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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13613	The two first comedies of Terence called Andria, and the Eunuch newly Englished by Thomas Newman. Fitted for scholler priuate action in their schooles; Andria. English	Terence.; Newman, Thomas, fl. 1627.; Terence. Eunuchus. English. aut	1627 (1627)	STC 23897; ESTC S102998	66,610	176

Nauius Plautus Ennius in like crime To whose mistakings he would rather climbe Then follow these mens obscure diligence I further wish 'hem hence soorth keepe 'hem still And cease with euill language him to sting Lest their ill doing in their eares do ring Spectators kind of you we craue good will In silence shewne and kinde attention That without preiudice our play y 'ould heare Thence you may fully know if it rest cleare That all our future purposd action Of new made playes be to be banisht quite Without aduentring your hereafter sight THE ANDRIAN VVOMAN Act. 1. Scen. 1. Enter Simo and Sosia with two or three seruanes more bearing prouision from the Market Simo. YOu sirs haue those things in away I say Exeunt the seruants Sosia draw neere I am to speak with you Sos I thinke th' errand giu'n your meaning is I looke to those things carefull cookery Sim. No t is another matter Sos Pray say on What t is my art may further doe for you Sim. Here 's neede of no such art in what I purpose But of those parts which I haue euer noted To dwell in thee trust and true secrecie Sos I waite your pleasure Sim. Since I bought thee first Being then a yongling in what gentle sort In what due course thou ledst thy seruice with me Thy selfe well know'st and for I found thee carefull In thy imployments the best good I had To answer it I gaue thee libertie Sos I ●●●re it sir in minde Sim. And I repent nor Sos 〈◊〉 is my harts ioy Master if I did Or 〈◊〉 can doe ought to your satisfaction And further owe you thankes that you acknowledge I well accepted yet it troubles me For this remembrancing your benefit Seemes to vpbraid me as forgetting it Pray in one word acquaint me with your pleasure Sim. I will but first I tell thee of this thing This which thou thinkst is no meant marriage Sos Why make you as it were then Sim. Thou shalt heare From the beginning all and by that meanes Shalt better know my Sonnes forepassed life My present purpose and thy future charge My Sonne hauing past his childhood Sosia Hath now more scope allowed him before How could one know or fist his disposition While tender age seare tutors awed him Sos Sir you say right Sim. What almost all youth doe To set their minde on one some chosen course That to breede Herse this Hounds and both to hunt A third to study of Phylosophie He none of these followed professedly Aboue the rest but yet all moderately I ioyd at it Sos Sir not without good cause For to oredoe no one thing in my sence To mans life is of chiefest consequence Sim. Such his behauiour all those gently To beare and forbeare that he kept withall Apply himselfe to please and humor all Crosse none nor proudly seeke to ouertop His young companions so that easily He got him friends and praise yet without enuie Sos He bare him wisely for in this times state Sweet yeelding procures friends blunt truth gets hate Sim. Meane while a certaine woman three yeeres since Drawne by her wants and kindreds negligence From Anaros Isle came to our neighborhood Of passing beautie flouring womanhood Sos I seare this Andrian woman bodes no good Sim. She at the first a sparing chaste life led At Rocke and Loome hard labord to get bread But when a first a second a third came Tendring their loues gifts promis'd with the same As all our natures are prone commonly From labour vnto wanton libertie She stoop'd to lure began the gainfull trade By those that then chiefe loue vnto her made My Sonne was drawne along occasionally To banquet with 'hem keepe 'hem company I to my selfe Sure the young frie is tane H 'as catcht the poisoned bait with it his bane These louers seruants passing to and fro I eu'rie morning watch and calling to One that I spied thus question Prethee lad Who yesterday yond Chrysis company had So was the Andrian call'd Sos Sir I conceaue you Sim. The answer was Phoedrus or Nicerate Or Clinias for at that time those three Her ioyntly lou'd I reply presently And what did Pamphilus what answers he He stak'd his share and supp'd this gladded me At other times I cast more newes to learne Still nothing found that did my Sonne concerne I thought him now proofe-temper'd gainst excesse Great patterne of a setled staiednesse For he that deales with natures of this kinde Yet thereby growes not slagg'ring in his minde To such a mans owne hands thou maist be bold To leaue the free reignes of his life in hold As this gaue me most satisfying pleasure So all tongues talk'd my good proclaim'd my treasure In hauing such a qualified Sonne What should I make further relation Chremes our neighbour drawne by this same bruit Freely comes to me and makes earnest suit To place his daughter yea his onely one With a large dowre as wife vnto my Sonne I agreed the marriage on his motion And this the day it is appointed on Sos What barie now stoppeth why in very deede According to the shew it not proceede Sim. I le tell thee few dayes after this befell Our neighbour Chrysis died Sos That 's chanced well You haue reuin'd me I much doubted her Sim. With Chrysis louers still my Sonne comes there Alike her funerall lookes to alike cheere Sometimes of sadnesse shewes sometimes alike Weepes with 'hem I his carriage well did like Thus argued I Her death how tenderly For very small acquaintance doth he take What if himselfe had lou'd her what for me What will he doe for me his Fathers sake All this I thought in my simplcitie Meerely the functions of humilitie And of kinde heart Why leng then I my tale My selfe for his sake tend the funerall Dreaming as yet no euill Sos Ha! what meanes this Sim. I le cause thee know The dead corps is brought out Along we goe now there amidst the throng Of wonten I a maiden very young Perchance espied of person Sos Perhaps handsome Sim. I and of countenance Sosia so delightsome So modest faire that nothing might her staine Who for she seem'd to me in all the traine Most to lament and was aboue the rest Of sweet and comely personage and face I prest neere to the Maids askt what she was They told me Chrysis sister Instantly It strooke me cold at heart Oh God! thought I Hence grew his teares his tendernesse she breeds Sos How I doe feare whither your tale proceeds Sim. The Funerall goes on we attend the same To th' Sepulchre she 's come into the flame She 's put all weepe The maid I named late Approacht the fire as carelesse desperate To her euident danger here my frighted Sonne Well shewed his long concealed affection So close dissembled to her hies he fast And both his armes folding about her wast My deere Glycerium saies he how doost say What cause hast thou to make thy selfe away Then she