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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01055	The louers melancholy Acted at the Priuate House in the Blacke Friers, and publikely at the Globe by the Kings Maiesties Seruants.	Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619. Hymens triumph.	1629 (1629)	STC 11163; ESTC S102509	41,615	94

And I the thiefe Tham. Thou art vnwise young man To inrage a Lyonesse Eroc. It were vniust To falsifie a faith and euer after Disroab'd of that faire ornament liue naked A scorne to time and truth Tham. Remember well who I am and what thou art Ero. That remembrance Prompts me to worthy duty O great Lady If some few dayes haue tempted your free heart To cast away affection on a stranger If that affection haue so ouersway'd Your Iudgement that it in a manner hath Declyn'd your soueraignty of birth and spirit How can yee turne your eyes off from that glasse Wherein you may new Trim and settle right A memorable name Tham. The Youth is idle Ero. Dayes months and yeeres are past since Menaphon Hath lou'd and seru'd you truly Menaphon A man of no large distance in his bloud From yours in qualities desertfull grac't With Youth Experience euery happy gift That can by nature or by Education Improue a Gentleman for him great Lady Let me preuaile that you will yet at last Vnlocke the bounty which your loue and care Haue wisely treasur'd vp t' inrich his life Tha. Thou hast a moouing eloquence Parthenophill Parthenophill in vaine we striue to crosse The destiny that guides vs My great heart Is stoopt so much beneath that wonted pride That first disguiz'd it that I now preferre A miserable life with thee before All other earthly comforts Eroc. Menaphon by me repeates the selfe-same words to you You are too cruell if you can distrust His truth or my report Tham. Goe where thou wilt I le be an exile with thee I will learne To beare all change of fortunes Ero. For my friend I pleade with grounds of reason Tham. For thy loue Hard-hearted youth I here renounce all thoughts Of other hopes of other intertainements Eroc. Stay as you honour Vertue Tham. When the proffers of other greatnesse Eroc. Lady Tham. When intreats of friends Eroc. I le ease your griefe Tham. Respect of kindred Eroc. Pray giue me hearing Tham. Losse of Fame Eroc. I craue but some few minutes Tham. Shall infringe my vowes let Heauen Eroc. My loue speake t' ee heare then goe on Tham. Thy loue why t is a Charme to stop a vow In its most violent course Eroc. Cupid has broke His Arrowes here and like a child vnarm'd Comes to make sport betweene vs with no weapon But feathers stolne from his mothers Doues Tham. This is meere trifling Eroc. Lady take a secret I am as you are in a lower ranke Else of the selfe same sexe a maide a virgine And now to vse your owne words if your thoughts Censure me not with mercy you may soone Conceiue I haue laid by that modesty Which should preserue a vertuous name vnstain'd Tham. Are you not mankind then Eroc. When you shall reade The story of my sorrowes with the change Of my misfortunes in a letter printed From my vnforg'd relation I beleeue You will not thinke the sheading of one teare A prodigality that misbecomes Your pitie and my fortune Tham. Pray conceale the errors of my passions Eroc. Would I had Much more of honour as for life I value 't not To venture on your secrecy Tham. It will be A hard taske for my Reason to relinquish The affection which was once deuoted thine I shall a while repute thee still the youth I lou'd so dearely Eroc. You shall find mee euer your ready faithfull seruant Tham. O the powers Who doe direct our hearts laugh at our follies We must not part yet Ero. Let not my vnworthines alter your good opinion Tham. I shall henceforth Be iealous of thy company with any My feares are strong and many Kala enters Kala. Did your Ladiship call me Tham. For what Kala. Your seruant Menaphon desires admittance Enter Menaphon Men. With your leaue great Mistris I come So priuate is this well Parthenophill Eroc. Sir Noble Sir Men. You are vnkind and treacherous This t is to trust a straggler Tham. Prethee seruant Men. I dare not question you you are my Mistris My Princes neerest Kinswoman but he Tham. Come you are angry Mena. Henceforth I will bury Vnmanly passion in perpetuall silence I le court mine owne distraction dote on folly Creepe to the mirth and madnesse of the age Rather then be so slau'd againe to woman Which in her best of constancy is steddist In change and scorne Tham. How dare ye talke to me thus Men. Dare Were you not owne Sister to my friend Sister to my Amethus I would hurle ye As farre off from mine eyes as from my heart For I would neuer more looke on yee Take Your Iewell t' ee And Youth keepe vnder wing Or Boy Boy Tham. If commands be of no force Let me intreat thee Menaphon Men. T is naught fye fye Parthenophill haue I deseru'd To be thus vs'd Eroc. I doe protest Men. You shall not Henceforth I will be free and hate my bondage Enter Amethus Amet. Away away to Court the Prince is pleas'd To see a Maske to night we must attend him T is neere vpon the time How thriues your suit Men. The Iudge your Sister will decide it shortly Tham. Parthenophill I will not trust you from me Enter Prince Aretas Corax with a Paper-plot seruants with torches Cor. Lights and attendance I will shew your highnes A trifle of mine owne braine If you can Imagine you were now in the Vniuersity You 'll take it well enough a Schollers fancy A quab. T is nothing else a very quab. Prince We will obserue it Soph. Yes and grace it too Sir For Corax else is humerous and testy Aret. By any meanes men singular in Art Haue alwayes some odde whimsey more then vsuall Prince The name of this conceit Cora. Sir it is called the Maske of Melancholy Aret. We must looke for nothing but sadnesse here then Cora. Madnesse rather In seuerall changes Melancholy is The Roote aswell of euery Apish Phrensey Laughter and mirth as dulnesse Pray my Lord Hold and obserue the plot t is there exprest In kind what shall be now exprest in action Enter Amethus Menaphon Thamasta Eroclea No interpretation take your places quickly Nay nay leaue ceremony sound to the entrance Florish Enter Rhetias his face whited blacke shag haire long nailes a piece of raw meate Rhet. Bow Bow wow wow the Moone 's eclipsed I le to the Church-yard and sup Since I turn'd Wolfe I bark and howle and digge vp graues I will neuer haue the Sunne shine againe t is midnight deepe darke midnight get a prey and fall too I haue catcht thee now Arre Cora. This kind is called Lycanthropia Sir When men conceiue themselues Wolues Prince Here I finde it Enter Pelias A Crowne of feathers on Antickly rich Pel. I will hang 'em all and burne my wife was I not an Emperour my hand was kist and Ladies lay downe before me In triumph did I ride with my Nobles about me till the mad-dog bit mee I fell and I fell and I fell

on Fate Sigh out a lamentable tale of things Done long agoe and ill done and when sighes Are wearied piece vp what remaines behind With weeping eyes and hearts that bleed to death Thou shalt be a companion fit for me And we will sit together like true friends And neuer be deuided With what greedinesse Doe I hug my afflictions there 's no mirth Which is not truly season'd with some madnesse As for example Exit Cora. What new Crochet next There is so much sence in this wilde distraction That I am almost out of my wits too To see and heare him some few houres more Spent here would turne me Apish if not frantick Enter Meleander and Cleophyla In all the volumes thou hast turn'd thou Man Of knowledge hast thou met with any rarity Worthy thy contemplation like to this The modell of the Heauens the Earth the Waters The harmony and sweet consent of times Are not of such an excellence in forme Of their Creation as the infinite wonder That dwelles within the compasse of this face And yet I tell thee Scholer vnder this Well-ord'red signe is lodg'd such an obedience As will hereafter in another age Strike all comparison into a silence She had a Sister too but as for her If I were giuen to talke I coo'd describe A pretty piece of goodnesse let that passe We must be wise somtimes What would you with her Cor. I with her nothing by your leaue Sir I It is not my profession Mel. You are sawcy And as I take it scuruy in your sawcinesse To vse no more respect good soule be patient We are a paire of things the world doth laugh at Yet be content Cleophila those clouds Which barre the Sunne from shining on our miseries Will neuer be chac'd off till I am dead And then some charitable soule will take thee Into protection I am hasting on The time cannot be long Cleo. I doe beseech yee Sir as you loue your health as you respect My safety let not passion ouerrule you Mel. It shall not I am friends with all the world Get me some wine to witnesse that I will be An absolute good fellow I will drinke with thee Cora. Haue you prepar'd his Cup Cleo. T is in readinesse Enter Cuculus and Grilla Cucul. By your leaue Gallants I come to speake with a young Lady as they say the old Troianes daughter of the house Mel. Your businesse with my Lady daughter Tosse-pot Gril. Tosse-pot O base Tosse-pot Cucul. Peace do'st not see in what case he is I would doe my owne commendations to her that 's all Mel. Doe come my Genius we will quaffe in wine Till we grow wise Cora. True Nectar is diuine Exit Mel. Cora. Cucul. So I am glad he is gone Page walke aside Sweet Beauty I am sent Embassadour from the Mistris of my thoughts to you the Mistris of my desires Cleo. So Sir I pray be briefe Cucul. That you may know I am not as they say an Animall which is as they say a kinde of Cokes which is as the learned terme an Asse a Puppy a Widgin a Dolt a Noddy a Cleo. As you please Cucul. Pardon me for that it shall be as you please indeed Forsooth I loue to be courtly and in fashion Cleo. Well to your Embasie what or from whom Cucul. Marry what is more then I know for to know what 's what is to know what 's what and for what 's what but these are foolish figures and to little purpose Cleo. From whom then are you sent Cucul. There you come to me agen O to bee in the fauour of great Ladies is asmuch to say as to be great in Ladies fauours Cleo. Good time a day t' ee I can stay no longer Cucul. By this light but you must for now I come too t The most excellent most wise most dainty precious louing kinde sweet intolerably faire Lady Thamasta commends to your little hands this letter of importance By your leaue let me first kisse and then deliuer it in fashion to your owne proper beauty Cleo. To me from her T is strange I dare peruse it Cucul. Good O that I had not resolu'd to liue a single life Heer 's temptation able to coniure vp a spirit with a witnesse So so she has read it Cleo. Is 't possible Heauen thou art great and bountiful Sir I much thanke your paines and to the Princesse Let my loue duty seruice be remembred Cucul. They shall Mad-dame Cleo. When we of hopes or helpes are quite bereauen Our humble pray'rs haue entrance into heau'n Cucul. That 's my opinion cleerely and without doubt Exit Enter Aretas and Sophronos Aret. The Prince is throughly mou'd Sophron. I neuer saw him so much distemp'red Aret. What should this young man bee Or whither can he be conuay'd Sophr. T is to me a mystery I vnderstand it not Aret. Nor I Enter Prince Amethus and Pelias Prince Yee haue consented all to worke vpon The softnesse of my nature but take heede Though I can sleepe in silence and looke on The mockery yee make of my dull patience Yet'ee shall know the best of yee that in mee There is a masculin a stirring spirit Which prouokt shall like a bearded Comet Set yee at gaze and threaten horrour Pel. Good Sir Prin. Good Sir T is not your actiue wit or language Nor your graue politicke wisdomes Lords shall dare To check-mate and controle my iust commands Enter Menaphon Where is the Youth your friend is be found yet Men. Not to be heard of Prince Flye then to the desart Where thou didst first encounter this Fantasticke This airie apparition come no more In sight Get yee all from me he that stayes Is not my friend Amet. T is strange Aret. Soph. We must obey Exeunt all but the Prince Prince Some angry power cheates with rare delusions My credulous sense the very soule of Reason Is troubled in me the Physician Presented a strange Maske the view of it Puzzl'd my vnderstanding but the Boy Enter Rhetias Rhetias thou art acquainted with my griefes Parthenophill is lost and I would see him For he is like to some thing I remember A great while since a long long time agoe Rhet. I haue been diligent Sir to pry into euery corner for discouery but cannot meet with him There is some tricke I am confident Prin. There is there is some practice sleight or plot Rhet. I haue apprehended a faire Wench in an odde Priuate lodging in the Citie as like the Youth In face as can by possibility be discern'd Prince How Rhetias Rhet. If it be not Parthenophill in long coates T is a spirit in his likenesse answer I can get none from her you shall see her Prince The young man in disguise vpon my life To steale out of the Land Rhet. I le send him t' ee Exit Rhet. Enter Eroclea in womans attire and listens Prince Doe doe my Rhetias As there is by nature In euery thing created contrarietie So