some note Although so darkly drawne as that his eyes Cannot expresly reade it yet it showes Him somthing which he rather feels then knowes The song of the second Chorus Desire that is of things vngot See what trauaile it procureth And how much the minde endureth To gaine what yet it gaineth not For neuer was it paid The charge defraide According to the price of thought ACT. III. SCEN. I. Charinus the father of Thirsis Palaemon PAlaemon you me thinkes might something work With Thirsis my aggreeued sonne and sound His humour what it is and why he thus Afflicts himselfe in solitarinesse You two were wont to be most inward friends And glad I was to see it knowing you To be a man well tempred fit to sort VVith his raw youth can you doe nothing now To win him from this vile captiuity Of passion that withholdes him from the world Pal. In troth Charinus I haue oftentimes As one that suffred for his grieuances Assayd to finde a way into the cause Of his so strange dismay and by all meanes Aduis'd him make redemption of himselfe And come to life againe and be a man With men but all serues not I finde him lockt Fast to his will alleadge I what I can Char. But will he not impart to you the cause Pal. The cause is loue but it is such a loue As is not to be had Cha. Not to be had Palaemon if his loue be regular Is there in all Arcadia any shee Whom his ability his shape and worth May not attaine he being my onely sonne Pal. Shee is not in Arcadia whom he loues Nor in the world and yet he deerely loues Cha. How may that be Palaemon tell me plaine Pal. Thus plainly he 's in loue with a dead woman And that so farre as with the thought of her Which hath shut out all other he alone Liues and abhorres to be or seene or knowne Cha. What was this creature could possesse him so Pal. Faire Siluia old Medorus daughter who Was two yeares past reported to be slaine By sauage beasts vpon our countrey shore Cha. Is that his griefe alas I rather thought It appertain'd vnto anothers part To wayle her death Alexis should doe that To whom her father had disposed her And shee esteemed onely to be his Why should my sonne afflict him more for her Then doth Alexis who this day doth wed Faire Galatea and forgets the dead And here the shepheards come to celebrate His ioyfull nuptials with all merriment Which doth increase my cares considering The comforts other parents doe receiue And therefore good Palaemon worke all meanes You can to win him from his peeuish will And draw him to these shewes to companies That others pleasures may inkindle his And tell him what a sinne he doeth commit To waste his youth in solitarinesse And take a course to end vs all in him Pal. Assure your selfe Charinus as I haue So will I still imploy my vtmost powre To saue him for me thinks it pittie were So rare a peece of worth should so be lost That ought to be preserued at any cost ACT. III. SCEN. II. Charinus Medorus MEdorus come we two must sit and mourne Whilst others reuell We are not for sports Or nuptiall shewes which will but shew vs more Our miseries in beeing both depriu'd The comforts of our issue which might haue And was as like to haue made our hearts As ioyfull now as others are in theirs Med. In deed Charinus I for my part haue Iust cause to grieue amidst these festiuals For they should haue been mine This day I should Haue seene my daughter Siluia how she would Haue womand it these rites had bene her grace And shee had sat in Galateas place And now had warm'd my heart to see my bloud Preseru'd in her had shee not beene so rapt And rent from off the liuing as shee was But your case is not pararell with mine You haue a sonne Charinus that doth liue And may one day to you like comforts giue Cha. Indeed I haue a sonne but yet to say he liues I cannot for who liues not to the world Nor to himselfe cannot be said to liue For euer since that you your daughter lost I lost my sonne for from that day he hath Imbrakd in shades and solitarinesse Shut himselfe vp from sight or company Of any liuing and as now I heard By good Palaemon vowes still so to doe Med. And did your sonne my daughter loue so deare Now good Charinus I must grieue the more If more my heart could suffer then it doth For now I feele the horrour of my deede In hauing crost the worthiest match on earth Now I perceiue why Siluia did refuse To marrie with Alexis hauing made A worthier choice which oh had I had grace To haue foreseene perhaps this dismall chance Neuer had bene and now they both had had Ioy of their loues and we the like of them But ah my greedy eye viewing the large And spacious sheep-walkes ioyning vnto mine Whereof Alexis was possest made me As worldlings doe desire to marry grounds And not affections which haue other bounds How oft haue I with threats with promises VVith all perswasions sought to win her minde To fancie him yet all would not preuaile How oft hath shee againe vpon her knees VVith teares besought me Oh deare father mine Doe not inforce me to accept a man I cannot fancie rather take from mee The life you gaue me then afflict it so Yet all this would not alter mine intent This was the man shee must affect or none But ah what sinne was this to torture so A hart forevow'd vnto a better choice VVhere goodnesse met in one the selfe same point And vertues answer'd in an equall ioynt Sure sure Charinus for this sinne of mine The gods bereaft me of my childe and would Not haue her be to be without her heart Nor me take ioy where I did none impart Cha. Medorus thus wee see mans wretchednesse That learnes his errours but by their successe And when there is no remedie and now Wee can but wish it had beene otherwise Med. And in that wish Charinus we are rackt But I remember now I often haue Had shadowes in my sleepe that figures bare Of some such liking twixt your childe and mine And this last night a pleasing dreame I had Though dreams of ioy makes wakers minds more sad Me thought my daughter Siluia was return'd In most strange fashion and vpon her knees Craues my good will for Thirsis otherwise She would be gone againe and seene no more I at the sight of my deare childe was rapt With that excesse of ioy as gaue no time Either for me to answer her request Or leaue for sleepe to figure out the rest Cha. Alas Medorus dreames are vapours which Ingendred with day thoughts fall in the night And vanish with the morning are but made Afflictions vnto man to th' end he might Not rest in rest but toyle both day and night
HYMENS TRIVMPH A Pastorall Tragicomaedie Presented at the Queenes Court in the Strand at her Maiesties magnificent intertainement of the Kings most excellent Maiestie being at the Nuptials of the Lord Roxborough By SAMVEL DANIEL LONDON Imprinted for Francis Constable and are to bee sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the white Lyon 1615 TO THE MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE OF THE HIGHEST-borne princess ANNE of Denmark Queene of England Scotland France and Ireland HEre what your sacred influence begat Most lou'd and most respected Maiestie With humble heart and hand I consecrate Vnto the glory of your memorie As being a piece of that solemnitie Which your Magnificence did celebrate In hallowing of those roofes you rear'd of late With fires and chearefull hospitalitie Whereby and by your splendent Worthines Your name shal longer liue then shal your walles For that faire structure goodnesse finishes Beares off all change of times and neuer falles And that is it hath let you in so farre Into the heart of England as you are And worthily for neuer yet was Queene That more a peoples loue hath merited By all good graces and by hauing been The meanes our State stands fast established And blest by your blest wombe who are this day The highest borne Queene of Europe and alone Haue brought this land more blessings euery way Then all the daughters of strange Kings haue done For we by you no claimes no quarrels haue No factions no betraying of affaires You doe not spend our blood nor states but saue You strength vs by alliance and your haires Not like those fatall marriages of France For whom this kingdome hath so dearely paid Which onely our afflictions did aduance And brought vs farre more miseries then aid Renowned Denmark that hast furnished The world with Princes how much doe we owe To thee for this great good thou dist bestow Whereby we are both blest and honoured Thou didst not so much hurt vs heretofore But now thou hast rewarded vs farre more But what doe I on this high subiect fall Here in the front of this low Pastorall This a more graue and spacious roome requires To shew your glorie and my deepe desires Your Maiesties most humble seruant SAMVEL DANIEL The Prologue Hymen opposed by Auarice Enuie and Iealousie the disturbers of quiet marriage first enters Hym. IN this disguise and Pastorall attire Without my saffron robe without my torch Or other ensignes of my duty I Hymen am come hither secretly To make Arcadia see a worke of glorie That shall deserue an euerlasting storie Here shall I bring you two the most entire And constant louers that were euer seene From out the greatest suffrings of anoy That fortune could inflict to their full ioy Wherein no wilde no rude no antique sport But tender passions motions soft and graue The still spectators mast expect to haue For these are onely Cynthias recreatiues Made vnto Phoebus and are feminine And therefore must be gentle like to her Whose sweet affections mildely mooue and stir And here with this white wand will I effect As much as with my flaming torch of Loue And with the power thereof affections mooue In these faire nymphes and shepheards round about Enuie Stay Hymen stay you shall not haue the day Of this great glorie as you make account We will herein as we were euer wont Oppose you in the matches you addresse And vndermine them with disturbances Hym. Now doe thy worst base Enuie thou canst doe Thou shalt not disappoint my purposes Auarice Then will I Hymen in despite of thee I will make Parents crosse desires of loue With those respects of wealth as shall dissolue The strongest knots of kindest faithfulnesse Hym. Hence greedy Auarice I know thou art A hagge that do'st bewitch the mindes of men Yet shalt thou haue no powre at all herein Iealousie Then will I Hymen doe thou what thou canst I will steale closely into linked hearts And shake their veines with colde distrustfulnesse And euer keepe them waking in their feares With spirits which their imagination reares Hym. Disquiet Iealousie vile furie thou That art the ougly monster of the minde Auant be gone thou shalt haue nought to doe In this faire worke of ours nor euermore Canst enter there where honour keepes the doore And therefore hideous furies get you hence This place is sacred to integritie And cleane desires your sight most loathsome is Vnto so well dispos'd a companie Therefore be gone I charge you by my powre We must haue nothing in Arcadia sowre Enuie Hymen thou canst not chase vs so away For looke how long as thou mak'st marriages So long will we produce incumbrances And we will in the same disguise as thou Mixe vs among these shepheards that we may Effect our worke the better being vnknowne For ills shew other faces then their owne The Speakers Thyrsis Palaemon friend to Thyrsis Clarindo Siluia disguised the beloued of Thyrsis supposed to be slaine by wild beasts Cloris a Nymph whom Clarindo serued and in loue with Thyrsis Phillis in loue with Clarindo Montanus in loue with Phillis Lidia Nurse to Phillis Forresters Dorcas Siluanus Medorus father to Siluia Charinus father to Thyrsis Chorus of Shepheards ACT. I. SCEN. I. Thirsis Palaemon SO to be reft of all the ioyes of life How is it possible Palaemon I Should euer more a thought retaine Of the least comfort vpon earth againe No I would hate this heart that hath receiu'd So deepe a wound if it should euer come To be recur'd or would permit a roome To let in any other thing then griefe Pal. But Thirsis you must tel me what is the cause Thi. Think but what cause I haue whē hauing pass'd The heates the colds the trembling agonies Of feares and hopes and all the strange assaults Of passion that a tender heart could feele In the attempt and pursuite of his loue And then to be vndone when all was done To perish in the hauen after all Those Ocean suffrings and euen then to haue My hopefull Nuptiall bed turn'd to a graue Pal. Good Thirsis by what meanes I pray thee tell Thi. Tell thee alas Palaemon how can I tell And liue doest thou not see these fields haue lost Their glory since that time Siluia was lost Siluia that onely deckt that onely made Arcadia shine Siluia who was ah woe the while So miserablie rent from off the world So rapt away as that no signe of her No peece was left to tell vs by what meanes Safe onely this poore remnant of her vaile All torne and this deere locke of her rent haire Which holy reliques here I keepe with me The sad memorials of her dismall fate Who sure deuoured was vpon the shore By ravenous beasts as she was walking there Alone it seemes perhaps in seeking me Or els retir'd to meditate apart The storie of our loues and heauie smart Pal. This is no newes you tell of Siluias death That was long since why shold you
waile her now Thi. Long since Palaemon thinke you any length Of time can euer haue a powre to make A heart of flesh not mourne not grieue not pine That knows that feels that thinks as much as mine Pal. But Thirsis you know how her father meant To match her with Alexis and a day To celebrate the nuptials was prefixt Thi. True he had such a purpose but in vaine As oh it was best knowne vnto vs twaine And hence it grew that gaue vs both our feares That made our meeting stealth our parting teares Hence was it that with many a secret wile Wee rob'd our lookes th' onlookers to beguile This was the cause oh miserable cause That made her by her selfe to stray alone Which els God knowes she neuer shold haue done For had our libertie as open beene As was our loues Siluia had not beene seene Without her Thirsis neuer had we gone But hand in hand nor euer had mischance Tooke vs asunder shee had alwaies had My bodie interpos'd betwixt all harmes And her But ah we had our libertie Laid fast in prison when our loues were free Pa. But how knowst thou her loue was such to thee Thi. How do I know the Sun the day from night Pal. Womens affections doe like flashes proue They oft shew passion when they feele small loue Thir. Ah do not so prophane that precious sexe Which I must euer reuerence for her sake Who was the glorie of her kinde whose heart In all her actions so transparant was As I might see it cleere and wholly myne Alwayes obseruing truth in one right line How oft hath she bene vrg'd by fathers threats By friends perswasions and Alexis sighs And teares and prayers to admit his loue Yet neuer could be wonne how oft haue I Beheld the brauest heardsmen of these plaines As what braue heardsman was there in the plaines Of all Arcadia that had not his heart VVarm'd with her beames to seek to win her loue Ah I remember well and how can I But euer more remember well when first Our flame began when scarce we knew what was The flame we felt when as we sate and sigh'd And lookd'vpon each other and conceiu'd Not what we ayld yet something we did ayle And yet were well and yet we were not well And what was our disease we could not tell Then would we kisse then sigh then looke thus In that first garden of our simplenesse Wee spent our childhood but when yeeres began To reape the fruite of knowledge ah how then Wold she with grauer looks with sweet stern brow Check my presumption and my forwardnes Yet still would giue me flowers still would me shew What she would haue me yet not haue me know Pal. Alas with what poore Coyne are louers paid And taken with the smallest bayte is laid Thi. And when in sports with other company Of Nimphes and shepherds we haue met abroade How would she steale a looke and watch mine eye Which way it went and when at Barley breake It came vnto my turne to rescue her With what an earnest swift and nimble pace Would her affection make her feet to run And farther run then to my hand her race Had no stop but my bosome where to end And when we were to breake againe how late And loath her trēbling hand wold part with mine And with how slow a pace would shee set forth To meet th e'ncountring party who contends T' attaine her scarce affording him her fingers ends Pal. Fie Thirsis with what fond remembrances Doest thou these idle passions entertaine For shame leaue off to waste your youth in vaine And feede on shadowes make your choice anew You other Nimphes shall find no doubt will be As louely and as faire and sweete as she Thi. As faire and sweete as she Palaemon peace Ah what can pictures be vnto the life VVhat sweetnes can be found in Images VVhich all Nimphes els besides her seemes to me She onely was a reall creaturee shee VVhose memory must take vp all of mee Should I another loue then must I haue Another heart for this is full of her And euermore shall be here is shee drawne At length and whole and more this table is A storie and is all of her and all Wrought in the liueliest colours of my bloud And can there be a roome for others heere Should I disfigure such a peece and blot The perfectst workmanship loue euer wrought Palaemon no ah no it cost too deere It must remaine intire whilst life remaines The monument of her and of my paines Pal. Thou maiest be such a fond Idolater To die for loue though that were very strange Loue hath few Saints but many confessors And time no doubt will raze out all these notes And leaue a roome at length for other thoughts Thi. Yes when there is no spring no tree no groue In all Arcadia to record our loue And tell me where we were the time we were How we did meete together what we said Where we did ioy and where we sate dismai'd And then I may forget her not before Till then I must remember one so deere VVhen euery thing I see tells me of her And you deere Reliques of that martred Saint My heart adores you the perpetuall bookes Whereon when teares permit mine eye still looks Ah you were with her last and till my last You must remaine with me you were reseru'd To tell me shee was lost but yet alas You cannot tell me how I wold you could White spotlesse vaile cleane like her womanhood Which whilome coveredst the most louely face That euer eye beheld Was there no message sent From her by thee Ah yes there seemes it was Here is a T made with her blood as if Shee would haue written Thirsis I am slaine In seeking thee sure so it should haue beene And so I reade it and shall euer so And thou sweet remnant of the fairest haire That euer wau'd with winde Ah thee I found When her I hop'd to finde wrapt in a round Like to an O the character of woe As if to say O Thirsis I die thine This much you tell me yet dumbe messengers Of her last minde and what you cannot tell That I must thinke which is the most extreame Of wofulnesse that any heart can thinke Pal. There is no dealing with this man I see This humour must be let to spend it selfe Vnto a lesser substance ere that we Can any way apply a remedy But I lament his case and so I know Do all that see him in this wofull plight And therefore will I leaue him to himselfe For sorrow that is full hates others sight Thir. Come boy whilst I contemplate these remaines Of my lost loue vnder this myrtle tree Record the dolefull'st song the sighingst notes That musicke hath to entertaine bad thoughts Let it be all at flats my boy all graue The tone that best befits the griefe I haue The Song Had sorrow euer fitter place To
deuice Needes else to keepe them vnder they themselues Will beare farre more then they are made thēselues Will adde vnto their fetters rather then They would not be or held to be great men Sil. Then Dorcas how much more are we to prize Our meane estate which they so much despise Considering that we doe enioy thereby The dearest thing in nature Liberty And are not tortur'd with those hopes and feares Th' affliction laid on superfluities VVhich make them to obscure and serue the times But are content with what the earth the woods And riuers neere doe readily afforde And therewithall furnish our homly borde Those vnbought cates please our vnlearned throats That vnderstand not dainties euen as well As all their delicates which doe but stuffe And not sustaine the stomacke and indeede A well obseruing belly doth make much For libertie for he that can but liue Although with rootes and haue no hopes is free VVithout the verge of any sov'raintie And is a Lord at home commands the day As his till night and then reposes him At his owne houres thinkes on no stratagem But how to take his game hath no deseigne To crosse next day no plots to vndermine Dor. But why Montanus doe you looke so sad VVhat is the cause your minde is not as free As your estate what haue you had of late Some coy repulse of your disdainfull nymph To whome loue hath subdu'd you who indeede Our only master is and no Lord else But he hath any power to vexe vs here Which had he not we too too happy were Mon. In troth I must confesse when now you two Found me in yonder thicket I had lost My selfe by hauing seene that which I would I had not had these eyes to see and iudge If I great reason haue not to complaine You see I am a man though not so gay And delicately clad as are your fine And amorous dainty heardsmen yet a man And that not base not vn-allyde to Pan And of a spirit doth not degenerate From my robustious manly ancestours Being neuer foild in any wrastling game But still haue borne away the chiefest prize In euery braue and actiue exercise Yet notwithstanding that disdainfull maid Prowd Phillis doth despise me and my loue And will not daigne so much as here me speake But doth abiure forsooth the thought of loue Yet shall I tell you yet asham'd to tell This coy vnlouing soule I saw ere while Soliciting a youth a smooth fac'd boy Whom in her armes shee held as seem'd to me Being closely busht a prety distance off Against his will and with strange passion vrg'd His stay who seem'd struggled to get away And yet shee staid him yet intreats his stay At which strange sight imagine I that stood Spectatour how confoundedly I stood And hardly could forbeare from running in To claime for mine if euer loue had right Those her imbraces cast away in sight But staying to behold the end I staid Too long the boy gets loose her selfe retyres And you came in but if I liue that boy Shall dearely pay for his misfortune that He was beloued of her of whom I would Haue none on earth beloued but my selfe Dor. That were to bite the stone a thing vniust To punish him for her conceiued lust Mon. Tush many in this world we see are caught And suffer for misfortune not their fault Sil. But that would not become your manlines Montanus it were shame for valiant men To doe vnworthily Mon. Speake not of that Siluanus if my rage Irregular be made it must worke like effects Dor. These are but billowes tumbling after storms They last not long come let some exercise Diuert that humour and conuert your thoughts To know your selfe scorne her who scorneth you Idolatrize not so that Sexe but hold A man of strawe more then a wife of gold Exeunt ACT. II. SCEN. II. Lidia Phillis YOu must not Phillis be so sensible Of these small touches which your passion makes Phi. Small touches Lidia do you count the small Can there vnto a woman worse befall Then hath to mee what haue not I lost all That is most deare to vs loue and my fame Is there a third thing Lidia you can name That is so precious as to match with these Lid. Now sily girle how fondly doe you talke How haue you lost your fame what for a few Ill-fauour'd louing words vttred in ieast Vnto a foolish youth Cannot you say You did but to make triall how you could If such a peeuish qualme of passion should As neuer shall oppresse your tender heart Frame your conceit to speake to looke to sigh Like to a heart-strooke louer and that you Perceiuing him to be a bashfull youth Thought to put spirit in him and make you sport Phi. Ah Lidia but he saw I did not sport He saw my teares and more what shall I say He saw too much and that which neuer man Shall euer see againe whil'st I haue breath Lid. Are you so simple as you make your selfe VVhat did he see a counterfeited shew Of passion which you may if you were wise Make him as easily to vnbeleeue As what he neuer saw and thinke his eyes Conspir'd his vnderstanding to deceiue How many women thinke you being espide In neerer-touching cases by mischance Haue yet not onely fac'd their louers downe For what they saw but brought them to beleeue They had not seene the thing which they had seen Yea and to sweare it too and to condemne Themselues such meanes can wit deuise To make mens mindes vncredit their owne eyes And therefore let not such a toy as this Disease your thoughts and for your losse of loue It is as much as nothing I would turne A passion vpon that should ouerturne It cleane and that is wrath one heate Expels another I would make my thoughts of skorne To be in height so much aboue my loue As they should ease and please me more by farre I would disdaine to cast a looke that way Where he should stand vnlesse it were in skorne Or thinke a thought of him but how to worke Him all disgrace that possibly I could Phi. That Lidia can I neuer doe let him Do what he will to me report my shame And vaunt his fortune and my weaknesse blame Lid. Nay as for that he shall be so well charmd Ere I haue done as you shall feare no tales Phi. Ah Lidia could that he without his harme How blessed should I be But see where comes My great tormentour hat rude Forrester Good Lidia let vs flie I hate his sight Next to the ill I suffer let vs flie VVe shall be troubled with him wofully Lid. Content you Phillis stay heare him speake We may make vse of him more then you thinke Phil. What vse can of so grosse a peece be made Lid. The better vse be sure for beeing grosse Your subtler spirits full of their finesses Serue their owne turnes in others businesses ACT.
II. SCEN. III Montanus Lidia Phillis VVhat pleasure can I take to chase wild beasts When I my selfe am chac'd more egarly By mine owne passions and can finde no rest Let them who haue their heart at libertie Attend those sports I cannot be from hence Where I receiu'd my hurt here must I tread The maze of my perplexed miserie And here see where shee is the cause of all And now what shall I doe what shall I say How shall I looke how stand which vtter first My loue or wrath Alas I know not which Now were it not as good haue beene away As thus to come and not tell what to say Phil. See Lidia see how sauagely hee lookes Good let vs goe I neuer shall endure To heare him bellow Lid. Prethee Phillis stay And giue him yet the hearing in respect Hee loues you otherwise you shew your selfe A sauage more then hee Phil. Well it I heare I will not answere him a word you shall reply And prethee Lidia doe reply for mee Lid. For that wee shall Phillis doe well enough When he begins who seemes is very long To giue the onset sure the man is much Perplexed or he studies what to say Phil. Good Lidia see how he hath trickt himselfe Now sure this gay fresh suite as seemes to mee Hangs like green Iuy on a rotten tree Lid. Some beasts doe weare gray beards beside your goates And bear with him this suit bewraies yong thoghts Mon. Ah was it not enough to be opprest With that confounding passion of my loue And her disdaine but that I must be torne With wrath and enuie too and haue no veine Free from the racke of suffrings that I can Nor speake nor thinke but most distractedly How shall I now begin that haue no way To let out any passion by it selfe But that they all will thrust together so As none will be expressed as they ought But something I must say now I am here And be it what it will loue enuie wrath Or all together in a comberment My words must be like me perplext and rent And so I 'le to her Phi. Lidia see he comes Lid. He comes indeed and as me thinkes doth More trouble in his face by farre then loue Mon. Faire Phillis and too faire for such a one shew Vnlesse you kinder were or better then I know you are how much I haue endur'd For you although you skorne to know I feele And did imagine that in being a man Who might deserue regard I should haue bin Prefer'd before a boy But well I see Your seeming and your being disagree Phi. What Lidia doth he brawle what meanes he thus To speake and looke in this strange sort on me Mon. VVell modest Phillis neuer looke so coy These eyes beheld you dallying with a boy Phi. Me with a boy Montanus when where how Mon. To day here in most lasciuious sort Lid. Ah ha belike he sawe you Phillis when This morning you did striue with Cloris boy To haue your garland which he snatcht away And kept it from you by strong force and might And you againe laid hold vpon the same And held it fast vntill with much adoe He wrung it from your hands and got away And this is that great matter which he saw Now fye Montanus fye are you so grosse T' imagine such a worthy nymph as shee VVould be in love with such a youth as he VVhy now you hauc vndone your credit quite You neuer can make her amends for this So impious a surmise nor euer can Shee as shee reason hath but must despise your grossenesse who should rather haue come in And righted her then suffer such a one To offer an indignity so vile And you stand prying in a bush the while Mon. VVhat do I heare what am I not my selfe How haue mine eyes double vndone me then First seeing Phillis face and now her fact Or else the fact I saw I did not see And since thou hast my vnderstanding wrong'd And traytour-like giuen false intelligence VVhereby my iudgement comes to passe amisse And yet I thinke my sence was in the right And yet in this amaze I cannot tell But howsoere I in an errour am In louing or beleeuing or in both And therefore Phillis at thy feet I fall And pardon craue for this my grosse surmise Lid. But this Montanus will not now suffise You quite haue lost her and your hopes and all Mon. Good Lidia yet intreate her to relent And let her but command me any thing That is within the power of man to do And you shall finde Montanus will performe More then a Gyant and will stead her more Then all the heardsmen in Arcadia can Lia. Shee will command you nothing but I wish You would a little terrifie that boy As he may neuer dare to vse her name But in all reuerence as is fit for her But doe not you examine him a word For that were neither for your dignity Nor hers that such a boy as he should stand And iustifie himselfe in such a case Who would but faine vntruths vnto your face And herein you some seruice shall performe As may perhaps make her to thinke on you Mon. Alas this is a worke so farre so low Beneath my worth as I account it none Were it t' incounter some fierce mountaine beast Or monster it were something fitting mee But yet this will I doe and doe it home Assure you Lidia as I liue I will Phi. But yet I would not haue you hurt the youth For that were neither grace for you nor mee Mon. That as my rage will tollerate must be ACT. II. SCEN. IV. Cloris Clarindo HEere comes my long expected messenger God grant the newes hee brings may make amends For his long stay and sure I hope it will Me thinkes his face bewraies more iollytie In his returning then in going hence Cla. Well all is wel no Amarillis hath Supplanted Siluias love in Thirsis heart Nor any shall but see where Cloris lookes For what I shall not bring her at this time Clo. Clarindo though my longing would be faine Dispatch'd at once heare my doome pronounc'd All in a word of either life or death Yet doe not tell it but by circumstance Tell me the manner where and how thou foundst My Thirsis what he said how look'd how far'd How he receau'd my message vsed thee And all in briefe but yet be sure tell all Cla. All will I tell as neere as I can tell First after teadious searching vp and downe I found him all alone like a hurt Deare Got vnder couer in a shadie groue Hard by a little christall purling spring Which but one sullen note of murmur held And where no sunne could see him where no eye Might ouerlooke his louely primacy There in a path of his owne making trode Bare as a common way yet led no way Beyond the turnes he made which were but short With armes acrosse his hat downe on his eyes As if
left her very young Vnto her fathers charge who carefully Did breed her vp vntill shee came to yeares Of womanhood and then prouides a match Both rich and young and fit ynough for her But shee who to another shepheard had Call'd Sirthis vow'd her loue as vnto one Her heart esteem'd more worthy of her loue Could not by all her fathers meanes be wrought To leaue her choice and to forgoe her vow Thi. No more could my deere Siluia be from me Cla. Which caused much affliction to the both Thi. And so the selfe same cause did vnto vs Cla. This nymph one day surcharg'd with loue griefe Which comonly the more the pittie dwel As Inmates both together walking forth With other maydes to fish vpon the shore Estrayes apart and leaues her companie To entertaine her selfe with her owne thoughts And wanders on so far and out of sight As shee at length was sudainely surpriz'd By Pyrats who lay lurking vnderneath Those hollow rocks expecting there some prize And notwithstanding all her pittious cryes Intreaty teares and prayes those feirce men Rent haire and vaile and caried her by force Into their ship which in a little Creeke Hard by at Anckor lay and presently hoys'd saile And so away Thi Rent haire and vaile and so Both haire and vaile of Siluia I found rent Which heere I keepe with mee But now alas What did shee what became of her my boy Cla. VVhen she was thus in shipp'd and woefully Had cast her eyes about to view that hell Of horrour whereinto she was so sudainely Implung'd shee spies a woman sitting with a child Sucking her breast which was the captaines wife To her she creepes downe at her feet she lyes O woman if that name of woman may Moue you to pittie pittie a poore maid The most distressed soule that euer breath'd And saue me from the hands of these feirce men Let me not be defil'd and made vncleane Deare woman now and I will be to you The faithfull'st slaue that euer mistres seru'd Neuer poore soule shall be more dutifull To doe what euer you command then I No toile will I refuse so that I may Keepe this poore body cleane and vndeflowr'd Which is all I will euer seeke For know It is not feare of death laies me thus low But of that stain wil make my death to blush Thi. VVhat would not all this mooue the womans hart Cla. Al this would nothing moue the womans hart VVhom yet she would not leaue but still besought Oh woman by that infant at your breast And by the paines it cost you in the birth Saue me as euer you desire to haue Your babe to ioy and prosper in the world VVhich will the better prosper sure if you Shall mercy shew which is with mercy paid Then kisses shee her feet then kisses too The infants feete and oh sweet babe said shee Could'st thou but to thy mother speake for me And craue her to haue pittie on my case Thou mightst perhaps prevaile with her so much Although I cannot child ah could'st thou speake The infant whether by her touching it Or by instinct of nature seeing her weepe Lookes earnestly vpon her and then lookes Vpon the mother then on her againe And then it cryes and then on either lookes Which shee perceauing blessed childe said shee Although thou canst not speake yet do'st thou cry Vnto thy mother for me Heare thy childe Deare mother it 's for mee it cryes It 's all the speech it hath accept those cryes Saue me at his request from being defilde Lett pittie moue thee that thus mooues thy childe The woman though by birth and custome rude Yet hauing veynes of nature could not bee But peircible did feele at length the point Of pittie enter so as out gusht teares Not vsuall to sterne eyes and shee besought Her husband to bestow on her that prize VVith safegard of her body at her will The captaine seeing his wife the childe the nymph All crying to him in this pittious sort Felt his rough nature shaken too and grants His wiues request and seales his graunt with teares And so they wept all foure for company And some beholders stood not with dry eies Such passion wrought the passion of their prize Thi. In troth my boy and euen thy telling it Moues me likewise thou doost so feelingly Report the same as if thou hadst bene by But I imagine now how this poore nymph VVhen she receiu'd that doome was comforted Cla. Sir neuer was there pardon that did take Condemned from the blocke more ioyfull then This graunt to her For all her misery Seem'd nothing to the comfort she receiu'd By being thus saued from impurity And from the womans feet she would not part Nor trust her hand to be without some hold Of her or of the childe so long as shee remaind VVithin the ship which in few daies arriues At Alexandria whence these pirats were And there this woefull maide for two yeares space Did serue and truly serue this captains wife VVho would not lose the benefit of her Attendance for all her profit otherwise But daring not in such a place as that To trust her selfe in womans habite crau'd That she might be appareld like a boy And so she was and as a boy she seru'd Thi. And two yeares t is since I my Siluia lost Cla. At two yeares end her mistres sends her forth Vnto the Port for some commodities Which whilst shee sought for going vp and downe Shee heard some merchant men of Corinth talke Who spake that language the Arcadians did And were next neighbours of one continent To them all rapt with passion down she kneeles Tels them shee was a poore distressed boy Borne in Arcadia and by Pirats tooke And made a slaue in Egypt and besought Them as they fathers were of children or Did hold their natiue countrey deare they would Take pity on her and releeue her youth From that sad seruitude wherein shee liu'd For which shee hop'd that shee had friends aliue Would thanke them one day reward them too If not yet that shee knew the heauens would doe The merchants mou'd with pity of her case Being ready to depart tooke her with them And landed her vpon her countrey coast VVhere when shee found her selfe shee prostrate fals Kisses the ground thankes giues vnto the Gods Thankes them who had beene her deliuerers And on shee trudges through the desart woods Climes ouer craggie rockes and mountaines steep VVades thorough riuers struggles thorough bogs Sustained onely by the force of loue Vntill shee came vnto the natiue plaines Vnto the fields where first shee drew her breath There lifts shee vp her eyes salutes the ayre Salutes the trees the bushes flowres and all And oh deare Sirthis here I am said shee Here notwithstanding all my miseries I am the same I was to thee a pure A chaste and spotlesse maide oh that I may Finde thee the man thou didst professe to be Thi. Or else