knew which were the best of twain Which for I do not I am sicke with paine Enter her Boy How now sir boy what is the newes with you Boy The Gentleman forsooth the other day That would haue bought the iewell at our stall Is here to speake with yee Iane Oh God it is the King Good mistresse Blague withdraw ye from this place Oh come anon so soone as he is gone And sirra get you to the shop againe Exit Boy M. Bla. Now mistris Shoare bethink ye what to do Such suters come not euerie day to wooe Mistris Blague departs and the king enters in his former disguise K. Thou maist conuict me beauties pride of boldnes That I intrude like an vnbidden guest But loue being guide my fault will séem the lesse Ia. Most welcome to your subiects homely roofe The foote my Soueraigne seldome doth offend Vnlesse the heart some other hurt intend King The most thou seest is hurt vnto my selfe How for thy sake is maiestie disroabde Riches made poore and dignitie brought low Onely that thou mightst our affection know Iane The more the pittie that within the skie The sunne that should all other vapours drie And guide the world with his most glorious light Is muffled vp himselfe in wilfull night K. The want of thée faire Cinthia is the cause Spread thou thy siluer-brightnesse in the aire And strait the gladsome morning will appeare Iane I may not wander he that guides my carre Is an immooued constant fixed starre Ki. But I will giue that starre a comets name And shield both thée and him from further blame Iane How if the host of heauen at this abuse Kepine who can the prodigie excuse K. It lies within the compasse of my powre To dim their enuious eies dare séeme to lowre But leauing this our Enigmatike talke Thou must sweet Iane repaire vnto the Court His tongue intreats controls the greatest péere His hand plights loue a royall scepter holds And in his heart bee hath confirmde thy good Which may not must not shal not be withstood Iane If you enforce me I haue nought to say But wish I had not liude to see this day K. Blame not the time thou shalt haue cause to soy Iane in the euening I will send for thee And thou and thine shall bee aduancde by mee In signe whereof receiue this true-loue kisse Nothing il meant there can be no amisse Exit Iane Well I will in and ere the time beginne Learne how to be repentant for my sinne Exit Enter Lord Maior maister Shoare and Fraunces Emersley Maior But Cosin Shoare are yee assurde it was the King you saw in such disguise Sho. Do I know you the vncle to my wife know I Franke Emersley her brother here so surely doe I know that counterfeit to bee King Fran. Well admit all this And that his Maiestie in such disguise please to suruey the maner of our City or what occasion else may like himselfe Mee thinks you haue small reason brother Shoare to be displeasde thereat Ma. Oh I haue sound him now Because my Niece his wife is beautifull And well reputed for her vertuous parts He in his fond conceit misdoubts the King Doth doate on her in his affection I know not Cosin how she way be changde By any cause in you procuring it From the faire cariage of her wonted course But well I wot I haue oft heard you say Shee merited no scruple of mislike If now some gyddie fancie in your braine Make you conceiue sinisterly of her And with a person of such difference I tell you Cosin more for her respect Then to sooth you in such sottishnes I would reucale yée open to the world And let your folly iustly plague your selfe Sho. Vnckle you are too forward in your rage And much mistake me in this suddennes Your Nieces reputation haue I prizde And shrined as deuoutly in my soule As you or any that it can concerne Nor when I tell you that it is the King Comes muffled like a common Seruingman Doe I inferre thereby my wife is false Or swerues one iot from wonted modestie Though in my shop shée sit more to respect Her seruants dutie then for any skill Shee doth or can pretend in what we trade Is it not strange that euer when he comes It is to her and will not deale with me Ah Vncle Franke nay would all her kin Were here to censure of my cause aright Though I misdeeme not her yet giue me leaue To doubt what his slie walking may entend And let me tell yée hee that is possest Of such a beautie feares vndermining guests Especially a mightie one like him Whose greatnes may guilde ouer vgly sinne But say his comming is not to my wife Then hath he some slie ayming at my life By false compounded mettals or light gold Or else some other trifle to be sold When kings themselues so narrowly do prie Into the world men feare and why not I Fran. Beléeue my brother in this doubtful case I know not well how I should answere yee I wonder in this serious busie time Of this great gathered beneuolence For his regaining of his right in France The day and nightly turmoile of his Lords Yea of the whole estate in generall He can be spared from these great affaires And wander here disguised in this sort But is not this your boy Enter the Boy Sho. Yes marie is it how now what newes with thée Boy Maister my mistresse by a Nobleman Is sent for to the King in a close Coach Shée s gon with him these are the newes I bring Ma. How my niece sent for to the King By a Nobleman and she is gone with him Nay then I like it not Fran. How gone saist thou S. Be patient Vnckle storme not gentle Franke The wrong is mine by whom a king To talke of such it is no common thing She is gone thou saist Boy Yes truely sir t is so Sho. I cannot helpe it a Gods name let her goe You cannot helpe it Vnckle no nor you Where kings are medlers meaner men must rue I storme against it no farewell lane Shoare Once thou wast mine but must be so no more Maior Gone to the Court Exit Maior Sho. Yet vnckle will ye rage Let mine example your high heat asswage To note offences in a mightie man It is inough amend it he that can Franke Emersley my wife thy sister was Lands goods and all I haue to thée I passe Saue that poore portion must along with me To beare me from this badge of obloquie It neuer shall be said that Mathew Shoare A Kings dishonour in his bonnet wore Fran. Good brother Sh. Striue not to change me for I am resolud And will not tarrie England fare thou well And Edward for requiting me so well But dare I speake of him forbeare forbeare Come Franke I will surrender all to thee And then abroad where ere my fortune be Exeunt Enter king Edward Howard
letters to vs from whom Mess. My Liedge this from the D. of Burgundy And this is from the Constable of Fraunce K. What newes from them He opens the letter and reades To clayme our right in Fraunce And they will ayde vs yea will ye so But other ayde must ayde vs ere we goe He seemes to read the letters but glaunces on Mistresse Shoare in his reading A womans aid that hath more power then France To crowne vs or to kill vs with mischance If chast resolue be to such beautie tyed Sue how thou canst thou wilt be still denied Her husband hath deserued well of thee Tut loue makes no respect where ere it be Thou wrongst thy Quéene euerie enforced ill Must be endur'de where beautie séekes to kill Thou seemst to read onely to blind their eyes Who knowing it thy folly would despise He starts from the Table Thanks for my cheare L. Maior I am not well I know not how to take these newes This fit I meane That hath bereft me of all reason eleane M. God shield my Soueraigne K. Nay nothing I shall be well anone Ian. May it please your Highnes sit K. I faine with thee nay we must néeds be gon Cosin Howard conuey these letters to our counsel And bid them giue vs their aduise of them Thanks for my cheare L. Maior farewell to you And farewell Mistresse Shoare La. Maioresse I should say It 's you haue causde our parting at this time Farewell M. Shoare farewell to all Wee le meet once more to make amends for this Exeunt King How and Sel. M. Oh God here to be ill My house to cause my Soueraignes discontent Cosin Shoare I had rather spent Sho. Content your selfe my L. kings haue their humors The letters did containe somewhat no doubt That did displease him Iane So my Lord thinke I But by Gods helpe he will be well againe M. I hope so too well Cosin for your paines I can but thanke ye chiefly you faire Niece At night I pray yée both come sup with me How say ye will yee Sh. Yes my Lord wee will So for this time we humbly take our leaue Exeunt Shoare and his wife M. Oh now the sudden sicknesse of my Liedge Afflictes my soule with many passions His Highnes did entend to be right merrie And God he knowes how it would glad my soule If I had seene his Highnes satisfied With the poore entertainement of his Maior His humble vassaile whose lands whose life and all Are and in dutie must be alwaies his Well God I trust will blesse his Graces health And quickly ease him of his sudden fit Take away there ho rid this place And God of heauen blesse my Soueraignes Grace Exit Enter two prentizes preparing the Goldsmiths Shop with plate 1. Pren. Sirra Iacke come set out 2. Pren. You are the elder Prentise I pray you do it least my mistris talke with you when shée comes downe what is it a clocke 1. Pren. Sir by Alhallowes 2. Pren. Lying and stealing will bring ye to the Gallowes Is here all the plate 1. Pren. I that must serue to day Where is the weights and ballance 2. Pr. All readie harke my mistris comes Exit 1. Pren. Enter Mistris Shoare with her worke in her hand Iane Sir boy while I attend the shop my selfe See if the workeman haue dispatcht the Cup How many ounces weighes it 2. Pren. Twentie forsooth Iane What said the Gentleman to the fashion 2. Pren. He told my maister I was not within Iane Go sir make hast your M. is in Cheapeside Take heed ye were best your loytring be not spide The boy departs she sits sowing in her shop Enter the king disguised K. Well fare a case to put a King in yet Good mistris Shoare this doth your loue procure This shape is secret and I hope ti 's sure The Wlatermen that daily vse the Court And see me often knew me not in this At Lyon key I landed in their view Yet none of them tooke knowledge of the King If any gallant striue to haue the wall I le yéelde it gently Soft here must I turne Heere 's Lumbard stréete and here 's the Pellican And there 's the Phenix in the Pellicans nest O rare perfection of rich natures worke Bright twinkling sparke of pretious Diamond Of greater value then all India Were there no Sunne by whose kind louely heat The earth brings forth those stones we hold of prize Her radiant eyes deiected to the ground Would turne each peble to a Diamond Gaze gréedie eies and be not satisfied Till you finde rest where hearts desire doth bide Ia. What would you buy sir that you looke on here K. Your fairest iewell bée it not too deare First how this Saphyre mistris that you weare Iane Sir it is right that will I warrant yee No Ieweller in London showes a better K. No nor the like you praise it passing well Iane Do I no if some Lapidary had the stone more would not buy it then I can demaund T is as well set I thinke as ere yee saw K. Ed. T is set indeed vpon the fairest hand that ere I saw Iane You are disposde to iest but for value his Maiestis might weare it K. Ed. Might he ifaith Iane Sir t is the ring I meane K. Ed. I meant the hand Iane You are a merrie man I see you come to cheape and not to buy K. Ed. Yet hée that offers fairer then I le doe shal hardly find a partner in his bargaine Iane Perhaps in buying things of so smal value King Rather because no wealth can purchase it Ian. He were too fond that would so highly prize The thing which once was giuen away for loue Kin. His hap was good that came so easily by it Iane The gift so small that askte who could denie it King Oh she gaue more that such a gift then gaue Then earth ere had or world shall euer haue Iane His hap is ill should it be as you say That hauing giuen him what you rate so high And yet is still the poorer by the match King That easely prooues he doth not know the worth Iane Yet hauing had the vse of it so long It rather prooues you ouer rate the thing He being a chapman as it séemes you are King Indéed none should aduenture on the thing That 's to bée purchast onely by a King Iane If Kings loue that which no man else respects It may be so else do I sée small reason A King should take delight in such course stuffe King Liues there a King that would not giue his crowne To purchase such a kingdome of content Iane In my conceit right well you aske that question The world I thinke containes not such fond king King Why mistresse Shoare I am the man will do it Iane It s proudly spoke although I not beléeue it Were he King Edward that should offer it King But shall I haue it Iane Upon what acquaintance King
Why since I saw thée last Iane Where was that K. At the L. Maiors in the presence of the King Iane I haue forgotten that I saw you there For there were many that I tooke small note of King Of me you did and we had some discourse Iane You are deceiued Sir I had then no time For my attendance on his maiestie King I le gage my hand vnto your hand of that Looke well vpon me He discouers himselfe Iane Now I beséech you let this strange disguise she kneels Excuse my boldnes to your maiesty What euer we possesse is all your highnesse Onely mine honor which I cannot grant K. Onely thy loue bright angel Edward craues For which I thus aduentured to sée thée Enter Maister Shoare Ia. But here comes one to whom I only gaue it And he I doubt will say you shal not haue it King Am I so soone cut off oh spight How say ye mistris will ye take my offer Ia. Indeed I cannot sir afford it so King You le not be offered fairlier I beléeue Iane Indeed you offer like a Gentleman But yet the iewel will not so be left Sho. Sir if you bid not too much vnder-foot I le driue the bargaine twixt you and my wife K. Alas good Shoare my selfe dare answere no King aside Nothing can make thée such a iewel forgoe She faith you shall be too much looser by it Sho. See in the row then if you can spéed better King See many worlds arow affords not like As he goes forth Shoare lookes earnestly and perceiues it is the king whereat he seemeth greatly discontented I. Why lookst thou Mat knowst thou the gentleman Alas what ailes thée that thou lookst so pale What théere swéet hart alas where hast thou béen Sho. Nay nothing Iane know you the Gentleman Iane Not I sweet heart alas why do you aske Is he thine enemie Sho. I cannot tell What came hee here to cheapen at our shoppe Iane This Iewell loue Sho. Well I pray God he came for nothing else Iane Why who is it I do suspect him Shoare That you demaund thus doubtedly of me Sho. Ah Iane it is the King Ia. The king what then i st for that thou sighst Were he a thousand kings thou hast no cause To feare his presence or suspect my lout Sho. I know I haue not sée he comes againe The king enters againe muffled in his cloake King Still is my hindzer there be patient heart Some fitter season must asswage the smart What will ye take that mistris which I offred ye I come againe sir as one willing to buy Iane Indeed I cannot sir I pray ye Deale with my husband heare what he will say Sho. I le sell it worth your money if you please I pray you come neare sir King I am too néere alreadie thou so neere Nay nay she knowes what I did offer her And in good sadnesse I can giue no more So fare ye well sir I will not deale with you Exit Ia. You are deceiude swéet heart t is not the king Thinke you hee would aduenture thus alone Sho. I do assure thee Iane it is the King Oh God twixt the extreames of loue and feare In what a shiuering ague sits my soule Keepe wée our treasure secret yet so fond As set so rich a beautie as this is In the wide view of euerie gazers eye Oh traitor beautie oh deceitfull good That dost conspire against thy selfe and loue No sooner got but wisht againe of others In thine owne selfe iniurious to thy selfe Oh rich poore portion thou good euil thing How many ioyfull woes still dost thou bring Ia. I pray thée come swéet loue and sit by mee No king that 's vnder heauen I loue like thee Exit Enter sir Humphrey Bowes and maister Aston being two Iustices Harrie Grudgen Robert Godfellow and Iohn Hobs the Tanner Bow Neighbors and friends the cause that you are called Concernes the Kings most excellent maiestie Whose right you know by his progenitors Unto the Crowne and soueraintie of France Is wrongfully detained by the French Which to reuenge and royally regaine His Highnes meanes to put himselfe in Armes And in his princely person to conduct His warlike troupes against the enemie But for his Coffers are vnfurnished Through ciuill discord and intestine warre Whose bleeding scarres our eyes may yet behold He praies his faithfull louing subiects helpe To further this his iust great enterprize Hobs. So the fecke and meaning whereby as it were of all your long purgation Sir Humphrey is no more in some respect but the king wants mony would haue some of his Comentie Bo. Tanner you rightly vnderstand the matter Ast. Note this withal where his dread Maiesty Our lawfull Soueraigne and most royal King Might haue exacted or imposde a Taxe Or borrowed greater summes then we can spare For all we haue is at his dread commaund He doth not so but mildly doth entreat Our kind beneuolence what we will giue With willing minds to wards this mighty charge Enter Lord Howard Which to receiue his noble Counsellor And kinsman the Lord Howard here is come H. Now good sir Humphrey Bowes and M. Aston Haue ye declared the kings most gracious pleasure Bo. We haue my Lord How His highnes will not force As loane or tribute but wil take your gift In gratefull part and recompence your loue B. To shew my loue though mony now be scarce A hundreth pound I le giue his Maiestie Ho. T is well sir Humphrey Aston I a hundred markes Ho. Thanks M. Aston you both show your loue Now ask your neighbors what they wil bestow Bow Come master Hadland your beneuolence Had. O good sir Humphrey do not racke my purse You know my state I lately sold my land Aston Then you haue money let the king haue part Hob. I do master Hadland do they say ye sold a foule deale of durtie land for faire gold and siluer let the king haue some now while you haue it for if yee bee forborne a while all will be spent for he that cannot kéepe land that lies fast wil haue much a do to hold money it s slipperie ware t is melting ware t is melting ware How Gramercy Tanner Bowes Say what shall we haue Hadland My fortie shillings Aston Robert Goodfellowe I know you will be liberall to the King Good O M. Aston be content I pray ye You know my charge my household very great And my housekéeping holdes me verie hare Thréescore vprising and downe lying Sir Spends no sinall store of vittailes in a yeare Two brace of Greyhounds tt couple of hounds And then my iades deuoure a deale of Corne My Christmas cost then my friends that come Amounts to charge I am Robin Goodfellow That welcomes all and kéepes a frolicke house I haue no money pray ye pardon me How Héere 's a plaine Tanner can teach you how to thriue Kéepe fewer dogs and then ye may féede men Yet féede no idle men
me sée him and all his companie Bra. Kéeper bring forth the Captain his crew Enter Keeper Stranguidge Shoare disguisde and three more fettered Iockie Now say o th diell that sike bonnie men sud be hampert like blue Iades weas me for ye gude Lads Bra. I Cosin Harrie this is mistris Shoare Pearelesse in Court for beautie bountie pittie Iane viewes them all And if she can not saue thee thou must die Stran. Will shee if she can Bra. I Cosin Stranguidge I Sho. O torment worse then death to see her face That causde her shame my vniust disgrace Sho. aside O that our mutuall eies were Basilisks To kill each other at his enteruiew Bra. How like ye him Ladie you haue viewd him well Iane I pittie him and that same proper man That turnes his backe ashamde of this distresse Sho. Ashamde of thee cause of my heauinesse Ia. And all the rest oh were the king returnde There might be hope but ere his comming home They may be tride condemnd and iudgde and dead Sho. I am condemnd by sentence of defame aside O were I dead I might not sée my shame Bra. Your credit Ladie may prolong their triall What Iudge is he that will giue you deniall Ia. I le rack my credit and wil lanch my crownes To saue their liues if they haue done no murther aside Sh. O thou hast crackt thy credit with a crown And murdred me poore Mathew Shoare aliue Stran. Faire Ladie we did shed no drop of bloud Nor cast one Frenchman ouer bord and yet Because the league was made before the fact Which we poore sea men God knowes neuer heard We doubt our liues yea though we should restore Treble the value that we tooke and more T was lawfull prize when I put out to sea And warranted in my commission The kings are since combinde in amitie Long may it last and I vnwittingly Haue tooke a Frenchman since the truce was tanc And if I die via one day I must And God will pardon all my sins I trust My griefe will be for these poore harmelesse men Who thought my warrant might suborne the deed Chiefly that Gentleman that stands sadly there Who on my soule was but a passenger Iane Well Captaine Stranguidge were the king at home I could say more Stran. Ladie hee s come a shore Last night at Douer my boy came from thence And saw his highnesse land Iane Then courage sirs I le vse my fayrest meanes to saue your liues In the meane season spend that for my sake casts her purse Enter Lord Marquesse Dorset and claps her on the shoulder Mar. By your leaue mistris Shoare I haue taken paines To find you out come you must go with me Iane Whither my Lord Mar. Vnto the Quéene my mother Iane Good my Lord Marquesse Dorset wrong me not Mar. I can not wrong thee as thou wrongst my mother I le bring thee to her let her vse her pleasure Iane Against my wil I wrong her good my Lord Yet am ashamde to sée her maiestie Swéet Lord excuse me say ye saw me not Mar. Shall I delude my mother for a whore No mistris Shoare ye must go to the Quéene Iane Must I my Lord what will she do to me Use violence on me now the kinges away Alas my Lord behold this showre of teares Which kind King Edward would compassionate Bring me not to her she will slit my nose Or mark my face or spurne me vnto death Looke on me Lord can yee find in your heart To haue me spoild that neuer thought you harme O rather with your rapier runne me through Then carrie me to the displeased Quéene Shoare O hadst thou neuer broke thy how to me From feare and wrong had I defended thee Mar. I am inexorable therefore arise And go with me what rascall crue is this Mistris Shoares suters such slaues make her proud What sir Robert Brackenburie you a Shorist too Bra. No Shorist but to saue my Cosins life Mar. Then I le be hangde if he escape for this The rather for your meanes to mistris Shoare My mother can do nothing this whore all Come away minion you shall prate no more Ia. Pray for me friends and I will pray for you God send you better hap then I expect Go to my lodging you and if I perish Take what is there in lieu of your true seruice Ioc. Na a maye sale ayse nere forsake my gude maistresse Till aye hea séene tha worst that spight can du her Exeunt Marquesse and Iane and theirs Sho. For all the wrong that thou hast done to me They should not hurt thée yet if I were free Bra. Sée cosin Stranguidge how the case is changde She that should helpe thee can not helpe her selfe Stran. What remedie the God of heauen helps all What say ye mates our hope of life is dasht Now none but God le ts put our trust in him And euerie man repent him of his sinne And as together we haue liu'de like men So like tall men together let vs die The best is if we die for this offence Our ignorance shall plead our innocence Keep Your meat is readie Captaine you must in Stran. Must I I will Cosin what will you do Bra. Visit you soone but now I will to Court To see what shall become of mistris Shoare Stran. God speed ye well Keep Come sir will you go in Sho. I le eate no meat giue me leaue to walke here Am I now left alone no millions Of miseries attend me euery where Ah Mathew Shoare how doth all séeing heauen Punish some sinne from thy blind conscience hid Inflicting paine where all thy pleasure was And by my wife came all these woes to passe She falsde her faith and brake her wedlocks band Her honour falne how could my credit stand Yet will not I poore Iane on thee exclaime Though guiltie thou I guiltlesse suffer shame I left this land too little for my griefe Returning am accounted as a theese Who in that ship came but a passenger To sée my friends hoping the death of her At fight of whom some sparkes of former loue Hid in affections ashes pittie moue Kindling compassion in my broken heart That bleeds to thinke on her insuing smart O see weake womens imperfections That leaue their husbands safe protections Hazarding all on strangers flatteries Whose lust alaid leaues them to miseries See what dishonor breach of wedlocke brings Which is not safe euen in the armes of kings Thus do I Iane lament thy present state Wishing my teares thy torments might abate Exit Enter the Queene Marquesse Dorset leading mistris Shoare who fals downe on her knees before the Queene fearefull and weeping Qu. Now as I am a Quéene a goodly creature Sonne how was she attended where you found her Mar. Madame I found her at the Marshalsea Going to visit the poore prisoners As she came by hauing beene to take the ayre And there the keeper told me she
so much as I doe But by thy onely mercie to preserue it Untill I loose it for my charitie Thou giu'st me more then euer I can pay Then do thy pleasure executioner And now farewell kind vertuous mistris Shoare In heauen wée le méete againe in earth no more Here he is executed Ia. Farewel farewel thou for thy almes dost die And I must end here starude in miserie In life my friend in death I le not forsake thee Thou goest to heauen I hope to ouertake thee Sho. O world what art thou man euen from his birth Findes nothing else but miserie on earth Thou neuer world scorn'dst mée so much before But I vaine world do hate thee ten times more I am glad I féele approaching death so nie World thou hatest mée I thée vaine world defie I pray yee yet good master officers Do but this kindnesse to poore wretched soules As let vs haue the buriall of our friend It is but so much labour saude for you She. There take his body bury it where you wil So it be quickly done out of the way Exit Sherife and Officers Ia. What 's he that begs the buriall of my friend And hath so oftentimes relieued mee Ah gentle sir to comfort my sad woe Let mee that good kind man of mercie know Sho. Ah Iane now there is none but thou and I Looke on mee well knowest thou thy Ma. Shoare Ia. My Husband then breake and liue no more She swounds and he supports her in his armes Sho. Ah my déere Iane comfort thy heauie soule Go not away so soone a little stay A little little while that thou and I Like man and wife may here together die Iane How can I looke vpon my husbands face That shamde my self and wrought his déep disgrace Sho. Iane be content our woes are now alike With one selfe rod thou séest God doth vs strike If for thy sinne I le pray to heauen for thee And if for mine do thou as much for mee Iane Ah Shoare i st possible thou canst forgiue mée Shoare Yes Iane I doc Iane I cannot hope thou wilt My faults so great that I cannot expect it Sho. I faith I doe as fréely from my soule As at Gods hands I hope to be forgiuen Ia. Then God reward thée for we now must part I féele cold death doth seize vpon my heart Sho. And hee is come to mee here he lies I féele him readie to close vp mine eies Lend mée thy hand to burie this our friend And then we both will hasten to our end Here they put the bodie of young Aire into a Coffin and then he fits downe on the one side of it and she on the other Iane sit thou there here I my place will haue Giue mée thy hand thus wée embrace our graue Ah Iane he that the depth of woe will see Let him but now behold our miserie But be content this is the best of al Lower then now we are wée cannot fall Iane Ah I am faint how happie Aire art thou Not féeling that which doth afflict vs now Sho. Oh happie graue to vs this comfort giuing Here lies two liuing dead here one dead liuing Here for his sake loe this we doe for thee Thou lookste for one and art possest of thrée Ia. Oh dying marriage oh swéet married death Thou graue which only shouldst part faithfull friends Bringst vs togither and dost ioyne our hands Oh liuing death euen in this dying life Yet ere I go once Mathew kisse thy wife He kisseth her and she dies S. Ah my swéet Iane farewel farewel poore soule Now tyrant Richard doo the worst thou canst She doth defie thée oh vnconstant world Here lies a true Anatomie of thee A King had all my ioy that her inioyde And by a King againe shee was destroyde All ages of my kingly woes shall tell Once more inconstant world farewell farewell he dies Enter sir Robert Brackenburie with two or three of his seruants Bra. Sirs if the King or else the Duke of Buckingham Do send for me I will attend them straight But what are these here openly lie dead Oh God the one is mistris Shoare this is Floud That was my man the third is master Aire Who suffered death for his reléeuing her They shall not thus lie in the open way Lend me your hands and heauie hearts withall At mine owne charge lie giue them buriall They beare them thence Enter King Richard crowned Buckingham Aire of Warwicke Louell Catesbie Fogge and attendants Richard Most noble Lords since it hath pleased you Beyond our expectation on yeur bounties T' impale my temples with the Diademe How farre my quiet thoughts haue euer béene From this great majesticke soureraigntie Heauen best can witnesse I am your King Long may I be so to deserue your loue But I will be a seruant to you all Pray God my broken sléeps may giue you rest But onely that my bloud doth chalenge it Being your lawfull Prince by true succession I could haue wisht with all my heart I could This maiestie had sitten on the browe Of any other so much do I affect a priuate life To spend my dates in contemplation But since that heauen and you will haue it so I take the crowne as méekely at your hands As free and pure from an ambitious thought As any new borne babe Thus must thou Richard Séeme as a saint to men in outward shew aside Being a verie diuell in thy heart Thus must thou couer all thy villanies And kéepe them close from ouerlookers eyes Buck. My Soueraigne by the generall consent Of all the Lords aud commons of the land I tender to your royall maiestie This princely Lady the Lady Anne of Warwick Iudged the onely worthiest of your loue To be your highnes bride faire Englands Quéen Rich. My royall Princely Cosin Buckingham I see you striue to blesse mee more and more Your bountie is so large and ample to mee You ouerflow my spirits with your great loue I willingly accept this vertuous Princesse And crowne her Angell beautie with my loue Lo. Then as the hand of your high parliament I giue her here vnto your maiestie Rich. Lord Louell I as heartily receiue her Welcome faire Queene C. And from the Lords commons of your land I giue the frée and voluntarie oath Of their allegeance to your maiesty As to their soueraigne and liege Lord and Ladie Richard the third beauteous Anne his Quéene The true and lawfull King Quéene of England Rich. I doe accept it Catesbie and returne Exchange of mutuall and partie loue Now Fogge too that in your traiterous Libels Besides the counterfeiting of our hand and seale For Rufford though so great a fault deserude To suffer death as hee alreadie hath Going about to slubber our renowne And wound vs with reproach and infamie Yet Fogge that thou thy selfe maist plainely see How farre I am from séeking sharp reuenge Fogge I forgiue thee and withall wee doe Repeale our heauie sentence gainst Shoares wife Restoring all her goods for we intend With all the world now to be perfect friends Cat. Why my good Lord you knew shée s dead alreadie R. True Catesbie else I nere had spoke such words aside Alas I see our kindnesse comes too late For Catesbie tels me she is dead alreadie Cat. I my good Lord so is her husband too Rich. Would they had liude to see our friendly change But Catesbie say where dide Shoare and his wife Cat. Where Aire was hangde for giuing her reliefe There both of them round circkling his cold graue And arme in arme departed from this life The people for the loue they beare to her And her kind husband pittying his wrongs For euer after meane to call the ditch Shoares Ditch as in the memorie of them Their bodies in the Friers minorites Are in one graue enterred all together But mistris Blage for ingratitude To mistris Shoare lies dead vnburied And no one will afford her buriall Ric. But mistris Blage she shal haue burial too What now we must be friends indeed we must And now my Lords I giue you all to know In memorie of our eternall loue I do ordaine an order of the Bathe Twelue knights in number of that royall sort Which order with all princely ceremonies Shall be obserued in all royall pompe As Edwards our forefather of the Barter Which feast our selfe and our beloued Quéene Will presently solemnize in our person Buc. Now am I bold to put your grace in mind Of my long suite and partly your owne promise The Earle of Herefords lands Rich. Cosin wée le better thinke on that here after Buc. My pains my Lord hath not deserude delay Ric. Wil you appoint our time then you shal stay For this hote hastinesse sir you shall stay Moone us no more you were best Buc. I Richard is it come to this In my first suite of all dost thou denie mee Breake thine own word turne me off so slieghtly Richard thoud hadst as good haue damnde thy soule As basely thus to deale with Buckingham Richard I le sit vpon thy crumped shoulder I faith I will if heauen will giue me leaue And Harrie Richmond this hand alone Shall fetch thée home and seat thee in his throne Exit Rich. What is he gone in heat why farewell bee He is displeasde let him be pleasde againe We haue no time to thinke on angrie men Come my swéet Quéene let vs go solemnize Our Knighthoods order in most royall wise Exeunt FINIS
wounds Whose recreant limbes are nocht with gaping scarres Thicker then any carking craft-mans score Whose very skalpe is scracht and crasde and broken Like an old mazzer beaten on the stones And standest thou now to saue our maimed men A plague vpon thee coward Spi. Why how now base Thomas Swounds wert thou a base Viall thou art but a rascall and a rebell as I am hearest thou if I do not turne true Subiect and leaue thee let me be wooried with dogs Swounds dost thou impeach my manhood Tom Neuill thou hadst as good to haue damnde thy selfe as vttered such a word flatly I forsake thee and all that loue Ned Spicing follow me Here the rest offer to follow Fal. Come come yee testie soule thou séest me gréeude Yet canst not beare with mine infirmitie Thou knowest I hold thee for as tall a man As any liues or breathes our English ayre I know there liues not a more fierie spirit A more resolued daliant a plague vpon it Thou knowest I loue thée yet if a word escape My lips in anger how teastie then thou art I had rather all men left me then thy selfe Thou art my soule thou art my Genius I cannot liue without thee not an hower Thus must I still be forc'd against my will aside To sooth this durtie slaue this cowardly rascall Come come be friends ye teastie firebrand We must retire there is no remedie Spi. Nay Tom if thou wilt haue me mount on the walles And cast my selfe downe headlong on their pikes He doe it but to impeach my valour Had any man but thou spoke halfe so much I would haue spilt his heart still be ware My valour such words go hardly downe Well I am friends thou thoughtest not as thou spakest Fal. No on my soule thou thinkest not that I did Sound a retreat there I commaund ye strait But whither shall wée retire Spi. To Mileend Greene there 's no fitter place Fal. Then let vs backe retire to Mileend Greene And there expect fresh succour from our friends With such supply as shall ere long assure The Citic is our owne march on away Exeunt Enter the L. Maior with his traine and Prentises Maior Ye haue bested yée like good Cittizens And she wne your selues true subiects to your king You worthily prentise bestirde your selues That it did there my heart to sée your valour The rebels are retirde to Mileend Greene Re. Where so we may not suffer them to rest But issue forth vpon them with fresh force los. My L. Maior diligence doth well and so forth Matters must be looked into as they ought indéed should they when things are well done they are and so forth for causes and things must indeede be lookd into Ma. Well sir we verie well conceiue your meaning And you haue shewne your selfe a worthie gentleman See that our wals be kept with courts of guard And well defended against the enemie For we will now withdraw vs to Guild hall To take aduise what further must be don Exeunt Enter Master Shoare and Ianc his wife Shore Be not afraid swéet heart the worst is past God haue the praise the victorie is ours We haue preuailde the rebels are repulsde And euerie streete of London soundeth ioy Canst thou then gentle Ianc be sad alone Ianc. I am not sad now you are here with me My toy my hope my comfort and my loue My déere déere husband kindest Mathew shoare But when these armes the circles of my soule Were in the fight so forward as I heard How could I choose swéet heart but be afraid Sho. Why dost thou tremble now when peril 's past Ia. I thinke vpon the horror of the tune But tell me why you fought so desperately Sho. First to maintaine King Edwards royaltie Next to defend the Cities libertie But chiefly tane to keepe thee from the foyle Of him that to my face did how thy spoyle Had he preuailde where then had béene our liues Dishonored our daughters rauished our faire wiues Possest our goods and set our seruants free Yet all this nothing to the losse of thee Ia. Of mee sweet heart why how should I be lost Were I by thousand stormes of fortune tost And should endure the poorest wretched life Yet Iane will be thy honest loyall wife The greatest Prince the sunne did euer see Shall neuer make me proue vntrue to thee Sh. I feare not faire meanes but a rebels force Ia. These hands shal make this bodie a dead corse ere force or flatterie shall mine honour staine Sh. True fame suruiues when death the flesh hath slaine Enter an Officer from the Lord Maior Of. God saue ye maister Shore and mistris by your leaue Sir my L. Maior sends for ye by Maior And prates your speedie presence at Guild hall There 's newes the rebels haue made head again And haue ensconcde themselues vpon Mileend And presently our armed men must out You being Captaine of two companies In honour of your valour and your skill Must lead the vaward God right stand with yee Sh. Friend tell my Lord I le wait vpon him strait Ia. Friend tel my Lord he does my husband wrong To set him formost in the danger still Ye shall not go if I may haue my will S. Peace wife no more friend I wil follow yée Exit Ia. I faith ye shall not prethée do not go Sh. Not go swéet heart that were a cowards trick A traitors part to shrinke when others fight Enuie shall neuer say that Mathew Shoare The Goldsmith staid when other men went out To meete his Kings and countries enemie No Iane gainst all the rebels on Mileend I dare alone K. Edwards right defend Ia. If you be slaine what shall become of mée Sh. Kight well my wench I nowe wil marrie thée I leaue thee worth at least fiue thousand pound Ia. Marrie again that word my heart doth wound I le neuer marrie nor I will not liue She weeps If thou be kild let me go with thée Mat Sh. T is idle talke good Iane no more of that Go to my Ladie Maioresse and the rest As you are still companion with the best With them be merrie and pray for our good speed Ia. To part from thee my very heart doth bléed Exeunt Enter Falconbridge with his troupes marching as being at Mileend Fa. Yet stand we in the sight of vpreard Troy And sucke the ayre she drawes our euerie breath Flies from our nostrils warme vnto the walles We beard her bristling spires her battled towres And proudly stand and gaze her in the face Looke on me and I doubt not ye imagine My worth as great as any one of yours My fortunes would I basely fawne on Edward To be as faire as anie mans in England But he that kéepes your soueraigne in the Towre Hath seazde my land and robd me of my right I am a Gentleman as well as hee What he hath got he holds by tyrannie Now if you faint or cowardly should flie
name hang me with my sonne And here 's another as honest as your selfe you made me call him plaine Tom I warrant his name is Thomas and some man of worship too therfore le ts to it euen when and where ye will King Tanner attend not onely doo we pardon thee But in all princely kindnesse welcome thee And thy sonnes trespasse doe we pardon too Ore goe and sée that forthwith it bee drawne Vnder our seale of England as it ought And fortie pounds wée giue thée to defray Thy charges in thy comming vp to London Now Tanner what saist thou to vs Hobs. Marrie you speake like an honest man if you meane as you say King Wee meane it Tanner on our royall word Now maister of S. Katherines what would you M. My gracious Lord the great beneuolence Though small to that your subiects could afford Of poore S. Katherines do I bring your grace Fiue hundred pounds here haue they sent by me For the easier portage all in Angell gold What this good widow mistris Norton will She comes her selfe and brings her gift with her Wid. Pardon me gratious Lord presumption Nor ouer waening in mine owne conceit Makes me thus bold to come before your Grace But loue and dutie to your maiestie And great desire to sée my Lord the King Our maister here spake of beneuolence And said my twentie Nobles was inough I thought not so but at your Highnes féete A widowes mite a token of her zeale In humble dutie giues you twentie pound Ki. Now by my crowne a gallant Iustie Girle Of all the exhibition yet bestowed This womans liberalitie likes me best Is thy name Norton Wid. I my gracious Liedge King How long hast thou béene a Widow Wid. It is my Lord Since I did burie Wilkin my goodman At Shrouetide next euen iust a dozen yeares K. In al which space couldst thou not find a man On whom thou mightst bestow thy selfe againe Wid. Not any like my Wilkin whose deare loue I know is matchlesse in respect of whom I thinke not any worthie of a kisse K. No widow that I le trie how like you this He kisseth her VVid. Beshrew my heart it was a honnie kisse Able to make an aged woman young And for the same most swéet and louely Prince See what the widow giues you from her store Fortie olde Angels but for one kisse more K. Marie Widow and thou shalt haue it Iohn Hobs thou art a widower Lackst thou such a wife Hobs. Snailes twentie pound a kisse had shee as many twentie pound bags as I haue knobs of barke in my tansat shee might kisse them away in a quarter of a yeare I le no Saint Katherines widowes if kisses be so deare Widow Clubs and clouted shooes there 's none enamourd here King Lord Maior we thanke you and entreat withall To recommend vs to our Cittizens We must for France we bid you all farewell Come Tanner thou shalt with vs to Court To marrow you shal dine with my Lord Maior And after ward set homeward when ye please God and our right that onely fights for vs Adiew pray that our toyle proue prosperous Exeunt FINIS THE SECOND PART of King Edward the Fourth Containing his iourney into France for obtaining of his right there The trecherous falshood of the Duke of Burgundie and the Constable of France vsed against him and his returne home againe Likewise the prosecution of the historie of M. Shoare and his faire wife Concluding with the lamentable death of them both Enter king Edward Howard Sellinger and Soldiers marching Edward IS this the aide our Cosin Burgundie And the great Constable of France assured vs Haue we marched thus farre through the heart of France And with the terror of our English Drums kourde the poore trembling French which leaue their towns That now the Wolues affrighted from the fields Do get their pray and kennell in their stréets Our thundring Canons now this fortnight space Like common Bell-men in some market towne Haue cried the Constable and Burgundie But yet I see they come not to our aide Wée le bring them in or by the blessed light Wée le search the Ground-stilles of their Cittis walles Since you haue brought me hither I will make The proudest Tower that stands in France to quake I maruaile Scales returnes not for by him I doe respect to heare their resolutions Enter the Lord Scales How My Soueraigne he is happily returnde Ed. Welcome my Lord welcome good Cosin Scales What newes from Burgundie what is his answer What comes he to our succour as he promised Scal. Not by his good wil for ought that I can see He lingers still in his long siedge at Nuse I vrgde his promise and your expectation Euen to the force and compasse of my spirit I chéerde my firme perswasions with your hopes And gylded them with my best Oratorie I framde my spéech still fitly as I sound The temper of his humor to be wrought vpon But still I found him earthly vnresolude Muddie and me thought euer through his eies I saw his wauering and vnsetled spirit And to be short subtile and trecherous And one that doth entend no good to you And he will come and yet he wanteth power He would faine come but may not leaue the siege He hopes he shall but yet he knowes not when He purposed but some unpediments Haue hindred his determined intent Briefly I thinke he will not come at all Ed. But is he like to take the towne of Nuse Sca. My Lord the towne is liker to take him That if he chance to come to you at all Ti 's but for succour Ed. But what saies Count Saint Paul Scales My Lord he lies and reuelles at S. Quintins And laughs at Edwards comming into France There Dominering with his drunken crue Make Jigges of vs and in their slauering iests Tell how like rogues we lie here in the field Then comes a slaue one of those drunken sots In with a Tauerne reckoning for a supplication Disguised with a cushion on his head A Drawers Apron for a Heralds Coate And tels the Count the King of England craues One of his worthie honors Dog-kennels To be his lodging for a day or two With some such other Tauerne foolerie With that this filthie rascall greasie rout Brast out in laughter at this worthie iest Neighing like horses thus the Count Saint Paul Regardes his promise to your maiestie Ed. Wil no man thrust the slaue into a sackbut Scl. Now by this light were I but néere the slaue with a black Jacke I would beat out his braines Ho. If it please your highnes but to say the word Wée le plucke him out of Quintins by the eares Ed. No cosin Howard wée le reserue our valour For better purpose since they both refuse vs Our selues will be vnriualde in our honour Now our first cast my Lord is at maine France Whilst yet our Armie is in health and strong And haue we once but broke
two Sée them safe guarded till you know our pleasure Enter the Constable and Howard Now my Lord Howard how i st with Scales Ho. Well my dread Soueraigne now his wound is drest And by the opinion of the Surgeons It s thought he shall not perish by this hurt K. Ed. I am the gladder but vnfaithfull Earle I doe not see how yet I can dispence With thy submission this was not the welcome Your letters sent to England promisde me Con. Right high and mightie Prince condemne me not That am as innocent in this offence As any souldiour in the English armie The fault was in our gunners ignorance Who taking you for Lewis King of France That likewise is within the cities kenne Made that vnluckie shot to beate him backe And not of malice to your maiestie To knowledge which I brought thē with my selfe And thirtie thousand crownes within this purse Sent by the Burgers to redéeme your lacke K. Ed. Constable of France we will not sell a drop Of English blood for all the gold in France But in so much two of our men are slaine To quit their deaths those two that came with thée Shall both be cramde into a Cannons mouth And so he shot into the towne againe It is not like but that they knew our Colours And of set purpose did this villanie Nor can I be perswaded thorowly But that our person was the mark they aimed at Yet are we well content to hold you excusde Mary our souldiours must be satisfied And therefore first shall be distributed These crownes amongst thē then you shal returne And of your best prouision send to vs Thirtie waine loade beside twelue tunne of wine This if the Burgers will subscribe vnto Their peace is made otherwise I will proclaime Frée libertie for all to take the spoyle Con. Your highnes shall be answerd presently And I will see these articles performed K. Ed. Yet one thing more I will that you my Lord Together with the Duke of Burgundie Doe ere to morrow noone bring all your force And toyne with ours or else we doe recant And these conditions shall be frustrate C. Mine are at hand my Lord and I will write The Duke may like wise be in readinesse K. Ed. Let him haue safe conduct through our army And gainst the morning euery leader see His troupes be furnisht for no longer time God willing shall the triall be deferred Twixt Lewis and vs What echoing sound is this Sel. A gentleman from the K. of France my Lord Craues parlance with your excellence K. Ed. A gentleman bring him in What newes a Gods name frō our brother Lewis Enter Mugeroune Mu. Most puissant and most honourable King My royall master Lewis the King of France Doth gréete your Highnes with vnfained loue Wishing your health prosperitie and rule And thus he saies by me When was it séene That euer Lewis pretended hurt to England Either by close conspirators sent ouer To vndermine your state or openly By taking armes with purpose to inuade Nay when was it that Lewis was euer heard So much as to detract from Edwards name But still hath done him all his due of spéech By blazing to the world his high deserts Of wisedome valour and his heroicke birth Whence is it then that Edward is incensde To render hate for loue for amitie sterne warre Not of himselfe we know but by the meanes Of some infectious counsell that like mud Would spoyle the pure temper of his noble minde It is the Duke and that pernicious rebell Earle of S. Paul haue set abroach these warres Who of themselues vnable to procéede Would make your Grace the instrument of wrong And when you haue done what you can for them You shall be sure of nothing but of this Still to be doubled and dissembled with But if it might séeme gratious in your eye To cast off these despisde confederates Vnfit companions for so great a Prince And ioyne in league with Lewis my royall master Him shall you finde as willing as of power To doe your Grace all offices of loue And what commoditie may spring thereby To both the Realmes your Grace is wise enough Without my rude suggestions to imagine Besides much bloodshed for this present time Will be preuented when two such personages Shall méete together to shake hands in peace And not with shock of Launce and Curtelaxe That Lewis is willing I am his substitute And he himselfe in person if you please Not farre from hence will signifie as much K. Ed. Sir withdraw and giue vs leaue a while To take aduisement of our Counsellors What say ye Lords vnto this proffered truce Ho. In my conceit let it not be slipt my Lord Sel. Wilt not be dishonour hauing landed So great an armie in these parts of France And not to fight before we doe returne Ho. How can it when the enemie submits And of himselfe makes tender of allegiance Sel. I that 's the question whether he will yéeld And doe King Edward fealtie or no Ed. What talke ye Lords he shall subscribe to that Or no conditions I le accept at all Ho. Let him be bound my Lord to pay your Grace Toward your expences since your comming ouer Seauentie fine thousand crownes of the Sunne And yéerely after fiftie thousand more During your life with homage there withall That he doth hold his royaltie from you And take his offer t will not be amisse Ed. It shall be so draw you the articles And Sellinger call forth the messenger Bring with thée too a cup of massie gold And bid the bearer of our priuie purse Inclose therein a hundred English Ryals Friend we doe accept thy masters League With no lesse firme affection then he craues If he will méete vs here betwixt our tents It shall on both sides be confirmde by oth On this condition that he will subscribe To certaine Articles shall be proposde And so thou hast thy answer to requite Thy paines herein we giue to thée this cup Her Health and increase of honour waite on Edward Ed. Lord Howard bring the Frenchman on his way Ed. King Lewis is one that neuer was precise But now Lord Howard and Tom Sellinger There is a taske remaines for you to doe And that is this you two shall be disguisde And one of you repayre to Burgundie The other to the Constable of France Where you shall learne in secret if you can If they intend to méete vs here to morrow Or how they take this our accord with France Somewhat it giues me you will bring from thence Worthie the noting will you vndertake it Sel. With all my hart my L. I am for Burgundie How And I am for the Constable of France Exeunt Ed. Make spéede againe what newes Mest. The king of France my L. attended royally Is marching hitherward to méete your Grace Ed. He shall be welcome hast thou drawne the articles Mess. Yes my dread Soueraigne Ed. Goe call foorth our traine We may
Lord here 's letters to your Maiestie One from the Duke of Burgundie the other from the Constable K. L. More villany a thousand crowns to nothing K. p. Can there be more then is alreadie broacht We thinkes they haue alreadie done so well As this may scrue to bring them both to hell K. L. No no they are indifferently well loden But yet their fraughte not full sée other ware Other prouision to prepare their waie The verie same my Lord which they pretend In loue to you against my life and crowne The same they vndertake to doe for me Against your safetie vrging if I please That they will ioyne their forces both with mine And in your backe returne to Calice cut the throats Of you and all your soldiers K. Ed. Oh damnable But that I see it figurde in these lines I would haue sworne there had bin nothing left For their pernitious braine to worke vpon K. L. A traitor is like a boldfacde hypocrite That neuer will be brought vnto a nonplus So long as hee hath libertie to speake K. Ed. The way to cure them is to cut them off Call forth their messengers once more to vs How Both of them my Lord K. Ed. Yes both together Wée le sée if they haue grace to blush or no At that their maisters shame now to attempt Enter both the Messengers Con. What is his Maiestie of France so neere And Mounsier Rosse the Earles secretarie I feare some hurt depends vpon his presence M. How comes it that I sée the french King here I and the Lord of Countie too me thinkes Pray God our message be not made a scorne K. E. You told me that you came from earle S. Paul Mes. I did my Lord and therein fabled not K. Ed. You told me too of many kinde indevours Which hee intended for our benefite Mes. No more then hee is willing to performe K. Ed. Know you his hand-writing if you séete Mes. I doe my Lord K. Ed. Is this his hand or not Mes. I cannot say but that it is his hand K. Ed. How comes it then that vnderneath his hand My death is sought when you that are his mouth Tune to our eares a quite contrarie tale The like read you decyphred in this paper Concerning trecherous wauering Burgundie Vnlesse you grant they can deuide themselues And of two shapes become foure substances How is it I should haue their knightly aide And yet by them be vtterly destroide K. L. And I to be protected by their meanes And yet they shall conspire against my life K. Ed. What call you this but vile hypocrisie K. L. Nay pesant-like vnheard of trecherie Con. My Lord vpbraid not me with this offence I do protest I knew of no such letters Nor any other intention of the Duke More then before was vttred in my message Sel. Will you bee halting too before a creeple Do you not remember what they were That first did certifie the Duke of truce Betwixt the renowmed Edward and the French Co. Yes they were two soldiers what of that Sel. Those soldiers were this Gentleman and I Where we did heare the foule mouthde Duke exclaim Against our noble Soueraigne and this Prince And rorde and bellowed like a parish bull And that in hearing both of you and him His words so please my Lord I can repeat As he did speake them at that verie time K. Ed. Well they are messengers for that cause We are content to beare with their amisse But kéepe them safe and let them not returne To carrie tales vnto those counterfeits Vntill you haue them both as fast insnarde To compasse which the better brother of France Fiue thousand of our soldiours here we leaue To be imployde in seruice to that end The rest with vs to England shall returne Exit Enter Chorus Ch. King Edward is returned home to England And Lewes King of France soone afterward Surprized both his subtill enemies Rewarding them with traiterous recompence Now do we draw the curtaine of our Scene To speake of Shoare and his faire wife againe With other matters thereupon depending You must imagine since you saw him last Preparde for trauaile he hath bin abroade And séene the sundrie fashions of the world Vlysses like his countries loue at length Hoping his wiues death and to see his friends Such as did sorrow for his great mishaps Come home is hee but so vnluckily As hée is like to loose his life thereby His and her fortunes shall we now pursue Gracde with your gentle sufferance view Exeunt Enter mistris Shoare with Iockie her man and some attendants more and is met by sir Robert Brackenburie Iane Shoare Haue ye bestowde our small beneuolence On the poore prisoners in the common Gaole Of the white Lion and the Kings bench Iockie Yes forsooth Iane What prisons this Iockie The Marshalsea for sooth Enter sir Robert Brackenburie Bra. Well met faire Ladie in the happiest time And choysest place that my desire could wish Without offence where haue yée béene this way Ia. To take the aire here in Saint Georges field Sir Robert Brackenburie and to visit some Poore patients that cannot visit mee Bra. Are you a physition Iane I a simple one Bra. What disease cure yee Iane Faith none perfectly My physicke doth but mittigate the paine A little while and then it comes againe Bra. Swéet mistris Shoare I vnderstand ye not Iane Maister lieutenant I beléeue you well Iockie Gude faith Sir Robert brobenbellie may maistres spéekes deftly and truly for shee hes beene till see those that cannot come till see her and theyes peatients perforce The prisoners man in the twea prisons And shée hes gynne tham her siller and her géere till bay tham fude. Bra. Gramercies Iockie thou resolust my doubt A comfort ministring kind physition That once a wéeke in her owne person visits The prisoners and the poore in Hospitalles In London or néere London euerie way Whose purse is open to the hungrie soule Whose pittious heart saue many a tall mans life Iane Peace good sir Robert t is not worthy praise Nor yet worth thanks that is of dutie doone For you know well the world doth know too well That all the coales of my poore charitie Cannot consume the scandall of my name What remedie well tell me gentle knight What meant your kinde salute and gentle spéech At our first meeting when you seemde to blesse The time and place of our encounter heere Bra. Ladie there lies here prisonde in the Marshalsea A gentleman of good parents and good discent My deare néere kinsman Captaine Harrie Stranguidge As tall a skilfull Nauigator tride As ere set foote in any ship at sea Whose lucke it was to take a prize of France As hée from Rochell was for London bound For which except his pardon be obtainde By some especiall fauorite of the King Hee and his crew a companie of proper men Are sure to die because t was since the League Iane Let
Loue thy Iane still nay more if more may be kissing her And this is all the harme that at my hands She shall endure for it Oh where my Edward loues It ill beseemes his Queene to grudge thereat King Sayest thou me so Besse on my kingly word Edward will honour thee in heart for this But trust me Besse I greatly was afraid I should not finde ye in so good a tune How now what would our Constable of the Towre Bra. The Queene and misstris Shoare do know my sute Qu. It is for Stranguidge and his men at sea Edward needs must you pardon them King Haue I not vowed the contrarie alreadie Dishonour mee when I haue made a league My word is past and they shall suffer death Or neuermore let mee see France againe Iane Why there is one was but a passenger Shall hee die too King Passe me no passage Iane were he in companie hee dies for companie Qu. Good Iane intreat for them Iane Come Edward I must not take this answere Needs must I haue some grace for Stranguidge King Why Iane haue I not denide my Quéenes Yet what i st Iane I would denie to thee I prethee Brackenburie be not thou displeasde My word is past not one of them shall liue One go see them forth with sent to death Exeunt Enter Clarence Gloster and Shaw Glost. I cannot see this prophesie you speake of Should any way so much displease the King And yet I promise you good Brother Clarence T is such a letter as concernes vs both That G. should put away King Edwards children And sit vpon his throne that G. should well Cla. God blesse the king those two swéet young Princes Glo. Amen good brother Clarence Shaw Amen Glo. And send them all to heauen shortly I beseech him Cla. The Kinges much troubled in his sicknesse with it Glo. I promise you hee is and verie much But Doctor Shaw who prophested that G. should be so sadly ominous to vs Shaw My Lord of Glocester I receiude the same From old Frier Anselme of S. Bartholmewes Glo. A great learned man he was and as I haue heard Hath prophesied of very many things I promise you it troubles me I hope in me his prophesie is true aside Cla. And so it does me I tell you brother Glocester Glo. I am sure it does for looke you brother Clarence We know not how his Highnes will applie it We are but two your selfe my Lord and I Should the young Princes faile which God defend Cla. Which God defend D. Shaw Which God defend Glo. aside But they should be cut off Amen Amen You brother first and should your issue faile Poore I am next the youngest of the thrée But how farre I am from a thought of that Heauen witnes with me that I wish you dead aside Cla. Brother I durst be sworne Glo. God blesse you al and take you to him if it be his will Now brother this prophesie of G. troubling the King He may as well applie it vnto Glocester My Dukedomes name if he be iealious As vnto George your name good brother Clarence God helpe God helpe Ifaith it troubles me You would not thinke how aside that any of you liue Cla. It cannot thuse how innocent I am And how vnspotted are my loyall thoughts Vnto his Highnes and those swéete yong Princes God be my record Glo. Who you I I durst answer for you That I shall cut you off ere it be long aside But reuerend Doctor you can onely tell Being his Highnes Confessor how he takes it aside to Shaw Shaw you know my minde a villaine like my selfe Shaw My Lord of Clarence I must tell your Lordship His Highnes is much troubled in his sicknes With this same prophesie of G. Who is this G Oft times he will demaund then will he sigh And name his brother George your selfe my Lord And then he strikes his breast I promise you This morning in th' extreamest of his fitte He lay so still we all thought he had slept When suddenly George is the G. quoth he And gaue a groane and turnde his face away Cla. God be my witnesse witnesse with my soule My iust and vpright thoughts to him and his I stand so guiltlesse and so innocent As I could wish my breast to be transparent And my thoughts written in great letters there The world might read the secrets of my soule Glo. Ah brother Clarence when you are suspected Well well it is a wicked world the while But shall I tell you brother in plaine tearmes I feare your selfe and I haue enemies About the King God pardon them The world was neuer worser to be trusted Ah brother George where is that loue that was Ah it is banisht brother from the world Ah Conscience Conscience and true brotherhood T is gone t is gone brother I am your friend I am your louing brother your owne selfe And loue you as my soule vse me in what you please And you shall see I le doe a brothers part Send you to heauen I hope ere it be long aside I am a true stampt villaine as euer liude Cla. I know you will then brother I beséech you Pleade you mine innocence vnto the King And in meane time to tell my loyaltie I le kéepe within my house at Bainards Castle Vntill I heare how my dread Soueraigne takes it Glo. Do so good brother Cla. Farewell good brother Gloster Glo. My teares will scarcely let me take my leaue I loue you so Farewell sweet George Exit Cla. So is he gone now Shaw t is in thy power To binde me to thee euerlastingly And there is not one step that I shall rise But I will draw thee with me vnto greatnesse Thou shalt sit in my bosome as my soule Incense the king now being as thou art So neere about him and his Confessor That this G. onely is George Duke of Clarence Doctor thou needst not my instruction Thou hast a searching braine a nimble spirit Able to master any mans affections Effect it Shaw and bring it to passe once I le make thee the greatest Shaw that euer was Sha. My Lord I am going by commaundement Vnto the Marshalsea to Captaine Stranguidge For Pyracie of late condemnde to die There to confesse him and his companie That done I le come with spéed backe to the king And make no doubt but I le effect the thing Glo. Farewell gentle Doctor Sha. Farewell my Lord of Gloster Exit Glo. Let me awake my sléeping wits a while Ha the marke thou aimst at Richard is a crowne And many stand betwixt thee and the same What of all that Doctor play thou thy part I le climbe vp by degrees through many a heart Exit Enter Brackenburie with Vaux the Keeper Bra. Why maister Vaux is there no remedie But instantly they must be led to death Can it not be deferd till after noone Or but two howres in hope to get reprie K. Maister Lieutenant t is in vaine
no what proclamation Bra Oh mistris Shoare the king in euery stréet Of London and in euerie borough towne Throughout this land hath publikely proclaimd On paine of death that none shal harbour you Or giue you food or cloathes to kéep you warme But hauing first done shamefull penance here You shall be then thrust forth the Citie gates Into the naked cold forsaken field I fable not I would to God I did Sée here 's the manner of it put in print T is to be sold in euerie Stationers shop Besides a number of them clapt on poasts Where people crowding as they read your fall Some murmure and some sigh but most of them Haue their relenting eies euen big with teares Ia. Gods wil be done I know my sinne is great And he that is omnipotent and iust Cannot but must reward me heauily Bra. It grieues me mistris Shoare it was my chance To be the first reporter of this newes Ia. Let it not grieue I must haue heard of it And now as good as at another time Bra. I pray yee mistris Blage haue care of Floud And what his charge is I will sée you paide Exit Ia. Farewell to all that still shall be my song Let men impose vpon me nere such wrong And this extremitie shall seeme the lesse In that I haue a friend to leane vnto Sweet mistris Blage there were vpon the earth No comfort left for miserable Iane But that I do presume vpon your loue I know though tyrant Richard had set downe A greater penaltie then is proclaimd Which cannot wel be thought yet in your house I should haue succour and reliefe beside Bla What and so I should be a traitor should I Is that the care you haue of me and mine I thanke you truly no there 's no such matter I loue you well but loue my selfe better As long as you were held a true subiect I made account of you accordingly But being otherwise I do reiect you And will not cherish my kings enemie You know the danger of the Proclamation I would to God you would depart my house Ia. When was it euer éen Iane Shoare was false Eyther vnto her countrey or her king And therefore t is not well good mistris Blage That you vpbraid me with a traitors name Bla. I but you haue béene a wicked liuer And now you see what t is to be vnchaste You should haue kept you with your honest husband T was neuer other like but that such filthinesse Would haue a foule and detestable end Ia. Time was that you did tell me otherwise And studied how to set a glosse on that Which now you say is vgly and deformde Bla. I told you then as then the time did serue And more indéed to trie your disposition Then any way to incourage you to sinne But when I say you were ambitious And saintly stood on tearmes of modestie I left you to your owne arbiterment Can you denie it was not so how say you Ia. We will not mistris Blage dispute of that But now in charitie and womanhood Let me find fauour if it be but this That in some barne or stable I may shrowde Till otherwise I be prouided for Bla. I pray you do not vrge me mistris Shoare I will not haue my house indangered so Ia. Oh you did promise I should neuer want And that your house was mine swore the same To keepe your oath be then compassionate Bla, So you did sweare you would be true to Shore But you were not so good as your word My oathes disherit which by the kings commaund Iane Yet let me haue those iewels and that money Which is within my trunkes Bla. I know of none If there be any I le be so bold As kéepe it for your diet and your mans It is no little charge I haue beene at To feede your daintie tooth since you came hither Beside houseroome I am sure is somwhat worth Sho. Ah Iane I cannot chuse but pittie thee Here 's the first step to thy déepe miserie Ia. Oh that my graue had thē bin made my house When either first I went vnto the Court Or from the court returnd vnto this place Enter two Apparators Ser. How now what are you it had béen maners You should haue knockt before you had come in 1. Ap. We are the Bishops Parators my friend And mistris Shoare our errand is to you This day it is commanded by the King You must be stript out of your rich attire And in a white shéete go from Temple barre Untill you come to Algate bare footed Your haire about your eares and in your hand A burning taper therefore go with vs Iane Euen when and whither you wil and would to God The King as soone could ridde my soule of sinne As he may stript my bodie of these ragges 2. Ap. That would be soone enough but come away And mistris Blage you le hardly answere it When it is knowne we found her in your house 1. Ap. It séemes you do not feare to harbour her Bla. I harbour her out on her strumpet queane She prest vpon me where I would or no I le see her hangde ere I will harbour her So now her iewels and her gold is mine And I am made at least foure thousand pound Wealthier by this match then I was before And what can be obiected for the same That once I lou'de her well perhaps I did And women all are gouernd by the Moone But now I am of another humour Which is you know a planet that will change Cat. Now M. Sheriffe of London do your office Attach this rebell to his Maiestie And hauing stript her to her petticoate Turne her out a dores with this condition That no man harbour her that durst presume To harbour that lewde curtizan Shoares wife Against the strait commandement of the King Bla. I beséech you sir Cat. Away with her I say The while I le seaze vpon her house goods Which wholly are confiscate to the King Exit Sho. Oh what haue I beheld were I as young As when I came to London to be prentice This pageant were sufficient to instruct And teach me euer after to be wise First haue I séene desert of wantonnesse And breach of wedlocke then of flatterie Next of dissembling loue and last of all The ruine of base catching auarice But poore Iane Shore in that I lou'de thee once And was thy husband I must pittie thee The sparkes of olde affection long agoe Rakte vp in ashes of displeasure kindle And in this furnace of aduersitie The world shall see a husbands loyaltie Exit Enter Doctor Shaw pensiuely reading on his booke after him followes the Ghost of Frier Anselme with a lighted torch Sha. Spuria vitulamina non agent radices altas Bastardly slips haue alwaies slender grouth Ah Shaw this was the cursed theame That at Pauls crosse thou madest thy sermon of To proue the lawfull issue of thy King Got out of wedlocke
die Sho. Nothing for I am mortall and must die When my time comes but that I thinkes not yet Although God knowes ech houre I wish it were So full of dolor is my wearie life Now say I this that I do know the man Which doth abette that traiterous libeller Who did compose spread that slanderous rime Which scandals you and doth abuse the time Glo. What libeller another Collingborne That wrote The Cat the Rat and Louell our Dog Do rule all England vnder a Hog Canst thou repeat it Floud Sho. I thinke I can if you commaund me so Glo. We do commaund thee Sho. In this sort it goes The crooke bakt Boare the way hath found To roote our Roses from our ground Both flower and bud will he confound Till King of beasts the swine be crownde And then the Dog the Cat and Rat Shall in his trough feed and be fat Finis quoth M. Fogge chiefe secretarie and counsellor to M. Rufford Glo. How saist thou Floud doth Rufford foster this Sho. He is a traitor if he do my Lord Ruf. I foster it dread Lord I aske no grace If I be guiltie of this libelling Vouchsafe me iustice as you are my Prince Against this traitor that accuseth me Sh. What iustice crau'st thou I will combat thée In signe whereof I do vnbutton me And in my shirt my chalenge will maintaine Thou cal'st me traitor I will proue thee one Open thy bosome like me if thou darest Ruff. I will not be so rude before his grace Sh. Thou wilt not ope the packe of thy disgrace Because thy doublets stuft with traiterous libels Glo. Catesbie teare off the buttons from his breast What findst thou there Cat. Your highnes hand and seale For transportation of Hides Corne and Lead Glo. Traitor did I signe that commission Ruf. O pardon me most royall King Glo. Pardon to counterfeit my hand and seale Haue I bestowed such loue such countenance Such trust on thee and such authoritie To haue my hand and signet counterfet To carrie Corne the food of all the land And Lead which after might annoy the land And Hides whose leather must relieue the land To strangers enemies vnto the land Didst thou so néerely counterfeit my hand Ruf. Not I my liege but Fogge the Atturney Glo. Away with him Louell and Catesbie go Commaund the Sheriffes of London presently To see him drawne and hangd and quartered Let them not drinke before they see him dead Hast you againe Louell and Catesbie lead out Rufford Ruff. Well Floud thou art my death I might haue liude t' haue séene thee lose thy head Sho. Thou hast but iustice for thy crueltie Against the guiltlesse soules in miserie I aske no fauvour if I merit death Glo. Crau'st thou no fauour then I tell thee Floud Thou art a traitor breaking our edict By succouring that traitrous quean Shoares wife And thou shalt die Sho. If I haue broke the law Glo. If traitor didst thou not giue her thy purse And doest thou not maintaine the deed Enter Louell and Catesbie againe Sho. I do if it be death to the relenting heart Of a kind husband wronged by a King To pittie his poore weake seduced wife Whom all the world must suffer by commaund To pine and perish for the want of food If it be treason for her husband then In the deare bowels of his former loue To burie his owne wrong and her misdéed And giue her meat whom he was wont to féede Then Shoare must die for Floud is not my name Though once I tooke it to conceale my shame Pittie permits not iniured Shoare passe by And see his once loude wife with famine die Glo. Louell Catesbie this is Shoare indéed Shoare We confesse that thou hast priuiledge And art excepted in our Proclamation Because thou art her husband whom it concerns And thou maist lawfully relieue thy wife Upon condition thou forgiue her fault Take her againe and vse her as before Hazard new hornes how saist thou wilt thou Shoare Sho. If any but your Grace should so vpbraid Such rude reproch should roughly be repaid Suppose for treason that she lay condemnde Might I not séede her till her houre of death And yet my selfe no traitor for it Glo. Thou mightste Sh. And why not now O pardon me dread lord When she hath had both punishment and shame Sufficient since a King did cause her blame May I not giue her food to saue her life Yet neuer take and vse her as my wife Glo. Except thou take her home againe to thée Thou art a stranger and it shall not be For if thou do expect what doth belong Sho. I neuer can forget so great a wrong Glo. Then neuer féede her whom thou canst not loue Sho. My charitie doth that compassion moue Gl. Moue vs no more Louell let Aire be hangde Just in the place where he relieud Shoares wife Shoare hath his pardon for this first offence The name of husband pleads his innocence Away with them Catesbie come you with vs Exeunt Iockie is led to whipping ouer the stage speaking some words but of no importance Then is young Aire brought foorth to execution with the Sheriffe and Officers Mistris Shoare weeping and M. Shoare standing by Aire Good mistris Shoare grieve me not with your teares But let me go in quiet to mine end Iane Alas poore soule Was neuer innocent thus put to death Air. The mores my ioy that I am innocent My death is the lesse grieuous I am so Ia. Ah M. Aire the time hath béene ere now When I haue kneeld to Edward on my knees And begd for him that now doth make me beg I haue giuen him when he hath begd of me Though he forbids to giue me when I beg I haue ere now relieued him and his Though he and his denie reliefe to me Had I béene enuious then as Richard now I had not staru'd nor Edwards sons bin murdred Nor Richard liu'de to put you now to death Aire The more Iane is thy vertue and his sinne Sher. Come sir dispatch Aire Dispatch say you dispatch you may it call He cannot stay when death dispatcheth all Ia. Lord is my sinne so horrible and grieuous That I should now become a murderer I haue sau'de the life of many a man condemnd But neuer was the death of man before That any man thus for my sake should die Afflicts me more then all my miserie Aire Iane be content I am as much indebted vnto thee As vnto nature I owed thee a life When it was forfeit vnto death by law Thou begott it of the king and gau'st it me This house of flesh wherein this soule doth dwel Is thine and thou art Landladie of it And this poore life a Tenant but at pleasure It neuer came to pay the rent till now But hath runne in arerage all this while And now for verie shame comes to discharge it When death distraines for what is but thy due I had not ought thée