that were my Companions before shall now be my fauorites They that were my Friends before shall now be my followers They that were my Seruants before shall now be my knaues But they that were my Creditors before shall remaine my Creditors still Mug. Excellent Lord Come will you shew your Lordship in the Presence now D'ol. Faith I do not care if I go and make a face or two there or a few gracefull legges speake a little Italian and away there 's all a Presence doth require FINIS ACTVS SECVNDI ACTVS TERTII Saena prima Enter Uandome and St. Anne St. Anne YOu haue enclinde me more to leaue this life Then I supposde it possible for an Angell Nor is your iudgement to suppresse your passion For so deare lou'd a Sister being as well Your blood and flesh as mine the least enforcement Of your disswasiue arguments And besides Your true resemblance of her much supplies Her want in my affections with all which I feele in these deepe griefes to which I yeeld A kind of falce sluggish and rotting sweetnes Mixt with an humour where all things in life Lie drownd in sower wretched and horred thoughts The way to cowardly desperation opened And whatsoeuer vrgeth soules accurst To their destruction and sometimes their plague So violently gripes me that I lie Whole dayes and nightes bound at his tirranous feete So that my dayes are not like life or light But bitterest death and a continuall night Uand. The ground of all is vnsuffised Loue Which would be best casd with some other obiect The generall rule of Naso being autentique Quod successore nouo vincitur omnis Amor For the affections of the minde drawne foorth In many currents are not so impulsiue In anie one And so the Persian King Made the great Riuer Ganges runn distinctly In an innumerable sort of Channels By which meanes of a fierce and dangerous Flood He turnd it into many pleasing Riuers So likewise is an Armie disarayd Made penetrable for the assaulting foe So huge Fiers being deffused grow asswadgd Lastly as all force being vnite increaseth So being dispearst it growes lesse sharpe and ceaseth S. Anne Ahlas I know I cannot loue another My hart accustomd to loue onely her My eyes accustomd to view onely her Will tell me whatsoeuer is not her is foule and hatefull Uand. Yet forbeare to keepe her Still in your sight force not her breathles body Thus against Nature to suruiue being dead Let it consume that it may reassume A forme incorruptible and refraine The places where you vsde to ioy in her Heu fuge dilectas terras fuge littus Amatum For how can you be euer sound or safe Where in so many red steps of your wounds Gaspe in your eyes with change of place be sure Like sicke men mending you shall find recure Enter the Duke D'oliue Gueaquin Ieronime Muge Rhod. to see the dead Countesse that is kept in her attire vnburied D'ol. Fayth Madam my companie may well be spard at so mournefull a visitation For by my soule to see Pigmalion dote vpon a Marble Picture a senceles Statue I should laugh and spoyle the Tragedie Gur. Oh t is an obiect full of pittie my Lord D'ol. T is pittie in deed that any man should loue a woman so constantly Duke Bitterly turnd my Lord we must still admire you D'ol. Tush my Lord true Manhood can neither mourne nor admire It 's fitt for Women they can weepe at pleasure euen to admiration Gur. But men vse to admire rare things my Lord D'ol. But this is nothing rare T is a vertue common for men to loue their Wiues after death The value of a good Wife as all good things else are better knowne by their want then by their fruition for no man loues his Wife so well while she lines but he loues her ten times better when shee 's dead Rho. This is sound Philosophie my Lord D'ol. Faith my Lord I speake my thoughts and for mine owne part I should so ill indure the losse of a Wife alwayes prouided I lou'd her that if I lost her this weeke I 'de haue another by the beginning a' th next And thus resolu'd I leaue your Highnes to deale with Atropos for cutting my Ladyes threed I am for France all my care is for Followers to Imp out my Traine I feare I must come to your Grace for a Presse for I will be followd as becomes an honorable Lord and that is like an honest Squire for with our great Lords followers abrod and Hospitalitie at home are out of date The world 's now growne thriftie He that fils a whole Page in folio with his Stile thinkes it veriest Noble to be mand with one bare Page and a Pandare and yet Pandare in auntient time was the name of an honest Courtier what t is now Viderit vtilitas Come Witts let 's to my Chamber Exeunt Manent Vando S. An. Uando. Well now my Lord remember all the reasons And arguments I vsde at first to you To draw you from your hurtfull passions And there withall admit one further cause Drawne from my loue and all the powers I haue Euryone vow'd sister to my sister Whose vertues beauties and perfections Adorne our Countrie and do neerest match With her rich graces that your loue adores Hath wounded my affections and to her I would intreat your Lordships gracefull word S. Anne But is it true Loues my deare brother now It much delights me for your choyce is Noble Yet need you not vrge me to come abrode Your owne worth will suffize for your wisht speed Uand. I know my Lord no man aliue can winn Her resolu'd iudgment from virginitie Vnlesse you speake for him whose word of all Dames Is held most sweet and worthie to perswade them S. Anne The world will thinke mee too phantasticall To ope so sodenly my vow'd obscurenes Uand. My Lord my loue is suddaine and requires A suddaine remedie If I be delayed Consider Loues delay breedes desperation By waighing how strongly Loue workes in your selfe S. Anne Deare Brother nothing vnderneath the Starres Makes mee so willing to pertake the ayre And vndergo the burden of the world As your most worthy selfe and your wisht good And glad I am that by this meanes I may See your descent continued and therein Behold some new borne Image of my wife Deare life take knowledge that thy Brothers loue Makes me dispaire with my true zeale to thee And if for his sake I admit the Earth To hide this treasure of thy pretious beauties And that thy part suruiuing be not pleasd Let it appeare to mee ye iust assisters Of all intentions bent to soueraigne iustice And I will follow it into the Graue Or dying with it or preserue it thus As long as any life is left betwixt vs Exeunt Enter Monseuer D'oliue Rhoderique D'ol. But didst note what a presence I came of with-all Rho. Sfoot you drew the eyes of the whole presence vpon you
enough to be a Gentleman Vsher I must haue one ther 's no remedie Fare-well haue a care of my Followers all but my pettie Broker hee le shift for him selfe Rho. Well let vs alone for your followers Exeunt Manet D'oliue D'ol. Well said deserue and spie out Amb. Me thanke your Lordship D'ol. Heauen I beseech thee what an abhominable sort of Followers haue I put vpon mee These Courtiers feed on 'am with my countenaunce I can not looke into the Cittie but one or other makes tender of his good partes to me either his Language his Trauaile his Intelligence or something Gentlemen send me their younger Sonnes furnisht in compleat to learne fashions for-sooth as if the riding of fiue hundred miles spending 1000 Crownes would make 'am wiser then God meant to make 'am Others with-child with the trauailing humor as if an Asse for going to Paris could come home a Courser of Naples Others are possest with the humor of Gallantrie fancie it to be the onelie happinesse in this world to be enabled by such a coolor to carrie a Feather in his Crest weare Gold-lace guilt Spurs so sets his fortunes on t Turnes two or three Tenements into Trunckes and creepes home againe with lesse then a Snayle not a House to hide his head in Three hundred of these Gold-finches I haue entertained for my Followers I can go in no corner but I meete with some of my Wifflers in their accoutraments you may heare 'am halfe a mile ere they come at you and smell 'am halfe an hower after they are past you sixe or seauen make a perfect Morrice-daunce they need no Bells their Spurs serue their turne I am ashamd to traine 'am abroade they le say I carrie a whole Forrest of Feathers with mee and I should plod afore 'am in plaine stuffe like a writing Schole-maister before his Boyes when they goe a feasting I am afraid of nothing but I shall be Ballated I and all my Wifflers But it s no matter I le fashion 'am I le shew 'am fashions By heauen I le giue three parts of 'am the slipp let 'am looke sort and yet to say trueth I shall not need for if I can but linger my Iorney another moneth I am sure I shall mute halfe my Feathers I feele 'am begin to weare thinne alreadie There 's not tenne Crownes in twentie a their purses And by this light I was told at Court that my greasie Host of the Porcupine last Holiday was got vp to the eares in one of my Followers Satten suites And Uandome went so farre that he swore he saw two of them hangd My selfe indeed passing yesterday by the Fripperie spide two of them hang out at a stall with a gambrell thrust from shoulder to shoulder like a Sheepe that were new flead T is not for nothing that this Pettie Broker followes me The Vulture smels a pray not the Carcases but the Cases of some of my deceassed Followers S'light I thinke it were my wisest course to put tenne poundes in stocke with him and turne pettie Broker certainelie there 's good to be done upon 't if we be but a day or two out of towne heele be able to load euerie day a fresh Horse with Satten suites and send them backe hither indeed t is like to be hot trauaile and therefore t'wilbe an case to my Followers to haue their cloathes at home afore 'am They le on get off how they can Little know they what Pikes their Feathers must passe Before they goe the Sergeants when they come home the Surgeons but chuse them I le wash my hands on 'am Exit FINIS ACTVS TERTII ACTVS QVARTI Saena prima Uandome solus MY Sisters Exequies are now performed VVith such pompe as exprest the excellence Of her Lords loue to her And firde the enuie Of our great Duke who would haue no man equall The honour he does t' his adored wife And now the Earle as he hath promist mee Is in this sad Cell of my honord Mistresse Vrging my loue to faire Euryone VVhich I framde onely to bring him abrode And if it might succeed make his affectes VVith change of obiectes change his helples sorrow To helpfull loue I stood where I obserud Their wordes and lookes and all that past betwixt them And shee hath with such cunning borne her selfe In fitting his affection with pretending Her mortified desires her onely loue To Vertue and her louers and in briefe Hath figurd with such life my deare dead Sister Enchasing all this with her heightned Beautie That I beleeue she hath entangld him And wonn successe to our industrious plot If he be toucht I know it greiues his soule That hauing vndertane to speake for mee Imagining my loue was as I fainde His owne loue to her should enforce his tongue To court her for himselfe and deceaue mee By this time we haue tried his passionate blood If he be caught as heauen vouchsafe he be I le play a little with his Phantasie Enter St. Anne S. Anne Am I alone Is there no Eye nor Eare That doth obserue mee Heauen how haue I graspt My Spirrits in my hart that would haue burst To giue wisht issue to any violent loue Dead Wife excuse me since I loue thee still That liu'st in her whom I must loue for thee For he that is not mou'd with strongest passion In viewing her that man did ne're know thee Shee 's thy suruiuing Image But woo's mee Why am I thus transported past my selfe Uan. Oh are your dull vxorious spirrits raisd One madnesse doth be another still St. Anne But stay Aduise mee Soule why didst thou light me ouer this threshold was 't to wrong my Brother To wrong my Wife in wronging of my Brother I le die a miserable man No villane Yet in this case of loue who is my Brother Who is my Father Who is any kinn I care not I am nearest to my selfe I will pursue my Passion I will haue her Uan. Traytor I heere arrest thee in the names Of Heauen and Earth and deepest Acheron Loues traytor Brothers traytor to thy Wife S. Anne O Brother stood you so neare my dishonour Had you forborne awhile all had been changd You know the variable thoughts of Loue You know the vse of Honour that will euer Retire into it selfe and my iust blood Shall rather flow with Honour then with Loue Be you a happie Louer I a friend For I will die for loue of her and thee Uand. My Lord and brother I le not challenge more In loue and kindnes then my loue deserues That you haue found one whom your hart can like And that One whom we all sought to preferre To make you happie in a life renewde It is a heauen to mee by how much more My hart imbrac't you for my Sisters loue T is true I did dissemble loue t'Euryone To make you happie in her deare affection Who more dotes on you then you can on her Enioy Euryone shee is
your owne The same that euer my deare Sister was And heauen blesse both your loues as I release All my faind loue and interest to you S. Anne How Noblie hath your loue deluded mee How iustlie haue you beene vniust to mee Let mee embrace the Oracle of my good The Aucthor and the Patron of my life Uand. Tush betwixt vs my Lord what need these tearmes As if we knew not one another yet Make speed my Lord and make your Nuptials short As they are sodaine blest in your desires S Anne Oh I wish nothing more then lightning hast Uan. Stay one word first my Lord You are a sweet brother To put in trust and woo loue for another S. Anne Pray thee no more of that Vand. Well then be gone my Lord her brother comes Exit S. Anne Enter Vaum. Vaum. Most happie Friend How hath our plot succeeded Uand. Hee 's our owne His blood was framde for euerie shade of vertue To rauish into true inamourate fire The Funerall of my Sister must be held With all solemnitie and then his Nuptialls With no lesse speed and pompe be celebrate Vaum. What wonders hath your fortunate spirrite vertues Wrought to our comforts Could you crowne th' enchantments Of your diuine Witte with another Spell Of powre to bring my Wife out of her Cell You should be our quicke Hermes our Alcides Uand. That 's my next lobour come my Lord your selfe Shall stand vnseene and see by next morns light Which is her Beddtime how my Braines-bould valoure Will rouse her from her vowes seueritie No Will nor Powre can withstand Pollicie Exit Enter D'oliue Pacque Dique D'ol. Welcome little Witts are you hee my Page Pacque here Makes choice of to be his fellow Coch-horse Diq. I am my Lord D'ol. What Countrie man Diq. Borne i' th Cittie Pac. But begot i' th Court I can tell your Lordship he hath had as good Court breeding as anie Impe in a Countrie If your Lordship please to examine him in anie part of the Court Accidence from a Noune to an Interiection I le vndertake you shall finde him sufficient D'ol. Saist thou so little Witt Why then Sir How manie Pronounes be there Diq. Faith my Lord there are more but I haue learned but three sorts the Goade the Fulham and the Stop-kater-tre which are all demonstratiues for heere they be There are Relatiues too but they are nothing without their Antecedents D'ol. Well said little Witt I'faith How manie Antecedents are there Diq. Faith my Lord their number is vncertaine but they that are are either Squires or Gentlemen vshers D'ol. Verie well said when all is done the Court is the onely Schoole of good education especially for Pages and Waighting women Paris or Padua or the famous Schoole of England called Winchester famous I meane for the Goose Where Schollers weare Petticoates so long till their Penn and Inckhorns knocke against their knees All these I say are but Belfries to the Bodie or Schoole of the Court Hee that would haue his Sonne proceed Doctor in three dayes let him sende him thither there 's the Porge to fashion all the parts of them There they shall learne the true vse of their good Partes indeed Pac. Well my Lord you haue said well for the Court What sayes your Lordshippe now to vs Courtiers Shall we goe the voyage D'ol. My little Hermophrodites I entertaine you heere into my Chamber and if need be nearer your seruice you know I will not promise Mountaines nor assure you Annuities of fourtie or fiftie Crownes in a word I will promise nothing but I will be your good Lord do you not doubt Diq. We do not my Lord but are sure you will shew your selfe Noble and as you promise vs nothing so you will Honorably keepe promise with vs and giue vs nothing D'ol. Prettie little Witt y'faith Can he verse Pac. I and sett too my Lord Hee 's both a Setter and a Verser D'ol. Prettie in faith but I meane has he a vaine Naturall Pac. O my Lord it comes from him as easelie Diq. As Suites from a Courtier without money or money from a Cittizen without securitie my Lord D'o. Wel I perceiue nature has suited your Witts I le suite you in Guarded coates answerable to your Witts for Witt 's as sutable to guarded Coates as Wisedome is to welted Gownes My other Followers Horse themselues my selfe will horse you And now tell me for I will take you into my bosome What 's the opinion of the many headed Best touching my new adition of Honour Diq. Some thinke my Lord it hath giuen you adition of pride and outer euidance D'ol. They are deceaued that thinke so I must confesse it would make a Foole proude but for me I am semper idem Pac. We beleeue your Lordship D'ol. I finde no alteration in my selfe in the world for I am sure I am no wiser then I was when I was no Lord nor no more bountifull nor no more honest onely in respect of my state I assume a kinde of State to receiue Suters now with the Nodd of Nobilitie not as before with the Cappe of courtesie the knee of Knighthood And why knee of Knighthood little Witte there 's another Question for your Court Accidence Diq. Because Gentlemen or Yoemen or Pessantes or so receiue Knighthood on their knees Pac. The signification of the Knee of Knighthood in Heraldie an 't please your Lordship is that Knights are tyed in honour to fight vp to the knees in blood for the defence of faire Ladyes D'ol. Verie good but if it be so what honour doe they deserue that purchase their Knighthood Diq. Purchase their Knighthood my Lord Mary I thinke they come truely by 't for they pay well for 't D'ol. You cut mee off by the knees little Witte but I say if you will heare mee that if they deserue to be Knighted that purchase their Knighthood with fighting vp to the knee What doe they deserue that purchase their Knighthood with fighting aboue the knee Pac. Mary my Lord I say the purchase is good if the conueyance will hold water D'ol. VVhy this is excellent by heauen twentie poundes annuitie shal not purchase you from my heeles But foorth now VVhat is the opinion of the world touching this new Honour of mine Doe not Fooles enuie it Diq. No my Lord but wise men wonder at it you hauing so buried your wisedome heretofore in Tauerns and Vaultinghouses that the world could neuer discouer you to be capable of Honour D'ol. As though Achilles could hide himselfe vnder a Womans clothes was he not discouered at first This Honor is like a Woman or a Crocadile chuse you whether it flies them that follow it and followes them that flie it For my selfe how euer my worth for the time kept his bedd yet did I euer prophecie to my selfe that it would rise before the Sun-set of my dayes I did euer dreame that this head was borne to beare a breadth this shoulder to