that I should loue you I doe confesse you are a proper man Infor. O doe not mocke Selina let not excellence Which you are full of make you proud and scornefull I am a Gentleman though my outward part Cannot attract affection yet some haue told me Nature hath made me what she need not shame Yet looke into my heart there you shall see What you cannot despise for there you are With all your graces waiting on you there Loue hath made you a Throne to sit and rule Ore Infortunio all my thoughts obeying And honouring you as Queene passe by my outside My brest I dare compare with any man Sil. 〈…〉 can see this brest you boast of so Infor. Oh t't is an easie worke for though it be Not to be pearced by the dull eye whose beame Is spent on outward shapes there is a way To make a search into hiddenst passage I know you would not loue to please your sense A Tree that beares a ragged vnleau'd top In depth of Winter may when Summer comes Speake by his fruit he is not dead but youthfull Though once he shew'd no sap my heart 's a plant Kept downe by colder thoughts and doubtfull feares Your frownes like Winter stormes make it seeme dead But yet it is not so make it but yours And you shall see it spring and shoot forth leaues Worthy your eye and the oppressed sap Ascend to euery part to make it greene And pay your loue with fruit when Haruest comes If my affection be suspected make Experience of my loyalty by some seruice Though full of danger you shall know me better And so discerne the truth of what you see not Sil. Then you confesse your loue is cold as yet And Winter 's in you heart Infor. Mistake me not Silena for I say My heart is cold not loue Sel. And yet your loue is from your heart I le warrant Infor. Oh you are nimble to mistake My heart is cold in your displeasures onely And yet my loue is feruent for your eye Casting out beames maintaines the flame it burnes in Againe sweete Loue My heart is not mine owne 't is yours you haue it And while it naked lyes not dain'd your bosome To keepe it warme how can it be but cold In danger to be frozen blame not it You onely are in fault it hath no heate Sel. Well sir I know you haue Rethoricke but I Can without art giue you a finall answer Infor. Oh stay and thinke a while I cannot relish You should say finall sweet deliberate It doth concerne all the estate I haue I meane not dunghill treasure but my life Doth stand or fall to it if your answer be That you can loue me be it swift as lightning But if you meane to kill me and reiect My so long loue-deuotions which I haue pay'd As to an Altar stay a little longer And let me count the riches I shall lose By one poore aëry word first giue me backe That part of Infortunio that is lost Within your loue play not the Tyrant with me Sel. Y' are ouer-weake to let your passions sway you If I knew any thing I had of yours I would not doe you that iniustice sir To let it stay with me and for your loue I cannot pay it backe againe with mine Either release the debt or I shall dye in 't Your suite is fruitlesse hopelesse pardon me farewell Ant. Now by all my hopes you are to blame sister come this Gentleman deserues your loue Infortunio Sel. Brother you forget your selfe Ant. Why I doe remember I am your brother I say you must loue him Sel. Must Ant. What does that moue your spirit what are you but you may loue be not petulant y' are a baggage and not worthy of a man by heauen I now could kick her Exit Gasp. Thy tother sister was of calmer temper this a true woman Infor. Sir had not nature made you brother to her I should be angry Exit Ant. Alas poore Gentleman I doe not feele my selfe in such an humour for Hilaria and yet by this hand I loue her well enough and now I thinke on 't I promis'd her my company she has a damnable vsurious stinking wretch to her father that cannot abide me but 't is no matter this wench and I may find a place to meete in in spight of his eyes and spectacles How now Gorgon what sayes she Enter Gorgon Gorg. Sir I haue done your remembrances to Mistris Hilaria and told her you should find her comming by and by but you were best passe in some obscurity for her father Rufaldo is hard by sir Lupus in Fabula Enter Rufaldo Ant. Gasparo and thou loue me shew thy wit to entertaine this piece of blacke Dammaske and Veluet guards while I goe in to Hilaria Ruf. Old men are the truest louers young men are inconstant and wag with euery wind we neuer moue but are as true as steele Gor. But in womens matters as weake as water as weake as water Ruf. Besides sweet Loue but doe I court a shadow to see whither loue will carry a man let me see I could find in my heart to bestow a ring vpon my Sweet-heart but that I am loth to part with it hem I will get but one childe and that shall be a boy lest hauing too many children I vndoe my heire and my goods be deuided O sweet Selina O amiable Selina sure I am not old Gor. I haue it Signior Gasparo pray let me begin with my Merchant if you loue me and if you like it second me Gasp. Goe to Gorgon let 's see thy window Ruf. Old men walke with a staffe and creepe along the streets hold their heads below their girdle faulter in their speech foame at mouth and breathe ten times in a furlong and are ready to spit their lungs on euery mans threshold Gorg. God saue you sir Ruf. God a mercy honest Gorgon Gor. I crie you mercie sir I le assure you sir I tooke you for Master Rufaldo the old Merchant Ruf. Why and am not I is not the fellow drunke I am Rufaldo Gor. It may be some kin to him but not that Rufaldo I meane you are younger a faire deale Ruf. I am that Rufaldo the Merchant that buried my wife lately and haue one daughter Hilaria ancient acquaintance with Cornelio and your Master Antonio Gor. Oh sir you must excuse me for that Ruf. Is thy name Gorgon Gor. What else sir honest Gorgon I Ruf. Doe I know thee to be Gorgon what shall I be fac'd out of my selfe why thou varlet who am I if not Rufaldo Gor. Why sir 't is plaine you haue no gray haires in your head your cheeke is scarlet a wanton youthfull eye Rufaldo had a head like frost his eyes sunke into his hollows a rugged brow a hoarie beard and all his body not worth a drop of blood a very crazie old meale-mouth'd Gentleman you are younger at least by thirty yeeres Ruf. I le assure
I be Shepheard too I will liue here And haue thy company thou art like my Loue Shall we Shepheardesse Fel. With all my heart Infor. Come let 's sit downe awhile nature hath spred Her Carpets for vs here this is the lowest And yet 't is higher then a Palace pray Teach me your Shepheards life now I doe long To be a wood-man too and you shall doe A double cure vpon me Enter Gasparo and Gorgon disguised Gasp. Stay yonder are some Shepheards le ts on this banke sit downe and prattle And how long i st since your Sweet-heart forsooke you Gorg. It will be a quarter of a yeere next grasse Gasp. Alas poore Mopsa but come put him out of thy minde sing him away Gorg. Laugh and sing him to his graue shall I Gasp. And neuer loue him more Gorg. Oh no his loue like a canker hath eate such a great hole into my heart I cannot forget him but I le sing a song of him Gorgon sings a song all this while Gasp. Prethee doe Gasparo eyes Felice Infor. Here 's innocence of all sides who would liue Out of this Common-wealth where honest Swaines Are Lords and subiects Here is no acquaintance With craft and falshood all their soules are clad In true simplicity I will take a truce With care a while to talke with this poore wench Mopsa I heard you nam'd pray tell me Were you in loue Gorg. Yes forsooth Infor. With whom forsooth Gorg. With a Gentleman that has prou'd vnkind forsooth broken his vowes and oathes forsooth hee made much of me time was before his father dyed forsooth who was a good Yeoman then he kist me forsooth and coll'd surreuerence but now hee scornes Mopsa I was his equall once and haue danced with him vpon our Church greene in a Morris ere now Infor. Alas alas has forsaken thee Gorg. He is now about to commit matrimoniall businesse with a young girle I wisse Gasp. 'T is she I le haue a tricke to know it Blessings on you Shepheardesse Yet by this hand you are no lesse You were in loue with a faire man Crost by a father began This Shepheards life russet weed Is it not the truth I reed ha ha Fel. Sir are you a Fortune-teller Gasp. No I am foole and yet I know Something though you thinke not so Fel. Doe you see all this here Gasp. That and more in this table Lies your story 't is no fable Not a line within your hand But I easily vnderstand Your line of life is faire hard by Ascends that of prosperity But broken in the mid'st to th' Mount Of Saturne here which ill we count Ha Triangle and Mercuriall line But Venus is no friend of thine Infor. How now Palmistry beleeue him not Gasp. In your face your fate is wrote You lou'd a woman she not you You know whether I say true Her name began with S. but shee Shall neuer be enioyd by thee Shee s married now to one that 's old But very rich your fortune 's told Infor. Beshrew me he has cunning Sel. Doe you beleeue him sir Gorg. Beleeue him nay you may beleeue him he 's abomination cunning man he told me my fortune as right as if he had beene in my belly Shep. Does thy fortune lie in thy belly then Sweet-heart Gorg. Partly sir as other womens fortunes doe Gasp. Damsell you haue yet a fate Will make you wonder more thereat By collection I dare proue That his name whom you did loue Began with G. but 't is too true He hath slaine himselfe for you Felice faints Felice come againe doe not beleeue me I told thee false I did but trie to gaine a knowledge of thee thy starres owe thee more happinesse Felice looke vp see thy friend aliue I am Gasparo Foot I ha made faire worke Fel. Ha 't is Gasparo Gasp. Haue I found thee O wench thou wert vniust Too much vniust thus to absent thy selfe From Gasparo thy cruell father since Hath wept enough to wash away his error Fates I doe thanke you for this blest direction But Infortunio I am sorry now I read the truth of thy vnhappinesse It is too true Selina is beyond Your spheare of hope pardon worthy sir The shape I tooke was not to mocke your fortunes But trie mine owne And haue I found the wench Gorg. Oh no no your suite is in vaine hands off Shepheards 1. Shep. I will make thee amends and marry prethee sweet Mopsa beautifull Mopsa Gorg. Beauty I doe confesse I haue reasonable beauty for blacke and white for all other colours are but compounded of them but the truth is I cannot so soone forget my old loue though he hath prou'd false vnto me Mopsa will proue true vnto him oh and it were not for shame now I would die for loue Sel. Be not deiected sir you haue a fate Doth smile vpon you I haue a little skill In that this Gentleman seem'd to haue some knowledge I must needs crosse his iudgement and pronounce You are more happy Let not ought your soule annoy You that virgin shall enioy That you first lou'd who doth waite To make your wishes fortunate And ere Sun twice declines to West You may be with marriage blest Gasp. The boy is mad Infor. Doe not vndoe sweet boy the benefit Thou hast already done me thou dost vtter impossibilities Sel. Then with one Argument I can easily Take off your wonders looke on thy Selina That on the wedding morne forsooke Rufaldo Touch'd with a sense of thy indignities Thus to obscure me from all curious search And inquisition but not hoping euer To be made thine now if true loue maintaine The opinion you pretend thus in your armes I powre my selfe Infor. It is Selina Oh I am rent in pieces With ioy and wonder Gasp. Harke you sir doe not beleeue him Let not passion make you a mockery Is not Selina married to Rufaldo then am I goose-giblet I should haue bin at Church with 'em but for a crotchet that I had in my pate all the morning I spake with her father yesterday and from his mouth I heard Selina was very well I thinke I doe not dreame indeed now I call to memory hee said Selina was mist two or three houres ath ' wedding morne some figarie I know not what and Antonio as I supposed gone in quest of her not heard of since but Selina is sure Rufaldoes wife or some Deuill in her likenesse has abused them all with credulity This is true sir therefore be not easie doe not deserue more pitty this boy is mad a iuggling boy Sel. Shall I not be beleeued then for my selfe am I refused now Inf. It cannot be she troth boy thy conceit tooke me at first with much credulity but here 's our natures weaknesse apt to credit what wee affect were there not too much against it thou mightst deceiue me oh no Infortunio is giuen vp lost to all felicity Sel. Since then you put me sir to proue
thee I was Rufaldo when I rose in the morning Gor. You haue not slept since haue you Ruf. No Gor. 'T is the more strange I haue heard of some that haue beene changed in a dreame but neuer waking before this is strange nay admirable Ruf. Young chang'd art sure thou dost not mocke Gor. I were a very knaue then if you be Rufaldo I hope your worship knowes I haue beene bound to my good behauiour Ruf. Altered young ha I would I were and yet me thinks I am liuelier then I was I feele my ioynts plyable as waxe and my voyce is stronger too But tell me honest Gorgon is it possible for an old man to be young againe Gor. Nay I see you le not beleeue me well sir I will be bold to report the wonder abroad and astonish all your friends Ruf. Nay stay honest Gorgon ha young no gray haires stay who 's here Exit Gorgon Gasp. Ha! 't is not he I le speake to him no 't is in vaine I le see if he knowes me He passes by Ruf. Gasparo what does not he know me too Gasp. Sir I should know you are you not Signior Petrucchio the dancing Master Ruf. Tricks passages I am Rufaldo old Rufaldo Gasp. Rufaldo indeed is old but you are young you doe retaine his countenance I would sweare you were he but you are younger farre Ruf. 'T is so I am chang'd I am younger then I was I am that Rufaldo beleeue I know you to be a learned Gentleman nam'd Gasparo I was told afore I was altered but not to trouble you with many questions onely one Gasparo is it a thing possible for an old man to be young againe I know 't is admirable but is it possible you are a Scholler Gasp. Possible oh yes there 's no question for we see by experience Stagges cast their old hornes and proue vigorous Snakes cast off their old coates Eagles renew their age your plants doe it familiarly the Phoenix when she is old burnes herselfe to ashes from thence reuiues a young Phoenix againe Possible I haue heard some old men haue beene twice children sir therefore this not impossible Ruf. T is very strange I am not yet confident Gasp. There be receites in Physicke sir to keepe them young sauing that time runnes on a little beforehand with em yes and to make young since it is harder to make aliue when they are dead then to make young when they are aliue and Physicke doth reuiue some out of all question though not so familiarly as kill for that they doe with a little study mary I thinke if it were as gainefull to the Phisicion to restore as to destroy hee would practise the Art of recouery very faithfully Ruf. Why doe you thinke it would not proue as gainefull Gasp. Oh! by no meanes for where an old man would giue a hundred pound to haue forty or fifty yeeres wiped off the old score of his life his wife or next heire would ioyne rather then faile to out-bid him halfe on 't to put him out of debt quite and to send his old leaking vessell into mare mortuum Ruf. Well well but if I bee young I haue tooke no Physicke for 't Gasp. If nay 't is past if and and too you are certainly restor'd let me see you looke like one of foure or sixe and thirty not a minute aboue and so much a man may take you for Ruf. Well I know not what to say too 't there is some power in loue has blest me now Selina be thou gracious Gasp. Are you in loue nay the wóder is not so great who can expresse the power of Loue I haue read of a Painter named Pigmalion that made the Picture of a womā so to the life that he fell in loue with it courted it lay in bed with it and by power of Loue it became a soft-natur'd wench indeed and he begot I know not how many children of her Well sir Selina cannot choose but be mad for you Ruf. Not mad Gasparo I would be loth to be troubled with her and she be mad Gasp. Yes and shee be mad in loue there is no harme in 't she cannot be too mad in loue your Cornucopia may be abated at pleasure besides sir the best morall men say Loue it selfe is a madnesse and the madder your wife is the more sure you may be she loues you Ruf. No no I loue no madnesse on any condition for feare of being horne-mad Gasp. Why sir madnesse is not such a discredit as the age goes you know there are many mad fashions and what man but some times may be mad are not your great men mad that when they haue enough will pawne their soule for a Monopolie besides mad Lords what doe you thinke of Ladies at some time of the Moone you may spell em in their names Maddame you haue mad Courtiers that run madding after Citizens wiues the Citizens are mad too to trust em with their wares who haue beene so deepe in their wiues bookes before your Iustice of Peace is some times mad too for when he may see well enough he will suffer any man to put out his eye with a bribe some Lawyers are often starke-mad and talke wildly no man is able to endure their Tearmes Ruf. Prethee mad-cap leaue I am almost mad to heare thee Gasp. Well my old young Rufaldo if you marry Selina I shall haue a paire of gloues I hope and you le let mee dance at your wedding Ruf. That thou shalt boy and I le dance my selfe too hey Exit leaping Gasp. Farewell credulitie ha ha with what a greedinesse doe old men run out of their wits 'T was a good recreation to see with what pleasure he suffered himselfe to be guld faith Gasparo play out thy hand now thou art in me thinkes I haue an excellent appetite to make my selfe merry with the simplicity of this age let me see 't is Spring and I meane to giue my head a purgation it may beate off the remembrance of my lost Loue Felice a pox of Melancholy I will act two or three parts if I liue in spight of it and if I die then Exit Gasparo Enter Gorgon Gor. Seignior Gasparo my Master would speake with you the proiect too I met the Youth strutting like a Gentleman Vsher 't was my inuention Gasp. But I gaue it pollish Gorgon Gorg. I confesse you tooke off the rough-cast but 't was Gorgons head brought forth the proiect from my Ioues braine came this Minerua Gasp. I thinke thou art a wit Gor. Who I a wit I thought you had more wit then to make such a question all the Towne takes me for a wit here 's a pate hath crakers in 't and flashes Gasp. And thou saist the word wee le ioyne in a proiect of wit to make an Asse of the world a little it shall make vs merry if it take no other wayes wo't ioyne Gor. By this hand any proiect of wit what i st good
Hilaria and if you will not borrow money of me by this hand there lyes my sword he is a coward Hil. It appeares Bub. Hilaria is my Mistresse and if any man dare be so venturous as to blast her reputation with a foule breath he shall breathe his last Hil. 'T is very sure he shall not be immortall Bub. Or if you shall offer in my presence to defile her lip or touch her hand or kisse but the nether part of her vesture you had better kisse her in another place nay doe but blow on her Hil. You forget your selfe this is my friend Bub. Or winke at her or speake to her or make signes or thinke on her to my face and you had better keepe your thoughts to your selfe now to conclude and if you bee agrieu'd my name is Bubulcus and you lye Ant. And you lye there at h ground why should not I knocke his braines out with his owne hilts or stake him to the ground like a man that had hang'd himselfe Sirra clothes Rat of Nilus fiction monster golden Calfe oh I would kicke thee till thou hast no more braines then thy cousin Woodcocke I will not dishonour my selfe to kill thee halfe a dozen kickes will be as good as a house of correction out you Monkey Bub. Oh that I could run thee thorow body and soule I will challenge thee a pox on your toes would I had the paring of your nayles were you dumbe so long for this Ant. Hence Bub. Who look't for you when will you be here agen looke for a challenge the time may come when I will beate thee Exit Ant. Has thy father left a multitude of men to make choice of this peece of folly to be thy husband oh the blindnesse of a couetous wretched father that is led onely by the eares and in loue with sounds Nature had done wel to haue thrust him into the world without an eye that like a Mole is so affected to base earth and there meanes to dig for Paradise but come Hilaria Fathers their children and themselues abuse That wealth a husband for their daughter chuse Exeunt Enter Cornelio Rufaldo and Selina Cor. I did not thinke Rufaldo pardon me You could haue so preuail'd but if she can Plant her affection on yee I le not be Backward to call you sonne Seli. Hee does appeare With all the charmes of loue vpon his eye And not rough drawne but polisht he assumes A power 'boue all resistance Cor. An old mans Darling is a petty Queene Aboue all her desires Ruf. Nay she shall wāt nothing my wealth can purchase O my sweet Selina Cor. Rufaldo with your patience I would haue A word or two in priuate you neede not Preiudicate me Ruf. With all my heart Cor. Selina thou knowest I am thy father Sel. My duty sir shall speake it Cor. And you know whom you haue reiected Sel. Young Infortunio Cor. Aud you know what man he is with whom You meane to tye that knot nothing but Death is able to vndoe Sil. Rufaldo sir an old man Cor. Oh Selina Felice thy poore sister thou recalst To sad remembrance but heauen alas Knowes onely where she is Sel. Sir I haue often heard you talke of her But neuer knew that sister well Cor. Thou with thy vncles tendernesse wast kept Alwayes i th Countrey not vntill her losse At home with me her fate taught me to giue A liberty to thee her I restrain'd Poore wench in loue with Gasparo till betwixt Obedience to a father and the loue To him she left vs both father and friend Now to auoyd the like affliction I vowed thy freedome and thou seest I doe Not encounter thy affection with the bonds A father might enforce vpon his child Sel. I humbly thanke you Cor. But yet Selina Take heed be not too rash I haue obseru'd You want no common iudgement O doe not Precipitate thy selfe into a sorrow Shall waste thee with repentance let me tell you There is a methode when your passion 's young To keepe it in obedience you loue Rufaldo Art thou not young How will the Rose agree With a dead Hyacinth or the Honey Wood-bind Circling a withered Bryer You can apply can you submit your body To bed with Ice and Snow your blood to mingle Would you be deaf'd with coughing teach your eye How to be rumaticke Breathes he not out His body in diseases and like dust Falling all into pieces as if Nature Would make him his old graue I say too much O what are all the riches of the world To an oppressed mind which then must be Fed with despaire of change or will gold Buy off th' imprisonment nay will it not Compose the chaines that bind you to endure it Well I haue said enough keepe still your freedome And loose it where you will you shall not blame Me for your fate nor grieue me with your shame Sel. Deare father low as earth I tender you The duty of a daughter I haue heard you Not with a carelesse eare that liberty You haue bestow'd on me for which I owe All that I am doth make me confident You will not be offended if I tell you My loue is vertuous were it otherwise I should elect as you premonish youth And prodigall blood And father I thinke here I shew my selfe your daughter nor am I Without good president too how many fine Young noble Ladies in this Faiëry I le Haue matcht with reuerend age and liue as they Were borne from Natures puritie free from staine Of sensuall imputation by their Loues Deriuing heauenly honours to themselues 'Boue merit of equality Cor. No more heauens blessing and mine Light on thee sha't haue Rufaldo Sel. I would not leaue Rufaldo for a world Of rash vntemperate youth beleeue it sir Cor. Rufaldo heard you that she sayes she would not Leaue you for a world of other men Ruf. Nor I for thousand worlds forsake my Loue Come seale it with a kisse another another another Cor. As close as Cockles Ruf. Oh that we were married 't is death to stay the Ceremonies would we were a bed together Cor. 'T were time I see we were at conference To confirme all things for the marriage You being agreed I thinke we shall not differ In other circumstance and 't were sinne to let That keepe your ioyes asunder by delay Please you wee le haue some treaties Ruf. Most willingly O my bird my Chicke my Doue My America my new-found world I shall shortly Run backe into one and twenty againe Exeunt Cornelio and Rufaldo Sel. With what agility he moues himselfe As he were made of ayre let weaknes taxe Our inequality I haue a minde Can easily contemne what the worlds malice Out of its owne first guiltines can throw Vpon our loues 't shall be enough for me Thus to conuince the world of so much basenes Lodg'd in luxurious thoughts by my chast thoughts Rufaldo thou art mine all time me thinkes Is slow till we be
actually possest Of mutuall enioying Stay who 's this Enter lenkin and his Page locarello The Welshman that deliuers his affection At second hand to me Ien. Looke you Pages where our Sweet-hearts and Pigsnies be her could tell what to say to her now know her heart very well but pogs vpon her cannot aule her knowledge speake Rethoricks and Oratories and fine words to her looke you kanow better to fight and cut doublets with her Welsh glaues marke you Ioc. Sir will you loose this opportunitie you le curse your selfe in Welsh two or three dayes together for 't Ien. Sentilwoman if her knaw not her name was Ienkin borne in Wales came of pig houses prittish bloods was haue great hils and mountaines aule her owne when was get 'em againe anie was her cousins and our Countreyman was neuer conquered but alwayes haue the victories prauely haue her Armes and scushrins to know that say you was giue in her crests great deale of monsters and Dragons kille 'em with their hookes very valiantly as any Sentelman in the whole world pray you now was please you place her affections and goodwils vpon her in wayes of makemoney marke you teale plainely lenkin was loue her very honestly else pox vpon her and her will fight in her cause and quarrels long as haue any plood in her bellies and backs too marke you Sel. Sir I am bound to you for the affection You cast on me 't is farre aboue my merit Ien. Merits say you awle merits are awle banished our Countries and Nations you know dat pray you was her loue lenkin Sel. Loue you sir I know not How to be so inhumane not to loue you Your parts deserue a nobler obiect I am not Worthy so much opinion of your loue But wherein I may doe you seruice sir You shall command Selina Exit Selina Ien. Shall her was make her meanes and satisfactions warrant her or say Senkin was Sentleman of Wales say you now Pages was haue her matrimonies wedlocks very fast looke you and when was get her awse her cousins was make ioyes and gratulation for her good fortunes vpon her walsh Harpes know you dat very well Pages her feare her shall be Knighted one dayes and haue great cumulations of vrships honours and dignities too a great while agoe Ioc. And great Castles i th' aire Ien. Was giue awle our lands and craggy Tenements in Wales away to our cousin vp Iohn and liue her selfe here vpon very good fashions with our monies and mighty riches when her can get 'em Enter Infortunio Infor. How now whither so fast man thou maist get to hell by night and thou goest but an Aldermans pace Ien. By Cats blood her will goe to the Deuill and her list what is that to her Infor. Cry you mercy your name is Master lenkin Ien. And what haue her to say to Master lenkin lenkin is as good names as her owne pray you was good Sentle man as her selfe know very well say you now Infor. Godboy sir Ien. Boyes does her call her boyes harke you her her name is lenkin her be no boyes no shildren Infor. I will not be vsed so Ien. Her shall be vs'd worse and her call lenkin boyes was knocke as tall a man as herselfe an welsh plood be vp looke you Infor. Can she loue Rufaldo 't is impossible Ien. Piple pables 't is very possible Infor. His body has more diseases then an Hospitall an hunger-staru'd Rascall Ien. Raskals sheshu was neuer such names and appellations put vpon her awle her dayes Becar her will make you eate vp awle her words and ignominies or her plade shall make holes in your bellies diggon Infor. A very puffe a weake Canniball Ien. Hey puffe and Cannibals if the Deuill be in your mouthes her will picke your teeths with her welsh plade and pay you for all your puffes Cannibals warrant her Infor. But 't is her fault aloue impudent woman Oh may you like Narcissus perish by Your face the fall of others or vnpityed Of heauen and earth dye loathsome I could curse Ien. Her can curse and sweare too looke you now Infor. Pardon diuinest sexe passions doe force My reason from me I doe submit Craue pardon as your creature Ien. Nay and her craue pardons and make submissions lenkin was put vp awle her angers and indignations farewell Exit cum locarello Infor. Oh Selina Thou art too much an Adamant To draw my soule vnto thee either be Softer or lesse attractiue but Rufaldo 'T is depth of witchcraft oh I could be mad Beyond all patience mad it is some malice Hath laid this poyson on her Enter Gorgon with a letter Gor. Here 's Infortunio Alas poore Gentleman little does he thinke what blacke and white is here a bitter handfull of commendations to him my young Mistris is mad of the old Cockscombe and will marry him almost without asking I cannot tell but if shee doe not cuckold him and make him crye cornes on his toes ere he dye he has fooles fortune for a wise man would be out of hope to auoyd it he spies me Inf. Whither running Gorgon Gorg. Not out of my wit Sir I haue a Letter from my yong Mistris Selina must in all haste haue cleanely conueyance to old Rufaldo Inf. Let me but see the directions To my beloued friend Master Rufaldo 't is a lye she was mistaken it was I should owe this appellation I le not beleeue the superscription 't is a painted face I 'de see the heart on 't Gorg. I hope sir you will not throw open the sheet and discouer my Mistris secrets How he stares Inf. If you loue me and wish me constant be your owne friend and let our marriage day begin with the next morning thine mine Oh Selina she 's mad All woman-kinde is mad and I am mad whom shall I rend in pieces for my wrongs and as with Atomes fill this poysned ayre Rufaldo Stay is not she a creature rationall oh no there is no sparke of nature in her all is sunke lost for euer stay stay see Gorg. He has made a Taylors bill on 't torn 't apieces ere it be discharg'd What shall I doe Inf. This is Medias brother torne in pieces And this the way where she with Iason flies Tom Colchos come not neere 'em see looke That 's an arme rent off Gorg. This Inf. And the hand beckens vs To cry out murder Gorg. I le but hold it by the hand Inf. That 's a leg o' th boy Gorg. This sir a leg it shall goe with me then Inf. There there 't is head and yellow curled locks His eyes are full of teares now they doe stare To see where all his other members lye Gorg. So I haue all his quarters I le presently sir get poles for 'em and hang 'em vpon the Gates in their postures for you Exit Inf. But she and Iason are both slipt and Argos is Sayling home to Greece see how
the waues Doe tosse the Vessell and the windes conspire To dash it 'gainst a Rocke it rides vpon A watery mountaine and is hid in cloudes It cannot stay there now now it tumbles Three fatham beneath Hell let 'em goe Here comes the Father of Medea now Calling in vaine vnto the gods and spies His Sonnes limbes throwne about in stead of flowers To his Daughters nuptials he does take 'em vp He knowes the face and now he teares his haire And raues and cryes Medea poore old man Command a funerall pile for thy yong Childe And lay the pretty limbs on from whose ashes Shalt haue another Sonne i' th shape of Phoenix Shall I excellent Prepare a fire All of sweet wood for my sweet boy a fire a fire Exit Actus tertius Scena prima Enter Rufaldo Ruf. 'T is now early day fie what a long night hath this beene the Sunne went drunke to bed the last night and could not see to rise this morning I could hardly winke I am sure loue kept me waking and the expectation of this my wedding day did so caper in my braines I thought of nothing but dancing the shaking of the sheets with my sweet-heart It is certaine I am yong euery body now tels me so it did appeare by Selina's consenting so soone to loue for when I had but broke the Ice of my affection shee fell ouer head and eares in loue with me was euer man so happy as I am I doe feele I doe feele my yeeres fall off as the raine from a man that comes dropping in I doe feele my selfe euery day grow yonger and yonger still let me see an hundred yeeres hence if I liue to 't I shall be new out of my teenes and running into yeeres of discretion agen Well I will now to Master Cornelios and bid 'em good morrow with a noise of Musicions and to see the very talking of musicke how my heart leapes and dances at my wedding already I haue bespoke the Parson to marry vs and haue promised a double fee for expedition O now I am so proud of my Ioy my feete doe not know what ground they stand on Exit Enter Ienkin and Iocarello Ien. Ienkin has risen very early this mornings and beene in studies and contemplations to make ditties and verses vpon her Mistris beauties and pulchritudes but the Deuil 's sure in these Poetries they call it Furies and Raptures look you but Ienkins pate is almost mad and yet her cannot awle her inuentions meete with these Furies and Raptures Enter Selina in Shepheards weedes Sel. Thus farre I haue past without discouery the morning is auspicious to my flight Selina what an alteration hath a day made in thee that to preuent thy so desired marriage thou art thus lost in a masculine habit and dost flie him thou didst so much loue aged Rufaldo in what a Lethargy wert thou falne Selina Ien. Iocarello does her not name Selina 't is no very good manners to make interruptions her will heare more looke you Sel. Whither had reason so withdrawne it selfe I could not make distinction of a man From such a heape of age aches and rheume Sure I was mad and doth encrease my fury To thinke with what a violence I ran To imbrace such rottennesse O my guilty soule Doth feele the punishment of the iniury I did to Infortunio of late Of whom as I despaire so shall the world Euer to know againe haplesse Selina This is the morne the sacred Rites should tie Me to Rufaldo ripe in expectation But like Ixion he shall graspe a Cloud My empty cloathes at home Selina thus Is turn'd a Shepheard and will try her fortune Hard by the Shepheards haue their shady dwellings There let Selina end her haplesse daies Father and all farewell Thus as Felice My other Sister I le weare out my life Farre from your knowledge sacred loue commands Reuenge and iustice for my cruelty And reson now awak'd shall lead me to it Thus I am safe I goe to finde out that Will meete me euery where a iust sad fate Exit Ien. Pages haue her seene treames and apparitions hark you was Selina turn'd Shepheardesse pray you Ioc. Either we dreame or this was Selina your Mistris that is turn'd into breeches and become a Shepheard the case is altered Ien. What a teuill is in the matters businesses pray you cases neuer was knowen such cases and alterations in awle her life womans neuer weare preeches in Wales 't is not possible we are awle in treames and visions very treames and visions Ioc. Sure we are awle awak'd sir and it was Selina did she not say she would obscure her selfe from her Fathers knowledge and liue among the Shepheards hard by Ien. It may be but it is very impossible Enter Cornelio Rufaldo Antonio Hillaria Cor. I am amaz'd when was she seene Ant. Not to day sir I haue searcht her Chamber and almost turn'd it out ath ' window but no Selina Ruf. It is very strange is not your man Gorgon come back Cor. What should this meane it is a strange absence ath ' wedding day too Ruf. That angers me most sir Cor. My heart misgiues me some fatall accident vpon my life is hapned to her Enter a Seruant Ruf. Hast thou happy newes Ser. I haue traueiled all the Towne o're and can meete no intelligence of her Cor. Be dumbe night-Rauen she 's lost she 's lost The Fates sure make conspiracy to take My Daughters from me one I lost because I would not giue her and I haue repented Full iustice for it and am I so vnhappy To lose Selina too but I le not sleepe Vntill I finde her either aliue or dead Rufaldo you haue interest in this sorrow Ioine in the inquisition Oh my Girle Selina Exit Ruf. Haue I beene yong for this if I finde her not I will run I will run I will run mad mad Exit Ant. No more I know where her clothes be if it take applaud my inuention I haue coozned my owne Father before now and I will try new conclusions but I must haue thy assistance and secresie if my Sister haue a conceit of mirth to put vpon vs I may chance put her to proue her selfe Selina or remoue her with a Habeas corpus Exeunt Antonio Hillaria Ien. Iocarelloes awle is true Selina is gone in Shepheards vestiments to the woods Forrests but her wil make trauels and ambulations after her neuer was Sentilman i th' hole world loue as Ienkin now to make iourneyes peregrinations for a womans looke you but if her finde her as know her very well her will there make awle sure works and performances warrant you Pages here is moneyes pray you make prouisions of breads and victuals too know vds are very bare places and Shenkin was alwaies haue cud stomacks and appetites looke you pray you doe pray you doe Exeunt COMPLEMENT-SCHOOLE Enter Gasparo habited punctually Master of the Schoole and Gorgon his Vsher Gasp. Be