sweare point-blanck and the Boy surely I ever said was to any mans thinking a very Chrisome in the thing you wot that 's my opinion clearely Cla. What a wise goose-cap hast thou shew'd thy self Sec. Here in my fore-head it sticks and stick it shall law I will have I will never more tumble in sheets with thee I will father no mis-begotten of thine the Court shall trounce thee the Citie casheere thee diseases devoure thee and the Spittle confound thee Exit Cast. The man ha's dream'd himselfe into a lunacie Sil. Alas poore Nitido Nit. Truely I am innocent Mor. Marry art thou so thou art the World sayes how vertuously I have carried my good name in every part about me these threescore yeares and odde and at last to slip with a child there are men men enough tough and lustie I hope if one would give their mind to the iniquitie of the flesh but this is the life I ha' led with him a while since when a lies by me as cold as a dry stone Troy This onely Ladies is a fit of noveltie All will be reconcil'd I doubt Spadone Here is your hand in this how ere deny'd Spa. Faithfully in truth forsooth Troy Well well enough Morosa be lesse troubled This little jarre is argument of loue It will prove lasting Beauties I attend yee Ex. Troy La. Spa. Youngling a word youngling have not you scap'd the lash hansomly thanke me for 't Nit. I feare thy roguery and I shall finde it Spa. I st possible give me thy little fist we are friends have a care henceforth remember this whilst you live And still the Vrehin would but could not doe Pretty knave and so forth Come truce on all hands Nit. Beshrew your fooles head this was jeast in earnest Exeunt Enter ROMANELLO Rom. I will converse with beasts there is in mankinde No sound society but in woman blesse me Nor faith nor reason I may justly wonder What trust was in my Mother Enter a Servant Ser. A Caroch sir Stand at the Gate Rom. Stand let it still and freeze there Make sure the socks Ser. Too late you are prevented Enter Flavia Camilla and Vespuci Fla. Brother I come Rom. Vnlookt for I but sojourne My selfe I keepe nor house nor entertainments French Cookes compos'd Italian Collations Rich Persian surfets with a traine of services Befitting exquisite Ladies such as you are Perfume not our low Roofes the way lies open That there Good day great Madam Fla. Why d' yee slight me For what one act of mine even from my Childhood Which may deliver my deserts inferiour Or to our Births or Familie is Nature Become in your contempt of me a Monster Ves. What 's this Camillo Cam. Not the straine in ordinary Rom. I 'm out of tune to chop discourses however You are a Woman Fla. Pensive and unfortunate Wanting a Brothers bosome to dis-burthen More griefs then female weaknesse can keep league with Let worst of malice voye'd in loud report Spit what le dares invent against my actions And it shall never find a power to blemish My mention other then beseemes a patient I not repine at lownesses and the Fortunes Which I attend on now are as I value them No new creation to a looser liberty Your strangenes only may beget a change In wild opinion Cam. Heere 's another tang of sence Vespuci Ves. Listen and observe Rom. Are not you pray ye nay wee 'l be contented In presence of your Vshers once to prattle Some idle minutes are you not inthroan'd The Ladie Regent by whose speciall influence Iulie the Count of Camerine is order'd Fla. His Wife 't is knowne I am and in that title Obedient to a service else of greatnesse The quiet of my wish was nere ambitious Rom. Hee loues you Fla. As worthily as dearely Rom. And 't is beleev'd how practice quickly fashion'd A port of humorous anticknesse in carriage Discourse demeanour gestures Cam. Put home roundly Ves. A ward for that blow Fla. Safety of mine Honor Instructed such deceit Rom. Your Honour Fla. Witnesse This brace of sprightly Gallants whose confederacie Presum'd to plot a siege Cam. Ves. Wee Madam I Rom. On on Some leysure serves us now Fla. Still as Lord Iulio Pursu'd his Contract with the man oh pardon If I forget to name him by whose poverty Of honest truth I was renounc'd in Marriage These two intrusted for a secret Courtship By tokens letters message in their turnes Profferd their owne devotions as they term'd them Almost unto an impudence regardlesse Of him on whose supportance they relyed Rom. Dare not for both your lives to interrupt her Fla. Bayted thus to vexation I assum'd A dulnesse of simplicity till afterwards Lost to my Citie Freedome and now enter'd Into this present state of my Condition Concluding henceforth absolute security From their lascivious Villanies I continued My former custome of ridiculous lightnesse As they did their pursuit t' acquaint my Lord were T' have ruin'd their best certainty of living But that might yeeld suspition in my nature And woman may be vertuous without mischiefe To such as tempt them Rom. You are much to blame sirs Should all be truth is utterd Fla. For that Justice I did command them hither for a privacie In conference 'twixt Flavia and her brother Needed no Secretaries such as these are Now Romanello thou art every refuge I slie for right to if I be thy Sister And not a Bastard answer their confession Or threaten vengeance with perpetuall silence Cam. My follies are acknowledg'd y' are a Lady Who have outdone example when I trespasse In ought but duty and respects of service May hopes of ioyes forsake me Ves. To like pennance I joyne a constant votarie Rom. Peace then Is ratified my Sister thou hast waken'd Intranc'd affection from its steepe to knowledge Of once more who thou art no jealous frenzie Shall hazard a distrust reigne in thy sweetnes Thou onely worthy Woman these two Converts Record our hearty vnion I have shooke off My thraldome Lady and have made discoveries Of famous Novels but of those hereafter Thus wee seale love you shall know all and wonder Enter LIVIO Liv. Health and his hearts desire to Romanello My welcome I bring with me noblest Lady Excuse an ignorance of your faire presence This may be bold intrusion Fla. Not by me Sir Rom. You are not frequent here as I remember But since you bring your welcome with you Livio Be bold to use it to the point Liv. This Lady With both these Gentlemen in happie houre May be partakers of the long liv'd amity Our soules must liuke in Rom. So belike the Marquesse Stores some new grace some speciall close employment For whom your kind commends by deputation Please thinke on to oblige and Livio's charity Descends on Romanello liberally above my means to thank Liv. Siena sometimes Has beene inform'd how gladly there did passe A treatie of chast loves with Castamela From this good heart it was in me
an error Wilfull and causelesse 't is confest that hinder'd Such honourable prosecution Even and equall better thoughts consider How much I wrong'd the gentle course which led yee To vowes of true affection us of friendship Rom. Sits the wind there boy leaving formall circumstance proceed you dally yet Liv. Then without plea For countenancing what has beene injurious On my part I am come to tender really My Sister a lou'd Wife t'yee freely take her Right honest man and as yee live together May your encrease of yeares prove but one spring One lasting flourishing youth she is your owne My hands shall perfect what 's requir'd to ceremony Fla. Brother this day was meant a holyday For feast on every side Rom. The new-turn'd Courtier Proffers most franckly but withall leaves out A due consideration of the narrownesse Our short estate is bounded in some Politicks As they rise vp like Livio to perfection In their owne competencies gather also Grave supplement of providence and wisedome Yet he abates in his you use a triumph In your advantages it smels of state We know you are no foole Fla. Sooth I beleeve him Cam. Else 't were imposture Ves. Folly ranck and sence lesse Liv. Enjoyne an oath at large Rom. Since you meane earnest Receive in satisfaction I am resolv'd For single life there was a time was Livio When indiscretion blinded forecast in me But recollection with your rules of thriftinesse Prevaild against all passion Liv. You 'd be courted Courtship 's the childe of coynesse Romanello And for the Rules 't is possible to name them Rom. A single life 's no burthen but to draw In yoakes is chargeable and doth require A double maintenance Livios very words For he can live without a wife and purchase By 'r Lady so you doe Sir send you joy on 't These rules you see are possible and answer'd Liv. Full answer was late mate to this already My Sister 's onely thine Rom. Where lives the Creature Your pitty stoopes to pin upon your servant Not in a Nunn'ry for a yeares probation Fie on such coldnes there are BOVVRDS OF FANCIES Ravish'd from troops of Fairy Nymphs and Virgins Cul'd from the downie breasts of Queenes their Mothers In the Titanian Empire far from Mortals But these are tales troth I have quite abandoned All loving humour Liv. Heere is scorne in Riddles Rom. Were there another Marquesse in Sienna More potent then the same who is vice-gerent To the great Duke of Florence our grand Master Were the great Duke himselfe here and would lift up My head to fellow pompe amongst his Nobles By falshood to the honour of a Sister Vrging me instrument in his Seraglio I de teare the Wardrobe of an outside from him Rather then live a Pandar to his bribery Liv. So would the hee you talke to Romanello Without a noise that 's singular Rom. Shee s a Countesse Flavia shee but she has an Earle her Husband Though farre from our procurement Liv. Castamela Is refus'd then Rom. Never design'd my Choyce You know and I know Livio more I tell thee A noble honestie ought to give allowance When reason intercedes by all that 's manly I range not in derision but compassion Liv. Intelligence flies swiftly Rom. Pretty swiftly We have compar'd the Copie with the Originall And finde no disagreement Liv. So my Sister Can be no wife for Romanello Rom. No no One noe once more and ever this your courtesie Foild me a second Sir you brought a welcome You must not part without it scan with pittie My plainnesse I intend nor gall nor quarrell Liv. Far bee 't from me to presse a blame great Lady I kisse your noble hands and to these Gentlemen Present a civill parting Romanello By the next foot-Post thou wilt heare some newes Of alteration if I send come to me Rom. Questionlesse yea Liv. My thanks may quit the favor Exit Fla. Brother his intercourse of conference Appeares at once perplext but withall sensible Rom. Doubts easily resolv'd upon your vertues The whole foundation of my peace is grounded I le guard yee to your home lost in one comfort Heere I have found another Fla. Goodnesse prosper it Exeunt ACT. V. Enter OCTAVIO TROYLO SECCO and NITIDO Oct. NO more of these complaints and clamors Have we nor enemies abroad Nor waking Sycophants Who peering through our actions wait occasion By which they watch to lay advantage open To vulgar descant but amongst our selves Some whom we call our owne must practise scandall Out of a libertie of ease and fulnesse Against our honour we shall quickly order Strange reformation Sirs and you will finde it Troy When Servants servants slaves once relish license Of good opinion from a noble nature They take upon them boldnesse to abuse Such interest and Lord it ore their fellowes As if they were exempt from that condition Oct. He is unfit to mannage publique matters Who knowes not how to rule at home his hoshould You must be jealous puppie of a Boy too Raise uprores bandie noise amongst young Maidens Keepe revels in your madnesse use authoritie Of giving punishment a foole must foole ye And this is all but pastime as you thinke it Nit. With your good Lordships favor since Spadone Confest it was a gullery put on Secco For some revenge meant me Troy He vow'd it truth Before the Ladies in my hearing Oct. Sirrah I le turne you to your shop agen and trinkets Your suds and pan of small-cole take your damzell The grand old ragge of beautie your deaths head Try then what custome reverence can trade in Fiddle and play your pranks amongst your neighbours That all the towne may roare ye now ye simper And looke like a shav'd skull Nit. This comes of prating Sec. I am my Lord a worme pray my Lord tread on me I will not turne agen 'las I shall never venture To hang my Pole out on my knees I begges it My bare knees I will downe unto my wife And doe what she will have me all I can doe Nay more if she will have it aske forgivenes Be an obedient Husband never crosse her Vnlesse sometimes in kindnes Seignior Troylo Speake one sweet word I le sweare 't was in my madnes I said I knew not what and that no creature Was brought by you amongst the Ladies Nitido I le forsweare thee too Oct. Wait a while our pleasure You shall know more anon Sec. Remember me now Exeunt Oct. Troylo thou art my brothers sonne and nereest In blood to me thou hast beene next in counsells Those ties of nature if thou canst consider How much they doe engage worke by instinct In every worthy or ignoble mention Which can concerne me Troy Sir they have and shall As long as I beare life Oct. Henceforth the Stewardship My carefulnes for the honour of our Familie Has undertooke must yeeld the world account And make cleare reckonings yet we stand suspected In our even courses Troy But when time shall wonder
How much it was mistaken in the issue Of honourable and secure contrivements Your wisedome crown'd with lawrels of a Iustice Deserving approbation will quite foyle The ignorance of popular opinion Oct. Report is merry with my feates my dotage Vndoubtedly the Vulgar voyce doth caroll it Troy True Sir but Romanello's late admission Warrants that giddy confidence of rumor Without all contradiction now 't is Oracle And so receiv'd I am confirm'd the Lady By this time proves his scorne as well as laughter Oct. And we with her his table-talke she stands not In any firme affection to him Troy None Sir More then her wonted Noblenesse afforded Out of a civill custome Oct. We are resolute In our determination meaning quickly To cause these clouds flie off the ordering of it Nephew is thine Enter Livio Troy Your care and love commands me Liv. I come my Lord a Suiter Oct. Honest Livio Perfectly honest reallie no fallacies No flawes are in thy truth I shall promote thee To place more eminent Troy Livio deserves it Oct. What suit speake boldly Liv. Pray discharge my office My mastership 't were better live a yeoman And live with men then over-eye your houses Whiles I my selfe am ridden like a jade Oct. Such breath sounds but ill manners know young man Old as we are our Soule retaines a fire Active and quick in motion which shall equall The daringst boyes ambition of true manhood That weares a pride to brave us Troy He is my friend Sir Oct. You are wearie of our service and may leave it We can court no mans dutie Liv. Without passion My Lord d' yee thinke your Nephew here your Troylo Parts in your spirit as freely as your blood 'T is no rude question Oct. Had you knowne his Mother You might have sworne her honest let him justifie Himselfe not base borne for thy Sisters sake I doe conceive the like of thee be wiser But prate to me no more thus if the gallant Resolve on my attendance ere he leave me Acquaint him with the present service Nephew I meant to imploy him in Exit Troy Fie Livio wherefore Turn'd wild upon the sodaine Liv. Pretty Gentleman How modestly you move your doubts how tamely Aske Romanello he hath without leave Surveigh'd your Bowres of FANCIES hath discovered The mystery of those pure Nuns those chast ones Vntouch'd forsooth the holy Academie Hath found a Mothers daughter there of mine too And one who cald my Father Father talkes out Ruffles in mirth on 't baffel'd to my face The glory of her greatnesse by it Troy Truely Liv. Death to my sufferance canst thou heare this misery And answer 't with a truely 't was thy wickednes False as thine owne heart tempted my credulity That her to ruine she was once an innocent As free from spot as the blew face of heaven Without a cloud in 't she is now as sully'd As is that Canopie when mists and vapours Divide it from our sight and threaten pestilence Troy Sayes he so Livio Liv. Yes and 't like your noblenes He truely does so say your breach of friendship With me must borrow courage from your Vncle Whiles your sword talkes an answer there 's no remedy I will have satisfaction though thy life Come short of such demand Troy Then satisfaction Much worthier then your sword can force you shall have Yet mine shall keepe the peace I can be angry And brave alow'd in my reply but honour Schooles me to fitter grounds this as a gentleman I promise ere the minutes of the night Warne us to rest such satisfaction heare me And credit it as more you cannot wish for So much not thinke of Liv. Not the time is short Before our sleeping houre you vow Troy I doe Before we ought to sleepe Liv. So I intend to On confidence of which what left the Marquessa In charge for me I le do 't Troy Invite Count Iulio His Ladie and her brother with their company To my Lords Court at Supper Liv. Easie busines And then Troy And then soone after the performance Of my past vow waites on yee but be certaine You bring them with y'e Liv. Yet your servant Troy Neerer my friend you 'l find no lesse Liv. 'T is strange is 't possible Exeunt Enter Castamela Clarella Floria and Silvia Cast. You have discourst to me a lovely story My heart doth dance to th' musique 't were a sinne Should I in any tittle stand distrustfull Where such a people such as you are innocent Even by the Patent of your yeares and language Informe a truth O talke it ore againe Ye are ye say three daughters of one mother That Mother only Sister to the Marquesse Whose charge hath since her death being left a widdow Here in this place prefer'd your education Is 't so Cla. It is even so and howsoever Report may wander loosely in some scandall Against our privacies yet we have wanted No gracefull meanes fit for our births and qualities To traine us up into a vertuous knowledge Of what and who we ought to be Flo. Our Vncle Hath often told us how it more concern'd him Before he shew'd us to the world to render Our youths and our demeanors in each action Approv'd by his experience then too early Adventure on the follies of the age By prone temptations fatall Sil. In good deed la We meane no harme Cast. Deceit must want a shelter Vnder a roofe that 's covering to soules So white as breaths beneath it such as these are My happines shares largely in this blessing And I must thanke direction of the providence Which led me hither Cla. Aptly have you stil'd it A providence for ever in chast loves Such majestie hath power our Kinsman Troylo Was herein his owne factor he will prove Beleeve him Lady every way as constant As noble we can baile him from the cruelty Of misconstruction Flo. You will finde his tongue But a just Secretary to his heart Cast. The Guardianesse Deare Creatures now and then it seemes Makes bold to talke Cla. Sh 'as waited on us From all our Cradles will prate sometimes odly However meanes but sport I am unwilling Our houshold should breake up but must obey His wisedome under whose command we live Sever our companies I 'm sure we shall not Yet 't is a pretty life this and a quiet Enter Morosa Secco his apron on Bason of water Scissers Combe Towels Razor c. Sec. Chuck duckling honye mouse monkey all and every thing I am thine ever and only will never offend againe as I hope to shave cleane and get honour by 't heartily I aske forgivenesse bee gracious to thine owne flesh and blood and kisse me home Mor. Looke you provoke us no more for this time you shall finde mercy was 't that hedgehog set thy braines a crowing bee quits with him but doe not hurt the great male-baby Sec. Enough I am wise and will be merry hast Beauties the Caroches will sodaine receive yee a night of pleasure