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The malcontent. By Iohn Marston. 1604
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Marston, John, 1575?-1634.
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night all creatures sleepe Onely the Malecontent that gainst his fate Repines and quarrels alas hee s goodman tell-clock His sallow iaw-bones sincke with wasting mone Whilst other beds are downe his pillowes stone Bili. Mal uole Mal. Elder of Izrael thou honest defect of wicked nature and obstinate ignorance when did thy wife let thee lie with her Bili. I am going Embassadour to Florence Mal. Embassador now for thy countries honor preethe doe not put vp Mutton and Porredge i' thy clock bag thy yong lady wife goes to Florence with thee too do's she not Bili. No I leaue her at the Pallace Mal. At the Pallace now discretion shield man for Gods loue le ts ha no more cuckolds Hymen begins to put of his Saffron robe keepe thy wife i' the state of grace hart a truth I would sooner leaue my lady singled in a Bordello then in the Genoa pallace sinne there appearing in her sluttish shape Would soone grow loath some euen to blushes sence Surfet would cloake intemperate appetite Make the soule sent the rotten breath of lust When in an Italian lasciuious Pallace a Lady gardianlesse Left to the push of all allurement The strongest incitements to immodestie To haue her bound incensed with wanton sweetes Her vaines fild hie with heating delicates Soft rest sweete Musick amorous Masquerers lasciuious banquets sinne it selfe gilt ore strong phantasie tricking vp strange delights presenting it dressed pleasingly to sence sence leading it vnto the soule confirmed with potent example impudent custome intic'd by that great bawd opportunitie thus being prepar'd clap to her easie eare youth in good clothes well shapt rich faire spoken promising noble ardent bloud-full wittie flattering Vlisses absent O Ithaca can chastest Penelope hold out Bil. Masse I le thinke on 't farewell Exit Bilioso Mal. Farewell take thy wife with the farewell To Florence um it may prooue good it may And we may once vnmaske our browes SCENA TERTIA Enter Count Celzo Cel. My honour'd Lord Mal. Celso peace how i st speake loe pale feares suspect that hedges walls trees haue eares speake how runs all Cel. I faith my Lord that beast with many heads The staggering multitude recoiles apace Though thorow great mens enuie most mens mallice Their much intemperate heate hath banisht you Yet now they faind enuie and mallice neere Produce faint reformation The Duke the too soft Duke lies as a block For which two tugging factions seeme to sawe But still the Yron through the ribbes they drawe Mal. I tell thee Celzo I haue euer found Thy brest most farre from shifting cowardize And fearfull basenesse therfore I le tell thee Celzo I finde the winde begins to come about I le shift my sute of fortune I know the Florentine whose only force By marying his prowd daughter to this Prince Both banisht me and made this weake Lord Duke Will now forsake them all be sure he will I le lye in ambush for conueniencie Vpon their seuerance to confirme my selfe Cel. Is Ferneze interred Mal. Of that at leisure he liues Cel. But how stands Mendoza how i st with him Mal. Faith like a paire of Snuffers snibbes filth in other men and retaines it in himselfe Cel. He do's flie frō publique notice me thinks as a Haire do's from hounds the feet wheron he flies betraies him Mal. I can track him Celzo O my disguise fooles him most powerfully For that I seeme a desperate malecontent He faine would claspe with me he is the true slaue That will put on the most affected grace Enter Mendoz. For some vild second cause Cel. Hee s here Mal. Giue place Illo ho ho ho art there old true peny Exit Celso Where hast thou spent thy selfe this morning I see flattery in thine eyes damnation i' thy soule Ha ye huge Rascal Men. Thou art very merry Mal. As a scholler futuens gratis How doz the deuill go with thee now Men. Maleuole thou art an arrant knaue Mal. Who I I haue beene a Sergeant man Men. Thou art very poore Mal. As Iob an Alcumist or a Poet Men. The Duke hates thee Mal. As Irishmen do bum-cracks Men. Thou hast lost his amitie Mal. As pleasing as Maids loose their virginitie Men. Would thou wert of a lustie spirit would thou wert noble Mal. Why sure my bloud giues me I am noble sure I am of noble kinde for I finde my selfe possessed with all their qualities loue Dogs Dice and Drabs scorne witte in stuffe clothes haue beate my Shoomaker knockt my Sempstres cuckold my Pottecary and vndone my Taylor Noble why not since the Stoick said Neminem seruum non ex regibus neminem regem non ex seruis esse oriundum only busie fortune towses and the prouident chaunces blends them together I le giue you a symilie did you ere see a Well with 2. buckets whilst one comes vp full to be emptied another goes downe emptie to be filled such is the state of all humanitie why looke you I may be the sonne of some Duke for beleeue me intemperate lasciuious bastardie makes nobility doubtfull I haue a lusty daring hart Mendoza Men. Le ts graspe I doe like thee infinitely wilt inact one thing for me Mal. Shall I get by it Giues him his purse Commaund me I am thy slaue beyond death and hell Men. Murther the Duke Mal. My harts wish my soules desire my fantasies dream My blouds longing the only haight of my hopes how O God how O how my vnited spirits throng together So strengthen my resolue Men. The Duke is now a hunting Mal. Excellent admirable as the diuell would haue it lend me lend me Rapier Pistol Crosebow so so I le do it Men. Then we agree Mal. As Lent and Fishmongers come a cape ape how in forme Men. Know that this weake braind duke who only stands on Florence stilts hath out of witlesse zeale made me his heire and secretly confirmed the wreathe to me after his lifes full point Mal. Vpon what merit Men. Merit by heauen I horne him onely Fernezies death gaue me states life tut we are politique he must not liue now Mal. No reason marry but how must he dye now Men. My vtmost proiect is to murder the Duke that I might haue his state because he makes me his heire to banish the Duches that I might be rid of a cūning Lacedemonian because I know Florence will forsake her then to marie Maria the banished duke Altofronts wife that her friends might strengthen me and my faction this is all lawe Mal. Doe you loue Maria Mend. Faith noe great affection but as wise men do loue great wemen to innoble their bloud and augment their reuenew to accomplish this now thus now The Duke is in the forest next the Sea single him kill him hurle him i' the maine and proclaime thou sawst Woolues eate him Mal. Vm not so good me thinkes when he is slayne to get some Ipocrite some daungerous wretch that 's muffled or with fayned holines to sweare he hard
's well returnd for Florence Bil: Well returnd I praise my horse Mal: What newes from the Florentines Bil: I will conceale the great Dukes pleasure onely this was his charge his pleasure is that his daughter die Duke Pietro be banished for banishing his bloudes dishonor and that Duke Altofront be reaccepted this is all but I heare Duke Pietro is dead Mal. I and Mendozo is Duke what will you doe Bil: Is Mendozo strongest Mal: Yet he is Bil: Then yet I le hold with him Mal: But if that Altofront should turne strait againe Biliosa Why then I would turne strait againe T is good runne still with him that haz most might I had rather stand with wrong then fall with right Mal. Your Lordship sweats your yong Ladie will get you a cloth for your old worships browes Exit Biliosa heere 's a fellow to be damnd this is his inuiolable Maximo flatter the greatest and oppresse the least a whorson flesh fly that still gnawes vpon the leane gauld backs Piet. Why dust then salute him Mal. Faith as baudes go to Church for fashion sake come be not confounded th' art but in danger to loose a Dukedome think this this earth is the only graue and golgotha wherein all thinges that liue must rotte t is but the draught wherein the heauenly bodies discharge their corruption the verie muckhill on which the sublunarie orbes cast their excrements man is the slime of this dongue-pit and Princes are the gouernours of these men for for our soules they are as free as Emperoures all of one peece there goes but a paire of sheeres betwixt an Emperour and the sonne of a bagpiper only the dying dressing pressing glossing makes the difference now what art thou like to lose A iaylors office to keepe men in bonds Whilst toyle and treason all lifes good confounds Pietro I heere renounce for euer Regencie O Altofront I wrong thee to supplant thy right To trip thy heeles vp with a diuelish slight For which I now from Throane am throwne world tricks abiure For vengance that comes slow yet it comes sure O I am chang'd for heerefore the dread power In true contrition I doe dedicate My breath to solitarie holines My lips to prayer and my brests eare shall be Restoring Altofront to regency Mal. Thy vowes are heard and we accept thy faith Enter Ferneze and Celso vndisguiseth himselfe Altofront Ferneze Celso Pietro Banish amazement come we foure must stand full shocke of Fortune be not so sunder stricken Pietro Doth Ferneze liue Farn. For your pardon Pietro Pardon and loue giue leaue to recollect My thoughts disperst in wilde astonishment My vowes stand fixt in heauen and from hence I craue all loue and pardon Mal. Who doubts of prouidence That sees this change a hartie faith to all He needs must rise who can no lower fall for still impetuous Vicissitude Looseth the world then let no maze intrude Vpon your spirits wonder not I rise For who can sinke that close can temporise The time growes ripe for action I le detect My priuatst plot lest ignorance feare suspect Le ts cloase to counsell leaue the rest to fate Mature discretion is the life of state Exeunt Actus quartus Scena prima Enter Maleuole and Maquarelle at seuerall doores opposite singing Mal. The Dutchman for a drunkard Maq. The Dane for golden lockes Mal. The Irishman for vsquebath Maq The Frenchman for the Mal. O thou art a blessed creature had I a modest woman to conceale I would put her to thy custodie for no reasonable creature would euer suspect her to be in thy company ha thou art a melodious Maquarelle thou picture of a woman and substance of a beast and how dost thou think a this transformation of state now Maq. Verie verie well for we women alwaies note the falling of the one is the rising of the other some must be fat some must be leane some must be fooles and some must be Lords some must be knaues and some must bee officers some must be beggars some must be Knightes some must be cuckolds and some must be citizens as for example I haue two court dogs most fawning curres the one calde Watch thother Catch now I like Ladie Fortune somtimes loue this dog somtimes rouse that dog somtimes fauour Watch most commonly fancie Catch Now that dogge which I fauour I feede and hee s so rauenous that what I giue he neuer chawes it gulpes it down whole without any relish of what he haz but with a great expectation of what he shal haue the other dogge now Mal. No more dogge soote Maquarelle no more dogge and what hope hast thou of the Dutches Maria will she stoope to the Dukes luer wil she come thinkst Maq. Let me see where 's the signe now ha ye ere a callender where 's the signe trow you Mal. Sign why is there any moment in that Maq. O beleeue me a most secret power looke yee a Caldean or an Assyrian I am sure t' was a most sweete Iew tould me court any woman in the right signe you shal not misse but you must take her in the right veine then As when the signe is in Pisces a fishmongers wife is verie sotiable in Cancer a precisians wife is verie flexible in Capricorne a Marchants wife hardly holdes out in Libra a Lawyers wife is very tractable especially if her husband be at the tearme onely in Scorpioes verie dangerous medling haz the Duke sent any jewell anie rich stones Enter Captaine Mal. I I thinke those are the best signes to take a Lady in by your fauor signeur I must discourse with the Lady Maria Altofronts Dutches I must enter for the Duke Cap. Shee heere shall guie you enterveiw I receaued the guardshippe of this Citadell from the good Altofront and for his vse I le keep 't til I am of no vse Mal. Wilt thou O heauen that a christian should be found in a buffeierkin Captaine conscience I loue thee Captaine Exit Captaine wee attend and what hope hast thou of this Dutches easinesse Maq. T will goe hard she was a could creature euer she hated munkies fooles ieasters and gentlemen vshers extreamely she had the vilde tricke on 't not onely to bee truely modestly honourable in her owne conscience but shee would avoide the least wanton carriage that might incurre suspect as God blesse me she had almost brought bed pressing out of fashion I could scarce get a fine for the lease of a Ladies fauour once in a fortnight Mal. Now in the name of immodesty how many maiden-heads hast thou brought to the block Maq. Let me see heauen forgiue vs our misdeedes heere 's the Dutches SCENA SECVNDA Enter Meria and Captaine Mal. God blesse thee Lady Mar. out of thy company Mal. We haue brought thee tender of a husband Mar: I hope I haue one already Maq. Nay by mine honour madam as good hee nere a husband as a banisht husband hee s in an other world now