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A40870	Love in the dark, or, The man of bus'ness a comedy : acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesties servants / written by Sir Francis Fane, Junior, Knight of the Bath.	Fane, Francis, Sir, d. 1689?	1675 (1675)	Wing F408; ESTC R16385	59,714	105

behind Jacomo and pushes him on peeping over his Shoulder Thou' rt a Knave Trivultio stand to him Jacomo Jac. O Lord Sir I have never a Sword but I 'll talk to him Thou 'rt a Knave Trivultio Stand to him Master Runs behind Cornanti and then Cornanti behind him shifting two or three times Cor. ' Slife I think this Man of mine 's an errant Coward Jac. Oh Lord Master I 'm afraid of your Worship's Sword behind me and would not take the Victory out of your hands Cor. 'T would anger a Man to be a Cuckold and be kill'd too I 'll go call for help Jacomo lock the door upon ' em Exeunt Jacomo locks the door Triv. Did you ever see such Cowards I 'm sorry I did not force my way out but now the door 's lock'd what shall we do Madam shall I leap out of the Window Bell. No the Barrs are too close Triv. Or hide my self Can you find no way for your self and me Now for a Woman's Wit at a dead life Bell Put on your Duegna's Cloaths quick quick Let 's make haste his Bandogs live but at next door He catches up the Cloaths and she helps him Triv. But Madam he 'll know I can't get out of the room Bell. No matter dispatch Now your Hoods and Muffler Noise at door 1 Man We 'll maul the Rogue 2 Man We 'll make him sure 3 Man No take him alive and kill him by degrees The door unlock'd Enter Cornanti with half a dozen Neighbors himself and Jacomo in the rear of them 1 Man Where 's the Rogue 2 Man Where 's the Rogue Bell. What Rogue Sir what d' ye mean Cor. What have you hid him Witch Bell. There has been none but I and my Duegna here these four hours Cor. That shall not serve your turn seek in the Alcove They search within and come back then search the Closets Beds and Trunks and under them I 'm sure he could not get out here Goes to the Window Bell. Are you distracted Sir whom do you seek Cor. Peace Strumpet Vigilia dost thou know where he is Triv. Indeed Master I neither heard nor saw any body I was in the Closet Preserving when your Worship and Jacomo was here but I 'll endeavour to find him out an 't be possible Mayn't he be here or here or here Looks up and down in the Cupboard and the Chest of Drawers Cor. I Marry a likely place Triv. Now I 'm confident we have search'd is much as is possible there 's only one Box more in the room Cor. Search it search it Triv. Here 't is Sir Gives him a Snuff-box Cor. What a Snuff-box You Whore do you abuse me Kicks him 1 Man Pray Sir be patient sure there is no body in the room nor the Closet nor Alcove Bell. 'T is strange Sir you should trouble your Neighborhood and abuse me for such a fancy Cor. Well then now I find it y'faith Jacomo has betray'd me and let him out Oh you treacherous Villain 'T is you Sirrah Jac. No indeed Sir not I nor any body else for I stirr'd not a foot from the door after I lock'd it Cor. Go go Sirrah no excuse provide your self of another service A fine juggle indeed Walks about and his back turn'd Bellinganna comes to Jacomo Bell. Say you saw him not and save your self and me Jac. Turn'd away from the best service in Venice for my honesty Why Sir I believe your Worship 's mistaken for I saw no body here but my Lady and your self Sir Cor. Why you impudent Rogue you did you not see him and speak to him by his name and was afraid of him too Jac. Indeed I heard your Worship call one Trivultio all to naught and I thought it was my duty to call him so too and be afraid of him too how did I know but he might lye in Ambuscade in the Alcove and shoot us but the devil a'bit of Mankind did I see but your self Sir 1 Man This is strange Cor. Say'st thou so The plain truth of it is I did not hear him speak a word but I 'll swear I saw him or his Ghost as plain as I see thee 2 Man Then't must be some Spirit Cor. Think you so friends Verily I must confess I had an extraordinary fear and trembling came upon me an Army of Men could not have frighted me worse 3. Man Why then 't is as clear as the Sun neither your Lady nor your Servants saw him and your self did not hear him speak nor touch him Cor. Methoughts I ran him through and through yet he never cry'd oh for 't and then indeed I began to be a little afraid 2 Man A body of Air of the Devil 's compounding 't could be nothing else Jac. Why Sir Did you never hear the House was haunted before Cor. Never Jac. Why Sir we were loath to tell you on 't but Sir though I never saw any thing worse than my self in my life yet I 'll take my death on 't I have heard some things walk at midnight when we have all been a bed and asleep Cor. O' my word 't is more than I heard ever Triv. I believe so if you were asleep This is a rare Rogue make much of him Aside to Bellinganna Cor. Well Neighbors I thank you Exeunt Neighbors Jac. Madam you 're in my debt but my Master much more To her Aside Happy 's the Man whose just doubts are defeated Cuckolds are never glad not to be cheated Exeunt ACT III. SCENE I The Doge's Villa A Scene of Paradise and Glorious Shows with Musick Sforza walking in it alone Sfor. NOw indeed the Lady in the Church is as good as her word How suddainly these Women execute their designes and how impatient they are in Love affairs Looks about A Glorious Prison 't is wondrous magnificent After some Musick a Cupid or Angel held in the Air sings this Song SONG Take Hero take The Presents Wealth and Beauty make There 's nothing else that Mortals know Is worth receiving here below Time runs Love flies He that thinks least is the most wise And Fortune ever did approve A present Wit in War or Love Stay Hero stay The Gods grow envious at thy Prey Or steal what 's rare In haste for Heaven does seldom care Love and Ambition should conspire Mortals to please in one desire After this a Dance of Angels Sfor. Sure this is Paradise it self Enter Parhelia gloriously drest attended with her Maids all in Masques she comes up to Sforza Parh. Sir you may judge by th'actions of this hour That I can keep my promise use my pow'r Perhaps my Rival by her needy Art And first assaults has prepossest your Heart But though my Person nor my Wealth should find A room unfurnish'd in your well-built mind I 'll rather be for plain defects despis'd Than for low cheats and false Perfections priz'd She and all her Women unmask Sforza seems surpriz'd Sfor. A most Celestial Beauty

LOVE IN THE DARK OR The Man of Bus'ness A COMEDY Acted at the THEATRE ROYAL By His MAJESTIES Servants WRITTEN By Sir FRANCIS FANE Junior Knight of the BATH Naturam expellas furcâ licet usque recurret Hor. In the SAVOY Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange 1675. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN Earl of ROCHESTER Gentleman of His MAJESTIES Bed-chamber My LORD OFFenders long conniv'd at come at last to be try'd for their Lives and are forc'd to call upon their fatally indulgent friends to bring them off for Volunteer Poets are at least as mad as those who out of wantonness play themselves into the Gallies 'T is high time to cast my self at your Lordships Feet and humbly beg your Protection to this ride Piece which grew the bolder by your incouragement All Poems in their Dedications ought to return to your Lordship as all Rivers to the Sea from whose depth and Saltness they are season'd and supply'd none of them ever coming to your Lordship's hands without receiving some of the rich Tinctures of your unerring Judgement and running with much more clearness having past so fine a strainer If this receives any approbation in the World I must ascribe it principally to your Lordship's partial recommendations and impartial corrections Your Lordship is the first person in the World by whom I have been Highly and Heroically oblig'd and if the first Impressions of Gratitude may be as strong and captivating as those of the first Love they must needs be much more lasting and immutable in my Passion for your Lordship since the World affords no object so high and admirable ever to work a change your Lordship being the most accomplish'd of all Mankind that I ever knew read or heard of by Humane testimony Eminent Beings are as hard to be believ'd as they are to be understood and no Man can speak Truth of your Lordship's Superlative Endowments without suspicion of Flattery nor conceal them without conviction of Ignorance That famous Temper of weight so rarely found in Bodies appears most Illustriously in your Lordship's Mind Judgement and Fancy seldom concurring in other Men in any small proportion are possest by your Lordship in the highest degree that ever was allow'd the Soul of Man yet with so happy and harmonious a mixture that neither of them predominate nor usurp but like two peaceful Colleagues in Empire agree within themselves and govern the rest of the World acting in your Lordships noble and elevated Mind like Fire and Air in the upper Region whose Purity makes them easily convertible and mutually assistant whilst they are always quarrelling and preying upon each other in gross inferior Bodies What was favourably said of my Lord Bacon in his time may much more justly be affirm'd of your Lordship in yours That if ever there were a beam of Knowledge immediately deriv'd from God upon any Man since the Creation there is one upon your self Others by wearisome steps and regular gradations climb up to knowledge your Lordship is flown up to the top of the Hill you are an Enthusiast in Wit a Poet and Philosopher by Revelation and have already in your tender age set out such new and glorious Lights in Poetry yet those so Orthodox and Vnquestionable that all the Heroes of Antiquity must submit or Homer and Virgil be judg'd Nonconformists For my part I account it one of the great felicities of my life to have liv'd in your age but much greater to have had access to your Person and to have been cherysh'd and enlighten'd by the influences and irradiations of so great a Luminary For I must confess I never return from your Lordships most Charming and Instructive Conversation but I am inspir'd with a new Genius and improv'd in all those Sciences I ever coveted the knowledge of I find my self not only a better Poet a better Philosopher but much more than these a better Christian your Lordship's-miraculous Wit and Intellectual pow'rs being the greatest Argument that ever I could meet with for the immateriality of the Soul they being the highest exaltation of humane Nature and under Divine Authority much more convincing to suspicious Reason than all the Pedantick proofs of the most Learnedly peevish Disputants so that I hope I shall be oblig'd to your Lordship not only for my Reputation in this World but my future Happiness in the next Reflect then my Lord I beseech you on your own sublime perfections the profuseness of your Favors my powerful though presumptuous inclination to your Person and judge if it be possible for any other Man living to pay your Lordship so sincere and affectionate a Veneration as My Lord Your Lordships most Devoted Obedient and Humble Servant FRANCIS FANE PROLOGUE WHat though 't has been the Genius of this Age Tame Pegasus to fetter on the Stage T' imprison in close Rimes well-govern'd Rage Alas 't is easier much for them in France The English do but Walk when Frenchmen Dance Rhyme comes to them by Nature Wit by Chance Rhyme is a cheating Vapour which unseen Ill Poets like ill Spirits pass between To good Wits but a shade to bad a Skreen Then since our Heroes rowz'd with French Allarms Have beat the Mounsieurs at their own slight Arms With lofty Sence in Verses gingling Charms Our Poet hope 's you 'll not expect to day T' have all his down-right thoughts drest up so gay If his Coyn chinks too much you 'll doubt allay But oh the hungry Critick longs to bait And thinks like Men on Scaffolds we Dilate Preaching to stop irrevocable Fate Lean Wit who like some indigesting Eater With Wolf in 's Stomach preys on all fresh Matter By his ingrateful Gutt ne'r made the fatter No no our Author hopes you will excuse The yielding Parties of his Virgin Muse. Who learns to Court practising to refuse For Modesty's the Daughter of Desire An Artificial Ice that 's made by Fire That does at first deny at last require Pardon the struglings of his Maiden Pen. Imbrace her briskly the first time and then She 'll never leave you till you do 't agen Persons Represented By Loredano Doge of Venice Mr. Lydal Cardinal Colonna the Pope's Legare Mr. Burt. Hircanio Procurators of St. Mark Mr. Cartwright Grimani Procurators of St. Mark Griffin Cornanti an old jealous Senator Mr. Wintershul Intrigo a curious formal Coxcomb Mr. Lacy. Count Sforza Gentlemen of Milan Mr. Kynaston Trivultio Gentlemen of Milan Major Mohun Visconti Gentlemen of Milan Mr. Hayns Jacomo Cornanti's Man Mr. Charlton Circumstantio Intrigo's Man Mr. Shotterell Satana Advocate-General Mr. Harris Proveditor Mr. Powel By Parbelia the Doge's Daughter Mrs. Vphill Bellinganna Cornanti's Wife Mrs. Bowtel Aurana Daughter to Hircanio Mrs. James Melinda Daughter to Grimani Mrs. Slade Vigilia Bellingana's Duegna Hircanio's Wife A Confessor Senators Officers and Servants LOVE IN THE DARK OR THE Man of Bus'ness ACT I. SCENE

t' increase my store Yet Love is covetous and would have more Parh. Is Love a Miser he shall feed his Eye Still look upon his wealth but ne'r enjoy Sfor. Oh cruel Saint that fatal voice revoke Parh. Then learn to hope for Fire and Court the Smoak Beauty 's the Book of Fate Fear my intent 'T is better not to know than not prevent Visc. De Diable is in dis Love no ding but de feere de flame de smock de wound de death and de Bougre de Lovere is ver vell ver gay fresh frolick and feel no pain in de vol verld Ke Diable est Sa They seize Sforza behind Sfor. Villains stand off Visconti flies back Parh. Ai Ai Shrieks 1 Man How now Mounsou you have a natural Antipatee to the King of Spain's Subjects you dare not come near ' em Visc. Dat is ver true me do keep my self for de Reserve dat is de kalitee of de good Soldat 2 Man Oh I know the reason now de Spagnol cannot kill you wid de good grace 1 Man Stand still or you 're a dead Man Sfor. Slaves Dogs Parh. Murder murder Help help Sforza struggles to get his Sword they disarm him Sfor. Cowardly Slaves give me but leave to fight The odds shall make no difference Chair brought in 1 Man Into this Chair Sir quick it is a mercy shew'd you Parh. Murder murder Help help Sforza is carried off they guarding the Chair She unmasks So is he gone I 'll be with him presently and and Laughs search him to the quick How bravely Visconti perform'd his part Little does Sforza know what pains Parhelia takes to cheat him of the Doge's Daughter Woman scarce knows her self Then who can search the Mazes of a Heart Where natural imperfection joyns with Art Exit Enter Circumstantio and Intrigo Cir. Mr. Black you belong to some Nobleman of this quarter did you not see my Master Signior Intrigo hereabouts Int. A new Trial Pray Heaven he know me not How should I know thy Master Circ Oh every body knows him Int. However 't will be some delight to hear my own Character from a Domestick Germanicus disguis'd himself in a Calfe-Skin to hear the commendations of his Soldiers without offence to his modesty Why truly when I was upon S. Mark 's He was there too we came away together But where he is now you that are his Servant Ought to know better than another This is no lye now Cir. But pray Sir let me know I have some earnest business with him from the Doge's Lock-smith that makes his Keys for the Privy Garden and the Anti-Cameras Intr. I 'm overjoy'd I shall prevail for a Key but this is no time to take notice of it Aside Why honest friend possibly your Master is in close Council with the Doge or the Council of Ten and therefore not to be spoke with Cir. Think you so indeed I never knew any Man pretend to so much familiarity with the great ones as he does every morning our House is full of under-Clerks and Door-keepers and they get a world of Money of him by feeding him with Lies or impertinent Truths by telling him how many Caps and what Cloaths the Doge puts on every day what he eats and drinks and how many Stools he has Int. Your Masters a discreet Man I will not say wise and grave you do ill to abuse him Cir. What 's that to you Sir I need none of your teaching Goodman Black 'T was never a good World since there were so many Black moors and Frenchmen in the Nation Int. You 're a saucy Knave Sirrah Cir. Call me saucy Knave who am chief Man to Signior Intrigo you whorson Blackmore Dog you No Sir I 'de have you know though my Master be one of the simpler sort of wise Men yet being his Servant I 'll take the Knave of ne'r a Man in Italy Call me knave you saucy Jack Boxes him Int. shruging up his shoulders Poor Circumstantio yet he shows some respect to me in even his wrath he glories in being my servant and quarrell'd with me in my own behalf to uphold my Honor. These afflictions are incident to these great designs of going Incognito Cir. Incognito do you steal my Master's words you impudent Rascal you my Honorable Master 's own words are such words fit for your mouth you pitiful Rogue have at you once more for your fine word Incognito forsooth Incognito with a vengeance Incognito Beats him off Exeunt The SCENE Cornanti's House Enter Trivultio Aurana Bellinganna Triv. Ah Madam if my Sighs and Tears prevail not In a passionate posture To expiate my last and fatal coldness That undissolving Frost in so much Sun-shine That blindness caus'd by such excess of Light Let Death the faithful services prevent Of one unpardon'd not impenitent Aur. Trivultio how thou striv'st t' undo thy self You Act this part well but your first 's most natural All sudden Converts are to be suspected Maintain your Character Be constant to your self if not to me Enter Hircanio at a distance Hir. I have watch'd my Cousin Cornanti out and now is a good time to talk farther of my business to the Duegna Ha! what Trade's here my Daughter Bell. Come Sir we fear you not this mettled Hern Shall spoil your Falcon for any other Game And bruise his Wings Your swellings and imposthumes Must be cur'd by constant strong Revultions We 'll open a great vein shall stop your heats And bleedings at the Nose Triv. Say you so Madam Then faith dear Aurana I love thee to that desperate extremity that if you 'll take me in the humour I am resolv'd to undergo the scorn of all wise Men and my own repentance and sneakingly submit to that solemn Conjuring Cheat call'd Marriage though my Reason kecks at it and I shall certainly swoon at the sight of a Priest Hir. Ha! what do I hear as if this young fellow was to marry my Daughter You impudent Slut you are these your harmless frolicks Aur. Aime my Father Shrieks Hir. Will nothing serve but Matrimonial Gambols Come away with me Huswife Do you think to steal Procurators Daughters so easily Exit with Aurana Triv. Oh she 's lost for ever Bell. I warrant you we 'll retrive her Enter Cornanti peeping Cor. Ha! Trivultio have I caught the wild Beast in my toils Exit Bell. How soon Hircanio forgot the errand he came about In men of his age their Avarice starves their Love Enter Jacomo and Cornanti with a Sword ridiculously long and a Target bigger then his Body He stalks and looks toward Trivultio Cor. Death and destruction and a thousand torments Attend thy sinful Carcass thou Planet-struck And mis-begotten Mortal Have at thy lecherous Chine Makes at Trivultio when his back is turn'd who turns about retires a little takes up a Cushion and makes him run back to the end of the Stage 'Sdeath these Whoremasters the Devil 's in 'em At their Rutting time He runs