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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07025	Hollands leaguer An excellent comedy as it hath bin lately and often acted with great applause, by the high and mighty Prince Charles his Servants; at the private house in Salisbury Court. Written by Shackerley Marmyon, Master of Arts.	Marmion, Shackerley, 1603-1639.	1632 (1632)	STC 17443.5; ESTC S112203	44,590	88

HOLLANDS LEAGVER AN EXCELLENT COMEDY AS IT HATH BIN LATELY and often Acted with great applause by the high and mighty Prince CHARLES his Servants at the private house in Salisbury Court Written by SHACKERLEY MARMYON Master of Arts Vult haec sub luce videri Indicis argutum quia non formidat acumen Printed at London by I.B. for IOHN GROVE dwelling in Swan-Yard within Newgate 1632 To the Reader CVrteous Reader for so I presume thou art if otherwise thou losest the title of being stiled ingenious for there are none but favour learning if they so much as pretend to it but I hope I neede make no apologie either to gaine thy fauour or to credit the Worke it has so often pass'd with approbation that I have hopes it will continue it If there be any so supercilious to condemne it before they read it let them rest content with the title and not enter into the Theater unlesse they intend to behold the Florales However my Muse has descended to this subiect let men esteeme of her onely as a reprover not an interpreter of wickednesse Occultare peccantis promulgare ludentis est Aristippus being compelled to dance in purple against the dignity of a Phylosopher made an excuse that the baits of sinne had no power on a good nature and Plato having compos'd wanton Verses affirmed that the more plaine they were the more honest and your former Writers in their accurate discovery of vice have mingled the precepts of wisdome If thou shalt accept this as it was simply meant the applause it has obtain'd shall not so much crowne it as thy acceptation SHACKERLEY MARMYON Dramatis Personae Philautus a Lord inamord of himselfe William Browne Ardelio his parasite Ellis Worth Trimalchio a humorous gallant Andrew Keyne Agurtes an Impostor Mathew Smith Autolicus his disciple Iames Sneller Capritio a young Novice Henry Gradwell Miscellanio his Tutor Thomas Bond Snarle friends to Philautus Richard Fowler Fidelio friends to Philautus Edward May Ieffery tenant to Philautus Robert Huyt Triphoena wife to Philautus Robert Stratford Faustina sister to Philautus Richard Godwin Millescent daughter to Agurtes Iohn Wright Margery her maid Richard Fouch Quartilla Gentlewoman to Triphoena Arthur Savill Bawd Samuell Mannery 2 Whores Pander Officers Prologue GEntle spectators that with gracefull eye Come to behold the Muses Colonie New planted in this soyle forsooke of late By the Inhabitants since made fortunate By more propitious starres though on each hand To over-top us two great Lawrels stand The one when she shall please to spread her traine The vastnesse of the Globe cannot containe Th' other so high the Phoenix does aspire To build in and takes new life from the fire Bright Poesie creates yet we partake The Influence they boast of which does make Our Bayes to flourish and the leaves to spring That on our branches now new Poets sing And when with ioy hee shall see this resort Phoebus shall not disdaine to stile 't his Court HOLLANDS LEAGVER ACT. 1. SCEN. 1. Fidelio Snarle Fid. WHat Snarle my deare Democritus how is 't You are a Courtier growne I heare Snarl No Sir That 's too deepe a mystery for me to professe I spend my owne revenewes onely I have An itching humour to see fashions Fidel. And what haue you obseru'd since you came hither Snarl Why they doe hold here the same Maxime still That to dissemble is the way to live But promotion hangs all vpon one chaine And that 's of gold he that intends to climbe Must get up by the linkes and those are tyed Together with the thread of my Lords favor Fidel. So Sir Snar. And all desire to live long and healthy But ambition and luxury will not permit it Fid. I hope you doe not share in their desires Sna. There is other preposterous dealing too For nature cannot finde her selfe amongst them There 's such effeminacy in both sexes They cannot be distinguished asunder And for your times and seasons of all ages Your best Astrologer cannot discerne them Not Spring from Autumne you shall have a Lady Whose cheeke is like a scrue and every rinkle Would looke like a furrow yet with a garnish Is so fild up and plaistred that it lookes As fresh as a new painted taverne onely Fid. Hold there you 'll run your self out of breath else And now resolve me of the Lord Philautus Is all that true that is reported of him Snar. Who he the most besotted on his beauty He studies nothing but to court himselfe No Musicke but the harmony of his limbes No worke of art but his owne symmetry Allures his sense to admiration And then he comes forth so bath'd in perfumes Had you no sense to guide you but your nose You 'd thinke him a Muske-cat he smels as ranke As th' extreame unction of two funerals Fid. My sence will note be able to endure him Sna. Such men as smell so I suspect their favour Fid. Is none his friend to tell him of his faults Sna. There want not some that seeke to flatter him For great mens vices are esteem'd as vertues Fid. O they are still in fashion in them A wry necke is a comely president Disorder disagreement in their lives And manners is thought regular their actions Are still authenticke if it be receiv'd To be illiterate is a point of state But the worst thing which I dislike in him Which he does more by words then action He gives out that the Ladies dote upon him And that he can command them at his pleasure And swears there 's scarce an honest woman Fid. How Sna. It is not well to say so but by this light I am of his minde too Fid. You are deceiv'd There are a thousand chaste Snar. There was an age When Iuno was a maide and Iove had no beard When miserable Atlas was not opprest With such a sort of Dieties and each Din'd by himselfe before Vshers and Pages Swarm'd so and Banquets and your Masques came up Riding in Coaches visiting and Titles So many Playes and Puritan preachings That women might be chaste now 't is impossible Now should I finde such a prodigious faith I 'de honour 't with a sacrifice Fid. T is ill To be incredulous when charity Exacts your beleefe but let that passe What will you say if I finde out a meanes To cure him of his folly Snar. Then I pronounce The destruction of Bedlam and all mad folkes Shall be thy patients Fid. Nay I 'll doe it I 'll make him in love and doe it Snar. That 's a cure Worse then any disease I can as soone Beleeve a fire may be extinct with oyle Or a Fever coold with drinking of Sacke Fid. Suspend your judgement till I confirme you Snarl No more stand by here comes the Parasite That is Narcissus and this is his Eccho Fid. What is he Snar. One that feeds all mens humors that feed him Can apprehend their iests before they speake them And with a forced laughter play