their hands charm with pleasure Refiners are not half so jocund Sir To see gold drops fall thick as Rain from Ore That promist little Marus As I my Lord have been About your age to dwell on the melting lips Of those sweet Females Lidorus Excellent I faith it posts to him my Lord. Losana Nothing more welcome I have often wish'd to see my Sister muse A reverend Priest would joyn 'um both together Lidorus What undiscerned mischief dare lurk private The assenting trumpets of our holy Temples Confound all Treason her one presence has Power to kill the infection of an Adder That leaps cross their can did intentions Losan None can be sure of futures every point Of time 's defended from black Maladies By something pious or the influence Of prosperous sighs Lidorus Where both are pure as they I 'll prophesie the eights of Harmony Losana Curst not to credit you Lidorus Your bashfulness To Petus Kept you at distance like a well-bred Masty Will see a shoulder of Mutton in a Dish And Perish ere he 'll taste it 'T was me Madam Beat the Alarm Petus Noble Centinel To acknowledge it I 'll wait upon your safety And beg for watch-nights to attend your person Exeunt all but Losana and Thele Losana Go for Litus Thele stay you there Hell be almost angry I tarry so long To kill or wound or poyson some of these Shall open to the right or left I can't I can't nor won't bear it see my own self Spit upon while my younger flattering imp Is always pray'd for and admired away Let me be melted into nothing if I don't cure this ere I am two Suns older Enter Litus Stab me if I don't convert my promise To performance My Lord their visits tire The day Cabinets full of letters stand For gold to stare on every breath brings message Of new devoyrs and returns deep loden With Lovers whimsies to your last discourse I have paid reverence 't was right and true The hodge-podge words of her phantastick pate Serve for good morrow to me all their studies Are for others to conjure one another In changing hearts catalogues of their flouts Swell when I 'm amongst 'um every moment I ha' been urgent in perswasions to her She has scorn'd ' um Litus Troth Madam I wondred you So long together could forget your birth Two gallant spirits their continual practice Strikes deeper then a Chinian Dart You know The unfit receiving she has of your counsel To all but who their cogging words and looks Buy respect of your Nobler minde is plain Kill bad examples famous for a Pattern Shew their dull Genius the way to mend Correction's studied quickly though I must Confess revenge is hungry at their carriage I thought to come ere now Losana Take this prevention shortly I intend To put in practice arms that shall divide 'um It 's time enough the more intire they One bullet takes two bodies glew'd together D' ye think I can forget their outrages Sooner my name and Country I 'll bear both Fair looks till then Litus My Father I 'm inform'd Has ordered for my search I 'll sooner dye Then be discovered 'fore we have ended this Losana I 'll flee to 't Exit Litus If you don 't and quickly too I 'll be contriver and Executioner She can't help it may be but my oath Tears out the heart of one if not of both Exit Enter Sarah Winifred and Thele Sarah I have defer'd so long dear Cosen In expectation of your promist help That I can't hide it longer my shame begins To increase I fear without your sudden counsel I shall be forc'd to give the world an Infant I blush to think on 't Winifred Don't do so my Joy Sarah Heal my distemper use time while you have it Winifred I do do my sweet Nephew my love my Daughter 's with Childe for sooth Thele Be diligent ben't absent shortly I 'll send Till then I 'll pray for good success Sarah Heavens grant it My Cause is just what rockie heart can hear My sad complaints and not relieve me Wonders Have brought content to th' harmless let some vision Threaten his disloyalty and then beseech Him view the curses ready to fall on him For taking holy things to witness how Clear his thoughts were from this impiety Man 's not impenetrable can't a sin Be frighted into goodness sure it may Skies send I live to see that happy day Exit she and Winifred Thele Witness impartial ordinances how I loath the falshood of a perjured lover Nature commands me to do justice and It 's in my power she admires him still Help me some shining Spirit to consult Your own affairs and reap the glory on 't Enter Beucer Beucer Dear Mistriss I have seen a thousand doomsdays since you said I pleased you one word now makes me lighter hearted then a feather in sober sadness I shall be seen no more if I dye for love My tears run faster then Greyhounds for you a good simile is the chiefest part of Language I 've read over the Academy of Complements and pick'd out the best rhetorick to wo you a Parson may Marry us be attracted be attracted Thele The eagerness I have of Marrying you Makes Moons seem twelve-months every minute hours But for my friends good will I had long ere now Seal'd to our Wedding Beucer You are so wise Mistriss that I should be worse then a Fanatick to wish any thing till you say the word Thele These are expressions fit for strangers Sir Not her that duty tyes to you cease 'um pray Beucer The best quality of a Sutor is to be well spoken and pronounce every word with an emphasis and I thank my Stars I have both as sure as a dye and if I live will delight your ears with the high-flown words of Romances Amadis de Gaule and Palmorin de Oliva shall be my every days discourse Thele High properties Beucer And I 'll delight your ears with songs of my own making Thele Would you not have me coy Beucer 'T would kill me twenty times Thele Provide a Priest we 'll invite nobody Beucer Am I above or no methinks I turn round and see a hundred nooks and a bag of gold in every one so high and mighty is my rapture when Angel when Thele Be Lord o' th' time your self when you 'll appoint it I have chang'd my condition already What a tode am I to speak passionately Thele Why Sir Beucer I bought a Token of my love and forgot to give it you Gives her a stomacher of Ribonds and a Love-hood Thele You put your self to charge I humbly thank you These shall be my Wedding-Furniture Beucer Every particle of 'um I bought them for the same purpose to be privately and suddenly Married are the symptoms of a fiery and Elegant Lover you know my meaning Thele You have forc'd my will meet me at S. Thomas Church Ere half an hour 's spent I 'll be your wife Shall
lives I protest I 'll go to him I vow so I will Third Stay my Lord I 'll go fetch him he lives at next door Exit Occus Why I vow I think I was wrapt in my Mothers smock so I do every body loves me so so they do I vow to tell me how to get my money as I 'm here Enter third Man and Conjurer Third This is he my Lord. Occus Why Sir after humble commendations I vow there is a man his man is Mr. Hare as I 'm here a duce take him for a knave oweth me almost two hundred pounds and he won't pay me I vow I came to ask your counsel so I do for a small piece d' ye see Conjurer Have you brought your bond my Lord Occus No Sir but I 'll fetch it d' ye see Exit running Conjurer Now for my skill Enter Occus with the bond Occus Here it is d' ye see Third I have business my Lord. Exit Conjurer Well will you stand still I I I I I vow Conjurer makes a Circle Conjurer Your mony comes my Lord all to you I 'll warrant you when we have made a Scheme Earth and Saturn you 'll have it Occus So much the better Conjurer My Lord you will stand still be sure Occus Shall I ha' my mony then Conjurer No fear hold up your bond in your right hand Occus I I will hold it as fast as you will I vow Conjurer Hy surge tu grande nebulo He makes figures Occus shaking draws further off Iterum per nomen Poldavi surge Devil rises Occus Satan I defie thee Satan I defie thee d' ye see O I 'll ha' no mony I 'll ha' no mony crying Conjurer goes behind Occus and holds him Conjurer Throw down the bond or we shall be torn Devil rumbles Occus goes to throw it down twice or thrice and pulls back Occus I' th' Red Sea for ever i' th' Red Sea lay him Conjurer Down with it or you dye Devil steps further Occus O good O good Throws down the bond and runs away Devil takes it up unvails his face Devil Here 't is our will 's obtain'd our skill is shown The deed is done and now the bond 's my own Wit plays the critick Policie keeps school I 've got my wish and Devil take the fool Exeunt Omnes ACT. IV. SCEN. 1. Enter Lonus and a Servant Lonus DIsconsolate old man under an Aspect Shewing afflictions were thy Infant-griefs Conceived Oh my Son Litus is he dead Gray-hairs repose your sorrow in the Grave Oblivious of all future happiness Is he devoured Monstrous cruelty Barbarism in wilde Beasts could you not content Your hungry stomacks with the woful ruines Of my deceased life so often walking Through dismal Alleys of your woody territories But you must chaw the Branch of all our Race Servant Be not immoderate my Lord in sorrow May be some nimble Buck while he was hunting Was trac'd to death by his toilsome pursuit Or else so far some honest passer by Must guide his looks to homeward thousand chances Hinder intents of coming back and yet When he returns makes mirth to think upon 't Lonus No he 's lost Enter Hacca Pray young Gentlewoman do you hear report of Lord Litus Hacca Do I dream or is his Villany before me I 'm terrified at 's thoughts Lonus How dar'st O base woman Takes her by the sleeve Stain my Sons honour with the name of Villain Unless your words be reasonable I 'll make My aged hands the tragick instruments Of your untimely murther Hacca Hold my Lord I have cause enough to speak it Lonus Out with 't quickly Hacca If he 's your Son Sir understand he lately Fained to sigh for my Mistriss Berania But she knowing his rashness would not suffer Him see much less to confer with her At which I weep to name it he gave so much scope To his vile passion that he hir'd a Ruffin Help'd by himself to force her from the Garden As she was walking with her Father and me She had perish'd had not two young Gentlemen Rescu'd her fainting soul they kill'd his Ruffin Drove him away my Lord and since that time Shame has conceal'd him Lonus Swear that this is true Hacca By all my love to truth Lonus Now farewel comfort Long since I have predicted some disastrous And gloomy accident to follow his High-minded stubbornness Oh me oh me Servant A chair a chair my Lord faints Enter Servant with a chair he sits in 't Lonus My sons departure tells me I must have A doleful life or else a doleful grave Fear ne'r to see him more affrights me so It makes me loth to stay and loth to go Lest he should live still then if I expire 'T would kill his joy and kill my own desire I 'll tarry perchance Heavens so kinde may be To revive my Son and so to revive me By his return if not I 'll yeild my breath First due to sorrow and next due to death But why cheer I so if he liv'd ah then He 'd send me news by word or news by pen To ease my fears or else expel my grief By a quick burial or a quick relief He 's gone I forgive you now suffer me To Hacca To slide from this vale of extremity Enter another Servant Servant My Lord I 've here one lately see your son i' th' wood hereby Lonus Away kill me no more Enter Marus Marus What news my Lord has taught your eyes to weep Shed one tear more and let that be bestowed For not accepting crosses as you should The change of all things here puts you in minde You 're tossed like a Ball between the Rackets Shew your self Master of your passions use 'um As a wise Angler play 'um all to death Lonus My son is buried but where I know not Servant Since this days dawning Sir his son was seen Alive and well in these adjacent Woods Marus Won't all perswade a change my Lord believe it Breath while there 's hopes the truth is quickly known Lonus How I pray Marus If he 's there you have waies enough For his recovery beseech the King His Forests may be search'd and every place Suspected enter'd by his Commission The Seal makes people double diligent Let your reward provoke them to industry Lonus I 'll go and beg that favour of the King Exeunt all but Hacca Enter Thele Hacca Poor man how sad he is Joy to you Mistriss Make much of your Servant Beucer Thele Is he mine Steward count out a hundred Dollers for her Your news deserves it till now I could not trust So fair a Fortune Hacca 'T is so never mock Thele Forget to part the Cash add ten times more It 's seconded the Guinian Neger never Humm'd for his passage more to serve a Master Then I at this may it be credited Hacca As what you see Thele The business Amorous Takes up the thoughts awakes and conveys them To
like a Warrant Seconds his malice to these I am an Enemy Had he no more blasts of Morality Lo. To call him rash is Passionate Passionate witty An ornament to Youth Ber. Malicious too Lo. Hatred's a Puritan compair'd and frowns To see you learn your lesson but by halves Too openly bore down his friends at this Would keep the Scent and were you a Man Turn bloud-hounds ore-turn weapons ' til revenge Had gi'n the Lye to all that dare maintain Him otherwise then a Fable he sighs Meekly for you Ber. He 's worse then Savage that to get his will Won't Fawn and Flatter but denyed still His expectation suddenly converts His faigned Love to hatred and imparts Envy to Force till with his wile he gets His own desire by ' Proteus Changing fits Lo. All fancies Suppositions worse his wealth It 's so weighty 't would quickly surprize The swelling of a crook-back't quality Nobles are a Pumice hard enough to grinde His errors into nothing Ber. Rich and Noble Be coverlids of vices wrong 't is pitty Who 's greatest fit to govern he 's not fit To govern others that cannot rule himself They should grow big together Pliny never Mockt Physick better He comes I 'le not see him Exit Berania Enter Litus Li. To paint out to my self the warlick Trophies Due to a Conqueror of all that 's bad And strong the stoln hours Of Leander and Hero when the Hellespont Was but a Kennel to him argues their joys Pigmies Fiction short of truth my Sense Has made no Plaudit ' til your Sister Seem'd checking my hasty courtship with a brow Clear of Anger Lo. A pleasant Landskip Li. False Lo. A Dream may be Li. Worse Lo. My Industry may embalm your hopes Exit Li. I come senseless here with equal passion Heaven or hell mop't to a Bul-begger I Tantalize my self such a dul Agent Deserves to see a foollish Messenger Bring back his Letters covered wich the mocks Of a Chamber-maid Harpes true Harpes come Why stay'st so long ' Its past the time you promist Enter Harpes Harpes An 't I within my time my Lord Litus No less Then Ten pound for an hours work what say'st Harpes Propose Litus Trusty ha'st forgot that Vertue Harpes My Bonus Genius I am ne'r without it Litus Canst ' Fight Harpes No matter I can murder may be without it Litus Pish you are wide o' th' mark We are about Venial sins Harpes Nay that 's the mark I 'de aim at Litus A Lady I 'de ha'you and I steal from her Father Every night they walk at six a clock here Her Fatherâ—s an old fool can't fight Be ready But if we are caught canst swear Harpes If I can't swear I can doe nothing Litus Get a Coach ready at six a clock precisely Then meet me here Harpes I will Sir Exeunt Enter Lord Lidorus Lord Petus attended Lid. What Friar grac't his Order by a Miracle In Spelling you to a Platonick love Pet. Resolves after Deliberation make A Circle in whose Center the best life Lyes hid on puny spirits such as boast They have the Summum Bonum when they tread In an old Mark made by their Mistris Shoo I 'le bestow pitty Lid. To receiv't agen When tired with burdens of a way to Honour Your Motion 's quick your Hands gripe labour Mind Resolute to advancement purchast by A weary diligence a Ladies lap Inchants your purpose to a solitude That into sleep sleep to a dream whose language Courts you to sweetness inconceiveable As Considerations of Eternity A Thousand presidents bewail lost time in your condition Pet. He 's well can beware of others Harms Example don't excuse a Fault Love-sick's a great one Lid. Hold a line of this subject Pet. Let 's hear it Lidorus sings O Sacred Sacred Love earths chiefest joys above That with thy nimble bow take'st pride to stick below Thrice happy he whose Heart hath felt the quiver of thy Golden belt 2. When Moping spirits Muse what pleasure here to chuse Then Love's great shrine draws nigh with enterprizes high To sway Mens hearts and wrap them Eeven to joyes divine a taste of Heaven Pet. Parturiunt Montes To our business Letters Inform me of the neer approach of Death toth ' Reverend Old Man already 'tas took up all but his breath-room Those Industrious hands that have so often acted his words When they moved Audients passions to Love To Hate to Mirth to Tragedy Have now nothing to do but second fervent Prayers for you and I. Lid. I 'me promised news to day Pet. I expect some too Lid. At six a clock let 's meet here We 'll impart the Novelty of each stop And drown the time with tears that speaks him dead Pet. 'T may fall out not so Starrs and the bâ—st of Men Do rise to set and set to rise agen Exeunt Enter Occus Losana Thele Berania Hacca Hare and Beucer Oc. Well how now Mr. Hare well de se I don't know I vow Oh will you pay in the Money law-ye And have the Bond Hare You let others have it upon that condition I told you of my Lord. Oc. Sir I doe and I do not Hare How do you then Oc. Very well but that 's nothing my Money Man Hare I 'le provide it Exit Hare Oc. Good-buy come Daughters it 's almost time to walk As I live so it is i' th' Garden so I doe Ber. Will you bear us company Los My hours an 't my own Oc. Well Beucer you se so do you that this Hare Won't pay-in the Mony so he won't I Vow now de se you may go if you will I don't Need your Witnes-manship Exit Beucer Come Daughter I 'l walk presently as I live law-ye And tell you you are a Fool so I will I vow for not Marrying the Gentle-man Exeunt Enter Harpes and Lâ—tus with a Beard Lit. I shan't be known well Harpes art ' resolved Harpes My horse needs nothing but a Silver spur To hasten it on in such an Ambuscado Lit. She 's leight my Boy we 'll carry her with ease Harpes Leight All the sex are so Shee has been too leight For you already you may speak Probatum Lit. Stand in that corner you but firâ—t provide A Sword to fright the old Man the young one 's got The sooner Exit Harpes Honour 's not repaid with Checks If her estate be it bladder's her Pride I excell it if her birth excell that too These things well weighed my brest 's too generous To be submissive and at a Woman's scorn Turn Novice Enter Harpes with a Sword Harpes A cold Iron Litus Hot enough to make him run as Firebrands do The Beasts of Greenland within that place I 'm here Let 'um walk a turn or two we may Take 'um at the more advantage Harpes Coach waits Aside both Enter Occus Berania and Hacca Berania Are you ready Sir Occus I 'm ready to blow my fingers they 'r so cold I vow So I am Step i' th
I use flattery to my dearest heart Beucer I 'll hire a Parson you prodigious heap of vertues and meet you sooner then I would Elyzium delights Thele Be swift sweet Sir for since it must be so I 'll haste to Church and dress me as I go Beucer I am going to Paradise in a down Blanket Exeunt Enter four Clowns with a glove lugging First You lye you Cur I see it Second Sir I say I see it first tho Third You guds Waukers I came when it was welly hot within side so I did you fools Fourth So did I and I 'll go carry it to my Lord Lonus Third So do it 's warm still and so it was when we all see it first Wan't it then it must be his Sons Glove and he must be somewhere hereabouts First I 'll carry it Second You shan't you whelp I will First and second fight Third takes it up all take it from him Fourth We 'll teach you better manners then to steal I dare swear it 's Litus his glove Second So I say you may see it is a Lords glove mon by the Ribonds what dost talk of that Third And he 's within shot First I 'll carry it to his Father and tell him so Second If you don't say we all found it I 'll swinge you agood Fourth You fool would you trust him I 'll cudgel you faith so I will ha' you no more wit we 'll all carry it together else he 'll get the mony to himself Second You ha' more wit then us all First Shall 's drink when we have done Third All wheaters my hony Exeunt all Enter Beucer leading Sarah in Theles Apparel Beucer My humour was fain'd I 'll counterfeit no longer but be serious Thele enters and pulls off Sarath 's Love-hood Beucer amazed Beucer Witchcraft Witchcraft Thele 'T is so 't is so Negromancie vanish no Negromancie Enter Winifred Winifred It 's so indeed it 's so my love my chuck Beucer I married her by the name of Thele Moron Hers is so and I changed mine to make Your Marriage firm and you religious She hers from the beginning by design Beucer mourns Sarah It 's just my Lord and husband Beucer 'T is just just Maiden and I free remit To Thele Your sacred wisdom that invented it Great powers above ordain'd it and I yeild I 'm rightly serv'd who soweth shall reap the field And now to you dear Mistriss I forgive To his wife And more commend the plot that makes you live My dearest wife protesting to Apollo This chastest Marriage chastly true to follow With purest love imbrace I do repent What 's past and pray our lives hence be content ACT. V. SCEN. 2. Enter Marus and Occus Marus MY Lord between Berania and my Son You know proceedings bless 'um both together Occus A Devil Devil 'um he has got my bond so they have I vow Marus To the purpose Occus Why I vow I think they did it a purpose Marus I mean speak to the matter Occus So I do I vow it 's a great matter I should be cheated so so it is but she shall have him if she will as I live d' ye see we 'll talk by and by I 'll ha' new clothes to the Wedding so I will Exeunt Enter Litus and Losana Losana I 'll finish quickly to that Gallery there Exit Litus to the Gallery Enter Lidorus Sir whether should one prize a noble name And vertuous or the respect of a friend If both can't dwell together Lidorus Loose not the first for worlds Losana Was ever any tryed like me One of them two I must 't is your concerns I 'll dye guiltless of your hurt my Lord Please you to hear me take the saddest story That ere was told yet short I 'll strive to speak it It requires privacie Lidorus Madam we go Exeunt Enter Occus Walks about studying Occus Well we have done a great deal of business let me see we have I vow well what then if my Daughter have Children I shall be a Grand-father so I shall Enter Petus How d' ye Son-in-law this is a damnable trouble so it is till it 's done you 'll make all the haste you can d' ye see I vow I was never half so preteritory when I was a Batchelor if you were Married it would be over would it not Enter Losana Losan Our meeting my Lord tells me 't was ordain'd To Petus You should avoid ' lass I can go no further I 've so much breath as shall tell you the strangest Forgive me Skies shall I be false my Lord Petus Tell me why this sadness is upon you Losana I will turn Rock to hear it let 's be close Exeunt Litus from the Gallery speaks Litus To kill or to be kill'd 's the largest scope My injuries can give though all the signs Of Hell and Terror meet me I 'll go on And be as famous for my courage in 't As Nero for his tyranny What boots A man when dead to be accounted good If his exploits be noted though they have power To give an ague at the relation of them And make men drop down dead with very fear To tell the most inhumane bloody murthers They have committed yet some stander by Adores the Actor for the strangeness of ' um Dionysius is as much talkt on as if He had chang'd all Cicily to Alms-houses I 'm in the custody of sin it whirls me With his byas and I can't resist it As good proceed as draw back and be murthered Though I should be surpriz'd i' th' midst o' th' fact My name shall signifie a bloody act Exit from the Gallery Enter Berania Berania Whence comes my ruine he won't speak to me What Sorcerer has had to do with him Exit Enter Petus with his sword in his hand Petus Oh racks of horror could you finde no other Subject to work upon but my destruction Lidorus where 's the truth your flattering tongue Would dress in pleasant painted skins of Serpents Supream Commanders is my life alone Enter Losana Odious that under such a black dark Cloud You would smother all my joys Losana With grief my Lord I tell you of your faults love blinded you Else many a time you might a seen him coming Softly to meet Berania alone When you appear'd he slunk away and still It is his custom try and trust Adieu Exit Petus Fawning delusions you have took your pride To build higher the imaginations of my triumph That they the greater downfal may receive If I revenge my self I 'm worst of all Tho his disloyal heart can smother up Such treachery to me I 'll never prove Guilty of so much wickedness to him But stay fond kindeness what shall I incline To spare him his life that seeks to take mine I am reduc'd to this untoward end Either to loose my honour or loose my friend If this my comfort 's gone that to forego Makes me ingrateful and a Traytor too He gave