and I will teach you how to chuse them Elect not mongst whole troupes of Courtly dames For amongst many some must needs be ill The seld seene Phoenix euer sits alone Ioue courted Danae when she was alone Alone my boyes that is the onely way Ladies yeeld that alone they els say nay Flo. An expert souldier how shall they choose them Father Oct. If her bright eye dim not the Diamond Say it is bright but brighter iems delight you Jf that her breath do not perfume the ayre Say it is sweet but sweeter sweets content you Jf that her cheeke compared to the Lilly Make not the Lilly black with whiter whitenesse Say it is Lilly white but black to white When your choise white must haue such high exceeds Flo. Father you do exceed things possible Faith say how many Ladyes haue you seene Much fayrer then my selfe in all your trauayle Oct. Should the Crow teach me then no Lady fayrer If iudgement tell me then a many fayrer Thou art myne owne J must thinke well of thee Yet Florimella many doe excell thee Flo. Should the Crow teache I am not all Crowblacke Though iudgement J not all perfection black Though you haue seene Ladyes that dim the day Yet will J thinke my selfe as fayre as they Oct. Doe Florimella and I le one day get A husband for thee that shall thinke thee fayre Flo. And tyme ifaith that prety sport would be Wiue it for them you shall not husband me Oct. Yet you will take my counsell in your choise Flo. Yes if I had not yeares ynough to choose Would you direct me as you doe your sonnes With daughter take a man with such a nose With such an eye with such a colour beard Thus big thus tall with all his teeth afore Thus lipt thus legd thus handsome thus apparrelld Were not this pittifull o pittifull Now by the soule of soule-commanding loue I will not stoope to such obedience I must be bid to blush when I am kist Bid my loue welcome and I thanke you sir With no indeed I know not what loue is I neuer heard so much of loue before I pray take heede nay fie you goe too far With such a rabble of prescriptions As neuer mayd of a Conceiuing spirit Will follow them yet brothers goe you on Take you good counsell Florimell will none Exit Oct. I daughter are you so experienced An elder woman might haue spoken lesse Yet by your leaue mynion I le watch you so Your I shall still be gouernd by my no But come my sonnes take patterne of great Ioue Early i th' morning suit your selues for loue Exeunt Enter Anthonio Duke of Mantua Hermia and Lucida his daughters they with angels and he with a net Ant. Go daughters with your Angels to the brooke And see if any siluer-coated fish Will nibble at your worme-emboweld hooks Deceiue the watry subiects yet the name Of foule deceit me thinks should fray them from you Alack alack I cannot blame the world That in the world there is so much deceipt When this poore simple trade must vse deceipt But with what conscience can J make this net Within whose meshes all are caught that come They cousen one at once this cousens many I will vndoo 't it shall not cousen any But daughters go practise that little sinne I le mend this great fault ere the fault begin O cousening fortune how hast thou deceiu'd me Turning me out a doores to banishment And made another Lord of Mantua I that was Lord now slaue to misery Her Take comfort yet deare father Ant Comfort no My brest 's turnd prison my proude iaylor woe Locks out all comfort wher 's your valiant brother Her All discontent like to a wounded lyon He forrages the woods daring proude fortune At her best weapon he accounts this smart As a slight hurt but far off from the hart Anth. How holds his humour Luc. The same fashion still But somwhat sadder-colourd death may end But neuer change him see our words haue raisd him Enter Aspero Anth. Fitly applide for a walks like a ghost Why how now sonne Asp. Peace Her Brother Asp. Good now peace VVake me not as you loue me Luc. VVhat a sleepe Asp. I in a most sweet sleepe blisters o' your tongues for waking me Anth. Thou forgettest thy selfe Asp. J should not be a Courtier els mee thought J was at a strange wedding Anth. Prithee what wedding Asp. Of a young Lawyer and old Madam Conscience Anth. I scarce beleeue that Asp. Nor J neither because it was a dreame but mee thought the yong man doted on the old woman exceedingly Anth. That was miraculous did they liue together Asp. In the country they did and agreed passing well all the long vacation and but for two things he would haue carried her vp to the terme with him Ant. VVhat things were those Asp. One was because her gowne was of the old fashion the other was cause he would not haue her by when he tooke fees Ant. His reason for that Asp. For feare if a bribe had bin offered she being by he shold haue had the bad conscience to take it Anth. His wife and he liued together Asp. Conscience and the Lawyer as louingly as men and their wiues do one flesh but neither medle nor make one with another Ant. Man and wife part that 's strange Asp. O lord sit profit can part the soule and the body and why not man and wife now you haue had my dreame father let me vnderstand yours Anth. How can he dreame that neuer sleeps my sonne Asp. O best of all why your whole world doth nothing but dreame your machiauell he dreames of state deposing kings grounding new monarchies the louer hee dreames of kisses amorous embraces the newe-married wife dreames that rid of her young husband she hugs her old loue and likes her dreame well ynough too the Country gentle woman dreams that when her first husband 's dead she marries a knight and the name of Lady sticks so in her mind that shee s neuer at hearts-ease till she get her husband dub'd the Captaine he dreames of oppressing the souldiers deuising stratagēs to keep his dreame and that dreame wakes in the pate of Octauio your Arch-enemy who is not content to hurle vs into the whirlepoole of banishment but binds waights at our heeles leaden pouerty to sinke vs to the very depth that we should neuer rise againe Her Then since all dreame let vs dreame of reuenge Asp. I marry sister that were a dreame worth dreaming and I le sleepe out my braines but I le compasse it Anth. Pretty content we kill our foes in dreames Asp. Vds foot I le doe it waking then Anth. Aspero Asp. At Counsell table Anth. Heare me Asp. In his Dutches armes t were base to go disguisd No my reuenge shall weare an open brow J will not play the coward kill him first And send my challenge after I le make knowne My name and cause of comming
shall haue a stronger prison so J shall bee sure of a kinder and a wiser iaylor Flo. Do you obserue how he flowts you my Lord that I had bin his keeper but one night longer but keepe him close if he escape though against thy will as I am a mayd Hort. A maide against your will Flo. Shalt pay as deere for 't as thou didst for thy office Hort If he scape hang me Exit As with Aspero Flo. I shall wish thee hangd if he do not treason I may thanke my peeuish humor for t Enter Page Page Madam the Gundelo is ready Flo. Thou bringst physicke when the patient 's dead boy our ieast 's turnd earnest Pa. Is a dead in earnest Flo. As good or rather worse hee 's buried quick Pa. O madam many a good thing has bin buried quick and suruiu'd againe I would bee buried quicke my selfe and I might choose my graue Flo. Hee 's buried in close prison boy hee 's knowne for the duke of Mantuaes sonne and by my fathers letter attached for a traytor Pa. Good gentleman and I be not sorrie for him who is his keeper Flo. The testie asse Hortensio Pa. Vds foot le ts enlarge him Flo. Not possible boy Pa. Not possible t is wee le cousen his keeper Flo. We cannot Pa. Cannot we can your father made a Lord of him but be rul'd by me his daughter shall make a foole of him you are not the first woman has made a foole of a wiser Lord then he is Flo. Shall he be cousend Pa. As palpably as at the Lotterie my brains are in labour of the stratagem alreadie Exeunt Finis actus Tertiis ACTVS QVARTVS Enter Anthonio Francisco Hippolito Hermia Lucida and Octauio disguisd Anth. Sons of Octauio if your princely thoughts Can stoope to such meane beauty from this hand Receiue your wiues but should the Duke your father Fr. Feare not old man he was the meanes that breath'd this spirit into vs Hip. Wood vs to this course But should he proue Apostata denie Loue which he first enforcd vs to profes So firme are our inseparate affections To winne our loues weed loose the names of sonnes Oct. Your father thanks you but hot-sprighted you that Take counsell from experience ere yee tie The gordian knot which none but heauen can loose Craue his consent when an imperiall hand Shakes a weake shed the building cannot stand Fr. Not stand it shall not Ioue himselfe can ruine the ground-worke for our loue Oct. Not Ioue Hip. Not Ioue Should a speak thunder then go boldly on Our loue admits no separation Oct. Then to 〈…〉 your loue is chast Fra. As innocence white soule Hip. As innocence white soule Oct. And yours Herm. And ours Lucid. And ours Oct. Then lend me all your hands Whilst thus a fathers tongue forbids the bands discouers himselfe Forgetfull boyes but most audacious traytor That durst in thought consent to wrong thy Prince Out of my fight no Land that calls me Lord Shall beare a waight so hatefull as they selfe Liue euer banishd if three daies expirde Thou or these lustfull strumpets Hip. Father Oct. Boyes If you be mine show 't in obedience If three daies past you liue within my dukedome Thee as a slaue I le doome vnto the gallies And these thy brats as common prostitutes Shall drie their lustfull veynes in the Burdello Come boyes to Court he that first gaue you liues VVill to your births prouide you equall wiues Fr. They haue our loues Hip. Our oathes Fr. Our hearts and hands Oct. Tut louers othes like toyes writ down in sands Are soone blowne ore contracts are common wiles Tintangle fooles Ioue himselfe sits and smiles At louers periuries bawd strumpets hence My bosome 's chargde giue way to violence Come doe not mind them Exeunt Anth and his daughters Fran. How not minde them father When in your Court you courted vs to loue You red another lecture women then Were angells Oct. True but that was before Angells Had power to make them diuells they were then Fiends to themselues and Angells vnto men VVhen vpon Po thou find'st a cole-black swan Th' ast found a woman constant to a man Fr. And not afore Oct. Neuer afore Hip. Your tongue Vnspeaks your former speech Oct. It doth new theames Must haue new change of Rhetorique all streames Flow not alike one way when I spake like a louer Jt was to breake you from your souldiers humour Hauing made you louers I like Enuy speak To make you hate loue Art still striues to breake Bad to make better Brothers You haue your wish Oct. Then onward to the Court Make vs of loue as schoole-boyes do of sport Exeunt Enter Florimell and her Page Flo. Call out the iaylor boy yet doe not hast got a beard like Hortensio Page Yes madam J haue got his hayre if I coulde come as easily by his wit Flo. VVouldst rob him of his wit Pa. If I shold he could not hang me for 't t is not worth thirteen pence halfe penny but what shall I do with it Flo. Put it on boy Pa. That shall J madam O forward age I am a man already how do you like me Lady Flo. Very ill and my plot worse Pa. Then leaue 't of if you be grounded in the plot You will but marre the Comedy Flo. I purposde thou in the habit of Hortensio shouldst vnder pretence of remouing Aspero to a new prison haue freed him out of the old one Pa Tut J can tell you a trick worth two of that madam your eare take some care in the managing and let me alone to prepare it Exeunt Enter Aspero and his Boy Boy Vdsfoot breake prison my Lorde t is but swimming the Riuer Asp. Breake prison t were both dishonour to my name and treason to my loue what benefit wer 't for me to free my body leaue my heart in bondage I le die ere I le harbour a disloyall thought Pa. Jt beares no rellish of disloyaltie being in prison you liue as far from loue as liberty being abroad you may by letters or a thousand meanes purchase hir company and compasse your content Asp. Shalt be my Lawyer boy and counsell me Boy I le looke for my Fee then Asp. If thy Counsell prospers Boy That 's an exception Lawyers neuer respect but come my lord leape as we haue risen togither wee le fall togither Enter Hort. Florimell and Page Asp. Blame me not loue Boy. Vdsfoot your iaylor my lord Asp. Am I preuented Boy Yes faith there had bin a Counsellors fee cast away now Hort. You haue heard his vsage Lady seene his lodging and if it please you you both may and shall confer with him Flo. Prithee call him Boy My Lord your keeper hath brought a Lady or two to see you Asp. To see me why am I turnd monster doth he take money to shew me what doth a take a peece troe Flo. VVhy how now gallant not gone yet Asp. Not I thanke
if I thought Griefe like a painter had so spoyl'd my visage He could not know me on my breast I de write How ere I am disfigured through woe J am the thing was made for Aspero Speake not I am as constant as the Center Some fortune good or bad doth beckon me And I will run bitter reuenge tasts sweete Jf here on earth farewell in heauen wee le meete Attendance sirra your low Commedie Craues but few Actors wee le breake company Anth. As many blessings as the sea hath sands Exit cum Puero Attend thee in thine honorable iourney Come pretty maides we haue not wrought to day Or fish or fast our neede must needs obey Exeunt Enter Hippolito Francisco Florimell and Page meeting them Fr. Now sirra what haue you been about Page About my liuing sit Hip. What 's that feeding Pa. No sir looking into the vnderofficers about the Court Hip. Canst get any liuing out of them Pa. I sir my betters get good liuings out of officers and why not I but to be plaine I haue bin seeking your good Lordship Fr. But your boyship hath so sought vs that wee haue found you Page VVill you sell your findings my Lord Hip. They are scarce worth giuing Flo. Yes a boxe to keepe them in for feare you loose them againe Pa. And I were a man as I am no woman I d'e pepper your box for that ieast Flo. You ieast Pa. In earnest law I would Madam Fr. VVell sir no more here comes our royall Father Enter Octauio Hortensio Flamineo c. Oct. How now my boyes prouided for your iourney Beauty conduct you what attyrd like shepheards I thought t' haue seene you mounted on your steeds Whose fiery stomackes from their nostrills breath The smoke of courage and whose wanton mouthes Do proudely play vpon their yron bits And you in stead of these poore weeds in robes Richer then that which Ariadne wroughte Or Cytharaes aery-mouing vestment Thus should you seeme like louers suited thus y 'oude draw faire Ladies harts into their eies And strike the world dead with astonishment Fr. Father such cost doth passe your sons reuenues We take example from immortall Ioue Who like a shepheard would repaire to loue Oct. And gentle loue conduct you both my sonnes Daughter go bring them onward in their way Were not we cald back by important busines We would not leaue you thus Hortensio Is my disguise prepard for J vnknowne VVill see how they behaue themselues in loue Hort. T is done my Lord Oct. Once more my boyes adieu He sends you forth that meanes to follow you Exit Flo Now brothers you must amongst these wenches Faith for a wager which shall get the fairest Fr. I le gage a 100. crownes mine proues the fairest Hip. A match I le venter twice so much of mine Flo. And I le lay gainst you both that both your loues Get them when you can where you can or how you can shall not be able to compare with me in beauty Fran. That wager I le take for t is surely won Hip. Las thou art but a star to beauties sun Flo. Star me no stars go you and stare for loue I le stay at home and with my homely beauty Purchase a loue shall thinke my looks as faire As those faire loues that you shall fetch so far But take your course fate send you both faire lucke Fr. How if 't be fowle Flo. Nay i ft be forked you must beare it off with head and shoulders Fr. Oh stale that ieast runs o th' lees Flo. You must consider t is drawne out of the bottome of my witte Fr. O shallow wit at the bottome so soone Flo. Deepe ynough to lay you in the mire Page Or els t is shallow indeede for they are foundred already but I must play dun and draw them all out o' th mire What 's a clock my Lord Flo. Which of them dost aske thou seest they are two Pag. VVhat two are they Madam Flo. VVhy two fooles Fr. Is it not past two doth it not come somewhat neere three sister Page Shew perryall and tak 't but come my Lord you haue stood fooling long ynough will you about your busines in good earnest Fra. Indeed we will Flo. And they are deeds you must trust too for women will respect your words but slitely without deeds Page VVhy are women called Angells but because they delight in good deeds and loue heauen but that it will not be won without them Fr. They shall haue deeds Flo. Brother and good deeds too They are tongues that men must speake with when they woo Hip. That tongue wee l practise sister to loue we leaue you Exeunt brothers Flo. Louers take heed least cunning loue deceiue you Exit with Page Finis actus primi ACTVS SECVNDVS Enter Octauio disguised Hortensio Flamineo Oct. NO more thus suted I le attend my sonnes Impute it not to any ruffian vaine But to a fathers wakefull prouidence Louers like bees are priuiledgd to tast All buds of beauty should they chance to light Vpon some worthles weed I le hinder it The eies of youth will now and then dwell there Whereas they should not glance this doubt I feare Fla. And well aduisd my liege should they incline To loue not fitting their estates and births You with your present counsell may preuent them Oct. That 's my intent and further in my absence I leaue my land and daughter to thy charge The girle is wanton if she gad abroad Restraine her bound her in hir chamber dore My word 's thy warrant let her know so much Farewell at home I leaue my feare with thee And follow doubt abroad Hor. I le carefull be Exeunt Oct. Now to my busines I haue a strange habit and I must cut out an humour sutable to it and humours are pickt so neere the bone a man can scarce get humour ynough to giue a flea his breakfast but I am a stale ruffian my habit is braue and so shall my humor be and here comes one to giue me earnest of it Enter Aspero and his boy Asp. Send him a letter that I come to kill him Boy T were great valor but little pollicy my Lord Asp. How long haue you bin a matchiauilian boy Boy Euer since I practisd to play the knaue my Lord Asp. Then policy and knauery are somewhat a kin Boy As neere as penury and gentry a degree and half remou'de no more Asp. How came in the kindred twixt gentry and penury Oct. Shall I tell you sir Asp. First tell me what thou art Oct. Lyme and haire playster of Paris kneaded together with rye dowe and goats milke I am of a hot constitution wonnot freeze Asp. Thy profession Oct. A foole or a knaue choose you which Boy Then thou art fit for any gentlemans company Oct. True boye for your sweete foole and your fine knaue are like a paire of vpright shooes that gentlemen weare so long now of one foote then of another
may I presume vppon my knees I beg it but to take a fauour from your sweet lips shall I las I am not the first man that loue has blinded may I presume 't I would be loth to offend your milde patience so much as with an vnreuerend touch speake if I shall reape the haruest of my honest defires make me blest in proposing the time when what not a word are you displeased or shall I take your silence for a consent shall I speake or if modesty locke in your syllables seale my assurance with a kisse not neither shall I haue neither your word nor your bond nay then I must make bold with modesty by this kisse madam O my hard fortune haue I made suit to a poast all this while what block but I would haue bin so sencelesse my excuse is 't was but to make my Lady sport and Madam how Lady madam boy madam Aspero but whist I haue the conceit 't was excellent in my Lady and J applaud it suppose my Lady and hir prisoner had an intent of priuate busines in the next roome was it not better in her to blinde me then I should as gentlemen vshers cases so standing haue blinded my selfe againe J applaud her and adore my starres that made me rather a blind then a seeing dore-keeper shall I interrupt them no madam they haue not done yet sure they haue not what haue we here a base violl though J cannot tickle the mynnikyn within I le though it be some what base giue them a song without and the name of the Ditty shall be The Gentleman Vshers Voluntarie He sings Peace peace peace make no noyse Pleasure and feare lie sleeping End end end your idle toyes Iealous eies will be peeping Kisse kisse and part though not for hate for pittie Ha done ha done ha done for I ha done my dittie And if you haue not done now too let me be as base as my fiddle if I rowze you not madam for shame what doe you meane to make of me how sfoote what haue you made of me already all gone Iaylor Enter Assistance aboue Ass. How now who calls Hort. VVhy saucie knaue t is J. Ass. You what you Hort. A single V I came in double but I thanke them they are gone out and left me here a single Ass. Foole and so I leaue you Hort. Knaue I am Hortensio I charge thee let me out Ass. Foole you lye you are Aspero and I haue charge to keepe you in Hort. From whom Ass. From my Lord Hortensio Hort. Sfoot knaue J tell thee I am hee and thou wilt not beleeue me trust thine eies come in and see Ass. 'T will not serue your turne J like a whole skinne better then a pinkt one content your selfe to night and in the morning I le tell you more Hort. Where 's my Lady send hir hither Ass. Shee 's busie with my Lord Hortensio but if you haue any vse for a woman I le send you one of the Laundresses fare you well sir bee content you shall want nothing of any thing you haue Hort. Hortensio gone outland my Ladie busie with Hortensio I am gulld palpably guld whilst I like a blocke stood courting the post Aspero is in my apparrell escapde villains traytors open the doore the Duke 's abusd his daughter 's fled I proclaime yee all traytors that hinder me in the pursuit Ass. O for a reasonable audience to applaud this sceane of merryment I le goe call my Lady and my Lord Hortensio Exit Hort. Blindmans buffe I haue bufft it fairely and mine owne gullery grieues me not halfe so much as the Dukes displeasure iaylor not a word iaylor there 's no way to please a knaue but fayre words and gold honest kinde iaylor here 's gold for thee doe but take pittie vpon me a miserable cony-catchd Courtier not neither fayre nor foule thou art a degree worse then a woman what shall I doe I can compare my fortune and my vnfortunate selfe to nothing so fitlie as my Base here wee suffer euerie foole to play vpon vs for their pleasure and indeede 't was the intent of our Creator that made fiddles and seruitors to nothing but to be playd vpon and playd vpon wee shall be till our heart strings crack and then they either cast vs aside or hang vs vp as worthy no other imployment well if I can worke my meanes of escape so if not I must lie by it Exit Finis actus Quarti ACTVS QVINTVS Enter Octauio Francisco Hippolito Flamineo c. MY daughter fled and with Hortensio It beares no formall shape of likelyhood Hir Eagle spirit soard to proud a pitch To seize so base a prey let priuy searche Look through the citties bosome till they find her For gone she is not Fr. Has not Anthonies sonne Sent them by some base practise to their death Oct. His breasts too full of honor trusty Iulio Enter Iulio What waighty businesse drawes thee from thy charge Iul. Came not the cause afore me the proud Mantuans Basely reuolt deposde me from the seate And chayre of Regentship sending in quest Of proude Anthonio their late-banishd Duke Him if they find or Aspero his sonne Enter Assist Thei le reinstall him in the regiment Oct. Him let them seeke in the vast shades of death as for his sonne Ass. Hee 's sure ynough my Lord he was a mad knaue when he came in but J thinke I haue made a tame foole of him by this time for a has neither had bread nor water these foure and forty houres Oct. More villain thou Ass. My Lord Hortensio was the villain he left such command with mee hee 's the wheele that turnes about and I a Country Iack must strike when I am commanded Oct. Although my foe hee 's honorably tempred Yet armd against my life goe call him forth Guard in my safety with a ring of steele And marke how proudly hee le demeane reuenge Enter Assistance and Hortensio bareheaded with his Crowd Ass. Goblins spirits furies faeryes the prison is haunted Oct. With a knaue is 't not Ass. Yes and an olde foole my Lord in the likenesse of Hortensio Oct. Villain where 's Aspero Ass. I know not my Lord I let him in and my Lady to laugh at him and it seemes he consented to treason and let him out in his apparrell Hor. They consented togither to cousen me for taking delight as my betters may doe in a foolish pastime called Blindmans buffe they stole away my gowne escapt the prison and left mee in fooles paradice where what song I haue playd my Violl can witnesse they made me a little better then a bawd my Lord Fr. In act Hort. Not meerly in act sed cogitatione id satis est vt inquit Suetonius Oct. Js hee escapt and Florimell with him Hortensio thy head shall answer it Hort. I pray let my tongue be my heads Atturney and pleade my excuse Oct. Vrge no excuse away with him to prison Ass.
It shall be done my Lord Oct. Nay you sir too shall taste of the same sauce away with both Flamineo Come my sonnes Le ts leauy present armes gaynst Mantua Being scarce come home we must abroad againe The Common good 's a carefull Princes payne Exeunt Enter Anthonio Lucida Hermia and Lords Anth. You that in all my banisht pilgrimage Would neuer alienate your naturall loues But in desire to see me reinstalld Haue thrust out proude Octauioes substitute And seated me in antient dignity I am yours and ready at your best dispose Lord Your owne my liege we like inferiour lights Take life from your reflection for like stars Vnto the sunne are Counsellours to Kings He feeds their orbes with fier and their shine Contend to make his glory more diuine And such are we to great Anthonio Anth. The veynes and arteries of Anthonio Through which the bloud of greatnesse flows in vs Our life and cause efficient of our state And these our prety partners in exile Lord We ha yet performd but the least part of duetie Your reinstalment it rests that with our bloud VVe keepe out innouative violence Ant. You new-create me and breath second life Into my dying bosome knew my soone Of this vnlookt-for Fortune but ill Fate Has playd the Traytor and giuen vp his life To coward treason A shout within Enter Aspero and Florimell with their Pages Asp. Vdsfoot what offence haue I committed against the state that these yron-handed Plebeians so applaud me for Flo. T is a signe they loue you Asp. I had rather thy should hate me it makes mee suspect my bosome for they loue none but the masters of factions treasons and innouasions Flo. Then you doe not loue the Commons Asp. Yes as wise men doe their flattering wiues only for show the popular voyce is like a crie of bauling hounds and they get the foote of a fantasticke and popular-affecting statesman they neuer leaue him till they haue chac'd him into disgrace then like hounds are at a losse and with their losse see I haue found my father safety attend you Anth. Welcome thou hope of Mantua and of vs VVe now are honors new beginners boy And may we better thriue then heretofore Asp. Neuer doubt it father I haue attractiue stuffe that will draw customers Anth. VVhat Lady 's that Flo. One that has playd the part of a Constable brought you home a Runaway Asp. A friend of mine Father but daughter to your Arch-enemy Anth. Octauioes daughter Asp. Yes faith you are out with the Father and I le see if I can fall in with the daughter Flo. And am I not a good child to leaue my fathers loue at sixe and seauen and hazard my honor vpon your sonnes naked promise and your hopefull acceptance Asp. She has followed me through much danger Anth. The better welcome I loue her for 't Asp. Like her and you please I d'e haue no body loue her but my selfe Anth. And Lady though your Father be our foe The vertuous loue betwixt our sonne and you May nerethelesse retaine his simpathie Flo. Shall nerethelesse retaine his simpathy Anthonio know I am loues resolute Confirmd and grounded in affection I lou'd your sonne not for he was a Prince But one no better then his present fortunes I le loue him still since first I lou'd him so Let Father friends and all the world say no Asp. There 's mettle Father how can wee choose but get cocking children when father and mother too are both of the game Enter Messenger Mess. To armes my Lord Octauio comes in armes To giue a proud assault vnto the Citty Asp. Proud his assault as proud be our resist Vye shot for shot and stake downe life for life Our brest 's as bold as theirs our bloud as deepe All that wee 'l loose or this our gettings keepe Her Come brother talke not of deuouring war Say messenger comes not Octauioes sonnes Mess. They do as proudly as the morning Sunne Beating the azurd pauement of the heauen Her Then feare not father my sister and my selfe Will be your champions and defend the Citty Flo. Why Ladies haue you such large interest in our brothers Fr. Princesse we haue within there reach our shields When beauty fights the God of battaile yeelds Exeunt Enter Francisco Hippolito Flamineo Iulio Enter Anthonio Aspero Florimell two Pages Lords and Messenger aboue Flo. They offer parlee let mee answer them Brothers how now who made you souldiers Faith een my father as he made you louers What hath he chang'd your shepheards hooks to swords Of Amoradoes made you armed knights O seld-seene metamorphosis J haue knowne Souldiers turne louers but for amorous louers To re-assume their valour t is a change Like winter-thunder and a thing as strange Fr. Our sister prisoner Hip. Tell me Florimell Dost thou liue there enforc'd or of free-will Flo. Free will brothers mine owne free will all free in Mantua here 's free will yfaith speake am I not a free-woman Pa. As if you had seru'd for 't any man may set vp vnder hir copy without a protection Fr. J wag are you there too Pa. Yes faith my Lord my Lady has had my attendaunce to a hayre Flo. You lie boy Pa. If not mine some bodies els there 's one has done Asp. What haue I done sirra Pa. Nay nothing but what my Lady was very well content with Fr. VVhy sister shame you not to set your loue On one that is our Fathers enemie Flo. Shame not a whit but come your wenches brothers I make no question I haue won my wager Are they as faire as I Hip. Leaue that to triall Aspero make surrender of our sister Asp. And haue her in quiet possession what do you thinke me Fr. We thinke thee a proud villain and our foe Flo. By heauen th' are villains all that thinke him so Hip. Why doe you loue him Flo. I should curse my selfe if I should hate him Fr. Bring the ladders forth Brauely assault to separate their liues As they are sealing the walls the Ladies come forth Her Stand proud Francisco Pa. Sand O excellent word in a woman Luc. Hold Hippolito Pa. Hold vp with that word and t is as good as the other Fr. VVhat nymphe or goddesse in my Hermiaes shape Stands to debar my entrance to the towne Pa. Madam I wonder they enter not Flo. Why boy it seemes they dare not Pa. O cowards and haue two such fayre breaches already Fr. Immortall Pallas that art more diuine In my loues beautie that thou cloth'st thee in With drawe thy selfe and giue our fury limits Her I will but first Francisco take my shielde Luc. And mine as challenge to a single combat Her Read the conditions and returne your answers Flo. VVell done yfaith wenches O that the olde gray-beard my Father were here I de haue about with him as I am honourable Fr. VVhat 's here A shepheard wooing of a Country maide As she sits angling by a Riuers side By them an aged man making a net The Motto Sic this Emblems morrall is The former loue I had with Lucida And this hope tells me that 's faire Lucida Hip. Brother my shield the like presents to me But holds far more familiar reference Here doth the amorous shepheard kisse the Nymph Which she with a chast blush consents vnto And see a gloomy man clad like a pilgrim Comes in and seperates their sweete delights The Motto Sic I so my Father came and banisht me from beautious Hermia and this hope tells me is faire Hermia Fr. The more I looke the more me thinkes t is she Hip. The more I think the more I find t is she Fr. VVhat should I thinke to proue it is not she Flo. Looke thinke find proue doe what you can These are the wenches that you courted than Then hony bees lay by your smarting stings and buz sweet loue into your Ladies eares Tell them of kisses and such prety things These drumming dub adubs loues pleasure feares Fr. O heauen oh fortune and most happie stars Do I find loue where I expected wars Hip. I that but now was all for war and death am made all loue wars humour 's out of breath Enter Octauio Iulio and others Oct. How my sonnes loue the daughters of my foe it cannot be Iul. Then question them your selfe Oct. VVhy how now sonnes is this your worth in armes Fr. VVhy are we not in armes father Hip. Yes and in such armes as no Coward but woulde venture life to march in Oct. Then boies you loue the daughters of Anthonio Fr. VVe lik'd them first Hip. VVE keepe that liking still Oct. And you will loue them Flo. Father infaith they will Oct. I run away are you there whome has your Ladyship got to your husband Flo. One that I stumbled on at Blindman buffe a proper man a man euery ynch of him and you would say so and you knewe but as much as I meane to know ere I haue done with him Oct. Is he not sonne vnto Anthonio Asp. Great Duke I am and prostrate on my knee I beg a peace which if your spleene deny I proudlie stand where erst I mildly kneel'd and east downe bold defiance from theis walls Oct. No more your loues make my proud hart asham'd Your consort 's sweet and I le not be a meane To make it iar what my sonnes like shall stand By my consent allowed and perfected all hate is banisht and reuenge lies dead Asp. Then stead of speares let Hymens torches flame VVith hallowed incence and the God of spright Swell vp your vaines with amorous delight and so that vp our single Comedy VVith Plautus phrase Si placet plaudite Exeunt Omnes FINIS