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The history of Antonio and Mellida. The first part. As it hath beene sundry times acted, by the children of Paules. Written by I.M.; Antonio and Mellida. Part 1
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Marston, John, 1575?-1634.
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1602
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STC 17473; ESTC S109896
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THE HISTORY OF Antonio and Mellida The first part As it hath beene sundry times acted by the children of Paules Written by I. M. LONDON ¶ Printed for Mathewe Lownes and Thomas Fisher and are to be soulde in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde 1602 To the onely rewarder and most iust poiser of vertuous merits the most honorably renowned No-body bountious Mecaenas of Poetry and Lord Protector of oppressed innocence Do Dedicoque SINCE it hath flow'd with the current of my humorous bloode to affect a little too much to be seriously fantasticall here take most respected Patron the worthlesse present of my slighter idlenes If you vouchsaf not his protectiō then O thou sweetest perfectiō Female beautie shield mee from the stopping of vineger bottles Which most wished fauour if it faile me then Sinequeo flectere superos Acheronta mouebo But yet Honours redeemer vertues aduancer religions shelter and pieties fosterer Yet yet I faint not in despaire of thy gratious affection protection to which I onely shall euer rest most seruingmanlike obsequiously making legs and standing after our free-borne English garbe bare headed Thy onely affied slaue and admirer I M. The Play called Antonio and Mellida Induction ¶ Enter Galeatzo Piero Alberto Antonio Forobosco Balurdo Matzagente Feliche with parts in their hands hauing cloakes cast ouer their apparell COme sirs come the musique will sounde straight for entrance Are yee readie are yee perfect Pier. Faith we can say our parts but wee are ignorant in what mould we must cast our Actors Albert. Whome doe you personate Pie Piero Duke of Venice Alb. O ho then thus frame your exterior shape To hautie forme of elate maiestie As if you held the palsey shaking head Of reeling chaunce vnder your fortunes belt In strictest vassalage growe big in thought As swolne with glory of succesfull armes Pie If that be all feare not I le sute it right Who can not be proud stroak vp the haire and strut Al. Truth such ranke custome is growne popular And now the vulgar fashion strides as wide And stalkes as proud vpon the weakest stilts Of the slight'st fortunes as if Hercules Or burly Atlas shouldred vp their state Pi. Good but whome act you Alb. The necessitie of the play forceth me to act two parts Andrugio the distressed Duke of Genoa and Alberto a Venetian gentleman enamoured on the Ladie Rossaline whose fortunes being too weake to sustaine the port of her he prou'd alwaies desastrous in loue his worth being much vnderpoised by the vneuen scale that currants all thinges by the outwarde stamp of opiniō Gal. Wel and what dost thou play Ba. The part of all the world Alb. The part of all the world What 's that Bal. The foole I in good deede law now I play Balurdo a wealthie mountbanking Burgomasco's heire of Venice Alb. Ha ha one whose foppish nature might seem great only for wise mens recreation and like a Iuicelesse barke to preserue the sap of more strenuous spirits A seruile hounde that loues the sent of forerunning fashion like an emptie hollow vault still giuing an eccho to wit greedily champing what any other well valued iudgement had before hand shew'd Foro. Ha ha ha tolerably good good faith sweet wag Alb. Vmh why tolerably good good faith sweet wag Go goe you flatter me Foro. Right I but dispose my speach to the habit of my part Alb. Why what plaies he To Feliche Fe. The wolfe that eats into the breast of Princes that breeds the Lethargy and falling sicknesse in honour makes Iustice looke asquint and blinks the eye of merited rewarde from viewing desertfull vertue Alb. What 's all this Periphrasis ha Fe. The substance of a supple-chapt flatterer Alb. O doth he play Forobosco the Parasite Good i-faith Sirrah you must seeme now as glib and straight in outward semblance as a Ladies buske though inwardly as crosse as a paire of Tailors legs hauing a tongue as nimble as his needle with seruile patches of glauering flattery to stitch vp the bracks of vnworthily honourd Fo. I warrant you I warrant you you shall see mee prooue the very Perewig to couer the balde pate of brainelesse gentilitie Ho I will so tickle the sense of bella gratiosa madonna with the titillation of Hyperbolicall praise that I le strike it in the nick in the very nick chuck Fel. Thou promisest more than I hope any Spectator giues faith of performance but why looke you so duskie ha To Antonio Ant. I was neuer worse fitted since the natiuitie of my Actorshippe I shalt be hist at on my life now Fel. Why what must you play Ant. Faith I know not what an Hermaphrodite two parts in one my true person being Antonio son to the Duke of Genoa though for the loue of Mellida Pieros daughter I take this fained presence of an Amazon calling my selfe Florizell and I know not what I a voice to play a lady I shall nere doe it Al. O an Amazon should haue such a voice virago-like Not play two parts in one away away t is common fashion Nay if you cannot bear two subtle frōts vnder one hood I de or goe by goe by off this worlds stage O times impuritie An. I but whē vse hath taught me actiō to hit the right point of a Ladies part I shall growe ignorant when I must turne young Prince againe how but to trusse my hose Fe. Tush neuer put them off for women weare the breaches still Mat. By the bright honour of a Millanoise and the resplendent fulgor of this steele I will defende the feminine to death and ding his spirit to the verge of hell that dates divulge a ladies preiudicio Exit Ant Al. Fel Rampum scrampum mount tuftie Tamburlaine What rattling thunder clappe breakes from his lips Alb. O 't is natiue to his part For acting a moderne Bragadoch vnder the person of Matzagente the Duke of Millaines sonne it may seeme to suite with good fashion of coherence Pie But me thinks he speakes with a spruce Attick accent of adulterate Spanish Al. So 't is resolu'd For Millane being halfe Spanish halfe high Dutch and halfe Italians the blood of chifest houses is corrupt and mungrel'd so that you shal see a fellow vaine-glorious for a Spaniard gluttonous for a Dutchman proud for an Italian and a fantastick Ideot for all Such a one conceipt this Matzagente Fe. But I haue a part allotted mee which I haue neither able apprehension to conceipt nor what I conceipt gratious abilitie to vtter Gal. Whoop in the old cut good shew vs a draught of thy spirit Fel. T is steddie and must seeme so impregnably fortrest with his own cōtent that no enuious thought could euer inuade his spirit neuer surueying any man so vnmeasuredly happie whome I thought not iustly hatefull for some true impouerishment neuer beholding any fauour of Madam Felicity gracing another which his well bounded content perswaded not to hang in the front of his owne fortune and therefore as farre