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Faire Em. - - -A PLEASANT COMMODIE OF -FAIRE EM -THE MILLERS DAUGHTER OF MANCHESTER -WITH THE LOVE OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROUR - - -Dramatis Personae. - - -WILLIAM the Conqueror. -ZWENO, King of Denmark. -Duke DIROT. -Marquis of Lubeck. -MOUNTNEY. -MANVILLE. -ROZILIO. -DIMARCH. -Danish Embassador. -The Miller of Manchester. -TROTTER, his Man. -Citizen of Chester. - -BLANCH, Princess of Denmark. -MARIANA, Princess of Suethia. -Fair EM, the Miller's Daughter. -ELINER, the Citizen's Daughter. -English and Danish Nobles. -Soldiers, Countrymen, and Attendants. - - -Actus Primus. Scaena Prima. - -Windsor. A State Apartment. - -[Enter William the Conqueror; Marques Lubeck, with a picture; -Mountney; Manville; Valingford; and Duke Dirot.] - - -MARQUES. -What means fair Britain's mighty Conqueror -So suddenly to cast away his staff, -And all in passion to forsake the tylt? - -D. DIROT. -My Lord, this triumph we solemnise here -Is of mere love to your increasing joys, -Only expecting cheerful looks for all; -What sudden pangs than moves your majesty -To dim the brightness of the day with frowns? - -WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. -Ah, good my Lords, misconster not the cause; -At least, suspect not my displeased brows: -I amorously do bear to your intent, -For thanks and all that you can wish I yield. -But that which makes me blush and shame to tell -Is cause why thus I turn my conquering eyes -To cowards looks and beaten fantasies. - -MOUNTNEY. -Since we are guiltless, we the less dismay -To see this sudden change possess your cheer, -For if it issue from your own conceits -Bred by suggestion of some envious thoughts, -Your highness wisdom may suppress it straight. -Yet tell us, good my Lord, what thought it is -That thus bereaves you of your late content, -That in advise we may assist your grace, -Or bend our forces to revive your spirits. - -WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. -Ah, Marques Lubeck, in thy power it lies -To rid my bosom of these thralled dumps: -And therefore, good my Lords, forbear a while -That we may parley of these private cares, -Whose strength subdues me more than all the world. - -VALINGFORD. -We go and wish thee private conference -Publicke afffects in this accustomed peace. - -[Exit all but William and the Marques.] - -WILLIAM. -Now, Marques, must a Conquerer at arms -Disclose himself thrald to unarmed thoughts, -And, threatnd of a shadow, yield to lust. -No sooner had my sparkling eyes beheld -The flames of beauty blazing on this piece, -But suddenly a sense of miracle, -Imagined on thy lovely Maistre's face, -Made me abandon bodily regard, -And cast all pleasures on my wounded soul: -Then, gentle Marques, tell me what she is, -That thus thou honourest on thy warlike shield; -And if thy love and interest be such -As justly may give place to mine, -That if it be, my soul with honors wing -May fly into the bosom of my dear; -If not, close them, and stoop into my grave! - -MARQUES. -If this be all, renowned Conquerer, -Advance your drooping spirits, and revive -The wonted courage of your Conquering mind; -For this fair picture painted on my shield -Is the true counterfeit of lovely Blaunch, -Princess and daughter to the King of Danes, -Whose beauty and excess of ornaments -Deserves another manner of defence, -Pomp and high person to attend her state -Then Marques Lubeck any way presents. -Therefore her vertues I resign to thee, -Already shrined in thy religious breast, -To be advanced and honoured to the full; -Nor bear I this an argument of love, -But to renown fair Blaunch, my Sovereigns child -In every place where I by arms may do it. - -WILLIAM. -Ah, Marques, thy words bring heaven unto my soul, -And had I heaven to give for thy reward, -Thou shouldst be throned in no unworthy place. -But let my uttermost wealth suffice thy worth, -Which here I vow; and to aspire the bliss -That hangs on quick achievement of my love, -Thy self and I will travel in disguise, -To bring this Lady to our Brittain Court. - -MARQUES. -Let William but bethink what may avail, -And let me die if I deny my aide. - -WILLIAM. -Then thus: The Duke Dirot, and Therle Dimarch, -Will I leave substitutes to rule my Realm, -While mighty love forbids my being here; -And in the name of Sir Robert of Windsor -Will go with thee unto the Danish Court. -Keep Williams secrets, Marques, if thou love him. -Bright Blaunch, I come! Sweet fortune, favour me, -And I will laud thy name eternally. - -[Exeunt.] - - -SCENE II. - -Manchester. The Interior of a Mill. - -[Enter the Miller and Em, his daughter.] - - -MILLER. -Come, daughter, we must learn to shake of pomp, -To leave the state that earst beseemd a Knight -And gentleman of no mean discent, -To undertake this homelie millers trade: -Thus must we mask to save our wretched lives, -Threatned by Conquest of this hapless Yle, -Whose sad invasions by the Conqueror -Have made a number such as we subject -Their gentle necks unto their stubborn yoke -Of drudging labour and base peasantry. -Sir Thomas Godard now old Goddard is, -Goddard the miller of fair Manchester. -Why should not I content me with this state, -As good Sir Edmund Trofferd did the flaile? -And thou, sweet Em, must stoop to high estate -To join with mine that thus we may protect -Our harmless lives, which, led in greater port, -Would be an envious object to our foes, -That seek to root all Britains Gentry -From bearing countenance against their tyranny. - -EM. -Good Father, let my full resolved thoughts -With settled patiens to support this chance -Be some poor comfort to your aged soul; -For therein rests the height of my estate, -That you are pleased with this dejection, -And that all toils my hands may undertake -May serve to work your worthiness content. - -MILLER. -Thanks, my dear Daughter. -These thy pleasant words -Transfer my soul into a second heaven: -And in thy settled mind my joys consist, -My state revived, and I in former plight. -Although our outward pomp be thus abased, -And thralde to drudging, stayless of the world, -Let us retain those honorable minds -That lately governed our superior state, -Wherein true gentry is the only mean -That makes us differ from base millers borne. -Though we expect no knightly delicates, -Nor thirst in soul for former soverainty, -Yet may our minds as highly scorn to stoop -To base desires of vulgars worldliness, -As if we were in our precedent way. -And, lovely daughter, since thy youthful years -Must needs admit as young affections, -And that sweet love unpartial perceives -Her dainty subjects through every part, -In chief receive these lessons from my lips, -The true discovers of a Virgins due, -Now requisite, now that I know thy mind -Something enclined to favour Manvils suit, -A gentleman, thy Lover in protest; -And that thou maist not be by love deceived, -But try his meaning fit for thy desert, -In pursuit of all amorous desires, -Regard thine honour. Let not vehement sighs, -Nor earnest vows importing fervent love, -Render thee subject to the wrath of lust: -For that, transformed to form of sweet delight, -Will bring thy body and thy soul to shame. -Chaste thoughts and modest conversations, -Of proof to keep out all inchaunting vows, -Vain sighs, forst tears, and pitiful aspects, -Are they that make deformed Ladies fair, -Poor rich: and such intycing men, -That seek of all but only present grace, -Shall in perseverance of a Virgins due -Prefer the most refusers to the choice -Of such a soul as yielded what they thought. -But ho: where is Trotter? - -[Here enters Trotter, the Millers man, to them: And they -within call to him for their gryste.] - -TROTTER. -Wheres Trotter? why, Trotter is here. Yfaith, you and your -daughter go up and down weeping and wamenting, and keeping of -a wamentation, as who should say, the Mill would go with your -wamenting. - -MILLER. -How now, Trotter? why complainest thou so? - -TROTTER. -Why, yonder is a company of young men and maids, keep such a -stir for their grist, that they would have it before my stones -be ready to grind it. But, yfaith, I would I could break wind -enough backward: you should not tarry for your gryst, I -warrant you. - -MILLER. -Content thee, Trotter, I will go pacify them. - -TROTTER. -Iwis you will when I cannot. Why, look, you have a Mill-- -Why, whats your Mill without me? Or rather, Mistress, what -were I without you? - -[Here he taketh Em about the neck.] - -EM. -Nay, Trotter, if you fall achyding, I will give you over. - -TROTTER. -I chide you, dame, to amend you. You are too fine to be a -Millers daughter; for if you should but stoop to take up the -tole dish, you will have the cramp in your finger at least -ten weeks after. - -MILLER. -Ah, well said, Trotter; teach her to play the good huswife, -and thou shalt have her to thy wife, if thou canst get her -good will. - -TROTTER. -Ah, words wherein I see Matrimony come loaden with kisses to -salute me! Now let me alone to pick the Mill, to fill the -hopper, to take the tole, to mend the sails, yea, and to make -the mill to go with the very force of my love. - -[Here they must call for their gryst within.] - -TROTTER. -I come, I come; yfaith, now you shall have your gryst, or else -Trotter will trot and amble himself to death. - -[They call him again. Exit.] - - -SCENE III. - -The Danish Court. - -[Enter king of Denmark, with some attendants, Blanch his -daughter, Mariana, Marques Lubeck, William disguised.] - - -KING OF DENMARK. -Lord Marques Lubecke, welcome home. -Welcome, brave Knight, unto the Denmark King, -For Williams sake, the noble Norman Duke, -So famous for his fortunes and success, -That graceth him with name of Conqueror: -Right double welcome must thou be to us. - -ROBERT WINDSOR. -And to my Lord the king shall I recount -Your graces courteous entertainment, -That for his sake vouchsafe to honor me, -A simple Knight attendant on his grace. - -KING OF DENMARK. -But say, Sir Knight, what may I call your name? - -ROBERT WINDSOR. -Robert Windsor, and like your Majesty. - -KING OF DENMARK. -I tell thee, Robert, I so admire the man -As that I count it heinous guilt in him -That honors not Duke William with his heart. -Blanch, bid this stranger welcome, good my girl. - -BLANCH. -Sir, -Shouyld I neglect your highness charge herein, -It might be thought of base discourtesy. -Welcome, Sir Knight, to Denmark, heartily. - -ROBERT WINDSOR. -Thanks gentle Lady. Lord Marques, who is she? - -LUBECK. -That same is Blanch, daughter to the King. -The substance of the shadow that you saw. - -ROBERT WINDSOR. -May this be she, for whom I crost the Seas? -I am ashamed to think I was so fond. -In whom there's nothing that contents my mind: -Ill head, worse featured, uncomely, nothing courtly; -Swart and ill favoured, a Colliers sanguine skin. -I never saw a harder favoured slut. -Love her? for what? I can no whit abide her. - -KIND OF DENMARK. -Mariana, I have this day received letters -From Swethia, that lets me understand -Your ransom is collecting there with speed, -And shortly shalbe hither sent to us. - -MARIANA. -Not that I find occasion of mislike -My entertainment in your graces court, -But that I long to see my native home-- - -KING OF DENMARK. -And reason have you, Madam, for the same. -Lord Marques, I commit unto your charge -The entertainment of Sir Robert here; -Let him remain with you within the Court, -In solace and disport to spend the time. - -ROBERT WINDSOR. -I thank your highness, whose bounden I remain. - -[Exit King of Denmark. Blanch speaketh this secretly at one -end of the stage.] - -Unhappy Blanch, what strange effects are these -That works within my thoughts confusedly? -That still, me thinks, affection draws me on, -To take, to like, nay more, to love this Knight? - -ROBERT WINDSOR. -A modest countenance; no heavy sullen look; -Not very fair, but richly deckt with favour; -A sweet face, an exceeding dainty hand; -A body were it framed of wax -By all the cunning artists of the world, -It could not better be proportioned. - -LUBECK. -How now, Sir Robert? in a study, man? -Here is no time for contemplation. - -ROBERT WINDSOR. -My Lord, there is a certain odd conceit, -Which on the sudden greatly troubles me. - -LUBECK. -How like you Blanch? I partly do perceive -The little boy hath played the wag with you. - -SIR ROBERT. -The more I look the more I love to look. -Who says that Mariana is not fair? -I'll gage my gauntlet gainst the envious man -That dares avow there liveth her compare. - -LUBECK. -Sir Robert, you mistake your counterfeit. -This is the Lady which you came to see. - -SIR ROBERT. -Yes, my Lord: She is counterfeit in deed, -For there is the substance that best contents me. - -LUBECK. -That is my love. Sir Robert, you do wrong me. - -ROBERT. -The better for you, sir, she is your Love-- -As for the wrong, I see not how it grows. - -LUBECK. -In seeking that which is anothers right. - -ROBERT. -As who should say your love were privileged, -That none might look upon her but your self. - -LUBECK. -These jars becomes not our familiarity, -Nor will I stand on terms to move your patience. - -ROBERT. -Why, my Lord, am -Not I of flesh and blood as well as you? -Then give me leave to love as well as you. - -LUBECK. -To Love, Sir Robert? but whom? not she I Love? -Nor stands it with the honor my state -To brook corrivals with me in my love. - -ROBERT. -So, Sir, we are thorough for that Lady. -Ladies, farewell. Lord Marques, will you go? -I will find a time to speak with her, I trowe. - -LUBECK. -With all my heart. Come, Ladies, will you walk? - -[Exit.] - - -SCENE IV. - -The English Court. - -[Enter Manvile alone, disguised.] - - -MANVILE. -Ah, Em! the subject of my restless thoughts, -The Anvil whereupon my heart doth be -Framing thy state to thy desert-- -Full ill this life becomes thy heavenly look, -Wherein sweet love and vertue sits enthroned. -Bad world, where riches is esteemd above them both, -In whose base eyes nought else is bountifull! -A Millers daughter, says the multitude, -Should not be loved of a Gentleman. -But let them breath their souls into the air, -Yet will I still affect thee as my self, -So thou be constant in thy plighted vow. -But here comes one--I will listen to his talk. - -[Manvile stays, hiding himself.] - -[Enter Valingford at another door, disguised.] - -VALINGFORD. -Go, William Conqueror, and seek thy love -Seek thou a minion in a foreign land, -Whilest I draw back and court my love at home. -The millers daughter of fair Manchester -Hath bound my feet to this delightsome soil, -And from her eyes do dart such golden beams -That holds my heart in her subjection. - -MANVILE. -He ruminates on my beloved choice: -God grant he come not to prevent my hope. -But here's another, him I'll listen to. - -[Enter Mountney, disguised, at another door.] - -LORD MOUNTNEY. -Nature unjust, in utterance of thy art, -To grace a peasant with a Princes fame! -Peasant am I, so to misterm my love: -Although a millers daughter by her birth, -Yet may her beauty and her vertues well suffice -To hide the blemish of her birth in hell, -Where neither envious eyes nor thought can pierce, -But endless darkness ever smother it. -Go, William Conqueror, and seek thy love, -Whilest I draw back and court mine own the while, -Decking her body with such costly robes -As may become her beauties worthiness; -That so thy labors may be laughed to scorn, -And she thou seekest in foreign regions -Be darkened and eclipst when she arrives -By one that I have chosen nearer home. - -MANVILE. -What! comes he too, to intercept my love? -Then hie thee Manvile to forestall such foes. - -[Exit Manvile.] - -MOUNTNEY. -What now, Lord Valingford, are you behind? -The king had chosen you to go with him. - -VALINGFORD. -So chose he you, therefore I marvel much -That both of us should linger in this sort. -What may the king imagine of our stay? - -MOUNTNEY. -The king may justly think we are to blame: -But I imagined I might well be spared, -And that no other man had borne my mind. - -VALINGFORD. -The like did I: in friendship then resolve -What is the cause of your unlookt for stay? - -MOUNTNEY. -Lord Valingford, I tell thee as a friend, -Love is the cause why I have stayed behind. - -VALINGFORD. -Love, my Lord? of whom? - -MOUNTNEY. -Em, the millers daughter of Manchester. - -VALINGFORD. -But may this be? - -MOUNTNEY. -Why not, my Lord? I hope full well you know -That love respects no difference of state, -So beauty serve to stir affection. - -VALINGFORD. -But this it is that makes me wonder most: -That you and I should be of one conceit -I such a strange unlikely passion. - -MOUNTNEY. -But is that true? My Lord, I hope you do but jest. - -VALINGFORD. -I would I did; then were my grief the less. - -MOUNTNEY. -Nay, never grieve; for if the cause be such -To join our thoughts in such a Simpathy, -All envy set aside, let us agree -To yield to eithers fortune in this choice. - -VALINGFORD. -Content, say I: and what so ere befall, -Shake hands, my Lord, and fortune thrive at all. - -[Exeunt.] - - -ACT II. - -SCENE I. Manchester. The Mill. - -[Enter Em and Trotter, the Millers man, with a kerchife on his -head, and an Urinall in his hand.] - - -EM. -Trotter, where have you been? - -TROTTER. -Where have I been? why, what signifies this? - -EM. -A kerchiefe, doth it not? - -TROTTER. -What call you this, I pray? - -EM. -I say it is an Urinall. - -TROTTER. -Then this is mystically to give you to understand, I have -been at the Phismicaries house. - -EM. -How long hast thou been sick? - -TROTTER. -Yfaith, even as long as I have not been half well, and that -hath been a long time. - -EM. -A loitering time, I rather imagine. - -TROTTER. -It may be so: but the Phismicary tells me that you can help -Me. - -EM. -Why, any thing I can do for recovery of thy health be right -well assured of. - -TROTTER. -Then give me your hand. - -EM. -To what end? - -TROTTER. -That the ending of an old indenture is the beginning of a -new bargain. - -EM. -What bargain? - -TROTTER. -That you promised to do any thing to recover my health. - -EM. -On that condition I give thee my hand. - -TROTTER. -Ah, sweet Em! - -[Here he offers to kiss her.] - -EM. -How now, Trotter! your masters daughter? - -TROTTER. -Yfaith, I aim at the fairest. - Ah, Em, sweet Em! - Fresh as the flower, - That hath pour - To wound my heart, - And ease my smart, - Of me, poor thief, - In prison bound-- - -EM. - So all your rhyme - Lies on the ground. -But what means this? - -TROTTER. -Ah, mark the device-- - For thee, my love, - Full sick I was, - In hazard of my life. - Thy promise was - To make me whole, - And for to be my wife. - Let me enjoy - My love, my dear, - And thou possess - Thy Trotter here. - -EM. -But I meant no such matter. - -TROTTER. -Yes, woos, but you did. I'll go to our Parson, Sir John, and -he shall mumble up the marriage out of hand. - -EM. -But here comes one that will forbid the Banes. - -[Here enters Manvile to them.] - -TROTTER. -Ah, Sir, you come too late. - -MANVILE. -What remedy, Trotter? - -EM. -Go, Trotter, my father calls. - -TROTTER. -Would you have me go in, and leave you two here? - -EM. -Why, darest thou not trust me? - -TROTTER. -Yes, faith, even as long as I see you. - -EM. -Go thy ways, I pray thee heartily. - -TROTTER. -That same word (heartily) is of great force. I will go. But -I pray, sir, beware you come not too near the wench. - -[Exit Trotter.] - -MANVILE. -I am greatly beholding to you. -Ah, Maistres, sometime I might have said, my love, -But time and fortune hath bereaved me of that, -And I, an object in those gratious eyes, -That with remorse earst saw into my grief, -May sit and sigh the sorrows of my heart. - -EM. -In deed my Manvile hath some cause to doubt, -When such a Swain is rival in his love! - -MANVILE. -Ah, Em, were he the man that causeth this mistrust, -I should esteem of thee as at the first. - -EM. -But is my love in earnest all this while? - -MANVILE. -Believe me, Em, it is not time to jest, -When others joys, what lately I possest. - -EM. -If touching love my Manvile charge me thus, -Unkindly must I take it at his hands, -For that my conscience clears me of offence. - -MANVILE. -Ah, impudent and shameless in thy ill, -That with thy cunning and defraudful tongue -Seeks to delude the honest meaning mind! -Was never heard in Manchester before -Of truer love then hath been betwixt twain: -And for my part how I have hazarded -Displeasure of my father and my friends, -Thy self can witness. Yet notwithstanding this, -Two gentlemen attending on Duke William, -Mountney and Valingford, as I heard them named, -Oft times resort to see and to be seen -Walking the street fast by thy fathers door, -Whose glauncing eyes up to the windows cast -Gives testies of their Maisters amorous heart. -This, Em, is noted and too much talked on, -Some see it without mistrust of ill-- -Others there are that, scorning, grin thereat, -And saith, 'There goes the millers daughters wooers'. -Ah me, whom chiefly and most of all it doth concern, -To spend my time in grief and vex my soul, -To think my love should be rewarded thus, -And for thy sake abhor all womenkind! - -EM. -May not a maid look upon a man -Without suspitious judgement of the world? - -MANVILE. -If sight do move offence, it is the better not to see. -But thou didst more, unconstant as thou art, -For with them thou hadst talk and conference. - -EM. -May not a maid talk with a man without mistrust? - -MANVILE. -Not with such men suspected amorous. - -EM. -I grieve to see my Manviles jealousy. - -MANVILE. -Ah, Em, faithful love is full of jealousy. -So did I love thee true and faithfully, -For which I am rewarded most unthankfully. - -[Exit in a rage. Manet Em.] - -EM. -And so away? What, in displeasure gone, -And left me such a bittersweet to gnaw upon? -Ah, Manvile, little wottest thou -How near this parting goeth to my heart. -Uncourteous love, whose followers reaps reward -Of hate, disdain, reproach and infamy, -The fruit of frantike, bedlome jealousy! - -[Here enter Mountney to Em.] - -But here comes one of these suspitious men: -Witness, my God, without desert of me, -For only Manvile, honor I in heart, -Nor shall unkindness cause me from him to start. - -MOUNTNEY. -For this good fortune, Venus, be thou blest, -To meet my love, the mistress of my heart, -Where time and place gives opportunity -At full to let her understand my love. - -[He turns to Em and offers to take her by the hand, and she -goes from him.] - -Fair mistress, since my fortune sorts so well, -Hear you a word. What meaneth this? -Nay, stay, fair Em. - -EM. -I am going homewards, sir. - -MOUNTNEY. -Yet stay, sweet love, to whom I must disclose -The hidden secrets of a lovers thoughts, -Not doubting but to find such kind remorse -As naturally you are enclined to. - -EM. -The Gentle-man, your friend, Sir, -I have not seen him this four days at the least. - -MOUNTNEY. -Whats that to me? -I speak not, sweet, in person of my friend, -But for my self, whom, if that love deserve -To have regard, being honourable love, -Not base affects of loose lascivious love, -Whom youthful wantons play and dally with, -But that unites in honourable bands of holy rites, -And knits the sacred knot that Gods-- - -[Here Em cuts him off.] - -EM. -What mean you, sir, to keep me here so long? -I cannot understand you by your signs; -You keep a pratling with your lips, -But never a word you speak that I can hear. - -MOUNTNEY. -What, is she deaf? a great impediment. -Yet remedies there are for such defects. -Sweet Em, it is no little grief to me, -To see, where nature in her pride of art -Hath wrought perfections rich and admirable-- - -EM. -Speak you to me, Sir? - -MOUNTNEY. -To thee, my only joy. - -EM. -I cannot hear you. - -MOUNTNEY. -Oh, plague of Fortune! Oh hell without compare! -What boots it us to gaze and not enjoy? - -EM. -Fare you well, Sir. - -[Exit Em. Manet Mountney.] - -MOUNTNEY. -Fare well, my love. Nay, farewell life and all! -Could I procure redress for this infirmity, -It might be means she would regard my suit. -I am acquainted with the Kings Physicians, -Amongst the which theres one mine honest friend, -Seignior Alberto, a very learned man. -His judgement will I have to help this ill. -Ah, Em, fair Em, if Art can make thee whole, -I'll buy that sence for thee, although it cost me dear. -But, Mountney, stay: this may be but deceit, -A matter fained only to delude thee, -And, not unlike, perhaps by Valingford. -He loves fair Em as well as I-- -As well as I? ah, no, not half so well. -Put case: yet may he be thine enemy, -And give her counsell to dissemble thus. -I'll try the event and if it fall out so, -Friendship, farewell: Love makes me now a foe. - -[Exit Mountney.] - - -SCENE II. - -An Ante-Chamber at the Danish Court. - -[Enter Marques Lubeck and Mariana.] - - -MARIANA. -Trust me, my Lord, I am sorry for your hurt. - -LUBECK. -Gramercie, Madam; but it is not great: -Only a thrust, prickt with a Rapiers point. - -MARIANA. -How grew the quarrel, my Lord? - -LUBECK. -Sweet Lady, for thy sake. There was this last night two -masks in one company, my self the formost. The other strangers -were: amongst the which, when the Musick began to sound the -Measures, each Masker made choice of his Lady; and one, more -forward than the rest, stept towards thee, which I perceiving, -thrust him aside, and took thee my self. But this was taken in -so ill part that at my coming out of the court gate, with -justling together, it was my chance to be thrust into the arm. -The doer thereof, because he was the original cause of the -disorder at that inconvenient time, was presently committed, -and is this morning sent for to answer the matter. And I -think here he comes. - -[Here enters Sir Robert of Windsor with a Gaylor.] - -What, Sir Robert of Windsor, how now? - -SIR ROBERT. -Yfaith, my Lord, a prisoner: but what ails your arm? - -LUBECK. -Hurt the last night by mischance. - -SIR ROBERT. -What, not in the mask at the Court gate? - -LUBECK. -Yes, trust me, there. - -SIR ROBERT. -Why then, my Lord, I thank you for my nights lodging. - -LUBECK. -And I you for my hurt, if it were so. Keeper, away, I -discharge you of your prisoner. - -[Exit the Keeper.] - -SIR ROBERT. -Lord Marques, you offered me disgrace to shoulder me. - -LUBECK. -Sir, I knew you not, and therefore you must pardon me, and -the rather it might be alleged to me of mere simplicity to -see another dance with my Maistris, disguised, and I my self -in presence. But seeing it was our happs to damnify each -other unwillingly, let us be content with our harms, and lay -the fault where it was, and so become friends. - -SIR ROBERT. -Yfaith, I am content with my nights lodging, if you be content -with your hurt. - -LUBECK. -Not content that I have it, but content to forget how I came -by it. - -SIR ROBERT. -My Lord, here comes Lady Blaunch, lets away. - -[Enter Blaunch.] - -LUBECK. -With good will. Lady, you will stay? - -[Exit Lubeck and Sir Robert.] - -MARIANA. -Madam-- - -BLAUNCH. -Mariana, as I am grieved with thy presence: so am I not -offended for thy absence; and were it not a breach to modesty, -thou shouldest know before I left thee. - -MARIANA. -How near is this humor to madness! If you hold on as you -begin, you are in a pretty way to scolding. - -BLAUNCH. -To scolding, huswife? - -MARIANA. -Madam, here comes one. - -[Here enters one with a letter.] - -BLAUNCH. -There doth in deed. Fellow, wouldest thou have any thing with -any body here? - -MESSENGER. -I have a letter to deliver to the Lady Mariana. - -BLAUNCH. -Give it me. - -MESSENGER. -There must none but she have it. - -[Blaunch snatcheth the letter from him. Et exit messenger.] - -BLAUNCH. -Go to, foolish fellow. And therefore, to ease the anger I -sustain, I'll be so bold to open it. Whats here? Sir -Robert greets you well? You, Mastries, his love, his life? -Oh amorous man, how he entertains his new Maistres; and -bestows on Lubeck, his od friend, a horn night cap to keep -in his witt. - -MARIANA. -Madam, though you have discourteously read my letter, yet I -pray you give it me. - -BLAUNCH. -Then take it: there, and there, and there! - -[She tears it. Et exit Blaunch.] - -MARIANA. -How far doth this differ from modesty! Yet will I gather -up the pieces, which happily may shew to me the intent -thereof, though not the meaning. - -[She gathers up the pieces and joins them.] - -'Your servant and love, sir Robert of Windsor, Alias William -the Conqueror, wisheth long health and happiness'. Is this -William the Conqueror, shrouded under the name of sir Robert -of Windsor? Were he the Monarch of the world he should not -disposess Lubeck of his Love. Therefore I will to the -Court, and there, if I can, close to be friends with Lady -Blaunch; and thereby keep Lubeck, my Love, for my self, and -further the Lady Blaunch in her suit, as much as I may. - -[Exit.] - - -SCENE III. - -Manchester. The Mill. - -[Enter Em sola.] - - -EM. -Jealousy, that sharps the lovers sight, -And makes him conceive and conster his intent, -Hath so bewitched my lovely Manvils senses -That he misdoubts his Em, that loves his soul; -He doth suspect corrivals in his love, -Which, how untrue it is, be judge, my God! -But now no more--Here commeth Valingford; -Shift him off now, as thou hast done the other. - -[Enter Valingford.] - -VALINGFORD. -See how Fortune presents me with the hope I lookt for. -Fair Em! - -EM. -Who is that? - -VALINGFORD. -I am Valingford, thy love and friend. - -EM. -I cry you mercy, Sir; I thought so by your speech. - -VALINGFORD. -What aileth thy eyes? - -EM. -Oh blind, Sir, blind, stricken blind, by mishap, on a sudden. - -VALINGFORD. -But is it possible you should be taken on such a sudden? -Infortunate Valingford, to be thus crost in thy love! Fair -Em, I am not a little sorry to see this thy hard hap. Yet -nevertheless, I am acquainted with a learned Phisitian that -will do any thing for thee at my request. To him will I -resort, and enquire his judgement, as concerning the recovery -of so excellent a sense. - -EM. -Oh Lord Sir: and of all things I cannot abide Phisicke, the -very name thereof to me is odious. - -VALINGFORD. -No? not the thing will do thee so much good? Sweet Em, hether -I cam to parley of love, hoping to have found thee in thy -woonted prosperity; and have the gods so unmercifully thwarted -my expectation, by dealing so sinisterly with thee, sweet Em? - -EM. -Good sir, no more, it fits not me -To have respect to such vain fantasies -As idle love presents my ears withall. -More reason I should ghostly give my self -To sacred prayers for this my former sin, -For which this plague is justly fallen upon me, -Then to harken to the vanities of love. - -VALINGFORD. -Yet, sweet Em, -Accept this jewell at my hand, which I -Bestowe on thee in token of my love. - -EM. -A jewell, sir! what pleasure can I have -In jewels, treasure, or any worldly thing -That want my sight that should deserne thereof? -Ah, sir, I must leave you: -The pain of mine eyes is so extreme, -I cannot long stay in a place. I take my leave. - -[Exit Em.] - -VALINGFORD. -Zounds, what a cross is this to my conceit! But, Valingford, -search the depth of this devise. Why may not this be fained -subteltie, by Mountneys invention, to the intent that I -seeing such occasion should leave off my suit and not any -more persist to solicit her of love? I'll try the event; if -I can by any means perceive the effect of this deceit to be -procured by his means, friend Mountney, the one of us is like -to repent our bargain. - -[Exit.] - - -ACT III. - -SCENE I. The Danish Court. - -[Enter Mariana and Marques Lubeck.] - - -LUBECK. -Lady, -Since that occasion, forward in our good, -Presenteth place and opportunity, -Let me intreat your woonted kind consent -And friendly furtherance in a suit I have. - -MARIANA. -My Lord, you know you need not to intreat, -But may command Mariana to her power, -Be it no impeachment to my honest fame. - -LUBECK. -Free are my thoughts from such base villainy -As may in question, Lady, call your name: -Yet is the matter of such consequence, -Standing upon my honorable credit, -To be effected with such zeal and secrecy -As, should I speak and fail my expectation, -It would redound greatly to my prejudice. - -MARIANA. -My Lord, wherein hath Mariana given you -Occasion that you should mistrust, or else -Be jealous of my secrecy? - -LUBECK. -Mariana, do not misconster of me: -I not mistrust thee, nor thy secrecy; -Nor let my love misconster my intent, -Nor think thereof but well and honorable. -Thus stands the case: -Thou knowest from England hether came with me -Robert of Windsor, a noble man at Arms, -Lusty and valiant, in spring time of his years: -No marvell then though he prove amorous. - -MARIANA. -True, my Lord, he came to see fair Blanch. - -LUBECK. -No, Mariana, that is not it. His love to Blanch -Was then extinct, when first he saw thy face. -'Tis thee he loves; yea, thou art only she -That is maistres and commander of his thoughts. - -MARIANA. -Well, well, my Lord, I like you, for such drifts -Put silly Ladies often to their shifts. -Oft have I heard you say you loved me well, -Yea, sworn the same, and I believed you too. -Can this be found an action of good faith -Thus to dissemble where you found true love? - -LUBECK. -Mariana, I not dissemble, on mine honour, -Nor fails my faith to thee. But for my friend, -For princely William, by whom thou shalt possess -The title of estate and Majesty, -Fitting thy love, and vertues of thy mind-- -For him I speak, for him do I intreat, -And with thy favour fully do resign -To him the claim and interest of my love. -Sweet Mariana, then, deny me not: -Love William, love my friend, and honour me, -Who else is clean dishonored by thy means. - -MARIANA. -Borne to mishap, my self am only she -On whom the Sun of Fortune never shined: -But Planets ruled by retrogard aspect -Foretold mine ill in my nativity. - -LUBECK. -Sweet Lady, cease, let my intreaty serve -To pacify the passion of thy grief, -Which, well I know, proceeds of ardent love. - -MARIANA. -But Lubeck now regards not Mariana. - -LUBECK. -Even as my life, so love I Mariana. - -MARIANA. -Why do you post me to another then? - -LUBECK. -He is my friend, and I do love the man. - -MARIANA. -Then will Duke William rob me of my Love? - -LUBECK. -No, as his life Mariana he doth love. - -MARIANA. -Speak for your self, my Lord, let him alone. - -LUBECK. -So do I, Madam, for he and I am one. - -MARIANA. -Then loving you I do content you both. - -LUBECK. -In loveing him, you shall content us both: -Me, for I crave that favour at your hands, -He, for he hopes that comfort at your hands. - -MARIANA. -Leave off, my Lord, here comes the Lady Blaunch. - -[Enter Blaunch to them.] - -LUBECK. -Hard hap to break us of our talk so soon! -Sweet Mariana, do remember me. - -[Exit Lubeck.] - -MARIANA. -Thy Mariana cannot chose but remember thee. - -BLAUNCH. -Mariana, well met. You are very forward in your Love? - -MARIANA. -Madam, be it in secret spoken to your self, if you will but -follow the complot I have invented, you will not think me -so forward as your self shall prove fortunate. - -BLAUNCH. -As how? - -MARIANA. -Madam, as thus: It is not unknowen to you that Sir Robert -of Windsor, a man that you do not little esteem, hath long -importuned me of Love; but rather then I will be found -false or unjust to the Marques Lubeck, I will, as did the -constant lady Penelope, undertake to effect some great -task. - -BLAUNCH. -What of all this? - -MARIANA. -The next time that Sir Robert shall come in his woonted -sort to solicit me with Love, I will seem to agree and like -of any thing that the Knight shall demaund, so far foorth -as it be no impeachment to my chastity: And, to conclude, -point some place for to meet the man, for my conveyance -from the Denmark Court: which determined upon, he will -appoint some certain time for our departure: whereof you -having intelligence, you may soon set down a plot to wear -the English Crown, and than-- - -BLANCH. -What then? - -MARIANA. -If Sir Robert prove a King and you his Queen, how than? - -BLANCH. -Were I assured of the one, as I am persuaded of the other, -there were some possibility in it. But here comes the man. - -MARIANA. -Madam, begone, and you shall see I will work to your desire -and my content. - -[Exit Blanch.] - -WILLIAM CON. -Lady, this is well and happily met. -Fortune hetherto hath beene my foe, -And though I have oft sought to speak with you, -Yet still I have been crot with sinister happs. -I cannot, Madam, tell a loving tale -Or court my Maistres with fabulous discourses, -That am a souldier sworn to follow arms: -But this I bluntly let you understand, -I honor you with such religious Zeal -As may become an honorable mind. -Nor may I make my love the siege of Troy, -That am a stranger in this Country. -First, what I am I know you are resolved, -For that my friend hath let you that to understand, -The Marques Lubeck, to whom I am so bound -That whilest I live I count me only his. - -MARIANA. -Surely you are beholding to the Marques, -For he hath been an earnest spokes-man in your cause. - -WILLIAM. -And yields my Lady, then, at his request, -To grace Duke William with her gratious love? - -MARIANA. -My Lord, I am a prisoner, -And hard it were to get me from the Court. - -WILLIAM. -An easy matter to get you from the Court, -If case that you will thereto give consent. - -MARIANA. -Put case I should, how would you use me than? - -WILLIAM. -Not otherwise but well and honorably. -I have at Sea a ship that doth attend, -Which shall forthwith conduct us into England, -Where when we are, I straight will marry thee. -We may not stay deliberating long, -Least that suspicion, envious of our weal, -Set in a foot to hinder our pretence. - -MARIANA. -But this I think were most convenient, -To mask my face, the better to scape unknowen. - -WILLIAM. -A good devise: till then, Farwell, fair love. - -MARIANA. -But this I must intreat your grace, -You would not seek by lust unlawfully -To wrong my chaste determinations. - -WILLIAM. -I hold that man most shameless in his sin -That seeks to wrong an honest Ladies name -Whom he thinks worthy of his marriage bed. - -MARIANA. -In hope your oath is true, -I leave your grace till the appointed time. - -[Exit Mariana.] - -WILLIAM. -O happy William, blessed in th love, -Most fortunate in Mariana's love! -Well, Lubeck, well, this courtesy of thine -I will requite, if God permit me life. - -[Exit.] - - -SCENE II. - -Manchester. Near the Mill. - -[Enter Valingford and Mountney at two sundry doors, looking -angrily each on other with Rapiers drawn.] - - -MOUNTNEY. -Valingford, so hardly I disgest -An injury thou hast profered me, -As, were it not that I detest to do -What stands not with the honor of my name, -Thy death should pay thy ransom of thy fault. - -VALINGFORD. -And, Mountney, had not my revenging wrath, -Incenst with more than ordinary love, -Been loth for to deprive thee of thy life, -Thou hadst not lived to brave me as thou doest. -Wretch as thou art, -Wherein hath Valingford offended thee? -That honourable bond which late we did -Confirm in presence of the Gods, -When with the Conqueror we arrived here, -For my part hath been kept inviolably, -Till now too much abused by thy villainy, -I am inforced to cancel all those bands, -By hating him which I so well did love. - -MOUNTNEY. -Subtle thou art, and cunning in thy fraud, -That, giving me occasion of offence, -Thou pickst a quarrell to excuse thy shame. -Why, Valingford, was it not enough for thee -To be a rival twixt me and my love, -But counsell her, to my no small disgrace, -That, when I came to talk with her of love, -She should seem deaf, as faining not to hear? - -VALINGFORD. -But hath she, Mountney, used thee as thou sayest? - -MOUNTNEY. -Thou knowest too well she hath: -Wherein thou couldest not do me greater injury. - -VALINGFORD. -Then I perceive we are deluded both. -For when I offered many gifts of Gold, -And Jewels to entreat for love, -She hath refused them with a coy disdain, -Alledging that she could not see the Sun. -The same conjectured I to be thy drift, -That faining so she might be rid of me. - -MOUNTNEY. -The like did I by thee. But are not these -Naturall impediments? - -VALINGFORD. -In my conjecture merely counterfeit: -Therefore lets join hands in friendship once again, -Since that the jar grew only by conjecture. - -MOUNTNEY. -With all my heart: Yet lets try the truth hereof. - -VALINGFORD. -With right good will. We will straight unto her father, -And there to learn whither it be so or no. - -[Exeunt.] - - -SCENE III. - -Outside the Danish Palace. - -[Enter William and Blanch disguised, with a mask over her -face.] - - -WILLIAM. -Come on, my love, the comfort of my life. -Disguised thus we may remain unknowen, -And get we once to Seas, I force no then, -We quickly shall attain the English shore. - -BLAUNCH. -But this I urge you with your former oath: -You shall not seek to violate mine honour, -Until our marriage rights be all performed. - -WILLIAM. -Mariana, here I swear to thee by heaven, -And by the honour that I bear to Arms, -Never to seek or crave at hands of thee -The spoil of honourable chastity, -Until we do attain the English coast, -Where thou shalt be my right espoused Queen. - -BLANCH. -In hope your oath proceedeth from your heart, -Let's leave the Court, and betake us to his power -That governs all things to his mighty will, -And will reward the just with endless joy, -And plague the bad with most extreme annoy. - -WILLIAM. -Lady, as little tarriance as we may, -Lest some misfortune happen by the way. - -[Exit Blanch and William.] - - -SCENE IV. - -Manchester. The Mill. - -[Enter the Miller, his man Trotter, and Manville.] - - -MILLER. -I tell you, sir, it is no little grief to me, you should -so hardly conseit of my daughter, whose honest report, -though I say it, was never blotted with any title of -defamation. - -MANVILLE. -Father Miller, the repair of those gentlemen to your house -hath given me great occasion to mislike. - -MILLER. -As for those gentlemen, I never saw in them any evil intreaty. -But should they have profered it, her chaste mind hath proof -enough to prevent it. - -TROTTER. -Those gentlemen are so honest as ever I saw: For yfaith one -of them gave me six pence to fetch a quart of Seck.--See, -maister, here they come. - -[Enter Mountney and Valingford.] - -MILLER. -Trotter, call Em. Now they are here together, I'll have this -matter throughly debated. - -[Exit Trotter.] - -MOUNTNEY. -Father, well met. We are come to confer with you. - -MANVILLE. -Nay, with his daughter rather. - -VALINGFORD. -Thus it is, father, we are come to crave your friendship in -a matter. - -MILLER. -Gentlemen, as you are strangers to me, yet by the way of -courtesy you shall demand any reasonable thing at my hands. - -MANVILLE. -What, is the matter so forward they came to crave his good -will? - -VALINGFORD. -It is given us to understand that your daughter is sodenly -become both blind and deaf. - -MILLER. -Marie, God forbid! I have sent for her. In deed, she -hath kept her chamber this three days. It were no little -grief to me if it should be so. - -MANVILLE. -This is God's judgement for her treachery. - -[Enter Trotter, leading Em.] - -MILLER. -Gentlemen, I fear your words are too true. See where -Trotter comes leading of her.--What ails my Em? Not blind, -I hope? - -EM. -[Aside.] Mountney and Valingford both together! And -Manville, to whom I have faithfully vowed my love! Now, Em, -suddenly help thy self. - -MOUNTNEY. -This is no desembling, Valingford. - -VALINGFORD. -If it be, it is cunningly contrived of all sides. - -EM. -[Aside to Trotter.] Trotter, lend me thy hand, and as thou -lovest me, keep my counsell, and justify what so ever I say -and I'll largely requite thee. - -TROTTER. -Ah, thats as much as to say you would tell a monstrous, -terrible, horrible, outragious lie, and I shall sooth it-- -no, berlady! - -EM. -My present extremity will me,--if thou love me, Trotter. - -TROTTER. -That same word love makes me to do any thing. - -EM. -Trotter, wheres my father? - -TROTTER. -Why, what a blind dunce are you, can you not see? He -standeth right before you. - -[He thrusts Em upon her father.] - -EM. -Is this my father?--Good father, give me leave to sit where -I may not be disturbed, sith God hath visited me both of my -sight and hearing. - -MILLER. -Tell me, sweet Em, how came this blindness? Thy eyes are -lovely to look on, and yet have they lost the benefit of -their sight. What a grief is this to thy poor father! - -EM. -Good father, let me not stand as an open gazing stock to -every one, but in a place alone, as fits a creature so -miserable. - -MILLER. -Trotter, lead her in, the utter overthrow of poor Goddards -joy and only solace. - -[Exit the Miller, Trotter and Em.] - -MANVILLE. -Both blind and deaf! Then is she no wife for me; and glad -am I so good occasion is hapned: Now will I away to Chester, -and leave these gentlemen to their blind fortune. - -[Exit Manville.] - -MOUNTNEY. -Since fortune hath thus spitefully crost our hope, let us -leave this quest and harken after our King, who is at this -day landed at Lirpoole. - -[Exit Mountney.] - -VALINGFORD. -Go, my Lord, I'll follow you.--Well, now Mountney is gone, -I'll stay behind to solicit my love; for I imagine that I -shall find this but a fained invention, thereby to have us -leave off our suits. - -[Exit Valingford.] - - -SCENE V. - -The Danish Court. - -[Enter Marques Lubeck and the King of Denmark, angerly with -some attendants.] - - -ZWENO K. -Well, Lubeck, well, it is not possible -But you must be consenting to this act? -Is this the man so highly you extold? -And play a part so hateful with his friend? -Since first he came with thee into the court, -What entertainment and what coutenance -He hath received, none better knows than thou. -In recompence whereof, he quites me well -To steal away fair Mariana my prisoner, -Whose ransom being lately greed upon, -I am deluded of by this escape. -Besides, I know not how to answer it, -When she shall be demanded home to Swethia. - -LUBECK. -My gracious Lord, conjecture not, I pray, -Worser of Lubeck than he doth deserve: -Your highness knows Mariana was my love, -Sole paragon and mistress of my thoughts. -Is it likely I should know of her departure, -Wherein there is no man injured more than I? - -ZWENO. -That carries reason, Marques, I confess. -Call forth my daughter. Yet I am pesuaded -That she, poor soul, suspected not her going: -For as I hear, she likewise loved the man, -Which he, to blame, did not at all regard. - -[Enter Rocillio and Mariana.] - -ROCILLIO. -My Lord, here is the Princess Mariana; -It is your daughter is conveyed away. - -ZWENO. -What, my daughter gone? -Now, Marques, your villainy breaks forth. -This match is of your making, gentle sir, -And you shall dearly know the price thereof. - -LUBECK. -Knew I thereof, or that there was intent -In Robert thus to steal your highness daughter, -Let leavens in Justice presently confound me. - -ZWENO. -Not all the protestations thou canst use -Shall save thy life. Away with him to prison! -And, minion, otherwise it cannot be -But you are an agent in this treachery. -I will revenge it throughly on you both. -Away with her to prison! Heres stuff in deed! -My daughter stolen away!-- -It booteth not thus to disturb my self, -But presently to send to English William, -To send me that proud knight of Windsor hither, -Here in my Court to suffer for his shame, -Or at my pleasure to be punished there, -Withall that Blanch be sent me home again, -Or I shall fetch her unto Windsors cost, -Yea, and Williams too, if he deny her me. - -[Exit Zweno and the rest.] - - -SCENE VI. - -England. Camp of the Earl Demarch. - -[Enter William, taken with soldiers.] - - -WILLIAM. -Could any cross, could any plague be worse? -Could heaven or hell, did both conspire in one -To afflict my soul, invent a greater scourge -Then presently I am tormented with? -Ah, Mariana, cause of my lament, -Joy of my heart, and comfort of my life! -For tho I breath my sorrows in the air -And tire my self, or silently I sigh, -My sorrows afficts my soul with equal passion. - -SOLDIER. -Go to, sirha, put up, it is to small purpose. - -WILLIAM. -Hency, villains, hence! dare you lay your hands -Upon your Soveraigne? - -SOLDIER. -Well, sir, we will deal for that. -But here comes one will remedy all this. - -[Enter Demarch.] - -My Lord, watching this night in the camp, -We took this man, and know not what he is: -And in his company was a gallant dame, -A woman fair in outward shew she seemed, -But that her face was masked, we could not see -The grace and favour of her countenance. - -DEMARCH. -Tell me, good fellow, of whence and what thou art. - -SOLDIER. -Why do you not answer my Lord? -He takes scorn to answer. - -DEMARCH. -And takest thou scorn to answer my demand? -Thy proud behaviour very well deserves -This misdemeanour at the worst be construed. -Why doest thou neither know, nor hast thou heard, -That in the absence of the Saxon Duke -Demarch is his especial Substitute -To punish those that shall offend the laws? - -WILLIAM. -In knowing this, I know thou art a traitor; -A rebel, and mutinous conspirator. -Why, Demarch, knowest thou who I am? - -DEMARCH. -Pardon, my dread Lord, the error of my sense, -And misdemeaner to your princely excellencie. - -WILLIAM. -Why, Demarch, -What is the cause my subjects are in arms? - -DEMARCH. -Free are my thoughts, my dread and gratious Lord, -From treason to your state and common weal; -Only revengement of a private grudge -By Lord Dirot lately profered me, -That stands not with the honor of my name, -Is cause I have assembled for my guard -Some men in arms that may withstand his force, -Whose settled malice aimeth at my life. - -WILLIAM. -Where is Lord Dirot? - -DEMARCH. -In arms, my gratious Lord, -Not past two miles from hence, as credibly -I am assertained. - -WILLIAM. -Well; come, let us go. -I fear I shall find traitors of you both. - -[Exit.] - - -ACT IV. - -SCENE I. - -Chester. Before the Citizen's House. - -[Enter the Citizen of Chester, and his daughter Elner, and -Manville.] - - -CITIZEN. -In deed, sir, it would do very well if you could intreat your -father to come hither: but if you think it be too far, I care -not much to take horse and ride to Manchester. I am sure my -daughter is content with either. How sayest thou, Elner, art -thou not? - -ELNER. -As you shall think best I must be contented. - -MANVILLE. -Well, Elner, farewell. Only thus much, I pray: make all -things in a readiness, either to serve here, or to carry -thither with us. - -CITIZEN. -As for that, sir, take you no care; and so I betake you to -your journey. - -[Exit Manville.] - -[Enter Valingford.] - -But soft, what gentleman is this? - -VALINGFORD. -God speed, sir. Might a man crave a word or two with you? - -CITIZEN. -God forbid else, sir; I pray you speak your pleasure. - -VALINGFORD. -The gentleman that parted from you, was he not of Manchester, -his father living there of good account? - -CITIZEN. -Yes, marry is he, sir. Why do you ask? Belike you have had -some acquaintance with him. - -VALINGFORD. -I have been acquainted in times past, but, through his double -dealing, I am growen weary of his company. For, be it spoken -to you, he hath been acquainted with a poor millers daughter, -and diverse times hath promist her marriage. But what with -his delays and flouts he hath brought her into such a taking -that I fear me it will cost her her life. - -CITIZEN. -To be plain with you, sir, his father and I have been of old -acquaintance, and a motion was made between my daughter and -his son, which is now throughly agreed upon, save only the -place appointed for the marriage, whether it shall be kept -here or at Manchester; and for no other occasion he is now -ridden. - -ELNER. -What hath he done to you, that you should speak so ill of -the man? - -VALINGFORD. -Oh, gentlewoman, I cry you mercy: he is your husband that -shall be. - -ELNER. -If I knew this to be true, he should not be my husband were -he never so good: And therefore, good father, I would -desire you to take the pains to bear this gentleman company -to Manchester, to know whether this be true or no. - -CITIZEN. -Now trust me, gentleman, he deals with me very hardly, -knowing how well I meant to him; but I care not much to -ride to Manchester, to know whether his fathers will be he -should deal with me so badly. Will it please you, sir, to -go in? We will presently take horse and away. - -VALINGFORD. -If it please you to go in, I'll follow you presently. - -[Exit Elner and her father.] - -Now shall I be revenged on Manville, and by this means get -Em to my wife; and therefore I will straight to her fathers -and inform them both of all that is happened. - -[Exit.] - - -SCENE II. - -The English Court. - -[Enter William, the Ambassador of Denmark, Demarch, and -other attendants.] - - -WILLIAM. -What news with the Denmark Embassador? - -EMBASSADOR. -Marry, thus: -The King of Denmark and my Sovereign -Doth send to know of thee what is the cause -That injuriously, against the law of arms, -Thou hast stolen away his only daughter Blaunch, -The only stay and comfort of his life. -Therefore by me -He willeth thee to send his daughter Blaunch, -Or else foorthwith he will levy such an host, -As soon shall fetch her in dispite of thee. - -WILLIAM. -Embassador, this answer I return thy King. -He willeth me to send his daughter Blaunch, -Saying, I conveyed her from the Danish court, -That never yet did once as think thereof. -As for his menacing and daunting threats, -I nill regard him nor his Danish power; -For if he come to fetch her foorth my Realm -I will provide him such a banquet here, -That he shall have small cause to give me thanks. - -EMBASSADOR. -Is this your answer, then? - -WILLIAM. -It is; and so begone. - -EMBASSADOR. -I go; but to your cost. - -[Exit Embassador.] - -WILLIAM. -Demarch, our subjects, earst levied in civil broils, -Muster foorthwith, for to defend the Realm. -In hope whereof, that we shall find you true, -We freely pardon this thy late offence. - -DEMARCH. -Most humble thanks I render to your grace. - -[Exeunt.] - - -SCENE III. - -Manchester. The Mill. - -[Enter the Miller and Valingford.] - - -MILLER. -Alas, gentleman, why should you trouble your self so much, -considering the imperfections of my daughter, which is able -to with-draw the love of any man from her, as already it -hath done in her first choice. Maister Manville hath -forsaken her, and at Chester shall be married to a mans -daughter of no little wealth. But if my daughter knew so -much, it would go very near her heart, I fear me. - -VALINGFORD. -Father miller, such is the entire affection to your daughter, -as no misfortune whatsoever can alter. My fellow Mountney, -thou seest, gave quickly over; but I, by reason of my good -meaning, am not so soon to be changed, although I am borne -off with scorns and denial. - -[Enter Em to them.] - -MILLER. -Trust me, sir, I know not what to say. My daughter is not -to be compelled by me; but here she comes her self: speak -to her and spare not, for I never was troubled with love -matters so much before. - -EM. -[Aside.] Good Lord! shall I never be rid of this importunate -man? Now must I dissemble blindness again. Once more for -thy sake, Manville, thus am I inforced, because I shall -complete my full resolved mind to thee. Father, where are -you? - -MILLER. -Here, sweet Em. Answer this gentleman, that would so fayne -enjoy thy love. - -EM. -Where are you, sir? will you never leave this idle and vain -pursuit of love? Is not England stord enough to content you, -but you must still trouble the poor contemptible maid of -Manchester? - -VALINGFORD. -None can content me but the fair maid of Manchester. - -EM. -I perceive love is vainly described, that, being blind -himself, would have you likewise troubled with a blind wife, -having the benefit of your eyes. But neither follow him so -much in folly, but love one in whom you may better delight. - -VALINGFORD. -Father Miller, thy daughter shall have honor by graunting me -her love. I am a Gentleman of king Williams Court, and no -mean man in king Williams favour. - -EM. -If you be a Lord, sir, as you say, you offer both your self -and me great wrong: yours, as apparent, in limiting your -love so unorderly, for which you rashly endure reprochement; -mine, as open and evident, when, being shut from the vanities -of this world, you would have me as an open gazing stock to -all the world; for lust, not love, leads you into this error. -But from the one I will keep me as well as I can, and yield -the other to none but to my father, as I am bound by duty. - -VALINGFORD. -Why, fair Em, Manville hath forsaken thee, and must at -Chester be married: which if I speak otherwise than true, -let thy father speak what credibly he hath heard. - -EM. -But can it be Manville will deal so unkindly to reward my -justice with such monstrous ungentleness? Have I dissembled -for thy sake, and doest thou now thus requite it? In deed -these many days I have not seen him, which hath made me -marvel at his long absence. But, father, are you assured -of the words he spake were concerning Manville? - -MILLER. -In sooth, daughter, now it is foorth I must needs confirm -it: Maister Manville hath forsaken thee, and at Chester -must be married to a mans daughter of no little wealth. -His own father procures it, and therefore I dare credit -it; and do thou believe it, for trust me, daughter, it is so. - -EM. -Then, good father, pardon the injury that I have done to -you, only causing your grief, by over-fond affecting a man -so trothless. And you likewise, sir, I pray hold me -excused, a I hope this cause will allow sufficiently for -me: My love to Manville, thinking he would requite it, -hath made me double with my father and you, and many more -besides, which I will no longer hide from you. That -inticing speeches should not beguile me, I have made my -self deaf to any but to him; and lest any mans person -should please me more than his, I have dissembled the want -of sight: Both which shadows of my irrevocable affections -I have not spared to confirm before him, my father, and all -other amorous soliciters--wherewith not made acquainted, I -perceive my true intent hath wrought mine own sorrow, and -seeking by love to be regarded, am cut of with contempt, and -dispised. - -MILLER. -Tell me, sweet Em, hast thou but fained all this while for -his love, that hath so descourteously forsaken thee? - -EM. -Credit me, father, I have told you the troth; wherewith I -desire you and Lord Valingford not to be displeased. For -ought else I shall say, let my present grief hold me excused. -But, may I live to see that ungrateful man justly rewarded -for his treachery, poor Em would think her self not a little -happy. Favour my departing at this instant; for my troubled -thought desires to meditate alone in silence. - -[Exit Em.] - -VALINGFORD. -Will not Em shew one cheerful look on Valingford? - -MILLER. -Alas, sir, blame her not; you see she hath good cause, being -so handled by this gentleman: And so I'll leave you, and go -comfort my poor wench as well as I may. - -[Exit the Miller.] - -VALINGFORD. -Farewell, good father. - -[Exit Valingford.] - - -ACT V. - -SCENE I. - -Open country in England. - -[Enter Zweno, king of Denmark, with Rosilio and other -attendants.] - - -ZWENO. -Rosilio, is this the place whereas the Duke William should -meet me? - -ROSILIO. -It is, and like your grace. - -ZWENO. -Go, captain! Away, regard the charge I gave: -See all our men be martialed for the fight. -Dispose the Wards as lately was devised; -And let the prisoners under several guards -Be kept apart, until you hear from us. -Let this suffise, you know my resolution. -If William, Duke of Saxons, be the man, -That by his answer sent us, he would seem, -Not words, but wounds: not parlays, but alarms, -Must be decider of this controversy. -Rosilio, stay with me; the rest begone. - -[Exeunt.] - -[Enter William, and Demarch with other attendants.] - -WILLIAM. -All but Demarch go shroud you out of sight; -For I will go parlay with the Prince my self. - -DEMARCH. -Should Zweno by this parlay call you foorth, -Upon intent injuriously to deal, -This offereth too much opportunity. - -WILLIAM. -No, no, Demarch, -That were a breach against the law of Arms: -Therefore begone, and leave us here alone. - -[Exeunt.] - -I see that Zweno is maister of his word. -Zweno, William of Saxony greeteth thee, -Either well or ill, according to thy intent. -If well thou wish to him and Saxony, -He bids thee friendly welcome as he can. -If ill thou wish to him and Saxony, -He must withstand thy malice as he may. - -ZWENO. -William, -For other name and title give I none -To him, who, were he worthy of those honours -That Fortune and his predecessors left, -I ought, by right and humaine courtesy, -To grace his style with Duke of Saxony; -But, for I find a base, degenerate mind, -I frame my speech according to the man, -And not the state that he unworthy holds. - -WILLIAM. -Herein, Zweno, dost thou abase thy state, -To break the peace which by our ancestors -Hath heretofore been honourably kept. - -ZWENO. -And should that peace for ever have been kept, -Had not thy self been author of the breach: -Nor stands it with the honor of my state, -Or nature of a father to his child, -That I should so be robbed of my daughter, -And not unto the utmost of my power -Revenge so intolerable an injury. - -WILLIAM. -Is this the colour of your quarrel, Zweno? -I well perceive the wisest men may err. -And think you I conveyed away your daughter Blanch? - -ZWENO. -Art thou so impudent to deny thou didst, -When that the proof thereof is manifest? - -WILLIAM. -What proof is there? - -ZWENO. -Thine own confession is sufficient proof. - -WILLIAM. -Did I confess I stole your daughter Blanch? - -ZWENO. -Thou didst confess thou hadst a Lady hence. - -WILLIAM. -I have, and do. - -ZWENO. -Why, that was Blanch, my daughter. - -WILLIAM. -Nay, that was Mariana, -Who wrongfully thou detainest prisoner. - -ZWENO. -Shameless persisting in thy ill! -Thou doest maintain a manifest untroth, -As she shall justify unto thy teeth. -Rosilio, fetch her and the Marques hether. - -[Exit Rosilio for Mariana.] - -WILLIAM. -It cannot be I should be so deceived. - -DEMARCH. -I heard this night among the souldiers -That in their watch they took a pensive Lady, -Who, at the appointment of the Lord Dirot, -Is yet in keeping. What she is I know not: -Only thus much I over-heard by chance. - -WILLIAM. -And what of this? - -DEMARCH. -I may be Blaunch, the Kind of Denmarks daughter. - -WILLIAM. -It may be so: but on my life it is not; -Yet, Demarch, go, and fetch her straight. - -[Exit Demarch.] - -[Enter Rosilio with the Marques.] - -ROSILIO. -Pleaseth your highness, here is the Marques and Mariana. - -ZWENO. -See here, Duke William, your competitors, -That were consenting to my daughters scape. -Let them resolve you of the truth herein. -And here I vow and solemnly protest, -That in thy presence they shall lose their heads, -Unless I hear where as my daughter is. - -WILLIAM. -Oh, Marques Lubeck, how it grieveth me, -That for my sake thou shouldest indure these bonds, -Be judge my soul that feels the marytrdom! - -MARQUES. -Duke William, you know it is for your cause, -It pleaseth thus the King to misconceive of me, -And for his pleasure doth me injury. - -[Enter Demarch with the Lady Blaunch.] - -DEMARCH. -May it please your highness, -Here is the Lady whom you sent me for. - -WILLIAM. -Away, Demarch! what tellest thou me of Ladies? -I so detest the dealing of their sex, -As that I count a lovers state to be -The base and vildest slavery in the world. - -DEMARCH. -What humors are these? Here's a strange alteration! - -ZWENO. -See, Duke William, is this Blaunch or no? -You know her if you see her, I am sure. - -WILLIAM. -Zweno, I was deceived, yea utterly deceived; -Yet this is she: this same is Lady Blaunch. -And for mine error, here I am content -To do whatsoever Zweno shall set down. -Ah, cruel Mariana, thus to use -The man which loved and honored thee with his heart! - -MARIANA. -When first I came into your highness court, -And William often importing me of love, -I did devise, to ease the grief your daughter did sustain, -She should meet Sir William masked, as I it were. -This put in proof did take so good effect, -As yet it seems his grace is not resolved, -But is was I which he conveyed away. - -WILLIAM. -May this be true? It cannot be but true. -Was it Lady Blaunch which I conveyed away? -Unconstant Mariana, thus to deal -With him which meant to thee nought but faith! - -BLAUNCH. -Pardon, dear father, my follies that are past, -Wherein I have neglected my duty, -Which I in reverence ought to shew your grace; -For, led by love, I thus have gone astray, -And now repent the errors I was in. - -ZWENO. -Stand up, dear daughter: though thy fault deserves -For to be punisht in the extremest sort, -Yet love, that covers multitude of sins, -Makes love in parents wink at childrens faults. -Sufficeth, Blaunch, thy father loves thee so, -Thy follies past he knows but will not know. -And here, Duke William, take my daughter to thy wife, -For well I am assured she loves thee well. - -WILLIAM. -A proper conjunction! as who should say, -Lately come out of the fire, -I would go thrust my self into the flame. -Let Maistres nice go Saint it where she list, -And coyly quaint it with dissembling face. -I hold in scorn the fooleries that they use: -I being free, will never subject my self -To any such as she is underneath the Sun. - -ZWENO. -Refusest thou to take my daughter to thy wife? -I tell thee, Duke, this rash denial may bring -More mischief on thee then thou canst avoid. - -WILLIAM. -Conseit hath wrought such general dislike, -Through the false dealing of Mariana, -That utterly I do abhore their sex. -They are all disloyal, unconstant, all unjust: -Who tries as I have tried, and finds as I have found, -Will say theres so such creatures on the ground. - -BLANCH. -Unconstant Knight, though some deserve no trust, -Theres others faithful, loving, loyal, and just. - -[Enter to them Valingford with Em and the Miller, and -Mountney, and Manville, and Elner.] - -WILLIAM. -How now, Lord Valingford, what makes these women here? - -VALINGFORD. -Here be two women, may it please your grace, -That are contracted to one man, and are -In strife whether shall have him to their husband. - -WILLIAM. -Stand foorth, women, and say, -To whether of you did he first give his faith. - -EM. -To me, forsooth. - -ELNER. -To me, my gratious Lord. - -WILLIAM. -Speak, Manville: to whether didst thou give thy faith? - -MANVILLE. -To say the troth, this maid had first my love. - -ELNER. -Yes, Manville, but there was no witness by. - -EM. -Thy conscience, Manville, is a hundred witnesses. - -ELNER. -She hath stolen a conscience to serve her own turn; but you -are deceived, yfaith, he will none of you. - -MANVILLE. -In deed, dread Lord, so dear I held her love -As in the same I put my whole delight; -But some impediments, which at that instant hapned, -Made me forsake her quite; -For which I had her fathers frank consent. - -WILLIAM. -What were the impediments? - -MANVILLE. -Why, she could neither hear nor see. - -WILLIAM. -Now she doth both. Maiden, how were you cured? - -EM. -Pardon, my Lord, I'll tell your grace the troth, -Be it not imputed to me as discredit. -I loved this Manville so much, that still my thought, -When he was absent, did present to me -The form and feature of that countenance -Which I did shrine an idol in mine heart. -And never could I see a man, methought, -That equaled Manville in my partial eye. -Nor was there any love between us lost, -But that I held the same in high regard, -Until repair of some unto our house, -Of whom my Manville grew thus jealous -As if he took exception I vouchsafed -To hear them speak, or saw them when they came: -On which I straight took order with my self, -To void the scrupule of his conscience, -By counterfaiting that I neither saw nor heard, -Any ways to rid my hands of them. -All this I did to keep my Manvilles love, -Which he unkindly seeks for to reward. - -MANVILLE. -And did my Em, to keep her faith with me, -Dissemble that she neither heard nor saw? -Pardon me, sweet Em, for I am only thine. - -EM. -Lay off thy hands, disloyal as thou art! -Nor shalt thou have possession of my love, -That canst so finely shift thy matters off. -Put case I had been blind, and could not see-- -As often times such visitations falls -That pleaseth God, which all things doth dispose-- -Shouldest thou forsake me in regard of that? -I tell thee Manville, hadst thou been blind, -Or deaf, or dumb, or else what impediments might -Befall to man, Em would have loved and kept, -And honoured thee: yea begged, if wealth had failed, -For thy relief. - -MANVILLE. -Forgive me, sweet Em. - -EM. -I do forgive thee, with my heart, -And will forget thee too, if case I can: -But never speak to me, nor seem to know me. - -MANVILLE. -Then farewell, frost! Well fare a wench that will! -Now, Elner, I am thine own, my girl. - -ELNER. -Mine, Manville? thou never shalt be mine. -I so detest thy villainy, -That whilest I live I will abhor thy company. - -MANVILLE. -Is it come to this? Of late I had choice of twain, -On either side, to have me to her husband, -And now am utterly rejected of them both. - -VALINGFORD. -My Lord, this gentleman, when time was, -Stood some-thing in our light, -And now I think it not amiss -To laugh at him that sometime scorned at us. - -MOUNTNEY. -Content my Lord, invent the form. - -VALINGFORD. -Then thus.-- - -WILLIAM. -I see that women are not general evils, -Blanch is fair: Methinks I see in her -A modest countenance, a heavenly blush. -Zweno, receive a reconciled for, -Not as thy friend, but as thy son in law, -If so that thou be thus content. - -ZWENO. -I joy to see your grace so tractable. -Here, take my daughter Blanch; -And after my decease the Denmark crown. - -WILLIAM. -Now, sir, how stands the case with you? - -MANVILLE. -I partly am persuaded as your grace is, -My lord, he is best at ease that medleth least. - -VALINGFORD. -Sir, may a man -Be so bold as to crave a word with you? - -MANVILLE. -Yea, two or three: what are they? - -VALINGFORD. -I say, this maid will have thee to her husband. - -MOUNTNEY. -And I say this: and thereof will I lay -An hundred pound. - -VALINGFORD. -And I say this: whereon I will lay as much. - -MANVILLE. -And I say neither: what say you to that? - -MOUNTNEY. -If that be true, then are we both deceived. - -MANVILLE. -Why, it is true, and you are both deceived. - -MARQUES. -In mine eyes this is the proprest wench; -Might I advise thee, take her unto thy wife. - -ZWENO. -It seems to me, she hath refused him. - -MARQUES. -Why, theres the spite. - -ZWENO. -If one refuse him, yet may he have the other. - -MARQUES. -He will ask but her good will, and all her friends. - -ZWENO. -Might I advise thee, let them both alone. - -MANVILLE. -Yea, thats the course, and thereon will I stand. -Such idle love hencefoorth I will detest. - -VALINGFORD. -The Fox will eat no grapes, and why? - -MOUNTNEY. -I know full well, because they hand too high. - -WILLIAM. -And may it be a Millers daughter by her birth? -I cannot think but she is better borne. - -VALINGFORD. -Sir Thomas Goddard hight this reverent man -Famed for his vertues, and his good success: -Whose fame hath been renowmed through the world. - -WILLIAM. -Sir Thomas Goddard, welcome to thy Prince; -And, fair Em, frolic with thy good father; -As glad am I to find Sir Thomas Goddard, -As good Sir Edmund Treford, on the plains: -He like a sheepheard, and thou our country Miller. - -MILLER. -And longer let not Goddard live a day -Then he in honour loves his soveraigne. - -WILLIAM. -But say, Sir Thomas, shall I give thy daughter? - -MILLER. -Goddard, and all that he hath, -Doth rest at the pleasure of your Majesty. - -WILLIAM. -And what says Em to lovely Valingford? -It seemed he loved you well, that for your sake -Durst leave his King. - -EM. -Em rests at the pleasure of your highness: -And would I were a wife for his desert. - -WILLIAM. -Then here, Lord Valingford, receive fair Em. -Here take her, make her thy espoused wife. -Then go we in, that preparation may be made, -To see these nuptials solemnly performed. - -[Exeunt all. 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