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Elvira, or, The worst not always true a comedy / written by a person of quality.
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Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677.
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1667
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Wing B4764; ESTC R232462
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The Effigies of the Lord Digby Son and Heyre to the Right honble Iohn Earle of Bristoll ELVIRA OR The worst not always true A COMEDY Written by a Person of Quality Licens'd May 15. 1667. Roger L'Estrange LONDON Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome in Little-Brittain 1667. PERSONS Don Julio Rocca Don Pedro de Mendoca Don Fernando Solis In love with Donna Elvira Don Zancho de Menezes In love with Donna Blanca Fabio Servant to Don Fernando Fulvio Servant to Don Pedro. Chichon Servant to Don Zancho A Page WOMEN Donna Elvira A beautiful Lady Don Pedro's Daughter Donna Blanca A Lady of a high Spirit Don Julio's Sister Silvia Elvira's disguised Name when she was put to wait upon Donna Blanca Francisca Donna Blanca's VVoman SCAENE VALENCIA ELVIRA OR The Worst not always True ACT. I. SCAENE I. The Room in the Inn. Enter Don Fernando and at another door his servant Fabio both in Riding Cloathes Booted Don Fer. HAve you been with him Fabio and given him The Note Fabio I found him newly got out of his bed pris ' He seem'd much satisfied though much sur With your arrival and as soon as possibly He can get ready hee 'l be with you heer He says he hopes some good occasion brings you To Valencia and that he shall not be At quiet till he know it 'T was not fit For me without your Orders to give him Any more light then what your Ticket did Don Fer. 'T is well go now and see if Donna Elvira Be stirring yet for I would gladly have her A witness even at first to what shall pass Betwixt my friend and me in her concernments If she be still a sleep Fabio make bold To knock and wake her w'have no time to loose O heer she comes wait you Don Julio Enter Donna Elvira Exit Fabio Don. Elv. Ah can you think my cares and sleep consistent Slumber and tears have sometimes met in dreams But hearts with such a weight as mine opprest Find still the heaviest sleep too light a Guest Don Fer. Madam though such least pity do deserve Who by their own unsteadiness have drawn Misfortune on themselves Yet truly Elvira Such is my sense of Yours and my compassion To see a Lady of your Quality Brought to such sad extreams in what is dearest As makes me even forgit my own resentments Granting to Pity the whole place of Love And at that rate I 'le serve you Yet thus far You must allow th' eruption of a heart So highly injur'd as to tell you franckly 'T is to comply with my own Principles Of Honour now without the least relation To former passion or to former favours Don. Elv. Those you have found a ready way to cancel Your sullen silence during all our journy Might well have spared you these superfluous words That had sufficiently instructed me What power meer appearances have had Without examination to destroy With an umbragious nature all that Love VVas ever able on the solid'st grounds To found and to establish Yet me thinks A man that boast such pâ—inciples of Honour And of such force to sway him in his Actions In spight of all resentments should reflect That Honour does oblige to a suspense At least of judgement when surprising chances Yet unenquired into tempt gallant men To prejudicial thoughts of those with whom They had setled friendship upon vertuous grounds But 't is from heaven I see and not from you Elvira must expect her vindication And until then submit to th' hardest fate That ever can befal a generous spirit Of being oblig'd by him that injures her Fer. Nay speak Elvira speak You have me attentive With a kind of scornful accent It were a wonder worthy of your wit To make me trust my Ears before my Eyes Don. Elv. Those are the witnesses indeed Fernando To whose true testimonies false Inference You owe my moderation and my silence And that I leave it to the gods and time To make appear both to the world and you The Maxime false That still the worst proves true Enter Fabio Fabio Don Julio is without Fer. VVait on him in Exit Fabio And now Elvira If you 'l be pleas'd to rest your self a while VVithin that Closet you may hear what passes Betwixt my friend and me until such time As I by some discourse having prevented Too great surprise you shall think fit t' appear He is the man as I have often told you During my happy days for whom alone I have no reserves and 't is to his assistance That I must owe the means of serving you In the concernments of your safety and honour And therefore Madam 't will be no offence I hope to trust him with the true occasion That brings me hither to employ his friendship Observing that respect in the relation Colset VVhich I shall always pay you Elvira retiring as into the Don. Elv. There needs no management in the Relation I am indifferent what others think Since those who ought t' have thought the best have fail'd me Sir I obey resign'd up to your conduct Till Mistriss of my own Exit Enter Don Julio and Fernando and he Embrace Don. Jul. My joy to have my dear Fernando heer So unexpectedly as great as 't is Cannot make Jullo unsensible Of th' injury you have done him t' have alighted And past a night-within Valencia At any other place than at his house Donna Blanca her self will scarce forgive it VVhen she shall know it Don. Fer. I hope she 's well Jul. She is so thanks to heaven But I must bid you expect a chiding from her Fer. You both might well accuse me of a failure Did not th' occasion of my coming hither Bring with it an excuse alass too just As you will quickly find Don Jul. Nay then you raise disquiet ease me quickly By telling me what 't is of this be sure Heart hand and fortune are entirely yours At all Essays Fer. It is not new t' ee that I was a Lover After pawsing a while Ingaged in all the passion that e're Beauty In heigth of it's perfection could produce And that confirm'd by reason from her wit Her Quality and most unblemish't conduct Nor was there more to justifie my love Then to perswade my happiness in her Just correspondance to it by all the ways Of honourable admission that might serve To make esteem transcend the pitch of Love Don Jul. Of all this I have not only had knowledge But great participation in your joys Than which I thought nothing more permanent Since founded on such virtue as Elvira's Don Fer. Ah Julio how fond a creature is the man That founds his bliss upon a womans firmness Even that Elvira when I thought my self Securest in my happiness nothing wanting To make her mine but those exterior forms VVithout which men of honour that pretend In way of Marriage would be loath to find Greater concession where the love is greatest As I was sitting with her late at