Cas Are ye so conscionable Gonz. 'T is your own Cas Pish pish I 'le not receive what is not mine That were a dangerous business Gon. Sir I am paid for 't The summes you borrowed are return'd The bâ—â—ds Cancell'd and your acquittance formerly seal'd Look here Sir Gaspero is witness to it Gas My honoured Lord I am Gon. My Lord Fernando Arcanes and the rest you all shall testifie That I acquit Lord Cassilane for ever Of any debts to me Gas 'T is plain and ample Fortune will once again smile on us fairly Cas But hark ye hark ye if you be in earnest Whence comes this bounty or whose is' t Gon. In short The great Erota by this Secretary Return'd me my full due Cas Erota why Should she do this Gon. You must ask her the cause She knows it best Cas So ho Arcanes none But women pity us soft-hearted women I am become a brave fellow now Arcanes Am I not Arc. Why Sir if the gracious Princess Have took more special notice of your services And means to be more thankfull than some others It were an injury to gratitude To disesteem her favours Anno. Sir she ever For your sake most respectively lov'd me Cas The Senate and the body of this Kingdom Are herein let me speak it without arrogance Beholding to her I will thank her for it And if she have reserv'd a means whereby I may repay this bounty with some service She shall be then my Patroness come Sirs We 'l taste a cup of wine together now Gon. Fernando I must speak with you in secret Fer. You shall Now Gaspero all 's well Gas There 's news You must be acquainted with Come there is no master-piece in Art like Policie Exeunt Actus Quintus Scena Prima Enter Fernando and Michael Fer THE Senate is inform'd at full Mic. Gonzalo Dreams not of my arrival yet Fer. Nor thinks 'T is possible his plots can be discover'd He sats himself with hopes of Crowns and Kingdoms And laughs securely to imagine how He means to gull all but himself when truly None is so grosly gull'd as he Mich. There was never A more arch villain Fer. Peace the Senate comes Enter Porphicio Pos Senators and Gaspero Attend. Por. How closely Treason cloaks it self in forms Of Civil honesty Pos And yet how palpably Does heaven reveal it Fer. Gracious Lords Gas The Embassadour Lord Paulo Michael Advocate To the great Duke of Venice Por. You are most welcome Your Master is a just and noble Prince Mic. My Lords he bad me say that you may know How much he scorns and as good Princes ought Defies base indirect and godless treacheries To your more Sacred wisdomes he refers The punishment due to the false Gonzalo Or else to send him home to Venice Pos Herein â—he Duke is royal Gaspero the Prince 〈◊〉 Cyprus answer'd he would come Gas My Lords He will not long be absent Enter Philander and Melitus Porp. You Fernando Have made the State your debter worthy Prince We shall be sutors to you for your presence 〈◊〉 hearing and determining of matters Greatly concerning Candy Phi. Fathers I am A stranger Pos Why the cause my Lord concerns A stranger please you seat your self Phi. How e're Infit since you will have it so my Lords You shall command me Por. You my Lord Fernando With the Ambassador withdraw a while Fer. My Lords we shall Ex. Pos Melitus and the Secretary Give notice to Gonzalo that the Senate Requires his presence Ex. Gas and Mel. Enter Cassilane and Arca. Phi. What concerns the business Por. Thus noble Prince Cas Let me alone thou troublest me will be heard Arc. You know not what you do Pos Forbear who 's he that is so rude what 's he that dares â—o interrupt our counsels Cas One that has guarded Those Purple robes from Cankers worse than Moths One that hath kept your fleeces on your backs That would have been snatch'd from you but I see 'T is better now to be a Dog a Spaniel In times of Peace then boast the bruised scars Purchas'd with loss of bloud in noble wars My Lords I speak to you Por. Lord Cassilane We know not what you mean Cas Yes you are set Upon a bench of justice and a day Will come hear this and quake ye potent great ones When you your selves shall 〈◊〉 before a judge Who in a pair of scales will wâ—igh your actions Without abatement of one grain as then You would be sound full weight I charge ye fathers Let me have justice now Pos Lord Cassilane What strange distemperature provokes distrust Of our impartiality be sure We 'l flatter no mans injuries Cas 'T is well You have a Law Lords that without remorse Dooms such as are belepred with the curse Of soul ingratitude unto death Por. We have Cas Then do me justice Enter Antinous Decius Erota Hyparcha Dec. Mad-man whither run'st thou Ant. Peace Decius I am deaf Hyp. Will you forget Your greatness and your modesty Er. Hyparcha leave I will not hear Ant. Lady great gentle Lady Er. Prethee young man forbear to interrupt me Triumph not in thy fortunes I will speak Pos More uproars yet who are they that disturb us Cas The viper 's come his fears have drawn him hither And now my Lords be Chornicled for ever And give me justice against this vile Monster This bastard of my bloud Er. 'T is justice Fathers I sue for too and though I might command it If you remember Lords whose child I was Yet I will humbly beg it this old wretch Has forfeited his life to me Cas Tricks tricks Complots devices 'twixt these pair of young ones To blunt the edge of your well temper'd Swords Wherewith you strike offenders Lords but I Am not a baby to be fear'd with bug bears 'T is justice I require Er. And I. Ant. You speak too tenderly and too much like your self To mean a cruelty which would make monstrous Your Sex yet for the loves sake which you once Pleas'd to pretend give my griev'd Father leave To urge his own revenge you have no cause For yours keep peace about ye Cas Will you hear me Phil. Here 's some strange novelty Pos Sure we are mock'd Speak one at once say wherein hath your Son Transgress'd the Law Cas O the gross mists of dulness Are you this Kingdomes Oracles yet can be So ignorant first hear and then consider That I begot him gave him birth and life And education were I must confess But duties of a Father I did more I taught him how to manage Arms to dare An Enemy to court both death and dangers Yet these were but additions to compleat A well accomplish'd Souldier I did more yet I made him chief Commander in the field Next to my self and gave him the full prospect Of honour and preferment train'd him up In all perfections of a Martiallist â—â—at he unmindful of his gratitude You know with what contempt of my
Al. I and the vice too Madam goodness bless me How sit 't is for my singer 2 W. No doubt you 'l find too A finger fit for you Al. Siâ—â—ah Petesâ—a What wilt thou give me for the good that follows this But thou hast Rings enough thou art provided Heigh ho what must I doe now Pet. You 'l be taught that The easiest part that e're you learn't I warrant you Al. Ay me ay me Pet. You will divide too shortly Your voice comes finely forward Olym. Come hither wanton Thou art not surely as thou saist Al. I would not But sure there is a witchcraft in this Ring Lady Lord how my heart leaps Pet. 'T will goe pit a pat shortly Al. And now methinks a thousand of the Dukes shapes 2 W. Will no less serve ye Al. In ten thousand smiles Olym. Heaven bless the wench Al. With eyes that will not be deni'd to enter And such soft sweet embraces take it from me I am undone else Madam I 'm lost else Olym. What ailes the girle Al. How suddenly I 'm alter'd And grown my self again do not you feel it Olym. Wear that and I 'le wear this I 'le try the strength on 't Al. How cold my bloud grows now Here 's sacred vertue When I leave to honour this Every hour to pay a kiss When each morning I arise Or I forget a sacrifice When this figure in my faith And the pureness that it hath I pursue not with my will Neater to arrive at still When I lose or change this Jewel Flie me faith and heaven be cruel Olym. You have half confirm'd me Keep but that way sure And what this charm can doe let me endure Exeunt SCENA III. Enter Archas Theodore 2 Daughters Honora and Viola Ar. Carry your self discreetly it concerns me The Duke 's come in none of your froward passions Nor no distasts to any Prethee Theodor By my life boy 't will ruine me The. I have done Sir So there be no foul play he brings along with him Ar. What 's that to you Let him bring what please him And whom and how The. So they mean well Ar. Is' t fit you be a Judge sirrah The. 'T is fit I feel Sir Ar. Get a banquet ready And trim your selves up handsomly The. To what end Do you mean to make 'em whores Hang up a sign than And set 'em out to Livery Ar. Whose son art thou The. Yours Sir I hope but not of your disgraces Ar. Full twenty thousand men I have commanded And all their minds with this calm'd all their angers And shall a boy of mine own breed too of mine own blood One crooked stick The. Pray take your way and thrive in 't I 'le quit your house if taint or black dishonour Light on ye 't is your own I have no share in 't Yet if it do fall out so as I fear it And partly find it too Ar. Hast thou no reverence No dutie in thee The. This shall shew I obey ye I dare not stay I would have shew'd my love too And that you ask as duty with my life Sir Had you but thought me worthy of your hazards Which heaven preserve ye from and keep the Duke too And there 's an end of my wishes God be with ye Exit Ar. Stubborn yet full of that we all love honesty Enter Burris Lord Burris where 's the Duke Bur. In the great chamber Sir And there stayes till he see you ye ' have a fine house here Ar. A poor contented lodge unfit for his presence Yet all the joy it hath Bur. I hope a great one and for your good brave Sir Ar. I thank ye Lord And now my service to the Duke Bur. I 'le wait on ye Exeunt Enter Duke Boroskey Gent. and Attendants Duke May this be credited Bor. Disgrace me else And never more with favour look upon me Duke It seems impossible Bor. It cannot chuse Sir Till your own eyes behold it but that it is so And that by this means the too haughtie Souldier Has been so cramm'd and fed he cares not for ye Believe or let me perish Let your eyes As you observe the house but where I point it Make stay and take a view and then you have found it Enter Archas Burris 2 Daughters and Servant Du. I 'le follow your direction welcome Archas You are welcome home brave Lord we are come to visit ye And thank ye for your service Ar. 'T was so poor Sir In true respect of what I owe your Highness It merits nothing Du. Are these fair ones yours Lord Ar. Their Mother made me think so Sir Du. Stand up Ladies Beshrew my heart they are fair ones methinks fitter The lustre of the Court than thus live darken'd I would see your house Lord Archas it appears to me A handsom pile Ar. 'T is neat but no great structure I 'le be your Graces guide give me the keyes there Du. Lead on we 'l follow ye begin with the Gallery I think that 's one Arc. 'T is so and 't please ye Sir The rest above are lodgings all Du. Go on Sir Exeunt SCENE IV. Enter Theodore Putskey and Ancient Puts The Duke gone thither do you say The. Yes marry do I And all the Ducklings too but what they 'll do there Puts I hope they 'll crown his service The. With a Custard This is no weather for rewards they crown his service Rather they go to shave his Crown I was rated As if had been a Dog had worried Sheep out of doors For making but a doubt Puts They must now grace him The. Mark but the end Anc. I am sure they should reward him they cannot want him The. They that want honesty want any thing Puts The Duke is so noble in his own thoughts The. That I grant ye If those might only sway him but 't is most certain So many new born Flies his light gave life to Buzze in his beams Flesh-flies and Butterflies Hornets and humming Scarabs that not one honey Bee That 's loaden with true labour and brings home Encrease and Credit can ' scape rifling And what she sucks for sweet they turn to bitterness Anc. Shall we go see what they do and talk our mind to ' em Puts That we have done too much and to no purpose Anc. Shall we be hang'd for him I have a great mind to be hang'd now For doing some brave thing for him a worse end will take mâ— And for an action of no worth not honour him Upon my Conscience even the Devil the very Devil Not to belie him thinks him an honest man I am sure he has sent him souls any time these twenty years Aâ—â—e to furnish all his Fish-markets The. Leave thy talking And come let 's go to dinner and drink to him We shall hear more ere supper time if he be honour'd He has deserv'd it well and we shall sight for 't If he be ruin'd so we know the worst then And for my self
bounty His honour that he gives me to beget Sawey and fullen fears The. You are not mad sure By this fair light I speak But what is whisper'd And whisper'd for a truth Ar. A Dog drunken people That in their Pot see visions And turn states mad-men and Children Prethee do not follow me I tell thee I am angry Do not follow me The. I am as angry As you for your heart I and as wilful too go like a Wood-cock And thrust your neck i' th' noose Ar. I 'le kill thee And thou speakst but three words more Do not follow me Exit The. A strange old foolish fellow I shall hear yet And if I do not my part hiss at me Exit SCENE V. Enter two Servants preparing a Banquet 1 Serv. Believe me fellow here will be lusty drinking Many a washt pate in Wine I warrant thee 2 Ser. I am glad the old General 's come upon my Coâ—science That joy will make half the Court drunk Hark the Trumpets They are coming on away 1 Ser. We 'll have a rowse too Exeunt Enter Duke Archas Burris Boroskie Attend. Gent. Duke Come seat your selves Lord Archas sit you there Ar. 'T is far above my worth Duke I 'le have it so Are all things ready Bor. All the Guards are set The Court Gates are shut Duke Then do as I prescrib'd ye Be sure no further Bor. I shall well observe ye Du. Come bring some wine here 's to my Sister Gentlemen A health and mirth to all Ar. Pray fill it full Sir 'T is a high health to vertue here Lord Burris A maiden health you are most sit to pledge it You have a maiden soul and much I honour it Passion o' me ye are sad man Duke How now Burris Go to no more of this Ar. Take the rowse freely 'T will warm your bloud and make ye fit for jollity Your Graces pardon when we get a cup Sir We old men prate a pace Du. Mirth makes a Banquet As you love me no more Bur. I thank your Grace Give me it Lord Boroskie Boros I have ill brains Sir Bur. Damnable ill I know it Boros But I 'le pledge Sir This vertuous health Bur. The more unfit for thy mouth Enter two Servants with Cloaks Du. Come bring out Robes and let my guests look nobly Fit for my love and presence begin downward Off with your Cloaks take new Ar. Your grace deals truly Like a munificent Prince with your poor subjects Who would not fight for you what cold dull coward Durst seek to save his life when you would ask it Begin a new health in your new adornments The Dukes the Royal Dukes ha what have I got Sir ha the Robe of death Du. You have deserv'd it Ar. The Livery of the Grave do you start all from me Do I smell of earth already Sir look on me And like a man is this your entertainment Do you bid your worthiest guests to bloudy Banquets Enter a Guard A Guard upon me too this is too soul play Boy to thy good thine honour thou wretched Ruler Thou Son of fools and flatterers Heir of hypocrites Am I serv'd in a Hearse that sav'd ye all Are ye men or Devils Do ye gape upon me Wider and swallow all my services Entomb them first my faith next then my integrity And let these struggle with your mangy minds Your fear'd and seal'd up Consciences till they burst Boros These words are death Ar. No those deeds that want rewards Sirrah Those Battels I have sought those horrid dangers â—â—aner than death and wilder than destruction Leave march'd upon these honour'd wounds times story The bloud I have lost the youth the sorrows suffer'd These are my death these that can ne're be recompenced These that ye sit a brooding on like Toads Socking from my deserts the sweets and favours And render me no pay again but poysons Bor. The proud vain Souldier thou hast set Ar. Thou lyest Now by my little time of life lyest basely Malitiously and loudly how I scorn thee If I had swel'd the Souldier or intended Anact in person leaning to dishonour As ye would sain have forced me witness Heaven Where clearest understanding of all truth is For these are spightful men and know no piety When Olin came grim Olin when his marches His last Incursions made the City sweat And drove before him as a storm drives Hail Such showrs of frosted fears shook all your heart-strings Then when the Volga trembled at his terrour And hid his seven curl'd heads afraid of bruising By his arm'd Horses hoofs had I been false then Or blown a treacherous fire into the Souldier Had but one spark of villany liv'd within me Ye â—ad had some shadow for this black about me Where was your Souldiership why went not you out And all your right honourable valour with ye Why met ye not the Tartar and desi'd him Drew your dead doing sword and buckl'd with him Shot through his Squadrons like a fiery Meteor And as we see a dreadful clap of Thunder Rend the stiff hearted Oaks and toss their roots up Why did not you so charge him you were sick then You that dare taint my credit slipt to bed then Stewing and fainting with the fears ye had A whorson shaking fit opprest your Lordship Blush Coward Knave and all the world hiss at thee Da. Exceed not my command Exit Bor. I shall observe it Ar. Are you gone too Come weep not honest Burris Good loving Lord no more fears 't is not his malice This fellows malice nor the Dukes displeasure By bold bad men crowded into his nature Can startle me fortune ne're raz'd this Fort yet I am the same the same man living dying The same mind to 'em both I poize thus equal Only the jugling way that toll'd me to it The Judas way to kiss me bid me welcome And cut my throat a little sticks upon me Farewel commend me to his Grace and tell him The world is full of servants he may have many And some I with him hon st he s undone else But such another doating Archas never So try'd and touch'd a saith farewell for ever Bor. Be strong my Lord you must not go thus lightly Ar. Now what s to do what sayes the Law unto me Give me my great offence that speaks me guily Bor. Laâ—â—â— asâ—â—e a thousand petty matters As scorns and insolencies both from your self and followers Which you put first fire to and these are deadly I come to one main cause which though it carries A strangeness in the circumstance it carries death too Not to be pardon'd neither ye have done a sacriledge Ar. High Heaven desend me man how how Boroskie Bor. Ye have took from the Temple those vow'd Arms The holy Ornament you hung up there No absolution of your vow no order From holy Church to give 'em back unto you After they were purified from War and rested From bloud made clean by ceremony from the Altar You
deserts First kick'd against mine honour scorned all My services then got the palm of glory Unto himself yet not content with this He lastly hath conspir'd my death and sought Means to engage me to this Lady's debt Whose bounty all my whole estate could never Give satisfaction to now honoured Fathers For this cause only if your Law be law And you the Ministers of justice then Think of this strange ingratitude in him Phil. Can this be so Antinous Ant. 'T is all true Nor hath my much wrong'd father limn'd my faults In colours half so black as in themselves My guilt hath dy'd them were there mercy left Yet mine own shame would be my Executioner Lords I am guilty Er. Thou beliest Antinous Thine innocence alas my Lords he 's desperate And talks he knows not what you must not credit His lunacy I can my self disprove This accusation Cassilane be yet More mercifull I beg it Cas Time nor sate The world or what is in it shall not alter My resolution he shall dye Er. The Senats Prayers or weeping Lovers shall not alter My resolution thou shalt dye Ant. Why Madam Are ye all Marble Pos Leave your shifts Antinous What plead you to your Fathers accusation Ant. Most fully guilty Pos You have doom'd your self We cannot quit you now Cas A burthen'd conscience Will never need a hang-man hadst thou dar'd To have deni'd it then this Sword of mine Should on thy head have prov'd thy tongue a lyar Er. Thy sword wretched old man thou hast liv'd too long To carry peace or comfort to thy grave Thou art a man condemn'd my Lords this tyrant Had perish'd but for me I still suppli'd His miserable wants I sent his Daughter Mony to buy him food the bread he eat Was from my purse when he vain-gloriously To dive into the peoples hearts had pawn'd His birth-right I redeem'd it sent it to him And for requitall only made my suite That he would please to new receive his son Into his favour for whose love I told him I had been still so friendly but then he As void of gratitude as all good nature Distracted like a mad man poasted hither To pull this vengeance on himself and us For why my Lords since by the Law all means Is blotted out of your commission As this hard hearted Father hath accus'd Noble Antinous his unblemished Son So I accuse this Father and crave judgement Cas All this is but deceit meer trifles forg'd By combination to defeat the process Of Justice I will have Antinous life Arc. Sir what do ye mean Er. I will have Cassilane's Ant. Cunning and cruel Lady runs the stream Of your affections this way have you not Conquest enough by treading on my grave Unless you send me thither in a shrowd Steept in my fathers bloud as you are woman As the protests of love you vow'd were honest Be gentler to my Father Er. Cassilane Thou hast a heart of flint let my intreaties My tears the Sacrifice of griefs unfeigned Melt it yet be a Father to thy son Unmask thy long besotted judgement see A low obedience kneeling at the feet Of nature I beseech you Cas Pish you cozen Your hopes your plots are idle I am resolute Er. Antinous urge no further Ant. Hence thou Sorcery Of a beguiling softness I will stand Like the earths center unmov'd Lords your breath Must finish these divisions I confess Civility doth teach I should not speak Against a Lady of her birth so high As great Erota but her injuries And thankless wrongs to me urge me to cry Aloud for justice Fathers Dec. Whither run you Ant. For honoured fathers that you all may know That I alone am not unmatchable In crimes of this condition lest perhaps You might conceive as yet the case appears That this foul stain and guilt runs in a bloud Before this presence I accuse this Lady Of as much vile ingratitude to me Cas Impudent Traitor Phi. Her O spare Antinous The world reputes thee valiant do not soyle All thy past nobleness with such a cowardize As murthering innocent Ladies will stamp on thee Ant. Brave Prince with what unwillingness I force Her follies and in those her sin be witness All these about me she is bloudy minded And turns the justice of the Law to rigor It is her cruelites not I accuse her Shall I have Audience Er. Let him speak my Lords Dec. Your memory will rot Ant. Cast all your eyes On this what shall I call her truthless woman When often in my discontents the sway Of her unruly bloud her untam'd passion Or name it as you list had hour by hour Solicited my love she vow'd at last She could not would not live unless I granted What shelong sued for I in tender pity To save a Lady of her birth from ruine Gave her her life and promis'd to be hers Nor urg'd I ought from her but secresie And then enjoyn'd her to supply such wants As I perceiv'd my Fathers late engagements Had made him subject to what shall I heap up Long repetitions she to quit my pity Not only hath discover'd to my Father What she had promis'd to conceal but also Hath drawn my life into this fatal forfeit For which since I must dye I crave a like Equality of justice against her Not that I covet bloud but that she may not Practise this art of falsehood on some other Perhaps more worthy of her love hereafter Por. If this be true Er. My Lords be as the Law is Indifferent upright I do plead guilty Now Sir what glory have you got by this 'Las man I meant not to outlive thy doom Shall we be friends in death Cas Hear me the villain Scandals her honour'd Lords Er. Leave off to doat And dye a wise man Ant. I am over-reach'd And master'd in my own resolution Phi. Will ye be wilfull Madam here 's the curse Of loves disdain Cas Why sit you like dumb Statues Demur no longer Pos Cassilane Erota Antinous death ye ask and 't is your dooms You in your follies liv'd dye in your follies Cas I am reveng'd and thank you for it Er. Yes and I Antinous hath been gracious Ant. Sir may I presume to crave a blessing from you Before we part Cas Yes such a one as Parents Bestow on cursed sons now now I laugh To see how those poor younglings are both cheated Of life and comfort look ye look ye Lords I go but some ten minutes more or less Before my time but they have finely cozen'd Themselves of many many hopefull years Amidst their prime of youth and glory now Enter Annophel My vengeance is made full Welcom my joy Thou com'st to take a seasonable blessing From thy half buried Fathers hand I am dead Already girle a d so is she and he We all are worms-meat now Anno. I have heard all Nor shall you dye alone Lords on my knees I beg for justice too Porp. ' Gainst whom for what
hold it to be Laz. About the time that mortals whet their knives On thresholds on their shooe sols and on stairs New bread is grating and the testy Cook Hath much to doe now now the Tables all Duk. 'T is almost dinner time Laz. Your grace doth apprehend me very rightly Count. Your grace shall find him in your further conference Grave wise courtly and scholar like understandingly read In the necessities of the life of man He knows that man is mortal by his birth He knows that man must dye and therefore live He knows that must live and therefore eat And if it shall please your grace to accompany your self with him I doubt not but that he will at the least make good my commendations Duk. Attend us Lazarello we doe want Men of such Action as we have received you Reported from your honorable friend Laza. Good my Lord stand betwixt me and my overthrow you know I 'm ti'd here and may not depart my gracious Lord so waightie are the businesses of mine own which at this time do call upon me that I will rather chuse to die than to neglect them Count. Nay you shall perceive besides the virtues that I have alreadie inform'd you of he hath a stomach which will stoop to no Prince alive Duk. Sir at your best leisure I shall thirst to see you Laza. And I shall hunger for it Duk. Till then farewell all Gon. Count. Long life attend your Grace Duk. I doe not tast this sport Arrigo Lucio Arrigo. Luci. We doe attend Exeunt Duke Arrigo Lucio Gond. His grace is gone and hath left his Hellen with me I 'm no pander for him neither can I be won with the hope of gain or the itching desire of tasting my Lords lecherie to him to keep her at my house or bring her in disguise to his bed Chamber The twyns of Adders and of Scorpions About my naked brest will seem to me More tickling than those claspes which men adore The lustfull dull ill spirited embraces Of women The much praysed Amazones Knowing their own infirmities so well Made of themselves a people and what men They take amongst them they condemne to die Perceiving that their folly made them fit To live no longer that would willingly Come in the worthless presence of a woman I will attend and see what my young Lord will doe with his sister Enter Lazarilloes Boy Boy My Lord The fish head is gone again Count. Wither Boy I know whither my Lord. Count. Keep it from Lazarillo Sister shall I confer with you in private to know the cause of the Dukes coming hither I know he makes you acquainted with his business of State Oria. I 'll satisfie you brother for I see you are jealous of me Gond. Now there shall be some course taken for her conveiance Laza. Lazarillo thou art happy thy carriage hath begot love and that love hath brought forth fruits thou art here in the company of a man honorable that will help thee to tast of the bounties of the Sea and when thou hast so done thou shalt retire thy self unto the court and there tast of the delicates of the earth and be great in the eyes of thy Sovereign now no more shalt thou need to scramble for thy meat nor remove thy stomach with the Court But thy credit shall command thy hearts desire and all novelties shall be sent as pâ—esents unto thee Count. Good Sister when you see your own time wil you return home Oria. Yes brother and not before Laza. I will grow popuâ—ar in this State and overthrow the fortunes of a number that live by extortion Count. Lazâ—rello bestirr thy self nimbly and sodainly and hear me with patience to â—ear Laza. Let me not fall from my self Speak I 'm bound Count. So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear the fish head is gone and we know not whither Laza. I will not curse nor swear nor rage nor rail Nor with contemptuous tongue accuse my Fate Though I might justly doe it nor will I Wish my self uncreated for this evil Shall I entreat your Lordship to be seen A little longer in the company Of a man cross'd by Fortune Count. I hate to leave my friend in his extremities Laza. 'T is noble in you then I take your hand And doe protest I doe not follow this For any malice or for private ends But with a love as gentle and as chast As that a brother to his sister bears And if I see this fish head yet unknown The last words that my dying father spake Before his eye strings brake shall not of me So often be remembred as our meeting Fortune attend me as my ends are just Full of pure love and free from servile lust Count. Farwell my Lord I was entreated to invite your Lordship to a Lady's upsiting Gond. O my ears why Madam will not you follow your brother you are waited for by great men hee l bring you to him Oria. I 'm very well my Lord you doe mistake me if you think I affect greater company than your self Gond. What madness possesseth thee that thou canst imagine me a sit man to entertain Lady's I tell thee I doe use to tear their hair to kick them and twindge their noses if they be not carefull in avoiding me Oria. Your Lordship may discant upon your own behavior as please you but I protest so sweet and courtly it appeares in my eye that I mean not to leave you yet Crnd. I shall grow rough Oria. A rough carriage is best in a man I 'll dine with you my Lord. Gond. Why I will starve thee thou shalt have nothing Oria. I have heard of your Lordships nothing I 'll put that to the venture Gond. Well thou shalt have meat I 'll send it to thee Oria. I 'll keep no state my Lord neither doe I mourn I 'll dine with you Gond. Is such a think as this allowed to live What power hath let the loose upon the earth To plague us for our Sins Out of my doors Oria. I would your Lordship did but see how well This fury doth become you it doth shew So neer the life as it were natural Gond. O thou damn'd woman I will flie the vengeance That hangs above thee follow if thou dar'st Exit Gondarino Oria. I must not leave this fellow I will torment him to madness To teach his passions against kind to move The more he hates the more I 'll seem to love Exeunt Oriana and Maid Enter Pandar and Mercer a citizen Pand. Sir what may be done by art shall be done I wear nor this black cloak for nothing Mer. Perform this help me to this great heir by learning and you shall want no black cloaks taffaties silkgrograns sattins and velvets are mine they shall be yours perform what you have promis'd and you shall make me a lover of Sciences I will study the learned languages and keep my shop-book in Latine Pand. Trouble me not
to you for this are great Gent. I will leave your Lordship now Luc. Sir my death must be suddain if I requite you not at the back door good Sir Gent. I will be your Lordships Intelligencer for once Exit Gentleman Enter Secretary Secr. My Lord. Luc. Let 'em in and say I am at my study Enter Lazarello and two Intelligencers Lucio being at his study 1 Int. Where is your Lord Secr. At his study but he will have you brought in Laza. Why Gentlemen what will you charge me withal 2 Int. Treason horrible treason I Hope to have the leading of thee to prison and prick thee on i' th' arse with a Halbert to have him hang'd that salutes thee and call all those in question that spit not upon thee Laz. My thred is spun yet might I but call for this dish of meat at the gallows instead of a Psalm it were to be endur'd the Curtain opens now my end draws on Secretary draws the Curtain Luc. Gentlemen I am not empty of weighty occasions at this time I pray you your business 1 Int. My Lord I think we have discover'd one of the most bloudy Traitors that ever the world held Luc. Signior Lazarillo I am glad ye are one of this discovery give me your hand 2 Int. My Lord that is the Traitor Luc Keep him off I would not for my whole estate have touchd him Laz. My Lord. Luc. Peace Sir I know the devil is at your tongue's end to furnish you with speeches what are the particulars you charge him with They deliver a paper to Lucio who reads Both Int. We conferr'd our Notes and have extracted that which we will justifie upon our oaths Luc. That he would be greater than the Duke that he had cast plots for this and meant to corrupt some to betray him that he would burn the City kill the Duke and poison the Privy Council and lastly kill himself Though thou deserv'st justly to be hang'd with silence yet I allow thee to speak be short Laz. My Lord so may my greatest wish succeed So may I live and compass what I seek As I had never treason in my thoughts Nor ever did conspire the overthrow Of any creatures but of brutish beasts Fowls Fishes and such other humane food As is provided for the good of man If stealing Custards Tarts and Florentines By some late Statute be created Treason How many fellow-Courtiers can I bring Whose long attendance and experience Hath made them deeper in the plot than I Luc. Peace such hath ever been the clemency of my gracious Master the Duke in all his proceedings that I had thought and thought I had thought rightly that malice would long e'r this have hid her self in her Den ahd have turn'd her own sting against her own heart but I well perceive that so froward is the disposition of a deprav'd nature that it doth not only seek revenge where it hath receiv'd injury but many times thirst after their destruction where it hath met with benefits Laz. But my good Lord 2 Int. Let 's gagg him Luc. Peace again but many times thirst after destruction where it hath met with benefits there I left Such and no better are the business that we have now in hand 1 Int. He 's excellently spoken 1 Int. He 'll wind a Traitor I warrant him Luc. But surely methinks setting aside the touch of conscience and all inward convulsions 2 Int. He 'll be hang'd I know by that word Laz. Your Lordship may consider Luc. Hold thy peace thou canst not answer this speech no Traitor can answer it but because you cannot answer this speech I take it you have confess'd the Treason 1 Int. The Count Valore was the first that discover'd him and can witness it but he left the matter to your Lordship's grave consideration Luc. I thank his Lordship carry him away speedily to the Duke Laz. Now Lazarillo thou art tumbl'd down The hill of fortune with a violent arm All plagues that can be Famine and the Sword Will light upon thee black despair will boil In thy despairing breast no comfort by Thy friends far off thy enemies are nigh Luc. Away with him I 'll follow you look you pinion him and take his money from him lest he swallow a shilling and kill himself 2 Int. Get thou on before Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Tertia Enter the Duke the Count Gondarino and Arrigo. Duke NOw Gondarino what can you put on now That may deceive us Have ye more strange illusions yet more mists Through which the weak eye may be led to error What can ye say that may do satisfaction Both for her wrong'd honor and your ill Gond. All I can say or may is said already She is unchaste or else I have no knowledge I do not breathe nor have the use of sense Duke Dare ye be yet so wilful ignorant of your own nakedness did not your servants In mine own hearing confess They brought her to that house we found her in Almost by force and with a great distrust Of some ensuing hazard Count. He that hath begun so worthily It fits not with his resolution To leave off thus my Lord I know these are but idle proofs What says your Lordship to them Gond. Count I dare yet pronounce again thy Sister is not honest Count. You are your self my Lord I like your setledness Gond. Count thou art young and unexperienc'd in the dark hidden ways of Women Thou dar'st affirm with confidence a Lady of fifteen may be a Maid Count. Sir if it were not so I have a Sister would set near my heart Gond. Let her sit near her shame it better fits her call back the bloud that made our stream in nearness and turn the Current to a better use 't is too much mudded I do grieve to know it Duke Dar'st thou make up again dar'st thou turn face knowing we know thee hast thou not been discover'd openly did not our ears hear her deny thy courtings did we not see her blush with modest anger to be so overtaken by a trick can ye deny this Lord Gond. Had not your Grace and her kind brother Been within level of her eye You should have had a hotter volley from her More full of bloud and fire ready to leap the window where she stood So truly sensual is her appetite Duke Sir Sir these are but words and tricks give me the proof Count. What need a better proof than your Lordship I am sure ye have lain with her my Lord. Gond. I have confest it Sir Duke I dare not give thee credit without witness Gond. Does your grace think we carry seconds with us to search us and see fair play your Grace hath been ill tutor'd in the business but if you hope to try her truly and satisfy your self what frailty is give her the Test do not remember Count she is your Sister nor let my Lord the Duke believe she is fair but put her to
be plain with you he is a pyrate that hath wrote to me to work his fredom and by this Gentlemans means whose acquaintance is not small at Court we have the word of a worthy man for it only there is some money to be suddainly disburst and if your happiness be such to make it up you shall receive treble gain by it and good assurance for it Mont. Gentlemen out of the weakness of my estate you seem to have some knowledge of my brest that wou'd if it were possible advance my declined fortunes to satisfie all men of whom I have had credit and I know no way better than these which you propose I have some money ready under my command some part of it is already promis'd but the remainder is yours to such uses as are propounded Lav. Appoint some certain place of meeting for these affaires require expedition Mount I will make it my present business at twelve I am to meet Mallicorne the Marchant at the Pallace you know him Sir about some negotiation of the same nature there I will be ready to tender you that money upon such conditions as we shall conclude of Lav. The care of it be yours so much as the affair concerns you Mont. Your caution is effectuall and till then I take my leave Lav. Good Mr Montague Exit Whithin a clamor down with their weapons Enter Longavile and Dubois their swords drawn servants and others between them Ser. Nay Gentlemen what mean you pray be quiet have some respect unto the house Long. A treacherous slave Du. Thou dost revile thy self base Longavile Long. I say thou art a villain and a corrupt one that hast some seven years sed on thy masters trencher yet never bredst good blood towards him for if thou hadst thou 'dst have a sounder heart Du. So Sir you can use your tongue something nimbler than your sword Long. Wou'd you cou'd use your tongue well of your Master friend you might have better imployment for your sword Du. I say again and I will speak it loud and often that Orleans is a noble Gentleman with whom Amiens is too light to poyse the scale Long. He is the weaker for taking of a prayse out of thy mouth Du. This hand shall seal his merit at thy heart Lav. Part them my masters part them Ser. Part them Sir why do you not part them you stand by with your sword in your hand and cry part ' em Lav. Why you must know my friend my cloaths are better than yours and in a good suit I do never use to part any body La-p. And it is discretion Lav. I marry is it Captain Long. Dubois though this place priviledge thee know where next we meet the blood which at thy heart flows drops at thy feet Enter Amience in haste his sword drawn Du. I would not spend it better than in this quarrell and on such a hazard Ami. What uprore 's this must my name here be question'd in Tavern brawls and by affected Ruffins Lav. Not we indeed Sir Du. Fear cannot make me shrink out of your fury though you were greater than your name doth make you I am one and the opposer if your swoln rage have ought in malice to inforce express it Ami. I seek thee not nor shalt thou ever gain That credit which a blow from me wou'd give thee By my I more detest that fellow Which took my part than thee that he durst offer To take my honor in his feeble armes And spend it in a drinking room which way went he Lav. That way Sir I wou'd you wou'd after for I do fear we shall have some more scuffling Ami. I 'll follow him and if my speed o'er take him I shall ill thank him for his forwardness Exit Lav. I am glad he 's gone for I doe not love to see a sword drawn in the hand of a man that lookes so furious there 's no jesting with edge tooles how say you Captain Cap. I say 't is better jesting than to be in earnest with them Enter Orleance Orl. How now what 's the difference they say there have bin swords drawn and in my quarrell let me know that man whose love is so sincere to spend his blood for my sake I will bounteously requite him Lav. We were all of your side but there he stands begun it Orl. What 's thy name Dub. Duboyes Orl. Give me thy hand hast received no hurt Dub. Not any nor were this body stuck full of wounds I should not count them hurts being taken in so honorable a cause as the defence of my most worthy Lord. Orl. The dedication of thy love to me requires my ample bounty thou art mine for I do find thee made unto my purposes Mounsieur Laverdine pardon my neglect I not observed you and how runs rumour Lav. Why it runs my Lord like a foot-man without a cloak to show that what 's once rumour'd it cannot be hid Orl. And what say the rable am not I the subject of their talk Lav. Troth my Lord the common mouth speaks foul words Orl. Of me for turning away my wife do they not Lav. Faith the men do a little murmure at it and say 't is an ill president in so great a man marry the women they rayl out right Orl. Out upon them rampallions I 'll keep my self safe enough out of their fingers but what say my pritty jolly composed gallants that censure every thing more desperate than it is dangerous what say they Lav. Marry they are laying wagers what death you shall die one offers to lay five hundred pounds And yet he had but a groat about him that was in two two-pences too to any man that wou'd make it up a shilling that you were kil'd with a Pistoll charg'd with white Powder another offerd to pawn his soul for five shillings and yet no body wou'd take him that you were stab'd to death and shou'd die with more wounds than Cesar Orl. And who shou'd be the Butchers that shou'd do it Montague and his associates Lav. So 't is conjectured La-p. And believe it sweet Prince it is to be feared and therefore prevented Orl. By turning his purpose on himself were not that the way Lav. The most direct path for your safety For where doth danger sit more furious than in a desperate man La-p. And being you have declined his means you have increast his malice Lav. Besides the generall report that steems in every mans breath and stains you all over with infamy that Time the devourer of all things cannot eat out La-p. I for that former familiarity which he had with your Lady Lav. Men speak it as boldly as words of compliment good morrow good even or save you Sir are not more usuall if the word cuckold had been written upon your forehead in great Capitall Letters it could not have been dilated with more confidence Orl. He shall not sleep another night I will have his blood though it be
now 'Fore Heaven I am angrie with thee Sirha sirha This whitmeat spirit 's not yours legitimate Advance your hope and 't please you ghess again Ang. And let your thoughts flee higher aim them right Sir you may hit you have the fairest white Ferd. If I may be so bold then my good Lord Your favour doth encourage me to aspire To catch my Ladyes Gentlewoman Ben. Where Where would you catch her Do you know my daughter Violanta Sir Ang. Well said no more about the bush Ferd. My good Lord I have gaz'd on Violanta and the stars Whose Heavenly influence I admir'd not knew Nor ever was so sinful to believe I might attain 't Ben. Now you are an aâ—â— again For if thou ne'er attain'st 't is onely long Of that faint heart of thine which never did it She is your Lords heir mine Benvoglio 's heir My brothers too Randulpho s her descent Not behinde any of the Millanois And Ferdinand although thy parentage Be unknown thou know'st that I have bred thee up From five yeers old and do not blush to hear it Have found thy wisdom trust and fair success So full in all my affaris that I am fitter To call thee Master then thou me thy Lord. Thou canst not be but sprung of gentlest blood Thy minde shines thorow thee like the radiant sun Although thy body be a beauteous cloud Come seriously this is no flatterie And well thou know'st it though thy modest blood Rise like the morning in thy cheek to hear 't Sir I can speak in earnest Vertuous service So meritorious Ferdinand as yours Yet bashful still and silent should extract A fuller price then impudence exact And this is now the wages it must have My daughter is thy wife my wealth thy slave Ferd. Good Madam pinch I sleep does my Lord mock And you assist Custom 's inverted quite For old men now adays do flout the young Ben. Fetch Violanta As I intend this Religiously let my soul finde joy or pain Exit Angelina Ferd. My honor'd Lord and Master if I hold That worth could merit such felicitie You bred it in me and first purchas'd it It is your own and what productions In all my faculties my soul begets Your very mark is on you need not add Rewards to him that is in bebt to you You sav'd my life Sir in the Massacre There you begot me new since foster'd me O! can I serve to much or pray for you Alas 't is slender paiment to your bountie Your daughter is a paradice and I Unworthie to be set there you may chuse The royalst seeds of Milain Ben. Prethee peace Thy goodness makes me weep I am resolv'd â—â—m no Lord o' th' time to tie my blood To sordid muck I have enough my name My estate and honors I will store in thee Whose wisdom will rule well keep and increase A knave or fool that could confer the like Would bate each hour diminish every day Thou art her price-lot than drawn out by fate An honest wise man is a Princes mate Ferd. Sir Heaven and you have over-charg'd my brest With grace beyond my continence I shall burst The blessing you have given me witness Saints I would not change for Millain But my Lord Is she prepar'd Ben. What needs Preparative Where such a Cordial is prescrib'd as thou Thy person and thy virtues in one scale Shall poize hers with her beautie and her wealth If not I add my will unto thy weight Thy mother 's with her now Son take my keys And let this prepartion for this Marriage This welcome Marriage long determin'd here Be quick and gorgeous Gerrard Enter Gerrard Ger. My good Lord My Lord your brother craves your conference Instantly on affairs of high import Ben. Why what news Ger. The Tyrant my good Lord Is sick to death of his old Apoplexie Whereon the States advise that Letters-missive Be straight dispatcht to all the neighbour-Countreys And Schedules too divulg'd on every post To enquire the lost Duke forth their purpose is To re-instate him Ben. 'T is a pious deed Ferdinand to my daughter this delay Though to so good a purpose angers me But I 'll recover it Be secret son Go woo with truth and expedition Exit Ferd. O my unsounded joy how fares my Gerrard My noble twin-friend fie thy loook is heavie Sullen and sowre blanch it didst thou know My cause of joy thou ' Idst never sorrow more I know thou lov'st me so How dost thou Ger. Well Too well my fraught of health my sickness is In life I am dead by living dying still Ferd. What sublunary mischief can predominate A wise man thus or doth thy friendship play In this antipathous extreme with mine Lest gladness suffocate me I I I do feel My spirit 's turn'd to fire my blood to air And I am like a purifi'd essence Tri'd from all drossie parts Ger. Were 't but my life The loss were sacrifie'd but virtue Must for me be slain and innocence made dust Ferd. Fare well good Gerrard Ger. Dearest friend stay Ferd. Sad thoughts are no companions for me now Much less sad words thy bosom bindes some secret Which do not trust me with for mine retains Another which I must conceal from thee Ger. I would reveal it 't is a heavie tale Canst thou be true and secret still Ferd Why friend If you continue true unto your self I have no means of falshood Lock this door Come yet your prisoner 's sure Ger. Stay Ferdinand Ferd. What is this trouble Love Why thou art capable of any woman Doth want oppress thee I will lighten thee Hast thou offended law My Lord and thine And I will save thy life Does servitude Upbraid thy freedom that she suffers it Have patience but three days and I will make thee Thy Lords companion Can a friend do more Ger. Lend me the means How can this be Ferd. First let this Cabinet keep your pawn and I will trust Yet for the form of satisfaction Take this my Oath to boot By my presum'd Gentrie and sacred known Christianitie I 'll die ere I reveal thy trust Ger. Then hear it Your Lords fair daughter Violanta is My betrothed wife goes great with childe by me And by this deed both made a pray to Law How may I save her life advise me friend Ferd. What did he say Gerrard whose voice was that O death unto my heart bane to my soul My wealth is vanish'd like the rich mans store In one poor minute all my daintie fare But jugling dishes my fat hope despair Ger. Is this so odious where 's your mirth Ferd. Why thou Hast robb'd me of it Gerrard draw thy sword And if thou lov'st my Mistris chastitie Defend it else I 'll cut it from thy heart Thy theevish heart that stole it and restore 't Do miracles to gain her Ger. Was she thine Ferd Never but in my wish and her fathers vow Which now he left with me on such sure terms He call'd
kiss me being a child And say he lov'd me give me all his toys Bracelets Rings Sweet-meats all his Rosie-smiles â— then would stand and stare upon his eyes 〈◊〉 with his locks and swear I lov'd him too For sure methought he was a little Love 〈◊〉 woo'd so prettily in innocence 〈◊〉 then he warm'd my fancy for I felt 〈◊〉 â—â—mmering beam of Love kindle my bloud 〈◊〉 which time since hath made a flame and floud 〈◊〉 Oh gentle innocent methinks it talks 〈◊〉 a child still whose white simplicity Never arriv'd at sin Forgive me Lady I have destroy'd Gerrard and thee rebell'd Against Heavens Ordinance dis-pair'd two Doves Made 'em sit mourning slaughter'd Love and cleft The heart of all integrity This breast Was trusted with the secret of your vow By Gerrard and reveal'd it to your Father Viol. Hah Ferd. Read and curse me Viol. Neither I will never Nor Write nor Read again Ferd. My pennance be it Reads Your Labyrinth is found your Lust proclaim'd Viol. Lust Humh My Mother sure felt none when I was got Fer. I and the Law implacably offended Gerrard's imprison'd and to dye Viol. Oh Heaven Ferd. And you to suff ewith reproach and scoffs A publick execution I have sent you 〈◊〉 Antidote ' gainst shame poison by him You have most wrong'd give him your penitent tears Viol. Humh 't is not truth Ferd. Drink and farewel for ever And though thy whoredom blemish thy whole line Prevent the Hangmans stroke and die like mine Viol. Oh woe is me for Gerrard I have brought Confusion on the noblest Gentleman That ever truly lov'd But we shall meet Where our condemners shall not and enjoy A more refin'd affection than here No Law nor Father hinders marriage there Twixt souls Divinely assi'd as sure ours were There we will multiply and generate joyes Like fruitful Parents Luckless Ferdinand Where 's the good old Gentlewoman my Husbands Aunt Ferd. Thrust from youâ— Uncle to all poverty Viol. Alas the piry reach me Sir the cup I 'll say my prayers and take my Fathers Physick Ferd. Oh villain that I was I had forgot To spill the rest and am unable now To stir to hinder her Viol. What ail you Sir Ferd. Your Father is a monster I a villain This tongue has kill'd you pardon Violanto Oh pardon Gerrard and for sacrifice Accept my life to expiate my fault I have drunk up the poison Viol. Thou art not so Uncharitable a better fellow far Thou 'st left me halfe Sure death is now a-dry And calls for more bloud still to quench his thirst I pledge thee Ferdinand to Gerrards health Dear Gerrard poor Aunt and unfortunate friend Ay me that Love should breed true Lovers end Fer. Stay Madam stay help hoa for Heavens sake help Improvident man that good I did intend For satisfaction saving of her life My equal cruel Stars made me forget Enter Angelina with two Servants Ang. What spectacle of death assaults me oh Viol. M dearest Mother I am dead I leave Father and friends and life to follow Love Good Mother love my Child that did no ill Fie how men lie that say death is a pain Or has he chang'd his nature like soft sleep He seizes me Your blessing Last I crave That I may rest by Gerrard in his grave Ferd. There lay me too oh noble Mistriss I Have caus'd all this and therefore justly dye That key will open all Ang. Oh viperous Father For Heavens sake bear 'em in run for Physitians And Medicines quickly Heaven thou shalt not have Yet 't is too soon Alas I have no more And taking her away thou rob'st the poor Exeâ— Flourish Enter Duke States Randulpho Benvoglio Gerrard Executioner Guard Duke The Law as greedy as your red desire Benvoglio hath cast this man 'T is pity So many excellent parts are swallow'd up In one foul wave Is Violanta sent for Our Justice must not lop a branch and let The body grow still Ben. Sir she will be here Alive or dead I am sure Ger. How chearfully my countenance comments death That which makes men seem horrid I will wear Like to an Ornament Oh Violanta Might my life only satisfie the Law How jocundly my soul would enter Heaven Why shouldst thou dye thou wither'st in thy bud As I have seen a Rose e'er it was blown I do beseech your Grace the Statute may In this case made be read not that I hope T' extenuate my offence or penalty But to see whether it lay hold on her And since my death is more exemplary Than just this publick Reading will advise Caution to others Duke Read it Ran. Brother does not Your soul groan under this severity Statute read A Statute provided in case of unequal Matches Marriages against Parents consent stealing of Heirs Rapes Prostitutions and such like That if any person meanly descended or ignorant of his own Parentage which implies as much shall with a foul intent unlawfully sollicite the Daughter of any Peer of the Dukedom he shall for the same of fence forfeit his right hand but if he further prâ—stitute her to his Lust he shall first have his rigâ—â— hand cut off and then suffer death by the comâ—â—â— Executioner After whom the Lady so offendinâ— shall likewise the next day in the same manneâ— dye for tke Fact Ger. This Statute has more cruelty than sense I see no ray of Mercy Must the Lady Suffer death too suppose she were inforc'd By some confederates born away and ravish'd Is she not guiltless Duke Yes if it be prov'd Ger. This case is so I ravish'd Violanta State Who ever knew a Rape produce a child Ben. Pish these are idle Will your grace command The Executioner proceed Duke Your Office Ger. Farewell to thy inticing vanity Thou round gilt box that dost deceive man's eye The wise man knows when open thou art broke The treasure thou includ'st is dust and smoke Even thus I cast thee by My Lords the Law Is but the great mans mule he rides on it And tramples poorer men under his feet Yet when they come to knock at yon bright Gate Ones Rags shall enter 'fore the others State Peace to ye all here sirrah strike this hand Hath Violanta kiss'd a thousand times It smells sweet ever since this was the hand Plighted my faith to her do not think thou canst Cut that in sunder with my hand My Lord As free from speek as this arm is my heart Is of foul Lust and every vein glides here As full of truth Why does thy hand shake so 'T is mine must be cut off and that is firm For it was ever constant Enter Cornelia Cor. Hold your Sentence Unjustly is pronounced my Lord this blow Cuts your hand off for his is none of yours But Violanta's given in Holy marriage Before she was delivered consummated With the free Will of her Mother by her Confessor In Lord Benvoglio's house Ger. Alas good Aunt That helps us nothing else I had reveal'd
should I fear her then Gent. Come let 's pass on wench Lav Gentille come hither who 's that Gentlewoman Gent. A child of mine Sir who observing custome Is going to the Monastery to her Prayers Lav. A fair one a most sweet one fitter far To beautifie a Court than make a Votarist Go on fair Beauty and in your Orizons Remember me will ye fair sweet Casta Most humbly Exeunt Lav. An admirable Beauty how it fires me Enter a Spirit But she 's too full of grace and I too wicked I feel my wonted fit Defend me goodness Oh! it grows colder still and stiffer on me My hair stands up my sinews shake and shrink Help me good Heaven and good thoughts dwell within me Oh get thee gone thou evil evil spirit Haunt me no more I charge thee Spir. Yes Lavall Thou art my vassal and the slave to mischief I blast thee with new sin pursue thy pleasure Casta is rare and sweet a blowing Beauty Set thy desires a fire and never quench 'em Till thou enjoy'st her make her all thy Heaven And all thy joy for she is all true happiness Thou art powerful use command if that prevail not Force her I 'll be thy friend Lav. Oh help me help me Spir. Her virtue like a spell sinks me to darkness Exit Enter Gentille and Casta Gent. He 's here still How is' t noble Lord me thinks Sir You look a little wildly Is it that way Is' t her you stare on so I have spy'd your fire Sir But dare not stay the flaming Come Lav. Sweet ereature Excellent Beauty do me but the happiness To be your humblest servant Oh fair eyes Oh blessed Blessed Sweetness Divine Virgin Casta Oh good my Lord retire into your honor You 're spoken good and virtuous plac'd and Helme To govern others from mischances from example Of such fair Chronicles as great ones are We do or sure we should direct our lives I know y' are full of worth a school of virtue Daâ—ly instructing us that live below ye I make no doubt dwells there Lav. I cannot answer She has struck me dumb with wonder Casta Goodness guide ye Exeunt Lav. She 's gone and with her all light and has left me Dark as my black desires Oh devil lust How dost thou hug my bloud and whisper to me There is no day again no time no living Without this lusty Beauty break upon me Let me collect my self I strive like billows Beaten against a rock and fall a fool still I must enjoy her and I will from this hour My thoughts and all my bus'ness shall be nothing Enter Maria. My eating and my sleeping but her beauty And how to work it Mar. Health to my Lord Lavall Nay good Sir do not turn with such displeasure I come not to afflict your new born pleasures My honour'd Mistriss neither let that vex ye For nothing is intended but safe to you Lav. What of your Mistriss I am full of bus'ness Mar. I will be short my Lord she loving Lady Considering the unequal tie between ye And how your ruine with the Duke lay on it As also the most noble match now made By me sends back all links of marriage All Holy Vows and Rights of Ceremony All promises oaths tears and all such pawns You left in hostage only her love she cannot For that still follows ye but not to hurt ye And still beholds ye Sir but not to shame ye In recompence of which this is her suit Sir Her poor and last petition but to grant her When weary nights have cloyd ye up with kisses As such must come the honor of a Mistriss The honor but to let her see those eyes Those eyes she donts on more than gods do goodness And but to kiss you only with this prayer a prayer only to awake your pity And on her knees she made it that this night You 'ld bless her with your company at supper Lav. I like this well and now I think on 't better I 'll make a present use from this occasion Mar. Nay good my Lord be not so cruel to her Because she has been yours Lav. And to mine own end A rare way I will work Mar. Can love for ever The Love of her my Lord so perish in ye As ye desire in your desires to prosper What gallant under Heaven but Anjon's Heir then Can brag so fair a Wife and sweet a Mistriss Good noble Lord. Lav. Ye mis-apply me Mary Nor do I want true pity to your Lady Pity and love tell me too much I have wrong'd her To dare to see her more yet if her sweetness Can entertain a Mediation And it must be a great one that can cure me My love again as far as honor bids me My service and my self Mar. That 's nobly spoken Lav. Shall hourly see her want shall never know her Nor where she has bestow'd her love repent her Mar. Now whither drives he Lav. I have heard Maria That no two women in the world more lov'd Then thy good Mistriss and Gentille's fair Daughter Mar. What may this mean you have heard a truth my Lord But since the secret Love betwixt you two My Mistriss durst not entertain such friendship Casta is quick and of a piercing judgement And quickly will find out a flaw Lav. Hold Marie Shrink not 't is good gold wench prepare a Banquet And get that Casta thither for she 's a creature So full of forcible Divine perswasion And so unwearied ever with good offices And she shall cure my ill cause to my Mistriss And make all errors up Mar. I 'll doe my best Sir But she 's too fearful coy and scrupulous To leave her Fathers house so late and bashful At any mans appearance that I fear Sir 'T will prove impossible Lav. There 's more gold Marie And fain thy Mistriss wondrous sick to death wench Mar. I have ye in the wind now and I 'll pay ye Lav. She cannot chuse but come 't is charity The chief of her profession undertake this And I am there at night if not I leave ye Mar. I will not loose this offer though it fall out Clean cross to that we cast I 'll undertake it I will my Lord she shall be there Lav. By Mar. By she shall Lav. Let it be something late then For being seen now force or favour wins her My spirits are grown dull strong wine and store Shall set 'em up again and make me fit To draw home at the enterprize I aim at Exit Ma. Go thy way false Lord if thou hold'st thou pay'st The price of all thy lusts Thou shalt be there Thou modest Maid if I have any working And yet thy honor safe for which this thief I know has set this meeting but I 'll watch him Enter Perelot Per. Maria. Mar. Are mine eyes mine own or bless me Am I deluded with a flying shadow Per. Why do you start so from me Mar. It speaks sensibly And shews
be Lys As Mask can be Strat. Yes they must commend their King and speak in praise of the Assembly bless the Bride and Bridegroom in person of some God th' are tyed to rules of flattery Cle. See good my Lord who is return'd Lys Noble Melantius Enter Melantius The Land by me welcomes thy vertues home to Rhodes thou that with blood abroad buyest us our peace the breath of Kings is like the breath of Gods My brother wisht thee here and thou art here he will be too kind and weary thee with often welcomes but the time doth give thee a welcome above this or all the worlds Mel. My Lord my thanks but thâ—â— scratcht limbs of mine have spoke my love and truth unto my friends more than my tongue ere could my mind 's the same it ever was to you where I find worth I love the keeper till he let it go And then I follow it Diph. Hail worthy brother He that rejoyces not at your return In safety is mine enemy for ever Mel. I thank thee Diphilus but thou art faulty I sent for thee to exercise thine armes With me at Patria thou cam'st not Diphilus 'T was ill Diph. My noble brother my excuse Is my King 's strict command which you my Lord Can witness with me Lys 'T is true Melantius He might not come till the solemnity Of this great match were past Diph. Have you heard of it Mel. Yes I have given cause to those that Envy my deeds abroad to call me gamesome I have no other business here at Rhodes Lys We have a Mask to night And you must tread a Soldiers measure Mel. These soft and silken wars are not for me The Musick must be shrill and all confus'd That stirs my blood and then I dance with armes But is Amintor Wed Diph. This day Mel. All joyes upon him for he is my friend Wonder not that I call a man so young my friend His worth is great valiant he is and temperate And one that never thinks his life his own If his friend need it when he was a boy As oft as I return'd as without boast I brought home conquest he would gaze upon me And view me round to find in what one limb The vertue lay to do those things he heard Then would he wish to see my Sword and feel The quickness of the edge and in his hand Weigh it he oft would make me smile at this His youth did promise much and his ripe years Will see it all perform'd Enter Aspatia passing by Melan. Hail Maid and Wife Thou fair Aspatia may the holy knot That thou hast tyed to day last till the hand Of age undo 't may'st thou bring a race Unto Amintor that may fill the world Successively with Souldiers Asp My hard fortunes Deserve not scorn for I was never proud When they were good Mel. How 's this Exit Aspatia Lys You are mistaken for she is not married Mel. You said Amintor was Diph. 'T is true but Mel. Pardon me I did receive Letters at Patria from my Amintor That he should marry her Diph. And so it stood In all opinion long but your arrival Made me imagine you had heard the change Mel. Who hath he taken then Lys A Lady Sir That bears the light above her and strikes dead With flashes of her eye the fair Evadne your vertuous Sister Mel. Peace of heart betwixt them but this is strange Lys The King my brother did it To honour you and these solemnities Are at his charge Mel. 'T is Royal like himself But I am sad my speech bears so unfortunate a sound â—o beautiful Aspatia there is rage â—id in her fathers breast Calianax Bent long against me and he should not think If I could call it back that I would take So bâ—â—e revenges as to scorn the state Of his neglected daughter holds he still his greatness with the King Lys Yes but â—â—is Lady Walks discontented with her watry eyes Bent on the earth the unfrequented woods Are her delight and when she sees a bank Stuck full of flowers she with a sigh will tell Her servants what a pretty place it were To bury lovers in and make her maids Pluck 'em and strow her over like a Corse She carries with her an infectious grief That strikes all her beholders she will sing The mournful'st things that ever ear hath heard And sigh and sing again and when the rest Of our young Ladies in their wanton blood Tell mirthful tales in course that fill the room With laughter she will with so sad a look Bring forth a story of the silent death Of some forsaken Virgin which her grief Will put in such a phrase that ere she end She 'l send them weeping one by one away Mel. She has a brother under my command Like her a face as womanish as hers But with a spirit that hath much out-grown The number of his years Enter Amintor Cle. My Lord the Bridegroom Mel. I might run fiercely not more hastily Upon my foe I love thee well Amintor My mouth is much too narrow for my heart I joy to look upon those eyes of thine Thou art my friend but my disorder'd speech cuts off my love Amin. Thou art Melantius All love is spoke in that a sacrifice To thank the gods Melantius is return'd In safety victory sits on his sword As she was wont may she build there and dwell And may thy Armour be as it hath been Only thy valour and thy innocence What endless treasures would our enemies give That I might hold thee still thus Mel. I am but poor in words but credit me young man Thy Mother could no more but weep for joy to see thee After long absence all the wounds I have Fetch not so much away nor all the cryes Of Widowed Mothers but this is peace And what was War Amin. Pardon thou holy God Of Marriage bed and frown not I am forc't In answer of such noble tears as those To weep upon my Wedding day Mel. I fear thou art grown too sick for I hear A Lady mourns for thee men say to death Forsaken of thee on what terms I know not Amin. She had my promise but the King forbad it And made me make this worthy change thy Sister Accompanied with graces above her With whom I long to lose my lusty youth And grow old in her arms Mel. Be prosperous Enter Messenger Messen My Lord the Maskers rage for you Lys We are gone Cleon Sâ—rato Diphilus Amin. Wee 'l all attend you we shall trouble you With our solemnities Mel. Not so Amintor But if you laugh at my rude carriage In peace I 'le do as much for you in War When you come thither yet I have a Mistress To bring to your delights rough though I am I have a Mistress and she has a heart She saies but trust me it is stone no better There is no place that I can challenge in 't But you stand still and here
canker Evad. Let me consider Mel. Do whose child thou wert Whose honour thou hast murdered whose grave open'd And so pull'd on the Gods that in their justice They must restore him flesh again and life And raise his dry bones to revenge his scandal Evad. The gods are not of my mind they had better let 'em lie sweet still in the earth they 'l stink here Mel. Do you raise mirth out of my easiness Forsake me then all weaknesses of Nature That make men women Speak you whore speak truth Or by the dear soul of thy sleeping Father This sword shall be thy lover tell or I 'le kill thee And when thou hast told all thou wilt deserve it Evad. You will not murder me Mel. No 't is a justice and a noble one To put the light out of such base offenders Evad. Help Mel. By thy foul self no humane help shall help thee If thou criest when I have kill'd thee as I have Vow'd to do if thou confess not naked as thou hast left Thine honour will I leave thee That on thy branded flesh the world may read Thy black shame and my justice wilt thou bend yet Evad. Yes Mel. Up and begin your story Evad. Oh I am miserable Mel. 'T is true thou art speak truth still Evad. I have offended noble Sir forgive me Mel. With what secure slave Evad. Do not ask me Sir Mine own remembrance is a misery too mightie for me Mel. Do not fall back again my sword 's unsheath'd yet Evad. What shall I do Mel. Be true and make your fault less Evad. I dare not tell Mel. Tell or I 'le be this day a killing thee Evad. Will you forgive me then Mel. Stay I must ask mine honour first I have too much foolish nature in me speak Evad. Is there none else here Mel. None but a fearful conscience that 's too many Who is' t Evad. O hear me gently it was the King Mel. No more My worthy father's and my services Are liberally rewarded King I thank thee For all my dangers and my wounds thou hast paid me In my own metal These are Souldiers thanks How long have you liv'd thus Evadne Evad. Too long Mel. Too late you find it can you be sorry Evad. Would I were half as blameless Mel. Evadne thou wilt to thy trade again Evad. First to my grave Mel. Would gods th'hadst been so blest Dost thou not hate this King now prethee hate him Couldst thou not curse him I command thee curse him Curse till the gods hear and deliver him To thy just wishes yet I fear Evadne You had rather play your game out Evad. No I feel Too many sad confusions here to let in any loose flame hereafter Mel. Dost thou not feel amongst all those one brave anger That breaks out nobly and directs thine arm to kill this base King Evad. All the gods forbid it Mel. No all the gods require it they are dishonoured in him Evad. 'T is too fearful Mel. Y' are valiant in his bed and bold enough To be a stale whore and have your Madams name Discourse for Grooms and Pages and hereafter When his cool Majestie hath laid you by To be at pension with some needy Sir For meat and courser clothes thus far you know no fear Come you shall kill him Evad. Good Sir Mel. And 't were to kiss him dead thou'd smother him Be wise and kill him Canst thou live and know What noble minds shall make thee see thy self Found out with every finger made the shame Of all successions and in this great ruine Thy brother and thy noble husband broken Thou shalt not live thus kneel and swear to help me When I shall call thee to it or by all Holy in heaven and earth thou shalt not live To breath a full hour longer not a thought Come 't is a righteous oath give me thy hand And both to heaven held up swear by that wealth This lustful thief stole from thee when I say it To let his foul soul out Evad. Here I swear it And all you spirits of abused Ladies Help me in this performance Mel. Enough this must be known to none But you and I Evadne not to your Lord Though he be wise and noble and a fellow Dares step as far into a worthy action As the most daring I as far as Justice Ask me not why Farewell Exit Mel. Evad. Would I could say so to my black disgrace Oh where have I been all this time how friended That I should lose my self thus desperately And none for pity shew me how I wandred There is not in the compass of the light A more unhappy creature sure I am monstrous For I have done those follies those mad mischiefs Would dare a woman O my loaden soul Be not so cruel to me choak not up Enter Amintor The way to my repentance O my Lord. Amin. How now Evad. My much abused Lord Kneels Amin. This cannot be Evad. I do not kneel to live I dare not hope it The wrongs I did are greater look upon me Though I appear with all my faults Amin. Stand up This is no new way to beget more sorrow Heaven knows I have too many do not mock me Though I am tame and bred up with my wrongs Which are my foster-brothers I may leap Like a hand-wolf into my natural wilderness And do an out-rage pray thee do not mock me Evad. My whole life is so leprous it infects All my repentance I would buy your pardon Though at the highest set even with my life That slight contrition that 's no sacrifice For what I have committed Amin. Sure I dazle There cannot be a faith in that soul woman That knows no God more mighty than her mischiefs Thou dost still worst still number on thy faults To press my poor heart thus Can I believe There 's any seed of Vertue in that woman Left to shoot up that dares go on in sin Known and so known as thine is O Evadne Would there were any safety in thy sex That I might put a thousand sorrows off And credit thy repentance but I must not Thou hast brought me to the dull calamity To that strange misbelief of all the world And all things that are in it that I fear I shall fall like a tree and find my grave Only remembring that I grieve Evad. My Lord Give me your griefs you are an innocent A soul as white as heaven let not my sins Perish your noble youth I do not fall here To shadow by dissembling with my tears As all say women can or to make less What my hot will hath done which heaven and you Knows to be tougher than the hand of time Can cut from mans remembrance no I do not I do appear the same the same Evadne Drest in the shames I liv'd in the same monster But these are names of honour to what I am I do present my self the foulest creature Most poysonous dangerous and despis'd of men
be Di. And she was taken with her boy Phi. What boy Di. A Page a boy that serves her Phi. Oh good gods a little boy Di. I know you him my Lord Phi. Hell and sin know him Sir you are deceiv'd I 'le reason it a little coldly with you If she were lustful would she take a boy That knows not yet desire she would have one Should meet her thoughts and knows the sin he acts Which is the great delight of wickedness You are abus'd and so is she and I. Di. How you my Lord Phi. Why all the world 's abus'd In an unjust report Di. Oh noble Sir your vertues Cannot look into the subtil thoughts of woman In short my Lord I took them I my self Phi. Now all the Devils thou didst ille from my rage Would thou â—adlâ— ta'â—e devils â—ngeâ—dring plagues When thou didst take them hide thee from my eyes Would them hadst taken Thunder on thy breast When thou didst take them or been strucken dumb For ever that this soul deed might have slept in silence Thra. Have you known him so ill temper'd Cle. Never before Phi. The winds that are lâ—t loose From the â—our several corâ—â—â—s of the earth And spread themsâ—lves all over sea and land Kiss 〈◊〉 chastâ— one What friend bears a sword To run me through Di. Why my Lord are you so mov'd at this Phi. When any falls from vertue I am distract I have an interest in 't Di. But good my Lord recal your self And think what 's best to be done Phi. I thank you I will do it Please you to leave me I 'le consider of it To morrow I will find your lodging forth And give you answer The readiest way Di. All the gods direct you Thra. He was extream impatient Cle. It was his vertue and his noble mind Exeunt Di. Cle. and Thra. Phi. I had forgot to ask him where he took them I 'le follow him O that I had a sea Within my breast to quench the fire I feel More circumstances will but fan this sire It more afflicts me now to know by whom This deed is done than simply that 't is done And he that tells me this is honourable As far from lies as she is far from truth O that like beasts we could not grieve our selves With that we see not Bulls and Rams will fight To keep their Females standing in their fight But take 'em from them and you take at once Their spleens away and they will fall again Unto their Pastures growing fresh and fat And taste the waters of the springs as sweet As 't was before finding no start in sleep But miserable man See see you gods Enter Bellario He walks still and the face you let him wear When he was innocent is still the same Not blasted is this justice Do you mean To intrap mortality that you allow Treason so smooth a brow I cannot now Think he is guilty Bell. Health to you my Lord The Princess doth commend her love her life And this unto you Phi. Oh Bellario Now I perceive she loves me she does shew it In loving thee my boy she has made thee brave Bell. My Lord she has attired me past my wish Past my desert more fit for her attendant Though far unfit for me who do attend Phi. Thou art grown courtly boy O let all women That love black deeds learn to dissemble here Here by this paper she does write to me As if her heart were Minâ—s of Adamant To all the world besides but unto me A maiden snow that melted with my looks Tell me my boy how doth the Princess use thee For I shall guess her love to me by that Bell. Scarce like her servant but as if I were Something allied to her or had preserv'd Her life three times by my fidelity As mothers fond do use their only sons As I 'de use one that 's lefâ— unto my trust For whom my life should pay if he met harm So she does use me Phi. Why this is wondrous well But what kind language does she feed thee with Bell. Why she does tell me she will trust my youth With all her loving secrets and does call me Her pretty servant bids me weep no more For leaving you shee 'l see my services Regarded and such words of that soft strain That I am nearer weeping when she ends Than ere she spake Phi. This is much better still Bell. Are you ill my Lord Phi. Ill No Bellario Bell. Me thinks your words Fall not from off your tongue so evenly Nor is there in your looks that quietness That I was wont to see Phi. Thou art deceiv'd boy And she stroakes thy head Bell. Yes Phi. And she does clap thy cheeks Bell. She does my Lord. Phi. And she does kiss thee boy ha Bell. How my Lord Phi. She kisses thee Bell. Not so my Lord. Phi. Come come I know she does Bell. No by my life Phi. Why then she does not love me come she does I bad her do it I charg'd her by all charms Of love between us by the hope of peace We should enjoy to yield thee all delights Naked as to her bed I took her oath Thou should'st enjoy her Tell me gentle boy Is she not paralleless Is not her breath Sweet as Arabian winds when fruits are ripe Are not her breasts two liquid Ivory balls Is she not all a lasting Mine of joy Bell. I now I see why my disturbed thoughts Were so perplext When first I went to her My heart held augury you are abus'd Some villain has abus'd you I do see Whereto you tend fall Rocks upon his head That put this to you 't is some subtil train To bring that noble frame of yours to nought Phi. Thou think'st I will be angry with thee Come Thou shalt know all my drift I hate her more Than I love happiness and plac'd thee there To pry with narrow eyes into her deeds Hast thou discover'd Is she faln 〈◊〉 As I would wish her Speak some comfort to me Bell. My Lord you did mistake the boy you sent Had she a sin that way hid from the world 〈…〉 I would not aid Her base desires but what I came to know As servant to her I would not reveal to make my life last ages Phi. Oh my heart this is a salve worse than the main disease Tell me thy thoughts for I will know the least That dwells within thee or will rip thy heart To know it I will see thy thoughts as plain As I do know thy face Bell. Why so you do She is for ought I know by all the gods As chaste as â—ee but were she foul as Hell And I did know it thus the breath of Kings The points of Swords Tortures nor Bulls of Brass Should draw it from me Phi. Then 't is no time to dally with thee I will take thy life for I do hate thee I could curse thee now Bell. If you do hate you could not curse me
a worthy patience Have I stood Naked alone the shock of many fortunes Have I seen mischiefs numberless and mighty Grow live a sea upon me Have I taken Danger as storn as death into my bosom And laught upon it made it but a mirth And slung it by Do I live now like him Under this Tyrant King that languishing Hears his sad Bell and sees his Mourners Do I Bear all this bravely and must sink at length Under a womans falshood Oh that boy That cursed boy None but a villain boy to ease your lust Are. Nay then I am betray'd I feel the plot cast for my overthrow Oh I am wretched Phi. Now you may take that little right I have To this poor Kingdom give it to your Joy For I have no joy in it Some far place Where never womankind durst set her foot For bursting with her poisons must I seek And live to curse you There dig a Cave and preach to birds and beasts What woman is and help to save them from you How heaven is in your eyes but in your hearts More hell than hell has how your tongues like Scorpions Both heal and poyson how your thoughts are woven With thousand changes in one subtle webb And worn so by you How that foolish man That reads the story of a womans face And dies believing it is lost for ever How all the good you have is but a shadow I' th' morning with you and at night behind you Past and forgotten How your vows are frosts Fast for a night and with the next sun gone How you are being taken all together A meer confusion and so dead a Chaos That love cannot distinguish These sad Texts Till my last hour I am bound to utter of you So farewel all my wo all my delight Exit Phi Are. Be merciful ye gods and strike me dead What way have I deserv'd this make my breast Transparent as pure Crystal that the world Jealous of me may see the foulest thought My heart holds Where shall a woman turn her eyes To find out constancy Save me how black Enter Bell. And guilty me thinks that boy looks now Oh thou dissembler that before thou spak'st Wert in thy cradle false sent to make lies And betray Innocents thy Lord and thou May glory in the ashes of a Maid Fool'd by her passion but the conquest is Nothing so great as wicked Fly away Let my command force thee to that which shame Would do without it If thou understoodst The loathed Office thou hast undergone Why thou wouldst hide thee under heaps of hills Lest men should dig and find thee Bell. Oh what God Angry with men hath sent this strange disease Into the noblest minds Madam this grief You add unto me is no more than drops To seas for which they are not seen to swell My Lord had struck his anger through my heart And let out all the hope of future joyes You need not bid me fly I came to part To take my latest leave Farewel for ever I durst not run away in honesty From such a Lady like a boy that stole Or made some grievous fault the power of gods Assist you in your sufferings hasty time Reveal the truth to your abused Lord And mine That he may know your worth whilst I Go seek out some forgotten place to die Exit Bell. Are. Peace guide thee th' ast overthrown me once Yet if I had another Troy to lose Thou or another villain with thy looks Might talk me out of it and send me naked My hair dishevel'd through the fiery streets Enter a Lady La. Madam the King would hunt and calls for you With earnestness Are. I am in tune to hunt Diana if thou canst rage with a maid As with a man let me discover thee Bathing and turn me to a fearful Hind That I may die pursu'd by cruel Hounds And have my story written in my wounds Exeunt Actus Quartus Scena Prima Enter King Pharamond Arethusa Galatea Megra Dion Cleremont Thrasilin and Attendants K. WHat are the Hounds before and all the woodmen Our horses ready and our bows bent Di. All Sir King Y' are cloudy Sir come we have forgotten Your venial trespass let not that sit heavy Upon your spirit none dare utter it Di. He looks like an old surfeited Stallion after his leaping dull as a Dormouse see how he sinks the wench has shot him between wind and water and I hope sprung a leak Thra. He needs no teaching he strikes sure enough his greatest fault is he Hunts too much in the Purlues would he would leave off Poaching Di. And for his horn has left it at the Lodge where he lay late Oh he 's a precious Lime-hound turn him loose upon the pursuit of a Lady and if he lose her hang him up i' th' slip When my Fox-bitch Beauty grows proud I 'le borrow him King Is your Boy turn'd away Are. You did command Sir and I obey you King 'T is well done Hark ye further Cle. Is' t possible this fellow should repent Me thinks that were not noble in him and yet he looks like a mortified member as if he had a sick mans Salve in 's mouth If a worse man had done this fault now some Physical Justice or other would presently without the help of an Almanack have opened the obstructions of his Liver and let him bloud with a Dog whip Di. See see how modestly your Lady looks as if she came from Churching with her Neighbour why what a Devil can a man see in her face but that she 's honest Pha. Troth no great matter to speak of a foolish twinkling with the eye that spoils her Coat but he must be a cunning Herald that finds it Di. See how they Muster one another O there 's a Rank Regiment where the Devil carries the Colours and his Dam Dâ—um major now the world and the flesh come behind with the Carriage Cle. Sure this Lady has a good turn done her against her will before she was common talk now none dare say Canthaâ—ides can stir her her face looks like a Warrant willing and commanding all Tongues as they will answer it to be tied up and bolted when this Lady means to let her self loose As I live she has got her a goodly protection and a gracious and may use her body discreetly for her healths sake once a week excepting Lent and Dog-days Oh if they were to be got for mony what a great sum would come out of the City for these Licences King To horse to horse we lose the morning Gentlemen Exeunt Enter two Woodmen 1 Wood. What have you lodged the Deer 2 Wood. Yes they are ready for the Bow 1 Wood. Who shoots 2 Wood. The Princess 1 Wood. No she 'l Hunt 2 Wood. She 'l take a Stand I say 1 Wood. Who else 2 Wood. Why the young stranger Prince 1 Wood. He shall Shoot in a Stone-bow for me I never lov'd his beyond-sea-ship since
the Princess to the King and bear that wounded fellow to dressing Come Gentlemen we 'l follow the chase close Ex. Are. Pha. Di. Cle. Thra. and 1 Woodman Coun. I pray you friend let me see the King 2 Wood. That you shall and receive thanks Exeunt Coun. If I get clear with this I 'le go see no more gay sights Enter Bellario Bell. A heaviness near death sits on my brow And I must sleep Bear me thou gentle bank For ever if thou wilt you sweet ones all Let me unworthy press you I could wish I rather were a Coarse strewed o're with you Than quick above you Dulness shuts mine eyes And I am giddy Oh that I could take So sound a sleep that I might never wake Enter Philaster Phi. I have done ill my conscience calls me false To strike at her that would not strike at me When I did sight me thought I heard her pray The gods to guard me She may be abus'd And I a loathed villain if she be She will conceal who hurt her He has wounds And cannot follow neither knows he me Who 's this Bellario sleeping If thou beest Guilty there is no justice that thy sleep Cry within Should be so sound and mine whom thou hast wrong'd So broken Hark I am pursued you gods I 'le take this offer'd means of my escape They have no mark to know me but my wounds If she be true if false let mischief light On all the world at once Sword print my wounds Upon this sleeping boy I ha' none I think Are mortal nor would I lay greater on thee Wounds him Bell. Oh death I hope is come blest be that hand It meant me well again for pities sake Phi. I have caught my self Phi. falls The loss of bloud hath stayed my flight Here here Is he that stroke thee take thy full revenge Use me as I did mean thee worse than death I 'le teach thee to revenge this luckless hand Wounded the Princess tell my followers Thou didst receive these hurts in staying me And I will second thee Get a reward Bell. Fly fly my Lord and save your self Phi. How 's this Wouldst thou I should be safe Bell. Else it were vain For me to live These little wounds I have Ha' not bled much reach me that noble hand I 'le help to cover you Phi. Art thou true to me Bell. Or let me perish loath'd Come my good Lord Creep in amongst those bushes who does know But that the gods may save your much lov'd breath Phi. Then I shall die for grief if not for this That I have wounded thee what wilt thou do Bell. Shift for my self well peace I hear 'em come Within Follow follow follow that way they went Bell. With my own wounds I 'le bloudy my own sword I need not counterfeit to fall Heaven knows That I can stand no longer Enter Pha. Dion Cle. and Thra. Pha. To this place we have tract him by his bloud Cle. Yonder my Lord creeps one away Di. Stay Sir what are you Bell. A wretched creature wounded in these Woods By Beasts relieve me if your names be men Or I shall perish Di. This is he my Lord Upon my soul that hurt her 't is the boy That wicked boy that serv'd her Pha. O thou damn'd in thy creation What cause could'st thou shape to hurt the Princess Bell. Then I am betrayed Di. Betrayed no apprehended Bell. I confess Urge it no more that big with evil thoughts I set upon her and did take my aim Her death For charity let fall at once The punishment you mean and do not load This weary flesh with tortures Pha. I will know who hir'd thee to this deed Bell. Mine own revenge Pha. Revenge for what Bell. It pleas'd her to receive Me as her Page and when my fortunes ebb'd That men strid o're them carelesly she did showr Her welcome graces on me and did swell My fortunes till they overflow'd their banks Threatning the men that crost 'em when as swift As storms arise at sea she turn'd her eyes To burning Suns upon me and did dry The streams she had bestowed leaving me worse And more contemn'd than other little brooks Because I had been great In short I knew I could not live and therefore did desire To die reveng'd Pha. If tortures can be found Long as thy natural life resolve to feel The utmost rigour Philaster creeps out of a bush Cle. Help to lead him hence Phi. Turn back you ravishers of Innocence Know ye the price of that you bear away so rudely Pha. Who 's that Di. 'T is the Lord Philaster Phi. 'T is not the treasure of all Kings in one The wealth of Tagus nor the Rocks of Pearl That pave the Court of Neptune can weigh down That vertue It was I that hurt the Princess Place me some god upon a Piramis Higher than hills of earth and lend a voice Loud as your Thunder to me that from thence I may discourse to all the under-world The worth that dwells in him Pha. How 's this Bell. My Lord some man Weary of life that would be glad to die Phi. Leave these untimely courtesies Bellario Bell. Alas he 's mad come will you lead me on Phi. By all the Oaths that men ought most to keep And Gods do punish most when men do break He toucht her not Take heed Bellario How thou dost drown the vertues thou hast shown With perjury By all that 's good 't was I You know she stood betwixt me and my right Pha. Thy own tongue be thy judge Cle It was Philaster Di. Is 't not a brave boy Well Sirs I fear we were all deceived Phi. Have I no friend here Di. Yes Phi. Then shew it Some good body lend a hand to draw us nearer Would you have tears shed for you when you dieâ— Then lay me gentle on his neck that there I may weep flouds and breath out my spirit 'T is not the wealth of Plutus nor the gold Lockt in the heart of earth can buy away This arm-full from me this had been a ransâ—m To have redeem'd the great Augustus Câ—sar Had he been taken you hard-hearted men More stony than these Mountains can you see Such clear pure bloud drop and not cut your flesh To stop his life To bind whose better wounâ—s Queens ought to tear their hair and with their tears Bath'em Forgive me thou that art the wealth of poor Phi. laster Enter King Arethusa and a Guard King Is the villain ta'ne Pha. Sir here be two confess the deed but say it was Phi. laster Phi. Question it no more it was King The fellow that did fight with him will tell us Are. Ay me I know he will King Did not you know him Are. Sir if it was he he was disguised Phi. I was so Oh my sâ—ars that I should live still King Thou ambitious fool Thou that hast laid a train for thy own life Now I do mean to do I 'le leave to
Prince of Spain Whom I have thus redeem'd you have full leave To make an honourable voyage home And if you would go furnish'd to your Realm With fair provision I do see a Lady Me thinks would gladly bear you company How like you this piece Meg. Sir he likes it well For he hath tried it and found it worth His princely liking we were ta'ne a bed I know your meaning I am not the first That Nature taught to seek a fellow forth Can shame remain perpetually in me And not in others or have Princes salves To cure ill names that meaner people want Phi. What mean you Meg. You must get another ship To clear the Princess and the boy together Di. How now Meg. Others took me and I took her and him At that all women may be ta'ne sometimes Ship us all four my Lord we can endure Weather and wind alike King Clear thou thy self or know not me for Father Are. This earth How false it is what means is left for me To clear my self It lies in your belief My Lords believe me and let all things else Struggle together to dishonour me Bell. O stop your cars great King that I may speak As freedom would then I will call this Lady As base as be her actions hear me Sir Believe hour hated bloud when it rebels Against your reason sooner than this Lady Meg. By this good light he bears it hansomely Phi. This Lady I will sooner trust the wind With Feathers or the troubled Sea with Pearl Than her with any thing believe her not Why think you if I did believe her words I would outlive 'em honour cannot take Revenge on you then what were to be known But death King Forget her Sir since all is knit Between us but I must request of you One favour and will sadly be denied Phi. Command what ere it be King Swear to be true to what you promise Phi. By the powers above Let it not be the death of her or him And it is granted King Bear away the boy To Torture I will have her clear'd or buried Phi. O let me call my words back worthy Sir Ask something else bury my life and right In one poor grave but do not take away my life and fame at once King Away with him it stands irrevocable Phi. Turn all your eyes on me here stands a man The falsest and the basest of this world Set swords against this breast some honest man For I have liv'd till I am pitied My former deeds are hateful but this last Is pitifull for I unwillingly Have given the dear preserver of my life Unto his Torture is it in the power Offers to kill himself Of flesh and blood to carry this and live Are. Dear Sir be patient yet or stay that hand King Sirs strip that boy Di. Come Sir your tender flesh will try your constancie Bell. O kill me gentlemen Di. No help Sirs Bell. Will you Torture me King Hast there why stay you Bell. Then I shall not break my vow You know just gods though I discover all King How 's that Will he confess Di. Sir so he says King Speak then Bell. Great King if you command This Lord to talk with me alone my tongue Urg'd by my heart shall utter all the thoughts My youth hath known and stranger things than these You hear not often King Walk aside with him Di. Why speak'st thou not Bell. Know you this face my Lord Di. No. Bell. Have you not seen it nor the like Di. Yes I have seen the like but readily I know not where Bell. I have been often told In Court of one Euphrasia a Lady And Daughter to you betwixt whom and me They that would flatter my bad face would swear There was such strange resemblance that we two Could not be known asunder drest alike Di. By Heaven and so there is Bell. For her fair sake Who now doth spend the spring time of her life In holy Pilgrimage move to the King That I may scape this Torture Di. But thou speak'st As like Euphrasia as thou dost look How came it to thy knowledge that she lives in Pilgrimage Bell. I know it not my Lord But I have heard it and do scarce believe it Di. Oh my shame is' t possible Draw near That I may gaze upon thee art thou she Or else her Murderer where wert thou born Bell. In Siracusa Di. What 's thy name Bell. Euphrasia Di. O'tis just 't is she now I do know thee Oh that thou hadst died And I had never seen thee nor my shame How shall I own thee shall this tongue of mine E're call thee Daughter more Bell. Would I had died indeed I wish it too And so I must have done by vow e're published What I have told but that there was no means To hide it longer yet I joy in this The Princess is all clear King What have you done Di. All is discovered Phi. Why then hold you me Di. All is discovered pray you let me go King Stay him Are. What is discovered He offers to stab himself Di. Why my shame it is a woman let her speak the rest Phi. How that again Di. It is a woman Phi. Blest be you powers that favour innocence King Lay hold upon that Lady Phi. It is a woman Sir hark Gentlemen It is a woman Arethusa take My soul into thy breast that would be gone With joy it is a woman thou art fair And vertuous still to ages in despight of malice King Speak you where lies his shame Bell. I am his Daughter Phi. The Gods are just Di. I dare accuse none but before you two The vertue of our age I bend my knee For mercy Phi. Take it freely for I know Though what thou didst were undiscreetly done 'T was meant well Are. And for me I have a power to pardon sins as oft As any man has power to wrong me Cle. Noble and worthy Phi. But Bellario For I must call thee still so tell me why Thou didst conceal thy Sex it was a fault A fault Bellario though thy other deeds Of truth outweigh'd it All these Jealousies Had flown to nothing if thou hadst discovered What now we know Bell. My Father would oft speak Your worth and vertue and as I did grow More and more apprehensive I did thirst To see the man so rais'd but yet all this Was but a Maiden longing to be lost As soon as found till sitting in my window Printing my thoughts in Lawne I saw a God I thought but it was you enter our Gates My bloud flew out and back again as fast As I had puft it forth and suck't it in Like breath then was I call'd away in hast To entertain you Never was a man Heav'd from a Sheep-coat to a Scepter rais'd So high in thoughts as I you left a kiss Upon these lips then which I mean to keep From you for ever I did hear you talk Far above singing after you were gone
you Lady Spa. And sweet peace to your Grace Pan. Pray Heaven I find it Exeunt Enter Tigranes in prison Tigr. Fool that I am I have undone my self And with my own hand turn'd my fortune round That was a fair one I have childishly Plaid with my hope so long till I have broke it And now too late I mourn for 't O Spaconia Thou hast found an even way to thy revenge now Why didst thou follow me like a faint shadow To wither my desires But wretched fool Why did I plant thee 'twixt the Sun and me To make me freeze thus Why did I prefer her To the fair Princess O thou fool thou fool Thou family of tools live like a slave still And in thee bear thine own hell and thy torment Thou hast deserv'd Couldst thou find no Lady But she that has thy hopes to put her to And hazard all thy peace None to abuse But she that lov'd thee ever poor Spaconia And so much lov'd thee that in honesty And honour thou art bound to meet her vertues She that forgot the greatness of her grief And miseries that must follow such mad passions Endless and wild as women she that for thee And with thee lest her liberty her name And Country you have paid me equal Heavens And sent my own rod to correct me with A woman for inconstancy I 'le suffer Lay it on justice till my soul melt in me For my unmanly beastly sudden doting Upon a new face after all my oaths Many and strange ones I feel my old fire flame again and burn So strong and violent that should I see her Again the grief and that would kill me Enter Bacurius and Spaconia Bac. Lady your token I acknowledge you may pass There is the King Spa. I thank your Lordship for it Exit Bac. Tigr. She comes she comes shame hide me ever from her Would I were buried or so far remov'd Light might not find me out I dare not see her Spa. Nay never hide your self or were you hid Where earth hides all her riches near her Center My wrongs without more day would light me to you I must speak e're I die were all your greatness Doubled upon you y' are a perjur'd man And only mighty in your wickedness Of wronging women Thou art false false Prince I live to see it poor Spaconia lives To tell thee thou art false and then no more She lives to tell thee thou art more unconstant Than all ill women ever were together Thy faith is firm as raging over-flowes That no bank can command as lasting As boyes gay bubbles blown i' th' Air and broken The wind is sixt to thee and sooner shall The beaten Mariner with his shrill whistle Calm the loud murmur of the troubled main And strike it smooth again than thy soul fall To have peace in love with any Thou art all That all good men must hate and if thy story Shall tell succeeeding ages what thou wert O let it spare me in it lest true lovers In pity of my wrong burn thy black Legend And with their curses shake thy sleeping ashes Tigr. Oh! oh Spa. The destinies I hope have pointed out Our ends that thou maist die for love Though not for me for this assure thy self The Princess hates thee deadly and will sooner Be won to marry with a Bull and safer Than such a beast as thou art I have struck I fear too deep beshrow me sor't Sir This sorrow works me like a cunning friendship Into the same piece with it 't is asham'd Alas I have been too rugged Dear my Lord I am sorry I have spoken any thing Indeed I am that may add more restraint To that too much you have good Sir be pleas'd To think it was a fault of love not malice And do as I will do forgive it Prince I do and can forgive the greatest sins To me you can repent of pray believe Tigr. O my Spaconia O thou vertuous woman Spa. Nay more the King Sir Enter Arbaces Bacurius Mardonius Arb. Have you been carefull of our noble Prisoner That he want nothing sitting for his greatness Bac. I hope his grace will quit me for my care Sir Arb. 'T is well royal Tigranes health Tigr. More than the strictness of this place can give Sir I offer back again to great Arbaces Arb. We thank you worthy Prince and pray excuse us We have not seen you since your being here I hope your noble usage has been equall With your own person your imprisonment If it be any I dare say is easie And shall not last too dayes Tigr. I thank you My usage here has been the same it was Worthy a royal Conqueror For my restraint It came unkindly because much unlook'd for But I must bear it Arb. What Lady 's that Bacurius Bac. One of the Princess women Sir Arb. I fear'd it why comes she hither Bac. To speak with the Prince Tigranes Arb. From whom Bacurius Bac. From the Princess Sir Arb. I knew I had seen her Mar. His sit begins to take him now again 'T is a strange Feaver and 't will shake us all anon I fear Would he were well cur'd of this raging folly Give me the warrs where men are mad and may talk what they list and held the bravest fellows This pelting prating peace is good for nothing drinking 's a vertue to 't Arb. I see there 's truth in no man nor obedience But for his own ends why did you let her in Bac. It was your own command to barr none from him Besides the Princess sent her ring Sir for my warrant Arb. A token to Tigranes did she not Sir tell truth Bac. I do not use to lie Sir 'T is no way I eat or live by and I think This is no token Sir Mar. This combat has undone him if he had been well beaten he had been temperate I shall never see him handsome again till he have a Horse mans staffe yok'd thorow his shoulders or an arm broken with a bullet Arb. I am trifled with Bac. Sir Arb. I know it as I know thee to be false Mar. Now the clap comes Bac. You never knew me so Sir I dare speak it And durst a worse man tell me though my better Mar. 'T is well said by my soul Arb. Sirra you answer as you had no life Bac. That I fear Sir to lose nobly Arb. I say Sir once again Bac. You may say what yon please Sir Would I might do so Arb. I will Sir and say openly this woman carries letters By my life I know she carries letters this woman does it Mar. Would Bessus were here to take her aside and search her He would quickly tell you what she carried Sir Arb. I have found it out this woman carries letters Mar. If this hold 't will be an ill world for Bawdes Chamber-maids and Post-boyes I thank heaven I have none but his letters patents things of his own enditing Arb. Prince this cunning cannot do
know 't Some fellows would have cryed now and have curst thee and faln out with their meat and kept a pudder but all this helps not he was too good for us and let God keep him there 's the right use on 't friend Off with thy drink thou hast a spice of sorrow makes thee dry fill him another Savill your Master 's dead and who am I now Savill Nay let 's all bear it well wipe Savill wipe tears are but thrown away we shall have wenches now shall we not Savill Savill Yes Sir Young Lo. And drink innumerable Savil. Yes forsooth Young Lo. And you 'll strain curtsie and be drunk a little Savil. I would be glad Sir to doe my weak endeavour Yo. Lo. You may be brought in time to love a wench too Savil. In time the sturdie Oak Sir Young Lo. Some more wine for my friend there Elder Lo. I shall be drunk anon for my good news but I have a loving Brother that 's my comfort Young Lo. Here 's to you Sir this is the worst I wish you for your news and if I had another elder Brother and say it were his chance to feed Haddocks I should be still the same you see me now a poor contented Gentleman More wine for my friend there he 's dry again Elder Lo. I shall be if I follow this beginning Well my dear Brother if I scape this drowning 't is your turn next to sink you shall duck twice before I help you Sir I cannot drink more pray let me have your pardon Young Lo. O Lord Sir 't is your modestie more wine give him a bigger glass hug him my Captain thou shalt be my chief mourner Capt. And this my pennon Sir a full carouse to you and to my Lord of Land here Elder Lo. I feel a buzzing in my brains pray God they bear this out and I 'le ne're trouble them so far again Here 's to you Sir Young Lo. To my dear Steward down o' your knees you infidel you Pagan be drunk and penitent Savil. Forgive me Sir and I 'le be any thing Young Lo. Then be a Baud I 'le have thee a brave Band. Elder Lo. Sir I must take my leave of you my business is so urgent Young Lo. Let 's have a bridling cast before you go Fill 's a new stoupe Elder Lo. I dare not Sir by no means Young Lo. Have you any mind to a wench I would fain gratifie you for the pains you took Sir Elder Lo. As little as to the t'other Young Lo. If you find any stirring do but say so Elder Lo. Sir you are too bounteous when I feel that itching you shall asswage it Sir before another this only and Farewell Sir Your Brother when the storm was most extream told all about him he left a will which lies close behind a Chimney in the matted Chamber and so as well Sir as you have made me able I take my leave Young Lo. Let us imbrace him all if you grow drie before you end your business pray take a baite here I have a fresh hogshead for you Savil. You shall neither will nor chuse Sir My Master is a wonderfull fine Gentleman has a fine state a very fine state Sir I am his Steward Sir and his man Elder Lo. Would you were your own sir as I left you Well I must cast about or all sinks Savil. Farewell Gentleman Gentleman Gentleman Elder Lo. What would you with me sir Savil. Farewell Gentleman Elder Lo. O sleep Sir sleep Exit Elder Lo. Young Lo. Well boyes you see what 's faln let 's in and drink and give thanks for it Capt. Let 's give thanks for it Young Lo. Drunk as I live Savil. Drunk as I live boyes Young Lo. Why now thou art able to discharge thine office and cast up a reckoning of some weight I will be knighted for my state will bear it 't is sixteen hundred boyes off with your husks I 'le skin you all in Sattin Capt. O sweet Loveless Savil. All in Sattin O sweet Loveless Young Lo. March in my noble Compeeres and this my Countess shall be led by two and so proceed we to the Will Exeunt Enter Morecraft the Usurer and Widow Morec And Widow as I say be your own friend your husband left you wealthy I and wife continue so sweet duck continue so Take heed of young smooth Varlets younger Brothers they are worms that will eat through your bags they are very Lightning that with a flash or two will melt your money and never singe your purse-strings they are Colts wench Colts heady and dangerous till we take 'em up and make 'em sit for Bonds look upon me I have had and have yet matter of moment girle matter of moment you may meet with a worse back I 'le not commend it Wid. Nor I neither Sir Mor. Yet thus far by your favour Widow 't is tusse Wid. And therefore not for my dyet for I love a tender one Mor. Sweet Widow leave your frumps and be edified you know my state I sell no Perspectives Scarfs Gloves nor Hangers nor put my trust in Shoe-ties and where your Husband in an age was rising by burnt figs dreg'd with meal and powdered sugar saunders and grains wormeseed and rotten Raisins and such vile Tobacco that made the footmen mangie I in a year have put up hundreds inclos'd my Widow those pleasant Meadows by a forseit morgage for which the poor Knight takes a lone chamber owes for his Ale and dare not beat his Hostess nay more Wid. Good Sir no more what ere my Husband was I know what I am and if you marry me you must bear it bravely off Sir Mor. Not with the head sweet Widow Wid. No sweet Sir but with your shoulders I must have you dub'd for under that I will not stoop a feather My husband was a fellow lov'd to toyle fed ill made gain his exercise and so grew costive which for that I was his wife I gave way to and spun mine own smocks course and sir so little but let that pass time that wears all things out wore out this husband who in penitence of such fruitless five years marriage left me great with his wealth which if you 'le be a worthie gossip to be knighted Sir Enter Savil. Morec Now Sir from whom come you whose man are you Sir Savil. Sir I come from young Master Loveless Mor. Be silent Sir I have no money not a penny for you he 's sunk your Master 's sunk a perisht man Sir Savil. Indeed his Brother 's sunk sir God be with him a perisht man indeed and drown'd at Sea Morec How saidst thou good my friend his Brother drown'd Savil. Untimely sir at Sea Morec And thy young Master left sole Heir Savil. Yes Sir Morec And he wants money Sav. Yes and sent me to you for he is now to be knighted Mor. Widow be wise there 's more Land coming widow be very wise and give thanks for me widow
gladly I would hear thee But that 's impossible Dua. Please you but read this You shall know better there why I am sent Than if I should deliver it Gui. From whom comes it Dua. That will instruct you I suspect this stranger Yet she spake something that holds such alliance With his reports I know not what to think on 't What a frown was there she looks me through through Now reads again now pauses and now smiles And yet there 's more of anger in 't than mirth These are strange changes oh I understand it She 's full of serious thoughts Gui. You are just you Heavens And never do forget to hear their prayers That truly pay their vows the defer'd vengeance For you and my words sake so long defer'd Under which as a mountain my heart groans yet When 't was despair'd of now is offer'd to me And if I lose it I am both wayes guilty The womans mask dissimulation help me Come hither friend I am sure you know the Gentleman That sent these charms Dua. Charms Lady Gui. These charms I well may call them so they 've won upon me More than ere letter did thou art his friend The confidence he has in thee confirms it And therefore I 'le be open breasted to thee To hear of him though yet I never saw him Was most desir'd of all men let me blush And then I 'le say I love him Dua. All men see In this a womans vertue Gui. I expected For the courtesie I did long since to have seen him And though I then forbad it you men know Between our hearts and tongues there 's a large distance But I 'le excuse him may be hitherto He has forborn it in respect my Son Fell by his hand Dua. And reason Lady Gui. No he did me a pleasure in 't a riotous fellow And with that insolent not worth the owning I have indeed kept a long solemn sorrow For my friends sake partly but especially For his long absence Dua. O the Devil Guio. Therefore Bid him be speedy a Priest shall be ready To tye the holy knot this kiss I send him Deliver that and bring him Dua. I am dumb A good cause I have now and a good sword And something I shall do I wait upon you Exeunt Enter Manuel Charino Arnoldo Zenocia born in a chair 2 Doctors Clodio Doct. Give her more air she dyes else Arn. O thou dread power That mad'st this all and of thy workmanship This virgin wife the Master piece look down on her Let her minds virtues cloth'd in this fair garment That worthily deserves a better name Than flesh and bloud now sue and prevail for her Or if those are denyed let innocence To which all passages in Heaven stand open Appear in her white robe before thy throne And mediate for her or if this age of sin Be worthy of a miracle the Sun In his diurnal progress never saw So sweet a subject to imploy it on Man Wonders are ceas'd Sir we must work by means Arno. 'T is true and such reverend Physicians are To you thus low I fall then so may you ever Be stil'd the hands of Heaven natures restorers Get wealth and honours and by your success In all your undertakings propagate Your great opinion in the world as now You use your saving art for know good Gentlemen Besides the fame and all that I possess For a reward posterity shall stand Indebted to you for as Heaven forbid it Should my Zenocia dye robbing this age Of all that 's good or gracefull times succeeding The story of her pure life not yet perfect Will suffer in the want of her example Doct. Were all the world to perish with her we Can do no more than what art and experience Give us assurance of we have us'd all means To find the cause of her disease yet cannot How should we then promise the cure Arn. Away I did bely you when I charg'd you with The power of doing ye are meer names only And even your best perfection accidental What ever malady thou art or Spirit As some hold all diseases that afflict us As love already makes me sensible Of half her sufferings ease her of her part And let me stand the butt of thy fell malice And I will swear th' art mercifull Doct. Your hand Lady What a strange heat is here bring some warm water Arn. She shall use nothing that is yours my sorrow Provides her of a better bath my tears Shall do that office Zeno. O my best Arnoldo The truest of all lovers I would live Were heaven so pleas'd but to reward your sorrow With my true service but since that 's denied me May you live long and happy do not suffer By your affection to me I conjure you My sickness to infect you though much love Makes you too subject to it Arn. In this only Zenocia wrongs her servant can the body Subsist the Soul departed 't is as easie As I to live without you I am your husband And long have been so though our adverse fortune â—â—ndying us from one hazard to another Would never grant me so much happiness As to pay a husbands debt despite of fortune In death I 'le follow you and guard mine own And there enjoy what here my fate forbids me Clod. So true a sorrow and so feelingly Exprest I never read of Man I am struck With wonder to behold it as with pity Char. If you that are a stranger suffer for them Being tied no further than humanity Leads you to soft compassion think great Sir What of necessity I must endure That am a Father Hippolyta Zabulon and Sulpitia at the door Zab. Wait me there I hold it Unfit to have you seen as I find cause You shall proceed Man You are welcom Lady Hip. Sir I come to do a charitable office How does the patient Clod. You may enquire Of more than one for two are sick and deadly He languishes in her her health 's despair'd of And in hers his Hip. 'T is a strange spectacle With what a patience they sit unmov'd Are they not dead already Doct. By her pulse She cannot last a day Arn. Oh by that summons I know my time too Hip. Look to the man Clod. Apply Your Art to save the Lady preserve her A town is your reward Hip. I 'le treble it In ready gold if you restore Arnoldo For in his death I dye too Clod. Without her I am no more Arn. Are you there Madam now You may feast on my miseries my coldness In answering your affections or hardness Give it what name you please you are reveng'd of For now you may perceive our thred of life Was spun together and the poor Arnoldo Made only to enjoy the best Zenocia And not to serve the use of any other And in that she may equal my Lord Clodio Had long since else enjoyed her nor could I Have been so blind as not to see your great And many
so I may make you first understand â—hat a strange monster you have made your self welcome it Wol. To me this is strange language Hub. To you why what are you Wol. Your Prince and Master â—he Earl of Flanders Hub. By a proper title â—ais'd to it by cunning circumvention force â—ood and proscriptions Wol. And in all this wisdom â—ad I not reason when by Gerrards plots â—hould have first been call'd to a strict accompt â—ow and which way I had consum'd that mass â—f money as they term it in the War Who underhand had by his Ministers â—etracted my great action made my faith â—nd loyalty suspected in which failing â—e sought my life by practice Hub. With what fore-head â—o you speak this to me who as I know 't â—ust and will say 't is false Wol. My Guard there Hub. Sir you bad me sit and promis'd you would hear Which I now say you shall not a sound more For I that am contemner of mine own Am Master of your life then here 's a Sword Between you and all aids Sir though you blind The credulous beast the multitude you pass not These gross untruths on me Wol. How gross untruths Hub. I and it is favourable language They had been in a mean man lyes and foul ones Wol. You take strange Licence Hub. Yes were not those rumours Of being called unto your answer spread By your own followers and weak Gerrard wrought But by your cunning practice to believe That you were dangerous yet not to be Punish'd by any formal course of Law But first to be made sure and have your crimes Laid open after which your quaint train taking You fled unto the Camp and their crav'd humbly Protection for your innocent life and that Since you had scap'd the fury of the War You might not fall by treason and for proof You did not for your own ends make this danger Some that had been before by you suborn'd Came forth and took their Oaths they had been hir'd By Gerrard to your Murther This once heard And easily believ'd th' inraged Souldier Seeing no further than the outward-man Snatch'd hastily his Arms ran to the Court Kill'd all that made resistance cut in pieces Such as were Servants or thought friends to Gerrard Vowing the like to him Wol. Will you yet end Hub. Which he foreseeing with his Son the Earl Forsook the City and by secret wayes As you give out and we would gladly have it Escap'd their fury though 't is more than fear'd They fell amongst the rest Nor stand you there To let us only mourn the impious means By which you got it but your cruelties since So far transcend your former bloody ills As if compar'd they only would appear Essays of mischief do not stop your ears More are behind yet Wol. O repeat them not 'T is Hell to hear them nam'd Hub. You should have thought That Hell would be your punishment when you did them A Prince in nothing but your princely lusts And boundless rapines Wol. No more I beseech you Hub. Who was the Lord of house or land that stood Within the prospect of your covetous eye Wol. You are in this to me a greater Tyrant Than e're I was to any Hub. I end thus The general grief now to my private wrong The loss of Gerrards Daughter Jaqueline The hop'd for partner of my lawful Bed Your cruelty hath frighted from mine arms And her I now was wandring to recover Think you that I had reason now to leave you When you are grown so justly odious That ev'n my stay here with your grace and favour Makes my life irksome here surely take it And do me but this fruit of all your friendship That I may dye by you and not your Hang-man Wol. Oh Hubert these your words and reasons have As well drawn drops of blood from my griev'd heart As these tears from mine eyes Despise them not By all that 's sacred I am serious Hubert You now have made me sensible what furies Whips Hangmen and Tormentors a bad man Do's ever bear about him let the good That you this day have done be ever number'd The first of your best actions Can you think Where Goswin is or Gerrard or your love Or any else or all that are proscrib'd I will resign what I usurp or have Unjustly forc'd the dayes I have to live Are too too few to make them satisfaction With any penitence yet I vow to practise All of a man Hub. O that your heart and tongue Did not now differ Wol. By my griefs they do not Take the good pains to search them out 't is worth it You have made clean a Leper trust me you have And made me once more fit for the society I hope of good men Hub. Sir do not abuse My aptness to believe Wol. Suspect not you A faith that 's built upon so true a sorrow Make your own safetys ask them all the ties Humanity can give Hemskirk too shall Along with you to this so wish'd discovery And in my name profess all that you promise And I will give you this help to 't I have Of late receiv'd certain intelligence That some of them are in or about Bruges To be found out which I did then interpret The cause of that Towns standing out against me But now am glad it may direct your purpose Of giving them their safety and me peace Hub. Be constant to your goodness and you have it Exeunt SCENA II. Enter 3. Merchants 1 Mer. 'T is much that you deliver of this Goswin 2 Mer. But short of what I could yet have the Country Confirm'd it true and by a general oath And not a man hazard his credit in it He beats himself with such a confidence As if he were the Master of the Sea And not a wind upon the Sailers compass But from one part or other was his factor To bring him in the best commodities Merchant e're ventur'd for 1. 'T is strange 2. And yet This do's in him deserve the least of wonder Compared with other his peculiar fashions Which all admire he 's young and rich at least Thus far reputed so that since he liv'd In Bruges there was never brought to harbour So rich a Bottom but his bill would pass Unquestion'd for her lading 3 Mer. Yet he still Continues a good man 2 Mer. So good that but To doubt him would be held an injury Or rather malice with the best that trassique But this is nothing a great stock and fortune Crowning his judgement in his undertakings May keep him upright that way But that wealth Should want the power to make him dote on it Or youth teach him to wrong it best commends His constant temper for his outward habit 'T is suitable to his present course of life His table furnish'd well but not with dainties That please the appetite only for their rareness Or their dear price nor given to wine or women Beyond his health or warrant
over joy'd Ravisht clean ravisht with this fortune kiss me Or I shall lose my self Clo. My Husband said ye Chi. Said I and will say Cloe nay and do it And do it home too Peg thee as close to him As birds are with a pin to one another I have it I can do it thou wantst clothes too And hee 'l be hang'd unless he marry thee E'â—e he maintain thee now he has Ladies Courtiers More than his back can bend at multitudes We are taken up for threshers will ye bite Clo. Yes Chi. And let me Clo. Yes and let ye Chi. What! Clo. Why that ye wote of Chi. I cannot stay take your instructions And something toward houshold come what ever I shall advise ye follow it exactlie And keep your times I point ye for I 'le tell ye A strange way you must wade through Clo. Fear not me Sir Chi. Come then and let 's dispatch this modicum For I have but an hour to stay a short one Besides more water for another mill And old weak over-shot I must provide for There 's an old Nunnerie at hand Clo. What 's that Chi. A bawdie house Clo. A pox consume it Chi. If the stones 't is built on Were but as brittle as the flesh lives in it Your curse came handsomlie fear not there 's ladies And other good sad people you pinkt Citizens Think it no shame to shake a sheet there Come wench Exeunt Enter Cleanthe and Siphax Clean A Souldier and so fearfull Siph Can ye blame me When such a weight lies on me Clean. Eye upon ye I tell ye ye shall have her have her safelie And for your wife with her own will Siph. Good Sister Cle. What a distrustfull man are you to morrow To morrow morning Siph. Is it possible Can there be such a happiness Clean. Why hang me If then ye be not married if to morrow night Ye doe not Siph. O dear Sister Clean. What ye wou'd doe What ye desire to doe lie with her Devil What a dull man are you Siph. Nay I believe now And shall she love me Clean. As her life and stroke ye Siph. O I will be her Servant Clean. 'T is your dutie Siph. And she shall have her whole will Clean. Yes 't is reason She is a Princess and by that rule boundless Si. What woud'you be for I wou'd have ye Sister Chuse some great place about us as her woman Is not so fit Clean. No no I shall find places Siph. And yet to be a Ladie of her bed chamber I hold not so fit neither Some great title believe it shall be look't out Clean. Ye may a Dutchess Or such a toye a small thing pleases me Sir Sip. What you will Sister if a neighbour Prince When we shall come to raign Clean. We shall think on 't Be ready at the time and in that place too And let me work the rest within this half hour The Princess will be going 't is almost morning Away and mind your business Siph. Fortune bless us Exeâ—â—t Enter King Polydor and Lords Pol. I do beseech your grace to banish me King Why Gentleman is she not worthy marriage Pol. Most worthy Sir where worth again shall meet 〈◊〉 But I like thick clouds sailing slow and heavy Although by her drawn higher yet shall hide her I dare not be a traitor and 't is treason But to imagine as you love your honour King 'T is her first maiden doting and if crost I know it kills her 1 Lord. How knows your grace she loves him King Her woman told me all beside his story Her maid Lucippe on what reason too And 't is beyond all but enjoying Polydor. Sir Even by your wisdom by that great discretion Ye owe to rule and order 2 Lord. This man 's mad sure To plead against his fortune 1 Lord. And the King too Willing to have it so Pol. By those dead Princes From whose descents ye stand a star admir'd at Lay not so base a lay upon your vertues Take heed for honours sake take heed the bramble No wise man ever planted by the rose It cankers all her beauty nor the vine When her full blushes court the sun dares any Choke up with wanton Ivy good my Lords Who builds a monument the Basis Jasper And the main body Brick 2 Lord. Ye wrong your worth Ye are a Gentleman descended nobly 1 Lord. In both bloods truly noble King Say ye were not My will can make ye so Pol. No never never 'T is not descent nor will of Princes does it 'T is Vertue which I want 't is Temperance Man honest man is' t fit your Majesty Should call my drunkenness my rashness Brother Or such a blessed Maid my breach of saith For I am most lascivious and fell angers In which I am also mischievous her Husband O Gods preserve her I am wild as Winter Ambitious as the Devil out upon me I hate my self Sir if ye dare bestow her Upon a Subject ye have one deserves her King But him she does not love I know your meaning This young mans love unto his noble Brother Appears a mirrour what must now be done Lords For I am gravel'd if she have not him She dies for certain if his Brother miss her Farewel to him and all our honours 1 Lord. He is dead Sir Your Grace has heard of that and strangely King No I can assure you no there was a trick in 't Read that and then know all what ails the Gentleman Hold him how do ye Sir Polydor is sick o' th' sudden Pol. Sick o' th' sudden Extreamly ill wondrous ill King Where did it take ye Pol. Here in my head Sir and my heart for Heaven sake King Conduct him to his Chamber presently And bid my Doctors Pol. No I shall be well Sir I do beseech your Grace even for the Gods sake Remember my poor Brother I shall pray then King Away he grows more weak still I will do it Or Heaven forget me ever Now your Counsels Ex. Pol. For I am at my wits end what with you Sir Enter Messenger with a Letter Mess Letters from warlike Pelius King Yet more troubles The Spartans are in Arms and like to win all Supplies are sent for and the General This is more cross than t'other come let 's to him For he must have her 't is necessity Or we must lose our honours let 's plead all For more than all is needful shew all reason If love can hear o'th at side if she yield We have fought best and won the noblest field Exeunt Enter Eumenes Captains Stremon 1 Cap. I have brought the wench a lusty wench And somewhat like the Princess Eumen. 'T is the better let 's see her And go you in and tell him that her Grace Is come to visit him how sleeps he Stremon Stre. He cannot only thinks and calls on Polydor Swears he will not be fool'd sometimes he rages And sometimes sits and muses Exit Stremon Enter
and those I take it A Sword may find too why do ye dam the Duke up And choak that course of love that like a River Should fill our empty veins again with comforts But if ye use these knick knacks This fast and loose with faithful men and honest You 'l be the first will find it Enter Archas Souldiers Putskey Ancient and others Boros You are too untemperate Theo. Better be so and thief too than unthankful Pray use this old man so and then we are paid all The Duke thanks ye for your service and the Court thanks ye And wonderful desirous they are to see ye Pray Heaven we have room enough to march for May-games Pageants and Bone-fires for your welcome home Sir Here your most noble friend the Lord Boroskie A Gentleman too tender of your credit And ever in the Dukes ear for your good Sir Crazie and sickly yet to be your servant Has leapt into the open air to meet ye Bor. The best is your words wound not you are welcome home Sir Heartily welcome home and for your service The noble overthrow you gave the Enemy The Duke salutes ye too with all his thanks Sir Anc. Sure they will now regard us Puts There 's a reason But by the changing of the Colonels countenance The rolling of his eyes like angry Billows I fear the wind 's not down yet Ancient Arch. Is the Duke well Sir Boros Not much unhealthy Only a little grudging of an Ague Which cannot last he has heard which makes him fearful And loth as yet to give your worth due welcome The sickness hath been somewhat hot i' th' Army Which happily may prove more doubt than danger And more his fear than sate yet howsoever An honest care Arch. Ye say right and it shall be For though upon my life 't is but a rumor A meer opinion without faith or fear in 't For Sir I thank Heaven we never stood more healthy Never more high and lusty yet to satisfie We cannot be too curious or too careful Of what concerns his state we 'll draw away Sir And lodge at further distance and less danger Boros It will be well Anc. It will be very scurvy I smell it out it stinks abominably Stir it no more Boros The Duke Sir would have you too For a short day or two retire to your own house Whither himself will come to visit ye And give ye thanks Arch. I shall attend his pleasure Anc. A trick a lousie trick so ho a trick Boys Arch. How now what 's that Anc. I thought I had found a Hare Sir But 't is a Fox an old Fox shall we hunt him Arch. No more such words Boros The Souldier's grown too sawâ—y You must tie him straiter up Arch. I do my best Sir But men of free-born minds sometimes will flie out Anc. May not we see the Duke Boros Not at this time Gentlemen Your General knows the cause Anc. We have no Plague Sir Unless it be in our pay nor no Pox neither Or if we had I hope that good old Courtier Will not deny us place there Puts Certain my Lord Considering what we are and what we have done If not what need ye may have 't would be better A great deal nobler and taste honester â—o use us with more sweetness men that dig And lash away their lives at the Carts tail Double our comforts meat and their Masters thanks too When they work well they have Men of our quality When they do well and venture sor't with valour Fight hard lye hard feed hard when they come home Sâ—â— And know these are deserving things things worthy Can you then blame 'em if their minds a little Be stir'd with glory 't is a pride becomes 'em A little season'd with ambition To be respected reckon'd well and honour'd For what they have done when to come home thus poorly And met with such unjointed joy so looked on As if we had done no more but drest a Horse well So entertain'd as if I thank ye Gentlemen Take that to drink had pow'r to please a Souldier Where be the shouts the Bells rung out the people The Prince himself Arch. Peace I perceive your eye Sir Is sixt upon this Captain for his freedom And happily you find his tongue too forward As I am Master of the place I carry 'T is fit I think so too but were I this man No stronger tie upon me than the truth And tongue to tell it I should speak as he do's And think with modesty enough such Saints That daily thrust their loves and lives through hazards And fearless for their Countries peace march hourly Through all the doors of death and know the darkest Should better be canoniz'd for their service What labour would these men neglect what danger Where honour is though seated in a Billow Rising as high as Heaven would not these Souldiers Like to so many Sea-gods charge up to it Do you see these swords times Sythe was ne'er so sharp Sir Nor ever at one harvest mow'd such handfuls Thoughts ne'er so sudden nor belief so sure When they are drawn and were it not sometimes I swim upon their angers to allay 'em And like a calm depress their fell intentions They are so deadly sure nature would suffer And whose are all these glories why their Princes Their Countries and their Friends Alas of all these And all the happy ends they bring the blessings They only share the labours A little joy then And outside of a welcome at an upshot Would not have done amiss Sir but howsoever Between me and my duty no crack Sir Shall dare appear I hope by my example No discontent in them without doubt Gentlemen The Duke will both look suddenly and truly On your deserts Methinks 't were good they were paid Sir Bor. They shall be immediately I stay for money And any favour else Arch. We are all bound to ye And so I take my leave Sir when the Duke pleases To make me worthy of his eyes Bor. Which will be suddenly I know his good thoughts to ye Arch. With all duty And all humility I shall attend Sir Bor. Once more you are welcome home these shall be satisfied The. Be sure we be and handsomly Arch. Wait you on me Sir The. And honestly no jugling Arch. Will ye come Sir Exit Bor. Pray do not doubt The. We are no Boys Exit Enter a Gent. and 2 or 3 with Mony Bor. Well Sir Gent. Here 's mony from the Duke and 't please your Lordship Bor. 'T is well Gent. How sowre the Souldiers look Bor. Is' t told Gent. Yes and for every company a double pay And the Dukes love to all Anc. That 's worth a Ducket Bor. You that be Officers see it discharg'd then Why do not you take it up Anc. 'T is too heavy ' Body o' me I have strain'd mine arm Bor. Do ye scorn it Anc. Has your Lorship any dice about ye sit round Gentlemen And come
on seven for my share Put. Do you think Sir This is the end we fight can this durt draw us To such a stupid tameness that our service Neglected and look'd lamely on and skew'd at With a few honourable words and this is righted Have not we eyes and ears to hear and see Sir And minds to understand the slights we carry I come home old and full of hurts men look on me As if I had got 'em from a whore and shun me I tell my griefs and fear my wants I am answer'd Alas 't is pity pray dine with me on Sunday These are the sores we are sick of the minds maladies And can this cure ' em you should have us'd us nobly And for our doing well as well proclaim'd us To the worlds eye have shew'd and sainted us Then ye had paid us bravely then we had shin'd Sir Not in this gilded stuff but in our glory You may take back your mony Gent. This I fear'd still Bor. Consider better Gentlemen Anc. Thank your Lordship And now I 'le put on my considering cap My Lord that I am no Courtier you may guess it By having no sute to you for this mony For though I want I want not this nor shall not Whilst you want that civility to rank it With those rights we expected mony grows Sir And men must gather it all is not put in one purse And that I am no Carter I could never whistle yet But that I am a Souldier and a Gentleman And a fine Gentleman and 't like your honour And a most pleasant companion all you that are witty Come list to my ditty come set in boyes With your Lordships patience Song How do you like my Song my Lord Bor. Even as I like your self but 't would be a great deal better You would prove a great deal wiser and take this mony In your own phrase I speak now Sir and 't is very well You have learn'd to sing for since you prove so liberal To refuse such means as this maintain your voice still 'T will prove your best friend Anc. 'T is a singing age Sir A merry moon here now I 'le follow it Fidling and fooling now gains more than fighting Bor. What is' t you blench at what would you ask speak freely Sol. And so we dare a triumph for the General Put. And then an honour special to his vertue Anc. That we may be prefer'd that have serv'd for it And cram'd up into favour like the worshipful At least upon the Cities charge made drunk For one whole year we have done 'em ten years service That we may enjoy our lechery without grudging And mine or thine be nothing all things equal And catch as catch may be proclaim'd that when we borrow And have no will to pay again no Law Lay hold upon us nor no Court controule us Bor. Some of these may come to pass the Duke may do 'em And no doubt will the General will find too And so will you if you but stay with patience I have no power Put. Nor will come fellow Souldiers Bor. Pray be not so distrustfull Put. There are waies yet And honest waies we are not brought up Statues Anc. If your Lordship Have any silk stockings that have holes i' th' heels Or ever an honourable Cassock that wants buttons I could have cur'd such maladies your Lordships custome And my good Ladies if the bones want setting In her old bodies Bor. This is disobedience Anc. Eight pence a day and hard Eggs. Put. Troop off Gentlemen Some Coin we have whilst this lasts or our credits We 'l never sell our Generals worth for six-pence Ye are beholding to us Anc. Fare ye well Sir And buy a pipe with that do ye see this skarf Sir By this hand I 'le cry Brooms in 't birchen Brooms Sir Before I eat one bit from your benevolence Now to our old occupations again By your leave Lord. Exeunt Bor. You will bite when ye are sharper take up the mony This love I must remove this fondness to him This tenderness of heart I have lost my way else There is no sending man they will not take it They are yet too full of pillage They 'l dance for 't ere 't be long Come bring it after Enter Duke Duke How now refus'd their mony Bor. Very bravely And stand upon such terms 't is terrible Duke Where 's Archas Bor. He 's retir'd Sir to his house According to your pleasure full of dutie To outward shew but what within Duke Refuse it Bor. Most confidently 't is not your revenues Can feed then Sir and yet they have found a General That knows no ebbe of bountie there they eat Sir And loath your invitations Duke 'T is not possible He 's poor as they Bor. You 'l find it otherwise Pray make your journey thither presently And as ye goe I 'le open ye a wonder Good Sir this morning Duke Follow me I 'le doe it Exeunt SCENA II. Enter Olympia Alinda Burris and Gentlewomen Olym. But do you think my Brother loves her Bur. Certain Madam He speaks much of her and sometimes with wonder Oft wishes she were nobler born Olym. Do you think him honest B r. Your Grace is nearer to his heart than I am Upon my life I hold him so Olym. 'T is a poor wench I would not have her wrong'd methinks my Brother But I must not give rules to his affections Yet if he weigh her worth Bur. You need not fear Madam Olym. I hope I shall not Lord Burris I love her well I know not there is something Makes me bestow more than a care upon her I do not like that ring from him to her I mean to women of her way such tokens Rather appeal as baits than royal bounties I would not have it so Bur. You will not find it Upon my troth I think his most ambition Is but to let the world know h 'as a handsom Mistris Will your grace command me any service to him Olym. Remember all my duty Bur. Blessings crown ye What 's your will Lady Al. Any thing that 's honest And if you think it fit so poor a service Clad in a ragged vertue may reach him I do beseech your Lordship speak it humbly Bur. Faâ—â— one I will in the best phrase I have too And so I kiss your hand Exit Al. Your Lordships Servant Olym. Come hither wench what art thou doing with that Ring Al. I am looking on the posie Madam Olym. What is' t Al. The Jewel 's set within Olym. But where the joy wench When that invisible Jewel 's lost why dost thou smile so What unhappy meaning hast thou Al. Nothing Madam But only thinking what strange spells these Rings have And how they work with some Pet. I fear with you too Al. This could not cost above a Crown Pet. 'T will cost you The shaving of your crown if not the washing Olym. But he that sent it makes the vertue greater
I 'll meet it Puts I ne'r fear it Exeunt SCENE V. Enter Duke Archas Boroskey Burris Gentlemen and Attendants Du. They are handsome rooms all well contriv'd and sitted Full of convenience the prospect's excellent Arc. Now will your Grace pass down and do me but the honour To taste a Countrey Banquet Du. What room 's that I would see all now what conveyance has it I see you have kept the best part yet pray open it Arc. Ha! I misdoubted this 't is of no receipt Sir For your eyes most unfit Du. I long to see it Because I would judge of the whole piece some excellent painting Or some rare spoils you would keep to entertain me Another time I know Anc. In troth there is not Nor any thing worth your sight below I have Some Fountains and some Ponds Du. I would see this now Ar. Boroskie thou art a Knave it contains nothing But rubbish from the other rooms and unnecessaries Will't please you see a strange Clock Du. This or nothing Little Trunk ready Why should you bar it up thus with defences Above the rest unless it contain'd something More excellent and curious of keeping Open 't for I will see it Arc. The Keys are lost Sir Does your Grace think if it were fit for you I could be so unmannerly Du. I will see it and either shew it Arc. Good Sir Du. Thank ye Archas You shew your love abundantly Do I use to entreat thus force it open Bur. That were inhospitable you are his Guest Sir And with his greatest joy to entertain ye Du. Hold thy peace Fool will ye open it Arc. Sir I cannot I must not if I could Du. Go break it open Arc. I must withstand that force Be not too rash Gentlemen Du. Unarm him first then if he be not obstinate Preserve his life Arc. I thank your Grace I take it And now take you the Keys go in and see Sir There feed your eyes with wonder and thank that Traytor That thing tâ—at fâ—lls his faith for favour Exit Duke Bur. Sir what moves ye Arc. I have kept mine pure Lo d Burris there 's a Judas That for a smile will sell ye all a Gâ—â—tlâ—man Tâ—â— Devil has more truth and has maintain'd it A Whores heart more belief in 't Enter Duke Du. What 's all this Archas I cannot blame you to conceal it so I his most inestimable Treasure Ar. Yours Sir Du. Nor do I wonder now the Souldier sleights me Arc. Be not deceiv'd he has had no favour here Sir Not had you known this now but for that Pick-thank The lost man in his faith he has reveal'd it To suck a little honey from ye has betray'd it I swear he smiles upon me and forsworn too Thou crackt uncurrant Lord I 'll tell ye all Sir Youâ— Sire before his death knowing your temper To be as bounteous as the air and open As flowing as the Sea to all that follow'd ye Your great mind fit for War and Glory thriftily Like a great Husband to preserve your actions Collâ—cted all this treasure to our trusts To mine I mean and to that long-tongu'd Lord 's there He gave the knowledg and the charge of all this Upon his death-Bed too And on the Sacrament He swore us thus never to let this Treasure Part fâ—â—â— ouâ— secret keepings till no hope Of Suâ—â—â—ct could relieve ye all your own wasted No help of those that lov'd ye could supply ye And then some great exploit a foot my honesty I would have kept till I had made this useful I shew'd it and I stood it to the tempest And useful to the end 't was left I am cozen'd And so are you too if you spend this vainly This Worm that crept into ye has abus'd ye Abus'd your fathers care abus'd his Faith too Nor can this mass of money make him man more A flea'd Dog has more soul an Ape more honesty All mine ye have amongst it farewel that I cannot part with 't nobler my heart 's clear My Conscience smooth as that no rub upon 't But O thy Hell Bor. I seek no Heaven from you Sir Arc. Thy gnawinâ— Hell Boroskey it will find thee Would ye heap Coals upon his head has wrong'd ye Has ruin'd your esâ—ate give him this money Melt it into his mouth Du. What little Trunk's tâ—â—t That there o' th' top that 's 〈◊〉 Bor. You 'll find it rich Siâ— Richer I think than all Arc. You were not covetous Not wont to weave your thoughts with such a courseness Pray â—aâ—k not Honesty Bor. Be sure you see it Du. Bring out the Trunk Enter with the Trunk Arc. You 'll find that treasure too Aâ—l I have left me now Du. What 's this a poor Gown And this a piece of Seneca Arc. Yes sure Sir More worth than all your Gold yet ye have enough on 't And of a Mine far purer and more precious This sells no friends nor searches into counsels And yet all counsel and all friends live here Sir Betrays no Faith yet handles all that 's trusty Will't please you leave me this Du. With all my heart Sir Ar. What says your Lordship to 't Bor. I dare not rob ye Arc. Poor miserable men you have rob'd your selves both This Gown and this unvalu'd Treasure your brave Father Found me a Child at School with in his progress Where such a love he took to some few answers Unhappy Boyish toys hit in my head then That suddenly I made him thus as I was For here was all the Wealth I brought his Highness He carried me to Court there bred me up Bestow'd his favours on me taught me the Arms first With those an honest mind I serv'd him truly And where he gave me trust I think I fail'd not Let the World speak I humbly thank your Highness You have done more and nobler eas'd mine age Sir And to this care a fair Quictus given Now to my Book again Du. You have your wish Sir Let some bring off the treasure Bor. Some is his Sir Arc. None none a poor unworthy reaper The Harvest is his Graces Du. Thank you Archas. Arc. But will not you repent Lord when this is gone Where will your Lordship Bor. Pray take you no care Sir Arc. Does your Grace like my House Du. Wondrous well Archas You have made me richly welcome Arc. I did my best Sir Is there any thing else may please your Grace Du. Your Daughters I had forgot send them to Court Arc How 's that Sir Du. I said your Daughters see it done I 'll have 'em Attend my Sister Archas. Arc. Thank your Highness Du. And suddenly Exit Arc. Through all the ways I dare I 'll serve your temper though you try me far Exit Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Theodore Putskey Ancient and Servant The. I wonder we hear no news Puts Here 's your fathers servant He comes in haste too now we shall know all Sir The. How now Ser. I am
Jewels nor no Hangings Maid Not a farthing she is poor Sir a poor shifting thing Per. No money Old Wom. Abominable poor as poor as we are Money as rare to her unless she steal it But for one civil Gown her Lady gave her She may go bare good Gentlewoman Per. I am mad now I think I am as poor as she I am wide else One civil Sute I have left too and that 's all And if she steal that she must fley me for it Where does she use Old Wom. You may find truth as soon Alas a thousand conceal'd corners Sir she lurks in And here she gets a fleece and there another And lives in mists and smoaks where none can find her Per. Is she a Whore too Old Wom. Little better Gentleman I dare not say she is so Sir because She is yours Sir these five years she has firkt A pretty Living Until she came to serve I fear he will knock my Brains out for lying Per. She has serv'd me faithfully A Whore and Thief two excellent moral learnings In one she Saint I hope to see her legend Have I been fear'd for my discoveries And courted by all Women to conceal ' em Have I so long studied the art of this Sex And read the warnings to young Gentlemen Have I profest to tame the Pride of Ladies And make 'em bear all tests and am I trickt now Caught in mine own nooze here 's a royal left yet There 's for your lodging and your meat for this Week A silk Worm lives at a more plentiful ordinary And sleeps in a sweeter Box farewel great Grandmother If I do find you were an accessary 'T is but the cutting off too smoaky minutes I 'll hang ye presently Old Wom. And I deserve it I tell but truth Per. Not I I am an Ass Mother Exeunt Enter the Duke of Medina Juan de Castro Alonzo Sanchio Cacasogo Attendants Duke A goodly house Juan And richly furnisht too Sir Alonz. Hung wantonly I like that preparation It stirs the blood unto a hopeful Banquet And intimates the Mistress free and jovial I love a house where pleasure prepares welcome Duke Now Cacasogo how like you this mansion 'T were a brave Pawn Caca. I shall be master of it 'T was built for my bulk the rooms are wide and spacious Airy and full of ease and that I love well I 'll tell you when I taste the Wine my Lord And take the height of her Table with my Stomach How my affections stand to the young Lady Enter Margarita Altea Ladies and Servants Mar. All welcome to your Grace and to these Souldiers You honour my poor house with your fair presence Those few slight pleasures that inhabit here Sir I do beseech your Grace command they are yours Your servant but preserves 'em to delight ye Duke I thank ye Lady I am bold to visit ye Once more to bless mine eyes with your sweet Beauty 'T has been a long night since you left the Court For till I saw you now no day broke to me Mar Bring in the Dukes meat Sanch. She is most excellent Juan Most admirable fair as e'r I look'd upon I had rather command her than my Regiment Caca. I 'll have a sling 't is but a thousand Duckets Which I can cozen up again in ten days And some few Jewels to justifie my Knavery Say I should marry her she 'll get more money Than all my Usury put my Knavery to it She appears the most infallible way of Purchase I cou'd wish her a size or two stronger for the encounter For I am like a Lion where I lay hold But these Lambs will endure a plaguy load And never bleat neither that Sir time has taught us I am so vertuous now I cannot speak to her The atrant'st shamesac'd Ass I broil away too Enter Leon. Mar. Why where 's this dinner Leon. 'T is not ready Madam Nor shall not be until I know the Guests too Nor are they fairly welcome till I bid ' em Juan Is not this my Alferes he looks another thing Are miracles a foot again Marg. Why Sirrah why Sirrah you Leon. I hear you saucy Woman And as you are my Wife command your absence And know your duty 't is the Crown of modesty Duke Your Wife Leon. Yes good my Lord I am her Husband And pray take notice that I claim that honour And will maintain it Caca. If thou beest her Husband I am determin'd thou shalt be my Cuckold I 'll be thy faithful friend Leon. Peace dirt and dunghil I will not lose my anger on a Rascal Provoke me more I 'll beat thy blown body Till thou rebound'st again like a Tennis Ball. Alonz. This is miraculous Sanch. Is this the Fellow That had the patience to become a Fool A sturted Fool and on a sudden break As if he would shew a wonder to the World Both in Bravery and Fortune too I much admire the man I am astonisht Mar. I 'll be divorced immediately Leon. You shall not You shall not have so much will to be wicked I am more tender of your honour Lady And of your Age you took me for a shadow You took me to gloss over your discredit To be your Fool you had thought you had found a Coxconâ—â— I am innocent of any foul dishonour I mean to ye Only I will be known to be your Lord now And be a fair one too or I will fail for 't Mar. I do command ye from me thou poor fellow Thou cozen'd Fool. Leon. Thou conzen'd Fool 't is not so I will not be commanded I am above ye You may divorce me from your favour Lady But from your state you never shall I 'll hold that And then maintain your wantonness I 'll wink at it Mar. Am I braved thus in mine own house Leon. 'T is mine Madam You are deceiv'd I am Lord of it I rule it and all that 's in 't You have nothing to do here Madam But as a Servant to sweep clean the Lodgings And at my farther will to do me service And so I 'll keep it Mar. As you love me give way Leon. It shall be better I will give none Madam I stand upon the ground of mine own Honour And will maintain it you shall know me now To be an understanding feeling man And sensible of what a Woman aims at A young proud Woman that has Will to sail with An itching Woman that her blood provokes too I cast my Cloud off and appear my self The master of this little piece of mischief And I will put a Spell about your feet Lady They shall not wander but where I give way now Duke Is this the Fellow that the People pointed at For the meer sign of man the walking Image He speaks wondrous highly Leon. As a Husband ought Sir In his own house and it becomes me well too I think your Grace would grieve if you were put to it To have a Wise or Servant of
thee excellent Estif If I prove otherwaies let me beg first Hold this is yours some recompence for service Use it to nobler ends than he that gave it Du. And this is yours your true commission Sir Now you are a Captain Leon. You are a noble Prince Sir And now a souldier Gentleman we all rejoyce in 't Juan Sir I shall wait upon you through all fortunes Alon. And I. Altea And I must needs attend my Mistris Leon. Will you goe Sister Altea Yes indeed good Brother I have two ties mine own bloud And my Mistris Marg. Is she your Sister Leon. Yes indeed good wife And my best Sister For she prov'd so wench When she deceiv'd you with a loving Husband Alt. I would not deal so truly for a stranger Marg. Well I could chide ye But it must be lovingly and like a Sister I 'le bring you on your way and feast ye nobly For now I have an honest heart to love ye And then deliver you to the blue Neptune Juan Your colours you must wear and wear 'em proudly Wear 'em before the bullet and in bloud too And all the world shall know We are Vertues servants Duke And all the world shall know a noble mind Makes women beautifull and envie blind Excunt Prologue PLeasure attend ye and about ye sit The springs of mirth fancy delight and wit To stir you up do not your looks let fall Nor to remembrance our late errors call Because this day w' are Spaniards all again The story of our Play and our Scene Spain The errors too do not for this cause hate Now we present their wit and not their state Nor Ladies be not angry if you see A young fresh beauty wanton and too free Seek to abuse her Husband still 't is Spain No such gross errors in your Kingdom raign W' are Vestals all and though we blow the fire We seldom make it flame up to desire Take no example neither to begin For some by precedent delight to sin Nor blame the Poet if he slip aside Sometimes lasciviously if not too wide But hold your Fanns close and then smile at ease A cruel Scene did never Lady please Nor Gentlemen pray be not you displeas'd Though we present some men fool'd some diseas'd Some drunk some mad we mean not you you 're free We taxe no farther than our Comedie You are our friends sit noble then and see Epilogue GOod night our worthy friends and may you part Each with as merry and as free a heart As you came hither to those noble eyes That deign to smile on our poor faculties And give a blessing to our labouring ends As we hope many to such fortune sends Their own desires wives fair as light as chast To those that live by spight Wives made in hast The Laws of Candy A TRAGI-COMEDY Persons Represented in the Play Cassilanes General of Candy Antinous Son to Cassilanes and his Competitor Fernando a Venetian Captain Servant to Annophel Philander Prince of Cyprus passionately in love with Erota Gonzalo An ambitious Politick Lord of Venice Gaspero Secretary of State Melitus a Gentleman of Candy Arcanes a noble Souldier Friend to Cassilanes Decius Friend to Antinous Senators Porphycio Possenne Paolo Michael Venetian Ambassadour Mochingo an ignorant Servant to Erota Gentlemen Souldiers Servants WOMEN Erota a Princess imperious and of an overweaning Beauty Annophel Daughter to Cassilanes Hyparcha Attendant on the Princess Erota The Scene Candy The principal Actors were Joseph Taylor William Eglestone Nicholas Toolie Richard Sharpe John Lowin John Vnderwood George Birch Thomas Pollard Actus Primus Scena Prima Enter Gaspero and Melitus Mel. SIR you 're the very friend I wish'd to meet with I have a large discourse invites your ear To be an Auditor Gas And what concerns it Mel. The sadly thriving progress of the loves Between my Lord the Prince and that great Lady Whose insolence and never-yet-match'd Pride Can by no Character be well exprest Bet in her only name the proud Erota Gas Alas Melitus I should guess the best Success your Prince could find from her to be As harsh as the event doth prove but now 'T is not a time to pity passionate griess When a whole Kingdom in a manner lyes Upon its Death-Bed bleeding Mel. Who can tell Whether or no these plagues at once Hang over this unhappy Land for her sake That is a Monster in it Gas Here 's the misery Of having a Child our Prince else I presume The bold Venetians had not dar'd to attempt So bloody an invasion Mel. Yet I wonder Why Master Secretary still the Senate So almost superstitiously adores Gonzalo the Venetian Lord considering The outrage of his Countrymen Gas The Senate Is wise and therein just for this Gonzalo Upon a Massacre performed at Sea By the Admiral of Venice on a Merchant Of Candy when the cause was to be heard Before the Senate there in open Court Professed that the cruelty the Admiral Had shewed deserved not only fine but death For Candy then and Venice were at peace Since when upon a motion in the Senate For Conquest of our Land 't is known for certain That only this Gonzalo dar'd to oppose it His reason was because it too much savour'd Of lawless and unjust ambition The Wars were scarce begun but he in fear Of quarrels ' gainst his life fled from his Country And hither came where to confirm his truth I know Melitus he out of his own store Hath monied Cassilanes the General Mel. What without other pledges than Cassilanes Bare promise of payment Gas No it may be He has some pretty Lordship to retire to But thus he hath done now 't is fit Melitus The Senate should be thankful otherwise They should annihilate one of those Laws For which this Kingdome is throughout the World Unfollowed and admired Mel. What Laws are those Sir Let me so much importune you Gas You shall And they be worth your knowledge briefly thus Who e'r he be that can detect apparently Another of ingratitude for any Received Benefit the Plaintiff may Require the Offenders life unless he please Freely and willingly to grant remission Mel. By which strict Law the Senate is in danger Should they neglect Gonzalo Gas Right the Law Permits a like equality to Aliens As to a home-bred Patriot Mel. Pray Sir the other Gas Know Melitus The elder Cretans flourished many years In War in Peace unparallel'd and they To spur heroick Spirits on to Vertue Enacted that what man so ere he were Did noblest in the field against his enemy So by the general voice approv'd and known Might at his home return make his demand For satisfaction and reward Mel. They are Both famous Laws indeed Enter a Messenger Mes Master Secretary The Senate is about to sit and crave Your presence Gas What so suddenly Mes These Letters Will shew the causes why Gas Heaven thou nâ—t great And worthy to be thanked Mel. Your countenance Sir Doth promise
some good tidings Gas O the best And happiest for this land that e'r was told All the Venetian Forces are defeated Mel How Sir Gas And what doth add some delight more There is amongst the Souldiers a contention Who shall be the triumpher and it stands Doubtful between a Father and his Son Old Cassilanes and young Antinous Mel. VVhy may not both demand it Gas The Law denies it But where the Souldiers do not all consent The Parties in contention are refer'd To plead before the Senate and from them Upon an open audience to be judg'd The Chief and then to make demands Mel. You ravish me VVith wonder and delight Gas Come as we walk I shall more fully inform you Exeunt SCENE II. Enter Cassilanes Arcanes Antinous and Decius Cas Admit no Souldier near us till the Senate Have took their places Arc. You are obey'd my Lord. Ant. Decius fall off Dec. I shall Cas Give leave Arcanes Young man come nearer to me who am I Ant. It were a sin against the piety Of silial duty if I should forget The debt I owe my Father on my knee Your pleasure Cas VVhat so low canst thou find joints Yet be an Elephant Antinous rise Thou wilt belye opinion and rebate The ambition of thy gallantry that they Whose confidence thou hast bewitch'd should see Their little God of War kneel to his Father Though in my hand I did grasp Thunder Ant. Sir For proof that I acknowledge you the Author Of giving me my Birth I have discharg'd A part of my Obedience But if now You should as cruel fathers do proclaim Your right and Tyrant-like usurp the glory Of my peculiar honours not deriv'd From successary but purchas'd with my bloud Then I must stand first Champion for my self Against all interposers Cas Boldly urg'd And proudly I could love thee did not anger Consult with just disdain in open language To call thee most ungrateful Say freely Wilt thou resign the flatteries whereon The reeling pillars of a popular breath Have rais'd thy Giant-like conceit to add A suffrage to thy Fathers merit speak Ant. Sir hear me were there not a Chronicle Well pen'd by all their tongues who can report What they have seen you do or had you not Best in your own performance writ your self And been your own text I would undertake Alone without the help of Art or Character But only to recount your deeds in Arms And you should ever then be fam'd a President Of living victory But as you are Great and well worthy to be stiled Great It would betray a poverty of Spirit In me to obstruct my fortunes or descent If I should coward-like surrender up The interest which the inheritance of your vertue And mine own thrifty fate can claim in honour My Lord of all the mass of Fame which any That wears a Sword and hath but seen me fight Gives me I will not share nor yield one jot One tittle Cas Not to me Ant. You are my Father Yet not to you Cas Ambitious Boy how dar'st thou To tell me that thou wilt contend Ant. Had I Been slothful and not follow'd you in all The streights of death you might have justly then Reputed me a Bastard 't is a cruelty More than to murther Innocents to take The life of my yet infant-honour from me Cas Antinous look upon this badge of age Thy Father 's grey-hair'd beard full fifty years And more than half of this ere thou wert born I have been known a Souldier in which time I sound no difference 'twixt War and Peace For War was Peace to me and Peace was War Antinous mark me well there hath not liv'd These fifty years a man whom Crete prefer'd Before thy Father let me boldly boast Thy Father both for Discipline and Action Hath so long been the first of all his Nation Now canst thou think it honest charitable Nay humane being so young my Son my Child Be got bred taught by me by me thy Father For one days service and that on thy first To rob me of a glory which I fought for A half of hundred years Ant. My case observes Both equity and presidents for Sir That very day whereon you got your Fame You took it from some other who was then Chief in repute as you are now and has been Perhaps as many years deserving that Which you gain'd in a day as I have mine Cas But he was not my Father then Antinous Thou leav'st out that Ant. Sir had he been your Father He had been then immortal for a Father â—â—eightens his reputation where his Son â—â—erits it as when you give us life 〈◊〉 life is not diminish'd but renew'd â—â—s when you are dead and we are still Your living Images Cas So be thou curs'd Iâ— toâ— posterity as I in thee Dishonourable Boy O shall that Sun Which not a year yet since beheld me mounted Upon a fiery Steed waving my Sword And teaching this young Man to manage Arms That was a raw fresh Novice in the feats Of Chivalrie shall that same Sun be witness Against this Brat of his Ingratitude Who to eclipse the light of my renown Can no way hope to get a noble Name â—â—â—t by the treading on his Father's Greatness Thou wilt not yield Enter Arcanes Ant. My life but not the prize My Sword hath purchas'd Arc. The Senate My Lord are here at hand and all the Souldiers Begin to throng about them Cas Now Arcanes the Arc. What Sir Cas Trifles will affront us that Fine fighting Stripling Arc. Let him have the shame on 't Please you withdraw on this side Cas My great heart Was never quail'd before Dec. My Lord be confident Let not your Father daunt you An. Decius whither Must I withdraw Dec. On this side See the Souldiers Attend your pleasure courage Sir the Senate Cas Way for the Senate Enter Porphycio Possenne three Senators Gonzalo Gaspero Souldiers My good Lords I know not What tax of arrogance I may incurr Should I presume though courted by your Favours To take a place amongst you I had rather Give proof of my unfeign'd humility By force though mean yet more becoming place Than run the hazard of a doubtful censure Pos My Lord your wisdom is both known and try'd We cannot rank you in a nobler Friendship Than your great service to the State deserves Por. Will 't please you Sir Enter Fernando with Souldiers Gonz. What 's here my Lord Porphycio It must not be Por. My Lord you are too modest Gonz. It is no season to be troublesome Else but I have done your Lordships are observ'd Gas Is the demandant ready Arc. He is ready Gas Produce him then Arc. Before this sacred presence I by a general consent am made The Souldiers voice and to your gracious Wisedoms Present as chief in Arms his Countries Champion Cassilanes Dec. Most reverend Lords you hear the lesser number Of thoâ— who have been Guardians to this Country Approve this Champion I in
all their names Who fought for Candy here present before you The mightiest man in Arms Antinous Speak fellow Souldiers Sold. Antinous Antinous Gas Stand by all save the two Competitors Poss My Lords how much your Countrey owes you both The due reward of your desertful glories Must to Posterity remain but yet Since by our Law one only can make claim To the proposed honours which you both It seems have truly merited take leave Freely to plead your rights we shall attend ye Por. Wherein priority of voice is granted Lord Cassilanes to you for that your rare And long experience in the Course of War As well doth challenge it as the best priviledge Of Order and Civility for that You are your brave Opponents worthy Father Say Country-men are you content Sold. I I. Cass Right grave right gracious Fathers how unfit It is for me that all my life time have Been practis'd in the School of Bloud and Slaughter To bandy words now in my lifes last farewel Your Wisedomes will consider were there pitcht Another and another field like that Which not yet three days since this Arm hath scatter'd Defeated and made nothing then the man That had a heart to think he could but follow For equal me he should not through the lanes Of danger and amazement might in that That only of but following me be happy Reputed worthy to be made my Rival For 't is not Lords unknown to those about me My fellow Souldiers first with what a confidence I led them on to sight went on still and As if I could have been a second Nature As well in heartening them by my example As by my exhortation I gave life To quicken courage to inflame revenge To heighten resolution in a word To out-doe action It boots not to discover How that young man who was not fledg'd nor skill'd In Martial play was even as ignorant As childish But I list not to disparage His non ability The signal given Of Battel when our enemies came on Directed more by sury than by warrant Of Policy and Stratagem I met them I in the sore front of the Armies met them And as if this old weather-beaten body Had been compos'd of cannon proof I stood The volleys of their shot I I my self Was he that first dis-rankt their woods of Pikes But when we came to handy-stroaks as often As I lent blows so often I gave wounds And every wound a death I may be bold To justifie a truth this very sword Of mine slew more than any twain besides And which is not the least of all my glorie When he this young man hand to hand in fight Was by the General of the Venetians And such as were his retinue unhors'd I stept between and rescu'd him my self Or horses hooâ—s had trampled him to dirt And whilst he was re-mounting I maintain'd The combate with the gallant General Till having taken breath he throng'd before me Renew'd the sight and with a fatal blow Stole both that honour from me and his life From him whom I before my self alone Had more than full three quarters kill'd a man Well worthy only by this hand to have dy'd Not by a Boys weak push I talk too much But 't is a fault of age If to bring home Long peace long victorie even to your Capitol If to secure your Kingdom wives and children Your lives and liberties if to renown Your honours through the world to six your names Like Blazing stars admir'd and fear'd by all That have but heard of Candy or a Cretan Be to deserve the approvement of my man hood Then thus much have I done what more examine The annals of my life and then consider What I have been and am Lords I have said Gonz. With reverence to the Senate is it lawfull Without your Customes breach to say a word Pos Say on my Lord Gonzalo Gonz. I have heard And with no little wonder such high deeds Of Chivalâ—ie discours'd that I confess I do not think the Worthies while they liv'd All nine deserv'd as much applause or memorie As this one But who can do ought to gain The crown of honour from him must be somewhat More than a man you tread a dangerous path Yet I shall hear you gladly for believe me Thus much let me profess in honours cause I would not to my Father nor my King My Countries Father yield if you transcend What we have heard I can but only say That Miracles are yet in use I fear I have offended Porp. You have spoken nobly Antinous use your priviledge Ant. Princely Fathers E're I begin one suit I have to make 'T is just and honourable Porp. Poss Speak and have it Ant. That you would please the souldiers might all stand Together by their General Poss 'T is granted All fall to yonder side Go on Antinous Ant. I shall be brief and plain all what my Father This Countries Patron hath discours'd is true Fellows in Arms speak you is' t true Sol. True true Ant. It follows that the blaze of my performance Took light from what I saw him do and thus A City though the flame be much more dreadfull May from a little spark be set on fire Of all what I have done I shall give instance Only in three main proofs of my desert First I sought out but through how many dangers My Lords judge ye the chief the great Commander The head of that huge body whose proud weight Our Land shrunk under him I found and fought with Fought with and slew Fellows in Arms speak you Is' t true or not Sold. True true Ant. When he was faln The hearts of all our adversaries Began to quail till young Fernando son To the last Duke of Venice gather'd head And soon renew'd the field by whose example The bold Venetians doubling strength and courage Had got the better of the day our men Supposing that their adversaries grew Like Hydra's head recoyle and 'gan to flye I follow'd them and what I said they know The summe on 't is I call'd them back new rankt them Led on they follow'd shrunk not tell the end Fellows in Arms is' t true or no Sold. True true Ant. Lastly to finish all there was but one The only great exploit which was to take Fernando prisoner and that hand to hand In single sight I did my self without The help of any arm save the arm of Heaven Speak Souldiers is it true or no Sold. Antinous Antinous Ant. Behold my prisoner Fathers Fern. This one man Ruin'd our Army and hath glorifi'd Crete in her robes of mightiness and conquest Pos We need not use long circumstance of words Antinous thou art conquerer the Senate The souldiers and thy valour have pronounc'd it All. Antinous Antinous Porp. Make thy demand Cas Please ye my Lords give leave That I may part Pos No Cassilane the Court Should therein be dishonour'd do not imagin We prize your presence at so slight a rate
am no great ones fool Gonz. I hope so for alliance sake Mon. Yet I do serve the Mighty Monstrous and Magnanimous Invincible Erota Gonz. O good cousin now I have you I 'le meet you in your Coat Mon. Coat I have my horse mans coat I must confess Lin'd through with Velvet and a Scarlet out-side If you 'll meet me in 't I 'le send for 't And cousin you shall see me with much comfort For it is both a new one and a right one It did not come collateral Gonz. Adieu good cousin at this present I have some business Mon. Farewel excellent cousin Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Gonzalo and Fernando Gonz. CAndy I say is lost already Fern. Yes If to be conqueror be to be lost Gonz. You have it one days conquest hath undone them And sold them to their vassalage for what Have I else toyl'd my brains profusely emptied My moneys but to make them slaves to Venice That so in case the sword did lose his edge Then art might sharpen hers Fer. Gonzalo how Gonz. Fernando thus you see how through this Land Both of the best and basest I am honour'd I only gave the State of Venice notice When where and how to land or you had found A better entertainment I was he Encourag'd young Antinous to affront The Devil his Father for the Devil I think Dares not do more in battel Fer. But why did ye I find no such great policie in that Gonz. Indeed Fernando thou canst fight not plot Had they continu'd one they two alone Were of sufficient courage and performance To beat an Armie Fer. Now by all my hopes I rather shall admire than envy vertue Gonz. Why then by all your hopes you 'l rather have Your Brains knockt out than learn how to be wise You States man Well Sir I did more than this When Cassilane crav'd from the common treasure Pay for his Souldiers I strook home and lent him An hundred thousand Duckets Fer. Marry Sir The policy was little the love loss And honesty least of all Gonz. How say ye by that Go fight I say goe fight I 'le talk no more with you You are insensible Fer. Well I shall observe ye Gonz. Why look you Sir by this means have I got The greatest part of Cassilanes estate Into my hands which he can ne're redeem But must of force sink do you conceive me now Fer. So But why have you importuned the Senate For me to sojourn with them Gonz. There 's the quintessence The soul and grand elixir of my wit For he according to his noble nature Will not be known to want though he do want And will be bankrupted so much the sooner And made the subject of our scorn and laughter Fern. Here 's a perfect plotted stratagem Gonz. Why could you Imagine that I did not hate in heart My Countryes enemies yes yes Fernando And I will be the man that shall undoe them Fern. Ye are in a ready way Gonz. I was never out on 't Enter Gaspero Gonz. Peace Here comes a wise Coxcombe a tame Coward Now worthy Gaspero what You come I know to be my Lord Fernando's Conducter to old Cassilane Gas To wait upon him Gonz. And my Lords the Senators sent you Gasp My noble Lord they did Gonz. My Lord Fernando This Gentleman as humble as you see him Is even this Kingdoms treasure In a word 'T is his chief glory that he is not wiser Than honest nor more honest than approv'd In truth and faith Gasp My Lord. Gonz. You may be bold To trust him with your bosom he 'l not deceive If you relie upon him once Erot. Your name is Gaspero Gasp Your servant Gonz. Go commend me Right honest Gaspero commend me heartily To noble Cassilane tell him my love Is vow'd to him Gasp I shall Gonz. I know you will My Lord I cannot long be absent from you Fer. Sir you are now my guide Exit Gonz. Thus my designs Run uncontroul'd yet Venice though I be Intelligencer to thee in my brain Are other large Projects for if proud Erota Bend to my lure I will be Candy's King And Duke of Venice too Ha Venice too O 't was prettily shov'd in why not Erota May in her love seal all sure if she swallow The bait I am Lord of both if not yet Candy Despight of all her power shall be ruin'd Enter Cassilane Arcanes and Annophel Cas Urge me no farther Annophel Anno. My Lord. Cas Thy fathers poverty has made thee happy For though 't is true this solitary life Sutes not with youth and beautie O my child Yet 't is the sweetest Guardian to protect Chast names from Court aspersions there a Lady Tender and delicate in years and graces That doats upon the charms of ease and pleasure Is ship-wrackt on the shore for 't is much safer To trust the Ocean in a leaking ship Than follow greatness in the wanton rites Of luxurie and sloth Anno. My wishes Sir Have never soar'd a higher flight than truly To find occasion wherein I might witness My duty and obedience Cas 'T is well said Canst thou forbear to laugh Arcanes Arc. Why Sir Cas To look upon my beggerie to look upon My patience in my beggerie Tell me Does it shew handsom bravely Handsom thou wilt flatter me And swear that I am miserable Arc. Nothing More glorifies the noble and the valiant Than to despise contempt if you continue But to enjoy your self you in your self Enjoy all store besides Cas An excellent change I that some seven Apprentice-ships commanded A hundred Ministers that waited on My nod and sometimes twenty thousand souldiers Am now retir'd attended in my age By one poor maid follow'd by one old man Arc. Sir you are lower in your own repute Than you have reason for Cas The Roman Captains I mean the best such as with their blouds Purchas'd their Countreys peace the Empires glorie Were glad at last to get them to some Farmes Off from the clamours of the ingratefull great ones And the unsteady multitude to live As I do now and 't was their blessing too Let it be ours Arcanes Arc. I cannot but Applaud your scorn of injuries Cas Of injuries Arcanes Annophel lend both your hands So what say ye now Arc. Why now my Lord Cas I swear By all my past prosperities thus standing Between you two I think my self as great As mighty as if in the Capitol I stood amidst the Senators with all The Cretan subjects prostrate at my feet Ann. Sir you are here more safe Cas And more beloved Why look ye Sirs I can forget the weakness Of the traduced Souldiers the neglect Of the fair-spoken Senate the impietie Of him the villain whom to my dishonour The World miscalls my son But by the Arc. Sir remember that you promis'd no occasion Should move your patience Cas Thou do'st chide me friendly He shall not have the honour to be thought upon Amongst us Enter a Servant Now
Anno. First let me be resolv'd does the Law favour None be they ne're so mighty Porp. Not the greatest Anno. Then justly I accuse of foul ingratitude My Lords you of the Senate all not one Excepted Pos Porp. Us Phil. Annophel Ann. You are the Authors Of this unthrifty bloud-shed when your enemies Came marching to your gates your children suck'd not Safe at their Mothers breasts your very Cloysters Were not secure your starting-holes of refuge Not free from danger nor your lives your own In this most desperate Ecstasie my Father This aged man not only undertook To guard your lives but did so and beat off The daring foe for you he pawn'd his lands To pay your Souldiers who without their pay Refus'd to strike a blow but Lords when peace Was purchas'd for you and victorie brought home Where was your gratitude who in your Coffers Hoarded the rustie treasure which was due To my unminded Father he was glad To live retir'd in want in penurie Whilst you made feasts of surfeit and forgot Your debts to him The sum of all is this You have been unthankfull to him and I crave The rigor of the Law against you all Cas My Royal spirited daughter Ero. Annophel Thou art a worthy wench let me embrace thee Ann. Lords why do ye keep your seats they are no places For such as are offenders Pos Though our ignorance Of Cassilanes engagements might asswage Severity of justice yet to shew How no excuse should smooth a breach of Law I yield me to the trial of it Porp. So must I Great Prince of Cyprus you are left The only Moderator in this difference And as you are a Prince be a Protector To wofull Candy Phil. What a Scene of miserie Hath thine obdurate frowardness old man Drawn on thy Countries bosom and for that Thy proud ambition could not mount so high As to be stil'd thy Countries only Patron Thy malice hath descended to the depth Of Hell to be renowned in the Title Of the destroyer dost thou yet perceive What curses all posterity will brand Thy grave with that at once hast rob'd this Kingdom Of honour and of safety Erot. Children yet unborn Will stop their ears when thou art nam'd Arc. The world will be too little to contain The memorie of this detested deed The Furies will abhorr it Dec. What the sword Could not enforce your peevish thirst of honour A brave cold weak imaginarie fame Hath brought on Candy Candy groans not these That are to die Phil. 'T is happiness enough For them that they shall not survive to see The wounds wherewith thou stab'st the land that gave Thee life and name Dec. 'T is Candy's wrack shall feel Cas The mischief of your folly Porp. Pos Annophel Ann. I will not be entreated Cas Prethee Annophel Ann. Why would ye urge me to a mercy which You in your self allow not Cas 'T is the Law That if the party who complains remit The offender he is freed is' t not so Lords Porp. Pos 'T is so Cas Antinous By my shame observe What a close witch-craft popular applause is I am awak'd and with clear eyes behold The Lethargie wherein my reason long Hath been be-charm'd live live my matchless son Blest in thy Fathers blessing much more blest In thine own vertues let me dew thy cheeks With my unmanly tears Rise I forgive thee And good Antinous if I shall be thy Father Forgive me I can speak no more Ant. Dear Sir You new beget me now Madam your pardon I heartily remit you Erot. I as freely Discharge thee Cassilane Anno. My gracious Lords Repute me not a blemish to my Sex In that I strove to cure a desperate evil With a more violent remedy your lives Your honours are your own Phil. Then with consent Be reconcil'd on all sides Please you Fathers To take your places Pos Let us again ascend With joy and thankfulness to Heaven and now To other business Lords Enter Gaspero and Melitus with Gonzalo Mel. Two hours and more Sir The Senate hath been set Gonz. And I not know it Who sits with them Mel. My Lord the Prince of Cyprus Gonz. Gaspero Why how comes that to pass Gas Some weighty cause I warrant you Gonz. Now Lords the business ha Who 's here Erota Porp. Secretarie do your charge Upon that Traitor Gonz. Traitor Gas Yes Gonzalo Traitor Of treason to the peace and state of Candy I do attest thee Gonz. Me thou Dog Enter Fernando and Michael Mich. With Licence From this grave Senate I arrest thee likewise Of treason to the State of Venice Gonz. Ha Is Michael here nay then I see I am undone Erot. I shall not be your Queen Your Dutchess or your Empress Gonz. Dull dull brain O I am fool'd Gas Look Sir do you know this hand Mic. Do you know this Seal First Lords he writes to Venice To make a perfect league during which time He would in private keep some Troops in pay Bribe all the Centinels throughout this Kingdom Corrupt the Captains at a Banquet poyson The Prince and greatest Peers and in conclusion Yield Candy slave to Venice Gas Next he contracted With the Illustrious Princess the Lady Erota In hope of marriage with her to deliver All the Venetian gallantry and strength Upon their first arrival to the mercy Of her and Candy Erot. This is true Gonzalo Gonz. Let it be true what then Pos My Lord Ambassadour What 's your demand Mich. As likes the State of Candy Either to sentence him as he deserves Here or to send him like a slave to Venice Porph. We shall advise upon it Gonz. O the Devils That had not thrust this trick into my pate A Politician fool destruction plague Candy and Venice both Pos Porp. Away with him Mel. Come Sir I 'le see you safe Exeunt Gonz. Mel. Erot. Lords e're you part Be witness to another change of wonder Antinous now be bold before this presence Freely to speak whether or no I us'd The humblest means affection could contrive To gain thy love Ant. Madam I must confess it And ever am your servant Erot. Yes Antinous My servant for my Lord thou shalt be never I here disclaim the interest thou hadst once In my too passionate thoughts Most noble Prince If yet a relique of thy wonted flames Live warm within thy bosom then I blush not To offer up the assurance of my faith To thee that hast deserv'd it best Phil. O Madam You play with my calamity Erot. Let heaven Record my truth for ever Phil. With more joy Than I have words to utter I accept it I also pawn you mine Ero. The man that in requital Of noble and un-sought affection Grows cruel never lov'd nor did Antinous Yet herein Prince ye are beholding to him For his neglect of me humbled a pride Which to a vertuous wife had been a Monster Phil. For which I 'le rank him my deserving friend Ant. Much comfort dwell with you as I
me more Cousin Beaupre Champ. Repent not What thou hast done my life thou shalt not find I am decrepit in my love and service I will be young and constant and believe me For thou shalt find it true in sâ—orn of all The scandals thâ—se rude men have thrown upon me I 'le meet thy pleasures with a young mans ardour And in all circumstances of a Husband Perform my part Lamira Good Sir I am your sâ—rvâ—nt And 't is too late now iâ— I did repent Which as I am a virgin yet I do not To undoe the â—not that by the Church is tyed Only I would beseech ye as you have A good opinion of me and my vertues For so you have pleas'd to stile my innocent weakness That what hath pass'd be wâ—en Dinant and me Or what now in your hearing he hath spoken Beget not doubts or fears Champ. I apprehend you You think I will be jealous as I live Thou art mistaken sweet and to confirm it Discourse with whom thou wilt ride where thou wilt Feast whom thou wilt as often as thou wilt For I will have no other guards upon thee Than thine own thoughts Lamira I 'le use this liberty With moderation Sir Beaup. I am resolv'd Steal off I 'le follow you Champ. Come Sir you droop Till you find cause which I shall never give Dislike not of your Son in Law Verta Sir you teach me The language I should use I am most happy In being so near you Exeunt Verdone and Beaupre Lamira O my fears good nurse Follow my Brother unobserv'd and learn Which way he takes Nurs I will be carefull Madam Exit Nurse Champ. Between us complements are superfluous On Gentlemen th' affront we have met here We 'l think upon hereafter 't were unfit To cherish any thought to breed unrest Or to our selves or to our Nuptial feast Exeunt Enter Dinant and Cleremont Cler. We shall have sport ne'r fear 't Din. What sport I prethee Cler. Why we must fight I know it and I long â—or't It was apparent in the fiery eye Of young Verdoâ—e Beaupre look'd pale and shook too Familiar signs of anger They are both brave fellows Tri'd and approv'd and I am proud to encounter With men from whom no honour can be lost They will play up to a man and set him off When e're I go to the field heaven keep me from The meeting of an unflesh'd youth or Coward The first to get a name comes on too hot The Coward is so swift in giving ground There is no overtaking him without A hunting Nag well breath'd too Din. All this while You ne'r think on the danger Cler. Why 't is no more Than meeting of a dozen friends at Supper And drinking hard mischief comes there unlook'd for I am sure as suddain and strikes home as often For this we are prepar'd Din. Lamira Loves Her Brother Beaupre dearly Cler. What of that Din. And should he call me to account for what But now I spake nor can I with mine honour Recant my words that little hope is left me E're to enjoy what next to Heaven I long for Is taken from me Câ—er Why what can you hope for She being now married Din. Oh my Cleremont To you all secrets of my heart lye open And I rest most secure that whatsoe're I loâ—k up there is as a private thought And will no farther wrong me I am a French-man And for the greater part we are born Courtiers She is a woman and however yet No heat of service had the power to melt Her frozen Chastity time and opportunitie May work her to my ends I confess ill ones And yet I must pursue 'em now her marriage In probabilitie will no way hurt But rather help me Cler. Sits the wind there pray you tell me How far off dwells your love from lust Din. Too near But prethee chide me not Cler. Not I goe on boy I have faults my self and will not reprehend A crime I am not free from for her Marriage I do esteem it and most batchellors are Of my opinion as a fair protection To play the wanton without loss of honour Din. Would she make use of 't so I were most happy Cler. No more of this Judge now Whether I have the gift of prophecie Enter Beaupre and Verdone Beaup. Monsieur Dinant I am glad to find you Sir Din. I am at your service Verd. Good Monsieur Cleremont I have long wish'd To be known better to you Cler. My desires Embrace your wishes Sir Beaup. Sir I have ever Esteem'd you truly noble and profess I should have been most proud to have had the honour To call you Brother but my Fathers pleasure Denied that happiness I know no man lives That can command his passions and therefore Dare not condemn the late intemperate language You were pleas'd to use to my Father and my Sister He 's old and she a woman I most sorrie My honour does compel me to entreat you To do me the favour with your sword to meet me A mile without the Citie Din. You much honour me In the demand I 'le gladly wait upon you Beaup. O Sir you teach me what to say the time Din. With the next Sun if you think fit Beaup. The place Din. Near to the vineyard eastward from the Citie Beaup. I like it well this Gentleman if you please Will keep me company Cler. That is agreed on And in my friends behalf I will attend him Verd. You shall not miss my service Beaup. Good day Gentlemen Ex. Beaup. and Verd. Din. At your Commandment Cler. Proud to be your servants I think there is no Nation under Heaven That cut their enemies throats with complement And such fine tricks as we do If you have Any few Prayers to say this night you may Call 'em to mind and use 'em for my self As I have little to lose my care is less So till to morrow morning I bequeath you To your devotions and those paid but use That noble courage I have seen and wo Shall sight as in a Castle Din. Thou art all honour Thy resolution would steel a Coward And I most fortunate in such a Friend All tenderness and nice respect of woman Be now far from me reputation take A full possession of my heart and prove Honour the first place holds the second Love Exâ—uâ—â— Enter Lamira Charlote Lami. Sleeps my Lord still Charlote Char. Not to be wak'd By your Ladiships cheerfull looks I well perceive That this night the good Lord hath been At an unusual service and no wonder If he rest after it Lamira You are very bold Char. Your Creature Madam and when you are pleas'd Sadness to me 's a stranger your good pardon If I speak like a fool I could have wisht To have ta'ne your place to night had bold Dinant Your first and most obsequious servant tasted Those delicates which by his lethargie As it appears have cloy'd my Lord. Lamira No more Charl. I
am silenc'd Madam Lamira Saw you my nurse this morning Charl. No Madam Lamira I am full of fears Knock within Who 's that Charl. She you enquir'd for Lamira Bring her in and leave me Exit Charlote Now nurse what news Enter Nurse Nurse O Ladie dreadfull ones They are to fight this morning there 's no remedie I saw my Lord your Brother and Verdone Take horse as I came by Lamira Where 's Cleremont Nurse I met him too and mounted Lamira Where 's Dinant Nurse There 's all the hope I have staid him with a trick If I have done well so Lamira What trick Nurse I told him Your Ladiship laid your command upon him To attend you presently and to confirm it Gave him the ring he oft hath seen you wear That you bestowed on me he waits without Disguis'd and if you have that power in him As I presume you have it is in you To stay or alter him Lamira Have you learnt the place Where they are to encounter Nurse Yes 't is where The Duke of Burgundie met Lewis th' eleventh Lamir. Enough I will reward thee liberally Exit Nurse Goe bring him in full dear I loved Dinant While it was lawfull but those fires are quench'd I being now anothers truth forgive me And let dissimulation be no crime Though most unwillingly I put it on To guard a Brothers safetie Enter Dinant Din. Now your pleasure Though ill you have deserv'd it you perceive I am still your fool and cannot but obey What ever you command Lamira You speak as if You did repent it and 't is not worth my thanks then But there has been a time in which you would Receive this as a favour Din. Hope was left then Of recompence Lamira Why I am still Lamira And you Dinant and 't is yet in my power I dare not say I 'le put it into act To reward your love and service Din. There 's some comfort Lami. But think not that so low I prize my fame To give it up to any man that refuses To buy it or with danger of performance Of what I shall enjoin him Din. Name that danger Be it of what horrid shape soever Ladie Which I will shrink at only at this instant Be speedie in 't Lamira I 'le put you to the trial You shall not light to day do you start at that Not with my Brother I have heard your difference Mine is no Helens beauty to be purchas'd With blood and so defended if you look for Favours from me deserve them with obedience There 's no way else to gain ' em Din. You command What with mine honour I cannot obey Which lies at pawn against it and a friend Equally dear as that or life engag'd Not for himself but me Lamira Why foolish man Dare you solicite me to serve your lust In which not only I abuse my Lord My Father and my family but write whore Though not upon my forehead in my conscience To be read hourly and yet name your honour Yours suffers but in circumstance mine in substance If you obey me you part with some credit From whom the giddy multitude but mankind Will censure me and justly Din. I will lose What most I do desire rather than hazard So dear a friend or write my self a coward 'T is better be no man Lamira This will not do Why I desire not you should be a coward Nor do I weigh my Brothers life with yours Meet him fight with him do and kill him fairly Let me not suffer for you I am careless Din. Suffer for me Lamira For you my kindness to you Already brands me with a strumpets name Din. O that I knew the wretch Lamira I will not name him Nor give you any Character to know him But if you dare and instantly ride forth At the west port of the City and defend there My reputation against all you meet For two hours only I 'le not swear Dinant To satisfie though sure I think I shall What ever you desire if you denie this Be desperate for willingly by this light I 'le never see thee more Din Two hours do you say Lamira Only two hours Din. I were no Gentleman Should I make scruple of it this favour arms me And boldly I 'll perform it Exit Lamira I am glad on 't This will prevent their meeting yet and keep My Brother safe which was the mark I shot at Exit Actus Secundus Scena Prima Enter Cleremont as in the field Cler. I Am first i' th' field that honour 's gain'd of our side Pray Heaven I may get off as honourablie The hour is past I wonder Dinant comes not This is the place I cannot see him yet It is his quarel too that brought me hither And I ne'r knew him yet but to his honour A firm and worthy Friend yet I see nothing Nor Horse nor man 't would vex me to be left here To th' mercy of two swords and two approv'd ones I never knew him last Enter Beaupre and Verdone Beaup. You are well met Cleremont Verdo. You are a fair Gentleman and love your friend Sir What are you ready the time has overta'ne us Beaup. And this you know the place Cler. No Dinant yet Beaup. We come not now to argue but to do We wait you Sir Cler. There 's no time past yet Gentlemen We have day enough is' t possible he comes not You see I am â—eaâ—â— here and do but stay Till my Friend come walk but a turn or two 'T will not be long Verd We came to fight Cler. Ye shall 〈◊〉 Gentlemen And fight enough but a short turn or two I think I see him set up your watch we 'l fight by it Beaup. That is not he we will not be deluded Cler. Am I bob'd thus pray takâ— a pipe of tobacco Or sing but some new air by that time Gentlemen Verd. Come dâ—aw your Sword you know the custome here Sir First come first serv'd Cler. Though it be held a custom And practised so I do not hold it honest What honour can you both win on me single Beaup. Yield up your Sword then Cler. Yield my Sword that 's Hebrew I 'le be first cut a pecies hold but a while I 'le take the next that comes Enter an old Gentleman You are an old Gentleman Gent. Yes indeed am I Sir Cler. And wear no Sword Gent. I need none Sir Cler. I would you did and had one I want now such a foolish courtesie You see these Gentlemen Gent. You want a second In good Faith Sir I was never handsom at it I would you had my Son but he 's in Italy A proper Gentleman you may do well gallants If your quarrel be not capital to have more mercy The Gentleman may do his Country Cler. Now I beseech you Sir If you dare not fight do not stay to beg my pardon There lies your way Gent. Good morrow Gentlemen Exit Verd. You see your fortune You had better
Heaven in Pon. A farewel Good noble General your hand forgive me And think what ever was displeasing you Was none of mine ye cannot live Aeci. I will not Yet one word more Pon. Dye nobly Rome farewel And Valentinian fall thou hast broke thy Basis In joy ye have given me a quiet death he dyes I would strike more wounds if I had more breath Aeci. Is there an hour of goodness beyond this Or any man would out-live such a dying Would Caesar double all my honours on me And stick me o're with favours like a Mistris Yet would I grow to this man I have loved But never doated on a face till now O death thou art more than beautie and thy pleasure Beyond posterity Come friends and kill me Caesar be kind and send a thousand swords The more the greater is my fall why stay ye Come and I 'le kiss your weapons fear me not By all the gods I 'le honour ye for killing Appear or through the Court and world I 'le search ye My sword is gone ye are Traitors if ye spare me And Caesar must consume ye all base cowards I 'le follow ye and e're I dye proclaim ye The weeds of Italy the dross of nature Where are ye villains traytors slaves Exit Enter Proculus and 3 others running over the Stage Pro. I knew H 'ad kill'd the Captain 1. Here 's his swâ— Pro. Let it alonâ— I will fight it self else friends An hundred mâ—n 〈◊〉 not enough to do it I 'le to the Emperour and get more aid Aeci. None strike a poor condemned man Pro. He is mad Shift for your selves my Masters Exeunt Enter Aecius Aecius Then Aecius See what thou darst thy self hold my good sword Thou hast been kept from bloud too long I 'le kiss thee For thou art more then friend now my preserver Shew me the way to happiness I seek it And all you great ones that have faln as I do To keep your memories and honours living Be present in your vertues and assist me That like strong Cato I may put away All promises but what shall crown my ashes Rome fare thee well stand long and know to conquer Whilst there is people and ambition Now for a stroak shall turn me to a Star I come ye blessed spirits make me room To live for ever in Elyzium Do men fear this O that posterity Could learn from him but this that loves his wound There is no pain at all in dying well kills himself Nor none are lost but those that make their hell Enter Proculus and two others 1 Within He 's dead draw in the Guard again Pro. He 's dead indeed And I am glad he 's gone he was a Devil His body if his Eunuchs come is theirs The Emperour out of his love to vertue Exeunt Has given 'em that Let no man stop their entrance Enter Phidiâ—s and Aretus Phi. O my most noble Lord look here Aretus Here 's a sad sight Aret. O cruelty O Caesar O times that bring forth nothing but destruction And oversows of bloud why wast thou kill'd Is it to be a just man now again As when Tiberius and wild Nero reign'd Only assurance of his over throw Phil. It is Aretus he that would live now Must like the Toad feed only on corruptions And grow with those to greatness honest vertue And the true Roman honour faith and valour That have been all the riches of the â—mpire Now like the fâ—arfull tokens of the Plague Are meer fore-runners of their ends that owe ' em Are. Never enough lamented Lord dear Master Enter Maximus Of whom now shall we learn to live like men From whom draw out our actions just and worthy Oh thou art gone and gone with thee all goodness The great example of all equitie O thou alone a Roman thou art perish'd Faith fortitude and constant nobleness Weep Rome weep Italy weep all that knew him And you that fear'd him as a noble Foe If Enemies have honourable tears Weep this decay'd Aecius faln and scattered By foul and base suggestion Pho. O Lord Maximus This was your worthy friend Max. The gods forgive me Think not the worse my friends I shed not tears Great griefs lament within yet now I have found 'em Would I had never known the world nor women Nor what that cursed name of honour was So this were once again Aecius But I am destin'd to a mighty action And begg my pardon friend my vengeance taken I will not be long from thee ye have a great loss But bear it patiently yet to say truth In justice 't is not sufferable I am next And were it now I would be glad on 't friends Who shall preserve you now Are. Nay we are lost too Max. I fear ye are for likely such as love The man that 's faln and have been nourish'd by him Do not stay long behind 'T is held no wisdom I know what I must do O my Aecius Canst thou thus perish pluckt up by the roots And no man feel thy worthiness From boys He bred you both I think Phi. And from the poorest Max. And lov'd ye as his own Are. We found it Sir Max. Is not this a loss then Phi. O a loss of losses Our lives and ruines of our families The utter being nothing of our names Were nothing near it Max. As I take it too He put ye to the Emperour Are. He did so Max. And kept ye still in credit Phi. 'T is most true Sir Max. He fed your Fathers too and made them means Your Sisters he prefer'd to noble Wedlocks Did he not friends Are. Oh yes Sir Max. As I take it This worthy man would not be now forgotten I tell ye to my grief he was basely murdred And something would be done by those that lov'd him And something may be pray stand off a little Let me bewail him private O my dearest Phi. Aretus if we be not sudden he outdoes us I know he points at venegance we are cold And base ungratefull wretches if we shun it Are we to hope for more rewards or greatness Or any thing but death now he is dead Dar'st thou resolve Are. I am perfect Phi. Then like flowers That grew together all we 'l fall together And with us that that bore us when 't is done The world shall stile us two deserving servants I fear he will be before us Are. This night Phidias Phi. No more Max. Now worthy friends I have done my mournings Let 's burn this noble body Sweets as many As sun-burnt Meroe breeds I 'le make a flame of Shall reach his soul in Heaven he that shall live Ten ages hence but to reherse this story Shall with the sad discourse on 't darken Heaven And force the painful burdens from the wombs Conceiv'd a new with sorrow even the Grave Where mighty Sylla sleeps shall rend asunder And give her shadow up to come and groan About our piles which will be more and greater Than green
let 's meet him 3. Blessed fortune 1. Away away make room there room there room Exeunt Senators Flourish Within Lord Maximus is Caesar Caesar Caesar Hail Caesar Maximus Affra. Oh turning people Oh people excellent in war and govern'd In peace more raging than the furious North When he ploughs up the Sea and makes him brine Or the lowd falls of Nile I must give way Although I neither love nor hope this Or like a rotten bridge that dares a current When he is swell'd and high crackt and farewel Enter Maximus Eudoxa Senat. and Souldiers Sen. Room for the Emperour Soul Long life to Caesar Afra Hail Câ—â—sar Maximus Emp. Max. Your hand Afranius Lead to the Palace there my thanks in general I 'le showre among ye all gods give me life First to defend the Empire then you Fathers And valiant friends the heirs of strength and vertue The rampires of old Rome of us the refuge To you I open this day all I have Even all the hazard that my youth hath purchas'd Ye are my Children family and friends And ever so respected shall be forward There 's a Proscription grave Sempronius ' Gainst all the flatterers and lazie Bawds Led loose-liv'd Valentinian to his vices See it effected Flourish Sen. Honour wait on Caesar Sould. Make room for Caesar there Exeunt all but Afra Afra Thou hast my fears But Valentinian keeps my vows Oh gods Why do we like to feed the greedy Ravenne Of these blown men that must before they stand And sixt in eminence cast life on life And trench their safeties in with wounds and bodies Well froward Rome thou wilt grow weak with changing And die without an heir that lov'st to breed Sons for the killing hate of sons for me I only live to find an enemy Exit SCENE V. Enter Paulus a Poet and Licippus a Gent. Pau. When is the Inauguration Lic Why to morrow Paul 'T will be short time Lic Any device that 's handsome A Cupid or the God o' th' place will do it Where he must take the Fasces Pau. Or a Grace Lic A good Grace has no fellow Pau. Let me see Will not his name yield something Maximus By th' way of Anagram I have found out Axis You know he bears the Empire Lic Get him wheels too 'T will be a cruel carriage else Pau. Some songs too Lic By any means some songs but very short ones And honest language Paulus without bursting The air will fall the sweeter Pau. A Grace must do it Lic Why let a Grace then Pau. Yes it must be so And in a Robe of blew too as I take it Lic This Poet is a little kin to th' Painter That could paint nothing but a ramping Lion So all his learned fancies are blew Graces Pau. What think ye of a Sea-nymph and a Heaven Lic Why what should she do there man there 's no water Pau. That 's true it must be a Grace and yet Me thinks a Rain bow Lic And in blew Pau. Oh yes Hanging in arch above him and i' th' midle Lic A showre of Rain Pau No no it must be a Grace Lic Why prethee Grace him then Pau. Or Orpheus Coming from Hâ—ll Lic In blew too Pau. 'T is the better And as he rises full of fires Lic Now bless us Will not that spoil his Lutestrings Paulus Pau. Singing And crossing of his arms Lic How can he play then Pau. It shall be a Grace I 'le do it Lic Prethee do And with as good a grace as thou canst possible Good fury Paulus be i' th' morning with me And pray take measure of his mouth that speaks it Exeâ—â—t SCENE VI. Enter Maximus and Eudoxa Max. Come my best lov'd Eudoxa let the souldâ—â—r Want neither Wine nor any thing he calls for And when the Senate's ready give us notice In the mean time leave us Oh my dear sweet Eud. Is' t possible your Grace Should undertake such dangers for my beauty If it were excellent Max. 'T is all The world has left to brag of Eud. Can a face Long since bequeath'd to wrinkles with my sorrows Long since ras'd out o' th' book of youth and pleasure Have power to make the strongest man o' th' Empire Nay the most staid and knowing what is Woman The greatest aim of perfectness men liv'd by The most true constant lover of his wedlock Such a still blowing beauty earth was proud of Lose such a noble wife and wilfully Himself prepare the way nay make the rape Did ye not tell me so Max. 'T is true Eudoxa Eud. Lay desolate his dearest piece of friendship Break his strong helm he stear'd by sink that vertue That valour that even all the gods can give us Without whom he was nothing with whom worthiest Nay more arrive at Caesar and kill him too And for my sake either ye love too dearly Or deeply ye dissemble Sir Max. I do so And till I am more strengthen'd so I must do Yet would my joy and Wine had fashion'd out Some safer lye Can these things be Eudoxa And I dissemble Can there be but goodness And only thine dear Lady any end Any imagination but a lost one Why I should run this hazard O thou vertue Were it to do again and Valentinian Once more to hold thee sinful Valentinian In whom thou wert set as Pearls are in salt Oysters As Roses are in rank weeds I would find Yet to thy sacred self a dearer danger The Gods know how I honour thee Eud. What love Sir Can I return for this but my obedience My life if so you please and 't is too little Max. 'T is too much to redeem the world Eud. From this hour The sorrows for my dead Lord fare ye well My living Lord has dried ye and in token As Emperour this day I honour ye And the great caster new of all my wishes The wreath of living Lawrel that must compass That sacred head Eudoxa makes for Caesar I am methinks too much in love with fortune But with you ever Royal Sir my maker The once more Summer of me meer in love Is poor expression of my doting Max. Sweetest Eud. Now of my troth ye have bought me dear Sir Max. No Had I at loss of mankind Enter a Messenger Eud. Now ye flatter Mess The Senate waits your Grace Max. Let 'em come on And in a full form bring the ceremony This day I am your servant dear and proudly I 'le wear your honoured favour Eud. May it prove so Exeunt SCENE VII Enter Paulus and Licippus Lic Is your Grace done Pau. 'T is done Lic Who speaks Pau. A Boy Lic A dainty blue Boy Paulus Pau. Yes Lic Have ye viewed The work above Pau. Yes and all up and ready Lic The Empress does you simple honour Paulus The wreath your blue Grace must present she made But hark ye for the Souldiers Pau. That 's done too I 'le bring 'em in I warrant ye Lic A Grace too Pau. The same Grace
serves for both Lic About it then I must to th' Cupbord and be sure good Paulus Your Grace be fasting that he may hang cleanly If there should need another voice what then Paul I 'le hang another Grace in Lic Grace be with ye Exeunt SCENE VIII Enter in state Maximus Eudoxa with Souldiers and Gentlemen of Rome the Senators and Rods and Axes born before them A Synnet with Trumpets With a Banket prepared with Hoboies Musick Song wreath 3 Sen. Hale to thy imperial honour sacred Caesar And from the old Rome take these wishes You holy gods that hitherto have held As justice holds her Ballance equal pois'd This glory of our Nation this full Roman And made him fit for what he is confirm him Look on this Son O Jupiter our helper And Romulus thou Father of our honour Preserve him like thy self just valiant noble A lover and increaser of his people Let him begin with Numa stand with Cato The first five years of Nero be his wishes Give him the age and fortune of Emylius And his whole raign renew a great Augustus SONG Honour that is ever living Honour that is ever giving Honour that sees all and knows Both the ebbs of man and flowes Honour that rewards the best Sends thee thy rich labours rest Thou hast studied still to please her Therefore now she calls thee Caesar Chor. Hale hale Caesar hale and stand And thy name outlive the Land Noble Fathers to his brows Bind this wreath with thousand vows All. Stand to eternity Max. I thank ye Fathers And as I rule may it still grow or wither Now to the Banket ye are all my guests This day be liberal friends to wine we give it And smiling pleasures Sit my Queen of Beauty Fathers your places these are fair Wars Souldiers And thus I give the first charge to ye all You are my second sweet to every cup I add unto the Senate a new honour And to the 〈◊〉 of Mars a donative SONG God Lyeus ever young Ever honour'd ever sung Stain'd with bloud of lusty Grapes In a thousand lusty shapes Dance upon the Mazers brim In the Crimson liquor swim From thy plenteous hand divine Let a River run with Wine God of youth let this day here Enter neither care nor fear Boy Bellona's feed the glory of old Rome Envy of conquer'd Nations nobly come And to the fulness of your war-like noise Let your feet move make up this hour of joys Come come I say range your fair Troop at large And your high mâ—asure turn into a charge Semp. The Emperor 's grown heavy with his wine Afra The Senate staies Sir for your thanks Semp. Great Caesar Eud. I have my wish Afra Wilt please your Grace speak to him Eud. Yes but he will not hear Lords Semp. Stir him Lucius the Senate must have thanks 2 Sen. Luc. Your Grace Sir Caesar Eud. Did I not tell you he was well he 's dead Semp. Dead treason guard the Court let no man pass Souldiers your Caesar's murdered Eud. Make no tumult Nor arm the Court ye have his killer with ye And the just cause if ye can stay the hearing I was his death that wreath that made him Caesar Has made him earth Sould. Cut her in thousand pieces Eud. Wise men would know the reason first to die Is that I wish for Romans and your swords The heaviest way of death yet Souldiers grant me That was your Empress once and honour'd by ye But so much time to tell ye why I kill'd him And weigh my reasons well if man be in you Then if ye dare do cruelly condemn me Afr. Hear her ye noble Romans 't is a Woman A subject not for swords but pity Heaven If she be guilty of malitious murder Has given us Laws to make example of her If only of revenge and bloud hid from us Let us consider first then execute Semp. Speak bloudy Woman Eud. Yes This Maximus That was your Caesar Lords and noble Souldiers And if I wrong the dead Heaven perish me Or speak to win your favours but the truth Was to his Country to his friends and Caesar A most malitious Traitor Semp. Take heed woman Eud. I speak not for compassion Brave Aecius Whose blessed soul if I lye shall afflict me The man that all the world lov'd you ador'd That was the master-piece of Arms and bounty Mine own grief shall come last this friend of his This Souldier this your right Arm noble Romans By a bâ—se letter to the Emperor Stufft full of fears and poor suggestions Anâ— by himself unto himself directed Was cut off bâ—â—â—ly basâ—ly cruelly Oh loss O innocent can ye now kill me And the poor state my Noble Lord that knew not More of this villain than his forc'd fears Like ouâ— foreseen to sâ—tisfie dy'd for it Thâ—â—e was a murdre too Rome would have blusht at Was this woâ—th bâ—ing Câ—â—sar or my patience nay his Wife By Hâ—â—ven he to 〈◊〉 mâ— in wine and joy Anâ— swoâ—â— it deeply tâ— himself prepar'd To be abus'd how let me grieve not tell ye And weâ—p the 〈◊〉 that did it and his end Was only me anâ— Câ—â—sar â—ut me he lyed in These are my reasons Romans and my soul Tells me sufficient and my deed is justice Now as I have done well or ill look on me Afra What less could nature do what less had we doâ—â— Had we known this before Romans she is righteous And such a piece of justice Heaven must smile on Bend all your swords on me if this displease ye For I must kneel and on this vertuous hand Seal my new joy and thanks thou hast done truly Semp. Up with your arms ye strike a Saint else Romans May'st thou live ever spoken our Protector Rome yet has many Noble Heirs Let 's in And pray before we choose then plant a Caesar Above the reach of envy blood and murder Afra Take up the body nobly to his urn And may our sins and his together burn Exeunt A dead March EPILOGUE WE would fain please ye and as fain be pleas'd 'T is but a little liking both are eas'd We have your money and you have our ware And to our understanding good and fair For your own wisdoms sake be not so mad To acknowledge ye have bought things dear and bad Let not a brack i' th' Stuff or here and there The fading gloss a general loss appear We know ye take up worse Commodities And dearer pay yet think your bargains wise We know in Meat and Wine ye fling away More time and wealth which is but dearer pay And with the Reckoning all the pleasure lost We bid ye not unto repenting cost The price is easie and so light the Play That ye may new digest it every day Then noble friends as ye would choose a Miss Only to please the eye a while and kiss Till a good Wife be got So let this Play Hold ye a while until a better may Monsieur
certainly inform'd Ot. Reward the fellow and look you mainly to it Ser. My life for yours Sir Soph. Now am I straight my Lords and young again My long since blasted hopes shoot out in blossomes The fruits of everlasting love appearing Oh! my blest boys the honour of my years Of all my cares the bounteous fair rewarders Oh! let me thus imbrace you thus for ever Within a Mothers love lock up your friendships And my sweet sons once more with mutual twinings As one chaste bed begot you make one body Blessings from heaven in thousand showrs fall on you Aub. Oh! womans goodness never to be equall'd May the most sinfull creatures of thy sex But kneeling at thy monument rise saints Soph. Sit down my worthy sons my Lords your places I now me thinks the table 's nobly furnisht Now the meat nourishes the wine gives spirit And all the room stuck with a general pleasure Shews like the peacefull boughs of happiness Aub. Long may it last and from a heart fill'd with it Full as my cup I give it round my Lords Bald. And may that stubborn heart be drunk with sorrow Refuses it men dying now should take it And by the vertue of this ceremony Shake off their miseries and sleep in peace Rol. You are sad my noble Brother Ot. No indeed Sir Soph. No sadness my son this day Rol. Pray you eat Something is here you have lov'd taste of this dish It will prepare your stomach Ot. Thank you brother I am not now dispos'd to eat Rol. Or that You put us out of heart man come these bak't meats Were ever your best dyet Ot. None I thank you Soph. Are you well noble child Ot. Yes gracious Mother Rol. Give him a cup of wine then pledge the health Drink it 〈…〉 I 'le give it to my Mother Soph. Doe me best child Ot. 〈…〉 my best Mother Indeed 〈…〉 for of late my body Has been 〈◊〉 weakned by excess of dyet The 〈◊〉 of a feaver hanging on me And even now ready if not by abstinence Rol. And will you keep it in this general freedom A little health preferr'd before our friendship Ot. I pray you excuse me Sir Rol. Excuse your self Sir Come 't is your fear and not your favour Brother And you have done me a most worthy kindness My Royal Mother and you noble Lords Here for it now concerns me to speak boldly What faith can be expected fâ—om his vows From his dissembling smiles what fruit of friendship From all his dull embraces what blest issue When he shall brand me here for base suspicion He takes me for a poysoner Sop. Gods defend it son Rol. For a foul knave a villain and so fears me Ot. I could say something too Sop. You must not so Sir Without your great forgetfulness of vertue This is your Brother and your honour'd Brother Rol. If he please so Sop. One noble Father with as noble thoughts Begot your minds and bodies one care rockt you And one truth to you both was ever sacred Now fye my Ottâ— whither flyes your goodness Because the right hand has the power of cutting Shall the left preseâ—tly cry out 't is maimed They are one my child one power 〈◊〉 one performance And joyn'd together thus one 〈◊〉 one body Aub. I do beseech your grace take to your thoughts More certain counsellors than doubts or fears They strangle nature and disperse themselves If once believ'd into such foggs and errours That the bright truth her self can never sever Your Brother is a royal Gentleman Full of himself honour and honesty And take heed Sir how nature bent to goodness So streight a Cedar to himself uprightness Be wrested from his true use prove not dangerous Rol. Nay my good Brother knows I am too patient Lat. Why should your grace think him a poysoner Has he no more respect to piety And but he has by oath ty'd up his fury Who durst but think that thought Aub. Away thou firebrand La. If men of his sort of his power and place The eldest son in honour to this Dukedom Bald. For shame contain thy tongue thy poysonous togue That with her burning venome will infect all And once more blow a wilde fire through the Dukedom Gis Latorch if thou be'st honest or a man Contain thy self Aub. Go to no more by Heaven You 'le find y' have plai'd the fool else not a word more Sop. Prethee sweet son Rol. Let him alone sweet Mother and my Lords To make you understand how much I honour This sacred peace and next my innocence And to avoid all further difference Discourse may draw on to a way of danger I quit my place and take my leave for this night Wishing a general joy may dwell among you Aub. Shall we wait on your grace Rol. I dare not break you Latorch Ex. Rol. and Lat. Ot. Oh Mother that your tenderness had eyes Discerning eyes what would this man appear then The tale of Synon when he took upon him To ruine Troy with what a cloud of cunning He hid his heart nothing appearing outwards But came like innocence and dropping pity Sighs that would sink a Navie and had tales Able to take the ears of Saints belief too And what did all these blew the fire to Ilium His crafty art but more refin'd by study My Brother has put on oh I could tell you But for the reverence I bear to nature Things that would make your honest blood run backward Sop. You dare tell me Ot. Yes in your private closet Where I will presently attend you rise I am a little troubled but 't will off Sop. Is this the joy I look'd for Ot. All will mend Be not disturb'd dear Mother I 'le not fail you Ex. Sop. and Otto Bald. I do not like this Aub. That is still in our powers But how to make it so that we may like it Bald. Beyond us ever Latorch me thought was busie That fellow if not lookt to narrowly will do a suddain mischief Aub. Hell look to him For if there may be a Devil above all yet That Rogue will make him keep you up this night And so will I for much I fear a danger Bald. I will and in my watches use my prayers Exeunt Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Sophia Otto Matillda Edith Ot. YOu wonder Madam that for all the shews My Brother Rollo makes of hearty love And free possession of the Dukedom 'twixt us I notwithstanding should stand still suspicious As if beneath those veils he did convey Intents and practices of hate and treason Sob It breeds indeed my wonder Ot. Which makes mine Since it is so safe and broad a beaten way Beneath the name of friendship to betray Sop. Though in remote and further off affections These falsehoods are so common yet in him They cannot so force nature Ot. The more near The bands of truth bind the more oft they sever Being better cloaks to cover falshood over Sop. It cannot
Have I no rule yet as I live he dyes That does not execute my will and suddenly Bal. All that thou canst do takes but one short hour from me Rol. Hew off her hands Ham. Lady hold off Ed. Nay hew 'em Hew off my innocent hands as he commands you Exeunt Guard Count Baldwin They 'll hang the faster on for Deaths convulsion Thou seed of Rocks will nothing move thee then Are all my tears lost all my righteous Prayers Drown'd in thy drunken wrath I stand thus then Thus boldly bloody Tyrant And to thy face in Heavens high Name defie thee And may sweet mercy when thy soul sighs for it When under thy black mischiefs thy flesh trembles When neither strength nor youth nor friends nor gold Can stay one hour when thy most wretched Conscience Wak'd from her dream of death like fire shall melt thee When all thy Mothers tears thy Brothers wounds Thy Peoples fears and curses and my loss My aged fathers loss shall stand before thee Rol. Save him I say run save him save her Father Fly and redeem his head Exit Latorch Ed. May then that pity That comfort thou expect'st from Heaven that mercy Be lockt up from thee fly thee howling find thee Despair Oh my sweet father storms of terrours Blood till thou burst again Rol. Oh fair sweet anger Enter Latorch and Hamond with a Head Lat. I am too late Sir 't was dispatch'd before And his Head is here Rol And my Heart there go bury him Give him fair Rites of Funeral decent Honours Ed. Wilt thou not take me Monster highest Heaven Give him a punishment fit for his mischief Lat. I fear thy Prayer is heard and he rewarded Lady have patience 't was unhappy speed Blame not the Duke 't was not his fault but Fates He sent you know to stay it and commanded In care of you the heavy object hence Soon as it came have better thoughts of him Enter Citizens 1 Cit. Where 's this young Traytor Lat. Noble Citizens here And here the wounds he gave your soveraign Lord. 1 Cit. This Prince of force must be Belov'd of Heaven whom Heaven hath thus preserv'd 2 Cit. And if he be belov'd of Heaven you know He must be just and all his actions so Rol. Concluded like an Oracle Oh how great A grace of Heaven is a wise Citizen For Heaven 't is makes 'em wise as 't makes me just As it preserves me as I now survive By his strong hand to keep you all alive Your Wives your Children Goods and Lands kept yours That had been else preys to his tyrannous Power That would have prey'd on me in Bed assaulted me In sacred time of Peace my Mother here My Sister this just Lord and all had felt The certain Gulph of this Conspiracy Of which my Tutor and my Chancellour Two of the gravest and most counted honest In all my Dukedom were the monstrous Heads Oh trust no honest men for their sakes ever My politick Citizens but those that breathe The Names of Cut-throats Usurers and Tyrants Oh those believe in for the foul-mouth'd World Can give no better terms to simple goodness â—ven me it dares blaspheme and thinks me tyrannous For saving my own life sought by my Brother Yet those that sought his life before by poyson Though mine own servants hoping to please me I 'll lead to death for 't which your Eyes shall see 1 Cit. Why what a Prince is here 2 Cit. How just 3 Cit. How gentle Rol. Well now my dearest Subjects or much rather My Nerves my Spirits or my vital Blood Turn to your needful rests and setled peace Fix'd in this root of steel from whence it sprung In Heavens great help and Blessing but ere sleep Bind in his sweet oblivion your dull senses The Name and Vertue of Heavens King advance For yours in chief for my deliverance Cit. Heaven and his King save our most pious Soveraign Exeunt Citizen Rol. Thanks my good people Mother and kind Sister And you my noble Kinsmen things born thus Shall make ye all command whatever I Enjoy in this my absolute Empire Take in the Body of my Princely Brother For whose Death since his Fate no other way Would give my eldest birth his supream Right We 'll mourn the cruel influence it bears And wash his Sepulchre with kindly tears Aub. If this game end thus Heavens will rule the set What we have yielded to we could not let Exeunt omnes praeter Latorch and Edith Lat. Good Lady rise and raise your Spirits withal More high than they are humbled you have cause As much as ever honour'd happiest Lady And when your Ears are freer to take in Your most amendful and unmatched fortunes I 'll make you drown a hundred helpless deaths In Sea of one life pour'd into your Bosome With which shall flow into your arms the Riches The Pleasures Honours and the rules of Princes Which though death stop your ears methinks should open 'em Assay to forget death Ed. Oh slaughter'd Father Lat. Taste of what cannot be redress'd and bless The Fate that yet you curse so since for that You spake so movingly and your sweet eyes With so much Grace fill'd that you set on fire The Dukes affection whom you now may rule As he rules all his Dukedome is' t not sweet Does it not shine away your sorrows Clouds Sweet Lady take wise heart and hear and tell me Ed. I hear no word you speak Lat. Prepare to hear then And be not barr'd up from your self nor add To your ill fortune with your far worse judgment Make me your servant to attend with all joys Your sad estate till they both bless and speak it See how they 'll bow to you make me wait command me To watch out every minute for the stay Your modest sorrow fancies raise your graces And do my hopes the honour of your motion To all the offered heights that now attend you Oh how your touches ravish how the Duke Is slain already with your flames embrac'd I will both serve and visit you and often Ed. I am not fit Sir Lat. Time will make you Lady Exeunt SCENE II. Enter the Guard 3 or 4 Boys then the Sheriff Cook Yeoman of the Cellar Butler Pantler to execution 1 Guard Come bring in these fellows on away with ' em 2 Guard Make room before there room for the Prisoners 1 Boy Let 's run before Boys we shall have no places else 2 Boy Are these the youths Cook These are the youths you look for And pray my honest friends be not so hasty There will be nothing done till we come I assure you 3 Boy Here 's a wise hanging are there no more Butl. Do you hear Sir you may come in for your share if you please Cook My friend if you be unprovided of a hanging You look like a good fellow I can afford you A reasonable penny-worth 2 Boy Afore afore Boys here 's enough to make us sport Yeom
please Sir Of wantonness or wildness I look for it And tell the world I am an hypocrite Mask in a forc'd and borrow'd shape I expect it But not to have you believ'd for mark ye Sir I have won a nobler estimation A stronger tie by my discretion Upon opinion how e're you think I forced it Than either tongue or art of yours can slubber And when I please I will be what I please Sir So I exceed not Mean and none shall brand it Either with scorn or shame but shall be slighted Pi. Lady I come to love ye Lil. Love your self Sir And when I want observers I 'll send for ye Heigh ho my sit's almost off for we do all by sits Sir If ye be weary sit till I come again to ye Exit Pi. This is a wench of a dainty spirit but hang me if I know yet Either what to think or make of her she had her will of me And baited me abundantly I thank her And I confess I never was so blurred Nor ever so abus'd I must bear mine own sins Ye talk of Travels here 's a curious Country Yet I will find her out or forswear my facultie Exit SCENE III. Enter Rosalura and Oriana Ros Ne'r vex your self nor grieve ye are a fool then Or. I am sure I am made so yet before I suffer Thus like a girl and give him leave to triumph Ros You say right for as long as he perceives ye Sink under his proud scornings he 'll laugh at ye For me secure your self and for my Sister I partly know her mind too howsoever To obey my Father we have made a tender Of our poor beauties to the travel'd Monsieur Yet two words to a bargain he flights us As skittish things and we shun him as curious May be my free behaviour turns his stomach And makes him seem to doubt a loose opinion I must be so sometimes though all the world saw it Ori. Why should not ye Are our minds only measur'd As long as here ye stand secure Ros Ye say true As long as mine own Conscience makes no question What care I for Report That Woman 's miserable That 's good or bad for their tongues sake Come let 's retire And get my veil Wench By my troth your sorrow And the consideration of mens humorous maddings Have put me into a serious contemplation Enter Mirabel and Belleur Oria. Come ' saith let 's sit and think Ros That 's all my business Mir. Why standst thou peeping here thou great slug forward Bel. She is there peace Mir. Why standst thou here then Sneaking and peaking as thou would'd steal linnen Hast thou not place and time Bel. I had a rare speech Studied and almost ready and your violence Has beat it out of my brains Mir. Hang your rare speeches Go me on like a man Bel. Let me set my Beard up How has Pinac performed Mir. He has won already He stands not thrumming of caps thus Bel. Lord what should I ail What a cold I have over my stomach would I had some Hum. Certain I have a great mind to be at her A mighty mind Mir. On fool Bel. Good words I beseech ye For I will not be abused by both Mir. Adieu then I will not trouble you I see you are valiant And work your own way Bel. Hist hist I will be rul'd I will ' saith I will go presently Will ye forsake me now and leave me i'th'suds You know I am false-hearted this way I beseech ye Good sweet Mirabel I 'le cut your throat if ye leave me Indeed I will sweet heart Mir. I will be ready Still at thine elbow take a mans heart to thee And speak thy mind the plainer still the better She is a woman of that free behaviour Indeed that common courtesie she cannot deny thee Go bravely on Bel. Madam keep close about me Still at my back Madam sweet Madam Ros Ha What noise is that what saucy sound to trouble me Mir. What said she Bel. I am saucy Mir. 'T is the better Bel. She comes must I be saucy still Mir. More saucy Ros Still troubled with these vanities Heaven bless us What are we born to would ye speak with any of my people Go in Sir I am busie Bel. This is not she sure Is this two Children at a Birth I 'le be hang'd then Mine was a merry Gentlewoman talkt daintily Talkt of those matters that befitted women This is a parcel-pray'r-book I 'm serv'd sweetly And now I am to look too I was prepar'd for th' other way Ros Do you know that man Oria. Sure I have seen him Lady Ros Methinks 't is pity such a lusty fellow Should wander up and down and want employment Bel. She takes me for a Rogue you may do well Madam To stay this wanderer and set him a work forsooth He can do something that may please your Ladiship I have heard of Women that desire good breedings Two at a birth or so Ros The fellow 's impudent Oria. Sure he is crazed Ros I have heard of men too that have had good manners Sure this is want of grace indeed 't is great pity The young man has been bred so ill but this lewd Age Is full of such examples Bel. I am sounder'd And some shall rue the setting of me on Mir. Ha so bookish Lady is it possible Turn'd holy at the heart too I 'le be hang'd then Why this is such a feat such an activity Such fast and loose a yeyl too for your Knavery O dio dio Ros What do you take me for Sir Mir. An hypocrite a wanton a dissembler How e're ye seem and thus ye are to be handled Mark me Belleur and this you love I know it Ros Stand off bold Sir Mir. You wear good Cloaths to this end Jewels love Feasts and Masques Ros Ye are monstrous saucy Mir. All this to draw on fools and thus thus Lady Ye are to be lull'd Bel. Let her alone I 'le swinge ye else I will 'faith for though I cannot skill o'th is matter My self I will not see another do it before me And do it worse Ros Away ye are a vain thing You have travell'd far Sir to return again A windy and poor Bladder you talk of Women That are not worth the favour of a common one The grace of her grew in an Hospital Against a thousand such blown fooleries I am able to maintain good Womens honours Their freedoms and their fames and I will do it Mir. She has almost struck me dumb too Ros And declaim Against your base malicious tongues your noises For they are nothing else You teach behaviours Or touch us for our freedom teach your selves manners Truth and sobriety and live so clearly That our lives may shine in ye and then task us It seems ye are hot the suburbs will supply ye Good Women scorn such Gamesters so I 'le leave ye I am sorry to see this 'faith Sir live
I will not say I ow ye a quarel Monsieur For making me your Stale a noble Gentleman Would have had more courtesie at least more faith Than to turn off his Mistris at first trial You know not what respect I might have shew'd ye I find ye have worth Pi. I cannot stay to answer ye Ye see my charge I am beholding to ye For all your merry tricks ye put upon me Your bobs and base accounts I came to love ye To wooe ye and to serve ye I am much indebted to ye For dancing me off my legs and then for walking me For telling me strange tales I never heard of More to abuse me for mistaking me When ye both knew I was a Gentleman And one deserv'd as rich a match as you are Lel. Be not so bitter Sir Pi. You see this Lady She is young enough and fair enough to please me A woman of a loving mind a quiet And one that weighs the worth of him that loves her I am content with this and bless my fortune Your curious Wits and Beauties Lel. Faith see me once more Pi. I dare not trouble ye Lel. May I speak to your Lady Pi. I pray ye content your self I know ye are bitter And in your bitterness ye may abuse her Which if she comes to know for she understands ye not It may breed such a quarrel to your kindred And such an indiscretion fling on you too For she is nobly friended Lel. I could eat her Pi. Rest as ye are a modest noble Gentlewoman And afford your honest neighbours some of your prayers Exit Mir. What think you now Lel. Faith she 's a pretty Whiting She has got a pretty catch too Mir. You are angry Monstrous angry now grievously angry And the pretty heart does swell now Lel. No in troth Sir Mir. And it will cry anon a pox upon it And it will curse it self and eat no meat Lady And it will fight Lel. Indeed you are mistaken It will be very merry Ros Why Sir do you think There are no more men living nor no handsomer Than he or you By this light there be ten thousand Ten thousand thousand comfort your self dear Monsieur Faces and bodies Wits and all Abiliments There are so many we regard 'em not Enter Belleur and two Gentlemen Mir. That such a noble Lady I could burst now So far above such trifles Bel. You did laugh at me And I know why ye laughed 1 Gent. I pray ye be satisfied If we did laugh we had some private reason And not at you 2 Gent. Alas we know you not Sir Bel. I 'le make you know me set your faces soberly Stand this way and look sad I 'le be no May-game Sadder demurer yet Ros What 's the matter What ails this Gentleman Bel Go off now backward that I may behold ye And not a simper on your lives Lel. He 's mad sure Bel. Do you observe me too Mir. I may look on ye Bel. Why do you grin I know your minde Mir. You do not You are strangely humorous is there no mirth nor pleasure But you must be the object Bel. Mark and observe me Where ever I am nam'd The very word shall raise a general sadness For the disgrace this scurvy woman did me This proud pert thing take heed ye laugh not at me Provoke me not take heed Ros I would fain please ye Do any thing to keep ye quiet Bel. Hear me Till I receive a satisfaction Equal to the disgrace and scorn ye gave me Ye are a wretched woman till thou woo'st me And I scorn thee asmuch as seriously Jear and abuse thee ask what Gill thou art Or any baser name I will proclaim thee I will so sing thy vertue so be-paint thee Ros Nay good Sir be more modest Bel. Do you laugh again Because ye are a woman ye are lawless And out of compass of an honest anger Ros Good Sir have a better belief of me Lel. Away dear Sister Exit Mir. Is not this better now this seeming madness Than falling out with your friends Bel. Have I not frighted her Mir. Into her right wits I warrant thee follow this humor And thou shalt see how prosperously 't will guide thee Bel. I am glad I have found a way to woo yet I was afraid once I never should have made a civil Suiter Well I 'le about it still Exit Mir. Do do and prosper What sport do I make with these fools What pleasure Feeds me and fats my sides at their poor innocence Enter Leverduce alias Lugier Mr. Illiard Wooing and wiving hang it give me mirth Witty and dainty mirth I shall grow in love sure With mine own happy head Who 's this To me Sir What youth is this Lev. Yes Sir I would speak with you If your name be Monsieur Mirabel Mir. Ye have hit it Your business I beseech ye Lev. This it is Sir There is a Gentlewoman hath long time affected ye And lov'd ye dearly Mir. Turn over and end that story 'T is long enough I have no faith in women Sir Lev. It seems so Sir I do not come to woo for her Or sing her praises though she well deserve 'em I come to tell ye ye have been cruel to her Unkind and cruel falser of faith and careless Taking more pleasure in abusing her Wresting her honour to your wild disposes Than noble in requiting her affection Which as ye are a man I must desire ye A Gentleman of rank not to persist in No more to load her fair name with your injuries Mir. Why I beseech ye Sir Lev. Good Sir I 'le tell ye And I 'le be short I 'le tell ye because I love ye Because I would have you shun the shame may follow There is a noble man new come to Town Sir A noble and a great man that affects her A Coutrey-man of mine a brave Savoyan Nephew to th' Duke and so much honours her That 't will be dangerous to pursue your old way To touch at any thing concerns her honour Believe most dangerous her name is Oriana And this great man will marry her take heed Sir For howsoe'r her Brother a staid Gentleman Le ts things pass upon better hopes this Lord Sir Is of that fiery and that poynant metal Especially provok'd on by affection That 't will be hard but you are wise Mir. A Lord Sir Lev. Yes and a noble Lord. Mir. ' Send her good fortune This will not stir her Lord a Barronness Say ye so say ye so by 'r Lady a brave title Top and top gallant now ' save her great Ladiship I was a poor servant of hers I must confess Sir And in those daies I thought I might be jovy And make a little bold to call into her But Basto now I know my rules and distance Yet if she want an Usher such an implement One that is throughly pac'd a clean made Gentleman Can hold a hanging up with approbation Plant his hat
formally and wait with patience I do beseech you Sir Lev. Sir leave your scoffing And as ye are a Gentleman deal fairly I have given ye a friends counsel so I 'le leave ye Mir. But hark ye hark ye Sir is' t possible I may believe what you say Lev. You may chuse Sir Mir. No Baits No Fish-hooks Sir No Gins No Nooses No Pitfals to catch Puppies Lev. I tell ye certain You may believe if not stand to the danger Exeunt Mir. A Lord of Savoy saies he The Dukes Nephew A man so mighty By ' Lady a fair marriage By my faith a handsom fortune I must leave prating For to confess the truth I have abused her For which I should be sorry but that will seem scurvy I must confess she was ever since I knew her As modest as she was fair I am sure she lov'd me Her means good and her breeding excellent And for my sake she has refus'd fair matches I may play the fool finely Stay who are these Enter De-Gard Oriana and Attendants 'T is she I am sure and that the Lord it should seem He carries a fair Port is a handsom man too I do begin to feel I am a Coxcomb Ori. Good my Lord chuse a nobler for I know I am so far below your rank and honour That what ye can say this way I must credit But spoken to beget your self sport Alas Sir I am so far off from deserving you My beauty so unfit for your Affection That I am grown the scorn of common Railers Of such injurious things that when they cannot Reach at my person he with my reputation I am poor besides de Ga. Ye are all wealth and goodness And none but such as are the scum of men The Ulcers of an honest state Spight-weavers That live on poyson only like swoln spiders Dare once profane such excellence such sweetness Mir. This man speaks loud indeed de-Ga. Name but the men Lady Let me but know these poor and base depravers Lay but to my revenge their persons open And you shall see how suddenly how fully For your most beauteous sake how direfully I 'le handle their despights Is this thing one Be what he will Mir. Sir de Ga. Dare your malicious tongue Sir Mir. I know you not nor what you mean Ori. Good my Lord. de Ga. If he or any he Ori. I beseech your honour This Gentleman 's a stranger to my knowledge And no doubt Sir a worthy man de-Ga. Your mercy But had he been a tainter of your honour A blaster of those beauties raign within ye But we shall find a fitter time dear Lady As soon as I have freed ye from your Guardian And done some honour'd offices unto ye I 'le take ye with those faults the world flings on ye And dearer than the whole world I 'le esteem ye Exeunt Mir. This is a thundring Lord I am glad I scap'd him How lovingly the wench disclaim'd my villany I am vext now heartily that he shall have her Not that I care to marry or to lose her But that this Bilbo-Lord shall reap that Maiden-head That was my due that he shall rig and top her I 'de give a thousand Crowns now he might miss her Enter a Servant Ser. Nay if I bear your blows and keep your counsel you have good luck Sir I 'le teach ye to strike lighter Mir. Come hither honest fellow canst thou tell me Where this great Lord lies This Savoy Lord Thou met'st him He now went by thee certain Ser. Yes he did Sir I know him and I know you are fool'd Mir. Come hither Here 's all this give me truth Sir Not for your mony And yet that may do much but I have been beaten And by the worshipfull Contrivers beaten and I 'le tell ye This is no Lord no Savoy Lord. Mir. Go forward Ser. This is a Trick and put upon ye grosly By one Lugier the Lord is Monsieur de-Gard Sir An honest Gentleman and a neighbour here Their ends you understand better than I sure Mir. Now I know him Know him now plain Ser. I have discharg'd my colours so God b'y ye sir Exit Mir. What a purblinde Puppy was I now I remember him All the whole cast on 's face though 't were umber'd And mask'd with patches what a dunder-whelp To let him domineer thus how he strutted And what a load of Lord he clapt upon him Would I had him here again I would so bounce him I would so thank his Lordship for his lewd plot Do they think to carry it away with a great band made of bird-pots And a pair of pin-buttockt breeches Ha! 'T is he again He comes he comes he comes have at him Enter de-Gard Oriana c. Sings My Savoy Lord why dost thou frown on me And will that savour never sweeter be Wilt thou I say for ever play the fool de Gard be wise and Savoy go to School My Lord de Gard I thank ye for your Antick My Lady bright that will be sometimes Frantick You worthy Train that wait upon this Pair ' Send you more wit and they a bouncing Baire And so I take my humble leave of your honours Exit de-Ga. We are discover'd there 's no remedy Lelia Biancha's man upon my life In stubbornness because Lugier corrected him A shameless slaves plague on him for a Rascal Ori. I was in a perfect hope the bane on 't is now He will make mirth on mirth to persecute us de-Ga. We must be patient I am vext to the proof too I 'le try once more then if I sail Here 's one speaks Ori. Let me be lost and scorn'd first de-Ga. Well we 'll consider Away and let me shift I shall be hooted else Exeunt Actus Quartus Scena Prima Enter Lugier Lelia Servants Lug. FAint not but do as I direct ye trust me Believe me too for what I have told ye Lady As true as you are Lelia is Authentick I know it I have found it 't is a poor courage Flies off for one repulse these Travellers Shall find before we have done a home-spun wit A plain French understanding may cope with 'em They have had the better yet thank your sweet Squire here And let 'em brag you would be reveng'd Lel. Yes surely Lug. And married too Lel. I think so Lug. Then be Counsel'd You know how to proceed I have other Irons Heating as well as yours and I will strike Three blows with one Stone home be rul'd and happie And so I leave ye Now is the time Lel. I am ready If he do come to do me Ser. Will ye stand here And let the people think ye are God knows what Mistris Let Boys and Prentices presume upon ye Lel. Pre'thee hold thy peace Ser. Stand at his dore that hates ye Lel. Pre'thee leave prating Sir 'Pray ye go to th' Tavern I 'le give ye a Pint of wine there If any of the Mad-cap Gentlemen should come by That take up women upon
set forward Exeunt Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter divers Monks Alphonso going to the Tomb Rugio and Frier Marco discover the Tomb and a Chair Mar. THe night grows on lead softly to the Tomb And sing not till I bid ye let the Musick Play gently as he passes Rug. O fair picture That wert the living hope of all our honours How are we banisht from the joy we dreamt of Will he ne're speak more Mar. 'T is full three moneths Lord Rugio Since any articulate sound came from his tongue Set him down gently Sits in a Chair Rug. What should the reason be Sir Mar. As 't is in nature with those loving Husbands That sympathize their wives pains and their throes When they are breeding and 't is usuall too We have it by experience so in him Sir In this most noble spirit that now suffers For when his honour'd Father good Brandino Fell sick he felt the griefs and labour'd with them His fits and his disease he still inherited Grew the same thing and had not nature check'd him Strength and ability he had dyed that hour too Rug. Embleme or noble love Mar. That very minute His Fathers breath forsook him that same instant A rare example of his piety And love paternal the Organ of his tongue Was never heard to sound again so near death He seeks to wait upon his worthy Father But that we force his meat he were one body Rug. He points to'th' Tomb. Mar. That is the place he honours A house I fear he will not be long out of He will toth ' Tomb good my Lord lend your hand How sing the Funeral Song and let him kneel For then he is pleas'd A Song Rug. Heaven lend thy powerfull hand And ease this Prince Mar. He will pass back again Exeunt Enter Valerio Val. They drink abundantly I am hot with wine too Lustily warm I 'le steal now to my happiness 'T is midnight and the silent hour invites me But she is up still and attends the Queen Thou dew of wine and sleep hang on their eye-lids Steep their dull senses in the healths they drink That I may quickly find my lov'd Evanthe The King is merry too and drank unto me Sign of fair peace O this nights blessedness If I had forty heads I would give all for 't Is not the end of our ambitions Of all our humane studies and our travels Of our desires the obtaining of our wishes Certain it is and there man makes his Center I have obtain'd Evanthe I have married her Can any fortune keep me from injoying her Enter Sorano I have my wish what 's left me to accuse now I am friends with all the world but thy base malice Go glory in thy mischiefs thou proud man And cry it to the world thou hast ruin'd vertue Flow I contemn thee and thy petty malice And with what scorn I look down on thy practice Sor. You 'l sing me a new Song anon Valerio And wish these hot words Val. I despise thee fellow Thy threats or flatteries all I fling behind me I have my end I have thy noble Sister A name too worthy of thy blood I have married her And will injoy her too Sor. 'T is very likely Val. And that short moneth I have to bless me with her I 'le make an age I 'le reckon each embrace A year of pleasure and each night a Jubile Every quick kiss a Spring and when I mean To lose my self in all delightfulness Twenty sweet Summers I will tye together In spight of thee and thy malignant Master I will dye old in love though young in pleasure Sor. But that I late thee deadly I could pity thee Thou art the poorest miserable thing This day on earth I 'le tell thee why Valerio All thou esteemest and build'st upon for happiness For joy for pleasure for delight is past thee And like a wanton dream already vanisht Val. Is my love false Sor. No she is constant to thee Constant to all thy misery she shall be And curse thee too Val. Is my strong body weakn'd Charm'd or abus'd with subtle drink speak villain Sor. Neither I dare speak thou art still as lusty As when thou lov'dst her first as strong and hopefull The month thou hast given thee is a month of misery And where thou think'st each hour shall yield a pleasure Look for a killing pain for thou shalt find it Before thou dyest each minute shall prepare it And ring so many knels to sad afflictions The King has given thee a long month to dye in And miserably dye Val. Undo thy Riddle I am prepar'd what ever â—ate shall follow Sor. Dost thou see this Ring Val. I know it too Sor. Then mark me By vertue of this Ring this I pronounce to thee 'T is the Kings will Val. Let me know it suddenly Sor. If thou dost offer to touch Evanthes body Beyond a kiss though thou art married to her And lawfully as thou think'st may'st injoy her That minute she shall dye Val. O Devil Sor. If thou discover this command unto her Or to a friend that shall importune thee And why thou abstainest and from whose will ye all perish Upon the self-same forfeit are ye fitted Sir Now if ye love her ye may preserve her life still If not you know the worst how falls your month out Val. This tyranny could never be invented But in the school of Hell Earth is too innocent Not to injoy her when she is my wife When she is willing too Sor. She is most willing And will run mad to miss but if you hit her Be sure you hit her home and kill her with it There are such women that will dye with pleasure The Are will follow else that will not fail To fetch her Maiden head and dispatch her quickly Then shall the world know you are the cause of Murther And as 't is requisite your life shall pay for 't Val. Thou dost but jest thou canst not be so monstrous As thou proclaim'st thy self thou art her Brother And there must be a feeling heart within thee Of her afflictions wert thou a stranger to us And bred amongst wild rocks thy nature wild too Affection in thee as thy breeding cold And unrelenting as the rocks that nourisht thee Yet thou must shake to tell me this they tremble When the rude sea threatens divorce amongst 'em They that are senceless things shake at a tempest Thou art a man Sor. Be thou too then 't will try thee And patience now will best become thy nobleness Val. Invent some other torment to afflict me All if thou please put all afflictions on me Study thy brains out for 'em so this be none I care not of what nature nor what cruelty Nor of what length Sor. This is enough to vex ye Val. The tale of Tantalus is now prov'd true And from me shall be registred Authentick To have my joyes within my arms and lawfull Mine own delights yet dare
thing else she may appeal to a Parliament Sub Poena's and Post Kaes have spoil'd his Codpiece There 's a Physician too older than he And Gallen Gallinacius but he has lost his spurs He would be nibling too Pod. I marked the man if he be a man Fool. H 'as much ado to be so Searcloths and Sirâ—ups glew him close together He would fall a pieces else mending of she Patients And then trying whether they be right or no In his own person there 's the honest care on 't Has mollisi'd the man if he do marry her And come but to warm him well at Cupids Bonfire He will bulge so subtilly and suddenly You may snatch him up by parcels like a Sea Rack Will your Worship go and look upon the rest Sir And hear what they can say for themselves Exeunt Pod. I 'le follow thee Enter Camillo Menallo Cleanthes and Castruchio Cam. You tell us wonders Cast But I tell you truths they are both well Men. Why are not we in Arms then And all the Island given to know Cast Discreetly and privately it must be done 't will miss else And prove our ruines most of the noble Citizens Know it by me and stay the hour to attend it Prepare your hearts and friends let their's be right too And keep about the King to avoid suspicion Enter Frederick and Sorano When you shall hear the Castle Bell take courage And stand like men away the King is coming Exeunt Lords Fre. Now Captain what have you done with your prisoner Cast He is dead Sir and his body flung into the Sea To feed the fishes 't was your will I take it I did it from a strong Commission And stood not to capitulate Fred. 'T is well done And I shall love you for your faith What anger Or sorrow did he utter at his end Cast Faith little Sir that I gave any ear to He would have spoke but I had no Commission To argue with him so I flung him off His Lady would have seen but I lockt her up For fear her womans tears should hinder us Fred. 'T was trusty still I wonder my Sorano We hear not from the Monastery I believe They gave it not or else it wrought not fully Cast Did you name the Monastery Fred. Yes I did Captain Cast I saw the Fryer this morning and Lord Rugio Bitterly weeping and wringing of their hands And all the holy men hung down their heads Sora. 'T is done I 'le warrant ye Cast I ask'd the reason Fred. What answer hadst thou Cast This in few words Sir Your Brother 's dead this morning he deceased I was your servant and I wept not Sir I knew 't was for your good Fred. It shall be for thine too Captain indeed it shall O my Sorano Now we shall live Sor. I now there 's none to trouble ye Fred. Captain bring out the woman and give way To any Suitor that shall come to marry her Of what degree soever Cast It shall be done Sir Exit Cast Fre. O let me have a lusty Banquet after it Enter Evanthe Camillo Cleanthes Menallo Fool. I will be high and merry Sor. There be some Lords That I could counsel ye to fling from Court Sir They pry into our actions they are such The foolish people call their Countries honours Honest brave things and stile them with such Titles As if they were the patterns of the Kingdom Which makes them proud and prone to look into us And talk at random of our actions They should be lovers of your commands And followers of your will bridles and curbs To the hard headed Commons that malign us They come here to do honour to my Sister To laugh at your severity and fright us If they had power what would these men do Do you hear Sir how privily they whisper Fred. I shall silence 'em And to their shames within this week Sorano In the mean time have patience Sor. How they jeer and look upon me as I were a Monster And talk and jeer how I shall pull your plumes Lords How I shall humble ye within these two daies Your great names nor your Country cannot save ye Fred. Let in the Suitors Yet submit I 'le pardon ye You are half undone already do not wind My anger to that height it may consume ye Enter Lawyer Physician Captain Cutpurse And utterly destroy thee fair Evanthe yet I have mercy Evan. Use it to your bawds To me use cruelty it best becomes ye And shews more Kingly I contemn your mercy It is a cozening and a bawdy mercy Can any thing be hoped for to relieve me Or is it sit I thank you for a pity when you have kill'd my Lord. Fred. Who will have her Evan. My tears are gone My tears of love to my dear Valerio But I have fill'd mine eyes again with anger O were it but so powerful to consume ye My tongue with curses I have arm'd against ye With Maiden curses that Heaven crowns with horrors My heart set round with hate against thy tyranny O would my hands could hold the fire of Heaven Wrapt in the thunder that the Gods revenge with That like stern Justice I might fling it on thee Thou art a King of Monsters not of men And shortly thou wilt turn this Land to Devils Fred. I 'le make you one first and a wretched Devil Come who will have her Law I an 't like your Majesty I am a Lawyer I can make her a Joynture of any mans Land in Naples And she shall keep it too I have a trick for it Fool. Canst thou make her a Joynture of thine honesty Or thy abilily thou lewd abridgment Those are non suted and flung o're the bar Phy. An 't please your Majesty to give me leave I dare accept her and though old I seem Lady Like Aeson by my art I can renew youth and ability Fool. In a powdering Tub Stew thy self tender again like a Cock Chicken The broth may be good but the flesh is not fit for dogs sure Capt. Lady take me and I 'le maintain thine honour I am a poor Captain as poor people call me Very poor people for my Souldiers They are quartered in the outside of the City Men of ability to make good a high way We have but two grand Enemies that oppose us The Don Gout and the Gallows Fool. I believe ye and both these you will bind her for a Jointure Now Signior firk Cut-purse Madam take me and be wise I am rich and nimble and those are rare in one man Every mans pocket is my Treasury And no man wears a Sute but fits me neatly Cloaths you shall have and wear the purest Linnen I have a tribute out of every Shop Lady Meat you shall eat I have my Caters out too The best and lustiest and drink good Wine good Lady Good quickening Wine Wine that will make you caper And at the worst Fool. It is but capering short Sir You seldom stay for Agues
would but that In my retired hours not counterfeited As thy religious shape was I have learn'd When Justice may determine such a cause And oâ— such weight as this fair Lady is Must not be put to fortune I appeal Unto the King and he whose wisedom knows To do his subjects right in their estates As graciously with judgement will determine In points of honour Oli. I 'le steer the same course with you Clar. I 'le stand the tryal Fri. What have you done or what intend you Cla. Ask not I 'le come off with honour Exeunt Enter Beronte Clarinda Malsort a Bar set forth Officers Ber. Be constant in your proofs should you shrink back now Your life must answer it nor am I safe My honour being engag'd to make that good Which you affirm Clar. I am confident so dearly I honour'd my dead Lord that no respect Or of my Ladies bounties which were great ones I must confess nor of her former life For whilâ— that she was chast indeed I lov'd her Shall hinder me from lending my assistance Unto your just revenge mine own I mean Aside If Leon keep far off enough all 's secure Lisander dares not come in modest blushes Parted with me long since and impudence Arm'd with my hate unto her innocence shall be The weapon I will sight with now Ber. The rack Being presented to you you 'l roar out What you conceal yet Mal. Conceal I know nothing But that I shall be hang'd and that I look for It is my destiny I ever had A hanging look and a wise woman told me Though I had not the heart to do a deed Worthy the halter in my youth or age I should take a turn with a wry mouth and now 'T is come about I have pen'd mine own ballad Before my condemnation in fear Some tâ—mer should prevent me here 's my Lady Would I were in heaven or a thousand miles hence That I might not blush to look on her Enter Dorilaus Calista Olinda Dor. You behold this preparation and the enemies Who are to fight against your life yet if You bring no witness here that may convince ye Of breach of saith to your Lords bed and hold up Unspotted hands before the King this tryal You are to undergo will but refine And not consume your honour Cal. How confirm'd I am here whatsoever Fate falls on me You shall have ample testimony till the death Of my dear Lord to whose sad memory I pay a mourning widows tears I liv'd Too happy in my holy day trim of glorie And courted with felicitie that drew on me With other helps of nature as of fortune The envie not the love of most that knew me This made me to presume too much perhaps Too proud but I am humbled and if now I do make it apparent I can bear Adversity with such a constant patience As will set off my innocence I hope Sir In your declining age when I should live A comfort to you you shall have no cause How e're I stand accus'd to hold your honour Ship-wrack'd in such a Daughter Oli. O best friend my honour 's at the stake too for Dor. Be silent the King Enter King Lemure and Attendants Lem. Sir if you please to look upon The Prisoner and the many services Her Father hath done for you King We must look on The cause and not the persons Yet beholding With an impartial eye th' excelling beauties Of this fair Lady which we did believe Upon report but till now never saw 'em It moves a strange kind of compassion in me Let us survey you nearer she 's a book To be with care perus'd and 't is my wonder Iâ— such mishapen guests as lust and murther At any price should ever find a lodging In such a beauteous Inne Mistake us not Though we admire the outward structure if The rooms be soul within expect no favour I were no man if I could look on beautie Distress'd without some pity but no King If any superficial gloss of feature Could work me to decline the course of Justice But to the cause Cleander's death what proofs Can you produre against her Ber. Royal Sir touching that point my Brothers death We build on suppositions King Suppositions how Is such a Lady Sir to be condemn'd On suppositions Ber. They are well grounded Sir And if we make it evident she is guilty Of the first crime we charge her with Adulterie That being the parent it may find belief That murther was the issue King We allow It may be so but that it may be must not Infer a necessary consequence To cast away a Ladies life What witnesses To make this good Ber. The principal this woman For many years her servant she hath taken Her oath in Court Come forward King By my Crown a lying face Clar. I swore Sir for the King And if you are the partie as I do Believe you are for you have a good face How ever mine appears swearing for you Sir I ought to have my oath pass King Impudent too well what have you sworn Clar. That this Lady was A goodly tempting Lady as she is How thinks your Majestie and I her servant Her officer as one would say and trusted With her closest Chamber-service that Lisander Was a fine timber'd Gentleman and active That he cou'd do sine gambolls To make a Lady merrie that this pair A very loving couple mutually Affected one another so much for them Sir That I a simple waiting-woman having taken My bodily oath the first night of admittance Into her Ladiships service on her slippers That was the book to serve her will in all things And to know no Religion but her pleasure 'T is not yet out of fashion with some Ladies Thar I as the premisses shew being commanded To do my function in conveyance of Lisander to her chamber my Lord absent On a pretended sickness did the feat It cannot be deny'd and at dead mid night Lest 'em together what they did some here Can easily imagine I have said Sir Dor. The Devils Oratrix King Then you confess you were her Bawd Clar. That 's course her Agent Sir King So goodie Agent and you think there is No punishment due for you agentship Clar. Let her suffer first Being my better for adulterie And I 'le endure the Mulct impos'd on Bawds Cull it by the worst name Cal. Live I to hear this King Take her aside Your answer to this Lady Cal. Heav'n grant me patience to be thus confronted O pardon Royal Sir a womans passion By one and this the worst of my mis-fortunes That was my slave but never to such ends Sir Would give a statue motion into furie Let my pass'd life my actions nay intentions Be by my grand accuser justly censur'd For her I scorn to answer and if they Yield any probability of truth In that she urges then I will confess A guilty cause the peoples voyce which is The voyce of truth my husbands
he 's best now Mast Away with him Alph. He shall not Mast Sir he must Welsh I will sing and dance Do any thing Alph. Wilt thou declaim in Greek Mast Away with the fool And whip her foundly Sirrah She fool I 'll tell no more tales Exit Alph. Or wilt thou flye i' th' air Eng Do and I 'll catch thee And like a wisp of Hay I 'll whirl and whirl thee And puff thee up and puff thee up Schol. I 'll save thee And thou shalt fall into the Sea soft softly Welsh I 'll get upon a mountain and call my Country-men Mast They all grow wild away with him for Heavens sake Sir ye are much to blame Alph. No no 't is brave Sir Ye have cozen'd me I 'll make you mad Mast In with him And look him fast Alph. I 'll see him in his lodging Exit Mast What means this Gentleman Enter Juletta Jul. He 's in have at him Are you the Master Sir Mast What would you with him Jul. I have a business from the Duke of Medina Is there not an old Gentleman come lately in Mast Yes and a wild one too but not a Prisoner Jul. Did you observe him well 't is like it may be he Mast I have seen younger men of better temper Jul. You have hit the cause I come for there 's a Letter Pray ye peruse it well I shall be wi' ye And suddenly I fear not finely daintily I shall so feed your fierce vexation And raise your Worships storms I shall so niggle ye And juggle ye and fiddle ye and firk ye I 'll make ye curse the hour ye vext a Woman I 'll make ye shake when our Sex are but sounded For the Lords sake we shall have him at I long to see it As much as for my wedding night I gape after it Mast This Letter says the Gentleman is lunatick I half suspected it Jul. 'T is very true Sir And such pranks he has plaid Mast He 's some great man The Duke commands me with such care to look to him And if he grow too violent to correct him To use the speediest means for his recovery And those he must find sharp Jul. The better for him Mast How got ye him hither Jul. With a train I told him He 's in love with a Boy there lyes his melancholy Mast Hither he came to seek one Jul. Yes I sent him Now had we dealt by force we had never brought him Mast Here was a Boy Jul. He saw him not Mast He was gone first Jul. It is the better look you to your charge well I 'll see him lodged for so the Duke commanded me He will be very rough Mast We are us'd to that Sir And we as rough as he if he give occasion Jul. You will find him gainful but be sure ye curb him And get him if ye can fairly to his lodging Enter Alphonso I am afraid ye will not Mast We must sweat then Alph. What dost thou talk to me of noises I 'l have more noise I 'll have all loose and all shall play their prizes Thy Master has let loose the Boy I lookt for Basely convey'd him hence Keep Will ye go out Sir Alph. I will not out I will have all out with me Shake Irons I 'll have thy Master in he 's only mad here And Rogues I 'll have ye all whipt heigh mad Boys mad Boys Jul. Do you perceive him now Mast 'T is too apparent Jul. I am glad she is gone he raves thus Mast Do you hear Sir 'Pray will ye make less stir and see your Chamber Call in more help and make the Closet ready Keep I thought he was mad I 'll have one long lash at ye Aâ—ph My Chamber where my Chamber why my Chamber Where 's the young Boy Mast Nay Pray ye Sir be more modest For your own Credit sake the people see ye And I would use ye with the best Alph. Best hang ye What dost thou think me mad Mast Pray and be civil Heaven may deliver ye Alpâ— Into a rogues hands Mast You do but draw more misery upon ye And add to your disease Alph. Get from me Mast No Sir You must not be left so bear your self civilly And 't will be better for ye swell not nor chafe not Alp. I am a Gentleman and a neighbour rascal Mast A great deal the more pity I have heard of ye Jul. Excellent Master Mast The Duke is very tender too Alph. Am I lunatique am I run mad What dost thou talk to me of Dukes and Devils Why do the people gape so Mast Do not anger 'em But go in quietly and slip in softly They will so tew ye else I am commanded Sir Alph. Why prethee why Mast Ye are dog-mad you perceive it not Very far mad and whips will scant recover ye Alph. Ha! whips Mast I whips and sore whips and ye were a Lord Sir If ye be stubborn here Alph. Whips what am I grown Jul. O I could burst hold hold hold hold o' both ends How he looks pray heaven he be not mad indeed Alph. I do not perceive I am so but if you think it Nor I 'le be hangd if 't be so Mast Do you see this Sir Irons brought in Down with that Devil in ye Alph. Indeed I am angry But I 'le contain my self O I could burst now And tear my self but these rogues will torment me Mad in mine old days make mine own afflictions Mast What do you mutter Sir Alph. Nothing Sir nothing I will go in and quietly most civilly And good Sir let none of your tormentors come about me You have a gentle face they look like Dragons Mast Be civil and be safe come for these two daies Ye must eat nothing neither 't will ease your sits Sir Alph. 'T will starve me Sir but I must bear it joyfully I may sleep Mast Yes a little go in with these men Alph. O miserable me Exit Mast I 'le follow presently You see 't is done Sir Jul. Ye have done it handsomely And I 'le inform the Duke so pray ye attend him Let him want nothing but his will Mast He shall not And if he be rebellious Jul. Never spare him H 'as flesh and hide enough he loves a whipping Mast My service to his Grace Exit Jul. I shall commend it So thou art fast I must go get some fresh room To laugh and caper in O how it tickles me O how it tumbles me with joy thy mouth 's stopt Now if I can do my Mistris good I am Sainted Exit Actus Quintus Scena Prima Enter Seberto Curio Seb. NOw o' my conscience we have lost him utterly He 's not gone home we heard from thence this morning And since our parting last at Roderigo's You know what ground we have travel'd Cur. He 's asleep sure For if he had been awake we should have met with him 'Faith let 's turn back we have but a fruitless journey And to
I read the Souldiers love Think Diocles worthy to supply the place Of dead Numerianus as he stands His Heir in his revenge with one consent Salute him Emperour Senat. Long live Diocles Augustus Pater Patriae and all Titles That are peculiar only to the Caesars We gladly throw upon him Guard We confirm it And will defend his honour with our Swords Against the world raise him to the Tribunal 1 Sen. Fetch the Imperial Robes and as a sign We give him absolute power of life and death Bind this Sword to his side 2 Sen. Omit no Ceremony That may be for his honour SONG Max. Still the gods Express that they are pleas'd with this election Geta. My Master is an Emperour and I feel A Senators Itch upon me would I could hire These fine invisible Fidlers to play to me At my instalment Dio. I embrace your loves And hope the honours that you heap upon me Shall be with strength supported It shall be My studie to appear another Atlas To stand firm underneath this heaven of Empire And bear it boldly I desire no Titles But as I shall deserve ' em I will keep The name I had being a private man Only with some small difference I will add To Diocles but two short syllables And be called Dioclesianus Geta. That is fine I 'le follow the fashion and when I am a Senator I will be no more plain Geta but be call'd Lord Getianus Dru. He ne'er thinks of me Nor of your favour Enter Niger Del. If he dares prove false These glories shall be to him as a dream Or an inchanted banquet Niger From Charinus From great Charinus who with joy hath heard Of your proceedings and confirms your honours He with his beauteous Sister fair Aurelia Are come in person like themselves attended To gratulate your fortune Loud Musick Enter Charinus Aurelia Attendants Dio. For thy news Be thou in France Pro-consul let us meet The Emperour with all honour and embrace him Dru. O Aunt I fear this Princess doth eclipse Th' opinion of my beauty though I were My self to be the judge Del. Rely on me Char. 'T is vertue and not birth that makes us noble Great actions speak great minds and such should govern And you are grac't with both Thus as a Brother A fellow and Co-partner in the Empire I do embrace you may we live so far From difference or emulous Competition That all the world may say Although two Bodies We have one Mind Aur. When I look on the Trunk Of dear Numerianus I should wash His wounds with tears and pay a Sisters sorrow To his sad fate but since he lives again In your most brave Revenge I bow to you As to a power that gave him second life And will make good my promise If you find That there is worth in me that may deserve you And that in being your wife I shall not bring Disquiet and dishonour to your Bed Although my youth and fortune should require Both to be su'd and sought to here I yield My self at your devotion Dio. O you gods Teach me how to be thankful you have pour'd All blessings on me that ambitious man Could ever fancie till this happy minute I ne're saw beauty or believ'd there could be Perfection in a woman I shall live To serve and honour you upon my knees I thus receive you and so you vouchsafe it This day I am doubly married to the Empire And your best-self Del. False and perfidious villain Dru. Let me fall headlong on him O my stars This I foresaw and fear'd Cha. Call forth a Flamen This knot shall now be ti'd Del. But I will loose it If Art or Hell have any strength Enter a Flamen Thunder and Lightning Cha. Prodigious Max. How soon the day 's orecast Fla. The Signs are fatal Juno smiles not upon this Match and shews too She has her thunder Dio. Can there be a stop In my full fortune Cha. We are too violent And I repent the haste we first should pay Our latest duty to the dead and then Proceed discreetly Let 's take up the body And when we have plac'd his ashes in his Urn We 'll try the gods again for wise men say Marriage and Obsequies do not suit one day Senate Exit Del. So 't is deferr'd yet in despite of falshood Comfort Drusilla for he shall be thine Or wish in vain he were not I will punish Ascend His perjury to the height Mount up my birds Some Rites I am to perform to Hecate To perfect my designs which once perform'd He shall be made obedient to thy Call Or in his ruine I will bury all Ascends throne Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Maximinian solus Max. What powerful Star shin'd at this mans Nativity And bless'd his homely Cradle with full glory What throngs of people press and buz about him And with their humming flatteries sing him Caesar Sing him aloud and grow hoarse with saluting him How the fierce-minded Souldier steals in to him Adores and courts his honour at his devotion Their lives their vertues and their fortunes laying Charinus sues the Emperour intreats him And as a brighter flame takes his beams from him The bless'd and bright Aurelia she doats on him And as the god of Love burns incense to him All eyes live on him Yet I am still Maximinian Still the same poor and wretched thing his servant What have I got by this where lies my glory How am I rais'd and honour'd I have gone as far To woo this purblind honour and have pass'd As many dangerous Expeditions As noble and as high nay in his destinie Whilst 't was unknown have run as many hazards And done as much sweat thorow as many perils Only the Hang-man of Volutius Aper Which I mistook has made him Emperour And me his slave Enter Delphia and Drusilla Del. Stand still he cannot see us Till I please mark him well this discontentment I have forc'd into him for thy cause Drusilla Max. Can the gods see this See it with justice and confer their blessings On him that never flung one grain of incense Upon their Altars never bow'd his knee yet And I that have march'd foot by foot struck equally And whilst he was a gleaning have been praying Contemning his base covetous Del. Now we 'll be open Max. Bless me and with all reverence Del. Stand up Son And wonder not at thy ungratefull Uncle I know thy thoughts and I appear to ease ' em Max. O Mother did I stand the tenth part to ye Engag'd and fetter'd as mine Uncle does How would I serve how would I fall before ye The poorer powers we worship Del. Peace and flatter not Necessitie and anger draws this from ye Of both which I will quit ye For your Uncle I spoke this honour and it fell upon him Fell to his full content he has forgot me For all my care forgot me and his vow too As if a dream had vanish'd so h
says I believe him Vncle We be three Heroicall Prince Nea. Nay then we must have the Picture of 'em and the Word Nos sumus Tut. That have travell'd all parts of the Globe together Vnc. For my part I have seen the vicissitude of fortune before Onos Peace Vncle for though you speak a little better than I Nea. 'T is a very little in truth Onos Yet we must both give place as they say to the best Speaker The Tutor Tut. Yet since it hath pleased your radience to decline so low as on us Poor and unworthy dunghils Nea. What a stinking knaves this Tut. Our Peregrination was nere so facilitated as since we enter'd the line of your gracious favor under whose beamy aspect and by which infallible Mathematical compass may we but hereafter presume to sail our industries have reach't their desir'd termination and period and we shall voluntarily sacrifice our lives to your resplendent eyes both the Altars and fires of our devoted offerings Onos Oh divine Tutor Cra. Can you hold Sir Era He has spoken this very speech to some Whore in Corinth Nea. A plague on him for a fustian Dictionary on my conscience this is the Vlissâ—an Traveller that sent home his Image riding upon Elephants to the great Mogoll Sos The same his wit is so huge nought but an Elephant could carry him Era. So heavy you mean Nea. These three are ev'n the fin'st one fool tripartite that was ere discovered Sos Or a treatise of famine divided into three branches Era. The Prince speaks The. I thank ye for your loves but as I told you I have so little means to do for those Few followers I have already that I would have none shiprack themselves and fortune Upon my barren shelf Sue to Euphanes For he is Prince and Queen I would have no man Curse me in his old age Cra. Alass Sir they desire to follow you But a far off the farther off the better Tut. I Sir and 't be seven mile off so we may but follow you only to countenance us in the confronts and affronts which according to your Highness will we mean on all occasions to put upon the Lord Euphanes Onos He shall not want gibing nor jeering I warrant him if he do I 'l forswear wit Nea. It has forsworn thee I 'l swear it is the ancient enemy to thy house The. Well be it so I here receive ye for my followers a great way off Nea. Seven miles my Lord no further Onos By what time Sir by this measure may I come to follow him in his Chamber Nea. Why when his Chamber Sir is seven miles long Enter Euphanes Conon Page Gent. Attendants Gent. Make way there for my Lord Euphanes Cra. Look Sir Jove appears The Peacock of our State that spreads a train Brighter than Iris blushes after rain Euph. You need not thank me Conon in your love You Antidated what I can do for you And I in gratitude was bound to this And am to much more and what ere he be Can with unthankfulness assoile me let him Dig out mine eyes and sing my name in verse In Ballad verse at every drinking house And no man be so charitable to lend me A Dogg to guide my steps Nea. Haile to Euphanes Sos Mighty Euphanes Era. The great Prince Euphanes Tut. Key of the Court and Jewell of the Queen Vnc. Sol in our Firmament Onos Pearl in the States eye Nea. Being a black man Era. Mistress of the Land Nea. Our humble humble poor Petitions are That we may hold our places All. May we Euph. Yes be you malicious knaves still and you fools Con. This is the Princes and your brothers spight Euph. I know 't but will not know it Con. Yonder they are Who 's fine child 's this Vnc. Sir Onos Unckle le'be Let him alone he is a mighty Prince Euph. I ask your Highness pardon I protest By Jupiter I saw you not The. Humh it may be so You have rais'd such mountaines 'twixt your eyes and me That I am hidden quite what do ye mean Sir You much forget your self Euph. I should much more Not to remember my due duty to your Grace I know not wherein I have so transgress'd My service to your Highness to deserve This rigour and contempt not from you only But from your followers with the best of whom I was an equal in my lowest ebbe Beseech you Sir respect me as a Gentleman I will be never more in heart to you Five fair Descents I can derive my self From Fathers worthy both in Arts and Armes I know your goodness companies your greatness But that you are perverted Royal Sir I am your humblest subject use your pleasure But do not give protection to the wrongs Of these subordinate Slaves whom I could crush By that great destined favor which my Mistris And your majestick Mother deignes to me But in respect of you I know lean envy Waites ever on the steps of virtue advanc'd But why your Mothers grace gets me disgrace Or renders me a slave to bear these wrongs I do not know Oh Mediocrity Thou prizeless jewel only mean men have But cannot value like the precious Jem Found in the Mukhill by the ignorant Cock The. Your creamy words but cozen how durst you Intercept me so lately to my Mother And what I meant your Brother you obtain'd Unto the forfeitoe again Cra. Your answer to that my Lord my Brother Euph. May I perish â—ere I heard you intended such a suit Though 't would have stuck an ignominious brand Upon your Highness to have given your servant A Gentlemans whole state of worth and quality Confiscate only for a youthful brawle The. Your rudiments are too sawcy teach your Page Con. I so are all things but your flatterers Onos Hold you your prating Con. You know where you are you fleeten face Euph. Yet Sir to appease and satisfie your anger Take what you please from me and give it him In lieu of this you shall not take it neither I freely will impart it half my state Which Brother if you please Cra. I le starve in Chains first Eat my own armes Euph Oh that you saw your self You ne'r made me such offer in my poorness And ' cause to do you ease I sought not to you You thus maligne me yet your nature must not Corrupt mine nor your rude examples lead me If mine can mend you I shall joy you know I fear you not you have seen me proved a man In every way of fortune 't is my comfort I know no more such Brothers in the World As Crates is Con. Nor I such as Euphanes The temper of an Angel reigns in thee Euph. Your Royal Mother Sir I had forgot Entreats your presence The. You have done her errand I may do yours Exit Euph. Let it be truth my Lord. Con. Crates I le question you for this Cra. Pish your worst Exit Con. Away you hounds after your scent Onos Come we
dangerous Dru. The good gods cure it Pen. My honour got thorow fire thorow stubborn breaches Thorow Battels that have been as hard to win as heaven Thorow death himself in all his horrid trims Is gone for ever ever ever Gentlemen And now I am left to scornful tales and laughters To hootings at pointing with fingers That 's he That 's the brave Gentleman forsook the battel The most wise Penyus the disputing coward O my good sword break from my side and kill me Cut out the coward from my heart Reg. Ye are none Pen. He lyes that says so by he lyes lyes basely Baser than I have done Come soldiers seek me I have robb'd ye of your virtues Justice seek me I have broke my fair obedience lost shame take me Take me and swallow me make ballads of me Shame endless shame and pray do you forsake me Dru. What shall we do Pen. Good Gentlemen forsake me You were not wont to be commanded Friends pray do it And do not fear for as I am a coward I will not hurt my self when that mind takes me I 'll call to you and ask your help I dare not Enter Petillius Petill. Good morrow Gentlemen where 's the Tribune Reg. There Dru. Whence come ye good Petillius Petill. From the General Dru. With what for heavens sake Petill. With good counsel Drusus And love to comfort him Dru. Good Regulus Step to the Soldier and allay his anger For he is wild as winter Exeunt Drusius and Regulus Petill. O are ye there have at ye Sure he 's dead It cannot be he dare out-live this fortune He must die 't is most necessary men expect it And thought of life in him goes beyond coward Forsake the field so basely fie upon 't So poorly to betray his worth so coldly To cut all credit from the soldier sure If this man mean to live as I should think it Beyond belief he must retire where never The name of Rome the voice of Arms or Honour Was known or heard of yet he 's certain dead Or strongly means it he 's no Soldier else No Roman in him all he has done but outside Fought either drunk or desperate Now he rises How does Lord Penyus Pen. As ye see Petill. I am glad on 't Continue so still The Lord General The valiant General great Swetonius Pen. No more of me is spoken my name 's perish'd Petill. He that commanded fortune and the day By his own valour and discretion When as some say Penyus refused to come But I believe 'em not sent me to see ye Pen. Ye are welcome and pray see me see me well Ye shall not see me long Petill. I hope so Penyus The gods defend Sir Pen. See me and understand me This is he Left to fill up your triumph he that basely Whistled his honour off to th'wind that coldly Shrunk in his politick head when Rome like reapers Sweat blood and spirit for a glorious harvest And bound it up and brought it off that fool That having gold and copper offer'd him Refus'd the wealth and took the wast that soldier That being courted by loud fame and fortune Labour in one hand that propounds us gods And in the other glory that creates us Yet durst doubt and be damned Petill. It was an errour Pen. A foul one and a black one Petill. Yet the blackest May be washt white again Pen. Never Petill. Your leave Sir And I beseech ye note me for I love ye And bring all comfort Are we gods Allied to no infirmities are our natures More than mens natures when we slip a little Out of the way of virtue are we lost Is there no medicine called Sweet mercy Pen. None Petillius There is no mercy in mankind can reach me Nor is it fit it should I have sinn'd beyond it Petill. Forgiveness meets with all faults Pen. 'T is all faults All sins I can commit to be forgiven 'T is loss of whole man in me my discretion To be so stupid to arrive at pardon Petill. O but the General Pen. He 's a brave Gentleman A valiant and a loving and I dare say He would as far as honor durst direct him Make even with my fault but 't is not honest Nor in his power examples that may nourish Neglect and disobedience in whole bodies And totter the estates and faiths of armies Must not be plaid withall nor out of pitty Make a General forget his duty Nor dare I hope more from him than is worthy Petill. What would ye do Pen. Dye Petill. So would sullen children Women that want their wills slaves disobedient That fear the law die Fie great Captain you A man to rule men to have thousand lives Under your Regiment and let your passion Betray your reason I bring you all forgiveness The noblest kind commends your place your honour Pen. Prethee no more 't is foolish didst not thou By thou didst I over-heard thee there There where thou standst now deliver me for rascal Poor dead cold coward miserable wretched If I out-liv'd this ruine Petill. I Pen. And thou dist it nobly Like a true man a souldier and I thank thee I thank thee good Petillius thus I thank thee Petill. Since ye are so justly made up let me tell ye 'T is fit ye dye indeed Pen. O how thou lov'st me Petill. For say he had forgiven ye say the peoples whispers Were tame again the time run out for wonder What must your own Command think from whose Swords Ye have taken off the edges from whose valours The due and recompence of Arms nay made it doubtful Whither they knew obedience must not these kill ye Say they are won to pardon ye by meer miracle Brought to forgive ye what old valiant Souldier What man that loves to fight and fight for Rome Will ever follow you more dare ye know these ventures If so I bring ye comfort dare ye take it Pen. No no Petillius no. Petill. If your mind serve ye Ye may live still but how yet pardon me You may outwear all too but when and certain There is a mercy for each fault if tamely A man will take 't upon conditions Pen. No by no means I am only thinking now Sir For I am resolved to go of a most base death Fitting the baseness of my fault I 'll hang. Petill. Ye shall not y' are a Gentleman I honor I would else flatter ye and force ye live Which is far baser Hanging 't is a dogs death An end for slaves Pen. The fitter for my baseness Petill. Besides the man that 's hang'd preaches his end And fits a sign for all the world to gape at Pen. That 's true I 'll take a fitter poison Petill. No 'T is equal ill the death of rats and women Lovers and lazie boys that fear correction Die like a man Pen. Why my sword then Petill. I If your Sword be sharp Sir There 's nothing under heaven that 's like your Sword Your Sword 's a
this City fainted but bear your selves in this fair action like men valiant men and free men Fear not the face of the enemy nor the noise of the Guns for believe me brethren the rude rumbling of a Brewers Carr is more terrible of which you have a daily experience Neither let the stink of Powder offend you since a more valiant stink is nightly with you To a resolved mind his home is every where I speak not this to take away the hope of your return for you shall see I do not doubt it and that very shortly your loving wives again and your sweet children whose care doth bear you company in baskets Remember then whose cause you have in hand and like a sort of true-born Scavengers scour me this famous Realm of enemies I have no more to say but this Stand to your tacklings lads and shew to the world you can as well brandish a sword as shake an Apron Saint George and on my hearts Omnes Saint George Saint George Exeunt Wife 'T was well done Ralph I 'll send thee a cold Capon a field and a bottle of March-beer and it may be come my self to see thee Cit. Nel the boy hath deceiv'd me much I did not think it had been in him he has perform'd such a matter wench that if I live next year I 'll have him Captain of the Gallisoist or I 'll want my Will Enter Old Merry-thought Old Mer. Yet I thank God I break not a rinkle more than I had not a stoop boys Care live with Cats I defie thee my heart is as sound as an Oak and though I want drink to wet my whistle I can sing Come no more there boys come no more there For we shall never whilst we live come any more there Enter a Boy with a Coffin Boy God save you Sir Old Mer. It 's a brave Boy can'st thou sing Boy Yes Sir I can sing but 't is not so necessary at this time Old Mer. Sing we and chaunt it whilst love doth grant it Boy Sir Sir if you knew what I have brought you you would have little lift to sing Old Mer. Oh the Mimon round full long I have thee sought And now I have thee found and what hast thou here brought Boy A Coffin Sir and your dead Son Jasper in it Old Mer. Dead why farewell he Thou wast a bonny boy and I did love thee Enter Jasper Jasp Then I pray you Sir do so still Old Mer. Jasper's Ghost thou art welcome from Stygian lake so soon Declare to me what wondrous things in Pluto's court are done Jas By my troth sir I ne'r came there 't is too hot for me Sir Old Mer. A merry Ghost a very merry Ghost And where is your true love Oh where is yours Jasp Marry look you Sir Heaves up the Coffin Old Mer. Ah ha Art thou good at that i' faith With hey trixie terlerie-whiskin the world it runs on wheels When the young mans up goes the Maidens heels Mistriss Merry-thought and Michael within Mist Mer. What Mr. Merri-thought will you not let 's in what do you think shall become of us Mist Mer. What voice is that that calleth at our door Mist Mer. You know me well enough I am sure I have not been such a stranger to you Old Mer. And some they whistled and some they sung Hey down down and some did loudly say ever as the Lord Barnets horn blew Away Musgrave away Mist Mer. You will not have us starve here will you Master Merry-thought Jasp Nay good Sir be perswaded she is my Mother if her offences have been great against you let your own love remember she is yours and so forgive her Luce. Good master Merry-thought let me intreat you I will not be denied Mist Mer. Why Master Merry-thought will you be a vext thing still Old Mer. Woman I take you to my love again but you shall sing before you enter therefore dispatch your song and so come in Mist Mer. Well you must have your Will when all 's done Mich. what song canst thou sing Boy Mich. I can sing none forsooth but a Ladies Daughter of Paris properly Mich. Mer. Song It was a Ladies Daughter c. Old Mer. Come you 're welcome home again If such danger be in playing and jest must to earnest turn You shall go no more a Maying Merch. within Are you within Sir Master Merry-thought Jasp It is my Masters voice good Sir go hold him talk whilst we convey our selves into some inward room Old Mer. What are you are you merry you must be very merry if you enter Mer. I am Sir Old Mer. Sing then Mer. Nay good Sir open to me Old Mer. Sing I say or by the merry heart you come not in Mer. Well Sir I 'll sing Fortune my foe c. Old Mer. You are welcome Sir you are welcome you see your entertainment pray you be merry Mer. Oh Master Merry-thought I am come to aske you Forgiveness for the wrongs I offered you And your most virtuous Son they 're infinite Yet my contrition shall be more than they I do confess my hardness broke his heart For which just heaven hath given me punishment More than my age can carry his wandring spirit Not yet at rest pursues me every where Crying I 'll haunt thee for thy cruelty My Daughter she is gone I know not how Taken invisible and whether living Or in grave 't is yet uncertain to me Oh Master Merry-thought these are the Weights Will sink me to my grave forgive me Sir Old Mer. Why Sir I do forgive you and be merry And if the wag in 's life time plaid the knave Can you forgive him too Mer. With all my heart Sir Old Mer. Speak it again and heartily Mer. I do Sir Now by my soul I do Old Mer. With that came out his Paramour She was as white as the Lilly Flower Hey troul trolie lolie Enter Luce and Jasper With that came out her own dear Knight He was as true as ever did sight c. Sir if you will forgive 'em clap their hands together there 's no more to be said i' th' matter Mer. i do I do Cit. I do not like this peace boys hear me one of you every bodies part is come to an end but Ralph's and he 's left out Boy 'T is long of your self Sir we have nothing to do with his part Cit. Ralph Come away make on him as you have done of the rest-boys come Wife Now good Husband let him come out and die Cit. He shall Nell Ralph come away quickly and die boy Boy 'T will be very unfit he should die sir upon no occasion and in a Comedy too Cit Take you no care for that Sir boy is not his part at an end think you when he 's dead come away Ralph Enter Ralph with a forked arrow through his head Ralph When I was mortal this my costive corps Did lap up Figs and Raisons in the Strand Where
that you may think I have no snare Sirra upon your knees desire her pardon Boy I dare not disobey you Mart. Prethee rise My anger never looks so low I thank you And will deserve it if we may be private I came to see and speak with you Jul. Be gone Exit Boy Good Madam sit Mart. I rob you of your place then Jul. You have deserv'd a better in my bed Make use of this too Now your pleasure Lady If in your breast there be a worthy pitty That brings you for my comfort you do nobly But if you come to triumph in your conquest Or tread on my calamities 't will wrong Your other excellencies Let it suffice That you alone enjoy the best of men And that I am forsaken Mart. He the best The scum and shame of mankind Jul. Virolet Lady Mart. Blest in him I would my youth had chosen Consuming feavers bed-rid age For my companions rather then a thing To lay whose baseness open would even poyson The tongue that speaks it Jul. Certainly from you At no part he deserves this and I tell you Durst I pretend but the least title to him I should not hear this Mart. He 's an impudent villain Or a malicious wretch to you ungrateful To me beyond expression barbarous I more then hate him from you he deserves A death most horrid from me to dye for ever And know no end of torments Would you have comfort Would you wash off the stain that sticks upon you In being refus'd Would you redeem your fame Shipwrack'd in his base wrongs if you desire this It is not to be done with slavish suffering But by a Noble anger making way To a most brave revenge we may call justice Our injuries are equal joyn with me then And share the honor Jul. I scarce understand you And know I shall be most unapt to learn To hate the man I still must love and honor Mar. This foolish dotage in soft-hearted women Makes proud men insolent but take your way I 'll run another course Jul. As you are noble Deliver his offence Mart. He has denied The rites due to a wife Jul. O me most happy How largely am I payd for all my sufferings Most honest Virolet thou just performer Of all thy promises I call to mind now When I was happy in those joys you speak of In a chast bed and warranted by Law too He oft would swear that if he should survive me Which then I knew he wisht not never woman Should tast of his embraces this one act Makes me again his debtor Mart. And was this The cause my youth and beauty were contemn'd If I sit down here wel Jul. I dare thy worst Plot what thou canst my piety shall guard him Against thy malice Leave my house and quickly Thou wilt infect these innocent walls By virtue I will inform him of thy bloody purpose And turn it on thine own accursed head Believ 't I will Exit Juliana Mart. But 't is not in thy power To hinder what I have decreed against him I 'll set my self to sale and live a strumpet Forget my birth my father and his honor Rather then want an instrument to help me In my revenge The Captain of the guard Blest opportunity courts me Enter Ronvere Ron. Sad and troubled How brave her anger shews how it sets off Her natural beauty under what happy star Was Virolet born to be belov'd and sought to By two incomparable women noblest Lady I have heard your wrongs and pitty them and if The service of my life could give me hope To gain your favor I should be most proud To be commanded Mart. 'T is in you my Lord To make me your glad servant Ron. Name the means Mar. 'T is not preferment Jewels Gold or Courtship He that desires to reap the harvest of My youth and beauty must begin in blood And right my wrongs Ron. I apprehend you Madam And rest assured 't is done I am provided Of instruments to fit you To the King I 'll instantly present you if I fail He shall make good your ayms he 's less then man That to atchieve your favor would not do Deeds fiends would fear to put their agents to Exeunt Enter Virolet Reading Vir. Quod invitus facis non est scelus 'T is an axiome Now whether willingly I have departed With that I lov'd with that above her life Lov'd me again crownd me a happy husband Was full of children her afflictions That I begot that when our age must perish And all our painted frailties turn'd to ashes Then shall they stand and propogate our honors Whether this done and taking to protection A new strange beauty it was a useful one How to my lust if it be so I am sinful And guilty of that crime I would fling from me Was there not in it this fair course of virtue This pious course to save my friends my Countrey That even then had put on a mourning garment And wept the desolation of her children Her noblest children Did not she thrust me on And to my duty clapt the spur of honor Was there a way without this woman left me To bring 'em off the marrying of this woman If not why am I stung thus why tormented Or had there been a wild desire joyn'd with it How easily both these and all their beauties Might I have made mine own why am I toucht thus Having perform'd the great redemption Both of my friends and family fairly done it Without base and lascivious ends O Heaven Why am I still at War thus why this a mischief That honesty and honor had propounded I and absolv'd my tender will and chid me Nay then unwillingly flung me on Enter Juliana and the Boy Boy He 's here Madam This is the melancholly walk he lives in And chooses ever to increase his sadness Jul. Stand by Vir. 'T is she how I shake now and tremble The virtues of that mind are torments to me Jul. Sir if my hated face shall stir your anger Or this forbidden path I tread in vex you My love and fair obedience left behind me Your pardon asked I shall return and bless you Vir. Pray stay a little I delight to see you May not we yet though fortune have divided us And set an envious stop between our pleasures Look thus one at another sigh and weep thus And read in one anothers eyes the Legends And wonders of our old loves be not fearful Though you be now a Saint I may adore you May I not take this hand and on it sacrifice The sorrows of my heart white seal of virtue Jul. My Lord you wrong your wedlock Vir. Were she here And with her all severe eyes to behold us We might do this I might name Juliana And to the reverence of that name bow thus I might sigh Juliana she was mine once But I too weak a guard for that great treasure And whilst she has a name believe me Lady This
the house Phil. I would see this too I will see all Otr. I beseech your Majesty The savor of it and the course appearance Phil. 'T is not so bad you would not offend your house with it Come let me see Otr. Faith Sir Phil. I'faith I will see Otr. My Groom has the key Sir and 't is ten to one Phil. But I will see it force the lock my Lords There be smiths enough to mend it I perceive You keep some rare things here you would not show Sir Florimel discover'd Ter. Here 's a fair maid indeed Phil. By my faith is she A hansome girl come forward do not fear wench I marry here 's a treasure worth concealing Call in the Miller Otr. Then I am discover'd I confess all before the Miller comes Sir 'T was but intention from all act I am clear yet Enter Franio Phil. Is this your daughter Fra. Yes and 't please your Highness This is the shape of her for her substance Sir Whether she be now honorable or dishonorable Whether she be a white-rose or a canker is the question I thank my Lord he made bold with my Philly If she be for your pace you had best preserve her Sir She is tender mouth'd let her be broken handsomly Phil. Maid were you stoln Flo. I went not willingly And 't please your Grace I was never bred so boldly Phil. How has he us'd ye Flo. Yet Sir very nobly Phil. Be sure ye tell truth and be sure my Lord You have not wrong'd her if ye have I tell ye You have lost me and your self too speak again wench Flo. He has not wrong'd me Sir I am yet a maid By all that 's white and innocent I am Sir Only I suffer'd under strong temptations The heat of youth but heaven deliver'd me My Lord I am no whore for all I faigned it And faign'd it cunningly and made ye loath me 'T was time to out-do you I had been rob'd else I had been miserable but I forgive ye Phil. What recompence for this Otr. A great one Sir First a repentance and a hearty one Forgive me sweet Flo. I do my Lord. Otr. I thank ye The next take this and these all I have Florimel Flo. No good my Lord these often corrupt Maidens I dare not touch at these they are lime for Virgins But if you 'll give me Otr. Any thing in my power Or in my purchase Flo. Take heed noble Sir You 'll make me a bold asker Otr. Ask me freely Flo. Ask you I do ask you and I deserve ye I have kept ye from a crying sin would damn ye To Men and Time I have preserv'd your credit That would have died to all posterity Curses of maids shall never now afflict ye Nor Parents bitter tears make your name barren If he deserves well that redeems his Countrey And as a Patriot be remembred nobly Nay set the highest may not I be worthy To be your friend that have preserv'd your honor Otr. You are and thus I take ye thus I seal ye Mine own and only mine Phil. Count she deserves ye And let it be my happiness to give ye I have given a virtuous maid now I dare say it 'T is more then blood I 'll pay her portion Sir And 't shall be worthy you Fra. I 'll sell my Mill I 'll pay some too I 'll pay the Fidlers And we 'll have all i'th'Country at this wedding Pray let me give her too here my Lord take her Take her with all my heart and kiss her freely Would I could give you all this hand has stol'n too In portion with her 't would make her a little whiter The wind blows fair now get me a young Miller Ver. She must have new clothes Tir. Yes Vir. Yes marry must she If 't please ye Madam let me see the state of your body I 'll fit you instantly Phil. Art not thou gone yet Ver. And 't please your Grace a gown a handsome gown now An orient gown Phil. Nay take thy pleasure of her Ver. Of cloth of Tissew I can sit ye Madam My Lords stand out o' th' light a curious body The neatest body in Spain this day with embroidered flow'rs A clinquant Petticoat of some rich stuffe To catch the eye I have a thousand fashions O sleeve O sleeve I 'll study all night Madam To magnifie your sleeve Otr. Do superstitious Tailor When ye have more time Flo. Make me no more then woman And I am thine Otr. Sir haply my Wardrobe with your help May fit her instantly will you try her Ver. If I fit her not your Wardrobe cannot But if the fashion be not there you marre her Enter Antonio Constable Officers Ant. Is my offence so great ere I be convict To be torn with Rascals If it be Law Let 'em be wild horses rather than these Phil. Whatâ—â— that Con. This is a man suspected of murther if it please your Grace Phil. It pleases me not friend But who suspects him Const We that are your Highness extraordinary officers â—e that have taken our oaths to maintain you in peace Phil. 'T will be a great charge to you Const 'T is a great charge indeed but then we call our neighbors to help us This Gentleman and another were fallen out yet that 's more then I am able to say for I heard no words between 'em but what their weapons spoke Clash and Clatter which we seeing came with our Bills of government and first knock'd down their weapons and then the men Phil. And this you did to keep the peace Const Yes and 't like your Grace we knock'd 'em down to keep the peace this we laid hold on the other we set in the stocks That I could do by mine own power without your Majesty Enter Aminta Phil. How so Sir Const I am a Shoo-maker by my Trade Am. Oh my Husband Why stands my husband as a man endanger'd Restore him me as you are merciful I 'll answer for him Ant. What woman 's this what husband hold thy bawling I know thee for no wife Am. You married me last night Ant. Thou lyest I neither was in Church nor house Last night nor saw I thee a thing that was my friend I scorn to name now was with Ismenia Like a thief and there he violated A sacred trust This thou mayst know Aminta Am. Are not you he Ant. No nor a friend of his Would I had kill'd him I hope I have Am. That was my Husband Royal Sir that man That excellent man Enter Bellides Ant. That villain that thief Bel. Have I caught you Sir well overtaken This is mine enemy pardon my Soveraign Phil. Good charity to crave pardon for your enemy Bel. Mine own pardon Sir for my joyes rudeness In what place better could I meet my foe And both of us so well provided too He with some black blood-thirsty crime upon him That ere the horse-leech burst will suck him dry I with a second accusation
Enough to break his neck if need should be And then to have even Justice it self to right us How should I make my joyes a little civil They might not keep this noyse Ant. Here is some hope Should the ax be dull the halter 's preparing Phil. What 's your accusation Sir We have heard the former Enter Julio Bel. Mine my Lord a strong one Jul. A false one Sir At least malicious an evidence Of hatred and despight He would accuse My poor kinsman of that he never dream'd of Nor waking saw the stealing of his daughter She whom I know he would not look upon Speak Antonio Didst thou ever see her Ant. Yes Sir I have seen her Bel. Ah ha friend Julio Jul. He might but how with an unheedful eye An accidental view as men see multitudes That the next day dare not precisely say They saw that face or that amongst 'em all Didst thou so look on her Bel. Guilty guilty His looks hang themselves Phil. Your patience Genleman I pray you tell me if I be in errour I may speak often when I should but hear This is some show you would present us with And I do interrupt it Pray you speak It seems no more Is' t any thing but a show Bel. My Lord this Gentlewoman can show you all So could my daughter too if she were here By this time they are both immodest enough Shee 's fled me and I accuse this thief for 't Don Martin his own friend 's my testimony A practis'd night-work Phil. That Martin 's the other In your custodie he was forgotten Fetch him hither Const Wee 'll bring the Stocks and all else and 't please your Grace Enter Bustofa and Ismenia Am. That man 's my husband certain instead of this Both would have deceiv'd and both beguil'd Bust Soh hoh Miller Miller look out Miller is there n'ere a Miller amongst you here Gentlemen Tir. Yes Sir here is a Miller amongst Gentlemen A Gentleman Miller Bust I should not be far off then there went but a pair of sheers and a bodkin between us Will you to work Miller Here 's a maid has a sack full of news for you shall your stones walk will you grind Miller Phil. This your son Franio Fra. My ungratious my disobedient My unnatural my rebel son my Lord. Bust Fie your hopper runs over Miller Fra. This villain of my own flesh and blood was accessary To the stealing of my daughter Bust Oh Mountain Shalt thou call a molehill a scab upon the face Of the earth though a man be a thief shall a Miller call Him so Oh egregious Jul. Remember Sirrha who you speak before Bust I speak before a Miller A thief in grain for he steals corn He that steals A wench is a true man to him Phil. Can you prove that you may help another cause that was in pleading Bust I 'll prove it strongly He that steals corn steals the bread of the Common-wealth He that steals a wench steals but the flesh Phil. And how is the bread stealing more criminal then the flesh Bust He that steals bread steals that which is lawful every day He that steals flesh steals nothing from the fasting day Ergo to steal the bread is the arranter theft Phil. This is to some purpose Bust Again he that steals flesh steals for his own belly full He that steals bread robs the guts of others Ergo The arranter thief the bread-stealer Again he that steals flesh steals once and gives over yes and often pays for it the other steals every day without satisfaction To conclude Bread-stealing is the more capital crime for what he steals he puts it in at the head he that steals flesh as the Dutch Author says puts it in at the foot the lower member Will you go as you are now Miller Phil. How has this satisfied you Don Bellides Bel. Nothing my Lord my cause is serious I claim a daughter from that loving thiefe there Ant. I would I had her for you Sir Bel. Ah ha Julio Jul. How said you Antonio Wish you you had his daughter Ant. With my soul I wish her and my body Shall perish but I 'll injoy my souls wish I would have slain my friend for his deceit But I do find his own deceit hath paid him Jul. Will you vex my soul forth no other choice But where my hate is rooted Come hither Girl Whose pretty maid art thou Ism The child of a poor man Sir Jul. The better for it With my Soveraigns leave I 'll wed thee to this man will he nill he Phil. Pardon me Sir I 'll be no Love enforcer I use no power of mine unto those ends Jul. Wilt thou have him Ism Not unless he love me Ant. I do love thee Farewell all other Beauties I settle here you are Ismenia Ism The same I was better nor worse Antonio Ant. I shall have your consent here I 'm sure Sir Bel. With all my heart Sir Nay if you accept it I 'll do this kindness to mine enemy And give her as a Father Ant. Shee 'll thank you as a Daughter Will you not Ismenia Bel. How Ismenia Ism Your daughter Sir Bel. Is' t possible Away you feeble witted things You thought you had caught the old ones you wade you wade In shallow fords we can swim we look here We made the match we are all friends good friends Thin thin why the fool knew all this this fool Bust Keep that to your self Sir What I knew I knew This sack is a witness Miller this is not for your thumming Here 's gold lace you may see her in her holliday clothes if you will I was her ward-robe-man Enter Martin Aminta Constable Officers Ant. You beguil'd me well Sir Mar. Did you speak to me Sir Ant. It might seem to you Martin your conscience Has quick ears Mar. My sight was a little dim i' th' dark indeed So was my feeling cozen'd yet I 'm content I am the better understander now I know my wife wants nothing of a woman There y' are my Junior Ant. You are not hurt Mar. Not shrewdly hurt I bave good flesh to heal you see Good round flesh these cherries will be worth chopping Crack stones and all I should not give much to boot To ride in your new and you in my old ones now Ant. You mistake the weapon are you not hurt Mar. A little scratch but I shall claw it off well enough Enter Gillian Gill. I can no longer own what is not mine With a free conscience My Liege your pardon Phil. For what who knows this woman Fra. I best my Lord I have been acquainted with her these forty Summers And as many Winters were it Spring agen She 's like the Gout I can get no cure for her Phil. Oh your Wife Franio Fra. 'T is oh my wife indeed my Lord A painful stitch to my side would it were pick'd out Phil. Well Sir your silence Bust Will you be older and older every
Lord Alvarez Vitelli Gentlemen No Town in Spain from our Metropolis Unto the rudest hovel but is great With your assured valors daily proofs Oh will you then for a superfluous fame A sound of honor which in these times all Like hereticks profess with obstinacy But most erroneously venture your souls 'T is a hard task through a Sea of blood To sail and land at Heaven Vit. I hope not If justice be my Pilot but my Lord You know if argument or time or love Could reconcile long since we had shook hands I dare protest your breath cools not a vein In any one of us but blows the fire Which nought but blood reciprocal can quench Alv. Vitelli thou sayst bravely and sayst right And I will kill thee for 't I love thee so Vit. Ha ha old man upon thy death I 'll build A story with this arm for thy old wife To tell thy daughter Clara seven years hence As she sits weeping by a winters fire How such a time Vitelli slew her husband With the same Sword his daughter favor'd him And lives and wears it yet Come Lamorall Redeem thy self Lam. Lucio Genevora Shall on this Sword receive thy bleeding heart For my presented hat laid at her feet Luc. Thou talk'st well Lamorall but 't is thy head That I will carry to her to thy hat Fie Father I do cool too much Alv. Oh boy Thy fathers true Son Beat Drums and so good morrow to your Lordship Enter above Eugenia Clara Genevora Say Brave resolutions Anast Brave and Spanish right Gen. Lucio Cla Vitelli. Eug. Alvarez Alv. How the devil Got these Cats into th'gutter my pusse too Eug. Hear us Gen. We must be heard Cla. We will be heard Vitelli look see Clara on her knees Imploring thy compassion Heaven how sternly They dart their emulous eyes as if each scorn'd To be behind the other in a look Mother death needs no Sword here oh my Sister Fate fain would have it so persuade entreat A Ladies tears are silent Orators Or should be so at least to move beyond The honest tongu'd-Rhetorician Why will you fight why do's an uncles death Twenty year old exceed your love to me But twenty days whose forc'd cause and fair manner You could not understand only have heard Custom that wrought so cunningly on nature In me that I forgot my sex and knew not Whether my body female were or male You did unweave and had the power to charm A new creation in me made me fear To think on those deeds I did perpetrate How little power though you allow to me That cannot with my sighs my tears my prayers Move you from your own loss if you should gain Vit. I must forget you Clara 'till I have Redeem'd my unkles blood that brands my face Like a pestiferous Carbuncle I am blind To what you do deaf to your cries and Marble To all impulsive exorations When in this point I have perch'd thy fathers soul I 'll tender thee this bloody reeking hand Drawn forth the bowels of that murtherer If thou canst love me then I 'll marry thee And for thy father lost get thee a Son On no condition else Assist Most barbarous Say Savage Anast Irreligious Gen. Oh Lucio Be thou merciful thou bear'st fewer yearâ— Art lately wean'd from soft effiminacy A maidens manners and a maidens heart Are neighbors still to thee be then more mild Proceed not to this combat be'st thou desperate Of thine own life yet dearest pitty mine Thy valour 's not thine own I gave it thee These eyes begot it this tongue bred it up This breast would lodge it do not use my gifts To mine own ruine I have made thee rich Be not so thankless to undo me for 't Luc. Mistriss you know I do not wear a vein I would not rip for you to do you service Life 's but a word a shadow a melting dream Compar'd to essential and eternal honor Why would you have me value it beyond Your brother if I first cast down my sword May all my body here be made one wound And yet my soul not find heaven thorough it Alv. You would be catter-walling too but peace Go get you home and provide dinner for Your Son and me wee 'll be exceeding merry Oh Lucio I will have thee cock of all The proud Vitellies that do live in Spain Fie we shall take cold hunch I am hoarse Already Lam. How your Sister whets my spleen I could eat Lucio now Gen. Vitelli Brother Ev'n for your Fathers soul your uncles blood As you do love my life but last and most As you respect your own Honor and Fame Throw down your sword he is most valiant That herein yields first Vit. Peace you fool Cla. Why Lucio Do thou begin 't is no disparagement He 's elder and thy better and thy valor Is in his infancy Gen. Or pay it me To whom thou ow'st it Oh that constant time Would but go back a week then Lucio Thou would'st not dare to fight Eug. Lucio thy Mother Thy Mother begs it throw thy sword down first Alv. I 'll throw his head down after then Gen. Lamorall You have often swore you 'ld be commanded by me Lam. Never to this your spight and scorn Genevora Has lost all power in me Gen. Your hearing for six words Ass Say An. Strange obstinacy Al. Vit. Lu. Lam. We 'll stay no longer Cla. Then by thy oath Vitelli Thy dreadful oath thou wouldst return that Sword When I should ask it give it to me now This instant I require it Gen. By thy vow As dreadful Lucio to obey my will In any one thing I would watch to challenge I charge thee not to strike a stroak now he Of our two brothers that loves perjury Best and dares first be damn'd infringe his vow Say Excellent Ladies Vit. Pish you tyrannize Luc. We did equivocate Alv. On. Cla. Then Lucio So well I love my husband for he is so Wanting but ceremony that I pray His vengeful sword may fall upon thy head Succesfully for false-hood to his Sister Gen. I likewise pray Vitelli Lucio's sword Who equally is my husband as thou hers May find thy false heart that durst gage thy faith And durst not keep it Assist Are you men or stone Alv. Men and we 'll prove it with our swords Eug. Your hearing for six words and we have done Zancho come forth we 'll fight our challenge too Now speak your resolutions Enter Bobidilla with two swords and a Pistol Gen. These they are The first blow given betwixt you sheathes these swords In one anothers bosomes Eug. And rogue look You at that instant do discharge that Pistol Into my breast if you start back or quake I 'll stick you like a Pig Alv. Hold you are mad Gen. This we said and by our hope of bliss This we will do speak your intent Cla. Gen. Strike Eug. Shoot All. Vit. Lat. La. Hold hold all friends Assist Come down Alv. These devilish
Cosin Bel. Is this the Garden Rod. Yes Madam Sil. Oh my blessed Mistriss Saint of my soul Bel. Speak softly take me to ye Oh Silvio I am thine thine ever Silvio Rod. Is this your promise Sir Lady your honor I am undone if this be seen disgrac'd Fallen under all discredit Bell. Do you love still Dear do you keep your old faith Sil. Ever Lady And when that fails me all that 's good forsake me Rod. Do not you shame Madam I must not suffer this I will not suffer it men call you virtuous What do you mean to lose your self thus Silvio I charge thee get away I charge you retire ye I 'll call the Watch else Sil. Call all the world to see us We live in one anothers happiness And so will die Bel. Here will I hang for ever Rod. As ye respect me as hereafter Madam You would enjoy his love nothing prevail with ye I 'll try my strength then get thee gone thou villain Thou Promise-breaker Sil. I am tide I cannot Rod. I 'll ring the Bell then Sil. Ring it to death I am fixt here Enter Bartello two Soldiers with lights Bart. I saw a Light over the Garden walk Hard by the Ladies Chamber here 's some knavery As I live I saw it twice Rod. The Guard the Guard there I must not suffer this it is too mischievous Bart. Light up the Torch I fear'd this ha young Silvio How got he in 1 Sold. The Devil brought him in sure He came not by us Bart. My wife between 'em busling Guard pull him off Rod. Now now ye feel the misery Bart. You Madam at an hour so far undecent Death O my soul this is a soul fault in ye Your mothers care abus'd too Light 's to her Chamber I am sorry to see this Bell. Farewel my Silvio And let no danger sink thee Sil. Nor death Lady Exeunt Bell. Rod. Birt Are ye so hot I shall prepare ye Physick Will purge ye finely neatly you are too fiery Think of your prayers Sir an you have not forgot 'em Can ye flie i' th' air or creep ye in at key-holes I have a Gin will catch ye though you conjur'd Take him to Guard to night to strong and sure Guard I 'll back to th' Dutchess presently no less sport serve ye Than the Heir to a Dukedom play at push-pin there Sir It was well aim'd but plague upon 't you shot short And that will lose your game Sil. I know the loss then Exeunt Scaena Quarta Enter Claudio like a Merchant Clau. Now in this habit may I safely see How my incensed friend carries my murther Who little I imagin'd had been wrought To such a height of rage and much I grieve now Mine own blind passion had so master'd me I could not see his love for sure he loves her And on a nobler ground than I pretended Enter Penurio It must be so it is so what Penurio My shotten friend what wind blew you Pen. Faith 't is true Any strong wind will blow me like a Feather I am all Air nothing of earth within me Nor have not had this month but that good Dinner Your Worship gave me yesterday that staies by me And gives me ballast else the Sun would draw me Cla. But does my Mistriss speak still of me Pen. Yes Sir And in her sleep that makes my Master mad too And turn and fart for anger Cla. Art sure she saw me Pen. She saw ye at a window Cla. 'T is most true In such a place I saw a Gentlewoman A young sweet handsome woman Pen. That 's she that 's she Sir Cla. And well she view'd me I view'd her Pen. Still she Sir Cla. At last she blush'd and then look'd off Pen. That blush Sir If you can read it truly Cla. But didst thou tell her Or didst thou fool me thou knew'st such a one Pen. I told her and I told her such a sweet tale Cla. But did she hear thee Pen. With a thousand ears Sir And swallow'd what I said as greedily As great-belly'd women do Cherries stones and all Sir Cla. Methinks she should not love thy Master Pen. Hang him Pilcher There 's nothing loves him his own Cat cannot endure him She had better lye with a Bear for he is so hairy That a tame Warren of Fleas frisk round about him Cla. And wilt thou work still Pen. Like a Miner for ye Cla. And get access Pen. Or conjure you together 'T is her desire to meet she is poyson'd with him And till she take a sweet fresh air that 's you Sir Cla. There 's money for thee thou art a precious Varlet Be fat be fat and blow thy Master backward Pen. Blow you my Mistriss Sir as flat as a Flounder Then blow her up again as Butchers blow their Veals If she dye upon the same â—â—ry her bury her in Gods name Cla. Thou art a merry knave by this hand I 'll feed thee Till thou crack'st at both ends if thou dar'st do this Thou shalt eat no fantastical Porridge Nor lick the dish where oil was yesterday Dust and dead Flies to day Capons fat Capons Pen. Oh hearty sound Cla. Cramb'd full of itching Oysters Pen. Will ye have the Dutchess Cla. And Lobsters big as Gauntlets Thou shalt despise base Beef Pen. I do despise it And now methinks I feel a Tart come sliding Cla. Leaping into thy mouth but first deal faithfully Pen. When will ye come Cla. To morrow Pen. I 'll attend ye For then my Master will be out in business Cla. What news abroad Pen. ' Mas as I was coming to you I heard that Signior Silvio a good Gentleman Many a good meal I have eaten wit him Cla. What of him Pen. Was this day to be arraigned before the Dutchess â—â—t why I could not hear Cla. Silvio arraign'd Go get ye gone and think of me Pen. I flie Sir Exit Pen. Cla. Arraign'd for what for my supposed death no That cannot be sure there 's no rumor of it â—e it what it will I will be there and see it â—â—d if my help will bring him off he has it Exit Scaena Quinta Enter Dutchess Lords Silvio prisoner Belvidere Bartello Rodope Clark Counsellors Attendants Du. Read the Edict last made Keep silence there Clerk If any man of what condition soever and a subject after the publishing of this Edict shall without special Licence from the great Dutchess attempt or buy offer or make an attempt to solicite the love of the Princess Belvidere the person so offending shall forfeit his life Couns The reason why my Royal Mistriss here In her last Treaty with Sien as Duke â—romis'd her beauteous daughter there in marriage The Duke of Milan rival in this fortune Un-nobly sought by practice to betray her Which found and cross'd the Cittadel receiv'd her There to secure her Mothers word the last cause So many Gentlemen of late enamour'd On this most beauteous Princess and not brooking One more
Quisara such another Oh all ye powers so excellent in nature In honor so abundant Quisar I confess Sir Confess my word is past too he has purchased Yet good Sir give me leave to think but time To be acquainted with his worth and person To make me fit to know it we are both strangers And how we should believe so suddenly Or come to fasten our affections Alass love has his complements Kin. Be sudden And certain in your way no woman doubles Nor coy delayes you are his and so assure it Or cast from me and my remembrance ever Respect your word I know you will come Sister Le ts see what welcome you can give a prisoner And what fair looks a friend Oh my most noble Princes no discontents but all be lusty He that frowns this day is an open enemy Thus in my armes my dear Ar. You make me blush Sir Kin. And now lead on Our whole Court crown'd with pleasure Ru. Madam despair not something shall be done yet And suddenly and wisely Quisar O Ruy Dias Ex. Py. Well he 's a brave fellow and he has deserv'd her richly And you have had your hands full I dare swear Gentlemen Soz. We have done something Sir if it hit right Ch. The woman has no eyes else nor no honesty So much I think Py. Come let 's goe bounce amongst 'em To the Kings health and my brave Country-mans My Unckle looks as though he were sick o th' Worms friends Exeunt Actus Tertius Scaena Prima Enter Pyniero MIne Unckle haunts me up and down looks melancholy Wondrous proof melancholy sometimes swears Then whistles starts cries and groans as if he had the Botâ— As to say truth I think h 'as little better And wo'd fain speak bids me good morrow at midnight And good night when 't is noon has something hovers About his brains that would fain find an issue But cannot out or dares not still he follows Enter Ruy Dyas How he looks still and how he beats about Like an old dog at a dead scent I marry There was a sigh wou'd a set a ship a sailing These winds of love and honor blow at all ends Now speak and 't be thy Will good morrow Uncle Ru. Good morrow Sir Py. This is a new salute Sure h 'as forgot me this is pur-blind Cupid Ru. My Nephew Py. Yes Sir if I be not chang'd Ru. I wou'd fain speak with you Py. I wou'd fain have ye Sir For to that end I stay Ru. You know I love ye And I have lov'd ye long my dear Pyniero Bred and supply'd you Py. Whither walks this Preamble Ru. You may remember though I am but your Uncle I sure had a father's care a father's tenderness Py. Sure he would wrap me into something now suddenly He doubts my nature in for mine is honest He winds about me so Ru. A fathers diligence My private benefits I have forgot Sir But those you might lay claim to as my follower Yet some men wou'd remember Py. I do daily Ru. The place which I have put ye in which is no weak one Next to my self you stand in all employments Your counsels cares assignments with me equal So is my study still to plant your person These are small testimonies I have not forgot ye Nor wou'd not be forgotten Pyn. Sure you cannot Ru. Oh Pyniero Pyn. Sir what hangs upon you What heavy weight oppresses ye ye have lost I must confess in those that understand ye Some little of your credit but time will cure that The best may slip sometimes Ru. Oh my best Nephew Pyn. It may be ye fear her too that disturbs ye That she may fall her self or be forc'd from ye Ru. She is ever true but I undone for ever Oh that Armusia that new thing that stranger That flag stuck up to rob me of mine honor That murd'ring chain shot at me from my Countrey That goodly plague that I must court to kill me Pyn. Now it comes flowing from him I fear'd this Knew he that durst be idle durst be ill too Has he not done a brave thing Ru. I must confess it Nephew must allow it But that brave thing has undone me has sunk me Has trod me like a name in sand to nothing Hangs betwixt hope and me and threatens my ruin And if he rise and blaze farewel my fortune And when that 's set where 's thy advancement Cosin That were a friend that were a noble kinsman That would consider these that man were grateful And he that durst do something here durst love me Pyn. You say true 't is worth consideration Your reasons are of weight and mark me Uncle For I 'll be sudden and to th' purpose with you Say this Armusia then were taken off As it may be easily done How stands the woman Ru. She is mine for ever For she contemns his deed and him Pyn. Pox on him Or if the single pox be not sufficient The hogs the dogs the devils pox possess him 'Faith this Armusia stumbles me 't is a brave fellow And if he could be spared Uncle Ru. I must perish Had he set up at any rest but this Done any thing but what concern'd my credit The everlasting losing of my worth Pyn. I understand you now who set you on too I had a reasonable good opinion of the devil Till this hour and I see he is a knave indeed An arrant stinking knave for now I smell him I 'll see what may be done then you shall know You have a kinsman but no villain Uncle Nor no betrayer of fair same I scorn it I love and honor virtue I must have Access unto the Lady to know her mind too A good word from her month you know may stir me A Ladies look at setting on Ru. You say well Here Cosin here 's a Letter ready for you And you shall see how nobly she 'll receive you And with what dare direct Pyn. Farewel then Uncle After I have talk'd with her I am your servant To make you honest if I can else hate you Pray ye no more compliments my head is busie heaven bless me What a malicious soul does this man carry And to what scurvy things this love converts us What stinking things and how sweetly they become us Murther 's a moral virtue with these Lovers A special piece of Divinity I take it I may be mad or violently drunk Which is a whelp of that litter or I may be covetous And learn to murther mens estates that 's base too Or proud but that 's a Paradise to this Or envious and sit eating of my self At others fortunes I may lye and damnably Beyond the patience of an honest hearer Cosin Cut purses sit i' th' Stocks for apples But when I am a Lover Lord have mercy These are poor pelting sins or rather plagues Love and Ambition draw the devils Coach Enter Quisana and Panura How now who are these Oh my great Ladies followers Her Riddle-founders
now I see your Father's honors Trebling upon you and the many prayers The Countrey spent for him which almost now Begun to turn to curses turning back And falling like a mighty shower Upon ye Gent. Goe call my Wife Ja. But shall she not prevail And sway you as she oft hath done before Gent I will not hear her but raile on her Till I be ten miles off Ja. If you be forty 'T will not be worse Sir Gent. Call her up Ja. I will Sir Exit Gent. Why what an Ass was I that such a thing As a Wife is could rule me Know not I that woman was created for the man That her desires nay all her thoughts should be As his are is my sense restor'd at length Now she shall know that which she should desire She hath a husband that can govern her Enter Wife If her desires leads me against my will Are you come Wife What sad unwonted course Makes you raise me so soon that went to bed So late last-night Gent. O you shall goe to bed sooner hereafter And be rais'd again at thristy hours In Summer time wee 'l walk An hour after our Supper and to bed In Winter you shall have a set at Cards And set your Maids to work Wife What do you mean Gent. I will no more of your new tricks your honors Your Offices and all your large preferments Which still you beat into my ears hang o'er me I 'll leave behind for others the great sway Which I shall bear at Court my living here With countenance of your honoured friends I 'll be content to lose for you speak this Only that you may still continue here In wanton ease and draw me to consume In cloaths and other things idle for shew That which my Father got with honest thrift Wife Why who hath been with you Sir That you talk thus out of Frame Gent. You make a fool of me You provide one to bid me forth to supper And make me promise then must some one or other Invite you forth if you have born your self Loosely to any Gentleman in my sight At home you ask me how I like the carriage Whether it were not rarely for my good And open'd not a way to my preferment Come I perceive all talk not we 'll away Wife Why Sir you 'll stay till the next triumph Day be past Gent. I you have kept me here triumphing This seven years and I have ridden through the streets And bought embroyder'd hose and foot-cloths too To shew a subjects zeal I rode before In this most gorgeous habit and saluted All the acquaintance I could espie From any window these are wayes ye told me To raise me I see all make you ready straight And in that Gown which you came first to Town in Your safe-guard cloak and your hood sutable Thus on a double gelding shall you amble And my man Jaques shall be set before you Wife But will you goe Gent. I will Wife And shall I too Gent. And you shall too Wife But shall I by this light Gent. Why by this light you shall Wife Then by this light You have no care of your Estate and mine Have we been seven years venturing in a Ship And now upon return with a fair wind And a calm Sea full fraught with our own wishes Laden with wealth and honor to the brim And shall we flye away and not receive it Have we been tilling sowing labouring With pain and charge a long and tedious winter And when we see the corn above the ground Youthful as is the Morn and the full eare That promises to stuffe our spacious garners Shall we then let it rot and never reap it Gent. Wife talke no more your Rhetorick comes too late I am inflixible and how dare you Adventure to direct my course of life Was not the husband made to rule the Wife Wife 'T is true but where the man doth miss his way It is the Womans part to set him right So Fathers have a power to guide their Sons In all their courses yet you oft have seen Poor little children that have both their eyes Lead their blind Fathers Gen. She has a plaguy wit I say you 'r but a little piece of man Wife But such a piece as being tâ—ne away Man cannot last the fairest and tallest ship That ever sail'd is by a little piece of the same Wood steer'd right and turn'd about Gen. 'T is true she sayes her answers stand with reason Wife But Sir your Cozin put this in your head Who is an enemy to your preferment Because I should not take place of his wife Come by this kiss thou shalt not go sweet heart Gen. Come by this kiss I will go Sweet-heart On with your riding stuffe I kâ—ow your tricks And if preferment fall ere you â—e ready 'T is welcome else adieu the Ciâ—y life Wife Well Sir I will obey Gent. About it then Wife To please your humor I would dress my self In the most loathsome habit you could name Or travel any whether o're the World If you command me it shall ne'r be said The frailty of a woman whose weak mind Is often set on loose delights and shews Hath drawn her husband to consume his state In the vain hope of that which never fell Gen. About it then women are pleasant creatures When once a man begins to know himself Wife But hark you Sir because I will be sure You shall have no excuse no word to say In your defence hereafter when you see What honors were prepar'd for you and me Which you thus willingly have thrown away I tell you I did look for present honor This morning for you which I know had come But if they do not come ere I am ready Which I will be the sooner least they should When I am once set in a countrey life Not all the power of earth shall alter me Not all your prayers or threats shall make me speak The least words to my honorable friends To do you any grace Gent. I will not wish it Wife And never more hope to be honorable Gent. My hopes are lower Wife As I live you shall not You shall be so far from the name of noble That you shall never see a Lord again You shall not see a Maske or Barriers Or Tilting or a solemn Christning Or a great Marriage or new Fire-works Or any bravery but you shall live At home bespotted with your own lov'd durt In scurvy cloaths as you were wont to doe And to content you I will live so too Gen. T is all I wish make haste the day draws on It shall be my care to see your Stuffe packt up Wife It shall be my care to gull you you shall stay Ex. Gen. And more than so intreat me humbly too You shall have honors presently Maria. Enter Maria. Mar. Madam Wife Bring hither pen ink and paper Ma. 'T is here Wife Your Master will not stay Unless preferment come
both you shall Doe loyal service and reward your Duties Cas Heaven preserve your Highness Qu. But yet my Lords and Gentlemen let none Mistake me that because I urge your wisdoms I shall grow careless and impose on you The managing of this great Province no We will be active too and as we are In dignity above your persons so The greatest portion of the difficulties We all to us you in your several places Relieving us with your experience Observing in your best directions All modesty and distance for although We are but young no action shall forfeit Our royal priviledge or encourage any Too unreverent boldness as it will become Our honor to consult e'r we determine Of the most necessary things of state So we are sensible of a check But in a brow that saucily controuls Our action presuming on our years As few or frailty of our sex that head Is not secure that dares our power or justice Phi. She has a brave spirit look how the Protector Grows pale already Qu. But I speak to you Are perfect in obedience and may spare This Theme yet 't was no immatrial Part of our character since I desire All should take notice I have studied The knowledge of my self by which I shall Better distinguish of your worth and persons In your relations to us Lis This language Is but a threatening to some body Qu. But we miss some that use not to absent Their duties from us where 's Macarius Cas Retir'd to grieve your Majesty hath given Consent Arcadius should enter the List To day with young Seleucus Qu. We purpose Enter Gentleman They shall proceed what 's he Phil. A Gentleman belonging to Seleucus that gives notice He is prepar'd and waits your royal pleasure Qu. He was compos'd for action give notice To Arâ—adius and admit the challenger Let other Princes boast their gaudy tilting And mockery of battles but our triumph Is celebrated with true noble valour Enter Seleucus Arcadius at several doors their Pages before them bearing their Targets Two young men spirited enough to have Two kingdoms staked upon their swords Lisimachus Do not they excellently become their arms 'T were pity but they should do something more Then wave their plumes A shout within What noise is that Enter Macarius and Eubulus Mac. The peoples joy to know us reconcil'd Is added to the jubile of the day We have no more a faction but one heart Peace flow in every bosom Eub. Throw away These instruments of death and like two friends Embrace by our example Qu. This unfein'd Mac. By our duties to your self dear Madam Command them not advance our houses from This minute are incorporated happy day Our eyes at which before revenge look'd forth May clear suspition oh my Arcadius Eub. We have found a nearer way to friendship Madam Than by exposing them to fight for us Qu. If this be faithful our desires are blest We had no thought to waste but reconcile Your bloud this way and we did prophesie This happy chance spring into eithers bosom Arcadius and Seleucus what can now Be added to this days felicity Yes there is something is there not my Lord While we are Virgin queen Cas Ha that string Doth promise Musick Qu. I am yet my Lords Your single joy and when I look upon What I have took to manage the great care Of this most flourishing kingdom I incline To think I shall do justice to my self If I choose one whose strength and virtue may Assist my undertaking think you Lords A Husband would not help Lis No question Madam And he that purpose to make you so blest Must needs be worthy of our humblest duty It is the general vote Qu. We will not then Trouble Ambassadors to treat with any Princes abroad within our own dominion Fruitful in honor we shall make our choice And that we may not keep you over long In tho imagination from this circle we â—ave purpose to elect one whom I shall â—â—ote a King and Husband Lisa Now my Lord Lisimachus Que. Nor shall we in this action be accus'd Of rashness since the man we shall declare Deserving our affection hath been early â— our opinion which had reason first To guide it and his known nobility â—ong marry'd to our thoughts will justifie Our fair election Phi. Lisimachus blushes Cas Direct our duties Madam to pray for him Que. Arcadius you see from whence we come Pray lead us back you may ascend She comes from the State Cas How 's this o're-reach'd Arc. Madam be charitable to your humblest creature Doe not reward the heart that falls in duty Beneath your feet with making me the burden Of the Court-mirth a mockery for Pages T were Treason in me but to think you meane thus Que. Arcadius you must refuse my love â—r shame this Kingdom Phi. Is the wind in that corner Cas I shall run mad Lisimachus Lisi Sir contain your self Sel. Is this to be believ'd Mac. What dream is this Phi. He kisses her now by this day I am glad on 't Lisa Mark the Protector Ant. Let him fret his heart-strings Que. Is the day cloudy on the sudden Arc. Gentlemen â— was not my ambition I durst never â—spire so high in thought but since her Majesty â—ath pleas'd to call me to this honor I Will study to be worthy of her grace â—y whom I live Que. The Church to morrow shall Confirme our marriage noble Lisimachus We 'll find out other wayes to recompence Your love to us set forward come Arcadius Mac. It must be so and yet let me consider Cas He insults already policy assist me To break his neck Lisi Who would trust Woman Lost in a pair of minutes lost how bright â— morning rose but now 't is night Exeunt Actus Tertius Scaena Prima Enter Polidora and a Servant Pol. OH where shall Virgins look for faith hereafter If he prove false after so many vowes â—nd yet if I consider he was tempted Above the strength of a young Lover two â—â—ch glorious courting his acceptance were Able to make disloyalty no sin At least not seem a fault a Lady first Whose very looks would thaw a man more frozen Than the Alps quicken a soulmore dead than Winter Add to her beauty and perfection That she 's a Queen and brings with her a Kingdom â—ble to make a great mind forfeit Heaven What could the frailty of Arcadius â—â—ggest to unspirit him so much as not To fly to her embraces you were present When she declar'd her self Ser. Yes Madam Pol. Tell me Did not he make a pause when the fair Queen A full temptation stood him Ser. Very little My judgment could distinguish she did no sooner Propound but he accepted Pol. That was ill He might with honor stand one or two minutes Me thinks it should have startled him a little To have rememberd me I have deserv'd At least a cold thought well pray give it him Ser. I shall Pol. When Ser.
one voice salute you Demetrius King of Epire. Mac. I am no Uncle Sir this is your Sister I should have suffer'd incest to have kept you Longer i th' dark love and be happy both My trust is now discharg'd Lisa And we rejoyce Arc. But do not mock me Gentlemen May I be bold upon your words to say I am Prince Theodosius Son Mac. The King Arc. You 'll justifie it Sister I am very glad to see you Sop. I am to find a brother and resign my glory My triumph is my shame Exit Enter Cassander Cas Thine ear Lisimachus Arc. Gentlemen I owe Unto your loves as large acknowledgment As to my birth for this great honor and My study shall be equal to be thought Worthy of both Cas Thou art turn'd Marble Lisi There will be the less charge for my Monument Cas This must not be sit fast young King Exit Lisa Your sister Sir is gone Arc. My sister should have been my Bride that name Puts me in mind of Polidora ha Lisander Philocles Gentlemen If you will have me think your hearts allow me Theodosius son oh quickly snatch some wings Express it in your haste to Polidora Tell her what title is new dropt from heaven To make her rich onely created for me Give her the ceremony of my Queen With all the state that may become our Bride Attend her to this throne Are you not there Yet stay 't is too much pride to send for her Wee 'll go our self no honor is enough For Polidora to redeem our fault Salute her gently from me and upon Your knee present her with this Diadem 'T is our first gift tell her Demetrius follows To be her guest and give himself a servant To her chast bosome bid her stretch her heart To meet me I am lost in joy and wonder Exceunt Omnes Actus Quartus Scaena Prima Enter Cassander Eubulus Soldier Cas WHere 's the Captain of the Castle Sol. Hee 'll attend your honors presently Cas Give him knowledge we expect him Sol. I shall my Lord. Exit Cas He is my creature fear not And shall run any course that we propound Eub. My Lord I like the substance of your plot 'T is promising but matters of this consequence Are not so easily perfect and it does Concern our heads to build upon secure Principles though Seleucus I confess Carry a high and daring spirit in him 'T is hard to thrust upon the state new setled Any impostor and we know not yet Whether hee 'll undertake to play the Prince Or if he should accept it with what cunning He can behave himself Cas My Lord affairs Of such a glorious nature are half finish'd When they begin with confidence Eub. Admit He want no art or courage it must rest Upon the people to receive his title And with what danger their uncertain breath May flatter ours Demetrius scarcely warm In the Kings seat I may suspect Cas That reason Makes for our part for if it be so probable That young Demetrius should be living Why May not we work them to believe Lenatus The eldest son was by some trick preserv'd And now would claim his own there were two sons Who in their Fathers life we supposed dead May not we find a circumstance to make This seem as clear as t'other let the vulgar Be once possest wee 'll carry Epire from Demetrius and the World Eub. I could be pleas'd To see my Son a King Enter Poleanus The Captain 's here Pol. I waite your Lordships pleasure Cas We come to visit your late prisoner I will not doubt but you intreat him fairly He will deserve it for himself and you Be fortunate in any occasion To have exprest your service Pol. Sir the knowledge Of my honorable Lord his Father will Instruct me to behave my self with all Respects becoming me to such a son Cas These things will least Oblige you but how bears he his restraint Pol. As one whose soul 's above it Eub. Patiently Pol. With contempt rather of the great command Which made him prisoneâ— he will talke sometimes So strangely to himself Eub. Hee 's here Enter Seleucus Sel. Why was I born to be a subject 't is Soon answer'd sure my Father was no Prince That 's all the same ingredients use to make A Man as active though not royal blood Went to my composition and I Was gotten with as good a will perhaps And my birth cost my Mother as much sorrow As I had been born an Emperor Cas While I look Upon him something in his face presents A King indeed Eub. He does resemble much Theodosius too Cas Whose son we would pretend him This will advance our plot Sel. 'T is but a name And mere opinion that prefers one man Above another I 'll imagine then I am a Prince or some brave thing on Earth And see what follows but it must not be My single voice will carry it the name Of King must be attended with a troop Of acclamations on whose ayrie wings He mounts and once exalted threatens Heaven And all the stars how to acquire this noise And be the thing I talke of men have rise From a more cheap nobility to Empires From dark originals and sordid blood Nay some that had no fathers sons of the earth And flying people have aspir'd to Kingdoms Made nations tremble and have practis'd frowns To awe the world their memory is glorious And I would hug them in their shades but what 's All this to me that am I know not what And less in expectation Pol. Are you serious Cas Will you assist and run a fate with us Pol. Command my life I owe it to your favor Sel. Arcadius was once as far from being As I and had we not so cunningly Been reconcil'd or one or both had gone To seek our fortunes in another world What 's the device now If my death be next The summons shall not make me once look pale Cas Chide your too vain suspitions we bring â— life and liberty with what else can make Thy ambition happy th' ast a glorious flame We come to advance it Sel. How Cas Have but a will And be what thy own thoughts dare prompt thee to A King Sel. You do not mock me Gentlemen You are my Father Sir Eub. This minute shall Declare it my Seleucus our hearts swell'd With joy with duty rather oh my boy Sel. What 's the mistery Pol. You must be a King Cas Seleucus stay thou art too incredulous Let not our faith and study to exalt thee â—e so rewarded Eub. I pronounce thee King Unless thy spirit be turn'd coward and Thou saint to accept it Sel. King of what Cas Of Epire. Sel. Although the Queen since she sent me hither Were gone to Heaven I know not how That title could devolve to me Cas We have No Queen since he that should have married her Is prov'd her youngest brother and now King In his own title Sel. Thank you Gentlemen
faults to answer for Upon our own account our Fathers crimes Are in us punish'd Oh Albert the course They took to leave us rich was not honest Nor can that friendship last which virtue joyns not When first they forc'd the industrious Portugals From their Plantations in the Happy Islands Cro. This is that I watch for Ray. And did omit no tyranny which men Inured to spoil and mischief could inflict On the griex'd sufferers when by lawless rapine They reap'd the harvest which their Labourer sow'd And not content to force 'em from their dwelling But laid for 'em at Sea to ravish from 'em The last remainder of their wealth then then After a long pursuit each doubting other As guilty of the Portugals escape They did begin to quarrel like in men Forgive me piety that I call 'em so No longer love or correspondence holds Than it is cimented with prey or profit Then did they turn these swords they oft had bloodi'd With innocent gore upon their wretched selves And paid the forfeit of their cruelty Shewn to Sebastian and his Colonie By being fatal enemies to each other Thence grew Amintas rape and my desire To be reveng'd And now observe the issue As they for spoil ever forgot compassion To women who should be exempted From the extremities of a lawful War We now young able men are fall'n into The hands of Women that against the soft Tenderness familiar to their Sex Will shew no mercy Enter Crocale Cro. None unless you shew us Our long lost Husbands We are those Portugals you talk'd of Ray. Stay I met upon the Sea in a tall Ship Two Portugals famish'd almost to death Tib. Our Ship by this Wine And those the rogues that stole her Lest us to famish in the barren Islands Ray. Some such tale they told me And something of a Woman which I find To be my Sister Cro. Where are these men Ray. I left 'em Supposing they had deluded me with forg'd tales In the Island where they said They had liv'd many years the wretched owners Of a huge mass of treasure Alb. The same men and that the fatal muck We quarrell'd for Cro. They were Portugals you say Ray. So they profess'd Cro. They may prove such men as may save your lives And so much I am taken with fair hope That I will hazard life to be resolv'd on 't How came you hither Ray. My ship lies by the Rivers mouth That can convey ye to these wretched men Which you desire to see Cro. Back to your prisons And pray for the success if they be those Which I desire to find you are safe If not prepare to die to morrow For the world cannot redeem ye Alb. However we are arm'd For either fortune Exit Tib. What must become of me now That I am not dismiss'd Cro. Oh Sir I purpose To have your company Ti. Take heed wicked woman I am apt to mischief now Cro. You cannot be so unkind To her that gives you liberty Ti. No I shall be too kind that 's the devil on 't I have had store of good wine and when I am drunk Joan is a Lady to me and I shall Lay about me like a Lord I feel strange motions Avoid me temptation Cro. Come Sir I 'll help ye in Exeunt Enter Sebastian and Nicusa Nicu. What may that be That moves upon the Lake Sebast Still it draws nearer And now I plainly can discern it 'T is the French Ship Nicu. In it a woman Who seems to invite us to her Sebast Still she calls with signs of Love to hasten to her So lovely hope doth still appear I feel nor age nor weakness Nicu. Though it bring death To us 't is comfort and deserves a meeting Or else fortune tyr'd with what we have suffer'd And in it overcome as it may be Now sets a period to our misery Exeunt Horid Musick Enter severally Raymond Albert Aminta Ray. What dreadful sounds are these Amint. Infernal Musick Fit for a bloody Feast Alb. It seems prepar'd To kill our courages e'r they divorce Our souls and bodies Ray. But they that fearless fall Deprive them of their triumph An Altar prepar'd Enter Rossillia Clarinda Juletta Hippolita c. Amin. See the furies â—n their full trym of cruelty Ros 'T is the last Duty that I can pay to my dead Lord Set out the Altar I my self will be The Priest and boldly do those horrid Rites You shake to think on lead these Captains nearer For they shall have the honor to fall first To my Sebastian's ashes and now wretches As I am taught already that you are And lately by your free confession French Pirats and the sons of those I hate Even equal with the devil hear with horror What 't is invites me to this cruel course And what you are to suffer no Amazons we But women of Portugal that must have from you Sebastian and Nicusa we are they That groan'd beneath your fathers wrongs We are those wretched women Their injuries pursu'd and overtook And from the sad remembrance of our losses We are taught to be cruel when we were forc'd From that sweet air we breathed in by their rapine And sought a place of being as the Seas And Winds conspir'd with their ill purposes To load us with afflictions in a storm That fell upon us the two ships that brought us To seek new fortunes in an unknown world Were severed the one bore all the able men Our Treasure and our Jewels in the other We Women were embarqu'd and fell upon After long tossing in the troubled main This pleasant Island but in few months The men that did conduct us hither died We long before had given our Husbands lost Remembring what we had suff'red by the French We took a solemn Oath never to admit The curs'd society of men necessity Taught us those Arts not usual to our Sex And the fertile Earth yielding abundance to us We did resolve thus shap'd like Amazons To end our lives but when you arriv'd here And brought as presents to us our own Jewels Those which were boorn in the other Ship How can ye hope to scape our vengeance Amint. It boots not then to swear our innocence Alb. Or that we never forc'd it from the owners Ray. Or that there are a remnant of that wrack And not far off Ros All you affirm I know Is but to win time therefore prepare your throats The world shall not redeem ye and that your cries May find no entrance to our ears To move pity in any bid loud Musick sound Their fatal knells if ye have prayers use 'em quickly To any power will own ye but ha Enter Crocale Sebastian Nicusa Tibalt Who are these what spectacles of misfortune Why are their looks So full of Joy and Wonder Cro. Oh! lay by These instruments of death and welcome To your arms what you durst never hope to imbrace This is Sebastian this Nicusa Madam Preserv'd by miracle look up dear
a very necessary farewell Enter Caesario They all make ridiculous conges to Bianca rank themselves and dance in several postures during the dance Enter Caesario and stands off Host Well done my lusty bloods precisely well done One lusty rouse of Wine and take leave on all sides Cesar Thanks for your Revels Gentlemen accept This Gold and drink as freely as you danc'd Host My noble Lord Cesario clear the rooms Sirs Foro. Away Attend your answers Exeunt Foro and those that dâ—ne'd Cesar With your favor Rolando I would change a word or two with your fair daughter Host At your Lordships pleasure come Wife no muttering have a care Girle my love service and duty to you good Lordship Exeunt and Wife Cesar My often visits sweet Bianca cannot But constantly inform thy judgment wherein Thy happiness consists for to steal minutes From great imployments to converse with beauty Lodg'd in so mean a fortune to lay by Consideration of the unequal distance Between my blood and thine to shun occasions Of courtship with the Ladies of the time Noble and fair only for love to thee Must of necessity invite a tenderness As low as nature could have stampt a Bondwomans To entertain quick motions of rare gratitude For my uncommon favors Bian. ' Deed my Lord as far as my simplicity can lead me I freely thank your curtesies Cesar To thank them is to reward them pretty one Bian. Then teach me How I may give them back again in truth I never yet receiv'd a pair of Gloves A trifling Ring from any that expected An equall satisfaction but as willingly I parted with the guift unto the owner as he bestow'd it Caesar But I pour before thee Such plenties as it lies not in the ability Of thy whole kindred to return proportionable One for a thousand Biâ—n You my Lord conclude For my instruction to ingage a debt Beyond a possibility of paiment I ever thought a sin and therefore justly Without conceit of scorn or curious rudeness I must refuse your bounty Cesar Canst thou love Bian. Love Is there such a word in any Language That carries honest sence Cesar Never dwelt ignorance In so sweet-shap't a building love Bianca Is that firm knot which ties two hearts in one Shall ours be tied so Bian. Use a plainer word My Lord. In stead of tyes say marries hearts Then I may understand Caesar Their hearts are married Whose enterchange of pleasures and embraces Soft kisses and the privacies of sweets Keeps constant league together when temptation Of great mens oathes and gifts shall urge contempt Rather than batter resolution novelty Of sights or taste of new delights in wantonness Breeds surfeit more than appetite in any Reserv'd to noble vowes my excellent Maid Live thou but true to me and my contents Mine only that no partner may partake The treasure of those sweets thy youth yet glories in And I will raise thy lowness to abundance Of all varieties and more triumph In such a Mistris than great Princes doating On truth-betraying Wives Bian. Thus to yield up then The cottage of my virtue to be swallow'd By some hard-neighbouring Landlord such as you are Is in effect to love a Lord so vicious O where shall innocence find some poor dwelling Free from temptations tyranny Cesar Nay prethee Byan. Gay clothes high feeding easie beds of lust Change of unseemly sights with base discourse Draw curses on your Pallaces for my part This I will be confirm'd in I will eate The bread of labour know no other rest Than what is earn'd from honest pains ere once more Lend ear to your vile toyles Sir would you were As noble in desires as I could be in knowing virtue Pray do not afflict a poor soul thus Cesar I swear to me Bianca steales off Enter a Gentleman Gent. The Duke my Lord commands your speedy presence For answering agrievances lately urg'd Against you by your Mother Cesar By my Mother Gent. The Court is near on sitting Cesar I wait on it Sir Exeunt Enter Duke Magistrate Secretary Baptista Attendants Mentivole they sit Mentivole stands by Duke What waste of blood what tumults what divisions What outrages what uprores in a State Factions though issuing from mean springs at first Have not restrain'd stowed to the sad example At Rome between the Vrsins and Columni's Nay here at home in Florence 'twixt the Neers And the Bianchi can too mainly witness I sit not at the Helm my Lords of Sovereignty Deputed Pilot for the Common-wealth To sleep while others steere as their wild fancies Shall counsel by the compass of disorders Baptista This short Preface is directed Chiefly to you the petty brawls and quarrels Late urg'd betwixt th' Alberti and your family Must yes and shall like tender unknit joynts Fasten again together of themselves Or like an â—â—gry Chyrurgion we will use The roâ—ghness of our justice to cut off â— be stubborn â—ancour of the limbes offending Bap. Most gracious Florence Duke Our commanâ— was signified â—hat neither of the followers of each party Shoâ—lâ— appeâ—r here with weapons Bap. 'T is obey'd Sir on my side Duke We must leave the general cause Of State employments to give â—ar to brawls Of some particular grudges pollitick government For tutor'd Princes but no more henceforth Enter Mariana and Clarissa at one door Cesario at the other Our frown shall check presumption not our clemency Mari. All blessings due to unpartial Princes Crown Florence with eternity of happiness Cesar If double Prayers can double blessings great Sir Mine joyn for your prosperity with my Mothers Duke Rise both now briefly Lady without circumstance Deliver those agrievances which lately Your importunity possest our Counsel Were fit for audience wherein you petition'd You might be heard without an Advocate Which boon you find is granted Mari. Though divided I stand between the Laws of truth and modesty Yet let my griefs have vent Yet the clearness Of strange necessity requires obedience To nature and your Mercy in my weeds Of mourning emblems of too dear misfortunes Badges of griefs and Widdowhood the burtheâ— Of my charg'd soul must be laid down before you Wherein if strict opinion cancel shame My frailty is my plea Stand forth young Man And hear a story that will strike all reason Into amazement Cesar I attend Mar. Alberto peace dwell upon his ashes still the husband Of my remembrance and unchanging vowes Has by his death left to his heir possession Of fair revenew which this young man claimes As his inheritance I urg'd him gently Friendly and privately to grant a partage Of this estate to her who ownes it all This his supposed Sister Bap. How supposed Cesar Pray Madam recollect your self Mar. The relish Of a strange truth begins to work like Physick Already I have bitterness to mingle With these preparatives so deadly loathsome It will quite choak digestion shortly hear it Cesario for I dare not rob unjustly The poor soul of his name this this
it Alber. I 'll not bandy words but thus dissolve the contract Bap. There I meet thee and seize on what 's mine own Alber. For all my service Great Sir grant me the combat with this wretch That I may scourge his insolence Bap. I kneel for it Cesar And to approve my self Alberto's Son I 'll be his second upon any odds ' Gainst him that dare most of Baptista's race Menti. Already upon honourable terms In me thou hast met thy better for her sake I 'll add no more Alber. Sir let our swords decide it Maria. Oh stay Sir and as you would hold the Title Of a just Prince e'r you grant licence to These mad-mens fury lend your private ear To the most distress'd of Women Duke Speak 't is granted He takes Mariana aside Clar. In the meantime let not Clarissa be A patient looker on though as yet doubtful To whom to bend her knee first yet to all I stoop thus low in duty and would wash The dust of fury with my Virgin tears From his bless'd feet and make them beautiful That would move to conditions of peace Though with a snail-like pace they all are wing'd To bear you to destruction reverend Sirs Think on your antient friendship cemented With so much bloud but shed in noble action Divided now in passion for a brawl The Makers blush to own much lov'd Cesario Brother or friend each Title may prevail Remember with what tenderness from our childhood We lov'd together you preferring me Before your self and I so fond of you That it begot suspition in ill minds That our affection was incestuous Think of that happy time in which I know That with your dearest bloud you had prevented This shower of tears from me Mentivole My Husband registred in that bright star-chamber Though now on earth made strangers be the example And offer in one hand the peaceful Olive Of concord or if that can be denied By powerful intercession in the other Carry the Hermian rod and force attonement Now we will not be all marble Death 's the worst then And he shall be my Bridegroom Offers to kill her self Ment. Hold Clarissa his loving violence needs must Offer in spite of honor He snatches away her knife and sets it to his own breast she staies his hand Duke Was it to that end then on your Religion Mar. And my hope in Heaven Sir Duke We then will leave intreaties and make use Of our authority must I cry ai-me To this unheard of insolence in my presence To draw your swords and as all reverence That 's due to Majesty were forfeited Cherish this wildeness sheath them instantly And shew an alteration in your looks or by my power Alber. Cut off my head Bap. And mine rather than hear of peace with this bad man I 'll not alone give up my throat but suffer Your rage to reach my family Enter Prospero Juliana Biancha Alb. And my name to be no more remembred Duke What are these Ces Biancha 't is Biancha still Biancha but strangely alter'd Bapt. If that thirteen years Of absence could raze from my memory The figure of my friend I might forget thee But if thy Image be graven on my heart Thou art my Prospero Pros Thou my Baptista Duke A suddain change Bap. I dare not ask dear friend If Juliana live for that 's a blessing I am unworthy of but yet denie not To let me know the place she hath made happy By having there her Sepulchre Pros If your Highness please to vouchsafe a patient Ear we shall make a true relation of a story That shall call on your wonder Duke Speak we hear you Pros Baptista's fortune in the Genoua Court His banishment with his fair Wife's restraint You are acquainted with what since hath follow'd I faithfully will deliver E'r eight Moons After Baptista's absence were compleat Fair Juliana found the pleasures that They had injoy'd together were not barren And blushing at the burthen of her womb No father near to own it it drew on A violent sickness which call'd down compassion From the angry Duke then careful of her health Physitians were enquir'd of and their judgment Prescrib'd the Baths of Luca as a means For her recovery to my charge it pleas'd her To be committed but as on the way We journey'd those throws only known to Women Came thick upon her in a private Village Bap. She died Pros Have patience she brought to the world A hopeful Daughter for her bodies sickness It soon decay'd but the grief of her mind Hourly increas'd and life grew tedious to her And desperate e'er to see you she injoyn'd me To place her in a Greekish Monastery And to my care gave up her pretty Daughter Bapt. What Monastery as a Pilgrim bare-foot I 'll search it out Pros Pray you interrupt me not Now to my fortunes the girl well dispos'd of With a faithful friend of mine my cruel fate Made me a prisoner to the Turkish Gallies Where for 12 years these hands tugg'd at the Oar But fortune tyr'd at length with my afflictions Some Ships of Maltha met the Ottoman Fleet Charg'd them and boarded them and gave me freedom With my deliverers I serv'd and got Such reputation with the great Master That he gave me command over a tall And lusty ship where my first happy service Was to redeem Alberto rumour'd dead But was like me surpriz'd by Cortugogly Alber. I would I had died there Pros And from him learning Baptista liv'd and their dissolv'd friendship I hois'd up sails for Greece found Juliana A votary at her Beads having made known Both that you liv'd and where you were she borrow'd So much from her devotion as to wish me To bring her to you if the object please you With joy receive her Bapt. Rage and fury leave me Throws away his sword I am so full of happiness there 's no room left To entertain you oh my long lost Jewel Light of mine eyes my souls strength Julia. My best Lord having embrac'd you thus Death cannot fright me Bapt. Live long to do so though I should six here Pardon me Prospero though I enquire my daughters fortune Pros That your happiness May be at all parts perfect here she is Ces Biancha daughter to a Princess Pros True with my faithful Host I left her And with him till now she hath resided Ignorant both of her birth and greatness Bap. Oh my blest one Joy upon joy o'erwhelms me Duke Above wonder Alb. I do begin to melt too this strange story Works much upon me Duke Since it hath pleas'd heaven To grace us with this miracle I that am Heavens instrument here determine thus Alberto Be not unthankful for the blessings shown you Nor you Baptista discord was yet never A welcome sacrifice therefore rage laid by Embrace as friends and let pass'd difference Be as a dream forgotten Bap. 'T is to me Alber. And me and thus confirm it Duke And to tye it In bonds
and command the City Do the like let proclamations Be drawn and hastily sent through the Land To the same purpose Ismen Sir I will break down none my self But I will deliver your command Hand I will have none in 't for I like it not Leon. Goe and command it Pleasure of my life Wouldst thou ought else make many thousand suits They must and shall be granted Hid. Nothing else Exit Ismenus Leon. But go and meditate on other suits Some six days hence I 'll give thee Audience again And by a new oath bind my self to keep it Ask largely for thy self dearer than life In whom I may be bold to call my self More fortunate than any in my age I will deny thee nothing Leu. 'T was well done Sister Exeunt all but these three Lords Nis How like you this request my Lord Dor. I know not yet I am so full of wonder We shall be gods our selves shortly And we pull 'em out of Heaven o' this fashion Age. We shall have wenches now when we can Catch 'em and we transgress thus Nis And we abuse the gods once 't is a Justice We should be heâ—d at hard meat for my part I 'll e'en make ready for mine own affection I know the god incenst must send a hardness Through all good Womens hearts and then we have Brought our Eggs and Muskadine to a fair Market Would I had giv'n an 100 l. for a tolleration That I might but use my conscience in mine Own house Dor. The Duke he 's old and past it he would Never have brought such a plague upon the Land else 'T is worse than Sword and Famine Yet to say truth we have deserv'd it we have liv'd So wickedly every man at his Livery and wou'd that Wou'd have suffic'd us we murmur'd at this Blessing that was nothing and cry'd out to the God for endless pleasures he heard us And suppied us and our Women were new still As we need 'em yet we like beasts still cry'd Poor men can number their woers give us Abundance we had it and this curse withal Age. Berlady we are like to have a long Lent on 't Flesh shall be flesh now Gentlemen I had rather Have anger'd all the gods than that blind Gunner I remember once the people did but slight him In a sacrifice and what followed Women kept their houses grew good huswives Honest forsooth was not that fine Wore their own faces Though they wear gay cloaths without surveying And which was most lamentable They lov'd their Husbands Nis I do remember it to my gries Young Maids were as cold as Cowcumbers And much of that complexion Bawds were abolisht and to which misery It must come again There were no Cuckolds Well we had need pray to keep these Divels from us The times grow mischievous There he goes Lord Enter one with an Image This is a sacriledge I have not heard of Would I were gelt that I might not Feel what follows Age. And I too You shall see within these Few years a fine confusion i' the Countrey mark it Nay and we grow for to depose the Powers And set up Chastity again well I have done A fine new goddess certainly whose blessings Are hunger and hard beds Nis This comes of fulness a sin too frequent with us I believe now we shall find shorter commons Dor. Would I were married somewhat has some savour The race of Gentry will quite run out now 'T is only left to Husbands if younger Sisters Take not the greater charity 't is lawful Age. Well let come what will come I am but one and as the plague salls I 'll shape my self If Women will be honest I 'll be found If the god be not too unmerciful I 'll take a little still where I can get it And thank him and say nothing Nis This ill wind yet may blow the City good And let them if they can get their own children They have hung long enough in doubt but howsoever the old way was the surer then they had ' em Dor. Farewel my Lords I 'll e'en take up what Rent I can before the day I fear the year will fall out ill Age. We 'll with you Sir And love so favour us As we are still thy servants Come my Lords Let 's to the Duke and tell him to what folly His doting now has brought him Exeunt Priest of Cupid with four young men and Maids Priest Come my children let your feet In an even measure meet And your chearful voices rise For to present this Sacrifice Lo great Cupid in whose name I his Priest begin the same Young men take your Loves and kiss Thus our Cupid honour'd is Kiss again and in your kissing Let no promises be missing Nor let any Maiden here Dare to turn away her ear Unto the whisper of her Love But give Bracelet Ring or Glove As a token to her sweeting Of an after secret meeting Now boy sing to stick our hearts Fuller of great Cupids darts SONG LOvers rejoyce your pains shall be rewarded The god of Love himself grieves at your crying No more shall frozen honor be regarded Nor the coy faces of a Maids denying No more shall Virgins sigh and say we dare not For men are false and what they do they care not All shall be well again then do not grieve Men shall be true and Women shall believe Lovers rejoyce what you shall say henceforth When you have caught your Sweet-hearts in your arms It shall be accounted Oracle and Worth No more faint-hearted Girls shall dream of harms And cry they are too young the god hath said Fifteen shall make a Mother of a Maid Then wise men pull your Roses yet unblown Love hates the too ripe fruit that falls alone The Measure After the Measure Enter Nilo and others Nilo No more of this here break your Rights for ever The Duke commands it so Priest do not stare I must deface your Temple though unwilling And your god Cupid here must make a Scare-crow For any thing I know or at the best Adorn a Chimney-piece Priest Oh Sacriledge unheard of Nilo This will not help it take down the Image And away with ' em Priest change your coat you had best all service now Is given to men Prayers above their hearing Will prove but bablings learn to lye and thrive 'T will prove your best profession for the gods He that lives by 'em now must be a beggar There 's better holiness on earth they say Pray God it ask not greater sacrifice Go home And if our god be not deaf as well as blind He will some smoak for it Gent. Sir Nilo Gentlemen there is no talking This must be done and speedily I have commission that I must not break Gent. We are gone to wonder what shall follow Nilo On to the next Temple Exeunt Cornets Descendit Cupid Cupid Am I then scorn'd is my all-doing Will And Power that knows no limit nor
else I 'll choose And end their strife two such young handsome men Shall never fall for me their weeping Mothers Following the dead cold ashes of their Sons Shall never curse my cruelty Good Heaven What a sweet face has Arcite if wise nature With all her best endowments all those beauties She shews into the births of noble bodies Were here a mortal woman and had in her The coy denials of young Maids yet doubtless She would run mad for this man what an eye Of what a fiery sparkle and quick sweetness Has this young Prince here Love himself sits smiling Just such another wanton Ganimead Set Love a fire with and enforc'd the god Snatch up the goodly Boy and set him by him A shining constellation what a brow Of what a spacious Majesty he carries Arch'd like the great ey'd Juno's but far sweeter Smoother than Pelops Shoulder Fame and Honor Methinks from hence as from a Promontory Pointed in heaven should clap their wings and sing To all the under world the Loves and Fights Of gods and such men near ' em Palamon Is but his soil to him a mere dull shadow He 's swarth and meagre of an eye as heavy As if he had lost his mother a still temper No stirring in him no alacrity Of all this sprightly sharpness not a smile Yet these that we count errors may become him Narcissus was a sad Boy but a heavenly Oh who can find the bent of womans fancy I 'm a fool my reason is lost in me I have no choice and I have ly'd so lewdly That Women ought to beat me On my knees I ask thy pardon Palamon thou art alone And only beautiful and these thy eyes These the bright lamps of Beauty that command And threaten Love and what young Maid dare cross 'em What a bold gravity and yet inviting Has this brown manly face Oh Love this only From this hour is complexion lye there Arcite Thou art a changling to him a mere Gipsie And this the noble Bodie I am sotted Utterly lost My Virgins faith has fled me For if my Brother but even now had ask'd me Whether I lov'd I had run mad for Arcite Now if my Sister More for Palamon Stand both together now come ask me Brother Alas I know not ask me now sweet Sister I may go look what a mere child is Fancie That having two fair gawds of equal sweetness Cannot distinguish but must cry for both Enter Emil. and Gent. Emil. How now Sir Gent. From the Noble Duke your Brother Madam I bring you news the Knights are come Emil. To end the quarrel Gent. Yes Emil. Would I might end first What sins have I committed chaste Diana That my unspotted youth must now be soil'd With bloud of Princes and my Chastity Be made the Altar where the Lives of Lovers Two greater and two better never yet Made Mothers joy must be the sacrifice To my unhappy Beauty Enter Theseus Hippolita Perithous and Attendants Thes Bring 'em in quickly By any means I long to see ' em Your two contending Lovers are return'd And with them their fair Knights Now my fair Sister You must love one of them Emil. I had rather both So neither for my sake should fall untimely Enter Messenger Curtis Thes Who saw ' em Per. I a while Gent. And I. Thes From whence come you Sir Mess From the Knights Thes Pray speak You that have seen them what they are Mess I will Sir And truly what I think six braver spirits Than those they have brought if we judge by the outside I never saw nor read of he that stands In the first place with Arcite by his seeming Should be a stout man by his face a Prince His very looks so say him his complexion Nearer a brown than black stern and yet noble Which shews him hardy fearless proud of dangers The circles of his eyes shew fair within him And as a heated Lion so he looks His hair hangs long behind him black and shining Like Ravens wings his shoulders broad and strong Arm'd long and round and on his Thigh a Sword Hung by a curious Bauldrick when he frowns To seal his Will with better o' my conscience Was never Soldiers friend Thes Thou hast well describ'd him Per. Yet a great deal short Methinks of him that 's first with Palamon Thes Pray speak him friend Per. I ghess he is a Prince too And if it may be greater for his show Has all the ornament of honor in 't He 's somewhat bigger than the Knight he spoke of But of a face far sweeter his complexion Is as a ripe Grape ruddy he has felt Without doubt what he fights for and so apter To make this cause his own in 's face appears All the fair hopes of what he undertakes And when he 's angry then a setled valour Not tainted with extreams runs through his body And guides his arm to brave things Fear he cannot He shews no such soft temper his head 's yellow Hard haiâ—'d and curl'd thick twin'd like Ivy tops Nor to undoe with thunder in his face The Livery of the warlike Maid appears Pure red and white for yet no beard has blest him And in his rowling eyes sits victory As if she ever meant to correct his valour His Nose stands high a Character of honor His red Lips after sights are sit for Ladies Emil. Must these men die too Per. When he speaks his tongue Sounds like a Trumpet all his lineaments Are as a man would wish 'em strong and clean He wears a well-steel'd Axe the staffe of Gold His age some five and twenty Mess There 's another A little man but of a tough soul seeming As great as any fairer promises In such a Body yet I never look'd on Per. Oh he that 's freckle fac'd Mess The same my Lord Are they not sweet ones Per Yes they are well Mess Methinks Being so few and well dispos'd they shew Great and fine Art in nature he 's white hair'd Not wanton white but such a manly colour Next to an aborn tough and nimble set Which shows an active soul his arms are brawny Lin'd with strong sinews to the shoulder-piece Gently they swell like Women new conceiv'd Which speaks him prone to labour never fainting Under the weight of Arms stout-hearted still But when he stirs a Tiger he 's grey ey'd Which yields compassion where he conquers sharp To spie advantages and where he finds 'em He 's swift to make 'em his He does no wrongs Nor takes none he 's round fac'd and when he smiles He shows a Lover when he frowns a Soldier About his head he wears the winners oak And in it stuck the favour of his Lady His age some six and thirty In his hand He bears a Charging Staffe emboss'd with Silver Thes Are they all thus Per. They are all the sons of honor Thes Now as I have a soul I long to see 'em Lady you shall see men fight now
would destroy th' offender Coz. I would Though parcel of my self then from this gather How I should tender you Arc. I am in labour To push your name your antient love our kindred Out of my memory and i' th' self-same place To seat something I would confound so hoist we The sails that must these vessels port even where The heavenly Lymiter pleases Pal. You speak well Before I turn let me embrace thee Cosin This I shall never do agen Arc. One farewel Pal. Why let it be so Farewel Coz. Exeunt Palamon and his Knights Arc. Farewel Sir Knights Kinsmen Lovers yea my Sacrifices True worshipers of Mars whose spirit in you Expells the seeds of fear and th' apprehension Which still is farther off it goe with me Before the god of our profession There Require of him the hearts of Lions and The breath of Tygers yea the fierceness too Yea the speed also to go on I mean Else wish we to be snails you know my prize Must be dragg'd out of bloud force and great fear Must put my Garland on where she sticks The Queen of Flowers our intercession then Must be to him that makes the Camp a Cestron Brim'd with the blood of men give me your aid And bend your spirits towards him They kneel Thou mighty one that with thy power hast turn'd Green Neptune into purple Comets prewarn whose havock in vast Field Unearthed skulls proclaim whose breath blows down The teeming Cores foyzon who dost pluck With hand armâ—â—ipotent from both blew clouds The mason'd Turrets that both mak'st and break'st The stony girths of Cities me thy pupil Youngest follower of thy Drum instruct this day With military skill that to thy land I may advance my streamer and by thee Be stil'd the Lord o' th' day give me great Mars Some token of thy Pleasure Here they fall on their faces as formerly and there is heard clanging of Armor with a short Thunder as the burst of a battel whereupon they all rise and bow to the Altar Oh great Corrector of enormous times Shaker of o'er-rank States thou grand decider Of dusty and old Titles that heal'st with blood The earth when it is sick and curst the world O' th' pleuresie of people I do take Thy signs auspiciously and in thy name To my design march boldly let us goe Exeunt Enter Palamon and his Knights with the former observance Pal. Our Stars must glister with new fire or be Today extinct our argument is love Which if the goddess of it grant she gives Victory too then blend your spirits with mine You whose free nobleness do make my cause Your personal hazard to the goddess Venus Commend we our proceeding and implore Her power unto our partie Here they kneel as formerly Hail Sovereign Queen of secrets who hast power To call the fiercest Tyrant from his rage And weep unto a Girl that hast the might Even with an eye-glance to choak Marsis Drum And turn th' allarm to whispers that canst make A Cripple florish with his Crutch and cure him Before Apollo that may'st force the King To be his subjects vassal and induce Stale gravity to the pould Batchelor Whose youth like wanton boys through Bonfires Have skipt thy flame at seventy thou canst catch And make him to the scorn of his hoarse throat Abuse young lays of Love what godlike power Hast thou not power upon To Phaebus thou Add'st flames hotter than his the heavenly fires Did scorch his mortal Son thine him the huntress All moist and cold some say began to throw Her Bow away and sigh take to thy grace Me thy vow'd Soldier who do bear thy yoak As 't were a wreath of Roses yet is heavier Than Lead it self stings more than Nettles I have never been foul-mouth'd against thy Law Ne'er reveal'd secret for I knew none would not Had I ken'd all that were I never practis'd Upon mans wife nor would the Libels read Of liberal wits I never at great feasts Sought to betray a beauty but have blush'd At simpring Sirs that did I have been harsh To large Confessors and have hotly ask'd 'em If they had Mothers I had one a woman And women 't were they wrong'd I knew a man Of eighty winters this I told them who A Lass of fourteen brided 't was thy power To put life into dust the aged Cramp Had screw'd his square foot round The Gout had knit his fingers into knots Torturing Convulsions from his globy eies Had almost drawn their spheres that what was life In him seem'd torture this Anatomie Had by his young fair Sphere a Boy and I Believ'd it was his for she swore it was And who would not believe her brief I am To those that prate and have done no Companion To those that boast and have not a defyer To those that would and cannot a Rejoycer Yea him I do not love that tells close offices The foulest way nor names concealments in The boldest language such a one I am And vow that lover never yet made sigh Truer than I. Oh then most soft sweet goddess Give me the victory of this question which Is true loves merit and bless me with a sign Of thy great pleasure Here Musick is heard Doves are seen to flutter they fall again upon their faces then on their knees Pal. Oh thou 〈…〉 eleven to ninety reign'st In mortal bosoms 〈◊〉 Chaâ—â— is this world And we in Herds y Game I give thee â—hanks For this fair Token which bâ—ing laid unto Mine innocent true heart arms in assurance They how My body to this business Let us rise And bow before the goddess Time comes on Exeunt Still Musick of Records Enter Emilia in white her hair about her a shoulders a wheaten wreath One in white holding up her train her hair stuck with Flowers One before her carrying a silver Hynd in which is conveyed Incense and sweet odors whiâ—h being set upon the Altar her Maids standing aloof she sets fire to it then they curt'sy and kneel Emil. Oh sacred shadowy cold and constant Queen Abandoner of Revels mute contemplative Sweet solitary white as chaste and pure As wind-san'd Snow who to thy senial Knights Allow'st no more blood than will make a blush Which is their Orders Robe I here thy Priest Am humbled for thine Altar oh vouchsafe With that thy rare green eye which never yet Beheld thing maculate look on thy Virgin And sacred silver Mistriss lend thine ear Which ne'r heard scurril term into whose port Ne'er entred wanton sound to my petition Season'd with holy fear this is my last Of vestal office I 'm Bride-habited But Maiden-hearted a Husband I have pointed But do not know him out of two I should Choose one and pray for his success but I Am guiltless of election of mine eyes Were I to lose one they are equal precious I could doome neither that which perish'd should Goe to 't unsentenc'd Therefore most modest Queen He of the two Pretenders that best
is laid Upon thy valour be bold I 'll protect you Or here I vow deny it or forswear it These honors which thou wear'st unworthily Which be but impudent enough and keep them Shall be torn from thee with thy eyes Prot. I have it My volour is there any here beneath The stile of King dares question it Thier. This is rare Prot. Which of my my actions which have still been noble Has rend'rd me suspected Thier. Nay Martel You must not fall off Mart. Oh Sir fear it not Doe you know this sword Prot. Yes Mart. Pray you on what terms Did you part with it Prot. Part with it say you Mart. So. Thier. Nay study not an answer confess freely Prot. Oh I remember 't now at the Stags falls As we to day were hunting a poor fellow And now I view you better I may say Much of your pitch this silly wretch I spoke of With his petition falling at my feet Which much against my Will he kist desir'd That as a special means for his preferment I would vouchsafe to let him use my sword To cut off the Stags head Brun. Will you hear that Bawdb. This Lye bears a similitude of Truth Prot. I ever courteous a great weakness in me Granted his humble suit Mart. Oh impudence Thier. This change is excellent Mart. A word with you Deny it not I was that man disguis'd You know my temper and as you respect A daily cudgeling for one whole year Without a second pulling by the ears Or tweaks by th' nose or the most precious balm You us'd of patience patience do you mark me Confess before these Kings with what base fear Thou didst deliver it Prot. Oh I should burst And if I have not instant liberty To tear this fellow limb by limb the wrong Will break my heart although Herculean And somewhat bigger there 's my gage pray you hear Let me redeem my credit Thier. Ha ha forbear Mart. Pray you let me take it up and if I do not Against all odds of Armor and of Weapons With this make him confess it on his knees Cut off my head Prot. No that 's my office Bawdb. Fie you take the Hangmans place Ordel. Nay good my Lord Let me attone this difference do not suffer Our bridal night to be the Centaurs Feast You 're a Knight and bound by oath to grant All just suits unto Ladies for my sake Forget your suppos'd wrong Prot. Well let him thank you For your sake he shall live perhaps a day And may be on submission longer Theod. Nay Martel you must be patient Mart. I am yours And this slave shall be once more mine Thier. Sit all One health and so to bed for I too long Deferr my choicest delicates Brun. Which if poison Have any power thou shalt like Tantalus Behold and never taste be careful Lecu. Fear not Brun. Though it be rare in our Sex yet for once I will begin a health Thier. Let it come freely Brun. Lecure the cup here to the son we hope This night shall be an Embrion Thier. You have nam'd A blessing that I most desir'd I pledge you Give me a larger cup that is too little Unto so great a god Brun. Nay then you wrong me Follow as I began Thier. Well as you please Brun. Is' t done Lecu. Unto your wish I warrant you For this night I durst trust him with my Mother Thier. So 't is gone round lights Brun Pray you use my service Ordel. 'T is that which I shall ever owe you Madam And must have none from you pray pardon me Thier. Good rest to all Theod. And to your pleasant labour Mart. Your company Madam good night Exeunt all but Brunhalt Protal Lecure Bawdber Brun. Nay you have cause to blush but I will hide it And what 's more I forgive you is' t not pity That thou that art the first to enter combate With any Woman and what is more o'ercome her In which she is best pleas'd should be so To meet a man Prot Why would you have me lose That bloud that is dedicated to your service In any other quarrel Brun. No reserve it As I will study to preserve thy credit You sirrah be 't your care to find out one That is poor though valiant that at any rate Will to redeem my servants reputation Receive a publique baffling Bawdb. Would your Highness Were pleas'd to inform me better of your purpose Brun. Why one Sir that would thus be box'd Or kick'd do you apprehend me now Bawdb. I feel you Madam The man that shall receive this from my Lord Shall have a thousand crowns Pro. He shall Bawdb. Besides His day of bastinadoing past o'er He shall not lose your grace nor your good favour Brun. That shall make way to it Bawdb. It must be a man Of credit in the Court that is to be The foil unto your volour Prot. True it should Bawdb. And if he have place there 't is not the worse Brun. 'T is much the better Bawdb. If he be a Lord 'T will be the greater grace Brun. Thou art in the right Bawdb. Why then behold that valiant man and Lord That for your sake will take a cudgeling For be assur'd when it is spread abroad That you have dealt with me they 'll give you out For one of the Nine Worthies Brun. Out you pandar Why to beat thee is only exercise For such as do affect it lose not time In vain replies but do it come my solace Let us to bed and our desires once quench'd We 'll there determine of Theodorets death For he 's the Engine us'd to ruin us Yet one work more Lecure art thou assur'd The potion will work Lecure. My life upon it Brun. Come my Protaldye then glut me with Those best delights of man that are deny'd To her that does expect them being a Bride Actus Tertius Scaena Prima Enter Thierry and Ordella as from bed Thier. SUre I have drunk the bloud of Elephants The tears of Mandrake and the Marble dew Mixt in my draught have quencht my natural heat And left no spark of fire but in mine eyes With which I may behold my miseries Ye wretched flames which play upon my sight Turn inward make me all one piece though earth My tears shall over-whelm you else too Or. What moves my Lord to this strange sadness If any late discerned want in me Give cause to your repentance care and duty Shall find a painful way to recompence Thier. Are you yet frozen veins feel you a breath Whose temperate heat would make the North Star reel Her Icy pillars thaw'd and do you not melt Draw nearer yet nearer That from thy barren kiss thou maist confess I have not heat enough to make a blush Ordel. Speak nearer to my understanding like a Husband Thier. How should he speak the language of a Husband Who wants the tongue and organs of his voice Ordel. It is a phrase will part with the same ease From
thy maker and the purest That ever dull flesh shewed us oh my heart-strings Exit Mart. I see you full of wonder therefore noblest And truest amongst Women I will tell you The end of this strange accident Ordel. Amazement Has so much wove upon my heart that truly I feel my self unfit to hear oh Sir My Lord has slighted me Mart. Oh no sweet Lady Ordel. Robb'd me of such a glory by his pity And most unprovident respect Mart. Dear Lady It was not meant to you Ordel. Else where the day is And hours distinguish time time runs to ages And ages end the world I had been spoken Deâ—â— I 'll tell you what it was if but your patience Will give me hearing Ordel. If I have transgrest Forgive me Sir Mart. Your noble Lord was counsel'd Grieving the barrenness between you both And all the Kingdom with him to seek out A man that knew the secrets of the gods He went found such an one and had this answer That if he wou'd have issue on this morning For this hour was prefixt him he should kill The first he met being Female from the Temple And then he should have children the mistake Is now too perfect Lady Ordel Still 't is I Sir For may this work be done by common women Durst any but my self that knew the blessing And felt the benefit assume this thing In any other 't'ad been lost and nothing A curse and not a blessing I was figur'd And shall a little fondness barr my purchase Mart. Where should he then seek children Ordel. Where they are In wombs ordain'd for issues in those beauties That bless a marriage-bed and makes it proceed With kisses that conceive and fruitful pleasures Mine like a grave buries those loyal hopes And to a grave it covets Mart. You are too good Too excellent too honest rob not us And those that shall hereafter seek example Of such inestimable worthies in woman Your Lord of such obedience all of honor In coveting a cruelty is not yours A Will short of your Wisdom make not error A Tomb-stone of your virtues whose fair life Deserves a constellation your Lord dare not He cannot ought not must not run this hazard He makes a separation nature shakes at The gods deny and everlasting justice Shrinks back and sheaths her sword at Ordel. All 's but talk Sir I find to what I am reserv'd and needful And though my Lord's compassion makes me poor And leaves me in my best use yet a strength Above mine own or his dull fondness finds me The gods have given it to me Draws a knife Mart. Self-destruction Now all good Angels bless thee oh sweet Lady You are abus'd this is a way to shame you And with you all that knows you all that loves you To ruin all you build would you be famous Is that your end Ordel. I would be what I should be Mart. Live and confirm the gods then live and be loaden With more than Olive-bear or fruitful Autumn This way you kill your merit kill your cause And him you would raise life to where or how Got you these bloudy thoughts what Devil durst Look on that Angel face and tempt doe you know What is' t to die thus how you strike the Stars And all good things above do you feel What follows a self-bloud whether you venture And to what punishment excellent Lady Be not thus cozen'd do not fool your self The Priest was never his own sacrifice But he that thought his hell here Ordel. I am counsell'd Mart. And I am glad on 't lie I know you dare not Ordel. I never have done yet Mart. Pray take my comfort Was this a soul to lose two more such women Would save their sex see she repents and prayes Oh hear her hear her if there be a faith Able to reach your mercies she hath sent it Ordel. Now good Martel confirm me Mart. I will Lady And every hour advise you for I doubt Whether this plot be heavens or hells your mother And I will find it if it be in mankind To search the center of it in the mean time I 'll give you out for dead and by your self And shew the instrument so shall I find A joy that will betray her Ordel. Do what 's fittest And I will follow you Mart. Then ever live Both able to engross all love and give Exeunt Enter Brunhalt Protaldye Brun. I 'm in labour To be deliver'd of that burthenous project I have so long gone with ha here 's the Midwife Or life or death Enter Lecure. Lecu. If in the supposition Of her death in whose life you die you ask me I think you are safe Brun. Is she dead Lecu. I have us'd All means to make her so I saw him waiting At the Temple door and us'd such Art within That only she of all her Sex was first Giv'n up unto his fury Brun. Which if love Or fear made him forbear to execute The vengeance he determin'd his fond pity Shall draw it on himself for were there left Not any man but he to serve my pleasures Or from me to receive commands which are The joyes for which I love life he should be Remov'd and I alone left to be Queen O'er any part of goodness that 's left in me Lecu. If you are so resolv'd I have provided A means to ship him hence look upon this But touch it sparingly for this once us'd Say but to dry a tear will keep the eye-lid From closing until death perform that office Brun. Give 't me I may have use of it and on you I 'll make the first experiment if one sigh Or heavy look beget the least suspition Childish compassion can thaw the Ice Of your so long congeal'd and flinty hardness Slight go on constant or I shall Prot. Best Lady We have no faculties which are not yours Lecu. Nor will be any thing without you Baun Be so and we will stand or fall together for Since we have gone so far that death must stay The journey which we wish should never end And innocent or guilty we must die When we do so let 's know the reason why Enter Thierry and Courtiers Lecu. The King Thier. We 'll be alone Prot. I would I had A Convoy too to bring me safe off For rage although it be allai'd with sorrow Appears so dreadful in him that I stake To look upon 't Brun. Coward I will meet it And know from whence 't has birth Son kingly Thierry Thier. Is cheating grown so common among men And thrives so well here that the gods endeavour To practise it above Brun. Your Mother Thier. Ha! or are they only careful to revenge Not to reward or when for your offences We study satisfaction must the cure Be worse than the disease Brun. Will you not hear me Thier. To lose th' ability to perform those duties For which I entertain'd the name of Husband Ask'd more than common sorrow but t' impose For the redress of
for me To crop the flower of thy Virginity Exit Lazarello Count. This day I am for fools I am all theirs Though like to our young wanton cocker'd heirs Who do affect those men above the rest In whose base company they still are best I do not with much labour strive to be The wisest ever in the company But for a fool our wisdom oft amends As enemies do teach us more than friends Exit Count. Actus Secundus Scaena Prima Enter Gondarino and his servants Serv. MY Lord Gond. Ha! Serv. Here 's one hath brought you a present Gond. From whom from a woman if it be from a woman bid him carrie it back and tell her she 's a whore what is it Serv. A Fish head my Lord. Gond. What Fish head Serv. I did not aske that my Lord. Gond. Whence comes it Ser. From the Court. Gond. O 't is a Cods-head Serv. No my Lord 't is some strange head it comes from the Duke Gond. Let it be carried to my Mercer I doe owe him money for silks stop his mouth with that Exit Serv. Was there ever any man that hated his wife after death but I and for her sake all women women that were created only for the preservation of little dogs Enter Servant Serv. My Lord the Count's sister being overtaken in the streets with a great hail-storm is light at your gate and desires Rome till the storm be overpast Gond. Is she a woman Serv. I my Lord I think so Gond. I have none for her then bid her get her gone tell her she is not welcome Serv. My Lord she is now comming up Gond. She shall not come up tell her any thing tell her I have but one great room in my house and I am now in it at the close stool Serv. She 's here my Lord. Gond. O impudence of women I can keep dogs out of my house or I can defend my house against theeves but I cannot keep out women Enter Oriana a waiting woman and a Page Now Madam what hath your Ladyship to say to me Oria. My Lord I was bold to crave the help of your house against the storm Gond Your Ladyships boldness in coming will be impudence in staying for you are most unwelcome Oriana Oh my Lord Gond. Doe you laugh by the hate I bear to you 't is true Orian. Y' are merry my Lord. Gond. Let me laugh to death if I be or can be whilst thou art here or livest or any of thy sex Oriana I commend your Lordship Gond Doe you commend me why doe you commend â—e I give you no such cause thou art a silthy impudent whore a woman a very woman Oria. Ha ha ha Gond. Begot when thy father was drunk Orian. Your Lordship hath a good wit Gond. How what have I a good wit Orian. Come my Lord I have heard before of your Lordâ—hip merry vain in jesting against our Sex which I being â—esirous to hear made me rather choose your Lordships â—ouse than any other but I know I am welcome Gond. Let me not live if you be me thinks it doth not â—ecome you to come to my house being a stranger to you I have no woman in my house to entertain you nor to shew you your chamber why should you come to me I have no Galleries nor banqueting houses nor bawdy pictures to shew your Ladyship Orian. Believe me this your Lordships plainess makes me think my self more welcome than if you had sworn by all the pretty Court oaths that are I had been welcomer than your soul to your body Gond. Now she 's in talking treason will get her out I durst sooner undertake to talk an Intelligencer out of the room and speak more than he durst hear than talk a woman out of my company Enter a Servant Serv. My Lord the Duke being in the streets and the storm continuing is entred your gate and now coming up Gond. The Duke now I know your Errand Madam you have plots and private meetings in hand why doe you choose my house are you asham'd to goe to 't in the old coupling place though it be less suspicious here for no Christian will suspect a woman to be in my house yet you may do it cleanlyer there for there is a care had of those businesses and wheresoever you remove your great maintainer and you shall have your lodgings directly opposite it is but putting on your night-gown and your shippers Madam you understand me Orian. Before I would not understand him but now he speaks riddles to me indeed Enter the Duke Arrigo and Lucio Duke 'T was a strange hail-storm Lucio 'T was exceeding strange Gond. Good morrow to your grace Duke Good morrow Gonderino Gond. Justice great Prince Duke Why should you beg for justice I never did you wrong What 's the offendor Gond. A woman Duke I know your ancient quarrell against that Sex but what hainous crime hath she committed Gond. She hath gone abroad Duke What it cannot be Gond. She hath done it Duke How I never heard of any woman that did so before Gond. If she have not laid by that modesty That should attend a Virgin and quite void Of shame hath left the house where she was born As they should never doe let me endure The pains that she should suffer Duke Hath she so Which is the woman Gond. This this Duke How Arrigo Lucio Gond. I then it is a plot no Prince alive Shall force me make my house a Brothell house Not for the sins but for the womans sake I will not have her in my doors so long Will they make my house as bawdy as their own are Duke Is it not Oriana Lucio ' Tis. Duke Sister to Count Valero Arri. The very same Duke She that I love Lucio She that you love Duke I do suspect Lucio So doe I. Duke This fellow to be but a counterfeit One that doth seem to loath all woman-kind To hate himself because he hath some part Of woman in him seems not to endure To see or to be seen of any woman Only because he knows it is their nature To wish to tast that which is most forbidden And with this shew he may the better compass And with far less suspition his base ends Lucio Upon my life 't is so Duke And I doe know Before his slain wife gave him that offence He was the greatest servant to that Sex That ever was what doth this Lady here With him alone why should he rail at her to me Lucio Because your grace might not suspect Duke 'T was so I doe love her strangely I would fain know the truth counsell me They three whisper Enter Count Lazarello and his boy Count. It falls out better than we could expect Sir that we should find the Duke and my Lord Gondarino together both which you desire to be acquainted with Laz. 'T was very happy Boy goe down into the kitchen and see if you can spy that same I am now in
some hope I have me thinks a kind of fever upon me Exit Boy A certain gloominess within me doubting as it were betwixt two passions there is no young maid upon her wedding night when her husband sets first foot in the bed blushes and looks pale again oftner than I doe now There is no Poet acquainted with more shakings and quakings towards the latter end of this new play when he 's in that case that he stands peeping betwixt Curtains so fearfully that a Bottle of Ale cannot be opened but he thinks some body hisses than I am at this instant Count. Are they in consultation If they be either my young Duke hath gotten some Bastard and is persuading my Knight yonder to father the child and marry the wench or else some Cock-pit is to be built Laz. My Lord what Nobleman's that Count. His name is Lucio 't is he that was made a Lord at the request of some of his friends for his wives sake he affects to be a great States-man and thinks it consists in night-caps and jewells and tooth-picks Laz. And what 's that other Count. A Knight Sir that pleaseth the Duke to favour and to raise to some extraordinary fortunes he can make as good men as himself every day in the week and doth Laz For what was he raised Count. Truely Sir I am not able to say directly for what But for wearing of red breeches as I take it he 's a brave man he will spend three Knighthoods at a Supper without Trumpets Laza. My Lord I 'll talk with him for I have a friend that would gladly receive the humor Count. If he have the itch of Knighthood upon him let him repair to that Physitian he 'll cure him but I will give you a note is your friend fat or lean Laz Something fat Count. 'T will be the worse for him Laza. I hope that 's not material Count. Very much for there is an impost set upon Knighthoods your friend shall pay a Noble in the pound Duke I doe not like examinations We shall find out the truth more easily Some other way less noted and that course Should not be us'd till we be sure to prove Some thing directly for when they perceive Themselves suspected they will then provide More warily to answer Luc. Doth she know your Grace doth love her Duke She hath never heard it Luc. Then thus my Lord. They whisper again Laz. What 's he that walks alone so sadly with his hands behind him Count. The Lord of the house he that you desire to be acquainted with he doth hate women for the same cause that I love them Laz. What 's that Count. For that which Apes want you perceive me Sir Laz. And is he sad Can he be sad that hath so rich a gem under his roof as that which I doe follow What young Lady 's that Count. Which Have I mine eye-sight perfect 't is my sister did I say the Duke had a Bastard What should she make here with him and his Councell She hath no papers in her hand to petition to them she hath never a husband in prison whose release she might sue for That 's a fine trick for a wench to get her husband clapt up that she may more freely and with less suspition visit the private studies of men in authority Now I doe discover their consultation you fellow is a Pander without all salvation But let me not condemn her too rashly without weighing the matter she 's a young Lady she went forth early this morning with a waiting woman and a Page or so This is no garden house in my conscience she went forth with no dishonest intent for she did not pretend going to any Sermon in the further end of the City Neither went she to see any odd old Gentlewoman that mourns for the death of her husband or the loss of her friend and must have young Ladys come to comfort her those are the damnable Bawds 'T was no set meeting certainly for there was no wafer-woman with her these three days on my knowledge I 'll talk with her Good morrow my Lord. Gond. Y' are welcome Sir here 's her brother come now to doe a kind office for his sister is it not strange Count. I am glad to meet you here sister Orian. I thank you good brother and if you doubt of the cause of my coming I can satisfie you Count. No faith I dare trust thee I doe suspect thou art honest for it is so rare a thing to be honest amongst you that some one man in an age may perhaps suspect some two women to be honest but never believe it verily Luci. Let your return be suddain Arri. Unsuspected by them Duke It shall so shall I best perceive their Love if there be any Farewell Count. Let me entreat your grace to stay a little To know a gentleman to whom your self Is much beholding he hath made the sport For your whole Court these eight years on my knowledge Duke His name Count. Lazarello Duke I heard of him this morning which is he Count. Lazarello pluck up thy spirits thy Fortune is now raising the Duke calls for thee and thou shalt be acquainted with him Laz. He 's going away and I must of necessity stay here upon business Count. 'T is all one thou shalt know him first Laz. Stay a little if he should offer to take me away with him and by that means I should loose that I seek for but if he should I will not goe with him Count. Lazarello the Duke stayes wilt thou lose this opportunity Laz. How must I speak to him Count. 'T was well thought of you must not talk to him as you doe to an ordinary man honest plain sence but you must wind about him for example if he should aske you what a clock it is you must not say If it please your grace 't is nine but thus thrice three a clock so please my Sovereign or thus Look how many Muses there doth dwell Upon the sweet banks of the learned Well And just so many stroaks the clock hath struck And so forth And you must now and then enter into a description Laz. I hope I shall doe it Count. Come May it please your grace to take note of a Gentleman wel seen deeply read and throughly grounded in the hidden knowledge of all sallets and pot-herbs whatsoever Duke I shall desire to know him more inwardly Laz. I kiss the Oxe-hide of your graces foot Count. Very well will your grace question him a little Duke How old are you Laz. Full eight and twenty several Almanacks Have been compiled all for several years Since first I drew this breath four prentiships Have I most truely served in this world And eight and twenty times hath Phoebus Car Run out his yearly course since Duke I understand you Sir Luci. How like an ignorant Poet he talks Duke You are eight and twenty years old what time of the day doe you
good again I doe beseech your beautie not for my self My merits are yet in conception But for your honors safety and my zeal Retire a while while I unsay my self unto the Duke And cast out that ill Spirit I have possest him with I have a house conveniently private Ori. Lord thou hast wrong'd my innocence but thy confession hath gain'd thee faith Gond. By the true honest service that I owe these eyes strangely My meaning is as spotless as my faith Oria. The Duke doubt mine honor a may judge 'T will not be long before I 'll be enlarg'd again Gond. A day or two Orian. Mine own servants shall attend me Gond. Your Ladyships command is good Orian. Look you be true Exit Oriana Gond. Else let me lose the hopes my soul aspires to I will be a scourge to all females in my life and after my death the name of Gondarino shall be terrible to the mighty women of the earth They shall shake at my name and at the sound of it their knees shall knock together And they shall run into Nunneries for they and I are beyond all hope irreconcilable for if I could endure an ear with a hole in 't or a pleated lock or a bare headed Coachman that sits like a sign where great Ladys are to be sold within agreement betwixt us were not to be dispaired of if I could be but brought to endure to see women I would have them come all once a week and kiss me as Witches doe the devill in token of homage I must not live here I will to the Court and there pursue my plot when it hath took women shall stand in awe but of my look Exit Actus Tertius Scaena Tertia Enter two Intelligencers discovering treason in the Courtiers words 1. Intel. THere take your standing be close and vigilant here will I set my self and let him look to his language a shall know the Duke has more ears in Court than two 2. Int. I 'll quote him to a tittle let him speak wisely and plainly and as hidden as a can or I shall crush him a shall not scape charracters though a speak Babel I shall crush him we have a Fortune by this service hanging over us that within this year or two I hope we shall be called to be examiners wear politick gowns garded with copper lace making great faces full of fear and office our labors may deserve this 1. Int. I hope it shall why has not many men been raised from this worming trade first to gain good access to great men then to have commissions out for search and lastly to be worthily nam'd at a great Arraignment yes and why not we They that endeavor well deserve their Fee Close close a comes mark well and all goes well Enter Count Lazarello and his Boy Laz. Farewell my hopes my Anchor now is broken Farewell my quondam joys of which no token Is now remaining such is the sad mischance Where Lady Fortune leads the slipp'ry dance Yet at the length let me this favour have Give me my wishes or a wished grave Count. The gods defend so brave and valiant maw Should slip into the never satiate jaw Of black Despair no thou shalt live and know Thy full desires hunger thy ancient foe Shall be subdued those guts that daily tumble Through ayr and appetite shall cease to rumble And thou shalt now at length obtain thy dish That noble part the sweet head of a fish Laz. Then am I greater than the Duke 2. Int. There there 's a notable peece of treason greater than the Duke mark that Count. But how or where or when this shall be compas'd is yet out of my reach Laz. I am so truely miserable that might I be now knockt o th' head with all my heart I would forgive a dog-killer Count. Yet doe I see through this confusedness some little comfort Laz. The plot my Lord as er'e you came of a woman discover 1. Int. Plots dangerous plots I will deserve by this most liberally Count. 'T is from my head again Laz. O that it would stand me that I might fight or have some venture for it that I might be turn'd loose to try my fortune amongst the whole frie in a Colledge or an Inn of Court or scramble with the prisoners in the dungeon nay were it set down in the outward court And all the Guard about it in a ring With their knives drawn which were a dismall sight And after twenty leisurely were told I to be let loose only in my shirt To trie the valour how much of the spoyl I would recover from the enemies mouths 〈…〉 Upon country people in progress time and Wilt thou lose this opinion for the cold head of a Fish I say let it goe I 'll help thee to as good a dish of meat Laz. God let me not live if I doe not wonder Men should talk so propanely But it is not in the power of loose words Of any vain or misbeleeving man To make me dare to wrong thy purity Shew me but any Lady in the Court That hath so full an eye so sweet a breath So soft and white a flesh this doth not lie In almond gloves nor ever hath bin washt In artificiall baths no traveller That hath brought doctor home with him hath dar'd With all his waters powders Fucusses To make thy lovely corps sophisticate Count. I have it 't is now infus'd be comforted Laz. Can there be that little hope yet left in nature shall I once more erect up Trophies Shall I enjoy the sight of my dear Saint and bless my pallate with the best of creatures ah good my Lord by whom I breathe again shall I receive this Being Count. Sir I have found by certain calculation and setled revolution of the stars the Fish is sent by the Lord Gondarino to his Mercer now 't is a growing hope to know where ' t is Laz. O'tis far above the good of women the Pathick cannot yield more pleasing titilation Count. But how to compass it search cast about and bang your brains Lazarello thou art too dull and heavy to deserve a blessing Laz. My Lord I will not be idle now Lazarello think think think Count. Yonder 's my informer And his fellow with table books they nod at me Upon my life they have poor Lazarello that beats His brains about no such waighty matter in for Treason before this Laz. My Lord what doe you think if I should shave my self Put on midwives apparell come in with a hand-kercher And beg a piece for a great bellied woman or a sick child Count. Good very good Laz. Or corrupt the waiting prentise to betray the reversion 1. Inte. There 's another point in 's plot corrupted with money to betray sure 't is some Fort a means mark have a care Laz. And 't were the bare vinegar 't is eaten with it would in some sort satisfie nature but might I once attain the dish it self
voce as they say Gond. Oh no no no no I have heard it before Gentlew. Then you have heard of enough injury for a poor Gentlewoman to receive Gond. Never never but that it troubles my conscience to wish any good to these woman I could afford them to be valiant and able that it might be no disgrace for a Soldier to beat them Gentlew. I hope your Lordship will deliver my petition to his grace and you may tell him withal Gond. What I will deliver any thing against my self to be rid on thee Gentâ—ew That yesterday about three a clock in the after noon I met my adversary Gond. Give me thy paper he can abide no long tales Gentlew. 'T is very short my Lord and I demanding of him Gond. I 'll tell him that shall serve thy turn Gentlew How Gond. I 'll tell him that shall serve thy turn begone man never doth remember how great his offences are till he do meet with one of you that plagues him for them why should Women above all other creatures that were created for the benefit of man have the use of speech or why should any deed of theirs done by their fleshly appetites be disgraceful to their owners nay why should not an act done by any beast I keep against my consent disparage me as much as that of theirs Gentlew. Here 's some few Angels for your Lordship Gond. Again yet more torments Gentlew. Indeed you shall have them Gond. Keep off Gentlew. A small gratuity for your kindness Gond. Hold away Gentlew. Why then I thank your Lordship I 'll gather them up again and I 'll be sworn it is the first money that was refus'd since I came to the Court. Gond. What can she devise to say more Gentlew. Truly I would have willingly parted with them to your Lordship Gond. I believe it I believe it Gentlew. But since it is thus Gond. More yet Gentlew. I will attend without and expect an answer Gond. Do begone and thou shalt expect and have any thing thou shalt have thy answer from him and he were best to give thee a good one at first for thy deaf importunity will conquer him too in the end Gentlew. God bless your Lordship and all thar favour a poor distressed countrey Gentlewoman Exit Gentlew. Gond. All the diseases of man light upon them that doe and upon me when I do A week of such days would either make me stark mad or tame me yonder other woman that I have sure enough shall answer for thy sins dare they incense me still I will make them fear as much to be ignorant of me and my moods as men are to be ignorant of the law they live under Who 's there My bloud grew cold I began to fear my Suiters return 't is the Duke Enter the Duke and the Count. Count. I know her chaste though she be young and free And is not of that forc'd behaviour That many others are and that this Lord Out of the boundless malice to the sex Hath thrown this scandal on her Gond. Fortune befriended me against my Will with this good old countrey gentlewoman I beseech your grace to view favourably the petition of a wronged Gentlewoman Duke What Gondarino are you become a petitioner for your enemies Gond. My Lord they are no enemies of mine I confess the better to recover my deeds which sometimes were loose enough I pretended it as it is wisdom to keep close our incontinence but since you have discover'd me I will no more put on that vizard but will as freely open all my thoughts to you as to my Confessor Duke What say you to this Count. He that confesses he did once dissemble I 'll never trust his words can you imagine A Maid whose beauty could not suffer her To live thus long untempted by the noblest Richest and cunningst Masters in that Art And yet hath ever held a fair repute Could in one morning and by him be brought To forget all her virtue and turn whore Gond. I would I had some other talk in hand Than to accuse a Sister to her Brother Nor do I mean it for a publick scandal Unless by urging me you make it so Duke I will read this at better leisure Gond. Where is the Lady Count. At his house Gond. No she is departed thence Count. Whither Gond. Urge it not thus or let me be excus'd If what I speak betray her chastity And both increase my sorrow and your own Count. Fear me not so if she deserve the fame Which she hath gotten I would have it publisht Brand her my self and whip her through the City I wish those of my bloud that doe offend Should be more strictly punish than my foes Let it be prov'd Duke Gondarino thou shalt prove it or suffer worse than she should do Gond. Then pardon me if I betray the faults Of one I love more dearly than my self Since opening hers I shall betray mine own But I will bring you where she now intends Not to be virtuous pride and wantonness That are true friends indeed though not in shew Have entr'd on her heart there she doth bathe And sleek her hair and practise cunning looks To entertain me with and hath her thoughts As full of lust as ever you did think Them full of modesty Duke Gondarino lead on we 'll follow thee Exeunt Actus Quartus Scaena Secunda Enter Pandar Pan. HEre hope I to meet my Citizen and hopes he to meet his Scholar I am sure I am grave enough to his eyes and knave enough to deceive him I am believ'd to conjure raise storms and devils by whose power I can do wonders let him believe so still belief hurts no man I have an honest black cloak for my knavery and a general pardon for his foolery from this present day till the day of his breaking Is' t not a misery and the greatest of our age to see a handsome young fair enough and well mounted wench humble her self in an old stammel petticoat standing possest of no more fringe than the street can allow her her upper parts so poor and wanting that ye may see her bones through her bodies shooes she would have if our Captain were come over and is content the while to devote her self to antient slippers These premisses well considered Gentlemen will move they make me melt I promise ye they stirr me much and wer 't not for my smooth soft silken Citizen I would quit this transitory Trade get me an everlasting Robe sear up my conscience and turn Serjeant But here he comes is mine as good as prize Sir Pandarus be my speed ye are most fitly met Sir Enter Mercer Mer. And you as well encount'red what of this heir hath your Books been propitious Pan. Sir 't is done she 's come she 's in my house make your self apt for Courtship stroke up your stockings loose not an inch of your legs goodness I am sure ye wear socks Mer. There
attends me is not to be visited in our own shapes Duke We are not our selves Arr. I know the house to be sinful enough yet I have been heretofore and durst now but for discovering of you appear here in my own likeness Duke Where 's Lucio Arri. My Lord he said the affairs of the Common-wealth would not suffer him to attend always Duke Some great ones questionless that he will handle Count. Come let us enter Gond. See how Fortune strives to revenge my quarrel upon these women she 's in the window were it not to undoe her I should not look upon her Duke Lead us Gondarino Gond. Stay since you force me to display my shame Look there and you my Lord know you that face Duke Is' t she Count. It is Gond. 'T is she whose greatest virtue ever was Dissimulation she that still hath strove More to sin cunningly than to avoid it She that hath ever sought to be accounted Most virtuous when she did deserve most scandal 'T is she that itches now and in the height Of her intemperate thoughts with greedy eyes Expects my coming to allay her Lust Leave her forget she 's thy sister Count. Stay stay Duke I am as full of this as thou canst be The memory of this will easily Hereafter stay my loose and wandring thought From any Woman Count. This will not down with me I dare not trust this fellow Duke Leave her here that only shall be her punishment never to be fetcht from hence but let her use her trade to get her living Count. Stay good my Lord I do believe all this as great men as I have had known whores to their Sisters and have laught at it I would fain hear how she talks since she grew thus light will your grace make him shew himself to her as if he were now come to satisfie her longing whilst we unseen of her over-hear her wantonness let 's make our best of it now we shall have good mirth Duke Do it Gondarino Gond. I must fortune assist me but this once Count. Here we shall stand unseen and near enough Gond. Madam Oriana Oria. Who 's that oh my Lord Gond. Shall I come up Oria. Oh you are merry shall I come down Gond. It is better there Oria. What is the confession of the lye you made to the Duke which I scarce believe yet you had impudence enough to do did it not gain you so much faith with me as that I was willing to be at your Lordships bestowing till you had recover'd my credit and confest your self a lyar as you pretended to do I confess I began to fear you and desir'd to be out of your house but your own followers forc'd me hither Gond. 'T is well suspected dissemble still for there are some may hear us Oria. More tricks yet my Lord what house this is I know not I only know my self it were a great conquest if you could fasten a scandal upon me ' saith my Lord give me leave to write to my brother Duke Come down Count. Come down Arr. If it please your Grace there 's a back door Count. Come meet us there then Duke It seems you are acquainted with the house Arr. I have been in it Gond. She saw you and dissembled Duke Sir we shall know that better Gond. Bring me unto her if I prove her not To be a strumpet let me be contemn'd Of all her sex Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Lucio Luc. NOw whilst the young Duke follows his delights We that do mean to practise in the State Must pick our times and set our faces in And nod our heads as it may prove most fit For the main good of the dear Common-wealth Who 's within there Enter a Servant Serv. My Lord Luc. Secretary fetch the Gown I use to read Petitions in and the Standish I answer French Letters with and call in the Gentleman that attends Exit Serv. Little know they that do not deal in State How many things there are to be observ'd Which seem but little yet by one of us Whose brains do wind about the Common-wealth Neglected cracks our credits utterly Enter Gentleman and a Servant Sir but that I do presume upon your secresie I would not have appear'd to you thus ignorantly attir'd without a tooth-pick in a ribbond or a Ring in my bandstring Gent. Your Lordship send for me Luc. I did Sir your long practice in the State under a great man hath led you to much experience Gent. My Lord. Luc. Suffer not your modesty to excuse it in short and in private I desire your direction I take my study already to be furnisht after a grave and wise method Gent. What will this Lord do Luc. My Book-strings are sutable and of a reaching colour Gent. How 's this Luc. My Standish of Wood strange and sweet and my sore-flap hangs in the right place and as near Machiavel's as can be gathered by tradition Gent. Are there such men as will say nothing abroad and play the fools in their Lodgings this Lord must be followed and hath your Lordship some new made words to scatter in your speeches in publick to gain note that the hearers may carry them away and dispute of them at dinner Luc. I have Sir and besides my several Gowns and Caps agreeable to my several occasions Gent. 'T is well and you have learn'd to write a bad hand that the Readers may take pains for it Luc. Yes Sir and I give out I have the palsie Gent. Good 't were better though if you had it your Lordship hath a Secretary that can write fair when you purpose to be understood Luc. 'Faith Sir I have one there he stands he hath been my Secretary these seven years but he hath forgotten to write Gen. If he can make a writing face it is not amiss so he keep his own counsel your Lordship hath no hope of the Gout Luc. Uh little Sir since the pain in my right foot left me Gent. 'T will be some scandal to your wisdom though I see your Lordship knows enough in publick business Luc. I am not imploy'd though to my desert in occasions forreign nor frequented for matters domestical Gent. Not frequented what course takes your Lordship Luc. The readiest way my door stands wind my Sectetary knows I am not denied to any Gent. In this give me leave your Lordship is out of the way make a back door to let out Intelligencers seem to be ever busie and put your door under keepers and you shall have a troop of Clients sweating to come at you Luc. I have a back door already I will henceforth be busie Secretary run and keep the door Exit Secretary Gent. This will fetch ' um Luc. I hope so Enter Secretary Secr. My Lord there are some require access to you about weighty affairs of State Luc. Already Gent. I told you so Luc. How weighty is the business Secr. Treason my Lord. Luc. Sir my debts
it without hope or pity then ye shall see that golden form flie off that all eyes wonder at for pure and fixt and under 't base blushing Copper metall not worth the meanest honor you shall behold her then my Lord transparent look through her heart and view the spirits how they leap and tell me then I did belie the Lady Duke It shall be done come Gondarino bear us company We do believe thee she shall die and thou shalt see it Enter Lazarello two Intelligencers and Guard How now my friends who have you guarded hither 2 Int. So please your Grace we have discover'd a villain and a Traitor the Lord Lucio hath examin'd him and sent him to your Grace for Judgement Count. My Lord I dare absolve him from all sin oâ— Treason I know his most ambition is but a dish of meat which he hath hunted with so true a scent that he deserveth the Collar not the Halter Duke Why do they bring him thus bound up the poor man had more need have some warm meat to comfort his cold stomach Count. Your Grace shall have the cause hereafter when you shall laugh more freely But these are call'd Informers men that live by Treason as Rat-catchers do by poison Duke Would there were no heavier prodigies hung over us than this poor fellow I durst redeem all perils ready to pour themselves upon this State with a cold Custard Count. Your Grace might do it without danger to your person Laz. My Lord if ever I intended treason against your Person or the State unless it were by wishing from your Table some dish of meat which I must needs confess was not a subjects part or coveting by stealth sups from those noble bottles that no mouth keeping allegiance true should dare to taste I must confess with more than covetous eye I have beheld those dear conceal'd dishes that have been brought in by cunning equipage to wait upon your Graces pallat I do confesse out of this present heat I have had Stratagems and Ambuscado's but God be thank'd they have never took Duke Count this business is your own when you have done repair to us Exit Duke Count. I will attend your Grace Lazarello you are at liberty be your own man again and if you can be master of your wishes I wish it may be so Laz. I humbly thank your Lordship I must be unmannerly I have some present business once more I heartily thank your Lordship Exit Lazarillo Count. Now even a word or two to you and so farewell you think you have deserv'd much of this State by this discovery y' are a slavish people grown subject to the common course of all men How much unhappy were that noble spirit could work by such baser gains what misery would not a knowing man put on with willingness e'r he see himself grown fat and full fed by fall of those you rise by I do discharge ye my attendance our healthful State needs no such Leeches to suck out her bloud 1 Int. I do beseech your Lordship 2 Int. Good my Lord. Count. Go learn to be more honest what I see you work your means from honest industry Exeunt Informers I will be willing to accept your labours Till then I will keep back my promis'd favours Here comes another remnant of folly Enter Lucio I must dispatch him too Now Lord Lucio what business brings you hither Luc. Faith Sir I am discovering what will become of that notable piece of treason intended by that Varlet Lazarillo I have sent him to the Duke for judgement Count. Sir you have perform'd the part of a most careful Statesman and let me say it to your face Sir of a Father to this State I would wish you to retire and insconce your self in study for such is your daily labour and our fear that our loss of an hour may breed our overthrow Luc. Sir I will be commanded by your judgement and though I find it a trouble scant to be waded through by these weak years yet for the dear care of the Common-wealth I will bruise my brains and confine my self to much vexation Count. Go and maist thou knock down Treason like an Ox. Luc. Amen Exeunt Enter Mercer Pandar Francissina Mer. Have I spoke thus much in the honor of Learning learn'd the names of the seven liberal Sciences before my marriage and since have in haste written Epistles congratulatory to the Nine Muses and is she prov'd a Whore and a Begger Pan. 'T is true you are not now to be taught that no man can be learn'd of a suddain let not your first project discourage you what you have lost in this you may get again in Alchumie Fran. Fear not Husband I hope to make as good a wife as the best of your neighbors have and as honest Mer. I will goe home good Sir do not publish this as long as it runs amongst our selves 't is good honest mirth you 'll come home to supper I mean to have all her friends and mine as ill as it goes Pan. Do wisely Sir and bid your own friends your whole wealth will scarce feast all hers neither is it for your credit to walk the streets with a woman so noted get you home and provide her cloaths let her come an hour hence with an Hand-basket and shift her self she 'll serve to sit at the upper end of the Table and drink to your customers Mer. Art is just and will make me amends Pan. No doubt Sir Mer. The chief note of a Scholar you say is to govern his passions wherefore I do take all patiently in sign of which my dear Wife I do kiss thee make haste home after me I shall be in my study Exit Mercer Pan. Go avaunt my new City Dame send me what you promis'd me for consideration and may'st thou prove a Lady Fran. Thou shalt have it his Silks shall flie for it Exeunt Enter Lazarello and his boy Laz. How sweet is a Calm after a Tempest what is there now that can stand betwixt me and felicity I have gone through all my crosses constantly have confounded my enemies and know where to have my longing satisfied I have my way before me there 's the door and I may freely walk into my delights knock boy Jul. Who 's there Within Laz. Madona my Love not guilty not guilty open the door Enter Julia. Jul. Art thou come sweet-heart Laz. Yes to my soft embraces and the rest of my overflowing blisses come let us in and swim in our delights a short Grace as we go and so to meat Jul. Nay my dear Love you must bear with me in this we 'll to the Church first Laz. Shall I be sure of it then Jul. By my love you shall Laz. I am content for I do now wish to hold off longer to whet my appetite and do desire to meet with more troubles so I might conquer them And as a holy Lover that hath spent The tedious night with
many a sigh and tears Whilst he pursu'd his wench and hath observ'd The smiles and frowns not daring to displease When at last hath with his service won Her yielding heart that she begins to dote Upon him and can hold no longer out But hangs about his neck and wooes him more Than ever he desir'd her love before Then begins to flatter his desert And growing wanton needs will cast her off Try her pick quarrels to breed fresh delight And to increase his pleasing appetite Jul. Come Mouse will you walk Laz. I pray thee let me be deliver'd of the joy I am so big with I do feel that high heat within me that I begin to doubt whether I be mortal How I contemn my fellows in the Court With whom I did but yesterday converse And in a lower and an humbler key Did walk and meditate on grosser meats There are they still poor rogues shaking their chops And sneaking after Cheeses and do run Headlong in chace of every Jack of Beer That crosseth them in hope of some repast That it will bring them to whilst I am here The happiest wight that ever set his tooth To a dear novelty approach my love Come let 's go to knit the True Loves knot That never can be broken Boy That is to marry a whore Laz. When that is done then will we taste the gift Which Fates have sent my Fortunes up to lift Boy When that is done you 'll begin to repent upon a full stomach but I see 't is but a form in destiny not to be alter'd Exeunt Enter Arrigo and Oriana Oria. Sir what may be the current of your business that thus you single out your time and place Arri. Madam the business now impos'd upon me concerns you nearly I wish some worser man might finish it Ori. Why are ye chang'd so are ye not well Sir Arr. Yes Madam I am well wo'd you were so Oria. Why Sir I feel my self in perfect health Arri. And yet ye cannot live long Madam Oria. Why good Arrigo Arr. Why ye must dye Oria. I know I must but yet my fate calls not upon me Arr. It does this hand the Duke commands shall give you death Oria. Heaven and the powers Divine guard well the innocent Arr. Lady your Prayers may do your soul some good That sure your body cannot merit by 'em You must prepare to die Orian. What 's my offence what have these years committed That may be dangerous to the Duke or State Have I conspir'd by poison have I giv'n up My honor to some loose unsetl'd bloud That may give action to my plots Dear Sir let me not dye ignorant of my faults Arr. Ye shall not Then Lady you must know you 're held unhonest The Duke your Brother and your friends in Court With too much grief condemn ye though to me The fault deserves not to be paid with death Orian. Who 's my accuser Arri. Lord Gondarino Orian. Arrigo take these words and bear them to the Duke It is the last petition I shall ask thee Tell him the child this present hour brought forth To see the world has not a soul more pure more white More Virgin than I have Tell him Lord Gondarino's Plot I suffer for and willingly tell him it had been a greater honor to have sav'd than kill'd but I have done strike I am arm'd for heaven Why stay you is there any hope Arri. I would not strike Orian. Have you the power to save Arri. With hazard of my life if it should be known Orian. You will not venture that Arri. I will Lady there is that means yet to escape your death if you can wisely apprehend Orian. Ye dare not be so kind Arri. I dare and will if you dare but deserve 't Ori. If I should slight my life I were too blame Arri. Then Madam this is the means or else you die I love you Orian. I shall believe it if you save my life Arri. And you must lie with me Orian. I dare not buy my life so Arri. Come ye must resolve say yea or no. Orian. Then no nay look not ruggedly upon me I am made up too strong to fear such looks Come do your Butchers part before I would wish life with the dear loss of honour I dare find means to free my self Arr. Speak will ye yield Orian. Villain I will not Murtherer do thy worst thy base unnoble thoughts dare prompt thee to I am above thee slave Arri. Wilt thou not be drawn to yield by fair perswasions Orian. No nor by Arri. Peace know your doom then your Ladyship must remember you are not now at home where you dare feast all that come about you but you are fallen under my mercy which shall be but small if thou refuse to yield hear what I have sworn unto my self I will enjoy thee though it be between the parting of thy soul and body yield yet and live Orian. I 'll guard the one let Heaven guard the other Arri. Are you so resolute then Duke from above Hold hold I say Orian. What I yet more terror to my tragedy Arri. Lady the Scene of bloud is done ye are now as free from scandal as from death Enter Duke Count and Gondarino Duke Thou Woman which wert born to teach men virtue Fair sweet and modest Maid forgive my thoughts My trespass was my love Seize Gondarino let him wait our dooms Gond. I do begin a little to love this woman I could endure her already twelve miles off Count. Sister I am glad you have brought your honor off so fairly without loss you have done a work above your sex the Duke admires it give him fair encounter Duke Best of all comforts may I take this hand and call it mine Ori. I am your Graces handmaid Duke Would ye had sed my self might it not be so Lady Count. Sister say I I know you can afford it Ori. My Lord I am your subject you may command me provided still your thoughts be fair and good Duke Here I am yours and when I cease to be so Let heaven forget me thus I make it good Ori. My Lord I am no more mine own Count. So this bargain was well driven Gond. Duke thou hast sold away thy self to all perdition thou art this present hour becomming Cuckold methinks I see thy gaul grate through thy veins and jealousie seize thee with her talons I know that womans nose must be cut off she cannot scape it Duke Sir we have punishment for you Orian. I do beseech your Lordship for the wrongs this man hath done me let me pronounce his punishment Duke Lady I give 't to you he is your own Gond. I do beseech your Grace let me be banisht with all the speed that may be Count. Stay still you shall attend her sentence Orian. Lord Gondarino you have wrong'd me highly yet since it sprung from no peculiar hate to me but from a general dislike unto all women you shall
him dearlier Say we intreat him goe he must not leave us Exit two Gentlemen So virtue bless me I ne'er knew him paralell'd Why he 's more precious to me now than ever Enter two Gentlemen and Shamont 2 Gent. With much fair language w 'ave brought him Duke Thanks Where is he 2 Gent. Yonder Sir Duke Come forward man Sham. Pray pardon me I 'm asham'd to be seen Sir Duke Was ever such a touchie man heard of Prethee come nearer Sham. More into the light Put not such cruelty into your requests my Lord First to disgrace me publickly and then draw me Into mens eye-sight with the shame yet hot Upon my reputation Duke What disgrace Sir Sham. What Such as there can be no forgiveness for That I can find in honour Duke That 's most strange Sir Sham. Yet I have search'd my bosom to find one And wrestled with my inclination But 't will not be would you had kill'd me Sir With what an ease had I forgiven you then But to endure a stroke from any hand Under a punishing Angel which is justice Honor disclaim that man for my part chiefly Had it been yet the malice of your sword Though it had cleft me 't had been noble to me You should have found my thanks paid in a smile If I had fell unworded but to shame me With the correction that your horse should have Were you ten thousand times my royal Lord I cannot love you never nor desire to serve you more If your drum call me I am vowed to valour But peace shall never know me yours agen Because I 've lost mine own I speak to dye Sir Would you were gracious that way to take off shame With the same swiftness as you pour it on And since it is not in the power of Monarchs To make a Gentleman which is a substance Only begot of merit they should be careful Not to destroy the worth of one so rare Which neither they can make nor lost repair Exit Duke Y 'ave set a fair light Sir before my judgement Which burns with wondrous clearness I acknowledge it And your worth with it but then Sir my love My love what gone agen 1 Gen. And full of scorn my Lord. Duke That language will undoe the man that keeps it Who knows no diff'rence 'twixt contempt and manhood Upon your love to goodness Gentlemen Let me not lose him long how now Enter a Huntsman Hunts The game 's at height my Lord. Duke Confound both thee and it hence break it off He hates me brings me news of any pleasure I felt not such a conflict since I cou'd Distinguish betwixt worthiness and bloud Ex. Actus Tertius Scaena Prima Enter the two Brothers 1 Gentleman with those that were the Masquers and the Cupid 1 Gent. I Heartily commend your project Gentlemen 'T was wise and virtuous 1 Bro. 'T was for the safety Of precious honour Sir which near bloud binds us to He promis'd the poor easie fool there marriage There was a good Maiden-head lost i' th' belief on 't Beshrew her hasty confidence 1 Gent. Oh no more Sir You make her weep agen alas poor Cupid Shall she not shift her self 1 Bro. Oh by no means Sir We dare not have her seen yet all the while She keeps this shape 't is but thought device And she may follow him so without suspition To see if she can draw all his wild passions To one point only and that 's love the main point So far his Highness grants and gave at first Large approbation to the quick conceit Which then was quick indeed 1 Gent. You make her blush insooth 1 Bro. I fear 't is more the flag of shame than grace Sir 1 Gent. They both give but one kind of colour Sir If it be bashfulness in that kind taken It is the same with grace and there she weeps agen In truth y' are too hard much much too bitter Sir Unless you mean to have her weep her eyes out To play a Cupid truly 1 Bro. Come ha' done then We should all fear to sin first for 't is certain When 't is once lodg'd though entertain'd in mirth It must be wept out if it e'er come forth 1 Gent. Now 't is so well I 'll leave you 1 Bro. Faithfully welcome Sir Go Cupid to your charge he 's your own now If he want love none will be blam'd but you Cu. The strangest marriage and unfortunat'st Bride That ever humane memory contain'd I cannot be my self for 't Exit Enter the Clown Clow. Oh Gentlemen 1 Bro. How now Sir what 's the matter Clo. His melancholly passion is half spent already Then comes his angry fit at the very tail on 't Then comes in my pain gentlemen h 'as beat me e'en to a Cullis I am nothing right worshipful but very pap And jelly I have no bones my body 's all one business They talk of ribs and chines most freely abroad i' th' world Why I have no such thing who ever lives to see me dead Gentlemen shall find me all mummie good to fill Gallipots And long dildo glasses I shall not have a bone to throw At a dog Omnes Alas poor vassal how he goes Clo. Oh Gentlemen I am unjoynted do but think o' that My breast is beat into my maw that what I eat I am fain to take 't in all at mouth with spoons A lamentable hearing and 't is well known my belly Is driven into my back I earn'd four Crowns a month most dearly Gentlemen And one he must have when the fit 's upon him The Privy-purse allows it and 't is thriftiness He would break else same forty pounds in Casements And in five hundred years undo the Kingdom I have cast it up to a quarrel 1 Bro. There 's a fellow kickt about Court I would He had his place brother but for one fit of his indignation 2 Bro. And suddainly I have thought upon a means for 't 1 Bro. I prethee how 2 Bro. 'T is but preferring Brother This stockfish to his service with a Letter Of commendations the same way he wishes it And then you win his heart for o' my knowledge He has laid wait this half year for a fellow That will be beaten and with a safe conscience We may commend the carriage of this man in 't Now servants he has kept lusty tall feeders But they have beat him and turn'd themselves away Now one that would endure is like to stay And get good wages of him and the service too Is ten times milder Brother I would not wish it else I see the fellow has a sore crush'd body And the more need he has to be kick'd at ease Clow. I sweet Gentlemen a kick of ease send me to such a Master 2 Bro. No more I say we have one for thee a soft footed Master One that wears wooll in 's toes Clow. Oh Gentlemen soft garments may you wear Soft skins may you wed But as plump as pillows
saw my shame nor seen long 1 Gent. Good your attention You ought to be seen now and found out Sir If ever you desire before your ending To perform one good office nay a dear one Mans time can hardly match it Sham. Be 't as precious As reputation if it come from Court I will not hear on 't 1 Gent. You must hear of this Sir Sham. Must 1 Gent. You shall hear it Sham. I love thee that thou 'lt dye 1 Gent. 'T were nobler in me Than in you living you will live a murderer If you deny this office Sham. Even to death Sir 1 Gent. Why then you 'll kill your brother Sham. How 1 Gent. Your Brother Sir Bear witness heaven this man destroys his Brother When he may save him his least breath may save him Can there be wilfuller destruction He was forc'd to take a most unmanly wrong Above the suff'ring virtue of a Soldier Has kill'd his injurer a work of honor For which unless you save him he dies speedily My conscience is discharg'd I 'm but a friend A Brother should go forward where I end Exit Sham. Dyes Say he be naught that 's nothing to my goodness Which ought to shine through use or else it loses The glorious name 't is known by he 's my brother Yet peace is above bloud Let him go I But where 's the nobleness of affection then That must be car'd for too or I 'm imperfect The same bloud that stood up in wrath against him Now in his misery runs all to pity I 'd rather dye than speak one syllable To save my self but living as I am There 's no avoiding on 't the worlds humanity Expects it hourly from me curse of fortune I took my leave so well too Let him dye 'T is but a brother lost so pleasingly And swiftly I came off 't were more than irksomness To tread that path agen and I shall never Depart so handsomely but then where 's posterity The consummation of our house and name I 'm torn in pieces betwixt love and shame Exit Scaena Tertia Enter Lapet Clown Poultrot Moulbazon and others the new Court Officers Lap. Good morrow fellow Poltrot and Moulbazon Good morrow fellows all Pol. Monsieur Lapet Lap. Look I 've remembred you here 's books apiece for you Moul. Oh Sir we dearly thank you Lap. So you may There 's two impressions gone already Sirs Pol. What no in so short a time Lap. 'T is as I tell you Sir My Kick sells gallantly I thank my stars Clow. So does your Table you may thank the Moon too Lap. 'T is the Book sells the Table Clow. But 't is the Bookseller That has the money for 'em I 'm sure o' that Lap. 'T will much enrich the Company of Stationers 'T is thought 't will prove a lasting benefit Like the Wise Masters and the Almanacks The hundred Novels and the Book of Cookery For they begin already to engross it And make it a Stock-book thinking indeed 'T will prove too great a benefit and help For one that 's new set up they know their way And make him Warden e'r his beard be gray Moul. Is' t possible such virtue should lye hid And in so little Paper Lap. How why there was the Carpenter An unknown thing an odoriferous Pamphlet Yet no more Paper by all computation Than Ajax Telamon would use at once Your Herring prov'd the like able to buy Another Fishers Folly and your Pasquil Went not below the mad-caps of that time And shall my elaborate Kick come behind think you Clow. Yes it must come behind 't is in Italica too According to your humor Lap. Not in sale Varlet Clow. In sale Sir it shall sail beyond 'em all I tro Lap. What have you there now oh Page 21. Clow. That Page is come to his years he should be a Serving man Lap. Mark how I snap up the Duello there One would not use a dog so I must needs say but 's for the common good Clow. Nay Sir your Commons seldom fight at sharp But buffet in a Warehouse Lap. This will save Many a Gentleman of good bloud from bleeding Sirs I have a curse from many a Barber-Surgeon They'd give but too much money to call 't in Turn to Page 45. see what you find there Clow. Oh out upon him Page 45. that 's an old thief indeed Enter Duke the Lady his Sister 1 Gent. Lap. The Duke clap down your Books away Galoshio Clow. Indeed I am too soul to be i' th' presence They use to shake me oâ— aâ— the chamber door still Ex. Lady Good my Lord â—â—nt my suit let me not rise Withoâ—t the comfort on 't I have not often Been tedious in this â—â—â—d Duke Sister you wrong your self And those great virtues that your Fame iâ— maâ—e of To waste so much breath for a murderers life Lad. You cannot hate th' offence more than I do Sir Nor the offendor the respect I owe Unto his absent brother makes me a suitor A most importunate Sister make me worthy But of this one request Duke I am deaf To any importunacy and sorry For your forgetfulness you never injur'd Your worth so much you ought to be rebuk'd for 't Pursue good ways end as you did begin 'T is half the guilt to speak for such a sin La. This is loves beggery right that now is ours When Ladies love and cannot shew their powers Ex. Du. La Nove 1 Gent. My Lord. Duke Are these our new Attendants Lap. We are my Lord and will endure as much As better men my Lord and more I trust Duke What 's he 1 Gent. My Lord a decay'd Gentleman That will do any service Duke A decay'd one 1 Gent. A renounc'd one indeed for this place only Duke We renounce him then go discharge him instantly He that disclaims his gentry for meer gains That man 's too base to make a vassal on Lap. What says the Duke 1 Duke Faith little to your comfort Sir You must be a Gentleman agen Lap. How 1 Gent. There 's no remedy Lap. Marry the fates foresend ne'r while I breathe Sir 1 Gent. The Duke will have it so there 's no resisting He spy'd it i' your forehead Lap. My wife 's doing She thought she should be put below her betters now And su'd to ha' me a Gentleman agen 1 Gent. And very likely Sir Marry I 'll give you this comfort when all 's done You 'll never pass but for a scurvy one That 's all the help you have come shew your pace Lap. The heaviest Gentleman that e'er lost place Bear witness I am forc'd to 't Exit Duke Though you have a courser Title yet upon you Than those that left your places without blame 'T is in your power to make your selves the same I cannot make you Gentlemen that 's a work Rais'd from your own deservings merit manners And in-born virtue does it Let your own goodness Make you so great my power shall make
you greater And more t' encourage you this I add agen There 's many Grooms now exact Gentlemen Enter Shamont Sham. Methinks 't is strange to me to enter here Is there in nature such an awful power To force me to this place and make me do this Is mans affection stronger than his Will His resolution was I not resolv'd Never to see this place more Do I bear Within my breast one bloud that confounds th' other The bloud of Love and Will and the last weakest Had I ten Millions I would give it all now I were but past it or 't would never come For I shall never do 't or not do 't well But spoil it utterly betwixt two passions Yonder 's the Duke himself I will not do 't now Had twenty lives their several sufferings in him Exit Duke Who 's that went out now Pol. I saw none my Lord. Duke Nor you Moul. I saw the glimpse of one my Lord. Duke What e'er it was methought it pleas'd me strangely And suddenly my joy was ready for 't Did you not mark it better Pol. Moul. Troth my Lord We gave no great heed to 't Enter Shamont Sham. 'T will not be answer'd It brings me hither still by main force hither Either I must give over to profess humanity Or I must speak for him Duke 'T is here agen No marvel 't was so pleasing 't is delight And worth it self now it appears unclouded Sham. My Lord He turns away from me by this hand I am ill-us'd of all sides 't is a fault That fortune ever had t' abuse a goodness Duke Methought you were saying somewhat Sham. Mark the Language As coy as fate I see 't will ne'er be granted Duke We little look'd in troth to see you here yet Sham. Not till the day after my brother's death I think Duke Sure some great business drew you Sham. No insooth Sir Only to come to see a brother dye Sir That I may learn to go too and if he deceive me not I think he will do well in 't of a soldier Manly and honestly and if he weep then I shall not think the worse on 's manhood for 't Because he 's leaving of that part that has it Duke Has slain a noble Gentleman think on 't Sir Sham. I would I could not Sir Duke Our kinsman too Sham. All this is but worse Sir Duke When 't is at worst Yet seeing thee he lives Sham. My Lord Duke He lives Believe it as thy bliss he dies not for 't Will this make satisfaction for things past Sham. Oh my Lord Duke Will it speak Sham. With greater shame to my unworthiness Duke Rise then we 're even I never found it harder To keep just with a man my great work 's ended I knew your brother's pardon was your suit Sir However your nice modesty held it back Sham. I take a joy now to confess it Sir Enter 1 Gent. 1 Gent. My Lord Duke Hear me first Sir what e'er your news be Set free the Soldier instantly 1 Gent. 'T is done my Lord. Duke How 1 Gent. In effect 't was part of my news too There 's fair hope of your noble kinsman's life Sir Duke What sayst thou 1 Gent. And the most admired change That living flesh e'r had he 's not the man my Lord Death cannot be more free from passions Sir Than he is at this instant he 's so meek now He makes those seem passionate was never thought of And for he fears his moods have oft disturb'd you Sir He 's only hasty now for his forgiveness And here behold him Sir Enter Passion the Cupid and two Brothers Duke Let me give thanks first our worthy Cosin Pas Your unworthy trouble Sir For which with all acknowledg'd reverence I ask your pardon and for injury More known and wilful I have chose a wife Without your counsel or consent my Lord. Duke A wife where is she Sir Pas This noble Gentlewoman Duke How Pas Whose honor my forgetful times much wrong'd Duke He 's madder than he was 1 Gent. I would ha' sworn for him Duke The Cupid Cosin Pas Yes this worthy Lady Sir Duke Still worse and worse 1 Bro. Our Sister under pardon my Lord. Duke What 2 Bro. Which shape Love taught her to assume Duke Is' t truth then 1 Gent. It appears plainly now below the waste my Lord. Duke Shamont didst ever read of a She Cupid Sham. Never in fiction yet but it might hold Sir For desire is of both Genders Enter the Dukes Sister Duke Make that good here He joyns Shamont's band and his Sisters I take thee at thy word Sir Sham. Oh my Lord Love would appear too bold and rude from me Honour and admiration are her rights Her goodness is my Saint my Lord Duke I see Y' are both too modest to bestow your selves I 'll save that virtue still 't is but my pains come It shall be so Sham. This gift does but set forth my poverty La. Sir that which you complain of is my riches Enter Shamont 's brother the Soldier Duke Soldier now every noise sounds peace th' art welcome Sol. Sir my repentance sues for your blest favour Which once obtain'd no injury shall lose it I 'll suffer mightier wrongs Duke Rise lov'd and pardon'd For where Hope fail'd nay Art it self resign'd Thou 'st wrought that cure which skill could never find Nor did there cease but to our peace extend Never could wrongs boast of a nobler end Exeunt EPILOGUE OVr Poet bid us say for his own part He cannot lay too much forth of his Art But fears our over-acting passions may As not adorn deface his labour'd Play Yet still he 's resolute for what is writ Of Nicer valour and assumes the wit But for the Love-Scaenes which he ever meant Cupid in 's Peticoat should represent He 'll stand no shock of censure the Play 's good He says he knows it if well understood But we blind god beg if thou art Divine Thou 'lt shoot thy Arrows round this Play was thine Mr. Francis Beaumonts Letter to Ben. Johnson written before he and Mr. Fletcher came to London with two of the precedent Comedies then not finish'd which deferr'd their merry meetings at the Mermaid THe Sun which doth the greatest comfort bring To absent friends because the self-same thing They know they see however absent is Here our best Hay-makers forgive me this It is our Countreys stile In this warm shine I lâ—e and dream of your full Mermaid Wine Oh we have water mixt with Claret Lees Drink apt to bring in dryer Heresies Than Beer good only for the Sonnets strain With sustian Metaphors to stuff the brain So mixt that given to the thirstiest one 'T will not prove Alms unless he have the stone I think with one draught mans invention fades Two Cups had quite spoil'd Homers Illiads 'T is Liquor that will find out Sutcliff s wit Lye where he will and make him write worse yet Fil'd with such
Exit Orleans Enter Amiens drawn Montague Veramor meeting Mont. What means your Lordship Ver. For the love of Heaven Am. Thou hast advantage of me cast away this buckler Mont. So he is Sir for he lives With one that is undone avoyd us boy Ver I 'll first avoid my safety Your Rapier shall be button'd with my head before it touch my Master Am. Montague Mont. Sir Am. You know my sister Mont. Yes Sir Am. For a whore Mont. You lye and shall lie lower if you dare abuse her honor Enter Lady La. I am honest Am. Honest La. Upon my faith I am Am. What did then parsuade thee to condemn thy self La. Your safety Am. I had rather be expos'd To danger than dishonor th' ast betray'd The reputation of my familie More basely by the falseness of that word Than if thou hadst delivered me asleep Into the hands of base enemies Relief will never make thee sensible Of thy disgraces let thy wants compell thee to it Exit La. O I am a miserable woman Mont. Why Madam are you utterly without means to relieve you La. I have nothing Sir unless by changing of these cloaths for worse and then at last the worst for nakedness Mont. Stand off boy nakedness would be a change To please us Madam to delight us both La. What nakedness Sir Mont. Why the nakedness of body Madam we were Lovers once La. Never dishonest Lovers Mont. Honestie has no allowance now to give our selves La. Nor you allowance against honestie Mont. I 'll send my Boy hence opportunitie Shall be our servant come and meet me first With kisses like a stranger at the door And then invite me nearer to receive A more familiar inward wellcome where Instead of tapers made of Virgins wax Th' increasing flames of our desires shall light Us to a banquet and before the taste Be dull with satisfaction I 'll prepare A nourishment compos'd of every thing That bears a naturall friendship to the blood And that shall set another edge upon 't Or else between the courses of the feast We 'll dallie out an exercise of time That ever as one appetite expires another may succeed it La. O my Lord how has your nature lost her worthiness When our affections had their liberty Our kisses met as temperatelie as The hands of sisters or of brothers that Our bloods were then as moving then you were So noble that I durst have trusted your Embraces in an opportunity Silent enough to serve a ravisher And yet come from you undishonor'd how You think me altered that you promise your Attempt success I know not but were all The sweet temptations that deceive us set On this side and one that side all the waiters These neither should parsuade me nor these force Mont. Then misery may waste your body Lady Yes but lust shall never Mont. I have found you still as uncorupted as I left you first Continue so and I will serve you with As much devotion as my word my hand Or purse can show you and to justifie That promise here is half the wealth I have Take it you owe me nothing till you fall From virtue which the better to protect I have bethought me of a present means Give me the Letter this commends my Boy Into the service of a Lady whose Free goodness you have bin acquainted with Lamira Lady Sir I know her Mont. Then believe her entertainment will be noble to you My boy shall bring you thither and relate Your manner of misfortune if your own Report needs any witness so I kiss your hand good Lady Lady Sir I know not how to promise but I cannot be unthankfull Mont. All that you can implore in thankfulness Be yours to make you the more prosperous Farwell my boy I am not yet oppress'd Exit Lady Having the power to helpe one that 's distress'd Vere Exeunt Actus Secundi Scaena Prima Enter Longaville and Dubois Long. WHat shall we do now swords are out of use And words are out of credit Dub. We must serve Leng The means to get a service will first spend Our purses and except we can allow Our selves an entertainment service will Neglect us now 't is grown into a doubt Whether the Mr. or the servants gives the countenance Dub. Then fall in with Mistresses Long. They keep more servants now indeed than men But yet the age is grown so populous Of those attendants that the women are Grown full too Dub. What shall we propound our selves Long. I 'll think on 't Dub. Do Old occupations have too many setters up to prosper some uncommon trade would thrive now Long Wee 'll e'en make up some half a dozen proper men And should not we get more Than all your female sinners Dub. If the house be seated as it should be privately Long. I but that would make a multitude of witches Dub. Witches how prethee Long. Thus the bands would all turn witches to revenge Themselves upon us and the women that Come to us for disguises must wear beards And that 's they say a token of a witch Dub. What shall we then do Long. We must study on 't With more consideration stay Duboyes Are not the Lord of Orleans and the Lord Of Amiens enemies Dub. Yes what of that Long. Methinks the factions of two such great men Should give a promise of advancement now To us that want it Dub Let the plot be thine and in the enterprize I 'll second thee Long. I have it we will first set down our selves The Method of a quarrell and make choyce Of some frequented Tavern or such a place Of common notice to perform it in By way of undertaking to maintain The severall honors of those enemies Thou for the Lord of Orleans I for Amiens Dub. I like the project and I think 't will take The better since their difference first did rise From his occasion whom we followed once Long. We cannot hope less after the report Than entertainment or gratuity Yet those are ends I do not aim at most Great spirits that are needy and will thrive Must labour whiles such troubles are alive Exeunt Enter Laverdine and La-poope La-p. Slander is sharper than the sword I have fed this three dayes upon leaf Tobacco for want of other Victuals Lav. You have liv'd the honester Captain but be not so dejected but hold up thy head and meat will sooner fall i' thy mouth La-p. I care not so much for meat so I had but good liquor for which my guts croak like so many Frogs for rain Lav. It seems you are troubled with the wind-Collick Captain swallow a bullet 't is present remedy I 'll assure you La-p. A bullet I 'll tell you Sir my panch is nothing but a pile of bullets when I was in any service I stood between my Generall and the shot like a mud-wall I am all lead from the crown of the head to the soal of the foot not a sound bone about me Lau.
required at my hands again Lav. Your Lordship may and without hazarding your own person here 's a Gentleman in whose looks I see a resolution to perform it Dub. Let his Lordship give me but his honorable word for my life I 'll kill him as he walks Lav. Or pistoll him as he sits at meat La-p. Or at game Lav. Or as he is drinking Dub. Any way Orl. Wou't thou call what is mine thine own thy reputation shall not be brought in question for it much less thy life it shall be nam'd a deed of valour in thee not murder Farewell Exit Dub. I need no more ' encouragement it is 〈◊〉 â—k I will persuade my self that I was born to Laver. And you may persuade your self too that you shall be sav'd by it being that it is for his honorable Lordship Dub. But you must yield me means how when and where Lav. That shall be our tasks Nay more we will be agents with thee This hour we are to meet him on the receipt of certain moneys Which indeed we purpose honestly to cheat him of And that 's the main cause I wou'd have him slain Who works with safety makes a double gain Exeunt Enter Longaville Amiens following him Ami. Stay Sir I have took some pains to overtake you Your name is Longaville Long. I have the word of many honest men for 't I crave your Lordships pardon your sudden apprehension on my steps made me to frame an answer unwitting and unworthy your respect Ami. Doe you know me Long. Yes my Lord. Ami. I know not you nor am I well pleased to make this time as the affair now stands the induction of your acquaintance you are a fighting fellow Long. How my Lord Ami. I think I too much grace you rather you are a fellow dares not fight but spit and pufte and make a noyse whilst your trembling hand draws out your Sword to lay it upon andirons stools or tables rather than on a man Long. Your honor may best speak this yet with little safety if I thought it serious Ami. Come you are a verie braggart and you have given me cause to tell you so what weakness have you ever seen in me to prompt your self that I could need your help or what other reason could induce you to it you never yet had a meals meat from my Table nor as I remember from my Wardrop any cast Suit Lon. 'T is true I never durst yet have such a servile spirit to be the minion of a full swoln Lord but alwaies did detest such slavery a meals meat or a cast Suit I wou'd first eat the stones and from such rags the dunghils doe afford pick me a garment Ami. I have mistook the man his resolute spirit Proclaimes him generous he has a noble heart As free to utter good deeds as to act them For had he not been right and of one piece He would have crumpled curled and struck himself Out of the shape of man into a shaddow But prethee tell me if no such fawning hope Did lead thee on to hazard life for my sake What was it that incited thee Tell me speak it without the imputation of a Sycophant Long. Your own desert and with it was joyn'd the unfained friendship that I judged you ever held unto my former Lord. Ami. The noble Montague Long. Yes the noble and much injured Montague Ami. To such a man as thou art my heart shall be A Casket I will lock thee up there And esteem thee as a faithfull friend The richest Jewell that a man enjoyes And in thy thou didst follow once my friend And in thy heart still dost not with his fortunes casting him off Thou shalt go hand in hand with me and share As well in my ability as love 't is not my end To gain men for my use but a true friend Exeunt Enter Duboys Dub. There 's no such thriving way to live in grace As to have no sence of it his back nor belly Shall not want warming that can practise me mischief I walk now with a full purse grow high and wanton Prune and briske my self in the bright shine Of his good Lordships favours and for what virtue For fashioning my self a murderer O noble Montague to whom I owe my heart With all my best thoughts though my tongue have promis'd To exceed the malice of thy destiny Never in time of all my service knew I Such a sin tempt thy bounty those that did feed Upon thy charge had merit or else need Enter Laverdine and La-poope with disguises Lav. Duboys most prosperously met Dub. How now will he come this way La. This way immediately therefore thy assistance dear Duboys Dub. What have you cheated him of the money you spoke of Lav. Fough as easily as a silly Countrey wench of her maydenhead we had it in a twinkling Dub. 'T is well Captain let me help you you must be our leader in this action La-p. Tut fear not I 'll warrant you if my Sword hold we 'll make no sweating sickness of it Dub. Why that 's well said but let 's retire a little that we may come on the more bravely this way this way Exeunt Enter Montague in the hands of three Officers and three Creditors 1 Cre. Officers look to him and be sure you take good security before he part from you Mont. Why but my friends you take a strange course with me the sums I owe you are rather forgetfulness they are so slight than want of will or honesty to pay you 1 Cred. I Sir it may be so but we must be paid and we will be paid before you scape we have wife and children and a charge and you are going down the wind as a man may say and therefore it behooves us to look to 't in time 2 Cred. Your cloak here wou'd satisfie me mine 's not above a three pound matter besides the arrest 3 Cred. 'Faith and mine is much about that matter too your Girdle and Hangers and your Beaver shall be sufficient bail sor't 1 Cred. If you have ever a plain black sute at home this Silken one with your Silke-stockings Garters and Roses shall pacifie me too for I take no delight if I have a sufficient pawn to cast any Gentleman in prison therefore 't is but an untrussing matter and you are free we are no unreasonable creatures you see for mine own part I protest I am loth to put you to any trouble for security Mont. Is there no more of you he wou'd next demand my skin 1 Cred. No Sir here 's no more of us nor do any of us demand your skin we know not what to do with it but it may be if you ow'd your Glover any money he knew what use to make of it Mont. Ye dregs of baseness vultures amongst men That tyre upon the hearts of generous spirits 1 Cred. You do us wrong Sir we tyre no generous spirits we tyre nothing but our hackneys
Sit down man never refuse so fair a Ladies offer Mont. It is your pleasure Madam not my pride And I obey I 'll pledge ye now my Lord Monsieur Longaville Long. I thank you Sir Mont. This to my Lady and her fair choice to day and happiness Long. 'T is a fair health I 'll pledge you though I sink for 't Lam. Montague you are too modest come I 'll add a little more wine t'yee 't will make you merry this to the good I wish Mont. Honour'd Lady I shall forget my self with this great bounty Lam. You shall not Sir give him some Vine Ami. By Heaven you are a worthy woman and that Man is blest can come near such a Lady Lami. Such a blessing wet weather washes Mont. At all I will not go a lip less my Lord. Orl. 'T is well cast Sir Mal. If Montague get more Wine we are all like to hear on 't Lav. I do not like that sitting there Mal. Nor I methinks he looks lik a Judge La-p. Now have I a kind of grudging of a beating on me I fear my hot sit Mal. Drink apace there 's nothing allays a cudgel like it Lami. Montague now I 'll put my choice to you who do you hold in all this honor'd company a Husband sit to enjoy thy Lady speak directly Mont. Shall I speak Madam Lami. Montague you shall Mont. Then as I have a soul I 'll speak my conscience Give me more Wine in vino veritas Here 's to my self and Montague have a care Lami. Speak to th' cause Mont. Yes Madam first I 'll begin to thee Lav Have at us La-p. Now for a Psalm of mercy Mont. You good Monsieur you that belye the noble name of Courtier and think your claim good here hold up your hand your Worship is endited here for a vain glorious fool Lav. Good oh Sir Mont. For one whose wit Lies in a ten pound wastcoat yet not warm Ye have travell'd like a Fidler to make faces And brought home nothing but a case of tooth-picks You would be married and no less than Ladies And of the best sort can serve you thou Silk-worm What hast thou in thee to deserve this woman Name but the poorest piece of man good manners There 's nothing sound about thee saith th' ast none It lies pawn'd at thy Silk-man's for so much Lace Thy credit with his wife cannot redeem it Thy cloaths are all the soul thou hast for so Thou sav'st them handsome for the next great tilting Let who will take the t'other thou wert never christen'd Upon my conscience but in Barbers water Thou art never out o' th' Bason thou art rotten And if thou dar'st tell truth thou wilt confess it Thy skin Looks of a Chesnut colour greaz'd with Amber All women that on earth do dwell thou lov'st Yet none that understand love thee again But those that love the Spittle get thee home Poor painted Butter-flie the Summers past Go sweat and eat dry Mutton thou may'st live To do so well yet a bruis'd Chamber-Maid May fall upon thee and advance thy follies You have your sentence now it follows Captain I treat of you La-p. Pray Heaven I may deserve it Orl. Beshrew my heart he speaks plain Ami. That 's plain dealing Mont. You are a rascal Captain La-p. A fine Calling Mont. A Water-coward Ami. He would make a pretty stuff Mont. May I speak freely Madam Lami. Here 's none ties you Mont. Why shouldst thou dare come hither with a thought To find a wife here fit for thee are all Thy single money whores that fed on Carrots And fill'd the high Grass with familiars Fall'n off to Footmen prethee tell me truly For now I know thou dar'st not lie couldst thou not Wish thy self beaten well with all thy heart now And out of pain say that I broke a rib Or cut thy nose off wer 't not merciful for this ambition La-p. Do your pleasure Sir beggars must not be choosers Orl. He longs for beating Mont. But that I have nobler thoughts possess my soul Than such brown Bisket such a piece of Dog-fish Such a most maungy Mackril eater as thou art That dares do nothing that belongs to th' Sea But spue and catch Rats and fear men of War Though thou hast nothing in the world to loose A boord thee but one piece of Beef one Musket Without a cock for peace sake and a Pitch-barrel I 'll tell thee if my time were not more pretious Than thus to loose it I would rattle thee It may be beat thee and thy pure fellow The Merchant there of Catskins till my words Or blows or both made ye two branded wretches To all the world hereafter you would fain to Venture your Bils of lading for this Lady What would you give now for her some five frayl Of rotten Figs good Godson would you not Sir Or a Parter that speaks High Dutch can all thou ever saw'st Of thine own fraughts from Sea or cosenage At which thou art as expert as the Devil Nay sell thy soul for wealth to as thou wilt do Forfeit thy friends and raise a mint of Money Make thee dream all these double could procure A kiss from this good Lady canst thou hope She would lye with such a nook of Hell as thou art And hatch young Merchant-furies oh ye dog-bolts That fear no Hell but Dunkirk I shall see you Serve in a lowsy Lime-boat e'r I dye For mouldy Cheese and Butter Billingsgate Would not endure or bring in rotten Pippins To cure blew eyes and swear they came from China Lami. Vex 'em no more alas they shake Mont. Down quickly on your marrow-bones and thank this Lady I would not leave you thus else there are blankets And such delights for such knaves but fear still 'T will be revenge enough to keep you waking Ye have no mind of marriage ha' ye La-p. Surely no great mind now Mont. Nor you Mal. Nor I I take it Mont. Two eager suitors Lov. Troth 't is wondrous hot Heaven bless us from him Lami. You have told me Montague Who are not fit to have me let me know The man you would point out for me Mont. There he sits my Lord of Amieus Madam is my choice he 's noble every way and worthy a wife with all the dowries of Ami. Do you speak Sir out of your friendship to me Mont. Yes my Lord and out of truth for I could never flatter Ami. I would not say how much I owe you for it For that were but a promise but I 'll thank ye As now I find you in despite of fortune A fair and noble Gentleman Lami. My Lords I must confess the choice this man hath made Is every way a great one if not too great And no way to be slighted yet because We love to have our own eyes sometimes new Give me a little liberty to see How I could fit my self if I were put to 't Ami. Madam we must Lami. Are ye all
transgress'd ' gainst men and gods But am repentant now and in best case To uncase my soul of this oppressing flesh Which though Gods witness nev'r was actually Injurious to thy wife and thee yet 't was Her goodness that restrain'd and held me now But take my life dear friend for my intent Or else forgive it Val. By the gods of Athens These words are true and all direct again Soph. Pardon me Dorigen Mar. Forgive me Sophocles And Dorigen too and every one that 's good Dor. Rise noble Roman belov'd Sophocles Take to thy brest thy friend Mar. And to thy heart Thy matchless wife Heaven has not stuff enough To make another such for if it could Martius would marry too For thy blest sake O thou infinitie of excellence Henceforth in mens discourse Rome shall not take The wall of Athens as ' tofore But when In their fair honors we to speak do come We 'll say 'T was so in Athens and in Rome Exeunt in pomp Diana descends Diana Honor set ope thy gates and with thee bring My servant and thy friend fair Dorigen Let her triumph with her her Lord and friend Who though misled still honor was their end Flourish Enter the Shew of Honors Triumph a great flourish of Trumpets and Drums within Then enter a noise of Trumpets sounding cheerfully Then follows an armed Knight bearing a Crimson Banneret in hand with the inscription Valour by his side a Lady bearing a Watchet Banneret the inscription Clemencie next Martius and Sophocles with Coronets Next two Ladyes one bearing a white Banneret the inscription Chastity the other a black the inscription Constancie Then Dorigen crown'd Last a Chariot drawn by two Moors in it a Person crown'd with a Scepteron the top in an antick Scutcheon is written Honor. As they pass over Diana ascends Rinald. How like you it Frig. Rarely so well I would they would do it again How many of our wives now adays would deserve to triumph in such a Chariot Rinald. That 's all one you see they triumph in Caroches Frig. That they do by the mass but not all neither many of them are content with Carts But Seignior I have now found out a great absurditie i'faith Rinald. What was ' t Frig. The Prologue presenting four Triumphs made but three legs to the King a three-legged Prologue 't was monstrous Rinald. 'T had been more monstrous to have had a four-legg'd one Peace the King speaks Em Here was a woman Isabel Isa I my Lord But that she told a lye to vex her husband Therein shs fail'd Em. She serv'd him well enough He that was so much man yet would be cast To jealousie for her integrity This teacheth us the passion of love Can fight with Soldiers and with Scholars too Isa In Martius clemencie and valour shown In the other courage and humanitie And therefore in the Triumph they were usher'd By clemencie and valour Em. Rightly observ'd As she by chastitie and constancie What hurt 's now in a Play against which some rail So vehemently thou and I my love Make excellent use methinks I learn to be A lawful lover void of jealousie And thou a constant wife Sweet Poetry 's A flower where men like Bees and Spiders may Bear poison or else sweets and Wax away Be venom-drawing Spiders they that will I 'll be the Bee and suck the honey still Flourish Cupid descends Cupid Stay clouds ye rack too fast bright Phoebus see Honor has triumph'd with fair Chastity Give Love now leave in purity to shew Vnchaste affeions flie not from his bowe Produce the sweet example of your youth Whilst I provide a Triumph for your Truth Flourish Enter Violanta with childe and Gerrard Viol. Why does my Garrerd grieve Ger. O my sweet Mistris 'T is not life which by our Milain law My fact hath forfeited makes me thus pensive That I would lose to save the little finger Of this your noble burthen from least hurt Because your blood is in 't But since your love Made poor incompatible me the parent Being we are not married your dear blood Falls under the same cruel penalty And can Heaven think fit ye die for me For Heavens sake say I ravisht you I 'll swear it To keep your life and repute unstain'd Viol. O Gerrard th' art my life and faculties And if I lose thee I 'll not keep mine own The thought of whom sweetens all miseries Wouldst have me murder thee beyond thy death Unjustly scandal thee with ravishment It was so far from rape that Heaven doth know If ever the first Lovers ere they fell Knew simply in the state of innocence Such was this act this that doth ask no blush Ger. O! but my rarest Violanta when My Lord Randulpho brother to yout father Shall understand this how will he exclaim That my poor Aunt and me which his free alms Hath nurs'd since Millain by the Duke of Mantua Who now usurps it was surpriz'd that time My father and my mother were both slain With my Aunts husband as she says their states Despoil'd and seiz'd 't is past my memory But thus she told me onely thus I know Since I could understand your honor'd Uncle Hath given me all the liberal education That his own son might look for had he one Now will he say Dost thou requite me thus O! the thought kills me Viol. Gentle gentle Gerrard Be cheer'd and hope the best My mother father And uncle love me most indulgently Being the onely branch of all their stocks But neither they nor he thou wouldst not grieve With this unwelcom news shall ever hear Violanta's tongue reveal much less accuse Gerrard to be the father of his own I 'll rather silent die that thou maist live To see thy little of-spring grow and thrive Enter Dorothea Dor. Mistris away your Lord and father seeks you I 'll convey Gerrard out at the back door He has found a husband for you and insults In his invention little thinking you Have made your own choice and possest him too Viol. A husband 't mus be Gerrard or my death Fare well be onely true unto thy self And know Heavens goodness shall prevented be Ere worthiest Gerrard suffer harm for me Ger. Fare well my life and soul Aunt to your counsel I flee for aid O unexpressible love thou art An undigested heap of mixt extremes Whose pangs are wakings and whose pleasures dreams Exeunt Enter Benvoglio Angelina Ferdinand Ben. My Angelina never didst thou yet So please me as in this consent and yet Thou hast pleas'd me well I swear old wench ha ha Ferdinand she 's thine own thou 'st have her boy Ask thy good Lady else Ferd. Whom shall I have Sir Ben. Whom d' ye think ifaith Angel Ghess Ferd. Noble Madam I may hope prompted by shallow merit Through your profound grace for your chamber-maid Ben. How 's that how 's that 〈◊〉 Her chamber-pot my Lord. You modest ass Thou never shew'dst thy self an ass till
it Duke What woman 's this Ben. A base confederate In this proceeding kept of alms long time By him who now expos'd to misery Talks thus distractedly Attach her Guard Ran. Your cruelty brother will have end Cor. You 'd best Let them attach my tongue Duke Good woman peace For were this truth it doth not help thy Nephew The Law 's infring'd by their disparity That forfeits both their lives Cor. Sir with your pardon Had your Grace ever children Duke Thou hast put A question whose sharp point toucheth my heart I had two little Sons twins who were both With my good Dutchess slain as I did hear At that time when my Dukedom was surpriz'd Cor. I have heard many say my gracious Lord That I was wondrous like her All. Ha Duke By all mans joy it is Cornelia My dearest wife Cor. To ratifie me her Come down Alphonso one of those two twins And take thy Fathers blessing thou hast broke No Law thy birth being above thy wives Ascanio is the other nam'd Fernando Who by remote means to my Lord Beâ—voglio I got preferr'd and in poor habits clad You fled and th' innovation laid again I wrought my self into Randulpho's service With my eldest boy yet never durst reveal What they and I were no not to themselves Until the Tyrants death Duke My joy has fill'd me Like a full-winded sail I cannot speak Ger. Fetch Violanta and my brother Ben. Run Run like a spout you rogue a o' poison That little whore I trusted will betray me Stay hangman I have work for you there 's Gold Cut off my head or hang me presently Soft Musick Enter Angelina with the bodies of Ferdinand and Violanta on a bier Dorothea carrying the Cup and Letter which she gives to the Duke he reads seems sorrowful shews it to Cornelia and Gerrard they lament over the bier Randulpho and Benvoglio seem fearful and seem to report to Angelina and Dorothea what hath passed before Ran. This is your rashness brother Duke Oh joy thou wert too great to last This was a cruel turning to our hopes Unnatural Father poor Ascanio Ger. Oh mother let me be Gerrard again And follow Violanta Cor. Oh my Son Duke Your lives yet bloudy men shall answer this Dor. I must not see 'em longer grieve My Lord Be comforted let sadness generally Forsake each eye and bosom they both live For poison I infus'd meer Opium Holding compulsive perjury less sin Than such a loathed murther would have bin All. Oh blessed Madam Dor. Musick gently creep Into their ears and fright hence lazy sleep Morpheus command thy servant sleep In leaden chains no longer keep This Prince and Lady Rise wake rise And round about convey your eyes Rise Prince go greet thy Father and thy Mother Rise thou t' imbrace thy Husband and thy Brother Duke Cor. Son Daughter Ferd. Father Mother Brother Ger. Wife Viol. Are we not all in Heaven Ger. Faith very near it Ferd. How can this be Duke Hear it Dor. If I had serv'd you right I should have seen Your old pate off e'r I had reveald Ben. Oh wench Oh honest wench if my wise die I 'll marry thee There 's my reward Ferd. 'T is true Duke 'T is very strange Ger. Why kneel you honest Master Ferd. My good Lord. Ger. Dear Mother Duke Rise rise all are friends I owe ye for all their boards And wench take thou the man Whose life thou sav'dst less cannot pay the merit How shall I part my kiss I cannot Let One generally therefore joyn our cheeks A pen of Iron and a leaf of Brass To keep this Story to Eternity And a Promethean Wit Oh sacred Love Nor chance nor death can thy firm truth remove Exeunt King Now Isabella Flourish Isab This can true Love do I joy they all so happily are pleas'd The Ladies and the Brothers must triumph King They do For Cupid scorns but 't have his triumph too The TRIUMPH Enter divers Musicians then certain Singers bearing Bannerets inscribed Truth Loyalty Patience Concord Next Gerrard and Ferdinand with Garlands of Roses Then Violanta Last a Chariot drawn by two Cupids and a Cupid sitting in it Flourish Enter PROLOGUE Love and the strength of fair affection Most royal Sir what long seem'd lost have won Their perfect ends and crown'd those constant hearts With lasting Triumph whose most virtuous parts Worthy desires and love shall never end Now turn we round the Scaene and Great Sir lend A sad and serious eye to this of Death This black and dismal Triumph where man's breath Desert and guilty bloud ascend the Stage And view the Tyrant ruin'd in his rage Exit Flourish Enter L'avall Gabriella and Maria. Gab. No good my Lord I am not now to find Your long neglect of me All those affections You came first clad in to my love like Summer Lusty and full of life all those desires That like the painted Spring bloom'd round about ye Giving the happy promise of an Harvest How have I seen drop off and fall forgotten With the least lustre of anothers beauty How oft forgetful Lord have I been blastad Was I so eas'ly won or did this body Yield to your false embraces with less labour Then if you had carried some strong Town Lav. Good Gabriella Gab. Could all your subtilties and sighs betray me The vows ye shook me with the tears ye drown'd me Till I came fairly off with honor'd Marriage Oh fie my Lord. Lav. Prethee good Gabriella Gab. Would I had never known ye nor your honors They are stuck too full of griefs oh happy women That plant your Love in equal honest bosoms Whose sweet desires like Roses set together Make one another happy in their blushes Growing and dying without sense of greatness To which I am a slave I and that blest Sacrament That daily makes millions of happy mothers link'd me To this man's Lust alone there left me I dare not say I am his wife 't is dangerous His Love I cannot say alas how many Lav. You grow too warm pray be ye content you best know The times necessity and how our marriage Being so much unequal to mine honor While the Duke lives I standing high in favour And whilst I keep that safe next to the Dukedom Must not be known without my utter ruine Have patience for a while and do but dream wench The glory of a Dutchess How she tires me How dull and leaden is my appetite To that stale beauty now oh I could curse And crucifie my self for childish doating Upon a face that feeds not with fresh Figures Every fresh hour she is now a surfet to me Enter Gentille Who 's that Gentille I charge ye no acquaintance You nor your Maid with him nor no discourse Till times are riper Gent. Fie my Noble Lord Can you be now a stranger to the Court When your most virtuous Bride the beauteous Hellena Stands ready like a Star to gild your happiness When Hymens lusty fires are now