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The malcontent. By Iohn Marston. 1604
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Marston, John, 1575?-1634.
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dost not strike him Bil: Let him play the knaue a Gods name thinkst thou I haue no more wit then to strike a great fellow the musike more lights reueling scaffolds do you heare let there be othes enow ready at the doore sweare out the diuel himself Le ts leaue the Ladies and goe see if the Lords be ready for them All saue the Ladies depart Maq. And by my troth Beauties why do you not put you into the fashion this is a stale cut you must come in fashion looke ye you must be all felt fealt and feather a fealt vpon your head looke ye these tiring things are iustly out of request now and doe yee heare you must weare falling bands you must come into the falling fashion there is such a deale a pinning these ruffes when the fine cleane fall is woorth all and agen if you should chance to take a nap in the afternoone your falling band requires no poting sticke to recouer his forme beheue me no fashion to the falling band I say Bean. And is not sinnior S. Andrew Iaques gallant fellow now Maq. By my maiden-head la honour and hee agrees aswell together as a satten sute and wollen stockings Emil. But is not Marshall Make-roome my seruant in reversion a proper gentleman Maq. Yes in reuertion as he had his office as in truth he hath all things in reversion hee haz his Mistris in reversion his cloathes in reversion his wit in reversion indeede is a suter to me for my dogge in reversion but in good veritie la hee is as proper a gentleman in reversion as and indeede as fine a man as may be hauing a red beard and a paire of warpt legges Bean. But I faith I am most monstrously in loue with count Quidlibet in Quodlibet is he not a pretty dapper windle gallant Maq. He is even one of the most busy fingerd lords he will put the beauties to the squeake most hiddeously Bil. Roome make a lane there the Duke is entring stand handsomely for beauties sake take vp the Ladies there So cornets cornets SCENA QVARTA Enter Prepasso ioynes to Bilioso two pages with lightes Ferrard Mendozo at the other dore two pages with lights and the Captaine leading in Maria the Duke meetes Maria and closeth with her the rest fall backe Men. Madam with gentle eare receiue my suite A kingdomes safety should o're paize slight rites Marriage is meerely Natures policy Then since vnlesse our royall beds be ioynd Danger and ciuill tumult frights the state Be wise as you are faire giue way to fate Mar: What wouldst thou thou affliction to our house Thou euer diuell t was thou that banishedst my truely noble Lord Men. I Mar: I by the plottes by thy blacke stratagems Twelue Moons haue suffred change since I beheld The lou'd presence of my deerest Lord O thou faire worse than death he partes but soule From a weake body but thou soule from soule Disseuerst that which Gods owne hand did knit Thou scant of honor full of diuelish wit Men: Wee le checke your too intemperate lauishnes I I can and will Mar: What canst Men: Go to in banishment thy husband dies Mar: He euer is at home that 's euer wise Men. Youst neuer meete more reason should Loue controule Mar. Not meete She that deere loues her loue 's still in her soule Men. You are but a woman Lady you must yeelde Mar: O saue me thou innated bashfulnes Thou onely ornament of womans modestie Men: Modesty Death I le torment thee Mar: Do vrge all torments all afflictions trie I le die my Lords as long as I can die Men: Thou obstinate thou shalt die captaine that Ladies life is forfeited to Iustice we haue examined her And we do finde she hath impoisoned The reuerend Hermite therefore we command Severest custody Nay if you le dooes no good Youst dooes no harme a tyrants peace is blood Mar. O thou art mercifull O gratious diuell Rather by much let me condemned be For seeming murder than be damn'd for thee I le mourne no more come girt my browes with floures Reuell and daunce soule now thy wish thou hast Die like a Bride poore heart thou shalt die chaste Enter Aurelia in mourning habit Life is a frost of could felicitie Aur. And death the thaw of all our vanitie Wast not an honest Priest that wrote so Men. Who let her in Bili. Forbeare Pre. Forbeare Aur. Alas calamitie is euerie where Sad misery dispight your double doores Will enter euen in court Vnto Maria Bili. Peace Aur. I ha done one word take heede I ha done Enter Mercurie with lowde musicke Mer. Cilleman Mercurie the God of ghostes From glomie shades that spread the lower coastes Calles fower high famed Genoa Dukes to come And make this presence their Elizium To passe away this high triumphall night With song and daunces courts more soft delight Aur. Are you God of ghostes I haue a sute depending in hell betwixt me and my conscience I would faine haue thee helpe me to an advocate Bil. Mercurie shal be your lawier Lady Aur. Nay faith Mercurie haz too good a face to be a right lawier Pre. Peace forbeare Mercurie presents the maske Cornets The song to the Cornets which playing the mask enters Enter Maleuole Pietro Ferneze and Celso in white robes with Dukes Crownes vpon lawrell wreathes pistolets and short swordes vnder thier roabes Men. Celso Celso court Maria for our loue Lady be gratious yet grace Mar. With me Sir Mal. Yes more loued then my breath With you I le dance Mar. Why then you dance with death But come Sir I was nere more apt for mirth Death giues eternitie a glorious breath O to die honourd who would feare to die Mal: They die in feare who liue in villanie Men. Yes beleeue him Ladie and be rulde by him Pietro Madam with me Aur. Wouldst then be miserable Pietro I neede not wish Aur. O yet forbeare my hand away fly fly O seeke not her that onely seekes to dy Pietro Poore loued soule Aur. What wouldst court miserie Pietro Yes Aur. Shee le come too soone O my greev'd heart Pietro Lady ha done ha doone Come downe le ts dance be once from sorrow free Aur. Art a sad man Pietro Yes sweete Aur. Then wee le agree Ferneze takes Maquerelle and Celso Beanche then the cornets sownd the measure on change and rest Fer: Beleeue it Lady shal I sweare let me inioy you in priuate and I le marrie you by my soule Bean. I had rather you would sweare by your body I think that would proue the more regarded othe with you Fer. I le sweare by them both to please you Bea. O dam them not both to please me for Gods sake Eer. Faith swete creature let me inioy you to night and I le marry you to morrow fortnight by my troth lo Maq. On his troth lo beleeue him not that kinde of cunnicatching is as stale as fir Oliuer Anchoues perfumde ierkin promise of matrimony by a yoong Gallant to bring a virgin Lady into a fooles paradise make her a great woman and then cast her off t is as common as naturall to a Courtier as jelosie to a Citizen gluttony to a Puritan wisdome to an Alderman pride to a Tayler or an empty to one of these sixepenny damnations of his troth lo beleeue him not traps to catch polecats Mal. Keepe your face constant let no suddaine passion speake in your eies Mar. O my Altofront Pietro A tyrants jelosies are verie nimble you receiue it all Aur. My heart though not my knees doth vmbly fall Lo as the earth to thee Pietro Peace next change no words Mar. Cornets sounde the measure ouer again which daunced they vnmaske Men. Maleuole They enuiron Mendozo loading their Pistolls on him Mal. No Men. Altofront Duke Lorenzo Ferneze hah All Duke Altofront Duke Altofront Cornets aflorish Men. Are we surprizde what strange delusions mocke Our sences do I dreame or haue I dreamt This two daies space where am I They seize vpon Mendozo Mal. Where an arch villaine is Men. O lend me breath to liue til I am fit to dy For peace with heauen for your owne soules sake Vouchsafe me life Pietro Ignoble villaine whome neither heaven nor hell goodnesse of God or man could once make good Mal. Base trecherous wretch what grace canst thou expect That hast growne impudent in gracelesnesse Men. O life Mal. Slaue take thy life Wert thou defenced through blood and woundes The sternest horror of a ciuill fight Would I atcheeue thee but prostrat at my feete I scorne to hurt thee t is the heart of slaues That daines to triumph ouer peasants graves For such thou art since birth doth neere inrole A man mong monarkes but a glorious soule You are ioyd spirits wipe your long wet eies Maleuole kickes out Mendozo Hence with this man an Eagle takes not flies You to your vowes to Pietro Aurelia and thou vnto the suburbs You to my worst friend I would hardly giue Thou art a perfect olde knaue all pleased liue You two vnto my breast thou to my heart And as for me I heere assume my right To which I hope all 's pleasd to all god night Cornets a florish Exeunt omnes Finis Vexat censura columbas * Out of his Chamber To Bilioso * To Prepasso Tumult vvithin Mendozo bestrids the vvounded body of Ferneze and seemes to saue him * To Emilia 'To Biliosa Seems to poison Maleuole Starts vp and speakes Maleuole taks his wife to daunce Pietro takes his wife Aurelia to dance To Beancha To Maria To Aurelia To Pietro and Aurelia To Mendozo To Maquerel To Bilioso To Celso and the Captaine To Maria
THE MALCONTENT By Iohn Marston 1604 Printed at London by V. S. for William Aspley and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard BENIAMINO IONSONIO POETAE ELEGANTISSIMO GRAVISSIMO AMICO SVO CANDIDO ET CORDATO IOHANNES MARSTON MVSARVM ALVMNVS ASPERAM HANC SVAM THALIAM D. D. To the Reader I Am an ill Oratour and in truth vse to indite more honestly then eloquently for t' is my custome to speake as I think and write as I speake In plainenesse therefore vnderstand that in some things I have willingly erred as in supposing a Duke of Genoa and in taking names different from that Citties families for which some may wittily accuse me but my defence shall bee as honest as many reproofes vnto mee have been most malicious Since I heartily protest t' was my care to write so farre from reasonable offence that even strangers in whose State I layd my Scene should not from thence draw any disgrace to any dead or living Yet in despight of my indevors I vnderstand some have bin most vnadvisedly over-cunning in mis-interpreting me with subtilty as deep as hell have maliciously spread ill rumors which springing from themselves might to themselves have heavily returned Surely I desire to satisfie every firme spirit who in all his actions proposeth to himselfe no more ends then God and vertue doe whose intentions are alwayes simple to such I protest that with my free vnderstanding I have not glanced at disgrace of any but of those whose vnquiet studies labor innovation contempt of holy policie reverent comely superiority and established vnity for the rest of my supposed tartnesse I feare not but vnto every worthy mind t' wil be approoved so generall and honest as may modestly passe with the freedome of a Satyre I would faine leave the paper onely one thing afflicts mee to thinke that Scenes invented meerely to be spoken should be inforcively published to be read that the least hurt I can receive is to do my selfe the wrong But since others otherwise would doe me more the least inconvenience is to be accepted I have my selfe therefore set forth this Comedy but so that my inforced absence must much relye vpon the Printers discretion but I shal intreat slight errors in orthography may bee as slightly or'epassed and that the vnhandsome shape which this trifle in reading presents may bee pardoned for the pleasure it once afforded you when it was presented with the soule of lively action Me mea sequentur fata I. M. Dramatis personae Giouanni Altofronto Disguised Maleuole sometime Duke of Genoa Pietro Iacomo Duke of Genoa Mendozo A Minion to the Dutchesse of Pietro Iacomo Celso A friend to Altofront Bilioso An olde cholerike Marshall Prepasso A Gentleman Vsher Ferneze A yong Courtier and inamored on the Dutchesse Ferrardo A Minion to Duke Pietro Iacomo Equato Guerrino Two Courtiers Aurelia Dutches to Duke Piet Iacomo Maria Dutches to Duke Altofront Emilia Beancha Two Ladies attending the Dutchesse Maquerelle An olde Pandresse THE MALCONTENT ACTVS PRIMVS SCE. PRIMA The vilest out of tune Musicke being heard Enter Bilioso and Praepasso Bilioso WHy how now are yee mad or drunke or both or what Praep. Are yee building Babilon there Bilioso Heer 's a noyse in Court you thinke you are in a Tauerne do you not Praep. You thinke you are in a brothell house doe you not This roome is ill sented Enter one with a Perfume So perfume perfume some vpon me I pray thee The Duke is vpon instant entrance so make place there SCENA SECVNDA Enter the Duke Pietro Ferrardo Count Equato Count Celso before and Guerrino Pietro Where breath 's that Musique Bilioso The discord rather then the Musique is heard from the Malcontent Maleuoles chamber Ferrar. Maleuole Male Yaugh godaman what do'st thou there Dukes Ganimed Iunces iealous of thy long stockings shadow of a woman what wouldst Weesell thou lambe a Court what doost thou bleat for a you smooth chind Catamite Pietro Come downe thou rugged Cur and snarle here I giue thy dogged sullennesse free liberty trot about and be-spurtle whom thou pleasest Maleuole I le come among you you Gotish bloudded Toderers as Gum into Taffata to fret to fret I le fall like a spunge into water to suck vp to suck vp Howle againe I le pray and come to you Pietro. This Maleuole is one of the most prodigious affections that euer conuerst with nature A man or rather a monster more discontent then Lucifer when he was thrust out of the presence his appetite is vnsatiable as the Graue as farre from any content as from heauen his highest delight is to procure others vexation and therein hee thinkes he truly serues heauen for t is his position whosoeuer in this earth can be contented is a slaue and dam'd therefore do's he afflict all in that to which they are most affected the Elements struggle within him his owne soule is at varience his speach is halter-worthy at all howers I like him faith he giues good intelligence to my spirit makes me vnderstand those weaknesses which others flattery palliate harke they sing SCENA TERTIA A Song Enter Maleuole after the Song See he comes now shall you heare the extremity of a Malecontent he is as free as ayre he blowes ouer euery man And sir whence come you now Mal. From the publick place of much dissimulation Piet. What didst there Mal. Talke with a Vsurer take vp at Interest Piet. I wonder what religion thou art Mal. Of a Souldiers religion Pietr. And what doost thou thinke makes most Infidels now Mal. Sects sects I haue seene seeming Piety change her roabe so oft that sure none but some arch-diuell can shape her a new Peticote Pietro Of a religious pollicie Mal. But damnation on a politique religion Pietro But what 's the common newes abroade Maleuole thou dogst rumor still Mal. Common newes why common words are God saue yee Fare yee well common actions Flattery and Cosenage common things Women and Cuckolds and how do's my little Ferrard a yee lecherous Animall my little Ferret he goes sucking vp downe the Pallace into euery Hens nest like a Weesell to what doost thou addict thy time to now more then to those Antique painted drabs that are stil affected of young Courtiers Flattery Pride Venery Ferrard. I study languages who doost thinke to be the best linguist of our age Mal. Phew the Diuell let him possesse thee hee le teach thee to speake all languages most readily and strangely and great reason mary hee s traueld greatly i the worlde and is euery where Ferrard. Saue i th Court Mal. I saue i th Court and how do's my old Muckill ouerspred with fresh snow thou halfe a mā halfe a Goate all a Beast how do's thy young wife old huddle Bilio. Out you improuident rascall Mal. Doe kick thou hugely hornd olde Dukes Oxe good Maister Make-pleece Pietro How doost thou liue now a dayes Maleuole Mal. Why