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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> -<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 /> -[Most recently updated: May 19, 2023]</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers</div> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MUCEDORUS ***</div> +<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> @@ -133,7 +114,7 @@ AMADINE, THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF ARAGON</h3> </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> </tr> <tr> @@ -157,7 +138,7 @@ AMADINE, THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF ARAGON</h3> </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> @@ -177,7 +158,7 @@ AMADINE, THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF ARAGON</h3> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#sceneIV_4">Scene IV. The Court</a><br /><br /></td> +<td> <a href="#sceneIV_4">Scene IV. The Court</a><br ><br ></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -201,54 +182,54 @@ AMADINE, THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF ARAGON</h3> <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> </div><!--end chapter--> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MUCEDORUS ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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