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<P>BEN: IONSON his VOLPONE Or THE FOXE.</P>
<Q><HI>&mdash;Simul &amp; iucunda, &amp; idonea dicere vitae.</HI></Q>
<P>Printed for <HI>Thomas Thorppe.</HI> 1607.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<P>TO THE MOST NOBLE AND MOST AEQVALL SISTERS THE TWO FAMOVS VNIVERSITIES, FOR THEIR LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE SHEW'N TO HIS POEME IN THE PRESENTATION: BEN: IONSON THE GRATEFVLL ACKNOWLEDGER DEDICATES BOTH IT, AND HIMSELFE.</P>
<P>There followes an <HI>Epi&s;tle,</HI> if you dare venture on the length.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>THE EPISTLE.</HEAD>
<P>_NEuer (<HI>mo&s;t aequall</HI> SISTERS) had any man a wit &s;o pre&s;ently excellent, as that it could rai&s;e it &s;elfe; but there mu&s;t come both Matter, Oc|ca&s;ion, Commenders, and Fauou|rers to it. If this be true, and that the Fortune of all <HI>Writers</HI> doth daily proue it, it be|houes the carefull to prouide, well, toward the&s;e ac|cidents; and, hauing acquir'd them, to pre&s;erue that part of reputation mo&s;t tenderly, wherein the be|nefit of a Friend is al&s;o defended. Hence is it, that I now render my &s;elfe gratefull, and am &s;tudious to iu&s;tifie the bounty of your act: To which, though your mere authority were &s;atisfying, yet, it being an age, wherein <HI>Po&euml;try</HI> and the Profe&s;&s;ors of it heare &s;o ill, on all &s;ides, there will a rea&s;on bee look'd for in the &s;ubiect. It is certaine, nor can it with any fore|head be oppo&s;'d) that the too-much licence of <HI>Po&euml;|ta&s;ters,</HI> in this time, hath much deform'd their <HI>Mi|&s;tre&s;&s;e;</HI> that, euery day their manifold, and manife&s;t ignorance doth &s;tick vnnaturall reproches vpon her: But for their petulancy, it were an act of the greate&s;t iniu&s;tice, either to let the learned &s;uffer; or &s;o diuine a <HI>skill</HI> (which indeed &s;hould not be attempted with vncleane hands) to fall, vnder the lea&s;t contempt. For if men will impartially, and not &agrave;-&s;quint, looke toward the offices, and function of a <HI>Po&euml;t,</HI> they will ea&s;ily conclude to them&s;elues, the impo&s;&s;ibility of any mans being the good <HI>Po&euml;t,</HI> without fir&s;t being a
<PB REF="3"> good <HI>Man.</HI> He that is &s;ayd to be able to informe <HI>yong-men</HI> to all good di&s;ciplines, inflame <HI>growne|men</HI> to all great vertues, keepe <HI>old men</HI> in their be&s;t and &s;upreme &s;tate, or as they decline to child-hood, recouer them to their fir&s;t &s;trength; that comes forth the Interpreter, and Arbiter of <HI>Nature,</HI> a Teacher of things diuine, no le&s;&s;e then humane, a Ma&s;ter in man|ners; and can al&oacute;ne (or with a few) effect the bu&s;ines of Man-kind. This, I take him, is no &s;ubiect for <HI>Pride,</HI> and <HI>Ignorance</HI> to exerci&s;e their railing <HI>rhetorique</HI> vpon. But, it will here be ha&s;tily an&s;wer'd, that the <HI>Writers</HI> of the&s;e dayes are other things; that, not onely their manners, but their natures are inuerted; and nothing remaining with them of the dignity of <HI>Po&euml;t,</HI> but the abu&s;ed name, which euery Scribe v|&s;urpes: that now, e&s;pecially in <HI>Dramatick,</HI> or (as they terme it) Stage-<HI>Po&euml;try,</HI> nothing but Ribaldry, Pro|fanation, Bla&s;phemy, al Licence of offence to God, and Man, is practi&s;d. I dare not deny a great part of this (and am &s;ory, I dare not) becau&s;e in &s;ome mens abortiue <HI>Features</HI> (and would they had neuer boa&s;ted the light) it is ouer-true: But, that all are embarqu'd in this bold aduenture for Hell, is a mo&s;t vncharita|ble thought, and, vtterd, a more malicious &s;lander. For my particular, I can (and from a mo&s;t cleare con&s;cience) affirme that I haue euer trembled to thinke toward the lea&s;t Prophanene&s;&s;e; haue loa|thed the v&s;e of &s;uch foule, and vn-wa&s;hd Baudr'y, as is now made the foode of the <HI>Scene:</HI> And, how&s;o|euer I cannot e&s;cape, from &s;ome, the imputation of
<PB REF="4"> &s;harpne&s;&s;e, but that they wil &s;ay, I haue taken a pride, or lu&s;t to be bitter, and not my yonge&s;t Infant but hath come into the world with all his teeth; I would aske of the&s;e &s;upercilious <HI>Politiques,</HI> what Nation, Society, or generall Order, or State I haue prouokd? what publique Per&s;on? whether I haue not (in all the&s;e) pre&s;eru'd their dignity, as mine owne per&s;on, &s;afe? My WORKES are read, allow'd, (I &s;peake of tho&s;e that are intirely mine) looke into them, what broad reproofes haue I v&s;d: Where haue I bin particular? Where per&s;onall, except to a Mimick, Cheater, Baud, or Buffon, creatures (for their in&s;olencies) wor|thy to be tax'd? or to which of the&s;e &s;o pointingly, as he might not, either ingeniou&s;ly haue co~fe&s;t, or wi&s;e|ly di&s;&s;embled his di&s;ea&s;e? But it is not Rumour can make me~ guilty, much le&s;&s;e entitle me, to other mens crimes. I know, that nothing ca~ be &s;o innocently writ, or carried, but maybe made obnoxious to co~&s;tructi|on; mary, whil&s;t I beare mine innocence about me, I feare it not. Application, is now, growne a Trade with many; and there are, that profe&s;&s;e to haue a <HI>Key</HI> for the deciphering of euery thing, but let wi&s;e and noble Per&s;ons take heed how they bee too cre|dulous, or giue leaue to the&s;e inuading Interpreters to be ouer-familiar with their fames, who cunningly, &amp; often, vtter their owne virulent malice, vnder o|ther me~s &s;imple&s;t meanings. As for tho&s;e, that wil (by faults which charity hath rak'd vp, or co~mo~ hone&s;ty co~ceald) make the~&s;elues a name with the Multitude, or (to drawe their rude, and bea&s;tly clappes) care
<PB REF="4"> not who&s;e liuing faces they intrench with their pe|tulant &s;tiles; may they doe it, without a riuall, for mee: I chu&s;e rather to liue grau'd in ob&s;curitie, then &s;hare with them, in &s;o prepo&s;terous a fame. Nor can I blame the wi&s;hes of tho&s;e graue, and wi&s;er <HI>Patriotes,</HI> who prouiding the hurts the&s;e licentious &s;pirits may do in a State, de&s;ire rather to &s;ee Fooles, and Diuells, and tho&s;e antique reliques of Barbari&s;|me retriu'd, with all other ridiculous, and exploded follies: then behold the wounds of Priuate men, of Princes, and Nations. For as HORACE, makes <HI>Tre|batius</HI> &s;peake, in the&s;e
<Q>&mdash;Sibi qui&s;que timet, quanquam e&s;t intactus, &amp; odit.</Q></P>
<P>And men may iu&s;tly impute &s;uch rages, if continu'd, to the <HI>Writer,</HI> as his &s;ports. The encrea&s;e of which lu&s;t in liberty, together with the pre&s;ent trade of the Stage, in all their mi&s;c'line <HI>Enterludes,</HI> what lear|ned or liberall &s;oule doth not already abhor? where nothing but the garbage of the time is vtter'd, &amp; that with &s;uch impropriety of <HI>phra&s;e,</HI> &s;uch plenty of <HI>&s;oloe|ci&s;mes,</HI> &s;uch dearth of <HI>&s;en&s;e,</HI> &s;o bold <HI>prolep&s;e's,</HI> &s;o rackt <HI>metaphor's,</HI> with brothelry able to violate the eare of a <HI>Pagan,</HI> and bla&s;phemy, to turne the bloud of a <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> to water. I cannot but be &s;erious in a cau&s;e of this nature, wherein my fame, &amp; the reputations of diuer&s;e hone&s;t, &amp; learned are the que&s;tion; when a NAME, &s;o full of authority, antiquity, and all great marke, is (through their in&s;olence) become the lowe&s;t &s;corne of the <HI>Age:</HI> and tho&s;e MEN &s;ubiect to the pe|tulancie
<PB REF="5"> of euery vernaculous <HI>Orator,</HI> that were wont to be the care of <HI>Kings,</HI> and happie&s;t <HI>Monarchs.</HI> This it is that hath not onely rap't mee to pre&s;ent in|dignation, but made mee &s;tudious, heretofore, and, by all my actions, to &s;tand of, from them; which may mo&s;t appeare in this my late&s;t WORKE: (which you, <HI>mo&s;t learned</HI> ARBITRESSES, haue &s;eene, iudg'd, &amp; to my crowne, approu'd) wherein I haue labourd, for their in&s;truction, and amendment, to reduce, not onely the ancient formes, but manners of the <HI>Scene,</HI> the ea&s;ine&s;&s;e, the propriety, the innocence, and la&s;t the doctrine, which is the principall end of POESY to informe men, in the be&s;t rea&s;on of liuing. And though my <HI>Cata&s;trophe</HI> may, in the &s;trict rigour of <HI>Comick</HI> Law, meete with cen&s;ure, as turning back to my promi&s;e; I de&s;ire the learned, and charitable <HI>Critick</HI> to haue &s;o much faith in me, to thinke it was done off indu&s;trye: For with what ea&s;e I could haue varied it, nearer his <HI>&s;cale</HI> (but that I feare to boa&s;t my owne faculty) I could here in&s;ert. But my &s;pecial aime being to put the &s;nafle in their mouths, that crie out, we neuer puni&s;h vice in our <HI>Enter|ludes</HI> &amp;c. I tooke the more liberty; though not with out &s;ome lines of example drawne euen in the <HI>Anti|ents</HI> them&s;elues, the goings out of who&s;e <HI>Comoedies</HI> are not alwayes ioyfull, but oftimes, the Baudes, the Seruants, the Riualls, yea and the mai&s;ters are mulcted: and fitly, it beeing the offi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of a <HI>Co|mick</HI>-POET to imitate iu&s;tice, and in&s;truct to life, as well as puritie of language, or &s;tirre vp gentle
<PB REF="5"> affections. To which, vpon my next opportunity to|ward the examining &amp; dige&s;ting of my <HI>notes,</HI> I &s;hall &s;peake more wealthily, and pay the World a debt.</P>
<P>In the meane time (<HI>mo&s;t reuerenced</HI> SISTERS) as I haue car'd to be thankefull for your affections pa&s;t, and here made the vnder&s;tanding acquainted with &s;ome grou~d of your fauors; let me not di&s;payre their co~tinuance, to the maturing of &s;ome worthier fruits: wherein, if my MVSES bee true to me, I &s;hall rai&s;e the di&s;pi&s;'d head of POETRY againe, &amp; &s;tripping her out of tho&s;e rotten and ba&s;e ragges, wherewith the <HI>Times</HI> haue adulterated her forme, re&s;tore her to her primitiue habite, feature, and maie&s;ty, and ren|der her worthy to be imbraced, and ki&s;t, of all the great and Mai&s;ter <HI>Spirits</HI> of our World. As for the vile, and &s;lothfull, who neuer affected an act, worthy of celebration, or are &s;o inward with their owne vi|cious natures, as they worthely feare her; and thinke it a high point of policie, to keepe her in contempt with their declamatory, and windy inuectiues: &s;hee &s;hall out of iu&s;t rage incite her Seruants (who are <HI>Ge|nus iritabile</HI>) to &s;pout inke in their faces, that &s;hall eate, farder then their marrow, into their fames; and not CINNAMVS the Barber, with his art, &s;hall be able to take out the brands, but they &s;hall liue, and be read, till the Wretches die, as Things wor&s;t de&s;er|uing of them&s;elues in chiefe, and then of all mankind.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>From my hou&s;e in the Black-Friars</HI> <DATE>this 11. <HI>of February.</HI> 1607.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>AD &V;TRAMQVE</HI> ACA|DEMIAM, De BENIAMIN IONSONIO.</HEAD>
<L>HIc ille e&s;t primus, qui doctum drama <HI>BRITANNIS,</HI></L>
<L><HI>GRAIORVM</HI> antiqua, et <HI>LATII</HI> monimenta Theatri,</L>
<L><HI>Tanquam explorator</HI> ver&s;ans, foelicibus au&s;is</L>
<L>Prebebit: Magnis ceptis <HI>Gemina a&s;tra</HI> fauete.</L>
<L>Alterutr&acirc; veteres contenti laude: <HI>Cothurnum</HI> hic,</L>
<L>At&abque; pari <HI>&s;occum</HI> tractat <HI>Sol &s;cenicus</HI> arte;</L>
<L>Das <HI>VOLPONE</HI> iocos, fletus <HI>SEIANE</HI> dedi&s;ti.</L>
<L>At &s;i <HI>IONSONIAS</HI> mulctatas limite <HI>MVSAS</HI></L>
<L>Angu&s;t&acirc; plangent quiquam: &V;os, dicite, contr&agrave;,</L>
<L>O nimi&ugrave;m mi&s;eros quibus <HI>ANGLIS ANGLICA</HI> lingua</L>
<L>Aut non &s;at nota e&s;t; aut queis (&s;eu trans mare natis)</L>
<L>Haud nota omnin&ograve;: Vegetet cum tempore Vates,</L>
<L>Mutabit patriam, fiet&abque; ip&s;e <HI>ANGLVS APOLLO.</HI></L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>E. B.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Amici&s;simo, &amp; meriti&s;simo <HI>BEN: IONSON.</HI></HEAD>
<L>QVod arte au&s;us es h&icirc;c tu&acirc;, <HI>POETA,</HI></L>
<L>Si auderent hominum Dei&abque; iuris</L>
<L>Con&s;ulti, veteres &s;equi aemularier&abque;,</L>
<L>O omnes &s;aperemus ad &s;alutem.</L>
<L>His &s;ed &s;unt veteres araneo&s;i;</L>
<L>Tam nemo veterum e&s;t &s;equutor, vt tu</L>
<L>Illos qu&ograve;d &s;equeris nouator audis.</L>
<L>Fac tamen quod agis; tu&iacute;que prim&acirc;</L>
<L>Libri canitie induantur hor&acirc;:</L>
<L>Nam cartis pueritia e&s;t neganda,</L>
<L>Na&s;cant&uacute;rque &s;enes, oportet, illi</L>
<L>Libri, queis dare vis perennitatem.</L>
<L>Pri&s;cis, ingenium facit, lab&oacute;rque</L>
<L>Te parem; hos &s;uperes, vt &amp; futuros,</L>
<L>Ex no&s;tr&acirc; vitio&s;itate &s;umas,</L>
<L>Qu&acirc; pri&s;cos &s;uperamus, &amp; futuros.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I. D.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>To my friend M^r. <HI>IONSON. EPIGRAMME.</HI></HEAD>
<L>IONSON, to tell the world what I to thee</L>
<L>Am, 'tis <HI>Friend.</HI> Not to prai&s;e, nor v&s;her forth</L>
<L>Thee, or thy worke, as if it needed mee</L>
<L>Send I the&s;e ri'mes to adde ought to thy worth:</L>
<L>So &s;hould I flatter my &s;elfe, and not thine;</L>
<L>For there were truth on thy &s;ide, none on mine.</L>
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<HEAD>To the Reader. &V;pon the worke.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IF thou dar'&s;t bite this FOXE, then read my ri'mes;</L>
<L>Thou guilty art of &s;ome of the&s;e foule crimes:</L>
<L>Which, el&s;e, are neyther his, nor thine, but <HI>Times.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If thou do&s;t like it, well; it will imply</L>
<L>Thou lik'&s;t with iudgement, or be&s;t company:</L>
<L>And hee, that doth not &s;o, doth yet enuie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The auntient formes reduc'd, as in this age</L>
<L>The vices, are; and bare-fac'd on the &s;tage:</L>
<L>So boyes were taught t' abhorre &s;eene Dronkards rage.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>T. R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>To my deare friend, M^r. Benia|min Ion&s;on, vpon his FOXE.</HEAD>
<L>IF it might &s;tand with <HI>Iu&s;tice,</HI> to allow</L>
<L>The &s;wift conuer&s;ion of all follies; now,</L>
<L>Such is my <HI>Mercy,</HI> that I could admit</L>
<L>All &s;orts &s;hould equally approue the wit,</L>
<L>Of this thy euen worke: who&s;e growing fame</L>
<L>Shall rai&s;e thee high, and thou it, with thy <HI>Name.</HI></L>
<L>And did not Manners, and my Loue command</L>
<L>Mee to forbeare to make tho&s;e vnderstand,</L>
<L>Whome thou, perhaps, hast in thy wi&s;er doome</L>
<L>Long &s;ince, firmely re&s;olu'd, &s;hall neuer come</L>
<L>To know more then they do; I would haue &s;howne</L>
<L>To all the world, the Art, which thou alone</L>
<L>Ha&s;t taught our tongue, the rules of Time, of Place,</L>
<L>And other Rites, deliuer'd, with the grace</L>
<L>Of <HI>Comick</HI> &s;tile, which onely, is farre more,</L>
<L>Then any <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Stage hath knowne before.</L>
<L>But &s;ince our &s;ubtle Gallants thinke it good</L>
<L>To like of nought, that may be vnder&s;tood,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t they &s;hould be di&s;prou'd; or haue, at be&s;t,</L>
<L>Stomacks &s;o raw, that nothing can dige&s;t</L>
<L>But what's ob&s;cene, or barkes: Let vs de&s;ire</L>
<L>They may continue, &s;implie, to admire</L>
<L>Fine <HI>clothes,</HI> and &s;trange <HI>words;</HI> and may liue, in age,</L>
<L>To &s;ee them&s;elues ill-brought vpon the Stage,</L>
<L>And like it. Whil&s;t thy bold, and knowing <HI>Mu&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Contemnes all prai&s;e, but &s;uch as thou would&s;t chu&s;e.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>F. B.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>To my good friend. M^r. Ion&s;on.</HEAD>
<L>THE &s;trange new follies of this idle age,</L>
<L>In &s;trange new formes, pre&s;ented on the Stage</L>
<L>By thy quick <HI>Mu&s;e,</HI> &s;o plea&s;'d iudicious eyes;</L>
<L>That th' once-admired antient <HI>Comoedies</HI></L>
<L>Fa&s;hions, like clothes growne out of fa&s;hion, lay</L>
<L>Lock'd vp from v&s;e: vntill thy FOXE birth-day,</L>
<L>In an old garbe, &s;hew'd &s;o much art, and wit,</L>
<L>As they the <HI>Laurell</HI> gaue to thee, and it.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>D. D.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the ingenious Poet.</HEAD>
<L>THe FOXE, that ea&s;'d thee of thy mode&s;t feares,</L>
<L>And earth'd him&s;elfe, aliue, into our eares,</L>
<L>Will &s;o, in death, commend his worth, and thee</L>
<L>As neyther can, by prai&s;es, mended bee:</L>
<L>Tis friendly folly, thou mai&s;t thanke, and blame,</L>
<L>To prai&s;e a booke, who&s;e forehed beares thy <HI>Name.</HI></L>
<L>Then IONSON, onely this (among the re&s;t)</L>
<L>I, euer, haue ob&s;eru'd, thy la&s;t work's be&s;t:</L>
<L>Pa&s;e, gently on; thy worth, yet higher, rai&s;e;</L>
<L>Till thou write be&s;t, as well as the be&s;t PLAYES.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I. C.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>To his deare Friend, Benia|min Ion&s;on his VOLPONE.</HEAD>
<L>COme, yet, more forth, <HI>VOLPONE,</HI> and thy cha&s;e</L>
<L>Performe to al length, for thy breath wil &s;erue thee;</L>
<L>The V&s;urer &s;hal, neuer, weare thy ca&s;e&punc;</L>
<L>Men do not hunt to kill, but to pre&s;erue thee.</L>
<L>Before the b&eacute;&s;t houndes, thou do&s;t, &s;till, but play;</L>
<L>And, for our whelpes, ala&s;&s;e, they yelp in vaine:</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t no earth; thou hunt'&s;t the <HI>Milke-white way;</HI></L>
<L>And, through th'<HI>Eli&s;ian</HI> feilds, do&s;t make thy traine.</L>
<L>And as the <HI>Symbole</HI> of lifes Guard, the <HI>HARE,</HI></L>
<L>That, &s;leeping, wakes; and, for her feare, was &s;af't.</L>
<L>So, thou &s;halt be aduaunc'd, and made a <HI>Starre,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pole</HI> to all witts, beleeu'd in, for thy craft.</L>
<L>In which the <HI>Scenes</HI> both Marke, and My&s;tery</L>
<L>Is hit, and &s;ounded, to plea&s;e be&s;t, and wor&s;t;</L>
<L>To all which, &s;ince thou mak'&s;t &s;o &s;weete a cry,</L>
<L>Take all thy <HI>be&s;t fare,</HI> and be nothing <HI>cur&s;t.</HI></L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>G. C.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="9">
<HEAD>To my worthily-e&s;teemed M^r. Ben: Ion&s;on.</HEAD>
<L><HI>VOLPONE</HI> now is dead indeed, and lies</L>
<L>Expo&s;ed to the cen&s;ure of all eies,</L>
<L>And mouth's; Now he hath run his traine, and &s;how'n</L>
<L>His &s;ubtill body, where he be&s;t was knowne;</L>
<L>In both <HI>Minerua's Cittyes:</HI> he doth yeeld,</L>
<L>His well-form'd-limbes vpon this open field.</L>
<L>VVho, if they now appeare &s;o faire in &s;ight,</L>
<L>How did they, when they were endew'd with &s;pright</L>
<L>Of Action? Yet in thy prai&s;e let this be read,</L>
<L>The FOXE will liue, when all his hounds be dead.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>E. S.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>To the true M^r. in his Art, B. Ion&s;on.</HEAD>
<L>FOrgiue thy friends; they would, but cannot prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Inough' the wit, art, language of thy <HI>PLAYES:</HI></L>
<L>Forgiue thy foes; they will not prai&s;e thee. Why?</L>
<L>Thy Fate hath thought it be&s;t, they &s;hould enuy.</L>
<L>Faith, for thy <HI>FOXES</HI> &s;ake, forgiue then tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who are nor worthy to be friends, nor foes.</L>
<L>Or, for their owne braue &s;ake, let them be &s;till</L>
<L>Fooles at thy mercy, and like what they will,</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I. F.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dramatis personae">
<PB REF="9">
<HEAD>THE PERSONS OF <HI>THE COMOEDYE.</HI></HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>VOLPONE,</HI> a Magnifico.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>MOSCA,</HI> his Para&s;ite.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>VOLTORE,</HI> an Aduocate.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CORBACCIO,</HI> an olde Gentleman.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CORVINO,</HI> a Marchant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>AVOCATORI. 4.</HI> Ma|gi&s;trates.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>NOTARIO,</HI> the Regi&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>NANO,</HI> a Dwarfe.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CASTRONE,</HI> an Eunuch.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>GREGE.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>POLITIQVE WOVLD-BEE,</HI> a Knight.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>PEREGRINE,</HI> a Gent-trauailer.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>BONARIO,</HI> a yong Gentleman.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>FINE MADA. WOVLD-BEE;</HI> the Knights wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CELIA,</HI> the Merchants wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>COMMAND ADORI,</HI> Officers.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>MERCATORI. 3.</HI> Merchants.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>ANDROGYNO,</HI> a Hermaphrodite.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>SERVITORE,</HI> a &s;eruant.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>WOMEN. 2.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="argument">
<HEAD>THE ARGVMENT.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Volpone,</HI> childle&s;&s;e, rich, faines &s;ick, de&s;paires,</L>
<L>Offers his &s;tate to hopes of &s;euerall heyres,</L>
<L>Lies langui&s;hing; His <HI>Para&s;ite</HI> receaues</L>
<L>Pre&s;ents of all, a&s;&s;ures, deludes: Then weaues</L>
<L>Other cro&s;&s;e-plots, which ope' them&s;elues, are told.</L>
<L>New tricks for &s;afety, are &s;ought; They thriue: When, bold,</L>
<L>Each tempt's th'other againe, and all are &s;old.</L>
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</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prologue">
<PB REF="11">
<HEAD>The PROLOGVE.</HEAD>
<L>NOw, luck God &s;end vs, and a little wit</L>
<L>will &s;erue, to make our <HI>PLAY</HI> hit;</L>
<L>(According to the palates of the &s;ea&s;on)</L>
<L>Here is ri'me, not emptie of rea&s;on:</L>
<L>This we were bid to credit, from our <HI>Po&euml;t,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e true &s;cope, if you would knowe it,</L>
<L>In all his <HI>Po&euml;mes,</HI> &s;till, hath beene this mea&s;ure,</L>
<L><HI>To mixe profit, with your plea&s;ure;</HI></L>
<L>And not as &s;ome (who&s;e throates their enuie fayling)</L>
<L>Crie hoarcely, <HI>All he writes, is rayling:</HI></L>
<L>And, when his <HI>PLAYES</HI> come forth, thinke they can flout them,</L>
<L>With &s;aying, <HI>He was a yeare about them.</HI></L>
<L>To the&s;e there needes no <HI>Lye,</HI> but this his <HI>creature,</HI></L>
<L>Which was, two monthes &s;ince, no feature;</L>
<L>And, though he dares giue them fiue liues to mend it,</L>
<L>'Tis knowne, fiue weekes fully pen'd it:</L>
<L>From his owne hand, without a <HI>Co-adiutor,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nouice, Iorney-man,</HI> or <HI>Tutor.</HI></L>
<L>Yet, thus much I can giue you, as a token</L>
<L>Of his <HI>PLAYES</HI> worth, No egges are broken;</L>
<L>Nor quaking Cu&s;tards with feirce teeth affrighted,</L>
<L>Wherewith your route are &s;o delighted;</L>
<L>Nor hales hee in a <HI>Gull,</HI> old ends reciting,</L>
<L>To &s;top gappes in his loo&s;e writing;</L>
<L>With &s;uch a deale of mon&s;trous, and forc'd <HI>action:</HI></L>
<L>As might make <HI>Bethlem</HI> a faction:</L>
<L>Nor made he' his <HI>PLAY,</HI> for ie&s;ts, &s;tolne from each Table,</L>
<L>But makes ie&s;ts, to fit his <HI>Fable.</HI></L>
<L>And, &s;o pre&s;ents quick <HI>Comoedy,</HI> refined,</L>
<L>As be&s;t <HI>Criticks</HI> haue de&s;igned,</L>
<L>The <HI>Lawes</HI> of Time, Place, Per&s;ons he ob&s;erueth,</L>
<L>From no needefull <HI>Rule</HI> he &s;werueth.</L>
<L>All gall, and coppre&s;&s;e, from his inke, he drayneth,</L>
<L>Onelie, a little &s;alt remaineth;</L>
<L>Wherewith, hee'll rub your cheekes, till (red with laughter)</L>
<L>They &s;hall looke fre&s;h, a weeke after.</L>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="11">
<HEAD>THE FOXE.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT, 1.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENE. 1.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLPONE. MOSCA.</STAGE>
<L>GOod morning to the Day; and, next, my Gold:</L>
<L>Open the &s;hrine, that I may &s;ee my <HI>Saint.</HI></L>
<L>Hayle the worlds &s;oule, and mine. More glad then is</L>
<L>The teeming earth, to &s;ee the longd-for <HI>Sunne</HI></L>
<L>Peepe through the hornes of the <HI>Caele&s;tiall Ram,</HI></L>
<L>Am I, to view thy &s;plendor, darkening his:</L>
<L>That lying here, among&s;t my other hoordes,</L>
<L>Shew'&s;t like a flame, by night; or like the Day</L>
<L>Strooke out of <HI>Chaos,</HI> when all darkenes fled</L>
<L>Vnto the center. O thou Sonne of <HI>Sol,</HI></L>
<L>(But brighter then thy father) let me ki&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>With adoration, thee, and euery relique</L>
<L>Of &s;acred trea&s;ure, in this ble&s;&s;ed roome.</L>
<L>Well did wi&s;e <HI>Poets,</HI> by thy glorious name,</L>
<L>Title that age, which they would haue the be&s;t;</L>
<L>Thou being the be&s;t of things: and far tran&s;cending</L>
<L>All &s;tile of ioy, in children, parents, friends,</L>
<L>Or any other waking dreame on earth.</L>
<L>Thy lookes when they to <HI>Venus</HI> did a&s;cribe,</L>
<L>They &s;hould haue giu'n her twenty thou&s;and <HI>Cupids;</HI></L>
<L>Such are thy beauties, and our loues. Deare <HI>Saint,</HI></L>
<L>Riches, the dombe God, that giu'&s;t all men tongues;</L>
<L>That can&s;t doe naught, and yet mak'&s;t men doe all things;</L>
<L>The price of &s;oules; euen hell, with thee to boote,</L>
<L>Is made worth heauen. Thou art vertue, fame,</L>
<L>Honor, and all things el&s;e. Who can get thee</L>
<L>He &s;hall be noble, valiant, hone&s;t, wi&s;e, &mdash;</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And what he will Sir. Riches are in fortune</L>
<PB REF="12">
<L>A greater good, then wi&s;edome is in nature.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>True, my beloued <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI> Yet, I glory</L>
<L>More in the cunning purcha&s;&s;e of my wealth,</L>
<L>Then in the glad po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e&s;&s;ion; &s;ince I gaine</L>
<L>No cowmon way: I v&s;e no trade, no venter;</L>
<L>I wound no earth with plow-&s;hares; fat no bea&s;ts</L>
<L>To feede the Shambles; haue no mills for iron,</L>
<L>Oyle, corne, or men, to grinde 'hem into poulder;</L>
<L>I blow no &s;ubtill gla&s;&s;e; expo&s;e no &s;hipps</L>
<L>To threatnings of the furrow-faced &s;ea;</L>
<L>I turne no moneys, in the publike banke;</L>
<L>Nor v&s;ure priuate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No Sir, nor deuoure</L>
<L>Soft prodigalls. You &s;hall ha' &s;ome will &s;wallow</L>
<L>A melting heire, as glibly, as your <HI>Dutch</HI></L>
<L>Will pills of butter, and n&ecirc;re purge for't;</L>
<L>Teare forth the fathers of poore families</L>
<L>Out of their beds, and coffin them aliue,</L>
<L>In &s;ome kinde, cla&s;ping pri&s;on, where their bones</L>
<L>May be forth-comming, when the fle&s;h is rotten:</L>
<L>But your &s;weet nature doth abhorre the&s;e cour&s;es;</L>
<L>You loath, the widdowes, or the orphans teares</L>
<L>Should wa&s;he your pauements; or their pityous cries</L>
<L>Ring in your roofes: and beate the ayre, for vengeance.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Right, <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> I do loath it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And be&s;ides, Sir,</L>
<L>You are not like a thre&s;her, that doth &s;tand</L>
<L>With a huge flaile, watching a heape of corne,</L>
<L>And, hungry, dares not ta&s;te the &s;malle&s;t graine,</L>
<L>But feedes on mallowes, and &s;uch bitter herbes;</L>
<L>Nor like the merchant, who hath fill'd his vaults</L>
<L>With <HI>Romagnia,</HI> and rich <HI>Candian</HI> wines,</L>
<L>Yet drinks the lees of <HI>Lombards</HI> vineger:</L>
<L>You will not lie in &s;traw, whil&s;t mothes, and wormes</L>
<L>Feed on your &s;umptuous hangings, and &s;oft bedds.</L>
<L>You know the v&s;e of riches, and dare giue, now,</L>
<L>From that bright heape, to mee, your poore ob&s;eruer,</L>
<L>Or to your <HI>Dwarfe,</HI> or your <HI>Hermaphrodite,</HI></L>
<PB REF="12">
<L>Your <HI>Eunuch,</HI> or what other hou&s;hold-trifle</L>
<L>Your plea&s;ure allowes maint'nance.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hold thee, <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI></L>
<L>Take of my hand; thou &s;trik'&s;t on truth, in all:</L>
<L>And they are enuious, terme thee <HI>Para&s;ite.</HI></L>
<L>Call forth my <HI>Dwarfe,</HI> my <HI>Eunuch,</HI> and my <HI>Foole,</HI></L>
<L>And let 'hem make me &s;port. What &s;hould I do,</L>
<L>But cocker vp my <HI>Genius,</HI> and liue free</L>
<L>To all delights, my fortune calls me too?</L>
<L>I haue no wife, no parent, childe, allye,</L>
<L>To giue my &s;ub&s;tance too; but whom I make,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t be my heyre: and this makes men ob&s;erue me.</L>
<L>This drawes newe clients, dayly, to my hou&s;e,</L>
<L>Women, and men, of euery &s;exe, and age,</L>
<L>That bring me pre&s;ents, &s;end me plate, coyne, iewels,</L>
<L>With hope, that when I die, (which they expect</L>
<L>Each greedy minute) it &s;hall then returne</L>
<L>Ten-fold vpon them; whil'&s;t &s;ome, couetous</L>
<L>Aboue the re&s;t, &s;eeke to engro&s;&s;e me, whole,</L>
<L>And counter-worke, the one, vnto the other,</L>
<L>Contend in gifts, as they would &s;eeme, in loue:</L>
<L>All which I &s;uffer, playing with their hopes,</L>
<L>And am content to coyne 'hem into profit,</L>
<L>To looke vpon their kindne&s;&s;e, and take more,</L>
<L>And looke on that; &s;till, bearing them in hand,</L>
<L>Letting the cherry knock again&s;t their lips,</L>
<L>And, drawe it, by their mouths, and back againe. How now!</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 1. SCENE. 2.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>NANO. ANDROGYNO. CASTR<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">NE. VOLPONE. MOSCA.</HI></STAGE>
<L>NOw roome, for fre&s;h Gam&s;ters, who do will you to know,</L>
<L>They do bring you neither Play, nor <HI>Vniuer&s;ity</HI> Show;</L>
<L>And therefore do intreat you, that what&s;oeuer they reher&s;e,</L>
<L>May not fare a whit the wor&s;e, for the fal&s;e pa&s;e of the ver&s;e.</L>
<PB REF="13">
<L>If you wonder at this, you will wonder more, ere we pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>For know, here is inclo&s;'d the Soule of <HI>Pithagoras,</HI></L>
<L>That Iugler diuine, as hereafter &s;hall follow;</L>
<L>Which Soule (fa&s;t, and loo&s;e, Sir) came fir&s;t from <HI>Apollo,</HI></L>
<L>And was breath'd into <HI>Aethalides, Mercurius</HI> his &s;onne,</L>
<L>Where it had the gift to remember all that euer was done.</L>
<L>From thence it fled forth, and made quicke tran&s;migration</L>
<L>To goldy-lockt <HI>Euphorbus,</HI> who was kill'd, in good fa&s;hion,</L>
<L>At the &s;eege of old <HI>Troy,</HI> by the Cuckold of <HI>Sparta.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hermotimus</HI> was next (I finde it, in my <HI>Chart&acirc;</HI>)</L>
<L>To whom it did pa&s;&s;e, where no &s;ooner it was mi&s;&s;ing,</L>
<L>But with one <HI>Pirrhus,</HI> of <HI>Delos,</HI> it learn'd to go a fi&s;hing:</L>
<L>And thence, did it enter the <HI>Sophi&s;t</HI> of <HI>Greece.</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Pithagore,</HI> &s;he went into a beautifull peece,</L>
<L>Hight <HI>A&s;pa&s;ia,</HI> the Meretrix; and the next to&s;&s;e of her</L>
<L>Was, againe, of a <HI>Whore,</HI> &s;he became a <HI>Philo&s;opher,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Crates</HI> the <HI>Cynick:</HI> (as it &s;elfe doth rel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te it)</L>
<L>Since, <HI>Kings, Knights,</HI> &amp; <HI>Beggars, Knaues, Lords</HI> &amp; <HI>Fooles</HI> gat it,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides, Oxe, and A&s;&s;e, Cammel, Mule, Goat, and Brock,</L>
<L>In all which it hath spoke, as in the <HI>Coblers</HI> Cock.</L>
<L>But I come not here, to di&s;cour&s;e of that matter,</L>
<L>Or h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s <HI>One, Two,</HI> or <HI>Three,</HI> or his <HI>great Oath, by Quater,</HI></L>
<L>His <HI>Mu&s;icks,</HI> his <HI>Trigon,</HI> his golden Thigh,</L>
<L>Or his telling how <HI>Elements</HI> &s;hift: but I</L>
<L>Would aske, how of late, thou ha&s;t &s;uffered tran&s;lation,</L>
<L>And &s;hifted thy coat, in the&s;e dayes of Reformation?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>Like one of the Reformed, a <HI>Foole,</HI> as you &s;ee,</L>
<L>Counting all old Doctrine <HI>here&s;ie:</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>But not on thine owne forbid meates ha&s;t thou venter'd?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>On fi&s;h, when fir&s;t, a <HI>Carthu&s;ian</HI> I enter'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, then thy dogmaticall Silence hath left thee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of that an obstreperous <HI>Lawyer</HI> bereft mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>O wonderfull change! when <HI>S^r Lawyer</HI> for&s;ooke thee,</L>
<L>For <HI>Pithagore's</HI> &s;ake, what body then tooke thee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>A good dull Moyle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>And how? by that meanes,</L>
<L>Thou wert brought to allow of the eating of Beanes?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="13">
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, from the Moyle, into whom did'&s;t thou pa&s;&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>Into a very &s;trange Bea&s;t, by &s;ome <HI>Writers</HI> cal'd an A&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>By others, a preci&s;e, pure, illuminate Brother,</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e deuoure fle&s;h, and &s;ometimes one an other:</L>
<L>And will drop you forth a <HI>libell,</HI> or a &s;anctified lie,</L>
<L>Betwixt euery &s;pooneful of a <HI>Natiuity</HI> Pie.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now quit thee, for Heauen, of that profane nation;</L>
<L>And gently, report thy next tran&s;migration.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>To the &s;ame that I am.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Creature of delight?</L>
<L>And (what is more then a <HI>Foole</HI>) an <HI>Hermaphrodite?</HI></L>
<L>Now' pray thee, &s;weete Soule, in all thy variation,</L>
<L>Which Body would&s;t thou choo&s;e, to take vp thy station?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>Troth, this I am in, euen here would <HI>I</HI> tarry.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Cau&s;e here, the delight of each Sexe thou can&s;t varie?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas, tho&s;e plea&s;ures be &s;tale, and for&s;aken;</L>
<L>No, tis your <HI>Foole,</HI> wherewith I am &s;o taken,</L>
<L>The onely one Creature, that I can call ble&s;&s;ed:</L>
<L>For all other formes I haue prou'd mo&s;t di&s;tre&s;&s;ed.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>Spoke true, as thou wert in <HI>Pithagoras</HI> &s;till.</L>
<L>This learned opinion we celebrate will,</L>
<L>Fellow <HI>Eunuch</HI> (as behooues vs) with all our wit, and arte,</L>
<L>To dignifie that, whereof our &s;elues are &s;o great, and &s;pecial a part.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOL.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Now very, very pretty:</HI> Mo&s;ca, <HI>this</HI></L>
<L><HI>Was thy inuention?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>If it plea&s;e my Patron,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not el&s;e.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOL.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>It doth good</HI> Mo&s;ca.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Then it was S^r.</HI></L>
</SP>
<FLOATEXT LANG="eng" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>SONG.</HEAD>
<L>FOoles, they are the onely Nation</L>
<L>Worth mens enuy, or admiration;</L>
<L>Free from care, or &s;orrow-taking,</L>
<L>Them&s;elues, and others merry making:</L>
<L>All they &s;peake, or do, is &s;terling.</L>
<L>Your <HI>Foole,</HI> he is your great mans dearling,</L>
<L>And your Ladies &s;port, and plea&s;ure;</L>
<L>Tongue, and Bable are his trea&s;ure.</L>
<PB REF="14">
<L>His very face begetteth laughter,</L>
<L>And he speakes truth, free from &s;laughter;</L>
<L>He's the grace of euery fea&s;t,</L>
<L>And, &s;ometimes, the cheefe&s;t gue&s;t:</L>
<L>Hath his trencher, and his &s;toole,</L>
<L>When wit &s;hall waite vpon the <HI>Foole:</HI></L>
<L>O, who would not bee</L>
<L>Hee, hee, hee?</L>
</FLOATEXT>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who's that? away, looke <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Foole,</HI> be gon,</L>
<L>'Tis Signior <HI>&V;oltore,</HI> the Aduocate,</L>
<L>I know him, by his knock.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fetch me my gowne,</L>
<L>My furres, and night-caps; &s;ay, my couch is changing:</L>
<L>And let him intertaine him&s;elfe, a while,</L>
<L>Within i' th' gallery. Now, now, my clients</L>
<L>Beginne their vi&s;itation; <HI>Vulture, Kite,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rauen,</HI> and <HI>gor-Crowe,</HI> all my birds of prey,</L>
<L>That thinke me turning carca&s;&s;e, now they come:</L>
<L>I am not for 'hem yet. How now? the newes?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>A peece of plate, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of what bigne&s;&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Huge,</L>
<L>Ma&s;&s;ie, and antique, with your name in&s;crib'd,</L>
<L>And armes ingrauen.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good, And not a <HI>Foxe</HI></L>
<L>Stretch'd on the earth, with fine delu&s;iue &s;leights,</L>
<L>Mocking a gaping <HI>Crow?</HI> ha, <HI>Mo&s;ca?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sharpe, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Giue me my furres. Why do&s;t thou laugh &s;o, man?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I cannot choo&s;e, Sir, when I apprehend</L>
<L>What thoughts he has (within) now, as he walks:</L>
<L>That this might be the la&s;t gift, he &s;hould giue;</L>
<L>That this would fetch you; if you died to day,</L>
<L>And gaue him all, what he &s;hould be to morrow;</L>
<L>What large returne would come of all his venters;</L>
<L>How he &s;hould wor&s;hip'd bee, and reuerenc'd;</L>
<L>Ride, with his furres, and foote-cloths; waited on</L>
<L>By heards of <HI>Fooles,</HI> and clients; haue cleare way</L>
<L>Made for his moyle, as letter'd as him&s;elfe;</L>
<PB REF="14">
<L>Be cald the great, and learned <HI>Aduocate:</HI></L>
<L>And then concludes, there's nought impo&s;&s;ible.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, to be learned, <HI>Mo&s;ca;</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O no: rich</L>
<L>Implies it. Hood an a&s;&s;e, with reuerend purple,</L>
<L>So you can hide his two ambitious eares,</L>
<L>And, he &s;hall pa&s;&s;e for a <HI>cathedrall Doctor.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>My caps, my caps, good <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> fetch him in.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Stay, Sir, your ointment for your eyes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>That's true;</L>
<L>Di&s;patch, di&s;patch: I long to haue po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>Of my newe pre&s;ent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>That, and thou&s;ands more,</L>
<L>I hope, to &s;ee you lord of.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thankes, kind <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And that, when I am lo&s;t in blended du&s;t,</L>
<L>And hundred &s;uch, as I am, in &s;ucce&s;&s;ion &mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, that were too much, <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall liue,</L>
<L>Still, to delude the&s;e <HI>Harpyeis.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Louing <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI></L>
<L>'Tis well, my pillow now, and let him enter.</L>
<L>Now, my fain'd <HI>Cough,</HI> my <HI>Pthi&s;ick,</HI> and my <HI>Goute,</HI></L>
<L>My <HI>Apoplexie, Pal&s;ie,</HI> and <HI>Catarrhe,</HI></L>
<L>Helpe, with your forced functions, this my po&s;ture,</L>
<L>Wherein, this three yeare, I haue milk'd their hopes.</L>
<L>He comes, I heare him (vh, vh, vh, vh) &ocirc;.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 1. SCENE. 3.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. VOLTORE. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>YOu &s;till are, what you were, Sir. Onely you</L>
<L>(Of all the re&s;t) are he, commands his loue:</L>
<L>And you do wi&s;ely to pre&s;erue it, thus,</L>
<L>With early vi&s;itation, and kinde notes</L>
<L>Of your good meaning to him, which, I know,</L>
<L>Cannot but come mo&s;t gratefull. <HI>Patron,</HI> Sir.</L>
<L>Here's Signior <HI>Voltore</HI> is come&mdash;</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;ay you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>S^r. Signior <HI>&V;oltore</HI> is come, this morning,</L>
<L>To vi&s;it you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thanke him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And hath brought</L>
<L>A peece of antique plate, bought of S^t. <HI>Marke,</HI></L>
<PB REF="15">
<L>With which he here pre&s;ents you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>He is welcome.</L>
<L>Pray him, to come more often.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;aies he?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>He thankes you, and de&s;ires you &s;ee him often.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MO.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Patron?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bring him neare, where is he?</L>
<L>I long to feele his hand.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>The plate is here S^r.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>How fare you S^r?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thanke you, Signior <HI>Voltore.</HI></L>
<L>Where is the plate? mine eyes are bad.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'm &s;orry,</L>
<L>To &s;ee you &s;till thus weake.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>That hee is not weaker.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are too munificent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>No S^r. would to heauen,</L>
<L>I could as well giue health to you, as that plate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>You giue S^r. what you can. I thanke you. Your loue</L>
<L>Hath ta&s;t in this, and &s;hall not be vnan&s;wer'd.</L>
<L>I pray you &s;ee me often.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, I &s;hall S^r.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be not far from mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do you ob&s;erue that S^r?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hearken vnto mee, &s;till. It will concerne you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are a happy man S^r, know your good.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I cannot now la&s;t long.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are his heyre S^r.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Am I?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I feele mee going, (vh, vh, vh, vh.)</L>
<L>I am &s;ayling to my port, (vh vh, vh, vh?)</L>
<L>And I am glad, I am &s;o neere my hauen.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas, kinde gentleman, well, we mu&s;t all go.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Age will conquer.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray thee heare mee.</L>
<L>Am I in&s;crib'd his heire, for certaine?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Are you?</L>
<L>I do be&s;eech you S^r. you will vouch&s;afe</L>
<L>To write me, i'your family. All my hopes,</L>
<L>Depend vpon your wor&s;hip; I am lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Except the ri&s;ing Sunne do &s;hine on me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>It &s;hall both &s;hine, and warme thee, <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>S^r.</L>
<L>I am a man, that haue not done your loue</L>
<L>All the wor&s;t offices, here I weare your keys,</L>
<L>See all your coffers, and your caskets lockt,</L>
<L>Keepe the poore inuentorie of your iewels,</L>
<L>Your plate, and moneyes, am your Steward S^r.</L>
<L>Husband your goods here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>But am I &s;ole heyre?</L>
<PB REF="15">
<L><HI>His body is beholding to &s;uch a bad face.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who's there? my couch, Away, looke <HI>Nano,</HI> &s;ee:</L>
<L>Giue mee my cappes, fir&s;t&mdash; go, enquire. Now, <HI>Cupid</HI></L>
<L>Send it be <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> and with faire returne.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>It is the beauteous <HI>Madam</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Would-bee?</HI> is it?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>The &s;ame.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now, torment on mee; &s;quire her in:</L>
<L>For &s;he will enter, or dwell here for euer.</L>
<L>Nay, quickly, that my fit were pa&s;t I feare</L>
<L>A &s;econd hell too, that my loathing this</L>
<L>Will quite expell my appetite to the other:</L>
<L>Would &s;he were taki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g, now, her tedious leaue.</L>
<L>Lord, how it threates mee, what I am to &s;uffer!</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 3. SCENE. 4.</HEAD>
<STAGE>LADY. VOLPONE. NANO. WOMEN. 2.</STAGE>
<L>I thanke you, good Sir. 'Pray you &s;ignifie</L>
<L>Vnto your Patron, I am here. This band</L>
<L>Shewes not my neck inough (I trouble you, Sir,</L>
<L>Let me reque&s;t you&punc; bid one of my women</L>
<L>Come hether to mee) In good faith, I, am dre&s;t</L>
<L>Mo&s;t fauorably, to day, it is no matter,</L>
<L>'Tis well inough. Looke, &s;ee, the&s;e petulant things,</L>
<L>How they haue done this!</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do feele the <HI>Feuer</HI></L>
<L>Entring, in at mine eares; O, for a charme,</L>
<L>To fright it hence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come nearer: Is this curle</L>
<L>In his right place? or this? why is this higher</L>
<L>Then all the re&s;t? you ha'not wa&s;h'd your eies, yet?</L>
<L>Or do they not &s;tand euen i'your head?</L>
<L>Where's your fellow? call her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now, S^t <HI>Marke</HI></L>
<L>Deliuer vs: anone, &s;hee'll beate her women,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e her no&s;e is red.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I pray you, view</L>
<L>This tire, for&s;ooth; are all things apt, or no?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM.</SPEAKER>
<L>One haire a little, here, &s;ticks out, for&s;ooth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="16">
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do's't &s;o for&s;ooth? and where was your deare &s;ight</L>
<L>When it did &s;o, for&s;ooth? what now? bird-eyd?</L>
<L>And you too? 'pray you both approach, and mend it.</L>
<L>Now (by that light) I mu&s;e, yo' are not a&s;ham'd,</L>
<L>I, that haue preach'd the&s;e things, &s;o oft, vnto you,</L>
<L>Read you the principles, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gu'd all the grounds,</L>
<L>Di&s;puted eue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y fitne&s;&s;e, euery grace,</L>
<L>Call'd you to councell of &s;o frequent dre&s;&s;ings&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>(NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>More carefully, then of your fame, or honor)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Made you acquainted, what an ample dowry</L>
<L>The knowledge of the&s;e things would be vnto you,</L>
<L>Able, alone, to get you <HI>Noble</HI> hu&s;bands</L>
<L>At your returne: And you, thus, to neglect it?</L>
<L>Be&s;ides, you &s;eeing what a curious <HI>Nation</HI></L>
<L>Th' <HI>Italians</HI> are, what will they &s;ay of mee?</L>
<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h Lady</HI> cannot dre&s;&s;e her &s;elfe;</L>
<L>Here's a fine imputation, to our Country:</L>
<L>Well, goe your waies, and &s;tay, i'the next roome.</L>
<L>This <HI>fucus</HI> was to cour&s;e too, it's no matter.</L>
<L>Good-Sir, you'll giue 'hem entertaynement?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>The &s;torme comes toward me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>How do's my <HI>Volp?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Troubled with noy&s;e, I cannot &s;leepe; I dreamt'</L>
<L>That a &s;trange <HI>Fury</HI> entred, now, my hou&s;e,</L>
<L>And, with the dreadfull tempe&s;t of her breath,</L>
<L>Did cleaue my roofe a&s;under.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Beleeue me, and I</L>
<L>Had the mo&s;t fearefull dreame, could I remember't&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Out on my fate; I ha'giu'n her the occa&s;ion</L>
<L>How to torment mee: &s;hee will tell me hers.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Me thought, the <HI>golden Mediocrity</HI></L>
<L>Polite, and delicate&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, if you do loue mee,</L>
<L>No more; I &s;weate, and &s;uffer, at the mention</L>
<L>Of any dreame: feele, how I tremble yet.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ala&s;&s;e, good &s;oule! the Pa&s;&s;ion of the heart.</L>
<L><HI>Seede-pearle</HI> were good now, boild with <HI>&s;irrope of Apples,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tincture of Gold,</HI> and <HI>Currall, Citron-pills,</HI></L>
<L>Your <HI>Elicampane</HI> roote, <HI>Mirobalanes</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="16">
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ay me, I haue t&acirc;ne a gra&s;&s;e-hopper by the wing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Burnt &s;ilke,</HI> and <HI>Amber,</HI> you haue <HI>Mu&s;cadell</HI></L>
<L>Good i'the hou&s;e&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>You will not drinke, and part?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, feare not that. I doubt, wee &s;hall not get</L>
<L>Some <HI>Engli&s;h &s;affron</HI> (halfe a <HI>dram</HI> would &s;erue)</L>
<L>Your &s;ixteene <HI>Cloues,</HI> a little <HI>Muske,</HI> dri'd <HI>Mintes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Buglo&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>barley-meale</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Shee's in againe,</L>
<L>Before I fayn'd di&s;ea&s;es, now I haue one.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>And the&s;e appli'd, with a right &s;carlet-cloth&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Another floud of words! a very torrent!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Shall I, Sir, make you a <HI>Poulti&s;e?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, no, no;</L>
<L>I'am very well: you neede pre&s;cribe no more.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I haue, a little, &s;tudied <HI>Phy&s;ick;</HI> but, now,</L>
<L>I' am all for <HI>Mu&s;ique:</HI> &s;aue, i'the forenoones,</L>
<L>An houre, or two, for <HI>Paynting.</HI> I would haue</L>
<L>A <HI>Lady,</HI> indeed, t'haue all, <HI>Letters,</HI> and <HI>Artes,</HI></L>
<L>Be able to di&s;cour&s;e, to write, to paynt,</L>
<L>But principall (as <HI>Plato</HI> holds) your <HI>Mu&s;ique</HI></L>
<L>(And, &s;o do's wi&s;e <HI>Pithagoras,</HI> I take it)</L>
<L>Is your true rapture; when there is concent</L>
<L>In face, in voice, and clothes: and is, indeed,</L>
<L>Our &s;exes chiefe&s;t ornament.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>The <HI>Po&euml;t,</HI></L>
<L>As old in time, as <HI>Plato,</HI> and as knowing,</L>
<L>Say's that your highe&s;t female grace is <HI>Silence.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Which o'your <HI>Po&euml;ts? Petrarch?</HI> or <HI>Ta&s;&s;o?</HI> 'or <HI>Dante?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Guerrini? Ario&s;to? Aretine?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cieco di Hadria?</HI> I haue read them all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is euery thing a cau&s;e, to my di&s;truction?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thinke, I ha' two or three of'hem, about mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>The &s;unne, the &s;ea will &s;ooner, both, &s;tand &s;till,</L>
<L>Then her aeternall tongue; nothing can &s;cape it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here's <HI>Pa&s;tor Fidc</HI>-</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Profe&s;&s;e ob&s;tinate &s;ilence,</L>
<L>That's, now, my &s;afe&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>All our <HI>Engli&s;h Writers,</HI></L>
<L>I meane &s;uch, as are happy in th' <HI>Italian,</HI></L>
<L>Will deigne to &s;teale out of this <HI>Author,</HI> mainely;</L>
<PB REF="17">
<L>Almo&s;t as much, as from <HI>Montagni&eacute;;</HI></L>
<L>He has &s;o moderne, and facile a veine,</L>
<L>Fitting the time, and catching the <HI>Court</HI>-eare.</L>
<L>Your <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rch</HI> is more pa&s;&s;ionate, yet he,</L>
<L>In d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yes of <HI>So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> tru&s;ted 'hem, with much:</L>
<L><HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> is hard, and fewe can vnder&s;tand him.</L>
<L>But, f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r a de&s;perate wit, there's <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">;</HI></L>
<L>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ly, his <HI>pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> are a little ob&s;cene &mdash;</L>
<L>You marke mee not?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ala&s;&s;e&punc; my mind's perturb'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why in &s;uch ca&s;es we mu&s;t cure our &s;elues,</L>
<L>Make v&s;e of our <HI>Phil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ophie</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O'ay mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, as we finde our pa&s;&s;ions do rebell,</L>
<L>Encounter 'hem with rea&s;on; or diuert 'hem,</L>
<L>By g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uing &s;cope vnto &s;ome other humour</L>
<L>Of le&s;&s;er danger: As, in <HI>politique</HI> bodyes,</L>
<L>There's nothing, more&punc; doth ouerwhelme the iudgment,</L>
<L>And clouds the vnder&s;tanding, then too much</L>
<L>Setling, and fixing, and (as 't were) &s;ub&s;iding</L>
<L>Vpon one obiect. For the incorporating</L>
<L>Of the&s;e &s;ame outward things, into that part,</L>
<L>Which we call <HI>mentall,</HI> leaues &s;ome certaine <HI>faces,</HI></L>
<L>That &s;top the <HI>organ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and as <HI>Plato</HI> &s;ayes,</L>
<L>A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inates our knowledge.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now, the &s;pirit</L>
<L>Of patience helpe me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come, in faith, I mu&s;t</L>
<L>Vi&s;it you more, a dayes; and make you well:</L>
<L>Laugh, and be lu&s;ty.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>My good <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">gell</HI> &s;aue mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>There was but one &s;ole man, in all the world,</L>
<L>With whom I ere could &s;ympathize; and hee.</L>
<L>Would lie you often three, foure houres together,</L>
<L>To heare me &s;peake: and be (&s;ometime) &s;o rap't,</L>
<L>As he would an&s;wer me, quite from the purpo&s;e,</L>
<L>Like you, and you are like him, iu&s;t. Ile di&s;cour&s;e</L>
<L>(And 't be but only, Sir, to bring you a&s;leepe)</L>
<L>How we did &s;pend our time, and loues, together,</L>
<L>For &s;ome &s;ixe yeares.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="17">
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>For we were <HI>Coaetanei,</HI> and brought vp&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Some power&punc; &s;ome fate, &s;ome fortune re&s;cue mee.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 3. SCENE. 5.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. LADY. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>GOD &s;aue you, <HI>Madam.</HI></L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">?</HI> welcome,</L>
<L>Welcome to my redemption.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh,</L>
<L>Rid me of this my torture, quickly there;</L>
<L>My <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dam,</HI> with the euerla&s;ting voyce:</L>
<L>The Bells, in time of pe&s;tilence, n&ecirc;re made</L>
<L>Like noy&s;e, or were in that perpetuall motion;</L>
<L>The Cock-pit comes not neare it. All my hou&s;e,</L>
<L>But now, &s;team'd like a bath, with her thicke breath.</L>
<L>A <HI>Lawyer</HI> could not haue beene heard; nor &s;car&s;e</L>
<L>Another Woman &s;uch a hayle of words</L>
<L>She has let fall. For hells &s;ake, ridd her hence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Has &s;he pre&s;ented?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, I do not care,</L>
<L>I'le take her ab&s;ence, vpon any price,</L>
<L>With any lo&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Madam.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I ha' brought your Pa|tron</L>
<L>A toy, a cap here, of mine owne worke&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis well,</L>
<L>I had forgot to tell you, I &s;aw your Knight,</L>
<L>Where you'ld little thinke it&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Marry,</L>
<L>Where yet, if you make ha&s;t you may apprehend him,</L>
<L>Rowing vpon the water in a <HI>gondole,</HI></L>
<L>With the mo&s;t cunning Curtizan, of <HI>Venice.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is 't true?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pur&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e 'hem, and beleeue your eyes:</L>
<L>Leaue mee, to make your gift. I knew, 'twould take.</L>
<L>For lightly, they, that v&s;e them&s;elues mo&s;t licence,</L>
<L>Are &s;till m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t iealous.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> hearty thanks,</L>
<L>For thy quick fiction, and deliuery of mee.</L>
<L>Now, to my hopes, what &s;ai&s;t thou?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>But do you heare, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Againe; I feare a <HI>paroxi&s;me.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Which way</L>
<PB REF="18">
<L>Row'd they together?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Toward the <HI>Rialto.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I pray you, lend me your <HI>Dwarfe.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I pray you, take him&mdash;</L>
<L>Your hopes, Sir, are like happy blo&s;&s;omes, fayre,</L>
<L>And promi&s;e timely fruict, if you will &s;tay</L>
<L>But the maturing; keepe you, at your couch,</L>
<L><HI>Corbacci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> will arriue &s;traight, with the Will:</L>
<L>When he is gone, Ile tell you more.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>My bloud,</L>
<L>My &s;pirits are return'd; I am aliue:</L>
<L>And like your wanton gam'&s;ter, at <HI>Primero,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e thought had whi&s;per'd to him <HI>not go le&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Me thinkes I lie, and drawe&mdash;for an encounter.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 3. SCENE. 6.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. BONARIO.</STAGE>
<L>SIr, here conceald, you may here all. But 'pray you</L>
<L>Haue patience, Sir; the &s;ame's your father, knocks:</L>
<L>I am compeld, to leaue you.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do &s;o. Yet,</L>
<L>Cannot my thought imagine this a truth.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="7" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 3. SCENE. 7.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCO. CORVINO. CELIA. BONARIO. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>DEath on me! you are come to &s;oone, what meant you?</L>
<L>Did not I &s;ay, I would &s;end?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, but I feard</L>
<L>You might forget it, and then they preuent vs.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Preuent? did ere man ha&s;t &s;o, for his hornes?</L>
<L>A <HI>Courtier</HI> would not ply it &s;o, for a place.</L>
<L>Well, now there's no helping it, &s;tay here;</L>
<L>Ile pre&s;ently returne.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where are you, <HI>Celia?</HI></L>
<L>You know not, wherefore I haue brought you hether?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not well, except you told mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now, I will:</L>
<PB REF="18">
<L>Hearke hether.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, your father hath &s;ent word,</L>
<L>It will be halfe an houre, ere he come;</L>
<L>And therefore, if you plea&s;e to walke, the while,</L>
<L>Into that gallery&mdash;at the vpper end,</L>
<L>There are &s;ome bookes, to entertaine the time:</L>
<L>And Ile take care, no man &s;hall come vnto you, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, I will &s;tay there; I do doubt this fellow.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>There, he is faire inough; he can heare nothing:</L>
<L>And, for his father, I can keepe him of.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, now, there is no &s;tarting back; and therefore,</L>
<L>Re&s;olue vpon it: I haue &s;o decree'd.</L>
<L>It mu&s;t be done. Nor, would I moue't, afore,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e I would auoyd all &s;hifts, and tricks,</L>
<L>That might deny mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, let mee be&s;eech you,</L>
<L>Affect not the&s;e &s;trange trialls; if you doubt</L>
<L>My cha&s;tity, why lock me vp, for euer:</L>
<L>Make me the heyre of darkene&s;&s;e. Let me liue,</L>
<L>Where I may plea&s;e your feares, if not your tru&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Beleeue it, I haue no &s;uch humor, I.</L>
<L>All that I &s;peake, I meane; yet I am not mad:</L>
<L>Not horne-mad, &s;ee you? Go too, &s;hew your &s;elfe</L>
<L>Obedient, and a wife.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>O heauen!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;ay it,</L>
<L>Do &s;o.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Was this the traine?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'haue told you rea&s;ons;</L>
<L>What the <HI>Phi&s;itians</HI> haue &s;et downe; how much,</L>
<L>It may concerne mee; what my ingagements are;</L>
<L>My meanes; and the nece&s;&s;ity of tho&s;e meanes,</L>
<L>For my recouery: wherefore, if you bee</L>
<L>Loyall, and mine, be wonne re&s;pect my venture.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Before your honour?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Honour? tut, a breath;</L>
<L>There's no &s;uch thing, in nature: a mere terme</L>
<L>Inuented to awe fooles. What is my gold</L>
<L>The wor&s;e, for touching? clothes, for being look'd on?</L>
<L>Why, this 's no more. An old, decrepite wretch,</L>
<L>That ha's no &s;en&s;e, no &s;inewe; takes his meate</L>
<L>With others fingers; onely knowes to gape,</L>
<L>When you do &s;cald his gummes; a voice; a &s;hadow;</L>
<PB REF="19">
<L>And, what can this man hurt you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Lord! what &s;pirit</L>
<L>Is this hath entred him?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>And for your fame,</L>
<L>That's &s;uch a <HI>ligg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI> as if I would go tell it,</L>
<L>Crie it, on the <HI>Piazz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">!</HI> who &s;hall know it?</L>
<L>But hee, that cannot &s;peake it; and this fellow,</L>
<L>Who&s;e lippes are i' my pocket: &s;aue your &s;elfe,</L>
<L>If you'll proclaime 't, you may. I know no other,</L>
<L>Should come to knowe it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Are heauen, and <HI>Saints</HI> then nothing?</L>
<L>Will they be blind, or &s;tupide?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good Sir,</L>
<L>Be iealous &s;til, aemulate them; and thinke</L>
<L>What hate they burne with, toward euery &s;inne.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I graunt you; if I thought it were a &s;inne,</L>
<L>I would not vrge you. Should I offer this</L>
<L>To &s;ome young <HI>Frenchman,</HI> or hot <HI>Tu&s;cane</HI> bloud,</L>
<L>That had read <HI>Ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tine,</HI> conn'd all his <HI>printes,</HI></L>
<L>Knew euery quirke within lu&s;ts <HI>Laborinth,</HI></L>
<L>And were profe&s;t <HI>Critique,</HI> in lechery;</L>
<L>And I would looke vpon him, and applaud him,</L>
<L>This were a &s;inne: but here, tis contrary,</L>
<L>A pious worke, mere charity, for Phy&s;ick,</L>
<L>And hone&s;t politie, to a&s;&s;ure mine owne.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>O heauen, can&s;t thou &s;uffer &s;uch a change?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thou art mine honor, <HI>Mo&s;ca</HI> and my pride,</L>
<L>My ioy, my tickling my delight: go, bring 'hem.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Plea&s;e you drawe neare, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come on, what&mdash;</L>
<L>You will not be rebellious? By that light&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, Signior <HI>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uino,</HI> here, is come to &s;ee you,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, hearing of the con&s;ultation had,</L>
<L>So lately, for your health, is come to offer,</L>
<L>Or rather, Sir, to pro&s;titute&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thankes, &s;weete <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Freely, vna&mdash;sk'd, or vn&mdash;intreated&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>COR.</SPEAKER>
<L>Well.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>(As the true, feruent in&s;tance of his loue)</L>
<L>His owne mo&s;t faire, and proper wife; the beauty,</L>
<L>Onely of price, in <HI>Veni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis well vrg'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>To bee your comfortre&s;&s;e, and to pre&s;erue you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="19">
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ala&s;&s;e, I' am pa&s;t already. 'Pray you, thanke 'him,</L>
<L>For his good care, and promptne&s;&s;e. But for that,</L>
<L>Tis a vaine labour, eene to fight, 'gain&s;t heauen;</L>
<L>Applying fire to a &s;tone: (uh, uh, uh, uh,)</L>
<L>Making a dead leafe grow againe. I take</L>
<L>His wi&s;hes gently, though; and, you may tell him,</L>
<L>What I haue done for him: Mary, my &s;tate is hop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Will him, to pray for mee; and t'v&s;e his fortune,</L>
<L>With reuerence, when he comes to it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do you heare, Sir?</L>
<L>Go to him, with your wife.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Heart of my father!</L>
<L>Wilt thou per&s;i&s;t thus? Come. I pray thee, come.</L>
<L>Thou &s;ee&s;t' tis nothing: <HI>Celia.</HI> By this hand,</L>
<L>I &s;hall grow violent. Come, do't, I &s;ay.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, kill mee, rather: I will take downe poy&s;on,</L>
<L>Eate burning coales, do any thing&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be damn'd.</L>
<L>(Heart) I will drag thee hence, home, by the haire;</L>
<L>Cry thee a &s;trumpet, through the &s;treetes; rip vp</L>
<L>Thy mouth, vnto thine eares; and &s;lit thy no&s;e,</L>
<L>Like a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aw rotchet&mdash;Do not tempt mee, come,</L>
<L>Yeld, I am loth&mdash;(Death) I will buy &s;ome &s;laue,</L>
<L>Whom I will kill, and binde thee to him, aliue;</L>
<L>And, at my windore, hang you forth: deui&s;ing</L>
<L>Some mon&s;trous crime, which I, in CAPITAL letters,</L>
<L>Will eate into thy fle&s;h, with <HI>Aqua-fortis,</HI></L>
<L>And burning cor'&s;iues, on this &s;tubborne bre&s;t.</L>
<L>Now, by the bloud, thou ha&s;t incen&s;'d, Ile doo't.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, what you plea&s;e, you may, I am your <HI>Martyr.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bee not thus ob&s;tinate, I ha' not de&s;eru'd it:</L>
<L>Thinke, who it is, intreats you. 'Pray thee, &s;weete;</L>
<L>(Good' faith) thou &s;halt haue iewells, gownes, attires,</L>
<L>What thou' wilt thinke, and aske&mdash;Do, but, goe ki&s;&s;e him.</L>
<L>Or touch him, but. For my &s;ake. At my &s;ute.</L>
<L>This once. No? Not? I &s;hall remember this.</L>
<L>Will you di&s;grace mee, thus? Do' you thir&s;t my' vndoing?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, gentle Lady, bee adui&s;'d.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, no.</L>
<L>She has watch'd her time. God's precious&mdash;this is skiruy;</L>
<PB REF="20">
<L>'Tis very &s;kiruie: And you are&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, good, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>An errant <HI>Locu&s;t,</HI> by heauen, a <HI>Locu&s;t.</HI> Whore,</L>
<L><HI>Crocodile,</HI> that ha&s;t thy teares prepar'd,</L>
<L>Expecting how thou'lt bid hem flow.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, 'Pray you, Sir,</L>
<L>Shee will con&s;ider.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Would my life would &s;erue</L>
<L>To &s;ati&s;fie&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>(S' death) if &s;he would but &s;peake to him,</L>
<L>And &s;aue my reputation, 'twere &s;omewhat;</L>
<L>But, &s;pightfully to affect my vtter ruine:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, now you haue put your fortune, in her hands.</L>
<L>Why i' faith, it is her mode&s;ty, I mu&s;t quit her;</L>
<L>If you were ab&s;ent, &s;hee would be more comming;</L>
<L>I know it: and dare vndertake for her.</L>
<L>What woman can, before her hu&s;band? 'pray you,</L>
<L>Let vs departe, and leaue her, here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sweete <HI>Celia,</HI></L>
<L>Thou may&s;t redeeme all, yet; Ile &s;ay no more:</L>
<L>If not, e&s;teeme your &s;elfe as lo&s;t,&mdash;Nay, &s;tay there.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>O <HI>God,</HI> and his good <HI>Angells!</HI> whether, whether</L>
<L>Is &s;hame fled humane bre&s;ts? that, with &s;uch ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Men dare put of your honors, and their owne?</L>
<L>Is that, which euer was a cau&s;e of life,</L>
<L>Now plac'd beneath the ba&s;e&s;t circum&s;tance?</L>
<L>And mode&s;ty an exile made, for money?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, in <HI>Coruine,</HI> and &s;uch earth-fed mindes,</L>
<L>That neuer ta&s;ted the true heau'n of loue.</L>
<L>A&s;&s;ure thee, <HI>Celia,</HI> he that would &s;ell thee,</L>
<L>Onely for hope of gaine, and that vncertaine,</L>
<L>He would haue &s;old his part of <HI>Paradi&s;e</HI></L>
<L>For ready money, had he met a Cope-man.</L>
<L>Why art thou maz'd, to &s;ee mee thus reuiu'd?</L>
<L>Rather, applaud thy beauties miracle;</L>
<L>'Tis thy great worke: that hath, not now alone,</L>
<L>But &s;undry times, 'ray&s;'d mee, in &s;euerall &s;hapes,</L>
<L>And, but this morning, like a <HI>Mountebanke;</HI></L>
<L>To &s;ee thee at thy windore. I, before</L>
<L>I would haue left my practi&s;e, for thy loue,</L>
<L>In varying figures, I would haue contended</L>
<PB REF="20">
<L>With the blew <HI>Proteus,</HI> or the <HI>horned Floud.</HI></L>
<L>Now, art thou welcome.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, flie mee not;</L>
<L>Nor, let thy fal&s;e imagination</L>
<L>That I was bedrid, make thee thinke, I am &s;o:</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt not find it. I am, now, as fre&s;h,</L>
<L>As hot, as high, and, in as <HI>Iouiall</HI> plight,</L>
<L>As when (in that &s;o celebrated <HI>Scene,</HI></L>
<L>At recitation of our <HI>Comoedie,</HI></L>
<L>For entertayment of the great <HI>Valoys</HI>)</L>
<L>I acted yong <HI>Antino&uuml;s;</HI> and a racted</L>
<L>The eyes, and eares of all the <HI>Ladies,</HI> pre&s;ent,</L>
<L>T' admire each gracefull ge&s;ture, note, and footing.</L>
</SP>
<FLOATEXT LANG="eng" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>SONG.</HEAD>
<L>COme, my <HI>Celia,</HI> let vs proue,</L>
<L>While wee can, the &s;ports of loue;</L>
<L>Time will not be ours, for euer,</L>
<L>He, at length, our good will &s;euer;</L>
<L>Spend not then his guiftes, in vaine.</L>
<L>Sunnes, that &s;et, may ri&s;e againe:</L>
<L>But if, once, we loo&s;e this light,</L>
<L>'Tis with vs perpetuall night.</L>
<L>Why &s;hould wee deferre our ioyes?</L>
<L>Fame, and rumor are but toyes.</L>
<L>Cannot wee delude the eyes</L>
<L>Of a few poore hou&s;hold-&s;pies?</L>
<L>Or his ea&s;ier eares beguile,</L>
<L>Thus remooued, by our wile?</L>
<L>Tis no &s;inne, loues fruicts to &s;teale;</L>
<L>But the &s;weete thefts to reueale:</L>
<L>To be taken, to be &s;eene,</L>
<L>The&s;e haue crimes accounted beene.</L>
</FLOATEXT>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Some <HI>&s;erene</HI> bla&s;t me, or dire lightning &s;trike</L>
<PB REF="21">
<L>This my offending face.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why droopes my <HI>Celia?</HI></L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t, in place of a ba&s;e husband, found</L>
<L>A worthy louer: v&s;e thy fortune well,</L>
<L>With &s;ecrecy, and plea&s;ure. See, behold,</L>
<L>What thou art <HI>Queene</HI> of; not in expectation,</L>
<L>As I feede others: but po&s;&s;e&s;&s;'d, and crown'd.</L>
<L>See, here, a rope of pearle; and each, more <HI>orient</HI></L>
<L>Then that the braue <HI>Aegiptian Queene</HI> carrou&s;'d:</L>
<L>Di&s;&s;olue, and drinke 'hem. See, a Carbuncle,</L>
<L>May put out both the eyes of our S^t <HI>Marke;</HI></L>
<L>A Diamant, would haue bought <HI>Lollia Paulina,</HI></L>
<L>When &s;he came in, like &s;tar-light, hid with iewells,</L>
<L>That were the &s;poyles of <HI>Prouinces;</HI> take the&s;e,</L>
<L>And weare, and loo&s;e 'hem: Yet, remaines an Eare-ring</L>
<L>To purcha&s;e them againe, and this whole <HI>State.</HI></L>
<L>A Gem, but worth a priuate patrimony,</L>
<L>Is nothing: we will eate &s;uch at a meale.</L>
<L>The heads of parrots, tongues of nightingalles,</L>
<L>The braynes of peacocks, and of e&s;triches</L>
<L>Shall be our foode: and, could we get the phoenix,</L>
<L>(Though <HI>Nature</HI> lo&s;t her kind) &s;he were our di&s;h.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good Sir, the&s;e things might moue a minde affected</L>
<L>With &s;uch delights; but I, who&s;e innocence</L>
<L>Is all I can thinke wealthy, or worth th'enioying,</L>
<L>And, which once lo&s;t, I haue nought to loo&s;e beyond it,</L>
<L>Cannot be taken with the&s;e &s;en&s;uall baytes:</L>
<L>If you haue con&s;cience&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis the Beggers vertue,</L>
<L>If thou ha&s;t wi&s;dome, heare me <HI>Celia.</HI></L>
<L>Thy bathes &s;hall be the iuyce of <HI>Iuly</HI>-flowers,</L>
<L>Spirit of ro&s;es, and of violets,</L>
<L>The milke of vnicornes, and panthers breath</L>
<L>Gather'd in bagges, and mixt with <HI>Cretan</HI> wines.</L>
<L>Our drinke &s;hal be prepared gold, and amber;</L>
<L>Which we will take, vntill my roofe whirle round</L>
<L>With the <HI>vertigo:</HI> and my <HI>Dwarfe</HI> &s;hall dance,</L>
<L>My <HI>Eunuch</HI> &s;ing, my <HI>Foole</HI> make vp the <HI>antique.</HI></L>
<PB REF="21">
<L>Whil'&s;t, we, in changed &s;hapes, act <HI>Ouids</HI> tales,</L>
<L>Thou, like <HI>Europa</HI> now, and I like <HI>Ioue,</HI></L>
<L>Then I like <HI>Mars,</HI> and thou like <HI>Erycine,</HI></L>
<L>So, of the re&s;t, till we haue quite run through</L>
<L>And weary'd all the <HI>fables</HI> of the <HI>Gods.</HI></L>
<L>Then will I haue thee, in more moderne formes,</L>
<L>Attired like &s;ome &s;prightly Dame of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>Braue <HI>Tu&s;can</HI> Lady, or proud <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Beautie;</L>
<L>Sometimes, vnto the <HI>Per&s;ian Sophies</HI> Wife;</L>
<L>Or the <HI>grand-Signiors</HI> Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e; and, for change,</L>
<L>To one of our mo&s;t arte-full Curtezans,</L>
<L>Or &s;ome quick <HI>Negro,</HI> or cold <HI>Ru&s;&s;ian;</HI></L>
<L>And I will meete thee, in as many &s;hapes:</L>
<L>Where we may, &s;o, tran&s;-fu&s;e our wandring &s;oules,</L>
<L>Out at our lippes, and &s;core vp &s;ummes of plea&s;ures,</L>
<L><HI>That the curious &s;hall not know,</HI></L>
<L><HI>How to tell them, as they flow;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And the enuious, when they find</HI></L>
<L><HI>What there number is, be pind.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>If you haue eares, that will be pierc'd&mdash; or eyes,</L>
<L>That can be open'd&mdash; a heart, may be touch'd&mdash;</L>
<L>Or any part, that yet &s;ounds <HI>man,</HI> about you&mdash;</L>
<L>If you haue touch of holy <HI>Saints</HI>&mdash;or <HI>Heauen</HI>&mdash;</L>
<L>Do mee the grace, to let me &s;cape&mdash;if not,</L>
<L>Be bountifull, and kill mee&mdash;you do knowe,</L>
<L>I am a creature, hether ill betrayd,</L>
<L>By one, who&s;e &s;hame I would forget it were&mdash;</L>
<L>If you will daigne mee neither of the&s;e graces,</L>
<L>Yet feede your wrath, Sir, rather then your lu&s;t&mdash;</L>
<L>(It is a vice, comes nearer manline&s;&s;e-)</L>
<L>And puni&s;h that vnhappy crime of nature,</L>
<L>Which you mi&s;call my beauty&mdash;Flea my face,</L>
<L>Or poi&s;on it, with oyntments, for &s;educing</L>
<L>Your bloud to this rebellion &mdash;Rub the&s;e hands,</L>
<L>With what may cau&s;e an eating lepro&s;ie,</L>
<PB REF="22">
<L>E'ene to my bones, and marrow&mdash; Any thing,</L>
<L>That may di&s;-fauour mee, &s;aue in my honour&mdash;</L>
<L>And I will kneele to you, 'pray for you, pay downe</L>
<L>A thou&s;and howrely vowes, Sir, for your health&mdash;</L>
<L>Report, and thinke you vertuous&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thinke me cold,</L>
<L>Fro&s;en, and impotent, and &s;o report me?</L>
<L>That I had <HI>Ne&s;tor's hernia,</HI> thou would&s;t thinke.</L>
<L>I do degenerate, and abu&s;e my <HI>Nation,</HI></L>
<L>To play with oportunity, thus long:</L>
<L>I &s;hould haue done the act, and then haue parlee'd.</L>
<L>Yeeld, or Ile force thee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, iu&s;t God.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>In vaine-</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Forbeare, foule raui&s;her, libidinous &s;wine,</L>
<L>Free the forc'd lady, or thou dy'&s;t, Impo&s;tor.</L>
<L>But that I am loath to &s;natch thy puni&s;hment</L>
<L>Out of the hand of <HI>Iu&s;tice,</HI> thou &s;hould&s;t, yet,</L>
<L>Be made the timely &s;acrifice of vengeance,</L>
<L>Before this <HI>Altar,</HI> and this dro&s;&s;e, thy <HI>Idoll.</HI></L>
<L>Lady, lets quit the place, it is the den</L>
<L>Of villany; feare nought you haue a guard:</L>
<L>And he, ere long, &s;hall meete his iu&s;t reward.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fall on mee, roofe, and bury mee in ruine,</L>
<L>Become my graue, that wert my &s;helter. O,</L>
<L>I am vn-ma&s;qu'd, vn-&s;pirited, vn-done,</L>
<L>Betray'd to beggary, to infamy&mdash;</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="8" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 3, SCENE. 8.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA, VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<SP>
<L>WHere &s;hall I runne, mo&s;t wretched &s;hame of men,</L>
<L>To beate out my vn-luckie braines?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here, here.</L>
<L>What? do&s;t thou bleede?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, that his well-driu'n &s;word</L>
<L>Had beene &s;o curteous, to haue cleft me downe,</L>
<L>Vnto the nauill; &ecirc;re I liu'd to &s;ee</L>
<PB REF="22">
<L>My life, my hopes, my &s;pirits, my Patron, all</L>
<L>Thus de&s;perately engaged, by my error.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Woe, on thy fortune.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And my follies, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thou ha&s;t made mee mi&s;erable.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And my &s;elfe, Sir.</L>
<L>Who would haue thought, he would haue harken'd, &s;o?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;hall wee doe?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not, if my heart</L>
<L>Could expiate the mi&s;chance, Il'd pluck it out.</L>
<L>Will you be plea&s;'d to hang mee? or cut my throate?</L>
<L>And ile requite you, Sir. Let's die like <HI>Romanes,</HI></L>
<L>Since wee haue liu'd, like <HI>Grecians.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hearke, who's there?</L>
<L>I heare &s;ome footing, Officers, the <HI>Saffi,</HI></L>
<L>Come to apprehend vs! I do feele the brand</L>
<L>Hi&s;&s;ing, already, at my fore-head: now,</L>
<L>Mine eares are boring.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>To your couch, Sir, you</L>
<L>Make that place good, how euer. Guilty men</L>
<L>Su&s;pect, what they de&s;erue &s;till. Signior <HI>Corbaccio!</HI></L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="9" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 3. SCENE. 9.</HEAD>
<STAGE>CORBACCIO. MOSCA. VOLTORE. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<SP>
<L>VVHy! how now? <HI>Mo&s;ca!</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, vndone, amaz'd, Sir.</L>
<L>Your &s;onne (I know not, by what accident)</L>
<L>Acquainted with your purpo&s;e, to my Patron,</L>
<L>Touching your Will, and making him your heire;</L>
<L>Entred our hou&s;e with violence, his &s;word drawne,</L>
<L>Sought for you, call'd you wretch, vnnaturall,</L>
<L>Vow'd he would kill you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, and my Patron.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>This act, &s;hall di&s;inherit him indeed:</L>
<L>Here is the Will.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis well, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Right, and well.</L>
<L>Be you as carefull now, for me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>My life, Sir,</L>
<L>Is not more tenderd, I am onely yours.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="23">
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>How do's he? will hee die &s;hortly, think'&s;t thou?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I feare</L>
<L>He'll out-la&s;t <HI>May.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>To day?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, la&s;t-out <HI>May,</HI> Sir,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Could&s;t thou not gi' him a <HI>dram?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O by no meanes, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, Ile not bid you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>This 's a knaue, I &s;ee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>How, Signior <HI>&V;oltore!</HI> did he heare mee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Para&s;ite.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who's that? O, Sir, mo&s;t timely welcome-</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Scar&s;e,</L>
<L>To the di&s;couery of your tricks, I feare.</L>
<L>You are his, onely? and mine, al&s;o? are you not?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who? I, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>You, Sir. What deui&s;e is this</L>
<L>About a Will?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>A plot for you, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come,</L>
<L>Put not your foy&s;t's vpon me, I &s;hall &s;ent 'hem.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Did you not heare it?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, I heare, <HI>Corbacci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L>Hath made your Patron, there, his heire.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis true,</L>
<L>By my deui&s;e, drawne to it by my plot,</L>
<L>With hope&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Patron &s;hould reciprocate?</L>
<L>And, you haue promi&s;'d?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>For your good, I did, Sir.</L>
<L>Nay more, I told his &s;onne, brought, hid him here,</L>
<L>Where he might heare his father pa&s;&s;e the deed;</L>
<L>Beeing per&s;waded to it, by this thought, Sir,</L>
<L>That the vnnaturallne&s;&s;e, fir&s;t, of the act,</L>
<L>And then, his fathers oft di&s;clayming in him,</L>
<L>Which I did meane t' helpe on, would &s;ure enrage him</L>
<L>To do &s;ome violence vpon his parent,</L>
<L>On which the <HI>Law</HI> &s;hould take &s;ufficient hold,</L>
<L>And you be &s;tated in a double hope:</L>
<L>Truth be my comfort, and my con&s;cience,</L>
<L>My onely ayme was, to dig you a fortune</L>
<L>Out of the&s;e two, old, rotten Sepulchers&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>I cry thee mercy <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Worth your patience,</L>
<L>And your gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at merit, Sir. And, &s;ee the change!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why? what &s;ucce&s;&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t happle&s;&s;e! you mu&s;t helpe, Sir.</L>
<L>Whil&s;t wee expected th' old Rauen, in comes</L>
<L><HI>Coruino's</HI> wife, &s;ent hether, by her hu&s;band&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="23">
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>What, with a pre&s;ent?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, Sir, on vi&s;itation;</L>
<L>(Ile tell you how, anone) and, &s;taying long,</L>
<L>The youth, hee growes impatient, ru&s;hes forth,</L>
<L>Seizeth the lady, wound's mee, makes her &s;weare</L>
<L>(Or he would murder her, that was his vow)</L>
<L>T' affirme my Patron would haue done her rape:</L>
<L>Which how vnlike it is, you &s;ee! and, hence,</L>
<L>With that pretext, hee's gone, t'accu&s;e his father;</L>
<L>Defame my Patron; defeate you&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where's her hu&s;band?</L>
<L>Let him bee &s;ent for, &s;treight.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, Ile go fetch him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bring him, to the <HI>Scrutinee.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I will.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>This mu&s;t be &s;topt.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, you do nobly, Sir.</L>
<L>Ala&s;&s;e, twas labor'd all, Sir, for your good;</L>
<L>Nor was there want of councell, in the plot:</L>
<L>But fortune can, at any time, ore throw</L>
<L>The proiects of a hundred learned <HI>Clearkes,</HI> Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's that?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLTO,</SPEAKER>
<L>Wilt plea&s;e you, Sir, to go along?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Patron, go in, and pray for our &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Need makes deuotion: Heauen your labor ble&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. 4.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENE. 1.</HEAD>
<STAGE>POLITIQVE. PEREGRINE.</STAGE>
<L>I Told you, Sir, it was a plot: you &s;ee</L>
<L>What ob&s;eruation is. You mention'd mee,</L>
<L>For &s;ome in&s;tructions: I will tell you, Sir,</L>
<L>(Since we are met, here, in this <HI>height</HI> of <HI>Venice</HI>)</L>
<L>Some few perticulars, I haue &s;et downe,</L>
<L>Onely, for this <HI>meridian,</HI> fit to be knowne</L>
<L>Of your crude Trauailer, and they are the&s;e.</L>
<L>I will not touch&punc; Sir, at your <HI>phra&s;e,</HI> or clothes,</L>
<L>For they are old.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I haue better.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pardon</L>
<L>I meant, as they are <HI>Theames.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, Sir, proceed:</L>
<L>Ile &s;lander you no more of wit, good Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fir&s;t, for your <HI>garbe,</HI> it mu&s;t be graue, and &s;erious,</L>
<PB REF="24">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB REF="24">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB REF="25">
<L>V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry re&s;cru'd, and lock't; not tell a &s;ecret,</L>
<L>On any terme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, not to your father; &s;car&s;e</L>
<L>A <HI>fable,</HI> but with with caution; make &s;ure choi&s;e</L>
<L>Both of yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r company, and di&s;cour&s;e; beware,</L>
<L>You neuer &s;peake a truth&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not to <HI>&s;tran|gers,</HI></L>
<L>For tho&s;e be they, you mu&s;t conuer&s;e with, mo&s;t;</L>
<L>Others I would not know, Sir, but, at di&s;tance,</L>
<L>So as I &s;till might be a &s;auer, in 'hem:</L>
<L>You &s;hall haue tricks, el&s;e, pa&s;t vpon you, hourely.</L>
<L>And then, for your <HI>Religion,</HI> profe&s;&s;e none;</L>
<L>But wonder, at the diuer&s;ity of all;</L>
<L>And, for your part, prote&s;t, were there no other</L>
<L>But &s;imply the <HI>Lawes,</HI> o'th' <HI>Land,</HI> you could content you:</L>
<L><HI>Nic: Machiauell,</HI> and <HI>Mon&s;ieur Bodine,</HI> both,</L>
<L>Were of this minde. Then, mu&s;t you learne the v&s;e,</L>
<L>And handling of your &s;iluer forke, at meales;</L>
<L>The mettall of your gla&s;&s;e&mdash; The&s;e are maine matters,</L>
<L>With your <HI>Italian,</HI> and to know the hower,</L>
<L>When you mu&s;t eat your <HI>melons,</HI> and your <HI>figges.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is that a point of <HI>State,</HI> too?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here it is,</L>
<L>For your <HI>Venetian,</HI> if hee &s;ee a man</L>
<L>Prepo&s;terous, in the lea&s;t, he has him &s;traight;</L>
<L>Hee has: hee &s;trippes him. Ile acq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aint you, S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r,</L>
<L>I now haue liu'd here ('Tis &s;ome fourteene monthes)</L>
<L>Within the fir&s;t weeke, of my landing here,</L>
<L>All tooke me for a Citizen of <HI>Venice:</HI></L>
<L>I knew the formes, &s;o well&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>And nothing el&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I had read <HI>Contarene,</HI> tooke mee a hou&s;e,</L>
<L>Dealt with my <HI>Iewes,</HI> to furni&s;h it with moueables&mdash;</L>
<L>Well, if I could but finde one man-one man,</L>
<L>To mine owne heart, whome I dur&s;t tru&s;t&mdash; I would&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>What? what, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Make him rich; make him a fortune:</L>
<L>He &s;hould not thinke, againe. I would command it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>As how?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>With certaine proiects, that I haue:</L>
<L>Which, I may not di&s;couer.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>If I had</L>
<PB REF="25">
<L>But one to wager with, I would lay odds, now,</L>
<L>Hee tells me, in&s;tantly.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>One is, (and that</L>
<L>I care not greatly, who knowes) to &s;erue the <HI>State</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Venice,</HI> with red herrings, for three yeares,</L>
<L>And at a certaine rate, from <HI>Roterdam,</HI></L>
<L>Where I haue corre&s;pendence. There's a letter,</L>
<L>Sent me from one o'th' <HI>States,</HI> and to that purpo&s;e;</L>
<L>He cannot write his name, but that's his <HI>marke.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>He is a Chaundler?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, a Chee&s;emonger.</L>
<L>There are &s;ome other two, with whome I treate</L>
<L>About the &s;ame negotiation;</L>
<L>And&mdash;I wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l vndertake it: For, tis thus,</L>
<L>Ile do't with ea&s;e, I' haue ca&s;t it all. Your hoigh</L>
<L>Carries but three men in her, and a boy;</L>
<L>And &s;he &s;hall make me three returnes, a yeare:</L>
<L>So, if there come but one of three, I &s;aue,</L>
<L>If two, I can defalke. But, this is now,</L>
<L>If my mayne proiect faile.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER</SPEAKER>
<L>Then, you haue others?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hould be loath to draw the &s;ubtill ayre</L>
<L>Of &s;uch a place, without my thou&s;and aymes.</L>
<L>Ile not di&s;&s;emble, Sir, where ere I come,</L>
<L>I loue to be con&s;ideratiue; and, 'tis true,</L>
<L>I haue, at my free houres, thought vpon</L>
<L>Some certaine <HI>Goods,</HI> vnto the <HI>State</HI> of <HI>Venice,</HI></L>
<L>Which I do call my Cautions: and, Sir, which</L>
<L>I meane (in hope of pen&s;ion) to propound</L>
<L>To the great <HI>Councell,</HI> then vnto the <HI>Forty,</HI></L>
<L>So to the <HI>Ten.</HI> My meanes are made already&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>By whome?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, one, that though his place b'ob&s;cure,</L>
<L>Yet, he can &s;way, and they will heare him. H'is</L>
<L>A <HI>Commandadore.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>What, a common <HI>&s;ergeant?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, &s;uch, as they are, put it in their mouthes,</L>
<L>What they &s;hould &s;ay, &s;ometimes: as well as greater.</L>
<L>I thinke I haue my <HI>notes,</HI> to &s;hew you&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, you &s;hall &s;weare vnto mee, on your gentry,</L>
<PB REF="26">
<L>Not to anticipate&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nor reueale</L>
<L>A circum&s;tance &mdash; My paper is not with mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, but, you can remember, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>My fir&s;t is</L>
<L>Concerning Tinder-boxes. You mu&s;t know,</L>
<L>No family is, here, without it's boxe;</L>
<L>Now Sir, it being &s;o portable a thing,</L>
<L>Put ca&s;e, that you, or I were ill affected</L>
<L>Vnto the <HI>State:</HI> Sir, with it, in our pockets,</L>
<L>Might not I go into the <HI>Ar&s;enale?</HI></L>
<L>Or you? come out againe? and none the wi&s;er?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Except your &s;elfe, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Go too, then. I, therefore,</L>
<L>Aduerti&s;e to the <HI>State,</HI> how fit it were,</L>
<L>That none, but &s;uch as were knowne <HI>Patriots,</HI></L>
<L>Sound louers of their country, &s;hould be &s;ufferd</L>
<L>T'enioy them in their hou&s;es: And, euen tho&s;e,</L>
<L>Seald, at &s;ome office, and, at &s;uch a bigne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>As might not lurke in pockets.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Admirable!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>My next is, how t'enquire, and be re&s;olu'd,</L>
<L>By pre&s;ent demon&s;tration, whether a Ship,</L>
<L>Newly arriued from <HI>Sor&igrave;a,</HI> or from</L>
<L>Any &s;u&s;pected part of all the <HI>Leuant,</HI></L>
<L>Be guilty of the <HI>Plague:</HI> And, where they v&s;e</L>
<L>To lie out forty, fifty dayes, &s;ometimes,</L>
<L>About the <HI>Lazaretto,</HI> for their triall;</L>
<L>Ile &s;aue that charge, and lo&s;&s;e vnto the merchant,</L>
<L>And, in an houre, cleare the doubt.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Indeede, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or &mdash; I will loo&s;e my labour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PBR.</SPEAKER>
<L>'My faith, that's much.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, Sir, conceiue me. 'Twill co&s;t mee, in onions,</L>
<L>Some thirty <HI>Liu'res</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Which is one pound <HI>&s;terling.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be&s;ide my water-workes: For this I do, Sir.</L>
<L>Fir&s;t, I bring in your &s;hip, 'twixt two brickwalles;</L>
<L>(But tho&s;e the <HI>State</HI> &s;hall venter) on the one</L>
<L>I &s;traine me a fayre tarre-paulin; and, in that,</L>
<L>I &s;tick my onions, cut in halfes: the other</L>
<L>Is full of loope holes, out at which, I thru&s;t</L>
<PB REF="26">
<L>The no&s;es of my bellowes; and, tho&s;e bellowes</L>
<L>I keepe, with water-workes, in perpetuall motion,</L>
<L>(Which is the ea&s;i'&s;t matter of a hundred.)</L>
<L>Now, Sir, your onion, which doth naturally</L>
<L>Attract th' infection, and your bellowes, blowing</L>
<L>The aire vpon him, will &s;hew (in&s;tantly)</L>
<L>By his chang'd colour, if there be contagion;</L>
<L>Or el&s;e, remaine as faire, as at the fir&s;t:</L>
<L>Now 'tis knowne, tis nothing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are light, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I would, I had my note.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Faith, &s;o would I:</L>
<L>But, you ha' done well, for once, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Were I fal&s;e,</L>
<L>Or would be made &s;o, I could &s;hew you rea&s;ons,</L>
<L>How I could &s;ell this <HI>State,</HI> now, to the <HI>Turke;</HI></L>
<L>Spight of their <HI>Galleys,</HI> or their&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pray you, Sir <HI>Poll.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I haue 'hem not, about mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>That I fear'd.</L>
<L>They'are there, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>No. This is my <HI>Diary,</HI></L>
<L>Wherein I note my actions of the day.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray you, let's &s;ee, Sir. What is here? <HI>Notandum,</HI></L>
<L>A Rat had gnawne my &s;pur-lethers; notwith&s;tanding,</L>
<L>I put on new, and did go forth: but, fir&s;t,</L>
<L>I threw three beanes ouer the thre&s;hold. <HI>Item,</HI></L>
<L>I went, and bought two tooth-pickes, whereof one</L>
<L>I bur&s;t, immediatly, in a di&s;cour&s;e</L>
<L>With a <HI>dutch</HI> Merchant, 'bout <HI>Ragion del &s;tato.</HI></L>
<L>From him, I went, and payd a <HI>moccinigo,</HI></L>
<L>For peecing my &s;ilke &s;tockings; by the way,</L>
<L>I cheapend &s;prats: and at S^t <HI>Markes,</HI> I vrin'd.</L>
<L>'Faith, the&s;e are politique notes!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I do &s;lippe</L>
<L>No action of my life, thus, but I quote it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Beleeue me, it is wi&s;e!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, Sir, read forth.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 4. SCENE. 2.</HEAD>
<STAGE>LADY. NANO. WOMEN. POLITIQVE. PEREGRINE.</STAGE>
<L>VVHere &s;hould this loo&s;e. Knight be, trow? &s;ure h'is hou&s;'d.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, then he's fa&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LA.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, he plaies both, with me:</L>
<PB REF="27">
<L>I pray you, &s;tay. This heate will do more harme</L>
<L>To my complexion, then his heart is worth;</L>
<L>(I do not care to hinder, but to take him)</L>
<L>How it comes of!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM.</SPEAKER>
<L>My mai&s;ter's, yonder.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM.</SPEAKER>
<L>With a yong Gentleman.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>That &s;ame's the party,</L>
<L>In mans apparell. 'Pray you, Sir, iog my Knight:</L>
<L>I will be tender to his reputation,</L>
<L>How euer he demerit.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lady!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis &s;hee indeed, Sir, you &s;hall know her. She is,</L>
<L>Were &s;he not mine, a <HI>Lady</HI> of that merite,</L>
<L>For fa&s;hion, and behauiour; and, for beauty</L>
<L>I du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t compare&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>It &s;eemes, you are not iealous,</L>
<L>That dare commend her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, and for di&s;cour&s;e&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Beeing your wife, &s;hee cannot mi&s;&s;e that.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ma|dame,</L>
<L>Here is a Gentleman, 'pray you, v&s;e him, fayrely,</L>
<L>He &s;eemes a youth, but he is-</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>None?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, one</L>
<L>Has put his face, as &s;oone, into the world&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>You meane, as early? but to day?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>How's this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why in this habit, Sir, you apprehend mee.</L>
<L>Well <HI>M^r. Would-bee,</HI> this doth not become you;</L>
<L>I had thought, the odour, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir, of your good name,</L>
<L>Had beene more precious to you; that you would not</L>
<L>Haue done this dire ma&s;&s;acre, on your honour;</L>
<L>One of your grauitie, and ranke, be&s;ides:</L>
<L>But, <HI>Knights,</HI> I &s;ee, care little for the oath</L>
<L>They make to <HI>Ladies;</HI> chiefely, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir owne <HI>Ladies.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now by my Spurres (the <HI>Symbole</HI> of my <HI>Knight-hood</HI>)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>(PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Lord! how his brayne is humbled, for an oath)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I reach you not.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Right. Sir, your <HI>politie</HI></L>
<L>May beare it through, thus. Sir, a word with you.</L>
<L>I would be loath, to conte&s;t, publikely,</L>
<L>With any Gentlew&oacute;man; or to &s;eeme</L>
<L>Froward, or violent (as the <HI>Courtier</HI> &s;ayes)</L>
<L>It comes to neare ru&s;ticity, in a <HI>Lady,</HI></L>
<L>Which I would &s;hun, by all meanes: and, how-euer</L>
<PB REF="27">
<L>I may de&s;erue from M^r <HI>Would-bee,</HI> yet,</L>
<L>T'haue one fayre Gentlew&oacute;man, thus, be made</L>
<L>Th'vnkind in&s;trument, to wrong another,</L>
<L>And one &s;he knowes not; I, and to per&s;euer:</L>
<L>In my po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dgement, is not warranted</L>
<L>From being a <HI>&s;oloeci&s;me</HI> in our &s;exe,</L>
<L>If not in manners.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>How is this!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sweete Ma|dame,</L>
<L>Come nearer to your ayme.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mary, and will, Sir.</L>
<L>Since you prouoke me, with your impudence,</L>
<L>And laughter of your light land-<HI>Syren,</HI> here,</L>
<L>Your <HI>Sporus,</HI> your <HI>Hermaphrodite</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's here?</L>
<L><HI>Po&euml;tique</HI> fury, and <HI>Hi&s;torique</HI> &s;tormes?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Gentleman, beleeue it, is of worth,</L>
<L>And of our <HI>Nation.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, your <HI>white-Friars nation?</HI></L>
<L>Come, I blu&s;h for you, <HI>M^r. Would-bee,</HI> I;</L>
<L>And am a&s;ham'd, you &s;hould ha' no more forehead,</L>
<L>Then, thus, to be the Patron, or <HI>Saint George</HI></L>
<L>To a lewd harlot, a ba&s;e <HI>fricatrice,</HI></L>
<L>A female deuill, in a male out-&s;ide.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay,</L>
<L>And you be &s;uch a one! I mu&s;t bid, <HI>adieu</HI></L>
<L>To your delights. The ca&s;e appeares too liquide.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, you may carry't cleare, with your <HI>State</HI>-face;</L>
<L>But, for your <HI>Carniuale Concupi&s;cence,</HI></L>
<L>Who here is fled, for liberty of con&s;cience,</L>
<L>From furious per&s;ecution of the <HI>Mar&s;hall,</HI></L>
<L>Her will I di&s;c'ple.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is fine, I' faith!</L>
<L>And do you v&s;e this, often? is this part</L>
<L>Of your wits exerci&s;e, 'gain&s;t you haue occa&s;ion?</L>
<L>Madam&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Go to, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do you heare mee, <HI>Lady?</HI></L>
<L>Why, if your <HI>Knight</HI> haue &s;et you to begge &s;hirts,</L>
<L>Or to inuite me home, you might haue done it</L>
<L>A nearer way, by farre:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>This cannot worke you,</L>
<L>Out of my &s;nare.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why? am I in it, then?</L>
<L>Indeede, your husband told mee, you were fayre,</L>
<PB REF="28">
<L>And &s;o you are; onely, your no&s;e enclines</L>
<L>(That &s;ide, that's next the Sunne) to the <HI>Queene-apple:</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>This cannot be indur'd, by any patience.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 4. SCENE. 3.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. LADY. PEREGRINE.</STAGE>
<L>WHat's the matter, Madame?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>If the <HI>Senate</HI></L>
<L>Right not my que&s;t, in this; I will prote&s;t 'hem,</L>
<L>To all the world, no <HI>Ari&s;tocracye.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>What is the iniurie, Lady?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, the caller,</L>
<L>You told mee of, here I haue t&acirc;ne di&s;gui&s;'d.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who? this? What meanes your Ladi&s;hip? The crea|ture</L>
<L>I mention'd to you, is apprehended, now,</L>
<L>Before the <HI>Senate,</HI> you &s;hall &s;ee her&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ile bring you to her. This yong Gentleman</L>
<L>I &s;aw him land, this morning, at the <HI>Port.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is 't po&s;&s;ible! how has my iudgement wander'd?</L>
<L>Sir, I mu&s;t, blu&s;hing, &s;ay to you, I haue err'd.</L>
<L>And plead your pardon.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>What! more changes, yet?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I hope, you ha' not the malice to remember</L>
<L>A Gentlew&oacute;mans pa&s;&s;ion. If you &s;tay,</L>
<L>In <HI>Venice,</HI> here, plea&s;e you to v&s;e mee, Sir&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Will you goe, Madam?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray you, Sir, v&s;e mee.</L>
<L>In faith,</L>
<L>The more you v&s;e mee the more I &s;hall conceiue,</L>
<L>You haue forgot our quarrell.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is rare!</L>
<L>Sir <HI>Politique Would-be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">?</HI> No, Sir <HI>Politique</HI> Baud.</L>
<L>To bring me, thus, acquainted with his wife!</L>
<L>Well, wi&s;e Sir <HI>Pol:</HI> &s;ince you haue practi&s;'d, thus,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="28">
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>without a partner S^r. confirmde this morning;</L>
<L>The waxe is warme yet, and the inke &s;car&s;e dry</L>
<L>Vpon the parchment:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Happy, happy mee!</L>
<L>By what good chance, &s;weete <HI>Mo&s;ca?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your de&s;ert Sir;</L>
<L>I know no &s;econd cau&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thy mode&s;ty</L>
<L>Is loath to know it; well, we &s;hall requite it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>He euer lik'd your cour&s;e S^r. that fir&s;t tooke him.</L>
<L>I, oft, haue heard him &s;ay, how he admir'd</L>
<L>Men of your large profe&s;&s;ion, that could &s;peake</L>
<L>To euery cau&s;e, and things mere contraries,</L>
<L>Till they were hoar&s;e againe, yet all bee <HI>Law;</HI></L>
<L>That, with mo&s;t quicke agility, could turne,</L>
<L>And returne; make knots, and vndoe them;</L>
<L>Giue forked councell; take prouoking gold</L>
<L>On eyther hand, and put it vp: The&s;e men,</L>
<L>He knewe, would thriue, with their humility.</L>
<L>And (for his part) he thought, he &s;hould be ble&s;t</L>
<L>To haue his heyre of &s;uch a &s;uffering &s;pirit,</L>
<L>So wi&s;e, &s;o graue, of &s;o perplex'd a tongue,</L>
<L>And loud withall, that would not wag, nor &s;carce</L>
<L>Lie &s;till, without a fee; when euery word</L>
<L>Your wor&s;hip but lets fall, is a <HI>Cecchine.</HI></L>
<L>Who's that? One knockes, I would not haue you &s;eene S^r.</L>
<L>And yet&mdash;pretend you came, and went in ha&s;t;</L>
<L>Ile fa&s;hion an excu&s;e. And, gentle Sir,</L>
<L>When you do come to &s;wim, in golden lard,</L>
<L>Vp to the armes, in honey, that your chin</L>
<L>Is borne vp &s;tiffe, with fatne&s;&s;e of the flood,</L>
<L>Thinke on your va&s;&s;all; but remember mee:</L>
<L>I ha' not beene your wor&s;t of clients.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>When will you haue your inuentory brought, S^r</L>
<L>Or &s;ee a coppy of the Will? Anone,</L>
<L>Ile bring 'hem to you Sir. Away, be gon,</L>
<L>Put bu&s;ine&s;&s;e i' your face.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Excellent <HI>Mo&s;ca!</HI></L>
<L>Come hither, let me ki&s;&s;e thee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Keepe you &s;till Sir.</L>
<PB REF="29">
<L>Here is <HI>Corbaccio.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Set the plate away,</L>
<L>The Vulture's gone, and the old Rauen's come.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. 1.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENE. 4.</HEAD>
<HEAD>MOSCA. CORBACCIO. VOLPONE.</HEAD>
<L>BEtake you, to your &s;ilence, and your &s;leepe:</L>
<L>Stand there, and multiply. Now, &s;hall we &s;ee</L>
<L>A wretch, who is (indeed) more impotent,</L>
<L>Then this can fayne to bee; yet hopes to hop</L>
<L>Ouer his graue. Signior <HI>Corbaccio,</HI></L>
<L>Yo' are very welcome, Sir.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>How do's your Patron?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Troth as he did, Sir, no amends.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What? mendes hee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, Sir: he is rather wor&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>That's well. Where is hee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS:</SPEAKER>
<L>Vpon his couch Sir, newly fall'n a &s;leepe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do's hee &s;leepe well?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No winke, Sir, all this night,</L>
<L>Nor ye&s;terday, but &s;lumbers.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good. He &s;hould take</L>
<L>Some coun&s;ell of <HI>Phy&s;itians:</HI> I haue brought him</L>
<L>An <HI>Opiate</HI> here, from mine owne <HI>Doctor</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>He will not heare of drugs.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why? I my &s;elfe</L>
<L>Stood by, while 't was made; &s;aw all th'ingredients:</L>
<L>And know, it cannot but mo&s;t gently worke.</L>
<L>My life for his, 'tis but to make him &s;leepe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, his la&s;t &s;leepe, if he would take it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir.</L>
<L>He ha's no faith in Phy&s;ick:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Say you? '&s;ay you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>He has no faith in Phy&s;ick: He do's thinke</L>
<L>Mo&s;t of your <HI>Doctors</HI> are the greater danger,</L>
<L>And wor&s;e di&s;ea&s;e, t'e&s;cape. I often haue</L>
<L>Heard him prote&s;t, that your <HI>Phy&s;itian</HI></L>
<L>Should neuer be his heyre.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not I his heyre?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not your <HI>Phy&s;itian,</HI> Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, no, no, no,</L>
<L>I do not meane it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No Sir, nor their fees</L>
<PB REF="29">
<L>He cannot brooke: He &s;ayes, they flea a man,</L>
<L>Before they kill him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Right, I conceiue you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And then, they doe it by experiment;</L>
<L>For which the <HI>Law</HI> not onely doth ab&s;olue 'hem,</L>
<L>But giues them great reward: And, he is loath</L>
<L>To hire his death, &s;o.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>It is true, they kill,</L>
<L>With as much licence, as a Iudge.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay more;</L>
<L>For he but kills, Sir, where the <HI>Law</HI> condemnes,</L>
<L>And the&s;e can kill him, too;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, or mee:</L>
<L>Or any man. How do's his <HI>Apoplexe?</HI></L>
<L>Is that &s;trong on him, &s;till?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t violent.</L>
<L>His &s;peech is broken, and his eyes are &s;et,</L>
<L>His face drawne longer, then t'was wont&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>How? how?</L>
<L>Stronger, then he was wont?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, Sir: his face</L>
<L>Drawne longer, then t'was wont.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, good.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>His mouth</L>
<L>Is euer gaping, and his eye-lids hang.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>A freezing numne&s;&s;e &s;tiffens all his ioynts,</L>
<L>And makes the colour of his fle&s;h like lead.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis good.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>His pul&s;e beats &s;low, and dull.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good <HI>&s;ymptomes,</HI> &s;till.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, from his braine&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ha? how? not from his braine?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, Sir, and from his braine&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I conceiue you, good.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Flowes a cold &s;weat, with a continuall rhewme,</L>
<L>Forth the re&s;olued corners of his eyes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is't po&s;&s;ible? yet I am better, ha!</L>
<L>How do's he, with the <HI>&s;wimming of his head?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, Sir tis pa&s;t&punc; the <HI>Scotomy;</HI> he, now,</L>
<L>Hath lo&s;t his feeling, and hath left to &s;nort:</L>
<L>You hardly can perceiue him, that he breaths.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Excellent, excellent, &s;ure I &s;hall out la&s;t him:</L>
<L>This makes me yong againe, a &s;core of yeares.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I was a co~ming for you, S^r.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Has he made his Wil?</L>
<L>What has he giu'n me?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nothing? ha?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="30">
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>He has not made his Will, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh, oh, oh.</L>
<L>But what did <HI>&V;oltore,</HI> the Lawyer, here?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>He &s;melt a carca&s;&s;e Sir, when he but heard</L>
<L>My mai&s;ter was about his Te&s;tament;</L>
<L>As I did vrge him to it, for your good&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>He came vnto him, did he? I thought &s;o.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, and pre&s;ented him this peece of plate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>To be his heire?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do not know Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>True,</L>
<L>I know it too,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>By your owne &s;cale, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Well,</L>
<L>I &s;hall preuent him, yet. See <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> looke,</L>
<L>Here, I haue brought a bag of bright <HI>Cecchines,</HI></L>
<L>Will quite weigh downe his plate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yea marry, Sir.</L>
<L>This is true Phy&s;ick, this your <HI>&s;acred Medicine,</HI></L>
<L>No talke of <HI>Opiates,</HI> to this great <HI>Elixir.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis <HI>Aurum palpabile,</HI> if not <HI>potabile.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>It &s;hall be mini&s;ter'd to him, in his boule?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, doe, doe, doe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Cordiall,</HI></L>
<L>This will recouer him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, doe, doe, doe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thinke, it were not be&s;t, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>To recouer him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, no, no, no; by no meanes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, Sir. this</L>
<L>Will worke &s;ome &s;trange effect, if he but feele it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis true, therefore forbeare; Ile take my venter:</L>
<L>Giue mee't againe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>At no hand, pardon mee;</L>
<L>You &s;hall not doe your &s;elfe that wrong S^r. I</L>
<L>Will &s;o adui&s;e you, you &s;hall haue it all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>All S^r. 'tis your right, your own; no man.</L>
<L>Can claime a part: 'tis yours, without a riuall,</L>
<L>Decre'd by de&s;tiny.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>How? how, good <HI>Mo&s;ca?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ile tell you S^r. This fit he &s;hall recouer;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do conceiue you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, on fir&s;t aduantage</L>
<L>Of his gain'd &s;en&s;e, will I re-importune him</L>
<L>Vnto the making of his Te&s;tament:</L>
<L>And &s;hew him this.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good, good.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis better yet,</L>
<L>If you will heare, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, with all my heart.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now, would I councell you, make home with &s;peed;</L>
<PB REF="30">
<L>There, frame a Will; whereto you &s;hall in&s;cribe</L>
<L>My mai&s;ter your &s;ole heyre.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>And di&s;inherit</L>
<L>My &s;onne?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O Sir, the better: for that colour</L>
<L>Shall make it much more taking.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, but colour?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>This Will Sir, you &s;hall &s;end it vnto me.</L>
<L>Now, when I come to inforce (as I will do)</L>
<L>Your cares, your watchings, and your many prayers,</L>
<L>Your more then many gifts, your this dayes pre&s;ent,</L>
<L>And, la&s;t, produce your Will; where (without thought,</L>
<L>Or lea&s;t regard, vnto your proper i&s;&s;ue,</L>
<L>A &s;onne &s;o braue, and highly meriting)</L>
<L>The &s;treame of your diuerted loue hath throwne you</L>
<L>Vpon my mai&s;ter, and made him your heyre:</L>
<L>He cannot be &s;o &s;tupide, or &s;tone dead,</L>
<L>But, out of con&s;cience, and mere gratitude&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>He mu&s;t pronounce me, his?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis true.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>This plot</L>
<L>Did I thinke on before.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do beleeue it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do you not beleeue it?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mine own proiect.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Which when he hath done, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Publi&s;h'd me his heire?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And you &s;o certaine, to &s;uruiue him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Beeing &s;o lu&s;ty a man.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis true.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes Sir,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thought on that too. See, how he &s;hould be</L>
<L>The very organ, to expre&s;&s;e my thoughts!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>You haue not onely done your &s;elfe a good,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>But multiplied it on my &s;onne?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis right, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Still, my inuention.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'La&s;&s;e Sir, heauen knowes,</L>
<L>It hath beene all my &s;tudy, all my care,</L>
<L>(I'eene grow grey withall) how to worke things&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do conceiue, &s;weet <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are he,</L>
<L>For whom I labour, here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, doe, doe, doe:</L>
<L>Ile &s;traight about it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Rooke go with you, Rauen.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know thee hone&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>You do lie, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>And&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your knowledge is no better then your eares, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="31">
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do not doubt, to be a father to thee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nor I, to gull my brother of his ble&s;&s;ing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I may ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> my youth re&s;tor'd to mee, why not?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your wor&s;hip is a precious a&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;ai'&s;t thou?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do de&s;ire your wor&s;hip, to make ha&s;t, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis done, 'tis done, I go.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, I &s;hall bur&s;t;</L>
<L>Let out my &s;ides, let out my &s;ides&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Containe</L>
<L>Your fluxe of laughter, Sir; you know, this hope</L>
<L>Is &s;uch a baite, it couers any hooke.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, but thy working, and thy placing it!</L>
<L>I cannot hold; good ra&s;call, let me ki&s;&s;e thee:</L>
<L>I neuer knew thee, in &s;o rare a humor.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas Sir, I but do; as I am taught;</L>
<L>Follow your graue in&s;tructions; giue 'hem words;</L>
<L>Powre oyle into their eares: and &s;end them hence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis true, 'tis true. What a rare puni&s;hment</L>
<L>Is auarice, to it &s;elfe?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, with our helpe, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>So many cares, &s;o many maladies,</L>
<L>So many feares attending on old age,</L>
<L>Yea, death &s;o often call'd on, as no wi&s;h</L>
<L>Can be more frequent with 'hem, their limbes faint,</L>
<L>Their &s;en&s;es dull, their &s;eeing, hearing, going</L>
<L>All dead before them; yea, their very teeth,</L>
<L>Their in&s;truments of eating, failing them:</L>
<L>Yet this is reckon'd life! Nay, here was one,</L>
<L>Is now gone home, that wi&s;hes to liue longer!</L>
<L>Feeles not his gout, nor pal&s;y, faines him&s;elfe</L>
<L>Yonger, by &s;cores of yeares, flatters his age,</L>
<L>With confident belying it, hopes he may</L>
<L>With charmes, like <HI>Ae&s;on,</HI> haue his youth re&s;tor'd,</L>
<L>And with the&s;e thoughts &s;o battens, as if <HI>Fate</HI></L>
<L>Would be as ea&s;ily cheated on, as he,</L>
<L>And all turnes ayre! Who's that, there, now? a third?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Clo&s;e, to your couch againe: I heare his voice.</L>
<PB REF="31">
<L>It is <HI>Coruino,</HI> our &s;pruce merchant.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Dead.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Another bout, Sir, with your eyes, Who's there?</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 1. SCENE. 5.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. CORVINO. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>SIgnior <HI>Coruino!</HI> come mo&s;t wi&s;ht for! O,</L>
<L>How happy were you, if you knew it, now!</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why? what? wherein?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>The tardie houre is come, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>He is not dead?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not dead, Sir, but as good;</L>
<L>He knowes no man.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>How &s;hall I do then?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why &s;ir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I haue brought him, here, a Pearle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Perhaps, he has</L>
<L>So much remembrance left, as to know you, Sir;</L>
<L>He &s;till calls on you, nothing but your name</L>
<L>Is in his mouth: Is your Pearle orient, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>&V;enice</HI> was neuer owner of the like.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Signior <HI>Coruino.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hearke.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Signior <HI>Coruino.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'He calls you, &s;tep and giue it him. H'is here, Sir,</L>
<L>And he has brought you a rich Pearle.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>How doe you Sir?</L>
<L>Tell him, it doubles the twelfe <HI>Caract.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir,</L>
<L>He cannot vnder&s;tand, his hearing's gone;</L>
<L>And yet it comforts him, to &s;ee you&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Say,</L>
<L>I haue a Diamant for him, too.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be&s;t &s;hew't Sir,</L>
<L>Put it into his hand; 'tis onely there</L>
<L>He apprehends: He has his feeling, yet.</L>
<L>See, how he gra&s;pes it!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>'La&s;&s;e, good gentleman!</L>
<L>How pittifull the &s;ight is!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tut, forget Sir.</L>
<L>The weeping of an heyre &s;hould &s;till be laughter,</L>
<L>Vnder a vi&s;or.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why? am I his heyre?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I am &s;worne, I may not &s;hew the Will,</L>
<L>Till he be dead: But, here has beene <HI>Corbaccio,</HI></L>
<PB REF="32">
<L>Here has beene <HI>Voltore,</HI> here were others too,</L>
<L>I cannot nomber 'hem, they were &s;o many,</L>
<L>All gaping here for legacyes; but I,</L>
<L>Taking the vantage of his naming you,</L>
<L>(Signior <HI>Coruino,</HI> Signior <HI>Coruino,</HI>) tooke</L>
<L>Paper, and pen, and ynke, and there I ask'd him,</L>
<L>Whom he would haue his heyre? <HI>Coruino:</HI> Who</L>
<L>Should be executor, <HI>Coruino:</HI> And,</L>
<L>To any que&s;tion, he was &s;ilent too,</L>
<L>I &s;till interpreted the noddes, he made,</L>
<L>(Through weakene&s;&s;e) for con&s;ent: and &s;ent home th'others,</L>
<L>Nothing bequeath'd them, but to crie, and cur&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, my deare <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI> Do's he not perceiue vs?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS,</SPEAKER>
<L>No more then a blinde harper. He knowes no man,</L>
<L>No face of friend, nor name of any &s;eruant,</L>
<L>Who't was that fed him la&s;t, or gaue him drinke:</L>
<L>Not tho&s;e, he hath begotten, or brought vp</L>
<L>Can he remember.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Has he children?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ba&s;tards,</L>
<L>Some dozen, or more, that he begot on beggars,</L>
<L><HI>Gip&s;eys,</HI> and <HI>Iewes,</HI> and <HI>Black-moores,</HI> when he was drunke.</L>
<L>Knew you not that Sir? 'Tis the common fable.</L>
<L>The <HI>Dwarfe,</HI> the <HI>Foole,</HI> the <HI>Eunuch</HI> are all his;</L>
<L>H' is the true father of his familie,</L>
<L>In all, &s;aue mee: but he has giu'n 'hem nothing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>That's well, that's well. Art &s;ure he does not heare vs?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sure Sir? why looke you, credit your owne &s;en&s;e.</L>
<L>The <HI>Poxe</HI> approch, and adde to your di&s;ea&s;es,</L>
<L>If it would &s;ende you hence the &s;ooner, Sir.</L>
<L>For, your incontinence, it hath de&s;eru'd it</L>
<L>Throughly, and throughly, and the <HI>Plague</HI> to boot.</L>
<L>(You may come neere, Sir) Would you would once clo&s;e</L>
<L>Tho&s;e filthy eyes of yours, that flowe with &s;lime,</L>
<L>Like two frog-pits; and tho&s;e &s;ame hanging cheekes,</L>
<L>Couer'd with hide, in &s;teede of skinne: (nay helpe, Sir)</L>
<L>That looke like frozen di&s;h-clouts, &s;et on end.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or, like an old &s;moak'd wall, on which the raine</L>
<PB REF="32">
<L>Ran downe in &s;treakes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Excellent, Sir, &s;peake out;</L>
<L>You may be lowder yet: A Culuering,</L>
<L>Di&s;charged in his eare, would hardly bore it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>His no&s;e is like a common &s;ewre, &s;till running;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis good: and, what his mouth?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>A very draught.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O &s;top it vp&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>By no meanes;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray you let mee.</L>
<L>Faith, I could &s;tifle him, rarely, with a pillow,</L>
<L>As well, as any woman, that &s;hould keepe him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do as you will, but Ile be gone.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be &s;o;</L>
<L>It is your pre&s;ence makes him la&s;t &s;o long.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I pray you, v&s;e no violence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, Sir? why?</L>
<L>Why &s;hould you be thus &s;crupulous? 'pray you, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, at your di&s;cretion.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Well, good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir, be gone.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I will not trouble him now, to take my Pearle?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Puh, nor your Diamant. What a needele&s;&s;e care</L>
<L>Is this afflicts you? Is not all, here yours?</L>
<L>Am not I here? whom you haue made? your creature?</L>
<L>That owe my beeing to you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Gratefull <HI>Mo&s;ca:</HI></L>
<L>Thou art my friend, my fellow, my companion,</L>
<L>My partner, and &s;halt &s;hare in all my fortunes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Excepting one.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Whats that?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your gallant wife, Sir.</L>
<L>Now, is he gone; we had no other meanes,</L>
<L>To &s;hoote him hence, but this.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>My diuine <HI>Mo&s;ca!</HI></L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t to day out-gone thy &s;elfe. Who's there?</L>
<L>I will be troubled with no more. Prepare</L>
<L>Me mu&s;icke, dances, banquets, all delights;</L>
<L>The <HI>Turke</HI> is not more &s;en&s;ual, in his plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Then will <HI>&V;olpone.</HI> Let me &s;ee, a Pearle?</L>
<L>A Diamant? Plate? <HI>Cecchines?</HI> good mornings purcha&s;e;</L>
<L>Why this is better then rob <HI>Churches,</HI> yet:</L>
<L>Or fat, by eating (once a mon'th) a man.</L>
<L>Who is 't?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>The beauteous Lady <HI>Would-bee,</HI> Sir.</L>
<PB REF="33">
<L>Wife, to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Knight, Sir <HI>Politique Would-bee,</HI></L>
<L>(This is the &s;tile, Sir, is directed mee)</L>
<L>Hath &s;ent to know, how you haue &s;lept to night,</L>
<L>And if you would be vi&s;ited.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not, now.</L>
<L>Some three houres, hence&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I told the <HI>Squire,</HI> &s;o much.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>When I am high with mirth, and wine; then, then.</L>
<L>'Fore heauen, I wonder at the de&s;perate valure</L>
<L>Of the bold <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> that they dare let loo&s;e</L>
<L>Their wiues, to all encounters!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, this Knight</L>
<L>Had not his name for nothing, he is <HI>politique,</HI></L>
<L>And knowes, how ere his wife affect &s;trange ayres,</L>
<L>She hath not yet the face, to be di&s;hone&s;t.</L>
<L>But had &s;he Signior <HI>Coruino's</HI> wiues face&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Has &s;he &s;o rare a face?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O Sir, the wonder,</L>
<L>The blazing Starre of <HI>Italy;</HI> a wench</L>
<L>O'the fir&s;t yeare, a beauty, ripe, as harue&s;t!</L>
<L>Who&s;e skinne is whiter then a <HI>Swan,</HI> all ouer!</L>
<L>Then <HI>&s;iluer, &s;now,</HI> or <HI>lillies!</HI> a &s;oft lip,</L>
<L>Would tempt you to eternity of ki&s;&s;ing!</L>
<L>And fle&s;h, that melteth, in the touch, to bloud!</L>
<L>Bright as your gold, and louely, as your gold!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why had not I knowne this, before?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas, Sir.</L>
<L>My &s;elfe, but ye&s;terday, di&s;couer'd it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>How might I &s;ee her?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, not po&s;&s;ible;</L>
<L>Shee's kept as warily, as is your gold:</L>
<L>Neuer do's come abroad, neuer takes ayre,</L>
<L>But at a windore. All her lookes are &s;weet,</L>
<L>As the fir&s;t grapes, or cherries; and are watch'd</L>
<L>As neare, as they are.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I mu&s;t &s;ee her&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir,</L>
<L>There is a guard, of ten &s;pies thick, vpon her;</L>
<L>All his whole hou&s;hold: each of which is &s;et</L>
<L>Vpon his fellow, and haue all their charge,</L>
<L>When he goes out, when he comes in, examin'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I will go &s;ee her, though but at her windore.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="33">
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>In &s;ome di&s;gui&s;e, then?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>That is true, I mu&s;t</L>
<L>Maintaine mine owne &s;hape, &s;till, the &s;ame: we e'll thinke.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. 2.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENE. 1.</HEAD>
<STAGE>POLITIQVE WOVLD-BEE. PEREGRINE.</STAGE>
<L>SIr, to a wi&s;e man, all the world's his &s;oile.</L>
<L>It is not <HI>Italy,</HI> nor <HI>France,</HI> nor <HI>Europe,</HI></L>
<L>That mu&s;t bound me, if my <HI>Fates</HI> call me forth.</L>
<L>Yet, I prote&s;t, it is no &s;alt de&s;ire</L>
<L>Of &s;eeing <HI>Countries,</HI> &s;hifting a <HI>Religion,</HI></L>
<L>Nor any di&s;-affection to the <HI>State</HI></L>
<L>Where I was bred, (and, vnto which I owe</L>
<L>My deare&s;t plots) hath brought me out; much le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That idle, antique, &s;tale, grey-headed proiect</L>
<L>Of knowing mens mindes, and manners, with <HI>Vli&s;&s;es:</HI></L>
<L>But, a peculiar humour of my wiues,</L>
<L>Layd for this height of <HI>&V;enice,</HI> to ob&s;erue,</L>
<L>To quote, to learne the language, and &s;o forth&mdash;</L>
<L>I hope you trauell, Sir, with licence?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes&punc;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I dare the &s;afelier conuer&s;e&mdash; How long, Sir,</L>
<L>Since you left <HI>England?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Seauen weekes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>So lately!</L>
<L>You ha' not beene with my Lord <HI>Amba&s;&s;ador?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not yet, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray you, what newes, Sir, vents our climate?</L>
<L>I heard, la&s;t night, a mo&s;t &s;trange thing reported</L>
<L>By &s;ome of my Lords followers, and I long</L>
<L>To heare, how't will be &s;econded!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>What was't, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Marry, Sir, of a Rauen, that &s;hould build</L>
<L>In a &s;hip royall of the <HI>Kings.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>This fellow</L>
<L>Do's he gull me, trow? or is gull'd? your name Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>My name is <HI>Politique Would-bee.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, that &s;peaks him.</L>
<L>A Knight, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>A poore Knight&punc; Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Lady</L>
<L>Lies here, in <HI>&V;enice,</HI> for intelligence</L>
<PB REF="34">
<L>Of tires, and fa&s;hions, and behauiour,</L>
<L>Among the Curtizans? the fine <HI>Lady Would-be?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes; Sir; the &s;pider, and the bee, oft times,</L>
<L>Suck from one flower.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good Sir <HI>Politique!</HI></L>
<L>I crie you mercy; I haue heard much of you:</L>
<L>Tis true, Sir, of your Rauen.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>On your knowledge?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, and your Lions whelping, in the <HI>Tower.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Another whelpe?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Another, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now heauen!</L>
<L>What prodigies be the&s;e? The Fires at <HI>Berwike!</HI></L>
<L>And the new <HI>Starre!</HI> the&s;e things concurring, &s;trange!</L>
<L>And full of <HI>omen!</HI> Saw you tho&s;e <HI>Meteors?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>I did Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fearefull! Pray you Sir, confirme me,</L>
<L>Were there three Porcpi&s;ces &s;eene, aboue the <HI>Bridge,</HI></L>
<L>As they giue out?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sixe, and a Sturgeon, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am a&s;toni&s;h'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay Sir, be not &s;o;</L>
<L>Ile tell you a greater prodigie, then the&s;e&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;hould the&s;e things portend!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>The very day</L>
<L>(Let me be &s;ure) that I put forth from <HI>London,</HI></L>
<L>There was a Whale di&s;couer'd, in the riuer,</L>
<L>As high as <HI>Woollwich,</HI> that had waited there</L>
<L>(Few know how many moneths) for the &s;ubuer&s;ion</L>
<L>Of the <HI>Stode</HI>-Fleete.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is't po&s;&s;ible? Beleeue it,</L>
<L>'Twas either &s;ent from <HI>Spaine,</HI> or the <HI>Arch-duke,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Spinola's</HI> Whale, vpon my life, my credit;</L>
<L>Will they not leaue the&s;e proiects? Worthy Sir,</L>
<L>Some other newes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Faith, <HI>Stone,</HI> the Foole, is dead;</L>
<L>And they do lack a tauerne-Foole, extremely.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is <HI>Ma&s;s' Stone</HI> dead?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>H' is dead Sir; why? I hope</L>
<L>You thought him not immortall? O this Knight</L>
<L>(Were he well knowne) would be a precious thing</L>
<L>To fit our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Stage: He that &s;hould write</L>
<L>But &s;uch a fellow, &s;hould be thought to faine</L>
<L>Extremely, if not maliciou&s;ly.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Stone</HI> dead?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Dead. Lord! how deepely Sir you apprehend it?</L>
<L>He was no kin&s;man to you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>That I know of.</L>
<L>Well! that &s;ame fellow was an vnknowne Foole.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="34">
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>And yet you know him, it &s;eemes?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I did &s;o, Sir.</L>
<L>I knew him one of the mo&s;t dangerous heads</L>
<L>Liuing within the <HI>State,</HI> and &s;o I held him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Indeed Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>While he liu'd, in action.</L>
<L>He has receiu'd weekely intelligence,</L>
<L>Vpon my knowledge, out of the <HI>Low Countries,</HI></L>
<L>(For all parts of the world) in cabages;</L>
<L>And tho&s;e di&s;pens'd, againe, to <HI>Amba&s;&s;adors,</HI></L>
<L>In oranges, musk-melons, apricocks,</L>
<L>Limons, pome-citrons, and &s;uch like: &s;ometimes,</L>
<L>In <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI>-oy&s;ters, and your <HI>Sel&s;ey</HI>-cockles.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>You make me wonder!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, vpon my knowledge.</L>
<L>Nay, I, haue ob&s;eru'd him, at your publique Ordinary,</L>
<L>Take his aduerti&s;ement, from a <HI>Traueller</HI></L>
<L>(A conceald <HI>States</HI>-man) in a trencher of meate;</L>
<L>And, in&s;tantly, before the meale was done,</L>
<L>Conuay an an&s;wer in a tooth-pick.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Strange!</L>
<L>How could this be, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, the meate was cut</L>
<L>So like his character, and &s;o layd, as he</L>
<L>Mu&s;t ea&s;ily read the cipher.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>I haue heard,</L>
<L>He could not read, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>So, 'twas giuen out,</L>
<L>(In pollitie,) by tho&s;e, that did imploy him:</L>
<L>But he could read, and had your <HI>languages,</HI></L>
<L>And to't, as &s;ound a noddle-</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>I haue heard, Sir,</L>
<L>That your <HI>Babi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uns</HI> were &s;pies; and that they were</L>
<L>A kinde of &s;ubtle Nation, neare to <HI>China:</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, I, your <HI>Mamuluchi.</HI> Faith, they had</L>
<L>Their hand in a <HI>French</HI> plot, or two; but they</L>
<L>Were &s;o extremely giuen to women, as</L>
<L>They made di&s;couery of all: Yet I</L>
<L>Had my <HI>adui&s;es</HI> here (on wen&s;day la&s;t)</L>
<L>From one of their owne coat, they were return'd,</L>
<L>Made their relations (as the fa&s;hion is)</L>
<L>And now &s;tand faire, for f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;h imployment.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Hart!</L>
<L>This Sir <HI>Poll:</HI> will be ignorant of nothing.</L>
<L>It &s;eemes Sir, you know all?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not all Sir. But,</L>
<PB REF="35">
<L>I haue &s;ome generall notions; I do loue</L>
<L>To note, and to ob&s;erue: Though I liue out,</L>
<L>Free from the actiue torrent, yet I'ld marke</L>
<L>The currents, and the pa&s;&s;ages of things,</L>
<L>For mine owne priuate v&s;e; and knowe the ebbes,</L>
<L>And flowes of <HI>State.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Beleeue it, Sir, I hold</L>
<L>My &s;elfe, in no &s;mall tie, vnto my fortunes,</L>
<L>For ca&s;ting mee thus luckely, vpon you;</L>
<L>Who&s;e knowledge (if your bounty equall it)</L>
<L>May do me great a&s;&s;i&s;tance, in in&s;truction</L>
<L>For my behauiour, and my bearing, which</L>
<L>Is yet &s;o rude, and raw&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why? came you forth</L>
<L>Empty of rules, for trauayle?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Faith, I had</L>
<L>Some common ones, from out that vulgar <HI>Grammar,</HI></L>
<L>Which hee, that cri'd <HI>Italian</HI> to mee, taught mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, this it is, that &s;poiles all our braue blouds,</L>
<L>Tru&s;ting our hopefull <HI>gentry</HI> vnto <HI>Pedants,</HI></L>
<L>Fellowes of out-&s;ide, and mere barke. You &s;eeme</L>
<L>To be a gentleman, of ingenuous race&mdash;</L>
<L>I not profe&s;&s;e it, but my fate hath beene</L>
<L>To be, where I haue beene con&s;ulted with,</L>
<L>In this high kinde, touching &s;ome great mens &s;onnes,</L>
<L>Per&s;ons of bloud, and honor&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who be the&s;e, Sir?</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 2. SCENE. 2.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. POLITIQVE. PEREGRINE. VOLPONE, NANO. GREGE.</STAGE>
<L>VNder that windore, there't mu&s;t be The &s;ame:</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fellowes, to mount a banke! Did your in&s;tructer</L>
<L>In the deare <HI>Tongues,</HI> neuer di&s;cour&s;e to you</L>
<L>Of the <HI>Italian Monteb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">kes?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why,</L>
<L>Here &s;hall you &s;ee one.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>They are <HI>Quack-saluers,</HI></L>
<L>Fellowes, that liue by venting oyles, and drugs?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Was that the character hee gaue you of them?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="35">
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>As I remember.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pittie his ignorance.</L>
<L>They are the onely-knowing men of <HI>Europe,</HI></L>
<L>Great, generall <HI>Schollers,</HI> excellent <HI>Phi&s;itians,</HI></L>
<L>Mo&s;t admir'd <HI>States-men,</HI> profe&s;t <HI>Fauorites,</HI></L>
<L>And cabinet-<HI>Councellors,</HI> to the greate&s;t <HI>Princes:</HI></L>
<L>The onely <HI>Languag'd</HI>-men, of all the world.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, I haue heard, they are mo&s;t lewd impo&s;tors;</L>
<L>Made all of termes, and &s;hreds; no le&s;&s;e beliers</L>
<L>Of great-mens fauors, then their owne vile med'cines;</L>
<L>Which they will vtter vpon mon&s;trous othes:</L>
<L>Selling that drug, for two pence, ere they part,</L>
<L>Which they haue valew'd at twelue <HI>Crownes,</HI> before.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, calumnies are an&s;wer'd be&s;t with &s;ilence;</L>
<L>Your &s;elfe &s;hall iudge. Who is it mounts, my friends?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Scoto</HI> of <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tua,</HI> Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL</SPEAKER>
<L>Is 't hee? nay, then</L>
<L>Ile proudly promi&s;e, Sir, you &s;hall behold</L>
<L>Another man, then has beene phant'&s;ied, to you.</L>
<L>I wonder, yet, that hee &s;hould mount his banke</L>
<L>Here, in this nooke, that has beene wont t'appeare</L>
<L>In face of the <HI>Piazza!</HI> Here, he comes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mount <HI>Zany,</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>GRE.</SPEAKER>
<L>Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>See how the people follow him! hee's a man</L>
<L>May write 10000. <HI>Crownes,</HI> in Banke, here. Note,</L>
<L>Marke but his ge&s;ture; I do v&s;e to ob&s;erue</L>
<L>The &s;tate hee keepes, in getting vp!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis worth it, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Most noble Gent: and my worthy Patrons, it may &s;eeme &s;trange, that I, your</HI> Scoto Mautuano, <HI>who was euer wont to fixe my Banke in face of the publike</HI> Piazza, <HI>neare the &s;helter of the</HI> portico, <HI>to the</HI> Procuratia, <HI>&s;hould, now (after eight months ab&s;ence, from this illu&s;trous Citty of</HI> Venice) <HI>humbly retire my&s;elfe, into an ob&s;cure nooke of the</HI> Piazza;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P>Did not I, now, obiect the &s;ame?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<P>Peace, Sir.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Let me tel you: I am not (as your</HI> Lombard <HI>Prouerbe &s;ayth) cold on my feete, or content to part with my commodities at a cheaper rate, then I accu&s;tomed; looke not for it. Nor, that the calumnious reports of that impudent detractor, and &s;hame to our profe&s;&s;ion,</HI>
<PB REF="36"> (Ale&s;&s;andro Buttone, <HI>I meane) who gaue out, in publike, I was con|demn'd a</HI> 'Sforzato <HI>to the Galleys, for poy&s;oning the Cardinall</HI> Bem|boos&mdash; <HI>Cooke, hath at all attached, much le&s;&s;e deiected mee. No, no, worthie Gent: (to tell you true) I cannot indure, to &s;ee the rable of the&s;e ground</HI> Ciarlitani, <HI>that spread their clokes on the pauement, as if they meant to do feates of actiuitie, and then come in, lamely, with their mouldy tales out of</HI> Boccacio, <HI>like &s;tale</HI> Tabarine, <HI>the Fabuli&s;t: &s;ome of them di&s;cour&s;ing their trauells, and of their tedious capti|uity in the</HI> Turkes <HI>Galleyes, when indeed (were the truth knowne) they were the</HI> Chri&s;tians <HI>Galleyes, where very temperately, they eate bread, &amp; drunke water, as a whole&s;ome pennance (enioyn'd them by their</HI> Confe&s;&s;ors) <HI>for ba&s;e pilferies.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P>Note but his bearing, and contempt of the&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The&s;e turdy-facy-na&s;ty-patie-lou&s;ie-farticall rogues, with one poore groats-worth of vnprepar'd</HI> antimony, <HI>finely wrapt vp in &s;euerall</HI> 'Scartoccios, <HI>are able, very well, to kill their twenty a weeke, and play; yet the&s;e meagre &s;teru'd spirits, who haue halfe &s;topt the or|gans of their mindes with earthy oppilations, want not their fauou|rers among your &s;hriuel'd, &s;allad-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ating</HI> Artizans: <HI>who are ouer|ioy'd, that they may haue their halfeperth of Phy&s;ick, though it purge 'hem into another world, makes no matter.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P>Excellent! ha you heard better <HI>Language,</HI> Sir?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Well, let 'hem go. And Gentlemen, honourable Gentlemen, know, that for this time, our Banque, being thus remou'd from the clamours of the</HI> Canaglia, <HI>&s;hall be the</HI> Scene <HI>of plea&s;ure, and de|light; For I haue nothing to &s;ell, little or nothing to &s;ell:</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P>I told you, Sir; his ende.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<P>You did &s;o, Sir.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I prote&s;t, I, and my &s;ixe &s;eruants, are not able to make of this pretious liquor, &s;o fa&s;t, as it is fetch'd away from my lodging, by Gen|tlemen of your Citty; Strangers of the</HI> T&egrave;rra-ferma; <HI>wor&s;hipful Mer|chants; I, and Senators too: who, euer &s;ince my arriuall, haue detained mee to their v&s;es, by their splendidous liberalities. And worthily. For what auayles your rich man to haue his</HI> magazines <HI>&s;tuft with</HI> Mo&s;|cadelli, <HI>or the pure&s;t grape, when his</HI> Phy&s;itians <HI>pre&s;cribe him (on paine of death) to drinke nothing but water, cocted with</HI> Ani&s;e-&s;eeds? <HI>O health! health! the ble&s;&s;ing of the rich, the riches of the poore!
<PB REF="36"> who can buy thee at to deare a rate, &s;ince there is no enioying this world, without thee? Be not then &s;o &s;paring of your pur&s;es, honorable Gentlemen, as to abridge the naturall cour&s;e of life&mdash;</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ee his ende?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P>I, is't not good?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>For, when a</HI> humide Fluxe, <HI>or</HI> Catarrhe, <HI>by the mutability of ayre, falls from your head, into an arme or &s;houlder, or any other part; take you a</HI> Duckat, <HI>or your</HI> Cecchine <HI>of gold, and applie to the place affected: &s;ee, what good effect it can worke. No, no, 'tis this ble&s;&s;ed</HI> Vnguento, <HI>this rare Extraction, that hath onely power to di&s;per&s;e all malignant humors, that proceede, either of hot, cold, moi&s;t or windy cau&s;es&mdash;</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<P>I would he had put in dry to.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P>'pray you, ob&s;erue.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>To fortifie the mo&s;t indige&s;t, and crude &s;tomacke, I, were it of one, that (through extreame weakene&s;&s;e) vomited bloud, applying onely a warme napkin to the place, after the</HI> vnction, <HI>and</HI> fricace; <HI>For the</HI> Vertigine, <HI>in the head, putting but a drop into your no&s;trills, likewi&s;e, behind the eares; a mo&s;t &s;oueraigne, and approoued remedy. The</HI> Mall-caduco, Crampes, Convul&s;ions, Paraly&s;ies, Epilep&s;ies, Tremor-cordia, retired-Nerues, <HI>ill</HI> Vapours of the &s;pleene, Stop|pings of the Liuer, <HI>the</HI> Stone, <HI>the</HI> Strangury, Hernia vento&s;a, Ili|aca pa&s;&s;io; <HI>&s;tops a</HI> Di&s;enteria, <HI>immediatly; ea&s;eth the</HI> tor&s;ion of the &s;mall guts: <HI>and cures</HI> Melancolia hypocondriaca, <HI>being taken and applyed, according to my</HI> printed Receipt. <HI>For, this is the</HI> Phy&s;itian, <HI>this the medicine; this councells, this cures; this giues the direction, this works the effect: and (in &s;umme) both together may be term'd an ab&s;tract of the</HI> theorick, <HI>and</HI> practick <HI>in the</HI> Ae&s;culapian <HI>Art. 'Twill co&s;t you eight</HI> Crownes. <HI>And,</HI> Zan Fritada, <HI>'pray thee &s;ing a ver&s;e,</HI> extempore, <HI>in honour of it.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P>How do you like him, Sir?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mo&s;t &s;trangely, I!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P>Is not his language rare?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<P>But <HI>Alchimy,</HI> I neuer heard the like: or <HI>Broughtons</HI> bookes.</P>
</SP>
<FLOATEXT LANG="eng" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>SONG.</HEAD>
<L>HAd old <HI>Hippocrates,</HI> or <HI>Galen,</HI></L>
<L>(That to their bookes put med'cines all in)</L>
<PB REF="37">
<L>But knowne this &s;ecret, they had neuer</L>
<L>(Of which they will bee guilty euer)</L>
<L>Beene murderers of &s;o much paper,</L>
<L>Or wa&s;ted many a hurtle&s;&s;e taper:</L>
<L>No <HI>Indian</HI> drug had ere beene famed,</L>
<L><HI>Tabacco, Sa&s;&s;afras</HI> not named;</L>
<L>Ne yet, of <HI>Guacum</HI> one &s;mall &s;tick, Sir,</L>
<L>Nor <HI>Raymund Lullies</HI> greate <HI>Elixir.</HI></L>
<L>Ne, had beene knowne the <HI>dani&s;h Gon&s;wart.</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>Paracel&s;us,</HI> with his long-&s;word.</L>
</FLOATEXT>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>All this, yet, will not do, eight</HI> Crownes <HI>is high.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P>No more; Gentlemen, if I had but time to di&s;cour&s;e to you the miraculous effects of this my oyle, &s;urnamed <HI>oglio del Scoto,</HI> with the count-le&s;&s;e Catalogue of tho&s;e I haue cured of th'afore&s;ayd, and ma|ny more di&s;ea&s;es, the Pattents and Priuiledges of all the <HI>Princes,</HI> and Common-wealthes of <HI>Chri&s;tendome,</HI> or but the depo&s;itions of tho&s;e that appear'd on my part, before the <HI>Signiry</HI> of the <HI>Sanit&acirc;,</HI> and mo&s;t learned <HI>Colledge</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;itians;</HI> where I was authorized, vpon notice taken of the admirable vertues of my medicaments, and mine owne excellency, in matter of rare, and vnknowne &s;ecrets, not onely to di&s;per&s;e them publiquely in this famous Citty, but in all the Territories, that happely ioy vnder the gouernment of the mo&s;t pious and magnificent <HI>States</HI> of <HI>Italy.</HI> But may &s;ome other gallant fellow &s;ay, O, there be diuers, that make profe&s;&s;ion to haue as good, and as ex|perimented receipts, as yours: Indeed, very many haue a&s;&s;ay'd, like Apes, in imitation of that, which is really, and e&s;&s;entially in mee, to make of this oyle; be&s;tow'd great co&s;t in furnaces, &s;tilles, alembekes, continuall fires, and preparation of the <HI>ingredients,</HI> as indeede there goes to it &s;ixe hundred &s;euerall Simples, be&s;ide, &s;ome quantity of humane fat, for the conglutination, which we buy of the <HI>Anatomi&s;tes;</HI> But, when the&s;e <HI>Practitioners</HI> come to the la&s;t decoction, blow, blow, puff, puff, and all flies in <HI>fumo:</HI> ha, ha, ha. Poore wretches! <HI>I</HI> rather pitty their folly, and indi&s;cretion, then their lo&s;&s;e of time, and money; for tho&s;e may be recouer'd by indu&s;try: but to be a Foole borne is a di&s;ea&s;e incurable. For my &s;elfe, I alwaies from my youth haue
<PB REF="37"> indeauor'd to get the rare&s;t &s;ecrets, and booke them; eyther in ex|change, or for money; I &s;pared nor co&s;t, nor labour, where any thing was worthy to be learned. And Gentlemen, honourable Gentlemen, I will vndertake (by vertue of <HI>Chymicall</HI> Art) out of the honourable hat, that couers your head, to extract the foure <HI>Elements;</HI> that is to &s;ay, the <HI>Fire, Ayre, Water,</HI> and <HI>Earth,</HI> and returne you your felt, without burne, or &s;taine. For, whil'&s;t others haue beene at the <HI>bal|loo,</HI> I haue beene at my booke: and am now pa&s;t the craggy pathes of &s;tudy, and come to the flowrie plaines of honour, and reputation.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I do a&s;&s;ure you, Sir, that is his ayme.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P>But, to our price.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>And that withall, Sir.</HI> Poll.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P>You all know (honourable Gentlemen) I neuer valew'd this <HI>ampulla,</HI> or violl, at le&s;&s;e then eight <HI>Crownes,</HI> but for this time, I am content, to be depriu'd of it for &s;ixe; &s;ixe <HI>Crownes</HI> is the price; and le&s;&s;e, in curte&s;ie, I know you cannot offer mee; take it, or leaue it, how|&s;oeuer, both it, and I am at your &s;eruice. I aske you not, as the valew of the thing, for then I &s;hould demand of you a thou&s;and <HI>Crownes,</HI> &s;o the <HI>Cardinalls Montalto, Ferne&s;e,</HI> the great <HI>Duke</HI> of <HI>Tu&s;cany,</HI> my Go&s;&s;ip, with diuers other <HI>Princes</HI> haue giuen me; but I de&s;pi&s;e money: only to &s;hew my affection to you, honorable Gentlemen, and your illu&s;trous <HI>State</HI> here, I haue neglected the me&s;&s;ages of the&s;e <HI>Princes,</HI> mine owne offices, fram'd my iourney hither, onely to pre&s;ent you with the fruicts of my trauells. Tune your voyces once more, to the touch of your in&s;truments, and giue the honorable a&s;&s;embly &s;ome delight|full recreation.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>What mon&s;trous, and mo&s;t painefull circum&s;tance</HI></L>
<L><HI>Is here, to get &s;ome three, or foure</HI> Gazets?</L>
<L><HI>Some three-pence, i'th whole, for that 'twill come too.</HI></L>
</SP>
<FLOATEXT LANG="eng" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>SONG.</HEAD>
<L>YOu that would la&s;t long, li&s;t to my &s;ong,</L>
<L>Make no more coyle, but buy of this oyle.</L>
<L>Would you be euer faire? and yong?</L>
<L>Stout of teeth? and &s;trong of tongue?</L>
<L>Tart of palat? quick of eare?</L>
<PB REF="38">
<L>Sharpe of &s;ight? of nostrill cleare?</L>
<L>Moist of hand? and light of foot?</L>
<L>(Or I will come neerer to't)</L>
<L>Would you liue free from all di&s;ea&s;es?</L>
<L>Do the act, your mi&s;tres plea&s;es;</L>
<L>Yet fright all aches from your bones?</L>
<L>Here's a med'cine, for the nones.</L>
</FLOATEXT>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, I am in a humor (at this time) to make a pre&s;ent of the &s;mall quantity my coffer containes: to the rich, in courte&s;ie, and to the poore, for Gods &s;ake. Wherefore, nowe marke; I ask'd you &s;ixe <HI>Crownes,</HI> and &s;ixe <HI>Crownes,</HI> at other times, you haue payd mee; you &s;hall not giue mee &s;ixe <HI>Crownes,</HI> nor fiue, nor foure, nor three, nor two, nor one; nor halfe a <HI>Duckat;</HI> no, nor a <HI>Muccinigo:</HI> &s;ix <HI>pence</HI> it will co&s;t you, or &s;ixe hundred <HI>pound</HI>&mdash;expect no lower price, for by the banner of my front, I will not bate a <HI>bagatine,</HI> that I will haue, onely, a pledge of your loues, to carry &s;omething from among&s;t you, to &s;hew, I am not contemn'd by you. Therefore, now, to&s;&s;e your handker|chiefes, chearefully, chearefully; and bee aduerti&s;ed, that the fir&s;t <HI>heroique</HI> &s;pirit, that deignes to grace mee, with a handkerchiefe, I will giue it a little remembrance of &s;omething, be&s;ide, &s;hall plea&s;e it better, then if I had pre&s;ented it with a double <HI>Pi&s;tolet.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Will you be that</HI> heroique <HI>Sparke, Sir</HI> Pol?</L>
<L><HI>O &s;ee! the windore has preuented you.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<P>Lady, I ki&s;&s;e your bounty; and, for this timely grace, you haue done your poore <HI>Scoto of Mantua,</HI> I will returne you, ouer and aboue my oyle, a &s;ecret, of that high, and ine&s;timable nature, &s;hall make you for euer enamour'd on that minute, wherein your eye-fir&s;t de&s;cended on &s;o meane, yet not altogether to be de&s;pi&s;'d an obiect. Here is a Poul|der, conceal'd in this paper, of which, if I &s;hould &s;peake to the worth, nine thou&s;and <HI>volumes</HI> were but as one <HI>page,</HI> that <HI>page</HI> as a <HI>line,</HI> that <HI>line</HI> as a <HI>word;</HI> &s;o &s;hort is this <HI>Pilgrimage of man</HI> (which &s;ome call Life) to the expre&s;&s;ing of it: would I reflect on the price? why, the whole <HI>VVorld</HI> were but as an <HI>Empire,</HI> that <HI>Empire</HI> as a <HI>Prouince,</HI> that <HI>Prouince</HI> as a <HI>Banke,</HI> that <HI>Banke</HI> as a <HI>priuate Pur&s;e,</HI> to the purcha&s;e of it. I will, onely, tell you; it is the Poulder, that made
<PB REF="38"> <HI>Venus</HI> a <HI>Godde&s;&s;e</HI> (giuen her by <HI>Apollo</HI>) that kept her perpetu|ally yong, clear'd her wrincles, firm'd her gummes, fill'd her skinne, colour'd her hayre; From her, deriu'd to <HI>Helen,</HI> and at the &s;ack of <HI>Troy</HI> (vnfortunately) lo&s;t: Till now, in this our age, it was as happily recouer'd, by a &s;tudious <HI>Antiquary,</HI> out of &s;ome ruines of <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> who &s;ent a moyetie of it, to the <HI>Court</HI> of <HI>France</HI> (but much &s;ophi&s;ticated) wherewith the Ladyes there, now, colour their hayre. The re&s;t (at this pre&s;ent) remaines with mee; extracted, to a <HI>Quinte&s;&s;ence:</HI> &s;o that, where euer it but touches, in youth it perpetually pre&s;erues, in age re|&s;tores the complexion; &s;eats your teeth, did they dance like <HI>Virginall</HI> iacks, firme as a wall; makes them white, as Iuory, that were black, as&mdash;</P>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 2. SCENE. 3.</HEAD>
<STAGE>CORVINO. POLITIQVE. PEREGRINE.</STAGE>
<L>BLoud of the deuill, and my &s;hame! come downe, here;</L>
<L>Come downe: No hou&s;e but mine to make your <HI>Scene?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Signior Flaminio,</HI> will you downe, Sir? downe?</L>
<L>What is my wife your <HI>Franci&s;cina?</HI> Sir?</L>
<L>No windores on the whole <HI>Piazza,</HI> here,</L>
<L>To make your properties, but mine? but mine?</L>
<L>Hart! ere to morrow, I &s;hall be new chri&s;ten'd,</L>
<L>And cald the <HI>Pantalone di Be&s;ognio&s;i,</HI></L>
<L>About the towne.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;hould this meane, Sir <HI>Poll?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Some trick of <HI>State,</HI> beleeue it. I will home.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>It may be &s;ome de&s;igne on you:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I knowe not.</L>
<L>Ile &s;tand vpon my gard.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis your be&s;t, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>This three weekes, all my <HI>adui&s;es,</HI> all my letters</L>
<L>They haue beene intercepted.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Indeed, Sir?</L>
<PB REF="39">
<L>Be&s;t haue a care.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay &s;o I will.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>This Knight,</L>
<L>I may not loo&s;e him, for my mirth, till night.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 2. SCENE. 4.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLPONE. MOSCA.</STAGE>
<L>O I am wounded.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not without;</L>
<L>Tho&s;e blowes were nothing: I could beare them euer.</L>
<L>But angry <HI>Cupid,</HI> boulting from her eyes,</L>
<L>Hath &s;hot him&s;elfe into me, like a flame;</L>
<L>Where, now, he flings about his burning heat,</L>
<L>As in a furnace, &s;ome ambitious fire,</L>
<L>Who&s;e vent is &s;topt. The fight is all within mee.</L>
<L>I cannot liue, except thou helpe me, <HI>Mo&s;ca;</HI></L>
<L>My liuer melts, and I, without the hope</L>
<L>Of &s;ome &s;oft ayre, from her refre&s;hing breath,</L>
<L>Am but a heape of cinders.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'La&s;&s;e, good Sir,</L>
<L>Would you had neuer &s;eene her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, would thou</L>
<L>Had'&s;t neuer told me of her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir 'tis true;</L>
<L>I do confe&s;&s;e, I was vnfortunate,</L>
<L>And you vnhappy: but I' am bound in con&s;cience.</L>
<L>No le&s;&s;e then duety, to effect my be&s;t</L>
<L>To your relea&s;e of torment, and I will, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Deare <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> &s;hall I hope?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, more then deare,</L>
<L>I will not bidd you to di&s;paire of ought,</L>
<L>Within a humane compa&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, there &s;poke</L>
<L>My better <HI>Angell. Mo&s;ca,</HI> take my keyes,</L>
<L>Gold, plate, and iewells, all's at thy deuotion;</L>
<L>Employ them, how thou wilt; nay, coyne me, too:</L>
<L>So thou, in this, but crowne my longings. <HI>Mo&s;ca?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>V&s;e but your patience.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>So I haue.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I doubt not</L>
<L>But bring &s;ucce&s;&s;e to your de&s;ires.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, then,</L>
<L>I not repent me of my late di&s;gui&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="39">
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>If you can horne him, Sir, you neede not.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>True:</L>
<L>Be&s;ides, I neuer meant him for my heyre.</L>
<L>Is not the colour of my beard. and eye-browes,</L>
<L>To make me knowne?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No iot.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I did it well.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>So well, would I could follow you in mine,</L>
<L>With halfe the happine&s;&s;e; and, yet, I would</L>
<L>E&s;cape your <HI>Epilogue.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, were they gull'd</L>
<L>With a beleefe, that I was <HI>Scoto?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir,</L>
<L><HI>Scoto</HI> him&s;elfe could hardly haue di&s;tingui&s;h'd;</L>
<L>I haue not time to flatter you, wee'll part:</L>
<L>And, as I pro&s;per, &s;o applaud my art.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 2. SCENE. 5.</HEAD>
<STAGE>CORVINO. CELIA. SERVITORE.</STAGE>
<L>DEath of mine honour, with the citties <HI>Foole?</HI></L>
<L>A iugling, tooth-drawing, prating <HI>Montebanke?</HI></L>
<L>And, at a publique windore? where whil'&s;t hee,</L>
<L>With his &s;train'd action, and his dole of faces,</L>
<L>To his <HI>drug-Lecture</HI> drawes your itching eares,</L>
<L>A crewe of old, vn-mari'd, noted lechers,</L>
<L>Stood leering vp, like <HI>Satyres;</HI> and you &s;mile,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t graciou&s;ly? and fanne your fauours forth,</L>
<L>To giue your hote <HI>Spectators</HI> &s;atisfaction?</L>
<L>What; was your <HI>Montebanke</HI> their call? their whi&s;tle?</L>
<L>Or were you' enamour'd on his copper rings?</L>
<L>His &s;affron iewell, with the toade-&s;tone in't?</L>
<L>Or his imbroydred &s;ute, with the cope-&s;titch,</L>
<L>Made of a her&s;e-cloath? or his old tilt-feather?</L>
<L>Or his &s;tarch'd beard? well; you &s;hall haue him, yes.</L>
<L>He &s;hall come home, and mini&s;ter vnto you</L>
<L>The <HI>fricace,</HI> for the <HI>Mother.</HI> Or, let me &s;ee,</L>
<L>I thinke, you' had rather mount? would you not mount?</L>
<L>Why, if you'll mount, you may; yes truely, you may:</L>
<L>And &s;o, you may be &s;eene, downe to' th' foote.</L>
<PB REF="40">
<L>Get you a citterne, <HI>Lady Vanity,</HI></L>
<L>And be a <HI>Dealer,</HI> with the <HI>Vertuous Man;</HI></L>
<L>Make one: Ile but prote&s;t my &s;elfe a cuckold,</L>
<L>And &s;aue your dowry. I am a <HI>Dutchman,</HI> I;</L>
<L>For, if you thought me an <HI>Italian,</HI></L>
<L>You would be damn'd, ere you did this, you Whore:</L>
<L>Thou'ld&s;t tremble, to imagine, that the murder</L>
<L>Of father, mother, brother, all thy race,</L>
<L>Should follow, as the &s;ubiect of my iu&s;tice.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good Sir, haue pacience.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>What could&s;t thou propo&s;e</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e to thy &s;elfe, then, in this heate of wrath,</L>
<L>And &s;tung with my di&s;honour, I &s;hould &s;trike</L>
<L>This &s;teele vnto thee, with as many &s;tabs,</L>
<L>As thou wert gaz'd vpon with goati&s;h eyes?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Alas Sir, be appea&s;'d; I could not thinke</L>
<L>My beeing at the windore &s;hould more, now,</L>
<L>Moue your impatience, then at other times:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>No? not to &s;eeke, and entertaine a <HI>parlee;</HI></L>
<L>With a knowne knaue? before a multitude?</L>
<L>You were an <HI>Actor,</HI> with your handkercheife;</L>
<L>Which he, mo&s;t &s;weetly, ki&s;t in the receipt,</L>
<L>And might (no doubt) returne it, with a letter,</L>
<L>And point the place, where you might meete: your &s;i&s;ters,</L>
<L>Your mothers, or your aunts might &s;erue the turne.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>VVhy, deare Sir, when do I make the&s;e excu&s;es?</L>
<L>Or euer &s;tirre, abroad, but to the <HI>Church?</HI></L>
<L>And that, &s;o &s;eldome&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>VVell, it &s;hall be le&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>And thy re&s;traint, before, was liberty,</L>
<L>To what I now decree: And therefore, marke mee.</L>
<L>Fir&s;t, I will haue this baudy light damn'd vp;</L>
<L>And, till't be done, &s;ome two, or three yards of,</L>
<L>Ile chalke a line: ore which, if thou but (chance</L>
<L>To) &s;et thy de&s;p'rate foote; more hell, more horror,</L>
<L>More wilde, remorcele&s;&s;e rage &s;hall &s;eize on thee,</L>
<L>Then on a <HI>Coniurer,</HI> that had heed-le&s;&s;e left,</L>
<PB REF="40">
<L>His <HI>Circles</HI> &s;aftie, ere his <HI>Deuill</HI> was layd.</L>
<L>Then, here's a lock, which I will hang vpon thee;</L>
<L>And, now I thinke on't, I will keepe thee back-wards;</L>
<L>Thy lodging &s;hall bee back-wards; thy walkes back-wards;</L>
<L>Thy pro&s;pect-all be back-wards; and no plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>That thou &s;halt know, but back-wards: Nay, &s;ince you force</L>
<L>My hone&s;t nature, know, it is your owne</L>
<L>Being to open, makes me v&s;e you thus.</L>
<L>Since you will not containe your &s;ubtill no&s;trills</L>
<L>In a &s;weete roome, but, they mu&s;t &s;nuffe the ayre</L>
<L>Of ranke, and &s;weaty pa&s;&s;engers&mdash; One knocks.</L>
<L>Away, and be not &s;eene, paine of thy life;</L>
<L>Not looke toward the windore: if thou do&s;t&mdash;</L>
<L>(Nay &s;tay, heare this) let me not pro&s;per, Whore,</L>
<L>But I will make thee an <HI>Anatomy,</HI></L>
<L>Di&s;&s;ect thee mine owne &s;elfe, and read a <HI>lecture</HI></L>
<L>Vpon thee, to the citty, and in publique.</L>
<L>Away. Who's there?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>SER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis Signior <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> Sir.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 2. SCENE. 6.</HEAD>
<STAGE>CORVINO. MOSCA.</STAGE>
<L>LEt him come in, his ma&s;ter's dead: There's yet</L>
<L>Some good, to helpe the bad. My <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> welcome;</L>
<L>I ge&s;&s;e your newes.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I feare, you cannot, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is't not his death?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Rather, the contrary.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not his recouery?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, Sir,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am cur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t,</L>
<L>I am bewitch'd, my cro&s;&s;es meete to vexe mee.</L>
<L>How? how? how? how?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, Sir, with <HI>Scoto's</HI> oyle;</L>
<L><HI>Corbaccio,</HI> and <HI>&V;oltore</HI> brought of it,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t I was bu&s;y in an inner roome &mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>COR.</SPEAKER>
<L>Death! that damn'd <HI>Mountebanke;</HI> but, for the <HI>Law,</HI></L>
<L>Now, I could kill the raskall: 't cannot bee,</L>
<L>His oyle &s;hould haue that vertue. Ha' not I</L>
<L>Knowne him a common rogue, come fidling in</L>
<PB REF="41">
<L>To th' <HI>O&s;teria,</HI> with a tumbling whore,</L>
<L>And, when he ha's done al his forc'd tricks, beene glad</L>
<L>Of a poore &s;poonefull of dead wine, with flies in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t?</L>
<L>It cannot bee. All his <HI>ingredients</HI></L>
<L>Are a &s;heepes gall, a ro&s;ted bitches marrow,</L>
<L>Some fewe &s;od earewigs pounded caterpillers,</L>
<L>A little capons grea&s;e, and fa&s;ting &s;pitle:</L>
<L>I know hem, to a <HI>dram.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not, Sir,</L>
<L>But &s;ome on't, there they pour'd into his cares,</L>
<L>Some in his no&s;trills, and recouer'd him;</L>
<L>Applying but the <HI>fricace.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pox o' that <HI>fricace.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And &s;ince to &s;eeme the more officious,</L>
<L>And flatt'ring of his health, there, they haue had</L>
<L>(At extreme fees) the <HI>Colledge</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;itians</HI></L>
<L>Con&s;ulting on him how they might re&s;tore him;</L>
<L>Where, one would haue a <HI>catapl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">me</HI> of &s;pices,</L>
<L>Another a flead <HI>Ape</HI> clapt to his bre&s;t,</L>
<L>A third would ha'it a <HI>Dog,</HI> a fourth an <HI>oyle</HI></L>
<L>With wild <HI>Cat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> skinnes: At l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t, they all re&s;olu'd</L>
<L>That, to pre&s;erue him, was no other meanes,</L>
<L>But &s;ome yong woman mu&s;t be &s;treight &s;ought out,</L>
<L>Lu&s;ty, and ful of iuice, to &s;leepe by him;</L>
<L>And, to this &s;eruice (mo&s;t vnhappily,</L>
<L>And mo&s;t vnwillingly) am I now imploy'd,</L>
<L>Which, here, I thought to pre-acquaint you with,</L>
<L>For your adui&s;e, &s;ince it concernes you mo&s;t,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, I would not do that thing might cro&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Your ends, on whome I haue my whole dependance, Sir:</L>
<L>Yet if I do it not, they may delate</L>
<L>My &s;lackne&s;&s;e to my Patron, worke me out</L>
<L>Of his opinion; and there, all your hopes,</L>
<L>Venters, or what&s;oeuer, are all fru&s;trate.</L>
<L>I do but tell you, Sir. Be&s;ides, they are all</L>
<L>Now &s;triuing, who &s;hall fir&s;t pre&s;ent him. Therefore&mdash;</L>
<L>I could intreate you, breefly, conclude &s;ome-what:</L>
<L>Preuent 'hem if you can.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Death to my hopes!</L>
<PB REF="41">
<L>This is my villanous fortune! be&s;t to hire</L>
<L>Some common Cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tezan?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, I thought on that, Sir.</L>
<L>But they are all &s;o &s;ubtle, full of art,</L>
<L>And age againe doting, and flexible,</L>
<L>So as&mdash;I cannot tell&mdash;we may perchance</L>
<L>Light on a queane, may cheate vs all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis true.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, no: it mu&s;t be one, that has no tricks, Sir,</L>
<L>Some &s;imple thing, a creature, made vnto it;</L>
<L>Some wench you may command. Ha' you no kin&s;woman?</L>
<L>Gods &s;o-Thinke, thinke, thinke, thinke, thinke, thinke, thinke, Sir.</L>
<L>One o' the <HI>Doctors</HI> offer'd, there, his daughter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>How!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, Signior <HI>Lupo,</HI> the <HI>Phy&s;itian,</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>His daughter?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And a virgin, Sir. Why? Ala&s;&s;e</L>
<L>He knowes the &s;tate of 's body, what it is;</L>
<L>That naught can warme his bloud Sir, but a <HI>feuer;</HI></L>
<L>Nor any incantation rai&s;e his &s;pirit:</L>
<L>A long forgetfullne&s;&s;e hath &s;eiz'd that part.</L>
<L>Be&s;ides, Sir, who &s;hall know it? &s;ome one, or two.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I pray thee giue mee leaue: If any man</L>
<L>But I had had this luck-The thing in t &s;elfe,</L>
<L>I know, is nothing&mdash; Wherefore &s;hould not I</L>
<L>As well command my bloud, and my affections,</L>
<L>As this dull <HI>Doctor?</HI> In the point of honor,</L>
<L>The ca&s;es are all one, of wife, and daughter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I heare him comming.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>She &s;hall doo 't: Tis done.</L>
<L>Slight, if this <HI>Doctor</HI> that is not engag'd,</L>
<L>Vnle&s;&s;e't bee for his councell (which is nothing)</L>
<L>Offer his daughter, what &s;hould I, that am</L>
<L>So deepely in? I will preuent him, wretch!</L>
<L>Couetous wretch! <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> I haue determin'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>How Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Weell make all &s;ure. The party, you wot of,</L>
<L>Shall be mine owne wife, <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir. The thing,</L>
<L>(But that I would not &s;eeme to councell you)</L>
<L>I &s;hould haue motion'd to you at the fir&s;t:</L>
<L>And, make your count, you haue cut all their throtes.</L>
<L>Why! Tis directly taking a po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion!</L>
<PB REF="42">
<L>And, in his next fit, we may let him go.</L>
<L>'Tis but to pul the pillow, from his head,</L>
<L>And he is thratled: 't had beene done, before,</L>
<L>But for your &s;crupulous doubts.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, a plague on't,</L>
<L>My con&s;cience fooles my wit. Well, Ile be briefe,</L>
<L>And &s;o be thou, lea&s;t they &s;hould be before vs:</L>
<L>Go home, prepare him, tell him, with what zeale,</L>
<L>And willingne&s;&s;e, I do it; &s;weare it was,</L>
<L>On the fir&s;t hearing, (as thou may&s;t do, truely)</L>
<L>Mine owne free motion.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I warrant you,</L>
<L>Ile &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him with it, that the re&s;t</L>
<L>Of his &s;teru'd clients &s;hall be bani&s;ht, all;</L>
<L>And onely you receiu'd. But come not, Sir,</L>
<L>Vntill I &s;end, for I haue &s;omething, el&s;e</L>
<L>To ripen, for your good (you mu&s;t not know't)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>But do not you forget to &s;end, now.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Feare not.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="7" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 2. SCENE. 7.</HEAD>
<STAGE>CORVINO. CELIA.</STAGE>
<L>WHere are you, wife? my <HI>Celia?</HI> wife? what, blubbering?</L>
<L>Come, drye tho&s;e teares. I thinke, thou thought'&s;t mee in earne&s;t?</L>
<L>Ha? by this light, I talk'd &s;o but to trie thee.</L>
<L>Me thinkes, the lightne&s;&s;e of the occa&s;ion</L>
<L>Should ha' confirm'd thee. Come, I am not iealous:</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>No?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>COR.</SPEAKER>
<L>Faith, I am not I, nor neuer was:</L>
<L>It is a poore, vnprofitable humor.</L>
<L>Do not I know, if women haue a will,</L>
<L>They'll doo 'gain&s;t all the watches, o' the world?</L>
<L>And that the feirce&s;t &s;pies, are tam'd with gold?</L>
<L>Tut, I am confident in thee thou &s;halt &s;ee't:</L>
<L>And &s;ee, Ile giue thee cau&s;e too, to beleeue it.</L>
<L>Come, ki&s;&s;e mee. Go, and make thee ready &s;traight,</L>
<L>In all thy be&s;t attire, thy choice&s;t iewells,</L>
<PB REF="42">
<L>Put 'hem all on, and, with 'hem, thy be&s;t lookes:</L>
<L>VVe are inuited to a &s;olemne fea&s;t,</L>
<L>At old <HI>Volpone's,</HI> where it &s;hall appeare</L>
<L>How far I am free, from iealou&s;ie, or feare.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. 3.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENE. 1.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA.</STAGE>
<L>I Feare, I &s;hall begin to grow in loue</L>
<L>With my deare &s;elfe, and my mo&s;t pro&s;p'rous parts,</L>
<L>They do &s;o &s;pring, and burgeon; I can feele</L>
<L>A whim&s;ey i' my bloud: (I know not how)</L>
<L>Succe&s;&s;e hath made me wanton. I could skip</L>
<L>Out of my skinne, now, like a &s;ubtill &s;nake,</L>
<L>I am &s;o limber. O! Your <HI>Para&s;ite</HI></L>
<L>Is a mo&s;t pretious thing, dropt from aboue,</L>
<L>Not bred 'mong'&s;t clods, and clot-poules, here on earth.</L>
<L>I mu&s;e, the <HI>My&s;terie</HI> was not made a <HI>Science,</HI></L>
<L>It is &s;o liberally profe&s;t! Almo&s;t,</L>
<L>All the wi&s;e world is little el&s;e, in nature,</L>
<L>But <HI>Para&s;ites,</HI> or <HI>Sub-para&s;ites.</HI> And, yet,</L>
<L>I meane not tho&s;e, that haue your bare <HI>Towne-art,</HI></L>
<L>To know, who's fit to feede 'hem; haue no hou&s;e,</L>
<L>No family, no care, and therefore mould</L>
<L>Tales for mens eares, to baite that &s;en&s;e; or get</L>
<L>Kitchin-inuention, and &s;ome &s;tale receipts</L>
<L>To plea&s;e the belly, and the groine; nor tho&s;e,</L>
<L>With their <HI>Court</HI>-dog-trickes, that can fawne, and fleere,</L>
<L>Make their reuenue out of legges, and faces,</L>
<L>Eccho my-<HI>Lord,</HI> and lick away a moath:</L>
<L>But your fine, elegant ra&s;call, that can ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And &s;toope (almo&s;t together) like an arrow;</L>
<L>Shoote through the aire, as nimbly as a &s;tarre;</L>
<L>Turne &s;hort, as doth a &s;wallow; and be here,</L>
<L>And there, and here, and yonder, all at once;</L>
<PB REF="43">
<L>Pre&s;ent to any humour, all occa&s;ion;</L>
<L>And change a vi&s;or, &s;wifter, then a thought.</L>
<L>This is the creature, had the art borne with him;</L>
<L>Toyles not to learne it, but doth practi&s;e it</L>
<L>Out of mo&s;t excellent nature: And &s;uch &s;parkes,</L>
<L>Are the true <HI>Para&s;ites,</HI> others but their <HI>Zani's.</HI></L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 3. SCENE. 2.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. BONARIO.</STAGE>
<L>WHo's this? <HI>Bonario?</HI> old <HI>Corbaccio's</HI> &s;onne?</L>
<L>The per&s;on I was bound to &s;eeke. Fayre Sir,</L>
<L>You are happ'ly met.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>That cannot be, by thee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay 'pray thee know thy way, and leaue me;</L>
<L>I would be loath to inter-change di&s;cour&s;e,</L>
<L>With &s;uch a mate, as thou art</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Curteous Sir.</L>
<L>Scorne not my pouerty.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not I, by heauen,</L>
<L>But thou &s;halt giue mee leaue to hate thy ba&s;ene&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ba&s;ene&s;&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>I An&s;wer me, Is not thy &s;loth</L>
<L>Sufficient argument? thy flattery?</L>
<L>Thy meanes of feeding?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Heauen, be good to me.</L>
<L>The&s;e imputations are too common, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir,</L>
<L>And ea&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly &s;tuck on vertue, when &s;hee's poore;</L>
<L>You are vnequall to me, and how ere</L>
<L>Your &s;entence may be righteous yet you are not,</L>
<L>That ere you know me, thus, proceed in cen&s;ure:</L>
<L>S^t. <HI>Marke</HI> beare witne&s;&s;e 'gain&s;t you, 'tis inhumane.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>What? do's he weepe? the &s;igne is &s;oft, and good;</L>
<L>I do repent mee, that I was &s;o har&s;h.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis true, that &s;way'd, by &s;trong nece&s;&s;ity,</L>
<L>I am enforc'd to eate my carefull bread</L>
<L>With to much ob&s;equy; 'tis true, be&s;ide,</L>
<L>That I am faine to &s;pin mine owne poore rayment,</L>
<L>Out of my mere ob&s;eruance, being not borne,</L>
<PB REF="43">
<L>To a free fortune: but that I haue done</L>
<L>Ba&s;e offices, in rending friends a&s;under,</L>
<L>Diuiding families, betraying councells,</L>
<L>Whi&s;pering fal&s;e lies, or mining men with pray&s;es,</L>
<L>Train'd their credulitie with periuries,</L>
<L>Corrupted cha&s;tity, or am in loue</L>
<L>With mine owne tender ea&s;e, but would not rather</L>
<L>Proue the mo&s;t rugged, and laborious cour&s;e,</L>
<L>That might redeeme, my pre&s;ent e&s;timation;</L>
<L>Let me here peri&s;h, in all hope of goodne&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>This cannot be a per&s;onated pa&s;&s;ion.</L>
<L>I was too blame, &s;o to mi&s;take thy nature;</L>
<L>'Pray thee forgiue mee: and &s;peake out thy bu&s;'ne&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, it concernes you; and though I may &s;eeme,</L>
<L>At fir&s;t, to make a maine offence, in manners,</L>
<L>And in my gratitude, vnto my mai&s;ter,</L>
<L>Yet, for the pure loue, which I beare all right,</L>
<L>And hatred of the wrong, I mu&s;t reueale it.</L>
<L>This very houre, your father is in purpo&s;e</L>
<L>To di&s;inherit you&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And thru&s;t you forth,</L>
<L>As a mere &s;tranger to his bloud; tis true, Sir:</L>
<L>The worke no way ingageth mee, but, as</L>
<L>I claime an intere&s;t in the generall &s;tate</L>
<L>Of goodne&s;&s;e, and true vertue, which I heare</L>
<L>T'abound in you: and, for which mere re&s;pect,</L>
<L>Without a &s;econd ayme, Sir, I haue done it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>This tale hath lo&s;t thee much of the late tru&s;t,</L>
<L>Thou had&s;t with me; it is impo&s;&s;ible:</L>
<L>I know not how to lend it any thought,</L>
<L>My father &s;hould be &s;o vnnaturall.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>It is a confidence, that well becomes</L>
<L>Your piety; and form'd (no doubt) it is,</L>
<L>From your owne &s;imple innocence: which makes</L>
<L>Your wrong more mon&s;trous, and abhor'd. But, Sir,</L>
<L>I now, will tell you more. This very minute,</L>
<PB REF="44">
<L>Is is, or will be doing: And, if you</L>
<L>Shall be but plea&s;'d to goe with me, Ile bring you,</L>
<L>(I dare not &s;ay where you &s;hall &s;ee, but) where</L>
<L>Your eare &s;hall be a witne&s;&s;e of the deed;</L>
<L>Heare your &s;elfe written <HI>Ba&s;tard;</HI> and profe&s;t</L>
<L>The common i&s;&s;ue of the earth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'm maz'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, if I do it not, draw your iu&s;t &s;word,</L>
<L>And &s;core your vengeance, on my front, and face;</L>
<L>Marke me your villayne: You haue too much wrong,</L>
<L>And I do &s;uffer for you, Sir. My heart</L>
<L>Weepes bloud, in angui&s;h&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Lead. I follow thee.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 3. SCENE. 3.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLPONE. NANO. ANDROGYNO. CASTRONE.</STAGE>
<L>MO&s;ca <HI>&s;tayes long, me thinkes. Bring forth your &s;ports</HI></L>
<L><HI>And helpe, to make the wretched time more &s;weete.</HI></L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Dwarfe, Foole,</HI> and <HI>Eunuch,</HI> well mett here wee be.</L>
<L>A que&s;tion it were now, whether of vs three,</L>
<L>Being, all, the knowne delicates, of a rich man,</L>
<L>In plea&s;ing him, claime the precedency can?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CAS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I claime for my &s;elfe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, &s;o doth the <HI>Foole.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis fooli&s;h indeed: let me &s;et you both to &s;choole.</L>
<L>Fir&s;t, for your <HI>Dwarfe,</HI> hee's little, and witty,</L>
<L>And euery thing, as it is little, is pritty;</L>
<L>El&s;e, why do men &s;ay to a creature (of my &s;hape)</L>
<L>So &s;oone as they &s;ee him, it's a pritty little Ape?</L>
<L>And, why a pritty Ape? but for plea&s;ing imitation</L>
<L>Of greater mens action, in a ridiculous fa&s;hion.</L>
<L>Be&s;ide, this feat body of mine doth not craue</L>
<L>Halfe the meat, drinke, and cloth, one of your bulkes will haue.</L>
<L>Admit, your <HI>Fooles</HI> face be the Mother of laughter,</L>
<L>Yet, for his braine, it mu&s;t alwaies come after:</L>
<L>And, though that do feede him, it's a pittifull ca&s;e,</L>
<PB REF="44">
<L>Vpon my fre&s;hman-&s;hip, Ile trie your &s;alt-head,</L>
<L>What proofe it is again&s;t a counter-plot.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. 4.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENE. 4.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLTORE. CORBACCIO. CORVINO. MOSCA.</STAGE>
<L>VVEll, now you know the carriage of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Your con&s;tancy is all, that is requir'd</L>
<L>Vnto the &s;afety of it.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is the <HI>lie</HI></L>
<L>Safely conuai'd among&s;t vs? Is that &s;ure?</L>
<L>Knowes euery man his burden?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Then, &s;hrinke not.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, knowes the Aduocate the truth?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, Sir,</L>
<L>By no meanes. I deui&s;'d a formall tale,</L>
<L>That &s;alu'd your reputation. But, be valiant, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I feare no one, but him; that, this his pleading</L>
<L>Should make him &s;tand for a co-hei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Co-halter,</L>
<L>Hang him: wee will but v&s;e his tongue, his noi&s;e,</L>
<L>As we do <HI>Croakers,</HI> here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, what &s;hall he do?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>When we ha'done, you meane?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, wee'll thinke,</L>
<L>Sell him for <HI>Mummia,</HI> hee's halfe du&s;t already.</L>
<L>Do not you &s;mile, to &s;ee this <HI>Buffalo,</HI></L>
<L>How he do's &s;port it with his head?&mdash; I' &s;hould</L>
<L>If all were well, and pa&s;t. Sir, onely you</L>
<L>Are hee, that &s;hall enioy the crop of all,</L>
<L>And the&s;e not know for whome they toile.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, peace.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>But you &s;hall eate it. Much. Wor&s;hipfull Sir,</L>
<L><HI>Mercury</HI> &s;it vpon your thundring tongue,</L>
<L>Or the <HI>French Hercules,</HI> and make your language</L>
<L>As conquering as his club, to beate along,</L>
<L>(As wth a tempe&s;t) flat, our aduer&s;aries;</L>
<L>But, much more, yours, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here they come, ha' done.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="45">
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I haue another witne&s;&s;e, if you neede, Sir,</L>
<L>I can produce.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who is it?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I haue her.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 4. SCENE. 5.</HEAD>
<STAGE>AVOCATORI. 4. BONARIO. CELIA. VOLTORE. CORBACCIO. CORVINO. MOSCA. NOTARIO. COMMANDADORI.</STAGE>
<L>THe like of this the <HI>Senate</HI> neuer heard of.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Twil come mo&s;t &s;trange to them, whe~ we report it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>'The Gentlewoman has beene euer held</L>
<L>Of vn-reproued name.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>So has the youth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>The more vnnaturall part that of his father.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>More, of the hu&s;band.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>I not know to giue</L>
<L>His act a name, it is &s;o mon&s;trous!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>But the Impo&s;tor, he is a thing created</L>
<L>T'exceed example!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC.</SPEAKER>
<L>And all after times!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>I neuer heard a true voluptuary</L>
<L>Di&s;crib'd, but him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Appeare yet tho&s;e were cited?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NOTA.</SPEAKER>
<L>All, but the old Magnifico, <HI>&V;olpone.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why is not hee here?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Plea&s;e your <HI>Father|hoods,</HI></L>
<L>Here is his Aduocate. Him&s;elfe's, &s;o weake,</L>
<L>So feeble&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>What are you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>His <HI>Para&s;ite,</HI></L>
<L>His Knaue, his Pandar&mdash;I be&s;eech the <HI>Court,</HI></L>
<L>He may be forc'd to come, that your graue eies</L>
<L>May beare &s;trong witne&s;&s;e of his &s;trange impo&s;tures.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Vpon my faith, and credit, with your vertues,</L>
<L>Hee is not able to endure the ayre.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bring him, howe euer.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>We will &s;ee him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fetch him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your <HI>Father-hoodes</HI> fit plea&s;ures be obey'd,</L>
<L>But &s;ure, the &s;ight will rather mooue your pittyes,</L>
<L>Then indignation; may it plea&s;e the <HI>Court,</HI></L>
<L>In the meane time, hee may be heard in me:</L>
<PB REF="45">
<L>I know this <HI>Place</HI> mo&s;t voide of preiudice,</L>
<L>And therefore craue it, &s;ince we haue no rea&s;on</L>
<L>To feare our truth &s;hould hurt our cau&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speake free.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Then know, mo&s;t honor'd <HI>Fathers,</HI> I mu&s;t now</L>
<L>Di&s;couer, to your &s;trangely' abu&s;ed eares,</L>
<L>The mo&s;t prodigious, and mo&s;t frontle&s;&s;e piece</L>
<L>Of &s;olid impudence, and trechery,</L>
<L>That euer vicious Nature yet brought forth</L>
<L>To &s;hame the <HI>State</HI> of <HI>&V;enice.</HI> This lewd woman</L>
<L>(That wants no artificiall lookes, or teares,</L>
<L>To helpe the vi&s;or, &s;he has now put on)</L>
<L>Hath long beene knowne a clo&s;e adultre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>To that la&s;ciuious youth there, not &s;u&s;pected,</L>
<L>I &s;ay, but knowne; and taken, in the act,</L>
<L>With him; and by this man, the ea&s;ie husband,</L>
<L>Pardon'd: who&s;e timele&s;&s;e bounty makes him, now,</L>
<L>Stand here, the mo&s;t vnhappy, innocent per&s;on,</L>
<L>That euer mans owne vertue made accu&s;'d.</L>
<L>For the&s;e, not knowing how to owe a gift</L>
<L>Of that deare grace, but with their &s;hame; being plac'd</L>
<L>So' aboue all powers of their gratitude,</L>
<L>Began to hate the benefit; and, in place</L>
<L>Of thankes, deui&s;e t' extirpe the memory</L>
<L>Of &s;uch an act: wherein, I pray your <HI>Father-hoods,</HI></L>
<L>To ob&s;erue the malice, yea, the rage of creatures</L>
<L>Di&s;couer'd in their euils; and what heart</L>
<L>Such take, euen, from their crimes. But that, anone,</L>
<L>Will more appeare. This Gentleman, the father,</L>
<L>Hearing of this foule fact, with many others,</L>
<L>That dayly &s;trooke at his too-tender eares,</L>
<L>And, grieu'd in nothing more, then that he could not</L>
<L>Pre&s;erue him&s;elfe a parent (his &s;onnes ills</L>
<L>Growing to that &s;trange floud) at la&s;t decreed</L>
<L>To di&s;-inherit him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e be &s;trange turnes!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>The yong mans fame was euer faire, and hone&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>So much more full of danger is his vice,</L>
<PB REF="46">
<L>That can beguile &s;o, vnder &s;hade of vertue.</L>
<L>But as I &s;aid (my honour'd <HI>Sires</HI>) his father</L>
<L>Hauing this &s;etled purpo&s;e, (by what meanes</L>
<L>To him betray'd, we know not) and this day</L>
<L>Appointed for the deed, that Parricide,</L>
<L>(I cannot &s;tile him better) by confederacy</L>
<L>Preparing this his Paramour, to bee there,</L>
<L>Entred <HI>Volpone's</HI> hou&s;e (who was the man</L>
<L>Your <HI>Father-hoods</HI> mu&s;t vnder&s;tand, de&s;ign'd</L>
<L>For the inheritance) there, &s;ought his father;</L>
<L>But, with what purpo&s;e &s;ought he him, my <HI>Sires?</HI></L>
<L>(I tremble to pronounce it, that a &s;onne</L>
<L>Vnto a father, and to &s;uch a father</L>
<L>Should haue &s;o foule, felonious intent)</L>
<L>It was, to murder him. When, being preuented</L>
<L>By his more happy ab&s;ence, what then did hee?</L>
<L>Not check his wicked thoughts; no, now new deedes:</L>
<L>(Mi&s;chiefe doth euer ende, where it begins)</L>
<L>An act of horror, <HI>Fathers!</HI> he drag'd forth</L>
<L>The aged Gentleman, that had there lien, bed-rid,</L>
<L>Three yeares, and more, out off his innocent couch,</L>
<L>Naked&punc; vpon the floore, there left him; wounded</L>
<L>His &s;eruant in the face; and, with this &s;trumpet</L>
<L>The &s;tale to his for'gd practi&s;e, who was glad</L>
<L>To be &s;o actiue, (I &s;hall here de&s;ire</L>
<L>Your <HI>Father-hoods</HI> to note but my collections,</L>
<L>As mo&s;t remarkable) thought, at once, to &s;top</L>
<L>His fathers ends; di&s;credit his free choi&s;e,</L>
<L>In the old Gentleman; redeeme them&s;elues,</L>
<L>By laying infamy, vpon this man</L>
<L>To whome, with blu&s;hing, they &s;hould owe their liues.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>What proofes haue you of this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t honour'd <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>I humbly craue, there be no credite giuen</L>
<L>To this mans mercenary tongue.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Forbeare.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="46">
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>His &s;oule moues in his fee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>This fellow,</L>
<L>For &s;ix <HI>&s;ols</HI> more, would pleade again&s;t his <HI>Maker.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>You do forget your &s;elfe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, nay, graue <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>Let him haue &s;cope; can any man imagine</L>
<L>That hee will &s;pare 'his accu&s;er, that would not</L>
<L>Haue &s;par'd his parent?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Well, produce your proofes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I would, I could forget, I were a creature.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Signior <HI>Corbaccio.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>What is hee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>The father.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Has he had an oath?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NOT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What mu&s;t I doe now?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NOT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your te&s;timony's crau'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speake to the knaue?</L>
<L>Ile ha' my mouth, fir&s;t, &s;topt with earth; my heart</L>
<L>Abhors his knowledge: I di&s;claime in him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, for what cau&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>The mere portent of nature.</L>
<L>Hee is an vtter &s;tranger, to my loynes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Haue they made you to this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I will not heare thee,</L>
<L>Mon&s;ter of men, &s;wine, goate, wolfe, Parricide,</L>
<L>Speake not, thou viper.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I will &s;it downe,</L>
<L>And rather wi&s;h my innocence &s;hould &s;uffer,</L>
<L>Then I re&s;i&s;t the authority of a father.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Signior <HI>Coruino.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is &s;trange!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who's this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NOT.</SPEAKER>
<L>The husband.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is he &s;worne?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NOT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hee is.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speake then.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>This woman (plea&s;e your <HI>Father-hoods</HI>) is a whore,</L>
<L>Of mo&s;t hot exerci&s;e, more then a partrich,</L>
<L>Vpon record&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>No more.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Neighes, like a gennet.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NOT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pre&s;erue the honour of the <HI>Court.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hall,</L>
<L>And mode&s;ty of your mo&s;t reuerend eares.</L>
<PB REF="47">
<L>And, yet, I hope that I may &s;ay, the&s;e eyes</L>
<L>Haue &s;eene her glew'd vnto that peece of Cedar;</L>
<L>That fine well-timber'd gallant: and that, here,</L>
<L>The letters may be read, thorough the horne,</L>
<L>That make the &s;tory perfect.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Excellent, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>There is no harme in this, now, is there?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>None.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or if I &s;aid, I hop'd that &s;he were onward</L>
<L>To her damnation, if there be a hell</L>
<L>Greater then whore, and woman; a good <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI></L>
<L>May make the doubt.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>His griefe hath made him fran|tique.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Remoue him, hence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Looke to the wo|man.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Rare!</L>
<L>Prettily fain'd! againe!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Stand from about her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Giue her the ayre.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>What can you &s;ay?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>My wound</L>
<L>(May't plea&s;e your wi&s;domes) &s;peakes for mee, receiu'd</L>
<L>In ayde of my good Patron, when he mi&s;t</L>
<L>His &s;ought for father, when that well-taught dame</L>
<L>Had her <HI>Qu:</HI> giuen her, to crie out a rape.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, Mo&s;t lay'd impudence! <HI>Fathers.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, be &s;ilent,</L>
<L>You had your hearing free, &s;o mu&s;t they theirs.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do begin to doubt th' impo&s;ture, here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>This woman, has too many moodes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Graue <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>She is a creature, of a mo&s;t profe&s;t,</L>
<L>And pro&s;tituted lewdne&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t impetuous,</L>
<L>Vn&s;atisfied, graue <HI>Fathers.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT,</SPEAKER>
<L>May her faynings</L>
<L>Not take your wi&s;domes: but, this day, &s;he bayted</L>
<L>A &s;tranger, a graue Knight, with her loo&s;e eyes,</L>
<L>And more la&s;ciuious ki&s;&s;es. This man &s;aw 'hem</L>
<L>Together, on the water, in a <HI>Gondola.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here is the Lady her&s;elfe, that &s;aw 'hem too,</L>
<L>Without; who, then, had in the open &s;treetes</L>
<L>Pur&s;ew'd them, but for &s;auing her Knights honour.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="47">
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Produce that Lady.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let her come.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e things</L>
<L>They &s;trike, with wonder!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am turn'd a &s;tone!</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 4. SCENE. 6.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. LADY. AVOCATORI. &amp;c.</STAGE>
<L>BEe re&s;olute, Madam.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, this &s;ame is &s;hee.</L>
<L>Out, thou <HI>Chameleon</HI> harlot; now, thine eyes</L>
<L>Vie teares with the <HI>Hyaena:</HI> dar&s;t thou looke</L>
<L>Vpon my wronged face? I crie your pardons.</L>
<L>I feare, I haue (forgettingly) tran&s;gre&s;t</L>
<L>Again&s;t the dignity of the <HI>Court</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, Madame.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>And beene exorbitant&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>You haue not, Lady.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e proofes are &s;trong.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Surely, I had no purpo&s;e,</L>
<L>To &s;candalize your <HI>Honors,</HI> or my &s;exes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>We doe beleeue it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Surely, you may be|leeue it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Madame, wee doe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Indeede, you may; my breeding</L>
<L>Is not &s;o cour&s;e&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Wee know it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>To offend With pertinacy&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Lady.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Such a pre|&s;ence;</L>
<L>No, &s;urely.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Wee well thinke it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>You may thinke it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let her o'recome. What witne&s;&s;es haue you,</L>
<L>To make good your report?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Our con&s;ciences:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>And heauen, that neuer fayles the innocent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e are no te&s;timonies.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not, in your <HI>Courts,</HI></L>
<L>Where multitude, and clamour, ouercomes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, then you do waxe in&s;olent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here, here,</L>
<L>The te&s;timony comes, that will conuince,</L>
<PB REF="48">
<L>And put to vtter dumbne&s;&s;e, their bold tongues.</L>
<L>See here, graue <HI>Fathers,</HI> here's the Raui&s;her,</L>
<L>The Rider on mens wiues, the great Impo&s;tor,</L>
<L>The grand Voluptuary: Do you not thinke,</L>
<L>The&s;e limbes &s;hould affect <HI>V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nery?</HI> or the&s;e eyes</L>
<L>Couet a concubine? 'Pray you, marke the&s;e hands,</L>
<L>Are they not fit to &s;troke a Ladies bre&s;ts?</L>
<L>Perhaps, he doth di&s;&s;emble.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>So he do's.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Would you ha 'him tortur'd?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>I would haue him prou'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be&s;t trie him, then, with goades, or burning Irons;</L>
<L>Put him to the <HI>&s;trappado;</HI> I haue heard,</L>
<L>The Rack hath cur'd the <HI>goute;</HI> faith, giue it him,</L>
<L>And helpe him of a malady, bee courteous:</L>
<L>Ile vndertake, before the&s;e honor'd <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>He &s;hall haue, yet, as many left di&s;ea&s;es,</L>
<L>As &s;he has knowne adulterers, or thou &s;trumpets.</L>
<L>O, my mo&s;t equall <HI>Hearers,</HI> if the&s;e deedes,</L>
<L>Acts of this bold, and mo&s;t exorbitant &s;traine,</L>
<L>May pa&s;&s;e with &s;uffrance; what one Cittizen,</L>
<L>But owes the forfeit of his life, yea fame,</L>
<L>To him that dares traduce him? Which of you</L>
<L>Are &s;afe, my honord <HI>Fathers?</HI> I would a&s;ke</L>
<L>(With leaue of your graue <HI>Father-hoods</HI>) if their plot</L>
<L>Haue any face, or colour like to truth?</L>
<L>Or if, vnto the dulle&s;t no&s;trill, here,</L>
<L>It &s;mell not ranke, and mo&s;t abhorred &s;launder?</L>
<L>I craue your care of this good Gentleman,</L>
<L>Who&s;e life is much indanger'd, by their <HI>fable;</HI></L>
<L>And, as for them, I will conclude with this,</L>
<L>That vicious per&s;ons when they are hot, and fle&s;h'd</L>
<L>In impious acts, their con&s;tancy abounds:</L>
<L>Damn'd deedes are done with greate&s;t confidence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Take 'hem to cu&s;tody, and &s;euer them.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis pitty, two &s;uch prodigies &s;hould liue.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let the old Gentleman be return'd, with care;</L>
<PB REF="48">
<L>I'am &s;ory, our credulity wrong'd him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e are two creatures!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>I haue an earthquake in me!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Their &s;hame (euen in their cradles) fled their faces.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>You' haue done a worthy &s;eruice to the <HI>State,</HI> Sir,</L>
<L>In their di&s;couery.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall heare, ere night,</L>
<L>What puni&s;hment the <HI>Court</HI> decrees vpon 'hem.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Wee thanke your <HI>Father-hoods.</HI> How like you it?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Rare.</L>
<L>I'ld ha' your tongue, Sir, tipt with gold, for this;</L>
<L>I'ld ha' you be the heyre to the whole Citty;</L>
<L>The earth I'ld haue want men, ere you want l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uing:</L>
<L>They' are bound t' erect your <HI>Statue,</HI> in S^t <HI>Markes.</HI></L>
<L>Signior <HI>Coruino,</HI> I would haue you goe,</L>
<L>And &s;hew your &s;elfe, that you haue conquer'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>It was much better, that you &s;hould profe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Your &s;elfe a cuckold, thus; then that the other</L>
<L>Should haue beene prou'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay I con&s;ider'd that;</L>
<L>Now it is her fault:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Then, it had beene yours.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>True, I do doubt this Aduocate, &s;till.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I' faith,</L>
<L>You need not, I dare ea&s;e you of that care.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I tru&s;t thee, <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>As your, owne &s;oule, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now for your bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>How? ha' you bu&s;ines?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, yours, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, none el&s;e?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>None el&s;e, not I.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be carefull, then.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Re&s;t you, with both your eies, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Di&s;patch it,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>In&s;tantly.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>And looke, that all,</L>
<L>What-euer, bee put in, iewells, plate, moneyes,</L>
<L>Hou&s;e-hold&s;tuffe, bedding, curtines.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Curtine-rings, Sir.</L>
<L>Onely, the Aduocates fee mu&s;t be deducted.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ile pay him, now: you'll be too prodigall.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir. I mu&s;t tender it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Two <HI>Cecchines</HI> is well?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="49">
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, &s;ixe, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis too much.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>He talk'd a great while,</L>
<L>You mu&s;t con&s;ider that, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Well, there's three&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ile giue it him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Doe &s;o, and there's for thee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bountifull bones! What horride &s;trange offence</L>
<L>Did he commit 'gain&s;t nature, in his youth,</L>
<L>Worthy this age? You &s;ee, Sir, how I worke</L>
<L>Vnto your ends; take you no notice.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>No,</L>
<L>Ile leaue you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>All, is yours; the Deuill, and all,</L>
<L>Good Aduocate. Madame, I'le bring you home.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, Ile go &s;ee your Patron.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>That you &s;hall not:</L>
<L>Ile tell you, why. My purpo&s;e is, to vrge</L>
<L>My Patron to reforme his Will; and, for</L>
<L>The zeale, you 'haue &s;hew'n to day, whereas before</L>
<L>You were but third, or fourth, you &s;hall be now</L>
<L>Put in the fir&s;t; which would appeare as beg'd,</L>
<L>If you be pre&s;ent. Therefore&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall &s;way mee.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. 5.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENE. 1.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<SP>
<L>WEll, I am here; and all this brunt is pa&s;t:</L>
<L>I n&ecirc;re was in di&s;like with my di&s;gui&s;e,</L>
<L>Till this fled moment; here, 'twas good, in priuate,</L>
<L>But, in your publike, <HI>Caue,</HI> whil'&s;t I breath.</L>
<L>'Fore God, my left legge 'gan to haue the crampe;</L>
<L>And I appr&ecirc;nded, &s;traight, &s;ome power had &s;trooke mee</L>
<L>With a dead <HI>Pal&s;ey:</HI> Well, I mu&s;t be merry,</L>
<L>And &s;hake it off. A many of the&s;e feares</L>
<L>Would put mee into &s;ome villanous di&s;ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Should they come thick vpon mee: Ile preuent 'hem.</L>
<L>Giue mee a boule of lu&s;ty wine, to fright</L>
<L>This humor from my heart; (Hum, hum, hum)</L>
<L>'Tis almo&s;t gone, already: I &s;hall conquer.</L>
<PB REF="49">
<L>Any deui&s;e, now, of rare, ingenious knauery,</L>
<L>That would po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e mee with a violent laughter,</L>
<L>Would make mee vp, againe: So, &s;o, &s;o, &s;o.</L>
<L>This heate is life; 'tis blood, by this time: <HI>Mo&s;ca!</HI></L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 2.</HEAD>
<STAGE>MOSCA. VOLPONE. NANO. CASTRONE.</STAGE>
<L>HOw now, Sir? do's the day looke cleare againe?</L>
<L>Are we recouerd? and wrought out of error,</L>
<L>Into our way? to &s;ee our path, before vs?</L>
<L>Is our trade free, once more?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Exqui&s;ite <HI>Mo&s;ca!</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Was it not carry'd learnedly?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>And &s;toutly.</L>
<L>Good wits are greate&s;t in extremities.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>It were a folly, beyond thought, to tru&s;t</L>
<L>Any grand act vnto a cowardly &s;pirit:</L>
<L>You are not taken with it, enough, mee thinkes?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, more, then if I had enioy'd the wench:</L>
<L>The plea&s;ure of all w&oacute;man-kind 's not like it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, now you &s;peake, Sir. We mu&s;t, here be fixt;</L>
<L>Here, we mu&s;t re&s;t; this is our mai&s;ter-peice;</L>
<L>We cannot thinke, to goe beyond this.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>True.</L>
<L>Thou'ha&s;t playd thy pri&s;e, my precious <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay Sir,</L>
<L>To gull the <HI>Court</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, quite diuert the torrent,</L>
<L>Vpon the innocent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, and to make</L>
<L>So rare a <HI>Mu&s;iqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> out of <HI>Di&s;cordes</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Right.</L>
<L>That, yet, to mee 's the &s;trange&s;t! how th'ha&s;t borne it!</L>
<L>That the&s;e (being &s;o diuided 'mong&s;t them &s;elues)</L>
<L>Should not &s;ent &s;ome-what, or in mee, or thee,</L>
<L>Or doubt their owne &s;ide.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>True. They will not &s;ee't;</L>
<L>Too much light blinds 'hem, I thinke: each of 'hem</L>
<L>Is &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;t, and &s;tuft with his owne hopes,</L>
<L>That any thing, vnto the contrary,</L>
<L>Neuer &s;o true, or neuer &s;o apparent,</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L>Neuer &s;o palpable, they will re&s;i&s;t it&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Like a temptation of the Deuill.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Right Sir.</L>
<L>Merchants may talke of trade, and your great Signiors</L>
<L>Of land, that yeelds well; but if <HI>Italy</HI></L>
<L>Haue any glebe, more fruictfull, then the&s;e fellowes,</L>
<L>I am deceiu'd. Did not your Aduocate rare?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, <HI>my m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t honor'd</HI> Fathers, <HI>my graue</HI> Fathers,</L>
<L><HI>Vnder correction of your</HI> Father-hoods,</L>
<L><HI>What face of truth is, here? If the&s;e &s;trange deedes</HI></L>
<L><HI>May pa&s;&s;e, mo&s;t honour'd</HI> Fathers&mdash;I had much a doe</L>
<L>To forbeare laughing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>'T &s;eem'd to mee, you &s;weate, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>In troth, I did a little.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>But confe&s;&s;e, Sir,</L>
<L>Were you not daunted?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>In good faith, I was</L>
<L>A little in a mi&s;t; but not deiected:</L>
<L>Neuer, but &s;till my &s;elfe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thinke it, Sir.</L>
<L>Now (&s;o truth helpe mee) I mu&s;t needes &s;ay this, Sir,</L>
<L>And, out of con&s;cience; for your Aduocate:</L>
<L>He' has taken paynes, in faith, Sir, and de&s;eru'd,</L>
<L>In my poore iudgement, I &s;peake it, vnder fauour,</L>
<L>Not to contrary you, Sir, very richly&mdash;</L>
<L>Well&mdash;to be co&s;end.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Troth, and I thinke &s;o too,</L>
<L>By that I heard him, in the latter ende.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, but before, Sir; had you heard him, fir&s;t,</L>
<L>Draw it to certaine heads, then aggrauate,</L>
<L>Then v&s;e his vehement figures&mdash; I look'd &s;til,</L>
<L>When he would &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ft a &s;hirt; and, doing this</L>
<L>Out of pure loue, no hope of gaine&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis right.</L>
<L>I cannot an&s;wer him, <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ca,</HI> as I would,</L>
<L>Not yet; but, for thy &s;ake, at thy intrea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y,</L>
<L>I will beginne, euen now, to vexe 'hem all:</L>
<L>This very in&s;tant.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Call the <HI>Dwarfe.</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Eunuch,</HI> forth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Ca&s;trone, Nano.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Shall we haue a <HI>Iig,</HI> now?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>What you plea&s;e, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Goe,</L>
<L>Streight, giue out, about the &s;treetes, you two,</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L>That I am dead; doe it, with con&s;tancy,</L>
<L>Sadly, do you heare? impute it to the griefe</L>
<L>Of this late &s;lander.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>What doe you meane Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O,</L>
<L>I &s;hall haue, in&s;tantly, my <HI>Vulture, Crow,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rauen,</HI> come flying hither (on the newes)</L>
<L>To peck for carrion, my &s;hee-<HI>Wolfe,</HI> and all,</L>
<L>Greedy, and full of expectation &mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And then, to haue it raui&s;h'd from their mouths?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis true, I will ha' thee put on a gowne,</L>
<L>And take vpon thee, as thou wert mine heire;</L>
<L>Shew 'hem a Will; Open that che&s;t, and reach</L>
<L>Forth one of tho&s;e, that has the <HI>Blankes.</HI> Ile &s;traight</L>
<L>Put in thy name.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>It will be rare, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I</L>
<L>When they e'ene gape, and finde them&s;elues deluded,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, thou v&s;e them skiruily. Di&s;patch,</L>
<L>Get on thy gowne.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, what, Sir, if they aske</L>
<L>After the body?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Say, it was corrupted,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ile &s;ay&punc; it &s;tunke, Sir; and was faine t' haue it</L>
<L>Coffin'd vp in&s;tantly, and &s;ent away.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Any thing, what thou wilt. Hold, heres my Will.</L>
<L>Get thee a cap, a count-booke, pen and inke,</L>
<L>Papers afore thee; fit, as thou wert taking</L>
<L>An inuentory of parcells: Ile get vp,</L>
<L>Behind the curtine, on a &s;toole, and hearken;</L>
<L>Sometime, peepe ouer; &s;ee, how they do looke;</L>
<L>With what degrees, their bloud doth leaue their faces;</L>
<L>O, 'twill afford me a rare meale of laughter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Aduocate will turne &s;tarke dull, vpon it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>It will take of his <HI>Oratories</HI> edge.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS</SPEAKER>
<L>But your <HI>Clari&s;&s;imo,</HI> old round-backe, hee</L>
<L>Will crumpe you, like a hog-lou&s;e, with the touch.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>And what <HI>Coruino?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS</SPEAKER>
<L>O, Sir, looke for him,</L>
<L>To morrow morning, with a rope, and a dagger,</L>
<L>To vi&s;ite all the &s;treetes; he mu&s;t runne madd.</L>
<L>My Lady too, that came into the <HI>Court,</HI></L>
<PB REF="51">
<L>To beare fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e, for your Wor&s;hip.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes,</L>
<L>And ki&s;t mee 'fore the <HI>Fathers;</HI> when my face</L>
<L>Flow'd all with oyles.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>And &s;weate&mdash;Sir. Why, your gold</L>
<L>Is &s;uch another med'cine, it dries vp</L>
<L>All tho&s;e offen&s;iue &s;auors! It tran&s;formes</L>
<L>The mo&s;t deformed, and re&s;tores 'hem louely,</L>
<L>As't were the &s;trange <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&euml;ticall Girdle. IOVE</HI></L>
<L>Could not inuent, t' him&s;elfe, a &s;hroud more &s;ubtle,</L>
<L>To pa&s;&s;e <HI>Acri&s;ius</HI> guardes. It is the thing</L>
<L>Makes all the world her grace, her youth, her beauty.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thinke, &s;he loues me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who? the Lady, Sir?</L>
<L>Shee's iealous of you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do'&s;t thou &s;ay &s;o?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hearke,</L>
<L>There's &s;ome, already.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Looke.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>It is the <HI>Vul|ture:</HI></L>
<L>Hee has the quicke&s;t &s;ent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ile to my place,</L>
<L>Thou, to thy po&s;ture,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am &s;et.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI></L>
<L>Play the Artificer now, torture 'hem, rarely.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 3.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLTORE. MOSCA. CORBACCIO. CORVINO. LADY. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>HOw now, my <HI>Mo&s;ca?</HI></L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Turkie Carpets, nine</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Taking an inuentory? that is well.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Two Sutes of bedding, Ti&s;&s;en</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where's the <HI>Will?</HI></L>
<L>Let me read that, the while.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>So, &s;et me downe:</L>
<L>And, get you home.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is he come, now, to trouble vs?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Of Cloth of gold, two more</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is it done, <HI>Mo&s;ca?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Of &s;euerall vellets, eight</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>I like his care.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do&s;t thou not heare?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ha? is th' houre come, <HI>Mo&s;ca?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, now, they mu&s;ter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>What do's the Aduocate, here?</L>
<PB REF="51">
<L>Or this <HI>Corbaccio?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What doe the&s;e here?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca?</HI></L>
<L>Is his thred &s;punne?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Eight Che&s;ts of Linnen</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O,</L>
<L>My fine <HI>Dame would bee,</HI> too!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> the Will,</L>
<L>That I may &s;hew it the&s;e, and rid hem hence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Six Che&s;ts of Diaper foure of Dama&s;ke</HI>&mdash;There.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is that the Will?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Downe-Beds, and Boul&s;ters</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Rare!</L>
<L>Bee bu&s;ie &s;till. Now, they begin to flutter:</L>
<L>They neuer thinke of me. Looke, &s;ee, &s;ee &s;ee!</L>
<L>How their &s;wift eies runne ouer the long <HI>deed,</HI></L>
<L>Vnto the <HI>Name,</HI> and to the <HI>Legacies,</HI></L>
<L>What is bequeath'd them, there&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Ten Sutes of Han|ging<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, i' their garters, <HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI> Now, their hopes</L>
<L>Are at the ga&s;pe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca</HI> the heire?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's that?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Aduocate is dumbe, Looke to my Merchant,</L>
<L>Hee has heard of &s;ome &s;trange &s;torme, a &s;hip is lo&s;t:</L>
<L>He faintes My Lady will &s;woune. Old Glazen-eies,</L>
<L>He hath not reach'd his di&s;paire, yet.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>All the&s;e</L>
<L>Are out of hope, I'am &s;ure the man.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, <HI>Mo&s;ca</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Two Cabinets.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is this in earne&s;t?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>One</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of Ebony</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or, do you but delude mee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>The other, Mother of Pearle</HI>&mdash;I am very bu&s;ie.</L>
<L>Good faith, it is a fortune throwne vpon me -</L>
<L><HI>Item, one Salt of Agai</HI>&mdash;not my &s;eeking.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do you heare, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>A perfum'd Boxe</HI>&mdash; 'pray you forbeare,</L>
<L>You &s;ee I am troubled&mdash;<HI>made of an Onyx</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD</SPEAKER>
<L>How!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>To morrow, or next day, I &s;hall be at lea&s;ure,</L>
<L>To talke with you all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is this my large hopes i&s;&s;ue?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>LAD.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I mu&s;t haue a fayrer an&s;were.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS</SPEAKER>
<L>Madame?</L>
<L>Mary, and &s;hall: 'pray you, fairely quit my hou&s;e.</L>
<PB REF="52">
<L>Nay, rai&s;e no tempe&s;t with your lookes; but, hearke you:</L>
<L>Remember, what your Lady&s;hip offerd mee,</L>
<L>To put you in, an heire; go to, thinke on't.</L>
<L>And what you &s;aid, eene your be&s;t <HI>Madames</HI> did</L>
<L>For maintaynance, and why not you? Inough.</L>
<L>Go home, and v&s;e the poore Sir <HI>Poll.</HI> Your Knight, well;</L>
<L>For feare I tell &s;ome riddles; Go, be melancholique.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, my fine Deuill!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> 'pray you a word.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Lord! will not you take your di&s;patch hence, yet?</L>
<L>Me thinkes (of all) you &s;hould haue beene th' example.</L>
<L>Why &s;hould you &s;tay, here? with what thought? what pro|mi&s;e?</L>
<L>Heare you; do not you know, I know you an a&s;&s;e?</L>
<L>And, that you would; mo&s;t faine, haue beene a wittoll,</L>
<L>If fortune would haue let you? that you are</L>
<L>A declar'd cuckold, on good termes? This Pearle,</L>
<L>You'll &s;ay, was yours? right. This Diamant?</L>
<L>Ile not deny't, but thanke you. Much here, el&s;e?</L>
<L>It may be &s;o. Why, thinke that the&s;e good workes</L>
<L>May helpe to hide your bad: Ile not betray you,</L>
<L>Although you be but extraordinary,</L>
<L>And haue it onely in title, it &s;ufficeth.</L>
<L>Go home; be melancholique, too: or mad.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Rare <HI>Mo&s;ca!</HI> how his villany becomes him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Certaine, he doth delude all the&s;e, for mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca</HI> the heire?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, his fowre eies haue found it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'am co&s;en'd, cheated, by a <HI>Para&s;ite</HI>-&s;laue;</L>
<L><HI>Harlot,</HI> t'ha&s;t gul'd mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, Sir. Stop your mouth,</L>
<L>Or I &s;hall draw the only tooth, is left.</L>
<L>Are not you he, that filthy couetous wretch,</L>
<L>With the three legges, that, here, in hope of prey,</L>
<L>Haue, any time this three yeare, &s;nuft about,</L>
<L>With your mo&s;t grou'ling no&s;e; and would haue hir'd</L>
<L>Mee, to the poi&s;'ning of my Patron? Sir?</L>
<PB REF="52">
<L>Are not you he, that haue, to day, in <HI>Court,</HI></L>
<L>Profe&s;&s;'d the di&s;-inheriting of your &s;onne?</L>
<L>Periur'd your &s;elfe? goe home, and die, and &s;tinke;</L>
<L>If you but croake a &s;illable, all comes out:</L>
<L>Away, and call your porters, go, go &s;tinke.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Excellent varlet!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now, my faithfull <HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI></L>
<L>I finde thy con&s;tancie.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sincere.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>A Table</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of Porphiry</HI>&mdash;I mar'le, you'll be thus trouble&s;ome.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, leaue off now, they are gone.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why? who are you?</L>
<L>What? who did &s;end for you? O'crie you mercy,</L>
<L>Reuerend Sir: good faith, I am grieu'd for you,</L>
<L>That any chance of mine &s;hould thus defeate</L>
<L>Your (I mu&s;t needs &s;ay) mo&s;t de&s;eruing trauailes:</L>
<L>But, I prote&s;t, Sir, it was ca&s;t vpon me,</L>
<L>And I could, almo&s;t, wi&s;h to be without it,</L>
<L>But, that the will o'th' dead mu&s;t be ob&s;eru'd.</L>
<L>Mary, my ioy is, that you need it not,</L>
<L>You haue a gift, Sir, (thanke your education)</L>
<L>Will neuer let you want, while there are men,</L>
<L>And malice to breed cau&s;es. Would I had</L>
<L>But halfe the like, for all my fortune, Sir.</L>
<L>If I haue any &s;utes (as I do hope,</L>
<L>Things being &s;o ea&s;ie, and direct, I &s;hall not)</L>
<L>I will make bold with your ob&s;treperous aide,</L>
<L>(Conceiue me) for your fee, Sir. In meane time,</L>
<L>You, that haue &s;o much law, I know ha' the con&s;cience,</L>
<L>Not to be couetous of what is mine.</L>
<L>Good Sir, I thanke you, for my plate; 'twill helpe</L>
<L>To &s;et vp a yong man. Good faith, you looke</L>
<L>As you were co&s;tiue; be&s;t goe home, and purge, Sir,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bid him, eate lettice well: my witty <HI>mi&s;chiefe,</HI></L>
<L>Let me embrace thee. O, that I could now</L>
<L>Tran&s;forme thee to a <HI>Venus&mdash;Mo&s;ca,</HI> goe,</L>
<L>Streight, take my habite of <HI>Clari&s;&s;imo,</HI></L>
<PB REF="53">
<L>And walke the &s;treets; bee &s;eene, torment 'hem more:</L>
<L>Wee mu&s;t pur&s;ew, as well as plot. Who would</L>
<L>Haue lo&s;t this fea&s;t?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I doubt, it will loo&s;e them.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, my recouery &s;hall recouer all,</L>
<L>That I could now but thinke on &s;ome di&s;gui&s;e,</L>
<L>To meete 'hem in: and a&s;ke 'hem que&s;tions.</L>
<L>How I would vexe 'hem &s;till, at euery turne?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I can fit you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Can&s;t thou?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes. I knowe</L>
<L>One o'the <HI>Commandadori,</HI> Sir, &s;o like you,</L>
<L>Him will I &s;treight make drunke, and bring you his habite.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>A rare di&s;gui&s;e, and an&s;wering thy braine!</L>
<L>O, I will be a &s;harpe di&s;ea&s;e vnto 'hem.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, you mu&s;t looke for cur&s;es&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Till they bur&s;t;</L>
<L>The FOXE fares euer be&s;t, when he is cur&s;t.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 4.</HEAD>
<STAGE>PEREGRINE. MERCATORI. 3. WOMAN. POLITIQVE.</STAGE>
<L>AM I inough di&s;gui&s;'d?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>I warrant you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>All my ambition is to fright him, onely.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>If you could &s;hip him away, twere excellent,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>To <HI>Zant,</HI> or to <HI>Alepo?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, and haue's</L>
<L>Aduentures put i' th' <HI>Booke of voyages,</HI></L>
<L>And his guld &s;tory regi&s;tred, for truth?</L>
<L>Well, Gentlemen, when I am in, a while;</L>
<L>And that you thinke vs warme in our di&s;cour&s;e,</L>
<L>Know your approaches.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tru&s;t it, to our care.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Saue you faire Lady. Is Sir <HI>Poll.</HI> within?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do not know, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray you, &s;ay vnto him,</L>
<L>Here is a merchant, vpon earne&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>De&s;ires to &s;peake with him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM.</SPEAKER>
<L>I will &s;ee, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray you.</L>
<L>I &s;ee, the Family is all female, here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hee &s;ai's, Sir, hee has waighty affaires of <HI>State,</HI></L>
<PB REF="53">
<L>That now require him whole; &s;ome other time,</L>
<L>You may po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray you, &s;ay againe,</L>
<L>If tho&s;e require him whole; the&s;e will exact him,</L>
<L>Whereof I bring him tidings. What might bee</L>
<L>His graue affaire of <HI>State,</HI> now? how, to make</L>
<L><HI>Bolognian</HI> &s;au&s;eges, here, in <HI>Venice,</HI> &s;paring</L>
<L>One o' th' <HI>Ingredients.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, he &s;ai's, he knowes</L>
<L>By your word <HI>tidings,</HI> that you are no <HI>State&s;-man,</HI></L>
<L>And therefore, wills you &s;tay.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sweet, 'pray you returne him,</L>
<L>I haue not read &s;o many <HI>Proclamations,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;tudied them, for words, as hee has done&mdash;</L>
<L>But, here he deignes to come.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir! I mu&s;t craue</L>
<L>Your courteous pardon; There hath chanc'd (to day)</L>
<L>Vnkinde di&s;a&s;ter, 'tw&igrave;xt my Lady, and mee:</L>
<L>And I was penning my <HI>Apologie</HI></L>
<L>To giue her &s;ati&s;faction, as you came, now.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I am greiu'd, I bring you wor&s;e di&s;a&s;ter;</L>
<L>The Gentleman, you met at th' <HI>Port,</HI> to day,</L>
<L>That told you, he was newly arriu'd&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, was</L>
<L>A fugitiue- <HI>Punke?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, Sir, a Spie, &s;et on you,</L>
<L>And hee has made relation to the <HI>Senate,</HI></L>
<L>That you profe&s;t to him, to haue a plot,</L>
<L>To &s;ell the <HI>State</HI> of <HI>Venice,</HI> to the <HI>Turke.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>O' mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>For which, warrants are &s;ign'd by this time,</L>
<L>To apprehend you, and to &s;earch your &s;tudy,</L>
<L>For papers&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ala&s;&s;e, Sir. I haue none, but <HI>notes,</HI></L>
<L>Drawne out of <HI>Play-bookes</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>All the better, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>And &s;ome <HI>E&s;&s;ayes.</HI> What &s;hall I doe?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, Be&s;t</L>
<L>Conuay your &s;elfe&punc; into a Sugar-Che&s;t;</L>
<L>Or, if you could lie round, a Frayle were rare:</L>
<L>And I could &s;end you, aboard</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I but talk'd &s;o,</L>
<L>For di&s;cour&s;e &s;ake, merely.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hearke, they are there&punc;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am a wretch, a wretch.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>What, will you doe Sir?</L>
<L>Ha you nere a Curren-Butt to leape into?</L>
<PB REF="54">
<L>They'll put you to the Rack, you mu&s;t be &s;odaine.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, I haue an ingine&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir <HI>Politique Would-be?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where is hee?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>That I haue thought vpon, be|fore time.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>What is it?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hall n&ecirc;re indure the torture.</L>
<L>Mary, it is, Sir, of a <HI>Tortoy&s;e</HI>-&s;hell,</L>
<L>Apted, for the&s;e extremities: 'Pray you Sir, helpe mee.</L>
<L>Here, I' haue a place, Sir, to put back my leggs,</L>
<L>Plea&s;e you to lay it on, Sir, with this cap,</L>
<L>And my black gloues, Iie lie, Sir, like a <HI>Tortoy&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Till they are gone,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>And, call you this an ingine?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mine owne deui&s;e&mdash; Good Sir, bid my wiues women</L>
<L>To burne my papers.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where's hee hid?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>we mu&s;t,</L>
<L>And will, &s;ure, finde him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Which is his &s;tudy?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>What</L>
<L>Are you, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'am a merchant, that came here</L>
<L>To looke vpon this <HI>Tortoy&s;e.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Howe?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>S^t Marke!</HI></L>
<L>What Bea&s;t is this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>It is a Fi&s;h.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come out, here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, you may &s;trike him, Sir, and tread vpon him:</L>
<L>Hee'll beare a cart.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>What, to runne ouer him?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Letts iumpe, vpon him;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Can hee not goe?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>He creepes Sir.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Letts &s;ee him creepe</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>No, good Sir, you will hurt him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>(Heart) Ile &s;ee him creepe; or prick his gutts.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come out, here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Pray you, Sir, (creepe a little)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Forth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yet furder.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good Sir. (creepe)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Wee'll &s;ee his leggs.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Gods '&s;o hee has garters!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, and gloues!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is this&punc;</L>
<PB REF="54">
<L>Your fearefull <HI>Tortoy&s;e?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now, <HI>Sir Poll.</HI> Wee are euen;</L>
<L>For your next proiect, I &s;hall bee prepar'd:</L>
<L>I am &s;ory, for the funerall of your notes, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Twere a rare motion, to be &s;eene in <HI>Fleete-&s;treet!</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, i' the <HI>Terme.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or <HI>Smithfield,</HI> in the <HI>Faire.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MER. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Me thinkes, tis but a melancholique &s;ight!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>PER.</SPEAKER>
<L>Farewell, mo&s;t <HI>politique Tortoy&s;e.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>where's my Lady?</L>
<L>Knowes &s;he of this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Enquire.</L>
<L>O, I &s;hall bee the <HI>fable</HI> of all fea&s;ts;</L>
<L>The freight of the <HI>Gazetti;</HI> &s;hip-boies tale;</L>
<L>And, which is wor&s;t, euen talke for Ordinaries.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>WOM</SPEAKER>
<L>My Lady's come mo&s;t melancholique, home,</L>
<L>And &s;ay's, Sir, &s;he will &s;traight to &s;ea, for <HI>Phy&s;ick.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>POL.</SPEAKER>
<L>And I, to &s;hunne, this <HI>place,</HI> and <HI>clime</HI> for euer;</L>
<L>Creeping, with hou&s;e, on back: and thinke it well,</L>
<L>To &s;hrinke my poore head, in my <HI>politique</HI> &s;hell,</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 4. SCENE. 5.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLPONE. MOSCA.</STAGE>
<L>AM I then like him?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, Sir, you are hee:</L>
<L>No man can &s;euer you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, what am I?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Fore heau'n, a braue <HI>Clari&s;&s;imo,</HI> thou becom'&s;t it!</L>
<L>Pitty, thou wert not borne one.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>If I hold</L>
<L>My made one, 'twill be well.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ile goe, and &s;ee</L>
<L>What newes, fir&s;t, at the <HI>Court.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do &s;o. My FOXE</L>
<L>Is out on his hole, and, ere he &s;hall re-enter,</L>
<L>Ile make him langui&s;h, in his borrow'd ca&s;e,</L>
<L>Except he come to compo&s;ition, with mee:</L>
<L><HI>Androgyno, Ca&s;trone, Nano.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>ALL.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Go, recreate your &s;elues, abroad; go, &s;port:</L>
<L>So, now I haue the keies, and am po&s;&s;e&s;t.</L>
<L>Since hee will, needes, be dead, afore his time,</L>
<PB REF="55">
<L>Ile burie him, or gaine by him; I'am his heyre:</L>
<L>And &s;o will keepe me, till he &s;hare at lea&s;t.</L>
<L>To co&s;en him of all, were but a cheat</L>
<L>Well plac'd; no man would con&s;true it a &s;inne:</L>
<L>Let his &s;port pay for't, this is call'd the FOXE-trap.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 6.</HEAD>
<STAGE>CORBACCIO. CORVINO. VOLPONE,</STAGE>
<L>THey &s;ay, the <HI>Court</HI> is &s;et.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>We mu&s;t mainteine</L>
<L>Our fir&s;t tale good, for both our reputations.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why? mine's no tale: my &s;onne would, there, haue kild me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>That's true, I had forgot; Mine is, I am &s;ure</L>
<L>But, for your Will, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, Ile come vpon him,</L>
<L>For that, hereafter; now his Patron's dead.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Signior <HI>Coruino!</HI> and <HI>Corbaccio!</HI> Sir,</L>
<L>Much ioy vnto you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of what?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>The &s;odaine good,</L>
<L>Dropt downe vpon you&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>(And, none knowes how)</L>
<L>From old <HI>&V;olpone,</HI> Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Out, errant Knaue.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let not your too much wealth, Sir, make you furious.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Away, thou varlet.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP</SPEAKER>
<L>Why Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do'&s;t thou mock me?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>You mock the world, Sir, did you not change Wills?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Out, harlot.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O! belike you are the man,</L>
<L>Signior <HI>Coruino?</HI> 'faith, you carry it well;</L>
<L>You grow not mad withall: I loue your &s;pirit.</L>
<L>You are not ouer-leauend, with your fortune.</L>
<L>You &s;hould ha'&s;ome would &s;well, now, like a wine-fat,</L>
<L>With &s;uch an <HI>Autumne</HI>&mdash;Did he gi'you all, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Auoid, you Ra&s;call.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Troth, your wife has &s;hew'ne</L>
<PB REF="55">
<L>Her &s;elfe a very woman; but, you are well,</L>
<L>You need not care, you haue a good e&s;tate,</L>
<L>To beare it out Sir: better, by this chance.</L>
<L>Except <HI>Corbaccio</HI> haue a &s;hare?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hence varlet.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>You will not be a' knowne, Sir: why, 'tis wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Thus doe all Gam'&s;ters, at all games, di&s;&s;emble;</L>
<L>No man will &s;eeme to winne: here, comes my <HI>Vulture,</HI></L>
<L>Heauing his beake vp i' the ayre, and &s;nuffing.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="7" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 7.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLTORE. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>OVt-&s;tript thus, by a <HI>Para&s;ite?</HI> a &s;laue?</L>
<L>Would run on errands? and make legs, for crums?</L>
<L>Well, what Ile do&mdash;</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>The <HI>Court</HI> &s;tayes for your wor|&s;hip.</L>
<L>I e&ecirc;ne reioyce, Sir, at your wor&s;hips happine&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And, that it fell into &s;o learned hands,</L>
<L>That vnder&s;tand the fingering.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>What do you meane?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP,</SPEAKER>
<L>I meane to be a &s;utor to your wor&s;hip,</L>
<L>For the &s;mall tenement, out of reparations;</L>
<L>That, at the end of your long row of hou&s;es,</L>
<L>By the <HI>Pi&s;caria:</HI> It was, in <HI>&V;olpone's</HI> time,</L>
<L>Your predece&s;&s;or, &ecirc;re he grew di&s;ea&s;'d,</L>
<L>A hand&s;ome, pretty, cu&s;tom'd&punc; baudy-hou&s;e,</L>
<L>As any was in <HI>Venice</HI> (none di&s;prai&s;'d)</L>
<L>But fell with him; His body, and that hou&s;e</L>
<L>Decay'd, together.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come, Sir, leaue your prating.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, if your wor&s;hip giue me but your hand,</L>
<L>That I may ha' the refu&s;all; I haue done.</L>
<L>'Tis a meere toy, to you, Sir; candle rents:</L>
<L>As your learn'd wor&s;hip knowes&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>What doe I know?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mary, no end of your wealth, Sir, God decrea&s;e it.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mi&s;taking knaue! what, mock&s;t thou my mis-fortune?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="56">
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>His ble&s;&s;ing on your heart, Sir, would 'twere more.</L>
<L>Now, to my fir&s;t, againe; at the next corner.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="8" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 8.</HEAD>
<STAGE>CORBACCIO. CORVINO. (MOSCA <HI>pa&s;&s;ant</HI>) VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>SEE, in our habite! &s;ee the impudent varlet!</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>That I could &s;hoote mine eyes at him, like gun|&s;tones.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, is this true, Sir, of the <HI>Para&s;ite?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Againe, t'afflict vs? Mon&s;ter!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>In good faith, Sir,</L>
<L>I'am hartily greeu'd, a beard of your graue length</L>
<L>Should be &s;o ouer-reach'd. I neuer brook'd</L>
<L>That <HI>Para&s;ites</HI> hayre, mee thought his no&s;e &s;hould co&s;en,</L>
<L>There &s;till was &s;omewhat, in his looke, did promi&s;e</L>
<L>The bane of a <HI>Clari&s;&s;imo.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Knaue&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mee thinkes,</L>
<L>Yet you, that are &s;o traded i'the world,</L>
<L>A witty merchant, the fine bird, <HI>Coruino,</HI></L>
<L>That haue &s;uch morall <HI>Emblemes</HI> on your name,</L>
<L>Should not haue &s;ung your &s;hame; and dropt your chee&s;e:</L>
<L>To let the FOXE laugh at your emptine&s;&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sirrah, you thinke, the priuiledge of the place,</L>
<L>And your red &s;aucy cap, that &s;eemes (to mee)</L>
<L>Nayl'd to your iolt-head, with tho&s;e two <HI>Cecchines,</HI></L>
<L>Can warrant your abu&s;es; come you, hither:</L>
<L>You &s;hall perceiue, Sir, I dare beate you. Approch.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>No ha&s;t, Sir, I do know your valure, well,</L>
<L>Since you dur&s;t publi&s;h what you are, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tar|ry,</L>
<L>I'ld &s;peake, with you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, another time&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, now.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O God, Sir! I were a wi&s;e man</L>
<PB REF="56">
<L>Would &s;tand the fury of a di&s;tracted cuckold.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What! come againe?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Vpon 'hem, <HI>Mo&s;ca;</HI> &s;aue mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>The ayre's infected, where he breathes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Lets flye him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Excellent <HI>Ba&s;ili&s;ke!</HI> Turne vpon the <HI>Vulture.</HI></L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="9" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 9.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLTORE. MOSCA. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>WEll, fle&s;h-flie, it is <HI>Sommer</HI> with you now;</L>
<L>Your <HI>Winter</HI> will come on,</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Good Aduo|cate,</L>
<L>'Pray thee, not rayle, nor threaten out of place, thus;</L>
<L>Thoult make a <HI>&s;oloeci&s;me</HI> (as Madam &s;ayes)</L>
<L>Get you a biggen, more: your brayne breakes loo&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Well, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Would you haue mee beate the in&s;o|lent &s;laue?</L>
<L>Throwe durt, vppon his fir&s;t good cloathes?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>This &s;ame</L>
<L>Is, doubtle&s;&s;e, &s;ome <HI>Familiar!</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, the <HI>Court,</HI></L>
<L>In troth, &s;tayes for you. I am madd, a Mule,</L>
<L>That neuer read <HI>Iu&s;tinian,</HI> &s;hould get vp,</L>
<L>And ride an Aduocate. Had you no quirk,</L>
<L>To auoide gullage, Sir, by &s;uch a creature?</L>
<L>I hope&punc; you do but ie&s;t; he has not done't:</L>
<L>This 's but confederacy, to blinde the re&s;t.</L>
<L>You are the heyre?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>A &s;trange, officious,</L>
<L>Trouble-&s;ome knaue! thou do&s;t torment mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know&mdash;</L>
<L>It cannot bee, Sir, that you &s;hould be co&s;en'd;</L>
<L>'Tis not within the wit of man, to do it:</L>
<PB REF="57">
<L>You are &s;o wi&s;e, &s;o prudent &mdash; And, 'tis fit,</L>
<L>That wealth, and wi&s;dome &s;till, &s;hould go together&mdash;</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="10" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 10.</HEAD>
<STAGE>AVOCATORI. 4. NOTARIO. COMMANDADORI. BONARIO. CELIA. CORBACCIO. COR|VINO. VOLTORE. VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>ARe all the parties, here?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NOT.</SPEAKER>
<L>All but the Aduocate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2</SPEAKER>
<L>And, here he comes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC.</SPEAKER>
<L>Then bring 'hem forth to &s;entence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, my mo&s;t honourd <HI>Fathers,</HI> let your mercy</L>
<L>Once winne vpon your iu&s;tice, to forgiue &mdash;</L>
<L>I am di&s;tracted&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>What will he do, now?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>O,</L>
<L>I know not which to addre&s;&s;e my &s;elfe to, fir&s;t,</L>
<L>Whether your <HI>Father-hoods,</HI> or the&s;e innocents &mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Will hee betray him&s;elfe,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Whome, equal|ly,</L>
<L>I haue abu&s;'d, out of mo&s;t couetous endes&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>The man is mad!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What's that?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hee is po&s;&s;e&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>For which; now &s;trooke in con&s;cience, here I pro&s;trate</L>
<L>My &s;elfe, at your offended feete, for pardon.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ari&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>O heau'n, how iu&s;t thou art!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'am caught</L>
<L>I' myne owne noo&s;e&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Be con&s;tant. Sir, nought now</L>
<L>Can helpe, but impudence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speake forward.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>COM.</SPEAKER>
<L>Silence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>It is not pa&s;&s;ion in mee, reuerend <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>But onely con&s;cience, con&s;cience, my good <HI>Sires,</HI></L>
<L>That makes me, now, tell trueth. That <HI>Para&s;ite,</HI></L>
<L>That Knaue hath beene the in&s;trument of all&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where is that Knaue? fetch him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I go.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Graue <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<PB REF="57">
<L>This man's di&s;tracted, he confe&s;t it, now;</L>
<L>For, hoping to bee old <HI>Volpone's</HI> heyre,</L>
<L>Who now is dead&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is <HI>Volpone</HI> dead?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Dead &s;ince, graue <HI>Fathers</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>O &s;ure vengeance&punc;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Stay,&mdash;</L>
<L>Then, he was no deceiuer?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>O, no, none:</L>
<L>The <HI>Para&s;ite,</HI> graue <HI>Fathers</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>He do's &s;peake,</L>
<L>Out of mere enuie, 'cau&s;e the &s;eruant's made</L>
<L>The thing, he gap't for; plea&s;e your <HI>Father-hoods,</HI></L>
<L>This is the truth: though, Ile not iu&s;tifie</L>
<L>The other, but he may bee &s;omewhere faulty.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, to your hopes, as well as mine, <HI>Coruinoc</HI></L>
<L>But Ile v&s;e mode&s;ty. 'Plea&s;eth your wi&s;domes</L>
<L>To viewe the&s;e certaine notes, and but conferre them;</L>
<L>As I hope fauour, they &s;hall &s;peake cleare truth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Deuill ha's entred him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or bides in you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4</SPEAKER>
<L>Wee haue done ill, by a publike Officer,</L>
<L>To &s;end for him, if he be heire;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>For whome?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Him, that they call the <HI>Para&s;ite.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis true;</L>
<L>He is a man, of great e&s;tate, now left.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Goe you, and learne his name; and &s;ay, the <HI>Court</HI></L>
<L>Intreates his pre&s;ence, here: but, to the clearing</L>
<L>Of &s;ome few doubts.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>This &s;ame's a <HI>labyrinth!</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Stand you vnto your fir&s;t report?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>My &s;tate,</L>
<L>My life, my fame&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where is 't?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Are at the &s;take</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is yours &s;o too?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Aduocate's a knave:</L>
<L>And has a forked tongue&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Speake to the point.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>So is the <HI>Para&s;ite,</HI> too.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is confu|&s;ion.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do be&s;eech your <HI>Father-hoods,</HI> read but tho&s;e;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="58">
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>And credit nothing, the fal&s;e &s;pirit hath write</L>
<L>It cannot be (my <HI>Sires</HI>) but he is po&s;&s;e&s;t.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="11" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 11.</HEAD>
<STAGE>VOLPONE. NANO. ANDROGYNO. CASTRONE.</STAGE>
<L>TO make a &s;nare, for mine owne neck! and run</L>
<L>My head into it, wilfully! with laughter!</L>
<L>When I had newly &s;cap't, was free, and cleare!</L>
<L>Out of mere wantonne&s;&s;e! &ocirc;, the dull Deuill</L>
<L>Was in this braine of mine, when I deui&s;'d it;</L>
<L>And <HI>Mo&s;ca</HI> gaue it &s;econd: H&egrave; mu&s;t now</L>
<L>Helpe to &s;eare vp this veyne, or we bleed dead.</L>
<L>How now! who let you loo&s;e? whether go you, now?</L>
<L>What? to buy Ginger-bread? or to drowne Kitlings?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>NAN.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, Mai&s;ter <HI>Mo&s;ca</HI> call'd vs out of dores,</L>
<L>And bid vs all go play, and tooke the keyes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AND.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Did Mai&s;ter <HI>Mo&s;ca</HI> take the keyes? why, &s;o!</L>
<L>I am farder, in. The&s;e are my fine conceipts!</L>
<L>I mu&s;t be merry, with a mi&s;chiefe to me!</L>
<L>What a vile wretch was I, that could not beare</L>
<L>My fortune, &s;oberly? I mu&s;t ha' my <HI>Crotchets!</HI></L>
<L>And my <HI>Conundrums!</HI> well, go you, and &s;eeke him:</L>
<L>His meaning may be truer, then my feare.</L>
<L>Bid him he, &s;treight, come to me, to the <HI>Court;</HI></L>
<L>Thether will I; and, if 'the po&s;&s;ible,</L>
<L>Vn-&s;crew my Aduocate, vpon new hopes:</L>
<L>When I prouok'd him, then I lo&s;t my &s;elfe.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="10" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. 5. SCENE. 10.</HEAD>
<STAGE>AVOCATORI, &amp;c.</STAGE>
<L>THe&s;e things can n&ecirc;re be reconcil'd. He, here,</L>
<L>Profe&s;&s;eth, that the Gentleman was wrong'd;</L>
<PB REF="58">
<L>And that the Gentlewoman was brought thether,</L>
<L>Forc'd by her husband: and there left.</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t true.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>How ready is heau'n to tho&s;e, that pray.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>But, that</L>
<L><HI>Volpone</HI> would haue raui&s;h'd her, he holds</L>
<L>Vtterly fal&s;e; knowing his impotence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Graue <HI>Fathers,</HI> he is po&s;&s;e&s;t; againe, I &s;ay</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;t: nay, if there be <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>ob&s;e&s;&s;ion,</HI> he has both.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here comes our Officer.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>The <HI>Para&s;ite</HI> will &s;treight be, here, graue <HI>Fathers.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>You might inuent &s;ome other name, Sir varlet.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Did not the <HI>Notarie</HI> meet him?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Not, that I know.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>His comming will cleare all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yet it is mi&s;ty.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>May't plea&s;e your <HI>Father-hoods</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, the <HI>Para&s;ite</HI></L>
<L>Will'd me to tell you, that his Mai&s;ter liues;</L>
<L>That you are &s;till the man; your hopes the &s;ame;</L>
<L>And this was, onely a ie&s;t&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>How?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, to trie</L>
<L>If you were firme, and how you &s;tood affected.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Art '&s;ure he liues?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Do I liue, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>O me!</L>
<L>I was too violent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, you may redeeme it,</L>
<L>They &s;aid, you were po&s;&s;e&s;t; fall downe, and &s;eeme &s;o:</L>
<L>Ile helpe to make it good. God ble&s;&s;e the man!</L>
<L>Stop your wind hard, and &s;well: See, &s;ee, &s;ee, &s;ee!</L>
<L>He vomits crooked pinnes! his eyes are &s;et,</L>
<L>Like a dead hares, hung in a poulters &s;hop!</L>
<L>His mouth's running away! Do you &s;ee, Signior?</L>
<L>Now, 'tis in his belly!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, the Deuill!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Now, in his throate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, I perceiue it plaine.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Twill out, 'twill out; &s;tand cleere. See, where it flyes!</L>
<L>In &s;hape of a blew toad, with a battes wings!</L>
<PB REF="59">
<L>Do not you &s;ee it, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>What? I thinke I doe.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis too manife&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Looke! he comes t' him|&s;elfe!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Where am I?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Take good heart, the wor&s;t is pa&s;t, Sir.</L>
<L>You are di&s;-po&s;&s;e&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>What accident is this?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sodaine, and full of wonder!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>If hee were</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;t, as it appeares, all this is nothing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>He has beene, often, &s;ubiect to the&s;e fitts.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Shew him that writing, do you know it, Sir?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Deny it, Sir, for&s;weare it, know it not.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, I do know it well, it is my hand:</L>
<L>But all, that it containes, is fal&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>O practi&s;e!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>What maze is this!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is hee not guilty, then,</L>
<L>Whome you, there, name the <HI>Para&s;ite?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Graue <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>No more then, his good Patron, old <HI>Volpone.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, hee is dead?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>O no, my honor'd <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>Hee liues&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>How! liues?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Liues.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is &s;ubtler, yet!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;ayd, hee was dead?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>Neuer.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;ayd &s;o?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>I heard &s;o.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here comes the Gentleman, make him way.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3</SPEAKER>
<L>A &s;toole.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>A proper man! and, were <HI>&V;olpone</HI> dead,</L>
<L>A fit match for my daughter.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Giue him way.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca,</HI> I was almo&s;t lo&s;t, the Aduocate</L>
<L>Had betrayd all; but, now, it is recouer'd:</L>
<L>Al's on the henge againe&mdash;&s;ay, I am liuing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>What bu&s;ie knaue is this. Mo&s;t reuerend <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>I &s;ooner, had attended your graue plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>But that my order, for the funerall</L>
<L>Of my deare Patron did require mee&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>(Mo&s;ca!)</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Whome I intend to bury, like a Gentleman&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB REF="59">
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I, quick, and co&s;en me of all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Still &s;tranger!</L>
<L>More intricate!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>And come about, againe!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4</SPEAKER>
<L>It is a match, my daughter is be&s;tow'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>(Will you gi' mee halfe?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fir&s;t, Ile bee hang'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know,</L>
<L>Your voice is good, cry not &s;o low'd)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Demand</L>
<L>The Aduocate. Sir, did not you affirme,</L>
<L><HI>Volpone</HI> was aliue?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes, and he is;</L>
<L>This Gent'man told me, &s;o. (Thou &s;halt haue halfe.)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who&s;e drunkard is this &s;ame? &s;peake &s;ome, that knowe him:</L>
<L>I neuer &s;aw his face&punc; (I cannot now</L>
<L>Afford it you &s;o cheape.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>No?)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1,</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;ay you?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Officer told mee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I did, graue <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>And will maintayne, he liues, with mine owne life.</L>
<L>And that this creature told me. (I was borne,</L>
<L>With all good &s;tarres my enemies.)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo&s;t graue <HI>Fathers,</HI></L>
<L>If &s;uch an in&s;olence, as this, mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Vpon me, I am &s;ilent: 'Twas not this,</L>
<L>For which you &s;ent, I hope.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Take him away.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>(VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Mo&s;ca.</HI>)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let him be whipt.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>(VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Wilt thou betray mee?</L>
<L>Co&s;en me?)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>And taught, to beare him&s;elfe</L>
<L>Toward a per&s;on of his ranke.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Away.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>I humbly thanke your <HI>Father-hoods.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Soft, &s;oft: whipt?</L>
<L>And loo&s;e all that I haue? If I confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>It cannot bee much more.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 4.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir, are you mar|ried?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>They'll bee ally'd, anone; I mu&s;t be re&s;olute:</L>
<L>The FOXE &s;hall, here, vnca&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>(MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Patron.)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, now,</L>
<L>My ruines &s;hall not come alone; your match</L>
<L>Ile hinder &s;ure: my &s;ub&s;tance &s;hall not glew you,</L>
<PB REF="60">
<L>Nor &s;crew you, into a Family.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>(MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Why, Patron!)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am <HI>&V;olpone,</HI> and this is my Knaue;</L>
<L>This, his owne Knaue; This, auarices Foole;</L>
<L>This, a <HI>Chimaera</HI> of Wittall, Foole, and Knaue;</L>
<L>And, reuerend <HI>Fathers,</HI> &s;ince we all can hope</L>
<L>Nought, but a &s;entence, let's not now di&s;paire it.</L>
<L>You heare mee breife.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>May it plea&s;e your <HI>Father-hoods</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>COM.</SPEAKER>
<L>Silence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>The knot is now vndone, by miracle!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nothing can be more cleare.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>Or, can more proue</L>
<L>The&s;e innocent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Giue 'hem their liberty.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>BON.</SPEAKER>
<L>Heauen could not, long, let &s;uch gro&s;&s;e crimes be hid.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>If this be held the high way, to get riches,</L>
<L>May I be poore.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 3.</SPEAKER>
<L>This's not the game, but torment.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e wealth, as &s;ick men po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e <HI>Feuers,</HI></L>
<L>Which, trulyer, may be &s;ayd to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 2.</SPEAKER>
<L>Di&s;roabe that <HI>Para&s;ite.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&punc; ho|nor'd <HI>Fathers</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Can you plead ought to &s;tay the cour&s;e of Iu&s;tice?</L>
<L>If you can, &s;peake.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV. VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>We beg fauor,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CEL.</SPEAKER>
<L>And mercy.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>You hurt your innocence, &s;uing for the guilty.</L>
<L>Stand forth; and, fir&s;t, the <HI>Para&s;ite.</HI> You appeare</L>
<L>T' haue beene the chiefe&s;t mini&s;ter, if not plotter,</L>
<L>In all the&s;e leud impo&s;tures; and now, la&s;tly,</L>
<L>Haue, with your impudence, abu&s;'d the <HI>Court,</HI></L>
<L>And habite of a Gentleman of <HI>Venice,</HI></L>
<L>Being a fellow of no birth, or bloud:</L>
<L>For which, our &s;entence is, fir&s;t thou be whipt;</L>
<L>Then liue perpetuall pri&s;oner in our <HI>Gallies.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLT.</SPEAKER>
<L>I thanke you, for him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>MOS.</SPEAKER>
<L>Bane to thy wolui&s;h na|ture.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Deliuer him to the <HI>Saffi.</HI> Thou, <HI>Volpone,</HI></L>
<L>By bloud, and ranke a Gentleman, can&s;t not fall</L>
<L>Vnder like cen&s;ure; But our iudgement on thee</L>
<PB REF="60">
<L>Is, that thy &s;ub&s;tance all be &s;traight confi&s;cate</L>
<L>To the <HI>Ho&s;pitall,</HI> of the <HI>Incurab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">:</HI></L>
<L>And, &s;ince the mo&s;t was gotten by impo&s;ture,</L>
<L>By fayning <HI>l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me, go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t, pal&s;ey</HI> and &s;uch di&s;ea&s;es,</L>
<L>Thou art to he in pri&s;on, crampt with irons,</L>
<L>Till thou bee'&s;t &s;ick, and lame indeed. Remoue him.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VOLP.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is call'd mortifiyng of a FOXE.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thou <HI>&V;oliore,</HI> to take away the &s;candale</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t giu'n all worthy men, of thy profe&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Art bani&s;h'd from their <HI>Fellow&s;hip,</HI> and our <HI>State.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Corbacci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> bring him neare. VVe here po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Thy &s;onne, of all thy' e&s;tate; and confine thee</L>
<L>To the <HI>Mona&s;tery</HI> of <HI>San' Spirito:</HI></L>
<L>Where &s;ince thou knew'&s;t not how to liue well here,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt be learn'd to die well.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORB.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ha! what &s;aid he?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>COM.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;hall know anone, Sir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thou <HI>Coruino,</HI> &s;halt</L>
<L>Be &s;traight imbarqu'd from thine owne hou&s;e, and row'd</L>
<L>Round about <HI>&V;enice,</HI> through the <HI>grand Canale,</HI></L>
<L>Wearing a cap, with fayre, long A&s;&s;es eares,</L>
<L>In &s;teed o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rnes: and &s;o, to mount (a paper</L>
<L>Pin'd on thy bre&s;t) to the <HI>Berlin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>&mdash;</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>CORV.</SPEAKER>
<L>Yes,</L>
<L>And, haue mine eyes beat out with &s;tinking fi&s;h,</L>
<L>Bru&s; d fruit and rotten egges&mdash;'Tis well. I 'am glad,</L>
<L>I &s;hall not &s;ee my &s;hame, yet.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>And to expiate</L>
<L>Thy wrongs done to thy wife, thou art to &s;end her</L>
<L>Home, to her father, with her dowrie trebled:</L>
<L>And the&s;e are all your Iudgements&mdash;(ALL. Honour'd <HI>Fathers.</HI>)</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>AVOC. 1.</SPEAKER>
<L>Which may not be reuok'd. Now, you begin</L>
<L>When crimes are done, and pa&s;t, and to be puni&s;h'd,</L>
<L>To thinke what your crimes are; away, with them.</L>
<L>Let all, that &s;ee the&s;e vices thus rewarded,</L>
<L>Take heart, and loue to &s;tudy 'hem. Mi&s;chiefes feed</L>
<L>Like bea&s;ts, till they bee fat, and then they bleed.</L>
<STAGE><PB REF="61">VOLPONE.</STAGE>
<L>THe &s;ea&s;oning of a <HI>Play</HI> is the applau&s;e,</L>
<L>Now, though the <HI>Foxe</HI> be puni&s;h'd by the lawes,</L>
<L>He, yet, doth hope there is no &s;uffring due,</L>
<L>For any fact, which he hath done 'gain&s;t you;</L>
<L>If there be, cen&s;ure him: here he, doubtfull, &s;tands.</L>
<L>If not, fare <HI>Iouially,</HI> and clap your hands.</L>
</SP>
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<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="61">
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