Here shee comes Mis. Sir I hope you and my Daughter are agreed Aur. And the conditions please mee infinitely Mother you never plac'd your commendation Vpon a Gentleman so Noble such Plenty of honour dwels in him I must Bee happy in his imbraces Sim. Oh ho is 't come about agen Mis. Nay nay I told you you should find him honourable Aur. Wee understand each other perfectly Hee has so sweet a soule I may have any thing Hee has promised me the finest Parrats Sim. Oh I and Madgehowlets that can speake all languages Mis. Nay and hee 'le performe Well for this act of duty I shall finde Some gold beside thy portion i' th meane time I le move thy father to conclude the marriage And here hee is already Enter Golds. Caperw and Chrysol Aur. Looke you Sir These turnes you put mee too doe not beleeve I beare one thought more of good-will for this If you suspect it otherwise because I carry it sweet and pleasing to my mother Who is so zealous in your cause I 'le sweare Your worship is the most unwelcomm'st man I' th world to mee Sim. I 'm glad shee is not gone yet Au. What need you distrust Hee 'l know precisely when we must be married Is jealous of delayes wo'not beleeve I love him Till the Priest hath seald me his i' th Church hee sayes Sim. These are tricks demurres your daughter is not sober Au. He meanes serious Sim. She doth but mocke Au. Who would thinke you could dissemble Mis. Sir have patience I have not beene so hasty To become tedious at last referre that to my care Since you have made a marriage in your hearts The Church shall soone confirme it Au. What doe y' thinke of this Faith yet be wise and leave this wooing I shall maintaine this humour to my mother And finde a crotchet to come off with honour you have not Yet my hate pray let 's bee friends and never meet agen Sim. This is very fine yfaith if I do not study some mischiefe Au. Conceale for your owne shame Cap. How doe' y like 'em Lady 't pleasd your father To impose somewhat severely on my Muse But your Divine acceptance shall declare it A Crowned Poem most illustrious Simple Sim. Simple mee no more than I simple thee Enter servant Ser. Sir there is a Lady enquires for Master Caperwit Cap. A Lady out of complement t is hee Ser. Shee seemes of Noble quality she has Coach and faire Attendants and cals her selfe the Lady Bird Cap. Good Cupid is it shee Who gave her direction to finde mee here An honourable Lady I confesse and hath a fortune Noble like her birth t is the rich Aldermans widdow The great Bird that dyed at 's Country house a Kinsman To the Ravens of the City by no meanes admit her Shee 'le betray her foolish Passion Gol. What is the matter Cap. Some few dayes agoe I did by chance but drop a complement How much I was her servant and she tooke it To 'th heart and ever since hath sought occasion To expresse her love to mee poore Gentlewoman Gol. You cannot helpe it Cap. T is one but of the myriad of Ladies That have been taken Chr. With your tropes and figures Gol. No matter let her come it were not civill Sir to deny your selfe Cap. Shee le tire all patience But Lady be assur'd my heart is dedicate To you and were all women kind in ballance With your divinest person their light scale Would kicke the Firmament or comming downe Bee lost i' th middle Region of the ayre Or bee converted to a Cloud to weepe Vpon the earth for being so much exceld Enter Lady Bird Bir. Where 's this Footman Ser. Trot my Ladies Footman Bir. Goe pray my Vncle Sir Walter Cormorant To dine with me to morrow And doe y'heare T is in your way to aske if my Cosin Bulfinch The Steward of my Land bee come to Towne Hee lies in Fleetstreet betweene Hawke and Buzzard I' th afternoone remember Sirrah that You goe to Master Kite that lives i' th Poultry And say I shall expect the thousand pound Was lent him upon morgage Sir beseech your Noblenesse excuse mee The affaires so neerely doe concerne mee with A Gentleman now your guest that I presumed It should not bee offence if I tooke hold Of this occasion to speake with him Gol. Madame you need plead no excuse for that Command your freedome here Daughters my Lady Would have some private conference Bir. By no meanes Let me appeare so troublesome your presence Will be no hurt to my designe you shall Command a great deale more Cap. 'T was cunningly prepared Bi. Sir after all let me obtaine your priviledge Ca. Proceed Bi. I shall accuse my selfe of too much boldnesse If you neglect mee Sir before all these I come not to disturbe you nor to publish What you have taken from mee Go. I hope shee will lay some felony to his charge Bi. But Sir you might have been so kind to have seene your friend once in three dayes Ca. I must be pardon'd Widow The glasse that tells the hower hath not more sands Than there be Ladies waite to catch me up To spend my time with 'em they breake my dreames With importunity and allow me but One minute in a weeke to say my prayers Bi. Among them all there is not one That more desires your happinesse Ca. T is more your goodnesse Lady than desert Or provocation in me Bi. Y' are modest And thus increase your value Ca. Your favours are acknowledg'd and take up Much of my studies how I may be active In service to reward 'em still preserving My liberty I must not be confind Or wedg'd in all that 's good in nature ought To be communicable if you have Promis'd your selfe more of me than as you are Allowd an excellent part o' th commonwealth T is justice you correct the imagination Perhaps you 'l say you love me Go. A fine Dialogue Bi. My blushes speake me guilty and I feare Betray my frailty to these Gentlewomen You 'l sinne against your knowledge Sir to make A question how much I esteeme you be not A tyrant if my opinion of your worth Prevaile against my modesty to say I cannot choose but love you t is my fate My breeding never suffred but in this That I should lose my selfe to court a man Ambitious of my favour t is in vaine To tell you with what art my eyes have beene Courted by great ones for their smile for you Will turne them all to teares Chr. Alas poore Lady I pitty her what doth she see in him To draw this passion Cap. May be I am engag'd To another beauty Bir. That 's my feare indeed For who can looke with eyes like mine upon you And not be tempted to the same desires But be not Sir deceived all forheads are not True glasses of the minde and beauty alone Deserves not such a blessing young men doe Too hastily
and Iack Yongrave with his Mistris Cap. The number I desire Thor. I know your lodging say no more I le bring 'em This afternoone to practise we may soone Perfect a dance Cap. Shall I trust to you Thor. Here 's my hand Cap. I kisse it Thor. I may give you a hint perhaps for the device too Cap. I have no other gratitude but this Live but a weeke I le send you an Ode or dye I le write your Epitaph Exit Thor. I have no purpose to put your Muse To such expence Farewell Phantasma Enter Chrysolina Chr. Have I not beene tedious I told my sister all and she is gone To Mr. Gerard if their meeting prosper I have directed where to find us Thor. Excellent come let 's away A thousand joyes expect us Exeunt Enter Gerard in his gowne and cap Ger. I once beleev'd women were full of pitty Of soft and gentle constitutions But I have found 'em cruell for Aurelia One of the best of all her sex doth owne A hard and tyrannous nature Enter servant Ser. Sir t is done Ger. I prethee let it be vndone as I am Ser. The Song Ger. I gave to be taught Musicke I le hear 't anon I prethee goe Ser. Whither Ger. To Prison Ser. How Sir Ger. Yes and aske when are the Sessions Ser. They are every moneth Ger. I would 't were execution day to morrow Ser. Why with your pardon doe you wish it Sir Ger. I would intreat the Surgeons to beg Some Woman for Anatomy nothing else I have heard their Lectures very much commended And I 'd be present when they read upon Her heart for sure there is much difference Betweene a Woman and a Man in that Same thing we call a heart they doe not love As we doe we are fooles indeed we are To dote so much upon 'em and betray The glory of our creation to serve A female pride we were borne free and had From the great Maker Royall priviledge Most brave immunities but since have made Tame forfeit of our Charter Let me see 't It is the same first read it reach the chaire T is yet no Song infuse a soule into it Song If Love his Arrowes shoot so fast Soone his feathered stocke will waste But I mistake in thinking so Love's Arrowes in his Quiver grow How can he want Artillery That appeares too true in mee Two shafts feed upon my brest Oh make it Quiver for the rest Kill me with love thou angry sonne Of Cytherea or let one One sharpe golden Arrow flye To wound her heart for whom I dye Cupid if thou bee'st a Childe Be no god or be more milde Enter Aurelia and Servant Ser. I have not since I serv'd him knowne him so Opprest with melancholy hee 's asleepe I dare not wake him Aur. I le expect a while Ser. This quiet will much benefit him hee Began to talke idly Aur. Heaven preserve the temper of his braine Ser. He wakes Ger. Ha t is not shee doe I dreame still Come hither dost thou see nothing Ser. Yes a Gentlewoman that came to visit you Ger. Doe not abuse thy master 't is not possible Aurelia Will doe me so much honour in my sleepe Me thought I parled with her and my fancy Hath not yet lost her shape Oh my Aurelia Aur. I come to aske thy pardon Ger. Doe not mocke me Thou wo't bee cruell when I wake agen And then I shall repent I dream't so sweetly Aur. Y' are now awake and I am your Aurelia That if you can forgive her past neglect Will give you proofe of her repentance But these teares Ger. Let not the ground be hallowed with Such water I have a heart to drinke this Balsome Enough Aurelia doe not make thy eyes Poore to enrich thy bosome where the drops Shew like a Carkanet of Pearle upon it Thou hast enough restor'd mee Aur. Oh my Gerard Thou art too mercifull and dost forgive Too soone the injury I did thy love But I am come to make thee satisfaction And this is but a shadow of those joyes Wee must divide if you vouchsafe to follow As I direct Ger. T is sinne not to obey Aur. You must walk then Ger. It is to heaven thou goest Convey mee swiftly thither Aur. Nay t is hast is now required Ger. What blisse can bee deny'd A man that followes such an Angell-guide Exeunt Enter Thumpe Thum. Where in the name of simplicity should my Master be all this while I have been at sixe Ordinaries twelve Tavernes and I thinke foure and twenty Bawdy-houses places that Gentlemen use to frequent and yet cannot find him well I am resolv'd to aske every man I meet and if I cannot heare of him the sooner I le have him cryed Enter Yongrave and Eugenia Pray did you see my Master Yon. Thy Master I know him not Thump Nay Sir did you see him for if you see him you cannot choose but know him for hee had a hundred markes brought him warme out of the Country this morning Yon. Much good doe it him next his heart I see him not Ex. Thump No no there is no hope 't is but an unmannerly tricke of any Master to leave his man o'th is fashion t is well there is no presse abroad no disguis'd Constables twelve pence and the Kings name would put mee into a pittifull Feaver and I should curse Sir Gervace in another Country as often as I heard the report of a Musket for bringing me up no better that might ha' hv'd quietly at home and gone a feasting with the train'd Band without any danger Enter Thornay Chrysol Here is another youth and his commodity I 'le enquire of him Pray did you see my Master Thor. Thy Master what 's he Thum. A Knight Sir I le assure you of the last edition that Was my foolish Master for want of a better Thor. His name Thum. Sir Gervace Simple Thor. Something of a blacke complexion with a weezell face Thum. The same Sir Thor. In a doublet of Orange-tawny Satten richly laced and blew trunke hose very sutable Thum. Very right Sir Thor. A long Italian Cloake came down to his elbowes a Spanish Ruffe and long French stockings Thump Iust the same how happy was I to meet with this Gentleman Thor. Faith honest friend I saw none such Thum. Pox o' these questions Thor. But if thou 'lt goe with me I may chance helpe to a sight of this Pageant Thum. Heaven blesse your worship and the sweet fac'd modicum in your company Exeunt Enter Master Golds. Mistresse Golds. Mis. To prison with your servants Husband hang Them all unlesse they finde our daughters Gol. And I have sent to Sir Iohn Woodhamores They may be with his Neece Mis. They never us'd Thus to absent themselves Oh me unhappy Gol. Wee have been too indulgent Mis. I would have had them more restrain'd yong wenches That have so many sutors grow soone wanton And throw off their obedience had you been Forward as I
CHANGES OR Love in a Maze A COMEDIE As it was presented at the Private House in Salisbury Court by the Company of His Majesties Revels Written by IAMES SHIRLEY Gent. Deserta per avia dulcis Raptat Amor LONDON Printed by G. P. for William Cooke and are to be sold at his shop neere Furnivals Inne gate in Holborne 1632 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LADY DOROTHIE SHIRLEY MAdame who make the glory of your blood No priviledge at all to be lesse good Pardon the rudenesse of a Comedy That taught too great ambition would fly To kisse your white hand and receive from thence Both an authority and innocence 'T is not this great man nor that Prince whose fame Can more advance a Poem than your name To whose cleere vertue truth is bound and we That there is so much left for History I doe acknowledge custome that to men Such Poems are presented but my pen Is not engag'd nor can allow too farre A Salick Law in Poetry to barre Ladies th' inheritance of wit whose soule Is active and as able to controule As some usurpe the Chaire which write a stile To breath the Reader better than a mile But no such empty titles but my flame Nor will I sinne so much to shew their name In print some servile Muses be their drudge That sweat to finde a Patron not a Iudge To you great Lady then in whom doe meet Candor and Iudgement humble as your feet I vow these Papers wishing you may see Ioyes multiplied to your eternitie Your Honors devoted Seruant I A. SHIRLEY Prologus THat Muse whose Song within another Spheare Hath pleased some and of the best whose eare Is able to distinguish straines that are Cleare and Phebean from the popular And sinfull dregs of the adulterate braine By mee salutes your Candor once againe And begs this noble favour that this place And weake performances may not disgrace His fresh Thalia 'las our Poet knowes Wee have no name a torrent overflowes Our little Iland miserable wee Doe every day play our owne Tragedy But 't is more noble to create than kill Hee saies and if but with his flame your will Would joyne wee may obtaine some warmth and prove Next them that now doe surfeit with your love Encourage our beginning nothing grew Famous at first and Gentlemen if you Smile on this barren Mountaine soone it will Become both fruitfull and the Muses hill The Actors names Master Goldsworth father to Chrysolina and Aurelia Master Woodhamore Vncle to Eugenia Master Thornay Gentlemen Lovers of Chrysolina Aurelia and Eugenia Master Gerard Gentlemen Lovers of Chrysolina Aurelia and Eugenia Master Yongrave Gentlemen Lovers of Chrysolina Aurelia and Eugenia Master Caperwit a Poetaster Sir Gervace Simple Bird Caperwits Page Thumpe Sir Gervaces Man Servants Dancer Mistresse Goldsworth Chrysolina Aurelia Eugenia CHANGES OR Loue in a Maze Actus primus Scena primas Enter at one doore Sir Iohn Wood-hamore and Master Goldsworth at the other M. Gerard and Master Yongrave Golds. I Heard your Neece Sir was not well you should incourage her to take the aire some times Woo. Indeed shee 's somewhat melancholy and keepes Her chamber Gol. 'T may prove inconvenient for Her health does she not languish for a husband Take heed o th' greene disease Woo. I 'le finde a cure If that will doe 't your daughters are not yet Dispos'd of Gol. No but we have clients daily That visit their affections and while We are speaking here is one Woo. Ha which of them I hope not Master Yongrave Hee would engage his service to my Neece I shall not thinke him worthy if he have Two Hares afoot Gol. He is a stranger to me But Master Gerard that holds conference with him Maintaines some correspondence with my daughters Pray let 's observe Ge. Prethee come venter in Yon. No farther you have obligation Excuse me I have affaires some other time I le waite on you Ge. What needes this ceremony The faire ones will not blast you Yon. 'T were a sinne To thinke their beames could hurt Ge. Faith I could wish Thy affection not ingag'd there 's so much beauty And goodnesse in this paire of sisters Yon. Doe not Make me suspect your friendship you would wish Me miserable not that I dispute Their merit but I must not yeeld to that Will bring my faith and honour into question I have a Mistris be you happy Sir in yours Woo. I like this well le ts interrupt e'm Good fortune Master Yongrave Yon. You are Sir Most opportunely met Gol. Kinde Master Gerard Yon. I had a present resolution To visit you at home and your faire kins-woman Ge. I shall be bold Gol. Pray enter Woo. Wee 'l together I take my leave Go. I am your humble servant Woo. Come Master Yongrave Exuent Go. This Gerard is a Gentleman of handsome parts And they say fortun'd diligent in 's courtship But it concernes me to be carefull in Disposing of my children Enter Servant Ser. Sir Gervace Simple Sir is newly entred Gol. His wisdome must be welcome there 's a Knight With Lordships but no mannors one that has But newly cast his country skin came up To see the fashions of the Towne has crept Into a Knight-hood which he paid for heartily And in his best clothes is suspected for A Gentleman Enter Sir Ger. Simple and his man Thumpe Sim. Thumpe I have not yet the face to speake to her but 'T is no matter and I can get her fathers and mothers good will Thu. You have her mothers already Sim. I I shee 's a Matron as they say I came over her with My Knight-hood and begot a consent upon her quickly I Perceive 't is an advantage for a man to weare spurres The rowell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their Vnderstanding Thu. I doe wonder Sir that you speake so well now and Want the audacity as they say to talke to your Mistresse Sim. So do I too but I cannot help it I was a Gentleman Thou knowest but tother day I have yet but a few Complements within a while I shall get more impudence And then have at her Thu. The father Sim. Pray heaven you may be sav'd Sir Go. Y' are charitable Sim. I am come Sir to doe my businesse Go. How Sir Sim. You may imagine as they say and so forth your Daughter is a very fine Gentlewoman and may in due time be a Lady For I doe love her by this Mullet there 's a touch of my Heraldry Gol. Have you acquainted her How much you meane to honour us how farre Have you engaged her liking Sim. Nay I n'er spoke to her in my life nor do not meane in hast Gol. How Sir Sim. Not in hast Sir 't were no good manners to speake hastily to a Gentlewoman to talke post as they say to his Mistresse I am resolv'd to have your consent first and then Gol. It argues your discretion Sim. I think so some wiser than some
sheet of Sir Philip Sidney that inspired me and my nurse descended from old Chaucer my conversation has beene among the furies and if I meete you in Apollo a pottle of the best Ambrosia in the house shall waite upon you Enter Sir Gervase Simple and Mistris Goldsworth Mis. They are here Sir at full view Cap. What 's he Mis. A Knight I le assure you Cap. Does he come A wooing to the Ladies Gol. After the Spanish fashion A farre off Mis. Daughter I must counsell you to respect This honorable man you doe not know What 't is to be a Lady and take place Such titles come not every day observe With what a comely garbe he walkes and how He bends his subtle body take him a my word A man of his complection loves a woman naturally Cap. A pretty motion Mis. Pray come neerer Sir Sim. You shall pardon me for that I know My distance Cap. Will he not speake to her Gol. You should doe well to furnish him with an oration a spoonefull of Aganippe's well and a little of your Salt would season if not pickle him Cap. Should I so wast the bright Minerva's dew to pickle a Mushrome Sim. Thumpe she lookes upon me to say truth I am but a bashfull puppy Thu. Your worship is more than a puppy Sim. I I know I am an old dog at her mother but and I should be hang'd I have not impudence enough to speak to her does not that Gentleman laugh at mee Thu. He is very merry with her father Sim. 'T is very suspitious would I had a good jest to get of withall Au. You shall command the duty of a daughter But I hope mother you will give me leave To love before I marry I have yet No argument of his affection But what you please to bring me it becomes not My modesty to court him and give up My heart before I heare him say he meanes To meete and entertaine it Mis. 'T is a fault and I must blame him that he is no forwarder Ca. I will accuse him Gol. Doe so Au. Love forgive me this excuse my heart is fixt I finde another written here Ca. I doe salute you venerable Sir Sim. You may salute me at your pleasures but you are mistaken I am no more venerable than your selfe my name is Sir Gervace Simple Thu. And I am one of his Gentleman Vshers Sir that follow him Ca. Heroick Sir I doe adore your physnomy Now by the dust of my Progenitors Sim. There 's a fine oath Ca. You looke like the Nine Worthies Sim. I have been taken for 'em a hundred times Cap. Fairer than Plutos selfe king of the shades Sim. That King was a poore kinsman of mine and indeed Wee had one complexion Ca. The Divell you had Sim. Sir I am sorry I cannot stay wi'y but pray if you meete any of the nine Worthies or my Cosen Pluto commend me to 'em I shall be glad to meete you or them at any Taverne betweene Cheape and Charingcrosse and so I remaine yours or not his owne sau's complement Mis. When will you please Sir Gervace to visit us agen Nay it shall be yours He complements Exeunt Sim. Now my foot 's in Ca. But that I see 't I should not have beleeved there were such a foole in nature Ge. In this variety of servants I Acknowledge you greatly honour me and in the presence Of both your parents to vouchsafe this favour Doubly obliges me Ch. You are most welcome Au. You may beleeve my sister she n'er speakes But by direction of her heart Ger. I am confident Nor hath she any vertue which you doe not Divide with her your twins in birth and goodnesse Au. Y' are bountifull in character Gol. I le not oppose you Sir and you can winne their opinion Cap. 'T is enough I shall be proud to serve you But at this present with your noble licence I take my leave there is a Lord expects To meete me at a Taverne that has come Fourescore and nineteene mile to heare an elegy of My composition Gol. He deserves to enjoy you Cap. I le attend the Ladies when my starres will be more propitious i th' interim wearing your beautifull figures in my heart I kisse your white hand Exit Ger. I thinke the stocke of his discourse be wasted And he returnes to take up more on 's credit Vntill he breake agen the Towne is full Of these vaineglorious flashes Gol. Chrisolina You see what store of servants yee attract Plenty of louers but I hope you will Be ruld and take my counsell which of all And be plaine wi'mee hold you best opinion of Ch. You will not Sir be angry if I answer you justly Gol. No no tell me Ch. I confesse I now doe feele the power of love untill That Gentleman Gol. Which which Gentleman Ch. By his faire merit won my hearts consent I had my freedome Gol. Master Gerard Ch. The same oh Sir there 's no comparison With him and those that proffer us their service Sir Gervace is but title tother noise Empty of all reality and worth There is my choise more pretious to my thoughts Pointing to Ger. Than all mankind without him and I hope You will be kind in your allowance Sir Gol. You might have us'd lesse haste in your election Or first acquainted me you shall doe well To keepe possession of your heart awhile But I le consider send your sister to me What say you daughter to Sir Gervace Au. Nothing as much as he hath said to me I affect worth not shew and in my choise I hope your judgement Sir will meete Gol. I like this well be obedient Au. What thinke you Sir of Master Gerard Gol. You doe not love him Au. I should then bely My heart when I deny him my best love He needes not boast his worth like those whom Nature And Art have left unfurnish'd hee 's a man For birth for education for his fortune Worthy a nobler wife than shee that now Commends him to you Gol. Would you marry him Au. I know not that man in the world beside I would call husband in my soule I am Already his and if you will not be Held cruell to your daughter Gol. How 's this Both in love with the same man my care will be To a great purpose this is very strange Send your sister to me come hither come hither You are not yet contracted to that Gentleman Ch No such thing has past Go. But you are content to take him for your bridegroome I meane Master Gerard Ch. And call it happinesse Go. Your mother calls so so doe you heare Aurelia doe you love that Gentleman Au. Yes Gol. Very good when your wedding clothes come home pray give me leave to pay for 'em and the dinner too I say nothing of a portion goe after your sister hum this is very pretty faith let me be bold to aske you a question Sir Ger. My answer shall be just
Whom thou refusest if thou canst endeare thy selfe to either In my heart shall meet a cleere and perfect entertainment Tho. Hum Ger. Canst thou resolve winne either And we both grow happy at once Tho. You say well this is faire Ger. They are here Enter Simple and M. Golds. at one doore and Thump Chris and Aurel. at the other Mis. With your favour I must chide you Sir not once speak to My daughter she expects to be courted with kisses and imbraces Sim. I I I could kisse her all over and imbrace her too but I have an imperfediment I cannot speake as I would doe but let mee alone a little I le try let me see and I hanot forgot my verses Mis. Here they are I le not trouble you Exit Ger. I will leave this Gentleman Hee is my best friend Ladies Ch. You oblige us more to respect him Ger. I hope you will be just At my returne when I declare my selfe Au. Sir you sh'anot need to urge it Ger. I am your honourer Exit Sim. Now Thump I am resolv'd to speak to her whatsoever Come on 't hum hum Enter Mr. Goldsworth Gol. What another sutor I were best locke up my daughters they 'l be smothered with Gentlemen Sir Gervace you are a welcome man Sim. You shall see if I doe not speake to her now Now and to the purpose in spight of the divell Thump Stroke me o' th back He plucks Aur. by the gowne There 's something in my head and t' were out Thu. I hope you doe not meane your braines Sim. Would somebody lov'd me but as well as I loved Somebody Au. Now 't is out Sim. La you there I thinke I talked to her Gol. But in my opinion you were quickly daunted Sim. Was I so well marke me now now I will wincke As hard as I can and then I 'me sure she cannot put me out Enter Caperwit Sim. takes Cap. by the hand Sim. Beauty Cap. How now what meanes this Sim. Let me but kisse thy hand and tell How much I love thee I know very well Thou art a Phenix beautious and bright And dost burne every man for thy delight Thy eyes are Sunne and Moone not to be match'd Ch. This was intended for you sister Sim. Thy haire is fine as gold thy chin is hatch'd With silver needs must brazen be my face That cannot come into thee with a grace Cap. Before or after meat Sim. Sweet heare me out But this I know I am thy faithfull Lover Oh quench my fire Cap. Or else the pot run's over Sim. Y' are in the right Accept me for thy servant not thy foe For I doe love thee better than any man in the whole world can doe Cap. Come kisse me then and open thy faire eyne Sim. With all my heart Om. Ha ha Sim. Gentlemen rest you merry Thump By this hand I le bee drunke presently Thu. And you had taken my counsell you had done so Before you came hither Wine is armour of proofe Exeunt Cap. Ladies I am sorry this rude fellow has Abus'd your eare with harsh and untun'd numbers Gol. Your verses have a tune belike Cap. I came a purpose to present a copie Of verses that should make your genius stand O' th tip-toe list to me and grow immortall Ch. We shall be troubled now Tho. If please you Lady Wee l walke a side I have something of more weight I would impart Ex. Au. I le leave him too Exit Gol. Master Caperwit before you read pray tell me Have your verses any adjectives Cap. Adjectives would you have a Poem without Adjectives they are the flowers the grace of al our language A well chosen Epithete doth give new soule To fainting Poesie and makes every verse A bride with Adjectives we baite our lines When we doe fish for Gentlewomens loves And with their sweetnesse catch the nibling eare Of amorous Ladies with the musicke of These ravishing Nownes we charme the silken Tribe And make the Gallant melt with apprehension Of the rare word I will maintain t against A bundle of Grammarians in Poetry The Substantive it selfe cannot subsist Without an Adjective Gol. But for all that Those words would sound more full me thinks that are not So larded and if I might counsell you You should compose a Sonnet cleane without e'm A row of stately Substantives would march Like Switzers and beare all the field before e'm Carry their weight shew faire like Deeds enrold Not Writs that are first made and after fild Thence first came up the title of blancke verse You know Sir what blancke signifies when the sense First framed is tyed with Adjectives like points And could not hold together without wedges Hang 't t is pedanticke vulgar Poetry Let children when they versifie sticke here And there these pidling words for want of matter Poets write Masculine numbers Cap. You have given me a pretty hint t is new Gol. And will bee gratefull My daughter will affect it much the better And t will be honour if shee be the first To whom so choice a Poem is presented I wish you well Sir Exit Cap. You oblige my service I will bestow these verses o' my footman They 'l serve a Chambermaid let me see I want a little quickning two or three Infusions of sacke will heighten mee And make my Genius dance then Lady Lady Gone Shee 's hard of Soule but I must supple her And there 's a conceit new strucke upon my braine Will doo 't {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} forces united conquer Lady grow soft if merit cannot prove Happy wee must use policie in love Exit Enter Chrisalina and Thornay Ch. No more you doe not well to wrong your friend That trusts you with his bosome Tho. Faire one heare mee Ch. He gave you welcome hither and you practise Vnworthily to supplant him Tho. You are too Severe I have no thought so wicked Lady Deny me not that liberty which all The Creatures have to wish their owne felicity Which cannot bee without you hee will not Repine to see mee happy in your love Ch. In seeming to extenuate your error You thus enlarge it and bring into question The honour of your friend for whom I must Though weake rise up a Champion for his vertue And to beate off all argument on your part To move for my affection know he is next heaven The onely object of my heart nor can it know a change Tho. And yet if you collect your selfe you are not The onely Mistresse of his heart your sister hee loves As well as you your pardon fairest t is possible Hee may preferre her too since neither piety nor law allowes Hee can bee husband at one time to both Then let discretion guide you first to freedome I love you not with halfe a heart but all Heaven knowes with all at every looke you doe Transfixe me and can onely cure the wound With the same eyes if they but smile upon it Ch. I must not heare you
plead thus you appeare Nor friend to him nor me so fare you well Exit Thor. I am caught by this good day I am and know not How now to helpe my selfe a hansome thing What a blind buzzard is this Iackanapes Cupid Pox of his bird-bolt I le not leave her Yet I may be too forward I am punish'd Venus thy pardon I beseech thee If thou beest not hard-hearted as the Poets feine Speake to thy Boy to fetch his Arrow backe Or strike her with a sharpe one make her squeake And I le allow thee a Goddesse Ha 't is he Enter Gerard Ger. Before thou speak'st to me let me peruse Thy face I le tell my selfe how thou hast sped Well is 't not so Yet doe not answer me That smile does not shew cleere there is some cloud i th' corner of thy forehead that would spread And darken all thy face Thor. Your Physiognomy is quite discredited Ger. Hast prevail'd With which why now thou art to tedious Thor. With the eldest Chrysolina Ger. Ha what sound was that With Chrysolina I prethee what of her I love her deerely Thou hast not filcht away her heart it grew with mine Thor. How 's this Ger. Hast thou not seene the Woodbine That honey-dropping tree and the lov'd Bryer Embrace with their chaste boughs twisting themselves And weaving a greene net to catch the birds Till it doe seeme one body while the flowers Wantonly runne to meet and kisse each other So 't was betwixt us two Thor. I meane the yongest Ger. What my Aurelia Thou canst not rob me so the amorous Turtles Have but their imitation from our love The Pelican loves not her yong so well That digs upon her brest an hundred springs When in her blood she bathes the innocent birds As I doe my Aurelia Thor. Godbewi'y' I know not how to please you nor to answer Ger. I prethee stay Thor. Engage me in a businesse Nay thrust me o th' lime-twigs to set you At liberty when your owne wings were glu'd Toth ' bush and d' ye reward me at his fashion And I had knowne it you shou'd ha' fluttered Ger. I forgot my selfe I prethee pardon me I will excuse thee when thou art in love Thor. Then doe so now and you 'l be temperate and heare me Ger. Speake I am recollected Thor. And I am in love Ger. Thou didst name both thou art so unhappy Thor. Your humors lead me to 't but I shall tell you Ger. Which which of them did most encourage thee Thor. Be not you passionate still but give me thanks And call me fortunate she has halfe consented Ger. I shall be lost i th' darke declare which Thor. Which why the eldest which Chrysolina Now be you advised and court the other Ger. Halfe consenting Thor. I may say three quarters and not lye Ger. T is false and such a staine thou throwest upon that Virgin Thy blood deserves to purge Thor. You doe not meane to play the foole thus Pox upon this madnesse I wo not fight with you And I will love that Gentlewoman I thought I had done you a courtesie Ger. So thou hast if it be true Thor. Have you a mind to be the everlasting madcap And you can couple with both I can resigne Poore Gentlewoman shel ha' the worst on 't Ger. But I prethee tell me With what Art didst thou so soone win her to thee It was some moneths ere I prevail'd and were I not Confident of thy honesty I should Suspect some witchcraft Thor. There is an Art In wooing not reveal'd to every man Which he that knowes shall doe more with a Maid In some minute than others in a twelve-moneth Ger. 'T must be a luckie minute Thor. I he must take her i th' nicke and court her In the precise minute yet it may be she In pitty of my sufferings or mistrusting She might not be the first in your election Inclin'd the sooner Now would I have you Without more ceremony neglect the wench That I have chosed D' ye marke neglect her And addresse all your courtship to the yongest Your meaning will be cleerely understood A both sides so you shall with ease enlarge Your owne heart fixe on one whose armes already Are open to yee and make my path direct Without any rub to the other Is this sense Obey it then set on afore with your Mistris A hand gallop if I overtake you not let me swing I' th bridle and set a saddle o' my backe and let all the Fooles in the Towne ride me Ger. Wee must not bee too rash le ts walke and thinke on 't Exeunt Sic explicit Actus secundus Actus Tertius Enter Simple and Aurelia Sim. TH' art a brave Wench Aur. You are growne bold of late Sim. I thinke so gramercy Sacke Come kisse mee wo't thou be a Lady Aur. I have no great ambition Sim. I le buy thee a Parrat to morrow and a Monkey Here take this Ring Aur. Pray keepe it and let me tell you Sir my mind Sim. And I le tell thee mine that 's one for another Aur. Briefly then Sim. Be as briefe as you please I can be as briefe as you and tedious too I know thou lovest mee Sirra didst thinke I was such a fearefull coxcombe as I made my selfe No I know when to be Lion and when to be a Hare But prethee tell me plainely when shall we matrimony it ha thou dot'st upon my good parts come speake to me prethee be not bashfull Aur. I feare you wo'not understand me Sim. Speake no language and I warrant I know Greeke and Latine I learn'd my Accidence Aur. Then know I doe not love you Sir Sim. You do not love me Sir then I have lost my labour Sir Aur. I make no doubt it will appeare so I could be of the humour of some Mistrisses By some slight favours to encourage you Accept your gifts extoll your wit invent New wayes to melt your gold beside the Exchange And petticoat imbroyderies Sim. Thou sha't have smocke imbroyderies nay thy very skinne shall be imbroydered Aur. Have every day some progresse for your Coach And tire you worse than your foure Flanders Mares And then laugh at you too but I am honest And will deserve your nobler character I tell you what you must expect in troth I cannot love you pray leave off in time And let this satisfie you Sim. This satisfie why this is even as good nothing Aur. It is all that I can promise you Sim. Though you cannot love me It shall be for your honour to marry me Aur. By no meanes Sim. VVhat not marry me neither Then be no Lady that I first pronounce Secondly know I am resolved your Mother Shall understand it by these Hilts Aur. I would advise you rather to be silent And take your leave like a good Christian Lover If you betray my honest meaning so And move her to impatience I shall wish you i th' VVest Indiaes Enter Mistris Golds. Sim.
and with as much facility Meet his neglect Oh Master Thornay You are very welcome I was wishing for you Thor. Hum this entertainment is a little better Than I expected Chr. You absent your selfe too much beleeve your visits shall not be more frequent than your person gratefull hither Thor. doe y' heare you may returne and tell this story Vnto the Lady i' th inchanted Castle You see my fate I cannot come Godbe-wi'y' Yon. You shall acquit your selfe more Nobly Sir And better satisfie her in your person Thor. I wo'not take the paines to see her and Shee were a dying Yon. How Thor. Not to recover her Chr. Shall you and I Sir walke a turne i' th Garden Thor. Yes Lady Heaven vouchsafe I grow not mad Wi'my good fortune Yon. With your pardon Mistresse I must take priviledge to tell this man Hee is not worthy of your favours Thor. How Sir You doe not know my temper Yon. Nor regard it draw Chr. Hold as you beare respect to mee Thor. I am charm'd Yon. I should be guilty of some sinne to you Not to reveale this Gentleman has made A forfeit of his honor Thor. Will you heare him Pox o' my dulnesse what meant I to bring Him hither doe not credit any thing Wee are old enemies and he has studied this Device to poison your opinion of me A meere trick doe not beleeve a word sweet Lady Ch. I am not easie Sir to entertaine Malicious accusation of your fame Your vertue in my thoughts is not so soone Shaken with one report Thor. That 's comfort yet Yon. Then you provoke me to be plaine know Lady Y' are i' th way to be most miserable Abus'd by this false man that will betray Your innocent beauty to so great a shame Repentance is not able to restore you He has a wife already Ch. How a wife Yon. A wife if holy vowes have power to bind you Tho. Doe you beleeve this were you by When I was married Yon. No but heaven and Angels Are witnesses you did exchange a faith With one that mournes a Virgin and a Widdow Have you no earthquake in you does thy soule It selfe not feele an ague to remember How many kisses seald the amorous contract Shee meant it so and every day her eyes Weepe in the memory of her selfe forsaken And cause her griefe will not at once destroy her Despairing of your love to shew how willing Shee is to dye doth every houre distill Part of her soule in teares Chr. This cannot bee Thor. Be no no 't is impossible shall we walk sweet Lady Yon. Will not this excite your pitty mercy shines bright in women Chr. I have heard you Sir And doubt not when hee comes to answer These imputations hee may quit himselfe Thor. Would wee were both on 's but to skirmish in A saw-pit I must cut his throat Chr. Admit he promis'd love Oblig'd himselfe by oath to her you plead for This binds him not to undoe himselfe for ever Yon. Vndoe himselfe Chr. Yes marriage is an act That doth concerne his whole life and in something May marre or profit his eternity Perhaps the Gentlewoman since hee gave His faith is falne from vertue Thor. I have heard so Chr May be turn'd prostitute Thor. I who 'l sweare for her Yon. I must not heare her nam'd with the suspition Of such a staine Chr. Wee doe not Sir accuse her Thor. Not absolutely Yon. Did you but know the Creature it would call A blush into your face for talking thus Shee has purity enough for all her sex And this attended with so many vertues As but to wish her more it selfe were sinne Chr. This Gentleman pleades for her Thor. Will you please to walke Chr. Dismisse him first Thor. Doe y' heare this Lady Is weary of your company you have Not us'd me like a Gentleman indeed Scurvily t is no time nor place to expostulate But wee shall meet agen in the meane time Returne and tell the Virgin you so magnifie I doe not finde my selfe in any humour To see her agen pray her neglect no fortune For my sake there be many yonger brothers I' th Towne will bee content to marry her You may resolve her what 's become of me There is no wrastling with our fate Yon. Thou art not worth my answer Exit Yon. Chr. I le not question Sir this Gentlemans relation Tho. You are wise Chr. But in my confidence hee hath spoke all truth I must desire you visit mee no more Thor. You doe but jest I hope Chr. Ingratefull man how are poore women coozen'd With what impudence couldst thou desire my favour Goe and make a satisfaction to the injur'd Maid Borne the dishonour of a man Exit Thor. Am I awake Or doe I dreame I am made a Coxcombe thus I am a Raskall and deserve no mercy For abusing that poore Gentlewoman that sent So kindly to me wo'd the Messenger were here agen Enter Gerard and Aurelia T is Master Gerard how hath hee sped Ger. You are sad Aurelia what on the sudden Can beget this change Are you in health Aur. Yes Sir Ger. Your blood methinkes Is wandring from your cheeke your eyes have lost Their lightning too call backe your smiles and blesse Him that is now your creature Aur. Mine excuse me if I suspect Ger. Ha Aur. I have heard you Sir And have considered all that you have said To make me thinke you are now wholly mine I must confesse you have exprest a Lover Wanted no Art to flourish your warme passion But language is no clew to guide us to The knowledge of your heart Ge. Nor is suspition a cause enough in justice to condemn Aur. It is not but where circumstances meet They may be thought on Ger. By your beauty By those faire eyes that never kil'd till now Make me so happy but to know what cause Inclines you to suspect and I will take it The greatest argument of love that ever A Virgin shew'd to man then I le be bold And with the whitenesse of my soule make such Assurance of you that not malice aided With all the devils cunning shall be able To interpose one scruple more against me Aur. You lov'd my Sister Ger. I did once my Aurelia Aur. And you declare you can neglect her now Looke on her like a stranger Ger. 'T is most true Aur. She lov'd you well most nobly with as much Fervour as ever I did or can love Should I thinke to be more secure than she Promise that firme to me which in so fresh A sight and memory you have violated To her that plac'd you in as deare a bosome Discretion bids me pause I may be rash Either you lov'd her not at all and so You may play false with both or loving her With as much levity I suppose you may Forsake me too Therfore I bid you first farewell Exit Ge. I am blasted Thor. We are both undone I dare not see him Exit Ger. Was ever
man so miserably lost Is there a balme can cure me Oh I bleed The sword wounds gently but love kils indeed Exit Sic explicit Actus Tertius Actus Quartus Enter Eugenia and her Maid Eug. Has truth forsooke mankind or is it my Fate onely to converse with those that are So cruell and neglectfull of our sexe Vnhappy Maid is he not yet return'd Maid None yet appeares Eug. Then I despaire to see him And when I thinke indeed of the imployment That 't is against himselfe I may with justice Accuse my want of judgement to expect He should performe so hard an imposition I would I could not thinke of any man They rob me of my peace I prethee try Thy voyce to put my heart in better tune There is a power in harmony some say To charme the unruly motions of the braine Love is itselfe a melancholy madnesse Why should not Musicke cure the wound of love Melancholy hence goe get Some piece of earth to be thy seat Here the ayre and nimble fire Would shoot up to meet desire Sullen humour leave her blood Mix not with the purer floud But let pleasures swelling there Make a Spring-tide all the yeere Enter Chrysolina Chry. How does my deare Eugenia Eug. As well As this restraint will give me leave and yet It does appeare a part of my enlargement To have your company I hope your sister Enjoyes her health Chry. And more felicity Than I can boast mine owne shee 's halfe a Bride Happy i th' embraces of her wished servant You know our story he ha's chosen her And most uncivilly neglecteth me Thus laden with his scorne I come to practise A scene of sorrow w' ye sure thy fate Hath spun a thread for me we are so like In our misfortunes Have you heard no newe Of your ingratefull servant for I know No other name and he indeed deserves To have no other memory that takes A pride in his disdaine Eug. Nothing as yet But I have met occasion to convey A Letter to him yet I cannot promise Enter Yongrave But here 's the messenger Chr. That Gentleman I know the man you love then is 't not Thornay Eug. The same I did conceale him for his shame Chr. Why hee 's a zealous suiter for my love Yon. It makes for me that he continues cruell I was not able to command his passion But will she not mistrust I have not beene So carefull in advancing her desires But satisfied my selfe with any answer As knowing what must bring comfort to her Must needs be killing to my hopes In what A narrow path I tread her spring must be My frost and when her tree carries the pride And bloome of summer I retaine no sap But wither and creepe backward into earth Like a forsaken plant Chr. Here I le obscure Chrysolina withdrawes Eug. You are welcome Sir Yon. I would I were Eug. Shall I beleeve you have beene faithful to My griefes request Yon. Yes and bring comfort backe Chrys. How 's that Eug. Pronounce those words agen Yon. I bring you comfort Eug. He did say so What meant she To mocke me with another sad relation Was 't a device in her to increase my joy At meeting he did talke of comfort is it A thing restor'd in nature Oh before You blesse my eare agen with that wished sound Excuse my modesty if my heart present A kisse to thanke you Yon. I drinke in my poyson Eug. Now let your comforts flow Yon. I have returned you As true a lover as yet ever Mistris Could boast possession of one so resolved To honour you Eug. Can this be possible Yon. I have examined every secret thought Within his foule concerning you and dare Thus boldly justifie he is your owne Eug. Let me but live to see him and I write My ambition satisfied Yon. He 's here Eug. Where Yo. Here In me your truest servant is return'd Chr. Does he affect her Yon. I call all that 's good To witnesse with me I discharg'd with zeale The unkind office to my selfe but could not Incline him to returne to any softnesse In briefe he has unworthily engag'd That heart belonging to you and would not be Provoked to see you agen Chr. Eugenia Chr. leads in Eug. Yon. Is all this waking Have I seene her faint And did not she that cherishes her enemy Haste to her reliefe and seeme to suffer with her While I as one had growne here did not move I did not well to exalt her with a hope To meet a blessing and then ruine her If death hath whisper'd her aside I shall Be accused and I will take my preferment To be sent after her to tell her ghost I lov'd her best when wee are both immortall She 'l understand me better Enter Chrysolina Is Eugenia alive agen Chr There is no danger to be fear'd a qualme Pray let me aske you Sir one question Doe you affect this Virgin really I move it not for any harme Yon. Would she had sent hither But with desire to be resolv'd Chr. May be she has Yon. Then tell her I doe love her better Than I can expresse but when she has Numbred all things are excellent on earth She is to me above 'em infinitely Chr. This carries no probability Yon. Would thou wert a man Then I durst tell thee I doe love her so I durst be wicked for her and kill thee Chr. With all this it does not appeare you love her so And be an instrument nay plead to put another in possession Of your lov'd treasure for if I mistake not You late did urge a man whom shee esteemed Better to returne and marry her Can any man that loves a woman truly Strive to supplant himselfe and give away His comfort Yon. There 's the honour of my service When I am dead the story shall remember I lov'd a maid so well that I prefer'd Whatever she desired above my selfe And cause she lou'd one better was content To serve her wishes with my banishment He does not love a Virgin nobly whose Affection walkes not just to her desires To like e'm 'bove his owne Chr. If this can be Thou art the noblest lover in the world With what affection shall shee be blest That loves him when the mistresse that esteemes Him not is thus rewarded Enter Eugenia Eug. Indeed I love him still and shall doe ever Nor had I now returnd to life but that I had not tooke my leave of him Yon. More corrosive Eug. If you 'l oblige a Virgin For ever to you once more visit him Tell him I lye like one that 's desperate sicke Opprest with griefe of body and of mind But cannot be so fortunate to quit The world till he vouchsafe to visit me Bid him not feare I will detaine him long With idle talke sixe words and I am dead Although he love me not he may doe this If you will adde this to your other worke I will impose no more indeed I will
they had been married And then wee had not suffered this perplexity I did commend an honorable man But your deliberation hath mar'd all And they were here agen Gol. Have patience wife They are not lost for ever Mis. No no lost They 'l come agen double I warrant you And perhaps treble with some unthrift husbands Of their owne choosing Gol. It does trouble me They were not us'd to walke abroad without A servant to waite on 'em Mis. You must thinke They have servants of their owne for such a businesse Young maids have plentie of such waiting men And this has beene a long conspiracy I le lay my life Enter Servant Gol. What hast found 'em yet Ser. I can heare no newes And Sir Iohn Woodhamore is much troubled Sir His Neece is gone too Gol. Hey day Ser. Sh 'as been absent Ever since morning Gol. Pretious pretious theeves Eugenias gone le ts have 'em cried together Mis. They that have found em will too soone I feare Alter the property Gol. We shall keepe no virgins i th towne shortly Enter Woodhamore Welcome Sir Iohn Wood. Is not my Neece Eugenia here Gol. Not here Mis. Wee have lost our daughters and that 's two for one Gol. Ours have been absent ever since the morning Nor can we study what 's become on 'em Wood. Is 't possible is there no plot in this Gol. Our servants have enquired in every place Of our acquaintance Wood. I will tell you Sir You doe remember Master Yongrave Gol. A servant of your Neeces Woo. The same Sir With my consent he tooke her forth this morning To marry her I doe beleeve he has don 't But it doth wracke my braine why they should stay thus They might have married forty times by this Gol. You did perhaps desire it private Woo. And he too Gol. I will engage my life they are all together Woo. Doe you thinke so Gol. I am confident le ts in to supper and expect the best Enter Servant and whispers Mistresse Goldsworth What newes with him Mis. T is something that he sayes Ser. I cannot find em Gol. How Ser. But I have met a Gentleman that can Tel you some newes Gol. That does concerne my daughters Ser. So he reports he is a cunning man I think a conjurer He talkes of art and spirits Enter Caperwit like a Coniurer This is he Sir Cap. Gentles in your troubled brow I read what you desire to know Let no feare invade your heart I will tell by powerfull art Your Childrens fate and where they are Know then they are wandred farre Led by Cupid God of loves They have now arriv'd those groves Where no happie soule can sleepe Venus doth there revels keepe Consecrating day and night To song to kisses and delight They in Elysium breath chuse whether They shall move thence or you goe thither Woo. This is some Poeticall businesse Mis. Sweet husband let us goe to 'em I have heard Poets talke much of Elysium I would faine see whither they be honest of their words or no Gol. No it will befit them to come to us Cap. It shall be so harmonious straines That doe blesse those happy plaines Vsher them forth and shame the spheares Charme with heavenlier notes our eares Recorders That when we see the lovers come We may beleeve Elysium It selfe come hither all those bowers And the shades of pleasure ours Enter mask'd Yongrave Chrysolina Gerard Aurelia Thornay Eugenia Simple Bird betweene every couple a torch carried they march ouer the Stage and Exeunt Gol. Who are all these Mis. I ghesse some of them oh that I were in Elysium VVood. What are they vanished Another turne of your art Good Sir Cap. Chime other musicke Enter the Maskers and dance VVoo. Now they will discover Master Yongrave I rejoyce Yon. discovers To see you here this is the Gentleman I prais'd so much hee has Married now my Neece Chr. But I must aske your blessing we are married Wood. Chris unveiles Ha another Sweetheart I am abus'd hee is a very Knave where is my Neece Gol. Is hee worse for marrying of my child nay then my Blessing on you both my sonne and daughter Mis. Aur. unveiles Where 's Aurelia Aur. Here Mother I have met a Husband too let us divide your Prayers soft Master Caperwit Ger. discovers wee are married Sir already Cap. How married did not you promise mee Gol. Master Gerard nay and it be no worse I care not rise to my heart Ger. My duty shall deserve it t is ene so good Master Caperwit you must dance without her Cap. Have I made verses and studied speeches for this Mis. Since there 's no remedy I blesse you both but I did Eug. unveiles wish Eug. Sir if you will acknowledge your Neece You must accept a Nephew too we are as fast as they Woo. Death I am coozend cheated there is law Yon. And there is conscience Th. I le not give you a penny Yon. I will not publish Sir your avarice Wish em good joy Woo. Well t is done Tho. Yes faith Vncle wee are coupled man and wife Woo. I le enquire how this came about hereafter Looke you love her Sir Tho. As I will doe my soule Sim. Gentlemen all is not yet discovered there are a paire behind worth taking notice of doe y know Sir Gervace Simple I am the man Thu. Simple as he stands there Sim. And this is my Lady what does thy haire come off already Pag. Your worship is a most egregious coxcombe Sim. A boy Gentlemen have I married a boy or is shee metamorphis'd Yon. Ha ha Master Caperwits Page Om. Give you joy Sir Pag. The Bird is flowne indeed law Sim. Bird they make a coxcombe of me Cap. I am glad somebody else is coozend beside my selfe Nay nay take her there is a man within a mile of an Oake I name no body has had earnest of her body Sim. Bawdy quoth a Thumpe I will sell thee my Knighthood for halfe the mony it cost me and turne Yeoman in the Country agen why there is neither wit nor honesty in this Thu. Be ruld by me le ts to some Taverne and Drinke away melancholy Sim. I and then we may steale away disguisd a match Tho. Nay nay le ts all together and make a merry night on t Sim Why how now Thumpe are you sneaking away Gol. Le ts all together Ge. But first we must the licence of these Gentlemen Epilogus OVr Poet knowes you will be just but we Appeale to mercy he desires that yee Would not distaste his Muse because of late Transplanted which would grow here if no fate Have an unlucky bode opinion Comes hither but on crutches yet the Sun Hath lent no beame to warme us if this Play Proceed more fortunate wee shall blesse the day And love that brought you hither t is in you To make a little sprigge of Laurel grow And spread into a grove where you may sit And hear soft stories when by blasting it You gaine no honour though our ruines lye To tell the spoiles of your offended eye If not for what we are for alas here No Roscious moves to charme your eyes or eare Yet as you hope hereafter to see Playes Encourage us and give our Poet bayes Exeunt FINIS
did plead for love My heart did not so much as think on 't Sim. Nay t is no matter I ha' tooke my course yet I Have a sute to you that you would not breake your heart Nor you to see us kisse Nectar immortall nectar He kisses Bird Oh let this Diamond purchase such another T is pitty that my lips should ever open To let the breath she gave me out agen Chr. Doe y' pay so much for every kisse a Diamond Sim. I never offer lesse to touch her lip marry her hand or her a or foote or so I may salute for a ruby or an emrode or a satire or so but I have stones now doe thou speake a little for their further mortification Bir. I did not thinke to have returnd so soone A trouble to you but the importunity Of this most worthy Gentleman prevail'd I thinke there was some Magick in his tongue Sim. Nay you may sweare that the wisest in the country thought my mother a Witch Bir. He did no sooner open his desires But he did wound my heart you see his bounty What jewels hee has given mee Sim. All thine owne somebody else might ha' been wise and had 'em Cap. Somebody else might have been wise and kept 'em Bir. I must confesse I lov'd another lately but his affection 's frozen up Cap. Blesse you bevy of Ladies Bir. Sir you are come most seasonably before These Gentlewomen I release your promise My thoughts are fixt upon this Noble Knight Affect now where you please here is my husband Cap. You are not married Sim. No but I came to bid you all to my wedding I have Bespoke Gloves and Points and knacks and knaveries Cap. I will dye Hymens Saffron robe in blood Put out the Torches with the teares of Virgins And make the Temple quake Sim. Will you so Sir Cap. Excellent Rascall Bir. There is no way but to acknowledge it It is no shame in love there 's no disgrace For else by Law he may recover mee Sim. Doe y' heare Sir you may take her if you please but if she be troubled with a timpany there is a man within a mile of an Oke I name no-body that has had some earnest of her body Cap. I hope you doe but jest Sim. I le make all sure what a loving Lady is this Cap. Then I require you give me back this Diamond The token once I gave of my devotion Sim. Why that 's mine I gave it her but now before all this company Bir. Be wise and let him have it 't is like his within my Cabinet let 's be quit on him this will secure our marriage Sim. Let him have it there bee more in Cheapeside but let 's not tarry any longer Bird hee 'le challenge all the rest of thy fethers Bir. I will obey you Sir Sim. Farewell beauties and kind Gentleman if you come to my wedding I name no time nor place wee 'l be very merry excellent cheere I le promise you your belly full of Fidlers Cap. Ha Ha Exit Sim. and Bir. Aur. What did you meane that Ring was his Cap. The Boy shall ha 't agen ha ha you do not know the mysterie this Lady is a boy a very crackrope boy Au. Is 't possible Cap. I made him first disguise himselfe Aur. Indeed Cap. Yes faith to come to you Aur. Then I must tell you Sir you have not us'd us civilly to make our conversation ridiculous To talke and complement with a Boy Cap. Sweet Lady by Hyppocrene Aur. Doe y' not thinke your wit found out a precious device to make me love you by a president is this your great Lady Cap. Doe but heare mee speake Aur. Not now I know you have art enough to excuse it Yet I am not mercilesse let mee entreate Your absence without ceremony when You come agen your talke will bee more musicall Cap. Doe's shee not prophesie the conceit I goe The Maske will doo 't more musicall t is so Exit Chr. Then hee 's gone to her Yon. Hee did promise mee Chr. Let other Virgins when they heare this story Wonder but give mee leave to love you for it Indeed I doe looke not so strange your vertue Compels mee to reaveale it t is no shame To owne a passion kindled by such goodnesse Yon. If I doe understand you give mee pardon To thinke you are not perfectly advis'd I am a prisoner still to my Eugenia Chr. Shee is satisfied and you are disingaged Yon. But shee has not yet resignd the heart I gave Nor can I thinke of any other Mistresse Choose in a plenty of more happy men I gave too much away to love agen Exit Chr. I will retire to blush and weepe Aur. Not so Alas poore sister now I feare you not I see your purpose was to make mee kinde I wo'd hee were my brother but let 's in And joyne our heads some counsell would doe well T is pitty wee two should leade Apes in hell Exit Sic explicit Actus Quartus Actus Quintus Enter Eugenia and Thornay Eug. MAy I beleeve my selfe so fortunate Art thou return'd or doe I dreame thus happily Are these my Thornays armes are those his lips Can hee repent his cruelty and love How soone are all my teares dryed up I doe Forgive my griefes and thinke they have been modest And gentle sufferings who can merit such A joy that has not felt a world of sorrow Let us imbrace agen and if thou canst Confirme mee yet more that I am awake And taste my true delight Thor. By this and this Kisses Through which if it were possible I durst Convey my soule I am for ever thine Created new to bee made worthy of thee I have beene dead too long to thee and vertue Committed sinne enough in my neglect Of thee to plant a fierce and deepe antipathy In every womans heart against mankind But you are mercifull and imitate The eternall nature Enter Woodhamore Woo. Ha how is this a kissing Eug. We are betraid Tho. So now t is done I would not Be engag'd to kisse you againe for all the estate Your father left you Eug. I hope my breath has not offended you Tho. I cannot tell I ha' not kist a woman this twelve-moneth and had not done this but that he had my oath to performe it well you have the lip labour he sent you Master Yongrave is well will see you agen shortly Godbe-wi'y' Eug. Pray stay a little Tho. You 'l send him such another token imploy your waiting woman I am no common kisse-carrier Woo. Oh ho is 't not otherwise hee is a messenger from Master Yongrave y' are welcome Sir Tho. And I be not I am going Sir to the place from whence I came Sir Woo. How does Master Yongrave Tho. As foolish as ever he is still in love Woo. I pray commend me to him Enter Yongrave Tho. You may now commend your selfe he is here Eug. Oh let me flie into his armes and boast
Never had woman such a noble servant Blest was that minute Vncle in which you First knew this Gentleman more blessed I That doe enjoy by him that which my heart Next heaven affecteth most 't will be an age Till holy Church confirmes our vowes I cannot Mannage the comforts you have given mee I did not thinke I should so soone have met A husband Vncle Woo. I am glad to heare it Tho. Command thy truest servant nothing wants But how to get her forth 't were soone dispatch'd Yon. Sir we resolve not to lose any time We 'l marry instantly Woo. With all my heart Yon. The licence will be at Church as soone as we Then I shall quickly make you perfect owner Of all those lands that lye so neere your Lordship You have security I shall performe When we are man and wise Woo. Right Master Yongrave You are an honest Gentleman my Neece May glorie in such a choice I have some businesse Excuse three minutes I le dispatch and goe Along with you my selfe Exit Tho. How 's that he go we must prevent that mischiefe Eug. Noble Sir what service can reward this goodnesse in you Yon. If you acknowledge any benefit From me in that I am enough rewarded I wish you what I cannot hope for joy But yet we have not finish'd Tho. What doe y' thinke if T is gone againe wee must have some tricke To get off without him Enter Servant with a letter to Eugenia Eug. From Mistresse Chrysolina Tho. What and we should set some on 's house a-fire Doe y' thinke he would stay to quench it how has he Liv'd all this while and has no more diseases No honest Gout to keepe him warme at home In furres no charitable Ague fall Into his legges to stay him no Sciatica He is no Gentleman he scapes so well Eugenia reades I love him above my life but you have only his heart he sayes for which I languish if you have power to dispose it I will cherish some hope he will love me at least for your sake Tho. If he should with us is 't not possible He may have a fall and breake a leg and t' were but his neck why may not some prentice throw a stone and put an eye out that he may goe to th' Surgeons or some horse or cart-wheele squeeze his toe and stay his journey Eugenia reades His noble carriage to you made me first affect him then since you are happy in another let me owe to your vertue for his affection without whom I am the most miserable Chrysolina Eug. Let me entreate you Sir peruse that paper Sir you know Chrysolina Tho. I doe know her Eug. Poore Gentlewoman is in love with Yongrave Wee have arriv'd at our desires already And want but the Church sealing she is lost Vnlesse he meet her wishes 't will become Our piety to advance in what wee may The common cause of love then briefely thus Yon. Can any Virgin affect me so much She did prepare this argument before Eug. As you are charitable goe presently Tho. And leave you thus Eug. We 'l get off well enough Eug. and Thor. whisper Pray her to meete us Yon. I doe pitty her And I have learn'd it from my sufferings But I must keepe my word Eugenia Hath still my heart and onely can dispose it Eug. Then I resigne to her in this alone I will deserve these noble offices You know the place Tho. I 'm perfect Eug. Love her and let us all be happy Enter Woodhamore Wood. Sir I must desire You would excuse me I would goe with you But that I have considered 't will be better That I should not appeare since you intend To have it private there will be lesse notice If I be absent and it may be thought You by some tricke stole her away D' yee marke Yon. Well thought on Wood. Then sir that opinion Will save our credit and excuse the want Of ceremony and the fruitlesse charge Which is expected at her marriage Is it not best Yon. You shew your providence Eug. Though I could wish your presence Wood. Y' are not wise Eugenia goe to the Church and let me Salute you quickly happy bride and bridegroome Away I say Eug. He ha's prevented us Exeunt Wood. The Land 's my own you wrong your joyes to tarry I would I had more Neeces thus to marry Exit Enter Thornay and Chrysolina Thor. Nay never blush but haste and meet the Gentleman You have no reason to distrust me Lady After this circumstance Chr. Can I be so happy Thor. Have a strong faith and finde it so Though once I was guilty of some wrong to thee Chry. Never to me or if you had this newes Is recompence enough Thor. I le tell thee now I was the cause that Gerard did neglect thee In hope to gaine thee for my selfe I told him Thou had'st halfe consented to be mine Chr. This truth Thor. Bade him direct his Courtship to Aurelia And so be sure of one poore Gentleman Beleev'd and after lost thy sister too But if no cure be seasonably apply'd Gerard I feare will sinke beneath his losse Chr. Was this the cause Thor. I must accuse my selfe Chr. I le tell Aurelia this Tho. Doe so Chr. She meant to visit him but this wil give her wings Thor. I will intreat her pardon but make haste I wo'd not willingly be seene Chr. I feele Another soule what raptures are distill'd Vpon my heart Enter Caperwit Cap. She cannot choose but take it Thor. You know how to direct her but be swift In your returne Mr. Caperwit Cap. Your servant Sir if my sight be not unfaithfull I have seene you Thor. I owe much to your eyes It was my happinesse to see you here Cap. I doe remember Thor. I observ'd your courtship To faire Aurelia Cap. Pray sir can you dance Tho. Dance Cap. I presume you are a friend to her Whose name made sweet your breath so late Thor. It did not stinke before Ca. Excuse my Poetry Thor. Cry you mercy Cap. I know y 'ave heard wherein consists my excellence Th. You are a Prince in Poetry please your Excellence Cap. The phrase in Latine's modest use no reverence To tell you true you are a friend I am upon a Maske Tho. That made you aske if I could dance Cap. 'T is right and you should doe me honour To lend your person to it but I wo'd Have it this night before my Mistris whose Mention perfum'd your lips so late Thor. Sweet language Wy' your favour Mr. Caperwit who are the Principall Maskers Cap. Faith I have none yet Beside my selfe but a foolish Knight one Sir Gervace And 's Lady I want persons Thor. Let me furnish you Cap. And tye my everlasting friendship to you Th. They shall be of quality most of your acquaintance What if Aurelia be one she loves you I ha' discovered that I know shee 'l do 't Her Sister for another and my selfe Frank Gerard