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A04658	The nevv inne. Or, The light heart A comoedy. As it was neuer acted, but most negligently play'd, by some, the Kings Seruants. And more squeamishly beheld, and censured by others, the Kings subiects. 1629. Now, at last, set at liberty to the readers, his Maties seruants, and subiects, to be iudg'd. 1631. By the author, B. Ionson.	Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.	1631 (1631)	STC 14780; ESTC S109237	51,917	126

Lat. Raise all the house in shout and laughter a boy Host. Stay what is here peace rascals stop your throats Act 5. Scene 5. Nurse To them That magot worme that insect O my child My daughter where 's that Fly I le fly in his face The vermin let me come to him Fly Why Nurse Shelee Nur. Hang thee thou Parasite thou sonne of crums And ortes thou hast vndone me and my child My daughter my deare daughter Ho. What meanes this Nur. O Sir my daughter my deare child is ruin'd By this your Fly here married in a stable And sold vnto a husband Host. Stint thy cry Harlot if that be all did'st thou not sell him To me for a boy and brought'st him in boyes rags Here to my doore to beg an almes of me Nur. I did good Mr and I craue your pardon But 't is my daughter and a girle Host. Why sayd'st thou It was a boy and sold'st him then to me With such entreaty for ten shillings Carlin Nur. Because you were a charitable man I heard good Mr and would breed him well I would ha' giu'n him you for nothing gladly Forgiue the lie o' my mouth it was to saue The fruit o' my wombe A parents needs are vrgent And few doe know that tyrant o're good natures But you relieu'd her and me too the Mother And tooke me into your house to be the nurse For which heauen heape all blessings on your head Whilst there can one be added Host. Sure thou speakst Quite like another creature then th' hast liu'd Here i' the house a Shelee-neen Thomas An Irish beggar Nur. So I am God helpe me Host. What art thou tell The match is a good match For ought I see ring the bels once a gaine Bea. Stint I say Fidlers Lad. No going off my Lord Bea. Nor comming on sweet Lady things thus standing Fly But what 's the haynousnesse of my offence Or the degrees of wrong you suffer'd by it In hauing your daughter match't thus happily Into a noble house a braue yong blood And a prime peere o' the Realme Bea. Was that your plot Fly Gi' me a cloak take her againe among you I le none of your light-Heart fosterlings no Inmates suppositions fruits of an Host's braine And his Flys hatching to be put vpon me There is a royall Court o' the Star-chamber Will scatter all these mists disperse these vapours And cleare the truth Let beggers match with beggers That shall decide it I will try it there Nur. Nay then my Lord It s not enough I see You are licentious but you will be wicked Yo' are not alone content to take my daughter Against the law but hauing taken her You would repudiate and cast her off Now at your pleasure like a beast of power Without all cause or colour of a cause That or a noble or an honest man Should dare t' except against her pouerty Is pouerty a vice Bea. Th' age counts it so Nur. God helpe your Lordship and your peeres that think so If any be if not God blesse them all And helpe the number o' the vertuous If pouerty be a crime You may obiect Our beggery to vs as an accident But neuer deeper no inherent basenesse And I must tell you now yong Lord of durt As an incensed mother she hath more And better blood running i'those small veines Then all the race of Beauforts haue in masse Though they distill their drops from the left rib Of Iohn O' Gaunt Host. Old mother o' records Thou know'st her pedegree then whose daughter is she Nur. The daughter and coheire to the Lord Frampull This Ladies sister Lad. Mine what is her name Nur. Laetitia Lad That was lost Nur. The true Latitia Lad. Sister O gladnesse Then you are our mother Nur. I am deare daughter Lad. On my knees I blesse The light I see you by Nur. And to the author Of that blest light I ope my other eye Which hath almost now seuen yeare beene shut Darke as my vow was neuer to see light Till such a light restor'd it as my children Or your deare father who I heare is not Bea. Giue me my wife I owne her now and will haue her Host. But you must aske my leaue first my yong Lord Leaue is but light Ferret Goe bolt your Master Here 's geare will startle him I cannot keepe The passion in me I am eene turn'd child And I must weepe Fly take away mine host My beard and cap here from me and fetch my Lord I am her father Sir and you shall now Aske my consent before you haue her Wife My deare and louing wife my honor'd wife Who here hath gain'd but I I am Lord Frampull The cause of all this trouble I am he Haue measur'd all the Shires of England ouer Wales and her mountaines seene those wilder nations Of people in the Peake and Lancashire Their Pipers Fidlers Rushers Puppet-masters Iuglers and Gipseys all the sorts of Canters And Colonies of beggars Tumblers Ape-carriers For to these sauages I was addicted To search their natures and make odde discoueries And here my wife like a she Mandeuile Ventred in disquisition after me Nur. I may looke vp admire I cannot speake Yet to my Lord Host. Take heart and breath recouer Thou hast recouer'd me who here had coffin'd My selfe aliue in a poore hostelry In pennance of my wrongs done vnto thee Whom I long since gaue lost Nur. So did I you Till stealing mine owne daughter from her sister I lighted on this errour hath cur'd all Bea. And in that cure include my trespasse Mother And Father for my wife Host. No the Star-chamber Bea. Away with that you sowre the sweetest lettice Was euer tasted Host. Gi' you ioy my Sonne Cast her not off againe O call me Father Lovel and this your Mother if you like But take your Mistris first my child I haue power To giue her now with her consent her sister Is giuen already to your brother Beaufort Lov. Is this a dreame now after my first sleepe Or are these phant'sies made i' the light Heart And sold i' the new Inne Host. Best goe to bed And dreame it ouer all Let 's all goe sleepe Each with his Turtle Fly prouide vs lodgings Get beds prepar'd yo' are master now o' the Inne The Lord o' the light Heart I giue it you Fly was my fellow Gipsey All my family Indeed were Gipseys Tapsters Ostlers Chamberlaines Reduced vessels of ciuility But here stands Pru neglected best deseruing Of all that are i' the house or i' my Heart Whom though I cannot helpe to a fit husband I le helpe to that will bring one a iust portion I haue two thousand pound in banke for Pru Call for it when she will Bea. And I as much Host. There 's somewhat yet foure thousand pound that 's better Then sounds the prouerbe foure bare legs in a bed Lov. Me and her mistresse she hath power to coyne Vp into what she will Lad.

preocupied in all his Customers best clothes by the footman her husband They are both condem'd and censur'd shee stript like a Doxey and sent home a foote In the interim the second houre goes on and the question at sute of the Lady Frampul is chang'd from loue to valour which ended he receiues his second kisse and by the rigor of the Soueraigne fals into a fit of melancholy worse or more desperate then the first The fifth and last Act is the Catastrophe or knitting vp of all where Fly brings word to the Host of the Lord Beauforts being married priuately in the new stable to the suppos'd Lady his sonne which the Host receiues as an omen of mirth But complaines that Lovel is gon to bed melancholique when Prudence appeares drest in the new suit applauded by her Lady and employd to retriue Louel The Host encounters them with this relation of L. Beauforts mariage which is seconded by the L. Latimer and all the seruants of the house In this while L. Beaufort comes in and professes it calls for his bed and bride-bowle to be made ready the Host forbids both shewes whom hee hath married and discouers him to be his sonne a boy The Lord Bridegrome confounded the Nurse enters like a franticke bed lem cries out on Flie sayes shee is vndone in her daughter who is confessed to be the Lord Frampuls child sister to the other Lady the Host to be their Father She his wife He finding his children bestows them one on Louel the other on the Lord Beaufort the Inne vpon Flie who had beene a Gipsey with him offers a portion with Prudence for her wit which is refused and she taken by the Lord Latimer to wife for the crowne of her vertue and goodnesse And all are contented The Scene BARNET The PERSONS of the PLAY With some short Characterisme of the chiefe Actors Good-stocke the Host playd well alias the Lord Frampul He pretends to be a Gentleman and a Scholer neglected by the times turnes Host and keepes an Inne the Signe of the light Heart in Barnet is supposed to haue one onely Sonne but is found to haue none but two Daughters Francis and Laetitia who was lost yong c. Louel A compleat Gentleman a Souldier and a Scholer is a melancholy Guest in the Inne first quarreld after much honor'd and belou'd by the Host He is knowne to haue beene Page to the old Lo. Beaufort follow'd him in the French warres after a companion of his studies and left Guardian to his sonne Hee is assisted in his loue to the Lady Frampul by the Host and the Chambermayd Prudence He was one that acted well too Ferret Who is also called Stote and Vermin is Lovels seruant a fellow of a quick nimble wit knowes the manners and affections of people and can make profitable and timely discoueries of them Franke Suppos'd a boy and the Hosts sonne borrowed to be drest for a Lady and set vp as a stale by Prudence to catch Beaufort or Latimer prooues to be Laetitia sister to Frances and Lord Frampuls yonger daughter stolne by a begger-woman shorne put into boyes apparrell sold to the Host and brought vp by him as his sonne Nurse A poore chare-woman in the Inne with one eye that tends the boy is thought the Irish begger that sold him but is truly the Lady Frampul who left her home melancholique and iealous that her Lord lou'd her not because she brought him none but daughters and liues vnknowne to her husband as he to her Frances Supposed the Lady Frampul being reputed his sole daughter and heire the Barony descending vpon her is a Lady of great fortunes and beauty but phantasticall thinks nothing a felicity but to haue a multitude of seruants and be call'd Mistresse by them comes to the Inne to be merry with a Chambermaid only and her Seruants her ghests c. Prudence The Chamber-maid is elected Soueraigne of the Sports in the Inne gouernes all commands and so orders as the Lord Latimer is exceedingly taken with her and takes her to his wife in conclusion Lord Latimer and Lord Beaufort are a paire of yong Lords seruants and ghests to the Lady Frampul but as Latimer fall's enamour'd of Prudence so doth Beaufort on the boy the Hosts sonne set vp for Laetitia the yonger sister which shee prooues to bee indeed Sir Glorious Tipto A Knight and Colonell hath the luck to thinke well of himselfe without a riuall talkes gloriously of any thing but very seldome is in the right He is the Ladies ghest and her seruant too but this day vtterly neglects his seruice or that him For he is so enamour'd on the Fly of the Inne and the Militia below stayres with Hodge Huffle and Bat Burst ghests that come in and Trundle Barnabe c. as no other society relisheth with him Fly Is the Parasite of the Inne visiter generall of the house one that had beene a strolling Gipsee but now is reclam'd to be Inflamer of the reckonings Peirce The Drawer knighted by the Colonel stil'd Sir Pierce and yong Anone one of the chiefe of the infantery Iordan The Chamberlaine Another of the Militia an officer commands the Tertia of the Beds Iug The Tapster a Through-fare of Newes Peck The Hostler Bat Burst A broken Citizen an in and in man Hodge Huffle A cheater his champion Nick Stuffe The Ladies Taylor Pinnacia Stuffe His wife Trundle A Coachman Barnabe A hir'd Coachman Staggers The Smith Only talk'd on Tree The Sadler The Prologue YOu are welcome welcome all to the new Inne Though the old house we hope our cheare will win Your acceptation we ha' the same Cooke Still and the fat who sayes you sha' not looke Long for your bill of fare but euery dish Be seru'd in i' the time and to your wish If any thing be set to a wrong taste 'T is not the meat there but the mouth 's displac'd Remoue but that sick palat all is well For this the secure dresser badd me tell Nothing more hurts iust meetings then a croud Or when the expectation 's growne too loud That the nice stomack would ha' this or that And being ask'd or vrg'd it knowes not what When sharpe or sweet haue beene too much a feast And both out liu'd the palate of the ghest Beware to bring such appetites to the stage They doe confesse a weake sick queasie age And a shrew'd grudging too of ignorance When clothes and faces 'boue the men aduance Heare for your health then But at any hand Before you iudge vouchsafe to vnderstand Concoct digest if then it doe not hit Some are in a consumption of wit Deepe he dares say he will not thinke that all For Hecticks are not epidemicall THE NEVV INNE Act 1. Scene 1. Host Ferret I Am not pleas'd indeed you are i' the right Nor is my house pleas'd if my signe could speake The signe o' the light Heart There you may read it So may your master too if

THE NEVV INNE OR The light Heart A COMOEDY As it was neuer acted but most negligently play'd by some the Kings Seruants And more squeamishly beheld and censured by others the Kings Subiects 1629 Now at last set at liberty to the Readers his Maties Seruants and Subiects to be iudg'd 1631 By the Author B. Ionson Hor. me lectori credere mallem Quam spectatoris fastidia ferre superbi LONDON ¶ Printed by Thomas Harper for Thomas Alchorne and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yeard at the signe of the greene Dragon MDCXXXI THE DEDICATION TO THE READER IF thou bee such I make thee my Patron and dedicate the Piece to thee If not so much would I had bene at the charge of thy better litterature How-so-euer if thou canst but spell and ioyne my sense there is more hope of thee then of a hundred fastidious impertinents who were there present the first day yet neuer made piece of their prospect the right way What did they come for then thou wil't aske me I will as punctually answer To see and to bee seene To make a generall muster of themselues in their clothes of credit and possesse the Stage against the Play To dislike all but marke nothing And by their confidence of rising between the Actes in oblique lines make affidauit to the whole house of their not vnderstanding one Scene Arm'd with this praeiudice as the Stage-furniture or Arrasclothes they were there as Spectators away For the faces in the hangings and they beheld alike So I wish they may doe euer And doe trust my selfe and my Booke rather to thy rusticke candor than all the pompe of their pride and solemne ignorance to boote Fare thee well and fall too Read BEN IONSON But first THE ARGVMENT THe Lord FRAMPVL a noble Gentleman well educated and bred a Schollar in Oxford was married yong to a vertuous Gentlewoman Sylly's daughter of the South whose worth though he truly enioy'd hee neuer could rightly value but as many greene Husbands giuen ouer to their extrauagant delights and some peccant humors of their owne occasion'd in his ouer louing wife so deepe a melancholy by his leauing her in the time of her lying in of her second daughter shee hauing brought him only two daughters Frances and Laetitia and out of her hurt fancy interpreting that to bee a cause of her husbands couldnesse in affection her not being blest with a sonne tooke a resolution with her selfe after her months time and thanksgiuing ritely in the Church to quit her home with a vow neuer to returne till by reducing her Lord she could bring a wish'd happinesse to the family He in the meane time returning and hearing of this departure of his Lady began though ouer-late to resent the iniury he had done her and out of his cockbraind resolution entred into as solemne a quest of her Since when neither of them had beene heard of But the eldest daughter Frances by the title of Lady Frampul enioyed the state her sister being lost yong and is the sole relict of the family Act 1. Here begins our Comoedy This Lady being a braue bountifull Lady and enioying this free and plentifull estate hath an ambitious disposition to be esteemed the Mistresse of many seruants but loues none And hearing of a famous new-Inne that is kept by a merry Host call'd Good-stock in Barnet inuites some Lords and Gentlemen to wait on her thither as well to see the fashions of the place as to make themselues merry with the accidents on the by It happens there is a melancholique Gentleman one Master Lovel hath beene lodg'd there some dayes before in the Inne who vnwilling to be seene is surpriz'd by the Lady and inuited by Prudence the Ladies Chamber-maid who is elected Gouernesse of the Sports in the Inne for that day and instal'd their Soueraigne Lovel is perswaded by the Host and yeelds to the Ladies inuitation which concludes the first Act. Hauing reueal'd his quality before to the Host In the second Act Prudence and her Lady expresse their anger conceiu'd at the Taylor who had promised to make Prudence a new suite and bring it home as on the Eue against this day But hee failing of his word the Lady had commanded a standard of her owne best apparrell to bee brought downe and Prudence is so fitted The Lady being put in mind that shee is there alone without other company of women borrowes by the aduice of Pru the Hosts sonne of the house whom they dresse with the Hosts consent like a Lady and send out the Coachman with the empty Coach as for a kinswoman of her Ladiships Mistresse Laetitia Sylly to beare her company Who attended with his Nurse an old chare-woman in the Inne drest odly by the Hosts councell is beleeued to be a Lady of quality and so receiu'd entertain'd and loue made to her by the yong Lord Beaufort c In the meane time the Fly of the Inne is discouer'd to Colonell Glorious with the Militia of the house below the stayres in the Drawer Tapster Chamberlaine and Hostler inferiour officers with the Coachman Trundle Ferret c. And the preparation is made to the Ladies designe vpon Lovel his vpon her and the Soueraignes vpon both Here begins at the third Act the Epitasis or businesse of the Play Lovel by the dexterity and wit of the Soueraigne of the Sports Prudence hauing two houres assigned him of free colloquy and loue-making to his Mistresse one after Dinner the other after Supper The Court being set is demanded by the Lady Frampul what Loue is as doubting if there were any such power or no To whom hee first by definition and after by argument answeres prouing and describing the effects of Loue so vively as she who had derided the name of Loue before hearing his discourse is now so taken both with the Man and his matter as shee confesseth her selfe enamour'd of him and but for the ambition shee hath to enioy the other houre had presently declar'd her selfe which giues both him and the spectators occasion to thinke she yet dissembles notwithstanding the payment of her kisse which hee celebrates And the Court dissolues vpon a newes brought of a new Lady a newer Coach and a new Coachman call'd Barnaby Act 4. The house being put into a noyse with the rumor of this new Lady and there being drinking below in the court the Colonel Sir Glorious with Bat Burst a broken Citizen and Hodge Huffle his champion she fals into their hands and being attended but with one footman is vnciuilly entreated by them and a quarrell commenc'd but is rescued by the valour of Lovel which beheld by the Lady Frampul from the window shee is inuited vp for safety where comming and conducted by the Host her gowne is first discouer'd to bee the same with the whole suite which was bespoken for Pru and she her selfe vpon examination found to be Pinnacia Stuffe the Taylors wife who was wont to be