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Sc. xii

Enter Iacomo, & lucreatya:
Iac:
you are not weary

lu:
I must not say soe

Iac:
but yet y'are soe

lu:
where are wee now

Iac:
where you must bee and bee most nobly welcome
this is plazenza, & this house the place
where you must bee as in a laborinth
safe and vnseene to any but my selfe
& those I giue incharge to giue attendance

lu:
thankes, but I must coniure yee Iacomo
whisper not lucrece name, ffame's quick of hearing
and loud of tongue, tis ten to one my ffather
is stragling hether like a man distract
to find mee out

Iac:
tut hee cannot find yee
if you but take reciprocall advise
to charme yor tongue as you bidd mee charme mine
keepe in yor clapdish, lettes haue noe enquiring
what men and who the properst in plazenza
noe open casement to let bewty out
to call in custome or exchaunge kind lookes
curtin yor chamber like a cloistred Cell
Collatine had a lucrece would haue don't

lu:
& galeas hath a lucrece that will do't

Exit
Iac:
in then Ile not be long, lord galeas, I wonder
his hott loue's not at or heeles

Enter galeas.
ga:
ha Iacomo, my loue

Iac:
shee's still yor loue

ga:
but where bestow'd & how provided for

Iac:
i'th Mew, i'th mew, marry shee's full sum'd and
ready to be drawne, euen when you please

ga:
noe Iacomo, remoue her by noe meanes
I heare the churle her ffather's newly lighted,
to in forme the duke, and to make privy search
and threatens mee

Iac:
twere best you get you gone
to keepe out of suspition till hee's gone
then to yor loue you may securely come

ga:
& soe I will goe get thee to my lucrece
& say by thee I send to her my heart

Ia:
and you liue heartles

ga:
louers can liue soe
and tis noe miracle, goe prthee goe

Exit Ia.
Enter Mother
Mo:
welcome from parma my dere galeas

ga:
madam my duty

Mo:
mett you wt h yor marchant

ga:
yes and was meet wt h him

Mo:
how meane you that sonn

ga:
why did yee not send mee to be meet wt h him

Mo:
then you were at his house

ga:
where I was bold I can assure yee I was
my owne Caruer

Mo:
he badd you fairely welcome

ga:
wondrous faire

Mo:
and vsd you kindly

ga:
o the kindest wretch
and beares the truest exemplary name
of faire and chast in all the world agen

Mo:
boy art thou well thou lookst and talkst soe wild«ly»
and all thy answeres soe impertinent
the money man, hast thou receiu'd the money

ga:
paid to a penny wt h faire interest
and that Ile keepe

Mo:
that and the principall
tis all thy owne and all thy mother has
but art thou well boy

ga:
yes madam, but somewhat weary my horse
setes hard, I hade a simple iourney on't, I rode
in poast from parma hether.

Mo:
goe and take rest
I goe not to take rest

ga:
till I may free imbrace, where I loue best

Exit
Enter Iouanny
Iou:
not speake wt h her, sir but I must and will
are not you Leonara.

Mo:
sir thattes my name

Iou:
you haue my sonn

Mo:
I thank my starres I haue

Iou:
hee was at parma

Mo
true sir I sent him thether

Iou:
and is a villeine

Mo:
but that I know thee well
a man whom my late husband much conuerst wt h

Iou:
yor husband was a noble gentleman
but let mee tell you, hee has a knaue to his sonne

Mo:
thou art priviledg'd for my late husbandes loue
elce thy badd tongue badd man would be thy bane

Iou:
I say thou hast a sonn

Mo:
I not denie it

Iou:
and I haue a daughter

Mo:
in good time sir

Iou:
I ly I had a daughter

Mo:
whattes all this sir

Iou:
why that my daughter that same sonn of thine
who in my house I kindly entertain'd
discharg'd my debtes to the vtmost ffardinge
yet this same daughter that same sonn of thine
against all rules of hospitallity
& cleane contrary to humanity
hath ravish'd stolne conveid I know not where

Mo:
hee steale thy daughter, hee convey her dotard
too well my sonn doth vnderstand his birth
to match in such disparity of bloud
who ever knew the Eagles catch at fflees
the lion seize vpon a silly Mouse

Iou:
sdeath there's noe such inequallity
nor disproportion t'wixt or bloudes and birthes
but where's thy sonne that ravisher

Mo:
thou liest

Iou:
where is hee bring vs face to face hee
cannot haue the fface to say I ly doe soe or
Ile to the duke, if there be law.

Mo:
wt hin there ho, one take this madman hence.

Iou:
shee and her sonn here's noe simple rule
haue made of mee a Madman and a ffoole

Mo:
out a dores wt h him

Iou:
Ile to the duke & vow if law will doe it
to be reveng'd thou and thy sonn shall rue it

Exit
Mo:
I'm afraid, my boy has bene too blame
rest and dull peace beget adulterate thoughtes
if his be such I would hee had plac'd 'em higher
but I must sound this doubt, yet whether sift my
sonn or sound his servant, there lies the question
Ile to Iacomo, tho frō his mr nothing can decline him
it shall goe hard but I will vndermine him

Exit