you to that love he 's true Yet suffers Martyr-like for love of you Erm. I beleive once he lov'd me well indeed And mine did equal his if not exceed aside and sighing But I considred not the miseries Of marriage then which now I do despise A maiden life all others does excel Pray tell Eusames this and so farewel offers to go out Flo. Pray Ladystay one request does remain He ask no more Erm. Then that you shall obtain Gon. She turns again I doubt be will it 'h end Make a deep interest in her for his friend aside But be it how it will I le overhear I am too lofty to be touch'd by fear Flo. Are you resolv'd alwaies to live amaid Erm. I mention'd not how long but thus I said A Maidens life excels all other lives Flo. But Maids contracted are as good as wives spoken whisperingly Ermenia swounds Flo. O me she sounds Gon. That story in the ear Has made her pride fall and my spirit fear Ermenia breaths Gon. She breathes agen Flo. Madam how are you now Erm. Well but better had I made no vow To poor Eusames Florentio wee 'l withdraw Flo. I le follow Madam your will is my law exit Ermenia Ye powers of love and friendship crown the end Of this design with comfort for my friend exit Florentio Manet Gonzetto Great God of love what mighty power unknown Hast thou now us'd to mee more then thy own It was thy conduct sure and thy design And not thy power alone that vanquisht mine As a great Captain in the wars to his Name Of every conquest gain'd joynes all the Fame Though 't was not only by his power got But by the Armies by his Conduct brought So when thy power could not do 't alone Thou then dist lead her troops of virtues on And now too soon I feel by my surprize Thou hast not only darts but peircing eyes Then as thou art great and powerful bee Just I am enforc'd to love and love I must Enter Captain The news Captain any Letters from the Army yet to his Highness Cap. Yes Sir last night Gon. Are the contents divulg'd Cap. Yes some two daies since half our army was besmear'd with blood the other half took flight and the fam'd Carionil with some number of cheif Commanders were surrounded with a multitude of Enemies and almost hopeless of ever seeing Venice agen yet when they heard our noble General cry fight fight for Venice till you dye they with such vigour redoubled their blows adding wounds to wounds blood to blood dead to the dead till by the favour of that potent God with whom it is to give the victory they through the Multitude quickly run their way and after for that night sounded a retreat And in the interim receiving a supply Early next morn refac'd the enemy Whose Army in number doubled ours but at the first onset with manly courage We dispers'd them quite Part we took prisoners part we put to flight The rest lay gasping on the ground frustrate of future hope or remedy Few escaped alive Of lasts nights newes this is a Narrative Gon. I joy wee were so succesful in the end though to our loss at first Cap. I could have gladly wish'd my self there but that I was commanded to the contrary Gon. I credit you Captain you have done your Country good service Cap. My Lord I must retire Gon. Farewell good Captain exit Captain I know not what to think much less to do I am in the flames and now I must go through Why should I dote on one that is so mean But shee that 's lovely to love is a Queen Ermenia thee I love thy love I crave Which if my wealth and fame can gain I 'le have I fear no rivals i 've a double fate Too wealthy for contempt too high for hate exit Scen third Enter Florentio and Ermenia Erm. Florentio what iv'e said I le do provided he Without contempt a constant Lover be Flo. Madam Be you as kind as he will constant prove And make his joys as perfect as his love I dare protest by ' very Deity Hee 'l ne'r be guilty of inconstancy Erm. Then whi le I live I le love him tell him this Though many court me yet my heart is his exit Ermenia Flo. So I have prevail'd and for joy could fly To tell Eusames of my victory O may the god of love as he 's begun Unite these too contracted hearts in one Enter Eusames See here he comes I le stand aside To know how his thoughts fixed are Whether to hope or fear or to despair Or whether he will into a passion fall For i 've a double joy to banish all Eus How joyfully the birds with warbling notes Salute the morning through their gentle throats But day no sooner does appear to mee But I complain a fresh of misery In love imperious love Assist a wretched youth thou caus'd all this And 't is thy power alone can work my bliss I cannot dare not hope my friend can bee So prevalent to regain her love to mee She is grown high and yet must higher grow While I for love of her must fall too low offers to go out Eusames turns back and falls into a trance Flo. Stay stay Eusames What struck dum with fear Of the sad newes you do expect to hear From me Eus 〈…〉 fear It is too 〈…〉 for me to hear Flo. For love I mov'd but she her love deni'd And having so resolv'd she thus reply'd A Maiden-life all other lives excel Pray tell Eusames this and so farewel Eus Then love farewel for ever And though from all my joyes I am betray'd By thy resolve to live and dye a maid I will not wish that thou mayst live and dye Such an unpittied martyr'd one as I offers to go out Flo. Be not so hasty there remains behind Asentence from her you 'l esteem more kind Then was the other Cruel While I live I le love him tell him this Though many court me yet my heart is his Eus O tantalize me not with hopes so vain Can she so hate so quickly love again As if she had her former scorn forgot Flo. If you can think me false believe me not Eus Then I must credit it O how the joy Of thy successe my miseries destroy My heart 's enliven'd with a fresh relief And double Comforts doe arise from grief So Palms prest down do ever rise the more And spices bruis'd smell sweeter then before Flo. There 's nothing now remains but your adress To compleat hers and your own happiness For if a Maidens vow was ever true No doubt she loves as fervently as you You need no 〈◊〉 since you know the way Haste too her then t is dangerous to delay Eus I will yet ere I go must recommend A parcel of poor thanks to you my friend Flo. Spend no more time in complementing me My recompence is thy felicity Couldst thou enjoy
THE ENGLISH ROGUE A NEVV Comedy As it was acted before several Persons of Honour with great Applause Written by T. T. Licensed according to Order LONDON Printed for William Thackeray at the Golden Sugar-loaf and William Whitwood at the Golden Lyon in Duck-Lane 1668. The Actors Names Plot-thrift The English Rogue Cozen His Companion Gonzetto A great Lord of Venice Avaritius A Userer Cornelio A Citizen of Venice a Coffee-man Don Aquinto A Mountebank Eusames A young decayed Gentleman Florentio His friend A Captain Pego. Gonzetto's Man Women Lucibella Clara Daughters to Avaritius Priscilla Their Maid Ermenia A young Lady contracted to Eusames and beloved of Gonzetto The Scene Venice To my worthily honoured friend and Patroness MRS. ALICE BARRET Madam SO many already have assum'd it as a priviledge that it is now become a current custome to prefix a Dedication to some one whose Judgement and ingenuity may both grace the ambitious Authour and protect his weakness otherwise you had escap'd the trouble of being Guardian to this Brat whose Parent was unable to maintain it To be plain I have cast it at your Door neither better nor worse to expect its fate yet with some confidence of a favourable reception since your Generosity and Nobleness were ever wont to correspond with Charity whereof my self am sufficiently sensible I beg your pardon for this offence but cannot promise to do so no more However I submit to your worthy self whose intimate goodness and serenity have hitherto so far obleiged me that I must ever as most due subscribe myself as really I am Madam Your most humbly devoted servant to command Tho. Thompson The Prologue AT a New Play all Poets must tell news Ye 'r welcome to the labour of a Muse Who do's implore and 't is your pitty worth Your helping hands to bring her firstling forth And let me tell ye 't is most necessary Since 't is her first you act more kind and wary Shou'd you be rough and harsh in what you do The brat might prove defective long of you S'lid then all 's spoil'd your expectation crost The Muse discourag'd and her labour lost Come come for once be kind and rul'd by me And let your smiles crown its Nativity We question not Lucina's help if you Vouchsafe her safe delivery 't will do And that with Pomp and State whilst ye are by Your presence makes it a solemnity The beautys present blazing starr's appear As good Omens to this our hemisphear Nor can we whilst such lustre they dispence Doubt of a favourable influence But I digress the gravid Muse I left Of all succour except bare hopes bereft She 's in the Midwives hands and much endures And cannot be reliev'd except by yours Exit A NEW COMEDY Called the English Rogue Act the First Scene the First Enter Plot-thrift and Cozen. Plot. I See I 'm Fortunes Favorite to the End In a strange place to meet my dearest Friend But prithee tell me Ben. how has thy pollitick pate maintain'd thy Nobleness I am sure you needs must thrive Since by your last Letter to me at Madrid I was informed you have banish'd the Conceit of Marriage Coz. O yes I thank my Fate that fancy flew quickly and ever since in your Art I have been no small practitioner Plot. But how did your Mistress Selina relish it That Admirable Doxie Coz. Doxie indeed whose lasciuious life had it been concealed till I had married her had ruined me for ever Plot. What Man the chaste the virtuous Selina Coz. No the unchaste vicious Selina whom after my Annual services of Adoration to her Shrine and unfeign'd vows of being hers constant for ever I found to be as foul within as I esteemed her fair without Plot. Why this is fine â— faith By Jove Ben I le tell thee these women are just like weather Cocks that turn too and fro at every puffe of wind So they are as fickle in setling their Love on any one man as a Phanatick Parson 's unwilling to alter his Religion when he is forced to Conform or loose his Benefice Coz. I have found it so Plot. 'T is a remarkable observation that any man that has eyes and ears must of necessity credit it but there are some such Buffs in this land that won't believe what their ears have heard or eyes have seen but take their Wives as we do Conies to pen up whilst every Dame to requite the kindness will find a conveniency to tempt the next young Gallant that passes into her Chamber and there discharge the burthen of her desire without the least consideration of making her Husband a Cuckold Coz. That 's most certain Plot. Most certain and you so certainly besotted as resolve to marry I thought the little practice you had made in my Art might have been a sufficient Embleme to demonstrate all women's levity Coz. Prithe no more of 't I am as far from having a good thought of womens constancy as ever I was and once you know I was your only schollar had your cunning ad ungues and if without boasting can say I still retain it Plot. Then let us plot and practice this is a City affords good faces wee 'l instantly go view it you one way I another but be sure before you strike search out the nature of the creature Coz. Never sear it I le warrant thee boy I hit right Plot. That done you cannot miss entrance into any Venetian Dame for my part I doubt not my rogury will never faile getting me a Mistres though it were in the Land of Chastity Coz. I confide something too in mine Plot. Come then lets to our Inne there wee 'l sever As thou hast begun good Fortune help us ever exeunt Act first Scen second Enter Gonzetto solus WHat sudden alteration do I find That does so please and yet torment my minde I know no reason for it there was nothing in the Masque last night but what was pure and splendid Ladies as fair And beautiful as is the morning star Now I have pri d into secret Art That Ladies glittering Eyes can wound a heart I must to fair Ermenia a captive be I 'm her Adorer she my Deity Enter Ermenia and Florentio But here she comes she'es Beauties Paragon Erm. You have your answer Sir and may be gone To Florentio Flo. Since Madam I 'm dismis'd so scornfully To move a change I must presumptious be Think on the good Eusames mis'ries he Who like a careful penitentiary Bedewes his bed with tears as they are due To discontent and all for love of you Erm. Why Sir for me he knows it is in vain To hope Ermenias love to reobtain First let him change his coat of poverty To wealth and honour and then think of me Flo. Let not your height contemne his humble state But Saint like pitty the unfortunate He once was high too but in each degree Where he did love he lov'd with constancy Since first he lov'd
Come pray Gentlemen let us moderate the business Cor. A man of honour a pittiful Mountebanck a dull decoying Fortune-teller an impudent close-bugete'd imposter one that gets his living meerly by choaking the multitude with hard words and a little dirty dogs-turd compounded with a strange conjuring charm Hyperbolloticon-bombon or the like a man of honour ha ha ha That excellent ifaith All ha ha ha Cor. Yee shall but here pray give me leave this is he that cures all diseases and performes all Chyrurgical operations He dextrously coucheth the cataract or suffusion helps all rheumes specks Oungula or the nail in the eyes dimness pearls weakness He has the best remedies i' th world for all pains sickness Megrum Vertigo or the dissiness of the head he cuts and cures cancers wens sore-breasts noli me tangere as also Morbus gallicus or the French POX in great letters running o' th reins and in a word all diseases and distempers incident to the body of man woman or child be it boy or girl All ha ha ha ha Plot. 〈…〉 Co◠〈…〉 Gon. 〈…〉 Co◠〈…〉 All ha ha ha 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Aquin. 〈…〉 in some but in you they are 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ha ha ha 〈◊〉 〈…〉 you and I have 〈…〉 a progress in your love with fair 〈…〉 a plot to make ye happy Cor. With 〈…〉 shall we finish and come to the purpose Plot. We are not farre off 〈…〉 they whisper Gon. Well 〈…〉 must needs be time Cor. 〈◊〉 stay Plot. I will Gon. 〈…〉 to pay take money Coz. 〈…〉 Aquin. 〈…〉 I shall be even with 〈◊〉 incivilities Cor. 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Farewell sir Cor. A man of honour farewell Dr. Distaff belonging to the wheel of Fortune Plot. I le be with you 〈…〉 prefixt without fail Aquin. Your servant sir Exit Gonz Coz Aquin Cor. Welcome Gentâ—… So 〈…〉 no way you say but by this 〈…〉 and her fathers consent Plot. No for put case she loves as I dare warrant she does yet there must be somthing closly acted that may make it sure and not when we have brought our building to the height to be ruin'd with a puff Cor. Well I am resolv'd to spend all my estate in contrivances but I will have my mind Plot. And I mine aside But come le ts to the Tavern and there wee 'l plot to accomplish all Cor. Shall wee a match then come on Exeunt Scene third Avaritius Lucibella Clara. Ava WHat stories are these I hear Lucibella ha what are they Lucibella speak Clara concerning two Youngsters that were tampering to speak with you under the notion of business what say you Clar. Only two young Gentlemen that desire your leave to try our wits by spending an hour in discourse with us now and then Ava S'lid I le h'none of that if ye have a mind to husbands ye shall love and like where I please or I le know why not Luci. That will be pritty i'faith so we shall couple with two old Citizens that are already grown out of fashion for want of the rudiments of Gentility in their youth together with two much brooding over their books and bags in their counting house Ava Come come I have a couple of Husbands for ye grave and rich and have ordered them to come to day upon a likeing in the mean time trick yourselves up handsomly and prepare to entertain them with discretion Cozen. Plot-thrift Plot. S'lid le ts baulk the old man stand close Ava Well I must streight to the Exchange where possibly I may meet them and conduct 'em hither Exit Plot. Save ye Ladies we are somewhat bold to interupt your privacies Coz. But we hope to find an easie pardon Luc. That 's easily granted Gentlemen Plot. No doubt on 't Coz. I durst have thought as much ere I came in Cla. A very pritty humour their both handsome men pray heav'n I misconster not their errand Plot. Madam so strange a curiositie has urg'd me to this boldness I found it vain to resist And to be plain we came with a resolution to love and serve you smile on me Madam I 'me yours body and soul Luc. Very blunt and pathetical Cla. Troth I see I must be fain to put my self forward Sir methinks you might be doing Coz. Doing Madam Cla. Yes doing somthing Coz. Faith any thing with you Madam Cla. Ha ha ha now he comes on two fast Plot Now am I so mad with love that by my virginity I shall never be sober till you quit me of that oath Luc. Then you may chance to dye raving Plot. Say you so If I do I am resolv'd my Ghost shall walk and haunt you till it fright you into the same condition Cla. How shall I know that Coz. Now I think on 't my affection's in expressable Cla. Well excus'd however Plot. Come what say ye shall we make a mad match on 't Luc. As how I pray Plot. Why make a resolution to love one another reciprocally in spight of Fate and the malice of the Devil Luc. Suppose I make this blind covenant and you or I after we have feasted our appetites with those delights may chance to clog our stomacks and then turn to neglect and fail in your appointed Articles what shall be the forfeit for every such default Plot. Why faith on your side to be tongue ty'd and lye alone Luc. Good and on yours Cuckoldome or so Plot. Agreed i'faith Luc. In faith agreed Coz. One denyal more and by the love I bear you which is as safe and sound as any roach I le turn Astronomer and hate all women in general Cla. Well hang 't for once I le make a blind bargain on 't and buy a pig in a poke Plot. And how goes squares Ben. Coz. Faith very roundly we have made a short cut on 't Plot. So so then we 'l be merry laugh and lye down dance and sing in spight of the old mans opposition but firsâ— le ts sing what say ye Ladies Luc. What you please Cla. I I come come we 'l help to make a Chorus Sung by Plot-thrift and Cozen. What need we use many beseeches Or trouble our brain with long speeches If we love 't is enough Hang Poetical stuff As the rule of Honesty teaches Chor. If we love 't is enough Hang Poetical stuff As the rule of honesty teaches 2. Why should we stand whining like fools Or woe by platonical rules If they love we 'l repay 't If not let 'em say 't What need they the help of the Schools Cho. If they love c. 3. But this must be won by Romances And that by verse and fine dances A third do's delight In a song yet at night You must crack a string which she fancies Cho. A third do's delight c. 4. This must be extoll'd to the sky That you can get do but flatter and lye But that Ladi's for me That loves fine and free As real and ready as I. Cho. But that Ladi's for me That loves fine and free
As real and ready as I. Luc. I protest a very pleasant one Cla. Of your own composure I suppose Plot. An abstract drawn from our humour and disposition Madam Cla. 'T is well ayr'd too Coz. You jeer Madam Cla. You mistake Sir Enter Priscilla Pris Madam Lucibella your Father's coming down street with two Gentlemen homeward Plot Upon my life Aquinto the Mountebank and Cornelio the Coffee-man what shall 's do Ben. Coz. Let 'm come wee l not bauk them wee l wheedle them into an opinion that wee were acting in their behalf aforehand that they might be entertained with more familiarity and greater courtesy Plot. And for the old Man Ladies with your leaves wee 'l undertake to allay his pettish humour Luc. Well Gentlemen use your own discretion Coz. And you yours with your new Suitors Cla. Sir they enter Enter Avaritius Ava Come Daughters how here 's a new trick i'faith Pray Gentlemen what acquaintance have you here Plot. O Sir Ava O me no O's sir ye owe me nothing sir Coz. But pray sir Ava Pray me no prays sir pray to God if ye' are so minded sir Pray sir quoth A Plot. S'lid sir ye are a man of the perversest humour that ever I met since I suck'd milk what are you sir that you 'l neither be spoken too nor give an Answer Coz. One wou'd ha' thought your age and long experience shou'd have taught you more civility to strangers then thus to tyrannize though in your own house Ava You say well sir Clar. However they come to know it they 've nick't his humor right Th' old mans chollar falls Plot. Now sir ye' are something more a man Ava What then speak Plot. Why pray sir Ava Pray sir agen Plot. Have but a little patience and I 'l tell you the whole story Ava Story that were fine i'faith do I stand here to hear stories Sir tell me the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth quoth he Coz. Why so ye shall if you 'l but lend an ear Ava No Sir I le lend neither of my ears Coz. Then keep 'em till the Pillory claims it own Luc. Nick Nick. Cla. Excellent Plot. I see hee 's uncapable of any civil society I le e'ne rant him Ben. observe my stile Coz. Enough proceed Plot. Venerable Sir I shall take my leave hark ye sir I shall have somthing to say t' ye in some other place for extortion and bribery the two dam'd sins 'o th age Coz. You may remember sir the defference between you and young Mr. Lavish concerning a morgage where you had like to have screwed him to part with one half of his Estate to secure the other Plot. And then to stop his mouth compounded with him for half in half Ava Gentlemen Coz. Nay this is not all Coz. Remember sir how ye abused his Higness bounty which was to be distributed amongst six Justice of Peace for their good service i th sickness time when you with your two comrades got it into your own hands you cast out the other three Justices and proved your own carvers Ava How Plot. Nay sir there 's a Petition like to be exhibited by Justice Gizard and the other two injured parties 't was a high indignity and his Highness must know it Cla. 'T is fit he should by this light Ava Well Gentlemen I must withdraw I beg your pardons O my sad heart what to do what to do Exit Luc. Is he gone Plot. I le warrant you for ever returning till wee are gone Coz. VVee netled his Justice-ship i'faith Enter Pris VVhat news now Pris Here 's Don Aquinto and Cornelio are very desirous to see you Ladies Plot. Prithee entertain 'em a while i th Hall and shew them the fine pictures Ladies these are the men whose spokesmen we are to represent and first Don Aquinto the mountebank is one who spends all his estate besides his little brains in inventing hard words for sublime Courtship and imploying others to take presidents out of the greatest wits in Christendome for that purpose Coz. The other in his expression so low and blunt that an hour with him is an absolute divertisment Cla. Hark is not that their tread noise of feet Plot. Doubtless let us retire Ladies for fear of maring your pastime Luc. Pray do if you please behind the Arras away away They conceal themselves Luc. Clar. Aquin. Corn. Aquin. I have heard of Cherubins and Seraphins but never saw I Angels cloathed in flesh before Luc. A high sublime conceit Plot. Pox 't was a complement an Age ago made to two Persons of Honour by a studient of Cajus Col. an intimate friend of mine Cor. Mrs. Clara let me not live to fill one dish of Coffee more but dye like a fool suddenly without making my will if I don't love ye most heartily Cla. Thank ye thank ye Aquin. All the Coelestial beauties of the heavens compounded in one only object cou'd not more afflict and press these weaker opticks which as those lesser lights call'd stars do vanish and disappear at Phaebus rising glory are as it were obscur'd by your too glorious aspect Luc. Methinks you should have done well to have brought a preservative against weakness of eyes along with you knowing what a powerful object they were to encounter Aquin. True Madam but men that are employ'd about affairs beyond the moon cannot stoop to consider matters subluminary those men whose larger souls still aim at things immortal know not how to condiscend to converse with inferial mortality Cor. I Madam you may say what you please but I protest my heart is as full of love as a Church bucketfull of water Cla. Good or as an empty oystershel's full of brains Cor. What you please Madam Luc. You much oblidge me Sir And I cou'd wish ye had spent your Ceraphick courtship On a more worthy and deserving object Aquin. Pardon me Madam I must not bear you set so low an estimate On your high merit I must be bold To rectify your judgement and inform you Of a mistake that none but your fair self Durst have committed without apparent 〈◊〉 Namely that you should seem to intimate Your matchless self excell'd by any she How beauteous soever I could 〈◊〉 over The various features of all forraign beauties English Italian French and Dutch Such vast experience has much travel taught me With the Fashions Customes Laws conâ—…ions Allow'd and ratified to each of these And yet all these and many more fam'd places Are destitute of half that excellency And divinity you still bear about you Plot. What a plaguy company of lyes the Rogue has wound upon one bottom Luc. Your language Sir has spoken you wordly and withall I am so well certified of your generosity and nobleness that I must needs blush and own the conquest you already gained over my affection and weakness I heard your noble Friend speak in your 〈…〉 as greedily as griping Misers listen to the wills of of their
loves are wonne Exeunt Finis Actus Tertii Act fourth Act fourth Scene the First Eus COnvey this Letter Coz. unto my Lord Gonzetto you know his lodgings deliver it into his own hands Boy Uncle I shall exit Boy Eus What grudge in thee procures the new grown hate Of thy Ermenia what unhappy fate Has fix'd her heart against thee O that she Should violate her vowes of Constancy To make me miserable I see 't were fit That Lovers vows upon the sands were writ Enter Florentio Plotthrift and Cozen. What are these I must be gone exit Flo. Your company Gentlemen does obleige me much Plot. Alas excuse us Sir it is not such Is worth your thanks much less your obligation Think it but worthy of your acceptation And you will highly honour us since we know For your favours many thanks we one Flo. Come le ts not further complements commence Your love to me extends all recompence I have a suit to you Plot. Name it and 't is granted if it be w'thin compass of my capacity Or my Friends Coz. Most willingly Flo. I doubt it not Sir I have a friend deeply engaged indeed contracted to the Lady Armenia you know her questionless Coz. The Lord Gonzett's Deity Flo. The same my question is whether you think her inclinable to Gonzetto or any other Plot. Troth I think indifferent to any but a little bending to Gonzetto by reason of the weight of riches he throws on her Flo. Very probable Coz. But he 's fire all over for her Flo. 'T is hotly reported so sir Plot. Pardon me sir that I dive into your thoughts the Gentleman you speak of is as I presume your friend by name Eusames I am bold in explaining but assure your self and him sir I le be his friend and Agent and can do much with Ermenia and will Flo. In so doing you will obleidge two friends at once the one sick of Love and dispair the other of sorrow for his friends misfortunes I was once his poor Agent too and then she promised faithfully to embrace him with all former love and respect but she had no sooner set her eye upon this glistring Lord but she forgets her vowes as if they were of no consequence Plot. I know all circumstances I will be very serviceable and I hope succesful I shall loose opportunities therefore for the present farewell Flo. To morrow sir I le waite on you till then adieu exeunt severally Scen second Enter Eusames as in a field HOw am I over press't'ween hope and fear 'T is past the time and yet he is not here Would he would come Delayes in misery and love Would breed impatience in Olymphick Jove Enter Gonzetto O here he is I joy you are come Sir Gon. Yes I am draw They fight Gonzetto stamps and enters a Guard Eus I am ready Gon. Secure him in Fetters till further order Guar. We shall my Lord. exit Gonzetto Eus Ha! is it so base Gonzetto Guard You are bold Sir Eus You are impudent Bandogs how am I conquered with oppression If you are men of civility permit a Gentleman a minutes consideration your reward shall not be wanting and the limits I 'm now confin'd in is a sufficient security for me your prisoner Guard We will obleidge you so far Sir Fus Do so and I le be grateful The guard withdraws Unfortunate Eusames Who hast endur'd the raging of the sea To enjoy two blessings Love and Liberty And art no sooner well arriv'd on shore But both are lost as much as was before Arm me ye Gods with patience and content Manly to undergoe Imprisonment Enter Guard Guard Now I le walk with you my guard is strong This is too sharp sure to continue long Exeunt Scene third Enter Plotthrift and Cozen. Coz. I have heard much of him Plot. He is our Country-man and of rare endowments genteel Parentage and heir to a good fortune had it not been consumed by his Parents for which poor wretch he suffers Coz. She 's very cruel to slight him and settle her affections elsewhere considering the contract Plot. I shall plead Scripture and prick her conscience I fear ere she and I part Coz. Do so I le work the way cross on my Lords side farewell Plot. Adeiu Coz. exit Cozen enter Florentio Flo. Well met again Sir Plot. I was just a going to the Lady Flo. 'T is too little purpose I fear Plot. The reason Flo. Why Eusames out of a mad vein this Even challeng'd Gonzetto who met him with a Guard and clapt him up Plot. Yet not a pin the worse for you shall see To morrow Morn he 's at liberty Flo. It will be welcome news Plot. Well fear it not If I 'm deceiv'd I le never trust a plot Exeunt Scen fourth Enter Ermenia and Priscilla Erm. 'T Is strange Pris 'T is true Madam We meet it in the vulgar mouth besides I had it from the Captain of the guard Who by command sirprised Eusames prisoner Erm. Leave me exit Pris So strange a boldness is familiar With men of noble Births that though they fall So low that others think 'em worthless yet They of themselves still hold the same esteem And what this Age thinks most rediculous Behave themselves as high though not so wealthy Such is Eusames fate whose love at first I entertain'd because 't was as rich as great But now being fall'n from his high estate Still thinks himself as worthy of my love As er'e yet somthing I fain would do Enter Plotthrift Plot. Well met Madam Er. Thank you Sir Plot. I am come to chide you Madam pardon me Erm. To chide me sir Plot. I you Madam you once lov'd a Gentleman named Eusames Erm. O heavens is my breach of sacred Covenants made common Plot. Nay and was contracted to him Erm. Too true indeed Plot. Too true nay ne're repent although his fortunes low had you but given him content he might have rais'd himself indeed I needs must blame you Erm. Proceed no further good sir I am touch'd to the quick and heaven knowes I am somthing troubled Plot. Somthing it must be altogether ere I leave you Madam recall that love you have setled on Gonzetto and render it to Eusames as his due he poor man languishes in prison for love of you by base Gonzetto's means spend no time in recanting but use your utmost endeavour to gain his liberty Ermenia in a Maze wakes Erm. I can hear no more Plot. S'lid but you shall unnatural woman could you think the Gods had no blessing in store for his great virtue whose merit could purchase heaven it self Reverently spoke aside Erm. Pray leave and hear me Plot. O are you touch'd Hear me what can you say alass invention's barren in your cause a double fee cou'd not procure one word to stand in your defence Did you not vow protest and swear your self a real votaress to his desires Did he not with a true and faithful heart when
he was in his height of happiness honour serve you And do you think it now reason sufficient to slight and disaffect him because fortune at presant frowns upon him ha do you think there 's desert in nought but money O unworthy your corrupt soul belyes your form and beauty and ere I go I le cleanse it if that your breast be penetrable to ought that 's good Erm. O no more Why should you ring and twist that heart that is already broke I love Eusames and though orepour'd a while I have not signifi'd the force of passion as I was wont yet be shall soon apprehend a sudden thaw in that affection which he presumed was totally anothers Plot. Noble maid Pardon the harsh conjecture that I made I le use no more for fear my fond conceit fall into relapse I leave you and with such a blessing as dying Fathers give their only sons or saints to their penetant votaries exit Erm. Worthy Eusames unto whom I owe All that my utmost bounty can bestow I will be plain and real in my Love Which may thy anger yet thy pardon move In holy writ many did choose by art Asarafice but nothing like a broken heart Exit Scen fifth Enter Avaritius with a Letter Lucibella Clara. Ava GOne to England Luc. 'T is very true sir Ava Her letter declares that discontent caused her sudden departure I hope neither of you were unkind to her Luc. I hope she speaks of no such thing Cla. Rightly she cannot Ava I 'm somthing troubled but must wave it this is a day appointed for other considerations a happy day for your Daughters that must make your fortunes my great care has wrought it and yours must be as great to entertain it they are gentlemen at all points that when you are married will love embrace and chain themselves to your observance nay a great part of their Estates too are tyed in a joynture which makes up the harmony you are contented girls are you not Luc. A Husbands welcome and as an humble wife I le entertain him but not the Him you mean the gentleman I have well observed and he may please too It is your pleasure I should make him mine and it has been still my duty to observe you Cla. I sir as obediently submit to your pleasure in embracing Cornelio Ava Good girls come le ts go in then I love your modesties to marrow I hope you 'l look more womenly Exeunt Scen. Sixth Enter Gonzetto reading a Letter My Lord Pardon me that I am a little retir'd the cause shall be made evident to your honour on the morrow being my Cozens wedding day I have inform'd my Uncle by letter that I am gone towards England if he acquaint you therewith pray contradict it not not yet fear but at his house to morrow I will meet your embraces I am and will be more Your Honours at command Ermenia Well 't is honestly done but pish Ermenia can't be false so much beauty cannot harbour a double heart I see it is not wealth nor riches can purchase a fair soul nor had my presents of gold ere gain'd a smile had not the influence of my Agents eloquence work'd it O happy man am I that shall possess that matchless beauty Venice can boast off that honest heavenly heart that can't withdraw a while but must acquaint her love and Lord. VVell Cozen thou that hast been the Authour of my endless blis expect a high reward Enter Cozen. See here he is welcome my noble friend claim the performance of that high promised reward I gave the upon condition thou couldest any way win Ermenia to marry me see here her hand to confirm this same shews the letter Coz. I hope by this my Lord you are assur'd she was not courted slightly Gon. No thou hast been diligent and work 's effectually my hand and seal to the Deputy of my Exchequer for five hundred Crowns shall be thy recompence within there Pego. Enter Pego. Pe. My Lord. Gon. Ink and paper Pe. 'T is at hand my Lord. A Table set forth with standish and paper Gon. writes a note and gives it to Cozen. Gon. Take that and with a promise upon my honour to advance the upon any request Coz. Your Honours bountiful and for my part I must make an humble acknowledgment such is my obligation to the merit that I should think my best of labours crown'd in that Act could serve you Gon. Thou art honest and excellent I shall see you to morrow questionless at the Nuptials Coz. 'T is very likely Gon. Till then farewel exit Gonzetto Coz. Good day to your Lordship Now Plothrift if thou thriv'st as well as I 'T is a compleated peice of Roguery Exit Scen seventh Eusames in prison UNto the Man imprisoned black and obscure is the clear beauty of the brightest day through Iron grates he only sees the light and thereby does encrease his misery Those whom he doth perceive in joy to pass augment his wretchedness by making him to think that thus I lately was my self But may I dye abhor'd by mankind if I repine at all Arm ye gods my love with constancy of mind that she may never forget the love of her Eusames O Ermenia the exquisitest tortures that by invention ere were made for the I would think sports and undergoe Mayest thou live happily and free from care And all my miseries of no momentare Enter Jaylor and Ermenia in mans habit Ja. There he is Sir Erm. Ther 's for thy kindness Jaylor Ja. Thank you sir exit Jaylor Er. How do you sir Eus Well Er. Not so well as I could wish you Eus As well as I could wish my self and that 's sufficient you are mistaken sir in me I am no base metal to be chang'd at every puff of wind imprisonment is the least of terrors to daunt a true couragious heart Er. Nay be not so hasty I kindly come to visit you Eus I kindly thank you then Enter Gonzetto Con. So sir are you sorry yet for your late desperate rudeness speaking to Eusames Eus Sorry no I le nere be sorry had I a term of life and liberty could last for ever and you could give it me yes and would for all or more I 'de nere be reconcil'd to base Gonzetto's as ignoble in heart as made noble by thy Titles Enter Jaylor Gon. Jaylor Double fetter him Er. You are too cruel sir Gon. You speak in vain sir Er. 'T is against the Law he is no Fellon Gon. It shall be done Er. It shall Gon. It shall you are too bold Er. No more then I can justifie Jaylor forbear look there high swelling Lord. Throwes him Eusames his pardon purchased from the Duke Eus My pardon purchas'd by a stranger 't is very strange Er. 'T is very true Gon. Well Jaylor you may release him exit Gon. Er. O thank your honour for nothing Eus Sir for this your christian courtisie with many thanks my best of