countenance unto my fathers wrong come I dare swear 't was not your malice and I take it so le ts frame some other talk hear Gentlemen Rains But hear me boy it seems Sir you are angry Fra. Not throughly yet Rains Then what would anger thee Fra. Nothing from you Rains Of all things under heaven what wouldest thou loathest have me do Fra. I would not have you wrong my reverent Father and I hope you will not Rains Thy Father 's an old dotard Fran. I could not brook this at a Monarchs hands much lesse at thine Rains I boy then take you that Flings wine in 's face Fra I was not born to brook this oh I am slain Goodw. Sweet Cose what have you done shift for your self Rains Away Exeunt Enter two Drawers 1. Draw Stay the Gentlemen they have kild a man O sweet Mr. Francis one run to his Fathers 2. Draw Had not we Drawers enough in the house but they must needs draw too 1. Draw They have drawn blood of this Gentleman that I have drawn many a quart of wine to Oh sweet Mr. Francis hark hark I hear his Fathers voice below ten to one he is come to fetch him home to supper and now he may carry him home to his grave See here he comes Enter the Host Mr. Forrest and Susan Host You must take comfort Sir old For. Would heaven I could or that I might beg patience Sus. Oh my brother old For. Is he dead is he dead girl Sus. Oh dead sir Frank is dead old For. Alass alass my boy I have not the heart to look upon his wide and gaping wounds Hide them oh hide them from me left those mouthes through which his life past through swallow mine Pray tell me Sir doth this appear to you fearful and pittiful to you that are a stranger to my dead boy Host. How can it otherwise old For. Oh me most wretched of all wretched men if to a stranger his warm bleeding wounds appear so griesly and so lamentable how will they seem to me that am his Father will they not hale my eyeballs from their rounds and with an everlasting blindness strike 'em Sus. Oh Sir look here old For. Do'st thou long to have me blind then I le behold them since I know thy mind oh me is this my sonne that doth so sensless lye and swims in blood my soul shall fly with his Unto the land of rest behold I crave Being kild with grief we both may have one grave Sus. Alass my Father 's dead too gentle Sir help to retire his spirits over-travell'd with age and sorrow Hest. Mr. Forrest Sus. Father old For. What saies my girl good morrow what 's a clock that you are up so early call up Frank tell him he lies too long a bed this morning was wont to call the Sun up and to raise the early Lark and mount her 'mongst the clouds will he not up rise rise thou sluggish boy Sus. Alass he cannot Father old For. Cannot why Sus. Do you not see his bloodless colour fail old For. Perhaps he 's sickly that he looks so pale Sus. Do you not feel his pulse no motion keep how still he lies old For. Then is he fast asleep Sus. Do you not see his fatal eye-lide close old For. Speak softly hinder not his soft repose Sus. Oh see you not these purple conduits run know you these wounds old Fost. Oh me my murdered Son Enter young Mr. Forrest Mr. For. Sister Sus. O brother brother Mr. For. Father how cheer you Sir why you were wont to store for others comfort that by sorrow were any way distrest have you all wasted and spared none to your self old For. Oh Son son son see alass see where thy brother lies he dined with me to day was merry merry eye that course was he that lies here see there thy murdered brother and my son was see doest not thou not weep for him Mr. For. I shall find time When you have took some comfort I le begin To mourn his death and scourge the murderers sin Dear father be advised take hence his body and let it have a solemn funeral old For. But for the murderer shall not he attend the sentence of the Law with all severity Mr. For. Have you but patience should we urge the Law he hath such honourable friends to guard him we should in that but bark against the Moon nay do not look that way take hence the body let the Law sleep the time ere it be long may offer 't self to a more just revenge We are poor and the world frowns on all our fortune with patience then bear this amongst the rest The heavens when they be pleased may turn the wheel of Fortune round when we that are dejected may be again raised to our former height old For. Oh when saw Father such a tragick sight And did outlive it never sonne ah never From mortal breast run such a pretious River Mr. For. Come Father and dear Sister joyn with me Let us all learn our sorrows to forget He owed a death and he hath payd that debt Exeunt Scen. 2. Enter old Mr Harding his two sonnes William and John his Wife Anne as newly come fram the Wedding old Hard. So things are as they should be we have attained the height of solace and true joy sweet Nan no sooner married but a Mother of this my hopeful Issue cheer thoughts for what I want in youth I wil supply in true affection and what age doth scant me in sprightly vigour I le make good in wealth Anne Sir you well know I was not easily wonne and therefore not soon changed advisedly not rashly did I venter on your love My young unsetled thoughts from their long travels have late attained unto their journeys end and they are now at rest old Hard. Here they have found a harbour to retire to Wil 'T would become you to use my Father here respectively you see how he receives you almost dowerless Ioh. True where he out of his own abilities might have commanded Widdows richer farre I and perhaps each way as beautiful Anne Upbraid me not I do confess he might nor was this match my seeking If it hath pleased your father for some virtues known in me to grace me with his free election Methinks it worse becomes you being sonnes to blame a Fathers pleasure howsoever better my self I cannot if he thought me Worthy his bed I see small reason you Should wrong me to him that my state best knew old Hard. Nann I am pleased they shall be satisfied and boyes I tell you though you be my sonnes you much forget your duty to a Mother whom I hold worthy to be called my Wife no more of this I charg you Wil Sir we have done old Hard No child to her can be to me no Son Ioh. I am pleased here my spleen dyes Suddenly fallen as it did quickly rise old Hard This is the end I aim'd at were my
base revenge a brothers death can be so soon forgot our Gentry baffel'd and our name disgrac'd no t' must not be I am a Gentleman well known and my demeaner hitherto hath promist somewhat should I swallow this the scandal would out live me briefly then I le fight with you Rayns. I am loath Forr. Answer directly whether you dare to meet me on even termes or mark how I 'le proceed Rayns. Say I deny 't Forr. Then I say thou art a villaine and I challenge thee where ere I meet thee next in field or town thy Fathers manners or thy Tennants grange saving the Church there is no priviledge in all this land for thy despised life no guard of friends no night walks or sly stealth no jealous fear which in a murtherers eye keeps hourly watch shall have the priviledge this even and ballanc'd fight body to body I le kill thee be it in thy bed at meat in thy wives arms as thou tookest my brother with thy back towards me basely answer me Rayns. I le meet with thee the hour Forr. By six to morrow morning 't is your priviledge to appoint the place and weapon Rayns. Hownse low the place my choice of weapon this Forr. I can except at neither fail the place or suit your weapons length farewel Exit Rayns. Yes 't is thou meetest thy last farewel on earth the appoynted hour 's to morrow let the same fate obscure his desperate head that fell upon his brothers Enter Goodwin and Foster Goodw. Now Cozen Raynsforth Rayns. I le so swinge my yonker Fost. Why who hath raysed this storm Sir Rayns. Wat'st thou what The elder Forrest parted but even now call'd me to question 'bout his brothers death and since hath challeng'd me Goodw. Challenged Rayns. Challenged me Fost. Why hee 's too wea for you Rayns. Yes I shall weak him my purpose is to teach the stripling feare And you be honest Gentlemen stand but a loofe to morrow and observe how I will swinge my youth about the field Goodw. And please Heaven I le be there Fost And so will I Rayns. He seekes his fate and murderers once being in Wade farther till they drown sin pulls on sin Exit Explicit Actus primus Act. 2. Scen. 1. Enter Old Harding William John Anne Will T Is true upon my life Old Hard, Say what thou wilt I le not beleeve it boy Will Do you beleeve me to be your Son William Old Ha. Wel Will Do you beleeve I stand here Old Hard. On Will That this Gentlewoman is your wife Old Hard. So Will That Iack Harding here is my brother Old Hard. Good Will That I speak to you that you list to me Do you believe any think that is to be believed Old Hard. What of all this Will Then beleeve my brother Phillip has married Mistresse Susan I saw them in the Church together I heard them pronounce the words together whether it be better or worse for them I know not but they are in for better and worse that I am sure Old Hard. As sure as thou art certain this is true so sure I le disinherit the proud boy and all the Magazin that I enjoy devide 'tween you my sons Iohn Not all Father alass allow him some smal legacy to live on Will If 't be but a cast Farm or some poor Cottage rather then nothing it may be hee 'l content himself with a little you know somewhat hath some favour Old Hard He that hath set me and my love at nothing I le leave him worth as little Anne Chide him you may but yet not cast him off For Fathers ought most chastise where they love Parents as I have read their rage should hide where children fall through weaknesse not through pride Old Hard They are none such to me my vow is past My life may fade but yet my will shall last Enter Philip and Susan Will See where the four bare legs that belong to a bed come I could almost pity him Iack And why pity him all the while that marriage is the first step to our making Phil See Sir 't is done Old Hard: And thou undone Phil In losing your kind favour more undone then in your casual wealth Old Hard. By all that I enjoy Phil. Oh swear not spare that oath I le credit you although you speak but mildely Old Hard So thrive I if for this marriage made in dispight of me I make thee partner of any substance that 's accounted mine Phil Not made in spight of you unsay that language and then you chide me truely as I live And though on earth by your disherited hope to be heir to heaven I matcht with her in sincere love but in no spleen to you though you have sworn to give my fortunes from me you have not sworn to reave me of your love that let me have let others take the land Old Hart. My love goes with my land and in this marriage thou hast lost both Phil. Your substance I despise but to lose that draws rivers from my eyes Anne Oh bear a soft and more relenting soul and look upon the vertues of your sonne this Gentlewomans birth Old Hard. Wife wife if he have married her for birth then let her birth maintain him Anne My kind sons speak to your fath Will Alass Mother you hear my Father hath sworn and do you love him and would make him break 's oath Iohn Ingage his soul that were a wives part indeed Will As I live I would not wish him now he has sworn to alter his minde in the least circumstance for more then I le speak Phil I am a kinder son then you be brothers have you renounc't me for your son Old Hard. I have Iohn You see he has Phil You have not yet renounc't me for your servant that title let me bear I le be your man and wear your Livery since my poverty inforces me to serve let it be you Will Grant him that good Father when you want imployment for him I may sometimes have occasion to use him my selfe Iohn A reasonable motion you want a serving-man since you must hire one on force as good him as another Phil He wants a Maid too let him hire this woman his servant not his daughter give us but as you would do to strangers we are pleased Will The motion 's not amisse can you milk sweet heart Susan I can Will And sweep a house serve a hog grope a hen feel a duck wash and wring Susan what I have used my soft hand best can shew but what I cannot I le be glad to learn Iohn A good willing mind in troth and can you bake and brew Susan I shal be easily taught Iohn Y 'ad best look too 't for as you brew so y' are like to drink Old Hard. Sirrah sirrah can you hold the plough and thrash sow reap load a cart drive a Teem Phil. These or what else I le practice Old Hard. Come then of with
by flight And see where my pursuers come away Certain destruction hovers o'r my stay Exit Goodw. Come follow see he takes towards the City you bear the body of my Cosen hence unto the neighbour village I le still keep Within the murderers sight raise Hue and cry He shall not scape our pursuit though he fly Exeunt Enter William and Philip Will now will trusse me that point Phil I could find in my heart to beg thee of my Father to wait upon me but that I am afraid he cannot spare thee from the plough besides I heard him say but the last day thou wast more fit to make a hind then a serving man Phil Sir you were once my brother Wil True but that was when you were a son to my father Phil I and my younger brother I had then priority of birth Wil But now it seems we have got the start of you for being but a servant you are taken a button-hole lower Phil When wil this tedious night give place to day Wil I hope I may command Phil. I must obey Enter Joh. Sus. Ioh: My string Sue are these shooes well mundified down a your maribones good Sue I hope you are not so straight lac'd but you can stoop you acknowledg me one of your young Masters if not 't is not unknown to you that I know the way to my father Sus: Yes Sir and can tell tales I know you can and I have felt the smart on 't Ioh: Whip me if you shall not if you begin once to grow stubborn why when Sus. As humble as your feet Enter Mrs. Anne Anne Why how now maid is this work fitting you and you Sir you are lookt for in the stable and should not loyter here will you be gone Phil. I am for any service Exit Sus. And I too Exit Anne We shall find other things for you to doe Wil If you cannot here be they that can a drudge a groom I le send him of my errand Ioh: And if I do not find work for her I le doe nothing but take Tobacco in every room because twice a day I le make her make clean house the Exeunt Anne These think because I am their Stepmother their chiefest torture is most my content when I protest to see them thus afflicted it grates my very heart-strings every hour For though before their Fathers rathless eye and their remorsless brothers I seem stern yet privately they taste of my best bounty And other of my servants are by me Hired to overcome their chiefest drudgery Within Follow follow follow Ent. young For. with his weapon drawn young For. I am pursued and there is no place of refuge left to my desperate life but here 's a woman oh if she harbour soft effeminate pitty she may redeem me from a shameful death Anne A man thus arm'd to leap my garden wall help help young For: As you are fair and should be pittifull a woman therefore to be moved a Christian and therefore one that should be charitable pitty a poor distressed Gentleman who gives his desperate fortune life and freedom into your hand Anne What are you Sir that with your weapon drawn affright me thus young For. If you protect my life fair creature I am a free Gentleman but if betray me then a poor man doomed unto a shameful death Anne What 's your offence that such suspitious fear and timerous doubts waits on your guilty steps young For: I have kild a man but fairly as I am a Gentleman without all base advantage in even tryal of both our desperate fortunes Anne Fairly young For: And though I say it valiantly Anne And hand to hand young For. In single opposition Anne In a good quarrel young For. Else let the hope I have in you of safety turn to my base confusion Gentle creature A cry within follow c. I cannot now stand to expostulate for hark the breath of my pursuers blow a fearful air upon my flying heel and I am almost in their fatal gripe Say will you save me Anne I will then climb into that hovel young For. Oh any where Anne Nay quickly then young For: Your hand fair Lady Anne Away leave me to answer for you Enter old Harding Goodwin Foster and Officers old Hard Over my garden wall is 't possible Goodw: Over this wall I see him leap it lightly old Hard. That shall we quickly know see here 's my wife she can inform us best Fost. Saw you not Mistris Harding a young man mount o'r this garden wall with his sword drawn Anne My eyes were stedfast on my work in hand and trust me I saw none old Hard Perhaps he took down to the neighbour village and when he saw my wife altered his course Anne 'T is very like so for I heard a bustling about that hedge besides a sudden noise of some that swiftly ran towards your fields make haste 't was now he cannot be far off old Hard Gentlemen take my word I am high Constable it is part of my office I le be no shelter for any man that shall offend the Law if we surprise him I will send him bound to the next Justice follow you your search Good Farewel good Mr. Harding Fost. Your word 's sufficient without further Warrant Continue our pursuit all ways are layd And ere he reach the City shall be stayd Exit Good Fost. old Hard. A dew good friends Anne Pray what 's the business Sir old Hard. Two Gentlemen went into the fields to fight And one hath slain another Anne On what quarrel old Hard. I had smal leisure to importune that onely this much I learnt the man that 's dead was great in fault and he that now survives subject unto the danger of this search bare himself fairly and his fortune being to kill a man Ally'd to Noble men and greatly friended is much pittyed But Law must have his course Anne If this be true I thank my fate and bless this happy hour To save a life within Laws griping power old Hard. Come then the mornings bleak and sharp the Ayr Into the fire my girle there 's wholesome heat I le in and see my servants set at meat Anne Sir I le but end this flower and follow you I this should be some bloody murderer great were my guilt to shrowd him from the Law but if a gentleman by fortune crost 't is pitty one so vallient and so young should be given up into his enemies hands whilst greatness may perhaps weigh down his cause and ballance him to death who thus escaping may when he hath by means obtain his peace Redeem his desperate fortunes and make good th' forfeit made unto th' offended Law prove as Heaven shall direct I le do my best T is charity to succor the distrest Ent. Forrest above young For. Fair Mistress are they gon may I descend Anne No safety lives abroad then pray forbear To speak of scaping hence young For. Oh
sent by water to Gravesend to your brother what if we should lock him fast in that Anne I like it wel but whom shal we employ to bear it safe Sus. Give it my husband and your man in charge they two wil see it carefully delivered Anne By them I le write unto him earnestly in your behalfe and doubt not of your usage young Forr. The trunck the trunk Oh quickly if you love me Anne Come I le to write Sus. I le finde those that shal bear it young Forr. The plot is likely but heaven knows I fear it Exeunt Enter Mr. Harding John and William old Hard. Now boys no question but you think it long to have my state made over to your use Iohn Oh Lord Sir old Hard To have your eldest brother quite disabled of any challenge of inheritance Will We think it not long Sir but if you should use all expedition possible I should say beshrew their hearts that would hinder it we do not wish our brother disinherited but if it be your pleasure Heaven forbid that we being your sonnes should any way contradict it Iohn We should not shew our selves obedient sons to perswad you to infringe your former vow For Father if you remember you swore long since to do it And heaven forbid you should break your oath Old Hard. Boyes of mine own free spirit mine one heart and will you see him pine beg starve nay perish ere you will once relieve him Will I 'll be your will wee 'le swear to do it Old Hard And though the beggars brat his Wife I mean should for the want of lodging sleep on stalls or lodg in stocks or cages would your charities take her to better harbor Iohn Unlesse too cold harbor where of twenty chimneys standing you shal scarce in a whole winter see two smoaking we harbor her Bridewel shal first Old Hard. Lads of my own condition my own humour cal me a Scrivner reach me pen and ink I le doe 't imediately Will Run for a Scrivener Iack Enter Mr. Anne meeting them Iohn Mean time post thou for Pen and Inck Anne Stay no such haste sweet husband there be fitter times then these made choice for such affairs there 's no enforcement to make your Will being in such perfect health pray if you love me do not talke of death nor to your safety give such ill presage besides this expedition in your sons shews that they covet more your Lands then life defer 't then somewhat longer for my sake Old Hard. Then for thy sake I will but my kinde boys 't is rather to sooth her then your least wrong I will delay a little though not long Will It hath been long a doing I would it were once done if he should peak over the pearch now and all fall to our elder Brother we have used him so doggedly the least he can do is to thrust us out of doors by head and shoulders Iohn Let him alone now wee 'l urge him too 't at more convenient leisure Old Hard. When heard you from your brother at Gravesend or how falls out his voyage can you tell Anne I had a letter from him two days since in which he writes me all his goods are Shipt his wares in hold well stowed and nothing wants save a fair gale to bring him to the Straits Old Hard. Heaven make his voyage prosperous for thou knowest I have a venture of five hundred pound enterred with him my fortune joyns with his If he succeed it falls out well with me if not I am likely to impart his losse Enter Old Mr. Forrest Old Forr. You are well found Sir Old Hard. I what art thou fellow Old Forr. You knew me in my pride and flourishing state have you forgot me now as I remember we two were bred together Schoole fellows boorded together in one Masters house both of one forme and like degree in School Old Hard. Oh thy name 's Forrest Old Forr. Then in those days your Father Mr. Harding was a good honest Farmer Tennant too unto my Father All the wealth he purchast far be upbraiding from me came from us as your first raiser and you called me then your Landlord and young Master then was then but now the course of fortunes wheele is turned you climbed we fell and that inconstant fate that hurled us down hath lift you where we sate Old Hard. Well we are Lord of all those Mannors now you then possest Have we not bought them deerly Are they not ours Old Forr I no way can deny 't I rather come as a poor suitor to you to entreat you for heavens sake and charities to pity my lost daughter your cast sonne Sir I in all had but three Children left me Crutches to bear up my penurious age one of these three was butchered cruelly his body piteously alass pierc't through Then had I but two left my eldest Son and hee 's or dead or fled to save his life If he still live I have wasted sold and spent even all that little that my fortunes left and now I have but one one onely daughter and her I am not able to relieve with ought save tears and pity to these helps oh send your fair assistance shee 's yours as well as mine Old Hard All my part I disclaim both in my son and her they crost my pleasure and they shall tast the smart I was derided They that love me shal by my wil be guided Will And that am I Iohn And I too Father Anne Base Parasites Old Hard. You even pleased me wel And you shal mount the height from which they fel Enter Philip and Susan Old Forr See see alass those that seven Somers since saw thy estate and look upon thee now would at lest pity if not help thy wants how happy was thy Mother and my Wife that slept their last sleep long before these sorrows take their birth Sus Dear father succour us help to redeem us from this cruel man that thus insults upon our misseries Old Forr. Fair daughter adde not to my tedious woes thou bidst a blind man guyde thee on thy way and takest a broken staffe to be thy stay Phil. Good Sir release us Old For It must be then with tears for other help I have none and they heaven knows can little ease but never help your woes Sir if your heart be not of Adamant or some hard mettal that 's impermeable pity your blood and mine so soon grown deaf Kinde Gentlemen speak to your wrathless Father shew your selves brothers do you turn aside Fair Mistress what say you I see your eyes in all things with our passions sympathize and you are doubtlesse sprung from Gentle blood Gentry and baseness in all ages jar And poverty and wealth are still at war Old Hard Thou growest too tedious prithee friend be gone Old For. I hope you do not scorn me Old Hard. The truth is I feign would have thee leave me Old Forr. 'T
sweeps Cities Clin. That it had swept us then too so the seas had been to us a glorious monument where now the fates have cast us on the shelf to hang 'twixt air and water Sher. Gentlemen your limited hour draws nigh Pur. I that 's the plague we spoke of yet no greater then some before have tasted and hereafter many be bound to suffer and if Purser as dying men seldom deeme amiss presage not wrong how many gallant spirits equal with us in fame shall this gulf swallow and make this silver oare to blush in blood how many Captains that have aw'd the seas shall fal on this infortunate peece of land some that commanded Ilands some to whom the Indian Mines pay'd Tribute Turk vayl'd but when we that have quak'd nay troubled flouds and made Armadoes fly before our stream shall founder thus be split and lost Then be it no impeachment to their fame Since Purser and bold Clinton bide the same Clin. What is our Ship wel tackled we may lanch upon this desperate voyage Hang. Corded bravely Pur. Call up the Boatswain soundly lash the slave with a ropes end have him unto the Chest or duck him at the Mainyard Hang. Have me to the chest I must first have you to the Gallows and for Ducking I 'm afraid I shall see you duckt and drakt too Pur. Oh you brave Navigators that have seen or ever had your selves command aboard that knew our Empire there and our fall now pitty at least us that are made the scorn of a base common Hangman Shr. Thou doest ill to offend them in their deaths Hang. I have and long to make an end of them Pur. Hadst thou but two months since wrinkled a brow look'd but askew much less unloos'd thy lips to speak speak said I nay but lodg'd a thought or murmur of the least affront to us thee basest of all worms meat I had made unwholsom food for Hadocks but I ha' done Clin. Enough Tom Watton with these sheets not sailes a stiff gale blows to split us on yon rock Pur. And set sail from the fatal Marshal seas and Wapping is our harbour a quick sand that shall swallow many a brave Marine souldier of whose valour experience skil and Naval discipline being lost I wish this land may never have need but what star must we sail by or what compass Hang. I know not the star but here 's your compass Pur. Yes that way points the Needle that way we steer a sad course plague of the Pilot hear you Mr. Sherif you see we wear good clothes they are payd for and our own then give us leave our own amongst our friends to distribute There 's Sir for you Clin. And you Pur. The work man made them took never measure on a Hangmans back wear them for our sakes and remember us there 's some content for him too Hang. Thank your worships Clin. I would your knaveship had our worships place if hanging now be held so worshipful Pur. But now our Sun is all setting night comes on the watery wilderness ore which we raign'd proves in our ruins peaceful Mr. Chantes trade fearless abroad as in the rivers mouth and free as in a harbor then fair Thames Queen of fresh water famous through the world and not the least through us whose double tides must o'rflow our bodies and being dead may thy clear waves our scandals wash away but keep our valours living now lead on Clinton thus arm in arm le ts march to death and wheresoe'r our names are memoriz'd The world report two valiant Pirats fell Shot betwixt wind and water so farewel Exeunt as they entered Enter old Forrest and young Forrest old For. A fathers blessing more then all thy honours crown thee and make thy fortunes growing stil Oh heavens I shall be too importunate to ask more earthly favours at your hands now that you after all these miseries have still reserv'd my son safe and unscorn'd Besides thy pardon and thy countries freedom what favours hath her Grace conferr'd on thee young For. More then my pardon and the meed propos'd to grace the rest she styl'd me with the order of Knighthood and for the service of my country with promise of employments of more weight the Pirats were committed to the Marshalseas condemn'd already and this day to dye and now as part of my neglected dutie it rests I visit that fair Gentlewoman to whom I stand indebted for my life that necessary duty once perform'd out of my present fortunes to distribute some present comfort to my Sisters wants old For. A grateful friend thou art a kind dear brother and a most loving son Enter Philip Susan Merchant Anne Phil. Sir more then all these fortunes now befaln me a fate midst all disaster unexpected my noble brothers late success at sea hath fild me with a surplusage of joy nor am I least of all endear'd to you to be the first reporter Mer. 'T is most true and I the man that in the most distress had first share of his bounty Anne Of his goodness we have had sufficient tast already but to be made more happy in his sight would plenally rejoyce us Sus. It would prove like surfet after sweet meats young For. See all my friends but first let me salute her to whom I am most bouud Sus. My most dear father old For. My blessings meeting with a husbands love make thy yeares long and happy Anne You are most grateful and much beyond my merit Sus. O spare me Sir to fly into his arms that hath so long fled from me young For. My sweet Sister Phil. Bar me not all the best fruition of what in part you have tasted Sir I am one amongst the rest that love you young For. I take 't my Sisters husband unto me therefore one most intir'd Mer Sir the same and I though last in my acknowledgement yet first in due arrearage young For. You I know to be a worthy Merchant and my friend to whose next to your sisters curtesie I stand engag'd most for a forfeit life But he next to the powers divine above I ever must adore and now fair creature I dare more boldly look upon the face of your good man then when I saw you last Mer. And that 's some question young For. Wherefore hath that word struck you with sudden sadness Ann My husband Phil. He 's late dead and yet hath left her none of the poorest widdows young For. Dead did you say and I a Batchelor now on whom better or justlier can I confer my self then to be hers by whom I have my being and live to her that freely gave me life there is a providence that prompts too 't and I will give it motion Gentle Lady by you I am and what I am by you be then to me as I have stil'd you last a Lady heavens have made you my preserver to preserve me for your self loosing a husband who knows but you have sav'd