honest goe get you home againe and make your Countrey a vertuous Court to which your great ones may in their diseased age retire liue recluses CEE. How doe your worth sir PHY. Well very well and so well that if the King please I may liue many yeares LYON Sir the King must please Whilst we know who you are and what you are your wrongs and vertues shrinke not worthy sir but call your father to you in whose name we 'le waken all the gods and coniure vp the rods of vengance the abused people who like raging torants shall swell hie and so begirt the dens of these Male-dragons that through the strongest safety they shall beg for mercy at your swords point PHY. Friend no more our eares may be corrupted t is an Age we dare not trust our wils to doe you loue me TRAS. Doe we loue heauen and honour PHY. My Lord Lyon you had a vertuous Gentlewoman cald you father is she yet aliue Enter a Gentlewoman LEON Most honourd sir shee is and for a penance but of an idle dreame has vndertooke a tedious pilgrimage PHI. I' st to me or to any of these Gentlemen you come GENT. WOO. To you braue Lord the Princesse would intreate your present company PHI. The Princesse send for me you are mistaken GENT. WOO. If you be cald Phylaster t is you PHI. Kisse her faire hand and say I will attend her LEON Doe you know what you doe Exit Gent. woo PHI. Yes go to see a woman CLE. But doe you way the danger you are in PHI. Danger in a sweete face By Iubiter I must not feare a woman TRA. But are you sure it was the Princesse sent It may be some foule traine to catch your life PHI. I dare not thinke it Gentlemen shee 's noble her eye may shoote mee dead or those true red and white fiend frends in her cheekes may steale my soule out there 's all the danger in t but bee what may her single name hath armde me Exit PHILASTER LEON Go on and be as truely happy as thou art fearelesse Come Gentlemen le ts make our friends acquainted lest the king prooue false Exit Gentlemen Enter Princesse and her Gentlewoman PRIN. Comes he not WOO. Madame PRIN. Will Phylaster come WOO. Deare Madame you were wont to credit me at the first PRIN. But didst thou tell me so I am forgetfull and my womans strength is so ore chargde with dangers like to grow about my marriage that these vnder things dares not abide in such a troubled sea how lookt hee when hee told thee he would come WOO. Why we ll PRIN. And not a little fearefull WOO. Feare Madame sure he knowes not what it is PRIN. You all are of his faction the whole Court is bold in praise of him whilst I may liue neglected and doe noble things as fooles in strife throw gold into the sea drownde in the doing but I know he feares WO. Madame mee thoughts his lookes hid more of loue then feare PRIN. Of loue to whom to you did you deliuer those plaine words I sent with such a woing iesture and qvicke lookes that you haue caught WO. Madam I meane to you PRIN. Of loue to me alas thy ignorance lets thee not see the crosses of our births nature that loues not to be questioned why shee did this or that but has his ends and knowes she dos well neuer gaue the world to things so opposite so bound to put as he and I am if a boule of bloud drawne from this arme would poison thee a draught of his would cure thee loue to me WO. Madame I thinke I heare him PRIN. Bring him in you gods that will not haue your dens with stood whose holy wisedomes at this time it is to make the passions of a feeble maid the way into your Iustice I obay Enter PHILASTER WO. Here is my Lord Phylaster PRIN. Oh it is well withdraw your selfe PHI. Madame your messenger made me beleeue you wisht to speake with me PRIN. T is true Phylaster but the words are such I haue to say and dos so ill become the mouth of woman that I wish them said and yet am loth to speake them Haue you knowne that I haue ought detracted from your worth haue I in person wrongd you or haue set my baser Instruments to throw disgrace vpon your vertues PHI. Neuer madame you PRIN. Why then should you in such a publike place Iniury a Princesse and a scandall lay vpon my fortunes found to be so great calling a great part of my dowry in question PHI. Madame this truth which I shall speakē wil be foolish but for your faire vertuous selfe I could affoord my selfe to haue no right to any thing you wisht PRIN. Phylaster know I must inioy these Kingdomes PHI. Madame both PRIN. Both or I do by heauen I die Phylaster if I not calmely die inioy them both PHI. I would doe much to saue that noble life yet would be loth to haue posterity finde in our stories that Phylaster gaue his right vnto a Scepter and a Crowne to saue a Ladies longing PRIN. Nay then heare I must and will haue them and more PHI. What more PRIN. Or lose that little life the gods prepar'd to trouble this poore peece of earth with all PHI. Madame what more PRIH. Turne then away thy face PHI. No PRIN. Doe PHI. I can indure it turne away my face I neuer saw yet enemy that lookt so dreadfully But that I thought my selfe as great a bassaliske as he Or speake so horrible but that I thought my tongue Bore thunder vnderneath as much as his Nor beast that I could turne from shall I then begin To feare sweete sounds a womans tongue whom I do loue Say you would haue my life why I will giue it you For it is of mee a thing so loath'd and vnto you that beg Of so poore vse that I shall make no price If you intreat I will vnmouedly heare PRIN. Yet for my sake a little bend thy looks PHI. I do PRIN. Then know I must haue them and thee PHI. And me PRIN. Thy loue without which all the land discouerd yet will serue me for no vse but to be buried in PHI. I' st possible PRI. With it it were too little to bestow on thee now though thy breath strike me dead which know it may I haue vnript my breast PHI. Madam you are too full of noble thoughts to lay a traine for this contemned life which you might haue for asking to suspect were base where I deserue no ill loue you by all my hopes I doe aboue my life but how this passion should proceed from you so violently would amaze a man that would be Iealous PRIN. Another soule into my body shot Could not haue fild me with more strength and spirit Then this thy breath but spend not hastie time In seeking how I came thus t is the gods that make me so And sure our loue will be the worthier and the
so smooth a brow I cannot now thinke he is guilty BOY Health to you my Lord The Princesse doth commend her loue her life and this vnto you He giues him a letter PHI. O Bellario now I perceiue she loues me She dos shew it in louing thee my boy She has made thee braue BOY My Lord she has attir'd me past wish Past my desert more fit for her attendant But far vnfit for me that doe attend PHI. Thou art growne Courtly my boy O let all women that loue black deedes learne to dissemble here Heere with this paper she dos write to me As if her heart were twines of Adamant To all the world besides but vnto me a maiden snow That melted with my lookes tell me my boy How dos the Princesse vse thee BOY Scarce like her seruant but as if I were Something alied to her or had preserued her life Three times by my fidelity as mothers fond Doe vse their onely sonnes as I 'de vse one that 's left vnto my trust For whom my life should pay If he meete harme so she dos vse me PHI. Why t is wondrous well But what kinde language dos she feede thee with BOY Why she dos tell me she will trust my youth with al her maiden store and dos call mee her pretie seruant bids mee weepe no more for leauing you she 'le see my seruice rewarded such words of that soft straine that I am neerer weeping when she ends then ere she speakes PHI. This is much better still BOY Are you not well my Lord PHI. Ill no Bellario BOY Me thinkes your words fall out from your tongue so vneuenly nor is there in your looks that quicknesse that I was wont to see PHI. Thou art deceiued boy And she strokes thy head BOY Yes PHI. And she dos clap thy cheekes BOY She dos my Lord PHY. And she dos kisse thee boy ha BOY How my Lord PHY. She kisses thee BOY Neuer my Lord by heauen PHY. That 's strange I know she dos BOY No by my life PHY. Why then she dos not loue me Come she dos I bid her do 't I charg'd her by all charmes of loue betweene vs by the hope of peace wee should inioy to yeeld thee all delight naked as to her Lord I tooke her oath thou shouldst inioy her Tell mee gentle boy is shee not paradise is not her breath sweete as Arabian winds when fruites are ripe are not her breasts two lickquid Iuory bals is she not all a lasting mine of ioy BOY Yes now I see why my discurled thoughts were so perplext When first I went to her my heart held augeries you are abus'd some villaine has abus'd you I doe see where you tend Fall rocks vpon his head that put this to you t is some subtile traine to bring that noble friend of yours to naught PHY. Thou thinkst I will bee angry with thee come thou shalt know all my drift I hate her more then I loue happinesse and plac't thee there to pry with sparrowes eyes into her deedes hast thou discouered is shee falne to lust as I would wish her speake some comfort to me BOY My Lord you did mistake the boy you sent Had she the lust of sparrowes and of goates Had she a sin that weighed from the world beyond the name of lust I would not aide her base desires But what I come to know as seruant to her I would not reueale to make my life last ages PHI. Oh my heart This is a salue worse then the maine deceit Tell me thy thoughts for I will know the least That dwels within thee or will rip thy heart To know it I will see thy thoughts as plaine As I doe now thy face BOY Why so you doe she is for ought I know by all the gods As chast as ice but were she foule as hell And I did know it thus the breath of Kings The points of swords tortures nor buls of brasse Should wrack it from me PHI. Then t is no time to dallie with thee I will take thy life For I doe hate thee I could curse thee now BOY If you do hate me you could not curse me worse The gods haue not a punishment in store To me then is your hate PHI. Fie fie so young and so dissembling tell me when where Thou didst inioy her or let plagues fall vpon me If I destroy thee not He drawes his sword BOY By heauen I neuer did and when I lie to saue my life May I liue long and loathed hew me asunder And whilst I can thinke I 'le loue those pieces you haue cut away Better then those that grow and kisse those limbes Because you made vm so PHI. Fear'st thou not death can boyes contemne that BOY Oh! what boy is he could be content to liue To be a man that sees the best of men thus passionate Thus without reason PHI. O thou dost not know what t is to die BOY Yes I doe know my Lord t is lesse then to be borne A lasting sleepe a quiet resting from all iealousie A thing we all persue I know besides it is but giuing ore againe That must be lost PHI. But there are paines false boy For periur'd soules think but those and then thy heart will melt And then thou wilt vtter all BOY May they fall all vpon me whilst I liue If I be periur'd or haue euer thought of that you charge me with If I be false send mee to suffer in those punishments you speake of Kill me PHI. Oh! What should I doe why who can but beleeue him Hee dos sweare so earnestly that if it were not true the gods would not indure him Rise Bellario thy protestaions are so deepe and thou dost looke so truely when thou vtterest them that though I knew vm false as were my hopes I cannot vrge thee further but thou wert too blame to iniuie me for I must loue thy honest lookes and take no reuenge vpon thy honest lookes a loue from mee to thee is firme what ere thou dost it troubles me that I haue cald thy blood out of thy cheekes that did so well become thee But good boy let me not see thee more something is done that will distract me that will make mee mad if I behold thee if thou tenderest mee let me not see thee BOY I will flie as farre As there is morning ere I giue distaste to that most honord frame but through these teares shed at my haplesse parting I can see a world of treason practis'd vpon you and her and me farewell for euermore if you shall heare that sorrowes strucke me dead and after finde me loyall let there be a teare shed from you in my memory and I shall rest at peace PHI. Blessing be with thee what ere thou deseruest O where shall I go bathe this body nature too vnkind That mad'st no medicine to a troubled minde Exit PHILASTER Enter Princesse PRIN, I maruaile my boy comes not backe But that I
gentle boy t is more then time thou didst attend the Princesse BOY I am gone but since I am to part with you my Lord and none knowes whether I shall liue to doe more seruice for you take this little prayer Heauen blesse your loues your sighes all your designes may sick men if they haue your wish be well and heauens hate those you curse though I be one Exit boy PHI. The loue of boyes vnto their Lords is strange I haue read wonders of it yet this boy for my sake if a man may iudge by looks and speech would out doe story I must see a day to pay him for his loyaltie Exit Enter PHARAMONT PHA. Why should these Ladies stay so long they must Come this way I know the Queene imployes vm not For the reuerend mother sent me word They would all be for the garden if they should all Proue honest now I were in a faire taking I was neuer so long without sport before in my life And in my conscience t is not my fault Enter GALLATEA Oh for our countrey Ladies here 's one boulted I 'le hound at her Madame GAL. Your grace PHA. Shall I not be a trouble GAL. Not to me sir PHA. Nay nay y' are too quicke by this sweete hand GAL. You 'le bee forsworne sir t is an olde gloue if you will talke at distance I am for you but good Prince be not baudy nor doe not brag those two I onely barre and then I thinke I shall haue sence enough to answer all the waighty Apothegmes your royall bloud shal manage PHA. Deare Lady can you loue GAL. Deare Prince how deare I ne're cost you a Couch yet nor put you to the deare repentance of a play and a banquet here 's no Scarlet sir to make you blush this is my owne hayre and this face has bin so farre from being deare to any that it ne're cost a peny painting and for the rest of my poore wardrop such as you see it leaues no hand behind it to make the iealous silke-mans wife curse our doing PHA. You much mistake me Lady GAL. Lord I doe so would you or I could helpe it PHA. Y' are very dangerous bitter like a potion GAL. No sir I do not mean to purge you though I meane to purge a little time on you PHA. Do Ladies of this Countrey vse to giue no more respect to men of my full being GAL. Full being I vnderstand you not vnlesse your grace Meanes growing to fatnesse and then your onely remedy Vpon my knowledge Prince is in a morning A cup of neate white wine brewd with Cardus Then fast till supper about fiue you may eate vse exercise And keepe a sparrow hawke you can shoot in a Tiller But of all your grace must flie Flebotamie Fresh porke and Conger and clarified whay They are dullers of the vitall anymales PHA. Lady you talke of nothing all this time GAL. T is very true sir I talke of you PHA. This is a crafty wench I like her wit well 'T will be rare to stir vp a leaden appetite Shee 's daintie and must be courted with a shewer of gold Madame looke here all these and more then GA. What ha you there my Lord gold now as I liue t is faire gold you 'd haue siluer for t to play with the Pages you could not haue taken me in a worse time sir but if you haue present vse my Lord I 'le send my man with siluer and keepe your gold safe for you She slips behind the Orras PHA. Lady Lady GAL. She s comming sir behind Will ye take white money yet for all this Exit PHA. If there be but two such in this Kingdome more and neere the Court we may ene hang vp our harpes ten such Campher Constitutions as this would call the golden age againe in question and teach the old way for euery ill fast husband to get his owne children and what a mischiefe that would breed let all consider Enter MEGRA Heres 's another if she be of the same last the diuell shall pluck her on Many faire mornings Lady ME. As many mornings bring as many dayes faire sweete and hopefull to your grace PHA. She giues good words yet sure this wench is free If your more cerious businesse doe not call you Lady Let me hold quarter with you wee 'le talke an houre On t quickly ME. What would your grace talke of PHA. of some such pretie subiect as your selfe I 'le go no further then your eye your lip there 's time enough For one man for an Age ME. Sir they stand right and my lips are yet euen smooth Young enough ripe enough and red enough Or my glasse wrongs me PHA. O they are two twend Cherries dyde in blush Which those faire sunnes aboue with their deepe beams Reflect vpon and ripen sweetest beauty Bow downe those branches that the longing taste Of the sweete looker on may meete these blessings And taste and liue They kisse ME. O delicate sweete Prince shee that hath snow enough about her heart to take the wanton spring of ten such lynes it may bee a number without Probatum Sir you haue by such neate Poetrie gathered a kisse that if I had but fiue lines of that number such pretie begging blankes I should commend your forehead or your cheekes and kisse you too PHA. Doe it in prose you cannot misse it Madame ME. I shall I shall PHA. By my life but you shall not I 'l prompt you first Can you doe it now ME. Me thinkes t is easie now you ha dont before me and yet I should sticke at it PHA. Sticke till to morrow I le neuer part you sweetest but we lose time Can you loue me ME. Loue you my Lord How would you have me loue ye PHA. I 'le teach you in a short sentence Cause I will not load your memory This is all Loue me and lie with me ME. Was it lie with you that you said t is impossible PHA. Not to a willing minde that wil endeauour If I doe not teach you to doe it as easily in one night As you 'le go to bed I 'le lose my royall bloud for 't ME. Why Prince you haue a Lady of your owne that yet wants teaching PHA. I 'le sooner teach a mare the old measures Then teach her any thing belonging to the function Shee 's affraid to lie with her selfe If she haue but my mascaline imagination about her I know when we are married I must rauish her ME. By my honour that 's a foule fault indeed But time and your good helpe will weare it out sir PHA. And for my other I see excepting your deere selfe deerest Lady I had rather be Sir Timen a schoolemaister and keepe a darie maid ME. Has your grace seene the Court starre Gallatea PHA. Out vpon her shee s as cold of her fauour as an appaplex she saild by but now ME. How do you hold her wit PHA. I hold her wit the
pulse keepes madmens time So dos your tongue PHI. You will not kill me then BOY Kill you PRIN. Not for the world PHI. I blame not thee Bellario thou hast done but that Which gods would haue transformd themselues to do Be gone leaue me without reply this is the last Exit BO Of all our meetings kill me with this sword be wise Or worse wil follow we are two earth cannot beare at once resolue to do or suffer PRIN. If my fortunes be so good to let me sall vpon thy hand I shall haue peace with earth Yet tell me this there will be no slanders no iealousie in the other world no il here PHI. No PRIN. Shew me the way to ioy PHI. Then guide my feeble hand you that haue power To do it for I must performe a piece of Iustice If your youth haue any way offended heauen Let prayers short and effectuall reconcile you to 't PRIN. I am prepard Enter a Countrey Gallant COVN. I will see the king if he be in the Forrest I haue hunted him this two houres if I should come home And not see him my sisters would laugh at me I can see nothing but people better horst then my selfe That out ride me I can heare nothing but shouting These kings had neede of strong braines The whooping would put a man out of his wits There 's a Courtier with his sword drawne by this hand vpon a woman I thinke PHI. Are you at peace PHY. wounds her PRIN. With heauen and earth PHI. Nay they diuide thy soule and body COVN. Hold dastard strike a woman th' art a crauen I warrant thee thou d'st be loth to play halfe a dozen veneis at wasters with a man for a broken head PHI. Leaue vs good friend PRIN. What ill bred man art thou to intrude thy selfe vpon our priuate sports our recreations COVN. God iudge me I vnderstand you not But I know the rogue has hurt ye PHI. Pursue thy owne affaires it will be ill to multiply blood vpon my head which thou wilt force me to COVN. I know not your Rethrack but I can lay it on if you touch the woman PHI. Slaue take what thou deseruest They fight PRIN. Gods guard my Lord COVN. O do you breath PHY. I heare the tread of people I am hurt the gods take part against me would this bore haue held me thus else I must shift for life though I doe lose it I would finde a course To lose it rather by my will then force COVN. I cannot follow the rogue Exit PHY I prethee wench come kisse me now Enter PHARAMONT LEON CLE. TRA. and Wood-men PHA. What art thou COVN. Almost kild I am for a foolish woman A knaue has hurt her LEON The Princesse Gentlemen Where 's the wound Madame Is it dangerous PRIN. He has not hurt me COVN. By god she lies has hurt her i' the breast looke else PHA. Oh secret spring of innocent blood LEON T is aboue wonder who should dare this PRIN. I felt it not PHA. Speake villaine who has hurt the Princesse COVN. Is it the Princesse OMNES I COVN. Then I haue seene something yet PHA. But who has done it COVN. I told you a rogue I ne're saw him before I LEON Madame who did it PRIN. Some dishonest wretch alas I know him not And do forgiue him COVN. He 's hurt too he cannot go farre I let my fathers old fox flie about 's eares PHA. How will you haue me kill him PRIN. Not at all t is some distracted fellow PHA. By this ayre I 'le leaue neuer a piece bigger then a nut and bring him all in my hat PRIN. Nay good sir if you do take him bring him quick to mee and I will study for a punishment great as his sinne PHA. I will PRIN. But sweare PHA. By all my Loue I will Wood-man conduct the Princesse vnto the king and beare that wounded fellow to dressing Come Gentlemen wee 'le follow the chase close Exit COVN. I pray you friend let me see the king CLE. That you shall and receiue thankes COVN. If I get cleere of this I 'le see no more gay fights Enter the BO Exeunt BOY Oh heauens heauy death sits on my brow And I must sleepe beare me thou gentle banck For euer if thou wilt you sweete on all Let me vnworthy presse you I could wish I rather were a Corse strew'd o're with you Then quick aboue you dulnesse shuts my eyes and I am giddy That I could take so sound a sleepe That I might neuer wake Enter PHILASTER PHI. I haue done ill my conscience cals me false To strike at her that would not strike at me When I did fight me thought I heard her pray The gods to guard me she may be abus'd And I a loathed villaine if she be she will conceale Who hurt her he has wounds and cannot follow Neither knowes he me Who 's this Bellario sleeping If thou be'st guilty there is no iustice that thy sleepe Should be so sound and mine whom thou hast wrong'd So broken Cry within Harke I am pursu'd you gods I 'le take This offerd meanes of my escape They haue no marke to know me but my blood If she be true if false let mischiefe Light on all the world at once Sword print my wounds vpon his sleeping body He has none I thinke are mortall He wounds him Nor would I lay greater on thee BOY O! death I hope is come blest be that hand it wisht me well againe for pittie PHI. I haue caught my selfe The losse of blood hath stayed my flight here Phy. falls downe Here is he that strooke thee take thy full reuenge Vse me as I did meane thee worse then death I 'le teach thee to reuenge This lucklesse hand Wounded the Princesse tell my followers thou Didst receiue these hurts in staying me And I will second thee get a reward BOY Hide hide my Lord and saue your selfe PHI. How is this wouldst thou I should be safe BOY Else it were vaine for me to liue These wounds I haue has not bled much Reach me that noble hand I 'le helpe to couer you PHI. Art thou then true to me BOY Or let me perish loath'd Come my Lord Creepe in amongst these bushes who dos know But that the gods may saue your breeth in 't Shromd PHI. Then I shall die for griefe if not for this That I haue wounded thee What wilt thou do BOY Shift for my selfe Well peace I heare vm come WITHIN Follow follow that way they went BOY With my owne wounds I 'le bloudy my owne sword I neede not counterfeit to fall heauen knowes I can stand no longer Boy falls downe Ent. PHARAMONT LEON CLERAMONT TRASALINE PHA. To this place I tract him by his blood LEON Yonder my Lord creepes one away CLE. Stay sir what are you BOY A wretched creature wounded in these woods by beasts Releeue me if your names be men Or I shall perish TRA. This is he my Lord
may they haue iniurious raine to keepe the Gentlemen at home in rasine freeze may the moth branch their veluets and their silkes onely bee worne before sore eies may their false lights vndoe vm and discouer preases holes staines and oldnesse in their stuffes and make them shop-rid may they keepe whoores and horses and breake and liue mued vp with necks of beefe and turnups May they haue many children and none like the father and know no language but that gibberish they pratle to their parsels vnlesse it be the gotish latine they write in their bonds and may they write that false and lose their debts Enter the King KING Now the vengeance of all the gods confound them How they swarme together what a hum they raise Diuels choake your wide throates if a man had neede To vse your valours we must pay a brokadge for 't And then bring on and you will fight like sheepe T is Phylaster none but Phylaster must allay this heate They will not heare me speake but fling durt at me And call me tyrant O run deere friend and bring the Lord Phylaster speake him well call him Prince Do him all the courtesies you can commend me to him Oh! my wits my wits LEON O my braue Citizens as I liue I will not buy a pin Out of your walls for this nay you shall cosen me And I 'le thanke you and send you brawne and bakon Euery long vocation and foule shall come vp fat And in braue liking KING What they wil do with that poore Prince the gods know I feare LEON Why they 'le flea him and make Church buckets on 's skin to quench rebellion then clap a reuit in 's sconce and hang him vp for a signe Enter PHYLASTER KING O worthy Sir forgiue me Do not make your miseries And my faults meete together to bring a greater danger Be your selfe still sound amongst diseases I haue wrong'd you And though I finde it last and beaten to 't Let me your goodnesse know calme the people and be What you were born to take your loue with her my repentance All my wishes and all my prayers by the gods My heart speakes all this and if the least fall from me Not perform'd may I be strooke with thunder PHI. Mighty Sir I will not doe your greatnesse so much wrong As not to make your word truth free the Princesse and the boy And let me stand the shock of this mad sea-breach Which I 'le either turne or perish with it KING Let your owne word free her PHI. Then thus I take my leaue kissing your hand And hanging on your noble word be Kingly And be not moou'd Sir I shall bring you peace Or neuer bring my selfe back KING Now all the gods go with thee Enter an olde Captaine with a crew of Citizens leading PHARAMONT prisoner CAP. Come my braue Mermedons fal on let your caps swarm your nimble tongues forget your gibrish of what you lack and set your mouthes ope' children till your pallats fall frighted halfe a fathom past the cure of bay-salt grosse pepper and then crie Phylaster braue Phylaster Let Phylaster be deep in request my ding-adings my paire of deare Indentures King of clubs thē your cut-water-chamlets and your painting let not your hasty silkes deerly belouers of Custards Cheescakes or your branch cloth of bodkins or your tyffenies your robbin-hood scarlet and Iohns tie your affections in durance to your shops my dainty duckers vp with your three pil'd spirits that right valourous and let your accute colours make the King to feele the measure of your mightinesse Phylaster cry myrose nobles cry OMNES Phylaster Phylaster CAP. How doe you like this my Lord prisoner These are mad boyes I can tell you These bee things that will not strike top-sayle to a Foyst And let a Man of warre an Argosea Stoope to carry coales PHAR. Why you damn'd slaues doe you know who I am CAP. Yes my pretie Prince of puppits we do know and giue you gentle warning you talke no more such bugs words lest that sodden Crowne should be scracht with a musket deare Prince pippin I 'le haue you codled let him loose my spirits and make a ring with your bils my hearts Now let mee see what this braue man dares doe note sir haue at you with this washing blow here I lie doe you huffe sweete Prince I could hock your grace and hang you crosse leg'd like a Hare at a Poulters stall and do thus PHAR. Gentlemen honest Gentlemen 1 SOVL. A speakes treason Captaine shal 's knock him downe CAP. Hold I say 2 SOVL. Good Captaine let me haue one mal at 's mazard I feele my stomacke strangely prouoked to bee at his Spanish pot-nowle shal 's kill him OMNES I kill him kill him CAP. Againe I say hold 3 SOVL. O how ranke he lookes sweete Captaine let 's geld him and send his dowsets for a dish to the Burdello 4 SOVL. No let 's rather sell them to some woman Chymist that extractions shee might draw an excellent prouocatiue oyle from vseth them that might be very vsefull CAP. You see my scuruy Don how precious you are in esteem amongst vs had you not beene better kept at home I thinke you had must you needes come amongst vs to haue your saffron hide taw'd as wee intend it My Don Phylaster must suffer death to satisfie your melancholly spleene he must my Don he must but we your Physitians hold it fit that you bleede for it Come my robusticks my braue regiment of rattle makers let 's cal a common cornuted counsell and like graue Senators beare vp our brancht crests in sitting vpon the seuerall tortures we shall put him to and with as little sense as may be put your wils in execucion SOME CRIES Burne him burne him OTHERS Hang him hang him Enter PHYLASTER CAP. No rather let 's carbinade his cods-head and cut him to collops shall I begin PHI. Stay your furies my louing Countrimen OMNES Phylaster is come Phylaster Phylaster CAP. My porcupines of spite make roome I say that I may salute my braue Prince and is Prince Phylaster at liberty PHI. I am most louing countrimen CAP. Then giue me thy Princely goll which thus I kisse to whom I crouch and bow But see my royall sparke this head-strong swarme that follow me humming like a master Bee haue I led forth their Hiues and being on wing and in our heady flight haue seazed him shall suffer for thy wrongs OMNES I I let 's kill him kill him PHI. But heare me Countrimen CAP. Heare the Prince I say heare Phylaster OMNES I I heare the Prince heare the Prince PHI. My comming is to giue you thankes my deere Countrimen whose powerfull sway hath curb'd the prossecuting fury of my foes OMNES We will curb vm we will curb vm PHI. I finde you will But if my intrest in your loues be such As the world takes notice of Let me craue You would
deliuer Pharamont to my hand And from me accept this Giues vm his purse Testimonie of my loue Which is but a pittance of those ample thankes Which shall redowne with showred courtesies CAP. Take him to thee braue Prince and we thy bounty thankefully accept and will drinke thy health thy perpetuall health my Prince whilst memory lasts amongst vs we are thy Mermidons my Achillis we are those will follow thee and in thy seruice will scowre our rusty murins and our bill-bow-blades most noble Phylaster we will Come my rowtists let 's retyer till occasion calls vs to attend the noble Phylaster OMNES Phylaster Phylaster Phylaster Exit CAPTAINE and Citizens PHAR. Worthy sir I owe you a life For but your selfe there 's nought could haue preuail'd PHI. T is the least of seruice that I owe the King Who was carefull to preserue ye Exit Enter LEON TRASILINE and CLERIMON TRA. I euer thought the boy was honest LEON Well t is a braue boy Gentlemen CLE. Yet you 'ld not beleeue this LEON A plague on my forwardnesse what a villaine was I to wrong vm so a mischiefe on my muddy braines was I mad TRA. A little frantick in your rash attempt but that was your loue to Phylaster sir LEON A pox on such loue haue you any hope my countinance will ere serue me to looke on them CLE. O very well Sir LEON Very ill Sir vds death I could beate out my braines or hang my selfe in reuenge CLE. There would be little gotten by it ene keepe you as ye are LEON An excellent boy Gentlemen beleeue it harke the King is comming Cornets sounds Enter the King Princesse GALLATEA MEGRA BELLARIO a Gentlewoman and other attendants K. No newes of his returne Will not this rable multitude be appeas'd I feare their outrage lest it should extend With dangering of Pharamonts life Enter PHILASTER with PHARAMONT LEON See Sir Phylaster is return'd PHI. Royall Sir Receiue into your bosome your desired peace Those discontented mutineares be appeasde And this fortaigne Prince in safety K. How happie am I in thee Phylaster Whose excellent vertues begets a world of loue I am indebted to thee for a Kingdome I here surrender vp all Soueraignetie Raigne peacefully with thy espoused Bride Deliuers his Crowne to him Assume my Son to take what is thy due PHA. How Sir yer son what am I then your Daughter you gaue to me KIN. But heauen hath made asignement vnto him And brought your contract to anullity Sir your entertainment hath beene most faire Had not your hell-bred lust dride vp the spring From whence flow'd forth those fauours that you found I am glad to see you safe let this suffice Your selfe hath crost your selfe LEON They are married sir PHAR. How married I hope your highnesse will not vse me so I came not to be disgraced and returne alone KING I cannot helpe it sir LEON To returne alone you neede not sir Here is one will beare you company You know this Ladies proofe if you Fail'd not in the say taging ME. I hold your scoffes in vildest base contempt Or is there said or done ought I repent But can retort euen to your grinning teeths Your worst of spights tho Princesse lofty steps May not be tract yet may they tread a wry That boy there BEL. If to me ye speake Lady I must tell you you haue lost your selfe In your too much forwardnesse and hath forgot Both modesty and truth with what impudence You haue throwne most damnable aspertions On that noble Princesse and my selfe witnesse the world Behold me sir Kneeles to LEON and discouers her haire LEON I should know this face my daughter BEL. The same sir PRIN. How our sometime Page Bellario turn'd woman BEL. Madame the cause induc't me to transforme my selfe Proceeded from a respectiue modest Affection I bare to my my Lord The Prince Phylaster to do him seruice As farre from any laciuious thought As that Lady is farre from goodnesse And if my true intents may be beleeued And from your Highnesse Madame pardon finde You haue the truth PRIN. I doe beleeue thee Bellario I shall call thee still PHI. The faithfullest seruant that euer gaue attendance LEON Now Lady lust what say you to 'th boy now Doe you hang the head do ye shame would steale Into your face if ye had grace to entertaine it Do ye slinke away Exit MEGRA hiding her face KING Giue present order she be banisht the Court And straightly confinde till our further Pleasure is knowne PHAR. Here 's such an age of transformation that I doe not know how to trust my selfe I 'le get me gone to Sir the disparagement you haue done must be cald in question I haue power to right my selfe and will Exit PHARAMONT KING We feare ye not sir PHI. Let a strong conuoy guard him through the Kingdome With him let 's part with all our cares and feare And Crowne with ioy our happy loues successe KING Which to make more full Lady Gallatea Let honour'd Clerimont acceptance finde In your chast thoughts PHI. T is my sute too PRIN. Such royall spokes-men must not be deni'd GAL. Nor shall not Madame KING Then thus I ioyne your hands GAL. Our hearts were knit before They kisse PHI. But t is you Lady must make all compleat And giues a full peryod to content Let your loues cordiall againe reuiue The drooping spirits of noble Trasiline What saies Lord Leon to it LEON Marry my Lord I say I know she once lou'd him At least made shew she did But since t is my Lord Phylasters desire I 'le make a surrender of all the right A father has in her here take her sir With all my heart and heauen giue you ioy KING Then let vs in these nuptuall feastes to hold Heauen hath decreed and Fate stands vncontrold FINIS
better Blest in that the secret iustice of the gods Is mingled with it let vs leaue and kisse lest some Vnwelcom'd guest should fall betwixt vs And we should part without it PHY. T' will be ill I should abide here long PRIN. T is true and worse you should come often How shall we deuise to hold intelligence That our true loues on an new occasion may agree What path is best to tread PHY. I haue a boy sent by the gods I hope to this intent not yet seene in the Court hunting the buck I found him sitting by a fountaine side of which he borrowed some to quench his thirst and payd the nymph as much againe in teares a Garland lay him by made by himselfe of many seuerall flowers bred in the vayle stucke in that mistick order that the rarenesse delighted me but euer when he turn'd his tender eye vpon vm he would weepe as if he meant to make them grow againe seeing such prety helplesse innocence dwel in his face I askt him all his story he told me that his parents gentle dyed leauing him to the mercy of the fields which gaue him roots of the christall springs which did not stop the course and the Sun which still he thankt it yeelded him his life then tooke hee vp his garland and did shew what euery flower as countrey people hold did signifie and how all ordered thus exprest his griefe and to my thoughts did read the pretiest lecture of his countrey art that could be wisht so that me thoughts I could haue studied it I gladly entertainde him whom was glad to follow and haue got the trustiest louingest and the gentlest boy that euer maister kept him wil I send to wayte on you and beare our hidden loue PRIN. T is well no more Enter woman WOO. Madame the Prince is come to doe his seruice PRIN. What will you Phylaster doe with your selfe PHY. Why that which all the gods haue appointed out for me PRIN. Deare hide thy selfe bring in the Prince PHI. Hide me from Pharamont When thunder speakes which is the voyce of God Though I doe reuerence yet I doe not hide my selfe And shall a stranger Prince haue leaue to bragge Vnto a forraigne Nation that he made Phylaster hide himselfe PRIN. He cannot know it PHY. Though it should sleepe for euer to the world it is a simple sin to hide my selfe which will for euer on my conscience lie PRIN. Then good Phylaster giue him scope and way in what he sayes for he is apt to speake what you are loath to heare PHI. I will Enter PHARAMONT and a woman PHAR. My Princely Mistrisse as true louers ought I come to kisse these faire hands to shew in outward ceremonies the deare loue within my heart PHI. If I shall haue an answer or no derectly I am gone PHA. To what what would he haue answer PRIN. To his claime vnto the Kingdome PHA. Sira I forbare you before the King PHI. Good sir doe so still I would not talke with you PHA. But now the time is fitter doe but offer to make mention of right to any kingdome though it lie scarce habitable PHI. Good sir let me goe PHA. And by the gods PHI. Peace Pharamont if then PRIN. Leaue vs Phylaster PHI. I haue done PHI. You shall not need PHA. What now PHI. Know Pharamont I loath to brawle with such a blast as thou who are nothing but a valiant voyce but if thou shalt prouoke mee further men shall say thou wert and not lament it PHA. Doe you sleight my greatnesse so much and in the chamber of the Princesse PHI. It is a place to which I must confesse I owe a reuerence but wert the Church at the high Altar there 's no place so safe where thou darst iniurie me but I dare kill thee and for your greatnesse know I can grasp you and your greatnesse thus thus into nothing giue not a word not a word back farewell Exit PHA. 'T is an odd fellow Madame wee must stop his mouth with some office when we are married PRIN. You were best make him your Controuler PHA. I thinke he would discharge it well Madame I hope our hearts are knit but yet so slow the cerimonies of state are that t will bee long before our hearts bee so then if you please being agreed in heart let vs not waite for dreaming forme but take a little stolne delights and so preuent our ioyes to come PRIN. If you dare speake your thoughts I must with-draw in honour Exit Princesse PHA. The constetution of my body will neuer hold out till the wedding I must seeke else where Exit PHA. Actus 2. Scoen. 2. Enter PHYLASTER and his boy called BELLARIO PHI. And thou shalt finde her honourable boy full of regard Vnto thy tender youth for thy owne modesty And for my sake apter to giue then thou wilt be to aske I or deserue BOY Sir you did take me vp when I was nothing And I am onely yet some thing by being yours You trusted me vnknowne and that which you were apt to conster a simple innocence in me perhaps might haue beene crafty The cunning of a boy hardened in lyes and theft yet ventered you to part my miseries and me For which I neuer can expect to serue a Lady that beares more honour in her brest then you PHY. But boy it will preferre thee thou art yong And bear'st a childish ouer-flowing loue to them that claps thy cheekes and speake thee faire but when iudgement comes no rule those passions thou wilt remember best those carefull friends that pla'st thee in the noblest way of life she is a Princesse I preferre thee to BOY In that small time that I haue seene the world I neuer knewe a man hastie to part with a seruant he thought trusty I remember my father would preferre the boyes he kept to greater men then he but did it not till they were too sawcy for himselfe PHY. Why gentle boy I find no fault at all In thy behauiour BOY Sir if I haue made a fault of ignorance Instruct my youth I shall be willing if not apt to learne Age and experience will adorne my mind with larger Knowledge and if I haue done a wilfull fault Thinke me not past all hope for once What maister holds so strickt a hand ouer his boy That he will part with him without one warning Let me be corrected to breake my stubbornenesse If it be so rather then turne me off And I shall mend PHY. Thy loue dos plead so prettily to stay That trust me I could weepe to part with thee Alas I do not turne thee off thou knowst it is my businesse That dos call thee hence and when thou art with her Thou dwell with me thinke so and t is so and when time is full That thou hast well dischargd this heauy trust Layd on so weake a one I will againe with ioy Receiue thee as I liue I will nay weepe Not
strength of all the guard Cannot hold it if they were tied too t She would blow vm out of the kingdome they talke of Iubiter Hee s but a squib-cracker to her but speake sweet Lady Shall I be freely welcome ME. Whether PHA. To your bed if you mistrust my faith you doe me the most vnnoblest wrong ME. I dare not Prince PHA. Make your owne conditions my purse shall seale vm and what you dare imagine you can want I 'le furnish you withall giue worship to you thoughts euery morning about it come I know y' are bashfull speake in my eare will you be mine keepe this and with it me soone I shall visit you ME. My Lord my chamber 's most vncertaine but when t is night I 'le finde some meanes to slip into your lodging till when PHA. Till when this and my heart go with thee Exit ambo Enter GALLATEA from behind the Orras GAL. Oh thou pernitious petticote Prince are these your vertues well if I doe not iay a traine to blow your sport vp I am no woman and Lady Dowsabell I 'le fit you for it Exit Enter Princesse and her Gentlewoman PRIN. Where 's the boy WO. Within PRIN. Gaue you him gold to buy him clothes WO. I did PRIN. And has he don 't WO. Yes Madam Enter GALLATEA PRIN. T is a pretie sad talking boy i' st not askt you his name WO. No Madame PRIN. O you are welcome what good newes GAL. As good as any one can tell your grace that sayes she has done that you would haue wisht PRIN. Hast thou discouered GAL. I haue straind a point of modesty for you PRIN. I prethee how GAL. In listning after bawdry I see let a Lady liue neuer so modestly they shall be sure to finde a lawfull time to harken after bawdry your Prince braue Pharamont was so hot on t PRIN. With whom GAL. Why with the Lady I suspected I can tell the time and place PRIN. O when and where GAL. To night his lodging PRIN. Run thy selfe into the presents mingle there againe with other Ladies leaue the rest to me if destinie to whom wee dare not say why thou didst this haue not decreed it so in lasting leaues whose smallest charecters was neuer altred yet this match shall breake where 's the boy Enter Boy WO. Here Madame PRIN. Sir your sad to change your seruice i' st not so BOY Madame I haue not chang'd I waite on you to doe him seruice PRIN. Then trust in me tell me thy name BOY Bellario PRIN. Thou canst sing and play BOY If griefe will giue me leaue Madame I can PRIN. Alas what kinde of griefe can thy yeares know Hadst thou a crosse schoole-maister when thou went'st to schoole Thou art not capable of other griefe Thy browes and cheekes are smooth as water be When no breath troubles them beleeue me boy Care seekes wrinckled browes and hollow eyes And builds it selfe caues to abide in them Come sir tell me truely doth your Lord loue me BOY I know not Madame what it is PRIN. Canst thou know griefe and neuer yet knewst loue Thou art deceiud boy dos he speake of me As if he wisht me well BOY If it be loue to forget all respect to his owne friends with thinking of your face if it bee loue to sit crosse armde and thinke away the day with mingling starts and crying your name as lowde as men in streetes doe fire if it bee loue to weepe himselfe away when hee but heares of any woman dead or kild because it might haue bin your chance if when hee goes to rest which will not bee twixt euery praier he saies to name you once as others drop beades be to be in loue then Madame I dare sweare he loues yee PRIN. O y' are a cunning boy and taught to your Lords credit But thou know'st a lie that beares this sound Is welcomer to me then any truth that sayes He loues me not lead the way boy doe you attend me too T is thy Lords businesse hasts me thus away Exit Enter the three Gentlewomen MEGRA GALLATEA and another Lady TRA. Come Ladies shal we talke a round as men do walke a mile women should talke an houre after supper t is their exercise GAL. T is late ME. T is all my eyes will doe to lead me to my bed GAL. I feare they re so heauy you le scarce finde the way to your owne lodging with vm to night Enter PHARAMONT the Princesse boy and a woman TRA. The Prince PHA. Not abed Ladyes y are good sitters vp what thinke you of a pleasing dreame to last till morning GAL. I shall chose my Lord a pleasing wake before it PRIN. T is well y are courting of these Ladyes i' st not late Gentlemen GAL. Yes madame PRIN. Waite you there Exit Princesse ME. Shee 's iealous as I liue looke my Lord the Princesse a Hilus an Adonis PAR. His forme is angel-like ME. Why this is that must when you are wed sit by Your pillow like young Appollo with his hand and voyce binding your thoughts in sleepe the Princesse dos prouide him for you and for her selfe PHA. I finde no musicke in these boyes ME. Nor I they can doe little and that small they doe they haue not wit to hide it LEON Serues he the Princesse TRA. Yes LEON T is a sweete boy how braue she keepes him PHA. Ladies all good rest I meane to kill a buck tomorrow morning ere you haue done your dreames ME. All happinesse attend your grace Gentlemen good rest shall we to bed GAL. Yes all good night LEON May your dreames be true to you What shall we doe Gallants t is late Enter the King the Princesse and a guard The king is vp still see he comes a guard along with him KING Looke your intelligence be true PRIN. Ypon my life it is and I doe hope your Highnesse will not tie me to a man that in the heate of woing throwes me off and takes another LEON What should this meane K. If it be true that Lady had beene better imbrast curelesse diseases get you to your rest you shal be righted Gentlemen draw neere we shall imploy ye Is young Pharamont come to his lodging LEON I saw him enter there KING Haste some of you and cunningly discouer if Megra be in her lodging Exit LEON LEON Sir she parted hence but now with other Ladyes KING If shee bee there we shall not neede to make a vaine discouerie of our suspition you gods I see that who vnrighteously holds wealth or state from others shall be curst in that which meaner men are blest withall Ages to come shall know no male of him left to inherit and his name shal be blotted from the earth if hee haue any child it shal be crosly matcht the gods themselues shall sowe wild strife betwixt her Lord and her yet if it be your wils forgiue the sinne I haue committed let it not fall vpon this vndeseruing child if she
his age Phylaster prest downe from his royall right By this regardlesse King and onely looke and see the Scepter Ready to be cast into the hands of that laciuious Lady That liues in lust with a smooth boy Now to be married to you strange thing Who but that people please to let him be a Prince Is borne a slaue in that which should be his most noble part His mind TRA. That man that would not stir with you to aide Phylaster Let the gods forget that such a Creature Walkes vpon the earth CLE. The gentry do awaite it and the people against their nature are all for him and like a field if standing corne moued with a stiffe gale their heads bow al one way LEON The onely cause that draweth Phylaster backe From this attempt is the faire Princesse loue Which he admires and we can now comfort TRA. Perhaps hee 'le not bileeue CLE. Why Gentlemen t is without question so LEON I t is past speech she liues dishonestly But how shall we if he be curious worke on his beleefe TRAS. We all are satisfied within our selues LEON Since it is true and Lords to his owne good I 'le make this new report to be my knowledge I 'le say I know it I 'le sweare I saw it CLE. It will be best Enter PHILASTER TRAS. T will moue him CLE. Here he comes Good morrow to your honor We haue spent some time in seeking you PHI. My worthy friends you that can keepe your memories to know your friend in miseries and cannot frame on men disgrace for vertue a good day attend you all what seruice may I doe worthy your acceptation LEON My Lord wee come to vrge that vertue which wee know liues in your breast forth rise make a head the nobles and the people are all dull with this vsurping king and not a man that euer heard the word knowes such a thing as vertue but will second your attempts PHI. How honourable is this loue in you to me That haue deserued more know my friends You that were borne to shame your poore Phylaster With too much courtesie I could affoord to melt my selfe To thankes but my designes are not yet ripe sufficient That ere long I shall imploy your loues But yet the time is short of what I would LEON The time is fuller then you expect That which hereafter perhaps be reacht by violence May now be caught as for the King you know The people long haue hated him but now The Princesse whom they lou'd PHI. Why what of her TRA. Is loathed as much as he PHI. By what strange meanes LEON Shee 's knowne a whore PHI. Thou lyest LEON My Lord PHY. Thou liest and thou shalt feele it I had thought He offers to draw his sword is held Thy minde had beene of honour then to rob a Lady Of her good name is an infectious sin not to be pardon'd Be it false as hell t will neuer be redeemd If it be sowne amongst the people faithfull to increase All euill they shall he are Let me alone that I May cut out falsehood where it growes set hils on hils Betwixt me and that man that vtters this and I will scale them all And from the vtmost top fall on his necke like thunder from a clowde LEON This is most strange sure he dos loue her PHY. I doe loue faire truth she is my mistresse who iniuries her drawes vengeance from me Sirs let goe my armes TRA. Nay good my Lord be patient CLE. Sir remember this is your honor'd friend that comes to doe his seruice and will shew you why he vttered this PHI. I aske your pardon sir My zeale to truth makes me vnmannerly Should I haue heard dishonour spoke of you behind your backs vntruely I had beene as much distempered and inrag'd as now LEON But this my Lord is truth PHI. Oh say not so Good sir forbeare to say so t is then truth that women all are false vrge it no more t is impossible why should you thinke the Princesse light LEON Why she was taken at it PHI. T is false by heauen t is false it cannot be Can it speake Gentlemen Can women all be damn'd TRA. Why then it cannot be CLE. And she was taken with her boy PHI. What boy LEON A Page a boy that serues her PHY. Oh good gods a little boy LEON I know you him my Lord PHY. Hell and sin know him Sir you are deceiu'd I 'le reason it a little milder with you If she were lustfull would shee take a boy that knowes not yet desires shee would haue one should meete her thoughts and know the sinne shee acts which is the great delight of wickednesse you are abus'd and so is she and I CLE. How you my Lord PHI. Why all the worlds abusd in an vniust report LEON O noble sir your vertues cannot looke Into the subtile thoughts of women In short my Lord I tooke them I my selfe PHI. Now all the diuels thou didst flie from my rage Would thou hadst tane diuels ingendring plagues When thou didst take them hide thee from mine eyes Would thou hadst taken daggers in thy breast When thou didst take them Or beene strucke dumbe for euer that this fault might haue slept in silence CLE. Haue you knowne him so ill temper'd TRA. Neuer before PHI. The winds that are let loose from the foure corners Of the earth and spreads them selfe all ouer sea and land Meetes not a fayre on what friend beares a sword To runne me thorow TRA. Why my Lord are you so mooued at this PHI. When any fall from vertue I am distracted I haue interest in 't LEON But good my Lord recall your selfe and thinke what 's best to be done PHI. I thanke you I will do 't Please you to leaue me I 'le consider of it To morrow I 'le finde your lodgings and giue you answer OMNES All the gods direct you the readiest way Exit three Gent. PHI. I had forgot to aske vm where he tooke her I 'le follow him Oh that I had a sea within my breast To quench the fire I feele more circumstances Would but flame this fire it more afflicts me now To know by whom the deede is done then simply That it is done and he that tels me this is honourable As farre from lies as she is farre from truth O that like beasts we could not grieue our selues With that we see not buls and rammes will fight To keepe their females standing in their sight But take them from them and you take at once Their spleenes away and they will fall againe Vnto their pastures growing fresh and fat And taste the waters of the springs as sweete as 't was before Finding no start in sleepe but miserable man Enter boy See see you gods he walkes still and the face you let him weare When he was innocent is still the same not blush Is this iustice do you meane to intrap mortalitie That you allow treason
know my loue will question him ouer and ouer How I slept make talke how I remember him When his deere name was last spoken And how spoke when I sight song and ten thousand such I should be angry at his stay Enter King KING What in your meditations who attends you PRIN. None but my single selfe I neede no guard I doe no wrong nor feare none K. Tell me haue you not a boy PRIN. Yes Sir K. What kinde of boy PRIN. A page a waiting boy K. A hansome boy PRIN. I thinke he be not vgly Sir well qualified and dutifull I know him I tooke him not for beauty K. He speakes and sings and plaies PRIN. Yes Sir K. About eighteene PRIN. I neuer askt his age K. Is he full of seruice PRIN. By your pardon why do you aske K. Put him away PRIN. Sir KING Put him away I say has done you that good seruice Shames me to speake off PRIN. Good sir let me vnderstand you K. If you feare me show it in duty put away that boy PRIN. Let me haue reason for it and then your wil is a command K. Do not you blush to aske it cast him off OrI shall do that shame to you ye are one shame with me And so neere my selfe that by the gods I 'd dare not tell my selfe what you my selfe Haue done PRIN. What I haue done KING T is a new language that all loue to learne The common people speake it well already They neede no grammer vnderstand me well there be foule Whispers stirring cast him off and suddenly do it farewell Exit King PRIN. Where may a maid liue securely free Keeping her honour faire not with the liuing They feede vpon opinions errors dreames and make vm truth They draw a nourishment out of defamings Grow vpon disgraces and when they see a vertue fortified Strongly aboue the battry of their tongues Oh how they mind to sincke it and defeated foule Sicke with poyson stricke the mountaines Where noble names be sleeping till they sweate And the cold Marble melt Enter PHILASTER PHI. Peace to your fairest thoughts deerest mistrisse PRIN. Oh my deerest seruant I haue a warre within me PHI. He must be more then man that makes these christals runne into riuers sweetest faire the cause and as I am your slaue tied to your goodnesse your creature made againe from what I was and newly spirited I 'le right your honour PRIN. O my best loue that boy PHI. What boy PRIN. The pretie boy you gaue me PHI. What of him PRIN. Must be no more mine PHI. Why PRIN. They are iealous of him PHI. Iealous who PRIN. The King PHI, Oh my misfortune Then t is no idle iealousie let him goe PRIN. O cruell are you hard hearted too Who shall now tell you how much I loued you Who shall sweare it to you and weepe the teares I send Who shall now bring you letters rings braslets Loose his health in seruice make tedious nights In stories of your praise Who shall now sing Your crying Elegies and strike a sad soule Into senselesse pictures and make them warme Who shall take vp his lute and touch it Till he crowne a silent sleepe vpon my eye-lids Make me dreame and crie O my deere deere Phylaster PHI. O my heart would he had broken thee That made thee know this Lady was not loyall Mistresse forget the boy I 'le get you a farre better PRIN. Oh neuer neuer such a boy againe as my Bellario PHI. T is but your fond affection PRIN. With thee my boy fare well for euer All seruice in seruants farewell faith and all Desires to doe well for thy sake let all that Shall succeede thee for thy wrongs Sell and betray chaste loue PHI. And all this passion for a boy PRIN. He was your boy and you put him vnto me And the losse of such must haue a mourning for PHI. O thou forgetfull woman PRIN. How my Lord PHI. False Arethusa Hast thou a medicine to restore my wits When I haue lost vm if not leaue to talke and doe thus PRIN. Doe what sir would you sleepe For euer Arethusa O ye gods ye gods Giue me a wealthy patience haue I stood naked Aboue the shocke of many fortunes haue I seene mischiefe Numberlesse and mighty grow like a sea vpon me Haue I taken danger as deepe as death into my bosome And laught vpon it made it but a mirth And flowing it by do I liue now like him vnder this tyrant King That languishing heare his sad bell and sees his Mourners Doe I beare all this brauely and sinke at length Vnder a womans falsehood O that boy that cursed boy None but a villaine boy to ease your lust PRIN. Nay then I am betraid I feele the plot cast for my ouerthrow O I am wretched PHI. Now you may take that little right I haue to this Poore Kingdome giue it to your Ioy for I haue no ioy in it Some far place where neuer woman kinde durst set her foote For bursting with her poyson must I seeke And liue to curse you and there dig a Caue And preach to beasts and birds what women are How Heauen is in your eies but in your hearts more hell Then hell has How your tongues like Scorpyons Both heale and poyson How your thoughts wouen With thousand changes in one subtile web and worne by you How that foolish men that reade the story of a womans face And dyes beleeuing it is lost for euer How all the good you haue Is but a shadow i' th morning with you and at night behind you Past and forgotten How your vowes are frost fast for a night And with the next Sunne gone How you are Being taken altogether A meere confusion and so dead a Chaios That loue cannot distinguish these sad texts Till my last houre I am bound to vtter of you So farewell all my wo all my delight Exit PHYLASTER PRIN. Be mercifull you gods and strike me dead What way haue I deserued this make my breast transparant That the world iealous of me May see the foulest thought my heart holds Where shall women turne their eies to finde out constancie Enter boy Saue me how black and vile me thinkes that boy lookes now Oh thou dissembler that before thou spokst Wert in thy cradle false sent to make lies And to betray innocence thy Lord and thou Maist glory in the ashes of a maid foold by her passion But the conquest is nothing so great as wicked Flie away let my command force thee to that Which shame would doe without it if thou vnderstoodst The loathed office thou hast vndertooke Why thou wouldst hide thee vnder heapes of hils Lest we should dig and finde thee BOY O what god angry with me hath sent this strange desease Into the noblest mindes Madame this griefe you adde vnto me Is no more then drops to seas for which they are not seen to swell My Lord has struck his anger through my heart And
let out all the hope of future ioyes Ye neede not bid me flie I came to part To take my latest leaue Farewell for euer I durst not run away in honesty from such a Lady Like a boy that stole or made some greater fault The power of gods assist you in your suffering Hasty time reueale the truth to your abused Lord and mine That he may know your worth whilst I goe seeke Out some forgotten place to die Exit BO PRIN. Peace guide thee thou hast ouerthrowne me once But if I had another time to lose Thou or another villaine with thy lookes Might take me out of it and send me naked My haire desheueld through the fiery streetes Enter Wo. Madame the king would hunt And cals for you with earnestnesse PRIN. I am in tune to hunt Diana if thou canst Rage with a maid as with a man let me discouer thee bathing and turne me to a fearefull hind That I may die pursu'd by cruell hounds And haue my story written in my wounds Exit Princesse Actus 4. Scoen. 1. Enter the King PHARAMONT Princesse MEGRA GALLATEA LEON CLE. TRA. and two Wood-men KING What are the hounds before and all the Woodmen Our horses ready and our bowes bent LEON All sir KING You are clowdy sir Come we haue forgotten your veniall trespasses let not that sit heauy vpon your spirit Here 's none dares vtter it LEON He lookes like an olde surfeited stallion after his leaping Dull as a Dormouse see how he sinckes the wench has shot him betweene wind and water and I hope sprung a lake CLE. He needes no teaching he strikes sure enough His greatest fault is he hunts too much in the purlewes Would he would leaue off poaching TRA. And for his horne has left it at the lodge where he lay late Oh hee 's a pernitious limhound turne him vpon the pursue of any Lady and if hee lose her hang him vp i' th slip when my foxe by th bewty growes prowd I 'le borrow him KING Is your boy turnde away PRIN. You did command sir and I obeyed you KING T is well done harke ye furder LEON I' st possible this fellow should repent Me thinkes that were not noble in him And yet he lookes like a mortified member As if he had a sicke mans salue in 's mouth If a worse man had done this fault now Some physicall Iustice or other would presently Without the helpe of an Almanacke Haue opened the obstructions of his liuer And let him bloud with a dog-whip TRA. See see how modestly yon Lady lookes As if she came from churching with her neighbours Why what a diuell can you see in her face But that shee 's honest CLE. Faith no great matter to speake of a foolish twinckling with the eie that spoyles her coat but hee must be a cunning Herald that findes it TRA. See how they muster on another O ther 's a ranke regient where the diuell carries the Culours and his damn'd drum maior Now the flesh and the world come behinde with the Carriage LEON Sure this Lady has a good turne done against her wil before she was common talke now none dares say Cantharides can stirre her her face lookes like a warrant willing and commanding all tongues as they will answere it to be tied vp and boulted when this Lady meanes to let her selfe loose as I liue shee has got a goodly protection and a gratious and may vse her body discretely for her health sake once a weeke except lent and dog-dayes O if they were to be got for money what a large summe would come out of the Citie for these Licences KING To horse to horse we loose the morning Gentlemen 1 WOOD. What haue you log'd the Deere below Exit King and Lords Manet Wood-men 2 WOOD. Yes they are ready for the bow 1 WOOD. Who shoots 2 The Princesse 1 WOOD. No shee 'le hunt 2 WOOD. Shee 'le take a stand I say 1 WOOD. Who else 2 WOOD. Why the young strange Prince 1 WOOD. He shall shoote in a stone bow for me I neuer lou'd his beyond-sea-shippe since he forsooke the Say for paying ten shillings he was there at the fall of a Deare and would needes out of his Mightinesse giue ten groates for the docets mary his steward would haue the villuet head into the bargaine to turfe his hat withall I thinke he should loue venery he and old Sir Tristrum for if ye be remembred hee forsooke a Stagge once to strike a rascall milking in a meddow and her hee kild i' the eye Who shootes else 2 WOOD. The Lady Gallatea 1 WOOD. That 's a good wench an shee would not chide vs for tumbling of her women in the brakes she 's liberal and by the gods they say honest and whether that be a fault or no I haue nothing to do there 's all 2 WOOD. No one more Megra 1 WOOD. That 's a firker I'faith boy there 's a wench will ride her hanches as hard after a kennell of hounds as a hunting sadle whē she comes home get vm clapt and all is well againe I haue knowne her lose her selfe three times in one after-noone if the Woods had beene answerable and has bin worke enough for one man to finde her and has swet for 't shee rides well and shee payes well harke else Enter PHILASTER solus PHY. Oh that I had beene nourisht in the woods With milke of goates and Acrons and not knowne The right of Crownes nor the dissembling traines Of cruell loue but dig'd my selfe a Caue Where I my fire my Cattell and my bed Might haue beene shut together in one shed And then had taken me some mountaine girle Beaten with winds chaste as the rocke whereon she dwelt That might haue strewd my bed with leaues and reedes And with the skins of beasts our neighbours and haue borne Out her big breasts my large course issue This had bin a life free from vexation Enter BO BOY Oh! wicked men an innocent may walk safe amongst beasts Nothing assaults me here I see my greeued Lord sits as His soule were searching out a way to leaue his body Pardon mee that brake thy last commandement for I must speake You that are greeu'd can pittie heare my Lord PHY. Is there a creature yet so miserable that I can pittie BOY O my noble Lord view my strange fortunes And bestow on me according to your bounty If my seruice can merit nothing so much as may serue to keepe That little peece I hold of life from cold and hunger PHI. Now by the gods this is vnkindly done to vex me With thy sight thou art falne againe to thy dissembling trade How shouldst thou thinke to cosen me againe Remaines there yet a plague vntride for me Euen so Thou wepst and lookst and spokst when I first tooke thee Curse on the time If thy commanding teares can worke On any other vse thy art I 'le not betray it which way Wilt thou take that