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Humour out of breath A comedie diuers times latelie acted, by the Children of the Kings Reuells. Written by Iohn Day.
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Day, John, 1574-1640?
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and I will teach you how to chuse them Elect not mongst whole troupes of Courtly dames For amongst many some must needs be ill The seld seene Phoenix euer sits alone Ioue courted Danae when she was alone Alone my boyes that is the onely way Ladies yeeld that alone they els say nay Flo. An expert souldier how shall they choose them Father Oct. If her bright eye dim not the Diamond Say it is bright but brighter iems delight you Jf that her breath do not perfume the ayre Say it is sweet but sweeter sweets content you Jf that her cheeke compared to the Lilly Make not the Lilly black with whiter whitenesse Say it is Lilly white but black to white When your choise white must haue such high exceeds Flo. Father you do exceed things possible Faith say how many Ladyes haue you seene Much fayrer then my selfe in all your trauayle Oct. Should the Crow teach me then no Lady fayrer If iudgement tell me then a many fayrer Thou art myne owne J must thinke well of thee Yet Florimella many doe excell thee Flo. Should the Crow teache I am not all Crowblacke Though iudgement J not all perfection black Though you haue seene Ladyes that dim the day Yet will J thinke my selfe as fayre as they Oct. Doe Florimella and I le one day get A husband for thee that shall thinke thee fayre Flo. And tyme ifaith that prety sport would be Wiue it for them you shall not husband me Oct. Yet you will take my counsell in your choise Flo. Yes if I had not yeares ynough to choose Would you direct me as you doe your sonnes With daughter take a man with such a nose With such an eye with such a colour beard Thus big thus tall with all his teeth afore Thus lipt thus legd thus handsome thus apparrelld Were not this pittifull o pittifull Now by the soule of soule-commanding loue I will not stoope to such obedience I must be bid to blush when I am kist Bid my loue welcome and I thanke you sir With no indeed I know not what loue is I neuer heard so much of loue before I pray take heede nay fie you goe too far With such a rabble of prescriptions As neuer mayd of a Conceiuing spirit Will follow them yet brothers goe you on Take you good counsell Florimell will none Exit Oct. I daughter are you so experienced An elder woman might haue spoken lesse Yet by your leaue mynion I le watch you so Your I shall still be gouernd by my no But come my sonnes take patterne of great Ioue Early i th' morning suit your selues for loue Exeunt Enter Anthonio Duke of Mantua Hermia and Lucida his daughters they with angels and he with a net Ant. Go daughters with your Angels to the brooke And see if any siluer-coated fish Will nibble at your worme-emboweld hooks Deceiue the watry subiects yet the name Of foule deceit me thinks should fray them from you Alack alack I cannot blame the world That in the world there is so much deceipt When this poore simple trade must vse deceipt But with what conscience can J make this net Within whose meshes all are caught that come They cousen one at once this cousens many I will vndoo 't it shall not cousen any But daughters go practise that little sinne I le mend this great fault ere the fault begin O cousening fortune how hast thou deceiu'd me Turning me out a doores to banishment And made another Lord of Mantua I that was Lord now slaue to misery Her Take comfort yet deare father Ant Comfort no My brest 's turnd prison my proude iaylor woe Locks out all comfort wher 's your valiant brother Her All discontent like to a wounded lyon He forrages the woods daring proude fortune At her best weapon he accounts this smart As a slight hurt but far off from the hart Anth. How holds his humour Luc. The same fashion still But somwhat sadder-colourd death may end But neuer change him see our words haue raisd him Enter Aspero Anth. Fitly applide for a walks like a ghost Why how now sonne Asp. Peace Her Brother Asp. Good now peace VVake me not as you loue me Luc. VVhat a sleepe Asp. I in a most sweet sleepe blisters o' your tongues for waking me Anth. Thou forgettest thy selfe Asp. J should not be a Courtier els mee thought J was at a strange wedding Anth. Prithee what wedding Asp. Of a young Lawyer and old Madam Conscience Anth. I scarce beleeue that Asp. Nor J neither because it was a dreame but mee thought the yong man doted on the old woman exceedingly Anth. That was miraculous did they liue together Asp. In the country they did and agreed passing well all the long vacation and but for two things he would haue carried her vp to the terme with him Ant. VVhat things were those Asp. One was because her gowne was of the old fashion the other was cause he would not haue her by when he tooke fees Ant. His reason for that Asp. For feare if a bribe had bin offered she being by he shold haue had the bad conscience to take it Anth. His wife and he liued together Asp. Conscience and the Lawyer as louingly as men and their wiues do one flesh but neither medle nor make one with another Ant. Man and wife part that 's strange Asp. O lord sit profit can part the soule and the body and why not man and wife now you haue had my dreame father let me vnderstand yours Anth. How can he dreame that neuer sleeps my sonne Asp. O best of all why your whole world doth nothing but dreame your machiauell he dreames of state deposing kings grounding new monarchies the louer hee dreames of kisses amorous embraces the newe-married wife dreames that rid of her young husband she hugs her old loue and likes her dreame well ynough too the Country gentle woman dreams that when her first husband 's dead she marries a knight and the name of Lady sticks so in her mind that shee s neuer at hearts-ease till she get her husband dub'd the Captaine he dreames of oppressing the souldiers deuising stratagēs to keep his dreame and that dreame wakes in the pate of Octauio your Arch-enemy who is not content to hurle vs into the whirlepoole of banishment but binds waights at our heeles leaden pouerty to sinke vs to the very depth that we should neuer rise againe Her Then since all dreame let vs dreame of reuenge Asp. I marry sister that were a dreame worth dreaming and I le sleepe out my braines but I le compasse it Anth. Pretty content we kill our foes in dreames Asp. Vds foot I le doe it waking then Anth. Aspero Asp. At Counsell table Anth. Heare me Asp. In his Dutches armes t were base to go disguisd No my reuenge shall weare an open brow J will not play the coward kill him first And send my challenge after I le make knowne My name and cause of comming
Humour out of breath A Comedie Diuers times latelie acted By the Children Of The Kings Reuells WRITTEN BY Iohn Day Printed at London for Iohn Helmes and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstons Church-yard in Fleet-street 1608 To Signior No-body WOrthlesse sir I present you with these my vnperfect labours knowing that what defect in me or neglect in the Printer hath left vnperfect iudgement in you will winke at if not thinke absolute Being to turne a poore friendlesse childe into the world yet sufficiently featur'd too had it been all of one mans getting woe to the iniquitie of Time the whilest my desire is to preferre him to your seruice in which as he shall be sure to get nothing so likewise my hope is he shall not loose much For your bountie neither makes strangers loue you nor your followers enuie you you are a Patrone worthie the Sister-hood I meane the poore halfe dozen for the Three Elders they climbe aboue my element the Sunne the Moone and the seuen Stars being scarce worthy the suruey of their workings I protest I had rather bestow my paynes on your good worship for a brace of Angells certaine then stand to the bountie of a Better-mans Purse-bearer or a very good womane Gentlemā-vsher my reason is I cannot attēd your Bis dat qui citò stands so like a Load-stone ouer your greate gate that I feare t will drawe all the Iron-pated Muse-mongers about the towne in a short time to your patronage For mine owne part I had rather bee yours volens then be driuen Nolens So till I meete you next at your great Castle in Fish-street I le neither taste of your bountie nor be drunke to your health One of your first followers Iohn Daye ACTƲS 1. Scena 1. Enter Octauio Duke of Venice Hippolito and Francisco his sonnes Florimell his daughter Hortensio and others attendants Octa. SOnnes hopefull buddes of fruitfull Italy Hauing banisht war which like a prodigall Kept wastfull reuells with our subiects bloud Since proude Anthonio our arch-enemy Is in his iourney towards th' vnderworld Or houers in the shade of banishment Let vs in peace smile at our victory And euery brest passe his opinion What pastime best becomes a conqueror Fran. What sport but conquest for a conqueror Then with our wounds vndrest our steeds still reind Branded with steele ere we wipe off the bloud Of conquerd foes le ts with our shriller bugles Summon the surly Landlord of the forrest The Kingly Lyon to a bloudy parle Combat the Hart the Leopard or the Bore In single and aduenturous hardyment The spirit of mirth in manly action rests Hauing queld men le ts now go conquer beasts Oct. Manly resolu'd Hippolitoes aduise Hip. Rather like souldiers and Octauioes sonnes Le ts throw a generall challenge through the world For a proud turney at the which our selues Consorted with a hundred of our knights Accoutred like so many Gods of warre VVill keepe the lists gainst all aduenturers VVhich like the suns light figurd in a star Should be a briefe Epitome of war Oct. Noble and royall your opinion daughter Flo. Faith I shall anger souldiers I woulde poure Spirit of life Aurum Potabile Into the iawes of chap-falne schollership That haue since amorous Quid was exild Lyen in a swowne y aue many holds for war I would once view a garrison for witte T were heauenly sport to see a traine of schollers Like old traind soldiers skirmish in the schooles Trauerse their Ergoes and discharge their iests Like peales of small-shot were this motion granted My selfe would be free woman of their hall And sit as sister at their festiuall Oct Haue we not Padua Flo. Yes but the commaunders Deale with our graduates as the generall Doth with his souldier giues him place for fauoure Not for deseruing looke intoo 't your selfe You haue Courts for tennis and me thinkes t' were meet Learning should not stand balling in the street For want of houseroome oh t is much vnfit Courtiers should be all pleasure and small wit Oct. All that you speake is but what we command Flo. But Officers fother cannot vnderstand Their Lords at first wert not a gallant sight To see wits army royall come from fight Some crownd with gold others with wreath of bayes And whilst they hold their solemn holydaies Musick should like a louer court the skies And from the world wrest ringing plaudities Hip. My sister would make a rare beggar Fra. True shee 's parcell Poet parcell fidler already and they commonly sing three parts in one Oct. Wrong neither art nor musicke they are twins Borne and begot in heate your thought of both Flo. I thinke my Lord that musick is diuine Whose sacred straines haue power to combine The soule and body and it reason beares For it is said that the Celestiall spheres Dance to Apolloes lyre whose sprightly fires Haue tamd rude beasts and charmd mens wild desires The author was immortall the first strings Made by a King therefore an art for Kings The world 's a body euery liberall art A needfull member musick the soule and hart Oct. VVell for hir sex hath Florimell discourse Of heauenly musicke and since all conclude It is an art diuine we were too rude Should we reiect it musick I take great pride To heare soft musick and thy shrill voice chide Flo. To please your grace though J want voice and skill I le shew my selfe obedient to your will sing Fra. This would haue done rare at a schollers window How do you like it father Oct. Highly my boies I rellish all delight For when the fiery spirit of hot youth Kept house within me I was all delight Then could I take my loue no loue more fayre By the smooth hand and gazing in loues ayre Tell her her beauty beautifide the skie And that the sunne stole lustre from her eye Fra. I do admire to heare my princely father thus merrilie discourse of trifling loue Oct. Nay more my boyes when J was at your yeares I went a pilgrimage through Italie to find the shrine of some loue-hallowed saynt Deuote to beauty I would pray for loue Desiring beauty I would sue for loue Admiring beauty I would serue for loue Pray sue and serue till beauty graunted loue If she denyd me I would sweare she graunted Jf she did sweare that she could neuer loue me Then would I sweare she could not chuse but loue me Let her sweare nere so much still haue I sworne Till she had said I should not be forsworne Flo. I marry brothers here was cunning loue Learne like good schollers hee le make you wise in loue He was a man in loue were you such men Then were you men indeed but boyes till then Fr. To please my Father I le inquest of beauty And neuer make returne till I haue found A loue so faire so rich so honorable As fits the honor of Octauioes sonnes Hip. The like you pleasd vowes young Hippolito Oct. Doe boyes