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Scena IIII.
Enter Amorous and Liveby one way, Malevolo another way. After a while a Shew.Am.
Pleases your Highnesse to behold a Shew,
Wherein some Passions are display'd by Dreams
How they affected are by Day.
Fan.
Ile see it.
Mal. & Mem. whisper.
What means that whisper?
Mal.
Tis an honest project
Thought on by Memor, out of love to Churches,
To buy back saleable impropriations
With charitable money. Doth it please you?
Fan.
This task was fitter for Prudentius
Then Sense or Passion. This although I grant,
Yet take it with condition. Memor knows
Conveyance old and new, the Right and Wrong.
In things not sacred he may use his cunning,
In this he must be just. To you I say,
It was not seasonable to move this business
When Shewes were comming.
Mal.
This your selfe did move
By asking.
Mem.
Now.
Mal.
Then make you here a Law,
That none these three dayes shall prefer a Sute
Or motion under forfeiture of life.
Me you shall finde content; I'm no Troubler.
Mem.
This trap is laid full right.
Liv.
Stay, stay great Queen.
This Law will seale my mouth, and tie your hands,
And stop the necessary speed of businesse,
Whereby your Crown may be dissolv'd.
Fan.
Away,
Away Malevolo.
Mal.
My snare for Liveby
Is brok, but violence shall it supply.
You Memor have your wish.
(Ex. Mal. & Mems
Enter Amorous with the shew.
Morpheus in a Cloud-coloured Cassock with a wreath of Poppies and a Caduceus from a black Cell. Then at his call, six sleeping Persons in their night caps half down their Faces, and in their wastcoates, representing in their clothes downwards Memor,
Morp.
I Morpheus King of Dreames, whose might
Can equal Fanci's in the night,
Have caus'd the night six dreames to send:
As I appointed they attend.
They enter from a black Cave.
Now Memor turn thy Books and prate,
Plead with thy hands and fees then take.
Shrug, scratch, Malevolo, and grin,
Grasp thy foule heart and feel thy sin.
Irato, bend thy fist and draw,
Offer to thrust, keep fear in aw.
Shak Timerous, offer to fly,
Begin to sink, offer to die.
Hilario clap thy hands and laugh,
Skip, leap, and turn, offer to quaff.
Despaire start, stand, and crush thy throat,
Then stab thy breast and groan death's note.
The Dance.
(After the dance, Ex. Masquers.
Fan.
Whose labour was this sport?
Am.
Livebys invention and my contriving.
Fan.
For this I'le send you to your dearest Morphe.
Goe at what hour you please, and say I want
Her company at Court. You, Hope, for this,
And for preventing that pernicious Law,
Ask what you will.
Liv.
Grant the Monopoly
Of Watches, or of Beavers.
Fan.
take them both;
And ask again.
Liv.
When woodlands shall be turn'd
To other use, grant me a twelfth as forfeit.
Fan.
Be it confirm'd.
Liv.
I was about to ask
The Patronage of Churches in Sea-towns;
Where popular choice maintains a Faction
Brought in with Merchandize from forreign
parts.
Fan.
Take what thou wilt. Thou begst to give us share.
None can please all, the best the better fare.
(Ex. Omnes.
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