It shall be done my Lord Oct. Nay you sir too shall taste of the same sauce away with both Flamineo Come my sonnes Le ts leauy present armes gaynst Mantua Being scarce come home we must abroad againe The Common good 's a carefull Princes payne Exeunt Enter Anthonio Lucida Hermia and Lords Anth. You that in all my banisht pilgrimage Would neuer alienate your naturall loues But in desire to see me reinstalld Haue thrust out proude Octauioes substitute And seated me in antient dignity I am yours and ready at your best dispose Lord Your owne my liege we like inferiour lights Take life from your reflection for like stars Vnto the sunne are Counsellours to Kings He feeds their orbes with fier and their shine Contend to make his glory more diuine And such are we to great Anthonio Anth. The veynes and arteries of Anthonio Through which the bloud of greatnesse flows in vs Our life and cause efficient of our state And these our prety partners in exile Lord We ha yet performd but the least part of duetie Your reinstalment it rests that with our bloud VVe keepe out innouative violence Ant. You new-create me and breath second life Into my dying bosome knew my soone Of this vnlookt-for Fortune but ill Fate Has playd the Traytor and giuen vp his life To coward treason A shout within Enter Aspero and Florimell with their Pages Asp. Vdsfoot what offence haue I committed against the state that these yron-handed Plebeians so applaud me for Flo. T is a signe they loue you Asp. I had rather thy should hate me it makes mee suspect my bosome for they loue none but the masters of factions treasons and innouasions Flo. Then you doe not loue the Commons Asp. Yes as wise men doe their flattering wiues only for show the popular voyce is like a crie of bauling hounds and they get the foote of a fantasticke and popular-affecting statesman they neuer leaue him till they haue chac'd him into disgrace then like hounds are at a losse and with their losse see I haue found my father safety attend you Anth. Welcome thou hope of Mantua and of vs VVe now are honors new beginners boy And may we better thriue then heretofore Asp. Neuer doubt it father I haue attractiue stuffe that will draw customers Anth. VVhat Lady 's that Flo. One that has playd the part of a Constable brought you home a Runaway Asp. A friend of mine Father but daughter to your Arch-enemy Anth. Octauioes daughter Asp. Yes faith you are out with the Father and I le see if I can fall in with the daughter Flo. And am I not a good child to leaue my fathers loue at sixe and seauen and hazard my honor vpon your sonnes naked promise and your hopefull acceptance Asp. She has followed me through much danger Anth. The better welcome I loue her for 't Asp. Like her and you please I d'e haue no body loue her but my selfe Anth. And Lady though your Father be our foe The vertuous loue betwixt our sonne and you May nerethelesse retaine his simpathie Flo. Shall nerethelesse retaine his simpathy Anthonio know I am loues resolute Confirmd and grounded in affection I lou'd your sonne not for he was a Prince But one no better then his present fortunes I le loue him still since first I lou'd him so Let Father friends and all the world say no Asp. There 's mettle Father how can wee choose but get cocking children when father and mother too are both of the game Enter Messenger Mess. To armes my Lord Octauio comes in armes To giue a proud assault vnto the Citty Asp. Proud his assault as proud be our resist Vye shot for shot and stake downe life for life Our brest 's as bold as theirs our bloud as deepe All that wee 'l loose or this our gettings keepe Her Come brother talke not of deuouring war Say messenger comes not Octauioes sonnes Mess. They do as proudly as the morning Sunne Beating the azurd pauement of the heauen Her Then feare not father my sister and my selfe Will be your champions and defend the Citty Flo. Why Ladies haue you such large interest in our brothers Fr. Princesse we haue within there reach our shields When beauty fights the God of battaile yeelds Exeunt Enter Francisco Hippolito Flamineo Iulio Enter Anthonio Aspero Florimell two Pages Lords and Messenger aboue Flo. They offer parlee let mee answer them Brothers how now who made you souldiers Faith een my father as he made you louers What hath he chang'd your shepheards hooks to swords Of Amoradoes made you armed knights O seld-seene metamorphosis J haue knowne Souldiers turne louers but for amorous louers To re-assume their valour t is a change Like winter-thunder and a thing as strange Fr. Our sister prisoner Hip. Tell me Florimell Dost thou liue there enforc'd or of free-will Flo. Free will brothers mine owne free will all free in Mantua here 's free will yfaith speake am I not a free-woman Pa. As if you had seru'd for 't any man may set vp vnder hir copy without a protection Fr. J wag are you there too Pa. Yes faith my Lord my Lady has had my attendaunce to a hayre Flo. You lie boy Pa. If not mine some bodies els there 's one has done Asp. What haue I done sirra Pa. Nay nothing but what my Lady was very well content with Fr. VVhy sister shame you not to set your loue On one that is our Fathers enemie Flo. Shame not a whit but come your wenches brothers I make no question I haue won my wager Are they as faire as I Hip. Leaue that to triall Aspero make surrender of our sister Asp. And haue her in quiet possession what do you thinke me Fr. We thinke thee a proud villain and our foe Flo. By heauen th' are villains all that thinke him so Hip. Why doe you loue him Flo. I should curse my selfe if I should hate him Fr. Bring the ladders forth Brauely assault to separate their liues As they are sealing the walls the Ladies come forth Her Stand proud Francisco Pa. Sand O excellent word in a woman Luc. Hold Hippolito Pa. Hold vp with that word and t is as good as the other Fr. VVhat nymphe or goddesse in my Hermiaes shape Stands to debar my entrance to the towne Pa. Madam I wonder they enter not Flo. Why boy it seemes they dare not Pa. O cowards and haue two such fayre breaches already Fr. Immortall Pallas that art more diuine In my loues beautie that thou cloth'st thee in With drawe thy selfe and giue our fury limits Her I will but first Francisco take my shielde Luc. And mine as challenge to a single combat Her Read the conditions and returne your answers Flo. VVell done yfaith wenches O that the olde gray-beard my Father were here I de haue about with him as I am honourable Fr. VVhat 's here A shepheard wooing of a Country maide As she sits angling by a Riuers side By them an aged man making a net The Motto Sic this Emblems morrall is The former loue I had with Lucida And this hope tells me that 's faire Lucida Hip. Brother my shield the like presents to me But holds far more familiar reference Here doth the amorous shepheard kisse the Nymph Which she with a chast blush consents vnto And see a gloomy man clad like a pilgrim Comes in and seperates their sweete delights The Motto Sic I so my Father came and banisht me from beautious Hermia and this hope tells me is faire Hermia Fr. The more I looke the more me thinkes t is she Hip. The more I think the more I find t is she Fr. VVhat should I thinke to proue it is not she Flo. Looke thinke find proue doe what you can These are the wenches that you courted than Then hony bees lay by your smarting stings and buz sweet loue into your Ladies eares Tell them of kisses and such prety things These drumming dub adubs loues pleasure feares Fr. O heauen oh fortune and most happie stars Do I find loue where I expected wars Hip. I that but now was all for war and death am made all loue wars humour 's out of breath Enter Octauio Iulio and others Oct. How my sonnes loue the daughters of my foe it cannot be Iul. Then question them your selfe Oct. VVhy how now sonnes is this your worth in armes Fr. VVhy are we not in armes father Hip. Yes and in such armes as no Coward but woulde venture life to march in Oct. Then boies you loue the daughters of Anthonio Fr. VVe lik'd them first Hip. VVE keepe that liking still Oct. And you will loue them Flo. Father infaith they will Oct. I run away are you there whome has your Ladyship got to your husband Flo. One that I stumbled on at Blindman buffe a proper man a man euery ynch of him and you would say so and you knewe but as much as I meane to know ere I haue done with him Oct. Is he not sonne vnto Anthonio Asp. Great Duke I am and prostrate on my knee I beg a peace which if your spleene deny I proudlie stand where erst I mildly kneel'd and east downe bold defiance from theis walls Oct. No more your loues make my proud hart asham'd Your consort 's sweet and I le not be a meane To make it iar what my sonnes like shall stand By my consent allowed and perfected all hate is banisht and reuenge lies dead Asp. Then stead of speares let Hymens torches flame VVith hallowed incence and the God of spright Swell vp your vaines with amorous delight and so that vp our single Comedy VVith Plautus phrase Si placet plaudite Exeunt Omnes FINIS
Humour out of breath A Comedie Diuers times latelie acted By the Children Of The Kings Reuells WRITTEN BY Iohn Day Printed at London for Iohn Helmes and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstons Church-yard in Fleet-street 1608 To Signior No-body WOrthlesse sir I present you with these my vnperfect labours knowing that what defect in me or neglect in the Printer hath left vnperfect iudgement in you will winke at if not thinke absolute Being to turne a poore friendlesse childe into the world yet sufficiently featur'd too had it been all of one mans getting woe to the iniquitie of Time the whilest my desire is to preferre him to your seruice in which as he shall be sure to get nothing so likewise my hope is he shall not loose much For your bountie neither makes strangers loue you nor your followers enuie you you are a Patrone worthie the Sister-hood I meane the poore halfe dozen for the Three Elders they climbe aboue my element the Sunne the Moone and the seuen Stars being scarce worthy the suruey of their workings I protest I had rather bestow my paynes on your good worship for a brace of Angells certaine then stand to the bountie of a Better-mans Purse-bearer or a very good womane Gentlemā-vsher my reason is I cannot attēd your Bis dat qui citò stands so like a Load-stone ouer your greate gate that I feare t will drawe all the Iron-pated Muse-mongers about the towne in a short time to your patronage For mine owne part I had rather bee yours volens then be driuen Nolens So till I meete you next at your great Castle in Fish-street I le neither taste of your bountie nor be drunke to your health One of your first followers Iohn Daye ACTƲS 1. Scena 1. Enter Octauio Duke of Venice Hippolito and Francisco his sonnes Florimell his daughter Hortensio and others attendants Octa. SOnnes hopefull buddes of fruitfull Italy Hauing banisht war which like a prodigall Kept wastfull reuells with our subiects bloud Since proude Anthonio our arch-enemy Is in his iourney towards th' vnderworld Or houers in the shade of banishment Let vs in peace smile at our victory And euery brest passe his opinion What pastime best becomes a conqueror Fran. What sport but conquest for a conqueror Then with our wounds vndrest our steeds still reind Branded with steele ere we wipe off the bloud Of conquerd foes le ts with our shriller bugles Summon the surly Landlord of the forrest The Kingly Lyon to a bloudy parle Combat the Hart the Leopard or the Bore In single and aduenturous hardyment The spirit of mirth in manly action rests Hauing queld men le ts now go conquer beasts Oct. Manly resolu'd Hippolitoes aduise Hip. Rather like souldiers and Octauioes sonnes Le ts throw a generall challenge through the world For a proud turney at the which our selues Consorted with a hundred of our knights Accoutred like so many Gods of warre VVill keepe the lists gainst all aduenturers VVhich like the suns light figurd in a star Should be a briefe Epitome of war Oct. Noble and royall your opinion daughter Flo. Faith I shall anger souldiers I woulde poure Spirit of life Aurum Potabile Into the iawes of chap-falne schollership That haue since amorous Quid was exild Lyen in a swowne y aue many holds for war I would once view a garrison for witte T were heauenly sport to see a traine of schollers Like old traind soldiers skirmish in the schooles Trauerse their Ergoes and discharge their iests Like peales of small-shot were this motion granted My selfe would be free woman of their hall And sit as sister at their festiuall Oct Haue we not Padua Flo. Yes but the commaunders Deale with our graduates as the generall Doth with his souldier giues him place for fauoure Not for deseruing looke intoo 't your selfe You haue Courts for tennis and me thinkes t' were meet Learning should not stand balling in the street For want of houseroome oh t is much vnfit Courtiers should be all pleasure and small wit Oct. All that you speake is but what we command Flo. But Officers fother cannot vnderstand Their Lords at first wert not a gallant sight To see wits army royall come from fight Some crownd with gold others with wreath of bayes And whilst they hold their solemn holydaies Musick should like a louer court the skies And from the world wrest ringing plaudities Hip. My sister would make a rare beggar Fra. True shee 's parcell Poet parcell fidler already and they commonly sing three parts in one Oct. Wrong neither art nor musicke they are twins Borne and begot in heate your thought of both Flo. I thinke my Lord that musick is diuine Whose sacred straines haue power to combine The soule and body and it reason beares For it is said that the Celestiall spheres Dance to Apolloes lyre whose sprightly fires Haue tamd rude beasts and charmd mens wild desires The author was immortall the first strings Made by a King therefore an art for Kings The world 's a body euery liberall art A needfull member musick the soule and hart Oct. VVell for hir sex hath Florimell discourse Of heauenly musicke and since all conclude It is an art diuine we were too rude Should we reiect it musick I take great pride To heare soft musick and thy shrill voice chide Flo. To please your grace though J want voice and skill I le shew my selfe obedient to your will sing Fra. This would haue done rare at a schollers window How do you like it father Oct. Highly my boies I rellish all delight For when the fiery spirit of hot youth Kept house within me I was all delight Then could I take my loue no loue more fayre By the smooth hand and gazing in loues ayre Tell her her beauty beautifide the skie And that the sunne stole lustre from her eye Fra. I do admire to heare my princely father thus merrilie discourse of trifling loue Oct. Nay more my boyes when J was at your yeares I went a pilgrimage through Italie to find the shrine of some loue-hallowed saynt Deuote to beauty I would pray for loue Desiring beauty I would sue for loue Admiring beauty I would serue for loue Pray sue and serue till beauty graunted loue If she denyd me I would sweare she graunted Jf she did sweare that she could neuer loue me Then would I sweare she could not chuse but loue me Let her sweare nere so much still haue I sworne Till she had said I should not be forsworne Flo. I marry brothers here was cunning loue Learne like good schollers hee le make you wise in loue He was a man in loue were you such men Then were you men indeed but boyes till then Fr. To please my Father I le inquest of beauty And neuer make returne till I haue found A loue so faire so rich so honorable As fits the honor of Octauioes sonnes Hip. The like you pleasd vowes young Hippolito Oct. Doe boyes
I am in loue to be in loue Hip. And I desire to liue in fond desire And yet I doubt to touch blind fancies fier Oct. T is good to doubt but t is not good to feare Yet still to doubt will at the lest proue feare Doubt loue t is good but t is not good to feare it Loue hurts them most that least of all come neere it Fr. Then to doubt loue is the next way to loue Oct. Doubtles it is if you misdoubt not loue Hip. Doubt and misdoubt what difference is there here Oct. Yes much when men misdoubt t is sayd they feare Fra. But is it good in loue to be in doubt Oct. No not in loue doubt then is iealousie T is good to doubt before you be in loue Doubt counsells how to shun loues misery Fra. Your doubtfull counsell counsells vs to loue Oct. To equall loue I like experience speake Hip. Experiencd louer you haue spoken well Oct. Experience wanting louers truth I tell Yong wits be wife in loue liue constant still You need nor doubt good hap not misdoubt ill Enter Lucida and Hermonia with Angles And see your discourse has coniurd vp beauty in the likenesse of two countrimaides but you shall not come in the circles of their armes if J can keepe you out Fra. These are too meane for loue brother le ts leaue them Oct. What speechles will you make dumbe virgins of them Hip. Oh we are sonnes of a great father Oct. So is the sun of heauen yet hee smiles on the bramble aswell as the Lilly kisses the checke of a beggar as louingly as a gentlewoman and t is good to imitate him t is good Her Say sister had we not fine sport to day Luc. VVe had if death may be accounted play Her VVhy t is accounted pleasure to kill fish Luc. A pleasure nothing pleasant to the fish Her Yet fishes were created to be kild Luc. Cruell creation then to haue liues spild Her Their bodies being food maintaine our breath Luc. What bodies then haue we to liue by death Her Come come you vainely argue it is good Luc. What is it good to kill oh god oh god Her If it be sin then you your self 's a sinner Luc. I thank proud fortune for t my woes beginner Oct. Foot are yee not ashamd to stand by like idle ciphers such places of account voyde and they had bin rich offices and you poore Courtiers you would haue bin in them in halfe the time Fra. Though against stomack Oct. Nothing against stomack and you loue me Hip. Faire maids if so you be you are well met Her Shepheards or be what els you are well met Fra. T is well if that well met we be to you Luc. If not to vs you are vnto your selues Hip. We did not meet you saw vs come togither Her VVhat ere we saw you yet ere you came hither Fr. VVe did we met in kindred we are brothers Luc. So shepheards we did meet for we are sisters Hip. Then sisters let vs brothers husbands be Her So brothers without our leaues you well may be Fr. Say we desire to husband it with you Luc. Know we desire no husbands such as you Hip. A shepheard is an honest trade of life Her Yet honest shepheard has with honest trade some strife Hip. He seldome sweares but by his honesty Her So honest men do too aswell as he Fr. But will you trust a shepheard when he vowes Luc. No neuer if his oath be that he loues Hip. Yet if I sweare that needs must be mine oath Her Sweare not for we are misbeleeuers both Fr. Let vs perswade you to beleeue we loue you Luc. First we intreat you giue vs time to proue you Hip. Take time meane time wee le praise yee to our powers Her Oh time sometime shepheards haue idle howers Fra. I le say thy cheek no naturall beauty lacks Luc. Good if it had bin spoke behind our backs Hip. I le say this is the heauen of heauenly graces Her O heauen how they can flatters to our faces Exeunt Fr. Brother the last is fayrest in my eie Hip. I but the first brother is first in beauty Fr. First in your choice but not in beauty sir Oct. Come yee so neere as choice then t is time for mee to stop for feare the musick run too far out of tune how now gallants in dumps Fr. No but in loue Oct. That 's a dumpe loues nothing but an Jtalian dumpe or a French brawle Hip. Me thinkes t is sweeter musicke Oct. And t were in tune I confesse it but you take your parts too low you are trebble Courtiers and will neuer agree with these Country Mynnikins the musicke 's too base neuer meddle in 't Fra. Peace doatard peace thy sight of loue is done Thou canst not see the glory of loues sunne Spent age with frosty clowds thy sight doth dim That thou art blind to see and apt to sin Oct. Is it accounted sin to speake the truth Hip. And worse when age spits poyson against youth Oct. They do not fit your callings let them go Fr. Yet they are faire we loue thou art loues foe Oct. J am your friend and wish you from this loue Hip. Canst thou heaue hills then thou my thoughts maist moue but neuer els Oct. Neuer Fr. No neuer Oct. Stay Hip. We are bound for loue Oct. Hate Fra. Hinder not our way Exeunt brothers Oct. J boyes will Eagles Eglets turne to bastards Then must J change my vaine and once more proue To teach you how to hate as well as loue Exit Finis actus Secundi ACTVS TERTIVS Enter Page and Florimell Pa. SWeet hony candy madam if it be no forfeit to tell tales out of Cupids free schoole tell what proficient your louer Aspero proues Flo. Now so loue helpe me lot a passing weake one and verye vnready Pag. The better for women would haue their louers vnreadye to choose Flo. Now ready you are to play the knaue but to Aspero Pa. I do not thinke but ther 's good musick in him your tongue harps so much vpon his name Flo. J shall neuer forget him Pa. I faith Lady then I know what J know Flo. What do you know I prey Pa. Marry that if you neuer forget him you shall euer remember him was he neuer in your chamber Fio. Yes but he shewed himselfe the strangest foole And by my troth loe J am sorry for 't to J had as good an appetite to maintaine discourse but here a comes if euer I choose a man by the fulnesse of his Calfe or a cock by the crowing looke and the bashfull foole do not blush already Pa. You may do well to kisse him and make him bold Madam Pa Boy go know what strange gentleman that is Asp. Slid what a strange Lady 's this madam though I seeme a stranger to you J lay with one last night that 's well acquainted with you Flo Acquainted with me Asp. And knowes you
my selfe Hort. Your will 's a law we obey it madam Asp. She knowes me sure well though my ioyes be thrall My comforts this a speedy death ends all Exit with Hort. and Ass. Flo. Oh you are not gone then Page Heer 's a newe kinde of courting neuer seene before J thinke Flo. He would anger me Pa. Nay you take a course to anger him first J thinke Flo. Should J haue let him go as I could no other way detaine him in modesty and he had set his loue on some other t' would haue fretted my hart strings a sunder Pa. Why did you set him so light then Flo. Not for any hate but in pride of my humour Page VVhy did you commaund him close prisoner to your chamber Flo. That I may feede mine eie with the sight of him and be sure no other beauty can rob me of his company I will ha 't all I will not loose an ynch of him And in this I but imitate our Italian dames who cause their friends to clap their iealous husbands in prison that if they haue occasion to vse them within fortie weekes and a day they may surely know where to find them Exit Pa. If I had any knauēry in mee as J am all honesty I could make a notable sceane of mirth betwixt these two Amorists Enter Enter Antonio with a net Anth. Early sorrow art got vp so soone What ere the Sun ascendeth in the East O what an early waker art thou growne But cease discourse and close vnto thy worke Vnder this drooping mirtle will I sit And worke a while vpon my corded net And as I worke record my sorrowes past Asking old Time how long my woes shall last And first but stay alas what do J see Moist gum like teares drop from this mournfull tree And see it sticks like birdlyme t will not part Sorrow is euen such birdlyme at my hart Alas poore tree dost thou want company Thou dost I see 't and J will weepe with thee Thy sorrowes make thee dumb and so shall mine It shall be tongueles and so seeme like thine Thus will I rest my head vnto thy barke Whilst my sighes tell my sorrowes harke tree harke Enter Hippolito and Francisco Fr. Fie fie how heauy is light loue in me Hip. How slow runs swift desire Fr. This leaden ayre This pondrous feather merry Melancholy Hip. This passion which but in passion Hath not his perfect shape Fr. And shapelesse loue Hath in his watch of loue oreslept himselfe Hip. Then sleepy wakers let these graue le ts wander And waite th' ascension of beauties wonder But stay a man striuing twixt life and death Fr. Nay then t is so my heauenly loue 's gone by And struck him dead with her loue-darting eye Hip. If speech-bereauing loue will let thee speake Then speechles man speake with the tongue of loue And tell me if thou saw'st not Cynthia Seeking Endimion in these flowry dales Anth. Dales for Endimion and faire Cynthia fit But neuer heauenly goddesse blest this groue These woods are consecrate to griefe not loue Fr. Out Atheist thou prophan'st loues deity For false-reporter I in them haue seene A loue that makes a Negro of Loues Queene One that when as the sunne keeps holliday Hir beauty clads him in his best array Anth. Now truly shepheard none such soiourn here Please you suruey the Cell go in and see I 'me hearst and none but sorrowe lies with me Enter Lucida Fra. Call you this sorrowes caue Hip. Rather a Cell Enter Octauio whisper with Antonio Where pleasure growes and none but Angels dwell Fra. To what compare shall I compare thee to Vncomparable beauties Paragon Hip. I will compare her beauty to the sunne For her bright lustre giues the morning light Fr. I le say she is like Cynthia when day 's done Or Lady to the mistrisse of the night Hip. O speake but to me and J shall be blest Fr. One smile would lay my iarring thoughts at rest Enter Hermia Her How now faire sister you are hard beset Hip. Nymph Fr. Goddesse Hip. Saynt once more y' are both well met Fra. O she is faire Hip. She fairer Fra. Both more faire Then rocks of pearle or the chast euening ayre Hip. Say sweet intend you not to fish to day Her No shepheards now fish do not bite but play Fr. VVhat time sweet loue keepe fishes when they bite Luc. Early i th' morning or els late at night Hip. Come will you talke with me till time of fishing Her My father sir will chide if I be missing Oct. The match is made th' are euen vpon going Ant. VVhat should we do Oct. Why as poore parents and dutifull seruants should doe run amongst the bushes and catch flies Ant. Stay forward daughters whether are yee going Her Father I thinke these shepheards come a wooing Ant. A wooing daughters nere imagine so What man 's so mad to marry griefe and woe Fra. Why where liues sad griefe heer 's all speaking ioy Hip. O I would liue and die with such annoy Ant. But they are poore and pouerty is despisde Hip. No they are faire beauty is highly prizde Oct. T will be a match they are beating the price already Ant. They once were faire sorrow from that hath changd them They once knew wealth but chance hath much estrangd them Fra. Haue they bin faire what fayrer then they are VVhy t is not possible this heauenly faire Hath only in it selfe beauties exceed O then rich fayre and onely selues exceed Ant. Come daughters and come shepheards if you please I le leade you to the lodge of little ease Where I will feast you with what cheere I may Griefe shall turne mirth and keepe high holliday Exit cumfiliabw The brothers going out Octauio staies them Oct. A word with you you meane to marry these wenches Ambo VVe doe Oct. And are going to contract your selues Ambo VVe are Hip. And what say you to this Oct. God speede you I would haue you marry on saint Lukes day Fr. VVhy Oct. Because J would offer at your wedding Fr. Come th' art all enuy feed vpon thy hate This day our quest of loue shall terminate Exeunt manet Octauio Oct. Not if I liue this maladie of loue Js grown so strong it will not be driuen out To see the folly of a doating father What toyle I had to fashion them to loue And how t is doubled to misfashion them They shall not wed yet how shall J preuent it Fearing th' euent I haue forethought a meanes And here it lies swaggering becomes not age Now like the Fox I le goe a pilgrimage Frollick my boyes I come to mar your sport Your Country musicke must not play at Court But first I le write back to Hortensio For apprehension of yong Aspero They haue not yet dynde I le bid my selfe their guest Religion beg a fashion in request Exit Enter Aspero and his boy Asp. Art sure she hates me boy Boy More then
shall haue a stronger prison so J shall bee sure of a kinder and a wiser iaylor Flo. Do you obserue how he flowts you my Lord that I had bin his keeper but one night longer but keepe him close if he escape though against thy will as I am a mayd Hort. A maide against your will Flo. Shalt pay as deere for 't as thou didst for thy office Hort If he scape hang me Exit As with Aspero Flo. I shall wish thee hangd if he do not treason I may thanke my peeuish humor for t Enter Page Page Madam the Gundelo is ready Flo. Thou bringst physicke when the patient 's dead boy our ieast 's turnd earnest Pa. Is a dead in earnest Flo. As good or rather worse hee 's buried quick Pa. O madam many a good thing has bin buried quick and suruiu'd againe I would bee buried quicke my selfe and I might choose my graue Flo. Hee 's buried in close prison boy hee 's knowne for the duke of Mantuaes sonne and by my fathers letter attached for a traytor Pa. Good gentleman and I be not sorrie for him who is his keeper Flo. The testie asse Hortensio Pa. Vds foot le ts enlarge him Flo. Not possible boy Pa. Not possible t is wee le cousen his keeper Flo. We cannot Pa. Cannot we can your father made a Lord of him but be rul'd by me his daughter shall make a foole of him you are not the first woman has made a foole of a wiser Lord then he is Flo. Shall he be cousend Pa. As palpably as at the Lotterie my brains are in labour of the stratagem alreadie Exeunt Finis actus Tertiis ACTVS QVARTVS Enter Anthonio Francisco Hippolito Hermia Lucida and Octauio disguisd Anth. Sons of Octauio if your princely thoughts Can stoope to such meane beauty from this hand Receiue your wiues but should the Duke your father Fr. Feare not old man he was the meanes that breath'd this spirit into vs Hip. Wood vs to this course But should he proue Apostata denie Loue which he first enforcd vs to profes So firme are our inseparate affections To winne our loues weed loose the names of sonnes Oct. Your father thanks you but hot-sprighted you that Take counsell from experience ere yee tie The gordian knot which none but heauen can loose Craue his consent when an imperiall hand Shakes a weake shed the building cannot stand Fr. Not stand it shall not Ioue himselfe can ruine the ground-worke for our loue Oct. Not Ioue Hip. Not Ioue Should a speak thunder then go boldly on Our loue admits no separation Oct. Then to 〈…〉 your loue is chast Fra. As innocence white soule Hip. As innocence white soule Oct. And yours Herm. And ours Lucid. And ours Oct. Then lend me all your hands Whilst thus a fathers tongue forbids the bands discouers himselfe Forgetfull boyes but most audacious traytor That durst in thought consent to wrong thy Prince Out of my fight no Land that calls me Lord Shall beare a waight so hatefull as they selfe Liue euer banishd if three daies expirde Thou or these lustfull strumpets Hip. Father Oct. Boyes If you be mine show 't in obedience If three daies past you liue within my dukedome Thee as a slaue I le doome vnto the gallies And these thy brats as common prostitutes Shall drie their lustfull veynes in the Burdello Come boyes to Court he that first gaue you liues VVill to your births prouide you equall wiues Fr. They haue our loues Hip. Our oathes Fr. Our hearts and hands Oct. Tut louers othes like toyes writ down in sands Are soone blowne ore contracts are common wiles Tintangle fooles Ioue himselfe sits and smiles At louers periuries bawd strumpets hence My bosome 's chargde giue way to violence Come doe not mind them Exeunt Anth and his daughters Fran. How not minde them father When in your Court you courted vs to loue You red another lecture women then Were angells Oct. True but that was before Angells Had power to make them diuells they were then Fiends to themselues and Angells vnto men VVhen vpon Po thou find'st a cole-black swan Th' ast found a woman constant to a man Fr. And not afore Oct. Neuer afore Hip. Your tongue Vnspeaks your former speech Oct. It doth new theames Must haue new change of Rhetorique all streames Flow not alike one way when I spake like a louer Jt was to breake you from your souldiers humour Hauing made you louers I like Enuy speak To make you hate loue Art still striues to breake Bad to make better Brothers You haue your wish Oct. Then onward to the Court Make vs of loue as schoole-boyes do of sport Exeunt Enter Florimell and her Page Flo. Call out the iaylor boy yet doe not hast got a beard like Hortensio Page Yes madam J haue got his hayre if I coulde come as easily by his wit Flo. VVouldst rob him of his wit Pa. If I shold he could not hang me for 't t is not worth thirteen pence halfe penny but what shall I do with it Flo. Put it on boy Pa. That shall J madam O forward age I am a man already how do you like me Lady Flo. Very ill and my plot worse Pa. Then leaue 't of if you be grounded in the plot You will but marre the Comedy Flo. I purposde thou in the habit of Hortensio shouldst vnder pretence of remouing Aspero to a new prison haue freed him out of the old one Pa Tut J can tell you a trick worth two of that madam your eare take some care in the managing and let me alone to prepare it Exeunt Enter Aspero and his Boy Boy Vdsfoot breake prison my Lorde t is but swimming the Riuer Asp. Breake prison t were both dishonour to my name and treason to my loue what benefit wer 't for me to free my body leaue my heart in bondage I le die ere I le harbour a disloyall thought Pa. Jt beares no rellish of disloyaltie being in prison you liue as far from loue as liberty being abroad you may by letters or a thousand meanes purchase hir company and compasse your content Asp. Shalt be my Lawyer boy and counsell me Boy I le looke for my Fee then Asp. If thy Counsell prospers Boy That 's an exception Lawyers neuer respect but come my lord leape as we haue risen togither wee le fall togither Enter Hort. Florimell and Page Asp. Blame me not loue Boy. Vdsfoot your iaylor my lord Asp. Am I preuented Boy Yes faith there had bin a Counsellors fee cast away now Hort. You haue heard his vsage Lady seene his lodging and if it please you you both may and shall confer with him Flo. Prithee call him Boy My Lord your keeper hath brought a Lady or two to see you Asp. To see me why am I turnd monster doth he take money to shew me what doth a take a peece troe Flo. VVhy how now gallant not gone yet Asp. Not I thanke
you Lady and yet I was neer 't Hort. How do you man Asp. Musty for want of ayring Flo. VVee le haue you hangd out i' the fresh ayre one of these mornings Asp. You l be glad to take me in then Flo. Yes when you had hangd abroad a little but my Lorde Hortensio for I think I must be your Lady when all 's done what sport I would be merry a purpose to make him mad the room 's priuate and fit for any exercise Pa. Vdsfoot to her can a woman offer fairer for 't Hort. VVhy shall we go to span-counter madam Pa. To span-counter best ask her and shee le go to Coits Flo. No I loue some stirring exercise my body 's condiciond like the sun it would neuer be out of motion Hor. I hau 't yfaith when I was student in Padua VVe vsde a most ingenious pastime Flo The name my Lord Hort. I cannot giue it a name equall to the merit T is vulgarly calld Blindmans buffe Pa. Blind mans buffe ha ha ha Hort. Do you laugh at it Flo. At the happines of your wit my Lord that you shoulde hit vpon that sport which of all other I delight in Hor. VVill you heare an Apology I made in the commendation of it Flo. Wee le haue the thing it selfe first and as we like that wee l heare your Apologie after who shall be hud-winckt first Pa. Who but the Author Hort. I I none shall be blind but I helpe of with my gown boy Pa. What shall we haue to blind him Flo. My scarfe take my scarfe my Lord Pa. There 's a simple fauour for you Hort. And most fit for indeed nothing blinds louers sooner then Ladies fauors but who shall blind me Flo. Mary that will I my Lord let me alone to blind you Hort. Good againe for who should blind men but beautious women come sweet madam Flo. But how if you take me as I know that will be your ayme Hort. Jf J take you prisoner madam you must either bee hudwinckt your selfe or giue your conqueror a kisse for your ransome Flo. An easie ransome I le not be prisoner long if a kisse will enlarge me Pa. Lord what scambling shift has he made for a kisse and cannot get in neither a little higher so so so are you blind my Lord Hort. As a purblind Poet haue amongst you blind Harpers Flo. Me thinks he looks for all the world like God Cupid Pa. Take heed of his dart madam he comes vpon you Flo. He cannot come to fast O I am taken prisoner Hort. Your ransome 's but a kisse Flo. Is that your law of armes Hort. Yes madam but I le take it on your lips Flo. My lips like faithfull Treasurers shall see it dischargde Hort. And here are my honest receiuers to take it The Page puts his Pantoflle to his lips he kisses it Flo. Am I freed now Hort. As if you had seru'd seauen yeare for 't sweete kisse rare lippe Pa. Has she not a sweet breath my Lord Hort. As perfume Pa. And a soft lip Hort. And smooth as veluet I could scarce discerne it from veluet I de pawne my office for the fellow on 't madam Pa. Here Flo. Here Aspero on with this beard and gowne I thinke hee followes me by the sent his hat so a narrowe misse yfaith my Lord Hort. Gone madam Flo. Euen vpon going one of you counterfet my voice there I deceiud you my Lord Hort. Haue you deceiu'd me madam Flo. Not yet but I will and you look not the better too 't busie him till you thinke we are out of the Court and then followe vs you shall find vs at the south port now or neuer my Lord Hort. Why then t will neuer be Lady Boy Here Hor. Where Boy Here Hort. Scapt againe Pa. Shee 's scapt indeed my Lord you may cast your cap after her for I see you can do no other good vpon hir Hort. What haue I catchd you Pa. Kisse her and let her goe Hort. Kings truce till I breath a little Pa. And you had neede so for I thinke you are almost out of breath if you be not you shall be and that 's as good but breathe and spare not Enter Aspero like Hortensio Florimell and Assistance on the vpper stage Asp. Did you euer conuerse with a more straunger dissolute madam Flo. Peremptory iacke iaylor as you respect your office lay speciall watch that none of what degree soeuer haue accesse to him Asp. Without me Ass. Or your signet Asp. Signet mee no signets your goldsmiths shop is like your Swans neast has a whole brood of signets and all of a feather amongst many one may be like another let none enter vpon the stage where Aspero playes the madam without Hortensio Ass. Is he mad my Lord Asp. As the Lord that gaue all to his followers and beg'd more for himselfe Flo. If he call for me tell him I scorne him Asp. If he counterfet my voice as mad fellowes will counterfet great mens hands and their tongues too rate him for 't threaten him with the whip Flo. But come not at him Asp. Jf he call for meat promise him faire Flo. But giue him none Ass. If for light Flo. He may fire the house let him haue none Asp. Jf he chafe laugh Flo. If he rayle sing Asp. Jf he speake fayre flowt him Flo. Do any thing to vexe him Asp. But nothing to content him you heare my charge as you respect your office regard it Ass. I warne you my Lord let mee alone and we knew not how to abuse a prisoner we were not worthy to be a Iaylor Exeunt They renew Blindmans Buffe on the Lower stage Pa. Are you in breath my Lord Hort. As a bruers horse and as long-winded look to your selfe madam I come vpon you Boy J am ready for you sir O for a bul-rush to run a tilt at 's nose Pa. A fayre misse yfaith Hort. I le mend it next course you shall see Pa. In the corner of the left hand vdsfoot ware shins my Lord Hort. Madam Boy Here Hort. Where The boy throwes him downe Helpe me vp Madam Boy O strange cannot you get vp without helpe there 's my gloue but come no neerer as you loue me Hort. I do loue you madam Boy Oh blind loue Hort. True madam your beauty has made me blind Pa. Indeed loues sonnes like spaniells are all borne blind Hort. But they will see Boy Not till they be nyne daies old my Lord Hort. But will you giue mee the fingers that hold this gloue madam Boy And the whole body to pleasure you my Lord but let me go a little Hort. I will not loose you yet Lady Boy But you shall my Lord hist then keepe me still He fastens the gloue to a post Pa. Faith let go my Lord for she growes sullen and you had as good talke to a post and as good answer t would make you Exeunt Hort. Nay but deere madam doe but answer me