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The soft musicke playing. Ent. by two and two, divers Courtiers, Martha after them, like a Queene between two boyes in robes. Her train borne up by Barbara, all the Lords kneele, and kisse Perigrines hand, Martha approaching, he starts backe, but is drawne on by Byplay and the Doctor. Letoy enters and mingles with the rest, and seemes to instruct them all.Dia.
O here's a stately show! looke master Ioylesse:
Your daughter in law presented like a queene
Unto your sonne, I warrant now he'l love her.
Ioy.
A queene?
Dia.
Yes, yes, and mistris Blaze is made
The mother of her maides, if she have any:
Perhaps the Antipodian Court has none.
See, see, with what a Majesty he receives 'hem.
The mother of her maides, if she have any:
Perhaps the Antipodian Court has none.
See, see, with what a Majesty he receives 'hem.
SONG.
Health , wealth, and joy our wishes bring,All in a welcome to our king:
May no delight be found,
Wherewith he be not crown'd.
Apollo with the Muses,
Who Arts divine infuses.
With their choyce Chyrlouds decke his head;
Love and the graces make his bed:
And to crowne all, let Hymen to his side,
Plant a delicious, chast, and fruitfull Bride.
Byp.
Now Sir be happy in a marriage choyce,
That shall secure your title of a king.
See sir, your state presents to you the daughter,
The onely childe and heire apparant of
Our late deposed and deceased Soveraigne,
Who with his dying breath bequeath'd her to you.
Per.
A Crowne secures not an unlawfull marriage.
I have a wife already.
Doct.
No: you had sir,
But she's deceast.
Per.
How know you that?
Doct.
By sure advertisment; and that her fleeting spirit
Is flowne into, and animates this Princesse.
Per.
Indeed she's wondrous like her.
Doct.
Be not slacke
T'embrace and kisse her Sir.
He kisses her and retires.
Mar.
He kisses sweetly;
And that is more then ere my husband did.
But more belongs then kissing to child-getting;
And he's so like my husband, if you note him,
That I shall but lose time and wishes by him,
No, no, Ile none of him.
Bar.
Ile warrant you he shall fulfill your wishes.
Mar.
O but try him you first: and then tell me.
Bar.
There's a new way indeed to choose a husband!
Yet twere a good one to barre foole getting.
Doct.
Why doe you stand aloofe Sir?
Per.
Mandivell writes
Of people neare the Antipodes, call'd Gadlibriens:
Where on the wedding-night the husband hires
Another man to couple with his bride,
To cleare the dangerous passage of a Maidenhead.
'Slid he falls backe againe to Mandevile madnesse.
Per.
She may be of that Serpentine generation,
That stings oft times to death (as Mandevile writes)
Doct.
She's no Gadlibrien, Sir, upon my knowledge.
You may as safely lodge with her, as with
A mayd of our owne nation. Besides,
You shall have ample counsell: for the present,
Receive her, and intreat her to your Chappell.
Byp.
For safety of your Kingdome, you must do it.
Haughtboies Exit in state as Letoy directs. Manet Letoy.
Let.
So, so, so, so, this yet may prove a cure.
Dia.
See my Lord now is acting by himselfe.
Let.
And Letoy's wit cryd up triumphant hoe.
Come master Ioylesse and your wife, come downe
Quickly, your parts are next. I had almost
Forgot to send my chaplaine after them.
You Domine where are you?
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