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A18331	The Spanish bavvd, represented in Celestina: or, The tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea Wherein is contained, besides the pleasantnesse and sweetnesse of the stile, many philosophicall sentences, and profitable instructions necessary for the younger sort: shewing the deceits and subtilties housed in the bosomes of false seruants, and cunny-catching bawds.; Celestina. English	Rojas, Fernando de, d. 1541.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?	1631 (1631)	STC 4911; ESTC S107195	207,517	216

and mitigate my sorrow Pleberio This daughter shall presently be done I will goe my selfe and will it to be prouided Melibea Friend Lucrecia this place me thinkes is too high I am very loth to leaue my fathers company I prythee make a step down vnto him and intreat him to come to the foot of this Tower for I haue a word or two which I forgot to tell him that he should deliuer from me to my mother Lucrecia I goe Madame Melibea They haue all of them left me I am now alone by my selfe and no body with mee The manner of my death falls fit and pat to my minde it is some ease vnto mee that I and my beloued Calisto shall so soone meet againe I will shut and make fast the dore that no body may come vp to hinder my death nor disturbe my departure nor to stop me in my iourney wherin I purpose to poast vnto him not doubting but to visit him as well this very day as he did mee this last night All things fadge aright and haue falne out as luckily as I could wish it I shall now haue time and leysure enough to recount to my father Pleberio the cause of this my short and sudden end I confesse I shall much wrong his siluer hayres and offer much iniury to his elder yeers I shall work great wo vnto him by this my errour I shall leaue him in great heauinesse and desolation all the daies of his life But admit my death will be the death of my dearest parents and put case that the shortning of my daies will be the shortning of theirs who doth not know but that others haue beene more cruell to their parents then I am Prusias King of Bythinia without any cause not induring that paine which I doe slew his owne father Ptolomy King of Egypt slew both father and mother and brother and wife and all for the loue of his Mistris Orestes kil'd his mother Clytemnestar and that cruell Emperour Nero onely for the fulfilling of his pleasure murdred his owne mother These and such as they are worthy of blame These are true Parricides not I who with mine owne punishment and with mine owne death purge away the guilt which otherwise they might moe iustly lay vpon mee for their deaths There haue beene others far more cruell who haue slaine their own children and their owne brothers in comparison of whose errours mine is as nothing at least nothing so great Philip King of Macedon Herod King of Iuryne Constantine Emperour of Rome Laodice Queene of Cappadocea and Medea the Sorceresse all these slew their owne sonnes and dearest children and that without any reason or iust cause preseruing their owne persons still in safety To conclude that great cruelty of Phr●ates King of the Parthians occurres to my remembrance who because hee would haue no successour behinde him murdred Orodes his aged father as also his onely sonne besides some thirty more of his brethren These were delicts worthy blame indeed because they keeping their owne persons free from perill butchered their Ancestours their successours and their brethren True it is that though all this be so yet are we not to imitate them in those things wherein they did amisse but it is not in my power to doe otherwise And thou great Gouernour of the heauens who art witnesse to my words thou see'st the small power that I haue ouer my passion thou seest how my liberty is captiuated and how my senses are taken with that powerfull loue of that late deceased Gentleman who hath depriued mee of that loue which I beare to my liuing parents Pleberio Daughter Melibea what make you there alone what is it you would you haue with mee shall I come vp to you Melibea No good father content you where you are trouble not your selfe nor striue to come to me you shall but disturbe and interrupt that short speach which I am now to make vnto you Now by and by shalt thou be suddenly wounded thy heart shall presently be prickt with griefe and shall bleede abundantly to see the death of thy onely daughter My end drawes neere at hand is my rest and thy passion my ease and thy paine my houre of keeping company and thy time of solitarinesse You shall not need my most honoured father to seeke out any instruments of musick to asswage my sorrow nor vse any other sound saue the sound of bels for to ring my knell and bring my body to the graue And if thou canst harken vnto mee for teares if thine eyes will giue thine cares leaue to heare thou shalt heare the desperate cause of this my forced yet ioyfull departure see thou neyther speake nor weepe interrupt mee not eyther with teares or words vnlesse thou mean'st more heereafter to be tormented in not knowing why I doe kill my selfe then thou art now sorrowfull to see my death Neither aske nor answer mee any thing nor question me any further then what of mine owne accord I shall willingly tell thee for when the heart is surcharged with sorrow the eare is deafe to good counsell and at such a time good and wholsome words rather incense then allay rage Heare my aged father the last words that euer I shall speake vnto you And if you entertaine them as I hope you will you will rather excuse then condemne my errour I am sure you both well perceiue and heare that most sad and doleful lamentation which is made thorowout all this City I am sure you heare this great noyse and ringing of bells the skriking and cryings out of all sorts of people this howling and barking of dogges this noyse and clattering of Armour Of all this haue I beene the cause I euen this very day haue clothed the greater part of the Knights and Gentlemen of this City in mourning I euen this very day haue left many seruants orphaned and quite destitute of a Master I haue beene the cause that many a poore soule hath now lost it 's almes and reliefe I haue beene the occasion that the dead should haue the company of the most complete Gentleman for his good graces and qualities that euer was borne I haue beene the occasion that the liuing haue lost the onely Patterne and Paragon of courtesie of gallant inuentions of witty deuices of neatnesse and decency in his cloathes of speech of gate of kindnesse and of vertue I haue beene the occasion that the earth doth now inioy the most noble body and the freshest flowre of youth that euer was created in this age of ours And because you may stand amazed and astonished at the sound of these my vnusuall and vnaccustomed crimes I will open the businesse and make this matter appeare more cleare vnto you It is now deare father many dayes since that a Gentleman called Calisto whom you well knew as likewise his Ancestors and noble Linage did languish and pine away for my loue As for his vertues and goodnesse they were generally knowne to the

woman bee shee well experienced is a good helpe a comforter a friend a mother nay more then a mother A good Inne to giue ease and rest to a sound man and a good Hospitall for to cure a sicke man a good Purse in time of need a good Chest to keepe money in prosperitie a good Fire in winter inuironed with spits of good rost-meat a good Shade in summer and a good Tauerne to eate and drinke in Now my pretty little foole what sai'st thou to all this What dost thou thinke of it I know thou art by this time ashamed of that which thou hast spoken to day thou can'st not say B to a Battle-doore thou art strucke so dumbe and so dead and therefore I will presse thee no further nor craue any more at thy hands then that which friendship craues of thee which is Looke vpon Sempronio next vnder heauen my selfe haue made him a man I could wish you would liue and loue together as brothers and friends for being in league with him thou shalt liue in the fauor and loue of thy Master and in good repute with all the world for Sempronio I tell thee is well belou'd hee is diligent a good Courtier a proper seruant a fellow of a good fashion and one that is willing to imbrace thy friendship which will turne to both your profits if you will but hand-fast your affections each to other Besides you know that you must loue if you will be beloued Trowtes cannot bee taken with drie breeches And if the Cat will haue fish she must wet her foote Nor does Sempronio owe this of right vnto thee nor is hee bound to loue thee vnlesse thou exchange loue for loue it is meere simplicitie not to be willing to loue and yet looke to be beloued of others And as great folly to repay friendship with hatred Parm. Mother I confesse my second fault and crauing pardon for what is past I offer my selfe to be ordred by you in all my future proceedings But yet me thinkes it is impossible that I should hold friendship with Sempronio hee is frappish and I cannot beare he is chollericke and I can carrie no coles How then is it possible to make a true contract betwixt two such contrary natures Celest. But you were not wont to be thus froward Parm. In good fay mother you say true But the more I grow in yeeres the lesse I grow in patience Tush I haue forgotten that lesson as if I had neuer knowne what it meant I am I confesse the man I was nor is Sempronio himselfe neyther can hee nor will hee stead mee in any thing I neuer yet tasted any the least kindnesse from him Celest. A sure friend is knowne in a doubtfull matter and in aduersity is his faith proued Then comes he neerest vnto him when hee is farthest from comfort and with greater desire doth hee then visit his house when as prosperous fortune hath forsaken it What shall I say vnto thee Sonne of the vertues of a good and fast friend There is nothing more to bee beloued nothing more rare he refuseth no burden You two are equalls and paritie of persons similitude of manners and simpathy of hearts are the maine props that vp-hold friendship Take heed my sonne for if thou hast any thing it is safely kept for thee Be thou wise to gaine more for this is gain'd already to your hands Your father O what paines tooke hee for it But I may not put it into your hands till you lead a more reposed life and come to a more compleate and full age Parm. Mother what doe you call a reposed life Celest. Mary sonne to liue of your selfe Not to goe thorow other mens houses nor to set thy foote vnder another mans table which thou shalt still bee inforced to doe vnlesse thou learne to make profit of thy seruice for out of very pitty to see thee goe thus totred and torne not hauing a ragge almost to hang on thy breeche did I beg that mantle which thou saw'st of Calisto not so much for the mantles sake as for that there being a Taylor belonging to the house and thou before being without a Ierkin hee might bestow it vpon thee So that I speake not for mine owne profit as I heard you say but for thy good For if you rely onely vpon the ordinary wages of these Gallants it is such that what you get by it after tenne yeeres seruice you may put it in your eye and neuer see the worse Inioy thy youth good daies good nights good meate and good drinke when thou mai'st haue these things lose them not Let that be lost that will be lost Doe not thou mourne for the wealth which was left thy Master for that will but shorten thy daies sithence wee can inioy it no longer then wee liue O Sonne Parmeno and well may I call thee sonne since I had the breeding of thee so long a time follow my counsell seeing it proceeds out of pure loue and an earnest desire to see thee grow vp in honour O! how happy should I be might I but see thee and Sempronio agree see you two friends and sworne brothers in euery thing that yee may come to my poore house to be merrie and to see mee now and then and to take your pleasure each of you with his Wench Parme. His Wench mother Celest. I his Wench and a young one too As for old flesh my selfe am old enough and such a wench as Sempronio would be glad of with all his heart with t'one halfe of that regard and affection which I shew to thee What I speake comes from my intralls and the verie bowels of mee Parmeno Mother you shall not be deceiued in mee Celest. And if I should the matter is not great For what I doe I do for charitie and for that I see thee here alone in a strange Land and for the respect which I beare vnto those bones of her who recommended thee vnto me When you are more man you will thinke of all this and come to a truer knowledge of things and then thou wilt say that old Celestina gaue me good counsell Parme. I know that as well now though I am but young as if I were elder and howbeit I spake against you to day it was not because I thought that to be ill spoken which you said but because I saw when I told my Master the truth and aduised him for the best he ill intreated mee and therefore henceforth let vs shake hands and vse him accordingly doe what thou wilt vnto him I will hold my peace for I haue already too much offended in not crediting thee in this businesse concerning him Celest. In this and all other thou shalt not onely trip but fall as long as thou shalt not take my counsell with thee which comes from thy true and faithfull friend Parmeno Now I blesse the time wherein I serued thee counting those daies happy vnder which thou bredst mee vp of

the onely cause that drew mee hither My sonne I am sure thou art not ignorant how that your mother gaue you vnto me your father being then aliue who after thou wentst from me dyed of no other griefe saue onely what she suffered for the vncertainty of thy life and person For whose absence in those latter yeeres of her elder age she led a most painefull pensiue and carefull life And when the time came that she was to leaue this world shee sent for mee and in secret recommended thee vnto me and told me no other witnesse being by but heauen the witnesse to 〈◊〉 our workes our thoughts our hearts whom she alone interpose betweene her and mee that of all loues I should doe so much 〈◊〉 as to make inquirie after thee and when I had found thee 〈◊〉 thee vp foster thee as mine own and that as soon as thou 〈◊〉 come to mans estate wert able to know how to gouern thy selfe and to liue in some good manner and fashion that then I should discouer vnto thee a certain place where vnder many a lock and key she hath left thee more store of Gold and Siluer then all the reuenewes come to that thy Master Calisto hath in his possession And because I solemnly vow'd and bound my selfe by promise vnto her that I would see her desire as far foorth as lay in me to be well and truely performed she peacefully departed this mortall life and though a mans faith ought to be inuiolably obserued both to the liuing and the dead yet more especially to the dead for they are not able to doe any thing of themselues they cannot come to me and prosecute their right here vpon earth I haue spent much time mony in inquiring searching after thee could neuer till now heare what was become of thee and it is not aboue three daies since that I first heard of your being and where you abode Verily it hath much grieued me that thou hast gon trauelling wandring throughout the world as thou hast done from place to place losing thy time without either gaine of profit or of friends For as Seneca saith Trauellers haue many ends and few friends For in so short a time they can neuer fasten friendship with any and hee that is euery where is said to be no where Againe that meat cannot benefit the body which is no sooner eaten then eiected Neither doth any thing more hinder it's health then your diuersities and changes of meates Nor doth that would come to be healed which hath daily change of tents and neuer plasters Nor doth that Tree neuer proue which is often transplanted and remoued from one ground to another Nor is there any thing to profitable which at the first sight bringeth profit with it Therefore my good sonne leaue off these violencies of youth and following the doctrine and rule of thy Ancestors returne vnto reason settle thy selfe in some one place or other And where better then where I shal aduise thee taking mee and my counsell along with thee to whom thou art recommended both by thy father and mother And I as if I were thine owne true mother say vnto thee vpon those curses and maledictions which thy parents haue laid vpon thee if thou should'st be disobedient vnto me that yet a while thou continue heere and serue this thy Master which thou hast gotten thee till thou hearest further from mee but not with that foolish loyalty and ignorant honesty as hitherto thou hast done thinking to finde firmenesse vpon a false foundation as most of these Masters now a daies are But doe thou gaine friends which is a durable and lasting commodity sticke closely and constantly vnto them doe not thou liue vpon hopes relying on the vaine promises of Masters who sucke away the substance of their seruants with hollow-hearted and idle promises as the horse-leaches suck bloud and in the end fall off from them wrong them grow forgetfull of their good seruices and deny them any recompence or reward at all Wo be vnto him that growes old in Court The Masters of these times loue more themselues then their seruants neither in so doing doe they doe amisse The like loue ought seruants to beare vnto themselues Liberality was lost long agoe rewards are growne out of date magnificence is fled the countrie and with her all noblenesse Euery one of them is wholly now for himselfe and makes the best hee can of his seruants seruice seruing his turne as hee findes it may stand with his priuate interest and profit And therefore they ought to doe no lesse sithens that they are lesse then they in substance but to liue after their law and to doe as they doe My sonne Parmeno I the rather tell thee this because thy Master as I am informed is as it seemeth likewise vnto mee a Rompenecios one that befooles his seruants and weares them out to the very stumps lookes for much seruice at their hands and makes them small or no recompence He will looke to be serued of all but will part with nothing at all Weigh well my words and perswade thy selfe that what I haue said is true Get thee some friends in his house which is the greatest and preciousest Iewell in the world For with him thou must not thinke to fasten friendship A thing seldome seene where there is such difference of estate and condition as is betweene you two Opportunity thou seest now offers her selfe vnto vs on whose fore-top if wee will but take hold wee shall all of vs be great gainers and thou shalt presently haue something wherewithall to help thy selfe As for that which I told you of it shall bee well and safely kept when time shall serue in the meane while it shall be much for thy profit that thou make Sempronio thy friend Parme. Celestina my hayre stands an end to heare thee I tremble at thy words I know not what I should doe I am in a great perplexity One while I hold thee for my mother another while Calisto for my Master I desire riches but would not get them wrongfully for hee that rises by vnlawfull meanes falls with greater speed then he got vp I would not for all the world thriue by ill gotten gaine Celest. Marry Sir but so would I right or wrong so as my house may be raised high inough I care not Parme. Well wee two are of contrary minds For I should neuer liue contented with ill gotten goods for I hold cheerefull pouerty to be an honest thing Besides I must tell you that they are not poore that haue little but they that desire much And therefore say all you can though neuer so much you shall neuer perswade me in this to be of your beliefe I would faine passe ouer this life of mine without enuy I would passe thorow solitary woods and wildernesses without feare I would take my sleepe without ●●●rtings I would auoyd iniuries with gentle answers indure violence without reuiling

O thou short delight of the world how little do thy pleasure last and how much doe they cost Repentance should not be bought so deare O miserable that I am when shall I recouer so great a losse what shall I doe what counsell shall I take To whom shall I discouer my disgrace why do I conceale it from the rest of my seruants and kinsefolke They clip and note my good name in their Councell-house and publike Assemblie and make mee infamous throughout the whole Kingdome and they of mine owne house and kindred must not know of it I will out amongst them But if I goe out and tell them that I was present it is too late if absent it is too soone And to prouide mee of friends antient seruants and neere àllyes it will aske some time as likewise that we be furnish'd with Armes and other preparations of vengeance O thou cruell Iudge what ill payment hast thou made mee of that my fathers bread which so often thou hast eaten I thought that by thy fauour I might haue kill'd a thousand men without controlment O thou falsifier of faith thou persecutor of the truth thou man moulded of the baser sort of earth Truly is the prouerbe verified in thee that for want of good men thou wast made a Iudge Thou shouldst haue considered that thy selfe and those thou didst put to death were seruants to my Ancestors and me and thy fellowes and companions But when the base to riches doth ascend he regardeth neither kindred nor friend Who would haue thought that thou wouldst haue wrought my vndoing But there is nothing more hurtfull then an vnexpected enemy Why wouldst thou that it should be verified of thee That that which came out of Aetna should consume Aetna And that I hatcht the Crow which pick't out mine eyes Thou thy selfe art a publike delinquent and yet punishest those that were priuate offendors But I would haue thee to know that a priuate fault is lesse then a publike and lesse the inconuenience and danger At least according to the Lawes of Athens which were not written in blood but doe shew that it is a lesse error not to condemne a delinquent then to punish the innocent O how hard a matter is it to follow a iust cause before an vniust Iudge How much more this excesse of my seruants which was not free from offence But consider with all spite of all Stoicall Paradoxe their guilt was not equall though their sufferings alike What deseru'd the one for that which the other did That onely because he was his companion thou shouldst doome them both to death But why doe I talke thus With whom doe I discourse Am I in my right wits What 's the matter with thee Calisto Dream'st thou sleep'st thou or wak'st thou Stand'st thou on thy feete Or liest thou all along Consider with thy selfe that thou art in thy chamber Doest thou not see that the offendor is not present With whome doest thou contend Come againe to thy self weigh with thy selfe that the absent were neuer fōnd iust But if thou wilt be vpright in thy iudgement thou must keepe an eare for either party Doest thou not see that the Law is supposed to be equall vnto all Remember that Romulus the first founder of Rome kill'd his owne brother because he transgressed the Law Consider that Torquatus the Romane slew his owne sonne because he exceeded his Commission And many other like vnto these did this man doe Thinke likewise with thy selfe that if the Iudge were here present hee would make thee this Answer that the Principall and the Accessary the Actor and Consenter doe merit equall punishment Howbeit they were both notwithstanding executed for that which was cōmitted but by one And if that other had not his pardon but receiued a speedy iudgement it was because the fault was notorious and needed no further proofes as also that they were taken in the very Act of murther and that one of them was found dead of his fall from the window And it is likewise to be imagined That that weeping wench which Celestina kept in her house made them to hasten the more by her wofull and lamentable noyse And that the Iudge that he might not make a hurly burly of it that he might not defame mee and that he might not stay till the people should presse together and heare the proclaiming of that great infamy which could not choose but follow mee hee did sentence them so early as he did and the common Hangman which was the Cryer could doe no otherwise that he might cumply with their execution and his owne discharge All which if it were done as I conceiue it to bee I ought rather to rest his debtor and thinke my selfe bound vnto him the longest day of my life not as to my fathers sometimes seruant but as to my true and naturall brother But put case it were not so or suppose I should not conster it in the better sence yet call Calisto to mind the great ioy and solace thou hast had bethinke thy selfe of thy sweete Lady and Mistrisse and thy whole and sole happines and since for her sake thou esteemest thy life as nothing for to doe her seruice thou art not to make any reckoning of the death of others and the rather because no sorrow can equall thy receiued pleasure O my Lady and my life that I should euer thinke to offend thee in thy absence And yet in doing as I doe me thinks it argues against mee that I hold in small esteeme that great and singular fauour which I haue receiued at thy hands I will now no longer thinke on griefe I will no longer entertaine friendship with sorrow O incomparable good O insatiable contentment And what could I haue asked more of heauen in requitall of all my merits in this life if they be any then that which I haue already receiued Why should I not concent my selfe with so great a blessing which being so it stands not with reason that I should be vngratefull vnto him who hath conferr'd vpon mee so great a good I will therefore acknowledge it I will not with care craze my vnderstanding lest that being lost I should fall from so high and so glorious a possession I desire no other honour no other glory no other riches no other father nor mother no other friends nor kinsfolkes In the day I will abide in my chamber In the night in that sweete Paradise in that pleasant groue that greene plot of ground amidst those sweete trees and fresh and delightsome walks O night of sweet rest and quiet O that thou hadst made thy returne O bright shining Phoebus driue on thy Charriot apace make haste to thy iourneys end O comfortable and delightfull starres breake your wont and appeare before your time out of your wonted and continued course O dull and slow clocke I wish to see thee burned in the quickest and loueliest fire that Loue can make For didst thou but