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
Mons Doliue Pa que RHO. Heere is the gentleman Your highnes doth desire to doe you honor In the presenting of your princely parson And going Lord Ambassador to 'th French King PHIL: Is this the gentleman whose worth so highly You recommend to our election AMBO This is the man my Lord PHIL: Wee vnderstand Sir We haue beene wrongd by being kept so long From notice of your honorable parts Wherein your country claimes a deeper intrest Then your meere priuate selfe what makes wise Nature Fashion in men thiese excellent perfections Of haughty courage great wit wisedome incredible DOLI It pleaseth your good excellence to say so PHI: But that she aymes therein at publique good And you in duty thereto of your selfe Ought to haue made vs render of your parts And nor entombe them tirant-like aliue RHO: We for our parts my Lord are not in fault For we haue spurnd him forward euermore Letting him know how fit an instrument He was to play vpon in stately Musique MVG, And if he had bin ought else but an Asse Your Grace ere this time long had made him great Did not we tell you this DOLI Often times But sure my honord Lord the times before Were not as now they be thankes to our fortune That we inioy so sweet and wise a prince As is your gratious selfe for then it was pollicie To keepe all with of hope still vnder hatches Farre from the Court least their exceeding parts Should ouer shine those that were then in place And t' was our happines that we might liue so For in that freely choos'd obscuritie Wee found our safetie which men most of Note Many times lost and I ahlas for my part Shrunk my despised head in my poore shell For your learn'd excellence I â—oâ—ow knows well Qui bene saturi bene vixit still PHI, T was much you could containe your selfe that had So great meanes to haue liu'd in greater place DOL: Faith Sir I had a poore roofe or a paint house To shade me from the Sunne and three or foure tyles To shrow'd me from the Rayne and thought my selfe As private as I had King Giris Ring And could haue gone invisible yet saw all That past our states rough be a born neere and farre There saw I our great Galeasses tost Vpon the wallowing waues vp with one billow And then downe with another Our great men Like to a Masse of clowds that now seeme like An Elephant and straight wayes like an Oxe And then a Mouse or like those changeable creatures That liue in the Burdello now in Satten Tomorrow next in Stammell When I sate all this while in my poore cell Secure of lightning or the sodaine Thunder Conuerst with the poore Muses gaue a scholler Forty or fiftie crownes a yeare to teach me And prate to me about the predicables When indeede my thoughts flew a higher pitch Then Genus and Species as by this tast I hope your highnes happyly perceiues And shall hereafter more at large approue If any worthy oportunitie Make but her fore topp subiect to my hold And so I leaue your Grace to the tuition Of him that made you RHO: Soft good Sir I pray What sayes your Excellence to this gentleman Haue I not made my word good to your highnes PHI: Well Sir how euer Enuious policie Hath rob'd my predicessors of your seruice You must not scape my hands that haue design'd present employment for you and t is this T' is not vnknowne vnto you with what griefe Wee take the sorrow of the Earle Saint Anne For his deceased wife with whose dead sight Hee feeds his passion keeping her from right Of christian buriall to make his eyes Doe pennance by their euerlasting teares For loosing the deare sight of her quick bewties DOL: Well spoke y-faith your grace must giue me leaue To praise your witt for faith t is rarely spoken PHIL: The better for your good commendation But Sir your Ambassy to the French King Shall be to this effect thus you shall say DOL: Not so your Excellence shall pardon me I will not haue my tale put in my mouth If you 'le deliuer me your mind in grose Why so I shall expresse it as I can I warrant you t'wilbe sufficient PHIL: T' is very good then Sir my will in grose Is that in pitty of the sad Countes case The King would aske the body of his Neece To giue it Funerall fitting her high blood Which as your selfe requires and reason wills I leaue to be enforst and amplyfied With all the Ornaments of Arte and Nature Which flowes I see in your sharp intellect DOL: Ahlas you cannot see 't in this short time Bur there be some not far hence that haue seene And heard me too ere now I could haue wisht Your highnes presence in a priuat Conuenticle At what time the high point of state was handled PHIL: What was the point DOL: It was my happ to make a number there My selfe as euery other Gentleman Beeing interested in that graue affayre Where I deliner'd my opinion how well DOL: What was the matter pray The matter Sir Was of an antient subiect and yet newly Cald into question And t' was this in breefe We sate as I remember all in rowe All sorts of men together A Squier and a Carpenter a Lawier and a Sawier A Marchant and a Broker a Iustice and a peasant and so forth without all difference PHIL: But what was the matter DOL. Faith a stale argument though newly handled And I am fearefull I shall shame my selfe The subiect is so thred bare PHIL: T is no matter be as it wil go to y point I pray DOL: Then thus it is the question of estate Or the state of the question was in briefe whether in an Aristocrasie Or in a Democriticall estate Tobacco might be brought to lawfull vse But had you heard the excellent speches there Touching this part MVG: RHO: Pray thee to the point DOL: First to the point then Vpstart a weauer blowne vp b' inspiration That had borne office in the congregation A little fellow and yet great in spirit I neuer shall forget him for he was A most hot liuer'd enemie to Tobacco His face was like the ten of Diamonds Pointed each where with pushes and his Nose Was like the Ase of clubs which I must tell you Was it that set him and Tobacco first at such hot Enmitie for that nose of his according to the Puritannick cut hauing a narrow bridge and this Tobacco being in drink durst not passe by and finding stopt his narrow passage fled backe as it came and went away in Pett MVG: Iust cause of quarrell PHI: But pray thee briefely say what said the weauer DOL: The weauer Sir much like a virginal iack Start nimbly vp the culler of his beard I scarse remember but purblind he was With the GENEVA print and wore one eare Shorter then tother for a difference PHI: A man of very
and sister are comming hither hoping to take you and my cosin together Uau. Alas how shall we appease them when they see themselues so deluded Van. Let me alone and stand you off my Lord Enter Mar and Eurione Madame y' are welcome to the Court doe you see your Lord yonder I haue made him happie by training you forth In a word all I said was but a traine to draw you from your vow Nay there 's no going backe Come forward and keepe your temper Sister cloud not you your forhead yonder 's a Sunne will cleare your beauties I am sure Now you see the shooing-horne is expounded all was but a shooing-horne to draw you hither now shew your selues women and say nothing Phil. Let him alone awhile Uandome who 's there what whisper you Uand. Y 'aue done come forward See here my Lord my honorable mistris And her faire sister whom your Highnesse knowes Could neuer be importunde from their vowes By prayer or th' earnest sutes of any friends Now hearing false report that your faire Dutchesse Was dangerously sicke to visit her Did that which no friend else could winne her to And brake her long kept vow with her repaire Duke Madam you do me an exceeding honor In shewing this true kindnesse to my Dutchesse Which she with all her kindnesse will require Vand. Now my good Lord the motion you haue made To S. An. With such kind importunitie by your selfe And seconded with all perswasions On my poore part for mariage of this Ladie Her selfe now comes to tell you she embraces And with that promise made me I present her Eury. Sister we must forgiue him S. An. Matchlesse Ladie Your beauties and your vertues haue atchieu'd An action that I thought impossible For all the sweete attractions of your sex In your conditions so to life resembling The grace and fashion of my other wife You haue reuiu'd her to my louing thoughts And all the honors I haue done to her Shall be continude with increase to you Mug. Now let 's discouer our Ambassador my Lord Duke Do so Exiturus D'oliue Mug. My Lord my Lord Ambassador D'ol. My Lord foole am I not Mug. Go to you are he you cannot cloke your Lordshippe from our knowledge Rho. Come come could Achilles hide himselfe vnder a womans clothes Greatnesse will shine through clouds of any disguise Phil. Who 's that Rhoderique Rho. Monsieur D'oliue my Lord stolne hither disguisde with what minde we know not Mug. Neuer striue to be gone sir my Lord his habite expounds his heart t were good he were searcht D'oliue Well rookes wel I le be no longer a blocke to whet your dull wits on My Lord my Lord you wrong not your selfe onely but your whole state to suffer such vlcers as these to gather head in your Court neuer looke to haue any action sort to your honor when you suffer such earewigs to creepe into your eares thus Phil. What 's the matter Rhoderique Rho. Alas my Lord only the lightnesse of his braine because his hopes are lost Mug. For our parts we haue bene trustie and secret to him in the whole manage of his ambassage D'ol. Trustie a plague on you both there 's as much trust in a common whore as in one of you and as for secrecy there 's no more in you then in a profest Scriuener Vand. Why a Scriuener Monsiour D'oliue D'ol. Marry sir a man cannot trust him with borrowing so much as poore fortie shillings but he will haue it Knowne to all men by these presents Vand. That 's true indeed but you employed these gentlemen very safely D'oliue Employed I mary sir they were the men that first kindled this humor of employment in me a pox of employment I say it has cost me but what it has cost me it skils not they haue thrust vpon me a crew of thredbare vnbutton'd fellowes to be my followers Taylers Frippers Brokers casheerd Clarks Pettifoggers and I know not who I S'light I thinke they haue swept all the bowling allies i th citie for them and a crew of these rakt like old ragges out of dunghils by candle light haue they presented to me in very good fashion to be gentlemen of my traine and solde them hope of raising their fortunes by me A plague on that phrase Raising of fortunes it has vndone more men when ten dicing houses Raise their fortunes with a vengeance And a man will play the foole and be a Lord or be a foole and play the Lord he shall be sure to want no followers so there be hope to raise their fortunes A burning feuer light on you and all such followers S'foote they say followers are but shadowes that follow their Lords no longer then the sunshines on them but I finde it not so the sunne is set vpon my employment and yet I cannot shake off my shadowes my followers grow to my heeles like kibes I cannot stir out of doores for am And your grace haue any employment for followers pray entertaine my companie they le spend their bloud in your seruice for they haue little else to spend you may soone raise their fortunes Phil. Well Monsieur D'oliue your forwardnesse In this intended seruice shall well know What acceptation it hath wonne it selfe In our kind thoughts nor let this sodaine change Discourage the designements you haue laid For our States good reserue your selfe I pray Till fitter times meane time will I secure you From all your followers follow vs to Court And good my Lords and you my honor'd Ladies Be all made happie in the worthy knowledge Of this our worthy friend Monsieur D'oliue Omnes Good Monsieur D'oliue Exeunt Finis Actus quinti vltimi ACTORS Monsieur D'oliue Philip the Duke S. Anne Count Vaumont Count Vandome Rhodoricke Mugeron Pacque two pages Dicque two pages Gueaquin the Dutchesse Hieronime Ladie Marcellina Countesse Eurione her sister