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A fine companion Acted before the King and Queene at White-hall, and sundrie times with great applause at the private house in Salisbury Court, by the Prince his Servants. Written by Shakerley Marmyon.
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Marmion, Shackerley, 1603-1639.
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am considering with my eye which part of him I shall first cut off Cro. Let 's bind him fast and then lay him upon his backe and geld him Lack. A match Let 's lay hold on him what is he gone how finely might my father have been cheated and all wee now if I had not beene that 's some roguing Servingman disguis'd I le lay my life on 't if I be not fit to be chronicled for this act of discretion let the world judge of it Well Crochet when I have marryed her to the right party if my father does not give me forty pounds more he shall marry the next daughter himselfe Cro. You must not be too sudden now in the opening of your plot after you have marryed them Lac. Advise me good Crochet Cro. Why before you reveale your proceedings you shall present your selfe with a great deale of confidence and promise of desert walke up and downe with a joyfull agony and a trembling joy as if you had escapt from a breach or redeem'd your country then when you see them sufficiently fill'd with expectation you may draw the curtaine of your valour and stound them with admiration Lack. So I will Crochet come let us to the Church Exeunt Actus V. Scena II. Littlegood Spruse Fondling Fido Spr. Come Master Littlegood be comforted I have as great a share in the missortunes Of your distracted daughter as your selfe Lit. O doe not say so she was all my joy Fido. Then men begin to understand their good When they have lost it and an envious eye Seekes after vertue when it is extinct That hated it alive Lit. You have reason To pitty me the more and lament for her Because I destin'd her in marriage to you Spr. And I had well hoped to have been made happy In her affection a true Lovers griefes Transcend a parents Lit. No you are deceived A parent is confin'd and his joyes bounded And only limited to such a subject And driven from thence have no where else to rest on For if his children be once taken from him Which are the cause then his delight and comfort That are the effects needs must vanish with them But in a Lover it falls otherwise Such as your selfe whose passion like a deaw Can dry up with the beames of every beauty That shall shine warme upon you need not prize The losse of any you have no alliance Nor naturall tye commands you to love any More then your fancy guides you and the windes Have not so many turnings nor the Sands So many shiftings nor the Moone changes Fido. Sir you speake truth upon my knowledge that He is as slippery as an Eele in love And wriggles in and out sir at his pleasure He can as easily dispense with vowes As sweare them and can at a minutes warning If an occasion serve supply himselfe With a continuall and fresh entertainment Of a new Mistris Spr. Troth I must confesse I have been a little faulty that way Fon. And why would you sir knowing this before Suffer your daughter to be abus'd by him Now by my life I thinke and 't were not for me You 'd wind your selfe into such Labyrinths You 'd not know how to extricate your selfe Lit. Peace good Wife since there is no remedy Spr. Doe not despaire there is yet remedy I know a scholler a great Naturallist Whose wisedome does transcend all other Artists A traveller besides and though his body Be distant from the Heavens yet his mind Has pierc't unto the utmost of the Orbes Can tell how first the Chaos was distinguisht And how the Sphaeres are turnd and all their secrets The motion and influence of the starres The mixture of the Elements and all The causes of the Winds and what moves the earth And then he has subjected to his knowledge The vertues and the workings of all hearbs And is an Aesculapius in Physicke No griefe above his art Lit. Can he heale mad folkes Spr. Were they as mad as Ajax Telamon That slew an Oxe in stead of Agamemnon Hee 'l warrant them Fond. How should one speake with him Spr. I brought him with me he is at the doore Prithee goe call him Fido you shall heare him And as you like his speech so credite him Enter Aurelio like a Doctour Lit. Is this the man Spr. This is the Doctour sir I am bold to make relation of your skill here To this old Gentleman who has a daughter That is suspected to be mad Aur. Suspected is she no otherwise Lit. She is starke mad Aur. It came by love Lit. Yes sure what thinke you on 't Au. An ordinary disease and cure in some things I am of an opinion that Stertinius The Stoick was who held all the world mad Fond. As how good Master Doctour Aur. Thus I prove it What is ambition and covetousnesse Or luxury or superstition But madnesse in men and these raigne generally Your Lawyer trots and writes as he were mad His Clyent is madder then he your Merchant that marryes A faire wife and leaves her at home is mad Your Courtier is mad to take up silkes and velvets On ticket for his Mistris and your Citizen Is mad to trust him Fido. Nay he is a rare man And has done many and strange Cures sir Aur. I have indeed Fond. Pray relate some of them Aur. To satisfy your Ladiship I will Fond. Yes good Sir let us heare them Aur. Then I le tell you There was once an Astrologer brought mad before me the circulations of the Heavens had turn'd his braines round he had very strange fits he would ever be staring and gazing and yet his eyes were so weake they could not looke up without a staffe Spr. A Iacobs staffe you meane Aur. I and hee would watch whole nights there could not a starre stirre for him he thought there was no hurt done but they did it and that made him look so narrowly to them Fond. How did you heale him sir Aur. Onely with two or three sentences out of Picus Mirandula in confutation of the act and as many out of Cornelius Agrippa for the vanity of it Fond. That was excellent Aur. The next was a Souldier and he was very furious but I quieted him by getting his arrerages payd and a Pension for his life Fond. You tooke a hard taske in hand Mr Doctour Aur. But the most dangerous of all was a Puritan Chandler and he ran mad with illuminations he was very strangely possest and talkt idly as if he had had a noyse of bells in his head he thought a man in a Surplesse to be the Ghost of Heresy and was out of love with his owne members because they were called Organs Fond. O monstrous Aur. I and held very strange positions for he counted Fathers to be as unlawfull in the Church as Plato did Poets in his Common-wealth and thereupon grounded his conclusion for the lawfulnesse of whoredome for he said that marriage as it is now used was