you our fauour from your selues remooue What makes you not your selues those cloudes of masque They vnmasque Particular paines particular thankes doe aske How let me view you ha Are we contemn'd Is there so little awe of our disdaine That any vnder trust of their disguise Should mixe themselues with others of the court And without forehead boldly presse so far As farther none How apt is lenitie To be abusde seueritie to be loth'd And yet how much more doth the seeming face Of neighbour-vertues and their borrowed names Adde of lewd boldnesse to loose vanities Who would haue thought that PHILAVTIA durst Or haue vsurped noble STORGES name Or with that theft haue ventred on our eyes Who would haue thought that all of them should hope So much of our conniuence as to come To grace themselues with titles not their owne In stead of med'cines haue we maladies And such impostumes as PHANTASTE is Grow in our palace we must lance these sores Or all will putrifie Nor are these all For we suspect a farder fraud then this Take off our vaile that shadowes may depart And shapes appeare beloued ARETE So Another face of things presents it selfe Then did of late What! featherd CVPID mask'd And mask'd like ANTEROS And stay more strange Deare MERCVRIE our brother like a page To countenance the ambush of the boy Nor endeth our discouerie as yet GELAIA like a Nymph that but ere-while In male attire did serue ANAIDES CVPID came hither to find sport and game Who heretofore hath beene too conuersant Among our traine but neuer felt reuenge And MERCVRIE bare CVPID companie CVPID we must confesse this time of mirth Proclaim'd by vs gaue opportunitie To thy attempts although no priuiledge Tempt vs no farther we cannot indure Thy presence longer vanish hence away You MERCVRIE we must intreate to stay And heare what we determine of the rest For in this plot we well perceiue your hand But for we meane not a censorian taske And yet to lance these vlcers growne so ripe Deare ARETE and CRITES to you two We giue the charge impose what paines you please Th' incurable cut off the rest reforme Remembring euer what we first decreed Since reuells were proclaim'd let now none bleed ARE. How well DIANA can distinguish times And forther censures keeping to her selfe The doome of gods leauing the rest to vs Come cite them CRITES first and then proceed CRI. First PHILAVTIA for she was the first Then light GELAIA in AGLAIAS name Thirdly PHANTASTE and MORIA next Maine follies all and of the female crew AMORPHVS or EVCOSMOS conterfeit Voluptuous HEDON tane for EVPATHES Brazen ANAIDES and ASOTVS last With his two pages MORVS and PROSAITES And thou the trauellers euill COS approch Impostors all and male deformities ARE. Nay forward for I delegate my power And will that at thy mercie they doe stand Whom they so oft so plainely scorn'd before 'T is vertue which they want and wanting it Honour no garment to their backes can fit Then CRITES practise thy discretion CRI. Adored CYNTHIA and bright ARETE Another might seeme fitter for this taske Then CRITES farre but that you iudge not so For I not to appeare vindicatiue Or mindfull of contempts which I contemn'd As done of impotence must be remisse Who as I was the authour in some sort To worke their knowledge into CYNTHIAS sight So should be much seuerer to reuenge Th' indignitie hence issuing to her name But there 's not one of these who are vnpain'd Or by themselues vnpunished for vice Is like a furie to the vicious minde And turnes delight it selfe to punishment But we must forward to designe their doome You are offenders that must be confest Doe you confesse it ALL We doe CRI. And that you merit sharpe correction ALL Yes CRI. Then we reseruing vnto DELIAES grace Her further pleasure and to ARETE What DELIA granteth thus doe sentence you That from this place for poenance knowne of all Since you haue drunke so deeply of selfe-Loue You two and two singing a palinode March to your seuerall homes by NIOBES stone And offer vp two teares apiece thereon That it may change the name as you must change And of a stone be called weeping Crosse Because it standeth crosse of CYNTHIAS way One of whose names is sacred TRIVIA And after poenance thus perform'd you passe In like set order not as MIDAS did To wash his gold off into Tagus streame But to the well of knowledge Helicon Where purged of your present maladies Which are not few nor slender you become Such as you faine would seeme and then returne Offring your seruice to great CYNTHIA This is your sentence if the goddesse please To ratifie it with her high consent The scope of wise mirth vnto fruict is bent CYN. We doe approue thy censure belou'd CRITES Which MERCVRY thy true propitious friend A deitie next IOVE belou'd of vs Will vnder-take to see exactly done And for this seruice of discouerie Perform'd by thee in honor of our name We vow to guerdon it with such due grace As shall become our bountie and thy place Princes that would their people should doe well Must at themselues begin as at the head For men by their example patterne out Their imitations and reguard of lawes A vertuous Court a world to vertue drawes PALINODE AMO. From spanish shrugs french faces smirks irps and all affected humours CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs PHA. From secret friends sweet seruants loues doues and such phantastique humours CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs AMO. From stabbing of armes flap-dragons healths whiffes and all such swaggering humours CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs PHA. From wauing of fannes coy glaunces glickes cringes and all such simpring humours CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs AMO. From making loue by atturny courting of puppets and paying for new acquaintance CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs PHA. From perfum'd dogs munkeyes sparrowes dildo's and parachito's CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs AMO. From wearing bracelets of haire shooe-ties gloues garters and rings with poesies CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs PHA. From pargetting painting slicking glazing and renewing old riueld faces CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs AMO. From squiring to tilt-yards play-houses pageants and all such publique places CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs PHA. From entertayning one gallant to gull an other and making fooles of either CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs AMO. From belying ladies fauours noble-mens countenance coyning counterfeit imployments vaine-glorious taking to them other mens seruices and all selfe-louing humours CHORVS Good MERCVRY defend vs SONG NOw each one drie his weeping eyes And to the well of knowledge haste Where purged of your maladies You may of sweeter waters taste And with refined voice report The grace of CYNTHIA and her court THE EPILOGVE GEntles be 't knowne to you since I went in I am turn'd rimer and doe thus begin The Author iealous how your sense doth take His trauailes hath enioyned me to make Some short and ceremonious epilogue But if I yet
of whose mysteries Our nets must still be clogd with heauie lead To make them sinke and catch For chearefull gold Was neuer found in the Pierian streames But wants and scornes and shames for siluer sold What what shall we elect in these extreames Now by the shafts of the great CYRRHAN Poet That beare all light that is about the world I would haue all dull Poet-haters know it They shall be soule-bound and in darknesse hurld A thousand yeares as Sathan was their fyre Ere any worthie the poetique name Might I that warme but at the Muses fire Presume to guard it should let deathlesse Fame Light halfe a beame of all her hundred eyes At his dimme taper in their memories Flie flie you are too neere so odorous flowers Being held too neere the sensor of our sense Render not pure nor so sincere their powers As being held a little distance thence O could the world but feele how sweet a touch The Knowledge hath which is in loue with goodnesse If Poesie were not rauished so much And her compos'de rage held the simplest woodnesse Though of all heats that temper humane braines Hers euer was most subtle high and holy First binding sauage liues in ciuile chaines Solely religious and adored solely If was felt this they would not thinke a loue That giues it selfe in her did vanities giue Who is in earth though low in worth aboue Most able t' honour life though least to liue And so good Friend safe passage to thy freight To thee a long peace through a vertuous strife In which le ts both contend to vertues height Not making fame our obiect but good life GEOR. CHAPMAN To his worthy friend the Author H. HOLLAND IN that this booke doth deigne SEIANVS name Him vnto more then CAESARS loue it brings For where he could not with ambition's wings One quill doth heaue him to the height of fame Yee great-ones though whose ends may be the same Know that how euer we doe flatter kings Their fauours like themselues are fading things With no lesse enuie had then lost with shame Nor make your selues lesse honest then you are To make our author wiser then he is Ne of such crimes accuse him which I dare By all his Muses sweare be none of his The men are not some faults may be these times He acts those men and they did act these crimes Amicissimo meritissimo BEN IONSON QVod arte ansus et hic tuâ Poeta Si anderent hominum Deique iuris Consulti veteres sequi aemulariérque O omnes saperemus ad salutem His sed sunt veteres araneosi Tam nemo veterum est sequutor vt tu Illos quòd sequeris nouator audis Factamen quod agis tuique primâ Libricanitie induantur horâ Nam chartis pueritiae est neganda Nascuntúrque senes oportet illi Libri queis dare vis perennitatem Priscis ingenium facit labérque Te parem hos superes vt futuros Ex nostrâ vitiositate sumas Quâ priscos superamus futuros I. D. AD VTRAMQVE ACADEMIAM DE BENIAMIN IONSONIO HIc ille est primus qui doctum drama Britannis Graiorum antiqua Latij monimenta Theatri Tanquam explorator versans foelicibus ausis Prebebit Magnis coeptis Gemina astra fauete Alterutrâ veteres contenti laude Cothurnum hic Atque pari soccum tractat Sol scenicus arte Das VOLPONE iocos fletus SEIANE dedisti At si IONSONIAS mulctatas limite Musas Angustâ plangent quiquam Vos dicite contrà O nimiùm miseros quibus ANGLIS ANGLICA lingua Aut non sat nota est aut queis sen trans mare natis Hand nota omnino Vegetet cum tempore Vates Mutabit patriam fiêtque ipse ANGLVS APOLLO E. BOLTON To my deare friend M. BEN IONSON IF it might stand with iustice to allow The swift conuersion of all follies now Such is my mercy that I could admit All sorts should equally approue the wit Of this thy euen worke whose growing fame Shall raise thee high and thou it with thy name And did not manners and my loue command Me to forbeare to make those vnderstand Whom thou perhaps hast in thy wiser doome Long since firmely resolu'd shall neuer come To know more then they doe I would haue showne To all the world the art which thou alone Hast taught our tongue the rules of time of place And other rites deliuer'd with the grace Of comick stile which only is farre more Then any English stage hath knowne before But since our subtle gallants thinke it good To like of nought that may be vnderstood Lest they should be disprou'd or haue at best Stomacks so raw that nothing can digest But what 's obscene or barkes Let vs desire They may continue simply to admire Fine clothes and strange words may liue in age To see themselues ill brought vpon the stage And like it Whilst thy bold and knowing Muse Contenes al praise but such as thou wouldst chuse FRANC BEAVMONT VPON THE SILENT WOMAN HEare you bad writers and though you not see I will informe you where you happy bee Prouide the most malicious thoughts you can And bend them all against some priuate man To bring him not his vices on the stage Your enuie shall be clad in so poore rage And your expressing of him shall be such That he himselfe shall thinke he hath no touch Where he that strongly writes although he meane To scourge but vices in a labour'd scene Yet priuate faults shall be so well exprest As men doe act hem that each priuate brest That findes these errors in it selfe shall say He meant me not my vices in the play FRANC BEAVMONT To my friend M. BEN IONSON IF thou had'st itch'd after the wild applause Of common people and had'st made thy lawes In writing such as catch'd at present voice I should commend the thing but not thy choise But thou hast squar'd thy rules by what is good And art three ages yet from vnderstood And I dare say in it there lyes much wit Lost till thy readers can grow vp to it Which they can ne're out-grow to find it ill But must fall backe againe or like it still FRANC BEAVMONT Vpon his Foxe Vpon his Catiline Euery MAN IN HIS HVMOVR A Comoedie Acted in the yeere 1598 By the then Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants The Author B. I. IUVEN. Haud tamen inuideas vati quem pulpita pascunt LONDON Printed by WILLIAM STANSBY M. DC. XVI. TO THE MOST LEARNED AND MY HONOR'D FRIEND Mr. Cambden SIR THere are no doubt a supercilious race in the world who will esteeme all office done you in this kind an iniurie so solemne a vice it is with them to vse the authoritie of their ignorance to the crying downe of Poetry or the Professors But my gratitude must not leaue to correct their error since I am none of those that can suffer the benefits confer'd vpon my youth to perish with my
his eye but is turn'd into all manner of varietie by his adult'rate simile's MIT You paint forth a monster COR. He will preferre all Countries before his natiue and thinkes he can neuer sufficiently or with admiration enough deliuer his affectionate conceit of forraine Atheistical policies but stay Obserue these hee 'le appeare himselfe anon MIT O this is your enuious man MACILENTE I thinke COR. The same sir. Act I. Scene I. MACILENTE VIri est fortunae caecuatem facilè ferre T is true but Stoique where in the vast world Doth that man breathe that can so much command His bloud and his affection well I see I striue in vaine to cure my wounded soule For euery cordiall that my thoughts apply Turnes to a cor'siue and doth eate it farder There is no taste in this Philosophie T is like a potion that a man should drinke But turnes his stomacke with the sight of it I am no such pild Cinique to beleeue That beggery is the onely happinesse Or with a number of these patient fooles To sing My minde to me a kingdome is When the lanke hungrie belly barkes for foode I looke into the world and there I meet With obiects that doe strike my bloud-shot eyes Into my braine where when I view my selfe Hauing before obseru'd this mâ—n is great Mighty and fear'd that lou'd and highly fauour'd A third thought wise and learned a fourth rich And therefore honor'd a fifth rarely featur'd A sixth admir'd for his nuptiall fortunes When I see these I say and view my selfe I wish the organs of my â—ight were crackt And thâ—t the engine of my griefe could cast Mine eye-balls like two globes of wild-fire forth To melt this vnproportion'd frame of nature Oh they are thoughts that haue transfixt my heart And often i'the strength of apprehension Made my cold passion stand vpon my face Like drops of dew on a stiffe cake of yce GREX. COR. This alludes well to that of the Poet Inuidus suspirat geâ—â—it inâ—â—titque demes Sâ—dâ—t frigidus intuem quod odit MIT O peace you breake the Scene MACI. Soft who be these I 'le lay me downe a while till they be past GREX. COR. Signior note this gallant I pray you MIT What is he COR. A tame Rooke you le take him presently List. Act I. Scene II. SOGLIARDO CARLO BVFFONE MACILENTE NAy looke you CARLO this is my Humour now I haue land and money my friends left me well and I will be a Gentleman whatsoeuer it cost me SOG. Tut and I take an humour of a thing once I am like your taylors needle I goe through but for my name Signior how thinke you will it not serue for a gentlemans name when the Signior is put to it Ha CAR. Let me heare how is 't SOG. Signior Inâ—ulso Sogliardo me thinkes it sounds well CAR. O excellent tut and all fitted to your name you might very well stand for a gentleman I know many Sogliardos gentlemen SOG. Why and for my wealth I might be a Iustice of Peace CAR. I and a Constable for your wit SOG. All this is my Lordship you see here and those Farmes you came by CAR. Good steps to gentility too mary but SOGLIARDO if you affect to be a gentleman indeede you must obserue all the rare qualities humours and complements of a gentleman SOG. I know it signior and if you please to instruct I am not too good to learne He assure you CAR. Inough sir I le make admirable vse i' the proiection of my medicine vpon this lumpe of copper here I le bethinke me for you sir. SOG. Signior I will both pay you and pray you and thanke you and thinke on you GREX. CORD Is not this purely good MACIL Sbloud why should such a prick-card hine as this Berich Ha a foole such a transparent gull That may be scene through wherefore should he haue land Houses and lordships O I could eate my entrailes And sinke my soule into the earth with sorrow CAR. First to be an accomplisht gentleman that is a gentleman of the time you must giue o're house-keeping in the countrey and liue altogether in the city amongst gallants where at your first apparance 't were good you turn'd foure or fiue hundred acres of your best land into two or three trunks of apparel you may doe it without going to a coniurer and be sure you mixe your selfe stil with such as flourish in the spring of the fashion and are least popular studie their carriage and behauiour in all learne to play at Primero and Passage and euer when you lose ha'two or three peculiar othes to sweare by that no man else sweares but aboue all protest in your play and affirme Vpon your credit As you are a true gentleman at euery cast you may doe it with a safe conscience I warrant you SOG. O admirable rare he cannot choose but be a gentleman that ha's these excellent gifts more more I beseech you CAR. You must endeuour to feede cleanly at your Ordinarie sit melancholy and picke your teeth when you cannot speake and when you come to Playes be humorous looke with a good startch't face and ruffle your brow like a new boot laugh at nothing but your owne iests or else as the Noblemen laugh That 's a speciall grace you must obserue SOG. I warrant you sir. CAR. I and â—it o' the stage and stout prouided you haue a good suit SOG. O I 'le haue a suit only for that sir. CAR. You must talke much of your kinred and allies SOG. Lies no Signior I shall not neede to doe so I haue kinred i' the city to talke of I haue a neece is a marchants wife and a nephew my brother SORDIDOS sonne of the Innes of Court CAR. O but you must pretend alliance with Courtiers and great persons and euer when you are to dine or suppe in any strange presence hire a fellow with a great chaine though it be copper it 's no matter to bring you letters feign'd from such a Nobleman or such a Knight or such a Ladie To their worshipfull right rare and noble qualified friend or kinsman Signior Inâ—ulso Sogliardo giue your selfe stile enough And there while you intend circumstances of newes or enquiry of their health or so one of your familiars whom you must carry about you still breakes it vp as 't were in a iest and reades it publikely at the table at which you must seeme to take as vnpardonable offence as if he had torne your Mistris colours or breath'd vpon her picture and pursue it with that hot grace as if you would aduance a challenge vpon it presently SOG. Stay I doe not like that humour of challenge it may be accepted but I 'le tell you what 's my humour now I will doe this I will take occasion of sending one of my suites to the Taylors to haue the pockeâ— repaired or so and there such a letter as you talke of broke open and all shall be
pouertie that my sleepes shall be brokes and their hearts not broken that my coffers shall bee full and yet care theirs emptie and yet merry T is time that a crosse should beare flesh and bloud since flesh and bloud cannot beare this crosse GREX. MIT What will he hang himselfe COR. Faith I it seemes his Prognostication has not kept touch with him and that makes him despaire MIT Beshrow me he will be out of his humour then indeed SOR Tut these star-monger knaues who would trust 'hem one saies darke and rainy when 't is as cleere as christall another saies tempestuous blasts and stormes and 't was as calme as a milke-bowle here bee sweet rascals for a man to credit his whole fortunes with You skie-staring cocks-combs you you fat braines out vpon you you are good for nothing but to sweat night-caps and make rug-gownes deare You learned men and haue not a legion of deuils a vostre seruice a vostre seruice by heauen I thinke I shall die a better scholler then they but soft how now sirra HINE. Here 's a letter come from your sonne sir. SORD. From my sonne sir what would my sonne sir some good newes no doubt Sweet and deare father desiring you first to send mee your blessing which is more worth to me then gold or siluer I desire you likewise to be aduertised that this Shrouetide contrary to custome we vse alwaies to haue reuels which is indeed dancing and makes an excellent shew in truth especially if wee gentlemen bee well attir'd which our seniors note and thinke the better of our fathers the better we are maintain'd and that they shall know if they come vp and haue any thing to doe in the law therefore good father these are for your owne sake as well as mine to re-desire you that you let me not want that which is fit for the setting vp of our name in the honorable volume of gentilitie that I may say to our calumniators with TVLLIE Ego sum ortus domus meae tu occasus tuae And thus not doubting of your fatherly beneuolence I humbly aske you blessing and pray god to blesse you Yours if his owne How 's this Yours if his owne is he not my sonne except he be his owne sonne Belike this is some new kinde of subscription the gallants vse Wel wherefore doest thou stay knaue Away goe Here 's a letter indeede ieâ—els and beneuolence is this a weather to send beneuolence or is this a season to reuell in Slid the deuil and all takes part to vexe me I thinke this letter would neuer haue come now else now now when the sunne shines and the aire thus cleere Soule if this hold we shall shortly haue an excellent crop of corne spring out of the high waies the streets and houses of the towne will be hid with the ranknesse of the fruits that grow therein spight of good husbandry Goe to I 'le preuent the â—ight of it come as quickly as it can I will preuent the sight of it I haue this remedie heauen Stay I 'le trie the paine thus a little Ô nothing nothing Well now shall my sonne gaine a beneuolence by my death or any body be the better for my gold or so forth No aliue I kept it from 'hem and dead my ghost shall walke about it and preserue it my son and daughter shall starue ere they touch it I haue bid it as deep as hell from the sight of heauen and to it I goe now Falls off Act III. Scene VIII RVSTICI RVST. 1. To him AYe me what pittifull sight is this help help help RVST. 2. How now what 's the matter RVST. 1. O here 's a man has hang'd himselfe helpe to get him againe RVST. 2. Hang'd himselfe Slid carry him afore a iustice 't is chance medley o' my word RVST. 3. How now what 's here to doe RVST. 4. How comes this RVST. 2. One has executed himselfe contrary to order of law and by my consent he shall answer 't RVST. 5. Would he were in case to answere it RVST. 1. Stand by he recouers giue him breath SORD. Oh. RVST. 5. Masse 't was well you vvent the foot-way neighbour RVST. 1. I and I had not cut the halter SORD. How cut the halter Aye me I am vndone I am vndone RVST. 2. Mary if you had not beene vndone you had beene hang'd I can tell you SORD. You thred-bare horse-bread-eating rascals if you vvould needes haue beene meddling could you not haue vntied it but you must out it and in the midst too Aye me RVST. 1. Out on me 't is the catterpiller SORDIDO how cursed are the poore that the viper was blest vvith this good fortune RVST. 2. Nay how accurst art thou that art cause to the curse of the poore RVST. 3. I and to saue so wretched a caytife RVST. 4. Curst be thy fingers that loos'd him RVST. 2. Some desperate furie possesse thee that thou maist hang thy selfe too RVST. 5. Neuer maist thou be sau'd that sau'd so damn'd a monster SORDID What curses breathe these men how haue my deeds Made my lookes differ from another mans That they should thus detest and lothe my life Out on my wretched humour it is that Makes me thus monstrous in true humane eyes Pardon me gentle friends I 'le make faire mends For my foule errors past and twenty-fold Restore to all men vvhat with vvrong I rob'd them My barnes and garners shall stand open still To all the poore that come and my best graine Be made almes-bread to feed halfe-famisht mouthes Though hither to amongst you I haue liu'd Like an unsauourie muck-hill to my selfe Yet now my gather'd heapes being spread abroad Shall turne to better and more fruitfull vses Blesse then this man curse him no more for sauing My life and soule together O how deeply The bitter curses of the poore doe pierce I am by wonder chang'd come in with me And witnesse my repentance now I proue No life is blest that is not grac't with loue RVST. 2. O miracle see vvhen a man ha's grace RVST. 3. Had 't not beene pitty so good a man should haue beene cast away RVST. 2. Well I 'le get our clarke put his conuersion in the Acts and Monuments RVST. 4. Doe for I warrant him hee 's a Martyr RVST. O god how he wept if you mark't it did you see how the teares trill'd RVST. 5. Yes beleeue me like master vicars bowles vpon the greene for all the world 3. or 4. O neighbour god's blessing o' your heart neighbour 't was a good gratefull deed GREX. COR. How now MITIS what 's that you consider so seriously MIT Troth that which doth essentially please me the vvarping condition of this greene and soggy multitude but in good saith signior your author hath largely out-stript my expectation in this Scene I will liberally confesse it For when I saw SORDIDO so desperately intended I thought I had had a hand of him then COR.
HORA. O IVPITER mee sir mee by any meanes I beseech you mee sir CRIS. No saith I 'le venture those now Thou shalt see I loue thee come HORACE HORA. Nay then I am desperate I follow you sir 'T is hard contending with a man that ouer-comes thus CRIS. And how deales MECOENAS with thee liberally ha Is he open-handed bountifull HORA. Hee 's still himselfe sir CRIS. Troth HORACE thou art exceeding happy in thy friends and acquaintance they are all most choice spirits and of the first ranke of Romanes I doe not know that poet I protest ha's vs'd his fortune more prosperously then thou hast If thou would'st bring me knowne to MECoeNAS I should second thy desert well thou should'st find a good sure assistant of mee one that would speake all good of thee in thy absence and be content with the next place not enuying thy reputation with thy patron Let me not liue but I thinke thou and I in a small time should list them all out of fauour both VIRGIL VARIVS and the best of them and enioy him wholy to our selues HORA. Gods you doe know it I can hold no longer This brize hath prickt my patience Sir your silkenesse Cleerely mistakes MECOENAS and his house To thinke there breathes a spirit beneath his roofe Subiect vnto those poore affections Of vnder-mining enuie and detraction Moodes onely proper to base groueling minds That place is not in Rome I dare affirme More pure or free from such low common euils There 's no man greeu'd that this is thought more rich Or this more learned each man hath his place And to his merit his reward of grace Which with a mutuall loue they all embrace CRIS. You report a wonder 't is scarce credible this HORA. I am no torture to enforce you to beleeue it but 't is so CRIS. Why this enflames mee with a more ardent desire to bee his then before but I doubt I shall find the entrance to his familiaritie somwhat more then difficult HORACE HORA. Tut you 'le conquer him as you haue done me There 's no standing out against you sir I see that Either your importunitie or the intimation of your good parts or CRIS. Nay I 'le bribe his porter and the groomes of his chamber make his doores open to mee that way first and then I 'le obserue my times Say he should extrude mee his house to day shall I therefore desist or let fall my suite to morrow No I 'le attend him follow him meet him i' the street the high waies run by his coach neuer leaue him What Man hath nothing giuen him in this life without much labour HORA. And impudence Archer of heauen PHOEBVS take thy bow And with a full drawne shaft naile to the earth This PYTHON that I may yet run hence and liue Or brawnie HERCVLES doe thou come downe And though thou mak'st it vp thy thirteenth labour Rescue me from this HYDRA of discourse here Act III. Scene II. ARISTIVS HORACE CRISPINVS HORACE well met HORA. O welcome my releeuer ARISTIVS As thou lou'st me ransome me ARIS. What ayl'st thou man HORA. 'Death I am seaz'd on here By a Land-Remora I cannot stirre Not moue but as he please CRIS. Wilt thou goe HORACE HORA. 'Hart he cleaues to me like ALCIDES shirt Tearing my flesh and sinnewes Ô I ha' beene vext And tortur'd with him beyond fortie feuers For IOVES sake find some meanes to take me from him ARIS. Yes I will but I 'le goe first and tell MECOENAS CRIS. Come shall we goe ARIS. The iest will make his eyes runne yfaith HORA. Nay ARISTIVS ARIS. Farewell HORACE HORA. 'Death will a' leaue me FVSCVS ARISTIVS doe you heare Gods of Rome you said you had somewhat to say to me in priuate ARIS. I but I see you are now imploi'd with that gentleman 't were offence to trouble you I 'le take some fitter oportunitie farewell HORA. Mischiefe and torment Ô my soule and heart How are you crampt with anguish Death it selfe Brings not the like convulsions Ô this day That euer I should view thy tedious face CRIS. HORACE what passion what humour is this HORA. Away good prodigie afflict me not A friend and mocke me thus neuer was man So left vnder the axe how now Act III. Scene III. MINOS LICTORS CRISPINVS HORACE THat 's he in the imbrodered hat there with the ash-colour'd feather his name is LABERIVS CRISPINVS LICT. LABERIVS CRISPINVS I arrest you in the Emperours name CRIS. Me sir doe you arrest me LICT. I sir at the sute of Master MINOS the pothecarie HORA. Thankes great APOLLO I will not slip thy fauour offered me in my escape for my fortunes CRIS. Master MINOS I know no master MINOS Where 's HORACE HORACE HORACE MINO. Sir doe not you know me CRIS. O yes I know you master MINOS 'cry you mercy But HORACE Gods me is he gone MINO. I and so would you too if you knew how Officer looke to him CRIS. Doe you heare master MINOS pray let 's be vs'd like a man of our owne fashion By IANVS and IVPITER I meant to haue paied you next weeke euery drachme Seeke not to eclipse my reputation thus vulgarly MINO. Sir your oathes cannot serue you you know I haue forborne you long CRIS. I am conscious of it sir Nay I beseech you gentlemen doe not exhale me thus remember 't is but for sweet meates LICT. Sweet meat must haue sowre sawce sir Come along CRIS. Sweet master MINOS I am forfeited to eternall disgrace if you doe not commiserate Good officer be not so officious Act III. Scene IIII TVCCA PYRGVS MINOS LICTORS CRISPINVS HISTRIO DEMETRIVS WHy how now my good brace of bloud-hounds whither doe you dragge the gent'man you mungrels you curres you bandogs wee are Captaine TVCCA that talke to you you inhumane pilchers MINO. Sir he is their prisoner TVCC. Their pestilence What are you sir MINO. A citizen of Rome sir TVCC. Then you are not farre distant from a foole sir MINO. A pothecarie sir TVCC. I knew thou wast not a physician fough out of my nostrils thou stink'st of lotium and the syringe away quack-saluer Follower my sword PYRG. Here noble leader you le doe no harme with it I 'le trust you TVCC. Doe you heare you good-man slaue hooke ramme rogue catch-pole lose the gent'man or by my veluet armes LICT. What will you doe sir The Officer strikes vp his heeles TVCC. Kisse thy hand my honourable actiue varlet and imbrace thee thus PYRG. O patient metamorphosis TVCC. My sword my tall rascall LICT. Nay soft sir Some wiser then some TVCC. What and a wit to By PLVTO thou must bee cherish'd slaue here 's three drachmes for thee hold PYRG. There 's halfe his lendings gone TVCC. Giue mee LICT. No sir your first word shall stand I 'le hold all TVCC. Nay but rogue LICT. You would make a rescue of our prisoner sir you TVCC. I a rescue away inhumane varlet Come come I neuer rellish aboue one iest at most