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Enter Leonara sola.hee's in loue sure, would I surely knew
the bewtious obiect of his heart, but louers can
proteus like put on such various shapes
as shall delude the wisest, the old ffoxe
Lucretia'es ffather, not wt h standing all
his subtill windinges did I send soe farr
as my firme thoughtes suggest yet it may bee
noe other then a setled mellancholly
grounded on this that from a noble souldier
hee's turn'd a civill Marchaunt booteles tis
to make these sadd enigmaes to my selfe
wc h onely Iacomo can best resolue, and
here hee comes. morrow Iacomo
Ia:
my duty lady
Le:
where's yor mr
Ia:
abroad i'th Citty lady
le:
y'are deceiu'd hee's there
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here
le:
there
Ia:
my mr
le:
yor mr
Ia:
in this purse
le:
in that gold
Ia:
hee
le:
yes or his heart sir I must find it there
and you must needes present it to my view
doe't the gold thine, and my heart to boote
thy answer Iacomo
Ia:
my Mr s heart
le:
looke sir dally not, if yee doe I haue trickes
old Machiauell the fflorentine taught mee
shall stopp yor wind pipe streight
Ia:
tell mee of trickes lady vnriddle mee
make yor selfe plaine, what would you haue me doe
le.
shew mee yor mr s heart
Ia:
I cannot lady, if I could I would not
you onely this propose but to make triall of
that wc h hee'd not question, my true ffaith
my mr s heart, oh madam tis a dere
a dere soe precious that all the golden arrowes
in the world shall neuer wound soe long as
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by heaven, com̄aund what may not concerne his life
tis yor s at the first sillable.
le:
keepe the gold on that Condition, but make good
thy oath Ile study thy preferment, come be
plaine, who loues yor mr,
Ia:
who loues him lady, thattes easily answer'd
you loue him lady I and all the world
that honest are, saue villeines none can hate him
is there noe way to redeem't
le:
yes by confession
Ia:
but haue I sworne
le:
that any thing wc h not concernes his life
thou freely wilt lay open
Ia:
then freely take't hee loues lucresia
le:
the old mans daughter
Ia:
the same
le:
[I thinke the deuill]
why then I haue my ffeares, wc h made me thi«n»
to wind about thy ffaith by Circumstance
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who knowes the heart does the same heart possess«e»
I thinke the devill that first spake ith serpent
Ia:
to tempt the woman did now speake in the woman
to tempt mee subtelly.
le
Iacomo this but the barke and out side of the busines
the sap is yet vntasted, thinkst thou lucretia
the old dotardes daughter, a math worthy thy mr
or would it grieue thee to haue him leaue her
and by taking one at my direction, to see him
grafted into a noble stock, to match below tis
vnder nature, but who lookes aboue her
hee liftes his birth by a more eminent louer
Ia:
you touch mee deeply now I well consider
lucretia'es ffather neuer badd goodmorrow
on equall termes to my old mr lady, what would
you haue mee doe in this
le:
yield mee thy assistance
to prossecute what I haue firmely plotted
Ia:
if for the advauncement of my mr s loue
Ile fly through all the managemt as speedily
as youle desire, come to the purpose lady
le
thou hast lodg'd lucreatya somewhere priuately
Ia.
I haue
le:
whereabouth
Ia:
here in this house
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and dost expect him here to vissit her
Ia
instantly
le
fly good Iacomo, beare her hence convey her
to the next Monastery, where Ile conceale
her from thy dere Mr fly good Iacomo.
Ia:
I'm gone lady
le:
the coales of his hott loue thus being quench'd
by her obscurity, I shall perceiue
how his affections stand and wt h more ease
if greater fflames beginn, their rage appease
when Iacomo, shall I not be deliuered
away wt h her Iacomo soe
thus daungers well fore seene are soone prevented
lucresia'es bewty, nor her ravishing tongue
shall not soe play the syren as to charme
my galeas faster to her, then this braine
hath power to loose agen, when women fling
their wittes toward the invention of a thing
they still effect it, for witty writers say
women divert thinges ill, to a good way:
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