Enter Forobâ—sâ—o as in his Study A paper Foro. Come hither mine Host look here Host What 's that Foro. A challenge from my man Host For breaking 's pate Foro. He writes here â—â— I meet him not I' th' Feild within this half hour I shall hear more from him Hâ—â—t O sâ—r minde your profit Ne'er think of the raâ—call here are the gentlemen Fâ—ro ' Morrow my worthy clients Whaâ— are you all prepar'd of your questions That I may give my resolution upon them Omnâ—s We are Sir Pedant And have brought our moâ—y Foro. Each then in order And differ not for preâ—â—dâ—ncy Dan. I am buying of an oâ—â—â— Sir And to that purpose I would â—aâ— learn To dissemble cunningly Foro. Doe you come to me for that you should rather Have gone to a cunning woman Danc. I sir but their Instruâ—tions are but like woman Pretty well but not to the depth as I 'd have it You are a conjurer the devils Master And I would learn it from you so exactly Foro. That the devill himself Might not go beyond you Danc. You are i' th' right Sir Foro. And so your mony for your purchase Might come in again within a 12 month Danc. I would be a Graduate sir no freshman Foro. Here 's my hand sir I will make you dissemble so methodically As if the divell should be sent from the great Turk In the shape of an Embassador To set all the christian princes at variance Danc. I cannot with any modesty desire any more There 's your mony sir Foro. For the art of dissembling Cox My suit sir will be news to you when I tell it Foro Pray on Cox I would set up a press here in Italy To write all the Corantos for Christendome Foro. That 's news indeed And how would you imploy me in 't Câ—x Marry sir from you I would gain my intelligence Foro. I conceive you you would have me furnish you With a spirit to informe you Cox But as quiet a Divell as the woman The first day and a half after she 's married I can by no means indure a terrible one Foro. No no I 'll qualifie him He shall not fright you â—t shall be the ghost of some lying Stationer A Spirit shall look as if butter would not melt in his mouth A new Mercurius Gallo-belgicus Cox O there was a captain was rare at it â—oro Ne'er thinke of him Though that captain writ a full hand gallop And wasted indeed more harmeless paper than Ever did laxative Physick Yet will I make you to out-scribble him And set down what you please The world shall better believe you Cox Worthy sir I thank you there 's mony Foro. A new office For writing pragmaticall Curranto's â—â—dant I am a school-master sir â—nd would fain conferre with you Aâ—oâ—â— erecting 4 new sects of religion at Amsterdam Fâ—â—â— What the Divell should 〈…〉 or religion doe there Pedant I assure you I would get A great deal of money by it Foro. And what are the 4 new sects Of religion you would plant there Ped. Why that 's it I come about sir 'T is a Divel of your raising must invent 'em I conâ—ess I am too weak to compass it Foro. So sir then you make it a matter of no difficulty To have them tolerated Pedant Trouble not your self for that Let but your Divel set them a foot once I have Weavers and Ginger-bread makers And mighty Aquavitae-men shall set them a going Foro. This is somewhat difficult And will aâ—ke some conference with the divell Ped. Take your own leasure sir I have another business too because I mean To leave Italy and bury my self in those neather parts Of the low countries Fâ—ro What 's that sir Ped. Marry I would fain make 9 dayes to the week for the more ample benefit of the captain Foro. You have a shrewd pate sir Ped. But how this might be compass'd Foro. Compass'd easily t is but making A new Almanack and dividing the compass Of the year into larger penny-worths As a Chandler with his compass makes A Geom trick proportion of the Holland cheese He retailes by stivers But for getting of it licenc'd Ped. Trouble not your self with that sir There 's your mony Foro. For four new sects of religions And 9 dayes to the week â—ed To be brought in at general pay-dayes Write I beseech you Foro. At generall pay-dayes Taylor I am by profession a Taylor You have hâ—ard of me Foro. Yes sir and will not steal from you The least part of that commendation I have heard utter'd Taylor I take measure of your worth sir And because I will not afflict you with any large bill Of circumstances I will snip off particulars I would fain invent some strange And exquisite new fashions Foro. Are you not travel'd sir Tay. Yes sir but have observ'd all we can see Or invent are but old ones with new names to 'em Now I would some way or other grow more curious Foro. Let me see to devise new fashions Were you never in the Moon Tay. In the Moon tavern yes sir often Foro. No I do mean in the new world In the world that 's in the Moon yonder Tay. How a new world ' i th' moon Foro. Yes I assure you Tay. And peopled Foro. O most fantastically peopled Tay. Nay certain then there 's work for taylors Foro. That there is I assure you Tay. Yet I have talked with a Scotch taylor That never discover'd so much to me Though he has travell'd far and was a pedlar in Poland Foro. That was out of his way This lies beyond China You would study new fashions you say Take my councell make a voyage And discover that new world Tay. Shall I be a moon-man Foro. I am of opinion the people of that world If they be like the nature of that climate they live in Do vary the fashion of their cloaths oftener than any Quick-silver'd nation in Europe Tay. Not unlikely but what should that be we call The man in the moon then Foro. Why 't is nothing but an Englishman That stands there stark naked With a pair of sheers in one hand And a great bundle of broad cloath in the other Which resembles the bush of thorns Cutting out of new fashions Taylor I have heard somewhat like this But how shall I get thither Foro. I 'll make a new compass shall direct you Tay. Certain Foro. Count me else for no man of direction Tay. There 's 20 duckats in hand at my return I 'll give you a 100. Foro. A new voyage to discover new fashions Mul. I have been a traveller too sir That have shewed strange beasts in Christendome And got money by them but I find the trade to decay Your Camelion or East-Indian hedg-hog Gets very little mony and your Elephant devours So much bread brings in so little profit His keeper were better every morning Cram 15 Taylors with white manchet I would have some new spectacle And one that might
me Fra. I this was sport that I have tightly lov'd I could have kept company with the Hounds Bust You are fit for no other company yet Fra. Run with the Hare and bin in the whore's tail y'faith Bust That was before I was born I did ever mistrust I was a Bastard Because Lapis is in the singular number with me Enter Otrante and Gerasto Otr. Leave thou that game Gerasto and chase here Do thou but follow it with my desires Thou 'lt not return home empty Ger. I am prepar'd My Lord with advantages and see Yonder 's the subject I must work upon Otr. Her brother 't is methinks it should be easie That gross compound cannot but diffuse The soul in such a latitude of ease As to make dull her faculties and lazie What wit above the least can be in him That Reason ties together Ger. I have prov'd it Sir And know the depth of it I have the way To make him follow me a hackney-pace With all that flesh about him yes and dragg His Sister after him This baits the old one Rid you him and leave me to the other Exit Otr. 'T is well Oh Franio the good day to you You were not wont to hear this Musick standing The Beagle and the Bugle ye have lov'd In the first rank of Huntsmen Bust The dogs cry out of him now Fra. Sirrah leave your barking I 'll bite you else Bust Curr Curr Fra. Slave do'st call me dog Otr. Oh sie Sir he speaks Latine to you He would know why you 'll bite him Bust Responde cur You see his understanding my Lord. Fra. I shall have a time to curry you for this But my Lord to answer you the daies have been I must have footed it before this Horn-pipe Though I had hazarded my Mill a fire And let the stones grind empty but those dancings Are done with me I have good will to it still And that 's the best I can do Otr. Come come you shall be hors'd Your company deserves him though you kill him Run him blind I care not Bust He 'll do 't o' th' purpose my Lord to bring him up to the Mill. Fra. Do not tempt me too far my Lord. Otr. There 's a foot i' th' stirrop I 'll not leave you now You shall see the Game fall once again Fra. Well my Lord I 'll make ready my legs for you And try 'em once a horseback sirrah my charge keep it Exâ—â— Bust Yes when you pare down your dish for conscience sake When your thumb 's coyn'd into bone legalis When you are a true Man-Miller Otr. What 's the matter Bustofa Bust My Lord if you have e'r a drunken Jade that has the staggers That will fall twice the height of our Mill with him set him out o' the O' th' back on him a galled Jennet that will winch him there Saddle and break one on 's necks or a shank of him was A fool going that way but the Asse had better luck Or one of your brave Barharies that would pass the Straits and run Into his own Countrey with him the first Moor he met would Cut his throat for Complexions sake there 's as deadly feud between A Moor and a Miller as between black and white Otr. Fie fie this is unnatural Bustofa Unless on some strong cause Bust Be Judge my Lord I am studied in my part the Julian Feast is to day the Countrey Expects me I speak all the dumb shews my Sister chosen for A Nimph. The gentle Whale whose feet so fell Cry mercy That was some of my part But his charge is to keep the Mill And disappoint the Revels Otr. Indeed there it speaks shrewdly for thee the Countrey expecting Bust I and for mine own grace too Otr. Yes and being studied too and the main Speaker too Bust The main why all my Speech lies in the main And the dry ground together The thundering seas whose c. Otr. Nay then thou must go thou 'lt be much condemn'd else But then o' th' other side obedience Bust Obedience But speak your conscience now my Lord Am not I past asking blessing at these years Speak as you 're a Lord if you had a Miller to your father Otr. I must yield to you Bustofa your reasons Are so strong I cannot contradict This I think If you goe your Sister ought to go along with you Bust There I stumble now she is not at age Otr. Why she 's fifteen and upwards Bust Thereabouts Otr. That 's womans ripe age as full as thou art At one and twenty she 's manable is she not Bust I think not poor heart she was never try'd in my conscience 'T is a coything she will not kiss you a clown not if he Would kiss her Otr. What man Bust Not if he would kiss her I say Otr. Oh 't was cleanlier than I expected well Sir I 'll leave you to your own but my opinion is You may take her along this is half way The rest Gerasto and I hunt my prey Exit Bust Away with the old Miller my Lord and the Mill Strikes sail presently Enter Pedro with Gerasto blind singing SONG Ger. Come follow me you Countrey-Lasses And you shall see such sport as passes You shall Dance and I will Sing Pedro he shall rub the string Each shall have a loose bodied Gown Of green and laugh till you lie down Come follow me come follow c. Enter Florimel Bust O sweet Diego the sweetest Diego stay Sister Florimel Flo. What 's that Brother Bust Didst not hear Diego Hear him and thou 'lt be ravish'd Flo. I have heard him sing yet unravish'd Brother Bust You had the better luck Sister I was ravish'd By my own consent Come away for the Sports Flo. I have the fear of a Father on me Brother Bust Out the thief is as safe as in his Mill he 's hunting with our Great Land-lord the Don Otrante Strike up Diego Flo. But say he return before us where 's our excuse Bust Strike up Diego Hast no strings to thy apron Flo. Well the fault lie upon your head Brother Bust My faults never mount so high girl they rise but to My middle at most Strike up Diego Ger. Follow me by the ear I 'll lead thee on Bustofa and Pretty Florimel thy Sister oh that I could see her Bust Oh Diego there 's two pities upon thee great pitie thou art blind And as great a pity thou canst not see SONG Ger. You shall have Crowns of Roses Daysies Buds where the honey-maker gazes You shall taste the golden thighs Such as in Wax-Chamber lies What fruit please you taste freely pull Till you have all your bellies full Come follow me c. Bust Oh Diego the Don was not so sweet when he perfum'd the Steeple Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Antonio and Martine Mar. Why how now Friend thou art not lost agen Ant. Not lost why all the world 's a wilderness Some places peopled more by
or by this holy place This Sword shall cut thee into thousand pieces A thousand thousand strow thee ore the Temple A sacrifice to thy black fire the Devil Rod. Tell him you see he 's angry Abd. Let him burst Neither his sword nor anger do I shake at Nor will yield to feed his poor suspitions His idle jealousies and mad dogs heats One thought against my self ye have done a brave deed A manly and a valiant piece of Service When ye have kill'd me reckon 't amongst your Battels I am sorry ye are so poor so weak a Gentleman Able to stand no fortune I dispose of her My mischief make her away a likely project I must play booty against my self if any thing cross ye I am the devil and the devils heir All plagues all mischiefs Mount Will ye leave and do yet Ab. I have done too much Far far too much for such a thankless fellow If I be devil you created me I never knew those arts nor bloody practises o' your cunning heart that mine of mischief Before your flatteries won 'em into me Here did I leave her leave her with that certainty About this hour to wake again Mount Where is she This is the last demand Ab. Did I now know it And were I sure this were my latest minute I would not tell thee strike and then I 'll curse thee Roc. I see a light stand close and leave your angers We all miscarry else Enter Gomera Page with Torch Ab. I am now careless Mount Peace prethee peace sweet peace all friends Abd. Stand close then Gom. Wait there Boy with the light till I call to thee In darkness was my soul and sences clouded When my fair Jewel fell the night of jealousie In all her blackness drawn about my judgment No light was let into me to distinguish Betwixt my suddain anger and her honor A blind sad Pilgrimage shall be my pennance No comfort of the day will I look up at Far darker than my jealous Ignorance Each place of my aboad shall be my prayers No ceremonious lights shall set off more Bright Armes and all that carry lustre life Society and solace I forsake ye And were it not once more to see her beauties For in her bed of death she must be sweet still And on her cold sad lips seal my repentance Thou child of heaven fair light I could not miss thee Mount I know the tongue would I were out again I have done him too much wrong to look upon him Ab. There is no shifting now boldness and confidence Must carry it now away he is but one neither Naked as you are of a strength far under Mount But he has a cause above me Ab. That 's as you handle it Roc. Peace he may go again and never see us Gom. I feel I weep apace but where 's the flood The torrent of my tears to drown my fault in I would I could now like a loaden cloud Begotten in the moist south drop to nothing Give me the Torch Boy Roc. Now he must discover us Ab. He has already never hide your head Be bold and brave if we must dye together Gom. Who 's there what friend to sorrow The Tomb wide open The Stone off too the body gone by Look to the door Boy keep it fast who are ye What sacrilegious villains false Mounteferrat The woolf to honor has thy hellish hunger Brought thee to tear the body out oth'tomb too Has thy foul mind so far wrought on thee ha Are you there too nay then I spie a villany I never dream'd of yet thou sinful usher Bred from that rottenness that bawd to mischief Do you blush through all your blackness will not that hide it Ab. I cannot speak Gom. You are well met with your dam Sir Art thou a Knight did ever on that sword The Christian cause sit nobly could that hand fight Guided by fame and fortune that heart inflame thee With virtuous fires of valour to fall off Fall off so suddainly and with such foulness As the false Angels did from all their glory Thou art no Knight honor thou never heard'st of Nor brave desires could ever build in that breast Treason and tainted thoughts are all the Gods Thou worship'st all the strength thou hadst and fortune Thou didst things out of fear and false heart villain Out of close traps and treacheries they have raised thee Mount Thou rav'st old man Gom. Before thou get'st off from me Halst thou the glory of thy first figthts on thee Which thou hast basely lost thy noblest fortunes And in their greatest lustres I would make thee Before we part confess nay kneel and do it Nay crying kneel coldly for mercy crying Thou art the recreant'st Rogue time ever nourish'd Thou art a dog I will make thee swear a dog A mangy Cur-dog do you creep behind the Altar Look how it sweats to shelter such a rascall First with thy venemous tooth infect her chast life And then not dare to do next rob her rest â—teal her dead body out oth'grave Mount I have not Gom. Prethee come out this is no place to â—el in Valiant Mountferrat come Mount I will not stir Gom. Thou hast thy sword about thee That good sword that never faill'd thee prethee come We 'll have but five stroaks for it on on Boy Here 's one would fain be acquainted with thee Would wondrous fain cleave that Calves-head of yours Sir Come prethee let 's dispatch the Moon shines finely Prethee be kill'd by me thou wilt be hang'd else But it may be thou long'st to be hang'd Roc. Out with him Sir You shall have my sword too when he 's dispatch'd once We have the world before us Gom. Wilt thou walk fellow I never knew a Rogue hang arse-ward so And such a desperate knave too Ab. Pray go with him Something I 'll promise too Mount You would be kill'd then No remedy I see Gom. If thou dar'st do it Mount Yes now I dare lead out I 'll follow presently Under the Mount I 'll meet ye Gom. Go before me â—'ll have ye in a string too Mount As I am a Gentleman And by this holy place I will not fail thee Fear not thou shalt be kill'd take my word for it â— will not fail Gom. If thou scap'st thou hast Cats luck The Mount Mount The same make hast I am there before else Gom. Go get ye home now if he scape I am a Coward Mount Well now I am resolv'd and he shall find it Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter Miranda Lucinda Collonna Mir. How is it with the Lady Luc. Sir as well As it can be with one who feeling knowes now What is the curse the divine justice lay'd On the first sinful woman Mir. Is she in travel Luc. Yes sir and yet the troubles of her mind Afflict her more than what her body suffers For in the extremity of her pain me cryes out Why am I here Where is my Lord Gomera
by giving him succor Cla. Ha come near I charge ye So bend his body softly rub his temples Nay that shall be my office how the red Steales into his pale lips run and fetch the simples With which my Mother heal'd my arme When last I was wounded by the Bore Cro. Doe but remember her to come after ye That she may behold her daughters charity Cla. Now he breathes Exit Hippolita The ayr passing through the Arabian groves Yields not so sweet an odour prethee taste it Taste it good Crocale yet I envy thee so great a blessing 'T is not sin to touch these Rubies is it Jul. Not I think Cla. Or thus to live Camelion like I could resign my essence to live ever thus O welcome raise him up Gently Some soft hand bound up these wounds a womans hair What fury For which my ignorance does not know a name Is crept into my bosome But I forget Enter Hippolita My pious work Now if this juyce hath power Let it appear his eyelids ope Prodigious Two Suns break from these Orbes Alb. Ha Where am I What new vision 's this To what Goddess do I owe this second life Sure thou art more than mortal And any Sacrifice of thanks or duty In poor and wetched man to pay comes short Of your immortal bounty but to shew I am not unthankful this in humility I kiss the happy ground you have made sacred By bearing of your weight Cla. No Goddess friend but made Of that same brittle mould as you are One too acquainted with calamities And from that apt to pity Charity ever Finds in the act reward and needs no Trumpet In the receiver O forbear this duty I have a hand to meet with yours And lips to bid yours welcome Cro. I see that by instinct Though a young Maid hath never seen a Man Touches have titillations and inform her Enter Rosella But here 's our Governess Now I expect a storme Ros Child of my flesh And not of my fair unspotted mind Un-hand this Monster Cla. Monster Mother Ros Yes and every word he speaks a Syrens note To drown the careless hearer Have I not taught thee The falshood and the perjuries of Men On whom but for a woman to shew pity Is to be cruel to her self the Soveraignty Proud and imperious men usurp upon us We conferr on our selves and love those fetters We fasten to our freedomes Have we Clarinda Since thy fathers wrack sought liberty To lose it un-compel'd Did fortune guide Or rather destiny our Barke to which We could appoint no Port to this blest place Inhabited heretofore by warlike women That kept men in subjection Did we then By their example after we had lost All we could love in man here plant our selves With execrable oaths never to look On man but as a Monster and Wilt thou Be the first president to infringe those vows We made to Heaven Cla. Hear me and hear me with justice And as ye are delighted in the name Of Mother hear a daughter that would be like you Should all Women use this obstinate abstinence You would force upon us in a few years The whole World would be peopled Onely with Beasts Hip. We must and will have Men. Cro. I or wee 'll shake off all obedience Ros Are ye mad Can no perswasion alter ye suppose You had my suffrage to your sute Can this Shipwrackt wretch supply them all Alb. Hear me great Lady I have fellowes in my misery not far hence Divided oâ—ly by this hellish River There live a company of wretched Men Such as your charity may make your slaves Imagine all the miseries mankind May suffer under and they groan beneath ' em Cla. But are they like to you Jul. Speak they your Language Cro. Are they able lusty men Alb. They were good Ladies And in their May of youth of gentle blood And such as may deserve ye now cold and hunger Hath lessen'd their perfection but restor'd To what they were I doubt not they 'll appear Worthy your favors Jul. This is a blessing We durst not hope for Cla. Dear Mother be not obdurate Ros Hear then my resolution and labor not To add to what I 'll grant for 't will be fruitless You shall appear as good Angels to these wretched Men In a small Boat wee 'll pass o'er to 'em And bring 'em comfort if you like their persons And they approve of yours for wee 'll force nothing And since we want ceremonies Each one shall choose a husband and injoy His company a Month but that expir'd You shall no more come near 'em if you prove fruitful The Males ye shall return to them the Females We will reserve our selves this is the utmost Ye shall e'er obtain as ye think fit Ye may dismiss this stranger And prepare to morrow for the journey Exit Cla. Come Sir Will ye walk We will shew ye our pleasant Bowers And something ye shall find to cheer your heart Alb. Excellent Lady Though 't will appear a wonder one near starv'd Should refuse rest and meat I must not take Your noble offer I left in yonder desart A Virgin almost pin'd Cla. Shee 's not your Wife Alb. No Lady but my Sister 't is now dangerous To speak truth To her I deeply vow'd Not to tast food or rest if fortune brought it me Till I bless'd her with my return now if you please To afford me an easie passage to her And some meat for her recovery I shall live your slave and thankfully She shall ever acknowledge her life at your service Cla. You plead so well I can deny ye nothing I my self will see you furnisht And with the next Sun visit and relieve thee Alb. Ye are all goodness Exit Actus Tertius Scaena Prima Enter severally Lamure Franvile Morillat Lam. OH What a tempest have I in my stomach How my empty guts cry out my wounds ake Would they would bleed again that I might get Something to quench my thirst Fran. O Lamure the happiness my dogs had When I kept house at home they had a storehouse A storehouse of most blessed bones and crusts Happy crusts Oh! how sharp hunger pinches me Exit Franvilâ— Mor. O my importunate belly I have nothing To satisfie thee I have sought As far as my weak legs would carry me Yet can find nothing neither meat nor water Nor any thing that 's nourishing My bellies grown together like an empty sachel Enter Franvile Lam. How now What news Mor. Hast any meat yet Fran. Not a bit that I can see Here be goodly quarries but they be cruel hard To gnaw I ha got some mud we 'll eat it with spoons Very good thick mud but it stinks damnably There 's old rotten trunks of Trees too But not a leafe nor blossome in all the Island Lam. How it looks Mor. It stinks too Lam. It may be poyson Fran. Let it be any thing So I can get it down Why Man
Hip. I wish it But not the cause my Lord They would shew Bravely about the Titles of two Kingdoms 'T is pity Love should be so tyrannoâ—â— Oh my soft-hearted Sister what think you Weep not till they weep bloud Wench it must be Thes You have steel'd 'em wiâ—h your Beauty honor'd friend To you I give the Field pray order it Fitting the persons that must use it Per. Yes Sir Thes Comâ— I 'll go visit 'em I cannot stay Their â—ame has sir'd me so till they appear Good friend be royal Per. There shall want no bravery Emil. Poor wench go weep for whosoever wins Looses a noble Cosin for thy sins Exeunt Scena Tertia Enter Jailor Wooer Doctor Doct. Her distraction is more at some time of the Moon Than at other some is it not Jay She is continually in a harmless distemper sleeps Little altogether without appetite save often drinking Dreaming of another world and a better and what Broken piece of matter so e'er she 's about the name Palamon lards it that she sarces ev'ry business Enter Daughter Withal sits it to every question Look where She comes you shall perceive her behaviour Daugh. I have forgot it quite the burden on 't was Down A down a and penn'd by no worse man than Giraldo Emilias Schoolmaster he 's as Fantastical too as ever he may goe upon 's legs For in the next world will Dido see Palamon and Then will she be out of love with Aeneas Doct. What stuff 's here poor soul Jay Ev'n thus all day long Daugh. Now for this Charm that I told you of you must Bring a piece of silver on the tip of your tongue Or no ferry then if it be your chance to come where The blessed spirits as there 's a sight now we Maids That have our Livers perisht crackt to pieces with Love we shall come there and do nothing all day long But pick Flowers with Proserpine then will I make Palamon a Nosegay then let him mark me then Doct. How prettily she 's amiss note her a little farther Dan. Faith I 'll tell you sometime we goe to Barly-break We of the blessed alas 't is a sore life they have i' th' Other place such burning frying boiling hissing Howling chatt'ring cursing oh they have shrowd Measure take heed if one be mad or hang or Drown themselves thither they goe Jupiter bless Us and there shall we be put in a Cauldron of Lead and Usurers grease amongst a whole million of Cut-purses and there boil like a Gamon of Bacon That will never be enough Exit Doct. How her brain coins Daugh. Lords and Courtiers that have got Maids with child they are in this place they shall stand in fire up to the Navel and in Ice up to th' heart and there th' offending paâ— burns and the deceiving part freezes in troth a very gâ—â—â—vous punishment as one would think for such a Tristâ—â—â—lieve me one would marry a leprous witch to be rid oâ—â— I 'll assure you Doct. How she continues this fancie 'T is not an engrasâ—â—d madness but a most thick and profound melancholly Daugh. To hear there a proud Lady and a proud City wife howl together I were a beast and I l'd call it good sport one cries oh this smoak another this fire one cries oh that I ever did it behind the Arras and then howls th' other curses a suing fellow and her Garden-house Sings I will be true my Stars my Fate c. Exit Daugh. Jay What think you of her Sir Doct. I think she has a perturbed mind which I cannot minister to Jay Alas what then Doct. Understand you she ever affected any man e'r She beheld Palamon Jay I was once Sir in great hope she had fix'd her Liking on this Gentleman my friend Woo. I did think so too and would account I had a great Pen'worth on 't to give half my state that both She and I at this present stood unfainedly on the Same terms Doct. That intemperate surfet of her eye hath distemper'd the Other sences they may return and settle again to Execute their preordained faculties but they are Now in a most extravagant vagary This you Must doe confine her to a place where the light May rather seem to steal in than be permitted take Upon you young Sir her friend the name of Palamon say you come to eat with her and to Commune of Love this will catch her attention for This her mind beats upon other objects that are Inserted 'tween her mind and eye become the pranks And friskins of her madness sing to her such green Songs of Love as she says Palamon hath sung in Prison Come to her stuck in as sweet Flowers as the Season is mistriss of and thereto make an addition of Some other compounded odors which are grateful to the Sense all this shall become Palamon for Palamon can Sing and Palamon is sweet and ev'ry good thing desire To eat with her carve her drink to her and still Among intermingle your petition of grace and acceptance Into her favour learn what Maids have been her Companions and Play-pheers and let them repair to Her with Palamon in their mouths and appear with Tokens as if they suggested for him it is a falshood She is in which is with falshoods to be combated This may bring her to eat to sleep and reduce what 's Now out of square in her into their former Law and Regiment I have seen it approved how many times I know not but to make the number more I have Great hope in this I will between the passages of This project come in with my applyance Let us Put it in execution and hasten the success which doubt not Will bring forth comfort Florish Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Thesius Perithous Hippolita Attendants Thes NOw let 'em enter and before the gods Tender their holy Prayers Let the Temples Burn bright with sacred fires and the Altars In hallowed clouds commend their swelling Incense To â—hose above us Let no due be wanting Florish of Cornets They haâ—â— a noble work in hand will honor â—â—e very powers that love ' em Enteâ— â—alamon and Arcite and their Knights Per. Sir they enter Thes You valiant and strong-hearted enemies You royal German soes that this day come To blow that nearness out that flames between ye Lay by your anger for an hour and Dove like Before the holy Altars of your helpers The all-fear'd gods bow down your stubborn bodies Your Ire is more than mortal So your help be And as the gods regard ye fight with Justice I 'll leave you to your prayers and betwixt ye I part my wishes Per. Honor crown the worthiest Exit Theseus and his train Pal. The glass is running now that cannot finish Till one of us expire think you but thus That were there ought in me which strove to shew Mine enemy in this business were 't one eye Against another Arm opprest by Arm I