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SCEN. I.
Charinus,the father of Thirsis. Palæmon.
Palæmon, you me thinkes might something worke
With Thirsis my aggrieued sonne, and sound
His humour what it is: and why he thus
Afflicts himselfe in solitarinesse.
You two were wont to be most inward friends,
And glad I was to see it; knowing you
To be a man well tempred, fit to sort
With his raw youth; can you do nothing now,
To win him from this vile captiuity
Of passion, that withholdes him from the world?
Pal.
In troth, Charinus, I haue oftentimes,
As one that suffred for his grieuances,
Assayd to finde a way into the cause
Of his so strange dismay; and by all meanes
Aduis'd him make redemption of himselfe,
And come to life againe, and be a man
With men: but all serues not, I finde him lockt
Fast to his will, alleadge I what I can.
Char.
But will he not impart to you the cause?
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The cause is loue; but it is such a loue,
As is not to be had.
Cha.
Not to be had?
Palæmon, if his loue be regular,
Is there in all Arcadia any she,
Whom his ability, his shape, and worth
May not attaine, he being my onely sonne?
Pal.
She is not in Arcadia whom he loues,
Nor in the world, and yet he deerely loues.
Cha.
How may that be, Palæmon? tell me plaine.
Pal.
Thus plainly; he's in loue with a dead woman
And that so farre; as with the thought of her
Which hath shut out all other, he alone
Liues, and abhorres to be, or seene, or knowne,
Cha.
What was this creature could possesse him so?
Pal.
Faire Siluia, old Medorus daughter, who
Was two yeares past reported to be slaine
By sauage beasts vpon our Country shore.
Cha.
Is that his griefe? alas, I rather thought
It appertain'd vnto anothers part
To wayle her death: Alexis should doe that
To whom her father had disposed her,
And she esteemed onely to be his.
Why should my sonne afflict him more for her,
Then doth Alexis, who this day doth wed
Faire Galatea, and forgets the dead?
And here the shepheards come to celebrate
His ioyfull nuptials with all merriment,
Which doth increase my cares, considering
The comforts other parents do receiue:
And therefore good Palæmon worke all meanes
You can to win him from his peeuish will,
And draw him to these shewes, to companies,
That others pleasures may inkindle his,
It appertain'd vnto anothers part
To wayle her death: Alexis should doe that
To whom her father had disposed her,
And she esteemed onely to be his.
Why should my sonne afflict him more for her,
Then doth Alexis, who this day doth wed
Faire Galatea, and forgets the dead?
And here the shepheards come to celebrate
His ioyfull nuptials with all merriment,
Which doth increase my cares, considering
The comforts other parents do receiue:
And therefore good Palæmon worke all meanes
You can to win him from his peeuish will,
And draw him to these shewes, to companies,
That others pleasures may inkindle his,
And tell him what a sinne he doth commit,
To waste his youth in solitarinesse,
And take a course to end vs all in him.
To waste his youth in solitarinesse,
And take a course to end vs all in him.
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Assure your selfe Charinus, as I haue
So will I still imploy my vtmost powre,
To saue him; for me thinkes it pitty were,
So rare a peece of worth should so be lost,
That ought to be preserued at my cost.
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