have done and suffer'd If Caesar kill not that too at your banquets When I am gone if any chance to number The times that have been sad and dangerous Say how I fell and 't is sufficient No more I say he that laments my end By all the gods dishonours me be gone And suddainly and wisely from my dangers My death is catching else Phi. We fear not dying Aec. Yet fear a wilfull death the just Gods hate it I need no company to that that Children Dare do alone and Slaves are proud to purchase Live till your honesties as mine has done Make this corrupted age sick of your vertues Then dye a sacrifice and then ye know The noble use of dying well and Roman Are. And must we leave ye Sir Aeci. We must all die All leave our selves it matters not where when Nor how so we die well and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him Children weep Because they have offended or for fear Women for want of will and anger is there In noble man that truly feels both poyses Of life and death so much of this wet weakness To drown a glorious death in child and woman I am asham'd to see ye yet ye move me And were it not my manhood would accuse me For covetous to live I should weep with ye Phi. O we shall never see you more Aeci. 'T is true Nor I the miseries that Rome shall suffer Which is a benefit life cannot reckon But what I have been which is just and faithfull One that grew old for Rome when Rome forgot him And for he was an honest man durst die Ye shall have daily with ye could that dye too And I return no traffick of my travels No pay to have been Souldier but this Silver No Annals of Aecius but he liv'd My friends ye had cause to weep and bitterly The common overflows of tender women And children new born crying were too little To shew me then most wretched if tears must be I should in justice weep 'em and for you You are to live and yet behold those slaughters The drie and wither'd bones of death would bleed at But sooner than I have time to think what must be I fear you 'l find what shall be If ye love me Let that word serve for all be gone and leave me I have
Heaven in Pon. A farewel Good noble General your hand forgive me And think what ever was displeasing you Was none of mine ye cannot live Aeci. I will not Yet one word more Pon. Dye nobly Rome farewel And Valentinian fall thou hast broke thy Basis In joy ye have given me a quiet death he dyes I would strike more wounds if I had more breath Aeci. Is there an hour of goodness beyond this Or any man would out-live such a dying Would Caesar double all my honours on me And stick me o're with favours like a Mistris Yet would I grow to this man I have loved But never doated on a face till now O death thou art more than beautie and thy pleasure Beyond posterity Come friends and kill me Caesar be kind and send a thousand swords The more the greater is my fall why stay ye Come and I 'le kiss your weapons fear me not By all the gods I 'le honour ye for killing Appear or through the Court and world I 'le search ye My sword is gone ye are Traitors if ye spare me And Caesar must consume ye all base cowards I 'le follow ye and e're I dye proclaim ye The weeds of Italy the dross of nature Where are ye villains traytors slaves Exit Enter Proculus and 3 others running over the Stage Pro. I knew H 'ad kill'd the Captain 1. Here 's his swâ— Pro. Let it alonâ— I will fight it self else friends An hundred mâ—n 〈◊〉 not enough to do it I 'le to the Emperour and get more aid Aeci. None strike a poor condemned man Pro. He is mad Shift for your selves my Masters Exeunt Enter Aecius Aecius Then Aecius See what thou darst thy self hold my good sword Thou hast been kept from bloud too long I 'le kiss thee For thou art more then friend now my preserver Shew me the way to happiness I seek it And all you great ones that have faln as I do To keep your memories and honours living Be present in your vertues and assist me That like strong Cato I may put away All promises but what shall crown my ashes Rome fare thee well stand long and know to conquer Whilst there is people and ambition Now for a stroak shall turn me to a Star I come ye blessed spirits make me room To live for ever in Elyzium Do men fear this O that posterity Could learn from him but this that loves his wound There is no pain at all in dying well kills himself Nor none are lost but those that make their hell Enter Proculus and two others 1 Within He 's dead draw in the Guard again Pro. He 's dead indeed And I am glad he 's gone he was a Devil His body if his Eunuchs come is theirs The Emperour out of his love to vertue Exeunt Has given 'em that Let no man stop their entrance Enter Phidiâ—s and Aretus Phi. O my most noble Lord look here Aretus Here 's a sad sight Aret. O cruelty O Caesar O times that bring forth nothing but destruction And oversows of bloud why wast thou kill'd Is it to be a just man now again As when Tiberius and wild Nero reign'd Only assurance of his over throw Phil. It is Aretus he that would live now Must like the Toad feed only on corruptions And grow with those to greatness honest vertue And the true Roman honour faith and valour That have been all the riches of the â—mpire Now like the fâ—arfull tokens of the Plague Are meer fore-runners of their ends that owe ' em Are. Never enough lamented Lord dear Master Enter Maximus Of whom now shall we learn to live like men From whom draw out our actions just and worthy Oh thou art gone and gone with thee all goodness The great example of all equitie O thou alone a Roman thou art perish'd Faith fortitude and constant nobleness Weep Rome weep Italy weep all that knew him And you that fear'd him as a noble Foe If Enemies have honourable tears Weep this decay'd Aecius faln and scattered By foul and base suggestion Pho. O Lord Maximus This was your worthy friend Max. The gods forgive me Think not the worse my friends I shed not tears Great griefs lament within yet now I have found 'em Would I had never known the world nor women Nor what that cursed name of honour was So this were once again Aecius But I am destin'd to a mighty action And begg my pardon friend my vengeance taken I will not be long from thee ye have a great loss But bear it patiently yet to say truth In justice 't is not sufferable I am next And were it now I would be glad on 't friends Who shall preserve you now Are. Nay we are lost too Max. I fear ye are for likely such as love The man that 's faln and have been nourish'd by him Do not stay long behind 'T is held no wisdom I know what I must do O my Aecius Canst thou thus perish pluckt up by the roots And no man feel thy worthiness From boys He bred you both I think Phi. And from the poorest Max. And lov'd ye as his own Are. We found it Sir Max. Is not this a loss then Phi. O a loss of losses Our lives and ruines of our families The utter being nothing of our names Were nothing near it Max. As I take it too He put ye to the Emperour Are. He did so Max. And kept ye still in credit Phi. 'T is most true Sir Max. He fed your Fathers too and made them means Your Sisters he prefer'd to noble Wedlocks Did he not friends Are. Oh yes Sir Max. As I take it This worthy man would not be now forgotten I tell ye to my grief he was basely murdred And something would be done by those that lov'd him And something may be pray stand off a little Let me bewail him private O my dearest Phi. Aretus if we be not sudden he outdoes us I know he points at venegance we are cold And base ungratefull wretches if we shun it Are we to hope for more rewards or greatness Or any thing but death now he is dead Dar'st thou resolve Are. I am perfect Phi. Then like flowers That grew together all we 'l fall together And with us that that bore us when 't is done The world shall stile us two deserving servants I fear he will be before us Are. This night Phidias Phi. No more Max. Now worthy friends I have done my mournings Let 's burn this noble body Sweets as many As sun-burnt Meroe breeds I 'le make a flame of Shall reach his soul in Heaven he that shall live Ten ages hence but to reherse this story Shall with the sad discourse on 't darken Heaven And force the painful burdens from the wombs Conceiv'd a new with sorrow even the Grave Where mighty Sylla sleeps shall rend asunder And give her shadow up to come and groan About our piles which will be more and greater Than green
Thomas A COMEDY Actus Primus Scena Prima Enter Alice and Valentine Alice HOW dearly welcome you are Val. I know it And my besâ— Sister you are as dear to my sight And pray let this confirm it how you have govern'd My poor state in my absence how my servants I dare and must believe else I should wrong ye The best and worthiest Alice As my womans wit Sir Which is but weak and crazie Val. But good Alice Tell me how fares the gentle Cellide The life of my affection since my travel My long and lazie Travel is her love still Upon the growing hand does it not stop And wither at my years has she not view'd And entertain'd some younger smooth behaviour Some Youth but in his blossom as her self is There lies my fears Alice They need not for believe me So well you have manag'd her and won her mind Even from her hours of childhood to this ripeness And in your absence that by me enforc'd still So well distill'd your gentleness into her Observ'd her fed her fancy liv'd still in her And though Love be a Boy and ever youthful And young and beauteous objects ever aim'd at Yet here ye have gone beyond love better'd nature Made him appear in years in grey years fiery His Bow at full bent ever fear not Brother For though your body has been far off from her Yet every hour your heart which is your goodness I have forc'd into her won a place prepar'd too And willingly to give it ever harbour Believe she is so much yours and won by miracle Which is by age so deep a stamp set on her By your observances she cannot alter Were the Child living now ye lost at Sea Among the Genoua Gallies what a happiness What a main Blessing Val. O no more good Sister Touch no more that string 't is too harsh and jarring With that Child all my hopes went and you know The root of all those hopes the Mother too Within few days Alice 'T is too true and too fatal But peace be with their souls Val. For her loss I hope the beauteous Cellide A ice You may Sir For all she is is yours Val. For the poor Boys loss I have brought a noble friend I found in Travel A worthier mind and a more temperate spirit If I have so much judgment to discern 'em Man yet was never master of Alice What is he Val. A Gentleman I do assure my self And of a worthy breeding though he hide it I found him at Valentia poor and needy Only his mind the master of a Treasure I fought his friendship won him by much violence His honesty and modesty still fearing To thrust a charge upon me how I love him He shall now know where want and he hereafter Shall be no more Companions use him nobly It is my will good Sister all I have I make him free companion in and partner But only Alice I observe ye hold your Right there Love and high Rule allows no Rivals Brother He shall have fair regard and all observance Enter Hylas Hylas You are welcome noble Sir Val. What Monsieur Hylas I 'm glad to see your merry body well yet Hyl. 'Faith y' are welcome home what news beyond seas Val. None but new men expected such as you are To breed new admirations 'T is my Sister 'Pray ye know her Sir Hylas With all my heart your leave Lady Alice You have it Sir Hylas A shrewd smart touch which does prognosticate A Body keen and active somewhat old But that 's all one age brings experience And knowledge to dispatch I must be better And nearer in my service with your leave Sir To this fair Lady Val. What the old ' squire of Dames still Hyl. Still the admirer of their goodness with all my heart now I love a woman of her years a pacer That lays the bridle in her Neck will travel Forty and somewhat fulsome is a fine dish These young Colts are too skittish Enter Mary Alice My Cousin Mary In all her joy Sir to congratulate Your fair return Val. My loving and kind Cousin A thousand welcomes Mary A thousand thanks to heaven Sir For your safe voyage and return Val. I thank ye But where 's my Blessed Cellide her slackness In visitation Mary Think not so dear Uncle I left her on her knees thanking the gods With tears and prayers Val. Ye have given me too much comfort Mary She will not be long from ye Hyl. Your fair Cousin Val. It is so and a bait you cannot bâ—lk Sir If your old rule reign in you ye may know herâ— A happy stock ye have right worthy Lady The poorest of your servants vows his duty And obliged faith Mary O 't is a kiss you would Sir Take it and tye your tongue up Hylas I am an Asâ— I do perceive now a blind Ass a Blockhead For this is handsomness this that that draws us Body and Bones Oh what a mounted forehead What eyes and lips what every thing about her How like a Swan she swims her pace and bears Her silver Breasts this is the Woman she And only she that I will so much honour As to think worthy of my love all older Idols I heartily abhor and give to Gunpowder And all Complexions besides hers to Gypsies Enter Francis at one door and Cellide at another Val. O my dear life my better heart all dangers Distresses in my travel all misfortunes Had they been endless like the hours upon me In this kiss had been buried in oblivion How happy have ye made me truly happy Cel. My joy has so much over mastered me That in my tears for your return Val. O dearest My noble friend too what a Blessedness Have I about me now how full my wishes Are come again a thousand hearty welcomes I once more lay upon ye all I have The fair and liberal use of all my servants To be at your command and all the uses Of all within my power Fran. Ye are too munificent Nor am I able to conceive those thanks Sir Val. Ye wrong my tender love now even my service Nothing accepted nothing stuck between us And our intire affections but this woman This I beseech ye friend Fran. It is a jewel I do confess would make a Thief but never Of him that 's so much yours and bound your servant That were a base ingratitude Val. Ye are noble 'Pray be acquainted with her keep your way Sir My Cousin and my Sister Alice Ye are most welcome Mary If any thing in our poor powers fair Sir To render ye content and liberal welcome May but appear command it Alice Ye shall find us Happy in our performance Fran. The poor Servant Of both your goodnesses presents his service Val. Come no more Complement Custom has made it Dull old and te sions ye are once more welcome As your own thoughts can make ye and the same ever And so we 'll in to ratifie it Hyl Hark
Who would'st thou make me believe it was the Devil Laun. One that spits fire as fast as he sometimes Sir And changes shapes as often your Son Thomas Never wonder if it be not he straight hang me Seb. He if it be so I 'll put thee in my Will and there 's an end on 't Laun. I saw his legs h 'as Boots on like a Player Under his wenches cloaths 't is he 't is Thomas In his own Sisters Cloaths Sir and I can wast him Seb. No more words then we 'll watch him thou 'st not believe Launce How heartily glad I am Laun. May ye be gladder But not this way Sir Seb. No more words but watch him Exeunt SCENE VII Enter Mary Dorothy and Maid Mary When comes he Dor. Presently Mary Then get you up Doll Away I 'll straight come to you is all ready Maid All. Mary Let the light stand far enough Maid 'T is placed so Mary Stay you to entertain him to his chamber But keep close Wench he flyes at all Maid I warrant ye Mary You need no more instruction Maid I am perfect Exeunt SCENE VIII Enter Valentine and Thomas Tho. More stops yet sure the fiend's my ghostly father Old Valentine what wind 's in his poop Val. Lady You are met most happily O gentle Doll You must now do me an especial favour Tho. What is it master Valentine I am sorely troubled With a salt rheum faln i' my gums Val. I 'll tell ye And let it move you equally my blest Mistress Upon a slight occasion taking anger Took also to undo me your Aunts Nunnery From whence by my perswasion to redeem her Will be impossible nor have I liberty To come and visit her my good good Dorothy You are most powerful with her and your Aunt too And have access at all hours liberally Speak now or never for me Thom. In a Nunnery That course must not be suffered Master Valentine Her Mother never knew it rare sport for me Sport upon sport by th' break of day I 'll meet ye And fear not Man we 'll have her out I warrant ye I cannot stay now Val. You will not break Thom. By no means Good night Val. Good night kind Mistress Doll Exit Thom. This thrives well Every one takes me for my Sister excellent This Nunnery's faln so pat too to my figure Where there be handsome wenches and they shall know it If once I creep in ere they get me out again Stay here 's the house and one of her Maids Enter Maid Maid Who 's there O Mistress Dorothy you are a stranger Thom. Still Mistress Dorothy this geer will cotton Maid Will you walk in Forsooth Thom. Where is your Mistress Maid Not very well she 's gone to bed I am glad You are come so fit to comfort her Thom. Yes I 'll comfort her Maid 'Pray make not much noise for she is sure asleep You know your side creep softly in your company Will warm her well Thom. I warrant thee I 'll warm her Maid Your Brother has been here the strangest fellow Thom. A very Rogue a rank Rogue Maid I 'll conduct ye Even to her Chamber-door and there commit ye Exeunt SCENE IX Enter Michael Francis and Officers Mich. Come Sir for this night I shall entertain ye And like a Gentleman how e'r your fortune Hath cast ye on the worst part Fran. How you please Sir I am resolv'd nor can a joy or misery Much move me now Mich. I am angry with my self now For putting this forc'd way upon his patience Yet any other course had been too slender Yet what to think I know not for most liberally He hath confess'd strange wrongs which if they prove so How e'r the others long love may forget all Yet 't was most fit he should come back and this way Drink that and now to my care leave your Prisoner I 'll be his guard for this night Officers Good night to your Worship Mich. Good night my honest friends come Sir I hope There shall be no such cause of such a sadness As you put on Fran. 'Faith Sir my rest is up And what I now pull shall no more afflict me Than if I plaid at span-Counter nor is my face The map of any thing I seem to suffer Lighter affections seldom dwell in me Sir Mich. A constant Gentleman would I had taken A Feaver when I took this harsh way to disturb him Come walk with me Sir ere to morrow night I doubt not but to see all this blown over Exeunt Actus Quintus Scena Prima Enter Hylas Hyl. I Have dog'd his Sister sure 't was she And I hope she will come back again this night too Sam I have lost of purpose now if I can With all the art I have as she comes back But win a parley for my broken Pate Off goes her maiden-head and there 's vindicta They stir about the house I 'll stand at distance Exit Enter Mary and Dorothy and then Thomas and Maid Dor. Is he come in Mary Speak softly He is and there he goes Thom. Good night good night Wench A Bed discovered with a Black-moore in it Maid As softly as you can Exit Thom. I 'll play the mouse Nan How close the little thief lies Mary How he itches Dor. What would you give now to be there and I At home Mall Mary Peace for shame Thom. In what a figure The little fool has pull'd it self together Anon you will lye straighter Ha! there 's rare circumstance Belongs to such a treatise do ye tumble I 'll tumble with ye straight wench she sleeps soundly Full little think'st thou of thy joy that 's coming The sweet sweet joy full little of the kisses But those unthought of things come ever happiest How soft the Rogue feels O ye little Villain Ye delicate coy Thief how I shall thrum ye Your fy away good servant as you are a Gentleman Mary Prithee leave laughing Thom. Out upon ye Thomas What do you mean to do I 'll call the house up O God I am sure ye will not shall not serve ye For up ye go now and ye were my father Maid Your courage will be cool'd anon Thom. If it do I 'll hang for 't Yet I 'le be quartered here first Dor. O fierce Villain Ma. What would he do indeed Doll Dor. You had best try him Tho. I 'll kiss thee ere I come to bed sweet Mary Ma. Prithee leave laughing Dor. O for gentle Nicholas Tho. And view that stormy face that has so thundred me A coldness crept over 't now by your leave candle And next door by yours too so a pretty pretty Shall I now look upon ye by this light it moves me Ma. Much good may it do you Sir Thom. Holy Saints defend me The Devil Devil Devil O the Devil Ma. Dor. Ha ha ha ha the Devil O the Devil Thom. I am abus'd most damnedly most beastly Yet if it be a she-Devil but the house is
Enter Francis Servant Abbess and Cellide severally Val. My happy Mistress too now Fortune help me And all you Stars that govern chast desires Shine fair and lovely Ab. But one hour dear Daughter To hear your Guardian what he can deliver In Loves defence and his and then your pleasure Cell Though much unwilling you have made me yield More for his sake I see how full of sorrow Sweet catching sorrow he appears O love That thou but knew'st to heal as well as hurt us Mich. Be rul'd by me I see her eye fast on him And what ye heard believe for 't is so certain He neither dar'd nor must oppose my evidence And be you wise young Lady and believe too This man you love Sir Val As I love my soul Sir Miâ—h This man you put into a free possession Of what his wants could ask or your self render Val. And shall do still Mich. Nothing was barr'd his liberty But this fair Maid that friendship first was broken And you and she abus'd next to my sorrow So fair a form should hide so dark intentions He hath himself confess'd my purpose being Only to stop his journey by that policy Of laying Felony to his charge to fright the Sailers Divers abuses done Thefts often practis'd Monyes and Jewels too and those no trifles Cell O where have I bestrew'd my faith in neither Let 's in for ever now there is vertue Mich. Nay do not wonder at it he shall say it Are ye not guilty thus Fran. Yes O my Fortune Mich. To give a proof I speak not enviously Look here do you know these Jewels Cell In good Mother Enter Thomas Dorothy and Mary then Sebastian and Launcelot Val. These Jewels I have known Dor. You have made brave sport Tho. I 'le make more if I live Wench Nay do not look on me I care not for ye Lan. Do you see now plain that 's Mistris Dorothy And that 's his Mistris Seb. Peace let my joy work easily Ha boy art there my boy mine own boy Tom boy Home Lance and strike a fresh piece of Wine the Town 's ours Val. Sure I have know these Jewels Alice They are they certain Val. Good Heaven that they were Alice I 'le pawn my life on 't And this is he come hither Mistris Dorothy And Mistris Mary who does that face look like And view my Brother well Dor. In truth like him Ma. Upon my troth exceeding like Mich. Beshrew me But much and main resemblance both of face And lineaments of body now Heaven grant it Ali. My Brother 's full of passion I 'le speak to him Now as you are a Gentleman resolve me Where did you get these Jewels Fran. Now I 'le tell ye Because blind fortune yet may make me happy Of whom I had 'em I have never heard yet But from my infancy upon this arm I ever wore ' em Ali. 'T is Francisco Brother By Heaven I ty'd 'em on a little more Sir A little little more what parents have ye Fra. None That I know yet the more my stubborn fortune But as I heard a Merchant say that bred me Who to my more affliction dyed a poor man When I teach'd eighteen years Ali. What said that Merchant Fra. He said an infant in the Genoway Galleys But from what place he never could direct me I was taken in a Sea-fight and from a Mariner Out of his manly pity he redeem'd me He told me of a Nurse that waited on me But she poor soul he said was killed A Letter too I had enclos'd within me To one Castruccio a Venetian Merchant To bring me up the man when years allow'd me And want of friends compell'd I sought but found him Long dead before and all my hopes gone with him The Wars was my retreat then â—nd my travel In which I found this Gentlemans free bounty For which Heaven recompenc'd him now ye have all Val. And all the worldly bliss that Heaven can send me And all my prayers and thanks Alice Down o' your knees Sir For now you have found a Father and that Father That will not venture ye again in Galleys Mich. 'T is true believe her Sir and we all joy with ye Val. My best friend still my dearest now Heaven bless thee And make me worthy of this benefit Now my best Mistress Cel. Now Sir I come to ye Ab. No no let 's in Wench Cell Not for the world now Mother And thus Sir all my service I pay to you And all my love to him Val. And may it prosper Take her Francisco now no more young Callidon And love her dearly for thy Father does so Fran. May all hate seek me else and thus I seal it Val. Nothing but mirth now friends Enter Hylas and Sam. Hyl. Nay I will find him Sam. What do all these here Tho. You are a trusty Husband And a hot lover too Hyl. Nay then good morrow Now I perceive the Knavery Sam. I still told ye Tho. Stay or I 'le make ye stay come hither Sister Val. Why how now Mistris Thomas Tho. Peace a little Thou would'st fain have a Wife Hyl. Not I by no means Tho. Thou shalt have a wife and a fruitful wife for I find Hylas That I shall never be able to bring thee Children Seb. A notable brave boy Hyl. I am very well Sir Tho. Thou shalt be better Hylas thou hast 7 hundred pound a year And thou shalt make her 3 hundred jâ—ynture Hyl. No. Tho. Thou shalt boy and shalt bestow Two hundred pound in Cloaths look on her A delicate lusty wench she has fifteen hundred And feasible strike hands or I 'le strike first Dor. You 'l let me like Mar. He 's a good handsome fellow Play not the fool Tho. Strike Brother Hylas quickly Hyl. If you can love me well Dor. If you can please me Tho. Try that out soon I say my Brother Hylas Sam. Take her and use her well she 's a brave Gentlewoman Hyl. You must allow me another Mistriss Dor. Then you must allow me another Servant Hyl. Well let 's together then a lusty kindred Seb. I 'le give thee five hundred pound more for that word Ma. Now Sir for you and I to make the feast full Tho. No not a bit you are a vertuous Lady And love to live in contemplation Ma. Come fool I am friends now Tho. The fool shall not ride ye There lye my Woman now my man again And now for travel once more Seb. I 'le barr that first Ma. And I next Tho. Hold your self contented for I say I will travel And so long I will travel till I find a Father That I never knew and a Wife that I never look'd for And a state without expectation So rest you merry Gentlemen Ma. You shall not Upon my faith I love you now extreamly And now I 'le kiss ye Tho. This will not do it Mistress Ma. Why when we are married we 'l do more Seb. There 's all Boy The
and stand upon your guard And while your Brother is continue arm'd And yet this fear is needless for I know My Rollo though he dares as much as man So tender of his yet untainted valour So noble that he dares do nothing basely You doubt him he fears you I doubt and fear Both for others safety and not mine own Know yet my sons when of necessity You must deceive or be deceiv'd 't is better To suffer Treason than to act the Traytor And in a War like this in which the glory Is his that 's overcome consider then What 't is for which you strive is it the Dukedom Or the command of these so ready subjects Desire of wealth or whatsoever else Fires your ambition This still desp'rate madness To kill the people which you would be Lords of With fire and sword to lay that Country waste Whose rule you seek for to consume the treasures Which are the sinews of your Government In cherishing the factions that destroy it Far far be this from you make it not question'd Whether you have interest in that Dukedom Whose ruine both contend for Otto I desire but to enjoy my own which I will keep Rol. And rather than posterity shall have cause To say I ruin'd all divide the Dukedom I will accept the moiety Ott. I embrace it Soph. Divide me first or tear me limb by limb And let them find as many several Graves As there are villages in Normandy And 't is less sin than thus to weaken it To hear it mention'd doth already make me Envy my dead Lord and almost Blaspheme Those powers that heard my prayer for fruitfulness And did not with my first birth close my womb To me alone my second blessing proves My first of misery for if that Heaven Which gave me Rollo there had staid his bounty And Otto my dear Otto ne're had been Or being had not been so worth my love The stream of my affection had run constant In one fair current all my hopes had been Laid up in one and fruitful Normandy In this division had not lost her glories For as 't is now 't is a fair Diamond Which being preserv'd intire exceeds all value But cut in pieces though these pieces are Set in fine gold by the best work-mans cunning Parts with all estimation So this Dukedom As 't is yet whole the neighbouring Kings may covet But cannot compass which divided will Become the spoil of every barbarous foe That will invade it Gis How this works in both Bal. Prince Rollo's eyes have lost their fire Gis And anger that but now wholly possessed Good Otto hath given place to pity Aub. End not thus Madam but perfect what 's so well begun Soph. I see in both fair signs of reconcilement Make them sure proofs they are so the Fates offer To your free choice either to live Examples Of Piety or wickedness if the later Blinds so your understanding that you cannot Pierce through her painted out side and discover That she is all deformity within Boldly transcend all precedents of mischief And let the last and the worst end of tyrannies The murther of a Mother but begin The stain of bloud you after are to heighten But if that vertue and her sure rewards Can win you to accept her for your guide To lead you up to Heaven and there fix you The fairest Stars in the bright Sphere of honour Make me the parent of an hundred sons All brought into the world with joy not sorrow And every one a Father to his Country In being now made Mother of your concord Rol. Such and so good loud fame for ever speak you Bal. I now they meet like Brothers The Brothers cast away their Swords and embrace Gis My hearts joy flows through my eyes Aub. May never Womans tongue Hereafteâ— be accus'd for this ones Goodness Otto If we contend from this hour it shall be How to o'recome in brotherly affection Rol. Otto is Rollo now and Rollo Otto Or as they have one mind rather one name From this attonement let our lives begin Be all the rest forgotten Aub. Spoke like Rollo Soph. And to the honour of this reconcilement We all this night will at a publick Feast With choice Wines drown our late fears and with Musick Welcome our comforts Bald. Sure and certain ones Exeunt Manent Grandpree Verdon Trevile and Duprete Grand Did ever such a hopeful business end thus Ver. 'T is fatal to us all and yet you Grandpree Have the least cause to fear Grand Why what 's my hope Ver. The certainty that you have to be hang'd You know the Chancellours promise Grand Plague upon you Ver. What think you of a Bath and a Lords Daughter To entertain you Grand Those desires are off Frail thoughts all friends no Rollians now nor Ottoes The sev'ral court'sies of our swords and servants Defer to after consequence let 's make use Of this nights freedom a short Parliament to us In which it will be lawful to walk freely Nay to our drink we shall have meat too that 's No usual business to the men o' th' sword Drink deep with me to night we shall to morrow Or whip or hang the merrier Tre. Lead the way then Exeunt Actus Secundus Scena Prima Enter Latorch and Rollo Lato. WHY should this trouble you Rol. It does and must do till I find ease Lato. Consider then and quickly And like a wise man take the current with you Which once turn'd head will sink you blest occasion Offers her self in thousand safeties to you Time standing still to point you out your purpose And resolution the true child of Vertue Readie to execute what dull cold weakness Has crept into your bosom whose meer thoughts Like tempests plowing up the sayling Forests Even with their swing were wont to shake down hazards What is' t your Mothers tears Rol. Pray thee be patient Lat. Her hands held up her prayers or her curses Oh power of paper dropt through by a woman Take heed the Souldiers see it not 't is miserable In Rollo below miserable take heed your friends The sinews of your cause the strength you stir by Take heed I say they find it not take heed Your own repentance like a passing-bell Too late and too loud tell the world y' are perisht What noble spirit eager of advancement Whose imployment is his plough what sword whose sharpness Waits but the arm to wield it or what hope After the world has blown abroad this weakness Will move again or make a wish for Rollo Rol. Are we not friends again by each oath ratified Our tongues the Heralds to our hearts Lat. Poor hearts then Rol. Our worthier friends Lat. No friends Sir to your honour Friends to your fall where is your understanding The noble vessel that your full soul sail'd in Rib'd round with honours where is that 't is ruin'd The tempest of a womans sighs has sunk it Friendship take heed Sir is
or for Surfeits A shaking fit of a whip sometimes o'retakes ye Marry you dye most commonly of choakings Obstructions of the halter are your ends ever Pray leave your horn and your knife for her to live on Eva. Poor wretched people why do you wrong your selves Though I fear'd death I should fear you ten times more You are every one a new death and an odious The earth will purifie corrupted bodies You 'll make us worse and stink eternally Go home go home and get good Nurses for you Dream not of Wives Fred. You shall have one of 'em if they dare venture for ye Evan. They are dead already Crawling diseases that must creep into The next grave they find open are these fit Husbands For her you have loved Sir though you hate me now And hate me mortally as I hate you Your nobleness in that you have done otherwise And named Evanthe once as your poor Mistris Might offer worthier choice Fre. Speak who dare take her for one moneth and then dye Phy. Dye Sir Fred. I dye Sir that 's the condition Phy. One moneth is too little For me to repent in for my former pleasure To go still on unless I were sure she would kill me And kill me delicately before my day Make it up a year for by that time I must dye My body will hold out no longer Fred. No Sir it must be but a moneth Law Then farewel Madam This is like to be a great year of dissention Among good people and I dare not lose it There will me money got Capt. Bless your good Ladiship there 's nothing in the grave but bones and ashes In Taverns there 's good wine and excellent wenches And Surgeons while we live Cutp. Adieu sweet Lady Lay me when I am dead near a rich Alderman I cannot pick his Purse no I 'le no dying Though I steal Linnen I 'le not steal my shrowd yet All. Send ye a happy match Exeunt Fool. And you all halters you have deserved 'em richly These do all Villanies and mischiefs of all sorts yet those they fear not To flinch where a fair wench is at the stake Evan. Come your sentence let me dye you see Sir None of your valiant men dare venture on me A Moneth's a dangerous thing Enter Valerio disguis'd Fred. Away with her let her dye instantly Evan. Will you then be willing To dye at the time prefixt that I must know too And know it beyond doubt Fred. What if I did wench Evan. On that condition if I had it certain I would be your any thing and you should injoy me How ever in my nature I abhor you Yet as I live I would be obedient to you But when your time came how I should rejoyce How then I should bestir my self to thank ye To see your throat cut how my heart would leap Sir I would dye with you but first I would so torture ye And cow you in your end so despise you For a weak and wretched coward you must end sure Still make ye fear and shake despised still laugh at ye Fred. Away with her let her dye instantly Cam. Stay there 's another and a Gentleman His habit shews no less may be his business Is for this Ladies love Fred. Say why ye come Sir and what you are Val. I am descended nobly a Prince by birth and by my trade a Souldier A Princes fellow Abidos brought me forth My Parents Duke Agenor and fair Egla My business hither to renew my love With a young noble spirit call'd Valerio Our first acquaintance was at Sea in fight Against a Turkish man of War a stout one Where Lyon-like I saw him shew his valour And as he had been made of compleat vertue Spirit and fire no dregs of dull earth in him Evan. Thou art a brave Gentleman and bravely speakest him Val. The Vessel dancing under him for joy And the rough whistling winds becalm'd to view him I saw the child of honour for he was young Deal such an Alms amongst the spightful Pagans His towring sword flew like an eager Falkon And round about his reach invade the Turks He had intrencht himself in his dead quarries The silver Crescents on the tops they carried Shrunk in their heads to see his rage so bloody And from his fury suffered sad eclipses The game of death was never plaid more nobly The meager thief grew wanton in his mischiefs And his shrunk hollow eyes smil'd on his ruinâ—s Evan. Heaven keep this Gentleman from being a Suitor For I shall ne'r deny him he 's so noble Val. But what can last long strength and spirit wasted And fresh supplies flew on upon this Gentleman Breathless and weary with oppression And almost kill'd with killing 't was my chance In a tall Ship I had to view the fight I set into him entertain'd the Turk And for an hour gave him so hot a breakfast He clapt all linnen up he had to save him And like a Lovers thought he fled our fury There first I saw the man I lov'd Valerio There was acquainted there my soul grew to him And his to me we were the twins of friendship Evan. Fortune protect this man or I shall ruine him Val. I made this voyage to behold my friend To warm my love anew at his affection But since I landed I have heard his fate My Father 's had not been to me more cruel I have lamented too and yet I keep The treasure of a few tears for you Lady For by description you were his Evanthe Evan. Can he weep that 's a stranger to my story And I stand still and look on Sir I thank ye If noble spirits after their departure Can know and wish certain his soul gives thanks too There are your tears again and when yours fail Sir Pray ye call to me I have some store to lend ye Your name Val. Vrbino Evan. That I may remember That little time I have to live your friendships My tongue shall study both Fred. Do you come hither only to tell this story Prince Vrbino Val. My business now is Sir to woo this Lady Evan. Blessing defâ—nd ye do you know the danger Val. Yes and I fear it not danger 's my play-fellow Since I was man 'thas been my best companion I know your doom 't is for a Moneth you give her And then his life you take that marries her Fred. 'T is true nor can your being born a Prince If you accept the offer free you from it Val. I not 〈◊〉 it I have cast the worst And even that worst to me is many blessings I lov'd my friend not mâ—asuâ—'d out by time Nor hireâ— by circumstance of place and honour But for his wealthy self and worth I lov'd him His minâ— and noble mold he ever mov'd in And wooe his friend because she was worthy of him The only relique that he left behind Sir To give his ashes honour Lady take me And in me keep Valerio's love alive
him in Exit Servant Lisa I will retire the while to the next room Clar. We shall not long disturb you Enter Alcidon Alci Save ye Sir Clara. The like to you fair Sir pray you come near Alci Pray you instruct me for I know you not With Monsieur Clarange I would speak Clar. I am he Sir Ye are nobly welcome I wait your business Alci This will inform you Clar. Will you please to sit down Reads He shall command me Sir I 'le wait upon him Within this hour Alci Y' are a noble Gentleman Wil 't please you bring a friend we are two of us And pity either Sir should be unfurnish'd Clar. I have none now and the time is set so short 'T will not be possible Alci Do me the honour I know you are so full of brave acquaintance And worthy friends you cannot want a partner I would be loth to stand still Sir besides You know the custom and the vantage of it If you come in alone C ar And I must meet it Alci Send we 'l defer an hour let us be equal Games won and lost on equal terms shew fairest Clar. 'T is to no purpose to send any whither Unless men be at home by Revelation So please you breath a while when I have done with him You may be exercis'd too I 'le trouble no man Enter Lisander Lisa They are very loud Now what 's the news Clar. I must leave you Leave you a while two hours hence I 'le return friend Lisa Why what 's the matter Clar. A little business Lisa And 't be but a little you may take me with ye Clar. 'T will be a trouble to you Lisa No indeed to do you service I account a pleasure Clar. I must alone Lisa Why Clar. 'T is necessity Before you pass the walks and back again I will be with ye Lisa If it be not unmannerly To press you I would go Clar. I 'le tell you true Sir This Gentleman and I upon appointment Are going to visit a Lady Lisa I am no Capuchin why should not I go Alci Take the Gentleman Come he may see the Gentlewoman too And be most welcom I do beseech you take him Lis By any means I love to see a Gentlewoman A prettie wench too Clar. Well Sir we 'll meet you And at the place My service to the Lady Alci I kiss your hand Exit Clar. Prethee read o're her Letter Lisander Lisander reads Monsieur I Know you have consider'd the dark sentence Olinda gave us and that however she disguis'd it it pointed more at our swords edges than our bodies banishments the last must injoy her if we retire our youths are lost in wandring in emulation we shall grow old men and feeble which is the scorn of love and rust of honour and so return more fit to wed our Sepulchers than the Saint we aim at let us therefore make our journey short and our hearts ready and with our swords in our hands put it to fortune which shall be worthy to receive that blessing I 'le stay you on the mountain our old hunting place this Gentleman alone runs the hazard with me and so I kiss your hand Your Servant Lidian Is this your wench you 'l find her a sharp Mistris What have I thrust my self into is this that Lidian You told me of Clar. The same Lisa My Ladies Brother No cause to heave my sword against but his To save the Father yesterday and this morning To help to kill the Son this is most courteous The only way to make the Daughter doat on me Clar. Why do you muse would ye go off Lisa No no I must on now this will be kindly taken No life to sacrifice but part of hers Do you fight straight Clara. Yes presently Lisan To morrow then The balefull tidings of this day will break out And this nights Sun will set in bloud I am troubl'd If I am kill'd I am happy Clar. Will you go friend Lis I am ready Sir fortune thou hast made me monstrous Exeunt Enter Malfort and Clarinda Malf. Your cousin and my true friend lusty Leon Shall know how you use me Clar. Be more temperate Or I will never use nor know you more I' th' way of a servant all the house takes notice Of your ridiculous fopperie I have no sooner Perform'd my duties in my Ladies chamber And she scarce down the stairs but you appear Like my evil spirit to me Malf. Can the fish live out of the water or the Salamander Out of the fire or I live warm but in The fâ—ying pan of your favour Cla. Pray you forget Your curious comparisons borrowed from The pond and kitchin and remember what My Ladies pleasure is for th' entertainment Of her noble Father Ma. I would learn the art of memory in your table book Cla. Very good sir no more but up and ride I apprehend Your meaning soft fire makes sweet mault Sir I 'le answer you in a Proverb Mal. But one kiss from thy hony lip Cla. You fight too high my hand is A fair ascent from my foot his slavering kisses Spoil me more gloves enough for once you 'l surfeit With too much grace Mal. Have you no imployment for me Cal. Yes yes go send for Leon and convey him â—nto the private Arbour from his mouth â— hear your praises with more faith Ma. I am gone yet one thing e're I go there 's at the door The rarest Fortune-teller he hath told me The strangest things he knows ye are my Mistris And under seal deliver'd how many Children â— shall begâ—t on you pray you give him hearing He 'l make it good to you Cla. A cunning man Of your own making howsoe'r I 'le hear him At your intreaty Mal. Now I perceive ye love me At my entreaty come in friend remember To speak as I directed he knows his lesson And the right way to please her this it is To have a head-piece Exit Enter Lancelot like a Fortune-teller with a Purse and two Letters in it Cla. 'T is said you can tell fortunes to come Lan. Yes Mistris and what 's past Unglove your hand by this straight line I see You have lain crooked Cla. How lain crooked Lan. Yes and in that posture plaid at the old game No body hears me and I 'le be no blab And at it lost your maiden-head Câ—a A shrewd fellow 'T is truth but not to be confess'd in this Your palmistry deceives you something else Sir Lan. Ye are a great woman with your Lady and Acquainted with her counsels Cla. Still more strange Lan. There is a noble Knight Lisander loves her Whom she regards not and the destinies With whom I am familiar have deliver'd That by your means alone he must enjoy her Your hand again yes yes you have already Promis'd him your assistance and what 's more Tasted his bounty for which from the skye There are 200. crowns dropp'd in a Purse Look
was thought worth a quarrel Olin. Pray you think nobler Dor. I 'le tell thee what I think the plagâ—â— war famine Nay put in dice and drunkenness and those You 'l grant are pretty helps kill not so many I mean so many noble as your loves do Rather your lewdness I crave your mercy women Be not offended if I anger ye I am sure ye have touch'd me deep I came to be merry And with my children but to see one ruin'd By this fell accident are they all dead If they be speak Clean. What news Enter Beronte Alcidon Clarinda following with a Letter Ber. What dead ye pose me I understand you not Clea. My Brother Lidian Clarange and their seconds Ber. Here is one of 'em and sure this Gentleman 's alive Alci I hope so so is your Son Sir so is brave Clarange They fought indeed and they were hurt sufficiâ—ntly We were all hurt that bred the general rumour But friends again all and like friends we parted Clea. Heard ye of Lisander Ber. Yes and miss'd him narrowly He was one of the combatants fought with this Gentlâ—man Second against your Brother by his wisdom For certainly good fortune follows him All was made peace I 'le tell you the rest at dinner For we are hungry Alci I before I eat Must pay a vow I am sworn to my life Madam Was at Lisander's mercy I live by it And for the noble favour he desir'd me To kiss your fair hand for him offering This second service as a Sacrifice At the Altar of your vertues Dor. Come joy on all sides Heaven will not suffer honest men to perish Clea. Be proud of such a friend Dor. Forgive me Madam It was a grief might have concern'd you nâ—aâ— too Clea. No work of excellence but still Lisander Go thy waies Worthy Olin. We 'l be merry too Were I to speak again I would be wiser Ex. Manent Cal. Clarin. Cal. Too much of this rare cordial makes me sick However I obey you Clarin. Now or never is an apt time to move her Madam Cal. Who 's that Clarin. Your servant I would speak with your Ladyship Cla. Why dost thou look about Clarin. I have private business â—â—at noâ—â— must hear but youâ— Lisander Cal. Where Clar. Nay is not here but would entreat this favour Some of your Balsam from your own hand given For he is much hurt and that he thinks would cure him Cal. He shall have all my Prayers too Clar. But conceive me It must be from your self immediately Pity so brave a Gentleman should perish He is superstitious and he holds your hand Of infinite power I would not urge this Madam But only in a mans extreams to help him Cal. Let him come good wench 't is that I wish I am happy in 't My husband his true friend my noble father The fair Olinda all desire to see him He shall have many hands Clar. That he desires not Nor eyes but yours to look upon his miseries For then he thinks 't would be no perfect cure Madam He would come private Cal. How can that be here I shall do wrong unto all those that honour him Besides my credit Clar. Dare ye not trust a hurt man Not strain a courtesie to save a Gentleman To save his life that has sav'd all your family A man that comes like a poor mortifi'd Pilgrim Only to beg a Blessing and depart again He would but see you that he thinks would cure him But since you find fit reasons to the contrary And that it cannot stand with your clear honour Though you best know how well he has deserv'd of ye I 'll send him word back though I grieve to do it Grieve at my soul for certainly 't will kill him What your will is Cal. Stay I will think upon 't where is he Wench Clar. If you desire to see him Let not that trouble you he shall be with you And in that time that no man shall suspect ye Your honour Madam is in your own free keeping Your care in me in him all honesty If ye desire him not let him pass by ye And all this business reckon but a dream Col. Go in and counsel me I would fain see him And willingly comfort him Clar. 'T is in your power And if you dare trust me you shall do it safely Read that and let that tell you how he honours you Exeunt Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Clarinda with a Key and Leon. Leon. THis happy Night Kisses her Clar. Preserve this eagerness Till we meet nearer there is something done Will give us opportunity Leon. Witty Girl the plot Clar. You shall hear that at leisure The whole house reels with joy at the report Of Lidians safety and that joy encreas'd From their affection to the brave Lisander In being made the happy instrument to compound The bloudy difference Leon. They will hear shortly that Will turn their mirth to mourning he was then The principal means to save two lives but since There are two faln and by his single hand For which his life must answer if the King Whose arm is long can reach him Clar. We have now no spare time to hear stories take this Key 'T will make your passage to the banquetting house I' th' Garden free Leon. You will not fail to come Clar. For mine own sake ne'r doubt it now for Lisander Exit Enter Dorilaus Cleander Servants with lights Dor. To bed to bed 't is very late Clean. To bed all I have drunk a health too much Dor. You 'll sleep the better My usual physick that way Clean. Where 's your Mistriss Clar. She is above but very ill and aguish The late fright of her Brother has much troubl'd her She would entreat to lye alone Clean. Her pleasure Dor. Commend my love to her and my Prayers for her health I 'll see her ere I go Exeunt manet Clarinda Clar. All good rest to ye Now to my watch for Lisander when he is furnish'd For mine own friend since I stand Centinel I love to laugh i' th' evenings too and may The priviledg of my place will warrant it Exit Enter Lisander and Lancelot Lis You have done well hitherto where are we now Lanc. Not far from the house I hear by th' Owls There are many of your Welch falkoners about it Here were a night to chuse to run away with Another mans Wife and do the feat Lis Peace Knave The house is here before us and some may hear us The Candles are all out Lanc. But one i' th' Parlour I see it simper hither pray come this way Lis Step to the Garden-door and feel and 't be open Lan. I am going luck deliver me from the saw pits Or I am buried quick I hear a Dog No 't is a Cricket ha here 's a Cuckold buried Take heed of his horns Sir here 's the door 't is open Clarinda at the door Clar. Who 's there Lis Friend Clar. Sir
I think a lusty handsome fellow If he be kind and loving and a right one Is even as good a Pill to purge this melancholy As ever Galen gave I am sure more natural And merrier for the heart than Wine and Saffron Madam wanton youth is such a Cataplasme Alin. Who has been thy Tutor Wench Jul. Even my own thoughts Lady For though I be bar'd the liberty of talking Yet I can think unhappily and as near the mark Madam 'Faith marry and be merry Alin. Who will have me Who will be troubled with a pettish Girl It may be proud and to that vice expenceful Who can assure himself I shall live honest Jul. Let every man take his fortune Alin. And o' my Conscience If once I grow to breeding a whole Kingdom Will not contain my stock Jul. The more the merrier 'T is brave to be a mother of new Nations Alin. Why I should bury a hundred Husbands Jul. 'T is no matter As long as ye leave sufficient men to flock ye Alin. Is this thy mirth are these the joyes of marriage Away light headed fool are these contentments If I could find a man Jul. You may a thousand Alin. Meer men I know I may and there a Woman Has liberty at least she 'l venture for it To be a monster and become the time too But to enjoy a man from whose example As from a compass we may steer our fortunes Our actions and our age and safe arrive at A memory that shall become our ashes Such things are few and far to seek to find one That can but rightly mannage the wild beast Woman And sweetly govern with her But no more of this Wench 'T is not for thy discourse Let 's in and see What poor afflicted wait our charity Exeunt SCENE II. Enter a Porter 4 Beggers Pedro and a Pilgrim Por. Stand off and keep your ranks twenty foot further There louse your selves with reason and discretion The Sun shines warm the farther still the better Your beasts will bolt anon and then 't is dangerous 1 Beg. Heaven bless our Mistris Por. Does the crack go that way 'T will be o' th' other side anon 2 Beg. Pray ye friend Por. Your friend and why your friend why goodman turncoat What dost thou see within me or without me Or what itch dost thou know upon me tell me That I should be thy friend what do I look like Any of thy acquaintance hung in Gibbets Hast thou any Friends Kindred or Alliance Or any higher ambition than an Alms-basket 2 Beg. I would be your worships friend Por. So ye shall Sirrah When I quarter the same louse with ye 3 Beg. 'T is twelve o'clock Por. 'T is ever so with thee when thou hast done scratching For that provokes thy stomach to ring noon O the infinite Seas of Porridge thou hast swallow'd And yet thou lookst as if they had been but Glysters Thou feedst abundance thou hadst need of sustenance Alms do you call it to relieve these Rascals Enter Alphonso Curio and Seberto Nothing but a general rot of sheep can satisfie ' em Alp. Did not I tell you how she would undo me What Marts of Rogues and Beggers Seb. 'T is charity Methinks you are bound to love her for Alp. Yes I warrant ye If men could sale to Heaven in Porridge-pots With masts of Beef and Mutton what a Voyage should I make What are all these 1 Beg. Poor people and 't like your worship 1 Beg. Wretched poor people 3 Beg. Very hungry people Alp. And very Lousy 4 Beg. Yes forsooth so so Por. I 'le undertake five hundred head about 'em And that 's no needy Grasier Alp. What are you Pil. Strangers that come to wonder at your charity Yet people poor enough to beg a blessing Cur. Use them with savour Sir their shews are reverent It seems ye are holy Pilgrims Pil. Ye guess right Sir And bound far off to offer our devotions Alp. What make ye this way we keep no Reliques here Nor holy Shrines Pil. The holiest we ere heard of Ye keep a living monument of goodness A Daughter of that pious excellence The very Shrines of Saints sink at her vertues And swear they cannot hold pace with her pieties We come to see this Lady not with prophane eyes Nor wanton bloods to doat upon her beauties But through our tedious wayes to beg her blessings Alp. This is a new way of begging and a neat one And this cries mony for reward good store too These commendations beg not with bag and bottle Well well the Sainting of this Woman Gentlemen I know what it must come to these Women Saints Are plaguy heavy Saints they out weigh a he-saint Three thousand thick I know I feel Seb. Ye are more afraid than hurt Sir Alp. Have you your commendations ready too He bows and nods Cur. A handsome well built person Alp. What Country-craver are you nothing but motion A puppet-Pilgrim Pil. He 's a stranger Sir This four days I have Travel'd in his Company But little of his business or his Language As yet I have understood Seb. Both young and handsome Only the Sun has been too saucy with him Alp. Would ye have mony Sir or meat what kind of blessing Does your devotion look for Still more ducking Be there any Saints that understand by signs only More motion yet this is the prettiest Pilgrim The pink of Pilgrims I 'le be for ye Sir Do ye discourse with signs ye are heartily welcome A poor viaticum very good gold Sir But holy men affect a better treasure I kept it for your goodness but ne'rtheless Since it can prove but burthensome to your holiness And that you affect light prayer fit for carriage I 'le put this up again Cur. Ye are too unreverent Alp. Ye talk too broad must I give way and wealth too To every toy that carries a grave seeming Must my good Angels wait on him if the proud hilding Would yield but to my will and know her duty I know what I would suffer Seb. Good Sir be patient The wrongs ye do these men may light on you Too heavy too and then you will wish you had said less A comely and sweet usage becomes strangers Alp. We shall have half the Kingdom strangers shortly And this fond prodigality be suffer'd But I must be an Ass see 'em relieved sirrah If I were young again I would sooner get Bear-whelps And safer too than any of these she-saints But I will break her Cur. Such a face for certain Seb. Me thinks I have seen it too but we are cozen'd But fair befal thee Pilgrim thou lookst lovely Exit Por. Will ye troop up ye Porridge Regiment Enter Alinda and Juletta Captain Poors quarter will ye move Alin. Ye dull Knave Are not these wretches served yet Beg. ' Bless my Mistris Alin. Do you make sport Sir with their miseries Ye drousie Rogue Por. They are too high fed Madam Their stomachs are a sleep yet
This fellow in mine eye and Frank I am held To have a shrewd ghess at a pretty fellow Appears a strange thing Fra. Why how strange for Gods sake He is a man and one that may content For any thing I see a right good woman And sure I am not blind Clor. There lyes the question For but you say he is a man and I Will credit you I should as soon have thought him Another of Gods creatures out upon him His body that can promise nothing But laziness and long strides Fra. These are your eyes Where were they Clora when you fell in love With the old foot-man for singing of Queen Dido And swore he look'd in his old velvet trunks And his slic't Spanish Jerkin like Don John You had a parlous judgment then my Clora Clora Who told you that Fran. I heard it Clora Come be friends The Souldier is a Mars no more we are all Subject to slide away Fra. Nay laugh on still Clor. No saith thou art a good wench and 't is pity Thou shouldst not be well quarried at thy entring Thou art so high flown for him Look who 's there Enter Fabricio and Jacomo Jac. Prethee go single what should I do there Thou knowst I hate these visitations As I hate peace or perry Fab. Wilt thou never Make a right man Jac. You make a right fool of me To lead me up and down to visit women And be abus'd and laugh'd at let me stavre If I know what to say unless I ask 'em What their shooes cost Fab. Fye upon thee coward Canst thou not sing Jac. Thou knowest I can sing nothing But Plumpton park Fab. Thou't be bold enough When thou art enter'd once Jac. I had rather enter A breach if I miscarry by this hand I will have you by th' ears for 't Fab. Save ye Ladies Clo. Sweet Brother I dare swear you 're welcom hither So is your Friend Fab. Come blush not but salute ' em Fra. Good Sir believe your Sister you are most welcom So is this worthy Gentleman whose vertues I shall be proud to be acquainted with Jac. She has found me out already and has paid me Shall we be going Fab. Peace Your goodness Lady Will ever be afore us for my self I will not thank you single lest I leave My friend this Gentleman out of acquaintance Jac. More of me yet Fra. Would I were able Sir From either of your worths to merit thanks Clor. But Brother is your friend thus sad still methinks 'T is an unseemly nature in a Souldier Jac. What hath she to do with me or my behaviour Fab. He do's but shew so prethee to him Sister Jac. If I do not break thy head I am no Christian If I get off once Clor. Sir we must intreat you To think your self more welcom and be merry 'T is pity a fair man of your proportion Should have a soul of sorrow Jac. Very well Pray Gentlewoman what would you have me say Clora Do not you know Sir Jac. Not so well as you That talk continually Fran. You have hit her Sir Clora I thank him so he has Fair fall his sweet face for 't Jac. Let my face Alone I would wish you lest I take occasion To bring a worse in question Clora Meaning mine Brother where was your friend brought up h 'as sure Been a great lover in his youth of pottage They lye so dull upon his understanding Fab. No more of that thou 'lt anger him at heart Clo. Then let him be more manly for he looks Like a great School-boy that had been blown up Last night at dust-point Fran. You will never leave Till you be told how rude you are fye Clora Sir will it please you sit Clora And I 'le sit by you Jac. Woman be quiet and be rul'd I would wish you Clora I have done Sir Captain Fab. Art thou not asham'd Jac. You are an asse I 'le tell you more anon You had better have been hang'd than brought me hither Fab. You are grown a sullen fool either be handsom Or by this light I 'le have wenches bait thee Go to the Gentlewoman and give her thanks And hold your head up what Jac. By this light I 'le brain thee Fra. Now o' my faith this Gentleman do's nothing But it becomes him rarely Clora look How well this little anger if it be one Shews in his face Clo. Yes it shews very sweetly Fra. Nay do not blush Sir o' my troth it does I would be ever angry to be thus Fabritio o' my conscience if I ever Do fall in love as I will not forswear it â—ill I am something wiser it must be I will not say directly with that face But certainly such another as that is And thus dispose my chance to hamper me Fab. Dost thou hear this and stand still Jac. You will prate still I would you were not women I would take A new course with ye Clora Why couragious Jac. For making me a stone to whet your tongues on Clora Prethee sweet Captain Jac. Go go spin go hang. Clo. Now could I kiss him Jac. If you long for kicking You 'r best come kiss me do not though I 'de wish ye I 'le send my Foot-man to thee he shall leap thee And thou wantst horsing I 'le leave ye Ladies Fra. Beshrew my heart you are unmannerly To offer this unto a Gentleman Of his deserts that comes so worthily To visit me I cannot take it well Jac. I come to visit you you foolish woman Fra. I thought you did Sir and for that I thank you I would be loth to lose those thanks I know This is but some odd way you have and faith It do's become you well to make us merry I have heard often of your pleasant vein Fab. What wouldst thou ask more Jac. Pray thou scurvy fellow Thou hast not long to live adieu dear Damsels You filthy women farewel and be sober And keep your chambers Clor. Farewel old Don Diego Fra. Away away you must not so be angry To part thus roughly from us yet to me This do's not shew as if it were yours the wars May breed men something plain I know But not thus rude give me your hand good Sir I know 't is white and Jac. If I were not patient What would become of you two prating houswives Clo. For any thing I know we would in to supper And there begin a health of lusty Claret To keep care from our hearts and it should be Fab. Faith to whom Mark but this Jacomo Clo. Even to the handsomest fellow now alive Fab. Do you know such a one Fra. He may be ghest at Without much travel Fab. There 's another item Clor. And he should be a Souldier Fra. 'T would be better Clor. And yet not you sweet Captain Fra. Why not he Jac. Well I shall live to see your husbands beat you And hiss 'em on like ban-dogs Clora Ha ha ha Jac. Green sicknesses and serving-men light on
health to you some words I have that Require an utterance more private Than this place can afford Lel. I 'le call my husband All business I hear with his ears now Lod. Good Madam no but I perceive your jest You have no husband I am the very man That walk'd the streets so comely Lel. Are you so Lod. Yes faith when Cupid first did prick your heart I am not cruel but the love begun I' th' street I 'le satisfie i' th' chamber fully Lel. To ask a Madman whether he be mad Were but an idle question if you be I do not speak to you but if you be not Walk in the streets again and there perhaps I may dote on you here I not endure you Lod. Good Madam stay do not you know this Ring Lel. Yes it was mine I sent it by my Man To change and so he did it has a blemish And this he brought me for it did you change it Are you a Goldsmith Lod. Sure the world is mad Sirrah did you not bring me this ring from your Lady Fath. Yes surely Sir did I but your worship must ev'n bear with me For there was a mistaking in it and so as I was Saying to your worship my Lady is now married Lod. Married to whom Fa. To your worships friend Piso Lod. S'death to Piso Piso within Ha ha ha Ang. Yes Sir I can assure you she 's married to him I saw 't With these gray eyes Lod. Why what a Rogue art thou then thou hast made in 's mouth Me send in provision too Fa. O a Gentleman should not have such foul words But your Worships provision could not have come in at a fitter time Will it please you to tast any of your own wine It may be the Vintner has cozen'd you Lod. Pox I am mad Ang. You have always plots Sir and see how they fall out Jac. You had a plot upon me how do you like this Lod. I do not speak to you Fab. Because you dare not Lod. But I will have one of that old Rogues teeth set in this Ring Fat Do'st not thou know that I can beat thee Dost thou know it now discovers himself Lod. He beat me once indeed Fat And if you have for got it I can call a witness Come forth Piso remember you it Piso Faith I do call to minde such a matter Fat And if I cannot still do 't you are young And will assist your Father in law Piso My Father in law Ang. Your Father in law as sure as this is widow Lelia Piso How widow Lelia Fat I' faith 't is she Son Lod. Ha ha ha let my provision go I am glad I Have mist the woman Piso Have you put a whore upon me Lel. By heaven you do me wrong I have a heart As pure as any womans and I mean To keep it so for ever Fa. There is no starting now Son if you offer 't I can compel you her estate is great But all made o're to me before this match Yet if you use her kindly as I swear I think she will deserve you shall enjoy it During your life all save some slender piece I will reserve for my own maintenance And if God bless you with a child by her It shall have all Piso So I may have the means I do not much care what the woman is Come my sweet heart as long as I shall find Thy kisses sweet and thy means plentifull Let people talk their tongues out Lel. They may talk Of what is past but all that is to come Shall be without occasions Jul. Shall we not make Piso and Lodowick friends Jac. Hang 'em they dare not be Enemies or if they be The danger is not great welcom Frederick Enter Frederick Fred. First joy unto you all and next I think We shall have wars Jac. Give me some wine I 'le drink to that Fab. I 'le pledge Fran. But I shall lose you then Jac. Not a whit wench I 'le teach thee presently to be a Souldier Fred. Fabritio's command and yours are both restor'd Jac. Bring me four glasses then Fab. Where are they Ang. You shall not drink 'em here 't is supper time And from my house no creature here shall stir These three dayes mirth shall flow as well as wine Fa. Content within I 'le tell you more at large How much I am bound to all but most to you Whose undeserved liberality Must not escape thus unrequited Jac. 'T is happiness to me I did so well Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward vice punishment Exeunt Om. Prologue TO please you with this Play we fear will be So does the Author too a mystery Somewhat above our Art For all mens eyes Ears faiths and judgements are not of one size For to say truth and not to flatter ye This is nor Comedy nor Tragedy Nor History nor any thing that may Yet in a week be made a perfect Play Yet those that love to laugh and those that think Twelve pence goes farther this way than in drink Or Damsels if they mark the matter through May stumble on a foolish toy or two Will make 'em shew their teeth pray for my sake That likely am your first man do not take A distaste before you feel it for ye may When this is hist to ashes have a Play And here to out-hiss this be patient then My honour done y' are welcom Gentlemen Epilogue IF you mislike as you shall ever be Your own free Judges this Play utterly For your own Nobleness yet do not hiss But as you go by say it was amiss And we will mend Chide us but let it be Never in cold blood O' my honesty If I have any this I 'le say for all Our meaning was to please you still and shall THE PROPHETESS A Tragical History Persons Represented in the Play Charinus Emperour of Rome Cosroe King of Persia Diocles of a private Souldier elected Co-Emperour Maximinian Nephew to Diocles and Emperour by his donation Volutius Aper Murtherer of Numerianus the late Emperour Niger a noble Souldier Servant to the Emperour Camurius a Captain and Creature of Aper's Persian Lords Senators Souldiers Guard Suitors Ambassadors Lictors Flamen Attendants Shepherd Country-men Geta a Jester Servant to Diocles a merry Knave WOMEN Aurelia Sister to Charinus Cassana Sister to Cosroe a Captive waiting on Aurelia Delphia a Prophetess Drusilla Niece to Delphia in love with Diocles. The Scene Rome The principal Actors were John Lowin Robert Benfield John Shanke Richard Sharpe Joseph Taylor Nicholas Toolie George Birch Thomas Holcombe Actus Primus Scena Prima Enter Charinus Aurelia Niger Cha. YOU buz into my head strange likelihoods And fill me full of doubts but what proofs Niger What certainties that my most noble Brother Came to his end by murther Tell me that Assure me by some circumstance Niger I will Sir And as I tell you truth so the gods prosper me I have often nam'd this Aper
out to revenge it if I break One Article Age. Great miracle of Queens How happy I esteem my self in being Thought worthy to be numbred in the rank Of you confederates my love and best service Shall teach the world hereafter but this gift With which you have confirm'd it is so far Beyond my hopes and means e'r to return That of necessity I must dye oblig'd To your unanswer'd bounty The. The sweet Lady In blushes gives your Highness thanks Qu. Believe it On the Queens word she is a worthy one And I am so acquainted with her goodness That but for this peace that hath chang'd my purpose And to her more advancement I should gladly Have call'd her Daughter The. Though I am depriv'd of A blessing 't is not in the Fates to equal To shew my self a Subject as a Son Here I give up my claim and willingly With mine own hand deliver you what once I lov'd above my self and from this hour For my affection yields now to my duty Vow never to sollicite her Cra. 'T is well cover'd Neanthes and the rest Exeunt Cra. Nea. Sos Era Qu. Nay for this night You must for 't is our Countrey fashion Sir Leave her to her Devotions in the morning We 'll bring you to the Temple Leo. How in this Your Highness honours me Mer. Sweet rest to all Age. This kiss and I obey you Bel. Please it your Highness This is the Gentleman Qu. You are welcome home Sir Now as I live one of a promising presence I have heard of you before and you shall find I 'll know you better find out something that May do you good and rest assur'd to have it Were you at Sparta lately Euph. Three daies since Madam I came from thence Qu. 'T is very late Good night my Lord do you Sir follow me I must talk further with you Ag. All rest with you Exeunt Enter Crates Neanthes Eraton Sosicles disguis'd Cra. She must pass through this Cloyster suddainly And boldly seize upon her Nea. Where 's the Prince Cra. He does expect us at the place I shew'd you Enter Merione and Servant I hear ones footing peace 't is she Mer. Now leave me I know the way though Vesta witness with me I never trode it with such fear help help Cra. Stop her mouth close out with the Light I 'll guide you Exeunt Actus Secundus Scaena Prima Enter Merione as newly ravished Mer. TO whom now shall I cry What pow'r thus kneel to And beg my ravisht honor back upon me Deaf deaf you gods of goodness deaf to me Deaf Heaven to all my cries deaf hope deaf justice I am abus'd and you that see all saw it Saw it and smil'd upon the villain did it Saw it and gave him strength why have I pray'd to ye When all the worlds eyes have been sunk in slumbers Why have I then powr'd out my tears kneel'd to ye And from the Altar of a pure heart sent ye Thoughts like your selves white innocent vows purer And of a sweeter flame than all the earths odours Why have I sung your praises sâ—rew'd your Temples And crown'd your Holy Priests with Virgin Roses Is it we hold ye powerful to destroy us Believe and honor ye to see us ruin'd These tears of anger thus I sprinkle toward ye You that dare sleep secure whilst Virgins suffer These stick like Comets blaze eternally Till with the wonder they have wak'd your justice And forc't ye fear our curses as we yours Enter Theanor Crates with vizards My shame still follows me and still proclaims me He turns away in scorn I am contemned too A more unmanly violence than the other Bitten and slung away What e'r you are Sir you that have abus'd me and now most basely And sacrilegiously robb'd this fair Temple I sling all these behind me but look upon me But one kind loving look be what ye will So from this hour you will be mine my Husband And you his hand in mischief I speak to you too Counsel him nobly now you know the mischief The most unrighteous act he has done perswade him Perswade him like a friend knock at his Conscience Till fair Repentance follow yet be worthy of me And shew your self if ever good thought guided ye You have had your soul will make it yet fair with marriage Open your self and take me wed me now Draws his Dagger More fruits of villany your Dagger come Ye are merciful I thank you for your medicine Is that too worthy too Enter the rest disguis'd Devil thou with him Thou penny Bawd to his Lust will not that stir thee Do you work by tokens now Be sure I live not For your own safeties knaves I will sit patiently But as ye are true villains the Devils own servants And those he loves and trusts make it as bloody An Act of such true horror Heaven would shake at 'T will shew the braver goodness hold my hope fast And in thy mercies look upon my ruines And then I am right my eyes grow dead and heavy Enter six disguis'd singing and dancing to a horrid Musick and sprinkling water on her face Wrong me no more as ye are men The. She is fast Cra. Away with her Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Agenor and Gentlemen Age. Now Gentlemen the time 's come now t' enjoy That fruitful happiness my heart has long'd for This day be happy call'd and when old Time Brings it about each year crown'd with that sweetness It gives me now see every man observe it And laying all aside bears shew of business Give this to joy and triumph How fits my cloaths 1 Gent Handsome and wondrous well Sir Ag. Do they shew richly For to those curious eyes even beauty envies I must not now appear poor or low fashion'd Methinks I am younger than I was far younger And such a promise in my bloud I feel now That if there may be a perpetual youth Bestowed on man I am that soul shall win it Does my hair stand well Lord how ill-favourdly You have drest me to day how baldly why this Cloak 2 Gen Why 't is the richest Sir Age. And here ye have put me on A pair of Breeches look like a pair of Bagpipes 1 Gen. Believe Sir they shew bravely Ag. Why these Stockins 2 Gen. Your Leg appears Ag. Peâ—h I would have had 'em Peach-colour All young and new about me and this Scarf here A goodly thing you have trickt me like a Puppet 1 Gen. I 'll undertake to rig forth a whole Navy And with less labor than one man in love They are never pleas'd 2 Gen. Methinks he looks well 1 Gen. Well As man can look as handsome now do I wonder He found not fault his Nose was put on ugly Or his Eyes lookt too gray and rail at us They are the way wards things these Lovers 2 Gent. All will be right When once it comes to th' push 1 Gent. I would they were at it For
relieve each other Two eyes two ears two arms two legs and feet That where one faild the other might supply And I your other eye ear your arm and leg Tender my service help and succor to ye Ag. Leo. A most divine example Euph. For dear Brother You have been blind and lame and deaf to me Now be no more so in humility I give ye the duty of a younger Brother Which take you as a Brother not a Father And then you 'll pay a duty back to me Cra. Till now I have not wept these thirty years Euph. Discording Brothers are like mutual legs Supplanting one another he that seeks Aid from a stranger and forsakes his Brother Does but like him that madly lops his arm And to his body joyns a wooden one Cuts off his natural leg and trusts a Crutch Plucks out his eye to see with Spectacles Cra. Most dear Euphanes in this crimson floud Wash my unkindness out you have o'rcome me Taught me humanity and brotherhood Full well knew Nature thou wert fitter far To be a Ruler o'r me than a Brother Which henceforth be Jove surely did descend When thou wert gotten in some heavenly shape And greet my Mother as the Poets tell Of other Women Ag. Be this Holy-day Leo. And noted ever with the whitest stone Co. And pardon me my Lord look you I bleed Faster than Crates what I have done I did To reconcile your loves to both a friend Which my blood ciment never to part or end Ag. Most worthy Conon Leo. Happy rise this day Contracts more good than a whole age hath done Euph. Royal Agenor brave Leonidas You are main causes and must share the fame Cra. Which in some part this hour shall requite For I have aim'd my black shafts at white marks And now I 'll put the clew into your hands Shall guide ye most perspicuously to the depth Of this dark Labyrinth where so long ye were lost Touching this old Rape and a new intent Wherein your counsel and your active wit My dearest Brother will be necessary Euph. My Prophesie is come prove my hopes true Agenor shall have right and you no wrong Time now will pluck her daughter from her Cave Let 's hence to prevent rumour my dear Brother Nature's divided streams the highest shelf Will over-run at last and flow to it self Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Crates Euphanes Neanthes Sosicles Eraton Euph. I Have won the Lady to it and that good Which is intended to her your faith only And secresie must make perfect Think not Sir I speak as doubting it for I dare hazard My soul upon the tryal Cra. You may safely But are Agenor and Leonidas ready To rush upon him in the Act and seize him In the height of his security Euph. At all parts as you could wish them Cra. Where 's the Lady Euph. There Where you appointed her to stay Cra. 'T is wisely order'd Euph. Last when you have him sure compel him this way For as by accident here I 'll bring the Queen To meet you 't will strike greater terror to him To be tane unprovided of excuse And make more for our purposes Exit Cra. Come Neanthes our Fames and all are at the stake Nea. 'T is fit that since relying on your skill we venture So much upon one game you play with cunning Enter Theanor Or we shall rise such losers as Sos The Prince Cra. The plot is laid Sir howsoe'r I seem'd A little scrupulous upon better judgement I have effected it The. 'T is the last service Of this foul kind I will employ you in Cra. We hope so Sir The. And I will so reward it Nea. You are bound to that in every Family That does write lustful your fine Bawd gains more For like your Broker he takes fees on both sides Than all the Officers of the house Sos For us then To be a great mans Panders and live poor That were a double fault Cra. Come you lose time Sir We will be with you instantly the deed done We have a Mask that you expert not The. Thou art ever careful for Joves Mercury I would not change thee Exit Era. There 's an honour for you Nea. To be compar'd with the celestial Pimp Joves smock-sworn Squire Don Hermes Cra. I 'll deserve it And Gentlemen be assur'd though what we do now Will to the Prince Theanor look like Treason And base disloyalty yet the end shall prove When he 's first taught to know himself then you In what he judg'd us false we were most true Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Euphanes Agenor Leonidas Conon Euph. Only make haste my Lords in all things else You are instructed you may draw your swords For shew if you think good but on my life You will find no resistance in his servants And he 's himself unarm'd Ag. I would he were not My just rage should not then be lost Euph. Good Sir Have you a care no injury be done Unto the person of the Prince but Conon Have you an eye on both it is your trust that I relye on Co. Which I will discharge assure your self most faithfully Euph. For the Lady I know your best respect will not be wanting Then to avoid suspition and discovery I hold it requisite that as soon as ever The Queen hath seen her she forsake the place And fit her self for that which is projected For her good and your honour Leo. If this prosper Believe it you have made a purchase of My service and my life Euph. Your love I aim at Leo. Here I shall find you Euph. With the Queen Co. Enough Sir Enter Page Page The Queen enquires for you my Lord I have met A dozen Messengers in search of you Enter Queen Ladies Attendants Euph. I knew I should be sought for as I wish'd She 's come her self in person Qu. Are you found Sir I wonder where you spend your hours methinks Since I so love your company and profess 'T is the best comfort this life yields me mine Should not be tedious to you Euph. Gracious Madam To have the happiness to see and hear you Which by your bounty is conferr'd upon me I hold so great a blessing that my honours And wealth compar'd to that are but as Cyphers To make that number greater yet your pardon For borrowing from my duty so much time As the provision for my sudden Marriage Exacted from me Qu. I perceive this Marriage Will keep you often from me but I 'll bear it She 's a good Lady and a fair Euphanes Yet by her leave I will share with her in you I am pleas'd that in the night she shall enjoy you And that 's sufficient for a Wife the day-time I will divorce you from her Leo. within We will force you if you resist Qu. What noise is that The. within Base Traytors Euph. It moves this way Enter Agenor Leonidas with Theanor Nerione like Beliza Conon Crates Neanthes Sosicles Eraton
greatest scorner And most insulter upon misery Vir. For those they are toys to laugh at not to lead men A womans mirth or anger like a meteor Glides and is gone and leaves no crack behind it Our miseries would seem like masters to us And shake our manly spirits into feavers If we respected those the more they glory And raise insulting Trophies on our ruines The more our virtues shine in patience Sweet Prince the name of death was never terrible To him that knew to live nor the loud torrent Of all afflictions singing as they swim A gall of heart but to a guilty conscience Whilst we stand fair though by a two-edg'd storm We find untimely falls like early Roses Bent to the earth we bear our native sweetness Asca Good Sir go on Vir. When we are little children And cry and fret for every toy comes cross us How sweetly do we shew when sleep steals on us When we grow great but our affections greater And struggle with this stubborn twin born with us And tug and pull yet still we find a Giant Had we not then the priviledge to sleep Our everlasting sleep he would make us Idiots The memory and monuments of good men Are more than lives and though their tombs want tongues Yet have they eies that daily sweat their losses And such a tear from stone no time can value To die both young and good are natures curses As the world saies ask truth they are bounteous blessings For then we reach at Heaven in our full virtues And fix our selves new Stars crown'd with our goodness Asc You have double arm'd me Strange Musick within Plohoys Hark what noise is this What horrid noise is the Sea pleas'd to sing A hideous Dirge to our deliverance Vir. Stand fast now Within strange cries horrid noise Trumpets Asc I am fixt Vir. We fear ye not Enter Martia Let death appear in all shapes we smile on him Asc The Lady now Vir. The face o' th' Mask is alter'd Asc What will she do Vir. Do what she can I care not Asc She looks on you Sir Vir. Rather she looks through me But yet she stirs me not Mart. Poor wretched slaves Why do you live or if ye hope for mercy Why do not you houl out and fill the hold With lamentations cries and base submissions Worthy our scorn Vir. Madam you are mistaken We are no slaves to you but to blind fortune And if she had her eyes and durst be certain Certain our friend I would not bow unto her I would not cry nor ask so base a mercy If you see any thing in our appearance Worthy your sexes softness and your own glory Do it for that and let that good reward it We cannot beg Mart. I 'll make you beg and bow too Vir. Madam for what Mart. For life and when you hope it Then will I laugh and triumph on your baseness Asc Madam 't is true there may be such a favour And we may ask it too ask it with honor And thank you for that favour nobly thank you Though it be death but when we beg a base life And beg it of your scorn Vir. Y' are couzen'd woman Your handsomness may do much but not this way But for your glorious hate Mart. Are ye so stubborn Death I will make you bow Vir. It must be in your bed then There you may work me to humility Mart. Why I can kill thee Vir. If you do it handsomely â—t may be I can thank you else Mart. So glorious Assca Her cruelty now works Mart. Yet woot thou Vir. No. Mart. Wilt thou for life sake Vir. No I know your subtilty Mart. For honor sake Vir. I will not be a Pageant My mind was ever firm and so I 'll lose it Mart. I 'll starve thee to it Vir. I 'll starve my self and cross it Mart. I 'll lay thee on such miseries Vir. I 'll wear 'em And with that wantonness you do your Bracelets Mart. I 'll be a month a killing thee Vir. Poor Lady I 'll be a month a dying then what 's that There 's many a Calenture out-does your cruelty Mart. How might I do in killing of his body To save his Noble mind Who waits there Enter a Sailor with a rich Cap and Mantle Sayl. Madam Mart. Unbolt this man and leave those things behind you And so away now put 'em on Exit Sailer Vir. To what end Mart. To my End to my Will Vir. I will Mart. I thank you Vir. Nay now you thank me I 'll do more I 'll tell ye I am a servant to your courtesie And so far will be woo'd but if this triumph Be only aim'd to make your mischief glorious Lady y 'ave put a richer shroud upon me Which my strong mind shall suffer in Mart. Come hither And all thy bravery put into thy carriage For I will admire thee Vir. Whither will this woman Asc Take heed my friend Mart. Look as thou scorn'dst my cruelty I know thou dost Vir. I never fear'd nor flatter'd Mart. No if thou hadst thou hadst died and I had gloried I suffer now and thou which art my prisoner Hast nobly won the free power to despise me I love thee and admire thee for thy Nobleness And for thy manly sufferance am thy servant Vir. Good Lady mock me not Mart. By heaven I love thee And by the soul of love am one piece with thee Thy mind thy mind thy brave thy manly mind That like a Rock stands all the storms of fortune And beats 'em roaring back they cannot reach thee That lovely mind I dote on not the body That mind has rob'd me of my liberty That mind has darken'd all my bravery And into poor despis'd things turn'd my angers Receive me to your love Sir and instruct me Receive me to your bed and marry me I 'll wait upon you bless the hour I knew you Vir. Is this a new way Mart. If you doubt my faith First take your liberty I 'll make it perfect Or any thing within my power Vir. I love you But how to recompence your love with marriage Alas I have a wife Mart. Dearer than I am That will adventure so much for your safety Forget her father's wrongs quit her own honor Pull on her for a strangers sake all curses Vir. Shall this Prince have his freedom too Else all I love is gone all my friends perish Mart. He shall Vir. What shall I do Mart. If thou despise my courtesie When I am dead for grief I am forsaken And no soft hand left to asswage your sorrows Too late but too true curse your own cruelties Asca Be wise if she be true no thred is left else To guide us from this labyrinth of mischief Nor no way for our friends Vir. Thus then I take you I bind ye to my life my love Mart. I take you And with the like bond tye my heart your servant W' are now almost at Harbor within this hour In
these Meadows And meet at Port again Come my fair Sister These cool shades will delight ye Am. Pray be merry The Birds sing as they meant to entertain ye Every thing smiles abroad methinks the River As he steals by curles up his head to view ye Every thing is in love Ism You would have it so You that are fair are easie of belief Cosen The theam slides from your tongue Am. I fair I thank ye Mine's but shadow when your Sun shines by me Ism No more of this you know your worth Aminta Where are we now Am. Hard by the Town Ismena Ter. Close by the Gates Ism 'T is a fine Ayr. Lis A delicate The way so sweet and even that the Coach Would be a tumbling trouble to our pleasures Methinks I am very merry Ism I am sad Am. You are ever so when we entreat ye Cosen Ism I have no reason such a trembling here Over my heart methinks Am. Sure you are fasting Or not slept well to night some dream Ismena Ism My dreams are like my thoughts honest and innocent Yours are unhappy who are these that coast us Enter Antonio and Martin You told me the walk was private Ter. 'T is most commonly Ism Two proper men It seems they have some business With me none sure I do not like their faces They are not of our Company Ter. No Cosen Lisauro we are dog'd Lis I find it Cosen Ant. What handsome Lady Mar. Yes she 's very handsome They are handsome both Ant. Martin stay we are cosen'd Mar. I will go up a woman is no wild-fire Ant. Now by my life she is sweet Stay good Martin They are of our enemies the house of Belides Our mortal enemies Mar. Let 'em be devils They appear so handsomly I will go forward If these be enemies I 'll ne'r seek friends more Ant. Prethee forbear the Gentlewomen Mar. That 's it man That moves me like a Gin. 'Pray ye stand off Ladies Lis They are both our enemies both hate us equally By this fair day our mortal foes Ter. I know 'em And come here to affront how they gape at us They shall have gaping work Ism Why your swords Gentlemen Ter. Pray ye stand you off Cosen And good now leave your whistling we are abus'd all Back back I say Lis Go back Ant. We are no dogs Sir To run back on command Ter. We 'll make ye run Sir Ant. Having a civil charge of handsome Ladies We are your servants pray ye no quarrel Gentlemen There 's way enough for both Lis We 'll make it wider Ant. If you will fight arm'd from this Saint have at ye Ism O me unhappy are ye Gentlemen Discreet and Civil and in open view thus Am. What will men think of us nay you may kill us Mercy o' me through my petticoat what bloody Gentlemen Ism Make way through me ye had best and kill an innocent Brother why Cosen by this light I 'll dye too This Gentleman is temperate be you merciful Alass the Swords Am. You had best run me through 'T will be a valiant thrust Ism I faint amongst ye Ant. Pray ye be not fearful I have done sweet Lady My swords already aw'd and shall obey ye I come not here to violate sweet beauty I bow to that Ism Brother you see this Gentleman This noble Gentleman Lis Let him avoid then And leave our Walk Ant. The Lady may command Sir She bears an eye more dreadful than your weapon Ism What a sweet nature this man has dear brother Put up your sword Ter. Let them put up and walk then Ant. No more loud words there 's time enough before us For shame put up do honor to these beauties Mar. Our way is this We will not be denyed it Ter. And ours is this we will not be cross'd in it Ant. What ere your way is Lady 't is a fair one And may it never meet with rude hands more Nor rough uncivil Tongues Exeunt Ism I thank ye Sir Indeed I thank ye nobly a brave Enemy Here 's a sweet temper now This is a man Brother This Gentleman's anger is so nobly seated That it becomes him Yours proclaim ye Monsters What if he be our House-Foe we may brag on 't We have ne'er a friend in all our House so honorable I had rather from an Enemy my Brother Learn worthy distances and modest difference Than from a race of empty friends loud nothings I am hurt between ye Am. So am I I fear too Dear Cosen Why look ye pale where are ye hurt Ism I know not But here methinks Lis Unlace her gentle Cousen Ism My heart my heart and yet I bless the Hurter Am. Is it so dangerous Ism Nay nay I faint not Am. Here is no blood that I find sure 't is inward Ism Yes yes 't is inward 't was a subtle weapon The hurt not to be cur'd I fear Lis The Coach there Am. May be a fright Ism Aminta 't was a sweet one And yet a cruel Am. Now I find the wound plain A wondrous handsome Gentleman Ism Oh no deeper Prethee be silent wench it may be thy case Am. You must be searched the wound will rancle Cosen And of so sweet a nature Ism Dear Aminta Make it not sorer Am. And on my life admires ye Ism Call the Coach Cosen Am. The Coach the Coach Ter. 'T is ready bring the Coach there Lis Well my brave Enemies we shall yet meet ye And our old hate shall testifie Ter. It shall Cosen Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Antonio and Martine Ant. Their swords alass I weigh 'em not dear Friend The indiscretion of the Owners blunts 'em The fury of the House affrights not me It spends it self in words Oh me Martine There was a two edg'd eye a Lady carried A weapon that no valor can avoyd Nor Art the hand of Spirit put aside O Friend it broke out on me like a bullet Wrapt in a cloud of fire that point Martine Dazled my sence and was too subtle for me Shot like a Comet in my face and wounded To my eternal ruine my hearts valor Mar. Methinks she was no such piece Ant. Blaspheme not Sir She is so far beyond weak commendation That impudence will blush to think ill of her Mar. I see it not and yet I have both eyes open And I could judge I know there is no beauty Till our eyes give it 'em and make 'em handsome What 's red and white unless we do allow ' em A green face else and me-thinks such an other Ant. Peace thou leud Heretick Thou judge of beauties Thou hast an excellent sense for a sign-post Friend Dost thou not see I 'll swear thou art soon blind else As blind as ignorance when she appeared first Aurora breaking in the east and through her face As if the hours and graces had strew'd Roses A blush of wonder flying when she was frighted At our uncivil swords didst thou not mark How far beyond the
the parting kiss You trusted with them when you fled from Sevil With little Clara my sweet daughter lives she Yet I could chide my self having you here For being so covetous of all joyes at once T' enquire for her you being alone to me My Clara Lucio my Lord my self Nay more than all the world Alv. As you to me are Eug. Sit down and let me feed upon the story Of your past dangers now you are here in safety It will give rellish and fresh appetite To my delights if such delights can cloy me Yet do not Alvarez let me first yield you Account of my life in your absence and Make you acquainted how I have preserv'd The Jewel left lock'd up in my womb When you in being forc'd to leave your Countrey Suffer'd a civil death Within clashing swords Alv. Doe my Eugenia 'T is that I most desire to hear Eug. Then know Sayavedra within Alv. What noise is that Saya If you are noble enemies Vitelli within Oppress me not with odds but kill me fairly Vit. Stand off I am too many of my self Enter Bobadilla Bob. Murther murther murther your friend my Lord Don Sayavedra is set upon in the streets by your enemies Vitelli and his Faction I am almost kill'd with looking on them Alv. I 'll free him or fall with him draw thy sword And follow me Clar. Fortune I give thee thanks For this occasion once more to use it Bob. Nay hold not me Madam if I do any hurt hang me Exit Luc. Oh I am dead with fear let 's flie into Your Closet Mother Eug. No hour of my life Secure of danger heav'n be merciful Or now at once dispach me Enter Vitelli pursued by Alvarez and Sayavedra Clara beating of Anastro Cla. Follow him Leave me to keep these of Alv. Assault my friend So near my house Vit. Nor in it will spare thee Though 't were a Temple and I 'll make it one I being the Priest and thou the sacrifice I 'll offer to my Uncle Alv. Haste thou to him And say I sent thee Cla. 'T was put bravely by And that and yet comes on and boldly rare In the wars where emulation and example Joyn to increase the courage and make less The danger valour and true resolution Never appear'd so lovely brave again Sure he is more than man and iâ— he fall The best of virtue fortitude would dye with him And can I suffer it forgive me duty So I love valour as I will protect it Against my Father and redeem it though 'T is forfeited by one I hate Vit. Come on All is not lost yet You shall buy me dearer Before you have me keep off Cla. Fear me not Thy worth has took me prisoner and my sword For this time knows thee only for a friend And to all else I turn the point of it Say Defend your Fathers enemy Alv. Art thou mad Cla. Are you men rather shall that valour which Begot you lawful honor in the wars Prove now the Parent of an infamous Bastard So foul yet so long liv'd as murther will Be to your shames have each of you alone With your own dangers only purchas'd glory From multitudes of enemies not allowing Those nearest to you to have part in it And do you now joyn and lend mutual help Against a single opposite hath the mercy Of the great King but newly wash'd away The blood that with the forfeit of your life Cleav'd to your name and family like an ulcer In this again to set a deeper dye Upon your infamy you 'll say he is your foe And by his rashness call'd on his own ruin Remember yet he was first wrong'd and honor Spurr'd him to what he did and next the place Where now he is your house which by the laws Of hospitable duty should protect him Have you been twenty years a stranger to it To make your entrance now in blood or think you Your countrey-man a true born Spaniard will be An offering fit to please the genius of it No in this I 'll presume to teach my Father And this first Act of disobedience shall Confirm I am most dutiful Alv. I am pleas'd With what I dare not give allowance to Unnatural wretch what wilt thou do Cla. Set free A noble enemy come not on by You pass to him through me the way is open Farewel when next I meet you do not look for A friend but a vow'd foe I see you worthy And therefore now preserve you for the honor Of my sword only Vit. Were this man a friend How would he win me that being my vow'd foe Deserves so well I thank you for my life â—ut how I shall deserve it give me leave Hereafter to consider Exit Alv. Quit thy fear All danger is blown over I have Letters To the Governor in the Kings name to secure us From such attempts hereafter yet we need not That have such strong Guards of our own dread others And to increase thy comfort know this young man Whom with such fervent earnestness you eye â—s not what he appears but such a one As thou with joy wilt bless thy Daughter Clara. Eug. A thousand blessings in that word Alv. The reason Why I have bred her up thus at more leasure I will impart unto you wonder not At what you have seen her do it being the least Of many great and valiant undertakings She hath made good with honor Eug. I 'll return The joy I have in her with one as great To you my Alvarez you in a man Have given to me a Daughter in a Woman I give to you a Son this was the pledge You left here with me whom I have brought up Different from what he was as you did Clara And with the like success as she appears Alter'd by custom more than Woman he Transform'd by his soft life as less than man Alv. Fortune in this gives ample satisfaction For all our sorrows past Luc. My dearest Sister Cla. Kind Brother Alv. Now our mutual care must be Imploy'd to help wrong'd nature to recover Her right in either of them lost by custom To you I give my Clara and receive My Lucio to my charge and we 'll contend With loving industry who soonest can Turn this man woman or this woman man Exeunt Actus Secundus Scaena Prima Enter Pachieco and Lazarillo Pac. BOy and Cloak and Rapier it fits not a Gentleman of my rank to walk the streets in Querpo Laz. Nay you are a very rank Gent. Signior I am very hungry they tell me in Sevil here I look like an Eel with a mans head and your neighbor the Smith here hard by would have borrowed me th' other day to have fish'd with me because he had lost his Angle-rod Pac. Oh happy thou Lazarillo being the cause of other mens wits as in thine own live lean and witty still oppress not thy stomach too much gross feeders great sleepers fat bodies fat bodies lean brains No Lazarillo I
art damn'd else This Beast of Babylon I will never back again His pace is sure prophane and his lewd Wi-hees The Sons of Hymyn and Gymyn in the wilderness Far. Fie neighbor Bomby in your fits again Your zeal sweats this is not careful neighbor The Hobby-horse is a seemly Hobby-horse Soto And as pretty a beast on 's inches though I say it Hob. The Beast is an unseemly and a lewd Beast And got at Rome by the Popes oach-Horses His mother was the Mare of ignorance Soto Cobler thou ly'st and thou wert a thousand Coblers His mother was an honest Mare and a Mare of good credit I know the Mare and if need be can bring witness And in the way of honesty I tell thee Scorn'd any Coach-Horse the Pope had thou art foolish And thy blind zeal makes thee abuse the Beast Hob. I do defie thee and thy foot-cloth too And tell thee to thy face this prophane riding I feel it in my conscience and I dare speak it This un-edified ambling hath brought a scourge upon us This Hobby-horse sincerity we â—iv'd in War and the sword of slaughter â— renounce it And put the beast off thus the beast poâ—luted And now no more shall hop on high Bomby Follow the painted pipes of high pleasures And with the wicked dance the devils measures Away thou pamper'd jade of vanity Stand at the Livery of lewd delights now And eat the provinder of prick-ear'd â—oâ—ly My dance shall be to the pipe of persecution Far. Will you daunce no more neighbor Hob. Surely no Carry the Beast to his Crib I have renounc'd him And all his works Soto Shall the Hobby-horse be forgot then The hopeful Hobby-horse shall he lye founder'd If thou do'st this thou art but a cast-away Cobler My anger 's up think wisely and think quickly And look upon the quondam beast of pleasure If thou dost this mark me thou serious Sowter Thou Bench-whistler of the old tribe of toe-pieces If thou dost this there shall be no more shooe-mending Every man shall have a special care of his own soul And in his pocket carry his two Confessors His Yugel and his Nawl if thou dost this Far. He will dance again for certain Hob. I cry out on 't 'T was the fore-running sin brought in those Tilt-staves They brandish ' gainst the Church the devil calls May-poles Soto Take up your Horse again and girth him to ye And girth him handsomely good neighbor Bomby Hob. I spit at him Soto Spit in the Horse face Cobler Thou out of tune Psalm-singing slave spit in his visnomy Hob. I spit again and thus I rise against him Against this Beast that signify'd destruction Fore-shew'd i' th' falls of Monarchies Soto I' th' face of him Spit such another spit by this hand Cobler I 'll make ye set a new piece o' your nose there Tak 't up I say and dance without more bidding And dance as you were wont you have been excellent And art still but for this new nicity And your wives learned Lectures take up the Hobby-horse Come 't is a thing thou hast lov'd with all thy heart Bomby And would'st do still but for the round-breech'd brothers You were not thus in the morning tak 't up I say Do not delay but do it you know I am officer And I know 't is unfit all these good fellows Should wait the cooling of your zealous porridge Chuse whether you will dance or have me execute â—'ll clap your neck i' th' stocks and thrre I 'll make ye Dance a whole day and dance with these at night too You mend old shooes well mend your old manners better And suddenly see you leave off this sincereness This new hot Batch borrowed from some brown Baker Some learned brother or I 'll so bait ye for 't Take it quickly up Hob. I take my persecution And thus I am forc'd a by-word to my brethren Soto Strike up strike up strike merrily Far. To it roundly Now to the harvest feast then sport again boyes Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Silvio arm'd Sil. What shall I do live thus unknown and base still Or thrust my self into the head o' th' Battel And there like that I am a Gentleman And one that never fear'd the face of danger So in her angry eyes ste carried honor Fight nobly and to end my cares die nobly Song within SIlvio go on and raise thy noble mind To noble ends fling course base thoughts behind Silvio thou Son of everliving fame Now aim at virtue and a Noble Name Silvio consider Honor is not won Nor virtue reach'd till some brave thing be done Thy Countrey calls thee now she burns and bleeds Now raise thy self young man to noble deeds Into the battel Silvio there seek forth Danger and blood by them stands sacred worth What heavenly voice is this that follows me This is the second time 't has waited on me Since I was arm'd and ready for the battel It names me often steels my heart with courage Enter Belvidere deformed And in a thousand sweet notes comforts me What Beldam's this how old she is and ugly Why does she follow me Bel. Be not dismaid Son I wait upon thee for thy good and honor 'T was I that now sung to thee stirr'd thy mind up And rais'd thy spirits to the pitch of nobleness Sil. Though she be old and of a crooked carkass Her voice is like the harmony of Angels Bel. Thou art my darling all my love dwels on thee The Son of virtue therefore I attend thee Enquire not what I am I come to serve thee For if thou be'st inquisitive thou hast lost me A thousand long miles hence my dwelling is Deep in a Cave where but mine own no foot treads There by mine Art I found what danger Silvio And deep distress of heart thou wert grown into A thousand Leagues I have cut through empty air Far swifter than the sayling rack that gallops Upon the wings of angry winds to seek thee Sometimes o'er a swelling tide on a Dolphins back I ride Sometimes pass the earth below and through the unmoved Center go Sometimes in a flame of fire like a Meteor I aspire Sometimes in mine own shape thus when I help the virtuous Men of honourable minds command my Art in all his kinds Pursue the noble thought of War from thy Guard I 'll not be far Get thee worship on thy foe lasting Fame is gotten so Single Syennas Duke alone hear thy friends thy Countrey groan And with thy manly arm strike sure then thou hast wrought thine own free cure Sil. Some Sybel sure some soul heaven loves and favours And lends her their free powers to work their wonders How she incites my courage Bel. Sylvio I knew thee many daies ago Foresaw thy love to Belvidere the Dutchess daughter and her Heir Knew she lov'd thee and know what past when you were found i' th' Castle fast In one anothers arms forsaw the taking of ye and the
's right Sir Mor. This fellow broods his Master speed ye Jaques Soph. We shall be for you presently Jaq. Your worships Shall have it rich and neat and o' my conscience As welcome as our Lady-day Oh my old Sir When shall we see your worship run at Ring That hour a standing were worth money Mor. So Sir Jaq. Upon my little honesty your Mistriss If I have any speculation must think This single thrumming of a Fiddle Without a Bow but even poor sport Mor. Y' are merry Ja. Would I were wise too so God bless your worship Tra. The fellow tells you true Exit Jaq. Soph. When is the day man Come come you 'll steal a marriage Mor. Nay believe me But when her Father pleases I am ready And all my friends shall know it Tra. Why noâ— now One charge had serv'd for both Mor. There 's reason in 't Soph. Call'd Rowland Mor. Will ye walk They 'll think we are lost Come Gentlemen Tra. You have wip'd him now Soph. So will he never the wench I hope Tra. I wish it Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Rowland and Livia Row Now Livia if you 'll go away to night If your affections be not made of words Liv. I love you and vou know how dearly Rowland Is there none near us my affections ever Have been your servants with what superstition I have ever Sainted you Row Why then take this way Liv. 'T will be a childish and a less prosperous course Than 〈◊〉 that knows not care why should we do Our honest and our hearty love such wrong To over-run our fortunes Row Then you flatter Liv. Alas you know I cannot Rom. What hope 's left else But flying to enjoy ye Liv. None so far For let it be admitted we have time And all things now in other expectation My father 's bent against us what but ruine Can such a by-way bring us if your fears Would let you look with my eyes I would shew you And certain how our staying here would win us A course though somewhat longer yet far surer Row And then Moroso h'as ye Liv. No such matter For hold this certain begging stealing whoring Selling which is a sin unpardonable Of counterfeit Cods or musty English Croacus Switches or Stones for th' tooth-ache sooner finds me Than that drawn Fox Moroso Row But his money If wealth may win you Liv. If a Hog may be High Priest among the Jews his money Rowland Oh Love forgive me what faith hast thou Why can his money kiss me Row Yes Liv. Behind Laid out upon a Petticoat or graspe me While I cry Oh good thank you o' my troth Thou mak'st me merry with thy fear or lie with me As you may do alas what fools you men are His mouldy money half a dozen Riders That cannot sit but stampt fast to their Saddles No Rowland no man shall make use of me My beauty was born free and free I 'll give it To him that loves not buys me You yet doubt me Row I cannot say I doubt ye Liv. Goe thy ways Thou art the prettiest puling piece of passion Y'faith I will not fail thee Row I had rather Liv. Prethee believe me if I do not carry it For both our goods Row But Liv. What but Row I would tell you Liv. I know all you can tell me all 's but this 〈◊〉 would have me and lie with me is' t not so Row Yes Liv. Why you shall will that content you Goe Row I am very loth to goe Enter Byancha and Maria. Liv. Now o' my conscience Thou art an honest fellow here 's my Sister Go prethee go this kiss and credit me E'r I am three nights older I am for thee You shall hear what I do Farewel Row Farewel Exit Rowland Liv. Alas poor fool how it looks It would ev'n hang it self should I but cross it For pure love to the matter I must hatch it Bya. Nay never look for merry hour Maria If now you make it not let not your blushes Your modesty and tenderness of spirit Make you continual Anvile to his anger Believe me since his first wife set him going Nothing can bind his rage Take your own council You shall not say that I perswaded you But if you suffer him Mar. Stay shall I do it Bya. Have you a stomach to 't Mar. I never shew'd it Bya. 'T will shew the rarer and the stronger in you 〈◊〉 do not say I urg'd you Mar. I am perfect Like Curtius to redeem my Countrey I have Lâ—ap'd into this gulph of marriage and I 'll do it Farewel all poorer thoughts but spight and anger Till I have wrought a miracle Now cosin â— am no more the gentle tame Maria â—â—stake me not I have a new soul in me â—ade of a North wind nothing but tempest â—ad like a tempest shall it make all ruin Till I have run my Will out Bya. This is brave now If you continue it but your own Will lead you Mar. Adieu all tenderness I dare continue Maids that are made of fears and modest blushes Vâ—â—w me and love example Bya. Here is your Sister Mar. Here is the brave old mans love Bya. That loves the young man Mar. I and hold thee there wench what a grief of heart is' t When Paphos Revels should rowze up old night To sweat against a Cork to lie and tell The clock o' th lungs to rise sport starv'd Liv. Dear Sister Where have you been you talk thus Mar. Why at Church wench Where I am ti'd to talke thus I am a wife now Liv. It seems so and a modest Mar. You are an ass When thou art married once thy modesty Will never buy thee pins Liv. ' Bless me Mar. From what Bya. From such a tame fool as our cosin Livia Liv. You are not mad Mar. Yes wench and so must you be 〈◊〉 none of our acquaintance mark me Livia 〈◊〉 indeed fit for our sex 'T is bed time â—ardon me yellow Hymen that I mean Thine offerings to protract or to keep fasting 〈◊〉 valiant Bridegroom Liv. Whither will this woman Bya. You may perceive her end Liv. Or rather fear it Mar. Dare you be partner in 't Liv. Leave it Maria I fear I have mark'd too much for goodness leave it Divest you with obedient hands to bed Mar. To bed no Livia there are Comets hang Prodigious over that yet there 's a fellow Must yet before I know that heat ne'r start wench Be made a man for yet he is a monster Here must his head be Livia Liv. Never hope it 'T is as easie with a Sive to scoop the Ocean as To tame Petruchio Mar. Stay Lucina hear me Never unlock the treasure of my womb For humane fruit to make it capable Nor never with thy secret hand make brief A mothers labor to me if I do Give way unto my married Husband's Will Or be a Wife in any thing but hopes Till I have made him easie as a child And tame as
ruines Were Women rais'd withal but never a true one Enter Sophocles Soph. Home with your stuff agen the journey 's ended Jaq. What does your worship mean Soph. Your Master Oh Petruchio oh poor fellows Ped. Oh Jaques Jaques Soph. Oh your Master 's dead His body coming back his wife his devil The grief of her Jaq. Has kill'd him Soph. Kill'd him kill'd him Ped. Is there no Law to hang her Soph. Get ye in And let her know her misery I dare not For fear impatience seize me see her more I must away agen Bid her for wife-hood For honesty if she have any in her Even to avoid the shame that follows her Cry if she can your weeping cannot mend it The body will be here within this hour so tell her And all his friends to curse her Farewel fellows Exit Soph. Ped. Oh Jaques Jaques Jaq. Oh my worthy Master Ped. Oh my most beastly Mistriss hang her Jaq. Split her Ped. Drown her directly Jaq. Starve her Ped. Stink upon her Jaq. Stone her to death may all she eat be Eggs. Till she run kicking mad for men Ped. And he That man that gives her remedy pray Heav'n He may ev'n ipso facto lose his Fadding Jaq. Let 's go discharge our selves and he that serves her Or speaks a good word of her from this hour A Sedgly curse light on him which is Pedro The Fiend ride through him booted and spurr'd with a Sythe at 's back Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter Rowland and Tranio stealing behind him Row What a dull ass was I to let her go thus Upon my life she loves me still well Paper Thou only monument of what I have had Thou all the love now left me and now lost Let me yet kiss her hand yet take my leave Of what I must leave ever Farewel Livia Oh bitter words I 'll read ye once again And then for ever study to forget ye How 's this let me look better on 't A Contract A Contract seal ' d and ratified Her Fathers hand set to it and Moroso's I do not dream sure let me read again The same still 't is a Contract Tra. 'T is so Rowland And by the virtue of the same you pay me An hundred pound to morrow Row Art sure Tranio We are both alive now Tra. Wonder not ye have lost Row If this be true I grant it Tra. 'T is most certain There 's a Ring for you too you know it Row Yes Tra. When shall I have my money Row Stay ye stay ye When shall I marry her To night Tra. Take heed now You do not trifle me if you do You 'll find more payment than your money comes to Come swear I know I am a man and find I may deceive my self swear faithfully Swear me directly am I Rowland Tra. Yes Row Am I awake Tra. Ye are Row Am I in health Tra. As far as I conceive Row Was I with Livia Tra. You were and had this Contract Row And shall I enjoy her Tra. Yes if ye dare Row Swear to all these Tra. I will Row As thou art honest as thou hast a conscience As that may wring thee if thou liest all these To be no vision but a truth and serious Tra. Then by my honesty and faith and conscience All this is certain Row Let 's remove our places Swear it again Tra. By 't is true Row I have lost then and Heaven knows I am glad on 't Let 's goe and tell me all and tell me how For yet I am a Pagan in it Tra. I have a Priest too And all shall come as even as two Testers Exeunt Scaena Quarta Enter Petronius Sophocles Moroso and Petruchio born in a Coffin Petro. Set down the body and one call her out Enter Maria in black and Jaques You are welcome to the last cast of your fortunes There lies your Husband there your loving Husband There he that was Petruchio too good for ye Your stubborn and unworthy way has kill'd him 〈◊〉 he could reach the Sea if ye can weep â—oâ— ye have cause begin and after death Doe something yet to th' world to think ye honest 〈◊〉 many tears had sav'd him shed in time And as they are so a good mind go with 'em Yet they may move compassion Mar. Pray ye all hear me And judge me as I am not as you covet For that would make me yet more miserable T is true I have cause to grieve and mighty cause â—d truly and unfeinedly I weep it Soph. I see there 's some good nature yet left in her Mar. But what 's the cause mistake me not not this man 〈◊〉 he is dead I weep for Heaven defend it â—ver was so childish but his life 〈◊〉 poor unmanly wretched foolish life 〈◊〉 that my full eyes pity there 's my mourning Petro. Dost thou not shame Mar. I doe and even to water â—o what this man was to think how simple 〈◊〉 far below a man how far from reason 〈◊〉 common understanding and all Gentry While he was living here he walk'd amongst us He had a happy turn he dyed I 'll tell ye These are the wants I weep for not his person The memory of this man had he liv'd But two years longer had begot more follies Than wealthy Autumn Flies But let him rest He was a fool and farewel he not pitied I mean in way of life or action By any understanding man that 's honest But only in 's posterity which I Out of the fear his ruines might out-live him In some bad issue like a careful woman Like one indeed born only to preserve him Deny'd him means to raise Petru. Unbutton me I die indeed else Oh Maria Oh my unhappiness my misery Petro. Goe to him whore if he perish I 'll see thee hang'd my self Petru. Why why Maria Mar. I have done my worst and have my end forgive me From this hour make me what you please I have tam'd ye And now am vow'd your servant Look not strangely Not fear what I say to you Dare you kiss me Thus I begin my new love Petru. Once again Mar. With all my heart Petru. Once again Maria Oh Gentlemen I know not where I am Soph. Get ye to bed then there you 'll quickly know Sir Petru. Never no more your old tricks Mar Never Sir Petru. You shall not need for as I have a faith No cause shall give occasion Mar. Ask I am honest And as I am a maid yet all my life From this hour since ye make so free profession I dedicate in service to your pleasure Soph. I marry this goes roundly off Petru. Goe Jaques Get all the best meat may be bought for money And let the hogsheads blood I am born again Well little England when I see a Husband Of any other Nation stern or jealous I 'll wish him but a woman of thy breeding And if he have not butter to his bread Till his teeth bleed I 'll never trust my
shall see him Attempting your brave Sister privately Mark but his high behaviour then King I will Father Gov. And with scorn I fear contempt too King I hope not Gov. I will not name a lust It may be that also A little force must be applyed upon him Now now applyed a little force to humble him These sweet intreaties do but make him wanton King Take heed ye wrong him not Gov. Take heed to your safety I but forewarn ye King if you mistrust me Or think I come un-sent King No I 'll go with you Exeunt Enter Armusia Quisara Arm. Madam you see there 's nothing I can reach at Either in my obedience or my service That may deserve your love or win a liking But a poor thought but I pursue it seriously Take pleasure in your Will even in your anger Which other men would grudge at and grow stormy I study new humility to please ye And take a kind of joy in my afflictions Because they come from ye I love my sorrows Pray Madam but consider Quisar Yes I do Sir And to that honest end I drew ye hither I know ye have deserv'd as much as man can And know it is a justice to requite you I know ye love Arm. If ever love was mortal And dwelt in man and for that love command me So strong I find it and so true here Lady Something of such a greatness to allow me Those things I have done already may seem foyls too 'T is equity that man aspires to heaven Should win it by his worth and not sleep to it Enter Governor and King Gov. Now stand close King and hear and as you find him Believe me right or let Religion suffer Quisar I dare believe your worth without additions But since you are so liberal of your love Sir And wou'd be farther tried I do intend it Because you shall not or you wou'd not win me At such an easie rate Arm. I am prepared still And if I shrink Quisar I know ye are no coward This is the utmost trial of your constancy And if you stand fast now I am yours your wife Sir You hold there 's nothing dear that may atchieve me Doubted or dangerous Arm. There 's nothing nothing Let me but know that I may straight flie to it Quisar I 'll tell you then change your Religion And be of one belief with me Arm. How Quisar Mark Worship our Gods renounce that faith ye are bred in 'T is easily done I 'll teach ye suddenly And humbly on your knees Arm. Ha I 'll be hang'd first Quisar Offer as we do Arm. To the devil Lady Offer to him I hate I know the devil To dogs and cats you make offer to them To every bird that flies and every worm How terribly I shake Is this the venture The trial that you talk'd of where have I been And how forgot my self how lost my memory When did I pray or look up stedfastly Had any goodness in my heart to guide me That I should give this vantage to mine enemy The enemy to my peace forsake my faith Quisar Come come I know ye love me Arm. Love ye this way This most destroying way sure you but jest Lady Quisar My Love and Life are one way Arm. Love alone then and mine another way I 'll love diseases first Doat on a villain that would cut my throat Wooe all afflictions of all sorts kiss cruelty Have mercy heaven how have I been wand'ring Wand'ring the way of Lust and left my Maker How have I slept like Cork upon a water And had no feeling of the storm that tost me Trode the blind paths of death forsook assurance Eternity of blessedness for a woman For a young handsome face hazard my Being Quisar Are not our powers eternal so their comforts As great and full of hopes as yours Arm. They are puppets Gov. Now mark him Sir and but observe him nearly Ar. Their comforts like themselves cold sensless outsides You make 'em sick as we are peevish mad Subject to age and how can they cure us That are not able to refine themselves Quis The Sun and Moon we worship those are heavenly And their bright influences we believe Arm. Away fool I adore the Maker of that Sun and Moon That gives those bodies light and influence That pointed out their paths and taught their motions They are not so great as we they are our servants Plac'd there to teach us time to give us knowledge Of when and how the swellings of the main are And their returns agen they are but our Stewards To make the earth fat with their influence That she may bring forth her increase and feed us â—â—l I fall from this faith to please a woman For her embraces bring my soul to ruin I look'd you should have said make me a Christian Work that great cure for 't is a great one woman That labor truly to perform that venture The crown of all great trial and the fairest I look'd ye should have wept and kneel'd to beg it Washt off your mist of ignorance with waters Pure and repentant from those eyes I look'd You should have brought me your chief god ye worship He that you offer humane bloud and life to And make a sacrifice of him to memory Beat down his Altars ruin'd his false Temples Gov. Now you may see Quisar Take heed you goe too far Sir And yet I love to hear him I must have ye And to that end I let you storm a little I know there must be some strife in your bosom To cool and quiet ye e'r you can come back I know old friends cannot part suddainly There will be some lett still yet I must have ye Have ye of my faith too and so enjoy ye Arm. Now I contemn ye and I hate my self For looking on that face lasciviously And it looks ugly now me thinks Quisar How Portugal Arm. It looks like death it self to which 't wou'd lead me Your eyes resemble pale dispair they fright me And in their rounds a thousand horrid ruins Methinks I see and in your tongue hear fearfully The hideous murmurs of weak souls have suffer'd Get from me I despise ye and know woman That for all this trap you have laid to catch my life in To catch my immortal life I hate and curse ye Contemn your Deities spurn at their powers And where I meet your Mahumet gods I 'll swing 'em Thus o'r my head and kick 'em into puddles Nay I will out of vengeance search your Temples And with those hearts that serve my God demolish Your shambles of wild worships Gov. Now now you hear Sir Arm. I will have my faith since you are so crafty The glorious cross although I love your brother Let him frown too I will have my devotion And let your whole State storm King Enter and take him I am sorry friend that I am forc'd to do this Gov. Be sure you bind him fast Quisar But
hour longer Vio. Good Mistriss beat me rather for my fault as much as it deserves I do not know whither to go Moth. No I warrant thee out of my doors Vio. Indeed I 'll mend I pray speak you for me Alex. If thou hadst hurl'd down any thing but the Pie-meat I would have spoke for thee but I cannot find in my heart now Moth. Art thou here yet I think I must have an Officer to thrust thee out of my doors must I Vio. Why you may stop this in my wages too For God's sake do I 'll find my self this year And let me stay Moth. Thou't spoil ten times as much I 'll cudgel thee out of my doors Vio. I am assur'd you are more merciful Than thus to beat me and discharge me too Moth. Dost thou dispute with me Alexander carry the prating hilding forth Vio. Good Mistriss hear me I have here a Jewel My Mother left me and 't is something worth Receive it and when all my faults together Come to the worth of that then turn me forth Till then I pray you keep me Moth. What giggombob have we here pray god you have not pilfred this somewhere th' art such a puling thing wipe your eyes and rise go your ways Alexander bid the Cook mince some more meat come and get you to bed quickly that you may up betime i' th' morning a milking or you and I shall fall out worse yet Exit Moth. and Alex. Vio. She has hurt my arm I am afraid she is a very angry woman but bless him heaven that did me the most wrong I am afraid Antonio's wife should see me she will know me Mother within Melvia Vio. I am coming she 's not angry agen I hope Exit Enter Mercury Mer. Now what am I the better for enjoying This woman that I lov'd so all I find That I before imagined to be happy Now I have done it turns to nothing else But a poor pitied and a base repentance Udsfoot I am monstrous angry with my self Why should a man that has discourse and reason And knows how near he loses all in these things Covet to have his wishes satisfied Which when they are are nothing but the shame I do begin to loath this woman strangely And I think justly too that durst adventure Flinging away her modesty to take A stranger to her bed her Husbands body Being scarce cold in the earth for her content It was no more to take my senses with Than if I had an idle dream in sleep Yet I have made her promises which grieves me And I must keep 'em too I think she hunts me The devil cannot keep these women off When they are fletched once Enter Wife in night attire Wife To bed for gods sake Sir why do you stay here Some are up i' th' house I heard the wife Good dear sweet-heart to bed Mer. Why I am going why do you follow me You would not have it known I hope pray get you Back to your chamber the doors hard by for me Let me alone I warrant you this it is To thresh well I have got a customer Will you go to bed Wife Will you Mer. Yes I am going Wife Then remember your promise you made to marry me Mer. I will but it was your fault that it came To this pinch now that it must need remembrance For out of honesty I offer'd you To marry you first why did you slack that offer Wife Alas I told you the inconvenience of it And what wrong it would appear to the world If I had married in such post-haste After his death beside the foolish people Would have been bold to have thought we had lain together in his time and like enough imagin'd We two had murther'd him Mer. I love her tongue yet If I were a Saint A gilded Saint and such a thing as this Should prate thus wittily and feelingly Unto my Holiness I cannot tell But I fear shrewdly I should do something That would quite scratch me out o' th' Kalender And if I stay longer talking with her Though I am mad at what I have done already Yet I shall forget my self again I feel the Devil Ready to hold my stirrop pray to bed good night Wife This kiss good night sweet Love And peace goe with thee thou hast prov'd thy self The honestest man that ever was entic'd To that sweet sin as people please to call it Of lying with anothers wife and I I think the honestest woman without blushing That ever lay with another man I sent my Husband Into a Cellar post fearing and justly He should have known him which I did not purpose Till I had had my end Well now this plot is perfect let him brag on 't Exit Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Justice and Curio with a Paper Just BIrlady Sir you have rid hard that you have Cur. They that have business must do so I take it Just You say true when set you out my friend Cur. About ten a clock and I have rid all night Just By the mass you are tough indeed I have seen the day I would have rid too with the proudest of them and fling dirt in their faces and I have don 't with this foolish boy Sir many a time but what can last always 't is done 't is done now Sir age care and office brings us to our footcloaths the more the pity Curio I believe that Sir but will it please you to read the business Just My friend I can read and I can tell you when Cur. Would I could too Sir for my haste requires it Just Whence comes it do you say Cur. Sir from the City Just Oh from the City 't is a reverent place Curio And his justice be as short as his memory A Dudgion Dagger will serve him to mow down sin withal What clod-pole Commissioner is this Just And by my faith govern'd by worthy members Discreet and upright Cur. Sir they are beholding to you you have given some of them a commendations they were not worthy of this twenty years Just Go to go to you have a merry meaning I have found you Sir i' faith you are a wag away fie now I 'll read Your Letter Cur. Pray do Sir what a misery 't is To have an urgent business wait the Justice Of such an old Tuff-taffata that knows not Nor can be brought to understand more sence Than how to restore supprest Alehouses And have his man compound small trespasses For ten groats Just Sir it seems here your business is of a deeper circumstance than I conceiv'd it for what do you mean Sir Cur. 'T is for mine own ease I 'll assure your Worship Just It shall not be i'faith friend here I have it That one Antonio a Gentleman I take it so Yes it is so a Gentleman is lately thought to Have been made away and by my faith upon a Pearls ground too if you consider well there 's Knavery in 't I see
That had a hand with thee Witty Yes all these Sir Old K. Nephew part a hundr'd pound amongst 'em I 'll repay it wealth love me as I love wit When I die I 'll build an Alms-house for decay'd wits Sir Gr. I 'll entertain one in my life time Scholar you shall be my Chaplain I have the gift of twenty Benefices simple as I am here Pris Thanks my great Patron Cun. Sir your Gentry and your name shall both be rais'd as high as my fortunes can reach 'em for your friendâ— sake Witty Something will be in my present power the future more You shall snare with me Ruin and Wife Thanks worthy Gentlemen Nee. Sir I would beg one thing of you Sir Gr. You can beg nothing of me Witty Oh Sir if she begs there 's your power over her Sir Gr. She has begg'd me for a fool already but 't is no matter I have begg'd her for a Lady that she might have been That 's one for another Witty Nay but if she beg Sir Gr. Let her beg agen then Nee. That your man Pompey's Coat may come over his ears back agen I would not he should be lost for my sake Sir Gr. Well 't is granted for mine own sake Mirab. I 'll intreat it Sir Sir Gr. Why then 't is granted for your sake Old K. Come come down with all weapons now 't is Musick time So it be purchas'd at an easie rate Some have receiv'd the knocks some giv'n the hits And all concludes in love there 's happy wits Exeunt The Epilogue at the reviving of this Play WE need not tell you Gallants that this night The Wits have jumpt or that the Scenes hit right 'T would be but labor lost for to excuse What Fletcher had to do in his brisk Muse Was so Mercurial that if he but writ An Act or two the whole Play rose up wit We 'll not appeal unto those Gentlemen Judge by their Cloaths if they sit right nor when The Ladies smile and with their Fanns delight To whisk a clinch aside then all goes right 'T was well receiv'd before and we dare say You now are welcome to no vulgar Play The Fair Maid of the Inn. A TRAGI-COMEDY The Persons represented in the Play Duke of Florence Cesario a young Gentleman of a fiery nature Son to Alberto Albertus Father to Cesario Admiral of Florence Baptista a brave Sea-Commander antient friend to Albertus and Father to Mentivole and Biancha Mentiuole Son to Baptista Lover of Clarissa Prospero a noble friend to Baptista Two Magistrates of Florence Host the supposed Father to Biancha Forobosco a cheating Mountebank Clown the Mountebanks man and setter Three Gentlemen Secretary to the Duke Four fools and knaves who pretend love to Biancha the Fair Maid of the Inn. Dancer Taylor Mulitteer Pedant Sailors Women Mariana Wife to Albertus a virtuous Lady Clarissa Mariana's Daughter in love with Mentiuole Juliana Neece to the Duke of Genoa Baptista's second wife Biancha the Fair Maid of the Inn beloved of Cesario and Daughter to Baptista and Juliana Hostess the supposed Mother of Biancha The Scene Florence PROLOGUE PLays have their fates not as in their true sence They 're understood but as the influence Of idle custom madly works upon The dross of many tongu'd opinion A worthy story howsoever writ For Language modest Mirth Conceit or Wit Meets oftentimes with the sweet commendation Of hang 't 't is scurvy when for approbation A Jigg shall be clapt at and every rhime Prais'd and applauded by a clamorous chime Let ignorance and laughter dwell together They are beneath the Muses pity Hither Come nobler Judgements and to those the strain Of our invention is not bent in vain The Fair Maid of the Inn to you commends Her hopes and welcomes and withal intends In th' Entertains to which she doth invite ye All things to please and some things to delight ye Actus Primus Scaena Prima Enter Cesario and Clarissa Cesario INterpret not Clarissa my true zeal In giving you counsel to transcend the bounds That should confine a brother 't is your honor And peace of mind which honor last will leave you I labor to preserve and though you yet are Pure and untainted and resolve to be so Having a Fathers eye and Mothers care In all your ways to keep you fair and upright In which respects my best advices must Appear superfluous yet since love dear Sister Will sometimes tender things unnecessary Misconstrue not my purpose Claris Sir I dare not But still receive it as a large addition To the much that I already stand ingag'd for Yet pardon me though I profess upon A true examination of my self Even to my private thoughts I cannot find Having such strong supporters to uphold me On what slight ground the least doubt can be rais'd To render me suspected I can fall Or from my Fame or Virtue Caesar Far be it from me To nourish such a thought and yet excuse me As you would do a Lapidary whose whole fortunes Depend upon the safety of one Jewel â—f he think no case precious enough To keep it in full lâ—stre nor no locks â—â—ough lending strength to Iron doors sufficient â—o guard it and secure him you to me are A Gemm of more esteem and priz'd higher â—han â—â—â—â—ers do their Muck or great men Title 〈◊〉 any sâ—â—w which heaven avert in you 〈◊〉 reputation like a Diamond Cut newly from the rock women with envie And men with covetous desires look up at By prying eiâ—s discovered in a moment Would râ—nder what the braveries of Florence For want oâ— counterpoize forbear to cheapen Of â—â—â—e or no value Clâ—â—is I see brother The mark you shoot at and much thank your love â—ut for my Virgin Jewel which is brought In comparison with your Diamond rest assur'd â—t shall not fall in such a workmans hands Whose ignorance or malice shall have power To cast one cloud upon it but still keep Her native splendor Cesa 'T is well I commend you And study your advancement with that care As I would do a Sisters whom I love With more than common order Claris That from me I hope 's return'd to you Cesar I do confess it Yet let me tell you but still with that love I wish to increase between us that you are Observ'd against the gravity long maintain'd â—n Italy where to see a maid unmasqu'd Is held a blemish to be over-frequent In giving or receiving visits Clari. How Cesar Whereas the custom is here to wooe by Picture And never see the substance you are fair And beauty draws temptations on You know it I wouâ—d not live to see a willing grant â—â—m â—ou to one unworthy of your birth â—eâ—ture or fortune yet there have been Ladies Of rank proportion and of means beyond you That have prov'd this no miracle Câ—aris One unworthy Why pray you gentle brother who are they That I vouchsafe these bounties to I hope In your strict Criticisme
find by this assur'd intelligence The preparation of the Turks against us We have met him oft and beat him now to fear him Would argue want of courage and I hold it A safer policie for us and our signiories To charge him in his passage o'er the Sea Than to expect him here Alb. May it please your Highness Since you vouchsafe to think me worthy of This great imployment if I may deliver My judgement freely 't is not flattery Though I say my opinion waits on you Nor would I give my suffrage and consent To what you have propos'd but that I know it Worth the great speaker though that the denial Call'd on your heavy anger For my self I do profess thus much if a blunt Soldier May borrow so much from the oyl'd tongu'd Courtier That ecchoes whatsoe'er the Prince allows of All that my long experience hath taught me That have spent three parts of my life at Sea Let it not taste of arrogance that I say it Could not have added reasons of more weight To fortifie your affections ' than such As your grace out of observation meerly Already have propounded Bap. With the honor to give the daring enemy an affront In being the first opposer it will teach Your Soldiers boldness and strike fear in them That durst attempt you 1 Magi. Victuals and Ammunition And Money too the sinews of the War are stor'd up in the Magazine 2 Magi. And the Gallies new rig'd and train'd up And at two dayes warning fit for the service Duke We commend your care Nor will we e'er be wanting in Our counsels As we doubt not your action you Baptista Shall stay with us that Merchant is not wise That ventures his whole fortunes in one bottom Albertâ— Be our Admiral spare your thanks 'T is Merit in you that invites this honor Preserve it such ere long you shall hear more Things rashly undertaken end as ill But great acts thrive when reason guides the will Exeunt Enter 3 Gentlemen 1. No question 't was not well done in Caesario To cross the horse of young Mentivole â—n the midst of this course 2. That was not all the switching him dull'd him 3. Would that both the jades Had broke their necks when they first started 'Slight We stand here prating give them leave to whisper And when they have cut one anothers throats Enter Mentivole and Caesario Make in to part ' em 2. There is no such hazard Their Fathers friendship and their love forbid it â—ee where they come 1. With fury in their looks Ment. You have the wager with what foul play got â—ll not dispute Caesar Foul play Ment. I cannot speak it â—n a fairer language and if some respects â—amiliar to my self chain'd not my tongue â— should say no more I should but I 'll sit down With this disgrace how e'er press me no farther â—or if once more provok'd you 'll understand â— dare no more suffer an Injury Than I dare do one Caesar Why Sir are you injur'd â—n that I take my right which I would force Should you detain it Ment. Put it to judgment Caesar No my will in this shall carry it Ment. Your will nay farewell softness then They suddenly draw 3. This I foresaw 2. Hold hold Caesar I am hurt 2. Shift for your self 't is death Men. As you respect me bear him off with care â—f he miscarry since he did the wrong â—'ll stand the shock of 't 2. Gently he will faint else Exeunt Gent. with Caesario Ment. And speedily I beseech you my rage over That pour'd upon my reason clouds of error â— see my folly and at what dear loss â— have exchang'd a real innocence To gain a meer fantastical report Transported only by vain popular wind To be a daring nay fool-hardy Man Enter Baptista But could I satisfie my self within here How should I bear my fathers frown They meet me My guilt conjures him hither Bap. Sirrah Mentiv. Sir Bap. I have met the trophies of your russian sword Was there no other Anvile to make triall How far thou durst be wicked but the bosome Of him which under the adulterate name Of friendship thou hast murder'd Ment. Murder'd Sir My dreams abhor so base a fact true valour Imploy'd to keep my reputation fair From the austerest Judge can never merit To be branded with that title you begot me A man no coward and but call your youth To memory when injur'd you could never Boast of the Asses fortitude slave-like patience And you might justly doubt I were your son If I should entertain it if Caesario Recover as I hope his wound 's not mortal A second tryal of what I dare doe In a just cause shall give strong witness for me I am the true heir to Baptista's courage As to his other fortunes Baptist Boy to neither But on this strict condition which intreaties From Saints nay Angels shall not make me alter A friendship so began and so continu'd Between me and Alberto my best friend Your brawls shall not dissolve it is my will And as I am thy Father I command thee That instantly on any termes how poor So e'er it skills not thou desire his pardon And bring assurance to me he has sign'd it Or by my Fathers soul I 'll never know thee But as a stranger to my blood perform it And suddenly without reply I have said it Ment. And in it given a heavier sentence on me Than the most cruel death you are my father And your will to be serv'd and not disputed By me that am your Son But I 'll obey And though my heart-strings crack for 't make it known When you command my faculties are your own Exeunt Actus Secundus Scaena Prima Enter Alberto Physitian and a Chirurgion Phys HAve patience Noble Sir your son Caesario Will recover without question Surgeon A slight wound Though it pierc't his body it hath miss'd the vitals Phys My life for 't he shall take the air again within these ten dayes Alber. O but from a friend To receive this bloody measure from a friend If that a man should meet a violent death In a place where he had taken sanctuary Would it not grieve him such all Florence held Their friendship and 't is that which multiplies The injury Physi Have patience worthy Signior Alber. I do protest as I am Man and Soldier If I had buried him in a wave at Sea Lost in some honorable action I would not to the saltness of his grave Have added the least tear but these quarrels Enter Mariana and Clarissa Bred out of game and wine I had as live He should have died of a Surfet Maria. Oh what comfort How is it with our Son Sir Alber. His Work-masters Bear me in hand here as my Lawyer does When I have a crackt Title or bad Sute in Law All shall go well Maria. I pray you Gentlemen what think you of his wound Physi 'T is but a scratch nothing to danger
It seems you have bin in terrible hot service Captain La-p. It has ever bin the fate of the low Country wars to spoil many a man I ha' not bin the first nor shall not be the last but I 'll tell you Sir hunger has brought it in to mind I served once at the Siege of Braste 't is memorable to this day where we were in great distress for victuals whole troops fainted more for want of food then for blood and died yet we were resolved to stand it out I my self was but then Gentleman of a Company and had as much need as any man and indeed I had perished had not a miraculous providence preserved me Lav. As how good Captain La-p. Marry Sir e'en as I was fainting and falling down for want of sustenance the enemy made a shot at me and struck me full i th' paunch with a penny loaf Lav. Instead of a bullet La-p. In stead of a bullet Lav. That was miraculous indeed and that loaf sustained you La-p. Nourished me or I had famished with the rest Lav You have done worthy acts being a soldier and now you shall give me leave to requite your tale and to acquaint you with the most notorious deeds that I have done being a Courtier I protest Captain I will lie no more than you have done La-p. I can indure no lies Lav. I know you cannot Captain therefore I 'll only tell you of strange things I did once a deed of charity for it self I assisted a poor widow in a sute and obtained it yet I protest I took not a penny for my labor La-p. 'T is no such strange thing Lav. By Mars Captain but it is and a very strange thing too in a Courtier it may take the upper hand of your penny loaf for a miracle I could ha' told you how many Ladyes have languished for my love and how I was once sollicited by the mother the daughter and grand-mother out of the least of which I might have digg'd my self a fortune they were all great Ladyes for two of them were so big I could hardly embrace them but I was sluggish in my rising courses and therefore let them pass what means I had is spent upon such as had the wit to cheat me That wealth being gone I have only bought experience with it with a strong hope to cheat others but see here comes the much declined Montague who had all the Manor houses which were the body of his estate overthrowen by a great wind Enter Montague Mallicorne La-p. How by a great wind was he not overthrown by law Lav. Yes marry was he but there was terrible puffing and blowing before he was overthrown if you observ'd and believe it Captain there 's no wind so dangerous to a building as a lawyers breath La-p. What 's he with him Lav. An eminent Citizen Mounsier Mallicorne let 's stand a side and listen their design Mal. Sir profit is the Crown of labor it is the life the soul of the industrious Merchant in it he makes his paradise and for it neglects Wife Children Friends Parents nay all the world and delivers up himself to the violence of storms and to be tos'd into unknown ayrs as there is no faculty so perillous so there 's none so worthy profitable Mont. Sir I am very well possest of it and what of my poore fortunes remaines I would gladly hazard upon the Sea it cannot deal worse with me than the Land though it sink or throw it in the hands of Pirats I have yet five hundred pounds left and your honest and worthy acquaintance may make me a young Merchant th' one moity of what I have I would gladly adventure Mal. How adventure you shall hazard nothing you shall only joyn with me in certain commodities that are safe arrived unto the Key you shall neither be in doubt of danger nor dammage But so much money disburst so much receive Sir I would have you conceive I pursue it not for any good your money will do me but meerly out of mine own freeness and courtesie to pleasure you Mont. I can believe no less and you express a noble nature seeking to build up a man so ruin'd as my self Lav. Captain here is subject for us to work upon if we have wit you hear that there is money yet left and it is going to be layd out in Rattels Bels Hobby-Horses brown paper or some such like sale commodities now it would do better in our purses upon our backs in good Gold-lace and Scarlat and then we might pursue our projects and our devices towards my Lady Annabella go to there 's a conceit newly landed heark I stand in good reputation with him and thereâ—ore may the better cheat him Captain take a few instructions from me Mont. What monies I have is at your disposing and upon twelve I will meet you at the Pallace with it Mal. I will there expect you and so I take my leave Exit Lav. You apprehend me La-p. Why do ye think I am a dunce Lav. Not a dunce Captain but you might give me leave to misdoubt that pregnancy in a Soldier which is proper and hereditary to a Courtier but prosecute it I will both second and give credit to it Good Mounsier Montague I would your whole revenues lay within the circuit of mine armes that I might as easily bestow or restore it unto you as my curtesie La-p. My zealous wishes Sir do accompany his for your good fortunes Lav. Believe it Sir our affection towards you is a strong band of friendship Mont. To which I shall most willingly seal But believe me Gentlemen in a broken estate the bond of friendship oft is forfeited but that it is your free and ingenuous nature to renew it Lav. Sir I will amply extend my self to your use and am very zealously afflicted as not one of your least friends for your crooked fate But let it not seise you with any dejection you have as I hear a sufficient competency left which well disposed may erect you as high in the worlds account as ever Mont. I cannot live to hope it much less injoy it nor is it any part of my endeavor my study is to render every man his own and to contain my self within the limits of a Gentleman Lav. I have the grant of an Office given me by some noble favorites of mine in Court there stands but a small matter between me and it if your ability be such to lay down the present summ out of the love I bear you before any other man it shall be confirmed yours Mont. I have heard you often speak of such a thing If it be assur'd to you I will gladly deal in it that portion I have I would not hazard upon one course for I see the most certain is incertain La-p Having money Sir you could not light upon men that could give better direction there is at this time a friend of mine upon the Seas to
crept closely None feel my wants not one mend with me Desire None Sir Ant. Thou hast forgot Desire thy best friend Flatterie He cannot sail me Desire Fail he will seâ—l himself And all within his power close to his skin first Desire I thought so too and made him my first venture But found him in a young Lords ear so busie So like a smiling showr pouring his soul In at his portals his face in a thousand figures Catching the vain mind of the men I pull'd him But still he hung like birdlime spoke unto him His answer still was By the Lord sweet Lord And By my soul thou master-piece of honor Nothing could stave him off he has heard your stood's gone And on decaying things he seldom smiles Sir Anth. Then here I break up state and free my followers Putting my fortune now to Time and Justice Go seek new masters now for Anthropos Neglected by his friends must seek new fortunes Desire to Avarice I here commend thee Where thou may'st live at full bent of thy wishes And Vain Delight thou seeder of my follies With light fantastickness be thou in favour To leave thee Bountie my most worthie servant Troubles me more then my own misery But we must part go plant thy self my best friend In honorable hearts that truely know thee And there live ever like thy self a virtue But leave this place and seek the Countrey For Law and lust like fire lick all up here Now none but Poverty must follow me Despis'd patch'd Poverty and we two married Will seek Simplicity Content and Peace out Enter Poverty And live with them in exile How uncall'd on My true friend comes Poverty Here hold thee Anthropos Thou art almost arm'd at rest put this on A penitential robe to purge thy pleasures Off with that vanitie Anth. Here Vain Delight And with this all my part to thee again Of thee I freely render Pov. Take this staff now And be more constant to your steps hereafter The staff is Staidness of affections A way you painted flyes that with mans summet Take life and heat buzzing about his blossoms When growing full ye turn to Caterpillers Gnawing the root that gave you life Fly shadows Exeunt desire and delight Now to Content I 'll give thee Anthropos To Rest and Peace no vanitie dwells there Desire and Pleasure to delude thy mind more No Flatteries smooth-fil'd tongue shall poison thee Anth. O! Jupiter if I have ever offer'd Upon thy burning Altars but one Sacrifice Thou and thy fair-ey'd Juno smil'd upon If ever to thine honor bounteous feasts Where all thy statuas sweet with wine and incense Have by the son of earth been celebrated Hear me the child of shame now hear thou helper And take my wrongs into thy hands thou justice Done by unmindful man unmerciful Against his master done against thy order And raise again thou father of all honor The poor despis'd but yet thy noblest creature Raise from his ruines once more this suâ—k Cedar That all may fear thy power and I proclaim it Exeunt Jupiter and Mercury descend severally Trumpets small above Jup. Ho! Mercury my winged son Mer. Your servant Jup. Whose powerful prayers were those that reach'd our ears 〈…〉 â—uch spells of pity now 〈◊〉 The sad petitions 〈◊〉 the scorn'd son of earth the god-like Anthropos 〈◊〉 that has swell'd your sacred fires with incense And til'd upon your Altars a thousand heifers He that beguil'd by Vanity and Pleasure Desire Craft Flattery and smooth Hypocrisie Stands now despis'd and ruin'd left to Poverty Jup. It must not be he was not rais'd for ruine Nor shall those hands heav'd at my Altars perish He is our noblest creature Flee to Time And charge him presently release the bands Of Poverty and Want this suitor sinks in Tell him among the Sun-burnt Indians That know no other wealth but Peace and pleasure â—he shall find golden Plutus god of riches Who idly is ador'd the innocent people Not knowing yet what power and weight he carries Bid him compell him to his right use honor And presently to live with Anthropos It is our Will Away Mer. I do obey it Jupiter and Mercury ascend again Musick Enter Plutus with a troop of Indians singing and dancing wildly about him and bowing to him which ended Enter Time Time Rise and away 't is Joves command Plut. I will not Ye have some fool to furnish now some Midas That to no purpose I must choak with riches Who must I go to Time To the son of earth He wants the god of wealth Plut. Let him want still I was too lately with him almost torn Into ten thousand pieces by his followers I could not sleep but Craft or Vanity Were filing off my fingers not eat for fear Pleasure would cast her self into my belly And there surprize my heart Time These have forsaken him Make haste then thou must with me be not angry For fear a greater anger light upon thee Plut. I do obey then but change my figure â—or when I willingly befriend a creature Goodly and full of glory I shew to him But when I am compell'd old and decrepid I halt and hang upon my staff Farewell friends I will not be long from ye all my servants I leave among ye still and my chief riches Exeunt Indians with a dance Oh Time what innocence dwells here what goodness They know me not nor hurt me not yet hug me Away I 'll follow thee but not too fast Time Exeunt Plutus and Time Enter Anthropos Honesty Simplicity Humility Poverty Humil. Man be not sad nor let this divorce From Mundus and his many ways of pleasure Afflict thy spirits which consider'd rightly With inward eyes makes thee arrive at happy Pâ—v For now what danger or deceit can reach thee What matter left for Craft or Covetize To plot against thee what Desire to burn thee Honest Oh son of earth let Honesty possess thee Be as thou wast intended like thy Maker See thorow those gawdy shadows that like dreams Have dwelt upon thee long call up thy goodness 〈◊〉 mind and man with thee that lie shipwrack'd â—nd then how thin and vain these fond affections How lame this worldly love how lump-like raw And ill digested all these vanities Will shew let Reason tell thee Simpl. Crown thy mind With that above the worlds wealth joyful suff'ring And truly be the master of thy self Which is the noblest Empire and there stand The thing thou wert ordain'd and set to govern Pov. Come let us sing the worlds shame hear us Anthropos Song And then Enter Time and Plutus Hon. Away we are betrayd Exeunt all but Poverty Time Get thou too after Thou needy bare companion go for ever For ever I conjure thee make no answer Exit Poverty Anth. What mak'st thou here Time thou that to this Minute never stood still by me Time I have brought thee succour And now catch hold I am thine The god of riches Compell'd by him that saw thy miseries The ever just and wakeful Jove at length Is come unto thee use him as thine own For 't is the doom of Heaven he must obey thee Anth. Have I found pity then Time Thou hast and Justice Against those false seducers of thine honor Come give him present helps Exit Time Industry and the Arts discovered Plut. Come Industry Thou friend of life and next to thee rise Labour Plutus stamps Labour rises Rise presently and now to your employments But first conduct this mortal to the rock They carry Anthropos to a Rock and fall a digging What seest thou now Plutus strikes the Rock and flames flie out Anth. A glorious Mine of Metal Oh Jupiter my thanks Plut. To me a little Anth. And to the god of wealth my Sacrifice Plut. Nay then I am rewarded Take heed now Son You are afloat again lest Mundus catch ye Anth. Neve betray me more Plut. I must to India From whence I came where my main wealth lies buried And these must with me Take that Book and Mattock And by those know to live again Exeunt Plutus Industry Labour c. Anth. I shall do Enter Fame sounding Fame Thorow all the world the fortune of great An thropos Be known and wonder'd at his riches envy'd As far as Sun or Time is his power fear'd too Exeunt MUSICK Enter Delight Pleasure Lucre Craft Vanity c. dancing and Masqu'd towards the Rock offering service to Anthropos Mercury from above Musick heard One half of a cloud drawn Singers are discovered then the other half drawn Jupiter seen in glory Mer. Take heed weak man those are the sins that sunk thee 〈◊〉 'em no more kneel and give thanks to Jupiter Anth. Oh mighty power Jup. Unmask ye gilded poisons Now look upon 'em son of earth and shame 'em Now see the faces of thy evil Angels Lead 'em to Time and let 'em fill his Triumph Their memories be here forgot for ever Anth. Oh just great god how many lives of service What ages only given to thine honor What infinites of vows and holy prayers Can pay my thanks Jup. Rise up and to assure thee That never moro thou shalt feel want Strike Mercury Strike him and by that stroke he shall for ever Live in that rock of Gold and still enjoy it Be 't done I say Now sing in honor of him SONG Enter the Triumph First the Musicians then Vain Delight Pleasure Craft Lucre Vanity and other of the Vices Then a Chariot with the person of Time sitting in it drawn by four persons representing Hours singing Exeunt Flourish King Em. By this we note sweet-heart in Kings and Princes A weakness even in spite of all their wisdoms And often to be master'd by abuses Our natures here describ'd too and what humors Prevail above our Reasons to undo us But this the last and best When no friend stands The gods are merciful and lend their hands Flourish Epilogue NOw as the Husbandman whose Costs and Pain Whose Hopes and Helps lie buried in his Grain Waiting a happy Spring to ripen full His loâ—â—d for Harvest to the Reapers pull Stand we expecting having sown our Ground With so much charge the fruitfulness not found The Harvest of our Labours For we know You are our Spring and when you smile we grow Nor Charge nor Pain shall bind us from your Pleasures So you but lend your hands to fill our Measures FINIS
be plain with you he is a pyrate that hath wrote to me to work his fredom and by this Gentlemans means whose acquaintance is not small at Court we have the word of a worthy man for it only there is some money to be suddainly disburst and if your happiness be such to make it up you shall receive treble gain by it and good assurance for it Mont. Gentlemen out of the weakness of my estate you seem to have some knowledge of my brest that wou'd if it were possible advance my declined fortunes to satisfie all men of whom I have had credit and I know no way better than these which you propose I have some money ready under my command some part of it is already promis'd but the remainder is yours to such uses as are propounded Lav. Appoint some certain place of meeting for these affaires require expedition Mount I will make it my present business at twelve I am to meet Mallicorne the Marchant at the Pallace you know him Sir about some negotiation of the same nature there I will be ready to tender you that money upon such conditions as we shall conclude of Lav. The care of it be yours so much as the affair concerns you Mont. Your caution is effectuall and till then I take my leave Lav. Good Mr Montague Exit Whithin a clamor down with their weapons Enter Longavile and Dubois their swords drawn servants and others between them Ser. Nay Gentlemen what mean you pray be quiet have some respect unto the house Long. A treacherous slave Du. Thou dost revile thy self base Longavile Long. I say thou art a villain and a corrupt one that hast some seven years sed on thy masters trencher yet never bredst good blood towards him for if thou hadst thou 'dst have a sounder heart Du. So Sir you can use your tongue something nimbler than your sword Long. Wou'd you cou'd use your tongue well of your Master friend you might have better imployment for your sword Du. I say again and I will speak it loud and often that Orleans is a noble Gentleman with whom Amiens is too light to poyse the scale Long. He is the weaker for taking of a prayse out of thy mouth Du. This hand shall seal his merit at thy heart Lav. Part them my masters part them Ser. Part them Sir why do you not part them you stand by with your sword in your hand and cry part ' em Lav. Why you must know my friend my cloaths are better than yours and in a good suit I do never use to part any body La-p. And it is discretion Lav. I marry is it Captain Long. Dubois though this place priviledge thee know where next we meet the blood which at thy heart flows drops at thy feet Enter Amience in haste his sword drawn Du. I would not spend it better than in this quarrell and on such a hazard Ami. What uprore 's this must my name here be question'd in Tavern brawls and by affected Ruffins Lav. Not we indeed Sir Du. Fear cannot make me shrink out of your fury though you were greater than your name doth make you I am one and the opposer if your swoln rage have ought in malice to inforce express it Ami. I seek thee not nor shalt thou ever gain That credit which a blow from me wou'd give thee By my I more detest that fellow Which took my part than thee that he durst offer To take my honor in his feeble armes And spend it in a drinking room which way went he Lav. That way Sir I wou'd you wou'd after for I do fear we shall have some more scuffling Ami. I 'll follow him and if my speed o'er take him I shall ill thank him for his forwardness Exit Lav. I am glad he 's gone for I doe not love to see a sword drawn in the hand of a man that lookes so furious there 's no jesting with edge tooles how say you Captain Cap. I say 't is better jesting than to be in earnest with them Enter Orleance Orl. How now what 's the difference they say there have bin swords drawn and in my quarrell let me know that man whose love is so sincere to spend his blood for my sake I will bounteously requite him Lav. We were all of your side but there he stands begun it Orl. What 's thy name Dub. Duboyes Orl. Give me thy hand hast received no hurt Dub. Not any nor were this body stuck full of wounds I should not count them hurts being taken in so honorable a cause as the defence of my most worthy Lord. Orl. The dedication of thy love to me requires my ample bounty thou art mine for I do find thee made unto my purposes Mounsieur Laverdine pardon my neglect I not observed you and how runs rumour Lav. Why it runs my Lord like a foot-man without a cloak to show that what 's once rumour'd it cannot be hid Orl. And what say the rable am not I the subject of their talk Lav. Troth my Lord the common mouth speaks foul words Orl. Of me for turning away my wife do they not Lav. Faith the men do a little murmure at it and say 't is an ill president in so great a man marry the women they rayl out right Orl. Out upon them rampallions I 'll keep my self safe enough out of their fingers but what say my pritty jolly composed gallants that censure every thing more desperate than it is dangerous what say they Lav. Marry they are laying wagers what death you shall die one offers to lay five hundred pounds And yet he had but a groat about him that was in two two-pences too to any man that wou'd make it up a shilling that you were kil'd with a Pistoll charg'd with white Powder another offerd to pawn his soul for five shillings and yet no body wou'd take him that you were stab'd to death and shou'd die with more wounds than Cesar Orl. And who shou'd be the Butchers that shou'd do it Montague and his associates Lav. So 't is conjectured La-p. And believe it sweet Prince it is to be feared and therefore prevented Orl. By turning his purpose on himself were not that the way Lav. The most direct path for your safety For where doth danger sit more furious than in a desperate man La-p. And being you have declined his means you have increast his malice Lav. Besides the generall report that steems in every mans breath and stains you all over with infamy that Time the devourer of all things cannot eat out La-p. I for that former familiarity which he had with your Lady Lav. Men speak it as boldly as words of compliment good morrow good even or save you Sir are not more usuall if the word cuckold had been written upon your forehead in great Capitall Letters it could not have been dilated with more confidence Orl. He shall not sleep another night I will have his blood though it be