you trust him Iul. Yes as farre as I see him and he that trusts him further my trust is he will be deceived Amin. Indeed he that will proue false to his maker will be true to no man Iul. Yes for the present time like a bawd to him that giues most Amin. That 's not for loue Iul. Yes of the money he that lookes for other loue in this age This is the place his Letter speakes of and here he comes himselfe Enter Dametas like a Huntsman Dam. Why so lo now is the web of my hopes upon the Loombe of perfection and in this quech of lashes Aminter Iulio See and see not all mum you know your cue The game 's your owne if you can hunt it true Enter the Duke Basilius Ba. Dametas were thine cares ever at a more musicall banquet how the hounds mouths like bels are tuned one under another like a slothfulnesse the speed of the cry out-ran my sense of hearing Dam. Crosse over the Forrest to Dianaes oake my liege there your grace advantag'd by the height of the ground shall not onely at pleasure heare but be eye-witnesse of their musicall contention Basil Thankes good Dametas bee thy directions our wiues convoy Enter Gynetia Violetta and Hippolita Gyn. Where is his highnesse Dametas Dam. At Adonis bower Madam where he expects your presence to see the fleshing of a couple of Spartane hounds in the wasting blood of the spent Deare Gyn. Thankes good Dametas mine eyes would not be good friends with my feet should they not bring 'em to that kingly sport Dam. Sweet Ladies to saue you the expence of much breath which must be laid out in the purchase of the game I haue provided you this stand from whence your eyes may be commanders of the sport such sport as you little dreame of Viol. We are your loues debters kind Dametas As I loue vertue I pitty these poore beasts These Sylâ—ane commoners to see what taskes Our covetous Forresters impose upon them Who not content with impost of their breath Poore hearts pursue them smiling to their death Dam. T was the end of their creation Madam Hip. So was the end of ours to liue in peace And not to tyrannise on harmelesse beasts But Forresters like Images set forth The tyrannie of greatnesse without pitty As they the Deare so covetous wealth pursues The trembling state of their inferiors And to claspe up the volume of their sinnes They drinke their blood and cloath them with their skins Then cease to presse poore beasts with tyrannie You loue your liues thinke they are loath to dye Dam. You are too tender-hearted to bee a good huntswoman Lady Viol. And some of you too hard-hearted but leaving this discourse of hunting haue all our gallantry of Lacedemon and Greece spent the vigor of their wits that not one dares venter Hip. For our loues sister you may see the properer women the worse lucke Dam. Tush you shall haue suters feare not Madam Hip. No at any hand sister for with a feare it comes Viol. Then I le feare of purpose because I would haue 'em come Dam. And they doe not they are notable cowards Hip. Then let them keepe away still for I haue vowed my maidenhead shall never doe homage to the bed of a coward Dam. Sweet Ladies will you beguile a minute or two with this discourse till I step up to the top of the hill and make discovery of the game Viol. Let your returne be speedy good Dametas Dam. I le put on wings and fly Exit Viol. Out of the Court and the whole Countrey shall haue a good riddance Amin. So he hath put 'em faire to the stand le ts issue surprise them Iulio Be resolute and suddaine Aminter and Iulio issue out and beare them away Viol. Murther treason rescue helpe Enter first Dametas and then the Duke Dam. Yes much reskue much helpe much Dametas why so this jest was drawen home close to the head it cannot chuse but cleaue the very white of our hopes the Dukes wit to thy tackle good wit some sudden sea roome or our stratagem is run a ground Basil Tell me Dametas was not the Deare a prodigall did hee not spend his breath freely amongst us Dam. And his blood too my liege but did you obserue how the hounds like politicians nos'd out the game Ba. True and comming to the losse Melampus but where are our daughters Da. Did you obserue that my liege that Melampus as a true hound is ever horce cheerd or hollow yet he kept time too Ba. Certaine Dametas but where are our daughters man Da. Busie my Lord under a brake bush disputing of the vertue of sweet water and ground Iuie Cry within treason murder reskue helpe Ba. What cry of treason 's that Dametas Pray God no danger sets upon my daughters Seeke out our wife I le haste unto their reskue Da. And my sword un-employd alleageance sayes nay to that my â—iâ—ge I am for the adventure my selfe if they be surpris'd I am a mad man your grace shall heare more if not I am the more sorry your grace shall heare more too make peace with your thoughts till my returne and doubt not their recovery Enter the Dutchesse with her daughters Demetrius Lisander c. Gyn. Speake where 's the Duke Basi Here my Gynetia What meane these weapons are our daughters â—afe Viol. As a thiefe in a mill father we thanke our redeemers Dam. The more my griefe were you surpris'd then madam Hip. Yes faith Dametas Da. And how sweet Ladies and how were you rescued Gyn. Being surpris'd this gallant Amazon Prest to their reâ—cue had you seene what worth She and this woodman spent in our defence Wonder would ha' bereft you of all sense She rai ' d her sword with such a manly grace As had not her mild sexe contrould my thoughts I could haue falne in loue with her high worth Lisan You over-prise us madam not our desert But the weake spirits of our opposites Gaue luster to the dimnesse of our worth Basil It pleaseth your modesty to lesson it But it shall still liue great in our regard What woodman 's that Dam. My follower my liege Basil What ere he be he hath deseru'd our loue Fellow be neere us and for this desert Perform'd against those Traytors to our blood Vnder thy master we giue thee an attendant To guard the life and safetie of our daughter Hip. Thanke you good father who ever loose by the bargaine I haue got me a servant by the match woo't serue me fellow Dem. In the best I can In heart your fellow though in show your man Hip. I le try your dutious service I command Your knee to kiâ—â—e the ground your lip my hand Dem. Pardon me Madam Hip. Here 's hot loue no doubt I may command my man and goe without Basil Truce to this ayrie warre these paper bullets Better become a Closset then a Parke The Forrest musicke
Deme. Your will sir Pag. You have left many Countries behind you in seeking your friend Lisander and yet you cannot find him Dem. True sir Page I haue seene much gold lying upon Lombards stals and could never finger penny of it Dem. Very well Page Nay t was not well sir Dem. What conclude you then Page That you were best sit downe and see what you haue got by your journey Dem. I haue seene a face as beautifull as heaven Page That 's nothing a prisoner sees the face of heaven it selfe when hee lookes but out at the prison-gate I le stand to 't a man were as good be hang'd so a meet a handsome hangman a strong rope as be in loue Dem. Your reason for that Page Mary this sir hanging is end of all troubles and loue the beginning Nay further I thinke a Lover cannot be saved for hee is of all religions Dem. Your proofe for that Page This hee thinkes with the Atheist there 's no God but his Mistresse with the Infidell no heaven but her smiles with the Papist no Purgatory but her frownes and with the familie of loue holds it lawful to lie with her though she be another mans wife Dem. So sir what followes Page Serving-men sir the Master goes in before his wife and the Servingman followes his master Dem. Sirra forbeare I must meditate Page As the Vsurer before hee parts with money meditates upon the assurance Enter Lisander privately and over-heares them Lisan If Violettaes presence ha'not quencht The memory of all things but her selfe I should be more familiar with that face Shroud obserue Dem. I haue left my countrey to seeke my friend Lisan And I my countrey and my friend for loue Dem. And in the search of him haue lost my selfe In the strange Region of a womans eye Lisan In loue and in Arcadia Dem. As much as heaven transcends the humble earth So towres her praise her face differs as farre From others as a glo-worme from a starre She is a Princesse that my soule affects Page And rich Dem. Halfe heire unto this Dukedome Page And she were whole heire to the foure morall vertues t were nothing when shall I see the time that men will loue for vertue or a rich heire marry a poore wench without a portion never I thinke Dem. Had not my friend Lisander Lisan What of mee Denâ— Left me in Thrace Lisan We had never met in loue His sillables betray him I arrest you Dem. At whose sute Page Not at his Taylers in any case for there 's no greater stitch to a younger brothers conscience then to pay for a sute of apparrell when t is worne out Dem. Lisander or his ghost Lisan Demetrius Or some illusiue tenant in his shape Dem. Vnkind why didst thou leane my company Lisan For that which made the amorous Gods leaue heaven â—or loue but why is Demetrius thus disguis'd Page For that which would make a Iackanapes a Monkey and he could get it a tayle Deme. Peace rogue Lisan Why wagge is thy master in loue Page Faith sit he hath entred his action in Cutids Court and meanâ— to proceed in the sute it should seeme Deme. Why didst not take my counsell in thy choice Lisan Because I fear'd a chiding for doubting their honourable thoughts would not haue not haue consented to my effeminate attempts I stole this secret course and manner of disguise as best helping to accesse which it hath begot now what accesse will bring forth I commit to unborne industry Deme. It cannot but be prosperous only the strict observance of our loues hinders the passage of our hopes Lisan Indeed that 's not the least hinderance yet the Duke himselfe and my quaint disguise hath removed it out of my way who not only takes me for a woman but hath allowed me for my loues companion Dem. Fortune deales kindly with thee I am as farre from accesse to my loue as when I was in Thrace Lisan Dametas is the oystershell that holds thy pearle our wits must fish for him Dem. Will the Cods head bite Lisan Like an old Vsurer at a young heires inheritance and I haue it ready hookt for him and here he comes my plot is to preferre thee to his service Enter Dametas Dem. Prethee doe and I le serue him in his right kind Lisan Dametas my loue is yours Dam. Which madam I am as proud of Manas As a malecontent of a change or an old Lady of a new fashion Li. To be round I haue a sute to you in the behalfe of this woodman Da. To me sweet blossome though I be somewhat strict in mine office I cannot be stony to Ladies Fellow is thy petition drawne Dem. Petition Manas Your onely way to moue a fute by Humbly complayning to your good worship O t is most patheticke indeed without money can doe just nothing with authority Dam. Come hether stripling whose sonne wert thou Dem. I am not so wise a child as you take me for I never knew my father Dam. Didst not know thy father Manas A common fault his betters forget themselues when they grow rich then blame not him to forget his father Dam. What was his name Dem. If I may giue credite to my mother they cald him Menalchas who on his death-bed made me his heire with this charge to seeke your worships service and gaue me this gold as a remembrance to purchase your favour Dam. Gold hem Man Now doth my Master long more to singer thar gold then a young girle married to an old man doth to run her husband ashore at Cuckolds haven Dam. Well I could doe for this fatherlesse youth Man As many Executors and Overseers haue done cheate him of his portion and then turne him out of doores a begging Dam. But for I haue the Gardian-ship of the Princesse I dare doe nothing without the consent of the Duke Lisan Come come sir your worship shall not refuse him Dam. Well then I woo not but t is for your sake I assure you Man Meaning the gold Dam. What shall I call thy name Dam. Dorus an 't like your worship Dam. Ah good Dorus be an honest youth Dorus reverence your Master and loue your selfe bee sure to get under me and you shall loose nothing in my service Madam the Duke and Dutchesse expect you at the hunt and await your comming at Dianaes oake Lisan â—e attend them presently be a good servant Dorus. Dam. T will be his owne another day Madam Lisan In the meane time let it be yours to lead the way Dam. My service doth attend you Ma. As the Pursevant doth the prisoner for a double fee. Exit Dem. Welcome slaue to a slaue a faire presage The hope of loue sweetens loues vass lage Exit Enter Aminter and Iulio attired like Satires Amin. Now and Dametas bee the mettle hee was stampt for a right villaine Iulio And he be not hang him Am. Nay he deserues hanging too if he be but will
of chast eares If he compose a Sceane Of high writ Poesie fitting a true stage T is counted sustian If Poetickerage Strike at abuse or opâ— the veine of sinne Hee 's straight inform'd against for libelling Neither quicke mirth invective nor high state Can content all such is the boundlesse hate Of a confused Audience Then we That scarcely know the rules of Poesie Cannot scape check Yet this our comfort is The wise will smile to heare th' impartiall hisse We neither bragge nor tremble faint nor intreat Our merits nothing yet our hopes are great Yet this our Author bad me boldly speake His play shall passe let Envie swell and breake Detraction he scornes honours the best Tanti for hate thus low to all the rest Exit The I le of Gulls ACTVS I. SCENA I. Enter Basilius Gynetia Hipolita Violetta Lords attendants Basil VVElcome gallants welcome honor'd bloods the reason that we haue uncloth'd us of our princely government in Arcadia and haue to doe with this private retirement here in this desert I le you shall find in that shedule only thus much for publicke satisfaction T is not strange to you that the choisest treasure Nature indow'd us with is min'd up in the veines of my two daughters how much their quiet and the smooth streame of our government in Arcadia was troubled by the impetuous concourse of untruely suters is familiar with your knowledge this to avoid I haue for my Image there in my absence appointed my brother and undertooke this private retirement Gy. Why my Lord are you so covetous of your daughters beauties that their perfections shall bee a meanes to hinder their preferment Basi Rather to further it faire Queene they are the only pearles of our age and to see them wel set in honourable and well-befitting Marriage is our wishes happinesse To which effect we haue sent a generall challenge To all the youthfull bloods of Affrica That whosoever borne of princely stem Dares foote the bosome of this desert I le The stage where I le performe this lovers prize And by his wit and actiue pollicie Wooe win intice or any way defeate Me of my charge my daughters of their hearts Shall with their loues weare my imperiall crowne Wreath of their conquest Hip. A prize a prize rare worke for Fencers Viol. What coward would not venter a crackt crowne for such a bootie Basil To that intent our Iland is fenc't in By sea and land and at each corner built A Castle for defence which like great men Doe over-looke Arcadia over which Wee haue appointed Captaines More to desire Is more then we are willing to discover Hip. Well then sister I see we must to hap-hazard for husbands Viol. God send me one with a good face and I care not Hip. Loue an 't be thy will send me one with a faire table in his forehead like Time Viol. Nay and his face be good let me alone to tricke his forehead a countrey-gentlewoman taught me how But father I wonder how you dare undertake such a peremptory challenge against all commers considering you haue beene so long troubled with â—â— Ague Basil An ague what ague Hip. Why your quotidian Dametas the Court surfet hee that dwels in your eye like a disease in your blood Viol. And the Presence were not exceeding empty-stomackt it would never disgest such Almes-basket-scraps the very fall and garbidge of gentry fie upon him hee becomes the great chamber worse then a Gentleman-usher with wry legges Hip. He is the most mishapen sute of gentility that ever the Court wore Viol. Had hee not beene of my fathers owne making I should haue condemned his taylor for an exceeding botcher Basil If you retaine the loue of children or the dutie of subjects expresse it in your obedience we know Dametas loues us Viol. As Captaines and Courtiers doe old widdowes for profit and preferment Basil In signe whereof wee make him Hip. Nay you haue bestowed too much of the making of him up already Viol. The very making of him up has stood you in more then the whole outside 's worth Basil In my free thoughts you wrong him therefore to expresse our loue aud to giue the world publicke note of his loyaltie we create him your Gardian Viol. How father my Gardian Basil I minion yours Viol. Doe you heare father bid him bespeake spectacles for my fingers haue vowed to haue a blind match with his eyes Basil Well said Haggart I le make your proud heart stoope to the lure of obedience But come by this time our challenge is publisht and our gallants wits sweating in the field of Invention and it behoues us not to rest unexercised So to our lodge in the meane time be it knowne Our breath has power to raise or cast men downe Exeunt Enter two Captaines 1 Cap. Now Captaine Observation times bawd thou that hast kept the Ages doore whilst up-start basenesse crept into the bed of greatnesse what doest thou thinke of this change 2 Cap. That it pleas'd the Duke and becomes not subjects to examine his actions 1 Cap. That 's no part of my meaning yet would I gladly bee better instructed why the Duke broke up his Court in Arcadia and removed it into this Iland 2 Cap. I am not Secretary to his thoughts but the generall rumour is that out of the freenesse of his spirit he hath sent a challenge to all his neighbour Princes that whosoever within a twelue moneth can defeate him of his daughters shall with their loues enioy his Dukedome the garland propos'd for the victors 1 Cap. Your words throw sense into me and that 's the cause the Iland is so surely guarded with Watch-towers over which our selues and other Captaines haue the charge 2 Cap. And to the end that not affection but desert may proue victor are the two Ladies so narrowly observed the one never out a the eye of her Father the other continually in the lodge of Dametas the Dukes chiefe director 1 Cap. If inquisitiuenesse be not too bold a guest what do you thinke of Dametas 2 Cap. As of a little hillock made great with others ruines 1 Cap. Your comparison holds for by report his avarice has unmade many to make him up 2 Cap. How did he first stumble on the Princes favour 1 Cap. As some doe upon offices by fortune and flattery or as truth sayes the Prince having one day lost his way wandring in the woods found this Dametas affected his discourse tooke him along to the Court and like great men in loue with their owne doings countenanc't his defects gaue him offices titles and all the additions that goe to the making up of a man worshipfull 2 Cap. I cannot commend the Duke for raising him nor yet praise him that hee proportions not his carriage answerable to his fortunes 1. Cap. Your thoughts and mine are twinnes in that but I heare the warning bell some strangers are arrived 2. Cap. Le ts to our office then
is to heare the hounds Rend the thin ayre and with a lusty cry Awake the drowsie Eccho and confound Their perfect language in a mingled sound Then to the Court our Forrest sport being done A second chace of lovelier sports begunne Exeunt Dem. If fortune crosse not what our hopes pursue Our feares have met their deaths our loves their due Exit Dame Crost in my hopes the Ladies rescu'd and the Princes like â—ravens beat out of the game-place my invention must turne traveller for more stratagems what I should discover their plot to the Duke attach em for traitors and beg their lands for my labour though they be my friends t were a pretty parcell of pollicy All things are lawfull that doe profit bring A wise mans bow goes with a two-fold string Enter Lisander and Demetrius Lisan Did ever two Princes meet such strange changes in their loves now we have wrought our admittance and in a manner got em into our possessions our hopes like false fires having brought us within ken vanish and leave us out of all comfort Dem. That the Duke should doat upon thee for a woman makes for our purpose but that the Dutchesse should be enamourd on thee for a man is preposterous Lisa Whether my valour shown in the reskue of the Ladies or the ardent glances her daughters beauty steales from my eyes give her thoughts encouragement I know not but her hopes stand confident I am a man and for that cause am I barr'd from accesse De. I weigh thy combrances by my own for though by the dukes allowance I am her priviledg'd attendant yet such is the devilishnes of Dametas that I cannot joy so much accesse as to confer with her Pag. I can compare my lord his friend to nothing in the world so fitly as to a couple of water buckets for whil'st hope winds the one up dispaire plunges the other down whil'st I like a Harlakene in an Italian Comoedy stand making faces at both their follies Lisan Well since the shape of our proceeding growes so monstrous le ts cast our inventions in a new mold and having so firme a foundation as this disguise to build upon le ts draw the modell and raise the whole frame of our attempts anew Dem Indeed lovers should be condition'd like tyrants who having the aime of a crowne in their eye once runne violently over all lets that intervent their course and so must we Lisa And so will we my resolution is already bent and if I shoot not the next levell I take Love I beseech thee breake thy bow about mine eares and strike thy hornes in my forhead for married men to hang their capâ— on Dem. I have met a meanes fit for my purpose already Mopsa Dametas onely daughter is overshooes in love with me to her â—le feigne extreame ardor of affection and make her the shadow under which I le court the true substance of my divine Hippolita Lisan About it then I le sweat my invention to death but I le overtake thee but heere comes one of my Burres I must beare his importunity for no reasonable denyall will brush him off Enter the Duke Basil Zelmane Lisan My Liege Basil My thoughts come like a saile afore the wind swolne big with news and thine eares the midwife must deliver me of this burden my Dutchesse is sicke heart-sicke for thee Zelmane Lisan For me why my Lord I am no Rosa solis nor Aqua mirabilis to recover sicke folkes Basil Shall I be short with thee My Ladie 's in love with thee Lisan With me my Lord Basil With thee my Lady her amorous glances are her accusers her very looks write Sonnets in thy commendations she carves thee at boord and cannot sleepe for dreaming on thee in bed shee 's turn'd sunne-riser haunts private walkes and like a disgrac'd Courtier studies the Art of melancholly Lisan Now alas good Lady Basil Nay never pitty her she deserves none rather le ts bend our indeavors to intangle her more To see the kindnes of fortune who fearing we should be acquainted with sollitude in this our 12 month retirement hath begot a domesticall merriment and made our own thoughts Actors in 't and as bad a Poet as I am I le ha one scene in 't of my owne invention Lisan Dametas will storme at that for hee cannot abide Poetry should be countenanc'd but how is 't my Liege Basil T is ready plotted already and that the Dutchesse may not find thee unprovided when she comes to court thee Lisan Court me court a woman my Liege Basil Why that 's the very happinesse of the jest but in any case confesse thy selfe a man Lisan A man my Liege I ha no colour for 't Basil Tush I le furnish thee say thou art a Prince no matter who and hast to doe with this disguise of purpose to court my daughter Violetta Lis Is this scene of your owne inventing my Liege Ba. Mine own ifaith and to confirm 't the rather use more oft and private conference with my daughter interchange discourse amorous dalliance oh t will set my Dutchesse affections afire to think her rivalld by her daughter and give us smooth passage to our love Li. How occasion playes the wanton with me Well my liege do but you work my admittance to your daughter and â—le bestow al the art I am worth in courting her and see as if Fortune had a hand in our Comoedy she hath entred the Dutchesse just at her cue shaddow your selfe in your Arke and leave me to give her entertainment Ba. Forget not to personate some Prince in any case Li. I warrant you I le play the Prince with much art Enter the Dutchesse Dutch This way he went on this sweet violet bed Still dwells the print of his inamour'd tread The deprest flowers have strengthened their sweet By stealing amorous kisses from his feet Ba. Absolute Poet. Penelope was a ballad-maker to her Dut. Oh doe not fly my presence gentle wanton stay What haue I found you faith you run-away I le tye a chaine about your wast for this And make you buy your freedome with a kisse Lis Fie Madam this courtesy is more then needes Dut. Be not so coy let not a loving Dame Find thee lesse kind then senselesse elements Thou never walk'st but the enamour'd aire Like an officious lover beares thy traine Whil'st the coole wind doth with his velvet wing Fanne the thinne ayre upon thy sweaty cheeke Stealing sweet kisses from thy silken lip Lis Shield this vain breath beat at some Ladies eare Dut. But you are none you are not come you are not Your valour lookes and gesture show you are not Your manly brow and your commanding eye Where warre and fortune dwell in majestie Your private walkes and varied passions Your glances to my daughter sure you are not And my firme love is confident you are not Ba. There 's a lover of a right temper shee 'l out-face
the name of her sexe instantly Lis Well Madam sith your observation hath discover'd me upon promise of your secrecy I confesse my selfe a man Ba. Good excellent how truely she takes my directions Dut. I knew my judgement could not be deceiv'd Nor durst proud love have done me so much wrong To cast my thoughts unto a womans eye Basil Love durst not good good excellent what next Li. But Madam now I am known to you what further request you Dut. Exchange of lookes and freedome of thy bed Thy presence thy embracements thy kind love For which my amorous thoughts have long lyen sicke Ba. Thank you good wife nay and a Dutchesse long to give her husband the horning let it never grieve Butchers to doe homage at Cuckolds haven Lis Well Madam to give content to your affections and in a strong hope you will mediate my sute to your daughter sort out but fit time and opportunity and master your desires Basil And he were a man now I might be rarely tupt Dut. Give me thy hand then with this amorous kisse I seale thee mine Lis And I confirm 't with this Basil Rare rare rare shee 's his seald and deliverd in the presence of her husband Dut. Now lest my husband should suspect our love Basil Now what for that now Dut. Heare a good jest perswade him thou art a woman Li. That 's not to doe now Madam for he as confidently beleeves and ardently courts me for a woman as you for a man Dut. Good excellent maintaine that humour still Seeme coy looke nice and as we women use Be mild and proud imbrace and yet refuse Basil Excellent vertues in a woman Dut. I prithee doe t will be a scene of mirth For me to quote his passions and his smiles His amorous haviour and how his eye Will beget strange variety of lookes And shoot em into thine but the chiefe sport 's this To see an old man with a young man kisse Exit Dutchesse Basil To see an old Dutchesse a young Lady kisse Now the plot packs the scene 's all comicall I cannot speake for laughter to see these women That would be counted wonders for their wit Lay plots to gull themselves silly conceit Lisan To take me for a man Basil And arme her selfe To laugh at me make jests and scoffes at me But sooth her humour the revenge shee 'd throw Vpon my head shall fall on her owne brow Exit Lis Vpon you both so so so how greedily their inventions like bugles follow the sent of their owne gullery yet these are no fooles God forbid not they but to the drift mirth in my warme blood sits Laughing at this division of their wits Enter Violetta and Hippolita Hip. Woo't beleeve mee sister I never eat a cherry but it puts mee in mind of a husband it kisses my lips with such a harmelesse prettinesse Viol. Now in good deed lo I loue em a lise too I thinke I shall never ha my belly full on em Hip. Of what not of husbands Violetta Viol. No of cherries Hippolita but take heed of em they bee a very filling meat and dangerous things for us Maydes I can tell you we may surfet after em presently Hip. Surfet after what a husband Viol. I and after cherries too Hippolita Hip. I warrant you sister an old Lady in Lacedemon taught me a preservative against that Vio. For the love of cherries what Hip. Marry this it was still said she betwixt every cherry said she be sure to cracke a stone said she Viol. Then let me alone I le cracke a couple of stones betwixt every cherry rather then surfet on them Hip. You must take heed you cracke not too many too for you may surfet of the stone as well as of the cherry Viol. Nay and they be such dangerous things I ha done with em Hip. So have I too for this time but sister is it not a strange kind of servile liberty that we live in here in Arcadia Viol. For all the world as Englishmen keep their fellons and Italians their wives we never stirre abroad without our laylors Hip. And for what cause forsooth only to keep us from mariage Viol Sure it is either some high content or extreame discommoditie that our father debarres us of it Hip. By this stone me thinks I long like a woman with child till I know the difference betwixt a Mayd and a wife Viol. Well god a mercy of all cursen soules I was neere the knowledge on 't last night I can tell you Hip. O that I had bin with thee I might ha been so too for the love of marriage how Viol. Why thus As I lay slumbring in my bed No creature with me but my mayden-head Hip. Is that a creature Viol. Some maintaine it is Got in the eye conceived in a kisse Others whose speech seemes neere akin to truth Say t is a passion bred i' th heat of youth Some call 't a sigh and some an amorous grone All differ in the definition But in th'allow'd opinion of most T is never truely had till it be lost But lying thus alone as Mayds doe use Me thought I dreamt as Mayds can hardly chuse And in my dreame me thought t was too much wrong A pretty Mayd should lye alone so long With that a gallant comes gallants can doe Much with young Mayds Hip. And with old women too Viol. He courted me once and agen and thrice T is vertue to say nay to bee too nice Agrees not with my humour yet some say We Mayds wish things to which we answer nay Briefely me thought he stood so long a wooing I rather could ha wisht he had been doing Some other businesse yet at last we'greed T were strange if earnest futers should not speed Hip. In what agreed you Viol. In our Wedding-ring Time place and houre indeed in every thing The day appoynted and each thing in frame I thought each houre an age untill it came Well come it is the morning once in sight I thought it ten times longer till t was night At dinner time me thought I sweld with pride To be drunke to by name of Mistresse bride Musicke spake loud no delicates were scant Yet still me thought another thing did want For sure thought I there 's something in a man That wiues loue well hope brides may wish it than Long lookt for comes at last to bed we goe Hip. Would I had dreamt I might ha' done so too Viol. My bed-mate turn'd and as he would ha' spoke I sweat with feare and in that feare I woke But seeing my kind bed-fellow was gone Lord how it chaft me that I wakt so soone One minuts dreaming longer I had tride The difference twixt a virgin and a bride Hip. Otwould ha' vext a Saint my blood would burne To be so neere and misse so good a turne Vio. And so did mine too I warrant you nay though I bee but a little pot I shall be as soone
well enough your selfe I care for neither of them both but indeed I loue to haue a thing well done for sayes my mother a thing once well done is twice done and I am in her mind for that up and downe Dut. Whose with my Lord the Duke it cannot be Mine eye would not conceale such treachery Duk. T is not the Dutchesse sure no it is amarous Ioue That seeing Zelmane passionate for loue Descends to comfort her Ioue if there be A powerfull Phoebus God of poetry In deare remembrance of faire Daphnes rape To winne my loue lend me some stranger shape Such as your selues haue worne that when your same Is sung by Poets they may quote my name Dut. Sure t is my daughter Duk. Daughter how her eye Cut out new formes new shapes of jealousie Dut. As sure as death t is she for see they stand Like amarous twins in twisted hand in hand Breast against breast and that no joy be missing To heare discourse their lips keepe time with kissing I le not endure 't impatience grow strong And though a Prince tell him he doth thee wrong Duk. Doe prethee doe this sweetens all the rest But here would be the elixar of the jest If whilst we keepe each other at a bay A third should come and beare the hare away Enter Dametas Dam. Villanous poetry unchristian-like poetry I am cozend of my gold by poetry rob'd of my charge by poetry made an apparant foole by poetry villanous Oke accurst Dorus unfortunate Dametas whose there my daughter and with Zelmane a wel-willer to Dorus a favorite to poetry and therefore enemy to Dametas come hither Mopsa a thy fathers blessing come not neare her what Mopsa Mop. Yes whos 's there Dorus. Dam. Confusion a Dorus I am thy miserable father didst not see Hippolita Mop. No by my troth not Did yee not see Dorus Dam. Poxe of Dorus I am undone Madam and thou telft me not of Hippolita Mop. Poxe a Hippolita I am a dumbe woman and you can tell me newes of Dorus. Dam. I had rather see ten Dorusses hanged then loose Hippolita Mop. I had rather see ten fathers damn'd then loose my sweet Dorus. Dam. I shall run mad and I find not Hippolita Mop. I shall run franticke and I find not Dorus. Dut. What 's here I shall run mad for Hippolita Duk. And I shall run franticke and I find not Doras I hold my life we haue some Comoedy in hand wee shall haue a full Scene for here comes more Actors Enter Miso and Manasses Wife Wife As sure as I am a sinner to God Madam that same 's he Miso What with a brace of wenches ifaith old brocke have I â—â—ne you in the manner is this the fruits of your lying alone is this your Court custome with a wannion lend me thy knife though I had neither house nor land to give em I le bestow a whores marke betwixt you and yet I will not scold neither Mop. What a goodyer aile you mother are you frampall know you not your owne daughter Miso Mopsa O insufferable wrong make thine owne naturall child thy Bawd Duk. Here 's an excellent patterne for wives to learne to scold by Miso What Mistresse Amazon ha you such a cocking spirit honest women cannot keep their husbands at home for you t is not for nothing now I see that the Dutchesse lookes yellow on you but I le teare that painted whores face of yours by this light and yet I will not scold neither Man Madam Miso I le mad you with a vengeance The Duke and Dutchesse st p both forth and restraine her Dut. Touch not the Prince Duk. On your allegeance forbeare what means this outrage cannot our private walkes be priviledg'd from your wild contentions Dut. How fares the Prince Duk. How cheeres my good Zelmane Man Zelmane No Gods my judge my â—iege â— am Manasses miserable Manasses your husbands Scribe-major Madam Dut. Manasses Duk. A foole Mis My mâ—n Wif. And my deare hâ—â—dâ—…aâ— sweet love what makest thâ—â— here Man Mâ—…y worke for the Hang-man and the Duke bee not the more mercifull Duk. There 's some deceipt in this Dametas where 's Hippolita Da. I I there 's some knavery in this Mopsa where 's Hippolita Mi Doubtles therâ— some villany in this Mopsa wher 's Hipolita Mop. There 's no plaine dealing in this Manasses where 's Dorus Dut. Answer directly where 's Hippolita Dam. Alas Madam I know not whil'st I almost melâ—ed my selfe with digging of gold in Diana's Oke I left her in my wives charge Mis And whil'st I ran to Manasses thinking to take my husband and his wife in the manner I left Hippolita in my daughters chamber Mop. And whil'st â— came to Adonis chappel to be tost in my mariage blankets with Dorus I left my litle dog Pearle picking dazies Duk. Who sent you to Diana's Oake to dig gold Dut. Who sent you to take your husband in Manasses house Miso Dorus. Duk. Who sent you to Adonis Chappell Mop. Dorus. Duk. And who turn'd you into this shape Man They that I feare have made Gulls of us all Zelmane and Dorus. Duk. We are all simply gulld and see where the Sâ—n scarce halfe ready skips from his Easterne bed smiling at our gullery Enter Lisander and Demetrius Dem. Come where 's this lusty wit-master Lisa The Keeper of this Love-lotterie Dem. This gallant Iuventus of fourescore that like my Ladie of the Lake displayes against all commers Lis May a couple of plaine-witted Princes have a sight of your prizes Dem. Where be these Ladies ha ha your wits had such a skir mishing that the two Maids have lost their heads in the conflict Dut. Heads I and bodies too my Lord and all at one shot and which is worse our wits are so scattered with the terrible blow that to be plaine we are scarce our owne men againe Dem. Then you had some knocking Man So it appeares by the storie my Lord. Li. How say you my Lady what Oule sings out of that Ivy-bush Dem. VVas your wit Knighted in this last action Man I am not such a foole I love my Lord I am no Knight I am Manasses they made a plaine foole Dem. The onely weare for the guarded foole is out of request but faith my Liege how did your opposites behave themselves did they winne the wenches faire at the point Duk. At the very push of invention and went off cleere untoucht Lis And could you draw no blood of their wits Duk. Not a drop Lis Nor Dametas neither nor Manasses Duk. Neither to our disgrace be it spoken the carriage of this stratagem deserves applause and I hold it a credite to rest captive to such valiant conquerours Lis VVhy so be I like a man that will confesse his errour Dem. It merits commiseration Madam and my Liege not to detract from our worth your eare we two are the parties you wot on Dut. Were you the man Lisan No he was the man
Soveraigne of my Loue I now come vnto you againe and speake againe vnto you but in that which heareafter followeth and which in part you haue heard already in part you shall now heare Your no lesse loving then loved Pastor IOHN DAY DAVIDS DESIRE to goe to Church IT is recorded of king David Right Worsh Men Fathers Brethren beloved in our Lord Saviour that when he sate in his owne house and the Lord had given him rest froÌ„ all his enemies round about him how he desired as S. Stephen speaketh Acts the seaventh at the six fortith verse that he might find a tabernacle for the God of Iacob I will relate it to you in Davids words Lord saith David or whosoever els was the author of that Psalme Lord saith he remember David and all his trouble how he sware vnto the Lord and vowed a vow vnto the Almightie God of Iacob I will not come within the tabernacle of my house nor climbe vp into my bed I will not suffer mine eies to sleepe noâ— mine eie lids to sluÌ„ber nether the temples of my head to take any rest vntill I find out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Iacob All this in the second of Samuel the seaventh chapter and second verse is thus epitomised The king said vnto Nathan the Prophet Behold now I dwell in a house of Cedar trees and the Arke of God remaineth within the curtaines His meaning was that since al fel out so favourably with such correspondence to his desires since hee had so much rest from al his enemies God was the author of all this he would now be gratefull againe to that God not so much in words which are but winde as in very truth and real deeds such as might be testimonies thereof both to the time then present and to after ages that were to come Beholde now I dwell in a house of Cedar trees and the Arke of God remaineth within the curtaines It was as if he had said God hath bestowed a house on me I will bestow a house on him too hee hath given me rest from all mine enimies I will giue him a kind of rest too hee shall not be from tent to tent and from habitation to habitation as hee hath been hetherto A princely mind and meditation a resolution fit for him who was to bee the man after Gods owne heart as Samuel the Prophet avouched of him The former part of this day now newly spent and gon hath by the silver tongue of one of the chiefest sweetest singers in this our Israel put vs in mind of like benefits receaved on our parts from God aboue of setting at home here in our owne houses every of vs vnder our owne vine of a singular rest given vnto vs from all our enimies round about vs. This day this very day it was more then miraculous that God did for vs it was in truth a heap of miracles as first the preserving of our bodies and goods secondly the prolonging of our liues thirdly the saving of our whole Realme fourthly the protection of true Religion and all these then and at that time when safetie it selfe might safely haue sworn that she for her part could not haue saued vs. David on a time neere to danger spake most significantly when speaking of it vnto Ionathan As the Lord liveth as thy soule liveth saith he there is but a step betweene me and death Anacharsis the Scithian speaking of those that sayled by sea and hearing that a ship was but foure fingers thicke at the most then are there but foure fingers saith he betweene them and death At another time being demaunded who were more in number the living or the dead tell me first quoth hee among whether of them you reckon those that travell by sea his meaning was that howsoever they seeme to liue to moue and haue a being yet they might with good congruitie bee accounted even for dead for nothing so ful of casualties as the sea and that in the turning of a hand Vpon how ticklish tearmes wee stood this very day when time was the more we muse of it the more we may how might al every of these speeches here rehearsed haue bin verified of vs. A step of that wretched miscreant might irrecoverably haue laid all our honour in the dust a very finger of his might haue done it Our adversaries abroad that saw the case wherein wee stood how did they newse it to one another that wee might bee now accounted dead A Terrible Blow was now at hand we had all and every of vs but one necke and that neck of ours was now on the block The horror wherof if we would conceiue let vs but imagine another Fauks in some one of the vaults here abouts as many barrels as much powder and that which then matched both barrels and powder Doubtlesse we are never better affected vnto God theÌ„ wheÌ„ we pray we are now in the house of praier prayer you know was the last the verie last thing we did yet should we all of vs now miscarry and in this very in stant of time be snatcht out of the world and haue the sudden death of those of whoÌ„ Elâ—hu in Iob speaketh momento moriuntur they are gone in a trice or as speaketh the Apostle S. Paule In momento inictu oculi in a moment in the twinckling of an â—iâ— how vnpreparedly might we all goe to appeare before that throne where this day we should receiue everie of vs our last doome And yet wee are but a handful to the house ful of theÌ„ that should haue miscarried and yet they though well affected no doubt as men in civill affaires might bee yet somewhat perhaps behind our selues in respect of the soules businesse wee are about But it is not nowe of this point I point now to speake my intent and purpose is to speake of the Thankefulnesse and Gratitude wee are to performe to God for this not so much in words which are but winde as in very truth and real deeds such as may be testimonies thereof both to these times now present and to after ages that are to come What hath the Lord preserved our honor We will also preserue his Hath he made our housholds like flocks of sheep We will endevour in like manner to furnish also his house be it early bee it late it shall not for our partes be so naked as it hath beene hetherto To the producing of which effect in every of vs here present be wee of the one Corporation or of the other of the one or other sex I haue at this time brought vnto you a certain passage of Davids Psalmes that as David is the man who puts vs in minde of this gratitude so he might instruct vs in the manner to how this gratitude should be performed not in finding