That seeke of all but onely present grace Shall in perseuerance of a Virgins due Prefer the most refusers to the choyce Of such a soule as yeelded what they thought But hoe where is Trotter Here enters Trotter the Millers man to them And they within call to him for their gryste Trotter Where 's Trotter why Trotter is here yfaith you and your daughter go vp and downe weeping And wamenting and keeping of a wamentation As who should saye the Mill would go with your wamenting Miller How now Trotter why complainest thou so Trotter Why yonder is a company of yong men and maydes Keepe such a styr for their grist that they would haue it before my stones be readie to grinde it But yfaith I would I coulde breake winde enough backward you should not tarrie for your gryst I warrant you Miller Content thee Trotter I will go pacifie them Trotter Iwis you will when I cannot Why looke You haue a Mill Why what 's your Mill without mee Or rather Mistres what were I without you Em Nay Trotter if you fall achyding I wil giue you ouer Trotter I chyde you dame to amend you You are too fyne to be a Millers daughter For if you should but stoope to take vp the tole dish You will haue the crampe in your finger At least ten weekes after Miller Ah well said Trotter teach her to plaie the good huswife And thou shalt haue her to thy wife if thou canst get her good will Trotter Ah words wherein I see Matrimonie come loaden With kisses to salute me Now let me alone to pick the Mill To fill the hopper to take the tole to mend the sayles Yea and to make the mill to goe with the verie force of my loue Here they must call for their gryst within Trotter I come I come yfaith now you shall haue your gryst Or else Trotter will trot and amble himselfe to death They call him againe Exit Enter king of Denmarke with some attendants Blanch his daughter Mariana Marques Lubeck VVilliam disguised King of Denmarke Lord Marques Lubecke welcome home Welcome braue Knight vnto the Denmarke King For Williams sake the noble Norman Duke So famous for his fortunes and successe That graceth him with name of Conqueror Right double welcome must thou be to vs Rob. VVindsor And to my Lord the king shall I recount Your graces courteous entertainment That for his sake vouchsafe to honor me A simple Knight attendant on his grace King Den. But saie Sir Knight what may I call your name Robert VVindsor Robert Windsor and like your Maiestie King Den. I tell thee Robert I so admire the man As that I count it haynous guilt in him That honors not Duke William with his heart Blanch bid this straunger welcome good my gyrle Blanch Sir should I neglect your highnes charge herein It might be thought of base discourtesie Welcome Sir Knight to Denmarke hartelie Ro. VVinds. Thanks gentle Ladie Lord Marques what is shee Lubeck That same is Blanch daughter to the King The substance of the shadow that you saw Rob. windsor May this be shee for whome I crost the Seas I am ashamde to think I was so fond In whom ther 's nothing that contents my mynd Ill hued worse featurde vncomly nothing courtly Swart and ill fauoured a Colliers sanguin skinne I neuer sawe a harder fauourd slut Loue her for what I can no whit abide her King of Denmark Mariana I haue this day receiued letters From Swethia that lets me vnderstand your raunsome is collecting there with speede And shortly shal be hither sent to vs Mariana Not that I finde occasion of mislike My entertainment in your graces court But that I long to see my natiue home king Den. And reason haue you Madam for the same Lord Marques I commit vnto your charge The entertainement of Sir Robert here Let him remaine with you within the Court In solace and disport to spend the time Exit king of Denmarke Robert Wind. I thank your hightnes whose bounden I remaine Blanch speaketh this secretly at one end of the stage Vnhappie Blanch what strange effects are these That workes within my thoughts confusedly That still me thinks affection drawes me on To take to like nay more to loue this Knight Robert Wind. A modest countenance no heauie sullen looke Not verie fayer but ritchly deckt with fauour A sweete face an exceding daintie hand A bodie were it framed of wax By all the cunning artists of the world It could not better be proportioned Lubeck How now Sir Robert in a studie man Here is no tyme for contemplation Robert Windsor My Lord there is a certaine odd conceite Which on the sudden greatly troubles me Lubeck How like you Blaunch I partly do perceiue The little boy hath played the wagg with you Sir Robert The more I looke the more I loue to looke Who seyes that Mariana is not faire I le gage my gauntlet gainst the enuious man That dares auowe there liueth her compare Lubeck Sir Robert you mistake your counterfeit This is the Ladie which you came to see Sir Robert yea my Lord Shee is counterfait in deede For there is the substance that best contents me Lubek That is my loue Sir Robert you do wrong me Robert The better for you sir she is your Loue As for the wrong I see not how it growes Lubeck In seeking that which is anothers right Robert As who should saie your loue were priuileged That none might looke vpon her but your selfe Lubeck These iarres becomes not our familiaritie Nor will I stand on termes to moue your patience Robert Why my Lord am not I of flesh and bloud as well as you Then giue me leaue to loue as well as you Lubeck To Loue Sir Robert but whome not she I Loue Nor stands it with the honor of my state To brooke corriuals with me in my loue Robert So Sir we are thorough for that L. Ladies farewell Lord Marques will you go I will finde a time to speake with her I trowe Lubeck With all my heart Come Ladies wil you walk Exit Enter Manuile alone disguised Manuile Ah Em the subiect of my restlesse thoughts The Anuyle whereupon my heart doth beate Framing thy state to thy desert Full yll this life becomes thy heauenly looke Wherein sweete loue and vertue sits enthroned Bad world where riches is esteemd aboue them both In whose base eyes nought else is bountifull A Millers daughter sayes the multitude Should not be loued of a Gentleman But let them breath their soules into the ayre Yet will I still affect thee as my selfe So thou be constant in thy plighted vowe But here comes one I wil listen to his talke Enter Valingford at another dore disguised Valingford Goe William Conqueror and seeke thy loue Seeke thou a mynion in a forren land Whilest I drawe back and court my loue at home The millers daughter of faire Manchester Hath bound my feete to this delightsome
loue thee true and faithfully For which I am rewarded most vnthankfully Exit in a rage Manet Em And so awaie what in displeasure gone And left me such a bitter sweete to gnawe vpon Ah Manuile little wottest thou How neere this parting goeth to my heart Vncourteous loue whose followers reapes reward Of hate disdaine reproach and infamie The fruit of frantike bedlome ielozie Here enter Mountney to Em But here comes one of these suspitious men VVitnes my God without desert of me For onely Manuile honor I in harte Nor shall vnkindnes cause me from him to starte Mountney For this good fortune Venus be thou blest To meete my loue the mistres of my heart Where time and place giues oportunitie At full to let her vnderstand my loue He turnes to Em offers to take her by the hand shee goes from him Faire mistres since my fortune sorts so well Heare you a word What meaneth this Nay stay faire Em Em I am going homewards syr Mountney Yet stay sweete loue to whom I must disclose The hidden secrets of a louers thoughts Not doubting but to finde such kinde remorse As naturally you are enclyned to Em The Gentle-man your friend Syr I haue not seene him this foure dayes at the least Mountney What 's that to me I speak not sweete in person of my friend But for my selfe whom if that loue deserue To haue regard being honourable loue Not base affects of loose lasciuious loue Whome youthfull wantons play and dally with But that vnites in honourable bands of holy rytes And knits the sacred knot that Gods Here Em cuts him off Em What meane you sir to keepe me here so long I cannot vnderstand you by your sygnes You keepe a pratling with your lippes But neuer a word you speake that I can heare Mountney What is shee deafe a great impediment Yet remedies there are for such defects Sweete Em it is no little griefe to mee To see where nature in her pryde of art Hath wrought perfections ritch and admirable Em Speake you to mee Sir Mountney To thee my onely ioy Em I cannot heare you Mountney Oh plague of Fortune Oh hell without compare What bootes it vs to gaze and not enioy Em Fare you well Sir Exit Em Manet Mountney Mountney Fare well my loue Nay farewell life and all Could I procure redresse for this infirmitie It might be meanes shee would regard my sute I am acquainted with the Kings Phisitions Amongst the which there 's one mine honest friend Seignior Alberto a verie learned man His iudgement will I haue to help this ill Ah Em faire Em if Art can make thee whole I le buy that sence for thee although it cost mee deere But Mountney stay this may be but deceit A matter fained onely to delude thee And not vnlike perhaps by Valingford He loues faire Em as well as I As well as I ah no not halfe so well Put case yet may he be thine enimie And giue her counsell to dissemble thus I le try the euent and if it fall out so Frindship farewell Loue makes me now a foe Exit Mountney Enter Marques Lubeck and Mariana Mariana Trust me my Lord I am sorie for your hurt Lubeck Gramercie Madam but it is not great Onely a thrust prickt with a Rapiers point Mariana How grew the quarrel my Lord Lubeck Sweet Ladie for thy sake There was this last night two maskes in one company My selfe the formost The other strangers were Amongst the which when the Musick began to sound the Measures Eche Masker made choice of his Ladie And one more forward than the rest stept towards thee Which I perceiuing thrust him aside and tooke thee my selfe But this was taken in so ill parte That at my comming out of the court gate with iustling togither It was my chaunce to be thrust into the arme The doer thereof because he was the originall cause of the disorder At that inconuenient time was presently committed And is this morning sent for to aunswer the matter And I think here he comes What Sir Robert of Windsor how now Sir Robert Yfaith my Lord a prisoner but what ayles your arme Lubeck Hurte the last night by mischaunce Sir Robert What not in the maske at the Court gate Lubeck Yes trust me there Sir Rob. Why then my Lorde I thank you for my nights lodging Lubeck And I you for my hurt if it were so Keeper awaie I discharge you of your prisoner Exit the Keeper Sir Robert Lord Marques you offerd me disgrace to shoulder me Lubeck Sir I knew you not and therefore you must pardon me And the rather it might be alleaged to me of Meare simplisitie to see another daunce with my Maistris disguysed and I my selfe in presence but seeing it Was our happs to damnifie each other vnwillingly Let vs be content with our harmes And laye the fault where it was and so become friendes Sir Robert Yfaith I am content with my nights lodging If you be content with your hurt Lubeck Not content that I haue it but content To forget how I came by it Sir Robert My Lord here comes Ladie Blannch le ts away Enter Blaunch Lubeck With good will Ladie you will staie Exit Lubeck and Sir Robert Mariana Madam Blaunch Mariana as I am grieued with thy presence So am I not offended for thy absence And were it not a breach to modestie Thou shouldest know before I left thee Mariana How neare is this humor to madnesse If you hould on as you begyn you are in a pretie waie to scoulding Blannch To scoulding huswife Mariana Maddam here comes one Here enters one with a letter Blaunch There doth in deed Fellow wouldest thou haue any thing with any bodie here Messenger I haue a letter to deliuer to the Ladie Mariana Blaunch Giue it me Messen. There must none but shee haue it Blaunch snatcheth the letter from him Et exit messenger Go to foolish fellow And therefore to ease the anger I sustaine I le be so bolde to open it what 's here Sir Robert greets you well Your Maistries his loue his life Oh amorous man How he entertaines his new Maistres And bestowes on Lubeck his old friend A horne night capp to keepe in his witt Mariana Maddam though you haue discourteously Read my letter yet I praye you giue it me Blaunch Then take it there and there and there She teares it Et exit Blannch Mariana How farr doth this differ from modestie Yet will I gather vp the peeces which happelie May shew to me the intent thereof Though not the meaning She gathers vpp the peeces and ioynes them Mariana Your seruant and loue sir Robert of Windsor Alius William the Conqueror wisheth long health and happinesse Is this William the Conqueror shrouded vnder The name of sir Robert of VVindsor Were he the Monarch of the world He should not disposesse Lubeck of his Loue Therefore I will to the Court and there if I can Close
A Pleasant Commodie of faire Em the Millers daughter of Manchester VVith the loue of William the Conqueror As it was sundrie times publiquely acted in the honourable citie of London by the right honourable the Lord Strange his seruaunts Imprinted at London for T.N. and I.VV. and are to be solde in S. Dunstones Church-yarde in Fleete-streete A Pleasant Commodie of faire Em the Millers daughter of Manchester With the loue of William the Conquerour Actus Primus Scaena prima Enter William the Conqueror Marques Lubeck with a picture Mountney Manuile Valingford and Duke Dirot Marques WHat meanes faire Britaines mighty Conqueror So suddenly to cast away his staffe And all in passion to forsake the tylt D. Dirot My Lord this triumph we solemnise here Is for meere loue to your increasing ioyes Only expecting cheerefull lookes for all What sudden pangs than moues your maiestie To dimme the brightnes of the day with frownes W. Conqueror Ah good my Lords misconster not the cause At least suspect not my displeased browes I amorously do beare to your intent For thanks and all that you can wish I yeeld But that which makes me blush and shame to tell Is cause why thus I turne my conquering eyes To cowardes lookes and beaten fantasies Mountney Since wee are giltlesse wee the lesse dismay To see this sudden change possesse your cheere For if it issue from your owne conceits Bred by suggestion of some enuious thoughts Your highnes wisdome may suppresse it straight Yet tell vs good my Lord what thought it is That thus bereaues you of your late content That in aduise we may assist your grace Or bend our forces to reuiue your spirits W Con. Ah Marques Lubeck in thy power it lyes To rid my bosome of these thraled dumps And therefore good my Lords forbeare awhile That we may parley of these priuate cares Whose strength subdues me more than all the world Valingford We goe and wishe thee priuate conference Publicke affectes in this accustomed peace Exit all but William and the Marques William Now Marques must a Conquerer at armes disclose himselfe thrald to vnarmed thoughts And threatned of a shaddowe yeeld to lust No sooner had my sparkeling eyes beheld The flames of beautie blasing on this peece But sodenly a sence of myracle Imagined on thy louely Maistres face Made me abandon bodily regarde And cast all pleasures on my woonded soule Then gentle Marques tell me what she is That thus thou honourest on thy warlike shield And if thy loue and interest be such As iustly may giue place to myne That if it be my soule with honors wings May fly into the bosome of my deere Yf not close them and stoope into my graue Marques Yf this be all renowned Conquerer Aduance your drooping spirites and reuiue The wonted courage of your Conquering minde For this faire picture painted on my shield Is the true counterfeit of loveli Blaunch Princes and daughter to the King of Danes Whose beautie and excesse of ornamentes Deserues another manner of defence Pompe and high person to attend her state Then Marques Lubeck any way presents Therefore her vertues I resigne to thee Alreadie shrinde in thy religious brest To be aduaunced and honoured to the full Nor beare I this an argument of loue But to renowne faire Blaunch my Soueraignes child In euerie place where I by armes may do it William Ah Marques thy wordes bring heauen vnto my soule And had I heauen to giue for thy reward Thou shouldst be thronde in no vnworthie place But let my vttermost wealth suffice thy worth Which here I vowe and to aspire the blisse That hangs on quicke atchiuement of my loue Thy selfe and I will traueile in disguise To bring this Ladie to our Brittaine Court Marques Let VVilliam but bethinke what may auayle And let me die if I denie my ayde VVilliam Then thus the Duke Dirot and Th erle Dimach Will I leaue substitutes to rule my Realme While mightie loue forbids my being here And in the name of Sir Robert of VVindsor Will goe with thee vnto the Danish Court Keepe VVilliams secretes Marques if thou loue him Bright Blaunch I come sweete fortune fauour me And I will laud thy name eternally Exeunt Enter the Miller and Em his daughter Miller Come daughter we must learne to shake of pomp To leaue the state that earst beseemd a Knight And gentleman of no meane discent To vndertake this homelie millers trade Thus must we maske to saue our wretched liues Threatned by Conquest of this haplesse Yle Whose sad inuasions by the Conqueror Haue made a number such as we subiect Their gentle neckes vnto their stubborne yoke Of drudging labour and base pesantrie Sir Thomas Godard now old Goddard is Goddard the miller of faire Manchester Why should not I content me with this state As good Sir Edmund Trofferd did the flail And thou sweete Em must stoope to high estate To ioyne with mine that thus we may protect Our harmeles liues which ledd in greater port Would be an enuious obiect to our foes That seeke to roote all Britaines Gentrie From bearing countenance against their tyrannie Em Good Father let my full resolued thoughts With setled patiens to support this chaunce Be some poore comfort to your aged soule For therein restes the height of my estate That you are pleased with this deiection And that all toyles my hands may vndertake May serue to worke your worthines content Miller Thankes my deere Daughter these thy plesant words Transferre my soule into a second heauen And in thy setled minde my ioyes consist My state reuyued and I in former plight Although our outward pomp be thus abased And thralde to drudging stayless of the world Let vs retaine those honorable mindes That lately gouerned our superior state Wherein true gentrie is the only meane That makes vs differ from base millers borne Though we expect no knightly delicates Nor thirst in soule for former soueraintie Yet may our myndes as highly scorne to stoope To base desires of vulgars worldlynes As if we were in our presedent way And louely daughter since thy youthfull yeares Must needes admit as yong affections And that sweete loue vnpartiall perceiues Her daintie subiects through euery part In chiefe receiue these lessons from my lippes The true discouerers of a Virgins due Now requisite now that I know thy mynde Somthing enclynde to fauour Manuils sute A gentleman thy Louer in protest And that thou maist not be by loue deceiued But trye his meaning fit for thy desert In pursuite of all amorous desires Regard thine honour Let not vehement sighes Nor earnest vowes importing feruent loue Render thee subiect to the wrath of lust For that transformed to former sweete delight Will bring thy bodie and thy soule to shame Chaste thoughts and modest conuersations Of proofe to keepe out all inchaunting vowes Vaine sighes forst teares and pittifull aspectes Are they that make deformed Ladies faire Poore wretch and such intycing men
to be friendes with Ladie Blaunch And thereby keepe Lubeck my Loue for my selfe And further the Ladie Blaunch in her sute as much as I may Exit Enter Em solus Em Ielosie that sharpes the louers sight And makes him conceiue and conster his intent Hath so bewitched my louely Manuils sences That he misdoubts his Em that loues his soule He doth suspect corriuals in his loue Which how vntrue it is be iudge my God But now no more Here commeth Valingford Shift him off now as thou hast done the other Enter Valingford Valingf See how Fortune presents me with the hope I lookt for Fair Em Em Who is that Valingf. I am Valingford thy loue and friend Em I cry you mercie Sir I thought so by your speach Valingf. What ayleth thy eyes Em Oh blinde Sir blinde striken blind by mishap on a sudden Valingf. But is it possible you should be taken on such a suddain Infortunate Valingford to be thus crost in thy loue Faire Em I am not a little sorie to see this thy hard hap Yet neuerthelesse I am acquainted with a learned Phisitian That will do any thing for thee at my request To him will I resort and enquire his iudgement As concerning the recouerie of so excellent a sence Em O Lord Sir and of all things I cannot abide Phisicke The verie name thereof to me is odious Valingford No not the thing will doe thee so much good Sweete Em hether I came to parley of loue Hoping to haue found thee in thy woonted prosperitie And haue the gods so vnmercifully thwarted my expectation By dealing so sinisterly with thee sweete Em Em Good sir no more it fits not me To haue respect to such vaine fantasies As idle loue presentes my eares withall More reason I should ghostlie giue my selfe To sacred prayers for this my former sinne For which this plague is iustly fallen vpon me Then to harken to the vanities of loue Valingford Yet sweet Em accept this iewell at my hand Which I bestowe on thee in token of my loue Em A iewell sir what pleasure can I haue In iewels treasure or any worldly thing That want my sight that should deserue thereof Ah sir I must leaue you The paine of mine eyes is so extreame I cannot long staie in a place I take my leaue Exit Em Valingford Zoundes what a crosse is this to my conceite But Valingford serch the depth of this deuise Why may not this be fained subteltie By Mountneies inuention to the intent That I seeing such occasion should leaue off my sute And not any more persiste to solicite her of loue I le trie the euent if I can by any meanes perceaue The effect of this deceyte to be procured by his meanes Friend Mountney the one of vs is like to repent our bargeine Exit Enter Mariana and Marques Lubeck Lubeck Ladie since that occasion forward in our good Presenteth place and opportunitie Let me intreat your woonted kind consent And freindly furtherance in a suite I haue Mariana My Lord you know you neede not to intreat But may commaund Mariana to her power Be it no impeachment to my honest fame Lubeck Free are my thoughts from such base villanie As may in question Ladie call your name Yet is the matter of such consequence Standing vpon my honorable credit To be effected with such zeale and secresie As should I speake and faile my expectation I would redound greatly to my preiudice Mariana My Lord wherein hath Mariana giuen you occasion That you should mistrust or else be ielous of my secrecie Lubeck Mariana do not misconster of me I not mistrust thee nor thy secresie Nor let my loue misconster my intente Nor think thereof but well and honorable Thus stands the case Thou knowest from England Hether came with me Robert of VVindsor a noble man at Armes Lustie and valiant in spring time of his yeares No maruell then though he proue amorous Mariana True my Lord he came to see faire Blanch Lubeck No Mariana that is not it His loue to Blanch was then extinct When first he sawe thy face T is thee he loues yea thou art onely shee That is maistres and commaunder of his thoughts Mariana Well well my Lord I like you for such driftes Put silly Ladies often to their shiftes Oft haue I heard you saye you loued me well Yea sworne the same and I beleeued you to Can this be found an action of good faith Thus to dissemble where you found true loue Lubeck Mariana I not dissemble on mine honour Nor failes my faith to thee But for my friend For princely William by whom thou shalt possesse The tytle of estate and Maiestie Fitting thy loue and vertues of thy minde For him I speake for him do I intreat And with thy fauour fully do resigne To him the claime and interest of my loue Sweete Mariana then denie mee not Loue William loue my friend and honour mee Who els is cleane dishonored by thy meanes Mariana Borne to mishap my selfe am onely shee On whome the Sunne of Fortune neuer shyned But Planets rulde by retrogard aspect Foretolde mine yll in my natiuitie Lubeck Sweete Ladie seace let my intreatie serue To pacifie the passion of thy griefe Which well I know proceedes of ardent loue Mariana But Lubeck now regardes not Mariana Lubeck Euen as my life so loue I Mariana Mariana Why do you poste mee to another then Lubeck He is my friend and I do loue the man Mariana Then will Duke VVilliam robb me of my Loue Lubeck No as his life Mariana he doth loue Mariana Speake for yourselfe my Lord let him alone Lubeck So do I Madam for he and I am one Mariana Then louing you I do content you both Lubeck In louing him you shall content vs both Me for I craue that fauour at your handes He for hopes that comfort at your hands Mariana Leaue of my Lord here comes the Ladie Blaunch Enter Blaunch to them LuBeck Hard hap to breake vs of our talke so soone Sweet Mariana doe remember me Exit Lubeck Mariana Thy Mariana cannot chuse but remember thee Blaunch Mariana well met you are verie forward in your Loue Mariana Madam be it in secret spoken to your selfe If you wil but follow the complot I haue inuented you will not think me so forward As your selfe shall proue fortunate Blaunch As how Mariana Madam as thus It is not vnknowen to you That Sir Robert of Windsor A man that you do not little esteeme Hath long importuned me of Loue But rather then I will be found false Or vniust to the Marques Lubeck I will as did the constant ladie Penelope Vndertake to effect some great taske Blaunch What of all this Mariana The next tyme that Sir Robert shall come In his woonted sort to solicit me with Loue I will seeme to agree and like of any thing That the Knight shal demaund so far foorth As it be no impeachment to my chastitie And to conclude poynt
some place for to meete the man For my conueiance from the Denmarke Court Which determined vpon he will appoynt some certaine time For our departure whereof you hauing intelligence You may soone set downe a plot to were the English Crowne And than Blanch What then Mariana If Sir Robert proue a King and you his Queene How than Blanch Were I assured of the one as I am perswaded Of the other there were some possibilitie in it But here comes the man Mariana Madam begon and you shall see I will worke to your desire and my content Exit Blanch William Con Ladie this is well and happelie met Fortune hetherto hath beene my foe And though I haue oft sought to speake with you Yet still I haue beene crost with sinister happs I cannot Madame tell a louing tale Or court my Maistres with fabulous discoursies That am a souldier sworne to followe armes But this I bluntly let you vnderstand I honor you with such religious Zeale As may become an honorable minde Nor may I make my loue the seege of Troye That am a straunger in this Countrie First what I am I know you are resolued For that my friend hath let you that to vnderstand The Marques Lubeck to whome I am so bound That whilest I liue I count me onely his Mariana Surely you are beholding to the Marques For he hath beene an earnest spokes-man in your cause William And yealdes my Ladie then at his request To grace Duke VVilliam with her gratious loue Mariana My Lord I am a prisoner and hard it were To get me from the Courte VVilliam An easie matter to get you from the Court If case that you will thereto giue consent Mariana Put case I should how would you vse me than William Not otherwise but well and honorably I haue at Sea a shipp that doth attend Which shall foorthwith conducte vs into England Where when we are I straight will marrie thee We may not stay deliberating long Least that suspition enuious of our weale Set in a foote to hinder our pretence Mariana But this I think were most conuenient To maske my face the better to scape vnknowen VVilliam A good deuise till then Farwell faire loue Mariana But this I must intreat your grace You would not seeke by lust vnlawfully To wrong my chast determinations VVilliam I hold that man most shameles in his sinne That seekes to wrong an honest Ladies name Whome he thinkes worthie of his mariage bed Mariana In hope your othe is true I leaue your grace till the appoynted tyme Exit Mariana William O happie William blessed in thy loue Most fortunate in Marianaes loue Well Lubeck well this courtesie of thine I will requite if God permit me life Exit Enter Valingford and Mountney at two sundrie dores looking angerly each on other with Rapiers drauen Mountney Valingford so hardlie I disgest an iniurie Thou hast profered me as were not that I detest to doe what stands Not with the honor of my name Thy death should paie thy ransome of thy fault Valingford And Mountney had not my reuenging wrath Incenst with more than ordinarie loue beene such for to depriue thee of thy life Thou hadst not liude to braue me as thou doest wretch as thou arte wherein hath Valingford offended thee That honourable bond which late we did confirme In presence of the Gods When with the Conqueror we arriued here For my part hath beene kept inuiolably Till now too much abused by thy villanie I am inforced to cancell all those bands By hating him which I so well did loue Mountney Subtil thou art and cunning in thy frawd That giuing me occasion of offence Thou pickst a quarrell to excuse thy shame Why Valingford was it not enough for thee To be a ryuall twixt me and my loue But counsell her to my no small disgrace That when I came to talke with her of loue Shee should seeme deafe as fayning not to heare Valingford But hath shee Mountney vsed thee as thou sayest Mountney Thou knowest too well shee hath Wherein thou couldest not do me greater iniurie Valingford Then I perceiue we are deluded both For when I offered many gifts of Gold and Iewels To entreat for loue shee hath refused them with a coy disdaine Alledging that shee could not see the Sunne The same coniectured I to be thy drift That fayning so shee might be ridd of mee Mountney The like did I by thee But are not these naturall impediments Validgford In my coniecture merely counterfeit Therefore le ts ioyne hands in frindship once againe Since that the iarre grewe only by coniecture Mountney With all my heart Yet le ts trye the truth hereof Valingf. With right good will We wil straight vnto her father And there to learne whither it be so or no Exeunt Enter VVilliam and Blanch disguised with a maske ouer her face William Come on my loue the comfort of my life Disguised thus we may remaine vnknowen And get we once to Seas I force not then We quickly shall attaine the English shore Blaunch But this I vrge you with your former oath You shall not seeke to violate mine honour Vntill our marriage rights be all performed VVilliam Mariana here I sweare to thee by heauen And by the honour that I beare to Armes Neuer to seeke or craue at hands of thee The spoyle of honourable chastitie Vntill we do attaine the English coast Where thou shalt be my right espoused Queene Blanch In hope your oath proceedeth from your heart Le ts leaue the Court and betake vs to his power That gouernes all things to his mightie will And will reward the iust with endlesse ioye And plague the bad with most extreame annoy William Lady as little tarriance as wee may Lest some misfortune happen by the way Exit Blanch William Enter the Miller his man Trotter Manuile Miller I tell you sir it is no little greefe to mee You should so hardly conseit of my daughter Whose honest report though I saie it Was neuer blotted with any title of defamation Manuile Father Miller the repaire of those gentlemen to your house Hath giuen me great occasion to mislike Miller As for those gentlemen I neuer saw in them Any euill intreatie But should they haue profered it Her chaste minde hath proofe enough to preuent it Trotter Those gentlemen are as honest as euer I sawe For yfaith one of them gaue me sixe pence To fetch a quart of Seck See maister here they come Enter Mountney and Valingford Miller Trotter call Em now they are here together I le haue this matter throughly debated Exit Trotter Mountney Father well met We are come to conferre with you Manuile Nay with his daughter rather Valingford Thus it is father we are come to craue your frindship in a matter Miller Gentlemen as you are straungers to me Yet by the waie of courtesie you shall demaund Any reasonable thing at my hands Manuile What is the matter so forward
They came to craue his good will Valinford It is giuen vs to vnderstand that your daughter Is sodenly become both blind and deafe Miller Marie God for bid I haue sent for her in deed She hath kept her chamber this three daies It were no litle griefe to me if it should be so Manuile This is Gods iudgement for her trecherie Enter Trotter leading Em Miller Gentlemen I feare your wordes are two true See where Trotter comes leading of her What ayles my Em not blind I hope Em Mountney and Valingford both together And Manuile to whom I haue faithfullie vowed my loue Now Em suddenly helpe thy selfe Mountney This is no desembling Valingford Valingford If it be it is cunningly contriued of all sides Em Trotter lend me thy hand And as thou louest me keepe my counsell And iustifie what so euer I saie and I le largely requite thee Trotter Ah that 's as much as to saie you would tell a monstrous Terrible horrible outragious lie And I shall sooth it no berladie Em My present extremitie wills me if thou loue me Trotter Trotter That same word loue makes me to doe any thing Em Trotter where 's my father He thrusts Em vpon her father Trotter Why what a blynd dunce are you can you not see He standeth right before you Em Is this my father Good father giue me leaue to sit Where I may not be disturbed Sith God hath visited me both of my sight and hearing Miller Tell me sweete Em how came this blindnes Thy eyes are louely to looke on And yet haue they lost the benefit of their sight What a griefe is this to thy poore father Em Good father let me not stand as an open gazing stock to euerie one But in a place a lone as fits a creature so miserable Miller Trotter lead her in the vtter ouerthrowe Of poore Goddardes ioy and onely solace Exit the Miller Trotter and Em Manuile Both blind and deafe then is she no wife for me And glad am I so good occasion is hapned Now will I awaie to Manchester And leaue these gentlemen to their blind fortune Exit Manuile Mountney Since fortune hath thus spitefully crost our hope Let vs leaue this guest and harken after our King Who is at this daie landed at Lirpoole Exit Mountney Valingford Goe my Lord I le follow you VVell now Mountney is gone I le staie behind to solicit my loue For I imagine that I shall find this but a fained inuention Thereby to haue vs leaue off our sutes Enter Marques Lubeck and the King of Denmark angerly with some attendants Zweno K. VVell Lubeck well it is not possible But you must be concenting to this acte Is this the man so highly you extold And playe a parte so hatefull with his friend Since first he came with thee into the court What entertainement and what countenance He hath receiued none better knowes than thou In recompence whereof he quites me well To steale awaie faire Mariana my prisoner Whose raunsome being lately greed vpon I am deluded of by this escape Besides I know not how to answere it When shee shal be demaunded home to Swethia Lubeck My gracious Lord coniecture not I pray Worser of Lubeck than he doth deserue Your highnes knowes Mariana was my loue Sole paragon and mistres of my thoughts Is it likely I should know of her departure Wherein there is no man iniured more than I Zweno That carries reason Marques I confesse Call foorth my daughter Yet I am perswaded That shee poore soule suspected not her going For as I heare shee likewise loued the man Which he to blame did not at all regard Rocilia My Lord here is the Princesse Mariana It is your daughter is conueyed away Zweno What my daughter gone Now Marques your villanie breakes foorth This match is of your making gentle sir And you shall dearly know the price thereof Lubeck Knew I thereof or that there was intent In Robert thus to steale your highnes daughter Let heauens in Iustice presently confound me Zweno Not all the protestations thou canst vse Shall saue thy life Away with him to prison And minion otherwise it cannot be But you are an agent in this trecherie I will reuenge it throughly on you both Away with her to prison Here 's stuffe in deede My daughter stolen away It booteth not thus to disturbe my selfe But presently to send to English William To send me that proud knight of Windsor hither Here in my Court to suffer for his shame Or at my pleasure to be punished there Withall that Blanch be sent me home againe Or I shall fetch her vnto Windsors coste Yea and VVilliams too if he denie her mee Exit Zweno Enter VVilliam taken with souldiers William Could any crosse could any plague be worse Could heauen or hell Did both conspire in one To afflict my soule inuent a greater scourge Then presently I am tormented with Ah Mariana cause of my lament Ioy of my hart and comfort of my life For thee I breath my sorrowes in the ayre And tyre my selfe for silently I sigh My sorrowes afflictes me soule with equall passion Souldier Go to sirha put vp it is to small purpose VVilliam Hence villaines hence dare you lay your hands Vpon your Soueraigne Souldier Well sir we will deale for that But here comes one will remedie all this Enter Demarch Souldier My Lord watching this night in the campe We tooke this man and know not what he is And in his companie was a gallant dame A woman faire in outward shewe shee seemde But that her face was maskte we could not see The grace and fauour of her countenance Demarch Tell me good fellow of whence and what thou art Souldier Why do you not answere my Lord He takes scorne to answere Demarch And takest thou scorne to aunswer my demaund Thy proud behauiour verie well deserues This misdemeanour at the worst be construed Why doest thou neither know nor hast thou heard That in the absence of the Saxon Duke Demarch is his especiall Substitute To punish those that shall offend the lawes William In knowing this I know thou art a traytor A rebell and mutenous conspirator Why Demarch knowest thou who I am Demarch Pardon my dread Lord the error of my sence And misdemeaner to your princely excellencie Willi. Why Demarch what is the cause my subiects are in armes Demarch Free are my thoughts my dread and gratious Lord From treason to your state and common weale Only reuengement of a priuate grudge By Lord Dirot lately profered me That standes not with the honor of my name Is cause I haue assembled for my guard Some men in armes that may withstand his force Whose setled malice aymeth at my life VVilliam Where is Lord Dirot Demarch In armes my gratious Lord Not past two miles from hence As credibly I am assertained VVilliam Well come let vs goe I feare I shall find traytors of you both Exit Enter the Citizen of Manchester
absence But father are you assured of the wordes he spake were concerning Manuile Miller In sooth daughter now it is foorth I must needes confirme it Maister Manuile hath forsaken thee And at Chester must be married To a mans daughter of no little wealth His owne father procures it And therefore I dare credit it And do thou beleeue it For trust mee daughter it is so Em Then good father pardon the iniurie That I haue don to you onely causing your griefe By ouer-fond affecting a man so trothlesse And you likewise sir I pray holde me excused As I hope this cause will allow sufficiently for mee My loue to Manuile thinking he would requite it Hath made me double with my father and you And many more besides Which I will no longer hyde from you That inticing speeches should not beguile mee I haue made my selfe deafe to any but to him And lest any mans person should please mee more than his I haue dissembled the want of my sight Both which shaddowes of my irreuocable affections I haue not sparde to confirme before him My father and all other amorous soliciters Wherewith not made acquainted I perceiue My true intent hath wrought mine owne sorrow And seeking by loue to be regarded Am cut of with contempt and dispised Miller Tell me sweet Em hast thou but fained all this while for his loue That hath so descourteously forsaken thee Em Credit me father I haue told you the troth Wherewith I desire you and Lord Valingford not to be displeased For ought else I shall saie Let my present griefe hold me excused But may I liue to see that vngratfull man Iustly rewarded for his trecherie Poore Em woulde think her selfe not a little happie Fauour my departing at this instant For my troubled thought desires to meditate alone in silence Exit Em Valingf VVill not Em shew one chereful looke on Valingford Miller Alas sir blame her not you see she hath good cause being so handled by this gentleman And so I le leaue you and go comfort my poore wench As well as I may Exit the Miller Valingford Farewell good father Exit Valingford Enter Zweno king of Denmarke with Rosilio and other attendants Zweno Rosilio Is this the place whereas the Duke William should meete mee Rosilio It is and like your grace Zweno Goe captaine away regard the charge I gaue See all our men be martialed for the fight Dispose the VVardes as lately was deuised And let the prisoners vnder seuerall gardes Be kept apart vntill you heare from vs Let this suffise you know my resolution If William Duke of Saxon be the man That by his answere sent vs he would send Not words but wounds not parleis but alarmes Must be descider of this controuersie Rosilio stay with mee the rest begone Exeunt Enter VVilliam and Demarch with other attendants VVilliam All but Demarch go shroud you out of sight For I will goe parley with the Prince my selfe Demarch Should Zweno by this parley call you foorth Vpon intent iniuriously to deale This offereth too much oportunitie VVilliam No no Demarch that were a breach Against the law of Armes therefore begon And leaue vs here alone Exeunt I see that Zweno is maister of his worde Zweno VVilliam of Saxonie greeteth thee Either well or yll according to thy intent If well thou wish to him and Saxonie He bids thee frindly welcome as he can If yll thou wish to him and Saxanie He must withstand thy mallice as he may Zweno VVilliam for other name and title giue I none To him who were he worthie of those honours That Fortune and his predecessors left I ought by right and humaine courtesie To grace his style with Duke of Saxonie But for I finde a base degenerate mynde I frame my speech according to the man And not the state that he vnworthie holdes VVilliam Herein Zweno dost thou abase thy state To breake the peace which by our auncesters Hath heretofore bene honourably kept Zweno And should that peace for euer haue been kept Had not thy selfe beene author of the breach Nor stands it with the honor of my state Or nature of a father to his childe That I should so be robbed of my daughter And not vnto the vtmost of my power Reuenge so intollerable an iniurie VVilliam Is this the colour of your quarrell Zweno I well perceiue the wisest men may erre And thinke you I conueyed away your daughter Blanch Zweno Art thou so impudent to denye thou didst VVhen that the proofe thereof is manifest VVilliam VVhat proofe is there Zweno Thine owne confession is sufficient proofe VVilliam Did I confesse I stole your daughter Blanch Zweno Thou didst confesse thou hadst a Ladie hence VVilliam I haue and do Zweno VVhy that was Blanch my daughter William Nay that was Mariana who wrongfully thou detainest prisoner Zweno Shamelesse persisting in thy ill Thou doest mayntaine a manifest vntrothe As shee shall iustifie vnto thy teethe Rosilio fetch her and the Marques hether Exit Rosilio for Mariana William It cannot be I should be so deceiued Demarch I heard this night among the souldiers That in their watch they tooke a pensiue Ladie Who at the appoyntment of the Lord Dirot is yet in keeping What she is I know not Onely thus much I ouer-hard by chance William And what of this Demarch It may be Blaunch the King of Denmarkes daughter William It may be so but on my lyfe it is not Yet Demarch goe and fetch her strayght Enter Rosilio with the Marques Rosilio Pleaseth your highnes here is the Marques and Mariana Zweno See here Duke VVilliam your competitors That were consenting to my daughters scape Let them resolue you of the trueth herein And here I vowe and solemly protest That in thy presence they shall lose their heds Vnlesse I here where as my daughter is William O Marques Lubeck how it grieueth me That for my sake thou shouldest indure these bondes Be iudge my soule that feeles the martirdome Marques Duke VVilliam you know it is for your cause It pleaseth thus the King to misconceiue of me And for his pleasure doth me iniurie Enter Demarch with the Ladie Blaunch Demarch May it please your hightnes Here is the Ladie you sent me for William Awaie Demarch what tellest thou me of Ladies I so detest the dealing of their sex As that I count a louers state to be the base And vildest slauerie in the world Demarch What humors are these here 's a straunge alteration Zweno See Duke William is this Blaunch or no You know her if you see her I am sure William Zweno I was deceiued yea vtterly deceiued Yet this is shee this same is Ladie Blaunch And for mine error here I am content To do whatsoeuer Zweno shall set downe Ah cruell Mariana thus to vse The man which loued and honored thee with his heart Mariana When first I came into your highnes court And VVilliam often importing me of loue I did deuise to
ease the griefe your daughter did sustain Shee should meete Sir William masked as I it were This put in proofe did take so good effect As yet it seemes his grace is not resolued But it was I which he conueid awaie William May this be true It cannot be but true Was it Ladie Blaunch which I conueid awaie Vnconstant Mariana Thus to deale with him which ment to thee nought but faith Blaunch Pardon deere father my follyes that are past Wherein I haue neglected me dutie Which I in reuerence ought to shew your grace For led by loue I thus haue gone astray And now repent the errors I was in Zweno Stand vp deare daughter though thy fault deserues For to be punisht in the extremest sort Yet loue that couers multitude of sinns Makes loue in parents winke at childrens faults Sufficeth Blaunch thy father loues thee so Thy follies past he knowes but will not know And here Duke VVilliam take my daughter to thy wife For well I am assured she loues thee well William A proper coniuntion as who should saie Lately come out of the fyer I would goe thrust my selfe into the flame Let Maistres nice goe Saint it where she list And coyly quaint it with dissembling face I hold in scorne the fooleries that they vse I being free will neuer subiect my selfe to any such as shee is vnderneth the Sunne Zweno Refusest thou to take my daughter to thy wife I tel thee Duke this rash deniall May bring more mischiefe on thee then thou canst avoide William Conseit hath wrought such generall dislike Through the false dealing of Mariana That vtterly I doe abhore their sex They are all disloyall vnconstant all vniust Who tryes as I haue tryed And findes as I haue founde Will saie ther 's no such creatures on the ground Blanch Vnconstant Knight though some deserue no trust Ther 's others faithfull louing loyall iust Enter to them Valingford with Em and the Miller and Mountney and Manuile and Elner Willi. How now Lord Valingford what makes these women here Valing. Here be two women may it please your grace that are contracted to one man And are in strife whether shall haue him to their husband William Stand foorth women and saie To whether of you did he first giue his faith Em To me forsooth Elner To me my gratious Lord VVilliam Speak Manuile to whether didst thou giue thy faith Manuile To saie the troth this maide had first my loue Elner Yea Manuile but there was no witnesse by Em Thy conscience Manuile a hundred witnesses Elner Shee hath stolne a conscience to serue her own turne But you are deceiued yfaith he will none of you Manuile In deede dred Lord so deere I held her loue As in the same I put my whole delight But some impediments which at that instant hapned Made me forsake her quite For which I had her fathers franke consent William What were the impediments Manuile Why shee could neither heare nor see VVilliam Now shee doth both Mayden how were you cured Em Pardon my Lord I le tell your grace the troth Be it not imputed to mee as discredite I loued this Manuile so much that still methought When he was absent did present to mee The forme and feature of that countenance Which I did shrine an ydoll in mine heart And neuer could I see a man methought That equald Manuile in my partiall eye Nor was there any loue betweene vs lost But that I held the same in high regard Vntill repaire of some vnto our house Of whome my Manuile grewe thus iealous As if he tooke exception I vouchsafed To heare them speake or saw them when they came On which I straight tooke order with my selfe To voide the scrupule of his conscience By counterfaiting that I neither sawe nor heard Any wayes to rid my hands of them All this I did to keepe my Manuiles loue Which he vnkindly seekes for to rewarde Manuile And did my Em to keepe her faith with mee Dissemble that shee neither heard nor sawe Pardon me sweet Em for I am onely thine Em Lay off thy hands disloyall as thou art Nor shalt thou haue possession of my loue That canst so finely shift thy matters off Put case I had beene blinde and could not see As often times such visitations falles That pleaseth God which all things doth dispose Shouldest thou forsake mee in regard of that I tell thee Manuile hadst thou beene blinde Or deafe or dumbe or else what impediments might befall to man Em would haue loued and kept And honoured thee yea begde if wealth had faylde For thy releefe Manuile Forgiue mee sweete Em Em I do forgiue thee with my heart And will forget thee too if case I can But neuer speake to mee nor seeme to know mee Manuile Then farewell frost Well fare a wench that will Now Elner I am thine owne my gyrle Elner Mine Manuile thou neuer shalt be myne I so detest thy villanie That whilest I liue I will abhor thy company Manuile Is it come to this of late I had choyce of twaine On either side to haue me to her husband And now am vtterly reiected of them both Valingford My Lord this gentleman when time was Stood some thing in our light And now I thinke it not a misse To laugh at him that sometime scorned at vs Mountney Content my Lord inuent the forme Valingford Then thus William I see that women are not generall euils Blanch is faire Methinkes I see in her A modest countenance a heauenly blush Zweno receiue a reconciled foe Not as thy friend but as thy sonne in law If so that thou be thus content Zweno I ioy to see your grace so tractable Here take my daughter Blanch And after my desease the Denmark crowne William Now sir how stands the case with you Manuile I partly am perswaded as your grace is My lord he is best at ease that medleth least Valingford Sir may a man be so bolde As to craue a word with you Manuile Yea two or three what are they Valingford I say this maide will haue thee to her husband Mountney And I say this and therof will I lay an hundred pound Valingf. And I say this whereon I will lay as much Manuile And I say neither what say you to that Mountney If that be true then are we both deceiued Manuile Why it is true and you are both deceiued Marques In mine eyes this is the proprest wench Might I aduise thee take her vnto thy wife Zweno It seemes to me shee hath refused him Marques Why there 's the spite Zweno If one refuse him yet may he haue the other Marques He will aske but her good will and all her friends Zweno Might I aduise thee let them both alone Manuile Yea that 's the course and thereon wil I stand Such idle loue hencefoorth I will detest Valingford The Foxe will eat no grapes and why Mountney I know full well because they hang too hye William And may it be a Millers daughter by her birth I cannot thinke but shee is better borne Valingford Sir Thomas Goddard hight this reuerent man Famed for his vertues and his good successe Whose fame hath beene renowmed through the world VVilliam Sir Thomas Goddard welcome to thy Prince And faire Em frolike with thy good father As glad am I to finde Sir Thomas Goddard As good Sir Edmund Treford on the plaines He like a sheepheard and thou our countrie Miller Miller And longer let not Goddard liue a day Then he in honour loues his soueraigne VVilliam But say Sir Thomas shall I giue thy daughter Miller Goddard and all that he hath Doth rest at the pleasure of your Maiestie William And what sayes Em to louely Valingford It seemde he loued you well That for your sake durst leaue his King Em Em restes at the pleasure of your highnes And would I were a wife for his desert William Then here Lord Valingford Receiue faire Em. Here take her make her thy espoused wife Then goe we in that preparation may be made to see these nuptials solemly performed Exeunt all Sound drummes and Trumpets FINIS Here he taketh Em about the necke Manuile hiding him selfe Here enters Sir Robert rr of Windsor for with a Gaylor
and his daughter Elner and Manuile Citizen In deed sir it would do verie well If you could intreat your father to come hither But if you thinke it be too farr I care not much to take horse and ride to Manchester I am sure my daughter is content with either How saiest thou Elner art thou not Elner As you shall think best I must be contented Manuile Well Elner farwell onely thus much I pray make all things in a readines Either to serue here or to carry thither with vs Citizen As for that sir take you no care And so I betake you to your iournie Enter Valingford But soft what gentleman is this Valingf. God speed sir might a man craue a word or two with you Citizen God forbid els sir I praye you speake your pleasure Valingford The gentleman that parted from you was he not Of Manchester his father lyuing there of good account Citizen Yes mary is he sir why doe you aske Belike you haue had some acquaintance with him Valingford I haue beene acquainted in times past But through his double dealing I am growen werie of his companie For be it spoken to you He hath beene acquainted with a poore millers daughter And diuers tymes hath promist her mariage But what with his delayes and floutes He hath brought her into such a taking That I feare me it will cost her her life Citizen To be playne with you sir His father and I haue beene of old acquaintance And a motion was made Beteewene my daughter and his sonne Which is now throughly agreed vpon Saue onely the place appoynted for the mariage Whether it shall be kept here or at Manchester And for no other occasion he is now ridden Elner What hath he done to you That you should speake so ill of the man Valingford Oh gentlewoman I crie you mercie He is your husband that shal be Elner If I knew this to be true He should not be my husband were he neuer so good And therefore good father I would desire you to take the paines To beare this gentleman companie to Manchester to know whether this be true or no Citizen Now trust me gentleman he deales with me verie hardly Knowing how well I ment to him But I care not much to ride to Manchester To know whether his fathers will be He should deale with me so badlie Will it please you sir to goe in we will presently take horse awaie Valingford If it please you to go in I le followe you presently Exit Elner and her father Now shall I be reuenged on Manuile And by this meanes get Em to my wife And therefore I will strayght to her fathers And informe them both of all that is hapned Exit Enter William the Ambassador of Denmarke Demarch and other attendants William What newes with the Denmark Embassador Embassador Mary thus the King of Denmark and my Soueraine Doth send to know of thee what is the cause That iniuriously against the law of armes Thou hast stolen awaie his onely daughter Blaunch The onely staie and comfort of his life Therefore by me he willeth thee to send his daughter Blaunch Or else foorthwith he will leuy such an hoste As soone shall fetch her in dispite of thee William Embassador this answer I retorne thy King He willeth me to send his daughter Blaunch Saying I conuaid her from the Danish court That neuer yet did once as think thereof As for his menacing and daunting threats I nill regard him nor his Danish power For if he come to fetch her foorth my Realme I will prouide him such a banquet here That he shall haue small cause to giue me thanks Embassador Is this your answer then William It is and so begone Embassador I goe but to your cost Exit AmBassador William Demarch our subiects earst leuied in ciuill broyles Musterd foorthwith for to defend the Realme In hope whereof that we shall find you true We freely pardon this thy late offence Demarch Most humble thanks I render to your grace Exeunt Enter the Miller and Valingford Miller Alas gentleman why should you trouble your self so much Considering the imperfections of my daughter Which is able to with-drawe the loue of any man from her As alreadie it hath done in her first choyce Maister Manuile hath forsaken her And at Chester shal be maried to a mans daughter of no little wealth But if my daughter knew so much It would goe verie neere her heart I feare me Valing Father miller such is the entyre affection to your daughter As no misfortune whatsoeuer can alter My fellow Mountney thou seeste gaue quicly ouer But I by reason of my good meaning Am not so soone to be changed Although I am borne off with scornes and deniall Enter Em to them Miller Trust me sir I know not what to saie My daughter is not to be compelled by me But here she comes herself speake to her and spare not For I neuer was troubled with loue matters so much before Em Good Lord shall I neuer be rid of this importunate man Now must I dissemble blyndnes againe Once more for thy sake Manuile thus am I inforced Because I shall complete my full resolued mynde to thee Father where are you Miller Here sweete Em answer this gentleman That would so fayne enioye thy loue Em Where are you sir wil you neuer leaue This idle and vaine pursuite of loue Is not England stord enought to content you But you must still trouble the poore Contemptible mayd of Manchester Valing. None can content me but the fayre maide of Manchester Em I perceiue loue is vainly described That being blynd himselfe Would haue you likewise troubled with a blinde wife Hauing the benefite of your eyes But neither follow him so much in follie But loue one in whome you may better delight Valingford Father Miller thy daughter shall haue honor By graunting mee her loue I am a Gentleman of king Williams Court And no meane man in king Williams fauour Em If you be a Lorde syr as you saye You offer both yourselfe and mee great wrong Yours as apparant in limitting your loue so vnorderly For which you rashly endure reprochement Mine as open and euident When being shut from the vanities of this world you would haue me as an open gazing stock to all the world For lust not loue leades you into this error But from the one I will keepe me as well as I can And yeeld the other to none but to my father As I am bound by duetie Valingford Why faire Em Manuile hath forsaken thee And must at Chester be married which If I speake otherwise than true Let thy father speake what credibly he hath heard Em But can it be Manuile will deale so vnkindly To reward my iustice with such monstrous vngentlenes Haue I dissembled for thy sake And doest thou now thus requite it In deede these many daies I haue not seene him Which hath made me marueile at his long