Part of Poore (transcription)
The following transcription of the "Part of Poore" was originally prepared by David Carnegie for the Malone Society (Collections XV [Oxford: OUP, 1993], 111-69). It is reproduced here by kind permission of Professor Carnegie and the Malone Society. Copies of "Collections XV" can be purchased through the Malone Society's site.
THE PART OF 'POORE' | |||
Actus Imus Scӕna Ia | [FOL.21a] | ||
. . Poore. | |||
Welcome thou instrument of liberty . . . . . offreth to stab himselfe | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | It is a most vnthankfull office; | ||
To save a man vnwilling is to murder. | |||
What hath this world of myne that I should covet | |||
Longer to stay wth it? nor have you reason | |||
Thus to detaine mee, I must greiving say it | |||
Through mee you want what might have well sustaind you | 10 | ||
And your last store scarce panteth nourishment | |||
Vnto your selfe and sister. | |||
Sly | |||
Though having nothing, for contemning all? | |||
Poore. | True very wise, nay rich, if hee could gett | ||
Even wth his best indeauour nourishment: | |||
But that now wants whose rich hees only wise | |||
T'is the receaved opinion, and what arts | |||
Are meanly shrouded in a thred bare coate | |||
Want theire due forme, thats a privation of it. | 20 | ||
The worst of ills that is in misery | |||
Is that it gives a man contemptible | |||
Makes him a scoffe to every painted asse | |||
Wch beares a golden image, every slave | |||
Wch came into this Cytty wth bare feete | |||
And since hath heap'd vp by mechanicke basenes | |||
Abundant riches will contem the state | |||
That nature brought him to and no more pitty it, | |||
Then wisedome will a snake pin'd wth much cold | |||
Sly: | 30 | ||
Poore. | No it is sacred truth, there is not one | ||
Who hath not circled wth a triple brasse | |||
His more obdurate heart, each man doth live | [FOL.21b] | ||
As hee were enemy to the whole world. | |||
There is a spatious distance twixt the heart, | |||
And tounge of every man, they speake and doe | |||
Nought that hath smallest coherence wth theire minds; | |||
They doe even strive vnto it wth theire full nerves. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | You advise well, I shall, and digg a prey | 40 | |
From out theire frosen intrailes, wch shall nourish vs, | |||
Feede vs wth laughter, cramm vs full wth gold. | |||
I'le hold as firme antipathy wth men, | |||
As doe the elements amongst themselves. | |||
Sly | | ||
Poore: | Soe will not I vnlesse a misery. | ||
And wanton spleene to laugh at it. | |||
Sly | |||
Of clyents, to your lure | |||
Poore: | And being well lured, | 50 | |
Ile cramm them soe they shall not breath to flight. | |||
Let's see they may doe well if more harsh fate | |||
Bite not our blooming fortunes. | |||
Strange | |||
Poore. | Whilst wee, Apollo's children, wch are given | ||
To the true study of whats purely good. | |||
Share not the least part of it in effect. | |||
Our merits are defects, and only staines. | |||
Disgraces to mans glosse, in mans false eyes. | |||
The heaven of our glory shines no more, | 60 | ||
Then a faint candles light, in a proud sunn. | |||
Oh Iove! oh Iove! why hast thou warn'd thy thunder [?] | |||
It should not dare to touch Apollo's tree? | |||
Yet sufferest vilder more inferiour stro<a>kes | |||
To rend, and hammer his more loved children, | [FOL.22a] | ||
To dust, to aire, to nothing, lesse then nothing. | |||
Strang: | [f] | ||
Poore: | Sr I have fellowe feeling of theire ills. | ||
Strang | | ||
Poore: | [O] | 70 | |
He doth intice you to a dangerous ill | |||
Sly: | Slight what doe you meane? | ||
Poore | |||
Sly: | You wont vndoe your selfe | ||
Poore | [A] | ||
Stra: | |||
Poore | To losse | ||
Strange: | . . . . . . of what? | ||
Poore: | Your wealth and reputation. | ||
Riches are not more enimyes to heaven, | 80 | ||
then To our art. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Our heaven of poetry cannot brooke such rivals. | ||
It is wellnigh[] prodigious they should meete. | |||
And or proceedes from a defect of wo<r>th, | |||
Or by excesse of some vild humour ioyned, | |||
Wch naturalists observe wthin theire subjects | |||
To cause a vitious forme; for more then perfect | |||
Is but a plurisy wch in wholsomest blood | |||
Breeds naught save malladyes, but being ill, | 90 | ||
It meerely is necessited to kill. | |||
You knowe the daunger Sr If you proceede | |||
Strange: | |||
Poore | Now comes your cue to speake goe on and roundly | ||
Sly | |||
Poore: | You may proceed and hee may <w>inn by intising. | ||
But by your pardon, you are much [deceaved] vnwise, | [FOL.22b] | ||
If all his traines cann lead you to consent. | |||
Strange: | |||
I cannot be disswaded | 100 | ||
Poore | |||
To contemplation, for you must neglect | |||
All worldly matters, and be given to this, | |||
As to the sollidst earthly happinesse. | |||
Strang | |||
Poore: | And I will vndertake to give instructions | ||
In this quainte rhetoricke, and subtile logicke, | |||
And what I cann participat in naturals | |||
Shall not be wanting, since I knowe you firme | |||
Of good capacity and ingenuous. | 110 | ||
Strange: | |||
Shall not be wanting to you | |||
Poore: | [Pish] | ||
Those were but by words wch I did object | |||
Sly: | |||
Poore | Sr It was ill donn, and no way worth your thanks. | ||
Strange: | [I would] lodge heare about | ||
Poore | |||
Strange | |||
Poore: | It should not neede but since you'l have it soe | 120 | |
I will accept it and deserve it to | |||
Strange: | 'Till when I leave you. | ||
Poore | |||
Strange: | Tis Strange anon Ile come. | ||
Poore | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | S'light what doe you meane? | ||
Sly | |||
Poore: | You wo'n't vndoe your selfe? | ||
Sly | — wth your precisenes. | 130 | |
Poore | may you have game and will not sterve and perish? | ||
Sly | | [FOL.23a] | |
Or it spoile thee | |||
Poore: | [] | ||
Sly: | Prethee vrge these no more | ||
Poore: | |||
But Ive seene honest men in as bare naps. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | Doe spare mee not, I will indure thy worst, | ||
And answer thee wth full as great a noyse. | 140 | ||
My flash shalbe as violent and as horrid. | |||
Sly: | Our lightning shall insue | ||
Poore: | |||
Now my wise wench of brantford, how now Gill, | |||
What newes bringst thou now? | |||
Sly: | Wee are quite vndon | ||
Poore: | On wth your night gowne Gill, and dresse yorselfe | ||
Ith lady fashion speedily, and returne. | |||
Theire coming in ? | |||
Gill | 150 | ||
Poore | |||
Sly: | |||
Poore: | Your witt is rich enough to play on mee | ||
Sly | |||
Poore | That shall not be indited for your death | ||
<Ieamy> hath putt it vp [<yyo>] you shall not have it | |||
Sly: | Then Ile goe hang my self: | ||
Poore | — Away away man | ||
What what in desperation, fy vpon't | |||
Heare mee sr I have heard a cunning hand | 160 | ||
May soe dispose two glasses as by them | |||
Each externe inconvenience maybe kend. | |||
Sly: | [FOL.23b] | ||
Poore. | At thy promotion, at thy exaltation. | ||
Giv'd thou mayest cheat securely free of feare. | |||
Thou feelst the worst of it, false dice, halfe cards | |||
Will doe exceeding well; [f<a>lse] if thoult be honest, | |||
Ile teach thee a more exquisite art of begging, | |||
Then ere was heard yet from the newgate dungeon. | |||
Each man ith house shall give a groat a day | 170 | ||
To have thee vndergoe theire worke, and gaine by it. | |||
For I will vndertake, in halfe a yeare. | |||
Thou shalt as palpably snatch from the grates, | |||
Of all the prisons wthin London walls, | |||
Ney and the libertyes, the penny pension | |||
As the Kings men doe from theire neighbour companyes | |||
Societyes of gallants | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Hell and misery | ||
Sly: | | 180 | |
Poore | | ||
Is't Is't I heare them, fly and putt you on | |||
Some other shape, come Lady Gillian come | |||
Have you not donn yett? oh your well enough | |||
Good morrowe to your worships Ladyship | |||
Good Madam Change. | |||
Act: II Scӕna 2da | |||
3d offi: | some kind purgation, is not that your meaning ? | ||
Poore: | Madam doe you still hold those points of complement | ||
In wch I did instruct you yesterday? | 190 | ||
When to advance, when to retire, and when | |||
To keepe your stand? at the first salutacion | |||
How to congratulate the welcome of— | |||
—A freind equall in fortune, of a superiour, | |||
How to be court<e>ous to inferiours? | |||
Gill: | [FOL.24a] | ||
Poore: | Thus farr weeve gonn i'th science, theory, | ||
Now weele proceed vnto the art, or practise. | |||
Hard | |||
Poore: | Thinke you, you cann performe what I instructed? | 200 | |
Gill | |||
Poore | Suppose mee, lordly, after what manner meete you | ||
Gill | |||
Poore: | How to a knight your equall? | ||
Hard: | — I would my kinsman had hir | ||
Poore: | Soe would I to: but for the inferiour now? | ||
Hard | |||
Poore: | Sr you bid fairely for hir, you shall have hir. | ||
Your cousen goose shall have hir | |||
Gill | 210 | ||
Poore: | |||
Soe now you are instructed, let us spend | |||
Some tyme, in matters of a more import. | |||
Madam I knowe your birth, and your deservings. | |||
But what your fortunes are Ive beene content | |||
Yet not to seeke, but now you've given your selfe | |||
Wholly to mee and doe repose alone | |||
Vpon my choyce, I will be bold to inquire | |||
That I may neither loose you on a man | |||
Belowe yourselfe in merits or in fortune | 220 | ||
Gill. | Heaven blesse vs what are you? | ||
Poore: | |||
Roalfe Gaspar Thomas where are these varlets trowe? | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | What are you ? speake, to what end doe you come? | [FOL.24b] | |
Hard | |||
Poore: | How Sly saucy groome? first enter my house | ||
Wth more then two, tis a sufficient riot | |||
And god knowes what you would, but that our eye, | |||
Our happily seeing eye prevented you; | 230 | ||
Thanks to the supreame power wch made it happy | |||
To that fore sight, what not a varlett stirr ? | |||
You are consenting to, wee might be murdred[,] | |||
And you not heare of it; where are your fellows?. | |||
You'are sometymes dubly diligent, and a word | |||
Wthin our kenn will make you fly like winde | |||
Where are your fellowes? | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | What men are these? | ||
Gill: | 240 | ||
Poore: | Ney you shall stay, the Iustice shall decide | ||
Whither your act be lawfull, tmay perchance | |||
Conclude at Tyburne or the newgate dungeon | |||
Besides a publique lash from hence to ye tower | |||
From thence to westmonest<e>r, spight of your freinds | |||
Hard. | Sr I intreat your favour. | ||
Poore | |||
To be god knowes frighted well nigh to death, | |||
Then only intreat favour, that's fine recompence. | |||
If thou beest worth a penny Ile have that | 250 | ||
And all thy freinds cann make if they will save thee. | |||
Hard. | Sr in good fayth I meant no harme | ||
Poore. | |||
That shalbe t[y]ryed, goe Gaspar fetch the Conestable | |||
Sly | Tak't least hee doe repent; | ||
Poore. | |||
That is a sweet amends, but whats your name ? | |||
Hard. | Tis Hard and please you Sr | [FOL.25a] | |
Poore | |||
Hath often named you wthin my hearing | 260 | ||
An honest creditor, and for his sake. | |||
If wth [th] your haust this lady be appeased | |||
Your peace is made; what recompence shee will | |||
You must attone hir wth, or this cannot bee. | |||
Some toy will please hir best, shee is a woman | |||
A diamond ring of twenty marke that's all | |||
Oh shee was frighted much, had shee beene married | |||
Tenn Suttons wealths could not have saved yor life | |||
Hard. | I would bestowe | ||
Poore: | Vm lett mee see the gold, | 270 | |
[Ile] offer it; oh these are [the f] Sly's attachments and his bonds. | |||
Hard. | Good Sr they are | ||
Poore: | |||
Presents to you by mee his mediate | |||
Twenty faire angells, and doth hope to appease | |||
Wth this bright sacrifice, your incensed minde: | |||
To add by glorious coulour of this gold, | |||
A pleasing tinture, to your late pale cheeke. | |||
Hard: | Is shee a lady Sr | ||
Poore | 280 | ||
Is ready now to bed hir, and but stay's | |||
The coming of some freinds vnto the ceremony. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Some five dayes hince. | ||
Hard | |||
Poore | No yet the importunitye hir freinds have vsed, | ||
Have made hir yeeld. | |||
Hard | [FOL.25b] | ||
Poore. | I have no reason sr | ||
Hard | What may hir portion be? | 290 | |
Poore | |||
Iustice of peace in Yorkeshire, hath alotted | |||
Three thousand pound wch wthin twice three months | |||
After the day of marriage shall bee payed; | |||
Vpon condition,yt shee shall have ioynter. | |||
After his death, three hundreed pound a yeare. | |||
Hir fathers age and weakenes will not suffer hĩ | |||
Present vnto these nuptials but hee sends | |||
His brother to consumate what he please. | |||
Hard. | Then he concludes all. | 300 | |
Poore | |||
Hard | |||
Poore | Shee hath refer'd hir selfe to my dispose | ||
And if I like the gentleman and the tearmes | |||
It shall goe hard but Ile prevaile so much | |||
Hard | |||
Poore: | Tis faire the gentle man concludes it | ||
Hard | |||
Hee shall | |||
Poor | [] | 310 | |
If I cann ought. | |||
Hard | |||
Poore: | It is requited i<n>th the very act | ||
If it doe prove succesfully and well | |||
Hard | |||
Poore: | Sr If hee be as you have spoken him | ||
Hee shall not come vnwelcome | |||
Gill | You'r welcome [to] | ||
Poore: | [] | ||
Sly | Footra for Hard | 320 | |
Poore | now my Sly blewcoat thou how likst thou this | [FOL.26a] | |
Is it not better then ye dolefull ditty | |||
Of Ile goe hang or stab my selfe | |||
Sly: | Of more rich witt | ||
Poore: | [Tis in] tis inforced soe now | ||
But better arts were better ways to thrift | |||
Gett you a country gentile habit, hir vncle | |||
You must be nowe. | |||
Gill | [Wh] | ||
Poor | Be neat and spruise as what you have cann make | 330 | |
You <h>have a woer coming that shall pay fort | |||
You want not my instructions how to answer | |||
Though hee how to oppose, and sett on you | |||
When fate affords no other way to live | |||
to get a living needs must | |||
Our wits [must list indeavour wee may thrive] strive | |||
Exeunt | |||
Actus 2di scӕ 2da | |||
Poore. | Whose at the dore who is it? | ||
Sly: | He yt desires to bee a scholler | 340 | |
Poor | |||
Admitt, admitt them: I must scoure my witt | |||
I feare tis spoil'd wth rust tis not acute | |||
Sly: | What are you [bett] ready for them? | ||
Poore | Ready ready. | ||
Surely twas in Domitian's tyme he lived. | |||
That Iuvenal, the wonder of all ages | |||
Wch have beene since, should live soe much vnknow̃ | |||
Soe much neglected in his owne tyme, as none | |||
Would grace theire storyes wth his sacred name, | 350 | ||
Nor praise them selves, wth giving him due fame. | |||
Yet tis enough wee knowe and wonder at thee | |||
That once thou wert and that thy works shal bee | |||
Worthy long admiration. | |||
Sly: | Noe noe hee shall not Mr Poore | [FOL.26b] | |
Poore | [] | ||
Oh Sr I cry you mercy, and your freind, | |||
Your welcom please you sitt, I was translating | |||
A poet wch is prince of all his sect | |||
Of Satyrists, theire manners should give them | 360 | ||
Princes of men, though fewe there bee are soe; | |||
Twas Iuvenall wch if it please you heare | |||
I will recite. | |||
Strang: | |||
[Though fewe there bee are soe] | |||
Poore | Tis thus Ile not repeat the Latine text. | ||
Shall I continue silent &, indure. | |||
The loude vexations Codrus doth procure | |||
Wth his rude Theseus? shall this man reherse | |||
His gouned scӕne and this his mournfull v<er>se? | 370 | ||
Shall giant Telephus consume his day | |||
And long Orestes ӕviternall play | |||
Whose margent is repleat, whose very backe | |||
Scapes not the rage but beares asselike packe. | |||
Shall these I say much endlesse still be read | |||
And only I continue as if dead | |||
Vnto these labours? shall I only feare | |||
To vex mens organs and to force a teare ? &c | |||
I only made experience what I could. | |||
Quicke | 380 | ||
Poore | The'ire sudden and they beare no more of weight | ||
Then a small tyme would give. | |||
Strang: | It is well vrged | ||
Poore: | |||
Quicke | And make a Ioviall meale. | ||
Poore | |||
Weele vse a prety schollers exercise | |||
One shall propose a theame, & each compose | |||
A couple of verses on it as they sitt | [FOL.27a] | ||
And if the first speake last, the rest shall take | 390 | ||
Theire cups of wine a peece to acuat them | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | Each in his order shall, doe you propose. | ||
Sly | |||
Poore | You observe method in your very sport | ||
Sr for the good report you give of wine | |||
Ile wish you quicker poets, and th<at> myne. | |||
Sly | What what more yet | ||
Poore: | |||
Quicke | goe call them in | 400 | |
Poore: | you shall not neede we[a]'re those | ||
they doe intend. Srs wee must intreat you | |||
Into another roome, there you shall see | |||
What passeth; if't please you disclose yor minde | |||
I will performe what my weake skill can[n] doe | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Ney pray Sr goe, wee schollers love no complement | ||
Though wee cann vse it: he hath beene yor guide | |||
And you must followe | |||
Scaena 3ia Enter Poore above | 410 | ||
Poor: | A swagerour doe you say one yt hates schollers? | ||
Hee's none of your stage railours on thẽ is hee? | |||
Quicke | |||
Poore: | I would he were a poet, one that daubd | ||
Papers wth greasy lines, wch fall away | |||
From his hoggs head, as sweat doth frõ his body. | |||
Both being excrements, of art, and nature. | |||
Such I doe knowe there are, & would faine meet wth | |||
Ide make thẽ knowe theire mungrill nature could not | |||
Produce a word, lesse vicious then themselves, | 420 | ||
And if not borrowed from ye sacred springs. | [FOL.27b] | ||
But tis to matter; Ile give them leave to envy | |||
What is beyond theire reach. but for yor creature, | |||
If I not bafle him in his proper humour | |||
Ile burne my bookes, and turne a lawyers clearke. | |||
But they are neere the doare you shall have sport. | |||
I must begonn Exit | |||
[Sly] Quicke | |||
Scaena 4ta Enter Poore | |||
Trugull | |||
Poore | The best our poore house hath. | 430 | |
Tru | | ||
Hard | |||
Poore: | Doubt not but you shall well, I like the man | ||
[That] He is a proper man[] yt will tempt much | |||
Besides grave, generous as it seems to mee | |||
Repleat wth worthy qualityes, & though rawe | |||
In Cupids ceremonyes, I must thinke | |||
A few instructions,will give him singular. | |||
Hard. | Doe you thinke soe Sr? | 440 | |
Poor. | Yes vndoubtedly | ||
I know hee's very apt: to bee a gull. | |||
Snaile | |||
Poore: | You shall Gaspar lead vp these gentlemen | ||
Vnto your mrs | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | Stay you wth mee Sr | ||
Doe you inquire hir minde and bring hir downe | |||
The whilst wee wilbe busy Gaspar lead them. | |||
Trugull. | Must not I goe to must I not? | 450 | |
Poore: | Not yet | ||
Trugull. | |||
Poore: | Sr it is best first to have mediates | [FOL.28a] | |
Shee shallbee brought downe to you | |||
Strange | |||
Poor: | Pray Sr may I inquire your name and country? | ||
[Tru: | | ||
Quicke | How say you goodman dawe? | ||
Poore | Tis a faire living Sr | ||
Tru: | 460 | ||
Poore | A very rich one Sr. | ||
Trug: | |||
Poore | But Sr after what fashion would you woe? | ||
Tru: | Why are there divers fashions | ||
Poore | [Very many.] Yes as in other things | ||
Soe wee're fantasticall in that, ney more. | |||
Your woer is or rampant or couchant: | |||
Your rampant woer, is an angry fellowe | |||
That beares downe all before him should yu heare him, | |||
You'de thinke hee were a souldier by his wounds. | 470 | ||
Heele sweare a woman in to love wth him. | |||
Or spend whole vollyes of his oaths in vaine. | |||
Though that doe seldome happen; for his thunder | |||
Battars theire fortresses vntill they fall | |||
Flatt downe before him. | |||
Trug: | |||
Poore | Sr very true, your couchant, is a creature | ||
Wch sighs and sobs out Hero & Leander, | |||
Or some more mournfull elegyes; and hee goes | |||
Alwayes crosse armed, to shewe his passions. | 480 | ||
Tru: | [FOL.28b] | ||
Poore: | Soe Sr but Ile instruct you soe effectually | ||
You shan't neede halfe yt passion. Let mee see | |||
You have a very perfect spericke eye | |||
True | Yes Ide be sory elce | ||
Poore: | |||
Tru: | Yes I am very health full. | ||
Poore | |||
Your organs are more fitt; for I must teach you | |||
To fix your eye wth iudgement, on an obiect; | 490 | ||
And Ile give such a power vnto ye radiature | |||
Emitted from it yt shall strike hir | |||
More conqueringly then Cupids golden shafte. | |||
At the first sight you shall not speake to hir | |||
But heare are lines wch when shee ginns approach | |||
Ile desire you to reade, & you shall read thẽ. | |||
Say often say you writt them in hir prayse. | |||
Trug: | And they are none of myne | ||
Poore | |||
You Imitate the gentile fashion | 500 | ||
They for the most part only live on others | |||
By borrowing of others, and shall you | |||
As well proportioned for a genltreman. | |||
As amongst them the best, not keep ye fashion? | |||
Quicke | |||
Poore: | How! feare to ly? then feare to live, all creatures | ||
Doe live by lying | |||
Tru: | som live by standing | ||
Poore: | |||
For some doe live by standing, yet they ly to. | 510 | ||
Tru: | It may bee soe | ||
Poore: | And to beginn wth gallants, for nobility, | [FOL.29a] | |
I durst not touch though they should spend themselves | |||
On waxen Images; | |||
Nor cleargy men though they should ly wth scripture. | |||
And vitiate [th] it to adulte[rate]ry. | |||
Have at your gallants, should they pay theire debts | |||
As they doe promise, I knowe some now flants | |||
In cloath of tyshue, yt would be as bare, | |||
As when they first sett foote vpon this land. | 520 | ||
These live by falsifying of theire dayes; | |||
Others by mating wth ye Cyty wives | |||
Schollers and lawyers doe' live by theire toungs | |||
And the best ground of schollers sophistry | |||
Wch you may call lyes; but your lawyers toungs | |||
Are strumpets ly wth all men yet they live by them. | |||
Your citty lying is so truly knowne. | |||
As I will not repeate it. | |||
Stran: | |||
Poore: | But to goe forward, shee hearing hir praise read | 530 | |
Cann't choose but speake to you, out of hir words | |||
Then must you take occasion, and proce<a>de. | |||
If I had tyme Ide give you actions | |||
Wch should prove charmes, and drawe hir by ye eares, | |||
Despight all propased antydotes of deafnes. | |||
Tru | |||
Poore | You shall most potently,yor eyes shall [sparkle] spread | ||
Such flames of love, as shee shall feare to stirr | |||
Least shee be scorched wth them, yor lips shall move. | |||
Such sphӕrelike harmony as you shall ravish hir. | 540 | ||
Tru: | [FOL.29b] | ||
Poore: | No, thinke not Ile vrge ought shalbe distastfull | ||
Tru | Nay nay you shant deny it. | ||
Poore: | |||
Youle wrong mee much, for I have not deservd it. | |||
Quicke | |||
Poore: | But Sr I must confesse Ive laboured | ||
And donn you more good wth ye gentlewoman. | |||
Then cann this tenn tymes doubled procure mee. | |||
Yet since you offer it soe vnrequested | 550 | ||
I doe accept it as sufficient recompence. | |||
For all my labour, not because tis worth them, | |||
I like your will, farr better then the gift. | |||
Be mindfull that you wrap a ring ith verses. | |||
Tru: | Oh I meant that, will not this serve ? | ||
Poor | |||
Strange: | Not very well | ||
Poore: | |||
Sr shall I heare them. | |||
Tru: | Attend for these are they. . . Poore: Sr I doe heare. | 560 | |
Tru: | That's for the ring | ||
Poore: | |||
Tru: | I would shee heard mee | ||
Poore: | Doe you vse this often ? | ||
Trug: | I would shee'de heard them read. | ||
Poore: | |||
I will present them to hir. | |||
Gill | Greater perfection to them. | ||
Poore: | |||
Tell hir theire good because theire end is good | 570 | ||
Wch is to prayse hir. | |||
Hard | When comes hir vncle Sr? | ||
Poore: | |||
A letter wch assured to morrowe night. | [FOL.30a] | ||
This night heele visit ye great bed of ware | |||
Had hee a lasse of like dimensions | |||
Twould scarce conteine them. | |||
Hand. | |||
Poore: | The northerne ale hath made him a Lucullus | ||
Hee's a meere man of fatnes, you must feede him | 580 | ||
And fee him well, if you expect ought from him | |||
He is desirous of a well greased fist | |||
As well as mouth or belly. | |||
Hard | |||
Poore: | The end will croune it ioyfully besure | ||
You'enquire not to much after hir portion: | |||
Twill vex him strangely, bee not you to strickt, | |||
In asking forraine bills for ye performance, | |||
Twill hinder all your hopes, hee's very collericke | |||
And must be humour'd to the full, or elce | 590 | ||
Hard: | Hee's fire and toe, I doe instruct you savingly. | ||
Not aske her portion! | |||
Hard: | Of what hee promiseth.<P.> Yes you may enquire but | ||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .not &cӕ | |||
Poore: | Hir fathers bond and his wilbe sufficient | ||
I give you Sr the worst and yet I thinke | |||
Hee'l[e] hardly trouble any to be bound | |||
Nor love that man wch shall distrust his honesty | |||
Stran | [I] | ||
Poore: | Sr some small conference I'de desire wth you | 600 | |
Snaile | Wth mee Sr? very willingly. | ||
Poore | |||
Soe good a man as you should be soe wrong'd | |||
As my art sayth you are.Would that wrong'd mee. | |||
And that my house should be soe much vnhappy | |||
As to detaine you from yor home th<i>s tyme | |||
Snaile. | I have lost nothing have I Sr? | [FOL.30b] | |
Poore: | [] | ||
S<na>ile | I ever had | ||
Poore: | Sr tis your wife I meane. | 610 | |
Snaile: | |||
Poore: | Hir honour hath left hir, for shee hath left | ||
To bee an honest wife, you knowe on Medle? | |||
Snaile: | |||
Poore: | [Hir honour hath left hir for shee] | ||
T should seeme soe he hath go[od]tt yor best ware Sr | |||
Snaile: | I nere wrongd you | ||
Poore | |||
Snaile: | No on my life. | ||
Poore: | 620 | ||
Sir hye you home; if you now meet not wth him. | |||
Ile give you such instructions as you shall | |||
In ye named place at further tyme, meanwhile | |||
I knowe a gentleman whom he hath wrongd | |||
Will give his best indeavour, to finde out | |||
The tyme, & to prevent him if you please. | |||
Sr I will send the gentleman to morrowe. | |||
Strange: | |||
Poore | Sr I will send the gentleman to morrowe | ||
That shall intrap him. | 630 | ||
Snaile | |||
Poore: | Pray Sr be patient heare. | ||
Snaile: | I pray you Sr remember mee | ||
Poore | Be sure I will; and send the gentleman to morrow morne | ||
By [that ]eight o'th [ ] clocke. | |||
Snaile: | |||
Poore | If you mistrust him, one you shall thinke faythfull | ||
Choose to this office, I but offer Sr, | |||
Tis in your will to'accept | |||
Snaile | Be not to credulous I did thinke | 640 | |
Poore. | [FOL.31a] | ||
blaze not your owne discredite, tis to much | |||
You know't your selfe. | |||
Snaile: | |||
Poore | I would I were not | ||
Hard | Tomorrowe night he comes. | ||
Poore | |||
Tru: | |||
Poore | I doubt not but you shall | ||
Hard | 650 | ||
Poore | Are you not yet adultus? | ||
Tru: | |||
Poore: | not yet of age? | ||
Trug: | |||
Poore | Will you then suffer Sr such contradiction? | ||
Lett them determine of you appoint tymes? | |||
Trug: | Nay and I will to | ||
Poore: | — Oh Sr been't to feirce | ||
He is your vncle, you doe owe some duty | |||
Or at the least respect | 660 | ||
Hard | |||
Poore: | You must be rul<e>d, but not to much oreruld | ||
Tru: | |||
Poore | Sr Heele bee gonn ere this be not to violent | ||
Vpon your wife inquire out secretly. | |||
Hard | bee his continual rendez vouz | ||
Poore | [A] | ||
Gill | I must continue Mrs Change | ||
Poore. | |||
You must, a iustice of peaces daughter, | 670 | ||
Ith north at least | |||
Quicke | |||
Poore | Not as Snaile feares meddle, to morrowe morne | ||
You must to him, hee will initiate you | |||
Him selfe in to acquaintance wth his wife | |||
If you shall neede my counsell, Ile instruct you | [FOL.31b] | ||
How to behave yourselfe in information | |||
Quicke | to much I feare | ||
Poore | |||
You must add to his fury and augment it | 680 | ||
Quicke | Vpon ye least distastfull word | ||
Poore | |||
Nay if hee be an angry boy weele deale wth' him | |||
And fright him from his roaring humours, wee | |||
Cann talke, bristle, and vaunt, as well as hee. | |||
Exeunt | |||
Actus 3ij scӕna 2da | |||
Poore | What cheaters did heesay ? | ||
Sly | |||
Poore | And couldst thou suffer it goe thou'rt a gull | 690 | |
& that huge bulke of thyne those giant limbs | |||
Conteine not any sparke of man wthin them. | |||
Sdeath had I heard him he should have found I had | |||
A thunder in my hand Iove in my voyce | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | Pish tis a puny one easy to performe. | ||
Ile have a duble or a <no> revenge | |||
Vppon my life I think<e> [t] thou wouldst confess | |||
Vs cheaters should a man inquire of thee. | |||
Sly | Wee are noe better | 700 | |
Poore | |||
What ere of cheating's in mee it is thyne: | |||
Thou didst intice, coniure mee by our wants | |||
Didst force me too't when I god knowes was minded | |||
Never to suffer more in this vild world. | |||
Sly | But how much in ye insuing. | ||
Poore | Doe not vex mee | ||
By all good things I vowe, and will performe it | |||
If ere I learne, yt a like worde be spoken | |||
Thou hearing, suffering it, I will abiure thee; | [FOL.32a] | ||
Leave thee vnto thy selfe & spoile thy hopes | 711 | ||
Sly | You may doe as you please | ||
Poore | [G] | ||
To the Bromoodoes, or elce hire my selfe | |||
Vnto the Northwest passage; if these faile: | |||
Turne Poet stageplayer or anything, | |||
rather then live wth thee, Ile sell my selfe | |||
Vnto a Iewe or worse, an english vserour | |||
Whom have I cheated? only Ive sold Hard | |||
Fishd my young gallant Trugull vexed Snaile | 720 | ||
Intic'd my Strange to poetrie, thats poverty: | |||
Wch hee shall surely feele prevented Medle | |||
Drawne blood from Quicke, or at the least will draw it | |||
What act mongst these deserves ye name of cheating | |||
Ist not to gett from vserours charitable? | |||
And to lett him bee wise, yt is not cousned | |||
Whome nature made a foole is against nature | |||
To lett men knowe when others doe them wrong | |||
Is a great Iustice, and worth recompence. | |||
And to make him a poet that would bee one, | 730 | ||
Is att the most but to fullfill his vowes. | |||
What to prevent a lawyer since theire knowne | |||
To circumvent all others, but meere equity? | |||
And to take vengeance on who doe defame vs, | |||
Soe it bee noble, is allowed to vs | |||
by Martiall lawe, whome have I cheated now | |||
Whom have I cheated now, or against whom | |||
Have I intended more, then may bee donn? | |||
Sly | [FOL.32b] | ||
Poore. | Tis true my Sly. <I'm> in apparrell well, | 740 | |
Sufficient for a petty gentleman | |||
Where is thy rapier ? | |||
Sly. | What do'est thou intend? | ||
Poore | |||
Sly | Not well | ||
Poore | |||
Wher ist | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | If Quicke doe chance come hither, | ||
Stay him till my returne wch shalbe suddaine. | 750 | ||
If heele not stay will him, not goe to Snailes | |||
Till I may speake wth him, Gill bring down ye rapier | |||
If Trugull come lett Gill and hee be private, | |||
If hee be earnest, lett him presse hir his. | |||
Gill | | ||
Poore | Take heede my Dousabell vnto your docke | ||
Looke not to my affaires; take heede yor Trugull | |||
Bee not to hard for you hees a lusty knave | |||
Cann pitch his barr well, shoote his shaft arright | |||
And pay you home my Gill; hee cann ifayth. | 760 | ||
Gill | That shalbe tryed | ||
Poore | |||
Prepare yor selfe vnto yor part anon Exit. | |||
Actus 3ij scӕna 3ia | |||
Med | |||
Poore: | Oh Mr Medle I have sought you Sr | ||
In all your places of retreat. | |||
Me[l]d | |||
Poore | Wee are private heare | ||
Now I will give it you, you knowe one Quicke | 770 | ||
An envious raskall one that laboureth | |||
That seeketh causes to defame all men | |||
And if they want his wil's sufficient | [FOL.33a] | ||
For hee defames them; and vniustly iust | |||
Beginns wth his owne intimates; this vild wretch | |||
Hath quite supplanted all yor hopes at Snailes | |||
Med: | |||
Poore: | Nay lett it not seeme strange, I know yor hopes | ||
Your more then hopes your much assurance there | |||
Of his wives love, know all occurrances. | 780 | ||
And come to tell you yt you are abused | |||
By this same Quicke, who hath, I knowe not how, | |||
But sure it was by some sinister meanes | |||
Found first you lov'd & after whom you loved. | |||
Who hath (to what intent I doe not knowe) | |||
Yet sure hee did intend to wrong you by it | |||
Reveal'd the privacy of your love vnto | |||
Hir husband who now truly iealous | |||
Hath giv'n in charge to one of's trusty freinds. | |||
That if you chance to come thither hee should | 790 | ||
Much circumspectly watch your haviour | |||
The manner of your language to his wife | |||
And farther yt hee should bee certified | |||
Of your approach wch how suspiciously | |||
Heed take, the very premisies demonstrate. | |||
Your perill may bee much too, hee is desperate, | |||
And I doe thinke will hardly brooke to see you | |||
Wthout much fury,wch though you esteeme not; | |||
Yet poore gentlewoman. | |||
Med | Advise mee for ye best sr | 800 | |
Poore | |||
First be reveng'd on Quicke, & if you cann | |||
Make him confess that only enviously | |||
He scandald you for some small wrong you did him. | [FOL.33b] | ||
Then you devise some other means besides | |||
How to confirme hir honesty | |||
Med: | your name I pray sr | ||
Poore | |||
Med. | Sr I am much indebted to you[r lov]e | ||
Poore | 810 | ||
How you shall pay oh Sr humanity | |||
Commaunds this office | |||
Med: | Stronglier knitt betweene vs | ||
Poore | Sr I desire it may, wch to continue | ||
Ile give you intelligence, for I am ye man | |||
Snaile hath appointed as hir overseer | |||
Med | I thanke you. | ||
Poore: | When you would speake wth mee send to Poor's house | ||
The scholler, I shall heare of it, the tyme | |||
Will not afford mee farther leisure now | 820 | ||
Sr fare yow well. Exit | |||
Actus 3ij scӕna 4ta | |||
Wife | |||
Snaile: | |||
Poore | To them yt you thinke best deserve it Sr, | ||
What place commaundss hee in your credulous heart, | |||
That hee should force beleefe against your wife | |||
Shee may be chaster then the mourning aire | |||
Purg'd by the sunn of vitiating mists. | |||
But yet there is a shrewd suspition | 830 | ||
Much frequent in your freinds, they think not soe | |||
Ile vowe, Ive heard him say yt he hath knowne hir, | |||
But yet how [vn]truly 'tis vnknowne. | |||
Wife | My duty to you. | ||
Poore: | |||
Sr I doe greive, I chose soe sad a tyme | |||
For the beginning of acquaintance, but | [FOL.34a] | ||
I hope it shall continue wth more ioy. | |||
This is your fault Sr, you are to vnkind, | |||
Vnto soe sweete a wife. | 840 | ||
Snail | Be very long | ||
Poore: | . . Sr Ile performe it zealously. | ||
I would be private wth you Mrs | |||
Wife | Bee privat wth mee | ||
Poore | |||
Dry: | |||
Poore: | Then I dare like wise, you knowe Medle? | ||
Wife | True | ||
Poore | And he hath blabd it | ||
Wife | 850 | ||
Poore; | Oh to to truly | ||
Wife | What<,> durst ye villaine say soe? | ||
Po | [P] | ||
Wife | And soe Ime knowne. | ||
Poore | By him, for hee perceaving | ||
You now begann neglect him, likewise knowing | |||
Your love wa[ll]s fully fixed on Quicke, did thinke | |||
No better way to secure you his owne | |||
Then by revealing your intended love | |||
Wch hee hathfully donn; the other to | 860 | ||
Not knowing freelyer to settle you | |||
In your newe love, then by displacing Medle; | |||
Hath striven wth great effect to yt performance | |||
Thus have they laboured to supplant each other | |||
Wife | But only I have be<e>ne tript vp | ||
Poore | |||
Whilst they reioyce in theire high enterprise | |||
And thinke theire wits much good | |||
Wife | Ile be revenged | [FOL.34b] | |
Poore | 870 | ||
I thinke I have allready | |||
Dry | Vpon my life | ||
Poore | |||
Wife | Your love shal bee rewarded | ||
Poore | |||
That is my only ayme | |||
Dry | |||
Poore | And I will keepe it warely, by this | ||
Your envious lovers may bleed each by other | |||
Wife | 880 | ||
Poore | Tis like they will | ||
Dry | |||
Poore | If not Ile soe provide your honour shall | ||
No whitt be impeached | |||
Wife | Then I shalbee vnspotted | ||
Poore | |||
Wife | |||
Poore | Now shall my ignoramus and young witt | ||
Knowe they have found a scholler yt can iearke yẽ | |||
Who have wee heare my gull & Gillian | 890 | ||
What intend they trowe? | |||
Tru: | And you Sr | ||
Poore | |||
Wth ye like wish to you, & yt faire gentlewomã | |||
Wife | |||
Poore | And doe not you vse to carreine your selfe? | ||
What fucus have you daubd your face wth, ha ? | |||
Thinke you Ile have you vse theise plasterings | |||
And outgoe snakes in monthly casting skinns | |||
Tru: | Theide looke like eels for all ye world. | 900 | |
Poore | |||
And be more slipery as they are. but sr, | [FOL.35a] | ||
I hope you not intend hir for your wife | |||
Tru: | Beleiv't Sr but I doe | ||
Poore | |||
Tru: | |||
Poore: | You shall not need, for I cann certify you, | ||
I have reserved hir for my selfe. | |||
Tru: | |||
Poore | How Srrah cousned, such []an other word | 910 | |
And Ile lopp of a limbe send you to' the' spittle | |||
There to condole your losse. Srrah if your eares | |||
The want of them I mean cann move you ought | |||
Let mee not heare another word but give hir mee. | |||
Tru: | [Sr I doe love my eares and feare my eares] | ||
[It were a prety toy to gett hir from mee | |||
Poor | Are my words toye | ||
Tru: | Ile try what you cann doe | ||
Marry and shall . . . . . . . . . . . . . trips him vp. | |||
Soe sr you see now in what plight you are | 920 | ||
Tru | |||
Poore | On the conditions yt I shall propose | ||
You are your owne man shee likewise your wife | |||
You shall give mee to hundred pounds to right | |||
My wrongs. | |||
Tru | |||
Poore: | Doe not deny'it for if you doe by this. {his hand | ||
Not forty kicks, not 20 luggs by th'are {he swears | 930 | ||
As many tweaks by the nose, your fower foreteeth | |||
A little finger shall not save your life | |||
At least a maine limbe. | |||
Wife | For my sake a lesse ransom. | ||
Poore | Your commaund. | ||
I must obay, it shalbe but a hundred. | [FOL.35b] | ||
And heare you [brin] leave it wth yor tutor Poore | |||
Be sure you faile not, if you doe you knowe. | |||
Tru: | [W] | ||
Poore | This night I knowe yu cann whẽ it please you. | 940 | |
Tru: | I will Sr | ||
Poore | |||
Gill | |||
Poore | Why, this is admirable, past my wish, | ||
I will home instantly. nay since you will not, | |||
Goe take hir to you, shee is your's but knowe | |||
Your vncle and your sire shall heare of it | |||
Gill | |||
Poore | You have yor tounge at liberty, tis your owne | 950 | |
B<u>t you ere long shall wish you'de tyed it vp | |||
Mrs I take my leave you are revenged | |||
The rivals doe bleed each by others sword. | |||
Wife | |||
Poore | I am bound to it, youngster fare you well | ||
Keepe your word duly, or: no more but[doe] keep it. | |||
And you my quondam betroathd, I will leave you | |||
But knowe, the divill, will fly love as ye sea | |||
As ships doe saile two wayes wth the same [m] winde | |||
Soe woemen leave and take wth ye same minde | 960 | ||
Actus 4ti scӕna 1ia | |||
Badg: | |||
Poore: | This is Quickes lodging and he []hath been heere. | ||
Badg: | [ | ||
Poore: | — This concearnes mee much | ||
Ime glad I heard of this, God save you Sr | |||
Badg: | And you if you be worth it | ||
Poore | |||
Wth Mr Quicke I pray you sr how fares hee | |||
Badg: | I wont tell you | [FOL.36a] | |
Poore | 971 | ||
Badg: | My Mr? | ||
Poore | |||
Bad | |||
Poore. | Sr I was coming to you to this lodging | ||
To knowe how the owner doth that if hee have | |||
Required ought [b]of you from yor Mr, you should | |||
Give mee the the message, you ye whilst should goe | |||
To Medle, whom if you found dangerous | |||
Then certifye him, Quicke is dead wherby | 980 | ||
Hee may fly more securely | |||
Badg: | Faithfully and earnestly? | ||
Poore | |||
Badg: | |||
Poore: | Iff I cann gett it as I hope I shall | ||
You neede not doubt | |||
Badg: | |||
Poore | |||
This day is like to prove a very rare one | |||
I never look'd for this, it came vnhoped | 990 | ||
Fifty good pound tis well, it soundeth great | |||
Flush in these slops; but I must not deferr. | |||
Things falling out soe fittly I must take | |||
All the occasions yt the tymes cann make. | |||
Exit | |||
Actus 4ti Scӕna 2da | |||
Sly. | |||
Hard | |||
Poore | But you may chance to feele a new relapse | ||
Sr I would speake wth you | 1000 | ||
Stran<g> | |||
Poore | [FOL.36b] | ||
Th'affaires are vrgent, Mr Quicke your freind | |||
Commends his best love to you, wth this letter | |||
Twill give you his full minde and his desire | |||
St | |||
Poore | In good plight but that feare of Medle's death | ||
Doth make him feare his life, but hee well hopes | |||
By yor assistant love, to avoyd all | |||
Those daungers wch as yet doe seeme to presse him | 1010 | ||
Strang | |||
Poore | Sr He intreated him to visit Medle | ||
And learne ye hopes or feares conceivd of him. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | Pray Sr commend mee to your kinsman trugull | ||
Tell him one Change expecteth him | |||
Sly | Is your name Change? | ||
Poore | — Yes my great man of worship | ||
My Sly changd to a <hee> bosse to a swod | |||
What, hast thou quilted thy faind gutts wth gold, | 1020 | ||
Cramb'd them wth baggs? | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | That was a maine one, how my Gogmagog | ||
Sly | When it is donn Ile tell you howe | ||
Poore | |||
Nay then I have out strip't thee, I did cause | |||
Those two to fight, and for my better vengeance | |||
Have gott this fifty pound, wch Quicke doth borrow | |||
Of my True strange. an other hundered | |||
[My] Gills Trugull will bring into I expect him, | 1030 | ||
And I have future hopes of ampler bootyes | |||
Wch my lawe lover, scholler hating Medle | |||
Shall yeeld vs, I will soke him and exhaust him | |||
Exantlate, pumpe out, and drawe dry his baggs | [FOL.37a] | ||
Wee play for whole baggs wee'r no puny sharks | |||
That venter to bee trust vp for the nipping | |||
A bung fraught wth no more then a scotch marke | |||
None of your Gipsyes, that prole napery | |||
Wth shirts and smocks, no pidlers, wee doe deale | |||
In wholesale wee, yett doe not feare a noose | 1040 | ||
A ginn to lift vs vp: lawe cann't condemne vs | |||
To further pennance then our eares cann satisfy | |||
Sly | Tookest thou this shape? | ||
Poore. | |||
Revenge, but stay hee comes lett vs fall of | |||
Stran: | |||
Poore | It shall not need, Sr I dare trust yor word | ||
If you'le confirme it right | |||
Stran: | Let mee inquire yor name. | ||
Poor | 1050 | ||
Sly | |||
Poore | I should have gloried to have beene admitted | ||
Into soe grave a consanguinity | |||
Sly | And lett vs see you often | ||
Poore | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | I take my leave | ||
Sly | To my freind | ||
Poore | |||
Actus 4ti scӕna 3ia | 1060 | ||
Sna[]ile | |||
Med | |||
Poore | What wth a mischeif make they heere or I | ||
This was no fitt tyme for my action | |||
I must turne honest fate will have it soe. | [FOL.37b] | ||
Yet He not loose my booty, ile attempt it | |||
And venter gainst loves thunder. | |||
Med. | — may give some ayde, oh freind! | ||
Poore | |||
I am but will not seeme soe. your'r a villaine. | 1070 | ||
Have wrong'd a matron yt deserves the stole | |||
For hir strong chastity wth the name of bad. | |||
Wife | |||
Poore | Doe not I knowe yt you did bribe ye scholler | ||
(I have learn't all theire trickes, & will perforce, | |||
Despight theire pollicy turne the on themselves,) | |||
To suggest hir false to hir to credulous husband | |||
Wth Quicke, and yt [h<e>e] Quicke did outbribe him, soe | |||
To make more easy way to worke hir false | |||
Is not this true? deny it? | 1080 | ||
Med | You dare not proove t[this]. | ||
Poore | |||
What cann afford more truth to my inditement | |||
Then his even staggering toung in his owne cause | |||
Hee falters, faints, growes weake []to excusation. | |||
Snaile | |||
Poore | Oh Sr sufficient reason since h'hath tried | ||
Hir much inpregnable to all his slights | |||
Hee would accuse hir. and no way soe strongly | |||
As when hee would give crime vnto himselfe | 1090 | ||
Snaile | |||
Poore | A new vnheard of one. | ||
Snaile. | And greater love. | ||
Poore | It must bee soe you've wrongd them. [To Med: | ||
You must if tyme doe graunt deserve hir pardon] | |||
Med. | That I may merit it | ||
Poore | No, no, you cannot | ||
There is a death attends you will prevent it. | [FOL.38a] | ||
Med | | ||
Poore | You shall lett that suffice no signe of joy | 1100 | |
Snaile | In that [nam]e [st<i>le] towards mee. | ||
Poore | You looke to fix'dly | ||
Vpon this coulour, wch will dull yor sence | |||
Of apprehension; and make mee see <m>e other | |||
Then what I am. I yeeld I closd wth him | |||
Why this sole end wch I did still propose | |||
Cann give sufficient reason: my intent | |||
Of coming hither was to free your iealousy. | |||
To give you this chast comfort you now finde | |||
Or elce to fix hir in perpetuall shame | 1110 | ||
Snaile | I still doe thinke soe. | ||
Poore | Shall still thinke true | ||
Whilst you continue in that fayth, inquire | |||
Of that ill tempting scholler, if you finde him | |||
A little differing in my maine of truth | |||
Sepose mee from the number of your freinds | |||
Snaile: | |||
Poore | That Quicke wch caused your passion by him is not | ||
Wife | |||
Poore: | Much losse must followe I even feare to death | 1120 | |
Med | |||
Poore | How pretily shee doth desire his death. | ||
But I will hope more prosperous event | |||
Then your ill boading minde suggests to you. | |||
For lett mee tell you, I doe knowe ye man | |||
Cann force the rugged lawe vnbend hir browe | |||
And fetch a smile from a more easy power; | |||
Wch shall give hir more cheerfull countenance. | |||
Then is hir genuine, vpon faire tearmes. | [FOL.38b] | ||
For honied speach, is an availing sacrifice; | 1130 | ||
But when a golden offring is prepar'd | |||
You may expect not meane successe, what though | |||
Philosophers have vrged that theire gods | |||
Were more delighted wth ye givers minde | |||
Then wth the glory of the haust was offred? | |||
Yet had not men suppos'd them more accepted | |||
They would have fitted humbler to theire altars. | |||
Spare not a free hand & strike highest powers— | |||
Theire sure ones yt I trust to, yes soe sure | |||
As should they wth strong hand, force man and wife | 1140 | ||
To seperation, soe to gaine a freind | |||
A female one I meane; murder the opposers | |||
Venter the mine of a state, and plott | |||
To take away competitours, they might doe it | |||
Securely, and detected, be vnblam'd | |||
Att least vnpunished | |||
Med | much easily obtained | ||
Poore | Wthout much difficulty | ||
But you must thinke yt in externe affaires | |||
Theile not soe strongly labour wthout hope | 1150 | ||
Of future benefitt. | |||
Med | |||
Poore | Your life I will secure mee on myne owne | ||
If wee conclude agreement for what summ | |||
Med | Being your creature | ||
Poore | Sr prepare the summ | ||
Against I bring you life | |||
Med | |||
Poore | An easy one I dare venter it for | ||
Med | [FOL.39a] | ||
Poore: | These sacred meditations strongly fitt | 1160 | |
Men given to observance of true virtue; | |||
But thinke not only, of your last good Sr | |||
For there are many mediates wch require | |||
Some like respect wth that. | |||
Med | Who have longhope to escape that. | ||
Poore | [] | ||
For heere is that will give you lives assurance | |||
For this crime | |||
Med | Have you a pardon Sr ? | 1170 | |
Poore | |||
And Sr wthout compelling articles | |||
Your will is theire desire, what you shall please | |||
Wilbe sufficient vnto the acceptedly. | |||
Med | |||
Poore | Your hand wilbe to liberall, they procurd it | ||
Wth a small easy breath. | |||
Med | And then at last hardly obtainde. | ||
Poore | |||
I will accept for them, what you shall please | 1180 | ||
Med | and Ile deliver it | ||
Poore | I will, the waight of my deserts, how strong | ||
It is how forcible this benefitt? | |||
When should his coyne bee wth my pardon layed | |||
In a true ballance myne would bee outwaigh'd, | |||
Tost in to aire; What I receave I gett | |||
Giving him for his sterling counterfett | |||
Wth wch [hee]sIme well appayde, hee is well pleasd | |||
Hee that hath to much may of some be eas<ed>. | |||
Exit | 1190 | ||
Actus 5ti scӕna ia | [FOL.39b] | ||
Badg: | |||
Badg. | you shal bee mett wth sr | ||
Poore | I must now doffe this covert of my villainye | ||
Quicke | I must thanke thee for thy words have been | ||
An ample gaine to mee, and Badger to | |||
Badg: | A sees mee not trowe, doth hee ? | ||
Poore | |||
A great ayde to mee, I must give thee thanks. | |||
Badg: | 1200 | ||
Poore | How evesdropt | ||
Badg | — Hee []hath not the same beard. | ||
Poore | Ile wash and shave you, and yor greasy blewcoat | ||
My serving <d>onn I will; but I must forgoe | |||
This fifty pound now I am caught wth it. | |||
Twill make a deepe hole in my summs, a la<n>ke | |||
Wch all my letting out cann nere make full. | |||
I would some taylour would instruct me fairly | |||
To patch vp this misshapen sute againe | |||
And give it wth out bracke. Well I [will keep] Ie not loose it. | 1210 | ||
But yett to loose my vncle were worse ill | |||
Let it prove how it will Ile venter it | |||
Abide the hazard of it. Ile tosse fairly | |||
To scape, fortune must be my opposite | |||
If I doe loose it. | |||
Badg: | A mischeife on your muttering chops | ||
Poore | |||
I left it heare, and I must search it out. | |||
Badg | |||
Poore | True for the savour's worse. | 1220 | |
Badg | As thinn a roome as may bee | ||
Poore: | I remember | ||
Twas on this side Llayd it; what have I heare | |||
What is it turn'd into a baskett hilt | |||
And threadbare blewe coate, twas agood exchange | [FOL.40a] | ||
For him that made it; vm, may not the snake | |||
That cast the skinn be found heare, nor ought elce ? | |||
Nay ile search furder; oh you minching raskall | |||
What have I found you? You shall pay for it. | |||
The raskall was crept vp into a mouse hole | 1230 | ||
And lay as close as a hedge hogg: what freind Badger? | |||
Badg; | I even the same Sr | ||
Poore | What makst thou heare now? | ||
Badg | —And. | ||
Poore | What, what then? | ||
Badg | |||
Poore | What. | ||
Badg | till his anger's past. | ||
Poore | Tis well, were not thy parents puritanes? | ||
Badg: | [W] | 1240 | |
Poore | Did they not teach thee for to pray extempore | ||
Badg | But when they went to them | ||
Poore | |||
When they were gravelld | |||
Badg | |||
Poore | And when thou wert gott | ||
Badg: | I don't remember that | ||
Poore | Mee thinks they should it seem's innate to thee. | ||
But thou'st reduced it better to thy art | |||
Of lying; I doe knowe your busines mungrill | 1250 | ||
Your sett to spy my noble trencher man | |||
You've waited all this while but for small cheare | |||
An howers attendance had beene better giv'n | |||
For but a head of garlicke, see you this steele? | |||
Ile make you munch a peice of't if yu swear not | [FOL.40b] | ||
As I shall vrge, but if you sweare looke heare | |||
Crounes you mad raskall. | |||
Badg | Then I will sweare | ||
Poore | |||
Is no fitt one for quarrels, will you sweare? | 1260 | ||
Bad: | Since I am forced I will | ||
Poore | |||
Then I allready have: you shall conceale mee. | |||
Not give him notice, that I was ye factour | |||
Who tooke vp fifty pound on Quicks behalfe | |||
Badg: | Why by this hand I wont. | ||
Poore | What doe you equivocate | ||
And sweare by your leffe hand whe you mean to write it? | |||
Sweare you by both your hands | |||
Badg: | 1270 | ||
Poore | |||
Badg | [ne] | ||
Poore | Nor your tounge | ||
In word or signe you shall make any way: | |||
Badger | No way by signes or tokens | ||
Poore | |||
thy sword hilts, for thats the hardest oath | |||
I cann now force thee to. | |||
Badg | |||
Poore | Wthout reservances | 1280 | |
Badg | I from my heart | ||
Poore | Then heare my noble skincker heare is gold | ||
Twill give thee freise in stead of thy blew coate. | |||
Twill give thee gaudyes, thou mayst cram thyselfe | |||
Wth kicksh<a>wes now, as long as this shall last | |||
Whilest this resplendant substance shall remaine | |||
Wthin ye repleat body of thy purse. | |||
This hath sufficient spirit, centinell. | [FOL.41a] | ||
Twill give thee douszens, more then perfect summs | |||
They shall exceed the prӕdicament's best number | 1290 | ||
And the 3 principals: three shall not bee all. | |||
Twill make thee looke, like a Claridiano | |||
Till it hath made thee a hebitated Zoophyton. | |||
Badg | |||
Poore | Fare well good badger, I have other busines | ||
I should bee more intent to. | |||
Exit. | |||
Actus 5ti scӕ 2da (Poore sitts at his | |||
(study | |||
Sly | 1300 | ||
Stran | Heare a lector from you | ||
Poore | Most willingly though Ime not <we>ll provided. | ||
Sly. | Wee will expect the lesse | ||
Poore | |||
The texture of a speechfull composition. | |||
When the infernall h<e>lbread shades of night | |||
The hate of Phoebus, and the scorne of light | |||
A're forc'd to theire darke cells, choyce spirits arise | |||
From theire dull easyes frightlesse lethargyes. | |||
My spirits are not fresh, the subiect's mourning | 1310 | ||
Aurora wane, first the etymology | |||
The golden hower, when Phoebus first displayes | |||
Vnto the ioyed world his more ioyfull rayes | |||
Now amplyfy it fro the propertyes | |||
Extract's the vapours, from the thickned aire | |||
Expels' the sadnes, gives it subtile, rare. | |||
The effects doe followe wch our bodyes have | |||
And wch our minds, externe and interne these | [FOL.41b] | ||
Our blood our nerves receive like purity | |||
That from the aire, wee from the purged sky | 1320 | ||
Should we dampd [aires] nights polluted aire still breath | |||
As wee receivd life wee should drawe in death. | |||
But being cleansed by that sacred fyre | |||
That aire feeds life blest life, our best desire | |||
Now for the operation in our minds. | |||
What ofspring of high witt, birth of rare art | |||
Wch from this tyme doth not acquire cheife part. | |||
I should proceede to prove this by connexion | |||
The mourning salutations were calld holy | |||
Amongst the Romans, then wee may surmise | 1330 | ||
Those studyes holy that wth Sol doe rise. | |||
For then there is a greater sympathy | |||
Betwixt the stars and vs, they stand more nye | |||
To eloquence, and helpe more or theorie. | |||
Now should be some proportioned inductions | |||
To prove that tyme most apt to meditation. | |||
Then follow individuall examples | |||
Of such as have vsed it these must be sett downe | |||
In grave words, full and sounding; well connected | |||
Agreeing in theire sence, and these not vulgar. | 1340 | ||
Hyperb<o>lyes sometymes, then Metaphors | |||
These now wthout coniunction, though not often. | |||
Yet bearing still relation on, to other. | |||
Now vse an iteration, speake w<o>rds twice. | |||
But lett them still bee increasing, and ascend | |||
Not falle to flatly, soe heare are instructions | |||
Such as the tyme, and my weake braine cann give | [FOL.42a] | ||
Quicke | how to compose a speech | ||
Poore | Not any <> one | ||
As I remember doth sett these downe fully. | 1350 | ||
Some heare some theare, I have collected, not | |||
sucking my hony from one only flower. | |||
But From [the] best fountaines Aristotles rheth'ricke | |||
Tully in 'his oratory, from Quintilian. | |||
Badg | |||
Poore | [E] | ||
Ex M Fabij Quintiliani institutionibus. | |||
Badg | |||
Poore: | Yes Sr some fewe affaires calld mee abroad | ||
And force'd mee bee lesse diligent, then I would | 1360 | ||
But now theire ended, I shall give attendance | |||
More amply to you. | |||
Quicke | |||
Poore | that's the best way to thrift [indeed] where is your neice | ||
Sly | | ||
Poore | You were to much obdurat then, to hard | ||
You may spoile all hir possibilityes | |||
Such great extreames force naught but desperatiõ | |||
Quicke | |||
Poore | Sr if my best indeavours could deserve them | 1370 | |
I should account them, very strong reward. | |||
Sr my desire of gaine is not soe stupid | |||
As is your common pedants, yet no ambition | |||
Hath grow'n soe much [vp] on mee as I should covett | |||
A meerely nominall opinion | |||
Oh affectation is a cloudy vayle | |||
Wch hidst the solidst, of our soules perfections. | [FOL.42b] | ||
Or at the least doth hinder hir free workings | |||
Quic: | [ | ||
Poore | Sr I proffesse, an essence | 1380 | |
Wch should as perfectly bee knowne as bee. | |||
But since the wretched, vild esteeme of men. | |||
Doth give the best of men but meere selfe lovers | |||
If they esteeme themselves, I gratulate | |||
Your good coniecture, that you thinke mee free | |||
Whilst I doe knowe myselfe soe, fare you well Sr | |||
Stran | |||
You may expect mee ready to yor vowes | |||
Badg | since today. | ||
Poore | Yes Badger if thoult give me ample thanks | 1390 | |
That I've remembred thee soe well. | |||
Badg | |||
Poore | Soe now they'are gonn what wouldst thou my brave pufpast. | ||
What wouldst thou wullsacke, whose inside is no better. | |||
Then 'a sheeps coate, ift bee of equall goodnesse | |||
Sly | my wandring prince of troy. | ||
Poore: | |||
I will rehearse my ephemerydes | |||
Myy dayly slights, since moondayes last meridies | |||
But thou must bee my subiect and my scӕnicke | 1400 | ||
To act my gulls in glorious wise. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Weele first beginn wth strange | ||
Sly | |||
Poore | sound tr<u>mpetts heere our play begi<nne>s | ||
Sly | and vitiated your muse. | ||
Poore | |||
I am his true begott, legitimate. | |||
Sly | [FOL.43a] | ||
Poore | And thou wouldst live soe to, well Ile instruct thee. | 1410 | |
Sly | I would. | ||
Poore: | |||
Pooets are leane and marc<e>lent | |||
Sly | |||
Poore. | Well thought of, oh I have the finest lasse | ||
Have made the bravest conquest, purchase of hir. | |||
I hope none heare<s> Ile tell thee shee excels | |||
Man in's best property of looking vpwards | |||
Hir falling eyes give heaven full viewe. | |||
Sly | 1420 | ||
Poore: | Such as your common women have shee's coy | ||
Yet wanton, shee cann laugh, and weepe, and laugh, | |||
And hould againe. shee hath an exquisite face | |||
And yet not painted wch is very rare. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | |||
But Gill hir more in witt and haviour. | |||
And heere shee comes; what may <wee> wish yu ioy | |||
Of your good match? | |||
Gill | That did indeavour cousenage | 1430 | |
Poore | |||
Sly | |||
Poor | It cannot bee, none knowes vs but ourselves | ||
And wee or selves soe finally, as no humour | |||
Could give mee knowne vnlesse yor womans tounge. | |||
Yet Ive one refuge and, it is my last | |||
The very sanctuary of our safety | |||
As I supposse it yet, but prove that wanting | [FOL.43b] | ||
I cannot guesse the consequent save ill | |||
Sly | Lets know't | 1440 | |
Poore | [] | ||
Gill | And suffer a small hafling | ||
Poore | |||
But why what proiect, what event will followe? | |||
Gill | I have revealed your disguise. | ||
Poore | |||
Ime tangled in a cobweb that have scapd | |||
Snaires and strong engines able to prevaile | |||
Against a lion, if the fox were absent | |||
But now the ridle is confirm'd, a secret, | 1450 | ||
Is much to little for one only man. | |||
For two sufficient, but for three to much. | |||
Well goe thy wayes, old Gill, Ive knowne thy equals | |||
But bedlam kept them for they could not themselvs | |||
Wthin due compasse is your Trugull heare | |||
Sly | [ | ||
Poore | Why turne a horse leech. | ||
Thou mayst sucke blood securely in yt habit | |||
Somewhat Ile doe and labour for event | |||
Wch shall alone give knowledge what I meant. | 1460 | ||
Exit Actus 5ti scӕna 5ta | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | For mee I am the obiect, may they burst. | ||
Conceale mee lett mee not bee knowne. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Oh yt nothing moves mee, I divulg'd him dead | ||
For my owne private ends | |||
Sly | And h<e>e is dead | ||
Poore. | Poets are prophets then I see! how dead? | ||
Amasement ceaseth mee, dead ? it cannot bee. | 1470 | ||
Why then a necke verse followes, oh my fate | [FOL.44a] | ||
Woemenes best witt I see is extreame folly | |||
How free[] had I beene from this certaine ruine | |||
How practis'd in more ills, had not this hapned | |||
And flourishing in them? ist not possible | |||
That I may live vnknowne to Medle? tis | |||
And I will venter it, shake of these burrs | |||
Wth easy recompence of a little nap. | |||
You shalbee a phisition, I am sicke | |||
You make me daungerously sicke, but heare you | 1480 | ||
Ile not bee purged, you shall give me out [p<ur>g'd] sicke | |||
But not give inward sicknes. Ile no figgs. | |||
Sly. | As you shall please. | ||
Poore | |||
Of your great guilty person[ages]s, who to scape | |||
A lawfull death; that is death giv'n by'th lawe | |||
Will rather choose to dy, vnnaturally | |||
By theire owne guilty hands. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Intreat Strange hither | 1490 | |
Sly | |||
Poore | |||
Strange | |||
Poore | Sr lett mee crave your pardon, I esteeme you | ||
A second parent to mee, removed by nature | |||
But one degree from it, you are my vncle | |||
I therfore will lay ope my worst acts to you, | |||
That you may veiwe them fully, as they are | |||
In theire owne essence: I have wrongd them all | |||
And giv'ne iust cause for this complaint, nay more | 1500 | ||
Wch most afflicteth mee, I have wrongd you | |||
[BLANK] | [FOL.44b] | ||
[BLANK] | [FOL.45a] | ||
Strange | by wch you did conceive mee soe. | [FOL.45b] | |
Poore | |||
sufficiently heare after. | |||
Sly | And putt it in to practise: | ||
Poore | |||
A like restraint from the vnciv<i>ll liberty | |||
Tyme and our ryoutous age doth prompt vs to | |||
Str: | |||
Poore | Wee are deficient in ability. | 1510 | |
Sly | |||
Poore | Since the whole summ of my continued actions | ||
Have been me<'>re tricks. Ile end them wth a tricke | |||
Ime sicke to death. | |||
Strang | [ | ||
Poore | |||
Give mee a gowne and night capp | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Wheres your phisitions habits, have yu termes. | ||
Fustian will serve sufficiently curiosity | 1520 | ||
Will stand you in no steed, heere are no Criticks | |||
Stran: | |||
Poore | Sr I am ready for them, for some meale now | ||
To make a wh[ighte]ite man of mee & a sickly. | |||
Oh, oh, oh. | |||
Sly | |||
Poore: | |||
Sly | The falling sicknes? | ||
Poore | |||
Sly | And much good doe it you. | 1530 | |
Poore | |||
Sly | How didst thou knowe him for thy vncle? | ||
Poore | |||
Some other tyme ile tell you; they are entring. | |||
Tru: | Made mee a gull. | [FOL.46a] | |
Poore | Oh, oh, oh, I confesse | ||
That, [yo]u I have beene the cause, youve suffred wrong | |||
Dry | |||
Poore: | Ime heartily sory for it, I thanke my god. | ||
He []hatth brought you hither, that I may crave |hee | 1540 | ||
(falls downe | |||
Your pardons, I would my estate were able (in his fitt | |||
Sly | |||
Poore | Why well I thancke my maker, fitt for heaven | ||
If these could be intreated to forgivenes. | |||
The remnants of what I have gott from you | |||
I will restore wth thanks to satisfy you | |||
Stran | |||
Poore | I thank[] you your carefull in my behalfe | ||
Stran | In presence of these gentlemen. | 1550 | |
Poore | |||
One Mr Medle, him I would faine speake wth | |||
Str<an>g | |||
Poore | |||
Your pardon for Ive wrongd you. | |||
Med Hard Tru: | |||
Poore | Then thus I shake my sickenes of | ||
[Trugull | I for my loving spouse]. | ||
[Poore | happily may you live.] | ||
Med: | why did you crave my pardon? | 1560 | |
Poore | [But <wha>] | ||
But what I gave you, doe you knowe mee now? | |||
I am to all of you what you will but good. | |||
Med | Is then my pardon counterfett? | ||
Poore | |||
That I could give you; Ive no more from you | |||
Only the difference is I payd not for it | [FOL.46b] | ||
An equall price. | |||
Med. | weele both have equall parts; | ||
Poore | 1570 | ||
Sly | All thrive but my selfe. | ||
Poore | My gaine is thine; for what remaines in bank | ||
Of our last getting shall restore thy state. | |||
And give thee means of trading, one ill fate | |||
Wee equally indured, fortunes sad frowne | |||
Wee shared betwixt vs, but it is my croune | |||
That as in worst of ill thou hadst a pt | |||
Soe of our [better] best state thou a sharer art | |||
This is the maine true freindship cann com[m<aun>]maund | |||
Yt hopes and fears of freinds goe hand in hand | 1580 |