this Diamond Nay doe not wrong me I have sworne you shall Were it as good as that which was made precious By Berenices finger which Agrippa Gave his incestuous sister you should have it What doe you thinke I am an Asse no sir T is he has taught me wit Auto. And you are happy That can be wise by other mens examples Cap. What should I loose my Mistris for a toy Trim. Lead on good brother I am all of a sweat Vntill some gale of comfort blow upon me Exeunt ACT. 3. SCEN. 4. Philautus Fidelio Faustina Fid. YOu see that I have brought you to the treasure And the rich garden of th' Hesperides If you can charme those ever-watchfull eyes That keepe the tree then you may pull the fruit And after glorie in the spoyle of honour Phil. Prethee let me alone with her Fid. I 'll leave you Exit Fidelio Phil. Ladie my preface is to know your name Fau. Faustina Sir Phil. I may be happie in you I have a sister somewhere of that name That in her youth did promise such a feature And hopes of future excellence she had A beautie mixt with maiestie would draw From the beholders love and reverence And I doe ill me thinkes with unchaste thoughts To sinne against her memorie this taske Would I were rid of but I 'll venter Ladie You are not blinde I conceive Fau. No sir I have not Yet seene a thing so strongly sensible To hurt my eye-sight Phil. Then I hope you can Take notice of a Gentlemans good parts Without a Periphrasis Fau. What 's that Phil. A figure Needlesse at this time to explaine my deserts So easie and apparent to be seene Fau. I dare not enuie nor detract where worth Does challenge due relation of respect Nor is my wit so curious to make A glosse or comment on your qualities Phil. T is too much labour 't were a taske would dull The edge of Rhetoricke to describe them rightly Nor would I have them dwell upon your tongue But fixed in your thoughts there let them moue Till they meet in coniunction with your love Nature would boast so sweet a simpathie Fau. I should be sorrie if my understanding Moud in so poore a circle as your praise I have not leisure to take notice of it Is this all you have to say Phil. No I have more But love is slow to dictate to my vowes And yet those sacred and divine impulsions Strike truer then my heart and by his power That has inflam'd me here I sweare I love you Faust. Your oaths and loue are made of the same ayre Both dye in their conception quickly utterd And as easily not beleeued Phil. Nay now you wrong My true intent Faust. Suppose I grant you loue me What would you inferre Phil. That you should speake the like And with the same affection Faust. If your loue Be not a Bawd unto some base desire I doe returne the like Phil. I know not how You may interpret it but sure the law And the command of nature is no basenesse A thing that love himselfe has dignified And in his rapes confess'd the god of loue The greater of the two whoÌ„ Kings haue stoopt to We are allow'd t' inioy some stolne delights So we be secret in 't for 't is set downe By such as in this art haue skilfull beene W' are not forbid to act but to be seene Faust. Vpon these termes I doe deny you loue me 'T was lust that flatter'd sinne made loue a god And to get freedome for his thefts they gaue Madnesse the title of a Deitie For how can that be loue which seeks the ruine Of his owne obiect and the thing beloued No true loue is a pure affection That giues the soule transparent and not that That 's conversant in beastly appetites Phil. Tell not me of your Philosophicall loue I am a foole to linger womens denyall Is but an easie cruelty and they Love to be forc'd sometimes Faust. Pray know your distance Phi. Come you dissemble and you all are willing Faust. To what Phil. There 's none of you but feele the smart Of a libidinous sting else wherefore are Those baits and strong allurements to intice us Wherefore are all your sleekings and your curlings Crispings and paintings and your skinne made soft And your face smooth with ointments then your gate Confin'd to measure and compos'd by art Besides the wanton petulancy of your eyes That scatter flames with doubtfull motion Vnlesse it were to prostitute your beauty Faust. I 'll giue account for none Sir but my selfe And that I 'll speake before my Virgin Zone Shall be vnti'de by any unchaste hand Nature shall suffer dissolution But what ere others be me thinkes your worth Should not pretend to an ignoble action Phil. Now by this light I thinke you 'll moralize mee Faust. 'T is my desire you should goe better from mee Then you came hither you haue some good parts But they are all exteriour and these breed A selfe conceit an affectation in you And what more odious Some applaud you in it As parasites but wise men laugh at you Will you imploy those gifts that may commend you And adde a grace to goodnesse had you any In the pursuit of vice that renders you Worthy of nought but pittie Phil. I came as to A Whore but shall returne as from a Saint Faust. Then leave to prosecute the foggy vapours Of a grosse pleasure that involves the soule In clouds of infamie I wonder one So compleat in the structure of his bodie Should haue his minde so disproportion'd The lineaments of vertue quite defac'd Phil. I am subdu'd she has converted mee I see within the mirror of her goodnesse The foulnesse of my folly sweet instruct me And I will stile thee my Aegeria Fau. It is a shame that man that has the seeds Of vertue in him springing unto glory Should make his soule degenerous with sinne And slave to luxury to drowne his spirits In Lees of sloth to yeeld up the weake day To wine to lust and banquets Phil. Here 's a woman The soule of Hercules has got into her She has a spirit is more masculine Then the first gender how her speech has fill'd me With love and wonder sweet ladie proceed Fau. I would have you proceed and seeke for fame In brave exploits like those that snatch their honour Out of the talents of the Roman Eagle And pull her golden feathers in the field Those are brave men not you that stay at home And dresse your selfe up like a Pageant With thousand anticke and exoticke shapes That make an idoll of a Looking-glasse Sprusing your selfe two houres by it with such Gestures and postures that a waiting wench Would be asham'd of you and then come forth T' adore your Mistris Fanne or tell your dreame Ravish a â—â—sse from her white glove and then Compare it with her hand to praise her gowne Her Tire and discourse of the fashion Make discovery
ACT. 1. SCEN. 3. Snarle Fidelio Ardelio Snar. HOw now Ardelio what so melancholy Ard. Faith all this day I haue bin so imploid With setting things in order and provisions I can compare my paines to nothing lesse Then a Lord Generals Snar. Why what 's the matter Ard. Things must be ordered and there 's nothing Done unlesse I ouersee it my industry Must marshall the Dishes put the Stooles in ranke See the Wood set upon the carriages Sharpen the Knives all these witnesse my care The very shining of the Candlestickes Acknowledge my directions Snar. T is much The strange activity that some men haue To dispatch businesse Ard. Why Sir did you never Heare how Apelles pictured Homer spewing And all the Poets gaping to receive it Snar. Yes and what then Ard. In the same manner doe I Vpon the Hushers the Clarks and the Butlers The Cookes and other Officers 'mongst whom I finde to be a drought of understanding Showre downe the dregs of my counsell Snar. They are like to be well edified Ard. Here comes my Lord make roome for my Lords grace ACT. 1. SCEN, 4. Philautus Triphaena Trimalchio Ardelio Snarle Fidelio Ard. GOd save your honour may your flourishing youth Enioy an everlasting spring of beauty And know no Autumne Philau. Thankes good Ardelio Your wishes haue effect this is the tree Vnder whose shadow Flora builds her Bower And on whose branches hangs such tempting fruit Would draw faire Atalanta from her course An Altar on which Queenes should sacrifice Their scorned loves Nature will scarce beleeve It is her owne invention and repines She has no way to be incestuous Triphae. Mr. Trimalchio I am sicke to heare him I can't abide these repetitions And tedious Encomiums of himselfe Let you and I walke a turne in the Garden Trim. You are the onely Garden of my delight And I your deare Adonis honour'd Lady Exeunt Trimalchio Triphaena Philau. Ardelio tell me how this suit becomes me Ard. Exactly well Sir without controuersie And you weare it as neatly Philau. Nay I have A reasonable good Taylor I hope he has not Survayd me so long but he knowes my dimensions I thinke I may venter i' th presence with it Ard. I' th presence I and love were in the presence You 'd thrust Ganimede out of his office Philan. What thinke you Gentlemen Fid. We all do wish Your beauty or your vanity were lesse For by this meanes that which would else commend you Proves your disgrace you take the edge of prayse off Is due to you by too much whetting it Philau. I should prove too injurious to my selfe Should I passe over with a slight regard This building Nature has solemnized With such Magnificence to which I owe The loves of Ladies and their daily presents Their hourely solicitations with letters Their entertainments when I come their plots They lay to view me which should I recount 'T would puzzell my Arithmeticke and to answer Their uniust desires would aske the labours Of some ten Stallions Ard. And make all jades of them Fid. You are the Center of all womens love then Philau. 'T is true I haue a strange attractive power Over your females did you never heare of Three Goddesses that stroue on Ida hill Naked before a shepheard for a Ball With an inscription Let the fairest have it Fidel. And what of those Phil. Bring them all three before me If I surprize them not all at first dash If they fall not together by the eares for mee Nay if they runne not mad and follow mee As if they were drunke with a loue potion Nere trust a Prognosticator againe Snar. But how if you should chance to meet Diana Take heed of her it is a testy Girle A profest Virgin Phil. 'T is my ambition To meet with her to bath my limbs with her In the same Well shoot in her bow dance with her And get the formost of her troupe with child And turne the rape on Iupiter Snar. Fine yfaith Fid. It seemes that you are of opinion There is no text of woman-kinde so holy But may be corrupted though a Deity Philau. Ardelio tell me what thou dost think of them Ard. Who I hang me should I be questioned Now for my faith concerning Articles Of womens chastitie I should bee burnt For a ranke Heretike I beleeve none of them Fid. But I thinke otherwise and can iustifie it What if I bring you now unto a beauty As glorious as the Sunne but in desire Cold as the middle Region of the ayre And free from all reflexion of lust Philau. But shall I speak with her and tempt her to it Fid. You shall converse with her and she shall feed Your sense with such discoursive influence And a voyce sweeter than the Lydian tunes Iove would bow downe his eare to yet her bloud Shall runne as cold as Iulips through her veynes The spring-tide of her youth shall swell with more Delights then there be drops in Aprill yet shee As chast as Salmacis amidst the streames Her eye shall sparkle like the Diamond And be as pure her kisses soft and melting As the South wind but undefil'd as heaven And you shall feele the Elementall fire Of her unspotted love and grieve and sweare Shee is so celestiall and Divine a creature That 's onely hot in her effect not nature Philau. Why such an one would I converse withall The Conquest will be greater shall I see her Fid. I 'll bring you to her Ard. He has a strong beleefe I have no such confidence she may be Lucresse And he' a foolish Colatine to brag of her But most of them in playing fast and loose Will cheat an Oracle I haue a creature Before these Courtiers licke their lips at her I 'll trust a wanton baggage in the wind Fid. This Lady is sister and 〈◊〉 Mistris Yet both unknowne to him some few yeares since Her father iealous of my love because I was a Gentleman of no great fortune Sent her away and charg'd her by an oath To marry none till seven yeares were expir'd Six parts of which are gone yet shee remaines Constant to what she promis'd though his death Has partly quit her To live in her sight And not enioy her is a heavenly torment But unsufferable I must liue apart Till the praefixed minute be expir'd In the meane time I 'll worke by some good meanes To winne his love and draw him from his folly But first by him I 'll try her constancy I must prepare her for his entertainment Because she will admit no Company Nor will be knowne to any but my selfe Come Sir let 's goe by that which shall ensue You shall affirme what I relate is true ACT. 1. SCEN. 5. Agurtes Autolicus Agur. T Is a dull age this same casts not her eyes On men of worth Captaines and Commanders Victorious abroad are vanquish'd at home With poverty and disgrace they looke as bad As Brutus when he met his evill Genius Worse
to participate Of any Gentle Nature never I thinke To fashion out a Mercury with such A crooked peece of timber was attempted By a true traveller but I hope in time To rectifie him for Labor vincit omnia Triph. Does he come on well is there any hope He will receive his true dye his right tincture Miscel. I warrant you that I 'll make him in time A perfect Caveleiro he shall weare His clothes as well and smell as ranke as they And court his Mistris and talke idlely that 's As much as can be required in a true Gallant T' approue him one nay more too he shall dance And doe the halfe Pomado play at Gleeke And promise more than ere he will performe And nere part with a penny to a Trades-man Til he has beat him for 't shall walke the streets As gingerly as if he fear'd to hurt The ground he went on whilst his cast downe eye Holds commerce with his legge shall utter nothing What ere he thinkes yet sweare 't what ere it be Nay more he shall vow love to all he sees And damne himselfe to make them beleeue it Shall fawne on all men yet let his friend perish For what he spends in one day on his Punke For Coach hire these are speciall properties And must be often practis'd to remember He shall neuer rise till it be ten a clocke And so be ready against dinner time Caprit. 'Slight and my father had not bin an Asse I might haue beene able to haue writ this downe Triph. Pray let me heare how he has profited Miscel. Salute these Ladies as you were instructed You must conceiue the coldnesse of his courtship As yet points but one way you may suppose it To his disdainfull Mistris when he shall come to The Cape de bone speranza of her loue He may vary like the compasse of his complement Capr. Lady the Fates have led me to your service To know my selfe vnworthy of your favours Yet let me so farre winne upon your bountie That what I utter in humilitie May not cause my contempt or have my loue Shak'd off because t is ripe but let me hang by The stalke of your mercie the remnant of whose life Lies in your power Miscel. Your oath now to confirme it If she should chance to doubt or presse you to it Caprit. That 's true indeed By the structure of your breasts And by the silken knot that tyes your haire Vpon the top of your crowne I protest it Quart If he can persevere t is excellent Enter Trimalchio Trim. Where be these noble Ladies Triph. Sir you are come in the most happy houre I was wishing for you Trim. I am in haste And onely come to see you there 's a banquet Stands ready on the table and the Lords Sweare they will not sit downe untill I come Trip. You stil are in such hast when you come hither Trim. I thinke I must retire my selfe I am So sued and sought to where I come I am growne Even weary of their loves Last night at a Masque When none could be admitted I was led in By the hand by a great Lord that shall be namelesse And now this morning early in his Chamber A Fencer would needs play with me at foyles I hit him in three places and disarm'd him Quar. Why now my dreame is out I lay last night Vpon my backe and was adream'd of fighting Trip. Sir will you please to know these Gentlemen My brother and his Tutor Trim. I must craue pardon Is this your brother Triph. Yes Trim. I must embrace him I neuer saw a man in all my life I so affected on the sudden sure There 's some Nobility does lurke within him That 's not perspicuous to euery eye He promises so faire I should haue knowne him To be your brother had you not told me so Miscel. Your method now of thankes Caprit. Right Noble Sir I haue so often times beene honour'd And so much madefied Quart That word I taught him Capr. With the distilling influence of your bounty That I must blame my selfe and my hard fortune That has envyed me the ability To render satisfaction Miscel. Very well Trip. Sir you must pardon him he is but a Novice Newly initiated and 't is his fault That he is bashfull Trim. Is that all I 'll take him To Court with me where he shall be acquainted With Pages Laundresses and wayting women Shall teach him impudence enough Trip. 'T is my desire Quar. His Tutor has taught him the Theory Onely he wants the practike Trim. I pray Sir Without offence may I demand of you What doe you professe Miscel. Why Sir any thing Within the compasse of humanity To speake or act no Pythagorean Could euer thinke upon so many shapes As I will put you in the French the Spanish Or the Italian garbe not any one But ioyntly all I 'll make a perfect man Out of the shreds of them Quart Besides the riding Of the great Mare nay Sir his very carvings Euen to the discecting of a Capon Are Lectures of Anatomy Trim. I shall Be proud to know him Miscel. Now I collect my selfe Sure I haue scene you Sir in Padua Or some face neere like yours Trim. I haue indeed Receiu'd letters of invitation From one that 's sonne to a Magnifice Who is inform'd that I am very like him Miscel. There was the mistake then Trim. Sir had I power O're my occasions which now are urgent I would most willingly imploy the time In survay of your vertues Miscel. Sir it has beene The scope I euer aym'd at in my travels To seeke out and converse with such as haue With forraine obseruations advanc'd Their naturall endowments and I thanke My Starres I haue beene euer fortunate To be belou'd amongst them and that you Are one I make no question Trim. Sir you need not Miscel. My mind was euer larger than to be Compris'd within the limits of my Country And I congratulate my Fate in that I come so neare the vertue of that planet That rul'd at my Nativitie whose nature Which e're it be is euer to be wandring Trim. Sir I must be abrupt but for my promise Vnto some Noble friends that doe expect me I could not asily be drawne away From one in whom so many seuerall graces Are so apparent therefore I intreat you Not to impute it to my lacke of iudgement Or neglect of your worth Miscel. By no meanes Sir Friendship is turn'd into an iniury When it usurps authority conceiue me O're a friends businesse some other time Shall serue to giue a mutuall testimonie Of love betweene us and how much I honour you Quar. When will you doe this Capr. I am practising Trip. Prethee Quartilla helpe me stave them off Although they haue no mercy on themselues Yet we must use some conscience Quar. Gentlemen You 'l breake your wits with stretching them forbeare I beseech you Trim. My wit it never failes me I haue it at a
certainty I 'll set it To runne so many houres and when 't is downe I can wind it up like a Watch But I feare I have deceiu'd the time too long Ladies I 'll take my leaue of your faire beauties you haue No seruice to enjoyne Trip. You 'll take my brother Capritio with you Trim. If he please and his Tutor Miscel. My suffrage shall consent to any thing Her Lady ship approues Quart You must remember You proue not refractory to your discipline 'T will be much for your improvement Trim. I 'll bring him Vnto a Captaine shall set both our faces To looke like the very Ianus of a States-man And so farewell Come Sir Exeunt Trimalchio Capritio Triph. I told you Signiour What a rare man he was Miscel. In all my travels I haue not met the like not any one Was so mellifluous in his discourse I thinke when he was young some swarme of Bees Did light upon his lips as it was fain'd Of Hesiod Triph. Let 's in for I shall mourne And be melancholy till his returne ACT. 3. SCEN. 1. Philautus Ardelio Phil. ARdelio we are now alone come tell me Truly how does the vulgar voice passe on me Ar. Why Sir the shallow currents of their brains Runnes all into one streame to make a deepe To beare the weighty burthen of your fame Phil. And 't is all true they say Ard. That you are most faire A most exact accomplisht gentile Lord Not to be contradicted 't is a truth Aboue all truths for where is any truth That is agreed upon by all but this Phil. Such is the force of beauty there is nothing Can please without it and who euer has it As there be few is adjudg'd happy in it Ardel. All this is true Philau. Then he that has a pure And sublim'd beauty 't is a thing sensible And cannot be denyed must be admir'd And free from all detraction Ardel. This is true Phil. He that excels in valour wit or honour He that is rich or vertuous may be envy'd But love is the reward of beauty no obiect Surprises more the eye all that delights us We ascribe beauty to it Ardel. All this is true Phi. Looke high or low 't is true why are the stars Fixt in their Orbes but to adorne the heauens And we adore their beauty more than light Looke on the Arts how they tend all to beauty 'T is their onely end he that builds a house Striues not so much for use as ornament Nor does your Orator compose a speech With lesser care to haue it elegant Then moving and your Limner does obserue The trimne and dresse more then the rules of painting Ard. All truth and Oracles Phi. Look on a faire ship And you will say 't is very beautifull A Generall reioyces in the title Of a faire Army I 'll come nearer to you Who were thought worthy to be deified But such as were found beautifull for this cause Iove tooke up Ganimede from Ida hill To fill him wine and goe a hunting with him Ard. 'T is too much truth to be spoke at one time Philau. It shall suffice but yet you know that man May safely venter to goe on his way That is so guided that he can not stray Enter Fidelio How now hast thou obtain'd in thy request Fid. I haue with much entreaty gain'd your admittance Phil. Let me embrace my better Genius Fid. I doe not use the profession Phil. 'T is an Art Will make thee thrive will she be coy enough To tell you true I take a more delight In the perplexity of woing them Then the enioying Fid. She is as I told you Phil. If she be otherwise than I conceiue A pox on the Augury Fid. But harke you Sir You need not be known who you are Phi. For that Trust to my care Come let us goe about it Some men may terme it lust but if it hit The better part shall be ascrib'd to wit Exeunt ACT. 3. SCEN. 2. Taimaelchio Capritio Agurtes Autolicus Trim. HOw goes our matters forward Ag. Very well Sir For I haue made your entrance open told her All that I can to grace you that you are Exactly qualified unparalleld For your rare parts of mind and body full Of rare bounty and that she likes best in you Shee holds it a good argument you will Maintaine her well hereafter marry else She is naturall covetous but that 's A point of Huswivery she does not care You should spend much upon your selfe and can Dispense with house keeping so you allow her To keepe her State her Coach and the fashion These things she meanes to article beforehand I tell you what you must trust to Trim. Very well Sir Agu. Now see that you be circumspect and faile not In the least circumstance you may doe somewhat Extraordinary at the first meeting For when she has conceiv'd of your good nature The lesse will be expected Trim. Why the Captaine Has put me in a forme Agur. Of words he has But you must doe the deeds Trim. I so I will For looke you Sir I haue the seuerall graces Of foure Nations in imitation Of the foure Elements that make a man Concurre to my perfection Ag. As how Trim. I am in my complement an Italian in my heart a Spaniard In my disease a Frenchman And in mine appetite an Hungarian Agur. All these are good and commendable things In a Companion but your subtle women Take not a mans desert on trust they must See and feele something what you giue her now You make her but the keeper 't is your owne You winne her by it I should be loath to see you Out done with Courtesies what if some Gull That has more land than you should interpose it And make ecclipse betweene you 't is a feare Therefore you must be sodaine and dispatch it For she is ticklish as any Haggard And quickly lost she is very humoursome Trim. I 'll fit her then I am as humoursome As her selfe I haue all the foure humors I am hot I am cold I am dry and I am moyst Agur. I must be like the Satyr then and leaue you If you are hot and cold Trim. Oh you mistake me I am not in my ambition I am dry in my iests I am cold in my charity And moyst in my luxury Autol. Sir for the Gentlewoman that is with her Not so much in the nature of a servant As her Companion for 't is the fashion Amongst your great ones to haue those wait on them As good as themselues she is the sole daughter To a great Knight and has an ample dowry Apply your selfe to her though it be nothing Else but to practise Courtship and to keepe you From sleepe and idlenesse Caprit. I shall be rul'd By you in any thing Autol. You shall not doe Amisse then what you may get her good will And then obiect it to your friends you can Advance your selfe without their counsell Capr: Counsell I still