vertue I have repented will you see my teares And beleeve them Oh for an onyon now Or J shall laugh alowd ha ha ha Aside Tru. Alas good soule I doe forgive you truly I would not have you weepe for me indeed I ever thought you would repent at last Al. You might well But the right valewing of your worth and vertue Hath turn'd the folly of my former scorne Inro a wiser reverence pardon me If I say love Tru. I I with all my heart But doe you speake sincerely Al. Oh! it grieves me That you should doubt it what I spoke before Were lyes the off-spring of a foolish rashnesse I see some sparks still of your former beauty Which spight of time still flourish Tru. Why I am not So old as you imagined I am yet But fourescore yeares Am I a January now How doe you thinke I alwayes did beleeve You 'd be of another opinion one day I know you did but jest Al. Oh no oh no I see it takes Aside How you bely your age for let me see A man would take you let me see for Some forty yeares or thereabouts I meane foure hundred Not a jot more J sweare Aside Tru. Oh no! you flatter me But I looke something fresh indeed this morning I should please Callidorus mightily But I 'le not goe perhaps this fellow is As handsome quite as he and I perceive He loves me hugely I protest I will not Aside Have him grow madde which he may chance to doe If I should scorne him Al. I have something here Which I would faine reveale to you but dare not Without your licence Tru. Doe in Pans name doe now now Al. The comely gravity which adornes your age And makes you still seeme lovely hath so strucken me Tru. Alas good soule I must seeme coy at first But not too long for feare I should quite lose him Al. That I shall perish utterly unlesse Your gentle nature helpe me Tru. Alas good Shepheard And in troth I faine would helpe you But I am past those vanities of love Al. Oh no! Wise nature which preserv'd your life till now Doth it because you should enjoy these pleasures Which doe belong to life if you deny me I am undone Tru. Well you should not win me But that I am loath to be held the cause Of any young mans ruine doe not thinke it My want of chastity but my good nature Which would see no one hurt Al. Ah pretty soule Aside How supple 't is like wax before the Sun Now cannot I chuse but kisse her there 's the plague of 't Let 's then joyne our hearts and seale them with a kisse Tru. Well let us then 'T were incivility to be your debtor I 'le give you back againe your kisse sweetheart And come in th' afternoone I 'le see you My husband will be gone to sell some kine And Hylace tending the sheepe till then Farewell good Duck Offers to goe But doe you heare because you shall remember Turnes back To come I 'le give thee here this Ebon ring But doe not weare it lest my husband chance To see 't Farewell Duck Al. Lest her husband chance To see 't she cannot deny this here 's enough My Scoene of love is done then is she gone I 'le call her back ho Truga Truga hô Tru. Why doe you call me Duck Al Only to aske one foolish question of thee Ha'n't you a husband Tru. Yes you know I have Al. And doe you love him Tru. Why doe you aske I doe Al. Yet you can be content to make him cuckold Tru. Rather then to see you perish in your flames Al. Why art thou now two hundred yeares of age Yet hast no more discretion but to thinke That I could love thee ha ha were 't mine I 'de sell thee to some gardiner thou wouldst serve To scare away the theeves aswell as crowes Tru. Oh you 're dispos'd to jest I see Farewell Al. Nay I 'me in very earnest I love you Why thy face is a vizard Trug. Leave off these tricks I shall be angry else And take away the favours I bestow'd Al. 'T is knowne that thou hast eyes by the holes only Which are crept farther in then thy nose out And that 's almost a yard thy quarreling teeth Of such a colour are that they themselves Scare one another and doe stand at distance Thy skin hangs loose as if it fear'd the bones For flesh thou hast not and is growne so black That a wilde Centaure would not meddle with thee To conclude Nature made thee when she was Only dispos'd to jest and length of time Hath made thee more ridiculous Tru. Base villaine is this your love Give me my ring againe Al. No no soft there I intend to bestow it on your husband He 'le keepe it better farre then you have done Trug. What shall I doe Alupis good Alupis Stay but a little while pray doe but heare me Al. No I 'le come to you in the afternoone Your husband will be selling of some kine And Hylace tending the sheepe Tru. Pray heare me command me any thing And be but silent of this good Alupis Hugh Hugh Hugh Al. Yes yes I will be silent I 'le only blow a trumpet on yon hill Till all the countrey swaines are flockt about me Then show the ring and tell the passages 'Twixt you and me Trug. Alas I am undone Al. Well now 't is ripe I have had sport enough Since I behold your penitentiall teares I 'le propose this to you if you can get Your Daughter to be married to Palaemon This day for I 'le allow no longer time To morrow I 'le restore your ring and sweare Never to mention what is past betwixt us If not you know what followes take your choyse Tru. I 'le doe my best endevour Al. Goe make hast then You know your time 's bnt short and use it well Now if this faile the Divel 's in all wit Exit Truga I 'le goe and thrust it forward if it take I 'le sing away the day For 't is but a folly To be melancholly Let 's live here whilst wee may Exit Finis Actus Tertij Actus IIII Scaena I. Enter Callidorus Bellula Florellus _CAl. Pray follow me no more me thinks that modesty Which is so lively painted in your face Should prompt your maiden heart with feares and blushes To trust your selfe in so much privatnesse With one you know not Bel. I should love those feares And call them hopes could I perswade my selfe There were so much heate in you as to cause them Prithee leave me if thou dost hope successe To thine owne love why interrupt'st thou mine Flo. If love cause you To follow him how can you angry bee Because love forces me without resistance To doe the same to you Bell. Love should not grow So subtill as to play with arguments Flo. Love should not be an enemy to reason Cal. To love is of it selfe a kind of Folly But to
to them Spo. Would I had dyed when first I brought thee forth My Girle my best Girle then I should have slept In quiet and not wept now Phi. I am halfe a statue Freeze me up quite yee Gods and let me be My owne sad monument Cla. Alas you doe but hurt your selves with weeping Consider pray it may be she 'le come back Dem. Oh! never never 't is impossible As to call back sixteene and with vaine Rhetoricke Perswade my lifes fresh Aprill to returne Shee 's dead or else farre worse kept up by Aphron Whom if I could but see me thinkes new bloud Would creepe into my veines and my faint sinewes Renew themselves I doubt not but to find Strength enough yet to be reveng'd of Aphron Sp. Would I were with thee Girle where ere thou art Cla. For shame good Brother see if you can comfort them Me thinkes you should say something Phi. Doe you thinke My griefes so light or was the interest So small which I had in her I a comforter Alas she was my wife for we were married In our affection in our vowes and nothing Stopt the enjoying of each other but The thinne partition of some ceremonies I lost my hopes my expectations My joyes nay more I lost my selfe with her You have a son yet left behind whose memorie May sweeten all this gall Spo. I we had one But fate 's so cruell to us and such dangers Attend a travelling man that 't were presumption To say we have him we have sent for him To blot out the remembrance of his sister But whether we shall ever see him here The Gods can only tell we barely hope Dem. This newes alas Will be but a sad welcome to him Phi. Why doe I play thus with my misery 'T is vaine to thinke I can live here without her I le seeke her where e're she is patience in this Would be a vice and men might justly say My love was but a flash of winged lightning And not a Vestall flame which alwayes shines His woing is a complement not passion Who can if fortune snatch away his Mistris Spend some few teares then take another choyce Mine is not so Oh Callidora Cla. Fye Brother you 're a man And should not be shaken with every wind If it were possible to call her back with mourning mourning were a piety But since it cannot you must give me leave To call it folly Phi. So it is And I will therefore shape some other course This dolefull place shall never see me more Vnlesse it see her too in my embraces You sister may retyre unto my Farme Adjoyning to the woods And my estate I leave for you to manage If I find her expect me there if not Doe you live happier then your Brother hath Cla. Alas how can I if you leave me but I hope your resolutions may be altered Ph. Never farewell good Demophil Farewell Spodaia temper your laments If I returne we shall againe be happy Spo. You shall not want my prayers Dem. The Gods that pitty Lovers if there bee any attend upon you Cla. Will you needs goe Ph. I knit delayes 't were time I were now ready And I shall sinne if I seeme dull or slow In any thing which touches Callidora Dem. Oh! that name wounds me we 'le beare you company A little way and Clariana looke To see us often at your Countrey Farme Wee 'le sigh and grieve together Exeunt Enter Alupis and Palaemon Alu. Come come away c. Now where are all your sonnets your rare fancies Could the fine morning musick which you wak'd Your Mistris with prevaile no more then this Why in the Citie now your very Fidlers Good morrow to your worship will get something Hath she denyed thee quite Pa. Shee hath undone me I have plow'd the Sea And begot storming billowes Al. Can no perswasions move her Pa. No more then thy least breath can stirre an oake Which hath this many yeares scorn'd the fierce warres Of all the winds Al. 'T is a good hearing then She 'le cost you no more payres of Turtle Doves Nor garlands knit with amorous conceits I doe perceive some ragges of the Court fashions Visibly creeping now into the woods The more hee shewes his love the more shee slights him Yet will take any gift of him as willingly As Countrey Justices the Hens and Geese Of their offending neighbours this is right Now if I lov'd this wench I would so handle her I 'de teach her what the difference were betwixt One who had seene the Court and Citie tricks And a meere shepheard Pa. Lions are tam'd and become slaves to men And Tygres oft forget the cruelty They suckt from their fierce mothers but a woman Ah me a woman Al. Yet if I saw such wonders in her face As you doe I should never doubt to win her Pa. How pray if gifts would doe it she hath had The daintiest Lambes the hope of all my flock I let my apples hang for her to gather The painfull Bee did never load my hives With honey which she tasted not Al. You mistake me Friend I meane not so Pa. How then if Poetry would do 't what shade Hath not beene Auditor of my amorous pipe What bankes are not acquainted with her prayses Which I have sung in verses and the sheepheards Say they are good ones nay they call me Poet Although I am not easie to beleeve them Al. No no no that 's not the way Pa. Why how If shew of griefe had Rhetorick enough To move her I dare sweare she had beene mine Long before this what day did ere peepe forth In which I wept not dulier then the morning Which of the winds hath not my sighes encreas'd At sundry times how often have I cryed Hylace Hylace till the docile woods Have answered Hylace and every valley As if it were my Rivall sounded Hylace Al. I and you were a most rare foole for doing so Why 't was that poyson'd all Had I a Mistris I 'de almost beat her by this light I would For they are much about your Spaniels nature But whilst you cry deare Hylace ô Hylace Pitty the tortures of my burning heart She 'le alwayes mince it like a Citizens wife At the first asking though her tickled bloud Leapes at the very mention therefore now Leave off your whining tricks and take my counsell First then be merry For 't is but a folly c. Pal. 'T is a hard lesson for my mind to learne But I would force my selfe if that would helpe me Al. Why thou shalt see it will next I would have thee To laugh at her and mocke her pittifully Study for jeeres against next time you see her I 'le goe along with you and helpe to abuse her Till we have made her cry worse then e're you did When we have us'd her thus a little while Shee 'le be as tame and gentle Pa. But alas This will provoke her more Al. I le warrant thee besides
she bereave the rock Of corall for your lips and catch two starres As they were falling which she form'd your eyes of Would she her selfe turne work-woman and spinne Threeds of the finest gold to be your tresses Or rob the Great to make one Microcosme And having finisht quite the beauteous wonder Hide it from publique view and admiration No she would set it on some Pyramide To be the spectacle of many eyes And it doth grieve me that my niggard fortune Rays'd me not up to higher eminency Not that I am ambitious of such honors But that through them I might be made more worthy To enjoy you Bell. You are for ought I see Too great already I will either live An undefiled virgin as I am Or if I marry not belye my birth But joyne my selfe to some plaine vertuous shepheard For Callidorus is so and I will be either his or no bodyes Aside Flo. Pray heare me Bell. Alas I have Sir and doe therefore now Prepare to answer if this passion Bee love my fortune bids me to deny you If lust my honesty commands to scorne you Farewell Flo. O stay a little but two words she 's gone Gone like the glorious Sun which being sette Night creepes behind and covers all some way I must seeke out to win her or what 's easier And the blind man himselfe without a guide May find some way to dye would I had beene Borne a poore shepheard in these shady woods Nature is cruell in her benefits And when she gives us honey mingles gall She said that if she married the woods Should find a husband for her I will wooe her In Sylvan habit then perhaps she 'le love me But yet I will not that 's in vaine I will too It cannot hurt to try Exit Enter Alupis Palaemon after them Hylace Al. Nay come she 's just behind us are you ready When she scoulds bee you low deft if she cry Then laugh abundantly thus we will vex her Into a good conceit of you Pal. I 'le warrant you you have instructed me enough Shee comes Hyl. Is 't possible that Bellula Pal. Fayre creature Hyl. Sure thou wert borne to trouble me who sent for thee Pa. Whom all the Nymphs though women use to be As you know envious of anothers beauty Confesse the pride and glory of these woods Hyl. When did you make this speech 't is a most neat one Goe get you gone looke to your rotting cattell You 'le never keepe a wife who are not able To keepe your sheepe Al. Good she abuses him Now 't is a miracle he doth not cry Pal. Thou whom the starres might envy 'cause they are Outshone by thee on earth Hyl. Pray get you gon Or hold your prating tongue for whatsoever Thou sayest I will not heare a syllable Much lesse answer thee Pa. No I 'le try that streight I have a present here Which if you 'le give me leave I shall presume To dedicate to your service Hy. You 're so cunning And have such pretty wayes to entice me with Come let me see it Pa. Oh! have you found a tongue I thought I had not beene worth an answer Hy. How now what tricks are these Give it me quickly or Pa. Pray get you gon or hold your prating tongue For whatsoever thou sayest I will not heare A syllable much lesse answer thee Al. Good boy 'faith now let me come Hy. This is some plot I see would I were gone I had as lief see the wolfe as this Alupis Al. Here 's a fine Ring I faith a very pretty one Doe your teeth water at it Damsell ha Why we will sell our sheepe and oxen girle Hang them scurvy beasts to buy you pretty knacks That you might laugh at us and call us fooles And jeere us too as farre as your wit reaches Bid us be gone and when we have talkt two houres Deny to answer us Nay you must stay She offers to be gone And heare a little more Hy. Must I are you The master of my businesse I will not Al. Faith but you shall heare therefore and be patient I 'le have thee made a Lady yes a Lady For when thou 'st got a chaine about thy necke And comely bobes to dandle in thine eares When thou 'st perfum'd thy haire that if thy breath Should be corrupted it might scape unknowne And then bestow'd two houres in curling it Vncovering thy breast hither thine armes hither And had thy Fucus curiously lay'd on thou 'dst be the finest proud thing I le warrant thee Thou would'st outdoe them all So now goe thee to her And let me breathe a little For 't is but a folly c. Hy. Oh! is 't your turne to speake againe no doubt But we shall have a good oration then For they call you the learned shepheard well This is your love I see Pa. Ha ha ha What should I love a stone or wooe a picture Alas I must be gone for whatsoe're I say you will not heare a syllable Much lesse answer goe you thinke you are So singularly handsome when alas Galla Menalca's daughter Bellula Or Amaryllis overcome you quite Hy. This is a scurvy fellow I le fit him for 't No doubt they are I wonder that your wisdome Will trouble me so long with your vaine suite Why doe you not wooe them Pa. Perhaps I doe I 'le not tell you because you 'le envy them And alwayes be dispraising of their beauties Hy. It shall appeare I will not for I 'le sooner Embrace a Scorpion then thee base man Pa. Ha ha ha Alupis do'st thou heare her she 'le cry presently Doe not despaire yet girle by your good carriage You may recall me still some few entreatyes Mingled with teares may get a kisse perhaps Hy. J would not kisse thee for the wealth of Sicily Thou wicked perjur'd Fellow Pal. Alupis ôh We have incenst her too much how she lookes Prithee Alupis helpe me to intreate You know we did but jest deare Hylace Alupis prithee speake best beauteous Hylace I did but doe 't to try you pray forgive me Vpon my knees I begge it Al. Here 's a pretious foole Hyl. Do'st thou still mock me hast thou found more wayes Thou need'st not vex thy wit to move my hate Sooner the Sunne and starres shall shine together Sooner the Wolfe make peace with tender lambes Then I with thee thou' rt a disease to me And wound'st my eyes Exit Pal. Eternall night involve me if there be A punishment but sure there is not any Greater then what her anger hath inflicted May that fall on me too how have I fool'd Away my hopes how have I beene my selfe To my owne selfe a theefe Al. I told you this That if she should but frowne you must needs fall To your old tricks againe Pa. Is this your art A lovers curse upon it Oh! Alupis Thou hast done worse then murthered me for which May all thy flocks pine and decay like me May thy curst wit hurt all but
love one who cannot render back Equall desire is nothing else but madnesse Bell. Tell him so 't is a lesson he should learne Flo. Not to love is of 't selfe a kind of hardnesse But not to love him who hath alwayes woo'd you With chast desires is nothing lesse then tyranny Bell. Tell him so 't is a lesson he should learne Call Why doe you follow him that flyes from you Flo. Why doe you fly from him that followes you Bell. Why doe you follow Why doe you fly from me Call The Fates command me that I must not love you Flo. The Fates command me that I needs must love you Bell. The Fates impose the like command on me That you I must that you I cannot love Flo. Vnhappy man when I begin to cloath My love with words and court her with perswasions She stands unmov'd and doth not cleare her brow Of the least wrinkle which sate there before So when the waters with an amorous noyse Leape up and downe and in a wanton dance Kisse the dull rocke that scornes their fond embraces And darts them back till they with terror scattered Drop downe againe in teares Bell. Vnhappy woman When I begin to shew him all my passion He flyes from me and will not cleare his brow Of any cloud which covered it before So when the ravishing Nightingale hath tun'd Her mournfull notes and silenc'd all the birds Yet the deafe wind flirts by and in disdaine With a rude whistle leaues her Cal. We are all three Vnhappy borne to be the proud example Of Loves great God-head not his God-like goodnesse Let us not call upon our selves those miseries Which love hath not and those it hath beare bravely Our desires yet are like some hidden text Where one word seemes to contradict another They are Loves nonsence wrapt up in thicke clouds Till Fate be pleas'd to write a Commentary Which doubtlesse 't will till then let let us endure And sound a parlee to our passions Bell. We may joyne hands though may we not Flo. We may and lips too may we not Bell, We may come let 's sit downe and talke Cal. And looke upon each other Flo. Then kisse againe Bell. Then looke Call Then talke againe What are we like the hand of Mother Nature Would be quite pos'd to make our simile Flo. We are the Trigon in Loves Hemisphere Bel. We are three strings on Venus dainty'st Lute Where all three hinder one anothers musick Yet all three joyne and make one harmony Call We are three flowers of Venus dainty garden Where all three hinder one anothers odor Yet all three joyne and make one nosegay up Flo. Come let us kisse againe Bell. And looke Call And talke Flo. Nay rather sing your lips are Natures organs And made for nought lesse sweet then harmony Call Pray doe Bell. Though I forfeit My little skill in singing to your wit Yet I will do 't since you command Song It is a punishment to love And not to love a punishment doth prove But of all paines there 's no such paine As 't is to love and not be lov'd againe Till sixteene parents we obey After sixteene men steale our hearts away How wretched are we women growne Whose wills whose minds whose hearts are ne're our owne Call Thanke you Flo. For ever be the tales of Orpheus silent Had the same age seene thee that very Poet Who drew all to him by his harmony Thou would'st have drawne to thee Cal. Come shall we rise Bell. If it please you I will Call I cannot chuse But pitty these two Lovers and am taken Much with the serious trifles of their passion Let 's goe and see if we can breake this net In which we all are caught if any man Aske who we are we 'le say we are Loves riddle Exeunt Enter Aegon Palaemon Alupis Pa. Thou art my better Genius honest Aegon Al. And what am I Pa. My selfe my soule my friend Let me hugge thee Alupis and thee Aegon Thee for inventing it thee for putting it In act But doe you thinke the plot will hold Alu. Hold why I 'le warrant thee it shall hold Till we have ty'd you both in wedlock fast Then let the bonds of Matrimonie hold you If 't will if that will not neither I can tell you What will I 'me sure A Halter Then sing c. Aegon Come shall we knock Al. I doe For 't is c. Aegon Ho Truga who 's within there Al. You Winter Ho you that the grave expected Some hundred yeares agoe you that intend To live till you turne Skeleton and make All men aweary of you but Physitians Pox on you will you come Enter Clariana and her Maid Cla. Did you command the servants to withdraw M. I did forsooth Cla. And have you shut the doores M. Yes Cl. Is there none can over-heare our talke M. Your curious enquiry much amazeth me And I could wish you would excuse my boldnesse If I should aske the reason Cl. Thou knowest well That thou hast found me alwayes liker to Thy Kinswoman then Mistris that thy brest Has beene the Cabinet of all my secrets This I tell thee not as an exprobration But because I must require thy faith And counsell here And therefore prithee sweare M. Sweare to doe what Cl. To be more silent then the dead of night And to thy power to helpe me M. Would my power To assist you were as ready as my will And for my tongue that Mistris I 'le condemne Vnto perpetuall silence ere it shall Betray the smallest word that you commit to 't By all Cl. Nay doe not sweare I will not wrong thy vertue To bind it with an oath I le tell thee all Doth not my face seeme paler then 't was wont Doth not my eye looke as it borrowed flame From my fond heart could not my frequent weepings My sudden sighes and abrupt speeches tell thee What J am growne M. You are the same you were Or else my eyes are lyars Cl. No I 'me a wretched Lover could'st thou nor Read that out of my blushes fie upon thee Thou art a novice in Loves schoole I see Trust me I envy at thy ignorance That canst not find out Cupids characters In a lost Mayd sure thou didst never know him M. Would you durst trust me with his name Sure he had charmes about him that might tempt Chast Votaries or move a Scythian rock When he shot fire into your chaster breast Cl. I am asham'd to tell thee prithee ghesse him M. Why 't is impossible Cl. Thou saw'st the gentleman whom I this morning Brought in to be my guest M. Yes but am ignorant who or from whence he is Cl. Thou shalt know all The freshnesse of the morning did invite me To walke abroad there I began to thinke How I had lost my Brother that one thought Like circles in the water begat many Those and the pleasant verdure of the fields Made me forget the way and did
And there kill'd by a Chirurgion for experience And when hee 's gone I le wish this good thing for him May the earth lye gently on him that the dogges May teare him up the easier Aeg. A curse upon thee And upon me for trusting thy fond counsels Was this your cunning trick why thou hast wounded My conscience and my reputation too With what face can I looke on the other Swaines Or who will ever trust me who have broke My faith thus openly Pa. A curse upon thee This is the second time that thy perswasions Made me not only foole but wicked too I should have dyed in quiet else and knowne No other wound but that of her denyall Go now and bragge how thou hast us'd Palaemon But yet me thinkes you might have chose some other For subject of your mirth not me Aeg. Nor me Al. And yet if this had prospered as I wonder Who it should be betray'd us since we three And Truga only knew it whom if she Betray'd us I if this I say had prospered You would have hugg'd me for inventing it And him for putting it in act foolish men That doe not marke the thing but the event Your judgements hang on Fortune not on reason Aeg. Dost thou upbraid us too Pa. First make us wretched And then laugh at us beleeve Alupis Thou shalt not long have cause to boast thy villany Al. My villany doe what yee can you 're fooles And there 's an end I le talke with you no more I had as good speake reason to the wind As you that can but hisse at it Aeg. Wee will doe more Palaemon come away He hath wrong'd both and both shall satisfie Al. Which he will never doe nay goe and plod Your two wise braines will invent certainely Politique ginnes to catch me in Exeunt And now have at thee Truga if I find That thou art guiltie mum I have a ring Palaemon Aegon Hylace Melarnus Are all against me no great matter hang care For 't is but a folly c. Exit Enter Bellula This way my Callidorus went what chance Hath snatch'd him from my sight how shall I find him How shall I find my selfe now I have lost him With yee my feet and eyes I will not make The smallest truce till yee have sought him out Exit Enter Callidorus and Florellus Come now your businesse Flo. 'T is a fatall one Which will almost as much shame me to speake Much more to act as 't will fright you to heare it Cal. Fright me it must be then some wickednesse I am accustom'd so to misery That cannot do 't Flo. Oh! 'T is a sinne young man A sinne which every one shall wonder at None not condemne if ever it be knowne Me thinkes my bloud shrinkes back into my veines And my affrighted hayres are turn'd to bristles Doe not my eyes creepe backe into their cells As if they seem'd to wish for thicker darknesse Then either night or death to cover them Doth not my face looke black and horrid too As black and horrid as my thoughts ha tell me Cal. I am a novice in all villanyes If your intents be such dismisse me pray My nature is more easie to discover Then helpe you so Farewell Flo. Yet stay a little longer you must stay You are an actor in this Tragedy Cal. What would you doe Flo. Alas I would doe nothing but I must Cal. What must you doe Flo. I must Love thou hast got the victory Kill thee Cal. Who me you doe but jest I should believe you if I could tell how To frame a cause or thinke on any injury Worth such a large revenge which I have done you Flo. Oh no! there 's all the wickednesse they may seeme To find excuse for their abhorred fact That kill when wrongs and anger urgeth them Because thou art so good so affable So full of graces both of mind and body Therefore I kill thee wilt thou know it plainely Because whilst thou art living Bellula Protested she would never be anothers Therefore I kill thee Call Had I beene your rivall You might have had some cause cause did I say You might have had pretence for such a villany He who unjustly kills is twice a murtherer Flo. He whom love bids to kill is not a murtherer Cal. Call not that love that 's ill 't is only fury Flo. Fury in ills is halfe excusable Therefore prepare thy selfe if any sinne Though I beleeve thy hot and flourishing youth As innocent as other mens nativities Hath flung a spot upon thy purer conscience Wash it in some few teares Call Are you resolv'd to be so cruell Flo. I must or be as cruell to my selfe Call As sick men doe their beds so have I yet Injoy'd my selfe with little rest much trouble I have beene made the Ball of Love and Fortune And am almost worne out with often playing And therefore I would entertaine my death As some good friend whose comming I expected Were it not that my parents Flo. Here see I doe not come Drawes two swords from under his garment and offers one to Call Like a foule murtherer to intrap you falsly Take your own choyse and then defend your selfe Cal. 'T is nobly done and since it must be so Although my strength and courage call me woman I will not dye like sheepe without resistance If innocence be guard sufficient I 'me sure he cannot hurt me Flo. Are you ready the fatall Cuckow on yon spreading tree Hath sounded out your dying knell already Cal. I am Flo. 'T is well and I could wish thy hand Were strong enough 't is thou deservest the victory Nay were not th' hope of Bellula ingraven In all my thoughts I would my selfe play booty Against my selfe But Bellula come on Fight Enter Philistus This is the wood adjoyning to the Farme Where I gave order unto Clariana My sister to remaine till my returne Here 't is in vaine to seeke her yet who knowes Though it be in vaine I le seeke to him that doth Propose no journeys end no path's amisse Why how now what doe you meane for shame part Shepheards I thought you honest shepheards had not had Sees them fighting So much of Court and Citie follies in you Flo. 'T is Philistus I hope he will not know me Now I begin to see how black and horrid My attempt was how much unlike Florellus Thankes to the juster Deityes for declining From both the danger and from me the sin Phi. 'T would be a wrong to charity to dismisse yee Before I see you friends give me your weapons Cal. 'T is he why doe I doubt most willingly And my selfe too best man now kill me shepheard Phi. What doe you meane Swounds Rise prithee rise sure you have wounded him Enter Bellula Deceive me not good eyes what doe I see My Callidorus dead 'T is impossible Who is it that lyes slaine there are you dumbe Who is 't I pray Flo. Faire Mistris Bel. Pish faire Mistris I
come to seeke a Daughter O! are you there 't is well Flo. This is her Father I doe conjure you Father by the love Which parents beare their children to make up The match betwixt us now or if you will not Send for your friends prepare a coffin for me And let a grave be dig'd I will be happy Or else not know my misery to morrow Spo. You doe not thinke what ill may happen husband Come let him have her you have meanes enough For him the wench is faire and if her face Be not a flatterer of a noble mind Although not stocke Aeg. I doe not like this stragling come along By your leave Gentlemen I hope you will Pardon my bold intrusion Cl. You 're very welcome What are you going Bellula pray stay Though Nature contradicts our love I hope That I may have your friendship Aeg. Bellula Bel. My father calls farewell your name and memory In spite of Fate I 'le love farewell Flo. Would you be gone and not bestow one word Vpon your faithfull servant doe not all my griefes and troubles for your sake sustaynd Deserve Farewell Florellus Bel. Fare you well then Flo. Alas how can I Sweet unlesse you stay Or I goe with you you were pleas'd ere while To say you honoured me with the next place To Callidorus in your heart then now I should be first doe you repent your sentence Or can that tongue sound lesse then Oracle Bel. Perhaps I am of that opinion still But must obey my Father Aeg. Why Bellula would you have ought with her Sir Flo. Yes I would have her selfe if constancy And love be meritorious I deserve her Why Father Mother Sister Gentlemen Will you plead for me Dem. Since 't must be so I 'le beare it patiently Shepheard you see how much our son is taken With your faire Daughter therefore if you thinke Him fitting for her husband speake and let it Be made a match immediatly we shall Expect no other dowrie then her vertue Aeg. Which only I can promise for her fortune Is beneath you so farre that I could almost Suspect your words but that you seeme more noble How now what say you Girle Bel. I only doe depend upon your will Aeg. And I le not be an enemy to thy good fortune Take her Sir and the Gods blesse you Flo. With greater joy then I would take a Crowne Al. The Gods blesse you Flo. They have don 't already Aeg. Lest you should thinke when time and oft enjoying Hath dul'd the point and edge of your affection That you have wrong'd your selfe and family By marying one whose very name a Shepheardesse Might fling some spot upon your birth I 'le tell you She is not mine nor borne in these rude woods Flo. How you speake misty wonders Aeg. I speake truths Sir Some fifteene yeares agoe as I was walking I found a Nurse wounded and groning out Her latest spirit and by her a faire child And which her very dressing might declare Of wealthy parents as soone as I came to them I as'kd her who had us'd her so inhumanly She answered Turkish Pirats and withall Desired me to looke unto the child For 't is said she a Noblemans of Sicily His name she would have spoke but death permitted not Her as I could I caused to be buried But brought home the little Girle with me Where by my wives perswasions wee agreed Because the Gods had blest us with no issue To nourish as our owne and call it Bellula Whom now you see your wife your Daughter Spo. Is 't possible Flo. Her manners shew'd her noble Aeg. I call the Gods to witnesse this is true And for the farther testimony of it I have yet kept at home the furniture And the rich mantle which she then was wrapt in Which now perhaps may serve to some good use Thereby to know her parents Dem. Sure this is Aphrons sister then for just About the time he mentions I remember The governour of Pachinus then his Father Told me that certaine Pirats of Argier Had broke into his house and stolne from thence With other things his Daughter and her Nurse Who being after taken and executed Their last confession was that they indeed Wounded the Nurse but she fled with the child Whilst they were busie searching for more prey Whom since her father neither saw nor heard of Cla. Then now I 'me sure Sir you would gladly pardon The rash attempt of Aphron for your Daughter Since fortune hath joyn'd both of you by kindred Dem. Most willingly Spo. I I alas 't was love Flo. Where should wee find him out Cla. I le save that labour Exit Clariana Cal. Where 's Hylace pray shepheard and the rest Of my good Silvan friends me thinkes I would Faine take my leave of them Aeg. I 'le fetch them hither They 're not farre off and if you please to helpe The match betwixt Hylace and Palaemon 'T would be a good deed I le goe fetch them Exit Enter Aphron Clariana Ap. Ha! whether have you led me Clariana Some steepy mountaine bury me alive Or rock intombe me in its stony intrayles Whom doe I see Cla. Why doe you stare my Aphron They have forgiven all Dem. Come Aphron welcome We have forgot the wrong you did my Daughter The name of love hath cover'd all this is A joyfull day and sacred to great Hymen 'T were sin not to be friends with all men now Sp. Methinks I have much adoe to forgive the rascall Aside Ap. I know not what to say doe you all pardon me I have done wrong to yee all yea to all those That have a share in vertue Can yee pardon me All Most willingly Aph. Doe you say so faire Virgin You I have injur'd most with love With saucy love which I henceforth recall And will looke on you with an adoration Not with desire hereafter tell me pray Doth any man yet call you his Cal. Yes Philistus Ap. I congratulate it Sir The Gods make yee both happy foole as I am You are at the height already of felicity To which there 's nothing can be added now But perpetuity you shall not find me Your rivall any more though I confesse I honor her and will for ever doe so Clariana I am so much unworthy Of thy love That Cl. Goe no farther Sir 't is I should say so Of my owne selfe Phi. How Sister are you two so neere upon a match Ap. In our hearts Sir Wee are already joyn'd it may be though You will be loth to have unhappy Aphron Stile you his Brother Phi. No Sir if you both Agree to me it shall not be unwelcome Why here 's a day indeed sure Hymen now Meanes to spend all his torches Dem. 'T is my Son Sir New come from travaile and your Brother now Ap. I understand not Dem. Had you not a sister Ap. I had Sir but where now she is none knowes Besides the Gods Dem. Is 't not about some fifteene yeares
what if it should She hath refus'd you utterly already And cannot hurt you worse come come be rul'd And follow me we 'le put it straight in practize For 't is but a folly c. Pa. A match I le try alwayes she can but scorne me There is this good in depth of misery That men may attempt any thing they know The worst before hand Exeunt Enter Callidorus How happy is that man who in these woods With secure silence weares away his time Who is acquainted better with himselfe Then others who so great a stranger is To Citie follyes that he knowes them not He sits all day upon some mossie hill His rurall throne arm'd with his crooke his scepter A flowry garland is his country crowne The gentle lambes and sheepe his loyall subjects Which every yeare pay him their fleecy tribute Thus in an humble statelinesse and majestie He tunes his pipe the woods best melody And is at once what many Monarches are not Both King and Poet I could gladly wish To spend the rest of my unprofitable And needlesse dayes in their innocuous sports But then my father mother and my brother Recurse unto my thoughts and straight plucke downe The resolution I had built before Love names Philistus to me and o'th' sudden The woods seeme base and all their harmlesse pleasures The daughters of necessity not vertue Thus with my selfe I wage a warre and am To my owne rest a traytor I would faine Goe home but still the thought of Aphron frights me How now who 's here ô 't is faire Hylace The grumbling shepheards daughter Enter Hylace Brightest of all those starres that paint the woods And grace these shady habitations You 're welcome how shall I requite the benefit Which you bestow upon so poore a stranger With your faire presence Hyl. If it be any curtesie 't is one Which J would gladly doe you I have brought A rurall present some of our owne apples My father and my mother are so hard They watch'd the tree or else they had beene more Such as they are if they can please your tast My wish is crown'd Cal. O you 're too kind And teach that duty to me which I ought To have perform'd I would I could returne The halfe of your deserts but I am poore In every thing but thankes Hy. Your acceptation only is reward Too great for me Cal. How they blush A man may well imagine they were yours They beare so great a shew of modesty Hyl. O you mock my boldnesse To thrust into your company but truly I meant no hurt in 't my intents were vertuous Cal. The Gods forbid that I should nurse a thought So wicked thou art innocent I know And pure as Venus Doves or mountaine snow Which no foot hath defil'd thy soule is whiter if there be any possibilitie of 't Then that cleere skin which cloathes thy dainty body Hy. Nay my good will deserves not to be jeer'd You know I am a rude and countrey wench Cal. Farre be it from my thoughts I sweare I honour And love those maiden vertues which adorne you Hy. I would you did as well as I doe you But the just Gods intend not me so happy And I must be contented I 'me undone Ent. Bellula Here 's Bellula what is she growne my rivall Bell. Blesse me whom see I Hylace some cloud Or friendly mist involve me Hy. Nay Bellula I see you well enough Cal. Why doth the day start backe are you so cruell To shew us first the light and having struck Wonder into us snatch it from our sight If Spring crown'd with the glories of the earth Appeare upon the heavenly Ram and streight Creepe back againe into a grey-hayr'd frost Men will accuse its forwardnesse Hy. Pray heaven Hee be not taken with her shee 's somewhat faire He did not speake so long a speech to mee I 'me sure of 't though I brought him apples Bell. I did mistake my way Pray pardon me Hyl. I would you had else Cal. I must thanke fortune then which lead you hither But you can stay a little while and blesse us Bel. Yes and Love knowes how willingly alas I shall quite spoyle my garland ere I give it him With hiding it from Hylace 'Pray Fan Shee hath not stolne his heart already from him And cheated my intentions Hy. I would faine be going but if I should leave her It may be I shall give her opportunity To winne him from me for I know she loveth him And hath perhaps a better tongue then I Although I should bee loth to yeeld to her In beauty or complexion Bell. Let me speake In private with you I am bold to bring A garland to you 't is of the best flowers Which I could gather I was picking them All yesterday Cal. How you oblige me to you I thanke you sweetest How they flourish still Sure they grow better since your hand hath nipt them Bell. They will doe when your brow hath honour'd them Then they may well grow proud and shine more freshly Call What perfumes dwell in them They owe these odours to your breath Hy. Defend me yee good Gods I thinke he kisses her How long they have beene talking now perhaps Shee 's woing him perhaps he forgets me And will consent I 'le put him in remembrance You have not tasted of the apples yet And they were good ones truly Call I will doe presently best Hilace Hy. That 's something yet would he would speake so alwayes Cal. I would not change them for those glorious apples Which give such fame to the Hesperian gardens Bell. She hath out-gone me in her present now But I have got a Beechen cup at home Curiously graven with the spreading leaves And gladsome burthen of a fruitfull vine Which Damon the best Artist of these woods Made and bestow'd upon me I 'le bring that tomorrow And give it him and then I 'le warrant her Shee will not goe beyond me Hy. What have you got a chaplet ôh This is I see of Bellula's composing Bell. Why Hylace you cannot make a better What flowers 'pray doth it want Cal. Poore soules I pitty them and the more Because I have not beene my selfe a stranger To these love passions but I wonder What they can find in me worth their affection Truly I would faine satisfie them both But can doe neither 't is fates crime not mine Ball. Weither goe you shepheard Hyl. You will not leave us will you Cal. Indeed I ought not You have both me bought with your courtesies And should divide me Hy. Shee came last to you Bell. She hath another love And kills Palaemon with her cruelty How can shee expect mercy from another In what a Labyrinth doth Love draw mortalls And then blindfolds them what a mist it throwes Vpon their senses if he be a God As sure he is his power could not be so great else He knowes the impossibilitie which Nature Hath set betwixt us yet entangles us
And laughs to see us struggle D' yee both love me Bell. I doe I 'me sure Hyl. And I as much as she Cal. I pitty both of you for you have sow'd Vpon unthankfull sand whose dry'd up wombe Nature denyes to blesse with fruitfulnesse You are both fayre and more then common graces Inhabite in you both Bellula's eyes Shine like the lampe of Heaven and so doth Hylaces Hylaces cheekes are deeper dy'd in scarlet Then the chast mornings blushes so are Bellula's And I protest I love you both Yet cannot Yet must not enjoy either Bell. You speake riddles Cal. Which times commentarie Must only explaine to you and till then Farewell good Bellula farewell good Hylace I thanke you both Exit Hyl. Alas my hopes are strangled Exit Bell. I will not yet despaire He may grow milder He bade me farewell first and lookt upon me With a more stedfast eye then upon her When he departed hence 't was a good signe At least I will imagine it to be so Hope is the truest friend and seldome leaves one Exit Enter Truga I doubt not but this will move him For they 're good apples but my teeth are gone I cannot bite them but for all that though I le warrant you I can love a young Fellow As well as any of them all I that I can And kisse him too as sweetly Oh! here 's the mad-man Enter Aphron Ap. Hercules Hercules ho Hercules where are you Lend me thy club and skin and when I ha' done I le fling them to thee againe why Hercules Pox on you are you drunke can you not answer I le travell then without them and doe wonders Tru. I quake all over worse then any fitt Of the palsie which I have had this forty yeares Could make me doe Ap. So I ha' found the plot out First I 'le climbe up on Porter Atlas shoulders And then craule into Heaven and I 'me sure I cannot chuse but find her there Tru. What will become of me if he should see me Truly he 's a good proper Gentleman If he were not mad I would not be so 'fraid of him Ap. What have I caught thee fayrest of all women Where hast thou hid thy selfe so long from Aphron Aphron who hath beene dead till this blest minute Tru. Ha ha ha whom doth he take me for Ap. Thy skin is whiter then the snowy feathers Of Leda's Swannes Tru. Law you there now I thought I was not so unhandsome as they 'd make me Ap. Thy haires are brighter then the Moones Then when she spreads her beames and fills her orbe Trug. Beshrew their heart that call this Gentleman mad He hath his senses I le warrant him about him As well as any fellow of them all Apu. Thy teeth are like two Arches made of Ivory Of purest Ivory Tru. I for those few I have I thinke they 're white enough Ap. Thou art as fresh as May is and thy look Is picture of the Spring Tru. Nay I am but some fourscore yeares and tenne And beare my age well yet Alupis sayes I looke like January but I 'le teach the knave Another tune I le warrant him Ap. Thy lips are cheryes let me tast them sweet Tru. You have begd so handsomly Ap. Ha! yee good Gods defend me 't is a Witch a Hag Trug. What am I Ap. A witch one that did take the shape Of my best Mistris but thou couldst not long Belye her purenesse Tru. Now he 's starke mad againe upon the sudden He had some sense even now Ap. Thou lookst as if thou wert some wicked woman Frighted out of the grave defend me how Her eyes doe sinke into their ugly holes As if they were afraid to see the light Tru. I will not be abus'd thus that I will not My haire was bright even now and my lookes fresh Am I so quickly changed Ap. Her breath infects the ayre and sowes a pestilence Where e're it comes what hath she there J these are apples made up with the stings Of Scorpions and the bloud of Basiliskes Which being swallowed up a thousand paines Eate on the heart and gnaw the entrailes out Tru. Thou lyest J that thou do'st For these are honest apples that they are I 'me sure I gathered them my selfe Ap. From the Stygian tree Give them me quickly or I will Tru. What will you doe pray take them Ap. Get thee gone quickly from me for I know thee Thou art Tisiphone Tru. 'T is false for I know no such woman I 'me glad I am got from him would J had My apples too but 't is no matter though I 'le have a better gift for Callidorus To morrow Ap. The fiend is vanisht from me And hath left these behind for me to tast of But I will be too cunning Thus I 'le scatter them Now I have spoyld her plot Vnhappy hee Who finds them Exit Finis Actus secundi Actus III Scaena I. Enter Florellus THe Sun five times hath gone his yearly progresse Since last I saw my Sister and returning Bigge with desire to view my native Sicilie I found my aged parents sadly mourning The funerall for to them it seemes no lesse Of their departed Daughter what a welcome This was to me all in whose hearts a veine Of marble growes not easily may conceive Without the dumbe perswasions of my teares Yet as if that were nothing and it were A kind of happinesse in misery If 't come without an army to attend it As I pass'd through these woods I saw a woman Whom her attyre call'd Shepheardesse but face Some disguis'd Angell or a Silvan Goddesse It struck such adoration for I durst not Harbour the love of so divine a beauty That ever since I could not teach my thoughts Another object In this happy place Happy her presence made it she appear'd And breath'd fresh honours on the smiling trees Which owe more of their gallantry to her Then to the musky kisses of the West wind Ha! sure 't is she Thus doth the Sunne breake forth From the blacke curtaine of an envious cloud Enter Alupis Bellula Hylace Al. For 't is but a folly c. Hyl. Wee did not send for you pray leave us Alu. No by this light not till I see you cry When you have shed some penitentiall teares For wronging of Palaemon there may be A truce concluded betwixt you and me Bell. This is uncivill To thrust into our company doe you thinke That we admire your wit pray goe to them That doe we would be private Al. To what purpose You 'd aske how many shepheards she hath strooken Which is the properest man which kisses sweetest Which brings her the best presents And then tell What a fine man wooes you how redde his lips are How bright his eyes are and what dainty sonnets He hath composed in honor of your beauty And then at last with what rare tricks you foole him These are your learn'd discourses but were all Men of my temperance and wisdome