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A33351	Marciano, or, The discovery a tragi-comedy, acted with great applause before His Majesties High Commissioner, and others of the nobility, at the Abby of Holyrud-house, on St. Johns night, by a company of gentlemen.	Clark, William, advocate.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4563; ESTC R13455	43,012	80

'le cause put all in order you must return Within an hour hence and cause Strenuo Be ready at the window Ar. Fear not that Marc. Farewell then Ar. May my choycest prayers assist you Exit Marciano Arabella sola And if this fail what can a womans wit Invent that will succeed Alas I fear Still still I fear while he be safely hence I have us'd all means nothing left untry'd For his enlargement yet could not prevail O love who can define thee hopes and cares In constant ballance hov'ring up and down Here 's a poor heart within this troubled breast That like a malefactor at the bar Trembles at this design O powerfull love What hast thou not perswaded me to do Sings behind the arras But heark a song I will give ear to it I know Borasco hath ordain'd it for me Song 1. So so Lo Lillies fade before the Roses show Themselves in bow-dye summers-livery Feasting the curious eye With choyce variety While as before We did adore Narcissus in his prime Now Roses do delyte The nycer appetite Such is the vast disparity of time 2. So so One woman fades before another know What 't is to be in love but in a trice All men do sacrifice To th'latter and despise Her whom before They did adore Like Lillies in their prime Since now her sparkling eyes Are darkned in disguise Such is the sad disparity of time Ar. A proper simile now I see in what Article his pulse beats no Syren shall Bewitch my soul to love O Marciano How I lament thy fate heavens lend me tears Since by my prodigal expence of sorrow I 'me become banquerout or else I beg A period to my dayes since certainly Life without love is but calamity Exit weeping Scaena Septima Enter Manduco Marionetta Mar. CAn he not speak for himself Sir he must court by his embassadours forsooth Man The reason is in promptu Madam for the youth is endued with pudicity he cannot be his own buccinator or Trumpetter of his own fame but he bid me assure you that he 〈◊〉 vehemently imo toto corde affect you And so it may appear by his own manuscripts as exempli gratia read the 3 page 〈◊〉 line of that luculent Epistle of his to you dated 1. Cal. Mart● You wil● find that a man cannot expresse himself more lovingly 〈◊〉 calls you enim the prototype of all beauty the Archetipe of modesty the source from whence all other rivolets of chastity d● Scaturiat c. Is not that amantissimum Mar. No 't is not enough Sir Man No why he told me that you would not permit osculation and what else can he do when he is in privat with you for I taught him not to be loquacious Chrys. Be merry Sister you are happy you are a Lady Sister Enter Chrysolina h●stily Man A Lady quid sibi vult to whom is she desponsat Madam Chrys. The businesse is now at a close Sister Cassio may go to his travells now he dare trouble you no more Sister Mar. What d' you mean shall I be married and not know to whom Man Yes Sicuti nunc mos est you may be colloc●te in nuptialls before you know cui quando quomodo a est to whom how or when Aside Chrys. Don't you know Sister Signior Becabunga Mar. Is he the man Chrys. Who else d' you think Man Ho now omnia recte again Lady I congratulat the immense ineffable felicity and secundity of your sagacious election Chrys. Hath not he been wooing you all this while who else should be your husband but he pray Man Hum Mar. Well I am content Man Recte Chrys. Content marry I should willingly change conditions with you Man Bene habet Chrys. He is a good match I 'le assure you Man I can add a jurament to that Chrys. Mr. Manduco she owes much to you for it Man To me Madam O I am obligate to your ingenuity Chrys. She does indeed Sir Come Sister let 's in and devise what rare fancies wee must have against the wedding wee 'll send to the Mercers presently and have the best Sattins taffatas ribbons and such other toyes that can be had for money come come Farewell good Sir honest friend Manduco farewell Man Well he may be a good husband yet for all that Exeunt Manduco solus Friend Manduco saith she notatu dignum now am I their friend their amicall relation so this matrimony is I may say now almost very high altogether consummate for which I expect a large honorary from both parties O the pregnant wit of an intelligent Scholastick now if I can effectuat the like for Signior Pantaloni I shall have likewise aliquid amplius so that I must at length provide for a matrimoniall relation to my self for although I be quinquagenarius or fifty years of age yet what Virgin in Florence will respuat me when I abound in riches and shall be Dives agris dives positis in foenore nummis Exit Scaena Quinta Enter Pantaloni with Chrysolina Pant. NOw Madam since I have got you all alone I protest I must make a little bold with you Embraces her Chrys How Sir Pant. In civility only I mean in civility Madam for I would only ask you one question and that 's not two videlicet whether or no that is when we may be Joyn'd in the lawfull band of matrimony betwixt these parties following to wit for you see Becabunga has not been long a doing he has taken your Sister to be his lawfull spo●se already I hear although he has been but a fortnight a wooing of her and yet I have been woing you one time with another these three moneths I wot well and I am sure that you love me Chrys. Are you sure Sir Pant. Yes indeed and I think there is as much reason for the one as for the other and to be free with you a my conscience I might have had a bony Gentlewoman just such another as your self with twelve thousand Duckats in portion a moneth since had it not been for you consider pray you what you promised to my mother last night Chrys. You will allow me a time to consult with my self Sir will you not Pant. That 's a strange consulting what have you been doing ever since I see you first I am sure you have had time enough to consult all this while and I 'l tell you now when your friends and mine have agreed there 's no time to consult but presently to be matrimonyed you know that as well as I now Chrys. You will do well to press me no further at this time Sir Pant. I 'l let you alone for once then but the next time I shall come to see you you must not consult any for to test you truly as I heard my mother say you may be glad of me for your husband Chrys. Pray no more Sir Pant. And then when I have spent so much money in wooing you you will yet go may

seem too serious for the pallats of those who expected nothing from the Stage but mirth It was thought fit to interlude it with a comick transaction So that being tyed to two different plots without the speciall concurrence of a certain ingenuous Gentleman to whose industry this Play owes much of its perfection it had been a difficult task to have arrived at a happy Catastrophe seeing how hand it is to carry on two different pl●ts in one single Play is not unknown to any who kn●w what belongs to the Stage Let this then suffice the judicious Reader As for such of a seeming serious but real sawcy apprehension who condemn this as an inconsiderate youthfull frolick when indeed such clogs of Parnass●s are as so much rost-beef to their squeamish stomacks whose calidum naturale can digest nothing more heavy then bawdry Ballads scurrilous Sonnets and such water-works of Poetry 't is below Phoebus to cudgel them and any s●●t pitifull threed bare ●ringing indigent mercenary dablers to flatter them Let them live and die in the tr●nches of their own nesty ignorance whilst all lovers of mirth and wit may dayly challenge the respects of Their really devoted Dramatis Personae CLeon Duke of Florence Marciano a noble Siennois his General Strenuo Marciano's friend Borasco Captain of the rebels guard Cassio Leonardo two noble Gentlemen of quality Pantaloni Becabunga two rich gulls in favour with the Ladies Manduco an arrogant Pedant challenging power over Becabunga Two Courtiers Jaylor A Servant Partuysans Drums Trumpets Souldiers c. Women Arabella A Siennois Lady beloved of Marciano Chrysolina Marionerta two Ladies of honour The Scaen Florence MARCIANO OR THE DISCOVERY Actus primus Scaena prima A noyse within Trumpets Drums Pistols Shot Swords clash c. Enter Marciano wounded chaffing c. LOst By heavens all lost All our hopes blasted By Jove without hope of recovery O gods commiserate our despicable estate A noise within as before Exit hastily Enters again Oh heavens this day were we at push of pike For our publike liberty Now we are at our wits end For our private safety A noyse within cry they fly they fly Harke what a hideous noyse this fatal day Hath cancell'd all our former victories Never to be remembred in this hour Our ancient splendour suffers sad ecclipse They fly They fly Oh what a dismal word How unaccustom'd Siennois to fly True Siennois such as had vowed their lives A victime for their publike liberty To fly like dust before mechanick slaves Such as while now never knew other armes Then forks or shovels Do the gods intend To revel in our miseries and prove Strange paradoxes to the credulous world That abject base unmannag'd Varlets thus Should overcome the Cavalry of Siena A thing unheard of O! accursed wretches Whose too politick pates first hatcht these wartes You are least sharers here My Prince and I Must suffer this reproach I slight my wounds But O! my honour lost I 'le bear it stoutly Up then my spirits be not you dejected There 's something yet to care for there 's no time Now to complain heavens know what just designes We undertook though with unequal success Wee 've done what lay in humane power Pistoia Bear witness where so many insolent rebells Have found this day their sepulchre thy fields Can testifie how dear some sold their lives And thou the Ensigne of all noble souls Make affidavit of this dayes behaviour Holds up his sword Now to my generous Prince whom cruel fates Have levell'd with my self Him will I search That if my fates require my quick departure For Stygian lakes as in my life I 've been Eminent in his service I may now Dying couragiously in his presence have His royal Pass-port and Testificate To raise my honour and condole my fate Exit Scaena Secunda Enter Borasco with Souldiers Bor. SO now the day 's our own but yet the Duke Escap'd Marciano not prisoner The victory is not such as I expected But come my Mirmydons wee 'l not give over Let 's with a party of our choicest horse Make narrow search for Marciano For if we find him not we must not think To gain the Generals favour Come my Boyes He hath attempted oft to strip the Senate Of their new power and so destroy us all Whose hopes are nourished by the present wars So that if you shall catch him you may sure Expect a great reward his excellency The brave Lord Barbaro will hugg you for it Exit with Sould. Scaena Tertia Enter Marciano solus O Florence don 't insult at this dayes success This unnatural victory over thy lawfull Prince Will quickly make thee sensible of unnatural And intolerable Tyranny that Ichneumon Who now tickles thee in all thy desires Will stop thy breath at length whilst thy good Prince Whom thou can blame for nothing but misfortune Shall yet be more unfortunate in seeing Thee too unfortunate But I perceive The main designe of this preposterous war Love and ambition muzles humane souls So that when private Subjects covet honour And power their lawfull Prince must quit his Throne No matter for what reason since they mean Some reformation as if private preferment Were inconsistent with all Monarchy But what 't is unseasonable for me t' expostulate My noble Prince goodness protect him still Is gone for Savoy I am here commanded To rally those few forces I can find With slender hopes but yet I 'le do my best To prosecute his Royal orders so Good Subjects votes assist me 't is resolv'd For while Dame nature does allow me breath I 'le serve my Prince nought shall excuse but death Exit Scaena Quarta Enter Cassio Leonardo as at Florence Cass. O! Leonardo How dost do Boy Leon. Cassio thou art the man I was seeking welcome effaith and how Prethee Cass Well Leon. As well as the Ladies will permit thee ha Cass. Yes indeed but how goes all with you what news do'st hear Leon. Bad news effaith all our hopes are now perished it is for certain that the Duke is beat at Pistoia whether he hath escaped or not himself is not yet known Cass. Sad trust me 't is most sad but prethee who shall be Duke now do'st think when they have rejected him who by law of inheritance was their lawfull Prince Leon. Why thou if thou bee'st weary of thy life for a Prince now a dayes must raign no longer then his Subjects please his government men now begin to act real Tragedies Cass. Good but how does thy learned cocks-comb judge of the event of all our present broyls Leon. Why just as a sober Drawer does of a company of young gulls inflaming the reckoning beyond the faculties of their pockets they will look pittifully when the bill is produc'd for they must pay for all Cass. How ● do'st think our state-mountebanks will not agree Leon. Yes for a while they may like heissers in the yoke but when once got loose they 'll push

Welcome dear Strenuo pray how does thy Lord Str. Well Madam but e're long if fates prevent not Ar. How that again me thinks thou looks not chearfull As thou were wont how does my Lord I say Str. If I dare tell you he 's condemn'd to dye Ar. To dye Ay me be mercifull and kill me Good Strenuo honest friend prethee dispatch Str. Stay Madam you are mad Ar. Condemn'd to dye O how my heart strings by that pin of grief As by an unexpert musicians hand Who strives to raise his Lute to highest notes Tun'd up above the nick begin to crack Str. Forbear fair Lady 't is no time to weep Now wee must do now wee must muster all Our wits to plot his escape Ar. As how Alas fond Strenuo escape Dream not on that rather invent some meanes How wee may dye together like true lovers Str. Madam you wrong your self I 'le undertake By your assistance to effect my purpose Ar. By my assistance prethee doubt not that What will I not do if I can to save him Str. Then Madam here is aquafortis for you Look this will do it Lady this applyed To th'iron grate o' th window will consume it In a short space then in the silent night By help of a small rope he may escape Ar. 'T is well but all depends on th' aquafortis I cannot safely carry it to his chamber That Cerberus that ugly cat-e'yd Jaylor Will sure discover me Str. Nay as for him I 'le keep the villain tipling all the while He never shall suspect you I 've provided A souldiers habit for my Lord in which garb The devill himself shall never smell him out I 'le so disguise him go good Madam go Tender my love to him and presse him by All meanes to use it quickly I 'le wait on him At th' hour appointed Ar. I go pray heavens it may succeed Str. Fear not Exeunt severally Scaena Secunda Enter Cassio and Leonardo Cass. SO you intend thither again Leonardo you were highly entertained Boy Leon. And I believe Cassio you had but small encouragment Cass. Small encouragement indeed but you must know love is never in it's height so long as limitate within the sphere of reason I love her so much the more that she appears unreasonable as you call it Leon. But aside here comes Don Quixot and Sancho Pancho Enter Becabunga and Pantaloni discoursing Cass. 'Slid let 's accost them Leon. No let 's first observe their behaviour Pant. Say you so O! I long furiously to travel Bec. I mar'le you delay so long Pant. Why I vow my trunk hath been twice a ship-board for Marsei●●es and my self at Ligorn but I vow my mother weep'd so that I could not find in my heart to leave her Bec. And it may be the Lady Chrysolina would not permit you Pant. O no I know she would wait upon me some half year or so yet while I saw France and came back again although I vow shee 's a pretty pretty pretty Gentlewoman as I know betwixt me and her Bec. You will have her yet I warrand you Pant. I hope so for I am sure she loves me or else I have no skill Bec. Does she so and that is some encouragment though Cass. Prethee let 's interrupt them enough of such discourse in all conscience Leon. Yes now we will accost them Gentlemen the general character of you in this City hath rendred us ambitious of your acquaintance Cass. Signior Becabunga you are most auspiciously returned to the City Bec. Your humble servant Sir your extollation of me is undeserved Leon. Leon. to Pant. Sir I do but what all ingenuous persons should do no question you are conscious of your own merits Cass. takes B●c aside Pant. Sir the faculty of my expression is not capable to entertain as I may say or express the motion of my affection to uphold as I may say acquaintance familiarity with you I hope you understand me Sir Leon. Yes and admires your wit too Sir Pant. Sir I am your very humble servant I hope I need not back it with an oath nam nemo tenetur you know jurare in suum detrimentum Cass. Good and what said they Bec. Why they said you were a couple of idle youths Leon. How Cass. Prethee let me hear out this discourse Pant. Ho ho very true I protest I think they wrong'd you for for my own part as I am Gentleman I think you are very civil although I say it in your face Cass. Good and no more prethee Bec. Nay now I have not leasure Manduco will be seeking me through all the Town O he will chide me if he find me not Cass. Hang him a Loggar-head Bec. A Loggar-head I would not for never so much he heard you say that he thinks himself no small man I 'l assure you Adieu Sir Pantaloni will you go Exit Bec Pant. Annon Sir Gentlemen I shall be very willing and desirous that we may entertain our present conversation willingly and for my part I have the honour to drink one cup of wine with you I will wait upon you at any time or place convenient if there be no lawfull impediment why these parties may not be joyn'd Oh I crave you pardon Gentlemen Lapsus linguae non est atramentum Farewell Exit Leon. Now go thy wayes Signior Pantaloni thou art this day as compleat a gull as lives in Florence without disparagement of any Gentleman whatsoever Cass. He hath discovered all to me Leonardo I never read of such humourous Ladies Leon. And they will be so always while we can render them gulls despicable in their sight Cass. Let 's think then how to affront them Leon. I 'l rack my invention but I will set them by the ears together Cass. That were good if you can do it handsomly Leon. I 'l do my best come let 's go consult upon it Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter Merciano Arabella Marc. PErswade me not I cannot but abhor Such a preposterous attempt Ar. My Lord Marc. Dear soul of sweetness do not torture me With fruitless plots within four dayes I die Should I escape and leave you prisoner Think think on that Ar. You may escape my Lord I have brought hither t'you some aquafortis Which your friend Strenuo gave me this morning You may apply it to the grate o'th'window Marc. And what then Ar. Your friend assures me ' hath a Souldiers habit In readiness for you This same aquafortis Will do the business quick apply it quickly Look to your self now it grows late my Lord. Marc. May I trust this Ar. You may indeed 't is true Now now or never you must soon apply it This night you may as easily escape Marc. I 'le try this trick for once Ar. Fear not the Jaylor he is fox'd already So Strenuo did assure me Apply it then and if you don't escape Marc. I 'le undertake it then leave this with me I 'le go about it presently mean time I

how he talks I shall have more ado to allure him to this duel then a crack'd Courtier has to perswade an Usurer to become surety for him Bec. And then you know Sir Pantaloni is to marry the one Sister and I the other now it is not fit that we should fight together who are to be brethren shortly for I know not what Leon. Why Sir you must resolve to fight go along with me to the field and if he offer to thrust at you I 'le step in betwixt and save you both Bec. Will you be as good as your word Sir Leon. I will indeed Bec. Then have at him But harke you Sir you must have a speciall care he touch not my face for so he may put but my eye God blesse us and then where is your honour forsooth Leon. He shall not touch you Sir come delay is dangerous Exeunt At the other end Enter Cass. Pant. traverse c. Pant. You may stand by and see fair play Sir I shall beat him to some purpose Cass. As you think fit Sir Pant. Come on then O Becabunga thou knowes not how nigh thy fatall hour approaches for I am sure he dares not appear Exeunt Scaena Septima Enter Arabella sola in Prison more closely confin'd then formerly upon the report that she was to be beheaded Ar. O gods is this the height of all your wrath May I expect a requiem in this stroak Yes sure then graciously be pleas'd to hear My ardent votes O may my blood appease Your incens'd mindes restore my lawfull Prince Let Marciano live Let nothing hurt him O hear him hear him if there be a faith Able to reach your mercy let him have it I plead none for my self O love assist me Courage beyond the ordinar of my sex Support my spirits in this agony Death 's but the thaw of all our vanity weeps Enter Borasco quietly Bor. Nay now my soul dissolve 't is but a trouble To keep thy quarter in this perplexed body O unkind Se●ate eyes have not seen a fairer Modell of beauty Sure no hatchet dares Be horse-leech to her veines or if it does All iron shall be quite accurs'd hereafter No ther 's an angell keeps that paradice A fiery angell guards her Vertue vertue Ever and endlesse vertue O rare beauty The neerest to her maker and the purest That ever dull flesh shew'd us such another Could make attonement for half her sex See how she weeps Ar. Discovers him Ar. So now my torturer comes Bor. Now all good angells blesse thee fairest truest Heart-ravishing beauty cruell yet lovely tyrant Why still in sorrow shall I never have One gracious smile A las how willingly To save thy precious life would I submitt My neck to cruelty by this hand I would Kisses her hand Ar. Since it is ordain'd Sir I 'le not endeavour To prove a male-content Sir I have done What I intended shee 's a cowardly Girle Who cann't endure one stroke for him whose safety Is so dear to his prince and country vex not Your self for my misfortunes nothing can Affright my resolutions Bor. Strange love not to be parallel'd Ar. Pish I contemn the fury of your base Malicious senate reason does disdain To dwell with such whose souls are stiffled with rage They sentence whom they will no matter why Since innocent or guilty we must dye Bor. Madam you shall not dye I will sollicit The Senate for you if I cannot prevaile As I expect before it come to th' worst I 'le set you free although their fury reach In going off My person for it who does enterprise To serve his fancy must all feares despise Exit Ar. Ah vain fomenter of vain fruitlesse hopes Thy windmill-thoughts will break their axel-tree Go foolish enterpriser hope no favour From one who e're she suffered thy embraces Would rather undergo a thousand tortures No if e're woman was or may be found That for fair fame unspotted memory For vertues sake and only for it's sake Dares challenge room in history O love Let me be only Martyr in the case O Marciano were it not thy safety That did support my soul I should prevent The executioner but since thou art Free from the rav'nous clutches of the rebells Poor Arabella from that spark alone Derives her present courage Then blessed hour approach I 'le boldly show That for his life I can endure one blow Exit weeping Scaena Octava Enter Cassio Pantaloni Swords drawn Cass. THis is the place this is the hour appointed Pant. Yes Sir but you see he has not appear'd may not I put up my rapier now and go home again with my honour may I not Cass. Not Sir you must have a little patience Pant. Ho Ho that 's very true I must proclaime Leonardo and him both cowards Oyes Oyes One coughs and whispers within But a pox I hear them comming hither Come Signior Cassio wee have tarried too long we will now return Cass. No no stay a little yet Pant. I see this fellow has a mind I should be kill'd would I had that unlucky challenge in my pocket again Cass. 'Slid here they come to your posture Sir Enter Leon. Bec. swords drawn Bec. O! look you there 's Pantaloni Sir and Cassio too you said he durst not appear Pant. Nay faith now I see 't is no more jesting there they come both with their Rapiers drawn Cass. Courage Signior Bec. What shall I do now Sir Leon. Fight what else Cass. We 'll fight all four at once Leon. Yes yes by all means Cass. Have at thee then villain Leonardo Leon. At you Sir Thrust Cass. Come to 't Becabunga Bec. Not I Sir as I am honest I will fight none at this time for I have some business to do in the City Sir Leon. What you sneaking gull will you not fight for your Mistris Sirrah Bec. No Sir I will fight for no Mistris at this time I must go about business of more importance Sir aside O! if he had not appear'd now Leon. Not for the Lady Marionetta Sir Bec. No Sir I will renounce all the right I have to her before I fight at this time at least Pant. I like that well Cass 'Slid shall we come to the fields with you and return thus affronted fight it out bravely or by this hand I 'l run you both thorough Pant. Nay it shall not be so Sir you see we cannot fight at this time for the truth is now when I remember I have an appointment too within less then a minute of an hour hence with some Ladies of my acquaintance Leon. That 's all one to us Sir Pant. I see I must do it there is no way else to escape aside Gentlemen I know what will please you because we have brought you into the fields that you may not be angry as Becabunga sayes I will renounce all the right I can have or claim in the Lady Chrysolina Leon. Good Pant For d' you see Sir I care no more