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SCEN. II.
Charinus.Medorus.
Medoras come, we two must sit, and mourne
Whilst others reuell. We are not for sports,
Or nuptiall shewes, which will but shew vs more
Our miseries, in being both depriu'd,
The comforts of our issue, which might haue
(And was as like to haue) made our hearts
As ioyfull now, as others are in theirs.
Med.
Indeed Charinus, I for my part haue
Iust cause to grieue amidst these festiuals,
For they should haue beene mine. This day I should
Haue seene my daughter Siluia how she would
Haue womand it; these rites had beene her grace,
And she had sat in Galateas place.
And now had warm'd my heart to see my blood
Preseru'd in her; had she not beene so rapt
And rent from off the liuing as she was.
But your case is not pararell with mine,
You haue a sonne, Charinus, that doth liue,
And may one day to you like comforts giue.
Cha.
Indeed I haue a sonne; but yet to say he liues,
I cannot; for who liues not to the world,
Nor to himselfe, cannot be sayd to liue:
For euer since that you your daughter lost,
I lost my sonne: for from that day he hath
Imbrak'd in shades and solitarinesse,
Shut himselfe vp from light or company
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By good Palæmon, vowes still so to doe.
Med.
And did your sonne, my daughter loue so deare?
Now good Charinus, I must grieue the more,
If more my heart could suffer then it doth;
For now I feele the horrour of my deede,
In hauing crost the worthiest match on earth.
Now I perceiue why Siluia did refuse
To marry with Alexis, hauing made
A worthier choice; which oh had I had grace
To haue foreseene, perhaps this dismall chance
Neuer had beene, and now they both had had
Ioy of their loues, and we the like of them.
Now good Charinus, I must grieue the more,
If more my heart could suffer then it doth;
For now I feele the horrour of my deede,
In hauing crost the worthiest match on earth.
Now I perceiue why Siluia did refuse
To marry with Alexis, hauing made
A worthier choice; which oh had I had grace
To haue foreseene, perhaps this dismall chance
Neuer had beene, and now they both had had
Ioy of their loues, and we the like of them.
But ah my greedy eye, viewing the large
And spacious sheep-walkes ioyning vnto mine,
Whereof Alexis was possest, made me,
As worldlings doe, desire to marry grounds,
And not affections, which haue other bounds.
How oft haue I with threats, with promises,
With all perswasions, sought to win her minde
To fancy him, yet all would not preuaile?
How oft hath she againe vpon her knees
With teares besought me; Oh deare father mine
Doe not inforce me to accept a man
I cannot fancy: rather take from me,
The life you gaue me. then afflict it so.
And spacious sheep-walkes ioyning vnto mine,
Whereof Alexis was possest, made me,
As worldlings doe, desire to marry grounds,
And not affections, which haue other bounds.
How oft haue I with threats, with promises,
With all perswasions, sought to win her minde
To fancy him, yet all would not preuaile?
How oft hath she againe vpon her knees
With teares besought me; Oh deare father mine
Doe not inforce me to accept a man
I cannot fancy: rather take from me,
The life you gaue me. then afflict it so.
Yet all this would not alter mine intent,
This was the man she must affect or none.
But ah what sinne was this to torture so
A heart forevow'd vnto a better choice,
Where goodnesse met in one the selfe same point,
And vertues answer'd in an equall ioynt?
Sure, sure, Charinus, for this sinne of mine
The gods bereaft me of my child, and would
Not haue her be, to be without her heart,
Nor me take ioy where I did none impart.
This was the man she must affect or none.
But ah what sinne was this to torture so
A heart forevow'd vnto a better choice,
Where goodnesse met in one the selfe same point,
And vertues answer'd in an equall ioynt?
Sure, sure, Charinus, for this sinne of mine
The gods bereaft me of my child, and would
Not haue her be, to be without her heart,
Nor me take ioy where I did none impart.
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Medorus, thus we see mans wretchednesse
That learnes this errours but by their successe,
And when there is no remedie; and now
VVe can but wish it had beene otherwise.
Med.
And in that wish Charinus we are rackt;
But I remember now I often haue
Had shadowes in my sleepe that figures bare
Of some such liking twixt your childe and mine.
And this last night a pleasing dreame I had
(Though dreames of ioy makes wakers minds more sad)
Me thought my daughter Siluia was return'd
In most strange fashion, and vpon her knees
Craues my good will for Thirsis, otherwise
She would be gone againe and seene no more.
But I remember now I often haue
Had shadowes in my sleepe that figures bare
Of some such liking twixt your childe and mine.
And this last night a pleasing dreame I had
(Though dreames of ioy makes wakers minds more sad)
Me thought my daughter Siluia was return'd
In most strange fashion, and vpon her knees
Craues my good will for Thirsis, otherwise
She would be gone againe and seene no more.
I at the sight of my deare childe, was rapt
VVith that excesse of ioy, as gaue no time
Either for me to answere her request,
Or leaue for sleepe to figure out the rest,
VVith that excesse of ioy, as gaue no time
Either for me to answere her request,
Or leaue for sleepe to figure out the rest,
Cha.
Alas Medorus, dreames are vapours, which
Ingendred with day thoughts, fall in the night
And vanish with the morning; are but made
Afflictions vnto man, to th'end he might
Not rest in rest, but toile both day and night.
Ingendred with day thoughts, fall in the night
And vanish with the morning; are but made
Afflictions vnto man, to th'end he might
Not rest in rest, but toile both day and night.
But see here comes my solitarie sonne:
Let vs stand close Modorus out of sight,
And note how he behaues himselfe in this
Affliction, and distressed, case of his.
Let vs stand close Modorus out of sight,
And note how he behaues himselfe in this
Affliction, and distressed, case of his.
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