liuing when it will scarce be learned till one bee olde Mar. Nay then farewell and if your fortunes exceede not your wits you shall starue before ye sleepe Rafe Was there euer such cosening Come let vs to the woods and see what fortune we may haue before they be made shippes as for our Maister hee is drownd Dicke I will this way Robin I this Rafe I this this day twelue-month let vs all meete heere againe it may be we shall eyther beg together or hang together Dicke It skils not so we be together But let vs sing now though we cry heereafter Exeunt Actus secundus Scaena prima Gallathea alone Galla. BLush Gallathea that must frame thy affection fitte for thy habite and therefore be thought immodest because thou art vnfortunate Thy tender yeeres cannot dissemble this deceipt nor thy sexe beare it O woulde the gods had made mee as I seeme to be or that I might safelie be what I seeme not Thy Father doteth Gallathea whose blind loue corrupteth his fonde iudgement and iealous of thy death seemeth to dote on thy beauty whose fonde care carrieth his parciall eye as farre from trueth as his hart is frō falshood But why doost thou blame him or blab what thou art when thou shouldest onelie counterfet what thou art not But whist heere commeth a ladde I will learne of him how to behaue my selfe Enter Phillida in mans attire Philli. I neither like my gate nor my garments the one vntoward the other vnfit both vnseemely O Phillida but yonder staieth one and therefore say nothing But ô Phillida Galla. I perceiue that boyes are in as great disliking of themselues as maides therefore though I weare the apparell I am glad I am not the person Philli. It is a pretty boy and a faire hee might well haue beene a woman but because he is not I am glad I am for nowe vnder the color of my coate I shall decipher the follies of their kind Galla. I would salute him but I feare I should make a curtsie in steed of a legge Philli. If I durst trust my face as well as I doe my habite I would spend some time to make pastime for saie what they will of a mans wit it is no seconde thing to be a woman Galla. All the blood in my bodie would be in my face if he should aske me as the question among men is common are you a maide Phil. Why stande I still boyes shoulde be bolde but heere commeth a braue traine that will spill all our talke Enter Diana Telusa and Eurata Diana God speede faire boy Galla. You are deceiued Ladie Diana Why are you no boy Galla. No faire boy Diana But I see an vnhappie boy Telusa Saw you not the Deare come this waie hee flewe downe the winde I beleeue you haue blancht him Galla. Whose Deare was it Ladie Telusa Dianaes Deare Galla. I saw none but mine owne Deare Telusa This wagge is wanton or a foole aske the other Diana Galla. I knowe not howe it commeth to passe but yonder boy is in mine eye too beautifull I pray gods the Ladies thinke him not their Deare Diana Prettie lad doe your sheepe feede in the Forrest or are you straied from you flocke or on purpose come ye to marre Dianaes pastime Phillida I vnderstand not one word you speake Diana VVhat art thou neither Ladde nor sheepehearde Phill. My mother said I could be no ladde til I was twentie yeere olde nor keepe sheepe till I coulde tell them and therefore Ladie neither lad nor sheephearde is heere Telusa These boyes are both agreed either they are verie pleasant or too peruerse you were best Ladie make them tuske these VVoodes whilst wee stande with our bowes and so vse them as Beagles since they haue so good mouthes Diana I wil Follow me without delaie or excuse if you can doe nothing yet shall you hallow the Deare Phill. I am willing to goe not for these Ladies companie because my selfe am a virgine but for that fayre boyes fauor who I thinke be a God Diana You sir boy shall also goe Galla. I must if you commaunde and would if you had not Exeunt Actus secundus Scaena secunda Cupid alone in Nimphes apparell and Neptune lystening Cupid Nowe Cupid vnder the shape of a sillie girle shewe the power of a mightie God Let Diana and all her coy Nimphes know that there is no hart so chaste but thy bowe can wounde nor eyes so modest but thy brandes can kindle nor thoughts so staied but thy shafts can make wauering weake and wanton Cupid though he be a child is no babie I will make their paines my pastimes so confound their loues in their owne sexe that they shall dote in their desires delight in their affections and practise onely impossibilities Whilst I trewant from my mother I will vse some tyranny in these woodes and so shall their exercise in foolish loue be my excuse for running away I wil see whither faire faces be alwaies chast or Dianaes virgins onelie modest els will I spende both my shafts and shyfts and then Ladies if you see these daintie Dames intrapt in loue saie softlie to your selues wee may all loue Exit Neptune Doe sillie Sheepeheards goe about to deceiue great Neptune in putting on mans attire vppon women and Cupid to make sport deceiue them all by vsing a vvomans apparell vpon a God then Neptune that hast taken sundrie shapes to obtaine loue stick not to practise some deceipt to shew thy deitie and hauing oftē thrust thy self into the shape of beastes to deceiue men be not coy to vse the shape of a Sheepehearde to shew thy selfe a God Neptune cannot be ouer-reached by Swaines himselfe is subtile and if Diana be ouertaken by craft Cupid is wise I will into these woodes and marke all and in the end will marre all Exit Actus secundus Scaena tertia Enter Raffe alone Rafe Call you this seeking of fortunes when one can finde nothing but byrds nestes would I were out of these VVoodes for I shall haue but wodden lucke heer 's nothing but the skreeking of Owles croking of Frogs hissing of Adders barking of Foxes walking of Hagges But what be these Enter Fayries dauncing and playing and so Exeunt I will follow them to hell I shall not goe for so faire faces neuer can haue such hard fortunes What blacke boy is this Enter the Alcumists boy Peter Peter What a life doe I leade with my Maister nothing but blowing of bellows beating of spirits scraping of Croslets it is a very secrete Science for none almost can vnderstand the language of it Sublimation Almigation Calcination Rubification Encorporation Circination Sementation Albification and Frementation With as many termes vnpossible to be vttered as the Arte to be compassed Raffe Let me crosse my selfe I neuer heard so many great deuils in a little Monkies mouth Peter Then our instruments Croslets Subliuatories Cucurbits Limbecks Decensores Violes manuall and murall for
at home It may be Gallathea foolish Gallathea what may be nothing Let mee followe him into the Woods and thou sweete Venus be my guide Exit Actus secundus Scaena quinta Enter Phillida alone Philli. Poore Phillida curse the time of thy birth and rarenes of thy beautie the vnaptnes of thy apparel and the vntamednes of thy affections Art thou no sooner in the habite of a boy but thou must be enamored of a boy what shalt thou doe when what best lyketh thee most discontenteth thee Goe into the Woods watch the good times his best moodes and transgresse in loue a little of thy modestie I will I dare not thou must I cannot Then pine in thine owne peeuishnes I will not I wil Ah Phillida doe something nay anie thing rather then liue thus Well what I will doe my selfe knowes not but what I ought I knowe too well and so I goe resolute eyther to bewray my loue or suffer shame Exit Actus tertius Scaena prima Telusa alone Telusa HOwe nowe what newe conceits vvhat strange contraries breede in thy minde is thy Diana become a Venus thy chast thoughts turnd to wanton lookes thy conquering modestie to a captiue imagination Beginnest thou with Piralis to die in the ayre and liue in the fire to leaue the sweete delight of hunting and to followe the hote desire of loue O Telusa these words are vnfit for thy sexe beeing a virgine but apt for thy affections being a Louer And can there in yeeres so young in education so precise in vowes so holy and in a hart so chaste enter eyther a strong desire or a wish or a wauering thought of loue Can Cupids brands quench Vestas flames and his feeble shafts headed with feathers pearce deeper the Dianaes arrowes headed with steele Breake thy bowe Telusa that seekest to breake thy vowe and let those hands that aymed to hit the wilde Hart scratche out those eyes that haue wounded thy tame hart O vaine and onely naked name of Chastitie that is made eternall and perish by time holy and is infected by fancy diuine and is made mortall by folly Virgins harts I perceiue are not vnlike Cotton trees whose fruite is so hard in the budde that it soundeth like steele and beeing rype poureth forth nothing but wool and theyr thoughts like the leaues of Lunary which the further they growe from the Sunne the sooner they are scorched with his beames O Melebeus because thou art fayre must I be fickle and false my vowe because I see thy vertue Fonde gyrle that I am to thinke of loue nay vaine profession that I follow to disdaine loue but heere commeth Eurota I must nowe put on a redde maske and blushe least she perceiue my pale face and laugh Enter Eurota Eurota Telusa Diana bid me hunt you out saith that you care not to hunt with her but if you followe any other Game then she hath rowsd your punishment shall be to bend all our bowes and weaue al our strings Why looke ye so pale so sad so wildly Telusa Eurota the Game I follow is the thing I flye my strange disease my chiefe desire Eurota I am no Oedipus to expound riddles and I muse how thou canst be Sphinx to vtter them But I pray thee Telusa tell mee what thou aylest if thou be sicke this ground hath leaues to heale if melancholie heere are pastimes to vse if peeuish wit must weane it or time or counsell Yf thou be in loue for I haue heard of such a beast called loue it shall be cured why blushest thou Telusa Telusa To heare thee in reckoning my paines to recite thine owne I saw Eurota howe amorouslie you glaunced your eye on the faire boy in the white coate and howe cunninglie now that you would haue some talke of loue you hit me in the teeth with loue Eurota I confesse that I am in loue and yet sweare that I know not what it is I feele my thoughts vnknit mine eyes vnstaied my hart I know not how affected or infected my sleepes broken and full of dreames my wakenesse sad and full of sighes my selfe in all thinges vnlike my selfe If this be loue I woulde it had neuer beene deuised Telusa Thou hast told what I am in vttering what thy selfe is these are my passions Eurota my vnbridled passions my intollerable passions which I were as good acknowledge and craue counsell as to denie and endure perill Eurota How did it take you first Telusa Telusa By the eyes my wanton eyes which conceiued the picture of his face and hangd it on the verie strings of my hart O faire Melebeus ô fonde Telusa but how did it take you Eurota Eurota By the eares whose sweete words suncke so deepe into my head that the remembrance of his wit hath bereaued mee of my wisedome ô eloquent Tyterus ô credulous Eurota But soft heere commeth Ramia but let her not heare vs talke wee will withdrawe our selues and heare her talke Enter Ramia Ramia I am sent to seeke others that haue lost my selfe Eurota You shall see Ramia hath also bitten on a loue leafe Ramia Can there be no hart so chast but loue can wound nor vowes so holie but affection can violate Vaine art thou vertue thou chastity but a by word when you both are subiect to loue of all thinges the most abiect If Loue be a God why should not louers be vertuous Loue is a God and Louers are vertuous Eurota Indeede Ramia if Louers were not vertuous then wert thou vicious Ramia What are you come so neere me Telusa I thinke we came neere you when wee saide you loued Eurota Tush Ramia t is too late to recall it to repent it a shame therfore I pray thee tell what is loue Ramia If my selfe felt onelie this infection I would then take vpon me the definition but beeing incident to so manie I dare not my selfe describe it but we will all talke of that in the Woodes Diana stormeth that sending one to seeke another shee looseth all Seruia of all the Nimphes the coyest loueth deadly and exclaimeth claimeth against Diana honoureth Venus detesteth Vesta and maketh a common scorne of vertue Clymene whose statelie lookes seemed to amaze the greatest Lordes stoopeth yeeldeth and fauneth on the strange boy in the Woods My selfe with blushing I speak it am thrall to that boy that faire boy that beautifull boy Telusa What haue wee heere all in loue no other foode then fancie no no she shall not haue the fayre boy Eurota Nor you Telusa Ramia Nor you Eurota Telusa I loue Melebeus and my deserts shal be aunswerable to my desires I will forsake Diana for him I will die for him Ramia So saith Clymene and shee will haue Him I care not my sweete Tyterus though he seeme proude I impute it to childishnes who beeing yet scarce out of his swath-clowtes cannot vnderstande these deepe conceits I loue him Eurota So doe I and I will haue him Telusa Immodest all that wee
for the throte Capricornus for the knees Rafe I will heare no more signes if they be all such desperate signes but seeing you are I know not who to terme you shall I serue you I would faine serue Astron. I accept thee Rafe Happie am I for now shall I reach thoughts and tell how many drops of water goes to the greatest showre of rayne You shall see me catch the Moone in the clips like a Conny in a pursnet Astro. I will teach thee the Golden number the Epact and the Prime Rafe I wil meddle no more with numbring of gold for multiplication is a miserable action I pray sir what wether shall we haue this howre three-score yeere Astro. That I must cast by our Iudicials Astronomicall therefore come in with me and thou shall see euerie wrinkle of my Astrologicall wisedome and I will make the Heauens as plaine to thee as the high waie thy cunning shall sitte cheeke by iole with the Sunnes Chariot then shalt thou see what a base thing it is to haue others thoughts creepe on the grounde when as thine shall be stitched to the starres Rafe Then I shall be translated from this mortality Astro. Thy thoughts shall be metamorphosed and made haile fellowes with the Gods Rafe O fortune I feele my very braines moralized and as it were a certaine contempt of earthly actions is crept into my minde by an etheriall contemplation Come let vs in Exeunt Actus tertius Scaena quarta Diana Telusa Eurota Ramia Larissa Diana What newes haue we heere Ladies are all in loue are Dianaes Nimphes become Venus wantons is it a shame to be chast because you be amiable or must you needes be amorous because you are faire O Venus if thys be thy spight I will require it wyth more then hate well shalt thou know what it is to drib thine arrowes vp and downe Dianaes leies There is an vnknowne Nimph that straggleth vp and downe these woods which I suspect hath beene the weauer of these woes I saw her slumbring by the brooke side go search her bring her if you find vpon her shoulder a burne it is Cupid if any print on her backe like a leafe it is Medea if any picture on her left breast like a birde it is Calipso who euer it be bring her hether and speedilie bring her hether Telusa I will goe with speede Diana Goe you Larissa and helpe her Lurissa I obey Diana Nowe Ladies dooth not that make your cheekes blushe that makes mine eares glowe or can you remember that without sobs which Diana can not thinke on without sighes What greater dishonour could happen to Diana or to her Nimphes shame then that there can be any time so idle that shold make their heads so addle Your chast harts my Nimphes should resemble the Onix which is hotest when it is whitest and your thoughts the more they are assaulted with desires the lesse they should be affected You should thinke loue like Homers Moly a white leafe a blacke roote a faire shewe and a bitter taste Of all Trees the Cedar is greatest and hath the smallest seedes of all affections loue hath the greatest name the least vertue Shall it be said and shall Venus say it nay shall it be seene and shall wantons see it that Diana the goddesse of chastity whose thoughts are alwaies answerable to her vowes whose eyes neuer glanced on desire and whose hart abateth the poynt of Cupids arrowes shall haue her virgins to become vnchast in desires immoderate in affection vntemperate in loue in foolish loue in base loue Eagles cast their euill feathers in the Sunne but you cast your best desires vpon a shadowe The birdes Ibes lose their sweetnesse when they lose theyr sights and virgins all theyr vertues with theyr vnchast thoughts vnchast Diana calleth that that hath eyther any showe or suspicion of lightnesse O my deere Nimphes if you knewe howe louing thoughts staine louely faces you woulde bee as careful to haue the one as vnspotted as the other beautiful Cast before your eyes the loues of Venus truls their fortunes theyr fancies their ends What are they els but Silenus pictures without Lambes Doues with in Apes and Owles who like Ixion imbrace clowdes for Iuno the shadowes of vertue in steede of the substance The Eagles fethers consume the fethers of all others and loues desire corrupteth all other vertues I blush Ladies that you hauing beene heretofore patient of labours should nowe become prentises to idlenesse and vse the penne for Sonets not the needle for Samplers And howe is your loue placed vppon pelting boyes perhaps base of birth without doubt weake of discretion I but they are fayre O Ladies doe your eyes begin to loue collours whose harts was wont to loath them is Dianaes Chase become Venus Courte and are your holy vowes turnd to hollow thoughts Ramia Madame if loue were not a thing beyonde reason we might then giue a reason of our doings but so deuine is his force that it worketh effects as contrarie to that wee wishe as vnreasonable against that wee ought Larissa Lady so vnacquainted are the passions of loue that we can neither describe them nor beare them Diana Foolish gyrles how willing you are to follow that which you should flie but heere commeth Telusa Enter Telusa and other with Cupid Telusa We haue brought the disguised Nimphe c haue found on his shoulder Psiches burne and he confesseth himselfe to be Cupid Diana Howe now sir are you caught are you Cupid Cupid Thou shalt see Diana that I dare confesse my selfe to be Cupid Diana And thou shalt see Cupid that I will shewe my selfe to be Diana that is Conquerer of thy loose vntamed appetites Did thy mother Venus vnder the colour of a Nimphe sende thee hether to wounde my Nimphes Doth she adde craft to her malice and mistrusting her deitie practise deceite is there no place but my Groues no persons but my Nimphes Cruell and vnkind Venus that spighteth onely chastitie thou shalt see that Dianaes power shal reuenge thy pollicie and tame thys pride As for thee Cupid I will breake thy bowe and burne thine arrowes binde thy handes clyp thy wings and fetter thy feete Thou that fattest others with hopes shalt be fedde thy selfe with wishes thou that bindest others with golden thoughts shalt be bound thy selfe with golden fetters Venus rods are made of Roses Dianaes of Bryers Let Venus that great Goddesse raunsome Cupid that little God These Ladies heere whom thou hast infected with foolish loue shall both tread on thee and triumph ouer thee Thine owne arrow shall be shot into thine owne bosome and thou shalt be inamored not on Psiches but on Circes I will teach thee what it is to displease Diana distresse her Nimphes or disturbe her Game Cupid Diana what I haue doone cannot be vndone but what you meane to doe shall Venus hath some Gods to her friends Cupid shall haue all Diana Are you prating
Neptune if Venus can do any thing let her try it in this one thing that Diana may finde as small comfort at thy hands as Loue hath found curtesie at hers This is shee that hateth sweete delights enuieth louing desires masketh wanton eyes stoppeth amorous eares bridleth youthfull mouthes and vnder a name or a worde constancie entertaineth all kinde of crueltie shee hath taken my sonne Cupid Cupid my louely sonne vsing him like a prentise whypping him like a slaue scorning him like a beast therefore Neptune I intreate thee by no other God then the God of loue that thou euill intreate this Goddesse of hate Neptune I muse not a little to see you two in this place at this time and about this matter but what say you Diana haue you Cupid captiue Diana I say there is nothing more vaine then to dispute with Venus whose vntamed affections haue bred more brawles in heauen then is fitte to repeate in earth or possible to recount in number I haue Cupid and will keepe him not to dandle in my lappe whom I abhor in my hart but to laugh him to scorne that hath made in my virgins harts such deepe scarres Venus Scarres Diana call you them that I know to be bleeding woundes alas weake deitie it stretcheth not so farre both to abate the sharpnesse of his Arrowes and to heale the hurts No Loues woundes when they seeme greene rankle and hauing a smooth skinne without fester to the death within Therefore Neptune if euer Venus stoode thee in steed furthered thy fancies or shall at all times be at thy cōmaund let eyther Diana bring her Virgins to a continuall massacre or release Cupid of his martyrdome Diana It is knowne Venus that your tongue is as vnrulie as your thoughts and your thoughts as vnstaied as your eyes Diana cannot chatter Venus cannot chuse Venus It is an honour for Diana to haue Venus meane ill when she so speaketh well but you shal see I come not to trifle therefore once againe Neptune if that be not buried which can neuer die fancie or that quenched which must euer burne affection shew thy selfe the same Neptune that I knew thee to bee when thou wast a Sheepe-hearde and let not Venus wordes be vaine in thyne eares since thyne were imprinted in my hart Neptune It were vnfitte that Goddesses shoulde striue and it were vnreasonable that I shold not yeeld and therefore to please both both attend Diana I must honor her vertue deserueth no lesse but Venus I must loue I must confesse so much Diana restore Cupid to Venus and I will for euer release the sacrifice of Virgins if therefore you loue your Nimphes as shee doth her Sonne or preferre not a priuate grudge before a common griefe aunswere what you will doe Diana I account not the choyse harde for had I twentie Cupids I woulde deliuer them all to saue one Virgine knowing loue to be a thing of all the vainest virginitie to be a vertue of all the noblest I yeeld Larissa bring out Cupid and now shall it be saide that Cupid saued those he thought to spoyle Venus I agree to this willinglie for I will be warie howe my Sonne wander againe But Diana cannot forbid him to wounde Diana Yes chastitie is not within the leuell of his bowe Venus But beautie is a fayre marke to hit Neptune Well I am gladde you are agreed and saie that Neptune hath delt well wyth Beautie and Chastitie Enter Cupid Diana Heere take your sonne Venus Syr boy where haue you beene alwaies taken first by Sapho nowe by Diana howe hapneth it you vnhappie Elphe Cupid Comming through Dianaes woodes and seeing so manie fayre faces with fonde hearts I thought for my sport to make them smart and so was taken by Diana Venus I am glad I haue you Diana And I am gladde I am ridde of him Venus Alas poore boy thy VVinges clypt thy brandes quencht thy Bowe burnt and thy Arrowes broke Cupid I but it skilleth not I beare nowe myne Arrowes in mine eyes my Winges on my thoughts my brandes in myne eares my bowe in my mouth so as I can wounde with looking flye with thinking burne with hearing shoote with speaking Venus VVell you shall vp to heauen with mee for on earth thou wilt lose me Enter Tyterus Melebeus Gallathea and Phyllida Neptune But soft what be these Tyterus Those that haue offended thee to saue their daughters Neptune VVhy had you a faire daughter Tyterus I and Melebeus a faire daughter Neptune Where be they Meleb. In yonder Woods and mee thinkes I see them comming Neptune Well your deserts haue not gotten pardon but these Goddesses iarres Meleb. Thys is my Daughter my sweete Phillida Tyterus And this is my faire Gallathea Galla. Vnfortunate Gallathea if this be Phillida Phill. Accursed Phillida if that be Gallathea Galla. And wast thou all thys while enamoured of Phillida that sweete Phillida Phill. And couldest thou doate vpon the face of a Maiden thy selfe beeing one on the face of fayre Gallathea Neptune Doe you both beeing Maidens loue one another Galla. I had thought the habite agreeable with the Sexe and so burned in the fire of mine owne fancies Phillida I had thought that in the attyre of a boy there could not haue lodged the body of a Virgine so was inflamed with a sweete desire which now I find a sower deceit Diana Nowe things falling out as they doe you must leaue these fond fond affections nature will haue it so necessitie must Gallathea I will neuer loue any but Phillida her loue is engrauen in my hart with her eyes Phillida Nor I any but Gallathea whose faith is imprinted in my thoughts by her words Neptune An idle choyce strange and foolish for one Virgine to doate on another and to imagine a constant faith where there can be no cause of affection Howe like you this Venus Venus I like well and allowe it they shall both be possessed of their wishes for neuer shall it be said that Nature or Fortune shall ouer-throwe Loue and Fayth Is your loues vnspotted begunne with trueth continued wyth constancie and not to bee altered tyll death Gallathea Die Gallathea if thy loue be not so Phillida Accursed bee thou Phillida if thy loue be not so Diana Suppose all this Venus what then Venus Then shall it be seene that I can turne one of them to be a man and that I will Diana Is it possible Venus What is to Loue or the Mistrisse of loue vnpossible Was it not Venus that did the like to Iphis and Iauthes howe say yee are ye agreed one to bee a boy presently Phillida I am content so I may imbrace Gallathea Gallathea I wish it so I may enioy Phillida Melleb. Soft Daughter you must know whether I will haue you a Sonne Tyterus Take mee with you Gallathea I will keepe you as I begatte you a Daughter Melleb. Tyterus let yours be a boy and if you will mine shall not Tyterus Nay mine shall not for by that meanes my young sonne shall lose his inheritance Melleb. Why then gette him to be made a Maiden and then there is nothing lost Tyte. If there bee such changing I woulde Venus could make my wife a Man Melleb. Why Tyterus Because shee loues alwaies to play with men Venus Well you are both fonde therefore agree to thys changing or suffer your Daughters to endure harde chaunce Melleb. Howe say you Tyterus shall wee referre it to Venus Tyte. I am content because she is a Goddesse Venus Neptune you will not dislike it Neptune Not I Venus Nor you Diana Diana Not I Venus Cupid shall not Cupid I will not Venus Then let vs depart neither of them shall know whose lot it shal be til they come to the Churchdore One shall be doth it suffise Phillida And satis-fie vs both dooth it not Gallathea Galla. Yes Phillida Enter Rafe Robin and Dicke Rafe Come Robin I am gladde I haue mette with thee for nowe wee will make our Father laugh at these tales Diana What are these that so malepartlie thrust themselues into our companies Robin Forsooth Madame we are fortune tellers Venus Fortune tellers tell me my fortune Rafe We doe not meane fortune tellers we meane fortune tellers we can tell what fortune wee haue had these twelue monthes in the Woods Diana Let them alone they be but peeuish Venus Yet they will be as good as Minstrils at the marriage to make vs all merrie Dicke I Ladies we beare a very good Consort Venus Can you sing Rafe Baselie Venus And you Dicke Meanely Venus And what can you doe Robin If they duble it I will treble it Venus Then shall yee goe with vs and sing Hymen before the marriage Are you content Rafe Content neuer better content for there we shall be sure to fill our bellies with Capons rumpes or some such daintie dishes Venus Then follow vs Exeunt The Epilogue Galla. GOE all t is I onely that conclude al You Ladies may see that Venus can make constancie ficklenes courage cowardice modestie lightnesse working things impossible in your Sexe and tempering hardest harts like softest wooll Yeelde Ladies yeeld to loue Ladies which lurketh vnder your eye-lids whilst you sleepe and plaieth with your hart strings whilst you wake whose sweetnes neuer breedeth satietie labour wearinesse nor greefe bitternesse Cupid was begotten in a miste nursed in Clowdes and sucking onelie vpon conceits Confesse him a Conquerer whom yee ought to regarde sith it is vnpossible to resist for this is infallible that Loue conquereth all things but it selfe and Ladies all harts but their owne FINIS
I cannot stray though I would and my minde so free that to be melancholy I haue no cause There is none of Dianaes trayne that any can traine either out of their waie or out of their wits Cupid What is that Diana a goddesse what her Nimphes virgins what her pastimes hunting Nimph A goddesse who knowes it not Virgins who thinkes it not Hunting who loues it not Cupid I pray thee sweete wench amongst all your sweete troope is there not one that followeth the sweetest thing Sweete loue Nimph Loue good sir what meane you by it or what doe you call it Cupid A heate full of coldnesse a sweet full of bitternesse a paine ful of pleasantnesse which maketh thoughts haue eyes and harts eares bred by desire nursed by delight weaned by ielousie kild by dissembling buried by ingratitude and this is loue fayre Lady wil you any Nimph If it be nothing els it is but a foolish thing Cupid Try and you shall find it a prettie thing Nimph I haue neither will nor leysure but I will followe Diana in the Chace whose virgins are all chast delighting in the bowe that wounds the swift Hart in the Forrest not fearing the bowe that strikes the softe hart in the Chamber This difference is betweene my Mistris Diana and your Mother as I gesse Venus that all her Nimphes are amiable and wise in theyr kinde the other amorous and too kinde for their sexe and so farewell little god Exit Cupid Diana and thou and all thine shall knowe that Cupid is a great god I will practise a while in these woodes and play such pranckes with these Nimphes that while they ayme to hit others with their Arrowes they shall be wounded themselues with their owne eyes Exit Actus primus Scaena tertia Melebeus Phillida Meleb. Come Phillida faire Phillida and I feare me too faire being my Phillida thou knowest the custome of this Countrey I the greatnes of thy beautie we both the fiercenesse of the monster Agar Euerie one thinketh his owne childe faire but I know that which I most desire and would least haue that thou art fairest Thou shalt therefore disguise thy selfe in attire least I should disguise my selfe in affection in suffering thee to perrish by a fond desire whom I may preserue by a sure deceipt Phil. Deere father Nature could not make mee so faire as she hath made you kinde nor you more kinde then me dutifull What soeuer you commaunde I will not refuse because you commaund nothing but my safetie and your happinesse But howe shall I be disguised Mele. In mans apparell Phil. It wil neither become my bodie nor my minde Mele. Why Phillida Philli. For then I must keepe companie with boyes and commit follies vnseemelie for my sexe or keepe company with girles and be thought more wanton then becommeth me Besides I shall be ashamed of my long hose and short coate and so vnwarelie blabbe out something by blushing at euery thing Mele. Feare not Phillida vse will make it easie feare must make it necessarie Philli. I agree since my father will haue it so and fortune must Mele. Come let vs in and when thou art disguised roame about these woods till the time be past and Neptune pleased Exeunt Actus primus Scaena quarta Mariner Raffe Robin and Dicke Rob. Now Mariner what callest thou this sport on the Sea Mar. It is called a wracke Raffe I take no pleasure in it Of all deathes I wold not be drownd ones clothes will be so wet when hee is taken vp Dicke What calst thou the thing wee were bounde to Mar. A raughter Raffe I wyll rather hang my selfe on a raughter in the house then be so haled in the Sea there one may haue a leape for his lyfe but I maruaile howe our Master speedes Dicke I le warrant by this time he is wetshod Dyd you euer see water buble as the Sea did But what shall we doe Mar. You are now in Lyncolnshire where you can want no foule if you can deuise meanes to catch them there be woods hard by and at euery myles ende houses so that if you seeke on the Lande you shall speede better then on the Sea Rob. Sea nay I will neuer saile more I brooke not their diet their bread is so hard that one must carrie a whetstone in his mouth to grinde his teeth the meate so salt that one woulde thinke after dinner his tongue had beene powdred ten daies Raffe O thou hast a sweet life Mariner to be pinde in a few boordes and to be within an inche of a thing bottomlesse I pray thee howe often hast thou beene drowned Mar. Foole thou seest I am yet aliue Rob. Why be they deade that be drownd I had thought they had beene with the fish and so by chance beene caught vp with them in a Nette againe It were a shame a little cold water should kill a man of reason when you shall see a poore Mynow lie in it that hath no vnderstanding Mar. Thou art wise from the crowne of thy heade vpwards seeke you new fortunes nowe I will followe mine olde I can shift the Moone and the Sunne and know by one Carde what all you cannot do by a whole payre The Lode-stone that alwaies holdeth his nose to the North the two and thirty poynts for the winde the wonders I see woulde make all you blinde you be but boyes I feare the Sea no more then a dish of water Why fooles it is but a liquid element farewell Rob. It were good wee learned his cunning at the Cardes for we must liue by cosenage we haue neyther Lands nor wit nor Maisters nor honestie Rafe Nay I would faine haue his thirty two that is his three dozen lacking foure points for you see betwixt vs three there is not two good points Dicke Let vs call him a little backe that wee may learne those points Sirra a word I pray thee shewe vs thy points Mar. Will you learne Dicke I Mar. Then as you like this I will instruct you in all our secretes for there is not a clowte nor carde nor boord nor post that hath not a speciall name or singuler nature Dicke Well begin with your points for I lacke onlie points in this world Mar. North North by East North North East North-east and by North North-east North-east and by East East North-east East and by North East Dicke I le say it North north-east North-east Nore nore and by Nore-east I shall neuer doe it Mar. Thys is but one quarter Rob. I shall neuer learne a quarter of it I will try North North-east is by the West side North and by North Dicke Passing ill Mar. Hast thou no memorie Try thou Rafe North North and by North I can goe no further Mar. O dullerde is thy head lighter then the wind and thy tongue so heauie it will not wagge I will once againe say it Rafe I will neuer learne this language it wil get but small
are vnfortunate all that we are like to be shall virgins beginne to wrangle for loue and become wanton in their thoughts in their words in their actions O deuine Loue which art therfore called deuine because thou ouer-reachest the wisest conquerest the chastest and doost all things both vnlikely and impossible because thou art Loue Thou makest the bashfull impudent the wise fond the chast wanton and workest contraries to our reach because thy selfe is beyond reason Eurota Talke no more Telusa your words wound Ah would I were no woman Ramia Would Tyterus were no boy Telusa Would Telusa were no body Exeunt Actus tertius Scaena secunda Phillida and Gallathea Phil. It is pitty that Nature framed you not a woman hauing a face so faire so louely a countenaunce so modest a behauiour Galla. There is a Tree in Tylos whose nuttes haue shels like fire and beeing cracked the karnell is but water Phil. What a toy is it to tell mee of that tree beeing nothing to the purpose I say it is pitty you are not a woman Galla. I would not wish to be a woman vnlesse it were because thou art a man Phil. Nay I doe not wish to be woman for then I should not loue thee for I haue sworne neuer to loue a woman Galla. A strange humor in so prettie a youth and according to myne for my selfe will neuer loue a woman Philli. It were a shame if a mayden should be a suter a thing hated in that sexe that thou shouldest denie to be her seruant Galla. If it be a shame in me it can be no commendation in you for your selfe is of that minde Philli. Suppose I were a virgine I blush in supposing my selfe one and that vnder the habite of a boy were the person of a mayde if I should vtter my affection with sighes manifest my sweete loue by my salte teares and proue my loyaltie vnspotted and my griefes intollerable would not then that faire face pittie thys true hart Galla. Admit that I were as you woulde haue mee suppose that you are and that I should with intreaties prayers othes bribes and what euer can be inuented in loue desire your fauour would you not yeeld Philli. Trush you come in with admit Galla. And you with suppose Philli. What doubtfull speeches be these I feare me he is as I am a mayden Galla. What dread riseth in my minde I feare the boy to be as I am a mayden Philli. Tush it cannot be his voice shewes the contrarie Galla. Yet I doe not thinke it for he woulde then haue blushed Phill. Haue you euer a Sister Galla. If I had but one my brother must needs haue two but I pray haue you euer a one Philli. My Father had but one daughter and therefore I could haue no sister Galla. Aye me he is as I am for his speeches be as mine are Philli. What shall I doe eyther hee is subtill or my sexe simple Galla. I haue knowne diuers of Dianaes Nimphes enamored of him yet hath he reiected all eyther as too proude to disdaine or too childish not to vnderstande or for that he knoweth himselfe to he a Virgin Phill. I am in a quandarie Dianaes Nimphes haue followed him and he despised them eyther knowing too well the beautie of his owne face or that himselfe is of the same moulde I will once againe try him You promised me in the woods that you would loue me before all Dianaes Nimphes Galla. I so you would loue mee before all Dianaes Nimphes Philli. Can you preferre a fonde boy as I am before so faire Ladies as they are Galla. Why should not I as well as you Phillida Come let vs into the Groue and make much one of another that cannot tel what to think one of another Exeunt Actus tertius Scaena tertia Alcumist Rafe Alcum. Rafe my boy is run away I trust thou wilt not runne after Rafe I would I had a paire of wings that I might flie after Alcum. My boy was the veriest theese the arantest lyar and the vildest swearer in the worlde otherwise the best boy in the world he hath stolen my apparell all my money and forgot nothing but to bid mee farewell Rafe That will not I forget farewell Maister Alcum. Why thou hast not yet seene the ende of my Arte Rafe I would I had not known the beginning Did not you promise mee of my siluer thimble to make a whole cupboord of plate and that of a Spanish needle you would build a siluer steeple Alcum. I Rafe the fortune of this Arte consisteth in the measure of the fire for if there be a cole too much or a sparke too little if it be a little too hote or a thought too softe all our labour is in vaine besides they that blowe must beate tyme with theyr breathes as Musicions doe with their breasts so as there must be of the mettals the fire and workers a verie harmonie Rafe Nay if you must weigh your fire by ounces take measure of a mans blast you may then make of a dramme of winde a wedge of gold and of the shadowe of one shilling make another so as you haue an Organist to tune your temperatures Alcum. So is it and often doth it happen that the iust proportion of the fire and all things concurre Rafe Concurre condogge I will away Alcum. Then away Exit Alcumist Enter Astronomer Rafe An arte quoth you that one multiplieth so much all day that he wanteth money to buy meate at night But what haue we yonder what deuoute man he will neuer speake till he be vrged I wil salute him Sir there lieth a purse vnder your feete if I thought it were not yours I would take it vp Astron. Doost thou not knowe that I was calculating the natiuity of Alexanders great horse Rafe Why what are you Astron. An Astronomer Rafe What one of those that makes Almanacks Astro. Ipsissimus I can tell the minute of thy byrth the moment of thy death and the manner I can tel thee what wether shall be betweene this and Octogessimus octauus mirabilis annus When I list I can sette a trap for the Sunne catch the Moone with lyme-twigges and goe a batfowling for starres I can tell thee things past and things to come with my cunning measure how many yards of Clowdes are beneath the Skye Nothing can happen which I fore-see not nothing shall Rafe I hope sir you are no more then a God Astron. I can bring the twelue signes out of theyr Zodiacks and hang them vp at Tauerns Rafe I pray you sir tell me what you cannot doe for I perceiue there is nothing so easie for you to compasse as impossibilities But what be those signes Astro. As a man should say signes which gouerne the body The Ramme gouerneth the head Rafe That is the worst signe for the head Astro. Why Rafe Because it is a signe of an ill Ewe Astron. Tush that signe must be there Then the Bull
I will bridle thy tongue thy power and in spight of mine owne thoughts I will sette thee a taske euery day which if thou finish not thou shalt feele the smart Thou shalt be vsed as Dianaes slaue not Venus sonne All the worlde shall see that I will vse thee like a captiue and shew my selfe a Conquerer Come haue him in that wee may deuise apt punishments for his proude presumptions Eurota We will plague yee for a little God Telusa We wyll neuer pittie thee though thou be a God Ramia Nor I Larissa Nor I Exeunt Actus quartus Scaena prima Augur Mellebeus Tyterus Populus Augur THis is the day wherein you must satis-fie Neptune and saue your selues call together your fayre Daughters and for a Sacrifice take the fayrest for better it is to offer a Virgine then suffer ruine If you think it against nature to sacrifice your children thinke it also against sence to destroy your Countrey If you imagine Neptune pittilesse to desire such a pray confesse your selues peruerse to deserue such a punishment You see this tree this fatall Tree whose leaues though they glister like golde yet it threatneth to fayre virgins griefe To this Tree must the beautifullest be bound do vntil the Monster Agar carry her awaie and if the Monster come not then assure your selues that the fairest is concealed and then your countrey shall be destroyed therefore consult with your selues not as fathers of children but as fauourers of your Countrey Let Neptune haue his right if you will haue your quiet thus haue I warned you to be carefull and would wish you to be wise knowing that who so hath the fairest daughter hath the greatest fortune in loosing one to saue all and so I depart to provide ceremonies for the Sacrifice and commaund you to bring the Sacrifice Exit Augur Mel. They say Tyterus that you haue a faire daughter if it be so dissemble not for you shall be a fortunate father It is a thing holy to preserue ones Country and honorable to be the cause Tyterus In deede Melebeus I haue heard you boast that you had a faire daughter then the which none was more beautiful I hope you are not so careful of a child that you will be carelesse of your Countrey or adde so much to nature that you will detract from wisedome Melle I must confesse that I had a daughter and I knowe you haue but alas my Childes cradle was her graue and her swath-clowte her winding sheete I would she had liued til now she should willingly haue died now for what could haue happened to pore Melebeus more comfortable then to bee the father of a fayre child and sweet Countrey Tyterus O Mellebeus dissemble you may with mē deceiue the Gods you cannot dyd not I see and very lately see your daughter in your armes when as you gaue her infinite kisses with affection I feare mee more then fatherly You haue conueyed her away that you might cast vs all away bereauing her the honour of her beauty and vs the benefite preferring a common inconuenience before a priuate mischiefe Melle It is a bad cloth Tyterus that will take no colour and a simple Father that can vse no cunning you make the people beleeue that you wish well when you practise nothing but ill wishing to be thought religious towards the Gods when I knowe you deceitful towards men You cannot ouer-reach me Tyterus ouershoote your selfe you may It is a wilie Mouse that will breede in the Cats eare and hee must halt cunninglie that will deceiue a Cripple Did you euer see me kisse my Daughter you are deceiued it was my wife And if you thought so young a peece vnfit for so old a person and therefore imagined it to be my childe not my spouse you must knowe that siluer haires delight in golden lockes and the olde fancies craue young Nurses and frostie yeeres must bee thawed by youthfull fyers But this matter set aside you haue a faire daughter Tyterus and it is pittie you are so fond a Father Popu. You are bothe eyther too fonde or too froward for whilst you dispute to saue your Daughters we neglect to preuent our destruction Alter Come let vs away and seeke out a sacrifice Wee must sift out their cunning and let them shift for themselues Exeunt Actus quartus Scaena secunda Cupid Telusa Eurota Larissa enter singing Telusa Come Cupid to your taske First you must vndoe all these Louers knots because you tyed them Cupid If they be true loue knots t is vnpossible to vnknit them if false I neuer tied them Eurota Make no excuse but to it Cupid Loue knots are tyde with eyes and cannot be vndoone with hands made fast with thoughts and cannot be vnlosed with fingers had Diana no taske to set Cupid to but things impossible I wil to it Ramia Why how now you tie the knots faster Cupid I cannot chuse it goeth against my mind to make them loose Eurota Let me see nowe t is vnpossible to be vndoone Cupid It is the true loue knotte of a womans hart therefore cannot be vndoone Ramia That fals in sunder of it selfe Cupid It was made of a mans thought which will neuer hang together Larissa You haue vndoone that well Cupid I because it was neuer tide well Telusa To the rest for shee will giue you no rest These two knots are finely vntide Cupid It was because I neuer tide them the one was knit by Pluto not Cupid by money not loue the other by force not faith by appointment not affection Ramia Why doe you lay that knot aside Cupid For death Telusa Why Cupid Because the knot was knit by faith and must onely be vnknit of death Eurota Why laugh you Cupid Because it is the fairest and the falsest doone with greatest arte and least trueth with best collours and worst conceits Telusa VVho tide it Cupid A mans tongue Larissa Why doe you put that in my bosome Cupid Because it is onely for a Womans bosome Larissa Why what is it Cupid A womans hart Telusa Come let vs goe in and tell that Cupid hath doone his taske stay you behind Larissa and see hee sleepe not for Loue will be idle and take heede you surfette not for loue will be wanton Exit Telusa Laris. Let me alone I wil find him some-what to do Cupid Lady can you for pittie see Cupid thus punished Larissa Why did Cupid punish vs without pittie Cupid Is loue a punishment Larissa It is no pastime Cupid O Venus if thou sawest Cupid as a captiue bound to obey that was wont to commaunde fearing Ladies threates that once pearced their harts I cannot tell whether thou wouldest reuenge it for despight or laugh at it for disport The time may come Diana and the time shall come that thou that settest Cupid to vndoe knots shall intreate Cupid to tye knots and you Ladies that with solace haue behelde my paines shall with sighes intreate my pittie Hee offereth to
sleepe Larissa How now Cupid begin you to nod Ramia Come Cupid Diana hath deuised newe labours for you that are God of loues you shall weaue Samplers all night and lackie after Diana all day You shall shortlie shoote at beastes for men because you haue made beastes of men waight on Ladies traines because thou intrappest Ladies by traines All the stories that are in Dianaes Arras which are of loue you must picke out with your needle in that place sowe Vesta with her Nuns and Diana with her Nimphes How like you this Cupid Cupid I say I will pricke as well with my needle as euer I did with mine arrowes Telusa Diana cannot yeelde she conquers affection Cup. Diana shall yeeld she cannot conquer desteny Larissa Come Cupid you must to your busines Cupid You shall find me so busie in your heads that you shall wish I had beene idle with your harts Exeunt Actus quartus Scaena tertia Neptune alone Neptune Thys day is the solemne Sacrifice at thys Tree wherein the fairest virgine were not the inhabitants faithlesse should be offered vnto me but so ouer carefull are Fathers to their children that they forgette the safetie of their Countrey fearing to become vnnaturall become vnreasonable their slights may bleere men deceiue me they cannot I wil be here at the houre and shew as great crueltie as they haue doone craft well shall they know that Neptune should haue beene intreated not cosened Exit Actus quartus Scaena quarta Enter Gallathea and Phillida Phill. I maruell what virgine the people will prepresent it is happy you are none for thē it would haue falne to your lot because you are so faire Galla. If you had beene a Maiden too I neede not to haue feared because you are fairer Phill. I pray thee sweete boy flatter not me speake trueth of thy selfe for in mine eye of all the world thou art fayrest Galla. These be faire words but farre from thy true thoughts I know mine owne face in a true Glasse and desire not to see it in a flattering mouth Phill. O would I did flatter thee and that fortune would not flatter me I loue thee as a brother but loue not me so Galla. Noe I will not but loue thee better because I cannot loue as a brother Phill. Seeing we are both boyes and both louers that our affection may haue some showe and seeme as it were loue let me call thee Mistris Galla. I accept that name for diuers before haue cald me Mistris Phill. For what cause Galla. Nay there lie the Mistrisse Philli. Wyll not you be at the sacrifice Galla. Noe Philli. Why Galla. Because I dreamt that if I were there I shold be turned to a virgine and then being so faire as thou saist I am I shoulde be offered as thou knowest one must But will not you be there Phill. Not vnlesse I were sure that a boy might be sacrificed and not a mayden Galla. Why then you are in danger Phill. But I would escape it by deceite but seeing we are resolued to be both absent let vs wander into these Groues till the howre be past Galla. I am agreed for then my feare wil be past Phill. Why what doost thou feare Galla. Nothing but that you loue me not Exit Philli. I will Poore Phillida what shouldest thou thinke of thy selfe that louest one that I feare mee is as thy selfe is and may it not be that her Father practized the same deceite with her that my Father hath with me and knowing her to be fayre feared she shold be vnfortunate if it be so Phillida how desperate is thy case if it be not howe doubtfull For if she be a Mayden there is no hope of my loue if a boy a hazarde I will after him or her and leade a melancholie life that looke for a miserable death Exit Actus quintus Scaena prima Enter Rafe alone Rafe NO more Maisters now but a Mistrisse if I can light on her An Astronomer of all occupations that 's the worst yet well fare the Alcumist for he keepes good fires though he gets no golde the other standes warming himselfe by staring on the starres which I think he can as soone number as know their vertues He told me a long tale of Octogessimus octauus and the meeting of the Coniunctions Planets and in the meane-time he fell backwarde himselfe into a ponde I askt him why he fore-sawe not that by the starres he said hee knewe it but contemnd it But soft is not this my brother Robin Enter Robin Robin Yes as sure as thou art Rafe Rafe What Robin what newes what fortune Robin Faith I haue had but badde fortune but I prie-thee tell me thine Rafe I haue had two Maisters not by arte but by nature one sayd that by multiplying he woulde make of a penny tenne pound Robin I but coulde he doe it Rafe Could he doe it quoth you why man I sawe a prettie wench come to his shoppe where with puffing blowing and sweating he so plyed her that hee multiplyed her Robin Howe Rafe Why he made her of one two Robin What by fire Rafe No by the Philosophers stone Robin Why haue Philosophers such stones Rafe I but they lie in a priuie cupboord Robin Why then thou art rich if thou haue learned this cunning Rafe Tush this was nothing hee would of a little fasting spittle make a hose dublet of cloth of siluer Robin Would I had beene with him for I haue had almost no meate but spittle since I came to the woods Rafe How then didst thou liue Robin Why man I serued a fortune-teller who saide I should liue to see my Father hangd and both my brothers beg So I conclude the Mill shall be mine and I liue by imagination still Rafe Thy Maister was an Asse and lookt on the lines of thy hands but my other Maister was an Astronomer which could picke my natiuitie out of the stars I shoulde haue halfe a dozen starres in my pocket if I haue not lost them but heere they be Sol Saturne Iupiter Mars Venus Robin Why these be but names Rafe I but by these he gathereth that I was a Ioualist borne of a Thursday that I should be a braue Venerian and gette all my good lucke on a Fryday Robin T is strange that a fishe day should be a flesh-day Rafe O Robin Venus orta mari Venus was borne of the Sea the Sea will haue fishe fishe must haue wine wine will haue flesh for Caro carnis genus est muliebre but soft heere commeth that notable villaine that once preferd me to the Alcumist Enter Peter Peter So I had a Maister I would not care what became of me Rafe Robin thou shalt see me fitte him So I had a seruaunt I care neither for his conditions his qualities nor his person Peter What Rafe well mette No doubt you had a warme seruice of my Maister the Alcumist Rafe T was