That 's as much as to say they must have no entrance there Clo. Smith you have hit the naile on the head What 's your place Brick I have the charge of the brick-worke and must build the Chimnies if you would give me directions Clo. Marry will I sir you must have a speciall regard in your Chimneys that they cast heat though there be no fire in them and the Kitchin Chimney especially must every meale yeeld rost meat without sending to market and so to worke for a spurt and after merrily to dinner Omues. A good motion Exeunt ACT II. SCENE I. Enter Mantua Florence Ferrara Iulio and Prospero Man HAve you given charge Lord Iulio that my Dutchess Be nobly serv'd as her whom Mantua loves Iul. I have my Lord Man And that Valentia be inclos'd and shut From all her sutors eies Iul. I gave such order Man Enough now my Lords Flo. You give us faire words but keep us from the sight of the faire Ladies Man Soft and faire soft and faire Fer. We know they are both soft and faire and that 's the reason we desire so much both to see and feele them Iul. I would beneath the ground sels of this Castle By Miners craft were plac'd some strong Petars To which I would give fire and blow this structure Up into aire that prisons thus my Love But Iulio peace and some advantage wait To shew to her thy love to him thy hate Flo. My Lord I can compare you to none so rightly as to the King Aerifius that shut up his Daughter Danae in a brazen Tower but you know the end of it there was a Jupiter that with a golden pick-lock broke through those brazen gates and made the maid a mother Now if I were to choose a godhead of all the gods that are Would I for her sake wish to be a Jupiter Man For men to be made gods it were a wonder You Iove and neither have his power nor thunder Fer. Shall I baile her my Lord I le put you in good security Ma. But not in better security than I have put her in already Yet better would do well oh for a man Skilfull in Architecture and composing Strong frames and formes of building Fro. Now 's my question My Lord there is a stranger in your Court Whose outside though it promise not much Art Yet is he so ingenious and so apt Of such opinion and direction too That could you win him to be so imploy'd As we shall hardly for men excellent Are curious of their skill you cannot find A man to match his skill in Italy Man Thou wert I see faire Knight mark'd in thy Cradle To do me all good offices bring that man To my employment I will guerdon him With more than he can aske Pro. I but my Lord He is a man alwaies so absolute And stands so much upon his excellence In fine contriving and rare edifices We shall have much adoe to win him to 't Ent. Mont. Here comes the man Man Sir your due praise hath like a harbinger Gone all the way before you to provide you A place in my regard you are most welcome You have not seen my Castle Mon. Yes my Lord I have perus'd it Man What thinke you of the worke Mon. 'T is pretty pretty 'T is well for moderne builders homebred workmen 'T will serve Yet let me tell you worthy Lord They never look'd on high Mauselus Tombe Never beheld a Grecian Pyramis Rich Crassus house at Rome Diana's Temple At Ephesus nor the grand City Caire 'T is well for them that are no travellers Saw you me draw a forme or a fine modell The Fabrick greatly would enamour you But yet 't is well enough pretty not famous Man Shall I entreat you to direct my workmen And I will weigh your paines down with reward Mon. Your Tower as 't is my Lord will serve the turne Is finely seated and to keepe your Daughter Close from the eyes of strangers well contriv'd Yet could I by a plot but why should I Engage me in such worke 't is well already Well very well Man You can contrive it better noble stranger Make triall of my bounty by mine honour It shall not faile your hopes Pro. Did not I tell you at the first my Lord He would be wondrous dainty of his cunning Man So most men are in things they best excell Shall I prevaile faire sir Mon. Well I am wonne To end that frame your workmen have begun I have perus'd the scituation Find it secure and full of able trust Yet one defect I find Could you pick out Some noble Knight whose valour did exceed To build for him a Lodging neare that Tower Where faire Valentia is to live enclos'd He as a Guardian or a Centinell Might keep continuall watch defend the passage And keepe the place strong and impregnable Man Where should I find a man worthy that place Whose valour might supply this my employment Iul. Let me engage my person to that businesse Flo. Accept of me my Lord I le be her Guardian Fer. Let the Ferrara Marquess be employ'd In this adventure Mon. List to me my Lord 'Mongst other quests once as I travell'd Greece There at the sack of a most famous towne I saw a Knight now resident in Court Do such high deeds of Armes that living Hector Had he surviv'd to see his Chivalry Would from the Worthies nine have rais'd his name To have eterniz'd him with golden fame Man In our Court resident Mon. Yes that strange Knight What wonders have I seen him do in fight Would he attempt it all the plot were sure Your Selfe your Daughter and your Tower secure But you shall hardly win him to attempt Man That he is valiant I must needs confesse To my lives safeguard I have prov'd no lesse Oh every way my friend renowned Souldier Pardon me that I have not done you honours Worthy your high deserts Pro. Alas my Lord Man My cares are deafe unto excuse and shut Gainst all deniall Pro. I am exceeding loath Man I shall deserve it noble Gentleman I must not be deni'd this skilfull stranger Shall cause my workmen build you a faire Lodging Next to the Castle and adjoyning close Unto my Daughters Chamber this is all Can you deny me this Pro. Your former honours Bestow'd so largely on my meane deserts Have been with me prevailing Oratours Upon your part and I at length agree This skilfull Artist shall dispose of me Iul. Againe prevented Man On all sides happy fortunate and blest Now my disturb'd thoughts attaine true rest Only one bar unto my best desires Is the intire affection and true zeale I beare the beautious Dutchesse Pro. Oh my Lord You have entertain'd the most affecting wooer In Europe or the world therein he 's better Than in his Architecture he 's but young Yet Tully ne're had such a fluent tongue Man Hem'd in with all felicities about Having these helps what need I now
of all these doubts can you tell me how I shall bestow my selfe now I am banish'd Mon. I can I am a stranger in this City And I professe darke arts Physick and Negromancy And for a need can conjure but direct me Where I may lodge and freely use my Art I le entertaine thee and supply thy wants With all things needfull Clo. As bountifull as wise I am for you sir so you will teach me wit I have seen the Duke and his Court but never to my knowledge saw a wise-man afore you are the first of the name that ever I look'd on but if it be nothing but a Lodging you want trust to me I can furnish you with that at an houres warning Mon. Direct me to the place Clo. That I will sir as well as I can Be you the wise Master I le be the wise man Mon. Attend me then her choice love I have found I made the hurt and I can cure the wound Exeunt Enter Mantua Florence Ferrara and Iulio Man Her fits encrease then dayly Iul. They still grow Sometimes her eyes with salt teares over-flow She fills the house with Musique and then wrings Her Ivory hands she dolefully laments At once expressing thousand discontents Man Proclaime to him that can her frenzy cure The next thing he can aske Iul. I shall my Lord Flo. My Lord leave these discontents to some further leasure we are now at the strange Knights Lodging to give entertainment to the Spanish Lady Fer. True we are his invited guests and it is not fit that our grievances should any way appeare to a stranger Man You counsell well behold this is his Lodging And here 's the Knight himselfe Enter Prospero Pro. Welcome my Lord to a poore strangers Lodging My beautious Lady and my Love 's arriv'd Whose grace I first wonne in a Turnament Bearing the prize from many Knights of Spaine Please you to grace me at a solemne feast Which I prepar'd this day to welcome her You shall do much honour Man Knight I will And for thy sake respect her to her worth How dost thou like thy Lodging built so neare This Castle where Valentia lies inclos'd Pro. My Lord 't is well for prospect and for aire Wil 't please you enter Lords where be my servants Ex. Hoboys A Banquet Enter Mantua Florence Ferrara Iulio Prospero Man Is this the place Pro. It is my Lord but I must crave your pardon We want that order and that entertainment That observation and decorum now That longs to your estate and soveraignty Yet our good thoughts above our power are large And full of zeale Man Come th' art at too much charge Pro. May it please your Highnesse to possesse your seat Homely your Viands but your welcome 's great Flo. But where 's the Lady She should be Mistris of the feast to day Enter Valentia like a Spanish Lady Fer. She is not far see yonder where she comes Man My Daughter Flo. 'T is Valentia Iul. Sure 't is Valentia in this strange disguise Or can you once againe deceive my eyes Man My Daughter on my life her eye her brow Her every part ha are my eyes my own Here hang my keyes the doores fast barr'd and lock'd Nor is she subtile spirit compos'd aire To creep though key-holes or to crawle through chinkes Tush tush one Lady may be like another And my suspect is causelesse Pro. Let me entreat you To take your seat My Ladie 's but a stranger And unacquainted with th' Italian guise Iul. Observe her well my Lords Flo. She hath her blush Fer. Her lip her front Iu. The right trick of her eye Man But is it she is 't possible the Knight Would be so bold she so audacious It cannot be come now I take my place Pro. In this your Highnesse doth your servant grace Val. Echa nos de bener dies benediga toda la Compania seias bien venido Man What saies the Lady Pro. She cals for wine and bids you welcome all Man The very touch and accent of her tongue Val. Signeur yo bono an de buen coracon Man Her meaning Pro. She drinks to you with a good heart Man Tell her I pledge gladly Iul. Doubtlesse 't is she can it be otherwise Flo. Why spend we time in cups and banquets here When faire Valentia must be needs transform'd Unto this stranger-Lady Fer. Still the more That I observe her I am more confirm'd Iul. 'T is she some devill or witch else Man When face and tongue and each thing proves her mine Why should I doubt to challenge her I le suddenly Call on her name and if she answer to 't Dobtlesse 't is she Valentia no Pro. What meanes your Lordship Man Nothing nay nothing see the very Ring Upon her finger I can sit no longer My Lords I must entreat your patience I have dropt a Jewell as I came along And must find it or it will go wrong Iul. A Jewell lost Flo. Let 's help his Grace to seek it Pro. Pray do my Lords Fer. Some Torches there Pro. Lights for the Lords 't was dropt sure by the way Help him to seeke it Iul. Look well there in the Rushes Exeunt Pro. Haste through the private doore off with that habit If this passe currant we are past all feare Your Father 's gone in post why do you stay Val. I have the odds for mine 's the nearer way Farewell sweet Prospero Exit Pro. Seek till your eyes be blind You shall lose her though you the Jewell find How Fortune smiles upon our cunning shifts They are busie all at worke the Duke himselfe Is like a Jaylor gingling of his keyes Which serves her as a watch-word to uncase If now our plot prove there depends on this All our succeeding hopes and future blisse Ent. Val above Valentia Valentia Val. Here my Lord Pro. What at your book already Val. Yes sir to pray After these tempests for a calmer day Pro. The Duke 's at hand and seeking how to crosse Our loves hath all his Lords left at a losse Enter Man Man Body of me she 's here foole that I am Her loyalty to mistrust or his good thoughts She being chaste he honest how now Lady What at your booke so close Val. Books are Companions To them who are compell'd to single lives Man Thou art ranke 'mongst Virgins Val. Virgins would be wives Why come you sir Man Only my girle to see How well thou farest thou one day shalt be free Fare well in this my jealousie appeares And this one feare begets a thousand feares Exit Val. Not without cause good Father knew you all But I must down the next way through the wall Exit Enter Prospero Pro. By this she 's comming be thou first faire love Or else our stratagem is quite o'rthrown But if 't take place Valentia is mine own How will the Duke look when he finds her here And in his heart condemne his needlesse feare He
to pay with love againe Pro. I left my name behind me at Verona And now no more Prince Prospero but your Love Weare this for me and use in these affaires My art feare not I will devise a meanes To win your Fathers grant unto this match Va. So we my Lord shall doubly be made friends I take it as an earnest of your love And hope of my release from this strict bondage Accept of me in interchange this Ring My Father gave it me keep 't from his eye Or he will end our loves by jealousie Pro. As I have been I will be firme and sure Long may the date of our chaste love endure Enter Inlio Florence Ferrara Flo. I prethee sweet Marquesse since my successe is so bad with the Dutchesse let 's walke by the Dukes new edifice and see if we can take a view of the young inclosed Lady Fer. Content my Lord the Dukes strictnesse adds but spurs to my desire for commonly what we are most forbid that still we most covet Iul. Then should you with some engine raze these walls That interdicts your passage to that Tower Had I such power I should enjoy such thoughts But Iulio is a Subject Flo. Now you put me in mind of such generous and noble thoughts let 's take a view of the Castle and spy where it is weakest that there if hereafter we should invade we may give the best and safest assault Fer. Now you speake like a politicks Lover come le ts take a view of the building But see see do you know him that 's talking with the Princesse Valentia Flo. Is 't possible I le in and tell the Duke Fer. Nay leave me not behind I le second you Iul. Introth Lad art good at that you are a notable rascall can you come to 't So closely is this your courage my couragious Knight I le see how Mantua applauds this fight Exit Val. We are descry'd my Lord then post away Get through the private doore Pro. Feare not sweet Lady I le so blind their eyes That we will still live free from their surprise Exit Val. Ten thousand times adieu I am full of feare Where love inhabits danger still draws neare Ex. ACT III. SCENE I. Enter Mantua and Montecelso Man ALL is too good to be true but tell me And answer every word upon thy oath Mon. Upon my oath I will Man Then tell me tell me Didst thou with all thy best prevailing words With all thy art with all thy eloquence Urge her to love speake that upon thy oath Mon. Upon my oath I did entreat her love With all my art with all my eloquence Man And did she grant thy sute Mon. She did my Lord Man Thou honest man thrice happy be the houre That I first met thee now upon thy life Tell me how speed'st thou Mon. Well upon my life Man And will she love Mon. She will Man Thou hast her promise Mon. I have my Lord Man But hast thou as thou art a Gentleman Mon. As I am a Gentleman I have my Lord I should be sorry else Man Did thy word prosper took thy sute effect Will she be wonne to marry at thy motion And did she give her hand unto the bargaine Mon. My sute and words were both effectuall She 's wonne to marry and I have her hand As witnesse to the bargaine Man Friend sweare that Mon. Upon my life my Lord it is most true Man 'T is well I thanke my stars Mon. I thanke my stars too Man I thanke thee too but for thy industry This thing had never chanc'd Mon. Nay that 's most certaine Had I not took my time and ply'd it throughly I had never wonne her heart Man But thou hast wonne it Mon. I I thanke heaven my Lord Man And I thanke heaven my Lord Mon. She hath past her word and her firme promise to me Man It glads me at the heart the very heart Mon. Nor have I reason to be sorry for it Man Once more I thanke thee friend Mon. 'T is not so much worth my Lord Man That be my perill I le bide the venture Mon. You are like to do that howsoever Man There 's gold gramerey friend I am thy debter This is but th' earnest of those rich rewards Thou shalt receive from me Mon. I thanke your grace And I protest I would not for a million My labours had been fruitlesse trust upon it The greatest aime of all my sute is wonne Her heart her hand her free consent is wonne To match with me Man I thanke my fate 't is so But now about my other businesse friend To looke unto my works blest be the houre I met thee first but all is in heavens power Exit Mon. An honest and a faithfull Gentleman Upon my warrant and I dare relie Upon his trust and certaine honesty Enter Florence Ferrara Iulio Flo. My Lord you are wrong'd Fer. Disparag'd Iul. And disgrac'd Flo. I bring thee news thy Castle is surpriz'd Fer. Thy Fort is taken Iul. And your Daughter seiz'd Man How may that be Lords 't is not possible Flo. I speake no more my Lord than what I saw Fer. What I beheld Iul. And what these eyes have seen Flo. That stranger Knight in whom thou most affiest I saw in a bay window court thy daughter Iul. Embrace her in his armes and elaspe her waste Fer. She darting smiles at him and the other Iul. Nor did they blush change face or cease their Courtship but stood as at the gaze Man Iulie and Lords You make me smile have you so late perus'd The scituation and observ'd the passages And can you judge wit or the art of man Can force accesse there and not use my keys Tush you deceive your selves Enter Prospero Ha ha ha come hither Knight and laugh with me At their three follies they would needs perswade me They saw thee court my Daughter in her Chamber Where thou didst publikely discourse thy fill And yet these keys here at my girdle still Pro. They did me the more wrong I scale your Tower It lies not in the reach of humane power Man I know it well tush while these keys hang here Were she faire Danae I not Jove would feare Pro. You Tower is stronger the Aerifius hold Besides I am not Jove to raine down gold Flo. Is 't possible my eyes should deceive me Fer. Sure 't was he or the devill in 's likenesse Iul. There 's in this some witchcraft Pro. You might as well say that you see this hand Reaching as high as unto yonder clouds Man I should have seen that Ring upon that hand Once in my Daughters Chamber oh my heart Why dost thou make such traffique with pale feare Pro. He hath spy'd the gift and knows the Ring I weare Man The same the same I will in and see The issue of my feares twelve locks twelve keyes And every doore too double-barr'd with Iron She in the inmost rome wall'd round about It