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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58829	The unhappy kindness, or, A fruitless revenge a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal / wrirten [sic] by Mr. Scot.	Scott, Mr. (Thomas), fl. 1696-1697.; Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. Wife for a month.	1697 (1697)	Wing S2089B; ESTC R38225	36,696	56

Ev. You think it fit then Mortified Cassandra That I shou'd be a Whore Cass If every woman that upon necessity Did a good turn were term'd a Whore Who wou'd be honest Your Lords life and your own are now in hazard Two precious lives may be redeem'd with nothing That we call lust that Maidens loose their same for But a Compell'd necessity of honour Fair as the day and clear as innocence Upon my life and conscience a direct way Ev. To be a Devil Cass 'T is a kind of rape too That keeps you clear for where the will 's compell'd Tho' you yield up your body you are safe still Ev. Thou art grown a learned Bawd I ever look't Thy great sufficiency wou'd break out Cass You may You that are young and fair from us old Creatures But you must know my years e're you be wise And my experience too Say the King lov'd ye Do you think Princes favours are such trifles To fling away when you please there are young Ladies Both fair and honourable that wou'd leap to reach ' em Ev. They are the wiser for it but canst thou tell me Tho' he be a King whether he be sound or no I wou'd not give my youth up to infection Cass As sound as honour ought to be I think Ev. But when I have lain with him what am I then Cass What are you why the same you are now a woman A vertuous woman and a noble woman Touching at what is noble you become so Had Lucreece e're been thought of but for Tarquin She was before a Simple unknown woman When she was ravish't she was a reverent St. And do you think she yielded not a little And had a kind of will to be re-ravish't Ev. But suppose the King shou d so delight me I shou'd forget my Lord and no more look on him Cass That 's the main hazard for I tell you truly I 've heard report speak him an infinite pleasure Ev. Peace thou old Bawd thou studyed old corruptness Dost thou seek to make me dote on wickedness Because 't is ten times worse than thou deliver'st it To be a Whore O thou Impudence Have I reliev'd thy Age to my own ruin And worn thee in my bosom to betray me Can years and Impotence win nothing on thee That 's good and honest but thou must go on still And where thy Blood wants heat to sin thy self Force thy decrepid will to make me wicked Cass I did but tell ye Ev. What the damndest Woman The cunningst and most skillfull Bawd comes short of If thou hadst liv'd ten ages to be damn'd in And exercis'd this art the Devil taught thee Thou couldst not have exprest it more exactly Cass I did not bid you sin Ev. Thou wood'st me to it Thou that art fit for Prayer and the Grave Thy Body Earth already and Corruption Thou taught●st the way go follow your fine Function There are houses of Delight that want good Matrons Such grave Instructors get thee thither Monster And read varitey of Sins to Wantons And when they roar with pains then learn to pity ' em Cass This we have for our good will Ev. When thou want'st bread and common pity towards thee When thou art starving in a Ditch think on me Then die and let the wandring Bawds lament thee Begone I charge thee leave me Exit Cassandra Enter Frederick Fr. She 's angry and the other gone my suits cold I 'll make your heart ake stubborn Maid for this Turn not so angry from me I will speak to you Are you grown proud with your delight good Lady So pamper'd with your sport you scorn to know me Ev. I scorn you not I wish you scorn'd not me Sir And forc't me to be weary of my duty I know your Grace wou'd I had never seen you Fr. Because I love because I dote upon you Because I am a man that seek to please you Ev. I 've one already Sir that can content me As much as noble and as worthy of me As all the world can yield Fr. That 's but your modesty You have no man nay never look upon me I know it Lady no man to content ye No man that can or at the least that dares Which is a poorer man and nearer nothing Ev. Be nobler Sir inform'd Fr. I 'll tell you Madam The poor condition of this poorer Fellow And make you blush for shame at your own error He has not render'd yet a Husbands duty To your warm longing Bed Ev. How shou'd he know that Fr. I 'm sure he did not for I charg'd him no Upon his life I charg'd him but to try him Cou'd any brave or noble spirit stop here Was life to be prefern'd before affection Lawful and long d for too Ev. Did you command him Fr. I did in policy to try his spirit Ev. And cou'd he be so dead cold to observe it Brought I no Love nor Beauty along with me Fr. I shou d have lov'd him if he had ventur'd for it Nay doted on his bravery Ev. Only charg'd and with that spell sit down dare men fight bravely For poor slight things for drink or ostentation And there indanger both their lives and fortunes And for their lawful loves fly off with fear I wou●d have died a thousand deaths Fr. So wou d any Any that had the spirit of a Man I wou'd have been kill'd in your Arms. Ev. I wish I had been And buryed in my arms that had been noble And what a Monument wou'd I have made him Upon my breast he should have slept in peace Honour and everlasting love his Mourners And I still weeping 'till old time had turn●d me And pitying powers above into pure Chrystal Fr. Hadst thou lov'd me and had my way been stuck With deaths as thick as frosty nights with Stars I wou'd have ventur'd Ev. Good Sir afflict me not too fast I feel I am a Woman and a wrong'd one too And I am sensible of my abuses Fr. All reason and all Laws allow it ye Ev. You may speak now and happily prevail too And I beseech your Grace be angry with me Fr. If I shou'd give him life he wou'd betray thee That fool that fears to die for such a Beauty Wou'd for the same fear sell thee unto misery I do not say he set your Woman on you Ev. Follow'd thus far nay then I smell the malice It tasts too hot of practis'd wickedness Shall my Anger make me Whore and not my pleasure My sudden inconsiderate rage abuse me Fr. Nor he wou'd have been himself Sollicitor Ev. Nor do not dare 't will be an imprudence And not an honour for a Prince to lye Fr. How lye Ev. Shamefully and I cou'd wish my self a man but one day To tell you openly you lye too basely Fr. Take heed wild sool Ev. Take heed thou tame Devil Thou all Pandora's box in a Kings figure Thou hast almost whor'd my weak belief already And like an Engineer

blown up my Honour But I shall countermine and catch your mischief Victorious Thomyris ne'er won more honour In cutting off the Royal Head of Cyrus Than I shall do in conquering thee farewell And if thou canst be wise learn to be good too 'T will give thee nobler light than both thy eyes do My poor Lord and my self are bound to suffer And when I see him faint under your sentence I 'll tell you more it may be than I 'll yield to Fr. Yielding or not I 've sworn she shall be mine Tho I shou'd wade through Seas of blood to meet her Enter Val. Val. He 's here and by himself what hinders me But that I now make sure a noble vengeance The People do expect the Soldiers wish it All Naples hang on me their expectations As if it was a debt I ow'd my Country But still he is my Soveraign and that thought Pulls back my Sword and turns the edge against me Fr. Now my young marry'd Lord how do you feel your self You have the happiness you ever aim'd at The joy and pleasure You tumble in delights with your sweet Lady And draw the Minutes out in dear imbraces Val. Wou'd you had try'd it Sir that you might know The vertue but to suffer Your anger tho' it be unjust and insolent Sits handsomer upon you than your scorn To do a willfull ill and glory in it Is to do it double and doubly to be damn'd Fr. You clearly see now brave Valerio What 't is to be a rival to a Prince To interpose agianst a raging Lyon Val. You are grown a Tyrant Upon so suffering and so still a Subject That if your youth were honest it wou'd blush at But y' are a shame to nature as to vertue Pull not my rage upon ye 't is so Just It will give way to no respect Fr. I know y 'ave suffer'd infinitely suffer'd And with a kind of pity I behold ye And if you dare be worthy of my mercy I can yet heal you Val. I fall thus low Sir And my poor heart under your feet I lay And all the service of my life Fr. I o this then Part with her for a while Val. You have parted us What shall I do with that I cannot use Sir Fr. 'T is well consider'd let me have the Lady And thou shalt see how nobly I 'll befriend thee Val. Will she come do you think Fr. She must be wrought I know she is too modest And that with Art Val. But who shall work her Sir For on my conscience she is very honest And will be hard to cut as a rough Diamond Fr. Why you must work her any thing from your Tongue Set off with Golden and perswasive language Urging your dangers too Val. But all this while Have you the Conscience Sir to leave me nothing Nothing to play withall Fr. There are ten thousand take where thou wilt Val. May I be bold with your Queen She 's useless to your Grace as it appears Sir And but a Loyal Wife that may be lost too I have a mind to her and then 't is equal Fr. How Sir Val. 'T is so Sir thou most glorious impudence Have I not wrongs enow to suffer under But thou must pick me out to make a Monster A hated wonder to the World do you start At my intrenching on your private liberty And wou'd you force a high way through my honour And make me pave it too but that thy Queen Is of that excellent honesty And guarded with Divinity about her I wou'd so right my self Fr. Why take her to you I am not vext at this thou shalt enjoy her I 'll be thy Friend if that will win thy curtesie Val. I will not be your Bawd tho' for your Kingdom Was I brought up and nourish'd in the Court With thy most Royal Brothers and thy self And suck't the sweetness of all humane Arts Learn'd arms and honour to become a villain Was this the expectation of my youth My growth and glory Do you speak this truly Or do you try me Sir for I believe not At least I wou'd not and methinks 't is impossible There shou'd be such a Devil in a King's shape Such a malignant Fiend Fr. You 'll find me worse if you persist thus rashly The next time you hear from me it must be In rougher terms and so I take my leave Exit Val. Am I a Man and feel loves fire within me Youth and desire engaging me to taste Those sweet delights the law has given me Have I within my reach that precious treasure To purchase which I have sacrific'd my life Withall my youthful hopes and shall I not Because a Tyrants power interposes Dare once to touch that dear bought happiness Enter Evanthe Come my Evanthe fly into my Arms Let thy warm sighs dissolve that lump of sorrow That heavy load that hangs upon my soul Ev. Not all my sighs nor the sincerest love That e're was paid by an unhappy Maid Can purge thy soul of its ingratitude Val. Ha! Ev. Canst thou look up to the peoples love That call thee worthy and not blush Valerio Can'st thou behold me whom thou hast betray'd Yet know no shame Val. What means my best Evanthe Ev. To save thy life and for so short a time It do's betray so base a Cowardice That makes ev'n me a Woman blush to think on 't Had twenty thousand deaths attended me I wou'd have met 'em all and di'd upon the pleasure Val. I 'am all amazement Ev. To let a lye work like a spell upon ye A lye to save your life the King himself Tho he be wicked and our Enemy But juster than thou art in pity of me Told me this truth Val. What did he tell you Ev. That but to gain thy life for a few days Thy lov'd poor life thou gavest up all my duties Val. I swear 't is false my life and death are equal But Kings are men and live and die as men do Have the affections men have and their falshoods Indeed they have more power to make 'em good It was to save thy life thy innocent life That I forbore thy bed Ev. And was not I as worthy to die nobly To make a story for the times that follow As he that married me do you think I chose you Only for pleasure or content in Love To lull you in my arms and kiss you hourly Val. I do not think so Ev. I might have been a Queen Sir If that had caught me and have known all delicates There 's few that wou'd have shun'd so fair an offer O thou unfaithful fearful man thou hast kill'd me In saving me this way thou hast destroy'd me Val. I honour you by all the rites of marriage And pleasures of chast love I wonder at you You appear the vision of a heaven unto me Stuck all with stars of honour shining clearly Why don't you chide me you have so brave an anger And thus deliver'd flows