Cynthia's Revel's

Ben Johnson

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Act P

Scene 1

Enter three of the Children.


W
P.1    Pray you away; why Children? Gods son: what do you


W
P.1    meane?


W
P.1    Mary that you shall not speake the Prologue Sir.


W
P.1    Why? do you hope to speake it?


W
P.1    Aye, and I think I have most right to it; I am sure I studied it first.


W
P.1    That is all one, if the Author think I can speake it better.


W
P.1    I plead possession of the Cloake: Gentles, your suffrages for


W
P.1    Gods sake.


W
P.1    Why Children, are you not ashamed? come in there.
Within.


W
P.1    'Slid, I will play nothing in the Play: unless I speake it.


W
P.1    Why? Will you stand to most voyces of the Gentlemen? let that


W
P.1    decide it.


W
P.1    O no Sir Gallant; you presume to have the start of us there, and


W
P.1    that makes you offer so bountifully.


W
P.1    No, would I were whipt, if I had any such thought; trye it by


W
P.1    Lots either.


W
P.1    Faith, I dare tempt my Fortune, in a greater venter then this.


W
P.1    Well said resolute Iack: I am Content too; so we draw first


W
P.1    make the Cuts.


W
P.1    But will you not snatch my Cloake while I am stooping?


W
P.1    No, we scorne trechery.


W
P.1    Which Cut shall speake it?


W
P.1    The shortest.


W
P.1    Agreed: Draw. -- The shortest is come to the shortest.


W
P.1    Fortune was not altogether blind in this: Now Children, I hope I shall


W
P.1    go forward without your Enuy.


W
P.1    A spight of all mischeiuous lucke: I was once plucking at the


W
P.1    other.


W
P.1    Stay Iack: 'Slid I will do somewhat now afore I go in, though it


W
P.1    be nothing but to reuenge myself on the AUTHOR; since I speake not his


W
P.1    Prologue. I will go tell all the Argument of his Play aforehand, and so


W
P.1    stale his Inuention to the Auditory before it come foorth.
At the breaches in this speech following,
the other two Boyes interrupt him.


W
P.1    O do not so.


W
P.1    By no meanes.


W
P.1    First the Title of his Play is CYNTHIAS Reuels, as


W
P.1    any man (that hath hope to be sau'd by his Booke) can witnesse; the


W
P.1    Scene, GARGAPHIA: which I do vehemently suspect for some


W
P.1    Fustian Countrey; but let that vanish. Here is the Court of Cynthia;


W
P.1    whither he brings Cupid (trauailing on foote) resolu'd to turne Page:


W
P.1    By the way Cupid meetes with Mercury, (as that is a thing to be noted,


W
P.1    take any of our Play-bookes without a Cupid, or a Mercury in it,


W
P.1    and burne it for an Heretique in Poetry) -- Pray thee let me alone:


W
P.1    Mercurie, he, (in the nature of a Coniurer) rayses up Echo: who weepes


W
P.1    over her Loue, or Daffodill Narcissus, a little; sings; cursses the Spring


W
P.1    wherein the pretty foolish Gentleman melted himself away: and there is


W
P.1    an end of her -- Now, I am to informe you, that Cupid, and Mercury


W
P.1    do both become Pages: Cupid attends on Philautia, or Selfe-loue,


W
P.1    a Court-Lady: Mercury followes Hedon the voluptuous Courtier;


W
P.1    one that rankes himself even with Anaides, or the impudent Gallant,


W
P.1    (and, that is my part:) a Fellow that keepes Laughter the daughter of


W
P.1    Folly (a wenche in Boyes attire) to wayte on him -- These, in the


W
P.1    Court, meete with Amorphus, or the Deformed, a Trauailer that hath


W
P.1    drunke of the Fountaine, and there tels the wonders of the Water; they


W
P.1    presently dispatch away their Pages with Bottles to fetch of it, and themselves


W
P.1    go to visit the Ladyes: But I should have tolde you -- Looke,


W
P.1    these Emets put me out here: that with this Amorphus, there comes along


W
P.1    along a Citizens heire, Asotus, or the Prodigall, who (in Imitation of


W
P.1    the Traueller, that hath the Whetstone, following him) entertaines


W
P.1    the Begger, to be his Attendant. -- Now the Nymphes, who are


W
P.1    Mistresses, to these Gallants, are Philautia, Selfe-loue; Phantaste,


W
P.1    A light Wittinesse; Argurion, Money; and their Guardian, Mother Moria;


W
P.1    or Mistresse Folly. --


W
P.1    Pray thee no more.


W
P.1    There Cupid strikes Money in loue with the Prodigall;


W
P.1    makes her doate upon him, give him Iewels, Bracelets, Carkanets, &c%


W
P.1    all which (he most ingeniously) departs withall, to be made knowne to


W
P.1    the other Ladyes, and Gallants; and in the heate of this, encreases his


W
P.1    traine with the Foole to follow him, as well as the Begger -- By


W
P.1    this time your Begger begins to waite close, who is return'd with the


W
P.1    rest of his fellow Bottle-men -- There they all drinke saue Argurion,


W
P.1    who is falne into a sodaine Apoplexy --


W
P.1    Stop his mouth.


W
P.1    And then there is a retir'd Scholler there, you would not


W
P.1    wish a thing to be better contemn'd of a Society of Gallants, then it is:


W
P.1    and he applyes his seruice (good Gentleman) to the Lady Arete, or


W
P.1    Virtue, a poore Nymph of Cynthias traine, that is scarce able to buy


W
P.1    herself a Gowne, you shall see her play in a Blacke Roabe anone: A


W
P.1    creature, that (I assure you) is no lesse scorn'd, then himself. Where


W
P.1    am I now? at a stand?


W
P.1    Come, leaue at last yet.


W
P.1    O, the Night is come, (it was somewhat darke, me*thought)


W
P.1    and Cynthia intends to come foorth: That helpes it a little yet. All


W
P.1    the Courtiers must prouide for Reuels; they conclude upon a Masque,


W
P.1    the deuise of which, is -- what will you rauish me? that each of these


W
P.1    Vices, being to appeare before Cynthia, would seeme other then


W
P.1    indeed they are: and therefore assume the most neighbouring Virtues


W
P.1    as their masquing Habites -- I would crye a Rape but that you are


W
P.1    Children.


W
P.1    Come, we will have no more of this Anticipation; to give them


W
P.1    the Inuentory of their Cates aforehand, were the discipline of a Tauerne,


W
P.1    and not fitting this Presence.


W
P.1    Tut, this was but to shew us the happinesse of his Memory;


W
P.1    I thought at first he would have playde the Ignorant Critique


W
P.1    with euery*thing along as he had gone; I expected some such Deuise.


W
P.1    O you shall see me do that rarely; lend me thy Cloake.


W
P.1    Soft Sir, you will speake my Prologue in it?


W
P.1    No, would I might neuer stirre then.


W
P.1    Lend it him, lend it him:


W
P.1    Well, you have sworne?


W
P.1    I have. Now Sir; suppose I am one of your Gentile Auditors,


W
P.1    that am come in (hauing paide my money at the Doore with


W
P.1    much adoe) and here I take my place, and sit downe: I have my three


W
P.1    sorts of Tabacco, in my Pocket, my Light by me; and thus I Begin.


W
P.1    By Gods son, I wonder that any man is so madde, to come to see these


W
P.1    raskally Tits play here -- They do act like so many Wrens or Pismires --


W
P.1    not the fifth part of a good Face amongst them all -- And


W
P.1    then their Musique is abhominable -- able to stretch a mans Eares


W
P.1    worse, then ten -- Pillories, and their Ditties -- most lamentable


W
P.1    things, like the pittifull Fellowes that makes them -- Poets. By Gods


W
P.1    lid, if it were not for Tabaco -- I think -- the very stench of


W
P.1    them would poyson me, I should not dare to come in at their Gates --


W
P.1    A man were better visit fifteene Iayles -- or a dozen or two of


W
P.1    Hospitals -- then once aduenture to come neare them. How is it?


W
P.1    well?


W
P.1    Excellent; give me my Cloake.


W
P.1    Stay; you shall see me do another now: but a more sober, or


W
P.1    better-gather'd Gallant; that is (as it may be thought) some Friend,


W
P.1    or well-wisher to the House: And here I Enter.


W
P.1    What? upon the Stage too?


W
P.1    Yes: and I step foorth like one of the Children, and aske


W
P.1    you; Would you have Stoole Sir?


W
P.1    A Stoole Boy?


W
P.1    Aye Sir, if you will give me sixe Pence, I will fetch you one.


W
P.1    For what I pray thee? what shall I do with it?


W
P.1    O God Sir! will you betraye your Ignorance so much?


W
P.1    Why, throne yourself in state on the Stage, as other Gentlemen vse


W
P.1    Sir.


W
P.1    Away Wag: what wouldst thou make an Implement


W
P.1    of me? Slid the Boy takes me for a peice of Prospectiue (I holde my


W
P.1    life) or some silke Curtine, come to hang the Stage here: Sir Cracke


W
P.1    I am none of your fresh Pictures, that vse to beautifie the decay'd dead


W
P.1    Arras, in a publique Theater.


W
P.1    It is a signe Sir, you put not that Confidence in your good


W
P.1    Clothes, and your better Face, that a Gentleman should do Sir. But I


W
P.1    pray you Sir, let me be a Sutor to you, that you will quit our Stage then,


W
P.1    and take a Place, the Play is instantly to begin.


W
P.1    Most willingly my good wag: but I would speake with


W
P.1    your Author, where is he?


W
P.1    Not this way, I assure you Sir, we are not so officiously befriended


W
P.1    by him, as to have his Presence in the Tiring-house, to


W
P.1    prompt us aloud, stampe at the Booke-holder, sweare for our Properties,


W
P.1    cursse the poore Tire-man, rayle the Musique out of tune, and


W
P.1    sweat for euery veniall trespasse we commit, as some Author would, if


W
P.1    he had such fine Ingles as we: well, it is but our bard Fortune.


W
P.1    Nay Crack be not dishartned.


W
P.1    Not I Sir: but if you please to conferre with our Author by


W
P.1    Attorney, you may Sir: our proper self here stands for him.


W
P.1    Troth, I have no such serious affayre to negotiate with him;


W
P.1    but what may very safely be turn'd upon thy trust: It is in the generall


W
P.1    behalfe of this fayre Society here, that I am to speake; at least the


W
P.1    more iudicious part of it: which seemes much distasted with the the immodest


W
P.1    and obscene writing of many, in their Playes. Besides, they could


W
P.1    wish, your Poets would leaue to be Promooters of other mens Iests;


W
P.1    and to Way-lay all the stale Apophthegmes, or old Bookes, they can


W
P.1    heare of (in Print or otherwise) to farce their Scenes withall: That they


W
P.1    would not so penuriously gleane wit, from euery Landresse, or Hackney-man;


W
P.1    or deriue their best grace (with seruile Imitation) from


W
P.1    Common Stages, or Obseruation of the Company, they conuerse with;


W
P.1    as if their Inuention liu'd wholy upon another mans Trecher. Againe;


W
P.1    that feeding their friends with nothing of their owne, but what


W
P.1    they have twise, or thrise Cook'd) they should not wantonly give out, how


W
P.1    soone they had drest it; nor how many Coaches came to cary away the


W
P.1    broken-meate, besides Hobby-horses and Foote cloth Nags.


W
P.1    So Sir, this is all the Reformation you seeke?


W
P.1    It is: do not you think it necessary to be practisd, my little


W
P.1    wag?


W
P.1    Yes; where, there is any such ill-habited Custome receiu'd.


W
P.1    O, I had almost forgot it too: they say, the Vmbra*e, or Ghosts


W
P.1    of some three or foure Playes, departed a dozen yeares since, have been


W
P.1    seene walking on your Stage here; Take heed Boy, if your House be


W
P.1    haunted with such Hob-goblins, it will fright away all your Spectators


W
P.1    quickly.


W
P.1    Good Sir, But what will you say now, if a Poet (vntoucht with


W
P.1    any breath of this disease) finde Gods Tokens upon you, that are of


W
P.1    the Auditory? As some one Ciuet-Wit among you, that knowes no other


W
P.1    Learning, then the price of Satten and Veluets; nor other Perfection,


W
P.1    then the wearing of a Neate Sute; and yet will censure as desperately


W
P.1    as the most profest Critique in the house: presuming, his Cloathes,


W
P.1    should beare him out in it. Another (whom it hath pleas'd Nature


W
P.1    to furnish with more Beard, then Brayne) prunes his Mustaccio;


W
P.1    lispes; and (with some score of affected Oathes, sweares downe all that sit


W
P.1    about him; That the olde Hieronimo, (as it was first acted) was


W
P.1    the only best, and Iudiciously-pend Play, of Europe. A thirde


W
P.1    great-bellied Iugler talkes of twenty yeares since, and when Monsieur


W
P.1    was here; and would enforce all Witte to be of that fashion, because


W
P.1    his Doublet is still so. A fourth mis-calles all by the name of Fustian,


W
P.1    that his grounded Capacity cannot aspire to. A fifth only


W
P.1    shakes his Bottle Head, and out of his Corky Braine, squeezeth out


W
P.1    a pittifull-learned Face, and is silent.


W
P.1    By my faith, Iack, you have put me downe: I would I knew


W
P.1    how to get off with any indifferent Grace: Here take your Cloake, and


W
P.1    promise some satisfaction in your Prologue, or (I will be sworne) we have


W
P.1    mard all.
Exit.


W
P.1    Tut feare not Sall: this will neuer distaste a true Sence. Be not


W
P.1    out, and good inough: I would thou hadst some Sugar Candyed, to


W
P.1    sweeten thy Mouth.
Exit.

Scene 2



U
P.2    If gratious silence, sweete Attention,


U
P.2    Quick sight, and quicker apprehension,


U
P.2    (The lights of iudgments throne) shine any*wher;


U
P.2    Our doubtful author hopes, this is their Spha*ere


U
P.2    And therefore opens he himself to those,


U
P.2    To other weaker Beames, his labors close;


U
P.2    As loathe to prostitute their virgin straine,


U
P.2    To euery vulgar, and adulterate braine.


U
P.2    In this alone, his Muse her sweetnesse hath,


U
P.2    She shuns the print of any beaten path;


U
P.2    And prooues new wayes to come to learned eares:


U
P.2    Pied ignorance she neither loues, nor feares.


U
P.2    Nor hunts she after popular applause,


U
P.2    Or fomy praise, that drops from common Iawes;


U
P.2    The garland that she weares, their hands must twine,


U
P.2    Who can both censure, vnderstand, define


U
P.2    What Merrit is: Then cast those piercing rayes,


U
P.2    Round as a crowne, insteed of honor'd Bayes,


U
P.2    About his Poesie; which (he knowes) affoords,


U
P.2    Words above Action: matter, above wordes.
Exit.

Act 1

Scene 1



K
1.1    Who goes there?


B
1.1    It is I, blinde Archer.


K
1.1    Who? Mercurie?


B
1.1    Aye.


K
1.1    Farewell.


B
1.1    Stay Cupid.


K
1.1    Not in your company Hermes, except


K
1.1    your hands were riueted at your backe.


B
1.1    Why so my little Rouer?


K
1.1    Because I know, you have not a finger, but is as long as


K
1.1    my quiuer, (cousin Mercurie,) when you please to entend it.


B
1.1    Whence deriue you this speach Boy?


K
1.1    O! it is your best policie to be Ignorant: you did neuer


K
1.1    steale Mars his sworde out of the sheath; you? nor Neptunes


K
1.1    Trident; nor Apolloes Bowe; no, not you? Alasse your palmes


K
1.1    (Iupiter knowes) they are as tender as the foote of a foundred


K
1.1    Nag, or a Ladies face new Mercuried; they will touch nothing.


B
1.1    Go to (Infant) you will be daring still.


K
1.1    Daring? O Ianus, what a word is there? why my light


K
1.1    fether-heeld Cousse, what are you, any more then my vncle


K
1.1    Ioues Pandar, a Lackey that runs on errands for him, and can


K
1.1    whisper a light message to a loose wenche with some round


K
1.1    volubility, waite at a table with a Trencher, and warble upon a


K
1.1    Crowde a little; One that sweepes the Gods drinking roome


K
1.1    euery morning, and sets the Cushions in order againe which


K
1.1    they threw one at anothers head ouernight? Here is the Catalogue


K
1.1    of all your Imploiments now. O no, I erre: you have the


K
1.1    Marshalling of all the Ghostes too, that passe the Stigian ferry;


K
1.1    and I suspect you for a share with the olde Sculler there, if the


K
1.1    truth were knowne; but let that scape: one other peculiar vertue


K
1.1    you possesse, in lifting or Lieger-du-maine (which few of the


K
1.1    house of Heauen have else besides) I must confesse; But (me*thinks)


K
1.1    that should not make you set such an extream distance


K
1.1    twixt yourself and others, that we should be said to ouer-dare


K
1.1    in speaking to your nimble Deity: So Hercules might


K
1.1    challenge a priority of us both, because he can throw the Barre


K
1.1    farther, or lift more Ioyndstooles at the armes end then we. If


K
1.1    this might carry it; then we (who have made the whole body


K
1.1    of Diuinity tremble at the twange of our Bowe, and inforste


K
1.1    Saturnius himself to lay by his curld front, Thunder, and three


K
1.1    forkd-fiers, and put on a Masking sute, too light for a reueller


K
1.1    of eighteene to be seene in --


B
1.1    How now my dancing Braggart in 7Decimo 7sexto?


B
1.1    charme your skipping toung, or I will --


K
1.1    What? vse the vertue of your Snakie Tipstaffe there


K
1.1    upon us?


B
1.1    No Boy, but the stretch vigor of mine arme about


B
1.1    your eares; you have forgot since I tooke your heeles up into


B
1.1    ayre, (on the very hower I was borne) in sight of all the


B
1.1    benche of Deities, when the siluer roofe of the Olympian


B
1.1    Pallace rung againe with the applause of the fact.


K
1.1    O no, I remember it freshly, and by a particular instance;


K
1.1    for my mother Venus (at the same time) but stoupt to


K
1.1    imbrace you, and (to speake by Metaphore) you borrowed a


K
1.1    Girdle of hers, as you did Ioues Scepter (while he was laughing)


K
1.1    and would have done his thunder too, but that, it was too


K
1.1    hote for your itching fingers.


K
1.1    Faith (to recouer thy good thoughts) I will discouer my


K
1.1    whole proiect. The Huntresse and queene of these groues,


K
1.1    Diana (in regarde of some black and enuious slaunders howerly


K
1.1    breathd against her for her deuine iustice on Acteon as she


K
1.1    pretends) hath here in the vale of Gargaphy proclaimd a solemne


K
1.1    reuels, which she will grace with the full and royall expence


K
1.1    of one of her cleerest moones: In which time it shall be lawfull


K
1.1    for all sorts of ingenuous persons, to visite her pallace, to court


K
1.1    her Nimphes, to exercise all varietie of generous and noble pastimes,


K
1.1    as well to intimate how farre she treads such malitious


K
1.1    imputations beneath her, as also to shew how cleere her beauties


K
1.1    are from the least wrinckle of Austerity, they may be


K
1.1    chardgd with.


B
1.1    But what is all this to Cupid?


K
1.1    Here do I meane to put off the title of a God, and take


K
1.1    the habite of a Page, in which disguise (during the Interim of


K
1.1    these reuels) I will get to follow some one of Dianas maides,


K
1.1    where (if my bowe holde, and my shafts flye but with halfe


K
1.1    the willingnesse and ayme they are directed) I doubt not but


K
1.1    I shall really redeeme the minutes I have lost by their so long


K
1.1    and ouer-nice proscription of my Deity, from their court.


B
1.1    Pursue it (diuine Cupid) it will be rare.


K
1.1    But will Hermes second me.


B
1.1    I am now to put in act an especiall designement from


B
1.1    my father Ioue, but that performd, I am for any fresh action


B
1.1    that offers itself.


K
1.1    Well then we part.
Exit.


B
1.1    Farewell good wag,


B
1.1    Now to my charge, Eccho, faire Eccho speake,


B
1.1    It is Mercurie that calles thee; sorrowfull Nimphe:


B
1.1    Salute me with thy repercussiue voyce,


B
1.1    That I may know what cauerne of the earth,


B
1.1    Containes thy ayery spirit: how, or where,


B
1.1    I may direct my speech, that thou maist heare.

Scene 2



L
1.2    Here.


B
1.2    So nigh.


L
1.2    Aye.


B
1.2    Know (gentle soule) then, I am sent from Ioue,


B
1.2    Who (pittying the sad burthen of thy woes,


B
1.2    Still growing on thee, in thy want of wordes,


B
1.2    To vent thy passion for Narcissus death)


B
1.2    Commaunds that now (after three thousand yeares,


B
1.2    Which have been excercisde in Iunoes spight,)


B
1.2    Thou take a corporall figure and ascend,


B
1.2    Enricht with vocall, and articulate power,


B
1.2    Make haste sad Nymph: thrise doth my winged rod,


B
1.2    Strike the obsequious earth to give thee way,


B
1.2    Arise, and speake thy sorrowes, Eccho rise,
Ascendit


B
1.2    Here, by this Fountaine where thy loue did pine,


B
1.2    Whose memory liues fresh to vulgar fame,


B
1.2    Shrin'd in this yellow flower, that beares his name


L
1.2    His name reuiues and lifts me up from earth,


L
1.2    O which way shall I first conuert myself?


L
1.2    Or in what moode shall I assay to speake,


L
1.2    That (in a moment) I may be deliuered,


L
1.2    Of the prodigious griefe I go with*all?


L
1.2    See, see, the morning fount whose spring weepes yet,


L
1.2    The vntimely fate of that too-beauteous boy,


L
1.2    That Tropha*ee of self loue, and spoile of nature,


L
1.2    Who (now transformd into this drooping flower)


L
1.2    Hangs the repentant head, back, from the streame;


L
1.2    As if it wish'd: Would I had neuer lookt,


L
1.2    In such a flattering mirror. O Narcissus,


L
1.2    Thou that wast once (and yet art) my Narcissus,


L
1.2    Had Eccho but been priuate with thy thoughtes,


L
1.2    She would have dropt away herself in teares,


L
1.2    Till she had all turn'd water; that in her,


L
1.2    (As in a truer glasse) thou mightst have gaz'd,


L
1.2    And seene thy beauties by more kinde reflection:


L
1.2    But Self loue neuer yet could looke on trueth,


L
1.2    but with blear'd beames; Slieke flatterie and she:


L
1.2    Are twin-borne sisters, and so mixe their eyes,


L
1.2    As if you seuer one, the other dies.


L
1.2    Why did the Gods give thee a heauenly forme,


L
1.2    And earthy thoughtes to make thee proude of it?


L
1.2    Why do I aske? It is now the knowne disease


L
1.2    That beautie hath, to beare too deepe a sence,


L
1.2    Of her owne selfe-conceiued excellence.


L
1.2    O hadst thou knowne the worth of heauens rich guift,


L
1.2    Thou wouldst have turn'd it to a truer vse,


L
1.2    And not (with leane and couetous ignorance)


L
1.2    Pin'd in continuall eying that bright Gem,


L
1.2    The glance whereof to others had been more,


L
1.2    Then to thy famisht minde the wide worldes store;


L
1.2    So wretched is it to be meerely ritch:


L
1.2    Witnes thy youths deare sweetes, here spent vntasted;


L
1.2    Like a faire Taper, with his owne flame wasted.


B
1.2    Eccho be briefe, Saturnia is abroad;


B
1.2    And if she heare, she will storme at Ioues high will:


L
1.2    I will (kinde Mercury) be briefe as time,


L
1.2    Vouchsafe me I may do him these last Rites,


L
1.2    But kisse his flower, and sing some mourning straine:


L
1.2    Over his watry hearse.


B
1.2    Thou dost obtaine,


B
1.2    I were no sonne to Ioue shoulde I denie thee;


B
1.2    Beginne, and (more to grace thy cunning voyce)


B
1.2    The humourous ayre shall mixe her solemne tunes,


B
1.2    With thy sad wordes: strike Musique from the spheares,


B
1.2    And with your golden raptures swell our eares.


U
1.2    Slow, Slow Fresh fount, keepe time with my salt teares;


U
1.2    yet flower, yet, o faintly gentle springs;


U
1.2    Lift to the heauy part the Musique beares,


U
1.2    Woe weepes out her diuision when she sings;


U
1.2    Droope hearbes, and flowers,


U
1.2    fall griefe in showers;


U
1.2    Our beauties are not ours:


U
1.2    O I could still


U
1.2    (Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,)


U
1.2    drop, drop, drop, drop,


U
1.2    Since Natures pride, is now a wither'd Daffadill.


B
1.2    Now have you done?


L
1.2    Done presently (good Hermes) bide a little;


L
1.2    Suffer my thirsty eye to gaze a while,


L
1.2    But even to tast the place, and I am vanisht:


B
1.2    Forgo thy vse and libertie of tongue,


B
1.2    And thou maist dwell on earth, and sport thee there;


L
1.2    Here young Action fell, pursu'd, and torne


L
1.2    By Cynthias wrath (more egar then his houndes;)


L
1.2    And here, (ay me the place is fatall) see,


L
1.2    The weeping Niobe, translated hither


L
1.2    From Phrygian mountaines: and by Pho*ebe rear'd


L
1.2    As the proude Tropha*ee of her sharpe reuenge.


B
1.2    Nay but here.


L
1.2    But here, o here, the Fountaine of self loue:


L
1.2    In which Latona, and her carelesse Nimphes,


L
1.2    (Regardles of my sorrowes) bath themselves,


L
1.2    In hourely pleasures.


B
1.2    Stint thy babling tongue;


B
1.2    Fond Echo, thou prophanst the grace is done thee:


B
1.2    So idle worldlings (meerely made of voyce:)


B
1.2    Censure the powers above them. Come away,


B
1.2    Ioue calls thee hence, and his will brookes no stay.


L
1.2    O stay: I have but one poore thought to clothe,


L
1.2    In ayery garments and then (faith) I go:


L
1.2    Henceforth, thou treacherous, and murthering spring,


L
1.2    Be euer cald the Fountaine of self loue:


L
1.2    And with thy water let this curse remaine,


L
1.2    (As an inseperate plague) that who but tastes,


L
1.2    A droppe thereof, may (with the instant touch)


L
1.2    Grow dotingly enamour'd on themselves.


L
1.2    Now Hermes I have finish'd.


B
1.2    Then thy speach,


B
1.2    Must here forsake thee Echo, and thy voyce:


B
1.2    (As it was, wount) rebound but the last wordes, Fare well.


L
1.2    Well,
Exit.


B
1.2    Now Cupid I am for you, and your mirth,


B
1.2    To make me light before I leaue the earth.

Scene 3



E
1.3    Deare sparke of beauty make not so fast away:


L
1.3    Away.


B
1.3    Stay let me obserue this portent yet.


E
1.3    I am neither your Minotaure, nor your Centaure, nor


E
1.3    your Satyre, nor your Hya*ena, nor your Babion, but your meere


E
1.3    traueler, beleeue me:


L
1.3    Leaue me.


B
1.3    I gest it should be some trauelling Motion pursu'de


B
1.3    Eccho so.


E
1.3    Know you from whom you flye? or whence


L
1.3    Hence.
Exit.


E
1.3    This is somewhat above strange: a Nimphe of her


E
1.3    feature and lineament to be so preposterously rude; well; I


E
1.3    will but coole myself at yon' Spring and follow her.


B
1.3    Nay then I am familiar with the issue; I will leaue you


B
1.3    too.
Exit.


E
1.3    I am a Rhinoceros, if I had thought a creature of her


E
1.3    Symmetry would have dard so improportionable and abrupte


E
1.3    a digression. Liberall and deuine Founte, suffer my prophane


E
1.3    hand to take of thy bounties. By the puritie of my taste, here


E
1.3    is most Ambrosiack water; I will sup of it againe. By thy fauor


E
1.3    swete Founte. See, the water (a more running, subtile, and humorous


E
1.3    Nimphe then she) permits me to touche, and handle


E
1.3    her: what should I inferre? If my behauiours had been of a


E
1.3    cheape, or customary garbe; my Accent, or phrase, vulgar; my


E
1.3    Garments trite; my Countenance illiterate; or vnpractizd in the


E
1.3    encounter of a beautifull and braue-attirde Peice, then I might


E
1.3    (with some change of coullor) have suspected my faculties: but


E
1.3    (knowing myself an Essence so sublimated, and refin'de by


E
1.3    Trauaile; of so studied, and well exercisde a gesture; so alone


E
1.3    in fashion, able to make the face of any States-man liuing, and


E
1.3    to speake the meere extraction of language; One that hath


E
1.3    now made the sixth returne upon venter; and was your first


E
1.3    that euer enricht his countrey with the true laws of the Duello;


E
1.3    whose Optiques have drunke the spirit of beauty, in some eight


E
1.3    score and eighteene Princes Courts, where I have resided,


E
1.3    and been there fortunate in the Amours of three hundred,


E
1.3    fortie, and fiue Ladies (all nobly discended) whose names I have


E
1.3    in Catalogue: to conclude; in all so happy, as even Admiration


E
1.3    herself doth seeme to fasten her kisses upon me: Certes I do


E
1.3    neither see, nor feele, nor taste, nor sauor, the least steame, or


E
1.3    fume of a reason, that should inuite this foolish fastidious


E
1.3    Nymph so peeuishly to abandon me: well let the memory of


E
1.3    her fleete into Ayre; my thoughts and I am for this other Element,


E
1.3    water.

Scene 4



D
1.4    What? the well-dieted Amorphus become a Water-drinker?


D
1.4    I see he meanes not to write verses then.


F
1.4    No Criticus? why?


D
1.4    Quia nulla placere diu; nec viuere carmina possunt, aqua scribuntur


D
1.4    aqua potoribus.


E
1.4    What say you to your Helicon?


D
1.4    O, the Muses, well! that is euer excepted.


E
1.4    Sir, your Muses have no such water I assure you;


E
1.4    your Nectar, or the Iuice of your Nepenthe is nothing to it; it is


E
1.4    above your Metheglin, beleeue it.


F
1.4    Metheglin! what is that Sir? may I be so Audacious


F
1.4    to demaund?


E
1.4    A kinde of Greeke Wine I have met with Sir in my


E
1.4    Trauailes: it is the same that Demosthenes vsually drunke, in the


E
1.4    composure of all his exquisite and Mellifluous Orations.


D
1.4    That is to be argued, (Amorphus) if we may credit


D
1.4    Lucian, who in his (Encomium Demosthenis) affirmes, he neuer


D
1.4    drunke but water in any of his Compositions.


E
1.4    Lucian is absurde, he knew nothing: I will beleeue


E
1.4    my owne Trauels, before all the Lucians of Europe; he doth feed


E
1.4    you with fictions, and leasings.


D
1.4    Indeed (I think) next a Traueller he does prettily


D
1.4    well.


E
1.4    I assure you it was Wine, I have tasted it, and from


E
1.4    the hand of an Italian Antiquary, who deriues it authentically


E
1.4    from the Duke of Ferrara's Bottles. How name you the


E
1.4    Gentleman you are in ranke with there, Sir?


D
1.4    It is Asotus, sonne of the late deceased Philargyrus


D
1.4    the Citizen.


E
1.4    Was his Father of any eminent place, or


E
1.4    meanes?


D
1.4    He was to have been Pra*etor next yeare.


E
1.4    Ha! A pretty formall young Gallant (in good


E
1.4    soothe) pitty, he is not more gentilely propagated. Hearke


E
1.4    you Criticus: you may say to him what I am, if you please;


E
1.4    though I affect not popularity, yet I would be lothe to stand


E
1.4    out to any, whom you shall voutchsafe to call friend.


D
1.4    Sir, I feare I may do wrong to your sufficiencies in


D
1.4    the reporting them, by forgetting or misplacing some*one;


D
1.4    yourself can best enforme him of yourself Sir, except you


D
1.4    had some Catalogue or Inuentory of your faculties readye


D
1.4    drawne, which you would request me to shew him for you,


D
1.4    and him to take notice of.


E
1.4    This Criticus is sower: I will think Sir.


D
1.4    Do so Sir. O heauen, that anything (in the likenesse


D
1.4    of man) should suffer these rackt extremities, for the vttring of


D
1.4    his Sophisticate good parts.


F
1.4    Criticus, I have a sute to you; but you must not denie


F
1.4    me: pray you make this Gentleman and I friends.


D
1.4    Friends! Why? is there any difference betweene you?


F
1.4    No: I meane acquaintance, to knowe one another.


F
1.4   


D
1.4    O now I apprehend you; your phrase was without


D
1.4    me before.


F
1.4    In good faith he is a most excellent rare man I


F
1.4    warrant him.


D
1.4    Slight, they are mutually enamor'd by this time.


F
1.4    Will you sweete Criticus?


D
1.4    Yes, yes.


F
1.4    Nay, but when? you will deferre it now, and forget


F
1.4    it?


D
1.4    Why, is it a thing of such present necessity, that it requires


D
1.4    so violent a dispatch?


F
1.4    No, but (would I might neuer stir) he is a most rauishing


F
1.4    man; good Criticus you shall endeare me to you, in good


F
1.4    faithlaw.


D
1.4    Well your longing shall be satisfied Sir.


F
1.4    And withall, you may tell him what my father was, and


F
1.4    how well he left me, and that I am his heire.


D
1.4    Leaue it to me, I will forget none of your deare graces I


D
1.4    warrant you.


F
1.4    Nay I know you can better marshall these affaires then


F
1.4    I can. -- O Gods I will give all the world (if I had it) for aboundance


F
1.4    of such acquaintance.


D
1.4    What ridiculous circumstance might I deuise now, to


D
1.4    bestow this reciprocall brace of Cockscombes, one upon another?


D
1.4   


E
1.4    Since I troad on this side of the Alpes, I was not so frozen


E
1.4    in my inuention; let me see; to accost him with some choise


E
1.4    remnant of Spanish, or Italian? that would indifferently expresse


E
1.4    my languages now, mary then, if he should fall out to be


E
1.4    Ignorant, it were both hard, and harshe. How else? step into


E
1.4    some discourse of State, and so make my induction? that were


E
1.4    above him too; and out of his element I feare Faine to have seen


E
1.4    him in Venice? or Padua? or some face neare his in simillitude?


E
1.4    it is too pointed, and open. No: it must be a more queint, and collaterall


E
1.4    deuise: As -- stay; to frame some encomiastique speach


E
1.4    upon this our Metropolis, or the wise Magistrates thereof, in


E
1.4    which pollitique number, it is ods but his father fild up a rome?


E
1.4    descend into a perticuler admiration of their Iustice; for the due


E
1.4    measuring of Coales, burning of Cans, and such like? As also


E
1.4    their religion, in pulling downe a superstitious Crosse, and aduancing


E
1.4    a Venus; or Priapus, in place of it? ha? it will do well. Or


E
1.4    to talke of some Hospitall, whose walls record his father a BENEFACTOR?


E
1.4    or of so many Buckets bestowd on his parish


E
1.4    church in his life time, with his name at length (for want of


E
1.4    armes) trickt upon them; Any of these? or to praise the cleanesse


E
1.4    of the streete wherein he dwelt, or the prouident painting of


E
1.4    his posts against he should have been Pretor, or (leauing his


E
1.4    parent) come to some speciall ornament about himself, as his


E
1.4    Rapier, or some other of his accountrements? I have it: Thankes


E
1.4    gracious Minerua.


F
1.4    Would I had but once spoke to him, and then --


E
1.4    It is a most curious and neatly-wrought band this


E
1.4    same, as I have seene Sir.


F
1.4    O God Sir.


E
1.4    You forgive the humor of mine eye in obseruing it?


F
1.4    O Lord Sir, there needs no such Apology I assure you.


D
1.4    I am anticipated: they will make a solemne deede of guift


D
1.4    of themselves you shall see.


E
1.4    Your Rose too does most grace-fully in troath.


F
1.4    It is the most gentile and receiu'd Weare now Sir.


E
1.4    Beleeue me Sir (I speake it not to humour you) I have


E
1.4    not seene a young gentleman (generally) put on his cloathes


E
1.4    with more iudgement.


F
1.4    O, it is your pleasure to say so, Sir.


E
1.4    No, as I am vertuous (being altogether vntrauel'd) it


E
1.4    strikes me into wonder.


F
1.4    I do purpose to trauell (Sir) at Spring.


E
1.4    I think I shall affect you sir, this last speach of yours


E
1.4    hath begun to make you deare to me.


F
1.4    O God Sir, I would there were any*thing in me Sir, that


F
1.4    might appeare worthy the least worthines of your woorth Sir,


F
1.4    I protest Sir, I should endeuour to shew it Sir, with more then


F
1.4    common regarde Sir.


D
1.4    O here is rare Motley, Sir.


E
1.4    Both your desert, and your endeuors are plentifull,


E
1.4    suspect them not: but your sweete disposition to trauaile (I


E
1.4    assure you) hath made you another My-self in mine eye, and


E
1.4    strooke me enamour'd on your beauties.


F
1.4    I would I were the fairest Lady of Fraunce for your


F
1.4    sake Sir, and yet I would trauaile too.


E
1.4    O you should digresse from yourself els: for (beleeue


E
1.4    it) your Trauaile is your only thing that rectifies, or (as the Italian


E
1.4    says) 8vi 8rendi 8pronto 8all' 8Attioni, makes you fit for Action.


F
1.4    I think it be great charge though Sir.


E
1.4    Charge? why it is nothing for a gentleman that goes


E
1.4    priuate, as yourself, or so; my Intelligence shall quitt my


E
1.4    charge at all times: Good faith, this Hat hath possest mine eye


E
1.4    exceedingly; it is so prettie, and fantastique; what? is it a Beauer.


F
1.4    Aye Sir. I will assure you it is a Beauer, it cost me six crownes


F
1.4    but this morning.


E
1.4    A very prettie fashion (beleeue me) and a most nouel


E
1.4    kinde of trimme: your Button is conceipted too.


F
1.4    Sir, it is all at your seruice.


E
1.4    O pardon me.


F
1.4    I beseech you Sir, if you please to weare it you shall


F
1.4    do me a most infinite grace.


D
1.4    Slight, will he be praisde out of his cloathes?


F
1.4    By heauen Sir, I do not offer it you after the Italian


F
1.4    manner; I would you should conceiue so of me.


E
1.4    Sir, I shall feare to appeare rude in denying your curtesies,


E
1.4    especially being inuited by so proper a distinction; may


E
1.4    I pray your name Sir.


F
1.4    My name is Asotus Sir.


E
1.4    I take your loue (gentle Asotus) but let me winne


E
1.4    you to receiue this in exchange. --


D
1.4    'Hart, they will change dublets anone.


E
1.4    And (from this time) esteeme yourself in the first


E
1.4    ranke of those few whom I professe to loue; what make you in


E
1.4    company of this scholler here? I will bring you knowne to


E
1.4    gallants as Anaides, Hedon the courtier, and others, whose societie


E
1.4    shall render you grac'de, and respected; this is a triuiall


E
1.4    fellow, too meane, too course for you to conuerse with.


F
1.4    Slid, this is not worth a crowne, and mine cost me six


F
1.4    but this morning.


D
1.4    I lookt when he would repent him, he has begunne to


D
1.4    be sad a good while.


E
1.4    Sir, shall I say to you for that Hat? be not so sad,


E
1.4    be not so sad; it is a Relique I could not so easily have departed


E
1.4    with, but as the Hierogliphick of my affection; you shall alter it


E
1.4    to what forme you please, it will take any block; I have varied


E
1.4    it myself to the three thousandth time, and not so few: It


E
1.4    hath these vertues beside; your head shall not ake under it; nor


E
1.4    your braine leaue you, without licence; It will preserue your


E
1.4    complexion to eternitie; for no beame of the Sunne (should


E
1.4    you weare it der Zona Torrida) hath force to approch it by


E
1.4    two ells. It is proofe against thunder, and enchantment: and


E
1.4    was given me by a great man (in Russia) as an especially-priz'd


E
1.4    present; and constantly affirm'd to be the hat that accompanied


E
1.4    the politique Vlisses, in his tedious, and ten yeares Trauailes.


F
1.4    By Ioue I will not depart withall, whosoeuer woulde

Scene 5



D
1.5    He will ranke even with you (ere it be long)


D
1.5    If you hold on your course: O vanity,


D
1.5    How are thy painted beauties doated on,


D
1.5    By light, and empty Ideots? how pursu'de


D
1.5    With open, and extended appetite?


D
1.5    How they do sweate, and run themselves from breath,


D
1.5    Raisd on their toes, to catch thy ayery formes,


D
1.5    Still turning giddy, till they reele like drunkards,


D
1.5    That buy the merry madnesse of one hower,


D
1.5    With the long irksomnesse of following time?


D
1.5    O how dispisde, and base a thing is Man,


D
1.5    If he not striue to erect his groueling thoughts


D
1.5    Above the straine of flesh? But how more cheape


D
1.5    When, even his best and vnderstanding part,


D
1.5    (The crowne, and strength of all his faculties)


D
1.5    Floates like a dead drown'd body, on the streame


D
1.5    Of vulgar humor, mixt with commonst dregs?


D
1.5    I suffer for their guilt now, and my Soule


D
1.5    (Like one that lookes on ill affected eyes)


D
1.5    Is hurt with meere Intention on their follies:


D
1.5    Why will I view them then? my Sence might aske me:


D
1.5    Or is it a Rarity, or some new Obiect,


D
1.5    That straines my strict obseruance to this point?


D
1.5    O would it were, therein I could afforde


D
1.5    My Spirit should draw a little neer to theirs,


D
1.5    To gaze on nouelties: so Vice were one.


D
1.5    Tut, she is stale, ranke, foule, and were it not


D
1.5    That those (that wooe her) greete her with lockt eyes


D
1.5    (In spight of all the Impostures, paintings, drugs,


D
1.5    Which her bawde Custome daubes her cheekes withall)


D
1.5    She would betray her loath'd and leprous face,


D
1.5    And fright the enamor'd dotards from themselves:


D
1.5    But such is the peruersnesse of our nature,


D
1.5    That if we once but fancy leuity,


D
1.5    (How antique and ridiculous so*ere


D
1.5    It sute with us) yet will our muffled thought


D
1.5    Choose rather not to see it, then auoyde it:


D
1.5    And if we can but banish our owne sence,


D
1.5    We acte our Mimick tricks with that free licence,


D
1.5    That lust, that pleasure, that security;


D
1.5    As if we practiz'd in a Past-boord case,


D
1.5    And no*one saw the Motion, but the Motion.


D
1.5    Well, check thy passion, least it grow too lowde:


D
1.5    While fooles are pittied, they wax fat, and prowde.
Exit.

Act 2

Scene 1



K
2.1    Why this was most vnexpectedly followed (my deuine


K
2.1    delicate Mercury) by the Beard of Ioue, thou art a pretious


K
2.1    Deity.


B
2.1    Nay Cupid leaue to speake improperly; since we are


B
2.1    turn'd cracks, let us study to be like cracks: practise their language,


B
2.1    and behauiours, and not with a dead Imitation. Acte


B
2.1    freely, carelesly, and capricciously, as if our veines ranne with


B
2.1    Quick-siluer, and not vtter a phrase, but what shall come foorth


B
2.1    steept in the very brine of conceipt, and sparkle like salt in fire.


K
2.1    That is not euery*ones happinesse (Hermes) though you


K
2.1    can presume upon the easinesse and dexterity of your wit, you


K
2.1    shall give me leaue to be a little Iealous of mine; and not desperately


K
2.1    to hazard it after your capring humor.


B
2.1    Nay then Cupid, I think we must have you hoodwinckt


B
2.1    againe, for you are growne too prouident, since your


B
2.1    eyes were at liberty.


K
2.1    Not so (Mercury) I am still blinde Cupid to thee:


B
2.1    And what to the Lady Nimph you serue?


K
2.1    Troath Page, Boy, and Sirha: these are all my titles.


B
2.1    Then thou hast not altered thy name with thy disguise.


K
2.1    O No, that had been Supererogation, you shall neuer heare


K
2.1    your Courtier call but by one of these three.


B
2.1    Faith then both our Fortunes are the same.


K
2.1    Why? what parcell of man hast thou lighted on for


K
2.1    a Maister?


B
2.1    Such a one (as before I begin to decipher him) I dare


B
2.1    not affirme him to be any*thing else then a Courtier. So much


B
2.1    he is, during this open time of Reuels, and would be longer, but


B
2.1    that his meanes are to leaue him shortly after: his name is Hedon,


B
2.1    a gallant wholy consecrated to his pleasures. --


K
2.1    Hedon? he vses much to my Ladies chamber, I think.


B
2.1    How is she cal'd, and then I can shew thee?


K
2.1    Madame Philautia.


B
2.1    O Aye, he affects her very particulerly indeed. These are


B
2.1    his graces: he doth (besides me) keepe a Barbar, and a Monkey:


B
2.1    He has a ritch wrought Waste-coate to intertaine his visitants


B
2.1    in, with a Cap almost sutable: His Curtaines and Bedding are


B
2.1    thought to be his owne; his bathing Tub is not suspected. He


B
2.1    loues to have a Fencer, a Pedant, and a Musitian seene in his


B
2.1    lodging a*mornings.


K
2.1    And not a Poet?


B
2.1    Fye no: himself is a Rimer, and that is a thought better


B
2.1    then a Poet: he is not lightly within to his Mercer, no,


B
2.1    though he come when he takes Phisique, which is commonly


B
2.1    after his play. He beates a Tayler very well, but a Stocking-seller


B
2.1    admirably; and so consequently any*one he owes money


B
2.1    to, that dares not resist him. He neuer makes generall inuitement,


B
2.1    but against the publishing of a new Sute, mary then, you


B
2.1    shall have more drawne to his lodging, then come to the launching


B
2.1    of some three ships; especially if he be furnishd with


B
2.1    supplies for the retiring of his olde Ward-robe from pawne;


B
2.1    if not, he does hire a stock of Apparell, and some forty or fiftie


B
2.1    pound in Gould for that forenoone to shew: He is thought


B
2.1    a very necessary Perfume for the Presence, and for that only


B
2.1    cause welcome thither: six Millaners shops affoorde you not


B
2.1    the like sent. He courts Ladies with how many great Horse he


B
2.1    hath rid that morning, or how oft he has done the whole, or


B
2.1    the halfe Pommado in a seuen-night before; and sometime


B
2.1    venters so far upon the vertue of his Pomander, that he dares


B
2.1    tell them, how many shirts he has sweat at Tennis that weeke,


B
2.1    but wiselye conceales so many dozen of Balls he is on the


B
2.1    score. Here he comes that is all this.

Scene 2



G
2.2    Boy.


B
2.2    Sir.


G
2.2    Are any of the Ladies in the Presence?


B
2.2    None yet Sir.


G
2.2    Give me some Gold, More.


H
2.2    Is that thy Boy Hedon?


G
2.2    Aye, what thinkst thou of him?


H
2.2    Shart, I would gelde him; I warrant he has the Philosophers stone.


G
2.2    Well said my good Melancholy diuell: Sirah, I have


G
2.2    deuisde one or two of the pretiest Oathes (this morning in my


G
2.2    bed) as euer thou heardst, to protest withall in the Presence.


H
2.2    Pray thee let us hear them.


G
2.2    Soft thou wilt vse them afore me.


H
2.2    No (damne me then) I have more oathes then I know


H
2.2    how to vtter, by this ayre.


G
2.2    Faith one is; By the tip of your eare, Sweete Lady, Is it


G
2.2    not pretty, and Gentile?


H
2.2    Yes for the person it is applyed to, a Lady. It should


H
2.2    be light, and --


G
2.2    Nay the other is better, exceeds it much: The Inuention


G
2.2    is farder set too; By the white valley that lyes betweene the


G
2.2    Alpine hills of your bosome, I protest -- &c%


H
2.2    Well, you traueld for that Hedon.


B
2.2    Aye, in a Map, where his eyes were but blind guides to


B
2.2    his vnderstanding it seemes.


G
2.2    And then I have a Salutation will nick all; by this Caper: ho!


H
2.2    How is that?


G
2.2    You know I cal Madam Philautia, my Honor, and she cals me


G
2.2    her Ambition. Now (when I meet her in the Presence anon) I will


G
2.2    come to her, and say, Sweete Honor, I have hitherto contented my


G
2.2    Sence with the Lillies of your hand; but now I will taste the Roses of


G
2.2    your lip; and (withall) kisse her: to which she cannot but blushingly


G
2.2    answeare: Nay now you are too Ambitious. And then


G
2.2    do I reply; I cannot be too Ambitious of Honour, Sweete Lady.


G
2.2    Will it not be good? ha? ha?


H
2.2    O Assure your soule.


G
2.2    By heauen I think it will be excellent, and a very politique


G
2.2    atchiuement of a kisse.


H
2.2    I have thought upon one for Moria of a suddaine too


H
2.2    if it take.


G
2.2    What is it, my deare mischiefe?


H
2.2    Mary, I will come to her, (and she alwayes weares a


H
2.2    Muffe if you be remembred) and I will tell her: Madame your


H
2.2    whole self cannot but be pefectly wise: for your hands have witte


H
2.2    enough to keepe themselves warme.


G
2.2    Now (before Ioue) admirable: looke, thy Page takes it


G
2.2    too, by Pho*ebus, my sweete facetious Rascall, I could eate Water-gruell


G
2.2    with thee a month, for this Iest, O my deare Rogue.


H
2.2    O (by Hercules) it is your only dish, above all your


H
2.2    Potatos, or Oyster-pyes in the world.


G
2.2    I have ruminated upon a most rare Wish too, and the


G
2.2    Prophecy to it, but I will have some friend to be the Prophet; As


G
2.2    thus: I do wish myself one of my Mistris Ciopino's. Another


G
2.2    demaunds: Why would he be one of his Mistris Ciopinos? A third


G
2.2    answeres, Because he would make her higher. A fourth shall say,


G
2.2    That will make her proud. And a fifth shall conclude: Then do I


G
2.2    prophesie, Pride will have a fall: and he shall give it her.


H
2.2    I will be your Prophet. By gods son, it will be most exquisite,


H
2.2    thou art a fine Inuentious Rogue, Sirah.


G
2.2    Nay and I have Posies for Rings too, and Riddles, that


G
2.2    they dreame not of.


H
2.2    Tut they will do that, when they come to sleep on them time


H
2.2    enough; but were thy deuises neuer in the Presence yet Hedon?


G
2.2    O no, I disdaine that.


H
2.2    It were good we went afore then, and, brought them acquainted


H
2.2    with the roome where they shall act, least the strangenes of


H
2.2    it put them out of countenance, when they should come forth.
Exeunt.


K
2.2    Is that a Courtier too.


B
2.2    Troth no; he has two essentiall parts of the Courtier,


B
2.2    Pride and Ignorance (I meane of such a Courtier, who is (indeed)


B
2.2    but the Zani to an exact Courtier) mary, the rest come somwhat


B
2.2    after the Ordinary Gallant. It is Impudence itself Anaides; one,


B
2.2    that speakes all that comes in his cheekes, and will blush no more


B
2.2    then a Sackbut. He lightly occupies the Iesters roome at the


B
2.2    table, and keeps laughter, Gelaia (a wench in pages atire) following


B
2.2    him in place of a Squire, whom he (now and then) tickles with


B
2.2    some strange ridiculous stuffe, vttered (as his land came to him)


B
2.2    by chance: He will censure or discourse of any*thing, but as absurdly


B
2.2    as you would wishe: His fashion is not to take knowledge


B
2.2    of him that is beneath him in cloathes; He neuer drinkes


B
2.2    below the Salt: He does naturally admire his wit, that weares


B
2.2    Gold-lace, or Tissue; Stabs any man that speakes more contemptibly


B
2.2    of the Scholler then he. He is a great proficient in all


B
2.2    the illiberall Sciences, as Cheating, Drinking, Swaggering,


B
2.2    Whoring, and such like; neuer kneeles, but to pledge Health's;


B
2.2    nor praies, but for a Pipe of pudding Tabaco. He will blaspheame


B
2.2    in his shirt; The oaths which he vomits at one supper,


B
2.2    would maintain a Towne of garrison in good swearing a twelue-moneth:


B
2.2    One other geniune quality he has, which crownes


B
2.2    all these; and that is this; to a Friend in want, he will not depart


B
2.2    with the weight of a soldard Groat, least the world might


B
2.2    censure him prodigall, or report him a Gull: Mary, to his Cocatrice


B
2.2    or Punquetto; halfe a dozen Taffata gownes or Sattin Kirtles,


B
2.2    in a paire or two of moneth's, why they are nothing.


K
2.2    I commend him he is one of my clients.

Scene 3



E
2.3    Come Sir. You are now within reguarde of the Presence;


E
2.3    And see, the priuacie of this roome, how sweetly it offers


E
2.3    itself to our retir'd intendments, Page, cast a vigilant,


E
2.3    and enquiring eye about, that we be not rudely surpris'd, by


E
2.3    the aproch of some ruder-stranger.


R
2.3    I warrant you Sir. I will tell you when the Woolfe enters feare nothing.


B
2.3    O what a masse of benefit shall we possesse, in being


B
2.3    the inuisible Spectators of this strange shew now to be acted?


E
2.3    Plant yourself there Sir: And obserue me. You shall


E
2.3    now, as well be the Ocular as the Eare-witnesse, how clearely


E
2.3    I can resell that Paradox, or rather Pseudodoxe of those, which


E
2.3    holde the face to be the Index of the minde, which (I assure


E
2.3    you) is not so, in any Politique creature; for instance, I will now


E
2.3    give you the particuler, and distinct face of euery your most


E
2.3    noted Species of persons; As your Marchant, your Scholler, your


E
2.3    Soldier, your Lawyer, Courtier, &c%. And each of these so truly, as


E
2.3    you would sweare (but that your eye sees the variation of the


E
2.3    lineament) it were my most proper, and Genuine aspect: First,


E
2.3    for your Marchants, or Citty face; It is thus: a dull plodding


E
2.3    face; still looking in a direct line, forward: There is no great


E
2.3    matter in this face. Then have you your Students, or Academique


E
2.3    face, which is here, an honest, simple, and Methodicall


E
2.3    face; But somewhat more spread then the former. The third


E
2.3    is your Soldiers face: A menacing, and astounding face, that


E
2.3    lookes broade, and bigge: the grace of this face consists much


E
2.3    in a Beard. The Anti face to this, is your Lawyers face; a contracted,


E
2.3    subtile, and Intricate face: full of quirkes, and turnings;


E
2.3    A Labyrintha*ean face, now angularly, now circularly, euery way


E
2.3    aspected. Next is your Statists face, a serious, solempne, and


E
2.3    supercilious face, ful of formall, and square grauity, the eye (for


E
2.3    the most part) arteficially and deeply shadow'd, there is great


E
2.3    iudgment requir'd in the making of this face. But now to come


E
2.3    to your face of faces; or Courtiers face: it is of three sorts; (according


E
2.3    to our subdiuision of a Courtier; Elementary, Practique,


E
2.3    and Theorique: your Courtier Theorique, is he that hath arriu'd


E
2.3    to his fardest, and doth now know the Court rather by speculation,


E
2.3    then practise; and this is his face: A fastidious, and oblique


E
2.3    face; that lookes, as it went with a Vice, and were screw'd thus.


E
2.3    Your Courtier Practique is he that is yet in his Path, his Course,


E
2.3    his Way, and hath not toucht the Puntillio or point of hopes; this


E
2.3    face is here: A most promising, open, smooth, and ouerflowing


E
2.3    face, that seemes as it would runne, and powre itself into you;


E
2.3    your Courtier Elementary is one but newly entered, or as it were


E
2.3    in the Alphabet Vt-re-mi-fa-sol-la, of Courtship: Note well this


E
2.3    face, for it is this you must practise.


F
2.3    I will practise them all, if you please Sir.


E
2.3    Aye; here*after you may: and it will not be altogether an


E
2.3    vngratfull study. For let your soule be assur'd of this (in any


E
2.3    Ranke or profession whatsoeuer) the most generall, or Maior


E
2.3    part of Opinion, goes with the face, and (simply) respects nothing


E
2.3    else. Therefore: if that can be made, exactly, curiously, exquisitely,


E
2.3    thoroughly, It is enough: But (for the present) you shall


E
2.3    only apply yourself to this face of the Elementary Courtier, A


E
2.3    light, reuelling, and protesting face, now blushing, now smiling


E
2.3    which you may helpe much with a wanton wagging of your


E
2.3    head, thus; (a feather will teach you) or with kissing your finger


E
2.3    that hath the Ruby, or playing with some string of your band,


E
2.3    which is a most quaint kinde of Melancholy besides. Where is


E
2.3    your Page? call for your Casting Bottle, and place your Mirror


E
2.3    in your Hat, as I tolde you; so. Come, looke not pale, obserue


E
2.3    me: set your face, and enter.


E
2.3    O for some excellent Painter, to have ta'ne the copye


E
2.3    of all these faces.


F
2.3    Prosaites.


E
2.3    Fie, I premonisht you of that; In the Court, Boy or Sirha.


R
2.3    Maister Lupus in -- O it is Prosaites.


F
2.3    Sirha, prepare me my Casting-bottle, I think I must


F
2.3    be enforst to purchase me another Page, you see how at hand


F
2.3    Cos waites here.
Exeunt.


B
2.3    So will he too in time.


K
2.3    What is he Mercury?


B
2.3    A notable Finch. One that hath newly entertain'd the


B
2.3    Beggar to follow him, but cannot get him to wait neer inough.


B
2.3    It is Asotus the heire of Philargirus: but first I will give you the


B
2.3    others Caracter, which may make his the clearer? He that is


B
2.3    with him is Amorphus, A Traueller, One so made out of the


B
2.3    mixture and shreds of formes, that himself is truely deformed:


B
2.3    He walkes most commonlye with a Cloue or Pick-toothe


B
2.3    in his mouth, He is the very Minte of Complement;


B
2.3    All his behauiours are printed, his face is another volume of


B
2.3    Essayes; and his beard an Aristarchus. He speakes all creame,


B
2.3    skimd, and more affected then a dozen of waiting women; He is


B
2.3    his owne promooter in euery place: The wife of the Ordinary


B
2.3    gives him his diet to maintaine her table in discourse, which


B
2.3    (indeed) is a meere Tiranny over her other guests: for he will


B
2.3    vsurp all the talke: Ten Cunstables are not so tedious. He is no


B
2.3    great shifter; once a yeare his Apparell is ready to reuolt; He


B
2.3    doth vse much to arbitrate quarrells, and fights himself exceeding


B
2.3    well (out at a window.) He will lie cheaper then any


B
2.3    Begger, and lowder then most Clockes; for which he is right


B
2.3    properly accommodated to the Whetstone his page. The other


B
2.3    gallant is his Zani, and doth most of these tricks after him; sweats


B
2.3    to imitate him in euery*thing (to a haire) except a Beard, which


B
2.3    is not yet extant: he doth learne to eat Anchoues, and Caueare because


B
2.3    he loues them, speakes as he speakes; lookes, walkes, goes


B
2.3    so in Cloathes and fashion, is in all, as he were moulded of him.


B
2.3    Marry (before they met) he had other very pretty sufficiencies,


B
2.3    which yet he retaines some light Impression of: As frequenting


B
2.3    a dauncing schoole, and grieuously torturing strangers,


B
2.3    with inquisition after his grace in his Galliard; He buyes a fresh


B
2.3    acquaintance at any rate; his Eye, and his Raiment confer much


B
2.3    together as he goes in the street; He treads nicely, like a fellow


B
2.3    that walkes upon ropes, especially the first Sunday of his Silk-stockings,


B
2.3    and when he is most neate and new, you shall stripp


B
2.3    him with commendations.


K
2.3    Here comes another.


B
2.3    Aye, but one of another straine Cupid: This fellow


B
2.3    weighs somewhat.
Criticus passeth by.


K
2.3    His name Hermes?


B
2.3    Criticus. A creature of a most perfect and diuine temper;


B
2.3    One, in whom the Humors and Elements are peaceably met,


B
2.3    without a*emulation of Precedencie: he is neither too fantastickly


B
2.3    Melancholy; too slowly Plegmatick, too lightly Sanguine,


B
2.3    or too rashly Cholerick, but in all, so composd and order'd; as it is


B
2.3    cleare, Nature was about some full worke, she did more then


B
2.3    make a man when she made him; His discourse is like his behauiour,


B
2.3    vncommon, but not vnpleasing; he is prodigall of neither:


B
2.3    He striues rather to be (that which men call) Iudicious,


B
2.3    then to be thought so; and is so truely learned that he affects


B
2.3    not to shew it: He will think, and speak his thought, both freely;


B
2.3    but as distant from deprauing any other mans Merrit, as proclaiming


B
2.3    his owne: For his valor, it is such, that he dares as little to


B
2.3    offer an Iniury, as receiue one. In sum, he hath a most Ingenious


B
2.3    and sweet spirit, a sharp and season'd wit, a streight iudgement,


B
2.3    and a stronge minde; constant and vnshaken: Fortune


B
2.3    could neuer breake him, or make him lesse, he counts it his


B
2.3    pleasure to despise pleasures, and is more delighted with good


B
2.3    deedes then Goods, It is a competencie to him that he can be


B
2.3    vertuous. He doth neither couet, nor feare; he hath too much


B
2.3    reason to do either: and that commends all things to him.


K
2.3    Not better then Mercury commends him.


B
2.3    O Cupid, it is beyond my deity to give him his due


B
2.3    praises; I could leaue my Place in heauen, to liue among Mortals,


B
2.3    so I were sure to be no other then he.


K
2.3    Slight, I beleeue he is your Minion; you seeme to be so


K
2.3    rauisht with him.


B
2.3    He is one, I would not have awry thought darted against


B
2.3    willingly.


K
2.3    No, but a straight shaft in his bosome, I will promise him,


K
2.3    if I am Cithereas sonne.


B
2.3    Shall we go Cupid?


K
2.3    Stay and see the Ladies now; they will come presently. I will


K
2.3    helpe to paint them.


B
2.3    What lay Couller upon Couler? that affoordes but


B
2.3    an ill blazon.
Argurion passeth by.


K
2.3    Here come Mettall to helpe it, the Lady Argurion.


B
2.3    Money, money.


K
2.3    The fame: A Nimph of a most wandering and giddy


K
2.3    disposition, humourous as the Ayre, she will run from Gallant to


K
2.3    Gallant (as they sit at Primero in the Presence) most strangely,


K
2.3    and seldome stayes with any; She spreades as she goes: To*day


K
2.3    you shall have her looke as cleare and fresh as the morning


K
2.3    and to*morrow as Melancholy as midnight. She takes speciall


K
2.3    pleasure in a close, obscure lodging, and for that cause visits


K
2.3    the Cittie so often, where she has many secret and true concealing


K
2.3    fauorites. When she comes abroad she is more loose


K
2.3    and scattering then dust, and will fly from place to place, as she


K
2.3    were rapt with a whirle-winde. Your young Student (for the


K
2.3    most part) she affects not, onley salutes him, and away: A Poet


K
2.3    or a Philosopher she is hardly brought to take any notice of, no,


K
2.3    though he be some part of an Alchimist. She loues a Player,


K
2.3    well; and a Lawyer infinitly: but your Foole above all. She can


K
2.3    do much in the Court for the obtaining of any sute whatsoeuer,


K
2.3    no doore but flies open to her; her presence is above a


K
2.3    Charme: The woorst in her is want of keeping state, and too


K
2.3    much descending into inferior and base offices, She is for any


K
2.3    course Imployment you will put upon her, as to be your


K
2.3    Procurer or Pandar.


B
2.3    Peace Cupid; here comes more worke for you,


B
2.3    another Caracter or two.

Scene 4



N
2.4    Stay sweete Philautia; I will but change my fann, and go


N
2.4    presently.


Q
2.4    Now (in very good serious) Ladies, I will have this order


K
2.4    been a Dogge to have given entertainement to any Gallant in this


K
2.4    kingdome.


B
2.4    O I pray thee no more, I am full of her.


K
2.4    Yes (I must needes tell you) She composes a Sack-posset


K
2.4    well; and would court a young Page sweetly, but that


K
2.4    her breath is against it.


B
2.4    Now her breath (or some*thing more strong) protect


B
2.4    me from her; the other, the other, Cupid.


K
2.4    O, that is my Lady and Mistris Madam Philautia: She


K
2.4    admires not herself for any one particularity, but for all; She


K
2.4    is faire, and she knowes it; She has a pretty light wit too, and she


K
2.4    knowes it; She can daunce, and she knowes that too; play at


K
2.4    Shittle-cock, and that too: No quality she has, but she shall


K
2.4    take a very particuler knowledge of, and most Lady-like


K
2.4    commend it to you; you shall have her at any time read you


K
2.4    the History of herself, and very subtilly runne over another


K
2.4    Ladies sufficiences to come to her owne.


K
2.4    She has a good superficiall iudgement in Painting; and would


K
2.4    seeme to have so in Poetry. A most compleate Lady in the opinion


K
2.4    of some three beside herself.


P
2.4    Faith, how lik'd you my quipp to Hedon, about the garter?


P
2.4    was it not wittie?


Q
2.4    Exceeding witty and Integrate: you did so Aggrauate


Q
2.4    the Iest withall.


P
2.4    And did I not daunce moouingly last night?


Q
2.4    Moouingly; out of measure (in troth) Sweete Lady.


B
2.4    A happy commendation, to daunce, out of measure.


Q
2.4    Saue only you wanted the swim in the turne; O! when


Q
2.4    I was at fourteene --


P
2.4    Nay that is mine owne from any Nimph in the Court) I


P
2.4    am sure of it) therefore you mistake me in that Guardian; both


P
2.4    the swimme, and the trip, are properly mine; euery*body will


P
2.4    affirme it, that has any iudgement in dauncing: I assure you.


N
2.4    Come now Philautia I am for you, shall we go?


P
2.4    Aye good Phantaste; What? have you chang'd your headtire?


N
2.4    Yes faith; the other was so neare the common, it had


N
2.4    no extraordinary grace; besides, I had worne it almost a day


N
2.4    in good troath.


P
2.4    I will be sworne, this is most excellent for the deuise,


P
2.4    and rare. It is after the Italian print we look'd on the other night.


N
2.4    It is so: by this fanne, I cannot abide any*thing that


N
2.4    fauors the poore ouer-worne cut, that has any kindred with it;


N
2.4    I must have variety, I: This mixing in fashion I hate it woorse,


N
2.4    then to burne Iuniper in my Chamber I protest.


P
2.4    And yet we cannot have a new peculiar Court-tyre, but


P
2.4    these Retainers will have it; these Suburbe sunday-waiters, these


P
2.4    Courtiers for High daies, I know not what I should call them. --


N
2.4    O aye. They do most pitifully Imitate; but I have a tire a


N
2.4    comming (I*faith) shall --


Q
2.4    In good certaine, Madame, it makes you looke most


Q
2.4    heauenly; but (lay your hand on your hart) you neuer skind a


Q
2.4    new beauty more prosperously in your life, nor more supernaturally;


Q
2.4    looke good Lady, sweet Lady looke.


P
2.4    It is very cleere, and well beleeue me. But if you had


P
2.4    seene mine yeasterday when it was young, you would have --


P
2.4    who is your Doctor Phantaste?


N
2.4    Nay that is counsell Philautia, you shall pardon me: yet


N
2.4    (I will assure you) he is the most dainty, sweet, absolute rare man,


N
2.4    of the whole Colledge. O! his very lookes, his discourse, his


N
2.4    behauiour, all he does is Phisick I protest.


P
2.4    For heauens sake his name; good, deare, Phantaste --


N
2.4    No, no, no, no, no, no, (beleeue me) not for a Million of


N
2.4    heauens: I will not make him cheape. Fie --
Exeunt.


P
2.4    There is a Nymph too of a most curious and elaborate


P
2.4    straine, light, all motion, an Vbiquitary, she is euery*where,


P
2.4    Phantaste --


B
2.4    Her very name speakes her; let her passe. But are these


B
2.4    (Cupid) the starres of Cynthias Court? do these Nymphs attend


B
2.4    upon Diana?


K
2.4    They are in her Court (Mercury) but not as Starres;


K
2.4    these neuer come in the presence of Cynthia: the Nimphes


K
2.4    that make her traine, are the Diuine Arete, Tima, Phronesis,


K
2.4    Thauma, and others of that high sort. These are priuately


K
2.4    brought in by Moria in this licencious time, against her knowledge;


K
2.4    and (like so many Meteors) will vanish when she


K
2.4    appeares.

Scene 5

Cant.


I
2.5    Come follow me my Wagges, and say as I say.


I
2.5    There is no ritches but in Ragges; hey day, hey day;


I
2.5    You that professe this art. Come away; come away:


I
2.5    And helpe to beare a part. Hey day; hey day.


I
2.5    Beare-wards, and Blackingmen.


I
2.5    Corne-cutters, and Carmen.


I
2.5    Sellers of mar-king stones.


I
2.5    Gatherer's up of Marow-bones


I
2.5    Pedlers, and Puppit-players.


I
2.5    Sow-gelders, and Sooth-saiers.


I
2.5    Gipsies and taylers,


I
2.5    Rat-catchers, and Raylers,


I
2.5    Beadles, and Ballad-singers.


I
2.5    Fidlers, and Fadingers.


I
2.5    Thomalins, and Tinkers.


I
2.5    Scauengers, and Skinkers.


I
2.5    There goes the Hare away.


I
2.5    Hey day, Hey day.


I
2.5    Bawds and blinde Doctors.


I
2.5    Paritors, and spittle Proctors.


I
2.5    Chymists, and Cuttlebungs.


I
2.5    Hookers, and Horne-thums.


I
2.5    With all cast commaunders.


I
2.5    turnd Post-Knights, or Pandars.


I
2.5    Iuglers, and Iesters.
Beggars rime


I
2.5    Borrowers of Testers.


I
2.5    All all the troope of trash


I
2.5    That are allied to the lash,


I
2.5    Come, and Ioyne with your lags


I
2.5    Shake up your muscle-bags.


I
2.5    For Beggary beares the sway,


I
2.5    Then sing: cast care away,


I
2.5    Hey day, hey day.


B
2.5    What? those that were our fellow Pages but now, so


B
2.5    soone prefer'd to be Yeomen of the Bottles? the mistery, the


B
2.5    mistery, good wagges?


K
2.5    Some dyet drinke, they have the guard of.


I
2.5    No Sir, we are going in quest of a strange Fountaine,


I
2.5    lately found out.


K
2.5    By whom?


R
2.5    My Maister or the great discouerer, Amorphus.


B
2.5    Thou hast well intitled him Cos, for he will discouer


B
2.5    all he knowes.


S
2.5    Aye and a little more too, when the spirit is upon him.


I
2.5    O the good trauelling Gentleman yonder, has causd


I
2.5    such a drought in the Presence, with reporting the wonders of


I
2.5    this new water; that all the Ladies, and Gallants lie languishing


I
2.5    upon the Rushes, like so many pounded Cattle in the midste of


I
2.5    Haruest, sighing one to another, and gasping, as if each of them


I
2.5    expected a Cock from the Fountaine, to be brought into his


I
2.5    mouth; and (without we returne quickly) they are all (as a youth


I
2.5    would say) no better then a few Trowts cast a*shore, or a dish


I
2.5    of Eeles in a Sand-bag.


B
2.5    Well then, you were best dispatch and have a care of them,


B
2.5    Come Cupid, thou and I will go peruse this drye wonder.

Act 3

Scene 1



E
3.1    Sir, let not this discountenance, or dis-gallant you a


E
3.1    whit, you must not sinke under the first disaster; It is with your


E
3.1    young Grammattical Courtier, as with your Neophyte-Player,


E
3.1    a thing vsuall to be daunted at the first presence, or enter-viewe:


E
3.1    you saw, there was Hedon and Anaides, (far more practisd gallants


E
3.1    then yourself) who were both out, to comfort you: It is no


E
3.1    disgrace, no more, then for your aduenturous Reueller to fall


E
3.1    by some in-auspicious chance in his Galliard, or for some subtill


E
3.1    Politician to vndertake the Bastinado, that the State might


E
3.1    think worthely of him, and respect him as a man well beaten


E
3.1    to the world. What? hath your Tayler prouided the property


E
3.1    (we spake of) at your Chamber, or no?


F
3.1    I think he has.


E
3.1    Nay, (I intreate you) be not so flat, and melancholique,


E
3.1    erect your minde: you shall redeeme this with the Courtship


E
3.1    I will teach you against afternoone: Where eate you to*day?


F
3.1    Where you please Sir, any*where I.


E
3.1    Come let us go and taste some light dinner, A dish


E
3.1    of slic'd Caueare, or so, and after you shall practise an hower


E
3.1    at your lodging, some fewe formes that I have remembred; If


E
3.1    you had but (so farre) gathered your spirits to you, as to have


E
3.1    taken up a Rushe (when you were out) and wagd it, thus; or


E
3.1    clensde your teeth with it, or but turn'de aside, and fainde


E
3.1    some businesse to whisper with your Page, till you had


E
3.1    recouer'd yourself, or but found some slight staine in your


E
3.1    stocking, or any other pretty Inuention (so it had been suddaine,)


E
3.1    you might have come off with a most cleare and


E
3.1    Courtly grace.


F
3.1    A poyson of all, I think I was forespoake, I.


E
3.1    No, I do partly ayme at the cause (which was omenous


E
3.1    indeed) for as you enter at the doore, there is oppos'de to


E
3.1    you the frame of a Wolfe in the Hangings, which (your eye


E
3.1    taking sodainely) gaue a false Alarme to the heart; and that


E
3.1    was it call'd your blood out of your face, and so disordred the


E
3.1    whole ranke of your spirits: I beseech you labour to forget it.
Exeunt.

Scene 2



G
3.2    Heart, was there euer so prosperous an Inuention thus


G
3.2    vnluckely peruerted, and spoyld, by a whoore-sonne Book-worme,


G
3.2    a Candle-waster?


H
3.2    Nay, be not impatient, Hedon.


G
3.2    Slight, I would faine know his name.


H
3.2    Hang him poore Grogran Rascall, pr'ythee think not


H
3.2    of him: I will send for him to my lodging, and have him blanketted


H
3.2    when thou wilt, man.


G
3.2    By gods son; I would thou couldst. Looke, here he comes.


G
3.2    Laugh at him, laugh at him. Ha, ha, ha.
Criticus passeth by.


H
3.2    Fough, he smels all Lamp-oyle, with studying by


H
3.2    Candle-light.


G
3.2    How confidently he went by us; and carelesly!


G
3.2    neuer moou'd! nor stird at any*thing! Did you obserue him?


H
3.2    Aye a poxe on him, let him go, Dormouse: he is in a


H
3.2    dreame now; He has no other time, to sleepe but thus when he


H
3.2    walkes abroade, to take the ayre.


G
3.2    Gods pretious, this afflicts me more then all the rest,


G
3.2    that we should so particulerly direct our Hate, and Contempt


G
3.2    against him; and he to carry it thus without wound or passion!


G
3.2    it is insufferable.


H
3.2    'Slid, (my deare Enuy) if, thou but saist the word now,


H
3.2    I will vndoe him eternally for thee.


G
3.2    How sweete Anaides?


H
3.2    Marry halfe a score of us get him in (one night) and


H
3.2    make him pawne his wit for a supper.


G
3.2    Away, thou hast such vnseasonable Iests. By this heauen


G
3.2    I wonder at nothing more then our Gentlemen Vshers;


G
3.2    that will suffer a piece of Serge, or Perpetuana, to come into


G
3.2    the Presence: methinks, they, should (out of their Experience)


G
3.2    better distinguish the silken disposition of a Courtier,


G
3.2    then to let such terrible course Rags mixe with them, able to


G
3.2    fret any smooth or gentile Society to the threds, with their


G
3.2    rubbing Deuises.


H
3.2    Damne me, if I should aduenture on his company


H
3.2    once more, without a sute of Buffe, to defend my wit: he does


H
3.2    nothing but stabbe the slaue: how mischeiuously he crost thy


H
3.2    devuise of the Prophesie there? and Moria she comes without


H
3.2    her Muffe too; and there my inuention was lost.


G
3.2    Well, I am resolu'd, what I will do.


H
3.2    What, my good spiritous Sparke?


G
3.2    Marry, speake all the venome I can of him; and poyson


G
3.2    his reputation in euery place where I come.


H
3.2    'Fore god most Courtly.


G
3.2    And if I chance to be present where any question is


G
3.2    made of his sufficiencies, or of any*thing he hath done priuate


G
3.2    or publique; I will censure it slightly, and ridiculously --


H
3.2    At any hand beware of that, so you may draw your


H
3.2    owne iudgement, in suspect; No, I will instruct thee what thou


H
3.2    shalt do, and by a safer meanes: approue any*thing thou hearest


H
3.2    of his, to the receiud opinion of it; but if it be extraordinary,


H
3.2    give it from him to some other, whom thou more particulerly


H
3.2    affectst, that is the waye to plague him, and he shall


H
3.2    neuer come to defend himself: Sblood, I will give out all he does


H
3.2    is dictated from other men; and sweare it too (if thou wilt have me)


H
3.2    and that I know the time, and place, where he stoale it: though


H
3.2    my soule be guilty of no such thing; and that I think out of


H
3.2    my hart, he hates such barren shifts; yet to do thee a pleasure


H
3.2    and him a disgrace, I will damne myself, or do any*thing.


G
3.2    Gramercies my deare Deuill: we will put it seriouslie in


G
3.2    practise, I*faith.
Exeunt.

Scene 3



D
3.3    Do good Detraction, do: and I the while


D
3.3    Shall shake thy spight off with a carelesse smile.


D
3.3    Poore pitteous Gallants, what leane idle sleights


D
3.3    Their thoughts suggest to flatter their steru'd Hopes!


D
3.3    As if I knew not how to entertaine


D
3.3    These Straw-deuises; but of force must yeeld


D
3.3    To the weake stroake of their calumnious tongues.


D
3.3    Why should I care what euery Dor doth buzze


D
3.3    In credulous eares? it is a Crowne to me,


D
3.3    That the best iudgements can report me wrong'd;


D
3.3    Them Liars; and their slanders impudent.


D
3.3    Perhaps (upon the rumor of their speeches)


D
3.3    Some grieued friend will whisper, Criticus,


D
3.3    Men speake ill of thee: So they be ill men,


D
3.3    If they spake worse, it were better: For of such


D
3.3    To be disprais'd, is the most perfect praise.


D
3.3    What can his Censure hurt me, whom the world


D
3.3    Hath censur'd vile before me? If good Chrestus,


D
3.3    Euthus, or Phronimus, had spoake the words,


D
3.3    They would have moou'd me; and I should have cal'd


D
3.3    My thoughts and Actions to a strict accompt


D
3.3    upon the hearing: But when I remember


D
3.3    It is Hedon and Anaides: Alasse, then,


D
3.3    I think but what they are, and am not stir'd:


D
3.3    The one, a light voluptuous Reueller,


D
3.3    The other a strange arrogating Puffe,


D
3.3    Both impudent, and ignorant enough;


D
3.3    That talke (as they are wont) not as I merit;


D
3.3    Traduce by Custome, as most Dogs do barke,


D
3.3    Do nothing out of iudgment, but disease;


D
3.3    Speake ill, because they neuer could speake well:


D
3.3    And who would be angry with this race of Creatures?


D
3.3    What wise Phisitian have we euer seene


D
3.3    Moou'd with a frantique man? the same affects


D
3.3    That he doth beare to his sicke Patient,


D
3.3    Should a right minde carry to such as these:


D
3.3    And I do count it a most rare Reuenge,


D
3.3    That I can thus (with such a sweet neglect)


D
3.3    Pluck from them all the pleasure of their Mallice.


D
3.3    For that is the marke of all their enginous drifts,


D
3.3    To wound my Patience (how*soe're they seeme


D
3.3    To ayme at other obiects) which if mist,


D
3.3    Their Enuy's like an Arrow shot vpright,


D
3.3    That in the fall endangers their owne heads.

Scene 4



M
3.4    What Criticus? where have you spent the day.


M
3.4    You have not visited your iealous friends?


D
3.4    Where I have seene (most honor'd Arete,)


D
3.4    The strangest Pageant, fashion'd like a Court,


D
3.4    (At least I dreamp't I saw it) so diffus'd,


D
3.4    So painted, pyed, and full of Raine-bow straines;


D
3.4    As neuer yet (either by Time, or Place)


D
3.4    Was made the foode to my distasted Sence:


D
3.4    Nor can my weake imperfect Memory


D
3.4    Now render halfe the formes vnto my tongue,


D
3.4    That were conuolu'd within this thrifty Roome.


D
3.4    Here, stalkes me by, a proud, and spangled Sir,


D
3.4    That lookes three handfuls higher then his fore-top;


D
3.4    Sauors himself alone, is only kind


D
3.4    And louing to himself: One that will speake


D
3.4    More darke and doubtfull then sixe oracles;


D
3.4    Salutes a friend, as if he had a stitch,


D
3.4    Is his owne Chronicle, and scarce can eate


D
3.4    For registring himself; is waited on,


D
3.4    By Mimiques, Iesters, Pandars, Parasites,


D
3.4    And other such like Prodigies of men.


D
3.4    He past; there comes some subtill Proteus: One


D
3.4    Can change, and vary with all formes he sees;


D
3.4    Be any*thing but honest; serues the time;


D
3.4    Houers betwixt two factions, and explores


D
3.4    The drifts of both; which (with crosse face) he beares


D
3.4    To the deuided heads, and is receiu'd


D
3.4    With mutuall grace of either: One that dares


D
3.4    Do deeds worthy the Hurdle, or the Wheele,


D
3.4    To be thought some*body; and is (in sooth)


D
3.4    Such as the Satyrist points truly foorth,


D
3.4    Criminibus debent hortos, pra*etoria, mensas:


M
3.4    You tell us wonders Criticus.


D
3.4    Tut, this is nothing.


D
3.4    There stands a Neophyte, glazing of his face,


D
3.4    Against his Idoll enters; and repeats,


D
3.4    (Like an vnperfect Prologue, at third Musique)


D
3.4    His part of speeches, and confederate Iests


D
3.4    In passion to himself; Another sweares


D
3.4    His Scene of Courtship over, and then seemes


D
3.4    As he would kisse away his hand in kindnesse;


D
3.4    A third, is most in Action; swims, and frisks,


D
3.4    Playes with his mistresse paps, salutes her pomps;


D
3.4    Will spend his Patrimonie for a Garter,


D
3.4    Or the least fether in her bounteous Fanne:


D
3.4    A fourth, he only comes in for a Mute,


D
3.4    Diuides the Act with a dumbe shew, and Exit,


D
3.4    Then must the Ladies laugh: streight comes their Scene;


D
3.4    A sixth times worse Confusion then the Rest.


D
3.4    Where you shall heare one talke of this mans Eye;


D
3.4    Another of his Lip, a third, his Nose;


D
3.4    A fourth commend his Leg, a fifth his Foote,


D
3.4    A sixth his Hand, and euery*one a lim;


D
3.4    That you would think the poore distorted Gallant


D
3.4    Must there expire: Then fall they in discourse


D
3.4    Of Tires, and Fashions; how they must take place:


D
3.4    Where they may kisse; and whom: when to sit down;


D
3.4    And with what grace to rise; if they salute,


D
3.4    What curtesie they must vse; such Cob-web stuffe,


D
3.4    As would enforce the commonst sence abhorre


D
3.4    The Arachnean workers.


M
3.4    Patience Criticus.


M
3.4    This knot of Spiders will be soone dissolu'd,


M
3.4    And all their webbes swept out of Cynthias Court,


M
3.4    When once her glorious Deity appeares,


M
3.4    And but presents itself in her full light:


M
3.4    Till when, go in: and spend your howers with us


M
3.4    Your honor'd friends Tima*e, and Phronesis,


M
3.4    In contemplation of our Goddesse name:


M
3.4    Think on some sweet, and choyse Inuention now,


M
3.4    (Worthy her serious, and illustrous Eyes)


M
3.4    That from the merit of it we may take


M
3.4    Desier'd occasion to prefer your worth,


M
3.4    And make your seruice knowne to Cynthia:


M
3.4    It is the pride of Arete to grace


M
3.4    Her studious louers; and (in scorne of Time,


M
3.4    Enuy, and Ignorance) to lift their state


M
3.4    Above a vulgar height. True Happinesse


M
3.4    Consists not in the multitude of friends,


M
3.4    But in the worth, and choyse; Nor would I have


M
3.4    Vertue, a popular Reguard pursew;


M
3.4    Let them be good that loue me, though but few.


D
3.4    I kisse thy hands, diuinest Arete,


D
3.4    And vowe myself to thee, and Cynthia.
Exeunt.

Scene 5



E
3.5    A little more forward; So Sir. Now go in, dis-cloake


E
3.5    yourself, and come forth. Taylor; bestow thy absence upon


E
3.5    us; and be not prodigall of this secret, but to a deare Customer.


E
3.5    It is well enter'd Sir. Stay you come on too fast; your Pace is too


E
3.5    impetuous. Imagine this to be the Pallace of your Pleasure, or


E
3.5    Place where your Lady is pleas'd to be seene: First you present


E
3.5    yourself thus; and spying her you fall off, and walke some


E
3.5    two turnes; in which time it is to be suppos'd your Passion


E
3.5    hath sufficiently whited your Face? then (stifling a sigh or two,


E
3.5    and closing your lippes) with a trembling boldnesse, and bolde


E
3.5    terror; you aduance yourself forward. Try thus much I pray


E
3.5    you.


F
3.5    Yes Sir, (pray god I can light on it) Here I come in you


F
3.5    say: and present myself?


E
3.5    Good.


F
3.5    And then I spy her, and walke off?


E
3.5    Very good.


E
3.5    Or thus Sir. All variety of diuine pleasures, choyse sports,


E
3.5    sweete Musique, rich Fare, braue Attires, soft Beds, and silken thoughts,


E
3.5    attend this deare Beauty.


F
3.5    Beleeue me that is prerty: All varietie of diuine pleasures,


F
3.5    choyse sports, sweet Musique, rich Fare, braue Attires, soft Beds, and


F
3.5    silken thoughts, attend this deare Beauty.


E
3.5    And then, offring to kisse her hand, if she shall coyly


E
3.5    recoyle, and signifie your repulse; you are to re-enforce yourself


E
3.5    with, More then most faire Lady; let not the Rigor of your iust


E
3.5    disdaine thus coursly censure of your seruants zeale: and (with-all)


E
3.5    protest her, To be the only, and absolute vn-paraleled Creature, you


E
3.5    do adore, and admire, and respect, and reuerence, in this Court, Corner


E
3.5    of the world, or Kingdome.


F
3.5    This is hard by my faith: I will begin it all againe.


E
3.5    Do so, and I will Act it for your Lady.


F
3.5    Will you vouchsafe sir? All varietie of diuine pleasures,


F
3.5    choise Sports, sweete Musique, rich Fare, braue Attire, soft Beds, and


F
3.5    silken thoughts, attend this deare Beauty.


E
3.5    So Sir, pray you a*way.


F
3.5    More then most faire Lady, let not the Rigor of your iust


F
3.5    disdaine, thus coursly censure of your seruants zeale. I protest you are


F
3.5    then only and absolute vn-aparailed --


E
3.5    Vn-paraleld.


F
3.5    Vn-paraleld Creature, I do adore, and admire, and respect,


F
3.5    and reuerence, in this Court, Corner of the world, or kingdome.


E
3.5    This is if she abide you: But now; put case she


E
3.5    should be Passant when you enter, as thus: you are to


E
3.5    frame your Gate ther'after, and call upon her: Lady, Nimph,


E
3.5    Sweet Refuge, Starre of our Court: Then if she be Guardant,


E
3.5    here: you are to come on, and (laterally disposing yourself,)


E
3.5    sweare by her blushing and well coulored cheeke: the bright dye of


E
3.5    her hayre, her Iuorie teeth, or some such white and Innocent


E
3.5    oath, to induce you. If Reguardant; then, maintein your station,


E
3.5    Briske, and Irpe, shew the supple motion of your plyant body:


E
3.5    but (in chiefe) of your knee, and hand, which cannot but arride


E
3.5    her proude Humor exceedingly.


F
3.5    I conceiue you sir, I shall performe all these things


F
3.5    in good time, I doubt not, they do so hit me.


E
3.5    Well Sir, I am your Lady; make vse of any of these


E
3.5    beginnings, or some other out of your owne inuention: and


E
3.5    prooue how you can holde up and follow it. Say, Say.


F
3.5    Yes Sir: my deare Lindabrides.


E
3.5    No, you affect that Lindabrides too much: And (let me


E
3.5    tell you) it is not so Courtly. Your Pedant should prouide you


E
3.5    some parcels of French, or some pretty Commodity of Italian


E
3.5    to commence with, if you would be exotick, and exquisite.


F
3.5    Yes Sir, he was at my lodging the other morning, I gaue


F
3.5    him a Doublet.


E
3.5    Double your beneuolence, and give him the Hose


E
3.5    too; cloathe you his body, he will helpe to apparaile your


E
3.5    minde. But now, see what your proper Genius can performe


E
3.5    alone, without adiection of any other Minerua.


F
3.5    I comprehend you sir.


E
3.5    I do stand you Sir: fall backe to your first place.


E
3.5    Good; passing well: Very properly pursewd.


F
3.5    Beautiful, ambiguous, and sufficient Lady. What are


F
3.5    you all alone.


E
3.5    We would be Sir, if you would leaue us.


F
3.5    I am at your beauties appointment: bright Angell;


F
3.5    but --


E
3.5    What but?


F
3.5    No harme, more then most faire feature.


E
3.5    That touch relished well.


F
3.5    But I protest.


E
3.5    And why should you protest?


F
3.5    For good will (deare esteem'd Madam) and I hope your


F
3.5    Ladiship will so conceiue of it: If euer you have seene great


F
3.5    TAMBERLAINE.


E
3.5    O that Blanke was excellent: if you could pick out


E
3.5    more of these Play-particles, and (as occasion shall salute you)


E
3.5    embroyder or damaske your discourse with them (perswade


E
3.5    your soule) it would iudiciouslye commend you: Come, this


E
3.5    was a well-dischar'gd and auspicious Bout: prooue the second.


F
3.5    Lady, I cannot swagger it in Black and Yellow.


E
3.5    Why if you can Reuell it in White Sir, it is sufficient.


F
3.5    Say you so Sweete Lady? Lan, tede de, de, dant, dant, dant,


F
3.5    dante, &c% No (in good faith) Madame, whoseuer tould your


F
3.5    Ladyship so, abus'd you; but I would be glad to meete your


F
3.5    Ladiship in a measure.


E
3.5    Me Sir? beelike you measure me by yourself


E
3.5    then?


F
3.5    Would I might Fayre Feature.


E
3.5    And what were you the better, if you might?


F
3.5    The better it please you to aske, Fayre Lady.


E
3.5    Why this was rauishing, and most acutely continew'd;


E
3.5    Well, spend not your humor too much, you have now


E
3.5    competently exercised your Conceipt: this (once or twise a


E
3.5    day) will render you an accomplisht, elaborate, and well leueled


E
3.5    Gentleman; conuay in your Courting-stock, we will (in the


E
3.5    heate of this) go visite the Nymphs Chamber.

Act 4

Scene 1



N
4.1    I would this water would arriue once our trauayling


N
4.1    friend so commended to us.


O
4.1    So would I, for he has left all us in trauaile, with expectation


O
4.1    of it.


N
4.1    Pray Ioue, I neuer rise from this Couch, if euer I thirsted


N
4.1    more for a thing, in my whole time of being a Courtier.


P
4.1    Nor I, I will be sworne; the very mention of it sets my


P
4.1    lippes in a worse heate, then if he had sprinkled them with


P
4.1    Mercury. Reach me the glasse Sirah.


K
4.1    Here Lady.


Q
4.1    They do not peele sweete charge? do they?


P
4.1    Yes a little Guardian.


Q
4.1    O it is a imminent good signe. Euer when my lippes


Q
4.1    do so, I am sure to have some delicious good drinke or other


Q
4.1    approaching.


O
4.1    Mary and this may be good for us Ladies: for (it seemes)


O
4.1    it is far-set by their stay.


Q
4.1    My pallat for yours (deare Honor) it shall prooue


Q
4.1    most elegant I warrant you: O, I do fancie this geare that is


Q
4.1    long a*comming, with an vnmeasurable strayne.


N
4.1    Pray thee sit downe Philautia, that Rebatu beecoms


N
4.1    thee singularly.


P
4.1    Is it not queynt?


N
4.1    Yes faith: me*thinks thy seruant Hedon is nothing so


N
4.1    obsequious to thee, as he was wont to be; I know not how,


N
4.1    He is growne out of his Garbe a-late, he is warp't.


B
4.1    In truenesse, and so me*thinks too, he is much conuerted.


B
4.1   


P
4.1    Tut; let him be what he will, it is an Animall I


P
4.1    dreame not of. This tire (me*thinks) makes me looke very Ingenuously,


P
4.1    quick, and spirited: I should be some Laura, or some


P
4.1    Delia me*thinks.


Q
4.1    As I am wise (faire honors) that title she gaue him, to


Q
4.1    be her Ambition, spoild him: Before, he was the most propitious,


Q
4.1    and obseruant young Nouice. --


N
4.1    No, no; you are the whole heauen awry Guardian, it is


N
4.1    the swaggering tilt-horse Anaides drawes with him there, has


N
4.1    been the diuerter of him.


P
4.1    For Cupids sake speake no more of him; would I might


P
4.1    neuer dare to looke in a Mirror againe, if I respect ere a Marmaset


P
4.1    of them all, otherwise, then I would a Fether, or my Shittle-cock,


P
4.1    to make sport with, now and then.


N
4.1    Come sit downe; troath (and you be good Beauties) let us


N
4.1    run over them all now: Which is the properst man amongst


N
4.1    them? I say the Trauailer, Amorphus.


P
4.1    O fie on him: he lookes like a Dutch Trumpetter in the


P
4.1    battell of Lepanto, in the gallery yonder; and speakes to the tune


P
4.1    of a country Lady, that comes euer in the rere ward, or traine of


P
4.1    a Fashion.


Q
4.1    I should have iudgement, in a feature sweet Beauties.


N
4.1    A body would think so, at these yeares.


Q
4.1    And I prefer another now, farre before him, A million


Q
4.1    at least.


N
4.1    Who might that be Guardian?


Q
4.1    Mary (faire Charge) Anaides.


N
4.1    Anaides? you talk't of a tune Philautia, there is one


N
4.1    speakes in a Key: like the opening of some Iustices gate, or a


N
4.1    Post-Boyes horne, as if his voyce fear'd an Arrest for some ill


N
4.1    words it should give, and were loath to come forth.


P
4.1    Aye, and he has a very imperfect face.


N
4.1    Like a squeez'd Orenge, sower, sower.


P
4.1    His Hand is too great too; by at least a strawes breadth.


N
4.1    Nay he has a woorse fault then that too.


P
4.1    A long heele?


N
4.1    That were a fault in a Lady rather then him: No, they


N
4.1    say he puts off the Calues of his Legges with his Stockings euery


N
4.1    night.


P
4.1    Out upon him: turne to another of the Pictures for


P
4.1    Gods sake. What saies Argurion? whom does she commend afore


P
4.1    the rest?


K
4.1    I hope I have instructed her sufficiently for an answere.


K
4.1   


Q
4.1    Troth I made the motion to her Lady-ship for one to*day


Q
4.1    in the Presence, but it appear'd she was other wayes furnisht


Q
4.1    before; She would none.


N
4.1    Who was that Argurion?


Q
4.1    Mary the little, poore, plaine Gentleman in the black there.


N
4.1    Who? Criticus?


O
4.1    Aye, aye, he; A fellow that no*body so much as lookt upon,


O
4.1    or regarded, and she would have had me done him particuler


O
4.1    grace.


N
4.1    That was a true trick of yourself Moria, to perswade


N
4.1    Argurion affect the scholler.


O
4.1    Tut; but she shall be no chooser for me. In good faith I


O
4.1    like the Citizens sonne there Asotus, me*thinks, none of


O
4.1    them all come neare him.


N
4.1    Not Hedon?


O
4.1    Hedon, in troth no. Hedon is a pretty slight Courtier,


O
4.1    and he weares his clothes well, and sometimes in fashion; marry


O
4.1    his face is but indifferent, and he has no such excellent body.


O
4.1    No; the other is a most delicate youth, a sweete face, a streight


O
4.1    body, a well proportion'd legge, and foote, a white hand, a tender


O
4.1    voyce.


P
4.1    How now Argurion?


N
4.1    O you should have let her alone, she was bestowing a


N
4.1    Coppy of him upon us.


P
4.1    Why she doates more palpably upon him, then ere his


P
4.1    Father did upon her.


N
4.1    Beleeue me, the young gentleman deserues it; if she


N
4.1    could doate more it were not amisse: He is an exceeding proper


N
4.1    youth, and would have made a most neate Barber-surgeon,


N
4.1    if he had been put to it in time.


P
4.1    Say you so? me*thinks, he lookes like a Taylor already.


N
4.1    Aye, that had said on one of his Customers suites.


O
4.1    Well Ladyes, Iest on: the best of you both would be glad


O
4.1    of such a seruant.


Q
4.1    Aye, I will be sworne would they: go to Beauties, make much


Q
4.1    of Time, and Place, and Occasion, and Opportunity, and Fauorites,


Q
4.1    and things that belong to them; for I will ensure you, they will all


Q
4.1    relinquish; they cannot endure above another yeere; I know it


Q
4.1    out of future experience, and therefore take exhibition, and


Q
4.1    warning: I was once a Reueller myself, and though I speake


Q
4.1    it (as mine owne Trumpet) I was then esteemd --


P
4.1    The very Marchpane of the Court I warrant?


N
4.1    And all the Gallants came about you like flies, did they


N
4.1    not?


Q
4.1    Go to; they did somewhat, that is no matter now. Here


Q
4.1    comes Hedon.

Scene 2



G
4.2    Saue you sweete and cleare beauties: By the spirit that


G
4.2    mooues in me, you are almost pleasingly bestow'd Ladies.


G
4.2    Only, I can take it for no good Omen, to finde mine Honor so


G
4.2    deiected.


P
4.2    You need not feare Sir, I did of purpose humble myself


P
4.2    against your comming, to decline the pride of my Ambition.


P
4.2   


G
4.2    Fayre Honor, Ambition dares not stoope; but if it be


G
4.2    your sweet pleasure, I shall loose that Title; I will (as I am


G
4.2    Hedon) apply myself to your bounties.


P
4.2    That were the next way to distitle myself of Honor:


P
4.2    O no, rather be still Ambitious I pray you.


G
4.2    I will be any*thing that you please, whilst it pleaseth


G
4.2    you to be yourself Lady. Sweete Phantaste, Deare Moria,


G
4.2    most beautifull Argurion --


H
4.2    Farewell Hedon.


G
4.2    Anaides, Stay: whither go you?


H
4.2    'Slight, what should I do here? and you engrose them


H
4.2    all for your owne vse, it is time for me to seeke out.


G
4.2    I engrose them? Away mischiefe, this is one of your


G
4.2    extrauagant Iests now, because I began to salute them by their


G
4.2    names --


H
4.2    Faith you might have spar'de us Madame Prudence


H
4.2    the Guardian there, though you had more couetously aymde


H
4.2    at the rest.


G
4.2    'Shart, take them all man; what speake you to me of


G
4.2    ayming or Couetous?


H
4.2    Aye, say you so? nay then, have at them: Ladies, here is


H
4.2    one hath distinguish'd you by your names already; It shall


H
4.2    only become me, to aske; How you do?


G
4.2    Gods son, was this the disseigne you trauel'd with?


N
4.2    Who answers the Brazen head? it spoke to some*body?


H
4.2    Lady Wisedome, do you Interprete for these puppets?


Q
4.2    In truth, and sadnesse (Honors) you are in great offence


Q
4.2    for this; go to; the Gentleman (I will vndertake with him) is a


Q
4.2    man of aire liuing, and able to maintaine a Lady in her two


Q
4.2    Coaches a day, besides Pages, Munkeys, and Parachitos, with


Q
4.2    such attendants as she shall think meete for her turne; and


Q
4.2    therefore there is more respect requirable, how*soeuer you


Q
4.2    seeme to conniue: Hearke you Sir, let me discourse a sillable


Q
4.2    with you. I am to say to you, these Ladyes are not of that close,


Q
4.2    and open behauiour, as happily you may suspend; their Cariadge


Q
4.2    is well knowne to be such as it should be, both gentle and


Q
4.2    extraordinary.


B
4.2    O here comes the other Payre.

Scene 3



E
4.3    That was your Fathers Loue, the Nymph Argurion.


E
4.3    I would have you direct all your Courtship thither, if you


E
4.3    could but endeare yourself to her affection, you were eternally


E
4.3    engallanted.


F
4.3    In truth Sir? pray Phoebus I prooue sauorsome in her


F
4.3    fayre eyes.


E
4.3    All diuine mixture, and encrease of beauty, to this


E
4.3    bright Beuy of Ladyes; and to the male-Courtiers Complement,


E
4.3    and Courtesie.


G
4.3    In the behalfe of the Males, I gratefie you Amorphus.


N
4.3    And I of the Females.


E
4.3    Succinctly spoken: I do vale to both your thanks,


E
4.3    and kisse them; but primarily to yours, Most ingenious, acute,


E
4.3    and polite Lady.


P
4.3    Gods my life, how he does all to be*qualifie her! Ingenious,


P
4.3    Acute, and Polite, as she.


G
4.3    Yes, but you must know Lady, he cannot speake out


G
4.3    of a Dictionary method.


N
4.3    Sit downe sweete Amorphus. When will this water


N
4.3    come think you?


E
4.3    It cannot now be long fayre Lady.


K
4.3    Now obserue Mercury.


F
4.3    How most Ambiguous beauty? Loue you? that I will


F
4.3    by this Hand-kercher.


B
4.3    'Slid he drawes his oathes out of his pocket.


O
4.3    But will you be constant?


F
4.3    Constant Madame? I will not say for Constantnesse,


F
4.3    but by this Pursse (which I would be loath to


F
4.3    sweare by, unless it were embroyder'd)


F
4.3    I protest (more then most fayre Lady) you are the onley, absolute


F
4.3    and vn-paraleld Creature, I do adore, and admire, and respect, and


F
4.3    reuerence in this Court, Corner of the world, or Kingdome, me*thinks


F
4.3    you are Melancholy.


O
4.3    Does your heart speake all this?


F
4.3    Say you?


B
4.3    O he is groaping for another oath.


F
4.3    Now by this Watch (I marle how forward the day


F
4.3    is) I do vnfaignedly vowe myself ('Slight it is deeper then I


F
4.3    tooke it, past fiue) your's entirely addicted, Madame.


O
4.3    I require no more dearest Asotus, hence-forth let me


O
4.3    call you mine; and in remembrance of me, voutchsafe to weare


O
4.3    this Chaine, and this Diamond.


F
4.3    O god sweete Lady.


K
4.3    There are new oathes for him: what? doth Hermes


K
4.3    taste no Alteration in all this?


B
4.3    Yes, thou hast strooke Argurion enamour'd on Asotus


B
4.3    me*thinks?


K
4.3    Alasse no; I am no*body, I: I can do nothing in this


K
4.3    disguise.


B
4.3    But thou hast not wounded any of the rest, Cupid?


K
4.3    Not yet: it is enough that I have begunne so prosperously.


O
4.3    Tut, these are nothing to the Gems I will howerly


O
4.3    bestow upon thee: be but faithfull and kinde to me, and I will


O
4.3    lade thee with my richest bounties: beholde here my Bracelets


O
4.3    from mine Armes.


F
4.3    Not so good Lady, By this Diamond.


O
4.3    Take them; weare them: my Iewels, Chaine of Pearle,


O
4.3    Pendants, all I have.


F
4.3    Nay then, by this Pearle You make me a Wanton.


K
4.3    Shall not she answere for this, to mainteine him thus


K
4.3    in swearing?


B
4.3    O, no, there is a way to weane him from this: the


B
4.3    Gentleman may be reclaim'd.


K
4.3    Aye, if you had the ayring of his apparell Cosse, I think.


F
4.3    Louing? it were pitty I should be liuing else, beleeue


F
4.3    me. Saue you Sir. Saue you sweete Lady, Saue you Mounsieur Anaides;


F
4.3    Saue you deare Madame.


H
4.3    Dost thou knowe him that saluted thee, Hedon?


H
4.3   


G
4.3    No, some idle Fungoso I warrant you.


H
4.3    'Sbloud, I neuer saw him till this morning, and he salutes


H
4.3    me as familiarly, as if we had knowne together, since the


H
4.3    first yeare of the siege of Troy.


E
4.3    A most right-handed, and auspicious encounter.


E
4.3    Confine yourself to your fortunes.


P
4.3    For gods sake let us have some Riddles or Purposes;


P
4.3    hough.


N
4.3    No faith, your Prophecies are best, the 'tother are


N
4.3    stale.


P
4.3    Prophecies? we cannot all sit in at them; we shall


P
4.3    make a confusion: no; what calde you that we had in the forenoone?


P
4.3   


N
4.3    Substantiues, and Adiectiues. Is it not Hedon?


P
4.3    Aye that, who begins?


N
4.3    I have thought; speake your Adiectiues Sirs?


P
4.3    But do not you change them.


N
4.3    Not I, Who sayes?


Q
4.3    Odoriferous.


P
4.3    Popular.


O
4.3    Humble.


H
4.3    White-liuer'd.


G
4.3    Barbarous.


E
4.3    Pythagoricall.


G
4.3    Yours Signior.


F
4.3    What must I do Sir?


E
4.3    Give foorth your Adiectiue with the rest; as Prosperous,


E
4.3    Good, Faire, Sweete, Well.


G
4.3    Any*thing that hath not been spoken.


F
4.3    Yes Sir: Well-spoken shall be mine.


N
4.3    What? have you all done.


X
4.3    Aye.


N
4.3    Then the Substantiue is Breeches. Why Odoriferous


N
4.3    Breeches Guardian?


Q
4.3    Odoriferous, because Odoriferous: that which containes


Q
4.3    most variety of sauor, and smell, we say is most Odoriferous:


Q
4.3    Now Breeches I presume are incident to that variety, and


Q
4.3    therefore, Odoriferous Breeches.


N
4.3    Well, we must take it howsoeuer, who is next, Philautia.


P
4.3    Popular.


N
4.3    Why Popular Breeches?


P
4.3    Mary that is, when they are not content to be generally


P
4.3    noted in Court; but will presse foorth on common Stages,


P
4.3    and Brokers stalls, to the publique view of the world.


N
4.3    Good: why Humble Breeches? Argurion.


O
4.3    Humble, because they vse to be sat upon; besides


O
4.3    if you tye them not up, their propertie is to fall downe about


O
4.3    your heeles.


B
4.3    She has worne the Breeches it seemes which have


B
4.3    done so.


N
4.3    But why White-liuerd?


F
4.3    Well-spoken: mary well-spoken, because whatsouer


F
4.3    they speake is well taken, and whatsoeuer is well taken, is


F
4.3    well-spoken.


Q
4.3    Excellent: beleeue me.


F
4.3    Not so Ladyes neither.


G
4.3    But why Breeches now?


N
4.3    Breeches quasi Beare-riches; when a gallant beares all


N
4.3    his Ritches in his Breeches.


P
4.3    In good faith these vnhappy Pages, would be whipt


P
4.3    for staying thus.


Q
4.3    Beshrew my hand, and my hart else.


E
4.3    I do wonder at their protraction.


H
4.3    Pray God my whore have not discouer'd herself to


H
4.3    the raskally Boyes, and that be the cause of their stay.


F
4.3    I must sute myself with another Page; this idle Prosaites


F
4.3    will neuer be brought to waite well.


Q
4.3    Sir I have a kinseman I could willingly wish to your


Q
4.3    seruice, if you would deigne to accept of him.


F
4.3    And I shall be glad (most sweet Lady) to imbrace him;


F
4.3    where is he?


Q
4.3    I can fetch him Sir, but I would be loath to make you


Q
4.3    turne away your other Page.


F
4.3    You shall not most sufficient Lady, I will keepe both:


F
4.3    pray you let us go see him.
Exeunt.


O
4.3    Whither goes my Loue?


F
4.3    I will returne presently; I go but to see a Page with this Lady.


H
4.3    As sure as Fate it is so; she has opened all:


H
4.3    A poxe of all Cocatrices. Damne me if she have playde


H
4.3    loose with me, I will cut her throate within a hayres bredth, so it


H
4.3    may be heald againe.
Exit.


B
4.3    What is he Iealous of his Hermaphrodite?


K
4.3    O Aye, this will be excellent sporte.


P
4.3    Phantaste, Argurion, what? you are sodainly stroake


P
4.3    me*thinks; for Gods will let us have some Musique till they


P
4.3    come. Ambition reach the Lyra I pray you.


G
4.3    Any*thing to which my Honor shall direct me.


P
4.3    Come Amorphus; cheare up Phantaste.


E
4.3    It shall be my pride faire Lady to attempt all that is


E
4.3    in my power. But here is an Instrument that (alone) is able to


E
4.3    infuse soule in the most melancholique, and dull disposde


E
4.3    Creature upon earth; O! let me kisse thy faire knees: Beauteous


E
4.3    eares attend it.


G
4.3    Will you have the Kisse Honor.


P
4.3    Aye good Ambition.
Ode.


U
4.3    O That Ioy so soone should wast!


U
4.3    or so sweet a blisse


U
4.3    as a Kisse,


U
4.3    Might not for*euer last!


U
4.3    So sugred, so melting, so soft, so delicious,


U
4.3    The dew that lyes on Roses,


U
4.3    When the Morne herself discloses,


U
4.3    is not so pretious:


U
4.3    O, rather then I would it smother,


U
4.3    Were I to taste such another;


U
4.3    It should be my wishing


U
4.3    That I might dye kissing.


G
4.3    I made this Ditty and the Note to it upon a kisse that


G
4.3    my Honor gaue me; how like you it Sir.


E
4.3    A pretty Ayre; in generall I like it well. But in particuler,


E
4.3    your long die-Note did arride me most, but it was somwhat


E
4.3    too long: I can shew one, almost of the same nature, but


E
4.3    much before it, and not so long; in a Composition of mine


E
4.3    owne: I think I have both the Note, and Ditty about me.


G
4.3    Pray you Sir see.


E
4.3    Yes there is the Note; and all the parts if I mis-thinke


E
4.3    not. I will reade the Ditty to your Beauties here, but first I am


E
4.3    to make you familiar with the occasion, which presents itself


E
4.3    thus. upon a time, going to take my leaue of the Emperour,


E
4.3    and kisse his great handes; there being then present, the


E
4.3    Kings of Fraunce, and Arragon, the Dukes of Sauoy, Florence,


E
4.3    Orleance, Bourbon, Brunswick, the Lantgraue, Count Palatine, all


E
4.3    which had seuerally feasted me; besides infinite more of inferiour


E
4.3    persons, as Earles, and others: it was my chance (the Emperour


E
4.3    detain'd by some other affayre) to waite him the fifth


E
4.3    part of an houre, or much near it. In which time (retiring myself


E
4.3    into a Bay-window) I encountred the Lady Annabel neice


E
4.3    to the Empresse, and sister to the king of Arragon; who (hauing


E
4.3    neuer before eyde me, but only heard the common report of


E
4.3    my Vertue, Learning, and Trauaile) fell into that extremity of


E
4.3    passion, for my loue, that she there immediatly sounded: Phisitians


E
4.3    were sent for; she had to her chamber; so to her bed; where


E
4.3    (languishing some few daies) after many times calling upon


E
4.3    me, with my name in her mouth, she expirde. As that (I must


E
4.3    needes say) is the only fault of my Fortune, that as it hath euer


E
4.3    been my hap to be sew'd to by all Ladies, and Beauties where


E
4.3    I have come, so, I neuer yet soiourn'd, or rested in that place,


E
4.3    or part of the world, where some great and admirable faire


E
4.3    Creature died not for my loue.


B
4.3    O the sweete power of trauaile, are you guilty of this


B
4.3    Cupid?


K
4.3    No Mercury; and that his page (Cos) knowes, and he were


K
4.3    here present to be sworne.


P
4.3    But how doth this draw on the Ditty Sir.


Q
4.3    O she is too quick with him; he hath not deuis'd that


Q
4.3    yet.


E
4.3    Marry some houre before she departed, she bequeath'd


E
4.3    to me this Gloue; which the Emperour himself tooke


E
4.3    care to send after me, in sixe Coaches, couer'd all with black-veluet,


E
4.3    attended by the state of his Empire; all which he freely


E
4.3    gaue me, and I reciprocally (out of the same bounty) gaue it to


E
4.3    the Lords that brought it: only reseruing, and respecting, the


E
4.3    gift of the deceasde Lady, upon which I compos'd this Ode,


E
4.3    and set it to my most affected Instrument the Lyra.
Ode.


U
4.3    Thou more then most sweete Gloue,


U
4.3    Vnto my more sweete Loue;


U
4.3    Suffer me to store, with kisses


U
4.3    This empty lodging, that now misses


U
4.3    The pure Rosie hand that ware thee,


U
4.3    Whiter then the Kid that bare thee:


U
4.3    Thou art soft, but that was softer;


U
4.3    Cupids self hath kist it ofter,


U
4.3    Then ere he did his mothers Doues,


U
4.3    Supposing her the Queene of Loues


U
4.3    That was thy Mistris


U
4.3    Best of Gloues.


B
4.3    Blasphemy, Blasphemy Cupid.


K
4.3    Aye, I will reuenge it time inough; Hermes.


P
4.3    Good Amorphus, let us hear it sung.


E
4.3    I care not to do that, since it pleaseth Philautia to request


E
4.3    it.


G
4.3    Here Sir.


E
4.3    Nay play it I pray you, you do well, you do well; how


E
4.3    like you it Sir?
He sings.


G
4.3    Very well in troath.


E
4.3    But very well? O you are a meere Mammothrept in


E
4.3    iudgement then: why do not not obserue how excellently


E
4.3    the Ditty is affected in euery place? that I do not marry a word


E
4.3    of short quantity, to a long Note, nor an ascending Sillable


E
4.3    to a discending Tone. Besides upon the worde Best there,


E
4.3    you see how I do enter with an odde Minnum, and driue it


E
4.3    thorough the Briefe, which no intelligent Musitian (I know)


E
4.3    but will affirme to be very rare, extraordinary, and pleasing.


E
4.3   


B
4.3    And yet not fit to lament the death of a Lady for all


B
4.3    this.


K
4.3    Tut here be they will swallow any*thing.


N
4.3    Pray you let me have a coppy of it Amorphus.


N
4.3   


P
4.3    And me too, in troath I like it exceedingly.


E
4.3    I have denyed it to Princes, neuerthelesse to


E
4.3    you (the true Female Twinnes of Perfection) I am wonne


E
4.3    to depart withall.


G
4.3    I hope I shall have my Honors coppy.


N
4.3    You are Ambitious in that Hedon.
Enter Anaides.


E
4.3    How now Anaides? what is it hath coniur'd up this


E
4.3    distemperature in the circle of your face?


H
4.3    'Sblod what have you to do? A pox of God on your


H
4.3    filthy trauailing Beard; hold your tongue.


G
4.3    Nay, dost heare mischiefe?


H
4.3    Away Musk-cat.


E
4.3    I say to thee: Thou art rude, impudent, course, impolisht;


E
4.3    a Frapler, and base.


G
4.3    Heart of my father, what a strange alteration has halfe


G
4.3    a yeeres haunting of Ordinaries wrought in this fellow? that


G
4.3    came with a Tuff-taffata Ierkin to Towne but the other


G
4.3    day, and now he is turn'd Hercules, he wants but a


G
4.3    Club.


H
4.3    Sir, I will garter my hose with your guttes; and that


H
4.3    shall be all.
Exit.


B
4.3    'Slid what rare fire workes be here? flash,


B
4.3    flash.


N
4.3    What is the matter Hedon? can you tell?


G
4.3    Nothing but that he lacks mony, and thinkes we will lend


G
4.3    him some to be friends.
Enter Asot% Mor% Morus%


F
4.3    Come sweete Lady, in good truth I will have it, you shall


F
4.3    not deny me: Morus perswade your Aunt I may have her picture,


F
4.3    by any meanes.


J
4.3    Yes Sir: good Aunt now, let him have it; he will vse


J
4.3    me the better, if you loue me, do good Aunt.


Q
4.3    Well, tell him he shall have it.


J
4.3    Maister, you shall have it, she saies;


F
4.3    Shall I? thanke her good Page.


K
4.3    What has he entertaind the Foole?


B
4.3    Aye, he will waite close you shall see, though the Begger


B
4.3    hang off.


J
4.3    Aunt my maister thankes you.


Q
4.3    Call him hither.


J
4.3    Yes: maister.


Q
4.3    Yes in very truth, and gaue me this Pursse, and he


Q
4.3    has promis'd me a most fine Dog; which he will have drawne


Q
4.3    with my Picture, and desires most vehemently to be knowne


Q
4.3    to your Ladyshipps.


N
4.3    Call him hither, it is good groping such a Gull.


Q
4.3    Maister Asotus. Maister Asotus.


F
4.3    For Gods sake, let me go: you see, I am call'd to the


F
4.3    Ladies.


O
4.3    Wilt thou forsake me then?


F
4.3    Gods son, what would you have me do?


Q
4.3    Come hither maister Asotus; I do ensure your Ladyships,


Q
4.3    he is a Gentleman of a very worthy desart; and of a


Q
4.3    most bountifull nature. You must shew and insinuate yourself


Q
4.3    responsible, and equiualent now to my commendment.


Q
4.3    Good Honors grace him.


F
4.3    I protest (more then most faire Ladyes) I do wish all


F
4.3    variety of diuine pleasure, choyse sport, sweete Musique, ritch Fare,


F
4.3    braue Attyres, soft Beds, and silken Thoughts, attend these fayre


F
4.3    Beauties. Will it please your Ladyship to weare this Chaine of


F
4.3    Pearle, and this Diamond for my sake.


O
4.3    O.


F
4.3    And you Madam this Iewell, and Pendants.


O
4.3    O.


N
4.3    we know not how to deserue these bounties out of


N
4.3    so slight merrit, Asotus.


P
4.3    No in*faith, but there is my Gloue for a fauor.


N
4.3    And soone after the Reuels I will bestowe a Garter


N
4.3    on you.


F
4.3    O Lord Ladyes, it is more grace then euer I could have


F
4.3    hop'd, but that it pleaseth your Ladyships to extend; I protest


F
4.3    it is enough that you but take knowledge of my -- if your


F
4.3    Ladiships want embroydered Gownes, Tyres of any Fashion,


F
4.3    Rebatus, Iewels, or Carkanets, any*thing what*soeuer; if you


F
4.3    vouchsafe to accept.


K
4.3    And for it they will helpe you to Shoo-tyes, and deuises.


F
4.3    I cannot vtter myself (Deare Beauties) but; you can


F
4.3    conceiue --


O
4.3    O.


N
4.3    Sir we will acknowledge your seruice doubt not;


N
4.3    henceforth you shall be no more Asotus to us, but our Golde-Finch,


N
4.3    and we your Cages.


G
4.3    O God Madams, how shall I deserue this? if I were


G
4.3    but made acquainted with Hedon now; I will trye: pray you away.


G
4.3   


B
4.3    How he prayes Money to go away from him.


F
4.3    Amorphus, a word with you: here is a Watch I would


F
4.3    bestowe upon you, pray you make me knowne to that Gallant.


E
4.3    That I will Sir. Mounsieur Hedon I must intreate


E
4.3    you to exchange knowledge with this Gentleman.


G
4.3    it is a thing (next to the water we expect) I thirste


G
4.3    after Sir. Good Mounsieur Asotus.


F
4.3    Good Mounsieur Hedon, I would be glad to be


F
4.3    lou'd of men of your Ranke, and spirit, I protest. Please you


F
4.3    to accept this payre of Bracelets Sir, they are not worth the


F
4.3    bestowing.


B
4.3    O Hercules; how the Gentleman purchases? this must


B
4.3    needes bring Argurion to a consumption.


G
4.3    Sir, I shall neuer stand in the merit of such Bounty.


G
4.3    I feare.


F
4.3    O Lord Sir; your acquaintance shall be sufficient.


F
4.3    And if at any time you neede my Bill or my Bond.


O
4.3    O, O.
Argurion swones.


E
4.3    Helpe the Lady there.


Q
4.3    Gods deare, Argurion. Madam, how do you?


O
4.3    Sicke.


N
4.3    Have her foorth and give her ayre.


F
4.3    I come againe streight Ladyes.


B
4.3    Well, I doubt all the Phisique he has, will scarce recouer


B
4.3    her; she is too farre spent.
Exeunt Asotus, Morus, Argurion

Scene 4



P
4.4    O here is the Water come: fetche Glasses Page.


S
4.4    Heart of my body here is a coyle indeed with your


S
4.4    Iealous humors. Nothing but Whore, and Bitch, and all the


S
4.4    villanous swaggering names you can think on? 'Slid take


S
4.4    your Bottle, and put it in your guttes for me, I will see you poxt


S
4.4    ere I follow you any longer?


H
4.4    Nay good Punke, sweete Rascall; damne me if I am


H
4.4    Iealous now.


S
4.4    That is true indeed, pray let us go.


Q
4.4    What is the matter there?


S
4.4    Slight he has me upon Intergatories, (nay my Mother


S
4.4    shall know how you vse me) where I have been? and why


S
4.4    I should stay so long? and how is it possible? and with-all calles


S
4.4    me at his pleasure; I knowe not how many Cocatrices, and


S
4.4    things.


Q
4.4    In truth and sadnesse, these are no good Epithites


Q
4.4    Anaides: to bestow upon any Gentlewoman; and (I will ensure


Q
4.4    you) if I had knowne you would have dealt thus with my


Q
4.4    Daughter, she should neuer have fancied you so deeply, as she


Q
4.4    has done. Go to.


H
4.4    Why do you heare Mother Moria. Heart.


Q
4.4    Nay I pray you Sir do not sweare.


H
4.4    Sweare? why? Sblood I have sworne afore now I


H
4.4    hope. Both you and your daughter mistake me; I have not


H
4.4    honor'd Arete that is helde the worthyest Lady in the Court


H
4.4    (next to Cynthia) with halfe that obseruance and respect, as


H
4.4    I have done her in priuate, howsoeuer outwardly I have carried


H
4.4    myself carelesse and negligent. Come you are a foolish


H
4.4    Punke, and know not when you are well employde. Kisse me.


H
4.4    Come on. Do it I say.


Q
4.4    Nay, indeed I must confesse she is apt to misprision.


Q
4.4    But I must have you leaue it Minion.
Enter Asotus.


E
4.4    How now Asotus? how does the Lady?


F
4.4    Fayth ill. I have left my Page with her at her


F
4.4    lodging.


G
4.4    O here is the rarest Water that euer was tasted; fill


G
4.4    him some.


I
4.4    What? has my Maister a new Page?


B
4.4    Yes a kinsman of the Lady Morias: you must waite


B
4.4    better now, or you are casheer'd Prosaites.


H
4.4    Come Gallants; you must pardon my foolish humor,


H
4.4    when I am angry, that any*thing crosses me, I grow impatient


H
4.4    streight. Here I drinke to you.


P
4.4    O that we had fiue or sixe Bottles more of this liquor.


N
4.4    Now I commend your iudgement Amorphus: who is


N
4.4    that knockes? looke Page.


Q
4.4    O most delicious, a little of this would make Argurion


Q
4.4    well.


N
4.4    O no give her no colde drinke by any meanes.


H
4.4    Sblood, this water is the spirit of Wine, I will be hangd


H
4.4    else.


K
4.4    Here is the Lady Arete Madam.

Scene 5



M
4.5    What at your Bouer Gallants?


Q
4.5    Will it please your Lady-shipp drinke, it is of the new


Q
4.5    fountaine water.


M
4.5    Not I, Moria; I thanke you: Gallants you must prouide


M
4.5    for some solemne Reuels to*night, Cynthia is minded to


M
4.5    come foorth, and grace your sports with her presence; therefore


M
4.5    I could wish there were some*thing extraordinary to entertaine


M
4.5    her.


E
4.5    What say you to a Masque?


G
4.5    Nothing better, if the Inuention or Proiect were new


G
4.5    and rare.


M
4.5    Why, I will send for Criticus, and have his aduise; you


M
4.5    will be ready in your indeuours;


N
4.5    Yes; but will not your Lady-ship stay?


M
4.5    Not now Phantaste.
Exit.


P
4.5    Let her go, I pray you; good Lady Sobriety, I am glad


P
4.5    we are rid of her.


N
4.5    What a set Face the gentlewoman has, as she were still


N
4.5    going to a Sacrifice?


P
4.5    O she is the extraction of a dozen of Puritans, for a


P
4.5    looke.


Q
4.5    Of all Nimphs in the Court I cannot away with her:


Q
4.5    it is the coursest thing --


P
4.5    I wounder how Cynthia can affect her so above the


P
4.5    rest! Here be they are euery way as faire as she, and a thought,


P
4.5    fayrer, I trow.


N
4.5    Aye, and as ingenious, and conceipted as she.


Q
4.5    Aye and as politique as she, for all she sets such a Fore-head


Q
4.5    on it.


P
4.5    Would I were dead if I would change to be Cynthia.


N
4.5    Or I.


Q
4.5    Or I.


E
4.5    And there is her Minion Criticus; why his aduise


E
4.5    more then Amorphus? have I not Inuention, afore him?


E
4.5    Learning, to better that Inuention, above him? and Trauaile.--


H
4.5    Death, what talke you of his Learning? he vnderstands


H
4.5    no more then a schoole-Boy; I have put him downe myself


H
4.5    a thousand times (by this Ayre) and yet I neuer talkt with


H
4.5    him but twise in my life; you neuer saw his like: I could neuer


H
4.5    get him to argue with me, but once, and then because I could


H
4.5    not construe, a peece of Horace at first sighte, he went awaye


H
4.5    and laught at me. By Gods will, I scorne him, as I do the


H
4.5    sodden Nimph that was here even now; his mistris Arete:


H
4.5    And I loue myself for nothing else.


G
4.5    I wonder the Fellow does not hang himself, being


G
4.5    thus scorn'd, and contemn'd of us that are held the most accomplisht


G
4.5    Society of Gallants!


B
4.5    By your*selves none else.


G
4.5    I protest, if I had no Musique in me, no Courtship;


G
4.5    that I were not a Reueller and could daunce, or had not those


G
4.5    excellent qualities that give a man Life, and Perfection,


G
4.5    but a meere poore Scholler as he is, I think I should make


G
4.5    some desperate way with myself; whereas now (would I


G
4.5    might neuer breath more) if I do know that Creature in this


G
4.5    kingdome, with whom I would change.


K
4.5    This is excellent: well I must alter this soone.


B
4.5    Looke you do Cupid.


F
4.5    O I shall tickle it soone; I did neuer appeare till then.


F
4.5    Slid I am the neatliest-made Gallant in the company, and have the


F
4.5    best presence; and my dauncing -- I know what the Vsher


F
4.5    saide to me the last time I was at the schoole; would I might


F
4.5    leade Philautia in the measure, if it were gods will. I am most


F
4.5    worthy, I am sure.
Enter Morus.


J
4.5    Maister I can tell you newes, the Lady kist me yonder,


F
4.5    to accept this poore Ruby in a Ring Sir. The poesie is of my


F
4.5    owne deuise. Let this blush for me Sir.


H
4.5    So it must for me, too. For I am not asham'd to


H
4.5    take it.
Exit.


J
4.5    Sweete man, by my troath maister I loue you;


J
4.5    will you loue me too? for my Aunts sake? I will waite well you


J
4.5    shall see, I will still be here. Would I might neuer stirre, but you


J
4.5    are in gay clothes.


F
4.5    As for that Morus, thou shalt see more here*after, in


F
4.5    the meanetime, by this Ayre, or by this Fether, I will do as much


F
4.5    for thee as any Gallant shall do for his Page whatsoeuer, in this


F
4.5    Court, corner of the world, or Kingdome.
Exeunt.


B
4.5    I wounder this gentleman should affect to


B
4.5    keepe a Foole, me*thinks he makes sport enough with himself.


K
4.5    Well Prosaites it were good you did waite closer.


I
4.5    Aye, I will looke to it; it is time.


R
4.5    we are like to have sumptuous Reuells to*night


R
4.5    Sirs.


B
4.5    we must needes when all the choisest Singularities


B
4.5    of the Court are up in Pantofles, never a one of them, but is able


B
4.5    to make a whole shew of itself.


G
4.5    Sirah a Torch, a torch.
Hedon within.


B
4.5    O what a call is there? I will have a Canzonet


B
4.5    made with nothing in it but Sirah; and the Burthen shall be. I


B
4.5    come.
Exeunt Omnes.

Scene 6



D
4.6    --. A masque, bright Arete?


D
4.6    Why it were a labour more for Hercules.


D
4.6    Better, and sooner durst I vndertake:


D
4.6    To make the different seasons of the Yeere,


D
4.6    The Windes, or Elements to sympathize;


D
4.6    Then their vnmeasurable vanity


D
4.6    Daunce truely in a measure: They agree?


D
4.6    What though all Concord is borne of Contraries?


D
4.6    So many Follies will confusion prooue,


D
4.6    And like a sort of iarring Instruments,


D
4.6    All out of tune; because (indeed) we see


D
4.6    There is not that Analogy twixt Discords,


D
4.6    As betweene things but meerely opposite.


M
4.6    There is your error; for as Hermes wande


M
4.6    Charmes the disorders, of tumultuous Ghosts,


M
4.6    And as the strife of Chaos then did cease,


M
4.6    When better light then Natures did arriue;


M
4.6    So, what could neuer in itself agree,


M
4.6    Forgetteth the eccentrick property,


M
4.6    And at her sight turnes foorth with regular,


M
4.6    Whose scepter guides the flowing Ocean:


M
4.6    And though it did not, yet the most of them


M
4.6    (Being either Courtiers, or not wholy rude)


M
4.6    Respect of Maiesty, the Place, and Presence,


M
4.6    Will keepe them within Ring; especially


M
4.6    When they are not presented as themselves,


M
4.6    But masqu'd like others: for (in troth) not so


M
4.6    To incorporate them, could be nothing else


M
4.6    Then like a State vngouern'd, without lawes; or


M
4.6    A body made of nothing but diseases;


M
4.6    The one, through impotencie poore, and wretched;


M
4.6    The other for the Anarchy absurd.


D
4.6    But Lady, for the Reuellers themselves;


D
4.6    It would be better (in my poore conceipt,)


D
4.6    That others were imploy'd; for such as are


D
4.6    Vnfit to be in Cynthias Court, can seeme


D
4.6    No lesse vnfit to be in Cynthias sports.


M
4.6    That is not done (my Criticus) without


M
4.6    Particular knowledge of the Goddesse minde;


M
4.6    Who (holding true intelligence, what Follyes


M
4.6    Had crept into her Pallace) she resolud',


M
4.6    Of sports, and Triumphs; under that pretext,


M
4.6    To have them muster in their Pompe and Fulnesse:


M
4.6    That so she might more strictly, and to roote,


M
4.6    Effect the Reformation she intends.


D
4.6    I now conceiue her heauenly drift in all;


D
4.6    And will apply my spirits to serue thy will:


D
4.6    O thou, the very power by which I am;


D
4.6    And but for which, it were in vaine to be;


D
4.6    Chiefe next Diana, Virgin, heauenly fayre,


D
4.6    Admired Arete, (of them admir'd


D
4.6    Whose soules are not enkindled by the sence)


D
4.6    Disdeigne not my chast fire, but feed the flame


D
4.6    Deuoted truely to thy gracious name.


M
4.6    Leaue to suspect us: Criticus shall finde


M
4.6    As we are now most deare, we will prooue most kinde.
Arete Within.


M
4.6    Harke, I am cald.
Exit.


D
4.6    I follow instantly,


D
4.6    Pho*ebus Apollo: if with ancient Rites,


D
4.6    And due Deuotions, I have euer hung


D
4.6    Elaborate Pa*eans on thy golden Shrine,


D
4.6    Or sung thy Triumphs in a lofty straine;


D
4.6    Fit for a Theater of Gods to heare:


D
4.6    And thou the other sonne of mighty Ioue


D
4.6    Cyllenian Mercury (sweete Maias ioye)


D
4.6    If in the busie tumults of the minde,


D
4.6    My path thou euer hast illumined:


D
4.6    For which, thine Altars I have oft perfum'de,


D
4.6    And deckt thy Statue with discoulored flowers:


D
4.6    Now thriue Inuention in this glorious Court,


D
4.6    That not of bounty only, but of right,


D
4.6    Cynthia may grace, and give it life by sight.
Exit.

Act 5

Scene 1

Hymnus.


C
5.1    Qveene and Huntresse, chaste, and fayre,


C
5.1    Now the Sunne is layde to sleepe,


C
5.1    Seated, in thy siluer Chayre,


C
5.1    State in wonted maner keepe:


C
5.1    Hesperus, intreats thy light,


C
5.1    Goddesse excellently bright.


C
5.1    Earth, let not thy enuious shade


C
5.1    Dare itself to interpose;


C
5.1    Cynthias shining Orbe was made


C
5.1    Heauen to cleare, when day did close:


C
5.1    Blesse us then with wished sight,


C
5.1    Goddesse excellently bright.


C
5.1    Lay thy Bowe of Pearle apart.


C
5.1    And thy Christall-shining Quiuer;


C
5.1    Give vnto the flying Hart,


C
5.1    Space to breath, how short soeuer.


C
5.1    Thou, that makst a day of night,


C
5.1    Goddesse excellently Bright.
Exit.


A
5.1    When hath Diana, like an enuious wretch,


A
5.1    That glitters only to his soothed self,


A
5.1    Denying to the world the precious vse


A
5.1    Of hoorded wealth, with-held her friendly ayde?


A
5.1    Mon'thly we spend our still-repaired shine,


A
5.1    And not forbid our Virgin-waxen torch,


A
5.1    To burne, and blaze while nutriment doth last:


A
5.1    That once consum'd, out of Ioues treasury


A
5.1    Anew we take, and stick it in our Spheare


A
5.1    To give the mutinous kinde of wanting men,


A
5.1    Their lookt for light. Yet what is their desert?


A
5.1    "Bounty is wrong'd, interpreted as due;


A
5.1    "Mortalls can chalenge not a Ray but right.


A
5.1    "Yet do exspect the whole of Cynthias light:


A
5.1    But if that Deities with-drew their guifts,


A
5.1    For humane Follies, what should men deserue


A
5.1    But Death and Darknesse? It behoues the high,


A
5.1    For their owne sakes to do things worthely.


M
5.1    Most true, most sacred goddesse; for the Heauens


M
5.1    Receiue no good of all the good they do:


M
5.1    Nor Ioue, nor you, nor other heauenly Power,


M
5.1    Are fed with Fumes, which do from Incense rise,


M
5.1    Or Sacrifices reeking in their gore:


M
5.1    Yet for the care which you of mortalls have,


M
5.1    (Whose proper Good it is, that they be so;)


M
5.1    You well are pleas'd with Odours redolent:


M
5.1    But ignorant is all the Race of men,


M
5.1    Which still complaines, not knowing why, or when.


A
5.1    Else noble Arete, they would not blame,


A
5.1    And taxe for or vniust, or for as proud


A
5.1    Thy Cynthia, in the things which are indeed


A
5.1    The greatest glories in our starry crowne:


A
5.1    Such is our Chastity, which safely scornes,


A
5.1    Not Loue (for who more feruently doth loue


A
5.1    Immortall Honor, and diuine Renowne?)


A
5.1    But giddy Cupid, Venus frantick sonne.


A
5.1    Yet Arete, if by this vayled light


A
5.1    We but discouer'd (what we not discerne)


A
5.1    Any the least of imputations, stand


A
5.1    Ready to sprinkle our vnspotted fame,


A
5.1    With note of lightnesse, from these Reuels neare:


A
5.1    Not, for the Empire of the Vniuerse


A
5.1    Should Night or Court, this whatsoeuer shine


A
5.1    Or grace of ours, vnhappely enioy.


A
5.1    "Place, and Occasion are two priuy Thieues;


A
5.1    "And from poore innocent Ladies, often steale


A
5.1    "(The best of things) an honourable Name:


A
5.1    "To stay with Follyes, or where Faults may be,


A
5.1    "Infers a Crime, although the party free.


M
5.1    How Cynthianly (that is how worthely


M
5.1    And like herself) the matchlesse Cynthia speakes!


M
5.1    Infinite Iealousies, infinite Reguards,


M
5.1    Do watch about the true virginity:


M
5.1    But Pho*ebe liues from all not only fault,


M
5.1    But as from thought, so from suspicion free,


M
5.1    Thy Presence broad-seales our delights for pure,


M
5.1    What is done in Cynthias sight, is done secure.


A
5.1    That then so answer'd (Dearest Arete)


A
5.1    What the Argument, or of what sort, our Sports


A
5.1    Are like to be this night; I not demaund.


A
5.1    Nothing which Duty, and desire to please


A
5.1    Beares written in the forehead, comes amisse;


A
5.1    But vnto whose Inuention, must we owe,


A
5.1    The complement of this nights furniture?


M
5.1    Excellent Goddesse, to mans, whose worth,


M
5.1    (Without Hyperbole,) I thus may praise;


M
5.1    One (at least) studious, of deseruing well:


M
5.1    And (to speake truth) indeed deseruing well,


M
5.1    Potentiall merit stands for actuall,


M
5.1    Where only Opportunity doth want,


M
5.1    Not Will, nor Power: both which in him abound,


M
5.1    One whom the Muses, and Minerua loue;


M
5.1    For whom should they more loue then Criticus,


M
5.1    Whom Pho*ebus (though not Fortune) holdeth deare?


M
5.1    And (which conuinceth excellence in him,)


M
5.1    A principall admirer of yourself:


M
5.1    Even, through the vngentle iniuries of Fate,


M
5.1    And difficulties, which do vertue choake,


M
5.1    Thus much of him appeares. What other things


M
5.1    Of farther note, do lye vnborne in him,


M
5.1    Them I do leaue for cherishment to shew.


M
5.1    And for a Goddesse graciously to iudge.


A
5.1    We have already iudg'd him Arete:


A
5.1    Nor are we ignorant, how noble mindes


A
5.1    Suffer too much through those indignities,


A
5.1    Which Times, and vicious Persons cast on them:


A
5.1    Ourself have euer vowed to esteeme


A
5.1    (As Vertue, for itself) so Fortune, base;


A
5.1    Who first in Worth, the same be first in Place.


A
5.1    Nor farther notice (Arete) we craue


A
5.1    Then thine approualls soueraigne warranty:


A
5.1    Let, be thy care, to make us knowne to him;


A
5.1    Cynthia shall brighten what the World made dim.

Scene 2

THE FIRST MASQVE.
Cupid like Anteros.


K
5.2    Cleare Pearle of Heauen, and not to be farther ambitious in


K
5.2    titles Cynthia. The fame of this illustrious night, among others


K
5.2    hath also drawne these foure faire Virgins from the Pallace of their


K
5.2    Queene Perfection (a word, which makes no sufficient difference,


K
5.2    twixt hers, and thine) to visit thy Imperiall Court: for she their Soueraigne


K
5.2    Lady, not finding where to dwel among men, before her returne


K
5.2    to heauen: aduised them wholy to consecrate themselves to thy Co*elestiall


K
5.2    seruice, as in whose cleare Spirit (the proper Element, and Sphare


K
5.2    of vertues) they should behould not her alone, (their euer honor'd


K
5.2    Mistresse) but themselves (more truely themselves) to liue enthronised.


K
5.2    Herself would have commended them vnto thy fauour


K
5.2    more particularly, but that she knowes no commendation is more auailable


K
5.2    with thee then that of proper vertue: Neuerthelesse, she wilde


K
5.2    them to present this Christall Mound, a note of Monarchy, and


K
5.2    Symbole of Perfection, to thy more worthy Deity; which as here by


K
5.2    me they most humbly do, so amongst the Rarities thereof, that is the


K
5.2    chiefe, to shew whatsoeuer the world hath excellent, howsoeuer remote


K
5.2    and various. But your irradiate iudgement will soone discouer


K
5.2    the secrets of this little Christall world. Themselves (to appeare


K
5.2    the more plainly) because they know nothing more odious then false


K
5.2    pretexts: have chosen to expresse their seuerall qualities thus in seuerall


K
5.2    coulors.


K
5.2    1 The first in Citron coullour is naturall Affection, which given


K
5.2    us to procure our good, is sometime called Storge, and as euery*one is


K
5.2    neerest to himself, so this Hand-maid of Reason, allowable Selfe-loue,


K
5.2    as it is without harme, so are none without it: Her place in the Court


K
5.2    of Perfection was to quicken mindes in the pursute of Honor. her


K
5.2    deuice is a Perpendicular Leuell upon a, Cube or Square. The


K
5.2    word, SE SVO MODVLO: alluding to that true measure


K
5.2    of ones self, which as euery*one ought to make, so is it most conspicuous


K
5.2    in thy diuine example.


K
5.2    2 The second in Greene is Aglaia, delectable and pleasant Conuersation,


K
5.2    whose property it is to mooue a kindly delight, and sometime


K
5.2    not without laughter: Her office to entertaine assemblies, and keepe


K
5.2    societies together with fayre familliarity. Her deuice within a Ring


K
5.2    of clouds, a Heart with shine about it, the worde, CVRARVM NVBILA PELLO.


K
5.2    An Allegory of Cynthias light,


K
5.2    which no lesse cleares the Skie, then her fayre Mirthe the heart.


K
5.2    3 The third, in discoulour'd Mantle spangled all over, is Euphantaste,


K
5.2    a well conceited Wittinesse, and imployde in honouring


K
5.2    the Courte with the ritches of her pure Inuention. Her deuice upon


K
5.2    a Petasus, or Mercuriall Hat, a Crescent. The worde; SIC LAVS INGENII:


K
5.2    Inferring that the praise and glory of


K
5.2    Wit, doth euer increase, as doth thy growing Moone.


K
5.2    4 The fourth in White is Apheleia, a Nymph as pure and simple


K
5.2    as the Soule, or as an abrase Table, and is therefore called Symplicity;


K
5.2    without foulds, without pleights, without coullour, without counterfeit;


K
5.2    and (to speake plainely) Plainenesse itself. Her deuice is no Deuice.


K
5.2    The word under her siluer Shield: OMNIS ABEST FVCVS,


K
5.2    alluding to thy spotlesse self, who art as farre from Impurity,


K
5.2    as from Mortality.


K
5.2    Myself (Co*elestiall Goddesse) more fit for the Court of Cynthia,


K
5.2    then the Arbors of Cythere, am call'd Anteros, or Loues enemy;


K
5.2    the more welcome therefore to thy Court, and the fitter to conduct


K
5.2    this Quaternio, who as they are thy professed Votaries, and for that


K
5.2    cause aduersaries to Loue, yet thee (perpetuall Virgin) they both


K
5.2    loue, and vow to loue eternally.

Scene 3



A
5.3    Not without wounder, nor with*out delight,


A
5.3    Mine eyes have veiwd in Contemplations depth,


A
5.3    This worke of wit, diuine, and excellent:


A
5.3    What Shape? what Substance? or what vnknowne Power


A
5.3    In virgins habit crown'd with Lawrell leaues


A
5.3    And Oliue branches wouen in betweene,


A
5.3    On Sea-girt Rocke like to a Goddesse shines?


A
5.3    O front! O face! O all celestiall sure


A
5.3    And more then mortall! Arete, behould


A
5.3    Another Cynthia, and another Queene,


A
5.3    Whose glory (like a lasting Plenilune)


A
5.3    Seems ignorant of what it is to wane.


A
5.3    Not under heauen an Obiect could be found


A
5.3    More fit to please; let Criticus approach,


A
5.3    Bounty forbids to paull our thankes with stay,


A
5.3    Or to deferre our fauour after view:


A
5.3    The time of Grace is, when the Cause is new.


M
5.3    Lo here the man (co*elestiall Delia)


M
5.3    Who (like a Circle bounded in itself,)


M
5.3    Containes as much, as Man in fulnesse may,


M
5.3    Lo here the man; who, not of vsuall earth,


M
5.3    But of that nobler, and more precious mould


M
5.3    Which Pho*ebus self doth temper, is compos'd;


M
5.3    And, who (though all were wanting to reward,


M
5.3    Yet, to himself he would not wanting be:


M
5.3    Thy Fauors gaine is his Ambitions most,


M
5.3    And labours best; who (humble in his height)


M
5.3    Stands fixed silent in thy glorious sight.


A
5.3    With no lesse pleasure, then we have beheld,


A
5.3    This pretious Christall, worke of rarest wit,


A
5.3    Our eye doth reade thee, now, our Criticus;


A
5.3    Whom Learning, Vertue, and our Fauour last,


A
5.3    Exempteth from the gloomy Multitude.


A
5.3    With common eye the Supreme should not see,


A
5.3    Hence*forth be ours, the more thyself to be.


D
5.3    Heauens purest light, whose Orbe may be eclips'd,


D
5.3    But not thy Praise; (diuinest Cynthia)


D
5.3    How much too narrow for so high a grace,


D
5.3    Thy (saue therein) vnworthy Criticus:


D
5.3    Doth finde himself? for*euer shine thy Fame;


D
5.3    Thine Honours euer, as thy Beauties do;


D
5.3    In me they must, my darke worldes chiefest Lights;


D
5.3    By whose propitious beames my powres are rais'd


D
5.3    To hope some part of those most lofty points.


D
5.3    Which blessed Arete hath pleas'd to name


D
5.3    As markes, which my 'ndeuors steps should bend:


D
5.3    Mine, as begunne at thee, in thee must end.

Scene 4

THE SECOND MASQVE.
Mercury as a Page.


B
5.4    Sister of Pho*ebus to whose bright Orbe we owe, that we not


B
5.4    complaine of his Absence; These foure Brethren (for they are Brethren


B
5.4    and sonnes of Eutaxia, a Lady knowne, and highly belou'd of your


B
5.4    resplendent Deity) not able to be absent, when Cynthia held a solemnity,


B
5.4    officiously insinuate themselves into thy presence: For as there are


B
5.4    foure Cardinall vertues, upon which the whole Frame of the Court


B
5.4    doth mooue, so are these the foure Cardinall properties without which


B
5.4    the Body of Complement mooueth not. With those foure siluer Iauelins


B
5.4    (which they beare in their hands) they support in Princes Courts the


B
5.4    state of the Presence, as by office they are obliged; which though here


B
5.4    they may seeme superfluous, yet for Honors sake they thus presume to


B
5.4    visite thee, hauing also been imployde in the Pallace of Queene Perfection.


B
5.4    And though to them, that would make themselves gratious


B
5.4    to a Goddesse, Sacrifices were fitter then Presents or Impresses, yet


B
5.4    they both hope thy fauor, and (in place of either) vse seuerall Symboles


B
5.4    containing the titles of thy imperiall Dignity.


B
5.4    1 The hithermost in the changeable blew, and greene Roabe, is


B
5.4    the commendably-fashionate Gallant Eucosmos, whose Courtly Habit


B
5.4    is the grace of the Presence, and delight of the surueying eye: whom


B
5.4    Ladies vnderstand by the names of Neate, and Elegant. His Symbol


B
5.4    is DIVA E VIRGINI, in which he would expresse thy Deities


B
5.4    principall glory, which hath euer been Virginity.


B
5.4    2 The second in the ritch Acoutrement, and Roabe of Purple


B
5.4    empaled with Gold, is Eupathes; who intertaines his minde with an


B
5.4    harmlesse, but not incurious variety: All the Obiects of his sences are


B
5.4    Sumptuous, himself a Gallant, that without excesse can make vse of


B
5.4    superfluities: go ritchly in Imbroyders, Iewels, (and what not?) without


B
5.4    Vanity; and fare delicately without Gluttony: and therefore (not


B
5.4    without cause) is vniuersally thought to be of fine humor. His Symbole


B
5.4    is DIVA E OPTIMA*E. An attribute to expresse thy


B
5.4    Goodnesse in which thou so resemblest Ioue thy father.


B
5.4    3% The third in the blush-collourd Sute is Eutolmos, as duly


B
5.4    respecting others, as neuer neglecting himself; commonly knowne by


B
5.4    the title of Good Audacitie, to Courts and courtly assemblies, a guest


B
5.4    most acceptable. His Simbole is DIVA E VIRAGINI, To


B
5.4    expresse thy hardy Courage, in chase of Sauage beasts which harbor


B
5.4    in Woods, and Wildernesse.


B
5.4    4% The fourth in Watchet-Tinsell, is the kinde, and truly Benefique


B
5.4    Eucolos. Who imparteth not without respect, but yet without


B
5.4    difficulty: and hath the happinesse to make euery kindnesse seeme double,


B
5.4    by the timely, and freely bestowing thereof, he is the chiefe of them


B
5.4    who (by the vulgar) are said to be of Good Nature. His Symbole is


B
5.4    DIVA E MAXIMA*E, An Adiunct to signifie thy greatness,


B
5.4    which in heauen, earth, and hell is formidable.

Scene 5



K
5.5    Is not that Amorphus the Traueller?


B
5.5    As though it were not? do you not see how his legges


B
5.5    are in trauaile with a Measure?


K
5.5    Hedon, thy maister is next.


B
5.5    What will Cupid turne Nomenclator, and cry them?


K
5.5    No faith, but I have a Comedy toward, that would not


K
5.5    be lost for a kingdome.


B
5.5    In good time, for Cupid will prooue the Comedy.


K
5.5    Mercury, I am studying how to match them.


B
5.5    such an Antiperistasis about the place, that no heate of thine


B
5.5    will tarry with the Patient.


K
5.5    It will tarry the rather, for the Antiperistasis will keep it in.


B
5.5    I long to see the experiment.


K
5.5    Why their marrow boyles already, or they are all turnd


K
5.5    Eunuchs.


B
5.5    Nay if it be so, I will give over speaking, and be a Spectator


B
5.5    only.
They daunce the 1% Straine.


E
5.5    Cynthia (by my bright soule) is a right exquisite, and


E
5.5    spendidious Lady; yet Amorphus I think hath seene more fashions,


E
5.5    I am sure more Countries; but whether I have or no:


E
5.5    what need we gaze on Cynthia, that have ourself to admire?


N
5.5    O excellent Cynthia; yet if Phantaste sat where she


N
5.5    does, and had such a tyre on her head (for attire can do much) I


N
5.5    say no more; but Goddesses are Goddesses, and Phantaste is as she


N
5.5    is. I would the Reuels were done once, I might go to my


N
5.5    Schoole of Glasse againe, and learne to do myself right after


N
5.5    all this Ruffling.


B
5.5    How now Cupid? here is a wonderfull change with


B
5.5    your Brandish? do you not heare, how they doate?


K
5.5    What Prodigie is this? no Word of Loue? no Mention?


K
5.5    no Motion?


B
5.5    Not a word my little Hell-fire, not a worde.


K
5.5    Are my Darts enchanted? is their vigor gone? is their


K
5.5    vertue --


B
5.5    What? Cupid turn'd iealous of himself? ha, ha, ha.


K
5.5    Laughes Mercury?


B
5.5    Is Cupid angry?


K
5.5    Hath he not cause, when his purpose is so deluded?


B
5.5    A rare Comedy, it shall be intitled; Cupids.


K
5.5    Do not scorne us Hermes.


B
5.5    Chollar and Cupid are two fiery things; I scorne them


B
5.5    not. But I see that come to passe which I presag'd in the beginning.


K
5.5    You cannot tell: perhaps the Phisicke will not worke


K
5.5    so soone upon some, as upon others. It may be the Rest are not


K
5.5    so resty.


B
5.5    Ex vngue, you know the old Adage; as these, so are the


B
5.5    remainder.


K
5.5    I will trye: this is the same Shafte with which I wounded


K
5.5    Argurion.


B
5.5    Aye, but let me saue you a labour Cupid: there were certaine


B
5.5    Bottles of Water fetcht, and drunke off, (since that time,)


B
5.5    by these Gallants.


K
5.5    Ioue strike me into earth: The Fountaine of Selfe-loue?


B
5.5    Nay faint not Cupid.


K
5.5    I remembred it not.


B
5.5    Faith it was omenous to take the name of Anteros


B
5.5    upon you, you know not what Charme or Inchantment lyes in


B
5.5    the worde: you saw I durst not venter upon any Deuise in our


B
5.5    presentment: but was content to be no other then a simple


B
5.5    Page. Your Arrowes properties (to keepe decorum) Cupid, are


B
5.5    suted (it should seeme) to the nature of him you personate.


K
5.5    Indignity not to be borne.


B
5.5    Nay rather an attempt to have been forborne.


K
5.5    How might I reuenge myself on this insulting Mercury?


K
5.5    there is Criticus his Minnion: he has not tasted of this water?


K
5.5    it shall be so.
They daunce the 2% straine.


K
5.5    Is Criticus turn'd Dotard on himself too?


B
5.5    That followes not, because the venome of your shafts


B
5.5    cannot pierce him.


K
5.5    As though there were one Antidote for these, and another


K
5.5    for him?


B
5.5    As though there were not? or as if one Effect might


B
5.5    not arise of diuerse causes? what say you to Cynthia, Arete,


B
5.5    Phronesis, TimE, and others there?


K
5.5    They are diuine.


B
5.5    And Criticus aspires to be so.


K
5.5    But that shall not serue him.


B
5.5    It is like to do prettily well at this time. But Cupid is


B
5.5    growne too couetous, that will not spare one of a Multitude.


K
5.5    One is more then a Multitude.


B
5.5    Aretes fauour makes any*one shot proofe against


B
5.5    thee Cupid.
They daunce the 3% straine.


B
5.5    I pray thee light Hony-Bee, remember thou art not now in


B
5.5    Adonis garden, but in Cynthias presence, where thornes lye in


B
5.5    garrison about the Roses. Soft Cynthia speakes.


A
5.5    Ladyes and gallants,


A
5.5    To give a timely period to our sports,


A
5.5    Let us conclude them, with declining night;


A
5.5    Our Empire is but of the darker halfe:


A
5.5    And if you iudge it any recompence;


A
5.5    For your faire paines, to have earned Dianas thanks;


A
5.5    Diana grants them: and bestowes their crowne


A
5.5    To gratefie your acceptable Zeale.


A
5.5    For you are they, that not (as some have done)


A
5.5    Do censure us, as too seuere, and sower,


A
5.5    But as (more rightly) Gratious to the Good;


A
5.5    Although we not deny, vnto the Proud,


A
5.5    Or the Prophane, perhaps indeed austere:


A
5.5    For so Acta*eon by presuming farre,


A
5.5    Did (to our griefe) incurre a fatall doome;


A
5.5    And so, swolne Niobe (comparing more


A
5.5    Then he presum'd) was tropha*ed into stone.


A
5.5    But are we therefore iudged too extreame?


A
5.5    Seemes it no Crime to enter sacred Bowers,


A
5.5    And hallowed Places with impure aspect


A
5.5    Most lewdly to pollute? Seemes it no crime,


A
5.5    To braue a Deity? let Mortalls learne


A
5.5    To make Religion of offending Heauen;


A
5.5    And not at all to censure powers diuine:


A
5.5    To Men, this Argument should stand for firme,


A
5.5    "A Goddesse did it; therefore it was good.


A
5.5    "We are not cruell, nor delight in blood.


A
5.5    But what have serious Repetitions


A
5.5    To do with Reuels, and the sports of Court?


A
5.5    We not intend to sowre your late delights


A
5.5    With harsh expostulation; Let suffice


A
5.5    That we take notice, and can take reuenge


A
5.5    Of these calumnious, and lewd Blasphemies;


A
5.5    For we are no lesse Cynthia, then we were,


A
5.5    Nor is our Power (but as our Self) the same:


A
5.5    Though we have now put on no tyre of shine


A
5.5    But mortall eyes vndazled may endure.


A
5.5    "Yeares, are beneath the Sphears; and Time makes weake,


A
5.5    "Things under Heauen; not Powers which gouerne Heauen:


A
5.5    And though our Self be in ourself, secure,


A
5.5    Yet let not mortalls challenge to themselves


A
5.5    Immunity from thence; Loe this is all:


A
5.5    "Honor hath store of spleene, but wanteth Gall.


A
5.5    Once more, we cast the slumber of our thankes


A
5.5    On your tane toyle, which here let take an end:


A
5.5    And that we not mistake your seuerall worths,


A
5.5    Nor you our Fauour; from your*selves remooue,


A
5.5    What makes you not your*selves; those clouds of Masque:


A
5.5    "Particular paines, particular thankes do aske.
They Vnmasque.


A
5.5    -- Are we contemn'd?


A
5.5    Is there so little awe of our Disdeigne,


A
5.5    That any (under trust of their disguise)


A
5.5    Should mixe themselves with others of the Court?


A
5.5    And (without forhead) bouldly presse so farre,


A
5.5    As farther none? How apt is Lenity


A
5.5    To be abus'd? Seuerity to be loath'd?


A
5.5    And yet, how much more doth the seeming Face


A
5.5    Of neighbor Vertues, and their borrowed Names,


A
5.5    Adde of lewd Bouldnesse to loose Vanities?


A
5.5    Who would have thought that Philautia durst,


A
5.5    Or have vsurped noble Storge's name?


A
5.5    Or with that theft have ventred on our eyes?


A
5.5    Who would have thought that all of them should hope,


A
5.5    So much of our conniuence, as to come


A
5.5    To grace themselves, with Titles not their owne?


A
5.5    Insteed of Medicines have we Maladies?


A
5.5    And such Impostumes, as Phantaste is,


A
5.5    Grow in our Pallace? we must lance these sores,


A
5.5    Or all will putrifie: Nor are these all,


A
5.5    For we suspect a farder fraud then this;


A
5.5    Take off our vaile, that shadows may depart,


A
5.5    And shapes appeare, beloued Arete. So.


A
5.5    Another Face of things presents itself


A
5.5    Then did of late: what? Featherd Cupid masqu'd?


A
5.5    And masqu'd like to Anteros? but, more strange!


A
5.5    Deare Mercury our Brother, like a Page,


A
5.5    To countenance the ambush of the Boy?


A
5.5    Nor endeth our discouery as yet;


A
5.5    Gelaia like a Nymph, that but ere while


A
5.5    (In male attire) did serue Anaides?


A
5.5    Cupid came hither to finde sport and Game,


A
5.5    Who, here*tofore hath been too conuersant


A
5.5    Among our traine; but neuer felt Reuenge:


A
5.5    And Mercury bare Cupid company:


A
5.5    Cupid, we must confesse this Time of mirth


A
5.5    (Proclaimd by us) gaue Opportunity,


A
5.5    To thy attempts, although no Priuiledge;


A
5.5    Tempt us no farther, we cannot endure


A
5.5    Thy presence longer: Vanish, Hence, Away.
Exit Cupid.


A
5.5    You Mercury, we must intreate to stay,


A
5.5    And heare what we determine of the rest;


A
5.5    For in this Plot, you have the deepest hand:


A
5.5    But (for we meane not a Censorian tasque


A
5.5    And yet to lance these vlcers growne so ripe)


A
5.5    Deare Arete, and Criticus, to you


A
5.5    We give the charge; Impose what paines you please:


A
5.5    The incurable cut off, the rest reforme;


A
5.5    Remembring euer what we first decreed,


A
5.5    Since Reuels were proclaimed, Let now none bleede.


M
5.5    How well Diana can distinguish Times?


M
5.5    And sort her Censures? keeping to herself


M
5.5    The doome of Gods, leauing the rest to us?


M
5.5    Come, cite them Criticus and then proceede.


D
5.5    First Philautia (for she was the first)


D
5.5    Then light Gelaia, in Aglaias name,


D
5.5    Thirdly Phantaste, and Moria next,


D
5.5    Mayne follies all, and of the Female crue;


D
5.5    Amorphus, or Eucosmos counterfet,


D
5.5    Voluptuous Hedon ta'ne for Eupathes,


D
5.5    Brazen Anaides, and Asotus last,


D
5.5    With his two Pages Morus, and Prosaites;


D
5.5    And thou the Trauailers Euill, Cos, appraoch,


D
5.5    Impostors all, and male Deformities.


M
5.5    Nay forward, for I delegate my power,


M
5.5    And will, that at thy mercy they do stand


M
5.5    Whom they so oft, so plainely scornd before:


M
5.5    It is vertue which they want, and wanting it,


M
5.5    Honour no garment to their backes can fit.


M
5.5    Now Criticus, vse your Discretion.


D
5.5    Adored Cynthia, and bright Arete,


D
5.5    Another might seeme fitter for this tasque


D
5.5    Then Criticus, but that you iudge not so:


D
5.5    For I (not to appeare vindicatiue,


D
5.5    Or mindfull of Contempts, which I contemn'd


D
5.5    As done of Impotence) must be remisse;


D
5.5    Who as I was the Author in some sort,


D
5.5    To worke their knowledge into Cynthias sight,


D
5.5    So should be much seuerer to reuenge


D
5.5    The indignity, hence issuing to her Name:


D
5.5    But there is not one of these, who are vnpaind,


D
5.5    Or by themselves vnpunished; for Vice


D
5.5    Is like a fury to the vitious minde,


D
5.5    And turnes Delight itself to Punishment.


D
5.5    But we must forward to define their Doome;


D
5.5    You are Offenders, that must be confest.


D
5.5    Do you confesse it?


X
5.5    we do.


D
5.5    And that you merit sharpe Correction?


X
5.5    we do.


D
5.5    Then we (reseruing vnto Delias grace,


D
5.5    Her farther pleasure, and to Arete


D
5.5    What Delia graunteth) thus do sentence you.


D
5.5    That from this place (for Penance knowne of all,


D
5.5    Since you have drunke so deeply of Selfe-loue)


D
5.5    You (two and two singing a Palinode,


D
5.5    March to your seuerall homes by Niobes stone,


D
5.5    And offer up two tears a*piece thereon;


D
5.5    That it may change the name, as you much change,


D
5.5    And of a stone be called Weeping Crosse:


D
5.5    Because it standeth crosse of Cynthias way,


D
5.5    One of whose names is sacred TRIVIA.


D
5.5    And after penance thus perform'd, you passe


D
5.5    In like set order; not as Midas did


D
5.5    To wash his Golde off into Tagus streame;


D
5.5    But to the Well of Knowledge, Helicon,


D
5.5    Where, purged of your present Maladies,


D
5.5    (Which are nor few, nor slender) you become


D
5.5    Such as you faine would seeme; and then returne


D
5.5    Offring your seruice to great Cynthia.


D
5.5    This is your Sentence; if the Goddesse please


D
5.5    To ratefie it with her high Consent:


D
5.5    The scope of wise Mirth vnto fruit is bent.


A
5.5    We do approoue thy Censure Criticus;


A
5.5    Which Mercury, thy true propitious friend,


A
5.5    (A Deity, next Ioue, belou'd of us,)


A
5.5    Will vndertake to see exactly done.


A
5.5    And for this seruice of Discouery


A
5.5    Perform'd by thee, in honor of our name,


A
5.5    We vow to guerdon it with such due grace,


A
5.5    As shall become our Bountie, and thy Place.


A
5.5    Princes that would their People should do well,


A
5.5    Must at themselves begin, as at the heads;


A
5.5    For men by their example patterne out.


A
5.5    Their Imitations, and reguard of Lawes:


A
5.5    A vertuous Court, a world to vertue drawes.
Exeunt, Cynthia, Arete, &c%
Palinodia.


E
5.5    From Spanish shrugs, French faces, Smirks, Irps,


E
5.5    and all affected Humors.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


N
5.5    From secret friends, sweet Seruants, Loues, Doues,


N
5.5    and such Phantastique Humors.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


E
5.5    From stabbing of Armes, Flap-dragons, Healths,


E
5.5    Whiffes, and all such swaggering Humors.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


N
5.5    From wauing of Fannes, coy Glaunces, Glicks,


N
5.5    Cringes, and all such simpring Humors.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


E
5.5    From making loue by Attourney, courting of Puppets,


E
5.5    and paying for new acquaintance.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


N
5.5    From perfum'd Dogs, Monkeys, Sparrowes, Dildos,


N
5.5    and Parachitos.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


E
5.5    From wearing Bracelets of Hayre, Shoo-tyes, Gloues,


E
5.5    Garters, and Rings with Poesies.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


N
5.5    From Pargetting, Painting, Slicking, Glazing,


N
5.5    and Renewing old riueld Faces.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


E
5.5    From Squiring to Tilt-yards, Play-Houses, Pageants,


E
5.5    and all such Publique places.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


N
5.5    From entertaining one Gallant to gull another,


N
5.5    and making Fooles of either.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.


E
5.5    From Belying Ladyes fauors, Noble-mens countenance,


E
5.5    coyning counterfet Imployments, vain-glorious taking


E
5.5    to them other mens Seruices, and all self-louing Humors.


X
5.5    Chorus. Good Mercury defend us.
CANT.


U
5.5    Now each one dry his weeping Eyes,


U
5.5    and to the Well of Knowledge hast;


U
5.5    Where purged of your Maladies,


U
5.5    we may of sweeter waters taste:


U
5.5    And with refined voice report,


U
5.5    The Grace of Cynthia, and her Court.
Epilogus.


U
5.5    Gentles, be it knowne to you, since I went in


U
5.5    I am turn'd Rimer; and do thus beginne:


U
5.5    The Author (iealous, how your sence doth take


U
5.5    His trauayles) hath enioyned me to make


U
5.5    Some short, and Ceremonious Epilogue;


U
5.5    But if I yet know what, I am a Rogue:


U
5.5    He ties me to such Lawes, as quite distract


U
5.5    My thoughts; and would a Yeare of time exact.


U
5.5    I neither must be Faint, Remisse, nor Sory,


U
5.5    Sower, Serious, Confident, nor Peremptory:


U
5.5    But betwixt these. Let us see? to lay the blame


U
5.5    upon the Childrens Actions, that were lame.


U
5.5    To craue your Fauours with a begging knee,


U
5.5    Were to distrust the Writers faculty;


U
5.5    To promise better at the next we bring,


U
5.5    Prorogues disgrace, commends not any*thing.


U
5.5    Stifly to stand on this, and proudly approoue


U
5.5    The Play, might taxe the Maker of Self-loue.


U
5.5    I will only speake, what I have heard him say;


U
5.5    By God it is good, and if you like it, you may.