Edition: Fair EmFair Em, Quarto 2
A Pleasant
COMEDIE
OF
FAIRE EM,
The Millers Daughter of
Manchester:
With the loue of William the Conqueror.
As it was sundtry times publiquely acted in the
Honourable Citie of London, by the right Ho-
nourable the Lord Strange his Seruants.
LONDON,
Printed for Iohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop at the
signe of the Bible in Guilt-spur street without
New-gate. 1631.
A Pleasant Comedie of faire Em,
The Millers daughter of Manchester.
With the loue of William
the Conquerour.
Actus primus, Scaena prima.
Enter William the Conqueror: Marques Lubeck, with a picture:
Mountney: Manuile: Valingford: and Duke Dirot.
Sp1Marques.
WHat meanes faire Britaines mighty Conqueror
So suddenly to cast away his staffe?
And all in passion to forsake the tilt.
So suddenly to cast away his staffe?
And all in passion to forsake the tilt.
Sp2D. Dirot.
My Lord, this triumph we solemnise here,
Is of meere loue to your increasing ioyes:
Only expecting cheerefull lookes for all.
What sudden pangs then moues your maiesty,
To dim the brightnesse of the day with frownes?
Is of meere loue to your increasing ioyes:
Only expecting cheerefull lookes for all.
What sudden pangs then moues your maiesty,
To dim the brightnesse of the day with frownes?
Sp3W. Conqueror.
Ah, good my Lords, misconster not the cause:
At least, suspect not my displeased browes
I amorously do beare to your intent:
For thanks and all that you can wish I yeeld.
But that which makes me blush and shame to tell,
Is cause why thus I turne my conquering eyes
To cowards lookes and beaten fantasies.
At least, suspect not my displeased browes
I amorously do beare to your intent:
For thanks and all that you can wish I yeeld.
But that which makes me blush and shame to tell,
Is cause why thus I turne my conquering eyes
To cowards lookes and beaten fantasies.
Sp4Mountney.
Since we are guiltlesse, we the lesse dismay
To see this sudden change possesse your cheere:
For if it issue from your owne conceits,
Bred by suggestion of some enuious thoughts:
Your highnesse wisdome may suppresse it straight.
Yet tell vs (good my Lord) what thought it is,
That thus bereaues you of your late content,
That in aduise we may assi st your Grace.
Or bend our forces to reuiue your spirits.
To see this sudden change possesse your cheere:
For if it issue from your owne conceits,
Bred by suggestion of some enuious thoughts:
Your highnesse wisdome may suppresse it straight.
Yet tell vs (good my Lord) what thought it is,
That thus bereaues you of your late content,
That in aduise we may assi st your Grace.
Or bend our forces to reuiue your spirits.
Sp5W. Con.
A2
Whose
Ah Marques Lubeck, in thy power it lyes
To rid my bosome of these thraled dumps:
And therefore, good my Lords forbeare a while,
That we may parley of these priuate cares,
To rid my bosome of these thraled dumps:
And therefore, good my Lords forbeare a while,
That we may parley of these priuate cares,
Whose strength subdues me more than all the world.
Exit all but William and the Marques.
Sp7William.
Now Marques must a Conqueror at armes
Disclose himselfe thrald to vnarmed thoughts,
And threatned of a shaddow, yeeld to lust:
No sooner had my sparkeling eyes beheld
The flames of beautie blasing on this peece,
But suddenly a sence of myracle
Imagined on thy louely Maistres face,
Made mee abandon bodily regard,
And cast all pleasures on my wounded soule:
Then gentle Marques tell me what she is,
That thus thou honourest on thy warlike shield:
And if thy loue and interest be such,
As iustly may giue place to mine,
That if it be: my soule with honors wings
May fly into the bosome of my deare.
If not, close them and stoope into my graue.
Disclose himselfe thrald to vnarmed thoughts,
And threatned of a shaddow, yeeld to lust:
No sooner had my sparkeling eyes beheld
The flames of beautie blasing on this peece,
But suddenly a sence of myracle
Imagined on thy louely Maistres face,
Made mee abandon bodily regard,
And cast all pleasures on my wounded soule:
Then gentle Marques tell me what she is,
That thus thou honourest on thy warlike shield:
And if thy loue and interest be such,
As iustly may giue place to mine,
That if it be: my soule with honors wings
May fly into the bosome of my deare.
If not, close them and stoope into my graue.
Sp8Marques.
William
If this be all renowned Conqueror:
Aduance your drooping spirits, and reuiue
The wonted courage of your Conquering minde,
For this faire picture painted on my shield
Is the true counterfeit of louely Blanch
Princes and daughter to the King of Danes:
Whose beautie and excesse of ornaments
Deserues another manner of defence,
Pompe and high person to attend her state
Than Marques Lubeck any way presents:
Therefore her vertues I resigne ro thee,
Alreadie shrind in thy religious brest,
To be aduanced and honoured to the full.
Nor beare I this an argument of loue:
But to renowne faire Blanch my Soueraignes Childe,
In euerie place where I by armes may doe it.
Aduance your drooping spirits, and reuiue
The wonted courage of your Conquering minde,
For this faire picture painted on my shield
Is the true counterfeit of louely Blanch
Princes and daughter to the King of Danes:
Whose beautie and excesse of ornaments
Deserues another manner of defence,
Pompe and high person to attend her state
Than Marques Lubeck any way presents:
Therefore her vertues I resigne ro thee,
Alreadie shrind in thy religious brest,
To be aduanced and honoured to the full.
Nor beare I this an argument of loue:
But to renowne faire Blanch my Soueraignes Childe,
In euerie place where I by armes may doe it.
Sp9William.
Ah Marques, thy words bring heauen vnto my soule,
And had I heauen to giue for thy reward,
Thou shouldst be thronde in no vnworthy place.
But let my vttermost wealth suffice thy worth,
Which here I vowe, and to aspire the blisse
That hangs on quicke atchiuement of my loue,
Thy selfe and I will trauell in disguise,
To bring this Ladie to our Brittaine Court
And had I heauen to giue for thy reward,
Thou shouldst be thronde in no vnworthy place.
But let my vttermost wealth suffice thy worth,
Which here I vowe, and to aspire the blisse
That hangs on quicke atchiuement of my loue,
Thy selfe and I will trauell in disguise,
To bring this Ladie to our Brittaine Court
Sp11William.
Then thus: The Duke Dirot and th’Earle Dimach
Will I leaue substitutes to rule my Realme,
While mightie loue forbids my being here,
And in the name of Sir Robert of Windsor
Will goe with thee vnto the Danish Court.
Keepe Williams secrets Marques if thou loue him.
Bright Blaunch I come, sweet fortune fauour me,
And I will laud thy name eternally.
Will I leaue substitutes to rule my Realme,
While mightie loue forbids my being here,
And in the name of Sir Robert of Windsor
Will goe with thee vnto the Danish Court.
Keepe Williams secrets Marques if thou loue him.
Bright Blaunch I come, sweet fortune fauour me,
And I will laud thy name eternally.
Exeunt.
Enter the Miller and Em his daughter.
Sp12Miller.
A3
Our
Come daughter we must learne to shake off pompe.
To leaue the state that earst beseemd a Knight,
And gentleman of no meane discent,
To vndertake this homely millers trade:
Thus must we maske to saue our wretched liues,
Threatned by Conquest of this haplesse Ile:
Whose sad inuasions by the Conqueror,
Haue made a number such as we subiect
Their gentle neckes vnto their stubborne yoke,
Of drudging labour and base pesantrie.
Sir Thomas Goddard now old Goddard is,
Goddard the Miller of faire Manchester.
Why should not I content me with this state?
As good Sir Edmund Trofterd did the flaile.
And thou sweet Em must stoope to high estate.
To ioyne with mine that thus we may protect
To leaue the state that earst beseemd a Knight,
And gentleman of no meane discent,
To vndertake this homely millers trade:
Thus must we maske to saue our wretched liues,
Threatned by Conquest of this haplesse Ile:
Whose sad inuasions by the Conqueror,
Haue made a number such as we subiect
Their gentle neckes vnto their stubborne yoke,
Of drudging labour and base pesantrie.
Sir Thomas Goddard now old Goddard is,
Goddard the Miller of faire Manchester.
Why should not I content me with this state?
As good Sir Edmund Trofterd did the flaile.
And thou sweet Em must stoope to high estate.
To ioyne with mine that thus we may protect
Our harmelesse liues, which led in greater port
Would be an enuious obiect to our foes,
That seeke to root all Britaines Gentrie
From bearing countenance against their tyrannie.
Sp13Em.
Good Father let my full resolued thoughts,
With setled patience to support this chance
Be some poore comfort to your aged soule:
For therein rests the height of my estate,
That you are pleased with this deiection,
And that all toyles my hands may vndertake,
May serue to worke your worthines content.
With setled patience to support this chance
Be some poore comfort to your aged soule:
For therein rests the height of my estate,
That you are pleased with this deiection,
And that all toyles my hands may vndertake,
May serue to worke your worthines content.
Sp14Miller,
But
Thankes my deere daughter: these thy pleasant words
Transfer my soule into a second heauen:
And in thy setled minde, my ioyes consi st,
My state reuiued, and I in former plight.
Although our outward pomp be thus abased,
And thralde to drudging, stay lesse of the world,
Let vs retaine those honourable mindes
That lately gouerned our superior state.
Wherein true gentrie is the only meane,
That makes vs differ from base millers borne:
Though we expect no knightly delicates,
Nor thirst in soule for former soueraigntie.
Yet may our mindes as highly scorne to stoope
To base desires of vulgars worldlinesse,
As if we were in our presedent way.
And louely daughter, since thy youthfull yeares
Must needs admit as young affections:
And that sweet loue vnpartiall perceiues
Her dainie subiects through euery part,
In chiefe receiue these lessons from my lips,
The true discouerers of a Virgins due
Now requisite, now that I know thy minde
Something enclinde to fauour Manuils sute,
A gentleman, thy Louer in protest:
And that thou maist not be by loue deceiued,
Transfer my soule into a second heauen:
And in thy setled minde, my ioyes consi st,
My state reuiued, and I in former plight.
Although our outward pomp be thus abased,
And thralde to drudging, stay lesse of the world,
Let vs retaine those honourable mindes
That lately gouerned our superior state.
Wherein true gentrie is the only meane,
That makes vs differ from base millers borne:
Though we expect no knightly delicates,
Nor thirst in soule for former soueraigntie.
Yet may our mindes as highly scorne to stoope
To base desires of vulgars worldlinesse,
As if we were in our presedent way.
And louely daughter, since thy youthfull yeares
Must needs admit as young affections:
And that sweet loue vnpartiall perceiues
Her dainie subiects through euery part,
In chiefe receiue these lessons from my lips,
The true discouerers of a Virgins due
Now requisite, now that I know thy minde
Something enclinde to fauour Manuils sute,
A gentleman, thy Louer in protest:
And that thou maist not be by loue deceiued,
But try his meaning fit for thy desert,
In pursuit of all amorous desires,
Regard thine honour. Let not vehement sighes
Nor earnest vowes importing feruent loue,
Render thee subiect to the wrath of lust:
For that transformed to former sweet delight,
Will bring thy body and thy soule to shame.
Chaste thoughts and modest conuersations,
Of proofe to keepe out all inchaunting vowes,
Vaine sighes, forst teares, and pittifull aspects,
Are they that make deformed Ladies faire,
Poore wretch, and such inticing men,
That seeke of all but onely present grace,
Shall in perseuerance of a Virgins due
Prefer the most refusers to the choyce
Of such a soule as yeelded what they thought.
But hoe: where is Trotter?
Here enters Trotter the Millers man to them: and they
within call to him for their grist.
Sp15Trotter.
Wheres Trotter? why Trotter is here.
Yfaith, you and your daughter go vp and downe weeping,
And wamenting and keeping of a wamentation,
As who should say, the Mill would goe with your wamenting.
Yfaith, you and your daughter go vp and downe weeping,
And wamenting and keeping of a wamentation,
As who should say, the Mill would goe with your wamenting.
Sp17Trotter.
Why yonder is a company of young men and maids
Keepe such a stir for their grist, that they would haue it before
My stones be readie to grind it. But yfaith, I would I coulde
Breake winde enough backward: you should not tarrie for your
Grist I warrant you.
Keepe such a stir for their grist, that they would haue it before
My stones be readie to grind it. But yfaith, I would I coulde
Breake winde enough backward: you should not tarrie for your
Grist I warrant you.
Here he ta-
keth Em a-
bout the neck.
Sp19Trotter.
Iwis you will when I cannot. Why looke,
You haue a Mill. Why whats your Mill without mee?
Or rather Mistres, what were I without you?
You haue a Mill. Why whats your Mill without mee?
Or rather Mistres, what were I without you?
For
For if you should but stoope to take vp the tole dish
You will haue the crampe in your finger
At least ten weekes after.
Sp22Miller.
Ah well said Trotter, teach her to play the good huswife
And thou shalt haue her to thy wife, if thou canst get her good wil.
And thou shalt haue her to thy wife, if thou canst get her good wil.
Sp23Trotter.
Ah words wherein I see Matrimonie come loaden
With kisses to salute me: Now let me alone to pick the mill,
To fill the hopper, to take the tole, to mend the sailes,
Yea, and to make the mill to goe with the verie force of my loue.
With kisses to salute me: Now let me alone to pick the mill,
To fill the hopper, to take the tole, to mend the sailes,
Yea, and to make the mill to goe with the verie force of my loue.
Here they must call for their grist within.
Sp24Trotter.
I come, I come, yfaith now you shall haue your grist
Or else Trotter Will trot and amble himselfe to death.
Or else Trotter Will trot and amble himselfe to death.
They call him againe. Exit.
Enter king of Denmarke, with some attendants, Blanch his
daughter, Mariana, Marques Lubeck, William
disguised.
Sp25King of Denmarke.
Lord Marques Lubeck:, welcome home,
Welcome braue Knight vnto the Denmarke King:
For Williams sake the noble Norman Duke,
So famous for his fortunes and successe,
That graceth him with name of Conqueror:
Right double welcome must thou be to vs.
Welcome braue Knight vnto the Denmarke King:
For Williams sake the noble Norman Duke,
So famous for his fortunes and successe,
That graceth him with name of Conqueror:
Right double welcome must thou be to vs.
Sp26Rob. Windsor.
And to my Lord the King shall I recount
Your graces courteous entertainment,
That for his sake vouchsafe to honour me
A simple Knight attendant on his grace.
Your graces courteous entertainment,
That for his sake vouchsafe to honour me
A simple Knight attendant on his grace.
Sp29King Den.
I tell thee Robert, I so admire the man,
As that I count it hainous guilt in him
That honours not Duke William with his heart.
As that I count it hainous guilt in him
That honours not Duke William with his heart.
Sp31Blanch.
Robert.
Sir, should I neglect your highnes charge herein,
It might be thought of base discourtesie.
Welcome Sir Knight to Denmarke heartily.
It might be thought of base discourtesie.
Welcome Sir Knight to Denmarke heartily.
Sp34Rob. Windsor.
May this be shee, for whom I crost the Seas?
I am asham’d to think I was so fond,
In whom there’s nothing that contents my minde,
Ill head, worse featurde, vncomly, nothing courtly,
Swart and ill fauoured, a Colliers sanguine skin.
I neuer saw a harder fauour’d Slut.
Loue her? for what? I can no whit abide her.
I am asham’d to think I was so fond,
In whom there’s nothing that contents my minde,
Ill head, worse featurde, vncomly, nothing courtly,
Swart and ill fauoured, a Colliers sanguine skin.
I neuer saw a harder fauour’d Slut.
Loue her? for what? I can no whit abide her.
Sp35King of Denmarke.
Mariana, I haue this day receiued letters
From Swethia, that lets me vnderstand,
Your ransome is collecting there with speed,
And shortly shall be hither sent to vs.
From Swethia, that lets me vnderstand,
Your ransome is collecting there with speed,
And shortly shall be hither sent to vs.
Sp36Mariana.
Not that I finde occasion of mislike
My entertainment in your graces court,
But that I long to see my natiue home.
My entertainment in your graces court,
But that I long to see my natiue home.
Sp37King Den.
And reason haue you Madam for the same:
Lord Marques I commit vnto your charge
The entertainment of Sir Robert here,
Let him remaine with you within the Court
In solace and disport, to spend the time.
Lord Marques I commit vnto your charge
The entertainment of Sir Robert here,
Let him remaine with you within the Court
In solace and disport, to spend the time.
Exit King of Denmarke.
Blanch speaketh this secretly at one end of the stage.
Sp39
Vnhappie Blanch, what strange effects are these
That workes within my thoughts confusedly?
That still me thinkes affection drawes me on
To take, to like, nay more to loue this knight.
That workes within my thoughts confusedly?
That still me thinkes affection drawes me on
To take, to like, nay more to loue this knight.
Sp40Robert. Wind.
A modest countenance, no heauie sullen looke,
Not very faire, but richly deckt with fauour:
A sweet face, an exceeding daintie hand:
A body were it framed of wax
By all the cunning Artists of the world
It could not better be proportioned.
Not very faire, but richly deckt with fauour:
A sweet face, an exceeding daintie hand:
A body were it framed of wax
By all the cunning Artists of the world
It could not better be proportioned.
B Here
Here is no time for contemplation.
Sp42Robert Windsor.
My Lord there is a certaine odd conceit,
Which on the sudden greatly troubles me.
Which on the sudden greatly troubles me.
Sp44Sir Robert.
The more I look the more I loue to looke.
Who sayes that Mariana is not faire?
Ile gage my gauntlet gainst the enuious man,
That dares auow there liueth her compare.
Who sayes that Mariana is not faire?
Ile gage my gauntlet gainst the enuious man,
That dares auow there liueth her compare.
Sp46Sir Robert.
Yea my Lord: She is counterfeit in deed:
For there is the substance that best contents me.
For there is the substance that best contents me.
Sp50Robert.
As who should say your loue were priuileged
That none might looke vpon her but your selfe.
That none might looke vpon her but your selfe.
Sp51Lubeck.
These iarres becomes not our familiaritie,
Nor will I stand on termes to moue your patience.
Nor will I stand on termes to moue your patience.
Sp52Robert.
Why my lord, am not I of flesh & bloud as well as you?
Then giue me leaue to loue as well as you.
Then giue me leaue to loue as well as you.
Sp53Lubeck.
To loue Sir Robert? but whom? not she I loue?
Nor stands it with the honour of my state,
To brooke corriuals with me in my loue.
Nor stands it with the honour of my state,
To brooke corriuals with me in my loue.
Sp54Robert.
So Sir, we are thorough for that L.
Ladies farewell. Lord Marques, will you go?
I will finde a time to speake with her I trow?
Ladies farewell. Lord Marques, will you go?
I will finde a time to speake with her I trow?
Exit.
Enter Manuile alone disguised.
Sp56Manuile.
Bad
Ah Em the subiect of my restlesse thoughts,
The Anuyle whereupon my heart doth beat,
Framing thy state to thy desert,
Full ill this life becomes thy heauenly looke,
Wherein sweet loue and vertue sits enthroned.
The Anuyle whereupon my heart doth beat,
Framing thy state to thy desert,
Full ill this life becomes thy heauenly looke,
Wherein sweet loue and vertue sits enthroned.
Bad world, where riches is esteemed aboue them both,
In whose base eyes nought else is bountifull.
A Millers daughter saies the multitude,
Should not be loued of a gentleman.
But let them breath their soules into the ayre:
Yet will I still affect thee as my selfe.
So thou be constant in thy plighted vow,
But here comes one, I will listen to his talke,
Enter Valingford at another dore, disguised. Manuile staies
hiding him-
selfe.
Sp57Valingford.
Goe William Conqueror and seeke thy loue.
Seeke thou a mynion in a forren land
Whilest I draw backe and court my loue at home,
The Millers daughter of faire Manchester
Hath bound my feet to this delightsome soyle:
And from her eyes do dart such golden beames,
That holds my heart in her subiection.
Seeke thou a mynion in a forren land
Whilest I draw backe and court my loue at home,
The Millers daughter of faire Manchester
Hath bound my feet to this delightsome soyle:
And from her eyes do dart such golden beames,
That holds my heart in her subiection.
Sp58Manuile,
He ruminates on my beloued choyce:
God grant he come not to preuent my hope.
But heres another, him yle listen to.
God grant he come not to preuent my hope.
But heres another, him yle listen to.
Enter Mountney disguised at another dore.
Sp59L. Mountney.
B2
Manuile.
Nature vniust, in vtterance of thy art,
To grace a pesant with a Princes fame:
Pesant am I so to mis-terme my loue
Although a Millers daughter by her birth:
Yet may her beautie and her vertues well suffice
To hide the blemish of her birth in hell,
Where neither enuious eyes nor thought can pierce,
But endlesse darknesse euer smother it.
Goe William Conqueror and seeke thy loue,
Whilest I draw backe and court mine owne the while:
Decking her body with such costly robes
As may become her beauties worthinesse,
That so thy labours may be laughed to scorne,
And she thou seekest in forraine regions,
Be darkned and eclipst when she arriues,
By one that I haue chosen neerer home.
To grace a pesant with a Princes fame:
Pesant am I so to mis-terme my loue
Although a Millers daughter by her birth:
Yet may her beautie and her vertues well suffice
To hide the blemish of her birth in hell,
Where neither enuious eyes nor thought can pierce,
But endlesse darknesse euer smother it.
Goe William Conqueror and seeke thy loue,
Whilest I draw backe and court mine owne the while:
Decking her body with such costly robes
As may become her beauties worthinesse,
That so thy labours may be laughed to scorne,
And she thou seekest in forraine regions,
Be darkned and eclipst when she arriues,
By one that I haue chosen neerer home.
Exit Manuile.
Sp62Valingford.
So chose he you, therefore I maruell much
That both of vs should linger in this sort.
What may the king imagine of our stay?
That both of vs should linger in this sort.
What may the king imagine of our stay?
Sp63Mountney.
The king may iustly think we are to blame:
But I imagin’d I might well be spared
And that no other man had borne my minde.
But I imagin’d I might well be spared
And that no other man had borne my minde.
Sp64Valingford.
The like did I: in frendship then resolue
What is the cause of your vnlookt for stay?
What is the cause of your vnlookt for stay?
Sp69Mountney.
Why not my Lord? I hope full well you know
That loue respects no difference of state
So beautie serue to stir affection.
That loue respects no difference of state
So beautie serue to stir affection.
Sp70Valingford.
But this it is that makes me wonder most,
That you and I should be of one conceit
In such a strange vnlikely passion.
That you and I should be of one conceit
In such a strange vnlikely passion.
Sp73Mountney.
Nay neuer grieue: for if the cause be such
To ioyne our thoughts in such a Sympathy:
All enuie set aside: let vs agree
To yeeld to eithers fortune in this choyce.
To ioyne our thoughts in such a Sympathy:
All enuie set aside: let vs agree
To yeeld to eithers fortune in this choyce.
Sp74Valingford.
Exeunt.
Content say I, and what so ere befall,
Shake hands my Lord and fortune thriue at all.
Shake hands my Lord and fortune thriue at all.
Enter Em, and Trotter the Millers man with a kerchife on
his head, and an Vrinall in his hand.
Trotter.
Sp80Trotter.
Then this is mystically to giue you to vnderstand
I haue beene at the Phismicaries house.
I haue beene at the Phismicaries house.
Here he offers to kisse her.
Sp94Trot.
Yfaith I aime at the fairest,
Ah Em. sweet Em, fresh as the flower:
That hath power to wound my hart.
And ease my smart, of me poore theefe,
In prison bound.
Ah Em. sweet Em, fresh as the flower:
That hath power to wound my hart.
And ease my smart, of me poore theefe,
In prison bound.
Sp96Trot.
Ah marke the deuise,
For thee my loue full sicke I was, in hazard of my life
Thy promise was to make me whole and for to be my wife.
Let mee inioy my loue my deere,
And thou possesse thy Trotter here.
For thee my loue full sicke I was, in hazard of my life
Thy promise was to make me whole and for to be my wife.
Let mee inioy my loue my deere,
And thou possesse thy Trotter here.
Sp98Trot.
Yes woos but you did, Ile goe to our Parson Sir Iohn,
And he shall mumble vp the marriage out of hand.
And he shall mumble vp the marriage out of hand.
B3 Here
Here Enters Manuile to them.
Sp107Trotter.
Exit Trotter.
That same word (hartily) is of great force.
I will goe: but I pray sir, beware you
Come not too neere the wench.
I will goe: but I pray sir, beware you
Come not too neere the wench.
Sp108Manuile.
I am greatly beholding to you.
Ah Maistres, sometime I mitgh haue said my loue,
But time and fortune hath bereaued me of that,
And I am abiect in those gratious eyes
That with remorse earst saw into my griefe,
May sit and sigh the sorrowes of my heart.
Ah Maistres, sometime I mitgh haue said my loue,
But time and fortune hath bereaued me of that,
And I am abiect in those gratious eyes
That with remorse earst saw into my griefe,
May sit and sigh the sorrowes of my heart.
Sp110Manuile.
Ah Em, were he the man that causeth this mistrust,
I should esteeme of thee as at thee first.
I should esteeme of thee as at thee first.
Sp113Em.
If touching loue my Manuile charge me thus?
Vnkindly must I take it at his hands,
For that my conscience cleeres me of offence.
Vnkindly must I take it at his hands,
For that my conscience cleeres me of offence.
Sp114Manuile.
Oft
Ah impudent and shamelesse in thy ill,
That with thy cunning and defraudfull tongue
Seeks to delude the honest meaning minde:
Was neuer heard in Manchester before,
Of truer loue then hath beene betwixt vs twaine:
And for my part how I haue hazarded
Displeasure of my father and my friends
Thy selfe can witnes. yet notwithstanding this:
Two gentlemen attending on Duke William
Mountney and Valingford, as I heard them named,
That with thy cunning and defraudfull tongue
Seeks to delude the honest meaning minde:
Was neuer heard in Manchester before,
Of truer loue then hath beene betwixt vs twaine:
And for my part how I haue hazarded
Displeasure of my father and my friends
Thy selfe can witnes. yet notwithstanding this:
Two gentlemen attending on Duke William
Mountney and Valingford, as I heard them named,
Oft times resort to see and to be seene,
Walking the street fast by thy fathers dore,
Whose glauncing eyes vp to windowes cast,
Giues testies of their Maisters amorous heart.
This Em is noted and too much talked on,
Some see it without mistrust of ill.
Others there are that scorning grin thereat,
And saith, there goes the Millers daughters wooers.
Ah me, whom chiefly and most of all it doth concerne
To spend my time in griefe and vex my soule,
To thinke my loue should be rewarded thus,
And for thy sake abhorre all women kind,
Sp116Manuile.
If sight do moue offence, it is the better not to see.
But thou didst more vnconstant as thou art,
For with them thou hadst talke and conference.
But thou didst more vnconstant as thou art,
For with them thou hadst talke and conference.
Sp120Manuile.
Ah Em, faithfull loue is full of ielousie,
So did I loue thee true and faithfully,
For which I am rewarded most vnthankfully.
So did I loue thee true and faithfully,
For which I am rewarded most vnthankfully.
Exit in a rage, Manet Em.
Sp121
For
And so away? what in displeasure gone?
And left me such a bitter sweet to gnaw vpon?
Ah Manuile, little wottest thou,
How neere this parting goeth to my heart.
Vncourteous loue whose followers reaps reward,
Of hate disdaine, reproach and infamie,
The fruit of franticke, bedlame ielousie.
Here enters Mountney to Em.
But here comes one of these suspitious men:
Witnes my God without desert of me:
For onely Manuile honor I in heart:
Nor shall vnkindnesse cause me from him to start.
And left me such a bitter sweet to gnaw vpon?
Ah Manuile, little wottest thou,
How neere this parting goeth to my heart.
Vncourteous loue whose followers reaps reward,
Of hate disdaine, reproach and infamie,
The fruit of franticke, bedlame ielousie.
Here enters Mountney to Em.
But here comes one of these suspitious men:
Witnes my God without desert of me:
For onely Manuile honor I in heart:
Nor shall vnkindnesse cause me from him to start.
Sp122Mountney.
For this good fortune, Venus be thou blest,
To meet my loue, the mistres of my heart,
Where time and place giues opportunitie
At full to let her vnderstand my loue.
He turnes to Em & offers to take her by the hand, & she goes from him.
Faire mistres, since my fortune sorts so well:
Heare you a word. What meaneth this?
Nay stay faire Em.
To meet my loue, the mistres of my heart,
Where time and place giues opportunitie
At full to let her vnderstand my loue.
He turnes to Em & offers to take her by the hand, & she goes from him.
Faire mistres, since my fortune sorts so well:
Heare you a word. What meaneth this?
Nay stay faire Em.
Sp124Mountney.
Yet stay (sweet loue) to whom I must disclose
The hidden secrets of a louers thoughts,
Not doubting but to finde such kinde remorse
As naturally you are enclined to.
The hidden secrets of a louers thoughts,
Not doubting but to finde such kinde remorse
As naturally you are enclined to.
Sp126Mountney.
Here Em cuts him off.
whats that to mee? I speake not (sweet) in person of (my friend,
But for my selfe, whom if that loue deserue
To haue regard being honourable loue:
Not base affects of loose lasciuious loue,
Whom youthfull Wantons play and dally With:
But that Vnites in honourable bands of holy rytes,
And knits the sacred Knot that Gods.
But for my selfe, whom if that loue deserue
To haue regard being honourable loue:
Not base affects of loose lasciuious loue,
Whom youthfull Wantons play and dally With:
But that Vnites in honourable bands of holy rytes,
And knits the sacred Knot that Gods.
Sp127Em
What meane you sir to keepe me here so long?
I cannot vnderstand you by your signes,
You keepe a pratling with your lips,
But neuer a word you speake that I can heare.
I cannot vnderstand you by your signes,
You keepe a pratling with your lips,
But neuer a word you speake that I can heare.
Sp128Mountney.
What is she deafe? a great impediment.
Yet remedies there are for such defects.
Sweete Em, it is no little griefe to mee,
To see where nature in her pride of Art
Hath wrought perfections rich and admirable.
Yet remedies there are for such defects.
Sweete Em, it is no little griefe to mee,
To see where nature in her pride of Art
Hath wrought perfections rich and admirable.
Sp132Mountney.
Em.
Oh plague of fortune: Oh hell without compare.
What boots it vs to gaze and not enioy?
What boots it vs to gaze and not enioy?
Exit Em. Manet Mountney.
Sp134Mountney.
Exit Mountney.
Fare well my loue Nay farewell life and all.
Could I procure redresse for this infirmitie,
It might be meanes shee would regard my suit.
I am acquainted with the Kings Physitions:
Amongst the which there’s one mine honest friend,
Seignior Alberto, a very learned man,
His iudgment will I haue to help this ill.
Ah Em, faire Em, if art can make thee whole:
Ile Buy that sense for thee, although it cost me deare.
But Mountney: stay, this may be but deceit,
A matter fained onely to delude thee.
And not vnlike, perhaps by Valingford,
He loues faire Em as well as I.
As well as I? ah no, not halfe so well.
Put case, yet may he be thine enemie,
And giue her counsell to dissemble thus.
Ile try the euent and if it fall out so,
Friendship farewell: Loue makes me now a foe.
Could I procure redresse for this infirmitie,
It might be meanes shee would regard my suit.
I am acquainted with the Kings Physitions:
Amongst the which there’s one mine honest friend,
Seignior Alberto, a very learned man,
His iudgment will I haue to help this ill.
Ah Em, faire Em, if art can make thee whole:
Ile Buy that sense for thee, although it cost me deare.
But Mountney: stay, this may be but deceit,
A matter fained onely to delude thee.
And not vnlike, perhaps by Valingford,
He loues faire Em as well as I.
As well as I? ah no, not halfe so well.
Put case, yet may he be thine enemie,
And giue her counsell to dissemble thus.
Ile try the euent and if it fall out so,
Friendship farewell: Loue makes me now a foe.
Enter Marques Lubeck, and Mariana.
Sp138Lubeck.
C
And
Sweet Ladie, for thy sake.
There was this last night two maskes in one company.
My selfe the formost: The other strangers were:
Amongst the which, when the Musicke began to sound the Mea- (sures,
Each Masker made choice of his Ladie:
And one more forward then the rest stept towards thee:
Which I perceiuing thrust him aside, and tooke thee my selfe.
But this was taken in so ill part,
That at my comming out of the court gate, with iustling together,
It was my chance to be thrust into the arme.
The doer thereof because he was the originall cause of the disorder
At that inconuenient time, was presently committed,
There was this last night two maskes in one company.
My selfe the formost: The other strangers were:
Amongst the which, when the Musicke began to sound the Mea- (sures,
Each Masker made choice of his Ladie:
And one more forward then the rest stept towards thee:
Which I perceiuing thrust him aside, and tooke thee my selfe.
But this was taken in so ill part,
That at my comming out of the court gate, with iustling together,
It was my chance to be thrust into the arme.
The doer thereof because he was the originall cause of the disorder
At that inconuenient time, was presently committed,
Here enters
Sir Robert of
Windsor with
a Gaylor. And is this morning sent for to answer the matter:
And I think here he comes. What Sir Robert of Windsor how now?
Exit the Keeper.
Sp146Lubeck.
Sir I knew you not, and therefore you must pardon me,
And the rather it might be alleaged to me of
Meere simplicitie, to see another dance with my Mistris
Disguised, and I my selfe in presence: but seeing it
Was our haps to damnifie each other vnwillingly,
Let vs be content with our harmes,
And lay the fault where it was, and so become friends.
And the rather it might be alleaged to me of
Meere simplicitie, to see another dance with my Mistris
Disguised, and I my selfe in presence: but seeing it
Was our haps to damnifie each other vnwillingly,
Let vs be content with our harmes,
And lay the fault where it was, and so become friends.
Enter Blanch.
Exit Lubeck and Sir Robert.
Sp152Blanch.
Mariana, as I am grieued with thy presence:
So am I not offended for thy absence,
And were it not a breach to modestie,
Thou shouldest know before I left rhee.
So am I not offended for thy absence,
And were it not a breach to modestie,
Thou shouldest know before I left rhee.
Sp153Mariana.
How neare is this humor to madnesse
If you hold on as you begin, you
are in a prety way to scolding.
If you hold on as you begin, you
are in a prety way to scolding.
Here enters one with a letter. Blanch
Blaunch snatcheth the letter from him, Et exit messenger.
Sp160
Go to foolish fellow.
And therefore to ease the anger I sustaine,
Ile be so bold to open it, whats here?
Sir Robert greets you well?
Your Maistries, his loue, his life; Oh amorous man,
How he entertaines his new Maistres;
And bestowes on Lubeck his odde friend
A horne night cap to keepe in his wit.
And therefore to ease the anger I sustaine,
Ile be so bold to open it, whats here?
Sir Robert greets you well?
Your Maistries, his loue, his life; Oh amorous man,
How he entertaines his new Maistres;
And bestowes on Lubeck his odde friend
A horne night cap to keepe in his wit.
She teares it. Et exit Blaunch.
Sp163Mariana.
How far doth this differ from modestie:
Yet will I gather vp the peeces, which haply
May shew to me the intent thereof
Though not the meaning.
Yet will I gather vp the peeces, which haply
May shew to me the intent thereof
Though not the meaning.
She gathers vp the peeces and ioynes them.
Sp164Mariana.
Exit.
Your seruant and loue sir Robert of Windsor
Alius William the Conqueror, wisheth long health and happinesse.
Is this William the Conqueror, shrouded vnder
The name of sir Robert of Windsor?
Were he the Monarch of the world
He should not dispossesse Lubeck of his loue.
Therefore I will to the Court, and there if I can
Close to be freinds with Ladie Blaunch,
And thereby keepe Lubeck my loue for my selfe:
And further the Ladie Blanch in her sute as much as I may.
Alius William the Conqueror, wisheth long health and happinesse.
Is this William the Conqueror, shrouded vnder
The name of sir Robert of Windsor?
Were he the Monarch of the world
He should not dispossesse Lubeck of his loue.
Therefore I will to the Court, and there if I can
Close to be freinds with Ladie Blaunch,
And thereby keepe Lubeck my loue for my selfe:
And further the Ladie Blanch in her sute as much as I may.
Enter Em solus.
C2 Hath
Hath so bewitched my louely Manuils sences,
That he misdoubts his Em that loues his soule,
He doth suspect corriuals in his loue:
Which how vntrue it is be iudge my God.
But now no more: Here commeth Valingford:
Shift him off now, as thou hast done the other.
Sp172Valingf.
But is it possible you should be taken on such a sudden;
Infortunate Valingford to be thus crost in thy loue.
Faire Em, I am not a little sorrie to see this thy hard hap:
Yet neuerthelesse, I am acquainted with a learned Physitian,
That will do any thing for thee at my request.
To him will I resort, and enquire his iudgement,
As concerning the recouerie of so excellent a sence.
Infortunate Valingford to be thus crost in thy loue.
Faire Em, I am not a little sorrie to see this thy hard hap:
Yet neuerthelesse, I am acquainted with a learned Physitian,
That will do any thing for thee at my request.
To him will I resort, and enquire his iudgement,
As concerning the recouerie of so excellent a sence.
Sp173Em.
O Lord Sir: and of all things I cannot abide Physicke:
The verie name thereof to me is odious.
The verie name thereof to me is odious.
Sp174Valingford.
No; not the thing will doe thee so much good?
Sweet Em, hither I came to parley of loue,
Hoping to haue found thee in thy woonted prosperitie.
And haue the gods so vnmercifully thwarted my expectation?
By dealing so sinisterly with thee sweet Em?
Sweet Em, hither I came to parley of loue,
Hoping to haue found thee in thy woonted prosperitie.
And haue the gods so vnmercifully thwarted my expectation?
By dealing so sinisterly with thee sweet Em?
Sp175Em.
Good sir, no more, it fits not me
To haue respect to such vaine fantasies,
As idle loue presents my eares withall,
More reason I should ghostly giue my selfe,
To sacred prayers, for this my former sinne.
For which this plague is iustly fallen vpon me,
Than to harken to the vanities of loue.
To haue respect to such vaine fantasies,
As idle loue presents my eares withall,
More reason I should ghostly giue my selfe,
To sacred prayers, for this my former sinne.
For which this plague is iustly fallen vpon me,
Than to harken to the vanities of loue.
Sp176Valingford.
Em
Yet sweet Em accept this iewel at my hand,
Which I bestow on thee in token of my loue.
Which I bestow on thee in token of my loue.
Sp177Em.
Exit Em.
A jewell sir, what pleasure can I haue
In jewels, treasure, or any worldly thing
That want my sight that should discerne thereof?
Ah sir I must leaue you:
The paine of mine eyes is so extreame
I cannot long stay in a place. I take my leaue.
In jewels, treasure, or any worldly thing
That want my sight that should discerne thereof?
Ah sir I must leaue you:
The paine of mine eyes is so extreame
I cannot long stay in a place. I take my leaue.
Sp178Valingford.
Exit.
Zounds, what a crosse is this to my conceit;
But Valingford, search the depth of this deuise.
Why may not this be fained subtiltie,
By Mountneyes inuention, to the intent
That I seeing such occasion should leaue off my suit,
And not any more persist to solicite her of loue?
Ile trie the euent, if I can by any meanes perceiue
The effect of this deceit to be procured by his meanes,
Friend Mountney the one of vs is like to repent our bargain.
But Valingford, search the depth of this deuise.
Why may not this be fained subtiltie,
By Mountneyes inuention, to the intent
That I seeing such occasion should leaue off my suit,
And not any more persist to solicite her of loue?
Ile trie the euent, if I can by any meanes perceiue
The effect of this deceit to be procured by his meanes,
Friend Mountney the one of vs is like to repent our bargain.
Enter Mariana and Marques Lubeck.
Sp179Lubeck.
Ladie, since that occasion forward in our good
Presenteth place and opportunitie:
Let me intreat your woonted kind consent
And freindly furtherance in a suit I haue.
Presenteth place and opportunitie:
Let me intreat your woonted kind consent
And freindly furtherance in a suit I haue.
Sp180Mariana.
My Lord you know you need not to intreat,
But may command Mariana to her power
Be it no impeachment to my honost fame.
But may command Mariana to her power
Be it no impeachment to my honost fame.
Sp181Lubeck.
Free are my thoughts from such base villanie
As may in question, Ladie, call your name:
Yet is the matter of such consequence,
Standing vpon my honorable credit,
To be effected with such zeale and secresie,
As should I speake and faile my expectation
It would redound greatly to my preiudice.
As may in question, Ladie, call your name:
Yet is the matter of such consequence,
Standing vpon my honorable credit,
To be effected with such zeale and secresie,
As should I speake and faile my expectation
It would redound greatly to my preiudice.
Sp182Mariana.
My Lord wherein hath Mariana giuen you occasion
That you should mistrust or else be iealous of my secresie?
That you should mistrust or else be iealous of my secresie?
Sp183Lubeck
C3
Thus
Mariana, do not misconster of me:
I not mistrust thee, nor thy secresie,
Nor let my loue misconster my intent,
Nor thinke thereof but well and honourable
I not mistrust thee, nor thy secresie,
Nor let my loue misconster my intent,
Nor thinke thereof but well and honourable
Thus stands the case: Thou knowest from England
Hither came with me Robert of Windsor, a noble man at Armes,
Lustie and valiant, in spring time of his yeares,
No maruell then though he proue amorous.
Sp185Lubeck.
No Mariana, that is not it.
His loue to Blanch was then extinct
When first he saw thy face
Tis thee he loues: yea, thou art onely shee
That is maistris and commander of his thoughts.
His loue to Blanch was then extinct
When first he saw thy face
Tis thee he loues: yea, thou art onely shee
That is maistris and commander of his thoughts.
Sp186Mariana.
Well, well, my Lord, I like you, for such drifts
Put silly Ladies often to their shifts,
Oft haue I heard you say, you loued me well:
Yea, sworne the same, and I beleeued you to.
Can this be found an action of good faith,
Thus to dissemble where you found true loue?
Put silly Ladies often to their shifts,
Oft haue I heard you say, you loued me well:
Yea, sworne the same, and I beleeued you to.
Can this be found an action of good faith,
Thus to dissemble where you found true loue?
Sp187Lubeck.
Mariana, I not dissemble on mine honor:
Nor failes my faith to thee. But for my friend,
For princely William, by whom thou shalt possesse
The title of estate and Maiestie,
Fitting thy loue and vertues of thy minde,
For him I speake, for him do I intreat,
And with thy fauour fully do resigne
To him the claime and interest of my loue.
Sweet Mariana then denie mee not.
Loue William, loue my friend and honour mee
Who else is cleane dishonoured by thy meanes.
Nor failes my faith to thee. But for my friend,
For princely William, by whom thou shalt possesse
The title of estate and Maiestie,
Fitting thy loue and vertues of thy minde,
For him I speake, for him do I intreat,
And with thy fauour fully do resigne
To him the claime and interest of my loue.
Sweet Mariana then denie mee not.
Loue William, loue my friend and honour mee
Who else is cleane dishonoured by thy meanes.
Sp188Mariana,
Borne to mishap, my selfe am onely shee,
On whom the Sunne of fortune neuer shined:
But Planets rulde by retrogarde aspect,
Foretold mine ill in my natiuitie.
On whom the Sunne of fortune neuer shined:
But Planets rulde by retrogarde aspect,
Foretold mine ill in my natiuitie.
Sp189Lubeck.
Sweet Ladie cease, let my intreatie serue
To pacifie the passion of thy griefe,
Which well I know proceeds of ardent loue.
To pacifie the passion of thy griefe,
Which well I know proceeds of ardent loue.
Mariana.
Sp199Lubeck.
In louing him you shall content vs both.
Me, for I craue that fauour at your hands:
He for hopes that comfort at your hands.
Me, for I craue that fauour at your hands:
He for hopes that comfort at your hands.
Enter Blanch to them.
Exit Lubeck,
Sp204Mariana.
Madam be it in secret spoken to your selfe,
If you will but follow the complot I haue inuented
You will not think me so forward
As your selfe shall proue fortunate.
If you will but follow the complot I haue inuented
You will not think me so forward
As your selfe shall proue fortunate.
Sp206Mariana.
Madam as thus: It is not vnknowen to you
That Sir Robert of Windsor,
A man that you do not little esteeme,
Hath long importuned me of loue:
But rather then I will be found false
Or vniust to the Marques Lubeck,
I will as did the constant ladie Penelope
Vndertake to effect some great taske.
That Sir Robert of Windsor,
A man that you do not little esteeme,
Hath long importuned me of loue:
But rather then I will be found false
Or vniust to the Marques Lubeck,
I will as did the constant ladie Penelope
Vndertake to effect some great taske.
Sp208Mariana.
For
The next time that Sir Robert shall come.
In his woonted sort to solicit me with loue,
I will seeme to agree and like of any thing
That the Knight shall demaund, so far forth
As it be no impeachment to my chastitie:
And to conclude, point some place for to meet the man,
In his woonted sort to solicit me with loue,
I will seeme to agree and like of any thing
That the Knight shall demaund, so far forth
As it be no impeachment to my chastitie:
And to conclude, point some place for to meet the man,
For my conueyance from the Denmarke Court:
Which determined vpon, he will appoynt some certaine time
For our departure: whereof you hauing intelligence,
You may soone set downe a plot to weare the English Crowne.
And then:
Sp211Blanch.
Were I assured of the one, as I am perswaded
Of the other, there were some possibilitie in it.
But here comes the man.
Of the other, there were some possibilitie in it.
But here comes the man.
Exit Blanch.
Sp213William. Con.
Lady this is well and happily met,
Fortune hetherto hath beene my foe,
And though I haue oft sought to speake with you,
Yet stil l haue beene crost with sinister haps.
I cannot Madam tell a louing tale
Or court my Maistres with fabulous discourses,
That am a souldier sworne to follow armes:
But this I bluntly let you vnderstand,
I honour you with such religious zeale
As may become an honorable minde.
Nor may I make my loue the siege of Troy
That am a stranger in this Countrie.
First what I am, I know you are resolued,
For that my friend hath let you that to vnderstand,
The Marques Lubeck to whom I am so bouud,
That whilest I liue I count me onely his.
Fortune hetherto hath beene my foe,
And though I haue oft sought to speake with you,
Yet stil l haue beene crost with sinister haps.
I cannot Madam tell a louing tale
Or court my Maistres with fabulous discourses,
That am a souldier sworne to follow armes:
But this I bluntly let you vnderstand,
I honour you with such religious zeale
As may become an honorable minde.
Nor may I make my loue the siege of Troy
That am a stranger in this Countrie.
First what I am, I know you are resolued,
For that my friend hath let you that to vnderstand,
The Marques Lubeck to whom I am so bouud,
That whilest I liue I count me onely his.
Sp214Mariana.
Surely you are beholding to the Marques,
For he hath beene an earnest spokes-man in your cause.
For he hath beene an earnest spokes-man in your cause.
If
If case that you will thereto giue consent.
Sp219William.
Not otherwise but well and honorably.
I haue at Sea a ship that doth attend,
Which shall forth with conduct vs into England;
Where when we are, I straight will marrie thee.
We may not stay deliberating long
Least that suspition, enuious of our weale
Set in a foot to hinder our pretence.
I haue at Sea a ship that doth attend,
Which shall forth with conduct vs into England;
Where when we are, I straight will marrie thee.
We may not stay deliberating long
Least that suspition, enuious of our weale
Set in a foot to hinder our pretence.
Sp222Mariana.
But this I must intreat your grace,
You would not seek by lust vnlawfully
To wrong my chast determinations.
You would not seek by lust vnlawfully
To wrong my chast determinations.
Sp223William.
I hold that man most shamelesse in his sinne
That seekes to wrong an honest ladies name
Whom he thinkes worthy of his marriage bed.
That seekes to wrong an honest ladies name
Whom he thinkes worthy of his marriage bed.
Exit Mariana.
Sp225William.
Exit.
O happie William, blessed in thy loue:
Most fortunate in Marianaes loue:
Well Lubeck well, this courtesie of thine
I will requite if God permit me life.
Most fortunate in Marianaes loue:
Well Lubeck well, this courtesie of thine
I will requite if God permit me life.
Enter Ualingford and Mountney at two sundrie dores, looking
angerly each on other with Rapiers drawen.
Sp226Mountney.
Ualingford, so hardlie I disgest an iniurie
Thou hast profered me, as wer’t not that I detest to do what stands
Not with the honor of my name,
Thy death should paie thy ransome of thy fault.
Thou hast profered me, as wer’t not that I detest to do what stands
Not with the honor of my name,
Thy death should paie thy ransome of thy fault.
Sp227Ualingford.
D
That
And Mountney, had not my reuenging wrath,
Incenst with more than ordinarie loue
Beene such for to depriue thee of thy life,
Thou hadst not liued to braue me as thou doest: wretch as thou art,
Wherein hath Valingford offended thee?
Incenst with more than ordinarie loue
Beene such for to depriue thee of thy life,
Thou hadst not liued to braue me as thou doest: wretch as thou art,
Wherein hath Valingford offended thee?
That honourable bond which late we did confirme
In presence of the gods,
When with the Conqueror we arriued here
For my part hath been kept inviolably
Till now too much abused by thy villanie,
I am inforced to cancell all those bands,
By hating him which I so well did loue.
Sp228Mountney.
Subtill thou art, and cunning in thy fraud,
That giuing me occasion of offence,
Thou pickst a quarrell to excuse thy shame.
Why Valingford, was it not enough for thee
To be a riuall twixt me and my loue,
But counsell her to my no small disgrace,
That when I came to talke with her of loue,
Shee should seeme deafe, as faining not to heare?
That giuing me occasion of offence,
Thou pickst a quarrell to excuse thy shame.
Why Valingford, was it not enough for thee
To be a riuall twixt me and my loue,
But counsell her to my no small disgrace,
That when I came to talke with her of loue,
Shee should seeme deafe, as faining not to heare?
Sp231Valingford.
Then I perceiue we are deluded both:
For when I offered many gifts of Gold and iewels
To entreat for loue, shee hath refused them with a coy disdaine,
Alleaging that shee could not see the sunne.
The same coniectured I to be thy drift,
That fayning so shee might be rid of mee.
For when I offered many gifts of Gold and iewels
To entreat for loue, shee hath refused them with a coy disdaine,
Alleaging that shee could not see the sunne.
The same coniectured I to be thy drift,
That fayning so shee might be rid of mee.
Sp233Valingford.
In my coniecture merely counterfeit:
Therefore lets joyne hands in friendship once againe,
Since that the iarre grew only by coniecture.
Therefore lets joyne hands in friendship once againe,
Since that the iarre grew only by coniecture.
Sp235Valingf.
Exeunt.
With right good will. We will straight vnto her father,
And there to learne whether it be so or no.
And there to learne whether it be so or no.
Enter William and Blanch disguised, with a maske
ouer her face.
And
And get we once to Seas, I force not then,
We quickly shall attaine the English shore.
Sp237Blanch.
But this I vrge you with your former oath.
You shall not seeke to violate mine honour,
Vntill our marriage rights be all performed.
You shall not seeke to violate mine honour,
Vntill our marriage rights be all performed.
Sp238William.
Mariana, here I sweare to thee by heauen.
And by the honour that I beare to Armes,
Neuer to seeke or craue at hands of thee
The spoyle of honourable chastitie
Vntill we do attaine the English coast,
Where thou shalt be my right espoused Queene.
And by the honour that I beare to Armes,
Neuer to seeke or craue at hands of thee
The spoyle of honourable chastitie
Vntill we do attaine the English coast,
Where thou shalt be my right espoused Queene.
Sp239Blanch.
In hope your oath proceedeth from your heart,
Lets leaue the Court, and betake vs to his power
That gouernes all things to his mightie will,
And will reward the iust with endlesse ioye,
And plague the bad with most extreme annoy,
Lets leaue the Court, and betake vs to his power
That gouernes all things to his mightie will,
And will reward the iust with endlesse ioye,
And plague the bad with most extreme annoy,
Exit Blanch and William.
Enter the Miller, his man Trotter, & Mannile.
Sp241Miller.
I tell you sir it is no little greefe to mee,
You should so hardly conceit of my daughter,
Whose honest report, though I saie it,
Was neuer blotted with any title of defamation.
You should so hardly conceit of my daughter,
Whose honest report, though I saie it,
Was neuer blotted with any title of defamation.
Sp242Manuile.
Father Miller, the repaire of those gentlemen to your (house,
Hath giuen me great occasion to mislike.
Hath giuen me great occasion to mislike.
Sp243Miller.
As for those gentlemen, I neuer saw in them
Any euill intreatie. But should they haue profered it,
Her chaste minde hath proofe enough to preuent it.
Any euill intreatie. But should they haue profered it,
Her chaste minde hath proofe enough to preuent it.
Sp244Trotter.
Those gentlemen are as honest as euer I saw:
For yfaith one of them gaue me six pence
To fetch a quart of Seck. See master here they come.
For yfaith one of them gaue me six pence
To fetch a quart of Seck. See master here they come.
Enter Mountney and Valingford.
Exit Trotter,
D2 Manuile
Sp249Miller.
Gentlemen as you are strangers to me,
Yet by the way of courtesie you shall demand
Any reasonable thing at my hands.
Yet by the way of courtesie you shall demand
Any reasonable thing at my hands.
Sp251Valingford.
It is giuen vs to vnderstand that your daughter
Is sudenly become both blinde and deafe.
Is sudenly become both blinde and deafe.
Sp252Miller.
Mary God forbid: I haue sent for her, in deed
She hath kept her chamber this three daies.
It were no litle griefe to me if it should be so.
She hath kept her chamber this three daies.
It were no litle griefe to me if it should be so.
Enter Trotter leading Em.
Sp254Miller.
Gentlemen I feare your words are two true:
See where Trotter comes leading of her.
What ayles my Em, not blinde I hope?
See where Trotter comes leading of her.
What ayles my Em, not blinde I hope?
Sp255Em.
Mountney and Valingford both together?
And Manuile, to whom I haue faithfully vowed my loue?
Now Em suddenly helpe thy selfe.
And Manuile, to whom I haue faithfully vowed my loue?
Now Em suddenly helpe thy selfe.
Sp258Em.
Trotter lend me thy hand,
And as thou louest me keep my counsell
And iustifie what so euer I saie, and Ile largely requite thee.
And as thou louest me keep my counsell
And iustifie what so euer I saie, and Ile largely requite thee.
Sp259Trott.
Ah, that is as much as to saie you would tell a monstrous,
Terrible, horrible, outragious lie,
And I shall sooth it, no berlady.
Terrible, horrible, outragious lie,
And I shall sooth it, no berlady.
He thrusts Em vpon her father.
Where
Where I may not be disturbed,
Sith God hath visited me both of my sight and hearing.
Sp265Miller.
Tell me sweet Em how came this blindnes.
Thy eyes are louely to looke on,
And yet haue they lost the benefit of their sight.
What a griefe is this to thy poore father?
Thy eyes are louely to looke on,
And yet haue they lost the benefit of their sight.
What a griefe is this to thy poore father?
Sp266Em.
Good father let me not stand as an open gazing stock to (euerie one,
But in a place alone as fits a creature so miserable.
But in a place alone as fits a creature so miserable.
Exit the Miller, Trotter and Em.
Sp268Manuile.
Exit Manuile.
Both blinde and deafe, then is she no wife for me;
And glad am I so good occasion is hapned:
Now will I away to Manchester,
And leaue these gentlemen to their blinde fortune.
And glad am I so good occasion is hapned:
Now will I away to Manchester,
And leaue these gentlemen to their blinde fortune.
Sp269Mountney.
Exit Mountney.
Since fortune hath thus spitefully crost our hope,
Let vs leaue this guest and harken after our King,
Who is at this day landed at Lirpoole.
Let vs leaue this guest and harken after our King,
Who is at this day landed at Lirpoole.
Sp270Valingford.
Goe my Lord, Ile follow you.
Well, now Mountney is gone
Ile staie behind to solicit my loue,
For I imagine that I shall find this but a fained inuention
Thereby to haue vs leaue off our suits.
Well, now Mountney is gone
Ile staie behind to solicit my loue,
For I imagine that I shall find this but a fained inuention
Thereby to haue vs leaue off our suits.
Enter Marques Lubeck, and the King of Denmark
Angerly with some attendants.
Sp271Zweno. K.
D3
Besides
Well Lubeck well, it is not possible
But you must be consenting to this act;
Is this the man so highly you extold?
And play a part so hatefull with his friend?
Since first he came with thee into the court
What entertainement and what countenance
He hath receiued, none better knowes than thou.
In recompence whereof, he quites me well,
To steale a way faire Mariana my prisoner,
Whose ransome being lately greed vpon,
I am deluded of by this escape.
But you must be consenting to this act;
Is this the man so highly you extold?
And play a part so hatefull with his friend?
Since first he came with thee into the court
What entertainement and what countenance
He hath receiued, none better knowes than thou.
In recompence whereof, he quites me well,
To steale a way faire Mariana my prisoner,
Whose ransome being lately greed vpon,
I am deluded of by this escape.
Besides, I know nor how to answer it
When shee shall be demanded home to Swethia.
Sp272Lubeck.
My gracious Lord coniecture not I pray
Worser of Lubeck than he doth deserue:
Your highnes knowes Mariana was my loue,
Sole paragon and mistres of my thoughts.
Is it likely I should know of her departure,
Wherein there is no man iniured more than I?
Worser of Lubeck than he doth deserue:
Your highnes knowes Mariana was my loue,
Sole paragon and mistres of my thoughts.
Is it likely I should know of her departure,
Wherein there is no man iniured more than I?
Sp273Zweno.
That carries reason Marques I confesse.
Call forth my daughter, yet I am perswaded
That shee poore soule suspected not her going:
For as I heare: shee likewise loued the man,
Which he to blame did not at all regard.
Call forth my daughter, yet I am perswaded
That shee poore soule suspected not her going:
For as I heare: shee likewise loued the man,
Which he to blame did not at all regard.
Sp275Zweno.
What, my daughter gone?
Now Marques your villanie breakes foorth.
This match is of your making, gentle sir:
And you shall dearly know the price thereof.
Now Marques your villanie breakes foorth.
This match is of your making, gentle sir:
And you shall dearly know the price thereof.
Sp276Lubeck.
Knew I thereof, or that there was intent
In Robert thus to steale your highnes daughter
Let heauens in iustice presently confound me.
In Robert thus to steale your highnes daughter
Let heauens in iustice presently confound me.
Sp277Zweno.
Yea,
Not all the protestations thou canst vse,
Shall saue thy life. Away with him to prison.
And minion, otherwise it cannot be,
But you are an agent in this trecherie.
I will reuenge it throughly on you both.
Away with her to prison. Heres stuffe indeed?
My daughter stolen away?
It booteth not thus to disturbe my selfe,
But presently to send to English William,
To send me that proud knight of Windsor hither,
Here in my Court to suffer for his shame:
Or at my pleasure to be punished there
Withall, that Blanch be sent me home againe,
Or I shall fetch her vnto Windsors cost,
Shall saue thy life. Away with him to prison.
And minion, otherwise it cannot be,
But you are an agent in this trecherie.
I will reuenge it throughly on you both.
Away with her to prison. Heres stuffe indeed?
My daughter stolen away?
It booteth not thus to disturbe my selfe,
But presently to send to English William,
To send me that proud knight of Windsor hither,
Here in my Court to suffer for his shame:
Or at my pleasure to be punished there
Withall, that Blanch be sent me home againe,
Or I shall fetch her vnto Windsors cost,
Yea, and Williams too if he denie her mee?
Enter William taken with souldiers.
Sp278William.
Could any crosse, could any plague be worse?
Could heauen or hell did both conspire in one
To afflict my soule, inuent a greater scourge
Than presently I am tormented with?
Ah Mariana cause of my lament:
Ioy of my heart, and comfort of my life
For thee I breath my sorrowes in the ayre,
And tire my selfe: for silently I sigh,
My sorrowes afflicts my soule with equall passion.
Could heauen or hell did both conspire in one
To afflict my soule, inuent a greater scourge
Than presently I am tormented with?
Ah Mariana cause of my lament:
Ioy of my heart, and comfort of my life
For thee I breath my sorrowes in the ayre,
And tire my selfe: for silently I sigh,
My sorrowes afflicts my soule with equall passion.
Enter Demarch.
Sp282Souldier.
My Lord, watching this night in the campe,
VVe tooke this man, and know not what he is:
And in his companie was a gallant dame,
A woman faire in outward shewe shee seemd,
But that her face was mask’d we could not see
The grace and fauour of her countenance.
VVe tooke this man, and know not what he is:
And in his companie was a gallant dame,
A woman faire in outward shewe shee seemd,
But that her face was mask’d we could not see
The grace and fauour of her countenance.
Sp285Demarch.
And takest thou scorne to answer my demand?
Thy proud behauiour very well deserues
This misdemeanour at the worst be construed.
Why doest thou neither know, nor hast thou heard?
That in the absence of the Saxon Duke,
Demarch is his especiall Substitute
To punish those that shall offend the lawes.
Thy proud behauiour very well deserues
This misdemeanour at the worst be construed.
Why doest thou neither know, nor hast thou heard?
That in the absence of the Saxon Duke,
Demarch is his especiall Substitute
To punish those that shall offend the lawes.
Sp286William.
Demarch.
In knowing this, I know thou art a traytor,
A rebell, and mutenous conspirator.
Why Demarch, knowest thou who I am?
A rebell, and mutenous conspirator.
Why Demarch, knowest thou who I am?
Sp287Demarch.
Pardon my dread Lord the error of my sence,
And misdemeanor to your princely excellencie.
And misdemeanor to your princely excellencie.
Sp289Demarch.
Free are my thoughts my dread and gratious Lord
From treason to your state and common weale,
Only reuengement of a priuate grudge,
By Lord Dirot lately profered me,
That stands not with the honor of my name,
Is cause I haue assembled for my guard
Some men in armes that may withstand his force,
Whose setled malice aymeth at my life.
From treason to your state and common weale,
Only reuengement of a priuate grudge,
By Lord Dirot lately profered me,
That stands not with the honor of my name,
Is cause I haue assembled for my guard
Some men in armes that may withstand his force,
Whose setled malice aymeth at my life.
Sp291Demarch.
In armes, my gratious Lord,
Not past two miles from hence,
As credibly I am assertained.
Not past two miles from hence,
As credibly I am assertained.
Exit.
Enter the Citizen of Manchester, and his daughter Elner,
and Manuile.
Sp293Citizen.
Indeed sir it would do verie well
If you could intreat your father to come hither:
But if you thinke it be too far,
I care not much to take horse and ride to Manchester.
I am sure my daughter is content with either:
How sayest thou Elner art thou not?
If you could intreat your father to come hither:
But if you thinke it be too far,
I care not much to take horse and ride to Manchester.
I am sure my daughter is content with either:
How sayest thou Elner art thou not?
Sp295Manuile,
Well Elner, farewell, only thus much,
I pray make all things in a readines,
Either to serue here or to carry thither with vs.
I pray make all things in a readines,
Either to serue here or to carry thither with vs.
Sp296Citizen.
As for that sir take you no care,
And so I betake you to your iournie.
Enter Valingford,
But soft, what gentleman is this?
And so I betake you to your iournie.
Enter Valingford,
But soft, what gentleman is this?
Of
Of Manchester, his father liuing there of good account.
Sp301Valingford.
I haue been acquainted in times past,
But through his double dealing,
I am growen werie of his companie.
For be it spoken to you:
He hath beene acquainted with a poore millers daughter,
And diuers times hath promist her marriage.
But what with his delayes and flouts,
He hath brought her into such a taking,
That I feare me it will cost her her life.
But through his double dealing,
I am growen werie of his companie.
For be it spoken to you:
He hath beene acquainted with a poore millers daughter,
And diuers times hath promist her marriage.
But what with his delayes and flouts,
He hath brought her into such a taking,
That I feare me it will cost her her life.
Sp302Citizen.
To be plaine with you sir:
His father and I haue been of old acquaintance,
And a motion was made,
Betweene my daughter and his sonne,
VVhich is now throughly agreed vpon
Saue onely the place appoynted for the marriage,
Whether it shall be kept here or at Manchester,
And for no other occasion he is now ridden.
His father and I haue been of old acquaintance,
And a motion was made,
Betweene my daughter and his sonne,
VVhich is now throughly agreed vpon
Saue onely the place appoynted for the marriage,
Whether it shall be kept here or at Manchester,
And for no other occasion he is now ridden.
Sp305Elner.
If I knew this to be true?
He should not be my husband were he neuer so good:
And therefore, good father,
I would desire you to take the paines
To beare this gentleman companie to Manchester
To know whether this be true or no.
He should not be my husband were he neuer so good:
And therefore, good father,
I would desire you to take the paines
To beare this gentleman companie to Manchester
To know whether this be true or no.
Sp306Citizen.
E
Valingford.
Now trust mee gentleman hee deales with mee verie (hardly,
Knowing how well I meant to him.
But I care not much to ride to Manchester
To know whether his fathers will be
He should deale with me so badly.
Will it please you sir to go in, we will presently take horse & away.
Knowing how well I meant to him.
But I care not much to ride to Manchester
To know whether his fathers will be
He should deale with me so badly.
Will it please you sir to go in, we will presently take horse & away.
Sp307Valingford.
Exit.
If it please you to go in
Ile follow you presently. Exit Elner and her father.
Now shall I be reuenged on Manuile,
And by this meanes get Em to my wife:
And therefore I will straight to her fathers
And informe them both of all that is hapned.
Ile follow you presently. Exit Elner and her father.
Now shall I be reuenged on Manuile,
And by this meanes get Em to my wife:
And therefore I will straight to her fathers
And informe them both of all that is hapned.
Enter William, the Ambassador of Denmarke,
Demarch, and other attendants.
Sp309Embassador.
Mary thus, the King of Denmark & my Soueraigne
Doth send to know of thee what is the cause
That iniuriously against the law of armes,
Thou hast stollen away his onely daughter Blanch,
The onely stay and comfort of his life.
Therefore by me he willeth thee to send his daughter Blanch:
Or else forthwith he will leuy such an host,
As soone shall fetch her in despite of thee.
Doth send to know of thee what is the cause
That iniuriously against the law of armes,
Thou hast stollen away his onely daughter Blanch,
The onely stay and comfort of his life.
Therefore by me he willeth thee to send his daughter Blanch:
Or else forthwith he will leuy such an host,
As soone shall fetch her in despite of thee.
Sp310William.
Embassador, this answer I returne thy King,
He willeth me to send his daughter Blanch:
Saying I conuaid her from the Danish court,
That neuer yet did once as think thereof.
As for his menacing and daunting threats
I nill regard him nor his Danish power:
For if he come to fetch her forth my Realme,
I will prouide him such a banquet here.
That he shall haue small cause to giue me thanks.
He willeth me to send his daughter Blanch:
Saying I conuaid her from the Danish court,
That neuer yet did once as think thereof.
As for his menacing and daunting threats
I nill regard him nor his Danish power:
For if he come to fetch her forth my Realme,
I will prouide him such a banquet here.
That he shall haue small cause to giue me thanks.
Exit Ambassador.
Sp314William.
Demarch, our subiects earst leuied in ciuill broyles,
Mustred forth with for to defend the Realme,
In hope whereof that we shall finde you true,
We freely pardon this thy late offence.
Mustred forth with for to defend the Realme,
In hope whereof that we shall finde you true,
We freely pardon this thy late offence.
Exeunt. Enter
Enter the Miller and Valingford.
Sp316Mill.
Alas gentleman, why should you trouble your selfe so much,
Considering the imperfections of my daughter,
Which is able to with-draw the loue of any man from her,
As alreadie it hath done in her first choyce.
Maister Manuile hath forsaken her,
And at Chester shall be maried to a mans daughter of no little (wealth.
But if my daughter knew so much:
It would goe verie neere her heart I feare me.
Considering the imperfections of my daughter,
Which is able to with-draw the loue of any man from her,
As alreadie it hath done in her first choyce.
Maister Manuile hath forsaken her,
And at Chester shall be maried to a mans daughter of no little (wealth.
But if my daughter knew so much:
It would goe verie neere her heart I feare me.
Sp317Valingf.
Father miller: such is the entire affection to your (daughter,
As no misfortune whatsoeuer can alter.
My fellow Mountney thou seest gaue quickly ouer,
But I by reason of my good meaning
Am not so soone to be changed
Although I am borne off with scornes and deniall.
As no misfortune whatsoeuer can alter.
My fellow Mountney thou seest gaue quickly ouer,
But I by reason of my good meaning
Am not so soone to be changed
Although I am borne off with scornes and deniall.
Enter Em to them.
Sp318Miller.
Trust me sir I know not what to saie,
My daughter is not to be compelled by me,
But here she comes her selfe: speake to her and spare not:
For I neuer was troubled with loue matters so much before.
My daughter is not to be compelled by me,
But here she comes her selfe: speake to her and spare not:
For I neuer was troubled with loue matters so much before.
Sp319Em.
Good Lord! shall I neuer be rid of this importunate man?
Now must I dissemble blindnesse againe.
Once more for thy sake Manuile thus am I inforced,
Because I shall complete my full resolued minde to thee.
Father where are you?
Now must I dissemble blindnesse againe.
Once more for thy sake Manuile thus am I inforced,
Because I shall complete my full resolued minde to thee.
Father where are you?
Sp321Em.
Where are you sir? will you neuer leaue
This idle and vaine pursuit of loue?
Is not England stor’d enough to content you?
But you must still trouble the poore
Contemptible maid of Manchester.
This idle and vaine pursuit of loue?
Is not England stor’d enough to content you?
But you must still trouble the poore
Contemptible maid of Manchester.
E2 VVould
VVould haue you likewise troubled with a blinde wife,
Hauing the benefit of your eyes,
But neither follow him so much in follie,
But loue one, in whom you may better delight.
Sp324Valingford.
Father Miller, thy daughter shall haue honour
By granting mee her loue:
I am a Gentleman of king Williams Court,
And no meane man in king Williams fauour.
By granting mee her loue:
I am a Gentleman of king Williams Court,
And no meane man in king Williams fauour.
Sp325Em.
If you be a Lord sir, as you say:
You offer both your selfe and mee great wrong:
Yours, as apparant in limiting your loue so vnorderly,
For which you rashly endure reprochement:
Mine, as open and euident,
VVhen being shut from the vanities of this world,
You would haue me as an open gazing stock to all the world:
For lust, not loue leades you into this error:
But from the one I will keepe me as well as I can,
And yeeld the other to none but to my father,
As I am bound by dutie.
You offer both your selfe and mee great wrong:
Yours, as apparant in limiting your loue so vnorderly,
For which you rashly endure reprochement:
Mine, as open and euident,
VVhen being shut from the vanities of this world,
You would haue me as an open gazing stock to all the world:
For lust, not loue leades you into this error:
But from the one I will keepe me as well as I can,
And yeeld the other to none but to my father,
As I am bound by dutie.
Sp326Valingford.
VVhy faire Em, Manuile hath forsaken thee,
And must at Chester be married, which,
If I speake otherwise than true,
Let thy father speake what credibly he hath heard.
And must at Chester be married, which,
If I speake otherwise than true,
Let thy father speake what credibly he hath heard.
Sp327Em.
But can it be Manuile will deale so vnkindly,
To reward my iustice with such monstrous vngentlenes.
Haue I dissembled for thy sake?
And doest thou now thus requite it?
In deed these many daies I haue not seen him,
Which hath made me maruell at his long absence.
But father, are you assured of the wordes he spake,
VVere concerning Manuile?
To reward my iustice with such monstrous vngentlenes.
Haue I dissembled for thy sake?
And doest thou now thus requite it?
In deed these many daies I haue not seen him,
Which hath made me maruell at his long absence.
But father, are you assured of the wordes he spake,
VVere concerning Manuile?
Sp328Miller.
His
In sooth daughter, now it is forth,
I must needs confirme it.
Master Manuile hath forsaken thee,
And at Chester must be married
To a mans daughter of no little wealth.
I must needs confirme it.
Master Manuile hath forsaken thee,
And at Chester must be married
To a mans daughter of no little wealth.
His owne father procures it,
And therefore I dare credit it,
And doe thou beleeue it,
For trust me daughtet it is so.
Sp329Em.
Then good father pardon the iniurie,
That I haue done to you only causing your griefe,
By ouer-fond affecting a man so trorhlesse.
And you likewise sir, I pray hold mee excused,
As I hope this cause will allow sufficiently for mee:
My loue to Manuile, thinking he would requite it,
Hath made me double with my father and you,
And many more besides,
Which I will no longer hide from you.
That inticing speeches should not beguile mee,
I haue made my selfe deafe to any but to him.
And lest any mans person should please mee more than his,
I haue dissembled the want of my sight:
Both which shaddowes of my irreuocable affections,
I haue not spar’d to confirme before him.
My father, and all other amorous soliciters:
VVherewith not made acquainted, I perceiue
My true intent hath wrought mine owne sorrow
And seeking by loue to be regarded,
Am cut off with contempt, and despised.
That I haue done to you only causing your griefe,
By ouer-fond affecting a man so trorhlesse.
And you likewise sir, I pray hold mee excused,
As I hope this cause will allow sufficiently for mee:
My loue to Manuile, thinking he would requite it,
Hath made me double with my father and you,
And many more besides,
Which I will no longer hide from you.
That inticing speeches should not beguile mee,
I haue made my selfe deafe to any but to him.
And lest any mans person should please mee more than his,
I haue dissembled the want of my sight:
Both which shaddowes of my irreuocable affections,
I haue not spar’d to confirme before him.
My father, and all other amorous soliciters:
VVherewith not made acquainted, I perceiue
My true intent hath wrought mine owne sorrow
And seeking by loue to be regarded,
Am cut off with contempt, and despised.
Sp330Mill.
Tell me sweet Em, hast thou but fained all this while for (his loue,
That hath so discourteously forsaken thee.
That hath so discourteously forsaken thee.
Sp331Em.
Credit me father I haue told you the troth,
Wherewith I desire you and Lord Valingford not to be displeased
For ought else I shall saie,
Let my present griefe hold me excused.
But may I liue to see that vngratefull man
Iustly rewarded for his trecherie,
Poore Em would think her selfe not a little happie.
Fauour my departing at this instant,
For my troubled thought desires to meditate alone in silence.
Wherewith I desire you and Lord Valingford not to be displeased
For ought else I shall saie,
Let my present griefe hold me excused.
But may I liue to see that vngratefull man
Iustly rewarded for his trecherie,
Poore Em would think her selfe not a little happie.
Fauour my departing at this instant,
For my troubled thought desires to meditate alone in silence.
Exit Em. E3 Valing.
Sp333Miller
Exit the Miller.
Alas sir, blame her not, you see shee hath good cause,
Being so handled by this gentleman:
And so Ile leaue you, and go comfort my poore wench
As well as I may.
Being so handled by this gentleman:
And so Ile leaue you, and go comfort my poore wench
As well as I may.
Exit Valingford.
Enter Zweno King of Denmarke with Rosilio,
and other attendants.
Sp337Zweno.
Exeunt.
Goe captaine away, regard the charge I gaue:
See all our men be martialed for the fight.
Dispose the wards as lately was deuised,
And let rhe prisoners vnder seuerall gards
Be kept apart vntill you heare from vs.
Let this suffice, you know my resolution,
If William Duke of Saxon be the man,
That by his answer sent vs, he would send
Not words but wounds: not parleis but alarms,
Must be decider of this controuersie.
Rosilio, stay with mee, the rest begone.
See all our men be martialed for the fight.
Dispose the wards as lately was deuised,
And let rhe prisoners vnder seuerall gards
Be kept apart vntill you heare from vs.
Let this suffice, you know my resolution,
If William Duke of Saxon be the man,
That by his answer sent vs, he would send
Not words but wounds: not parleis but alarms,
Must be decider of this controuersie.
Rosilio, stay with mee, the rest begone.
Enter William, and Demarch with other attendants
Sp338William.
All but Demarch go shroud you out of sight,
For I will goe parley with the Prince my selfe.
For I will goe parley with the Prince my selfe.
Sp339Demarch.
Should Zweno by this parley call you forth,
Vpon intent iniuriously to deale:
This offereth too much oportunitie.
Vpon intent iniuriously to deale:
This offereth too much oportunitie.
Sp340William.
Either
No, no, Demarch, that were a breach
Against the Law of Armes: therefore begone,
And leaue vs here alone.Exeunt.
I see that Zweno is master of his word.
Zweno, William of Saxonie greeteth thee
Against the Law of Armes: therefore begone,
And leaue vs here alone.Exeunt.
I see that Zweno is master of his word.
Zweno, William of Saxonie greeteth thee
Either well or ill, according to thy intent.
If well thou wish to him and Saxonie,
He bids thee friendly welcome as he can:
If ill thou wish to him and Saxonie,
He must withstand thy malice as he may.
Sp341Zweno.
William, for other name and title giue I none
To him, who were he worthie of those honours
That Fortune and his predecessors left,
I ought by right and humaine courtesie
To grace his style with duke of Saxonie.
But for I finde a base degenerate minde,
I frame my speech according to the man,
And not the state that he vnworthie holds.
To him, who were he worthie of those honours
That Fortune and his predecessors left,
I ought by right and humaine courtesie
To grace his style with duke of Saxonie.
But for I finde a base degenerate minde,
I frame my speech according to the man,
And not the state that he vnworthie holds.
Sp342William.
Herein Zweno dost thou abase thy state,
To breake the peace which by our auncesters
Hath heretofore been honourably kept.
To breake the peace which by our auncesters
Hath heretofore been honourably kept.
Sp343Zweno.
And should that peace for euer haue been kept,
Had not thy selfe beene author of the breach:
Nor stands it with the honour of my state,
Or nature of a father to his childe,
That I should so be robbed of my daughter,
And not vnto the vtmost of my power
Reuenge so intolerable an iniurie.
Had not thy selfe beene author of the breach:
Nor stands it with the honour of my state,
Or nature of a father to his childe,
That I should so be robbed of my daughter,
And not vnto the vtmost of my power
Reuenge so intolerable an iniurie.
Sp344William.
is this the colour of your quarrell Zweno?
I well perceiue the wisest men may erre.
And thinke you I conueied away your daughter Blanch?
I well perceiue the wisest men may erre.
And thinke you I conueied away your daughter Blanch?
Zweno
Sp353Zweno.
Shamelesse persisting in thy ill,
Thou doest maintaine a manifest vntroth,
As shee shall iustifie vnto thy teeth.
Rosilio, fetch her and the Marques hither.
Thou doest maintaine a manifest vntroth,
As shee shall iustifie vnto thy teeth.
Rosilio, fetch her and the Marques hither.
Exit Rosilio for Mariana.
Sp355Demarch,
I heare this night among the souldiers,
That in their watch they tooke a pensiue Ladie:
Who at the appoyntment of the Lord Dirot is yet in keeping:
What shee is I know not,
Onely thus much I ouer-hard by chance.
That in their watch they tooke a pensiue Ladie:
Who at the appoyntment of the Lord Dirot is yet in keeping:
What shee is I know not,
Onely thus much I ouer-hard by chance.
Enter Rosilio with the Marques.
Sp360Zweno,
See here Duke VVilliam, your competitors,
That were consenting to my daughters scape:
Let them resolue you of the truth herein,
And here I vow and solemnely protest,
That in thy presence they shall lose their heads,
Vnlesse I heare where as my daughter is.
That were consenting to my daughters scape:
Let them resolue you of the truth herein,
And here I vow and solemnely protest,
That in thy presence they shall lose their heads,
Vnlesse I heare where as my daughter is.
Sp361VVilliam.
O Marques Lubeck how it grieueth me,
That for my sake thou shouldest indure these bondes.
Be iudge my soule that feeles the martirdome.
That for my sake thou shouldest indure these bondes.
Be iudge my soule that feeles the martirdome.
Sp362Marques.
Duke VVilliam, you know it is for your cause,
It pleaseth thus the King to misconceiue of me,
And for his pleasure doth me iniurie.
It pleaseth thus the King to misconceiue of me,
And for his pleasure doth me iniurie.
Enter Demarch with the Ladie Blanch.
I so
I so detest the dealing of their sex,
As that I count a louers state to be the base
And vildest slauerie in the world.
Sp367William.
Zweno I was deceiued, yea vtterly deceiued,
Yet this is shee: this same is Ladie Blanch.
And for mine error, here I am content
To do whatsoeuer Zweno shall set downe.
Ah cruell Mariana thus to vse
The man which loued and honoured thee with his heart.
Yet this is shee: this same is Ladie Blanch.
And for mine error, here I am content
To do whatsoeuer Zweno shall set downe.
Ah cruell Mariana thus to vse
The man which loued and honoured thee with his heart.
Sp368Mariana.
VVhen first I came into your highnesse court,
And William often importing me of loue:
I did deuise to ease the griefe your daughter did sustain:
Shee should meete Sir William masked as I it were.
This put in proofe, did take so good effect,
As yet it seemes his grace is not resolued,
But it was I which he conueied away.
And William often importing me of loue:
I did deuise to ease the griefe your daughter did sustain:
Shee should meete Sir William masked as I it were.
This put in proofe, did take so good effect,
As yet it seemes his grace is not resolued,
But it was I which he conueied away.
Sp369William.
May this be true? It cannot be but true.
Was it Ladie Blanch which I conueied away?
Vnconstant Mariana,
Thus to deale with him which meant to thee nought but faith.
Was it Ladie Blanch which I conueied away?
Vnconstant Mariana,
Thus to deale with him which meant to thee nought but faith.
Sp370Blanch.
Pardon deere father my follies that are past,
Wherein I haue neglected my dutie
Which I in reuerence ought to shew your grace,
For led by loue I thus haue gone astray,
And now repent the errors I was in.
Wherein I haue neglected my dutie
Which I in reuerence ought to shew your grace,
For led by loue I thus haue gone astray,
And now repent the errors I was in.
Sp371Zweno.
F
William.
Stand vp deare daughter, though thy fault deserues
For to be punisht in the extremest sort;
Yet loue that couers multitude of sins
Makes loue in parents winke at childrens faults.
Sufficeth Blanch thy father loues thee so,
Thy follies past he knowes, but will not know.
And here Duke William take my daughter to thy wife.
For well I am assured shee loues thee well.
For to be punisht in the extremest sort;
Yet loue that couers multitude of sins
Makes loue in parents winke at childrens faults.
Sufficeth Blanch thy father loues thee so,
Thy follies past he knowes, but will not know.
And here Duke William take my daughter to thy wife.
For well I am assured shee loues thee well.
Sp372William.
A proper coniunction: as who should say,
Lately come out of the fire,
I would goe thrust my selfe into the flame.
Let Maistres nice go Saint it where shee list,
And coyly quaint it with dissembling face,
I hold in scorne the fooleries that they vse,
I being free will neuer subiect my selfe
To any such as shee is vnderneath the sunne.
Lately come out of the fire,
I would goe thrust my selfe into the flame.
Let Maistres nice go Saint it where shee list,
And coyly quaint it with dissembling face,
I hold in scorne the fooleries that they vse,
I being free will neuer subiect my selfe
To any such as shee is vnderneath the sunne.
Sp373Zweno.
Refusest thou to take my daughter to thy wife?
I tell thee Duke, this rash deniall
May bring more mischiefe on thee then thou canst avoyd:
I tell thee Duke, this rash deniall
May bring more mischiefe on thee then thou canst avoyd:
Sp374William.
Conceit hath wrought such generall dislike
Through the false dealing of Mariana,
That vtterly I doe abhor their sex.
They are all disloyall, vnconstant, all vniust:
Who tries as I haue tried,
And findes as I haue found,
Will say there’s no such creatures on the ground.
Through the false dealing of Mariana,
That vtterly I doe abhor their sex.
They are all disloyall, vnconstant, all vniust:
Who tries as I haue tried,
And findes as I haue found,
Will say there’s no such creatures on the ground.
Sp375Blanch.
Vnconstant Knight, though some deserue no trust,
Thers others faithfull, louing, loyall, & iust.
Thers others faithfull, louing, loyall, & iust.
Enter to them Ualingford with Em and the Miller,
And Mountney, and Manuile, and Elner.
Sp377Valingf.
Here be two women, may it please your grace,
That are contracted to one man,
And are in strife whether shall haue him to their husband.
That are contracted to one man,
And are in strife whether shall haue him to their husband.
Elner.
Sp385Elner.
Shee hath stolne a conscience to serue her own turne:
But you are deceiued, yfaith he will none of you.
But you are deceiued, yfaith he will none of you.
Sp386Manuile.
Indeed, dread Lord, so deere I held her loue,
As in the same I put my whole delight.
But some impediments which at that instant hapned,
Made me forsake her quite,
For which I had her fathers franke consent.
As in the same I put my whole delight.
But some impediments which at that instant hapned,
Made me forsake her quite,
For which I had her fathers franke consent.
Sp390Em.
Pardon my Lord, Ile tell your grace the troth,
Be it not imputed to me as discredit.
I loued this Manuile so much, that still me thought
When he was absent did present to mee
The forme and feature of that countenance
Which I did shrine an Idol in my heart:
And neuer could I see a man me thought
That equald Manuile in my partiall eye.
Nor was there any loue betweene vs lost,
But that I held the same in high regard,
Vntill repaire of some vnto our house,
Of whom my Manuile grew thus iealous:
As if he tooke exception I vouchsafed
To heare them speake, or saw them when they came:
On which I straight tooke order with my selfe
To voyde the scruple of his conscience,
By counterfaiting that I neither saw nor heard,
Any wayes to rid my hands of them.
All this I did to keepe my Manuiles loue,
Which he vnkindly seekes for to reward.
Be it not imputed to me as discredit.
I loued this Manuile so much, that still me thought
When he was absent did present to mee
The forme and feature of that countenance
Which I did shrine an Idol in my heart:
And neuer could I see a man me thought
That equald Manuile in my partiall eye.
Nor was there any loue betweene vs lost,
But that I held the same in high regard,
Vntill repaire of some vnto our house,
Of whom my Manuile grew thus iealous:
As if he tooke exception I vouchsafed
To heare them speake, or saw them when they came:
On which I straight tooke order with my selfe
To voyde the scruple of his conscience,
By counterfaiting that I neither saw nor heard,
Any wayes to rid my hands of them.
All this I did to keepe my Manuiles loue,
Which he vnkindly seekes for to reward.
Sp391Manuile.
And did my Em to keepe her faith with mee
Dissemble that shee neither heard nor sawe.
Pardon me sweet Em, for I am onely thine.
Dissemble that shee neither heard nor sawe.
Pardon me sweet Em, for I am onely thine.
Sp392Em.
F2
Put
Lay off thy hands, disloyall as thou art,
Nor shalt thou haue possession of my loue,
That canst so finely shift thy matters off.
Nor shalt thou haue possession of my loue,
That canst so finely shift thy matters off.
Put case I had been blind and could not see,
As often times such visitations falles
That pleaseth God which all things doth dispose:
Shouldest thou forsake me in regard of that?
I tell thee Manuile, hadst thou beene blinde,
Or deafe, or dumbe, or else what impediments
Might befall to man, Em would haue loued, and kept,
And honoured thee: yea, begg’d if wealth had fail’d
For thy releefe.
Sp394Em.
I do forgiue thee with my heart,
And will forget thee too if case I can:
But neuer speake to mee, nor seeme to know mee.
And will forget thee too if case I can:
But neuer speake to mee, nor seeme to know mee.
Sp395Manuile.
Then fare well frost:
Well fare a wench that will.
Now Elner, J am thine owne my girle.
Well fare a wench that will.
Now Elner, J am thine owne my girle.
Sp396Elner.
Mine Manuile? thou neuer shalt be mine.
I so detest thy villanie,
That whilest I liue I will abhor thy company.
I so detest thy villanie,
That whilest I liue I will abhor thy company.
Sp397Manuile.
Is it come to this? of late, I had choyce of twaine
On either side to haue me to her husband,
And now am vtterly reiected of them both.
On either side to haue me to her husband,
And now am vtterly reiected of them both.
Sp398Valingford.
My Lord this gentleman when time was
Stood some-thing in our light,
And now I thinke it not amisse
To laugh at him that sometime scorned at vs.
Stood some-thing in our light,
And now I thinke it not amisse
To laugh at him that sometime scorned at vs.
Sp401William.
I see that women are not generall euils,
Blanch is faire: Me thinkes I see in her,
A modest countenance, a heauenly blush.
Zweno, receiue a reconciled foe,
Not as thy friend, but as thy sonne in law,
If so that thou be thus content.
Blanch is faire: Me thinkes I see in her,
A modest countenance, a heauenly blush.
Zweno, receiue a reconciled foe,
Not as thy friend, but as thy sonne in law,
If so that thou be thus content.
And
And after my decease the Denmark Crowne.
Sp404Manuile.
I partly am perswaded as your grace is,
My Lord, he is best at ease that medleth least.
My Lord, he is best at ease that medleth least.
Sp419Manuile.
Yea, thats the course, and thereon will I stand,
Such idle loue henceforth I will detest.
Such idle loue henceforth I will detest.
Sp422William.
And may it be a Millers daughter by her birth?
I cannot thinke but shee is better borne.
I cannot thinke but shee is better borne.
Sp423Valingford.
Sir Thomas Goddard hight this reuerent man,
Famed for his vertues and his good successe:
Whose fame hath been renowmed through the world.
Famed for his vertues and his good successe:
Whose fame hath been renowmed through the world.
Sp424William.
Sir Thomas Goddard welcome to thy Prince,
And faire Em, frolike with thy good father.
As glad am I to find Sir Thomas Goddard.
As good Sir Edmund Treford on the plaines:
He like a shepherd, and thou our countrie Miller,
And faire Em, frolike with thy good father.
As glad am I to find Sir Thomas Goddard.
As good Sir Edmund Treford on the plaines:
He like a shepherd, and thou our countrie Miller,
F3 William.
The Millers daughter, & c.
Exeunt all. Sound drummes and Trumpets.
Sp428William.
And what sayes Em to louely Valingford?
It seemd he loued you well,
That for your sake durst leaue his King.
It seemd he loued you well,
That for your sake durst leaue his King.
Sp430William.
Then here Lord Valingford,
Receiue faire Em.
Here take her, make her thy espoused wife.
Then goe we in, that preparation may be made,
To see these nuptials solemnely performed.
Receiue faire Em.
Here take her, make her thy espoused wife.
Then goe we in, that preparation may be made,
To see these nuptials solemnely performed.
Exeunt all. Sound drummes and Trumpets.
FINIS.
Prosopography
Anonymous
Brett Greatley-Hirsch
Brett Greatley-Hirsch is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies at
the University of Leeds. He is a coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, co-editor of the Routledge journal Shakespeare, and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. He is the author (with Hugh
Craig) of Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship (Cambridge, 2017), which brings together his interests in early modern drama, computational
stylistics, and literary history. His current projects include editions of Hyde Park for the Oxford Shirley (with Mark Houlahan) and Fair Em for DRE, a history of the editing and publishing of Renaissance drama from the eighteenth
century to the present day, and several computational studies of early modern dramatic
authorship and genre. For more details, see notwithoutmustard.net.
James D. Mardock
James Mardock is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Associate
General Editor for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, and a dramaturge for the Lake
Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Reno Little Theater. In addition to editing quarto
and folio Henry V for the ISE, he has published essays on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other Renaissance
literature in The Seventeenth Century, Ben Jonson Journal, Borrowers and Lenders, and contributed to the collections Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (Routledge 2010) and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt (Cambridge 2013). His book Our Scene is London (Routledge 2008) examines Jonson’s representation of urban space as an element in
his strategy of self-definition. With Kathryn McPherson, he edited Stages of Engagement (Duquesne 2013), a collection of essays on drama in post-Reformation England, and
he is currently at work on a monograph on Calvinism and metatheatrical awareness in
early modern English drama.
Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director
of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Beatrice Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.
John Haviland
Printer in London, active 1613–1638. BBTI 31946
Kate LeBere
Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator
and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English
at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History
Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management
in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth
and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University
of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.
Martin Holmes
Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media
Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities
projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the
Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020.
He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.
Navarra Houldin
Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual
remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major
in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary
research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They
are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice
Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.
Sam Seaberg
Samuel Seaberg, a University of Victoria English undergrad, enjoys riding his bike.
During the summer of 2025, he began working with LEMDO as a recipient of the Valerie
Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Unfortunately, due to his summer being
spent primarily in working to establish an edition of Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part 2 and consequently working out how to represent multi-text works in a digital space,
his bike has suffered severely of sheltered seclusion from the sun.
Sarah Neville
Sarah Neville is an associate professor of English and Theatre, Film and Media Arts
at the Ohio State University. She specializes in early modern English literature,
bibliography, theories of textuality and Shakespeare in performance, chiefly examining
the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital and live media. She is an
assistant editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), for which she edited five plays in both old and modern-spelling editions,
as well as an associate coordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions. She
regularly publishes on textual theory, digital humanities, pedagogy, and scholarly
editing. Neville’s book, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification
of Botany (Cambridge, 2022), demonstrates the ways that printers and booksellers of herbals
enabled the construction of scientific and medical authority in early modern England.
A theatre director and film artist who is a great believer in experiential learning,
Neville is the founder and creative director of Ohio State’s Lord Denney’s Players, an academic theatre company that enables students to see how technologies of textual
transmission have shaped the reception of Shakespeare’s plays.
Tracey El Hajj
Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD
from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science
and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched
Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on
Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life.Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.
Will Sharpe
Will Sharpe is a full-time Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare at the University of Birmingham,
and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Warwick and Leeds. He
contributed a monograph-length study on
Authorship and Attributionto the RSC volume William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013), and edited All Is True: Or, King Henry VIII for The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016). He is a revising editor of the updated Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2015), and is editing 3 Henry VI for the Arden 4 Shakespeare Series.
Bibliography
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