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-<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Mucedorus</div>
-<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: William Shakespeare (Apocrypha)</div>
-<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: November, 1998 [eBook #1545]<br />
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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1545 ***</div>
<h3>A MOST PLEASANT COMEDY OF</h3>
@@ -80,20 +61,20 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook.
<h3>THE KING’S SON OF VALENCIA, AND
AMADINE, THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF ARAGON</h3>
-<hr />
+<hr >
<div class="chapter">
<h2>Contents</h2>
-<table summary="" style="">
+<table>
<tr>
<td> <a href="#scene0_0">THE PROLOGUE</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
-<td> <a href="#scene0_1">INDUCTION</a><br /><br /></td>
+<td> <a href="#scene0_1">INDUCTION</a><br ><br ></td>
</tr>
<tr>
@@ -113,7 +94,7 @@ AMADINE, THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF ARAGON</h3>
</tr>
<tr>
-<td> <a href="#sceneI_4">Scene IV. Outskirts of the Forest</a><br /><br /></td>
+<td> <a href="#sceneI_4">Scene IV. Outskirts of the Forest</a><br ><br ></td>
</tr>
<tr>
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</tr>
<tr>
-<td> <a href="#sceneII_4">Scene IV. Aragon. a Room of State in the Court</a><br /><br /></td>
+<td> <a href="#sceneII_4">Scene IV. Aragon. a Room of State in the Court</a><br ><br ></td>
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<tr>
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</tr>
<tr>
-<td> <a href="#sceneIII_5">Scene V. The same</a><br /><br /></td>
+<td> <a href="#sceneIII_5">Scene V. The same</a><br ><br ></td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<tr>
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<tr>
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<h3>Dramatis Personæ</h3>
<p class="drama">
-Adrostus, the KING OF ARAGON<br/>
-AMADINE, the King’s daughter of Aragon<br/>
-ARIENA, Amadine’s maid,<br/>
-SEGASTO, a Nobleman of Aragon<br/>
-RUMBELO, a Nobleman of Aragon<br/>
-COLLEN, a Councillor<br/>
-TREMELIO, a Captain<br/>
-MOUSE, the Clown<br/>
+Adrostus, the KING OF ARAGON<br>
+AMADINE, the King’s daughter of Aragon<br>
+ARIENA, Amadine’s maid,<br>
+SEGASTO, a Nobleman of Aragon<br>
+RUMBELO, a Nobleman of Aragon<br>
+COLLEN, a Councillor<br>
+TREMELIO, a Captain<br>
+MOUSE, the Clown<br>
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF VALENCIA<br/>
-MUCEDORUS, the Prince of Valencia<br/>
-ANSELMO, his friend<br/>
-RODERIGO, Nobleman of Valencia<br/>
-BORACHIUS, Nobleman of Valencia<br/>
-BREMO, a wild man<br/>
+KING OF VALENCIA<br>
+MUCEDORUS, the Prince of Valencia<br>
+ANSELMO, his friend<br>
+RODERIGO, Nobleman of Valencia<br>
+BORACHIUS, Nobleman of Valencia<br>
+BREMO, a wild man<br>
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY<br/>
-ENVY<br/>
-An OLD WOMAN<br/>
-Noblemen, Councillors, a Messenger, a Boy<br/>
+COMEDY<br>
+ENVY<br>
+An OLD WOMAN<br>
+Noblemen, Councillors, a Messenger, a Boy<br>
</p>
</div><!--end chapter-->
<div class="chapter">
-<h3><a name="scene0_0"></a><b>THE PROLOGUE</b></h3>
-
-<p class="drama">
-Most sacred Majesty, whose great deserts<br/>
-Thy subject England, nay, the world, admires:<br/>
-Which heaven grant still increase! O, may your praise<br/>
-Multiplying with your hours, your fame still raise!<br/>
-Embrace your council: love with faith them guide,<br/>
-That both, as one, bench by each other’s side.<br/>
-So may your life pass on, and run so even,<br/>
-That your firm zeal plant you a throne in heaven,<br/>
-Where smiling angels shall your guardians be<br/>
-From blemish’d traitors, stain’d with perjury.<br/>
-And as the night’s inferior to the day,<br/>
-So be all earthly regions to your sway!<br/>
-Be as the sun to day, the day to night,<br/>
-For from your beams Europe shall borrow light.<br/>
-Mirth drown your bosom, fair delight your mind,<br/>
+<h3><a id="scene0_0"></a><b>THE PROLOGUE</b></h3>
+
+<p class="drama">
+Most sacred Majesty, whose great deserts<br>
+Thy subject England, nay, the world, admires:<br>
+Which heaven grant still increase! O, may your praise<br>
+Multiplying with your hours, your fame still raise!<br>
+Embrace your council: love with faith them guide,<br>
+That both, as one, bench by each other’s side.<br>
+So may your life pass on, and run so even,<br>
+That your firm zeal plant you a throne in heaven,<br>
+Where smiling angels shall your guardians be<br>
+From blemish’d traitors, stain’d with perjury.<br>
+And as the night’s inferior to the day,<br>
+So be all earthly regions to your sway!<br>
+Be as the sun to day, the day to night,<br>
+For from your beams Europe shall borrow light.<br>
+Mirth drown your bosom, fair delight your mind,<br>
And may our pastime your contentment find.
</p>
@@ -258,7 +239,7 @@ And may our pastime your contentment find.
<div class="chapter">
-<h3><a name="scene0_1"></a><b>INDUCTION</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="scene0_1"></a><b>INDUCTION</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Comedy,</span> joyfully, with a Garland of Bays on her
@@ -266,13 +247,13 @@ head.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-Why so; thus do I hope to please:<br/>
-Music revives, and mirth is tolerable;<br/>
-Comedy, play thy part and please;<br/>
-Make merry them that comes to joy with thee.<br/>
-Joy then, good gentles; I hope to make you laugh.<br/>
-Sound forth Bellona’s silver-tuned strings;<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+Why so; thus do I hope to please:<br>
+Music revives, and mirth is tolerable;<br>
+Comedy, play thy part and please;<br>
+Make merry them that comes to joy with thee.<br>
+Joy then, good gentles; I hope to make you laugh.<br>
+Sound forth Bellona’s silver-tuned strings;<br>
Time fits us well, the day and place is ours.
</p>
@@ -281,115 +262,115 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Envy,</span> his arms naked, besmeared with blood.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Nay, stay, you minion, stay; there lies a block!<br/>
-What, all on mirth? I’ll interrupt your tale,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Nay, stay, you minion, stay; there lies a block!<br>
+What, all on mirth? I’ll interrupt your tale,<br>
And mix your music with a tragic end.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-What monstrous ugly hag is this,<br/>
-That dares control the pleasures of our will?<br/>
-Vaunt, churlish cur, besmear’d with gory blood,<br/>
-That seemst to check the blossoms of delight,<br/>
-And stifle the sound of sweet Bellona’s breath;<br/>
-Blush, monster, blush, and post away with shame,<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+What monstrous ugly hag is this,<br>
+That dares control the pleasures of our will?<br>
+Vaunt, churlish cur, besmear’d with gory blood,<br>
+That seemst to check the blossoms of delight,<br>
+And stifle the sound of sweet Bellona’s breath;<br>
+Blush, monster, blush, and post away with shame,<br>
That seekest disturbance of a goddess’ deeds.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Post hence thyself, thou counterchecking trull;<br/>
-I will possess this habit, spite of thee,<br/>
-And gain the glory of thy wished sport.<br/>
-I’ll thunder music shall appal the nymphs,<br/>
-And make them shiver their clattering strings,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Post hence thyself, thou counterchecking trull;<br>
+I will possess this habit, spite of thee,<br>
+And gain the glory of thy wished sport.<br>
+I’ll thunder music shall appal the nymphs,<br>
+And make them shiver their clattering strings,<br>
Flying for succour to their dankish caves.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Sound drums within, and cry, ‘Stab! Stab!’</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-Hark, hearken, thou shalt hear a noise<br/>
-Shall fill the air with a shrilling sound,<br/>
-And thunder music to the gods above:<br/>
-Mars shall himself reach down<br/>
-A peerless crown upon brave Envy’s head,<br/>
-And raise his rival with a lasting fame.<br/>
-In this brave music Envy takes delight,<br/>
-Where I may see them wallow in their blood,<br/>
-And spurn at arms and legs quite shivered off,<br/>
-And hear the cries of many thousands slain.<br/>
+Hark, hearken, thou shalt hear a noise<br>
+Shall fill the air with a shrilling sound,<br>
+And thunder music to the gods above:<br>
+Mars shall himself reach down<br>
+A peerless crown upon brave Envy’s head,<br>
+And raise his rival with a lasting fame.<br>
+In this brave music Envy takes delight,<br>
+Where I may see them wallow in their blood,<br>
+And spurn at arms and legs quite shivered off,<br>
+And hear the cries of many thousands slain.<br>
How lik’st thou this, my trull? ’tis sport alone for me!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-Vaunt, bloody cur, nurs’d up with tiger’s sap,<br/>
-That so dost seek to quail a woman’s mind!<br/>
-Comedy’s mild, gentle, willing for to please,<br/>
-And seeks to gain the love of all estates,<br/>
-Delights in mirth, mix’d all with lovely tales,<br/>
-And bringeth things with treble joy to pass.<br/>
-Thou bloody, envious ’sdainer of men’s joys,<br/>
-Whose name is fraught with bloody stratagems,<br/>
-Delights in nothing but in spoil and death,<br/>
-Where thou may’st trample in their lukewarm blood,<br/>
-And grasp their hearts within thy cursed paws.<br/>
-Yet veil thy mind; revenge thou not on me;<br/>
-A silly woman begs it at thy hands.<br/>
-Give me the leave to utter out my play;<br/>
-Forbear this place; I humbly crave thee, hence!<br/>
-And mix not death ’mongst pleasing comedies,<br/>
-That treat nought else but pleasure and delight.<br/>
-If any spark of human rests in thee,<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+Vaunt, bloody cur, nurs’d up with tiger’s sap,<br>
+That so dost seek to quail a woman’s mind!<br>
+Comedy’s mild, gentle, willing for to please,<br>
+And seeks to gain the love of all estates,<br>
+Delights in mirth, mix’d all with lovely tales,<br>
+And bringeth things with treble joy to pass.<br>
+Thou bloody, envious ’sdainer of men’s joys,<br>
+Whose name is fraught with bloody stratagems,<br>
+Delights in nothing but in spoil and death,<br>
+Where thou may’st trample in their lukewarm blood,<br>
+And grasp their hearts within thy cursed paws.<br>
+Yet veil thy mind; revenge thou not on me;<br>
+A silly woman begs it at thy hands.<br>
+Give me the leave to utter out my play;<br>
+Forbear this place; I humbly crave thee, hence!<br>
+And mix not death ’mongst pleasing comedies,<br>
+That treat nought else but pleasure and delight.<br>
+If any spark of human rests in thee,<br>
Forbear; begone; tender the suit of me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Why, so I will; forbearance shall be such,<br/>
-As treble death shall cross thee with despite,<br/>
-And make thee mourn, where most thou joy’st,<br/>
-Turning thy mirth into a deadly dole,<br/>
-Whirling thy measures with a peal of death,<br/>
-And drench thy metres in a sea of blood.<br/>
-This will I do; thus shall I bear with thee;<br/>
-And more, to vex thee with a deeper spite,<br/>
-I will with threats of blood begin thy play,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Why, so I will; forbearance shall be such,<br>
+As treble death shall cross thee with despite,<br>
+And make thee mourn, where most thou joy’st,<br>
+Turning thy mirth into a deadly dole,<br>
+Whirling thy measures with a peal of death,<br>
+And drench thy metres in a sea of blood.<br>
+This will I do; thus shall I bear with thee;<br>
+And more, to vex thee with a deeper spite,<br>
+I will with threats of blood begin thy play,<br>
Favoring thee with envy and with hate.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-Then, ugly monster, do thy worst,<br/>
-I will defend them in despite of thee:<br/>
-And though thou think’st with tragic fumes<br/>
-To brave my play unto my deep disgrace,<br/>
-I force it not, I scorn what thou canst do;<br/>
-I’ll grace it so, thyself shall it confess,<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+Then, ugly monster, do thy worst,<br>
+I will defend them in despite of thee:<br>
+And though thou think’st with tragic fumes<br>
+To brave my play unto my deep disgrace,<br>
+I force it not, I scorn what thou canst do;<br>
+I’ll grace it so, thyself shall it confess,<br>
From tragic stuff to be a pleasant comedy.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Why then, Comedy, send thy actors forth,<br/>
-And I will cross the first steps of their tread,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Why then, Comedy, send thy actors forth,<br>
+And I will cross the first steps of their tread,<br>
Making them fear the very dart of death.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-And I’ll defend them maugre all thy spite.<br/>
-So, ugly fiend, farewell, till time shall serve,<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+And I’ll defend them maugre all thy spite.<br>
+So, ugly fiend, farewell, till time shall serve,<br>
That we may meet to parley for the best.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Content, Comedy, I’ll go spread my branch,<br/>
-And scattered blossoms from mine envious tree<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Content, Comedy, I’ll go spread my branch,<br>
+And scattered blossoms from mine envious tree<br>
Shall prove to monsters, spoiling of their joys.
</p>
@@ -399,7 +380,7 @@ Shall prove to monsters, spoiling of their joys.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="sceneI_1"></a><b>ACT I</b></h2>
+<h2><a id="sceneI_1"></a><b>ACT I</b></h2>
<h3><b>SCENE I. Valencia. The Court</b></h3>
@@ -409,123 +390,123 @@ Sound. Enter <span class="charname">Mucedorus</span> and
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Anselmo!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
My lord and friend.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
True, my Anselmo, both thy lord and friend—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
-Whose dear affections bosom with my heart,<br/>
-And keep their domination in one orb,<br/>
-Whence ne’er disloyalty shall root it forth,<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
+Whose dear affections bosom with my heart,<br>
+And keep their domination in one orb,<br>
+Whence ne’er disloyalty shall root it forth,<br>
But faith plant firmer in your choice respect.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Much blame were mine, if I should other deem,<br/>
-Nor can coy Fortune contrary allow.<br/>
-But, my Anselmo, loth I am to say,<br/>
-I must estrange that friendship;<br/>
-Misconstrue not, ’tis from the realm, not thee:<br/>
-Though lands part bodies, hearts keep company.<br/>
-Thou knowst that I imparted often have<br/>
-Private relations with my royal sire,<br/>
-Had as concerning beautious Amadine,<br/>
-Rich Aragon’s bright jewel, whose face (some say)<br/>
-That blooming lilies never shone so gay,<br/>
-Excelling, not excell’d; yet least report<br/>
-Does mangle verity, boasting of what is not,<br/>
-Wing’d with desire, thither I’ll straight repair,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Much blame were mine, if I should other deem,<br>
+Nor can coy Fortune contrary allow.<br>
+But, my Anselmo, loth I am to say,<br>
+I must estrange that friendship;<br>
+Misconstrue not, ’tis from the realm, not thee:<br>
+Though lands part bodies, hearts keep company.<br>
+Thou knowst that I imparted often have<br>
+Private relations with my royal sire,<br>
+Had as concerning beautious Amadine,<br>
+Rich Aragon’s bright jewel, whose face (some say)<br>
+That blooming lilies never shone so gay,<br>
+Excelling, not excell’d; yet least report<br>
+Does mangle verity, boasting of what is not,<br>
+Wing’d with desire, thither I’ll straight repair,<br>
And be my fortunes, as my thoughts are, fair!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
-Will you forsake Valencia, leave the court,<br/>
-Absent you from the eye of sovereignty?<br/>
-Do not, sweet prince, adventure on that task,<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
+Will you forsake Valencia, leave the court,<br>
+Absent you from the eye of sovereignty?<br>
+Do not, sweet prince, adventure on that task,<br>
Since danger lurks each where; be won from it!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Desist dissuasion,<br/>
-My resolution brooks no battery.<br/>
-Therefore, if thou retain thy wonted form,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Desist dissuasion,<br>
+My resolution brooks no battery.<br>
+Therefore, if thou retain thy wonted form,<br>
Assist what I intend.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
-Your miss will breed a blemish in the court,<br/>
-And throw a frosty dew upon that beard,<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
+Your miss will breed a blemish in the court,<br>
+And throw a frosty dew upon that beard,<br>
Whose front Valencia stoops to.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-If thou my welfare tender, then no more;<br/>
-Let love’s strong magic charm thy trivial phrase,<br/>
-Wasted as vainly as to gripe the sun.<br/>
-Augment not then more answers; lock thy lips,<br/>
-Unless thy wisdom suit me with disguise,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+If thou my welfare tender, then no more;<br>
+Let love’s strong magic charm thy trivial phrase,<br>
+Wasted as vainly as to gripe the sun.<br>
+Augment not then more answers; lock thy lips,<br>
+Unless thy wisdom suit me with disguise,<br>
According to my purpose.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
-That action craves no counsel,<br/>
-Since what you rightly are will more command,<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
+That action craves no counsel,<br>
+Since what you rightly are will more command,<br>
Than best usurped shape.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Thou still art opposite in disposition;<br/>
-A more obscure servile habiliment<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Thou still art opposite in disposition;<br>
+A more obscure servile habiliment<br>
Beseems this enterprise.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
Then like a Florentine or mountebank!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-’Tis much too tedious; I dislike thy judgement,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+’Tis much too tedious; I dislike thy judgement,<br>
My mind is grafted on an humbler stock.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
-Within my closet there does hang a cassock,<br/>
-Though base the weed is, ’twas a shepherd’s once,<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
+Within my closet there does hang a cassock,<br>
+Though base the weed is, ’twas a shepherd’s once,<br>
Which I presented in Lord Julio’s masque.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-That, my Anselmo, and none else but that,<br/>
-Mask Mucedorus from the vulgar view.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+That, my Anselmo, and none else but that,<br>
+Mask Mucedorus from the vulgar view.<br>
That habit suits my mind; fetch me that weed.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Anselmo</span>.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-Better than kings have not disdain’d that state,<br/>
+Better than kings have not disdain’d that state,<br>
And much inferiour, to obtain their mate.
</p>
@@ -535,33 +516,33 @@ gives to <span class="charname">Mucedorus</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-So!<br/>
-Let our respect command thy secrecy,<br/>
-And let us take at once a brief farewell;<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+So!<br>
+Let our respect command thy secrecy,<br>
+And let us take at once a brief farewell;<br>
Delay to lovers is a second hell.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Mucedorus</span>.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
-Prosperity forerun thee; awkward chance<br/>
-Never be neighbour to thy wishes’ venture;<br/>
-Content and Fame advance thee; ever thrive,<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
+Prosperity forerun thee; awkward chance<br>
+Never be neighbour to thy wishes’ venture;<br>
+Content and Fame advance thee; ever thrive,<br>
And glory thy mortality survive!
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneI_2"></a><b>SCENE II. A Forest in Aragon</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneI_2"></a><b>SCENE II. A Forest in Aragon</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Mouse</span> with a bottle of hay.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O horrible, terrible! Was ever poor gentleman so scar’d out of his seven
senses? A bear? Nay, sure it cannot be a bear, but some devil in a bear’s
doublet; for a bear could never have had that agility to have frighted me.
@@ -578,7 +559,7 @@ every step backward.
tumbles over her, and runs away, and leaves his bottle of hay behind him</i>.]
</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneI_3"></a><b>SCENE III. The same</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneI_3"></a><b>SCENE III. The same</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Segasto</span> running, and
@@ -586,25 +567,25 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Segasto</span> running, and
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Oh fly, madam, fly or else we are but dead!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Help, sweet Segasto, help, or else I die!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Alas, madam! there is no way but flight;<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Alas, madam! there is no way but flight;<br>
Then haste and save yourself.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i><span class="charname">Segasto</span> runs away.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Why then I die; ah! help me in distress!
</p>
@@ -614,162 +595,162 @@ drawn, and a Bear’s head in his hand.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Stay, lady, stay; and be no more dismay’d.<br/>
-That cruel beast, most merciless and fell,<br/>
-Which hath bereaved thousands of their lives,<br/>
-Affrighted many with his hard pursuits,<br/>
-Prying from place to place to find his prey,<br/>
-Prolonging thus his life by others’ death,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Stay, lady, stay; and be no more dismay’d.<br>
+That cruel beast, most merciless and fell,<br>
+Which hath bereaved thousands of their lives,<br>
+Affrighted many with his hard pursuits,<br>
+Prying from place to place to find his prey,<br>
+Prolonging thus his life by others’ death,<br>
His carcass now lies headless, void of breath.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
That foul, deformed monster, is he dead?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Assure yourself thereof—behold his head;<br/>
-Which, if it please you, lady, to accept,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Assure yourself thereof—behold his head;<br>
+Which, if it please you, lady, to accept,<br>
With willing heart I yield it to your majesty.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Thanks, worthy shepherd, thanks a thousand times;<br/>
-This gift, assure thyself, contents me more<br/>
-Than greatest bounty of a mighty prince,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Thanks, worthy shepherd, thanks a thousand times;<br>
+This gift, assure thyself, contents me more<br>
+Than greatest bounty of a mighty prince,<br>
Although he were the monarch of the world.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Most gracious goddess, more than mortal wight—<br/>
-Your heavenly hue of right imports no less—<br/>
-Most glad am I, in that it was my chance<br/>
-To undertake this enterprise in hand,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Most gracious goddess, more than mortal wight—<br>
+Your heavenly hue of right imports no less—<br>
+Most glad am I, in that it was my chance<br>
+To undertake this enterprise in hand,<br>
Which doth so greatly glad your princely mind.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-No goddess, shepherd, but a mortal wight,<br/>
-A mortal wight distressed as thou seest:<br/>
-My father here is King of Aragon, <br/>
-I, Amadine, his only daughter am,<br/>
-And after him sole heir unto the crown.<br/>
-And now, whereas it is my father’s will,<br/>
-To marry me unto Segasto, one,<br/>
-Whose wealth through’s father’s former usury<br/>
-Is known to be no less than wonderful,<br/>
-We both of custom oftentimes did use,<br/>
-Leaving the court, to walk within the fields<br/>
-For recreation, specially in spring,<br/>
-In that it yields great store of rare delights;<br/>
-And passing farther than our wonted walks,<br/>
-Scarce ent’red were within these luckless woods,<br/>
-But right before us down a steep-fall hill<br/>
-A monstrous ugly bear did hie him fast<br/>
-To meet us both—I faint to tell the rest,<br/>
-Good shepherd, but suppose the ghastly looks,<br/>
-The hideous fears, the hundred thousand woes,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+No goddess, shepherd, but a mortal wight,<br>
+A mortal wight distressed as thou seest:<br>
+My father here is King of Aragon, <br>
+I, Amadine, his only daughter am,<br>
+And after him sole heir unto the crown.<br>
+And now, whereas it is my father’s will,<br>
+To marry me unto Segasto, one,<br>
+Whose wealth through’s father’s former usury<br>
+Is known to be no less than wonderful,<br>
+We both of custom oftentimes did use,<br>
+Leaving the court, to walk within the fields<br>
+For recreation, specially in spring,<br>
+In that it yields great store of rare delights;<br>
+And passing farther than our wonted walks,<br>
+Scarce ent’red were within these luckless woods,<br>
+But right before us down a steep-fall hill<br>
+A monstrous ugly bear did hie him fast<br>
+To meet us both—I faint to tell the rest,<br>
+Good shepherd, but suppose the ghastly looks,<br>
+The hideous fears, the hundred thousand woes,<br>
Which at this instant Amadine sustained.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Yet, worthy princess, let thy sorrow cease,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Yet, worthy princess, let thy sorrow cease,<br>
And let this sight your former joys revive.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Believe me, shepherd, so it doth, no less.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Long may they last unto your heart’s content.<br/>
-But tell me, lady, what is become of him,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Long may they last unto your heart’s content.<br>
+But tell me, lady, what is become of him,<br>
Segasto call’d, what’s become of him?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-I know not, I; that know the powers divine;<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+I know not, I; that know the powers divine;<br>
But God grant this, that sweet Segasto live!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Yet was hard-hearted he, in such a case,<br/>
-So cowardly to save himself by flight,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Yet was hard-hearted he, in such a case,<br>
+So cowardly to save himself by flight,<br>
And leave so brave a princess to the spoil.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Well, shepherd, for thy worthy valour tried,<br/>
-Endangering thyself to set me free,<br/>
-Unrecompensed, sure, thou shalt not be.<br/>
-In court thy courage shall be plainly known;<br/>
-Throughout the kingdom will I spread thy name,<br/>
-To thy renown and never-dying fame;<br/>
-And that thy courage may be better known,<br/>
-Bear thou the head of this most monstrous beast<br/>
-In open sight to every courtier’s view.<br/>
-So will the king, my father, thee reward.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Well, shepherd, for thy worthy valour tried,<br>
+Endangering thyself to set me free,<br>
+Unrecompensed, sure, thou shalt not be.<br>
+In court thy courage shall be plainly known;<br>
+Throughout the kingdom will I spread thy name,<br>
+To thy renown and never-dying fame;<br>
+And that thy courage may be better known,<br>
+Bear thou the head of this most monstrous beast<br>
+In open sight to every courtier’s view.<br>
+So will the king, my father, thee reward.<br>
Come, let’s away and guard me to the court.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
With all my heart.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneI_4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Outskirts of the Forest</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneI_4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Outskirts of the Forest</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Segasto</span> solus.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-When heaps of harms do hover over head,<br/>
-’Tis time as then, some say, to look about,<br/>
-And of ensuing harms to choose the least.<br/>
-But hard, yea hapless, is that wretch’s chance,<br/>
-Luckless his lot, and caytiff-like accurst.<br/>
-At whose proceedings fortune ever frowns.<br/>
-Myself, I mean, most subject unto thrall;<br/>
-For I, the more I seek to shun the worst,<br/>
-The more by proof I find myself accurs’d.<br/>
-Erewhiles assaulted with an ugly bear,<br/>
-With Amadine in company all alone,<br/>
-Forthwith by flight I thought to save myself,<br/>
-Leaving my Amadine unto her shifts;<br/>
-For death it was for to resist the bear,<br/>
-And death no less of Amadine’s harms to hear.<br/>
-Accursed I, in ling’ring life thus long!<br/>
-In living thus, each minute of an hour<br/>
-Doth pierce my heart with darts of thousand deaths.<br/>
-If she by flight her fury do escape,<br/>
-What will she think?<br/>
-Will she not say, yea, flatly to my face,<br/>
-Accusing me of mere disloyalty:<br/>
-A trusty friend is tried in time of need.<br/>
-But I, when she in danger was of death,<br/>
-And needed me, and cried, Segasto, help!<br/>
-I turn’d my back, and quickly ran away,<br/>
-Unworthy I to bear this vital breath!<br/>
-But what, what needs these plaints?<br/>
-If Amadine do live, then happy I:<br/>
-She will in time forgive and so forget.<br/>
-Amadine is merciful, not Juno-like,<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+When heaps of harms do hover over head,<br>
+’Tis time as then, some say, to look about,<br>
+And of ensuing harms to choose the least.<br>
+But hard, yea hapless, is that wretch’s chance,<br>
+Luckless his lot, and caytiff-like accurst.<br>
+At whose proceedings fortune ever frowns.<br>
+Myself, I mean, most subject unto thrall;<br>
+For I, the more I seek to shun the worst,<br>
+The more by proof I find myself accurs’d.<br>
+Erewhiles assaulted with an ugly bear,<br>
+With Amadine in company all alone,<br>
+Forthwith by flight I thought to save myself,<br>
+Leaving my Amadine unto her shifts;<br>
+For death it was for to resist the bear,<br>
+And death no less of Amadine’s harms to hear.<br>
+Accursed I, in ling’ring life thus long!<br>
+In living thus, each minute of an hour<br>
+Doth pierce my heart with darts of thousand deaths.<br>
+If she by flight her fury do escape,<br>
+What will she think?<br>
+Will she not say, yea, flatly to my face,<br>
+Accusing me of mere disloyalty:<br>
+A trusty friend is tried in time of need.<br>
+But I, when she in danger was of death,<br>
+And needed me, and cried, Segasto, help!<br>
+I turn’d my back, and quickly ran away,<br>
+Unworthy I to bear this vital breath!<br>
+But what, what needs these plaints?<br>
+If Amadine do live, then happy I:<br>
+She will in time forgive and so forget.<br>
+Amadine is merciful, not Juno-like,<br>
In harmful heart to harbour hatred long.
</p>
@@ -778,41 +759,41 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Mouse</span> the Clown, running, crying, Clubs!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Clubs, prongs, pitchforks, bills! O help! A bear, a bear, a bear, a
bear!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Still bears, and nothing else but bears? Tell me, sirrah, where she
is.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O sir, she is run down the woods, I see her white head and her white belly.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Thou talkest of wonders, to tell me of white bears; but, sirrah, didst thou
ever see any such?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
No, faith, I never saw any such; but I remember my father’s words, he
bade me take heed I was not caught with a white bear.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
A lamentable tale, no doubt.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I tell you what, sir; as I was going a-field to serve my father’s great
horse, and carried a bottle of hay upon my head—now, do you see, sir, I, fast
hoodwinked, that I could see nothing, perceiving the bear coming, I threw my
@@ -820,191 +801,191 @@ hay into the hedge and ran away.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
What, from nothing?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I warrant you, yes, I saw something; for there was two load of thorns
besides my bottle of hay, and that made three.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-But tell me, sirrah, the bear that thou didst see,<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+But tell me, sirrah, the bear that thou didst see,<br>
Did she not bear a bucket on her arm?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Ha, ha, ha! I never saw bear go a-milking in my life. But hark you, sir,
I did not look so high as her arm, I saw nothing but her white head and her
white belly.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
But tell me, sirrah, where dost thou dwell?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, do you not know me?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, no; how should I know thee?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, then you know nobody, an you know not me. I tell you, sir, I am
goodman Rat’s son, of the next parish over the hill.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Goodman Rat’s son; why, what’s thy name?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, I am very near kin unto him.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I think so; but what’s thy name?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
My name? I have a very pretty name; I’ll tell you what my name is, my
name is Mouse.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
What, plain Mouse?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Ay, plain Mouse without either welt or guard. But do you hear, sir, I
am but a very young Mouse, for my tail is scarce grown out yet; look you here
else.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
But, I pray thee, who gave thee that name?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Faith, sir, I know not that, but if you would fain know, ask my father’s
great horse, for he hath been half a year longer with my father than I have.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-[<i>Aside</i>.] This seems to be a merry fellow;<br/>
-I care not if I take him home with me.<br/>
-Mirth is a comfort to a troubled mind,<br/>
-A merry man a merry master makes.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+[<i>Aside</i>.] This seems to be a merry fellow;<br>
+I care not if I take him home with me.<br>
+Mirth is a comfort to a troubled mind,<br>
+A merry man a merry master makes.<br>
[<i>To Mouse</i>.] How say’st thou, sirrah, wilt thou dwell with me?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Nay, soft, sir; two words to a bargain; pray you, what occupation are
you?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
No occupation, I live upon my lands.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Your lands? Away, you are no master for me. Why, do you think that I am
so mad to go seek my living in the lands amongst the stones, briars, and
bushes, and tear my holiday-apparel? Not I, by your leave.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, I do not mean thou shalt.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
How then?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, thou shalt be my man, and wait upon me at the court.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What’s that?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Where the king lies.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What’s that same king, a man or woman?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
A man as thou art.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
As I am? Hark you, sir, pray you, what kin is he to goodman King of our
parish, the churchwarden?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
No kin to him; he is the king of the whole land.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
King of the land? I never saw him.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
If thou wilt dwell with me, thou shalt see him every day.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Shall I go home again to be torn in pieces with bears? No, not I, I will
go home and put on a clean shirt, and then go drown myself.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Thou shalt not need, if thou wilt dwell with me, thou shalt want
nothing.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Shall I not? Then here’s my hand, I’ll dwell with you. And hark you,
sir! now you have entertained me, I will tell you what I can do. I can keep my
tongue from picking and stealing, and my hands from lying and slandering, I
@@ -1012,9 +993,9 @@ warrant you, as well as ever you had man in all your life.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Now will I to court with sorrowful heart, rounded with doubts.<br/>
-If Amadine do live, then happy I:<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Now will I to court with sorrowful heart, rounded with doubts.<br>
+If Amadine do live, then happy I:<br>
Yea happy I, if Amadine do live.
</p>
@@ -1024,7 +1005,7 @@ Yea happy I, if Amadine do live.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="sceneII_1"></a><b>ACT II</b></h2>
+<h2><a id="sceneII_1"></a><b>ACT II</b></h2>
<h3><b>SCENE I. The Camp of the King of Aragon</b></h3>
@@ -1035,45 +1016,45 @@ Tremelio,</span> with <span class="charname">Collen</span> and Councillors.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Now, brave Lords, our wars are brought to end,<br/>
-Our foes to foil, and we in safety rest,<br/>
-It us behoves to use such clemency<br/>
-In peace, as valour in the wars. It is<br/>
-As great an honour to be bountiful<br/>
-At home, as to be conquerors in the field.<br/>
-Therefore, my lords, the more to my content,<br/>
-Your liking, and your country’s safeguard,<br/>
-We are dispos’d in marriage for to give<br/>
-Our daughter to Lord Segasto here,<br/>
-Who shall succeed the diadem after me,<br/>
-And reign hereafter as tofore I’ve done,<br/>
-Your sole and lawful King of Aragon.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Now, brave Lords, our wars are brought to end,<br>
+Our foes to foil, and we in safety rest,<br>
+It us behoves to use such clemency<br>
+In peace, as valour in the wars. It is<br>
+As great an honour to be bountiful<br>
+At home, as to be conquerors in the field.<br>
+Therefore, my lords, the more to my content,<br>
+Your liking, and your country’s safeguard,<br>
+We are dispos’d in marriage for to give<br>
+Our daughter to Lord Segasto here,<br>
+Who shall succeed the diadem after me,<br>
+And reign hereafter as tofore I’ve done,<br>
+Your sole and lawful King of Aragon.<br>
What say you, lordings, like you of my advice?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COLLEN.<br/>
+COLLEN.<br>
An’t please your majesty, we do not only allow of your highness’ pleasure, but
also vow faithfully in what we may to further it.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Thanks, good my lords, if long Adrostus live<br/>
-He will at full requite your courtesies.<br/>
-Tremelio,<br/>
-In recompense of thy late valour done,<br/>
-Take unto thee the Catalonian prince,<br/>
-Our prisoner, lately taken in the wars.<br/>
-Be thou his keeper, his ransom shall be thine;<br/>
-We’ll think of it, when leisure shall afford.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Thanks, good my lords, if long Adrostus live<br>
+He will at full requite your courtesies.<br>
+Tremelio,<br>
+In recompense of thy late valour done,<br>
+Take unto thee the Catalonian prince,<br>
+Our prisoner, lately taken in the wars.<br>
+Be thou his keeper, his ransom shall be thine;<br>
+We’ll think of it, when leisure shall afford.<br>
Meanwhile, do use him well; his father is a king.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-TREMELIO.<br/>
-Thanks to your majesty, his usage shall be such,<br/>
+TREMELIO.<br>
+Thanks to your majesty, his usage shall be such,<br>
As he thereat shall think no cause to grutch.
</p>
@@ -1083,28 +1064,28 @@ As he thereat shall think no cause to grutch.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Then march we on to court, and rest our wearied limbs!<br/>
-But, Collen, I’ve a tale in secret kept for thee:<br/>
-When thou shalt hear a watchword from thy king,<br/>
-Think then some weighty matter is at hand,<br/>
-That highly shall concern our state,<br/>
-Then, Collen, look thou be not far from me,<br/>
-And for thy service thou tofore hast done,<br/>
-Thy truth and valour prov’d in every point,<br/>
-I shall with bounties thee enlarge therefore.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Then march we on to court, and rest our wearied limbs!<br>
+But, Collen, I’ve a tale in secret kept for thee:<br>
+When thou shalt hear a watchword from thy king,<br>
+Think then some weighty matter is at hand,<br>
+That highly shall concern our state,<br>
+Then, Collen, look thou be not far from me,<br>
+And for thy service thou tofore hast done,<br>
+Thy truth and valour prov’d in every point,<br>
+I shall with bounties thee enlarge therefore.<br>
So guard us to the court.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COLLEN.<br/>
-What so my sovereign doth command me do,<br/>
+COLLEN.<br>
+What so my sovereign doth command me do,<br>
With willing mind I gladly yield consent.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneII_2"></a><b>SCENE II. The same</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneII_2"></a><b>SCENE II. The same</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Segasto</span> and the
@@ -1112,159 +1093,159 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Segasto</span> and the
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Tell me, sirrah, how do you like your weapons?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O, very well, very well, they keep my sides warm.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
They keep the dogs from your shins very well, do they not?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
How, keep the dogs from my shins? I would scorn but my shins could keep
the dogs from them.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Well, sirrah, leaving idle talk, tell me, dost thou know Captain Tremelio’s
chamber?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Ay, very well, it hath a door.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I think so; for so hath every chamber. But dost thou know the man?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Ay, forsooth, he hath a nose on his face.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, so hath every one.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
That’s more than I know.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
But dost thou remember the captain that was here with the king even
now, that brought the young prince prisoner?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O, very well.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Go unto him, and bid him come to me. Tell him I have a matter in secret to
impart to him.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I will, master; master, what’s his name?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, Captain Tremelio, man
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O, the meal-man; I know him very well; he brings meal every Saturday;
but hark you, master, must I bid him come to you, or must you come to him?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
No, sirrah, he must come to me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Hark you, master; how, if he be not at home? What shall I do then?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, then leave word with some of his folks.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O, master, if there be nobody within, I will leave word with his dog.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, can his dog speak?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I cannot tell; wherefore doth he keep his chamber else?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
To keep out such knaves as thou art.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Nay, by’r Lady, then go yourself.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
You will go, sir; will ye not?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Yes, marry, will I. O, ’tis come to my head, an a be not within, I’ll bring his
chamber to you.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
What, wilt thou pluck down the king’s house?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Nay, by’r Lady, I’ll know the price of it first. Master, it is such a hard
name, I have forgotten it again. I pray you, tell me his name.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I tell thee, Captain Tremelio, knave.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Oh, Captain Treble-knave, Captain Treble-knave.
</p>
@@ -1275,37 +1256,37 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Tremelio</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-TREMELIO.<br/>
+TREMELIO.<br>
How now, sirrah, dost thou call me?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
You must come to my master, Captain Treble-knave.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-TREMELIO.<br/>
+TREMELIO.<br>
My lord Segasto, did you send for me?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I did, Tremelio. Sirrah, about your business!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Ay, marry, what’s that, can you tell?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
No, not well.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Marry, then, I can; straight to the kitchen-dresser, to John the cook,
and get me a good piece of beef and brewis; and then to the buttery-hatch, to
Thomas the butler for a jack of beer, and there for an hour I’ll so belabour
@@ -1314,41 +1295,41 @@ you, good master.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Well, sir, away. Tremelio, this it is!
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Mouse</span>.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-Thou know’st the valour of Segasto spread<br/>
-Through all the kingdom of great Aragon,<br/>
-Such as hath triumph found and favours, never<br/>
-Daunted at any time, but now a shepherd<br/>
-Admired is at in court for worthiness,<br/>
-And lord Segasto’s honour laid aside;<br/>
-My will therefore is this, that thou dost find<br/>
-Some means to work the shepherd’s death: I know<br/>
-Thy strength sufficient to perform my wish,<br/>
+Thou know’st the valour of Segasto spread<br>
+Through all the kingdom of great Aragon,<br>
+Such as hath triumph found and favours, never<br>
+Daunted at any time, but now a shepherd<br>
+Admired is at in court for worthiness,<br>
+And lord Segasto’s honour laid aside;<br>
+My will therefore is this, that thou dost find<br>
+Some means to work the shepherd’s death: I know<br>
+Thy strength sufficient to perform my wish,<br>
Thy love no other than to ’venge my injuries.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-TREMELIO.<br/>
-’Tis not the shepherd’s frowns Tremelio fears,<br/>
+TREMELIO.<br>
+’Tis not the shepherd’s frowns Tremelio fears,<br>
Therefore, ’count it accomplish’d what I take in hand.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Thanks, good Tremelio, and assure thyself,<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Thanks, good Tremelio, and assure thyself,<br>
What I promise, that will I perform.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-TREMELIO.<br/>
-Thanks, my good lord, and in good time see where<br/>
-He cometh. Stand by awhile, and you shall see<br/>
+TREMELIO.<br>
+Thanks, my good lord, and in good time see where<br>
+He cometh. Stand by awhile, and you shall see<br>
Me put in practice your intended drifts.
</p>
@@ -1361,40 +1342,40 @@ Have at thee, swain, if that I hit thee right!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Vile coward, so without cause to strike a man—<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Vile coward, so without cause to strike a man—<br>
Turn, coward, turn; now strike, and do thy worst!
</p>
<p class="right">[<i><span class="charname">Mucedorus</span> kills him.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Hold, shepherd, hold! O spare him, kill him not!<br/>
-Accursed villain, tell me, what thou’st done?<br/>
-Tremelio, ah, trusty Tremelio!<br/>
-I sorrow for thy death, and since that thou<br/>
-Living didst faithful prove unto Segasto,<br/>
-So now Segasto living with revenge<br/>
-Will honour th’ dead corpse of Tremelio.<br/>
-Bloodthirsty villain, born and bred to merciless murther,<br/>
-Tell me, how durst thou be so bold, as once<br/>
-To lay thy hands upon the least of mine?<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Hold, shepherd, hold! O spare him, kill him not!<br>
+Accursed villain, tell me, what thou’st done?<br>
+Tremelio, ah, trusty Tremelio!<br>
+I sorrow for thy death, and since that thou<br>
+Living didst faithful prove unto Segasto,<br>
+So now Segasto living with revenge<br>
+Will honour th’ dead corpse of Tremelio.<br>
+Bloodthirsty villain, born and bred to merciless murther,<br>
+Tell me, how durst thou be so bold, as once<br>
+To lay thy hands upon the least of mine?<br>
Assure thee, thou’lt be used according to the law!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Segasto, cease! these threats are needless.<br/>
-Accuse not me of murther, that have done<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Segasto, cease! these threats are needless.<br>
+Accuse not me of murther, that have done<br>
Nothing but in mine own defence.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Nay, shepherd, reason not with me;<br/>
-I’ll manifest thy fact unto the King,<br/>
-Whose doom will be thy death, as thou deserv’st.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Nay, shepherd, reason not with me;<br>
+I’ll manifest thy fact unto the King,<br>
+Whose doom will be thy death, as thou deserv’st.<br>
What ho, Mouse, come away!
</p>
@@ -1403,59 +1384,59 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Mouse</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, how now, what’s the matter? I thought you would be calling before I had
done.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Come, help, away with my friend.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, is he drunk? Cannot he stand on his feet?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
No, he is not drunk, he is slain.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Flain? No, by’r Lady, he is not flain.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
He’s killed, I tell thee.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What do you use to kill your friends? I will serve you no longer.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I tell thee, the shepherd killed him.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O, did a so? But, master, I will have all his apparel, if I carry him
away.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, so thou shalt.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Come, then, I will help; mass, master, I think his mother song looby to
him, he is so heavy.
</p>
@@ -1466,72 +1447,72 @@ him, he is so heavy.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Behold the fickle state of man,<br/>
-That’s always mutable, never at one!<br/>
-Sometimes we feed on fancies with the sweet<br/>
-Of our desires, sometimes again<br/>
-We feel the heat of extreme miseries.<br/>
-Now I’m in favour ’bout the court and country;<br/>
-Tomorrow will those favours turn to frowns.<br/>
-Today I live, revenged on my foe,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Behold the fickle state of man,<br>
+That’s always mutable, never at one!<br>
+Sometimes we feed on fancies with the sweet<br>
+Of our desires, sometimes again<br>
+We feel the heat of extreme miseries.<br>
+Now I’m in favour ’bout the court and country;<br>
+Tomorrow will those favours turn to frowns.<br>
+Today I live, revenged on my foe,<br>
Tomorrow I die, my foe reveng’d on me.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneII_3"></a><b>SCENE III. The Forest</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneII_3"></a><b>SCENE III. The Forest</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Bremo,</span> a wild man.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-No passenger this morning? What, not one?<br/>
-A chance that seldom doth befall.<br/>
-What, not one? Then lie thou there,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+No passenger this morning? What, not one?<br>
+A chance that seldom doth befall.<br>
+What, not one? Then lie thou there,<br>
And rest thyself till I have further need.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Lays down his club.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-Now, Bremo, sit, thy leisure so affords,<br/>
-An needless thing. [<i>Sits down</i>.] Who knows not Bremo’s strength,<br/>
-That like a king commands within these woods?<br/>
-The bear, the boar dare not abide my sight,<br/>
-But haste away to save themselves by flight.<br/>
-The crystal waters in the bubbling brooks,<br/>
-When I come by, doth swiftly slide away,<br/>
-And clap themselves in closets under banks,<br/>
-Afraid to look bold Bremo in the face.<br/>
-The aged oaks at Bremo’s breath do bow,<br/>
-And all things else are still at my command.<br/>
-Else what would I?<br/>
-Rend them in pieces, pluck them from the earth,<br/>
-And each way else I would revenge myself.<br/>
-Why, who comes here with whom I dare not fight?<br/>
-Who fights with me and doth not die the death? Not one!<br/>
-What favour shows this sturdy stick to those,<br/>
-That here within these woods are combatants with me?<br/>
-Why, death, and nothing else but present death.<br/>
-With restless rage I wander through these woods,<br/>
-No creature here, but feareth Bremo’s force:<br/>
-Man, woman, child, and beast, and bird,<br/>
-And everything that doth approach my sight,<br/>
-Are forc’d to fall if Bremo once do frown.<br/>
-Come, cudgel, come, my partner in my spoils,<br/>
-For here I see this day it will not be;<br/>
-But when it falls that I encounter any,<br/>
-One pat sufficeth for to work my will.<br/>
-What, comes not one? Then let’s be gone;<br/>
+Now, Bremo, sit, thy leisure so affords,<br>
+An needless thing. [<i>Sits down</i>.] Who knows not Bremo’s strength,<br>
+That like a king commands within these woods?<br>
+The bear, the boar dare not abide my sight,<br>
+But haste away to save themselves by flight.<br>
+The crystal waters in the bubbling brooks,<br>
+When I come by, doth swiftly slide away,<br>
+And clap themselves in closets under banks,<br>
+Afraid to look bold Bremo in the face.<br>
+The aged oaks at Bremo’s breath do bow,<br>
+And all things else are still at my command.<br>
+Else what would I?<br>
+Rend them in pieces, pluck them from the earth,<br>
+And each way else I would revenge myself.<br>
+Why, who comes here with whom I dare not fight?<br>
+Who fights with me and doth not die the death? Not one!<br>
+What favour shows this sturdy stick to those,<br>
+That here within these woods are combatants with me?<br>
+Why, death, and nothing else but present death.<br>
+With restless rage I wander through these woods,<br>
+No creature here, but feareth Bremo’s force:<br>
+Man, woman, child, and beast, and bird,<br>
+And everything that doth approach my sight,<br>
+Are forc’d to fall if Bremo once do frown.<br>
+Come, cudgel, come, my partner in my spoils,<br>
+For here I see this day it will not be;<br>
+But when it falls that I encounter any,<br>
+One pat sufficeth for to work my will.<br>
+What, comes not one? Then let’s be gone;<br>
A time will serve, when we shall better speed.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneII_4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Aragon. a Room of State in the Court</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneII_4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Aragon. a Room of State in the Court</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter the <span class="charname">King, Segasto,</span> the <span
@@ -1540,46 +1521,46 @@ with others.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Shepherd, thou hast heard thine accusers; murther<br/>
-Is laid unto thy charge; what canst thou say?<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Shepherd, thou hast heard thine accusers; murther<br>
+Is laid unto thy charge; what canst thou say?<br>
Thou hast deserved death.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Dread sovereign, I must needs confess,<br/>
-I slew this captain in mine own defence,<br/>
-Not of any malice, but by chance;<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Dread sovereign, I must needs confess,<br>
+I slew this captain in mine own defence,<br>
+Not of any malice, but by chance;<br>
But mine accuser hath a further meaning.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Words will not here prevail:<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Words will not here prevail:<br>
I seek for justice, and justice craves his death.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Shepherd, thine own confession hath condemned thee.<br/>
-Sirrah, take him away,<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Shepherd, thine own confession hath condemned thee.<br>
+Sirrah, take him away,<br>
And do him straight to execution.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
So he shall, I warrant him. But do you hear, master king, he is kin to a
monkey; his neck is bigger than his head.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Sirrah, away with him, and hang him ’bout the middle.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Yes, forsooth, I warrant you. Come on, sir; ah, so like a sheepbiter a looks.
</p>
@@ -1589,170 +1570,170 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Amadine</span> and a
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Dread sovereign and well beloved sire,<br/>
-On benden knees I crave the life of this<br/>
-Condemned shepherd, which tofore preserved<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Dread sovereign and well beloved sire,<br>
+On benden knees I crave the life of this<br>
+Condemned shepherd, which tofore preserved<br>
The life of thy sometime distressed daughter.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Preserved the life of my sometime distressed daughter?<br/>
-How can that be? I never knew the time<br/>
-Wherein thou wast distress’d: I never knew the day<br/>
-But that I have maintained thy estate,<br/>
-As best beseem’d the daughter of a king;<br/>
-I never saw the shepherd until now.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Preserved the life of my sometime distressed daughter?<br>
+How can that be? I never knew the time<br>
+Wherein thou wast distress’d: I never knew the day<br>
+But that I have maintained thy estate,<br>
+As best beseem’d the daughter of a king;<br>
+I never saw the shepherd until now.<br>
How comes it then, that he preserv’d thy life?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Once walking with Segasto in the woods,<br/>
-Further than our accustom’d manner was,<br/>
-Aright before us down a steep-fall hill,<br/>
-A monstrous ugly bear did hie him fast,<br/>
-To meet us both: now whether this be true,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Once walking with Segasto in the woods,<br>
+Further than our accustom’d manner was,<br>
+Aright before us down a steep-fall hill,<br>
+A monstrous ugly bear did hie him fast,<br>
+To meet us both: now whether this be true,<br>
I refer it to the credit of Segasto.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Most true, an’t like your majesty.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
How then?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-The bear being eager to obtain his prey,<br/>
-Made forward to us with an open mouth,<br/>
-As if he meant to swallow us both at once;<br/>
-The sight whereof did make us both to dread,<br/>
-But specially your daughter Amadine,<br/>
-Who—for I saw no succour incident<br/>
-But in Segasto’s valour—desperate grew,<br/>
-And he most coward-like began to flie,<br/>
-Left me distress’d to be devour’d of him—<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+The bear being eager to obtain his prey,<br>
+Made forward to us with an open mouth,<br>
+As if he meant to swallow us both at once;<br>
+The sight whereof did make us both to dread,<br>
+But specially your daughter Amadine,<br>
+Who—for I saw no succour incident<br>
+But in Segasto’s valour—desperate grew,<br>
+And he most coward-like began to flie,<br>
+Left me distress’d to be devour’d of him—<br>
Segasto, how say you? Is it not true?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
His silence verifies it to be true. What then?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Then I amaz’d, distressed, all alone,<br/>
-Did hie me fast to ’scape that ugly bear,<br/>
-But all in vain; for why, he reached after me,<br/>
-And oft I hardly did escape his paws,<br/>
-Till at the length this shepherd came and brought<br/>
-To me his head. Come hither, boy; lo, here it is,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Then I amaz’d, distressed, all alone,<br>
+Did hie me fast to ’scape that ugly bear,<br>
+But all in vain; for why, he reached after me,<br>
+And oft I hardly did escape his paws,<br>
+Till at the length this shepherd came and brought<br>
+To me his head. Come hither, boy; lo, here it is,<br>
Which I present unto your majesty.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>The bear’s head presented to the king.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
The slaughter of this bear deserves great fame.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
The slaughter of a man deserves great blame.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
Indeed, occasion ofttimes so falls out.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Tremelio in the wars, O King, preserved thee.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
The shepherd in the woods, O King, preserved me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Tremelio fought, when many men did yield.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
So would the shepherd, had he been in field.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] So would my master, had he not run away.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Tremelio’s force sav’d thousands from the foe.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
The shepherd’s force hath saved thousands more.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] Ay, shipsticks, nothing else.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Segasto, cease the shepherd to accuse,<br/>
-His worthiness deserves a recompense,<br/>
-All we are bound to do the shepherd good.<br/>
-Shepherd,<br/>
-Whereas it was my sentence thou shouldst die,<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Segasto, cease the shepherd to accuse,<br>
+His worthiness deserves a recompense,<br>
+All we are bound to do the shepherd good.<br>
+Shepherd,<br>
+Whereas it was my sentence thou shouldst die,<br>
So shall my sentence stand, for thou shalt die.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Thanks to your majesty.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-[<i>To Segasto</i>.] But soft, Segasto, not for this offence.<br/>
-[<i>To Mucedorus</i>.] Long may’st thou live; [<i>to Segasto</i>.] and when the Sisters shall decree<br/>
-To cut in twain the twisted thread of life,<br/>
-Then let him die: for this I set thee free;<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+[<i>To Segasto</i>.] But soft, Segasto, not for this offence.<br>
+[<i>To Mucedorus</i>.] Long may’st thou live; [<i>to Segasto</i>.] and when the Sisters shall decree<br>
+To cut in twain the twisted thread of life,<br>
+Then let him die: for this I set thee free;<br>
[<i>To Mucedorus</i>.] And for thy valour I will honour thee.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Thanks to your majesty.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Come, daughter, let us now depart to honour<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Come, daughter, let us now depart to honour<br>
The worthy valour of the shepherd with rewards.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O master, hear you, you have made a fresh hand now, I thought you would,
beshrew you! Why, what will you do now? You have lost me a good occupation by the
means. Faith, master, now I cannot hang the shepherd, I pray you, let me take
@@ -1760,14 +1741,14 @@ the pains to hang you, it is but half an hour’s exercise.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-You are still in your knavery, but sith<br/>
-I cannot have his life, I will procure<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+You are still in your knavery, but sith<br>
+I cannot have his life, I will procure<br>
His banishment for ever. Come one, sirrah.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Yes, forsooth, I come. [<i>Aside</i>.] Laugh at him, I pray you.
</p>
@@ -1777,7 +1758,7 @@ Yes, forsooth, I come. [<i>Aside</i>.] Laugh at him, I pray you.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="sceneIII_1"></a><b>ACT III</b></h2>
+<h2><a id="sceneIII_1"></a><b>ACT III</b></h2>
<h3><b>SCENE I. Grove near the Court</b></h3>
@@ -1786,11 +1767,11 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Mucedorus</span> solus.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-From Amadine, and from her father’s court,<br/>
-With gold and silver, and with rich rewards,<br/>
-Flowing from the banks of golden treasuries.<br/>
-More may I boast, and say, but I,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+From Amadine, and from her father’s court,<br>
+With gold and silver, and with rich rewards,<br>
+Flowing from the banks of golden treasuries.<br>
+More may I boast, and say, but I,<br>
Was never shepherd in such dignity.
</p>
@@ -1800,112 +1781,112 @@ Enter the <span class="charname">Messenger</span> and
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MESSENGER.<br/>
+MESSENGER.<br>
All hail, worthy shepherd!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
All rain, lousy shepherd!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Welcome, my friends, from whence come you?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MESSENGER.<br/>
-The King and Amadine do greet thee well.<br/>
-And after greeting done, bid thee depart the court.<br/>
+MESSENGER.<br>
+The King and Amadine do greet thee well.<br>
+And after greeting done, bid thee depart the court.<br>
Shepherd, begone!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Shepherd, take law-legs; fly away, shepherd.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Whose words are these? Come these from Amadine?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MESSENGER.<br/>
+MESSENGER.<br>
Ay, from Amadine.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Ay, from Amadine.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Ah! luckless fortune, worse than Phaeton’s tale,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Ah! luckless fortune, worse than Phaeton’s tale,<br>
My former bliss is now become my bale.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What, wilt thou poison thyself?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
My former heaven is now become my hell.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
The worst alehouse that I ever came in, in all my life.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
What shall I do?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Even go hang thyself half an hour.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Can Amadine so churlishly command,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Can Amadine so churlishly command,<br>
To banish th’ shepherd from her father’s court?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MESSENGER.<br/>
+MESSENGER.<br>
What should shepherds do in the court?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What should shepherds do amongst us? Have we not lords enough o’er us in the
court?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Why, shepherds are men, and kings are no more.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MESSENGER.<br/>
+MESSENGER.<br>
Shepherds are men, and masters o’er their flock.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
That’s a lie; who pays them their wages, then?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MESSENGER.<br/>
+MESSENGER.<br>
Well, you are always interrupting of me, but you are best look to
him, lest you hang for him, when he is gone.
</p>
@@ -1913,9 +1894,9 @@ him, lest you hang for him, when he is gone.
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
-[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>And you shall hang for company,<br/>
-For leaving me alone.</i><br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
+[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>And you shall hang for company,<br>
+For leaving me alone.</i><br>
Shepherd, stand forth, and hear thy sentence! Shepherd, begone within three
days, on pain of my displeasure; shepherd, begone; shepherd, begone, begone,
begone, begone; shepherd, shepherd, shepherd.
@@ -1924,16 +1905,16 @@ begone, begone; shepherd, shepherd, shepherd.
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-And must I go? and must I needs depart?<br/>
-Ye goodly groves, partakers of my songs,<br/>
-In time tofore, when fortune did not frown,<br/>
-Pour forth your plaints, and wail a while with me.<br/>
-And thou bright sun, my comfort in the cold,<br/>
-Hide, hide thy face, and leave me comfortless;<br/>
-Ye wholesome herbs, and sweet-smelling savours,<br/>
-Yea, each thing else prolonging life of man,<br/>
-Change, change your wonted course that I,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+And must I go? and must I needs depart?<br>
+Ye goodly groves, partakers of my songs,<br>
+In time tofore, when fortune did not frown,<br>
+Pour forth your plaints, and wail a while with me.<br>
+And thou bright sun, my comfort in the cold,<br>
+Hide, hide thy face, and leave me comfortless;<br>
+Ye wholesome herbs, and sweet-smelling savours,<br>
+Yea, each thing else prolonging life of man,<br>
+Change, change your wonted course that I,<br>
Wanting your aid, in woful sort may die.
</p>
@@ -1943,207 +1924,207 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Amadine</span> and
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Ariena,<br/>
-If any body ask for me, make some excuse,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Ariena,<br>
+If any body ask for me, make some excuse,<br>
Till I return.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ARIENA.<br/>
+ARIENA.<br>
What, an Segasto call?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Do thou the like to him, I mean not to stay long.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Ariena</span>.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
This voice so sweet my pining spirits revives.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Shepherd, well met, pray, tell me how thou dost?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
I linger life, yet wish for speedy death.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Shepherd!<br/>
-Although thy banishment already be decreed,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Shepherd!<br>
+Although thy banishment already be decreed,<br>
And all against my will, yet Amadine—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Ah, Amadine, to hear of banishment is death,<br/>
-Ay, double death to me, but since I must depart,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Ah, Amadine, to hear of banishment is death,<br>
+Ay, double death to me, but since I must depart,<br>
One thing I crave—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Say on, with all my heart.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-That in my absence, either far or near,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+That in my absence, either far or near,<br>
You honour me as servant to your name.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Not so.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
And why?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
I honour thee as sovereign of my heart.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
A shepherd and a sovereign nothing like.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Yet like enough, where there is no dislike.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Yet great dislike, or else no banishment.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Shepherd, it only is<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Shepherd, it only is<br>
Segasto that procures thy banishment.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Unworthy wights are most in jealousy.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Would God, they would free thee from banishment,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Would God, they would free thee from banishment,<br>
Or likewise banish me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Amen, I say, to have your company.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Well, shepherd, sith thou sufferest this for my sake,<br/>
-With thee in exile also let me live,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Well, shepherd, sith thou sufferest this for my sake,<br>
+With thee in exile also let me live,<br>
On this condition, shepherd, thou canst love.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
No longer love, no longer let me live.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Of late I loved one indeed, now love I none but only thee.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Thanks, worthy princess,<br/>
-I burn likewise, yet smother up the blast,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Thanks, worthy princess,<br>
+I burn likewise, yet smother up the blast,<br>
I dare not promise what I mayn’t perform.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Well, shepherd, hark what I shall say,<br/>
-I will return unto my father’s court,<br/>
-For to provide me of such necessaries<br/>
-As for my journey I shall think most fit.<br/>
-This being done, I will return to thee;<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Well, shepherd, hark what I shall say,<br>
+I will return unto my father’s court,<br>
+For to provide me of such necessaries<br>
+As for my journey I shall think most fit.<br>
+This being done, I will return to thee;<br>
Do thou therefore appoint the place, where we may meet.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Down in the valley, where I slew the bear,<br/>
-And there doth grow a fair broad-branched beech,<br/>
-That overshades a well: so who comes first,<br/>
-Let them abide the happy meeting of us both.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Down in the valley, where I slew the bear,<br>
+And there doth grow a fair broad-branched beech,<br>
+That overshades a well: so who comes first,<br>
+Let them abide the happy meeting of us both.<br>
How like you this?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
I like it very well.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Now, if you please, you may appoint the time.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Full three hours hence, God willing, I’ll return.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-The thanks that Paris gave the Grecian queen,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+The thanks that Paris gave the Grecian queen,<br>
The like doth Mucedorus yield.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Then, Mucedorus, for three hours farewell.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Your ’parture, lady, breeds a privy pain.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneIII_2"></a><b>SCENE II. The Court</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneIII_2"></a><b>SCENE II. The Court</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Segasto</span> solus.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-’Tis well, Segasto, that thou hast thy will:<br/>
-Should such a shepherd, such a simple swain,<br/>
-Eclipse thy credit famous through the court?<br/>
-No, ply, Segasto, ply!<br/>
-And let it not be said in Aragon,<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+’Tis well, Segasto, that thou hast thy will:<br>
+Should such a shepherd, such a simple swain,<br>
+Eclipse thy credit famous through the court?<br>
+No, ply, Segasto, ply!<br>
+And let it not be said in Aragon,<br>
A shepherd hath Segasto’s honour won.
</p>
@@ -2152,164 +2133,164 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Mouse,</span> the Clown, calling his master.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What ho! master, will you come away?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Will you come hither, I pray you, what is the matter?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, is it not past eleven o’clock?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
How then, sir?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I pray you, come away to dinner.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I pray you, come hither.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Here’s such a-do with you, will you never come?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I pray you, sir, what news of the message I sent you about?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I tell you, all the messes be on the table already. There wants not so much as a
mess of mustard half an hour ago.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Come, sir, your mind is all upon your belly,<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Come, sir, your mind is all upon your belly,<br>
You have forgotten what I did bid you do.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Faith, I know nothing, but you bade me go to breakfast.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Was that all?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Faith, I have forgotten it, the very scent of the meat hath made me
forget it quite.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
You have forgotten the errand I bid you do?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What arrant? an arrant knave, or an arrant whore?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, thou knave, did I not bid thee banish the shepherd, buzzard?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O, the shepherd’s bastard.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I tell thee, the shepherd’s banishment.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I tell you, the shepherd’s bastard shall be well kept; I’ll look to it myself.
But I pray you, come away to dinner.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Then you will not tell me whether you have banished him, or no?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, I cannot say <i>banishment</i>, an you would give me a thousand pounds to
say so.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, you whoreson slave, have you forgotten that I sent you and
another to drive away the shepherd?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What an ass are you; here’s a stir indeed, here’s message, arrant,
banishment, and I cannot tell what.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I pray you, sir, shall I know whether you have drove him away?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Faith, I think I have; an you will not believe me, ask my staff.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, can thy staff tell?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, he was with me too.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Then happy I, that have obtain’d my will.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
And happier I, if you would go to dinner.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Come, sirrah, follow me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I warrant you, I will not loose an inch of you, now you are going to dinner.
[<i>Aside</i>.] I promise you, I thought it seven year, before I could get him
away.
@@ -2317,28 +2298,28 @@ away.
<p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneIII_3"></a><b>SCENE III. The Forest</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneIII_3"></a><b>SCENE III. The Forest</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Amadine</span> sola.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-God grant my long delay procures no harm,<br/>
-Nor this my tarrying frustrate my pretence.<br/>
-My Mucedorus surely stays for me,<br/>
-And thinks me over-long. At length I come,<br/>
-My present promise to perform.<br/>
-Ah, what a thing is firm, unfeigned love!<br/>
-What is it which true love dares not attempt?<br/>
-My father, he may make, but I must match;<br/>
-Segasto loves, but Amadine must like,<br/>
-Where likes her best: compulsion is a thrall:<br/>
-No, no, the hearty choice is all in all,<br/>
-The shepherd’s virtue Amadine esteems.<br/>
-But what, methinks my shepherd is not come;<br/>
-I muse at that, the hour is sure at hand.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+God grant my long delay procures no harm,<br>
+Nor this my tarrying frustrate my pretence.<br>
+My Mucedorus surely stays for me,<br>
+And thinks me over-long. At length I come,<br>
+My present promise to perform.<br>
+Ah, what a thing is firm, unfeigned love!<br>
+What is it which true love dares not attempt?<br>
+My father, he may make, but I must match;<br>
+Segasto loves, but Amadine must like,<br>
+Where likes her best: compulsion is a thrall:<br>
+No, no, the hearty choice is all in all,<br>
+The shepherd’s virtue Amadine esteems.<br>
+But what, methinks my shepherd is not come;<br>
+I muse at that, the hour is sure at hand.<br>
Well, here I’ll rest, till Mucedorus come.
</p>
@@ -2349,78 +2330,78 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Bremo,</span> looking about; hastily taketh hold of
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-A happy prey! now, Bremo, feed on flesh:<br/>
-Dainties, Bremo, dainties, thy hungry paunch to fill:<br/>
-Now glut thy greedy guts with lukewarm blood.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+A happy prey! now, Bremo, feed on flesh:<br>
+Dainties, Bremo, dainties, thy hungry paunch to fill:<br>
+Now glut thy greedy guts with lukewarm blood.<br>
Come, fight with me, I long to see thee dead.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
How can she fight, that weapons cannot wield?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
What, canst not fight? Then lie thou down and die.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
What, must I die?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
What needs these words? I thirst to suck thy blood.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Yet pity me, and let me live a while!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-No pity, I will feed upon thy flesh,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+No pity, I will feed upon thy flesh,<br>
And tear thy body piecemeal joint from joint.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Ah, how I want my shepherd’s company!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
I’ll crush thy bones betwixt two oaken trees.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Haste, shepherd, haste, or else thou com’st too late.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
I’ll suck the sweetness from thy marrow-bones.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Ah spare, ah spare to shed my guiltless blood!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-With this my bat will I beat out thy brains;<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+With this my bat will I beat out thy brains;<br>
Down, down, I say, prostrate thyself upon the ground.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Then, Mucedorus, farewell, my hoped joys, farewell!<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Then, Mucedorus, farewell, my hoped joys, farewell!<br>
Yea, farewell life, and welcome present death!
</p>
@@ -2431,76 +2412,76 @@ To thee, O God, I yield my dying ghost.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Now, Bremo, play thy part.<br/>
-How now, what sudden change is this?<br/>
-My limbs do tremble, and my sinews shake,<br/>
-My weak’ned arms have lost their former force.<br/>
-Ah, Bremo, Bremo, what a foil hast thou,<br/>
-That yet at no time ever wast afraid<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Now, Bremo, play thy part.<br>
+How now, what sudden change is this?<br>
+My limbs do tremble, and my sinews shake,<br>
+My weak’ned arms have lost their former force.<br>
+Ah, Bremo, Bremo, what a foil hast thou,<br>
+That yet at no time ever wast afraid<br>
To dare the greatest gods to fight with thee,
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>He strikes.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-And now wants strength for one down-driving blow?<br/>
-Ah, how my courage fails, when I should strike!<br/>
-Some new-come spirit abiding in my breast,<br/>
-Saith, <i>Spare her, Bremo, spare her, do not kill.</i><br/>
-Shall I spare her, which never spared any?<br/>
-To it, Bremo, to it; essay again.<br/>
-I cannot wield my weapon in my hand,<br/>
-Methinks I should not strike so fair a one,<br/>
-I think her beauty hath bewitch’d my force,<br/>
-Or else within me alter’d nature’s course.<br/>
+And now wants strength for one down-driving blow?<br>
+Ah, how my courage fails, when I should strike!<br>
+Some new-come spirit abiding in my breast,<br>
+Saith, <i>Spare her, Bremo, spare her, do not kill.</i><br>
+Shall I spare her, which never spared any?<br>
+To it, Bremo, to it; essay again.<br>
+I cannot wield my weapon in my hand,<br>
+Methinks I should not strike so fair a one,<br>
+I think her beauty hath bewitch’d my force,<br>
+Or else within me alter’d nature’s course.<br>
Ay, woman, wilt thou live i’ th’ woods with me?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Fain would I live, yet loth to live in woods.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Thou shalt not choose, it shall be as I say,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Thou shalt not choose, it shall be as I say,<br>
And therefore, follow me!
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneIII_4"></a><b>SCENE IV. The same</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneIII_4"></a><b>SCENE IV. The same</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Mucedorus</span> solus.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-It was my will an hour ago and more,<br/>
-As was my promise for to make return;<br/>
-But other business hind’red my pretence:<br/>
-It is a world to see, when man appoints,<br/>
-And purposely one certain thing decrees,<br/>
-How many things may hinder his intent.<br/>
-What one would wish, the same is farthest off.<br/>
-But yet th’ appointed time cannot be past,<br/>
-Nor hath her presence yet prevented me.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+It was my will an hour ago and more,<br>
+As was my promise for to make return;<br>
+But other business hind’red my pretence:<br>
+It is a world to see, when man appoints,<br>
+And purposely one certain thing decrees,<br>
+How many things may hinder his intent.<br>
+What one would wish, the same is farthest off.<br>
+But yet th’ appointed time cannot be past,<br>
+Nor hath her presence yet prevented me.<br>
Well, here I will stay, and expect her coming.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>They cry within, ‘Hold him, stay him, hold!’</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-Some one or other is pursued, no doubt,<br/>
-Perhaps some search for me; ’tis good<br/>
+Some one or other is pursued, no doubt,<br>
+Perhaps some search for me; ’tis good<br>
To doubt the worst, therefore I’ll be gone.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneIII_5"></a><b>SCENE V. The same</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneIII_5"></a><b>SCENE V. The same</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Cry within ‘Hold him, hold him!’ Enter <span class="charname">Mouse,</span>
@@ -2508,7 +2489,7 @@ the Clown, with a pot.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Hold him, hold him, hold him! Here’s a stir indeed; here came hue after the
crier, and I was set close at mother Nip’s house, and there I called for three
pots of ale, as ’tis the manner of us courtiers. Now, sirrah, I had taken the
@@ -2528,52 +2509,52 @@ Enter the <span class="charname">Old Woman</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-OLD WOMAN.<br/>
+OLD WOMAN.<br>
Come on, you knave; where’s my pot, you knave?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Go look for your pot; come not to me for your pot, ’twere good for you.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-OLD WOMAN.<br/>
+OLD WOMAN.<br>
Thou liest, thou knave, thou hast my pot.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
You lie, an you say it. I—your pot? I know what I’ll say.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-OLD WOMAN.<br/>
+OLD WOMAN.<br>
Why, what wilt thou say?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
But say I have him, an thou dar’st.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-OLD WOMAN.<br/>
+OLD WOMAN.<br>
Why, thou knave, thou hast not only my pot, but my drink unpaid for.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
You lie like an old—I will not say whore.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-OLD WOMAN.<br/>
+OLD WOMAN.<br>
Dost thou call me whore? I’ll cap thee for my pot.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Cap me, an thou dar’st; search me, whether I have it or no.
</p>
@@ -2588,111 +2569,111 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Segasto</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
How now, sirrah, what’s the matter?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Oh, flies, master, flies.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Flies? Where are they?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Oh here, master, all about your face.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, thou liest; I think thou art mad.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, master, I have kill’d a dungcartful at the least.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Go to, sirrah; leaving this idle talk, give ear to me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
How, give you one of my ears? not, an you were ten masters.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, sir, I bade you give ear to my words.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I tell you, I will not be made a curtal for no man’s pleasure.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I tell thee, attend what I say. Go thy ways straight, and rear the
whole town.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
How, rear the town? Even go yourself; it is more than I can do. Why, do
you think I can rear a town that can scarce rear a pot of ale to my head? I
should rear a town, should I not?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Go to the constable, and make a privy search; for the shepherd is run
away with the King’s daughter.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
How? is the shepherd run away with the King’s daughter, or is the King’s
daughter run away with the shepherd?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I cannot tell, but they are both gone together.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What a fool is she to run away with the shepherd! Why, I think I am a
little handsomer man than the shepherd, myself; but tell me, master, must I
make a privy search, or search in the privy?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why, dost thou think they will be there?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I cannot tell.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Well, then search everywhere; leave no place unsearched for them.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Oh, now am I in office, now will I to that old firebrand’s house, and
will not leave one place unsearched. Nay, I’ll to her ale-stand and drink as
long as I can stand; and when I have done, I’ll let out all the rest, to see
@@ -2707,7 +2688,7 @@ crust, I will be with you now.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="sceneIV_1"></a><b>ACT IV</b></h2>
+<h2><a id="sceneIV_1"></a><b>ACT IV</b></h2>
<h3><b>SCENE I. Valencia. The Court</b></h3>
@@ -2717,127 +2698,127 @@ Roderigo, Lord Borachius,</span> with others.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF VALENCIA.<br/>
-Enough of music, it but adds to torment,<br/>
-Delights to vexed spirits are as dates<br/>
-Set to a sickly man, which rather cloy than comfort;<br/>
+KING OF VALENCIA.<br>
+Enough of music, it but adds to torment,<br>
+Delights to vexed spirits are as dates<br>
+Set to a sickly man, which rather cloy than comfort;<br>
Let me entreat you to repeat no more.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-RODERIGO.<br/>
+RODERIGO.<br>
Let your strings sleep, have done there.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Music ceases.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF VALENCIA.<br/>
-Mirth to a soul disturb’d are embers turn’d<br/>
-Which sudden gleam with molestation,<br/>
-But sooner lose their light for it.<br/>
-’Tis gold bestow’d upon a rioter,<br/>
-Which not relieves but murders him; a drug<br/>
-Given to the healthful, which infects, not cures.<br/>
-How can a father that hath lost his son,<br/>
-A prince both virtuous, wise, and valiant,<br/>
-Take pleasure in the idle acts of time?<br/>
-No, no; till Mucedorus I shall see again,<br/>
+KING OF VALENCIA.<br>
+Mirth to a soul disturb’d are embers turn’d<br>
+Which sudden gleam with molestation,<br>
+But sooner lose their light for it.<br>
+’Tis gold bestow’d upon a rioter,<br>
+Which not relieves but murders him; a drug<br>
+Given to the healthful, which infects, not cures.<br>
+How can a father that hath lost his son,<br>
+A prince both virtuous, wise, and valiant,<br>
+Take pleasure in the idle acts of time?<br>
+No, no; till Mucedorus I shall see again,<br>
All joy is comfortless, all pleasure pain.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
Your son, my lord, is well.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF VALENCIA.<br/>
+KING OF VALENCIA.<br>
I prythee, speak that twice.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
The prince, your son, is safe.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF VALENCIA.<br/>
+KING OF VALENCIA.<br>
O where, Anselmo? Surfeit me with that!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
-In Aragon, my liege;<br/>
-And at his ’parture bound my secrecy,<br/>
-By his affection’s loss, not to disclose it.<br/>
-But care of him, and pity of your age,<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
+In Aragon, my liege;<br>
+And at his ’parture bound my secrecy,<br>
+By his affection’s loss, not to disclose it.<br>
+But care of him, and pity of your age,<br>
Makes my tongue blab what my breast vow’d—concealment.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF VALENCIA.<br/>
-Thou not deceivest me.<br/>
-I ever thought thee what I find thee now,<br/>
-An upright, loyal man.<br/>
-But what desire, or young-fed humour, nurs’d<br/>
-Within the brain, drew him so privately<br/>
+KING OF VALENCIA.<br>
+Thou not deceivest me.<br>
+I ever thought thee what I find thee now,<br>
+An upright, loyal man.<br>
+But what desire, or young-fed humour, nurs’d<br>
+Within the brain, drew him so privately<br>
To Aragon?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ANSELMO.<br/>
-A forcing adamant:<br/>
-Love, mix’d with fear and doubtful jealousy,<br/>
-Whether report gilded a worthless trunk,<br/>
+ANSELMO.<br>
+A forcing adamant:<br>
+Love, mix’d with fear and doubtful jealousy,<br>
+Whether report gilded a worthless trunk,<br>
Or Amadine deserved her high extolment.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF VALENCIA.<br/>
-See, our provision be in readiness,<br/>
-Collect us followers of the comeliest hue<br/>
-For our chief guardians; we will thither wend.<br/>
-The crystal eye of heaven shall not thrice wink,<br/>
-Nor the green flood six times his shoulders turn,<br/>
-Till we salute the Aragonian king.<br/>
-Music, speak loudly now, the season’s apt,<br/>
+KING OF VALENCIA.<br>
+See, our provision be in readiness,<br>
+Collect us followers of the comeliest hue<br>
+For our chief guardians; we will thither wend.<br>
+The crystal eye of heaven shall not thrice wink,<br>
+Nor the green flood six times his shoulders turn,<br>
+Till we salute the Aragonian king.<br>
+Music, speak loudly now, the season’s apt,<br>
For former dolours are in pleasure wrapt.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Music. Exeunt omnes.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneIV_2"></a><b>SCENE II. The Forest</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneIV_2"></a><b>SCENE II. The Forest</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Mucedorus,</span> to disguise himself.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Now, Mucedorus, whither wilt thou go?<br/>
-Home to thy father, to thy native soil,<br/>
-Or try some long abode within these woods?<br/>
-Well, I will hence depart, and hie me home.<br/>
-What, hie me home, said I? That may not be;<br/>
-In Amadine rests my felicity.<br/>
-Then, Mucedorus, do as thou didst decree,<br/>
-Attire thee hermit-like within these groves;<br/>
-Walk often to the beech and view the well;<br/>
-Make settles there, and seat thyself thereon,<br/>
-And when thou feel’st thyself to be athirst,<br/>
-Then drink a hearty draught to Amadine.<br/>
-No doubt, she thinks on thee,<br/>
-And will one day come pledge thee at this well.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Now, Mucedorus, whither wilt thou go?<br>
+Home to thy father, to thy native soil,<br>
+Or try some long abode within these woods?<br>
+Well, I will hence depart, and hie me home.<br>
+What, hie me home, said I? That may not be;<br>
+In Amadine rests my felicity.<br>
+Then, Mucedorus, do as thou didst decree,<br>
+Attire thee hermit-like within these groves;<br>
+Walk often to the beech and view the well;<br>
+Make settles there, and seat thyself thereon,<br>
+And when thou feel’st thyself to be athirst,<br>
+Then drink a hearty draught to Amadine.<br>
+No doubt, she thinks on thee,<br>
+And will one day come pledge thee at this well.<br>
Come, habit, thou art fit for me.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>He disguiseth himself.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-No shepherd now, a hermit I must be.<br/>
-Methinks this fits me very well;<br/>
-Now must I learn to bear a walking staff,<br/>
+No shepherd now, a hermit I must be.<br>
+Methinks this fits me very well;<br>
+Now must I learn to bear a walking staff,<br>
And exercise some gravity withal.
</p>
@@ -2846,52 +2827,52 @@ Enter the <span class="charname">Clown</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Here’s through the woods, and through the woods, to look out a shepherd and
a stray king’s-daughter. But soft! Who have we here? What art thou?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
I am a hermit.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
An emmet, I never saw such a big emmet in all my life before.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-I tell you, sir, I am a hermit: one<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+I tell you, sir, I am a hermit: one<br>
That leads a solitary life within these woods.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Oh, I know thee now, thou art he that eats up all the hips and haws; we
could not have one piece of fat bacon for thee all this year.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Thou dost mistake me, but I pray thee, tell me<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Thou dost mistake me, but I pray thee, tell me<br>
What dost thou seek for in these woods?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
What do I seek for? A stray king’s-daughter run away with a shepherd.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-A stray king’s-daughter run away with a shepherd?<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+A stray king’s-daughter run away with a shepherd?<br>
Wherefore? Canst thou tell?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Yes, that I can; ’tis this. My master and Amadine walking one day
abroad, nearer to these woods than they were used, about what I can not tell; but
toward them comes running a great bear. Now, my master, he played the man and
@@ -2903,46 +2884,46 @@ shepherd, and for goodwill, she’s even run away with the shepherd.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
What manner of man was he? Canst thou describe him unto me?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Scribe him? Ay, I warrant you, that I can; a was a little, low, broad,
tall, narrow, big, well-favoured fellow, a jerkin of white cloth, and buttons
of the same cloth.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Thou describest him well; but if I chance to see any such, pray you,
where shall I find you, or what’s your name?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
My name is called Master Mouse.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
O Master Mouse, I pray you what office might you bear in the
court?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Marry, sir, I am a rusher of the stable.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Oh, usher of the table.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Nay, I say rusher, and I’ll prove my office good; for look, sir, when
any comes from under the sea or so, and a dog chance to blow his nose backward,
then with a whip I give him the good time of the day, and strow rushes
@@ -2950,12 +2931,12 @@ presently. Therefore, I am a rusher, a high office, I promise ye.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
But where shall I find you in the court?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, where it is best being, either in the kitchen eating, or in the
buttery drinking. But if you come, I will provide for thee a piece of beef
and brewis knuckle-deep in fat; pray you, take pains, remember Master Mouse.
@@ -2964,20 +2945,20 @@ and brewis knuckle-deep in fat; pray you, take pains, remember Master Mouse.
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Ay, sir, I warrant I will not forget you.<br/>
-Ah, Amadine! What should become of thee?<br/>
-Whither shouldst thou go so long unknown?<br/>
-With watch and ward each passage is beset,<br/>
-So that she cannot long escape unknown.<br/>
-Doubtless she’s lost herself within these woods,<br/>
-And wand’ring to and fro she seeks the well,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Ay, sir, I warrant I will not forget you.<br>
+Ah, Amadine! What should become of thee?<br>
+Whither shouldst thou go so long unknown?<br>
+With watch and ward each passage is beset,<br>
+So that she cannot long escape unknown.<br>
+Doubtless she’s lost herself within these woods,<br>
+And wand’ring to and fro she seeks the well,<br>
Which yet she cannot find; therefore I’ll seek her out.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneIV_3"></a><b>SCENE III. The same</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneIV_3"></a><b>SCENE III. The same</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Bremo</span> and
@@ -2985,130 +2966,130 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Bremo</span> and
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Amadine, how like you Bremo and his woods?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-As like the woods of Bremo’s cruelty.<br/>
-Though I were dumb, and could not answer him,<br/>
-The beasts themselves would with relenting tears<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+As like the woods of Bremo’s cruelty.<br>
+Though I were dumb, and could not answer him,<br>
+The beasts themselves would with relenting tears<br>
Bewail thy savage and unhumane deeds.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-My love, why dost thou murmur to thyself?<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+My love, why dost thou murmur to thyself?<br>
Speak louder, for thy Bremo hears thee not.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
My Bremo? No, the shepherd is my love.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Have I not saved thee from sudden death,<br/>
-Giving thee leave to live, that thou mightst love,<br/>
-And dost thou whet me on to cruelty?<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Have I not saved thee from sudden death,<br>
+Giving thee leave to live, that thou mightst love,<br>
+And dost thou whet me on to cruelty?<br>
Come, kiss me, sweet, for all my favours past.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
I may not, Bremo, and therefore pardon me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-See, how she flies away from me! I’ll follow<br/>
-And give attent to her. Deny my love!<br/>
-[<i>Aside</i>.] Ah, worm of beauty, I will chastice thee!<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+See, how she flies away from me! I’ll follow<br>
+And give attent to her. Deny my love!<br>
+[<i>Aside</i>.] Ah, worm of beauty, I will chastice thee!<br>
Come, come, prepare thy head upon the block.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Oh, spare me, Bremo, love should limit life,<br/>
-Not to be made a murderer of himself.<br/>
-If thou wilt glut thy loving heart with blood,<br/>
-Encounter with the lion or the bear,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Oh, spare me, Bremo, love should limit life,<br>
+Not to be made a murderer of himself.<br>
+If thou wilt glut thy loving heart with blood,<br>
+Encounter with the lion or the bear,<br>
And like a wolf, prey not upon a lamb.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Why, then, dost thou repine at me?<br/>
-If thou wilt love me, thou shalt be my queen,<br/>
-I will crown thee with a chaplet made of ivy,<br/>
-And make the rose and lily wait on thee.<br/>
-I’ll rend the burly branches from the oak,<br/>
-To shadow thee from burning sun.<br/>
-The trees shall spread themselves where thou dost go,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Why, then, dost thou repine at me?<br>
+If thou wilt love me, thou shalt be my queen,<br>
+I will crown thee with a chaplet made of ivy,<br>
+And make the rose and lily wait on thee.<br>
+I’ll rend the burly branches from the oak,<br>
+To shadow thee from burning sun.<br>
+The trees shall spread themselves where thou dost go,<br>
And as they spread, I’ll trace along with thee.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] You may, for who but you?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Thou shalt be fed with quails and partridges,<br/>
-With blackbirds, thrushes, larks and nightingales.<br/>
-Thy drink shall be goats’ milk and crystal water,<br/>
-Distill’d from th’ fountains and the clearest springs,<br/>
-And all the dainties that the woods afford.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Thou shalt be fed with quails and partridges,<br>
+With blackbirds, thrushes, larks and nightingales.<br>
+Thy drink shall be goats’ milk and crystal water,<br>
+Distill’d from th’ fountains and the clearest springs,<br>
+And all the dainties that the woods afford.<br>
I’ll freely give thee to obtain thy love.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] You may, for who but you?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-The day I’ll spend to recreate my love<br/>
-With all the pleasures that I can devise,<br/>
-And in the night I’ll be thy bed-fellow,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+The day I’ll spend to recreate my love<br>
+With all the pleasures that I can devise,<br>
+And in the night I’ll be thy bed-fellow,<br>
And lovingly embrace thee in mine arms.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] One may, so may not you.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-The satyrs and the wood-nymphs shall attend<br/>
-On thee and lull thee ’sleep with music’s sound,<br/>
-And in the morning, when thou dost awake,<br/>
-The lark shall sing good morrow to my queen,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+The satyrs and the wood-nymphs shall attend<br>
+On thee and lull thee ’sleep with music’s sound,<br>
+And in the morning, when thou dost awake,<br>
+The lark shall sing good morrow to my queen,<br>
And whilst he sings, I’ll kiss my Amadine.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] You may, for who but you?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-When thou art up, the wood-lanes shall be strew’d<br/>
-With violets, cowslips, and sweet marigolds,<br/>
-For thee to trample and to tread upon;<br/>
-And I will teach thee how to kill the deer,<br/>
-To chase the hart, and how to rouse the roe,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+When thou art up, the wood-lanes shall be strew’d<br>
+With violets, cowslips, and sweet marigolds,<br>
+For thee to trample and to tread upon;<br>
+And I will teach thee how to kill the deer,<br>
+To chase the hart, and how to rouse the roe,<br>
If thou wilt live to love and honour me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] You may, for who but you?
</p>
@@ -3117,151 +3098,151 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Mucedorus</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Welcome, sir!<br/>
-An hour ago I look’d for such a guest.<br/>
-Be merry, wench, we’ll have a frolic feast,<br/>
-Here’s flesh enough for to suffice us both,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Welcome, sir!<br>
+An hour ago I look’d for such a guest.<br>
+Be merry, wench, we’ll have a frolic feast,<br>
+Here’s flesh enough for to suffice us both,<br>
Stay, sirrah, wilt thou fight, or dost thou yield to die?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
I want a weapon, how can I fight?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Thou want’st a weapon, then thou yield’st to die.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
I say not so, I do not yield to die.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Thou shalt not choose. I long to see thee dead.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Yet spare him, Bremo, spare him.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Away, I say, I will not spare him.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Yet give me leave to speak.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Thou shalt not speak.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Yet give him leave to speak for my sake.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Speak on, but be not over-long.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-In time of yore, when men like brutish beasts<br/>
-Did lead their lives in loathsome cells and woods,<br/>
-And wholly gave themselves to witless will,<br/>
-A rude unruly rout, then man to man<br/>
-Became a present prey, then might prevailed,<br/>
-The weakest went to wall.<br/>
-Right was unknown, for wrong was all in all.<br/>
-As men thus lived in this great outrage,<br/>
-Behold, one Orpheus came, as poets tell,<br/>
-And them from rudeness unto reason brought,<br/>
-Who led by reason, soon forsook the woods;<br/>
-Instead of caves, they built them castles strong;<br/>
-Cities and towns were founded by them then.<br/>
-Glad were they, that they found such ease,<br/>
-And in the end they grew to perfect amity.<br/>
-Weighing their former wickedness,<br/>
-They term’d the time wherein they lived then<br/>
-A golden age, a goodly golden age.<br/>
-Now, Bremo, for so I hear thee called,<br/>
-If men which lived tofore, as thou dost now,<br/>
-Wild in the woods, addicted all to spoil,<br/>
-Returned were by worthy Orpheus’ means,<br/>
-Let me, like Orpheus, cause thee to return<br/>
-From murder, bloodshed, and like cruelty.<br/>
-What, should we fight before we have a cause?<br/>
-No, let us live and love together faithfully.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+In time of yore, when men like brutish beasts<br>
+Did lead their lives in loathsome cells and woods,<br>
+And wholly gave themselves to witless will,<br>
+A rude unruly rout, then man to man<br>
+Became a present prey, then might prevailed,<br>
+The weakest went to wall.<br>
+Right was unknown, for wrong was all in all.<br>
+As men thus lived in this great outrage,<br>
+Behold, one Orpheus came, as poets tell,<br>
+And them from rudeness unto reason brought,<br>
+Who led by reason, soon forsook the woods;<br>
+Instead of caves, they built them castles strong;<br>
+Cities and towns were founded by them then.<br>
+Glad were they, that they found such ease,<br>
+And in the end they grew to perfect amity.<br>
+Weighing their former wickedness,<br>
+They term’d the time wherein they lived then<br>
+A golden age, a goodly golden age.<br>
+Now, Bremo, for so I hear thee called,<br>
+If men which lived tofore, as thou dost now,<br>
+Wild in the woods, addicted all to spoil,<br>
+Returned were by worthy Orpheus’ means,<br>
+Let me, like Orpheus, cause thee to return<br>
+From murder, bloodshed, and like cruelty.<br>
+What, should we fight before we have a cause?<br>
+No, let us live and love together faithfully.<br>
I’ll fight for thee—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Or fight for me, or die: or fight or else thou diest!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Hold, Bremo, hold!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Away, I say, thou troublest me.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
You promised me to make me your queen.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
I did, I mean no less.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
You promised that I should have my will.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
I did, I mean no less.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Then save this hermit’s life, for he may save us both.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-At thy request I’ll spare him,<br/>
-But never any after him. Say, hermit,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+At thy request I’ll spare him,<br>
+But never any after him. Say, hermit,<br>
What canst thou do?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-I’ll wait on thee, sometime upon the queen.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+I’ll wait on thee, sometime upon the queen.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] Such service shalt thou shortly have; as Bremo never had.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneIV_4"></a><b>SCENE IV. The Court</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneIV_4"></a><b>SCENE IV. The Court</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Segasto,</span> the
@@ -3269,75 +3250,75 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Segasto,</span> the
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Come, sirs; what, shall I never have you find out Amadine and the shepherd?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I have been through the woods and through the woods, and could see
nothing but an emet.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-RUMBELO.<br/>
+RUMBELO.<br>
Why, I see a thousand emets. Thou meanest a little one?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Nay, that emet that I saw was bigger than thou art.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-RUMBELO.<br/>
+RUMBELO.<br>
Bigger than I? [<i>To Segasto</i>.] What a fool have you to your man!
I pray you, master, turn him away.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
But dost thou hear, was he not a man?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I think he was, for he said he did lead a saltseller’s life about the
woods.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Thou wouldst say, a solitary life about the woods?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I think it was so, indeed.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-RUMBELO.<br/>
+RUMBELO.<br>
I thought what a fool thou art.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Thou art a wise man! [<i>To Segasto</i>.] Why, he did nothing but sleep since he went.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
But tell me, Mouse, how did he go?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
In a white gown, and a white hat on his head, and a staff in his hand.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
I thought so; it was a hermit that walked a solitary life in the
woods. Well, get you to dinner; and after never leave seeking, till you bring
some news of them, or I’ll hang you both.
@@ -3346,34 +3327,34 @@ some news of them, or I’ll hang you both.
<p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
How now, Rumbelo, what shall we do now?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-RUMBELO.<br/>
+RUMBELO.<br>
Faith, I’ll home to dinner, and afterward to sleep.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, then, thou wilt be hanged.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-RUMBELO.<br/>
+RUMBELO.<br>
Faith, I care not, for I know I shall never find them. Well, I’ll once more
abroad, and if I cannot find them, I’ll never come home again.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I tell thee what, Rumbelo; thou shalt go in at one end of the wood, and I
at the other, and we will meet both together in the midst.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-RUMBELO.<br/>
+RUMBELO.<br>
Content, let’s away to dinner.
</p>
@@ -3383,7 +3364,7 @@ Content, let’s away to dinner.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="sceneV_1"></a><b>ACT V</b></h2>
+<h2><a id="sceneV_1"></a><b>ACT V</b></h2>
<h3><b>SCENE I. The Forest</b></h3>
@@ -3392,18 +3373,18 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Mucedorus</span> solus.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Unknown to any here within these woods,<br/>
-With bloody Bremo do I lead my life.<br/>
-The monster! he doth murther all he meets;<br/>
-He spareth none, and none doth him escape.<br/>
-Who would continue—who, but only I—<br/>
-In such a cruel cut-throat’s company?<br/>
-Yet Amadine is there, how can I choose?<br/>
-Ah, silly soul! how oftentimes she sits<br/>
-And sighs, and calls: <i>Come, shepherd, come,<br/>
-Sweet Mucedorus, come and set me free,</i><br/>
-When Mucedorus present stands her by!<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Unknown to any here within these woods,<br>
+With bloody Bremo do I lead my life.<br>
+The monster! he doth murther all he meets;<br>
+He spareth none, and none doth him escape.<br>
+Who would continue—who, but only I—<br>
+In such a cruel cut-throat’s company?<br>
+Yet Amadine is there, how can I choose?<br>
+Ah, silly soul! how oftentimes she sits<br>
+And sighs, and calls: <i>Come, shepherd, come,<br>
+Sweet Mucedorus, come and set me free,</i><br>
+When Mucedorus present stands her by!<br>
But here she comes.
</p>
@@ -3416,72 +3397,72 @@ What news, fair lady, as you walk these woods?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Ah, hermit! none but bad and such as thou know’st.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
How do you like your Bremo and his woods?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Oh, not my Bremo, nor my Bremo’s woods.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
And why not yours? Methinks he loves you well.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
I like him not, his love to me is nothing worth.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Lady, in this, methinks, you offer wrong,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Lady, in this, methinks, you offer wrong,<br>
To hate the man that ever loves you best.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Hermit, I take no pleasure in his love,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Hermit, I take no pleasure in his love,<br>
Neither doth Bremo like me best.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Pardon my boldness, fair lady, sith we both<br/>
-May safely talk now out of Bremo’s sight,<br/>
-Unfold to me, if so you please, the full discourse<br/>
-How, when, and why you came into these woods,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Pardon my boldness, fair lady, sith we both<br>
+May safely talk now out of Bremo’s sight,<br>
+Unfold to me, if so you please, the full discourse<br>
+How, when, and why you came into these woods,<br>
And fell into this bloody butcher’s hands.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Hermit, I will;<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Hermit, I will;<br>
Of late a worthy shepherd I did love—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-A shepherd, lady? Sure, a man unfit<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+A shepherd, lady? Sure, a man unfit<br>
To match with you!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Ay, hermit, this is true,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Ay, hermit, this is true,<br>
And when we had—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Stay there, the wild man comes;<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Stay there, the wild man comes;<br>
Defer the rest until another time.
</p>
@@ -3490,198 +3471,198 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Bremo</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-What secret tale is this? What whispering have we here?<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+What secret tale is this? What whispering have we here?<br>
Villain, I charge thee tell thy tale again.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-If needs I must, lo! here it is again:<br/>
-Whenas we both had lost the sight of thee,<br/>
-It griev’d us both, but specially thy queen,<br/>
-Who in thy absence ever fears the worst,<br/>
-Lest some mischance befall your royal grace.<br/>
-Shall my sweet Bremo wander through the woods,<br/>
-Toil to and fro for to redress my wants,<br/>
-Hazard his life and all to cherish me?<br/>
-I like not this, quoth she,<br/>
-And thereupon crav’d to know of me,<br/>
-If I could teach her handle weapons well.<br/>
-My answer was, I had small skill therein,<br/>
-But glad, most mighty king, to learn of thee.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+If needs I must, lo! here it is again:<br>
+Whenas we both had lost the sight of thee,<br>
+It griev’d us both, but specially thy queen,<br>
+Who in thy absence ever fears the worst,<br>
+Lest some mischance befall your royal grace.<br>
+Shall my sweet Bremo wander through the woods,<br>
+Toil to and fro for to redress my wants,<br>
+Hazard his life and all to cherish me?<br>
+I like not this, quoth she,<br>
+And thereupon crav’d to know of me,<br>
+If I could teach her handle weapons well.<br>
+My answer was, I had small skill therein,<br>
+But glad, most mighty king, to learn of thee.<br>
And this was all.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Was ’t so? None can dislike of this. I’ll teach<br/>
-You both to fight; but first, my queen, begin:<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Was ’t so? None can dislike of this. I’ll teach<br>
+You both to fight; but first, my queen, begin:<br>
Here, take this weapon; see how thou canst use it.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
This is too big, I cannot wield it in my arm.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Is’t so? We’ll have a knotty crabtree-staff<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Is’t so? We’ll have a knotty crabtree-staff<br>
For thee. [<i>To Mucedorus</i>.] But, sirrah, tell me, what say’st thou?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
With all my heart I willing am to learn.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
Then take my staff, and see how canst wield it.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
First teach me how to hold it in my hand.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Taking the staff.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-Thou holdst it well.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+Thou holdst it well.<br>
[<i>To Amadine</i>.] Look how he doth, thou mayst the sooner learn.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Next tell me how and when ’tis best to strike.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
-[<i>Aside</i>.] ’Tis best to strike when time doth serve,<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
+[<i>Aside</i>.] ’Tis best to strike when time doth serve,<br>
’Tis best to lose no time.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] Then now or never is my time to strike.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
And when thou strikest, be sure thou hit the head.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
The head?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-BREMO.<br/>
+BREMO.<br>
The very head.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Then have at thine.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>He strikes him down dead.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-So! lie there and die;<br/>
-A death, no doubt, according to desert,<br/>
+So! lie there and die;<br>
+A death, no doubt, according to desert,<br>
Or else a worse, as thou deservest a worse.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
It glads my heart, this tyrant’s death to see.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Now, lady, it remains in you<br/>
-To end the tale you lately had begun,<br/>
-Being interrupted by this wicked wight—<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Now, lady, it remains in you<br>
+To end the tale you lately had begun,<br>
+Being interrupted by this wicked wight—<br>
You said you loved a shepherd?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Ay, so I do, and none but only him;<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Ay, so I do, and none but only him;<br>
And will do still, as long as life shall last.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-But tell me, lady, sith I set you free,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+But tell me, lady, sith I set you free,<br>
What course of life do you intend to take?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-I will disguised wander through the world,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+I will disguised wander through the world,<br>
Till I have found him out.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
How, if you find your shepherd in these woods?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Ah, none so happy then as Amadine.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-In tract of time a man may alter much:<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+In tract of time a man may alter much:<br>
Say, lady, do you know your shepherd well?
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>He discloseth himself.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
My Mucedorus, hath he set me free?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
He hath set thee free.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
And lived so long unknown to Amadine?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Ay, that’s a question whereof you mayn’t be resolved.<br/>
-You know that I am banish’d from the court,<br/>
-I know likewise each passage is beset,<br/>
-So that we cannot long escape unknown,<br/>
-Therefore my will is this, that we return,<br/>
-Right through the thickets, to the wild man’s cave,<br/>
-And there a while live on’s provision,<br/>
-Until the search and narrow watch be past.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Ay, that’s a question whereof you mayn’t be resolved.<br>
+You know that I am banish’d from the court,<br>
+I know likewise each passage is beset,<br>
+So that we cannot long escape unknown,<br>
+Therefore my will is this, that we return,<br>
+Right through the thickets, to the wild man’s cave,<br>
+And there a while live on’s provision,<br>
+Until the search and narrow watch be past.<br>
This is my counsel, and I think it best.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
I think the very same.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Come, let’s be gone.
</p>
@@ -3691,19 +3672,19 @@ wild Man, and so carries him away.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Nay, soft, sir, are you here? A bots on you! I was like to be hanged for not
finding you; we would borrow a certain stray king’s-daughter of you; a wench, a
wench, sir, we would have.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
A wench of me? I’ll make thee eat my sword.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Oh Lord, nay, an you are so lusty, I’ll call a cooling card for you. Ho,
master, master, come away quickly!
</p>
@@ -3713,186 +3694,186 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Segasto</span>.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
What’s the matter?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Look, master, Amadine and the shepherd! O brave!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
What, minion, have I found you out?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Nay, that’s a lie, I found her out myself.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Thou gadding huswife,<br/>
-What cause hadst thou to gad abroad,<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Thou gadding huswife,<br>
+What cause hadst thou to gad abroad,<br>
Whenas thou knowest our wedding-day so nigh?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Not so, Segasto; no such thing in hand.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Not so, Segasto; no such thing in hand.<br>
Show your assurance, then I’ll answer you.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Thy father’s promise my assurance is.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
But what he promised, he hath not perform’d.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
It rests in thee for to perform the same.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Not I.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
And why?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
So is my will, and therefore even so.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Master, with a nonny, nonny, no!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Ah, wicked villain! art thou here?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
What needs these words? We weigh them not.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
We weigh them not! proud shepherd, I scorn thy company.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
We’ll not have a corner of thy company.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
I scorn not thee, nor yet the least of thine.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
That’s a lie, a would have killed me with his pugsnando.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
This stoutness, Amadine, contents me not.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Then seek another, that may you better please.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Well, Amadine, it only rests in thee<br/>
-Without delay to make thy choice of three:<br/>
-There stands Segasto, here a shepherd stands,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Well, Amadine, it only rests in thee<br>
+Without delay to make thy choice of three:<br>
+There stands Segasto, here a shepherd stands,<br>
There stands the third: now make thy choice.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
A lord at the least I am.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
My choice is made, for I will none but thee.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
A worthy mate, no doubt, for such a wife.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-And, Amadine, why wilt thou none but me?<br/>
-I cannot keep thee as thy father did;<br/>
-I have no lands for to maintain thy state,<br/>
-Moreover if thou mean to be my wife,<br/>
-Commonly this must be thy use:<br/>
-To bed at midnight, up at four,<br/>
-Drudge all the day, and trudge from place to place,<br/>
-Whereby our daily victuals for to win:<br/>
-And last of all, which is the worst of all,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+And, Amadine, why wilt thou none but me?<br>
+I cannot keep thee as thy father did;<br>
+I have no lands for to maintain thy state,<br>
+Moreover if thou mean to be my wife,<br>
+Commonly this must be thy use:<br>
+To bed at midnight, up at four,<br>
+Drudge all the day, and trudge from place to place,<br>
+Whereby our daily victuals for to win:<br>
+And last of all, which is the worst of all,<br>
No princess then, but plain a shepherd’s wife.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] Then God gi’ you good morrow, goody shepherd!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-It shall not need; if Amadine do live,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+It shall not need; if Amadine do live,<br>
Thou shalt be crowned king of Aragon.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O master, laugh; when he’s king, then I’ll be a queen.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Then know that which never tofore was known,<br/>
-I am no shepherd, no Aragonian I,<br/>
-But born of royal blood:<br/>
-My father’s of Valencia king, my mother queen;<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Then know that which never tofore was known,<br>
+I am no shepherd, no Aragonian I,<br>
+But born of royal blood:<br>
+My father’s of Valencia king, my mother queen;<br>
Who for thy sacred sake took this hard task in hand.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Ah, how I joy my fortune is so good!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Well, now I see Segasto shall not speed.<br/>
-But, Mucedorus, I as much do joy<br/>
-To see thee here within our court of Aragon,<br/>
-As if a kingdom had befallen me this time.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Well, now I see Segasto shall not speed.<br>
+But, Mucedorus, I as much do joy<br>
+To see thee here within our court of Aragon,<br>
+As if a kingdom had befallen me this time.<br>
I with my heart surrender it to thee.
</p>
@@ -3903,47 +3884,47 @@ And loose what right to Amadine I have.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
[<i>Aside</i>.] What, a barn’s door, and born where my father was constable? A
bots on thee, how dost thou?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
Thanks, good Segasto; but yet you levell’d at the crown.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Master, bear this, and bear all.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Why so, sir?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
He says you take a goose by the crown.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-Away, go to, sir; post you to the king,<br/>
-Whose heart is fraught with careful doubts,<br/>
-Gladden him up, and tell him these good news,<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+Away, go to, sir; post you to the king,<br>
+Whose heart is fraught with careful doubts,<br>
+Gladden him up, and tell him these good news,<br>
And we will follow, as fast as we may.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
I go, master; I run, master.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Exeunt severally.</i>]</p>
-<h3><a name="sceneV_2"></a><b>SCENE II. Open Place near the Court of the King of Aragon</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneV_2"></a><b>SCENE II. Open Place near the Court of the King of Aragon</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter the <span class="charname">King of Aragon</span> and
@@ -3951,35 +3932,35 @@ Enter the <span class="charname">King of Aragon</span> and
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Break, heart, and end my pallid woes!<br/>
-My Amadine, the comfort of my life,<br/>
-How can I joy, except she were in sight?<br/>
-Her absence breeds sorrow to my soul<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Break, heart, and end my pallid woes!<br>
+My Amadine, the comfort of my life,<br>
+How can I joy, except she were in sight?<br>
+Her absence breeds sorrow to my soul<br>
And with a thunder breaks my heart in twain.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COLLEN.<br/>
-Forbear those passions, gentle king,<br/>
-And you shall see ’twill turn unto the best,<br/>
+COLLEN.<br>
+Forbear those passions, gentle king,<br>
+And you shall see ’twill turn unto the best,<br>
And bring your soul to quiet and to joy.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Such joy as death, I do assure me that,<br/>
-And nought but death, unless of her I hear,<br/>
-And that with speed; I cannot sigh thus long—<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Such joy as death, I do assure me that,<br>
+And nought but death, unless of her I hear,<br>
+And that with speed; I cannot sigh thus long—<br>
But what a tumult do I hear within?
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>They cry within, ‘Joy and happiness.’</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-COLLEN.<br/>
-I hear a noise of overpassing joy<br/>
-Within the court. My lord, be of good comfort,<br/>
+COLLEN.<br>
+I hear a noise of overpassing joy<br>
+Within the court. My lord, be of good comfort,<br>
And here comes one in haste.
</p>
@@ -3988,58 +3969,58 @@ Enter the <span class="charname">Clown</span> running.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
A king, a king, a king!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COLLEN.<br/>
+COLLEN.<br>
Why, how now, sirrah? What’s the matter?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Oh, ’tis news for a king, ’tis worth money.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COLLEN.<br/>
+COLLEN.<br>
Why, sirrah, thou shalt have silver and gold, if it be good.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
O, ’tis good, ’tis good. Amadine—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
Oh, what of her? Tell me, and I will make thee a knight.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
How a sprite? No, by’r Lady, I will not be a sprite, masters. Get ye away, if
I be a sprite, I shall be so lean, I shall make you all afraid.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COLLEN.<br/>
+COLLEN.<br>
Thou sot, the King means to make thee a gentleman.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, I shall want ’parel.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
Thou shalt want for nothing.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Then stand away, trick up thyself, here they come.
</p>
@@ -4049,142 +4030,142 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Segasto, Mucedorus,</span> and
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
My gratious father, pardon thy disloyal daughter.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-What, do mine eyes behold my daughter Amadine?<br/>
-Rise up, dear daughter, and let these my embracing arms<br/>
-Show thee some token of thy father’s joy,<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+What, do mine eyes behold my daughter Amadine?<br>
+Rise up, dear daughter, and let these my embracing arms<br>
+Show thee some token of thy father’s joy,<br>
Which e’er since thy departure, hath languished in sorrow.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-Dear father,<br/>
-Ne’er were your sorrows greater than my griefs,<br/>
-Ne’er you so desolate, as I comfortless:<br/>
-Yet, ne’ertheless, acknowledging myself<br/>
-To be the cause of both, on bended knees,<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+Dear father,<br>
+Ne’er were your sorrows greater than my griefs,<br>
+Ne’er you so desolate, as I comfortless:<br>
+Yet, ne’ertheless, acknowledging myself<br>
+To be the cause of both, on bended knees,<br>
I humbly crave your pardon.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Kneeling.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-I’ll pardon thee, dear daughter;<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+I’ll pardon thee, dear daughter;<br>
But as for him—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
Ah, father! what of him?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-As sure as I am a king, and wear the crown,<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+As sure as I am a king, and wear the crown,<br>
I will revenge on that accursed wretch.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Yet, worthy prince, work not thy will in wrath,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Yet, worthy prince, work not thy will in wrath,<br>
Show favour—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
Ay, such favour thou deserv’st.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
I do deserve the daughter of a king.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
Oh, impudent! A shepherd and so insolent!
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
No shepherd am I, but a worthy prince.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
In fair conceit, not princely born.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Yes, princely born, my father is a king,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Yes, princely born, my father is a king,<br>
My mother queen, and of Valencia both.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Throwing off his disguise.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-What, Mucedorus? Welcome to our court!<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+What, Mucedorus? Welcome to our court!<br>
What cause hadst thou to come to me disguis’d?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-No cause to fear, I caused no offence, but this—<br/>
-Desiring thy daughter’s virtues for to see,<br/>
-Disguis’d myself from out my father’s court,<br/>
-Unknown to any, in secret I did rest,<br/>
-And passed many troubles near to death;<br/>
-So hath your daughter my partaker been,<br/>
-As you shall know hereafter more at large,<br/>
-Desiring you, you will give her to me,<br/>
-E’en as mine own, and sovereign of my life,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+No cause to fear, I caused no offence, but this—<br>
+Desiring thy daughter’s virtues for to see,<br>
+Disguis’d myself from out my father’s court,<br>
+Unknown to any, in secret I did rest,<br>
+And passed many troubles near to death;<br>
+So hath your daughter my partaker been,<br>
+As you shall know hereafter more at large,<br>
+Desiring you, you will give her to me,<br>
+E’en as mine own, and sovereign of my life,<br>
Then shall I think my travels are well spent.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-With all my heart, but this—<br/>
-Segasto claims my promise made tofore,<br/>
-That he should have her as his only wife,<br/>
-Before my council, when we came from war.<br/>
-Segasto, may I crave thee, let it pass,<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+With all my heart, but this—<br>
+Segasto claims my promise made tofore,<br>
+That he should have her as his only wife,<br>
+Before my council, when we came from war.<br>
+Segasto, may I crave thee, let it pass,<br>
And give Amadine as wife to Mucedorus.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
-With all my heart, were ’t far a greater thing;<br/>
-And what I may to furnish up their rites<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
+With all my heart, were ’t far a greater thing;<br>
+And what I may to furnish up their rites<br>
With pleasing sports and pastimes, you shall see.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
Thanks, good Segasto; I will think of this.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
-Thanks, good my lord; and while I live,<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
+Thanks, good my lord; and while I live,<br>
Account of me in what I can or may.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-AMADINE.<br/>
-And, good Segasto, these great courtesies<br/>
+AMADINE.<br>
+And, good Segasto, these great courtesies<br>
Shan’t be forgot.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MOUSE.<br/>
+MOUSE.<br>
Why, hark you, master! bones, what have you done? What, given away the
wench you made me take such pains for? You are wise indeed; mass, an I had
known of that, I would have had her myself. Faith, master, now we may go to
@@ -4192,16 +4173,16 @@ breakfast with a woodcock-pie.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-SEGASTO.<br/>
+SEGASTO.<br>
Go, sir, you were best leave this knavery.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Come on, my lords, let’s now to court,<br/>
-Where we may finish up the joyfullest day<br/>
-That ever happ’d to a distressed king.<br/>
-Were but thy father, the Valencia lord,<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Come on, my lords, let’s now to court,<br>
+Where we may finish up the joyfullest day<br>
+That ever happ’d to a distressed king.<br>
+Were but thy father, the Valencia lord,<br>
Present in view of this combining knot.
</p>
@@ -4214,20 +4195,20 @@ What shout was that?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MESSENGER.<br/>
-My lord, the great Valencia king,<br/>
+MESSENGER.<br>
+My lord, the great Valencia king,<br>
Newly arrived, entreats your presence.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-MUCEDORUS.<br/>
+MUCEDORUS.<br>
My father?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-Prepared a welcome; give him entertainment;<br/>
-A happier planet never reign’d than that<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+Prepared a welcome; give him entertainment;<br>
+A happier planet never reign’d than that<br>
Which governs at this hour.
</p>
@@ -4238,19 +4219,19 @@ embraces his son.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF VALENCIA.<br/>
-Rise honour of my age, food to my rest:<br/>
-Condemn not, mighty King of Aragon,<br/>
-My rude behaviour, so compell’d by nature,<br/>
+KING OF VALENCIA.<br>
+Rise honour of my age, food to my rest:<br>
+Condemn not, mighty King of Aragon,<br>
+My rude behaviour, so compell’d by nature,<br>
That manners stood unacknowledged.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-KING OF ARAGON.<br/>
-What we have to recite would tedious prove<br/>
-By declaration; therefore in and feast.<br/>
-Tomorrow the performance shall explain<br/>
-What words conceal: till then, drums speak, bells ring,<br/>
+KING OF ARAGON.<br>
+What we have to recite would tedious prove<br>
+By declaration; therefore in and feast.<br>
+Tomorrow the performance shall explain<br>
+What words conceal: till then, drums speak, bells ring,<br>
Give plausive welcomes to our brother king.
</p>
@@ -4260,7 +4241,7 @@ Give plausive welcomes to our brother king.
<div class="chapter">
-<h3><a name="sceneV_3"></a><b>EPILOGUE</b></h3>
+<h3><a id="sceneV_3"></a><b>EPILOGUE</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc">
Enter <span class="charname">Comedy</span> and
@@ -4268,589 +4249,147 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Comedy</span> and
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-How now, Envy? What, blushest thou already?<br/>
-Peep forth, hide not thy head with shame,<br/>
-But with a courage praise a woman’s deeds.<br/>
-Thy threats were vain, thou couldst do me no hurt,<br/>
-Although thou seem’dst to cross me with despite,<br/>
-I overwhelm’d and turned upside down thy block<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+How now, Envy? What, blushest thou already?<br>
+Peep forth, hide not thy head with shame,<br>
+But with a courage praise a woman’s deeds.<br>
+Thy threats were vain, thou couldst do me no hurt,<br>
+Although thou seem’dst to cross me with despite,<br>
+I overwhelm’d and turned upside down thy block<br>
And made thyself to stumble at the same.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Though stumbled, yet not overthrown,<br/>
-Thou canst not draw my heart to mildness,<br/>
-Yet must I needs confess, thou hast done well,<br/>
-And play’d thy part with mirth and pleasant glee.<br/>
-Say all this, yet canst thou not conquer me,<br/>
-Although this time thou’st got—yet not the conquest neither,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Though stumbled, yet not overthrown,<br>
+Thou canst not draw my heart to mildness,<br>
+Yet must I needs confess, thou hast done well,<br>
+And play’d thy part with mirth and pleasant glee.<br>
+Say all this, yet canst thou not conquer me,<br>
+Although this time thou’st got—yet not the conquest neither,<br>
A double revenge another time I’ll have.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-Envy, spit thy gall;<br/>
-Plot, work, contrive, create new fallacies,<br/>
-Teem from thy womb each minute a black traitor,<br/>
-Whose blood and thoughts have twins conception;<br/>
-Study to act deeds yet unchronicled,<br/>
-Cast native monsters in the moulds of men;<br/>
-Case vicious devils under sainted rochets;<br/>
-Unhasp the wicked where all perjuries roost,<br/>
-And swarm this ball with treasons, do thy worst,<br/>
-Thou canst not, hell-hound, cross my star tonight,<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+Envy, spit thy gall;<br>
+Plot, work, contrive, create new fallacies,<br>
+Teem from thy womb each minute a black traitor,<br>
+Whose blood and thoughts have twins conception;<br>
+Study to act deeds yet unchronicled,<br>
+Cast native monsters in the moulds of men;<br>
+Case vicious devils under sainted rochets;<br>
+Unhasp the wicked where all perjuries roost,<br>
+And swarm this ball with treasons, do thy worst,<br>
+Thou canst not, hell-hound, cross my star tonight,<br>
Nor blind that glory, where I wish delight.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
I can, I will.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-Nefarious hag, begin;<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+Nefarious hag, begin;<br>
And let us tug, till one the mastery win.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Comedy, thou art a shallow goose,<br/>
-I’ll overthrow thee in thine own intent,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Comedy, thou art a shallow goose,<br>
+I’ll overthrow thee in thine own intent,<br>
And make thy fall my comic merriment.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-Thy policy wants gravity, thou art<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+Thy policy wants gravity, thou art<br>
Too weak. Speak, fiend, as how?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Why, thus.<br/>
-From my foul study will I hoist a wretch,<br/>
-A lean and hungry meager cannibal,<br/>
-Whose jaws swell to his eyes with chawing malice;<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Why, thus.<br>
+From my foul study will I hoist a wretch,<br>
+A lean and hungry meager cannibal,<br>
+Whose jaws swell to his eyes with chawing malice;<br>
And him I’ll make a poet.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
What’s that to the purpose?
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-This scrambling raven with his needy beard,<br/>
-Will I whet on to write a comedy;<br/>
-Wherein shall be compos’d dark sentences,<br/>
-Pleasing to factious brains:<br/>
-And every otherwhere place me a jest,<br/>
-Whose high abuse shall more torment than blows.<br/>
-Then I myself, quicker than lightning,<br/>
-Will fly me to a puissant magistrate,<br/>
-And waiting with a trencher at his back,<br/>
-In midst of jollity rehearse those galls,<br/>
-With some additions, so lately vented in your theatre:<br/>
-He upon this cannot but make complaint,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+This scrambling raven with his needy beard,<br>
+Will I whet on to write a comedy;<br>
+Wherein shall be compos’d dark sentences,<br>
+Pleasing to factious brains:<br>
+And every otherwhere place me a jest,<br>
+Whose high abuse shall more torment than blows.<br>
+Then I myself, quicker than lightning,<br>
+Will fly me to a puissant magistrate,<br>
+And waiting with a trencher at his back,<br>
+In midst of jollity rehearse those galls,<br>
+With some additions, so lately vented in your theatre:<br>
+He upon this cannot but make complaint,<br>
To your great danger, or at least restraint.
</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-Ha, ha, ha! I laugh to hear thy folly;<br/>
-This is a trap for boys, not men, nor such,<br/>
-Especially desertful in their doings,<br/>
-Whose staid discretion rules their purposes.<br/>
-I and my faction do eschew those vices.<br/>
-But see, O see, the weary sun for rest<br/>
-Hath lain his golden compass to the west,<br/>
-Where he perpetual bide and ever shine,<br/>
-As David’s offspring in his happy clime.<br/>
-Stoop, Envy, stoop, bow to the earth with me,<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+Ha, ha, ha! I laugh to hear thy folly;<br>
+This is a trap for boys, not men, nor such,<br>
+Especially desertful in their doings,<br>
+Whose staid discretion rules their purposes.<br>
+I and my faction do eschew those vices.<br>
+But see, O see, the weary sun for rest<br>
+Hath lain his golden compass to the west,<br>
+Where he perpetual bide and ever shine,<br>
+As David’s offspring in his happy clime.<br>
+Stoop, Envy, stoop, bow to the earth with me,<br>
Let’s beg our pardon on our bended knee.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>They kneel.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-My power has lost her might, and Envy’s date’s expired,<br/>
-Yon splendant majesty hath ’fell’d my sting,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+My power has lost her might, and Envy’s date’s expired,<br>
+Yon splendant majesty hath ’fell’d my sting,<br>
And I amazed am.
</p>
<p class="right">[<i>Fall down and quake.</i>]</p>
<p class="drama">
-COMEDY.<br/>
-Glorious and wise Arch-Cæsar on this earth,<br/>
-At whose appearance, Envy’s stricken dumb,<br/>
-And all bad things cease operation,<br/>
-Vouchsafe to pardon our unwilling error,<br/>
-So late presented to your gracious view,<br/>
-And we’ll endeavour with excess of pain,<br/>
-To please your senses in a choicer strain.<br/>
-Thus we commit you to the arms of night,<br/>
-Whose spangled darkness would, for your delight,<br/>
-Strive to excell the day: be blessed then,<br/>
+COMEDY.<br>
+Glorious and wise Arch-Cæsar on this earth,<br>
+At whose appearance, Envy’s stricken dumb,<br>
+And all bad things cease operation,<br>
+Vouchsafe to pardon our unwilling error,<br>
+So late presented to your gracious view,<br>
+And we’ll endeavour with excess of pain,<br>
+To please your senses in a choicer strain.<br>
+Thus we commit you to the arms of night,<br>
+Whose spangled darkness would, for your delight,<br>
+Strive to excell the day: be blessed then,<br>
Who other wishes, let him never speak—
</p>
<p class="drama">
-ENVY.<br/>
-Amen!<br/>
-To Fame and Honour we commend your rest,<br/>
+ENVY.<br>
+Amen!<br>
+To Fame and Honour we commend your rest,<br>
Live still more happy, every hour more blest.
</p>
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