bade you bring Bow If you can iudge of colours Madam this is he Paynter stand forth Kath. An earnest cause my friend importunes me Wherein I am to craue thy cunningst Arte Payn. Such as it is you may commaund faire Princesse Kath. But are thy colours fresh thy pensill smoothe Thy hand vnwauering and thy head dislodg'd Of all vnquiet harsh incumbrances For thou must draw proportion of those parts Whose worth to tell my toung wants vtterance Payn. Feare you not Madam I am well prepar'd Kat. Then hither strait with youthfull Ferdinand Nauars stout sonne there comes an English Knight Pembrooke they call him honourably borne Him whilst we are in conference thou shalt marke And to the life set downe his counterfet Nor is it needfull I should shew him thee The goodliest person in the traine that 's he Bow Let me alone to giue the Paynter destruction I know him as well as the Begger knowes his dish he weares a white Scarfe in his hat and an Orange tawny feather vpon his arme Kath. Foole indirectly thou describ'st another That 's Prince Nauar Pembrooke his plume is Azure A little intermixt with spotlesse white Prefiguring the temper of the Sky With whose hye motion his great mind doth moue Bow Orange tawny and Azure all 's one all is but feather there is no difference I am sure but in colour Kath. Why that 's as much as may be is it not Bow Not so I le proue the contrary You are fayre and I am foule is that all the difference betweene you and I there 's another thing in it if you marke it well Kath. I prythee peace and with thy ignorance Draw not the Paynter likewise into errour Here take thy stand thou knowst him by these markes I lately spake of seeme to excell thine Arte And I will study to requite thy paynes Enter Lewes Ferdinand Pembrooke Rodoricke and Flaunders Lew. Thus did the Greeks when they begirt the walles Of strong built Troy sometimes with friendly checke Entertayne peace and spend their frollick houres In courtly feasting of each other foe Welcome young Ferdinand I promise you It cheeres my spirit we doe imbrace you here And welcome too braue Lord we cannot say As if we were in Paris we might say Your viands shall be costly but presume Such as the Camp affords wee le haue the best Daughter I prythee bid them welcome Kath. My Lord I doe That with the Congy of a bended knee But this with my true hearts loyalty Lords you are welcome by my fathers leaue Lew. Why now thou dost content thy father Kate When wholy vnto merryment inclin'd Thou answerst with like simpathy of mind Fer. But yet her lookes are haggard and obscure Which makes me doubtfull shee le not stoop to lure Lew. Princes let 's enter come I le lead the way The feast is mine you are my ghests this day Fer. Now Pembrooke shew thy friendships true effect Obtayne her loue my life thou shalt protect Exeunt Kat. He stayes behind the rest O happy houre Worke on sweet Paynter to inrich mine eye With that which els procures my tragedy Pem. Fayre Madam in this confluence of sweet ioy When euery one resorts vnto the feast Me thinkes you should not thus retyre alone As seeming your best fare were heauy mone Kat. I am not Sir alone nor do I starue My appetite with any wil-full fast I haue a banquet of sweet pleasing thoughts That is more precious then the costliest feast Pem. But at your fathers boord there sits a ghest To whom the cup of Ganimede will seeme But iuice of Hemlocke and the daintiest dish As much vnsauory as the Pomice stone Vnlesse your presence season his delight Kat. I am sory I want skill to serue his dyet I haue not bin instructed to such end Pem. But I wil teach you Madam if you please Kat. Rather the party grieued first should shew Wherein we erre els how can we discerne What is our fault or how we may amend Pem. That office he commits vnto my toung Kat. Is he not able then to speake himselfe Pem. Yes Madam I haue heard when Ferdinand With whom in Padua I was conuersant So spake in the assembly of the learnd With such a grace and well composed phrase As many thought graue Tullies eloquence Flowed like a hony Riuer from his lips Kath. He wanteth then belike sufficient courage Pem. Neuer liu'd Knight lesse preiudic'd in that Then valiant Ferdinand whom I haue seene Couch his staffe Launce with such dexterity As if the god of battell had himselfe Entred the Lists and preassing to the midst Of steele-composed troops like lightning fly Till he had made a passage with his sword Kat. So puissant in his fortitude with men And daunted with a silly womans looks How can that be Pem. Yes when you weygh the force Of your resistlesse and controwling beauty It is your beauty were his power and spirit Ten times more hauty ventrous then it is Compels it stoope in homage to your foot As trembling Lambs when they to Lions couch Kat. 'T was well he chose so good an Orator To plead the imperfection of his cause Pem. I should haue that opinion of my selfe If for my sake your Grace would fauour him Kat. Yes for your sake we haue indur'd his name And for your sake we tolerate his suite But when you cease to speake then all that prayse You haue attributed to his desert Seemes borrowed from your selfe you are the man Whose eloquence compares with Ciceroes You are the man whose knightly fortitude Liues in the world vnpreiudic'd of any You vanquish beauty and inthrall the mind Of female weaknesse with no lesser awe Then Indian vassayles stoop vnto their Lords The name of Ferdinand you haue mista'ne Say t is your selfe and then your whole discourse Obserues the perfect method that it should Pem. Should I be false and trecherous to my friend I am intreated but to speake for him Kat. But for your selfe would be more acceptable Oh pardon me nor let immodest strayne Cleaue to my brow my loue is chastely bred Other then Pembrooke Katharine neuer vowes Shall be inthroniz'd in her mayden thoughts Pem. Mistake me not I say t is Ferdinand Dyes in affection to your Deity Kath. But in affection I suruiue to none But onely Pembrooke Pem. Will you be esteem'd A cruell murdresse of a loyall friend Kat. Will Pembrooke triumph in a womans fall Pem. You anger me respect young Ferdinand Kat. You please me not to speake of Ferdinand Pem. Nay then t is time to go or wrong my friend Since Madam what I would I cannot doe Mine honour here bids me leaue off to woo Exit Kat. Stay Pembrooke Katharine will sue to thee So shalt thou keepe thy fayth and loyalty Bow Tary sir tary we want the length of your nose nay if you will not heare I le be so bold as follow your nose Sir tary tary Exit Kat. He will not heare nor too
Are you content Nau. To liue in discontent Phil. Me thinks this royall presence hath dim lookes Is it because they are in the armes of night Which sets a leaden lustre on the eye Or hath some accident occoasted them That troubles their aspect with melancholy Is Nauar well is Ferdinando well Is Pembrooke well Is Bellamira well O where is Bellamira tell me Princes For now my tongue hath strook vpon her name I feele a kind of killing extasie Where is she in her Tent Bel. Deny me father I would not see Prince Philip with this face Phi. Why speak you not what haue I toucht the string Whereon the burden of your sorrow lyes Father looke round about see you my loue Rodoricke looke round about see you my loue Lew. I see her not Rod. Nor I Phil. I say not so The garments that she weares mine eye should know What Lady 's this that hides her heauenly face Here are no Basilisks with killing eyes You need not hide your beauty sweet looke vp Me thinks I haue an interest in these lookes What 's here a Leper amongst Noble men What creatures this why stayes she in this place Oh t is no maruell though she hide her face For t is infectuous let her leaue the presence Or Leprosie will cleaue vnto vs all Bel. O let me leaue the presence gentle father When Philip bids his Bellamira goe Phil. My Bellamira Lew. How my sonnes belou'd Phil. Is this my loue was this your beauteous child Nau. My child Ferd. My sister Pemb. Beauteous Bellamira Nau. Spotted Ferd. Disfigured Pemb. Made a lothsome Leper Rod. How came this sudden alteration For she was comely louely beautifull When the day left his Charriot to the night Na. That heauen doth know and onely Bellamira Daughter I charge thee tell me how it came Bell. Burbon oh Burbon Lew. Did he doe the deed Bel. He came into my Tent at dead of night And rubd my face with an infectuous herbe Because I would not graunt vnto his loue I cry'd for helpe but none did succour me Rod. I know he did and laugh to thinke on 't Lew. And he shall rue his treason Phil. Threaten not Leaue the reuenge to me whom it concernes T is I am robd of a delicious looke A heauenly sparkling brow a starry eye A countenance fayrer then Auroraes lookes When all the East is guilded with her blush T is I will be reueng'd but not before I haue espousde my louely Bellamira Lew. Espoused her Nau. How marry a face deform'd Ferd. A leprous creature Pem. An infectuous mayd Ro. One whose sores are perchance incureable Phil. Be they incureable it is my Loue And for my sake she hath indur'd this wrong And should I now forsake her thus distrest I could not merit a true Louers name To shew I loue her I will marry her Before the moneth expire nay in the morne Delayes perchance may make her think I scorne Bel. Marry with me fetch me a looking glasse That I may see how sweet a Bride I am Oh I detest my selfe Deare hate me too I am not to be maryed but to death Though I were Empresse of the spacious world I de lay my selfe and Kingdome at thy feet Liue noble Philip ioy some happyer match T is my vnworthinesse makes me deny thee Phi. Thinkst thou because thy face is spotted so Thou art not worthy of thy Philips loue Thy face to me was but a Marshall To lodge thy sacred person in my mind Which long agoe is surely chambred there And now what needs an outward Harbinger I doe affect not superficially My loue extendeth further then the skin The inward Bellamira t is I seeke And vnto her will Philip be epousde Nau. Oh admirable loue Lew. Oh my deare sonne Thou makest me famous by thy loyalty Rod. I neuer heard the like Pemb. Pen neuer writ A worthyer Story to posterity Fer. Pen neuer writ of a more treacherous friend Then Pembrooke thou hast prou'd to Ferdinand Phil. Sweet Loue prepare thee to be Philips Bryde For heere I sweare as I am royall borne I le marry thee before the mornings Sunne Hath runne the third part of his glorious course Father good night deare friends deare Loue good night Mariage I hope will make my spirits more light Exit Nau. Good night sweet son King Lewes stay with me Be thou my comforter I le comfort thee Exeunt Kings Fer. Pembrook remember that thou faile me not Exit Pem. O God what may these moody lookes intend Me thinks I should haue better from my friend Exit Bel. Now Bellamira thou hast time to thinke Vpon these troublous matters should I suffer So braue a Gentleman as Philip is To wed himselfe to my vnworthy selfe It would be counted vertue in the Prince But I were worthy of a world of blame No Philip no thou shalt not wrong thine honour Nor be impeacht by Bellamiraes spots In some disguise I le steale away to night And ne're appeare more in my Philips sight Exit Enter Dicke Bowyer Bow There is no toyle to this walking of the Round S'hart I haue beene stumbling vp and downe all this night like a Brewers horse that has ne're a good eye in his head T is as darke as Pitch I can resemble our Campe to nothing better then hell saue that in hell they are alwayes waking and heere the villaynes are as drowsie as swyne Lieutenant Nod why you might haue shot a double Cannon in his eare and neuer haue wakte him I iogd and I iogd I showted and I showted and yet the mungrel snorted you might heare him to Douer at last I dragd him by the heeles into a ditch of water and there left the Lobster crawling A the tother side Core being appoynted to stand Sentynell vpon the Wallounes quarter s'hart the Loach gets me into a Sutlers bath and there sits mee drinking for Ioanes best cap but by this hand and as Dicke Bowyer is a Soldier and a Caualiero he shall sit in the boults for it to morrow My comfort is in these extremities that I brought Thomasin to her Ladies Tent leauing her new-come Louer to picke strawes but soft qui vou la Enter Ferdinand Ferd. My name is Ferdinand Bow Stand Ferd. Why Captayne thou dost know me well inough Bow Know or not know without the word you passe not Ferd. Soliman Bow So allie allie Monseur Ferd. First tell me sawest thou Pembrooke come this way Bow I saw him not Ferd. Farewell Exit Bow As much to you Zounds these Frenchmen think to out-face vs with a card of ten but and his beard were made of brasse Dicke Bowyer will make him know the discipline of war Here comes another Enter Pembrooke Pem. Who 's there Dick Bowyer Bow Some call me so what then Pem. Pembrooke salutes thee Bow Oh good morrow my Lord good morrow Pem. I prythee Captayne sawst thou Ferdinand Sonne to Nauar as thou didst walke the round Bow Euen now my Lord he past along this
once conclude our sorrowes with a iest Pem. Soft there 's a cushē nay you must be bare And hold your hands vp as the maner is Fer. What if I held a booke as if I prayed Pem. 'T were best of all and now I think vpon 't Here is a booke so keepe your countenance You must imagine now you are transform'd Yonder she comes in any case stir not Enter Katharine Kath. I feare I haue detracted time too long In my determinde seruice to my Loue But I le redeeme my fault with double care See where his statue is set vp kind Knight For euer Katharine will record thy truth Pem. How say you Madam i st not very like him Kath. As like as if it were himselfe indeed And would to God my prayers might be heard That as the Image of Pigmalion once Life might descend into this sencelesse stone But that was faynd as my desire is fond Relentlesse death withholds my Ferdinand And no intreaty may recouer him In token then I doe repent my scorne That I was cruell to so kind a friend Thou the presenter of his absent person Receiue these sweets thy temples be adornd With this fresh garland thy white Iuory hand Boast of this Ring which if thou wert aliue Should bind our faythes vp in a nuptiall knot But for thou canst not be reuiu'd agayne I le dwell with thee in death and as my spirit Mounts to the happy mansion of thy spirit So to accompany thy shaddow here I le turne my body to a shaddow too And kneeling thus confront thy silent lookes With my sad looks this is the Instrument Now Ferdinand behold thy Katharine comes Fer. And she is welcome vnto Ferdinand Pem. I le play the clark for both and say Amen Nay muse not Madam t is no sencelesse Image But the true essence of your wished Loue Kath. I am asham'd to looke him in the face Fer. Hide not those splendāt lights hereafter be A constant wife it shall suffice for me Kat. Heauen cast her off if Katharine proue not so Pem. Of that no more now let vs haste from hence To quiet the dissension lately sprung Betweene your parents Philip likewise gone To be reueng'd on Burbons trechery Perhaps may stand in need of friendly ayd To him and them our vowes must next be payd Fer. What Pembrook counsels we cōsent vnto Exeunt Enter Rodoricke and Philip Rod. Now whilest our Armies wearied with the heat That the bright sunne casts from his midday throne Abstayne from bloudy entercourse of warre I le lead thee Philip vnto Burbons Tent Phil. Rodoricke thou highly fauourest me in this And doubt not if my complot take effect I le make thee Duke of Burbon Enter Lewes Flaunders and Burbon Rod. Stay your speach heere comes king Lewis Phil. They can not know me I am so disguisde Burb. Follow my counsayle and immediatly begin the Battayle Lew. Why the heat 's great It burnes in our Armour as we march Flan. It burnes the enemy as well as wee Bur. It warmes our Souldiers spirits makes them fire I had rather dye then when my bloud is hot Be awde by counsell till it freeze like Ice He is no Souldier that for feare of heat Will suffer victory to fly the field Rod. My Lord of Burbon ye are more hot then wise Bur. Rodorick me thinkes you are very peremptory Rod. It is in zeale of the generall good Go to your Tent refresh your vnscorcht lymmes There draw your battels modell and as soone As the coole winds haue fand the burning Sunne And made it tractable for trauaylers Arme you and mount vpon your barbed Steed Lead foorth your Souldiers and in good array Charge brauely on the Army of our foe Lew. The Duke of Orleance hath counseld well I le in and recreate me in my Tent Farewell my Lord when you resolue to fight Proclayme your meaning by a Canons mouth And with a volley I will answere you Exit Lewes Bur. If you will needs retyre farewell my Lord Ha Rodoricke are not we fine Polyticians That haue so quaintly wrought the King of Fraunce Vnto our faction that he threatens warre Against the almost reconcilde Nauar Rod. But this is nothing to the actes wee le do Come come my Lord you trifle time with words Sit downe sit downe and make your warlike plot But wherfore stand these murdrous Glaues so nye Phil. Touch them not Rodorick prythee let them stand Bur. Some paper pen and incke Enter Peter Peter My Lord Bur. Post to the Master Gunner And bid him plant his demy culuerings Against the kings pauilion Peter Presently Bur. But first bring pen and incke and paper straight Rodoricke thou shalt assist mee in this plot Rod. Do it your selfe my Lord I haue a charge Of Souldiers that are very mutinous And long I dare not stay for feare my absence Be cause of their reuolt vnto Nauar Bur. Then to your Souldiers I will to my plot Phil. Away my Lord leaue me vnto the Duke Rod. Kill you the Duke and after I le kill thee Bur. This pen is stabbed and it will not write The Incke that 's in the Standage doth looke blacke This in my pen is turnd as red as bloud Phil. The reason that the platforme you would make Must by this hand be written with thy bloud Bur. Zounds what art thou that threatens Burbon so Phil. One that 's as desperat-carelesse of his life As thou art timerous and fearst to dye Bur. Comest thou to kill me Phil. If I should say no This weapon would condemne me which I seyz'd Of purpose Burbon to bereaue thy life Bur. Why fond man mad man know'st thou what thou doest Phil. I know it Burbon and I know besides What thou wouldst say to daunt my resolution Burb. What would I say Phil. Why that this place is death As being thy Tent enuiron'd with thy slaues Where if I kill thee t is impossible To scape with life this Burbon thou wouldst say But Philip is not to be mou'd with words Burb. Philip Phil. I Philip Bellamiraes Loue Whose beauty villayne thou hast poysoned For which I haue vow'd thy death and thou shalt dye Therefore betake you to what fence you will Amongst this bundle chuse one weapon forth And like a worthy Duke prepare thy selfe In knightly maner to defend thy life For I will fight with thee and kill thee too Or thou shalt giue an end vnto my life But if thou call vnto thy slaues for helpe Burbon my sword shall nayle thee to the wall And thinke Prince Philip is a Prince indeed To giue thee this aduantage for thy life Bur. Boy I will scourge your insolence with death Phil. Come on Fight and kill Burbon Bur. Oh I am slayne Rod. Murder murder Burbon the Duke is slayne Phil. Peace Rodorick I am Philip thy deare friend Rod. Thou art a counterfet I know thee not Phil. Didst not thou guide me vnto Burbons Tent Rod. I guide thee to the
vnkind looke backe Payn. But Madam spight his heart you shall see this Kat. Giue me his picture Image far more kind Then is the substance whence thou art deriu'd Which way soeuer I diuert my selfe Thou seemst to follow with a louing eye Thee will I therefore hold within mine armes Enter Ferd. As some small comfort to increasing harmes Fer. What meanes my second selfe by this long stay I cannot rest till I be certified What good or bad successe my suite returnes But he is gone and in faire Katharines hand I see his picture What may this pretend Kat. Thou hast done well indeed in euery part Thou shewst complete cunning workmanship His eye his lip his cheeke are rightly fram'd But one thing thou hast grosly ouer-slipt Where is his stubborne vnrelenting heart That lurkes in secret as his master doth Disdayning to regard or pity me Payn. Madam his heart must be imagined By the description of the outward parts Kat. O no for then it would be tractable Mild and applausiue as the others be Fer. No Prince but Pembrooke dwels in Katharines eye Whos 's that disturbs our pleasing solitude Fer. Know you not me my name is Ferdinand Whose faithfull loue Lord Pembrooke late commenc't Kat. Speake then for Pembrooke as he did for you Or els your bootlesse suite will soone be cold Fer. Why he was Orator in my behalfe If I should speake for him as he for me Then should I breathe forth his passions not mine owne I I t is so the villaine in my name Hath purchasd her affection for himselfe And therefore was he absent from the feast And therefore shuns my sight and leaues behind This counterfet to keepe him still in mind Enter Bowyer T is so t is so base Traytor for this wrong My sword shall cut out thy perfidious toung Exit Bow I haue runne till I sweat sweat till my shirt cleaues to my backe cryed till I am hoarse and am hoarse till I cannot cry and yet he will not come backe Kat. No matter fellow I haue here a pledge Enter Lewes Which I will zealously deuote me to There 's thy reward withdraw my father comes Lew. Where are these Lords the one hath sate with me And suddenly is risen from the boord The other came not at all Daughter saw you The Prince or Pembrooke which way they are gone Kat. Backe to their Tents my Lord as I suppose Lew. Backe to their Tents and take no leaue of vs Nay then I feare their meaning was too smoothe And some blacke Treason couer'd in their smiles Which we will seeke immediately to preuent Exeunt Enter Dicke Bowyer and soldiers with Drum and colours Bow Stand giue the word along stand Lieu. Stand there Bow Lieutenant Lieu. Captayne Bow Is the watch set in the Kings quarter yet Lieu. An howre agoe Bow Zounds what foolish Canaanits were they to run in debt to their eyes for an houres sleepe sooner then they needed Sergeant Ser. Anon sir Bow Anon sir s'hart the Rogue answers like a Drawer but t is the tricke of most of these Sergeants all clincum clancum Gods dynes I am an Onyon if I had not rather serue formost in the forlorne hoope of a battell or runne poynt blancke against the mouth of a double charged Cannon then come vnder the arrests of some of their pewter pessels zounds t is hotter a great deale then hell mouth Diues burning in Sulphur but thou art none of the genealogy of them Where must we watch to night Ser. In the furthest Trenches that confront the enemies Campe Bow That 's the next way to haue all our throats cut Lieu. That cannot be you know Captaine there 's a peace toward Bo. A pox a peace it keeps our Ancient whole but s'hart our gaberdines go to wrack but futra t is well known since Dick Bowyer came to Fraunce he hath shewed himselfe a gentleman a Caualiero and sets feare at 's heeles and I could scape a pox on it th' other thing I might haps return safe sound to England but what remedy al flesh is grasse and some of vs must needes be scorcht in this hote Countrey Lieutenant Core prithee lead my Band to their quarter and the Rogues do not as they should cram thy selfe good Core downe their throats and choak them Who stand Sentronell to night sir Sol. That must I Captayne Bow You Rafe Nod zounds soldiers follow my discipline say your prayers you are all dead men all dust and ashes all wormes meat Lieu. How so Captayne Bow Doe you make him Sentronell s'hart hee le nod presently and he do not sleepe sitting vpon the poynt of a Spanish needle Dicke Bowyer 's a very shittlecocke Nod zounds he is one of the nine sleepers a very Dormouse I had a Pageant to present of the seuen deadly sinnes hee should play Slouth and he did not sleepe when he should speake his part I am a Badger Soul That 's true you haue halfe the nature of a Badger for one leg is shorter then another Bow Zounds you Rogue doe not you know that I le tell you s'hart and I lye call me Iebuzite Once as I was fighting in S. Georges fields and blind Cupid seeing me and taking me for some valiant Achilles he tooke his shaft and shot me right into the left heele and euer since Dick Bowyer hath beene lame but my heart is as sound as a bell heart of Oake spirit spirit Lieutenant discharge Nod and let Cricket stand Sentronell till I come Lieu. He shall Captayne Bow On afore strike Drum march soldiers keepe your place Nod lusty my harts for the honor of England our braue Generall the Earle of Pembrooke So I haue discharg'd my selfe of these Exeunt soldiers Hot shot now to my loue some may say the tale of Venus louing Mars is a fable but he that is a true soldier and a Gent. as Dick Bowyer is he do not loue some varlet or other zounds he is worse then a gaping Oyster without liquor There 's a prety sweet fac't mother that waits on the princesse that I haue some mind to but a whorsō Achitophel a parasite a rogue one whose face looks worse thē a Tailors cushen of old shreds colours zounds like a weauers leg in an old ditch feeding horseleaches this trotter is my ryual loues Thomasin his name is Peter de Lions but s'hart I will not sweare neither if I do not turne Rich. Cor de Lion with him if I do not teare out his heart and eate it with mustard Enter Peter and Thomasin let him say Dick Bowyer 's a Mackarell Yonder hee comes with my Property hand in hand Zoūds I say nothing but I le heare what they say and determine afterward Pet. Thomasin you know me I hate prolixity in a word my humour is thus I loue you Bow And I do not spoyle that humour so Pet. Your answere compendiously auoyd prolixity Tom. Mary muffe by Iesu
hath no need of a black mask Shall I tel you what you looke like A broyld herring or a tortur'de Image made of playster worke Bel, So sirra you may scoffe my misery Pem. Still haunted with these women are men vanisht Or what occasion leaues the Realme of Fraunce So voyd and empty of aduenturous Knights Clow. Out of peraduenture Madam the ghost of Saint George is come out of England to see what hospitality S. Denis keeps in Fraunce Pem. Poore Bellamira I lament thy state But I must still suppresse my discontent What are you so deformd with lothsome spots And what that Anticke keeps you company Clow. Anticke thou lyest and thou wert a Knight of ginger-bread I am no Anticke the whole parish where I was borne will sweare that since the raigne of Charlemain there was not a better face bred or brought vp amongst them Pem. Away ye russeting Kath. Haue patience Knight how euer thus deform'd This Lady is the daughter of Nauar Madam it ioyes me I haue met you heere Though much laments me of your heauy plight There needs no repetition of your wrong I know the villayne Burbon did the dead Whom my incensed brother will reuenge Bel. For Philips sake I haue bin martyrd thus And for his sake left King and Courtly life To entertayne a Pilgrims paynefull habit But on what strange aduenture stayes this Knight Within this desolate forsaken wood Kat. For loue of Ferdinand your princely brother Whose Hearse he gards in honourable Armes Bel. Is this my brothers Hearse is this the place Where I was shipwrackt of a brothers name Oh let me spend a louing sigh for him And sacrifice a sisters holy rites For euer rest sweet Ferdinand in peace Vntill thy body glorified from heauen Become immortall by thy soules returne Pem. Poore Bellamira how I pity thee Yet must forbeare to comfort thy distresse Clow. Is my yong Lord buried here I say no more but I pray God send him a ioyfull insurrection Kath. Inough sweet Bellamire These leprous spots t is time they were remou'd Come goe with me Since I left Aquitayne And came acquaynted with these priuate walks It was my happy chance to meet an Hermit Whose skill in Phisike warrants present cure And pure refining of your poysoned bloud I le bring you thither afterward select Delicious sweets to decke your brothers tombe Come sirra follow vs Exeunt Clow. Doe not think Madam that I le forsake you And so sir you that walk in pewter vessayle like one of the worthyes will you be rul'd by me Pem. Wherein Clow. To set a gyn for Woodcocks catch your selfe first Exit Pem. Hence beetle-head And Pembrook now bethink How great a tyde of miseries breakes in First thou art taxed with the losse of him Whom equall with thy selfe thou holdest deare Next Bellamira is become a Leper Whose absence Philip carefully laments Then trecherous Burbon ioynes himselfe with Fraunce And both the Kings are angerly incenst But last which is some comfort to the rest Disdaynfull Katharine wastes with fruitlesse loue Would all so minded like mishap might proue But by this signall there are Knights at hand I must prouide their valours to withstand Enter Fraunce Burbon Rodoricke Peter de Lions At one dore at the other Nauar Flaunders Dicke Bowyer and Souldiers Pembrooke betweene them Pem. Stay your intended march Lew. What Peere of Fraunce Or in the world so haughty resolute Dare breathe the word of stay to mighty Fraunce Na. Or what art thou presum'st to stay my course Pem. A Knight I am and to aduentures bound This monument erected for my friend By me is garded If you meane to passe You must doe homage or else fight with me Lew. Homage of me Know I am King of France And in subiection to no earthly power Nau. Thou knowst not what thou sayst to challenge vs Of any such inferiour priuiledge What homage is it thou requir'st of vs Pem. First to acknowledge him lyes buryed here The faythfulst Louer and most valyant Knight That in this time drew sword or manag'd horse Bow And what was he A scapart or your Countrey-man Gargantua that stuft euery button of his coate with a load of hay 'Shart wee haue mee a fellow here 's all mouth hee speakes nothing but Monarch Doest thou heare King giue me leaue to incounter this puckfist and if I doe not make him cry Peccaui say Dicke Bowyer 's a powdred Mackrell Pet. My bloud beginnes to boyle I could be pleasd To haue this fellow by the eares but that There 's many of my betters heere in place Fland. King of Nauarre let Flanders cope with him Burb. Imperiall France giue Burbon leaue to try The hazzard of a combat with this Boaster Pem. Dispatch Nauarre one of you come foorth To enterchange a warlike blow or two Lew. First let vs know what penalty thou setst Vpon thy selfe if thou be vanquished Pem. A recantation of my former wordes A seruitude to him that conquers me But who so euer is by me subdued Must leaue his Shield to beautifie this shrine Bur. Let not Nauar my Lord rob vs of honor Say Burbon first shall breake a Launce with him Rod. A scribe that priuiledge my Lord to mee And Rodorick will haue death or victory Lew. No noble Rodorick Burbon shall begin And as he speedes we will imploy your power Pem. Prouide thee Burbon I le not fauour thee Bur. Be sure He shew thee like hostility Lew. Hold the aduantage is on thy side The Duke of Burbon shal hang vp his shield Pem. I de rather haue his life then al your shelds Who is next Bow Zounds I think he has a patten to take vp all the Shields i th Countrey hang mee if thou wantst worke heere 's for Nauar the earle of Pembrok Caualiero Bowier Fight A thousand pound to a Taylors bodkin this fellow has a familiar but howsoeuer thou mayst thank my lame legge there 's my shield Lew. Now Rodorick betake you to your taske Fight Rodor. My fortune's answerable to the rest Lew. Since all miscarrie Fraunce will put his chaunce Vpon the hazzard of the Dice for once Pem. You are an Honorable foe my Lord Fight By law of Armes you must hang vp your shield Lew. I yeld to law and thy approoued valour King of Nauar will onely you sit out Nau. No King of Fraunce my bloud 's as hot as thine Fight And this my weapon shall confirme my words Fight Bow Nauar down too 'Shart this fellow hath the tricke of it If he be not a witch or some Deuill let me be stickt into a Carbinado Nau. Thou sonne of Chiualrie let me now intreate To know his name for whome thou reapst this honour Or what he was whose bodie 's heere interde Pem. A valiant Knight his name yong Ferdinand Slayne by misfortune of a friendly hand Nau. Is it my sonne thou mak'st thy valours prise And striu'st so to enternize with thy sword Let me imbrace thee Not alone
my shield But I will leaue my heart vpon his shrine My dearest Ferdinand I would my sighes Or sad lamenting teares might haue the power Like Balme to quicken thy benummed ioynts Then would I drowne this marble e're I went And heat it hote with vapour of my breath Lew. Nauar this now may testify thy wrong In false accusing me for his remoue Na. Thou maist be guilty stil for ought I know For though I find him dead I find not yet The Tragick maner of his haples end Thou mayst as well haue murdred Ferdinand As fauour him hath poysond Bellamira Lew. Iniurious king it was base Ferdinand On whom iust heauens haue shown iust vengeance heere Rauisht my Katharine and conuayed her hence Where I shall neuer more behold her face Nau. T is false and wee 'le mayntain it with our swords Lew. T is true and wee 'le mayntain it with our swords Pem. By heauen the toung prophanes the sacred name of Ferdinand with any villany I le cut it out or stop his throate with bloud And so dam in his blasphemous vpbraydes Nau. Content thee knight I le case thee of that labor To morrow is expir'd the time of truce Fraunce on with thy Battalions to the plaine Thou wast prepar'd before to pitch vpon I le meet thee there Lew. And I will meet with thee Sound Drums and Trumpets honord knight farewell Who shal suruiue next morn strāge newes shal tel Exeūt Pem. Thus heady rage blind in her rash resolue Drew Ferdinand and mee into the field As now it doth these hot incensed kings Wer 't not my vowes prohibit my desire To stay the inconuenience of this fight I would discouer where their Daughters are To shew the error they are shrouded in But Time hath run a desperate course with mee And desperate let them runne to misery Here comes a Straggler of their Army Stand Enter Philip Phil. What voice is that presumes to byd me stand Pem. His that can force thee if thou wilt not stand Phil. By this bright ayre reflecteth on my sword If the whole Army of Nauar had said As much to Philip yet he would not stand And thou but one how dar'st thou profer it Knowing how sharp a Spurre doth pricke me on The death of Burbon for my Bellamire Pem. Hang vp thy shield as other knights haue done Vpon the Hearse of noble Ferdinand And thou mayest freely passe without controule Phil. The Hearse of Ferdinand I honor him He was the brother of my dearest Loue What 's this I see my fathers batterd shield The shield of Fraunce of Flaunders Burbons too It can not then impeach or preiudice The name of Philip to consort with such Especially being done for Ferdinand There is my shield and Knight but for my haste I would expostulate of other things But after traytrous Burbon I haue slayne Knight looke for me I le visit thee agayne Now Rodorick keepe thy word and I am blest But if thou fayle I le forward with the rest Exit Pem. Succesfull action sit vpon thy sword This net of sorrowes I perceyue intangles Not only Pembrooke but the Court of France Nauar and his associats are all toucht Time looke vpon vs and at last determine This heart-disseuering tumults with a peace Enter Ferdinand Ferd. Since Ferdinand by gracious prouidence Thou art recouered of thy mortall wounds With the new life thy body is reuiude Reuiue the ancient passions of thy mind Think on thy friend on Pembrook take remorse Whose honord life thy hasty hand cut off This is the place as I remember mee What 's heere a Tombe who hath preuented me In my religious duty to my friend You Knight I doubt not can resolue me Pem. What art thou stand Ferd. A Knight and fayne would know What sacred monument and Tombe this is Pem. His whilst he liu'd that of the worlds increase Was the most loyall friend and valiant Knight Which thou must likewise ratifie with me And hang thy shield vp to adorne his Hearse Or venture Combate for denying it Fer. His name I pray thee Pem. Ferdinand Fer. What 's he acquainted with my name belike some one Lou'd Pembroke and supposing wrongfully Me slaine by him to satisfie for that Obserues this honor in my memory Be not thou Ferdinand ingratefull then But stand for Pembroke as this knight for thee Pem. What answere giuest thou shal I homage haue Fer. Not for his sake thou nam'st not for Ferdinand There liu'd a knight exceld his petty fame As farre as costly Pearle the coursest Pebble An English knight cald Pembroke were his bones Interred heere I would confesse of him Much more then thou requir'st and be content To hang both shield and sword vpon his Hearse Pem. How comes this stranger by my name Belike He was affected vnto Ferdinand And for his sake hearing he did me wrong Couets to make amends or meanes to prooue If I imbrace him with vnfayned loue He shall not doubt of that once more I say 'T was Ferdinand was the renowned Knight Of all the world Fer. But I deny that saying Giuing to Pembroke that preeminence Pem. For Ferdinand my valour will I try Fer. In Pembrooks valour I will fight and die Discouer eche other in fighting Pem. Eyther I dreame or this is Ferdinand Fer. My sight deludes me or stout Pembroke lyues Pem. Thrice happy honord I do imbrace my friend Fer. Welcome oh welcome Pembrok to myne armes Whom I imagined death had tane from me Pem. The like did I by Princely Ferdinand But that he liues my soule confounds with ioy Fer. Tell me deare friend since our vnlucky fight Haue you heard ought of my disdainfull Loue Pem. Of her and all the rest Her father liues This is his shield and this is great Nauars This Rodoricks the Duke of Orleance And this malicious Burbons all the which I forc't from them to beautifie thy shrine But t is of Katharine thou desir'st to heare She likewise hath bin here her flinty heart So much before inclind to cruelty Now waxeth tender she no sooner saw Thy picture here but by heauens prouidence Or how I know not she so doats on it As I supposde she would a dyed for loue Fer. Has then my shaddow and supposed death Brought that to passe my liuing substance could not Pem. It hath and neuer Lady more enamour'd Then now is Katharine of her Ferdinand I told her and no more then truth I told A cunning Caruer had cut out thy shape And whole proportion in white Alablaster Which I intended here should be set vp She earnestly entreated she might haue A sight of it and dayly be permitted To deck thy tombe and statue with sweet flowers Shee 's but euen now departed to that end And will I know be quickly here agayne Now for assurance I dissemble not Instead of thy resemblance cut in stone Kneele here thy selfe and heare her pitious mone Fer. Content I hold your counsell for the best Wee le
hennes at Shrouetyde no will you not doe you Tan-fat zounds then haue at you They fight Bowyer hath the wench rescued by France recouered by Nauar Philip meetes Rodorick rescued by Peter retreat is sounded the enemies begin to retire Rodorick chas'd by Philip Enter at seuerall doores after retreate sounded Pembrooke and Ferdinand Fer. Are the Kings seuerd will they bow to peace Pem. Peace is a welcome ghest vnto their hearts But Rodoricke like a greedy enuious churle Fearing to spend his wealth still keeps them backe T is he exasperates the Princes hate And when our Trumpets call them to retyre He with warres clangor sets them on agayne Vnlesse he be remoou'd our labour 's lost Fer. It shall not for I le seeke him through the Host And with this sword pare off the Traytors head Pem. Doe and I le scowre these ranks if Pembroks eye Encounters his he meets his Tragedy Alarum Enter Philip pursuing Rodoricke Phil. Stay warlike friends and ayd me in reuenge Fer. That is Rodoricke Pem. Heere 's the Traytor strike him downe Phil. Who lifts his arme at him strikes at my brest Rod. Why haue you thus ring'd me about with swords Phil. To shew thee thou must dye Rod. What haue I done That thus you labour my destruction Pem. Thou wer 't a party in all Burbons wrongs Fer. Falsely term'd Ferdinand a Rauisher Pem. Set discord 'twixt these Kings Phil. Practised my death Pem. Villayne for this our swords shall stop thy breath Fer. Stand not to argue let 's all runne at him Phil. Now as you loue my loue or prize mine honour Touch not the Traytor he is Philips foe And none but I must worke his ouerthrow Thrice in the battell he was rescued from me But now hee 's falne into the Lyons paw From whence the whole world cannot ransome him Preseruers of my life heroick friends Be you my safety keepe the Souldyers off Whilst in the midst by fayre and equall fight I send this Traytor to eternall night Ferd. By heauen agreed Pem. Heere Pembrooke takes his stand Come Fraunce and all the world I will not start Til Philips knightly sword pearce Rodoricks hart Rod. Accurst I am betrayd incompast round Now lyfe and hope and state must kisse the ground Phil. Rodorick thou seest all wayes are stopt to flie Be desperat then fight brauely and so die Alarum they fight enter to Pembrooke Nauar Bowyer Souldiers to Ferdinand Fraunce Flaunders Souldiers they fight and keepe them backe Rodoricke would scape still kept in the midst and kild by Philip Phil. Now are his trecheries repaid with death Philip and Pembrooke sound your retreats With better hope in him all hatred endes The kings will now loue peace soone be friends Exeunt Enter Peter wounded Bowier following Bow Zounds neuer runne for the matter a scratcht face can not serue your turne we must haue bloudy noses stād on your gard I do not make haggasse puddings of your guttes I le neuer dominier in the long Alleyes agayne Peter Cymnell I le cracke you for this I le teach you to deale with Peter de Lions and that without prolixitie Bow Do haue at you in earnest S. George you rogue Alarum fight Bowyer kills him Bow So there 's for your prolixities there 's for Thomasin the Thornbackly slaue and he were made of any thing but gristles I am a pumpian 'Shart he had no mettle in him yet how the villayne crak't and dominierd when he was liuing ah sirra neuer gryn for the matter t is Captayne Bowyer that speaks it When thou meetst the great Deuill commend me to him and say I sent him thee for a new yeres gift and there 's one Sarlaboys to as arrant a bloud-sucker and as notable a coward as euer drew weapon in a bawdy house hee carryes my marke about him if Dicke Bowyer be not writ a bountifull benefactor in hell for my good deeds in sending thither such Canibals I am a Rabbit-sucker yet I scorne to vaunt of my deeds too They sound a retreat farewell Peter and learne hereafter what it is to be riuall to an English gentleman Caualiero Bowyer one of the nyne worthyes Exit A retreyt Enter at one dore Fraunce Flaunders and Souldiers at the other dore Nauar Bowyer and Souldiers Lew. Nauar why haue you sounded a retreyt Will your proud heart decline and call vs Lord Nau. We thought by the faynt lāguage of your drums Fraunce would haue knowne his errour and beg'd peace Lew. Fraunce beg a peace Nau. Nauar call you his Lord Flan. Why did you cease the fight and sound retreat Bow Not we by this beard not we by the life of Pharo Nau. Your Trumpets guided by your faynting breath Dehorted vs from war and sounded peace Lew. Nauar derides vs Nau. Fraunce t is you that doo 't Lew. Sound war and brauely let vs once more too 't Enter in the middest Pembrooke Ferdinand and Philip Pem. Kings of Nauar and Fraunce why doe you thus With ciuill butchery wound this blessed land Which like a mother from her melting eyes Sheds crymson teares to see you enemyes Lewes of Fraunce wherein hath great Nauar Dangerd your state that you should prosecute War with her largest ruine how hath Fraunce Sowed such inueterate hate within your brest That to confound him you will vndergoe The orphants curse the widdowes teares cries Whose husbands in these warres haue lost their liues E're you contend discourse your grieuances Lew. False Ferdinand his sonne rauisht our child Fer. Now by my Knighthood honor and this gage Fraunce I le approue you wrong that Ferdinand Phil. Who can accuse him Lew. That did Rodorick Pem. That Traytor for a deed so false so foule Hath answered it by this euen with his soule Nau. Our sonne and valours bloome th' English Pembrooke By Lewes trechery were butchered Phil. Were the whole world ioynd in so false a thing Alone I de combat all and cleere the King Pem. Fraunce neuer had dessigne in their two deaths Nau. He leagu'd with Burbon that destroyd my child Lew. He poysoned her deseruedly Phil. That deed of shame Cut off his life and rac'd out Burbons name Lew. His death shal be thy death for thy hand slue him Nau. This other in the battell twice to day Made vs retire Fraunce shall we ioyne in league Till we haue veng'd our malice on these knights Lew. Nauar agreed Souldiers this kyld your Lords Nau. And this our fame let 's mangle them with swords Pem. Take truce a while with rage heare what wee 'le vrge This knight flew Burbon this inforst you fly Therfore you hate them and for hate they die Since then true vertue is disfigured Desert trod downe and their heroick worth In iustice doomd on Traytors merits Death Behold these two which thousands could not daunt But your vngratitude on bended knee Yeeld vp their swoords to bide your tyranny 'T was he kild Burbon if you loue him dead Shew it by
paring off this valiant head Do you the like to this reuenge apace They feare not threats and scorne to beg for grace Lew. And they shall find none Nau. Knights tryumph in death We are your headsmen Kings shall stop your breath They take off their Helmets Lew. Philip my sonne Nau. Young Ferdinand my ioy Pem. Call them not sonnes whom you would fayne destroy Nau. Hold not our age too long in deepe suspect Art thou Ferdinand Lew. And thou Philip Fer. We are the friendly sonnes of aduerse parents Your long lost children though supposed slayne We liue and come to ioy your age agayne Nau. Welcome all earthly blisse Lew. Welcome deare child Thy presence halfe our sorrow hath exil'd Pem. How soon this Scene is chāg'd those that euē now Were sworne warres seruants now to peace do bow Then Pembrooke striue to make their ioyes more full See kingly father to that princely sonne Pembrooke the hated murderer of his friend Pembroke that did deuide thee from his sight And cut so many passages of death In his indeared bosome humbly thus Forgets his honour and from your hye hand Inuokes reuenge for wounding Ferdinand Fer. Still he surmounts me in an honour'd loue Rise friend or if thou striu'st to haue the world In me as in a glasse see a false friend Behold I kneele and here proclayme to all My friendship 's broke but thine substantiall Na. Model of vertue honord Pembroks Earle Rise in as deare regard as Ferdinand Oh had I Bellamira once in hold Age would turne youth I should ne're be old Lew. Had I my Katharina once agayne Our ioy were then stretcht to the highest strayne But she was rauisht and then murthered Phil. Beare not that hard opinion Rodoricks toung Slaundred that Prince and did his vertue wrong Pem. Lewis of Fraunce heare what an English Earle Speaks in the front and view of all thy Host If euer Ferdinand staynd Katharines honour I was a party yet in all your Campe Who dares step forth and call me rauisher No Fraunce know Pembroke is an Englishman Highly deriu'd yet higher in my thoughts And for to register mine acts in brasse Which all-deuouring time shall ne're race out Haue I through all the Courts of Christendome In knightly tryall prou'd my vertue sound Raisd Englands fame aloft and shall I now In her next continent her neighbour Realme Fraunce on whose bosome I may stand and see That blessed soyle that bred and fostred me Soyle all my late got honour to consent Vnto a royall Princes rauishment I de sooner from a mountayne cast my selfe Or from a hungry Lyon teare his pray Then dare to act a deed so infamous Enter Katharina But words are ayre Lewis behold this face This proues our honour cleere from all disgrace Lew. My Katharine Phil. My deare sister Fer. My fayre Loue Pem. See Princes loues effect she flies your hand To liue imbrac't with her deare Ferdinand Lew. And heauen forbid that we should sunder them Nauar reach me thy hand grym war is fled And peace shall end the same in a nuptiall bed Sonne Philip ratify your sisters choyce Phil. Euen with my soule for euer liue you blest Oh Bellamira had not cursed Burbon For beauty robd thy cheeks with Leprosie Hadst thou but stayd with me as is their state So had bin mine happy and fortunate Enter Clowne attyred like a Gentleman Bellamira following with a Scarfe on her face Clow. By your leaue sweet blouds may a Gentleman or so deceyue two or three ounces of words in this assembly Lew. You may Clow. Is there not a young Kings sonne amongst you who treading the steps of his father is called Philip Phil. I am the man thou seekst Clow. Then the old saying is verified He that seeks shall find Heere is a poore kinswoman of mine would desire some priuate conference with you or so Phil. With me whom see I Bellamira Nau. Daughter Phil. Do not deride my woes speake speake I pray Pem. Looke not so strange it is thy louely Loue Thus manag'd to approue thy constancy Embrace her then and now Nauar and Fraunce Here end your strife and let all hatred fall And turne this warre to Hymens festiuall Nau. This Pembrooks counsell we subscribe vnto Lew. The like doth France Louers imbrace your Loues And Captaines ioyne your Bands mix power with power And let those swords which late were drawne for death Sleepe in their sheathes You worthy Pembrooke And all your followers shall receyue our fauours In plenteous largesse so set on to Court Sound Drums and Trumpets deafe the ayre with cryes And fill eche subiects heart with ioyes increase T' applaud our childrens loue and this dayes peace FINIS