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A06177	Cupids reuenge As it hath beene diuers times acted by the Children of her Maiesties Reuels. By Iohn Fletcher	Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.; Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. aut; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.	1615 (1615)	STC 1667; ESTC S101156	44,739	83

life lyes in your word If you break that you haue broke my hart I must aske That 's my shame and your will must not deny mee Now for Heauen be not for sworne Leon: By the Gods I will not I cannot were there no other power Then my loue calld to a witnes of it Dori: They haue much reason to trust You haue for sworn one of em out o th coutrey already Hida: Then this is my request This Gent Bee not ashamd Syr You are worth a Kingdome Leon: In what Hida: In way of marriage Leon: How Hidas. In way of Marriage it must be so Your Oath is tyde to heauen as my loue to him Leon. I know thou doest but trie my Age Come aske againe Hidas: If I should aske all my life time this is all still Syr I am serious I must haue this worthy man without enquyring why and suddenly and freely Doe not looke for reason or obedience in my words My Loue admits no wisedome Onely hast and hope hangs on my furie Speake Syr speake but not as a Father I am deafe and dull to counsell my inflamed bloud Heares nothing but my will For Gods sake speake Dori: Here 's a braue alteration Nis: This comes of Chastitie Hida: Will not you speake Syr Age. The God begins his vengeance what a sweet youth he has sent vs here with a pudding in s belly Leon. O let me neuer speake Or with my words let me speake out my life Thou power abusde great Loue whose vengence now we feele and feare haue mercie on this Land Nis: How does your Grace Leon. Sicke very sicke I hope Dori: Gods comfort you Hida. Will not you speake Is this your royall word Doe not pull periurie vpon your soule Syr you are olde and neere your punishment remember Leon. Away base woman Hida. Then be no more my Father but a plague I am bound to pray against bee any sinne May force mee to dispaire and hang my selfe Bee thy name neuer more remembred King But in example of a broken Faith And curst euen to forgetfulnes May thy Land bring forth such Monsters as thy daughter is I am weary of my rage I pray forgiue mee And let mee haue him will you Noble Syr Leon. Mercie mercie heauen Thou heire of all dishonour shamest thou not to draw This little moysture left for life thus rudely from mee Carry that Slaue to death Zoilus For Heauens sake Syr it is no fault of mine That shee will loue mee Leon. To death with him I say Hida: Then make hast Tyrant or I le be for him This is the way to Hell Leon. Hold fast I charge you away with him Hida. Alas old man Death hath more dores thē one And will meete him Exit Hidas Leon. Dorialus Pray see her in her Chamber And lay a guard about her The greatest curse the Gods lay on our frailties Is will and disobedience in our Issues Which wee beget as well as them to plague vs With our fond loues Beasts you are onely blest That haue that happy dulnesse to forget What you haue made your young ones grieue not you They wander where they list and haue theyr wayes Without dishonor to you and their ends Fall on em without sorrow of their parents Or after ill remembrance Oh this Woman Would I had made my selfe a Sepulcher When I made her Nephew where is the prince Pray God hee haue not more part of her basenesse Then of her bloud about him Gent where is hee Ism. I know not Syr Has his wayes by him selfe is too wise for my companie Leon. I doe not like this hiding of him selfe From such societie as his person Some of it yee needs must know Ismenus I am sure not I nor haue knowne twice this ten dayes which if I were as proude as some of em I should take scuruily but hee is a young man Let him haue his swinge t will make him Timantus whispers to the Duke There 's some good matter now in hand How the slaue geers and grinnes the Duke is pleasde There 's a newe paire of Scarlet Hose now and as much Money to spare as will fetch the old from pawne a Hat and a Cloake to goe out to morrow Garters and stockings come by nature Leon. Bee sure of this Tima. I durst not speake else Syr Actus secundus Scoena prima Cornetts discend Cupid Cupid Leucippus thou art shot through with a shaft That will not rankle long yet sharpe enough To sowe a world of helpelesse miserie In this happie Kingdome doest thou thinke Because thou art a prince to make a part Against my power but it is all the fault Of thy old Father who belieues his Age Is colde enough to quench my burning Darts But hee shall know ere long that my smart loose Can thawe Ice and inflame the witherd hart Of Nestor thou thy selfe art lightly stroke But his madde loue shall publish that the rage Of Cupid has the power to conquer Age Exit Enter Bacha Leucippus Bacha A handkercheffe Leu. Why what 's the matter Bach. Haue you got the spoyle You thirsted for O tyrannie of men Lenc I pray thee leaue Bach. Your enuie is Heauen knowes Beyond the reach of all our feeble Sexe What paine alas could it haue bene to you If I had kept mine honour you might still Haue bene a prince and still this Countreyes Heyre That innocent Guard which I till now had kept For my defence my vertue did it seeme So dangerous in a State that your selfe came to suppresse it Leuc. Drie thine eyes again I le kisse thy teares away This is but follie t is past all helpe Bac. Now you haue wonne the treasure T is my request that you would leaue mee thus And neuer see these empty walles againe I know you will doe so and well you may For there is nothing in em that 's worth A glaunce I loath my selfe and am become Another woman One me thinkes with whome I want acquaintance Leu. If I doe offend thee I can be gone And though I loue thy sight so highly do I prize thine owne content that I will leaue thee Leu. Nay you may stay now You should haue gone before I know not now Why I should feare you All I should haue kept Is stolne Nor is it in the power of man To robbe me farther if you can inuent Spare not No naked man feares robbing lesse Then you doe now you may for euer stay Leuc. Why I could doe thee farther wrong Bac. You haue a deeper reach in euill then I T is past my thought Leu. And past my will to act but trust mee I could doe it Bac. Good Syr doe that I may knowe there is a Wrong beyond what you haue done mee Leuc. I could tell the world what thou hast done Bac: Yes you may tell the world And doe you thinke I am so vaine to hope You will not you can tell the world but this That I am a widdow

CVPIDS REVENGE As it hath beene diuers times Acted by the Children of her Maiesties Reuels ¶ By Iohn Fletcher LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede for Iohas Harison and are to bee solde at the Golden Anker in Pater-Noster-Row 1615 The Printer to the Reader IT is a custome vsed by some Writers in this Age to Dedicate their Playes to worthy persons as well as their other works and there is reason for it because they are the best Mineruaes of their braine and expresse more puritie of conceit in the ingenious circle of an Actor Scaene then is to be found in the vast circumference of larger Volumnes and therefore worthy an answerable Mecoenas to honour and bee honoured by them But not bauing any such Epistle from the Authour in regard I am not acquainted with him I haue made bilde my selfe without his consent to dedicate this Play to the Iuditious in generall of what degree soeuer not insinuating herein with any he they neuer so great that want iudgement for to them it belongs not though they pay for it more then in this respect that like AEsops Cocke hauing met with a precious Stone by accident they knew not the true vse thereof but had rather haue a Barlie-corne to their humour then a perfect Diamond But leauing them to their ignorance I once againe dedicate this Booke to the Iuditious some where of I haue heard commend it to be excellent who because they saw it Acted and knew what they spake are the better to be beleeued and for my part I censure it thus That I neuer red a better CVPIDS REVENG ¶ Act. pri Sceana pri Enter Dorialus Agenor Nisus Agenor TRust me my Lord Dorialus I had mist of this if you had not call'd me I thought the Princesses birth day had beene to morrow Nisus Why did your Lordship sleepe out the day Dor. I maruell what the Duke meant to make such an idle vow Nis. Idle why Dor. Is 't not idle to sweare to graunt his Daughter any thing she shall aske on her byrth day she may aske an impossible thing and I pray heauen she doe not aske an vnfit thing at one time or other t is dangerous trusting a mans vow vpon the discretion on 's daughter Age. I wonder most at the Marquesse her brother who is alwaies vehemently forward to haue her desires graunted Dor. Hee 's acquainted with 'em before Age. Shee 's doubtlesse very chaste and vertuous Dor. So is Leucippus her Brother Nis. Shee 's twenty yeere old I wonder She aske not a Husband Dor. That were a folly in her hauing refus'd all the Great Princes in one part of the world Shee le dye a Maide Age. Shee may aske but one may she Nis. A hundred times this day if shee will And indeed euery day is such a day for though The Duke has vow'd it onely on this day He keepes it euery day he can deny Her nothing Cornets Enter Hidaspes Leucippus Leontius Timantus Tellamon Leon. Come fayre Hidaspes thou art Dutchesse to day Art thou prepard to aske thou knowest My oath will force performance And Leucippus if she now aske ought that shall Or would haue performance After my death when by the helpe of heauen This Land is thine accursed be thy race May every one forget thou art my sonne And so their owne obedience Leuci. Mightie Sir I doe not wish to know that fatall houre That is to make me King but if I doe I shall most hastily and like a sonne Performe your graunts to all chiefely to her Remember that you aske what wee Agreed vpon Leon. Are you prepard then speake Hida. Most Royall Sir I am prepard Nor shall my will exceede a Virgins bounds What I request shall both at once bring Me a full content Leon. So it euer does Thou onely comfort of my feeble age Make knowne thy good desire For I dare sweare thou lou'st me Hidas. This is it I begge And on my knees The people of your Land The Lycians are through all the Nations That know their name noted to haue in vse A vaine and fruitlesse Superstition So much more hatefull that it beares the shew Of true Religion and is nothing else But a selfe-pleasing bold lasciuiousnes Leon. What is it Hidas. Many Ages before this When euery man got to himselfe a Trade And was laborious in that chosen course Hating an idle life farre worse then death Some one that gaue himselfe to wine and sloth Which breed lasciuious thoughts And found himselfe conioynd For that by euery painefull man To take his staine away framde to himselfe A god whom he pretented to obey In being thus dishonest for a name He call'd him Cupid This created god Mans nature being euer credulous Of any vice that takes part with his blood Had ready followers enow and since In euery age they grew especially Amongst your Subiects who doe yet remaine Adorers of that drowsie Deitie Which drinke inuented and the winged Boy For so they call him has his sacrifices These loose naked statutes through the Land And in euery Village nay the palace Is not free from 'em This is my request That these erected obsceane Images May be pluckt downe and burnt and euery man That offers to 'em any sacrifice may lose his life Leon. But be aduis'd my fayrest daughter if he be A god he will expresse it vpon thee my childe Which heauen auert Leucip. There is no such power But the opinion of him fills the Land With lustfull sinnes euery young man and mayd That feele the least desire to one another Dare not suppresse it for they thinke it is Blinde Cupids motion and he is a god Leon. This makes our youth vnchaste I am resolu'd Nephew Ismenus breake the Statues downe Here in the palace and command the Citie Doe the like let proclamations Be drawne and hastily sent through the Land To the same purpose Ismen. Sir I will breake downe none my selfe But I will deliuer your command Hand I will haue none in t for I like it not Leon. Goe and command it Pleasure of my life Wouldst thou ought else Make many thousand suits They must and shall be graunted Hid. Nothing else Ezit Ismenus Leon. But goe and meditate on other suites Some sixe daies hence I le giue thee audience againe And by a new oath binde my selfe to keepe it Aske largely for thy selfe dearer then life In whom I may be bold to call my selfe More fortunate then any in my age I will deny thee nothing Leu. T was well done Sister Exeunt all but these three Lords Nis. How like you this request my Lords Dor. I know not yet I am so full of wonder We shall be gods our selues shortly And we pull 'em out of heauen o'th is fashion Age. We shall haue wenches now when we can Catch 'em and we transgresse thus Nis. And we abuse the gods once t is a Iustice We should be held at hard meate for my part I le eene make ready for mine owne

full of teares in shewe My Husband dead And one that lou'd mee so Hardly a weeke forgot my modestie And caught with youth and greatnesse Gaue my selfe to liue in sinne with you This you may tell And this I doe deserue Leuc. Why doest thou thinke mee so base to tell These limmes of mine shall part From one another on a wracke Ere I disclose But thou doest vtter words That much afflict mee you did seeme as ready Sweete Bacha as my selfe Bac. You are right a man when they haue witcht vs into miserie poore innocent soules They lay the fault on vs But bee it so For prince Leucippus sake I will beare anything Leu. Come weepe no more I wrought thee to it it was my fault Nay see if thou wilt leaue Here take this pearle Kisse me sweete Bacha and receiuet this purse Bac. What should I doe with these they will not decke my minde Leu Why keepe em to remember mee I must be gone I haue bene absent long I know the Duke my Father is in rage But I will see thee suddenly againe Farewell my Bacha Bach Gods keepe you Do you heare Syr pray giue me a point to weare Leuc. Alas good Bacha take one I pray thee where thou wilt Bac. Comming from you This point is of as high Esteeme with mee as all pearle and golde nothing but good bee euer with or neere you Leuc. Fare thee well mine owne good Bacha I will make all haste Exit Bac. Iust as you are a Dosen I esteeme you No more does he thinke I would prostitute My selfe for loue it was the loue of these pearles And golde that wanne mee I confesse I lust more after him then any other And would at any rate if I had store Purchase his fellowship but being poore I le both enjoy his bodie and his purse And hee a Prince nere thinke my selfe the worse Enter Leontius Leucippus Ismenus Timantus Leon. Nay you must backe and shew vs what it is That witches you out of your Honour thus Bac. Whos 's that Tima. Looke there Syr Leon. Lady neuer flye you are betrayde Bach. Leaue mee my teares a while And to my iust rage giue a little place What saucy man are you that without leaue Enter vpon a Widdowes mournefull house You hinder a dead man from many teares Who did deserue more then the world can shed Though they should weepe themselues to Images If not for of mee yet of your selfe A way for you can bring no comfort to mee But you may carry hence you know not what Nay sorrow is infectious Leon. Thou thy selfe Art growne infectious woulst thou know my name I am the Duke father to this young man Whom thou corruptst Bach. Has he then told him all Leuc. You doe her wrong Sir Bach. O he has not told Sir I beseech you pardon My wild tongue directed by a weak distempord head madded with griefe Alas I did not know You were my Soueraigne but now you may Command my poore vnworthy life Which will be none I hope ere long Le. All thy dissembling will neuer hide thy shame And wert not more respecting Woman-hood in Generall then any thing in thee thou shouldst Be made such an example that posteritie When they wou'd speake most bitterly should say Thou art as impudent as Bacha was Bach. Sir though you be my King whom I will Serue in all iust causes yet when wrongfully You seeke to take mine Honour I will rise Thus and defie you for it is a Iewell Dearer then you can giue which whilst I keepe Though in this lowly house I shall esteeme My selfe aboue the Princes of the earth That are without it If the Prince your sonne Whom you accuse me with know how to speake Dishonour of me if he doe not doe it The plagues of hell light on him may he neuer Gouerne this Kingdome here I chalenge him Before the face of heauen my Liege and these To speake the worst he can if he will lye To lose a womans fame I le say he is Like you I thinke I cannot call him worse Hee 's dead that with his life would haue defended My reputation and I forc't to play That which I am the foolish woman And vse my liberall tongue Leu. Is 't possible we men are children in our Carriages compard with women wake thy selfe For shame and leaue not her whose honour thou Shou'dst keepe safe as thine own alone to free her self But I am prest I know not how with guilt And feele my conscience neuer vs'd to lye Loth to allow my tongue to adde a lye To that too much I did but it is lawfull To defend her that onely for my loue lou'd euill Leon. Tell me why did you Leuc. stay here so long Leuc. If I can vrge ought from me but a truth hell Take me Leon. What 's the matter why speake you not Tima. Alas good Sir forbeare To vrge the Prince you see his shamefastnes Bac. What does he say Sir if you be a Prince Shew it and tell the truth Isme. If you haue layne with her tell your Father No doubt he has done as ill before now The Gentlewoman will be proud on t Bac. For Gods sake speake Leu. Haue you done prating yet Isme. Who prates Leu Thou knowst I do not speake to thee Ismenus But what said you Tima concerning my shamefastnes Tima. Nothing I hope that might displease your Highnes Leu. If any of thy great Great-grandmothers This thousand yeeres had beene as chaste as she It wou'd haue made thee honester I stayd To heare what you wou'd say she is by heauen Of the most strict and blamelesse chastitie That euer woman was good gods forgiue me Had Tarquin met with her she had beene kild With a Slaue by her ere she had agreed I lye with her wou'd I might perish then Our Mothers whom we all must reuerence Could nere exceede her for her chastitie Vpon my soule for by this light shee 's A most obstinate modest creature Leon. What did you with her then so long Leucip Leu. I le tell you Sir You see shee 's beautifull Leon. I see it well Leu. Moou'd by her face I came with lustfull thoughts Which was a fault in me But telling truth something more pardonable And for the world I will not lye to you Proud of my selfe I thought a Princes name Had power to blow 'em downe flat of their backs But here I found a Rocke not to be shooke For as I hope for good Sir all the battery That I could lay to her or of my person My greatnes or gold could nothing mooue her Leon. T is very strange being so young and fayre Leu. Shee 's almost thirtie Sir Leon. How doe you know her age so iust Leu. She told it me her selfe Once when she went about to shew by reason I should leaue wooing her Leon. She staines the ripest Virgins of the age Leu. If I had sinn'd with her I would be loth To publish her