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Scena secunda.
Enter the banquet, after Theag. Caric. & Calasi. with attendance.Theag.
Welcome my honoured friends, and holy fathers
To my poore Table here, please you to sit
And eate of what the gods have sent us.
Caric.
Sir,
Superabundant are your cates and dainties,
Faire Cleopatra that luxurious Queene
Might revell here, and be contented too,
We that are Priests use no such dainty fare
Whose lives are squar'd by rules of temperance.
Theag.
We will not cause you breake those rules, nor swerve
From your religious order, but sometimes
A little Wine will much enflame your zeale
To holy duties, reverend Caricles
I must begin to you.
drinkes to him.
Theagines, I must returne you thanks.
Theagines on a sudden falls into musing, sighes, and changeth his countenance sometimes red, sometimes pale, and gapes withall, as if he were not well.
What meaneth this variety? I thinke
Some envious eye hath look'd upon him too,
Methinkes Cariclea and Theagenes
Haave one disease.—
softly to Calasires.
Calas.
By Isis that they have
One and the same disease, thus it appeares:
Since he next to your daughter was the fairest
Of all the shew at that brave sacrifice.
Theagenes begins to recollect himselfe.
Theag.
Sirs, pardon my stupidity and dulnesse,
A little fit of passion did possesse me,
But now tis past, here worthy Calasiris,
I drinke a health to the faire president
Of our late funerall pomp.
Calas.
Excuse me Sir,
I drinke no healths, yet thanke your courteous proffer.
Theag.
Refuse Caricleas health?
Caricles.
Sir, be not angry,
This man ne'r drinketh wine, nor eats the flesh
Of any living thing.
Theag.
That's strange, how comes it?
Caricles.
He's an Ægyptian, borne at holy Memphis,
And Isis Priest, whose custome is t'abstaine
From wine and flesh as things unlawfull.
Theag.
Then
Bring me some water, wise and reverend man,
Pardon my ignorance which knew it not;
Now Sir to you in your owne element,
And let this table make a lasting league
Of amity betweene us.
Calas.
Let it be so,
Worthy Theagenes for I doe much
Desire that combination.
Theag.
Ere you goe
Pyrricha, which we use in Thessalie.
Caricles.
What pleaseth you doth please us.
Theag.
Sound musicke then.
The Thessalian youth with Theagenes their Captaine, dance Pyrricha in armour, with a gracefull dexterity, which ended, the Priests take their leaves, and bid Theagenes adieu.
Caricles.
Thanks for our worthy entertainment Sir.
Theagenes embraceth Calasiris very often, and at parting whispereth him something in the eare.—Exeunt all.
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