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The second Act.
Bonavent, listning.M. Bon.
Musicke and revelles? they are very merry.
Enter a Servant.
By your favour Sir.
Ser.
Y'are welcome.
Bon.
Pray is this a dancing Schoole.
Ser.
No dancing Schoole.
Bo.
And yet some voyces sound like women.
Ser.
Wilt please you
To taste a cup of Wine, tis this day free
As at a Coronation; you seeme
A Gentleman.
Bo.
Prethee who dwels here?
Ser.
The house this morning was a widdowes Sir!
She is married.
Bo.
Prethee her name.
Ser.
Her name was Mistresse Bonavent.
Bo.
How long since her husband dyed.
Ser.
Tis two yeares since she had intelligence
He was cast away, at his departure he
Engag'd her to a seven yeares expectation
Which full expir'd this morning she became
A Bride.
Bo.
What's the gentleman she has married.
Ser.
A man of pretty fortune, that has bin
Her servant many yeares.
Bo.
How dee meane wantonly, or does he serve for wages.
Ser.
Neyther, I meane a Suitor.
Bo.
Cry' mercy, may I be acquainted with his name.
Ser.
And his person too, if you have a minde too't
Maister Lacy, Ile bring you to him.
Bo.
Mr. Lacy, may be tis he, would thou couldst helpe me to
A sight of this gentleman, I ha businesse with
One of his name, and cannot meete with him.
Ser.
Please you walke in.
Bo.
I would not bee intruder
In such a day, if I might onely see him.
Ser.
Follow me and Ile do you that favour.
Exeunt.
Enter Lacy, and his Bride, Rider, and Carell, Venture, dancing: Bon, a loofe.
Ven.
Whose that peepes?
La.
Peepes! whose that? faith you shall dance.
M. B.
Good Sir you must excuse me, I am a stranger.
La.
Your tongue does walke our language, and your feete
Shall do as we do, take away his Cloake
And Sword, by this hand you shall dance Monsieure
No pardonne moye!
Ca.
Well said Maister Bridegrome, the gentleman
May perhappes want exercise.
Bo.
He will not take it well.
The Bridegrom's merry!
La.
Take me no takes, come choose your firke
For dance you shall.
M. B.
I cannot, youle not compell me.
La.
I ha sworne.
M. B.
Tis an affront as I am a Gentleman,
I know not how to foote your Chamber jigges.
La.
No remedy, heres a Lady longes for one vagarie
Fill a boule of Sack, and then to the Canaries.
M. B.
You are circled with your friends, and do not well
To use this priviledge to a Gentlemans
Dishonour.
La.
You shall shake your heeles.
M. B.
I shall, Ladies tis this gentlemans desire
That I should make you mirth, I cannot dance
I tell you that afore.
Bo.
He seemes to be a Gentleman and a Souldier.
Ca.
Good Mars be not so sullen, youle do more
With Venus privately.
M. B.
Because this Gentleman is engag'd Ile try.
Dance.
Will you excuse me yet.
La.
Play excuse me, yes any thing you'le call for.
Ca.
This motion every morning will be wholsome
And beneficiall to your body Sir.
M. B.
So, so.
Ca.
Your pretty lump requires it.
M. B.
Wheres my sword, sir I have bin your hobby horse.
Ca.
You danc't something like one.
M. B.
Ieere on my whimsy Lady.
Bo.
Pray impute it
No trespasse studdied to affront you Sir,
But to the merry passion of a Bridegrome.
La.
Prethee stay, weele to Hide Parke together!
M. B.
There you meet with Morrisdancers, for
You Lady I wish you more joy, so farewell.
La.
Comes, ha tother wherle, lustily boyes!
Exeunt.
Enter Maister Fairefeild and his Sister Iulietta.
Iu.
You are resolv'd then.
Fa.
I have no other care left,
And if I doo't not quickely my affection
May be too farre spent, and all physicke will
Be cast away.
Iu.
You will shew a Manly fortitude!
Fa.
When saw you Maister Tryer?
Iu.
Not since yesterday!
Fa.
Are not his visits frequent?
Iu.
He does see me sometimes!
Fa.
Come! I know thou lov'st him! and he will
Deserve it, hee's a pretty gentleman.
Iu.
It was your Character, that first commended
Him to my thoughts!
Fa.
If he be slow to answere it
Hee loses me againe, his minde more then
His fortune gain'd me to his praise, but I
Trifle my pretious time.
Enter Tryer.
Farewell! al my good wishes stay with thee.
Exit.
Iu.
And mine attend you! Maister Tryer.
Tr.
I come to kisse your hand.
Iu.
And take your leave.
Tr.
Onely to kis't againe!
Iu.
You begin to be a stranger! in two mornings
Not one visit, where you professe affection.
Tr.
I should be surfetted with happinesse
If I should dwell here.
Iu.
Surfets in the Spring
Are dangerous, and yet I never heard,
A lover would absent him from his Mistris
Through feare to be more happy, but I alow
That for a Complement, and dispute not with you
A reason of your actions! y'are now welcome
And though you should be guilty of neglect,
My love would over-come any suspition.
Tr.
You are all goodnesse
With me prethee admit him!
Pa.
Sir, my Lord saw you enter, and desires
To speake with you!
Tr.
His Lordship shall command, where is he?
Pa.
Below Sir!
Tr.
Say, I instantly waite on him?
Shall I presume upon your favour Lady?
Iu.
In what!
Tr.
That I may entreate him hither, you will honour me
To bid him welcome, he is a gentleman
To whom I owe all services, and in
himselfe is worthy of your entertainment.
Iu.
If he be yours command me!
Tr.
My Lord! excuse
Enter Bon.
Lo.
Nay I prevent your trouble—Lady I am
Your humble servant, pardon my intrusion
I hano businesse, only I saw you enter.
Tr.
Your Lordship honours me.
Lo.
What gentlewoman's this.
Tr.
Wy—
Lo.
A Lady of pleasure, I like her eye, it has
A prety twirle, wot-will she bid one welcome.
Tr.
Be confident my Lord, sweete Lady pray
Assure his Lordship he is welcome,
Iu.
I want words.
Lo.
Oh sweete Lady your lip in silence
Speakes the best language.
Iu.
Your Lordship's welcome to this humble roofe.
Lo.
I am confirm'd.
Tr.
If your knew Lady, what
Perfection of honour dwels in him,
You would be studious with all ceremony
To entertaine him! beside, to me
His Lordship's goodnes hath so flow'd, you cannot
study, what will oblige more then in his welcome!
Lo.
Come, you Complement!
Though I want both ability and language,
My wishes shall be zealous to expresse me
Your humble servant:
Lo.
Come, that humble was
But complement in you too.
Iu.
I wood not
Be guilty of dissembling with your Lordship,
I know words have more proportion
With my distance to your birth and fortune,
Then humble servant.
Lo.
I doe not love these distances.
Tr.
You would have her be more humble, this will try her,
If shee resist his siege, she is a brave one,
I know hee'le put her too't, he that doth love
Wisely, will see the triall of his Mistris,
And what I want in impudence my selfe,
Another may supply for my advantage,
Ile frame excuse!
Lo.
Franke thou art melancholy!
Tr.
My Lord I now reflected on a businesse,
Concernes me equall with my fortune, and
It is the more unhappy that I must,
So rudely take my leave.
Lo.
What? not so soone.
Tr.
Your honours pardon.
Iu.
Are you sir in earnest!
Tr.
Love will instruct you to interpret fairely,
They are affaires that cannot be dispenced with,
I leave this noble gentleman.
Iu.
Hee's a stranger,
You wonot use me well, and shew no care
Of me, nor of my honour, I pray stay!
Tr.
Thou hast vertue to secure all, I am confident,
Temptations will shake thy innocence,
No more then waves, that clime a Rocke, which soone
Betray their weakenesse, and discover thee,
More cleare and more impregnable
How is this?
Farewell, I will not sin against your honours clemency
To doubt your pardon.
Lo.
Well and there be no remedy I shall see you
Anon ith Parke, the Match holds, I am not willing
To leave you alone Lady.
Iu.
I have a servant.
Lo.
You have many, in their number pray write me,
I shall be very dutifull.
Iu.
Oh my Lord!
Lo.
And when I have done a fault I shall be instructed,
But with a smile to mend it.
Iu.
Done what fault?
Lo.
Faith none at all, if you but thinke so.
Iu.
I thinke your Lordship would not willingly
Offend a woman.
Lo.
I would never hurt em,
'T has bin my study still to please those women,
That fell within my conversation.
I am very tender hearted to a Lady,
I can denie em nothing.
Iu.
The whole sex is bound to you.
Lo.
If they well considered things,
And what a stickler I am in their cause,
The common cause, but most especially
How zealous I am in a Virgins honour,
As all true Knights should be, no woman could
Deny me hospitality, and let downe,
When I desire accesse, the rude Portcullice,
I have a naturall sympathy with faire ones,
As they do, I do! theres no hansome woman
Complaines, that she has lost her maidenhead;
But I wish mine had bin lost with it.
Iu.
Your Lordship's merry!
Lo.
Tis because you looke pleasant,
A very hansome Lodging, is there any
Accomodations that way.
Iu.
Ther's a garden,
Wilt please your Lordship tast the ayre on't.
I meant other conveniency, but if
You please Ile waite upon you thither.
Exeunt.
Pa.
You and I had better stay, and in their absence
Exercise one another.
Wait.
How meane you Page.
Pa.
Ile teach you away that we may follow em,
And not remove from hence.
Wa.
How prethee?
Pa.
Shall I begge your lip?
W.
I cannot spare it.
Pa.
Ile give you both mine.
W.
What meanes the Child?
Pa.
Because I have no upper lip, dee scorne me?
I ha kist Ladies before now, and have
Beene sent for to their Chambers.
W.
You, sent for!
Pa.
Yes, and beene trusted with their Clossets too!
We are such pretty things, we can play at
All hid under a Fardingale; how long
Have you bin a waiting creature?
W.
Not a moneth yet.
Pa.
Nay then I cannot blame your ignorance,
You have perhappes your maidenhead.
W.
I hope so.
Pa.
Oh lamentable! away with it for shame,
Chaffer it with the Coachman, for the credit
Of your profession, do not keepe it long,
Tis fineable in Court.
W.
Good Maister Page,
How long have you bin skild in those affaires?
Pa.
Ere since I was in Breeches, and youle finde
Your honesty so troublesome.
W.
How so.
Pa.
When you have truck'd away your Maidenhead,
You have excuse lawfull, to put off gamesters,
For you may sweare, and give em satisfaction,
You have not what they lookt for, beside the benefit
Of being impudent as accasion serves,
We Pages can instruct you in that quality,
So you be tractable.
W.
The boy is wild.
Pa.
And you will leade me a Chase, ile follow you.
Exeunt.
Enter Caroll, Rider, and Venture.
Ca.
Why, did you ever thinke, I could affect
Of all men living such a thing as you are.
What hope, or what encouragement did I give you
Because I tooke your Diamond, must you presently
Bound like a ston'd horse.
Rid.
Shee's a very Colt!
Ca.
Cause you can put your hat of like a dancer,
And make a better legge, then you were borne to,
For to say truth your calfe is well amended,
Must this so overtake me, that I must
Strait fall in love w'e yee, one step to Church,
Another into the Sheets, more to a bargaine
Y'are wide a bow, and some thing over shot.
Ven.
Then this is all that I must trust to, you
Will never ha me?
Ca.
In my right minde, I thinke so
Why, prethee tell me what I should do with thee?
Ven.
Can you finde nothing to do with me!
Ca.
To finde any Monkey spiders, were an office
Perhappes you would not execute!
Ven.
Y'are a gipsy!
And none of the twelue Sibills in a Tarverne,
Have such a tand complexion, there be Dogges
And Horses in the world.
Ca.
They'le kepe you company!
Ven.
Tell me of Spiders?
Ile wring your Monkeys necke off.
Ca.
And then puzzle
Your braine to make an Elegie, which shalbe sung
To the tune of the devill and the baker, good!
You have a pretty ambling wit in Summer,
Dee let out, or keepe for your own
Into a jest, to the endangering
Of your ingenious quodlibets.
Rid.
Come tha'st said enough.
Ca.
To him, you would have some.
Rid.
Some testimony of your love, if it please you.
Ca.
Indeed I have heard you are a pretious gentleman,
And in your younger, could play at trap well.
Rid.
Fare you well gentlewoman, by this light a devill,
Ile follow my old game of horse-rasing.
Ven.
I could teare her Ruffe! I wo'd thou wort
A Whore then ide be reveng'd, and bring the Prentices
To arraigne thee on Shrovetuesday, a pox upon you.
Enter Fairefeild.
Ca.
A third man, a third man, two faire gamesters.
Rid.
For shame lets goe!
Ca.
Will you stay gentleman; you ha no more wit,
Exit.
To venter, keepe your heads warme in any case,
There may be dregges in the bottome othe braine pan,
Which may turne to somewhat in seven yeares, and set
You up againe, now Sir.
Fa.
Lady I am come to you.
Ca.
It does appeare so.
Fa.
To take my leave.
Ca.
Tis granted Sir god buy.
Fa.
But you must stay and heare a little more,
I promise not to trouble you with Courtship,
I am as weary as you can be displeased woot.
Ca.
On these conditions, I would have the patience
To heare the brasen head speake.
Fa.
Whether, or how I purpose to dispose
My selfe hereafter, as I know you have
No purpose to enquire, I have no great
Ambition to discourse, but how I have
Studied your faire opinion, I remit
To time, and come now only to request
That you would grant, in lew of my true service
One boone at parting.
Forboone! proceede!
Fa.
But you must sweare to performe truely what
I shall desire, and that you may not thinke
I come with any cunning to deceive you,
You shall except what ere you would deny me,
And after all Ile make request.
Ca.
How's this?
Fa.
But it concernes my life, or what can else
Be neerer to me that you sweare.
Ca.
To what?
Fa.
When you have made exceptions and thought,
What things in all the world you will exempt,
From my petition, Ile be confident
To tell you my desire.
Ca.
This is faire play!
Fa.
I would not for an Empire by a trick
Oblige you to performe, what should displease you.
Ca.
This is a very strange request; are you in earnest;
Ere you begin shall I except? tis oddes
But I may include, what you have a minde to, then
Wheres your petition?
Fa.
I will runne that hazard.
Ca.
You will, why looke you; for a little mirthes sake,
And since you come so honestly, because
You shannot say, I am compos'd of Marble,
I doe consent.
Fa.
Sweare!
Ca.
I am not come to that.
Ile first set bounds to your request, and when
I have left nothing for you worth my grant,
Ile take a zealous oath to grant you any thing.
Fa.
You have me at your mercy!
Ca.
First, you shannot
Desire that I should love you!
Fa.
That's first, proceede!
Ca.
No more but proceede, dee know what I say.
Fa.
Your first exception forbid's to aske
That you should love me.
And you are contented.
Fa.
I must be so.
Ca.
What in the name of wonder will he aske me,
You shall not desire me to marry you.
Fa.
That's the second.
Ca.
You shall neither directly, nor indirectly wish me to lye with you,
Have I not clipt the wings of your conceipt.
Fa.
That's the third.
Ca.
That's the third, is there any thing a young man would
Desire of his Mi s, when he must neither love, marry, nor lye with her.
Fa.
My suite is still untoucht.
Ca.
Suite! if you have another suite tis out of fashion,
Ye cannot begge my state, yet I would willingly
Give part of that to be rid on thee.
Fa.
Not one Iewell.
Ca.
You wo'd not have me spoyle my face, drinke poyson,
Or kill any body.
Fa.
Goodnesse forbid that I should wish your danger.
Ca.
Then you wo'd not ha me ride through the Citty naked,
As once a Princesse of England did through Coventry.
Fa.
All my desires are modest.
Ca.
You shall not begge my Parrat nor intreate me
To fast, or weare a hayre smocke.
Fa.
None of these.
Ca.
I wonot be confin'd to make me ready
At tenne, and pray till dinner, I will play
At gleeke as often as I please, and see
Playes when I have a minde to't and the races,
Though men sho'd runne Adamits before me.
Fa.
None of these trench on what I have to aske.
Ca.
Why then I sweare—stay
You shannot aske me before company
How old I am, a question most untoothsome,
I know not what to say more, Ile not be
Bound from spring garden, and the Sparagus.
I wo'not have my tongue tyde up, when Iv'e
a minde to jeere my suitors, among which
For I must have my humor, I am sicke else;
I will not be compeld to heare your sonnets,
A thing before, I thought to advise you of,
Your words of hard concoction rude Poetry
Have much impayred my health, try sence another while
And calculate some prose according to
The elevation of our pole at London,
As sayes the learned Almanacke—but come on
And speake your minde, I ha done, I know not what
More to except, if it be none of these
And as you say feazable on my part,
I sweare.
Fa.
By what.
Ca.
For once a kisse, it may be a parting blow,
By that I will performe what you desire.
Fa.
In few words thus receive it, by that oath
I binde you, never to desire my company
Hereafter, for no reason to affect me,
This I am sure was none of your exceptions.
Ca.
What has the man sayd?
Fa.
Tis cleere, I am confident
To your understanding.
Ca.
You have made me sweare
That I must never love you, nor desire
Your company.
Fa.
I know you will not violate,
What you have sworne, so all good thoughts possesse you.
Ca.
Was all this circumstance for this? I never
Exit.
Found any inclination to trouble him
With too much love, why should he binde me from it,
And make me sweare, an oath, that for the present,
I had no affection to him, had beene reasonable,
But for the time to come, never to love,
For any cause or reason, that may move me
Hereafter, very strange, I know not what to thinke on't,
Although I never meant, to thinke well on him,
Yet to be limitted, and be prescrib'd,
But Ile goe practise something to forget it.
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