of no better a spouse then your ridiculous self in serious terms I cannot affect you it is not the quaintness of your language that can charm me If Cupid have no more powerful darts then what drops from your tongue he can wound but little Sir it will argue your prudence to desist from this your enterprise for my part I had rather be of the society of Danaus daughters and torment me in the abissive Hogsheads then be your bedfellow But we poore Orphans being shuffled out of our own estates must be disposed of at the pleasure of our Guardians even to any one But Sir in short I shall esteem more highly of a wise man in his shirt then of a foole in his richest Trappings and for my own part I cannot love you Rub. Never marry her then Master for if you doe you may chance be a kinsman to the great Turk and blazon the Horns for your Arms. Prae. You doe but jest you speak not heartily Var. You 'l finde I am in earnest Farewell you know my resolution Exit Prae. O Rubio call her back Rub. Will she come when I call her Prae. Conjure her then Rub. I am no Negromancer I never studied the black Art in all my life But d' you hear Dona Varina I call you I conjure you to come unto my Master Don Praepontio Sure Master she 's no Devill for if she were she would have risen at my conjuration Prae. But what shall we doe to get her Rub. Faith Sir you and I and half a dozen more good fellows will rifle for her you shall have Dice will run nothing but sixes Exeunt Scena secunda Enter Varina sola THis doting Don thinks that his years have made Him wise in fishing with a golden bait And doth presume his gold hath power so farre For renovation of his aged Corps As had Medea's inchanting spels to Aeson He thinks that womens aims are fixt on lands And that they frame their love on Silver-mines Treasure 's no loadstone for a maids affection Alas He doth mistake our Sex in this Though Gold be welcome to enrich our train Yet not so far as that we should neglect The chief of all the person of a man Should we permit the flowers of our youth Thus to be nipt by Ages snowy Winter And so bereave our selves of all those joyes Which Nature hath conferred on our Sex While blooming in our youth for earth and dirt No! 't is not so this is my resolution Gold with a Man is good but if I chuse I 'll take the Man and will the Gold refuse Exit Scena tertia Enter Roderiguez solus VNhappy eye which didst attract those beams To set my heart on fire Unhappy eare Which didst with such a greedinesse suck in The charmings of her lips and then convey Them through thy winding palace to my brain Which works and beats as if the Cyclops held Their Forge within my head Unhappy man Thus to become a slave unto thy passion Confine these love-sick thoughts or drive them out Lodge not such enemies within thy breast They 'l be thy ruine But alas my power Is transmigrated to anothers breast Yet would it were so might I hope at length My love might crowned be with good successe Dry up thy eyes Enter Chaves Cha. Good morrow to you Sir What passion hath surpriz'd you that you seem Another man Eugenia's well I hope Discover friend what strikes thee in these dumps Your eye betrayes you somewhat is amisse Prithee what is' t Rod. Chaves thou art my friend And 't were a sin not to impart it to thee Here lately was a Lady which my eye No sooner did discover but my heart Was all involv'd in flames a sudden ague Seiz'd upon all my limbs that to approach Neerer or speak I could not in this extasie I stood awhile unmoveable till she Quitted the place Cha. What is she ne're despair Have her thou shalt though she were made of gold Rod. Varina is her name she 's well endow'd With all that Art or Nature can bestow That Cha. Feed not thy self with these prithee what is she Where lives she Pray reveale it Rod. Sir her Father Was a rich Merchant of this famous Citie Who dying in the Indies left this his Orphan Sole heir to his estate which he bequeath'd Unto Alonza's care he hath betroth'd her Unto a foolish Lord one Don Praepontio Cha. Expel these clouds of sorrow wee 'l make our wits Outreach his wealth Come let us write a letter I 'll have it safe convey'd once get admittance And she 's thine own Enter Varina Var. Most sacred Goddesse to whose sacred shrine The greatest Kings nay Jove himselfe hath bow'd Contain my passions keep my sudden Love Within the bounds of maiden modesty Sweet Roderiguez now me thinks I see Majesty couched in thy serene brow Upon thy tongue enthroniz'd Eloquence Within thy looks Cupid in 's best array And when thou goest the humble ground doth sinke As if submissive to thy stately Port But Stay my Passions stay let 's pawse awhile My affections must not leade me in a maze Discretion doth advise that Pallas rule And Cupid serve she will me best direct To my terrene Elysium Pause awhile Listen to Judgments dictates they are best The Carthaginian Princess lost her life And credit too by her too quick affection Phillis confiding in Demophoöns vowes Did lay her Bridall pallet in the grave Repentance soone made Oenoës angry tongue Condemn the rash credulity of her eares And so may I Varina if I yeeld To Passions hair-brain'd wild instructions Then set a bay unto thy loves swift Current See his affections first and if he prove Loving to thee Varina do thou Love See see the Object of my best respect Oh! did my heart enjoy that happinesse As doth that Gentleman whose subject ears Such musick entertain as hovering spheares Yeild in their proper motions his breath Falls on his shoulders as doth Zephyrus On Flora's party color'd vestments ah Why doe I languish thus I 'll speake to him It is as fit for maids to court as men If that the truth were rightly scann'd but nicenesse And Custome do forbid it it s no sinne If well we weigh it in its proper ballance Then set the better foot before and try She goes forward but slies back Oh! what exploit began I to attempt What casting off the weed of modesty To cloath my self with impudence O fie Should it be said Varina did disrobe Her selfe of grace and virgin-purity And turned masculine to court a stranger No! back base Cupid thy Rhet'rick I scorn Now in my second rumination 't may be That time will quench this burning Aetna in me Or heav'ns inspire him for to know my love Grant one of these ye Gods and pitie me Afford your help in this extremitie Exit Cha. Be it so I 'll send the letter Rod. I hold the mission of a letter best One line one sentence with premeditation Quickens
for all the love lies there Is to anothers worth engag'd Cha. Make me But of your privy Councell pray reveal him Mar. Then know since first I saw you I have been The night will hide my blushing to your face A true devotarist to your lovely vertues Deride me not dear Signior Cha. I am Ravisht beyond my hopes my heart 's too narrow Too strait-lac'd for th'exuberance of my joy Enter Balthasar Balt. This is the house now Gaspar I shall see Thy truth I heare some mutt'ring Mar. Walk round the house my maid shall let you in Bal. 'T is she I hear her voyce and here he comes Sir stay you must not passe so Rod. What art thou That thus presum'st to over-hear our secrets And rashly tempt thy death Bal. I am a man Thy equall every way Rod. About your businesse Cha. Sirrah be packing or I 'll send you hence Balt. Were you encompass'd with hot lightning arm'd With Corslets made of Dragons maile your breath As poysonous as a Vipers or a Toads Yet I alone would dare t' encounter you Rod. You 're very valiant Frenzy prompts you thus Or else t is some fat Fleming who being drunk Hath lost his way to th'Brothell and doth think To find his drab here Friend you 've lost your way Be wise and save your carcasse by a retreat You I walk nay make a leg and thank me too For letting you to passe or I shall teach Your noll more manners Bal. Teach thy selfe false man More honesty which of you is it that Thus Courts my Mariana cause to him I only speak Cha. 'T is I. Bal. Then let me tell you You injure one that never injur'd you She 's mine betroth'd to me Cha. I 'm sorry 't was My hapless fate to meet you in this place I shall but poast you through the Avernal Lakes On Ambassy to Pluto and desire Those Deities to fit you with a Mistress You 'll have her forcibly although you see She cannot love you gentle friend put up This is a glorious quarrel every drop Of blood that 's spilt will have a Crown beyond The palm of Martyrs For my Mistress come Address your self to prayers first Drawes Balt. Prithee stay Thou seem'st a person qualifi'd before We fight and die for that one of 's must do Think what unworthy and inhuman cause You stand to justifie with blood her Father Hath giv'n her me before whole Quires of Saints Heav'ns hierarchy we were contracted do not Blinded with lust run headlong to a sin So foul and horrid hazard not your souls Lasting salvation in a quarrel so Unjust on thy part say 't should be my fate As it may be to kill you what a mass Of endless woe thou pluckst upon thy head Hadst thou no other crimes to charge thy soul Think what a monstrous and ignoble sin Is supplantation in this kind of wrong Above Astraea's Laws A Christian Sir As you should be at naming this would have A frigid palzy in his veins pray tell me Feel you no Earthquake in you Cha. Thus and thus I 'll Catechize you Stabs him Bal. Oh! falls Rod. So preach in hell We have full entrance now but least the noyse Disturb the house we 'd best depart and come When the next night in favour to us shrowds Sleeping Olympus in her dusky clouds Cha. I do approve your counsell Exeunt Balthazar rises up Bal. So they are gon I 'm hurt my loss of blood Makes my legs falter Fool to shed a drop In an effeminate quarrel can the name Of woman pass without fell execrations Through these parcht lips henceforth I will evade them As the infectious scum of pestilence To Troy once famous one base Helen brought A finall ruine fair Persepolis Had still stood Asia's glory had not Thais That obscaene Thaiuml s by her witchcraft made Fond Alexander to consume't by fire Each woman is a plague I justly may Curse their whole sex since Mariana's false I must be silent Enter Gaspar Gasp Balthazar Bal. Who art thou Gasp 'T is I your servant Gaspar are my words Not truth have you not met with them Alas I fear you 're wounded Sir base villains Bal. Yes doubly Gaspar for my bodies harms Surgeons may cure them but the wounds my mind Suffers 's past help of plaisters Oh! I bleed These are but scratches here 's a wound indeed Gasp Faith think not on it Sir she may be honest Though she hath suitors women will delight In the plurality of servants Bal. But That she whostood the Goddess of my love Whose truth should Angels with me 've sought to blast I should have judg'd them lyars should be thus Inconstant false this puts me quite beyond The confines of all reason Gasp Good Sir patience Bal. Patience what 's that pray carry me to some Infected Pesthouse or foul Hospitall Where all diseases flourish where no sound Person can enter but he must return Full fraught with all contagions there I 'll steal From one a plague-sore rob another of His purple spots this of a feaver till I have ingross'd all maladies that carrie A spreading rancour with them and that have Death in their bosomes then I 'll straitway come And keep society with none but women Til the whole sex have shar'd of death and those For some will live that do remain to keep Earths store alive be so infected that Their future issue be all monstrous Tell me Should I not fit her then for this and all That bear the name of women Gas Sir you grow Outragious in your passion your blood Carries a fervor that won't let this passe Without revenge I 'll work the means if you Have heart to act it Bal. Wilt thou doe 't Gas Ne're fear 't Go to your lodging dress your wounds you may Inform her Father at your leasure Bal. Well I 'll rest upon thy care and make my hand In thanks retaliate thy just deserts Gas O! that I could but borrow for this instant A vipers breath to blast thee but 't is well Vines clip not Elms for nothing I must twine About them subtly till they kiss the earth Or else my ends will have abortive birth Exit Scena quarta Enter Varina Var. NOw should I be intrapt in my own Gin Whom should I blame but only my false heart Should that unkindnesse dropping from my pen Extinguish quite poor Roderiguez flame On whom should I disgorge my troubled stomach But on my selfe 't is pretty to consider How I expose my selfe unto a wound To make another bleed Enter Roderiguez Rod. Pardon sweet Damsell this my bold intrusion Urg'd not by rude behaviour but by love Var. Sir you 're a stranger but if it be void Of ill intent your pardon 's quickly seal'd Rod. If that to evidence the true affection I alwayes bare unto your noble self Be ill intent then my accesse is conscious Var. To court me with your love Sir it is strange I 'm a poor Orphan one whom Fate
Welcome noble friends Prae. For your part Sir à posteriore I salute you thus and your Sir thus with this Italian Frisco But as for you my superabundant Mistress accept the Foetâ—â— of my Minerva for your congratulatory welcome Var. 'T is pitie servant you are not pictur'd with a Laurell wreath in your forehead Rub. Or rather with a Coxcombs Crest Mistress Aside Prae. But my most inestimable Mistress I must dictate to you That you vilifie my brains fecundity in not applauding my ingenious conceptions since sure you love me Rub. Better then she loves Plum-porredge or Minc't-pyes I dare protest Prae. Tell me then thou Master-piece of Nature Rub. Mistress-piece Sir she is a woman Prae. Does not the superficies of my countenance demonstrate as much love as Don Quixot's or Gerardo's the unfortunate and ominous Spaniard am not I kin to the Family of the Guzmans think you Rub. Alias Goosman alias Goodman Goose aside Prae. And am I not the most acute compleat polite Itinerator that ever caper'd over the Alps and the Pyrenaean mountains and the most sublime and ingenious Poet that ever drank of the Heliconian Castalian and Pierian Fountains Have not I sixteen languages exactly perfectly and perspicuously Rub. Sixscore Master Prae. Come my supereminent Mistress let us expatiate to refresh our palats with our delicious banquets the minc't pies and the Plum-pudding which my English Cook made me will be cold else Come sirrah follow Exeunt Heb. Now my sweet guts and garbege my Fathers old Boots were never so liquor'd and greas'd as you shall be Exit Scaena tertia Enter Chaves Roderiguez and Boy Cha. HAst thou the Song Boy Boy Yes Sir Cha. Are the Musitians ready Boy They expect behind you pillar Cha. But art thou sure this is her window Rod. The same ne're feare we shall have audience Boy sings 1 Hail Mariana let thine eyes From their sable Clouds arise And dart their fire At our desire To re-illuminate the skies 2 The Moon is down the Stars doe hide Their lustre and our zeal deride Vnveil thy beams Those goldenst eams Will vye them in their greatest pride 3 Shine forth sweet light one gentle ray Will drive our dismall night away And make us deem Sol mounts his Team Our zeal shall swear 't is break of day 4 Let us sweet Saint thy vertues know How great a brightnesse they can show Tell us the Sun Is backward run And that he hath reverst his Plough 5 Shine out sweet Venus thou canst soon Transcend the Taper of the Moon And with thy light Quicken the night Turning our Morning into Noon 6. Hail Mariana cast an eye With a relenting sympathy Vnvail the books Of thy sweet looks And let me read my Destinie Rod. So now depart and charge the Musitians they say nothing Boy I will Signior Exit Rod. The window is opened friend list who speaks Mariana and Catalina out at the window Mar. I marvail Catalina who bestowed This Musick on us it was good and sweet Cat. Some one that dog'd you home from Alvarado's Some Amorado Rod. Speak Sir now or never Cha. All peace content and joy attend you Ladies Mar. What man art thou that when Nights Curtain 's drawn And with her sable mantle vails the skies Dar'st venture on our secrets Cha One you promis'd When for your sake I sav'd Picarro's life To keep in memory Mar. Sir if you are he I am obliged I confess to honour Your nobleness but these untimely houres Admit no conference for your Musick Sir We give you thanks so much I love you that I 'll not endanger you if you be seen You run your lifes dire hazard Sir good night Fair thoughts attend you Cha. Stay for Loves sake were there Dangers as thick here as there 's stars above us I would contemn them all if death it self Should here incounter me l'ld scorn the fury Tell him his hand had here no power your presence Makes men immortall Mar. Cause you shall not Sir Condemn me of discourtesie I 'll stay But to your purpose let me know it briefly Or I must be unmannerly Cha. Why then In brief I love you and desire your love Mar. And is this all good night Cat. Hear him out Mistress he 's an honest Gentleman I know by 's words Cha. My zeal could tell you Lady That your are fair you know it that your eyes Clothe night in days robes and eclipse the stars With their bright lustre that you are the modell Of Natures artifice her true Idea In whose brow Art and Beauty wedded meet But these dear Mariana and the like Pedantick terms I leave to those whose loves Are in their lips I 'll be as plain in speech As zealous in respects my deeds shall speak My Love no Changeling Mar. But I cannot Sir Nor must not love you many one would feed Your flames with frustrate species to deride Your passions but I do carty with me More honest thoughts as you have been I 'll be Brief save your labour Signior they are fruitless You sing to th' deaf and plough the sandy shore I must not love you Cha. I 'm oblig'd to you 'T is well and nobly done to put an end To my hot tortures view this blade the same Which for your sake I did restrain from shedding Picarro's blood for better ends shall now goes to stab himself In bloody Characters write me thy Martyr Rod. Hold hold for heav'ns sake hold What mean you Chaves Cha. Nothing but to open A vein that 's stopt 't is good for me to bleed My sword will be a good Phlebotomist I 'm sick of th' Plurisy a burning feaver 'T is better once to die then thus to live In lingring flames and piece-meal crumble ha Be thou my friend and since my Life cannot Let death now make me pittied Let me die Mar. You 're a faint hearted Soldier what dasht At first repulse admit I could afford You heart-room in my breast you might well think Me very light should I at once be wonn Without experience of your Loyalty Besides our Countries use permits not Children To choose their husbands 'T is my Fathers care Get his consent and peradventure I May yeild to love you Cat. Do sweet Mistress he 's A very honest man I 'd take his word Cha. Look how the enamour'd air hangs o're her lips To suck a blessing from them I can think Now 't was no fable that bold Boreas Rapt fair Orithya since I see him haste To ravish thee of that too pretious breath Thy words expire with it will make his own Sweeter then Syrian winds when nought but Myrrhe And Bysse perfume them Mar. You 're too hasty Sir It is impossible that I should love you I am contracted Cha. Yet 't is in your power To love your servant Mar. If Anatomists Tell truth that say I' th' Center of our hearts There is a little Concave where resides Our best affections then your Augury Must needs be truth
decreed To hang my Fortunes on anothers girdle Time sure hath prov'd himselfe a cunning Artist That in so short a space could frame a subject For your affection 't is not long a goe My eyes tooke their first notice of you Rod. Time Is not that cunning Artist but your vertues Which through the winding convex of my ears Convey'd this winding admiration to my heart 'T is not your means sweet Lady but your love That I now covet For your guardians favour I weigh it little so you 'l grant me yours Throw not those angry fire-balls of thy eyes Upon me who am Touch-wood lest I here Moulder to ashes bid them that they keep Fast their Artillery 't is your milder beams Those rayes of favour that we now request Var. Though I am conscious of no demerits Residing in me that might claim these praises These pick-thanks of your tongue I think my selfe Too good to entertain a scornfull jeer For honours sake forbear 't Rod. Wretched mistake That you should once conceive my heart could lodge The least base thought that 's Traytor to your honor Var. But hear me Sir Once walking with my Nurse For recreation in our shady groves She told me her prophetick spirit fear'd Some false One would betray me to his love And to my ruine Rod. If 't was me she meant The Sibyll lyed Var. Howe're it breeds suspition Rod. What demonstration of my zealous faith Can this your incredulity exact Shall I contend in combat with the Lion Or else affront the ugly foaming Boar What is' t that I shall doe Speak and 't is done Shall I betake my self to th' Russian Fields i th' midst of Winter where my faithfull blood May freeze to Corall and my sad laments Congeal with th' aire Shall I devote my selfe A sactifice to Aetna or to Neptune Shall I atchieve to fetch the golden fruit From th'scaly Dragon pluck fell Cerberus out From 's stinking den These or a thousand more I 'll doe at your command Var. To promise Sir Is easie when performance lags behind Rod. 'S your heart so prepossest that there 's no room No corner left to hold one grain of faith Var. I 'll try your love here take this drink it off gives him wine Leave not one drop i' th' bottom of the cup. Rod. What e're it be I 'll banish feare and do 't drinks Var. Is' t off Rod. It is Var. Then know that thou art poyson'd This is that draught which to Vlysses mates In stead of drink sage Circe did extend 'T is venoms quintessence rank poyson Rod. Poyson Var. Yea poyson not the ugly Toad includes Worse venome then that potion Rod. Methinks I feel no alteration in my blood Var. I know that too Th'time for its operation Is not yet come some sev'n hours hence and then A deadly fire raging within thy breast Shall make thy Arteries crack and tear thy nerves An Iron girdle shall not hold thy body It shall so swell with this envenom'd draught Rod. Alas good Lady you much fail i' th' end For which you practise this you plot my torture By fear of death alas you doe mistake My love shall own you for her greatest friend For thus to live deprived of your love Is worse ten thousand times then death it selfe Then thank you for this cruell courtesie I will not stile you cruel or hard hearted But pitifull a kind and loving Lady And so will limb your vertues to the life This kindness chalenges my best respects First that you fix a period to my flames Next that I dye a sacrifice to you Var. What Art thou glad to die and proud to fall A victime by my hands Rod. Your victime Lady Var. Do not dissemble in the heav'nly Quire There 's no permission for an hypocrite To be a Chorister do not palliate Th'internall thoughts with such Hypocrisie Rod. I scorn the Title of an Hypocrite I liv'd your Lover and will dye your Martyr Var. Then am I sorry for my cruel act There take thou that and work thine own revenge gives a bodkin While time permits Rod. It shall not be sweet Lady First should these eyes behold these wretched hands Pluck forth my entrals should my harmlesse soul When 't is transported over Charons passage But have intelligence that you were injur'd It would return and kill your enemy Var. What needs a further triall of thy love Then know that draught I gave thee was not poyson But is as cordiall as th' Hyblaean neclar Rod. This is beyond the fadome of my weak Conception's that you durst expose your life To one whom you for ought he knew had injur'd Var. I durst expos't to thee I knew thy heart Forgive me now the rude assault I made Upon thy patience here accept my hand My heart my love 't is all thine own Rod. This gift Is more to me then th' Orientall Empire Which lies embroider'd with earths chiefest treasure Pactolus nor proud Tagus cannot bring So rich a Present to their native Prince As is Varina's love Alas one kisse Stoln from her lips is worth th' Grand-Signiors bliss Exeunt Scaena quinta Enter Gaspar solus I 'll be an Argus for no other name Will better sit me I will watch this Io I 'll dive into her secrets and her maids I 'll look with Eagles eyes into her wayes And went she through her actions as the snakes Glide o're the stones yet would I find their tract Exit Scena sexta Enter Alonzo Frederique Picarro Alo. LEt me perswade you Brother to surcease This endlesse suit what wilt advantage you To keep his carcasse Fred. Why ran he in debt I could have kept my money Pic. Sir my Father Doth not deny to pay you all he asks Is time of payment Alo. Can he offer fairer He owes me money yet I so respect Alvarez credit that I 'll take his word Without security Fred. And because you Will play the fool and lose your money must I doe so too let me then have his land Pic. Sir if you 'l take my bond I will oblige My selfe and all the land my Father leaves me To give you satisfaction Fred. Keep your land Sow garlick on 't I will have nought but money Give me my money Alo. You 're the strangest man That e're I dealt with had not you farre better Take that then loose all say he die in prison What will you get then Fred. 'S body that I 'll sell To the Dice-makers they shall put his bones To the same use they were at while he liv'd He may thank 's gaming for 't the Dice and â—s Drabs Pic. My patience will not hear this Covetous man Were 't not for th'reverence I ow this house Thou shouldst not thus abuse thy betters Fre. He Threatens bear witnesse Sir I 'll have your tongue bound to the peace Enter Balthazar Alo. Balthazar pray perswade Your Fathers patience Bal. Where 's your daughter Sir Not stirring Alo. Yes Mariana Enter Mariana Ma. Did
you call Bal. My business Sir is private Alo. We 'll withdraw Exeunt Alonzo Frederique Picarro Bal. Good morrow Mistress slept you well last night Your eyes look red I doubt you slept not well Ma. What makes you look so ghastly Bal. Faith I dream'd Last night that being underneath your window I heard men talk there and you answer Ma. Dreams Are foolish fancies and 't is witchcraft Sir To credit them Bal. Nay more I heard you vow Love unto one and bid him come and enter Into your Conclave you doe understand me Ma. Yes that you dream'd so Bal. And as he was going I staid his passage and he wounded me And when I wak't blushing Aurora told me That I was wounded Ma. Sir You did but dream Beleeve it not Bal. Yes Mariana see This Crimson livery which your servants bounty Last night bestow'd upon me 't is a brave one Does 't not become me finely Ma. Saints protect me How came you hurt my dearest Balthazar You are not wounded Bal. This is brave she will Perswade me she is innocent O woman How various are thy humours thy devices How sly thy projects Men with ease can find Natures obscurest reaches over-reach The craft of Serpents tame wild beasts and bring All things to their subjection onely woman With her deceit surpasses man confounds His best capacity But tell me Mistress Did you not see me wounded Ma. I These eyes Would have turn'd blind at such a sight let 's see Is your wound dangerous Bal. Heav'ns I think deceit Has left its room in Hell and built its mansion Within thy breast Is' t possible your face Can be so full of impudence to sweare A thing so false Ma. He raves I 'll call for help Bal. Yet more Maeanders tell me hypocrite My fine dissembler who it was you set To be my Butcher I 'll not seek revenge But as my duty is go kiss his hands Prostrate my neck unto his honor'd feet Because my Mistress loves him Ma. Las he 's frantick Bal. True you have made me Mariana were there Any evasion to excuse thy crime I should be ready to believe thou mightst Be blamelesse yet But I have proofs that banish All probabilities my ears can tell That thou' rt turn'd Harpy Oh! there is no trust No faith in woman left Mar. Yet in this fury Dear Balthasar what have your jealous eyes Observ'd in my behaviour You should think That when my Fathers will hath made me yours I should fall off and take another Bal. Nothing My eyes and feeling faile me all my senses Were wrapt in extasies of endlesse pleasure To think you were my Mistress I do know That you are vertuous your affection 's wholly Bent to my love let me but kisse your hand But touch it onely and you 'l soon perceive With what an equall temper I can doe it I 'm none of those who carry hot-houses Stoves in their blood I 've been too cold a Lover Too modest with you therefore you reject me Mar. Yet more outragious Bal. And have taken one Some strange-backt monster whom perchance you 've seen Out of your window in the Placa take The quick Strapado nimbly or have born Some massy burden and his big-made joynts Ne're crack beneath his ponderous weight that promis'd An abler body to content your lust More raging then a Goats be briefe who is' t Some slavish Galliego that has stoln My int'rest in thee Ma. You 're a foul mouth'd man Come you to rail you shall find fuell friend To feed your fire with till it s hear has burn'd Thy intrails out I love another goe And tell my father on 't nor you nor he Shall know his name it was the same that hurt you You may goe tell Sir Bal. Impudence declare draws his sword Or perish Mar. Murder Enter Alonze Frederique Gaspar Alo. How now Balthazar What drawn upon my daughter 't is not fair Mar. Pray give an ear unto my short request As you 're my Father kill me e're my name Be blasted thus by this ignoble man Whose head hath forg'd a crime against me Fiends Would ne're have dream't of Bal. Strumpet Alo. Sir desist You have done more already then you 'l answer Mar. He charges me that underneath my window Last night some people hurt him that he heard Men talk to me which how 't is possible And you not heare it judge your selfe but malice Ne're wants a subject to defame Bal. Your servant Can verifie my words as truth Gas Who I Did not the rev'rence which I ow this house With-hold me from the fury which the lie You call me as a witness to had stir'd In these hot veins you should be taught base man How to create such Fabricks Bal. Slave we will Have vengeance Gas Yes we mean to have it Sir You 'l walk or by this Rapier Bal. Walk awhile I shall Live to dissect thy treacherous Corps as small As crums or Atomes Exeunt Balth. Fred. Mariana Gas Heark you Signior The goodness that your goodness makes me owe Your Family obliges me to be Nice in a point that does so near concern Your houses reputation Balthasar Said nought but truth for Mariana has Assiduall suitors Alo. Hadst th' a Devils spleen Or Serpents breath thou could'st not blast her goodness Gas First should this weapon rip my entrals out E're I would be so impious as to seek To blast her fame honest her sex may raise After her death Mausolaean monuments Or some tall Pyramid as to the chastest E're crown'd the name of women Nature first Would go awry the Ocean lose its course E're she her vertue Lass Sir I do only Tell she 's frequented Alo. Why did you deny this When he did charge you with it Gas Though to you In privat I give notice think not Patron I am so careless of your Daughters honour Or your good name although in things of truth To back her foes I do believe her spirit Flowing with noble thoughts rejected him Only to place her love upon another Of higher merit Alo. Then it seems you know Whom she 's frequented by Gas Your'e pleas'd to call My faith in question Sir Alo. Next time he comes Be sure you give me notice that 's your charge Gas I 'll loose this worthless breath else when you see You will believe it mean time what you please Do Sir Be sure you shall behold that she Shall miss her match by my fine treachery Aside Exeunt ACT 3. SCENE 1. Enter Roderiguez Varina and Corinna Rod. THy Uncle Love holds still a jealous eye On all my actions and I am advis'd By my friend Gaspar that 's suspicious ears Are still behind the hangings that the servants Have from him in commands to watch who visits Your self or Mariana 't will be best And safest in my judgement in his presence That thou forbear to cast a smile upon me And that like old December I should look With an unpleasant and contracted brow Var. Why
thee virtuous discharge Thy soul of such a Ponderous crime reveal That Chaves to me Mar. No I must not Jove Will be incenst against me more in peace With all I 'll yeeld this little puff of breath This flash of air my life to th' hands of death Him I forgive that most hath wrong'd you yet That you shall know you are beholding to him 'T is he that saved your life at my request My blood converts to jelly I am cold As Mrable-dew within my minute comes Close my poor eies Picarro say I die A penitent that 's all Oh! begins to die Pic. Receive her Saints To your society how sweet she looks She 's yet alive Cat. O no! Her breath is gone weeps Pic. Surely she is it cannot be such beauty Should rest in a cold Carcass I could wish It were undone or that my hand had been Blasted e'er it had struck her hadst thou carried Vertue in this fair mansion thou hadst made me Too happy Offers to kill Catalina Cat. Sir you will not kill me too Pic. No! I have done enough yet more blood must Follow help take her off the sordid Earth Too good to bear her and then bear her in Be private as the night is Exit Cat. I will Sir Mar. So is he gone This Catalina I Have done to purchase my enfranchisement Infuse some balsame to my bleeding wounds Distill'd by some divine Paeonian hand And now Picarro will I seek thy death And unto Chaves plot a quick escape Then to the Church or Chappel we will hit To make compleat our wisht felicity Exeunt Scena Tertia Enter Eugenia Chaves Eug. A little further Sir I left him Master Here 's Signior Chaves Heav'ns protect me see My Master 's slain Cha. By whom Eug. I know not Sir I 'm by this reason destitute of means To helpe me here a stranger please you Sir To grace me with employment I should study To do you faithful service Cha. Friend I care no And if I do Enter Roderiguez Rod Sir I am now arriv'd At my long wisht for port of bliss and wealth The holy rites are done she is my own It is the greatest now of my misfortune That yours laggs still behinde Cha Our love returns Thanks to your wish Heav'ns crown your love with joy Long live in peace and bliss and may your issue Puzzle Arithmetick to number them Accept my thoughts good friend they 're good though they Tumble from my distracted brain if ought Can add unto thy happiness but wish it And my affection shall cry Amen! Rod. Your love commands my duty to return Whole Floods of thanks your wish is so compleat 'T needs no addition Sir what fellow 's that May he be conscious to our secrecies Cha. Yes He is trusty 't is an honest fellow Rod. Gaspar has been with me and full of tears Told me since last night w' are discovered Your Mistriss had run her lives hazard had not Gaspar Cha. Reliev'd her is' t not so That fellow Was born to do me good Rod. Her jealous spouse Perceiving that she did affect some other Had slain her had not she begg'd life till night And then we in our Masque must kill him Cha. Brave Excellent 'T is beyond imagination Come let us in and make us ready Exeunt Eug. Well! I 'll wing my feet until my zeal can finde Picarro out and unto him reveal My Masters secrets save his life and then He will kill Chaves so I shall revenge His slighted perjury and if I live Chaves shall die my brother I 'll forgive Exeunt Scena Quarta Enter Gaspar and Varlots Gas Come come My noble Lads The time grows on The Masquers will come by and by here hold There 's 40. Duckets spare you no mans life I bid you kill Var. I warrant you Sir we are old dog at it they die if they had Cats lives Cas Well said my Trojans I shall live to make You walk the streets in Velvet Plush and Scarlet Fye on th' Dutch serges and these fustian doublets Men of your quality to walk in such Vulgar accoutrements Varl We are Souldiers Sir Gas I 'll have you all made Captains go behind And when I hem be nimble as the Eeles Away my bullies Enter Picarro Pic. tell me treach'rous Gaspar What evil have I merited of you That you should be so perjur'd as to plot My ruine purposely to free that Strumpet Should it be true I might well stile thee villain I scarce believe it Gas 'T is a lye beyond The Devils forging think Sir had my heart Been so malitious I would have appear'd Again before you you may easily see The motive of their feigning this in hopes By blaming me to save themselves to make you Beholding to them for the dear engagement Of freeing you from danger more for spite That I love you and hate them they imagin'd Thus to betray me to your rage receive Dear Sir my weapon if you can conceit That I can be so impious kill me do it I do beseech you Pic. I should first conceive All false and base before thy loyalty Thou hast been alwaies honest true to me Gas Villany't selfe would not deceive your goodnesse Enter Engenia Eug. Is not one Signior Gaspar here Gas He 's here What would you friend Eug. My Master Signior Chaves Commends him greatly to you and desires To speake one word with you Pic. Chaves what 's he Gas One of the Masquers Eug. Though a stranger to you Because I see you are a Gentleman I 'll save your life know Cozen'd man the masque Is nothing but a dance unto your death That Gaspar has betraid you to that Chaves That whor'd your wife he doth expect without To kill you 't is enough farewel be wise Exit Pic. Thou now art grown to that vast height in sin That Dis would gape and swallow thee but that The prime Fiends feare that thy vile treachery Shouldst thou come thither would so farre out-shine As doth Hyperion in his fullest Orb The smallest Pleiad so they should not be Respected 'mong th' infernal Regiments Thy crafts are now disclos'd thy faults ript up I 'll send thee strait with a deserved doom To keep society with the Harpyan troops And Fiends of that Tartarian Republick Gas Still you 're so credulous just Judges use E're they condemne to heare both parties speak I understanding Chaves to have wrong'd You in your wife that you might vendicate The highest stile in vengeance-book I went And told him all he has related promised You should be slain but this was my intent Onely to train him hither to his death That as they both had sin'd they both might suffer Vengeance together Pic. Why knew I not this Gas 'T was my intent you should have known 't he only Anticipated my relation That you should know I lie not hem hem varlets appear Pic. What are these Gas Why these are they I hir'd to do the act To send them both to