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Walker + + + + + +Actus Primus + + + + +Scena Prima + + [Enter _Juan de Castro_, and _Michael Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + Are your Companies full, Colonel? + +Juan de Castro: + + No, not yet, Sir: + Nor will not be this month yet, as I reckon; + How rises your Command? + +Michael Perez: + + We pick up still, and as our monies hold out, + We have men come, about that time I think + We shall be full too, many young Gallants go. + +Juan de Castro: + + And unexperienced, + The Wars are dainty dreams to young hot spirits, + Time and Experience will allay those Visions, + We have strange things to fill our numbers, + There's one _Don Leon_, a strange goodly fellow, + Recommended to me from some noble Friends, + For my _Alferes_, had you but seen his Person, + And what a Giants promise it protesteth. + +Michael Perez: + + I have heard of him, and that he hath serv'd before too. + +Juan de Castro: + + But no harm done, nor never meant, _Don Michael_, + That came to my ears yet, ask him a question, + He blushes like a Girl, and answers little, + To the point less, he wears a Sword, a good one, + And good Cloaths too, he is whole skin'd, has no hurt yet, + Good promising hopes, I never yet heard certainly + Of any Gentleman that saw him angry. + +Michael Perez: + + Preserve him, he'll conclude a peace if need be, + Many as strong as he will go along with us, + That swear as valiantly as heart can wish, + Their mouths charg'd with six oaths at once, and whole ones, + That make the drunken Dutch creep into Mole-hills. +171] + +Juan de Castro: + + 'Tis true, such we must look for: but _Mich. Perez_, + When heard you of _Donna Margarita_, the great Heiress? + +Michael Perez: + + I hear every hour of her, though I never saw her, + She is the main discourse: noble _Don Juan de Castro_, + How happy were that man could catch this Wench up, + And live at ease! she is fair, and young, and wealthy, + Infinite wealthy, and as gracious too + In all her entertainments, as men report. + +Juan de Castro: + + But she is proud, Sir, that I know for certain, + And that comes seldome without wantonness, + He that shall marry her, must have a rare hand. + +Michael Perez: + + Would I were married, I would find that Wisdom, + With a light rein to rule my Wife: if ever Woman + Of the most subtile mould went beyond me, + I would give the Boys leave to whoot me out o'th' Parish. + + [Enter a Servant.] + +Servant: + + Sir, there be two Gentlewomen attend to speak + With you. + +Juan de Castro: + + Wait on 'em in. + +Michael Perez: + + Are they two handsome Women? + +Servant: + + They seem so, very handsom, but they are vail'd, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + Thou put'st sugar in my mouth, how it melts with me! + I love a sweet young Wench. + +Juan de Castro: + + Wait on them in I say. + [Exit Servant. + +Michael Perez: + + _Don Juan._ + +Juan de Castro: + + How you itch, _Michael_! how you burnish! + Will not this Souldiers heat out of your bones yet, + Do your Eyes glow now? + +Michael Perez: + + There be two. + +Juan de Castro: + + Say honest, what shame have you then? + +Michael Perez: + + I would fain see that, + I have been in the Indies twice, and have seen strange things, + But two honest Women;--one I read of once. + +Juan de Castro: + + Prithee be modest. + +Michael Perez: + + I'll be any thing. + + [Enter _Servant_, _Donna Clara_, and _Estifania_ vail'd.] + +Juan de Castro: + + You are welcome Ladies. + +Michael Perez: + + Both hooded, I like 'em well though, +172] They come not for advice in Law sure hither; + May be they would learn to raise the Pike, + I am for 'em: they are very modest, 'tis a fine Preludium. + +Juan de Castro: + + With me, or with this Gentleman, + Would you speak, Lady? + +Clara: + + With you, Sir, as I guess, _Juan de Castro_. + +Michael Perez: + + Her Curtain opens, she is a pretty Gentlewoman. + +Juan de Castro: + + I am the Man, and shall be bound to Fortune, + I may do any service to your Beauties. + +Clara: + + Captain, I hear you are marching down to _Flanders_, + To serve the Catholick King. + +Juan de Castro: + + I am sweet Lady. + +Clara: + + I have a Kinsman, and a noble Friend, + Imploy'd in those Wars, may be, Sir, you know him, + _Don Campusano_ Captain of _Carbines_, + To whom I would request your Nobleness, + To give this poor Remembrance. + + [A Letter. + +Juan de Castro: + + I shall do it, + I know the Gentleman, a most worthy Captain. + +Clara: + + Something in private. + +Juan de Castro: + + Step aside: I'll serve thee. + [Ex. _Juan_, and _Clara_. + +Michael Perez: + + Prithee let me see thy face. + +Estifania: + + Sir, you must pardon me, + Women of our sort, that maintain fair memories, + And keep suspect off from their Chastities, + Had need wear thicker Vails. + +Michael Perez: + + I am no blaster of a Ladies Beauty, + Nor bold intruder on her special favours, + I know how tender Reputation is, + And with what guards it ought to be preserv'd, Lady, + You may to me. + +Estifania: + + You must excuse me, Seignior, I come + Not here to sell my self. + +Michael Perez: + + As I am a Gentleman, by the honour of a Souldier. + +Estifania: + + I believe you, + I pray you be civil, I believe you would see me, + And when you have seen me I believe you will like me, + But in a strange place, to a stranger too, + As if I came on purpose to betray you, + Indeed I will not. +173] + +Michael Perez: + + I shall love you dearly, + And 'tis a sin to fling away affection, + I have no Mistress, no desire to honour + Any but you, will not this Oyster open? + I know not, you have struck me with your modesty; + She will draw sure; so deep, and taken from me + All the desire I might bestow on others, + Quickly before they come. + +Estifania: + + Indeed I dare not: + But since I see you are so desirous, Sir, + To view a poor face that can merit nothing + But your Repentance. + +Michael Perez: + + It must needs be excellent. + +Estifania: + + And with what honesty you ask it of me, + When I am gone let your man follow me, + And view what house I enter, thither come, + For there I dare be bold to appear open: + And as I like your vertuous carriage then, + + [Enter _Juan_, _Clara_, a Servant.] + + I shall be able to give welcome to you; + She hath done her business, I must take my leave, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + I'll kiss your fair white hand and thank you, Lady. + My man shall wait, and I shall be your Servant; + Sirrah, come near, hark. + +Servant: + + I shall do it faithfully. + [Exit. + +Juan de Castro: + + You will command me no more services? + +Clara: + + To be careful of your noble health, dear Sir, + That I may ever honour you. + +Juan de Castro: + + I thank you, + And kiss your hands, wait on the Ladies down there. + + [Exeunt Ladies, and Servants. + +Michael Perez: + + You had the honour to see the face that came to you? + +Juan de Castro: + + And 'twas a fair one; what was yours, _Don Michael_? + +Michael Perez: + + Mine was i'th' clipse, and had a Cloud drawn over it. + But I believe well, and I hope 'tis handsome, + She had a hand would stir a holy Hermite. + +Juan de Castro: + + You know none of 'em? + +Michael Perez: + + No. + +Juan de Castro: + + Then I do, Captain, +174] But I'll say nothing till I see the proof on't, + Sit close _Don Perez_, or your Worship's caught. + I fear a Flye. + +Michael Perez: + + Were those she brought Love-Letters? + +Juan de Castro: + + A Packet to a Kinsman now in _Flanders_, + Yours was very modest methought. + +Michael Perez: + + Some young unmanag'd thing, + But I may live to see-- + +Juan de Castro: + + 'Tis worth experience, + Let's walk abroad and view our Companies. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Sanchio_, and _Alonzo_.] + +Sanchio: + + What, are you for the Wars, _Alonzo_? + +Alonzo: + + It may be I, + It may be no, e'n as the humour takes me. + If I find peace amongst the female Creatures, + And easie entertainment, I'll stay at home, + I am not so far obliged yet to long Marches + And mouldy Biskets, to run mad for Honour, + When you are all gone I have my choice before me. + +Sanchio: + + Of which Hospital thou wilt sweat in; wilt thou + Never leave whoring? + +Alonzo: + + There is less danger in't than gunning, _Sanchio_, + Though we be shot sometimes, the shot's not mortal, + Besides, it breaks no limbs. + +Sanchio: + + But it disables 'em, + Dost thou see how thou pull'st thy legs after thee, as they + Hung by points. + +Alonzo: + + Better to pull 'em thus than walk on wooden ones, + Serve bravely for a Billet to support me. + +Sanchio: + + Fye, fye, 'tis base. + +Alonzo: + + Dost thou count it base to suffer? + Suffer abundantly? 'tis the Crown of Honour; + You think it nothing to lie twenty days + Under a Surgeons hands that has no mercy. + +Sanchio: + + As thou hast done I am sure, but I perceive now + Why you desire to stay, the orient Heiress, + The _Margarita_, Sir, + +Alonzo: + + I would I had her. + +Sanchio: + + They say she will marry. +175] + +Alonzo: + + I think she will. + +Sanchio: + + And marry suddenly, as report goes too, + She fears her Youth will not hold out, _Alonzo_. + +Alonzo: + + I would I had the sheathing on't. + +Sanchio: + + They say too + She has a greedy eye that must be fed + With more than one mans meat. + +Alonzo: + + Would she were mine, + I would cater for her well enough; but _Sanchio_, + There be too many great men that adore her, + Princes, and Princes fellows, that claim priviledge. + +Sanchio: + + Yet those stand off i'th' way of marriage, + To be tyed to a man's pleasure is a second labour. + +Alonzo: + + She has bought a brave house here in town. + +Sanchio: + + I have heard so. + +Alonzo: + + If she convert it now to pious uses, + And bid poor Gentlemen welcome. + +Sanchio: + + When comes she to it? + +Alonzo: + + Within these two days, she is in the Country yet, + And keeps the noblest House. + +Sanchio: + + Then there's some hope of her, + Wilt thou go my way? + +Alonzo: + + No, no, I must leave you, + And repair to an old Gentlewoman + That has credit with her, that can speak a good word. + +Sanchio: + + Send thee good fortune, but make thy Body sound first. + +Alonzo: + + I am a Souldier, + And too sound a Body becomes me not; + Farewel, _Sanchio_. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter a Servant of _Michael Perez_.] + +Servant: + + 'Tis this or that house, or I have lost my aim, + They are both fair buildings, she walked plaguy fast, + + [Enter _Estifania_.] + + And hereabouts I lost her; stay, that's she, + 'Tis very she,--she makes me a low court'sie, + Let me note the place, the street I well remember. + + [Exit. + + She is in again, certain some noble Lady. + How happy should I be if she love my master: +176] A wondrous goodly house, here are brave lodgings, + And I shall sleep now like an Emperour, + And eat abundantly: I thank my fortune, + I'll back with speed, and bring him happy tidings. + + [Exit. + + [Enter three old Ladies.] + +1 Lady: + + What should it mean, that in such haste + We are sent for? + +2 Lady: + + Belike the Lady _Margaret_ has some business + She would break to us in private. + +3 Lady: + + It should seem so. + 'Tis a good Lady, and a wise young Lady. + +2 Lady: + + And vertuous enough too I warrant ye + For a young Woman of her years; 'tis pity + To load her tender Age with too much Vertue. + +3 Lady: + + 'Tis more sometimes than we can well away with. + + [Enter _Altea_.] + +Altea: + + Good morrow, Ladies. + +All: + + 'Morrow, my good Madam. + +1 Lady: + + How does the sweet young Beauty, Lady _Margaret_? + +2 Lady: + + Has she slept well after her walk last night? + +1 Lady: + + Are her dreams gentle to her mind? + +Altea: + + All's well, + She's very well, she sent for you thus suddenly + To give her counsel in a business + That much concerns her. + +2 Lady: + + She does well and wisely, + To ask the counsel of the ancientst, Madam, + Our years have run through many things she knows not. + +Altea: + + She would fain marry. + +1 Lady: + + 'Tis a proper calling, + And well beseems her years, who would she yoke with? + +Altea: + + That's left to argue on, I pray come in + And break your fast, drink a good cup or two, + To strengthen your understandings, then she'l tell ye. + +2 Lady: + + And good wine breeds good counsel. + We'l yield to ye. + + [Exeunt. + +177] + [Enter _Juan de Castro_, and _Leon_.] + +Juan de Castro: + + Have you seen any service? + +Leon: + + Yes. + +Juan de Castro: + + Where? + +Leon: + + Every where. + +Juan de Castro: + + What office bore ye? + +Leon: + + None, I was not worthy. + +Juan de Castro: + + What Captains know you? + +Leon: + + None, they were above me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Were you never hurt? + +Leon: + + Not that I well remember, + But once I stole a Hen, and then they beat me; + Pray ask me no long questions, I have an ill memory. + +Juan de Castro: + + This is an Asse, did you never draw your sword yet? + +Leon: + + Not to do any harm I thank Heaven for't. + +Juan de Castro: + + Nor ne'r ta'ne prisoner? + +Leon: + + No, I ran away, + For I had ne'r no mony to redeem me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Can you endure a Drum? + +Leon: + + It makes my head ake. + +Juan de Castro: + + Are you not valiant when you are drunk? + +Leon: + + I think not, but I am loving Sir. + +Juan de Castro: + + What a lump is this man, + Was your Father wise? + +Leon: + + Too wise for me I'm sure, + For he gave all he had to my younger Brother. + +Juan de Castro: + + That was no foolish part I'le bear you witness. + Canst thou lye with a woman? + +Leon: + + I think I could make shift Sir, + But I am bashfull. + +Juan de Castro: + + In the night? + +Leon: + + I know not, + Darkness indeed may do some good upon me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Why art thou sent to me to be my officer, + I, and commended too, when thou darst not fight? + +Leon: + + There be more officers of my opinion, + Or I am cozen'd Sir, men that talk more too. + +Juan de Castro: + + How wilt thou scape a bullet? + +Leon: + + Why by chance, +178] They aim at honourable men, alas I am none Sir. + +Juan de Castro: + + This fellow has some doubts in's talk that strike me, + + [Enter _Alonzo_.] + + He cannot be all fool: welcom _Alonzo_. + +Alonzo: + + What have you got there, temperance into your company? + The spirit of peace? we shall have wars + + [Enter _Cacafogo_.] + + By th'ounce then. O here's another pumpion, + Let him loose for luck sake, the cram'd son + Of a stay'd Usurer, _Cacafogo_, both their brains butter'd, + Cannot make two spoonfulls. + +Cacafogo: + + My Father's dead: I am a man of war too, + Monyes, demesns; I have ships at sea too, + Captains. + +Juan de Castro: + + Take heed o'th' Hollanders, your ships may leak else. + +Cacafogo: + + I scorn the Hollanders, they are my drunkards. + +Alonzo: + + Put up your gold Sir, I'le borrow it else. + +Cacafogo: + + I am satisfied, you shall not, + Come out, I know thee, meet mine anger instantly. + +Leon: + + I never wrong'd ye. + +Cacafogo: + + Thou hast wrong'd mine honor, + Thou look'dst upon my Mistris thrice lasciviously, + I'le make it good. + +Juan de Castro: + + Do not hea[t] your self, you will surfeit. + +Cacafogo: + + Thou wan'st my mony too, with a pair of base bones, + In whom there was no truth, for which I beat thee, + I beat thee much, now I will hurt thee dangerously. + This shall provoke thee. + + [He strikes. + +Alonzo: + + You struck too low by a foot Sir. + +Juan de Castro: + + You must get a ladder when you would beat + This fellow. + +Leon: + + I cannot chuse but kick again, pray pardon me. + +Cacafogo: + + Had'st thou not ask'd my pardon, I had kill'd thee, + I leave thee as a thing despis'd, _assoles manus a vostra siniare_ + _a Maistre_. + + [Exit _Cacafogo_. + +Alonzo: + + You have scap'd by miracle, there is not in all _Spain_, + A spirit of more fury than this fire drake. + +Leon: + + I see he is hasty, and I would give him leave +179] To beat me soundly if he would take my bond. + +Juan de Castro: + + What shall I do with this fellow? + +Alonzo: + + Turn him off, + He will infect the camp with cowardise, + If he goe with thee. + +Juan de Castro: + + About some week hence Sir, + If I can hit upon no abler officer, + You shall hear from me. + +Leon: + + I desire no better. + [Exit. + + [Enter _Estifania_, and _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + You have made me now too bountifull amends, Lady + For your strict carriage when you saw me first, + These beauties were not meant to be conceal'd, + It was a wrong to hide so sweet an object, + I cou'd now chide ye, but it shall be thus, + No other anger ever touch your sweetness. + +Estifania: + + You appear to me so honest, and so civil, + Without a blush Sir, I dare bid ye welcom. + +Michael Perez: + + Now let me ask your name. + +Estifania: + + 'Tis _Estifanie_, the heir of this poor place. + +Michael Perez: + + Poor do you call it? + There's nothing that I cast mine eyes upon, + But shews both rich and admirable, all the rooms + Are hung as if a Princess were to dwell here, + The Gardens, Orchards, every thing so curious: + Is all that plate your own too? + +Estifania: + + 'Tis but little, + Only for present use, I have more and richer, + When need shall call, or friends compel me use it, + The sutes you see of all the upper chamber, + Are those that commonly adorn the house, + I think I have besides, as fair, as civil, + As any town in _Spain_ can parallel. + +Michael Perez: + + Now if she be not married, I have some hopes. + Are you a maid? + +Estifania: + + You make me blush to answer, + I ever was accounted so to this hour, + And that's the reason that I live retir'd Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + Then would I counsel you to marry presently, +180] (If I can get her, I am made for ever) + For every year you lose, you lose a beauty, + A Husband now, an honest careful Husband, + Were such a comfort: will ye walk above stairs? + +Estifania: + + This place will fit our talk, 'tis fitter far Sir, + Above there are day-beds, and such temptations + I dare not trust Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + She is excellent wise withal too. + +Estifania: + + You nam'd a husband, I am not so strict Sir, + Nor ti'd unto a Virgins solitariness, + But if an honest, and a noble one, + Rich, and a souldier, for so I have vowed he shall be, + Were offer'd me, I think I should accept him, + But above all he must love. + +Michael Perez: + + He were base else, + There's comfort ministred in the word souldier, + How sweetly should I live! + +Estifania: + + I am not so ignorant, but that I know well, + How to be commanded, + And how again to make my self obey'd Sir, + I waste but little, I have gather'd much, + My rial not the less worth, when 'tis spent, + If spent by my direction, to please my Husband, + I hold it as indifferent in my duty, + To be his maid i'th' kitchen, or his Cook, + As in the Hall to know my self the Mistris. + +Michael Perez: + + Sweet, rich, and provident, now fortune stick + To me; I am a Souldier, and a bachelour, Lady, + And such a wife as you, I cou'd love infinitely, + They that use many words, some are deceitfull, + I long to be a Husband, and a good one, + For 'tis most certain I shall make a president + For all that follow me to love their Ladies, + I am young you see, able I would have you think too, + If't please you know, try me before you take me. + 'Tis true I shall not meet in equal wealth + With ye, but Jewels, Chains, such as the war + Has given me, a thousand Duckets I dare + Presume on in ready gold, now as your + Care may handle it, as rich cloths too, as +181] Any he bears arms Lady. + +Estifania: + + You are a true gentleman, and fair, I see by ye, + And such a man I had rather take. + +Michael Perez: + + Pray do so, I'le have a Priest o'th' sudden. + +Estifania: + + And as suddenly you will repent too. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le be hang'd or drown'd first, + By this and this, and this kiss. + +Estifania: + + You are a Flatterer, + But I must say there was something when I saw you + First, in that most noble face, that stirr'd my fancy. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le stir it better e're you sleep sweet Lady, + I'le send for all my trunks and give up all to ye, + Into your own dispose, before I bed ye, + And then sweet wench. + +Estifania: + + You have the art to cozen me. + [Exeunt. + + + + + +Actus Secundus + + + + +Scena Prima + + [Enter _Margarita_, and two Ladies, and _Altea_.] + +Margarita: + + Sit down and give me your opinions seriously. + +1 Lady: + + You say you have a mind to marry Lady. + +Margarita: + + 'Tis true, I have for to preserve my credit, + Yet not so much for that as for my state Ladies, + Conceive me right, there lies the main o'th' question, + Credit I can redeem, mony will imp it, + But when my monie's gone, when the law shall + Seize that, and for incontinency strip me + Of all. + +1 Lady: + + Do you find your body so malitious that way? + +Margarita: + + I find it as all bodies are that are young and lusty, + Lazy, and high fed, I desire my pleasure, + And pleasure I must have. + +2 Lady: + + 'Tis fit you should have, + Your years require it, and 'tis necessary, + As necessary as meat to a young Lady, + Sleep cannot nourish more. + +1 Lady: + + But might not all this be, and keep ye single. + You take away variety in marriage, + The abundance of the pleasure you are bar'd then, +182] Is't not abundance that you aim at? + +Margarita: + + Yes why was I made a woman? + +2 Lady: + + And every day a new? + +Margarita: + + Why fair and young but to use it? + +1 Lady: + + You are still i'th' right, why would you marry then? + +Altea: + + Because a husband stops all doubts in this point, + And clears all passages. + +2 Lady: + + What Husband mean ye? + +Altea: + + A Husband of an easy faith, a fool, + Made by her wealth, and moulded to her pleasure, + One though he see himself become a monster, + Shall hold the door, and entertain the maker. + +2 Lady: + + You grant there may be such a man. + +1 Lady: + + Yes marry, but how to bring 'em to this rare Perfection. + +2 Lady: + + They must be chosen so, things of no honour, + Nor outward honesty. + +Margarita: + + No 'tis no matter, + I care not what they are, so they be lusty. + +2 Lady: + + Me thinks now a rich Lawyer, some such fellow, + That carries credit, and a face of awe, + But lies with nothing but his clients business. + +Margarita: + + No there's no trusting them, they are too subtil, + The Law has moulded 'em of natural mischief. + +1 Lady: + + Then some grave governor, + Some man of honour, yet an easy man. + +Margarita: + + If he have honour I am undone, I'le none such, + I'le have a lusty man, honour will cloy me..br + +Altea: + + 'Tis fit ye should Lady; + And to that end, with search and wit and labour, + I have found one out, a right one and a perfect, + He is made as strong as brass, is of brave years too, + And doughty of complexion. + +Margarita: + + Is he a Gentleman? + +Altea: + + Yes and a souldier, as gentle as you would wish him, + A good fellow, wears good cloaths. + +Margarita: + + Those I'le allow him, + They are for my credit, does he understand + But little? + +Altea: + + Very little. +183] + +Margarita: + + 'Tis the better, + Have not the wars bred him up to anger? + +Alonzo: + + No, he will not quarrel with a dog that bites hi[m], + Let him be drunk or sober, is one silence. + +Margarita: + + H'as no capacity what honor is? + For that's the Souldiers god. + +Altea: + + Honour's a thing too subtil for his wisdom, + If honour lye in eating, he is right honourable. + +Margarita: + + Is he so goodly a man do you say? + +Altea: + + As you shall see Lady, + But to all this is but a trunk. + +Margarita: + + I would have him so, + I shall adde branches to him to adorn him, + Goe, find me out this man, and let me see him, + If he be that motion that you tell me of, + And make no more noise, I shall entertain him, + Let him be here. + +Altea: + + He shall attend your Ladiship. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Juan_, _Alonzo_, and _Perez_.] + +Juan de Castro: + + Why thou art not married indeed? + +Michael Perez: + + No, no, pray think so, + Alas I am a fellow of no reckoning, + Not worth a Ladies eye. + +Alonzo: + + Wou'dst thou steal a fortune, + And make none of all thy friends acquainted with it, + Nor bid us to thy wedding? + +Michael Perez: + + No indeed, + There was no wisdom in't, to bid an Artist, + An old seducer to a femal banquet, + I can cut up my pye without your instructions. + +Juan de Castro: + + Was it the wench i'th' veil? + +Michael Perez: + + Basto 'twas she, + The prettiest Rogue that e're you look'd upon, + The lovingst thief. + +Juan de Castro: + + And is she rich withal too? + +Michael Perez: + + A mine, a mine, there is no end of wealth Coronel, + I am an asse, a bashfull fool, prethee Coronel, + How do thy compa[ni]es fill now? + +Juan de Castro: + + You are merry Sir, +184] You intend a safer war at home belike now. + +Michael Perez: + + I do not think I shall fight much this year Coronel, + I find my self given to my ease a little, + I care not if I sell my foolish company, + They are things of hazard. + +Alonzo: + + How it angers me, + This fellow at first fight should win a Lady, + A rich young wench, and I that have consum'd + My time and art in searching out their subtleties, + Like a fool'd Alchymist blow up my hopes still? + When shall we come to thy house and be freely merry? + +Michael Perez: + + When I have manag'd her a little more, + I have an house to entertain an army. + +Alonzo: + + If thy wife be fair, thou wilt have few less + Come to thee. + +Michael Perez: + + But where they'l get entertainment is the point Signior. + I beat no Drum. + +Alonzo: + + You need none but her taber, + May be I'le march after a month or two, + To get me a fresh stomach. I find Coronel + A wantonness in wealth, methinks I agree not with, + 'Tis such a trouble to be married too, + And have a thousand things of great importance, + Jewels and plates, and fooleries molest me, + To have a mans brains whimsied with his wealth: + Before I walk'd contentedly. + + [Enter _Servant_.] + +Servant: + + My Mistris Sir is sick, because you are absent, + She mourns and will not eat. + +Michael Perez: + + Alas my Jewel, + Come I'le goe with thee, Gentlemen your fair leaves, + You see I am ti'd a little to my yoke, + Pray pardon me, would ye had both such loving wives. + +Juan de Castro: + + I thank ye + [Exit _Perez_, Servant. + + For your old boots, never be blank _Alonzo_, + Because this fellow has outstript thy fortune, + Tell me ten daies hence what he is, and how + The gracious state of matrimony stands with him, + Come, let's to dinner, when _Margarita_ comes +185] We'l visit both, it may be then your fortune. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Margarita_, _Altea_, and Ladies.] + +Margarita: + + Is he come? + +Altea: + + Yes Madam, h'as been here this half hour, + I have question'd him of all that you can ask him, + And find him as fit as you had made the man, + He will make the goodliest shadow for iniquity. + +Margarita: + + Have ye searcht him Ladies? + +Omnes: + + Is a man at all points, a likely man. + +Margarita: + + Call him in _Altea_. + [Exit _Lady_. + + [Enter _Leon_, _Altea_.] + + A man of a good presence, pray ye come this way, + Of a lusty body, is his mind so tame? + +Altea: + + Pray ye question him, and if you find him not + Fit for your purpose, shake him off, there's no harm + Done. + +Margarita: + + Can you love a young Lady? How he blushes! + +Altea: + + Leave twirling of your hat, and hold your head up, + And speak to'th' Lady. + +Leon: + + Yes, I think I can, + I must be taught, I know not what it means Madam. + +Margarita: + + You shall be taught, and can you when she pleases + Go ride abroad, and stay a week or two? + You shall have men and horses to attend ye, + And mony in your purse. + +Leon: + + Yes I love riding, + And when I am from home I am so merry. + +Margarita: + + Be as merry as you will: can you as handsomely + When you are sent for back, come with obedience, + And doe your dutie to the Lady loves you? + +Leon: + + Yes sure, I shall. + +Margarita: + + And when you see her friends here, + Or noble kinsmen, can you entertain + Their servants in the Celler, and be busied, + And hold your peace, what e're you see or hear of? + +Leon: + + 'Twere fit I were hang'd else. + +Margarita: + + Let me try your kisses, + How the fool shakes, I will not eat ye Sir, +186] Beshrew my heart he kisses wondrous manly, + Can ye doe any thing else? + +Leon: + + Indeed I know not; + But if your Ladiship will please to instruct me, + Sure I shall learn. + +Margarita: + + You shall then be instructed: + If I should be this Lady that affects ye, + Nay say I marry ye? + +Altea: + + Hark to the Lady. + +Margarita: + + What mony have ye? + +Leon: + + None Madam, nor friends, + I wou'd doe any thing to serve your Ladiship. + +Margarita: + + You must not look to be my Mr Sir, + Nor talk i'th' house as though you wore the breeches, + No, nor command in any thing. + +Leon: + + I will not, + Alas I am not able, I have no wit Madam. + +Margarita: + + Nor do not labour to arrive at any, + 'Twill spoil your head, I take ye upon charity, + And like a Servant ye must be unto me, + As I behold your duty I shall love ye, + And as you observe me, I may chance lye with ye, + Can you mark these? + +Leon: + + Yes indeed forsooth. + +Margarita: + + There is one thing, + That if I take ye in I put ye from me, + Utterly from me, you must not be sawcy, + No, nor at any time familiar with me, + Scarce know me, when I call ye not. + +Leon: + + I will not, alas I never knew my self sufficiently. + +Margarita: + + Nor must not now. + +Leon: + + I'le be a Dog to please ye. + +Margarita: + + Indeed you must fetch and carry as I appoint ye. + +Leon: + + I were to blame else. + +Margarita: + + Kiss me again; a strong fellow, + There is a vigor in his lips: if you see me + Kiss any other, twenty in an hour Sir, + You must not start, nor be offended. + +Leon: + + No, if you kiss a thousand I shall be contented, + It will the better teach me how to please ye. +187] + +Altea: + + I told ye Madam. + +Margarita: + + 'Tis the man I wisht for; the less you speak. + +Leon: + + I'le never speak again Madam, + But when you charge me, then I'le speak softly too. + +Margarita: + + Get me a Priest, I'le wed him instantly, + But when you are married Sir, you must wait + Upon me, and see you observe my laws. + +Leon: + + Else you shall hang me. + +Margarita: + + I'le give ye better clothes when you deserve 'em, + Come in, and serve for witness. + +Omnes: + + We shall Madam. + +Margarita: + + And then away toth' city presently, + I'le to my new house and new company. + +Leon: + + A thousand crowns are thine, and I am a made man. + +Altea: + + Do not break out too soon. + +Leon: + + I know my time wench. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Clara_, and _Estifania_ with a paper.] + +Clara: + + What, have you caught him? + +Estifania: + + Yes. + +Clara: + + And do you find him + A man of those hopes that you aim'd at? + +Estifania: + + Yes too, + And the most kind man, and the ablest also + To give a wife content, he is sound as old wine, + And to his soundness rises on the pallat, + And there's the man; find him rich too _Clara_. + +Clara: + + Hast thou married him? + +Estifania: + + What dost thou think I fish without a bait wench? + I bob for fools? he is mine own, I have him, + I told thee what would tickle him like a trout, + And as I cast it so I caught him daintily, + And all he has I have 'stowed at my devotion. + +Clara: + + Does thy Lady know this? she is coming now to town, + Now to live here in this house. + +Estifania: + + Let her come, + She shall be welcom, I am prepar'd for her, + She is mad sure if she be angry at my fortune, + For what I have made bold. + +Clara: + + Dost thou not love him? +188] + +Estifania: + + Yes, intirely well, + As long as there he staies and looks no farther + Into my ends, but when he doubts, I hate him, + And that wise hate will teach me how to cozen him: + How to decline their wives, and curb their manners, + To put a stern and strong reyn to their natures, + And holds he is an Asse not worth acquaintance, + That cannot mould a Devil to obedience, + I owe him a good turn for these opinions, + And as I find his temper I may pay him, + + [Enter _Perez_.] + + O here he is, now you shall see a kind man. + +Michael Perez: + + My _Estifania_, shall we to dinner lamb? + I know thou stay'st for me. + +Estifania: + + I cannot eat else. + +Michael Perez: + + I never enter but me thinks a Paradise + Appears about me. + +Estifania: + + You are welcom to it Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + I think I have the sweetest seat in _Spain_ wench, + Me thinks the richest too, we'l eat i'th' garden + In one o'th' arbours, there 'tis cool and pleasant, + And have our wine cold in the running fountain. + Who's that? + +Estifania: + + A friend of mine Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + Of what breeding? + +Estifania: + + A Gentlewoman Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + What business has she? + Is she a learned woman i'th' Mathematicks, + Can she tell fortunes? + +Estifania: + + More than I know Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + Or has she e're a letter from a kinswoman, + That must be delivered in my absence wife, + Or comes she from the Doctor to salute ye, + And learn your health? she looks not like a confessor. + +Estifania: + + What need all this, why are you troubled Sir? + What do you suspect, she cannot cuckold ye, + She is a woman Sir, a very woman. + +Michael Perez: + + Your very woman may do very well Sir + Toward the matter, for though she cannot perform it +189] In her own person, she may do it by Proxie, + Your rarest jugglers work still by conspiracy. + +Estifania: + + Cry ye mercy husband, you are jealous then, + And happily suspect me. + +Michael Perez: + + No indeed wife. + +Estifania: + + Me thinks you should not till you have more cause + And clearer too: I am sure you have heard say husband, + A woman forced will free her self through Iron, + A happy, calm, and good wife discontented + May be taught tricks. + +Michael Perez: + + No, no, I do but jest with ye. + +Estifania: + + To morrow friend I'le see you. + +Clara: + + I shall leave ye + Till then, and pray all may goe sweetly with ye. + + [Exit. + +Estifania: + + Why where's this girle, whose at the door? + [Knock. + +Michael Perez: + + Who knocks there? + Is't for the King ye come, you knock so boisterously? + Look to the door. + + [Enter _Maid_.] + +Maid: + + My Lady, as I live Mistris, my Ladie's come, + She's at the door, I peept through, and I saw her, + And a stately company of Ladies with her. + +Estifania: + + This was a week too soon, but I must meet with her, + And set a new wheel going, and a subtile one, + Must blind this mighty _Mars_, or I am ruin'd. + +Michael Perez: + + What are they at door? + +Estifania: + + Such my _Michael_ + As you may bless the day they enter'd there, + Such for our good. + +Michael Perez: + + 'Tis well. + +Estifania: + + Nay, 'twill be better + If you will let me but dispose the business, + And be a stranger to it, and not disturb me, + What have I now to do but to advance your fortune? + +Michael Perez: + + Doe, I dare trust thee, I am asham'd I am angry, + I find thee a wise young wife. + +Estifania: + + I'le wise your worship + Before I leave ye, pray ye walk by and say nothing, + Only salute them, and leave the rest to me Sir, +190] I was born to make ye a man. + + [] + +Michael Perez: + + The Rogue speaks heartily, + Her good will colours in her cheeks, I am born to love her, + I must be gentler to these tender natures, + A Souldiers rude harsh words befit not Ladies, + Nor must we talk to them as we talk to + Our Officers, I'le give her way, for 'tis for me she + Works now, I am husband, heir, and all she has. + + [Enter _Margarita_, _Estifania_, _Leon_, _Altea_, and Ladies.] + + Who are these, what flanting things, a woman + Of rare presence! excellent fair, this is too big + For a bawdy house, too open seated too. + +Estifania: + + My Husband, Lady. + +Margarita: + + You have gain'd a proper man. + +Michael Perez: + + What e're I am, I am your servant Lady. + [kisses. + +Estifania: + + Sir, be rul'd now, + And I shall make ye rich, this is my cousin, + That Gentleman dotes on her, even to death, see how he observes her. + +Michael Perez: + + She is a goodly woman. + +Estifania: + + She is a mirrour, + But she is poor, she were for a Princes side else, + This house she has brought him too as to her own, + And presuming upon me, and upon my courtesie. + Conceive me short, he knows not but she is wealthy, + Or if he did know otherwise, 'twere all one, + He is so far gone. + +Michael Perez: + + Forward, she has a rare face. + +Estifania: + + This we must carry with discretion Husband, + And yield unto her for four daies. + +Michael Perez: + + Yield our house up, our goods and wealth? + +Estifania: + + All this is but in seeming, + To milk the lover on, do you see this writing, + 200_l_ a year when they are married + Has she sealed to for our good; the time's unfit now, + I'le shew it you to morrow. + +Michael Perez: + + All the house? + +Estifania: + + All, all, and we'l remove too, to confirm him, + They'l into th' country suddenly again + After they are matcht, and then she'l open to him. +191] + +Michael Perez: + + The whole possession wife? look what you doe, + A part o'th' house. + +Estifania: + + No, no, they shall have all, + And take their pleasure too, 'tis for our 'vantage. + Why, what's four daies? had you a Sister Sir, + A Niece or Mistris that required this courtesie, + And should I make a scruple to do you good? + +Michael Perez: + + If easily it would come back. + +Estifania: + + I swear Sir, + As easily as it came on, is't not pity + To let such a Gentlewoman for a little help-- + You give away no house. + +Michael Perez: + + Clear but that question. + +Estifania: + + I'le put the writings into your hand. + +Michael Perez: + + Well then. + +Estifania: + + And you shall keep them safe. + +Michael Perez: + + I am satisfied; wou'd I had the wench so too. + +Estifania: + + When she has married him, + So infinite his love is linkt unto her, + You, I, or any one that helps at this pinch + May have Heaven knows what. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le remove the goods straight, + And take some poor house by, 'tis but for four days. + +Estifania: + + I have a poor old friend; there we'l be. + +Michael Perez: + + 'Tis well then. + +Estifania: + + Goe handsom off, and leave the house clear. + +Michael Perez: + + Well. + +Estifania: + + That little stuff we'l use shall follow after; + And a boy to guide ye, peace and we are made both. + +Margarita: + + Come, let's goe in, are all the rooms kept sweet wench? + +Estifania: + + They are sweet and neat. + [Exit _Perez_. + +Margarita: + + Why where's your Husband? + +Estifania: + + Gone Madam. + When you come to your own he must give place Lady. + +Margarita: + + Well, send you joy, you would not let me know't, + Yet I shall not forget ye. + +Estifania: + + Thank your Ladyship. + [Exeunt. + + + + + +192] +Actus Tertius + + + + +Scena Prima. + + [Enter _Margarita_, _Altea_, and _Boy_.] + +Altea: + + Are you at ease now, is your heart at rest, + Now you have got a shadow, an _umbrella_ + To keep the scorching worlds opinion + From your fair credit. + +Margarita: + + I am at peace _Altea_, + If he continue but the same he shews, + And be a master of that ignorance + He outwardly professes, I am happy, + The pleasure I shall live in and the freedom + Without the squint-eye of the law upon me, + Or prating liberty of tongues, that envy. + +Altea: + + You are a made woman. + +Margarita: + + But if he should prove now + A crafty and dissembling kind of Husband, + One read in knavery, and brought up in the art + Of villany conceal'd. + +Altea: + + My life, an innocent. + +Margarita: + + That's it I aim at, + That's it I hope too, then I am sure I rule him, + For innocents are like obedient Children + Brought up under a hard Mother-in-law, a cruel, + Who being not us'd to break-fasts and collations, + When they have course bread offer'd 'em, are thankfull, + And take it for a favour too. Are the rooms + Made ready to entertain my friends? I long to dance now + And to be wanton; let me have a song, is the great couch up + The Duke of _Medina_ sent? + +Altea: + + 'Tis up and ready. + +Margarita: + + And day-beds in all chambers? + +Altea: + + In all Lady, + Your house is nothing now but various pleasures, + The Gallants begin to gaze too. + +Margarita: + + Let 'em gaze on, + I was brought up a Courtier, high and happy, + And company is my delight, and courtship, +193] And handsom servants at my will: where's my good husband, + Where does he wait? + +Altea: + + He knows his distance Madam, + I warrant ye he is busie in the celler + Amongst his fellow servants, or asleep, + Till your command awake him. + + [Enter _Leon_.] + +Margarita: + + 'Tis well _Altea_. + It should be so, my ward I must preserve him. + Who sent for him, how dare he come uncall'd for, + His bonnet on too? + +Altea: + + Sure he sees you not. + +Margarita: + + How scornfully he looks! + +Leon: + + Are all the chambers + Deckt and adorn'd thus for my Ladies pleasure? + New hangings every hour for entertainment, + And new plate bought, new Jewels to give lustre? + +Servant: + + They are, and yet there must be more and richer, + It is her will. + +Leon: + + Hum, is it so? 'tis excellent, + It is her will too, to have feasts and banquets, + Revells and masques. + +Servant: + + She ever lov'd 'em dearly, + And we shall have the bravest house kept now Sir, + I must not call ye master she has warn'd me, + Nor must not put my hat off to ye. + +Leon: + + 'Tis no fashion, + What though I be her husband, I am your fellow, + I may cut first. + +Servant: + + That's as you shall deserve Sir. + +Leon: + + And when I lye with her. + +Servant: + + May be I'le light ye, + On the same point you may doe me that service. + + [Enter _1 Lady_.] + +1 Lady: + + Madam, the Duke _Medina_ with some Captains + Will come to dinner, and have sent rare wine, + And their best services. + +Margarita: + + They shall be welcom, +194] See all be ready in the noblest fashion, + The house perfum'd, now I shall take my pleasure, + And not my neighbour Justice maunder at me. + Go, get your best cloths on, but till I call ye, + Be sure you be not seen, dine with the Gentlewomen, + And behave your self cleanly Sir, 'tis for my credit. + + [Enter _2 Lady_.] + +2 Lady: + + Madam, the Lady _Julia_. + +Leon: + + That's a bawd, + A three pil'd bawd, bawd major to the army. + +2 Lady: + + Has brought her coach to wait upon your Ladiship, + And to be inform'd if you will take the air this morning. + +Leon: + + The neat air of her nunnery. + +Margarita: + + Tell her no, i'th' afternoon I'le call on her. + +2 Lady: + + I will Madam. + [Exit. + +Margarita: + + Why are not you gone to prepare your self, + May be you shall be sewer to the fire course, + A portly presence, _Altea_ he looks lean, + 'Tis a wash knave, he will not keep his flesh well. + +Altea: + + A willing, Madam, one that needs no spurring. + +Leon: + + Faith madam, in my little understanding, + You had better entertain your honest neighbours, + Your friends about ye, that may speak well of ye, + And give a worthy mention of your bounty. + +Margarita: + + How now, what's this? + +Leon: + + 'Tis only to perswade ye, + Courtiers are but tickle things to deal withal, + A kind of march-pane men that will not last Madam, + An egge and pepper goes farther than their potions, + And in a well built body, a poor parsnip + Will play his prize above their strong potabiles. + +Margarita: + + The fellow's mad. + +Leon: + + He that shall counsel Ladies, + That have both liquorish and ambitious eyes, + Is either mad, or drunk, let him speak Gospel. + +Altea: + + He breaks out modestly. + +Leon: + + Pray ye be not angry, + My indiscretion has made bold to tell ye, + What you'l find true. +195] + +Margarita: + + Thou darest not talk. + +Leon: + + Not much Madam, + You have a tye upon your servants tongue, + He dares not be so bold as reason bids him, + 'Twere fit there were a stronger on your temper. + Ne're look so stern upon me, I am your Husband, + But what are Husbands? read the new worlds wonders, + Such Husbands as this monstrous world produces, + And you will scarce find such deformities, + They are shadows to conceal your venial vertues, + Sails to your mills, that grind with all occasions, + Balls that lye by you, to wash out your stains, + And bills nail'd up with horn before your stories, + To rent out last. + +Margarita: + + Do you hear him talk? + +Leon: + + I have done Madam, + An oxe once spoke, as learned men deliver, + Shortly I shall be such, then I'le speak wonders, + Till when I tye my self to my obedience. + + [Exit. + +Margarita: + + First I'le unty my self, did you mark the Gentleman, + How boldly and how sawcily he talk'd, + And how unlike the lump I took him for, + The piece of ignorant dow, he stood up to me + And mated my commands, this was your providence, + Your wisdom, to elect this Gentleman, + Your excellent forecast in the man, your knowledge, + What think ye now? + +Altea: + + I think him an Asse still, + This boldness some of your people have blown + Into him, this wisdom too with strong wine, + 'Tis a Tyrant, and a Philosopher also, and finds + Out reasons. + +Margarita: + + I'le have my celler lockt, no school kept there, + Nor no discovery. I'le turn my drunkards, + Such as are understanding in their draughts, + And dispute learnedly the whyes and wherefores, + To grass immediatly, I'le keep all fools, + Sober or drunk, still fools, that shall know nothing, + Nothing belongs to mankind, but obedience, + And such a hand I'le keep over this Husband. +196] + +Altea: + + He will fall again, my life he cryes by this time, + Keep him from drink, he has a high constitution. + + [Enter _Leon_.] + +Leon: + + Shall I wear my new sute Madam? + +Margarita: + + No your old clothes, + And get you into the country presently, + And see my hawks well train'd, you shall have victuals, + Such as are fit for sawcy palats Sir, + And lodgings with the hindes, it is too good too. + +Altea: + + Good Madam be not so rough, with repentance, + You see now he's come round again. + +Margarita: + + I see not what I expect to see. + +Leon: + + You shall see Madam, if it shall please your Ladyship. + +Altea: + + He's humbled, + Forgive good Lady, + +Margarita: + + Well go get you handsom, + And let me hear no more. + +Leon: + + Have ye yet no feeling? + I'le pinch ye to the bones then my proud Lady. + + [Exit. + +Margarita: + + See you preserve him thus upon my favour, + You know his temper, tye him to the grindstone, + The next rebellion I'le be rid of him, + I'le have no needy Rascals I tye to me, + Dispute my life: come in and see all handsom. + +Altea: + + I hope to see you so too, I have wrought ill else. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + Shall I never return to mine own house again? + We are lodg'd here in the miserablest dog-hole, + A Conjurers circle gives content above it, + A hawks mew is a princely palace to it, + We have a bed no bigger than a basket, + And there we lie like butter clapt together, + And sweat our selves to sawce immediately, + The fumes are infinite inhabite here too; + And to that so thick, they cut like marmalet, + So various too, they'l pose a gold-finder, + Never return to mine own paradise? +197] Why wife I say, why _Estifania_. + +Estifania [within]: + + I am going presently. + +Michael Perez: + + Make haste good Jewel, + I am like the people that live in the sweet Islands: + I dye, I dye, if I stay but one day more here, + My lungs are rotten with the damps that rise, + And I cough nothing now but stinks of all sorts, + The inhabitants we have are two starv'd rats, + For they are not able to maintain a cat here, + And those appear as fearfull as two Devils, + They have eat a map of the whole world up already, + And if we stay a night we are gone for company. + There's an old woman that's now grown to marble, + Dri'd in this brick hill, and she sits i'th' chimnie, + Which is but three tiles rais'd like a house of cards, + The true proportion of an old smok'd Sibyl, + There is a young thing too that nature meant + For a maid-servant, but 'tis now a monster, + She has a husk about her like a chesnut + With basiness, and living under the line here, + And these two make a hollow sound together, + Like frogs or winds between two doors that murmur: + + [Enter _Estifania_.] + + Mercy deliver me. O are you come wife, + Shall we be free again? + +Estifania: + + I am now going, + And you shall presently to your own house Sir, + The remembrance of this small vexation + Will be argument of mirth for ever: + By that time you have said your orisons, + And broke your fast, I shall be back and ready, + To usher you to your old content, your freedom. + +Michael Perez: + + Break my neck rather, is there any thing here to eat + But one another, like a race of Cannibals? + A piece of butter'd wall you think is excellent, + Let's have our house again immediatly, + And pray ye take heed unto the furniture, + None be imbezil'd. + +Estifania: + + Not a pin I warrant ye. +198] + +Michael Perez: + + And let 'em instantly depart. + +Estifania: + + They shall both, + There's reason in all courtesies, they must both, + For by this time I know she has acquainted him, + And has provided too, she sent me word Sir, + And will give over gratefully unto you. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le walk i'th' Church-yard, + The dead cannot offend more than these living, + An hour hence I'le expect ye. + +Estifania: + + I'le not fail Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + And do you hear, let's have a handsom dinner, + And see all things be decent as they have been, + And let me have a strong bath to restore me, + I stink like a stal-fish shambles, or an oyl-shop. + +Estifania: + + You shall have all, which some interpret nothing, + I'le send ye people for the trunks afore-hand, + And for the stuff. + +Michael Perez: + + Let 'em be known and honest, + And do my service to your niece. + +Estifania: + + I shall Sir, + But if I come not at my hour, come thither, + That they may give you thanks for your fair courtesy, + And pray ye be brave for my sake. + +Michael Perez: + + I observe ye. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Juan de Castro_, _Sancho_, and _Cacafogo_.] + +Sanchio: + + Thou art very brave. + +Cacafogo: + + I have reason, I have mony. + +Sanchio: + + Is mony reason? + +Cacafogo: + + Yes and rime too Captain, + If ye have no mony y'are an Asse. + +Sanchio: + + I thank ye. + +Cacafogo: + + Ye have manners, ever thank him that has mony. + +Sanchio: + + Wilt thou lend me any? + +Cacafogo: + + Not a farthing Captain, + Captains are casual things. + +Sanchio: + + Why so are all men, thou shalt have my bond. + +Cacafogo: + + Nor bonds nor fetters Captain, + My mony is mine, I make no doubt on't. + +Juan de Castro: + + What dost thou do with it? +199] + +Cacafogo: + + Put it to pious uses, + Buy Wine and Wenches, and undo young Coxcombs + That would undo me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Are those Hospitals? + +Cacafogo: + + I first provide to fill my Hospitals + With Creatures of mine own, that I know wretched, + And then I build: those are more bound to pray for me: + Besides, I keep th' inheritance in my Name still. + +Juan de Castro: + + A provident Charity; are you for the Wars, Sir? + +Cacafogo: + + I am not poor enough to be a Souldier, + Nor have I faith enough to ward a Bullet; + This is no lining for a trench, I take it. + +Juan de Castro: + + Ye have said wisely. + +Cacafogo: + + Had you but my money, + You would swear it Colonel, I had rather drill at home + A hundred thousand Crowns, and with more honour, + Than exercise ten thousand Fools with nothing, + A wise Man safely feeds, Fools cut their fingers. + +Sanchio: + + A right State Usurer; why dost thou not marry, + And live a reverend Justice? + +Cacafogo: + + Is't not nobler to command a reverend Justice, than to be one? + And for a Wife, what need I marry, Captain, + When every courteous Fool that owes me money, + Owes me his Wife too, to appease my fury? + +Juan de Castro: + + Wilt thou go to dinner with us? + +Cacafogo: + + I will go, and view the Pearl of _Spain_, the Orient + Fair One, the rich One too, and I will be respected, + I bear my Patent here, I will talk to her, + And when your Captain's Ships shall stand aloof, + And pick your Noses, I will pick the purse + Of her affection. + +Juan de Castro: + + The Duke dines there to day too, the Duke of _Medina_. + +Cacafogo: + + Let the King dine there, + He owes me money, and so far's my Creature, + And certainly I may make bold with mine own, Captain? + +Sanchio: + + Thou wilt eat monstrously. + +Cacafogo: + + Like a true born _Spaniard_, + Eat as I were in _England_ where the Beef grows, + And I will drink abundantly, and then + Talk ye as wantonly as _Ovid_ did, +200] To stir the Intellectuals of the Ladies; + I learnt it of my Father's amorous Scrivener. + +Juan de Castro: + + If we should play now, you must supply me. + +Cacafogo: + + You must pawn a Horse troop, + And then have at ye Colonel. + +Sanchio: + + Come, let's go: + This Rascal will make rare sport; how the Ladies + Will laugh at him? + +Juan de Castro: + + If I light on him I'll make his Purse sweat too. + +Cacafogo: + + Will ye lead, Gentlemen? + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Perez_, an old Woman, and Maid.] + +Michael Perez: + + Nay, pray ye come out, and let me understand ye, + And tune your pipe a little higher, Lady; + I'll hold ye fast: rub, how came my Trunks open? + And my Goods gone, what Pick-lock Spirit? + +Old Woman: + + Ha, what would ye have? + +Michael Perez: + + My Goods again, how came my Trunks all open? + +Old Woman: + + Are your Trunks open? + +Michael Perez: + + Yes, and Cloaths gone, + And Chains, and Jewels: how she smells like hung Beef, + The Palsey, and Picklocks, fye, how she belches, + The Spirit of Garlick. + +Old Woman: + + Where's your Gentlewoman? + The young fair Woman? + +Michael Perez: + + What's that to my question? + She is my wife, and gone about my business. + +Maid: + + Is she your Wife, Sir? + +Michael Perez: + + Yes Sir, is that wonder? + Is the name of Wife unknown here? + +Old Woman: + + Is she truly, truly your Wife? + +Michael Perez: + + I think so, for I married her; + It was no Vision sure! + +Maid: + + She has the Keys, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + I know she has, but who has all my goods, Spirit? + +Old Woman: + + If you be married to that Gentlewoman, + You are a wretched man, she has twenty Husbands. + +Maid: + + She tells you true. + +Old Woman: + + And she has cozen'd all, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + The Devil she has! I had a fair house with her, +201] That stands hard by, and furnisht royally. + +Old Woman: + + You are cozen'd too, 'tis none of hers, good Gentleman. + +Maid: + + The Lady _Margarita_, she was her Servant, + And kept the house, but going from her, Sir, + For some lewd tricks she plaid. + +Michael Perez: + + Plague o' the Devil, + Am I i'th' full Meridian of my Wisedom + Cheated by a stale Quean! what kind of Lady + Is that that owes the House? + +Old Woman: + + A young sweet Lady. + +Michael Perez: + + Of a low stature? + +Old Woman: + + She is indeed but little, but she is wondrous fair. + +Michael Perez: + + I feel I am cozen'd; + Now I am sensible I am undone, + This is the very Woman sure, that Cousin + She told me would entreat but for four days, + To make the house hers; I am entreated sweetly. + +Maid: + + When she went out this morning, that I saw, Sir, + She had two Women at the door attending, + And there she gave 'em things, and loaded 'em, + But what they were--I heard your Trunks to open, + If they be yours? + +Michael Perez: + + They were mine while they were laden, + But now they have cast their Calves, they are not worth + Owning: was she her Mistress say you? + +Old Woman: + + Her own Mistress, her very Mistress, Sir, and all you saw + About and in that house was hers. + +Michael Perez: + + No Plate, no Jewels, nor no Hangings? + +Maid: + + Not a farthing, she is poor, Sir, a poor shifting thing. + +Michael Perez: + + No money? + +Old Woman: + + Abominable poor, as poor as we are, + Money as rare to her unless she steal it, + But for one civil Gown her Lady gave her, + She may go bare, good Gentlewoman. + +Michael Perez: + + I am mad now, + I think I am as poor as she, I am wide else, + One civil Sute I have left too, and that's all, + And if she steal that she must fley me for it; + Where does she use? + +Old Woman: + + You may find truth as soon, +202] Alas, a thousand conceal'd corners, Sir, she lurks in. + And here she gets a fleece, and there another, + And lives in mists and smoaks where none can find her. + +Michael Perez: + + Is she a Whore too? + +Old Woman: + + Little better, Gentleman, I dare not say she is so Sir, because + She is yours, Sir, these five years she has firkt + A pretty Living, + Until she came to serve; I fear he will knock my + Brains out for lying. + +Michael Perez: + + She has serv'd me faithfully, + A Whore and Thief? two excellent moral learnings + In one she-Saint, I hope to see her legend. + Have I been fear'd for my discoveries, + And courted by all Women to conceal 'em? + Have I so long studied the art of this Sex, + And read the warnings to young Gentlemen? + Have I profest to tame the Pride of Ladies, + And make 'em bear all tests, and am I trickt now? + Caught in mine own nooze? here's a royal left yet, + There's for your lodging and your meat for this Week. + A silk Worm lives at a more plentiful ordinary, + And sleeps in a sweeter Box: farewel great Grandmother, + If I do find you were an accessary, + 'Tis but the cutting off too smoaky minutes, + I'll hang ye presently. + +Old Woman: + + And I deserve it, I tell but truth. + +Michael Perez: + + Not I, I am an Ass, Mother. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter the Duke of _Medina_, _Juan de Castro_, _Alonzo_, _Sanchio_, +_Cacafogo_. Attendants.] + +Duke of Medina: + + A goodly house. + +Juan de Castro: + + And richly furnisht too, Sir. + +Alonzo: + + Hung wantonly, I like that preparation, + It stirs the blood unto a hopeful Banquet, + And intimates the Mistress free and jovial, + I love a house where pleasure prepares welcome. + +Duke of Medina: + + Now Cacafogo, how like you this mansion? + 'Twere a brave Pawn. + +Cacafogo: + + I shall be master of it, + 'Twas built for my bulk, the rooms are wide and spacious, +203] Airy and full of ease, and that I love well, + I'll tell you when I taste the Wine, my Lord, + And take the height of her Table with my Stomach, + How my affections stand to the young Lady. + + [Enter _Margarita_, _Altea_, Ladies, and Servants.] + +Margarita: + + All welcome to your Grace, and to these Souldiers, + You honour my poor house with your fair presence, + Those few slight pleasures that inhabit here, Sir, + I do beseech your Grace command, they are yours, + Your servant but preserves 'em to delight ye. + +Duke of Medina: + + I thank ye Lady, I am bold to visit ye, + Once more to bless mine eyes with your sweet Beauty, + 'T has been a long night since you left the Court, + For till I saw you now, no day broke to me. + +Margarita: + + Bring in the Dukes meat. + +Sanchio: + + She is most excellent. + +Juan de Castro: + + Most admirable fair as e'r I look'd upon, + I had rather command her than my Regiment. + +Cacafogo: + + I'll have a fling, 'tis but a thousand Duckets, + Which I can cozen up again in ten days, + And some few Jewels to justifie my Knavery, + Say, I should marry her, she'll get more money + Than all my Usury, put my Knavery to it, + She appears the most infallible way of Purchase, + I you'd wish her a size or two stronger for the encounter, + For I am like a Lion where I lay hold, + But these Lambs will endure a plaguy load, + And never bleat neither, that Sir, time has taught us, + I am so vertuous now, I cannot speak to her, + The arrant'st shamefac'd Ass, I broil away too. + + [Enter _Leon_.] + +Margarita: + + Why, where's this dinner? + +Leon: + + 'Tis not ready, Madam, + Nor shall not be until I know the Guests too, + Nor are they fairly welcome till I bid 'em. + +Juan de Castro: + + Is not this my _Alferes_? he looks another thing; + Are miracles afoot again? + +Margarita: + + Why, Sirrah, why Sirrah, you? +204] + +Leon: + + I hear you, saucy Woman, + And as you are my Wife, command your absence, + And know your duty, 'tis the Crown of modesty. + +Duke of Medina: + + Your Wife? + +Leon: + + Yes good my Lord, I am her Husband, + And pray take notice that I claim that honour, + And will maintain it. + +Cacafogo: + + It thou beest her Husband, + I am determin'd thou shalt be my Cuckold, + I'll be thy faithful friend. + +Leon: + + Peace, dirt and dunghil, + I will not lose my anger on a Rascal, + Provoke me more, I'll beat thy blown body + Till thou rebound'st again like a Tennis-Ball. + +Alonzo: + + This is miraculous. + +Sanchio: + + Is this the Fellow + That had the patience to become a Fool, + A flurted Fool, and on a sudden break, + As if he would shew a wonder to the World, + Both in Bravery, and Fortune too? + I much admire the man, I am astonisht. + +Margarita: + + I'll be divorced immediately. + +Leon: + + You shall not, + You shall not have so much will to be wicked. + I am more tender of your honour, Lady, + And of your Age, you took me for a shadow; + You took me to gloss over your discredit, + To be your Fool, you had thought you had found a Coxcomb; + I am innocent of any foul dishonour I mean to ye. + Only I will be known to be your Lord now, + And be a fair one too, or I will fall for't. + +Margarita: + + I do command ye from me, thou poor fellow, + Thou cozen'd Fool. + +Leon: + + Thou cozen'd Fool? 'tis not so, + I will not be commanded: I am above ye: + You may divorce me from your favour, Lady, + But from your state you never shall, I'll hold that, + And then maintain your wantonness, I'll wink at it. + +Margarita: + + Am I braved thus in mine own house? + +Leon: + + 'Tis mine, Madam, +205] You are deceiv'd, I am Lord of it, I rule it and all that's in't; + You have nothing to do here, Madam; + But as a Servant to sweep clean the Lodgings, + And at my farther will to do me service, + And so I'll keep it. + +Margarita: + + As you love me, give way. + +Leon: + + It shall be better, + I will give none, Madam, + I stand upon the ground of mine own Honour, + And will maintain it, you shall know me now + To be an understanding feeling man, + And sensible of what a Woman aims at, + A young proud Woman that has Will to sail with, + An itching Woman, that her blood provokes too, + I cast my Cloud off, and appear my self, + The master of this little piece of mischief, + And I will put a Spell about your feet, Lady, + They shall not wander but where I give way now. + +Duke of Medina: + + Is this the Fellow that the People pointed at, + For the meer sign of man, the walking Image? + He speaks wondrous highly. + +Leon: + + As a Husband ought, Sir, + In his own house, and it becomes me well too, + I think your Grace would grieve if you were put to it + To have a Wife or Servant of your own, + (For Wives are reckon'd in the rank of Servants,) + Under your own roof to command ye. + +Juan de Castro: + + Brave, a strange Conversion, thou shalt lead + In chief now. + +Duke of Medina: + + Is there no difference betwixt her and you, Sir? + +Leon: + + Not now, Lord, my Fortune makes me even, + And as I am an honest man, I am nobler. + +Margarita: + + Get me my Coach. + +Leon: + + Let me see who dares get it + Till I command, I'll make him draw your Coach too, + And eat your Coach, (which will be hard diet) + That executes your Will; or take your Coach, Lady, + I give you liberty, and take your People + Which I turn off, and take your Will abroad with ye, + Take all these freely, but take me no more, +206] And so farewel. + +Duke of Medina: + + Nay, Sir, you shall not carry it + So bravely off, you shall not wrong a Lady + In a high huffing strain, and think to bear it, + We stand not by as Bawds to your brave fury, + To see a Lady weep. + +Leon: + + They are tears of anger, I beseech ye note 'em, not worth pity, + Wrung from her rage, because her Will prevails not, + She would swound now if she could not cry, + Else they were excellent, and I should grieve too, + But falling thus, they show nor sweet nor orient. + Put up my Lord, this is oppression, + And calls the Sword of Justice to relieve me, + The law to lend her hand, the King to right me, + All which shall understand how you provoke me, + In mine own house to brave me, is this princely? + Then to my Guard, and if I spare your Grace, + And do not make this place your Monument, + Too rich a Tomb for such a rude behaviour, + I have a Cause will kill a thousand of ye, mercy forsake me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Hold, fair Sir, I beseech ye, + The Gentleman but pleads his own right nobly. + +Leon: + + He that dares strike against the husbands freedom, + The Husbands Curse stick to him, a tam'd Cuckold, + His Wife be fair and young, but most dishonest, + Most impudent, and have no feeling of it, + No conscience to reclaim her from a Monster, + Let her lye by him like a flattering ruine, + And at one instant kill both Name and Honour, + Let him be lost, no eye to weep his end, + Nor find no earth that's base enough to bury him. + Now Sir, fall on, I am ready to oppose ye. + +Duke of Medina: + + I have better thought, I pray Sir use your Wife well. + +Leon: + + Mine own humanity will teach me that, Sir, + And now you are all welcome, all, and we'll to dinner, + This is my Wedding-day. + +Duke of Medina: + + I'll cross your joy yet. + +Juan de Castro: + + I made seen a miracle, hold thine own, Souldier, + Sure they dare fight in fire that conquer Women. + +Sanchio: + + H'as beaten all my loose thoughts out of me, +207] As if he had thresht 'em out o'th' husk. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + 'Save ye, which is the Lady of the house? + +Leon: + + That's she, Sir, that pretty Lady, + If you would speak with her. + +Juan de Castro: + + _Don Michael_, _Leon_, another darer come. + +Michael Perez: + + Pray do not know me, I am full of business, + When I have more time I'll be merry with ye. + It is the Woman: good Madam, tell me truly, + Had you a Maid call'd _Estifania_? + +Margarita: + + Yes truly, had I. + +Michael Perez: + + Was she a Maid do you think? + +Margarita: + + I dare not swear for her, + For she had but a scant Fame. + +Michael Perez: + + Was she your Kinswoman? + +Margarita: + + Not that I ever knew, now I look better + I think you married her, 'give you joy, Sir, + You may reclaim her, 'twas a wild young Girl. + +Michael Perez: + + Give me a halter: is not this house mine, Madam? + Was not she owner of it, pray speak truly? + +Margarita: + + No, certainly, I am sure my money paid for it, + And I ne'r remember yet I gave it you, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + The Hangings and the Plate too? + +Margarita: + + All are mine, Sir, + And every thing you see about the building, + She only kept my house when I was absent, + And so ill kept it, I was weary of her. + +Sanchio: + + What a Devil ails he? + +Juan de Castro: + + He's possest I'll assure you. + +Michael Perez: + + Where is your Maid? + +Margarita: + + Do not you know that have her? + She is yours now, why should I look after her? + Since that first hour I came I never saw her. + +Michael Perez: + + I saw her later, would the Devil had had her, + It is all true I find, a wild-fire take her. + +Juan de Castro: + + Is thy Wife with Child, _Don Michael_? thy excellent wife. + Art thou a Man yet? + +Alonzo: + + When shall we come and visit thee? + +Sanchio: + + And eat some rare fruit? thou hast admirable Orchards, +208] You are so jealous now, pox o' your jealousie, + How scurvily you look! + +Michael Perez: + + Prithee leave fooling, + I am in no humour now to fool and prattle, + Did she ne'r play the wag with you? + +Margarita: + + Yes many times, so often that I was asham'd to keep her, + But I forgave her, Sir, in hope she would mend still, + And had not you o'th' instant married her, + I had put her off. + +Michael Perez: + + I thank ye, I am blest still, + Which way so e'r I turn I am a made man, + Miserably gull'd beyond recovery. + +Juan de Castro: + + You'll stay and dine? + +Michael Perez: + + Certain I cannot, Captain, + Hark in thine ear, I am the arrantst Puppy, + The miserablest Ass, but I must leave ye, + I am in haste, in haste, bless you, good Madam, + And you prove as good as my Wife. + + [Exit. + +Leon: + + Will you come near, Sir, will your Grace but honour me, + And taste our dinner? you are nobly welcome, + All anger's past I hope, and I shall serve ye. + +Juan de Castro: + + Thou art the stock of men, and I admire thee. + [Ex. + + + + + +Actus Quartus + + + + +Scena Prima. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + I'll go to a Conjurer but I'll find this Pol-cat, + This pilfering Whore: a plague of Vails, I cry, + And covers for the impudence of Women, + Their sanctity in show will deceive Devils, + It is my evil Angel, let me bless me. + + [Enter _Estifania_ with a Casket.] + +Estifania: + + 'Tis he, I am caught, I must stand to it stoutly, + And show no shake of fear, I see he is angry, + Vext at the uttermost. + +Michael Perez: + + My worthy Wife, + I have been looking of your modesty + All the town over. +209] + +Estifania: + + My most noble Husband, + I am glad I have found ye, for in truth I am weary, + Weary and lame with looking out your Lordship. + +Michael Perez: + + I have been in Bawdy Houses. + +Estifania: + + I believe you, and very lately too. + +Michael Perez: + + 'Pray you pardon me, + To seek your Ladyship, I have been in Cellars, + In private Cellars, where the thirsty Bawds + Hear your Confessions; I have been at Plays, + To look you out amongst the youthful Actors, + At Puppet Shews, you are Mistress of the motions, + At Gossippings I hearkned after you, + But amongst those Confusions of lewd Tongues + There's no distinguishing beyond a Babel. + I was amongst the Nuns because you sing well, + But they say yours are Bawdy Songs, they mourn for ye, + And last I went to Church to seek you out, + 'Tis so long since you were there, they have forgot you. + +Estifania: + + You have had a pretty progress, I'll tell mine now: + To look you out, I went to twenty Taverns. + +Michael Perez: + + And are you sober? + +Estifania: + + Yes, I reel not yet, Sir, + Where I saw twenty drunk, most of 'em Souldiers, + There I had great hope to find you disguis'd too. + From hence to th' dicing-house, there I found + Quarrels needless, and senceless, Swords and Pots, and Candlesticks, + Tables and Stools, and all in one confusion, + And no man knew his Friend. I left this _Chaos_, + And to the Chirurgions went, he will'd me stay, + For says he learnedly, if he be tipled, + Twenty to one he whores, and then I hear of him, + If he be mad, he quarrels, then he comes too. + I sought ye where no safe thing would have ventur'd, + Amongst diseases, base and vile, vile Women, + For I remembred your old Roman axiom, + The more the danger, still the more the Honour. + Last, to your Confessor I came, who told me, + You were too proud to pray, and here I have found ye. + +Michael Perez: + + She bears up bravely, and the Rogue is witty, + But I shall dash it instantly to nothing. +210] Here leave we off our wanton languages, + And now conclude we in a sharper tongue. + +Estifania: + + Why am I cozen'd? + Why am I abused? + +Michael Perez: + + Thou most vile, base, abominable-- + +Estifania: + + Captain. + +Michael Perez: + + Thou stinking, overstew'd, poor, pocky-- + +Estifania: + + Captain. + +Michael Perez: + + Do you echo me? + +Estifania: + + Yes Sir, and go before ye, + And round about ye, why do you rail at me + For that that was your own sin, your own knavery? + +Michael Perez: + + And brave me too? + +Estifania: + + You had best now draw your Sword, Captain! + Draw it upon a Woman, do, brave Captain, + Upon your Wife, Oh most renowned Captain. + +Michael Perez: + + A Plague upon thee, answer me directly; + Why didst thou marry me? + +Estifania: + + To be my Husband; + I had thought you had had infinite, but I'm cozen'd. + +Michael Perez: + + Why didst thou flatter me, and shew me wonders? + A house and riches, when they are but shadows, + Shadows to me? + +Estifania: + + Why did you work on me + (It was but my part to requite you, Sir) + With your strong Souldiers wit, and swore you would bring me + So much in Chains, so much in Jewels, Husband, + So much in right rich Cloaths? + +Michael Perez: + + Thou hast 'em, Rascal; + I gave 'em to thy hands, my trunks and all, + And thou hast open'd 'em, and sold my treasure. + +Estifania: + + Sir, there's your treasure, sell it to a Tinker + To mend old Kettles, is this noble Usage? + Let all the World view here the Captain's treasure, + A Man would think now, these were worthy matters; + Here's a shooing-horn Chain gilt over, how it scenteth + Worse than the mouldy durty heel it served for: + And here's another of a lesser value, + So little I would shame to tye my Dog in't, + These are my joynture, blush and save a labour, +211] Or these else will blush for ye. + +Michael Perez: + + A fire subtle ye, are ye so crafty? + +Estifania: + + Here's a goodly jewel, + Did not you win this at Goletta, Captain, + Or took it in the field from some brave _Bashaw_ + How it sparkles like an old Ladies eyes, + And fills each room with light like a close Lanthorn! + This would do rarely in an Abbey Window, + To cozen Pilgrims. + +Michael Perez: + + P[r]ithee leave prating. + +Estifania: + + And here's a Chain of Whitings eyes for pearls, + A Muscle-monger would have made a better. + +Michael Perez: + + Nay, prithee wife, my Cloaths, my Cloaths. + +Estifania: + + I'll tell ye, + Your Cloaths are parallels to these, all counterfeit. + Put these and them on, you are a Man of Copper, + A kind of Candlestick; these you thought, my Husband, + To have cozen'd me withall, but I am quit with you. + +Michael Perez: + + Is there no house then, nor no grounds about it? + No plate nor hangings? + +Estifania: + + There are none, sweet Husband, + Shadow for shadow is as equal justice. + Can you rail now? pray put up your fury, Sir, + And speak great words, you are a Souldier, thunder. + +Michael Perez: + + I will speak little, I have plaid the Fool, + And so I am rewarded. + +Estifania: + + You have spoke well, Sir, + And now I see you are so conformable + I'll heighten you again, go to your house, + They are packing to be gone, you must sup there, + I'll meet ye, and bring Cloaths, and clean Shirts after, + And all things shall be well, I'll colt you once more, + And teach you to bring Copper. + +Michael Perez: + + Tell me one thing, + I do beseech thee tell me, tell me truth, Wife, + However I forgive thee, art thou honest? + The Beldam swore. + +Estifania: + + I bid her tell you so, Sir, + It was my plot, alas my credulous Husband, + The Lady told you too. +212] + +Michael Perez: + + Most strange things of thee. + +Estifania: + + Still 'twas my way, and all to try your sufferance, + And she denied the House. + +Michael Perez: + + She knew me not, + No, nor no title that I had. + +Estifania: + + 'Twas well carried; + No more, I am right and straight. + +Michael Perez: + + I would believe thee, + But Heaven knows how my heart is, will ye follow me? + +Estifania: + + I'll be there straight. + +Michael Perez: + + I am fooled, yet dare not find it. + [Exit _Perez_. + +Estifania: + + Go silly Fool, thou mayst be a good Souldier + In open field, but for our private service + Thou art an Ass, I'll make thee so, or miss else. + + [Enter _Cacafogo_.] + + Here comes another Trout that I must tickle, + And tickle daintily, I have lost my end else. + May I crave your leave, Sir? + +Cacafogo: + + Prithee be answered, thou shalt crave no leave, + I am in my meditations, do not vex me, + A beaten thing, but this hour a most bruised thing, + That people had compassion on it, looked so, + The next Sir Palmerin, here's fine proportion, + An Ass, and then an Elephant, sweet Justice, + There's no way left to come at her now, no craving, + If money could come near, yet I would pay him; + I have a mind to make him a huge Cuckold, + And money may do much, a thousand Duckets, + 'Tis but the letting blood of a rank Heir. + +Estifania: + + 'Pray you hear me. + +Cacafogo: + + I know thou hast some wedding Ring to pawn now, + Of Silver and gilt, with a blind posie in't, + Love and a Mill-horse should go round together, + Or thy Childs whistle, or thy Squirrels Chain, + I'll none of 'em, I would she did but know me, + Or would this Fellow had but use of money, + That I might come in any way. + +Estifania: + + I am gone, Sir, + And I shall tell the beauty sent me to ye, +213] The Lady _Margarita._ + +Cacafogo: + + Stay I prithee, + What is thy will? I turn me wholly to ye, + And talk now till thy tongue ake, I will hear ye. + +Estifania: + + She would entreat you, Sir, + +Cacafogo: + + She shall command, Sir, + Let it be so, I beseech thee, my sweet Gentlewoman, + Do not forget thy self. + +Estifania: + + She does command then + This courtesie, because she knows you are noble. + +Cacafogo: + + Your Mistress by the way? + +Estifania: + + My natural mistress, + Upon these Jewels, Sir, they are fair and rich, + And view 'em right. + +Cacafogo: + + To doubt 'em is an heresie. + +Estifania: + + A thousand Duckets, 'tis upon necessity + Of present use, her husband, Sir, is stubborn. + +Cacafogo: + + Long may he be so. + +Estifania: + + She desires withal a better knowledge of your parts and person, + And when you please to do her so much honour. + +Cacafogo: + + Come, let's dispatch. + +Estifania: + + In troth I have heard her say, Sir, + Of a fat man she has not seen a sweeter. + But in this business, Sir. + +Cacafogo: + + Let's do it first + And then dispute, the Ladies use may long for't. + +Estifania: + + All secrecy she would desire, she told me + How wise you are. + +Cacafogo: + + We are not wise to talk thus, + Carry her the gold, I'le look her out a Jewel, + Shall sparkle like her eyes, and thee another, + Come prethee come, I long to serve thy Lady, + Long monstrously, now valor I shall meet ye, + You that dare Dukes. + +Estifania: + + Green goose you are now in sippets. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter the Duke, _Sanchio_, _Juan_, _Alonzo_.] + +Duke of Medina: + + He shall not have his will, I shall prevent him, + I have a toy here that will turn the tide, + And suddenly, and strangely, hear _Don Juan,_ +214] Do you present it to him. + +Juan de Castro: + + I am commanded. + [Exit. + +Duke of Medina: + + A fellow founded out of Charity, + And moulded to the height contemn his maker, + Curb the free hand that fram'd him? This must not be. + +Sanchio: + + That such an oyster shell should hold a pearl, + And of so rare a price in prison, + Was she made to be the matter of her own undoing, + To let a slovenly unweildy fellow, + Unruly and self will'd, dispose her beauties? + We suffer all Sir in this sad Eclipse, + She should shine where she might show like her self, + An absolute sweetness, to comfort those admire her, + And shed her beams upon her friends. + We are gull'd all, + And all the world will grumble at your patience, + If she be ravish't thus. + +Duke of Medina: + + Ne'r fear it _Sanchio_, + We'I have her free again, and move at Court + In her clear orb: but one sweet handsomeness, + To bless this part of _Spain_, and have that slubber'd? + +Alonzo: + + 'Tis every good mans cause, and we must stir in it. + +Duke of Medina: + + I'le warrant he shall be glad to please us, + And glad to share too, we shall hear anon + A new song from him, let's attend a little. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Leon_, and _Juan_, with a commission.] + +Leon: + + Coronel, I am bound to you for this nobleness, + I should have been your officer, 'tis true Sir, + And a proud man I should have been to have serv'd you, + 'T has pleas'd the King out of his boundless favours, + To make me your companion, this commission + Gives me a troop of horse. + +Juan de Castro: + + I do rejoyce at it, + And am a glad man we shall gain your company, + I am sure the King knows you are newly married, + And out of that respect gives you more time Sir. + +Leon: + + Within four daies I am gone, so he commands me, + And 'tis not mannerly for me to argue it, + The time grows shorter still, are your goods ready? +215] + +Juan de Castro: + + They are aboard. + +Leon: + + Who waits there? + + [Enter _Servant_.] + +Servant: + + Sir. + +Leon: + + Do you hear ho, go carry this unto your Mistris Sir, + And let her see how much the King has honour'd me, + Bid her be lusty, she must make a Souldier. + + [Exit. + + [Enter _Lorenzo_.] + +Lorenzo: + + Sir, + Go take down all the hangings, + And pack up all my cloths, my plate and Jewels, + And all the furniture that's portable, + Sir when we lye in garrison, 'tis necessary + We keep a handsom port, for the Kings honour; + And do you hear, let all your Ladies wardrobe + Be safely plac'd in trunks, they must along too. + +Lorenzo: + + Whither must they goe Sir? + +Leon: + + To the wars, _Lorenzo_, + And you and all, I will not leave a turn-spit, + That has one dram of spleen against a Dutchman. + +Lorenzo: + + Why then _St Jaques_ hey, you have made us all Sir, + And if we leave ye--does my Lady goe too? + +Leon: + + The stuff must goe to morrow towards the sea Sir, + All, all must goe. + +Lorenzo: + + Why _Pedro_, _Vasco_, _Dego_, + Come help me, come come boys, soldadocs, comrades, + We'l fley these beer-bellied rogues, come away quickly. + + [Exit. + +Juan de Castro: + + H'as taken a brave way to save his honour, + And cross the Duke, now I shall love him dearly, + By the life of credit thou art a noble Gentleman. + + [Enter _Margarita_, led by two Ladies.] + +Leon: + + Why how now wife, what, sick at my preferment? + This is not kindly done. + +Margarita: + + No sooner love ye, + Love ye intirely Sir, brought to consider + The goodness of your mind and mine own duty, + But lose you instantly, be divorc'd from ye? +216] This is a cruelty, I'le to the King + And tell him 'tis unjust to part two souls, + Two minds so nearly mixt. + +Leon: + + By no means sweet heart. + +Margarita: + + If he were married but four daies as I am. + +Leon: + + He would hang himself the fifth, or fly his Country. + +Margarita: + + He would make it treason for that tongue that durst + But talk of war, or any thing to vex him, + You shall not goe. + +Leon: + + Indeed I must sweet wife, + What shall I lose the King for a few kisses? + We'l have enough. + +Margarita: + + I'le to the Duke my cousin, he shall to th' King. + +Leon: + + He did me this great office, + I thank his grace for't, should I pray him now, + To undoe't again? fye 'twere a base discredit. + +Margarita: + + Would I were able Sir to bear you company, + How willing should I be then, and how merry! + I will not live alone. + +Leon: + + Be in peace, you shall not. + [knock within. + +Margarita: + + What knocking's this? oh Heaven my head, why rascals + I thin[k] the war's begun i'th' house already. + +Leon: + + The preparation is, they are taking down, + And packing up the hangings, plate and Jewels, + And all those furnitures that shall befit me + When I lye in garrison. + + [Enter _Coachman_.] + +Coachman: + + Must the Coach goe too Sir? + +Leon: + + How will your Lady pass to th' sea else easily? + We shall find shipping for't there to transport it. + +Margarita: + + I goe? alas! + +Leon: + + I'le have a main care of ye, + I know ye are sickly, he shall drive the easier, + And all accommodation shall attend ye. + +Margarita: + + Would I were able. + +Leon: + + Come I warrant ye, + Am not I with ye sweet? are her cloaths packt up, + And all her linnen? give your maids direction, + You know my time's but short, and I am commanded. +217] + +Margarita: + + Let me have a nurse, + And all such necessary people with me, + And an easie bark. + +Leon: + + It shall not trot I warrant ye, + Curvet it may sometimes. + +Margarita: + + I am with child Sir. + +Leon: + + At four days warning? this is something speedy, + Do you conceive as our jennets do with a west winde? + My heir will be an arrant fleet one Lady, + I'le swear you were a maid when I first lay with ye. + +Margarita: + + Pray do not swear, I thought I was a maid too, + But we may both be cozen'd in that point Sir. + +Leon: + + In such a strait point sure I could not err Madam. + +Juan de Castro: + + This is another tenderness to try him, + Fetch her up now. + +Margarita: + + You must provide a cradle, and what a troubles that? + +Leon: + + The sea shall rock it, + 'Tis the best nurse; 'twill roar and rock together, + A swinging storm will sing you such a lullaby. + +Margarita: + + Faith let me stay, I shall but shame ye Sir. + +Leon: + + And you were a thousand shames you shall along with me, + At home I am sure you'l prove a million, + Every man carries the bundle of his sins + Upon his own back, you are mine, I'le sweat for ye. + + [Enter Duke, _Alonzo_, _Sanchio_.] + +Duke of Medina: + + What Sir, preparing for your noble journey? + 'Tis well, and full of care. + I saw your mind was wedded to the war, + And knew you would prove some good man for your country, + Therefore fair Cousin with your gentle pardon, + I got this place: what, mourn at his advancement? + You are to blame, he will come again sweet cousin, + Mean time like sad _Penelope_ and sage, + Amongst your maids at home, and huswifely. + +Leon: + + No Sir, I dare not leave her to that solitariness, + She is young, and grief or ill news from those quarters + May daily cross her, she shall goe along Sir. + +Duke of Medina: + + By no means Captain. + +Leon: + + By all means an't please ye. +218] + +Duke of Medina: + + What take a young and tender bodied Lady, + And expose her to those dangers, and those tumults, + A sickly Lady too? + +Leon: + + 'Twill make her well Sir, + There's no such friend to health as wholsom travel. + +Sanchio: + + Away it must not be. + +Alonzo: + + It ought not Sir, + Go hurry her? it is not humane, Captain. + +Duke of Medina: + + I cannot blame her tears, fright her with tempests, + With thunder of the war. + I dare swear if she were able. + +Leon: + + She is most able. + And pray ye swear not, she must goe, there's no remedy, + Nor greatness, nor the trick you had to part us, + Which I smell too rank, too open, too evident + (And I must tell you Sir, 'tis most unnoble) + Shall hinder me: had she but ten hours life, + Nay less, but two hours, I would have her with me, + I would not leave her fame to so much ruine, + To such a desolation and discredit + As her weakness and your hot will wou'd work her to. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + + What Masque is this now? + More tropes and figures, to abuse my sufferance, + What cousin's this? + +Juan de Castro: + + _Michael van owle_, how dost thou? + In what dark barn or tod of aged Ivy + Hast thou lyen hid? + +Michael Perez: + + Things must both ebbe and flow, Coronel, + And people must conceal, and shine again. + You are welcom hither as your friend may say, Gentleman, + A pretty house ye see handsomely seated, + Sweet and convenient walks, the waters crystal. + +Alonzo: + + He's certain mad. + +Juan de Castro: + + As mad as a French Tayler, + That has nothing in's head but ends of fustians. + +Michael Perez: + + I see you are packing now my gentle cousin, + And my wife told me I should find it so, + 'Tis true I do, you were merry when I was last here, +219] But 'twas your will to try my patience Madam. + I am sorry that my swift occasions + Can let you take your pleasure here no longer, + Yet I would have you think my honour'd cousin, + This house and all I have are all your servants. + +Leon: + + What house, what pleasure Sir, what do you mean? + +Michael Perez: + + You hold the jest so stiff, 'twill prove discourteous, + This house I mean, the pleasures of this place. + +Leon: + + And what of them? + +Michael Perez: + + They are mine Sir, and you know it, + My wifes I mean, and so confer'd upon me, + The hangings Sir I must entreat, your servants, + That are so busie in their offices, + Again to minister to their right uses, + I shall take view o'th' plate anon, and furnitures + That are of under place; you are merry still cousin, + And of a pleasant constitution, + Men of great fortunes make their mirths _at placitum_. + +Leon: + + Prethee good stubborn wife, tell me directly, + Good evil wife leave fooling and tell me honestly, + Is this my kinsman? + +Margarita: + + I can tell ye nothing. + +Leon: + + I have many kinsmen, but so mad a one, + And so phantastick--all the house? + +Michael Perez: + + All mine, + And all within it. I will not bate ye an ace on't. + Can you not receive a noble courtesie, + And quietly and handsomely as ye ought Couz, + But you must ride o'th' top on't? + +Leon: + + Canst thou fight? + +Michael Perez: + + I'le tell ye presently, I could have done Sir. + +Leon: + + For ye must law and claw before ye get it. + +Juan de Castro: + + Away, no quarrels. + +Leon: + + Now I am more temperate, + I'le have it prov'd if you were never yet in Bedlam, + Never in love, for that's a lunacy, + No great state left ye that you never lookt for, + Nor cannot manage, that's a rank distemper; + That you were christen'd, and who answer'd for ye, + And then I yield. +220] + +Michael Perez: + + H'as half perswaded me I was bred i'th' moon, + I have ne'r a bush at my breech, are not we both mad, + And is not this a phantastick house we are in, + And all a dream we do? will ye walk out Sir, + And if I do not beat thee presently + Into a sound belief, as sense can give thee, + Brick me into that wall there for a chimny piece, + And say I was one o'th' _Caesars_, done by a seal-cutter. + +Leon: + + I'le talk no more, come we'l away immediatly. + +Margarita: + + Why then the house is his, and all that's in it, + I'le give away my skin but I'le undoe ye, + I gave it to his wife, you must restore Sir, + And make a new provision. + +Michael Perez: + + Am I mad now or am I christen'd, you my pagan cousin, + My mighty Mahound kinsman, what quirk now? + You shall be welcom all, I hope to see Sir + Your Grace here, and my couz, we are all Souldiers, + And must do naturally for one another. + +Duke of Medina: + + Are ye blank at this? then I must tell ye Sir, + Ye have no command, now ye may goe at pleasure + And ride your asse troop, 'twas a trick I us'd + To try your jealousie upon entreatie, + And saving of your wife. + +Leon: + + All this not moves me, + Nor stirs my gall, nor alters my affections, + You have more furniture, more houses Lady, + And rich ones too, I will make bold with those, + And you have Land i'th' _Indies_ as I take it, + Thither we'l goe, and view a while those climats, + Visit your Factors there, that may betray ye, + 'Tis done, we must goe. + +Margarita: + + Now thou art a brave Gentleman, + And by this sacred light I love thee dearly. + The house is none of yours, I did but jest Sir, + Nor you are no couz of mine, I beseech ye vanish, + I tell you plain, you have no more right than he + Has, that senseless thing, your wife has once more fool'd ye: + Goe ye and consider. + +Leon: + + Good morrow my sweet cousin, I should be glad Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + By this hand she dies for't, +221] Or any man that speaks for her. + + [Exit _Perez_. + +Juan de Castro: + + These are fine toyes. + +Margarita: + + Let me request you stay but one poor month, + You shall have a Commission and I'le goe too, + Give me but will so far. + +Leon: + + Well I will try ye, + Good morrow to your Grace, we have private business. + +Duke of Medina: + + If I miss thee again, I am an arrant bungler. + +Juan de Castro: + + Thou shalt have my command, and I'le march under thee, + Nay be thy boy before thou shalt be baffled, + Thou art so brave a fellow. + +Alonzo: + + I have seen visions. + [Exeunt. + + + + + +Actus Quintus + + + + +Scena Prima. + + [Enter _Leon_, with a letter, and _Margarita_.] + +Leon: + + Come hither wife, do you know this hand? + +Margarita: + + I do Sir, + 'Tis _Estifania_, that was once my woman. + +Leon: + + She writes to me here, that one _Cacafogo_ + An usuring Jewellers son (I know the Rascal) + Is mortally faln in love with ye. + +Margarita: + + Is a monster, deliver me from mountains. + +Leon: + + Do you goe a birding for all sorts of people? + And this evening will come to ye and shew ye Jewels, + And offers any thing to get access to ye, + If I can make or sport or profit on him, + (For he is fit for both) she bids me use him, + And so I will, be you conformable, and follow but my will. + +Margarita: + + I shall not fail, Sir. + +Leon: + + Will the Duke come again do you think? + +Margarita: + + No sure Sir, + H'as now no policie to bring him hither. + +Leon: + + Nor bring you to him, if my wit hold fair wife: + Let's in to dinner. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + Had I but lungs enough to bawl sufficiently, + That all the queans in Christendom might hear me, +222] That men might run away from contagion, + I had my wish; would it were most high treason, + Most infinite high, for any man to marry, + I mean for any man that would live handsomely, + And like a Gentleman, in his wits and credit. + What torments shall I put her to, _Phalaris_ bull now, + Pox they love bulling too well, though they smoak for't. + Cut her apieces? every piece will live still, + And every morsel of her will do mischief; + They have so many lives, there's no hanging of 'em, + They are too light to drown, they are cork and feathers; + To burn too cold, they live like Salamanders; + Under huge heaps of stones to bury her, + And so depress her as they did the Giants; + She will move under more than built old Babel, + I must destroy her. + + [Enter _Cacafogo_, with a Casket.] + +Cacafogo: + + Be cozen'd by a thing of clouts, a she moth, + That every silkmans shop breeds; to be cheated, + And of a thousand duckets by a whim wham? + +Michael Perez: + + Who's that is cheated, speak again thou vision, + But art thou cheated? minister some comfort: + Tell me directly art thou cheated bravely? + Come, prethee come, art thou so pure a coxcomb + To be undone? do not dissemble with me, + Tell me I conjure thee. + +Cacafogo: + + Then keep thy circle, + For I am a spirit wild that flies about thee, + And who e're thou art, if thou be'st humane, + I'le let thee plainly know, I am cheated damnably. + +Michael Perez: + + Ha, ha, ha. + +Cacafogo: + + Dost thou laugh? damnably, I say most damnably. + +Michael Perez: + + By whom, good spirit speak, speak ha, ha, ha. + +Cacafogo: + + I will utter, laugh till thy lungs crack, by a rascal woman, + A lewd, abominable, and plain woman. + Dost thou laugh still? + +Michael Perez: + + I must laugh, prethee pardon me, + I shall laugh terribly. + +Cacafogo: + + I shall be angry, terrible angry, I have cause. +223] + +Michael Perez: + + That's it, and 'tis no reason but thou shouldst be angry, + Angry at heart, yet I must laugh still at thee. + By a woman cheated? art' sure it was a woman? + +Cacafogo: + + I shall break thy head, my valour itches at thee. + +Michael Perez: + + It is no matter, by a woman cozen'd, + A real woman? + +Cacafogo: + + A real Devil, + Plague of her Jewels and her copper chains, + How rank they smell. + +Michael Perez: + + Sweet cozen'd Sir let me see them, + I have been cheated too, I would have you note that, + And lewdly cheated, by a woman also, + A scurvie woman, I am undone sweet Sir, + Therefore I must have leave to [l]augh. + +Cacafogo: + + Pray ye take it, + You are the merriest undone man in _Europe_. + What need we fiddles, bawdy songs and sack, + When our own miseries can make us merry? + +Michael Perez: + + Ha, ha, ha. + I have seen these Jewels, what a notable penniworth + Have you had next your heart? you will not take Sir + Some twenty Duckets? + +Cacafogo: + + Thou art deceiv'd, I will take. + +Michael Perez: + + To clear your bargain now. + +Cacafogo: + + I'le take some ten, some any thing, some half ten, + Half a Ducket. + +Michael Perez: + + An excellent lapidary set these stones sure, + Do you mark their waters? + +Cacafogo: + + Quick-sand choak their waters, + And hers that bought 'em too, but I shall find her. + +Michael Perez: + + And so shall I, I hope, but do not hurt her, + You cannot find in all this Kingdom, + (If you had need of cozening, as you may have, + For such gross natures will desire it often, + 'Tis at some time too a fine variety,) + A woman that can cozen ye so neatly, + She has taken half mine anger off with this trick. + + [Exit. + +Cacafogo: + + If I were valiant now, I would kill this fellow, + I have mony enough lies by me at a pinch + To pay for twenty Rascals lives that vex me, +224] I'le to this Lady, there I shall be satisfied. + + [Exit. + + [Enter _Leon_, and _Margarita_.] + +Leon: + + Come, we'l away unto your country house, + And there we'l learn to live contently, + This place is full of charge, and full of hurry, + No part of sweetness dwells about these cities. + +Margarita: + + Whither you will, I wait upon your pleasure; + Live in a hollow tree Sir, I'le live with ye. + +Leon: + + I, now you strike a harmony, a true one, + When your obedience waits upon your Husband, + And your sick will aims at the care of honour, + Why now I dote upon ye, love ye dearly, + And my rough nature falls like roaring streams, + Clearly and sweetly into your embraces. + O what a Jewel is a woman excellent, + A wise, a vertuous and a noble woman! + When we meet such, we bear our stamps on both sides, + And through the world we hold our currant virtues, + Alone we are single medals, only faces, + And wear our fortunes out in useless shadows, + Command you now, and ease me of that trouble, + I'le be as humble to you as a servant, + Bid whom you please, invite your noble friends, + They shall be welcome all, visit acquaintance, + Goe at your pleasure, now experience + Has link't you fast unto the chain of goodness: + What noise is this, what dismal cry? + + [Clashing swords. A cry within, down with their swords.] + +Margarita: + + 'Tis loud too. + Sure there's some mischief done i'th' street, look out there. + +Leon: + + Look out and help. + + [Enter a _Servant_.] + +Servant: + + Oh Sir the Duke _Medina_. + +Leon: + + What of the Duke _Medina_? + +Servant: + + Oh sweet Gentleman, is almost slain. + +Margarita: + + Away away and help him, all the house help. + [Exit _Servant_. + +Leon: + + How slain? why Margarita, + Why wife, sure some new device they have a foot again, +225] Some trick upon my credit, I shall meet it, + I had rather guide a ship Imperial + Alone, and in a storm, than rule one woman. + + [Enter Duke, _Margarita_, _Sanchio_, _Alonzo_, Servant.] + +Margarita: + + How came ye hurt Sir? + +Duke of Medina: + + I fell out with my friend the noble Coronel, + My cause was naught, for 'twas about your honour: + And he that wrongs the Innocent ne'r prospers, + And he has left me thus for charity, + Lend me a bed to ease my tortur'd body, + That e're I perish I may show my penitence, + I fear I am slain. + +Leon: + + Help Gentlemen to carry him, + There shall be nothing in this house my Lord, + But as your own. + +Duke of Medina: + + I thank ye noble Sir. + +Leon: + + To bed with him, and wife give your attendance. + + [Enter _Juan_.] + +Juan de Castro: + + Doctors and Surgions. + +Duke of Medina: + + Do not disquiet me, + But let me take my leave in peace. + + [Ex. Duke, _Sanchio_, _Alon._ _Marg._ Servant. + +Leon: + + Afore me + 'Tis rarely counterfeited. + +Juan de Castro: + + True, it is so Sir, + And take you heed, this last blow do not spoil ye, + He is not hurt, only we made a scuffle, + As though we purpos'd anger; that same scratch + On's hand he took, to colour all and draw compassion, + That he might get into your house more cunningly. + I must not stay, stand now, and y'are a brave fellow. + +Leon: + + I thank ye noble Coronel, and I honour ye. + [Exit _Juan_. + + Never be quiet? + + [Enter _Margarita_.] + +Margarita: + + He's most desperate ill Sir, + I do not think these ten months will recover him. + +Leon: + + Does he hire my house to play the fool in, +226] Or does it stand on Fairy ground, we are haunted, + Are all men and their wives troubled with dreams thus? + +Margarita: + + What ail you Sir? + +Leon: + + Nay what ail you sweet wife, + To put these daily pastimes on my patience? + What dost thou see in me, that I should suffer thus, + Have not I done my part like a true Husband, + And paid some desperate debts you never look'd for? + +Margarita: + + You have done handsomely I must confess Sir. + +Leon: + + Have I not kept thee waking like a hawk? + And watcht thee with delights to satisfy thee? + The very tithes of which had won a Widow. + +Margarita: + + Alas I pity ye. + +Leon: + + Thou wilt make me angry, + Thou never saw'st me mad yet. + +Margarita: + + You are alwaies, + You carry a kind of bedlam still about ye. + +Leon: + + If thou pursuest me further I run stark mad, + If you have more hurt Dukes or Gentlemen, + To lye here on your cure, I shall be desperate, + I know the trick, and you shall feel I know it, + Are ye so hot that no hedge can contain ye? + I'le have thee let blood in all the veins about thee, + I'le have thy thoughts found too, and have them open'd, + Thy spirits purg'd, for those are they that fire ye, + Thy maid shall be thy Mistris, thou the maid, + And all those servile labours that she reach at, + And goe through cheerfully, or else sleep empty, + That maid shall lye by me to teach you duty, + You in a pallet by to humble ye, + And grieve for what you lose. + +Margarita: + + I have lost my self Sir, + And all that was my base self, disobedience, + + [kneels. + + My wantonness, my stubborness I have lost too, + And now by that pure faith good wives are crown'd with, + By your own nobleness. + + [Enter _Altea_.] + +Leon: + + I take ye up, and wear ye next my heart, + See you be worth it. Now what with you? +227] + +Altea: + + I come to tell my Lady, + There is a fulsome fellow would fain speak with her. + +Leon: + + 'Tis _Cacafogo_, goe and entertain him, + And draw him on with hopes. + +Margarita: + + I shall observe ye. + +Leon: + + I have a rare design upon that Gentleman, + And you must work too. + +Altea: + + I shall Sir most willingly. + +Leon: + + Away then both, and keep him close in some place + From the Dukes sight, and keep the Duke in too, + Make 'em believe both, I'le find time to cure 'em. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Perez_, and _Estifania_, with a Pistol, and a Dagge[r].] + +Michael Perez: + + Why how darst thou meet me again thou rebel, + And knowst how thou hast used me thrice, thou rascal? + Were there not waies enough to fly my vengeance, + No holes nor vaults to hide thee from my fury, + But thou must meet me face to face to kill thee? + I would not seek thee to destroy thee willingly, + But now thou comest to invite me, + And comest upon me, + How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner, + And ready for the halter dost thou look now! + Thou hast a hanging look thou scurvy thing, hast ne'r a knife + Nor ever a string to lead thee to Elysium? + Be there no pitifull 'Pothecaries in this town, + That have compassion upon wretched women, + And dare administer a dram of rats-bane, + But thou must fall to me? + +Estifania: + + I know you have mercy. + +Michael Perez: + + If I had tuns of mercy thou deserv'st none, + What new trick is now afoot, and what new houses + Have you i'th' air, what orchards in apparition, + What canst thou say for thy life? + +Estifania: + + Little or nothing, + I know you'l kill me, and I know 'tis useless + To beg for mercy, pray let me draw my book out, + And pray a little. + +Michael Perez: + + Do, a very little, + For I have farther business than thy killing, +228] I have mony yet to borrow, speak when you are ready. + +Estifania: + + Now now Sir, now, + [shews a Pistol. + + Come on, do you start off from me, + Do you swear great Captain, have you seen a spirit? + +Michael Perez: + + Do you wear guns? + +Estifania: + + I am a Souldiers wife Sir, + And by that priviledge I may be arm'd, + Now what's the news, and let's discourse more friendly, + And talk of our affairs in peace. + +Michael Perez: + + Let me see, + Prethee let me see thy gun, 'tis a very pretty one. + +Estifania: + + No no Sir, you shall feel. + +Michael Perez: + + Hold ye villain, what thine own Husband? + +Estifania: + + Let mine own Husband then + Be in's own wits, there, there's a thousand duckets, + Who must provide for you, and yet you'l kill me. + +Michael Perez: + + I will not hurt thee for ten thousand millio[n]s. + +Estifania: + + When will you redeem your Jewels, I have pawn'd 'em, + You see for what, we must keep touch. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le kiss thee, + And get as many more, I'le make thee famous, + Had we the house now! + +Estifania: + + Come along with me, + If that be vanish't there be more to hire Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + I see I am an asse when thou art near me. + + [] + + [Enter _Leon_, _Margarita_, and _Altea_, with a Taper.] + +Leon: + + Is the fool come? + +Altea: + + Yes and i'th' celler fast, + And there he staies his good hour till I call him, + He will make dainty musick among the sack-butts, + I have put him just, Sir, under the Dukes chamber. + +Leon: + + It is the better. + +Altea: + + Has given me royally, + And to my Lady a whole load of portigues. + +Leon: + + Better and better still, go _Margarita_, + Now play your prize, you say you dare be honest, + I'le put ye to your best. + +Margarita: + + Secure your self Sir, give me the candle, +229] Pass away in silence. + + [Ex. _Leon_ and _Altea_. She knocks. + +Duke of Medina: + + Who's there, oh oh. + +Margarita: + + My Lord, + +Duke of Medina within: + + Have ye brought me comfort? + +Margarita: + + I have my Lord. + Come forth 'tis I, come gently out I'le help ye, + + [Enter _Duke_, in a gown.] + + Come softly too, how do you? + +Duke of Medina: + + Are there none here? + Let me look round; we cannot be too wary, + + [noise below. + + Oh let me bless this hour, are you alone sweet friend? + +Margarita: + + Alone to comfort you. + [_Cacafogo_ makes a noise below. + +Duke of Medina: + + What's that you tumble? + I have heard a noise this half hour under me, + A fearfull noise. + +Margarita: + + The fat thing's mad i'th' celler, + And stumbles from one hogs-head to another, + Two cups more, and he ne'r shall find the way out. + What do you fear? come, sit down by me chearfully, + My Husband's safe, how do your wounds? + +Duke of Medina: + + I have none Lady, + My wounds I counterfeited cunningly, + + [noise below. + + And feign'd the quarrel too, to injoy you sweet, + Let's lose no time, heark the same noise again. + +Margarita: + + What noise, why look ye pale? I hear no stirring, + This goblin in the vault will be so tipled. + You are not well I know by your flying fancy, + Your body's ill at ease, your wounds. + +Duke of Medina: + + I have none, I am as lusty and as full of health, + High in my blood. + +Margarita: + + Weak in your blood you would say, + How wretched is my case, willing to please ye, + And find you so disable? + +Duke of Medina: + + Believe me Lady. + +Margarita: + + I know you will venture all you have to satisfy me, + Your life I know, but is it fit I spoil ye, + Is it my love do you think? + +Cacafogo below: + + Here's to the Duke. +230] + +Duke of Medina: + + It nam'd me certainly, + I heard it plainly sound. + +Margarita: + + You are hurt mortally, + And fitter for your prayers Sir than pleasure, + What starts you make? I would not kiss you wantonly, + For the world's wealth; have I secur'd my Husband, + And put all doubts aside to be deluded? + +Cacafogo below: + + I come, I come. + +Duke of Medina: + + Heaven bless me. + +Margarita: + + And bless us both, for sure this is the Devil, + I plainly heard it now, he will come to fetch ye, + A very spirit, for he spoke under ground, + And spoke to you just as you would have snatcht me, + You are a wicked man, and sure this haunts ye, + Would you were out o'th' house. + +Duke of Medina: + + I would I were, + O' that condition I had leapt a window. + +Margarita: + + And that's the least leap if you mean to scape Sir, + Why what a frantick man were you to come here, + What a weak man to counterfeit deep wounds, + To wound another deeper! + +Duke of Medina: + + Are you honest then? + +Margarita: + + Yes then and now, and ever, and excellent honest, + And exercise this pastime but to shew ye, + Great men are fools sometimes as well as wretches. + Would you were well hurt, with any hope of life, + Cut to the brains, or run clean through the body, + To get out quietly as you got in Sir, + I wish it like a friend that loves ye dearly, + For if my Husband take ye, and take ye thus a counterfeit, + One that would clip his credit out of his honour, + He must kill ye presently, + There is no mercy nor an hour of pity, + And for me to intreat in such an agony, + Would shew me little better than one guilty, + Have you any mind to a Lady now? + +Duke of Medina: + + Would I were off fair, + If ever Lady caught me in a trap more. + +Margarita: + + If you be well and lusty, fy fy shake not, + You say you love me, come, come bravely now, +231] Despise all danger, I am ready for ye. + +Duke of Medina: + + She mocks my misery, thou cruel Lady. + +Margarita: + + Thou cruel Lord, wouldst thou betray my honesty, + Betray it in mine own house, wrong my Husband, + Like a night thief, thou darst not name by day-light? + +Duke of Medina: + + I am most miserable. + +Margarita: + + You are indeed, + And like a foolish thing you have made your self so, + Could not your own discretion tell ye Sir, + When I was married I was none of yours? + Your eyes were then commanded to look off me, + And I now stand in a circle and secure, + Your spells nor power can never reach my body, + Mark me but this, and then Sir be most miserable, + 'Tis sacriledge to violate a wedlock, + You rob two Temples, make your self twice guilty, + You ruine hers, and spot her noble Husbands. + +Duke of Medina: + + Let me be gone, I'le never more attempt ye. + +Margarita: + + You cannot goe, 'tis not in me to save ye, + Dare ye do ill, and poorly then shrink under it? + Were I the Duke _Medina_, I would fight now, + For you must fight and bravely, it concerns you, + You do me double wrong if you sneak off Sir, + And all the world would say I lov'd a coward, + And you must dye too, for you will be kill'd, + And leave your youth, your honour and your state, + And all those dear delights you worship't here. + + [Noise below. + +Duke of Medina: + + The noise again! + +Cacafogo below: + + Some small beer if you love me. + +Margarita: + + The Devil haunts you sure, your sins are mighty. + A drunken Devil too, to plague your villany. + +Duke of Medina: + + Preserve me but this once. + +Margarita: + + There's a deep well + In the next yard, if you dare venture drowning, + It is but dea[t]h. + +Duke of Medina: + + I would not dye so wretchedly. + +Margarita: + + Out of a garret window I'le let you down then, + But say the rope be rotten, 'tis huge high too. + +Duke of Medina: + + Have you no mercy? + +Margarita: + + Now you are frighted throughly, +232] And find what 'tis to play the fool in folly, + And see with clear eyes your detested folly, + I'le be your guard. + +Duke of Medina: + + And I'le be your true servant, + Ever from this hour vertuously to love ye, + Chastly and modestly to look upon ye, + And here I seal it. + +Margarita: + + I may kiss a stranger, for you must now be so. + + [Enter _Leon_, _Juan_, _Alonzo_, _Sanchio_.] + +Leon: + + How do you my Lord, + Me thinks you look but poorly on this matter. + Has my wife wounded ye, you were well before, + Pray Sir be comforted, I have forgot all, + Truly forgiven too, wife you are a right one, + And now with unknown nations I dare trust ye. + +Juan de Castro: + + No more feign'd fights my Lord, they never prosper. + +Leon: + + Who's this? the Devil in the vault? + +Altea: + + 'Tis he Sir, and as lovingly drunk, as though he had studied it. + +Cacafogo: + + Give me a cup of Sack, and kiss me Lady, + Kiss my sweet face, and make thy Husband cuckold, + An Ocean of sweet Sack, shall we speak treason? + +Leon: + + He is Devilish drunk. + +Duke of Medina: + + I had thought he had been a Devil. + He made as many noises and as horrible. + +Leon: + + Oh a true lover Sir will lament loudly, + Which of the butts is your Mistris? + +Cacafogo: + + Butt in thy belly. + +Leon: + + There's two in thine I am sure, 'tis grown so monstrous. + +Cacafogo: + + Butt in thy face. + +Leon: + + Go carry him to sleep, + A fools love should be drunk, he has paid well for't too. + When he is sober let him out to rail, + Or hang himself, there will be no loss of him. + + [Exit _Caca._ and Servant. + + [Enter _Perez_, and _Estifania_.] + +Leon: + + Who's this? my Mauhound cousin? + +Michael Perez: + + Good Sir, 'tis very good, would I had a house too, + For there is no talking in the open air, +233] My Tarmogant Couz, I would be bold to tell ye, + I durst be merry too; I tell you plainly, + You have a pretty seat, you have the luck on't, + A pretty Lady too, I have mist both, + My Carpenter built in a mist I thank him, + Do me the courtesie to let me see it, + See it but once more. But I shall cry for anger. + I'le hire a Chandlers shop close under ye, + And for my foolerie, sell sope and whip-cord, + Nay if you do not laugh now and laugh heartily, + You are a fool couz. + +Leon: + + I must laugh a little, + And now I have done, couz thou shalt live with me, + My merry couz, the world shall not divorce us, + Thou art a valiant man, and thou shalt never want, + Will this content thee? + +Michael Perez: + + I'le cry, and then I'le be thankfull, + Indeed I will, and I'le be honest to ye. + I would live a swallow here I must confess. + Wife I forgive thee all if thou be honest, + At thy peril, I believe thee excellent. + +Estifania: + + If I prove otherwaies, let me beg first, + Hold, this is yours, some recompence for service, + Use it to nobler ends than he that gave it. + +Duke of Medina: + + And this is yours, your true commission, Sir, + Now you are a Captain. + +Leon: + + You are a noble Prince Sir, + And now a souldier, Gentleman, we all rejoyce in't. + +Juan de Castro: + + Sir, I shall wait upon you through all fortunes. + +Alonzo: + + And I. + +Altea: + + And I must needs attend my Mistris. + +Leon: + + Will you goe Sister? + +Altea: + + Yes indeed good Brother, + I have two ties, mine own bloud, + And my Mistris. + +Margarita: + + Is she your Sister? + +Leon: + + Yes indeed good wife, + And my best Sister, + For she prov'd so, wench, + When she deceiv'd you with a loving Husband. +234] + +Altea: + + I would not deal so truly for a stranger. + +Margarita: + + Well I could chide ye, + But it must be lovingly and like a Sister, + I'le bring you on your way, and feast ye nobly, + For now I have an honest heart to love ye, + And then deliver you to the blue _Neptune_. + +Juan de Castro: + + Your colours you must wear, and wear 'em proudly, + Wear 'em before the bullet, and in bloud too, + And all the world shall know + We are Vertues servants. + +Duke of Medina: + + _And all the world shall know, a noble mind_ + _Makes women beautifull, and envie blind._ + + [Exeunt. + + + + + +Prologue. + + Pleasure attend ye, and about ye sit + The springs of mirth, fancy, delight and wit + To stir you up, do not your looks let fall, + Nor to remembrance our late errors call, + Because this day w' are _Spaniards_ all again, + The story of our Play, and our Scene _Spain_: + The errors too, do not for this cause hate, + Now we present their wit and not their state. + Nor Ladies be not angry if you see, + A young fresh beauty, wanton and too free, + Seek to abuse her Husband, still 'tis _Spain_, + No such gross errors in your Kingdom raign, + W' are _Vesrals_ all, and though we blow the fire, + We seldom make it flame up to desire, + Take no example neither to begin, + For some by precedent delight to sin: + Nor blame the Poet if he slip aside + Sometimes lasciviously if not too wide. + But hold your Fanns close, and then smile at ease, + A cruel Scene did never Lady please. + Nor Gentlemen, pray be not you displeased, +235] Though we present some men fool'd, some diseased, + Some drunk, some mad: we mean not you, you're free, + We taxe no farther than our Comedie, + You are our friends, sit noble then and see. + + + + + +Epilogue. + + Good night our worthy friends, and may you part + Each with as merry and as free a heart + As you came hither; to those noble eyes + That deign to smile on our poor faculties, + And give a blessing to our labouring ends, + As we hope many, to such fortune sends + Their own desires, wives fair as light as chast; + To those that live by spight Wives made in hast. + + + + + +459] +APPENDIX + + + + +RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE. + +The Dramatis Personae are not given in the quarto of 1640 nor in the 2nd +folio. They are as follows:--Duke of Medina. Juan de Castro, Sanchio, Alonzo, +Michael Perez, Officers. Leon, Altea's brother. Cacafogo, a usurer. Lorenzo. +Coachman, etc. Margarita. Altea. Estifania. Clara. Three old ladies. Old +woman. Maids, etc. + +Unless where otherwise stated the following variations are from the quarto of +1640, the title-page of which runs thus:-- + +Rule a Wife And have a Wife. A Comoedy. Acted by his Majesties Servants. +Written by John Fletcher Gent. Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield Printer to +the University. Anno 1640. + + + p. 170, + l. 30. mouth. + + + p. 171, + l. 14. most subtlest. + + l. 18. With yee. + + l. 19. them. + + l. 38. _and often elsewhere_] um _for_ 'em. + + + p. 172, + l. 2. the picke. + + + p. 173, + l. 22. thank ye. + + + p. 175, + l. 1. Yes I. + + l. 29. Exit. + + l. 31. mine ayme. + + + p. 176, + l. 30. 2nd folio _prints_] calling. And + + + p. 178, + l. 10. a starv'd. + + l. 22. look'st. + + l. 24. 2nd folio _misprints_] hear. + + + p. 179, + l. 33. Or any. + + + p. 182, + ll. 6, etc. Quarto _frequently prints_ 4 for Altea _here and in + similar places_. + + l. 33. doubty. + + + p. 183, + l. 2. Has not. + + l. 3. 2nd folio _misprints_] hin. + + l. 5. Has no. + + l. 38. 2nd folio _misprints_] compaines. + + + p. 184, + l. 13. a house. + + + p. 185, + l. 2. Altea, the Ladies. + + l. 4. has been. + + + p. 187, + l. 26. I finde. + + + p. 189, + l. 28. enter'd here. + + l. 39. salute him. + + + p. 190, + l. 25. if she. + + + p. 194, + ll. 8 and 11. _Omits_ Lady _here and often similarly elsewhere_. + + + p. 196, + l. 26. Exit. + + + p. 197, + l. 20. basinesse. + + +460] + + + p. 198, + l. 29. (_some copies_), and ruine too. + + l. 32. have meaner. + + l. 39. 2nd folio _misprints_] Jaun. + + + p. 200, + l. 8. _Some copies read_] laugh him, leave ager. + + + p. 201, + l. 2. _Adds the following line_] It is a Ladies, what's the Ladies + name wench. + + l. 6. a the. + + l. 23. they are. + + l. 38. flea me. + + + p. 202, + l. 27. Nor I. + + l. 28. _Omits_ of. + + + p. 203, + l. 13. Tas. + + l. 17. as ere I looked on. + + + p. 204, + l. 20. Both into. + + l. 37. _Adds the following line_] And hold it to my use, the law + allowes it, + + + p. 206, + l. 38. I have seen. + + + p. 207, + l. 3. Save. + + l. 29. Is possest. + + + p. 208, + l. 1. a your. + + l. 17. bless ye. + + + p. 209, + l. 5. believe ye. + + l. 6. Pray ye. + + l. 12. after ye. + + l. 18. forgot ye. + + l. 34. vild, vild. + + + p. 210, + l. 15. 2nd folio] do brave, Captain. + + + p. 211, + l. 10. 2nd folio _misprints_] Ptithee. + + l. 23. put your fury up, Sir. + + l. 32. colt ye. + + l. 33. teach ye. + + + p. 212, + l. 22. on, it looked so. + + l. 30. Pray ye. + + + p. 213, + l. 39. heere Don Juan. + + + p. 214, + l. 30. 'Tas. + + l. 33. _Omits_ do. + + + p. 215, + l. 21. all sit. + + l. 28. Has. + + + p. 216, + l. 22. 2nd folio _misprints_] thinks. + + l. 31. I goe alas. + + l. 38. linnens. + + + p. 220, + l. 1. Has. + + l. 21. I use. + + + p. 223, + l. 10. 2nd folio _misprints_] Perox. + + l. 14. 2nd folio _misprints_] haugh. + + + p. 227, + l. 12. 2nd folio] Dagge. + + l. 24. Nor never. + + + p. 228, + l. 17. 2nd folio _misprints_] millius. + + ll. 18 and 19. pawn'd um. + + + p. 230, + l. 17. A that. + + + p. 231, + l. 16. too Templers. + + l. 35. 2nd folio misprints] deah. + + + p. 234, + l. 25. raignes. + + l. 12. _Adds_ Finis. + + l. 24. abuse your. + + l. 29. president. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife +by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14549 *** diff --git a/14549-h/14549-h.htm b/14549-h/14549-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03ba921 --- /dev/null +++ b/14549-h/14549-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,5978 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" +"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tei-emacs/xml/dtds/xhtml/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" []> +<html> +<!--THIS FILE IS GENERATED FROM AN XML MASTER. + DO NOT EDIT--><head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> +<title>Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife</title> + +<style type="text/css"> + +<!-- * { font-family: Times;} --> + P { text-indent: 1em; 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Walker</div> +</div> + + + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page170"></a></span> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.1"></a>Actus Primus</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4518893"></a>Scena Prima</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan de Castro</span>, and <span class="name">Michael Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Are your Companies full, Colonel?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>No, not yet, Sir:<br /> +Nor will not be this month yet, as I reckon;<br /> +How rises your Command?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>We pick up still, and as our monies hold out,<br /> +We have men come, about that time I think<br /> +We shall be full too, many young Gallants go.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>And unexperienced,<br /> +The Wars are dainty dreams to young hot spirits,<br /> +Time and Experience will allay those Visions,<br /> +We have strange things to fill our numbers,<br /> +There's one <i>Don Leon</i>, a strange goodly fellow,<br /> +Recommended to me from some noble Friends,<br /> +For my <i>Alferes</i>, had you but seen his Person,<br /> +And what a Giants promise it protesteth.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I have heard of him, and that he hath serv'd before too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>But no harm done, nor never meant, <i>Don Michael</i>,<br /> +That came to my ears yet, ask him a question,<br /> +He blushes like a Girl, and answers little,<br /> +To the point less, he wears a Sword, a good one,<br /> +And good Cloaths too, he is whole skin'd, has no hurt yet,<br /> +Good promising hopes, I never yet heard certainly<br /> +Of any Gentleman that saw him angry.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Preserve him, he'll conclude a peace if need be,<br /> +Many as strong as he will go along with us,<br /> +That swear as valiantly as heart can wish,<br /> +<a name="ref-170-30"></a>Their mouths charg'd with six oaths at once, and whole ones,<br /> +That make the drunken Dutch creep into Mole-hills.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page171"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>'Tis true, such we must look for: but <i>Mich. Perez</i>,<br /> +When heard you of <i>Donna Margarita</i>, the great Heiress?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I hear every hour of her, though I never saw her,<br /> +She is the main discourse: noble <i>Don Juan de Castro</i>,<br /> +How happy were that man could catch this Wench up,<br /> +And live at ease! she is fair, and young, and wealthy,<br /> +Infinite wealthy, and as gracious too<br /> +In all her entertainments, as men report.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>But she is proud, Sir, that I know for certain,<br /> +And that comes seldome without wantonness,<br /> +He that shall marry her, must have a rare hand.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Would I were married, I would find that Wisdom,<br /> +With a light rein to rule my Wife: if ever Woman<br /> +<a name="ref-171-14"></a>Of the most subtile mould went beyond me,<br /> +I would give the Boys leave to whoot me out o'th' Parish.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter a Servant.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>Sir, there be two Gentlewomen attend to speak<br /> +<a name="ref-171-18"></a>With you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-171-19"></a>Wait on 'em in.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Are they two handsome Women?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>They seem so, very handsom, but they are vail'd, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Thou put'st sugar in my mouth, how it melts with me!<br /> +I love a sweet young Wench.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Wait on them in I say.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit Servant.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<i>Don Juan.</i><br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>How you itch, <i>Michael</i>! how you burnish!<br /> +Will not this Souldiers heat out of your bones yet,<br /> +Do your Eyes glow now?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>There be two.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Say honest, what shame have you then?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I would fain see that,<br /> +I have been in the Indies twice, and have seen strange things,<br /> +But two honest Women;--one I read of once.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Prithee be modest.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'll be any thing.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Servant</span>, <span class="name">Donna Clara</span>, and <span class="name">Estifania</span> vail'd.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You are welcome Ladies.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-171-38"></a>Both hooded, I like 'em well though,<br /> +They come not for advice in Law sure hither;<br /> +<a name="ref-172-2"></a>May be they would learn to raise the Pike,<br /> +I am for 'em: they are very modest, 'tis a fine Preludium.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>With me, or with this Gentleman,<br /> +Would you speak, Lady?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>With you, Sir, as I guess, <i>Juan de Castro</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Her Curtain opens, she is a pretty Gentlewoman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I am the Man, and shall be bound to Fortune,<br /> +I may do any service to your Beauties.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Captain, I hear you are marching down to <i>Flanders</i>,<br /> +To serve the Catholick King.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I am sweet Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>I have a Kinsman, and a noble Friend,<br /> +Imploy'd in those Wars, may be, Sir, you know him,<br /> +<i>Don Campusano</i> Captain of <i>Carbines</i>,<br /> +To whom I would request your Nobleness,<br /> +To give this poor Remembrance.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[A Letter.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I shall do it,<br /> +I know the Gentleman, a most worthy Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Something in private.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Step aside: I'll serve thee.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Ex. <span class="name">Juan</span>, and <span class="name">Clara</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Prithee let me see thy face.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Sir, you must pardon me,<br /> +Women of our sort, that maintain fair memories,<br /> +And keep suspect off from their Chastities,<br /> +Had need wear thicker Vails.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I am no blaster of a Ladies Beauty,<br /> +Nor bold intruder on her special favours,<br /> +I know how tender Reputation is,<br /> +And with what guards it ought to be preserv'd, Lady,<br /> +You may to me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You must excuse me, Seignior, I come<br /> +Not here to sell my self.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>As I am a Gentleman, by the honour of a Souldier.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I believe you,<br /> +I pray you be civil, I believe you would see me,<br /> +And when you have seen me I believe you will like me,<br /> +But in a strange place, to a stranger too,<br /> +As if I came on purpose to betray you,<br /> +Indeed I will not.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page173"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I shall love you dearly,<br /> +And 'tis a sin to fling away affection,<br /> +I have no Mistress, no desire to honour<br /> +Any but you, will not this Oyster open?<br /> +I know not, you have struck me with your modesty;<br /> +She will draw sure; so deep, and taken from me<br /> +All the desire I might bestow on others,<br /> +Quickly before they come.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Indeed I dare not:<br /> +But since I see you are so desirous, Sir,<br /> +To view a poor face that can merit nothing<br /> +But your Repentance.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>It must needs be excellent.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>And with what honesty you ask it of me,<br /> +When I am gone let your man follow me,<br /> +And view what house I enter, thither come,<br /> +For there I dare be bold to appear open:<br /> +And as I like your vertuous carriage then,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan</span>, <span class="name">Clara</span>, a Servant.</p> +I shall be able to give welcome to you;<br /> +She hath done her business, I must take my leave, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-173-22"></a>I'll kiss your fair white hand and thank you, Lady.<br /> +My man shall wait, and I shall be your Servant;<br /> +Sirrah, come near, hark.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>I shall do it faithfully.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You will command me no more services?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>To be careful of your noble health, dear Sir,<br /> +That I may ever honour you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I thank you,<br /> +And kiss your hands, wait on the Ladies down there.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt Ladies, and Servants.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>You had the honour to see the face that came to you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>And 'twas a fair one; what was yours, <i>Don Michael</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Mine was i'th' clipse, and had a Cloud drawn over it.<br /> +But I believe well, and I hope 'tis handsome,<br /> +She had a hand would stir a holy Hermite.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You know none of 'em?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Then I do, Captain,<br /> +But I'll say nothing till I see the proof on't,<br /> +Sit close <i>Don Perez</i>, or your Worship's caught.<br /> +I fear a Flye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Were those she brought Love-Letters?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>A Packet to a Kinsman now in <i>Flanders</i>,<br /> +Yours was very modest methought.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Some young unmanag'd thing,<br /> +But I may live to see--<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>'Tis worth experience,<br /> +Let's walk abroad and view our Companies.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, and <span class="name">Alonzo</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>What, are you for the Wars, <i>Alonzo</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>It may be I,<br /> +It may be no, e'n as the humour takes me.<br /> +If I find peace amongst the female Creatures,<br /> +And easie entertainment, I'll stay at home,<br /> +I am not so far obliged yet to long Marches<br /> +And mouldy Biskets, to run mad for Honour,<br /> +When you are all gone I have my choice before me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Of which Hospital thou wilt sweat in; wilt thou<br /> +Never leave whoring?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>There is less danger in't than gunning, <i>Sanchio</i>,<br /> +Though we be shot sometimes, the shot's not mortal,<br /> +Besides, it breaks no limbs.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>But it disables 'em,<br /> +Dost thou see how thou pull'st thy legs after thee, as they<br /> +Hung by points.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Better to pull 'em thus than walk on wooden ones,<br /> +Serve bravely for a Billet to support me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Fye, fye, 'tis base.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Dost thou count it base to suffer?<br /> +Suffer abundantly? 'tis the Crown of Honour;<br /> +You think it nothing to lie twenty days<br /> +Under a Surgeons hands that has no mercy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>As thou hast done I am sure, but I perceive now<br /> +Why you desire to stay, the orient Heiress,<br /> +The <i>Margarita</i>, Sir,<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>I would I had her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>They say she will marry.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page175"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p> +<a name="ref-175-1"></a>I think she will.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>And marry suddenly, as report goes too,<br /> +She fears her Youth will not hold out, <i>Alonzo</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>I would I had the sheathing on't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>They say too<br /> +She has a greedy eye that must be fed<br /> +With more than one mans meat.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Would she were mine,<br /> +I would cater for her well enough; but <i>Sanchio</i>,<br /> +There be too many great men that adore her,<br /> +Princes, and Princes fellows, that claim priviledge.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Yet those stand off i'th' way of marriage,<br /> +To be tyed to a man's pleasure is a second labour.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>She has bought a brave house here in town.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>I have heard so.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>If she convert it now to pious uses,<br /> +And bid poor Gentlemen welcome.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>When comes she to it?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Within these two days, she is in the Country yet,<br /> +And keeps the noblest House.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Then there's some hope of her,<br /> +Wilt thou go my way?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>No, no, I must leave you,<br /> +And repair to an old Gentlewoman<br /> +That has credit with her, that can speak a good word.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Send thee good fortune, but make thy Body sound first.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>I am a Souldier,<br /> +And too sound a Body becomes me not;<br /> +<a name="ref-175-29"></a>Farewel, <i>Sanchio</i>. +<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter a Servant of <span class="name">Michael Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p> +<a name="ref-175-31"></a>'Tis this or that house, or I have lost my aim,<br /> +They are both fair buildings, she walked plaguy fast,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Estifania</span>.</p> +And hereabouts I lost her; stay, that's she,<br /> +'Tis very she,--she makes me a low court'sie,<br /> +Let me note the place, the street I well remember.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +She is in again, certain some noble Lady.<br /> +How happy should I be if she love my master:<br /> +A wondrous goodly house, here are brave lodgings,<br /> +And I shall sleep now like an Emperour,<br /> +And eat abundantly: I thank my fortune,<br /> +I'll back with speed, and bring him happy tidings.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter three old Ladies.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>What should it mean, that in such haste<br /> +We are sent for?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>Belike the Lady <i>Margaret</i> has some business<br /> +She would break to us in private.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">3 Lady </p>It should seem so.<br /> +'Tis a good Lady, and a wise young Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>And vertuous enough too I warrant ye<br /> +For a young Woman of her years; 'tis pity<br /> +To load her tender Age with too much Vertue.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">3 Lady </p>'Tis more sometimes than we can well away with.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Altea</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Good morrow, Ladies.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">All </p>'Morrow, my good Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>How does the sweet young Beauty, Lady <i>Margaret</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>Has she slept well after her walk last night?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Are her dreams gentle to her mind?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>All's well,<br /> +She's very well, she sent for you thus suddenly<br /> +To give her counsel in a business<br /> +That much concerns her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>She does well and wisely,<br /> +To ask the counsel of the ancientst, Madam,<br /> +Our years have run through many things she knows not.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>She would fain marry.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p> +<a name="ref-176-30"></a>'Tis a proper calling,<br /> +And well beseems her years, who would she yoke with?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>That's left to argue on, I pray come in<br /> +And break your fast, drink a good cup or two,<br /> +To strengthen your understandings, then she'l tell ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>And good wine breeds good counsel.<br /> +We'l yield to ye.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page177"></a></span> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan de Castro</span>, and <span class="name">Leon</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Have you seen any service?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Where?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Every where.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>What office bore ye?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>None, I was not worthy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>What Captains know you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>None, they were above me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Were you never hurt?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Not that I well remember,<br /> +But once I stole a Hen, and then they beat me;<br /> +Pray ask me no long questions, I have an ill memory.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>This is an Asse, did you never draw your sword yet?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Not to do any harm I thank Heaven for't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Nor ne'r ta'ne prisoner?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>No, I ran away,<br /> +For I had ne'r no mony to redeem me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Can you endure a Drum?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>It makes my head ake.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Are you not valiant when you are drunk?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I think not, but I am loving Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>What a lump is this man,<br /> +Was your Father wise?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Too wise for me I'm sure,<br /> +For he gave all he had to my younger Brother.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>That was no foolish part I'le bear you witness.<br /> +Canst thou lye with a woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I think I could make shift Sir,<br /> +But I am bashfull.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>In the night?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I know not,<br /> +Darkness indeed may do some good upon me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Why art thou sent to me to be my officer,<br /> +I, and commended too, when thou darst not fight?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>There be more officers of my opinion,<br /> +Or I am cozen'd Sir, men that talk more too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>How wilt thou scape a bullet?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Why by chance,<br /> +They aim at honourable men, alas I am none Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>This fellow has some doubts in's talk that strike me,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Alonzo</span>.</p> +He cannot be all fool: welcom <i>Alonzo</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>What have you got there, temperance into your company?<br /> +The spirit of peace? we shall have wars<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>.</p> +By th'ounce then. O here's another pumpion,<br /> +Let him loose for luck sake, the cram'd son<br /> +<a name="ref-178-10"></a>Of a stay'd Usurer, <i>Cacafogo</i>, both their brains butter'd,<br /> +Cannot make two spoonfulls.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>My Father's dead: I am a man of war too,<br /> +Monyes, demesns; I have ships at sea too,<br /> +Captains.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Take heed o'th' Hollanders, your ships may leak else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I scorn the Hollanders, they are my drunkards.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Put up your gold Sir, I'le borrow it else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I am satisfied, you shall not,<br /> +Come out, I know thee, meet mine anger instantly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I never wrong'd ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Thou hast wrong'd mine honor,<br /> +<a name="ref-178-22"></a>Thou look'dst upon my Mistris thrice lasciviously,<br /> +I'le make it good.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-178-24"></a>Do not hea[t] your self, you will surfeit.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Thou wan'st my mony too, with a pair of base bones,<br /> +In whom there was no truth, for which I beat thee,<br /> +I beat thee much, now I will hurt thee dangerously.<br /> +This shall provoke thee.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[He strikes.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>You struck too low by a foot Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You must get a ladder when you would beat<br /> +This fellow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I cannot chuse but kick again, pray pardon me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Had'st thou not ask'd my pardon, I had kill'd thee,<br /> +I leave thee as a thing despis'd, <i>assoles manus a vostra siniare</i><br /> +<i>a Maistre</i>.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name"></span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>You have scap'd by miracle, there is not in all <i>Spain</i>,<br /> +A spirit of more fury than this fire drake.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I see he is hasty, and I would give him leave<br /> +To beat me soundly if he would take my bond.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>What shall I do with this fellow?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Turn him off,<br /> +He will infect the camp with cowardise,<br /> +If he goe with thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>About some week hence Sir,<br /> +If I can hit upon no abler officer,<br /> +You shall hear from me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I desire no better.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Estifania</span>, and <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>You have made me now too bountifull amends, Lady<br /> +For your strict carriage when you saw me first,<br /> +These beauties were not meant to be conceal'd,<br /> +It was a wrong to hide so sweet an object,<br /> +I cou'd now chide ye, but it shall be thus,<br /> +No other anger ever touch your sweetness.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You appear to me so honest, and so civil,<br /> +Without a blush Sir, I dare bid ye welcom.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Now let me ask your name.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>'Tis <i>Estifanie</i>, the heir of this poor place.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Poor do you call it?<br /> +There's nothing that I cast mine eyes upon,<br /> +But shews both rich and admirable, all the rooms<br /> +Are hung as if a Princess were to dwell here,<br /> +The Gardens, Orchards, every thing so curious:<br /> +Is all that plate your own too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>'Tis but little,<br /> +Only for present use, I have more and richer,<br /> +When need shall call, or friends compel me use it,<br /> +The sutes you see of all the upper chamber,<br /> +Are those that commonly adorn the house,<br /> +I think I have besides, as fair, as civil,<br /> +<a name="ref-179-33"></a>As any town in <i>Spain</i> can parallel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Now if she be not married, I have some hopes.<br /> +Are you a maid?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You make me blush to answer,<br /> +I ever was accounted so to this hour,<br /> +And that's the reason that I live retir'd Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Then would I counsel you to marry presently,<br /> +(If I can get her, I am made for ever)<br /> +For every year you lose, you lose a beauty,<br /> +A Husband now, an honest careful Husband,<br /> +Were such a comfort: will ye walk above stairs?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>This place will fit our talk, 'tis fitter far Sir,<br /> +Above there are day-beds, and such temptations<br /> +I dare not trust Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She is excellent wise withal too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You nam'd a husband, I am not so strict Sir,<br /> +Nor ti'd unto a Virgins solitariness,<br /> +But if an honest, and a noble one,<br /> +Rich, and a souldier, for so I have vowed he shall be,<br /> +Were offer'd me, I think I should accept him,<br /> +But above all he must love.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>He were base else,<br /> +There's comfort ministred in the word souldier,<br /> +How sweetly should I live!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I am not so ignorant, but that I know well,<br /> +How to be commanded,<br /> +And how again to make my self obey'd Sir,<br /> +I waste but little, I have gather'd much,<br /> +My rial not the less worth, when 'tis spent,<br /> +If spent by my direction, to please my Husband,<br /> +I hold it as indifferent in my duty,<br /> +To be his maid i'th' kitchen, or his Cook,<br /> +As in the Hall to know my self the Mistris.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Sweet, rich, and provident, now fortune stick<br /> +To me; I am a Souldier, and a bachelour, Lady,<br /> +And such a wife as you, I cou'd love infinitely,<br /> +They that use many words, some are deceitfull,<br /> +I long to be a Husband, and a good one,<br /> +For 'tis most certain I shall make a president<br /> +For all that follow me to love their Ladies,<br /> +I am young you see, able I would have you think too,<br /> +If't please you know, try me before you take me.<br /> +'Tis true I shall not meet in equal wealth<br /> +With ye, but Jewels, Chains, such as the war<br /> +Has given me, a thousand Duckets I dare<br /> +Presume on in ready gold, now as your<br /> +Care may handle it, as rich cloths too, as<br /> +Any he bears arms Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You are a true gentleman, and fair, I see by ye,<br /> +And such a man I had rather take.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Pray do so, I'le have a Priest o'th' sudden.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>And as suddenly you will repent too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le be hang'd or drown'd first,<br /> +By this and this, and this kiss.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You are a Flatterer,<br /> +But I must say there was something when I saw you<br /> +First, in that most noble face, that stirr'd my fancy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le stir it better e're you sleep sweet Lady,<br /> +I'le send for all my trunks and give up all to ye,<br /> +Into your own dispose, before I bed ye,<br /> +And then sweet wench.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You have the art to cozen me.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.2"></a>Actus Secundus</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4539940"></a>Scena Prima</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, and two Ladies, and <span class="name">Altea</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Sit down and give me your opinions seriously.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>You say you have a mind to marry Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis true, I have for to preserve my credit,<br /> +Yet not so much for that as for my state Ladies,<br /> +Conceive me right, there lies the main o'th' question,<br /> +Credit I can redeem, mony will imp it,<br /> +But when my monie's gone, when the law shall<br /> +Seize that, and for incontinency strip me<br /> +Of all.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Do you find your body so malitious that way?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I find it as all bodies are that are young and lusty,<br /> +Lazy, and high fed, I desire my pleasure,<br /> +And pleasure I must have.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>'Tis fit you should have,<br /> +Your years require it, and 'tis necessary,<br /> +As necessary as meat to a young Lady,<br /> +Sleep cannot nourish more.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>But might not all this be, and keep ye single.<br /> +You take away variety in marriage,<br /> +The abundance of the pleasure you are bar'd then,<br /> +Is't not abundance that you aim at?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Yes why was I made a woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>And every day a new?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why fair and young but to use it?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>You are still i'th' right, why would you marry then?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p> +<a name="ref-182-6"></a>Because a husband stops all doubts in this point,<br /> +And clears all passages.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>What Husband mean ye?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>A Husband of an easy faith, a fool,<br /> +Made by her wealth, and moulded to her pleasure,<br /> +One though he see himself become a monster,<br /> +Shall hold the door, and entertain the maker.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>You grant there may be such a man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Yes marry, but how to bring 'em to this rare Perfection.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>They must be chosen so, things of no honour,<br /> +Nor outward honesty.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No 'tis no matter,<br /> +I care not what they are, so they be lusty.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>Me thinks now a rich Lawyer, some such fellow,<br /> +That carries credit, and a face of awe,<br /> +But lies with nothing but his clients business.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No there's no trusting them, they are too subtil,<br /> +The Law has moulded 'em of natural mischief.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Then some grave governor,<br /> +Some man of honour, yet an easy man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>If he have honour I am undone, I'le none such,<br /> +I'le have a lusty man, honour will cloy me.\<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>'Tis fit ye should Lady;<br /> +And to that end, with search and wit and labour,<br /> +I have found one out, a right one and a perfect,<br /> +He is made as strong as brass, is of brave years too,<br /> +<a name="ref-182-33"></a>And doughty of complexion.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is he a Gentleman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Yes and a souldier, as gentle as you would wish him,<br /> +A good fellow, wears good cloaths.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Those I'le allow him,<br /> +They are for my credit, does he understand<br /> +But little?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Very little.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page183"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis the better,<br /> +<a name="ref-183-2"></a>Have not the wars bred him up to anger?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p> +<a name="ref-183-3"></a>No, he will not quarrel with a dog that bites hi[m],<br /> +Let him be drunk or sober, is one silence.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p> +<a name="ref-183-5"></a>H'as no capacity what honor is?<br /> +For that's the Souldiers god.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Honour's a thing too subtil for his wisdom,<br /> +If honour lye in eating, he is right honourable.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is he so goodly a man do you say?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>As you shall see Lady,<br /> +But to all this is but a trunk.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I would have him so,<br /> +I shall adde branches to him to adorn him,<br /> +Goe, find me out this man, and let me see him,<br /> +If he be that motion that you tell me of,<br /> +And make no more noise, I shall entertain him,<br /> +Let him be here.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He shall attend your Ladiship.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, and <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Why thou art not married indeed?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No, no, pray think so,<br /> +Alas I am a fellow of no reckoning,<br /> +Not worth a Ladies eye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Wou'dst thou steal a fortune,<br /> +And make none of all thy friends acquainted with it,<br /> +Nor bid us to thy wedding?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No indeed,<br /> +There was no wisdom in't, to bid an Artist,<br /> +An old seducer to a femal banquet,<br /> +I can cut up my pye without your instructions.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Was it the wench i'th' veil?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Basto 'twas she,<br /> +The prettiest Rogue that e're you look'd upon,<br /> +The lovingst thief.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>And is she rich withal too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>A mine, a mine, there is no end of wealth Coronel,<br /> +I am an asse, a bashfull fool, prethee Coronel,<br /> +<a name="ref-183-38"></a>How do thy compa[ni]es fill now?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You are merry Sir,<br /> +You intend a safer war at home belike now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I do not think I shall fight much this year Coronel,<br /> +I find my self given to my ease a little,<br /> +I care not if I sell my foolish company,<br /> +They are things of hazard.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>How it angers me,<br /> +This fellow at first fight should win a Lady,<br /> +A rich young wench, and I that have consum'd<br /> +My time and art in searching out their subtleties,<br /> +Like a fool'd Alchymist blow up my hopes still?<br /> +When shall we come to thy house and be freely merry?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>When I have manag'd her a little more,<br /> +<a name="ref-184-13"></a>I have an house to entertain an army.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>If thy wife be fair, thou wilt have few less<br /> +Come to thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>But where they'l get entertainment is the point Signior.<br /> +I beat no Drum.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>You need none but her taber,<br /> +May be I'le march after a month or two,<br /> +To get me a fresh stomach. I find Coronel<br /> +A wantonness in wealth, methinks I agree not with,<br /> +'Tis such a trouble to be married too,<br /> +And have a thousand things of great importance,<br /> +Jewels and plates, and fooleries molest me,<br /> +To have a mans brains whimsied with his wealth:<br /> +Before I walk'd contentedly.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Servant</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>My Mistris Sir is sick, because you are absent,<br /> +She mourns and will not eat.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Alas my Jewel,<br /> +Come I'le goe with thee, Gentlemen your fair leaves,<br /> +You see I am ti'd a little to my yoke,<br /> +Pray pardon me, would ye had both such loving wives.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I thank ye<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Perez</span>, Servant.</p> +<br /> +For your old boots, never be blank <i>Alonzo</i>,<br /> +Because this fellow has outstript thy fortune,<br /> +Tell me ten daies hence what he is, and how<br /> +The gracious state of matrimony stands with him,<br /> +Come, let's to dinner, when <i>Margarita</i> comes<br /> +We'l visit both, it may be then your fortune.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<a name="ref-185-2"></a><p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>, and Ladies.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is he come?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p> +<a name="ref-185-4"></a>Yes Madam, h'as been here this half hour,<br /> +I have question'd him of all that you can ask him,<br /> +And find him as fit as you had made the man,<br /> +He will make the goodliest shadow for iniquity.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Have ye searcht him Ladies?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Omnes </p>Is a man at all points, a likely man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Call him in <i>Altea</i>.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Lady</span>.</p> +<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>.</p> +A man of a good presence, pray ye come this way,<br /> +Of a lusty body, is his mind so tame?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Pray ye question him, and if you find him not<br /> +Fit for your purpose, shake him off, there's no harm<br /> +Done.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Can you love a young Lady? How he blushes!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Leave twirling of your hat, and hold your head up,<br /> +And speak to'th' Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes, I think I can,<br /> +I must be taught, I know not what it means Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You shall be taught, and can you when she pleases<br /> +Go ride abroad, and stay a week or two?<br /> +You shall have men and horses to attend ye,<br /> +And mony in your purse.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes I love riding,<br /> +And when I am from home I am so merry.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Be as merry as you will: can you as handsomely<br /> +When you are sent for back, come with obedience,<br /> +And doe your dutie to the Lady loves you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes sure, I shall.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And when you see her friends here,<br /> +Or noble kinsmen, can you entertain<br /> +Their servants in the Celler, and be busied,<br /> +And hold your peace, what e're you see or hear of?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Twere fit I were hang'd else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Let me try your kisses,<br /> +How the fool shakes, I will not eat ye Sir,<br /> +Beshrew my heart he kisses wondrous manly,<br /> +Can ye doe any thing else?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Indeed I know not;<br /> +But if your Ladiship will please to instruct me,<br /> +Sure I shall learn.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You shall then be instructed:<br /> +If I should be this Lady that affects ye,<br /> +Nay say I marry ye?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Hark to the Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>What mony have ye?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>None Madam, nor friends,<br /> +I wou'd doe any thing to serve your Ladiship.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You must not look to be my Mr Sir,<br /> +Nor talk i'th' house as though you wore the breeches,<br /> +No, nor command in any thing.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I will not,<br /> +Alas I am not able, I have no wit Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Nor do not labour to arrive at any,<br /> +'Twill spoil your head, I take ye upon charity,<br /> +And like a Servant ye must be unto me,<br /> +As I behold your duty I shall love ye,<br /> +And as you observe me, I may chance lye with ye,<br /> +Can you mark these?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes indeed forsooth.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>There is one thing,<br /> +That if I take ye in I put ye from me,<br /> +Utterly from me, you must not be sawcy,<br /> +No, nor at any time familiar with me,<br /> +Scarce know me, when I call ye not.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I will not, alas I never knew my self sufficiently.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Nor must not now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I'le be a Dog to please ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Indeed you must fetch and carry as I appoint ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I were to blame else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Kiss me again; a strong fellow,<br /> +There is a vigor in his lips: if you see me<br /> +Kiss any other, twenty in an hour Sir,<br /> +You must not start, nor be offended.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>No, if you kiss a thousand I shall be contented,<br /> +It will the better teach me how to please ye.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page187"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I told ye Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis the man I wisht for; the less you speak.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I'le never speak again Madam,<br /> +But when you charge me, then I'le speak softly too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Get me a Priest, I'le wed him instantly,<br /> +But when you are married Sir, you must wait<br /> +Upon me, and see you observe my laws.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Else you shall hang me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I'le give ye better clothes when you deserve 'em,<br /> +Come in, and serve for witness.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Omnes </p>We shall Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And then away toth' city presently,<br /> +I'le to my new house and new company.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>A thousand crowns are thine, and I am a made man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Do not break out too soon.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I know my time wench.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Clara</span>, and <span class="name">Estifania</span> with a paper.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>What, have you caught him?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>And do you find him<br /> +A man of those hopes that you aim'd at?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes too,<br /> +And the most kind man, and the ablest also<br /> +To give a wife content, he is sound as old wine,<br /> +And to his soundness rises on the pallat,<br /> +<a name="ref-187-26"></a>And there's the man; find him rich too <i>Clara</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Hast thou married him?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>What dost thou think I fish without a bait wench?<br /> +I bob for fools? he is mine own, I have him,<br /> +I told thee what would tickle him like a trout,<br /> +And as I cast it so I caught him daintily,<br /> +And all he has I have 'stowed at my devotion.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Does thy Lady know this? she is coming now to town,<br /> +Now to live here in this house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Let her come,<br /> +She shall be welcom, I am prepar'd for her,<br /> +She is mad sure if she be angry at my fortune,<br /> +For what I have made bold.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Dost thou not love him?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page188"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes, intirely well,<br /> +As long as there he staies and looks no farther<br /> +Into my ends, but when he doubts, I hate him,<br /> +And that wise hate will teach me how to cozen him:<br /> +How to decline their wives, and curb their manners,<br /> +To put a stern and strong reyn to their natures,<br /> +And holds he is an Asse not worth acquaintance,<br /> +That cannot mould a Devil to obedience,<br /> +I owe him a good turn for these opinions,<br /> +And as I find his temper I may pay him,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +O here he is, now you shall see a kind man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>My <i>Estifania</i>, shall we to dinner lamb?<br /> +I know thou stay'st for me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I cannot eat else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I never enter but me thinks a Paradise<br /> +Appears about me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You are welcom to it Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I think I have the sweetest seat in <i>Spain</i> wench,<br /> +Me thinks the richest too, we'l eat i'th' garden<br /> +In one o'th' arbours, there 'tis cool and pleasant,<br /> +And have our wine cold in the running fountain.<br /> +Who's that?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>A friend of mine Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Of what breeding?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>A Gentlewoman Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>What business has she?<br /> +Is she a learned woman i'th' Mathematicks,<br /> +Can she tell fortunes?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>More than I know Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Or has she e're a letter from a kinswoman,<br /> +That must be delivered in my absence wife,<br /> +Or comes she from the Doctor to salute ye,<br /> +And learn your health? she looks not like a confessor.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>What need all this, why are you troubled Sir?<br /> +What do you suspect, she cannot cuckold ye,<br /> +She is a woman Sir, a very woman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Your very woman may do very well Sir<br /> +Toward the matter, for though she cannot perform it<br /> +In her own person, she may do it by Proxie,<br /> +Your rarest jugglers work still by conspiracy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Cry ye mercy husband, you are jealous then,<br /> +And happily suspect me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No indeed wife.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Me thinks you should not till you have more cause<br /> +And clearer too: I am sure you have heard say husband,<br /> +A woman forced will free her self through Iron,<br /> +A happy, calm, and good wife discontented<br /> +May be taught tricks.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No, no, I do but jest with ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>To morrow friend I'le see you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>I shall leave ye<br /> +Till then, and pray all may goe sweetly with ye.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Why where's this girle, whose at the door?<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Knock.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Who knocks there?<br /> +Is't for the King ye come, you knock so boisterously?<br /> +Look to the door.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Maid</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>My Lady, as I live Mistris, my Ladie's come,<br /> +She's at the door, I peept through, and I saw her,<br /> +And a stately company of Ladies with her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>This was a week too soon, but I must meet with her,<br /> +And set a new wheel going, and a subtile one,<br /> +Must blind this mighty <i>Mars</i>, or I am ruin'd.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>What are they at door?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Such my <i>Michael</i><br /> +<a name="ref-189-28"></a>As you may bless the day they enter'd there,<br /> +Such for our good.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>'Tis well.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Nay, 'twill be better<br /> +If you will let me but dispose the business,<br /> +And be a stranger to it, and not disturb me,<br /> +What have I now to do but to advance your fortune?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Doe, I dare trust thee, I am asham'd I am angry,<br /> +I find thee a wise young wife.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'le wise your worship<br /> +Before I leave ye, pray ye walk by and say nothing,<br /> +<a name="ref-189-39"></a>Only salute them, and leave the rest to me Sir,<br /> +I was born to make ye a man.<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other"></p> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>The Rogue speaks heartily,<br /> +Her good will colours in her cheeks, I am born to love her,<br /> +I must be gentler to these tender natures,<br /> +A Souldiers rude harsh words befit not Ladies,<br /> +Nor must we talk to them as we talk to<br /> +Our Officers, I'le give her way, for 'tis for me she<br /> +Works now, I am husband, heir, and all she has.<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Estifania</span>, <span class="name">Leon</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>, and Ladies.</p> +Who are these, what flanting things, a woman<br /> +Of rare presence! excellent fair, this is too big<br /> +For a bawdy house, too open seated too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>My Husband, Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You have gain'd a proper man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>What e're I am, I am your servant Lady.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[kisses.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Sir, be rul'd now,<br /> +And I shall make ye rich, this is my cousin,<br /> +That Gentleman dotes on her, even to death, see how he observes her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She is a goodly woman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>She is a mirrour,<br /> +But she is poor, she were for a Princes side else,<br /> +This house she has brought him too as to her own,<br /> +And presuming upon me, and upon my courtesie.<br /> +Conceive me short, he knows not but she is wealthy,<br /> +<a name="ref-190-25"></a>Or if he did know otherwise, 'twere all one,<br /> +He is so far gone.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Forward, she has a rare face.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>This we must carry with discretion Husband,<br /> +And yield unto her for four daies.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Yield our house up, our goods and wealth?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>All this is but in seeming,<br /> +To milk the lover on, do you see this writing,<br /> +200<i>l</i> a year when they are married<br /> +Has she sealed to for our good; the time's unfit now,<br /> +I'le shew it you to morrow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>All the house?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>All, all, and we'l remove too, to confirm him,<br /> +They'l into th' country suddenly again<br /> +After they are matcht, and then she'l open to him.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page191"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>The whole possession wife? look what you doe,<br /> +A part o'th' house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>No, no, they shall have all,<br /> +And take their pleasure too, 'tis for our 'vantage.<br /> +Why, what's four daies? had you a Sister Sir,<br /> +A Niece or Mistris that required this courtesie,<br /> +And should I make a scruple to do you good?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>If easily it would come back.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I swear Sir,<br /> +As easily as it came on, is't not pity<br /> +To let such a Gentlewoman for a little help--<br /> +You give away no house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Clear but that question.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'le put the writings into your hand.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Well then.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>And you shall keep them safe.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I am satisfied; wou'd I had the wench so too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>When she has married him,<br /> +So infinite his love is linkt unto her,<br /> +You, I, or any one that helps at this pinch<br /> +May have Heaven knows what.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le remove the goods straight,<br /> +And take some poor house by, 'tis but for four days.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I have a poor old friend; there we'l be.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>'Tis well then.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Goe handsom off, and leave the house clear.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Well.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>That little stuff we'l use shall follow after;<br /> +And a boy to guide ye, peace and we are made both.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Come, let's goe in, are all the rooms kept sweet wench?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>They are sweet and neat.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why where's your Husband?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Gone Madam.<br /> +When you come to your own he must give place Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Well, send you joy, you would not let me know't,<br /> +Yet I shall not forget ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Thank your Ladyship.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page192"></a></span> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.3"></a>Actus Tertius</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4547652"></a>Scena Prima.</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>, and <span class="name">Boy</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Are you at ease now, is your heart at rest,<br /> +Now you have got a shadow, an <i>umbrella</i><br /> +To keep the scorching worlds opinion<br /> +From your fair credit.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I am at peace <i>Altea</i>,<br /> +If he continue but the same he shews,<br /> +And be a master of that ignorance<br /> +He outwardly professes, I am happy,<br /> +The pleasure I shall live in and the freedom<br /> +Without the squint-eye of the law upon me,<br /> +Or prating liberty of tongues, that envy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>You are a made woman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>But if he should prove now<br /> +A crafty and dissembling kind of Husband,<br /> +One read in knavery, and brought up in the art<br /> +Of villany conceal'd.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>My life, an innocent.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>That's it I aim at,<br /> +That's it I hope too, then I am sure I rule him,<br /> +For innocents are like obedient Children<br /> +Brought up under a hard Mother-in-law, a cruel,<br /> +Who being not us'd to break-fasts and collations,<br /> +When they have course bread offer'd 'em, are thankfull,<br /> +And take it for a favour too. Are the rooms<br /> +Made ready to entertain my friends? I long to dance now<br /> +And to be wanton; let me have a song, is the great couch up<br /> +The Duke of <i>Medina</i> sent?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>'Tis up and ready.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And day-beds in all chambers?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>In all Lady,<br /> +Your house is nothing now but various pleasures,<br /> +The Gallants begin to gaze too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Let 'em gaze on,<br /> +I was brought up a Courtier, high and happy,<br /> +And company is my delight, and courtship,<br /> +And handsom servants at my will: where's my good husband,<br /> +Where does he wait?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He knows his distance Madam,<br /> +I warrant ye he is busie in the celler<br /> +Amongst his fellow servants, or asleep,<br /> +Till your command awake him.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis well <i>Altea</i>.<br /> +It should be so, my ward I must preserve him.<br /> +Who sent for him, how dare he come uncall'd for,<br /> +His bonnet on too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Sure he sees you not.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>How scornfully he looks!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Are all the chambers<br /> +Deckt and adorn'd thus for my Ladies pleasure?<br /> +New hangings every hour for entertainment,<br /> +And new plate bought, new Jewels to give lustre?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>They are, and yet there must be more and richer,<br /> +It is her will.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Hum, is it so? 'tis excellent,<br /> +It is her will too, to have feasts and banquets,<br /> +Revells and masques.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>She ever lov'd 'em dearly,<br /> +And we shall have the bravest house kept now Sir,<br /> +I must not call ye master she has warn'd me,<br /> +Nor must not put my hat off to ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis no fashion,<br /> +What though I be her husband, I am your fellow,<br /> +I may cut first.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>That's as you shall deserve Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>And when I lye with her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>May be I'le light ye,<br /> +On the same point you may doe me that service.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">1 Lady</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Madam, the Duke <i>Medina</i> with some Captains<br /> +Will come to dinner, and have sent rare wine,<br /> +And their best services.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>They shall be welcom,<br /> +See all be ready in the noblest fashion,<br /> +The house perfum'd, now I shall take my pleasure,<br /> +And not my neighbour Justice maunder at me.<br /> +Go, get your best cloths on, but till I call ye,<br /> +Be sure you be not seen, dine with the Gentlewomen,<br /> +And behave your self cleanly Sir, 'tis for my credit.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">2 Lady</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p> +<a name="ref-194-8"></a>Madam, the Lady <i>Julia</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>That's a bawd,<br /> +A three pil'd bawd, bawd major to the army.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p> +<a name="ref-194-11"></a>Has brought her coach to wait upon your Ladiship,<br /> +And to be inform'd if you will take the air this morning.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>The neat air of her nunnery.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Tell her no, i'th' afternoon I'le call on her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>I will Madam.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why are not you gone to prepare your self,<br /> +May be you shall be sewer to the fire course,<br /> +A portly presence, <i>Altea</i> he looks lean,<br /> +'Tis a wash knave, he will not keep his flesh well.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>A willing, Madam, one that needs no spurring.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Faith madam, in my little understanding,<br /> +You had better entertain your honest neighbours,<br /> +Your friends about ye, that may speak well of ye,<br /> +And give a worthy mention of your bounty.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>How now, what's this?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis only to perswade ye,<br /> +Courtiers are but tickle things to deal withal,<br /> +A kind of march-pane men that will not last Madam,<br /> +An egge and pepper goes farther than their potions,<br /> +And in a well built body, a poor parsnip<br /> +Will play his prize above their strong potabiles.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>The fellow's mad.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He that shall counsel Ladies,<br /> +That have both liquorish and ambitious eyes,<br /> +Is either mad, or drunk, let him speak Gospel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He breaks out modestly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Pray ye be not angry,<br /> +My indiscretion has made bold to tell ye,<br /> +What you'l find true.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page195"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Thou darest not talk.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Not much Madam,<br /> +You have a tye upon your servants tongue,<br /> +He dares not be so bold as reason bids him,<br /> +'Twere fit there were a stronger on your temper.<br /> +Ne're look so stern upon me, I am your Husband,<br /> +But what are Husbands? read the new worlds wonders,<br /> +Such Husbands as this monstrous world produces,<br /> +And you will scarce find such deformities,<br /> +They are shadows to conceal your venial vertues,<br /> +Sails to your mills, that grind with all occasions,<br /> +Balls that lye by you, to wash out your stains,<br /> +And bills nail'd up with horn before your stories,<br /> +To rent out last.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Do you hear him talk?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I have done Madam,<br /> +An oxe once spoke, as learned men deliver,<br /> +Shortly I shall be such, then I'le speak wonders,<br /> +Till when I tye my self to my obedience.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>First I'le unty my self, did you mark the Gentleman,<br /> +How boldly and how sawcily he talk'd,<br /> +And how unlike the lump I took him for,<br /> +The piece of ignorant dow, he stood up to me<br /> +And mated my commands, this was your providence,<br /> +Your wisdom, to elect this Gentleman,<br /> +Your excellent forecast in the man, your knowledge,<br /> +What think ye now?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I think him an Asse still,<br /> +This boldness some of your people have blown<br /> +Into him, this wisdom too with strong wine,<br /> +'Tis a Tyrant, and a Philosopher also, and finds<br /> +Out reasons.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I'le have my celler lockt, no school kept there,<br /> +Nor no discovery. I'le turn my drunkards,<br /> +Such as are understanding in their draughts,<br /> +And dispute learnedly the whyes and wherefores,<br /> +To grass immediatly, I'le keep all fools,<br /> +Sober or drunk, still fools, that shall know nothing,<br /> +Nothing belongs to mankind, but obedience,<br /> +And such a hand I'le keep over this Husband.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page196"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He will fall again, my life he cryes by this time,<br /> +Keep him from drink, he has a high constitution.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Shall I wear my new sute Madam?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No your old clothes,<br /> +And get you into the country presently,<br /> +And see my hawks well train'd, you shall have victuals,<br /> +Such as are fit for sawcy palats Sir,<br /> +And lodgings with the hindes, it is too good too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Good Madam be not so rough, with repentance,<br /> +You see now he's come round again.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I see not what I expect to see.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>You shall see Madam, if it shall please your Ladyship.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He's humbled,<br /> +Forgive good Lady,<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Well go get you handsom,<br /> +And let me hear no more.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Have ye yet no feeling?<br /> +I'le pinch ye to the bones then my proud Lady.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>See you preserve him thus upon my favour,<br /> +You know his temper, tye him to the grindstone,<br /> +The next rebellion I'le be rid of him,<br /> +I'le have no needy Rascals I tye to me,<br /> +Dispute my life: come in and see all handsom.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p> +<a name="ref-196-26"></a>I hope to see you so too, I have wrought ill else.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Shall I never return to mine own house again?<br /> +We are lodg'd here in the miserablest dog-hole,<br /> +A Conjurers circle gives content above it,<br /> +A hawks mew is a princely palace to it,<br /> +We have a bed no bigger than a basket,<br /> +And there we lie like butter clapt together,<br /> +And sweat our selves to sawce immediately,<br /> +The fumes are infinite inhabite here too;<br /> +And to that so thick, they cut like marmalet,<br /> +So various too, they'l pose a gold-finder,<br /> +Never return to mine own paradise?<br /> +Why wife I say, why <i>Estifania</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania <span class="stage-inline">[within]</span></p> +I am going presently.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Make haste good Jewel,<br /> +I am like the people that live in the sweet Islands:<br /> +I dye, I dye, if I stay but one day more here,<br /> +My lungs are rotten with the damps that rise,<br /> +And I cough nothing now but stinks of all sorts,<br /> +The inhabitants we have are two starv'd rats,<br /> +For they are not able to maintain a cat here,<br /> +And those appear as fearfull as two Devils,<br /> +They have eat a map of the whole world up already,<br /> +And if we stay a night we are gone for company.<br /> +There's an old woman that's now grown to marble,<br /> +Dri'd in this brick hill, and she sits i'th' chimnie,<br /> +Which is but three tiles rais'd like a house of cards,<br /> +The true proportion of an old smok'd Sibyl,<br /> +There is a young thing too that nature meant<br /> +For a maid-servant, but 'tis now a monster,<br /> +She has a husk about her like a chesnut<br /> +<a name="ref-197-20"></a>With basiness, and living under the line here,<br /> +And these two make a hollow sound together,<br /> +Like frogs or winds between two doors that murmur:<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Estifania</span>.</p> +Mercy deliver me. O are you come wife,<br /> +Shall we be free again?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I am now going,<br /> +And you shall presently to your own house Sir,<br /> +The remembrance of this small vexation<br /> +Will be argument of mirth for ever:<br /> +By that time you have said your orisons,<br /> +And broke your fast, I shall be back and ready,<br /> +To usher you to your old content, your freedom.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Break my neck rather, is there any thing here to eat<br /> +But one another, like a race of Cannibals?<br /> +A piece of butter'd wall you think is excellent,<br /> +Let's have our house again immediatly,<br /> +And pray ye take heed unto the furniture,<br /> +None be imbezil'd.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Not a pin I warrant ye.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page198"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And let 'em instantly depart.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>They shall both,<br /> +There's reason in all courtesies, they must both,<br /> +For by this time I know she has acquainted him,<br /> +And has provided too, she sent me word Sir,<br /> +And will give over gratefully unto you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le walk i'th' Church-yard,<br /> +The dead cannot offend more than these living,<br /> +An hour hence I'le expect ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'le not fail Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And do you hear, let's have a handsom dinner,<br /> +And see all things be decent as they have been,<br /> +And let me have a strong bath to restore me,<br /> +I stink like a stal-fish shambles, or an oyl-shop.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You shall have all, which some interpret nothing,<br /> +I'le send ye people for the trunks afore-hand,<br /> +And for the stuff.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Let 'em be known and honest,<br /> +And do my service to your niece.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I shall Sir,<br /> +But if I come not at my hour, come thither,<br /> +That they may give you thanks for your fair courtesy,<br /> +And pray ye be brave for my sake.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I observe ye.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan de Castro</span>, <span class="name">Sancho</span>, and <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Thou art very brave.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I have reason, I have mony.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Is mony reason?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p> +<a name="ref-198-29"></a>Yes and rime too Captain,<br /> +If ye have no mony y'are an Asse.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>I thank ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p> +<a name="ref-198-32"></a>Ye have manners, ever thank him that has mony.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Wilt thou lend me any?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Not a farthing Captain,<br /> +Captains are casual things.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Why so are all men, thou shalt have my bond.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Nor bonds nor fetters Captain,<br /> +My mony is mine, I make no doubt on't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-198-39"></a>What dost thou do with it?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page199"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Put it to pious uses,<br /> +Buy Wine and Wenches, and undo young Coxcombs<br /> +That would undo me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Are those Hospitals?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I first provide to fill my Hospitals<br /> +With Creatures of mine own, that I know wretched,<br /> +And then I build: those are more bound to pray for me:<br /> +Besides, I keep th' inheritance in my Name still.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>A provident Charity; are you for the Wars, Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I am not poor enough to be a Souldier,<br /> +Nor have I faith enough to ward a Bullet;<br /> +This is no lining for a trench, I take it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Ye have said wisely.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Had you but my money,<br /> +You would swear it Colonel, I had rather drill at home<br /> +A hundred thousand Crowns, and with more honour,<br /> +Than exercise ten thousand Fools with nothing,<br /> +A wise Man safely feeds, Fools cut their fingers.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>A right State Usurer; why dost thou not marry,<br /> +And live a reverend Justice?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Is't not nobler to command a reverend Justice, than to be one?<br /> +And for a Wife, what need I marry, Captain,<br /> +When every courteous Fool that owes me money,<br /> +Owes me his Wife too, to appease my fury?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Wilt thou go to dinner with us?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I will go, and view the Pearl of <i>Spain</i>, the Orient<br /> +Fair One, the rich One too, and I will be respected,<br /> +I bear my Patent here, I will talk to her,<br /> +And when your Captain's Ships shall stand aloof,<br /> +And pick your Noses, I will pick the purse<br /> +Of her affection.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>The Duke dines there to day too, the Duke of <i>Medina</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Let the King dine there,<br /> +He owes me money, and so far's my Creature,<br /> +And certainly I may make bold with mine own, Captain?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Thou wilt eat monstrously.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Like a true born <i>Spaniard</i>,<br /> +Eat as I were in <i>England</i> where the Beef grows,<br /> +And I will drink abundantly, and then<br /> +Talk ye as wantonly as <i>Ovid</i> did,<br /> +To stir the Intellectuals of the Ladies;<br /> +I learnt it of my Father's amorous Scrivener.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>If we should play now, you must supply me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>You must pawn a Horse troop,<br /> +And then have at ye Colonel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Come, let's go:<br /> +This Rascal will make rare sport; how the Ladies<br /> +<a name="ref-200-8"></a>Will laugh at him?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>If I light on him I'll make his Purse sweat too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Will ye lead, Gentlemen?<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>, an old Woman, and Maid.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Nay, pray ye come out, and let me understand ye,<br /> +And tune your pipe a little higher, Lady;<br /> +I'll hold ye fast: rub, how came my Trunks open?<br /> +And my Goods gone, what Pick-lock Spirit?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Ha, what would ye have?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>My Goods again, how came my Trunks all open?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Are your Trunks open?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Yes, and Cloaths gone,<br /> +And Chains, and Jewels: how she smells like hung Beef,<br /> +The Palsey, and Picklocks, fye, how she belches,<br /> +The Spirit of Garlick.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Where's your Gentlewoman?<br /> +The young fair Woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>What's that to my question?<br /> +She is my wife, and gone about my business.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>Is she your Wife, Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Yes Sir, is that wonder?<br /> +Is the name of Wife unknown here?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Is she truly, truly your Wife?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I think so, for I married her;<br /> +It was no Vision sure!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>She has the Keys, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I know she has, but who has all my goods, Spirit?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>If you be married to that Gentlewoman,<br /> +You are a wretched man, she has twenty Husbands.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>She tells you true.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>And she has cozen'd all, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>The Devil she has! I had a fair house with her,<br /> +That stands hard by, and furnisht royally.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p> +<a name="ref-201-2"></a>You are cozen'd too, 'tis none of hers, good Gentleman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>The Lady <i>Margarita</i>, she was her Servant,<br /> +And kept the house, but going from her, Sir,<br /> +For some lewd tricks she plaid.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-201-6"></a>Plague o' the Devil,<br /> +Am I i'th' full Meridian of my Wisedom<br /> +Cheated by a stale Quean! what kind of Lady<br /> +Is that that owes the House?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>A young sweet Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Of a low stature?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>She is indeed but little, but she is wondrous fair.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I feel I am cozen'd;<br /> +Now I am sensible I am undone,<br /> +This is the very Woman sure, that Cousin<br /> +She told me would entreat but for four days,<br /> +To make the house hers; I am entreated sweetly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>When she went out this morning, that I saw, Sir,<br /> +She had two Women at the door attending,<br /> +And there she gave 'em things, and loaded 'em,<br /> +But what they were--I heard your Trunks to open,<br /> +If they be yours?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-201-23"></a>They were mine while they were laden,<br /> +But now they have cast their Calves, they are not worth<br /> +Owning: was she her Mistress say you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Her own Mistress, her very Mistress, Sir, and all you saw<br /> +About and in that house was hers.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No Plate, no Jewels, nor no Hangings?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>Not a farthing, she is poor, Sir, a poor shifting thing.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No money?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Abominable poor, as poor as we are,<br /> +Money as rare to her unless she steal it,<br /> +But for one civil Gown her Lady gave her,<br /> +She may go bare, good Gentlewoman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I am mad now,<br /> +I think I am as poor as she, I am wide else,<br /> +One civil Sute I have left too, and that's all,<br /> +<a name="ref-201-38"></a>And if she steal that she must fley me for it;<br /> +Where does she use?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>You may find truth as soon,<br /> +Alas, a thousand conceal'd corners, Sir, she lurks in.<br /> +And here she gets a fleece, and there another,<br /> +And lives in mists and smoaks where none can find her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Is she a Whore too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Little better, Gentleman, I dare not say she is so Sir, because<br /> +She is yours, Sir, these five years she has firkt<br /> +A pretty Living,<br /> +Until she came to serve; I fear he will knock my<br /> +Brains out for lying.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She has serv'd me faithfully,<br /> +A Whore and Thief? two excellent moral learnings<br /> +In one she-Saint, I hope to see her legend.<br /> +Have I been fear'd for my discoveries,<br /> +And courted by all Women to conceal 'em?<br /> +Have I so long studied the art of this Sex,<br /> +And read the warnings to young Gentlemen?<br /> +Have I profest to tame the Pride of Ladies,<br /> +And make 'em bear all tests, and am I trickt now?<br /> +Caught in mine own nooze? here's a royal left yet,<br /> +There's for your lodging and your meat for this Week.<br /> +A silk Worm lives at a more plentiful ordinary,<br /> +And sleeps in a sweeter Box: farewel great Grandmother,<br /> +If I do find you were an accessary,<br /> +'Tis but the cutting off too smoaky minutes,<br /> +I'll hang ye presently.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>And I deserve it, I tell but truth.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-202-27"></a>Not I, I am an Ass, Mother.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<a name="ref-202-28"></a><p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter the Duke of <span class="name">Medina</span>, <span class="name">Juan de Castro</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>. Attendants.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>A goodly house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>And richly furnisht too, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Hung wantonly, I like that preparation,<br /> +It stirs the blood unto a hopeful Banquet,<br /> +And intimates the Mistress free and jovial,<br /> +I love a house where pleasure prepares welcome.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Now Cacafogo, how like you this mansion?<br /> +'Twere a brave Pawn.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I shall be master of it,<br /> +'Twas built for my bulk, the rooms are wide and spacious,<br /> +Airy and full of ease, and that I love well,<br /> +I'll tell you when I taste the Wine, my Lord,<br /> +And take the height of her Table with my Stomach,<br /> +How my affections stand to the young Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>, Ladies, and Servants.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>All welcome to your Grace, and to these Souldiers,<br /> +You honour my poor house with your fair presence,<br /> +Those few slight pleasures that inhabit here, Sir,<br /> +I do beseech your Grace command, they are yours,<br /> +Your servant but preserves 'em to delight ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I thank ye Lady, I am bold to visit ye,<br /> +Once more to bless mine eyes with your sweet Beauty,<br /> +<a name="ref-203-13"></a>'T has been a long night since you left the Court,<br /> +For till I saw you now, no day broke to me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Bring in the Dukes meat.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>She is most excellent.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-203-17"></a>Most admirable fair as e'r I look'd upon,<br /> +I had rather command her than my Regiment.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I'll have a fling, 'tis but a thousand Duckets,<br /> +Which I can cozen up again in ten days,<br /> +And some few Jewels to justifie my Knavery,<br /> +Say, I should marry her, she'll get more money<br /> +Than all my Usury, put my Knavery to it,<br /> +She appears the most infallible way of Purchase,<br /> +I you'd wish her a size or two stronger for the encounter,<br /> +For I am like a Lion where I lay hold,<br /> +But these Lambs will endure a plaguy load,<br /> +And never bleat neither, that Sir, time has taught us,<br /> +I am so vertuous now, I cannot speak to her,<br /> +The arrant'st shamefac'd Ass, I broil away too.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why, where's this dinner?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis not ready, Madam,<br /> +Nor shall not be until I know the Guests too,<br /> +Nor are they fairly welcome till I bid 'em.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Is not this my <i>Alferes</i>? he looks another thing;<br /> +Are miracles afoot again?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why, Sirrah, why Sirrah, you?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page204"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I hear you, saucy Woman,<br /> +And as you are my Wife, command your absence,<br /> +And know your duty, 'tis the Crown of modesty.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Your Wife?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes good my Lord, I am her Husband,<br /> +And pray take notice that I claim that honour,<br /> +And will maintain it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>It thou beest her Husband,<br /> +I am determin'd thou shalt be my Cuckold,<br /> +I'll be thy faithful friend.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Peace, dirt and dunghil,<br /> +I will not lose my anger on a Rascal,<br /> +Provoke me more, I'll beat thy blown body<br /> +Till thou rebound'st again like a Tennis-Ball.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>This is miraculous.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Is this the Fellow<br /> +That had the patience to become a Fool,<br /> +A flurted Fool, and on a sudden break,<br /> +As if he would shew a wonder to the World,<br /> +<a name="ref-204-20"></a>Both in Bravery, and Fortune too?<br /> +I much admire the man, I am astonisht.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I'll be divorced immediately.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>You shall not,<br /> +You shall not have so much will to be wicked.<br /> +I am more tender of your honour, Lady,<br /> +And of your Age, you took me for a shadow;<br /> +You took me to gloss over your discredit,<br /> +To be your Fool, you had thought you had found a Coxcomb;<br /> +I am innocent of any foul dishonour I mean to ye.<br /> +Only I will be known to be your Lord now,<br /> +And be a fair one too, or I will fall for't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I do command ye from me, thou poor fellow,<br /> +Thou cozen'd Fool.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Thou cozen'd Fool? 'tis not so,<br /> +I will not be commanded: I am above ye:<br /> +You may divorce me from your favour, Lady,<br /> +<a name="ref-204-37"></a>But from your state you never shall, I'll hold that,<br /> +And then maintain your wantonness, I'll wink at it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Am I braved thus in mine own house?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis mine, Madam,<br /> +You are deceiv'd, I am Lord of it, I rule it and all that's in't;<br /> +You have nothing to do here, Madam;<br /> +But as a Servant to sweep clean the Lodgings,<br /> +And at my farther will to do me service,<br /> +And so I'll keep it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>As you love me, give way.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>It shall be better,<br /> +I will give none, Madam,<br /> +I stand upon the ground of mine own Honour,<br /> +And will maintain it, you shall know me now<br /> +To be an understanding feeling man,<br /> +And sensible of what a Woman aims at,<br /> +A young proud Woman that has Will to sail with,<br /> +An itching Woman, that her blood provokes too,<br /> +I cast my Cloud off, and appear my self,<br /> +The master of this little piece of mischief,<br /> +And I will put a Spell about your feet, Lady,<br /> +They shall not wander but where I give way now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Is this the Fellow that the People pointed at,<br /> +For the meer sign of man, the walking Image?<br /> +He speaks wondrous highly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>As a Husband ought, Sir,<br /> +In his own house, and it becomes me well too,<br /> +I think your Grace would grieve if you were put to it<br /> +To have a Wife or Servant of your own,<br /> +(For Wives are reckon'd in the rank of Servants,)<br /> +Under your own roof to command ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Brave, a strange Conversion, thou shalt lead<br /> +In chief now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Is there no difference betwixt her and you, Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Not now, Lord, my Fortune makes me even,<br /> +And as I am an honest man, I am nobler.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Get me my Coach.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Let me see who dares get it<br /> +Till I command, I'll make him draw your Coach too,<br /> +And eat your Coach, (which will be hard diet)<br /> +That executes your Will; or take your Coach, Lady,<br /> +I give you liberty, and take your People<br /> +Which I turn off, and take your Will abroad with ye,<br /> +Take all these freely, but take me no more,<br /> +And so farewel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Nay, Sir, you shall not carry it<br /> +So bravely off, you shall not wrong a Lady<br /> +In a high huffing strain, and think to bear it,<br /> +We stand not by as Bawds to your brave fury,<br /> +To see a Lady weep.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>They are tears of anger, I beseech ye note 'em, not worth pity,<br /> +Wrung from her rage, because her Will prevails not,<br /> +She would swound now if she could not cry,<br /> +Else they were excellent, and I should grieve too,<br /> +But falling thus, they show nor sweet nor orient.<br /> +Put up my Lord, this is oppression,<br /> +And calls the Sword of Justice to relieve me,<br /> +The law to lend her hand, the King to right me,<br /> +All which shall understand how you provoke me,<br /> +In mine own house to brave me, is this princely?<br /> +Then to my Guard, and if I spare your Grace,<br /> +And do not make this place your Monument,<br /> +Too rich a Tomb for such a rude behaviour,<br /> +I have a Cause will kill a thousand of ye, mercy forsake me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Hold, fair Sir, I beseech ye,<br /> +The Gentleman but pleads his own right nobly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He that dares strike against the husbands freedom,<br /> +The Husbands Curse stick to him, a tam'd Cuckold,<br /> +His Wife be fair and young, but most dishonest,<br /> +Most impudent, and have no feeling of it,<br /> +No conscience to reclaim her from a Monster,<br /> +Let her lye by him like a flattering ruine,<br /> +And at one instant kill both Name and Honour,<br /> +Let him be lost, no eye to weep his end,<br /> +Nor find no earth that's base enough to bury him.<br /> +Now Sir, fall on, I am ready to oppose ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I have better thought, I pray Sir use your Wife well.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Mine own humanity will teach me that, Sir,<br /> +And now you are all welcome, all, and we'll to dinner,<br /> +This is my Wedding-day.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I'll cross your joy yet.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-206-38"></a>I made seen a miracle, hold thine own, Souldier,<br /> +Sure they dare fight in fire that conquer Women.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>H'as beaten all my loose thoughts out of me,<br /> +As if he had thresht 'em out o'th' husk.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-207-3"></a>'Save ye, which is the Lady of the house?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>That's she, Sir, that pretty Lady,<br /> +If you would speak with her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<i>Don Michael</i>, <i>Leon</i>, another darer come.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Pray do not know me, I am full of business,<br /> +When I have more time I'll be merry with ye.<br /> +It is the Woman: good Madam, tell me truly,<br /> +Had you a Maid call'd <i>Estifania</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Yes truly, had I.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Was she a Maid do you think?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I dare not swear for her,<br /> +For she had but a scant Fame.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Was she your Kinswoman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Not that I ever knew, now I look better<br /> +I think you married her, 'give you joy, Sir,<br /> +You may reclaim her, 'twas a wild young Girl.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Give me a halter: is not this house mine, Madam?<br /> +Was not she owner of it, pray speak truly?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No, certainly, I am sure my money paid for it,<br /> +And I ne'r remember yet I gave it you, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>The Hangings and the Plate too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>All are mine, Sir,<br /> +And every thing you see about the building,<br /> +She only kept my house when I was absent,<br /> +And so ill kept it, I was weary of her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>What a Devil ails he?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-207-29"></a>He's possest I'll assure you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Where is your Maid?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Do not you know that have her?<br /> +She is yours now, why should I look after her?<br /> +Since that first hour I came I never saw her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I saw her later, would the Devil had had her,<br /> +It is all true I find, a wild-fire take her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Is thy Wife with Child, <i>Don Michael</i>? thy excellent wife.<br /> +Art thou a Man yet?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>When shall we come and visit thee?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>And eat some rare fruit? thou hast admirable Orchards,<br /> +<a name="ref-208-1"></a>You are so jealous now, pox o' your jealousie,<br /> +How scurvily you look!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Prithee leave fooling,<br /> +I am in no humour now to fool and prattle,<br /> +Did she ne'r play the wag with you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Yes many times, so often that I was asham'd to keep her,<br /> +But I forgave her, Sir, in hope she would mend still,<br /> +And had not you o'th' instant married her,<br /> +I had put her off.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I thank ye, I am blest still,<br /> +Which way so e'r I turn I am a made man,<br /> +Miserably gull'd beyond recovery.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You'll stay and dine?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Certain I cannot, Captain,<br /> +Hark in thine ear, I am the arrantst Puppy,<br /> +The miserablest Ass, but I must leave ye,<br /> +<a name="ref-208-17"></a>I am in haste, in haste, bless you, good Madam,<br /> +And you prove as good as my Wife.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Will you come near, Sir, will your Grace but honour me,<br /> +And taste our dinner? you are nobly welcome,<br /> +All anger's past I hope, and I shall serve ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Thou art the stock of men, and I admire thee.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Ex.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.4"></a>Actus Quartus</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4558429"></a>Scena Prima.</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'll go to a Conjurer but I'll find this Pol-cat,<br /> +This pilfering Whore: a plague of Vails, I cry,<br /> +And covers for the impudence of Women,<br /> +Their sanctity in show will deceive Devils,<br /> +It is my evil Angel, let me bless me.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Estifania</span> with a Casket.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>'Tis he, I am caught, I must stand to it stoutly,<br /> +And show no shake of fear, I see he is angry,<br /> +Vext at the uttermost.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>My worthy Wife,<br /> +I have been looking of your modesty<br /> +All the town over.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page209"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>My most noble Husband,<br /> +I am glad I have found ye, for in truth I am weary,<br /> +Weary and lame with looking out your Lordship.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I have been in Bawdy Houses.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p> +<a name="ref-209-5"></a>I believe you, and very lately too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-209-6"></a>'Pray you pardon me,<br /> +To seek your Ladyship, I have been in Cellars,<br /> +In private Cellars, where the thirsty Bawds<br /> +Hear your Confessions; I have been at Plays,<br /> +To look you out amongst the youthful Actors,<br /> +At Puppet Shews, you are Mistress of the motions,<br /> +<a name="ref-209-12"></a>At Gossippings I hearkned after you,<br /> +But amongst those Confusions of lewd Tongues<br /> +There's no distinguishing beyond a Babel.<br /> +I was amongst the Nuns because you sing well,<br /> +But they say yours are Bawdy Songs, they mourn for ye,<br /> +And last I went to Church to seek you out,<br /> +<a name="ref-209-18"></a>'Tis so long since you were there, they have forgot you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You have had a pretty progress, I'll tell mine now:<br /> +To look you out, I went to twenty Taverns.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And are you sober?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes, I reel not yet, Sir,<br /> +Where I saw twenty drunk, most of 'em Souldiers,<br /> +There I had great hope to find you disguis'd too.<br /> +From hence to th' dicing-house, there I found <br /> +Quarrels needless, and senceless, Swords and Pots, and Candlesticks,<br /> +Tables and Stools, and all in one confusion,<br /> +And no man knew his Friend. I left this <i>Chaos</i>,<br /> +And to the Chirurgions went, he will'd me stay,<br /> +For says he learnedly, if he be tipled,<br /> +Twenty to one he whores, and then I hear of him,<br /> +If he be mad, he quarrels, then he comes too.<br /> +I sought ye where no safe thing would have ventur'd,<br /> +<a name="ref-209-34"></a>Amongst diseases, base and vile, vile Women,<br /> +For I remembred your old Roman axiom,<br /> +The more the danger, still the more the Honour.<br /> +Last, to your Confessor I came, who told me,<br /> +You were too proud to pray, and here I have found ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She bears up bravely, and the Rogue is witty,<br /> +But I shall dash it instantly to nothing.<br /> +Here leave we off our wanton languages,<br /> +And now conclude we in a sharper tongue.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Why am I cozen'd?<br /> +Why am I abused?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Thou most vile, base, abominable--<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Thou stinking, overstew'd, poor, pocky--<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Do you echo me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes Sir, and go before ye,<br /> +And round about ye, why do you rail at me<br /> +For that that was your own sin, your own knavery?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And brave me too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You had best now draw your Sword, Captain!<br /> +<a name="ref-210-15"></a>Draw it upon a Woman, do, brave Captain,<br /> +Upon your Wife, Oh most renowned Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>A Plague upon thee, answer me directly;<br /> +Why didst thou marry me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>To be my Husband;<br /> +I had thought you had had infinite, but I'm cozen'd.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Why didst thou flatter me, and shew me wonders?<br /> +A house and riches, when they are but shadows,<br /> +Shadows to me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Why did you work on me<br /> +(It was but my part to requite you, Sir)<br /> +With your strong Souldiers wit, and swore you would bring me<br /> +So much in Chains, so much in Jewels, Husband,<br /> +So much in right rich Cloaths?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Thou hast 'em, Rascal;<br /> +I gave 'em to thy hands, my trunks and all,<br /> +And thou hast open'd 'em, and sold my treasure.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Sir, there's your treasure, sell it to a Tinker<br /> +To mend old Kettles, is this noble Usage?<br /> +Let all the World view here the Captain's treasure,<br /> +A Man would think now, these were worthy matters;<br /> +Here's a shooing-horn Chain gilt over, how it scenteth<br /> +Worse than the mouldy durty heel it served for:<br /> +And here's another of a lesser value,<br /> +So little I would shame to tye my Dog in't,<br /> +These are my joynture, blush and save a labour,<br /> +Or these else will blush for ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>A fire subtle ye, are ye so crafty?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Here's a goodly jewel,<br /> +Did not you win this at Goletta, Captain,<br /> +Or took it in the field from some brave <i>Bashaw</i><br /> +How it sparkles like an old Ladies eyes,<br /> +And fills each room with light like a close Lanthorn!<br /> +This would do rarely in an Abbey Window,<br /> +To cozen Pilgrims.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-211-10"></a>P[r]ithee leave prating.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>And here's a Chain of Whitings eyes for pearls,<br /> +A Muscle-monger would have made a better.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Nay, prithee wife, my Cloaths, my Cloaths.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'll tell ye,<br /> +Your Cloaths are parallels to these, all counterfeit.<br /> +Put these and them on, you are a Man of Copper,<br /> +A kind of Candlestick; these you thought, my Husband,<br /> +To have cozen'd me withall, but I am quit with you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Is there no house then, nor no grounds about it?<br /> +No plate nor hangings?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>There are none, sweet Husband,<br /> +Shadow for shadow is as equal justice.<br /> +<a name="ref-211-23"></a>Can you rail now? pray put up your fury, Sir,<br /> +And speak great words, you are a Souldier, thunder.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I will speak little, I have plaid the Fool,<br /> +And so I am rewarded.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You have spoke well, Sir,<br /> +And now I see you are so conformable<br /> +I'll heighten you again, go to your house,<br /> +They are packing to be gone, you must sup there,<br /> +I'll meet ye, and bring Cloaths, and clean Shirts after,<br /> +<a name="ref-211-32"></a>And all things shall be well, I'll colt you once more,<br /> +<a name="ref-211-33"></a>And teach you to bring Copper.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Tell me one thing,<br /> +I do beseech thee tell me, tell me truth, Wife,<br /> +However I forgive thee, art thou honest?<br /> +The Beldam swore.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I bid her tell you so, Sir,<br /> +It was my plot, alas my credulous Husband,<br /> +The Lady told you too.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page212"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Most strange things of thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Still 'twas my way, and all to try your sufferance,<br /> +And she denied the House.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She knew me not,<br /> +No, nor no title that I had.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>'Twas well carried;<br /> +No more, I am right and straight.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I would believe thee,<br /> +But Heaven knows how my heart is, will ye follow me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'll be there straight.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I am fooled, yet dare not find it.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Go silly Fool, thou mayst be a good Souldier<br /> +In open field, but for our private service<br /> +Thou art an Ass, I'll make thee so, or miss else.<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>.</p> +Here comes another Trout that I must tickle,<br /> +And tickle daintily, I have lost my end else.<br /> +May I crave your leave, Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Prithee be answered, thou shalt crave no leave,<br /> +I am in my meditations, do not vex me,<br /> +A beaten thing, but this hour a most bruised thing,<br /> +<a name="ref-212-22"></a>That people had compassion on it, looked so,<br /> +The next Sir Palmerin, here's fine proportion,<br /> +An Ass, and then an Elephant, sweet Justice,<br /> +There's no way left to come at her now, no craving,<br /> +If money could come near, yet I would pay him;<br /> +I have a mind to make him a huge Cuckold,<br /> +And money may do much, a thousand Duckets,<br /> +'Tis but the letting blood of a rank Heir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p> +<a name="ref-212-30"></a>'Pray you hear me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I know thou hast some wedding Ring to pawn now,<br /> +Of Silver and gilt, with a blind posie in't,<br /> +Love and a Mill-horse should go round together,<br /> +Or thy Childs whistle, or thy Squirrels Chain,<br /> +I'll none of 'em, I would she did but know me,<br /> +Or would this Fellow had but use of money,<br /> +That I might come in any way.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I am gone, Sir,<br /> +And I shall tell the beauty sent me to ye,<br /> +The Lady <i>Margarita.</i><br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Stay I prithee,<br /> +What is thy will? I turn me wholly to ye,<br /> +And talk now till thy tongue ake, I will hear ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>She would entreat you, Sir,<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>She shall command, Sir,<br /> +Let it be so, I beseech thee, my sweet Gentlewoman,<br /> +Do not forget thy self.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>She does command then<br /> +This courtesie, because she knows you are noble.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Your Mistress by the way?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>My natural mistress,<br /> +Upon these Jewels, Sir, they are fair and rich,<br /> +And view 'em right.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>To doubt 'em is an heresie.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>A thousand Duckets, 'tis upon necessity<br /> +Of present use, her husband, Sir, is stubborn.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Long may he be so.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>She desires withal a better knowledge of your parts and person,<br /> +And when you please to do her so much honour.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Come, let's dispatch.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>In troth I have heard her say, Sir,<br /> +Of a fat man she has not seen a sweeter.<br /> +But in this business, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Let's do it first<br /> +And then dispute, the Ladies use may long for't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>All secrecy she would desire, she told me<br /> +How wise you are.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>We are not wise to talk thus,<br /> +Carry her the gold, I'le look her out a Jewel,<br /> +Shall sparkle like her eyes, and thee another,<br /> +Come prethee come, I long to serve thy Lady,<br /> +Long monstrously, now valor I shall meet ye,<br /> +You that dare Dukes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Green goose you are now in sippets.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter the Duke, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, <span class="name">Juan</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>He shall not have his will, I shall prevent him,<br /> +I have a toy here that will turn the tide,<br /> +<a name="ref-213-39"></a>And suddenly, and strangely, hear <i>Don Juan,</i><br /> +Do you present it to him.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I am commanded.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>A fellow founded out of Charity,<br /> +And moulded to the height contemn his maker,<br /> +Curb the free hand that fram'd him? This must not be.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>That such an oyster shell should hold a pearl,<br /> +And of so rare a price in prison,<br /> +Was she made to be the matter of her own undoing,<br /> +To let a slovenly unweildy fellow,<br /> +Unruly and self will'd, dispose her beauties?<br /> +We suffer all Sir in this sad Eclipse,<br /> +She should shine where she might show like her self,<br /> +An absolute sweetness, to comfort those admire her,<br /> +And shed her beams upon her friends.<br /> +We are gull'd all,<br /> +And all the world will grumble at your patience,<br /> +If she be ravish't thus.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Ne'r fear it <i>Sanchio</i>,<br /> +We'I have her free again, and move at Court<br /> +In her clear orb: but one sweet handsomeness,<br /> +To bless this part of <i>Spain</i>, and have that slubber'd?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>'Tis every good mans cause, and we must stir in it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I'le warrant he shall be glad to please us,<br /> +And glad to share too, we shall hear anon<br /> +A new song from him, let's attend a little.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, and <span class="name">Juan</span>, with a commission.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Coronel, I am bound to you for this nobleness,<br /> +I should have been your officer, 'tis true Sir,<br /> +And a proud man I should have been to have serv'd you,<br /> +<a name="ref-214-30"></a>'T has pleas'd the King out of his boundless favours,<br /> +To make me your companion, this commission<br /> +Gives me a troop of horse.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-214-33"></a>I do rejoyce at it,<br /> +And am a glad man we shall gain your company,<br /> +I am sure the King knows you are newly married,<br /> +And out of that respect gives you more time Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Within four daies I am gone, so he commands me,<br /> +And 'tis not mannerly for me to argue it,<br /> +The time grows shorter still, are your goods ready?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page215"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>They are aboard.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Who waits there?<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Servant</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Do you hear ho, go carry this unto your Mistris Sir,<br /> +And let her see how much the King has honour'd me,<br /> +Bid her be lusty, she must make a Souldier.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Lorenzo</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Lorenzo </p>Sir,<br /> +Go take down all the hangings,<br /> +And pack up all my cloths, my plate and Jewels,<br /> +And all the furniture that's portable,<br /> +Sir when we lye in garrison, 'tis necessary<br /> +We keep a handsom port, for the Kings honour;<br /> +And do you hear, let all your Ladies wardrobe<br /> +Be safely plac'd in trunks, they must along too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Lorenzo </p>Whither must they goe Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>To the wars, <i>Lorenzo</i>,<br /> +And you and all, I will not leave a turn-spit,<br /> +That has one dram of spleen against a Dutchman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Lorenzo </p> +<a name="ref-215-21"></a>Why then <i>St Jaques</i> hey, you have made us all Sir,<br /> +And if we leave ye--does my Lady goe too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>The stuff must goe to morrow towards the sea Sir,<br /> +All, all must goe.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Lorenzo </p>Why <i>Pedro</i>, <i>Vasco</i>, <i>Dego</i>,<br /> +Come help me, come come boys, soldadocs, comrades,<br /> +We'l fley these beer-bellied rogues, come away quickly.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-215-28"></a>H'as taken a brave way to save his honour,<br /> +And cross the Duke, now I shall love him dearly,<br /> +By the life of credit thou art a noble Gentleman.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, led by two Ladies.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Why how now wife, what, sick at my preferment?<br /> +This is not kindly done.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No sooner love ye,<br /> +Love ye intirely Sir, brought to consider<br /> +The goodness of your mind and mine own duty,<br /> +But lose you instantly, be divorc'd from ye?<br /> +This is a cruelty, I'le to the King<br /> +And tell him 'tis unjust to part two souls,<br /> +Two minds so nearly mixt.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>By no means sweet heart.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>If he were married but four daies as I am.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He would hang himself the fifth, or fly his Country.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>He would make it treason for that tongue that durst<br /> +But talk of war, or any thing to vex him,<br /> +You shall not goe.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Indeed I must sweet wife,<br /> +What shall I lose the King for a few kisses?<br /> +We'l have enough.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I'le to the Duke my cousin, he shall to th' King.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He did me this great office,<br /> +I thank his grace for't, should I pray him now,<br /> +To undoe't again? fye 'twere a base discredit.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Would I were able Sir to bear you company,<br /> +How willing should I be then, and how merry!<br /> +I will not live alone.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Be in peace, you shall not.<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[knock within.</em></p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>What knocking's this? oh Heaven my head, why rascals<br /> +<a name="ref-216-22"></a>I thin[k] the war's begun i'th' house already.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>The preparation is, they are taking down,<br /> +And packing up the hangings, plate and Jewels,<br /> +And all those furnitures that shall befit me<br /> +When I lye in garrison.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Coachman</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Coachman </p>Must the Coach goe too Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>How will your Lady pass to th' sea else easily?<br /> +We shall find shipping for't there to transport it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p> +<a name="ref-216-31"></a>I goe? alas!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I'le have a main care of ye,<br /> +I know ye are sickly, he shall drive the easier,<br /> +And all accommodation shall attend ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Would I were able.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Come I warrant ye,<br /> +Am not I with ye sweet? are her cloaths packt up,<br /> +<a name="ref-216-38"></a>And all her linnen? give your maids direction,<br /> +You know my time's but short, and I am commanded.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page217"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Let me have a nurse,<br /> +And all such necessary people with me,<br /> +And an easie bark.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>It shall not trot I warrant ye,<br /> +Curvet it may sometimes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I am with child Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>At four days warning? this is something speedy,<br /> +Do you conceive as our jennets do with a west winde?<br /> +My heir will be an arrant fleet one Lady,<br /> +I'le swear you were a maid when I first lay with ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Pray do not swear, I thought I was a maid too,<br /> +But we may both be cozen'd in that point Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>In such a strait point sure I could not err Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>This is another tenderness to try him,<br /> +Fetch her up now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You must provide a cradle, and what a troubles that?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>The sea shall rock it,<br /> +'Tis the best nurse; 'twill roar and rock together,<br /> +A swinging storm will sing you such a lullaby.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Faith let me stay, I shall but shame ye Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>And you were a thousand shames you shall along with me,<br /> +At home I am sure you'l prove a million,<br /> +Every man carries the bundle of his sins<br /> +Upon his own back, you are mine, I'le sweat for ye.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter Duke, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>What Sir, preparing for your noble journey?<br /> +'Tis well, and full of care.<br /> +I saw your mind was wedded to the war,<br /> +And knew you would prove some good man for your country,<br /> +Therefore fair Cousin with your gentle pardon,<br /> +I got this place: what, mourn at his advancement?<br /> +You are to blame, he will come again sweet cousin,<br /> +Mean time like sad <i>Penelope</i> and sage,<br /> +Amongst your maids at home, and huswifely.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>No Sir, I dare not leave her to that solitariness,<br /> +She is young, and grief or ill news from those quarters<br /> +May daily cross her, she shall goe along Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>By no means Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>By all means an't please ye.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page218"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>What take a young and tender bodied Lady,<br /> +And expose her to those dangers, and those tumults,<br /> +A sickly Lady too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Twill make her well Sir,<br /> +There's no such friend to health as wholsom travel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Away it must not be.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>It ought not Sir,<br /> +Go hurry her? it is not humane, Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I cannot blame her tears, fright her with tempests,<br /> +With thunder of the war.<br /> +I dare swear if she were able.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>She is most able.<br /> +And pray ye swear not, she must goe, there's no remedy,<br /> +Nor greatness, nor the trick you had to part us,<br /> +Which I smell too rank, too open, too evident<br /> +(And I must tell you Sir, 'tis most unnoble)<br /> +Shall hinder me: had she but ten hours life,<br /> +Nay less, but two hours, I would have her with me,<br /> +I would not leave her fame to so much ruine,<br /> +To such a desolation and discredit<br /> +As her weakness and your hot will wou'd work her to.<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +What Masque is this now?<br /> +More tropes and figures, to abuse my sufferance,<br /> +What cousin's this?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<i>Michael van owle</i>, how dost thou?<br /> +In what dark barn or tod of aged Ivy<br /> +Hast thou lyen hid?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Things must both ebbe and flow, Coronel,<br /> +And people must conceal, and shine again.<br /> +You are welcom hither as your friend may say, Gentleman,<br /> +A pretty house ye see handsomely seated,<br /> +Sweet and convenient walks, the waters crystal.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>He's certain mad.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>As mad as a French Tayler,<br /> +That has nothing in's head but ends of fustians.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I see you are packing now my gentle cousin,<br /> +And my wife told me I should find it so,<br /> +'Tis true I do, you were merry when I was last here,<br /> +But 'twas your will to try my patience Madam.<br /> +I am sorry that my swift occasions<br /> +Can let you take your pleasure here no longer,<br /> +Yet I would have you think my honour'd cousin,<br /> +This house and all I have are all your servants.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>What house, what pleasure Sir, what do you mean?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>You hold the jest so stiff, 'twill prove discourteous,<br /> +This house I mean, the pleasures of this place.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>And what of them?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>They are mine Sir, and you know it,<br /> +My wifes I mean, and so confer'd upon me,<br /> +The hangings Sir I must entreat, your servants,<br /> +That are so busie in their offices,<br /> +Again to minister to their right uses,<br /> +I shall take view o'th' plate anon, and furnitures<br /> +That are of under place; you are merry still cousin,<br /> +And of a pleasant constitution,<br /> +Men of great fortunes make their mirths <i>at placitum</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Prethee good stubborn wife, tell me directly,<br /> +Good evil wife leave fooling and tell me honestly,<br /> +Is this my kinsman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I can tell ye nothing.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I have many kinsmen, but so mad a one,<br /> +And so phantastick--all the house?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>All mine,<br /> +And all within it. I will not bate ye an ace on't.<br /> +Can you not receive a noble courtesie,<br /> +And quietly and handsomely as ye ought Couz,<br /> +But you must ride o'th' top on't?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Canst thou fight?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le tell ye presently, I could have done Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>For ye must law and claw before ye get it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Away, no quarrels.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Now I am more temperate,<br /> +I'le have it prov'd if you were never yet in Bedlam,<br /> +Never in love, for that's a lunacy,<br /> +No great state left ye that you never lookt for,<br /> +Nor cannot manage, that's a rank distemper;<br /> +That you were christen'd, and who answer'd for ye,<br /> +And then I yield.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page220"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-220-1"></a>H'as half perswaded me I was bred i'th' moon,<br /> +I have ne'r a bush at my breech, are not we both mad,<br /> +And is not this a phantastick house we are in,<br /> +And all a dream we do? will ye walk out Sir,<br /> +And if I do not beat thee presently<br /> +Into a sound belief, as sense can give thee,<br /> +Brick me into that wall there for a chimny piece,<br /> +And say I was one o'th' <i>Caesars</i>, done by a seal-cutter.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I'le talk no more, come we'l away immediatly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why then the house is his, and all that's in it,<br /> +I'le give away my skin but I'le undoe ye,<br /> +I gave it to his wife, you must restore Sir,<br /> +And make a new provision.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Am I mad now or am I christen'd, you my pagan cousin,<br /> +My mighty Mahound kinsman, what quirk now?<br /> +You shall be welcom all, I hope to see Sir<br /> +Your Grace here, and my couz, we are all Souldiers,<br /> +And must do naturally for one another.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Are ye blank at this? then I must tell ye Sir,<br /> +Ye have no command, now ye may goe at pleasure<br /> +<a name="ref-220-21"></a>And ride your asse troop, 'twas a trick I us'd<br /> +To try your jealousie upon entreatie,<br /> +And saving of your wife.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>All this not moves me,<br /> +Nor stirs my gall, nor alters my affections,<br /> +You have more furniture, more houses Lady,<br /> +And rich ones too, I will make bold with those,<br /> +And you have Land i'th' <i>Indies</i> as I take it,<br /> +Thither we'l goe, and view a while those climats,<br /> +Visit your Factors there, that may betray ye,<br /> +'Tis done, we must goe.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Now thou art a brave Gentleman,<br /> +And by this sacred light I love thee dearly.<br /> +The house is none of yours, I did but jest Sir,<br /> +Nor you are no couz of mine, I beseech ye vanish,<br /> +I tell you plain, you have no more right than he<br /> +Has, that senseless thing, your wife has once more fool'd ye:<br /> +Goe ye and consider.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Good morrow my sweet cousin, I should be glad Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>By this hand she dies for't,<br /> +Or any man that speaks for her.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>These are fine toyes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Let me request you stay but one poor month,<br /> +You shall have a Commission and I'le goe too,<br /> +Give me but will so far.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Well I will try ye,<br /> +Good morrow to your Grace, we have private business.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>If I miss thee again, I am an arrant bungler.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Thou shalt have my command, and I'le march under thee,<br /> +Nay be thy boy before thou shalt be baffled,<br /> +Thou art so brave a fellow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>I have seen visions.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.5"></a>Actus Quintus</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4566661"></a>Scena Prima.</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, with a letter, and <span class="name">Margarita</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Come hither wife, do you know this hand?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I do Sir,<br /> +'Tis <i>Estifania</i>, that was once my woman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>She writes to me here, that one <i>Cacafogo</i><br /> +An usuring Jewellers son (I know the Rascal)<br /> +Is mortally faln in love with ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is a monster, deliver me from mountains.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Do you goe a birding for all sorts of people?<br /> +And this evening will come to ye and shew ye Jewels,<br /> +And offers any thing to get access to ye,<br /> +If I can make or sport or profit on him,<br /> +(For he is fit for both) she bids me use him,<br /> +And so I will, be you conformable, and follow but my will.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I shall not fail, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Will the Duke come again do you think?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No sure Sir,<br /> +H'as now no policie to bring him hither.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Nor bring you to him, if my wit hold fair wife:<br /> +Let's in to dinner.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Had I but lungs enough to bawl sufficiently,<br /> +That all the queans in Christendom might hear me,<br /> +That men might run away from contagion,<br /> +I had my wish; would it were most high treason,<br /> +Most infinite high, for any man to marry,<br /> +I mean for any man that would live handsomely,<br /> +And like a Gentleman, in his wits and credit.<br /> +What torments shall I put her to, <i>Phalaris</i> bull now,<br /> +Pox they love bulling too well, though they smoak for't.<br /> +Cut her apieces? every piece will live still,<br /> +And every morsel of her will do mischief;<br /> +They have so many lives, there's no hanging of 'em,<br /> +They are too light to drown, they are cork and feathers;<br /> +To burn too cold, they live like Salamanders;<br /> +Under huge heaps of stones to bury her,<br /> +And so depress her as they did the Giants;<br /> +She will move under more than built old Babel,<br /> +I must destroy her.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>, with a Casket.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Be cozen'd by a thing of clouts, a she moth,<br /> +That every silkmans shop breeds; to be cheated,<br /> +And of a thousand duckets by a whim wham?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Who's that is cheated, speak again thou vision,<br /> +But art thou cheated? minister some comfort:<br /> +Tell me directly art thou cheated bravely?<br /> +Come, prethee come, art thou so pure a coxcomb<br /> +To be undone? do not dissemble with me,<br /> +Tell me I conjure thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Then keep thy circle,<br /> +For I am a spirit wild that flies about thee,<br /> +And who e're thou art, if thou be'st humane,<br /> +I'le let thee plainly know, I am cheated damnably.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Ha, ha, ha.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Dost thou laugh? damnably, I say most damnably.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>By whom, good spirit speak, speak ha, ha, ha.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I will utter, laugh till thy lungs crack, by a rascal woman,<br /> +A lewd, abominable, and plain woman.<br /> +Dost thou laugh still?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I must laugh, prethee pardon me,<br /> +I shall laugh terribly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I shall be angry, terrible angry, I have cause.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page223"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>That's it, and 'tis no reason but thou shouldst be angry,<br /> +Angry at heart, yet I must laugh still at thee.<br /> +By a woman cheated? art' sure it was a woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I shall break thy head, my valour itches at thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>It is no matter, by a woman cozen'd,<br /> +A real woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>A real Devil,<br /> +Plague of her Jewels and her copper chains,<br /> +How rank they smell.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-223-10"></a>Sweet cozen'd Sir let me see them,<br /> +I have been cheated too, I would have you note that,<br /> +And lewdly cheated, by a woman also,<br /> +A scurvie woman, I am undone sweet Sir,<br /> +<a name="ref-223-14"></a>Therefore I must have leave to [l]augh.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Pray ye take it,<br /> +You are the merriest undone man in <i>Europe</i>.<br /> +What need we fiddles, bawdy songs and sack,<br /> +When our own miseries can make us merry?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Ha, ha, ha.<br /> +I have seen these Jewels, what a notable penniworth<br /> +Have you had next your heart? you will not take Sir<br /> +Some twenty Duckets?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Thou art deceiv'd, I will take.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>To clear your bargain now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I'le take some ten, some any thing, some half ten,<br /> +Half a Ducket.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>An excellent lapidary set these stones sure,<br /> +Do you mark their waters?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Quick-sand choak their waters,<br /> +And hers that bought 'em too, but I shall find her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And so shall I, I hope, but do not hurt her,<br /> +You cannot find in all this Kingdom,<br /> +(If you had need of cozening, as you may have,<br /> +For such gross natures will desire it often,<br /> +'Tis at some time too a fine variety,)<br /> +A woman that can cozen ye so neatly,<br /> +She has taken half mine anger off with this trick.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>If I were valiant now, I would kill this fellow,<br /> +I have mony enough lies by me at a pinch<br /> +To pay for twenty Rascals lives that vex me,<br /> +I'le to this Lady, there I shall be satisfied.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, and <span class="name">Margarita</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Come, we'l away unto your country house,<br /> +And there we'l learn to live contently,<br /> +This place is full of charge, and full of hurry,<br /> +No part of sweetness dwells about these cities.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Whither you will, I wait upon your pleasure;<br /> +Live in a hollow tree Sir, I'le live with ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I, now you strike a harmony, a true one,<br /> +When your obedience waits upon your Husband,<br /> +And your sick will aims at the care of honour,<br /> +Why now I dote upon ye, love ye dearly,<br /> +And my rough nature falls like roaring streams,<br /> +Clearly and sweetly into your embraces.<br /> +O what a Jewel is a woman excellent,<br /> +A wise, a vertuous and a noble woman!<br /> +When we meet such, we bear our stamps on both sides,<br /> +And through the world we hold our currant virtues,<br /> +Alone we are single medals, only faces,<br /> +And wear our fortunes out in useless shadows,<br /> +Command you now, and ease me of that trouble,<br /> +I'le be as humble to you as a servant,<br /> +Bid whom you please, invite your noble friends,<br /> +They shall be welcome all, visit acquaintance,<br /> +Goe at your pleasure, now experience<br /> +Has link't you fast unto the chain of goodness:<br /> +What noise is this, what dismal cry?<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[Clashing swords. A cry within, down with their swords.]</em></p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis loud too.<br /> +Sure there's some mischief done i'th' street, look out there.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Look out and help.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter a <span class="name">Servant</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>Oh Sir the Duke <i>Medina</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>What of the Duke <i>Medina</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>Oh sweet Gentleman, is almost slain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Away away and help him, all the house help.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Servant</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>How slain? why Margarita,<br /> +Why wife, sure some new device they have a foot again,<br /> +Some trick upon my credit, I shall meet it,<br /> +I had rather guide a ship Imperial<br /> +Alone, and in a storm, than rule one woman.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter Duke, <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, Servant.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>How came ye hurt Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I fell out with my friend the noble Coronel,<br /> +My cause was naught, for 'twas about your honour:<br /> +And he that wrongs the Innocent ne'r prospers,<br /> +And he has left me thus for charity,<br /> +Lend me a bed to ease my tortur'd body,<br /> +That e're I perish I may show my penitence,<br /> +I fear I am slain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Help Gentlemen to carry him,<br /> +There shall be nothing in this house my Lord,<br /> +But as your own.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I thank ye noble Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>To bed with him, and wife give your attendance.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Doctors and Surgions.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Do not disquiet me,<br /> +But let me take my leave in peace.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Ex. Duke, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, <span class="name">Alon.</span> <span class="name">Marg.</span> Servant.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Afore me<br /> +'Tis rarely counterfeited.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>True, it is so Sir,<br /> +And take you heed, this last blow do not spoil ye,<br /> +He is not hurt, only we made a scuffle,<br /> +As though we purpos'd anger; that same scratch<br /> +On's hand he took, to colour all and draw compassion,<br /> +That he might get into your house more cunningly.<br /> +I must not stay, stand now, and y'are a brave fellow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I thank ye noble Coronel, and I honour ye.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Juan</span>.</p> +<br /> +Never be quiet?<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>He's most desperate ill Sir,<br /> +I do not think these ten months will recover him.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Does he hire my house to play the fool in,<br /> +Or does it stand on Fairy ground, we are haunted,<br /> +Are all men and their wives troubled with dreams thus?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>What ail you Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Nay what ail you sweet wife,<br /> +To put these daily pastimes on my patience?<br /> +What dost thou see in me, that I should suffer thus,<br /> +Have not I done my part like a true Husband,<br /> +And paid some desperate debts you never look'd for?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You have done handsomely I must confess Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Have I not kept thee waking like a hawk?<br /> +And watcht thee with delights to satisfy thee?<br /> +The very tithes of which had won a Widow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Alas I pity ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Thou wilt make me angry,<br /> +Thou never saw'st me mad yet.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You are alwaies,<br /> +You carry a kind of bedlam still about ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>If thou pursuest me further I run stark mad,<br /> +If you have more hurt Dukes or Gentlemen,<br /> +To lye here on your cure, I shall be desperate,<br /> +I know the trick, and you shall feel I know it,<br /> +Are ye so hot that no hedge can contain ye?<br /> +I'le have thee let blood in all the veins about thee,<br /> +I'le have thy thoughts found too, and have them open'd,<br /> +Thy spirits purg'd, for those are they that fire ye,<br /> +Thy maid shall be thy Mistris, thou the maid,<br /> +And all those servile labours that she reach at,<br /> +And goe through cheerfully, or else sleep empty,<br /> +That maid shall lye by me to teach you duty,<br /> +You in a pallet by to humble ye,<br /> +And grieve for what you lose.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I have lost my self Sir,<br /> +And all that was my base self, disobedience,<p align="right" class="stage-right">[kneels.</p> +<br /> +My wantonness, my stubborness I have lost too,<br /> +And now by that pure faith good wives are crown'd with,<br /> +By your own nobleness.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Altea</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I take ye up, and wear ye next my heart,<br /> +See you be worth it. Now what with you?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page227"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I come to tell my Lady,<br /> +There is a fulsome fellow would fain speak with her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis <i>Cacafogo</i>, goe and entertain him,<br /> +And draw him on with hopes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I shall observe ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I have a rare design upon that Gentleman,<br /> +And you must work too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I shall Sir most willingly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Away then both, and keep him close in some place<br /> +From the Dukes sight, and keep the Duke in too,<br /> +Make 'em believe both, I'le find time to cure 'em.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<a name="ref-227-12"></a><p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>, and <span class="name">Estifania</span>, with a Pistol, and a Dagge[r].</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Why how darst thou meet me again thou rebel,<br /> +And knowst how thou hast used me thrice, thou rascal?<br /> +Were there not waies enough to fly my vengeance,<br /> +No holes nor vaults to hide thee from my fury,<br /> +But thou must meet me face to face to kill thee?<br /> +I would not seek thee to destroy thee willingly,<br /> +But now thou comest to invite me,<br /> +And comest upon me,<br /> +How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner,<br /> +And ready for the halter dost thou look now!<br /> +Thou hast a hanging look thou scurvy thing, hast ne'r a knife<br /> +<a name="ref-227-24"></a>Nor ever a string to lead thee to Elysium?<br /> +Be there no pitifull 'Pothecaries in this town,<br /> +That have compassion upon wretched women,<br /> +And dare administer a dram of rats-bane,<br /> +But thou must fall to me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I know you have mercy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>If I had tuns of mercy thou deserv'st none,<br /> +What new trick is now afoot, and what new houses<br /> +Have you i'th' air, what orchards in apparition,<br /> +What canst thou say for thy life?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Little or nothing,<br /> +I know you'l kill me, and I know 'tis useless<br /> +To beg for mercy, pray let me draw my book out,<br /> +And pray a little.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Do, a very little,<br /> +For I have farther business than thy killing,<br /> +I have mony yet to borrow, speak when you are ready.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Now now Sir, now,<p align="right" class="stage-right">[shews a Pistol.</p> +<br /> +Come on, do you start off from me,<br /> +Do you swear great Captain, have you seen a spirit?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Do you wear guns?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I am a Souldiers wife Sir,<br /> +And by that priviledge I may be arm'd,<br /> +Now what's the news, and let's discourse more friendly,<br /> +And talk of our affairs in peace.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Let me see,<br /> +Prethee let me see thy gun, 'tis a very pretty one.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>No no Sir, you shall feel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Hold ye villain, what thine own Husband?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Let mine own Husband then<br /> +Be in's own wits, there, there's a thousand duckets,<br /> +Who must provide for you, and yet you'l kill me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-228-17"></a>I will not hurt thee for ten thousand millio[n]s.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p> +<a name="ref-228-18"></a>When will you redeem your Jewels, I have pawn'd 'em,<br /> +<a name="ref-228-19"></a>You see for what, we must keep touch.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le kiss thee,<br /> +And get as many more, I'le make thee famous,<br /> +Had we the house now!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Come along with me,<br /> +If that be vanish't there be more to hire Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I see I am an asse when thou art near me.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other"></p> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, <span class="name">Margarita</span>, and <span class="name">Altea</span>, with a Taper.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Is the fool come?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Yes and i'th' celler fast,<br /> +And there he staies his good hour till I call him,<br /> +He will make dainty musick among the sack-butts,<br /> +I have put him just, Sir, under the Dukes chamber.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>It is the better.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Has given me royally,<br /> +And to my Lady a whole load of portigues.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Better and better still, go <i>Margarita</i>,<br /> +Now play your prize, you say you dare be honest,<br /> +I'le put ye to your best.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Secure your self Sir, give me the candle,<br /> +Pass away in silence.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Ex. <span class="name">Leon</span> and <span class="name">Altea</span>. She knocks.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Who's there, oh oh.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>My Lord,<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina <span class="stage-inline">within</span></p> +Have ye brought me comfort?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I have my Lord.<br /> +Come forth 'tis I, come gently out I'le help ye,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Duke</span>, in a gown.</p> +Come softly too, how do you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Are there none here?<br /> +Let me look round; we cannot be too wary,<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[noise below.</em></p> +<br /> +Oh let me bless this hour, are you alone sweet friend?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Alone to comfort you.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[<span class="name">Cacafogo</span> makes a noise below.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>What's that you tumble?<br /> +I have heard a noise this half hour under me,<br /> +A fearfull noise.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>The fat thing's mad i'th' celler,<br /> +And stumbles from one hogs-head to another,<br /> +Two cups more, and he ne'r shall find the way out.<br /> +What do you fear? come, sit down by me chearfully,<br /> +My Husband's safe, how do your wounds?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I have none Lady,<br /> +My wounds I counterfeited cunningly,<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[noise below.</em></p> +<br /> +And feign'd the quarrel too, to injoy you sweet,<br /> +Let's lose no time, heark the same noise again.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>What noise, why look ye pale? I hear no stirring,<br /> +This goblin in the vault will be so tipled.<br /> +You are not well I know by your flying fancy,<br /> +Your body's ill at ease, your wounds.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I have none, I am as lusty and as full of health,<br /> +High in my blood.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Weak in your blood you would say,<br /> +How wretched is my case, willing to please ye,<br /> +And find you so disable?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Believe me Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I know you will venture all you have to satisfy me,<br /> +Your life I know, but is it fit I spoil ye,<br /> +Is it my love do you think?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo <span class="stage-inline">below</span></p> +Here's to the Duke.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page230"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>It nam'd me certainly,<br /> +I heard it plainly sound.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You are hurt mortally,<br /> +And fitter for your prayers Sir than pleasure,<br /> +What starts you make? I would not kiss you wantonly,<br /> +For the world's wealth; have I secur'd my Husband,<br /> +And put all doubts aside to be deluded?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo <span class="stage-inline">below</span></p> +I come, I come.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Heaven bless me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And bless us both, for sure this is the Devil,<br /> +I plainly heard it now, he will come to fetch ye,<br /> +A very spirit, for he spoke under ground,<br /> +And spoke to you just as you would have snatcht me,<br /> +You are a wicked man, and sure this haunts ye,<br /> +Would you were out o'th' house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I would I were,<br /> +<a name="ref-230-17"></a>O' that condition I had leapt a window.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And that's the least leap if you mean to scape Sir,<br /> +Why what a frantick man were you to come here,<br /> +What a weak man to counterfeit deep wounds,<br /> +To wound another deeper!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Are you honest then?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Yes then and now, and ever, and excellent honest,<br /> +And exercise this pastime but to shew ye,<br /> +Great men are fools sometimes as well as wretches.<br /> +Would you were well hurt, with any hope of life,<br /> +Cut to the brains, or run clean through the body,<br /> +To get out quietly as you got in Sir,<br /> +I wish it like a friend that loves ye dearly,<br /> +For if my Husband take ye, and take ye thus a counterfeit,<br /> +One that would clip his credit out of his honour,<br /> +He must kill ye presently,<br /> +There is no mercy nor an hour of pity,<br /> +And for me to intreat in such an agony,<br /> +Would shew me little better than one guilty,<br /> +Have you any mind to a Lady now?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Would I were off fair,<br /> +If ever Lady caught me in a trap more.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>If you be well and lusty, fy fy shake not,<br /> +You say you love me, come, come bravely now,<br /> +Despise all danger, I am ready for ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>She mocks my misery, thou cruel Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Thou cruel Lord, wouldst thou betray my honesty,<br /> +Betray it in mine own house, wrong my Husband,<br /> +Like a night thief, thou darst not name by day-light?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I am most miserable.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You are indeed,<br /> +And like a foolish thing you have made your self so,<br /> +Could not your own discretion tell ye Sir,<br /> +When I was married I was none of yours?<br /> +Your eyes were then commanded to look off me,<br /> +And I now stand in a circle and secure,<br /> +Your spells nor power can never reach my body,<br /> +Mark me but this, and then Sir be most miserable,<br /> +'Tis sacriledge to violate a wedlock,<br /> +<a name="ref-231-16"></a>You rob two Temples, make your self twice guilty,<br /> +You ruine hers, and spot her noble Husbands.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Let me be gone, I'le never more attempt ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You cannot goe, 'tis not in me to save ye,<br /> +Dare ye do ill, and poorly then shrink under it?<br /> +Were I the Duke <i>Medina</i>, I would fight now,<br /> +For you must fight and bravely, it concerns you,<br /> +You do me double wrong if you sneak off Sir,<br /> +And all the world would say I lov'd a coward,<br /> +And you must dye too, for you will be kill'd,<br /> +And leave your youth, your honour and your state,<br /> +And all those dear delights you worship't here.<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[Noise below.</em></p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>The noise again!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo <span class="stage-inline">below</span></p> +Some small beer if you love me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>The Devil haunts you sure, your sins are mighty.<br /> +A drunken Devil too, to plague your villany.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Preserve me but this once.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>There's a deep well<br /> +In the next yard, if you dare venture drowning,<br /> +<a name="ref-231-35"></a>It is but dea[t]h.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I would not dye so wretchedly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Out of a garret window I'le let you down then,<br /> +But say the rope be rotten, 'tis huge high too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Have you no mercy?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Now you are frighted throughly,<br /> +And find what 'tis to play the fool in folly,<br /> +And see with clear eyes your detested folly,<br /> +I'le be your guard.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>And I'le be your true servant,<br /> +Ever from this hour vertuously to love ye,<br /> +Chastly and modestly to look upon ye,<br /> +And here I seal it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I may kiss a stranger, for you must now be so.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, <span class="name">Juan</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>How do you my Lord,<br /> +Me thinks you look but poorly on this matter.<br /> +Has my wife wounded ye, you were well before,<br /> +Pray Sir be comforted, I have forgot all,<br /> +Truly forgiven too, wife you are a right one,<br /> +And now with unknown nations I dare trust ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>No more feign'd fights my Lord, they never prosper.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Who's this? the Devil in the vault?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>'Tis he Sir, and as lovingly drunk, as though he had studied it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Give me a cup of Sack, and kiss me Lady,<br /> +Kiss my sweet face, and make thy Husband cuckold,<br /> +An Ocean of sweet Sack, shall we speak treason?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He is Devilish drunk.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I had thought he had been a Devil.<br /> +He made as many noises and as horrible.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Oh a true lover Sir will lament loudly,<br /> +Which of the butts is your Mistris?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Butt in thy belly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>There's two in thine I am sure, 'tis grown so monstrous.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Butt in thy face.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Go carry him to sleep,<br /> +A fools love should be drunk, he has paid well for't too.<br /> +When he is sober let him out to rail,<br /> +Or hang himself, there will be no loss of him.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Caca.</span> and Servant.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>, and <span class="name">Estifania</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Who's this? my Mauhound cousin?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Good Sir, 'tis very good, would I had a house too,<br /> +For there is no talking in the open air,<br /> +My Tarmogant Couz, I would be bold to tell ye,<br /> +I durst be merry too; I tell you plainly,<br /> +You have a pretty seat, you have the luck on't,<br /> +A pretty Lady too, I have mist both,<br /> +My Carpenter built in a mist I thank him,<br /> +Do me the courtesie to let me see it,<br /> +See it but once more. But I shall cry for anger.<br /> +I'le hire a Chandlers shop close under ye,<br /> +And for my foolerie, sell sope and whip-cord,<br /> +Nay if you do not laugh now and laugh heartily,<br /> +You are a fool couz.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I must laugh a little,<br /> +And now I have done, couz thou shalt live with me,<br /> +My merry couz, the world shall not divorce us,<br /> +Thou art a valiant man, and thou shalt never want,<br /> +Will this content thee?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le cry, and then I'le be thankfull,<br /> +Indeed I will, and I'le be honest to ye.<br /> +I would live a swallow here I must confess.<br /> +Wife I forgive thee all if thou be honest,<br /> +At thy peril, I believe thee excellent.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>If I prove otherwaies, let me beg first,<br /> +Hold, this is yours, some recompence for service,<br /> +Use it to nobler ends than he that gave it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>And this is yours, your true commission, Sir,<br /> +Now you are a Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>You are a noble Prince Sir,<br /> +And now a souldier, Gentleman, we all rejoyce in't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Sir, I shall wait upon you through all fortunes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>And I.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>And I must needs attend my Mistris.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Will you goe Sister?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Yes indeed good Brother,<br /> +I have two ties, mine own bloud,<br /> +And my Mistris.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is she your Sister?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes indeed good wife,<br /> +And my best Sister,<br /> +For she prov'd so, wench,<br /> +When she deceiv'd you with a loving Husband.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page234"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I would not deal so truly for a stranger.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Well I could chide ye,<br /> +But it must be lovingly and like a Sister,<br /> +I'le bring you on your way, and feast ye nobly,<br /> +For now I have an honest heart to love ye,<br /> +And then deliver you to the blue <i>Neptune</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Your colours you must wear, and wear 'em proudly,<br /> +Wear 'em before the bullet, and in bloud too,<br /> +And all the world shall know<br /> +We are Vertues servants.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p> +<i>And all the world shall know, a noble mind</i><br /> +<a name="ref-234-12"></a><i>Makes women beautifull, and envie blind.</i><p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.6"></a>Prologue.</div> + + +<div class="sp">Pleasure attend ye, and about ye sit<br /> +The springs of mirth, fancy, delight and wit<br /> +To stir you up, do not your looks let fall,<br /> +Nor to remembrance our late errors call,<br /> +Because this day w' are <i>Spaniards</i> all again,<br /> +The story of our Play, and our Scene <i>Spain</i>:<br /> +The errors too, do not for this cause hate,<br /> +Now we present their wit and not their state.<br /> +Nor Ladies be not angry if you see,<br /> +A young fresh beauty, wanton and too free,<br /> +<a name="ref-234-24"></a>Seek to abuse her Husband, still 'tis <i>Spain</i>,<br /> +<a name="ref-234-25"></a>No such gross errors in your Kingdom raign,<br /> +W' are <i>Vesrals</i> all, and though we blow the fire,<br /> +We seldom make it flame up to desire,<br /> +Take no example neither to begin,<br /> +<a name="ref-234-29"></a>For some by precedent delight to sin:<br /> +Nor blame the Poet if he slip aside<br /> +Sometimes lasciviously if not too wide.<br /> +But hold your Fanns close, and then smile at ease,<br /> +A cruel Scene did never Lady please.<br /> +Nor Gentlemen, pray be not you displeased,<br /> +Though we present some men fool'd, some diseased,<br /> +Some drunk, some mad: we mean not you, you're free,<br /> +We taxe no farther than our Comedie,<br /> +You are our friends, sit noble then and see.<br /> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.7"></a>Epilogue.</div> + + +<div class="sp">Good night our worthy friends, and may you part<br /> +Each with as merry and as free a heart<br /> +As you came hither; to those noble eyes<br /> +That deign to smile on our poor faculties,<br /> +And give a blessing to our labouring ends,<br /> +As we hope many, to such fortune sends<br /> +Their own desires, wives fair as light as chast;<br /> +To those that live by spight Wives made in hast.<br /> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page459"></a></span> + +<div class="appendix"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.8"></a>APPENDIX</div> + + +<div class="teidiv"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4575811"></a>RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE.</div> + +<p> +The Dramatis Personae are not given in the quarto of 1640 nor in the 2nd +folio. They are as follows:--Duke of Medina. +Juan de Castro, Sanchio, +Alonzo, Michael Perez, Officers. +Leon, Altea's brother. Cacafogo, a usurer. +Lorenzo. Coachman, etc. +Margarita. Altea. +Estifania. Clara. +Three old ladies. +Old woman. Maids, etc. +</p> + +<p> +Unless where otherwise stated the following variations are from the quarto +of 1640, the title-page of which runs thus:-- +</p> + +<p> +Rule a Wife | And have a Wife. | A Comoedy. | Acted by his | Majesties +Servants. | Written by | John Fletcher | Gent. | Oxford, | Printed by Leonard +Lichfield | Printer to the University. | Anno 1640. +</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576051"></a><p><em>p. 170,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576066"></a><a href="#ref-170-30" class="ref" target="_top">l. 30.</a> mouth.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576083"></a><p><em>p. 171,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576097"></a><a href="#ref-171-14" class="ref" target="_top">l. 14.</a> most subtlest.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576115"></a><a href="#ref-171-18" class="ref" target="_top">l. 18.</a> With yee.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576131"></a><a href="#ref-171-19" class="ref" target="_top">l. 19.</a> them.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576148"></a><a href="#ref-171-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> <i>and often elsewhere</i>] um <i>for</i> 'em.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576181"></a><p><em>p. 172,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576195"></a><a href="#ref-172-2" class="ref" target="_top">l. 2.</a> the picke.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576212"></a><p><em>p. 173,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576227"></a><a href="#ref-173-22" class="ref" target="_top">l. 22.</a> thank ye.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576243"></a><p><em>p. 175,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576258"></a><a href="#ref-175-1" class="ref" target="_top">l. 1.</a> Yes I.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576275"></a><a href="#ref-175-29" class="ref" target="_top">l. 29.</a> Exit.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576291"></a><a href="#ref-175-31" class="ref" target="_top">l. 31.</a> mine ayme.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576308"></a><p><em>p. 176,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576323"></a><a href="#ref-176-30" class="ref" target="_top">l. 30.</a> 2nd folio <i>prints</i>] calling. | And</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576348"></a><p><em>p. 178,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576362"></a><a href="#ref-178-10" class="ref" target="_top">l. 10.</a> a starv'd.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576379"></a><a href="#ref-178-22" class="ref" target="_top">l. 22.</a> look'st.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576396"></a><a href="#ref-178-24" class="ref" target="_top">l. 24.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] hear.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576421"></a><p><em>p. 179,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576436"></a><a href="#ref-179-33" class="ref" target="_top">l. 33.</a> Or any.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576453"></a><p><em>p. 182,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576467"></a><a href="#ref-182-6" class="ref" target="_top">ll. 6, etc.</a> Quarto <i>frequently prints</i> 4 for Altea <i>here and in similar places</i>.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576501"></a><a href="#ref-182-33" class="ref" target="_top">l. 33.</a> doubty.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576517"></a><p><em>p. 183,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576532"></a><a href="#ref-183-2" class="ref" target="_top">l. 2.</a> Has not.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576549"></a><a href="#ref-183-3" class="ref" target="_top">l. 3.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] hin.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576574"></a><a href="#ref-183-5" class="ref" target="_top">l. 5.</a> Has no.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576590"></a><a href="#ref-183-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] compaines.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576615"></a><p><em>p. 184,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576630"></a><a href="#ref-184-13" class="ref" target="_top">l. 13.</a> a house.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576647"></a><p><em>p. 185,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576661"></a><a href="#ref-185-2" class="ref" target="_top">l. 2.</a> Altea, the Ladies.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576678"></a><a href="#ref-185-4" class="ref" target="_top">l. 4.</a> has been.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576695"></a><p><em>p. 187,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576710"></a><a href="#ref-187-26" class="ref" target="_top">l. 26.</a> I finde.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576726"></a><p><em>p. 189,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576741"></a><a href="#ref-189-28" class="ref" target="_top">l. 28.</a> enter'd here.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576758"></a><a href="#ref-189-39" class="ref" target="_top">l. 39.</a> salute him.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576774"></a><p><em>p. 190,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576789"></a><a href="#ref-190-25" class="ref" target="_top">l. 25.</a> if she.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576806"></a><p><em>p. 194,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576820"></a>ll. <a href="#ref-194-8" class="ref" target="_top">8</a> and <a href="#ref-194-11" class="ref" target="_top">11</a>. <i>Omits</i> Lady <i>here and often similarly elsewhere</i>.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576867"></a><p><em>p. 196,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576882"></a><a href="#ref-196-26" class="ref" target="_top">l. 26.</a> Exit.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576898"></a><p><em>p. 197,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576913"></a><a href="#ref-197-20" class="ref" target="_top">l. 20.</a> basinesse.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576942"></a><p><em>p. 198,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576957"></a><a href="#ref-198-29" class="ref" target="_top">l. 29.</a> (<i>some copies</i>), and ruine too.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576982"></a><a href="#ref-198-32" class="ref" target="_top">l. 32.</a> have meaner.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576999"></a><a href="#ref-198-39" class="ref" target="_top">l. 39.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] Jaun.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577025"></a><p><em>p. 200,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4577039"></a><a href="#ref-200-8" class="ref" target="_top">l. 8.</a> <i>Some copies read</i>] laugh him, leave ager.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577065"></a><p><em>p. 201,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577080"></a><a href="#ref-201-2" class="ref" target="_top">l. 2.</a> <i>Adds the following line</i>] It is a Ladies, what's the Ladies name wench.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577105"></a><a href="#ref-201-6" class="ref" target="_top">l. 6.</a> a the. </li> +<li> +<a name="id4577122"></a><a href="#ref-201-23" class="ref" target="_top">l. 23.</a> they are. </li> +<li> +<a name="id4577139"></a><a href="#ref-201-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> flea me.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577155"></a><p><em>p. 202,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577170"></a><a href="#ref-202-27" class="ref" target="_top">l. 27.</a> Nor I.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577187"></a><a href="#ref-202-28" class="ref" target="_top">l. 28.</a> <i>Omits</i> of.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577211"></a><p><em>p. 203,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577226"></a><a href="#ref-203-13" class="ref" target="_top">l. 13.</a> Tas.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577243"></a><a href="#ref-203-17" class="ref" target="_top">l. 17.</a> as ere I looked on.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577260"></a><p><em>p. 204,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577275"></a><a href="#ref-204-20" class="ref" target="_top">l. 20.</a> Both into.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577291"></a><a href="#ref-204-37" class="ref" target="_top">l. 37.</a> <i>Adds the following line</i>] And hold it to my use, the law allowes it,</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577318"></a><p><em>p. 206,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4577332"></a><a href="#ref-206-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> I have seen.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577349"></a><p><em>p. 207,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577364"></a><a href="#ref-207-3" class="ref" target="_top">l. 3.</a> Save.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577380"></a><a href="#ref-207-29" class="ref" target="_top">l. 29.</a> Is possest.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577398"></a><p><em>p. 208,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577412"></a><a href="#ref-208-1" class="ref" target="_top">l. 1.</a> a your.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577429"></a><a href="#ref-208-17" class="ref" target="_top">l. 17.</a> bless ye.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577446"></a><p><em>p. 209,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577460"></a><a href="#ref-209-5" class="ref" target="_top">l. 5.</a> believe ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577478"></a><a href="#ref-209-6" class="ref" target="_top">l. 6.</a> Pray ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577495"></a><a href="#ref-209-12" class="ref" target="_top">l. 12.</a> after ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577512"></a><a href="#ref-209-18" class="ref" target="_top">l. 18.</a> forgot ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577528"></a><a href="#ref-209-34" class="ref" target="_top">l. 34.</a> vild, vild.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577546"></a><p><em>p. 210,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4577560"></a><a href="#ref-210-15" class="ref" target="_top">l. 15.</a> 2nd folio] do brave, Captain.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577577"></a><p><em>p. 211,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577592"></a><a href="#ref-211-10" class="ref" target="_top">l. 10.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] Ptithee.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577617"></a><a href="#ref-211-23" class="ref" target="_top">l. 23.</a> put your fury up, Sir.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577634"></a><a href="#ref-211-32" class="ref" target="_top">l. 32.</a> colt ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577651"></a><a href="#ref-211-33" class="ref" target="_top">l. 33.</a> teach ye.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577668"></a><p><em>p. 212,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577682"></a><a href="#ref-212-22" class="ref" target="_top">l. 22.</a> on, it looked so.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577700"></a><a href="#ref-212-30" class="ref" target="_top">l. 30.</a> Pray ye.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577717"></a><p><em>p. 213,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4577732"></a><a href="#ref-213-39" class="ref" target="_top">l. 39.</a> heere Don Juan.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577748"></a><p><em>p. 214,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577763"></a><a href="#ref-214-30" class="ref" target="_top">l. 30.</a> 'Tas.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577780"></a><a href="#ref-214-33" class="ref" target="_top">l. 33.</a> <i>Omits</i> do.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577804"></a><p><em>p. 215,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577819"></a><a href="#ref-215-21" class="ref" target="_top">l. 21.</a> all sit.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577836"></a><a href="#ref-215-28" class="ref" target="_top">l. 28.</a> Has.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577852"></a><p><em>p. 216,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577867"></a><a href="#ref-216-22" class="ref" target="_top">l. 22.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] thinks.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577892"></a><a href="#ref-216-31" class="ref" target="_top">l. 31.</a> I goe alas.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577909"></a><a href="#ref-216-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> linnens.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577926"></a><p><em>p. 220,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577941"></a><a href="#ref-220-1" class="ref" target="_top">l. 1.</a> Has.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577958"></a><a href="#ref-220-21" class="ref" target="_top">l. 21.</a> I use.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577974"></a><p><em>p. 223,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577989"></a><a href="#ref-223-10" class="ref" target="_top">l. 10.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] Perox.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578014"></a><a href="#ref-223-14" class="ref" target="_top">l. 14.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] haugh.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578039"></a><p><em>p. 227,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4578054"></a><a href="#ref-227-12" class="ref" target="_top">l. 12.</a> 2nd folio] Dagge. </li> +<li> +<a name="id4578071"></a><a href="#ref-227-24" class="ref" target="_top">l. 24.</a> Nor never.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578087"></a><p><em>p. 228,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4578102"></a><a href="#ref-228-17" class="ref" target="_top">l. 17.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] millius.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578128"></a>ll. <a href="#ref-228-18" class="ref" target="_top">18</a> and <a href="#ref-228-19" class="ref" target="_top">19</a>. pawn'd um.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578157"></a><p><em>p. 230,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4578172"></a><a href="#ref-230-17" class="ref" target="_top">l. 17.</a> A that.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578189"></a><p><em>p. 231,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4578203"></a><a href="#ref-231-16" class="ref" target="_top">l. 16.</a> too Templers.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578220"></a><a href="#ref-231-35" class="ref" target="_top">l. 35.</a> 2nd folio misprints] deah.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578238"></a><p><em>p. 234,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4578252"></a><a href="#ref-234-25" class="ref" target="_top">l. 25.</a> raignes.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578269"></a><a href="#ref-234-12" class="ref" 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife + Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) + +Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher + +Release Date: January 1, 2005 [EBook #14549] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Paul Murray and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team + + + + + + +</pre> + +<a name="TOP"></a> +<div class="titlepage"> +<span class="main">Rule a Wife, and have a Wife</span> +<div class="byline">The works of Beaumont and Fletcher, edited by A.R. Walker</div> +</div> + + + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page170"></a></span> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.1"></a>Actus Primus</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4518893"></a>Scena Prima</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan de Castro</span>, and <span class="name">Michael Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Are your Companies full, Colonel?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>No, not yet, Sir:<br /> +Nor will not be this month yet, as I reckon;<br /> +How rises your Command?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>We pick up still, and as our monies hold out,<br /> +We have men come, about that time I think<br /> +We shall be full too, many young Gallants go.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>And unexperienced,<br /> +The Wars are dainty dreams to young hot spirits,<br /> +Time and Experience will allay those Visions,<br /> +We have strange things to fill our numbers,<br /> +There's one <i>Don Leon</i>, a strange goodly fellow,<br /> +Recommended to me from some noble Friends,<br /> +For my <i>Alferes</i>, had you but seen his Person,<br /> +And what a Giants promise it protesteth.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I have heard of him, and that he hath serv'd before too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>But no harm done, nor never meant, <i>Don Michael</i>,<br /> +That came to my ears yet, ask him a question,<br /> +He blushes like a Girl, and answers little,<br /> +To the point less, he wears a Sword, a good one,<br /> +And good Cloaths too, he is whole skin'd, has no hurt yet,<br /> +Good promising hopes, I never yet heard certainly<br /> +Of any Gentleman that saw him angry.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Preserve him, he'll conclude a peace if need be,<br /> +Many as strong as he will go along with us,<br /> +That swear as valiantly as heart can wish,<br /> +<a name="ref-170-30"></a>Their mouths charg'd with six oaths at once, and whole ones,<br /> +That make the drunken Dutch creep into Mole-hills.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page171"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>'Tis true, such we must look for: but <i>Mich. Perez</i>,<br /> +When heard you of <i>Donna Margarita</i>, the great Heiress?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I hear every hour of her, though I never saw her,<br /> +She is the main discourse: noble <i>Don Juan de Castro</i>,<br /> +How happy were that man could catch this Wench up,<br /> +And live at ease! she is fair, and young, and wealthy,<br /> +Infinite wealthy, and as gracious too<br /> +In all her entertainments, as men report.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>But she is proud, Sir, that I know for certain,<br /> +And that comes seldome without wantonness,<br /> +He that shall marry her, must have a rare hand.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Would I were married, I would find that Wisdom,<br /> +With a light rein to rule my Wife: if ever Woman<br /> +<a name="ref-171-14"></a>Of the most subtile mould went beyond me,<br /> +I would give the Boys leave to whoot me out o'th' Parish.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter a Servant.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>Sir, there be two Gentlewomen attend to speak<br /> +<a name="ref-171-18"></a>With you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-171-19"></a>Wait on 'em in.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Are they two handsome Women?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>They seem so, very handsom, but they are vail'd, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Thou put'st sugar in my mouth, how it melts with me!<br /> +I love a sweet young Wench.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Wait on them in I say.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit Servant.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<i>Don Juan.</i><br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>How you itch, <i>Michael</i>! how you burnish!<br /> +Will not this Souldiers heat out of your bones yet,<br /> +Do your Eyes glow now?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>There be two.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Say honest, what shame have you then?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I would fain see that,<br /> +I have been in the Indies twice, and have seen strange things,<br /> +But two honest Women;--one I read of once.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Prithee be modest.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'll be any thing.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Servant</span>, <span class="name">Donna Clara</span>, and <span class="name">Estifania</span> vail'd.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You are welcome Ladies.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-171-38"></a>Both hooded, I like 'em well though,<br /> +They come not for advice in Law sure hither;<br /> +<a name="ref-172-2"></a>May be they would learn to raise the Pike,<br /> +I am for 'em: they are very modest, 'tis a fine Preludium.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>With me, or with this Gentleman,<br /> +Would you speak, Lady?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>With you, Sir, as I guess, <i>Juan de Castro</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Her Curtain opens, she is a pretty Gentlewoman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I am the Man, and shall be bound to Fortune,<br /> +I may do any service to your Beauties.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Captain, I hear you are marching down to <i>Flanders</i>,<br /> +To serve the Catholick King.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I am sweet Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>I have a Kinsman, and a noble Friend,<br /> +Imploy'd in those Wars, may be, Sir, you know him,<br /> +<i>Don Campusano</i> Captain of <i>Carbines</i>,<br /> +To whom I would request your Nobleness,<br /> +To give this poor Remembrance.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[A Letter.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I shall do it,<br /> +I know the Gentleman, a most worthy Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Something in private.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Step aside: I'll serve thee.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Ex. <span class="name">Juan</span>, and <span class="name">Clara</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Prithee let me see thy face.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Sir, you must pardon me,<br /> +Women of our sort, that maintain fair memories,<br /> +And keep suspect off from their Chastities,<br /> +Had need wear thicker Vails.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I am no blaster of a Ladies Beauty,<br /> +Nor bold intruder on her special favours,<br /> +I know how tender Reputation is,<br /> +And with what guards it ought to be preserv'd, Lady,<br /> +You may to me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You must excuse me, Seignior, I come<br /> +Not here to sell my self.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>As I am a Gentleman, by the honour of a Souldier.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I believe you,<br /> +I pray you be civil, I believe you would see me,<br /> +And when you have seen me I believe you will like me,<br /> +But in a strange place, to a stranger too,<br /> +As if I came on purpose to betray you,<br /> +Indeed I will not.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page173"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I shall love you dearly,<br /> +And 'tis a sin to fling away affection,<br /> +I have no Mistress, no desire to honour<br /> +Any but you, will not this Oyster open?<br /> +I know not, you have struck me with your modesty;<br /> +She will draw sure; so deep, and taken from me<br /> +All the desire I might bestow on others,<br /> +Quickly before they come.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Indeed I dare not:<br /> +But since I see you are so desirous, Sir,<br /> +To view a poor face that can merit nothing<br /> +But your Repentance.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>It must needs be excellent.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>And with what honesty you ask it of me,<br /> +When I am gone let your man follow me,<br /> +And view what house I enter, thither come,<br /> +For there I dare be bold to appear open:<br /> +And as I like your vertuous carriage then,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan</span>, <span class="name">Clara</span>, a Servant.</p> +I shall be able to give welcome to you;<br /> +She hath done her business, I must take my leave, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-173-22"></a>I'll kiss your fair white hand and thank you, Lady.<br /> +My man shall wait, and I shall be your Servant;<br /> +Sirrah, come near, hark.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>I shall do it faithfully.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You will command me no more services?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>To be careful of your noble health, dear Sir,<br /> +That I may ever honour you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I thank you,<br /> +And kiss your hands, wait on the Ladies down there.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt Ladies, and Servants.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>You had the honour to see the face that came to you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>And 'twas a fair one; what was yours, <i>Don Michael</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Mine was i'th' clipse, and had a Cloud drawn over it.<br /> +But I believe well, and I hope 'tis handsome,<br /> +She had a hand would stir a holy Hermite.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You know none of 'em?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Then I do, Captain,<br /> +But I'll say nothing till I see the proof on't,<br /> +Sit close <i>Don Perez</i>, or your Worship's caught.<br /> +I fear a Flye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Were those she brought Love-Letters?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>A Packet to a Kinsman now in <i>Flanders</i>,<br /> +Yours was very modest methought.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Some young unmanag'd thing,<br /> +But I may live to see--<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>'Tis worth experience,<br /> +Let's walk abroad and view our Companies.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, and <span class="name">Alonzo</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>What, are you for the Wars, <i>Alonzo</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>It may be I,<br /> +It may be no, e'n as the humour takes me.<br /> +If I find peace amongst the female Creatures,<br /> +And easie entertainment, I'll stay at home,<br /> +I am not so far obliged yet to long Marches<br /> +And mouldy Biskets, to run mad for Honour,<br /> +When you are all gone I have my choice before me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Of which Hospital thou wilt sweat in; wilt thou<br /> +Never leave whoring?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>There is less danger in't than gunning, <i>Sanchio</i>,<br /> +Though we be shot sometimes, the shot's not mortal,<br /> +Besides, it breaks no limbs.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>But it disables 'em,<br /> +Dost thou see how thou pull'st thy legs after thee, as they<br /> +Hung by points.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Better to pull 'em thus than walk on wooden ones,<br /> +Serve bravely for a Billet to support me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Fye, fye, 'tis base.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Dost thou count it base to suffer?<br /> +Suffer abundantly? 'tis the Crown of Honour;<br /> +You think it nothing to lie twenty days<br /> +Under a Surgeons hands that has no mercy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>As thou hast done I am sure, but I perceive now<br /> +Why you desire to stay, the orient Heiress,<br /> +The <i>Margarita</i>, Sir,<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>I would I had her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>They say she will marry.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page175"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p> +<a name="ref-175-1"></a>I think she will.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>And marry suddenly, as report goes too,<br /> +She fears her Youth will not hold out, <i>Alonzo</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>I would I had the sheathing on't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>They say too<br /> +She has a greedy eye that must be fed<br /> +With more than one mans meat.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Would she were mine,<br /> +I would cater for her well enough; but <i>Sanchio</i>,<br /> +There be too many great men that adore her,<br /> +Princes, and Princes fellows, that claim priviledge.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Yet those stand off i'th' way of marriage,<br /> +To be tyed to a man's pleasure is a second labour.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>She has bought a brave house here in town.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>I have heard so.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>If she convert it now to pious uses,<br /> +And bid poor Gentlemen welcome.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>When comes she to it?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Within these two days, she is in the Country yet,<br /> +And keeps the noblest House.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Then there's some hope of her,<br /> +Wilt thou go my way?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>No, no, I must leave you,<br /> +And repair to an old Gentlewoman<br /> +That has credit with her, that can speak a good word.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Send thee good fortune, but make thy Body sound first.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>I am a Souldier,<br /> +And too sound a Body becomes me not;<br /> +<a name="ref-175-29"></a>Farewel, <i>Sanchio</i>. +<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter a Servant of <span class="name">Michael Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p> +<a name="ref-175-31"></a>'Tis this or that house, or I have lost my aim,<br /> +They are both fair buildings, she walked plaguy fast,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Estifania</span>.</p> +And hereabouts I lost her; stay, that's she,<br /> +'Tis very she,--she makes me a low court'sie,<br /> +Let me note the place, the street I well remember.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +She is in again, certain some noble Lady.<br /> +How happy should I be if she love my master:<br /> +A wondrous goodly house, here are brave lodgings,<br /> +And I shall sleep now like an Emperour,<br /> +And eat abundantly: I thank my fortune,<br /> +I'll back with speed, and bring him happy tidings.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter three old Ladies.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>What should it mean, that in such haste<br /> +We are sent for?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>Belike the Lady <i>Margaret</i> has some business<br /> +She would break to us in private.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">3 Lady </p>It should seem so.<br /> +'Tis a good Lady, and a wise young Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>And vertuous enough too I warrant ye<br /> +For a young Woman of her years; 'tis pity<br /> +To load her tender Age with too much Vertue.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">3 Lady </p>'Tis more sometimes than we can well away with.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Altea</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Good morrow, Ladies.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">All </p>'Morrow, my good Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>How does the sweet young Beauty, Lady <i>Margaret</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>Has she slept well after her walk last night?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Are her dreams gentle to her mind?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>All's well,<br /> +She's very well, she sent for you thus suddenly<br /> +To give her counsel in a business<br /> +That much concerns her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>She does well and wisely,<br /> +To ask the counsel of the ancientst, Madam,<br /> +Our years have run through many things she knows not.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>She would fain marry.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p> +<a name="ref-176-30"></a>'Tis a proper calling,<br /> +And well beseems her years, who would she yoke with?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>That's left to argue on, I pray come in<br /> +And break your fast, drink a good cup or two,<br /> +To strengthen your understandings, then she'l tell ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>And good wine breeds good counsel.<br /> +We'l yield to ye.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page177"></a></span> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan de Castro</span>, and <span class="name">Leon</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Have you seen any service?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Where?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Every where.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>What office bore ye?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>None, I was not worthy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>What Captains know you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>None, they were above me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Were you never hurt?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Not that I well remember,<br /> +But once I stole a Hen, and then they beat me;<br /> +Pray ask me no long questions, I have an ill memory.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>This is an Asse, did you never draw your sword yet?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Not to do any harm I thank Heaven for't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Nor ne'r ta'ne prisoner?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>No, I ran away,<br /> +For I had ne'r no mony to redeem me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Can you endure a Drum?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>It makes my head ake.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Are you not valiant when you are drunk?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I think not, but I am loving Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>What a lump is this man,<br /> +Was your Father wise?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Too wise for me I'm sure,<br /> +For he gave all he had to my younger Brother.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>That was no foolish part I'le bear you witness.<br /> +Canst thou lye with a woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I think I could make shift Sir,<br /> +But I am bashfull.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>In the night?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I know not,<br /> +Darkness indeed may do some good upon me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Why art thou sent to me to be my officer,<br /> +I, and commended too, when thou darst not fight?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>There be more officers of my opinion,<br /> +Or I am cozen'd Sir, men that talk more too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>How wilt thou scape a bullet?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Why by chance,<br /> +They aim at honourable men, alas I am none Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>This fellow has some doubts in's talk that strike me,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Alonzo</span>.</p> +He cannot be all fool: welcom <i>Alonzo</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>What have you got there, temperance into your company?<br /> +The spirit of peace? we shall have wars<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>.</p> +By th'ounce then. O here's another pumpion,<br /> +Let him loose for luck sake, the cram'd son<br /> +<a name="ref-178-10"></a>Of a stay'd Usurer, <i>Cacafogo</i>, both their brains butter'd,<br /> +Cannot make two spoonfulls.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>My Father's dead: I am a man of war too,<br /> +Monyes, demesns; I have ships at sea too,<br /> +Captains.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Take heed o'th' Hollanders, your ships may leak else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I scorn the Hollanders, they are my drunkards.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Put up your gold Sir, I'le borrow it else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I am satisfied, you shall not,<br /> +Come out, I know thee, meet mine anger instantly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I never wrong'd ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Thou hast wrong'd mine honor,<br /> +<a name="ref-178-22"></a>Thou look'dst upon my Mistris thrice lasciviously,<br /> +I'le make it good.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-178-24"></a>Do not hea[t] your self, you will surfeit.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Thou wan'st my mony too, with a pair of base bones,<br /> +In whom there was no truth, for which I beat thee,<br /> +I beat thee much, now I will hurt thee dangerously.<br /> +This shall provoke thee.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[He strikes.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>You struck too low by a foot Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You must get a ladder when you would beat<br /> +This fellow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I cannot chuse but kick again, pray pardon me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Had'st thou not ask'd my pardon, I had kill'd thee,<br /> +I leave thee as a thing despis'd, <i>assoles manus a vostra siniare</i><br /> +<i>a Maistre</i>.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name"></span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>You have scap'd by miracle, there is not in all <i>Spain</i>,<br /> +A spirit of more fury than this fire drake.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I see he is hasty, and I would give him leave<br /> +To beat me soundly if he would take my bond.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>What shall I do with this fellow?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Turn him off,<br /> +He will infect the camp with cowardise,<br /> +If he goe with thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>About some week hence Sir,<br /> +If I can hit upon no abler officer,<br /> +You shall hear from me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I desire no better.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Estifania</span>, and <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>You have made me now too bountifull amends, Lady<br /> +For your strict carriage when you saw me first,<br /> +These beauties were not meant to be conceal'd,<br /> +It was a wrong to hide so sweet an object,<br /> +I cou'd now chide ye, but it shall be thus,<br /> +No other anger ever touch your sweetness.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You appear to me so honest, and so civil,<br /> +Without a blush Sir, I dare bid ye welcom.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Now let me ask your name.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>'Tis <i>Estifanie</i>, the heir of this poor place.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Poor do you call it?<br /> +There's nothing that I cast mine eyes upon,<br /> +But shews both rich and admirable, all the rooms<br /> +Are hung as if a Princess were to dwell here,<br /> +The Gardens, Orchards, every thing so curious:<br /> +Is all that plate your own too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>'Tis but little,<br /> +Only for present use, I have more and richer,<br /> +When need shall call, or friends compel me use it,<br /> +The sutes you see of all the upper chamber,<br /> +Are those that commonly adorn the house,<br /> +I think I have besides, as fair, as civil,<br /> +<a name="ref-179-33"></a>As any town in <i>Spain</i> can parallel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Now if she be not married, I have some hopes.<br /> +Are you a maid?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You make me blush to answer,<br /> +I ever was accounted so to this hour,<br /> +And that's the reason that I live retir'd Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Then would I counsel you to marry presently,<br /> +(If I can get her, I am made for ever)<br /> +For every year you lose, you lose a beauty,<br /> +A Husband now, an honest careful Husband,<br /> +Were such a comfort: will ye walk above stairs?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>This place will fit our talk, 'tis fitter far Sir,<br /> +Above there are day-beds, and such temptations<br /> +I dare not trust Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She is excellent wise withal too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You nam'd a husband, I am not so strict Sir,<br /> +Nor ti'd unto a Virgins solitariness,<br /> +But if an honest, and a noble one,<br /> +Rich, and a souldier, for so I have vowed he shall be,<br /> +Were offer'd me, I think I should accept him,<br /> +But above all he must love.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>He were base else,<br /> +There's comfort ministred in the word souldier,<br /> +How sweetly should I live!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I am not so ignorant, but that I know well,<br /> +How to be commanded,<br /> +And how again to make my self obey'd Sir,<br /> +I waste but little, I have gather'd much,<br /> +My rial not the less worth, when 'tis spent,<br /> +If spent by my direction, to please my Husband,<br /> +I hold it as indifferent in my duty,<br /> +To be his maid i'th' kitchen, or his Cook,<br /> +As in the Hall to know my self the Mistris.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Sweet, rich, and provident, now fortune stick<br /> +To me; I am a Souldier, and a bachelour, Lady,<br /> +And such a wife as you, I cou'd love infinitely,<br /> +They that use many words, some are deceitfull,<br /> +I long to be a Husband, and a good one,<br /> +For 'tis most certain I shall make a president<br /> +For all that follow me to love their Ladies,<br /> +I am young you see, able I would have you think too,<br /> +If't please you know, try me before you take me.<br /> +'Tis true I shall not meet in equal wealth<br /> +With ye, but Jewels, Chains, such as the war<br /> +Has given me, a thousand Duckets I dare<br /> +Presume on in ready gold, now as your<br /> +Care may handle it, as rich cloths too, as<br /> +Any he bears arms Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You are a true gentleman, and fair, I see by ye,<br /> +And such a man I had rather take.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Pray do so, I'le have a Priest o'th' sudden.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>And as suddenly you will repent too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le be hang'd or drown'd first,<br /> +By this and this, and this kiss.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You are a Flatterer,<br /> +But I must say there was something when I saw you<br /> +First, in that most noble face, that stirr'd my fancy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le stir it better e're you sleep sweet Lady,<br /> +I'le send for all my trunks and give up all to ye,<br /> +Into your own dispose, before I bed ye,<br /> +And then sweet wench.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You have the art to cozen me.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.2"></a>Actus Secundus</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4539940"></a>Scena Prima</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, and two Ladies, and <span class="name">Altea</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Sit down and give me your opinions seriously.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>You say you have a mind to marry Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis true, I have for to preserve my credit,<br /> +Yet not so much for that as for my state Ladies,<br /> +Conceive me right, there lies the main o'th' question,<br /> +Credit I can redeem, mony will imp it,<br /> +But when my monie's gone, when the law shall<br /> +Seize that, and for incontinency strip me<br /> +Of all.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Do you find your body so malitious that way?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I find it as all bodies are that are young and lusty,<br /> +Lazy, and high fed, I desire my pleasure,<br /> +And pleasure I must have.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>'Tis fit you should have,<br /> +Your years require it, and 'tis necessary,<br /> +As necessary as meat to a young Lady,<br /> +Sleep cannot nourish more.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>But might not all this be, and keep ye single.<br /> +You take away variety in marriage,<br /> +The abundance of the pleasure you are bar'd then,<br /> +Is't not abundance that you aim at?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Yes why was I made a woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>And every day a new?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why fair and young but to use it?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>You are still i'th' right, why would you marry then?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p> +<a name="ref-182-6"></a>Because a husband stops all doubts in this point,<br /> +And clears all passages.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>What Husband mean ye?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>A Husband of an easy faith, a fool,<br /> +Made by her wealth, and moulded to her pleasure,<br /> +One though he see himself become a monster,<br /> +Shall hold the door, and entertain the maker.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>You grant there may be such a man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Yes marry, but how to bring 'em to this rare Perfection.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>They must be chosen so, things of no honour,<br /> +Nor outward honesty.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No 'tis no matter,<br /> +I care not what they are, so they be lusty.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>Me thinks now a rich Lawyer, some such fellow,<br /> +That carries credit, and a face of awe,<br /> +But lies with nothing but his clients business.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No there's no trusting them, they are too subtil,<br /> +The Law has moulded 'em of natural mischief.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Then some grave governor,<br /> +Some man of honour, yet an easy man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>If he have honour I am undone, I'le none such,<br /> +I'le have a lusty man, honour will cloy me.\<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>'Tis fit ye should Lady;<br /> +And to that end, with search and wit and labour,<br /> +I have found one out, a right one and a perfect,<br /> +He is made as strong as brass, is of brave years too,<br /> +<a name="ref-182-33"></a>And doughty of complexion.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is he a Gentleman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Yes and a souldier, as gentle as you would wish him,<br /> +A good fellow, wears good cloaths.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Those I'le allow him,<br /> +They are for my credit, does he understand<br /> +But little?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Very little.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page183"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis the better,<br /> +<a name="ref-183-2"></a>Have not the wars bred him up to anger?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p> +<a name="ref-183-3"></a>No, he will not quarrel with a dog that bites hi[m],<br /> +Let him be drunk or sober, is one silence.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p> +<a name="ref-183-5"></a>H'as no capacity what honor is?<br /> +For that's the Souldiers god.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Honour's a thing too subtil for his wisdom,<br /> +If honour lye in eating, he is right honourable.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is he so goodly a man do you say?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>As you shall see Lady,<br /> +But to all this is but a trunk.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I would have him so,<br /> +I shall adde branches to him to adorn him,<br /> +Goe, find me out this man, and let me see him,<br /> +If he be that motion that you tell me of,<br /> +And make no more noise, I shall entertain him,<br /> +Let him be here.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He shall attend your Ladiship.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, and <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Why thou art not married indeed?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No, no, pray think so,<br /> +Alas I am a fellow of no reckoning,<br /> +Not worth a Ladies eye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Wou'dst thou steal a fortune,<br /> +And make none of all thy friends acquainted with it,<br /> +Nor bid us to thy wedding?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No indeed,<br /> +There was no wisdom in't, to bid an Artist,<br /> +An old seducer to a femal banquet,<br /> +I can cut up my pye without your instructions.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Was it the wench i'th' veil?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Basto 'twas she,<br /> +The prettiest Rogue that e're you look'd upon,<br /> +The lovingst thief.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>And is she rich withal too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>A mine, a mine, there is no end of wealth Coronel,<br /> +I am an asse, a bashfull fool, prethee Coronel,<br /> +<a name="ref-183-38"></a>How do thy compa[ni]es fill now?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You are merry Sir,<br /> +You intend a safer war at home belike now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I do not think I shall fight much this year Coronel,<br /> +I find my self given to my ease a little,<br /> +I care not if I sell my foolish company,<br /> +They are things of hazard.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>How it angers me,<br /> +This fellow at first fight should win a Lady,<br /> +A rich young wench, and I that have consum'd<br /> +My time and art in searching out their subtleties,<br /> +Like a fool'd Alchymist blow up my hopes still?<br /> +When shall we come to thy house and be freely merry?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>When I have manag'd her a little more,<br /> +<a name="ref-184-13"></a>I have an house to entertain an army.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>If thy wife be fair, thou wilt have few less<br /> +Come to thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>But where they'l get entertainment is the point Signior.<br /> +I beat no Drum.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>You need none but her taber,<br /> +May be I'le march after a month or two,<br /> +To get me a fresh stomach. I find Coronel<br /> +A wantonness in wealth, methinks I agree not with,<br /> +'Tis such a trouble to be married too,<br /> +And have a thousand things of great importance,<br /> +Jewels and plates, and fooleries molest me,<br /> +To have a mans brains whimsied with his wealth:<br /> +Before I walk'd contentedly.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Servant</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>My Mistris Sir is sick, because you are absent,<br /> +She mourns and will not eat.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Alas my Jewel,<br /> +Come I'le goe with thee, Gentlemen your fair leaves,<br /> +You see I am ti'd a little to my yoke,<br /> +Pray pardon me, would ye had both such loving wives.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I thank ye<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Perez</span>, Servant.</p> +<br /> +For your old boots, never be blank <i>Alonzo</i>,<br /> +Because this fellow has outstript thy fortune,<br /> +Tell me ten daies hence what he is, and how<br /> +The gracious state of matrimony stands with him,<br /> +Come, let's to dinner, when <i>Margarita</i> comes<br /> +We'l visit both, it may be then your fortune.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<a name="ref-185-2"></a><p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>, and Ladies.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is he come?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p> +<a name="ref-185-4"></a>Yes Madam, h'as been here this half hour,<br /> +I have question'd him of all that you can ask him,<br /> +And find him as fit as you had made the man,<br /> +He will make the goodliest shadow for iniquity.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Have ye searcht him Ladies?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Omnes </p>Is a man at all points, a likely man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Call him in <i>Altea</i>.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Lady</span>.</p> +<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>.</p> +A man of a good presence, pray ye come this way,<br /> +Of a lusty body, is his mind so tame?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Pray ye question him, and if you find him not<br /> +Fit for your purpose, shake him off, there's no harm<br /> +Done.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Can you love a young Lady? How he blushes!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Leave twirling of your hat, and hold your head up,<br /> +And speak to'th' Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes, I think I can,<br /> +I must be taught, I know not what it means Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You shall be taught, and can you when she pleases<br /> +Go ride abroad, and stay a week or two?<br /> +You shall have men and horses to attend ye,<br /> +And mony in your purse.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes I love riding,<br /> +And when I am from home I am so merry.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Be as merry as you will: can you as handsomely<br /> +When you are sent for back, come with obedience,<br /> +And doe your dutie to the Lady loves you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes sure, I shall.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And when you see her friends here,<br /> +Or noble kinsmen, can you entertain<br /> +Their servants in the Celler, and be busied,<br /> +And hold your peace, what e're you see or hear of?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Twere fit I were hang'd else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Let me try your kisses,<br /> +How the fool shakes, I will not eat ye Sir,<br /> +Beshrew my heart he kisses wondrous manly,<br /> +Can ye doe any thing else?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Indeed I know not;<br /> +But if your Ladiship will please to instruct me,<br /> +Sure I shall learn.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You shall then be instructed:<br /> +If I should be this Lady that affects ye,<br /> +Nay say I marry ye?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Hark to the Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>What mony have ye?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>None Madam, nor friends,<br /> +I wou'd doe any thing to serve your Ladiship.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You must not look to be my Mr Sir,<br /> +Nor talk i'th' house as though you wore the breeches,<br /> +No, nor command in any thing.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I will not,<br /> +Alas I am not able, I have no wit Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Nor do not labour to arrive at any,<br /> +'Twill spoil your head, I take ye upon charity,<br /> +And like a Servant ye must be unto me,<br /> +As I behold your duty I shall love ye,<br /> +And as you observe me, I may chance lye with ye,<br /> +Can you mark these?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes indeed forsooth.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>There is one thing,<br /> +That if I take ye in I put ye from me,<br /> +Utterly from me, you must not be sawcy,<br /> +No, nor at any time familiar with me,<br /> +Scarce know me, when I call ye not.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I will not, alas I never knew my self sufficiently.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Nor must not now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I'le be a Dog to please ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Indeed you must fetch and carry as I appoint ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I were to blame else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Kiss me again; a strong fellow,<br /> +There is a vigor in his lips: if you see me<br /> +Kiss any other, twenty in an hour Sir,<br /> +You must not start, nor be offended.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>No, if you kiss a thousand I shall be contented,<br /> +It will the better teach me how to please ye.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page187"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I told ye Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis the man I wisht for; the less you speak.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I'le never speak again Madam,<br /> +But when you charge me, then I'le speak softly too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Get me a Priest, I'le wed him instantly,<br /> +But when you are married Sir, you must wait<br /> +Upon me, and see you observe my laws.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Else you shall hang me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I'le give ye better clothes when you deserve 'em,<br /> +Come in, and serve for witness.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Omnes </p>We shall Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And then away toth' city presently,<br /> +I'le to my new house and new company.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>A thousand crowns are thine, and I am a made man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Do not break out too soon.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I know my time wench.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Clara</span>, and <span class="name">Estifania</span> with a paper.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>What, have you caught him?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>And do you find him<br /> +A man of those hopes that you aim'd at?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes too,<br /> +And the most kind man, and the ablest also<br /> +To give a wife content, he is sound as old wine,<br /> +And to his soundness rises on the pallat,<br /> +<a name="ref-187-26"></a>And there's the man; find him rich too <i>Clara</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Hast thou married him?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>What dost thou think I fish without a bait wench?<br /> +I bob for fools? he is mine own, I have him,<br /> +I told thee what would tickle him like a trout,<br /> +And as I cast it so I caught him daintily,<br /> +And all he has I have 'stowed at my devotion.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Does thy Lady know this? she is coming now to town,<br /> +Now to live here in this house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Let her come,<br /> +She shall be welcom, I am prepar'd for her,<br /> +She is mad sure if she be angry at my fortune,<br /> +For what I have made bold.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>Dost thou not love him?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page188"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes, intirely well,<br /> +As long as there he staies and looks no farther<br /> +Into my ends, but when he doubts, I hate him,<br /> +And that wise hate will teach me how to cozen him:<br /> +How to decline their wives, and curb their manners,<br /> +To put a stern and strong reyn to their natures,<br /> +And holds he is an Asse not worth acquaintance,<br /> +That cannot mould a Devil to obedience,<br /> +I owe him a good turn for these opinions,<br /> +And as I find his temper I may pay him,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +O here he is, now you shall see a kind man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>My <i>Estifania</i>, shall we to dinner lamb?<br /> +I know thou stay'st for me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I cannot eat else.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I never enter but me thinks a Paradise<br /> +Appears about me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You are welcom to it Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I think I have the sweetest seat in <i>Spain</i> wench,<br /> +Me thinks the richest too, we'l eat i'th' garden<br /> +In one o'th' arbours, there 'tis cool and pleasant,<br /> +And have our wine cold in the running fountain.<br /> +Who's that?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>A friend of mine Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Of what breeding?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>A Gentlewoman Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>What business has she?<br /> +Is she a learned woman i'th' Mathematicks,<br /> +Can she tell fortunes?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>More than I know Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Or has she e're a letter from a kinswoman,<br /> +That must be delivered in my absence wife,<br /> +Or comes she from the Doctor to salute ye,<br /> +And learn your health? she looks not like a confessor.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>What need all this, why are you troubled Sir?<br /> +What do you suspect, she cannot cuckold ye,<br /> +She is a woman Sir, a very woman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Your very woman may do very well Sir<br /> +Toward the matter, for though she cannot perform it<br /> +In her own person, she may do it by Proxie,<br /> +Your rarest jugglers work still by conspiracy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Cry ye mercy husband, you are jealous then,<br /> +And happily suspect me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No indeed wife.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Me thinks you should not till you have more cause<br /> +And clearer too: I am sure you have heard say husband,<br /> +A woman forced will free her self through Iron,<br /> +A happy, calm, and good wife discontented<br /> +May be taught tricks.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No, no, I do but jest with ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>To morrow friend I'le see you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Clara </p>I shall leave ye<br /> +Till then, and pray all may goe sweetly with ye.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Why where's this girle, whose at the door?<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Knock.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Who knocks there?<br /> +Is't for the King ye come, you knock so boisterously?<br /> +Look to the door.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Maid</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>My Lady, as I live Mistris, my Ladie's come,<br /> +She's at the door, I peept through, and I saw her,<br /> +And a stately company of Ladies with her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>This was a week too soon, but I must meet with her,<br /> +And set a new wheel going, and a subtile one,<br /> +Must blind this mighty <i>Mars</i>, or I am ruin'd.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>What are they at door?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Such my <i>Michael</i><br /> +<a name="ref-189-28"></a>As you may bless the day they enter'd there,<br /> +Such for our good.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>'Tis well.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Nay, 'twill be better<br /> +If you will let me but dispose the business,<br /> +And be a stranger to it, and not disturb me,<br /> +What have I now to do but to advance your fortune?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Doe, I dare trust thee, I am asham'd I am angry,<br /> +I find thee a wise young wife.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'le wise your worship<br /> +Before I leave ye, pray ye walk by and say nothing,<br /> +<a name="ref-189-39"></a>Only salute them, and leave the rest to me Sir,<br /> +I was born to make ye a man.<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other"></p> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>The Rogue speaks heartily,<br /> +Her good will colours in her cheeks, I am born to love her,<br /> +I must be gentler to these tender natures,<br /> +A Souldiers rude harsh words befit not Ladies,<br /> +Nor must we talk to them as we talk to<br /> +Our Officers, I'le give her way, for 'tis for me she<br /> +Works now, I am husband, heir, and all she has.<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Estifania</span>, <span class="name">Leon</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>, and Ladies.</p> +Who are these, what flanting things, a woman<br /> +Of rare presence! excellent fair, this is too big<br /> +For a bawdy house, too open seated too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>My Husband, Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You have gain'd a proper man.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>What e're I am, I am your servant Lady.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[kisses.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Sir, be rul'd now,<br /> +And I shall make ye rich, this is my cousin,<br /> +That Gentleman dotes on her, even to death, see how he observes her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She is a goodly woman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>She is a mirrour,<br /> +But she is poor, she were for a Princes side else,<br /> +This house she has brought him too as to her own,<br /> +And presuming upon me, and upon my courtesie.<br /> +Conceive me short, he knows not but she is wealthy,<br /> +<a name="ref-190-25"></a>Or if he did know otherwise, 'twere all one,<br /> +He is so far gone.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Forward, she has a rare face.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>This we must carry with discretion Husband,<br /> +And yield unto her for four daies.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Yield our house up, our goods and wealth?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>All this is but in seeming,<br /> +To milk the lover on, do you see this writing,<br /> +200<i>l</i> a year when they are married<br /> +Has she sealed to for our good; the time's unfit now,<br /> +I'le shew it you to morrow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>All the house?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>All, all, and we'l remove too, to confirm him,<br /> +They'l into th' country suddenly again<br /> +After they are matcht, and then she'l open to him.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page191"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>The whole possession wife? look what you doe,<br /> +A part o'th' house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>No, no, they shall have all,<br /> +And take their pleasure too, 'tis for our 'vantage.<br /> +Why, what's four daies? had you a Sister Sir,<br /> +A Niece or Mistris that required this courtesie,<br /> +And should I make a scruple to do you good?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>If easily it would come back.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I swear Sir,<br /> +As easily as it came on, is't not pity<br /> +To let such a Gentlewoman for a little help--<br /> +You give away no house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Clear but that question.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'le put the writings into your hand.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Well then.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>And you shall keep them safe.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I am satisfied; wou'd I had the wench so too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>When she has married him,<br /> +So infinite his love is linkt unto her,<br /> +You, I, or any one that helps at this pinch<br /> +May have Heaven knows what.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le remove the goods straight,<br /> +And take some poor house by, 'tis but for four days.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I have a poor old friend; there we'l be.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>'Tis well then.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Goe handsom off, and leave the house clear.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Well.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>That little stuff we'l use shall follow after;<br /> +And a boy to guide ye, peace and we are made both.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Come, let's goe in, are all the rooms kept sweet wench?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>They are sweet and neat.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why where's your Husband?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Gone Madam.<br /> +When you come to your own he must give place Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Well, send you joy, you would not let me know't,<br /> +Yet I shall not forget ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Thank your Ladyship.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page192"></a></span> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.3"></a>Actus Tertius</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4547652"></a>Scena Prima.</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>, and <span class="name">Boy</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Are you at ease now, is your heart at rest,<br /> +Now you have got a shadow, an <i>umbrella</i><br /> +To keep the scorching worlds opinion<br /> +From your fair credit.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I am at peace <i>Altea</i>,<br /> +If he continue but the same he shews,<br /> +And be a master of that ignorance<br /> +He outwardly professes, I am happy,<br /> +The pleasure I shall live in and the freedom<br /> +Without the squint-eye of the law upon me,<br /> +Or prating liberty of tongues, that envy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>You are a made woman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>But if he should prove now<br /> +A crafty and dissembling kind of Husband,<br /> +One read in knavery, and brought up in the art<br /> +Of villany conceal'd.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>My life, an innocent.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>That's it I aim at,<br /> +That's it I hope too, then I am sure I rule him,<br /> +For innocents are like obedient Children<br /> +Brought up under a hard Mother-in-law, a cruel,<br /> +Who being not us'd to break-fasts and collations,<br /> +When they have course bread offer'd 'em, are thankfull,<br /> +And take it for a favour too. Are the rooms<br /> +Made ready to entertain my friends? I long to dance now<br /> +And to be wanton; let me have a song, is the great couch up<br /> +The Duke of <i>Medina</i> sent?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>'Tis up and ready.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And day-beds in all chambers?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>In all Lady,<br /> +Your house is nothing now but various pleasures,<br /> +The Gallants begin to gaze too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Let 'em gaze on,<br /> +I was brought up a Courtier, high and happy,<br /> +And company is my delight, and courtship,<br /> +And handsom servants at my will: where's my good husband,<br /> +Where does he wait?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He knows his distance Madam,<br /> +I warrant ye he is busie in the celler<br /> +Amongst his fellow servants, or asleep,<br /> +Till your command awake him.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis well <i>Altea</i>.<br /> +It should be so, my ward I must preserve him.<br /> +Who sent for him, how dare he come uncall'd for,<br /> +His bonnet on too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Sure he sees you not.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>How scornfully he looks!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Are all the chambers<br /> +Deckt and adorn'd thus for my Ladies pleasure?<br /> +New hangings every hour for entertainment,<br /> +And new plate bought, new Jewels to give lustre?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>They are, and yet there must be more and richer,<br /> +It is her will.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Hum, is it so? 'tis excellent,<br /> +It is her will too, to have feasts and banquets,<br /> +Revells and masques.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>She ever lov'd 'em dearly,<br /> +And we shall have the bravest house kept now Sir,<br /> +I must not call ye master she has warn'd me,<br /> +Nor must not put my hat off to ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis no fashion,<br /> +What though I be her husband, I am your fellow,<br /> +I may cut first.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>That's as you shall deserve Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>And when I lye with her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>May be I'le light ye,<br /> +On the same point you may doe me that service.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">1 Lady</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">1 Lady </p>Madam, the Duke <i>Medina</i> with some Captains<br /> +Will come to dinner, and have sent rare wine,<br /> +And their best services.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>They shall be welcom,<br /> +See all be ready in the noblest fashion,<br /> +The house perfum'd, now I shall take my pleasure,<br /> +And not my neighbour Justice maunder at me.<br /> +Go, get your best cloths on, but till I call ye,<br /> +Be sure you be not seen, dine with the Gentlewomen,<br /> +And behave your self cleanly Sir, 'tis for my credit.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">2 Lady</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p> +<a name="ref-194-8"></a>Madam, the Lady <i>Julia</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>That's a bawd,<br /> +A three pil'd bawd, bawd major to the army.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p> +<a name="ref-194-11"></a>Has brought her coach to wait upon your Ladiship,<br /> +And to be inform'd if you will take the air this morning.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>The neat air of her nunnery.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Tell her no, i'th' afternoon I'le call on her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">2 Lady </p>I will Madam.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why are not you gone to prepare your self,<br /> +May be you shall be sewer to the fire course,<br /> +A portly presence, <i>Altea</i> he looks lean,<br /> +'Tis a wash knave, he will not keep his flesh well.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>A willing, Madam, one that needs no spurring.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Faith madam, in my little understanding,<br /> +You had better entertain your honest neighbours,<br /> +Your friends about ye, that may speak well of ye,<br /> +And give a worthy mention of your bounty.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>How now, what's this?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis only to perswade ye,<br /> +Courtiers are but tickle things to deal withal,<br /> +A kind of march-pane men that will not last Madam,<br /> +An egge and pepper goes farther than their potions,<br /> +And in a well built body, a poor parsnip<br /> +Will play his prize above their strong potabiles.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>The fellow's mad.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He that shall counsel Ladies,<br /> +That have both liquorish and ambitious eyes,<br /> +Is either mad, or drunk, let him speak Gospel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He breaks out modestly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Pray ye be not angry,<br /> +My indiscretion has made bold to tell ye,<br /> +What you'l find true.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page195"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Thou darest not talk.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Not much Madam,<br /> +You have a tye upon your servants tongue,<br /> +He dares not be so bold as reason bids him,<br /> +'Twere fit there were a stronger on your temper.<br /> +Ne're look so stern upon me, I am your Husband,<br /> +But what are Husbands? read the new worlds wonders,<br /> +Such Husbands as this monstrous world produces,<br /> +And you will scarce find such deformities,<br /> +They are shadows to conceal your venial vertues,<br /> +Sails to your mills, that grind with all occasions,<br /> +Balls that lye by you, to wash out your stains,<br /> +And bills nail'd up with horn before your stories,<br /> +To rent out last.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Do you hear him talk?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I have done Madam,<br /> +An oxe once spoke, as learned men deliver,<br /> +Shortly I shall be such, then I'le speak wonders,<br /> +Till when I tye my self to my obedience.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>First I'le unty my self, did you mark the Gentleman,<br /> +How boldly and how sawcily he talk'd,<br /> +And how unlike the lump I took him for,<br /> +The piece of ignorant dow, he stood up to me<br /> +And mated my commands, this was your providence,<br /> +Your wisdom, to elect this Gentleman,<br /> +Your excellent forecast in the man, your knowledge,<br /> +What think ye now?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I think him an Asse still,<br /> +This boldness some of your people have blown<br /> +Into him, this wisdom too with strong wine,<br /> +'Tis a Tyrant, and a Philosopher also, and finds<br /> +Out reasons.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I'le have my celler lockt, no school kept there,<br /> +Nor no discovery. I'le turn my drunkards,<br /> +Such as are understanding in their draughts,<br /> +And dispute learnedly the whyes and wherefores,<br /> +To grass immediatly, I'le keep all fools,<br /> +Sober or drunk, still fools, that shall know nothing,<br /> +Nothing belongs to mankind, but obedience,<br /> +And such a hand I'le keep over this Husband.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page196"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He will fall again, my life he cryes by this time,<br /> +Keep him from drink, he has a high constitution.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Shall I wear my new sute Madam?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No your old clothes,<br /> +And get you into the country presently,<br /> +And see my hawks well train'd, you shall have victuals,<br /> +Such as are fit for sawcy palats Sir,<br /> +And lodgings with the hindes, it is too good too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Good Madam be not so rough, with repentance,<br /> +You see now he's come round again.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I see not what I expect to see.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>You shall see Madam, if it shall please your Ladyship.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>He's humbled,<br /> +Forgive good Lady,<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Well go get you handsom,<br /> +And let me hear no more.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Have ye yet no feeling?<br /> +I'le pinch ye to the bones then my proud Lady.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>See you preserve him thus upon my favour,<br /> +You know his temper, tye him to the grindstone,<br /> +The next rebellion I'le be rid of him,<br /> +I'le have no needy Rascals I tye to me,<br /> +Dispute my life: come in and see all handsom.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p> +<a name="ref-196-26"></a>I hope to see you so too, I have wrought ill else.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Shall I never return to mine own house again?<br /> +We are lodg'd here in the miserablest dog-hole,<br /> +A Conjurers circle gives content above it,<br /> +A hawks mew is a princely palace to it,<br /> +We have a bed no bigger than a basket,<br /> +And there we lie like butter clapt together,<br /> +And sweat our selves to sawce immediately,<br /> +The fumes are infinite inhabite here too;<br /> +And to that so thick, they cut like marmalet,<br /> +So various too, they'l pose a gold-finder,<br /> +Never return to mine own paradise?<br /> +Why wife I say, why <i>Estifania</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania <span class="stage-inline">[within]</span></p> +I am going presently.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Make haste good Jewel,<br /> +I am like the people that live in the sweet Islands:<br /> +I dye, I dye, if I stay but one day more here,<br /> +My lungs are rotten with the damps that rise,<br /> +And I cough nothing now but stinks of all sorts,<br /> +The inhabitants we have are two starv'd rats,<br /> +For they are not able to maintain a cat here,<br /> +And those appear as fearfull as two Devils,<br /> +They have eat a map of the whole world up already,<br /> +And if we stay a night we are gone for company.<br /> +There's an old woman that's now grown to marble,<br /> +Dri'd in this brick hill, and she sits i'th' chimnie,<br /> +Which is but three tiles rais'd like a house of cards,<br /> +The true proportion of an old smok'd Sibyl,<br /> +There is a young thing too that nature meant<br /> +For a maid-servant, but 'tis now a monster,<br /> +She has a husk about her like a chesnut<br /> +<a name="ref-197-20"></a>With basiness, and living under the line here,<br /> +And these two make a hollow sound together,<br /> +Like frogs or winds between two doors that murmur:<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Estifania</span>.</p> +Mercy deliver me. O are you come wife,<br /> +Shall we be free again?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I am now going,<br /> +And you shall presently to your own house Sir,<br /> +The remembrance of this small vexation<br /> +Will be argument of mirth for ever:<br /> +By that time you have said your orisons,<br /> +And broke your fast, I shall be back and ready,<br /> +To usher you to your old content, your freedom.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Break my neck rather, is there any thing here to eat<br /> +But one another, like a race of Cannibals?<br /> +A piece of butter'd wall you think is excellent,<br /> +Let's have our house again immediatly,<br /> +And pray ye take heed unto the furniture,<br /> +None be imbezil'd.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Not a pin I warrant ye.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page198"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And let 'em instantly depart.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>They shall both,<br /> +There's reason in all courtesies, they must both,<br /> +For by this time I know she has acquainted him,<br /> +And has provided too, she sent me word Sir,<br /> +And will give over gratefully unto you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le walk i'th' Church-yard,<br /> +The dead cannot offend more than these living,<br /> +An hour hence I'le expect ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'le not fail Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And do you hear, let's have a handsom dinner,<br /> +And see all things be decent as they have been,<br /> +And let me have a strong bath to restore me,<br /> +I stink like a stal-fish shambles, or an oyl-shop.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You shall have all, which some interpret nothing,<br /> +I'le send ye people for the trunks afore-hand,<br /> +And for the stuff.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Let 'em be known and honest,<br /> +And do my service to your niece.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I shall Sir,<br /> +But if I come not at my hour, come thither,<br /> +That they may give you thanks for your fair courtesy,<br /> +And pray ye be brave for my sake.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I observe ye.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan de Castro</span>, <span class="name">Sancho</span>, and <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Thou art very brave.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I have reason, I have mony.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Is mony reason?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p> +<a name="ref-198-29"></a>Yes and rime too Captain,<br /> +If ye have no mony y'are an Asse.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>I thank ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p> +<a name="ref-198-32"></a>Ye have manners, ever thank him that has mony.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Wilt thou lend me any?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Not a farthing Captain,<br /> +Captains are casual things.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Why so are all men, thou shalt have my bond.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Nor bonds nor fetters Captain,<br /> +My mony is mine, I make no doubt on't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-198-39"></a>What dost thou do with it?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page199"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Put it to pious uses,<br /> +Buy Wine and Wenches, and undo young Coxcombs<br /> +That would undo me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Are those Hospitals?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I first provide to fill my Hospitals<br /> +With Creatures of mine own, that I know wretched,<br /> +And then I build: those are more bound to pray for me:<br /> +Besides, I keep th' inheritance in my Name still.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>A provident Charity; are you for the Wars, Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I am not poor enough to be a Souldier,<br /> +Nor have I faith enough to ward a Bullet;<br /> +This is no lining for a trench, I take it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Ye have said wisely.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Had you but my money,<br /> +You would swear it Colonel, I had rather drill at home<br /> +A hundred thousand Crowns, and with more honour,<br /> +Than exercise ten thousand Fools with nothing,<br /> +A wise Man safely feeds, Fools cut their fingers.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>A right State Usurer; why dost thou not marry,<br /> +And live a reverend Justice?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Is't not nobler to command a reverend Justice, than to be one?<br /> +And for a Wife, what need I marry, Captain,<br /> +When every courteous Fool that owes me money,<br /> +Owes me his Wife too, to appease my fury?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Wilt thou go to dinner with us?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I will go, and view the Pearl of <i>Spain</i>, the Orient<br /> +Fair One, the rich One too, and I will be respected,<br /> +I bear my Patent here, I will talk to her,<br /> +And when your Captain's Ships shall stand aloof,<br /> +And pick your Noses, I will pick the purse<br /> +Of her affection.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>The Duke dines there to day too, the Duke of <i>Medina</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Let the King dine there,<br /> +He owes me money, and so far's my Creature,<br /> +And certainly I may make bold with mine own, Captain?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Thou wilt eat monstrously.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Like a true born <i>Spaniard</i>,<br /> +Eat as I were in <i>England</i> where the Beef grows,<br /> +And I will drink abundantly, and then<br /> +Talk ye as wantonly as <i>Ovid</i> did,<br /> +To stir the Intellectuals of the Ladies;<br /> +I learnt it of my Father's amorous Scrivener.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>If we should play now, you must supply me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>You must pawn a Horse troop,<br /> +And then have at ye Colonel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Come, let's go:<br /> +This Rascal will make rare sport; how the Ladies<br /> +<a name="ref-200-8"></a>Will laugh at him?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>If I light on him I'll make his Purse sweat too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Will ye lead, Gentlemen?<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>, an old Woman, and Maid.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Nay, pray ye come out, and let me understand ye,<br /> +And tune your pipe a little higher, Lady;<br /> +I'll hold ye fast: rub, how came my Trunks open?<br /> +And my Goods gone, what Pick-lock Spirit?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Ha, what would ye have?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>My Goods again, how came my Trunks all open?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Are your Trunks open?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Yes, and Cloaths gone,<br /> +And Chains, and Jewels: how she smells like hung Beef,<br /> +The Palsey, and Picklocks, fye, how she belches,<br /> +The Spirit of Garlick.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Where's your Gentlewoman?<br /> +The young fair Woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>What's that to my question?<br /> +She is my wife, and gone about my business.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>Is she your Wife, Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Yes Sir, is that wonder?<br /> +Is the name of Wife unknown here?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Is she truly, truly your Wife?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I think so, for I married her;<br /> +It was no Vision sure!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>She has the Keys, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I know she has, but who has all my goods, Spirit?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>If you be married to that Gentlewoman,<br /> +You are a wretched man, she has twenty Husbands.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>She tells you true.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>And she has cozen'd all, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>The Devil she has! I had a fair house with her,<br /> +That stands hard by, and furnisht royally.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p> +<a name="ref-201-2"></a>You are cozen'd too, 'tis none of hers, good Gentleman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>The Lady <i>Margarita</i>, she was her Servant,<br /> +And kept the house, but going from her, Sir,<br /> +For some lewd tricks she plaid.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-201-6"></a>Plague o' the Devil,<br /> +Am I i'th' full Meridian of my Wisedom<br /> +Cheated by a stale Quean! what kind of Lady<br /> +Is that that owes the House?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>A young sweet Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Of a low stature?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>She is indeed but little, but she is wondrous fair.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I feel I am cozen'd;<br /> +Now I am sensible I am undone,<br /> +This is the very Woman sure, that Cousin<br /> +She told me would entreat but for four days,<br /> +To make the house hers; I am entreated sweetly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>When she went out this morning, that I saw, Sir,<br /> +She had two Women at the door attending,<br /> +And there she gave 'em things, and loaded 'em,<br /> +But what they were--I heard your Trunks to open,<br /> +If they be yours?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-201-23"></a>They were mine while they were laden,<br /> +But now they have cast their Calves, they are not worth<br /> +Owning: was she her Mistress say you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Her own Mistress, her very Mistress, Sir, and all you saw<br /> +About and in that house was hers.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No Plate, no Jewels, nor no Hangings?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Maid </p>Not a farthing, she is poor, Sir, a poor shifting thing.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>No money?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Abominable poor, as poor as we are,<br /> +Money as rare to her unless she steal it,<br /> +But for one civil Gown her Lady gave her,<br /> +She may go bare, good Gentlewoman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I am mad now,<br /> +I think I am as poor as she, I am wide else,<br /> +One civil Sute I have left too, and that's all,<br /> +<a name="ref-201-38"></a>And if she steal that she must fley me for it;<br /> +Where does she use?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>You may find truth as soon,<br /> +Alas, a thousand conceal'd corners, Sir, she lurks in.<br /> +And here she gets a fleece, and there another,<br /> +And lives in mists and smoaks where none can find her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Is she a Whore too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>Little better, Gentleman, I dare not say she is so Sir, because<br /> +She is yours, Sir, these five years she has firkt<br /> +A pretty Living,<br /> +Until she came to serve; I fear he will knock my<br /> +Brains out for lying.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She has serv'd me faithfully,<br /> +A Whore and Thief? two excellent moral learnings<br /> +In one she-Saint, I hope to see her legend.<br /> +Have I been fear'd for my discoveries,<br /> +And courted by all Women to conceal 'em?<br /> +Have I so long studied the art of this Sex,<br /> +And read the warnings to young Gentlemen?<br /> +Have I profest to tame the Pride of Ladies,<br /> +And make 'em bear all tests, and am I trickt now?<br /> +Caught in mine own nooze? here's a royal left yet,<br /> +There's for your lodging and your meat for this Week.<br /> +A silk Worm lives at a more plentiful ordinary,<br /> +And sleeps in a sweeter Box: farewel great Grandmother,<br /> +If I do find you were an accessary,<br /> +'Tis but the cutting off too smoaky minutes,<br /> +I'll hang ye presently.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Old Woman </p>And I deserve it, I tell but truth.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-202-27"></a>Not I, I am an Ass, Mother.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<a name="ref-202-28"></a><p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter the Duke of <span class="name">Medina</span>, <span class="name">Juan de Castro</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>. Attendants.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>A goodly house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>And richly furnisht too, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>Hung wantonly, I like that preparation,<br /> +It stirs the blood unto a hopeful Banquet,<br /> +And intimates the Mistress free and jovial,<br /> +I love a house where pleasure prepares welcome.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Now Cacafogo, how like you this mansion?<br /> +'Twere a brave Pawn.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I shall be master of it,<br /> +'Twas built for my bulk, the rooms are wide and spacious,<br /> +Airy and full of ease, and that I love well,<br /> +I'll tell you when I taste the Wine, my Lord,<br /> +And take the height of her Table with my Stomach,<br /> +How my affections stand to the young Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Altea</span>, Ladies, and Servants.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>All welcome to your Grace, and to these Souldiers,<br /> +You honour my poor house with your fair presence,<br /> +Those few slight pleasures that inhabit here, Sir,<br /> +I do beseech your Grace command, they are yours,<br /> +Your servant but preserves 'em to delight ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I thank ye Lady, I am bold to visit ye,<br /> +Once more to bless mine eyes with your sweet Beauty,<br /> +<a name="ref-203-13"></a>'T has been a long night since you left the Court,<br /> +For till I saw you now, no day broke to me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Bring in the Dukes meat.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>She is most excellent.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-203-17"></a>Most admirable fair as e'r I look'd upon,<br /> +I had rather command her than my Regiment.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I'll have a fling, 'tis but a thousand Duckets,<br /> +Which I can cozen up again in ten days,<br /> +And some few Jewels to justifie my Knavery,<br /> +Say, I should marry her, she'll get more money<br /> +Than all my Usury, put my Knavery to it,<br /> +She appears the most infallible way of Purchase,<br /> +I you'd wish her a size or two stronger for the encounter,<br /> +For I am like a Lion where I lay hold,<br /> +But these Lambs will endure a plaguy load,<br /> +And never bleat neither, that Sir, time has taught us,<br /> +I am so vertuous now, I cannot speak to her,<br /> +The arrant'st shamefac'd Ass, I broil away too.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why, where's this dinner?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis not ready, Madam,<br /> +Nor shall not be until I know the Guests too,<br /> +Nor are they fairly welcome till I bid 'em.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Is not this my <i>Alferes</i>? he looks another thing;<br /> +Are miracles afoot again?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why, Sirrah, why Sirrah, you?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page204"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I hear you, saucy Woman,<br /> +And as you are my Wife, command your absence,<br /> +And know your duty, 'tis the Crown of modesty.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Your Wife?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes good my Lord, I am her Husband,<br /> +And pray take notice that I claim that honour,<br /> +And will maintain it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>It thou beest her Husband,<br /> +I am determin'd thou shalt be my Cuckold,<br /> +I'll be thy faithful friend.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Peace, dirt and dunghil,<br /> +I will not lose my anger on a Rascal,<br /> +Provoke me more, I'll beat thy blown body<br /> +Till thou rebound'st again like a Tennis-Ball.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>This is miraculous.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Is this the Fellow<br /> +That had the patience to become a Fool,<br /> +A flurted Fool, and on a sudden break,<br /> +As if he would shew a wonder to the World,<br /> +<a name="ref-204-20"></a>Both in Bravery, and Fortune too?<br /> +I much admire the man, I am astonisht.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I'll be divorced immediately.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>You shall not,<br /> +You shall not have so much will to be wicked.<br /> +I am more tender of your honour, Lady,<br /> +And of your Age, you took me for a shadow;<br /> +You took me to gloss over your discredit,<br /> +To be your Fool, you had thought you had found a Coxcomb;<br /> +I am innocent of any foul dishonour I mean to ye.<br /> +Only I will be known to be your Lord now,<br /> +And be a fair one too, or I will fall for't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I do command ye from me, thou poor fellow,<br /> +Thou cozen'd Fool.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Thou cozen'd Fool? 'tis not so,<br /> +I will not be commanded: I am above ye:<br /> +You may divorce me from your favour, Lady,<br /> +<a name="ref-204-37"></a>But from your state you never shall, I'll hold that,<br /> +And then maintain your wantonness, I'll wink at it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Am I braved thus in mine own house?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis mine, Madam,<br /> +You are deceiv'd, I am Lord of it, I rule it and all that's in't;<br /> +You have nothing to do here, Madam;<br /> +But as a Servant to sweep clean the Lodgings,<br /> +And at my farther will to do me service,<br /> +And so I'll keep it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>As you love me, give way.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>It shall be better,<br /> +I will give none, Madam,<br /> +I stand upon the ground of mine own Honour,<br /> +And will maintain it, you shall know me now<br /> +To be an understanding feeling man,<br /> +And sensible of what a Woman aims at,<br /> +A young proud Woman that has Will to sail with,<br /> +An itching Woman, that her blood provokes too,<br /> +I cast my Cloud off, and appear my self,<br /> +The master of this little piece of mischief,<br /> +And I will put a Spell about your feet, Lady,<br /> +They shall not wander but where I give way now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Is this the Fellow that the People pointed at,<br /> +For the meer sign of man, the walking Image?<br /> +He speaks wondrous highly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>As a Husband ought, Sir,<br /> +In his own house, and it becomes me well too,<br /> +I think your Grace would grieve if you were put to it<br /> +To have a Wife or Servant of your own,<br /> +(For Wives are reckon'd in the rank of Servants,)<br /> +Under your own roof to command ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Brave, a strange Conversion, thou shalt lead<br /> +In chief now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Is there no difference betwixt her and you, Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Not now, Lord, my Fortune makes me even,<br /> +And as I am an honest man, I am nobler.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Get me my Coach.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Let me see who dares get it<br /> +Till I command, I'll make him draw your Coach too,<br /> +And eat your Coach, (which will be hard diet)<br /> +That executes your Will; or take your Coach, Lady,<br /> +I give you liberty, and take your People<br /> +Which I turn off, and take your Will abroad with ye,<br /> +Take all these freely, but take me no more,<br /> +And so farewel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Nay, Sir, you shall not carry it<br /> +So bravely off, you shall not wrong a Lady<br /> +In a high huffing strain, and think to bear it,<br /> +We stand not by as Bawds to your brave fury,<br /> +To see a Lady weep.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>They are tears of anger, I beseech ye note 'em, not worth pity,<br /> +Wrung from her rage, because her Will prevails not,<br /> +She would swound now if she could not cry,<br /> +Else they were excellent, and I should grieve too,<br /> +But falling thus, they show nor sweet nor orient.<br /> +Put up my Lord, this is oppression,<br /> +And calls the Sword of Justice to relieve me,<br /> +The law to lend her hand, the King to right me,<br /> +All which shall understand how you provoke me,<br /> +In mine own house to brave me, is this princely?<br /> +Then to my Guard, and if I spare your Grace,<br /> +And do not make this place your Monument,<br /> +Too rich a Tomb for such a rude behaviour,<br /> +I have a Cause will kill a thousand of ye, mercy forsake me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Hold, fair Sir, I beseech ye,<br /> +The Gentleman but pleads his own right nobly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He that dares strike against the husbands freedom,<br /> +The Husbands Curse stick to him, a tam'd Cuckold,<br /> +His Wife be fair and young, but most dishonest,<br /> +Most impudent, and have no feeling of it,<br /> +No conscience to reclaim her from a Monster,<br /> +Let her lye by him like a flattering ruine,<br /> +And at one instant kill both Name and Honour,<br /> +Let him be lost, no eye to weep his end,<br /> +Nor find no earth that's base enough to bury him.<br /> +Now Sir, fall on, I am ready to oppose ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I have better thought, I pray Sir use your Wife well.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Mine own humanity will teach me that, Sir,<br /> +And now you are all welcome, all, and we'll to dinner,<br /> +This is my Wedding-day.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I'll cross your joy yet.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-206-38"></a>I made seen a miracle, hold thine own, Souldier,<br /> +Sure they dare fight in fire that conquer Women.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>H'as beaten all my loose thoughts out of me,<br /> +As if he had thresht 'em out o'th' husk.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-207-3"></a>'Save ye, which is the Lady of the house?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>That's she, Sir, that pretty Lady,<br /> +If you would speak with her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<i>Don Michael</i>, <i>Leon</i>, another darer come.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Pray do not know me, I am full of business,<br /> +When I have more time I'll be merry with ye.<br /> +It is the Woman: good Madam, tell me truly,<br /> +Had you a Maid call'd <i>Estifania</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Yes truly, had I.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Was she a Maid do you think?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I dare not swear for her,<br /> +For she had but a scant Fame.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Was she your Kinswoman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Not that I ever knew, now I look better<br /> +I think you married her, 'give you joy, Sir,<br /> +You may reclaim her, 'twas a wild young Girl.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Give me a halter: is not this house mine, Madam?<br /> +Was not she owner of it, pray speak truly?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No, certainly, I am sure my money paid for it,<br /> +And I ne'r remember yet I gave it you, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>The Hangings and the Plate too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>All are mine, Sir,<br /> +And every thing you see about the building,<br /> +She only kept my house when I was absent,<br /> +And so ill kept it, I was weary of her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>What a Devil ails he?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-207-29"></a>He's possest I'll assure you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Where is your Maid?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Do not you know that have her?<br /> +She is yours now, why should I look after her?<br /> +Since that first hour I came I never saw her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I saw her later, would the Devil had had her,<br /> +It is all true I find, a wild-fire take her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Is thy Wife with Child, <i>Don Michael</i>? thy excellent wife.<br /> +Art thou a Man yet?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>When shall we come and visit thee?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>And eat some rare fruit? thou hast admirable Orchards,<br /> +<a name="ref-208-1"></a>You are so jealous now, pox o' your jealousie,<br /> +How scurvily you look!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Prithee leave fooling,<br /> +I am in no humour now to fool and prattle,<br /> +Did she ne'r play the wag with you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Yes many times, so often that I was asham'd to keep her,<br /> +But I forgave her, Sir, in hope she would mend still,<br /> +And had not you o'th' instant married her,<br /> +I had put her off.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I thank ye, I am blest still,<br /> +Which way so e'r I turn I am a made man,<br /> +Miserably gull'd beyond recovery.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>You'll stay and dine?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Certain I cannot, Captain,<br /> +Hark in thine ear, I am the arrantst Puppy,<br /> +The miserablest Ass, but I must leave ye,<br /> +<a name="ref-208-17"></a>I am in haste, in haste, bless you, good Madam,<br /> +And you prove as good as my Wife.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Will you come near, Sir, will your Grace but honour me,<br /> +And taste our dinner? you are nobly welcome,<br /> +All anger's past I hope, and I shall serve ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Thou art the stock of men, and I admire thee.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Ex.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.4"></a>Actus Quartus</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4558429"></a>Scena Prima.</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'll go to a Conjurer but I'll find this Pol-cat,<br /> +This pilfering Whore: a plague of Vails, I cry,<br /> +And covers for the impudence of Women,<br /> +Their sanctity in show will deceive Devils,<br /> +It is my evil Angel, let me bless me.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Estifania</span> with a Casket.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>'Tis he, I am caught, I must stand to it stoutly,<br /> +And show no shake of fear, I see he is angry,<br /> +Vext at the uttermost.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>My worthy Wife,<br /> +I have been looking of your modesty<br /> +All the town over.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page209"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>My most noble Husband,<br /> +I am glad I have found ye, for in truth I am weary,<br /> +Weary and lame with looking out your Lordship.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I have been in Bawdy Houses.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p> +<a name="ref-209-5"></a>I believe you, and very lately too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-209-6"></a>'Pray you pardon me,<br /> +To seek your Ladyship, I have been in Cellars,<br /> +In private Cellars, where the thirsty Bawds<br /> +Hear your Confessions; I have been at Plays,<br /> +To look you out amongst the youthful Actors,<br /> +At Puppet Shews, you are Mistress of the motions,<br /> +<a name="ref-209-12"></a>At Gossippings I hearkned after you,<br /> +But amongst those Confusions of lewd Tongues<br /> +There's no distinguishing beyond a Babel.<br /> +I was amongst the Nuns because you sing well,<br /> +But they say yours are Bawdy Songs, they mourn for ye,<br /> +And last I went to Church to seek you out,<br /> +<a name="ref-209-18"></a>'Tis so long since you were there, they have forgot you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You have had a pretty progress, I'll tell mine now:<br /> +To look you out, I went to twenty Taverns.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And are you sober?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes, I reel not yet, Sir,<br /> +Where I saw twenty drunk, most of 'em Souldiers,<br /> +There I had great hope to find you disguis'd too.<br /> +From hence to th' dicing-house, there I found <br /> +Quarrels needless, and senceless, Swords and Pots, and Candlesticks,<br /> +Tables and Stools, and all in one confusion,<br /> +And no man knew his Friend. I left this <i>Chaos</i>,<br /> +And to the Chirurgions went, he will'd me stay,<br /> +For says he learnedly, if he be tipled,<br /> +Twenty to one he whores, and then I hear of him,<br /> +If he be mad, he quarrels, then he comes too.<br /> +I sought ye where no safe thing would have ventur'd,<br /> +<a name="ref-209-34"></a>Amongst diseases, base and vile, vile Women,<br /> +For I remembred your old Roman axiom,<br /> +The more the danger, still the more the Honour.<br /> +Last, to your Confessor I came, who told me,<br /> +You were too proud to pray, and here I have found ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She bears up bravely, and the Rogue is witty,<br /> +But I shall dash it instantly to nothing.<br /> +Here leave we off our wanton languages,<br /> +And now conclude we in a sharper tongue.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Why am I cozen'd?<br /> +Why am I abused?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Thou most vile, base, abominable--<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Thou stinking, overstew'd, poor, pocky--<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Do you echo me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Yes Sir, and go before ye,<br /> +And round about ye, why do you rail at me<br /> +For that that was your own sin, your own knavery?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And brave me too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You had best now draw your Sword, Captain!<br /> +<a name="ref-210-15"></a>Draw it upon a Woman, do, brave Captain,<br /> +Upon your Wife, Oh most renowned Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>A Plague upon thee, answer me directly;<br /> +Why didst thou marry me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>To be my Husband;<br /> +I had thought you had had infinite, but I'm cozen'd.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Why didst thou flatter me, and shew me wonders?<br /> +A house and riches, when they are but shadows,<br /> +Shadows to me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Why did you work on me<br /> +(It was but my part to requite you, Sir)<br /> +With your strong Souldiers wit, and swore you would bring me<br /> +So much in Chains, so much in Jewels, Husband,<br /> +So much in right rich Cloaths?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Thou hast 'em, Rascal;<br /> +I gave 'em to thy hands, my trunks and all,<br /> +And thou hast open'd 'em, and sold my treasure.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Sir, there's your treasure, sell it to a Tinker<br /> +To mend old Kettles, is this noble Usage?<br /> +Let all the World view here the Captain's treasure,<br /> +A Man would think now, these were worthy matters;<br /> +Here's a shooing-horn Chain gilt over, how it scenteth<br /> +Worse than the mouldy durty heel it served for:<br /> +And here's another of a lesser value,<br /> +So little I would shame to tye my Dog in't,<br /> +These are my joynture, blush and save a labour,<br /> +Or these else will blush for ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>A fire subtle ye, are ye so crafty?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Here's a goodly jewel,<br /> +Did not you win this at Goletta, Captain,<br /> +Or took it in the field from some brave <i>Bashaw</i><br /> +How it sparkles like an old Ladies eyes,<br /> +And fills each room with light like a close Lanthorn!<br /> +This would do rarely in an Abbey Window,<br /> +To cozen Pilgrims.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-211-10"></a>P[r]ithee leave prating.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>And here's a Chain of Whitings eyes for pearls,<br /> +A Muscle-monger would have made a better.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Nay, prithee wife, my Cloaths, my Cloaths.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'll tell ye,<br /> +Your Cloaths are parallels to these, all counterfeit.<br /> +Put these and them on, you are a Man of Copper,<br /> +A kind of Candlestick; these you thought, my Husband,<br /> +To have cozen'd me withall, but I am quit with you.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Is there no house then, nor no grounds about it?<br /> +No plate nor hangings?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>There are none, sweet Husband,<br /> +Shadow for shadow is as equal justice.<br /> +<a name="ref-211-23"></a>Can you rail now? pray put up your fury, Sir,<br /> +And speak great words, you are a Souldier, thunder.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I will speak little, I have plaid the Fool,<br /> +And so I am rewarded.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>You have spoke well, Sir,<br /> +And now I see you are so conformable<br /> +I'll heighten you again, go to your house,<br /> +They are packing to be gone, you must sup there,<br /> +I'll meet ye, and bring Cloaths, and clean Shirts after,<br /> +<a name="ref-211-32"></a>And all things shall be well, I'll colt you once more,<br /> +<a name="ref-211-33"></a>And teach you to bring Copper.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Tell me one thing,<br /> +I do beseech thee tell me, tell me truth, Wife,<br /> +However I forgive thee, art thou honest?<br /> +The Beldam swore.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I bid her tell you so, Sir,<br /> +It was my plot, alas my credulous Husband,<br /> +The Lady told you too.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page212"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Most strange things of thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Still 'twas my way, and all to try your sufferance,<br /> +And she denied the House.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>She knew me not,<br /> +No, nor no title that I had.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>'Twas well carried;<br /> +No more, I am right and straight.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I would believe thee,<br /> +But Heaven knows how my heart is, will ye follow me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I'll be there straight.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I am fooled, yet dare not find it.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Go silly Fool, thou mayst be a good Souldier<br /> +In open field, but for our private service<br /> +Thou art an Ass, I'll make thee so, or miss else.<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>.</p> +Here comes another Trout that I must tickle,<br /> +And tickle daintily, I have lost my end else.<br /> +May I crave your leave, Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Prithee be answered, thou shalt crave no leave,<br /> +I am in my meditations, do not vex me,<br /> +A beaten thing, but this hour a most bruised thing,<br /> +<a name="ref-212-22"></a>That people had compassion on it, looked so,<br /> +The next Sir Palmerin, here's fine proportion,<br /> +An Ass, and then an Elephant, sweet Justice,<br /> +There's no way left to come at her now, no craving,<br /> +If money could come near, yet I would pay him;<br /> +I have a mind to make him a huge Cuckold,<br /> +And money may do much, a thousand Duckets,<br /> +'Tis but the letting blood of a rank Heir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p> +<a name="ref-212-30"></a>'Pray you hear me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I know thou hast some wedding Ring to pawn now,<br /> +Of Silver and gilt, with a blind posie in't,<br /> +Love and a Mill-horse should go round together,<br /> +Or thy Childs whistle, or thy Squirrels Chain,<br /> +I'll none of 'em, I would she did but know me,<br /> +Or would this Fellow had but use of money,<br /> +That I might come in any way.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I am gone, Sir,<br /> +And I shall tell the beauty sent me to ye,<br /> +The Lady <i>Margarita.</i><br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Stay I prithee,<br /> +What is thy will? I turn me wholly to ye,<br /> +And talk now till thy tongue ake, I will hear ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>She would entreat you, Sir,<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>She shall command, Sir,<br /> +Let it be so, I beseech thee, my sweet Gentlewoman,<br /> +Do not forget thy self.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>She does command then<br /> +This courtesie, because she knows you are noble.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Your Mistress by the way?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>My natural mistress,<br /> +Upon these Jewels, Sir, they are fair and rich,<br /> +And view 'em right.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>To doubt 'em is an heresie.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>A thousand Duckets, 'tis upon necessity<br /> +Of present use, her husband, Sir, is stubborn.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Long may he be so.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>She desires withal a better knowledge of your parts and person,<br /> +And when you please to do her so much honour.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Come, let's dispatch.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>In troth I have heard her say, Sir,<br /> +Of a fat man she has not seen a sweeter.<br /> +But in this business, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Let's do it first<br /> +And then dispute, the Ladies use may long for't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>All secrecy she would desire, she told me<br /> +How wise you are.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>We are not wise to talk thus,<br /> +Carry her the gold, I'le look her out a Jewel,<br /> +Shall sparkle like her eyes, and thee another,<br /> +Come prethee come, I long to serve thy Lady,<br /> +Long monstrously, now valor I shall meet ye,<br /> +You that dare Dukes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Green goose you are now in sippets.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter the Duke, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, <span class="name">Juan</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>He shall not have his will, I shall prevent him,<br /> +I have a toy here that will turn the tide,<br /> +<a name="ref-213-39"></a>And suddenly, and strangely, hear <i>Don Juan,</i><br /> +Do you present it to him.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>I am commanded.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>A fellow founded out of Charity,<br /> +And moulded to the height contemn his maker,<br /> +Curb the free hand that fram'd him? This must not be.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>That such an oyster shell should hold a pearl,<br /> +And of so rare a price in prison,<br /> +Was she made to be the matter of her own undoing,<br /> +To let a slovenly unweildy fellow,<br /> +Unruly and self will'd, dispose her beauties?<br /> +We suffer all Sir in this sad Eclipse,<br /> +She should shine where she might show like her self,<br /> +An absolute sweetness, to comfort those admire her,<br /> +And shed her beams upon her friends.<br /> +We are gull'd all,<br /> +And all the world will grumble at your patience,<br /> +If she be ravish't thus.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Ne'r fear it <i>Sanchio</i>,<br /> +We'I have her free again, and move at Court<br /> +In her clear orb: but one sweet handsomeness,<br /> +To bless this part of <i>Spain</i>, and have that slubber'd?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>'Tis every good mans cause, and we must stir in it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I'le warrant he shall be glad to please us,<br /> +And glad to share too, we shall hear anon<br /> +A new song from him, let's attend a little.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, and <span class="name">Juan</span>, with a commission.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Coronel, I am bound to you for this nobleness,<br /> +I should have been your officer, 'tis true Sir,<br /> +And a proud man I should have been to have serv'd you,<br /> +<a name="ref-214-30"></a>'T has pleas'd the King out of his boundless favours,<br /> +To make me your companion, this commission<br /> +Gives me a troop of horse.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-214-33"></a>I do rejoyce at it,<br /> +And am a glad man we shall gain your company,<br /> +I am sure the King knows you are newly married,<br /> +And out of that respect gives you more time Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Within four daies I am gone, so he commands me,<br /> +And 'tis not mannerly for me to argue it,<br /> +The time grows shorter still, are your goods ready?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page215"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>They are aboard.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Who waits there?<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Servant</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Do you hear ho, go carry this unto your Mistris Sir,<br /> +And let her see how much the King has honour'd me,<br /> +Bid her be lusty, she must make a Souldier.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Lorenzo</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Lorenzo </p>Sir,<br /> +Go take down all the hangings,<br /> +And pack up all my cloths, my plate and Jewels,<br /> +And all the furniture that's portable,<br /> +Sir when we lye in garrison, 'tis necessary<br /> +We keep a handsom port, for the Kings honour;<br /> +And do you hear, let all your Ladies wardrobe<br /> +Be safely plac'd in trunks, they must along too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Lorenzo </p>Whither must they goe Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>To the wars, <i>Lorenzo</i>,<br /> +And you and all, I will not leave a turn-spit,<br /> +That has one dram of spleen against a Dutchman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Lorenzo </p> +<a name="ref-215-21"></a>Why then <i>St Jaques</i> hey, you have made us all Sir,<br /> +And if we leave ye--does my Lady goe too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>The stuff must goe to morrow towards the sea Sir,<br /> +All, all must goe.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Lorenzo </p>Why <i>Pedro</i>, <i>Vasco</i>, <i>Dego</i>,<br /> +Come help me, come come boys, soldadocs, comrades,<br /> +We'l fley these beer-bellied rogues, come away quickly.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<a name="ref-215-28"></a>H'as taken a brave way to save his honour,<br /> +And cross the Duke, now I shall love him dearly,<br /> +By the life of credit thou art a noble Gentleman.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>, led by two Ladies.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Why how now wife, what, sick at my preferment?<br /> +This is not kindly done.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No sooner love ye,<br /> +Love ye intirely Sir, brought to consider<br /> +The goodness of your mind and mine own duty,<br /> +But lose you instantly, be divorc'd from ye?<br /> +This is a cruelty, I'le to the King<br /> +And tell him 'tis unjust to part two souls,<br /> +Two minds so nearly mixt.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>By no means sweet heart.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>If he were married but four daies as I am.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He would hang himself the fifth, or fly his Country.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>He would make it treason for that tongue that durst<br /> +But talk of war, or any thing to vex him,<br /> +You shall not goe.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Indeed I must sweet wife,<br /> +What shall I lose the King for a few kisses?<br /> +We'l have enough.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I'le to the Duke my cousin, he shall to th' King.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He did me this great office,<br /> +I thank his grace for't, should I pray him now,<br /> +To undoe't again? fye 'twere a base discredit.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Would I were able Sir to bear you company,<br /> +How willing should I be then, and how merry!<br /> +I will not live alone.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Be in peace, you shall not.<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[knock within.</em></p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>What knocking's this? oh Heaven my head, why rascals<br /> +<a name="ref-216-22"></a>I thin[k] the war's begun i'th' house already.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>The preparation is, they are taking down,<br /> +And packing up the hangings, plate and Jewels,<br /> +And all those furnitures that shall befit me<br /> +When I lye in garrison.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Coachman</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Coachman </p>Must the Coach goe too Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>How will your Lady pass to th' sea else easily?<br /> +We shall find shipping for't there to transport it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p> +<a name="ref-216-31"></a>I goe? alas!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I'le have a main care of ye,<br /> +I know ye are sickly, he shall drive the easier,<br /> +And all accommodation shall attend ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Would I were able.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Come I warrant ye,<br /> +Am not I with ye sweet? are her cloaths packt up,<br /> +<a name="ref-216-38"></a>And all her linnen? give your maids direction,<br /> +You know my time's but short, and I am commanded.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page217"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Let me have a nurse,<br /> +And all such necessary people with me,<br /> +And an easie bark.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>It shall not trot I warrant ye,<br /> +Curvet it may sometimes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I am with child Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>At four days warning? this is something speedy,<br /> +Do you conceive as our jennets do with a west winde?<br /> +My heir will be an arrant fleet one Lady,<br /> +I'le swear you were a maid when I first lay with ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Pray do not swear, I thought I was a maid too,<br /> +But we may both be cozen'd in that point Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>In such a strait point sure I could not err Madam.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>This is another tenderness to try him,<br /> +Fetch her up now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You must provide a cradle, and what a troubles that?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>The sea shall rock it,<br /> +'Tis the best nurse; 'twill roar and rock together,<br /> +A swinging storm will sing you such a lullaby.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Faith let me stay, I shall but shame ye Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>And you were a thousand shames you shall along with me,<br /> +At home I am sure you'l prove a million,<br /> +Every man carries the bundle of his sins<br /> +Upon his own back, you are mine, I'le sweat for ye.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter Duke, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>What Sir, preparing for your noble journey?<br /> +'Tis well, and full of care.<br /> +I saw your mind was wedded to the war,<br /> +And knew you would prove some good man for your country,<br /> +Therefore fair Cousin with your gentle pardon,<br /> +I got this place: what, mourn at his advancement?<br /> +You are to blame, he will come again sweet cousin,<br /> +Mean time like sad <i>Penelope</i> and sage,<br /> +Amongst your maids at home, and huswifely.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>No Sir, I dare not leave her to that solitariness,<br /> +She is young, and grief or ill news from those quarters<br /> +May daily cross her, she shall goe along Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>By no means Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>By all means an't please ye.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page218"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>What take a young and tender bodied Lady,<br /> +And expose her to those dangers, and those tumults,<br /> +A sickly Lady too?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Twill make her well Sir,<br /> +There's no such friend to health as wholsom travel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Sanchio </p>Away it must not be.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>It ought not Sir,<br /> +Go hurry her? it is not humane, Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I cannot blame her tears, fright her with tempests,<br /> +With thunder of the war.<br /> +I dare swear if she were able.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>She is most able.<br /> +And pray ye swear not, she must goe, there's no remedy,<br /> +Nor greatness, nor the trick you had to part us,<br /> +Which I smell too rank, too open, too evident<br /> +(And I must tell you Sir, 'tis most unnoble)<br /> +Shall hinder me: had she but ten hours life,<br /> +Nay less, but two hours, I would have her with me,<br /> +I would not leave her fame to so much ruine,<br /> +To such a desolation and discredit<br /> +As her weakness and your hot will wou'd work her to.<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +What Masque is this now?<br /> +More tropes and figures, to abuse my sufferance,<br /> +What cousin's this?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p> +<i>Michael van owle</i>, how dost thou?<br /> +In what dark barn or tod of aged Ivy<br /> +Hast thou lyen hid?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Things must both ebbe and flow, Coronel,<br /> +And people must conceal, and shine again.<br /> +You are welcom hither as your friend may say, Gentleman,<br /> +A pretty house ye see handsomely seated,<br /> +Sweet and convenient walks, the waters crystal.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>He's certain mad.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>As mad as a French Tayler,<br /> +That has nothing in's head but ends of fustians.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I see you are packing now my gentle cousin,<br /> +And my wife told me I should find it so,<br /> +'Tis true I do, you were merry when I was last here,<br /> +But 'twas your will to try my patience Madam.<br /> +I am sorry that my swift occasions<br /> +Can let you take your pleasure here no longer,<br /> +Yet I would have you think my honour'd cousin,<br /> +This house and all I have are all your servants.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>What house, what pleasure Sir, what do you mean?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>You hold the jest so stiff, 'twill prove discourteous,<br /> +This house I mean, the pleasures of this place.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>And what of them?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>They are mine Sir, and you know it,<br /> +My wifes I mean, and so confer'd upon me,<br /> +The hangings Sir I must entreat, your servants,<br /> +That are so busie in their offices,<br /> +Again to minister to their right uses,<br /> +I shall take view o'th' plate anon, and furnitures<br /> +That are of under place; you are merry still cousin,<br /> +And of a pleasant constitution,<br /> +Men of great fortunes make their mirths <i>at placitum</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Prethee good stubborn wife, tell me directly,<br /> +Good evil wife leave fooling and tell me honestly,<br /> +Is this my kinsman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I can tell ye nothing.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I have many kinsmen, but so mad a one,<br /> +And so phantastick--all the house?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>All mine,<br /> +And all within it. I will not bate ye an ace on't.<br /> +Can you not receive a noble courtesie,<br /> +And quietly and handsomely as ye ought Couz,<br /> +But you must ride o'th' top on't?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Canst thou fight?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le tell ye presently, I could have done Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>For ye must law and claw before ye get it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Away, no quarrels.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Now I am more temperate,<br /> +I'le have it prov'd if you were never yet in Bedlam,<br /> +Never in love, for that's a lunacy,<br /> +No great state left ye that you never lookt for,<br /> +Nor cannot manage, that's a rank distemper;<br /> +That you were christen'd, and who answer'd for ye,<br /> +And then I yield.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page220"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-220-1"></a>H'as half perswaded me I was bred i'th' moon,<br /> +I have ne'r a bush at my breech, are not we both mad,<br /> +And is not this a phantastick house we are in,<br /> +And all a dream we do? will ye walk out Sir,<br /> +And if I do not beat thee presently<br /> +Into a sound belief, as sense can give thee,<br /> +Brick me into that wall there for a chimny piece,<br /> +And say I was one o'th' <i>Caesars</i>, done by a seal-cutter.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I'le talk no more, come we'l away immediatly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Why then the house is his, and all that's in it,<br /> +I'le give away my skin but I'le undoe ye,<br /> +I gave it to his wife, you must restore Sir,<br /> +And make a new provision.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Am I mad now or am I christen'd, you my pagan cousin,<br /> +My mighty Mahound kinsman, what quirk now?<br /> +You shall be welcom all, I hope to see Sir<br /> +Your Grace here, and my couz, we are all Souldiers,<br /> +And must do naturally for one another.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Are ye blank at this? then I must tell ye Sir,<br /> +Ye have no command, now ye may goe at pleasure<br /> +<a name="ref-220-21"></a>And ride your asse troop, 'twas a trick I us'd<br /> +To try your jealousie upon entreatie,<br /> +And saving of your wife.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>All this not moves me,<br /> +Nor stirs my gall, nor alters my affections,<br /> +You have more furniture, more houses Lady,<br /> +And rich ones too, I will make bold with those,<br /> +And you have Land i'th' <i>Indies</i> as I take it,<br /> +Thither we'l goe, and view a while those climats,<br /> +Visit your Factors there, that may betray ye,<br /> +'Tis done, we must goe.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Now thou art a brave Gentleman,<br /> +And by this sacred light I love thee dearly.<br /> +The house is none of yours, I did but jest Sir,<br /> +Nor you are no couz of mine, I beseech ye vanish,<br /> +I tell you plain, you have no more right than he<br /> +Has, that senseless thing, your wife has once more fool'd ye:<br /> +Goe ye and consider.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Good morrow my sweet cousin, I should be glad Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>By this hand she dies for't,<br /> +Or any man that speaks for her.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>These are fine toyes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Let me request you stay but one poor month,<br /> +You shall have a Commission and I'le goe too,<br /> +Give me but will so far.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Well I will try ye,<br /> +Good morrow to your Grace, we have private business.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>If I miss thee again, I am an arrant bungler.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Thou shalt have my command, and I'le march under thee,<br /> +Nay be thy boy before thou shalt be baffled,<br /> +Thou art so brave a fellow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>I have seen visions.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.5"></a>Actus Quintus</div> + +<div class="scene"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4566661"></a>Scena Prima.</div> + + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, with a letter, and <span class="name">Margarita</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Come hither wife, do you know this hand?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I do Sir,<br /> +'Tis <i>Estifania</i>, that was once my woman.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>She writes to me here, that one <i>Cacafogo</i><br /> +An usuring Jewellers son (I know the Rascal)<br /> +Is mortally faln in love with ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is a monster, deliver me from mountains.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Do you goe a birding for all sorts of people?<br /> +And this evening will come to ye and shew ye Jewels,<br /> +And offers any thing to get access to ye,<br /> +If I can make or sport or profit on him,<br /> +(For he is fit for both) she bids me use him,<br /> +And so I will, be you conformable, and follow but my will.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I shall not fail, Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Will the Duke come again do you think?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>No sure Sir,<br /> +H'as now no policie to bring him hither.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Nor bring you to him, if my wit hold fair wife:<br /> +Let's in to dinner.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Had I but lungs enough to bawl sufficiently,<br /> +That all the queans in Christendom might hear me,<br /> +That men might run away from contagion,<br /> +I had my wish; would it were most high treason,<br /> +Most infinite high, for any man to marry,<br /> +I mean for any man that would live handsomely,<br /> +And like a Gentleman, in his wits and credit.<br /> +What torments shall I put her to, <i>Phalaris</i> bull now,<br /> +Pox they love bulling too well, though they smoak for't.<br /> +Cut her apieces? every piece will live still,<br /> +And every morsel of her will do mischief;<br /> +They have so many lives, there's no hanging of 'em,<br /> +They are too light to drown, they are cork and feathers;<br /> +To burn too cold, they live like Salamanders;<br /> +Under huge heaps of stones to bury her,<br /> +And so depress her as they did the Giants;<br /> +She will move under more than built old Babel,<br /> +I must destroy her.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Cacafogo</span>, with a Casket.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Be cozen'd by a thing of clouts, a she moth,<br /> +That every silkmans shop breeds; to be cheated,<br /> +And of a thousand duckets by a whim wham?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Who's that is cheated, speak again thou vision,<br /> +But art thou cheated? minister some comfort:<br /> +Tell me directly art thou cheated bravely?<br /> +Come, prethee come, art thou so pure a coxcomb<br /> +To be undone? do not dissemble with me,<br /> +Tell me I conjure thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Then keep thy circle,<br /> +For I am a spirit wild that flies about thee,<br /> +And who e're thou art, if thou be'st humane,<br /> +I'le let thee plainly know, I am cheated damnably.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Ha, ha, ha.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Dost thou laugh? damnably, I say most damnably.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>By whom, good spirit speak, speak ha, ha, ha.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I will utter, laugh till thy lungs crack, by a rascal woman,<br /> +A lewd, abominable, and plain woman.<br /> +Dost thou laugh still?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I must laugh, prethee pardon me,<br /> +I shall laugh terribly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I shall be angry, terrible angry, I have cause.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page223"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>That's it, and 'tis no reason but thou shouldst be angry,<br /> +Angry at heart, yet I must laugh still at thee.<br /> +By a woman cheated? art' sure it was a woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I shall break thy head, my valour itches at thee.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>It is no matter, by a woman cozen'd,<br /> +A real woman?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>A real Devil,<br /> +Plague of her Jewels and her copper chains,<br /> +How rank they smell.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-223-10"></a>Sweet cozen'd Sir let me see them,<br /> +I have been cheated too, I would have you note that,<br /> +And lewdly cheated, by a woman also,<br /> +A scurvie woman, I am undone sweet Sir,<br /> +<a name="ref-223-14"></a>Therefore I must have leave to [l]augh.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Pray ye take it,<br /> +You are the merriest undone man in <i>Europe</i>.<br /> +What need we fiddles, bawdy songs and sack,<br /> +When our own miseries can make us merry?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Ha, ha, ha.<br /> +I have seen these Jewels, what a notable penniworth<br /> +Have you had next your heart? you will not take Sir<br /> +Some twenty Duckets?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Thou art deceiv'd, I will take.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>To clear your bargain now.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>I'le take some ten, some any thing, some half ten,<br /> +Half a Ducket.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>An excellent lapidary set these stones sure,<br /> +Do you mark their waters?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Quick-sand choak their waters,<br /> +And hers that bought 'em too, but I shall find her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>And so shall I, I hope, but do not hurt her,<br /> +You cannot find in all this Kingdom,<br /> +(If you had need of cozening, as you may have,<br /> +For such gross natures will desire it often,<br /> +'Tis at some time too a fine variety,)<br /> +A woman that can cozen ye so neatly,<br /> +She has taken half mine anger off with this trick.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>If I were valiant now, I would kill this fellow,<br /> +I have mony enough lies by me at a pinch<br /> +To pay for twenty Rascals lives that vex me,<br /> +I'le to this Lady, there I shall be satisfied.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, and <span class="name">Margarita</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Come, we'l away unto your country house,<br /> +And there we'l learn to live contently,<br /> +This place is full of charge, and full of hurry,<br /> +No part of sweetness dwells about these cities.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Whither you will, I wait upon your pleasure;<br /> +Live in a hollow tree Sir, I'le live with ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I, now you strike a harmony, a true one,<br /> +When your obedience waits upon your Husband,<br /> +And your sick will aims at the care of honour,<br /> +Why now I dote upon ye, love ye dearly,<br /> +And my rough nature falls like roaring streams,<br /> +Clearly and sweetly into your embraces.<br /> +O what a Jewel is a woman excellent,<br /> +A wise, a vertuous and a noble woman!<br /> +When we meet such, we bear our stamps on both sides,<br /> +And through the world we hold our currant virtues,<br /> +Alone we are single medals, only faces,<br /> +And wear our fortunes out in useless shadows,<br /> +Command you now, and ease me of that trouble,<br /> +I'le be as humble to you as a servant,<br /> +Bid whom you please, invite your noble friends,<br /> +They shall be welcome all, visit acquaintance,<br /> +Goe at your pleasure, now experience<br /> +Has link't you fast unto the chain of goodness:<br /> +What noise is this, what dismal cry?<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[Clashing swords. A cry within, down with their swords.]</em></p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>'Tis loud too.<br /> +Sure there's some mischief done i'th' street, look out there.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Look out and help.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter a <span class="name">Servant</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>Oh Sir the Duke <i>Medina</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>What of the Duke <i>Medina</i>?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Servant </p>Oh sweet Gentleman, is almost slain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Away away and help him, all the house help.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Servant</span>.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>How slain? why Margarita,<br /> +Why wife, sure some new device they have a foot again,<br /> +Some trick upon my credit, I shall meet it,<br /> +I had rather guide a ship Imperial<br /> +Alone, and in a storm, than rule one woman.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter Duke, <span class="name">Margarita</span>, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, Servant.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>How came ye hurt Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I fell out with my friend the noble Coronel,<br /> +My cause was naught, for 'twas about your honour:<br /> +And he that wrongs the Innocent ne'r prospers,<br /> +And he has left me thus for charity,<br /> +Lend me a bed to ease my tortur'd body,<br /> +That e're I perish I may show my penitence,<br /> +I fear I am slain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Help Gentlemen to carry him,<br /> +There shall be nothing in this house my Lord,<br /> +But as your own.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I thank ye noble Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>To bed with him, and wife give your attendance.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Juan</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Doctors and Surgions.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Do not disquiet me,<br /> +But let me take my leave in peace.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Ex. Duke, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>, <span class="name">Alon.</span> <span class="name">Marg.</span> Servant.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Afore me<br /> +'Tis rarely counterfeited.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>True, it is so Sir,<br /> +And take you heed, this last blow do not spoil ye,<br /> +He is not hurt, only we made a scuffle,<br /> +As though we purpos'd anger; that same scratch<br /> +On's hand he took, to colour all and draw compassion,<br /> +That he might get into your house more cunningly.<br /> +I must not stay, stand now, and y'are a brave fellow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I thank ye noble Coronel, and I honour ye.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Juan</span>.</p> +<br /> +Never be quiet?<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Margarita</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>He's most desperate ill Sir,<br /> +I do not think these ten months will recover him.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Does he hire my house to play the fool in,<br /> +Or does it stand on Fairy ground, we are haunted,<br /> +Are all men and their wives troubled with dreams thus?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>What ail you Sir?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Nay what ail you sweet wife,<br /> +To put these daily pastimes on my patience?<br /> +What dost thou see in me, that I should suffer thus,<br /> +Have not I done my part like a true Husband,<br /> +And paid some desperate debts you never look'd for?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You have done handsomely I must confess Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Have I not kept thee waking like a hawk?<br /> +And watcht thee with delights to satisfy thee?<br /> +The very tithes of which had won a Widow.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Alas I pity ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Thou wilt make me angry,<br /> +Thou never saw'st me mad yet.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You are alwaies,<br /> +You carry a kind of bedlam still about ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>If thou pursuest me further I run stark mad,<br /> +If you have more hurt Dukes or Gentlemen,<br /> +To lye here on your cure, I shall be desperate,<br /> +I know the trick, and you shall feel I know it,<br /> +Are ye so hot that no hedge can contain ye?<br /> +I'le have thee let blood in all the veins about thee,<br /> +I'le have thy thoughts found too, and have them open'd,<br /> +Thy spirits purg'd, for those are they that fire ye,<br /> +Thy maid shall be thy Mistris, thou the maid,<br /> +And all those servile labours that she reach at,<br /> +And goe through cheerfully, or else sleep empty,<br /> +That maid shall lye by me to teach you duty,<br /> +You in a pallet by to humble ye,<br /> +And grieve for what you lose.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I have lost my self Sir,<br /> +And all that was my base self, disobedience,<p align="right" class="stage-right">[kneels.</p> +<br /> +My wantonness, my stubborness I have lost too,<br /> +And now by that pure faith good wives are crown'd with,<br /> +By your own nobleness.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Altea</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I take ye up, and wear ye next my heart,<br /> +See you be worth it. Now what with you?<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page227"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I come to tell my Lady,<br /> +There is a fulsome fellow would fain speak with her.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>'Tis <i>Cacafogo</i>, goe and entertain him,<br /> +And draw him on with hopes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I shall observe ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I have a rare design upon that Gentleman,<br /> +And you must work too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I shall Sir most willingly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Away then both, and keep him close in some place<br /> +From the Dukes sight, and keep the Duke in too,<br /> +Make 'em believe both, I'le find time to cure 'em.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<a name="ref-227-12"></a><p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>, and <span class="name">Estifania</span>, with a Pistol, and a Dagge[r].</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Why how darst thou meet me again thou rebel,<br /> +And knowst how thou hast used me thrice, thou rascal?<br /> +Were there not waies enough to fly my vengeance,<br /> +No holes nor vaults to hide thee from my fury,<br /> +But thou must meet me face to face to kill thee?<br /> +I would not seek thee to destroy thee willingly,<br /> +But now thou comest to invite me,<br /> +And comest upon me,<br /> +How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner,<br /> +And ready for the halter dost thou look now!<br /> +Thou hast a hanging look thou scurvy thing, hast ne'r a knife<br /> +<a name="ref-227-24"></a>Nor ever a string to lead thee to Elysium?<br /> +Be there no pitifull 'Pothecaries in this town,<br /> +That have compassion upon wretched women,<br /> +And dare administer a dram of rats-bane,<br /> +But thou must fall to me?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I know you have mercy.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>If I had tuns of mercy thou deserv'st none,<br /> +What new trick is now afoot, and what new houses<br /> +Have you i'th' air, what orchards in apparition,<br /> +What canst thou say for thy life?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Little or nothing,<br /> +I know you'l kill me, and I know 'tis useless<br /> +To beg for mercy, pray let me draw my book out,<br /> +And pray a little.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Do, a very little,<br /> +For I have farther business than thy killing,<br /> +I have mony yet to borrow, speak when you are ready.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Now now Sir, now,<p align="right" class="stage-right">[shews a Pistol.</p> +<br /> +Come on, do you start off from me,<br /> +Do you swear great Captain, have you seen a spirit?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Do you wear guns?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>I am a Souldiers wife Sir,<br /> +And by that priviledge I may be arm'd,<br /> +Now what's the news, and let's discourse more friendly,<br /> +And talk of our affairs in peace.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Let me see,<br /> +Prethee let me see thy gun, 'tis a very pretty one.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>No no Sir, you shall feel.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Hold ye villain, what thine own Husband?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Let mine own Husband then<br /> +Be in's own wits, there, there's a thousand duckets,<br /> +Who must provide for you, and yet you'l kill me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p> +<a name="ref-228-17"></a>I will not hurt thee for ten thousand millio[n]s.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p> +<a name="ref-228-18"></a>When will you redeem your Jewels, I have pawn'd 'em,<br /> +<a name="ref-228-19"></a>You see for what, we must keep touch.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le kiss thee,<br /> +And get as many more, I'le make thee famous,<br /> +Had we the house now!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>Come along with me,<br /> +If that be vanish't there be more to hire Sir.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I see I am an asse when thou art near me.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other"></p> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, <span class="name">Margarita</span>, and <span class="name">Altea</span>, with a Taper.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Is the fool come?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Yes and i'th' celler fast,<br /> +And there he staies his good hour till I call him,<br /> +He will make dainty musick among the sack-butts,<br /> +I have put him just, Sir, under the Dukes chamber.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>It is the better.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Has given me royally,<br /> +And to my Lady a whole load of portigues.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Better and better still, go <i>Margarita</i>,<br /> +Now play your prize, you say you dare be honest,<br /> +I'le put ye to your best.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Secure your self Sir, give me the candle,<br /> +Pass away in silence.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Ex. <span class="name">Leon</span> and <span class="name">Altea</span>. She knocks.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Who's there, oh oh.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>My Lord,<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina <span class="stage-inline">within</span></p> +Have ye brought me comfort?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I have my Lord.<br /> +Come forth 'tis I, come gently out I'le help ye,<br /> +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Duke</span>, in a gown.</p> +Come softly too, how do you?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Are there none here?<br /> +Let me look round; we cannot be too wary,<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[noise below.</em></p> +<br /> +Oh let me bless this hour, are you alone sweet friend?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Alone to comfort you.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[<span class="name">Cacafogo</span> makes a noise below.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>What's that you tumble?<br /> +I have heard a noise this half hour under me,<br /> +A fearfull noise.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>The fat thing's mad i'th' celler,<br /> +And stumbles from one hogs-head to another,<br /> +Two cups more, and he ne'r shall find the way out.<br /> +What do you fear? come, sit down by me chearfully,<br /> +My Husband's safe, how do your wounds?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I have none Lady,<br /> +My wounds I counterfeited cunningly,<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[noise below.</em></p> +<br /> +And feign'd the quarrel too, to injoy you sweet,<br /> +Let's lose no time, heark the same noise again.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>What noise, why look ye pale? I hear no stirring,<br /> +This goblin in the vault will be so tipled.<br /> +You are not well I know by your flying fancy,<br /> +Your body's ill at ease, your wounds.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I have none, I am as lusty and as full of health,<br /> +High in my blood.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Weak in your blood you would say,<br /> +How wretched is my case, willing to please ye,<br /> +And find you so disable?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Believe me Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I know you will venture all you have to satisfy me,<br /> +Your life I know, but is it fit I spoil ye,<br /> +Is it my love do you think?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo <span class="stage-inline">below</span></p> +Here's to the Duke.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page230"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>It nam'd me certainly,<br /> +I heard it plainly sound.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You are hurt mortally,<br /> +And fitter for your prayers Sir than pleasure,<br /> +What starts you make? I would not kiss you wantonly,<br /> +For the world's wealth; have I secur'd my Husband,<br /> +And put all doubts aside to be deluded?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo <span class="stage-inline">below</span></p> +I come, I come.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Heaven bless me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And bless us both, for sure this is the Devil,<br /> +I plainly heard it now, he will come to fetch ye,<br /> +A very spirit, for he spoke under ground,<br /> +And spoke to you just as you would have snatcht me,<br /> +You are a wicked man, and sure this haunts ye,<br /> +Would you were out o'th' house.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I would I were,<br /> +<a name="ref-230-17"></a>O' that condition I had leapt a window.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>And that's the least leap if you mean to scape Sir,<br /> +Why what a frantick man were you to come here,<br /> +What a weak man to counterfeit deep wounds,<br /> +To wound another deeper!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Are you honest then?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Yes then and now, and ever, and excellent honest,<br /> +And exercise this pastime but to shew ye,<br /> +Great men are fools sometimes as well as wretches.<br /> +Would you were well hurt, with any hope of life,<br /> +Cut to the brains, or run clean through the body,<br /> +To get out quietly as you got in Sir,<br /> +I wish it like a friend that loves ye dearly,<br /> +For if my Husband take ye, and take ye thus a counterfeit,<br /> +One that would clip his credit out of his honour,<br /> +He must kill ye presently,<br /> +There is no mercy nor an hour of pity,<br /> +And for me to intreat in such an agony,<br /> +Would shew me little better than one guilty,<br /> +Have you any mind to a Lady now?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Would I were off fair,<br /> +If ever Lady caught me in a trap more.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>If you be well and lusty, fy fy shake not,<br /> +You say you love me, come, come bravely now,<br /> +Despise all danger, I am ready for ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>She mocks my misery, thou cruel Lady.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Thou cruel Lord, wouldst thou betray my honesty,<br /> +Betray it in mine own house, wrong my Husband,<br /> +Like a night thief, thou darst not name by day-light?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I am most miserable.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You are indeed,<br /> +And like a foolish thing you have made your self so,<br /> +Could not your own discretion tell ye Sir,<br /> +When I was married I was none of yours?<br /> +Your eyes were then commanded to look off me,<br /> +And I now stand in a circle and secure,<br /> +Your spells nor power can never reach my body,<br /> +Mark me but this, and then Sir be most miserable,<br /> +'Tis sacriledge to violate a wedlock,<br /> +<a name="ref-231-16"></a>You rob two Temples, make your self twice guilty,<br /> +You ruine hers, and spot her noble Husbands.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Let me be gone, I'le never more attempt ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>You cannot goe, 'tis not in me to save ye,<br /> +Dare ye do ill, and poorly then shrink under it?<br /> +Were I the Duke <i>Medina</i>, I would fight now,<br /> +For you must fight and bravely, it concerns you,<br /> +You do me double wrong if you sneak off Sir,<br /> +And all the world would say I lov'd a coward,<br /> +And you must dye too, for you will be kill'd,<br /> +And leave your youth, your honour and your state,<br /> +And all those dear delights you worship't here.<p align="right" class="stage-right"><em>[Noise below.</em></p> +<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>The noise again!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo <span class="stage-inline">below</span></p> +Some small beer if you love me.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>The Devil haunts you sure, your sins are mighty.<br /> +A drunken Devil too, to plague your villany.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Preserve me but this once.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>There's a deep well<br /> +In the next yard, if you dare venture drowning,<br /> +<a name="ref-231-35"></a>It is but dea[t]h.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I would not dye so wretchedly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Out of a garret window I'le let you down then,<br /> +But say the rope be rotten, 'tis huge high too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>Have you no mercy?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Now you are frighted throughly,<br /> +And find what 'tis to play the fool in folly,<br /> +And see with clear eyes your detested folly,<br /> +I'le be your guard.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>And I'le be your true servant,<br /> +Ever from this hour vertuously to love ye,<br /> +Chastly and modestly to look upon ye,<br /> +And here I seal it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>I may kiss a stranger, for you must now be so.<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Leon</span>, <span class="name">Juan</span>, <span class="name">Alonzo</span>, <span class="name">Sanchio</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>How do you my Lord,<br /> +Me thinks you look but poorly on this matter.<br /> +Has my wife wounded ye, you were well before,<br /> +Pray Sir be comforted, I have forgot all,<br /> +Truly forgiven too, wife you are a right one,<br /> +And now with unknown nations I dare trust ye.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>No more feign'd fights my Lord, they never prosper.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Who's this? the Devil in the vault?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>'Tis he Sir, and as lovingly drunk, as though he had studied it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Give me a cup of Sack, and kiss me Lady,<br /> +Kiss my sweet face, and make thy Husband cuckold,<br /> +An Ocean of sweet Sack, shall we speak treason?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>He is Devilish drunk.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>I had thought he had been a Devil.<br /> +He made as many noises and as horrible.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Oh a true lover Sir will lament loudly,<br /> +Which of the butts is your Mistris?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Butt in thy belly.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>There's two in thine I am sure, 'tis grown so monstrous.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Cacafogo </p>Butt in thy face.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Go carry him to sleep,<br /> +A fools love should be drunk, he has paid well for't too.<br /> +When he is sober let him out to rail,<br /> +Or hang himself, there will be no loss of him.<p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exit <span class="name">Caca.</span> and Servant.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +<p align="center" class="stage-other">Enter <span class="name">Perez</span>, and <span class="name">Estifania</span>.</p> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Who's this? my Mauhound cousin?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>Good Sir, 'tis very good, would I had a house too,<br /> +For there is no talking in the open air,<br /> +My Tarmogant Couz, I would be bold to tell ye,<br /> +I durst be merry too; I tell you plainly,<br /> +You have a pretty seat, you have the luck on't,<br /> +A pretty Lady too, I have mist both,<br /> +My Carpenter built in a mist I thank him,<br /> +Do me the courtesie to let me see it,<br /> +See it but once more. But I shall cry for anger.<br /> +I'le hire a Chandlers shop close under ye,<br /> +And for my foolerie, sell sope and whip-cord,<br /> +Nay if you do not laugh now and laugh heartily,<br /> +You are a fool couz.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>I must laugh a little,<br /> +And now I have done, couz thou shalt live with me,<br /> +My merry couz, the world shall not divorce us,<br /> +Thou art a valiant man, and thou shalt never want,<br /> +Will this content thee?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Michael Perez </p>I'le cry, and then I'le be thankfull,<br /> +Indeed I will, and I'le be honest to ye.<br /> +I would live a swallow here I must confess.<br /> +Wife I forgive thee all if thou be honest,<br /> +At thy peril, I believe thee excellent.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Estifania </p>If I prove otherwaies, let me beg first,<br /> +Hold, this is yours, some recompence for service,<br /> +Use it to nobler ends than he that gave it.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p>And this is yours, your true commission, Sir,<br /> +Now you are a Captain.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>You are a noble Prince Sir,<br /> +And now a souldier, Gentleman, we all rejoyce in't.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Sir, I shall wait upon you through all fortunes.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Alonzo </p>And I.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>And I must needs attend my Mistris.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Will you goe Sister?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>Yes indeed good Brother,<br /> +I have two ties, mine own bloud,<br /> +And my Mistris.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Is she your Sister?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Leon </p>Yes indeed good wife,<br /> +And my best Sister,<br /> +For she prov'd so, wench,<br /> +When she deceiv'd you with a loving Husband.<br /> +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page234"></a></span> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Altea </p>I would not deal so truly for a stranger.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Margarita </p>Well I could chide ye,<br /> +But it must be lovingly and like a Sister,<br /> +I'le bring you on your way, and feast ye nobly,<br /> +For now I have an honest heart to love ye,<br /> +And then deliver you to the blue <i>Neptune</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Juan de Castro </p>Your colours you must wear, and wear 'em proudly,<br /> +Wear 'em before the bullet, and in bloud too,<br /> +And all the world shall know<br /> +We are Vertues servants.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sp"> +<p class="speaker">Duke of Medina </p> +<i>And all the world shall know, a noble mind</i><br /> +<a name="ref-234-12"></a><i>Makes women beautifull, and envie blind.</i><p align="right" class="stage-right">[Exeunt.</p> +<br /> +</div> + +</div> +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.6"></a>Prologue.</div> + + +<div class="sp">Pleasure attend ye, and about ye sit<br /> +The springs of mirth, fancy, delight and wit<br /> +To stir you up, do not your looks let fall,<br /> +Nor to remembrance our late errors call,<br /> +Because this day w' are <i>Spaniards</i> all again,<br /> +The story of our Play, and our Scene <i>Spain</i>:<br /> +The errors too, do not for this cause hate,<br /> +Now we present their wit and not their state.<br /> +Nor Ladies be not angry if you see,<br /> +A young fresh beauty, wanton and too free,<br /> +<a name="ref-234-24"></a>Seek to abuse her Husband, still 'tis <i>Spain</i>,<br /> +<a name="ref-234-25"></a>No such gross errors in your Kingdom raign,<br /> +W' are <i>Vesrals</i> all, and though we blow the fire,<br /> +We seldom make it flame up to desire,<br /> +Take no example neither to begin,<br /> +<a name="ref-234-29"></a>For some by precedent delight to sin:<br /> +Nor blame the Poet if he slip aside<br /> +Sometimes lasciviously if not too wide.<br /> +But hold your Fanns close, and then smile at ease,<br /> +A cruel Scene did never Lady please.<br /> +Nor Gentlemen, pray be not you displeased,<br /> +Though we present some men fool'd, some diseased,<br /> +Some drunk, some mad: we mean not you, you're free,<br /> +We taxe no farther than our Comedie,<br /> +You are our friends, sit noble then and see.<br /> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="act"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.7"></a>Epilogue.</div> + + +<div class="sp">Good night our worthy friends, and may you part<br /> +Each with as merry and as free a heart<br /> +As you came hither; to those noble eyes<br /> +That deign to smile on our poor faculties,<br /> +And give a blessing to our labouring ends,<br /> +As we hope many, to such fortune sends<br /> +Their own desires, wives fair as light as chast;<br /> +To those that live by spight Wives made in hast.<br /> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page459"></a></span> + +<div class="appendix"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="body.1_div.8"></a>APPENDIX</div> + + +<div class="teidiv"> +<div class="head"> +<hr /> +<a name="index-div-id4575811"></a>RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE.</div> + +<p> +The Dramatis Personae are not given in the quarto of 1640 nor in the 2nd +folio. They are as follows:--Duke of Medina. +Juan de Castro, Sanchio, +Alonzo, Michael Perez, Officers. +Leon, Altea's brother. Cacafogo, a usurer. +Lorenzo. Coachman, etc. +Margarita. Altea. +Estifania. Clara. +Three old ladies. +Old woman. Maids, etc. +</p> + +<p> +Unless where otherwise stated the following variations are from the quarto +of 1640, the title-page of which runs thus:-- +</p> + +<p> +Rule a Wife | And have a Wife. | A Comoedy. | Acted by his | Majesties +Servants. | Written by | John Fletcher | Gent. | Oxford, | Printed by Leonard +Lichfield | Printer to the University. | Anno 1640. +</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576051"></a><p><em>p. 170,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576066"></a><a href="#ref-170-30" class="ref" target="_top">l. 30.</a> mouth.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576083"></a><p><em>p. 171,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576097"></a><a href="#ref-171-14" class="ref" target="_top">l. 14.</a> most subtlest.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576115"></a><a href="#ref-171-18" class="ref" target="_top">l. 18.</a> With yee.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576131"></a><a href="#ref-171-19" class="ref" target="_top">l. 19.</a> them.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576148"></a><a href="#ref-171-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> <i>and often elsewhere</i>] um <i>for</i> 'em.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576181"></a><p><em>p. 172,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576195"></a><a href="#ref-172-2" class="ref" target="_top">l. 2.</a> the picke.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576212"></a><p><em>p. 173,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576227"></a><a href="#ref-173-22" class="ref" target="_top">l. 22.</a> thank ye.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576243"></a><p><em>p. 175,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576258"></a><a href="#ref-175-1" class="ref" target="_top">l. 1.</a> Yes I.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576275"></a><a href="#ref-175-29" class="ref" target="_top">l. 29.</a> Exit.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576291"></a><a href="#ref-175-31" class="ref" target="_top">l. 31.</a> mine ayme.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576308"></a><p><em>p. 176,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576323"></a><a href="#ref-176-30" class="ref" target="_top">l. 30.</a> 2nd folio <i>prints</i>] calling. | And</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576348"></a><p><em>p. 178,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576362"></a><a href="#ref-178-10" class="ref" target="_top">l. 10.</a> a starv'd.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576379"></a><a href="#ref-178-22" class="ref" target="_top">l. 22.</a> look'st.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576396"></a><a href="#ref-178-24" class="ref" target="_top">l. 24.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] hear.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576421"></a><p><em>p. 179,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576436"></a><a href="#ref-179-33" class="ref" target="_top">l. 33.</a> Or any.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576453"></a><p><em>p. 182,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576467"></a><a href="#ref-182-6" class="ref" target="_top">ll. 6, etc.</a> Quarto <i>frequently prints</i> 4 for Altea <i>here and in similar places</i>.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576501"></a><a href="#ref-182-33" class="ref" target="_top">l. 33.</a> doubty.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576517"></a><p><em>p. 183,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576532"></a><a href="#ref-183-2" class="ref" target="_top">l. 2.</a> Has not.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576549"></a><a href="#ref-183-3" class="ref" target="_top">l. 3.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] hin.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576574"></a><a href="#ref-183-5" class="ref" target="_top">l. 5.</a> Has no.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576590"></a><a href="#ref-183-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] compaines.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576615"></a><p><em>p. 184,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576630"></a><a href="#ref-184-13" class="ref" target="_top">l. 13.</a> a house.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576647"></a><p><em>p. 185,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576661"></a><a href="#ref-185-2" class="ref" target="_top">l. 2.</a> Altea, the Ladies.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576678"></a><a href="#ref-185-4" class="ref" target="_top">l. 4.</a> has been.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576695"></a><p><em>p. 187,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576710"></a><a href="#ref-187-26" class="ref" target="_top">l. 26.</a> I finde.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576726"></a><p><em>p. 189,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576741"></a><a href="#ref-189-28" class="ref" target="_top">l. 28.</a> enter'd here.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576758"></a><a href="#ref-189-39" class="ref" target="_top">l. 39.</a> salute him.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576774"></a><p><em>p. 190,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576789"></a><a href="#ref-190-25" class="ref" target="_top">l. 25.</a> if she.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576806"></a><p><em>p. 194,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576820"></a>ll. <a href="#ref-194-8" class="ref" target="_top">8</a> and <a href="#ref-194-11" class="ref" target="_top">11</a>. <i>Omits</i> Lady <i>here and often similarly elsewhere</i>.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576867"></a><p><em>p. 196,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576882"></a><a href="#ref-196-26" class="ref" target="_top">l. 26.</a> Exit.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576898"></a><p><em>p. 197,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4576913"></a><a href="#ref-197-20" class="ref" target="_top">l. 20.</a> basinesse.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576942"></a><p><em>p. 198,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4576957"></a><a href="#ref-198-29" class="ref" target="_top">l. 29.</a> (<i>some copies</i>), and ruine too.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576982"></a><a href="#ref-198-32" class="ref" target="_top">l. 32.</a> have meaner.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4576999"></a><a href="#ref-198-39" class="ref" target="_top">l. 39.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] Jaun.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577025"></a><p><em>p. 200,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4577039"></a><a href="#ref-200-8" class="ref" target="_top">l. 8.</a> <i>Some copies read</i>] laugh him, leave ager.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577065"></a><p><em>p. 201,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577080"></a><a href="#ref-201-2" class="ref" target="_top">l. 2.</a> <i>Adds the following line</i>] It is a Ladies, what's the Ladies name wench.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577105"></a><a href="#ref-201-6" class="ref" target="_top">l. 6.</a> a the. </li> +<li> +<a name="id4577122"></a><a href="#ref-201-23" class="ref" target="_top">l. 23.</a> they are. </li> +<li> +<a name="id4577139"></a><a href="#ref-201-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> flea me.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577155"></a><p><em>p. 202,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577170"></a><a href="#ref-202-27" class="ref" target="_top">l. 27.</a> Nor I.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577187"></a><a href="#ref-202-28" class="ref" target="_top">l. 28.</a> <i>Omits</i> of.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577211"></a><p><em>p. 203,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577226"></a><a href="#ref-203-13" class="ref" target="_top">l. 13.</a> Tas.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577243"></a><a href="#ref-203-17" class="ref" target="_top">l. 17.</a> as ere I looked on.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577260"></a><p><em>p. 204,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577275"></a><a href="#ref-204-20" class="ref" target="_top">l. 20.</a> Both into.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577291"></a><a href="#ref-204-37" class="ref" target="_top">l. 37.</a> <i>Adds the following line</i>] And hold it to my use, the law allowes it,</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577318"></a><p><em>p. 206,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4577332"></a><a href="#ref-206-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> I have seen.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577349"></a><p><em>p. 207,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577364"></a><a href="#ref-207-3" class="ref" target="_top">l. 3.</a> Save.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577380"></a><a href="#ref-207-29" class="ref" target="_top">l. 29.</a> Is possest.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577398"></a><p><em>p. 208,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577412"></a><a href="#ref-208-1" class="ref" target="_top">l. 1.</a> a your.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577429"></a><a href="#ref-208-17" class="ref" target="_top">l. 17.</a> bless ye.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577446"></a><p><em>p. 209,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577460"></a><a href="#ref-209-5" class="ref" target="_top">l. 5.</a> believe ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577478"></a><a href="#ref-209-6" class="ref" target="_top">l. 6.</a> Pray ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577495"></a><a href="#ref-209-12" class="ref" target="_top">l. 12.</a> after ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577512"></a><a href="#ref-209-18" class="ref" target="_top">l. 18.</a> forgot ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577528"></a><a href="#ref-209-34" class="ref" target="_top">l. 34.</a> vild, vild.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577546"></a><p><em>p. 210,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4577560"></a><a href="#ref-210-15" class="ref" target="_top">l. 15.</a> 2nd folio] do brave, Captain.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577577"></a><p><em>p. 211,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577592"></a><a href="#ref-211-10" class="ref" target="_top">l. 10.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] Ptithee.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577617"></a><a href="#ref-211-23" class="ref" target="_top">l. 23.</a> put your fury up, Sir.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577634"></a><a href="#ref-211-32" class="ref" target="_top">l. 32.</a> colt ye.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577651"></a><a href="#ref-211-33" class="ref" target="_top">l. 33.</a> teach ye.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577668"></a><p><em>p. 212,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577682"></a><a href="#ref-212-22" class="ref" target="_top">l. 22.</a> on, it looked so.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577700"></a><a href="#ref-212-30" class="ref" target="_top">l. 30.</a> Pray ye.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577717"></a><p><em>p. 213,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4577732"></a><a href="#ref-213-39" class="ref" target="_top">l. 39.</a> heere Don Juan.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577748"></a><p><em>p. 214,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577763"></a><a href="#ref-214-30" class="ref" target="_top">l. 30.</a> 'Tas.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577780"></a><a href="#ref-214-33" class="ref" target="_top">l. 33.</a> <i>Omits</i> do.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577804"></a><p><em>p. 215,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577819"></a><a href="#ref-215-21" class="ref" target="_top">l. 21.</a> all sit.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577836"></a><a href="#ref-215-28" class="ref" target="_top">l. 28.</a> Has.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577852"></a><p><em>p. 216,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577867"></a><a href="#ref-216-22" class="ref" target="_top">l. 22.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] thinks.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577892"></a><a href="#ref-216-31" class="ref" target="_top">l. 31.</a> I goe alas.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577909"></a><a href="#ref-216-38" class="ref" target="_top">l. 38.</a> linnens.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577926"></a><p><em>p. 220,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577941"></a><a href="#ref-220-1" class="ref" target="_top">l. 1.</a> Has.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577958"></a><a href="#ref-220-21" class="ref" target="_top">l. 21.</a> I use.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4577974"></a><p><em>p. 223,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4577989"></a><a href="#ref-223-10" class="ref" target="_top">l. 10.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] Perox.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578014"></a><a href="#ref-223-14" class="ref" target="_top">l. 14.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] haugh.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578039"></a><p><em>p. 227,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4578054"></a><a href="#ref-227-12" class="ref" target="_top">l. 12.</a> 2nd folio] Dagge. </li> +<li> +<a name="id4578071"></a><a href="#ref-227-24" class="ref" target="_top">l. 24.</a> Nor never.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578087"></a><p><em>p. 228,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4578102"></a><a href="#ref-228-17" class="ref" target="_top">l. 17.</a> 2nd folio <i>misprints</i>] millius.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578128"></a>ll. <a href="#ref-228-18" class="ref" target="_top">18</a> and <a href="#ref-228-19" class="ref" target="_top">19</a>. pawn'd um.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578157"></a><p><em>p. 230,</em></p> +<ul><li> +<a name="id4578172"></a><a href="#ref-230-17" class="ref" target="_top">l. 17.</a> A that.</li></ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578189"></a><p><em>p. 231,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4578203"></a><a href="#ref-231-16" class="ref" target="_top">l. 16.</a> too Templers.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578220"></a><a href="#ref-231-35" class="ref" target="_top">l. 35.</a> 2nd folio misprints] deah.</li> +</ul> +</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578238"></a><p><em>p. 234,</em></p> +<ul> +<li> +<a name="id4578252"></a><a href="#ref-234-25" class="ref" target="_top">l. 25.</a> raignes.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578269"></a><a href="#ref-234-12" class="ref" target="_top">l. 12.</a> <i>Adds</i> Finis.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578294"></a><a href="#ref-234-24" class="ref" target="_top">l. 24.</a> abuse your.</li> +<li> +<a name="id4578310"></a><a href="#ref-234-29" class="ref" target="_top">l. 29.</a> president.</li> +</ul> +</li> +</ul> +</div> + </div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife +by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE *** + +***** This file should be named 14549-h.htm or 14549-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14549/ + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Paul Murray and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife + Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) + +Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher + +Release Date: January 1, 2005 [EBook #14549] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Paul Murray and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team + + + + + + +170] Rule a Wife, and have a Wife + + + The works of Beaumont and Fletcher, edited by A.R. Walker + + + + + +Actus Primus + + + + +Scena Prima + + [Enter _Juan de Castro_, and _Michael Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + Are your Companies full, Colonel? + +Juan de Castro: + + No, not yet, Sir: + Nor will not be this month yet, as I reckon; + How rises your Command? + +Michael Perez: + + We pick up still, and as our monies hold out, + We have men come, about that time I think + We shall be full too, many young Gallants go. + +Juan de Castro: + + And unexperienced, + The Wars are dainty dreams to young hot spirits, + Time and Experience will allay those Visions, + We have strange things to fill our numbers, + There's one _Don Leon_, a strange goodly fellow, + Recommended to me from some noble Friends, + For my _Alferes_, had you but seen his Person, + And what a Giants promise it protesteth. + +Michael Perez: + + I have heard of him, and that he hath serv'd before too. + +Juan de Castro: + + But no harm done, nor never meant, _Don Michael_, + That came to my ears yet, ask him a question, + He blushes like a Girl, and answers little, + To the point less, he wears a Sword, a good one, + And good Cloaths too, he is whole skin'd, has no hurt yet, + Good promising hopes, I never yet heard certainly + Of any Gentleman that saw him angry. + +Michael Perez: + + Preserve him, he'll conclude a peace if need be, + Many as strong as he will go along with us, + That swear as valiantly as heart can wish, + Their mouths charg'd with six oaths at once, and whole ones, + That make the drunken Dutch creep into Mole-hills. +171] + +Juan de Castro: + + 'Tis true, such we must look for: but _Mich. Perez_, + When heard you of _Donna Margarita_, the great Heiress? + +Michael Perez: + + I hear every hour of her, though I never saw her, + She is the main discourse: noble _Don Juan de Castro_, + How happy were that man could catch this Wench up, + And live at ease! she is fair, and young, and wealthy, + Infinite wealthy, and as gracious too + In all her entertainments, as men report. + +Juan de Castro: + + But she is proud, Sir, that I know for certain, + And that comes seldome without wantonness, + He that shall marry her, must have a rare hand. + +Michael Perez: + + Would I were married, I would find that Wisdom, + With a light rein to rule my Wife: if ever Woman + Of the most subtile mould went beyond me, + I would give the Boys leave to whoot me out o'th' Parish. + + [Enter a Servant.] + +Servant: + + Sir, there be two Gentlewomen attend to speak + With you. + +Juan de Castro: + + Wait on 'em in. + +Michael Perez: + + Are they two handsome Women? + +Servant: + + They seem so, very handsom, but they are vail'd, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + Thou put'st sugar in my mouth, how it melts with me! + I love a sweet young Wench. + +Juan de Castro: + + Wait on them in I say. + [Exit Servant. + +Michael Perez: + + _Don Juan._ + +Juan de Castro: + + How you itch, _Michael_! how you burnish! + Will not this Souldiers heat out of your bones yet, + Do your Eyes glow now? + +Michael Perez: + + There be two. + +Juan de Castro: + + Say honest, what shame have you then? + +Michael Perez: + + I would fain see that, + I have been in the Indies twice, and have seen strange things, + But two honest Women;--one I read of once. + +Juan de Castro: + + Prithee be modest. + +Michael Perez: + + I'll be any thing. + + [Enter _Servant_, _Donna Clara_, and _Estifania_ vail'd.] + +Juan de Castro: + + You are welcome Ladies. + +Michael Perez: + + Both hooded, I like 'em well though, +172] They come not for advice in Law sure hither; + May be they would learn to raise the Pike, + I am for 'em: they are very modest, 'tis a fine Preludium. + +Juan de Castro: + + With me, or with this Gentleman, + Would you speak, Lady? + +Clara: + + With you, Sir, as I guess, _Juan de Castro_. + +Michael Perez: + + Her Curtain opens, she is a pretty Gentlewoman. + +Juan de Castro: + + I am the Man, and shall be bound to Fortune, + I may do any service to your Beauties. + +Clara: + + Captain, I hear you are marching down to _Flanders_, + To serve the Catholick King. + +Juan de Castro: + + I am sweet Lady. + +Clara: + + I have a Kinsman, and a noble Friend, + Imploy'd in those Wars, may be, Sir, you know him, + _Don Campusano_ Captain of _Carbines_, + To whom I would request your Nobleness, + To give this poor Remembrance. + + [A Letter. + +Juan de Castro: + + I shall do it, + I know the Gentleman, a most worthy Captain. + +Clara: + + Something in private. + +Juan de Castro: + + Step aside: I'll serve thee. + [Ex. _Juan_, and _Clara_. + +Michael Perez: + + Prithee let me see thy face. + +Estifania: + + Sir, you must pardon me, + Women of our sort, that maintain fair memories, + And keep suspect off from their Chastities, + Had need wear thicker Vails. + +Michael Perez: + + I am no blaster of a Ladies Beauty, + Nor bold intruder on her special favours, + I know how tender Reputation is, + And with what guards it ought to be preserv'd, Lady, + You may to me. + +Estifania: + + You must excuse me, Seignior, I come + Not here to sell my self. + +Michael Perez: + + As I am a Gentleman, by the honour of a Souldier. + +Estifania: + + I believe you, + I pray you be civil, I believe you would see me, + And when you have seen me I believe you will like me, + But in a strange place, to a stranger too, + As if I came on purpose to betray you, + Indeed I will not. +173] + +Michael Perez: + + I shall love you dearly, + And 'tis a sin to fling away affection, + I have no Mistress, no desire to honour + Any but you, will not this Oyster open? + I know not, you have struck me with your modesty; + She will draw sure; so deep, and taken from me + All the desire I might bestow on others, + Quickly before they come. + +Estifania: + + Indeed I dare not: + But since I see you are so desirous, Sir, + To view a poor face that can merit nothing + But your Repentance. + +Michael Perez: + + It must needs be excellent. + +Estifania: + + And with what honesty you ask it of me, + When I am gone let your man follow me, + And view what house I enter, thither come, + For there I dare be bold to appear open: + And as I like your vertuous carriage then, + + [Enter _Juan_, _Clara_, a Servant.] + + I shall be able to give welcome to you; + She hath done her business, I must take my leave, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + I'll kiss your fair white hand and thank you, Lady. + My man shall wait, and I shall be your Servant; + Sirrah, come near, hark. + +Servant: + + I shall do it faithfully. + [Exit. + +Juan de Castro: + + You will command me no more services? + +Clara: + + To be careful of your noble health, dear Sir, + That I may ever honour you. + +Juan de Castro: + + I thank you, + And kiss your hands, wait on the Ladies down there. + + [Exeunt Ladies, and Servants. + +Michael Perez: + + You had the honour to see the face that came to you? + +Juan de Castro: + + And 'twas a fair one; what was yours, _Don Michael_? + +Michael Perez: + + Mine was i'th' clipse, and had a Cloud drawn over it. + But I believe well, and I hope 'tis handsome, + She had a hand would stir a holy Hermite. + +Juan de Castro: + + You know none of 'em? + +Michael Perez: + + No. + +Juan de Castro: + + Then I do, Captain, +174] But I'll say nothing till I see the proof on't, + Sit close _Don Perez_, or your Worship's caught. + I fear a Flye. + +Michael Perez: + + Were those she brought Love-Letters? + +Juan de Castro: + + A Packet to a Kinsman now in _Flanders_, + Yours was very modest methought. + +Michael Perez: + + Some young unmanag'd thing, + But I may live to see-- + +Juan de Castro: + + 'Tis worth experience, + Let's walk abroad and view our Companies. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Sanchio_, and _Alonzo_.] + +Sanchio: + + What, are you for the Wars, _Alonzo_? + +Alonzo: + + It may be I, + It may be no, e'n as the humour takes me. + If I find peace amongst the female Creatures, + And easie entertainment, I'll stay at home, + I am not so far obliged yet to long Marches + And mouldy Biskets, to run mad for Honour, + When you are all gone I have my choice before me. + +Sanchio: + + Of which Hospital thou wilt sweat in; wilt thou + Never leave whoring? + +Alonzo: + + There is less danger in't than gunning, _Sanchio_, + Though we be shot sometimes, the shot's not mortal, + Besides, it breaks no limbs. + +Sanchio: + + But it disables 'em, + Dost thou see how thou pull'st thy legs after thee, as they + Hung by points. + +Alonzo: + + Better to pull 'em thus than walk on wooden ones, + Serve bravely for a Billet to support me. + +Sanchio: + + Fye, fye, 'tis base. + +Alonzo: + + Dost thou count it base to suffer? + Suffer abundantly? 'tis the Crown of Honour; + You think it nothing to lie twenty days + Under a Surgeons hands that has no mercy. + +Sanchio: + + As thou hast done I am sure, but I perceive now + Why you desire to stay, the orient Heiress, + The _Margarita_, Sir, + +Alonzo: + + I would I had her. + +Sanchio: + + They say she will marry. +175] + +Alonzo: + + I think she will. + +Sanchio: + + And marry suddenly, as report goes too, + She fears her Youth will not hold out, _Alonzo_. + +Alonzo: + + I would I had the sheathing on't. + +Sanchio: + + They say too + She has a greedy eye that must be fed + With more than one mans meat. + +Alonzo: + + Would she were mine, + I would cater for her well enough; but _Sanchio_, + There be too many great men that adore her, + Princes, and Princes fellows, that claim priviledge. + +Sanchio: + + Yet those stand off i'th' way of marriage, + To be tyed to a man's pleasure is a second labour. + +Alonzo: + + She has bought a brave house here in town. + +Sanchio: + + I have heard so. + +Alonzo: + + If she convert it now to pious uses, + And bid poor Gentlemen welcome. + +Sanchio: + + When comes she to it? + +Alonzo: + + Within these two days, she is in the Country yet, + And keeps the noblest House. + +Sanchio: + + Then there's some hope of her, + Wilt thou go my way? + +Alonzo: + + No, no, I must leave you, + And repair to an old Gentlewoman + That has credit with her, that can speak a good word. + +Sanchio: + + Send thee good fortune, but make thy Body sound first. + +Alonzo: + + I am a Souldier, + And too sound a Body becomes me not; + Farewel, _Sanchio_. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter a Servant of _Michael Perez_.] + +Servant: + + 'Tis this or that house, or I have lost my aim, + They are both fair buildings, she walked plaguy fast, + + [Enter _Estifania_.] + + And hereabouts I lost her; stay, that's she, + 'Tis very she,--she makes me a low court'sie, + Let me note the place, the street I well remember. + + [Exit. + + She is in again, certain some noble Lady. + How happy should I be if she love my master: +176] A wondrous goodly house, here are brave lodgings, + And I shall sleep now like an Emperour, + And eat abundantly: I thank my fortune, + I'll back with speed, and bring him happy tidings. + + [Exit. + + [Enter three old Ladies.] + +1 Lady: + + What should it mean, that in such haste + We are sent for? + +2 Lady: + + Belike the Lady _Margaret_ has some business + She would break to us in private. + +3 Lady: + + It should seem so. + 'Tis a good Lady, and a wise young Lady. + +2 Lady: + + And vertuous enough too I warrant ye + For a young Woman of her years; 'tis pity + To load her tender Age with too much Vertue. + +3 Lady: + + 'Tis more sometimes than we can well away with. + + [Enter _Altea_.] + +Altea: + + Good morrow, Ladies. + +All: + + 'Morrow, my good Madam. + +1 Lady: + + How does the sweet young Beauty, Lady _Margaret_? + +2 Lady: + + Has she slept well after her walk last night? + +1 Lady: + + Are her dreams gentle to her mind? + +Altea: + + All's well, + She's very well, she sent for you thus suddenly + To give her counsel in a business + That much concerns her. + +2 Lady: + + She does well and wisely, + To ask the counsel of the ancientst, Madam, + Our years have run through many things she knows not. + +Altea: + + She would fain marry. + +1 Lady: + + 'Tis a proper calling, + And well beseems her years, who would she yoke with? + +Altea: + + That's left to argue on, I pray come in + And break your fast, drink a good cup or two, + To strengthen your understandings, then she'l tell ye. + +2 Lady: + + And good wine breeds good counsel. + We'l yield to ye. + + [Exeunt. + +177] + [Enter _Juan de Castro_, and _Leon_.] + +Juan de Castro: + + Have you seen any service? + +Leon: + + Yes. + +Juan de Castro: + + Where? + +Leon: + + Every where. + +Juan de Castro: + + What office bore ye? + +Leon: + + None, I was not worthy. + +Juan de Castro: + + What Captains know you? + +Leon: + + None, they were above me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Were you never hurt? + +Leon: + + Not that I well remember, + But once I stole a Hen, and then they beat me; + Pray ask me no long questions, I have an ill memory. + +Juan de Castro: + + This is an Asse, did you never draw your sword yet? + +Leon: + + Not to do any harm I thank Heaven for't. + +Juan de Castro: + + Nor ne'r ta'ne prisoner? + +Leon: + + No, I ran away, + For I had ne'r no mony to redeem me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Can you endure a Drum? + +Leon: + + It makes my head ake. + +Juan de Castro: + + Are you not valiant when you are drunk? + +Leon: + + I think not, but I am loving Sir. + +Juan de Castro: + + What a lump is this man, + Was your Father wise? + +Leon: + + Too wise for me I'm sure, + For he gave all he had to my younger Brother. + +Juan de Castro: + + That was no foolish part I'le bear you witness. + Canst thou lye with a woman? + +Leon: + + I think I could make shift Sir, + But I am bashfull. + +Juan de Castro: + + In the night? + +Leon: + + I know not, + Darkness indeed may do some good upon me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Why art thou sent to me to be my officer, + I, and commended too, when thou darst not fight? + +Leon: + + There be more officers of my opinion, + Or I am cozen'd Sir, men that talk more too. + +Juan de Castro: + + How wilt thou scape a bullet? + +Leon: + + Why by chance, +178] They aim at honourable men, alas I am none Sir. + +Juan de Castro: + + This fellow has some doubts in's talk that strike me, + + [Enter _Alonzo_.] + + He cannot be all fool: welcom _Alonzo_. + +Alonzo: + + What have you got there, temperance into your company? + The spirit of peace? we shall have wars + + [Enter _Cacafogo_.] + + By th'ounce then. O here's another pumpion, + Let him loose for luck sake, the cram'd son + Of a stay'd Usurer, _Cacafogo_, both their brains butter'd, + Cannot make two spoonfulls. + +Cacafogo: + + My Father's dead: I am a man of war too, + Monyes, demesns; I have ships at sea too, + Captains. + +Juan de Castro: + + Take heed o'th' Hollanders, your ships may leak else. + +Cacafogo: + + I scorn the Hollanders, they are my drunkards. + +Alonzo: + + Put up your gold Sir, I'le borrow it else. + +Cacafogo: + + I am satisfied, you shall not, + Come out, I know thee, meet mine anger instantly. + +Leon: + + I never wrong'd ye. + +Cacafogo: + + Thou hast wrong'd mine honor, + Thou look'dst upon my Mistris thrice lasciviously, + I'le make it good. + +Juan de Castro: + + Do not hea[t] your self, you will surfeit. + +Cacafogo: + + Thou wan'st my mony too, with a pair of base bones, + In whom there was no truth, for which I beat thee, + I beat thee much, now I will hurt thee dangerously. + This shall provoke thee. + + [He strikes. + +Alonzo: + + You struck too low by a foot Sir. + +Juan de Castro: + + You must get a ladder when you would beat + This fellow. + +Leon: + + I cannot chuse but kick again, pray pardon me. + +Cacafogo: + + Had'st thou not ask'd my pardon, I had kill'd thee, + I leave thee as a thing despis'd, _assoles manus a vostra siniare_ + _a Maistre_. + + [Exit _Cacafogo_. + +Alonzo: + + You have scap'd by miracle, there is not in all _Spain_, + A spirit of more fury than this fire drake. + +Leon: + + I see he is hasty, and I would give him leave +179] To beat me soundly if he would take my bond. + +Juan de Castro: + + What shall I do with this fellow? + +Alonzo: + + Turn him off, + He will infect the camp with cowardise, + If he goe with thee. + +Juan de Castro: + + About some week hence Sir, + If I can hit upon no abler officer, + You shall hear from me. + +Leon: + + I desire no better. + [Exit. + + [Enter _Estifania_, and _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + You have made me now too bountifull amends, Lady + For your strict carriage when you saw me first, + These beauties were not meant to be conceal'd, + It was a wrong to hide so sweet an object, + I cou'd now chide ye, but it shall be thus, + No other anger ever touch your sweetness. + +Estifania: + + You appear to me so honest, and so civil, + Without a blush Sir, I dare bid ye welcom. + +Michael Perez: + + Now let me ask your name. + +Estifania: + + 'Tis _Estifanie_, the heir of this poor place. + +Michael Perez: + + Poor do you call it? + There's nothing that I cast mine eyes upon, + But shews both rich and admirable, all the rooms + Are hung as if a Princess were to dwell here, + The Gardens, Orchards, every thing so curious: + Is all that plate your own too? + +Estifania: + + 'Tis but little, + Only for present use, I have more and richer, + When need shall call, or friends compel me use it, + The sutes you see of all the upper chamber, + Are those that commonly adorn the house, + I think I have besides, as fair, as civil, + As any town in _Spain_ can parallel. + +Michael Perez: + + Now if she be not married, I have some hopes. + Are you a maid? + +Estifania: + + You make me blush to answer, + I ever was accounted so to this hour, + And that's the reason that I live retir'd Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + Then would I counsel you to marry presently, +180] (If I can get her, I am made for ever) + For every year you lose, you lose a beauty, + A Husband now, an honest careful Husband, + Were such a comfort: will ye walk above stairs? + +Estifania: + + This place will fit our talk, 'tis fitter far Sir, + Above there are day-beds, and such temptations + I dare not trust Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + She is excellent wise withal too. + +Estifania: + + You nam'd a husband, I am not so strict Sir, + Nor ti'd unto a Virgins solitariness, + But if an honest, and a noble one, + Rich, and a souldier, for so I have vowed he shall be, + Were offer'd me, I think I should accept him, + But above all he must love. + +Michael Perez: + + He were base else, + There's comfort ministred in the word souldier, + How sweetly should I live! + +Estifania: + + I am not so ignorant, but that I know well, + How to be commanded, + And how again to make my self obey'd Sir, + I waste but little, I have gather'd much, + My rial not the less worth, when 'tis spent, + If spent by my direction, to please my Husband, + I hold it as indifferent in my duty, + To be his maid i'th' kitchen, or his Cook, + As in the Hall to know my self the Mistris. + +Michael Perez: + + Sweet, rich, and provident, now fortune stick + To me; I am a Souldier, and a bachelour, Lady, + And such a wife as you, I cou'd love infinitely, + They that use many words, some are deceitfull, + I long to be a Husband, and a good one, + For 'tis most certain I shall make a president + For all that follow me to love their Ladies, + I am young you see, able I would have you think too, + If't please you know, try me before you take me. + 'Tis true I shall not meet in equal wealth + With ye, but Jewels, Chains, such as the war + Has given me, a thousand Duckets I dare + Presume on in ready gold, now as your + Care may handle it, as rich cloths too, as +181] Any he bears arms Lady. + +Estifania: + + You are a true gentleman, and fair, I see by ye, + And such a man I had rather take. + +Michael Perez: + + Pray do so, I'le have a Priest o'th' sudden. + +Estifania: + + And as suddenly you will repent too. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le be hang'd or drown'd first, + By this and this, and this kiss. + +Estifania: + + You are a Flatterer, + But I must say there was something when I saw you + First, in that most noble face, that stirr'd my fancy. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le stir it better e're you sleep sweet Lady, + I'le send for all my trunks and give up all to ye, + Into your own dispose, before I bed ye, + And then sweet wench. + +Estifania: + + You have the art to cozen me. + [Exeunt. + + + + + +Actus Secundus + + + + +Scena Prima + + [Enter _Margarita_, and two Ladies, and _Altea_.] + +Margarita: + + Sit down and give me your opinions seriously. + +1 Lady: + + You say you have a mind to marry Lady. + +Margarita: + + 'Tis true, I have for to preserve my credit, + Yet not so much for that as for my state Ladies, + Conceive me right, there lies the main o'th' question, + Credit I can redeem, mony will imp it, + But when my monie's gone, when the law shall + Seize that, and for incontinency strip me + Of all. + +1 Lady: + + Do you find your body so malitious that way? + +Margarita: + + I find it as all bodies are that are young and lusty, + Lazy, and high fed, I desire my pleasure, + And pleasure I must have. + +2 Lady: + + 'Tis fit you should have, + Your years require it, and 'tis necessary, + As necessary as meat to a young Lady, + Sleep cannot nourish more. + +1 Lady: + + But might not all this be, and keep ye single. + You take away variety in marriage, + The abundance of the pleasure you are bar'd then, +182] Is't not abundance that you aim at? + +Margarita: + + Yes why was I made a woman? + +2 Lady: + + And every day a new? + +Margarita: + + Why fair and young but to use it? + +1 Lady: + + You are still i'th' right, why would you marry then? + +Altea: + + Because a husband stops all doubts in this point, + And clears all passages. + +2 Lady: + + What Husband mean ye? + +Altea: + + A Husband of an easy faith, a fool, + Made by her wealth, and moulded to her pleasure, + One though he see himself become a monster, + Shall hold the door, and entertain the maker. + +2 Lady: + + You grant there may be such a man. + +1 Lady: + + Yes marry, but how to bring 'em to this rare Perfection. + +2 Lady: + + They must be chosen so, things of no honour, + Nor outward honesty. + +Margarita: + + No 'tis no matter, + I care not what they are, so they be lusty. + +2 Lady: + + Me thinks now a rich Lawyer, some such fellow, + That carries credit, and a face of awe, + But lies with nothing but his clients business. + +Margarita: + + No there's no trusting them, they are too subtil, + The Law has moulded 'em of natural mischief. + +1 Lady: + + Then some grave governor, + Some man of honour, yet an easy man. + +Margarita: + + If he have honour I am undone, I'le none such, + I'le have a lusty man, honour will cloy me..br + +Altea: + + 'Tis fit ye should Lady; + And to that end, with search and wit and labour, + I have found one out, a right one and a perfect, + He is made as strong as brass, is of brave years too, + And doughty of complexion. + +Margarita: + + Is he a Gentleman? + +Altea: + + Yes and a souldier, as gentle as you would wish him, + A good fellow, wears good cloaths. + +Margarita: + + Those I'le allow him, + They are for my credit, does he understand + But little? + +Altea: + + Very little. +183] + +Margarita: + + 'Tis the better, + Have not the wars bred him up to anger? + +Alonzo: + + No, he will not quarrel with a dog that bites hi[m], + Let him be drunk or sober, is one silence. + +Margarita: + + H'as no capacity what honor is? + For that's the Souldiers god. + +Altea: + + Honour's a thing too subtil for his wisdom, + If honour lye in eating, he is right honourable. + +Margarita: + + Is he so goodly a man do you say? + +Altea: + + As you shall see Lady, + But to all this is but a trunk. + +Margarita: + + I would have him so, + I shall adde branches to him to adorn him, + Goe, find me out this man, and let me see him, + If he be that motion that you tell me of, + And make no more noise, I shall entertain him, + Let him be here. + +Altea: + + He shall attend your Ladiship. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Juan_, _Alonzo_, and _Perez_.] + +Juan de Castro: + + Why thou art not married indeed? + +Michael Perez: + + No, no, pray think so, + Alas I am a fellow of no reckoning, + Not worth a Ladies eye. + +Alonzo: + + Wou'dst thou steal a fortune, + And make none of all thy friends acquainted with it, + Nor bid us to thy wedding? + +Michael Perez: + + No indeed, + There was no wisdom in't, to bid an Artist, + An old seducer to a femal banquet, + I can cut up my pye without your instructions. + +Juan de Castro: + + Was it the wench i'th' veil? + +Michael Perez: + + Basto 'twas she, + The prettiest Rogue that e're you look'd upon, + The lovingst thief. + +Juan de Castro: + + And is she rich withal too? + +Michael Perez: + + A mine, a mine, there is no end of wealth Coronel, + I am an asse, a bashfull fool, prethee Coronel, + How do thy compa[ni]es fill now? + +Juan de Castro: + + You are merry Sir, +184] You intend a safer war at home belike now. + +Michael Perez: + + I do not think I shall fight much this year Coronel, + I find my self given to my ease a little, + I care not if I sell my foolish company, + They are things of hazard. + +Alonzo: + + How it angers me, + This fellow at first fight should win a Lady, + A rich young wench, and I that have consum'd + My time and art in searching out their subtleties, + Like a fool'd Alchymist blow up my hopes still? + When shall we come to thy house and be freely merry? + +Michael Perez: + + When I have manag'd her a little more, + I have an house to entertain an army. + +Alonzo: + + If thy wife be fair, thou wilt have few less + Come to thee. + +Michael Perez: + + But where they'l get entertainment is the point Signior. + I beat no Drum. + +Alonzo: + + You need none but her taber, + May be I'le march after a month or two, + To get me a fresh stomach. I find Coronel + A wantonness in wealth, methinks I agree not with, + 'Tis such a trouble to be married too, + And have a thousand things of great importance, + Jewels and plates, and fooleries molest me, + To have a mans brains whimsied with his wealth: + Before I walk'd contentedly. + + [Enter _Servant_.] + +Servant: + + My Mistris Sir is sick, because you are absent, + She mourns and will not eat. + +Michael Perez: + + Alas my Jewel, + Come I'le goe with thee, Gentlemen your fair leaves, + You see I am ti'd a little to my yoke, + Pray pardon me, would ye had both such loving wives. + +Juan de Castro: + + I thank ye + [Exit _Perez_, Servant. + + For your old boots, never be blank _Alonzo_, + Because this fellow has outstript thy fortune, + Tell me ten daies hence what he is, and how + The gracious state of matrimony stands with him, + Come, let's to dinner, when _Margarita_ comes +185] We'l visit both, it may be then your fortune. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Margarita_, _Altea_, and Ladies.] + +Margarita: + + Is he come? + +Altea: + + Yes Madam, h'as been here this half hour, + I have question'd him of all that you can ask him, + And find him as fit as you had made the man, + He will make the goodliest shadow for iniquity. + +Margarita: + + Have ye searcht him Ladies? + +Omnes: + + Is a man at all points, a likely man. + +Margarita: + + Call him in _Altea_. + [Exit _Lady_. + + [Enter _Leon_, _Altea_.] + + A man of a good presence, pray ye come this way, + Of a lusty body, is his mind so tame? + +Altea: + + Pray ye question him, and if you find him not + Fit for your purpose, shake him off, there's no harm + Done. + +Margarita: + + Can you love a young Lady? How he blushes! + +Altea: + + Leave twirling of your hat, and hold your head up, + And speak to'th' Lady. + +Leon: + + Yes, I think I can, + I must be taught, I know not what it means Madam. + +Margarita: + + You shall be taught, and can you when she pleases + Go ride abroad, and stay a week or two? + You shall have men and horses to attend ye, + And mony in your purse. + +Leon: + + Yes I love riding, + And when I am from home I am so merry. + +Margarita: + + Be as merry as you will: can you as handsomely + When you are sent for back, come with obedience, + And doe your dutie to the Lady loves you? + +Leon: + + Yes sure, I shall. + +Margarita: + + And when you see her friends here, + Or noble kinsmen, can you entertain + Their servants in the Celler, and be busied, + And hold your peace, what e're you see or hear of? + +Leon: + + 'Twere fit I were hang'd else. + +Margarita: + + Let me try your kisses, + How the fool shakes, I will not eat ye Sir, +186] Beshrew my heart he kisses wondrous manly, + Can ye doe any thing else? + +Leon: + + Indeed I know not; + But if your Ladiship will please to instruct me, + Sure I shall learn. + +Margarita: + + You shall then be instructed: + If I should be this Lady that affects ye, + Nay say I marry ye? + +Altea: + + Hark to the Lady. + +Margarita: + + What mony have ye? + +Leon: + + None Madam, nor friends, + I wou'd doe any thing to serve your Ladiship. + +Margarita: + + You must not look to be my Mr Sir, + Nor talk i'th' house as though you wore the breeches, + No, nor command in any thing. + +Leon: + + I will not, + Alas I am not able, I have no wit Madam. + +Margarita: + + Nor do not labour to arrive at any, + 'Twill spoil your head, I take ye upon charity, + And like a Servant ye must be unto me, + As I behold your duty I shall love ye, + And as you observe me, I may chance lye with ye, + Can you mark these? + +Leon: + + Yes indeed forsooth. + +Margarita: + + There is one thing, + That if I take ye in I put ye from me, + Utterly from me, you must not be sawcy, + No, nor at any time familiar with me, + Scarce know me, when I call ye not. + +Leon: + + I will not, alas I never knew my self sufficiently. + +Margarita: + + Nor must not now. + +Leon: + + I'le be a Dog to please ye. + +Margarita: + + Indeed you must fetch and carry as I appoint ye. + +Leon: + + I were to blame else. + +Margarita: + + Kiss me again; a strong fellow, + There is a vigor in his lips: if you see me + Kiss any other, twenty in an hour Sir, + You must not start, nor be offended. + +Leon: + + No, if you kiss a thousand I shall be contented, + It will the better teach me how to please ye. +187] + +Altea: + + I told ye Madam. + +Margarita: + + 'Tis the man I wisht for; the less you speak. + +Leon: + + I'le never speak again Madam, + But when you charge me, then I'le speak softly too. + +Margarita: + + Get me a Priest, I'le wed him instantly, + But when you are married Sir, you must wait + Upon me, and see you observe my laws. + +Leon: + + Else you shall hang me. + +Margarita: + + I'le give ye better clothes when you deserve 'em, + Come in, and serve for witness. + +Omnes: + + We shall Madam. + +Margarita: + + And then away toth' city presently, + I'le to my new house and new company. + +Leon: + + A thousand crowns are thine, and I am a made man. + +Altea: + + Do not break out too soon. + +Leon: + + I know my time wench. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Clara_, and _Estifania_ with a paper.] + +Clara: + + What, have you caught him? + +Estifania: + + Yes. + +Clara: + + And do you find him + A man of those hopes that you aim'd at? + +Estifania: + + Yes too, + And the most kind man, and the ablest also + To give a wife content, he is sound as old wine, + And to his soundness rises on the pallat, + And there's the man; find him rich too _Clara_. + +Clara: + + Hast thou married him? + +Estifania: + + What dost thou think I fish without a bait wench? + I bob for fools? he is mine own, I have him, + I told thee what would tickle him like a trout, + And as I cast it so I caught him daintily, + And all he has I have 'stowed at my devotion. + +Clara: + + Does thy Lady know this? she is coming now to town, + Now to live here in this house. + +Estifania: + + Let her come, + She shall be welcom, I am prepar'd for her, + She is mad sure if she be angry at my fortune, + For what I have made bold. + +Clara: + + Dost thou not love him? +188] + +Estifania: + + Yes, intirely well, + As long as there he staies and looks no farther + Into my ends, but when he doubts, I hate him, + And that wise hate will teach me how to cozen him: + How to decline their wives, and curb their manners, + To put a stern and strong reyn to their natures, + And holds he is an Asse not worth acquaintance, + That cannot mould a Devil to obedience, + I owe him a good turn for these opinions, + And as I find his temper I may pay him, + + [Enter _Perez_.] + + O here he is, now you shall see a kind man. + +Michael Perez: + + My _Estifania_, shall we to dinner lamb? + I know thou stay'st for me. + +Estifania: + + I cannot eat else. + +Michael Perez: + + I never enter but me thinks a Paradise + Appears about me. + +Estifania: + + You are welcom to it Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + I think I have the sweetest seat in _Spain_ wench, + Me thinks the richest too, we'l eat i'th' garden + In one o'th' arbours, there 'tis cool and pleasant, + And have our wine cold in the running fountain. + Who's that? + +Estifania: + + A friend of mine Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + Of what breeding? + +Estifania: + + A Gentlewoman Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + What business has she? + Is she a learned woman i'th' Mathematicks, + Can she tell fortunes? + +Estifania: + + More than I know Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + Or has she e're a letter from a kinswoman, + That must be delivered in my absence wife, + Or comes she from the Doctor to salute ye, + And learn your health? she looks not like a confessor. + +Estifania: + + What need all this, why are you troubled Sir? + What do you suspect, she cannot cuckold ye, + She is a woman Sir, a very woman. + +Michael Perez: + + Your very woman may do very well Sir + Toward the matter, for though she cannot perform it +189] In her own person, she may do it by Proxie, + Your rarest jugglers work still by conspiracy. + +Estifania: + + Cry ye mercy husband, you are jealous then, + And happily suspect me. + +Michael Perez: + + No indeed wife. + +Estifania: + + Me thinks you should not till you have more cause + And clearer too: I am sure you have heard say husband, + A woman forced will free her self through Iron, + A happy, calm, and good wife discontented + May be taught tricks. + +Michael Perez: + + No, no, I do but jest with ye. + +Estifania: + + To morrow friend I'le see you. + +Clara: + + I shall leave ye + Till then, and pray all may goe sweetly with ye. + + [Exit. + +Estifania: + + Why where's this girle, whose at the door? + [Knock. + +Michael Perez: + + Who knocks there? + Is't for the King ye come, you knock so boisterously? + Look to the door. + + [Enter _Maid_.] + +Maid: + + My Lady, as I live Mistris, my Ladie's come, + She's at the door, I peept through, and I saw her, + And a stately company of Ladies with her. + +Estifania: + + This was a week too soon, but I must meet with her, + And set a new wheel going, and a subtile one, + Must blind this mighty _Mars_, or I am ruin'd. + +Michael Perez: + + What are they at door? + +Estifania: + + Such my _Michael_ + As you may bless the day they enter'd there, + Such for our good. + +Michael Perez: + + 'Tis well. + +Estifania: + + Nay, 'twill be better + If you will let me but dispose the business, + And be a stranger to it, and not disturb me, + What have I now to do but to advance your fortune? + +Michael Perez: + + Doe, I dare trust thee, I am asham'd I am angry, + I find thee a wise young wife. + +Estifania: + + I'le wise your worship + Before I leave ye, pray ye walk by and say nothing, + Only salute them, and leave the rest to me Sir, +190] I was born to make ye a man. + + [] + +Michael Perez: + + The Rogue speaks heartily, + Her good will colours in her cheeks, I am born to love her, + I must be gentler to these tender natures, + A Souldiers rude harsh words befit not Ladies, + Nor must we talk to them as we talk to + Our Officers, I'le give her way, for 'tis for me she + Works now, I am husband, heir, and all she has. + + [Enter _Margarita_, _Estifania_, _Leon_, _Altea_, and Ladies.] + + Who are these, what flanting things, a woman + Of rare presence! excellent fair, this is too big + For a bawdy house, too open seated too. + +Estifania: + + My Husband, Lady. + +Margarita: + + You have gain'd a proper man. + +Michael Perez: + + What e're I am, I am your servant Lady. + [kisses. + +Estifania: + + Sir, be rul'd now, + And I shall make ye rich, this is my cousin, + That Gentleman dotes on her, even to death, see how he observes her. + +Michael Perez: + + She is a goodly woman. + +Estifania: + + She is a mirrour, + But she is poor, she were for a Princes side else, + This house she has brought him too as to her own, + And presuming upon me, and upon my courtesie. + Conceive me short, he knows not but she is wealthy, + Or if he did know otherwise, 'twere all one, + He is so far gone. + +Michael Perez: + + Forward, she has a rare face. + +Estifania: + + This we must carry with discretion Husband, + And yield unto her for four daies. + +Michael Perez: + + Yield our house up, our goods and wealth? + +Estifania: + + All this is but in seeming, + To milk the lover on, do you see this writing, + 200_l_ a year when they are married + Has she sealed to for our good; the time's unfit now, + I'le shew it you to morrow. + +Michael Perez: + + All the house? + +Estifania: + + All, all, and we'l remove too, to confirm him, + They'l into th' country suddenly again + After they are matcht, and then she'l open to him. +191] + +Michael Perez: + + The whole possession wife? look what you doe, + A part o'th' house. + +Estifania: + + No, no, they shall have all, + And take their pleasure too, 'tis for our 'vantage. + Why, what's four daies? had you a Sister Sir, + A Niece or Mistris that required this courtesie, + And should I make a scruple to do you good? + +Michael Perez: + + If easily it would come back. + +Estifania: + + I swear Sir, + As easily as it came on, is't not pity + To let such a Gentlewoman for a little help-- + You give away no house. + +Michael Perez: + + Clear but that question. + +Estifania: + + I'le put the writings into your hand. + +Michael Perez: + + Well then. + +Estifania: + + And you shall keep them safe. + +Michael Perez: + + I am satisfied; wou'd I had the wench so too. + +Estifania: + + When she has married him, + So infinite his love is linkt unto her, + You, I, or any one that helps at this pinch + May have Heaven knows what. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le remove the goods straight, + And take some poor house by, 'tis but for four days. + +Estifania: + + I have a poor old friend; there we'l be. + +Michael Perez: + + 'Tis well then. + +Estifania: + + Goe handsom off, and leave the house clear. + +Michael Perez: + + Well. + +Estifania: + + That little stuff we'l use shall follow after; + And a boy to guide ye, peace and we are made both. + +Margarita: + + Come, let's goe in, are all the rooms kept sweet wench? + +Estifania: + + They are sweet and neat. + [Exit _Perez_. + +Margarita: + + Why where's your Husband? + +Estifania: + + Gone Madam. + When you come to your own he must give place Lady. + +Margarita: + + Well, send you joy, you would not let me know't, + Yet I shall not forget ye. + +Estifania: + + Thank your Ladyship. + [Exeunt. + + + + + +192] +Actus Tertius + + + + +Scena Prima. + + [Enter _Margarita_, _Altea_, and _Boy_.] + +Altea: + + Are you at ease now, is your heart at rest, + Now you have got a shadow, an _umbrella_ + To keep the scorching worlds opinion + From your fair credit. + +Margarita: + + I am at peace _Altea_, + If he continue but the same he shews, + And be a master of that ignorance + He outwardly professes, I am happy, + The pleasure I shall live in and the freedom + Without the squint-eye of the law upon me, + Or prating liberty of tongues, that envy. + +Altea: + + You are a made woman. + +Margarita: + + But if he should prove now + A crafty and dissembling kind of Husband, + One read in knavery, and brought up in the art + Of villany conceal'd. + +Altea: + + My life, an innocent. + +Margarita: + + That's it I aim at, + That's it I hope too, then I am sure I rule him, + For innocents are like obedient Children + Brought up under a hard Mother-in-law, a cruel, + Who being not us'd to break-fasts and collations, + When they have course bread offer'd 'em, are thankfull, + And take it for a favour too. Are the rooms + Made ready to entertain my friends? I long to dance now + And to be wanton; let me have a song, is the great couch up + The Duke of _Medina_ sent? + +Altea: + + 'Tis up and ready. + +Margarita: + + And day-beds in all chambers? + +Altea: + + In all Lady, + Your house is nothing now but various pleasures, + The Gallants begin to gaze too. + +Margarita: + + Let 'em gaze on, + I was brought up a Courtier, high and happy, + And company is my delight, and courtship, +193] And handsom servants at my will: where's my good husband, + Where does he wait? + +Altea: + + He knows his distance Madam, + I warrant ye he is busie in the celler + Amongst his fellow servants, or asleep, + Till your command awake him. + + [Enter _Leon_.] + +Margarita: + + 'Tis well _Altea_. + It should be so, my ward I must preserve him. + Who sent for him, how dare he come uncall'd for, + His bonnet on too? + +Altea: + + Sure he sees you not. + +Margarita: + + How scornfully he looks! + +Leon: + + Are all the chambers + Deckt and adorn'd thus for my Ladies pleasure? + New hangings every hour for entertainment, + And new plate bought, new Jewels to give lustre? + +Servant: + + They are, and yet there must be more and richer, + It is her will. + +Leon: + + Hum, is it so? 'tis excellent, + It is her will too, to have feasts and banquets, + Revells and masques. + +Servant: + + She ever lov'd 'em dearly, + And we shall have the bravest house kept now Sir, + I must not call ye master she has warn'd me, + Nor must not put my hat off to ye. + +Leon: + + 'Tis no fashion, + What though I be her husband, I am your fellow, + I may cut first. + +Servant: + + That's as you shall deserve Sir. + +Leon: + + And when I lye with her. + +Servant: + + May be I'le light ye, + On the same point you may doe me that service. + + [Enter _1 Lady_.] + +1 Lady: + + Madam, the Duke _Medina_ with some Captains + Will come to dinner, and have sent rare wine, + And their best services. + +Margarita: + + They shall be welcom, +194] See all be ready in the noblest fashion, + The house perfum'd, now I shall take my pleasure, + And not my neighbour Justice maunder at me. + Go, get your best cloths on, but till I call ye, + Be sure you be not seen, dine with the Gentlewomen, + And behave your self cleanly Sir, 'tis for my credit. + + [Enter _2 Lady_.] + +2 Lady: + + Madam, the Lady _Julia_. + +Leon: + + That's a bawd, + A three pil'd bawd, bawd major to the army. + +2 Lady: + + Has brought her coach to wait upon your Ladiship, + And to be inform'd if you will take the air this morning. + +Leon: + + The neat air of her nunnery. + +Margarita: + + Tell her no, i'th' afternoon I'le call on her. + +2 Lady: + + I will Madam. + [Exit. + +Margarita: + + Why are not you gone to prepare your self, + May be you shall be sewer to the fire course, + A portly presence, _Altea_ he looks lean, + 'Tis a wash knave, he will not keep his flesh well. + +Altea: + + A willing, Madam, one that needs no spurring. + +Leon: + + Faith madam, in my little understanding, + You had better entertain your honest neighbours, + Your friends about ye, that may speak well of ye, + And give a worthy mention of your bounty. + +Margarita: + + How now, what's this? + +Leon: + + 'Tis only to perswade ye, + Courtiers are but tickle things to deal withal, + A kind of march-pane men that will not last Madam, + An egge and pepper goes farther than their potions, + And in a well built body, a poor parsnip + Will play his prize above their strong potabiles. + +Margarita: + + The fellow's mad. + +Leon: + + He that shall counsel Ladies, + That have both liquorish and ambitious eyes, + Is either mad, or drunk, let him speak Gospel. + +Altea: + + He breaks out modestly. + +Leon: + + Pray ye be not angry, + My indiscretion has made bold to tell ye, + What you'l find true. +195] + +Margarita: + + Thou darest not talk. + +Leon: + + Not much Madam, + You have a tye upon your servants tongue, + He dares not be so bold as reason bids him, + 'Twere fit there were a stronger on your temper. + Ne're look so stern upon me, I am your Husband, + But what are Husbands? read the new worlds wonders, + Such Husbands as this monstrous world produces, + And you will scarce find such deformities, + They are shadows to conceal your venial vertues, + Sails to your mills, that grind with all occasions, + Balls that lye by you, to wash out your stains, + And bills nail'd up with horn before your stories, + To rent out last. + +Margarita: + + Do you hear him talk? + +Leon: + + I have done Madam, + An oxe once spoke, as learned men deliver, + Shortly I shall be such, then I'le speak wonders, + Till when I tye my self to my obedience. + + [Exit. + +Margarita: + + First I'le unty my self, did you mark the Gentleman, + How boldly and how sawcily he talk'd, + And how unlike the lump I took him for, + The piece of ignorant dow, he stood up to me + And mated my commands, this was your providence, + Your wisdom, to elect this Gentleman, + Your excellent forecast in the man, your knowledge, + What think ye now? + +Altea: + + I think him an Asse still, + This boldness some of your people have blown + Into him, this wisdom too with strong wine, + 'Tis a Tyrant, and a Philosopher also, and finds + Out reasons. + +Margarita: + + I'le have my celler lockt, no school kept there, + Nor no discovery. I'le turn my drunkards, + Such as are understanding in their draughts, + And dispute learnedly the whyes and wherefores, + To grass immediatly, I'le keep all fools, + Sober or drunk, still fools, that shall know nothing, + Nothing belongs to mankind, but obedience, + And such a hand I'le keep over this Husband. +196] + +Altea: + + He will fall again, my life he cryes by this time, + Keep him from drink, he has a high constitution. + + [Enter _Leon_.] + +Leon: + + Shall I wear my new sute Madam? + +Margarita: + + No your old clothes, + And get you into the country presently, + And see my hawks well train'd, you shall have victuals, + Such as are fit for sawcy palats Sir, + And lodgings with the hindes, it is too good too. + +Altea: + + Good Madam be not so rough, with repentance, + You see now he's come round again. + +Margarita: + + I see not what I expect to see. + +Leon: + + You shall see Madam, if it shall please your Ladyship. + +Altea: + + He's humbled, + Forgive good Lady, + +Margarita: + + Well go get you handsom, + And let me hear no more. + +Leon: + + Have ye yet no feeling? + I'le pinch ye to the bones then my proud Lady. + + [Exit. + +Margarita: + + See you preserve him thus upon my favour, + You know his temper, tye him to the grindstone, + The next rebellion I'le be rid of him, + I'le have no needy Rascals I tye to me, + Dispute my life: come in and see all handsom. + +Altea: + + I hope to see you so too, I have wrought ill else. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + Shall I never return to mine own house again? + We are lodg'd here in the miserablest dog-hole, + A Conjurers circle gives content above it, + A hawks mew is a princely palace to it, + We have a bed no bigger than a basket, + And there we lie like butter clapt together, + And sweat our selves to sawce immediately, + The fumes are infinite inhabite here too; + And to that so thick, they cut like marmalet, + So various too, they'l pose a gold-finder, + Never return to mine own paradise? +197] Why wife I say, why _Estifania_. + +Estifania [within]: + + I am going presently. + +Michael Perez: + + Make haste good Jewel, + I am like the people that live in the sweet Islands: + I dye, I dye, if I stay but one day more here, + My lungs are rotten with the damps that rise, + And I cough nothing now but stinks of all sorts, + The inhabitants we have are two starv'd rats, + For they are not able to maintain a cat here, + And those appear as fearfull as two Devils, + They have eat a map of the whole world up already, + And if we stay a night we are gone for company. + There's an old woman that's now grown to marble, + Dri'd in this brick hill, and she sits i'th' chimnie, + Which is but three tiles rais'd like a house of cards, + The true proportion of an old smok'd Sibyl, + There is a young thing too that nature meant + For a maid-servant, but 'tis now a monster, + She has a husk about her like a chesnut + With basiness, and living under the line here, + And these two make a hollow sound together, + Like frogs or winds between two doors that murmur: + + [Enter _Estifania_.] + + Mercy deliver me. O are you come wife, + Shall we be free again? + +Estifania: + + I am now going, + And you shall presently to your own house Sir, + The remembrance of this small vexation + Will be argument of mirth for ever: + By that time you have said your orisons, + And broke your fast, I shall be back and ready, + To usher you to your old content, your freedom. + +Michael Perez: + + Break my neck rather, is there any thing here to eat + But one another, like a race of Cannibals? + A piece of butter'd wall you think is excellent, + Let's have our house again immediatly, + And pray ye take heed unto the furniture, + None be imbezil'd. + +Estifania: + + Not a pin I warrant ye. +198] + +Michael Perez: + + And let 'em instantly depart. + +Estifania: + + They shall both, + There's reason in all courtesies, they must both, + For by this time I know she has acquainted him, + And has provided too, she sent me word Sir, + And will give over gratefully unto you. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le walk i'th' Church-yard, + The dead cannot offend more than these living, + An hour hence I'le expect ye. + +Estifania: + + I'le not fail Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + And do you hear, let's have a handsom dinner, + And see all things be decent as they have been, + And let me have a strong bath to restore me, + I stink like a stal-fish shambles, or an oyl-shop. + +Estifania: + + You shall have all, which some interpret nothing, + I'le send ye people for the trunks afore-hand, + And for the stuff. + +Michael Perez: + + Let 'em be known and honest, + And do my service to your niece. + +Estifania: + + I shall Sir, + But if I come not at my hour, come thither, + That they may give you thanks for your fair courtesy, + And pray ye be brave for my sake. + +Michael Perez: + + I observe ye. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Juan de Castro_, _Sancho_, and _Cacafogo_.] + +Sanchio: + + Thou art very brave. + +Cacafogo: + + I have reason, I have mony. + +Sanchio: + + Is mony reason? + +Cacafogo: + + Yes and rime too Captain, + If ye have no mony y'are an Asse. + +Sanchio: + + I thank ye. + +Cacafogo: + + Ye have manners, ever thank him that has mony. + +Sanchio: + + Wilt thou lend me any? + +Cacafogo: + + Not a farthing Captain, + Captains are casual things. + +Sanchio: + + Why so are all men, thou shalt have my bond. + +Cacafogo: + + Nor bonds nor fetters Captain, + My mony is mine, I make no doubt on't. + +Juan de Castro: + + What dost thou do with it? +199] + +Cacafogo: + + Put it to pious uses, + Buy Wine and Wenches, and undo young Coxcombs + That would undo me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Are those Hospitals? + +Cacafogo: + + I first provide to fill my Hospitals + With Creatures of mine own, that I know wretched, + And then I build: those are more bound to pray for me: + Besides, I keep th' inheritance in my Name still. + +Juan de Castro: + + A provident Charity; are you for the Wars, Sir? + +Cacafogo: + + I am not poor enough to be a Souldier, + Nor have I faith enough to ward a Bullet; + This is no lining for a trench, I take it. + +Juan de Castro: + + Ye have said wisely. + +Cacafogo: + + Had you but my money, + You would swear it Colonel, I had rather drill at home + A hundred thousand Crowns, and with more honour, + Than exercise ten thousand Fools with nothing, + A wise Man safely feeds, Fools cut their fingers. + +Sanchio: + + A right State Usurer; why dost thou not marry, + And live a reverend Justice? + +Cacafogo: + + Is't not nobler to command a reverend Justice, than to be one? + And for a Wife, what need I marry, Captain, + When every courteous Fool that owes me money, + Owes me his Wife too, to appease my fury? + +Juan de Castro: + + Wilt thou go to dinner with us? + +Cacafogo: + + I will go, and view the Pearl of _Spain_, the Orient + Fair One, the rich One too, and I will be respected, + I bear my Patent here, I will talk to her, + And when your Captain's Ships shall stand aloof, + And pick your Noses, I will pick the purse + Of her affection. + +Juan de Castro: + + The Duke dines there to day too, the Duke of _Medina_. + +Cacafogo: + + Let the King dine there, + He owes me money, and so far's my Creature, + And certainly I may make bold with mine own, Captain? + +Sanchio: + + Thou wilt eat monstrously. + +Cacafogo: + + Like a true born _Spaniard_, + Eat as I were in _England_ where the Beef grows, + And I will drink abundantly, and then + Talk ye as wantonly as _Ovid_ did, +200] To stir the Intellectuals of the Ladies; + I learnt it of my Father's amorous Scrivener. + +Juan de Castro: + + If we should play now, you must supply me. + +Cacafogo: + + You must pawn a Horse troop, + And then have at ye Colonel. + +Sanchio: + + Come, let's go: + This Rascal will make rare sport; how the Ladies + Will laugh at him? + +Juan de Castro: + + If I light on him I'll make his Purse sweat too. + +Cacafogo: + + Will ye lead, Gentlemen? + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Perez_, an old Woman, and Maid.] + +Michael Perez: + + Nay, pray ye come out, and let me understand ye, + And tune your pipe a little higher, Lady; + I'll hold ye fast: rub, how came my Trunks open? + And my Goods gone, what Pick-lock Spirit? + +Old Woman: + + Ha, what would ye have? + +Michael Perez: + + My Goods again, how came my Trunks all open? + +Old Woman: + + Are your Trunks open? + +Michael Perez: + + Yes, and Cloaths gone, + And Chains, and Jewels: how she smells like hung Beef, + The Palsey, and Picklocks, fye, how she belches, + The Spirit of Garlick. + +Old Woman: + + Where's your Gentlewoman? + The young fair Woman? + +Michael Perez: + + What's that to my question? + She is my wife, and gone about my business. + +Maid: + + Is she your Wife, Sir? + +Michael Perez: + + Yes Sir, is that wonder? + Is the name of Wife unknown here? + +Old Woman: + + Is she truly, truly your Wife? + +Michael Perez: + + I think so, for I married her; + It was no Vision sure! + +Maid: + + She has the Keys, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + I know she has, but who has all my goods, Spirit? + +Old Woman: + + If you be married to that Gentlewoman, + You are a wretched man, she has twenty Husbands. + +Maid: + + She tells you true. + +Old Woman: + + And she has cozen'd all, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + The Devil she has! I had a fair house with her, +201] That stands hard by, and furnisht royally. + +Old Woman: + + You are cozen'd too, 'tis none of hers, good Gentleman. + +Maid: + + The Lady _Margarita_, she was her Servant, + And kept the house, but going from her, Sir, + For some lewd tricks she plaid. + +Michael Perez: + + Plague o' the Devil, + Am I i'th' full Meridian of my Wisedom + Cheated by a stale Quean! what kind of Lady + Is that that owes the House? + +Old Woman: + + A young sweet Lady. + +Michael Perez: + + Of a low stature? + +Old Woman: + + She is indeed but little, but she is wondrous fair. + +Michael Perez: + + I feel I am cozen'd; + Now I am sensible I am undone, + This is the very Woman sure, that Cousin + She told me would entreat but for four days, + To make the house hers; I am entreated sweetly. + +Maid: + + When she went out this morning, that I saw, Sir, + She had two Women at the door attending, + And there she gave 'em things, and loaded 'em, + But what they were--I heard your Trunks to open, + If they be yours? + +Michael Perez: + + They were mine while they were laden, + But now they have cast their Calves, they are not worth + Owning: was she her Mistress say you? + +Old Woman: + + Her own Mistress, her very Mistress, Sir, and all you saw + About and in that house was hers. + +Michael Perez: + + No Plate, no Jewels, nor no Hangings? + +Maid: + + Not a farthing, she is poor, Sir, a poor shifting thing. + +Michael Perez: + + No money? + +Old Woman: + + Abominable poor, as poor as we are, + Money as rare to her unless she steal it, + But for one civil Gown her Lady gave her, + She may go bare, good Gentlewoman. + +Michael Perez: + + I am mad now, + I think I am as poor as she, I am wide else, + One civil Sute I have left too, and that's all, + And if she steal that she must fley me for it; + Where does she use? + +Old Woman: + + You may find truth as soon, +202] Alas, a thousand conceal'd corners, Sir, she lurks in. + And here she gets a fleece, and there another, + And lives in mists and smoaks where none can find her. + +Michael Perez: + + Is she a Whore too? + +Old Woman: + + Little better, Gentleman, I dare not say she is so Sir, because + She is yours, Sir, these five years she has firkt + A pretty Living, + Until she came to serve; I fear he will knock my + Brains out for lying. + +Michael Perez: + + She has serv'd me faithfully, + A Whore and Thief? two excellent moral learnings + In one she-Saint, I hope to see her legend. + Have I been fear'd for my discoveries, + And courted by all Women to conceal 'em? + Have I so long studied the art of this Sex, + And read the warnings to young Gentlemen? + Have I profest to tame the Pride of Ladies, + And make 'em bear all tests, and am I trickt now? + Caught in mine own nooze? here's a royal left yet, + There's for your lodging and your meat for this Week. + A silk Worm lives at a more plentiful ordinary, + And sleeps in a sweeter Box: farewel great Grandmother, + If I do find you were an accessary, + 'Tis but the cutting off too smoaky minutes, + I'll hang ye presently. + +Old Woman: + + And I deserve it, I tell but truth. + +Michael Perez: + + Not I, I am an Ass, Mother. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter the Duke of _Medina_, _Juan de Castro_, _Alonzo_, _Sanchio_, +_Cacafogo_. Attendants.] + +Duke of Medina: + + A goodly house. + +Juan de Castro: + + And richly furnisht too, Sir. + +Alonzo: + + Hung wantonly, I like that preparation, + It stirs the blood unto a hopeful Banquet, + And intimates the Mistress free and jovial, + I love a house where pleasure prepares welcome. + +Duke of Medina: + + Now Cacafogo, how like you this mansion? + 'Twere a brave Pawn. + +Cacafogo: + + I shall be master of it, + 'Twas built for my bulk, the rooms are wide and spacious, +203] Airy and full of ease, and that I love well, + I'll tell you when I taste the Wine, my Lord, + And take the height of her Table with my Stomach, + How my affections stand to the young Lady. + + [Enter _Margarita_, _Altea_, Ladies, and Servants.] + +Margarita: + + All welcome to your Grace, and to these Souldiers, + You honour my poor house with your fair presence, + Those few slight pleasures that inhabit here, Sir, + I do beseech your Grace command, they are yours, + Your servant but preserves 'em to delight ye. + +Duke of Medina: + + I thank ye Lady, I am bold to visit ye, + Once more to bless mine eyes with your sweet Beauty, + 'T has been a long night since you left the Court, + For till I saw you now, no day broke to me. + +Margarita: + + Bring in the Dukes meat. + +Sanchio: + + She is most excellent. + +Juan de Castro: + + Most admirable fair as e'r I look'd upon, + I had rather command her than my Regiment. + +Cacafogo: + + I'll have a fling, 'tis but a thousand Duckets, + Which I can cozen up again in ten days, + And some few Jewels to justifie my Knavery, + Say, I should marry her, she'll get more money + Than all my Usury, put my Knavery to it, + She appears the most infallible way of Purchase, + I you'd wish her a size or two stronger for the encounter, + For I am like a Lion where I lay hold, + But these Lambs will endure a plaguy load, + And never bleat neither, that Sir, time has taught us, + I am so vertuous now, I cannot speak to her, + The arrant'st shamefac'd Ass, I broil away too. + + [Enter _Leon_.] + +Margarita: + + Why, where's this dinner? + +Leon: + + 'Tis not ready, Madam, + Nor shall not be until I know the Guests too, + Nor are they fairly welcome till I bid 'em. + +Juan de Castro: + + Is not this my _Alferes_? he looks another thing; + Are miracles afoot again? + +Margarita: + + Why, Sirrah, why Sirrah, you? +204] + +Leon: + + I hear you, saucy Woman, + And as you are my Wife, command your absence, + And know your duty, 'tis the Crown of modesty. + +Duke of Medina: + + Your Wife? + +Leon: + + Yes good my Lord, I am her Husband, + And pray take notice that I claim that honour, + And will maintain it. + +Cacafogo: + + It thou beest her Husband, + I am determin'd thou shalt be my Cuckold, + I'll be thy faithful friend. + +Leon: + + Peace, dirt and dunghil, + I will not lose my anger on a Rascal, + Provoke me more, I'll beat thy blown body + Till thou rebound'st again like a Tennis-Ball. + +Alonzo: + + This is miraculous. + +Sanchio: + + Is this the Fellow + That had the patience to become a Fool, + A flurted Fool, and on a sudden break, + As if he would shew a wonder to the World, + Both in Bravery, and Fortune too? + I much admire the man, I am astonisht. + +Margarita: + + I'll be divorced immediately. + +Leon: + + You shall not, + You shall not have so much will to be wicked. + I am more tender of your honour, Lady, + And of your Age, you took me for a shadow; + You took me to gloss over your discredit, + To be your Fool, you had thought you had found a Coxcomb; + I am innocent of any foul dishonour I mean to ye. + Only I will be known to be your Lord now, + And be a fair one too, or I will fall for't. + +Margarita: + + I do command ye from me, thou poor fellow, + Thou cozen'd Fool. + +Leon: + + Thou cozen'd Fool? 'tis not so, + I will not be commanded: I am above ye: + You may divorce me from your favour, Lady, + But from your state you never shall, I'll hold that, + And then maintain your wantonness, I'll wink at it. + +Margarita: + + Am I braved thus in mine own house? + +Leon: + + 'Tis mine, Madam, +205] You are deceiv'd, I am Lord of it, I rule it and all that's in't; + You have nothing to do here, Madam; + But as a Servant to sweep clean the Lodgings, + And at my farther will to do me service, + And so I'll keep it. + +Margarita: + + As you love me, give way. + +Leon: + + It shall be better, + I will give none, Madam, + I stand upon the ground of mine own Honour, + And will maintain it, you shall know me now + To be an understanding feeling man, + And sensible of what a Woman aims at, + A young proud Woman that has Will to sail with, + An itching Woman, that her blood provokes too, + I cast my Cloud off, and appear my self, + The master of this little piece of mischief, + And I will put a Spell about your feet, Lady, + They shall not wander but where I give way now. + +Duke of Medina: + + Is this the Fellow that the People pointed at, + For the meer sign of man, the walking Image? + He speaks wondrous highly. + +Leon: + + As a Husband ought, Sir, + In his own house, and it becomes me well too, + I think your Grace would grieve if you were put to it + To have a Wife or Servant of your own, + (For Wives are reckon'd in the rank of Servants,) + Under your own roof to command ye. + +Juan de Castro: + + Brave, a strange Conversion, thou shalt lead + In chief now. + +Duke of Medina: + + Is there no difference betwixt her and you, Sir? + +Leon: + + Not now, Lord, my Fortune makes me even, + And as I am an honest man, I am nobler. + +Margarita: + + Get me my Coach. + +Leon: + + Let me see who dares get it + Till I command, I'll make him draw your Coach too, + And eat your Coach, (which will be hard diet) + That executes your Will; or take your Coach, Lady, + I give you liberty, and take your People + Which I turn off, and take your Will abroad with ye, + Take all these freely, but take me no more, +206] And so farewel. + +Duke of Medina: + + Nay, Sir, you shall not carry it + So bravely off, you shall not wrong a Lady + In a high huffing strain, and think to bear it, + We stand not by as Bawds to your brave fury, + To see a Lady weep. + +Leon: + + They are tears of anger, I beseech ye note 'em, not worth pity, + Wrung from her rage, because her Will prevails not, + She would swound now if she could not cry, + Else they were excellent, and I should grieve too, + But falling thus, they show nor sweet nor orient. + Put up my Lord, this is oppression, + And calls the Sword of Justice to relieve me, + The law to lend her hand, the King to right me, + All which shall understand how you provoke me, + In mine own house to brave me, is this princely? + Then to my Guard, and if I spare your Grace, + And do not make this place your Monument, + Too rich a Tomb for such a rude behaviour, + I have a Cause will kill a thousand of ye, mercy forsake me. + +Juan de Castro: + + Hold, fair Sir, I beseech ye, + The Gentleman but pleads his own right nobly. + +Leon: + + He that dares strike against the husbands freedom, + The Husbands Curse stick to him, a tam'd Cuckold, + His Wife be fair and young, but most dishonest, + Most impudent, and have no feeling of it, + No conscience to reclaim her from a Monster, + Let her lye by him like a flattering ruine, + And at one instant kill both Name and Honour, + Let him be lost, no eye to weep his end, + Nor find no earth that's base enough to bury him. + Now Sir, fall on, I am ready to oppose ye. + +Duke of Medina: + + I have better thought, I pray Sir use your Wife well. + +Leon: + + Mine own humanity will teach me that, Sir, + And now you are all welcome, all, and we'll to dinner, + This is my Wedding-day. + +Duke of Medina: + + I'll cross your joy yet. + +Juan de Castro: + + I made seen a miracle, hold thine own, Souldier, + Sure they dare fight in fire that conquer Women. + +Sanchio: + + H'as beaten all my loose thoughts out of me, +207] As if he had thresht 'em out o'th' husk. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + 'Save ye, which is the Lady of the house? + +Leon: + + That's she, Sir, that pretty Lady, + If you would speak with her. + +Juan de Castro: + + _Don Michael_, _Leon_, another darer come. + +Michael Perez: + + Pray do not know me, I am full of business, + When I have more time I'll be merry with ye. + It is the Woman: good Madam, tell me truly, + Had you a Maid call'd _Estifania_? + +Margarita: + + Yes truly, had I. + +Michael Perez: + + Was she a Maid do you think? + +Margarita: + + I dare not swear for her, + For she had but a scant Fame. + +Michael Perez: + + Was she your Kinswoman? + +Margarita: + + Not that I ever knew, now I look better + I think you married her, 'give you joy, Sir, + You may reclaim her, 'twas a wild young Girl. + +Michael Perez: + + Give me a halter: is not this house mine, Madam? + Was not she owner of it, pray speak truly? + +Margarita: + + No, certainly, I am sure my money paid for it, + And I ne'r remember yet I gave it you, Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + The Hangings and the Plate too? + +Margarita: + + All are mine, Sir, + And every thing you see about the building, + She only kept my house when I was absent, + And so ill kept it, I was weary of her. + +Sanchio: + + What a Devil ails he? + +Juan de Castro: + + He's possest I'll assure you. + +Michael Perez: + + Where is your Maid? + +Margarita: + + Do not you know that have her? + She is yours now, why should I look after her? + Since that first hour I came I never saw her. + +Michael Perez: + + I saw her later, would the Devil had had her, + It is all true I find, a wild-fire take her. + +Juan de Castro: + + Is thy Wife with Child, _Don Michael_? thy excellent wife. + Art thou a Man yet? + +Alonzo: + + When shall we come and visit thee? + +Sanchio: + + And eat some rare fruit? thou hast admirable Orchards, +208] You are so jealous now, pox o' your jealousie, + How scurvily you look! + +Michael Perez: + + Prithee leave fooling, + I am in no humour now to fool and prattle, + Did she ne'r play the wag with you? + +Margarita: + + Yes many times, so often that I was asham'd to keep her, + But I forgave her, Sir, in hope she would mend still, + And had not you o'th' instant married her, + I had put her off. + +Michael Perez: + + I thank ye, I am blest still, + Which way so e'r I turn I am a made man, + Miserably gull'd beyond recovery. + +Juan de Castro: + + You'll stay and dine? + +Michael Perez: + + Certain I cannot, Captain, + Hark in thine ear, I am the arrantst Puppy, + The miserablest Ass, but I must leave ye, + I am in haste, in haste, bless you, good Madam, + And you prove as good as my Wife. + + [Exit. + +Leon: + + Will you come near, Sir, will your Grace but honour me, + And taste our dinner? you are nobly welcome, + All anger's past I hope, and I shall serve ye. + +Juan de Castro: + + Thou art the stock of men, and I admire thee. + [Ex. + + + + + +Actus Quartus + + + + +Scena Prima. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + I'll go to a Conjurer but I'll find this Pol-cat, + This pilfering Whore: a plague of Vails, I cry, + And covers for the impudence of Women, + Their sanctity in show will deceive Devils, + It is my evil Angel, let me bless me. + + [Enter _Estifania_ with a Casket.] + +Estifania: + + 'Tis he, I am caught, I must stand to it stoutly, + And show no shake of fear, I see he is angry, + Vext at the uttermost. + +Michael Perez: + + My worthy Wife, + I have been looking of your modesty + All the town over. +209] + +Estifania: + + My most noble Husband, + I am glad I have found ye, for in truth I am weary, + Weary and lame with looking out your Lordship. + +Michael Perez: + + I have been in Bawdy Houses. + +Estifania: + + I believe you, and very lately too. + +Michael Perez: + + 'Pray you pardon me, + To seek your Ladyship, I have been in Cellars, + In private Cellars, where the thirsty Bawds + Hear your Confessions; I have been at Plays, + To look you out amongst the youthful Actors, + At Puppet Shews, you are Mistress of the motions, + At Gossippings I hearkned after you, + But amongst those Confusions of lewd Tongues + There's no distinguishing beyond a Babel. + I was amongst the Nuns because you sing well, + But they say yours are Bawdy Songs, they mourn for ye, + And last I went to Church to seek you out, + 'Tis so long since you were there, they have forgot you. + +Estifania: + + You have had a pretty progress, I'll tell mine now: + To look you out, I went to twenty Taverns. + +Michael Perez: + + And are you sober? + +Estifania: + + Yes, I reel not yet, Sir, + Where I saw twenty drunk, most of 'em Souldiers, + There I had great hope to find you disguis'd too. + From hence to th' dicing-house, there I found + Quarrels needless, and senceless, Swords and Pots, and Candlesticks, + Tables and Stools, and all in one confusion, + And no man knew his Friend. I left this _Chaos_, + And to the Chirurgions went, he will'd me stay, + For says he learnedly, if he be tipled, + Twenty to one he whores, and then I hear of him, + If he be mad, he quarrels, then he comes too. + I sought ye where no safe thing would have ventur'd, + Amongst diseases, base and vile, vile Women, + For I remembred your old Roman axiom, + The more the danger, still the more the Honour. + Last, to your Confessor I came, who told me, + You were too proud to pray, and here I have found ye. + +Michael Perez: + + She bears up bravely, and the Rogue is witty, + But I shall dash it instantly to nothing. +210] Here leave we off our wanton languages, + And now conclude we in a sharper tongue. + +Estifania: + + Why am I cozen'd? + Why am I abused? + +Michael Perez: + + Thou most vile, base, abominable-- + +Estifania: + + Captain. + +Michael Perez: + + Thou stinking, overstew'd, poor, pocky-- + +Estifania: + + Captain. + +Michael Perez: + + Do you echo me? + +Estifania: + + Yes Sir, and go before ye, + And round about ye, why do you rail at me + For that that was your own sin, your own knavery? + +Michael Perez: + + And brave me too? + +Estifania: + + You had best now draw your Sword, Captain! + Draw it upon a Woman, do, brave Captain, + Upon your Wife, Oh most renowned Captain. + +Michael Perez: + + A Plague upon thee, answer me directly; + Why didst thou marry me? + +Estifania: + + To be my Husband; + I had thought you had had infinite, but I'm cozen'd. + +Michael Perez: + + Why didst thou flatter me, and shew me wonders? + A house and riches, when they are but shadows, + Shadows to me? + +Estifania: + + Why did you work on me + (It was but my part to requite you, Sir) + With your strong Souldiers wit, and swore you would bring me + So much in Chains, so much in Jewels, Husband, + So much in right rich Cloaths? + +Michael Perez: + + Thou hast 'em, Rascal; + I gave 'em to thy hands, my trunks and all, + And thou hast open'd 'em, and sold my treasure. + +Estifania: + + Sir, there's your treasure, sell it to a Tinker + To mend old Kettles, is this noble Usage? + Let all the World view here the Captain's treasure, + A Man would think now, these were worthy matters; + Here's a shooing-horn Chain gilt over, how it scenteth + Worse than the mouldy durty heel it served for: + And here's another of a lesser value, + So little I would shame to tye my Dog in't, + These are my joynture, blush and save a labour, +211] Or these else will blush for ye. + +Michael Perez: + + A fire subtle ye, are ye so crafty? + +Estifania: + + Here's a goodly jewel, + Did not you win this at Goletta, Captain, + Or took it in the field from some brave _Bashaw_ + How it sparkles like an old Ladies eyes, + And fills each room with light like a close Lanthorn! + This would do rarely in an Abbey Window, + To cozen Pilgrims. + +Michael Perez: + + P[r]ithee leave prating. + +Estifania: + + And here's a Chain of Whitings eyes for pearls, + A Muscle-monger would have made a better. + +Michael Perez: + + Nay, prithee wife, my Cloaths, my Cloaths. + +Estifania: + + I'll tell ye, + Your Cloaths are parallels to these, all counterfeit. + Put these and them on, you are a Man of Copper, + A kind of Candlestick; these you thought, my Husband, + To have cozen'd me withall, but I am quit with you. + +Michael Perez: + + Is there no house then, nor no grounds about it? + No plate nor hangings? + +Estifania: + + There are none, sweet Husband, + Shadow for shadow is as equal justice. + Can you rail now? pray put up your fury, Sir, + And speak great words, you are a Souldier, thunder. + +Michael Perez: + + I will speak little, I have plaid the Fool, + And so I am rewarded. + +Estifania: + + You have spoke well, Sir, + And now I see you are so conformable + I'll heighten you again, go to your house, + They are packing to be gone, you must sup there, + I'll meet ye, and bring Cloaths, and clean Shirts after, + And all things shall be well, I'll colt you once more, + And teach you to bring Copper. + +Michael Perez: + + Tell me one thing, + I do beseech thee tell me, tell me truth, Wife, + However I forgive thee, art thou honest? + The Beldam swore. + +Estifania: + + I bid her tell you so, Sir, + It was my plot, alas my credulous Husband, + The Lady told you too. +212] + +Michael Perez: + + Most strange things of thee. + +Estifania: + + Still 'twas my way, and all to try your sufferance, + And she denied the House. + +Michael Perez: + + She knew me not, + No, nor no title that I had. + +Estifania: + + 'Twas well carried; + No more, I am right and straight. + +Michael Perez: + + I would believe thee, + But Heaven knows how my heart is, will ye follow me? + +Estifania: + + I'll be there straight. + +Michael Perez: + + I am fooled, yet dare not find it. + [Exit _Perez_. + +Estifania: + + Go silly Fool, thou mayst be a good Souldier + In open field, but for our private service + Thou art an Ass, I'll make thee so, or miss else. + + [Enter _Cacafogo_.] + + Here comes another Trout that I must tickle, + And tickle daintily, I have lost my end else. + May I crave your leave, Sir? + +Cacafogo: + + Prithee be answered, thou shalt crave no leave, + I am in my meditations, do not vex me, + A beaten thing, but this hour a most bruised thing, + That people had compassion on it, looked so, + The next Sir Palmerin, here's fine proportion, + An Ass, and then an Elephant, sweet Justice, + There's no way left to come at her now, no craving, + If money could come near, yet I would pay him; + I have a mind to make him a huge Cuckold, + And money may do much, a thousand Duckets, + 'Tis but the letting blood of a rank Heir. + +Estifania: + + 'Pray you hear me. + +Cacafogo: + + I know thou hast some wedding Ring to pawn now, + Of Silver and gilt, with a blind posie in't, + Love and a Mill-horse should go round together, + Or thy Childs whistle, or thy Squirrels Chain, + I'll none of 'em, I would she did but know me, + Or would this Fellow had but use of money, + That I might come in any way. + +Estifania: + + I am gone, Sir, + And I shall tell the beauty sent me to ye, +213] The Lady _Margarita._ + +Cacafogo: + + Stay I prithee, + What is thy will? I turn me wholly to ye, + And talk now till thy tongue ake, I will hear ye. + +Estifania: + + She would entreat you, Sir, + +Cacafogo: + + She shall command, Sir, + Let it be so, I beseech thee, my sweet Gentlewoman, + Do not forget thy self. + +Estifania: + + She does command then + This courtesie, because she knows you are noble. + +Cacafogo: + + Your Mistress by the way? + +Estifania: + + My natural mistress, + Upon these Jewels, Sir, they are fair and rich, + And view 'em right. + +Cacafogo: + + To doubt 'em is an heresie. + +Estifania: + + A thousand Duckets, 'tis upon necessity + Of present use, her husband, Sir, is stubborn. + +Cacafogo: + + Long may he be so. + +Estifania: + + She desires withal a better knowledge of your parts and person, + And when you please to do her so much honour. + +Cacafogo: + + Come, let's dispatch. + +Estifania: + + In troth I have heard her say, Sir, + Of a fat man she has not seen a sweeter. + But in this business, Sir. + +Cacafogo: + + Let's do it first + And then dispute, the Ladies use may long for't. + +Estifania: + + All secrecy she would desire, she told me + How wise you are. + +Cacafogo: + + We are not wise to talk thus, + Carry her the gold, I'le look her out a Jewel, + Shall sparkle like her eyes, and thee another, + Come prethee come, I long to serve thy Lady, + Long monstrously, now valor I shall meet ye, + You that dare Dukes. + +Estifania: + + Green goose you are now in sippets. + [Exeunt. + + [Enter the Duke, _Sanchio_, _Juan_, _Alonzo_.] + +Duke of Medina: + + He shall not have his will, I shall prevent him, + I have a toy here that will turn the tide, + And suddenly, and strangely, hear _Don Juan,_ +214] Do you present it to him. + +Juan de Castro: + + I am commanded. + [Exit. + +Duke of Medina: + + A fellow founded out of Charity, + And moulded to the height contemn his maker, + Curb the free hand that fram'd him? This must not be. + +Sanchio: + + That such an oyster shell should hold a pearl, + And of so rare a price in prison, + Was she made to be the matter of her own undoing, + To let a slovenly unweildy fellow, + Unruly and self will'd, dispose her beauties? + We suffer all Sir in this sad Eclipse, + She should shine where she might show like her self, + An absolute sweetness, to comfort those admire her, + And shed her beams upon her friends. + We are gull'd all, + And all the world will grumble at your patience, + If she be ravish't thus. + +Duke of Medina: + + Ne'r fear it _Sanchio_, + We'I have her free again, and move at Court + In her clear orb: but one sweet handsomeness, + To bless this part of _Spain_, and have that slubber'd? + +Alonzo: + + 'Tis every good mans cause, and we must stir in it. + +Duke of Medina: + + I'le warrant he shall be glad to please us, + And glad to share too, we shall hear anon + A new song from him, let's attend a little. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Leon_, and _Juan_, with a commission.] + +Leon: + + Coronel, I am bound to you for this nobleness, + I should have been your officer, 'tis true Sir, + And a proud man I should have been to have serv'd you, + 'T has pleas'd the King out of his boundless favours, + To make me your companion, this commission + Gives me a troop of horse. + +Juan de Castro: + + I do rejoyce at it, + And am a glad man we shall gain your company, + I am sure the King knows you are newly married, + And out of that respect gives you more time Sir. + +Leon: + + Within four daies I am gone, so he commands me, + And 'tis not mannerly for me to argue it, + The time grows shorter still, are your goods ready? +215] + +Juan de Castro: + + They are aboard. + +Leon: + + Who waits there? + + [Enter _Servant_.] + +Servant: + + Sir. + +Leon: + + Do you hear ho, go carry this unto your Mistris Sir, + And let her see how much the King has honour'd me, + Bid her be lusty, she must make a Souldier. + + [Exit. + + [Enter _Lorenzo_.] + +Lorenzo: + + Sir, + Go take down all the hangings, + And pack up all my cloths, my plate and Jewels, + And all the furniture that's portable, + Sir when we lye in garrison, 'tis necessary + We keep a handsom port, for the Kings honour; + And do you hear, let all your Ladies wardrobe + Be safely plac'd in trunks, they must along too. + +Lorenzo: + + Whither must they goe Sir? + +Leon: + + To the wars, _Lorenzo_, + And you and all, I will not leave a turn-spit, + That has one dram of spleen against a Dutchman. + +Lorenzo: + + Why then _St Jaques_ hey, you have made us all Sir, + And if we leave ye--does my Lady goe too? + +Leon: + + The stuff must goe to morrow towards the sea Sir, + All, all must goe. + +Lorenzo: + + Why _Pedro_, _Vasco_, _Dego_, + Come help me, come come boys, soldadocs, comrades, + We'l fley these beer-bellied rogues, come away quickly. + + [Exit. + +Juan de Castro: + + H'as taken a brave way to save his honour, + And cross the Duke, now I shall love him dearly, + By the life of credit thou art a noble Gentleman. + + [Enter _Margarita_, led by two Ladies.] + +Leon: + + Why how now wife, what, sick at my preferment? + This is not kindly done. + +Margarita: + + No sooner love ye, + Love ye intirely Sir, brought to consider + The goodness of your mind and mine own duty, + But lose you instantly, be divorc'd from ye? +216] This is a cruelty, I'le to the King + And tell him 'tis unjust to part two souls, + Two minds so nearly mixt. + +Leon: + + By no means sweet heart. + +Margarita: + + If he were married but four daies as I am. + +Leon: + + He would hang himself the fifth, or fly his Country. + +Margarita: + + He would make it treason for that tongue that durst + But talk of war, or any thing to vex him, + You shall not goe. + +Leon: + + Indeed I must sweet wife, + What shall I lose the King for a few kisses? + We'l have enough. + +Margarita: + + I'le to the Duke my cousin, he shall to th' King. + +Leon: + + He did me this great office, + I thank his grace for't, should I pray him now, + To undoe't again? fye 'twere a base discredit. + +Margarita: + + Would I were able Sir to bear you company, + How willing should I be then, and how merry! + I will not live alone. + +Leon: + + Be in peace, you shall not. + [knock within. + +Margarita: + + What knocking's this? oh Heaven my head, why rascals + I thin[k] the war's begun i'th' house already. + +Leon: + + The preparation is, they are taking down, + And packing up the hangings, plate and Jewels, + And all those furnitures that shall befit me + When I lye in garrison. + + [Enter _Coachman_.] + +Coachman: + + Must the Coach goe too Sir? + +Leon: + + How will your Lady pass to th' sea else easily? + We shall find shipping for't there to transport it. + +Margarita: + + I goe? alas! + +Leon: + + I'le have a main care of ye, + I know ye are sickly, he shall drive the easier, + And all accommodation shall attend ye. + +Margarita: + + Would I were able. + +Leon: + + Come I warrant ye, + Am not I with ye sweet? are her cloaths packt up, + And all her linnen? give your maids direction, + You know my time's but short, and I am commanded. +217] + +Margarita: + + Let me have a nurse, + And all such necessary people with me, + And an easie bark. + +Leon: + + It shall not trot I warrant ye, + Curvet it may sometimes. + +Margarita: + + I am with child Sir. + +Leon: + + At four days warning? this is something speedy, + Do you conceive as our jennets do with a west winde? + My heir will be an arrant fleet one Lady, + I'le swear you were a maid when I first lay with ye. + +Margarita: + + Pray do not swear, I thought I was a maid too, + But we may both be cozen'd in that point Sir. + +Leon: + + In such a strait point sure I could not err Madam. + +Juan de Castro: + + This is another tenderness to try him, + Fetch her up now. + +Margarita: + + You must provide a cradle, and what a troubles that? + +Leon: + + The sea shall rock it, + 'Tis the best nurse; 'twill roar and rock together, + A swinging storm will sing you such a lullaby. + +Margarita: + + Faith let me stay, I shall but shame ye Sir. + +Leon: + + And you were a thousand shames you shall along with me, + At home I am sure you'l prove a million, + Every man carries the bundle of his sins + Upon his own back, you are mine, I'le sweat for ye. + + [Enter Duke, _Alonzo_, _Sanchio_.] + +Duke of Medina: + + What Sir, preparing for your noble journey? + 'Tis well, and full of care. + I saw your mind was wedded to the war, + And knew you would prove some good man for your country, + Therefore fair Cousin with your gentle pardon, + I got this place: what, mourn at his advancement? + You are to blame, he will come again sweet cousin, + Mean time like sad _Penelope_ and sage, + Amongst your maids at home, and huswifely. + +Leon: + + No Sir, I dare not leave her to that solitariness, + She is young, and grief or ill news from those quarters + May daily cross her, she shall goe along Sir. + +Duke of Medina: + + By no means Captain. + +Leon: + + By all means an't please ye. +218] + +Duke of Medina: + + What take a young and tender bodied Lady, + And expose her to those dangers, and those tumults, + A sickly Lady too? + +Leon: + + 'Twill make her well Sir, + There's no such friend to health as wholsom travel. + +Sanchio: + + Away it must not be. + +Alonzo: + + It ought not Sir, + Go hurry her? it is not humane, Captain. + +Duke of Medina: + + I cannot blame her tears, fright her with tempests, + With thunder of the war. + I dare swear if she were able. + +Leon: + + She is most able. + And pray ye swear not, she must goe, there's no remedy, + Nor greatness, nor the trick you had to part us, + Which I smell too rank, too open, too evident + (And I must tell you Sir, 'tis most unnoble) + Shall hinder me: had she but ten hours life, + Nay less, but two hours, I would have her with me, + I would not leave her fame to so much ruine, + To such a desolation and discredit + As her weakness and your hot will wou'd work her to. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + + What Masque is this now? + More tropes and figures, to abuse my sufferance, + What cousin's this? + +Juan de Castro: + + _Michael van owle_, how dost thou? + In what dark barn or tod of aged Ivy + Hast thou lyen hid? + +Michael Perez: + + Things must both ebbe and flow, Coronel, + And people must conceal, and shine again. + You are welcom hither as your friend may say, Gentleman, + A pretty house ye see handsomely seated, + Sweet and convenient walks, the waters crystal. + +Alonzo: + + He's certain mad. + +Juan de Castro: + + As mad as a French Tayler, + That has nothing in's head but ends of fustians. + +Michael Perez: + + I see you are packing now my gentle cousin, + And my wife told me I should find it so, + 'Tis true I do, you were merry when I was last here, +219] But 'twas your will to try my patience Madam. + I am sorry that my swift occasions + Can let you take your pleasure here no longer, + Yet I would have you think my honour'd cousin, + This house and all I have are all your servants. + +Leon: + + What house, what pleasure Sir, what do you mean? + +Michael Perez: + + You hold the jest so stiff, 'twill prove discourteous, + This house I mean, the pleasures of this place. + +Leon: + + And what of them? + +Michael Perez: + + They are mine Sir, and you know it, + My wifes I mean, and so confer'd upon me, + The hangings Sir I must entreat, your servants, + That are so busie in their offices, + Again to minister to their right uses, + I shall take view o'th' plate anon, and furnitures + That are of under place; you are merry still cousin, + And of a pleasant constitution, + Men of great fortunes make their mirths _at placitum_. + +Leon: + + Prethee good stubborn wife, tell me directly, + Good evil wife leave fooling and tell me honestly, + Is this my kinsman? + +Margarita: + + I can tell ye nothing. + +Leon: + + I have many kinsmen, but so mad a one, + And so phantastick--all the house? + +Michael Perez: + + All mine, + And all within it. I will not bate ye an ace on't. + Can you not receive a noble courtesie, + And quietly and handsomely as ye ought Couz, + But you must ride o'th' top on't? + +Leon: + + Canst thou fight? + +Michael Perez: + + I'le tell ye presently, I could have done Sir. + +Leon: + + For ye must law and claw before ye get it. + +Juan de Castro: + + Away, no quarrels. + +Leon: + + Now I am more temperate, + I'le have it prov'd if you were never yet in Bedlam, + Never in love, for that's a lunacy, + No great state left ye that you never lookt for, + Nor cannot manage, that's a rank distemper; + That you were christen'd, and who answer'd for ye, + And then I yield. +220] + +Michael Perez: + + H'as half perswaded me I was bred i'th' moon, + I have ne'r a bush at my breech, are not we both mad, + And is not this a phantastick house we are in, + And all a dream we do? will ye walk out Sir, + And if I do not beat thee presently + Into a sound belief, as sense can give thee, + Brick me into that wall there for a chimny piece, + And say I was one o'th' _Caesars_, done by a seal-cutter. + +Leon: + + I'le talk no more, come we'l away immediatly. + +Margarita: + + Why then the house is his, and all that's in it, + I'le give away my skin but I'le undoe ye, + I gave it to his wife, you must restore Sir, + And make a new provision. + +Michael Perez: + + Am I mad now or am I christen'd, you my pagan cousin, + My mighty Mahound kinsman, what quirk now? + You shall be welcom all, I hope to see Sir + Your Grace here, and my couz, we are all Souldiers, + And must do naturally for one another. + +Duke of Medina: + + Are ye blank at this? then I must tell ye Sir, + Ye have no command, now ye may goe at pleasure + And ride your asse troop, 'twas a trick I us'd + To try your jealousie upon entreatie, + And saving of your wife. + +Leon: + + All this not moves me, + Nor stirs my gall, nor alters my affections, + You have more furniture, more houses Lady, + And rich ones too, I will make bold with those, + And you have Land i'th' _Indies_ as I take it, + Thither we'l goe, and view a while those climats, + Visit your Factors there, that may betray ye, + 'Tis done, we must goe. + +Margarita: + + Now thou art a brave Gentleman, + And by this sacred light I love thee dearly. + The house is none of yours, I did but jest Sir, + Nor you are no couz of mine, I beseech ye vanish, + I tell you plain, you have no more right than he + Has, that senseless thing, your wife has once more fool'd ye: + Goe ye and consider. + +Leon: + + Good morrow my sweet cousin, I should be glad Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + By this hand she dies for't, +221] Or any man that speaks for her. + + [Exit _Perez_. + +Juan de Castro: + + These are fine toyes. + +Margarita: + + Let me request you stay but one poor month, + You shall have a Commission and I'le goe too, + Give me but will so far. + +Leon: + + Well I will try ye, + Good morrow to your Grace, we have private business. + +Duke of Medina: + + If I miss thee again, I am an arrant bungler. + +Juan de Castro: + + Thou shalt have my command, and I'le march under thee, + Nay be thy boy before thou shalt be baffled, + Thou art so brave a fellow. + +Alonzo: + + I have seen visions. + [Exeunt. + + + + + +Actus Quintus + + + + +Scena Prima. + + [Enter _Leon_, with a letter, and _Margarita_.] + +Leon: + + Come hither wife, do you know this hand? + +Margarita: + + I do Sir, + 'Tis _Estifania_, that was once my woman. + +Leon: + + She writes to me here, that one _Cacafogo_ + An usuring Jewellers son (I know the Rascal) + Is mortally faln in love with ye. + +Margarita: + + Is a monster, deliver me from mountains. + +Leon: + + Do you goe a birding for all sorts of people? + And this evening will come to ye and shew ye Jewels, + And offers any thing to get access to ye, + If I can make or sport or profit on him, + (For he is fit for both) she bids me use him, + And so I will, be you conformable, and follow but my will. + +Margarita: + + I shall not fail, Sir. + +Leon: + + Will the Duke come again do you think? + +Margarita: + + No sure Sir, + H'as now no policie to bring him hither. + +Leon: + + Nor bring you to him, if my wit hold fair wife: + Let's in to dinner. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Perez_.] + +Michael Perez: + + Had I but lungs enough to bawl sufficiently, + That all the queans in Christendom might hear me, +222] That men might run away from contagion, + I had my wish; would it were most high treason, + Most infinite high, for any man to marry, + I mean for any man that would live handsomely, + And like a Gentleman, in his wits and credit. + What torments shall I put her to, _Phalaris_ bull now, + Pox they love bulling too well, though they smoak for't. + Cut her apieces? every piece will live still, + And every morsel of her will do mischief; + They have so many lives, there's no hanging of 'em, + They are too light to drown, they are cork and feathers; + To burn too cold, they live like Salamanders; + Under huge heaps of stones to bury her, + And so depress her as they did the Giants; + She will move under more than built old Babel, + I must destroy her. + + [Enter _Cacafogo_, with a Casket.] + +Cacafogo: + + Be cozen'd by a thing of clouts, a she moth, + That every silkmans shop breeds; to be cheated, + And of a thousand duckets by a whim wham? + +Michael Perez: + + Who's that is cheated, speak again thou vision, + But art thou cheated? minister some comfort: + Tell me directly art thou cheated bravely? + Come, prethee come, art thou so pure a coxcomb + To be undone? do not dissemble with me, + Tell me I conjure thee. + +Cacafogo: + + Then keep thy circle, + For I am a spirit wild that flies about thee, + And who e're thou art, if thou be'st humane, + I'le let thee plainly know, I am cheated damnably. + +Michael Perez: + + Ha, ha, ha. + +Cacafogo: + + Dost thou laugh? damnably, I say most damnably. + +Michael Perez: + + By whom, good spirit speak, speak ha, ha, ha. + +Cacafogo: + + I will utter, laugh till thy lungs crack, by a rascal woman, + A lewd, abominable, and plain woman. + Dost thou laugh still? + +Michael Perez: + + I must laugh, prethee pardon me, + I shall laugh terribly. + +Cacafogo: + + I shall be angry, terrible angry, I have cause. +223] + +Michael Perez: + + That's it, and 'tis no reason but thou shouldst be angry, + Angry at heart, yet I must laugh still at thee. + By a woman cheated? art' sure it was a woman? + +Cacafogo: + + I shall break thy head, my valour itches at thee. + +Michael Perez: + + It is no matter, by a woman cozen'd, + A real woman? + +Cacafogo: + + A real Devil, + Plague of her Jewels and her copper chains, + How rank they smell. + +Michael Perez: + + Sweet cozen'd Sir let me see them, + I have been cheated too, I would have you note that, + And lewdly cheated, by a woman also, + A scurvie woman, I am undone sweet Sir, + Therefore I must have leave to [l]augh. + +Cacafogo: + + Pray ye take it, + You are the merriest undone man in _Europe_. + What need we fiddles, bawdy songs and sack, + When our own miseries can make us merry? + +Michael Perez: + + Ha, ha, ha. + I have seen these Jewels, what a notable penniworth + Have you had next your heart? you will not take Sir + Some twenty Duckets? + +Cacafogo: + + Thou art deceiv'd, I will take. + +Michael Perez: + + To clear your bargain now. + +Cacafogo: + + I'le take some ten, some any thing, some half ten, + Half a Ducket. + +Michael Perez: + + An excellent lapidary set these stones sure, + Do you mark their waters? + +Cacafogo: + + Quick-sand choak their waters, + And hers that bought 'em too, but I shall find her. + +Michael Perez: + + And so shall I, I hope, but do not hurt her, + You cannot find in all this Kingdom, + (If you had need of cozening, as you may have, + For such gross natures will desire it often, + 'Tis at some time too a fine variety,) + A woman that can cozen ye so neatly, + She has taken half mine anger off with this trick. + + [Exit. + +Cacafogo: + + If I were valiant now, I would kill this fellow, + I have mony enough lies by me at a pinch + To pay for twenty Rascals lives that vex me, +224] I'le to this Lady, there I shall be satisfied. + + [Exit. + + [Enter _Leon_, and _Margarita_.] + +Leon: + + Come, we'l away unto your country house, + And there we'l learn to live contently, + This place is full of charge, and full of hurry, + No part of sweetness dwells about these cities. + +Margarita: + + Whither you will, I wait upon your pleasure; + Live in a hollow tree Sir, I'le live with ye. + +Leon: + + I, now you strike a harmony, a true one, + When your obedience waits upon your Husband, + And your sick will aims at the care of honour, + Why now I dote upon ye, love ye dearly, + And my rough nature falls like roaring streams, + Clearly and sweetly into your embraces. + O what a Jewel is a woman excellent, + A wise, a vertuous and a noble woman! + When we meet such, we bear our stamps on both sides, + And through the world we hold our currant virtues, + Alone we are single medals, only faces, + And wear our fortunes out in useless shadows, + Command you now, and ease me of that trouble, + I'le be as humble to you as a servant, + Bid whom you please, invite your noble friends, + They shall be welcome all, visit acquaintance, + Goe at your pleasure, now experience + Has link't you fast unto the chain of goodness: + What noise is this, what dismal cry? + + [Clashing swords. A cry within, down with their swords.] + +Margarita: + + 'Tis loud too. + Sure there's some mischief done i'th' street, look out there. + +Leon: + + Look out and help. + + [Enter a _Servant_.] + +Servant: + + Oh Sir the Duke _Medina_. + +Leon: + + What of the Duke _Medina_? + +Servant: + + Oh sweet Gentleman, is almost slain. + +Margarita: + + Away away and help him, all the house help. + [Exit _Servant_. + +Leon: + + How slain? why Margarita, + Why wife, sure some new device they have a foot again, +225] Some trick upon my credit, I shall meet it, + I had rather guide a ship Imperial + Alone, and in a storm, than rule one woman. + + [Enter Duke, _Margarita_, _Sanchio_, _Alonzo_, Servant.] + +Margarita: + + How came ye hurt Sir? + +Duke of Medina: + + I fell out with my friend the noble Coronel, + My cause was naught, for 'twas about your honour: + And he that wrongs the Innocent ne'r prospers, + And he has left me thus for charity, + Lend me a bed to ease my tortur'd body, + That e're I perish I may show my penitence, + I fear I am slain. + +Leon: + + Help Gentlemen to carry him, + There shall be nothing in this house my Lord, + But as your own. + +Duke of Medina: + + I thank ye noble Sir. + +Leon: + + To bed with him, and wife give your attendance. + + [Enter _Juan_.] + +Juan de Castro: + + Doctors and Surgions. + +Duke of Medina: + + Do not disquiet me, + But let me take my leave in peace. + + [Ex. Duke, _Sanchio_, _Alon._ _Marg._ Servant. + +Leon: + + Afore me + 'Tis rarely counterfeited. + +Juan de Castro: + + True, it is so Sir, + And take you heed, this last blow do not spoil ye, + He is not hurt, only we made a scuffle, + As though we purpos'd anger; that same scratch + On's hand he took, to colour all and draw compassion, + That he might get into your house more cunningly. + I must not stay, stand now, and y'are a brave fellow. + +Leon: + + I thank ye noble Coronel, and I honour ye. + [Exit _Juan_. + + Never be quiet? + + [Enter _Margarita_.] + +Margarita: + + He's most desperate ill Sir, + I do not think these ten months will recover him. + +Leon: + + Does he hire my house to play the fool in, +226] Or does it stand on Fairy ground, we are haunted, + Are all men and their wives troubled with dreams thus? + +Margarita: + + What ail you Sir? + +Leon: + + Nay what ail you sweet wife, + To put these daily pastimes on my patience? + What dost thou see in me, that I should suffer thus, + Have not I done my part like a true Husband, + And paid some desperate debts you never look'd for? + +Margarita: + + You have done handsomely I must confess Sir. + +Leon: + + Have I not kept thee waking like a hawk? + And watcht thee with delights to satisfy thee? + The very tithes of which had won a Widow. + +Margarita: + + Alas I pity ye. + +Leon: + + Thou wilt make me angry, + Thou never saw'st me mad yet. + +Margarita: + + You are alwaies, + You carry a kind of bedlam still about ye. + +Leon: + + If thou pursuest me further I run stark mad, + If you have more hurt Dukes or Gentlemen, + To lye here on your cure, I shall be desperate, + I know the trick, and you shall feel I know it, + Are ye so hot that no hedge can contain ye? + I'le have thee let blood in all the veins about thee, + I'le have thy thoughts found too, and have them open'd, + Thy spirits purg'd, for those are they that fire ye, + Thy maid shall be thy Mistris, thou the maid, + And all those servile labours that she reach at, + And goe through cheerfully, or else sleep empty, + That maid shall lye by me to teach you duty, + You in a pallet by to humble ye, + And grieve for what you lose. + +Margarita: + + I have lost my self Sir, + And all that was my base self, disobedience, + + [kneels. + + My wantonness, my stubborness I have lost too, + And now by that pure faith good wives are crown'd with, + By your own nobleness. + + [Enter _Altea_.] + +Leon: + + I take ye up, and wear ye next my heart, + See you be worth it. Now what with you? +227] + +Altea: + + I come to tell my Lady, + There is a fulsome fellow would fain speak with her. + +Leon: + + 'Tis _Cacafogo_, goe and entertain him, + And draw him on with hopes. + +Margarita: + + I shall observe ye. + +Leon: + + I have a rare design upon that Gentleman, + And you must work too. + +Altea: + + I shall Sir most willingly. + +Leon: + + Away then both, and keep him close in some place + From the Dukes sight, and keep the Duke in too, + Make 'em believe both, I'le find time to cure 'em. + + [Exeunt. + + [Enter _Perez_, and _Estifania_, with a Pistol, and a Dagge[r].] + +Michael Perez: + + Why how darst thou meet me again thou rebel, + And knowst how thou hast used me thrice, thou rascal? + Were there not waies enough to fly my vengeance, + No holes nor vaults to hide thee from my fury, + But thou must meet me face to face to kill thee? + I would not seek thee to destroy thee willingly, + But now thou comest to invite me, + And comest upon me, + How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner, + And ready for the halter dost thou look now! + Thou hast a hanging look thou scurvy thing, hast ne'r a knife + Nor ever a string to lead thee to Elysium? + Be there no pitifull 'Pothecaries in this town, + That have compassion upon wretched women, + And dare administer a dram of rats-bane, + But thou must fall to me? + +Estifania: + + I know you have mercy. + +Michael Perez: + + If I had tuns of mercy thou deserv'st none, + What new trick is now afoot, and what new houses + Have you i'th' air, what orchards in apparition, + What canst thou say for thy life? + +Estifania: + + Little or nothing, + I know you'l kill me, and I know 'tis useless + To beg for mercy, pray let me draw my book out, + And pray a little. + +Michael Perez: + + Do, a very little, + For I have farther business than thy killing, +228] I have mony yet to borrow, speak when you are ready. + +Estifania: + + Now now Sir, now, + [shews a Pistol. + + Come on, do you start off from me, + Do you swear great Captain, have you seen a spirit? + +Michael Perez: + + Do you wear guns? + +Estifania: + + I am a Souldiers wife Sir, + And by that priviledge I may be arm'd, + Now what's the news, and let's discourse more friendly, + And talk of our affairs in peace. + +Michael Perez: + + Let me see, + Prethee let me see thy gun, 'tis a very pretty one. + +Estifania: + + No no Sir, you shall feel. + +Michael Perez: + + Hold ye villain, what thine own Husband? + +Estifania: + + Let mine own Husband then + Be in's own wits, there, there's a thousand duckets, + Who must provide for you, and yet you'l kill me. + +Michael Perez: + + I will not hurt thee for ten thousand millio[n]s. + +Estifania: + + When will you redeem your Jewels, I have pawn'd 'em, + You see for what, we must keep touch. + +Michael Perez: + + I'le kiss thee, + And get as many more, I'le make thee famous, + Had we the house now! + +Estifania: + + Come along with me, + If that be vanish't there be more to hire Sir. + +Michael Perez: + + I see I am an asse when thou art near me. + + [] + + [Enter _Leon_, _Margarita_, and _Altea_, with a Taper.] + +Leon: + + Is the fool come? + +Altea: + + Yes and i'th' celler fast, + And there he staies his good hour till I call him, + He will make dainty musick among the sack-butts, + I have put him just, Sir, under the Dukes chamber. + +Leon: + + It is the better. + +Altea: + + Has given me royally, + And to my Lady a whole load of portigues. + +Leon: + + Better and better still, go _Margarita_, + Now play your prize, you say you dare be honest, + I'le put ye to your best. + +Margarita: + + Secure your self Sir, give me the candle, +229] Pass away in silence. + + [Ex. _Leon_ and _Altea_. She knocks. + +Duke of Medina: + + Who's there, oh oh. + +Margarita: + + My Lord, + +Duke of Medina within: + + Have ye brought me comfort? + +Margarita: + + I have my Lord. + Come forth 'tis I, come gently out I'le help ye, + + [Enter _Duke_, in a gown.] + + Come softly too, how do you? + +Duke of Medina: + + Are there none here? + Let me look round; we cannot be too wary, + + [noise below. + + Oh let me bless this hour, are you alone sweet friend? + +Margarita: + + Alone to comfort you. + [_Cacafogo_ makes a noise below. + +Duke of Medina: + + What's that you tumble? + I have heard a noise this half hour under me, + A fearfull noise. + +Margarita: + + The fat thing's mad i'th' celler, + And stumbles from one hogs-head to another, + Two cups more, and he ne'r shall find the way out. + What do you fear? come, sit down by me chearfully, + My Husband's safe, how do your wounds? + +Duke of Medina: + + I have none Lady, + My wounds I counterfeited cunningly, + + [noise below. + + And feign'd the quarrel too, to injoy you sweet, + Let's lose no time, heark the same noise again. + +Margarita: + + What noise, why look ye pale? I hear no stirring, + This goblin in the vault will be so tipled. + You are not well I know by your flying fancy, + Your body's ill at ease, your wounds. + +Duke of Medina: + + I have none, I am as lusty and as full of health, + High in my blood. + +Margarita: + + Weak in your blood you would say, + How wretched is my case, willing to please ye, + And find you so disable? + +Duke of Medina: + + Believe me Lady. + +Margarita: + + I know you will venture all you have to satisfy me, + Your life I know, but is it fit I spoil ye, + Is it my love do you think? + +Cacafogo below: + + Here's to the Duke. +230] + +Duke of Medina: + + It nam'd me certainly, + I heard it plainly sound. + +Margarita: + + You are hurt mortally, + And fitter for your prayers Sir than pleasure, + What starts you make? I would not kiss you wantonly, + For the world's wealth; have I secur'd my Husband, + And put all doubts aside to be deluded? + +Cacafogo below: + + I come, I come. + +Duke of Medina: + + Heaven bless me. + +Margarita: + + And bless us both, for sure this is the Devil, + I plainly heard it now, he will come to fetch ye, + A very spirit, for he spoke under ground, + And spoke to you just as you would have snatcht me, + You are a wicked man, and sure this haunts ye, + Would you were out o'th' house. + +Duke of Medina: + + I would I were, + O' that condition I had leapt a window. + +Margarita: + + And that's the least leap if you mean to scape Sir, + Why what a frantick man were you to come here, + What a weak man to counterfeit deep wounds, + To wound another deeper! + +Duke of Medina: + + Are you honest then? + +Margarita: + + Yes then and now, and ever, and excellent honest, + And exercise this pastime but to shew ye, + Great men are fools sometimes as well as wretches. + Would you were well hurt, with any hope of life, + Cut to the brains, or run clean through the body, + To get out quietly as you got in Sir, + I wish it like a friend that loves ye dearly, + For if my Husband take ye, and take ye thus a counterfeit, + One that would clip his credit out of his honour, + He must kill ye presently, + There is no mercy nor an hour of pity, + And for me to intreat in such an agony, + Would shew me little better than one guilty, + Have you any mind to a Lady now? + +Duke of Medina: + + Would I were off fair, + If ever Lady caught me in a trap more. + +Margarita: + + If you be well and lusty, fy fy shake not, + You say you love me, come, come bravely now, +231] Despise all danger, I am ready for ye. + +Duke of Medina: + + She mocks my misery, thou cruel Lady. + +Margarita: + + Thou cruel Lord, wouldst thou betray my honesty, + Betray it in mine own house, wrong my Husband, + Like a night thief, thou darst not name by day-light? + +Duke of Medina: + + I am most miserable. + +Margarita: + + You are indeed, + And like a foolish thing you have made your self so, + Could not your own discretion tell ye Sir, + When I was married I was none of yours? + Your eyes were then commanded to look off me, + And I now stand in a circle and secure, + Your spells nor power can never reach my body, + Mark me but this, and then Sir be most miserable, + 'Tis sacriledge to violate a wedlock, + You rob two Temples, make your self twice guilty, + You ruine hers, and spot her noble Husbands. + +Duke of Medina: + + Let me be gone, I'le never more attempt ye. + +Margarita: + + You cannot goe, 'tis not in me to save ye, + Dare ye do ill, and poorly then shrink under it? + Were I the Duke _Medina_, I would fight now, + For you must fight and bravely, it concerns you, + You do me double wrong if you sneak off Sir, + And all the world would say I lov'd a coward, + And you must dye too, for you will be kill'd, + And leave your youth, your honour and your state, + And all those dear delights you worship't here. + + [Noise below. + +Duke of Medina: + + The noise again! + +Cacafogo below: + + Some small beer if you love me. + +Margarita: + + The Devil haunts you sure, your sins are mighty. + A drunken Devil too, to plague your villany. + +Duke of Medina: + + Preserve me but this once. + +Margarita: + + There's a deep well + In the next yard, if you dare venture drowning, + It is but dea[t]h. + +Duke of Medina: + + I would not dye so wretchedly. + +Margarita: + + Out of a garret window I'le let you down then, + But say the rope be rotten, 'tis huge high too. + +Duke of Medina: + + Have you no mercy? + +Margarita: + + Now you are frighted throughly, +232] And find what 'tis to play the fool in folly, + And see with clear eyes your detested folly, + I'le be your guard. + +Duke of Medina: + + And I'le be your true servant, + Ever from this hour vertuously to love ye, + Chastly and modestly to look upon ye, + And here I seal it. + +Margarita: + + I may kiss a stranger, for you must now be so. + + [Enter _Leon_, _Juan_, _Alonzo_, _Sanchio_.] + +Leon: + + How do you my Lord, + Me thinks you look but poorly on this matter. + Has my wife wounded ye, you were well before, + Pray Sir be comforted, I have forgot all, + Truly forgiven too, wife you are a right one, + And now with unknown nations I dare trust ye. + +Juan de Castro: + + No more feign'd fights my Lord, they never prosper. + +Leon: + + Who's this? the Devil in the vault? + +Altea: + + 'Tis he Sir, and as lovingly drunk, as though he had studied it. + +Cacafogo: + + Give me a cup of Sack, and kiss me Lady, + Kiss my sweet face, and make thy Husband cuckold, + An Ocean of sweet Sack, shall we speak treason? + +Leon: + + He is Devilish drunk. + +Duke of Medina: + + I had thought he had been a Devil. + He made as many noises and as horrible. + +Leon: + + Oh a true lover Sir will lament loudly, + Which of the butts is your Mistris? + +Cacafogo: + + Butt in thy belly. + +Leon: + + There's two in thine I am sure, 'tis grown so monstrous. + +Cacafogo: + + Butt in thy face. + +Leon: + + Go carry him to sleep, + A fools love should be drunk, he has paid well for't too. + When he is sober let him out to rail, + Or hang himself, there will be no loss of him. + + [Exit _Caca._ and Servant. + + [Enter _Perez_, and _Estifania_.] + +Leon: + + Who's this? my Mauhound cousin? + +Michael Perez: + + Good Sir, 'tis very good, would I had a house too, + For there is no talking in the open air, +233] My Tarmogant Couz, I would be bold to tell ye, + I durst be merry too; I tell you plainly, + You have a pretty seat, you have the luck on't, + A pretty Lady too, I have mist both, + My Carpenter built in a mist I thank him, + Do me the courtesie to let me see it, + See it but once more. But I shall cry for anger. + I'le hire a Chandlers shop close under ye, + And for my foolerie, sell sope and whip-cord, + Nay if you do not laugh now and laugh heartily, + You are a fool couz. + +Leon: + + I must laugh a little, + And now I have done, couz thou shalt live with me, + My merry couz, the world shall not divorce us, + Thou art a valiant man, and thou shalt never want, + Will this content thee? + +Michael Perez: + + I'le cry, and then I'le be thankfull, + Indeed I will, and I'le be honest to ye. + I would live a swallow here I must confess. + Wife I forgive thee all if thou be honest, + At thy peril, I believe thee excellent. + +Estifania: + + If I prove otherwaies, let me beg first, + Hold, this is yours, some recompence for service, + Use it to nobler ends than he that gave it. + +Duke of Medina: + + And this is yours, your true commission, Sir, + Now you are a Captain. + +Leon: + + You are a noble Prince Sir, + And now a souldier, Gentleman, we all rejoyce in't. + +Juan de Castro: + + Sir, I shall wait upon you through all fortunes. + +Alonzo: + + And I. + +Altea: + + And I must needs attend my Mistris. + +Leon: + + Will you goe Sister? + +Altea: + + Yes indeed good Brother, + I have two ties, mine own bloud, + And my Mistris. + +Margarita: + + Is she your Sister? + +Leon: + + Yes indeed good wife, + And my best Sister, + For she prov'd so, wench, + When she deceiv'd you with a loving Husband. +234] + +Altea: + + I would not deal so truly for a stranger. + +Margarita: + + Well I could chide ye, + But it must be lovingly and like a Sister, + I'le bring you on your way, and feast ye nobly, + For now I have an honest heart to love ye, + And then deliver you to the blue _Neptune_. + +Juan de Castro: + + Your colours you must wear, and wear 'em proudly, + Wear 'em before the bullet, and in bloud too, + And all the world shall know + We are Vertues servants. + +Duke of Medina: + + _And all the world shall know, a noble mind_ + _Makes women beautifull, and envie blind._ + + [Exeunt. + + + + + +Prologue. + + Pleasure attend ye, and about ye sit + The springs of mirth, fancy, delight and wit + To stir you up, do not your looks let fall, + Nor to remembrance our late errors call, + Because this day w' are _Spaniards_ all again, + The story of our Play, and our Scene _Spain_: + The errors too, do not for this cause hate, + Now we present their wit and not their state. + Nor Ladies be not angry if you see, + A young fresh beauty, wanton and too free, + Seek to abuse her Husband, still 'tis _Spain_, + No such gross errors in your Kingdom raign, + W' are _Vesrals_ all, and though we blow the fire, + We seldom make it flame up to desire, + Take no example neither to begin, + For some by precedent delight to sin: + Nor blame the Poet if he slip aside + Sometimes lasciviously if not too wide. + But hold your Fanns close, and then smile at ease, + A cruel Scene did never Lady please. + Nor Gentlemen, pray be not you displeased, +235] Though we present some men fool'd, some diseased, + Some drunk, some mad: we mean not you, you're free, + We taxe no farther than our Comedie, + You are our friends, sit noble then and see. + + + + + +Epilogue. + + Good night our worthy friends, and may you part + Each with as merry and as free a heart + As you came hither; to those noble eyes + That deign to smile on our poor faculties, + And give a blessing to our labouring ends, + As we hope many, to such fortune sends + Their own desires, wives fair as light as chast; + To those that live by spight Wives made in hast. + + + + + +459] +APPENDIX + + + + +RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE. + +The Dramatis Personae are not given in the quarto of 1640 nor in the 2nd +folio. They are as follows:--Duke of Medina. Juan de Castro, Sanchio, Alonzo, +Michael Perez, Officers. Leon, Altea's brother. Cacafogo, a usurer. Lorenzo. +Coachman, etc. Margarita. Altea. Estifania. Clara. Three old ladies. Old +woman. Maids, etc. + +Unless where otherwise stated the following variations are from the quarto of +1640, the title-page of which runs thus:-- + +Rule a Wife And have a Wife. A Comoedy. Acted by his Majesties Servants. +Written by John Fletcher Gent. Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield Printer to +the University. Anno 1640. + + + p. 170, + l. 30. mouth. + + + p. 171, + l. 14. most subtlest. + + l. 18. With yee. + + l. 19. them. + + l. 38. _and often elsewhere_] um _for_ 'em. + + + p. 172, + l. 2. the picke. + + + p. 173, + l. 22. thank ye. + + + p. 175, + l. 1. Yes I. + + l. 29. Exit. + + l. 31. mine ayme. + + + p. 176, + l. 30. 2nd folio _prints_] calling. And + + + p. 178, + l. 10. a starv'd. + + l. 22. look'st. + + l. 24. 2nd folio _misprints_] hear. + + + p. 179, + l. 33. Or any. + + + p. 182, + ll. 6, etc. Quarto _frequently prints_ 4 for Altea _here and in + similar places_. + + l. 33. doubty. + + + p. 183, + l. 2. Has not. + + l. 3. 2nd folio _misprints_] hin. + + l. 5. Has no. + + l. 38. 2nd folio _misprints_] compaines. + + + p. 184, + l. 13. a house. + + + p. 185, + l. 2. Altea, the Ladies. + + l. 4. has been. + + + p. 187, + l. 26. I finde. + + + p. 189, + l. 28. enter'd here. + + l. 39. salute him. + + + p. 190, + l. 25. if she. + + + p. 194, + ll. 8 and 11. _Omits_ Lady _here and often similarly elsewhere_. + + + p. 196, + l. 26. Exit. + + + p. 197, + l. 20. basinesse. + + +460] + + + p. 198, + l. 29. (_some copies_), and ruine too. + + l. 32. have meaner. + + l. 39. 2nd folio _misprints_] Jaun. + + + p. 200, + l. 8. _Some copies read_] laugh him, leave ager. + + + p. 201, + l. 2. _Adds the following line_] It is a Ladies, what's the Ladies + name wench. + + l. 6. a the. + + l. 23. they are. + + l. 38. flea me. + + + p. 202, + l. 27. Nor I. + + l. 28. _Omits_ of. + + + p. 203, + l. 13. Tas. + + l. 17. as ere I looked on. + + + p. 204, + l. 20. Both into. + + l. 37. _Adds the following line_] And hold it to my use, the law + allowes it, + + + p. 206, + l. 38. I have seen. + + + p. 207, + l. 3. Save. + + l. 29. Is possest. + + + p. 208, + l. 1. a your. + + l. 17. bless ye. + + + p. 209, + l. 5. believe ye. + + l. 6. Pray ye. + + l. 12. after ye. + + l. 18. forgot ye. + + l. 34. vild, vild. + + + p. 210, + l. 15. 2nd folio] do brave, Captain. + + + p. 211, + l. 10. 2nd folio _misprints_] Ptithee. + + l. 23. put your fury up, Sir. + + l. 32. colt ye. + + l. 33. teach ye. + + + p. 212, + l. 22. on, it looked so. + + l. 30. Pray ye. + + + p. 213, + l. 39. heere Don Juan. + + + p. 214, + l. 30. 'Tas. + + l. 33. _Omits_ do. + + + p. 215, + l. 21. all sit. + + l. 28. Has. + + + p. 216, + l. 22. 2nd folio _misprints_] thinks. + + l. 31. I goe alas. + + l. 38. linnens. + + + p. 220, + l. 1. Has. + + l. 21. I use. + + + p. 223, + l. 10. 2nd folio _misprints_] Perox. + + l. 14. 2nd folio _misprints_] haugh. + + + p. 227, + l. 12. 2nd folio] Dagge. + + l. 24. Nor never. + + + p. 228, + l. 17. 2nd folio _misprints_] millius. + + ll. 18 and 19. pawn'd um. + + + p. 230, + l. 17. A that. + + + p. 231, + l. 16. too Templers. + + l. 35. 2nd folio misprints] deah. + + + p. 234, + l. 25. raignes. + + l. 12. _Adds_ Finis. + + l. 24. abuse your. + + l. 29. president. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife +by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RULE A WIFE, AND HAVE A WIFE *** + +***** This file should be named 14549.txt or 14549.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/5/4/14549/ + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Paul Murray and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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