that were my Companions before shall now be my fauorites They that were my Friends before shall now be my followers They that were my Seruants before shall now be my knaues But they that were my Creditors before shall remaine my Creditors still Mug. Excellent Lord Come will you shew your Lordship in the Presence now D'ol. Faith I do not care if I go and make a face or two there or a few gracefull legges speake a little Italian and away there 's all a Presence doth require FINIS ACTVS SECVNDI ACTVS TERTII Saena prima Enter Uandome and St. Anne St. Anne YOu haue enclinde me more to leaue this life Then I supposde it possible for an Angell Nor is your iudgement to suppresse your passion For so deare lou'd a Sister being as well Your blood and flesh as mine the least enforcement Of your disswasiue arguments And besides Your true resemblance of her much supplies Her want in my affections with all which I feele in these deepe griefes to which I yeeld A kind of falce sluggish and rotting sweetnes Mixt with an humour where all things in life Lie drownd in sower wretched and horred thoughts The way to cowardly desperation opened And whatsoeuer vrgeth soules accurst To their destruction and sometimes their plague So violently gripes me that I lie Whole dayes and nightes bound at his tirranous feete So that my dayes are not like life or light But bitterest death and a continuall night Uand. The ground of all is vnsuffised Loue Which would be best casd with some other obiect The generall rule of Naso being autentique Quod successore nouo vincitur omnis Amor For the affections of the minde drawne foorth In many currents are not so impulsiue In anie one And so the Persian King Made the great Riuer Ganges runn distinctly In an innumerable sort of Channels By which meanes of a fierce and dangerous Flood He turnd it into many pleasing Riuers So likewise is an Armie disarayd Made penetrable for the assaulting foe So huge Fiers being deffused grow asswadgd Lastly as all force being vnite increaseth So being dispearst it growes lesse sharpe and ceaseth S. Anne Ahlas I know I cannot loue another My hart accustomd to loue onely her My eyes accustomd to view onely her Will tell me whatsoeuer is not her is foule and hatefull Uand. Yet forbeare to keepe her Still in your sight force not her breathles body Thus against Nature to suruiue being dead Let it consume that it may reassume A forme incorruptible and refraine The places where you vsde to ioy in her Heu fuge dilectas terras fuge littus Amatum For how can you be euer sound or safe Where in so many red steps of your wounds Gaspe in your eyes with change of place be sure Like sicke men mending you shall find recure Enter the Duke D'oliue Gueaquin Ieronime Muge Rhod. to see the dead Countesse that is kept in her attire vnburied D'ol. Fayth Madam my companie may well be spard at so mournefull a visitation For by my soule to see Pigmalion dote vpon a Marble Picture a senceles Statue I should laugh and spoyle the Tragedie Gur. Oh t is an obiect full of pittie my Lord D'ol. T is pittie in deed that any man should loue a woman so constantly Duke Bitterly turnd my Lord we must still admire you D'ol. Tush my Lord true Manhood can neither mourne nor admire It 's fitt for Women they can weepe at pleasure euen to admiration Gur. But men vse to admire rare things my Lord D'ol. But this is nothing rare T is a vertue common for men to loue their Wiues after death The value of a good Wife as all good things else are better knowne by their want then by their fruition for no man loues his Wife so well while she lines but he loues her ten times better when shee 's dead Rho. This is sound Philosophie my Lord D'ol. Faith my Lord I speake my thoughts and for mine owne part I should so ill indure the losse of a Wife alwayes prouided I lou'd her that if I lost her this weeke I 'de haue another by the beginning a' th next And thus resolu'd I leaue your Highnes to deale with Atropos for cutting my Ladyes threed I am for France all my care is for Followers to Imp out my Traine I feare I must come to your Grace for a Presse for I will be followd as becomes an honorable Lord and that is like an honest Squire for with our great Lords followers abrod and Hospitalitie at home are out of date The world 's now growne thriftie He that fils a whole Page in folio with his Stile thinkes it veriest Noble to be mand with one bare Page and a Pandare and yet Pandare in auntient time was the name of an honest Courtier what t is now Viderit vtilitas Come Witts let 's to my Chamber Exeunt Manent Vando S. An. Uando. Well now my Lord remember all the reasons And arguments I vsde at first to you To draw you from your hurtfull passions And there withall admit one further cause Drawne from my loue and all the powers I haue Euryone vow'd sister to my sister Whose vertues beauties and perfections Adorne our Countrie and do neerest match With her rich graces that your loue adores Hath wounded my affections and to her I would intreat your Lordships gracefull word S. Anne But is it true Loues my deare brother now It much delights me for your choyce is Noble Yet need you not vrge me to come abrode Your owne worth will suffize for your wisht speed Uand. I know my Lord no man aliue can winn Her resolu'd iudgment from virginitie Vnlesse you speake for him whose word of all Dames Is held most sweet and worthie to perswade them S. Anne The world will thinke mee too phantasticall To ope so sodenly my vow'd obscurenes Uand. My Lord my loue is suddaine and requires A suddaine remedie If I be delayed Consider Loues delay breedes desperation By waighing how strongly Loue workes in your selfe S. Anne Deare Brother nothing vnderneath the Starres Makes mee so willing to pertake the ayre And vndergo the burden of the world As your most worthy selfe and your wisht good And glad I am that by this meanes I may See your descent continued and therein Behold some new borne Image of my wife Deare life take knowledge that thy Brothers loue Makes me dispaire with my true zeale to thee And if for his sake I admit the Earth To hide this treasure of thy pretious beauties And that thy part suruiuing be not pleasd Let it appeare to mee ye iust assisters Of all intentions bent to soueraigne iustice And I will follow it into the Graue Or dying with it or preserue it thus As long as any life is left betwixt vs Exeunt Enter Monseuer D'oliue Rhoderique D'ol. But didst note what a presence I came of with-all Rho. Sfoot you drew the eyes of the whole presence vpon you
MONSIEVR D'OLIVE A Comedie as it vvas sundrie times acted by her Maiesties children at the Blacke-Friers By Geo. Chapmon VERITAS VIRESSIT VULNERE LONDON Printed by T. C. for William Holmes and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dun-Stons Church-yard in Fleete streete 1606 MONSIEVR D'OLIVE ACTVS PRIMI Scaena Prima VANDOME with seruants and saylors laden VAVMONT another way walking Vand. COnuey your carriage to my brother in Lawes Th' Earle of Saint Anne to whome and to my Sister Commend my humble seruice tell them both Of my arriuall and intent t' attend them When in my way I haue performd fit duties To Count Vaumont and his most honoured Countesse Ser. We will Syr this way follow honest Saylors Exeunt Seruants Uand. Our first obseruance after any absence Must be presented euer to our Mistresse As at our parting she should still be last Hinc Amor vt circulus from hence t is said That loue is like a circle being th' efficient And end of all our actions which excited By no worse abiect then my matchlesse mistresse Were worthy to employ vs to that likenesse And be the onely Ring our powers should beate Noble she is by birth made good by vertue Exceeding faire and her behauiour to it Is like a singular Musitian To a sweete Instrument or else as doctrine Is to the soule that puts it into Act And prints it full of admirable formes Without which t were an emptie idle flame Her eminent iudgement to dispose these parts Sits on her browe and holds a siluer Scepter with which she keepes time to the seuerall musiques Plac't in the sacred consort of her beauties Loues compleat armorie is manadgd in her To stirre affection and the discipline To checke and to affright it from attempting Any attaint might disproportion her Or make her graces lesse then circular Yet her euen carriage is as farre from coynesse As from Immodestie in play in dancing In suffering court-ship in requiting kindnesse In vse of places houres and companies Free as the Sunne and nothing more corrupted As circumspect as Cynthia in her vowes And constant as the Center to obserue them Ruthfull and bountious neuer fierce nor dull In all her courses euer at the full These three yeares I haue trauaild and so long Have beene in trauaile with her dearest sight Which now shall beautifie the enamour'd light This is her house what the gates shut and cleere Of all attendants Why the house was wont To hold the vsuall concourse of a Court And see me thinks through the encourtaind windowes In this high time of day I see light Tapers This is exceeding strange Behold the Farle Walking in as strange sort before the dore I le know this wonder sure My honoured Lord Vau. Keepe of Sir and beware whom you embrace Uand. Why flyes your Lordship back Uau. You should be sure To knowe a man your friend ere you embrac't him Uand. I hope my knowledge cannot be more sure Then of your Lordships friendship Uau. No mans knowledge Can make him sure of any thing without him Or not within his power to keepe or order Vand. I comprehend not this and wonder much To see my most lou'd Lord so much estrang'd Vau. The truth is I haue done your knowne deserts More wrong then with your right should let you greet me And in your absence which makes worse the wrong And in your honour which still makes it worse Vand. If this be all my Lord the discontent You seeme to entertaine is meerly causlesse Your free confession and the manner of it Doth liberally excuse what wrong soeuer Your mis-conceit could make you lay on me And therefore good my Lord discouer it That we may take the spleene and corsey from it Vau. Then heare a strange report and reason why I did you this repented iniurie You know my wife is by the rights of courtship Your chosen Mistresse and she not disposde As other Ladies are to entertaine Peculiar termes with common acts of kindnesse But knowing in her more then womens iudgement That she should nothing wrong her husbands right To vse a friend onely for vertue chosen With all the right of friendship tooke such care After the solemne parting to your trauaile And spake of you with such exceeding passion That I grew iealous and with rage excepted Against her kindnesse vtterly forgetting I should haue waied so rare a womans words As duties of a free and friendly iustice Not as the head-strong and incontinent vapors Of other Ladies bloods enflamed with lust Wherein I iniured both your innocencies Which I approue not out of flexible dotage By any cunning flatteries of my wife But in impartiall equitie made apparant Both by mine owne well-waid comparison Of all her other manifest perfections With this one onely doubtfull leuitie And likewise by her violent apprehension Of her deepe wrong and yours for she hath vowde Neuer to let the common Pandresse light Or any doome as vulgar censure her In any action she leaues subiect to them Neuer to fit the day with her attire Nor grace it with her presence Nourish in it Vnlesse with sleepe nor stir out of her chamber And so hath muffled and mewd vp her beauties In neuer-ceasing darkenesse Neuer sleeping But in the day transform'd by her to night With all Sunne banisht from her smootherd graces And thus my deare and most vnmatched wife That was a comfort and a grace to me In euery iudgement euery companie I by false Iealousie haue no lesse then lost Murtherd her liuing and emtoomd her quicke Vand. Conceit it not so deepely good my Lord Your wrong to me or her was no fit ground To beare so waightie and resolu'd a vowe From her incensed and abused vertues Uau. There could not be a more important cause To fill her with a ceaslesse hate of light To see it grace grose lightnesse with full beames And frowne on continence with her oblique glances As nothing equalls right to vertue done So is her wrong past all comparison Vand. Vertue is not malitious wrong done her Is righted euer when men grant they Erre But doth my princely mistresse so contemne The glorie of her beauties and the applause Giuen to the worth of her societie To let a voluntarie vowe obscure them Uau. See all her windowes and her doores made fast And in her Chamber lights for night enflam'd Now others rise she takes her to her bed Uand. This newes is strange heauen grant I be encounterd With better tyding of my other friendes Let me be bold my Lord t' enquire the state Of my deare sister in whose selfe and me Surviues the whole hope of our familie Together with her deare and princely husband Th' Earle of Saint Anne Uau. Vnhappie that I am I would to heauen your most welcome steppes Had brought you first vpon some other friend To be the sad Relator of the changes Chanc't your three yeares most lamented absence Your worthy sister worthier farre of heauen
There was one Ladie a man might see her hart Readie to start out of her eyes to follow you D'ol. But Monseuer Mustapha there kept state When I accosted him s'light the Brasen head lookt to be Worshipt I thinke No I le commit no Idolatrie for the proudest Image of 'am all I Rho. Your Lordship has the right garbe of an excellent Courtier respects a Clowne supple ioynted courtesies a verie peagoose t is stiffe ham'd audacity that carries it get once within their distance and you are in their bosoms instantly D'ol. S'hart doe they looke I should stande aloofe like a Scholares make leggs at their greatnes No I le none of that come vp close to him giue him a clap a' th shoulder shall make him crie oh againe it 's a tender place to deale withal and say Well encounterd noble Brutus Rho. That 's the onely way indeed to be familiar D'ol. S'foot I le make leggs to none vnlesse it be to a Iustice of peace when he speakes in 's Chaire or to a Cunstable when he leanes on 's Staffe that 's flat softnes and modestie sauors of the Cart t is boldnes boldnes does the deed in the Court and as your Camelion varries all cullours a' th Rainebow both white and red so must your true Courtier be able to varrie his countenance through all humors State Strangnes Scorne Mirth Melanchollie Flatterie and so foorth some cullours likewise his face may change vpon occasion Blacke or Blew it may Tawnie it may but Redd and White at no hand auoyde that like a Sergeant keepe your cullour stiffe vnguiltie of passion or disgrace not changing White at sight of your Mercer nor Red at sight of your Surgeon aboue all sinnes heauen sheild mee from the sinne of blushing it does ill in a young Waighting-woman but monstrous monstrous in an old Courtier Rho. Well all this while your Lordship forgets your Ambassage you haue giuen out you will be gone within this moneth and yet nothing is readie D'ol. It s no matter let the Moone keepe her course and yet to say trueth t' were more then time I were gone for by heauen I am so haunted with Followers euerie day new offers of Followers But heauen shield me from any more Followers How now what 's the newes Enter Muge and two others Mug. My Lord heere 's two of my speciall Friends whom I would gladly commend to follow you in the honorable action D'ol. S'foote my eares are double lockt against Followers you know my number 's full all places vnder mee are bestowde I le out of towne this night tha't 's infallible I le no more Followers a mine honour Mug. S'light Lord you must entertaine them they haue paid me their income and I haue vndertaken your Lordshippe shall grace them D'ol. Well my Maisters you might haue come at a time when your entertainement would haue proou'd better then now it is like but such as it is vpon the commendation of my Steward here Mug. A pox a your Lor Steward D'ol. Y' are welcome in a word deserue and spie out Ambo Wee humbly thanke your Lordship D'ol. Mugeron let 'am be enterd Mug. In what rancke my Lord Gentlemen or Yomen D'ol. Gentlemen Their bearing berayes no lesse it goes not alwayes by apparrell I do alow you to suite your selues anew in my Cullours at your owne charges Amb. Thanke your good Lordship D'ol. Thy name first I pray thee Cor. Cornelius My Lord D'ol. What profession Cor. A Surgeon an 't please your Lordship D'ol. I had rather th'hadst been a Barber for I thinke there wil be little blood-shed amongst my Followers vnlesse it be of thy letting I le see their nailes parde before they goe And yet now I bethinke my selfe our Ambassage is into Fraunce there may be employment for thee hast thou a Tubbe Cor. I would be loth my Lord to be dislocated or vnfurnisht of any of my properties D'ol. Thou speak'st like thy selfe Cornelius booke him downe Gentleman Mug. Verie well Sir D'ol. Now your profession I pray Frip. Fripperie my Lord or as some tearme it Petty Prokery D'ol. An honest man I le warrant thee I neuer knew other of thy trade Frip. Trulie a richer your Lordship might haue An honester I hope not D'ol. I beleeue thee Pettie Broker canst burne Gold-lace Frip. I can do anie thing my Lord belonging to my trade D'ol. Booke him downe Gentleman hee le do good vpon the voyage I warrant him prouide thee a Nagge Pettie Broker thou 'l finde employment for him doubt not keepe thy selfe an honest man and by our returne I doe not doubt but to see thee a rich Knaue Farewel Pettie Broker prepare your selues against the day this Gentleman shall acquaint you with my Cullours Farewell Fripper Farewell Pettie Broker Deserue and spie out is my Motto Exeunt Amb. God continue your Lordship Rho. A verie seasonable praier For vnknowne to him it lies now vpon his death-bedd D'ol. And how like you my Chamber good Witts Rho. Excellent well Sir D'ol. Nay beleeue it it shall do well as you will say when you see 't set foorth sutable to my proiect Here shall stand my Court Cupbord with it furniture of Plate Heere shall runne a Wind Instrument Heere shall hang my base Viall Heere my Theorbo and heere will I hang my selfe Amb. T will do admirable well D'ol. But how will I hange my selfe good witts Not in person but in Picture I will be drawne Rho. What hangd and drawne too D'ol. Good againe I say I wil be drawne all in compleat Satten of some Courtly cullour like a Knight of Cupids band On this side shal be ranckt Chaires and Stooles and other such complements of a Chamber This corner will be a conuenient roome for my Close stoole I acquaint you with all my priuities you see Mug. I Sir we smell your meaning D'ol. Heere shal be a Peartch for my Parrat while I remaine vnmarried I shall haue the lesse misse of my Wife Heere a Hoope for my Munckie when I am married my wife will haue the lesse misse of mee Heere will I haue the statue of some excellent Poet and I will haue his Nose goe with a Vice as I haue seene the experience And that as if t 'had taken cold i' th head Rho. For want of a guilt Nightcap D'ol. Bitter still shall like a Spout runne pure Witt all day long and it shal be fedd with a Pipe brought at my charge from Helicon ouer the Alpes and vnder the Sea by the braine of some great Enginer and I thinke t will do excellent Mug. No question of that my Lord D'ol. Well now Witts about your seueral charges touching my Ambassage Rhoderique is my Speach put out to making Rho. It s almost done D'ol. T is well tell him he shall haue fourtie Crownes promisse promisse want for no promising And well remembred haue I ere a Gentleman Vsher yet a strange thing amongst all my followers not one has witt
your owne The same that euer my deare Sister was And heauen blesse both your loues as I release All my faind loue and interest to you S. Anne How Noblie hath your loue deluded mee How iustlie haue you beene vniust to mee Let mee embrace the Oracle of my good The Aucthor and the Patron of my life Uand. Tush betwixt vs my Lord what need these tearmes As if we knew not one another yet Make speed my Lord and make your Nuptials short As they are sodaine blest in your desires S Anne Oh I wish nothing more then lightning hast Uan. Stay one word first my Lord You are a sweet brother To put in trust and woo loue for another S. Anne Pray thee no more of that Vand. Well then be gone my Lord her brother comes Exit S. Anne Enter Vaum. Vaum. Most happie Friend How hath our plot succeeded Uand. Hee 's our owne His blood was framde for euerie shade of vertue To rauish into true inamourate fire The Funerall of my Sister must be held With all solemnitie and then his Nuptialls With no lesse speed and pompe be celebrate Vaum. What wonders hath your fortunate spirrite vertues Wrought to our comforts Could you crowne th' enchantments Of your diuine Witte with another Spell Of powre to bring my Wife out of her Cell You should be our quicke Hermes our Alcides Uand. That 's my next lobour come my Lord your selfe Shall stand vnseene and see by next morns light Which is her Beddtime how my Braines-bould valoure Will rouse her from her vowes seueritie No Will nor Powre can withstand Pollicie Exit Enter D'oliue Pacque Dique D'ol. Welcome little Witts are you hee my Page Pacque here Makes choice of to be his fellow Coch-horse Diq. I am my Lord D'ol. What Countrie man Diq. Borne i' th Cittie Pac. But begot i' th Court I can tell your Lordship he hath had as good Court breeding as anie Impe in a Countrie If your Lordship please to examine him in anie part of the Court Accidence from a Noune to an Interiection I le vndertake you shall finde him sufficient D'ol. Saist thou so little Witt Why then Sir How manie Pronounes be there Diq. Faith my Lord there are more but I haue learned but three sorts the Goade the Fulham and the Stop-kater-tre which are all demonstratiues for heere they be There are Relatiues too but they are nothing without their Antecedents D'ol. Well said little Witt I'faith How manie Antecedents are there Diq. Faith my Lord their number is vncertaine but they that are are either Squires or Gentlemen vshers D'ol. Verie well said when all is done the Court is the onely Schoole of good education especially for Pages and Waighting women Paris or Padua or the famous Schoole of England called Winchester famous I meane for the Goose Where Schollers weare Petticoates so long till their Penn and Inckhorns knocke against their knees All these I say are but Belfries to the Bodie or Schoole of the Court Hee that would haue his Sonne proceed Doctor in three dayes let him sende him thither there 's the Porge to fashion all the parts of them There they shall learne the true vse of their good Partes indeed Pac. Well my Lord you haue said well for the Court What sayes your Lordshippe now to vs Courtiers Shall we goe the voyage D'ol. My little Hermophrodites I entertaine you heere into my Chamber and if need be nearer your seruice you know I will not promise Mountaines nor assure you Annuities of fourtie or fiftie Crownes in a word I will promise nothing but I will be your good Lord do you not doubt Diq. We do not my Lord but are sure you will shew your selfe Noble and as you promise vs nothing so you will Honorably keepe promise with vs and giue vs nothing D'ol. Prettie little Witt y'faith Can he verse Pac. I and sett too my Lord Hee 's both a Setter and a Verser D'ol. Prettie in faith but I meane has he a vaine Naturall Pac. O my Lord it comes from him as easelie Diq. As Suites from a Courtier without money or money from a Cittizen without securitie my Lord D'o. Wel I perceiue nature has suited your Witts I le suite you in Guarded coates answerable to your Witts for Witt 's as sutable to guarded Coates as Wisedome is to welted Gownes My other Followers Horse themselues my selfe will horse you And now tell me for I will take you into my bosome What 's the opinion of the many headed Best touching my new adition of Honour Diq. Some thinke my Lord it hath giuen you adition of pride and outer euidance D'ol. They are deceaued that thinke so I must confesse it would make a Foole proude but for me I am semper idem Pac. We beleeue your Lordship D'ol. I finde no alteration in my selfe in the world for I am sure I am no wiser then I was when I was no Lord nor no more bountifull nor no more honest onely in respect of my state I assume a kinde of State to receiue Suters now with the Nodd of Nobilitie not as before with the Cappe of courtesie the knee of Knighthood And why knee of Knighthood little Witte there 's another Question for your Court Accidence Diq. Because Gentlemen or Yoemen or Pessantes or so receiue Knighthood on their knees Pac. The signification of the Knee of Knighthood in Heraldie an 't please your Lordship is that Knights are tyed in honour to fight vp to the knees in blood for the defence of faire Ladyes D'ol. Verie good but if it be so what honour doe they deserue that purchase their Knighthood Diq. Purchase their Knighthood my Lord Mary I thinke they come truely by 't for they pay well for 't D'ol. You cut mee off by the knees little Witte but I say if you will heare mee that if they deserue to be Knighted that purchase their Knighthood with fighting vp to the knee What doe they deserue that purchase their Knighthood with fighting aboue the knee Pac. Mary my Lord I say the purchase is good if the conueyance will hold water D'ol. VVhy this is excellent by heauen twentie poundes annuitie shal not purchase you from my heeles But foorth now VVhat is the opinion of the world touching this new Honour of mine Doe not Fooles enuie it Diq. No my Lord but wise men wonder at it you hauing so buried your wisedome heretofore in Tauerns and Vaultinghouses that the world could neuer discouer you to be capable of Honour D'ol. As though Achilles could hide himselfe vnder a Womans clothes was he not discouered at first This Honor is like a Woman or a Crocadile chuse you whether it flies them that follow it and followes them that flie it For my selfe how euer my worth for the time kept his bedd yet did I euer prophecie to my selfe that it would rise before the Sun-set of my dayes I did euer dreame that this head was borne to beare a breadth this shoulder to