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[Florish.]</p> <p class="drama"> -New Playes, and Maydenheads, are neare a kin,<br/> -Much follow’d both, for both much mony g’yn,<br/> -If they stand sound, and well: And a good Play<br/> -(Whose modest Sceanes blush on his marriage day,<br/> -And shake to loose his honour) is like hir<br/> -That after holy Tye and first nights stir<br/> -Yet still is Modestie, and still retaines<br/> -More of the maid to sight, than Husbands paines;<br/> -We pray our Play may be so; For I am sure<br/> -It has a noble Breeder, and a pure,<br/> -A learned, and a Poet never went<br/> -More famous yet twixt Po and silver Trent:<br/> -Chaucer (of all admir’d) the Story gives,<br/> -There constant to Eternity it lives.<br/> -If we let fall the Noblenesse of this,<br/> -And the first sound this child heare, be a hisse,<br/> -How will it shake the bones of that good man,<br/> -And make him cry from under ground, ‘O fan<br/> -From me the witles chaffe of such a wrighter<br/> -That blastes my Bayes, and my fam’d workes makes lighter<br/> -Then Robin Hood!’ This is the feare we bring;<br/> -For to say Truth, it were an endlesse thing,<br/> -And too ambitious, to aspire to him,<br/> -Weake as we are, and almost breathlesse swim<br/> -In this deepe water. Do but you hold out<br/> -Your helping hands, and we shall take about,<br/> -And something doe to save us: You shall heare<br/> -Sceanes, though below his Art, may yet appeare<br/> -Worth two houres travell. To his bones sweet sleepe:<br/> -Content to you. If this play doe not keepe<br/> -A little dull time from us, we perceave<br/> +New Playes, and Maydenheads, are neare a kin,<br> +Much follow’d both, for both much mony g’yn,<br> +If they stand sound, and well: And a good Play<br> +(Whose modest Sceanes blush on his marriage day,<br> +And shake to loose his honour) is like hir<br> +That after holy Tye and first nights stir<br> +Yet still is Modestie, and still retaines<br> +More of the maid to sight, than Husbands paines;<br> +We pray our Play may be so; For I am sure<br> +It has a noble Breeder, and a pure,<br> +A learned, and a Poet never went<br> +More famous yet twixt Po and silver Trent:<br> +Chaucer (of all admir’d) the Story gives,<br> +There constant to Eternity it lives.<br> +If we let fall the Noblenesse of this,<br> +And the first sound this child heare, be a hisse,<br> +How will it shake the bones of that good man,<br> +And make him cry from under ground, ‘O fan<br> +From me the witles chaffe of such a wrighter<br> +That blastes my Bayes, and my fam’d workes makes lighter<br> +Then Robin Hood!’ This is the feare we bring;<br> +For to say Truth, it were an endlesse thing,<br> +And too ambitious, to aspire to him,<br> +Weake as we are, and almost breathlesse swim<br> +In this deepe water. Do but you hold out<br> +Your helping hands, and we shall take about,<br> +And something doe to save us: You shall heare<br> +Sceanes, though below his Art, may yet appeare<br> +Worth two houres travell. To his bones sweet sleepe:<br> +Content to you. If this play doe not keepe<br> +A little dull time from us, we perceave<br> Our losses fall so thicke, we must needs leave. [Florish.] </p> @@ -194,7 +176,7 @@ Our losses fall so thicke, we must needs leave. [Florish.] <p class="drama"> [Enter Hymen with a Torch burning: a Boy, in a white Robe before -singing, and strewing Flowres: After Hymen, a Nimph, encompast<br/> +singing, and strewing Flowres: After Hymen, a Nimph, encompast<br> in her Tresses, bearing a wheaten Garland. Then Theseus betweene two other Nimphs with wheaten Chaplets on their heades. Then Hipolita the Bride, lead by Pirithous, and another holding a @@ -206,38 +188,38 @@ her Emilia holding up her Traine. (Artesius and Attendants.)] The Song, [Musike.]</p> <p class="drama"> -Roses their sharpe spines being gon,<br/> -Not royall in their smels alone,<br/> -But in their hew.<br/> -Maiden Pinckes, of odour faint,<br/> -Dazies smel-lesse, yet most quaint<br/> +Roses their sharpe spines being gon,<br> +Not royall in their smels alone,<br> +But in their hew.<br> +Maiden Pinckes, of odour faint,<br> +Dazies smel-lesse, yet most quaint<br> And sweet Time true. </p> <p class="drama"> -Prim-rose first borne child of Ver,<br/> -Merry Spring times Herbinger,<br/> -With her bels dimme.<br/> -Oxlips, in their Cradles growing,<br/> -Mary-golds, on death beds blowing,<br/> +Prim-rose first borne child of Ver,<br> +Merry Spring times Herbinger,<br> +With her bels dimme.<br> +Oxlips, in their Cradles growing,<br> +Mary-golds, on death beds blowing,<br> Larkes-heeles trymme. </p> <p class="drama"> -All deere natures children sweete,<br/> -Ly fore Bride and Bridegroomes feete, [Strew Flowers.]<br/> -Blessing their sence.<br/> -Not an angle of the aire,<br/> -Bird melodious, or bird faire,<br/> +All deere natures children sweete,<br> +Ly fore Bride and Bridegroomes feete, [Strew Flowers.]<br> +Blessing their sence.<br> +Not an angle of the aire,<br> +Bird melodious, or bird faire,<br> Is absent hence. </p> <p class="drama"> -The Crow, the slaundrous Cuckoe, nor<br/> -The boding Raven, nor Chough hore<br/> -Nor chattring Pie,<br/> -May on our Bridehouse pearch or sing,<br/> -Or with them any discord bring,<br/> +The Crow, the slaundrous Cuckoe, nor<br> +The boding Raven, nor Chough hore<br> +Nor chattring Pie,<br> +May on our Bridehouse pearch or sing,<br> +Or with them any discord bring,<br> But from it fly. </p> @@ -248,399 +230,399 @@ Crownes. The 1. Queene fals downe at the foote of Theseus; The </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -For pitties sake and true gentilities,<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +For pitties sake and true gentilities,<br> Heare, and respect me. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. QUEEN.<br/> -For your Mothers sake,<br/> -And as you wish your womb may thrive with faire ones,<br/> +2. QUEEN.<br> +For your Mothers sake,<br> +And as you wish your womb may thrive with faire ones,<br> Heare and respect me. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN<br/> -Now for the love of him whom Iove hath markd<br/> -The honour of your Bed, and for the sake<br/> -Of cleere virginity, be Advocate<br/> -For us, and our distresses. This good deede<br/> -Shall raze you out o’th Booke of Trespasses<br/> +3. QUEEN<br> +Now for the love of him whom Iove hath markd<br> +The honour of your Bed, and for the sake<br> +Of cleere virginity, be Advocate<br> +For us, and our distresses. This good deede<br> +Shall raze you out o’th Booke of Trespasses<br> All you are set downe there. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Sad Lady, rise.</p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> Stand up.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -No knees to me.<br/> -What woman I may steed that is distrest,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +No knees to me.<br> +What woman I may steed that is distrest,<br> Does bind me to her. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What’s your request? Deliver you for all.</p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -We are 3. Queenes, whose Soveraignes fel before<br/> -The wrath of cruell Creon; who endured<br/> -The Beakes of Ravens, Tallents of the Kights,<br/> -And pecks of Crowes, in the fowle feilds of Thebs.<br/> -He will not suffer us to burne their bones,<br/> -To urne their ashes, nor to take th’ offence<br/> -Of mortall loathsomenes from the blest eye<br/> -Of holy Phoebus, but infects the windes<br/> -With stench of our slaine Lords. O pitty, Duke:<br/> -Thou purger of the earth, draw thy feard Sword<br/> -That does good turnes to’th world; give us the Bones<br/> -Of our dead Kings, that we may Chappell them;<br/> -And of thy boundles goodnes take some note<br/> -That for our crowned heades we have no roofe,<br/> -Save this which is the Lyons, and the Beares,<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +We are 3. Queenes, whose Soveraignes fel before<br> +The wrath of cruell Creon; who endured<br> +The Beakes of Ravens, Tallents of the Kights,<br> +And pecks of Crowes, in the fowle feilds of Thebs.<br> +He will not suffer us to burne their bones,<br> +To urne their ashes, nor to take th’ offence<br> +Of mortall loathsomenes from the blest eye<br> +Of holy Phoebus, but infects the windes<br> +With stench of our slaine Lords. O pitty, Duke:<br> +Thou purger of the earth, draw thy feard Sword<br> +That does good turnes to’th world; give us the Bones<br> +Of our dead Kings, that we may Chappell them;<br> +And of thy boundles goodnes take some note<br> +That for our crowned heades we have no roofe,<br> +Save this which is the Lyons, and the Beares,<br> And vault to every thing. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Pray you, kneele not:<br/> -I was transported with your Speech, and suffer’d<br/> -Your knees to wrong themselves; I have heard the fortunes<br/> -Of your dead Lords, which gives me such lamenting<br/> -As wakes my vengeance, and revenge for’em,<br/> -King Capaneus was your Lord: the day<br/> -That he should marry you, at such a season,<br/> -As now it is with me, I met your Groome,<br/> -By Marsis Altar; you were that time faire,<br/> -Not Iunos Mantle fairer then your Tresses,<br/> -Nor in more bounty spread her. Your wheaten wreathe<br/> -Was then nor threashd, nor blasted; Fortune at you<br/> -Dimpled her Cheeke with smiles: Hercules our kinesman<br/> -(Then weaker than your eies) laide by his Club,<br/> -He tumbled downe upon his Nemean hide<br/> -And swore his sinews thawd: O greife, and time,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Pray you, kneele not:<br> +I was transported with your Speech, and suffer’d<br> +Your knees to wrong themselves; I have heard the fortunes<br> +Of your dead Lords, which gives me such lamenting<br> +As wakes my vengeance, and revenge for’em,<br> +King Capaneus was your Lord: the day<br> +That he should marry you, at such a season,<br> +As now it is with me, I met your Groome,<br> +By Marsis Altar; you were that time faire,<br> +Not Iunos Mantle fairer then your Tresses,<br> +Nor in more bounty spread her. Your wheaten wreathe<br> +Was then nor threashd, nor blasted; Fortune at you<br> +Dimpled her Cheeke with smiles: Hercules our kinesman<br> +(Then weaker than your eies) laide by his Club,<br> +He tumbled downe upon his Nemean hide<br> +And swore his sinews thawd: O greife, and time,<br> Fearefull consumers, you will all devoure. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -O, I hope some God,<br/> -Some God hath put his mercy in your manhood<br/> -Whereto heel infuse powre, and presse you forth<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +O, I hope some God,<br> +Some God hath put his mercy in your manhood<br> +Whereto heel infuse powre, and presse you forth<br> Our undertaker. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -O no knees, none, Widdow,<br/> -Vnto the Helmeted Belona use them,<br/> -And pray for me your Souldier.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +O no knees, none, Widdow,<br> +Vnto the Helmeted Belona use them,<br> +And pray for me your Souldier.<br> Troubled I am. [turnes away.] </p> <p class="drama"> -2. QUEEN.<br/> -Honoured Hypolita,<br/> -Most dreaded Amazonian, that hast slaine<br/> -The Sith-tuskd Bore; that with thy Arme as strong<br/> -As it is white, wast neere to make the male<br/> -To thy Sex captive, but that this thy Lord,<br/> -Borne to uphold Creation in that honour<br/> -First nature stilde it in, shrunke thee into<br/> -The bownd thou wast ore-flowing, at once subduing<br/> -Thy force, and thy affection: Soldiresse<br/> -That equally canst poize sternenes with pitty,<br/> -Whom now I know hast much more power on him<br/> -Then ever he had on thee, who ow’st his strength<br/> -And his Love too, who is a Servant for<br/> -The Tenour of thy Speech: Deere Glasse of Ladies,<br/> -Bid him that we, whom flaming war doth scortch,<br/> -Vnder the shaddow of his Sword may coole us:<br/> -Require him he advance it ore our heades;<br/> -Speak’t in a womans key: like such a woman<br/> -As any of us three; weepe ere you faile;<br/> -Lend us a knee;<br/> -But touch the ground for us no longer time<br/> -Then a Doves motion, when the head’s pluckt off:<br/> -Tell him if he i’th blood cizd field lay swolne,<br/> -Showing the Sun his Teeth, grinning at the Moone,<br/> +2. QUEEN.<br> +Honoured Hypolita,<br> +Most dreaded Amazonian, that hast slaine<br> +The Sith-tuskd Bore; that with thy Arme as strong<br> +As it is white, wast neere to make the male<br> +To thy Sex captive, but that this thy Lord,<br> +Borne to uphold Creation in that honour<br> +First nature stilde it in, shrunke thee into<br> +The bownd thou wast ore-flowing, at once subduing<br> +Thy force, and thy affection: Soldiresse<br> +That equally canst poize sternenes with pitty,<br> +Whom now I know hast much more power on him<br> +Then ever he had on thee, who ow’st his strength<br> +And his Love too, who is a Servant for<br> +The Tenour of thy Speech: Deere Glasse of Ladies,<br> +Bid him that we, whom flaming war doth scortch,<br> +Vnder the shaddow of his Sword may coole us:<br> +Require him he advance it ore our heades;<br> +Speak’t in a womans key: like such a woman<br> +As any of us three; weepe ere you faile;<br> +Lend us a knee;<br> +But touch the ground for us no longer time<br> +Then a Doves motion, when the head’s pluckt off:<br> +Tell him if he i’th blood cizd field lay swolne,<br> +Showing the Sun his Teeth, grinning at the Moone,<br> What you would doe. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -Poore Lady, say no more:<br/> -I had as leife trace this good action with you<br/> -As that whereto I am going, and never yet<br/> -Went I so willing way. My Lord is taken<br/> -Hart deepe with your distresse: Let him consider:<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +Poore Lady, say no more:<br> +I had as leife trace this good action with you<br> +As that whereto I am going, and never yet<br> +Went I so willing way. My Lord is taken<br> +Hart deepe with your distresse: Let him consider:<br> Ile speake anon. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN.<br/> -O my petition was [kneele to Emilia.]<br/> -Set downe in yce, which by hot greefe uncandied<br/> -Melts into drops, so sorrow, wanting forme,<br/> +3. QUEEN.<br> +O my petition was [kneele to Emilia.]<br> +Set downe in yce, which by hot greefe uncandied<br> +Melts into drops, so sorrow, wanting forme,<br> Is prest with deeper matter. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Pray stand up,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Pray stand up,<br> Your greefe is written in your cheeke. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN.<br/> -O woe,<br/> -You cannot reade it there, there through my teares—<br/> -Like wrinckled peobles in a glassie streame<br/> -You may behold ’em. Lady, Lady, alacke,<br/> -He that will all the Treasure know o’th earth<br/> -Must know the Center too; he that will fish<br/> -For my least minnow, let him lead his line<br/> -To catch one at my heart. O pardon me:<br/> -Extremity, that sharpens sundry wits,<br/> +3. QUEEN.<br> +O woe,<br> +You cannot reade it there, there through my teares—<br> +Like wrinckled peobles in a glassie streame<br> +You may behold ’em. Lady, Lady, alacke,<br> +He that will all the Treasure know o’th earth<br> +Must know the Center too; he that will fish<br> +For my least minnow, let him lead his line<br> +To catch one at my heart. O pardon me:<br> +Extremity, that sharpens sundry wits,<br> Makes me a Foole. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Pray you say nothing, pray you:<br/> -Who cannot feele nor see the raine, being in’t,<br/> -Knowes neither wet nor dry: if that you were<br/> -The ground-peece of some Painter, I would buy you<br/> -T’instruct me gainst a Capitall greefe indeed—<br/> -Such heart peirc’d demonstration; but, alas,<br/> -Being a naturall Sifter of our Sex<br/> -Your sorrow beates so ardently upon me,<br/> -That it shall make a counter reflect gainst<br/> -My Brothers heart, and warme it to some pitty,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Pray you say nothing, pray you:<br> +Who cannot feele nor see the raine, being in’t,<br> +Knowes neither wet nor dry: if that you were<br> +The ground-peece of some Painter, I would buy you<br> +T’instruct me gainst a Capitall greefe indeed—<br> +Such heart peirc’d demonstration; but, alas,<br> +Being a naturall Sifter of our Sex<br> +Your sorrow beates so ardently upon me,<br> +That it shall make a counter reflect gainst<br> +My Brothers heart, and warme it to some pitty,<br> Though it were made of stone: pray, have good comfort. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Forward to’th Temple, leave not out a Iot<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Forward to’th Temple, leave not out a Iot<br> O’th sacred Ceremony. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -O, This Celebration<br/> -Will long last, and be more costly then<br/> -Your Suppliants war: Remember that your Fame<br/> -Knowles in the eare o’th world: what you doe quickly<br/> -Is not done rashly; your first thought is more<br/> -Then others laboured meditance: your premeditating<br/> -More then their actions: But, oh Iove! your actions,<br/> -Soone as they mooves, as Asprayes doe the fish,<br/> -Subdue before they touch: thinke, deere Duke, thinke<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +O, This Celebration<br> +Will long last, and be more costly then<br> +Your Suppliants war: Remember that your Fame<br> +Knowles in the eare o’th world: what you doe quickly<br> +Is not done rashly; your first thought is more<br> +Then others laboured meditance: your premeditating<br> +More then their actions: But, oh Iove! your actions,<br> +Soone as they mooves, as Asprayes doe the fish,<br> +Subdue before they touch: thinke, deere Duke, thinke<br> What beds our slaine Kings have. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. QUEEN.<br/> -What greifes our beds,<br/> +2. QUEEN.<br> +What greifes our beds,<br> That our deere Lords have none. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN.<br/> -None fit for ’th dead:<br/> -Those that with Cordes, Knives, drams precipitance,<br/> -Weary of this worlds light, have to themselves<br/> -Beene deathes most horrid Agents, humaine grace<br/> +3. QUEEN.<br> +None fit for ’th dead:<br> +Those that with Cordes, Knives, drams precipitance,<br> +Weary of this worlds light, have to themselves<br> +Beene deathes most horrid Agents, humaine grace<br> Affords them dust and shaddow. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -But our Lords<br/> -Ly blistring fore the visitating Sunne,<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +But our Lords<br> +Ly blistring fore the visitating Sunne,<br> And were good Kings, when living. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -It is true, and I will give you comfort,<br/> -To give your dead Lords graves: the which to doe,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +It is true, and I will give you comfort,<br> +To give your dead Lords graves: the which to doe,<br> Must make some worke with Creon. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -And that worke presents it selfe to’th doing:<br/> -Now twill take forme, the heates are gone to morrow.<br/> -Then, booteles toyle must recompence it selfe<br/> -With it’s owne sweat; Now he’s secure,<br/> -Not dreames we stand before your puissance<br/> -Wrinching our holy begging in our eyes<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +And that worke presents it selfe to’th doing:<br> +Now twill take forme, the heates are gone to morrow.<br> +Then, booteles toyle must recompence it selfe<br> +With it’s owne sweat; Now he’s secure,<br> +Not dreames we stand before your puissance<br> +Wrinching our holy begging in our eyes<br> To make petition cleere. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. QUEEN.<br/> +2. QUEEN.<br> Now you may take him, drunke with his victory.</p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN.<br/> +3. QUEEN.<br> And his Army full of Bread, and sloth.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Artesius, that best knowest<br/> -How to draw out fit to this enterprise<br/> -The prim’st for this proceeding, and the number<br/> -To carry such a businesse, forth and levy<br/> -Our worthiest Instruments, whilst we despatch<br/> -This grand act of our life, this daring deede<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Artesius, that best knowest<br> +How to draw out fit to this enterprise<br> +The prim’st for this proceeding, and the number<br> +To carry such a businesse, forth and levy<br> +Our worthiest Instruments, whilst we despatch<br> +This grand act of our life, this daring deede<br> Of Fate in wedlocke. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -Dowagers, take hands;<br/> -Let us be Widdowes to our woes: delay<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +Dowagers, take hands;<br> +Let us be Widdowes to our woes: delay<br> Commends us to a famishing hope. </p> <p class="drama"> -ALL.<br/> +ALL.<br> Farewell.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. QUEEN.<br/> -We come unseasonably: But when could greefe<br/> -Cull forth, as unpanged judgement can, fit’st time<br/> +2. QUEEN.<br> +We come unseasonably: But when could greefe<br> +Cull forth, as unpanged judgement can, fit’st time<br> For best solicitation. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Why, good Ladies,<br/> -This is a service, whereto I am going,<br/> -Greater then any was; it more imports me<br/> -Then all the actions that I have foregone,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Why, good Ladies,<br> +This is a service, whereto I am going,<br> +Greater then any was; it more imports me<br> +Then all the actions that I have foregone,<br> Or futurely can cope. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -The more proclaiming<br/> -Our suit shall be neglected: when her Armes<br/> -Able to locke Iove from a Synod, shall<br/> -By warranting Moone-light corslet thee, oh, when<br/> -Her twyning Cherries shall their sweetnes fall<br/> -Vpon thy tastefull lips, what wilt thou thinke<br/> -Of rotten Kings or blubberd Queenes, what care<br/> -For what thou feelst not? what thou feelst being able<br/> -To make Mars spurne his Drom. O, if thou couch<br/> -But one night with her, every howre in’t will<br/> -Take hostage of thee for a hundred, and<br/> -Thou shalt remember nothing more then what<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +The more proclaiming<br> +Our suit shall be neglected: when her Armes<br> +Able to locke Iove from a Synod, shall<br> +By warranting Moone-light corslet thee, oh, when<br> +Her twyning Cherries shall their sweetnes fall<br> +Vpon thy tastefull lips, what wilt thou thinke<br> +Of rotten Kings or blubberd Queenes, what care<br> +For what thou feelst not? what thou feelst being able<br> +To make Mars spurne his Drom. O, if thou couch<br> +But one night with her, every howre in’t will<br> +Take hostage of thee for a hundred, and<br> +Thou shalt remember nothing more then what<br> That Banket bids thee too. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -Though much unlike [Kneeling.]<br/> -You should be so transported, as much sorry<br/> -I should be such a Suitour; yet I thinke,<br/> -Did I not by th’abstayning of my joy,<br/> -Which breeds a deeper longing, cure their surfeit<br/> -That craves a present medcine, I should plucke<br/> -All Ladies scandall on me. Therefore, Sir,<br/> -As I shall here make tryall of my prayres,<br/> -Either presuming them to have some force,<br/> -Or sentencing for ay their vigour dombe:<br/> -Prorogue this busines we are going about, and hang<br/> -Your Sheild afore your Heart, about that necke<br/> -Which is my ffee, and which I freely lend<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +Though much unlike [Kneeling.]<br> +You should be so transported, as much sorry<br> +I should be such a Suitour; yet I thinke,<br> +Did I not by th’abstayning of my joy,<br> +Which breeds a deeper longing, cure their surfeit<br> +That craves a present medcine, I should plucke<br> +All Ladies scandall on me. Therefore, Sir,<br> +As I shall here make tryall of my prayres,<br> +Either presuming them to have some force,<br> +Or sentencing for ay their vigour dombe:<br> +Prorogue this busines we are going about, and hang<br> +Your Sheild afore your Heart, about that necke<br> +Which is my ffee, and which I freely lend<br> To doe these poore Queenes service. </p> <p class="drama"> -ALL QUEENS.<br/> -Oh helpe now,<br/> +ALL QUEENS.<br> +Oh helpe now,<br> Our Cause cries for your knee. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -If you grant not [Kneeling.]<br/> -My Sister her petition in that force,<br/> -With that Celerity and nature, which<br/> -Shee makes it in, from henceforth ile not dare<br/> -To aske you any thing, nor be so hardy<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +If you grant not [Kneeling.]<br> +My Sister her petition in that force,<br> +With that Celerity and nature, which<br> +Shee makes it in, from henceforth ile not dare<br> +To aske you any thing, nor be so hardy<br> Ever to take a Husband. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Pray stand up.<br/> -I am entreating of my selfe to doe<br/> -That which you kneele to have me. Pyrithous,<br/> -Leade on the Bride; get you and pray the Gods<br/> -For successe, and returne; omit not any thing<br/> -In the pretended Celebration. Queenes,<br/> -Follow your Soldier. As before, hence you [to Artesius]<br/> -And at the banckes of Aulis meete us with<br/> -The forces you can raise, where we shall finde<br/> -The moytie of a number, for a busines<br/> -More bigger look’t. Since that our Theame is haste,<br/> -I stamp this kisse upon thy currant lippe;<br/> -Sweete, keepe it as my Token. Set you forward,<br/> -For I will see you gone. [Exeunt towards the Temple.]<br/> -Farewell, my beauteous Sister: Pyrithous,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Pray stand up.<br> +I am entreating of my selfe to doe<br> +That which you kneele to have me. Pyrithous,<br> +Leade on the Bride; get you and pray the Gods<br> +For successe, and returne; omit not any thing<br> +In the pretended Celebration. Queenes,<br> +Follow your Soldier. As before, hence you [to Artesius]<br> +And at the banckes of Aulis meete us with<br> +The forces you can raise, where we shall finde<br> +The moytie of a number, for a busines<br> +More bigger look’t. Since that our Theame is haste,<br> +I stamp this kisse upon thy currant lippe;<br> +Sweete, keepe it as my Token. Set you forward,<br> +For I will see you gone. [Exeunt towards the Temple.]<br> +Farewell, my beauteous Sister: Pyrithous,<br> Keepe the feast full, bate not an howre on’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Sir,<br/> -Ile follow you at heeles; The Feasts solempnity<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Sir,<br> +Ile follow you at heeles; The Feasts solempnity<br> Shall want till your returne. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Cosen, I charge you<br/> -Boudge not from Athens; We shall be returning<br/> -Ere you can end this Feast, of which, I pray you,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Cosen, I charge you<br> +Boudge not from Athens; We shall be returning<br> +Ere you can end this Feast, of which, I pray you,<br> Make no abatement; once more, farewell all. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> Thus do’st thou still make good the tongue o’th world.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. QUEEN.<br/> +2. QUEEN.<br> And earnst a Deity equal with Mars.</p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN.<br/> -If not above him, for<br/> -Thou being but mortall makest affections bend<br/> -To Godlike honours; they themselves, some say,<br/> +3. QUEEN.<br> +If not above him, for<br> +Thou being but mortall makest affections bend<br> +To Godlike honours; they themselves, some say,<br> Grone under such a Mastry. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -As we are men,<br/> -Thus should we doe; being sensually subdude,<br/> -We loose our humane tytle. Good cheere, Ladies. [Florish.]<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +As we are men,<br> +Thus should we doe; being sensually subdude,<br> +We loose our humane tytle. Good cheere, Ladies. [Florish.]<br> Now turne we towards your Comforts. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -650,132 +632,132 @@ Now turne we towards your Comforts. [Exeunt.] [Enter Palamon, and Arcite.]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Deere Palamon, deerer in love then Blood<br/> -And our prime Cosen, yet unhardned in<br/> -The Crimes of nature; Let us leave the Citty<br/> -Thebs, and the temptings in’t, before we further<br/> -Sully our glosse of youth:<br/> -And here to keepe in abstinence we shame<br/> -As in Incontinence; for not to swim<br/> -I’th aide o’th Current were almost to sincke,<br/> -At least to frustrate striving, and to follow<br/> -The common Streame, twold bring us to an Edy<br/> -Where we should turne or drowne; if labour through,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Deere Palamon, deerer in love then Blood<br> +And our prime Cosen, yet unhardned in<br> +The Crimes of nature; Let us leave the Citty<br> +Thebs, and the temptings in’t, before we further<br> +Sully our glosse of youth:<br> +And here to keepe in abstinence we shame<br> +As in Incontinence; for not to swim<br> +I’th aide o’th Current were almost to sincke,<br> +At least to frustrate striving, and to follow<br> +The common Streame, twold bring us to an Edy<br> +Where we should turne or drowne; if labour through,<br> Our gaine but life, and weakenes. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Your advice<br/> -Is cride up with example: what strange ruins<br/> -Since first we went to Schoole, may we perceive<br/> -Walking in Thebs? Skars, and bare weedes<br/> -The gaine o’th Martialist, who did propound<br/> -To his bold ends honour, and golden Ingots,<br/> -Which though he won, he had not, and now flurted<br/> -By peace for whom he fought: who then shall offer<br/> -To Marsis so scornd Altar? I doe bleede<br/> -When such I meete, and wish great Iuno would<br/> -Resume her ancient fit of Ielouzie<br/> -To get the Soldier worke, that peace might purge<br/> -For her repletion, and retaine anew<br/> -Her charitable heart now hard, and harsher<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Your advice<br> +Is cride up with example: what strange ruins<br> +Since first we went to Schoole, may we perceive<br> +Walking in Thebs? Skars, and bare weedes<br> +The gaine o’th Martialist, who did propound<br> +To his bold ends honour, and golden Ingots,<br> +Which though he won, he had not, and now flurted<br> +By peace for whom he fought: who then shall offer<br> +To Marsis so scornd Altar? I doe bleede<br> +When such I meete, and wish great Iuno would<br> +Resume her ancient fit of Ielouzie<br> +To get the Soldier worke, that peace might purge<br> +For her repletion, and retaine anew<br> +Her charitable heart now hard, and harsher<br> Then strife or war could be. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Are you not out?<br/> -Meete you no ruine but the Soldier in<br/> -The Cranckes and turnes of Thebs? you did begin<br/> -As if you met decaies of many kindes:<br/> -Perceive you none, that doe arowse your pitty<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Are you not out?<br> +Meete you no ruine but the Soldier in<br> +The Cranckes and turnes of Thebs? you did begin<br> +As if you met decaies of many kindes:<br> +Perceive you none, that doe arowse your pitty<br> But th’un-considerd Soldier? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Yes, I pitty<br/> -Decaies where ere I finde them, but such most<br/> -That, sweating in an honourable Toyle,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Yes, I pitty<br> +Decaies where ere I finde them, but such most<br> +That, sweating in an honourable Toyle,<br> Are paide with yce to coole ’em. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Tis not this<br/> -I did begin to speake of: This is vertue<br/> -Of no respect in Thebs; I spake of Thebs<br/> -How dangerous if we will keepe our Honours,<br/> -It is for our resyding, where every evill<br/> -Hath a good cullor; where eve’ry seeming good’s<br/> -A certaine evill, where not to be ev’n Iumpe<br/> -As they are, here were to be strangers, and<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Tis not this<br> +I did begin to speake of: This is vertue<br> +Of no respect in Thebs; I spake of Thebs<br> +How dangerous if we will keepe our Honours,<br> +It is for our resyding, where every evill<br> +Hath a good cullor; where eve’ry seeming good’s<br> +A certaine evill, where not to be ev’n Iumpe<br> +As they are, here were to be strangers, and<br> Such things to be, meere Monsters. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Tis in our power,<br/> -(Vnlesse we feare that Apes can Tutor’s) to<br/> -Be Masters of our manners: what neede I<br/> -Affect anothers gate, which is not catching<br/> -Where there is faith, or to be fond upon<br/> -Anothers way of speech, when by mine owne<br/> -I may be reasonably conceiv’d; sav’d too,<br/> -Speaking it truly? why am I bound<br/> -By any generous bond to follow him<br/> -Followes his Taylor, haply so long untill<br/> -The follow’d make pursuit? or let me know,<br/> -Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him<br/> -My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust<br/> -To such a Favorites glasse: What Cannon is there<br/> -That does command my Rapier from my hip<br/> -To dangle’t in my hand, or to go tip toe<br/> -Before the streete be foule? Either I am<br/> -The fore-horse in the Teame, or I am none<br/> -That draw i’th sequent trace: these poore sleight sores<br/> -Neede not a plantin; That which rips my bosome<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Tis in our power,<br> +(Vnlesse we feare that Apes can Tutor’s) to<br> +Be Masters of our manners: what neede I<br> +Affect anothers gate, which is not catching<br> +Where there is faith, or to be fond upon<br> +Anothers way of speech, when by mine owne<br> +I may be reasonably conceiv’d; sav’d too,<br> +Speaking it truly? why am I bound<br> +By any generous bond to follow him<br> +Followes his Taylor, haply so long untill<br> +The follow’d make pursuit? or let me know,<br> +Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him<br> +My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust<br> +To such a Favorites glasse: What Cannon is there<br> +That does command my Rapier from my hip<br> +To dangle’t in my hand, or to go tip toe<br> +Before the streete be foule? Either I am<br> +The fore-horse in the Teame, or I am none<br> +That draw i’th sequent trace: these poore sleight sores<br> +Neede not a plantin; That which rips my bosome<br> Almost to’th heart’s— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Our Vncle Creon.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -He,<br/> -A most unbounded Tyrant, whose successes<br/> -Makes heaven unfeard, and villany assured<br/> -Beyond its power there’s nothing, almost puts<br/> -Faith in a feavour, and deifies alone<br/> -Voluble chance; who onely attributes<br/> -The faculties of other Instruments<br/> -To his owne Nerves and act; Commands men service,<br/> -And what they winne in’t, boot and glory; on(e)<br/> -That feares not to do harm; good, dares not; Let<br/> -The blood of mine that’s sibbe to him be suckt<br/> -From me with Leeches; Let them breake and fall<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +He,<br> +A most unbounded Tyrant, whose successes<br> +Makes heaven unfeard, and villany assured<br> +Beyond its power there’s nothing, almost puts<br> +Faith in a feavour, and deifies alone<br> +Voluble chance; who onely attributes<br> +The faculties of other Instruments<br> +To his owne Nerves and act; Commands men service,<br> +And what they winne in’t, boot and glory; on(e)<br> +That feares not to do harm; good, dares not; Let<br> +The blood of mine that’s sibbe to him be suckt<br> +From me with Leeches; Let them breake and fall<br> Off me with that corruption. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Cleere spirited Cozen,<br/> -Lets leave his Court, that we may nothing share<br/> -Of his lowd infamy: for our milke<br/> -Will relish of the pasture, and we must<br/> -Be vile or disobedient, not his kinesmen<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Cleere spirited Cozen,<br> +Lets leave his Court, that we may nothing share<br> +Of his lowd infamy: for our milke<br> +Will relish of the pasture, and we must<br> +Be vile or disobedient, not his kinesmen<br> In blood, unlesse in quality. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Nothing truer:<br/> -I thinke the Ecchoes of his shames have dea’ft<br/> -The eares of heav’nly Iustice: widdows cryes<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Nothing truer:<br> +I thinke the Ecchoes of his shames have dea’ft<br> +The eares of heav’nly Iustice: widdows cryes<br> Descend againe into their throates, and have not </p> @@ -786,78 +768,78 @@ Descend againe into their throates, and have not Due audience of the Gods.—Valerius!</p> <p class="drama"> -VALERIUS.<br/> -The King cals for you; yet be leaden footed,<br/> -Till his great rage be off him. Phebus, when<br/> -He broke his whipstocke and exclaimd against<br/> -The Horses of the Sun, but whisperd too<br/> +VALERIUS.<br> +The King cals for you; yet be leaden footed,<br> +Till his great rage be off him. Phebus, when<br> +He broke his whipstocke and exclaimd against<br> +The Horses of the Sun, but whisperd too<br> The lowdenesse of his Fury. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Small windes shake him:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Small windes shake him:<br> But whats the matter? </p> <p class="drama"> -VALERIUS.<br/> -Theseus (who where he threates appals,) hath sent<br/> -Deadly defyance to him, and pronounces<br/> -Ruine to Thebs; who is at hand to seale<br/> +VALERIUS.<br> +Theseus (who where he threates appals,) hath sent<br> +Deadly defyance to him, and pronounces<br> +Ruine to Thebs; who is at hand to seale<br> The promise of his wrath. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Let him approach;<br/> -But that we feare the Gods in him, he brings not<br/> -A jot of terrour to us; Yet what man<br/> -Thirds his owne worth (the case is each of ours)<br/> -When that his actions dregd with minde assurd<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Let him approach;<br> +But that we feare the Gods in him, he brings not<br> +A jot of terrour to us; Yet what man<br> +Thirds his owne worth (the case is each of ours)<br> +When that his actions dregd with minde assurd<br> Tis bad he goes about? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Leave that unreasond.<br/> -Our services stand now for Thebs, not Creon,<br/> -Yet to be neutrall to him were dishonour;<br/> -Rebellious to oppose: therefore we must<br/> -With him stand to the mercy of our Fate,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Leave that unreasond.<br> +Our services stand now for Thebs, not Creon,<br> +Yet to be neutrall to him were dishonour;<br> +Rebellious to oppose: therefore we must<br> +With him stand to the mercy of our Fate,<br> Who hath bounded our last minute. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -So we must.<br/> -Ist sed this warres a foote? or it shall be,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +So we must.<br> +Ist sed this warres a foote? or it shall be,<br> On faile of some condition? </p> <p class="drama"> -VALERIUS.<br/> -Tis in motion<br/> -The intelligence of state came in the instant<br/> +VALERIUS.<br> +Tis in motion<br> +The intelligence of state came in the instant<br> With the defier. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Lets to the king, who, were he<br/> -A quarter carrier of that honour which<br/> -His Enemy come in, the blood we venture<br/> -Should be as for our health, which were not spent,<br/> -Rather laide out for purchase: but, alas,<br/> -Our hands advanc’d before our hearts, what will<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Lets to the king, who, were he<br> +A quarter carrier of that honour which<br> +His Enemy come in, the blood we venture<br> +Should be as for our health, which were not spent,<br> +Rather laide out for purchase: but, alas,<br> +Our hands advanc’d before our hearts, what will<br> The fall o’th stroke doe damage? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Let th’event,<br/> -That never erring Arbitratour, tell us<br/> -When we know all our selves, and let us follow<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Let th’event,<br> +That never erring Arbitratour, tell us<br> +When we know all our selves, and let us follow<br> The becking of our chance. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -867,171 +849,171 @@ The becking of our chance. [Exeunt.] [Enter Pirithous, Hipolita, Emilia.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> No further.</p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -Sir, farewell; repeat my wishes<br/> -To our great Lord, of whose succes I dare not<br/> -Make any timerous question; yet I wish him<br/> -Exces and overflow of power, and’t might be,<br/> -To dure ill-dealing fortune: speede to him,<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +Sir, farewell; repeat my wishes<br> +To our great Lord, of whose succes I dare not<br> +Make any timerous question; yet I wish him<br> +Exces and overflow of power, and’t might be,<br> +To dure ill-dealing fortune: speede to him,<br> Store never hurtes good Gouernours. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Though I know<br/> -His Ocean needes not my poore drops, yet they<br/> -Must yeild their tribute there. My precious Maide,<br/> -Those best affections, that the heavens infuse<br/> -In their best temperd peices, keepe enthroand<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Though I know<br> +His Ocean needes not my poore drops, yet they<br> +Must yeild their tribute there. My precious Maide,<br> +Those best affections, that the heavens infuse<br> +In their best temperd peices, keepe enthroand<br> In your deare heart. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Thanckes, Sir. Remember me<br/> -To our all royall Brother, for whose speede<br/> -The great Bellona ile sollicite; and<br/> -Since in our terrene State petitions are not<br/> -Without giftes understood, Ile offer to her<br/> -What I shall be advised she likes: our hearts<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Thanckes, Sir. Remember me<br> +To our all royall Brother, for whose speede<br> +The great Bellona ile sollicite; and<br> +Since in our terrene State petitions are not<br> +Without giftes understood, Ile offer to her<br> +What I shall be advised she likes: our hearts<br> Are in his Army, in his Tent. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -In’s bosome:<br/> -We have bin Soldiers, and wee cannot weepe<br/> -When our Friends don their helmes, or put to sea,<br/> -Or tell of Babes broachd on the Launce, or women<br/> -That have sod their Infants in (and after eate them)<br/> -The brine, they wept at killing ’em; Then if<br/> -You stay to see of us such Spincsters, we<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +In’s bosome:<br> +We have bin Soldiers, and wee cannot weepe<br> +When our Friends don their helmes, or put to sea,<br> +Or tell of Babes broachd on the Launce, or women<br> +That have sod their Infants in (and after eate them)<br> +The brine, they wept at killing ’em; Then if<br> +You stay to see of us such Spincsters, we<br> Should hold you here for ever. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Peace be to you,<br/> -As I pursue this war, which shall be then<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Peace be to you,<br> +As I pursue this war, which shall be then<br> Beyond further requiring. [Exit Pir.] </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -How his longing<br/> -Followes his Friend! since his depart, his sportes<br/> -Though craving seriousnes, and skill, past slightly<br/> -His careles execution, where nor gaine<br/> -Made him regard, or losse consider; but<br/> -Playing one busines in his hand, another<br/> -Directing in his head, his minde, nurse equall<br/> -To these so diffring Twyns—have you observ’d him,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +How his longing<br> +Followes his Friend! since his depart, his sportes<br> +Though craving seriousnes, and skill, past slightly<br> +His careles execution, where nor gaine<br> +Made him regard, or losse consider; but<br> +Playing one busines in his hand, another<br> +Directing in his head, his minde, nurse equall<br> +To these so diffring Twyns—have you observ’d him,<br> Since our great Lord departed? </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -With much labour,<br/> -And I did love him fort: they two have Cabind<br/> -In many as dangerous, as poore a Corner,<br/> -Perill and want contending; they have skift<br/> -Torrents whose roring tyranny and power<br/> -I’th least of these was dreadfull, and they have<br/> -Fought out together, where Deaths-selfe was lodgd,<br/> -Yet fate hath brought them off: Their knot of love,<br/> -Tide, weau’d, intangled, with so true, so long,<br/> -And with a finger of so deepe a cunning,<br/> -May be outworne, never undone. I thinke<br/> -Theseus cannot be umpire to himselfe,<br/> -Cleaving his conscience into twaine and doing<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +With much labour,<br> +And I did love him fort: they two have Cabind<br> +In many as dangerous, as poore a Corner,<br> +Perill and want contending; they have skift<br> +Torrents whose roring tyranny and power<br> +I’th least of these was dreadfull, and they have<br> +Fought out together, where Deaths-selfe was lodgd,<br> +Yet fate hath brought them off: Their knot of love,<br> +Tide, weau’d, intangled, with so true, so long,<br> +And with a finger of so deepe a cunning,<br> +May be outworne, never undone. I thinke<br> +Theseus cannot be umpire to himselfe,<br> +Cleaving his conscience into twaine and doing<br> Each side like Iustice, which he loves best. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Doubtlesse<br/> -There is a best, and reason has no manners<br/> -To say it is not you: I was acquainted<br/> -Once with a time, when I enjoyd a Play-fellow;<br/> -You were at wars, when she the grave enrichd,<br/> -Who made too proud the Bed, tooke leave o th Moone<br/> -(Which then lookt pale at parting) when our count<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Doubtlesse<br> +There is a best, and reason has no manners<br> +To say it is not you: I was acquainted<br> +Once with a time, when I enjoyd a Play-fellow;<br> +You were at wars, when she the grave enrichd,<br> +Who made too proud the Bed, tooke leave o th Moone<br> +(Which then lookt pale at parting) when our count<br> Was each eleven. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> Twas Flaui(n)a.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Yes.<br/> -You talke of Pirithous and Theseus love;<br/> -Theirs has more ground, is more maturely seasond,<br/> -More buckled with strong Iudgement and their needes<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Yes.<br> +You talke of Pirithous and Theseus love;<br> +Theirs has more ground, is more maturely seasond,<br> +More buckled with strong Iudgement and their needes<br> The one of th’other may be said to water [2. Hearses ready with Palamon: and Arcite: the 3. Queenes. Theseus: and his -Lordes ready.]<br/> -Their intertangled rootes of love; but I<br/> -And shee I sigh and spoke of were things innocent,<br/> -Lou’d for we did, and like the Elements<br/> -That know not what, nor why, yet doe effect<br/> -Rare issues by their operance, our soules<br/> -Did so to one another; what she lik’d,<br/> -Was then of me approov’d, what not, condemd,<br/> -No more arraignment; the flowre that I would plucke<br/> -And put betweene my breasts (then but beginning<br/> -To swell about the blossome) oh, she would long<br/> -Till shee had such another, and commit it<br/> -To the like innocent Cradle, where Phenix like<br/> -They dide in perfume: on my head no toy<br/> -But was her patterne; her affections (pretty,<br/> -Though, happely, her careles were) I followed<br/> -For my most serious decking; had mine eare<br/> -Stolne some new aire, or at adventure humd on<br/> -From musicall Coynadge, why it was a note<br/> -Whereon her spirits would sojourne (rather dwell on)<br/> -And sing it in her slumbers. This rehearsall<br/> -(Which ev’ry innocent wots well comes in<br/> -Like old importments bastard) has this end,<br/> -That the true love tweene Mayde, and mayde, may be<br/> +Lordes ready.]<br> +Their intertangled rootes of love; but I<br> +And shee I sigh and spoke of were things innocent,<br> +Lou’d for we did, and like the Elements<br> +That know not what, nor why, yet doe effect<br> +Rare issues by their operance, our soules<br> +Did so to one another; what she lik’d,<br> +Was then of me approov’d, what not, condemd,<br> +No more arraignment; the flowre that I would plucke<br> +And put betweene my breasts (then but beginning<br> +To swell about the blossome) oh, she would long<br> +Till shee had such another, and commit it<br> +To the like innocent Cradle, where Phenix like<br> +They dide in perfume: on my head no toy<br> +But was her patterne; her affections (pretty,<br> +Though, happely, her careles were) I followed<br> +For my most serious decking; had mine eare<br> +Stolne some new aire, or at adventure humd on<br> +From musicall Coynadge, why it was a note<br> +Whereon her spirits would sojourne (rather dwell on)<br> +And sing it in her slumbers. This rehearsall<br> +(Which ev’ry innocent wots well comes in<br> +Like old importments bastard) has this end,<br> +That the true love tweene Mayde, and mayde, may be<br> More then in sex idividuall. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -Y’are out of breath<br/> -And this high speeded pace, is but to say<br/> -That you shall never like the Maide Flavina<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +Y’are out of breath<br> +And this high speeded pace, is but to say<br> +That you shall never like the Maide Flavina<br> Love any that’s calld Man. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> I am sure I shall not.</p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -Now, alacke, weake Sister,<br/> -I must no more beleeve thee in this point<br/> -(Though in’t I know thou dost beleeve thy selfe,)<br/> -Then I will trust a sickely appetite,<br/> -That loathes even as it longs; but, sure, my Sister,<br/> -If I were ripe for your perswasion, you<br/> -Have saide enough to shake me from the Arme<br/> -Of the all noble Theseus, for whose fortunes<br/> -I will now in, and kneele with great assurance,<br/> -That we, more then his Pirothous, possesse<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +Now, alacke, weake Sister,<br> +I must no more beleeve thee in this point<br> +(Though in’t I know thou dost beleeve thy selfe,)<br> +Then I will trust a sickely appetite,<br> +That loathes even as it longs; but, sure, my Sister,<br> +If I were ripe for your perswasion, you<br> +Have saide enough to shake me from the Arme<br> +Of the all noble Theseus, for whose fortunes<br> +I will now in, and kneele with great assurance,<br> +That we, more then his Pirothous, possesse<br> The high throne in his heart. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I am not<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I am not<br> Against your faith; yet I continew mine. [Exeunt. Cornets.] </p> @@ -1045,93 +1027,93 @@ Queenes meete him, and fall on their faces before him.] </p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> To thee no starre be darke.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. QUEEN.<br/> -Both heaven and earth<br/> +2. QUEEN.<br> +Both heaven and earth<br> Friend thee for ever. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN.<br/> -All the good that may<br/> +3. QUEEN.<br> +All the good that may<br> Be wishd upon thy head, I cry Amen too’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Th’imparciall Gods, who from the mounted heavens<br/> -View us their mortall Heard, behold who erre,<br/> -And in their time chastice: goe and finde out<br/> -The bones of your dead Lords, and honour them<br/> -With treble Ceremonie; rather then a gap<br/> -Should be in their deere rights, we would supply’t.<br/> -But those we will depute, which shall invest<br/> -You in your dignities, and even each thing<br/> -Our hast does leave imperfect: So, adiew,<br/> -And heavens good eyes looke on you. What are those? [Exeunt<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Th’imparciall Gods, who from the mounted heavens<br> +View us their mortall Heard, behold who erre,<br> +And in their time chastice: goe and finde out<br> +The bones of your dead Lords, and honour them<br> +With treble Ceremonie; rather then a gap<br> +Should be in their deere rights, we would supply’t.<br> +But those we will depute, which shall invest<br> +You in your dignities, and even each thing<br> +Our hast does leave imperfect: So, adiew,<br> +And heavens good eyes looke on you. What are those? [Exeunt<br> Queenes.] </p> <p class="drama"> -HERALD.<br/> -Men of great quality, as may be judgd<br/> -By their appointment; Sone of Thebs have told’s<br/> +HERALD.<br> +Men of great quality, as may be judgd<br> +By their appointment; Sone of Thebs have told’s<br> They are Sisters children, Nephewes to the King. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -By’th Helme of Mars, I saw them in the war,<br/> -Like to a paire of Lions, smeard with prey,<br/> -Make lanes in troopes agast. I fixt my note<br/> -Constantly on them; for they were a marke<br/> -Worth a god’s view: what prisoner was’t that told me<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +By’th Helme of Mars, I saw them in the war,<br> +Like to a paire of Lions, smeard with prey,<br> +Make lanes in troopes agast. I fixt my note<br> +Constantly on them; for they were a marke<br> +Worth a god’s view: what prisoner was’t that told me<br> When I enquired their names? </p> <p class="drama"> -HERALD.<br/> +HERALD.<br> Wi’leave, they’r called Arcite and Palamon.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Tis right: those, those. They are not dead?</p> <p class="drama"> -HERALD.<br/> -Nor in a state of life: had they bin taken,<br/> -When their last hurts were given, twas possible [3. Hearses<br/> -ready.]<br/> -They might have bin recovered; Yet they breathe<br/> +HERALD.<br> +Nor in a state of life: had they bin taken,<br> +When their last hurts were given, twas possible [3. Hearses<br> +ready.]<br> +They might have bin recovered; Yet they breathe<br> And haue the name of men. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Then like men use ’em.<br/> -The very lees of such (millions of rates)<br/> -Exceede the wine of others: all our Surgions<br/> -Convent in their behoofe; our richest balmes<br/> -Rather then niggard, waft: their lives concerne us<br/> -Much more then Thebs is worth: rather then have ’em<br/> -Freed of this plight, and in their morning state<br/> -(Sound and at liberty) I would ’em dead;<br/> -But forty thousand fold we had rather have ’em<br/> -Prisoners to us then death. Beare ’em speedily<br/> -From our kinde aire, to them unkinde, and minister<br/> -What man to man may doe—for our sake more,<br/> -Since I have knowne frights, fury, friends beheastes,<br/> -Loves provocations, zeale, a mistris Taske,<br/> -Desire of liberty, a feavour, madnes,<br/> -Hath set a marke which nature could not reach too<br/> -Without some imposition: sicknes in will<br/> -Or wrastling strength in reason. For our Love<br/> -And great Appollos mercy, all our best<br/> -Their best skill tender. Leade into the Citty,<br/> -Where having bound things scatterd, we will post [Florish.]<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Then like men use ’em.<br> +The very lees of such (millions of rates)<br> +Exceede the wine of others: all our Surgions<br> +Convent in their behoofe; our richest balmes<br> +Rather then niggard, waft: their lives concerne us<br> +Much more then Thebs is worth: rather then have ’em<br> +Freed of this plight, and in their morning state<br> +(Sound and at liberty) I would ’em dead;<br> +But forty thousand fold we had rather have ’em<br> +Prisoners to us then death. Beare ’em speedily<br> +From our kinde aire, to them unkinde, and minister<br> +What man to man may doe—for our sake more,<br> +Since I have knowne frights, fury, friends beheastes,<br> +Loves provocations, zeale, a mistris Taske,<br> +Desire of liberty, a feavour, madnes,<br> +Hath set a marke which nature could not reach too<br> +Without some imposition: sicknes in will<br> +Or wrastling strength in reason. For our Love<br> +And great Appollos mercy, all our best<br> +Their best skill tender. Leade into the Citty,<br> +Where having bound things scatterd, we will post [Florish.]<br> To Athens for(e) our Army [Exeunt. Musicke.] </p> @@ -1143,39 +1125,39 @@ Funerall Solempnity, &c.] </p> <p class="drama"> -Vrnes and odours bring away,<br/> -Vapours, sighes, darken the day;<br/> -Our dole more deadly lookes than dying;<br/> -Balmes, and Gummes, and heavy cheeres,<br/> -Sacred vials fill’d with teares,<br/> +Vrnes and odours bring away,<br> +Vapours, sighes, darken the day;<br> +Our dole more deadly lookes than dying;<br> +Balmes, and Gummes, and heavy cheeres,<br> +Sacred vials fill’d with teares,<br> And clamors through the wild ayre flying. </p> <p class="drama"> -Come all sad and solempne Showes,<br/> -That are quick-eyd pleasures foes;<br/> -We convent nought else but woes.<br/> +Come all sad and solempne Showes,<br> +That are quick-eyd pleasures foes;<br> +We convent nought else but woes.<br> We convent, &c. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN.<br/> -This funeral path brings to your housholds grave:<br/> +3. QUEEN.<br> +This funeral path brings to your housholds grave:<br> Ioy ceaze on you againe: peace sleepe with him. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. QUEEN.<br/> +2. QUEEN.<br> And this to yours.</p> <p class="drama"> -1. QUEEN.<br/> -Yours this way: Heavens lend<br/> +1. QUEEN.<br> +Yours this way: Heavens lend<br> A thousand differing waies to one sure end. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. QUEEN.<br/> +3. QUEEN.<br> This world’s a Citty full of straying Streetes, And Death’s the market place, where each one meetes. [Exeunt severally.]</p> @@ -1192,7 +1174,7 @@ severally.]</p> [Enter Iailor, and Wooer.]</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> I may depart with little, while I live; some thing I may cast to you, not much: Alas, the Prison I keepe, though it be for great ones, yet they seldome come; Before one Salmon, you shall take a @@ -1203,14 +1185,14 @@ will) I will assure upon my daughter at the day of my death.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Sir, I demaund no more then your owne offer, and I will estate<br/> -your<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Sir, I demaund no more then your owne offer, and I will estate<br> +your<br> Daughter in what I have promised. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Wel, we will talke more of this, when the solemnity is past. But have you a full promise of her? When that shall be seene, I tender @@ -1220,18 +1202,18 @@ my consent.</p> [Enter Daughter.]</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I have Sir; here shee comes.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Your Friend and I have chanced to name you here, upon the old busines: But no more of that now; so soone as the Court hurry is over, we will have an end of it: I’th meane time looke tenderly to the two Prisoners. I can tell you they are princes.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> These strewings are for their Chamber; tis pitty they are in prison, and twer pitty they should be out: I doe thinke they have @@ -1241,20 +1223,20 @@ to make any adversity asham’d; the prison it selfe is proud of and they have all the world in their Chamber.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> They are fam’d to be a paire of absolute men.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> By my troth, I think Fame but stammers ’em; they stand a greise above the reach of report.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> I heard them reported in the Battaile to be the only doers.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Nay, most likely, for they are noble suffrers; I mervaile how they would have lookd had they beene Victors, that with such a @@ -1264,11 +1246,11 @@ Mirth, and affliction a toy to jest at.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Doe they so?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> It seemes to me they have no more sence of their Captivity, then I of ruling Athens: they eate well, looke merrily, discourse of @@ -1281,11 +1263,11 @@ a rebuke, that I could wish my selfe a Sigh to be so chid, or at least a Sigher to be comforted.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I never saw ’em.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> The Duke himselfe came privately in the night,</p> <p class="drama"> @@ -1297,19 +1279,19 @@ yonder they are! that’s Arcite lookes out.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> No, Sir, no, that’s Palamon: Arcite is the lower of the twaine; you may perceive a part of him.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Goe too, leave your pointing; they would not make us their object; out of their sight.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> It is a holliday to looke on them: Lord, the diffrence of men! </p> @@ -1324,578 +1306,578 @@ It is a holliday to looke on them: Lord, the diffrence of men! [Enter Palamon, and Arcite in prison.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> How doe you, Noble Cosen?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> How doe you, Sir?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Why strong inough to laugh at misery,<br/> -And beare the chance of warre, yet we are prisoners,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Why strong inough to laugh at misery,<br> +And beare the chance of warre, yet we are prisoners,<br> I feare, for ever, Cosen. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I beleeve it,<br/> -And to that destiny have patiently<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I beleeve it,<br> +And to that destiny have patiently<br> Laide up my houre to come. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O Cosen Arcite,<br/> -Where is Thebs now? where is our noble Country?<br/> -Where are our friends, and kindreds? never more<br/> -Must we behold those comforts, never see<br/> -The hardy youthes strive for the Games of honour<br/> -(Hung with the painted favours of their Ladies,<br/> -Like tall Ships under saile) then start among’st ’em<br/> -And as an Eastwind leave ’en all behinde us,<br/> -Like lazy Clowdes, whilst Palamon and Arcite,<br/> -Even in the wagging of a wanton leg<br/> -Out-stript the peoples praises, won the Garlands,<br/> -Ere they have time to wish ’em ours. O never<br/> -Shall we two exercise, like Twyns of honour,<br/> -Our Armes againe, and feele our fyry horses<br/> -Like proud Seas under us: our good Swords now<br/> -(Better the red-eyd god of war nev’r wore)<br/> -Ravishd our sides, like age must run to rust,<br/> -And decke the Temples of those gods that hate us:<br/> -These hands shall never draw’em out like lightning,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O Cosen Arcite,<br> +Where is Thebs now? where is our noble Country?<br> +Where are our friends, and kindreds? never more<br> +Must we behold those comforts, never see<br> +The hardy youthes strive for the Games of honour<br> +(Hung with the painted favours of their Ladies,<br> +Like tall Ships under saile) then start among’st ’em<br> +And as an Eastwind leave ’en all behinde us,<br> +Like lazy Clowdes, whilst Palamon and Arcite,<br> +Even in the wagging of a wanton leg<br> +Out-stript the peoples praises, won the Garlands,<br> +Ere they have time to wish ’em ours. O never<br> +Shall we two exercise, like Twyns of honour,<br> +Our Armes againe, and feele our fyry horses<br> +Like proud Seas under us: our good Swords now<br> +(Better the red-eyd god of war nev’r wore)<br> +Ravishd our sides, like age must run to rust,<br> +And decke the Temples of those gods that hate us:<br> +These hands shall never draw’em out like lightning,<br> To blast whole Armies more. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -No, Palamon,<br/> -Those hopes are Prisoners with us; here we are<br/> -And here the graces of our youthes must wither<br/> -Like a too-timely Spring; here age must finde us,<br/> -And, which is heaviest, Palamon, unmarried;<br/> -The sweete embraces of a loving wife,<br/> -Loden with kisses, armd with thousand Cupids<br/> -Shall never claspe our neckes, no issue know us,<br/> -No figures of our selves shall we ev’r see,<br/> -To glad our age, and like young Eagles teach ’em<br/> -Boldly to gaze against bright armes, and say:<br/> -‘Remember what your fathers were, and conquer.’<br/> -The faire-eyd Maides, shall weepe our Banishments,<br/> -And in their Songs, curse ever-blinded fortune,<br/> -Till shee for shame see what a wrong she has done<br/> -To youth and nature. This is all our world;<br/> -We shall know nothing here but one another,<br/> -Heare nothing but the Clocke that tels our woes.<br/> -The Vine shall grow, but we shall never see it:<br/> -Sommer shall come, and with her all delights;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +No, Palamon,<br> +Those hopes are Prisoners with us; here we are<br> +And here the graces of our youthes must wither<br> +Like a too-timely Spring; here age must finde us,<br> +And, which is heaviest, Palamon, unmarried;<br> +The sweete embraces of a loving wife,<br> +Loden with kisses, armd with thousand Cupids<br> +Shall never claspe our neckes, no issue know us,<br> +No figures of our selves shall we ev’r see,<br> +To glad our age, and like young Eagles teach ’em<br> +Boldly to gaze against bright armes, and say:<br> +‘Remember what your fathers were, and conquer.’<br> +The faire-eyd Maides, shall weepe our Banishments,<br> +And in their Songs, curse ever-blinded fortune,<br> +Till shee for shame see what a wrong she has done<br> +To youth and nature. This is all our world;<br> +We shall know nothing here but one another,<br> +Heare nothing but the Clocke that tels our woes.<br> +The Vine shall grow, but we shall never see it:<br> +Sommer shall come, and with her all delights;<br> But dead-cold winter must inhabite here still. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Tis too true, Arcite. To our Theban houndes,<br/> -That shooke the aged Forrest with their ecchoes,<br/> -No more now must we halloa, no more shake<br/> -Our pointed Iavelyns, whilst the angry Swine<br/> -Flyes like a parthian quiver from our rages,<br/> -Strucke with our well-steeld Darts: All valiant uses<br/> -(The foode, and nourishment of noble mindes,)<br/> -In us two here shall perish; we shall die<br/> -(Which is the curse of honour) lastly<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Tis too true, Arcite. To our Theban houndes,<br> +That shooke the aged Forrest with their ecchoes,<br> +No more now must we halloa, no more shake<br> +Our pointed Iavelyns, whilst the angry Swine<br> +Flyes like a parthian quiver from our rages,<br> +Strucke with our well-steeld Darts: All valiant uses<br> +(The foode, and nourishment of noble mindes,)<br> +In us two here shall perish; we shall die<br> +(Which is the curse of honour) lastly<br> Children of greife, and Ignorance. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yet, Cosen,<br/> -Even from the bottom of these miseries,<br/> -From all that fortune can inflict upon us,<br/> -I see two comforts rysing, two meere blessings,<br/> -If the gods please: to hold here a brave patience,<br/> -And the enjoying of our greefes together.<br/> -Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yet, Cosen,<br> +Even from the bottom of these miseries,<br> +From all that fortune can inflict upon us,<br> +I see two comforts rysing, two meere blessings,<br> +If the gods please: to hold here a brave patience,<br> +And the enjoying of our greefes together.<br> +Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish<br> If I thinke this our prison. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Certeinly,<br/> -Tis a maine goodnes, Cosen, that our fortunes<br/> -Were twyn’d together; tis most true, two soules<br/> -Put in two noble Bodies—let ’em suffer<br/> -The gaule of hazard, so they grow together—<br/> -Will never sincke; they must not, say they could:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Certeinly,<br> +Tis a maine goodnes, Cosen, that our fortunes<br> +Were twyn’d together; tis most true, two soules<br> +Put in two noble Bodies—let ’em suffer<br> +The gaule of hazard, so they grow together—<br> +Will never sincke; they must not, say they could:<br> A willing man dies sleeping, and all’s done. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Shall we make worthy uses of this place<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Shall we make worthy uses of this place<br> That all men hate so much? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> How, gentle Cosen?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Let’s thinke this prison holy sanctuary,<br/> -To keepe us from corruption of worse men.<br/> -We are young and yet desire the waies of honour,<br/> -That liberty and common Conversation,<br/> -The poyson of pure spirits, might like women<br/> -Wooe us to wander from. What worthy blessing<br/> -Can be but our Imaginations<br/> -May make it ours? And heere being thus together,<br/> -We are an endles mine to one another;<br/> -We are one anothers wife, ever begetting<br/> -New birthes of love; we are father, friends, acquaintance;<br/> -We are, in one another, Families,<br/> -I am your heire, and you are mine: This place<br/> -Is our Inheritance, no hard Oppressour<br/> -Dare take this from us; here, with a little patience,<br/> -We shall live long, and loving: No surfeits seeke us:<br/> -The hand of war hurts none here, nor the Seas<br/> -Swallow their youth: were we at liberty,<br/> -A wife might part us lawfully, or busines;<br/> -Quarrels consume us, Envy of ill men<br/> -Grave our acquaintance; I might sicken, Cosen,<br/> -Where you should never know it, and so perish<br/> -Without your noble hand to close mine eies,<br/> -Or praiers to the gods: a thousand chaunces,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Let’s thinke this prison holy sanctuary,<br> +To keepe us from corruption of worse men.<br> +We are young and yet desire the waies of honour,<br> +That liberty and common Conversation,<br> +The poyson of pure spirits, might like women<br> +Wooe us to wander from. What worthy blessing<br> +Can be but our Imaginations<br> +May make it ours? And heere being thus together,<br> +We are an endles mine to one another;<br> +We are one anothers wife, ever begetting<br> +New birthes of love; we are father, friends, acquaintance;<br> +We are, in one another, Families,<br> +I am your heire, and you are mine: This place<br> +Is our Inheritance, no hard Oppressour<br> +Dare take this from us; here, with a little patience,<br> +We shall live long, and loving: No surfeits seeke us:<br> +The hand of war hurts none here, nor the Seas<br> +Swallow their youth: were we at liberty,<br> +A wife might part us lawfully, or busines;<br> +Quarrels consume us, Envy of ill men<br> +Grave our acquaintance; I might sicken, Cosen,<br> +Where you should never know it, and so perish<br> +Without your noble hand to close mine eies,<br> +Or praiers to the gods: a thousand chaunces,<br> Were we from hence, would seaver us. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -You have made me<br/> -(I thanke you, Cosen Arcite) almost wanton<br/> -With my Captivity: what a misery<br/> -It is to live abroade, and every where!<br/> -Tis like a Beast, me thinkes: I finde the Court here—<br/> -I am sure, a more content; and all those pleasures<br/> -That wooe the wils of men to vanity,<br/> -I see through now, and am sufficient<br/> -To tell the world, tis but a gaudy shaddow,<br/> -That old Time, as he passes by, takes with him.<br/> -What had we bin, old in the Court of Creon,<br/> -Where sin is Iustice, lust and ignorance<br/> -The vertues of the great ones! Cosen Arcite,<br/> -Had not the loving gods found this place for us,<br/> -We had died as they doe, ill old men, unwept,<br/> -And had their Epitaphes, the peoples Curses:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +You have made me<br> +(I thanke you, Cosen Arcite) almost wanton<br> +With my Captivity: what a misery<br> +It is to live abroade, and every where!<br> +Tis like a Beast, me thinkes: I finde the Court here—<br> +I am sure, a more content; and all those pleasures<br> +That wooe the wils of men to vanity,<br> +I see through now, and am sufficient<br> +To tell the world, tis but a gaudy shaddow,<br> +That old Time, as he passes by, takes with him.<br> +What had we bin, old in the Court of Creon,<br> +Where sin is Iustice, lust and ignorance<br> +The vertues of the great ones! Cosen Arcite,<br> +Had not the loving gods found this place for us,<br> +We had died as they doe, ill old men, unwept,<br> +And had their Epitaphes, the peoples Curses:<br> Shall I say more? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I would heare you still.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Ye shall.<br/> -Is there record of any two that lov’d<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Ye shall.<br> +Is there record of any two that lov’d<br> Better then we doe, Arcite? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Sure, there cannot.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I doe not thinke it possible our friendship<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I doe not thinke it possible our friendship<br> Should ever leave us. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Till our deathes it cannot;</p> <p class="drama"> [Enter Emilia and her woman (below).]</p> <p class="drama"> -And after death our spirits shall be led<br/> +And after death our spirits shall be led<br> To those that love eternally. Speake on, Sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -This garden has a world of pleasures in’t.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +This garden has a world of pleasures in’t.<br> What Flowre is this? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Tis calld Narcissus, Madam.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That was a faire Boy, certaine, but a foole,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That was a faire Boy, certaine, but a foole,<br> To love himselfe; were there not maides enough? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Pray forward.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Or were they all hard hearted?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> They could not be to one so faire.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Thou wouldst not.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> I thinke I should not, Madam.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That’s a good wench:<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That’s a good wench:<br> But take heede to your kindnes though. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Why, Madam?</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Men are mad things.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Will ye goe forward, Cosen?</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Canst not thou worke such flowers in silke, wench?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Ile have a gowne full of ’em, and of these;<br/> -This is a pretty colour, wilt not doe<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Ile have a gowne full of ’em, and of these;<br> +This is a pretty colour, wilt not doe<br> Rarely upon a Skirt, wench? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Deinty, Madam.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Cosen, Cosen, how doe you, Sir? Why, Palamon?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Never till now I was in prison, Arcite.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Why whats the matter, Man?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Behold, and wonder.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Behold, and wonder.<br> By heaven, shee is a Goddesse. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Ha.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Doe reverence. She is a Goddesse, Arcite.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Of all Flowres, me thinkes a Rose is best.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Why, gentle Madam?</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -It is the very Embleme of a Maide.<br/> -For when the west wind courts her gently,<br/> -How modestly she blowes, and paints the Sun,<br/> -With her chaste blushes! When the North comes neere her,<br/> -Rude and impatient, then, like Chastity,<br/> -Shee lockes her beauties in her bud againe,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +It is the very Embleme of a Maide.<br> +For when the west wind courts her gently,<br> +How modestly she blowes, and paints the Sun,<br> +With her chaste blushes! When the North comes neere her,<br> +Rude and impatient, then, like Chastity,<br> +Shee lockes her beauties in her bud againe,<br> And leaves him to base briers. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> -Yet, good Madam,<br/> -Sometimes her modesty will blow so far<br/> -She fals for’t: a Mayde,<br/> -If shee have any honour, would be loth<br/> +WOMAN.<br> +Yet, good Madam,<br> +Sometimes her modesty will blow so far<br> +She fals for’t: a Mayde,<br> +If shee have any honour, would be loth<br> To take example by her. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Thou art wanton.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> She is wondrous faire.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> She is beauty extant.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -The Sun grows high, lets walk in: keep these flowers;<br/> -Weele see how neere Art can come neere their colours.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +The Sun grows high, lets walk in: keep these flowers;<br> +Weele see how neere Art can come neere their colours.<br> I am wondrous merry hearted, I could laugh now. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> I could lie downe, I am sure.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> And take one with you?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> That’s as we bargaine, Madam.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Well, agree then. [Exeunt Emilia and woman.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> What thinke you of this beauty?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Tis a rare one.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Is’t but a rare one?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Yes, a matchles beauty.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Might not a man well lose himselfe and love her?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I cannot tell what you have done, I have;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I cannot tell what you have done, I have;<br> Beshrew mine eyes for’t: now I feele my Shackles. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> You love her, then?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Who would not?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> And desire her?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Before my liberty.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> I saw her first.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> That’s nothing.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> But it shall be.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I saw her too.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes, but you must not love her.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I will not as you doe, to worship her,<br/> -As she is heavenly, and a blessed Goddes;<br/> -I love her as a woman, to enjoy her:<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I will not as you doe, to worship her,<br> +As she is heavenly, and a blessed Goddes;<br> +I love her as a woman, to enjoy her:<br> So both may love. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> You shall not love at all.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Not love at all!<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Not love at all!<br> Who shall deny me? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I, that first saw her; I, that tooke possession<br/> -First with mine eyes of all those beauties<br/> -In her reveald to mankinde: if thou lou’st her,<br/> -Or entertain’st a hope to blast my wishes,<br/> -Thou art a Traytour, Arcite, and a fellow<br/> -False as thy Title to her: friendship, blood,<br/> -And all the tyes betweene us I disclaime,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I, that first saw her; I, that tooke possession<br> +First with mine eyes of all those beauties<br> +In her reveald to mankinde: if thou lou’st her,<br> +Or entertain’st a hope to blast my wishes,<br> +Thou art a Traytour, Arcite, and a fellow<br> +False as thy Title to her: friendship, blood,<br> +And all the tyes betweene us I disclaime,<br> If thou once thinke upon her. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yes, I love her,<br/> -And if the lives of all my name lay on it,<br/> -I must doe so; I love her with my soule:<br/> -If that will lose ye, farewell, Palamon;<br/> -I say againe, I love, and in loving her maintaine<br/> -I am as worthy and as free a lover,<br/> -And have as just a title to her beauty<br/> -As any Palamon or any living<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yes, I love her,<br> +And if the lives of all my name lay on it,<br> +I must doe so; I love her with my soule:<br> +If that will lose ye, farewell, Palamon;<br> +I say againe, I love, and in loving her maintaine<br> +I am as worthy and as free a lover,<br> +And have as just a title to her beauty<br> +As any Palamon or any living<br> That is a mans Sonne. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Have I cald thee friend?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yes, and have found me so; why are you mov’d thus?<br/> -Let me deale coldly with you: am not I<br/> -Part of your blood, part of your soule? you have told me<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yes, and have found me so; why are you mov’d thus?<br> +Let me deale coldly with you: am not I<br> +Part of your blood, part of your soule? you have told me<br> That I was Palamon, and you were Arcite. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Am not I liable to those affections,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Am not I liable to those affections,<br> Those joyes, greifes, angers, feares, my friend shall suffer? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Ye may be.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Why, then, would you deale so cunningly,<br/> -So strangely, so vnlike a noble kinesman,<br/> -To love alone? speake truely: doe you thinke me<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Why, then, would you deale so cunningly,<br> +So strangely, so vnlike a noble kinesman,<br> +To love alone? speake truely: doe you thinke me<br> Vnworthy of her sight? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -No; but unjust,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +No; but unjust,<br> If thou pursue that sight. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Because an other<br/> -First sees the Enemy, shall I stand still<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Because an other<br> +First sees the Enemy, shall I stand still<br> And let mine honour downe, and never charge? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes, if he be but one.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -But say that one<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +But say that one<br> Had rather combat me? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Let that one say so,<br/> -And use thy freedome; els if thou pursuest her,<br/> -Be as that cursed man that hates his Country,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Let that one say so,<br> +And use thy freedome; els if thou pursuest her,<br> +Be as that cursed man that hates his Country,<br> A branded villaine. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You are mad.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I must be,<br/> -Till thou art worthy, Arcite; it concernes me,<br/> -And in this madnes, if I hazard thee<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I must be,<br> +Till thou art worthy, Arcite; it concernes me,<br> +And in this madnes, if I hazard thee<br> And take thy life, I deale but truely. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Fie, Sir,<br/> -You play the Childe extreamely: I will love her,<br/> -I must, I ought to doe so, and I dare;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Fie, Sir,<br> +You play the Childe extreamely: I will love her,<br> +I must, I ought to doe so, and I dare;<br> And all this justly. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O that now, that now<br/> -Thy false-selfe and thy friend had but this fortune,<br/> -To be one howre at liberty, and graspe<br/> -Our good Swords in our hands! I would quickly teach thee<br/> -What ’twer to filch affection from another:<br/> -Thou art baser in it then a Cutpurse;<br/> -Put but thy head out of this window more,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O that now, that now<br> +Thy false-selfe and thy friend had but this fortune,<br> +To be one howre at liberty, and graspe<br> +Our good Swords in our hands! I would quickly teach thee<br> +What ’twer to filch affection from another:<br> +Thou art baser in it then a Cutpurse;<br> +Put but thy head out of this window more,<br> And as I have a soule, Ile naile thy life too’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Thou dar’st not, foole, thou canst not, thou art feeble.<br/> -Put my head out? Ile throw my Body out,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Thou dar’st not, foole, thou canst not, thou art feeble.<br> +Put my head out? Ile throw my Body out,<br> And leape the garden, when I see her next </p> @@ -1906,59 +1888,59 @@ And leape the garden, when I see her next And pitch between her armes to anger thee.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -No more; the keeper’s comming; I shall live<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +No more; the keeper’s comming; I shall live<br> To knocke thy braines out with my Shackles. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Doe.</p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> +KEEPER.<br> By your leave, Gentlemen—</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Now, honest keeper?</p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> -Lord Arcite, you must presently to’th Duke;<br/> +KEEPER.<br> +Lord Arcite, you must presently to’th Duke;<br> The cause I know not yet. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I am ready, keeper.</p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> -Prince Palamon, I must awhile bereave you<br/> +KEEPER.<br> +Prince Palamon, I must awhile bereave you<br> Of your faire Cosens Company. [Exeunt Arcite, and Keeper.] </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -And me too,<br/> -Even when you please, of life. Why is he sent for?<br/> -It may be he shall marry her; he’s goodly,<br/> -And like enough the Duke hath taken notice<br/> -Both of his blood and body: But his falsehood!<br/> -Why should a friend be treacherous? If that<br/> -Get him a wife so noble, and so faire,<br/> -Let honest men ne’re love againe. Once more<br/> -I would but see this faire One. Blessed Garden,<br/> -And fruite, and flowers more blessed, that still blossom<br/> -As her bright eies shine on ye! would I were,<br/> -For all the fortune of my life hereafter,<br/> -Yon little Tree, yon blooming Apricocke;<br/> -How I would spread, and fling my wanton armes<br/> -In at her window; I would bring her fruite<br/> -Fit for the Gods to feed on: youth and pleasure<br/> -Still as she tasted should be doubled on her,<br/> -And if she be not heavenly, I would make her<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +And me too,<br> +Even when you please, of life. Why is he sent for?<br> +It may be he shall marry her; he’s goodly,<br> +And like enough the Duke hath taken notice<br> +Both of his blood and body: But his falsehood!<br> +Why should a friend be treacherous? If that<br> +Get him a wife so noble, and so faire,<br> +Let honest men ne’re love againe. Once more<br> +I would but see this faire One. Blessed Garden,<br> +And fruite, and flowers more blessed, that still blossom<br> +As her bright eies shine on ye! would I were,<br> +For all the fortune of my life hereafter,<br> +Yon little Tree, yon blooming Apricocke;<br> +How I would spread, and fling my wanton armes<br> +In at her window; I would bring her fruite<br> +Fit for the Gods to feed on: youth and pleasure<br> +Still as she tasted should be doubled on her,<br> +And if she be not heavenly, I would make her<br> So neere the Gods in nature, they should feare her, </p> @@ -1966,116 +1948,116 @@ So neere the Gods in nature, they should feare her, [Enter Keeper.]</p> <p class="drama"> -And then I am sure she would love me. How now, keeper.<br/> +And then I am sure she would love me. How now, keeper.<br> Wher’s Arcite? </p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> -Banishd: Prince Pirithous<br/> -Obtained his liberty; but never more<br/> -Vpon his oth and life must he set foote<br/> +KEEPER.<br> +Banishd: Prince Pirithous<br> +Obtained his liberty; but never more<br> +Vpon his oth and life must he set foote<br> Vpon this Kingdome. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Hees a blessed man!<br/> -He shall see Thebs againe, and call to Armes<br/> -The bold yong men, that, when he bids ’em charge,<br/> -Fall on like fire: Arcite shall have a Fortune,<br/> -If he dare make himselfe a worthy Lover,<br/> -Yet in the Feild to strike a battle for her;<br/> -And if he lose her then, he’s a cold Coward;<br/> -How bravely may he beare himselfe to win her<br/> -If he be noble Arcite—thousand waies.<br/> -Were I at liberty, I would doe things<br/> -Of such a vertuous greatnes, that this Lady,<br/> -This blushing virgine, should take manhood to her<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Hees a blessed man!<br> +He shall see Thebs againe, and call to Armes<br> +The bold yong men, that, when he bids ’em charge,<br> +Fall on like fire: Arcite shall have a Fortune,<br> +If he dare make himselfe a worthy Lover,<br> +Yet in the Feild to strike a battle for her;<br> +And if he lose her then, he’s a cold Coward;<br> +How bravely may he beare himselfe to win her<br> +If he be noble Arcite—thousand waies.<br> +Were I at liberty, I would doe things<br> +Of such a vertuous greatnes, that this Lady,<br> +This blushing virgine, should take manhood to her<br> And seeke to ravish me. </p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> -My Lord for you<br/> +KEEPER.<br> +My Lord for you<br> I have this charge too— </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> To discharge my life?</p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> -No, but from this place to remoove your Lordship:<br/> +KEEPER.<br> +No, but from this place to remoove your Lordship:<br> The windowes are too open. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Devils take ’em,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Devils take ’em,<br> That are so envious to me! pre’thee kill me. </p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> +KEEPER.<br> And hang for’t afterward.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -By this good light,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +By this good light,<br> Had I a sword I would kill thee. </p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> +KEEPER.<br> Why, my Lord?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Thou bringst such pelting scuruy news continually<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Thou bringst such pelting scuruy news continually<br> Thou art not worthy life. I will not goe. </p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> +KEEPER.<br> Indeede, you must, my Lord.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> May I see the garden?</p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> +KEEPER.<br> Noe.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Then I am resolud, I will not goe.</p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> -I must constraine you then: and for you are dangerous,<br/> +KEEPER.<br> +I must constraine you then: and for you are dangerous,<br> Ile clap more yrons on you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Doe, good keeper.<br/> -Ile shake ’em so, ye shall not sleepe;<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Doe, good keeper.<br> +Ile shake ’em so, ye shall not sleepe;<br> Ile make ye a new Morrisse: must I goe? </p> <p class="drama"> -KEEPER.<br/> +KEEPER.<br> There is no remedy.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Farewell, kinde window.<br/> -May rude winde never hurt thee. O, my Lady,<br/> -If ever thou hast felt what sorrow was,<br/> -Dreame how I suffer. Come; now bury me. [Exeunt Palamon, and<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Farewell, kinde window.<br> +May rude winde never hurt thee. O, my Lady,<br> +If ever thou hast felt what sorrow was,<br> +Dreame how I suffer. Come; now bury me. [Exeunt Palamon, and<br> Keeper.] </p> @@ -2085,30 +2067,30 @@ Keeper.] [Enter Arcite.]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Banishd the kingdome? tis a benefit,<br/> -A mercy I must thanke ’em for, but banishd<br/> -The free enjoying of that face I die for,<br/> -Oh twas a studdied punishment, a death<br/> -Beyond Imagination: Such a vengeance<br/> -That, were I old and wicked, all my sins<br/> -Could never plucke upon me. Palamon,<br/> -Thou ha’st the Start now, thou shalt stay and see<br/> -Her bright eyes breake each morning gainst thy window,<br/> -And let in life into thee; thou shalt feede<br/> -Vpon the sweetenes of a noble beauty,<br/> -That nature nev’r exceeded, nor nev’r shall:<br/> -Good gods! what happines has Palamon!<br/> -Twenty to one, hee’le come to speake to her,<br/> -And if she be as gentle as she’s faire,<br/> -I know she’s his; he has a Tongue will tame<br/> -Tempests, and make the wild Rockes wanton.<br/> -Come what can come,<br/> -The worst is death; I will not leave the Kingdome.<br/> -I know mine owne is but a heape of ruins,<br/> -And no redresse there; if I goe, he has her.<br/> -I am resolu’d an other shape shall make me,<br/> -Or end my fortunes. Either way, I am happy:<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Banishd the kingdome? tis a benefit,<br> +A mercy I must thanke ’em for, but banishd<br> +The free enjoying of that face I die for,<br> +Oh twas a studdied punishment, a death<br> +Beyond Imagination: Such a vengeance<br> +That, were I old and wicked, all my sins<br> +Could never plucke upon me. Palamon,<br> +Thou ha’st the Start now, thou shalt stay and see<br> +Her bright eyes breake each morning gainst thy window,<br> +And let in life into thee; thou shalt feede<br> +Vpon the sweetenes of a noble beauty,<br> +That nature nev’r exceeded, nor nev’r shall:<br> +Good gods! what happines has Palamon!<br> +Twenty to one, hee’le come to speake to her,<br> +And if she be as gentle as she’s faire,<br> +I know she’s his; he has a Tongue will tame<br> +Tempests, and make the wild Rockes wanton.<br> +Come what can come,<br> +The worst is death; I will not leave the Kingdome.<br> +I know mine owne is but a heape of ruins,<br> +And no redresse there; if I goe, he has her.<br> +I am resolu’d an other shape shall make me,<br> +Or end my fortunes. Either way, I am happy:<br> Ile see her, and be neere her, or no more. </p> @@ -2116,187 +2098,187 @@ Ile see her, and be neere her, or no more. [Enter 4. Country people, & one with a garlond before them.]</p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN<br> My Masters, ile be there, that’s certaine</p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN<br> And Ile be there.</p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN<br> And I.</p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -Why, then, have with ye, Boyes; Tis but a chiding.<br/> -Let the plough play to day, ile tick’lt out<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN<br> +Why, then, have with ye, Boyes; Tis but a chiding.<br> +Let the plough play to day, ile tick’lt out<br> Of the Iades tailes to morrow. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -I am sure<br/> -To have my wife as jealous as a Turkey:<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN<br> +I am sure<br> +To have my wife as jealous as a Turkey:<br> But that’s all one; ile goe through, let her mumble. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -Clap her aboard to morrow night, and stoa her,<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN<br> +Clap her aboard to morrow night, and stoa her,<br> And all’s made up againe. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -I, doe but put a feskue in her fist, and you shall see her<br/> -Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench.<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN<br> +I, doe but put a feskue in her fist, and you shall see her<br> +Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench.<br> Doe we all hold against the Maying? </p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN<br> Hold? what should aile us?</p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN<br> Arcas will be there.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -And Sennois.<br/> -And Rycas, and 3. better lads nev’r dancd<br/> -Under green Tree. And yee know what wenches: ha?<br/> -But will the dainty Domine, the Schoolemaster,<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN<br> +And Sennois.<br> +And Rycas, and 3. better lads nev’r dancd<br> +Under green Tree. And yee know what wenches: ha?<br> +But will the dainty Domine, the Schoolemaster,<br> Keep touch, doe you thinke? for he do’s all, ye know. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN<br> Hee’l eate a hornebooke ere he faile: goe too, the matter’s too farre driven betweene him and the Tanners daughter, to let slip now, and she must see the Duke, and she must daunce too.</p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN<br> Shall we be lusty?</p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN<br> All the Boyes in Athens blow wind i’th breech on’s, and heere ile be and there ile be, for our Towne, and here againe, and there againe: ha, Boyes, heigh for the weavers.</p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN<br> This must be done i’th woods.</p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN<br> O, pardon me.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -By any meanes, our thing of learning saies so:<br/> -Where he himselfe will edifie the Duke<br/> -Most parlously in our behalfes: hees excellent i’th woods;<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN<br> +By any meanes, our thing of learning saies so:<br> +Where he himselfe will edifie the Duke<br> +Most parlously in our behalfes: hees excellent i’th woods;<br> Bring him to’th plaines, his learning makes no cry. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -Weele see the sports, then; every man to’s Tackle:<br/> -And, Sweete Companions, lets rehearse by any meanes,<br/> -Before the Ladies see us, and doe sweetly,<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN<br> +Weele see the sports, then; every man to’s Tackle:<br> +And, Sweete Companions, lets rehearse by any meanes,<br> +Before the Ladies see us, and doe sweetly,<br> And God knows what May come on’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -Content; the sports once ended, wee’l performe.<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN<br> +Content; the sports once ended, wee’l performe.<br> Away, Boyes and hold. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> By your leaves, honest friends: pray you, whither goe you?</p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN<br> Whither? why, what a question’s that?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Yes, tis a question, to me that know not.</p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN<br> To the Games, my Friend.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN<br> Where were you bred, you know it not?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Not farre, Sir,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Not farre, Sir,<br> Are there such Games to day? </p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -Yes, marry, are there:<br/> -And such as you neuer saw; The Duke himselfe<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN<br> +Yes, marry, are there:<br> +And such as you neuer saw; The Duke himselfe<br> Will be in person there. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> What pastimes are they?</p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN<br> Wrastling, and Running.—Tis a pretty Fellow.</p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN<br> Thou wilt not goe along?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Not yet, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -Well, Sir,<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN<br> +Well, Sir,<br> Take your owne time: come, Boyes. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -My minde misgives me;<br/> -This fellow has a veng’ance tricke o’th hip:<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN<br> +My minde misgives me;<br> +This fellow has a veng’ance tricke o’th hip:<br> Marke how his Bodi’s made for’t </p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN<br/> -Ile be hangd, though,<br/> -If he dare venture; hang him, plumb porredge,<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN<br> +Ile be hangd, though,<br> +If he dare venture; hang him, plumb porredge,<br> He wrastle? he rost eggs! Come, lets be gon, Lads. [Exeunt.] </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -This is an offerd oportunity<br/> -I durst not wish for. Well I could have wrestled,<br/> -The best men calld it excellent, and run—<br/> -Swifter the winde upon a feild of Corne<br/> -(Curling the wealthy eares) never flew: Ile venture,<br/> -And in some poore disguize be there; who knowes<br/> -Whether my browes may not be girt with garlands?<br/> -And happines preferre me to a place,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +This is an offerd oportunity<br> +I durst not wish for. Well I could have wrestled,<br> +The best men calld it excellent, and run—<br> +Swifter the winde upon a feild of Corne<br> +(Curling the wealthy eares) never flew: Ile venture,<br> +And in some poore disguize be there; who knowes<br> +Whether my browes may not be girt with garlands?<br> +And happines preferre me to a place,<br> Where I may ever dwell in sight of her. [Exit Arcite.] </p> @@ -2306,46 +2288,46 @@ Where I may ever dwell in sight of her. [Exit Arcite.] [Enter Iailors Daughter alone.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Why should I love this Gentleman? Tis odds<br/> -He never will affect me; I am base,<br/> -My Father the meane Keeper of his Prison,<br/> -And he a prince: To marry him is hopelesse;<br/> -To be his whore is witles. Out upon’t,<br/> -What pushes are we wenches driven to,<br/> -When fifteene once has found us! First, I saw him;<br/> -I (seeing) thought he was a goodly man;<br/> -He has as much to please a woman in him,<br/> -(If he please to bestow it so) as ever<br/> -These eyes yet lookt on. Next, I pittied him,<br/> -And so would any young wench, o’ my Conscience,<br/> -That ever dream’d, or vow’d her Maydenhead<br/> -To a yong hansom Man; Then I lov’d him,<br/> -Extreamely lov’d him, infinitely lov’d him;<br/> -And yet he had a Cosen, faire as he too.<br/> -But in my heart was Palamon, and there,<br/> -Lord, what a coyle he keepes! To heare him<br/> -Sing in an evening, what a heaven it is!<br/> -And yet his Songs are sad ones. Fairer spoken<br/> -Was never Gentleman. When I come in<br/> -To bring him water in a morning, first<br/> -He bowes his noble body, then salutes me, thus:<br/> -‘Faire, gentle Mayde, good morrow; may thy goodnes<br/> -Get thee a happy husband.’ Once he kist me.<br/> -I lov’d my lips the better ten daies after.<br/> -Would he would doe so ev’ry day! He greives much,<br/> -And me as much to see his misery.<br/> -What should I doe, to make him know I love him?<br/> -For I would faine enjoy him. Say I ventur’d<br/> -To set him free? what saies the law then? Thus much<br/> -For Law, or kindred! I will doe it,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Why should I love this Gentleman? Tis odds<br> +He never will affect me; I am base,<br> +My Father the meane Keeper of his Prison,<br> +And he a prince: To marry him is hopelesse;<br> +To be his whore is witles. Out upon’t,<br> +What pushes are we wenches driven to,<br> +When fifteene once has found us! First, I saw him;<br> +I (seeing) thought he was a goodly man;<br> +He has as much to please a woman in him,<br> +(If he please to bestow it so) as ever<br> +These eyes yet lookt on. Next, I pittied him,<br> +And so would any young wench, o’ my Conscience,<br> +That ever dream’d, or vow’d her Maydenhead<br> +To a yong hansom Man; Then I lov’d him,<br> +Extreamely lov’d him, infinitely lov’d him;<br> +And yet he had a Cosen, faire as he too.<br> +But in my heart was Palamon, and there,<br> +Lord, what a coyle he keepes! To heare him<br> +Sing in an evening, what a heaven it is!<br> +And yet his Songs are sad ones. Fairer spoken<br> +Was never Gentleman. When I come in<br> +To bring him water in a morning, first<br> +He bowes his noble body, then salutes me, thus:<br> +‘Faire, gentle Mayde, good morrow; may thy goodnes<br> +Get thee a happy husband.’ Once he kist me.<br> +I lov’d my lips the better ten daies after.<br> +Would he would doe so ev’ry day! He greives much,<br> +And me as much to see his misery.<br> +What should I doe, to make him know I love him?<br> +For I would faine enjoy him. Say I ventur’d<br> +To set him free? what saies the law then? Thus much<br> +For Law, or kindred! I will doe it,<br> And this night, or to morrow, he shall love me. [Exit.] </p> <h3>Scaena 5. (An open place in Athens.)</h3> <p class="drama"> -[Enter Theseus, Hipolita, Pirithous, Emilia: Arcite with a<br/> +[Enter Theseus, Hipolita, Pirithous, Emilia: Arcite with a<br> Garland, &c.] </p> @@ -2353,206 +2335,206 @@ Garland, &c.] [This short florish of Cornets and Showtes within.]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You have done worthily; I have not seene,<br/> -Since Hercules, a man of tougher synewes;<br/> -What ere you are, you run the best, and wrastle,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You have done worthily; I have not seene,<br> +Since Hercules, a man of tougher synewes;<br> +What ere you are, you run the best, and wrastle,<br> That these times can allow. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I am proud to please you.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What Countrie bred you?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> This; but far off, Prince.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Are you a Gentleman?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -My father said so;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +My father said so;<br> And to those gentle uses gave me life. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Are you his heire?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> His yongest, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Your Father<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Your Father<br> Sure is a happy Sire then: what prooves you? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -A little of all noble Quallities:<br/> -I could have kept a Hawke, and well have holloa’d<br/> -To a deepe crie of Dogges; I dare not praise<br/> -My feat in horsemanship, yet they that knew me<br/> -Would say it was my best peece: last, and greatest,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +A little of all noble Quallities:<br> +I could have kept a Hawke, and well have holloa’d<br> +To a deepe crie of Dogges; I dare not praise<br> +My feat in horsemanship, yet they that knew me<br> +Would say it was my best peece: last, and greatest,<br> I would be thought a Souldier. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> You are perfect.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Vpon my soule, a proper man.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> He is so.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> How doe you like him, Ladie?</p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -I admire him;<br/> -I have not seene so yong a man so noble<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +I admire him;<br> +I have not seene so yong a man so noble<br> (If he say true,) of his sort. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Beleeve,<br/> -His mother was a wondrous handsome woman;<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Beleeve,<br> +His mother was a wondrous handsome woman;<br> His face, me thinkes, goes that way. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -But his Body<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +But his Body<br> And firie minde illustrate a brave Father. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Marke how his vertue, like a hidden Sun,<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Marke how his vertue, like a hidden Sun,<br> Breakes through his baser garments. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> Hee’s well got, sure.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What made you seeke this place, Sir?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Noble Theseus,<br/> -To purchase name, and doe my ablest service<br/> -To such a well-found wonder as thy worth,<br/> -For onely in thy Court, of all the world,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Noble Theseus,<br> +To purchase name, and doe my ablest service<br> +To such a well-found wonder as thy worth,<br> +For onely in thy Court, of all the world,<br> Dwells faire-eyd honor. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> All his words are worthy.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Sir, we are much endebted to your travell,<br/> -Nor shall you loose your wish: Perithous,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Sir, we are much endebted to your travell,<br> +Nor shall you loose your wish: Perithous,<br> Dispose of this faire Gentleman. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Thankes, Theseus.<br/> -What ere you are y’ar mine, and I shall give you<br/> -To a most noble service, to this Lady,<br/> -This bright yong Virgin; pray, observe her goodnesse;<br/> -You have honourd hir faire birth-day with your vertues,<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Thankes, Theseus.<br> +What ere you are y’ar mine, and I shall give you<br> +To a most noble service, to this Lady,<br> +This bright yong Virgin; pray, observe her goodnesse;<br> +You have honourd hir faire birth-day with your vertues,<br> And as your due y’ar hirs: kisse her faire hand, Sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Sir, y’ar a noble Giver: dearest Bewtie,<br/> -Thus let me seale my vowd faith: when your Servant<br/> -(Your most unworthie Creature) but offends you,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Sir, y’ar a noble Giver: dearest Bewtie,<br> +Thus let me seale my vowd faith: when your Servant<br> +(Your most unworthie Creature) but offends you,<br> Command him die, he shall. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That were too cruell.<br/> -If you deserve well, Sir, I shall soone see’t:<br/> -Y’ar mine, and somewhat better than your rancke<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That were too cruell.<br> +If you deserve well, Sir, I shall soone see’t:<br> +Y’ar mine, and somewhat better than your rancke<br> Ile use you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Ile see you furnish’d, and because you say<br/> -You are a horseman, I must needs intreat you<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Ile see you furnish’d, and because you say<br> +You are a horseman, I must needs intreat you<br> This after noone to ride, but tis a rough one. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I like him better, Prince, I shall not then<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I like him better, Prince, I shall not then<br> Freeze in my Saddle. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Sweet, you must be readie,<br/> -And you, Emilia, and you, Friend, and all,<br/> -To morrow by the Sun, to doe observance<br/> -To flowry May, in Dians wood: waite well, Sir,<br/> -Vpon your Mistris. Emely, I hope<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Sweet, you must be readie,<br> +And you, Emilia, and you, Friend, and all,<br> +To morrow by the Sun, to doe observance<br> +To flowry May, in Dians wood: waite well, Sir,<br> +Vpon your Mistris. Emely, I hope<br> He shall not goe a foote. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That were a shame, Sir,<br/> -While I have horses: take your choice, and what<br/> -You want at any time, let me but know it;<br/> -If you serve faithfully, I dare assure you<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That were a shame, Sir,<br> +While I have horses: take your choice, and what<br> +You want at any time, let me but know it;<br> +If you serve faithfully, I dare assure you<br> You’l finde a loving Mistris. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If I doe not,<br/> -Let me finde that my Father ever hated,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If I doe not,<br> +Let me finde that my Father ever hated,<br> Disgrace and blowes. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Go, leade the way; you have won it:<br/> -It shall be so; you shall receave all dues<br/> -Fit for the honour you have won; Twer wrong else.<br/> -Sister, beshrew my heart, you have a Servant,<br/> -That, if I were a woman, would be Master,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Go, leade the way; you have won it:<br> +It shall be so; you shall receave all dues<br> +Fit for the honour you have won; Twer wrong else.<br> +Sister, beshrew my heart, you have a Servant,<br> +That, if I were a woman, would be Master,<br> But you are wise. [Florish.] </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> I hope too wise for that, Sir. [Exeunt omnes.]</p> <h3>Scaena 6. (Before the prison.)</h3> @@ -2561,45 +2543,45 @@ I hope too wise for that, Sir. [Exeunt omnes.]</p> [Enter Iaylors Daughter alone.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Let all the Dukes, and all the divells rore,<br/> -He is at liberty: I have venturd for him,<br/> -And out I have brought him to a little wood<br/> -A mile hence. I have sent him, where a Cedar,<br/> -Higher than all the rest, spreads like a plane<br/> -Fast by a Brooke, and there he shall keepe close,<br/> -Till I provide him Fyles and foode, for yet<br/> -His yron bracelets are not off. O Love,<br/> -What a stout hearted child thou art! My Father<br/> -Durst better have indur’d cold yron, than done it:<br/> -I love him beyond love and beyond reason,<br/> -Or wit, or safetie: I have made him know it.<br/> -I care not, I am desperate; If the law<br/> -Finde me, and then condemne me for’t, some wenches,<br/> -Some honest harted Maides, will sing my Dirge,<br/> -And tell to memory my death was noble,<br/> -Dying almost a Martyr: That way he takes,<br/> -I purpose is my way too: Sure he cannot<br/> -Be so unmanly, as to leave me here;<br/> -If he doe, Maides will not so easily<br/> -Trust men againe: And yet he has not thank’d me<br/> -For what I have done: no not so much as kist me,<br/> -And that (me thinkes) is not so well; nor scarcely<br/> -Could I perswade him to become a Freeman,<br/> -He made such scruples of the wrong he did<br/> -To me, and to my Father. Yet I hope,<br/> -When he considers more, this love of mine<br/> -Will take more root within him: Let him doe<br/> -What he will with me, so he use me kindly;<br/> -For use me so he shall, or ile proclaime him,<br/> -And to his face, no man. Ile presently<br/> -Provide him necessaries, and packe my cloathes up,<br/> -And where there is a patch of ground Ile venture,<br/> -So hee be with me; By him, like a shadow,<br/> -Ile ever dwell; within this houre the whoobub<br/> -Will be all ore the prison: I am then<br/> -Kissing the man they looke for: farewell, Father;<br/> -Get many more such prisoners and such daughters,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Let all the Dukes, and all the divells rore,<br> +He is at liberty: I have venturd for him,<br> +And out I have brought him to a little wood<br> +A mile hence. I have sent him, where a Cedar,<br> +Higher than all the rest, spreads like a plane<br> +Fast by a Brooke, and there he shall keepe close,<br> +Till I provide him Fyles and foode, for yet<br> +His yron bracelets are not off. O Love,<br> +What a stout hearted child thou art! My Father<br> +Durst better have indur’d cold yron, than done it:<br> +I love him beyond love and beyond reason,<br> +Or wit, or safetie: I have made him know it.<br> +I care not, I am desperate; If the law<br> +Finde me, and then condemne me for’t, some wenches,<br> +Some honest harted Maides, will sing my Dirge,<br> +And tell to memory my death was noble,<br> +Dying almost a Martyr: That way he takes,<br> +I purpose is my way too: Sure he cannot<br> +Be so unmanly, as to leave me here;<br> +If he doe, Maides will not so easily<br> +Trust men againe: And yet he has not thank’d me<br> +For what I have done: no not so much as kist me,<br> +And that (me thinkes) is not so well; nor scarcely<br> +Could I perswade him to become a Freeman,<br> +He made such scruples of the wrong he did<br> +To me, and to my Father. Yet I hope,<br> +When he considers more, this love of mine<br> +Will take more root within him: Let him doe<br> +What he will with me, so he use me kindly;<br> +For use me so he shall, or ile proclaime him,<br> +And to his face, no man. Ile presently<br> +Provide him necessaries, and packe my cloathes up,<br> +And where there is a patch of ground Ile venture,<br> +So hee be with me; By him, like a shadow,<br> +Ile ever dwell; within this houre the whoobub<br> +Will be all ore the prison: I am then<br> +Kissing the man they looke for: farewell, Father;<br> +Get many more such prisoners and such daughters,<br> And shortly you may keepe your selfe. Now to him! </p> @@ -2612,7 +2594,7 @@ And shortly you may keepe your selfe. Now to him! <h3>Scaena 1. (A forest near Athens.)</h3> <p class="drama"> -[Cornets in sundry places. Noise and hallowing as people a<br/> +[Cornets in sundry places. Noise and hallowing as people a<br> Maying.] </p> @@ -2620,36 +2602,36 @@ Maying.] [Enter Arcite alone.]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -The Duke has lost Hypolita; each tooke<br/> -A severall land. This is a solemne Right<br/> -They owe bloomd May, and the Athenians pay it<br/> -To’th heart of Ceremony. O Queene Emilia,<br/> -Fresher then May, sweeter<br/> -Then hir gold Buttons on the bowes, or all<br/> -Th’enamelld knackes o’th Meade or garden: yea,<br/> -We challenge too the bancke of any Nymph<br/> -That makes the streame seeme flowers; thou, o Iewell<br/> -O’th wood, o’th world, hast likewise blest a place<br/> -With thy sole presence: in thy rumination<br/> -That I, poore man, might eftsoones come betweene<br/> -And chop on some cold thought! thrice blessed chance,<br/> -To drop on such a Mistris, expectation<br/> -Most giltlesse on’t! tell me, O Lady Fortune,<br/> -(Next after Emely my Soveraigne) how far<br/> -I may be prowd. She takes strong note of me,<br/> -Hath made me neere her; and this beuteous Morne<br/> -(The prim’st of all the yeare) presents me with<br/> -A brace of horses: two such Steeds might well<br/> -Be by a paire of Kings backt, in a Field<br/> -That their crownes titles tride. Alas, alas,<br/> -Poore Cosen Palamon, poore prisoner, thou<br/> -So little dream’st upon my fortune, that<br/> -Thou thinkst thy selfe the happier thing, to be<br/> -So neare Emilia; me thou deem’st at Thebs,<br/> -And therein wretched, although free. But if<br/> -Thou knew’st my Mistris breathd on me, and that<br/> -I ear’d her language, livde in her eye, O Coz,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +The Duke has lost Hypolita; each tooke<br> +A severall land. This is a solemne Right<br> +They owe bloomd May, and the Athenians pay it<br> +To’th heart of Ceremony. O Queene Emilia,<br> +Fresher then May, sweeter<br> +Then hir gold Buttons on the bowes, or all<br> +Th’enamelld knackes o’th Meade or garden: yea,<br> +We challenge too the bancke of any Nymph<br> +That makes the streame seeme flowers; thou, o Iewell<br> +O’th wood, o’th world, hast likewise blest a place<br> +With thy sole presence: in thy rumination<br> +That I, poore man, might eftsoones come betweene<br> +And chop on some cold thought! thrice blessed chance,<br> +To drop on such a Mistris, expectation<br> +Most giltlesse on’t! tell me, O Lady Fortune,<br> +(Next after Emely my Soveraigne) how far<br> +I may be prowd. She takes strong note of me,<br> +Hath made me neere her; and this beuteous Morne<br> +(The prim’st of all the yeare) presents me with<br> +A brace of horses: two such Steeds might well<br> +Be by a paire of Kings backt, in a Field<br> +That their crownes titles tride. Alas, alas,<br> +Poore Cosen Palamon, poore prisoner, thou<br> +So little dream’st upon my fortune, that<br> +Thou thinkst thy selfe the happier thing, to be<br> +So neare Emilia; me thou deem’st at Thebs,<br> +And therein wretched, although free. But if<br> +Thou knew’st my Mistris breathd on me, and that<br> +I ear’d her language, livde in her eye, O Coz,<br> What passion would enclose thee! </p> @@ -2659,193 +2641,193 @@ fist at Arcite.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Traytor kinesman,<br/> -Thou shouldst perceive my passion, if these signes<br/> -Of prisonment were off me, and this hand<br/> -But owner of a Sword: By all othes in one,<br/> -I and the iustice of my love would make thee<br/> -A confest Traytor. O thou most perfidious<br/> -That ever gently lookd; the voydest of honour,<br/> -That eu’r bore gentle Token; falsest Cosen<br/> -That ever blood made kin, call’st thou hir thine?<br/> -Ile prove it in my Shackles, with these hands,<br/> -Void of appointment, that thou ly’st, and art<br/> -A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord,<br/> -Nor worth the name of villaine: had I a Sword<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Traytor kinesman,<br> +Thou shouldst perceive my passion, if these signes<br> +Of prisonment were off me, and this hand<br> +But owner of a Sword: By all othes in one,<br> +I and the iustice of my love would make thee<br> +A confest Traytor. O thou most perfidious<br> +That ever gently lookd; the voydest of honour,<br> +That eu’r bore gentle Token; falsest Cosen<br> +That ever blood made kin, call’st thou hir thine?<br> +Ile prove it in my Shackles, with these hands,<br> +Void of appointment, that thou ly’st, and art<br> +A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord,<br> +Nor worth the name of villaine: had I a Sword<br> And these house clogges away— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Deere Cosin Palamon—</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Cosoner Arcite, give me language such<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Cosoner Arcite, give me language such<br> As thou hast shewd me feate. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Not finding in<br/> -The circuit of my breast any grosse stuffe<br/> -To forme me like your blazon, holds me to<br/> -This gentlenesse of answer; tis your passion<br/> -That thus mistakes, the which to you being enemy,<br/> -Cannot to me be kind: honor, and honestie<br/> -I cherish, and depend on, how so ev’r<br/> -You skip them in me, and with them, faire Coz,<br/> -Ile maintaine my proceedings; pray, be pleas’d<br/> -To shew in generous termes your griefes, since that<br/> -Your question’s with your equall, who professes<br/> -To cleare his owne way with the minde and Sword<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Not finding in<br> +The circuit of my breast any grosse stuffe<br> +To forme me like your blazon, holds me to<br> +This gentlenesse of answer; tis your passion<br> +That thus mistakes, the which to you being enemy,<br> +Cannot to me be kind: honor, and honestie<br> +I cherish, and depend on, how so ev’r<br> +You skip them in me, and with them, faire Coz,<br> +Ile maintaine my proceedings; pray, be pleas’d<br> +To shew in generous termes your griefes, since that<br> +Your question’s with your equall, who professes<br> +To cleare his owne way with the minde and Sword<br> Of a true Gentleman. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> That thou durst, Arcite!</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -My Coz, my Coz, you have beene well advertis’d<br/> -How much I dare, y’ave seene me use my Sword<br/> -Against th’advice of feare: sure, of another<br/> -You would not heare me doubted, but your silence<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +My Coz, my Coz, you have beene well advertis’d<br> +How much I dare, y’ave seene me use my Sword<br> +Against th’advice of feare: sure, of another<br> +You would not heare me doubted, but your silence<br> Should breake out, though i’th Sanctuary. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Sir,<br/> -I have seene you move in such a place, which well<br/> -Might justifie your manhood; you were calld<br/> -A good knight and a bold; But the whole weeke’s not faire,<br/> -If any day it rayne: Their valiant temper<br/> -Men loose when they encline to trecherie,<br/> -And then they fight like coupelld Beares, would fly<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Sir,<br> +I have seene you move in such a place, which well<br> +Might justifie your manhood; you were calld<br> +A good knight and a bold; But the whole weeke’s not faire,<br> +If any day it rayne: Their valiant temper<br> +Men loose when they encline to trecherie,<br> +And then they fight like coupelld Beares, would fly<br> Were they not tyde. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Kinsman, you might as well<br/> -Speake this and act it in your Glasse, as to<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Kinsman, you might as well<br> +Speake this and act it in your Glasse, as to<br> His eare which now disdaines you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Come up to me,<br/> -Quit me of these cold Gyves, give me a Sword,<br/> -Though it be rustie, and the charity<br/> -Of one meale lend me; Come before me then,<br/> -A good Sword in thy hand, and doe but say<br/> -That Emily is thine: I will forgive<br/> -The trespasse thou hast done me, yea, my life,<br/> -If then thou carry’t, and brave soules in shades<br/> -That have dyde manly, which will seeke of me<br/> -Some newes from earth, they shall get none but this,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Come up to me,<br> +Quit me of these cold Gyves, give me a Sword,<br> +Though it be rustie, and the charity<br> +Of one meale lend me; Come before me then,<br> +A good Sword in thy hand, and doe but say<br> +That Emily is thine: I will forgive<br> +The trespasse thou hast done me, yea, my life,<br> +If then thou carry’t, and brave soules in shades<br> +That have dyde manly, which will seeke of me<br> +Some newes from earth, they shall get none but this,<br> That thou art brave and noble. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Be content:<br/> -Againe betake you to your hawthorne house;<br/> -With counsaile of the night, I will be here<br/> -With wholesome viands; these impediments<br/> -Will I file off; you shall have garments and<br/> -Perfumes to kill the smell o’th prison; after,<br/> -When you shall stretch your selfe and say but, ‘Arcite,<br/> -I am in plight,’ there shall be at your choyce<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Be content:<br> +Againe betake you to your hawthorne house;<br> +With counsaile of the night, I will be here<br> +With wholesome viands; these impediments<br> +Will I file off; you shall have garments and<br> +Perfumes to kill the smell o’th prison; after,<br> +When you shall stretch your selfe and say but, ‘Arcite,<br> +I am in plight,’ there shall be at your choyce<br> Both Sword and Armour. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Oh you heavens, dares any<br/> -So noble beare a guilty busines! none<br/> -But onely Arcite, therefore none but Arcite<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Oh you heavens, dares any<br> +So noble beare a guilty busines! none<br> +But onely Arcite, therefore none but Arcite<br> In this kinde is so bold. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Sweete Palamon.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I doe embrace you and your offer,—for<br/> -Your offer doo’t I onely, Sir; your person,<br/> -Without hipocrisy I may not wish [Winde hornes of Cornets.]<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I doe embrace you and your offer,—for<br> +Your offer doo’t I onely, Sir; your person,<br> +Without hipocrisy I may not wish [Winde hornes of Cornets.]<br> More then my Swords edge ont. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -You heare the Hornes;<br/> -Enter your Musite least this match between’s<br/> -Be crost, er met: give me your hand; farewell.<br/> -Ile bring you every needfull thing: I pray you,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +You heare the Hornes;<br> +Enter your Musite least this match between’s<br> +Be crost, er met: give me your hand; farewell.<br> +Ile bring you every needfull thing: I pray you,<br> Take comfort and be strong. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Pray hold your promise;<br/> -And doe the deede with a bent brow: most certaine<br/> -You love me not, be rough with me, and powre<br/> -This oile out of your language; by this ayre,<br/> -I could for each word give a Cuffe, my stomach<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Pray hold your promise;<br> +And doe the deede with a bent brow: most certaine<br> +You love me not, be rough with me, and powre<br> +This oile out of your language; by this ayre,<br> +I could for each word give a Cuffe, my stomach<br> Not reconcild by reason. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Plainely spoken,<br/> -Yet pardon me hard language: when I spur [Winde hornes.]<br/> -My horse, I chide him not; content and anger<br/> -In me have but one face. Harke, Sir, they call<br/> -The scatterd to the Banket; you must guesse<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Plainely spoken,<br> +Yet pardon me hard language: when I spur [Winde hornes.]<br> +My horse, I chide him not; content and anger<br> +In me have but one face. Harke, Sir, they call<br> +The scatterd to the Banket; you must guesse<br> I have an office there. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Sir, your attendance<br/> -Cannot please heaven, and I know your office<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Sir, your attendance<br> +Cannot please heaven, and I know your office<br> Vnjustly is atcheev’d. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If a good title,<br/> -I am perswaded this question sicke between’s<br/> -By bleeding must be cur’d. I am a Suitour,<br/> -That to your Sword you will bequeath this plea<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If a good title,<br> +I am perswaded this question sicke between’s<br> +By bleeding must be cur’d. I am a Suitour,<br> +That to your Sword you will bequeath this plea<br> And talke of it no more. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -But this one word:<br/> -You are going now to gaze upon my Mistris,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +But this one word:<br> +You are going now to gaze upon my Mistris,<br> For note you, mine she is— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Nay, then.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Nay, pray you,<br/> -You talke of feeding me to breed me strength:<br/> -You are going now to looke upon a Sun<br/> -That strengthens what it lookes on; there<br/> -You have a vantage ore me, but enjoy’t till<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Nay, pray you,<br> +You talke of feeding me to breed me strength:<br> +You are going now to looke upon a Sun<br> +That strengthens what it lookes on; there<br> +You have a vantage ore me, but enjoy’t till<br> I may enforce my remedy. Farewell. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -2855,44 +2837,44 @@ I may enforce my remedy. Farewell. [Exeunt.] [Enter Iaylors daughter alone.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -He has mistooke the Brake I meant, is gone<br/> -After his fancy. Tis now welnigh morning;<br/> -No matter, would it were perpetuall night,<br/> -And darkenes Lord o’th world. Harke, tis a woolfe:<br/> -In me hath greife slaine feare, and but for one thing<br/> -I care for nothing, and that’s Palamon.<br/> -I wreake not if the wolves would jaw me, so<br/> -He had this File: what if I hallowd for him?<br/> -I cannot hallow: if I whoop’d, what then?<br/> -If he not answeard, I should call a wolfe,<br/> -And doe him but that service. I have heard<br/> -Strange howles this live-long night, why may’t not be<br/> -They have made prey of him? he has no weapons,<br/> -He cannot run, the Iengling of his Gives<br/> -Might call fell things to listen, who have in them<br/> -A sence to know a man unarmd, and can<br/> -Smell where resistance is. Ile set it downe<br/> -He’s torne to peeces; they howld many together<br/> -And then they fed on him: So much for that,<br/> -Be bold to ring the Bell; how stand I then?<br/> -All’s char’d when he is gone. No, no, I lye,<br/> -My Father’s to be hang’d for his escape;<br/> -My selfe to beg, if I prizd life so much<br/> -As to deny my act, but that I would not,<br/> -Should I try death by dussons.—I am mop’t,<br/> -Food tooke I none these two daies,<br/> -Sipt some water. I have not closd mine eyes<br/> -Save when my lids scowrd off their brine; alas,<br/> -Dissolue my life, Let not my sence unsettle,<br/> -Least I should drowne, or stab or hang my selfe.<br/> -O state of Nature, faile together in me,<br/> -Since thy best props are warpt! So, which way now?<br/> -The best way is the next way to a grave:<br/> -Each errant step beside is torment. Loe,<br/> -The Moone is down, the Cryckets chirpe, the Schreichowle<br/> -Calls in the dawne; all offices are done<br/> -Save what I faile in: But the point is this,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +He has mistooke the Brake I meant, is gone<br> +After his fancy. Tis now welnigh morning;<br> +No matter, would it were perpetuall night,<br> +And darkenes Lord o’th world. Harke, tis a woolfe:<br> +In me hath greife slaine feare, and but for one thing<br> +I care for nothing, and that’s Palamon.<br> +I wreake not if the wolves would jaw me, so<br> +He had this File: what if I hallowd for him?<br> +I cannot hallow: if I whoop’d, what then?<br> +If he not answeard, I should call a wolfe,<br> +And doe him but that service. I have heard<br> +Strange howles this live-long night, why may’t not be<br> +They have made prey of him? he has no weapons,<br> +He cannot run, the Iengling of his Gives<br> +Might call fell things to listen, who have in them<br> +A sence to know a man unarmd, and can<br> +Smell where resistance is. Ile set it downe<br> +He’s torne to peeces; they howld many together<br> +And then they fed on him: So much for that,<br> +Be bold to ring the Bell; how stand I then?<br> +All’s char’d when he is gone. No, no, I lye,<br> +My Father’s to be hang’d for his escape;<br> +My selfe to beg, if I prizd life so much<br> +As to deny my act, but that I would not,<br> +Should I try death by dussons.—I am mop’t,<br> +Food tooke I none these two daies,<br> +Sipt some water. I have not closd mine eyes<br> +Save when my lids scowrd off their brine; alas,<br> +Dissolue my life, Let not my sence unsettle,<br> +Least I should drowne, or stab or hang my selfe.<br> +O state of Nature, faile together in me,<br> +Since thy best props are warpt! So, which way now?<br> +The best way is the next way to a grave:<br> +Each errant step beside is torment. Loe,<br> +The Moone is down, the Cryckets chirpe, the Schreichowle<br> +Calls in the dawne; all offices are done<br> +Save what I faile in: But the point is this,<br> An end, and that is all. [Exit.] </p> @@ -2902,221 +2884,221 @@ An end, and that is all. [Exit.] [Enter Arcite, with Meate, Wine, and Files.]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I should be neere the place: hoa, Cosen Palamon. [Enter<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I should be neere the place: hoa, Cosen Palamon. [Enter<br> Palamon.] </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Arcite?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -The same: I have brought you foode and files.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +The same: I have brought you foode and files.<br> Come forth and feare not, here’s no Theseus. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Nor none so honest, Arcite.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -That’s no matter,<br/> -Wee’l argue that hereafter: Come, take courage;<br/> -You shall not dye thus beastly: here, Sir, drinke;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +That’s no matter,<br> +Wee’l argue that hereafter: Come, take courage;<br> +You shall not dye thus beastly: here, Sir, drinke;<br> I know you are faint: then ile talke further with you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Arcite, thou mightst now poyson me.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I might,<br/> -But I must feare you first: Sit downe, and, good, now<br/> -No more of these vaine parlies; let us not,<br/> -Having our ancient reputation with us,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I might,<br> +But I must feare you first: Sit downe, and, good, now<br> +No more of these vaine parlies; let us not,<br> +Having our ancient reputation with us,<br> Make talke for Fooles and Cowards. To your health, &c. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Doe.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Pray, sit downe then; and let me entreate you,<br/> -By all the honesty and honour in you,<br/> -No mention of this woman: t’will disturbe us;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Pray, sit downe then; and let me entreate you,<br> +By all the honesty and honour in you,<br> +No mention of this woman: t’will disturbe us;<br> We shall have time enough. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Well, Sir, Ile pledge you.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Drinke a good hearty draught; it breeds good blood, man.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Drinke a good hearty draught; it breeds good blood, man.<br> Doe not you feele it thaw you? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Stay, Ile tell you after a draught or two more.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Spare it not, the Duke has more, Cuz: Eate now.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I am glad you have so good a stomach.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> I am gladder I have so good meate too’t.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Is’t not mad lodging here in the wild woods, Cosen?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes, for them that have wilde Consciences.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> How tasts your vittails? your hunger needs no sawce, I see.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Not much;<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Not much;<br> But if it did, yours is too tart, sweete Cosen: what is this? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Venison.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Tis a lusty meate:<br/> -Giue me more wine; here, Arcite, to the wenches<br/> -We have known in our daies. The Lord Stewards daughter,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Tis a lusty meate:<br> +Giue me more wine; here, Arcite, to the wenches<br> +We have known in our daies. The Lord Stewards daughter,<br> Doe you remember her? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> After you, Cuz.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> She lov’d a black-haird man.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> She did so; well, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> And I have heard some call him Arcite, and—</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Out with’t, faith.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -She met him in an Arbour:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +She met him in an Arbour:<br> What did she there, Cuz? play o’th virginals? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Something she did, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Made her groane a moneth for’t, or 2. or 3. or 10.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -The Marshals Sister<br/> -Had her share too, as I remember, Cosen,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +The Marshals Sister<br> +Had her share too, as I remember, Cosen,<br> Else there be tales abroade; you’l pledge her? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -A pretty broune wench t’is. There was a time<br/> -When yong men went a hunting, and a wood,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +A pretty broune wench t’is. There was a time<br> +When yong men went a hunting, and a wood,<br> And a broade Beech: and thereby hangs a tale:—heigh ho! </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -For Emily, upon my life! Foole,<br/> -Away with this straind mirth; I say againe,<br/> -That sigh was breathd for Emily; base Cosen,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +For Emily, upon my life! Foole,<br> +Away with this straind mirth; I say againe,<br> +That sigh was breathd for Emily; base Cosen,<br> Dar’st thou breake first? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You are wide.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> By heaven and earth, ther’s nothing in thee honest.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Then Ile leave you: you are a Beast now.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> As thou makst me, Traytour.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Ther’s all things needfull, files and shirts, and perfumes:<br/> -Ile come againe some two howres hence, and bring<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Ther’s all things needfull, files and shirts, and perfumes:<br> +Ile come againe some two howres hence, and bring<br> That that shall quiet all, </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> A Sword and Armour?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Feare me not; you are now too fowle; farewell.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Feare me not; you are now too fowle; farewell.<br> Get off your Trinkets; you shall want nought. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Sir, ha—</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Ile heare no more. [Exit.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> If he keepe touch, he dies for’t. [Exit.]</p> <h3>Scaena 4. (Another part of the forest.)</h3> @@ -3125,24 +3107,24 @@ If he keepe touch, he dies for’t. [Exit.]</p> [Enter Iaylors daughter.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I am very cold, and all the Stars are out too,<br/> -The little Stars, and all, that looke like aglets:<br/> -The Sun has seene my Folly. Palamon!<br/> -Alas no; hees in heaven. Where am I now?<br/> -Yonder’s the sea, and ther’s a Ship; how’t tumbles!<br/> -And ther’s a Rocke lies watching under water;<br/> -Now, now, it beates upon it; now, now, now,<br/> -Ther’s a leak sprung, a sound one, how they cry!<br/> -Spoon her before the winde, you’l loose all els:<br/> -Vp with a course or two, and take about, Boyes.<br/> -Good night, good night, y’ar gone.—I am very hungry.<br/> -Would I could finde a fine Frog; he would tell me<br/> -Newes from all parts o’th world, then would I make<br/> -A Carecke of a Cockle shell, and sayle<br/> -By east and North East to the King of Pigmes,<br/> -For he tels fortunes rarely. Now my Father,<br/> -Twenty to one, is trust up in a trice<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I am very cold, and all the Stars are out too,<br> +The little Stars, and all, that looke like aglets:<br> +The Sun has seene my Folly. Palamon!<br> +Alas no; hees in heaven. Where am I now?<br> +Yonder’s the sea, and ther’s a Ship; how’t tumbles!<br> +And ther’s a Rocke lies watching under water;<br> +Now, now, it beates upon it; now, now, now,<br> +Ther’s a leak sprung, a sound one, how they cry!<br> +Spoon her before the winde, you’l loose all els:<br> +Vp with a course or two, and take about, Boyes.<br> +Good night, good night, y’ar gone.—I am very hungry.<br> +Would I could finde a fine Frog; he would tell me<br> +Newes from all parts o’th world, then would I make<br> +A Carecke of a Cockle shell, and sayle<br> +By east and North East to the King of Pigmes,<br> +For he tels fortunes rarely. Now my Father,<br> +Twenty to one, is trust up in a trice<br> To morrow morning; Ile say never a word. </p> @@ -3158,8 +3140,8 @@ And ile goe seeke him, throw the world that is so wide hey nonny, nonny, nonny.</p> <p class="drama"> -O for a pricke now like a Nightingale,<br/> -To put my breast against. I shall sleepe like a Top else.<br/> +O for a pricke now like a Nightingale,<br> +To put my breast against. I shall sleepe like a Top else.<br> [Exit.] </p> @@ -3171,7 +3153,7 @@ wenches, with a Taborer.]</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Fy, fy, what tediosity, & disensanity is here among ye? have my Rudiments bin labourd so long with ye? milkd unto ye, and by a figure even the very plumbroth & marrow of my understanding @@ -3193,124 +3175,124 @@ decently, and sweetly, by a figure trace and turne, Boyes.</p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN.<br> And sweetly we will doe it Master Gerrold.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN.<br> Draw up the Company. Where’s the Taborour?</p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN.<br> Why, Timothy!</p> <p class="drama"> -TABORER.<br/> +TABORER.<br> Here, my mad boyes, have at ye.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> But I say, where’s their women?</p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN.<br> Here’s Friz and Maudline.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN.<br> And little Luce with the white legs, and bouncing Barbery.</p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN.<br> And freckeled Nel, that never faild her Master.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Wher be your Ribands, maids? swym with your Bodies<br/> -And carry it sweetly, and deliverly<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Wher be your Ribands, maids? swym with your Bodies<br> +And carry it sweetly, and deliverly<br> And now and then a fauour, and a friske. </p> <p class="drama"> -NEL.<br/> +NEL.<br> Let us alone, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Wher’s the rest o’th Musicke?</p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN.<br> Dispersd as you commanded.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Couple, then,<br/> -And see what’s wanting; wher’s the Bavian?<br/> -My friend, carry your taile without offence<br/> -Or scandall to the Ladies; and be sure<br/> -You tumble with audacity and manhood;<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Couple, then,<br> +And see what’s wanting; wher’s the Bavian?<br> +My friend, carry your taile without offence<br> +Or scandall to the Ladies; and be sure<br> +You tumble with audacity and manhood;<br> And when you barke, doe it with judgement. </p> <p class="drama"> -BAVIAN.<br/> +BAVIAN.<br> Yes, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Quo usque tandem? Here is a woman wanting.</p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN.<br> We may goe whistle: all the fat’s i’th fire.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -We have,<br/> -As learned Authours utter, washd a Tile,<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +We have,<br> +As learned Authours utter, washd a Tile,<br> We have beene FATUUS, and laboured vainely. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> -This is that scornefull peece, that scurvy hilding,<br/> -That gave her promise faithfully, she would be here,<br/> -Cicely the Sempsters daughter:<br/> -The next gloves that I give her shall be dog skin;<br/> -Nay and she faile me once—you can tell, Arcas,<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN.<br> +This is that scornefull peece, that scurvy hilding,<br> +That gave her promise faithfully, she would be here,<br> +Cicely the Sempsters daughter:<br> +The next gloves that I give her shall be dog skin;<br> +Nay and she faile me once—you can tell, Arcas,<br> She swore by wine and bread, she would not breake. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -An Eele and woman,<br/> -A learned Poet sayes, unles by’th taile<br/> -And with thy teeth thou hold, will either faile.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +An Eele and woman,<br> +A learned Poet sayes, unles by’th taile<br> +And with thy teeth thou hold, will either faile.<br> In manners this was false position </p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN.<br> A fire ill take her; do’s she flinch now?</p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> -What<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN.<br> +What<br> Shall we determine, Sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Nothing.<br/> -Our busines is become a nullity;<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Nothing.<br> +Our busines is become a nullity;<br> Yea, and a woefull, and a pittious nullity. </p> <p class="drama"> -4. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> -Now when the credite of our Towne lay on it,<br/> -Now to be frampall, now to pisse o’th nettle!<br/> +4. COUNTREYMAN.<br> +Now when the credite of our Towne lay on it,<br> +Now to be frampall, now to pisse o’th nettle!<br> Goe thy waies; ile remember thee, ile fit thee. </p> @@ -3318,103 +3300,103 @@ Goe thy waies; ile remember thee, ile fit thee. [Enter Iaylors daughter.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> [Sings.]</p> <p class="drama"> -The George alow came from the South,<br/> -From the coast of Barbary a.<br/> -And there he met with brave gallants of war<br/> +The George alow came from the South,<br> +From the coast of Barbary a.<br> +And there he met with brave gallants of war<br> By one, by two, by three, a. </p> <p class="drama"> -Well haild, well haild, you jolly gallants,<br/> -And whither now are you bound a?<br/> -O let me have your company [Chaire and stooles out.]<br/> +Well haild, well haild, you jolly gallants,<br> +And whither now are you bound a?<br> +O let me have your company [Chaire and stooles out.]<br> Till (I) come to the sound a. </p> <p class="drama"> -There was three fooles, fell out about an howlet:<br/> -The one sed it was an owle,<br/> -The other he sed nay,<br/> -The third he sed it was a hawke,<br/> +There was three fooles, fell out about an howlet:<br> +The one sed it was an owle,<br> +The other he sed nay,<br> +The third he sed it was a hawke,<br> And her bels wer cut away. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> -Ther’s a dainty mad woman M(aiste)r<br/> -Comes i’th Nick, as mad as a march hare:<br/> -If wee can get her daunce, wee are made againe:<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN.<br> +Ther’s a dainty mad woman M(aiste)r<br> +Comes i’th Nick, as mad as a march hare:<br> +If wee can get her daunce, wee are made againe:<br> I warrant her, shee’l doe the rarest gambols. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +1. COUNTREYMAN.<br> A mad woman? we are made, Boyes.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> And are you mad, good woman?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I would be sorry else;<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I would be sorry else;<br> Give me your hand. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Why?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I can tell your fortune.<br/> -You are a foole: tell ten. I have pozd him: Buz!<br/> -Friend you must eate no whitebread; if you doe,<br/> -Your teeth will bleede extreamely. Shall we dance, ho?<br/> -I know you, y’ar a Tinker: Sirha Tinker,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I can tell your fortune.<br> +You are a foole: tell ten. I have pozd him: Buz!<br> +Friend you must eate no whitebread; if you doe,<br> +Your teeth will bleede extreamely. Shall we dance, ho?<br> +I know you, y’ar a Tinker: Sirha Tinker,<br> Stop no more holes, but what you should. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Dij boni. A Tinker, Damzell?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Or a Conjurer:<br/> -Raise me a devill now, and let him play<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Or a Conjurer:<br> +Raise me a devill now, and let him play<br> Quipassa o’th bels and bones. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Goe, take her,<br/> -And fluently perswade her to a peace:<br/> -Et opus exegi, quod nec Iouis ira, nec ignis.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Goe, take her,<br> +And fluently perswade her to a peace:<br> +Et opus exegi, quod nec Iouis ira, nec ignis.<br> Strike up, and leade her in. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +2. COUNTREYMAN.<br> Come, Lasse, lets trip it.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Ile leade. [Winde Hornes.]</p> <p class="drama"> -3. COUNTREYMAN.<br/> +3. COUNTREYMAN.<br> Doe, doe.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Perswasively, and cunningly: away, boyes, [Ex. all but<br/> -Schoolemaster.]<br/> -I heare the hornes: give me some meditation,<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Perswasively, and cunningly: away, boyes, [Ex. all but<br> +Schoolemaster.]<br> +I heare the hornes: give me some meditation,<br> And marke your Cue.—Pallas inspire me. </p> @@ -3422,82 +3404,82 @@ And marke your Cue.—Pallas inspire me. [Enter Thes. Pir. Hip. Emil. Arcite, and traine.]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> This way the Stag tooke.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Stay, and edifie.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What have we here?</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Some Countrey sport, upon my life, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Well, Sir, goe forward, we will edifie.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Well, Sir, goe forward, we will edifie.<br> Ladies, sit downe, wee’l stay it. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Thou, doughtie Duke, all haile: all haile, sweet Ladies.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> This is a cold beginning.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -If you but favour, our Country pastime made is.<br/> -We are a few of those collected here,<br/> -That ruder Tongues distinguish villager;<br/> -And to say veritie, and not to fable,<br/> -We are a merry rout, or else a rable,<br/> -Or company, or, by a figure, Choris,<br/> -That fore thy dignitie will dance a Morris.<br/> -And I, that am the rectifier of all,<br/> -By title Pedagogus, that let fall<br/> -The Birch upon the breeches of the small ones,<br/> -And humble with a Ferula the tall ones,<br/> -Doe here present this Machine, or this frame:<br/> -And daintie Duke, whose doughtie dismall fame<br/> -From Dis to Dedalus, from post to pillar,<br/> -Is blowne abroad, helpe me thy poore well willer,<br/> -And with thy twinckling eyes looke right and straight<br/> -Vpon this mighty MORR—of mickle waight;<br/> -IS now comes in, which being glewd together,<br/> -Makes MORRIS, and the cause that we came hether.<br/> -The body of our sport, of no small study,<br/> -I first appeare, though rude, and raw, and muddy,<br/> -To speake before thy noble grace this tenner:<br/> -At whose great feete I offer up my penner.<br/> -The next the Lord of May and Lady bright,<br/> -The Chambermaid and Servingman by night<br/> -That seeke out silent hanging: Then mine Host<br/> -And his fat Spowse, that welcomes to their cost<br/> -The gauled Traveller, and with a beckning<br/> -Informes the Tapster to inflame the reckning:<br/> -Then the beast eating Clowne, and next the foole,<br/> -The Bavian, with long tayle and eke long toole,<br/> -Cum multis alijs that make a dance:<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +If you but favour, our Country pastime made is.<br> +We are a few of those collected here,<br> +That ruder Tongues distinguish villager;<br> +And to say veritie, and not to fable,<br> +We are a merry rout, or else a rable,<br> +Or company, or, by a figure, Choris,<br> +That fore thy dignitie will dance a Morris.<br> +And I, that am the rectifier of all,<br> +By title Pedagogus, that let fall<br> +The Birch upon the breeches of the small ones,<br> +And humble with a Ferula the tall ones,<br> +Doe here present this Machine, or this frame:<br> +And daintie Duke, whose doughtie dismall fame<br> +From Dis to Dedalus, from post to pillar,<br> +Is blowne abroad, helpe me thy poore well willer,<br> +And with thy twinckling eyes looke right and straight<br> +Vpon this mighty MORR—of mickle waight;<br> +IS now comes in, which being glewd together,<br> +Makes MORRIS, and the cause that we came hether.<br> +The body of our sport, of no small study,<br> +I first appeare, though rude, and raw, and muddy,<br> +To speake before thy noble grace this tenner:<br> +At whose great feete I offer up my penner.<br> +The next the Lord of May and Lady bright,<br> +The Chambermaid and Servingman by night<br> +That seeke out silent hanging: Then mine Host<br> +And his fat Spowse, that welcomes to their cost<br> +The gauled Traveller, and with a beckning<br> +Informes the Tapster to inflame the reckning:<br> +Then the beast eating Clowne, and next the foole,<br> +The Bavian, with long tayle and eke long toole,<br> +Cum multis alijs that make a dance:<br> Say ‘I,’ and all shall presently advance. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> I, I, by any meanes, deere Domine.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Produce.</p> <p class="drama"> -(SCHOOLMASTER.)<br/> +(SCHOOLMASTER.)<br> Intrate, filij; Come forth, and foot it.—</p> <p class="drama"> @@ -3507,51 +3489,51 @@ Intrate, filij; Come forth, and foot it.—</p> [Enter the Dance.]</p> <p class="drama"> -Ladies, if we have beene merry,<br/> -And have pleasd yee with a derry,<br/> -And a derry, and a downe,<br/> -Say the Schoolemaster’s no Clowne:<br/> -Duke, if we have pleasd thee too,<br/> -And have done as good Boyes should doe,<br/> -Give us but a tree or twaine<br/> -For a Maypole, and againe,<br/> -Ere another yeare run out,<br/> +Ladies, if we have beene merry,<br> +And have pleasd yee with a derry,<br> +And a derry, and a downe,<br> +Say the Schoolemaster’s no Clowne:<br> +Duke, if we have pleasd thee too,<br> +And have done as good Boyes should doe,<br> +Give us but a tree or twaine<br> +For a Maypole, and againe,<br> +Ere another yeare run out,<br> Wee’l make thee laugh and all this rout. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Take 20., Domine; how does my sweet heart?</p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> Never so pleasd, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Twas an excellent dance, and for a preface<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Twas an excellent dance, and for a preface<br> I never heard a better. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Schoolemaster, I thanke you.—One see’em all rewarded.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> And heer’s something to paint your Pole withall.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Now to our sports againe.</p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -May the Stag thou huntst stand long,<br/> -And thy dogs be swift and strong:<br/> -May they kill him without lets,<br/> -And the Ladies eate his dowsets!<br/> -Come, we are all made. [Winde Hornes.]<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +May the Stag thou huntst stand long,<br> +And thy dogs be swift and strong:<br> +May they kill him without lets,<br> +And the Ladies eate his dowsets!<br> +Come, we are all made. [Winde Hornes.]<br> Dij Deoeq(ue) omnes, ye have danc’d rarely, wenches. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -3561,22 +3543,22 @@ Dij Deoeq(ue) omnes, ye have danc’d rarely, wenches. [Exeunt.] [Enter Palamon from the Bush.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -About this houre my Cosen gave his faith<br/> -To visit me againe, and with him bring<br/> -Two Swords, and two good Armors; if he faile,<br/> -He’s neither man nor Souldier. When he left me,<br/> -I did not thinke a weeke could have restord<br/> -My lost strength to me, I was growne so low,<br/> -And Crest-falne with my wants: I thanke thee, Arcite,<br/> -Thou art yet a faire Foe; and I feele my selfe<br/> -With this refreshing, able once againe<br/> -To out dure danger: To delay it longer<br/> -Would make the world think, when it comes to hearing,<br/> -That I lay fatting like a Swine to fight,<br/> -And not a Souldier: Therefore, this blest morning<br/> -Shall be the last; and that Sword he refuses,<br/> -If it but hold, I kill him with; tis Iustice:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +About this houre my Cosen gave his faith<br> +To visit me againe, and with him bring<br> +Two Swords, and two good Armors; if he faile,<br> +He’s neither man nor Souldier. When he left me,<br> +I did not thinke a weeke could have restord<br> +My lost strength to me, I was growne so low,<br> +And Crest-falne with my wants: I thanke thee, Arcite,<br> +Thou art yet a faire Foe; and I feele my selfe<br> +With this refreshing, able once againe<br> +To out dure danger: To delay it longer<br> +Would make the world think, when it comes to hearing,<br> +That I lay fatting like a Swine to fight,<br> +And not a Souldier: Therefore, this blest morning<br> +Shall be the last; and that Sword he refuses,<br> +If it but hold, I kill him with; tis Iustice:<br> So love, and Fortune for me!—O, good morrow. </p> @@ -3584,787 +3566,787 @@ So love, and Fortune for me!—O, good morrow. [Enter Arcite with Armors and Swords.]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Good morrow, noble kinesman.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> I have put you to too much paines, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -That too much, faire Cosen,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +That too much, faire Cosen,<br> Is but a debt to honour, and my duty. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Would you were so in all, Sir; I could wish ye<br/> -As kinde a kinsman, as you force me finde<br/> -A beneficiall foe, that my embraces<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Would you were so in all, Sir; I could wish ye<br> +As kinde a kinsman, as you force me finde<br> +A beneficiall foe, that my embraces<br> Might thanke ye, not my blowes. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I shall thinke either, well done,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I shall thinke either, well done,<br> A noble recompence. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Then I shall quit you.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Defy me in these faire termes, and you show<br/> -More then a Mistris to me, no more anger<br/> -As you love any thing that’s honourable:<br/> -We were not bred to talke, man; when we are arm’d<br/> -And both upon our guards, then let our fury,<br/> -Like meeting of two tides, fly strongly from us,<br/> -And then to whom the birthright of this Beauty<br/> -Truely pertaines (without obbraidings, scornes,<br/> -Dispisings of our persons, and such powtings,<br/> -Fitter for Girles and Schooleboyes) will be seene<br/> -And quickly, yours, or mine: wilt please you arme, Sir,<br/> -Or if you feele your selfe not fitting yet<br/> -And furnishd with your old strength, ile stay, Cosen,<br/> -And ev’ry day discourse you into health,<br/> -As I am spard: your person I am friends with,<br/> -And I could wish I had not saide I lov’d her,<br/> -Though I had dide; But loving such a Lady<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Defy me in these faire termes, and you show<br> +More then a Mistris to me, no more anger<br> +As you love any thing that’s honourable:<br> +We were not bred to talke, man; when we are arm’d<br> +And both upon our guards, then let our fury,<br> +Like meeting of two tides, fly strongly from us,<br> +And then to whom the birthright of this Beauty<br> +Truely pertaines (without obbraidings, scornes,<br> +Dispisings of our persons, and such powtings,<br> +Fitter for Girles and Schooleboyes) will be seene<br> +And quickly, yours, or mine: wilt please you arme, Sir,<br> +Or if you feele your selfe not fitting yet<br> +And furnishd with your old strength, ile stay, Cosen,<br> +And ev’ry day discourse you into health,<br> +As I am spard: your person I am friends with,<br> +And I could wish I had not saide I lov’d her,<br> +Though I had dide; But loving such a Lady<br> And justifying my Love, I must not fly from’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Arcite, thou art so brave an enemy,<br/> -That no man but thy Cosen’s fit to kill thee:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Arcite, thou art so brave an enemy,<br> +That no man but thy Cosen’s fit to kill thee:<br> I am well and lusty, choose your Armes. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Choose you, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Wilt thou exceede in all, or do’st thou doe it<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Wilt thou exceede in all, or do’st thou doe it<br> To make me spare thee? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If you thinke so, Cosen,<br/> -You are deceived, for as I am a Soldier,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If you thinke so, Cosen,<br> +You are deceived, for as I am a Soldier,<br> I will not spare you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> That’s well said.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You’l finde it.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Then, as I am an honest man and love<br/> -With all the justice of affection,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Then, as I am an honest man and love<br> +With all the justice of affection,<br> Ile pay thee soundly. This ile take. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -That’s mine, then;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +That’s mine, then;<br> Ile arme you first. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Do: pray thee, tell me, Cosen,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Do: pray thee, tell me, Cosen,<br> Where gotst thou this good Armour? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Tis the Dukes,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Tis the Dukes,<br> And to say true, I stole it; doe I pinch you? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Noe.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Is’t not too heavie?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I have worne a lighter,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I have worne a lighter,<br> But I shall make it serve. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Ile buckl’t close.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> By any meanes.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You care not for a Grand guard?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -No, no; wee’l use no horses: I perceave<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +No, no; wee’l use no horses: I perceave<br> You would faine be at that Fight. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I am indifferent.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Faith, so am I: good Cosen, thrust the buckle<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Faith, so am I: good Cosen, thrust the buckle<br> Through far enough. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I warrant you.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> My Caske now.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Will you fight bare-armd?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> We shall be the nimbler.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -But use your Gauntlets though; those are o’th least,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +But use your Gauntlets though; those are o’th least,<br> Prethee take mine, good Cosen. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Thanke you, Arcite.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Thanke you, Arcite.<br> How doe I looke? am I falne much away? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Faith, very little; love has usd you kindly.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Ile warrant thee, Ile strike home.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Doe, and spare not;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Doe, and spare not;<br> Ile give you cause, sweet Cosen. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Now to you, Sir:<br/> -Me thinkes this Armor’s very like that, Arcite,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Now to you, Sir:<br> +Me thinkes this Armor’s very like that, Arcite,<br> Thou wor’st the day the 3. Kings fell, but lighter. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -That was a very good one; and that day,<br/> -I well remember, you outdid me, Cosen.<br/> -I never saw such valour: when you chargd<br/> -Vpon the left wing of the Enemie,<br/> -I spurd hard to come up, and under me<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +That was a very good one; and that day,<br> +I well remember, you outdid me, Cosen.<br> +I never saw such valour: when you chargd<br> +Vpon the left wing of the Enemie,<br> +I spurd hard to come up, and under me<br> I had a right good horse. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> You had indeede; a bright Bay, I remember.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yes, but all<br/> -Was vainely labour’d in me; you outwent me,<br/> -Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yes, but all<br> +Was vainely labour’d in me; you outwent me,<br> +Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little<br> I did by imitation. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -More by vertue;<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +More by vertue;<br> You are modest, Cosen. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -When I saw you charge first,<br/> -Me thought I heard a dreadfull clap of Thunder<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +When I saw you charge first,<br> +Me thought I heard a dreadfull clap of Thunder<br> Breake from the Troope. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -But still before that flew<br/> -The lightning of your valour. Stay a little,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +But still before that flew<br> +The lightning of your valour. Stay a little,<br> Is not this peece too streight? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> No, no, tis well.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I would have nothing hurt thee but my Sword,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I would have nothing hurt thee but my Sword,<br> A bruise would be dishonour. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Now I am perfect.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Stand off, then.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Take my Sword, I hold it better.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I thanke ye: No, keepe it; your life lyes on it.<br/> -Here’s one; if it but hold, I aske no more<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I thanke ye: No, keepe it; your life lyes on it.<br> +Here’s one; if it but hold, I aske no more<br> For all my hopes: My Cause and honour guard me! [They bow severall wayes: then advance and stand.] </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> And me my love! Is there ought else to say?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -This onely, and no more: Thou art mine Aunts Son,<br/> -And that blood we desire to shed is mutuall;<br/> -In me, thine, and in thee, mine. My Sword<br/> -Is in my hand, and if thou killst me,<br/> -The gods and I forgive thee; If there be<br/> -A place prepar’d for those that sleepe in honour,<br/> -I wish his wearie soule that falls may win it:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +This onely, and no more: Thou art mine Aunts Son,<br> +And that blood we desire to shed is mutuall;<br> +In me, thine, and in thee, mine. My Sword<br> +Is in my hand, and if thou killst me,<br> +The gods and I forgive thee; If there be<br> +A place prepar’d for those that sleepe in honour,<br> +I wish his wearie soule that falls may win it:<br> Fight bravely, Cosen; give me thy noble hand. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Here, Palamon: This hand shall never more<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Here, Palamon: This hand shall never more<br> Come neare thee with such friendship. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> I commend thee.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If I fall, curse me, and say I was a coward,<br/> -For none but such dare die in these just Tryalls.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If I fall, curse me, and say I was a coward,<br> +For none but such dare die in these just Tryalls.<br> Once more farewell, my Cosen. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Farewell, Arcite. [Fight.]</p> <p class="drama"> [Hornes within: they stand.]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Loe, Cosen, loe, our Folly has undon us.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Why?</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -This is the Duke, a hunting as I told you.<br/> -If we be found, we are wretched. O retire<br/> -For honours sake, and safety presently<br/> -Into your Bush agen; Sir, we shall finde<br/> -Too many howres to dye in: gentle Cosen,<br/> -If you be seene you perish instantly<br/> -For breaking prison, and I, if you reveale me,<br/> -For my contempt. Then all the world will scorne us,<br/> -And say we had a noble difference,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +This is the Duke, a hunting as I told you.<br> +If we be found, we are wretched. O retire<br> +For honours sake, and safety presently<br> +Into your Bush agen; Sir, we shall finde<br> +Too many howres to dye in: gentle Cosen,<br> +If you be seene you perish instantly<br> +For breaking prison, and I, if you reveale me,<br> +For my contempt. Then all the world will scorne us,<br> +And say we had a noble difference,<br> But base disposers of it. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -No, no, Cosen,<br/> -I will no more be hidden, nor put off<br/> -This great adventure to a second Tryall:<br/> -I know your cunning, and I know your cause;<br/> -He that faints now, shame take him: put thy selfe<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +No, no, Cosen,<br> +I will no more be hidden, nor put off<br> +This great adventure to a second Tryall:<br> +I know your cunning, and I know your cause;<br> +He that faints now, shame take him: put thy selfe<br> Vpon thy present guard— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You are not mad?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Or I will make th’advantage of this howre<br/> -Mine owne, and what to come shall threaten me,<br/> -I feare lesse then my fortune: know, weake Cosen,<br/> -I love Emilia, and in that ile bury<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Or I will make th’advantage of this howre<br> +Mine owne, and what to come shall threaten me,<br> +I feare lesse then my fortune: know, weake Cosen,<br> +I love Emilia, and in that ile bury<br> Thee, and all crosses else. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Then, come what can come,<br/> -Thou shalt know, Palamon, I dare as well<br/> -Die, as discourse, or sleepe: Onely this feares me,<br/> -The law will have the honour of our ends.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Then, come what can come,<br> +Thou shalt know, Palamon, I dare as well<br> +Die, as discourse, or sleepe: Onely this feares me,<br> +The law will have the honour of our ends.<br> Have at thy life. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Looke to thine owne well, Arcite. [Fight againe. Hornes.]</p> <p class="drama"> [Enter Theseus, Hipolita, Emilia, Perithous and traine.]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -What ignorant and mad malicious Traitors,<br/> -Are you, That gainst the tenor of my Lawes<br/> -Are making Battaile, thus like Knights appointed,<br/> -Without my leave, and Officers of Armes?<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +What ignorant and mad malicious Traitors,<br> +Are you, That gainst the tenor of my Lawes<br> +Are making Battaile, thus like Knights appointed,<br> +Without my leave, and Officers of Armes?<br> By Castor, both shall dye. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Hold thy word, Theseus.<br/> -We are certainly both Traitors, both despisers<br/> -Of thee and of thy goodnesse: I am Palamon,<br/> -That cannot love thee, he that broke thy Prison;<br/> -Thinke well what that deserves: and this is Arcite,<br/> -A bolder Traytor never trod thy ground,<br/> -A Falser neu’r seem’d friend: This is the man<br/> -Was begd and banish’d; this is he contemnes thee<br/> -And what thou dar’st doe, and in this disguise<br/> -Against thy owne Edict followes thy Sister,<br/> -That fortunate bright Star, the faire Emilia,<br/> -Whose servant, (if there be a right in seeing,<br/> -And first bequeathing of the soule to) justly<br/> -I am, and, which is more, dares thinke her his.<br/> -This treacherie, like a most trusty Lover,<br/> -I call’d him now to answer; if thou bee’st,<br/> -As thou art spoken, great and vertuous,<br/> -The true descider of all injuries,<br/> -Say, ‘Fight againe,’ and thou shalt see me, Theseus,<br/> -Doe such a Iustice, thou thy selfe wilt envie.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Hold thy word, Theseus.<br> +We are certainly both Traitors, both despisers<br> +Of thee and of thy goodnesse: I am Palamon,<br> +That cannot love thee, he that broke thy Prison;<br> +Thinke well what that deserves: and this is Arcite,<br> +A bolder Traytor never trod thy ground,<br> +A Falser neu’r seem’d friend: This is the man<br> +Was begd and banish’d; this is he contemnes thee<br> +And what thou dar’st doe, and in this disguise<br> +Against thy owne Edict followes thy Sister,<br> +That fortunate bright Star, the faire Emilia,<br> +Whose servant, (if there be a right in seeing,<br> +And first bequeathing of the soule to) justly<br> +I am, and, which is more, dares thinke her his.<br> +This treacherie, like a most trusty Lover,<br> +I call’d him now to answer; if thou bee’st,<br> +As thou art spoken, great and vertuous,<br> +The true descider of all injuries,<br> +Say, ‘Fight againe,’ and thou shalt see me, Theseus,<br> +Doe such a Iustice, thou thy selfe wilt envie.<br> Then take my life; Ile wooe thee too’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -O heaven,<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +O heaven,<br> What more then man is this! </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> I have sworne.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -We seeke not<br/> -Thy breath of mercy, Theseus. Tis to me<br/> -A thing as soone to dye, as thee to say it,<br/> -And no more mov’d: where this man calls me Traitor,<br/> -Let me say thus much: if in love be Treason,<br/> -In service of so excellent a Beutie,<br/> -As I love most, and in that faith will perish,<br/> -As I have brought my life here to confirme it,<br/> -As I have serv’d her truest, worthiest,<br/> -As I dare kill this Cosen, that denies it,<br/> -So let me be most Traitor, and ye please me.<br/> -For scorning thy Edict, Duke, aske that Lady<br/> -Why she is faire, and why her eyes command me<br/> -Stay here to love her; and if she say ‘Traytor,’<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +We seeke not<br> +Thy breath of mercy, Theseus. Tis to me<br> +A thing as soone to dye, as thee to say it,<br> +And no more mov’d: where this man calls me Traitor,<br> +Let me say thus much: if in love be Treason,<br> +In service of so excellent a Beutie,<br> +As I love most, and in that faith will perish,<br> +As I have brought my life here to confirme it,<br> +As I have serv’d her truest, worthiest,<br> +As I dare kill this Cosen, that denies it,<br> +So let me be most Traitor, and ye please me.<br> +For scorning thy Edict, Duke, aske that Lady<br> +Why she is faire, and why her eyes command me<br> +Stay here to love her; and if she say ‘Traytor,’<br> I am a villaine fit to lye unburied. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Thou shalt have pitty of us both, o Theseus,<br/> -If unto neither thou shew mercy; stop<br/> -(As thou art just) thy noble eare against us.<br/> -As thou art valiant, for thy Cosens soule<br/> -Whose 12. strong labours crowne his memory,<br/> -Lets die together, at one instant, Duke,<br/> -Onely a little let him fall before me,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Thou shalt have pitty of us both, o Theseus,<br> +If unto neither thou shew mercy; stop<br> +(As thou art just) thy noble eare against us.<br> +As thou art valiant, for thy Cosens soule<br> +Whose 12. strong labours crowne his memory,<br> +Lets die together, at one instant, Duke,<br> +Onely a little let him fall before me,<br> That I may tell my Soule he shall not have her. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -I grant your wish, for, to say true, your Cosen<br/> -Has ten times more offended; for I gave him<br/> -More mercy then you found, Sir, your offenses<br/> -Being no more then his. None here speake for ’em,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +I grant your wish, for, to say true, your Cosen<br> +Has ten times more offended; for I gave him<br> +More mercy then you found, Sir, your offenses<br> +Being no more then his. None here speake for ’em,<br> For, ere the Sun set, both shall sleepe for ever. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -Alas the pitty! now or never, Sister,<br/> -Speake, not to be denide; That face of yours<br/> -Will beare the curses else of after ages<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +Alas the pitty! now or never, Sister,<br> +Speake, not to be denide; That face of yours<br> +Will beare the curses else of after ages<br> For these lost Cosens. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -In my face, deare Sister,<br/> -I finde no anger to ’em, nor no ruyn;<br/> -The misadventure of their owne eyes kill ’em;<br/> -Yet that I will be woman, and have pitty,<br/> -My knees shall grow to’th ground but Ile get mercie.<br/> -Helpe me, deare Sister; in a deede so vertuous<br/> -The powers of all women will be with us.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +In my face, deare Sister,<br> +I finde no anger to ’em, nor no ruyn;<br> +The misadventure of their owne eyes kill ’em;<br> +Yet that I will be woman, and have pitty,<br> +My knees shall grow to’th ground but Ile get mercie.<br> +Helpe me, deare Sister; in a deede so vertuous<br> +The powers of all women will be with us.<br> Most royall Brother— </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> Sir, by our tye of Marriage—</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> By your owne spotlesse honour—</p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -By that faith,<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +By that faith,<br> That faire hand, and that honest heart you gave me. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -By that you would have pitty in another,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +By that you would have pitty in another,<br> By your owne vertues infinite. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -By valour,<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +By valour,<br> By all the chaste nights I have ever pleasd you. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> These are strange Conjurings.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Nay, then, Ile in too:<br/> -By all our friendship, Sir, by all our dangers,<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Nay, then, Ile in too:<br> +By all our friendship, Sir, by all our dangers,<br> By all you love most: warres and this sweet Lady. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -By that you would have trembled to deny,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +By that you would have trembled to deny,<br> A blushing Maide. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -By your owne eyes: By strength,<br/> -In which you swore I went beyond all women,<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +By your owne eyes: By strength,<br> +In which you swore I went beyond all women,<br> Almost all men, and yet I yeelded, Theseus. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -To crowne all this: By your most noble soule,<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +To crowne all this: By your most noble soule,<br> Which cannot want due mercie, I beg first. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> Next, heare my prayers.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Last, let me intreate, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> For mercy.</p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> Mercy.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Mercy on these Princes.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Ye make my faith reele: Say I felt<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Ye make my faith reele: Say I felt<br> Compassion to’em both, how would you place it? </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Vpon their lives: But with their banishments.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You are a right woman, Sister; you have pitty,<br/> -But want the vnderstanding where to use it.<br/> -If you desire their lives, invent a way<br/> -Safer then banishment: Can these two live<br/> -And have the agony of love about ’em,<br/> -And not kill one another? Every day<br/> -They’ld fight about you; howrely bring your honour<br/> -In publique question with their Swords. Be wise, then,<br/> -And here forget ’em; it concernes your credit<br/> -And my oth equally: I have said they die;<br/> -Better they fall by’th law, then one another.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You are a right woman, Sister; you have pitty,<br> +But want the vnderstanding where to use it.<br> +If you desire their lives, invent a way<br> +Safer then banishment: Can these two live<br> +And have the agony of love about ’em,<br> +And not kill one another? Every day<br> +They’ld fight about you; howrely bring your honour<br> +In publique question with their Swords. Be wise, then,<br> +And here forget ’em; it concernes your credit<br> +And my oth equally: I have said they die;<br> +Better they fall by’th law, then one another.<br> Bow not my honor. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -O my noble Brother,<br/> -That oth was rashly made, and in your anger,<br/> -Your reason will not hold it; if such vowes<br/> -Stand for expresse will, all the world must perish.<br/> -Beside, I have another oth gainst yours,<br/> -Of more authority, I am sure more love,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +O my noble Brother,<br> +That oth was rashly made, and in your anger,<br> +Your reason will not hold it; if such vowes<br> +Stand for expresse will, all the world must perish.<br> +Beside, I have another oth gainst yours,<br> +Of more authority, I am sure more love,<br> Not made in passion neither, but good heede. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What is it, Sister?</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Vrge it home, brave Lady.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That you would nev’r deny me any thing<br/> -Fit for my modest suit, and your free granting:<br/> -I tye you to your word now; if ye fall in’t,<br/> -Thinke how you maime your honour,<br/> -(For now I am set a begging, Sir, I am deafe<br/> -To all but your compassion.) How, their lives<br/> -Might breed the ruine of my name, Opinion!<br/> -Shall any thing that loves me perish for me?<br/> -That were a cruell wisedome; doe men proyne<br/> -The straight yong Bowes that blush with thousand Blossoms,<br/> -Because they may be rotten? O Duke Theseus,<br/> -The goodly Mothers that have groand for these,<br/> -And all the longing Maides that ever lov’d,<br/> -If your vow stand, shall curse me and my Beauty,<br/> -And in their funerall songs for these two Cosens<br/> -Despise my crueltie, and cry woe worth me,<br/> -Till I am nothing but the scorne of women;<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That you would nev’r deny me any thing<br> +Fit for my modest suit, and your free granting:<br> +I tye you to your word now; if ye fall in’t,<br> +Thinke how you maime your honour,<br> +(For now I am set a begging, Sir, I am deafe<br> +To all but your compassion.) How, their lives<br> +Might breed the ruine of my name, Opinion!<br> +Shall any thing that loves me perish for me?<br> +That were a cruell wisedome; doe men proyne<br> +The straight yong Bowes that blush with thousand Blossoms,<br> +Because they may be rotten? O Duke Theseus,<br> +The goodly Mothers that have groand for these,<br> +And all the longing Maides that ever lov’d,<br> +If your vow stand, shall curse me and my Beauty,<br> +And in their funerall songs for these two Cosens<br> +Despise my crueltie, and cry woe worth me,<br> +Till I am nothing but the scorne of women;<br> For heavens sake save their lives, and banish ’em. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> On what conditions?</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Sweare’em never more<br/> -To make me their Contention, or to know me,<br/> -To tread upon thy Dukedome; and to be,<br/> -Where ever they shall travel, ever strangers<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Sweare’em never more<br> +To make me their Contention, or to know me,<br> +To tread upon thy Dukedome; and to be,<br> +Where ever they shall travel, ever strangers<br> To one another. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Ile be cut a peeces<br/> -Before I take this oth: forget I love her?<br/> -O all ye gods dispise me, then! Thy Banishment<br/> -I not mislike, so we may fairely carry<br/> -Our Swords and cause along: else, never trifle,<br/> -But take our lives, Duke: I must love and will,<br/> -And for that love must and dare kill this Cosen<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Ile be cut a peeces<br> +Before I take this oth: forget I love her?<br> +O all ye gods dispise me, then! Thy Banishment<br> +I not mislike, so we may fairely carry<br> +Our Swords and cause along: else, never trifle,<br> +But take our lives, Duke: I must love and will,<br> +And for that love must and dare kill this Cosen<br> On any peece the earth has. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Will you, Arcite,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Will you, Arcite,<br> Take these conditions? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> He’s a villaine, then.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> These are men.</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -No, never, Duke: Tis worse to me than begging<br/> -To take my life so basely; though I thinke<br/> -I never shall enjoy her, yet ile preserve<br/> -The honour of affection, and dye for her,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +No, never, Duke: Tis worse to me than begging<br> +To take my life so basely; though I thinke<br> +I never shall enjoy her, yet ile preserve<br> +The honour of affection, and dye for her,<br> Make death a Devill. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What may be done? for now I feele compassion.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Let it not fall agen, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Say, Emilia,<br/> -If one of them were dead, as one must, are you<br/> -Content to take th’other to your husband?<br/> -They cannot both enjoy you; They are Princes<br/> -As goodly as your owne eyes, and as noble<br/> -As ever fame yet spoke of; looke upon ’em,<br/> -And if you can love, end this difference.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Say, Emilia,<br> +If one of them were dead, as one must, are you<br> +Content to take th’other to your husband?<br> +They cannot both enjoy you; They are Princes<br> +As goodly as your owne eyes, and as noble<br> +As ever fame yet spoke of; looke upon ’em,<br> +And if you can love, end this difference.<br> I give consent; are you content too, Princes? </p> <p class="drama"> -BOTH.<br/> +BOTH.<br> With all our soules.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -He that she refuses<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +He that she refuses<br> Must dye, then. </p> <p class="drama"> -BOTH.<br/> +BOTH.<br> Any death thou canst invent, Duke.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -If I fall from that mouth, I fall with favour,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +If I fall from that mouth, I fall with favour,<br> And Lovers yet unborne shall blesse my ashes. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If she refuse me, yet my grave will wed me,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If she refuse me, yet my grave will wed me,<br> And Souldiers sing my Epitaph. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Make choice, then.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I cannot, Sir, they are both too excellent:<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I cannot, Sir, they are both too excellent:<br> For me, a hayre shall never fall of these men. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> What will become of ’em?</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Thus I ordaine it;<br/> -And by mine honor, once againe, it stands,<br/> -Or both shall dye:—You shall both to your Countrey,<br/> -And each within this moneth, accompanied<br/> -With three faire Knights, appeare againe in this place,<br/> -In which Ile plant a Pyramid; and whether,<br/> -Before us that are here, can force his Cosen<br/> -By fayre and knightly strength to touch the Pillar,<br/> -He shall enjoy her: the other loose his head,<br/> -And all his friends; Nor shall he grudge to fall,<br/> -Nor thinke he dies with interest in this Lady:<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Thus I ordaine it;<br> +And by mine honor, once againe, it stands,<br> +Or both shall dye:—You shall both to your Countrey,<br> +And each within this moneth, accompanied<br> +With three faire Knights, appeare againe in this place,<br> +In which Ile plant a Pyramid; and whether,<br> +Before us that are here, can force his Cosen<br> +By fayre and knightly strength to touch the Pillar,<br> +He shall enjoy her: the other loose his head,<br> +And all his friends; Nor shall he grudge to fall,<br> +Nor thinke he dies with interest in this Lady:<br> Will this content yee? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Yes: here, Cosen Arcite,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Yes: here, Cosen Arcite,<br> I am friends againe, till that howre. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I embrace ye.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Are you content, Sister?</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Yes, I must, Sir,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Yes, I must, Sir,<br> Els both miscarry. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Come, shake hands againe, then;<br/> -And take heede, as you are Gentlemen, this Quarrell<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Come, shake hands againe, then;<br> +And take heede, as you are Gentlemen, this Quarrell<br> Sleepe till the howre prefixt; and hold your course. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> We dare not faile thee, Theseus.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Come, Ile give ye<br/> -Now usage like to Princes, and to Friends:<br/> -When ye returne, who wins, Ile settle heere;<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Come, Ile give ye<br> +Now usage like to Princes, and to Friends:<br> +When ye returne, who wins, Ile settle heere;<br> Who looses, yet Ile weepe upon his Beere. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -4380,27 +4362,27 @@ Who looses, yet Ile weepe upon his Beere. [Exeunt.] [Enter Iailor and his friend.]</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -Heare you no more? was nothing saide of me<br/> -Concerning the escape of Palamon?<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +Heare you no more? was nothing saide of me<br> +Concerning the escape of Palamon?<br> Good Sir, remember. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> -Nothing that I heard,<br/> -For I came home before the busines<br/> -Was fully ended: Yet I might perceive,<br/> -Ere I departed, a great likelihood<br/> -Of both their pardons: For Hipolita,<br/> -And faire-eyd Emilie, upon their knees<br/> -Begd with such hansom pitty, that the Duke<br/> -Me thought stood staggering, whether he should follow<br/> -His rash oth, or the sweet compassion<br/> -Of those two Ladies; and to second them,<br/> -That truely noble Prince Perithous,<br/> -Halfe his owne heart, set in too, that I hope<br/> -All shall be well: Neither heard I one question<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> +Nothing that I heard,<br> +For I came home before the busines<br> +Was fully ended: Yet I might perceive,<br> +Ere I departed, a great likelihood<br> +Of both their pardons: For Hipolita,<br> +And faire-eyd Emilie, upon their knees<br> +Begd with such hansom pitty, that the Duke<br> +Me thought stood staggering, whether he should follow<br> +His rash oth, or the sweet compassion<br> +Of those two Ladies; and to second them,<br> +That truely noble Prince Perithous,<br> +Halfe his owne heart, set in too, that I hope<br> +All shall be well: Neither heard I one question<br> Of your name or his scape. </p> @@ -4408,64 +4390,64 @@ Of your name or his scape. [Enter 2. Friend.]</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Pray heaven it hold so.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> -Be of good comfort, man; I bring you newes,<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> +Be of good comfort, man; I bring you newes,<br> Good newes. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> They are welcome,</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> -Palamon has cleerd you,<br/> -And got your pardon, and discoverd how<br/> -And by whose meanes he escapt, which was your Daughters,<br/> -Whose pardon is procurd too; and the Prisoner,<br/> -Not to be held ungratefull to her goodnes,<br/> -Has given a summe of money to her Marriage,<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> +Palamon has cleerd you,<br> +And got your pardon, and discoverd how<br> +And by whose meanes he escapt, which was your Daughters,<br> +Whose pardon is procurd too; and the Prisoner,<br> +Not to be held ungratefull to her goodnes,<br> +Has given a summe of money to her Marriage,<br> A large one, ile assure you. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -Ye are a good man<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +Ye are a good man<br> And ever bring good newes. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> How was it ended?</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> -Why, as it should be; they that nev’r begd<br/> -But they prevaild, had their suites fairely granted,<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> +Why, as it should be; they that nev’r begd<br> +But they prevaild, had their suites fairely granted,<br> The prisoners have their lives. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> I knew t’would be so.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> -But there be new conditions, which you’l heare of<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> +But there be new conditions, which you’l heare of<br> At better time. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> I hope they are good.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> -They are honourable,<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> +They are honourable,<br> How good they’l prove, I know not. </p> @@ -4473,177 +4455,177 @@ How good they’l prove, I know not. [Enter Wooer.]</p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> T’will be knowne.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Alas, Sir, wher’s your Daughter?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Why doe you aske?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> O, Sir, when did you see her?</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> How he lookes?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> This morning.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Was she well? was she in health, Sir?<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Was she well? was she in health, Sir?<br> When did she sleepe? </p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> These are strange Questions.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -I doe not thinke she was very well, for now<br/> -You make me minde her, but this very day<br/> -I ask’d her questions, and she answered me<br/> -So farre from what she was, so childishly,<br/> -So sillily, as if she were a foole,<br/> -An Inocent, and I was very angry.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +I doe not thinke she was very well, for now<br> +You make me minde her, but this very day<br> +I ask’d her questions, and she answered me<br> +So farre from what she was, so childishly,<br> +So sillily, as if she were a foole,<br> +An Inocent, and I was very angry.<br> But what of her, Sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Nothing but my pitty;<br/> -But you must know it, and as good by me<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Nothing but my pitty;<br> +But you must know it, and as good by me<br> As by an other that lesse loves her— </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Well, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> Not right?</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> Not well?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -No, Sir, not well.<br/> +WOOER.<br> +No, Sir, not well.<br> Tis too true, she is mad. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> It cannot be.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Beleeve, you’l finde it so.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -I halfe suspected<br/> -What you (have) told me: the gods comfort her:<br/> -Either this was her love to Palamon,<br/> -Or feare of my miscarrying on his scape,<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +I halfe suspected<br> +What you (have) told me: the gods comfort her:<br> +Either this was her love to Palamon,<br> +Or feare of my miscarrying on his scape,<br> Or both. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Tis likely.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> But why all this haste, Sir?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Ile tell you quickly. As I late was angling<br/> -In the great Lake that lies behind the Pallace,<br/> -From the far shore, thicke set with reedes and Sedges,<br/> -As patiently I was attending sport,<br/> -I heard a voyce, a shrill one, and attentive<br/> -I gave my eare, when I might well perceive<br/> -T’was one that sung, and by the smallnesse of it<br/> -A boy or woman. I then left my angle<br/> -To his owne skill, came neere, but yet perceivd not<br/> -Who made the sound, the rushes and the Reeds<br/> -Had so encompast it: I laide me downe<br/> -And listned to the words she sung, for then,<br/> -Through a small glade cut by the Fisher men,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Ile tell you quickly. As I late was angling<br> +In the great Lake that lies behind the Pallace,<br> +From the far shore, thicke set with reedes and Sedges,<br> +As patiently I was attending sport,<br> +I heard a voyce, a shrill one, and attentive<br> +I gave my eare, when I might well perceive<br> +T’was one that sung, and by the smallnesse of it<br> +A boy or woman. I then left my angle<br> +To his owne skill, came neere, but yet perceivd not<br> +Who made the sound, the rushes and the Reeds<br> +Had so encompast it: I laide me downe<br> +And listned to the words she sung, for then,<br> +Through a small glade cut by the Fisher men,<br> I saw it was your Daughter. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Pray, goe on, Sir?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -She sung much, but no sence; onely I heard her<br/> -Repeat this often: ‘Palamon is gone,<br/> -Is gone to’th wood to gather Mulberies;<br/> +WOOER.<br> +She sung much, but no sence; onely I heard her<br> +Repeat this often: ‘Palamon is gone,<br> +Is gone to’th wood to gather Mulberies;<br> Ile finde him out to morrow.’ </p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> Pretty soule.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -‘His shackles will betray him, hee’l be taken,<br/> -And what shall I doe then? Ile bring a beavy,<br/> -A hundred blacke eyd Maides, that love as I doe,<br/> -With Chaplets on their heads of Daffadillies,<br/> -With cherry-lips, and cheekes of Damaske Roses,<br/> -And all wee’l daunce an Antique fore the Duke,<br/> -And beg his pardon.’ Then she talk’d of you, Sir;<br/> -That you must loose your head to morrow morning,<br/> -And she must gather flowers to bury you,<br/> -And see the house made handsome: then she sung<br/> -Nothing but ‘Willow, willow, willow,’ and betweene<br/> -Ever was, ‘Palamon, faire Palamon,’<br/> -And ‘Palamon was a tall yong man.’ The place<br/> -Was knee deepe where she sat; her careles Tresses<br/> -A wreathe of bull-rush rounded; about her stucke<br/> -Thousand fresh water flowers of severall cullors,<br/> -That me thought she appeard like the faire Nimph<br/> -That feedes the lake with waters, or as Iris<br/> -Newly dropt downe from heaven; Rings she made<br/> -Of rushes that grew by, and to ’em spoke<br/> -The prettiest posies: ‘Thus our true love’s tide,’<br/> -‘This you may loose, not me,’ and many a one:<br/> -And then she wept, and sung againe, and sigh’d,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +‘His shackles will betray him, hee’l be taken,<br> +And what shall I doe then? Ile bring a beavy,<br> +A hundred blacke eyd Maides, that love as I doe,<br> +With Chaplets on their heads of Daffadillies,<br> +With cherry-lips, and cheekes of Damaske Roses,<br> +And all wee’l daunce an Antique fore the Duke,<br> +And beg his pardon.’ Then she talk’d of you, Sir;<br> +That you must loose your head to morrow morning,<br> +And she must gather flowers to bury you,<br> +And see the house made handsome: then she sung<br> +Nothing but ‘Willow, willow, willow,’ and betweene<br> +Ever was, ‘Palamon, faire Palamon,’<br> +And ‘Palamon was a tall yong man.’ The place<br> +Was knee deepe where she sat; her careles Tresses<br> +A wreathe of bull-rush rounded; about her stucke<br> +Thousand fresh water flowers of severall cullors,<br> +That me thought she appeard like the faire Nimph<br> +That feedes the lake with waters, or as Iris<br> +Newly dropt downe from heaven; Rings she made<br> +Of rushes that grew by, and to ’em spoke<br> +The prettiest posies: ‘Thus our true love’s tide,’<br> +‘This you may loose, not me,’ and many a one:<br> +And then she wept, and sung againe, and sigh’d,<br> And with the same breath smil’d, and kist her hand. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> Alas, what pitty it is!</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -I made in to her.<br/> -She saw me, and straight sought the flood; I sav’d her,<br/> -And set her safe to land: when presently<br/> -She slipt away, and to the Citty made,<br/> -With such a cry and swiftnes, that, beleeve me,<br/> -Shee left me farre behinde her; three or foure<br/> -I saw from farre off crosse her, one of ’em<br/> -I knew to be your brother; where she staid,<br/> -And fell, scarce to be got away: I left them with her, [Enter Brother, Daughter, and others.]<br/> +WOOER.<br> +I made in to her.<br> +She saw me, and straight sought the flood; I sav’d her,<br> +And set her safe to land: when presently<br> +She slipt away, and to the Citty made,<br> +With such a cry and swiftnes, that, beleeve me,<br> +Shee left me farre behinde her; three or foure<br> +I saw from farre off crosse her, one of ’em<br> +I knew to be your brother; where she staid,<br> +And fell, scarce to be got away: I left them with her, [Enter Brother, Daughter, and others.]<br> And hether came to tell you. Here they are. </p> @@ -4657,212 +4639,212 @@ May you never more enjoy the light, &c.</p> Is not this a fine Song?</p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> O, a very fine one.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> I can sing twenty more.</p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> I thinke you can.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Yes, truely, can I; I can sing the Broome,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Yes, truely, can I; I can sing the Broome,<br> And Bony Robin. Are not you a tailour? </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Wher’s my wedding Gowne?</p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Ile bring it to morrow.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Doe, very rarely; I must be abroad else<br/> -To call the Maides, and pay the Minstrels,<br/> -For I must loose my Maydenhead by cock-light;<br/> -Twill never thrive else.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Doe, very rarely; I must be abroad else<br> +To call the Maides, and pay the Minstrels,<br> +For I must loose my Maydenhead by cock-light;<br> +Twill never thrive else.<br> [Singes.] O faire, oh sweete, &c. </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> You must ev’n take it patiently.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Tis true.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Good ev’n, good men; pray, did you ever heare<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Good ev’n, good men; pray, did you ever heare<br> Of one yong Palamon? </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Yes, wench, we know him.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Is’t not a fine yong Gentleman?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Tis Love.</p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> -By no meane crosse her; she is then distemperd<br/> +BROTHER.<br> +By no meane crosse her; she is then distemperd<br> Far worse then now she showes. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> Yes, he’s a fine man.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> O, is he so? you have a Sister?</p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -But she shall never have him, tell her so,<br/> -For a tricke that I know; y’had best looke to her,<br/> -For if she see him once, she’s gone, she’s done,<br/> -And undon in an howre. All the young Maydes<br/> -Of our Towne are in love with him, but I laugh at ’em<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +But she shall never have him, tell her so,<br> +For a tricke that I know; y’had best looke to her,<br> +For if she see him once, she’s gone, she’s done,<br> +And undon in an howre. All the young Maydes<br> +Of our Towne are in love with him, but I laugh at ’em<br> And let ’em all alone; Is’t not a wise course? </p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -There is at least two hundred now with child by him—<br/> -There must be fowre; yet I keepe close for all this,<br/> -Close as a Cockle; and all these must be Boyes,<br/> -He has the tricke on’t, and at ten yeares old<br/> -They must be all gelt for Musitians,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +There is at least two hundred now with child by him—<br> +There must be fowre; yet I keepe close for all this,<br> +Close as a Cockle; and all these must be Boyes,<br> +He has the tricke on’t, and at ten yeares old<br> +They must be all gelt for Musitians,<br> And sing the wars of Theseus. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> This is strange.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> As ever you heard, but say nothing.</p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> No.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -They come from all parts of the Dukedome to him;<br/> -Ile warrant ye, he had not so few last night<br/> -As twenty to dispatch: hee’l tickl’t up<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +They come from all parts of the Dukedome to him;<br> +Ile warrant ye, he had not so few last night<br> +As twenty to dispatch: hee’l tickl’t up<br> In two howres, if his hand be in. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -She’s lost<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +She’s lost<br> Past all cure. </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Heaven forbid, man.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Come hither, you are a wise man.</p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> Do’s she know him?</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> No, would she did.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> You are master of a Ship?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Wher’s your Compasse?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Heere.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Set it too’th North.<br/> -And now direct your course to’th wood, wher Palamon<br/> -Lyes longing for me; For the Tackling<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Set it too’th North.<br> +And now direct your course to’th wood, wher Palamon<br> +Lyes longing for me; For the Tackling<br> Let me alone; Come, waygh, my hearts, cheerely! </p> <p class="drama"> -ALL.<br/> -Owgh, owgh, owgh, tis up, the wind’s faire,<br/> -Top the Bowling, out with the maine saile;<br/> +ALL.<br> +Owgh, owgh, owgh, tis up, the wind’s faire,<br> +Top the Bowling, out with the maine saile;<br> Wher’s your Whistle, Master? </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Lets get her in.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Vp to the top, Boy.</p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Wher’s the Pilot?</p> <p class="drama"> -1. FRIEND.<br/> +1. FRIEND.<br> Heere.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> What ken’st thou?</p> <p class="drama"> -2. FRIEND.<br/> +2. FRIEND.<br> A faire wood.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Beare for it, master: take about! [Singes.]<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Beare for it, master: take about! [Singes.]<br> When Cinthia with her borrowed light, &c. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -4872,60 +4854,60 @@ When Cinthia with her borrowed light, &c. [Exeunt.] [Enter Emilia alone, with 2. Pictures.]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Yet I may binde those wounds up, that must open<br/> -And bleed to death for my sake else; Ile choose,<br/> -And end their strife: Two such yong hansom men<br/> -Shall never fall for me, their weeping Mothers,<br/> -Following the dead cold ashes of their Sonnes,<br/> -Shall never curse my cruelty. Good heaven,<br/> -What a sweet face has Arcite! if wise nature,<br/> -With all her best endowments, all those beuties<br/> -She sowes into the birthes of noble bodies,<br/> -Were here a mortall woman, and had in her<br/> -The coy denialls of yong Maydes, yet doubtles,<br/> -She would run mad for this man: what an eye,<br/> -Of what a fyry sparkle, and quick sweetnes,<br/> -Has this yong Prince! Here Love himselfe sits smyling,<br/> -Iust such another wanton Ganimead<br/> -Set Jove a fire with, and enforcd the god<br/> -Snatch up the goodly Boy, and set him by him<br/> -A shining constellation: What a brow,<br/> -Of what a spacious Majesty, he carries!<br/> -Arch’d like the great eyd Iuno’s, but far sweeter,<br/> -Smoother then Pelops Shoulder! Fame and honour,<br/> -Me thinks, from hence, as from a Promontory<br/> -Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings, and sing<br/> -To all the under world the Loves and Fights<br/> -Of gods, and such men neere ’em. Palamon<br/> -Is but his foyle, to him a meere dull shadow:<br/> -Hee’s swarth and meagre, of an eye as heavy<br/> -As if he had lost his mother; a still temper,<br/> -No stirring in him, no alacrity,<br/> -Of all this sprightly sharpenes not a smile;<br/> -Yet these that we count errours may become him:<br/> -Narcissus was a sad Boy, but a heavenly:—<br/> -Oh who can finde the bent of womans fancy?<br/> -I am a Foole, my reason is lost in me;<br/> -I have no choice, and I have ly’d so lewdly<br/> -That women ought to beate me. On my knees<br/> -I aske thy pardon, Palamon; thou art alone,<br/> -And only beutifull, and these the eyes,<br/> -These the bright lamps of beauty, that command<br/> -And threaten Love, and what yong Mayd dare crosse ’em?<br/> -What a bold gravity, and yet inviting,<br/> -Has this browne manly face! O Love, this only<br/> -From this howre is Complexion: Lye there, Arcite,<br/> -Thou art a changling to him, a meere Gipsey,<br/> -And this the noble Bodie. I am sotted,<br/> -Vtterly lost: My Virgins faith has fled me;<br/> -For if my brother but even now had ask’d me<br/> -Whether I lov’d, I had run mad for Arcite;<br/> -Now, if my Sister, More for Palamon.<br/> -Stand both together: Now, come aske me, Brother.—<br/> -Alas, I know not! Aske me now, sweet Sister;—<br/> -I may goe looke. What a meere child is Fancie,<br/> -That, having two faire gawdes of equall sweetnesse,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Yet I may binde those wounds up, that must open<br> +And bleed to death for my sake else; Ile choose,<br> +And end their strife: Two such yong hansom men<br> +Shall never fall for me, their weeping Mothers,<br> +Following the dead cold ashes of their Sonnes,<br> +Shall never curse my cruelty. Good heaven,<br> +What a sweet face has Arcite! if wise nature,<br> +With all her best endowments, all those beuties<br> +She sowes into the birthes of noble bodies,<br> +Were here a mortall woman, and had in her<br> +The coy denialls of yong Maydes, yet doubtles,<br> +She would run mad for this man: what an eye,<br> +Of what a fyry sparkle, and quick sweetnes,<br> +Has this yong Prince! Here Love himselfe sits smyling,<br> +Iust such another wanton Ganimead<br> +Set Jove a fire with, and enforcd the god<br> +Snatch up the goodly Boy, and set him by him<br> +A shining constellation: What a brow,<br> +Of what a spacious Majesty, he carries!<br> +Arch’d like the great eyd Iuno’s, but far sweeter,<br> +Smoother then Pelops Shoulder! Fame and honour,<br> +Me thinks, from hence, as from a Promontory<br> +Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings, and sing<br> +To all the under world the Loves and Fights<br> +Of gods, and such men neere ’em. Palamon<br> +Is but his foyle, to him a meere dull shadow:<br> +Hee’s swarth and meagre, of an eye as heavy<br> +As if he had lost his mother; a still temper,<br> +No stirring in him, no alacrity,<br> +Of all this sprightly sharpenes not a smile;<br> +Yet these that we count errours may become him:<br> +Narcissus was a sad Boy, but a heavenly:—<br> +Oh who can finde the bent of womans fancy?<br> +I am a Foole, my reason is lost in me;<br> +I have no choice, and I have ly’d so lewdly<br> +That women ought to beate me. On my knees<br> +I aske thy pardon, Palamon; thou art alone,<br> +And only beutifull, and these the eyes,<br> +These the bright lamps of beauty, that command<br> +And threaten Love, and what yong Mayd dare crosse ’em?<br> +What a bold gravity, and yet inviting,<br> +Has this browne manly face! O Love, this only<br> +From this howre is Complexion: Lye there, Arcite,<br> +Thou art a changling to him, a meere Gipsey,<br> +And this the noble Bodie. I am sotted,<br> +Vtterly lost: My Virgins faith has fled me;<br> +For if my brother but even now had ask’d me<br> +Whether I lov’d, I had run mad for Arcite;<br> +Now, if my Sister, More for Palamon.<br> +Stand both together: Now, come aske me, Brother.—<br> +Alas, I know not! Aske me now, sweet Sister;—<br> +I may goe looke. What a meere child is Fancie,<br> +That, having two faire gawdes of equall sweetnesse,<br> Cannot distinguish, but must crie for both. </p> @@ -4933,32 +4915,32 @@ Cannot distinguish, but must crie for both. [Enter (a) Gent(leman.)]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> How now, Sir?</p> <p class="drama"> -GENTLEMAN.<br/> -From the Noble Duke your Brother,<br/> +GENTLEMAN.<br> +From the Noble Duke your Brother,<br> Madam, I bring you newes: The Knights are come. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> To end the quarrell?</p> <p class="drama"> -GENTLEMAN.<br/> +GENTLEMAN.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Would I might end first:<br/> -What sinnes have I committed, chast Diana,<br/> -That my unspotted youth must now be soyld<br/> -With blood of Princes? and my Chastitie<br/> -Be made the Altar, where the lives of Lovers<br/> -(Two greater and two better never yet<br/> -Made mothers joy) must be the sacrifice<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Would I might end first:<br> +What sinnes have I committed, chast Diana,<br> +That my unspotted youth must now be soyld<br> +With blood of Princes? and my Chastitie<br> +Be made the Altar, where the lives of Lovers<br> +(Two greater and two better never yet<br> +Made mothers joy) must be the sacrifice<br> To my unhappy Beautie? </p> @@ -4966,17 +4948,17 @@ To my unhappy Beautie? [Enter Theseus, Hipolita, Perithous and attendants.]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Bring ’em in<br/> -Quickly, By any meanes; I long to see ’em.—<br/> -Your two contending Lovers are return’d,<br/> -And with them their faire Knights: Now, my faire Sister,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Bring ’em in<br> +Quickly, By any meanes; I long to see ’em.—<br> +Your two contending Lovers are return’d,<br> +And with them their faire Knights: Now, my faire Sister,<br> You must love one of them. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I had rather both,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I had rather both,<br> So neither for my sake should fall untimely. </p> @@ -4984,199 +4966,199 @@ So neither for my sake should fall untimely. [Enter Messenger. (Curtis.)]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Who saw ’em?</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> I, a while.</p> <p class="drama"> -GENTLEMAN.<br/> +GENTLEMAN.<br> And I.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> From whence come you, Sir?</p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> From the Knights.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Pray, speake,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Pray, speake,<br> You that have seene them, what they are. </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -I will, Sir,<br/> -And truly what I thinke: Six braver spirits<br/> -Then these they have brought, (if we judge by the outside)<br/> -I never saw, nor read of. He that stands<br/> -In the first place with Arcite, by his seeming,<br/> -Should be a stout man, by his face a Prince,<br/> -(His very lookes so say him) his complexion,<br/> -Nearer a browne, than blacke, sterne, and yet noble,<br/> -Which shewes him hardy, fearelesse, proud of dangers:<br/> -The circles of his eyes show fire within him,<br/> -And as a heated Lyon, so he lookes;<br/> -His haire hangs long behind him, blacke and shining<br/> -Like Ravens wings: his shoulders broad and strong,<br/> -Armd long and round, and on his Thigh a Sword<br/> -Hung by a curious Bauldricke, when he frownes<br/> -To seale his will with: better, o’my conscience<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +I will, Sir,<br> +And truly what I thinke: Six braver spirits<br> +Then these they have brought, (if we judge by the outside)<br> +I never saw, nor read of. He that stands<br> +In the first place with Arcite, by his seeming,<br> +Should be a stout man, by his face a Prince,<br> +(His very lookes so say him) his complexion,<br> +Nearer a browne, than blacke, sterne, and yet noble,<br> +Which shewes him hardy, fearelesse, proud of dangers:<br> +The circles of his eyes show fire within him,<br> +And as a heated Lyon, so he lookes;<br> +His haire hangs long behind him, blacke and shining<br> +Like Ravens wings: his shoulders broad and strong,<br> +Armd long and round, and on his Thigh a Sword<br> +Hung by a curious Bauldricke, when he frownes<br> +To seale his will with: better, o’my conscience<br> Was never Souldiers friend. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Thou ha’st well describde him.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Yet a great deale short,<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Yet a great deale short,<br> Me thinkes, of him that’s first with Palamon. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Pray, speake him, friend.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -I ghesse he is a Prince too,<br/> -And, if it may be, greater; for his show<br/> -Has all the ornament of honour in’t:<br/> -Hee’s somewhat bigger, then the Knight he spoke of,<br/> -But of a face far sweeter; His complexion<br/> -Is (as a ripe grape) ruddy: he has felt,<br/> -Without doubt, what he fights for, and so apter<br/> -To make this cause his owne: In’s face appeares<br/> -All the faire hopes of what he undertakes,<br/> -And when he’s angry, then a setled valour<br/> -(Not tainted with extreames) runs through his body,<br/> -And guides his arme to brave things: Feare he cannot,<br/> -He shewes no such soft temper; his head’s yellow,<br/> -Hard hayr’d, and curld, thicke twind like Ivy tods,<br/> -Not to undoe with thunder; In his face<br/> -The liverie of the warlike Maide appeares,<br/> -Pure red, and white, for yet no beard has blest him.<br/> -And in his rowling eyes sits victory,<br/> -As if she ever ment to court his valour:<br/> -His Nose stands high, a Character of honour.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +I ghesse he is a Prince too,<br> +And, if it may be, greater; for his show<br> +Has all the ornament of honour in’t:<br> +Hee’s somewhat bigger, then the Knight he spoke of,<br> +But of a face far sweeter; His complexion<br> +Is (as a ripe grape) ruddy: he has felt,<br> +Without doubt, what he fights for, and so apter<br> +To make this cause his owne: In’s face appeares<br> +All the faire hopes of what he undertakes,<br> +And when he’s angry, then a setled valour<br> +(Not tainted with extreames) runs through his body,<br> +And guides his arme to brave things: Feare he cannot,<br> +He shewes no such soft temper; his head’s yellow,<br> +Hard hayr’d, and curld, thicke twind like Ivy tods,<br> +Not to undoe with thunder; In his face<br> +The liverie of the warlike Maide appeares,<br> +Pure red, and white, for yet no beard has blest him.<br> +And in his rowling eyes sits victory,<br> +As if she ever ment to court his valour:<br> +His Nose stands high, a Character of honour.<br> His red lips, after fights, are fit for Ladies. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Must these men die too?</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -When he speakes, his tongue<br/> -Sounds like a Trumpet; All his lyneaments<br/> -Are as a man would wish ’em, strong and cleane,<br/> -He weares a well-steeld Axe, the staffe of gold;<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +When he speakes, his tongue<br> +Sounds like a Trumpet; All his lyneaments<br> +Are as a man would wish ’em, strong and cleane,<br> +He weares a well-steeld Axe, the staffe of gold;<br> His age some five and twenty. </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -Ther’s another,<br/> -A little man, but of a tough soule, seeming<br/> -As great as any: fairer promises<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +Ther’s another,<br> +A little man, but of a tough soule, seeming<br> +As great as any: fairer promises<br> In such a Body yet I never look’d on. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> O, he that’s freckle fac’d?</p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -The same, my Lord;<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +The same, my Lord;<br> Are they not sweet ones? </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Yes, they are well.</p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -Me thinkes,<br/> -Being so few, and well disposd, they show<br/> -Great, and fine art in nature: he’s white hair’d,<br/> -Not wanton white, but such a manly colour<br/> -Next to an aborne; tough, and nimble set,<br/> -Which showes an active soule; his armes are brawny,<br/> -Linde with strong sinewes: To the shoulder peece<br/> -Gently they swell, like women new conceav’d,<br/> -Which speakes him prone to labour, never fainting<br/> -Vnder the waight of Armes; stout harted, still,<br/> -But when he stirs, a Tiger; he’s gray eyd,<br/> -Which yeelds compassion where he conquers: sharpe<br/> -To spy advantages, and where he finds ’em,<br/> -He’s swift to make ’em his: He do’s no wrongs,<br/> -Nor takes none; he’s round fac’d, and when he smiles<br/> -He showes a Lover, when he frownes, a Souldier:<br/> -About his head he weares the winners oke,<br/> -And in it stucke the favour of his Lady:<br/> -His age, some six and thirtie. In his hand<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +Me thinkes,<br> +Being so few, and well disposd, they show<br> +Great, and fine art in nature: he’s white hair’d,<br> +Not wanton white, but such a manly colour<br> +Next to an aborne; tough, and nimble set,<br> +Which showes an active soule; his armes are brawny,<br> +Linde with strong sinewes: To the shoulder peece<br> +Gently they swell, like women new conceav’d,<br> +Which speakes him prone to labour, never fainting<br> +Vnder the waight of Armes; stout harted, still,<br> +But when he stirs, a Tiger; he’s gray eyd,<br> +Which yeelds compassion where he conquers: sharpe<br> +To spy advantages, and where he finds ’em,<br> +He’s swift to make ’em his: He do’s no wrongs,<br> +Nor takes none; he’s round fac’d, and when he smiles<br> +He showes a Lover, when he frownes, a Souldier:<br> +About his head he weares the winners oke,<br> +And in it stucke the favour of his Lady:<br> +His age, some six and thirtie. In his hand<br> He beares a charging Staffe, embost with silver. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Are they all thus?</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> They are all the sonnes of honour.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Now, as I have a soule, I long to see’em.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Now, as I have a soule, I long to see’em.<br> Lady, you shall see men fight now. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -I wish it,<br/> -But not the cause, my Lord; They would show<br/> -Bravely about the Titles of two Kingdomes;<br/> -Tis pitty Love should be so tyrannous:<br/> -O my soft harted Sister, what thinke you?<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +I wish it,<br> +But not the cause, my Lord; They would show<br> +Bravely about the Titles of two Kingdomes;<br> +Tis pitty Love should be so tyrannous:<br> +O my soft harted Sister, what thinke you?<br> Weepe not, till they weepe blood, Wench; it must be. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You have steel’d ’em with your Beautie.—Honord Friend,<br/> -To you I give the Feild; pray, order it<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You have steel’d ’em with your Beautie.—Honord Friend,<br> +To you I give the Feild; pray, order it<br> Fitting the persons that must use it. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Yes, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Come, Ile goe visit ’em: I cannot stay,<br/> -Their fame has fir’d me so; Till they appeare.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Come, Ile goe visit ’em: I cannot stay,<br> +Their fame has fir’d me so; Till they appeare.<br> Good Friend, be royall. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> There shall want no bravery.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Poore wench, goe weepe, for whosoever wins,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Poore wench, goe weepe, for whosoever wins,<br> Looses a noble Cosen for thy sins. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -5186,12 +5168,12 @@ Looses a noble Cosen for thy sins. [Exeunt.] [Enter Iailor, Wooer, Doctor.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Her distraction is more at some time of the Moone, then at other some, is it not?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> She is continually in a harmelesse distemper, sleepes little, altogether without appetite, save often drinking, dreaming of another world, and a better; and what broken peece of matter @@ -5205,7 +5187,7 @@ ev’ry busines withall, fyts it to every question.—</p> Looke where shee comes, you shall perceive her behaviour.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> I have forgot it quite; The burden on’t, was DOWNE A, DOWNE A, and pend by no worse man, then Giraldo, Emilias Schoolemaster; he’s as Fantasticall too, as ever he may goe upon’s legs,—for @@ -5213,15 +5195,15 @@ in the next world will Dido see Palamon, and then will she be out of love with Eneas.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> What stuff’s here? pore soule!</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Ev’n thus all day long.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Now for this Charme, that I told you of: you must bring a peece of silver on the tip of your tongue, or no ferry: then, if it be your chance to come where the blessed spirits, as ther’s a sight @@ -5231,11 +5213,11 @@ flowers with Proserpine; then will I make Palamon a Nosegay; then let him marke me,—then—</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> How prettily she’s amisse? note her a little further.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Faith, ile tell you, sometime we goe to Barly breake, we of the blessed; alas, tis a sore life they have i’th other place, such burning, frying, boyling, hissing, howling, chattring, cursing, @@ -5247,11 +5229,11 @@ Gamon of Bacon that will never be enough. [Exit.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> How her braine coynes!</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Lords and Courtiers, that have got maids with Child, they are in this place: they shall stand in fire up to the Nav’le, and in yce up to’th hart, and there th’offending part burnes, and the @@ -5260,12 +5242,12 @@ one would thinke, for such a Trifle; beleve me, one would marry a leaprous witch, to be rid on’t, Ile assure you.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> How she continues this fancie! Tis not an engraffed Madnesse, but a most thicke, and profound mellencholly.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> To heare there a proud Lady, and a proud Citty wiffe, howle together! I were a beast and il’d call it good sport: one cries, ‘O this smoake!’ another, ‘this fire!’ One cries, ‘O, that ever @@ -5274,36 +5256,36 @@ suing fellow and her garden house. [Sings] I will be true, my stars, my fate, &c. [Exit Daugh.]</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> What thinke you of her, Sir?</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> I thinke she has a perturbed minde, which I cannot minister to.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Alas, what then?</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Vnderstand you, she ever affected any man, ere she beheld<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Vnderstand you, she ever affected any man, ere she beheld<br> Palamon? </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> I was once, Sir, in great hope she had fixd her liking on this gentleman, my friend.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I did thinke so too, and would account I had a great pen-worth on’t, to give halfe my state, that both she and I at this present stood unfainedly on the same tearmes.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> That intemprat surfeit of her eye hath distemperd the other sences: they may returne and settle againe to execute their preordaind faculties, but they are now in a most extravagant vagary. This @@ -5344,13 +5326,13 @@ comfort. [Florish. Exeunt.]</p> [Enter Thesius, Perithous, Hipolita, attendants.]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Now let’em enter, and before the gods<br/> -Tender their holy prayers: Let the Temples<br/> -Burne bright with sacred fires, and the Altars<br/> -In hallowed clouds commend their swelling Incense<br/> -To those above us: Let no due be wanting; [Florish of Cornets.]<br/> -They have a noble worke in hand, will honour<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Now let’em enter, and before the gods<br> +Tender their holy prayers: Let the Temples<br> +Burne bright with sacred fires, and the Altars<br> +In hallowed clouds commend their swelling Incense<br> +To those above us: Let no due be wanting; [Florish of Cornets.]<br> +They have a noble worke in hand, will honour<br> The very powers that love ’em. </p> @@ -5358,96 +5340,96 @@ The very powers that love ’em. [Enter Palamon and Arcite, and their Knights.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Sir, they enter.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You valiant and strong harted Enemies,<br/> -You royall German foes, that this day come<br/> -To blow that furnesse out that flames betweene ye:<br/> -Lay by your anger for an houre, and dove-like,<br/> -Before the holy Altars of your helpers,<br/> -(The all feard gods) bow downe your stubborne bodies.<br/> -Your ire is more than mortall; So your helpe be,<br/> -And as the gods regard ye, fight with Iustice;<br/> -Ile leave you to your prayers, and betwixt ye<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You valiant and strong harted Enemies,<br> +You royall German foes, that this day come<br> +To blow that furnesse out that flames betweene ye:<br> +Lay by your anger for an houre, and dove-like,<br> +Before the holy Altars of your helpers,<br> +(The all feard gods) bow downe your stubborne bodies.<br> +Your ire is more than mortall; So your helpe be,<br> +And as the gods regard ye, fight with Iustice;<br> +Ile leave you to your prayers, and betwixt ye<br> I part my wishes. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Honour crowne the worthiest. [Exit Theseus, and his traine.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -The glasse is running now that cannot finish<br/> -Till one of us expire: Thinke you but thus,<br/> -That were there ought in me which strove to show<br/> -Mine enemy in this businesse, wer’t one eye<br/> -Against another, Arme opprest by Arme,<br/> -I would destroy th’offender, Coz, I would,<br/> -Though parcell of my selfe: Then from this gather<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +The glasse is running now that cannot finish<br> +Till one of us expire: Thinke you but thus,<br> +That were there ought in me which strove to show<br> +Mine enemy in this businesse, wer’t one eye<br> +Against another, Arme opprest by Arme,<br> +I would destroy th’offender, Coz, I would,<br> +Though parcell of my selfe: Then from this gather<br> How I should tender you. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I am in labour<br/> -To push your name, your auncient love, our kindred<br/> -Out of my memory; and i’th selfe same place<br/> -To seate something I would confound: So hoyst we<br/> -The sayles, that must these vessells port even where<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I am in labour<br> +To push your name, your auncient love, our kindred<br> +Out of my memory; and i’th selfe same place<br> +To seate something I would confound: So hoyst we<br> +The sayles, that must these vessells port even where<br> The heavenly Lymiter pleases. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -You speake well;<br/> -Before I turne, Let me embrace thee, Cosen:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +You speake well;<br> +Before I turne, Let me embrace thee, Cosen:<br> This I shall never doe agen. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> One farewell.</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Why, let it be so: Farewell, Coz. [Exeunt Palamon and his<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Why, let it be so: Farewell, Coz. [Exeunt Palamon and his<br> Knights.] </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Farewell, Sir.—<br/> -Knights, Kinsemen, Lovers, yea, my Sacrifices,<br/> -True worshippers of Mars, whose spirit in you<br/> -Expells the seedes of feare, and th’apprehension<br/> -Which still is farther off it, Goe with me<br/> -Before the god of our profession: There<br/> -Require of him the hearts of Lyons, and<br/> -The breath of Tigers, yea, the fearcenesse too,<br/> -Yea, the speed also,—to goe on, I meane,<br/> -Else wish we to be Snayles: you know my prize<br/> -Must be drag’d out of blood; force and great feate<br/> -Must put my Garland on, where she stickes<br/> -The Queene of Flowers: our intercession then<br/> -Must be to him that makes the Campe a Cestron<br/> -Brymd with the blood of men: give me your aide<br/> -And bend your spirits towards him. [They kneele.]<br/> -Thou mighty one, that with thy power hast turnd<br/> -Greene Neptune into purple, (whose Approach)<br/> -Comets prewarne, whose havocke in vaste Feild<br/> -Vnearthed skulls proclaime, whose breath blowes downe,<br/> -The teeming Ceres foyzon, who doth plucke<br/> -With hand armypotent from forth blew clowdes<br/> -The masond Turrets, that both mak’st and break’st<br/> -The stony girthes of Citties: me thy puple,<br/> -Yongest follower of thy Drom, instruct this day<br/> -With military skill, that to thy lawde<br/> -I may advance my Streamer, and by thee,<br/> -Be stil’d the Lord o’th day: give me, great Mars,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Farewell, Sir.—<br> +Knights, Kinsemen, Lovers, yea, my Sacrifices,<br> +True worshippers of Mars, whose spirit in you<br> +Expells the seedes of feare, and th’apprehension<br> +Which still is farther off it, Goe with me<br> +Before the god of our profession: There<br> +Require of him the hearts of Lyons, and<br> +The breath of Tigers, yea, the fearcenesse too,<br> +Yea, the speed also,—to goe on, I meane,<br> +Else wish we to be Snayles: you know my prize<br> +Must be drag’d out of blood; force and great feate<br> +Must put my Garland on, where she stickes<br> +The Queene of Flowers: our intercession then<br> +Must be to him that makes the Campe a Cestron<br> +Brymd with the blood of men: give me your aide<br> +And bend your spirits towards him. [They kneele.]<br> +Thou mighty one, that with thy power hast turnd<br> +Greene Neptune into purple, (whose Approach)<br> +Comets prewarne, whose havocke in vaste Feild<br> +Vnearthed skulls proclaime, whose breath blowes downe,<br> +The teeming Ceres foyzon, who doth plucke<br> +With hand armypotent from forth blew clowdes<br> +The masond Turrets, that both mak’st and break’st<br> +The stony girthes of Citties: me thy puple,<br> +Yongest follower of thy Drom, instruct this day<br> +With military skill, that to thy lawde<br> +I may advance my Streamer, and by thee,<br> +Be stil’d the Lord o’th day: give me, great Mars,<br> Some token of thy pleasure. </p> @@ -5458,12 +5440,12 @@ Battaile, whereupon they all rise and bow to the Altar.] </p> <p class="drama"> -O Great Corrector of enormous times,<br/> -Shaker of ore-rank States, thou grand decider<br/> -Of dustie and old tytles, that healst with blood<br/> -The earth when it is sicke, and curst the world<br/> -O’th pluresie of people; I doe take<br/> -Thy signes auspiciously, and in thy name<br/> +O Great Corrector of enormous times,<br> +Shaker of ore-rank States, thou grand decider<br> +Of dustie and old tytles, that healst with blood<br> +The earth when it is sicke, and curst the world<br> +O’th pluresie of people; I doe take<br> +Thy signes auspiciously, and in thy name<br> To my designe march boldly. Let us goe. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -5471,67 +5453,67 @@ To my designe march boldly. Let us goe. [Exeunt.] [Enter Palamon and his Knights, with the former observance.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Our stars must glister with new fire, or be<br/> -To daie extinct; our argument is love,<br/> -Which if the goddesse of it grant, she gives<br/> -Victory too: then blend your spirits with mine,<br/> -You, whose free noblenesse doe make my cause<br/> -Your personall hazard; to the goddesse Venus<br/> -Commend we our proceeding, and implore<br/> -Her power unto our partie. [Here they kneele as formerly.]<br/> -Haile, Soveraigne Queene of secrets, who hast power<br/> -To call the feircest Tyrant from his rage,<br/> -And weepe unto a Girle; that ha’st the might,<br/> -Even with an ey-glance, to choke Marsis Drom<br/> -And turne th’allarme to whispers; that canst make<br/> -A Criple florish with his Crutch, and cure him<br/> -Before Apollo; that may’st force the King<br/> -To be his subjects vassaile, and induce<br/> -Stale gravitie to daunce; the pould Bachelour—<br/> -Whose youth, like wonton Boyes through Bonfyres,<br/> -Have skipt thy flame—at seaventy thou canst catch<br/> -And make him, to the scorne of his hoarse throate,<br/> -Abuse yong laies of love: what godlike power<br/> -Hast thou not power upon? To Phoebus thou<br/> -Add’st flames hotter then his; the heavenly fyres<br/> -Did scortch his mortall Son, thine him; the huntresse<br/> -All moyst and cold, some say, began to throw<br/> -Her Bow away, and sigh. Take to thy grace<br/> -Me, thy vowd Souldier, who doe beare thy yoke<br/> -As t’wer a wreath of Roses, yet is heavier<br/> -Then Lead it selfe, stings more than Nettles.<br/> -I have never beene foule mouthd against thy law,<br/> -Nev’r reveald secret, for I knew none—would not,<br/> -Had I kend all that were; I never practised<br/> -Vpon mans wife, nor would the Libells reade<br/> -Of liberall wits; I never at great feastes<br/> -Sought to betray a Beautie, but have blush’d<br/> -At simpring Sirs that did; I have beene harsh<br/> -To large Confessors, and have hotly ask’d them<br/> -If they had Mothers: I had one, a woman,<br/> -And women t’wer they wrong’d. I knew a man<br/> -Of eightie winters, this I told them, who<br/> -A Lasse of foureteene brided; twas thy power<br/> -To put life into dust; the aged Crampe<br/> -Had screw’d his square foote round,<br/> -The Gout had knit his fingers into knots,<br/> -Torturing Convulsions from his globie eyes,<br/> -Had almost drawne their spheeres, that what was life<br/> -In him seem’d torture: this Anatomie<br/> -Had by his yong faire pheare a Boy, and I<br/> -Beleev’d it was him, for she swore it was,<br/> -And who would not beleeve her? briefe, I am<br/> -To those that prate and have done no Companion;<br/> -To those that boast and have not a defyer;<br/> -To those that would and cannot a Rejoycer.<br/> -Yea, him I doe not love, that tells close offices<br/> -The fowlest way, nor names concealements in<br/> -The boldest language: such a one I am,<br/> -And vow that lover never yet made sigh<br/> -Truer then I. O, then, most soft, sweet goddesse,<br/> -Give me the victory of this question, which<br/> -Is true loves merit, and blesse me with a signe<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Our stars must glister with new fire, or be<br> +To daie extinct; our argument is love,<br> +Which if the goddesse of it grant, she gives<br> +Victory too: then blend your spirits with mine,<br> +You, whose free noblenesse doe make my cause<br> +Your personall hazard; to the goddesse Venus<br> +Commend we our proceeding, and implore<br> +Her power unto our partie. [Here they kneele as formerly.]<br> +Haile, Soveraigne Queene of secrets, who hast power<br> +To call the feircest Tyrant from his rage,<br> +And weepe unto a Girle; that ha’st the might,<br> +Even with an ey-glance, to choke Marsis Drom<br> +And turne th’allarme to whispers; that canst make<br> +A Criple florish with his Crutch, and cure him<br> +Before Apollo; that may’st force the King<br> +To be his subjects vassaile, and induce<br> +Stale gravitie to daunce; the pould Bachelour—<br> +Whose youth, like wonton Boyes through Bonfyres,<br> +Have skipt thy flame—at seaventy thou canst catch<br> +And make him, to the scorne of his hoarse throate,<br> +Abuse yong laies of love: what godlike power<br> +Hast thou not power upon? To Phoebus thou<br> +Add’st flames hotter then his; the heavenly fyres<br> +Did scortch his mortall Son, thine him; the huntresse<br> +All moyst and cold, some say, began to throw<br> +Her Bow away, and sigh. Take to thy grace<br> +Me, thy vowd Souldier, who doe beare thy yoke<br> +As t’wer a wreath of Roses, yet is heavier<br> +Then Lead it selfe, stings more than Nettles.<br> +I have never beene foule mouthd against thy law,<br> +Nev’r reveald secret, for I knew none—would not,<br> +Had I kend all that were; I never practised<br> +Vpon mans wife, nor would the Libells reade<br> +Of liberall wits; I never at great feastes<br> +Sought to betray a Beautie, but have blush’d<br> +At simpring Sirs that did; I have beene harsh<br> +To large Confessors, and have hotly ask’d them<br> +If they had Mothers: I had one, a woman,<br> +And women t’wer they wrong’d. I knew a man<br> +Of eightie winters, this I told them, who<br> +A Lasse of foureteene brided; twas thy power<br> +To put life into dust; the aged Crampe<br> +Had screw’d his square foote round,<br> +The Gout had knit his fingers into knots,<br> +Torturing Convulsions from his globie eyes,<br> +Had almost drawne their spheeres, that what was life<br> +In him seem’d torture: this Anatomie<br> +Had by his yong faire pheare a Boy, and I<br> +Beleev’d it was him, for she swore it was,<br> +And who would not beleeve her? briefe, I am<br> +To those that prate and have done no Companion;<br> +To those that boast and have not a defyer;<br> +To those that would and cannot a Rejoycer.<br> +Yea, him I doe not love, that tells close offices<br> +The fowlest way, nor names concealements in<br> +The boldest language: such a one I am,<br> +And vow that lover never yet made sigh<br> +Truer then I. O, then, most soft, sweet goddesse,<br> +Give me the victory of this question, which<br> +Is true loves merit, and blesse me with a signe<br> Of thy great pleasure. </p> @@ -5541,13 +5523,13 @@ againe upon their faces, then on their knees.] </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O thou, that from eleven to ninetie raign’st<br/> -In mortall bosomes, whose chase is this world,<br/> -And we in heards thy game: I give thee thankes<br/> -For this faire Token, which, being layd unto<br/> -Mine innocent true heart, armes in assurance [They bow.]<br/> -My body to this businesse. Let us rise<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O thou, that from eleven to ninetie raign’st<br> +In mortall bosomes, whose chase is this world,<br> +And we in heards thy game: I give thee thankes<br> +For this faire Token, which, being layd unto<br> +Mine innocent true heart, armes in assurance [They bow.]<br> +My body to this businesse. Let us rise<br> And bow before the goddesse: Time comes on. [Exeunt.] </p> @@ -5563,32 +5545,32 @@ conveyd Incense and sweet odours, which being set upon the Altar they curtsey and kneele.]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -O sacred, shadowie, cold and constant Queene,<br/> -Abandoner of Revells, mute, contemplative,<br/> -Sweet, solitary, white as chaste, and pure<br/> -As windefand Snow, who to thy femall knights<br/> -Alow’st no more blood than will make a blush,<br/> -Which is their orders robe: I heere, thy Priest,<br/> -Am humbled fore thine Altar; O vouchsafe,<br/> -With that thy rare greene eye, which never yet<br/> -Beheld thing maculate, looke on thy virgin;<br/> -And, sacred silver Mistris, lend thine eare<br/> -(Which nev’r heard scurrill terme, into whose port<br/> -Ne’re entred wanton found,) to my petition<br/> -Seasond with holy feare: This is my last<br/> -Of vestall office; I am bride habited,<br/> -But mayden harted, a husband I have pointed,<br/> -But doe not know him; out of two I should<br/> -Choose one and pray for his successe, but I<br/> -Am guiltlesse of election: of mine eyes,<br/> -Were I to loose one, they are equall precious,<br/> -I could doombe neither, that which perish’d should<br/> -Goe too’t unsentenc’d: Therefore, most modest Queene,<br/> -He of the two Pretenders, that best loves me<br/> -And has the truest title in’t, Let him<br/> -Take off my wheaten Gerland, or else grant<br/> -The fyle and qualitie I hold, I may<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +O sacred, shadowie, cold and constant Queene,<br> +Abandoner of Revells, mute, contemplative,<br> +Sweet, solitary, white as chaste, and pure<br> +As windefand Snow, who to thy femall knights<br> +Alow’st no more blood than will make a blush,<br> +Which is their orders robe: I heere, thy Priest,<br> +Am humbled fore thine Altar; O vouchsafe,<br> +With that thy rare greene eye, which never yet<br> +Beheld thing maculate, looke on thy virgin;<br> +And, sacred silver Mistris, lend thine eare<br> +(Which nev’r heard scurrill terme, into whose port<br> +Ne’re entred wanton found,) to my petition<br> +Seasond with holy feare: This is my last<br> +Of vestall office; I am bride habited,<br> +But mayden harted, a husband I have pointed,<br> +But doe not know him; out of two I should<br> +Choose one and pray for his successe, but I<br> +Am guiltlesse of election: of mine eyes,<br> +Were I to loose one, they are equall precious,<br> +I could doombe neither, that which perish’d should<br> +Goe too’t unsentenc’d: Therefore, most modest Queene,<br> +He of the two Pretenders, that best loves me<br> +And has the truest title in’t, Let him<br> +Take off my wheaten Gerland, or else grant<br> +The fyle and qualitie I hold, I may<br> Continue in thy Band. </p> @@ -5598,11 +5580,11 @@ a Rose Tree, having one Rose upon it.] </p> <p class="drama"> -See what our Generall of Ebbs and Flowes<br/> -Out from the bowells of her holy Altar<br/> -With sacred act advances! But one Rose:<br/> -If well inspird, this Battaile shal confound<br/> -Both these brave Knights, and I, a virgin flowre<br/> +See what our Generall of Ebbs and Flowes<br> +Out from the bowells of her holy Altar<br> +With sacred act advances! But one Rose:<br> +If well inspird, this Battaile shal confound<br> +Both these brave Knights, and I, a virgin flowre<br> Must grow alone unpluck’d. </p> @@ -5612,10 +5594,10 @@ from the Tree (which vanishes under the altar.)] </p> <p class="drama"> -The flowre is falne, the Tree descends: O, Mistris,<br/> -Thou here dischargest me; I shall be gather’d:<br/> -I thinke so, but I know not thine owne will;<br/> -Vnclaspe thy Misterie.—I hope she’s pleas’d,<br/> +The flowre is falne, the Tree descends: O, Mistris,<br> +Thou here dischargest me; I shall be gather’d:<br> +I thinke so, but I know not thine owne will;<br> +Vnclaspe thy Misterie.—I hope she’s pleas’d,<br> Her Signes were gratious. [They curtsey and Exeunt.] </p> @@ -5625,385 +5607,385 @@ Her Signes were gratious. [They curtsey and Exeunt.] [Enter Doctor, Iaylor and Wooer, in habite of Palamon.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Has this advice I told you, done any good upon her?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -O very much; The maids that kept her company<br/> -Have halfe perswaded her that I am Palamon;<br/> -Within this halfe houre she came smiling to me,<br/> -And asked me what I would eate, and when I would kisse her:<br/> +WOOER.<br> +O very much; The maids that kept her company<br> +Have halfe perswaded her that I am Palamon;<br> +Within this halfe houre she came smiling to me,<br> +And asked me what I would eate, and when I would kisse her:<br> I told her presently, and kist her twice. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Twas well done; twentie times had bin far better,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Twas well done; twentie times had bin far better,<br> For there the cure lies mainely. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Then she told me<br/> -She would watch with me to night, for well she knew<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Then she told me<br> +She would watch with me to night, for well she knew<br> What houre my fit would take me. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Let her doe so,<br/> -And when your fit comes, fit her home,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Let her doe so,<br> +And when your fit comes, fit her home,<br> And presently. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> She would have me sing.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> You did so?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> No.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Twas very ill done, then;<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Twas very ill done, then;<br> You should observe her ev’ry way. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Alas,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Alas,<br> I have no voice, Sir, to confirme her that way. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -That’s all one, if yee make a noyse;<br/> -If she intreate againe, doe any thing,—<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +That’s all one, if yee make a noyse;<br> +If she intreate againe, doe any thing,—<br> Lye with her, if she aske you. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Hoa, there, Doctor!</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Yes, in the waie of cure.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -But first, by your leave,<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +But first, by your leave,<br> I’th way of honestie. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -That’s but a nicenesse,<br/> -Nev’r cast your child away for honestie;<br/> -Cure her first this way, then if shee will be honest,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +That’s but a nicenesse,<br> +Nev’r cast your child away for honestie;<br> +Cure her first this way, then if shee will be honest,<br> She has the path before her. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Thanke yee, Doctor.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Pray, bring her in,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Pray, bring her in,<br> And let’s see how shee is. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -I will, and tell her<br/> -Her Palamon staies for her: But, Doctor,<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +I will, and tell her<br> +Her Palamon staies for her: But, Doctor,<br> Me thinkes you are i’th wrong still. [Exit Iaylor.] </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Goe, goe:<br/> -You Fathers are fine Fooles: her honesty?<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Goe, goe:<br> +You Fathers are fine Fooles: her honesty?<br> And we should give her physicke till we finde that— </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Why, doe you thinke she is not honest, Sir?</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> How old is she?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> She’s eighteene.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -She may be,<br/> -But that’s all one; tis nothing to our purpose.<br/> -What ere her Father saies, if you perceave<br/> -Her moode inclining that way that I spoke of,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +She may be,<br> +But that’s all one; tis nothing to our purpose.<br> +What ere her Father saies, if you perceave<br> +Her moode inclining that way that I spoke of,<br> Videlicet, the way of flesh—you have me? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Yet, very well, Sir.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Please her appetite,<br/> -And doe it home; it cures her, ipso facto,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Please her appetite,<br> +And doe it home; it cures her, ipso facto,<br> The mellencholly humour that infects her. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I am of your minde, Doctor.</p> <p class="drama"> [Enter Iaylor, Daughter, Maide.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> You’l finde it so; she comes, pray humour her.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -Come, your Love Palamon staies for you, childe,<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +Come, your Love Palamon staies for you, childe,<br> And has done this long houre, to visite you. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I thanke him for his gentle patience;<br/> -He’s a kind Gentleman, and I am much bound to him.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I thanke him for his gentle patience;<br> +He’s a kind Gentleman, and I am much bound to him.<br> Did you nev’r see the horse he gave me? </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> How doe you like him?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> He’s a very faire one.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> You never saw him dance?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> No.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I have often.<br/> -He daunces very finely, very comely,<br/> -And for a Iigge, come cut and long taile to him,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I have often.<br> +He daunces very finely, very comely,<br> +And for a Iigge, come cut and long taile to him,<br> He turnes ye like a Top. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> That’s fine, indeede.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Hee’l dance the Morris twenty mile an houre,<br/> -And that will founder the best hobby-horse<br/> -(If I have any skill) in all the parish,<br/> -And gallops to the turne of LIGHT A’ LOVE:<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Hee’l dance the Morris twenty mile an houre,<br> +And that will founder the best hobby-horse<br> +(If I have any skill) in all the parish,<br> +And gallops to the turne of LIGHT A’ LOVE:<br> What thinke you of this horse? </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -Having these vertues,<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +Having these vertues,<br> I thinke he might be broght to play at Tennis. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Alas, that’s nothing.</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Can he write and reade too?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -A very faire hand, and casts himselfe th’accounts<br/> -Of all his hay and provender: That Hostler<br/> -Must rise betime that cozens him. You know<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +A very faire hand, and casts himselfe th’accounts<br> +Of all his hay and provender: That Hostler<br> +Must rise betime that cozens him. You know<br> The Chestnut Mare the Duke has? </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Very well.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -She is horribly in love with him, poore beast,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +She is horribly in love with him, poore beast,<br> But he is like his master, coy and scornefull. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> What dowry has she?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Some two hundred Bottles,<br/> -And twenty strike of Oates; but hee’l ne’re have her;<br/> -He lispes in’s neighing, able to entice<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Some two hundred Bottles,<br> +And twenty strike of Oates; but hee’l ne’re have her;<br> +He lispes in’s neighing, able to entice<br> A Millars Mare: Hee’l be the death of her. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> What stuffe she utters!</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Make curtsie; here your love comes.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Pretty soule,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Pretty soule,<br> How doe ye? that’s a fine maide, ther’s a curtsie! </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Yours to command ith way of honestie.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Yours to command ith way of honestie.<br> How far is’t now to’th end o’th world, my Masters? </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Why, a daies Iorney, wench.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Will you goe with me?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> What shall we doe there, wench?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Why, play at stoole ball:<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Why, play at stoole ball:<br> What is there else to doe? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -I am content,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +I am content,<br> If we shall keepe our wedding there. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Tis true:<br/> -For there, I will assure you, we shall finde<br/> -Some blind Priest for the purpose, that will venture<br/> -To marry us, for here they are nice, and foolish;<br/> -Besides, my father must be hang’d to morrow<br/> -And that would be a blot i’th businesse.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Tis true:<br> +For there, I will assure you, we shall finde<br> +Some blind Priest for the purpose, that will venture<br> +To marry us, for here they are nice, and foolish;<br> +Besides, my father must be hang’d to morrow<br> +And that would be a blot i’th businesse.<br> Are not you Palamon? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Doe not you know me?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Yes, but you care not for me; I have nothing<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Yes, but you care not for me; I have nothing<br> But this pore petticoate, and too corse Smockes. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> That’s all one; I will have you.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Will you surely?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Yes, by this faire hand, will I.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Wee’l to bed, then.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Ev’n when you will. [Kisses her.]</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> O Sir, you would faine be nibling.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Why doe you rub my kisse off?</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Tis a sweet one,<br/> -And will perfume me finely against the wedding.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Tis a sweet one,<br> +And will perfume me finely against the wedding.<br> Is not this your Cosen Arcite? </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Yes, sweet heart,<br/> -And I am glad my Cosen Palamon<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Yes, sweet heart,<br> +And I am glad my Cosen Palamon<br> Has made so faire a choice. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Doe you thinke hee’l have me?</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Yes, without doubt.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Doe you thinke so too?</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Yes.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -We shall have many children:—Lord, how y’ar growne!<br/> -My Palamon, I hope, will grow, too, finely,<br/> -Now he’s at liberty: Alas, poore Chicken,<br/> -He was kept downe with hard meate and ill lodging,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +We shall have many children:—Lord, how y’ar growne!<br> +My Palamon, I hope, will grow, too, finely,<br> +Now he’s at liberty: Alas, poore Chicken,<br> +He was kept downe with hard meate and ill lodging,<br> But ile kisse him up againe. </p> @@ -6011,96 +5993,96 @@ But ile kisse him up againe. [Emter a Messenger.]</p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -What doe you here? you’l loose the noblest sight<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +What doe you here? you’l loose the noblest sight<br> That ev’r was seene. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> Are they i’th Field?</p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -They are.<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +They are.<br> You beare a charge there too. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -Ile away straight.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +Ile away straight.<br> I must ev’n leave you here. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Nay, wee’l goe with you;<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Nay, wee’l goe with you;<br> I will not loose the Fight. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> +IAILOR.<br> How did you like her?</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Ile warrant you, within these 3. or 4. daies<br/> -Ile make her right againe. You must not from her,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Ile warrant you, within these 3. or 4. daies<br> +Ile make her right againe. You must not from her,<br> But still preserve her in this way. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I will.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Lets get her in.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Come, sweete, wee’l goe to dinner;<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Come, sweete, wee’l goe to dinner;<br> And then weele play at Cardes. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> And shall we kisse too?</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> A hundred times.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> And twenty.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I, and twenty.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> And then wee’l sleepe together.</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Take her offer.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Yes, marry, will we.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> But you shall not hurt me.</p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I will not, sweete.</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> If you doe, Love, ile cry. [Florish. Exeunt]</p> <h3>Scaena 3. (A Place near the Lists.)</h3> @@ -6111,105 +6093,105 @@ If you doe, Love, ile cry. [Florish. Exeunt]</p> </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Ile no step further.</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> Will you loose this sight?</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I had rather see a wren hawke at a fly<br/> -Then this decision; ev’ry blow that falls<br/> -Threats a brave life, each stroake laments<br/> -The place whereon it fals, and sounds more like<br/> -A Bell then blade: I will stay here;<br/> -It is enough my hearing shall be punishd<br/> -With what shall happen—gainst the which there is<br/> -No deaffing, but to heare—not taint mine eye<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I had rather see a wren hawke at a fly<br> +Then this decision; ev’ry blow that falls<br> +Threats a brave life, each stroake laments<br> +The place whereon it fals, and sounds more like<br> +A Bell then blade: I will stay here;<br> +It is enough my hearing shall be punishd<br> +With what shall happen—gainst the which there is<br> +No deaffing, but to heare—not taint mine eye<br> With dread sights, it may shun. </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Sir, my good Lord,<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Sir, my good Lord,<br> Your Sister will no further. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Oh, she must.<br/> -She shall see deeds of honour in their kinde,<br/> -Which sometime show well, pencild. Nature now<br/> -Shall make and act the Story, the beleife<br/> -Both seald with eye and eare; you must be present,<br/> -You are the victours meede, the price, and garlond<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Oh, she must.<br> +She shall see deeds of honour in their kinde,<br> +Which sometime show well, pencild. Nature now<br> +Shall make and act the Story, the beleife<br> +Both seald with eye and eare; you must be present,<br> +You are the victours meede, the price, and garlond<br> To crowne the Questions title. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Pardon me;<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Pardon me;<br> If I were there, I’ld winke. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You must be there;<br/> -This Tryall is as t’wer i’th night, and you<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You must be there;<br> +This Tryall is as t’wer i’th night, and you<br> The onely star to shine. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I am extinct;<br/> -There is but envy in that light, which showes<br/> -The one the other: darkenes, which ever was<br/> -The dam of horrour, who do’s stand accurst<br/> -Of many mortall Millions, may even now,<br/> -By casting her blacke mantle over both,<br/> -That neither coulde finde other, get her selfe<br/> -Some part of a good name, and many a murther<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I am extinct;<br> +There is but envy in that light, which showes<br> +The one the other: darkenes, which ever was<br> +The dam of horrour, who do’s stand accurst<br> +Of many mortall Millions, may even now,<br> +By casting her blacke mantle over both,<br> +That neither coulde finde other, get her selfe<br> +Some part of a good name, and many a murther<br> Set off wherto she’s guilty. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> You must goe.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> In faith, I will not.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Why, the knights must kindle<br/> -Their valour at your eye: know, of this war<br/> -You are the Treasure, and must needes be by<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Why, the knights must kindle<br> +Their valour at your eye: know, of this war<br> +You are the Treasure, and must needes be by<br> To give the Service pay. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Sir, pardon me;<br/> -The tytle of a kingdome may be tride<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Sir, pardon me;<br> +The tytle of a kingdome may be tride<br> Out of it selfe. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Well, well, then, at your pleasure;<br/> -Those that remaine with you could wish their office<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Well, well, then, at your pleasure;<br> +Those that remaine with you could wish their office<br> To any of their Enemies. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -Farewell, Sister;<br/> -I am like to know your husband fore your selfe<br/> -By some small start of time: he whom the gods<br/> -Doe of the two know best, I pray them he<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +Farewell, Sister;<br> +I am like to know your husband fore your selfe<br> +By some small start of time: he whom the gods<br> +Doe of the two know best, I pray them he<br> Be made your Lot. </p> @@ -6217,33 +6199,33 @@ Be made your Lot. [Exeunt Theseus, Hipolita, Perithous, &c.]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Arcite is gently visagd; yet his eye<br/> -Is like an Engyn bent, or a sharpe weapon<br/> -In a soft sheath; mercy and manly courage<br/> -Are bedfellowes in his visage. Palamon<br/> -Has a most menacing aspect: his brow<br/> -Is grav’d, and seemes to bury what it frownes on;<br/> -Yet sometime tis not so, but alters to<br/> -The quallity of his thoughts; long time his eye<br/> -Will dwell upon his object. Mellencholly<br/> -Becomes him nobly; So do’s Arcites mirth,<br/> -But Palamons sadnes is a kinde of mirth,<br/> -So mingled, as if mirth did make him sad,<br/> -And sadnes, merry; those darker humours that<br/> -Sticke misbecomingly on others, on them<br/> -Live in faire dwelling. [Cornets. Trompets sound as to a<br/> -charge.]<br/> -Harke, how yon spurs to spirit doe incite<br/> -The Princes to their proofe! Arcite may win me,<br/> -And yet may Palamon wound Arcite to<br/> -The spoyling of his figure. O, what pitty<br/> -Enough for such a chance; if I were by,<br/> -I might doe hurt, for they would glance their eies<br/> -Toward my Seat, and in that motion might<br/> -Omit a ward, or forfeit an offence<br/> -Which crav’d that very time: it is much better<br/> -I am not there; oh better never borne<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Arcite is gently visagd; yet his eye<br> +Is like an Engyn bent, or a sharpe weapon<br> +In a soft sheath; mercy and manly courage<br> +Are bedfellowes in his visage. Palamon<br> +Has a most menacing aspect: his brow<br> +Is grav’d, and seemes to bury what it frownes on;<br> +Yet sometime tis not so, but alters to<br> +The quallity of his thoughts; long time his eye<br> +Will dwell upon his object. Mellencholly<br> +Becomes him nobly; So do’s Arcites mirth,<br> +But Palamons sadnes is a kinde of mirth,<br> +So mingled, as if mirth did make him sad,<br> +And sadnes, merry; those darker humours that<br> +Sticke misbecomingly on others, on them<br> +Live in faire dwelling. [Cornets. Trompets sound as to a<br> +charge.]<br> +Harke, how yon spurs to spirit doe incite<br> +The Princes to their proofe! Arcite may win me,<br> +And yet may Palamon wound Arcite to<br> +The spoyling of his figure. O, what pitty<br> +Enough for such a chance; if I were by,<br> +I might doe hurt, for they would glance their eies<br> +Toward my Seat, and in that motion might<br> +Omit a ward, or forfeit an offence<br> +Which crav’d that very time: it is much better<br> +I am not there; oh better never borne<br> Then minister to such harme. [Cornets. A great cry and noice within, crying ‘a Palamon’.] What is the chance? </p> @@ -6252,31 +6234,31 @@ crying ‘a Palamon’.] What is the chance? [Enter Servant.]</p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> +SERVANT.<br> The Crie’s ‘a Palamon’.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Then he has won! Twas ever likely;<br/> -He lookd all grace and successe, and he is<br/> -Doubtlesse the prim’st of men: I pre’thee, run<br/> -And tell me how it goes. [Showt, and Cornets: Crying, ‘a<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Then he has won! Twas ever likely;<br> +He lookd all grace and successe, and he is<br> +Doubtlesse the prim’st of men: I pre’thee, run<br> +And tell me how it goes. [Showt, and Cornets: Crying, ‘a<br> Palamon.’] </p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> +SERVANT.<br> Still Palamon.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Run and enquire. Poore Servant, thou hast lost;<br/> -Vpon my right side still I wore thy picture,<br/> -Palamons on the left: why so, I know not;<br/> -I had no end in’t else, chance would have it so.<br/> -On the sinister side the heart lyes; Palamon<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Run and enquire. Poore Servant, thou hast lost;<br> +Vpon my right side still I wore thy picture,<br> +Palamons on the left: why so, I know not;<br> +I had no end in’t else, chance would have it so.<br> +On the sinister side the heart lyes; Palamon<br> Had the best boding chance. [Another cry, and showt within, and -Cornets.] This burst of clamour<br/> +Cornets.] This burst of clamour<br> Is sure th’end o’th Combat. </p> @@ -6284,55 +6266,55 @@ Is sure th’end o’th Combat. [Enter Servant.]</p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> -They saide that Palamon had Arcites body<br/> -Within an inch o’th Pyramid, that the cry<br/> -Was generall ‘a Palamon’: But, anon,<br/> -Th’Assistants made a brave redemption, and<br/> -The two bold Tytlers, at this instant are<br/> +SERVANT.<br> +They saide that Palamon had Arcites body<br> +Within an inch o’th Pyramid, that the cry<br> +Was generall ‘a Palamon’: But, anon,<br> +Th’Assistants made a brave redemption, and<br> +The two bold Tytlers, at this instant are<br> Hand to hand at it. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Were they metamorphisd<br/> -Both into one! oh why? there were no woman<br/> -Worth so composd a Man: their single share,<br/> -Their noblenes peculier to them, gives<br/> -The prejudice of disparity, values shortnes, [Cornets. Cry within, Arcite, Arcite.]<br/> -To any Lady breathing—More exulting?<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Were they metamorphisd<br> +Both into one! oh why? there were no woman<br> +Worth so composd a Man: their single share,<br> +Their noblenes peculier to them, gives<br> +The prejudice of disparity, values shortnes, [Cornets. Cry within, Arcite, Arcite.]<br> +To any Lady breathing—More exulting?<br> Palamon still? </p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> +SERVANT.<br> Nay, now the sound is Arcite.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> I pre’thee, lay attention to the Cry, [Cornets. A great showt and cry, ‘Arcite, victory!’] Set both thine eares to’th busines.</p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> -The cry is<br/> -‘Arcite’, and ‘victory’, harke: ‘Arcite, victory!’<br/> -The Combats consummation is proclaim’d<br/> +SERVANT.<br> +The cry is<br> +‘Arcite’, and ‘victory’, harke: ‘Arcite, victory!’<br> +The Combats consummation is proclaim’d<br> By the wind Instruments. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Halfe sights saw<br/> -That Arcite was no babe; god’s lyd, his richnes<br/> -And costlines of spirit look’t through him, it could<br/> -No more be hid in him then fire in flax,<br/> -Then humble banckes can goe to law with waters,<br/> -That drift windes force to raging: I did thinke<br/> -Good Palamon would miscarry; yet I knew not<br/> -Why I did thinke so; Our reasons are not prophets,<br/> -When oft our fancies are. They are comming off:<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Halfe sights saw<br> +That Arcite was no babe; god’s lyd, his richnes<br> +And costlines of spirit look’t through him, it could<br> +No more be hid in him then fire in flax,<br> +Then humble banckes can goe to law with waters,<br> +That drift windes force to raging: I did thinke<br> +Good Palamon would miscarry; yet I knew not<br> +Why I did thinke so; Our reasons are not prophets,<br> +When oft our fancies are. They are comming off:<br> Alas, poore Palamon! [Cornets.] </p> @@ -6341,73 +6323,73 @@ Alas, poore Palamon! [Cornets.] </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Lo, where our Sister is in expectation,<br/> -Yet quaking, and unsetled.—Fairest Emily,<br/> -The gods by their divine arbitrament<br/> -Have given you this Knight; he is a good one<br/> -As ever strooke at head. Give me your hands;<br/> -Receive you her, you him; be plighted with<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Lo, where our Sister is in expectation,<br> +Yet quaking, and unsetled.—Fairest Emily,<br> +The gods by their divine arbitrament<br> +Have given you this Knight; he is a good one<br> +As ever strooke at head. Give me your hands;<br> +Receive you her, you him; be plighted with<br> A love that growes, as you decay. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Emily,<br/> -To buy you, I have lost what’s deerest to me,<br/> -Save what is bought, and yet I purchase cheapely,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Emily,<br> +To buy you, I have lost what’s deerest to me,<br> +Save what is bought, and yet I purchase cheapely,<br> As I doe rate your value. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -O loved Sister,<br/> -He speakes now of as brave a Knight as ere<br/> -Did spur a noble Steed: Surely, the gods<br/> -Would have him die a Batchelour, least his race<br/> -Should shew i’th world too godlike: His behaviour<br/> -So charmed me, that me thought Alcides was<br/> -To him a sow of lead: if I could praise<br/> -Each part of him to’th all I have spoke, your Arcite<br/> -Did not loose by’t; For he that was thus good<br/> -Encountred yet his Better. I have heard<br/> -Two emulous Philomels beate the eare o’th night<br/> -With their contentious throates, now one the higher,<br/> -Anon the other, then againe the first,<br/> -And by and by out breasted, that the sence<br/> -Could not be judge betweene ’em: So it far’d<br/> -Good space betweene these kinesmen; till heavens did<br/> -Make hardly one the winner. Weare the Girlond<br/> -With joy that you have won: For the subdude,<br/> -Give them our present Iustice, since I know<br/> -Their lives but pinch ’em; Let it here be done.<br/> -The Sceane’s not for our seeing, goe we hence,<br/> -Right joyfull, with some sorrow.—Arme your prize,<br/> -I know you will not loose her.—Hipolita,<br/> -I see one eye of yours conceives a teare<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +O loved Sister,<br> +He speakes now of as brave a Knight as ere<br> +Did spur a noble Steed: Surely, the gods<br> +Would have him die a Batchelour, least his race<br> +Should shew i’th world too godlike: His behaviour<br> +So charmed me, that me thought Alcides was<br> +To him a sow of lead: if I could praise<br> +Each part of him to’th all I have spoke, your Arcite<br> +Did not loose by’t; For he that was thus good<br> +Encountred yet his Better. I have heard<br> +Two emulous Philomels beate the eare o’th night<br> +With their contentious throates, now one the higher,<br> +Anon the other, then againe the first,<br> +And by and by out breasted, that the sence<br> +Could not be judge betweene ’em: So it far’d<br> +Good space betweene these kinesmen; till heavens did<br> +Make hardly one the winner. Weare the Girlond<br> +With joy that you have won: For the subdude,<br> +Give them our present Iustice, since I know<br> +Their lives but pinch ’em; Let it here be done.<br> +The Sceane’s not for our seeing, goe we hence,<br> +Right joyfull, with some sorrow.—Arme your prize,<br> +I know you will not loose her.—Hipolita,<br> +I see one eye of yours conceives a teare<br> The which it will deliver. [Florish.] </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Is this wynning?<br/> -Oh all you heavenly powers, where is your mercy?<br/> -But that your wils have saide it must be so,<br/> -And charge me live to comfort this unfriended,<br/> -This miserable Prince, that cuts away<br/> -A life more worthy from him then all women,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Is this wynning?<br> +Oh all you heavenly powers, where is your mercy?<br> +But that your wils have saide it must be so,<br> +And charge me live to comfort this unfriended,<br> +This miserable Prince, that cuts away<br> +A life more worthy from him then all women,<br> I should, and would, die too. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLITA.<br/> -Infinite pitty,<br/> -That fowre such eies should be so fixd on one<br/> +HIPPOLITA.<br> +Infinite pitty,<br> +That fowre such eies should be so fixd on one<br> That two must needes be blinde fort. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> So it is. [Exeunt.]</p> <h3>Scaena 4. (The same; a Block prepared.)</h3> @@ -6417,106 +6399,106 @@ So it is. [Exeunt.]</p> &c. Gard.]</p> <p class="drama"> -(PALAMON.)<br/> -Ther’s many a man alive that hath out liv’d<br/> -The love o’th people; yea, i’th selfesame state<br/> -Stands many a Father with his childe; some comfort<br/> -We have by so considering: we expire<br/> -And not without mens pitty. To live still,<br/> -Have their good wishes; we prevent<br/> -The loathsome misery of age, beguile<br/> -The Gowt and Rheume, that in lag howres attend<br/> -For grey approachers; we come towards the gods<br/> -Yong and unwapper’d, not halting under Crymes<br/> -Many and stale: that sure shall please the gods,<br/> -Sooner than such, to give us Nectar with ’em,<br/> -For we are more cleare Spirits. My deare kinesmen,<br/> -Whose lives (for this poore comfort) are laid downe,<br/> +(PALAMON.)<br> +Ther’s many a man alive that hath out liv’d<br> +The love o’th people; yea, i’th selfesame state<br> +Stands many a Father with his childe; some comfort<br> +We have by so considering: we expire<br> +And not without mens pitty. To live still,<br> +Have their good wishes; we prevent<br> +The loathsome misery of age, beguile<br> +The Gowt and Rheume, that in lag howres attend<br> +For grey approachers; we come towards the gods<br> +Yong and unwapper’d, not halting under Crymes<br> +Many and stale: that sure shall please the gods,<br> +Sooner than such, to give us Nectar with ’em,<br> +For we are more cleare Spirits. My deare kinesmen,<br> +Whose lives (for this poore comfort) are laid downe,<br> You have sould ’em too too cheape. </p> <p class="drama"> -1. KNIGHT.<br/> -What ending could be<br/> -Of more content? ore us the victors have<br/> -Fortune, whose title is as momentary,<br/> -As to us death is certaine: A graine of honour<br/> +1. KNIGHT.<br> +What ending could be<br> +Of more content? ore us the victors have<br> +Fortune, whose title is as momentary,<br> +As to us death is certaine: A graine of honour<br> They not ore’-weigh us. </p> <p class="drama"> -2. KNIGHT.<br/> -Let us bid farewell;<br/> -And with our patience anger tottring Fortune,<br/> +2. KNIGHT.<br> +Let us bid farewell;<br> +And with our patience anger tottring Fortune,<br> Who at her certain’st reeles. </p> <p class="drama"> -3. KNIGHT.<br/> +3. KNIGHT.<br> Come; who begins?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Ev’n he that led you to this Banket shall<br/> -Taste to you all.—Ah ha, my Friend, my Friend,<br/> -Your gentle daughter gave me freedome once;<br/> -You’l see’t done now for ever: pray, how do’es she?<br/> -I heard she was not well; her kind of ill<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Ev’n he that led you to this Banket shall<br> +Taste to you all.—Ah ha, my Friend, my Friend,<br> +Your gentle daughter gave me freedome once;<br> +You’l see’t done now for ever: pray, how do’es she?<br> +I heard she was not well; her kind of ill<br> Gave me some sorrow. </p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -Sir, she’s well restor’d,<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +Sir, she’s well restor’d,<br> And to be marryed shortly. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -By my short life,<br/> -I am most glad on’t; Tis the latest thing<br/> -I shall be glad of; pre’thee tell her so:<br/> -Commend me to her, and to peece her portion,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +By my short life,<br> +I am most glad on’t; Tis the latest thing<br> +I shall be glad of; pre’thee tell her so:<br> +Commend me to her, and to peece her portion,<br> Tender her this. [Gives purse.] </p> <p class="drama"> -1. KNIGHT.<br/> +1. KNIGHT.<br> Nay lets be offerers all.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. KNIGHT.<br/> +2. KNIGHT.<br> Is it a maide?</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Verily, I thinke so,<br/> -A right good creature, more to me deserving<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Verily, I thinke so,<br> +A right good creature, more to me deserving<br> Then I can quight or speake of. </p> <p class="drama"> -ALL KNIGHTS.<br/> +ALL KNIGHTS.<br> Commend us to her. [They give their purses.]</p> <p class="drama"> -IAILOR.<br/> -The gods requight you all,<br/> +IAILOR.<br> +The gods requight you all,<br> And make her thankefull. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Adiew; and let my life be now as short,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Adiew; and let my life be now as short,<br> As my leave taking. [Lies on the Blocke.] </p> <p class="drama"> -1. KNIGHT.<br/> +1. KNIGHT.<br> Leade, couragious Cosin.</p> <p class="drama"> -2. KNIGHT.<br/> +2. KNIGHT.<br> Wee’l follow cheerefully. [A great noise within crying, ‘run, save, hold!’]</p> @@ -6524,76 +6506,76 @@ hold!’]</p> [Enter in hast a Messenger.]</p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> Hold, hold! O hold, hold, hold!</p> <p class="drama"> [Enter Pirithous in haste.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Hold! hoa! It is a cursed hast you made,<br/> -If you have done so quickly. Noble Palamon,<br/> -The gods will shew their glory in a life,<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Hold! hoa! It is a cursed hast you made,<br> +If you have done so quickly. Noble Palamon,<br> +The gods will shew their glory in a life,<br> That thou art yet to leade. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Can that be,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Can that be,<br> When Venus, I have said, is false? How doe things fare? </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -Arise, great Sir, and give the tydings eare<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +Arise, great Sir, and give the tydings eare<br> That are most dearly sweet and bitter. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -What<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +What<br> Hath wakt us from our dreame? </p> <p class="drama"> -PERITHOUS.<br/> -List then: your Cosen,<br/> -Mounted upon a Steed that Emily<br/> -Did first bestow on him, a blacke one, owing<br/> -Not a hayre worth of white—which some will say<br/> -Weakens his price, and many will not buy<br/> -His goodnesse with this note: Which superstition<br/> -Heere findes allowance—On this horse is Arcite<br/> -Trotting the stones of Athens, which the Calkins<br/> -Did rather tell then trample; for the horse<br/> -Would make his length a mile, if’t pleas’d his Rider<br/> -To put pride in him: as he thus went counting<br/> -The flinty pavement, dancing, as t’wer, to’th Musicke<br/> -His owne hoofes made; (for as they say from iron<br/> -Came Musickes origen) what envious Flint,<br/> -Cold as old Saturne, and like him possest<br/> -With fire malevolent, darted a Sparke,<br/> -Or what feirce sulphur else, to this end made,<br/> -I comment not;—the hot horse, hot as fire,<br/> -Tooke Toy at this, and fell to what disorder<br/> -His power could give his will; bounds, comes on end,<br/> -Forgets schoole dooing, being therein traind,<br/> -And of kind mannadge; pig-like he whines<br/> -At the sharpe Rowell, which he freats at rather<br/> -Then any jot obaies; seekes all foule meanes<br/> -Of boystrous and rough Iadrie, to dis-seate<br/> -His Lord, that kept it bravely: when nought serv’d,<br/> -When neither Curb would cracke, girth breake nor diffring plunges<br/> -Dis-roote his Rider whence he grew, but that<br/> -He kept him tweene his legges, on his hind hoofes on end he stands,<br/> -That Arcites leggs, being higher then his head,<br/> -Seem’d with strange art to hand: His victors wreath<br/> -Even then fell off his head: and presently<br/> -Backeward the Iade comes ore, and his full poyze<br/> -Becomes the Riders loade: yet is he living,<br/> -But such a vessell tis, that floates but for<br/> -The surge that next approaches: he much desires<br/> +PERITHOUS.<br> +List then: your Cosen,<br> +Mounted upon a Steed that Emily<br> +Did first bestow on him, a blacke one, owing<br> +Not a hayre worth of white—which some will say<br> +Weakens his price, and many will not buy<br> +His goodnesse with this note: Which superstition<br> +Heere findes allowance—On this horse is Arcite<br> +Trotting the stones of Athens, which the Calkins<br> +Did rather tell then trample; for the horse<br> +Would make his length a mile, if’t pleas’d his Rider<br> +To put pride in him: as he thus went counting<br> +The flinty pavement, dancing, as t’wer, to’th Musicke<br> +His owne hoofes made; (for as they say from iron<br> +Came Musickes origen) what envious Flint,<br> +Cold as old Saturne, and like him possest<br> +With fire malevolent, darted a Sparke,<br> +Or what feirce sulphur else, to this end made,<br> +I comment not;—the hot horse, hot as fire,<br> +Tooke Toy at this, and fell to what disorder<br> +His power could give his will; bounds, comes on end,<br> +Forgets schoole dooing, being therein traind,<br> +And of kind mannadge; pig-like he whines<br> +At the sharpe Rowell, which he freats at rather<br> +Then any jot obaies; seekes all foule meanes<br> +Of boystrous and rough Iadrie, to dis-seate<br> +His Lord, that kept it bravely: when nought serv’d,<br> +When neither Curb would cracke, girth breake nor diffring plunges<br> +Dis-roote his Rider whence he grew, but that<br> +He kept him tweene his legges, on his hind hoofes on end he stands,<br> +That Arcites leggs, being higher then his head,<br> +Seem’d with strange art to hand: His victors wreath<br> +Even then fell off his head: and presently<br> +Backeward the Iade comes ore, and his full poyze<br> +Becomes the Riders loade: yet is he living,<br> +But such a vessell tis, that floates but for<br> +The surge that next approaches: he much desires<br> To have some speech with you: Loe he appeares. </p> @@ -6601,89 +6583,89 @@ To have some speech with you: Loe he appeares. [Enter Theseus, Hipolita, Emilia, Arcite in a chaire.]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O miserable end of our alliance!<br/> -The gods are mightie, Arcite: if thy heart,<br/> -Thy worthie, manly heart, be yet unbroken,<br/> -Give me thy last words; I am Palamon,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O miserable end of our alliance!<br> +The gods are mightie, Arcite: if thy heart,<br> +Thy worthie, manly heart, be yet unbroken,<br> +Give me thy last words; I am Palamon,<br> One that yet loves thee dying. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Take Emilia<br/> -And with her all the worlds joy: Reach thy hand:<br/> -Farewell: I have told my last houre. I was false,<br/> -Yet never treacherous: Forgive me, Cosen:—<br/> -One kisse from faire Emilia: Tis done:<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Take Emilia<br> +And with her all the worlds joy: Reach thy hand:<br> +Farewell: I have told my last houre. I was false,<br> +Yet never treacherous: Forgive me, Cosen:—<br> +One kisse from faire Emilia: Tis done:<br> Take her: I die. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Thy brave soule seeke Elizium.</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Ile close thine eyes, Prince; blessed soules be with thee!<br/> -Thou art a right good man, and while I live,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Ile close thine eyes, Prince; blessed soules be with thee!<br> +Thou art a right good man, and while I live,<br> This day I give to teares. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> And I to honour.</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -In this place first you fought: ev’n very here<br/> -I sundred you: acknowledge to the gods<br/> -Our thankes that you are living.<br/> -His part is playd, and though it were too short,<br/> -He did it well: your day is lengthned, and<br/> -The blissefull dew of heaven do’s arowze you.<br/> -The powerfull Venus well hath grac’d her Altar,<br/> -And given you your love: Our Master Mars<br/> -Hath vouch’d his Oracle, and to Arcite gave<br/> -The grace of the Contention: So the Deities<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +In this place first you fought: ev’n very here<br> +I sundred you: acknowledge to the gods<br> +Our thankes that you are living.<br> +His part is playd, and though it were too short,<br> +He did it well: your day is lengthned, and<br> +The blissefull dew of heaven do’s arowze you.<br> +The powerfull Venus well hath grac’d her Altar,<br> +And given you your love: Our Master Mars<br> +Hath vouch’d his Oracle, and to Arcite gave<br> +The grace of the Contention: So the Deities<br> Have shewd due justice: Beare this hence. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O Cosen,<br/> -That we should things desire, which doe cost us<br/> -The losse of our desire! That nought could buy<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O Cosen,<br> +That we should things desire, which doe cost us<br> +The losse of our desire! That nought could buy<br> Deare love, but losse of deare love! </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Never Fortune<br/> -Did play a subtler Game: The conquerd triumphes,<br/> -The victor has the Losse: yet in the passage<br/> -The gods have beene most equall: Palamon,<br/> -Your kinseman hath confest the right o’th Lady<br/> -Did lye in you, for you first saw her, and<br/> -Even then proclaimd your fancie: He restord her<br/> -As your stolne Iewell, and desir’d your spirit<br/> -To send him hence forgiven; The gods my justice<br/> -Take from my hand, and they themselves become<br/> -The Executioners: Leade your Lady off;<br/> -And call your Lovers from the stage of death,<br/> -Whom I adopt my Frinds. A day or two<br/> -Let us looke sadly, and give grace unto<br/> -The Funerall of Arcite; in whose end<br/> -The visages of Bridegroomes weele put on<br/> -And smile with Palamon; for whom an houre,<br/> -But one houre, since, I was as dearely sorry,<br/> -As glad of Arcite: and am now as glad,<br/> -As for him sorry. O you heavenly Charmers,<br/> -What things you make of us! For what we lacke<br/> -We laugh, for what we have, are sorry: still<br/> -Are children in some kind. Let us be thankefull<br/> -For that which is, and with you leave dispute<br/> -That are above our question. Let’s goe off,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Never Fortune<br> +Did play a subtler Game: The conquerd triumphes,<br> +The victor has the Losse: yet in the passage<br> +The gods have beene most equall: Palamon,<br> +Your kinseman hath confest the right o’th Lady<br> +Did lye in you, for you first saw her, and<br> +Even then proclaimd your fancie: He restord her<br> +As your stolne Iewell, and desir’d your spirit<br> +To send him hence forgiven; The gods my justice<br> +Take from my hand, and they themselves become<br> +The Executioners: Leade your Lady off;<br> +And call your Lovers from the stage of death,<br> +Whom I adopt my Frinds. A day or two<br> +Let us looke sadly, and give grace unto<br> +The Funerall of Arcite; in whose end<br> +The visages of Bridegroomes weele put on<br> +And smile with Palamon; for whom an houre,<br> +But one houre, since, I was as dearely sorry,<br> +As glad of Arcite: and am now as glad,<br> +As for him sorry. O you heavenly Charmers,<br> +What things you make of us! For what we lacke<br> +We laugh, for what we have, are sorry: still<br> +Are children in some kind. Let us be thankefull<br> +For that which is, and with you leave dispute<br> +That are above our question. Let’s goe off,<br> And beare us like the time. [Florish. Exeunt.] </p> @@ -6694,23 +6676,23 @@ And beare us like the time. [Florish. Exeunt.] <h2>EPILOGVE</h2> <p class="drama"> -I would now aske ye how ye like the Play,<br/> -But, as it is with Schoole Boyes, cannot say,<br/> -I am cruell fearefull: pray, yet stay a while,<br/> -And let me looke upon ye: No man smile?<br/> -Then it goes hard, I see; He that has<br/> -Lov’d a yong hansome wench, then, show his face—<br/> -Tis strange if none be heere—and if he will<br/> -Against his Conscience, let him hisse, and kill<br/> -Our Market: Tis in vaine, I see, to stay yee;<br/> -Have at the worst can come, then! Now what say ye?<br/> -And yet mistake me not: I am not bold;<br/> -We have no such cause. If the tale we have told<br/> -(For tis no other) any way content ye<br/> -(For to that honest purpose it was ment ye)<br/> -We have our end; and ye shall have ere long,<br/> -I dare say, many a better, to prolong<br/> -Your old loves to us: we, and all our might<br/> +I would now aske ye how ye like the Play,<br> +But, as it is with Schoole Boyes, cannot say,<br> +I am cruell fearefull: pray, yet stay a while,<br> +And let me looke upon ye: No man smile?<br> +Then it goes hard, I see; He that has<br> +Lov’d a yong hansome wench, then, show his face—<br> +Tis strange if none be heere—and if he will<br> +Against his Conscience, let him hisse, and kill<br> +Our Market: Tis in vaine, I see, to stay yee;<br> +Have at the worst can come, then! Now what say ye?<br> +And yet mistake me not: I am not bold;<br> +We have no such cause. If the tale we have told<br> +(For tis no other) any way content ye<br> +(For to that honest purpose it was ment ye)<br> +We have our end; and ye shall have ere long,<br> +I dare say, many a better, to prolong<br> +Your old loves to us: we, and all our might<br> Rest at your service. Gentlemen, good night. [Florish.] </p> @@ -6718,448 +6700,6 @@ Rest at your service. Gentlemen, good night. 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