hope to make winter bootes o' thy hide yet she feares not damning hell fire cannot parch her blacker then she is do' ye grin chimney sweeper Ori. VVhat is 't Miranda Mir. That you would please Lucinda might attend you Col. That suit sir I consent not to Luc. My husband My deerest Angelo Nor. More liggam bobs is not this the fellow that swom Like a duck to th' shoare in our sea-service Col. The very same do not you know me now sir My name is Angelo though Colonna vaild it Your Countryman and kinsman born in Florence VVho from the neighbour Island here of Goza VVhas captive lead in that unfortunate day VVhen the Turk bore with him three thousand soules Since in Constantinople have I liv'd VVhere I beheld this Turkish Damosell first A tedious suitor was I for her love And pittying such a beauteous case should hide A soule prophan'd with infidelity I labourd her conversion with my love And doubly won her to faire faith her soule She first betroth'd and then her faith to me But fearfull there to consummate this contract VVe fled and in that flight were tane againe By those same Gallies fore Valletta fought Since in your service I attended her VVhere what I saw and heard hath joy'd me more Then all my past afflictions greiv'd before Val. Wonders crown wonders take thy wife Miranda Be henceforth called our Malta's better angell And thou her evill Mountferrat Nor. Wee 'l call him Cacodemon with his block gib there his Succuba his devils seed his spawn of Phlegeton that o' my conscience was bred o' the spume of Cocitus do ye snarle you black jill she looks lie the Picture of America Val. Why stay we now Mir. This last petition to the Court I may bequeath the keeping of my Fort To this my kinsman toward the maintenance Of him and his faire vertuous wife discreet Loyall and valiant I dare give him you Val. You must not ask in vaine sir Col. My best thanks To you my noble Cozen and my service To the whole Court may I deserve this bounty Val. Proceed to th' ceremony one of our Esguard Degrade Mountferrat first Mount I will not sue For mercy 't were in vaine fortune thy worst Musick An altar discovered with Tapers and a book on it The two Bishops stand on each side of it Mountferrat as the Song is singing ascends up the altar See see the staine of honor vertues foe Of Virgins fair fames the foule overthrow That broken hath his oath of chastity Dishonor'd much this holy dignity Off with his Roab expell him forth this place Whilst we rejoyce and sing at his disgrace Val. Since by thy actions thou hast made thy self Unworthy of that worthy signe thou wearest And of our sacred order into which For former vertues we receiv'd thee first According to our Statutes Ordinances For praise unto the good a terror to The bad and an example to all men We here deprive thee of our habit and Declare thee unworthy our society From which we do expell thee as a rotten Corrupted and contagious member Esq. Using th' authority th' Superiour Hath given unto me I unty this knot And take from thee the pleasing yoak of heaven We take from off thy breast this holy crosse Which thou hast made thy burthen not thy prop Thy spurs we spoile thee off eleaving thy heeles Bare of thy honour that have kick'd against Our orders precepts next we reave thy sword And give thee armelesse to thy enemies For being foe to goodnesse and to God Last 'bout thy stiff neck we this halter hang And leave thee to the mercy of the Court Val. Invest Miranda Song Faire child of vertue honors bloome That here with burning zeale dost come With joy to ask the white crosse cloak And yeild unto this pleasing yoake That being yong vowes chastity And choosest wilfull poverty As this flame mounts so mount thy zeale thy glory Rise past the Stars and fix in Heaven thy story 1. Bish. What crave you gentle sir Mir. Humble admittance To be a brother of the holy Hospitall Of great Jerusalem 2. Bish. Breath out your vow Mir. To heaven and all the bench of Saints above Whose succour I implore t' enhable me I vow henceforth a chaste life not to enjoy Any thing proper to my self obedience To my superiours whom Religion And Heaven shall give me ever to defend The vertuous fame of Ladies and to oppugne Even unto death the Christian enemy This do I vow to accomplish Esq. Who can tell H 'as he made other vow or promis'd marriage To any one or is in servitude All He 's free from all these 1. Bish. Put on his spurs and girt him with the sword The scourge of infidels and tipes of speed Buildst thy faith on this Mir. On him that di'd On such a sacred figure for our sins 2. Bish. Here then we fix it on thy left side for Thy encrease of faith Christian defence and service To th' poor and thus near to thy heart we plant it That thou maist love it even with all thy heart With thy right hand protect preserve it whole For if thou fighting 'gainst heavens enemies Shall fly away abandoning the crosse The Ensigne of thy holy Generall With shame thou justly shalt be rob'd of it Chas'd from our company and cut away As an infectious putrified limb Mir. I aske no favour 1 Bish. Then receive the yoak Of him that makes it sweet and light in which Thy soule find her eternall rest Val. Most welcome All Welcome our noble brother Val. Break up the Court Mountferrat though your deeds Conspiring 'gainst the lives of innocents Hath forfeited your own we will not staine Our white Crosse with your blood your doom is then To marry this coagent of your mischiefes Which done we banish you the continent If either after three dayes here be found The hand of Law layes hold upon your lives Nor. Away French stallion now you have a Barbary mare of your own go leap her and engender young devillings Val. VVe will find something noble Norandine To quit your merit so to civill feasts According to our customes and all pray The dew of grace blesse our new Knight to day Exeunt FINIS THE WOMANS PRIZE OR The Tamer Tamed Actus Primus Scaena Prima Enter Moroso Sophocles and Tranio with Rosemary as from a wedding Moroso GOd give 'em joy Tra. Amen Soph. Amen say I to The Puddings now i' th proof alas poor wench Through what a mine of patience must thou worke Ere thou know'st good houre more Tra. T is too true Certaine Me thinks her father has dealt harshly with her Exceeding harshly and not like a Father To match her to this Dragon I protest I pity the poore Gentlewoman Mor. Me thinks now He 's not so terrible as people think him Soph. This old thiefe flatters out of meere devotion To please the father for his second daughter Tra. But shall he have her Soph. Yes
mystery now why the Gentlemen weare but three barres of the crosse and the knights the whole one Mir. Why Captaine Nor. Mary sir to put us in remembrance we are but three quarters cross'd in our licence and pleasures but the poore Knights cross'd altogther the brothers at Armes may yet meet with their Sisters at Armes now and then in brotherly love but the poore Knights cannot get a Lady for love nor money 't is not so in other Countries I wis pray haste you for I 'le along and see what will come on 't Exit Mir. Collonna provide strait all necessaries For this remove the Lytter for the Lady And let Lucinda beare her company You shall attend on me Coll. With all my duties Exit Mir. How fare you gracious Mistresse Ori. O Miranda You pleas'd to honour me with that faire title When I was free and could dispose my selfe But now no smile no word no looke no touch Can I impart to any but as theft From my Gomera and who dares accept Is an usurper Mir. Leave us I have touch'd thee Thou fairer vertue then thou' rt beautifull Hold but this test so rich an one was never Altar ready Tapers booke Try'd by the hand of man on the vast earth Sit brightest Oriana is it sinne Still to professe I love you still to vow I shall doe ever heaven my witnesse be 'T is not your eye your cheeke your tongue no part That superficially doth snare young men Which has caught me read over in your thoughts The story that this man hath made of you And thinke upon his merit Ori. Onely thought Can comprehend it Mir. And can you be so Cruell thankelesse to destroy his youth That sav'd your honour gave you double life Your own and your faire Infants that when fortune The blind foe to all beauty that is good Bandied you from one hazard to another Was even heavens Messenger by providence Call'd to the Temple to receive you there Into these Armes to give ease to your throwes As if 't had thunder'd take thy due Miranda For she was thine Gomera's jealousie Strooke death unto thy heart to him be dead And live to me that gave thee second life Let me but now enjoy thee Oh regard The torturing fires of my affections Ori. Oh master them Miranda as I mine Who follows his desires such tyrants serves As will oppresse him insupportably My flames Miranda rise as high as thine For I did love thee 'fore my marriage Yet would I now consent or could I think Thou wert in earnest which by all the soules That have for chastity been sanctified I cannot in a moment I doe know thou 'ldst call faire temperance up to rule thy blood Thy eye was ever chaste thy countenance too honest And all thy woings was like maidens talk Who yeeldeth unto pleasures and to lust Is a poore captive that in Golden Fetters And pretious as he thinkes but holding gyves Frets out his life Mir. Find such another woman And take her for his labour any man Ori. I was not worthy of thee at my best Heaven knew I was not I had had thee else Much lesse now gentle sir Mirandas deeds Have been as white as Orianas fame From the beginning to this point of time And shall we now begin to staine both thus Think on the legend which we two shall breed Continuing as we are for chastest dames And boldest Souldiers to peruse and read I and read thorough free from any act To cause the modest cast the booke away And the most honour'd Captaine fold it up Mir Fairest let goe my hand my pulse beats thick And my mov'd blood rides high in every vaine Lord of thy selfe now Souldier and ever I would not for Aleppo this fraile Bark This barke of flesh no better fleeres-man had Then has Mountferrat's may you kisse me Lady Ori. No though 't be no essentiall injury It is a circumstance due to my Lord To none else and my deerest friend if hands Playing together kindle heate in you What may the game at lips provoke unto Mir. Oh what a tongue is here whil'st she doth teach My heart to hate my fond unlawfull love She talkes me more in love with love to her My fires she quencheth with her arguments But as she breathes 'em they blow fresher fires Sir further now my flame cooles husband wife There is some holy mystery in those names That sure the unmarried cannot understand Ori. Now thou art strait and do'st enamour me So far beyhind a carnall earthly love My very soule doats on thee and my spirits Doe embrace thine my minde doth thy mind kisse And in this pure conjunction we enjoy A heavenlyer pleasure then if bodies met This this is perfect love the other short Yet languishing fruition every Swaine And sweating Groome may clasp but our's refinde Two in ten ages cannot reach unto Nor is our spirituall love a barren joy For mark what blessed issue we 'll beget Deerer then children to posterity A great example to mens continence And womens chastity that is a childe More faire and comfortable then any heire Mir. If all wives were but such lust would not finde One corner to inhabit sinne would be So strange remission superfluous But one petition I have done Ori. What Sweet Mir. To call me Lord if the hard hand of death seize on Gomera first Ori. Oh much too worthy How much you undervalue your own price To give your unbought selfe for a poore woman That has been once sold us'd and lost her show I am a garment worne a vessell crack'd A zoane untide a Lilly trod upon A fragrant flowre cropt by anothers hand My colour sullyde and my odour chang'd If when I was new blossom'd I did feare My selfe unworthy of Mirandas spring Thus over-blown and seeded I am rather Fit to adorn his Chimney then his bed Mir. Rise miracle save Malta with thy vertue If words could make me proud how has she spoke Yet I will try her to the very block Hard-hearted and uncivill Oriana Ingratefull payer of my industries That with a soft painted hypocrisie Cozen'st and geer'st my perturbation Expect a witty and a fell revenge My comfort is all men will thinke thee false Beside thy husband having been thus long Enter Nor. Collonna Lucinda with a Childe on this occasion in my Fort and power I le heare no more words Captaine let 's away With all care see to her and you Lucinda Attend her diligently she is a wonder Nor. Have you found she was well delivered What had she a good Mid-wife is all well Mir. You are merry Norandine Luc. Why weepe you Lady Ori. Take the poor Babe along Col. Madam 't is here Ori. Dissembling death why didst thou let me live To see this change my greatest cause to grieve Exeunt Scaena secunda Enter Astorius Castriot Valetta Gomera Synnet Knights 2 Bishops Mountferrat guarded by Corporall and Souldiers Abdella a Gentleman with a cloake sword
there A fitter hand then mine to reach her frets And play down diddle to her Petro. I shall watch ye By. Doe Petro. And I shall have justice By. Where Petro. That 's all one I shall be with you at a turne hence forward By. Get you a posset too and so good ev'n sir Exeunt Enter Petruchio Iaques and Pedro Iaq. And as I told your worship all the hangings Brasse Pewter Plate ev'n to the very looking-glasses Ped. And that that hung for our defence the Armor And the march Beere was going too Oh Iaques What a sad sight was that Iaq. Even the two Rundlets The two that was our hope of Muskadell Better nev'r tongue tript over these two Cannons To batter brawne withall at Christmas sir Ev'n those two lovely twyns the enemy Had almost cut off cleane Petru. Goe trim the house up And put the things in order as they were Exit Ped. and Iaq. I shall finde time for all this could I finde her But constant any way I had done my businesse Were she a whore directly or a scold An unthrift or a woman made to hate me I had my wish and knew which way to rayne her But while she shewes all these and all their losses A kinde of linsey woolsey mingled mischiefe Not to be ghest at and whether true or borrowed Not certaine neither what a hap had I Enter Maria And what a tydie fortune when my fate Flung me upon this Beare-whelp here she comes Now if she have a colour for the fault is A cleanly one upon my conscience I shall forgive her yet and finde a something Certaine I married for her wit I le marke her Mar. Not let his wife come neere him in his sicknes Not come to comfort him she that all lawes Of heaven and Nations have ordain'd his second Is she refus'd and two old Paradoxes Peeces of five and fifty without faith Clapt in upon him h 'as a little pet That all young wives must follow necessary Having their Mayden-heads Petru. This is an Axiome I never heard before Mar. Or say rebellion If we durst be so foule which two faire words Alas win us from in an houre an instant We are so easie make him so forgetfull Both of his reason honesty and credit As to deny his wife a visitation His wife that though she was a little foolish Lov'd him Oh heaven forgive her for 't nay doted Nay had run mad had she not married him Petru. Though I doe know this falser then the devill I cannot choose but love it Mar. What doe I know But those that came to keepe him might have kill'd him In what a case had I been then I dare not Beleeve him such a base debosh'd companion That one refusall of a tender maide Would make him faigne this Sicknesse out of need And take a Keeper to him of fourescore To play at Billiards one that mew'd content And all her teeth together not come neere him Petru. This woman would have made a most rare Jesuite She can prevaricate on any thing There was not to be thought a way to save her In all imagination beside this Mar. His unkinde dealing which was worst of all In sending who knowes whether all the plate And all the houshold-stuffe had I not crost it By a great providence and my friends assistance Which he will thanke me one day for alas I could have watch'd as well as they have serv'd him In any use better and willinger The Law commands me to doe it love commands me And my own duty charges me Petru. Heav'n blesse me And now I have said my Prayers I le goe to her Are you a wife for any man Mar. For you Sir If I were worse I were better That you are well At least that you appeare so I thanke heaven Long may it hold and that you are here I am glad too But that you have abus'd me wretchedly And such a way that shames the name of husband Such a malicious mangy way so mingled Never looke strangely on me I dare tell you With breach of honesty care kindnesse manners Petru. Holla you kick too fast Mar. Was I a stranger Or had I vow'd perdition to your person Am I not married to you tell me that Petru. I would I could not tell you Mar. Is my presence The stock I come of which is worshipfull If I should say right worshipfull I ly'd not My Grandsire was a Knight Petru. O' the Shire Mar. A Souldier Which none of all thy Family e're heard off But one conductor of thy name a Grasier That ran away with pay or am I grown Because I have been a little peevish to you Onely to try your temper such a dogge-latch I could not be admitted to your presence Petru. If I endure this hang me Mar. And two deaths heads Two Harry Groats that had their faces worne Almost their names away too Petru. Now heare me For I will stay no longer Mar. This you shall How ever you shall think to flatter me For this offence which no submission Can ever mediate for you 'l finde it so What ever you shall doe by intercession What you can offer what your Land can purchase What all your friends or families can win Shall be but this not to forsweare your knowledge But ever to forbeare it now your will sir Petru. Thou art the subtlest woman I think living I am sure the lewdest now be still and marke me Were I but any way addicted to the devill I should now think I had met a play-fellow To profit by and that way the most learned That ever taught to murmur Tell me thou Thou most poor paltry spitefull whore doe you cry I le make you roare before I leave Mar. Your pleasure Petru. Was it not sinne enough thou Fruiterer Full of the fall thou eat'st thou devils broker Thou Seminary of all sedition Thou sword of veng'ance with a thred hung o're us Was it not sinne enough and wickednes In full abundance was it not vexation At all points cap a pe nay I shall pinch you Thus like a rotten rascall to abuse The name of heaven the tye of marriage The honour of thy friends the expectation Of all that thought thee vertuous with rebellion Childish and base rebellion but continuing After forgivenesse too and worse your mischiefe And against him setting the hope of heaven by And the deere reservation of his honour Nothing above ground could have won to hate thee Well goe thy wayes Mar. Yes Petru. You shall heare me out first What punishment mai'st thou deserve thou thing Thou Idle thing of nothing thou pull'd Primrose That two houres after art a weed and wither'd For this last flourish on me am I one Selected out of all the husbands living To be so ridden by a Tit of ten pence Am I so blind and Bed-rid I was mad And had the Plague and no man must come neere me I must be shut up and my substance bezel'd And an old woman watch
Bride away in spight of Hercules Casta. I am betraid Lav. Nay start not Ladie 't is for you that I come and for your beautie 't is for you Lavall honours this night to you the sacred shrine I humbly bow offring my vows and prayers to you I live Gab. In with the powder quickly so that and the wine will rock ye Lav. Here to the health of the most beauteous and divine fair Casta the star of sweetnesse Gab. Fear him not I 'll die first And who shall pledge ye Lav. Thou shalt thou tann'd Gipsey and worship to that brightnesse give cold Tartar By ye shall not stir ye are my Mistris the glory of my love the great adventure the Mistris of my heart and shee my whore Gab. Thou ly'st base beastly Lord drunker then anger thou sowsed Lord got by a surfeit thou lyest basely Nay stir not I dare tell thee so Sit you still If I be whore it is in marrying thee that art so absolute and full a villain no Sacrament can save that piece tied to thee How often hast thou woo'd in those flatteries almost those very words my constancie what goddesse have I not been or what goodnesse what star that is of any name in heaven or brightnesse which of all the vertues but drunkennesse and drabbing thy two morals have not I reach'd to what Spring was ever sweeter what Scythian snow so white what crystal chaster Is not thy new wife now the same too Hang thee base Bigamist thou honour of ill women Casta. How 's this O heaven defend me Gab. Thou salt-itch for whom no cure but ever burning brimstone can be imagin'd Lav. Ha ha ha Gab. Dost thou laugh thou breaker of all law all religion of all faith thou foul contemner Lav. Peace thou paltry woman and sit by me Sweet Gab. By the Divell Lav. Come and lull me with delights Gab. It works amain now Lav. Give me such kisses as the Queen of shadows gave to the sleeping boy she stole on Patmus lock round about in snakie wreathes close folded those rosie arms about my neck O Venus Gab. Fear not I say Lav. Thou admirable sweetnesse distill thy blessings like those silver drops that falling on fair grounds rise all in roses Shoot me a thousand darts from those fair eyes and through my heart transfix 'em all I 'll stand 'em Send me a thousand smiles and presently I 'll catch 'em in mine eyes and by Love's power turn 'em to Cupids all and fling 'em on thee How high she looks and heavenly More wine for me Ga. Give him more wine and good friend be not fearful Lav. Here on my knee thou goddesse of delights this lustie grape I offer to thy Beauties see how it leaps to view that perfect rednesse that dwels upon thy lips now how it blushes to be outblush'd Oh let me feed my fancie and as I hold the purple god in one hand dancing about the brim and proudly swelling deck'd in the pride of nature young and blowing so let me take fair Semele in the other and sing the loves of gods then drink their Nectar 's not yet desir'd Casta. Oh Lav. Then like lustie Tarquin turn'd into flames with Lucrece coy denyals his blood and spirit equally ambitious I force thee for mine own Casta. O help me Justice help me my Chastitie Lav. Now I am bravely quarried Perolot above Per. 'T is my Sister Gab. No bawdy slave no Treacher she is not carried Per. She 's loose again and gone I 'll keep my place still Mar. Now it works bravely stand he cannot hurt ye Lav. O my sweet Love my life Hee falls downe and sleeps Mar. He sinks Lav. My blessing Mar. So now he is safe a while Gab. Lock all the doors wench then for my wrongs Per. Now I 'll appear to know all Gab. Be quick quick good Marie sure and sudden Per. Stay I must in first Gab. O' my conscience it is young Perolot O my stung conscience it is my first and noblest Love Mar. Leave wondring and recollect your self the man is living equally wrong'd as you and by that divell Per. 'T is most true Ladie your unhappie fortune I grieve for as mine own your fault forgive too if it be one This is no time for kisses I have heard all and known all which mine eares are crack'd apieces with and my heart perish'd I saw him in your chamber saw his fury and am afire till I have found his heart out What do you mean to doe for I 'll make one Gab. To make his death more horrid for he shall die Per. He must he must Gab. wee 'll watch him till he wakes then bind him and then torture him Per. 'T is nothing No take him dead drunk now without repentance his leacherie inseam'd upon him Gab. Excellent Per. I 'll do it my self and when 't is done provide ye for wee 'll away for Italie this night Gab. Wee 'll follow thorow all hazzards Per. O false Lord unmanly mischievous how I could curse thee But that but blasts thy fame have at thy heart fool loop-holes I 'll make enough to let thy life out Lav. Oh does the divell ride me Per. Nay then Lav. Murder Nay then take my share too Per. Help Oh he has slain me Bloody intentions must have blood Lav. Hah Per. Heaven Gab. He sinks he sinks for ever sinks O fortune O sorrow how like seas thou flowest upon me Here will I dwell for ever Weep Maria weep this young mans misfortune O thou truest Enter Spirit Lav. What have I done Spir. That that has mark'd thy soul man Lav. And art thou come again thou dismall spirit Spir. Yes to devour thy last Lav. Mercie upon me Spir. Thy hour is come Succession honour pleasure and all the lustre thou so long hast look'd for must here have end Summon thy sins before thee Lav. O my affrighted soul Spir. There lies a black one thy owne best servant by thy own hand slain thy drunkennesse procur'd it There 's another think of fair Gabriella there she weeps and such tears are not lost Lav. O miserable Spir. Thy foul intention to the vertuous Casta Lav. No more no more thou wild-fire Spir. Last thy last wife think on the wrong she suffers Lav. O my miserie oh whither shall I flie Spir. Thou hast no faith fool Heark to thy knell Sings and vanishes Lav. Millions of sins muster about mine eyes now murders ambitions lust false faiths O horror in what a stormie form of death thou rid'st now Me thinks I see all tortures fires and frosts deep sinking caves where nothing but despair dwels the balefull birds of night hovering about 'em a grave me thinks now opens and a herse hung with my Arms tumbles into it oh oh my afflicted soule I cannot pray and the least childe that has but gooddesse in him may strike my head off so stupid are my powers I 'll lift mine eyes up though Mar. Cease these laments they are too poor
in their dying So may the Gods reward ye in your ashes But y' ar the Sister of my King more prophesies Els I should utter of ye true loves and loyall Blesse themselves ever from ye so I leave ye Calis Prithee be angry still young man good faire Sir Chide me againe what wood this man doe pleas'd That in his passions can bewitch soules stay Eumen. Upon my life she loves him Calis Pray stay Po. No Cal. I doe command ye Po. No ye cannot Ladie I have a spell against yee Faith and Reason Yee are to weak to reach me I have a heart too But not for hawkes meat Ladie Cal. Even for Charity Leave me not thus aflicted you can teach me Po. How can you Preach that Charitie to others That in your owne soule are an Athiest Beleeving neither power nor feare I trouble ye The Gods be good unto ye Cal. Amen Lucip. Ladie She Swounes Cle. O royall Madam Gentlemen for heav'n sake They come back Po. Give her fresh air she comes again away sirs And here stand close till we perceive the working Eumen. Ye have undone all Pol. So I feare 2. Cap. She loves ye Eumen. And then all hopes lost this way Pol. Peace she rises Clean. Now for my purpose Fortune Calis Wher 's the Gentleman Lucip. Gone Madam Cal. Why gone Lucip. Has dispatch't his busines Cal. A came to speake with me A did Clean. A did not Cal. For I had many questions Lucip. On my Faith Madam he Talk't a great while to ye Cal. Thou conceiv'st not He talk't not as he should doo o my heart Away with that sad sight didst thou ere love me Lucip. Why doe you make that question Cal. If thou didst Run run wench run nay see how thou stir'st Lucip. Whither Cal. If 't wer for any thing to please thy selfe Thou wood'st run to 'th devill but I am growne Clean. Fie Ladie Cal. I aske none of your fortunes nor your loves None of your bent desires I slack ye are not In love with all men are ye one for shame You will leave your honour'd mistris why doe ye stare so What is that ye see about mee tell me Lord what am I become I am not wilde sure Heaven keepe that from me o Cleanthe help me Or I am suncke to death Cle. Ye have offended and mightily love is incenst against yee And therefore take my Councell to the Temple For that 's the speediest physick before the Goddesse Give your repentant prayers aske her will And from the Oracle attend your sentence She is milde and mercifull Calis I will o Venus Even as thou lov'st thy selfe Clean. Now for my fortune Exeunt Calis and Women Pol. What shall I doe 1. Cap. VVhy make your selfe Po. I dare not No Gentlemen I dare not be a villaine Though her bright beauty would entice an Angell I will to 'th King my last hope get him a Woman As we before concluded and as ye passe Give out the Spartans are in armes and terrible And let some letters to that end be fain'd too And sent to you some Poets too to the Generall And let me worke be nere him still Eumen. We will Sir Pol. Farwell and pray for all what ere I will ye Doe it and hope a faire end Eumen. The Gods speed ye Exeunt Enter Stremon Foole Boy and Servants Servant He lies quiet Strem. Let him lye and as I told ye Make ready for this shew h 'as divers times Been calling upon Orpheus to appeare And shew the joyes now I wil be that Orpheus And as I play and sing like beasts and trees I woo'd have you shapt and enter thou a Dog foole I have sent about your sutes the Boy a bush An Asse you you a Lion Foole. I a dog I le fit you for a Dog Bow wow Strem. 'T is excellent Steale in and make no noise Foole. Bow wow Strem. Away rogue Exeunt Enter Priest and Chilax Priest Good sweet friend be not long Chi. Thou think'st each houre ten Till I be ferreting Pr. You know I love ye Chi. I will not be above an houre let thy robe be readie And the doore be kept Knock Pr. Who knocks there Cleanthe knocks within Yet more busines Enter Cleanthe Chi. Have ye more pensioners the Princesse woman Nay then I le stay a little what games a foote now Clean. Now is the time Chi. A rancke bawde by this hand too She grinds a both sides hey boyes Priest How your brother Siphax Loves he the Princesse Cle. Deadlie and you know He is a Gentleman descended noblie Chi. But a ranck knave as ever pist Cle. â—old Mother Here 's more gold and some jewells Chi. Here 's no villany I am glad I came to 'th hearing Pr. Alas Daughter What would ye have me doe Chi. Hold off ye old whore Ther 's more gold comming all 's mine all Cle. Doe ye shrink now Did ye not promise faithfully and told me Through any danger Pr. Any I can wade through Cle. Ye shall and easilie the sin not seene neither Here 's for a better stole and a new vaile mother Come ye shall be my friend if all hit Chi. Hang me I le make ye richer then the Goddesse Pr. Say then I am yours what must I doe Cle. I' th morning But very early will the Princesse visit The Temple of the Goddesse being troubled With strange things that distract her from the Oracle Being strongly too in love she will demand The Goddesse pleasure and a Man to cure her That Oracle you give describe my Brother You know him perfectly Pr. I have seene him often Cle. And charge her take the next man she shall meet with When she comes out you understand me Pr. VVell Cle. Which shal be he attending this is all And easily without suspition ended Nor none dare disobey 't is Heaven that does it And who dares crosse it then or once suspect it The venture is most easie Pr. I will doe it Clean. As ye shall prosper Pr. As I shall prosper Cle. Take this too and farewell but first harke hither Chi. What a young whores this to betray her mistris A thousand Cuckolds shall that husband be That marries thee thou art so mischievous I le put a spoke among your wheeles Clean. Be constant Pr. 'T is done Chi. I le doe no more at drop shot then Exit Chilax Pr. Farewell wench Exeunt Priest and Cleanthe Finis Actus Tertii Actus Quartus Scaena Prima Enter a Servant and R. Bax and Stremon at the doore Servant A stirs a stirs Strem. Let him I am ready for him He shall not this day perish if his passions May bee fed with Musick are they ready Enter Memnon Ser. All all see where he comes Strem. I le be straight for him Exit Stremon Enter Eumenes and Captaines Ser. How sad he lookes and sullen Stand close Here are the Captaines my feares past now Mem. Put case i' th other world She doe not love me
heaven and here the same Thou the wooer and the wood Thou the hunger and the food Thou the prayer and the prayed Thou what is or shall be said Thou still young and golden tressed Make me by thy Answer blessed Chi. When Pr. Now speake handsomly and small by all meanes I have told ye what Thunder Chi. But I 'le tell you a new tale Now for my necke verse I have heard thy prayers And marke me well Musicke Venus descends Nun. The Goddesse is displeased much The Temple shakes and totters she appeares Bow Lady bow Venus Purge me the Temple round And live by this example henceforth sound Virgin I have seene thy teares Heard thy wishes and thy feares Thy holy Incence flew above Harke therefore thy doome in love Had thy heart bin soft at first Now thou had'st alayd thy thirst Had thy stubborne will but bended All thy sorrows here had ended Therefore be just in love And strange fortune thou must prove And for thou hast bin sterne and coy A dead love thou shalt enjoy Calis O gentle goddesse Venus Rise thy doome is sed And feare not I shall please thee with the dead Venus ascends Nun. Goe up into the Temple and there end Your holy rites the Goddesse smiles upon ye Exeunt Cal. Nun. Enter Chilax in his Robe Chi. I 'le no more Oracles nor Miracles Nor no more Church worke I le be drawn hang'd first Am not I torne a pieces with the thunder Death I can scarce believe I live yet It gave me on the buttocks a cruell a huge bang I had as lieue a had 'em scratcht with dog-whips Be quiet henceforth now ye feele the end on 't I would advise ye my old friends the good gentlewoman Is strucken dumbe and there her grace sits mumping Like an old Ape eating a Brawn sure the good Goddesse Knew my intent was honest to save the Princesse And how we young men are entic'd to wickednesse By these lewd women I had paid for 't els too I am monstrous holy now and cruel fearefull O! 't was a plaguy thump charg'd with a vengeance Enter Siphax walkes softly over the Stage and goes in Woo'd I were well at home the best is 't is not day Who 's that ha Siphax I 'le be with you anon sir Ye shall be Oracled I warrant ye And thunderd too as well as I your Lordship Enter Memnon Eumenes Stremon and two carrying Torches Must needs enjoy the Princesse yes ha torches And Memnon comming this way he 's dog mad And ten to one appearing thus unto him Hee worries me I must goe by him Eumen. Sir Mem. Aske me no further questions what art thou How dost thou stare stand off nay looke upon me I doe not shake nor feare thee Drawes his sword Chi. A will kill me This is for Church worke Mem. Why dost thou appeare now Thou wert fairly slain I know thee Diocles And know thine envie to mine honour but Chi. Stay Memnon I am a Spirit and thou canst not hurt me Eumen. This is the voyce of Chilax Strem. What makes he thus Chi. 'T is true that I was slaine in field but fowly By multitudes not manhood therefore marke me I doe appeare againe to quit mine honour And on thee single Mem. I accept the challenge Where Chi. On the Stigian banks Mem. When Chi. Four dayes hence Mem. Goe noble Ghost I will attend Chi. I thanke ye Strem. Ye have sav'd your throat and handsomly Farwell sir exit Chi. Mem. Sing me the Battell of Pelusium In which this Worthie died Eumen. This will spoile all and make him worse Then ere he was sitt downe sir And give your selfe to rest Song ARme arme arme arm the Scouts are all come in Keepe your rankes close and now your honours win Behold from yonder hill the foe appeares Bowes bills glaves arrowes shields and Speares Like a darke wood he comes or tempest powring O view the wings of horse the meadows scowring The vant-guard marches bravely hark the Drums dub dub They meet they meet now the Battell comes See how the Arrows fly That darken all the skie Harke how the Trumpets sound Hark how the hills rebound Tara-tara-tara Hark how the horses charge in boyes in boyes in tara tara The Battell totters now the wounds begin O how they cry O how they dy Roome for the valiant Memnon arm'd with thunder See how he breakes the rankes asunder They fly they flie Eumenes has the Chace And brave Polibius makes good his place To the plaines to the Woode To the Rocks to the floods They fly for succour Follow follow follow Hey hey Harke how the Souldiers hollow Brave Diocles is dead And all his Souldiers fled The battell 's won and lost That many a life hath cost Mem. Now forward to the Temple Exeunt Enter Chilax Chi. Are ye gone How have I scapt this morning by what miracle Sure I am ordain'd for some brave end Enter Cloe Cloe. How is it Chi. Come 't is as well as can be Cloe. But is it possible This should be true you tell me Chi. 'T is most certaine Cloe. Such a grosse Asse to love the Princesse Chi. Peace Pull your robe close about ye you are perfect In all I taught ye Cloe. Sure Chi. Gods give thee good luck 'T is strange my braines should still be beating knaverie For all these dangers but they are needfull mischiefes And such are Nuts to me and I must doe 'em You will remember me Cloe. By this kisse Chilax Chilax No more of that I feare another Thunder Cloe. We are not i' th' Temple man Enter Siphax Chi. Peace here he comes Now to our businesse handsomely away now exit Chilax and Cloe Siph. 'T was sure the Princesse for he kneel'd unto her And she lookt every way I hope the Oracle Has made me happy me I hope she lookt for Enter Chilax and Cloe at the other doore Fortune I will so honour thee Love so adore thee She is here againe lookes round about againe too 'T is done I know 't is done 't is Chilax with her And I shall know of him whos 's that Chi. Speake softly The Princesse from the Oracle Siph. She views me By heav'n she beckens me Chi. Come neare she woo'd have ye Si. O royall Lady Kisses her hand Chi. She wills ye read that for belike she 's bound to silence For such a time she is wondrous gracious to ye Si. Heav'n make me thankfull Chi. She woo'd have ye read it He Reads Si. Siphax the will of Heaven hath cast me on thee To be thy wife whose will must be obay'd Use me with honour I shall love thee dearly And make thee understand thy worths hereafter Convey me to a secret Ceremony That both our hearts and loves may be united And use no language till before my brother We both appeare where I will shew the Oracle For till that time I am bound I must not answer Siph. O happy I Chi. Ye are a made
man Siph. But Chilax Where are her women Chi. None but your Graces Sister Because she would have it privat to the world yet Knowes of this businesse Siph. I shall thanke the Chilax Thou art a carefull man Chi. Your Graces servant Siph. I 'le find a fit place for thee Chi. If you will not There 's a good Lady will she points yee forward Away and take your fortune not a word sir So you are greas'd I hope Exit Siph. Cloe. manet Chi. Enter Stremon Foole and Boy Chi. Stremon Foole Picus Where have you left your Lord Strem. I' th' Temple Chilax Chi. Why are ye from him Strem. Why the King is with him And all the Lords Chi. Is not the Princesse there too Strem. Yes And the strangest coile amongst 'em She weeps bitterly The King entreats and frownes my Lord like Autumne Drops off his hopes by handfulls all the Temple Sweats with this Agonie Chi. Where 's young Polidor Strem. Dead as they said o' th' sudden Chi. Dead Strem. For certaine But not yet knowne abroad Chi. There 's a new trouble A brave young man he was but we must all die Strem. Did not the Generall meet you this morning Like a tall stallion Nun Chi. No more a that Boy Strem. You had been ferreting Chi. That 's all one Foole My Master foole that taught my wits to traffique What has your wisdome done how have you profited Out with your Audit come you are not emptie Put out mine eye with twelve pence do you shaker What thinke you of this shaking here 's with coxcombe Ha boyes ha my fine rascalls here 's a Ring Pulls out a Purse How right they goe Foole. O let me ring the fore-bell Chi. And here are thumpers Chickens golden rogues â—it wit ye rascalls Foole. I have a Sty here Chilax Chi. I have no gold to cure it not a penny Not one crosse Cavalier we are dull Sou'diers Grosse heavy-headed fellowes fight for victualls Foole. Why ye are the spirits of the time Chi. By no meanes Foole. The valiant firie Chi. Fy fie no Foole. Be-lee-me sir Chi. I woo'd I could sir Fool. I will satisfie ye Chi. But I will not content you alas poore boy Thou shewst an honest nature weepes for thy Master There 's a red rogue to buy thee handkerchers Foole. A was an honest Gentleman I have lost too Chi. Ye have indeed your labour Foole but Stremon Doest thou want money too no virtue living No firking out at fingers ends Strem. It seemes so Chi. Will ye all serve me Strem. Yes when ye are Lord Generall For lesse I will not goe Chi. There 's gold for thee then Thou hast a souldiers minde Foole Fool. Here your first man Chi. I will give thee for thy wit for 't is a fine wit A daintie diving wit hold up just nothing Goe graze i' th' commons yet I am mercifull There 's six pence buy a Saucer steale an old gowne And beg i' th' Temple for a Prophet come away boyes Let 's see how things are carried Foole up sirra You may chance get a dinner Boy your preferment I 'le undertake for your brave Masters sake You shall not perish Fool. Chilax Chi. Please me well Foole And you shall light my pipes Away to th' Temple But stay the Kings here sport upon sport Boyes Enter King Lords Siphax kneeling Cloe with a Vaile King What would you have Captaine Speake suddenly for I am wondrous busie Siph. A Pardon Royall sir King For what Siph. For that Which was heav'ns will should not be mine alone sir My marrying with this Lady King It needs no Pardon For marriage is no sin Si. Not in it selfe sir But in presuming too much Yet heav'n knowes So does the Oracle that cast it on me And the Princesse royall sir King What Princesse Siph. O be not angrie my dread King your Sister King My sister she 's i' th' Temple man Siph. She is here sir Lord The Captain 's mad she is kneeling at the Altar King I know she is with all my heart good Captain I do forgive ye both be unvail'd Lady Puts off her vaile Will ye have more forgivenes the mans frantick Come let 's goe bring her out God give yee joy sir Siph. How Cloe my old Cloe Exit King Lords Cloe. Even the same sir Chi. Gods give your manhood much content Strem. The Princesse Lookes something mustie since her comming over Fool. 'T were good youl 'd brush her over Siph. Fooles and Fidlers Make sport at my abuse too Foole. O 't is the nature Of us Fooles to make bold with one another But you are wise brave sirs Chi. Cheere up your Princesse Believe it sir the King will not be angry Or say he were why 't was the Oracle The Oracle and like your Grace the Oracle Strem. And who most mighty Siphax Siph. With mine owne whore Cloe. With whom els should ye marry speak your conscience Will ye transgresse the law of Armes that ever Rewards the Souldier with his owne sins Siph. Devills Cloe. Ye had my maiden-head my youth my sweetnes Is it not justice then Siph. I see it must be But by this hand I 'le hang a lock upon thee Cloe. You shall not need my honesty shall doe it Siph. If there be wars in all the world Cloe. I 'le with ye For you know I have bin a souldier Come curse on when I need another Oracle Chi. Send for me Siphax I 'le fit ye with a Princesse And so to both your honours Foole. And your graces Siph. The Devill grace ye all Cloe. God a mercy Chilax Chi. Shall we laugh halfe an houre now Strem. No the King comes And all the traine Chi. Away then our Act 's ended Exeunt Enter King Calis Memnon and Cleanthe Curtisan Lords King You know he do's deserve ye loves ye dearly You know what bloody violence had us'd The Hearse ready Polidor Eumenes Captains Upon himselfe but that his brother crost it You know the same thoughts still inhabit in him And covet to take birth Look on him Lady The wars have not so far consum'd him yet Cold age disabled him or sicknesse sunk him To be abhorr'd looke on his Honour sister That beares no stamp of time no wrinkles on it No sad demolishment nor death can reach it Looke with the eyes of heaven that nightlie waken To view the wonders of my glorious Maker And not the weaknesse looke with your vertuous eyes And then clad royaltie in all his conquests His matchlesse love hung with a thousand merits Eternall youth attending Fame and Fortune Time and Oblivion vexing at his vertues He shall appeare a miracle looke on our dangers Looke on the publique ruine Calis O deare brother King Fie let us not like proud and greedy waters Gaine to give off againe this is our Sea And you his Cynthia govern him take heed His stouds have bin as hie and full as any And gloriously now is got up to the girdle The
all pleasure els are servants Yet but consider how this wealth was purchas'd 'T will trouble the possession Champ. You sir know I got it and with honour Din. But from whom Remember that and how you 'll come indeed To houses bravely furnish'd but demanding Where it was bought this souldier will not lie But answer truly this rich cloth of Arras I made my prize in such a Ship this Plate Was my share in another these faire Jewells Comming a shore I got in such a Village The Maid or Matron kill'd from whom they were ravish'd The Wines you drinke are guilty too for this This Candie Wine three Merchants were undone These Suckets breake as many more in briefe All you shall weare or touch or see is purchas'd By lawlesse force and you but revell in The teares and grones of such as were the owners Champ. 'T is false most basely false Verta. Let loosers talke Din. Lastly those joyes those best of joyes which Hymen Freely bestowes on such that come to tye The sacred knot he blesses wonne unto it By equall love and mutuall affection Not blindly led with the desire of riches Most miserable you shall never taste of This Marriage night you 'll meet a Widowes bed Or failing of those pleasures all Brides looke for Sinne in your wish it were so Champ. Thou art a Villaine A base malitious slanderer Cler. Strike him Din. No he is not worth a blow Champ. O that I had thee In some close vault that onely would yeild roome To me to use my Sword to thee no hope To run away I would make thee on thy knees Bite out the tongue that wrong'd me Verta. Pray you have patience Lamira This day I am to be your Soveraigne Let me command you Champ. I am lost with rage And know not what I am my selfe nor you Away dare such as you that love the smoke Of peace more then the fire of glorious Warre And like unprofitable drones feed on Your grandsires laboures that as I am now Were gathering Bees and fil'd their Hive this Country With brave triumphant spoiles censure our Actions You object my prizes to me had you seene The horrour of a Sea-fight with what danger I made them mine the fire I fearelesse fought in And quench'd it in mine enemies blood which straight Like Oyle pour'd out on 't made it burne anew My Deck blowne up with noise enough to mocke The lowdest thunder and the desperate fooles That Boorded me sent to defie the tempest That were against me to the angrie Sea Frighted with men throwen ore no victory But in despight of the foure Elements The Fire the Ayre the Sea and sands hid in it To be atchiev'd you would confesse poore men Though hopelesse such an honourable way To get or wealth or honour in your selves He that through all these dreadfull passages Pursued and overtooke them unafrighted Deserves reward and not to have it stild By the base name of theft Din. This is the Courtship That you must looke for Madam Cler. 'T will doe well When nothing can be done to spend the night with Your tongue is sound good Lord I could wish For this young Ladyes sake this leg this arme And there is something els I will not name Though 't is the onely thing that must content her Had the same vigour Champ. You shall buy these scoffes With your best blood helpe me once noble anger Nay stirre not I alone must right my selfe And with one leg transport me to correct These scandalous praters ô that noble wounds Falls Should hinder just revenge D' ye jeere me too I got these not as you doe your diseases In Brothells or with riotous abuse Of wine in Tavernes I have one leg shot One arme disabled and am honour'd more By loosing them as I did in the face Of a brave enemy then if they were As when I put to Sea you are French men onely In that you have bin laied and cur'd goe to You mock my leg but every bone about you Makes you good Almanack-makers to foretell What wether we shall have Din. Put up your Sword Cler. Or turne it to a Crutch there't may be usefull And live on the relation to your Wife Of what a brave man you were once Din. And tell her What a fine vertue 't is in a young Lady To give an old man pap Cler. Or hire a Surgeon To teach her to roule up your broken limbes Din. To make a Pultesse and endure the sent Of oiles and nasty Plaisters Vert. Fie sir fie You that have stood all dangers of all kinds To yeild to a rivalls scoffe Lamira Shed teares upon Your Wedding day this is unmanly Gentlemen Champ. They are teares of anger o that I should live To play the woman thus All powerfull heaven Restore me but one houre that strength agen That I had once to chastise in these men Their follies and ill manners and that done When you please I 'll yeild up the fort of life And doe it gladly Cler. We ha' the better of him We ha' made him crye Verdo. You shall have satisfaction And I will doe it nobly or disclaime me Beaup. I say no more you have a Brother Sister This is your Wedding day we are in the streete And howsoever they forget their honour 'T is fit I loose not mine by their example Verta. If there be Lawes in Paris looke to answer This insolent affront Cler. You that live by them Study 'em for heavens sake for my part I know not Nor care not what they are Is their ought els That you would say Din. Nothing I have my ends Lamira weepes I have said too much I feare So dearely once I lov'd her that I cannot Endure to see her teares Exiunt Dionant and Cleremont Champ. See you performe it And doe it like my Nephew Verdo. If I faile in 't Nere know me more Cousen Beaupre Champ. Repent not What thou hast done my life thou shalt not find I am decrepit in my love and service I will be young and constant and beleeve me For thou shall find it true in scorne of all The scandalls these rude men have throwne upon me I 'le meete thy pleasures with a young mans ardour And in all circumstances of a Husband Performe my parts Lamira Good Sir I am your servant And 't is too late now if I did repent Which as I am a virgin yet I doe not To undoe the knot that by the Church is tyed Onely I would beseech ye as you have A good opinion of me and my vertues For so you have pleas'd to stile my innocent weakenes That what hath pass'd beween Dinant and me Or what now in your hearing he hath spoken Beget not doubts or feares Champ. I apprehend you You thinke I will be jealous as I live Thou art mistaken sweet and to confirme it Discourse with whom thou wilt ride where thou wilt Feast whom thou wilt as often as thou wilt For I will have
no other guards upon thee Then thine owne thoughts Lamira I 'le use this liberty With moderation Sir Beaup. I am resolv'd Steale off I 'le follow you Champ. Come Sir you droope Till you find cause which I shall never give Dislike not of your son in Law Verta. Sir You teach me The language I should use I am most happy In being so neere you Exeunt Verdone and Beaupre Lamira O my feares good nurse Follow my Brother unobserv'd and learne Which way he takes Nurs. I will be carefull Madam Exit Nurse Cham. Betweene us complements are superfluous One Gentlemen th' affront we have met here Wee 'l thinke upon hereafter 't were unfit To cherish any thought to breed unrest Or to our selves or to our Nuptiall feast Exeunt Enter Dinant and Cleremont Cler. We shall have sport ner fear 't Din. What sport I prithee Cler. Why we must fight I know it and I long for 't It was apparent in the fiery eye Of young Verdoone Beaupre look'd pale and shooke too Familiar signes of anger They are both brave fellowes Tride and approv'd and I am prou'd to encounter With men from whom no honour can be lost They will play up to a man and set him off When ere I goe to the field heaven keepe me from The meeting of an unflesh'd youth or Coward The first to get a name comes on too hot The Coward is so swift in giving ground There is no overtaking him without A hunting Nag well breath'd too Din. All this while You ne'r thinke on the danger Cler. Why 't is no more Then meeting of a dousen Friends at Supper And drinking hard mischeif comes there unlook'd for I am sure as suddaine and strikes home as often For this we are prepar'd Din. Lamira Loves Her Brother Beaupre dearely Cler. What of that Din. And should he call me to account for what But now I speake nor can I with mine honour Recant my words that little hope is left me Ere to enjoye what next to heaven I long for Is taken from me Cler. Why what can you hope for She being now married Din. On my Cleremont To you all secrets of my heart lye open And I rest most secure that whatsoer'e I looke up there is as a private thought And will no farther wrong me I am a Frenchman And for the greater part we are borne Courtiers She is a woman and how ever yet No heat of service had the power to melt Her frozen Chastity time and opportunitie May worke her to my ends I confesse ill ones And yet I must pursue 'em now her marriage In probabilitie will no way hurt But rather help me Cler. Sits the wind there pray you tell me How farr off dwells your love from lust Din. Too neere But prithee chide me not Cler. Not I goe on boye I have faults my self and will not reprehend A crime I am not free from for her Marriage I doe esteeme it and most batchellors are Of my opinion as a faire protection To play the wanton without losse of honour Din. Would she make rise of 't so I were most happy Cler. No more of this Judge now Whither I have the guift of prophecie Enter Beaupre and Verdoone Beaup. Monsieur Dinant I am glad to find you Sir Din. I am at your service Verd. Good Monsieur Cleremont I have long wish'd To be knowne better to you Cler. My desires Embrace your wishes Sir Beaup. Sir I have ever Esteem'd you truly noble and professe I should have bin most proud to have had the honour To call you Brother but my Fathers pleasure Denied that happinesse I know no man lives That can command his passions and therefore Dare not condemne the late intemperate language You were pleas'd to use to my Father and my Sister Hee 's old and she a woman I most fortie My honour does compell me to entreat you To doe me the favour with your sword to meete me A mile without the Citie Din. You much honour me In the demand I 'l gladly waite upon you Beaup. O Sir you teach me what to say the time Din. With the next Sun if you thinke fit Beaup. The place Din. Nere to the vineyard eastward from the Citie Beaup. I like it well this gentleman if you please Will keepe me company Cler. That is agreed on And in my friends behalf I will attend him Verd. You shall not misse my service Beaup. Good day Gentlemen Ex. Beaup. and Virdoone Din. At your Commandement Cler. Prou'd to be your servants I thinke there is no Nation under heaven That cut their enemies throates with complement And such fine trickes as we doe If you have Any few Prayers to say this night you may Cal 'em to mind and use 'em for my self As I have little to loose my care is lesse So till to morrow morning I bequeath you To your devotions and those payed but use That noble courage I have seene and we Shall fight as in a Castle Din. Thou art all honour Thy resolution would steele a Coward And I most fortunate in such a Friend All tendernesse and nice respect of woman Be now far from me reputation take A full possession of my heart and prove Honour the first place holds the second love Exeunt Enter Lamira Charlote Lamir. Sleepes my Lord still Carlote Char. Not to be wak'd By your Ladiships cheerefull lookes I well perceive That this night the good Lord hath bin At an unusuall service and no wonder If he rest after it Lamir. You are very bold Char. Your Creature Madam and when you are pleas'd Sadnesse to me 's a stranger your good pardon If I speake like a foole I could have wisht To have taine your place to night had bold Dinant Your first and most obsequious servant tasted Those delicates which by his lethargie As it appeares have cloyed my Lord Lamira No more Charl. I am silenc'd Madam Lamira Saw you my nurse this morning Charl. No Madam Lamira I am full of feares Knock within Who 's that Charl. She you enquir'd for Lamira Bring her in and leave me Ex. Charlote Enter Nurse Now nurse what newes Nurse O Ladie dreadfull ones They are to fight this morning ther 's no remedie I saw my Lord your Brother and Verdoone Take horse as I came by Lamir. Wher 's Cleremont Nurse I met him too and mounted Lamir. Wher 's Dinant Nurse There 's all the hope I have staied him with a tricke If I have done well so Lamir. What tricke Nurse I tould him Your Ladiship layed your command upon him To attend you presently and to confirme it Gave him the ring he oft hath seene you weare That you bestowed on me he waites without Disguis'd and if you have that power in him As I presume you have it is in you To stay or alter him Lamir. Have you learnt the place Where they are to encounter Nurse Yes 't is where The Duke of Burgundie met Lewis th' eleventh Lamir. Enough I will
reward thee liberally Ex. Nurse Goe bring him in full deare I lov'd Dinant While it was lawfull but those fires are quenched I being now anothers truth forgive me And let dissimulation be no crime Though most unwillingly I put it on To guard a Brothers safetie Enter Dinant Dina. Now your pleasure Though ill you have deserv'd it you persev'd I am still your foole and cannot but obey What ever you command Lamir. You speake as if You did repent it and 't is not worth my thankes then But there has bin a time in which you would Receive this as a favour Din. Hope was left then Of recompence Lamir. Why I am still Lamira And you Dinant and 't is yet in my power I dare not say I 'll put it into act To reward your love and service Din. Ther 's some comfort Lamir. But thinke not that so low I prize my fame To give it up to any man that refuses To buy it or with danger or performance Of what I shall enjoine him Din. Name that danger Be it of what horrid shape soever Ladie Which I will shrinke at only at this instant Be speedie in 't Lamir. I 'll put you to the triall You shall not fight to day doe you start at that Not with my Brother I have heard your difference Mine is no Helens beauty to be purchas'd With blood and so defended if you looke for Favours from me deserve them with obedience Ther 's no way els to gain 'em Din. You command What with mine honour I cannot obey Which lies at pawne against it and a friend Equally deare as that or life engag'd Not for himself but me Lamir. Why foolish man Dare you sollicite me to serve your lust In which not onely I abuse my Lord My father and my family but write whore Though not upon my forhead in my conscience To be read howerly and yet name your honours Yours suffer but in circumstance mine in substance If you obey me you part with some credit From whom the giddy multitude but mankind Will censure me and justly Din. I will loose What most I doe desire rather then hazard So deare a friend or write my selfe a coward 'T is better be no man Lamir. This will not doe Why I desire not you should be a coward Nor doe I weigh my Brothers life with yours Meete him fight with him doe and kill him fairely Let me not suffer for you I am carelesse Din. Suffer for me Lamir. For you my kindnesse to you Already brands me with a strumpets name Din. O that I knew the wretch Lamir. I will not name him Nor give you any Character to know him But if you dare and instantly ride foorth At the west port of the City and defend there My reputation against all you meete For two houres on ly I 'l not sweare Dinant To satisfie though sure I thinke I shall What ever you desire if you denie this Be desperate for willingly by this light I 'l never see thee more Din. Two houres doe you say Lamir. Only two houres Dina. I were no Gentleman Should I make scruple of it this favour armes me And boldly il performe it Exit Lamir. I am glad on 't This will prevent their meeting yet and keepe My Brother safe which was the marke I shott at Exeunt Actus Secundus Scena Prima Enter Cleremont as in the field Cler. I am first i' th field that honours gain'd of our side Pray Heaven I may get of as honourablie The houre is past I wonder Dinant comes not This is the place I cannot see him yet It is his quarrell too that brought me hither And I ne'r knew him yet but to this honour A firme and worthy Friend yet I see nothing Nor Horse nor man 't would vex me to be left here To th mercy of two swords and two approved ones I never knew him last Enter Beaupre and Verdoone Beaup. You are well met Cleremont Verdo. You are a faire Gentleman love your friend Sir What are you ready the time has over tane us Beaup. And this you know the place Cler. No Dinant yet Beaup. We come not now to argue but to doe We waite you Sir Cler. Ther 's no time past yet Gentlemen We have day enough i' st possible he comes not You see I am ready here and doe but stay Till my Friend come walke but a turne or two 'T will not be long Verd. We came to fight Cler. Yee shall fight Gentlemen And fight enough but a short turne or two I thinke I see him set up your watch wee 'l fight by it Beau. That is not hee we will not be deluded Cler. Am I bobd thus pray take a pipe of tobacco Or sing but some new ayre by that time Gentlemen Verd. Come draw your sword you know the custome here Sir First come first serv'd Cler. Though it be held a custome And practised so I doe not hold it honest What honour can you both win on me single Beaup. Yeild up you sword then Cler. Yeild my Sword that 's Hebrew I 'll be first cut a peices hold but a while I 'll take the next that comes Enter an old Gentleman You are an old Gentleman Gent. Yes indeed am I Sir Cler. And weare no Sword Gent. I need none Sir Cler. I would you did and had one I want now such a foolish courtesie You see these Gentlemen Gent. You want a second In good Faith Sir I was never handsome at it I would you had my Son but hee 's in Italy A proper Gentleman you may doe well gallants If you quarrell be not capitall to have more mercy The Gentleman may doe his Country Cler. Now I beseech you Sir If you dare not fight doe not stay to beg my pardon There lies your way Gent. Good morrow Gentlemen Exit Verd. You see your fortune You had better yeild your sword Cler. Pray yee stay a little Enter two Gentlemen Upon mine honestie you shall be fought with Well Dinant well these weare swords and seeme brave fellowes As you are Gentlemen one of you supply me I want a second now to meete these gallants You know what honour is 1 Gent. Sir you must pardon us We goe about the same worke you are ready for And must fight presently els we were your servants 2 Gent. God speed you and good day Exit Gent. Cler. Am I thus Colted Beaup. Come either yeild Cler. As you are honest Gentlemen Stay but the next and then I 'll take my fortune And if I fight not like a man Fy Dinant Cold now and treacherous Enter Monsieur la Writ within La Writ I understand your causes Yours about corne yours about pinnes and glasses Will you make me mad have I not all the parcells And his Petition too about Bell-founding Send in your witnesses what will you have me doe Will you have me break my heart my brains are melted And tell your Master as I am a gentleman His Cause shall be
I know not what I shall be Yet I must thanke you and if happily You had asked me yesterday when these were living And my feares lesse I might have hearkned to you Din. Peace to your grief I bind you to your word Enter Cleremont Anabell Beaupre Verdoone Charlote Nurse the two Gentlemen Lam. How doe you conjure Din. Not to raise dreadfull apparitions Madam But such as you would gladly see Lam. My Brother and nephew living Beap. And both owe their lives To the favour of these Gentlemen Verd. Who deserve Our service and for us your gracious thankes Lam. Which I give freely and become a suitour To be hereafter more familiar Kisse With such great worth and vertue 1 Gen. Ever thinke us Your servants Madam Cler. Why if thou wilt needs know How we are freed I will discover it And with laconick brevity these Gentlemen This night incountring with those out lawes that Yesterday made us prisoners and as we were Attempted by 'em they with greater courage I am sure with better fortune not alone Guarded themselves but forc'd the bloody thieves Being got betweene them and this hellish Cave For safety of their lives to fly up higher Into the woods all left to their possession This save your Brother and your nephew from The gibbet this redeem'd me from my Chaines And gave my friend his liberty this preserv'd Your honour ready to be lost Din. But that I know this for a ly and that the thieves And gentlemen are the same men by my practise Suborn'd to this he does deliver it With such a constant brow that I am doubtfull I should believe him too 1 Gent. If we did well We are rewarded 2 Gent. Thankes but takes away From what was freely purpos'd Cler. Now by this hand You have so cunningly discharg'd your parts That while we live rest confident you shall Command Dinant and Cleremont nor Beaupre Nor Verdoone sents it for the Ladyes they Were easie to be gul'd 1 Gent. 'T was but a jest And yet the jest may chance to breake our neckes Should it be knowne Cler. Feare nothing Din. Cleremont Say what successe Cler. As thou wouldst wish 't is done Lad The grove will witnesse with me that this night I lay not like a blocke but how speed you Din. I yet am in suspence devise some meanes To get these off and speedily Cler. I have it Come we are dull I thinke that the good fellowes Our predecessors in this place were not So foolish and improvident husbands but 'T will yeild us meat and wine 1 Gent. Let 's ransack it 'T is ours now by the Law Cler. How say you sweet one Have you an appetite Ana. To walke againe I' th Woods if you thinke fit rather then eate Cler. A little respite prithee nay blush not You aske but what 's your owne and warrantable Monsier Beaupre Verdoone What thinke you of the motion Verd. Lead the way Ex. Manent Din. and Lamira Beau. We follow willingly Cler. When you shall thinke fit We will expect you Din. Now be mistris of Your promise Lady Lam. 'T was to give you hearing Din. But that word hearing did include a grant And you must make it good Lam. Must Din. Must and shall I will be fool'd no more you had your tricks Made properties of me and of my friend Presum'd upon your power and whip'd me with The rod of mine owne dotage doe not flatter Your selfe with hope that any humane helpe Can free you and for ayde by miracle A base unthankfull woman is unworthy Lam. You will not force me Rather then enjury you With your consent because I will torment you I 'le make you feele the effects of abus'd love And glory in your torture Lam. Brother Nephew Helpe helpe for heavens sake Din. Teare your throat cry lowder Though every leafe these trees beare were an Eccho And summond in your best friends to redeeme you It should be fruitlesse 't is not that I love you Or value those delights you prize so high That I 'le enjoy you a French crowne will buy More sport and a companion to whom You in your best trim are an Ethiope Lam. Forbeare me then Din. Not so I 'll do 't in spite And breake that stubborne disobedient will That hath so long held out that boasted honour I will make equall with a common VVhores The spring of Chastity that fed your pride And grew into a River of vaine glory I will defile with mudd the mudd of lust And make it lothsome even to goats Lam. O heaven No pitty sir Din. You taught me to be cruell And dare you thinke of mercy I 'le tell thee foole Those that surpriz'd thee were my instruments I can plot too good Madam you shall find it And in the stead of licking of my fingers Kneeling and whining like a boy new breech'd To get a toy forsooth not worth an apple Thus make my way and with Authority Command what I would have Lam. I am lost for ever Good sir I doe confesse my fault my grosse fault And yeild my selfe up miserable guilty Thus kneeling I confesse you cannot study Sufficient punishments to load me with I am in your power and I confesse againe You cannot be too cruell if there be Besides the losse of my long guarded honour Any thing else to make the ballance even Pray put it in all hopes all helpes have left me I am girt round with sorrow hell 's about me And ravishment the least that I can looke for Doe what you please Din. Indeed I will doe nothing Nor touch nor hurt you Lady nor had ever Such a lewd purpose Lam. Can there be such goodnesse And in a man so injur'd Din. Be confirmed in 't I seale it thus I must confesse you vex'd me In fooling me so often and those feares You threw upon me call'd for a requitall Which now I have return'd all unchast love Dinant thus throwes away live to man-kind As you have done to me and I will honour Your vertue and no more thinke of your beauty Lam. All I possesse comes short of satisfaction Din. No complements the terrours of this night Imagine but a fearfull dreame and so With ease forget it for Dinant that labour'd To blast your honour is a Champion for it And will protect and guard it Lam. 'T is as safe then As if a compleat Army undertooke it Exeunt Enter La-writ Sampson Clyents La-writ Do not perswade me gentle Monsier Sampson I am a mortall man againe a Lawyer My mortall part I have put off Sam. Sweet Monsier Let but our honours teach us La-writ Monsier Sampson My honourable friend my valiant friend Be but so beaten-forward my brave Clyents I am yours and you are mine againe be but so thrasht Receive that Castigation with a cudgell Sam. Which calls upon us for a Reparation La-wr. I have it cost me halfe a crowne I beare it All over me I beare it Monsier Sampson The oyles and the old
place heartily wish it Yet if you play not faire play and above boord too I have a foolish gin here I say no more I 'le tell you what if your honours guts are not inchanted Arn. I should now chide you Sir for so declining The goodnesse and the grace you have ever shewed me And your own vertue too in seeking rashly To violate that love heaven has appointed To wrest your daughters thoughts part that affection That both our hearts have tyed seek to give it Rut. To a wild fellow that would weary her A Canniball that feedes on the heads of maides Then flings their bones and bodies to the Devil Would any man of discretion venture such a gristle To the rude clawes of such a Cat-a-mountain You had better teare her betweene Oaks a Town bull Is a meer Stoick to this fellow a grave Philosopher And a Spanish Jennet a most vertuous Gentleman Arn. Does this seem handsome Sir Rut. Though I confesse Any man would desire to have her and by any meanes At any rate too yet that this common hang-man That hath whipt off the heads of a 1000. maids already That he should gleane the harvest sticks in my stomack This rogue that breaks young wenches to the saddle And teaches them to stumble ever after That he should have her for my brother now That is a handsome young fellow and well thought on And will deale tenderly in the businesse Or for my selfe that have a reputation And have studied the conclusions of these causes And know the perfect mannage I 'le tel you old Sir If I should call you wise Sir I should bely you This thing you study to betray your child to This Maiden-monger When you have done your best And think you have fixt her in the point of honour Who do you think you have tyed her too a Surgeon I must confesse an excellent desector One that has cut up more young tender Lamb-pies Char. What I speake Gentlemen was meer compulsion No Fathers free-will nor did I touch your person With any edge of spight or straine your loves With any base or hired perswasions Exit Witnesse these tears how well I wisht your fortunes Rut. There 's some grace in thee yet you are determined To marry this Count Lady Zen. Marry him Rutillio Rut. Marry him and lye with him I meane Zeno. You cannot meane that If you be a true Gentleman you dare not The brother to this man and one that loves him I 'le marry the Devill first Rut. A better choice And lay his hornes by a hansomer bedfellow A cooler o' my conscience Arn. Pray let me aske you And my deare Mistris be not angry with me For what I shall propound I am confident No promise nor no power can force your love I meane in way of marriage never stirr you Nor to forget my faith no state can wound you But for this custome which this wretched country Hath wrought into a law and must be satisfied Where all the pleas of honour are but laughed at And modesty regarded as a may-game What shall be here considered power we have none To make resistance nor policie to crosse it 'T is held religion too to pay this duty Zeno. I 'le dye an Atheist then Arn. My noblest Mistris Not that I with it so but say it were so Say you did render up part of your honour For whilst your will is cleare all cannot perish Say for one night you entertained this monster Should I esteeme you worse forc'd to this render Your minde I know is pure and full as beauteous After this short eclipse you would rise againe And shaking of that cloud spred all your lustre Zeno. Who made you witty to undoe your selfe Sir Or are you loden with the love I bring you And faine would fling that burthen on another Am I growne common in your eyes Arnoldo Old or unworthy of your fellowship d ee thinke because a woman I must err And therefore rather wish that fall before hand Coloured with custome not to be resisted d ee love as painters doe onely some peices Some certaine handsome touches of your Mistris And let the minde passe by you unexamined Be not abusd with what the maiden vessell Is seasond first you understand the proverbe Rut. I am afraid this thing will make me vertuous Zeno. Should you lay by the least part of that love Y 'aue sworne is mine your youth faith has given me To entertaine another nay a fairer And make the case thus desp'rate she must dye else D' ee thinke I would give way or count this honest Be not deceiv'd these eyes should never see you more This tongue forget to name you and this heart Hate you as if you were borne my full Antipathie Empire and more imperious love alone Rule and admit no rivalls the purest springs When they are courted by lascivious land-floods Their maiden purenesse and their coolenesse perish And though they purge againe to their first beauty The sweetnesse of their taste is cleane departed I must have all or none and am not worthy Longer the noble name of wife Arnoldo Then I can bring a whole hart pure handsom Arnol. I never shall deserve you not to thanke you You are so heavenly good no man can reach you I am sorrie I spake so rashly t' was but to try you Rut. You might have tryed a thousnd women so And 900 fourscore 19 should ha' followed your counsell Take heed o' clapping spurrs to such free cattell Arn. We must bethinke us suddenly and constantly And wisely too we expect no common danger Zen. Be most assur'd I 'le dye first Enter Clodio and guard Rut. An 't come to that once The Devill picke his bones that dyes a coward I 'le jog along with you here comes the Stallion How smug he lookes upon the imagination Of what he hopes to act pox on your kidnes How they begin to melt how big he beares Sure he will leape before us all what a sweete company Of rogues and panders wait upon his lewdnesse Plague of your chops you ha' more handsome bitts Then a hundred honester men and more deserving How the dogg leeres Clod. You need not now be jealous I speake at distance to your wife but when the Preist has done We shall grow nearer and more familiar Rut. I 'le watch you for that tricke baboone I 'le Smoke you the rogue swets as if he had eaten Graines hee broyles if I doe come to the Basting of you Arno. Your Lordship May happily speake this to fright a stranger But 't is not in your honour to performe it The custome of this place if such there be At best most damnable may vrge you to it But if you be an honest man you hate it How ever I will presently prepare To make her mine and most undovbtedlye Beleeve you are abus'd this custome fain'd to And what you now pretend most faire and vertuous Clod. Goe and beleeve a
mine nor deare unto me Then usefull to his honour I preserve it If thou hadst studied all the courtesies Humanity and noble blood ar linkt too Thou couldst not have propounded such a benefit Nor heapt upon me such unlookt for honour As dying for his sake to be his Martyr 'T is such a grace Hyp. You shall not want that favour Let your bones worke miracles Arn. Dear Lady By those faire eyes Hyp. There is but this way left ye To save her life Arn. Speake it and I embrace it Hyp. Come to my private chamber presently And there what love and I command Arn. I 'le doe it Be comforted Zenocia Zen. Do not do this To save me do not loose your selfe I charge you I charge you by your love that love you beare me That love that constant love you have twin'd to me By all your promises take heed you keep 'em Now is your constant tryall If thou dost this Or mov'st one foote to guide thee to her lust My curses and eternall hate pursue thee Redeem me at the base price of disloyalty Must my undoubted honesty be thy bawd too Goe and entwine thy selfe about that body Tell her for my life thou hast lost thine honour Pulld all thy vowes from heaven basely most basely To add an hour to me that hate thee for it Stoop'd to the servile flames of that foule woman Know thee againe nor name thee for a husband Arn. What shall I doe to save her Hyp. How now what hast there Enter a Servant Ser. The Governour attended with some Gentlemen Are newly entered to speake with your Ladiship Hyp. Poxe ô their businesse reprieve her for this hour I shall have other time Arn. Now fortune help us Hyp. I 'le meete 'em presently retire a while all Exit Zab. You rise to day upon your right side Lady You know the danger too and may prevent it And if you suffer her to perish thus As she must doe and suddenly beleeve it Unlesse you stand her friend you know the way on 't I ghesse you poorely love her lesse your fortune Let her know nothing and performe this matter There are hours ordained for severall businesses You understand Arn. I understand you bawd Sir And such a Councellour I never car'd for Enter the Governour Clodio Leopold Charino and Attendants at one doore Hyppolita at the other Hyp. Your Lordship does me honour Gover. Faire Hyppolita I am come to ease you of a charge Hyp. I keepe none I count a burthen Sir and yet I lye too Gover. Which is the maide is she here Clod. Yes Sir This is she this is Zenocia The very same I sued to your Lordship for Zen. Clodio againe more misery more ruine Under what angry starre is my life govern'd Gover. Come hither maid you are once more a free woman Here I discharge your bonds Arn. Another smile Another tricke of fortune to betray us Hyp. Why do's your Lordship use me so unnobly Against my will to take away my bond-woman Gov. She was no lawfull prize therefore no bond-woman She 's of that Countrey we hold friendship with And ever did and therefore to be used With entertainment faire and courteous The breach of league in us gives foule example Therefore you must be pleas'd to think this honest Did you know what she was Leop. Not till this instant For had I known her she had been no prisoner Gover. There take the maid she is at her owne dispose now And if there be ought else to do your honour Any poore service in Clod. I am vowed your servant Arn. Your Father 's here too that 's our only comfort And in a Countrey now we stand free people Where Clodio has no power be comforted Zen. I feare some trick yet Arn. Be not so dejected Gover. You must not be displeas'd so farewell Lady Come Gentlemen Captain you must with me too I have a little businesse Leop. I attend your Lordship Now my way 's free and my hopes Lords againe Exeunt all but Hyp. Zab. Hyp. Dy' e jeere me now ye are going I may live yet to make you howle both Zab. You might have done you had power then But now the chaines are off the command lost And such a story they will make of this To laugh out lazie time Hyp. No meanes yet left me For now I burst with anger none to satisfie me No comfort no revenge Zab. You speake too late You might have had all these your usefull servants Had you been wise and suddain What power or will Over her beauty have you now by violence To constrain his love she is as free as you are And no law can impeach her liberty And whilst she is so Arnoldo will despise you Hyp. Either my love or anger must be satisfied Or I must dye Zab. I have a way woo'd do it Woo'd do it yet protect me from the Law Hyp. From any thing thou knowest what power I have What money and what friends Zab 'T is a divellish one But such must now be us'd walke in I 'le tell you And if you like it if the Divell can doe any thing Hyp. Divell or what thou wilt so I be satisfied Exeunt Enter Sulpitia Jaques Sulp. This is the rarest and the lustiest fellow And so bestirs himselfe Jaq. Give him breath Mistris You 'l melt him else Sulp. He does perform such wonders The women are mad on him Jaq. Give him breath I say The man is but a man he must have breath Sulp. How many had he yesterday And they paid bravely too Jaq. About fourteene But still I cry give breath spare him and have him Sulp. Five Dames to day this was a small stage He may endure five more Jaq. Breath breath I cry still Body ô me give breath the man 's a lost man else Feede him and give him breath Enter 2. Gentlewomen Sulp. Welcome Gentlewomen Y' are very welcome 1 Gen. We heare you have a lusty wel-complexion'd fellow That does rare tricks my sister and my selfe here Would trifle out an houre or two so please you Sulp. Jaques conduct 'em in Both There 's for your courtesie Exeunt Jaqu. and Gent. Sulp. Good pay stil good round pay this happy fellow Will set me up againe he brings in gold Faster then I have leisure to receive it O that his body were not flesh and fading But I 'le so papp him up nothing too deare for him What a sweet sent he has Now what newes Jaques Jaq. He cannot last I pitty the poor man I suffer for him two coaches of young City dames And they drive as the Divell were in the wheeles Are ready now to enter and behind these An old dead-palsied Lady in a litter And she makes all the hast she can the man 's lost You may gather up his dry bones to make nine-pins But for his flesh Sulp. These are but easie labours Yet for I know he must have rest Jaq. He must you 'l beate him off his
not save her Her fate is in your hand Hipo. Can I restore her Sulp. If you command my Art Hip. I 'le dye my selfe first And yet I 'le goe visit her and see This miracle of sorrow in Arnoldo And 't were for me I should change places with her And dye most happy such a lovers teares Were a rich monument but too good for her Whose misery I glory in come Sulpitia You shall a long with me good Zabulon Be not farr off Zab. I will attend you Madam Exeunt Enter Duarte and a Servant Ser. I have serv'd you from my youth and ever You have found me faithfull that you lives a treasure I 'le locke up here nor shall it be let forth But when you give me warrant Dua. I rely Vpon thy faith nay no more protestations Too many of them will call that in question Which now I doubt not she is there Ser. Alone too But take it on my life your entertainment Appearing as you are will bee but course For the displeasure I shall undergoe I am prepar'd Dua. Leave me I 'le stand the hazard Exit Servant The silence that 's observ'd her close retirements No visitance admitted not the day These sable colours all signes of true sorrow Or hers is deeply counterfeit I 'le looke neerer Manners give leave she fits upon the ground By heaven she weepes my picture in her hand too She kisses it and weepes againe Enter Guiomart Guio. Whos 's there Dua. There is no starting back now Madam Guio. Ha another murderer I 'le not protect thee Though I have no more Sonnes Dua. Your pardon Lady Ther 's no such foule fact taints me Guio. What makes thou here then Where are my Servants do none but my sorrowes Attend upon me speake what brought thee hither Dua. A will to give you comfort Guio. Thou art but a man And 't is beyond a humane reach to do it If thou could raise the dead out of their graues Bid time run back make me now what I was A happy Mother gladly I would heare thee But that 's impossible Dua. Please you but to read this You shall know better there why I am sent Then if I should deliver it Guio. From whom comes it Dua. That will instruct you I suspect this stranger Yet she spake something that holds such alliance With his reports I know not what to thinke on 't What a frown was ther she looks me through through Now reades againe now pauses and now smiles And yet there 's more of anger in 't then mirth These are strange changes oh I understand it She 's full of serious thoughts Guio. You are just you Heavens And never do forget to heare their prayers That truly pay their vowes the defer'd vengeance For you and my words sake so long defer'd Under which as a mountaine my heart groanes yet When 't was dispair'd of now is offerd to me And if I loose it I am both wayes guilty The womans maske dissimulation help me Come hither freind I am sure you know the Gentleman That sent these charms Duar. Charms Lady Guio. These charms I well may call them so th 'ave won upon me More then ere letter did thou art his freind The confidence he has in thee confirmes it And therefore I 'le be open breasted to thee To heare of him though yet I never saw him Was most desir'd of all men let me blush And then I 'le say I love him Dua. All men see In this a womans vertue Guio. I expected For the courtesie I did long since to have seene him And though I then forbad it you men know Betweene our harts and tongues there 's a large distance But I 'le excuse him may be hitherto He has forborne it in respect my Sonne Fell by his hand Dua. And reason Lady Guio. No he did me a pleasure in 't a riotous fellow And with that insolent not worth the owning I have indeed kept a long solemne sorrow For my freinds sake partly but especially For his long absence Dua. O the Devill Guio. Therefore Bid him bee speedy a Preist shall be ready To tye the holy knot this kisse I send him Deliver that and bring him Dua. I am dumbe A good cause I have now and a good sword And something I shall do I wait upon you Exeunt Enter Mannuel Charino Arnoldo Zenocia borne in a chaire 2. Doctors Clodio Doct. Give her more ayre shee dyes else Arn. O thou dread power That mad'st this all and of thy workemanship This virgin wife the Master peice looke downe on her Let her minds virtues cloth'd in this faire garment That worthily deserves a better name Then flesh and bloud now sue and prevaile for her Or if those are denyed let innocence To which all passages in heaven stand open Appeare in her white robe before thy throne And mediate for her or if this age of sinne Be worthy of a miracle the Sun In his diurnall progresse never saw So sweete a subject to imploy it on Man Wonders are ceas'd Sir we must worke by meanes Arno. 'T is true and such reverend Physitians are To you thus low I fall then so may you ever Be stil'd the hands of heaven natures restorers Get wealth and honours and by your successe In all your undertakings propagate Your great opinion in the world as now You use your saving Art for know good Gentlemen Besides the fame and all that I possess For a reward posterity shall stand Indebted to you for as heaven forbid it Should my Zenocia dye robbing this age Of all that 's good or gracefull times succeeding The story of her pure life not yet perfect Will suffer in the want of her example Doct. Were all the world to perish with her wee Can do no more then what art and experience Gives us assurance of we have us'd all meanes To finde the cause of her disease yet cannot How should we then promise the cure Arn. Away I did bely you when I charg'd you with The power of doing yee are meere names only And even your best perfection accidentall What ever malady thou art or spirit As some hold all diseases that afflict us As love already makes me sensible Of halfe her sufferings ease her of her part And let me stand the butt of thy fell malice And I will sweare th' art mercifull Doct. Your hand Lady What a strange heat is heare bring some warme water Arn. She shall use nothing that is yours my sorrow Provides her of a better bath my teares Shall do that office Zeno. O my best Arnoldo The truest of all lovers I would live Were heaven so pleas'd but to reward your sorrow With my true service but since that 's denied me May you live long and happy do not suffer By your affection to me I conjure you My sicknesse to infect you though much love Makes you too subject to it Arn. In this onely Zenocia Wrongs her servant can the body Subsist the soule
me All B. I take it take it And take some drinke too Prig. Not a drop now I thanke you Away we are discoverd else Exit Enter Gerrard like a blinde Aquavitae-man and a boy singing the Song BRing out your Cony-skins faire maids to me And hold 'em faire that I may see Grey blacke and blew for your smaller skins I 'le give ye looking-glasses pins And for your whole Coney heer 's ready ready money Come gentle Jone do thou begin With thy blacke blacke blacke Cony-skin And Mary then and Jane will follow With their silver-hair'd skins and their yellow The white Cony-skin I will not lay by For though it be faint t is faire to the eye The grey it is warme but yet for my money Give me the bonny bonny blacke Coney Come away faire maides your skins will decay Come and take money maids put your ware away Cony-skins Cony-skins have ye any Cony-skins I have fine brace-lets and fine silver pins Ger. Buy any brand wine buy any brand wine Boy Have ye any Cony-skins 2 B. My fine Canary-bird ther 's a cake for thy worship 1 B. Come fill fill fill fill suddenly let 's see Sir What 's this Ger. A penny Sir 1 B. Fill till 't be six-pence And there 's my pig Boy This is a counter Sir 1 B. A counter stay ye what are these then O execrable Jugler ô damn'd Jugler Look in your hose hoa this comes of looking forward 3 B. Divell a Dunkirke what a rogue 's this Jugler This hey passe repasse h 'as repast us sweetly 2 B. Doe ye call these tricks Enter Higgen Hig. Have ye any ends of gold or silver 2 B. This fellow comes to mock us gold or silver cry copper 1 B. Yes my good friend We have e'ne an end of all we have Hig. 'Ts well Sir You have the lesse to care for gold and silver Exit Enter Prig. Pr. Have ye any old cloaks to sel have ye any old clokes to sel Exit 1 B. Cloakes looke about ye boyes mine 's gone 2 B. A juggle 'em o' their Prestoes mine 's gone too 3 B. Here 's mine yet 1 B. Come come let 's drink then more brand wine Boy Here Sir 1 B. If e're I catch your Sow-gelder by this hand I 'le strip him Were ever fooles so ferkt we have two cloakes yet And all our caps the Divell take the flincher All B. Yaw yaw yaw yaw Enter Hemskirke Hem. Good do'n my honest fellows You are merry here I see 3 B. 'T is all we have left Sir Hem. What hast thou Aquavitae Boy Yes Hem. Fill out then And give these honest fellows round All b. We thanke ye Hem. May I speake a word in private to ye All b. Yes Sir Hem. I have a businesse for you honest friends If you dare lend your help shall get you crownes Ger. Ha Lead me a little nearer boy 1 B. What is 't Sir If it be any thing to purchase money Which is our want command us Boors All all all Sir Hem. You know the young spruce Merchant in Brugis 2 B. Who Master Goswin Hem. That he owes me money And here in towne there is no stirring of him Ger. Say ye so Hem. This day upon a sure appointment He meets me a mile hence by the Chase side Under the row of Okes do you know it All b. Yes Sir Hem. Give 'em more drinke there if you dare but venture When I shall give the word to seize upon him Here 's twenty pound 3 Boy Beware the Jugler Hem. If he resist downe with him have no mercy 1 Boy I warrrant you wee 'l hamper him Hem. To discharge you I have a warrant here about me 3 Boy Her 's our warrant This carries fire i' the tayle Hem. Away with me then The time draws on I must remove so insolent a Suitor And if he be so rich make him pay ransome Ere he see Bruges towres againe thus wise men Repaire the hurts they take by a disgrace And piece the Lyons skyn with the Foxes case Ger. I am glad I have heard this sport yet Hem. Ther 's for thy drink come pay the house within boyes And loose no time Ger. Away with all our hast too Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Florez Flo. No winde blow faire yet no returne of moneys Letters nor any thing to hold my hopes up Why then 't is destin'd that I fall fall miserably My credite I was built on sinking with me Thou boystrous North-wind blowing my mis-fortunes And frosting all my hopes to cakes of coldnesse Yet stay thy fury give the gentle South Yet leave to court those sailes that bring me safety And you auspicious fires bright twins in heaven Daunce on the shrowds he blows still stubbornly And on his boystrous racke rides my sad ruine There is no help there can be now no comfort To morrow with the Sun-set sets my credite Oh misery thou curse of man thou plague In the midst all our strength thou strik'st us My vertuous Love is toss'd too all what I have been No more hereafter to be seen then shadow To prison now well yet ther 's this hope left me I may sinke fairely under this dayes venture And so to morrow 's cross'd and all those curses Yet manly I 'le invite my fate base fortune Shall never say she has cut my throate in feare This is the place his challenge call'd me too And was a happy one at this time for me For let me fall before my foe i' the field And not at Bar before my Creditors Ha's kept his word now Sir your swords tongue only Loud as you dare all other language Enter Hemskirke Hem. Well Sir You shall not be long troubled draw Flo. 'T is done Sir And now have at ye Hem. Now Enter Boores Flo. Betray'd to Villains Slaves ye shall buy me bravely And thou base coward Enter Gerrard and Beggars Ger. Now upon 'em bravely Conjure 'em soundly boyes Boores. Hold hold Ger. Lay on still Down with that Gentleman rogue swinge him to sirrup Retire Sir and take breath follow and take him Take all 't is lawfell prize Boores. We yield Ger. Downe with 'em Into the wood and rifile 'em tew 'em swinge 'em Knocke me their braines into their breeches Exeunt Boors Hold hold Flo. What these men are I know not nor for what cause They should thus thrust themselves into my danger Can I imagine But sure heavens hand was in 't Nor why this coward knave should deale so basely To eate me up with slaves but heaven I thanke thee I hope thou hast reserv'd me to an end Fit for thy creature and worthy of thine honour Would all my other dangers here had suffered With what a joyfull heart should I goe home then Wher now heaven knows like him that waits his sentēce Or heares his passing bell but ther 's my hope still Enter Gerrard Ger. Blessing upon you Master Flo. Thanke ye leave me For by my troth I have nothing
note that impudence For shame reflect upon your selfe your honour Looke back into your noble parts and blush Let not the deare sweat of the hot Pharsalia Mingle with base Embraces am I he That have receiv'd so many woundes for Caesar Upon my Target groves of darts still growing Have I endur'd all hungers colds distresses And as I had been bred that Iron that arm'd me Stood out all weathers now to curse my fortune To ban the blood I lost for such a Generall Caesar Offend no more be gon Sce. I will and leave ye Leave ye to womens wars that will proclaime ye You 'le conquer Rome now and the Capitoll With Fans and Looking-glasses farwell Caesar Cleo. Now I am private sir I dare speake to ye But thus low first for as a God I honour ye Sce. Lower you 'le be anon Caesar Away Sce. And privater For that you covet all Exit Caesar Tempt me no farther Cleo. Contemne me not because I know thus Caesar I am a Queene and coheire to this country The sister to the mighty Ptolomy Yet one distressd that flyes unto thy justice One that layes sacred hold on thy protection As on a holy Altar to preserve me Caesar Speake Queene of beauty and stand up Cleo. I dare not 'Till I have found that favour in thine eyes That godlike great humanity to helpe me Thus to thy knees must I grow sacred Caesar And if it be not in thy will to right me And raise me like a Queene from my sad ruines If these soft teares cannot sinke to thy pitty And waken with their murmurs thy compassions Yet for thy noblenesse for vertues sake And if thou beest a man for despis'd beauty For honourable conquest which thou do'tst on Let not those cankers of this flourishing Kingdome Photinus and Achillas the one an Evnuch The other a base bondman thus raigne over me Seize my inheritance and leave my brother Nothing of what he should be but the Title As thou art wonder of the world Caesar Stand up then And be a Queene this hand shall give it to ye Or chose a greater name worthy my bounty A common love makes Queenes chose to be worshiped To be divinely great and I dare promise it A suitor of your sort and blessed sweetnesse That hath adventur'd thus to see great Caesar Must never be denied you have found a patron That dare not in his private honour suffer So great a blemish to the heaven of beauty The God of love would clap his angry wings And from his singing bow let flye those arrowes Headed with burning grieves and pining sorrowes Should I neglect your cause would make me monstrous To whom and to your service I devote me Enter Sceva Cle. He is my conquest now and so I 'le worke him The conquerour of the world will I lead captive Sce. Still with this woman tilting still with Babies As you are honest thinke the Enemy Some valiant Foe indeed now charging on ye Ready to breake your ranks and fling these Caesar Heare me But tell me true if thou hadst such a treasure And as thou art a Souldier do not flatter me Such a bright gem brought to thee wouldst thou not Most greedily accept Sce. Not as an Emperour A man that first would rule him selfe then others As a poore hungry Souldier I might bite Sir Yet that 's a weaknesse too heare me thou Tempter And heare thou Caesar too for it concerns thee And if thy flesh be deaf yet let thine honour The soule of a commander give ear to me Thou wanton bane of warr thou guilded Lethergy In whose embraces ease the rust of Armes And pleasure that makes Souldiers poore inhabites Caesar Fye thou blasphem'st Sce. I do when she is a goddesse Thou melter of strong mindes dar'st thou presume To smother all his triumphes with thy vanityes And tye him like a slave to thy proud beautyes To thy imperious lookes that Kings have follow'd Proud of their chaines have waited on I shame Sir Exit Caesar Alas thou art rather mad take thy rest Sceva Thy duty makes thee erre but I forgive thee Go go I say shew me no disobedience 'T is well farewell the day will breake deare Lady My Souldiers will come in please you retire And thinke upon your servant Cleo. Pray you Sir know me And what I am Caesar The greater I more love ye And you must know me too Cleo. So far as modesty And majesty gives leave Sir ye are too violent Caesar You are too cold to my desires Cleo. Sweare to me And by your selfe for I hold that oath sacred You will right me as a Queene Caesar These lips be witnesse And if I breake that oath Cleo. You make me blush Sir And in that blush interpret me Caesar I will do Come let 's go in and blush againe this one word You shall beleeve Cleo. I must you are a conquerour Exeunt Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Ptolomy Photinus Pho. GOod Sir but heare Ptol. No more you have undon me That that I howrely feard is falne upon me And heavily and deadly Pho. Heare a remedy Ptol. A remedy now the disease is ulcerous And has infected all your secure negligence Has broke through all the hopes I have and ruinde me My Sister is with Caesar in his chamber All night she has bin with him and no doubt Much to her honour Pho. Would that were the worst Sir That will repaire it selfe but I feare mainely She has made her peace with Caesar Ptol. 'T is most likely And what am I then Pho. Plague upon that Rascall Apollodorus under whose command Under whose eye Enter Achillas Ptol. Curse on you all ye are wreches Pho. 'T was providently don Achillas Achil. Pardon me Pho. Your guardes were rarely wise and woundrous watchfull Achil. I could not helpe it if my life had laine for 't Alas who would suspect a pack of bedding Or a small Trusse of houshould furniture And as they saide for Caesars use or who durst Being for his private chamber seeke to stop it I was abus'd Enter Achoreus Ach. 'T is no hower now for anger No wisedome to debate with fruitlesse choler Let us consider timely what we must do Since she is flowne to his protection From whom we have no power to sever her Nor force conditions Ptol. Speake good Achoreus Ach. Let indirect and crooked counsells vanish And straight and faire directions Pho. Speake your minde Sir Ach. Let us choose Caesar and endeare him to us An Arbitrator in all differences Betwixt you and your sister this is safe now And will shew off most honourable Pho. Base Most base and poore a servile cold submission Heare me and pluck your hearts up like stout Counsellours Since we are sensible this Caesar loades us And have begun our fortune with great Pompey Be of my minde Ach. 'T is most uncomely spoken And if I say most bloodily I lye not The law of hospitality it poysons And calls the Gods in
Put. If ye goe on Sir For they will kill yee certainly they look for yee Anc. I see your Lordships bound take a suppository T is I Sir a poor cast Flag of yours The foolish Tartars They burne and kill and 't like your honour kill us Kill with Guns with Guns my Lord with Guns Sir What sayes your Lordship to a chick in sorrell sops Put. Go go thy wayes old true-peny Thou hast but one fault Thou art ev'n too valiant Come toth ' Army gentlemen and let 's make them acquainted Sold. Away we are for ye Exeunt Scaene 4. Enter Alinda and two gentlewomen Al. Why whither run ye fools wil ye leave my Lady Petes. The Tartar comes the Tartar comes Al. Why let him I had thought you had feard no men upon my conscience You have try'd their strengths already stay for shame Pet. Shift for thy selfe Alinda Exit Al. Beauty blesse ye Into what Grooms Feather-bed will yee creep now And there mistake the enemy sweet youths ye are And of a constant courage are you afraid of foyning Enter Olimpia Olim. O my good wench what shall become of us The Posts come hourely in and bring new danger The Enemy is past the Volga and beares hither With all the bloud and crueltie he carries My brother now will find his fault Al. I doubt me Somewhat too late to Madam but pray feare not All will be well I hope Sweet Madam shake not Ol. How cam'st thou by this spirit our Sex tremble Al. I am not unacquainted with these dangers And you shall know my truth for e're you perish A hundred swords shall passe through me 't is but dying And Madam we must doe it the manner 's all You have a Princely Birth take Princely thoughts to ye And take my councell too goe presently With all the haste yee have I will attend ye With all the possible speed to old Lord Archas He honours yee with all your art perswade him I will be a dismall time else wooe him hither But hither Madam make him see the danger For your new Generall looks like an Asse There 's nothing in his face but losse Olim. I le doe it And thank thee sweet Alinda O my Jewell How much I am bound to love thee by this hand wench If thou wert a man Al. I would I were to fight for yee But haste deare Madam Ol. I need no spurres Alinda Exeunt Scaen. 5. Enter Duke 2. Posts Attendants Gent. Duk. The Lord Generall sick now is this a time For men to creep into their beds what 's become Post Of my Lieutenant Post Beaten and 't please your Grace And all his forces sparkled Duk. That 's but cold newes Enter a Gent. How now what good newes are the souldiers ready Ge. Yes sir but fight they wil not nor stir from that place They stand in now unlesse they have Lord Archas To lead 'em out they raile upon this Generall And sing songs of him scurvy songs to worse tunes And much they spare not you sir here they sweare They 'll stand and see the Citie burnt dance about it Unlesse Lord Archas come before they fight for 't It must be so sir Du. I could wish it so too And to that end I have sent Lord Burris to him But all I feare will faile we must dye gentlemen And one stroak wee 'll have for 't Enter Burris What bringst thou Burris Bur. That I am loath to tell he will not come sir I found him at his prayers there he tells me The enemy shall take him sit for heaven I urg'd to him all our dangers his owne worthes The Countries ruine nay I kneeld and pray'd him I se shooke his head let fall a teare and pointed Thus with his finger to the ground a grave I think he meant and this was all he answer'd Your Grace was much too blame Where 's the new Generall Duk. He is sick poore man Bur. Hee 's a poore man indeed Sir Your Grace must needs goe to the souldier Duke They have sent me word They will not stirre they raile at me And all the spight they have Shout within Enter Archas Olimpia and Alinda What shout is that there Is the enemy come so neare Olim. I have brought him Sir At length I have woo'd him thus farre Duke Happy sister O blessed woman Olim. Use him nobly brother You never had more need And gentlemen All the best powers yee have to tongues turn presently To winning and perswading tongues all my art Onely to bring him hither I have utter'd Let it be yours to arme him And good my Lord Though I exceed the limit you allow'd me Which was the happinesse to bring ye hither And not to urge yee farther yet see your Countrey Out of your owne sweet spirit now behold it Turne round and look upon the miseries Of every side the seares ô see the dangers We finde 'em soonest therefore heare me first sir Duke Next heare your Prince You have said you lov'd him Archas And thought your life too little for his service Thinke not your vow to great now now the time is And now you are brought toth ' test touch right now souldier Now shew the manly pureness of thy mettle Now if thou beest that valued man that vertue That great obedience teaching all now stand it What I have said forget my youth was hasty And what you laid your selfe forgive you were angry If men could live without their faults they were gods Archas He weeps holds his hāds up to him Burris Bur. You have shew'd the Prince his faults And like a good Surgeon you have laid That to 'em makes 'em smart hee feeles it Let 'em not fester now sir your owne honour The bountie of that minde and your allegeance 'Gainst which I take it heaven gives no command sir Nor seales no vow can better teach ye now What yee have to doe then I or this necessity Onely this little 's left would ye doe nobly And in the eye of honour truely triumph Conquer that minde first and then men are nothing Alin. Last a poor virgin kneels for loves sake General If ever you have lov'd for her sake sir For your owne honesty which is a virgin Look up and pitty us be bold and fortunate You are a Knight a good and noble souldier And when your spurs were given ye your sword buckl'd Then were you sworne for vertues cause for beauties For chastity to strike strike now they suffer Now draw your sword or else you are recreant Onely a Knight i th' heeles i th' heart a Coward Your first vow honour made your last but anger Ar. How like my vertuous wife this thing looks speaks too So would she chide my dulnesse faire one I thank yee My gracious sir your pardon next your hand Madam your favour and your prayers gentlemen Your wishes and your loves and pretty sweet one A favour for your Souldier Olim. Give him this wench Al. Thus doe I
And for as brave rewards we look and graces We have sweat and bled for 't sir Bor. And ye may have it If you will stay the giving Men that thank themselves first For any good they doe take off the lustre And blot the benefit Theod. Are these the welcomes The Bells that ring out our rewards pray heartily Early and late there may be no more enemies Doe my good Lord pray seriously and sigh too For if there be Bor. They must be met and fought with The. By whom by you they must be met flattererd Why what a devill aild ye to do these things With what assurance dare ye mocke men thus You have but single lives and those I take it A Sword may find too why do ye dam the Duke up And choake that course of love that like a River Should fill our empty veines againe with comforts But it ye use these knick knacks This fast and loose with faithfull men and honest You l be the first will find it Enter Archas Souldiers Putskey Ancient and others Boros. You are too untemperate Theod. Better be so and theese too then unthankfull Pray use this old man so and then we are paid all The Duke thanks ye for your service the Court thanks ye And wonderfull desirous they are to see ye Pray heaven we have roome enough to march for May-games Pageants bonfires for your welcome home Sir Here your most noble friend the Lord Boroskey A Gentleman too tender of your credit And ever in the Dukes eare for your good Sir Crazie and sickly yet to be your servant Has leapt into the open aire to meet ye Bor. The best is your words wound not you are welcome home Sir Hartily welcome home and for your service The noble overthrow you gave the Enemy The Duke salutes ye too with all his thanks Sir Anc. Sure they will now regard us Puts. There 's a reason But by the changing of the Colonels countenance The rolling of his eyes like angry billowes I feare the wind 's not downe yet Ancient Arch. Is the Duke well Sir Boros. Not much unhealthy Only a little grudging of an ague Which cannot last he has heard which makes him fearful And loath as yet to give your worth due welcome The sicknesse hath been somewhat hot i' th' Army Which happily may prove more doubt then danger And more his feare then fate yet howsoever An honest care Ar. Ye say right and it shall be For though upon my life 't is but a rumor A meere opinion without faith or feare in 't For Sir I thanke heaven we never stood more healthy Never more high and lusty yet to satisfie We cannot be too curious or too carefull Of what concernes his state wee 'l draw away Sir And lodge at further distance and lesse danger Boros. It will be well Anc. It will be very scurvy I smell it out it stinks abominably Stir it no more Boros. The Duke Sir would have you too For a short day or two retyre to your owne house Whither himselfe will come to visit ye And give ye thanks Arch. I shall attend his pleasure Anc. A trick a lowsie trick so hoa a trick boyes Ar. How now what 's that Anc. I thought I had found a Hare Sir But 't is a Fox an old Fox shall we hunt him Ar. No more such words Boros. The souldier 's growne too sawcy You must tie him straiter up Ar. I doe my best Sir But men of free-born minds sometimes will flie out Anc. May not we see the Duke Boros. Not at this time Gentlemen Your Generall knowes the cause Anc. We have no plague Sir Unlesse it be in our pay nor no pox neither Or if we had I hope that good old Courtier Will not deny us place there Puts. Certaine my Lord Considering what we are and what we have done If not what need ye may have 't would be better A great deale nobler and taste honester To use us with more sweetnes men that dig And lash away their lives at the Carts taile Double our comforts meat and their Masters thanks too When they worke well they have Men of our qualitie When they doe well and venture for 't with valor Fight hard lye hard feed hard when they come home Sir And know these are deserving things things worthy Can you then blame 'em if their minds a little Be stirr'd with glory 't is a pride becomes 'em A litle season'd with ambition To be respected reckon'd well and honour'd For what they have don when to come home thus poorly And met with such unjointed joy so looked on As if we had done no more but drest a horse well So entertain'd as if I thank ye Gentlemen Take that to drinke had pow'r to please a souldier Where be the shouts the bels rung out the people The Prince himself Ar. Peace I perceive your eye Sir Is fixt upon this Captaine for his freedome And happily you find his tongue too forward As I am Master of the place I carry 'T is fit I thinke so too but were I this man No stronger tye upon me then the truth And tongue to tell it I should speake as he do's And thinke with modestie enough such Saints That daily thrust their loves lives through hazards And fearelesse for their Countries peace march hourely Through all the doores of death and know the darkest Should better be canoniz'd for their service What labour would these men neglect what danger Where honour is though seated in a billow Rising as high as heaven would not these souldiers Like to so many Sea-gods charge up to it Doe you see these swords times Sithe was ne're so sharp Sir Nor ever at one harvest mow'd such handfuls Thoughts ne're so sudden nor beliefe so sure When they are drawne and were it not sometimes I swim upon their angers to allay 'em And like a calme depresse their fell intentions They are so deadly sure nature would suffer And whose are all these glories why their Princes Their Countries and their Friends Alas of all these And all the happy ends they bring the blessings They only share the labors a little joy then And outside of a welcome at an upshot Would not have done amisse Sir But howsoever Between me and my duty no crack Sir Shall dare appeare I hope by my example No discontent in them without doubt Gentlemen The Duke will both looke suddenly and truly On your deserts Methinks 't were good they were paid Sir Bor. They shall be immediately I stay for mony And any favour else Ar. We are all bound to ye And so I take my leave Sir when the Duke pleases To make me worthy of his eyes Bor. Which will be suddenly I know his good thoughts to ye Ar. With all duty And all humility I shall attend Sir Bor. Once more you are welcome home these shall be satisfied The. Be sure we be and hansomely Ar. Waite you on me sir The.
Then justly I accuse of foule ingratitude My Lords you of the Senate all not one Excepted Pos. Porp. Us Phil. Annophill Ann. You are the Authors Of this unthrifty bloud-shed when your enemies Came marching to your gates your children suck'd not Safe at their mothers breasts your very Cloysters Were not secure your starting-holes of refuge Not free from danger nor your lives your owne In this most desperate Extasie my father This aged man not onely undertook To guard your lives but did so and beat off The daring foe for you he pawn'd his lands To pay your souldiers who without their pay Refus'd to strike a blow but Lords when peace Was purchas'd for you and victorie brought home Where was your gratitude who in your Coffers Hoarded the rustie treasure which was due To my unminded father he was glad To live retir'd in want in penurie Whilst you made feasts of surfeit and forgot Your debts to him The sum of all is this You have been unthankfull to him and I crave The rigor of the Law against you all Cas. My Royall spirited daughter Fro. Annophill Thou art a worthy wench let me embrace thee Ann. Lords why doe ye keep your seats they are no places For such as are offenders Pos. Though our ignorance Of Cassilanes engagements might asswage Severity of justice yet to shew How no excuse should smooth a breach of Law I yeeld me to the triall of it Porp. So must I Great Prince of Cyprus you are left The onely Moderator in this difference And as you are a Prince be a Protector To wofull Candy Phil. What a Scene of miserie Hath thine obdurate frowardnesse old man Drawne on thy Countries bosome and for that Thy proud ambition could not mount so high As to be stil'd thy Countries onely Patron Thy malice hath descended to the depth Of hell to be renowned in the Title Of the destroyer dost thou yet perceive What curses all posterity will brand Thy grave with that at once hast rob'd this kingdome Of honour and of safety Erot. Children yet unborne Will stop their eares when thou art nam'd Arc. The world will be too little to containe The memorie of this detested deed The Furies will abhorre it Dec. What the sword Could not enforce your peevish thirst of honour A brave cold weak imaginarie fame Hath brought on Candy Candy groans not these That are to die Phil. 'T is happinesse enough For them that they shall not survive to see The wounds wherewith thou stab'st the land that gave Thee life and name Dec. 'T is Candy's wrack shall feele Cas. The mischief of your folly Porp. Pos. Annophill Ann. I will not be entreated Cas. Prethee Annophill Ann. Why would ye urge me to a mercy which You in your selfe allow not Cas. 'T is the Law That if the party who complaines remit The offender he is freed is 't not so Lords Porp. Pos. 'T is so Cas. Antinous By my shame observe What a close witch-craft popular applause is I am awak'd and with cleare eyes behold The Lethargie wherein my reason long Hath been be-charm'd Live live my matchlesse sonne Blest in thy fathers blessing much more blest In thine owne vertues let me dew thy cheeks With my unmanly teares Rise I forgive thee And good Antinous if I shall be thy father Forgive me I can speak no more Ant. Deare Sir You new beget me now Madam your pardon I hartily remit you Ero. I as freely Discharge thee Cassilane Ann. My gracious Lords Repute me not a blemish to my Sex In that I strove to cure a desperate evill With a more violent remedy your lives Your honours are your owne Phil. Then with consent Be reconcil'd on all sides Please you fathers To take your places Pos. Let us againe ascend With joy and thankfulnesse to heaven And now To other businesse Lords Enter Gaspero and Melitus with Gonzalo Mel. Two howres and more Sir The Senate hath been set Gonz. And I not know it Who sits with them Mel. My Lord the Prince of Cyprus Gonz. Gaspero VVhy how comes that to passe Gas Some waighty cause I warrant you Gonz. Now Lords the businesse ha VVho 's here Erota Porp. Secretarie doe your charge Upon that Traitor Gonz. Traytor Gas Yes Gonzalo Traitor Of treason to the peace and state of Candy I doe arrest thee Gonz. Me thou dog Enter Fernando and Michael Mich. With License From this grave Senate I arrest thee likewise Of Treason to the State of Venice Gonz. Ha Is Michael here nay then I see I am undone Ero. I shall not be your Queen Your Dutchesse or your Empresse Gonz. Dull dull braine O I am fool'd Gas Look Sir do you know this hand Mic. Do you know this Seale First Lords he writes to Venice To make a perfect league during which time He would in private keep some Troops in pay Bribe all the Centinells throughout this kindom Corrupt the Captaines at a Banquet poyson The Prince and greatest Peeres and in conclusion Yield Candy slave to Venice Gas Next he contracted With the Illustrious Princesse the Lady Erota In hope of marriage with her to deliver All the Venetian gallantry and strength Upon their first arrivall to the mercy Of her and Candy Erot. This is true Gonzalo Gon. Let it be true what then Pos. My Lord Ambassadour What 's your demand Mich. As likes the State of Candy Either to sentence him as he deserves Here or to send him like a slave to Venice Porph. We shall advise upon it Gonz. O the devills That had not thrust this trick into my pate A Politician foole destruction plague Candy and Venice both Pos. Porp. Away with him Mel. Come sir I le see you safe Exeunt Gonz. Mel. Ero. Lords e're you part Be witnesse to another change of wonder Antinous now be bold before this presence Freely to speak whether or no I us'd The humblest meanes affection could contrive To gaine thy love Ant. Madam I must confesse it And ever am your servant Ero. Yes Antinous My servant for my Lord thou shalt be never I here disclaim the interest thou hadst once In my too passionate thoughts Most noble Prince If yet a relique of thy wonted flames Live warme within thy bosome then I blush not To offer up the assurance of my faith To thee that hast deserv'd it best Phil. O Madam You play with my calamity Ero. Let heaven Record my truth for ever Phil. With more joy Then I have words to utter I accept it I also pawne you mine Ero. The man that in requitall Of noble and un-sought affection Growes cruell never lov'd nor did Antinous Yet herein Prince ye are beholding to him For his neglect of me humbled a pride Which to a vertuous wife had been a Monster Phil. For which I le ranke him my deserving friend Ant. Much comfort dwell with you as I could wish To him I honour most Cas. O my Antinous My owne my owne good son Fer. One suit I have
Taper Cal. O my sad heart my head my head Clea. Alas poore soule what do you out of your bed You take cold my Caliste how do ye Cal. Not so well sir to lye by ye my brothers fright Clea. I had a frightfull dreame too A very frightfull dreame my best Caliste Me thought there came a Dragon to your Chamber A furious Dragon wife I yet shake at it Are all things well Lis. Shall I shoote him Cal. No All well Sir 'T was but your care of me your loving care Which alwaies watches Clean. And me thought he came As if he had risen thus out of his den As I do from these hangings Lis. Dead Cal. Hold good Sir Clea. And forc'd ye in his armes thus Cal. 'T was but fancie That troubled ye here 's nothing to disturbe me Good sir to rest againe and I am now drousie And will to bed make no noise deare husband But let me sleep before you can call any body I am a bed Clea. This and sweet rest dwell with ye Exit Cal. Come out againe and as you love Lisander Make haste away you see his mind is troubled Do you know the doore ye came at Lis. Well sweet Lady Cal. And can ye hit it readily Lis. I warrant ye And must I go must here end all my happinesse Here in a dreame as if it had no substance Cal. For this time friend or here begin our ruines We are both miserable Lis. This is some comfort In my afflictions they are so full already They can find no encrease Cal. Deare speake no more Lis. You must be silent then Cal. Farewell Lisander thou joy of man farewell Lis. Farewell bright Lady Honour of woman-kind a heavenly blessing Cal. Be ever honest Lis. I will be a dog else The vertues of your mind I 'le make my library In which I 'le study the celestiall beauty Your constancie my armour that I 'le fight in And on my sword your chastity shall sit Terror to rebell bloud Cal. Once more farewell Noise within O that my modestie cou'd hold you still sir he comes againe Lis. Heaven keep my hand from murther Murther of him I love Cal. Away deare friend Down to the garden staires that way Lisander We are betrai'd else Ent. Clea. Lis. Honour guard the Innocent Exit Lis. Clean. Stil up I fear'd your health Cal. Has miss'd him happily I am going now I have done my meditations My heart 's almost at peace Clea. To my warme bed then Cal. I will pray ye lead A Pistoll shot within Clean. A Pistoll shot i' th' house At these houres sure some theefe some murtherer Rise ho rise all I am betraide Cal. O fortune O giddy thing he has met some opposition And kil'd I am confounded lost for ever Enter Dorilaus Dor. Now what 's the matter Clea. Theeves my noble father villaines and Rogues Dor. Indeed I heard a Pistoll let 's search about Enter Malfort Clarinda and Servants Mal. To bed againe they are gone sir I will not bid you thanke my valour for 't Gone at the garden doore there were a dozen And bravely arm'd I saw 'em Clarin. I am glad glad at the heart Ser. One shot at me and miss'd me Mal. No 't was at me the bullet flew close by me Close by my eare another had a huge Sword Flourish'd it thus but at the point I met him But the Rogue taking me to be your Lordship As sure your name is terrible and we Not much unlike in the darke roar'd out aloud 'T is the kill cow Dorilaus and away They ran as they had flowne now you must love me Or feare me for my courage wench Clarin. O Rogue O lying Rogue Lisander stumbled Madam At the staires head and in the fall the shot went off Was gone before they rose Cal. I thanke heaven for 't Clari. I was frighted too it spoyl'd my game with Leon Cle. You must sit up and they had come to your Chamber What pranks would they have plaid how came the doore open Ma. I heard 'em when they forc'd it up I rose Took Durindana in my hand and like Orlando issu'd forth Clarin. I know you are valiant Clean. To bed again And be you henceforth provident at sun-rising We must part for a while Dor. When you are a bed Take leave of her there 't will be worth the taking Here 't is but a cold ceremony ere long Wee 'l find Lisander or we have ill fortune Clea. Locke all the doores fast Mal. Though they all stood open My name writ on the doore they dare not enter Exeunt Enter Claran Frier with a Letter Claran. Turnd Hermit Fri. Yes and a devout one too I heard him preach Claran. That lessens my beliefe For though I grant my Lidian a scholler As far as fits a Gentleman he hath studied Humanity and in that he is a Master Civility of manners courtship Armes But never aim'd at as I could perceive The deep points of divinity Fri. That confirmes his Devotion to be reall no way tainted With ostentation or hypocrisie The cankers of Religion his sermon So full of gravity and with such sweetnesse Deliver'd that it drew the admiration Of all the hearers on him his own letters To you which witnesse he will leave the world And these to faire Olinda his late Mistris In which he hath with all the moving language That ever express'd Rhetorick sollicited The Lady to forget him and make you Blessed in her embraces may remove All scrupulous doubts Claran. It strikes a sadnesse in me I know not what to thinke of 't Fri. Ere he entred His sollitary cell he pen'd a ditty His long and last farewell to love and women So feelingly that I confesse however It stands not with my order to be taken With such Poeticall raptures I was mov'd And strangely with it Claran. Have you the copy Fri. Yes sir My Novice too can sing it if you please To give him hearing Claran. And it will come timely For I am full of melancholy thoughts Against which I have heard with reason Musick To be the speediest cure pray you apply it A Song by the Novice ADieu fond love farewell you wanton powers I am free againe Thou dull disease of bloud and Idle howers Bewitching paine Flie to the fooles that sigh away their time My nobler love to heaven clime And there behold beauty still young That time can ne're corrupt nor death destroy Immortall sweetnesse by faire Angels sung And honour'd by eternity and joy There lives my love thether my hopes aspire Fond love declines this heavenly love growes higher Fri. How do ye approve it Claran. To its due desert It is a heavenly Hymne no ditty father It passes through my eares unto my soule And workes divinely on it give me leave A little to consider shall I be Out done in all things nor good of my selfe Nor by example shall my loose hopes still The viands of a fond affection feed me As I were a sensuall
am your servant Lem. One word more if you love Lisanders life Advise him as he tenders it to keep Out of the way if he be apprehended This City cannot ransome him so good morrow Ex. Dor. All happinesse attend you goe thy wayes Thou hast a cleare and noble soule for thy sake I le hold that man mine enemy who dares mutter The court is not the sphere where vertue moves Enter Serv. Humanity and noblenesse waiting on her Serv. Two gentlemen but what they are I know not Their faces are so mufl'd presse to see you And will not be deny'd Dor. What ere they are I am to old to feare Serv. They need no usher they make their own way Enter Lisander Alcidon Dor. Take you yours Lisander Exit Serv. My Joy to see you and my sorrow for The danger you are in contend so here Though different passions nay oppos'd in nature I know not which to entertaine Lis. Your hate should win the victorie from both with justice You may look on me as a Homicide A man whose life is forfeited to the Law But if how ere I stand accus'd in thought I sinn'd against Cleanders life or live Guilty of the dishonour of your daughter May all the miseries that can fall on man Here or hereafter circle me Dor. To me this protestation 's uselesse I embrace you As the preserver of my life the man To whom my sonne owes his with life his honour And howsoever your affection To my unhappy daughter though it were For I have sifted her in a noble way Hath printed some taint on her fame and brought Her life in question yet I would not purchase The wish'd recoverie of her reputation With strong assurance of her innocence Before the King her Judge with certaine losse Of my Lisander for whose life if found There 's no redemption my excesse of love Though to enjoy you one short day would lengthen My life a dozen yeares boldly commands me Upon my knees which yet were never bent But to the King and heaven to entreat you To flye hence with all possible speed and leave Caliste to her fortune Lis. O blessed Saints forsake her in affliction can you Be so unnaturall to your owne bloud To one so well deserving as to value My safety before hers shall innocence In her be branded and my guilt escape Unpunish'd doe's she suffer so much for me For me unworthy and shall I decline Eating the bitter bread of banishment The course of justice to draw out a life A life I stile it false a living death Which being uncompell'd laid downe will cleare her And write her name a-new in the faire legend Of the best women seek not to disswade me I will not like a carelesse Poet spoyle The last act of my Play till now applauded By giving the world just cause to say I fear'd Death more then losse of honour Dor. But suppose heaven hath design'd some Other saving meanes for her deliverance Lis. Other meanes that is A mischiefe above all I have groan'd under Shall any other pay my debt while I Write my selfe bankrupt or Caliste owe The least beholdingnesse for that which she On all the bonds of gratitude I have seal'd to May challenge from me to be freely tender'd Avert it mercy I will goe to my grave Without the curses of my creditors I le vindicate her faire name and so cancell My obligation to her to the King To whom I stand accomptable for the losse Of two of his lov'd subjects lives I le offer Mine owne in satisfaction to heaven I le pay my true repentance to the times Present and future I le be registred A memorable president to admonish Others however valiant not to trust To their abilities to dare and doe And much lesse for the aërie words of honour And false stamp'd reputation to shake off The chains of their religion and allegeance The principall means appointed to prefer Societies and Kingdomes Exit Dor. Let 's not leave him his mind 's much troubled Alc. Were your daughter free Since from her dangers his distraction rises His cause is not so desperate for the slaughter Of Cloridon and Chrysanthes but it may Find passage to the mercy of the King The motives urg'd in his defence that forc'd him To act that bloudy Scaene Dor. Heaven can send ayds When they are least expected let us walke The houre of tryall drawes neare Alc. May it end well Exeunt Enter Olinda and Lidian Ol. That for my love you should turne Hermit Lidian As much amazes me as your report Clarange's dead Lid. He is so and all comforts My youth can hope for Madam with him buried Nor had I ever left my cell but that He did injoine me at his death to shed Some teares of friendship on his Monument And those last Rites perform'd he did bequeath you As the best legacie a friend could give Or I indeed could wish to my embraces Ol. 'T is still more strange is there no foule play in it I must confesse I am not sorry sir For your faire fortune yet 't is fit I grieve The most untimely death of such a Gentleman He was my worthy servant Lid. And for this acknowledgment if I could prize you at A higher rate I should he was my friend My dearest friend Ol. But how should I be assur'd sir For slow beleefe is the best friend of truth Of this Gentlemans death if I should credit it And afterward it fall out contrary How am I sham'd how is your vertue tainted Lid. There is a Frier that came along with me His businesse to deliver you a Letter From dead Clarange You shall heare his testimonie Father my reverend Father looke upon him Such holy men are Authors of no Fables Enter Clarange with a Letter writ out and Frier Ol. They should not be their lives and their opinions Like brightest purest flames should still burne upwards To me sir delivers the Letter Clar. If you are the faire Olinda Frier I doe not like these crosse points Clar. Give me leave I am nearest to my selfe What I have ploted Shal be pursu'd you must not over-rule me Ol. Doe you put the first hand to your own undoing Play to betray your game Mark but this letter Lady I am come to claime your noble promise Reads If you be Mistris of your word ye are mine I am last return'd your riddle is dissolv'd And I attend your faith Your humble servant Clarange Is this the Frier that saw him dead Lid. 'T is he Clarange on my life I am defeated Such reverend habits juggle my true sorrow For a false friend not worth a teare derided Fri. You have abus'd my trust Ol. It is not well nor like a gentleman Clar. All stratagems In love and that the sharpest war are lawfull By your example I did change my habit Caught you in your owne toyle and triumph in it And what by policy 's got I will maintaine With valour no Lisander shall come
make no doubt good Nephew carry it so If you can possible that we may sight Py. Nay you shall fight assure your selfe Ru. Pray ye heare me In some such place where it may be possible The Princesse may behold us Py. I conceive ye Upon the sand behind the Castle sir A place remote enough and there be windows Out of her lodgings too or I am mistaken Ruy. Y' are i' th' right if ye can worke that hansomly Py. Let me alone and pray be you prepar'd Some three houres hence Ruy. I will not faile Py. Get you home And if you have any things to dispose of Or a few light prayers That may befriend you run 'em over quickely I warrant I 'le bring him on Ruy. Farewell Nephew And when we meet againe Py. I I fight handsomely Take a good draught or two of wine to settle ye 'T is an excellent armour for an ill conscience Unckle I am glad to see this mans conversion I was affraid faire honour had been bedrid Or beaten out o' th' Island souldiers and good ones Intended such base courses he will fight now And I beleeve too bravely I have seene him Curry a fellowes carkasse hansomely And in the head of a troope stand as if he had been rooted there Dealing large doles of death what a rascall was I I did not see his will drawn What does she here Enter Quisara If there be any mischief toward a woman makes one stil Now what new businesse is for me Quisar. I was sending for ye But since we have met so faire You have sav'd that labour I must entreat you sir Py. Any thing Madam Your wils are my commands Qusar. Y' are nobly courteous Upon my better thoughts Signeor Pyniero And my more peaceable considerations Which now I find the richer ornaments I wou'd desire you to attempt no farther Against the person of the noble stranger In truth I am ashamd of my share in 't Nor be incited further by your unckle I see it will sit ill upon your person I have considered and it will shew ugly Carried at best a most unheard of cruelty Goood sir desist Py. You speake now like a woman And wondrous well this tendernesse becomes ye But this you must remember your command Was laid on with a kisse and seriously It must be taken off the same way Madam Or I stand bound still Quisar. That shall not endanger ye Looke ye faire sir thus I take off that duty Py. by th' masse 't was soft and sweet Some blouds would bound now And run a tilt do not you thinke bright beauty You have done me in this kisse a mighty favour And that I stand bound by vertue of this honour To do what ever you command me Quisar. I thinke sir From me these are unusuall curtesies And ought to be respected so there are some And men of no mean ranke would hold themselves Not poorely blest to taste of such a bounty Py. I know there are that wou'd do many unjust things For such a kisse and yet I hold this modest All villanies body and soule dispence with For such a provocation kill their kindred Demolish the faire credits of their Parents Those kisses I am not acquainted with most certaine Madam The appurtenance of this kisse wou'd not provoke me To do a mischief 't is the devils owne dance To be kiss'd into cruelty Quisar. I am glad you make that use sir Py. I am gladder That you made me beleeve you were cruell For by this hand I know I am so honest However I deceiv'd ye 't was high time too Some common slave might have been set upon it else That willingly I wou'd not kill a dog That could but fetch and carry for a woman She must be a good woman made me kick him And that will be hard to find to kill a man If you will give me leave to get another Or any she that plaid the best game at it And fore a womans anger prefer her fancy Quisar. I take it in you well Py. I thanke ye Lady And I shall study to confirme it Quisar. Do sir For this time and this present cause I low it Most holy sir Enter Governour Quisana and Panura Gov. Blesse ye my royall daughter And in you blesse this Island heaven Quisar. Good Aunt What thinke ye of this man Quisan. Sure is a wise man And a religious he tels us things have hapned So many yeares agoe almost forgotten As readily as if they were done this houre Quisar. Does he not meet with your sharpe tongue Pan. He tels me Madam Marriage and mouldy cheese will make me tamer Gov. A stubborne keeper and worse fare An open stable and cold care Will tame a Jade may be your share Pan. Bi r Lady a sharp prophet when this proves good I 'le bequeath you a skin to make ye a hood Gov. Lady I would talke with you Quisar. Do reverend sir Gov. And for you good for that that must concerne ye And give eare wisely to me Quisar. I shall father Gov. You are a Princess of that excellence Sweetnesse and grace that Angell-like faire feature Nay do not blush I doe not flatter you Nor do I dote in telling this I am amazed Lady And as I thinke the gods bestow'd these on ye The gods that love ye Quisar. I confesse their bounty Gov. Apply it then to their use to their honour To them and to their service give this sweetnesse They have an instant great use of your goodnesse You are a Saint esteem'd here for your beauty And may a longing heart Quisar. I seeke no fealty Nor will I blemish that heaven has seal'd on me I know my worth indeed the Portugals I have at those commands and their last services Nay even their lives so much I thinke my hansomnesse That what I shall enjoyne Gov. Use it discreetly For I perceive ye understand me rightly For here the gods regard your helpe and suddenly The Portugals like sharpe thornes marke me Lady Sticke in our sides like razors wound religion Draw deep they wound till the life bloud followes Our gods they spurne at and their worships scorne A mighty hand they beare upon our government These are the men your miracle must worke on Your heavenly forme either to roote them out Which as you may endeavour will be easie Remember whose great cause you have to execute To nip their memory that may not spring more Or fairely bring 'em home to our devotions Which will be blessed and for which you sainted But cannot be and they go let me buzzle Quisar. Go up with me Where wee 'l converse more privately I 'le shew ye shortly how I hold their temper And in what chaine their soules Gov. Keep fast that hold still And either bring that chaine and those bound in it And linke it to our gods and their faire worships Or daughter pinch their hearts a peeces with it I 'le waite upon your grace Quisar. Come reverend father Waite you below
Ex. Quisar and Gov. Pan. If this prophet were a young thing I should suspect him now he cleaves so close to her These holy coats are long and hide in iniquities Quisan. Away away foole a poore wretch Pan. These poore ones Warme but their stomakes once Quisan. Come in thou art foolish Ex. Quisan and Pan. Enter Armusia Emanuel Pyniero Arm. I am sorry sir my fortune is so stubborne To court my sword against my countriman I love my nation well and where I find A Portugall of noble name and vertue I am his humble servant Signeor Pyniero Your person nor your unckles am I angry with You are both faire Gentlemen in my opinion And I protest I had rather use my sword In your defences then against your safeties 'T is me thinkes a strange dearth of enemies When we seeke foes among our selves Em. You are injured And you must make the best on 't now and readiest Arm. You see I am ready in the place and arm'd To his desire that cald me Py. Ye speake honestly And I could wish ye had met on tearmes more friendly But it cannot now be so Enter Ruy Dias Em. Turne sir and see Py. I have kept my word with ye unckle The Gentleman is ready Enter Governour and Quisara above Arm. Ye are welcome Ru. Bid those fooles welcome that affect your curtesie I come not to use complement ye have wrongd me And ye shall feele proud man ere I part from ye The effects of that if fortune do not foole me Thy life is mine and no hope shall redeeme thee Arm. That 's a proud word More then your faith can justifie Quisar. Sure they will fight Ruy. She 's there I am happy Gov. Let 'em alone let 'em kill one another These are the maine postes if they fall the buildings Will tumple quickely Quisar. How temperate Armusia No more be quiet yet Arm. I am not bloudy Nor do not feele such mortall malice in me But since we cannot both enjoy the Princesse I am resolv'd to fight Ruy. Fight home Armusia For if thou faint'st or fall'st Arm. Do ye make all vantages Ruy. Alwaies unto thy life I will not spare thee Nor looke not for thy mercy Arm. I am arm'd then Ruy. Stand still I charge ye nephew as ye honour me Arm. And good Emanuel not Py. Ye speake fitly For we had not stood idle else Gov. I am sorry for 't Em. But since you will have it so Ruy. Come sir Arm. I waight ye Py. I marry this looks hansomely This is warme worke Gov Both fall an 't be thy will Ruy fals Py. My Unckle dead Em. Stand still or my swords in Ar. Now brave Ruy Dias Now Where 's your confidence your prayers quickly Your owne spite has condemn'd ye Quisar. Hold Armusia Ar. Most happy Lady Quisar. Hold and let him rise Spare him for me Ar. A long life may he enjoy Lady Gov. What ha' you done 't is better they had all perisht Quisar. Peace father I worke for the best Armusia Be in the garden an houre hence Ex. Qu. and Gov. Ar. I shall Madam Py. Now as I live a Gentleman at all inches So brave a mingled temper saw I never Ar. Why are ye sad sir how would this have griev'd you If ye had falne under a profest enemie Under one had taken vantage of your shame too Pray ye be at peace I am so far from wronging ye Or glorying in the pride of such a victorie That I desire to serve ye pray look cheerfully Py. Doe you heare this sir this love sir do you see this Gentleman How he courts ye why doe you hold your head downe T is no high treason I take it to be equal'd To have a slip i' th' field no sinne that 's mortall Come come thanke fortune and your friend Ar. It may be You thinke my tongue may prove your enemie And though restrain'd sometimes out of a braverie May take a license to disable ye Beleeve me sir so much I hate that libertie That in a strangers tongue 't will prove an injurie And I shall right you in 't Py. Can you have more Unckle Ru. Sir you have beate me both wayes yet so nobly That I shall ever love the hand that did it Fortune may make me worthie of some title That may be neere your friend Ar. Sir I must leave ye But with so hearty love and pray be confident Ex. Arm. Em. I carry nothing from this place shall wrong ye Py. Come come you are right agen sir love your honor And love your friend take heed of bloudy purposes And unjust ends good heaven is angry with 'm Make your faire vertues and your fame your mistres And let these trinkets goe Ru. You teach well nephew Now to be honorable even with this Gentleman Shall be my businesse and my ends his Enter Governor and King Gov. Sir sir you must doe something suddenly To stop his pride so great and high he is shot up Upon his person too your state is sunke else You must not stand now upon termes of gratitude And let a simple tendernesse besot ye I 'le bring ye suddenly where you shall see him Attempting your brave sister privately Marke but his high behaviour then Kin. I will Father Gov. And with scorne I feare contempt too Kin. I hope not Gov. I will not name a lust It may be that also A little force must be applyed upon him Now now applyed a little force to humble him These sweet intreaties doe but make him wanton Kin. Take heed ye wrong him not Gov. Take heed to your safety I but fore warne ye King if you mistrust me Or thinke I come unsent Kin. No I 'le goe with you Exeunt Enter Armusia Quisara Arm. Madam you see there 's nothing I can reach at Either in my obedience or my service That May deserve your love or win a liking But a poore thought but I pursue it seriously Take pleasure in your wils even in your anger Which other men would grudge at and grow stormy I study new humility to please ye And take a kind of joy in my afflictions Because they come from ye I love my sorrowes Pray Madam but consider Quisar. Yes I do sir And to that honest end I drew ye hether I know ye have deserv'd as much as man can And know it is a justice to requite you I know ye love Arm. If ever love was mortall And dwelt in man and for that love command me So strong I find it and so true here Lady Something of such a greatnesse to allow me Those things I have done already may seem foyles too 'T is equity that man aspires to heaven Should win it by his worth and not sleepe to it Enter Governour and King Gov. Now stand close King and heare and as you find him Beleeve me right or let religion suffer Quisar. I dare beleeve your worth without additions But since you are so liberall of your love sir
And wou'd be farther tried I do intend it Because you shall not or you wou'd not win me At such an easie rate Arm. I am prepared still And if I shrinke Quisar. I know ye are no coward This is the utmost triall of your constancy And if you stand fast now I am yours your wife sir You hold there 's nothing deare that may atchieve me Doubted or dangerous Arm. There 's nothing nothing Let me but know that I may straight flie to it Quisar. I 'le tell you then change your religion And be of one beleefe with me Arm. How Quisar. Marke Worship our Gods renounce that faith you are bred in 'T is easily done I 'le teach ye suddenly And humbly on your knees Arm. Ha! I 'le be hang'd first Quisar. Offer as we do Arm. To the Devill Lady Offer to him I hate I know the devill To dogs and cats you make offer to them To every bird that flies and every worme How terribly I shake Is this the venture The tryall that you talkt off where have I bin And how forgot my selfe how lost my memorie When did I pray or looke up stedfastly Had any goodnes in my heart to guide me That I should give this vantage to mine enemie The enemie to my peace forsake my faith Quisar. Come come I know ye love me Ar. Love ye this way This most destroying way sure you but jest Lady Quis. My love and life are one way Ar. Love alone then and mine another way I 'le love diseases first Doate on a villaine that would cut my throat Wooe all afflictions of all sorts kisse crueltie Have mercy heaven how have I been wandring Wandring the way of lust and left my maker How have I slept like Corke upon a water And had no feeling of the storme that tost me Trod the blinde paths of death forsooke assurance Eternitie of blessednesse for a woman For a young hansome face hazard my being Quis. Are not our powers eternall so their comforts As great and full of hopes as yours Ar. They are puppits Gov. Now marke him sir and but observe him nearly Ar. Their comforts like themselves cold senseles outsides You make 'em sicke as we are peevish mad Subject to age and how can they cure us That are not able to refine themselves Quis. The Sun Moon we worship those are heavenly And their bright influences we beleeve Ar. Away foole I adore the Maker of that Sun and Moone That gives those bodies light and influence That pointed out their paths and taught their motions They are not so great as we they are our servants Plac'd there to teach us time to give us knowledge Of when and how the swellings of the maine aire And their returnes agen they are but our stewards To make the earth fat with their influence That she may bring forth her increase and feed us Shall I fall from this faith to please a woman For her embraces bring my soule to ruine I lookd you should have said make me a Christian Worke that great cure for 't is a great one woman That labour truly doe performe that venture The crowne of all great triall and the fairest I lookd ye should have wept and kneel'd to beg it Washt off your mist of ignorance with waters Pure and repentant from those eyes I lookt You should have brought me your chief god ye worship He that you offer humane bloud and life to And made a sacrifice of him to memorie Beat downe his Altars ruin'd his false Temples Gov. Now you may see Quis. Take heed you goe too far sir And yet I love to heare him I must have ye And to that end I let you storme a little I know there must be some strife in your bosome To coole and quiet ye ere you can come backe I know old friends cannot part suddenly There wil be some let still yet I must have ye Have ye of my faith too and so injoy ye Arm. Now I contemne ye and I hate my selfe For looking on that face lasciviously And it lookes ugly now methinkes Quisar. How Portugall Ar. It lookes like death it selfe to which 't wou'd lead me Your eyes resemble pale dispaire they fright me And in their rounds a thousand horrid ruines Methinkes I see and in your tongue heare fearefully The hideous murmurs of weake soules have suffer'd Get from me I despise ye and know woman That for all this trap you have laid to catch my life in To catch my immortall life I hate and curse ye Contemne your deities spurne at their powers And where I meet your maumet Gods I 'le swing 'em Thus o're my head and kick 'em into puddles Nay I will out of vengeance search your Temples And with those hearts that serve my God demolish Your shambles of wild worships Gov. Now now you heare sir Arm. I will have my faith since you are so crafty The glorious crosse although I love your brother Let him frowne too I will have my devotion And let your whole State storme Kin. Enter and take him I am sorry friend that I am forc'd to do this Gov. Be sure you bind him fast Quisar. But use him nobly King Had it to me been done I had forgiven it And still preserv'd you faire but to our Gods sir Quisar. Methinkes I hate 'em now Kin. To our Religion To these to be thus stubborne thus rebellious To threaten them Arm. Use all your violence I aske no mercy nor repent my words I spit at your best powers I serve one Will give me strength to scourge your gods Gov. Away with him Arm. To grind 'em into base dust and disperse 'em That never more their bloudy memories Gov. Clap him close up Kin. Good friend be cooler Arm. Never Your painted sister I despise too King Softly Arm. And all her devillish arts laugh and scorne at Mocke her blind purposes King You must be temperate Offer him no violence I command you strictly Gov. Now thou art up I shall have time to speake too Quis. Oh how I love this man how truly honour him Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena prima Enter Christophero and Pedro at one doore Emanuel and Soza at another Chr. Do you know the newes Gentlemen Em. Wou'd we knew as well sir How to prevent it Soz. Is this the love they beare us For our late benefit taken so maliciously And clapt up close is that the thankes they render Ch. It must not be put up thus smother'd sleightly 'T is such a base unnaturall wrong Ped. I know They may thinke to doe wonders aime at all And to blow us with a vengeance out o' th' Islands But if we be our selves honest and resolute And continue but Masters of our ancient courages Sticke close and give no vantage to their villanies Soz. Nay if we faint or fall apeeces now We are fooles and worthy to be markt for miserie Begin to strike at him they are all bound to To cancell his deserts
The doore 's set open too are ye a man Are ye alive doe ye understand her meaning Have ye bloud and spirit in ye Dem. I dare not trouble her Leo. Nay and you will be nipt i' th' head with nothing Walke whining up and downe I dare not I cannot Strike now or never faint heart you know what sir Be govern'd by your feare and quench your fire out A devill on 't stands this doore ope for nothing So get ye together and be naught now to secure all Will I go fetch out a more soveraigne plaister Ex. Scaene 4. Enter Antigonus Seleucus Lysimachus Ptolomey Lieuten Gent. Lords Ant. This peace is fairely made Seleu. Would your Grace wish us To put in more take what you please we yeeld it The honour done us by your sonne constraines it Your noble sonne Ant. It is sufficient Princes And now we are one againe one mind one body And one sword shall strike for us Lys. Let Prince Demetrius But lead us on for we are his vowed servants Against the strength of all the world wee 'l buckle Ptol. And even from all that strength wee 'l catch at victory Sel. O had I now recover'd but the fortune I lost in Antioch when mine Unckle perish'd But that were but to surfeit me with blessings Lys. You lost a sweet childe there Sel. Name it no more sir This is no time to entertaine such sorrowes Wil your Majestie do us the honor we may see the Prince And wait upon him Enter Leon Ant. I wonder he stayes from us How now Leontius where 's my sonne Sel. Brave Captaine Lys. Old valiant sir Leo. Your Graces are welcome Your sonne and 't please you sir is new casheered yonder Cast from his Mistris favour and such a coile there is Such fending and such proving she stands off And will by no meanes yeeld to composition He offers any price his body to her Sel. She is a hard Lady denies that caution Leo. And now they whine now they rave faith Princes 'T were a good point of charitie to piece 'em For lesse then such a power will doe just nothing And if you meane to see him there it must be For there will he grow till he be transplanted Sel. Beseech your Grace le ts wait upon you thither That I may see that beauty dares deny him That scornfull beautie Ptol. I should thinke it worse now Ill brought up beautie Ant. She has too much reason for 't Which with too great a grief I shame to thinke of But wee 'l goe see this game Lys. Rather this wonder Ant. Be you our guide Leontius here 's a new peace Ex. Scaene 5. Enter Demetrius and Celia Cel. Thus far you shall perswade me still to honour ye Still to live with ye sir or neere about ye For not to lye you have my first and last love But since you have conceiv'd an evill against me An evill that so much concernes your honour That honour aim'd by all at for a patterne And though there be a false thought and confest too And much repentance falne in shoures to purge it Yet whilst that great respect I ever bore ye Dwels in my bloud and in my heart that duty Had it but been a dreame I must not touch ye Dem. O you will make some other happy Cel. Never Upon this Hand I 'le seale that faith Dem. We may kisse Put not those out o' th' peace too Cel. Those I 'le give ye So there you will be pleas'd to pitch your ultra I will be merry with ye sing discourse with ye Be your poore Mistris still in truth I love ye Enter Leontius Antigonus Seleucus Lysimachus Ptolomy Lieutenant Gentleman Dem. Stay who are these Lys. A very hansome Lady Leo. As ere you saw Sel. Pitty her heart 's so cruell Lys. How does your Grace he stands still will not heare us Ptol. We come to serve ye sir in all our fortunes Lys. He bowes a little now he 's strangely alter'd Sel. Ha pray ye a word Leontius pray ye a word with ye Lysimachus you both knew mine Enanthe I lost in Antioch when the Towne was taken Mine unckle slaine Antigonus had the sack on 't Lys. Yes I remember well the girle Sel. Methinkes now That face is wondrous like her I have her Picture The same but more yeares on her the very same Lys. A cherry to a cherry is not liker Sel. Looke on her eyes Leo. Most certaine she is like her Many a time have I dandled her in these armes sir And I hope who will more Ant. What 's that ye looke at Princes Sel. This picture and that Lady sir Ant. Ha they are neare They only erre in time Lys. Did you marke that blush there That came the nearest Sel. I must speake to her Leo. You 'l quickly be resolved Sel. Your name sweet Lady Cel. Enanthe sir and this to beg your blessing Sel. Doe you know me Cel. If you be the King Seleucus I know you are my father Sel. Peace a little Where did I lose ye Cel. At the sack of Antioch Where my good Unckle di'de and I was taken By a meane souldier taken by this Prince This noble Prince redeemed from him againe Where ever since I have remained his servant Sel. My joyes are now too full welcome Enanthe Mine owne my dearest and my best Enanthe Dem. And mine too desperate Cel. You shall not thinke so This is a peace indeed Ant. I hope it shall be And aske it first Cel. Most royall sir ye have it Dem. I once more beg it thus Sel. You must not be deni'd sir Cel. By me I am sure he must not sure he shall not Kneeling I give it too kneeling I take it And from this houre no envious spight ere part us All The gods give happy joyes all comforts to ye Dem. My new Enanthe Ant. Come beat all the Drums up And all the noble instruments of war Let 'em fill all the Kingdome with their sounds And those the brazen arch of heaven breake through While to the Temple we conduct these two Leo. May they be ever loving ever young And ever worthy of those lines they sprong May their faire issues walke with time along Lieu. And hang a coward now and there 's my song Exeunt Prologue VVOuld some man would instruct me what to say For this same Prologue usuall to a play Is tied to such an old forme of Petition Men must say nothing now beyond commission The cloakes we weare the leggs we make the place We stand in must be one and one the face Nor alter'd nor exceeded if it be A generall hisse hangs on our levitie We have a Play a new Play to play now And thus low in our Plaies behalfe we bow We bow to beg your suffrage and kind eare If it were naught or that it might appeare A thing boy'd up by prayer Gentlemen Beleeve my faith you should not see me then Let them speake then have power to
makest a heart thy Tower And thy loop-holes Ladies eyes From whence thou strik'st the fond and wise Did all the shafts in thy faire quiver Stick fast in my ambitious liver Yet thy power would I adore And call upon thee to shoot more shoot more shoot more Enter one like a Cupid offring to shoot at him Pas. I prethee hold though sweet Caelestiall boy I 'm not requited yet with love enough For the first arrow that I have within me And if thou be an equall archer Cupid Shoot this Lady and twenty more for me Lad. Me sir 1 Gen. T is nothing but device feare it not Lady You may be as good a maid after that shaft Madam As ere your mother was at twelve and halfe T is like the boy that drawes it 'tas no sting yet Cup. T is like the miserable maid that drawes it aside That sees no comfort yet seeing him so passionate Pas. Strike me the Duchesse of Valois in love with me With all the speed thou canst and two of her women Cu. You shall have more Exit Pas. Tell 'em I tarry for 'em 1 Gen. Who would be angry with that walking trouble now That hurts none but it selfe Soul I am better quieted Pas. I le have all women-kind strucke in time for me After thirteene once I see this Cupid will not let me want And let him spend his forty shafts an houre They shall be all found from the Dukes Exchequer He 's come already Enter againe the same Cupid two brothers 6 women Maskers Cupids bow bent all the way towards them the first woman singing and playing A Priest The Song O turne thy bow Thy power we feele and know Faire Cupid turne away thy bow They be those golden Arrowes Bring Ladies all their sorrowes And till there be more truth in men Never shoot at maid agen Pas. What a felicity of whores are here And all my concubines strucke bleeding new A man can in his life time make but one woman But he may make his fifty Queanes a month Cu. Have you remembred a Priest honest brothers 1 Bro. Yes sister and this is the young gentleman Make you no question of our faithfulnesse 2 Bro. His growing shame sister provokes our care Priest He must be taken in this fit of love Gentlemen 1 Bro. What else sir he shall do 't 2 Bro. Enough 1 Bro. Be cheerefull wench A dance Cupid leading Pas. Now by the stroake of pleasure a deep oath Nimbly hopt Ladies all what height they beare too A story higher then your common statures A little man must go up staires to kisse 'em What a great space there is Betwixt loves dyning Chamber and his Garret I le trie the utmost height the Garret stoopes methinkes The roomes are made all bending I see that And not so high as a man takes 'em for Cu. Now if you 'l follow me sir I 've that power To make them follow you Pas. Are they all shot Cu. All all sir every mothers daughter of 'em Pas. Then there 's no feare of following if they be once shot They 'l follow a man to th' devill As for you sir Ex. with the lady the Maskers Soul Me sir 1 Gent. Nay sweet sir Soul A noise a threatning did you not heare it sir 1 Gent. Without regard sir so would I heare you Soul This must come to something never talke of that Sir You never saw it otherwise 1 Gen. Nay deare merit Soul Me above all men 1 Gen. Troth you wrong your anger Soul I will be arm'd my honourable Letcher 1 Gent. O fie sweet sir Soul That devoures womens honesties by lumps And never chawst thy pleasure 1 Gent. What do you meane sir Soul What does he meane t' ingrosse all to himselfe There 's others love a whore as well as he sir 1 Gen. Oh an' that be part o' th furie we have a Citty Is very well provided for that case Let him alone with her sir we have women Are very charitable to proper men And to a Souldier that has all his limbes Marry the sicke and lame gets not a penny Right womens charity and the husbands follow 't too Here comes his highnesse sir Enter Duke and Lords Soul I le walke to coole my selfe Exit Du. Who 's that 1 Gen. The brother of Shamont Du. He's Brother then To all the Courts love they that love discreetly And place their friendlinesse upon desert As for the rest that with a double face Looke upon merit much like fortunes visage That lookes two waies both to lifes calmes and stormes I le so provide for him chiefly for him He shall not wish their loves nor dread their envies And here comes my Shamont Enter Shamont Sha. That Ladies vertues are my only joyes And he to offer to lay siedge to them Du. Shamont Sha. Her goodnesse is my pride in all discourses As often as I here rash tongued gallants Speake rudely of a woman presently I give in but her name and th' are all silent O who would lose this benefit Du. Come hether sir Sha. 'T is like the gift of healing but diviner For that but cures diseases in the body This workes a cure on fame on reputation The noblest piece of Surgery upon earth Du. Shamont he minds me not Sha. A Brother do 't Du. Shamont I say Gives him a touch with his switch Sha. Ha If he be mortall by this hand he perishes Drawes Unlesse it be a stroake from heaven he dies for 't Du. Why how now sir 't was I Sha. The more 's my miserie Du. Why what 's the matter prethee Sha. Can you aske it sir No man else should stood forty lives before him By this I would have op'd my way to him It could not be you sir excuse him not What ere he be as y' are deere to honour That I may find my peace agen Du. Forbeare I say Upon my love to truth 't was none but I Sha. Still miserable Du. Come come what ailes you sir Sha. Never sate shame cooling so long upon me Without a satisfaction in revenge And heaven has made it here a sin to wish it Du. Harke you sir Sha. O y 'ave undone me Du. How Sha. Cruelly undone me I have lost my peace and reputation by you Sir pardon me I can never love you more Exit Du. What language call you this sirs 1 Gen. Truth my Lord I 've seldome heard a stranger 2 Gent He is a man of a most curious valour Wondrous precise and punctuall in that vertue Du. But why to me so punctuall my last thought Was most intirely fixt on his advancement Why I came now to put him in possession Of his faire fortunes what a mis-conceiver 't is And from a Gentleman of our Chamber meerely Made him Vice-Admirall I was setled in 't I love him next to health call him Gentlemen Why would not you or you ha' taken as much And never murmur'd Exit 1 Gent. 2 Gent. Troath I thinke we should my
no my friends you are cozen'd the good Numerianus now is past the sense of wrong or injury Guard How dead Dio. Let your own eyes inform you Get. An Emperours Cabinet Fough I have known a Charnel-house smell sweeter If Emperours flesh have this savour what will mine do when I am rotten 1 Guard Most unheard-of villany 2 Guard And with all cruelty to be reveng'd 3 Guard Who is the murtherer name him that we may punish it in his family Dio. Who but Aper the barbarous and most ingrateful Aper His desperate Poniard printed on his brest this deadly wound hate to vow'd enemies findes a full satisfaction in death and Tyrants seek no farther He a Subject and bound by all the Ties of love and duty ended not so but does deny his Prince whose ghost forbad passage to his rest mourns by the Stygian shore his Funeral-Rites Nay weep not let your loves speak in your anger and to confirm you gave no suffrage to the damned Plot lend me your helping hands to wreak the Parricide and if you finde that there is worth in Diocles to deserve it make him your leader Guard A Diocles a Diocles Dio. We 'll force him from his Guards And now my Stars if you have any good for me in store shew it when I have slain this fatal Boar Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter Delphia and Drusilla in a Throne drawn by Dragons Del. Fix here and rest a while your Sail-stretch'd wings that have out-stript the windes the eye of heaven durst not behold your speed but hid it self behinde the grossest clouds and the pale Moon pluckt in her silver horns trembling for fear that my strong Spells should force her from her Sphere such is the power of Art Dru. Good Aunt where are we Del. Look down Drusilla on these lofty Towers these spacious streets where every private house appears a Palace to receive a King the site the wealth the beauty of the place will soon inform thee 't is imperious Rome Rome the great Mistris of the conquer'd world Dru. But without Diocles it is to me like any wildernesse we have pass'd ore shall I not see him Del. Yes and in full glory and glut thy greedy eyes with looking on his prosperous successe Contain thy self for though all things beneath us are transparent the sharpest sighted were he Eagle-ey'd cannot discover us nor will we hang idle Spectators to behold his triumph Enter Diocles Maximinian Guard Aper Senators Geta Officers with Litter but when occasion shall present it self do something to adde to it See he comes Dru. How god-like he appears with such a grace the Giants that attempted to scale heaven when they lay dead on the Phlegrean plain Mars did appear to Jove Del. Forbear Dio. Look on this and when with horrour thou hast view'd thy deed thy most accursed deed be thine own judge and see thy guilt consider'd if thou canst perswade thy self whom thou stand'st bound to hate to hope or plead for mercy Aper I confesse my life 's a burden to me Dio. Thou art like thy name a cruel Boar whose snout hath rooted up the fruitful Vineyard of the Common-wealth I long have hunted for thee and since now thou art in the Toyl it is in vain to hope thou ever shalt break out thou dost deserve the Hangmans hook or to be punished more majorum whipt with rods to death or any way that were more terrible Yet since my future fate depends upon thee thus to fulfil great Delphia's Prophecie Aper thou fatal Boar receive the honour to fall by Diocles hand Shine clear my Stars that usher'd me to taste this common air in my entrance to the world and give applause to this great work Musick Del. Strike Musick from the Spheres Dru. O now you honour me Dio. Ha in the Air All Miraculous Max. This shews the gods approve the Person and the Act then if the Senate for in their eyes I read the Souldiers love think Diocles worthy to supply the place of dead Numerianus as he stands his heir in his revenge with one consent salute him Emperour Senat. Long live Diocles Augustus Pater Patriae and all Titles that are peculiar onely to the Caesars we gladly throw upon him Guard We confirm it and will defend his honour with our Swords against the world raise him to the Tribunal 1 Sen. Fetch the Imperial Robes and as a signe we give him absolute power of life and death binde this sword to his side 2 Sen. Omit no Ceremony that may be for his honour Song Max. Still the gods expresse that they are pleas'd with this election Geta. My Master is an Emperour and I feel a Senators Itch upon me would I could hire these fine invisible Fidlers to play to me at my instalment Dio. I embrace your loves and hope the honours that you heap upon me shall be with strength supported It shall be my studie to appear another Atlas to stand firm underneath this heaven of Empire and bear it boldly I desire no Titles but as I shall deserve 'em I will keep the name I had being a private man onely with some small difference I will adde to Diocles but two short syllables and be called Dioclesianus Geta. That is fine I 'll follow the fashion and when I am a Senator I will be no more plain Geta but be call'd Lord Getianus Dru. He ne'er thinks of me nor of your favour Enter Niger Del. If he dares prove false these glories shall be to him as a dream or an inchanted banquet Niger From Charinus from great Charinus who with joy hath heard of your proceedings and confirms your honours he with his beauteous sister fair Aurelia are come in person like themselves attended to gratulate your fortune Loud Musick Enter Charinus Aurelia Attendants Dio. For thy news Be thou in France Pro-consul let us meet the Emperour with all honour and embrace him Dru. O Aunt I fear this Princesse doth eclipse th' opinion of my beauty though I were my self to be the judge Del. Rely on me Char. 'T is vertue and not birth that makes us noble Great actions speak great mindes and such should govern and you are grac't with both Thus as a Brother a Fellow and Co-partner in the Empire I do embrace you may we live so far from difference or emulous Competition that all the world may say Although two Bodies we have one Minde Aur. When I look on the Trunk of dear Numerianus I should wash his wounds with tears and pay a sisters sorrow to his sad fate but since he lives again in your most brave Revenge I bow to you as to a power that gave him second life and will make good my promise If you finde that there is worth in me that may deserve you and that in being your wife I shall not bring disquiet and dishonour to your Bed Although my youth and fortune should require both to be su'd and sought to here I yeeld my self at your devotion
if you look upon us so wretched as you take us Del. Does your Mightinesse that is a great destroyer of your Memorie yet understand our faces Get. 'Prethee keep off woman it is not fit I should know every creature Although I have been familiar with thee heretofore I must not know thee now my place neglects thee Yet because I daign a glimpse of your remembrances give me your Suits and wait me a month hence Del. Our Suits are Sir to see the Emperour the Emperour Dioclesian to speak to him and not to wait on you We have told you all Sir Get. I laugh at your simplicitie poor women see the Emperour why you are deceiv'd now the Emperour appears but once in seven yeers and then he shines not on such weeds as you are Forward and keep your State and keep beggers from me Drus. Here is a prettie youth Exeunt Enter Diocles. Del. He shall be prettie or I will want my will since ye are so high Sir I 'll raise ye higher or my art shall fail me Stand close he comes Dio. How am I cross'd and tortur'd my most wish'd happinesse my lovely Mistris that must make good my hopes and link my greatnesse yet sever'd from mine arms Tell me high heaven how have I sinn'd that you should speak in thunder in horrid thunder when my heart was ready to leap into her brest the Priest was ready the joyful virgins and the young men ready when Hymen stood with all his flames about him blessing the bed the house with full joy sweating and expectation like the Romane Eagle took stand and call'd all eyes It was your Honour and ere you give it full do you destroy it or was there some dire Star some devil that did it some sad malignant Angel to mine honour With you I dare not rage Del. With me thou canst not though it was I Nay look not pale and frighted I 'll fright thee more With me thou canst not quarrel I rais'd the thunder to rebuke thy falshood look here to her thy falshood Now be angry and be as great in evil as in Empire Dio. Blesse me ye Powers Del. Thou hast full need of blessing 'T was I that at thy great Inauguration hung in the air unseen 't was I that honoured thee with various Musicks and sweet sounding airs 't was I inspired the souldiers heart with wonder and made him throw himself with love and duty lowe as thy feet 't was I that fix'd him to thee But why did I all this To keep thy honestie thy vow and faith that once forgot and slighted Aurelia in regard the Marriage ready the Priest and all the Ceremonies present 'T was I that thundred loud 't was I that threatned 't was I that cast a dark face over heaven and smote ye all with terrour Drus. Yet consider as ye are noble as I have deserv'd ye for yet ye are free if neither faith nor promise the deeds of elder times may be remembred let these new-dropping tears for I still love ye these hands held up to heaven Dio. I must not pitie ye 't is not wise in me Del. How not wise Dio. Nor honourable A Princesse is my Love and doats upon me a fair and lovely Princesse is my Mistris I am an Emperour consider Prophetesse now my embraces are for Queens and Princesses for Ladies of high mark for divine beauties to look so lowe as this cheap common sweetnesse would speak me base my names and glories nothing I grant I made a vow what was I then as she is now of no sort Hope made me promise but now I am to keep this vow were monstrous a madnesse and a lowe inglorious fondnesse Del. Take heed proud man Drus. Princes may love with Titles but I with Truth Del. Take heed here stands thy destinie thy Fate here follows Dio. Thou doating Sorceresse wouldst have me love this Thing that is not worthy to kneel unto my Saint to kisse her shadow Great Princes are her slaves selected beauties bow at her beck the mighty Persian's daughter bright as the breaking East as the mid-day glorious waits her commands and grows proud in her pleasures I 'll see her honour'd some Watch I shall think of that shall advance ye both mean time I 'll favour ye Exit Del. Mean time I 'll haunt thee Cry not wench be confident ere long thou shalt more pitie him observe me and pitie him in truth then now thou seek'st him my Art and I are yet companions Come Girl Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Geta Lictors Get. I am too merciful I finde it friends of too soft a nature to be an Officer I bear too much remorse 1 Lict. 'T is your own fault Sir for look you One so newly warm in Office should lay about him blindfold like true Justice hit where it will the more ye whip and hang Sir though without cause let that declare it self afterward the more ye are admired Get. I think I shall be 2 Lict. Your Worship is a man of a spare body and prone to anger Get. Nay I will be angry and the best is I need not shew my reason 2 Lict. You need not Sir your place is without reason and what you want in growth and full proportion make up in rule and rigour Get. A rare Counsellor instruct me further Is it fit my friends the Emperour my Master Dioclesian should now remember or the Times or Manners that call'd him plain down Diocles 1 Lict. He must not it stands not with his Royaltie Get. I grant ye I being then the Edile Getianus a man of Place and Judge it is held requisite I should commit to my consideration those Rascals of removed and ragged hours that with unreverend mouthes call'd me Slave Geta 2 Lict. You must forget their names your Honour bids ye Get. I do forget but I 'll hang their natures I will ascend my Place which is of Justice and Mercy I forget thee Suitor A rare Magistrate another Solon sure Get. Bring out the offenders 1 Lict. There are none yet Sir but no doubt there will be but if you please touch some things of those natures Get. And am I ready and mine anger too the melancholy of a Magistrate upon me and no offenders to execute my fury Ha no offenders knaves 1 Lict. There are knaves indeed Sir but we hope shortly to have 'em for your Worship Get. No men to hang or whip are you good Officers that provide no fuel for a Judges fury in this Place something must be done this Chair I tell ye when I sit down must favour of Severitie therefore I warn ye all bring me lewd people or likely to be lewd twigs must be cropt too let me have evil persons in abundance or make 'em evil 't is all one do but say so that I may have fit matter for a Magistrate and let me work If I sit empty once more and lose my longing as I am true Edile and as I
Jun. I will not love I am a man have reason and I will use it I 'll no more tormenting nor whining for a wench there are a thousand Petill. Hold thee there boy Jun. A thousand will intreat me Petill. Ten thousand Junius Jun. I am young and lustie and to my fashion valiant can please nightly Petill. I 'll swear thy back 's probatum for I have known thee leap at sixteen like a strong Stallion Jun. I will be man again Petill. Now mark the working the divell and the spirit tug for 't twenty pound upon the divels head Jun. I must be wretched Petill. I knew I had won Jun. Nor have I so much power to shun my fortune Petill. I will hunt thy fortune with all the shapes imagination breeds Musick but I will fright thy divell Stay he sings now Song by Junius and Petillius after him in mockage Jun. Must I be thus abus'd Petill. Yes mary must ye Let 's follow him close oh there he is now read it Herald reads It is the Generals command that all sick persons old and unable retire within the Trenches hee that fears his libertie to leave the Field Fools boyes and lovers must not come neer the Regiments for fear of their infections especially those Cowards they call Lovers Jun. Hah Petill. Read on Herald If any common Souldier love an Enemie hee 's whip'd and made a slave If any Captain cast with losse of honours flung out o' th' Army and made unable ever after to bear the name of a Souldier Jun. The consume ye all Rogues Exit Jun. Petill. Let this work h 'as something now to chew upon he 's gone come shake no more Her Well Sir you may command me but not to doe the like again for Europe I would have given my life for a bent two-pence If I ere read to lovers whilst I live again or come within their confines Petill. There 's your payment and keep this private Her I am school'd for talking Exit Herald Enter Demetrius Petill. How now Demetrius are we drawn Dem. 'T is doing Your Company stands fair but pray ye where 's Junius half his command are wanting with some forty that Decius leads Petill. Hunting for victuals upon my life free-booting Rogues their stomacks are like a widows lust nere satisfied Dem. I wonder how they dare stir knowing the enemy Master of all the Countrey Petill. Resolute hungers know neither fears nor faiths they tread on ladders ropes gallowes and overdoe all dangers Dem. They may be hang'd though Petill. There 's their joyfull supper and no doubt they are at it Dem. But for heavens sake how does young Junius Petill. Drawing on poor Gentleman Dem. What to his end Petill. To th' end of all flesh woman Dem. This Love has made him a stout souldier Petill. O a great one fit to command young goslings but what news Dem. I think the messenger 's come back from Penyus by this time let 's go know Petill. What will you say now if he deny to come and take exceptions at some half syllable or sound deliverd with an ill accent or some stile left out Dem. I cannot think he dare Petill. He dare speak treason dare say what no man dares beleeve dares doe but that 's all one I 'll lay you my black armour to twenty crowns he comes not Dem. Done Petill. You 'll pay Dem. I will Petill. Then keep thine old use Penyus be stubborn and vain glorious and I thank thee Come let 's go pray for six hours most of us I fear will trouble heaven no more two good blowes struck home at two Commanders of the Britains and my part 's done Dem. I do not think of dying Petill. 'T is possible we may live But Demetrius with what strange legs and arms and eyes and noses let Carpenters and Copper-smiths consider If I can keep my heart whole and my wind-pipe that I may drink yet like a Souldier Dem. Come let 's have better thoughts mine 's on your Armour Petil. Mine's in your purse Sir Let 's go try the wager Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter Judas and his four Companions halters about their necks Bonduca her Daughters Nennius following Bon. Come hang 'm presently Nen. What made your Rogueships harrying for victuals here Are we your friends or doe you come for Spies tell me directly Would you not willingly be hang'd now do not ye long for 't Jud. What say ye shall wee hang in this vain Hang we must and 't is as good to dispatch it merrily as pull an arse like dogs to 't 1. Soul Any way so it be handsome 3. Soul I had as lief 't were toothsom too but all agree and I 'll not out Boyes 4. Soul Let 's hang plesantly Jud. Then plesantly be it Captain the truth is we had as lief hang with meat in our mouthes as ask your pardon empty Bon. These are brave hungers What say you to a leg of Beef now sirha Jud. Bring me acquainted with it and I 'll tell ye Bon. Torment 'em wenches I must back then hang 'em Jud. We humbly thank your Grace 1. Daugh. The Rogues laugh at us 2. Daugh. Sirha What think you of a wench now Jud. A wench Lady I do beseech your Ladiship retire I 'll tell ye presently ye see the time 's short one crash even to the setling of my conscience Nen. Why is 't no more but up boyes Jud. Yes ride too Captain Will you but see my seat 1. Daugh. Ye shall be set Sir upon a Jade shall shake ye Jud. Sheets good Madam will do it ten times better 1. Daugh. Whips good Souldier which ye shall taste before ye hang to mortifie ye 't is pitie ye should die thus desperate 2. Daugh. These are the merry Romans the brave mad-caps 't is ten to one wee 'll cool your resolutions Bring out the whips Jud. Would your good Ladyships would exercise 'em too 4. Soul Surely Ladies we 'ld shew you a strange patience Nen. Hang 'em Rascals they 'l talk thus on the wheel Enter Caratach Car. Now what 's the matter What are these fellows what 's the crime committed that they wear necklaces Nen. They are Roman Rogues taken a forraging Car. Is that all Nennius Jud. Would I were fairly hang'd this is the divell the kill-cow Caratach Car. And you would hang 'em Nen. Are they not enemies 1. Soul My breech makes buttons 1. Daugh. Are they not our tormentors Car. Tormentors Flea-traps Pluck off your halters fellows Nen. Take heed Caratach taint not your wisdome Car. Wisdome Nennius why who shall fight against us make our honours and give a glorious day into our hands if we dispatch our foes thus what 's their offence stealing a loafe or two to keep out hunger a piece of greazie bacon or a pudding do these deserve the gallows They are hungry poor hungry knaves no meat at home left starv'd Art thou not hungry Jud. Monstrous hungry Car. He looks like hungers self get
strike five blows for 't weigh the good the generall good may come Dec. Away I 'll with ye but with what doubt Jun. Fear not my soul for all Exeunt Alarms Drums and Trumpets in severall places afar off as at a main Battell Scaena quinta Enter Drusus and Penyus above Dru. Here ye may see 'em all Sir from this hill the Country shews off levell Pen. Gods defend me what multitudes they are what infinites the Roman power shews like a little Star hedg'd with a double halloa Now the knell rings Loud Shouts Heark how they shout to th' battell how the air totters and reels and rends apieces Drusus with the huge vollied clamours Dru. Now they charge oh gods of all sides fearfully Pen. Little Rome stand but this growing Hydra one short hour and thou hast out-done Hercules Dru. The dust hides 'em we cannot see what follows Pen. They are gone gone swallow'd Drusus this eternall Sun shall never see 'em march more Dru. O turn this way and see a modell of the field some forty against four hundred Pen. Well fought bravely follow'd O nobly charg'd again charg'd home too Drusus they seem to carry it now they charge all Loud close close I say they follow it ye gods Can there be more in men more daring spirits stil they make good their fortunes Now they are gone too for ever gone see Drusus at their backs a fearfull Ambush rises Farewell valours excellent valours O Rome Where 's thy wisdome Dru. They are gone indeed Sir Pen. Look out toward the Army I am heavie with these slaughters Dru. 'T is the same still cover'd with dust and fury Enter the two Daughters with Junius Curius Decius and Souldiers 2. Daugh. Bring 'em in tie 'em and then unarm 'em 1. Daugh. Valiant Romans ye are welcome to your Loves 2. Daugh. Your death fools Dec. We deserve 'em and women do your worst 1. Daug. Ye need not beg it 2. Daug. Which is kinde Junius Serv. This 2 Dau. Are you my sweet heart It looks ill on 't how long is 't pretty soul since you and I first lov'd Had we not reason to doat extreamly upon one another How does my Love this is not he my chicken could prate finely sing a love-song Jun. Monster 2. Daugh. Oh now it courts Jun. Arm'd with more malice then he that got thee has the divell 2. Daugh. Good Proceed sweet Chick Jun. I hate thee that 's my last 2. Daug. Nay and ye love me forward No Come sister let 's prick our answers on our arrows points and make 'em laugh a little Ye damn'd Leachers ye proud improvident fools have we now caught ye are ye i' th' noose Since ye are such loving creatures wee 'll be your Cupids Do ye see these arrows wee 'll send 'em to your wanton livers goats 1. Dau. O how I 'll trample on your hearts ye villains ambitious salt-itcht slaves Romes master sins the mountain Rams topt your hot mothers 2. Daugh. Dogs to whose brave Founders a salt whore gave suck theeves honours hangmen do ye grin perdition take me for ever if in my fell anger Enter Caratach I doe not out-doe all example Car. Where where are these Ladies ye keep noble quarter your mother thinks ye dead or taken upon which she will not move her Battell Sure these faces I have beheld and known they are Roman Leaders How came they here 2. Daugh. A trick Sir that we us'd a certain policie conducted 'em unto our snare we have done ye no small service these us'd as we intend we are for th' battell Car. As you intend taken by treachery 1. Daugh. Is 't not allow'd Car. Those that should gild our Conquest make up a Battell worthie of our winning catch'd up by craft 2. Daugh. By any means that 's lawfull Car. A womans wisdome in our triumphs Out out ye sluts ye follies from our swords filch our revenges basely Arm again Gentlemen Souldiers I charge ye help 'em 2. Daugh. By Uncle we will have vengeance for our rapes Car. By you should have kept your legs close then dispatch there 1. Daugh. I will not off thus Car. He that stirs to execute or she though it be your selves by him that got me shall quickly feel mine anger one great day given us not to be snatch'd out of our hands but basely and must we shame the gods from whence we have it with setting snares for Souldiers I 'll run away first be hooted at and children call me coward before I set up scales for Victories Give 'em their swords 2. Daug. O gods Car. Bear off the women unto their Mother 2. Daug. One shot gentle Uncle Car. One cut her fiddle-string Beat 'em off I say 1. Dau. The take this fortune Cara. Learn to spin and curse your knotted hemp goe Gentlemen Exeunt Daughters safely go off up to your troops be wiser there thank me like tall Souldiers I shall seek ye Exit Caratach Cur. A noble worth Dec. Well Junius Jun. Pray ye no more Cur. He blushes do not load him Dec. Where 's your love now Drums loud again Jun. Puffe there it flies Come let 's redeem our follies Exeunt Junius Curius Decius Dru. Awake Sir yet the Roman Bodie 's whole I see 'em cleer again Pen. Whole 't is not possible Drusus they must be lost Dru. By they are whole Sir and in brave doing see they wheel about to gain more ground Pen. But see there Drusus see see that huge Battell moving from the mountains their gilt coats shine like Dragons scales their march like a rough tumbling storm see them and view 'em and then see Rome no more say they faile look look where the armed carts stand a new Army look how they hang like falling rocks as murdring death rides in triumph Drusus fell destruction lashes his fiery horse and round about him his many thousand wayes to let out soules Move me again when they charge when the mountain melts under their hot wheels and from their Ax'trees huge claps of thunder plough the ground before 'em till then I 'll dream what Rome was Enter Swetonius Petillius Demetrius Macer Swet. O bravely fought honour till now nere show'd her golden face i' th' field Like lions Gentlemen y' have held your heads up this day Where 's yong Junius Curius and Decius Petill. Gone to heaven I think Sir Sw. Their worths go with 'em breath a while How do ye Pet. Wel some few scurvie wounds my heart 's whole yet Dem. Would they would give us more ground Swet. Give wee 'll have it Petill. Have it and hold it too despight the divell Enter Junius Decius Curius Jun. Lead up to th' head and line sure the Qs. Battell begins to charge like wild-fire Where 's the Generall Swet. Oh they are living yet Come my brave souldiers come let me powr Romes blessing on ye Live live and lead Armies all ye bleed hard Jun. Best wee shall appear the sterner to the foe Dec. More
doe that shall cure all Swet. Bring him with ye before the Queens Fort and his Forces with him there you shall find us following of our Conquest Make haste Petil. The best I may Exit Swet. And noble Gentlemen Up to your Companies wee 'll presently upon the Queens pursuit There 's nothing done till she be seiz'd without her nothing won Exeunt Short Flourish Scaena Secunda Enter Caratach and Hengo Car. How does my Boy Hen. I would doe well my heart 's well I doe not fear Car. My good boy Hen. I know Uncle we must all die my little brother dy'd I saw him die and he dy'd smiling sure there 's no great pain in 't Uncle But pray tell me Whither must we goe when we are dead Car. Strange questions why to the blessed'st place Boy ever sweetnesse and happinesse dwels there Hen. Will you come to me Car. Yes my sweet boy Hen. Mine Aunt too and my Cosins Car. All my good childe Hen. No Romans Uncle Car. No boy Heng. I should be loth to meet them there Car. No ill men that live by violence and strong oppression come thither 't is for those the gods love good men Heng. Why then I care not when I go for surely I am perswaded they love me I never blasphem'd 'em Uncle nor transgrest my parents I always said my prayers Car. Thou shalt go then indeed thou shalt Heng. When they please Car. That 's my good boy Art thou not weary Hengo Heng. Weary Uncle I have heard you say you have march'd all day in Armour Car. I have boy Hengo Am not I your kinsman Car. Yes Heng. And am not I as fully alli'd unto you in those brave things as blood Car. Thou art too tender Heng. To go upon my legs they were made to bear me I can play twenty mile a day I see no reason but to preserve my Countrey and my self I should march fourty Car. What wouldst thou be living to wear a mans strength Heng. Why a Caratach a Romane-hater a scourge sent from heaven Drum to whip these proud theeves from our kingdom Heark heark Uncle heark I hear a Drum Enter Judas and his people to the door Iud. Beat softly softly I say they are here who dare charge 1 Sould. He that dares be knockt o' th' head I 'll not come neer him Iud. Retire again and watch then How he stares h' as eyes would kill a dragon mark the boy well if we could take or kill him A on ye how fierce ye look see how he broods the boy the devil dwells in 's scabbard Back I say apace apace h' as found us They retire Car. Do ye hunt us Heng. Uncle good Uncle see the thin starv'd Rascal the eating Romane see where he thrids the thickets kill him dear Uncle kill him one good blow to knock his brains into his breech strike's head off that I may pisse in 's face Car. Do ye make us Foxes Here hold my charging-staff and keep the place boy I am at bay and like a bull I 'll bear me Stand stand ye Rogues ye Squirrels Exit Heng. Now he pays 'em O that I had a mans strength Enter Iudas c. Iud. Here 's the boy mine own I thank my Fortune Heng. Uncle uncle famine is faln upon me uncle Iud. Come Sir yeeld willingly your uncle 's out of hearing I 'll tickle your young tail else Heng. I defie thee thou mock-made man of mat charge home sirha hang thee base slave thou shakest Iud. Upon my conscience the boy will beat me how it looks how bravely how confident the worm is a scabb'd boy to handle me thus yeeld or I cut thy head off Heng. Thou dar'st not cut my finger here 't is touch it Iud. The boy speaks sword and buckler Prethee yeeld boy come here 's an apple yeeld Heng. By he fears me I 'll give you sharper language When ye coward when come ye up Iud. If he should beat me Heng. When Sir I long to kill thee come thou canst not scape me I have twenty ways to charge thee twenty deaths attend my bloody staff Iud. Sure 't is the devil a dwarf devil in a doubler Heng. I have kill'd a Captain sirha a brave Captain and when I have done I have kickt him thus Look here see how I charge this staff Iud. Most certain this boy will cut my throat yet Enter two souldiers running 1 Sould. Flee flee he kills us 2 Sould. He comes he comes Iud. The devil take the hindmost Heng. Run run ye Rogues ye precious Rogues ye rank Rogues A comes a comes a comes a comes that 's he boys What a brave cry they make Enter Caratach with a head Car. How does my chicken Heng. 'Faith uncle grown a Souldier a great Souldier for by the vertue of your charging-staff and a strange fighting face I put upon 't I have outbrav'd hunger Car. That 's my boy my sweet boy Here here 's a Romane 's head for thee Heng. Good provision Before I starve my sweet-fac'd Gentleman I 'll trie your favour Car. A right compleat souldier Come chicken let 's go seek some place of strength the Countrey 's full of Scouts to rest a while in thou wilt not else be able to endure The journey to my Countrey fruits and water must be your food a while boy Heng. Any thing I can eat mosse nay I can live on anger to vex these Romanes Let 's be wary Uncle Car. I warrant thee come chearfully Heng. And boldly Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter Penyus Drusus and Regulus Reg. The souldier shall not grieve ye Pen. Pray ye forsake me look not upon me as ye love your Honours I am so cold a coward my infection will choke your vertues like a damp else Dru. Dear Captain Reg. Most honour'd Sir Pen. Most hated most abhor'd say so and then ye know me nay ye please me O my dear credit my dear credit Reg. Sure his minde is dangerous Dru. The good gods cure it Pen. My honour got thorow fire thorow stubborn breaches thorow battels that have been as hard to win as heaven thorow death himself in all his horrid trims is gone for ever ever ever Gentlemen and now I am left to scornful tales and laughters to hootings at pointing with fingers That 's he that 's the brave Gentleman forsook the battel the most wise Penyus the disputing coward O my good sword break from my side and kill me cut out the coward from my heart Reg. Ye are none Pen. He lyes that says so by he lyes lyes basely baser then I have done Come souldiers seek me I have robb'd ye of your vertues Justice seek me I have broke my fair obedience lost shame take me take me and swallow me make ballads of me shame endlesse shame and pray do you forsake me Dru. What shall we do Pen. Good Gentlemen forsake me you were not wont to be commanded Friends pray do it and do not fear for as I am a
you vanish Enter Ferand Ronvere Florish Cornets Fer. Double the Guards and take in men that dare These slaves are frighted where are the proud Rebels To what protection fled what villain leads 'em Under our nose disturb our rest Ronver. We shall heare For such a search I have sent to hunt the Traytors Fer. Yet better men I say we stand too open How now Castruchio how do you like our glory Cast. I must confesse 't was somewhat more then my match Sir This open glory agrees not with my body But if it were i th' Castle or some strength Where I might have my swing Vil. You have been swing'd brother How these delights have tickled you you itch yet Will you walke out again in pomp Cast. Good Foole Vil. These rogues must be rebuked they are too sawcy These peremptory Knaves Will you walk out Sir And take the remnant of your Coronation The people stay to see it Fer. Do not vex him Ha's griefe enough in 's bones you shall to th' Citadell And like my selfe command there use your pleasure But take heed to your person Vil. The more danger Still the more honour Brother Cast. If I reign not then And like a King and thou shalt know it fool And thou shalt feel it foole Vil. Fooles still are freemen I 'le sue for a protection till thy reigne 's out Fer. The people have abus'd the liberty I late allowed I now proclaime it straighter No men shall walk together nor salute For they that doe shall dye Ronver. You hit the right Sir That liberty cut off you are free from practise Fer. Renew my guards Ronver. I shall Fer. And keep strict watches One houre of joy I aske Ronver. You shall have many Exeunt Flor. Cor. Pandulfo and Iuliana led by two of the guard as not yet fully recover'd 1. Guard You are now at liberty in your own house Lady And here our charge takes end Pandul. 'T is now a Custome We must even wooe those men deserve worst of us And so we thanke your labours there 's to drinke For that and mischiefe are your occupations And to meane well to no man you Chief'st harvests 2. Gard. You give liberally we hope Sir er 't be long To be oftner acquainted with your bounty And so we leave you Pand. Doe for I dote not on ye Iul. But where 's my Husband what should I do here Or what share have I in this joy cal'd liberty Without his company Why did you flatter me And tell me he was return'd his service honour'd 1. Gard. He is so and stands high in the Kings favour His friends redeemd and his own liberty From which yours is deriv'd confirm'd his service To his own wish rewarded so fare-well Lady Ex. Guard Pand. Go persecute the good and hunt ye hell-hounds Ye Leeches of the time suck till ye burst slaves How does my girle Iul. Weake yet but full of comfort Pand. Sit down and take some rest Jul. My heart 's whole Father That joyes and leaps to heare my Virolet My Deer my life has conquer'd his afflictions Pand. Those rude hands and that bloody will that did this That durst upon thy tender body Print These Characters of cruelty heare me heaven Iul. O Sir be sparing Pand. I 'le speake it tho I burst And tho the ayre had eares and serv'd the Tyrant Out it should goe O heare me thou great Justice The miseries that waite upon their mischiefs Let them be numberlesse and no eye pitty Them when their soules are loaden and in labour And wounded through and through with guilt horror As mine is now with griefe let men laugh at 'em Then when their monstrous sins like earth-quaks shake 'em And those eyes that forgot heaven would look upward The bloody 'larms of the conscience beating Let mercy flye and day strook into darknesse Leave their blind soules to hunt out their own horrors Iul. Enough enough we must forget deare Father For then we are glorious formes of heaven and live When we can suffer and as soon forgive But where 's my Lord me thinkes I have seen this house And have been in 't before Pand. Thine own house jewell Iul. Mine without him or his without my company I thinke it cannot be it was not wont Father Pand. Some businesse with the King let it be good heaven Reteines him sure Enter Boy Iul. It must be good and noble For all men that he treats with taste of vertue His words and actions are his own and Honour 's Not bought nor compel'd from him Pand. Here 's the Boy He can confirme us more how sad the child looks Come hither Lucio how and where 's thy Master Iul. Speak gentle Boy Pand. Is he return'd in safety Iul. If not and that thou knowest is miserable Our hopes and happinesse declin'd for ever Study a sorrow excellent as thy Master Then if thou canst live leave us Lucio Noble Madam My Lord is safe return'd safe to his friends and fortune Safe to his Country entertain'd with honour Is here within the house Iul. Doe not mock me Lucio But such a melancholy hangs on his mind And in his eyes inhabit such sad shadowes But what the cause is Pand. Goe tell him we are here Boy There must be no cause now Iul. Hast thou forgot me Lucio No noblest Lady Jul. Tell him I am here Tell him his wife is here sound my name to him And thou shalt see him start speake Iuliana And like the Sunne that labors through a tempest How suddainly he will disperse his sadnesse Pand. Goe I command thee instantly And charge him on his duty Iul. On his Love Boy I would faine goe to him Pand. Away away you are foolish Iul. Beare all my service sweet Boy Pand. Art thou here still Jul. And tell him what thou wilt that shall become thee Pand. i th' house and know we are here Ex. Boy Iul. No no he did not I warrant you he did not could you think His Love had lesse then wings had he but seen me His strong affection any thing but fire Consuming all weak lets and rubs before it Till he had met my flame and made one body If ever heavens high blessings met in one man And there erected to their holy uses A sacred mind fit for their services Built all of polisht honour 't was in this man Misdoubt him not Pand. I know he 's truly noble But why this sadnesse when the generall cause Requires a Jubile of joy Jul. I know not Enter Virolet and Boy Pand. Pray heaven you find it not Jul I hope I shall not O here he comes and with him all my happinesse He staies and thinks we may be too unmannerly Pray give him leave they stand off Pand. I doe not like this sadnesse Vir. O hard condition of my misery Unheard of plagues when to behold that woman That chaste and vertuous woman that preserv'd me That pious wife wedded to my afflictions Must be more
her anger shews how it sets off Her naturall beauty under what happy star Was Virolet born to be belov'd and sought to By two incomparable women Noblest Lady I have heard your wrongs and pity them and if The service of my life could give me hope To gain your favour I should be most proud To be commanded Mart. T is in you my Lord To make me your glad servant Ron. Name the means Mar. T is not preferment Jewels Gold or Courtship He that desires to reap the harvest of My youth and beauty must begin in blood And right my wrongs Ron. I apprehend you Madam And rest assur'd t is done I am provided Of instruments to fit you To the King I le instantly present you if I faile He shal make good your aymes he 's lesse then man That to atchieve your favour would not doe Deeds friends would fear to put their agents to Exeunt Enter Virolet Reading Vir. Quid invitus facis non est scelus T is an axiome Now whether willingly I have departed With that I lov'd with that above her life Lov'd me again crownd me a happy husband Was full of children her afflictions That I begot that when our age must perish And all our painted frailties turn to ashes Then shal they stand and propagate our honors Whether this done and taking to protection A new strange beauty it was a useful one How to my lust if it be so I am sinful And guilty of that crime I would fling from me Was there not in it this fair course of vertue This pious course to save my friends my Countrey That even then had put on a mourning garment And wept the desolation of her children Her noblest children Did not she thrust me on And to my duty clapt the spur of honour Was there a way without this woman left me To bring 'em off the marrying of this woman If not why am I stung thus why tormented Or had there been a wild desire joyn'd with it How easily both these and all their beauties Might I have made mine own why am I toucht thus Having perform'd the great redemption Both of my friends and family fairly done it Without base and lascivious ends O Heaven Why am I still at war thus why this a mischiefe That honesty and honour had propounded I and absolv'd my tender wil and chid me Nay then unwillingly flung me on Enter Juliana and the Boy Boy He 's here Madam This is the melancholy walk he lives in And chooses ever to encrease his sadnesse Jul. Stand by Vir. T is she how I shake now and tremble The vertues of that mind are torments to me Jul. Sir if my hated face shal stir your anger Or this forbidden path I tread in vex you My love and faire obedience let behind me Your pardon asked I shal return and blesse you Vir. Pray stay a little I delight to see you May not we yet though fortune have divided us Ana set an envious stop between our pleasures Look thus one at another sigh and weep thus And read in one anothers eyes the Legends And wonders of our old loves be not fearful Though you be now a Saint I may adore you May I not take this hand and on it sacrifice The sorrows of my heart white seale of vertue Jul. My Lord you wrong your wedlock Vir. Were she here And with her all severe eyes to behold us We might do this I might name Julian And to the reverence of that name bow thus I might sigh Juliana she was mine once But I too weak a guard for that great Treasure And whilst she has a name believe me Lady This broken heart shal never want a sorroW Jul. Forget her sir your honour now commands you You are anothers keep those griefes for her She richly can reward 'em I would have spoken with you Vir. What is your wil for nothing you can aske So ful of goodnesse are your words and meanings Must be denied speak boldly Jul. I thank you sir I come not To beg or flatter onely to be believ'd That I desire for I shal tell a story So far from seeming truth yet a most true one So horrible in nature and so horrid So beyond wickednesse that when you heare it It must appeare the practice of another The cast malice of some one you have wrongd much And me you may imagine me accus'd to Unlesse you call to mind my daily sufferings The infinite obedience I have born you That hates all name and nature of revenge My love that nothing but my death can sever Rather then hers I speak of Vir. Juliana To make a doubt of what you shall deliver After my full experience of your vertues Were to distrust a providence to think you can lie Or being wrong'd seek after foule repairings To forge a Creed against my faith Jul. I must do so for it concernes your life sir And if that word may stir you heare and prosper I should be dumb else were not you at stake here Vir. What new friend have I found that dares deliver This loden Trunke from his afflictions What pitying hand of all that feeles my miseries Brings such a benefit Jul. Be wise and manly And with your honour fall when Heaven shall call you Not by a Hellish mischiefe Vir. Speak my blest one How weak and poor I am now she is from me Jul. Your wife Viro. How 's that Jul. Your wife Vir. Be tender of her I shal believe else Jul. I must be true your eare sir For t is so horrible if the ayre catch it Into a thousand plagues a thousand monsters It will disperse it selfe and fright resistance Viro. She seeke my life with you make you her agent Another love O speake but truth Jul. Be patient Deare as I love you else I leave you wretched Vir. Forward t is well it shal be welcome to me I have liv'd too long numbred too many daies Yet never found the benefit of living Now when I come to reap it with my service And hunt for that my youth and honour aimes at The Sunne sets on my fortune red and bloody And everlasting night begins to close me T is time to die Enter Martia and Ronvere Jul. She comes her selfe Ron. Believe Lady And on this Angel hand your servant seales it You shal be Mistris of your whole desires And what ye shal command Mart. Ha mynion My precious dame are you there nay go forward Make your complaints and poure out your faind pities Slave like to him you serve I am the same still And what I purpose let the world take witnesse Shal be so finisht and to such example Spite of your poore preventions my deare Gentleman My honourable man are you there too You and your hot desire Your mercy sir I had forgot your greatnesse Jul. T is not wel Lady Mart. Lord how I hate this fellow now how desperately My stomack stands against him this base fellow This
onely inhabited with rare dreames and wonders I would not be a knave againe a villaine Lord how I loath it now for these know all Sir And they would finde me out Ped. They are excellent women Deepe in their knowledge friend Rod. I would not be traytor And have these of my Jury how light I am And how my heart laughes now me thinkes within me Now I am Catechiz'd I would ever dwell here For there is a kinde of Court of Reformation Had I beene stubborn friend Ped. They would have found it Rod. And then they would have handled me a new way The devils dump had been danced then Ped. Let 's away And doe their great Commands and do 'em handsomely Contrite and true for I beleeve Roderigo And constantly beleeve we shall be happy Rod. So you doe well fall edge or flat O my side All I can stagger at is the Kings Anger Which if it come I am prepar'd to meet it Ped. The King has mercy friend as well as Justice And when you fall no more Rod. I hope the fairest Exeunt Scaena quinta Enter Master Seberto Curio Cur. We have told ye what he is what time we have sought him His nature and his name the seeming Boy too Ye had here how and what by your own relation All circumstances we have cleer'd That the Duke sent him We told ye how impossible he knowes him not That he is mad himselfe and therefore fit To be your Prisoner we dare swear against it Seb. Take heed Sir be not madder then you would make him Though he be rash and suddain which is all his wildenes Take heed ye wrong him not he is a Gentleman And so must be restor'd and cleer'd in all points The King shall be a Judge else Cur. 'T was some trick That brought him hither the Boy and letter counterfeit Which shall appear if ye dare now detain him Mast. I dare not Sir nor will not I beleeve ye And will restore him up had I known sooner H 'ad been a neighbour and the man you speak him Though as I live he carried a wild seeming My Service and my selfe had both attended him How I have us'd him let him speake Seb. Let 's in and visit him Then to the holy Temple there pay our duties And so wee 'le take our leaves Mast. I 'le waite upon ye Exeunt Scaena Sexta An Altar prepar'd Solemne Musick Enter Governour Verdugo Courtiers Ladies c. Gov. This to devotion sacred be This to the Kings prosperity This to the Queen and Chastity Musick Ver. These Oblations first we bring To purge our selves These to the King To love and beautie these now sing Musick Ladies Holy Altar daigne to take These for our selves For the Kings sake And honour these These sacred lye To Vertue Love and Modesty Our wishes to Eternity Musick Enter Pedro and Roderigo Ped. For our selves first thus we bend Forgive us heaven and be our friend Rod. And happy fortune to us send Ped. To the King honour and all Ioy Long and happy from annoy Rod. Prosperous be all his dayes Every new houre a new praise Ped. Every minute thus be seene Both And thousand honours Crowne the Queene Musick Enter Alphonso Curio Seberto Seb. Come to the Altar let us do our duties Alph. I have almost forgot a Church Cur. Kneele reverently Alph. For my lost wits let me see First J pray and secondly To be at home againe and free And if I travell more hang me For the King and for the Queene That they may be wise and seene Never in the Mad-mans Jnne For my daughter I would pray But she has made a holly-day And needs not my devotion now Let her take her own course heaven Whether it be od or even Musick Enter Alinda Iuletta like Shepheards And if that please not take her you Seb. A short and sweet Meditation what are these here Alin. Haile to this sacred place Iul. They are all here Madam No violence dare touch here be secure My Bilbo Master too how got he loose againe How lamentably he lookes he has had discipline I dare not let him know my prancks Seb. 'T is she sure Cur. 'T is certainly Ped. Ha! doe I dazell Rod. 'T is the faire Alinda Gov. What wonder stand these strangers in Rod. Her woman by her The same Sir as I live Alph. I had a daughter With such a face once such eyes and nose too Ha let me see 't is wondrous like Alinda Their devotion ended I 'le marke 'em and neerer And she had a Filly that waited on her Just with such a favour Doe they keepe Goats now Alin. Thus we kneele and thus we pray A happy honour to this day Thus our Sacrifice we bring Ever happy to the King Jul. These of Purple Damask greene Sacred to the vertuous Queene Here we hang Alin. As these are now Her glories ever spring and show These for our selves our hopes and loves Full of pincks and Ladies gloves Of hartes-ease too which we would faine As we labour for attaine Heare me heaven and as I bend Full of hope some comfort send Jul. Heare her heare her if there be A spotles Sweetnes this is she Musick Ped. Now Roderigo stand Rod. He that devides ye Devides my life too Gov. Pedro Noble Pedro Doe not you know your friend Ped I know and honour ye Gov. Lady this leave I 'le crave pray be not angry I will not long devide you how happy Pedro Would all the Court be now might they be thee Might they but see you thus and thus embrace you The King will be a joyfull man beleeve it Most joyfull Pedro Ped. I am his humble Servant Nay good Sir speake your will I see you wonder one easie word from you Alph. I dare say nothing My tongue 's a new tongue Sir and knowes his tither Let her doe what she please I dare doe nothing I have been damn'd for doing will the King know him That fellow there will he respect and honour him He has been look'd upon they say will he own him Gov. Yes certainly and grace him ever honour him Restore him every way he has much lamented him Alp. Is 't your will too this is the last time of asking Rod. I am sure none else shall touch her none else enjoy her If this and this hold Alp. You had best begin the game then I have no title in her Pray take her and dispatch her and commend me to her And let me get me home and hope I am sober Kisse kisse it must be thus stand up Alinda I am the more Childe and more need of blessing Ye had a waiting woman one Iuletta A pretty desperate thing just such another As this sweet Lady we call'd her nimble chaps I pray is this the party Jul. No indeed Sir She is at home I am a little Foot-Boy That walke a nights and fright old Gentlemen Make 'em loose Hats and Cloakes Alph. And Horses too Iul.
Nor. I thank ye And thank ye for your help your timely succour By th' mas it came i th' nick sir and well handled Stoutly and strongly handled we had duckt else My Turke had Turk'd me else but he has wel paid for 't Why what a Signe for an Almanack h 'as made me Enter Astorius Ast. I am glad to finde ye here sir of necessity I must have come aboard else and brave Captain We all joy much in your faire victory And all the Island speaks your valour nobly Have ye brought the Turke in that ye took Mir. He rides there Nor. If he were out again the devill should bring him H 'as truely circumcis'd me Ast. I have a businesse Which much concernes ye presently concernes ye But not this place nor people pray ye draw off sir For t is of that weight to ye Mir. I le wait on ye I must crave leave a while my care dwels with ye And I must wait my selfe Nor. Your servant sir Mir. Believe I shall and what my love can minister Keep your stout heart still Nor. That 's my best Physitian Mir. And I shall keepe your fame faire Exit Nor. Ye are too Noble A brave young fellow of a matchlesse spirit He brought me off like thunder charg'd and boorded As if he had been shot to save mine honour And when my fainting men tyr'd with their labour And lacke of blood gave to the Turke assurance The day was his when I was cut in shreds thus And not a corn of Powder left to blesse us Then flew his Sword in then his Cannon roard And let flie blood and death in storms amongst em Then might I heare their sleepy Prophet howl'd too And all their silver Crescents then I saw Like falling Meteors spent and set for ever Under the Crosse of Malta death so wanton I never lookt upon so full of revell Enter Surgeon I will not be drest yet Me thought that fellow Was fit for no conversation nor no Christian That had not halfe his brains knockt out no Souldier Oh valiant young man how I love thy vertue 1 Soul Pray ye sir be drest alasse ye bleed apace yet Nor. T is but the sweat of honour alas thou milksop Thou man of March-paine canst thou feare to see A few light hurts that blush they are no bigger A few small scratches get ye a Cawdle sirha Your finger akes and let the old wives watch thee Bring in the booty and the prisoners By Heaven I le see 'em and dispose 'em first Before I have a drop of blood wipt from me goe Exeunt Souldiers Surg. You 'l faint sir Nor. No ye lie sir like an Asse sir I have no such pigs hurt in my belly Sur. By my life Captaine These hurts are not to be jested with Nor. If thou hadst 'em They are my companions foole my family I cannot eate nor sleepe without their company Dost take me for St Davy that fell dead With seeing of his nose bleed Enter Souldiers with booty Sur. Here they come sir But would you would be drest Nor. Pox dresse thy selfe first Thou faintst a great deale faster what 's all this 1 Sould. The money and the merchandize ye took sir Nor. A goodly purchase Is it for this we venture Our liberties and lives what can all this doe Get me some dozen surfeits some seven fresh whores And twenty pot-alleys and to and then I am vertuous Lay the Knights part by and that to pay the Souldier This is mine own I think I have deserv'd it Come now looke to me and grope me like a chambermaid I le neither start nor speake what 's that i' th trusse there 2 Soul T is cloth of Tissew sir and this is Scarlet Nor. I shall looke redder shortly then I feare me And as a Captaine ought a great deale prowder Can ye cure me of that crack Surgeon Sur. Yes when your Suit 's at pawn sir Nor. There 's for your playster A very learned Surgeon what 's in that pack there 1 Soul T is English Cloth Nor. That 's a good weare indeed Both strong and rich but it has a vertue A twang of the own Country that spoiles all A man shall nere be sober in 't Where are the Gentlemen That ventur'd with me both their lives and fortunes Come forward my faire spirits Norandine Forgets his worth when he forgets your valours You have lost an eye I saw ye face all hazards You have one left yet to choose your Mistris You have your leg broke with a shot yet sitting I saw you make the place good with your Pike still And your hand 's gone a good heart wants no instruments Share that amongst ye there 's an eye an arme And that wil beare you up when your legs cannot Oh where 's the honest Saylor that poore fellow Indeed that bold brave fellow that with his Musket Taught them new waies how to put their caps off That stood the fire of all the fight twice blowne And twice I gave him drownd welcome ashore knave Give me thy hand if they be not both lost faith thou art welcome My tough knave welcom thou wilt not shrink i th' washing Hold there 's a piece of Scarlet get thee hansome And this to buy thee Buttons Sayl. Thank ye Captaine Command my life at all houres Nor. Thou durst give it You have deserv'd too 3 Soul We have seen the fight sir Nor. Yes coyld up in a Cable like salt Eeles Or buried low i th' ballasse do you call that fighting Where be your wounds your knocks your want of limbs rogues Art not thou he that ask'd the Master-gunner Where thou mightst lie safest and he strait answered Put thy head in that hole new bor'd with a Cannon For t was a hundred to one another shot would not hit there Your wages you shall have but for rewards Take your owne waies and get ye to the Tavernes There when ye are hot with Wine 'mongst your admirers Take Ships and Towns and Castles at your pleasures And make the great Turk shake at your valours Bring in the prisoners now my brave Musulmans Enter Prisoners and Luscinda You that are Lords o th' Sea and scorn us Christians Which of your mangy lives is worth this hurt here Away to prison with 'em see 'em safe You shall finde we have Gallies too and slaves too 1 Soul What shall be done with this woman sir Nor. Pox take her T was she that set me on to fight with these rogues That Ring worme rot it what can you doe now With all your paintings and your pouncings Lady To restore my blood again you and your Cupid That have made a Carbinado of me plague take ye Ye are too deep ye rogue this is thy worke woman Thou lousie woman death you go too deep still The seeing of your simpring sweetnesse ye Filly Ye Tit ye-Tomboy what can one nights gingling Or two or ten sweet heart and oh my deare chicken Scratching my
head or fumbling with my fore-mast Doe me good now ye have powder'd me for one yeere I am in sowce I thank ye thanke your beauty Your most sweet beauty pox upon those goggles We cannot fight like honest men for honour And quietly kill one another as we ought But in steps one of you the devils holinesse And you must have a daunce away with her She stinks to me now 1 Soul Shall I have her Captaine 2 Soul Or I 3 Soul I le marry her 4 Soul Good Captaine I 3 Soul And make her a good Christian lay hands on her I know she 's mine 2 Soul I le give my full share for her have ye no manners To thrust the woman so Nor. Share her among ye And may she give ye as many hurts as I have And twice as many aches Lusc. Noble Captaine Be pleas'd to free me from these Souldiers wildnesse Till I but speake two words Nor. Now for your maidenhead You have your booke proceed Lusc. Victorious sir T is seldome seen in men so valiant Minds so devoyd of vertue he that can conquer Should ever know how to preserve his conquest T is but a base theft else Valour 's a vertue Crown of mens actions here yours as you make it And can you put so rough a foyle as violence As wronging of weake woman to your triumph Nor. Let her alone Lusc. I have lost my husband sir You feel not that him that I love you care not When fortune fals on you thus you may grieve too My liberty I kneele not for mine honour if ever vertuous honour toucht your heart yet Make deere and precious sir you had a mother Nor. The rougy thing speaks finely neat who took ye For he must be your guard Lusc. I wish no better A Noble Gentleman and Nobly us'd me They cal'd his name Miranda Nor. You are his then Ye have light upon a young man worth your service I free ye from all the rest and from all violence He that doth offer 't by my head he hangs for 't Go see her safe kept till the Noble Gentleman Be ready to dispose her thank your tongue You have a good one and preserve it good still Souldiers come wait on me I le see ye paid all Exeunt Scena secunda Enter Miranda and Astorius Ast. I knew ye lov'd her vertuously ye lov'd her Which made me make that hast I knew ye priz'd her As all fair minds do goodnesse Mir. Good Astorius I must confesse I do much honour her And worthily I hope still Ast. T is no doubt sir For on my life she is much wrong'd Mir. Very likely And I as much tormented I was abscent Ast. You need not feare Peter Gomera 's Noble Of a tryd faith and valour Mir. This I know too But whilst was not there and whilst she suffer'd Whilst vertue suffer'd friend oh how it loads me Whilst innocence and sweetnesse sunke together How cold it sits here if my arme had fought her My truth though naked stood against all treasons My Sword here grasped love on the edge and honour And but a signall from her eye to seale it If then she had been lost I brag too late And too much I decline the Noble Peter Yet some poor service I would do her sweetnesse Alas she needs it my Astorius The gentle Lady needs it Ast. Noble spirit Mir. And what I can prethee bear with this weaknes Often I do not use these womens weapons But where true pitty is I am much troubled And something have to do I cannot forme yet Ast. I le take my leave sir I shall but disturb ye Mir. And please you for a while and pray to fortune To smile upon this Lady Ast. All my help sir Exit Mir. Gomera 's old and stiffe and he may lose her The winter of his yeeres and wounds upon him And yet he has done bravely hithero Mountferrats fury in his heat of summer The whistling of his Sword like angry stormes Renting up life by th' roots I have seen him scale As if a Falcon had run up a traine Clashing his warlike pynions his steel'd curasse And at his pitch inmew the Town below him I must do something Enter Collonna Col. Noble sir for Heaven sake Take pity of a poore afflicted Christian Redeem'd from one affliction to another Mir. Boldly you aske that we are bound to give it From what affliction sir Col. From cold and hunger From nakednesse and stripes Mir. A prisoner Col. A slave sir in the Turkish prize new taken That in the heat of fight when your brave hand Brought the Dane succour got my yrons off And put my selfe to mercy of the Ocean Mer. And swom to Land Col. I did sir Heaven was gracious But now a stranger and my wants upon me Though willingly I would preserve this life sir With honesty and truth I am not look'd on The hand of pity that should give for Heaven sake And charitable hearts are grown so cold sir Never remembring what their fortunes may be Mir. Thou sayst too true of what profession art thou Col. I have been better traind and can serve truly Where trust is laid upon me Mir. A hansome fellow Hast thou ere bore Armes Col. I have trod full many a march sir And some hurts have to shew before me too sir Mir. Pity this thing should starve or forced for want Come to a worse end I know not what thou mayst be But if thou thinkst it fit to be a servant I le be a Master and a good one to thee If ye deserve sir Col. Else I aske no favour Mir. Then sir to try your trust because I like you Go to the Dane of him receive a woman A Turkish prisoner for me receive her I heare she is my prize looke fairly to her For I would have her know though now my prisoner The Christians need no Schoolmasters for honour Take this to buy thee clothes this Ring to help thee Into the fellowship of my house ye are a stranger And my servants will not know ye else there keep her And with all modesty preserve your service Col. A foule example finde me else Heaven thank ye Of Captaine Norandine Mir. The same Col. T is done sir And may Heavens goodnesse ever dwell about ye Mir. Wait there till I come home Col. I shall not faile sir Exeunt Scena tertia Enter Mountferrat with a Letter and Abdella Abd. T is strange it should be so that your high mettle should check thus poorly dully most un-manly Mount Let me alone Abd. Thus leadenly Mont. take ye Abd. At every childish feare at every shadow Are you Mountferrat that have done such deeds Wrought through such bloody fields men shake to speak of Can ye go back is there a safety left yet But fore-right is not ruine round about ye Have ye not stil these armes that Sword that heart whol Is 't not a man ye fight with and an old man A man
doe it And man as much as man may but Miranda Why doe ye kneel Mir. By I 'le grow to the ground here And with my sword digge up my grave and fall in 't Unlesse thou grant me deere Mountferrat friend Is any thing in my power to my life Sir The honour shall be yours Mount I love ye deerely Yet so much I should tender Mir. I 'le preserve all By I will or all the sinne fall with me Pray let me Mount Ye have won I 'le once be coward To pleasure you Mir. I kisse your hands and thanke ye Mount Be tender of my credit and fight bravely Mir. Blow not the fire that flames Mount I 'le send mine Armor My man shall presently attend ye with it For you must arme immediately the houre cals I know 't will fit ye right be sure and secret And last be fortunate farewell ye are fitted I am glad the load 's off me Mir. My best Mountferrat Exeunt Scaena quarta Enter Norandine and Doctor Nor. Doctor I will see the Combat that 's the truth on 't If I had never a Legge I would crawle to see it Doct. You are most unfit if I might councell ye Your wounds so many and the ayre Nor. The Halter The ayres as good an ayre as fine an ayre Would'st thou have me live in an oven Doct. Beside the noyse Sir Which to a tender body Nor. That 's it Doctor My body must be cur'd with all if you 'll heale me quickly Boyle a Drum-head in my broth I never prosper With knuckles o'veale and birds in sorrell sops Cawdles and Cullysses they wash me away Like a horse had eaten grains if thou wilt cure me A pickled herring and a pottle of Sack Doctor And halfe a dozen trumpets Doct. Ye are a strange Gentleman Nor. As ere thou knew'st wilt thou give mean other glister That I may sit cleanly there like a french Lady When she goes to a Mask at Court where 's thy hoboy Doct. I am glad ye are growne so merry Enter Astor Castr Nor. Welcome Gentlemen Ast. We come to see you sir and glad we are To see you thus thus forward to your health sir Nor. I thank my Doctor here Doct. Nay thanke your selfe sir For by my troth I know not how he 's cur'd He nev'r observes any of our prescriptions Nor. Give me my money again then good sweet Doctor Wilt thou have twenty shillings a day for vexing me Doct. That shall not serve ye sir Drums a far off A low March Nor. Then forty shall sir And that will make ye speake well harke the Drums Cast. They begin to beat to th' field O noble Dane Never was such a stake I hope of innocence Plaid for in Malta and in blood before Ast. It makes us hang our heads all Nor. A bold villaine If there be treason in it accuse poore Ladies And yet they may do mischief to I 'le be with ye If she be innocent I shall finde it quickly And something then I 'le say Ast. Come leane on us sir Nor. I thank ye Gentlemen and domine Doctor Pray bring a little sneezing powder in your Pocket For feare I sound when I see blood Doct. You are pleasant Exeunt Scaena quinta Enter two Marshalls 1 Are the Combatants come in The Seaffold set out and the staires 2 Yes 1 Make the field cleere there 2 That 's done too 1 Then to the prisoner the grand Master's coming Let 's see that all be ready there 2 Too ready How ceremonious our very ends are Alas sweet Lady If she be innocent Florish No doubt but justice will direct her Champion Enter Valetta Norandine Ashor Castriot c. Away I heare 'em come 1 Pray heaven she prosper Val. Give Captain Norandine a chaire Nor. I thank your Lordship Val. Sit sir and take your ease your hurts require it You come to see a womans cause descrided That 's all the knowledge now or name I have for her They say a false a base and treacherous woman And partly prov'd too Nor. Pitty it should be so And if your Lordship durst aske my opinion Sure I should answer no so much I honour her And answer 't with my life too But Gomera Is a brave Gentleman the other valiant And if he be not good doggs gnaw his flesh off And one above 'em both will finde the truth out He never failes sir Val. That 's the hope rests with me Nor. How nature and his honour struggle in him A sweet cleere noble Gentleman Within make roome there Enter Oriana Ladies Executioner Abdel la 1 Guard Guard Make roome there Val. Go up and what you have to say say there Ori. Thus I ascend neerer I hope to heaven Nor do I fear to tread this dark black Mansion The Image of my grave each foot we move Goes to it still each houre we leave behinde us Knols sadly toward it My noble Brother For yet mine innocence dares cals ye so And you the friends to vertue that come hither The Chorus to this Tragick Scaene behold me Behold me with your justice not with pitty My cause was ne're so poore to aske compassion Behold me in this spotlesse white I weare The Embleme of my life of all my actions So ye shall finde my story though I perish Behold me in my Sex I am no Souldier Tender and full of fears our blushing Sex is Unhardned with relentlesse thoughts unhatcht With blood and bloody practise alas we tremble But when an angry dreame afflicts our fancies Dye with a tale well told had I been practis'd And known the way of mischiefe travell'd in it And given my blood and honour up to reach it Forgot religion and the line I sprung on Oh heaven I had been fit then for thy justice And then in black as dark as hell I had howl'd here Last in your own opinions weigh mine innocence Amongst ye I was planted from an Infant would then if heaven had so been pleas'd I had perish'd Grew up and goodly ready to bear fruit The honourable fruit of marriage And am I blasted in my bud with treason Boldly and basely of my faire name ravish'd And hither brought to finde my rest in ruine But he that knowes all he that rights all wrongs And in his time restores knows me I have spoken Val. If ye be innocent heaven will protect ye And so I leave ye to his Sword strikes for ye Farewell Ori. O that went deepe farewell deere brother And howsoe'r my cause goes see my body upon my knees I ask it buried chastely For yet by holy truth it never trespass'd Ast. Iustice sit on your cause heaven fight for ye Nor. Two of ye Gentlemen doe me but the honour To lead me to her good my Lord your leave too Val. You have it sir Nor. Give me your faire hands fearelesse As white as this I see your Innocence As spotlesse and as pure be not afraid Lady You are but here brought to your
poyson but a sleeping potion Which she received yet of sufficient strength So to bind up her sences that no signe Of life appeard in her and thus thought dead In her best habit as the custome is You know in Malta with all ceremonies She 's buried in her families monument In the Temple of St. Iohn I 'le bring you thither Thus as you are disguisd some six howers hence The potion will leave working Roc. Let us haste then Discover Tombe Mount Be my good angel guid me Abd. But remember You keep your Oath Mount As I desire to prosper In what I undertake Abd. I ask no more Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Miranda Norandine and Collonna Col. Here sir I have got the Key I borrowd it Of him that keeps the Church the door is open Mir. Look to the horses then and please the fellow After a few devotions I 'le retire Be not far off there may be some use of ye Give me the light come friend a few good prayers Were not bestowd in vaine now even from you sir Men that are bred in blood have no way left 'em No bath no purge no time to weare it out Or wash it off but penitence and prayer I am to take the order and my youth Loaden I must confesse with many follies Circled and bound about with sins as many As in the house of memory live figures My heart I 'le open now my faults confesse And rise a new man heaven I hope to a new life Nor. I have no great devotion at this instant But for a prayer or two I will not out sir Hold up your finger when you have praid enough Mir. Go you to that end Nor. I shall ne'r pray alone sure I have bin so us'd to answer the Clerk would I had a cushion for I shall ne'r make a good Hermit and knee till my knees are horn these stones are plaguy hard where shal I begin now for if I do not observe a method I shall be out presently Ori. Oh oh Nor. What 's that sir did ye heare Mir. Ha to your prayers Nor. 'T was here abouts t' has put me clean awry now I shall ne'r get in again ha by Land And water all children and all women I there it was I left Ori. Oh oh Nor. Never tell me sir Here 's something got amongst us Mir. I heard a groane A dismall one Ori Oh Oh Nor. Here t is here sir 't is here sir A devill in the wall Mir. T is some illusion To fright us from devotion Ori Oh oh Nor. Why t is here The spirit of a huntesman choakd with butter Her 's a new tomb new trickments too Mir. For certaine This has not bin three dayes here Nor. And a Tablet With rimes upon 't Mir. I prethee read 'em Norandine Nor. An Epi and Epi taff I think 't is I 't is taff an Epitaff Upon the most excell excell lent and Mir. Thou canst not read Nor. I have spoild mine eyes with gunpowder Mir. An Epitaph upon the most vertuous and excellent Lady The honor of Chastity Oriana Nor. The grand masters sister how a devil came she here When slipt she out o th' way the stone 's but half upon her Mir. T is is a sodain chang certain the mischiefe Mountferrat offerd to her broak her heart-strings Nor. Would he were here I would be the clerk my self And by this little light I would bury him alive here Her 's no lamenting now Ori. Oh oh Nor. There t is Mir. Sure from the monument the very stone groanes for her Oh deer Lady blessing of women vertue of thy sex How art thou set for ever how stolne from us Babling and prating now converse with women Nor. Sir it rises it looks up She rises up Mir. Heaven blesse us Nor. It is in womans cloathes it rises higher Mir. It looks about and wonders sure she lives sir T is she t is Oriana t is that Lady Nor. Shall I go to her Ori. Where am I Mir. Stand still Ori. What place is this Nor. She is as live as I am Ori. What sinell of earth and rotten bones what dark place Lord whether am I carried Nor. How she stares And sets her eyes upon him Mir. How is 't deer Lady Do you know me how she shakes Ori. You are a man Mir. A man that honours you Ori. A cruell man Ye are all cruell are you in your grave too For ther 's no trusting cruell man above ground Nor. Byr' Lady that goes hard Mir. To do your service And to restore ye to the joyes you were in Ori. I was in joyes indeed and hope Mir. She sincks againe Again she is gon she is gon gon as a shadow She sinks for ever friend Nor. She is cold now She is certainly departed I must cry too Mir. The blessed angels guide thee put the stone too Beauty thou art gon to dust goodnesse to ashes Nor. Pray take it well we must all have our houres sir Mir. I thus we are and all our painted glory A buble that a boy blowes in toth ' ayre And there it breaks Nor. I am glad ye sav'd her honour yet Mir. Would I had sav'd her life now too oh heaven For such a blessing such a timely blessing O friend what deer content 't would be what story To keep my name from wormes Oria Oh oh Nor. She lives again 'T was but a trance Mir. Pray ye call my man in presently Help with the stone first oh she stirs againe Oh call my man away Nor. I fly I fly sir Mir. Upon my knees O heaven O heaven I thank thee The living heat steales into every member En. Colonn Come help the Coffin out softly and sodainly Norand VVhere is the Clerk Col. Drunk above he is sure sir Mir. Sirah you must be secret Col. As your soule sir Mir. Softly good friend take her into your armes Nor. Put in the crust againe Mir. And bring her out there when I am a horseback My man and I will tenderly conduct her Unto the Fort slay you and watch what issue And what inquirie 's for the body Nor. Well sir Mir. And when ye have done come back to me Nor. I will Mir. Softly oh softly Nor. She growes warmer still sir Col. What shall I do with Key Mir. Thou canst not stir now Leave it i th' door go get the horses ready Exeunt Roc. The door 's already open the Key in it En. Rocca Mountferrat Abdella With a dark lanthorn Mount What were those past by Roc. Some scout of Souldiers I think Mount It may be well so for I saw their horses They saw not us I hope Abd. No no we were close Beside they were far off Mount What time of night is 't Abd. Much about twelve I think Roc. Let me go in first For by the leaving open of the door here There may be some body in the Church give me the Lanthorne Abd. You 'l love me now I hope Mount Make
fearefull office if thou had'st Though thou bee'st perfect now when thou cam'st hither A false Imagination get thee gone And as my learned Cozen said repent This place is sought by soundnesse Liv. So I seeke it Or let me be a most despis'd example Mar. I doe beleeve thee be thou worthy of it You come not empty Liv. No Here 's Cakes and cold meat And tripe of proofe behold here 's wine and beere Be suddaine I shall be surpriz'd else Mar. Meet at the low Parlor doore there lyes a close way What fond obedience you have living in you Or duty to a man before you enter Fling it away 't will but defile our Offrings By. Be wary as you come Liv. I warrant ye Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter three Maides 1 Mai. How goes your businesse Girles 2 A foot and faire 3 If fortune favour us away to your strength The Country Forces are ariv'd be gone We are discover'd else 1 Arme and be valiant 2 Think of our cause 3 Our Justice 1 'T is sufficient Exeunt Scaena quarta Enter Rowland and Tranio at severall doores Tra. Now Rowland Row How doe you Tra. How do'st thou man Thou look'st ill Row Yes pray can you tell me Tranio Who knew the devill first Tra. A woman Row Thou hast heard I am sure of Esculapius So were they not well acquainted Tra. May be so For they had certaine Dialogues together Row He sold her fruit I take it Tra. Yes and Cheese That choak'd all mankinde after Row Canst thou tell me Whether that woman ever had a faith After she had eaten Tra. That 's a Schoole question Row No 'T is no question for beleeve me Tranio That cold fruit after eating bread naught in her But windy promises and chollick vowes That broke out both wayes Row Thou ha'st heard I am sure Of Esculapius a farre famed Surgeon One that could set together quarter'd Traytors And make 'em honest men Tra. How do'st thou Rowland Row Let him but take if he dare doe a cure Shall get him fame indeed a faithlesse woman There will be credit for him that will speake him A broken woman Tranio a base woman And if he can cure such a rack of honour Let him come here and practise Tra. Now for honours sake Why what ayl'st thou Rowland Row I am ridden Tranio And Spur-gald to the life of patience Heaven keepe my wits together by a thing Our worst thoughts are too noble for a woman Tra. Your Mistresse has a little frown'd it may be Row She was my Mistresse Tra. Is she not Row No Tranio She has done me such disgrace so spitefully So like a woman bent to my undoing That henceforth a good horse shall be my Mistresse A good Sword or a Booke and if you see her Tell her I doe beseech you even for love sake Tra. I will Rowland Row She may sooner Count the good I have thought her Our old love and our friend-ship Shed one true teare meane one houre constantly Be old and honest married and a maide Then make me see her more or more beleeve her And now I have met a Messenger farewell sir Exit Tra. Alas poore Rowland I will doe it for thee This is that dogge Moroso but I hope To see him cold i' th mouth first er he enjoy her I le watch this young man desperate thoughts may seize him And if my purse or councell can I 'le ease him Exit Scaena quinta Enter Petruchio Petronius Moroso and Sophocles Petru. For looke you Gentlemen say that I grant her Out of my free and liberall love a pardon Which you and all men else know she deserves not Teneatis amici can all the world leave laughing Petro. I thinke not Petru. No by they cannot For pray consider have you ever read Or heard of or can any man imagine So stiffe a Tomb boy of so set a ma ice And such a brazen resolution As this young Crab-tree and then answer me And marke but this too friends without a cause Not a foule word comes crosse her not a feare She justly can take hold on and doe you thinke I must sleepe out my anger and endure it Sow pillows to her ease and lull her mischiefe Give me a Spindle first no no my Masters Were she as faire as Nell a Greece and house-wife As good as the wife Saylors wife and young still Never above fifteene and these tricks to it She should ride the wild Mare once a week she should Believe me friends she should I would tabor her Till all the Legions that are crept into her Flew out with fire i' th tailes Soph. Me thinks you erre now For to me seems a little sufferance Were a far surer cure Petru. Yes I can suffer Where I see promises of peace and amendment Mor. Give her a few conditions Petru. I le be hangd first Petron. Give her a crab-tree-cudgell Petru. So I will And after it a flock-bed for her bones And hard egges till they brace her like a Drum She shall be pamperd with She shall not know a stoole in ten moneths Gentlemen Soph. This must not be Enter Jaques Jaq Arme arme out with your weapons For all the women in the Kingdom 's on ye Enter Pedro They swarm like waspes and nothing can destroy 'em But stopping of their hive and smothering of 'em Ped. Stand to your guard sir all the devils extant Are broke upon us like a cloud of thunder There are more women marching hitherward In rescue of my Mistris than ere turn'd taile At Sturbridge Faire and I believe as fiery Jaq. The forlorn-hope 's led by a Tanners wife I know her by her hide a desperate woman She flead her husband in her youth and made Raynes of his hide to ride the Parish Take 'em all together They are a genealogy of Jennets gotten And born thus by the boysterous breath of husbands They serve sure and are swift to catch occasion I meane their foes or husbands by the fore-locks And there they hang like favours cry they can But more for Noble spight then feare and crying Like the old Gyants that were foes to Heaven They heave ye stoole on stoole and fling main Potlids Like massie rocks dart ladles tossing Irons And tongs like Thunderbolts till overlayd They fall beneath the waight yet still aspiring At those Emperious Godsheads that would tame 'em There 's nere a one of these the worst and weakest Choose where you will but dare attempt the raysing Against the soveraigne peace of Puritans A May-pole and a Morris maugre mainly Their zeale and Dudgeon-daggers and yet more Dares plant a stand of battring Ale against 'em And drinke 'em out o' th Parish Saph. Lo you fierce Petruchio this comes of your impatience Ped. There 's one brought in the Beares against the Canons Of the Town made it good and fought 'em Jaq. Another to her everlasting fame erected Two Ale-houses of ease the quarter-sessions Running against her roundly in which
Bonnet and your Blew Jacket lowsie though now your block-head be cover'd with the Spanish Block and your lashed Shoulders with a Velvet Pee Pac. Are not you he that have been of thirty callings yet ne're a one lawfull that being a Chandler first profess'd sincerity and would sell no man Mustard to his beefe on the Sabbath and yet sold Hypocrisie all your life time Met. Are not you he that were since a Surgeon to the Stewes and undertooke to cure what the Church it selfe could not strumpets that rise to your Office by being a great Dons Baw'd Laz. That commit men nightly offencelesse for the gaine of a groat a Prisoner which your Beadle seemes to put up when you share three pence Mend. Are not you he that is a kisser of men in drunkennesse and a berrayer in sobriety Alg. Diabolo they 'll raile me into the Gallyes again Pac. Yes Signior thou art even he we speake of all this while thou maist by thy place now lay us by the heeles 't is true but take heed be wiser pluck not ruine on thine own head for never was there such an Anatomy as we shall make thee then be wise therefore Oh thou Childe of the night be friends and shake hands thou art a proper man if thy beard were redder remember thy worshipfull function a Constable though thou turn'st day into night and night into day what of that watch lesse and pray more gird thy beares skin viz. thy Rug-gowne to thy loyes take thy staffe in thy hand and goe forth at midnight Let not thy mittens abate the talons of thy authority but gripe theft and whoredom wheresoever thou meet'st 'em bear 'em away like a tempest and lodge 'em safely in thine own house Laz. Would you have whores and theeves lodg'd in such a house Pac. They ever doe so I have found a theefe or a whore there when the whole Suburbs could not furnish me Laz. But why doe they lodge there Pac. That they may be safe and forth-coming for in the morning usually the theefe is sent to the Goale and the whore prostrates her selfe to the Justice Mend. Admirable Pachieco Met. Thou Cobler of Christendom Alg. There is no railing with these rogues I will close with 'em till I can cry quittance why Signiors and my honest neighbours will you impute that as a neglect of my friends which is an imperfection in me I have been Sand-blinde from my infancie to make you amends you shall sup with me Laz. Shall we sup with'ye sir O' my conscience they have wrong'd the Gentleman extreamly Alg. And after supper I have a project to employ you in shall make you drink eat merrily this moneth I am a little knavish why and doe not I know all you to be knaves Pac. I grant you we are all knaves and will be your knaves But oh while you live take heed of being a proud knave Alg. On then passe I will beare out my staffe and my staffe shall beare out me Laz. Oh Lazarillo thou art going to supper Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Lucio and Bobadilla Luc. Pray be not angry I am angry and I will be angry diablo what should you doe in the Kitchin cannot the Cooks lick their fingers without your overseeing nor the maids make pottage except your dogs-head be in the pot Don Lucio Don Quot-queane Don Spinster weare a Petti-coate still and put on your smock a' monday I will have a badie o' clouts made for it like a great girl nay if you will needs be starching of Ruffs and sowing of black-work I will of a milde and loving Tutor become a Tyrant Your Father has committed you to my charge and I will make a man or a mouse on you Luc. What would you have me doe this scurvy sword So gals my thigh I would 't wer burnt pish looke This cloak will ne'r keep on these boots too hide bound Make me walk stiffe as if my leggs were frozen And my Spurs gingle like a Morris-dancer Lord how my head akes with this roguish hat This masculine attire is most uneasie I am bound up in it I had rather walke In folio againe loose like a woman Bob. In Foolio had you not Thou mock to heav'n and nature and thy Parents Thou tender Legge of Lamb Oh how he walkes As if he had be-pise'd himselfe and fleares Is this a gate for the young Cavalier Don Lucio Sonne and heire to Alvarez Has it a corne or do's it walke on conscience It treads so gingerly Come on your wayes Suppose me now your Fathers foe Vitelli And spying you i' th' street thus I advance I twist my Beard and then I draw my sword Luc. Alas Bob. And thus accost thee traiterous brat How dur'st thou thus confront me impious twig Of that old stock dew'd with my kinsmans gore Draw for I 'le quarter thee in peeces foure Luc. Nay Prethee Bobadilla leave thy fooling Put up thy sword I will not meddle with ye I justle me I care not I 'le not draw Pray be a quiet man Bob. Do' ye heare answer me as you would doe Don Vitelli or I 'le be so bold as to lay the pomell of my sword over the hilts of your head my name 's Vitelli and I 'le have the wall Luc. Why then I 'le have the kennell what a coyle you keepe Signior what happen'd 'twixt my Sire and your Kinsman was long before I saw the world No fault of mine nor will I justifie My Fathers crimes forget sir and forgive 'T is Christianity I pray put up your sword I le give you any satisfaction That may become a Gentleman however I hope you are bred to more humanity Then to revenge my Fathers wrong on me That crave your love and peace law you now Zancho Would not this quiet him were he ten Vitellies Bob. Oh craven-chicken of a Cock o' th' game well what remedy did thy father see this O' my conscience he would cut of thy Masculine gender crop thine eares beat out thine eyes and set thee in one of the Peare-trees for a scar-crow As I am Vitelli I am satisfied but as I am Bobadilla Spindola Zancho Steward of the house and thy fathers servant I could finde in my heart to lop of the hinder part of thy face or to beat all thy teeth into thy mouth Oh thou whay-blooded milk-sop I le waite upon thee no longer thou shalt ev'n waite upon me come your wayes fir I shall take a little paines with ye else Enter Clara Cla. Where art thou Brother Lucio ran tan tan ta ran tan ran tan tan ta ran tan tan tan Oh I shall no more see those golden dayes these clothes will never fadge with me a O' this filthie vardingale this hip hape brother why are womens hanches onely limited confin'd hoop'd in as it were with these same scurvy vardingales Bob. Because womens hanches onely are most subject to display and fly out Cla. Bobadilla rogue ten Duckets I hit the propose
le seeke some other Lam. As I am You may command me Vit. Spoke like that true friend That loves not onely for his private end Exeunt Scaena secunda Enter Genevora with a Letter and Bobadilla Gen. This from Madona Clara Bob. Yes and 't please you Gen. Alvarez daughter Bob. The same Lady Gen. She That sav'd my brothers life Bob. You are still in the right She wil'd me wait your walking forth and knowing How necessary a discreet wise man Was in a businesse of such weight she pleas'd To think on me it may be in my face Your Ladiship not acquainted with my wisdome Finds no such matter what I am I am Thought 's free and think you what you please Gen. T is strange Bob. That I should be wise Madam Gen. No thou art so There 's for thy paines and prethee tell thy Lady I wil not faile to meet her I le receive Thy thanks and duty in thy present absence Farewell farewel I say now thou art wise Exit Bob. She writes here she hath something to impart That may concerne my brothers life I know not But generall fame does give her out so worthy That I dare not suspect her yet wish Lucio Enter Lucio Were Master of her mind but fie upon 't Why do I think on him see I am punish'd for it In his unlookd for presence Now I must Endure another tedious piece of Courtship Would make one forsweare curtesie Luc. Gracious Madam The sorrow paid for your just anger towards me Arising from my weaknesse I presume To presse into your presence and dispaire not An easie pardon Gen. He speaks sende oh strange Luc. And yet believe that no desire of mine Though all are too strong in me had the power For their delight to force me to infringe What you commanded it being in your part To lessen your great rigour when you please And mine to suffer with an humble patience What you 'l impose upon it Gen. Courtly too Luc. Yet hath the poore and contemn'd Lucio Madam Made able onely by his hope to serve you Recover'd what with violence not justice Was taken from him and here at your feet With these he could have laid the conquer'd head Of Lamorall t is all I say of him For rudely touching that which as a relique I ever would have worship'd since t was yours Gen. Valiant and every thing a Lady could Wish in her servant Luc. All that 's good in me That heavenly love the opposite to base lust Which would have all men worthy hath created Which being by your beames of beauty form'd Cherish as your own creature Gen. I am gone Too far now to dissemble rise or sure I must kneele with you too let this one kisse Speake the rest for me t is too much I doe And yet if chastity would I could wish more Luc. In overjoying me you are grown sad What is it Madam by There 's nothing that 's within my nerves and yet Favour'd by you I should as much as man But when you please now or on all occasions You can think of hereafter but you may Dispose of at your pleasure Gen. If you breake That oath again you lost me Yet so wel I love you I shall never put you to 't And yet forget it not rest satisfied With that you have receiv'd now there are eyes May be upon us till the difference Between our friends are ended I would not Be seen so private with you Luc. I obey you Gen. But let me heare oft from you and remember I am Vitellies sister Luc What 's that Madam Gen. Nay nothing fare you well who feeles loves fire Would ever aske to have means to desire Exeunt Scena tertia Enter Assistente Sayavedra Anastro Herald Attendants Assis. Are they come in Har. Yes Assis. Read the Proclamation That all the people here assembled may Have satisfaction what the Kings deere love In care of the Republique hath ordained Attend with silence read aloud Herald reads FOrasmuch as our high and mighty Master Philip the potent and most Catholique King of Spaine hath not onely in his own Royall person been long and often sollicited and grieved with the deadly and uncurable hatred sprung up betwixt the two ancient and most honourably discended Houses of these his two deerely and equally beloved Subjects Don Ferdinando de Alrarez and Don Pedro de Vitelli all which in vaine his Majesty hath often endeavoured to reconcile and qualifie But that also through the debates quarrels and outrages daily arising falling and flowing from these great heads his publique civill Government is seditiously and barbarously molested and wounded and many of his chiefe Gentry no lesse tender to his Royall Majesty then the very branches of his own sacred blood spoyld lost and submerged in the impious inundation and torrent of their still-growing malice It hath therefore pleased His sacred Majesty out of His infinite affection to preserve his Common-wealth and generall peace from farther violation as a sweet and heartily loving father of his people and on the earnest petitions of these Arch-enemies to Order and Ordaine That they be ready each with his wel-chosen and beloved friend arm'd at all points like Gentlemen in the Castle of St. Jago on this present Munday morning betwixt eight and nine of the clocke where before the combatants be allowed to commence this granted Duell This to be read aloud for the publique satisfaction of his Majesties welbeloved Subjects 'Save the King Drums within Say Hark how their Drums speak their insatiate thirst Of blood and stop their eares 'gainst pious peace Who gently whispering implores their friendship Assis. Kings nor authority can master fate Admit 'em then and blood extinguish hate Enter severally Alvarez and Lucio Vitelli and Lamora Say Stay yet be pleasd to think and let not daring Wherein men nowadaies exceed even beasts And think themselves not men else so transport you Beyond the bounds of Christianity Lord Alvarez Vitelli Gentlemen No Town in Spaine from our Metropolis Unto the rudest hovell but is great With your assured valours daily proofes Oh wil you then for a superfluous fame A sound of honour which in these times all Like heretiques professe with obstinacy But most erroneously venture your soules T is a hard tasque thorough a Sea of blood To saile and land at Heaven Vit. I hope not If justice be my Pilot but my Lord You know if argument or time or love Could reconcile long since we had shook hands I dare protest your breath cooles not a veine In any one of us but blowes the fire Which nought but blood reciprocall can quench Alv. Vitelli thou sayst bravely and sayst right And I wil kill thee for 't I love thee so Vit. Ha ha old man upon thy death I le build A story with this arme for thy old wife To tell thy daughter Clara seven yeeres hence As she sits weeping by a winter fire How such a time Vitelli slew her husband With
the same Sword his daughter favour'd him And lives and weares it yet Come Lamorall Redeeme thy selfe Lam. Lucio Genevora Shall on this Sword receive thy bleeding heart For my presented hat laid at her feet Luc. Thou talkst wel Lamorall but t is thy head That I wil carry to her to thy hat Fie father I do coole too much Alv. Oh boy Thy fathers true sonne Beat Drums and so good morrow to your Lordship Enter above Eugenia Clara Genevora Say Brave resolutions Anast. Brave and Spanish right Gen. Lucio Cla. Vitelli Eug. Alvarez Alv. How the devill Got these Cats into th' gutter my pusse too Eug. Heare us Gen. We must be heard Cla. We will be heard Vitelli looke see Clara on her knees Imploring thy compassion Heaven how sternly They dart their emulous eyes as if each scorn'd To be behind the other in a look Mother death needs no Sword here oh my sister Fate faine would have it so perswade entreat A Ladies teares are silent Orators Or should be so at least to move beyond The honest tongu'd-Rethoritian Why will you fight why do's an uncles death Twentie yeare old exceed your love to me But twentie daies whose forc'd cause and faire manner You could not understand onely have heard Custome that wrought so cunningly on nature In me that I forgot my sex and knew not Whether my body femall were or male You did unweave and had the power to charme A new creation in me made me feare To think on those deeds I did perpetrate How little power though you allow to me That cannot with my sighes my teares my prayers Move you from your own losse if you shoule gaine Vit. I must forget you Clara 'till I have Redeem'd my uncles blood that brands my face Like a pestiferous Carbuncle I am blinde To what you doe deafe to your cries and Marble To all impulsive exorations When on this point I have pearch'd thy fathers soule I le tender thee this bloody reeking hand Drawne forth the bowels of that murtherer If thou canst love me then I 'le marry thee And for thy father lost get thee a Sonne On no condition else Assist. Most barbarous Say Savage Anast. Irreligious Gen. Oh Lucio Be thou more mercifull thou bear'st fewer yeers Art lately wean'd from soft effeminacy A maidens manners and a maidens heart Are neighbours still to thee be then more milde Proceed not to this combat bee'st thou desperate Of thine owne life yet deerest pitty mine Thy valour 's not thine owne I gave it thee These eyes begot it this tongue bred it up This breast would lodge it doe not use my gifts To mine own ruine I have made thee rich Be not so thanklesse to undoe me for 't Luc. Mistresse you know I doe not weare a vaine I would not rip for you to doe you service Life 's but a word a shadow a melting dreame Compar'd to essentiall and eternall honour Why would you have me value it beyond Your brother if I first cast down my sword May all my body here be made one wound And yet my soule not finde heaven thorough it Alv. You would be catter-walling too but peace Goe get you home and provide dinner for Your Sonne and me we 'l be exceeding merry Oh Lucio I will have thee cock of all The proud Vitellies that doe live in Sprine Fie we shall take cold hunch I am hoarse Already Lam. How your Sister whets my spleene I could eate Lucio now Gen. Lamorall you have often sworne You 'ld be commanded by me Gen. Vitelli Brother Ev'n for your Fathers soule your uncles blood As you doe love my life but last and most As you respect your own Honour and Fame Throw downe your sword he is most valiant That herein yeelds first Vit. Peace you foole Cla. Why Lucio Doe thou begin 't is no disparagement He 's elder and thy better and thy valour Is in his infancy Gen Or pay it me To whom thou ow'st it Oh that constant time Would but goe back a week then Lucio Thou would'st not dare to fight Eug. Lucio thy Mother Thy Mother beggs it throw thy sword down first Alv. I le throw his head downe after then Gen. Lamorall You have often swore you 'ld be commanded by me Lam. Never to this your spight and scorn Genevora H 'as lost all power in me Gen. Your hearing for six words Ass. Say An. Strange obstinacy Al. Vit. Lu. Lam. We 'l stay no longer Cla. Then by thy oath Vitelli Thy dreadfull oath thou wouldst returne that sword When I should aske it give it to me now This instant I require it Gen. By thy vow As dreadfull Lucio to obey my will In any one thing I would watch to challenge I charge thee not to strike a stroake now he Of our two brothers that loves perjurie Best and dares first be damn'd infringe his vow Say Excellent Ladies Vit. Pish you tyrannize Luc. We did equivocate Alv. On Cla. Then Lucio So well I love my husband for he is so wanting but ceremony that I pray His vengefull sword may fall upon thy head succesfully for false-hood to his Sister Gen. I likewise pray Vitelli Lucio's sword who equally is my husband as thou hers May finde thy false heart that durst gage thy faith And durst not keepe it Assist. Are you men or stone Alv. Men and we 'l prove it with our swords Eug. Your hearing for six words and we have done Zancho come forth we 'l fight our challenge too Enter Now speake your resolutions Bobadilla with two swords and a Pistoll Gen. These they are The first blow given betwixt you sheathes these swords In one anothers bosomes Eug. And rogue looke You at that instant doe discharge that Pistoll Into my breast if you start back or quake I le stick you like a Pigge Alv. hold you are mad Gen. This we said and by our hope of blisse This we will doe speake your intents Cla. Gen. Strike Eug. Shoot Al. Vit. Lu La. Hold hold all friends Assist. Come downe Alv. These devillish women Can make men friends and enemies when they list Say A gallant undertaking and a happie Why this is noble in you and will be A well comer present to our Master Philip Then the returne from his Indies Enter Clara Genevora Eugenia and Bobadilla Cla. Father your blessing Alv. Take her if he bring not Betwixt you boyes that will finde out new worlds And win 'em too I 'm a false Prophet Vit. Brother There is a Sister long divided streames Mix now at length by fate Bob. I am not regarded I was the carefull Steward that provided these Instruments of peace I put the longest weapon in your Sisters hand my Lord because she was the shortest Lady For likely the shortest Ladies love the longest men And for mine own part I could have discharged it my Pistoll is no ordinary Pistoll it has two ramming Bullets but thought I why should I shoot my two bullets into my old Lady
of laughter I come before the object that will doe it Or let me live your foole Sos. Who is 't Neanthes Nea. Lamprias the Usurers sonne Era. Lamprias the youth Of six and fifty Sos. That was sent to travell By rich Beliza till he came to age And was fit for a Wife Nea. The very same This gallant with his Guardian and his Tutor And of the three who is most foole I know not Are newly come to Corinth I le not stale them By giving up their characters but leave you To make your owne discoveries here they are Sir Enter Onos Unckle and Tutor Tutor That legge a little higher very well Now put your face into the Travellors posture Exceeding good Vnckle Doe you mark how they admire him Tut. They will be all my Schollars when they know And understand him truly Era. Phoebus guard me From this new Python Sos. How they have trimm'd him up Like an old Reveller Nea. Curl'd him and perfum'd him But that was done with judgement for he lookes Like one that purg'd perpetually trust me That Witches face of his is painted too And every ditch upon it buries more Then would set off ten Bawds and all their tenants Sos. See how it moves towards us Nea. There 's a salutation 'Troth Gentlemen you have bestowed much travell In trayning up your Pupill Tut. Sir great buildings Require great labours which yet we repent not Since for the Countries good we have brought home An absolute man Unc. As any of his yeares Corinth can shew you Era. He's exceeding meagre Tut. His contemplation Unc. Besides 't is fit Learners should be kept hungry Nea. You all contemplate For three such wretched pictures of leane famine I never saw together Unc. We have fat minds Sir And travell'd to save charges Doe you thinke 'T was fit a young and hopefull Gentleman Should be brought up a glutton he 's my Ward Nor was there ever where I bore the bagg Any superfluous waste Era. Pray you can it speake Tut. He knowes all Languages but will use none They are all too big for his mouth or else too little T' expresse his great conceits and yet of late With some ippulsion he hath set downe In a strange method by the way of question And briefly to all businesse whatsoever That may concerne a Gentleman Nea. Good Sir let 's heare him Tut. Come on Sir Nea. They have taught him like an Ape To doe his tricks by signes now he begins Onos When shall we be drunke together Tut. That 's the first Onos Where shall we whore to night Uncle That ever followes Era. Odds me he now lookes angry Onos Shall we quarrell Nea. With me at no hand Sir Onos Then let 's protest Era. Is this all Tut. These are Sir the foure new Vertues That are in fashion many a mile we measur'd Before we could arrive unto this knowledge Nea. You might have spar'd that labour for at home here Ther 's little else in practice Ha the Queene Good friends for halfe an houre remove your motion To morrow willingly when we have more leasure We 'l looke on him againe Onos Did I not rarely Uncle Excellent well Tut. He shall have sixe Plumbs for it Exeunt Anter Agenor Leonidas Theanor Queene Merione Beliza Euphanes Crates Ladies attendants with Lights Queene How much my Court is honour'd princely Brother In your vouchasing it your long'd for presence Were tedious to repeat since 't is already And heartily acknowledg'd may the gods That looke into Kings actions smile upon The league we have concluded and their justice Finde me out to revenge it if I breake One article Age. Great miracle of Queenes How happy I esteeme my selfe in being Thought worthy to be numbred in the rank Of your confederates my love and best service Shall teach the world hereafter but this gift With which you have confirm'd it is so farre Beyond my hopes and meanes ere to returne That of necessity I must dye oblig'd To your unanswer'd bounty The. The sweet Lady In blushes gives your Highnesse thankes Quee. Beleeve it On the Queenes word she is a worthy one And I am so acquainted with her goodnesse That but for this peace that hath chang'd my purpose And to her more advancement I should gladly Have call'd her Daughter The. Though I am depriv'd of A blessing 't is not in the Fates to equall To shew my selfe a subject as a sonne Here I give up my claime and willingly With mine owne hand deliver you what once I lov'd above my selfe and from this houre For my affection yeelds now to my duty Vow never to sollicite her Cra. 'T is well cover'd Neanthes and the rest Exit Cra. Nea. Sos. Era. Quee. Nay for this night You must for 't is our Country fashion Sir Leave her to her devotions in the morning We 'l bring you to the Temple Leo. How in this Your Highnesse honours me Mer. Sweet rest to all Age. This kisse and I obey you Bel. Please it your Highnesse This is the Gentleman Quee. You are welcome home Sir Now as I live one of a promising presence I have heard of you before and you shall finde I le know you better finde out something that May doe you good and rest assur'd to have it Were you at Sparta lately Euph. Three daies since Madam I came from thence Quee. 'T is very late Good night my Lord doe you Sir follow me I must talke further with you Ag. All rest with you Exeunt Enter Crates Neanthes Eraton Sosicles disguiz'd Cra. She must passe through this Cloyster suddainly And boldly seaze upon her Nea. Where 's the Prince Cra. He does expect us at the place I shew'd you Enter Merione and Servant I heare ones footing peace 't is she Mer. Now leave me I know the way though Vesta witnesse with me I never trod it with such feare helpe helpe Cra. Stop her mouth close out with the Light I le guide you Exeunt Actus Secundus Scaena Prima Enter Merione as newly ravished Mer. TO whom now shall I cry What pow'r thus kneele to And beg my ravisht honour back upon me Deafe deafe you gods of goodnesse deafe to me Deafe Heaven to all my cryes deafe hope deafe justice I am abus'd and you that see all saw it Saw it and smil'd upon the villaine did it Saw it and gave him strength why have I pray'd to ye When all the worlds eyes have been sunk in slumbers Why have I then powr'd out my teares kneel'd to ye And from the Altar of a pure heart sent ye Thoughts like your selves white innocent vowes purer And of a sweeter flame then all earths odours Why have I sung your praises strew'd your Temples And Crown'd your holy Priests with Virgin Roses Is it we hold ye powerfull to destroy us Beleeve and honour ye to see us ruin'd These teares of anger thus I sprinckle toward ye You that dare sleep secure whilst Virgins suffer These stick like Comets blaze eternally
fight with ye The sacred name of friend tyes up that anger Rather I le study Sil. Do to be a friend still Cla. If this way I shall never hold Sil. I le watch ye And if I catch ye false by Heaven ye dye for 't All love forgot Cla. When I feare that I am fit for 't Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Lopez at a Table with jewels and money upon it an Egge rosting by a Candle Lop. Whilst prodigall yong gaudy Fools are banqueting And launching out their states to catch the giddy Thus do I study to preserve my fortune And hatch with care at home the wealth that Saints me Here 's Rubies of Bengala rich rich glorious These Diamonds of Ormus bought for little Here vented at the price of Princes Ransomes How bright they shine like constellations The South seas treasure here Pearle faire and orient Able to equall Cleapatra's Banket Here chaines of lesser stones for Ladies lustres Ingotts of Gold Rings Brooches barrs of Silver These are my studies to set off in sale well And not in sensuall surfeits to consume 'em How rosts mine egg he heats apace I le turne him Penurio where you knave do you wait Penurio You lazie knave Pen. Did you call Sir Lop. Where 's your Mistris What vanity holds her from her attendance Pen. The very sight of this egge has made him cockish What would a dozen butter'd do She is within Sir Lop. Within Sir at what thrift ye knave what getting Pen. Getting a good stomack Sir she knew where to get meat to it She is praying heartily upon her knees Sir That Heaven would send her a good bearing dinner Lop. Nothing but gluttony and surfeit thought on Health flung behinde had she not yesternight sirrah Two Sprats to supper and the oyle allowable Was she not sick with eating Hadst not thou Thou most vngratefull knave that nothing satisfies The water that I boyl'd my other egge in To make thee hearty broth Pen. 'T is true I had Sir But I might as soone make the Philosophers Stone on 't You gave it me in water and but for manners sake I could give it you againe in wind it was so hearty I shall turne pissing Conduit shortly my Mistris comes Sir Enter Isabella Lop. Welcome my Dove Isab. Pray ye keep your welcome to ye Unlesse it carries more then words to please me Is this the joy to be a Wife to bring with me Besides the noblenesse of blood I spring from A full and able portion to maintaine me Is this the happinesse of youth and beauty The great content of being made a Mistris To live a Slave subject to wants and hungers To jealousies for every eye that wanders Unmanly jealousie Lop. Good Isabella Isab. Too good for you do you think to famish me Or keep me like an Almes-woman in such rayment Such poore unhandsome weeds am I old or ugly I never was bred thus and if your misery Will suffer wilfull blindnesse to abuse me My patience shall be no Bawd to mine owne ruine Pen. Tickle him Mistris to him Isab. Had ye love in ye Or any part of man Pen. Follow that Mistris Isab. Or had humanity but ever knowne ye You would shame to use a woman of my way thus So poore and basely you are strangly jealous of me If I should give ye cause Lop. How Isabella Isab. As do not venture this way to provoke me Pen. Excellent well Mistris Lop. How 's this Isabella Isab. 'T will stir a Saint and I am but a woman And by that tenure may Lop. By no meanes Chicken You know I love ye fie take no example By those young gadding Dames you are noted vertuous That stick their Husbands wealth in trifles on 'em And point 'em but the way to their owne miseries I am not jealous kisse me I am not And for your diet 't is to keep you healthfull Surfits destroy more then the sword that I am carefull Your meat should be both neat and cleanly handled See Sweet I am Cook my selfe and mine owne Cater Pen. A of that Cook cannot lick his fingers Lop. I le adde another dish you shall have Milke to it 'T is nourishing and good Pen. With Butter in 't Sir Lop. This knave would breed a famine in a Kingdom And cloths that shall content ye you must be wise then And live sequestred to your selfe and me Not wandring after every toy comes crosse ye Nor strooke with every spleene what 's the knave doing Penurio Pen. Hunting Sir for a second course of flyes here They are rare new Sallads Lop. For certaine Isabella This ravening fellow has a Woolf in 's belly Untemperate knave will nothing quench thy appetite I saw him eat two Apples which is monstrous Pen. If you had given me those ' thad bin more monstrōs Lop. 'T is a maine miracle to feed this villaine Come Isabella let us in to Supper And think the Romane dainties at our Table 'T is all but thought Exeunt Pen. Would all my thoughts would do it The Devill should think of purchasing that Egge-shell To vittle out a Witch for the Burmoothes 'T is treason to any good stomack living now To heare a tedious Grace said and no meat to 't I have a Radish yet but that 's but transitory Exit Scena Tertia Enter Soto Soto Can any living man unlesse a Rascall That neither knowes himselfe nor a fashion'd Gentleman Take me for a worse man then my Master now I am naturally proud in these cloths but if pride now Should catch a fall in what I am attempting 'T is but a Proverb sound and a Neck broken That 's the worst can come on 't a Gentleman 's gone then A Gentleman o th' first house there 's the end on 't My Master lyes most pittifully complaining Wringing and kicking up toth ' eares in love yonder And such a lamentable noyse he keepes it kills me I have got his cloths and if I can get to her By hooke or crooke here such a song I le sing her I think I shall be hang'd but that 's no matter What 's a hanging among friends I am valiant now as an Elephant What 's a hanging among friends I am valiant now as an I have consider'd what to say too let me see now This is the place 't is plaguy high stay at that lower window Let me ayme finely now like a good Gunner It may prove but a whipping Enter Silvio Sil. I saw some-body Passe by me now and though it were dark me thought yet I knew the clothes ha let me not be cozen'd The Ladder too ready to fling it monstrous 'T is he 't is Claudio most voluptuous villaine Scandall to womans credit Love I forget thee Soto What will he do i th' name of heaven what 's that there Sil. And all the friendship that I bore thee bury here Soto What has he in 's hand I hope but a Cudgell Sil. Thy fault 's forgive O Heaven farewell thou
Du. Read the Edict last made Keepe silence there Clerk If any man of what condition soever and a subject after the publishing of this Edict shall without speciall Licence from the great Duchesse attempt or buy offer or make an attempt to solicite the love of the Princesse Belvidere the person so offending shall forfeit his life Counsellour The reason why my Royall Mistris here In her last Treaty with Siennas Duke Promis'd her beauteous Daughter there in marriage The Duke of Millaine rivall in this fortune Un-nobly sought by practise to betray her Which found and cross'd the Cittadell receiv'd her There to secure her Mothers word the last cause So many Gentlemen of late enamour'd On this most beauteous Princesse and not brooking One more then other to deserve a favour Blood has been spilt many brave spirits lost And more unlesse she had been kept close from their violence Had like to have followed therefore for due prevention Of all such hazards and unnoble actions This last Edict was publish'd which thou Silvio Like a false man a bad man and a Traitor Hast rent a peeces and contemn'd for which cause Thou standest a guilty man here now Ent. Claudio Clark Speak Silvio What canst thou say to avoyd the hand of Justice Sil. Nothing but I confesse submit lay my head to it Bel. Have ye no eyes my Lords no understandings The Gentleman will cast himselfe away Cast himselfe wilfully are you or you guilty No more is he no more taint sticks upon him I drew him thether 't was my way betray'd him I got the entrance kept I entertain'd him I hid the danger from him forced him to me Poore gentle soule he 's in no part transgressing I wrot unto him Sil. Do not wrong that honour Cast not upon that purenesse these aspersions By Heaven it was my love my violence My life must answer it I broke in to her Tempted the Law sollicited unjustly Bel. As there is truth in Heaven I was the first cause How could this man have come to me left naked Without my counsell and provision What hower could he finde out to passe the Watchs But I must make it sure first Reverend Judges Be not abus'd nor let an innocent life lye Upon your shaking Conscience I did it My love the maine wheele that set him a going His motion but compell'd Sil. Can ye beleeve this And know with what a modesty and whitenesse Her life was ever ranck'd Can you beleeve this And see me here before ye young and wilfull Apt to what danger Love dares thrust me on And where Law stops my way apt to contemne it If I were bashfull old or dull and sleepy In Loves allarmes a woman might awake me Direct and clew me out the way to happinesse But I like fire kindled with that bright beauty Catch hold of all occasions and run through 'em Bel. I charge ye as your honest soules will answer it Sil. I charge ye as you are the friends to vertue That has no patterne living but this Lady Bel. Let not his blood Sil. Let not her wilfulnesse For then you act a scene Hell will rejoyce at Bel. He is cleare Sil. She is as white in this as infants Cla. The god of Love protect your cause and help ye Two nobler peeces of affection These eyes ne're look'd on if such goodnesse perish Let never true hearts meet againe but break Exit 1 Lord A strange example of strong love a rare one 2 Lord Madam we know not what to say to think on Duch. I must confesse it strikes me tender too Searches my Mothers heart you found 'em there Bar. Yes certaine Madam Duch. And so linked together Bar. As they had been one peece of Alablaster Duch. Nothing dishonourable Sil. So let my soule have happinesse As that thought yet durst never seeke this bosome Duch. What shall I do has broke my law abus'd me Faine would I know the truth either confesse it And let me understand the maine offender Or both shall feele the torture Sil. Are ye a Mother The Mother of so sweet a Rose as this is So pure a Flower and dare ye lose that nature Dare ye take to your selfe so great a wickednesse O holy Heaven of thinking what may ruine This goodly building this temple where the gods dwell Give me a thousand tortures I deserve 'em And shew me death in all the shapes imagin'd Bel. No death but I will answer it meet it seeke it No torture but I le laugh upon 't and kisse it 1 Lord This is no way 2 Lord They say no more for certaine Then their strong hearts will suffer Duch. I have bethought me No Lords although I have a Childe offending Nature dares not forget she is a Childe still Till now I never look'd on love imperious I have bethought me of a way to breake ye To separate though not your loves your bodies Silvio attend I le be your Judge my selfe now The sentence of your death because my Daughter Will beare an equall part in your afflictions I take away and pardon this remaines then An easie and a gentle punishment And this shall be fulfill'd because unnobly You have sought the love and marriage of a Princesse The absolute and sole Heire of this Dukedome By that meanes as we must imagine strongly To plant your selfe into this Rule hereafter We here pronounce ye a man banish'd from us Sil. For ever banish'd Lady Duch. Yet more mercy But for a yeare and then againe in this place To make your full appearance yet more pitty If in that time you can absolve a question Writ down within this scrowle absolve it rightly This Lady is your wife and shall live with ye If not you loose your head Sil. I take this honour And humbly kisse those Royall hands Duch. Receive it Bartello to your old guard take the Princesse And so the Court break up Sil. Farewell to all And to that spotlesse heart my endlesse service Exit 1. Lord What will this prove 2. Lord I le tell you a yeare hence Sir Exeunt Scaena Sexta Enter Penurio Isabella Claudio Pen. Are you pleas'd now have I not wrought this wonder Non eben fatto Signieur Cla. Rarely Penurio Pen. Close close then and work wax Cla. I am studying for thee A dinner that shall victuall thee for ten yeare Pen. Do you heare Mistris You know what a dundier whelp my Master is I need not preach to ye how unfit and wanting To give a woman satisfaction How he stinks and snores a Bull 's a better bed-fellow And for his love never let that deceive ye Isab. Nay sure he loves me not Pen. If he could coyne ye Or turne ye into mettle much might be then He loves not any thing but what is traffique I have heard him sweare he would sell ye to the grand Signior Isab. The Turk Pen. The very Turke and how they would use ye Isab. I le fit him for t the Turke Pen. I
is a rich one curious set fit a Princesse Burgonet This rich token late was sent by the Dutchesse with intent The Marriage next day to begin Do'st thou know what 's hid within Wipe thine eyes and then come neere see the beautious Belvidere Now behold it Sil. O my Saint Bel. We are it nobly do not faint Sil. How blest am I in this rich spoile this picture For ever will I keep it here here Mother For ever honour it how oft how chastly Have I embrac'd the life of this and kist it Bel. The day drawes on that thou must home returne And make thy answer to the Dutchesse quest on I know it troubles thee for if thou faile in 't Sil. O I must dye Bel. Feare not feare not I le be nigh Cast thy trouble on my back art nor cunning shal not lack To preserve thee still to keepe what thy envious foemen seeke Go boldly home and let thy minde no distrustfull crosses finde All shall happen for the best souls walk through sorrowes that are blest Sil. Then I go confident Bel. But first my Son a thankfull service must be done The good old woman for her paine when every thing stands faire againe Must ask a poore Boon and that granting there 's nothing to thy journey wanting Sil. Except the triall of my soul to mischief And as I am a Knight and love mine honour I grant it whatsoever Bel. Thy pure soule Shall never sinke for me nor howle Sil. Then any thing Bel. When I shall aske remember Sil. If I forget heavens goodnesse forget me Bel. On thy journey then a while to the next crosse way and stile I le conduct thee keepe thee true to thy Mistris and thy vow And let all their envies fall I le be with thee and quench all Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Duchesse Syenna and Lords Sy. LAdy the stubborn war's more milde then you are That allowes Ransome and the Prisoner taken Duch. We must not be too hasty Remember Sir The wrong and violence you have offer'd us Burnt up our Frontire Townes made prey before ye Both of our Beasts and Corne slaine our deare Subjects Open'd the fountaine eyes of thousand widowes That daily fling their curses on your fury What ordinary satisfaction can salve this What hasty thought-on Ransome give a remedy You must excuse us yet we 'l take more counsell In the meane time not as a Prisoner But as a noble Prince we entertaine ye Sy. I am at your mercy Lady 't is my fortune My stubborne fate the day is yours you have me The valour of one single man has cross'd me Crost me and all my hope for when the Battells Were at the hottest game of all their furies And conquest ready then to crowne me Victor One single man broke in one sword one vertue And by his great example thousands followed O how I shame to think on 't how it shakes me Nor could our strongest head then stop his fury But like a tempest bore the field before him Till he arriv'd at me with me he buckell'd A while I held him play at length his violence Beat me from my Saddle then on foot pursu'd me There triumph'd once againe then tooke me Prisoner When I was gone a feare possest my people Duch. One single arme in a just cause heaven prospers Is not this stranger Knight as yet discover'd That we may give his vertue a due honour Lord Not yet that we hear Madam but to that purpose Two dayes ago we publish'd Proclamations Enter Soto with a Trumpet and Silvio Soto O dainty Duchesse here I bring that Knight Before thy fragrant face that warlike wight He that Syenna's Duke and all his Louts Beat as the Proverb seemly sayes to clouts He that unhorss'd the man of fame to boot And bootlesse taught his Grace to walk afoot He that your writings pack'd to every pillar Promis'd promotion to and store of filler That very man I set before thy Grace And once againe pronounce this man it was Duch. A pretty foolish Squire what must the Knight be Sy. Some Jugler or some Mad-man Sil. I was not so When thy faint Troopes in flockes I beat before me When through the thickest of thy warlike horse I shot my selfe even to thy Standard Duke And there found thee there fingled thee there shew'd thee The temper of my Sword 'T is true thou stood'st me And like a noble Souldier bid'st me welcome And this I le say More honour in that arme I found and tryed then all thy Army carried What followes thy Imprisonment can tell thee Sy. His faire relation carries truth and vertue And by those Armes I see for such were his So old so rusty this may be he that forc'd me Sil. Do you know this Jewell from your Cask I rent it Even as I clos'd and forced ye from your saddle Do you now remember me Sy. This is the valour Madam for certaine he it must be he That day I wore this Jewell you remember it Duch. Yes very well not long before I sent it Sy. That day I lost this Jewell in fight I lost it I felt his stroakes and felt him take it from me I wore it in my Cask take it againe Sir You won it nobly 't is the prize of honour Soto My Father and my selfe are made for ever Duc. Kneele down brave Sir thus my Knight first I raise ye Gird on a Sword next Generall of my Army Give him a Staffe last one in Counsell neare me Now make us happy with your sight how Silvio Have I on thee bestow'd this love this honour The Treasons thou hast wrought set off with favours Unarme him presently O thou foule Traitor Traitor to me mine honour and my Country Thou kindler of these Warres Sil. Mistake not Madam Duch. Away with him to prison See him safe kept the Law shall shortly Sirra Finde fitter titles for ye then I gave ye Soto This is the youth that kild me I le be quit with him What a blinde rogue was I I could never know him And 't please your Grace I claime the benefit Of the Proclamation that proclam'd him Traitor I brought him in Duch. Thou shalt have thy reward for 't Soto Let him be hang'd or drown'd then Duch. Away with him Sil. Madam I crave your promise first you are tyed to it You have past your Princely word Duch. Prove it and take it Sil. This is the day appointed Appointed by your Grace for my appearance To answer to the Question Duch. I remember it Sil. I claime it then Duch. If you performe it not The penalty you claime too Sil. I not repent it If I absolve the words Duch. Your life is free then You have drawne a speedy course above my wishes To my reuenge be sure ye hit it right Or I le be sure you shall not scape the danger Sil. My rest is up now Madam Duch. Then play it cunningly Sil. Now where 's the
Hag where now are all her promises She would be with me strengthen me informe me My death will now be double death ridiculous She was wont still to be neare to feele my miseries And with her Art I see her no where now What have I undertaken now she failes me No comfort now I finde how my soule staggers Till this houre never fear nor doubt possest me She cannot come she will not come she has fool'd me Sure she is the Devill has drawne me on to ruine And now to death bequeaths me in my danger Sy. He stands distracted and his colour changes Duch. I have given him that will make his blood forsake him Shortly his life Sy. His hands and contemplation Have motion still the rest is earth already Duc. Come will ye speak or pray your time growes out Sir How every where he looks he 's at last cast Enter Belvidere and secretly gives him a paper and Exit Sy. His colour comes againe fresh Duc. 'T is a flash Sir Before the flame burnes out can ye yet answer Sil. Yes Madam now I can Duch. I feare you 'l faile in 't Sil. And do not think my silence a presage Or Omen to my end you shall not finde it I am bred a Souldier not an Orator Madam peruse this scrowle let that speake for me And as you are Royall wrong not the construction Duch. By Heaven you shall have faire play Sil. I shall looke for 't Question Tell me what it that onely thing For which all women long Yet having what they most desire To have it do's them wrong Answer T is not to be chaste nor faire Such gifts malice may impaire Richly trim'd to walke or ride Or to wanton unespi'd To preserve an honest name And so to give it up to fame These are toyes In good or ill They desire to have their will Yet when they have it they abuse it For they know not how to use it Duch. You have answer'd right and gain'd your life I give it Sil. O happy Hag But my most gracious Madam Your promise tide a nobler favour to me Duch. 'T is true my daughter too Sil I hope you will keep it Duc. 'T is not in my powre now she is long since wanderd Stolne from the Court and me and what I have not I cannot give no man can tell me of her Nor no search finde her out and if not Silvio Which strongly I beleeve Sil. Mock me not Lady For as I am a servant to her vertue Since my first howre of exile I ne're saw her Lord That she is gone 't is too too true and lamentable Our last hope was in you Sil. What do I heare then And wherefore have I life bestow'd and honour To what end do I walk for men to wonder at And fight and foole pray ye take your honours from me My sorrowes are not fit companions for 'em And when ye please my life Art thou gone Mistris And wander'st heaven knowes where this vow I make thee That till I finde thee out and see those faire eyes Those eyes that shed their lights and life into me Never to know a friend to seeke a kindred To rest where pleasure dwells and painted glory But through the world the wide world thus to wander The wretched world alone no comfort with me But the meere meditations of thy goodnesse Honour and greatnesse thus adieu Enter Belvidere Bel. Stay Silvio And Lady sit againe I come for Justice Sil. What would she now Bel. To claime thy promise Silvio The Boone thou swor'st to give me Sy. What may this be A woman or a Devill Duch. 'T is a Witch sure And by her meanes he came to untwist this Riddle Sil. That I am bound to her for my liffe mine honour And many other thousand waies for comfort I here confesse Confesse a promise too That what she would aske me to requite these favours Within the endeavour of my life to grant I would and here I stand my words full master Bel. I wish no more great Lady witnesse with me The Boone I crave for all my service to thee Is now to be thy wife to grant me marriage Sil. How for to marry thee aske againe woman Thou wilfull woman aske againe Bel. No more Sir Sil. Aske land and life Bel. I aske thee for a Husband Soto Marry her and beat her into Gun-powder She would make rare Crackers Sil. Aske a better fortune Thou art too old to marry I a Souldier And alwaies married to my sword Bel. Thy word Foole Breake that and I le breake all thy fortunes yet Duch. He shall not I am witnesse to his faith and I le compell it Sy. 'T is fit ye hold your word Sir Sil. O most wretched Duch. This was a fortune now beyond my wishes For now my Daughter 's free if e're I finde her Sy. But not from me Duch. You are sharer in this happinesse My selfe will wait upon this marriage And do the old woman all the honour possible Sy. I le lead the Knight and what there wants in dalliance Wee 'l take it out in drinke Sil. O wretched Silvio Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Lopez and Isabella Lop. Hast thou sent for him Isab. Yes Lop. A young man saist thou Isab. Yes very young and very amarous Lop. And handsom Isab. As the Town affords Lop. And dar'st thou Be so farre good and Mistris of thine honour To sleight these Isab. For my husbands sake to curse 'em And since you have made me Mistris of my fortune Never to point at any ioy but husband I could have cozen'd ye but so much I love ye And now so much I weigh the estimation Of an unspotted wife Lop. I dare believe thee And never more shall doubt torment my spirit Enter Penurio Isab. How now Penurio Pen. The thing is comming Mistris Lop. I le take my standing Pen. Do and I le take mine Exit Lopes Isab. Where didst thou leave him Pen. I left him in a Cellar Where he has paid me titely paid me home Mistris We had an hundred fifty healths to you sweet Mistris And three score and ten damnations to my Master Mistris shall I speak a foolish word to ye Isab. What 's that Penurio The fellow 's drunke Pen. I would faine know your body Isab. How 's that how 's that prethee Pen. I would know it carnally I would conglutinate Isab. The reason sirrah Pen. Lobster sweet Mistris Lobster Isab. Thy Master heares Pen. Lobster sweet Master Lobster Isab. Thou art the most precious rogue Enter Claudio Pen. Most pretious Lobster Isab. Do you see who 's here go sleep ye drunken rascall Pen. Remember you refuse me arm'd in Lobster Exit Isab. O my lost Rugio welcome welcome welcome A thousand welcomes here I le seale Cla. Pray ye stay Lady Do you love me ever at this rate or is the fit now By reason of some wrong done by your husband More fervent on ye Isab. Can I chuse but
you have a friend to honour ye Val. I thank ye Sir Evan. Pray Captaine tell the King They that are sad on Earth in Heaven shall sing Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Fryer Marco and Rugio Rug. HAve you writ to the Captaine of the Castle Mar. Yes and charged him Upon his soules health that he be not cruell Told him Valerio's worth among the people And how it must be punisht in posterity Though he scape now Rug. But will not he Fryer Marco betray this to the King Mar. Though he be stubborne and of a rugged nature yet he is honest And honours much Valerio Rug. How doe's Alphonso For now me thinks my heart is light againe And pale feare fled Mar. He is as well as I am The Rogue against his will has say'd his life A desperate poyson has re-cur'd the Prince Rug. To me 't is most miraculous Mar. To me too till I consider why it should do so And now I have found it a most excellent Physick It wrought upon the dull cold misty parts That clog'd his soule which was another poyson A desperate too and found such matter there And such abundance also to resist it And weare away the dangerous heat it brought with it The pure blood and the spirits scap'd untainted Rug, 'T was Heavens high hand none of Sorano's pitty Mar. Most certaine 't was had the malitious villaine Enter Castruchio Given him a cooling poyson he had paid him Rug. The Captain of the Castle Mar. O ye Are welcome how doe's your Prisoner Cast. He must go for dead But when I do in deed of so much villany I le have my skin pull'd o're mine eares my Lord Enter Alphonso and Fryers Though I am the Kings I am none of his abuses How doe's your Royall Charge that I might see once Mar. I pray see now you are a trusty Gentleman Alph. Good Fathers I thanke Heaven I feele no sicknesse Cast. He speaks againe Alph. Nothing that barres the free use of my spirit Me thinks the ayre 's sweet to me and company A thing I covet now Castruchio Cast. Sir he speaks and knowes for Heaven sake break my pate Lord That I may be sure I sleep not Alph. Thou wert honest Ever among the rank of good men counted I have been absent long out of the world A dreame I have lived how doe's it looke Castruchio What wonders are abroad Cast. I fling off duty to your dead Brother for he is dead in goodnesse And to the living hope of brave Alphonso The noble heire of nature and of honour I fasten my Allegeance Mar. Softly Captaine we dare not trust the ayre with this blest secret Good Sir be close againe heaven has restor'd ye And by miraculous meanes to your faire health And made the instrument your enemies malice Which doe's prognosticate your noble fortune Let not our carelesse joy lose you againe Sir Help to deliver ye to a further danger I pray you passe in and rest a while forgotten For if your brother come to know you are well againe And ready to inherit as your right Before we have strength enough to assure your life What will become of you and what shall we Deserve in all opinions that are honest For our losse of judgement care and loyalty Rug. Deere Sir passe in Heaven has begun the worke And blest us all let our indeavours follow To preserve this blessing to our timely uses And bring it to the noble end we aime at Let our cares worke now and our eyes pick out An houre to shew ye safely to your Subjects A secure houre Alph. I am counsell'd ye are faithfull Cast. Which houre shall not be long as we shall handle it Once more the tender of my duty Alph. Thank ye Castr. Keep you the Monastery Rug. Strong enough I le warrant ye Exeunt Enter the Foole and Podrano Pod. Who are all these that crowde about the Court Foole Those strange new faces Foole. They are Suitors Coxcombe Dainty fine Suitors to the widow Lady Thou hadst best make one of 'em thou wilt be hang'd as handsomly At the Moneths end and with as much joy follow'd And 't were to morrow as many mourning bawds for thee And holy Nuns whose vestall fire ne're vanishes In sackcloth smocks as if thou wert Heire apparent To all the impious Suburbs and the sink-holes Pod. Out you base rogue Foole. Why dost abuse thy selfe Thou art to blame I take thee for a Gentleman But why doe's not thy Lord and Master marry her Pod. Why she is his sister Foole. 'T is the better Foole He may make bold with his owne flesh and blood For a my conscience there 's none else will trust him Then he may pleasure the King at a dead pinch too Without a Mephestophilus such as thou art And ingrosse the royall disease like a true Subject Pod. Thou wilt be whipt Foole. I am sure thou wilt be hangd I have lost a Ducket else which I would be loath to venter Without certainty They appeare Pod. Why these are rascals Foole. They were meant to be so doo's thy Master deserve better kindre Pod. Ther 's an old Lawyer Trim'd up like a Gally Foist what would he do with her Foole. As Userers do with their Gold he would looke on her And read her over once a day like A hard report Feed his dull eye and keepe his fingers itching For any thing else she may appeale to a Parliament Sub Paena's and Post Kaes have spoil'd his Cod peece There 's a Physitian too older then he And Gallen Gallenatius but he has lost his spurres He would be nibling too Pod. I marked the man if he be a man Foole. Has much a do to be so Searecloths and Sirrops glew him close together He would fall a peeces else mending of she patients And then trying whether they be right or no In his owne person there 's the honest care an 't Has mollifi'd the man if he do marry her And come but to warme him well at Cupids bonfire He will bulge so subtilly and suddenly You may snatch him up by parcels like a Sea Rack Will your Worship go and looke upon the res Sir And heare what they can say for themselves Pod. I 'le follow thee Exeunt Enter Camillo Menallo Cleanthes Castruchio Cam. You tell us wonders Cast. But I tell you truths they are both well Men. Why are not we in Armes then And all the Island given to know Cast. Discreetly and privately it must be done 't will misse else And prove our ruines most of the noble Citizens Know it by me and stay the houre to attend it Prepare your hearts and friends let their's be right too And keepe about the King to avoid suspition Enter Frederick and Socano When you shall heare the Castle Bell take courage And stand like men away the King is comming Exeunt Lords Fre. Now Captain what have you done with your Prisoner Cast. He is dead Sir and his body flung
old one I hope 't is not the Lady Cun. Choak him first 't is one which thou shalt see See him see him deceiv'd see the deceit only The injunction is you shall smile with modesty Clow. I le simper ifaith as cold as I am yet the old one I hope Enter Servant Serv. Sir here 's Sir Gregory Cun. Ud' so shelter shelter if you be seene All 's ravell'd out agen stand there private And you 'le finde the very opportunity To call you forth and place you at the Table Enter Sir Gregory You are welcome Sir this Banquet will serve When it is crown'd with such a dainty as you Expect and must have Sir Greg. Tush these sweet-meats are but sauce to that Well if there be any honesty or true word in a dreame She 's mine owne nay and chang'd extreamely Not the same woman Cun. Who not the Lady Sir Greg No not to me the edge of her tongue is taken off Gives me very good words turn'd upside downe to me And we live as quietly as two Tortusses if she hold on As she began in my dreame Soft Musick Cun. Nay if Love send forth such Predictions You are bound to beleeve 'em there 's the watch-word Of her coming to your practis'd part now If you hit it Aequus Cupido nobis Both go into the Gowne Sir Greg. I will warrant you Sir I will give armes to Your Gentry looke you forward to your businesse I am an eye behind you place her in that Chaire And let me alone to grope her out Enter Mirabell Cun. Silence Lady your sweet presence illustrates This homely roofe and as course entertainment But where affections are both Host and Guest They cannot meet unkindly please you fit Your something long stay made me unmannerly To place before you you know this friend here He 's my Guest and more especially That this our meeting might not be too single Without a witnesse to 't Mirab. I came not unresolv'd Sir And when our hands are clasp'd in that firme faith Which I expect from you fame shall be bold To speake the lowdest on 't oh you graspe me Somewhat too hard friend Cun. That 's Loves eager will I le touch it gentlier Kisse her hand Mirab. That 's too low in you Lesse it be doubly recompenc'd in me She kisses his hand Clow. Puh I must stop my mouth I shall be choakt else Cun. Come wee 'le not play and trifle with delayes We met to joyne these hands and willingly I cannot leave it till confirmation Mirab. One word first how does your friend kinde Sir Gregory Cun. Why do you mention him you love him not Mir. I shall love you the lesse if you say so Sir In troth I love him but 't is you deceive him This flattering hand of yours does rob him now Now you steale his right from him and I know I shall have hate for 't his hate extreamly Cun. Why I thought you had not come so weakly arm'd Upon my life the Knight will love you for 't Exceedingly love you for ever love you Mir. I you 'le perswade me so Cun. Why he 's my friend And wishes me a fortune equall with him I know and dare speake it for him Mir. Oh this hand betrayes him you might remember him in some courtesie yet at least Cun. I thank your help in 't here 's to his health Where e're he be Mir. I le pledge it were it against my health Clow. Oh oh my heart hops after twelve mile a day upon a good returne now could I walke three hundred mile a foot and laugh forwards and backwards Mir. You 'le take the Knights health Sir Clow. Yes yes forsooth oh my sides such a Banquet once a weeke would make me grow fat in a fortnight Cun. Well now to close our meeting with the close Of mutuall hands and hearts thus I begin Here in Heavens eye and all loves sacred powers Which in my prayers stand propitious I knit this holy hand fast and with this hand The heart that owes this hand ever binding By force of this initiating Contract Both heart and hand in love faith loyalty Estate or what to them belongs in all the dues Rights and honours of a faithfull husband And this firme vow henceforth till death to stand Irrevocable seal'd both with heart and hand Mir. Which thus I second but oh Sir Gregory Cun. Agen this interposition 's ill beleeve me Mir. Here in Heavens eye and all Loves sacred powers I knit this holy hand fast and with this hand The heart that owes this hand ever binding Both heart and hand in love honour loyalty Estate or what to them belongs in all the dues Rights and duties of a true faithfull wife And this firme Vow henceforth till death to stand Irrevocable seal'd both with heart and hand Sir Greg. A full agreement on both parts Cun. I here 's witnesse of that Sir Greg. Nay I have over-reacht you Lady and that 's much For any Knight in England to over-reach a Lady Mir. I rejoyce in my deceit I am a Lady Now I thanke you Sir Clow. Good morrow Lady Fop Sir Greg. 'Snailes i 'me gull'd made a worshipfull asse this is not my Lady Cun. But it is Sir and true as your dreame told you That your Lady was become another woman Sir Greg. I le have another Lady Sir if there were no more Ladies in London blinde-man buffe is an unlawfull Game Cun. Come downe on your knees first and thanke your stars Sir Greg. A fire of my stars I may thanke you I think Cun. So you may pray for me and honour me That have preserv'd you from a lasting torment For a perpetuall comfort did you call me friend Sir Greg. I pray pardon me for that l did miscall you I confesse Cun. And should I receiving such a thankfull name Abuse it in the act should I see my friend Bafful'd disgrac'd without any reverence To your title to be call'd slave rascall Naay curst to your face fool'd scorn'd beaten downe With a womans peevish hate yet I should stand And suffer you to be lost cast away I would have seene you buried quick first Your spurrs of Knight-hood to have wanted rowels And to be kickt from your heeles slave rascall Heare this tongue Mir. My dearest Love sweet Knight my Lord my Husband Cun. So this is not slave and rascall then Mir. What shall your eye command but shall be done In all the duties of a loyall wife Cun. Good good are not curses fitter for you wer 't not better Your head were broke with the handle of a fanne Or your nose bor'd with a silver bodkin Mir. Why I will be a servant in your Lady Cun. Pox but you shall not she 's too good for you This contract shall be a nullity I le breake 't off And see you better bestow'd Sir Greg. 'Slid but you shall not Sir she 's mine owne And I am hers and we are one anothers lawfully and let me see him
Tyr'd with a weary march they tell their wounds Even weeeping ripe they were no more nor deeper And glory in those scarrs that make 'em lovely And sitting where a Campe was like sad Pilgrims They reckon up the times and living labours Of Julius or Germanicus and wonder That Rome whose turrets once were topt with honours Can now forget the Custome of her conquests And then they blame your Grace and say who leads us Shall we stand here like Statues were our Fathers The Sonnes of lazie Moores our Princes Persians Nothing but silkes and softnesse curses on 'em That first taught Nero wantonnesse and bloud Tiberius doubts Caligula all vices For from the spring of these succeeding Princes Thus they talke Sir Emp. Well Why doe you heare these things Aec. Why do you do 'em I take the gods to witnesse with more sorrow And more vexation doe I heare these taintures Then were my life dropt from me through an hour-glasse Emp. Belike then you beleeve 'em or at least Are glad they should be so take heed you were better Build your own Tomb and runne into it living Then dare a Princes anger Aec. I am old Sir And ten yeares more addition is but nothing Now if my life be pleasing to ye take it Vpon my knees if ever any service As let me brag some have bin worthy notice If ever any worth or trust ye gave me Deserv'd a faire respect if all my actions The hazards of my youth colds burnings wants For you and for the Empire be not vices By that stile ye have stampt upon me Souldier Let me not fall into the hands of wretches Emp. I understand ye not Aec. Let not this body That has lookd bravely in his bloud for Cesar And covetous of wounds and for your safety After the scape of Swords Speares Slings and Arrows Gainst which my beaten body was mine Armour The Seas and thirstie deserts now be purchase For Slaves and base Informers I see anger And death look through your eyes I am markt for slaughter And know the telling of this truth has made me A man cleane lost to this world I embrace it Only my last Petition sacred Cesar Is I may dye a Roman Emp. Rise my friend still And worthy of my love Reclaime the Souldier I le study to doe so upon my selfe too Goe keep your command and prosper Aec. Life to Cesar Exit Aecius Enter Chilax Chi. Lord Maximus attends your Grace Emp. Goe tell him I le meete him in the gallery The honesty of this Aecius Who is indeed the Bull-wark of the Empire Has div'd so deep into me that of all The sins I covet but this womans beautie With much repentance now I could be quit of But she is such a pleasure being good That though I were a god she would fire my bloud Exit Actus Secundus Scaena prima Enter the Emperour Maximus Lycinius Proculus Chilax as at Dice Emp. NAY ye shall set my hand out t is not just I should neglect my fortune now t is prosperous Lyc. If I have any thing to set your Grace But Clothes or good conditions let me perish You have all my mony Sir Pro. And mine Chi. And mine too Max. Vnlesse your Grace will credit us Emp. No bare boord Lyc. Then at my Garden-House Emp. The Orchard too Lyc. And 't please your Grace Emp. Have at 'em Pro. They are lost Lyc. Why farewell Fig-trees Emp. Who sets more Chil. At my Horse Sir Emp. The dapl'd Spaniard Chil. He Emp. He 's mine Chil. He is so Max. Your shorthorse is soone curried Chil. So it seemes Sir So may your Mare be too if luck serve Max. Ha Ch. Nothing my Lord but grieving at my fortune Emp. Come Maximus you were not wont to flinch thus Max. By Heaven Sir I have lost all Emp. Ther 's a ring yet Max. This was not made to loose Sir Emp. Some love token Set it I say Max. I doe beseech your Grace Rather name any house I have Emp. How strange And curious you are growne of toyes redeem 't If so I win it when you please to morrow Or next day as ye will I care not But only for my luck sake T is not Rings Can make me richer Max. Will you throw Sir there 't is Emp. Why then have at it fairely myne Max. Your Grace Is only ever fortunate to morrow An 't be your pleasure Sir I le pay the price on 't Emp. To morrow you shall have it without price Sir But this day 't is my victory good Maximus Now I bethink my selfe goe to Aecius And bid him muster all the Cohorts presently They mutiny for pay I heare and be you Assistant to him when you know their numbers Ye shall have monyes for 'em and above Something to stop their tongues withall Max. I will Sir And gods preserve you in this mind still Emp. Shortly I le see 'em march my selfe Max. Gods ever keep ye Exit Max. Emp. To what end doe you think this ring shall serve now For you are fellowes only know by roate As birds record their lessons Chil. For the Lady Emp. But how for her Chil. That I confesse I know not Emp. Then pray for him that do's fetch me an Eunuch That never saw her yet and you two see Exit Chil. The Court made like a Paradise Lyc. We will Sir Emp. Full of faire shewes and Musiques all your arts As I shall give instructions screw to 'th highest For my maine peece is now a doing and for feare You should not take I le have an other engine Such as if vertue be not only in her She shall not choose but leane to let the women Put on a graver shew of welcome Pro. Well Sir Emp. They are a thought too eager Enter Chilax and Lycias the Eunuch Chil. Here 's the Eunuch Eun. Long life to Cesar Emp. I must use you Lycias Come let 's walk in and then I le shew ye all If women may be fraile this wench shall fall Exeunt Scaene 2. Enter Claudia and Marcellina Claudia Sirrha what ayles my Lady that of late She never cares for company Mar. I know not Vnlesse it be that company causes Cuckolds Clau. That were a childish feare Mar. What were those Ladyes Came to her lately From the Court Clau. The same wench Some grave Instructors on my life they look For all the world like old hactht hilts Mar. T is true wench For here and there and yet they painted well too One might discover where the gold was worne Their Iron ages Clau. If my judgment faile not They have been sheathed like rotten ships Mar. It may be Clau. For if ye mark their rudders they hang weakly Mar. They have past the line belike wouldst live Clau Till thou wert such as they are Clau. Chimney pieces Now heaven have mercy on me and young men I had rather make a drallery till thirty While I were able to endure a tempest And beare my fights out bravely till my tackle Whistled
Nay the most staid and knowing what is woman The greatest aym of perfectnesse men liv'd by The most true constant lover of his wedlock Such a still blowing beauty earth was proud of Loose such a noble wife and wilfully Himselfe prepare the way nay make the rape Did ye not tell me so Max. T is true Eudoxa Eud. Lay desolate his deerest peece of friendship Break his strong helme he steerd by sinke that vertue That valour that even all the gods can give us Without whom he was nothing with whom worthiest Nay more arive at Cesar and kill him too And for my sake either ye love too deerly Or deeply ye dissemble Sir Max. I doe so And till I am more strengthend so I must doe Yet would my joy and wine had fashiond out Some safer lye Can these things be Eudoxa And I dissemble Can there be but goodnesse And onely thine deer Lady any end Any imagination but a lost one Why I should run this hazard O thou vertue Were it to doe againe and Valentinian Once more to hold thee sinfull Valentinian In whom thou wert set as pearles are in salt Oysters As Roses are in ranck weeds I would find Yet to thy sacred selfe a deerer danger The God's know how I honour thee Eud. What love Sir Can I returne for this but my obedience My life if so you please and t is too little Max. T is too much to redeem the world Eud. From this houre The sorrowes for my dead Lord faryewell My living Lord has dride ye And in token As Emperor this day I honor ye And the great caster new of all my wishes The wreath of living Lawrell that must compasse That sacred head Eudoxa makes for Cesar I am me thinkes too much in love with fortune But with you ever Royall Sir my maker The once more Summer of me meere in love Is poore expression of my doting Max. Sweetest Eud. Now of my troth ye have bought me deere Sir Max. No Had I at losse of mankinde Enter a Messenger Eud. Now ye flatter Mess. The Senat waites your Grace Max. Let 'em come on And in a full forme bring the ceremony This day I am your servant deere and proudly I le weare your honoured favour Eud. May it prove so Exeunt Scaen. 7. Enter Paulus and Lycippus Lyc. Is your Grace done Pau. T is done Lyc. Who speakes Pau. A Boy Lyc. A dainty blew Boy Paulus Pau. Yes Lyc. Have ye viewed The worke above Pau. Yes and all up and ready Lyc. The Empresse does you simple honour Paulus The wreath your blew Grace must present she made But harke ye for the Souldiers Pau. That 's done too I le bring 'em in I warrant ye Lyc. A Grace too Pau. The same Grace serves for both Lyc. About it then I must to 'th Cupbord and bee sure good Paulus Your Grace be fasting that he may hang cleanly If there should need an other voice what then Paul I le hang an other Grace in Lyc. Grace be with ye Exeunt Scaen. 2. Enter in state Maximus Eudoxa with Souldiers and Gentlemen of Rome the Senators and Rods and Axes borne before them A Synnet with Trumpets With a Banket prepard with Hoboies Musicke Song wreath Sen. Semp. 3. Haile to thy imperiall honour sacred Cesar And from the old Rome take these wishes You holy gods that hitherto have held As justice holds her Ballance equall poysd This glory of our Nation this full Roman And made him fit for what he is confirme him Looke on this Son ô Iupiter our helper And Romulus thou Father of our honour Preserve him like thy selfe just valiant noble A lover and increaser of his people Let him begin with Numa stand with Cato The first five yeares of Nero be his wishes Give him the age and fortune of Emelius And his whole raigne renew a great Augustus SONG Honour that is ever living Honor that is ever giving Honour that sees all and knowes Both the ebbs of man and flowes Honour that rewards the best Sends thee thy rich labours rest Thou hast studied still to please her Therefore now she calls thee Cesar Chorus Hayle hayle Caesar hayle and stand And thy name out live the Land Noble fathers to his browes Bind this wreath with thousand vows All Stand to eternity Max. I thank ye fathers And as I rule may it stil grow or wither Now to the bancket ye are all my guests This day be liberall friends to wine we give it And smiling pleasures Sit my Queen of beauty Fathers your places These are faire Wars Souldiers And thus I give the first charge to ye all You are my second sweet to every cup I adde unto the Senat a new honour And to the sonnes of Mars a donative SONG God Lizus ever young Ever honourd ever sung Staind with bloud of lusty Grapes In a thousand lusty shapes Dance upon the Mazers brim In the Crimson liquor Swim From thy plenteous hand divine Let a River runne with Wine God of youth let this day here Enter neither care nor feare Boy Bellonia's seed the glory of old Rome Envie of conquerd Nations nobly come And to the fulnesse of your warlike noyce Let your feete move make up this houre of joyes Come come I say range your faire Troop at large And your by measure turne into a charge Semp. The Emperor 's growne heavie with his wine Affr. The Senat staies Sir for your thanks Semp. Great Cesar Eud. I have my wish Affr. Wil t please your Grace speake to him Eud. Yes but he will not heare Lords Semp. Stir him Lucius the Senat must have thankes 2. Sen. Luc. Your Grace Sir Cesar Eud. Did I not tell you he was well he 's dead Semp. Dead treason guard the Court let no man passe Souldiers your Cesars murdred Eud. Make no tumult Nor arme the Court ye have his killer with ye And the just cause if ye can stay the hearing I was his death That wreath that made him Cesar Has made him earth Sold. Cut her in thousand peeces Eud. Wise men would know the reason first to die Is that I wish for Romans and your swords The heaviest way of death yet Souldiers grant me That was your Empresse once and honour by ye But so much time to tell ye why I killd him And waigh my reasons well if man be in you Then if ye dare doe cruelly condemne me Affr. Heare her ye noble Romans T is a woman A subject not for swords but pitty Heaven If she be guilty of malitious murder H 'as given us lawes to make example of her If only of revenge and bloud hid from us Let us consider first then execute Semp. Speake bloudy woman Eud. Yes This Maximus That was your Cesar Lords and noble Souldiers And if I wrong the dead heaven perish me Or speake to wyn your favours but the truth Was to his Country to his friends and Cesar A most malitious Traytor Semp. Take heed woman Eud. I speake not
and curiously set forth To draw in riotous guests a thing exposd To every Ruffians rude assault and subject For a poore salary to a rich mans lust Though made up of diseases Caesar. Will you end yet Claris. And this a Mistris for Albertus sonne One that I should call sister Caesar. Part not with Your modesty in this violent heate the truth is For you shall be my Confessor I love her But vertuously report that gives her out Only for faire and adds not she is chast Detracts much from her for indeed she is Though of a low condition composd Of all those graces dames of highest birth Though rich in natures bounties should be proud of But leave her and to you my neerest care My dearest best Clarissa Doe not think For then you wrong me I wish you should live A barren Virgin life I rather ayme at A noble husband that may make you mother Of many children one that when I know him Worth your embraces I may serve and sue to And therefore scorne not to acquaint me with That man that happy man you please to favour Claris. I ever purposd it for I will like With your allowance Cesar. As a pawne of this Receive this ring but ere you part with it On any tearmes be certaine of your choice And make it knowne to me Enter Servants with lights Alberto Baptista Mariana Mentivole Claris. You have my hand for 't Cesar. Which were it not my sisters I should kisse With too much heate Claris. My Father and his guests Sir Alber. O my old friend my tryde friend my Baptista These dayes of rest and feasting sute not with Our tougher natures those were golden ones Which were enjoyd at Sea that 's our true Mother The Land 's to us a stepdame there we sought Honour and wealth through dangers yet those dangers Delighted more then their rewards though great ones And worth the undertakers here we study The Kitchin arts to sharpen appetite Dulde with abundance and dispute with Heaven If that the least puffe of the rough Northwinde Blast our times burthen rendring to our Palats The charming juice lesse pleasing whereas there If we had bisket powderd flesh fresh water We thought them Persian delicates and for musicke If a strong gale but made the maine yard cracke We dancde to the lowd minstrell Baptist. And feard lesse So far we were in love with noble action A tempest then a calme Alber. T is true Baptista There there from mutuall aydes lent to each other And vertuous emulation to exceed In manly daring the true schoole of friendship We learnt those principles which confirmd us friends Never to be forgot Baptist. Never I hope Albor. We were married there for bells the roring Cannon A loud proclaimd it lawfull and a prize Then newly tane and equally divided Servd as a dowry to you then stild my wife And did enable me to be a husband Fit to encounter so much wealth though got With bloud and horror Maria. If so got t is fit Sir Now you possesse it that you should enjoy it In peace and quiet I your sonne and daughter That reape the harvest of your winters labour Though debtors for it yet have often trembled When in way of discourse you have related How you came by it Alber. Trembled how the softnesse Of your sex may excuse you I le not argue But to the world how ere I hold thee noble I should proclaime this boy some cowards bastard And not the Image of Albertus youth If when some wishd occasion calls him forth To a brave tryall one weake artery Of his should show a feaver though grim death Put on a thousand dreadfull shapes to fright him The Elements the sea and all the windes We number on our compasse then conspiring To make the Scaen more ghastly I must have thee Sirra I must If once you graple with An enemies ship to boord her though you see The desperat Gunner ready to give fire And blow the deck up or like Cesars Souldiour Thy hands like his cut off hang by the teeth And die undanted Maria. I even dye to heare you My sonne my lov'd Cesario runne such hazards Blesd Saints forbid it you have done enough Already for one family that rude way I le keep him safe at home and traine him up A compleat Courtier may I live to see him By sweet discourse and gracious demeanor Winne and bring home a faire wife and a rich T is all I rest ambitious of Alber. A Wife As if there were a course to purchase one Prevailing more then honourable action Or any Intercessors move so farre To take a Mistris of a noble spirit As the true fame of glorious victories Achievd by sweat and bloud ô the brave dames Of warlike Genoa they had eyes to see The inward man and only from his worth Courage and conquests the blind Archer knew To head his shafts or light his quenched torch They were proofe against them else No Carpet Knight That spent his youth in groves or pleasant bowers Or stretching on a Couch his lazy limbes Sung to his Lute such soft and melting notes As Ovid nor Anacreon ever knew Could work on them nor once bewitch their sense Though he came so perfumd as he had robd Sabaea or Arabia of their wealth And stord it in one sute I still remember And still remember it with joy Baptista When from the resceu of the Genoa fleete Almost surprizd by the Venetian Gallies Thou didst returne and wert receivd in triumph How lovely in thy honord wounds and scars Thou didst appeare what worlds of amorous glances The beauties of the City where they stood Fix'd like so many of the fairest starrs Shot from their windowes at thee how it firde Their blouds to see the Enemies captive streames Borne through the streets nor could chast Juliana The Dukes faire Neece though garded with their greatnesse Resist this gallant charge but laying by Disparity of fortune from the object Yeelded her selfe thy prisoner Bap. Pray you chuse some other theame Mari. Can there be one more pleasing Bap. That triumph drew on me a greater torture And t is in the remembrance little lesse Then ever Captive sufferd Mari. How to gaine the favour of so great a Lady Bap. Yes since it prov'd fatall t' have bin happy Madam Adds to calamity nad the heavie losse Of her I durst not hope for once injoyd Turnes what you thinke a blessing to a curse Which griefe would have forgotten Alber. I am sorry I touchd upon it Maria. I burne rather Sir With a desire to heare the story of your loves and shall receave it as a favour Which you may grant Bap. You must not be denyde Yet with all brevity I must report it T is true faire Iuliana Genoas pride Enamord of my actions likd my person Nor could I but with joy meet her affection Since it was lawfull for my first wife dead We were closly married and for some few months
Never ô never and t is for your good too Ces. Prove that Mar. Alas too many yeares are numbred In my account to entertaine the benefit Which youth in thee Cesario and ability Might hope for and require it were Injustice To rob a gentleman deserving memory Of Issue to preserve it Ces. No more herein You are an excellent patterne of true piety Let me now turne your advocate Pray looke into The order of the Duke Jnjoynd admit J satisfie the sentence without mariage with you how then Mar. Cesario Ces. If I know How to acquit your feares yet keepe th' injunction In every clause whole and entire your charity Will call me still your servant Mar. Still my son Ces. Right Madam now you have it still your son The Genius of your blessings hath instructed Your tongue oraculously wee wil forget How once I and Clarissa enterchangd The tyes of brother and of sister henceforth New stile us man and wife Cla. By what authority Ces. Heavens great appointment yet in all my dotage On thy perfections when I thought Clarissa Wee had beene pledges of one wombe no loose No wanton heat of youth desir'd to claime Priority in thy affections other Then nature might commend Chastly I tendred Thy farewell as a brother ought but since Our bloods are strangers let our hearts contract A long life-lasting unity for this way The sentence is to be observd or no way Mar. Then no way Ces. I expected other answer Madam from you Mar. No every age shall curse me The monster and the prodigie of nature Horrors beyond extremity Cla. Pray mother confine the violence of greife Ces. Yes mother pray do Mar. Thus some catch at a matrons honor By flying lust to plot Incestuous witchcrafts More terrible then whoredomes cruell mercy When to preserve the body from a death The soule is strangled Ces. This is more then passion It comes neere to distraction Mar. I am quieted Cesario thou maiest tell the Duke securely Albertos titles honors and revenues The Duke may give away Injoy them thou Clarissas birthright Marianas dower Thou shalt be Lord of turne us to the world Vnpittyed and unfreinded yet my bed Thou never sleep'st in as for her she heares me If she as much as in a thoughts consent That thou may'st call her wife a Mothers curse Shall never leave her Clar. As a brother once I lov'd you as a noble freind yet honor ye But for a husband sir I dare not owne you My faith is given already Ces. To a Villaine I le cut his throat Mar. Why this is more then passion It comes neere a distraction Clar. Call to minde Sir How much you have abated of that goodnesse Which once raign'd in ye they appear'd so lovely That such as freindship led to observation Enter Baptista and Mentivole Courted the great example Ces. Left and flatterd into abroad derision Mar. Why d ee thinke so My Lord Baptista is your sonne growne cold In hasting on the marriage which his vowes Have seald to my wrongd daughter Bap. Wee come Lady to consummate the contract Ces. With Mentivole is he the man Ment. Clarissas troth and mine Cesario are recorded in a character So plaine and certaine that except the hand Of heaven which writ it first would blot it out againe No human power can raze it Ces. But say you so too young Lady Cla. I should els betray My heart to falshood and my tongue to perjury Ces. Madam you know the sentence Bap. From the Duke I have particular comforts which require A private eare Mar. I shall approve it gladly Wee are resolvd Cesario Bap. Be not insolent upon a Princes favour Cla. Loose no glory Your younger yeares have purchast Ment. And deservd too y'have many worthy freinds Bap. Preserve and use them Exeunt Manet Cesar Ces. Good very good why here 's a complement Of mirth in desperation I could curse My fate ô with what speed men tumble downe From hopes that soare to high Biancha now May scorne me justly too Clarissa married Albertos widdow resolute Biancha Refusd and I forsaken let me study I can but dye a Batchelor that 's the worst on 't Exit Enter Host Taylor Muliter Dancer Pedant Coxcombe Host. Come Gentlemen This is the day that our great artist hath Promist to give all your severall suites satisfaction Dancer Is he stirring Host. He hath beene at his booke these two houres Pedant Hee s a rare Physitian Host. Why I le tell you Were Paracelsus the German now Living heed take up his single rapier against his Terrible long sword he makes it a matter of nothing To cure the goute sore eyes he takes out as familiarly Washes them and puts them in againe As you 'd blanch almonds Tay. They say he can make gold Host. I I he learnt it of Kelly in Germany There 's not a Chimist In christendome can goe beyond him for multiplying Pedant Take heed then He get not up your daughters belly my Host Host. You are a merry Gentleman And the man of art will love you the better Dancer Does he love mirth and crotchets Host. O hee s the most courteous Physitian You may drink or drab in 's company freely The better he knowes how your disease growes The better he knowes how to cure it Danc. But I wonder my Host He has no more resort of Ladyes to him Host. Why Sir Dan. O divers of them have great beleife in conjurers Lechery is a great helpe to the quality Host. Hee 's scarce knowne to be in towne yet Ere long we shall have em come hurring hither in Fetherbeds Dan. How bedridden Host. No sir in fetherbeds that move upon 4 wheeles in Spanish caroches Ped. Pray acquaint him we give attendance Host I shall gentlemen I would faine be rid Of these rascalls but that they raise profit To my wine-seller When I have made use of them sufficiently I will intreat the conjurer to tye crackers to their tailes And send them packing Enter Forobosco as in his Study A paper Foro. Come hither mine Host looke here Host. What 's that Foro. A challenge from my man Host. For breakin gs pate Foro. He writes here if I meet him not i th Feild within this halfe houre I shall heare more from him Host. O sir minde your profit Nere thinke of the rascall here are the gentlemen Foro. Morrow my worthy clients What are you all prepard of your questions That I may give my resolution upon them Omnes We are sir Pedant And have brought our mony Foro Each then in order And differ not for precedency Dan. I am buying of an office sir And to that purpose I would faine learne to dissemble cunningly Foro. Doe you come to me for that you should rather Have gone to a cunning woman Danc. I sir but their Instructions are but like women Pretty well but not to the depth as I'do have it You are a conjurer the devils master And I would learn it from you so
stoop thus low in duty and would wash The dust of fury with my Virgin teares From his blessd feete and make them beautifull That would move to conditions of peace Though with a snaile like pace they all are wingd To beare you to destruction reverend sirs Think on your ancient friendship caemented With so much bloud but shed in noble action Divided now in passion for a brawle The makers blush to own much lov'd Caesario Brother or friend each title may prevaile Remember with what tendernesse from our child-hood Wee lov'd together you preferring me Before your selfe and I so fond of you That it begot suspition in ill mindes That our affection was incestuous Thinke of that happy time in which I know That with your deerest blood you had prevented This showre of teares from me Mentivole My husband registred in that bright star-chamber Though now on earth made strangers be the example And offer in one hande the peacefull Olive Of concord or if that can be denyed By powerfull intercession in the other Carry the Hermian rod and force atonement Now we will not bee all marble Death 's the worst then And hee shall be my bridegroome offers to kill her selfe Ment. Hold Clarissa his loving violence needs must Offer inspite of honor he snatches away her knife and sets it to his owne breast she stayes his hand Duke Was it to that end then on your religion Mar. And my hope in heaven Sir Duke Wee then will leave entreaties and make use Of our authority must I cry ai-me To this unheard of insolence in my presence To draw your swords and as all reverence That 's due to majesty were forfeited cherish this wildernesse sheath them instantly and shew an alteration in your lookes or by my power Alber, Cut of my head Bapt. And mine rather then heare of peace with this bad man I 'le not alone give up my throat but suffer Your rage to reach my family Enter Prospero Iuliana Biancha Alb. And my name to be no more remembred Duke What are these Caes. Biancha t is Biancha still Biancha but strangely alter'd Bapt. If that thirteene yeares Of absence could raze from my memory The figure of my freind I might forget thee But if thy Image be graven on my heart Thou art my Prospero Pros. Thou my Baptista Duke A suddaine change Bap. I dare not aske deere freind If Juliana live for that 's a blessing I am unworthy of but yet deny not To let me know the place she hath made happy By having there her sepulcher Pros. If your highnesse please to vouchsafe a patient Eare wee shall make a true relation of a story That shall call on your wonder Duke Speake wee heare you Pros. Baptistas Fortune in the Genoa court His banishment with his faire wifes restraint You are acquainted with what since hath follow'd I faithfully will deliver ere eight moones After Baptistas absence were compleate Faire Juliana founde the pleasures that They had injoy'd together were not barren And blushing at the burthen of her wombe No father neere to owne it it drew on A violent sicknesse which call'd downe compassion From the angry Duke then carefull of her health Physitians were enquir'd of and their judgment Prescrib'd the Bathes of Luca as a meanes For her recovery to my charge it pleas'd her To be committed but as on the way Wee journy'd those throwes only knowne to women Came thick upon her in a private village Bap. Shee died Pros. Have patience she brought to the world A hopefull daughter for her bodies sicknesse It soone decai'd but the greife of her minde Hourely increas'd and life grew tedious to her And desperate ere to see you she injoyn'd me To place her in a Greeekish Monastery And to my care gave up her pretty daughter Bapt. What monastery as a Pilgrim bare-foot I le search it out Pros. Pray you interrupt me not Now to my fortunes the girle well dispos'd off With a faithfull freind of mine my cruell fate Made me a prisoner to the Turkish gallies Where for 12 yeares these hands tugd at the oare But fortune tyr'd at length with my afflictions Some ships of Malta mett the Ottaman fleete Charg'd them and boorded them and gave me freedome With my deliverers I serv'd and gott Such reputation with the great Master That he gave me command over a tall And lusty ship where my first happy service Was to redeeme Alberto rumor'd dead But was like me surpris'd by Cortugogly Alber. I would I had dyed there Pros. And from him learning Baptista liv'd and their dissolved freindship I hois'd up sailes for Greece found Iuliana A votary at her beades having made knowne Both that you liv'd and where you were she borrow'd So much from her devotion as to wish me To bring her to you if the object please you With joy receave her Bapt. Rage and fury leave me throwes away his sword I am so full of happines there 's no room left To entertaine you O my long lost Iewell Light of mine eyes my soules strength Julia. My best Lord having Embrac'd you thus Death cannot fright me Bapt. Live long to do so though J should fix here Pardon me Prospero though I enquire my daughters fortune Pros. That your happinesse May be at all parts perfect here she is Caes. Biancha daughter to a princesse Pros. True with my faithfull Host I left her And with him till now she hath resided Ignorant both of her birth and greatnesse Bap. O my blest one Ioy upon joy over-whelmes me Duke Above wonder Alb. I doe begin to melt too this strange story Workes much upon me Duke Since it hath ples'd heaven To grace us with this miracle I that am Heavens instrument here determine thus Alberto Be not unthankefull for the blessings showne you Nor you Baptista discord was yet never A welcome sacrifice therefore rage layd by Embrace as freinds and let pass'd difference Be as a dreame forgotten Bap. T is to me Alber. And me and thus confirme it Duke And to tye it In bonds not to be broken with the marriage Of young Mentivole and faire Clarissa So you consent great Lady your Biancha Shall call Caesario Husband Iulia T is a motion I gladly yeeld too Caesar. One in which you make a sadd man happy Offers to kneele Bian. Kneele not all forgiven Duke With the Duke your Vnkle I will make attonement and will have no denyall Enter Host Forobosco Clowne and Officers Mar. Let this day be still held sacred Host. Now if you can conjure let the Divell unbind you Foro. Wee are both undone Clow. Already wee feele it Host. Iustice sir Duke What are they Pros. I can resolve you slaves freed from the Gallyes By the Viceroy of Sicilia Duke What 's their offence Host. The robbing me of all my plate and Iewels I meane the attempting of it Clow. Please your grace I will now discover this varlet in earnest this honest pestilent rogue profest the
acquainted and from that acquaintance Neerer into affection from affection Into belief Theo. Well Leoc. Then we durst kiss Theo. Go forward Leoc. But O man man unconstant careless man O subtile man how many are thy mischiefs O Marck-antonio I may curse those kisses Theo. What did you call him Lady Leoc. Mark-antonio The name to me of misery Theo. Pray foreward Leoc. From these we bred desires Sir but lose me heaven If mine were lustful Theo. I believe Leoc. This neerness Made him importunate When to save mine honor Love having full possession of my powers I got a contract from him Theo. Sealed Leoc. And sworn too Which since for some offence heaven laid upon me I lost among my moneys in the robbery The loss that makes me poorest this won from him Fool that I was and too too credulous I pointed him a by-way to my chamber The next night at an hour Theo. Pray stay there Lady And when the night came came he kept he touch with ye Be not so shamefast had he both your wishes Tell me and tell me true did he injoy ye Were ye in one anothers arms abed the Contract Confirm'd in full joys there did he lie with ye Answer to that ha did your father know this The good old man or kindred privy to 't And had ye their consents did that nights promise Make ye a Mother Leoc. Why do you ask so neerly Good Sir do's it concern you any thing Theo. No Lady Only the pitty why you should be used so A little stirs me but did he keep his promise Leoc. No no Signior Alas he never came nor never meant it My love was fool'd time numbred to no end My expectation flouted and ghess you Sir What dor unto a doating Maid this was What a base breaking off Theo. All 's well then Lady Go forward in your Story Leoc. Not only fail'd Sir Which is a curse in love and may he find it When his affections are full wing'd and ready To stoop upon the quarry then when all His full hopes are in 's arms not only thus Sir But more injurious faithless treacherous Within two days fame gave him far remov'd With a new love which much against my conscience But more against my cause which is my hell I must confess a fair one a right fair one Indeed of admirable sweetness Daughter Unto another of our noble neighbors The thief cal'd Theodosia whose perfections I am bound to ban for ever curse to wrinckles As heaven I hope will make 'em soon and aches For they have rob'd me poor unhappy wench Of all of all Sir all that was my glory And left me nothing but these tears and travel Upon this certain news I quit my Father And if you be not milder in construction I fear mine honor too and like a Page Stole to Ossuna from that place to Civill From thence to Barcellona I was travelling When you o'er-took my misery in hope to hear of Gallies bound up for Italy for never Will I leave off the search of this bad man This filcher of affections this love Pedler Nor shall my curses cease to blast her beauties And make her name as wandring as her nature Till standing face to face before their lusts I call heavens justice down Theo. This shows too angry Nor can it be her fault she is belov'd If I give meat must they that eat it surfeit Leoc. She loves again Sir there 's the mischief of it And in despight of me to drown my blessings Which she shall dearly know Theo. Ye are too violent Leoc. She has Devils in her eys to whose devotion He offers all his service Theo. Who can say But she may be forsaken too he that once wanders From such a perfect sweetness as you promise Has he not still the same rule to deceive Leoc. No no they are together love together Past all deceipt of that side sleep together Live and delight together and such deceipt Give me in a wild desert Theo. By your leave Lady I see no honor in this cunning Leoc. Honor True none of her part honor she deserves none 'T is ceas'd with wandering Ladies such as she is So bold and impudent Theo. I could be angry Extreamly angry now beyond my nature And 't were not for my pitty what a man is this to do these wrongs believe me Lady I know the maid and know she is not with him Leoc. I would you knew she were in heaven Theo. And so well know her That l think you are cozend Leoc. So I say Sir Theo. I mean in her behaviour For trust my faith so much I dare adventure for her credit She never yet delighted to do wrong Leoc. How can she then delight in him dare she think Be what she will as excellent as Angels My love so fond my wishes so indulgent That I must take her prewnings stoop at that She has tyr'd upon No Sir I hold my beauty Wash but these sorrows from it of a sparkle As right and rich as hers my means as equal My youth as much unblown and for our worths And waight of vertue Theo. Do not task her so far Leo. By heaven she is cork and clouds light light sir vapor But I shall find her out with all her witchcrafts Her paintings and her powncings for 't is art And only art preserves her and meer spels That work upon his powers let her but shew me A ruin'd cheek like mine that holds his colour And writes but sixteen years in spight of sorrows An unbathed body smiles that give but shadows And wrinckle not the face besides she is little A demy dame that that makes no object Theo. Nay Then I must say you err for credit me I think she is taller then your self Leoc. Why let her It is not that shall mate me I but ask My hands may reach unto her Theo. Gentle Lady 'T is now ill time of further argument For I perceive your anger voyd of councel Which I could wish more temperate Leoc. Pray forgive me If I have spoken uncivilly they that look on See more than we that play and I beseech ye Impute it loves offence not mine whose torments If you have ever lov'd and found my crosses You must confesse are seldom ty'd to patience Yet I could wish I had said lesse Theo. No harm then Ye have made a full amends our Company You may command so please you in your travels With all our faith and furtherance let it be so Leoc. Ye make too great an offer Theo. Then it shal be Go in and rest your self our wholsom dyet Will be made ready straight But hark ye Lady One thing I must entreat your leave and sufferance That these things may be open to my Brother For more respect and honour Leoc. Do your pleasure Theo. And do not change this habit by no means Unless ye change your self Leoc. Which must not yet be Theo. It carries ye concealed and safe Leoc. I am
prompted by shallow merit through your profound grace for your chamber-maid Ben. How 's that how 's that Ferd. Her chamber-maid my Lord Ben. Her chamberpot my Lord You modest asse thou never shew'dst thy self an asse till now 'Fore heaven I am angrie with thee Sirha sirha this whitmeat-spirit 's not yours legitimate advance your hope and 't please you ghesse again Ang. And let your thoughts flee higher aim them right Sir you may hit you have the fairest white Ferd. If I may be so bold then my good Lord your favour doth encourage me to aspire to catch my Ladies Gentlewoman Ben. Where where would you catch her do you know my daughter Violanta Sir Ang. Well said no more about the bush Ferd. My good Lord I have gaz'd on Violanta and the stars whose heavenly influence I admir'd not knew nor ever was so sinful to believe I might attain 't Ben. Now you are an asse again for if thou ne'er attain'st 't is onely long of that faint heart of thine which never did it She is your Lords heir mine Benvoglio 's heir my brothers too Randulpho 's her descent not behinde any of the Millanois And Ferdinand although thy parentage be unknown thou know'st that I have bred thee up from five yeers old and do not blush to hear it have found thy wisdom trust and fair successe so full in all my affairs that I am fitter to call thee Master then thou me thy Lord Thou canst not be but sprung of gentlest blood thy minde shines thorow thee like the radiant sun although thy bodie be a beauteous cloud Come seriously this is no flatterie and well thou know'st it though thy modest blood rise like the morning in thy check to hear 't Sir I can speak in earnest Vertuous service so meritorious Ferdinand as yours yet bashful still and silent should extract a fuller price then impudence exact and this is now the wages it must have my daughter is thy wife my wealth thy slave Ferd. Good Madam pinch I sleep does my Lord mock and you assist Custom 's inverted quite for old men now adays do flout the young Ben. Fetch Violanta As I intend this religiously let my soul finde joy or pain Exit Angelina Ferd. My honour'd Lord and Master if I hold that worth could merit such felicitie you bred it in me and first purchas'd it it is your own and what productions in all my faculties my soul begets your very mark is on you need not adde rewards to him that is in debt to you you sav'd my life Sir in the Massacre there you begot me new since foster'd me O can I serve too much or pray for you alas 't is slender paiment to your bountie Your daughter is a paradice and I unworthie to be set there you may chuse the royalst seeds of Milain Ben. Prethee peace thy goodnesse makes me weep I am resolv'd I am no Lord o' th' time to tie my blood to sordid muck I have enough my name my state and honours I will store in thee whose wisedom will rule well keep and increase a knave or fool that could confer the like would bate each hour diminish every day Thou art her price-lot then drawn out by fate an honest wise man is a Princes mate Ferd. Sir heaven and you have over-charg'd my brest with grace beyond my continence I shall burst the blessing you have given me witnesse Saints I would not change for Millain But my Lord is she prepard Ben. What needs Preparative where such a Cordial is prescrib'd as thou thy person and thy vertues in one scale shall poize hers with her beautie and her wealth if not I adde my will unto thy weight thy mother 's with her now Son take my keys and let this preparation for this Marriage this welcom Marriage long determin'd here be quick and gorgeous Gerrard Enter Gerrard Ger. My good Lord my Lord your brother craves your conference instantly on affairs of high import Ben. Why what news Ger. The Tyrant my good Lord is sick to death of his old Apoplexie whereon the States advise that Letters missive be straight dispatcht to all the neighbour-Countreys and Schedules too divulg'd on every post to enquire the lost Duke forth their purpose is to re-instate him Ben. 'T is a pious deed Ferdinand to my daughter this delay though to so good a purpose angers me but I 'll recover it Be secret son Go woo with truth and expedition Exit Ferd. O my unsounded joy how fares my Gerrard my noble twin-friend fie thy look is heavie sullen and sowre blanch it didst thou know my cause of joy thou 'ldst never sorrow more I know thou lov'st me so How dost thou Ger. Well too well my fraught of health my sicknesse is in life I am dead by living dying still Ferd. What sublunary mischief can predominate a wise man thus or doth thy friendship play in this antipathous extreme with mine lest gladnesse suffocate me I I I do feel my spirit 's turn'd to fire my blood to air and I am like a purifi'd essence tri'd from all drossie parts Ger. Were 't but my life the losse were sacrific'd but vertue must for me slain and innocence made dust Ferd. Fare well good Gerrard Ger. Dearest friend stay Ferd. Sad thoughts are no companions for me now much lesse sad words thy bosom bindes some secret which do not trust me with for mine retains another which I must conceal from thee Ger. I would reveal it 't is a heavie tale canst thou be true and secret still Ferd. Why friend if you continue true unto your self I have no means of falshood Lock this door come yet your prisoner 's sure Ger. Stay Ferdinand Ferd. What is this trouble Love why thou art capable of any woman Doth want oppresse thee I will lighten thee hast thou offended law my Lord and thine and I will save thy life Does servitude upbraid thy freedom that she suffers it have patience but three days and I will make thee thy Lords companion Can a friend do more Ger. Lend me the means How can this be Ferd. First let this Cabinet keep your pawn and I will trust yet for the form of satisfaction take this my Oath to boot By my presum'd Gentrie and sacred known Christianitie I 'll die ere I reveal thy trust Ger. Then hear it Your Lords fair daughter Violanta is my betrothed wife goes great with childe by me and by this deed both made a prey to Law How may I save her life advise me friend Ferd. What did he say Gerrard whose voice was that O death unto my heart bane to my soul my wealth is vanish'd like the rich mans store in one poor minute all my daintie fare but jugling dishes my fat hope despair Ger. Is this so odious where 's your mirth Ferd. Why thou hast robb'd me of it Gerrard draw thy sword and if thou lov'st my Mistris chastitie defend it else I 'll cut it from thy heart
change is this why Ferdinand are these your robes of joy should be indu'd doth Hymen wear black I did send for you to have my honourable brother witnesse the Contract I will make 'twixt you and her Put off all doubt she loves ye what d' ye say Rand. Speak man Why look you so distractedly Ferd. There are your keys Sir I 'll no Contracts I Divinest Violanta I will serve you thus on my knees and pray for you Juno Lucina fer opem my inequalitie ascends no higher I dare not marry you Ben. How 's this Ferd. Good night I have a friend has almost made me mad I weep sometimes and instantly can laugh nay I do dance and sing and suddenly roar like a storm Strange tricks these are they not and wherefore all this shall I tell you no thorow mine ears my heart a plague hath caught and I have vow'd to keep it close not shew my grief to any for it has no cure On wandring steps to some remote place move I 'll keep my vow though I have lost my Love Exit Ben. 'Fore heaven distracted for her fare you well I 'll watch his steps for I no joy shall finde till I have found his cause and calm'd his minde Exit Rand. He 's overcome with joy Angel 'T is very strange Rand. Well sister I must leave you the time 's busie Violanta cheer you up and I pray heaven restore each to their love and health again Exit Viol. Amen great Uncle Mother what a chance unluckily is added to my wo in this young Gentleman Angel True Violanta it grieves me much Doll go you instantly and finde out Gerrard tell him his friends hap and let him use best means to comfort him but as his life preserve this secret still Viol. Mother I 'ld not offend you might not Gerrard steal in and see me in the evening Angel Well bid him do so Viol. Heavens blessing o' your heart Do ye not call Childbearing Travel mother Angel Yes Viol. It well may be The bare-foot traveller that 's born a Prince and walks his pilgrimage whose tender feet kisse the remorselesse stones onely ne'er felt a travel like to it Alas dear mother you groan'd thus for me and yet how disobedient have I been Angel Peace Violanta thou hast always been gentle and good Viol. Gerrard is better mother O if you knew the implicite innocencie dwells in his brest you 'ld love him like your prayers I see no reason but my father might be told the truth being pleas'd for Ferdinand to woo himself and Gerrard ever was his full comparative my Uncle loves him as he loves Ferdinand Angel No not for the world since his intent is cross'd lov'd Ferdinand thus ruin'd and a childe got out of Wedlock his madnesse would pursue ye both to death Viol. As you please mother I am now methinks even in the land of ease I 'll sleep Angel Draw in the bed neerer the fire silken rest tie all thy cares up Exeunt Enter Ferdinand and Benvoglio privately after him Ferd. O blessed solitude here my griefs may speak and Sorrow I will argue with thee now Nothing will keep me company the flowers die at my moan the gliding silver streams hasten to flee my lamentations the air rolls from 'em and the golden sun is smother'd pale as Phoebe with my sighs onely the earth is kinde that stays Then earth to thee will I complain Why do the heavens impose upon me love what I can ne'er enjoy before fruition was impossible I did not thirst it Gerrard she is thine seal'd and deliver'd but 't was ill to stain her virgin state ere ye were married Poor infant what 's become of thee thou know'st not the wo thy parents brought thee to Dear earth bury this close in thy sterilitie be barren to this seed let it not grow for if it do 't will bud no Violet nor Gilly-flower but wilde Brier or rank Rue unsavoury and hurtful Ben. Ferdinand thy steel hath digg'd the earth thy words my heart Ferd. O I have violated faith betraid my friend and innocencie Ben. Desperate youth violate not thy soul too I have showres for thee young man but Gerrard flames for thee Was thy base pen made to dash out mine honour and prostitute my daughter Bastard whore come turn thy female tears into revenge which I will quench my thirst with ere I see daughter or wife or branded family By both die and for amends Ferdnando be my heir I 'll to my brother first tell him all then to the Duke for justice this morning he 's receiv'd Mountains nor seas shall bar my flight to vengeance the foul stain printed on me thy blood shall rinse again Exit Ferd. I have transgress'd all goodnesse witlesly rais'd mine own curses from posteritie I 'll follow to redresse in what I may if not your heir can die as well as they Exit Dumb Shew Enter Duke Rinaldo with attendants at one door States Randulpho and Gerrard at another they kneel to the Duke he accepts their obedience and raises them up they prefer Gerrard to the Duke who entertains him they seat the Duke in State Enter Benvoglio and Ferdinand Benvoglio kneels for justice Ferd. seems to restrain him Benvog gives the Duke a paper Duke reads frowns on Gerr. shews the paper to the States they seem sorry consult cause the Guard to apprehend him they go off with him Then Rand. and Ben. seem to crave justice Duke vows it and exit with his attendants Rand. Ben. and Ferd. confer Enter to them Cornelia with two servants she seems to expostulate Rand. in scorn causeth her to be thrust out poorly Exit Rand. Benvog beckens Ferd. to him with much seeming passion swears him then stamps with his foot Enter Dorothea with a Cup weeping she delivers it to Ferd. who with discontent exit and exeunt Benvoglio and Dorothea Enter Violanta Viol. Gerrard not come nor Dorothie return'd what averse star rul'd my Nativitie the time to night hath been as dilatory as languishing Consumptions But till now I never durst say my Gerrard was unkinde Heaven grant all things go well and nothing does if he be ill which I much fear my dreams have been portentous I did think I saw my Love araid for battel with a beast a hideous monster arm'd with teeth and claws grinning and venomous that sought to make both us a prey on 's tail was lash'd in blood Law and his forehead I did plainly see held Characters that spell'd Authoritie This rent my slumbers and my fearful soul ran searching up and down my dismaid brest to finde a port t' escape Good faith I am cold but Gerrad's love is colder here I 'll sit and think my self away Enter Ferdinand with a Cup and a Letter Ferd. The peace of love attend the sweet Violanta Read for the sad newes I bring I do not know onely I am sworn to give you that and this Viol. Is it from Gerrard gentle Ferdinand how