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<P>THE SISTERS, A COMEDIE, AS It was acted at the private Hou&s;e IN <HI>BLACK FRYERS,</HI></P>
<P>WRITTEN By JAMES SHIRLEY.</P>
<P><HI>Never Printed before.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Humphrey Robin&s;on</HI> at the Three Pigeons, and <HI>Humphrey Mo&s;eley</HI> at the Prince's Arms in St. <HI>Paul's</HI> Church-yard. 1652.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="3">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>To the mo&s;t worthily Honoured <HI>William Paulet</HI> E&s;quire.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>COmpo&s;itions of this nature, have here|tofore been graced by the acceptance, and protection of the greate&s;t Nobility (I may &s;ay Princes) but in this age, when the Scene of Drammatick Poetry is changed into a wilderne&s;s, it is hard to find a pa|tron to a legitimate mu&s;e. Many that were wont to encourage Poems, are faln beneath the proverbiall want of the compo&s;ers, and by their ruins are only at lea&s;ure to take mea&s;ure with their eye, of what they have been. Some extingui&s;hed with their fortune, have this happine&s;s, to be out of capacity of further &s;hipwrack, while their &s;ad remaynes peep out of the &s;ea, and may &s;erve naked marks, and caution to other Navigators, Malignant &s;tars the while! In this unequall condition of the time, give me leave to congratulate my own felicity, that hath di|rected this Comedy unto you, who wear your no|blene&s;s with more &s;ecurity, than titles, and a name that continues bright and impa&s;sible among the con&s;tellations in our Sphear of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> honour. I <GAP DESC="missing">
<PB REF="4">dare not detain you, Sir, with too long a Preface; if you plea&s;e to entertain the&s;e Papers, as the mode&s;t tender of my &s;ervice, I &s;hall receive it as a mo&s;t kind influence upon me; and you will engage to all your commands, the humble heart of</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your faithfull Honourer, <HI>JA. SHIRLEY.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prologue">
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>Prologue at the Black-Fryers.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>DOes this look like a Term? I cannot tell,</L>
<L>Our Poet thinks the whole Town is not well,</L>
<L>Has took &s;ome Phy&s;ick lately, and for fear</L>
<L>Of catching cold dares not &s;alute this Ayr.</L>
<L>But ther's another rea&s;on, I hear &s;ay</L>
<L><HI>London</HI> is gone to <HI>York,</HI> 'tis a great way;</L>
<L>Pox o'the Proverb, and of him &s;ay I,</L>
<L>That look'd ore <HI>Lincoln,</HI> cau&s;e that <HI>was,</HI> mu&s;t we</L>
<L>Be now tran&s;lated North? I could rail to</L>
<L>On Gammar <HI>Shiptons</HI> Gho&s;t, but 't wo' not doe,</L>
<L>The Town will &s;till be <HI>flecking,</HI> and a Play</L>
<L>Though ne'r &s;o new, will &s;tarve the &s;econd day:</L>
<L>Upon the&s;e very hard conditions,</L>
<L>Our Poet will not purcha&s;e many Towns;</L>
<L>And if you leave us too, we cannot thrive,</L>
<L>I'l promi&s;e neither Play nor Poet live</L>
<L>Till ye come back, think what you do, you &s;ee</L>
<L>What audience we have, what Company</L>
<L>"<HI>To</HI> Shake&s;pear <HI>comes, who&s;e mirth did once beguile</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>Dull hours, and buskind, made even &s;orrow &s;mile,</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>So lovely were the wounds, that men would &s;ay</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>They could endure the bleeding a whole day:</HI></L>
<L>He has but few friends lately, think o'that,</L>
<L>Hee'l come no more, and others have his fate.</L>
<L>"Fletcher <HI>the Mu&s;es darling, and choice love</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>Of</HI> Phoebus, <HI>the delight of every Grove;</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>Vpon who&s;e head the Laurel grew, who&s;e wit</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>Was the Times wonder, and example yet,</HI></L>
<L>'Tis within memory, Trees did not throng,</L>
<L>As once the Story &s;aid to <HI>Orpheus</HI> &s;ong.</L>
<L>"John&s;on, <HI>t' who&s;e name, wi&s;e Art did bow, and Wit</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>Is only ju&s;tified by honouring it:</HI></L>
<PB REF="5">
<L>"<HI>To hear who&s;e touch, how would the learned Quire</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>With &s;ilence &s;toop? and when he took his Lyre,</HI></L>
<L>"Apollo <HI>dropt his Lute, a&s;ham'd to &s;ee</HI></L>
<L>"<HI>A Rival to the God of Harmonie.</HI></L>
<L>You do for&s;ake <HI>him</HI> too, we mu&s;t deplore</L>
<L>This fate, fot we do know it by our <HI>door.</HI></L>
<L>How mu&s;t this Author fear then, with his guilt</L>
<L>Of weakne&s;s to thrive here, where late was &s;pilt</L>
<L>The <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> own blood, if being but a few,</L>
<L>You not con&s;pire, and meet more frequent too?</L>
<L>There are not now <HI>nine Mu&s;es,</HI> and you may</L>
<L>Be kind to ours, if not, he bad me &s;ay,</L>
<L>Though while you carele&s;s kill the re&s;t, and laugh,</L>
<L>Yet he may live to write your <HI>Epitaph.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB REF="5">
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<DIV1 TYPE="dramatis personae">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>Per&s;ons.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>FArne&s;e, <HI>Prince of Parma.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Contarini, <HI>a Noble man.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Antonio, <HI>Uncle to the Si&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Frapolo, <HI>the chief Bandit.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Longino <HI>Bandits.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Strozzo <HI>Bandits.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rangino <HI>Bandits.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pachequo <HI>Bandits.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lucio, Paulina's <HI>Steward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Giovanni <HI>Servants to</HI> Paulina.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stephanio <HI>Servants to</HI> Paulina.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fabio.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Piperollo, <HI>Sonne to</HI> Fabio.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Countrymen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Citizens.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Petitioners.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Scholar.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pulcheria <HI>di&s;gui&s;ed, and under the name of</HI> vergerid</ITEM>
<ITEM>Paulina <HI>Si&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Angellina <HI>Si&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Morulla, <HI>Wife to</HI> Fabio.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gentlewomen.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Scene Parma.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
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<PB N="1" REF="6">
<HEAD>THE SISTERS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT I.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Enter Frapolo, Longino, Pacheco, Rangone, Strozzo, and other Banditi.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lon.</SPEAKER>
<L>_I Like not this la&s;t Proclamation.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nor I.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>It &s;tartled me to read it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Did you read? tis a fault <HI>Strozzo</HI> a fault</L>
<L>I'l have no theef hereafter learn to read;</L>
<L>Threaten us with long winded Proclamations?</L>
<L>We are &s;afe within our Woods, and Territories,</L>
<L>And are above his Edicts; Have not wee</L>
<L>A Common-wealth among our &s;elves, ye <HI>Tripolites?</HI></L>
<L>A Common-wealth? a Kingdom; and I am</L>
<L>The Prince of <HI>Qui-Vala's,</HI> your Sovereign theef,</L>
<L>And you are all my Subjects.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>We are&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>And is there one &s;o ba&s;e to change Complexion,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e we are pro&s;crib'd? I'l be no Prince.</L>
<L>I have a grudging on me to be hone&s;t,</L>
<L>And leave you to the fear of hemp, and hunger;</L>
<L>Have I by &s;tratagems &s;o oft pre&s;erv'd you,</L>
<L>When you were howling out your lives, and lead</L>
<L>A way in Dog-couples by ru&s;ty Officers?</L>
<L>And are you &s;truck dead with a Paper pellet?</L>
<L>Your bloud turn'd Whay, becau&s;e there is reward</L>
<L>Promis'd to bring our heads in? I renounce you&mdash;</L>
<L>Land Rats&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="2" REF="7">
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t excellent <HI>Frapolo,</HI> they recant;</L>
<L>A little humane frailty may be pardon'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Shall theeves, who&s;e predece&s;&s;ors have been Kings,</L>
<L>And conquer'd worlds, be factious, and &s;chi&s;maticall?</L>
<L>I &s;peak not for my &s;elf, but your own &s;akes,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Impudence, and art in valiant theft,</L>
<L>Hereafter, may advance you to be Princes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>You have confirmed us.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>You were be&s;t be rogues, and one betray another,</L>
<L>To get the ba&s;e reward; do, lo&s;e your honour,</L>
<L>Live branded, and be pointed at i'th &s;treet,</L>
<L>There goes a Ra&s;call that betrai'd his Prince,</L>
<L>Or cut the throat of his Comrade, this will</L>
<L>Shew well i'th'Chronicles&mdash; Stand fair you varlets,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e we cannot tell who&s;e heart is treacherous,</L>
<L>I will examine all your Phi&s;nomies,</L>
<L>And in who&s;e face &s;oever I can find</L>
<L>A &s;candalous line, or look that may beget</L>
<L>Su&s;pition of a Man that wo'not die</L>
<L>An honourable Rebell, and defie</L>
<L>The Laws, I'le &s;hoot him pre&s;ently.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hang Laws,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e that make'em, Con&s;cience is a Varlet;</L>
<L>Stand fair and &s;hew complexions.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ye are all valiant, hone&s;t theeve landers,</L>
<L>And I will be your Prince agen, and dy w'ee,</L>
<L>As boldly, as they dare invent&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hang Cowards.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I will not have you theeves among your &s;elves.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>How's that, and plea&s;e thy Excellence, not theeves?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not theeves one to another; but Religious&mdash;</L>
<L>There is a kind of a Religion</L>
<L>We Outlaws mu&s;t ob&s;erve.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>I never knew</L>
<L>Religion yet, and 'twill be now un&s;ea&s;onable</L>
<L>To learn.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="3" REF="7">
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l be of no Religion.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who was &s;o bold</L>
<L>To &s;ay he would have no Religion?</L>
<L>What man is he, hopes to be drunk, to whore,</L>
<L>To &s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">pe the wheels, the Gallies, and the gallowes</L>
<L>And be of no Religion?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>He &s;ays right.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yee &s;hall be of what Religion I plea&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis fit we &s;hould, <HI>Frapolo</HI> is our Monarch.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>And yet I mu&s;t con&s;ider of &s;ome fit one</L>
<L>That &s;hall become our trade</L>
<L>And con&s;titutions; hum! Silence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, nay Prince, take time to think on't,</L>
<L>Ther's no ha&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have thought,</L>
<L>And you &s;hall be no <HI>Pagans, Jews,</HI> nor <HI>Chri&s;tians.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>What then?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>But every man &s;hall be of all Religions.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>I like that well.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why &s;hould I clog your Con&s;cience, or confine it?</L>
<L>Do but obey your Prince, and I pronounce</L>
<L>You &s;hall live Grandees, till the State Phangs catch you,</L>
<L>And when you come unto the Wheel, or Gibbet,</L>
<L>Bid figo for the World, and go out Martyrs.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Omnes.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Prince, a Prince!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Provided, that no theef</L>
<L>Makes a Confe&s;&s;ion at his Death, or peach</L>
<L>His Tribe, or make a &s;hew of penitence,</L>
<L>To make the Butter-women melt, and draw</L>
<L>Compa&s;&s;ion from the toothle&s;s mu&s;ty rabble;</L>
<L>This will exclude the benefit of that Canon</L>
<L>Declares you Martyrs for the Cau&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Anoi&s;e within.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Exit Longino.</STAGE>
<L>Scout and di&s;cover.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis a howling voice.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>What Cry was that?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><PB N="4" REF="8"><HI>Enter Longino.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of one, who&s;e pocket has given up the Gho&s;t,</L>
<L>And with the fear his body &s;hould do &s;o,</L>
<L>He howles O'this fa&s;hion.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>They put on Vizards.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bring him to our pre&s;ence.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Piperollo brought in.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Gentlemen, tis very cold, I be&s;eech you</L>
<L>Do not &s;trip my Skin off, you are not &s;ure</L>
<L>I &s;hall go to a fire when I go out of</L>
<L>This World; and yet as I am, I confe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>I &s;hall yield very little burn'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Knock out his brains.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pi&s;toll him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Cut's throat.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Gentlemen, hear me&mdash; I am very &s;orry,</L>
<L>I had no greater &s;um&mdash; but if you plea&s;e</L>
<L>To reprieve a poor wretch, I may do you &s;ervice,</L>
<L>And if you knew my inclination,</L>
<L>You would not be too Cruell.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>To what are you inclin'd Sirra?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have been commended for a Dexterity</L>
<L>At your fellonious trade; for Gentlemen,</L>
<L>I have been a Pickpocket of a child, and have</L>
<L>The&s;e many years been thought a pretty hou&s;e-theef,</L>
<L>Mary I have not yet breeding abroad</L>
<L>With &s;uch de&s;erving men, but I &s;hall be</L>
<L>Mo&s;t glad to learn, and if you plea&s;e t' accept</L>
<L>Me to your tribe, I have Intelligence</L>
<L>Where money lyes hid, and very few Spirits</L>
<L>To guard it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be confident, and be cover'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let him be one of us.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be brief, where is this trea&s;ure?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have an old Father, and Mother, Gentlemen,</L>
<L>Plea&s;e you be&s;tow a vi&s;it upon them;</L>
<PB N="5" REF="8">
<L>They have &s;ome Goldfinches, having new &s;old</L>
<L>A peece of Land, was given 'em by the rich</L>
<L><HI>Vincenzo,</HI> Father to the famous, proud</L>
<L><HI>Paulina,</HI> now his heir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>The glorious Daughter</L>
<L>Of old <HI>Vincenzo?</HI> &s;he's a <HI>Semiramis.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>The very &s;ame; if you would vi&s;it her,</L>
<L>I am acquainted with the hou&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Wee'l take a time to think on her; to th'point.</L>
<L>What ready money has your Father Sirra?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis but two days ago &s;ince he receiv'd</L>
<L>Six hundred Pi&s;tolets, I can direct</L>
<L>To a Cedar Che&s;t, where the fine &s;um lies dormant.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>What Servants has your Father?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas none, they are mi&s;erable Hinds,</L>
<L>And make me all the drudge, you need not fear</L>
<L>The Court-du-Guard; if you plea&s;e let me go</L>
<L>An hone&s;t theeves part, and furni&s;h me</L>
<L>With a Devills complexion, to hide my own,</L>
<L>I will conduct you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>A very hone&s;t fellow!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do not love to be ingratefull where</L>
<L>I'm kindly us'd, my heart is hone&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is he thy own Father?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>My own Father and Mother Sir, the cau&s;e</L>
<L>Would not be &s;o naturall el&s;e, and meritorious.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>A precious rogue, fit him in&s;tantly</L>
<L>With a di&s;gui&s;e, and let him have that face</L>
<L>The Devill wore in the la&s;t anti-ma&s;que.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>It cannot be too ugly Sir to fright 'em.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>But if he fail in any Circum&s;tance&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis not far off, I know the neare&s;t way.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or give the lea&s;t &s;u&s;pition to betray you,</L>
<L>Be &s;ure you cut his throat.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>We &s;hall.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thank You Sir, d'ee think I'l be a Traytor?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="6" REF="9">
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come fir&s;t along with us.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>You heard this fellow name the proud <HI>Paulina,</HI></L>
<L>Her Che&s;ts are worth the rifling.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Ca&s;tle is impregnable &s;he lives in.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Was that &s;poke like an under&s;tanding theef,</L>
<L>A true <HI>Bandit?</HI> How I do blu&s;h for thee?</L>
<L>Was not the Orchard of <HI>He&s;perides</HI></L>
<L>Watcht by a fierce, and flaming Dragon, robd?</L>
<L>Shall wee de&s;pair to reach her golden Apples?</L>
<L>Wee'l make di&s;covery of the place, and per&s;ons,</L>
<L>Put it to Fate, let Stars do what they plea&s;e;</L>
<L><HI>Mercury</HI> is a Stronger theef than <HI>Hercules.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Giovanni Stephanio.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>What a brave time have we had, &s;ince our</L>
<L>Old Ma&s;ter died?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Though he were a gallant man, his Daughter</L>
<L>Makes his Memory burn dym, and (compar'd</L>
<L>To her) he liv'd but like a Hermit in a Cell,</L>
<L>She is all Magnificent, a <HI>Bererice,</HI></L>
<L>Every hair of her head worth &s;tellyfying.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>But my Lady, for &s;o we mu&s;t call her,</L>
<L>May be of kin to <HI>Lucifer</HI> for pride;</L>
<L>How many brave Gentlemen hath &s;he de&s;pis'd,</L>
<L>When once their bli&s;ter of Love broke out,</L>
<L>And they made offer of Mariage?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Antonio, Angellina.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ste.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here is her Si&s;ter <HI>Angellina</HI> a virgin</L>
<L>Of another con&s;titution, their two natures</L>
<L>As different are, as the two Poles, our Mi&s;tre&s;s</L>
<L>Cannot be &s;o Tyrannically proud</L>
<L>As &s;he is &s;weet, and humble.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>That's the rea&s;on her Father left her only</L>
<L>As much as would commend her to a Nunnery.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Her Uncle dotes upon her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>He does love her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="7" REF="9">
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis an old blunt brave fellow; but he has</L>
<L>Quite lo&s;t our gallant Ladies good opinion,</L>
<L>He is out of grace.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Ex. Ant. Ang.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>Becau&s;e he would correct her in&s;olence,</L>
<L>Who oblig'd by her father to the care of</L>
<L>Her governour, wo'not tie up his Coun&s;ell,</L>
<L>Which he enforces &s;ometimes &s;o pa&s;&s;ionately,</L>
<L>It is a &s;port to hear her contempt of his gravity.</L>
<STAGE>Enter Paulina, Antonio.</STAGE>
<L>He has met my Lady, I &s;ee a quarrell</L>
<L>In their looks already, let us withd raw</L>
<L>Behind that Lobby, we may hear, and</L>
<L>Laugh &s;ecurely.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>How long have you been &s;peechle&s;s? am</L>
<L>Not I your Uncle? why do you look &s;o &s;curvily?</L>
<L>I do not think you are a Prince&s;&s;e yet,</L>
<L>And therefore take the boldne&s;s to &s;alute you,</L>
<L>Without the Ceremony of Petitioners</L>
<L>That haunt your Ladi&s;hips charity; or if</L>
<L>You thought me de&s;picable, your Si&s;ter has</L>
<L>De&s;erv'd your &s;mile.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>It may be &s;o&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Buffoones,</L>
<L>That make an Idoll of you, and can pawn</L>
<L>Their Souls to flatter you, &s;hould be entertaind,</L>
<L>And Courted to your vanity. I blu&s;h for you;</L>
<L>Will nothing bring you into &s;en&s;e of Honour</L>
<L>Or Mode&s;ty? I ha done.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>It will become you;</L>
<L>You do pre&s;ume too much.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pre&s;ume? why, are</L>
<L>Not you <HI>Paulina</HI> am not I <HI>Antonio</HI></L>
<L>Your Uncle? &s;peak.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do remember Sir,</L>
<L>I calld you &s;o, while you pre&s;erv'd your wits,</L>
<PB N="8" REF="10">
<L>And may acknowledge you again, upon</L>
<L>Sober Conditions, and your Sen&s;es perfect.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sober Conditions? am I Drunk, Gip&s;ey?</L>
<L>What fle&s;h is able to forbear. Do&s;t hear?</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t drunk a Devill.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I did not &s;ee him in my Cup.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>And he has &s;weld thee to this mon&s;trous pride,</L>
<L>More than thy Sex be&s;ide; if thou goe&s;t on</L>
<L>At this rate, thou wilt make <HI>Lucifer</HI> an Ape,</L>
<L>He mu&s;t be thy Di&s;ciple.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Old thing raves.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thing? what thing? thank heaven thou</L>
<L>Art a woman; I would beat thee into a Polti&s;e&mdash;</L>
<L>When did&s;t thou &s;ay thy prayers?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>You know I keep a Chaplain.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thy Soul wants de&s;perate lancing;</L>
<L>Ther's an eternall Ulcer in thy heart,</L>
<L>Te Witches cannot &s;uck it dry, there is</L>
<L>A bath of Poy&s;on in thee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hall pity him;</L>
<L>A Po&s;&s;et, and to bed with him, his head</L>
<L>Does want the benefit of &s;leep; how wild</L>
<L>The good man looks?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thou art&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Mi&s;tre&s;s of this Ca&s;tle as I take it,</L>
<L>Without your Legacy.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>I could rail upon the dead for't; do&s;t thou not fear</L>
<L>Thy Fathers gho&s;t &s;hould haunt thee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I never think upon him, and it was</L>
<L>His providence to leave me an e&s;tate,</L>
<L>To keep me from tho&s;e Malancholy fancies,</L>
<L>And I will have you my caprichious Uncle</L>
<L>Know, in the Circle of the&s;e my Dominions,</L>
<L>I will have no Competitor.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Dominions?</L>
<L>Was ever &s;uch an in&s;olence? are not you</L>
<PB N="9" REF="10">
<L>ome Queen conceald?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am Independent, and &s;ole regent here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>So &s;o,</L>
<L>Where's your Nobility? they are to blame</L>
<L>Not to attend&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who waits?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Giovanni, Stephanio.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>But they do want white Staves, this is</L>
<L>Not State enough.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>It &s;hall be mended, let them be remembred.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>She's in earne&s;t&mdash;and</L>
<L>If I were worthy to advi&s;e you Madam,</L>
<L>Your grace &s;hould be a little more re&s;erv'd,</L>
<L>And entertain none that did treat of Mariage</L>
<L>To your private conference, untill they had</L>
<L>In publick receiv'd audience like Amba&s;&s;adors.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I like the Coun&s;ell well, it &s;hall be &s;o,</L>
<L>The next that comes &s;hall find it my good Uncle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>She's incorrigible.</L>
<L>What if you commanded tho&s;e that do attend</L>
<L>Your per&s;on to ob&s;erve you on their knees</L>
<L>Sometimes, they mu&s;t be humble to your highne&s;s;</L>
<L>I can forget my gray hairs, name, and bloud,</L>
<L>And teach your Servants duty.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>The example</L>
<L>Will edifie the hou&s;hold, and you may,</L>
<L>By fair degrees ri&s;e to our Princely favour.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Lucio.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam, the Lord <HI>Contarini</HI> is arrived</L>
<L>The Ca&s;tle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>He comes a woing to me, let it be</L>
<L>Your Office reverend Uncle to acquaint him,</L>
<L>Our plea&s;ure is to give him Audience</L>
<L>To Morrow in full State, untill when Uncle,</L>
<L>Make it your care his entertainment be</L>
<L>Such as becomes the greatne&s;s of his bloud,</L>
<PB N="10" REF="11">
<L>And one, on whom the Prince, we know, be&s;tows</L>
<L>His &s;peciall grace.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>D'ee hear &s;weet Niece? be not you tran&s;porte</L>
<L>This is no dream, the man is no mock-lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l be a Prince&s;s here, as you directed,</L>
<L>If he can humble him&s;elf to Ceremony,</L>
<L>Promi&s;e him honourable acce&s;s, and freedom,</L>
<L>If the Conditions plea&s;e him not, he may</L>
<L>Return, and leave our Court.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><HI>Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"></HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is this in Nature? well I'l follow her,</L>
<L>And if &s;he be not pa&s;t all &s;hame, and &s;en&s;es,</L>
<L>I will humble or confound her.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Ex</STAGE>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT II.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Enter Longino, Strozzo, Binding Fabio, and Morulla.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mo.</SPEAKER>
<L>AH &s;weet Gentlemen, we are very poor,</L>
<L>And have a great Charge.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>We do come to ea&s;e you of your charge.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pity my age.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>You mu&s;t then pity our youth.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Piperollo vi&s;arded with three bags.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here, &s;hare and &s;hare like.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas we are undone.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;hall we do with them?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>If you have bound her hands and feet, you</L>
<L>May try whether &s;he be a Witch or no, there's</L>
<L>A Pond in the back&s;ide, if &s;he &s;wim, &s;o&mdash;</L>
<L>For him?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Have &s;ome compa&s;&s;ion, tis our whole e&s;tate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>You have a Son, a pious child we hear.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="11" REF="11">
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>He will not let you want.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas poor boy, he little thinks what we</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ith care and providence laid up for him</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hould thus be lo&s;t. O pity Gentlemen.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Boh&mdash;Lets away.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>I begin to find a kind of a compunction,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">et us be charitable theeves for once&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>And return half,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hat &s;ay you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not a gazet, y'are not &s;uch fooli&s;h theeves;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">art with pre&s;ent money? part with my life fir&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not to your Parents?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>We u&s;e them well, becau&s;e we do not carry</L>
<L>Their Cowes away; there they have Chee&s;e, and Butter,</L>
<L>Bread comes by nature, and they both can glean,</L>
<L>There's water in the Well too; not a penny&mdash;</L>
<L>If you will be &s;o charitable, defalk</L>
<L>From your own &s;hares, mine is a ju&s;t theeves part;</L>
<L>I look for thanks, di&s;tribute your own alms;</L>
<L>The&s;e things mu&s;t be employ'd to better u&s;es.</L>
<L>Is a Father, and Mother con&s;iderable</L>
<L>To ready mony; oh! fie&mdash;boh!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Then we mu&s;t over-rule you.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Trips up his heels.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ah what do you mean?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Baul and betray your &s;elf at your own perill.</L>
<L>We will be bold with your theeves part&mdash;</L>
<L>Come neerer&mdash;Look you good Woman,</L>
<L>You &s;hall not lo&s;e your thirds, &s;ay you have met</L>
<L>With hone&s;t theeves; this &s;hall &s;uffice at pre&s;ent,</L>
<L>Which we but borrow neither, that you may not</L>
<L>Su&s;pect our payment, you &s;hall have &s;ecurity,</L>
<L>This hone&s;t man bound for't, and &s;o we leave you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis money.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mo.</SPEAKER>
<L>And left one of their fellows bound.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do we not dream Wife? I dare not come neer</L>
<L>Him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="12" REF="12">
<SPEAKER>Mo.</SPEAKER>
<L>They are gone, I'l &s;ee his complexion;</L>
<L>Who's this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Our own Son <HI>Piperollo?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pray Father give me your ble&s;&s;ing, ah&mdash;</L>
<L>Mother do not &s;tone me to death with that</L>
<L>Money bag, I am your Son.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mo.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Son? I know thee not.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>A liar, you know Mother, is wor&s;e than a</L>
<L>Theef; do not de&s;troy the hopes of your Family,</L>
<L>Alas, I was drawn in, and made a theef</L>
<L>In my own defence, they &s;wore to cut my throat</L>
<L>El&s;e, do you think I had &s;o little grace&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Did they &s;o? I'l try what I can do.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>She draws her knife.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh my quibibles! &s;weet Mother, remember</L>
<L>You were a woman in your days, that knew</L>
<L>What's what, and the true difference of things.</L>
<L>I am a man yet, your forgivene&s;&s;e may</L>
<L>Make me a true man. Libbing, and hanging</L>
<L>Are no helps to po&s;terity, I am your own</L>
<L>Sweet fle&s;h and bloud&mdash;Oh.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Kick him out of doors.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thank you, this Correction may do me good;</L>
<L>Gently, ah gently; &s;hall I not ask you ble&s;&s;ing,</L>
<L>A twelve-month hence?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Both.</SPEAKER>
<L>Never.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I wo'not.</L>
<L>My Mother has a deadly lift with her leg.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Boh, you tadpole.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hall do no good o'this trade.</L>
<L>Now to my wits, this is no world to &s;tarve in.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Lucio, Giovanni, Stephanio, with white Staves.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is very fine; do not the&s;e Staves become us?</L>
<L>But will my Lady be thus mad, and give</L>
<PB N="13" REF="12">
<L>The Lord <HI>Contarini</HI> Audience in &s;uch State?</L>
<L>She takes upon her like a very Prince&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>But is't not &s;trange, her Uncle &s;hould thus humor her?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ste.</SPEAKER>
<L>He gave her the fir&s;t hint, which &s;he purfues</L>
<L>To his vexation.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Luc.</SPEAKER>
<L>But will my Lord &s;toop to this mockery?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>He is prepar'd by her Uncle; 'twil be &s;port,</L>
<L>If &s;he but carry it with pride enough.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let her alone.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>And if my Lord wants confidence&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>I think her impudence will make him blu&s;h,</L>
<L>And put him out; I have &s;een a Counterfeit</L>
<L>With &s;uch a Maje&s;ty compo&s;e him&s;elf,</L>
<L>He thought him&s;elf a Prince, could frown as &s;cornfully,</L>
<L>And give his hand out to great Lords to ki&s;s,</L>
<L>With as much grace, as all the Royall bloud</L>
<L>Had mu&s;terd in his veins.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu</SPEAKER>
<L>Some Monarch</L>
<L>Of Innes a Court in <HI>England</HI> &s;ure; but when</L>
<L>His reign expires, and Chri&s;tmas in the grave</L>
<L>Cold as the Turkies coffind up in cru&s;t,</L>
<L>That walk like Gho&s;ts, and glide to &s;everall Tables,</L>
<L>When In&s;truments are hoar&s;e with &s;itting up,</L>
<L>When the gay triumph cea&s;es, and the trea&s;ure</L>
<L>Divided, all the Offices laid up,</L>
<L>And the new cloathes in Lavender, what then?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why then the man that ki&s;t his highne&s;s hand</L>
<L>O'r night, may ju&s;tle him for the wall next morning,</L>
<L>And have it too; if he come off with all</L>
<L>His wits, the Play is paid for, and he fit</L>
<L>For travell.</L>
<STAGE>Enter Contarini, Antonio, Vergerio, they whi&s;per.</STAGE>
<L>My Ladies Uncle, and the Lord <HI>Contarini.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lord <HI>Contarini</HI> expects when he</L>
<L>May have the happine&s;s to pre&s;ent his &s;ervice</L>
<PB N="14" REF="13">
<L>To your great Lady.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>We &s;hall Sir acquaint her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Office Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Her Steward.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yours I pray?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mine, Trea&s;urer.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mine, Controller.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>I ki&s;s your hands; this may be worth my Lord</L>
<L>Curio&s;ity.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>For the mirths &s;ake, my Lord be pleas'd, you ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Do an act of Charity and re&s;tore her Sen&s;es;</L>
<L>I'l wait on you again.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now <HI>Vergerio?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>The expectation is increas'd, her Officers</L>
<L>Ob&s;erve the State; were your affections earne&s;t</L>
<L>And I my Lord your Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e, I &s;hould tru&s;t</L>
<L>Her pride.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Unle&s;s &s;he ravi&s;h me.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Antonio.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>She's upon entrance, her madne&s;s holds,</L>
<L>Your confidence may convert her, &s;hees my Neece</L>
<L>And I am &s;orry for it.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Paulina attended in State, Angellina, Ladies.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Give him acce&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>What Ladies that &s;tands on her right hand?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Her younger Si&s;ter, that does vex me as much</L>
<L>With her humility, as the other with</L>
<L>Her impudence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>An excellent peece, <HI>Vergerio.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Which my Lord?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam, the glory of your time and Nation,</L>
<L>Who&s;e looks do &s;hine with Maje&s;ty, and &s;hoot</L>
<L>A flame t' undoe the admirer, O call in</L>
<L>Some beams that wait upon the thrones of light,</L>
<L>Or I &s;hall fall your &s;acrifice, and not fini&s;h</L>
<PB N="15" REF="13">
<L>What my great Ma&s;ter gave me in charge.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Has the Prince a mind to her him&s;elf.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis not impo&s;&s;ible.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speak on my Lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Gip&s;ey, &s;he does believe the lightning <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> her eys</L>
<L>Will bla&s;t indeed, how &s;cornfully &s;he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>I come from the great Sovereign of hearts,</L>
<L>Who&s;e glorious monarchy uncircum&s;crib'd,</L>
<L>Extends to all the habitable world,</L>
<L>Where ever land or lover &s;tretch'd his arm,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Scepter's not like that of common Kings,</L>
<L>But a bright golden &s;haft feather'd with &s;ighs,</L>
<L>And headed with a flame, which finds acce&s;s,</L>
<L>Like &s;ubtill lightning to the mo&s;t &s;ecure,</L>
<L>And &s;tubborn Cell that ever yet inclos'd</L>
<L>A humane thought&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>He flies high.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis his arrow&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speak this great name.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>The mo&s;t immortall Prince of Love&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>A high and mighty Prince indeed.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis not our Prince of <HI>Parma</HI> then?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Unto your beauty Madam, that makes &s;weet</L>
<L>The breath of Fame, in his name I am &s;ent</L>
<L>To offer up a Servant, rich with wonder,</L>
<L>And humble thoughts that honour you; who can</L>
<L>See tho&s;e perfections and not adore</L>
<L>The Divine Owner? Brightne&s;s that offends</L>
<L>The inhocent eye that gazes, is in you</L>
<L>The cure of blindne&s;s, and the filmes that hang</L>
<L>Upon the humble &s;ight, fall off and vani&s;h,</L>
<L>That it may take new life and light from you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is &s;he not yet ridiculous to her &s;elf?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>I can leave Cupids Court to live with you,</L>
<L>And all tho&s;e bowers, where an eternall &s;pring</L>
<L>Makes every flower in love with it's own beauty.</L>
<PB N="16" REF="14">
<L>The wind who&s;e airy wings convey all &s;weetne&s;s</L>
<L>That &s;en&s;e can entertain, I would exchange</L>
<L>But to be near your breath; and think there dwels</L>
<L>A harmony in your voice, above the airs</L>
<L>Of all tho&s;e charming Birds by love &s;elected</L>
<L>From every wood to be his quire. I fear</L>
<L>I am too bold, and may be thought to wander;</L>
<L>If Madam you accept my amorous vows,</L>
<L>Which live yet in the weak expre&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>Of him that honours you, time will produce</L>
<L>A white and fortunate hour to crown our loves</L>
<L>With nuptiall happine&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>You have relation</L>
<L>To the Court of <HI>Parma,</HI> your name Lord</L>
<L><HI>Contarini,</HI> you have no Me&s;&s;age from you Ma&s;ter?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam your &s;ame hath fild his Court, and he</L>
<L>Pre&s;ents by me his Princely wi&s;hes of</L>
<L>Your happine&s;s, and &s;hould he &s;ee your per&s;on,</L>
<L>Like mine, his heart I fear would melt into</L>
<L>A &s;tream of Love and Admiration.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, we accept in good part greeting from</L>
<L>The Prince, but you have no commi&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>To treat for him; the &s;ub&s;tance of your own</L>
<L>Affair will ask our pau&s;e, we will take time</L>
<L>To an&s;wer, which till you receive, you may</L>
<L>Command our Court.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt Paulina, Servant</STAGE>
<STAGE>Angellina &s;tayes.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Proud folly!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>Prodigious impudence!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>What think you Signior?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am confounded, I'l to her agen.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><HI>Ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>When &s;hall I awake?</L>
<L>This &s;ure is but a dream, the Gentleman</L>
<L>Cannot &s;o much mi&s;take his time and Language.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>I came with Curio&s;ity to &s;ee</L>
<L>Her pride &s;o talk'd of, but my heart I feel</L>
<PB N="17" REF="14">
<L>Is taken with an object of true &s;weetne&s;s.</L>
<L>Is't not a lovely figure? &s;ay <HI>Vergerio.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>If but her mind an&s;wer that fair proportion,</L>
<L>My Lord &s;he is worth love, but being Si&s;ter</L>
<L>To a woman of &s;uch pride&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>I prethee leave me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>She is very beautifull; my Lord is taken.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Lady, but that ther's &s;tory for your births,</L>
<L>I &s;hould make judgment by your mode&s;t face,</L>
<L>This arrogant woman could not be your Si&s;ter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, if your expectation be not an&s;wered</L>
<L>With her full worth, I &s;hall be&s;eech you name her</L>
<L>With le&s;s di&s;grace, (our bloud &s;o neer) it cannot</L>
<L>Be gratefull to my ear, to hear her blemi&s;hes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>I was prepar'd before to meet this goodne&s;s;</L>
<L>The&s;e words and looks become that innocent &s;pring</L>
<L>From whence they flow, vertue hath &s;uch an army</L>
<L>About your heart, ther's nothing can approach</L>
<L>Ill to betray it, or proceed from you</L>
<L>But warranted by honour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not,</L>
<L>But &s;ure my Lord, you talk too fine a language</L>
<L>For me to under&s;tand; we are far from Court,</L>
<L>Where though you may &s;peak Truth, you cloath it with</L>
<L>Such trim and gay apparell, we that only</L>
<L>Know her in plainne&s;s, and &s;implicity,</L>
<L>Cannot tell how to tru&s;t our ears, or know,</L>
<L>When men di&s;&s;emble.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>By your own love</L>
<L>To truth, you mu&s;t beleeve me, when I &s;ay,</L>
<L>Although it took beginning from this vi&s;it,</L>
<L>I love no beauty but your &s;elf.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;aid you lov'd my Si&s;ter, and expre&s;t</L>
<L>Your pa&s;&s;ion in &s;uch mighty phra&s;e and fancie</L>
<L>I thought your &s;oul had made a bu&s;ine&s;s on't,</L>
<L>Pardon the weakne&s;s of my faith if I</L>
<PB N="18" REF="15">
<L>Dare not believe this change.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Si&s;ter, Lady,</L>
<L>I came to vi&s;it, not affect, I heard,</L>
<L>And had a purpo&s;e but to try how neer</L>
<L>The wonder of her pride (pardon &s;weet Virgin)</L>
<L>Came to a truth, nor did I Court her with</L>
<L>The language of a meaning lover; but</L>
<L>Prepared by your Vncle, meant to make her &s;ee</L>
<L>Her mi&s;erable folly; I dare not</L>
<L>Pre&s;ent &s;uch Mockeries to you; &s;u&s;pect not</L>
<L>This ha&s;ty addre&s;s; by your fair &s;elf, I love you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lord, If I beleev'd this, reall Court&s;hip,</L>
<L>I &s;hould not entertain your honour with a</L>
<L>A fruitle&s;s Expectation, but declare,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides my want of fortune, beauty, birth,</L>
<L>To make me worth your love, I am already</L>
<L>Contracted by my Father to Religion,</L>
<L>Who&s;e will I cheerfully obey, and wait</L>
<L>When my good Uncle will di&s;po&s;e me to</L>
<L>A Nunnery.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Nunnery?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where for</L>
<L>So great an honour you pretend to me</L>
<L>A mo&s;t unworthy maid, I'l offer up</L>
<L>My prayers, that you may choo&s;e a heart more equall</L>
<L>To your own love, and greatne&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Antonio, Paulina, and Servants.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay you mu&s;t</L>
<L>Not leave me &s;o, we are interrupted, you</L>
<L>May tru&s;t me fair one with a neerer Conference.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas poor old man.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Old man before your borrowed Ladi&s;hip</L>
<L>Is bold to keep his head warm, and to tell you</L>
<L>You are a Puppet, take that to your title;</L>
<L>Of honour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>So Sir, none re&s;train his in&s;olence?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="19" REF="15">
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l make him &s;wallow down his &s;taff of Office</L>
<L>That &s;tirs. I ha'not done. Can&s;t be &s;o impudent</L>
<L>To think his Lord&s;hip does not laugh at thee?</L>
<L>Your eys the thrones of light? a brace of Lanthorns,</L>
<L>In which two &s;nufs of Candle clo&s;e to th'&s;ocket,</L>
<L>Appear like fire-drakes, and will &s;erve to light</L>
<L>A traveller into a Ditch. You Madam Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>And the glory of a Nation?</L>
<L>Tho'art a di&s;ea&s;e to Honour, Mode&s;ty,</L>
<L>A Feaver in thy Fathers bloud, a Gangren</L>
<L>Upon his name, a Pox upon thee for't;</L>
<L>Ther's one di&s;ea&s;e more, yet I have not done.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Charity may invite, if the&s;e fits hold,</L>
<L>Some clo&s;e provi&s;ion for you 'mong mad men;</L>
<L>I do command you leave my hou&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>I wo'not,</L>
<L>I'l fire the hou&s;e; do&s;t hear? thou wo't burn well,</L>
<L>Th'a&s;t Oil enough about thy face, and all</L>
<L>Thy body Pitch, very combu&s;tible.</L>
<L>But I'l not be damn'd for thee, now I think on't,</L>
<L>And &s;ince no Coun&s;ell will prevail, I'l &s;ave</L>
<L>My &s;elf. Before I go, give but a rea&s;on</L>
<L>Why thou do&s;t &s;light this gallant Lord, and &s;quint</L>
<L>As if he were Groom or Foot man.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l tell you,</L>
<L>You would have the truth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>If thou can&s;t &s;peak any.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do e&s;teem my &s;elf</L>
<L>More equall for his Ma&s;ter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who, the Prince?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, the blind Prince of Love, you are wi&s;e Uncle,</L>
<L>But I am out of Poetry.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>I think I were be&s;t cut off thy head, and &s;ave</L>
<L>The Laws a labour&mdash;Ther's no talking to her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am of your mind Uncle, you may edifie</L>
<L>Your charge, my younger Si&s;ter, &s;he's not proud,</L>
<PB N="20" REF="16">
<L>Pray take her w'ee, &s;hee'l become the Cloi&s;ter;</L>
<L>Go, and be mortified together, take her,</L>
<L>I am weary of her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>And I of thee;</L>
<L>She &s;hall be further oft too, thou'lt infect her,</L>
<L>Although her fooli&s;h Father, (yet he was</L>
<L>My Brother) I have not power to &s;peak</L>
<L>Well o'th'dead, gave thee his whole E&s;tate,</L>
<L>I have a fortune, do&s;t thou hear? I have,</L>
<L>And to vex thee, thy Si&s;ter &s;hall have that,</L>
<L>I'l &s;ee, and I can make her proud, I'l do't;</L>
<L>She &s;hall have Servants, Suters, Fidlers, Flatterers,</L>
<L>Fine Cloathes, and all the food that can provoke</L>
<L>To glorifie her &s;en&s;e; I have bags to &s;pare,</L>
<L>She &s;hall not to a Nunnery to vex thee,</L>
<L>I &s;ay again &s;he &s;hall not, wee'l have humours;</L>
<L>The to'ther Pox upon thee, and farewell.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I fear he's mad indeed. Let me have Mu&s;ick,</L>
<L>This talk has made me Melancholy.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT III.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Enter Lucio, Piperollo.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>FOr thy Mothers &s;ake thou &s;halt be entertain'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>An under Butler would fit me rarely,</L>
<L>Ther's none i'th'hou&s;e that &s;hall be &s;ooner drunk,</L>
<L>Nor oftner for my Ladies credit Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Can you write?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>And read in print Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Art thou faithfull? may a man tru&s;t thee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>For more than I'l &s;peak on; tru&s;ted? I was boun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>For two Gentlemen lately, that could not take up</L>
<L>Five hundred Pi&s;tols upon other &s;ecurity,</L>
<PB N="21" REF="16">
<L>My Father and Mother knows it; I &s;hall never</L>
<L>Endure a theef for a thing that I know, alas</L>
<L>You know I am a neighbors child, my mother</L>
<L>Was your good Ladies nur&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do not I know thy Mother?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Better it may be, than I know my Father.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Till &s;ome Office fall i'th'hou&s;e, you &s;hall &s;erve me,</L>
<L>And ride with me, to receive my Ladies Rents.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Controller Giovanni.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mr. Steward, yonder are the rare&s;t fellows,</L>
<L>In &s;uch phanta&s;ticall habits too, they call</L>
<L>Them&s;elves Mathematicians.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>What do they come for?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>To offer their &s;ervice to my Lady, and tell fortunes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Have they no chief?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes a quaint philo&s;ophicall fellow, they call</L>
<L>Him a <HI>Caldean,</HI> a great Schollar, they do</L>
<L>Not come for money like your &s;tarch'd fac'd</L>
<L><HI>Egyptians,</HI> but carry things for the credit of</L>
<L>The Mathematiques honourably; my Lady hath</L>
<L>Given the <HI>Caldean</HI> her Nativity, who is to con&s;ult</L>
<L>With the Ephemerides, and give account how</L>
<L>The Stars wil dispo&s;e of her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>We &s;hall know all our fortunes then.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>The wor&s;t of his train can di&s;cipher hands,</L>
<L>Tell foreheads.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>And No&s;es.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>One at the fir&s;t &s;ight did but whi&s;per to my</L>
<L>Ladies Gentlewoman, and &s;he did &s;o blu&s;h</L>
<L>Through her Tiffany.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>That's no great matter, I have &s;een one blu&s;h</L>
<L>Through a Plai&s;ter of <HI>Paris.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>How's that?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>A kind of <HI>French</HI> painting Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>Well &s;aid <HI>Piperollo;</HI></L>
<L>I have entertain'd him; but my Lady.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><PB N="22" REF="17"><HI>Enter Paulina, Gentlewomen.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>The <HI>Caldean</HI></L>
<L>Plea&s;es me, I long to hear my fortune,</L>
<L>If it be good he &s;hall have a reward</L>
<L>To cheri&s;h his great Art, and worth my bounty;</L>
<L>What if my Stars &s;hould frown?</L>
<L>Did&s;t bid 'em follow?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ste.</SPEAKER>
<L>They are all ready Madam.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mu&s;icall knaves.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Longino, Rancone, Pacheco, Strozzo, in queint di&s;gui&s;es.</STAGE>
<LG>
<HEAD>A Song.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Beauty and the various grace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That adorn the &s;weete&s;t faces,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Here take their glorious throne; may be</HI></L>
<L><HI>That is the God of Archerie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Never aim one angry Dart,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;oft, and gentle as your heart,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Court it with flame, and rich perfume,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To light, and &s;weeten, not con&s;ume.</HI></L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not the <HI>Caldean</HI> come yet? my thoughts are</L>
<L>Inflam'd with fierce de&s;ire to know my De&s;tiny;</L>
<L>You have skill Gentlemen; but I'l expect</L>
<L>The judgment of your Ma&s;ter on my Fate;</L>
<L>When the great man of art returns acquaint me.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ste.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come my friends, lets lo&s;e no time; Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am for you to the extent of my Art Signiour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>If it plea&s;e you, let me peru&s;e your hand.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis at your &s;ervice.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Plea&s;e you to examine my Palm; can you</L>
<L>Tell me learned Sir, what is pa&s;t?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>You know that already.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Twill be a &s;atisfaction to me, if you can</L>
<L>Make it appear, that you know &s;omething</L>
<L>In that point.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Fracture in the Mercuriall line, and the</L>
<PB N="23" REF="17">
<L>Mount of <HI>Saturn</HI> ill characted I you are</L>
<STAGE>Strazzo picks</STAGE>
<L>Neer a misfortune Sir.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Stephani. pocket.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Jupiters</HI> Mount is well form'd and colour'd</L>
<L>A Cro&s;s con&s;picuous, the Suns Mount well</L>
<L>Figur'd, and <HI>linea &s;olis,</HI> without any inter&s;ection,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Iudgment upon that Sir?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Antonio.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>More Anticks yet? What Nation have we here,</L>
<L>Fortune flingers!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sir.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall know yours immediately.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Her hou&s;e is open for the&s;e Mountebanks,</L>
<L>Cheaters, and Tumblers, that can foi&s;t and flatter</L>
<L>My Lady Gugaw; Every office open,</L>
<L>When Poor men that have worth and want an Alms,</L>
<L>May peri&s;h ere they pa&s;s the Porters lodge;</L>
<L>What are you Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>One of the Mathematicians noble Signior.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mathematicians? Mungrell,</L>
<L>How dur&s;t thou take that learned name upon thee?</L>
<L>You are one of tho&s;e knaves that &s;troul the Country,</L>
<L>And live by picking worms out of fools fingers.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>And &s;omething out of your trunks, my reverend <HI>Cato.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bu&s;ie the raskals are, how the rogues &s;tink?</L>
<L>I'l &s;end your Regiment a Quarter-ma&s;ter.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now to my other game&s;ter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>You have been&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>What Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>In your ear&mdash;a theef.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>He has a Devil; good Sir not too loud.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>And you &s;hall be&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hang'd I warrant you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let me &s;ee tother hand.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Shall it &s;cape with burning?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall be a Lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hum, yes, a Lord infallibly.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="24" REF="18">
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall be a Knight Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of the theeves Order, and wear my rich</L>
<L>Collar of hemp; is't not &s;o?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>An honourable Knight, upon my word.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Lord&mdash; Pray give your opinion.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>To Longino.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your hand&mdash; you &s;hall be a right wor&s;hipfull&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>One of your tribe told me I &s;hould be a Lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>And &s;hall be us'd accordingly, Lords are tran&s;itory.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><HI>Strozzo picks Luc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oes pocket.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let me &s;ee tother hand. I marry Sir, this line</L>
<L>Cleeres the doubt, and markes you right</L>
<L>Honourable, which makes up the tother half</L>
<L>Of your fortune Signior, the&s;e two parallell lines</L>
<L>From the dexter angle to be the Mount of <HI>Sol,</HI></L>
<L>Has made all plain, you mu&s;t be a Lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>He has given you a very good rea&s;on Sir,</L>
<L>A man can have but half his fortune in one</L>
<L>Hand, and two right wor&s;hipfulls makes up</L>
<L>One right honourable; the&s;e are rare fellowes,</L>
<L>I am prede&s;tinate to be a Knight,</L>
<L>The Stars may do their plea&s;ure, I obey.</L>
<L>This &s;hould be the <HI>Caldean.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Frapolo, Castruchio he whi&s;pers to the re&s;t.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have narrowly ob&s;erved the Ca&s;tle, and</L>
<L>Where the trea&s;ure lies, I know my Lady</L>
<L>In honour will entertain us this night, and</L>
<L>When they are a&s;leep wee'l take our opportunity</L>
<L>To rifle her Exchequer, boyes, mean time</L>
<L>Let me alone to humour her proud Nature;</L>
<L>I will &s;o claw her ambition.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>In the interim, I'l put a que&s;tion to</L>
<L>His A&s;trology. Sir, If you plea&s;e till my Lady</L>
<L>Return to &s;atisfie her Seward, and oblige him</L>
<L>By your Art, one of your under Mathematicks</L>
<L>Has given me a Comfortable De&s;tinie.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your hand. When were you born?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="25" REF="18">
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ran.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Lord&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>R. whi&s;pers</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>No Matter, <HI>Venus</HI> in the A&s;cendent with</L>
<L><HI>Sol,</HI> being Lady of your &s;eventh; hum, hum,</L>
<L>With <HI>Iupiter,</HI> de&s;ignes you to be a Lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>They all agree; the miracle of learning!</L>
<L>One que&s;tion more I be&s;eeth you Sir, I</L>
<L>Am to ride with my Man to receive my Ladies</L>
<L>Rent to morrow through the Forre&s;t&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Go to.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now I de&s;ire to know, whether we &s;hall be</L>
<L>Rob'd in our return or no?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>What time do you think preci&s;ely to come</L>
<L>Back Sir, for we &s;hould know the very minute.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Money is ready Sir, and we do purpo&s;e,</L>
<L>In your ear&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, you &s;hall be rob'd, ther's nothing in</L>
<L>Nature to prevent it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Will they kill us, and plea&s;e you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, they &s;hall not kill you, they &s;hall only</L>
<L>Take your money, and break your pate, that</L>
<L>Will be all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why let 'em rob us Sir, the lo&s;s of our Money</L>
<L>Will be an evidence of our preferment, and you</L>
<L>May have more a&s;&s;urance to be a Lord, and</L>
<L>I of my Knighthood&mdash; My Lady Sir.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Paulina.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam, the Stars &s;hine with their full beams</L>
<L>Upon you, Who by me their interpreter, &s;alute</L>
<L>You with a glorious fortune: For <HI>Leo's</HI> Lord of your</L>
<L>Horo&s;cope in the right angle of heaven, and a royall</L>
<L>Fixt Sar calld <HI>Regulus,</HI> or the Lions hart, culminating</L>
<L>With him, and a naturall reception between <HI>Mars,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Sol</HI> Lord of the tenth, being in the fir&s;t with</L>
<L><HI>Mercury</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> in the hou&s;e of honour, be&s;ides</L>
<L>A Conjunction of <HI>Iupiter</HI> and <HI>Luna</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> in</L>
<L>The hou&s;e of Mariage. I mu&s;t give Iudgment.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="26" REF="19">
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hall be&s;eech your cleerer language.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall be Married to a Prince, it is inevitable.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Prince?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>May not I come to be a Lord then?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>And I a Knight?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>When &s;hall I &s;ee him?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>He &s;hall within few days vi&s;it your Ca&s;tle,</L>
<L>Drawn hither with the fame of your per&s;on,</L>
<L>And bravery. I need not in&s;truct you to entertain</L>
<L>Him with State and Ceremony becoming his</L>
<L>Excellence, but if he Court you not into his arms,</L>
<L>I will renounce the Stars, and &s;ay there is no</L>
<L>Truth in A&s;trology.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>How my thoughts &s;wel already.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>She has &s;wallowe'd it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Give him five hundred Pi&s;tolets.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do not wrong &s;o much</L>
<L>One that does honour you; as I bribe not</L>
<L>The Stars to tell me their Decrees, I dare not</L>
<L>For money &s;ell their Secrets, and if any</L>
<L>That have relation to me pre&s;ume</L>
<L>To take a <HI>Iulio</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>By no means Madam&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I like it that no Mercenary ends</L>
<L>Guide 'em to flatter me.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><HI>A Drum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ar off.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is not that a March?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>If it entrench not too far upon your art,</L>
<L>This Prince, Sir, has a Name.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>And rules this Province,</L>
<L><HI>Ferne&s;e</HI> is a Bachelour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Prince of <HI>Parma?</HI></L>
<L>My bloud refines in every vein already,</L>
<L>Dull heavy Souls that are content to drudge</L>
<L>In humble thoughts.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Longino and whi&s;pers to Frapolo.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>I Fear we are betraid;</L>
<PB N="27" REF="19">
<L>The Countries up and marching to the Ca&s;tle,</L>
<L>We may be all &s;urpriz'd let us to, hor&s;e&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Deny not, Sir, this night an entertainment,</L>
<L>Such as my Ca&s;tle yields, it &s;ha'not &s;pread</L>
<L>To receive gue&s;ts more welcome.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Drum Madam.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mu&s;t we not &s;tay and rob the hou&s;e to night?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Er.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam, my art foretells I cannot be</L>
<L>Safe to remain here, at my return</L>
<L>I wo'not baulk your Ca&s;tle, i'th' mean time</L>
<L>Cheri&s;h high thoughts, your Stars do call you Prince&s;s,</L>
<L>So ki&s;&s;ing your fair hand&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Make me not &s;o unhappy.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>There is no di&s;pute with De&s;tinie,</L>
<L>I take my humble leave, away to hor&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>This more amazeth me, what danger &s;hould</L>
<L>Provoke this ha&s;t, if it prove their concernment,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t believe they do conver&s;e with Fate,</L>
<L>And tru&s;t to them as Oracles; a Prince&s;s?</L>
<L>Was not my Soul Propheticall?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Lucio.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam, &s;ome accident hath rais'd your tenants,</L>
<L>They march in fury this way, in &s;trange po&s;tures</L>
<L>And Arms, as if they came to &s;torm the Ca&s;tle.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Piperelle.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam, we are all undone, the Clubs are up,</L>
<L>Your Tenants are turn'd Rebels, and by this time</L>
<L>Entred the Hall; and threaten to &s;urprize</L>
<L>I know not whom; But the <HI>Caldean,</HI> and</L>
<L>His troop are vani&s;h'd, they fore&s;aw this tempe&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;hould this mean?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Countrymen armed.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>Come on you men of lu&s;ty <HI>Chine,</HI> Dear Lady</L>
<L>Be not affrighted, Captain of thy Guard</L>
<L>Am I, thy naturall Tenant, and thy Va&s;&s;all;</L>
<L>Where be the&s;e Sunburnt <HI>Aethiopians?</HI></L>
<PB N="28" REF="20">
<L>I wo'not leave one Canting Rogue alive.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>What <HI>Aethiopians,</HI> what Canting Rogues?</L>
<L>Do not your Cloun&s;hips know me?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>Know our Prince&s;s?</L>
<L>We honour thee, and ri&s;e in thy defence;</L>
<L>Where be the&s;e theeves? we heard there were</L>
<L>A Regiment, that came to Cheat and Plunder.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Y'are a Knot</L>
<L>Of knaves and fools, and &s;hall repent this in&s;olence;</L>
<L>You that command in chief, good Captain <HI>Bumbard,</HI></L>
<L>May teach your Raggamuffins face about,</L>
<L>Was it your &s;tratagem to fright my gue&s;ts?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Uncle told us Madam, and commanded.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Was it his plot? he's &s;till my enemy.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>Pard on us Madam,</L>
<L>We came &s;imply hither to do you &s;ervice;</L>
<L>Kneel, or we &s;hall all be &s;tript out of our Tenements.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Uncle has abus'd you,</L>
<L>But this &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion takes our anger off,</L>
<L>Continue dutifull to my Commands,</L>
<L>And you &s;hall be remembred; <HI>Piperollo&mdash;</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know the Buttery Madam; follow me,</L>
<L>It is my Ladies plea&s;ure you be drunk,</L>
<L>And thank her grace ye keep your Copiholds;</L>
<L>Dee you bring up the rear, I'l march in front.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Antonio, Contarini.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pa&s;&s;ion O'me, it is to great an honour,</L>
<L>Refu&s;e a man of your high bloud and name,</L>
<L>That Courts her honourably? I could beat her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis not impo&s;&s;ible at my return</L>
<L>To find a change. I mu&s;t to Court agen.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>The hor&s;es my Lord are ready.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Vergerio&mdash;</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>What a Baggage 'tis, &s;hees all for the Nunnery,</L>
<L>She &s;ha not have her will, I'l undo my &s;elf</L>
<L>But I'l de&s;troy this Mode&s;ty; if I could</L>
<PB N="29" REF="20">
<L>But make her proud there were &s;ome hope on her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lord you may command, but how unfit,</L>
<L>I am to manage this affair.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thou ha&s;t a powerfull Language, it prevail'd</L>
<L>On me when I fir&s;t &s;aw thee, &s;ince which time</L>
<L>I have not de&s;erv'd unkindly from thee, and</L>
<L>This tru&s;t &s;peaks more than Common favour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Make me his advocate to <HI>Angellina?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lord, if you can &s;till pre&s;erve the&s;e thoughts</L>
<L>Of honour to us, leave her to my Coun&s;ell.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t cheerfully, I am not de&s;perate;</L>
<L>This Gentleman I'l leave to wait upon her,</L>
<L>Who is privy to my Coun&s;ells, and affection.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Lord&s;hip hath found tru&s;t in him, but that</L>
<L>Sha'not excu&s;e my care, to make her know</L>
<L>Her happine&s;s, and the Honour of our Family,</L>
<L>By meeting your commands. She's here.</L>
<STAGE>Enter Angellina, France&s;cina.</STAGE>
<L><HI>France&s;cina</HI> tell me, what hope of your Mi&s;tre&s;s?</L>
<L>How does thy Coun&s;ell work? does &s;he pray le&s;s</L>
<L>Then &s;he was wont? or li&s;ten now and then</L>
<L>When thou talk'&s;t wantonly, does &s;he &s;mile upon't?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Between our &s;elves, I put her to a &s;miling</L>
<L>Blu&s;h.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;aid &s;he, tell me on thy mode&s;ty,</L>
<L>When &s;he found her dear delight, the legend</L>
<L>Of the Saints remov'd, and <HI>Ovids</HI> tales of</L>
<L><HI>Jupiter</HI> put in the place?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>She &s;aid, that <HI>Iupiter</HI></L>
<L>Was a mo&s;t &s;en&s;uall Heretick, and the ce&s;tus</L>
<L>That <HI>Venus</HI> wore was not St. <HI>Francis</HI> girdle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>How did &s;he like the picture of <HI>Leander,</HI></L>
<L>Swimming the <HI>Helle&s;pont</HI> upon his back?</L>
<L>How that of <HI>Cleopatra</HI> ki&s;&s;ing <HI>Antony?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>She Says that Queen was none of the poor Clares,</L>
<PB N="30" REF="21">
<L>But one bread up in black <HI>Aegyptian</HI> Darkne&s;s;</L>
<L>All I can &s;ay, &s;he is not de&s;perate,</L>
<L>I &s;ing no Anthems to her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;ays &s;he to her dancing Ma&s;ter?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>She is pa&s;t her honor; that's a precious fellow,</L>
<L>She'l laugh to &s;ee him gamboll with his limbs,</L>
<L>His head flies like a Ball about the room,</L>
<L>You'd think he were at Tennis with it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Though in the guilt and knowledge of my own</L>
<L>Defects, to an&s;wer &s;uch an honourable</L>
<L>E&s;teem of me, I dare not yet pre&s;ume</L>
<L>To meet it; I &s;hall want no pious thoughts</L>
<L>For this &s;o great a bounty to a poor</L>
<L>De&s;ertle&s;&s;e Virgin.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hang your pious thoughts</L>
<L>And love my Lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not for the wealth of <HI>Parma</HI></L>
<L>Should my Cau&s;e force one cloud upon her face</L>
<L>Or put her eys to the expence of tears,</L>
<L>It &s;hall be argument for me to hope,</L>
<L>If &s;he accept this youth to wait upon her,</L>
<L>Who may in &s;ome au&s;picious hour, prepare me</L>
<L>A gentle &s;eat within her heart, mean time</L>
<L>I leave upon your Virgin lip the faith,</L>
<L>Of your true Servant Lady.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l attend you</L>
<L>To hor&s;e my Lord.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Poor mi&s;erable maid,</L>
<L>Faln now beneath the pity of thy &s;elf;</L>
<L>My heart, on which &s;o late a flame of Heaven</L>
<L>Stream'd comfort in my holy re&s;olutions,</L>
<L>Is fil'd with love, but not of <HI>Contarini,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e pa&s;&s;ion may de&s;erve anothers welcome.</L>
<L>I prethee <HI>France&s;cina</HI> take thy Lute</L>
<L>And let me hear thy voice.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I can &s;ing <HI>Venus</HI> and <HI>Adonis</HI> to you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="31" REF="21">
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Any thing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or will you hear the plea&s;ant Dity</L>
<L>How fair <HI>Cali&s;to</HI> fir&s;t became a Nunne.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>I prethee do not name a Nun, the flame</L>
<L>That I feel here de&s;erves no Ve&s;tall name.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l do my be&s;t to fit you,</L>
<L>Ther's no &s;uch tool in nature as a Chambermaid</L>
<L>To work upon her Mi&s;tre&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT IIII.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Enter Frapolo, Longino, Strozzo, Pacheco, with the re&s;t.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>IT was a fatall bu&s;ine&s;s to lo&s;e &s;uch</L>
<L>An opportunity.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lady was wound up &s;o rarely.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>We were betraid for certain; 'twas high</L>
<L>Time to &s;cud, and get into our Territories;</L>
<L>Now we are &s;afe in our Grots, &s;ecure as</L>
<L>The <HI>Minotaur,</HI> and keep the clew of our</L>
<L>Own Labyrinths.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>We lo&s;t a rare de&s;ign, but in my opinion,</L>
<L>Tis better &s;couting here with our heads on,</L>
<L>Than have 'em carryed in by Clowns at the Court rate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>The ignorant Rogues would nere ha '&s;old</L>
<L>Them to their worth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>And they dare as &s;oon venter upon Hell,</L>
<L>As Shoot their heads into this Furnace.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>But this <HI>Claridiana</HI> &s;ha'not &s;cape &s;o,</L>
<L>I am re&s;olv'd to vi&s;it her again, and I am</L>
<L>Glad I prepar'd another expectation, the&s;e</L>
<L>Difficulties &s;hall make our next attempt</L>
<L>More glorious.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="32" REF="22">
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tho&s;e &s;hapes will conjure up the Bores again.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>She does expect the <HI>Caldean.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hang the <HI>Caldean.</HI> I have a new device</L>
<L>Shall &s;coure the Ca&s;tle, and make Dame</L>
<L><HI>Guinever</HI> with all her pride, thank and adore</L>
<L>The invention.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>How dear <HI>Frapolo?</HI> how?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Whooting within.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Scout and di&s;cover, <HI>Strozzo.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;ee but two men coming down the Hill.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Cannot their wor&s;hips travell with le&s;s noi&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>They dur&s;t not be &s;o confident without a number,</L>
<L>'Tis good to be &s;ecure, the noi&s;e approaches,</L>
<L>Lets to our &s;hells.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do you lie perdue &s;till.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>They retire.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do not like their confidence, the&s;e may be</L>
<L>The enemies &s;couts, lets non engage to &s;oon</L>
<L>For fear of a re&s;erve. The State has threatned</L>
<L>To &s;end their Vermin forth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ob&s;cure: clo&s;e, clo&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Lucio, Piperollo.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>What do&s;t thou mean?</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t a mind to be rob'd indeed.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I would have art maintain'd in reputation,</L>
<L>You know my Lady is to be a Prince&s;s,</L>
<L>And you mu&s;t be a Lord, and I be dubbed,</L>
<L>But if we be not rob'd, I know not how</L>
<L>To tru&s;t the Mathematicks or the Stars;</L>
<L>I am afraid all the <HI>Bandits</HI> are hang'd,</L>
<L>A thou&s;and Pi&s;tols &s;hould not fear to travell.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu</SPEAKER>
<L>It is not wi&s;dom to proclaim our charge,</L>
<L>Though I could be content to be a Lord,</L>
<L>I am not over hearty, theeves are theeves,</L>
<L>And life is precious, prethee lets make ha&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Illo ho ho,</L>
<L>Think upon your honour, are there no Gentlemen?</L>
<L>No wanting Gentlemen that know how to &s;pend</L>
<PB N="33" REF="22">
<L>A quantity of Gold?</L>
<L>There is no thief in Nature.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Gentleman</L>
<L>Is very merry, they that mean well, and</L>
<L>Have their wits about 'em, do not u&s;e</L>
<L>To call upon our Tribe. This is a plot,</L>
<L>A very plot, and yet the Coa&s;t is cleer,</L>
<L>Now I may reach their voice.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>It wo'not be, was ever men di&s;tre&s;t &s;o?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come we are well yet <HI>Piperollo,</HI> if</L>
<L>The Stars Decree our robbery, it will follow.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I pray Sir lets &s;it down here, as you hope to</L>
<L>Be a Lord, we mu&s;t do our endeavour and help</L>
<L>The Fates. Do but hear rea&s;on Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis my proud Madams Steward, and our quondam</L>
<L>Fellow thief; they were told their fortunes</L>
<L>To be rob'd; Here had been a purcha&s;e lo&s;t</L>
<L>If I had not lain perdue. You &s;hall be</L>
<L>Di&s;patcht pre&s;ently, never fear it.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>He Whi&s;tles.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu</SPEAKER>
<L>What's that? I do not like that tune.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hum, I am not in love with that Quailpipe.</L>
<L>I could dwindle, but that I have a &s;trong</L>
<L>Faith in the Mathematicks. Theeves and be</L>
<L>Thy Will.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>If they &s;hould cut our throats now&mdash;this is</L>
<L>Your folly; would I were off.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Would I were a Knight in an embroidered</L>
<L>Di&s;h clout. Have a good heart Sir, ther's</L>
<L>No more to be &s;aid in't, let the Stars take</L>
<L>Their cour&s;e, 'tis my Ladies money&mdash;and if</L>
<L>We be rob'd, we are &s;o much the neerer to preferment.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Frapolo and the re&s;t.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ah &s;weet Gentlemen take but the Money&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis ready told; nay, nay, we are friends;</L>
<L>Give us but a Mote under your hands for</L>
<L>My Ladies &s;atisfaction, that you have received</L>
<L>It Gentlemen.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="34" REF="23">
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>You need not trouble your &s;elves to tell it Gentle|men,</L>
<L>It is all right.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>So, &s;o, wee'l take your words.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hould know that vizard, the garments</L>
<L>That you wear too I have &s;een Old acquaintance?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Does he know you? cut his throat.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>No Sir, I do not know him, nor any man, nor</L>
<L>My &s;elf, I was not once rob'd before, neither</L>
<L>Did I help any man to rob my own Father and Mother;</L>
<L>I knew no Cedar che&s;t I, I di&s;claim it, nor</L>
<L>Was any man that I know left bound for the</L>
<L>Money; ye are all hone&s;t Gentlemen,</L>
<L>And I congratulate our good fortune, that you</L>
<L>Came &s;o luckily in the very nick, we had carried</L>
<L>Home the money el&s;e in good &s;adne&s;s&mdash; Sir,</L>
<L>We are made for ever&mdash;rare Mathematicians!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's that you talk &s;irra of Mathematicians?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>It plea&s;ed &s;ome of the learned tribe to vi&s;it</L>
<L>My Lady not long &s;ince, but they are well I</L>
<L>Hope, they told us we &s;hould be rob'd, and</L>
<L>'Tis done; ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Caldean!</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>What became on 'em?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>They &s;cap'd a &s;couring, for my Ladies Cinicall</L>
<L>Uncle, in meer malice to learning, rais'd</L>
<L>The Towns upon em, per&s;wading the hobbinolls</L>
<L>They came to rob the hou&s;e; but honored</L>
<L>Be the Stars, they brought 'em off at the</L>
<L>Back gate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>They &s;eem hone&s;t fellows, let 'em live, and Pa&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>We humbly thank you Gentlemen, come <HI>Piperollo.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>And yet, now I remember, there wants a</L>
<L>Circum&s;tance, my pate is not broke yet,</L>
<L>That was a Clau&s;e the <HI>Caldean</HI> was a little</L>
<L>Out.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="35" REF="23">
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I had forgot, will you be prating &s;irra?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Fr. breaks his head.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now tis done, I thank you, dear Gentlemen,</L>
<L>I thank you, go forth and be a Knight;</L>
<L>Mathematician I adore thee, it bleeds;</L>
<L>Where are you Sir? all is compleat, and my</L>
<L>Head is broke according to prophecie. Oh</L>
<L>Admirable <HI>Caldean!</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>We have not lo&s;t all my Ladies money, but</L>
<L>To your plot <HI>Frapolo.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>This hath ripend it, and I appear a</L>
<L>Blazing Star already.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's the my&s;tery?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>You know I am your Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis Acknowledged.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>We will in State vi&s;it the proud <HI>Paulina,</HI></L>
<L>I am the Prince <HI>Farne&s;e,</HI> and you</L>
<L>Are all my Lords and privy Coun&s;ellors</L>
<L>Bear up for honour of your Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>I apprehend it, 'tis a mo&s;t rare de&s;ign,</L>
<L>She will be mad to meet it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Will you marry her?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I cannot tell, there may be a nece&s;&s;ity,</L>
<L>But when I ha' the wench, her Plate and Jewels,</L>
<L>And other &s;ums, I have ca&s;t already whither.</L>
<L>We mu&s;t tran&s;port our &s;elves&mdash;wee'l divide all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>And the wench too?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>No not the wench, untill I ca&s;t the Concubine;</L>
<L>Remember who I am, the choice of fle&s;h</L>
<L>Is my prerogative; no murmuring,</L>
<L>You &s;hall provide our Robes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now we are rogues to purpo&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am your Prince, and the wor&s;t theef</L>
<L>A States-mans.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><HI>Omnes</HI> A Prince, A Prince.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Angellina, and France&s;cina.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where is <HI>Vergerio?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="36" REF="24">
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not Madam.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam? I prethee leave that folly,</L>
<L>I am no Lady, call me <HI>Angellina.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l call you Madam, 'tis a name in fa&s;hion,</L>
<L>What do you want to ju&s;tifie that title?</L>
<L>Have you not Beauty, Jewels, Gold at plea&s;ure?</L>
<L>Fine Cloathes, high Food, and men as motley, as</L>
<L>The Amba&s;&s;adors to wait? does not your Uncle</L>
<L>Allow you all that can make up a Lady?</L>
<L>Pardon my boldne&s;s Madam, I be&s;eech you.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter two Gentlewomen.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>What are the&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Gentlewomen were commended, Madam,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t excellent in their Art about great Ladies;</L>
<L>And come to tender you their humble &s;ervice.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t proud if you accept our duties Madam.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Look you, they're proud already, they have no|thing</L>
<L>But their trade to live on; &s;he with the face</L>
<L>Spotted with <HI>Ermins,</HI> hath been late in <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>And knows the mode to a Mathematicall point,</L>
<L>She has the theory of Song, but lo&s;t</L>
<L>The practick part by &s;itting up a nights;</L>
<L>She danceth &s;till, can talk in &s;everall languages,</L>
<L>And has the art of every game, to in&s;truct</L>
<L>A novice Lady&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>To lo&s;e time.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>And what</L>
<L>Age, do you think the other Gentlewoman</L>
<L>Carries? that &s;impers &s;o? the miracle</L>
<L>Of Painting! &s;he pre&s;ents &s;carce five and twenty,</L>
<L>But if you credit Church Records, &s;he numbers</L>
<L>But five &s;hort of three&s;core, <HI>Medea</HI> had</L>
<L>No charmes like her, to pre&s;erve youth, and beauty;</L>
<L>She hath the art of making eys, new hair,</L>
<L>And Ivory teeth, hath skill in making fruitfull,</L>
<L>And is an excellent Midwife; &s;he hath cur'd</L>
<PB N="37" REF="24">
<L>A man that had no No&s;e, and a Court-Lady</L>
<L>That had no Tongue.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e are tran&s;cendent qualities;</L>
<L>Since tis my Uncles plea&s;ure, they may wait,</L>
<L>But not to &s;erve me.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>One knocks.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who's that knocks &s;o mode&s;tly?</L>
<L>'Tis not your Dancing-Ma&s;ter, nor the Doctor,</L>
<L>They have more confidence.</L>
<L>'Tis the Par&s;ons Nephew, come from the Univer&s;ity,</L>
<L>Some &s;ay a pretty Schollar, and a wit;</L>
<L>Hath an Ambition to ki&s;s your hand</L>
<L>And tender his fir&s;t fruits.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's that?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Some Poetry.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>By any means Madam, you mu&s;t be flatter'd,</L>
<L>Great Ladies cannot live els.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let him enter.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Schollar.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sch</SPEAKER>
<L>Darling of beauty, faire&s;t <HI>Angellina,</HI></L>
<L>Thus low the Mu&s;es bow, and &s;end by me</L>
<L>An ab&s;tract of your &s;elf; oh make the Paper</L>
<L>More white by ki&s;&s;ing your fair hand, and with</L>
<L>Your breath, like a &s;oft We&s;tern gale, perfume</L>
<L>The&s;e lines created in your prai&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's heer?&mdash; I am</L>
<L>A &s;tranger to you Sir, and to your language,</L>
<L>The&s;e words have no relation to me;</L>
<L>I pity men of your high fancy, &s;hould</L>
<L>Di&s;honour their own names, by forming &s;uch</L>
<L>Prodigious &s;hapes of beauty in our &s;ex.</L>
<L>If I were really what you would commend,</L>
<L>Mankind would flie me; get a Painter Sir,</L>
<L>And when he has wrought a woman by your fancy,</L>
<L>See if you know her again; were it not fine,</L>
<L>If you &s;hould &s;ee your Mi&s;tre&s;s without hair?</L>
<L>Dre&s;t only with tho&s;e glittering beams you talk of?</L>
<L>Two Suns in&s;tead of Eys, and they not melt</L>
<L>The forhead made of Snow; no Cheeks, but two</L>
<PB N="38" REF="25">
<L>Ro&s;es inoculated upon a Lillie?</L>
<L>Between, a pendent Alabla&s;ter No&s;e?</L>
<L>Her Lips cut out of Corall, and no Teeth,</L>
<L>But Strings of Pearl; Her Tongue a Nightingales;</L>
<L>Her chin a rump of Ivory; and &s;o forth?</L>
<L>Would not this &s;trange <HI>Chimera</HI> fright your &s;elf?</L>
<L>And yet you take the boldne&s;s to pre&s;ent us,</L>
<L>And think we mu&s;t applaud, and thank you for</L>
<L>Our &s;elves made Mon&s;ters by your art; no more</L>
<L>Of this for &s;hame; lo&s;e not your time and honour</L>
<L>In this fanta&s;tick Idoll; you will &s;ay,</L>
<L>The world is peevi&s;h, and not kind to virtue;</L>
<L>Give him ten Pi&s;tolets to cure his poverty,</L>
<L>There are good &s;eeds in him and they may</L>
<L>Grow with &s;ome Cheri&s;hing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sch.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are enough</L>
<L>To vindicate your Sex, I &s;hall not blu&s;h</L>
<L>To write your &s;tory.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall owe me Sir</L>
<L>An Anagram, and a Poe&s;y too for</L>
<L>My next Ring.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sch.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall command my faculty,</L>
<L>My deare&s;t <HI>Abigall</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thank you &s;weet Sir <HI>Roger.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter four Citizens.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>Is her Ladi&s;hip at lea&s;ure?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>What are the&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>2</SPEAKER>
<L>We are humble &s;utes Madam for your Favour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speak your reque&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>I am a Tailor Madam</L>
<L>That holds intelligence with forein Courts</L>
<L>To furni&s;h Ladies with new Fa&s;hions.</L>
<L>And I have patterns of the &s;trange&s;t &s;hapes</L>
<L>That ever Ladies long'd for.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>I believe it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>2</SPEAKER>
<L>I have the ambition to own the name</L>
<PB N="39" REF="25">
<L>Of your Perfumer Madam.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>3</SPEAKER>
<L>I your Jeweller;</L>
<L>What think you of that Carcanet &s;weet Madam?</L>
<L>The Pearls are Orient, I have a Diamond</L>
<L>The Sultan gave one of his Concubines,</L>
<L>It weighes &mdash;20 caracts, if it plea&s;e you Madam,</L>
<L>To wear it in the Court, and I'l attend</L>
<L>Your Ladi&s;hip &s;ix moneths hence to pay me for't;</L>
<L>I know your Uncle Madam.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is his plot.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>By all means take it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Excu&s;e me; what are you? &s;peak your de&s;ire.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>4</SPEAKER>
<L>I would pre&s;ent you Madam with a pair</L>
<L>Of curious Spurs.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>For what u&s;e prethee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>4</SPEAKER>
<L>For what you plea&s;e, I &s;ee all men of trade</L>
<L>Apply them&s;elves to gain relation to you,</L>
<L>And I would be your Spurrier.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do Ladies wear Spurs my friend?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>4</SPEAKER>
<L>They may in time, who knows what may be done,</L>
<L>If one great Lady would begin, they ride</L>
<L>Like men already; 'tis all one to me,</L>
<L>So I may have the Credit of your name,</L>
<L>And privilege to &s;well above my neighbors.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>When I &s;tand, Gentlemen, in need of your</L>
<L>Profe&s;&s;ions, I'l &s;end for you, i'th' mean time</L>
<L>You &s;hall need no Solicitour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Omnes.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Servants.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>4</SPEAKER>
<L>Buy a Spur.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>I prethee let me not be troubled with</L>
<L>This kind of People <HI>France&s;cina;</HI> Ladies</L>
<L>Have a fine time, if they be all thus vi&s;ited.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are rude and &s;awcy fellows to intrude</L>
<L>So far without my Ladies licence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>What makes thee &s;o impatient? will they not</L>
<L>Be gone?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="40" REF="26">
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Gone? here's a new regiment is pre&s;&s;ing forward</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>What are they?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Beggers.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>And tell me I abu&s;e your Charity,</L>
<L>To keep off their Petitions; we mu&s;t have</L>
<L>A Court-du-guard, I think, and Centries plac'd</L>
<L>At every dore.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>I prethee let 'em enter.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter three Petitioners.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>The room will not be &s;weet again this three days;</L>
<L>But if it be your plea&s;ure&mdash;know your di&s;tance.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>The blind, and lame, what's your condition Sir?</L>
<L>1 As mi&s;erable Madam as the Sea,</L>
<L>That &s;wallow'd all my wealth, can make a man,</L>
<L>That once commanded thou&s;ands, I blu&s;h to beg</L>
<L>But Nature too impatient of &s;terving</L>
<L>Compels me to this boldne&s;s, you may &s;oon</L>
<L>Peru&s;e my tragick &s;tory there.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Gives a Paper.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good old man!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>What is his lo&s;s to you?</L>
<L>2 My Petition too;</L>
<L>A poor blind man, that hath lo&s;t more by fire</L>
<L>Than his e&s;tate valued a thou&s;and times;</L>
<L>And 'tis but equall, fire &s;hould &s;poil my eys,</L>
<L>That ravi&s;h'd me of all, was precious to 'em,</L>
<L>A wife and pretty Children.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Burn'd?</L>
<L>2 All burn'd;</L>
<L>And what my eys cannot afford their memory</L>
<L>My poor heart weeps in bloud.</L>
<L>3 I am a Souldier</L>
<L>That in my Countries &s;ervice lo&s;t my limbs;</L>
<L>I've had more lead in bullets taken from me</L>
<L>Than would repair &s;ome Steeple.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ring the bells,</L>
<PB N="41" REF="26">
<L>That was a loud one!</L>
<L>3 I have given wounds have kil'd the lookers on</L>
<L>With horror of their gaping, and have march'd</L>
<L>Ten miles a day thus deep &mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>In dirt?</L>
<L>3 In blood.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Upon tho&s;e wooden leggs?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Poor &s;ouls! I pitty 'em, here hone&s;t men,</L>
<L>Divide this bag, and pray for my good Uncle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Omnes.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ble&s;&s;ings on you, Madam.</L>
<L>2. Equall divi&s;ion, come.</L>
<L>1. Stay, in the fir&s;t place, I brought you hither,</L>
<L>Therefore my part is mo&s;t con&s;iderable.</L>
<L>3. I'l have no Prerogative.</L>
<L>2. Nor I.</L>
<L>1. But I will.</L>
<L>Do not I know you both for cheating Ra&s;cals?</L>
<L>Thus are good meanings cozen'd, and you &s;ha'not</L>
<L>Lo&s;e your reward; &s;end for &s;ome Officers.</L>
<L>2, 3. We are betraid.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><HI>Ex.</HI> 2, 3.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Uncle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>They have found their eyes and leggs again,</L>
<L>Neece I ob&s;erve your Charity, but you &s;ee not</L>
<L>The in&s;ide of the&s;e things, and I did mean</L>
<L>And hope the&s;e &s;ums might &s;erve your &s;elf;</L>
<L>Some Ladies would have con&s;idered</L>
<L>A new Gown and trinkets; <HI>France&s;cina,</HI></L>
<L>I &s;ee little amendment, &s;he'l undo me</L>
<L>In pious u&s;es.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>She has entertain'd the&s;e Gentlewomen.</L>
<STAGE>Enter Vergerio.</STAGE>
<L>And that young Gentleman does good upon her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>I like it well, he's carefull of my Lord,</L>
<L>And if &s;he meet his honorable treaty,</L>
<L>She may learn Pride at Court, &s;hould our Art fail.</L>
<L>She &s;miles &mdash; I wo'not interrupt 'em.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><PB N="42" REF="27"><HI>Enter Giovanni.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gio.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lady entreats the pre&s;ence of her Si&s;ter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do's &s;he entreat? Yes, you may vi&s;it her</L>
<L>Sir if you plea&s;e, I'l tru&s;t her to your conduct.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis my ambition to attend her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hark you,</L>
<L>Remember who you are, and carry things</L>
<L>For the credit of my heir, and one that mu&s;t be</L>
<L>Right Honourable &s;hortly, if I hear</L>
<L>Thou flout'&s;t her, thou &s;ha't have another Gown</L>
<L>And Petticoat embroider'd, or but beat her</L>
<L>And put me to a pen&s;ion; fare you well,</L>
<L><HI>Frante&s;cina</HI> wait, wait all upon your Mi&s;tre&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Paulina.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>No news yet of the Prince? he fill'd my dreams</L>
<L>La&s;t night, it was a golden glorious &s;lumber;</L>
<L>Me-thought we both were led into a Temple,</L>
<L>Where all our rites of Mariage were perform'd</L>
<L>In the pre&s;ence of a thou&s;and Angel-<HI>Cupids.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Piperollo, and &s;tumbles.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Twas my devotion, Madam, to pre&s;ent you</L>
<L>The News, I could not break my neck upon</L>
<L>A better cau&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is the Prince come?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Prince is at your &s;ervice; though I &s;lipt</L>
<L>At Chamber door, it is my happine&s;s</L>
<L>To be the fir&s;t Me&s;&s;enger.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of what?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I de&s;ire no reward Madam, 'tis &s;ufficient</L>
<L>I know what will become of us all, you</L>
<L>Remember the <HI>Caldean;</HI> all has happen'd,</L>
<L>I thank A&s;trology.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>For what?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your money is gone, your rents have been recei|ved,</L>
<L>And my head broke to purpo&s;e; things are vi&s;ible.</L>
<STAGE><PB N="43" REF="27"><HI>Enter Lucio.</HI></STAGE>
<L>My Ma&s;ter can confirm it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's this prodigie?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madam 'tis done, we have been rob'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>As the <HI>Caldean</HI> and the Stars would have it,</L>
<L>Ju&s;t to a minute.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Rare Mathematician!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l hang you both,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>You may, and be no Prince&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Did he foretell this lo&s;s?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is my pate broken? Do I live, and hope</L>
<L>To kneel, and &s;ay, If plea&s;e your Grace, to call</L>
<L>Him Lord, and an&s;wer to a Knight? &mdash; we're made.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be at a di&s;tance,</L>
<L>If there be truth in the <HI>Caldeans</HI> Art,</L>
<L>The&s;e incon&s;iderable lo&s;&s;es are</L>
<L>A new pre&s;age of my approaching greatne&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><HI>Enter Stephanio, and Longino, di&s;guiz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>St.</SPEAKER>
<L>One from the Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>His Highne&s;s <HI>Farne&s;e,</HI> Madam, greets your</L>
<L>Ladi&s;hip, and int<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nds to be your Gue&s;t this night,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>It will be an honour</L>
<L>My life mu&s;t ow him duty for.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do not you feel a Lord&s;hip creep up</L>
<L>By your &s;hort ribs?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>His Grace is not far off.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pre&s;ent the humble duty of his handmaid,</L>
<L>And &s;ay my Ca&s;tle droops til it receive him;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hall Madam.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>We mu&s;t prepare to meet and entertain him;</L>
<L>All things have been Prophetical.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>My very good Lord.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Right Wor&s;hipfull <HI>Piperollo.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Vergerio, Angellina, Servants aloof.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>In my pity</L>
<PB N="44" REF="28">
<L>That &s;o much innocence &s;hould not be lo&s;t</L>
<L>On faithle&s;s <HI>Contarini,</HI> I have landed</L>
<L>Upon your knowledge this unhappy &s;ecret.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Promis'd his faith to another? twas ill done,</L>
<L>To work my Uncle, and de&s;troy my thoughts</L>
<L>Of a religious life.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ve.</SPEAKER>
<L>You may collect</L>
<L>Tho&s;e pure de&s;ires again,</L>
<L>Heaven will be &s;oon invited, and a &s;econd</L>
<L>Re&s;olve confirm that happine&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>May we not,</L>
<L>Without &s;o &s;trict for&s;aking of the world,</L>
<L>Be capable of ble&s;&s;ing, and meet heaven</L>
<L>At la&s;t, though erring Nature guide &s;ometime</L>
<L>Out of the neare&s;t way?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes <HI>Angellina.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>I mu&s;t be no Votary,</L>
<L>But when you turn a Fryer then.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>How Lady?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir you have merited for this di&s;covery</L>
<L>All that I am to &s;erve you, and unle&s;s</L>
<L>You help me in this Labyrinth, I mu&s;t</L>
<L>Live in de&s;pair of Freedom.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Any &s;ervice;</L>
<L>There's &s;o much &s;weetne&s;s in you, I could lay</L>
<L>My life a Sacrifice, be confident</L>
<L>I mu&s;t be left of heaven, when I for&s;ake you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>And I dare tru&s;t your Virtue with a &s;ecret</L>
<L>I have not told my Gho&s;tly Father.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not what opinion my Lord has</L>
<L>of his &s;mooth Advocate, but I &s;hould gather</L>
<L>By Symptomes of my Mi&s;tre&s;s, &s;he is &s;ick</L>
<L>Of the younger Gentleman.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>I dare not hope</L>
<L>This ble&s;&s;ing, 'tis an honour plac'd on me</L>
<L>That has no value, I am a &s;tranger,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are no &s;tranger here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="45" REF="28">
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Uncle too&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>May erre in his election.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>But his anger&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>My prayer and tears may &s;often.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do not dre&s;s</L>
<L>Your eys with &s;orrow <HI>Angellina,</HI> this</L>
<L>Too gracious an influence upon</L>
<L>Your &s;ervant mu&s;t command my utmo&s;t duty.</L>
<L>Upon this white hand I breath out my heart,</L>
<L>And when I pay affection to another</L>
<L>Mi&s;tre&s;s, in your revenge, her beauty bla&s;t me!</L>
<L>But we may be ob&s;erv'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be all my guide.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>This mu&s;t be manag'd wi&s;ely, we are lo&s;t els.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>We are now arriv'd the Ca&s;tle <HI>France&s;cina.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>We attend.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Prince Farne&s;e, Contarini.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;cur'd &s;ufficiently.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>My life on't.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here are great preparations, and the people</L>
<L>Flock as to &s;ee &s;ome triumph, this <HI>Paulina</HI></L>
<L>Will be ador'd i'th' Country.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>But her Si&s;ter,</L>
<L>With an extreme of &s;weetne&s;s and humility</L>
<L>Will take the wonder off, &s;he &s;o tran&s;cends.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your words fall from you,</L>
<L>I have ob&s;ervd my Lord, with too much pa&s;&s;ion;</L>
<L>She's but a woman, and may be no miracle,</L>
<L>When a clear eye is Judge.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir I owe</L>
<L>All that I am in fortune, name and greatne&s;s</L>
<L>Unto your per&s;on, next whom, give me leave</L>
<L>To &s;ay I rate no expectation</L>
<L>Equall to be her &s;ervant, yet I find</L>
<L>Her cold to tho&s;e de&s;ires, that court her with</L>
<L>All honour, I &s;hall humbly beg, your grace</L>
<PB N="46" REF="29">
<L>When you conver&s;e, will interpo&s;e your favour,</L>
<L>And by your Mediation perfect all</L>
<L>That can be nam'd my happine<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>You expre&s;s</L>
<L>A &s;trong Captivity in &s;o &s;mall acquaintance;</L>
<L>Well my Lord tru&s;t to me; is this her Ca&s;tle?</L>
<STAGE>Enter Piperollo.</STAGE>
<L>By your favour Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speak quickly whats your bu&s;ine&s;s?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is this <HI>Paulina's</HI> Ca&s;tle?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Plain <HI>Paulina?</HI> and is this her Ca&s;tle?</L>
<L>My friend you want &s;ome breeding, &s;he that owes</L>
<L>This Palace, for a Prince hath made it &s;o,</L>
<L>Is not far off; turn your eys backward Sir,</L>
<L>And tell your &s;elf without a per&s;pective</L>
<L>What man is coming towards us?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Worthy Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Put of your hats and hear his name, <HI>Farne&s;e</HI></L>
<L>The Prince of <HI>Parma's</HI> there, I ki&s;t his hand,</L>
<L>My breath is &s;ince the &s;weeter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Prince, where?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>You'l find him with my Lady whom he came</L>
<L>To vi&s;it, if you'l promi&s;e to be drunk,</L>
<L>Take what's a &s;ecret yet, he comes to marry her,</L>
<L>Or ther's no truth in Stars, &s;he is to be</L>
<L>His &s;pou&s;e; farewell, and thank my wor&s;hip heartily.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>This fellow's mad!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>He ki&s;t the Princes hand,</L>
<L>What my&s;tery is this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>See, they approach.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am not lo&s;t &s;ure in this cloud, they march</L>
<L>In State this way.</L>
<L><HI>Loud Mu&s;ick.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Frapolo, Paulina, a Train of Gallants and Ladies, Vergerin, Angellina.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>How, an Impo&s;tor?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="47" REF="29">
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sure I know the Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Conceal it yet.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>What Gentleman is that?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lon.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Prince of <HI>Parma</HI> Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con</SPEAKER>
<L>This will be worth ob&s;erving.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do we not both dream? that <HI>Paulina?</HI></L>
<L>How di&s;dainfully &s;he moves?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>That's her younger Si&s;ter upon whom</L>
<L><HI>Vergerio</HI> waits.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>He knows I am the Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>How do you like her Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ha? tis not fit to tell thee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Does &s;he not an&s;wer my Character?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>On my heart a fair one?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pray tell me how you like her Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not yet.</L>
<L>I am lo&s;t in wonder of her &s;weetne&s;s. Bid</L>
<L><HI>Vergerio</HI> bring her to <HI>Antonio's;</HI></L>
<L>I'l be his gue&s;t to night.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hall obey Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Make room for the Prince, fellows bear back;</L>
<L>You are not to be Knighted friend I take it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thus can the flame of Heaven with &s;ubtill art,</L>
<L>Leave the skin whole, yet quite con&s;ume the heart.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT V.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Enter Contarini, Antenio.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>MY Neece has had a pretty warm night on't,</L>
<L>'Tis a bold knave to take the Prince upon him</L>
<L>I did believe the noyes, and was con&s;idering</L>
<L>How to contrive my peace with her good grace.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="48" REF="30">
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>You have no fear to &s;uffer now?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thank</L>
<L>Your Lord&s;hip, that has made my hou&s;e and knowledge</L>
<L>So fortunate, by the pre&s;ence of our great</L>
<L><HI>Farne&s;e,</HI> 'tis an honour makes me young;</L>
<L>And yet this Ra&s;cal troubles me, that dur&s;t</L>
<L>Come in the Princes name, and charge my Neece</L>
<L>So home too; Is't not Trea&s;on Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of highe&s;t nature.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let him then ta&s;t the Law; yet I commend</L>
<L>His Spirit, that would &s;corn to die for Felonie,</L>
<L>And when his head goes off, the &s;hame and grief</L>
<L>May help to break her heart: I do not love her,</L>
<L>And then my Girl, my <HI>Angellina's</HI> heir,</L>
<L>And you her Lord and mine.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>My hopes are fair,</L>
<L>The Prince him&s;elf having vouch&s;af'd to be</L>
<L>My Advocate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>He mu&s;t command all here.</L>
<STAGE>Enter Farne&s;e, and Angellina.</STAGE>
<L>'Tis a good Prince, and loves you well, and let me</L>
<L>Without boa&s;t, tell you my Lord, &s;he brings</L>
<L>No common Blood, though we live dark i'th' Country</L>
<L>I can derive her from the great <HI>Ur&s;ini,</HI></L>
<L>But we have been eclips'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Contarint</HI> leave us. You may &s;tay <HI>Antonio;</HI></L>
<L>Is't not an honour to your Family</L>
<L>A Prince &s;hould court your Neece into his arms?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>I mu&s;t confe&s;s, 'tis good enough for &s;uch</L>
<L>A Baggage, they will make together Sir,</L>
<L>A mo&s;t excellent &s;hew upon the Scaffold.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Impo&s;tor, and <HI>Paulina's</HI> pride, takes off</L>
<L>Your under&s;tanding; I do court your Neece</L>
<L>Fair <HI>Angellina.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>How Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>And as becomes a Prince&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Grace is merry.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="49" REF="30">
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not, but there's Magick in her eyes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An:</SPEAKER>
<L>Magick? and &s;he be a Witch, I ha'done with her.</L>
<L>Does he love <HI>Angelina?</HI> Plea&s;e your Highne&s;s&mdash;</L>
<L>Do you affect this Girl?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Religiou&s;ly.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>And have you all your Princely wits about ye?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>This Language is but coar&s;e. I tell you Sir</L>
<L>The Virgin mu&s;t be mine.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Whore?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Prince&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>That's another matter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Shew your obedience,</L>
<L>You have commands upon her as a Father.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not what to &s;ay, but I'l per&s;wade;</L>
<L>Hark you Neece, you hear what the Prince &s;ays,</L>
<L>'Tis now no time to think of Nunneries.</L>
<L>Be rul'd then, and love &s;omebody; if you have</L>
<L>Promis'd my Lord, I &s;ay make good that promi&s;e,</L>
<L>If not, the Prince is worth con&s;idering.</L>
<L>The Gentleman will make you a round Iointure.</L>
<L>If thou bee&s;t free, love him, to vex thy Si&s;ter,</L>
<L>Who may upon &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion be receiv'd</L>
<L>To Grace, and ri&s;e in time a Madam Nur&s;e</L>
<L>To your heir apparent. I have done my duty.</L>
<L>But this is no great hone&s;ty, to cheat</L>
<L>My Lord. I &s;ee the greate&s;t men are fle&s;h</L>
<L>And blood, our &s;ouls are much upon a making;</L>
<L>All men that are in love deal with the Devil,</L>
<L>Only with this difference, he that dotes</L>
<L>Upon a Woman is ab&s;olutely po&s;&s;e&s;t;</L>
<L>And he that loves the lea&s;t is haunted</L>
<L>With a Familiar.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter a Servant</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ser.</SPEAKER>
<L>Old <HI>Fabio</HI> Sir your Tenant, with much bu&s;ine&s;s</L>
<L>Jn's face, de&s;ires to &s;peak with you, I could hardly</L>
<L>Keep him from pre&s;&s;ing in, his Wife he &s;ayes</L>
<L>Is Lunatick.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="50" REF="31">
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>We &s;hall all be mad &s;hortly,</L>
<L>Where is the Knave?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<L>I dare do Sir as much to &s;hew my duty</L>
<L>As any Maid alive; I dare dye for you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>And yet you dare not love.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not in that &s;en&s;e</L>
<L>You invite me to.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Court&s;hip carries</L>
<L>No &s;tain to fright you, what I have propounded</L>
<L>Is worth the Ambition of a greater Lady;</L>
<L>Though you profe&s;s &s;o liberally, I find</L>
<L>Your cunning, and becau&s;e I have &s;o much</L>
<L>De&s;cended from my Title, you a&s;&s;ume</L>
<L>This unbecomming Nicety, take heed,</L>
<L>I can be angry.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>As you are a Man</L>
<L>That pa&s;&s;ion may come neer you Sir; and as</L>
<L>You are my Prince, you may command my death</L>
<L>To follow and Appea&s;e it, but you &s;aid you lov'd me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>I doe, if you can wi&s;ely entertain it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Then you mu&s;t love my honor,</L>
<L>A Virgins wealth, for every hone&s;t Man</L>
<L>Or Woman has an honor, and that has</L>
<L>Engag'd my heart already by a Contract;</L>
<L>This tye di&s;&s;olv'd with ju&s;tice, I &s;hould kneel</L>
<L>To ask your Princely favour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am an&s;wer'd.</L>
<L>Who waits? call my Lord <HI>Contarini</HI> hither.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Contarini.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>You might have mock'd another per&s;on,</L>
<L>And not have made me a ridiculous &s;tory</L>
<L>To your Mi&s;tre&s;s Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>I under&s;tand you not.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Engage me to mediation for her love,</L>
<L>With a pretence how much my act &s;hould honor</L>
<PB N="51" REF="31">
<L>Your faint hopes, when you are con&s;cious of a</L>
<L>Contract, already pa&s;t between you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Contract Sir?</L>
<L>She never yet gave me any language</L>
<L>Did promi&s;e hope, &s;he &s;till concluded me</L>
<L>With going to a Cloi&s;ter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>How's this fair one?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>It is mo&s;t &s;ure I am contracted.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>To whom?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Vergerio</HI> your Lord&s;hips Agent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>That boy betray me?</L>
<L>In whom I took delight, made him my friend,</L>
<L>He play the Traytor? I'l be reveng'd upon</L>
<L>His heart.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Contain your pa&s;&s;ion <HI>Contarini,</HI></L>
<L>Her beauty had apower a bove my friend&s;hip,</L>
<L>It well might &s;hake his faith, and yet'tis &s;trange.</L>
<L>Call in <HI>Vergerio.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Vergerio.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have heard all,</L>
<L>And come to meet my &s;entence. You're a Prince</L>
<L>Gain&s;t whom I dare not lift a thought; I &s;ee</L>
<L>What &s;torm is ri&s;ing, yet let this, great Sir,</L>
<L>Invite your mercy to me, I have made</L>
<L>No breach again&s;t your love, and that which wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>My fault to his, may be excus'd, by what</L>
<L>He felt him&s;elf love not to be re&s;i&s;ted.</L>
<L>This Virgin I lay claim to, and her vowes</L>
<L>No Subject mu&s;t compell me to re&s;igne;</L>
<L>But if the Prince think me unfit, and call</L>
<L>This trea&s;ure from my bo&s;ome, and can place</L>
<L>His love, where I &s;o cha&s;tly have delighted,</L>
<L>I will not keep a thought that &s;hall repine,</L>
<L>When I am mi&s;erable in her ab&s;ence,</L>
<L>But give my intere&s;t cheerfully; to you,</L>
<L>My Lord, I an&s;wer, I have made no tre&s;pa&s;s,</L>
<PB N="52" REF="32">
<L>And &s;hall, &s;o plea&s;e your highne&s;s to be Iudge,</L>
<L>Make it appear.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con:</SPEAKER>
<L>Was ever &s;uch an impudence?</L>
<L>This pre&s;ence does protect him, I &s;hould els</L>
<L>Write trea&s;on on his heart; But <HI>Angellina</HI></L>
<L>I pity thy undoing, how can&s;t thou</L>
<L>Expect a truth from him, betrays his Ma&s;ter?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lord, you have been faulty &s;ure, and this</L>
<L>(not worthy to be call'd a lo&s;s of me)</L>
<L>Was meant by Providence to wake your faith,</L>
<L>That's owing to another.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Po&s;&s;ible?</L>
<L>The Vice-roy of <HI>Sicilies</HI> Daughter? <HI>Pulcheria.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Pulcheria</HI> here?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here <HI>Contarini.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ha, prov'd a Woman, oh my &s;hame and folly!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pardon my too much love, that made me fear</L>
<L>You had forgot <HI>Pulcheria,</HI> though you left</L>
<L>Your vowes and me at <HI>Sicily,</HI> when you were</L>
<L>Emba&s;&s;adour from the Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Whence embarqu'd</L>
<L>Thou brought'&s;t me news <HI>Pulcheria</HI> was dround,</L>
<L>And thou for her &s;ake entertain'd my &s;ervant,</L>
<L>Welcome, at once receive me and forgive me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>I had your promi&s;e, were this contract void</L>
<L>In honour, nor will take from my own merit</L>
<L>To think when your con&s;iderate thoughts come home,</L>
<L>You can pretend excu&s;e to your own happine&s;s,</L>
<L>Which le&s;t you may &s;u&s;pect, let us in &s;tate</L>
<L>Vi&s;it <HI>Paulina,</HI> and unmask that counterfeit</L>
<L>Which hath u&s;urp'd our name.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir we attend you,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>This ble&s;&s;ing mu&s;t require a &s;pacious &s;oul,</L>
<L>Mine is too narrow to receive.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Steward, and Piperollo.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am not yet created honourable.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="53" REF="32">
<SPEAKER>Fi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, things mu&s;t have their time, but will his high|ne&s;s</L>
<L>Remove &s;o &s;uddenly, and carry my Lady</L>
<L>To th' Court with him? tis a mo&s;t &s;weet young Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Order was given to pack up her plate,</L>
<L>Her gold and Jewels, for he means to have</L>
<L>Tiltings and triumphs when he comes to <HI>Parma.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fi.</SPEAKER>
<L>There it is fit we &s;hould expect our honours.</L>
<L>I will attend the Prince.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Contarini.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Signior <HI>Lu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">io.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your good Lord&s;hip.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pray tell my Lady, I would ki&s;s her hand,</L>
<L>And &s;hall pre&s;ent news will &s;ecure their welcome.</L>
<L>I come from the Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Prince my Lord?</L>
<L>He is within&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>A &s;mall march off the Ca&s;tle, and commanded</L>
<L>Me to prepare her, that he comes to be</L>
<L>Her gue&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lord, I will acquaint &s;ome of the bed-cham|ber, but,</L>
<L>When did your Lord&s;hip &s;ee his Highne&s;s?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>I left him at the Park gate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is the neare&s;t way unle&s;s his highne&s;s</L>
<L>Have leap'd a window, or can walk invi&s;ible.</L>
<L>Your Lord&s;hip may have &s;ome conceit. I'l go Sir.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Enter Piperollo.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi</SPEAKER>
<L>What is the meaning that ther's &s;uch a guard</L>
<L>Upon our Ca&s;tle? 'tis be&s;iedg'd, and no man</L>
<L>Suffer'd go forth; this is &s;ome Lord or other</L>
<L>By his &s;tradling.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Lucio, Longino, Strozzo, and the re&s;t.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>From the Prince? that he?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis as I tell you Sir, ther's a little army,</L>
<L>Surrounds the Ca&s;tle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>They have no order from his highne&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="54" REF="33">
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>We are betraid agen.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lon.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, would you &s;peak with the Prince?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why have you &s;uch a thing within the Ca&s;tle?</L>
<L>Who dares be &s;o much Traitour to u&s;urpe</L>
<L>That title? Wher's that Puppet, Gentlemen?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>That is his Secretary.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>The re&s;t are Lords and Privie Coun&s;ellors.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ca.</SPEAKER>
<L>We are undone.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Farne&s;e, Vergerio, Angellina, Attendants.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis he, the very he, I dare not look on him;</L>
<L>Oh for an impudence worth a Chronicle,</L>
<L>To out ace him now, it were a po&s;&s;ible thing,</L>
<L>If People would believe&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lu.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l tell my Lady, they are vani&s;h'd; hum,</L>
<L>I do not like that face.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exit.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come hither fellow, whom do you &s;erve?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>What Prince have you within?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>The prince of Darkne&s;s.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fa.</SPEAKER>
<L>What is this fellow?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>a Knight o'th' Po&s;t, the Pe&s;tle is too honourable.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where is your Excellent Lady?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have a gue&s;s</L>
<L>If things go on, as I &s;u&s;pect, &s;he will be &mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>At her wits end very &s;hortly.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>An ingenious fellow?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have convers'd a little with the Mathematicks,</L>
<L>Sir, Who is that Gentlewoman, not that I am ignorant,</L>
<L>But to &s;atisfie a doubt?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ver.</SPEAKER>
<L>She is one that may be</L>
<L>The Prince of <HI>Parma's</HI> Lady, when the Prie&s;t</L>
<L>Hath done his Office.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>If I be not mi&s;taken</L>
<L>Here comes the Prince&s;&s;e, that is <HI>Angellina</HI></L>
<L>The younger Si&s;ter.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE><PB N="55" REF="33"><HI>Enter Paulina.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>It is my wonder you that have the face</L>
<L>And garb of Gentlemen, &s;hould dare to be</L>
<L>So in&s;olent, to affront our per&s;on,</L>
<L>And his, to whom your hearts and knees owe reverence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Command the Impo&s;tor forth,</L>
<L>Seize on the Traitors.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Longino.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>His Grace will be here pre&s;ently, fear not Madam,</L>
<L>I would venter a Neck-breaking at &s;ome window,</L>
<L>And be content to crawl away a Cripple;</L>
<L>But there's no hope to &s;cape the Multitude</L>
<L>That will be &s;crambling for my limbs. Great Sir,</L>
<L>I challenge the privilege of the la&s;t <HI>Bando,</HI></L>
<STAGE>Kneels.</STAGE>
<L>He that can bring <HI>Frapolo</HI> the chief Bandit,</L>
<L>Be&s;ide what was proclam'd other reward,</L>
<L>Shall have free pardon for all pa&s;t-offences;</L>
<L>To that Grace I appeal, and here produce</L>
<L><HI>Frapolo.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Frapolo, Strozzo, &amp;c.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>This amazeth me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Can you &s;tand</L>
<L>The dazeling Sun &s;o long, and not be &s;truck</L>
<L>Blind for this bold affront? what wildne&s;s brought you</L>
<L>In multitudes to fright my happy peace,</L>
<L>And this good Ladies, my mo&s;t vertuous Con&s;ort?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lo.</SPEAKER>
<L>He bears up &s;till!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>Have all my cares and watchings to pre&s;erve</L>
<L>Your lives, and deare&s;t liberties, de&s;erv'd</L>
<L>This &s;trange return, and at a time when mo&s;t</L>
<L>Your happine&s;s is concern'd, &s;ince by our Mariage</L>
<L>With this &s;weet Lady, full of grace and beauty,</L>
<L>You may expect an Heir to ble&s;s your Countrey.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>Will you &s;uffer him?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fr.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis time your Prince were dead, and when I am</L>
<L>Companion to my Fathers du&s;t, the&s;e tumults</L>
<L>Fomented by &s;editious men, that are</L>
<PB N="56" REF="34">
<L>Weary of Plenty, and delights of Peace,</L>
<L>Shall not approach to interrupt the calm</L>
<L>Good Princes after Death enjoy. Go home,</L>
<L>I pray depart, I rather will &s;ubmit</L>
<L>To be depos'd, than wear a power or title</L>
<L>That &s;hall not all be dedicate to &s;erve you;</L>
<L>My life is but the gift of Heaven, to wa&s;t it</L>
<L>For your dear &s;akes, my People are my Children,</L>
<L>Whom I am bound in Nature and Religion</L>
<L>To cheri&s;h and protect. Perhaps you have</L>
<L>Some grievance to pre&s;ent, you &s;hall have ju&s;tice</L>
<L>Again&s;t the proude&s;t here; I look not on</L>
<L>Nobility of Birth. Office, or Fortunes,</L>
<L>The poore&s;t &s;ubject has a Native Charter</L>
<L>And a Birth-right to th' Laws, and Common wealth,</L>
<L>Which with an equall, and impartial &s;tream,</L>
<L>Shall flow to every bo&s;om.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Str.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pious Prince!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am at a lo&s;s to hear him; &s;ure I am</L>
<L><HI>Farne&s;e,</HI> if I be not lo&s;t by the way.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pi.</SPEAKER>
<L>Stand off Gentlemen, &mdash; let me &s;ee &mdash; which?</L>
<L>Hum! this &mdash; no, th'other. Hum! &s;end for a Lion</L>
<L>And turn him loo&s;e, he wo'not hurt the true Prince.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do not you know me Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, I know you too well, but it &s;tands not</L>
<L>With my honor; what compo&s;ition?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who am I? Gentlemen, how dare ye &s;uffer</L>
<L>This thing to talk? if I be your <HI>Farne&s;e.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fra.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;ay I am the Prince,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Prince of what?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of Rogues, and plea&s;e thy Excellence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fra.</SPEAKER>
<L>You mu&s;t excu&s;e, I can hold out no longer</L>
<L>The&s;e were my Subjects Sir, and if they find</L>
<L>Your Mercy, I'm but one, who&s;e head remov'd,</L>
<L>Or nooz'd, this Lady will be &s;oon a Widdow,</L>
<PB N="57" REF="34">
<L>Whom I have not deceiv'd, 'twas her Ambition</L>
<L>To go no le&s;s than Prince, and now you have one,</L>
<L>During this Gentlemans plea&s;ure.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;corn &s;hall I become?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let him be guarded, and all his puppet Lords.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Antonio, Fabio, Morulla.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>News, news, excellent news; I &s;hall leap</L>
<L>Out of my fle&s;h for joy. Sir I have undertook</L>
<L>For your pardon to this reverend couple,</L>
<L>They heard my Neece was to be maried</L>
<L>To the Prince, and thought it trea&s;on to conceal &mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>What?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Paulina</HI> is not my Neece, no blood of mine;</L>
<L>Where is this Lady and her Pageant Prince?</L>
<L>The truth is, &s;he is not <HI>Paulina,</HI> but their</L>
<L>Own Daughter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Po&s;&s;ible? then we are both cheated.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Whom &s;he obtruded on our Family</L>
<L>When our <HI>Paulina</HI> died an Infant, with her,</L>
<L>A Nur&s;e to both; Does your Grace apprehend?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fab.</SPEAKER>
<L>We do be&s;eech your pardon.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now <HI>Angellina</HI> thou art heir to all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pip.</SPEAKER>
<L>By all this Circum&s;tance you are but my Si&s;ter!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Con.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Prince is prov'd a Prince of Theeves.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why ther's a Baggage and a Theef well met then.</L>
<L>I knew &s;he was a Ba&s;tard, or a Changeling.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pau.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where &s;hall I hide my &s;hame? O cur&s;t Ambi|tion!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ant.</SPEAKER>
<L>Give you joy Sir, my mo&s;t illu&s;trious Nephew,</L>
<L>Joy to thy invi&s;ible Grace.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fra.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thanks to our loving Uncle:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Take hence the Traitors.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir I be&s;eech a pardon to their lives.</L>
<L>Let nothing of my &s;tory be remembred</L>
<L>With &s;uch a Tragedie, 'tis my fir&s;t Petition.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>I mu&s;t not deny thee; all thank her Virtue;</L>
<L>Live you, and love that Gentlewoman; But</L>
<PB N="58" REF="35">
<L>It were a &s;in to innocence, and our honor</L>
<L>Would encourage Trea&s;on by example,</L>
<L>If they &s;hould &s;cape all Ju&s;tice, take 'em to Cu&s;tody:</L>
<L><HI>Frapolo,</HI> we confine you to this Ca&s;tle,</L>
<L>Where If &s;he plea&s;e your Bride may accompany you</L>
<L>Till we determine otherwi&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fra.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis &s;ome mercy; but</L>
<L>I &s;hall be getting Children, and two nothings</L>
<L>Wo'not maintain a Family, 'twere as good</L>
<L>To hang me out o'th'way, 'ere Charge come on,</L>
<L>Or take away my tools, I &s;hall be working.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>Provi&s;ion &s;hall be made you &s;hall not &s;terve</L>
<L>Nor &s;urfet Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ang.</SPEAKER>
<L>Becau&s;e I call'd her Si&s;ter,</L>
<L>I will contribute &s;omething to their fortune.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Far.</SPEAKER>
<L>What thy own goodne&s;s will direct; and now</L>
<L>Remove the Scene to Court, to perfect there</L>
<L>My own, and <HI>Parma's</HI> happine&s;s; pride has</L>
<L>Met with &s;evere reward, and that high ju&s;tice</L>
<L>(That Governs all) though envy break with her</L>
<L>Own Poy&s;on, calls the Amazed World to &s;ee</L>
<L>What ble&s;&s;ings wait upon <HI>Humility.</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Exeunt.</STAGE>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="epilogue">
<PB REF="35">
<HEAD>Epilogue.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Frapolo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Gentlemen, do not &s;ay you &s;ee me; I have made an e&s;cape from the Prince and <HI>Paulina;</HI> his graces word is but mortall, and not &s;ecurity enough for me; for all this Sun-&s;hine he may hang me, when I come to <HI>Parma,</HI> for an example, and therefore I have cho&s;en, rather to tru&s;t to my legs, than a reconcil'd State-Enemy.</P>
<LG>
<L>Two'not be worth your glory to betray</L>
<L>A man di&s;tre&s;t, whom your own mercy may</L>
<L>Pre&s;erve to better &s;ervice; rather then</L>
<L>Go back I'l &s;tand your Iu&s;tice Gentlemen.</L>
<L>I've plaid the thief, but you, as the ca&s;e &s;tands,</L>
<L>May &s;ave or kill, my lif's now in your hands.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<PB REF="36">
<PB REF="36">
<PB REF="37">
<PB REF="37">
<PB REF="38">
<PB REF="38" MS="y">
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
