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the .v. act.

The .i. scene

Chremes.
Simo.
Inough inough inough now simo
My frendship to the prouid is this day
I had almost perell inough com to
Therfore cease of this and do me no more pray
For whyle I folow the ny had I had cast awey
My doghters lyfe.

s.
but yet now I pray the still
The thing in wordis begon in dede to fulfyll.

Ch.
O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre
For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue
Thow ne caryst what thow dost requyre
Nor thow vsyst no gentylnes so god me saue
For yf thow diddist thy desyre wold fade
Me wyth wrongis this wyse to ouerlade

S.
why.

C.
why qda for thow haddist by god aboue
Almost made me my doughter terme of lyfe
Gyfe to one occupied in a nothers loue


Abhorring eueryday from his weddid wyfe
So shuld they lyue in debate and stryfe
And in no good sure wedlok so I shold now
Thy sonne reform by her labour & sorrow.
Thow haddist thy mynd which I folowid whyle it lefull was
But now it is not so therfore content be.
They sey she is a cytyzyn but neuerthelas
The chylde is born I my self didit se
Let vs alone.

S.
now chremes I pray the
For the loue of all the goddis that thow
Neuer gyue credens to any of theym now.
To whom it were best that my sonne were
worst & most agayn theym of all men
For feynyd and begon is all this gere
Because of the mariagis but when
That that they do this for is dasht then
they will syt in rest.

chr.
tush mā thow art wyde
For I saw the handmayd wyth dauus chyde

S.
All this I beleue.

C.
and wyth trew coūtenāce
when nother of theym wist me to be by

S.
I think well & All this Circunstauns
Dauus hym self told it me truly
That it shold so be but how the dyuell I
For get this matter to tell the for A suerte
I can not tell but I thought to haue told the

The .ii. scene

Here dauus spekith a while to him self
Dauus. Chremes. Simo. Dromo.
Da.
Be of god chere.

Ch.
thy dauus yonder is

Si.
fro whens comyth he.

D.
by thelp of this strāger
And of me.

S.
what myschefe is this

D.
I saw not a man come better this seuen yere

Si.
what sayth the knaue what praysyth he there



D.
The matter is sure.

S.
shall I not speke him to

D.
Goddis body my master what shall I do

Si.
Cōe hether good syr.

d.
what simo & chremes also
All thingis wyth in now p̄parid be

S.
ye haue well done.

d.
call her furth whē ye will lo

S.
well/he is contrary to vs/but what ado had ye
yender tell.

d.
I.

S.
ye thou.

d.
speke ye to me.

S.
ye

D.
I went in euyn now.

S.
O as though I
Askyd how long ago.

D.
wyth your sonne truly.

Si.
why horson is he now there wythin

D.
Alas I am vndon.

S.
why toldyst not me how
They were at debate.

D.
syr so they bene

S.
what doth he there than.

Ch.
what thinkyst thou
He chydyth wyth her.

D.
but hark chremes now
An vnhappy dede tell the now I can
Thyder now late is comen an old man
I wot not who but wythout variaunce
He semyth wise & trusty to be
And one wold take him eke by his countenaunce
To be a man of grete grauyte
And in his wordis trewth.

S.
& what sayth he

D.
Nothing but I hard him say wythyn

Si.
what.

D.
that Glycery shuld be a Cytizin

Si.
what dromo dromo.

D.
what is it.

S.
dromo

D.
Hark.

s.
if thou speke any more what dromo hey

D.
Hark I pray the.

Dro.
what wilt thou lo

Si.
Take him vp now in all that thou may

Dr.
whom.

S.
dauus.

Dr.
why.

s.
for it plesyth me I say

Da.
what haue I done.

s.
vp wyt him.

d.
yf I oughtly
That thou can fyn sle me than hardely.

S.
I will here nothing I shall anger the as well

D.
yet this is trew.

S.
take hede to this
To kepe him well suerly & hark what I the tell
Bynd him fote & hand for I shall by iys
yf I lyue tech the what parell it is
For the dauus to dysseue thy master


And for pamphilus to dysseue his father

Ch.
Pese anger not thy self so I the pray

Si.
O chremes doth it not vrk the truly
That I do take such payn eueryday
And labour eke as thou mayst se dayly
For such a sonne that is so vnthryfty
Go to pamphilus/go to a goddis name
Come furth pamphilus doth it not the shame.

The .iii. scene

Pamphilus/Simo/Chremes.
Pa.
who will haue me alas it is my father

S.
O what sayst thou/thou most vnthryfty

Ch.
O syr rather tell him of the matter
Than so speke to him so cruelly

S.
O think ye any thing to greuously
to him myght be sayd/what say you I you pray
Is Glycery a cytizen.

P.
syr so they sey.

Si.
So they say/O so here the bold belefe
Doth he think as he layth suppose ye
Or hath he of this any maner of grefe
Or in his colour now any syne do ye se
Or any maner shame in him for to be
Can he not his mynd wythstand nor wythdraw
But that agaynst the vse of the cyte & the law
And agayn his fathers mynd but study her to get
wyth shame inough.

P.
alas now wo is me

S.
Hast thou not perseyuyd that in the yet
But fare long a go/I wot that in the
This word myght haue bene very fyed for suerte
when thou dydyst set thy mynd so sore
To bryng to pas that thing thou longyst for.
But what do I why do I anger or vex me


why shall I troble my self wyth his fransy
Shall I for his offence ponyshyd be
well god spede him let him lyue wyth her hardely

P.
o fader.

S.
what fatheryst as though thou hadyst now gretly
Nede of thy fader/but thou hast now a son
A wife a howse & brought men to veryfy
That she is a Cytizen now thou hast all won.
O fader if it please you to here me

S.
what woldyst thou say.

C.
yet here him simo

S.
Shall I here hym what shall I here Chreme

Ch.
Let him speke yet.

S.
why let him go to

P.
I confesse fader that loue her I do
If that be any offens I confesse it styll
And therfor to you I submyt me vnto
Comand me to suffer what payn that ye will.
Is it your plesure I shalbe maryed than
will ye that I shall cast asyde the other
Certis I will do it as mych as I can
But one thing I desyre you aboue all other
Think not that I brought this old man hether
Suffer me now to pourge me of that thing
And before you here that I may him bring.

Si.
what to bring him hether.

P.
ye suffer me

C.
He desyryth but reson/graunt him hardely

P.
Graunt me that I desyre.

S.
I graunt it the
And what so euer els I graunt it vtterly
So that I be not begylyd by him therby

C.
O a fathers smale rebuke & ponyshment
For his sonnys gret offens is sufficient

The .iiii. scene

Here Crito spekith to pamphilus a while.
Cryto.
Chremes. Simo. Pamphilus.


Pray me no more for one of these causys.
Shall meue me this matter to tell
Or at thy desyre/or for that it trew is
Or for that that I wold Glicery shuld do well

Chr.
ys not that Cryto that at andro doth dwell
By godit is he/

Cr/
god spede chreme

Chr.
what dost thou here at athens not wont here to be

Cri.
It hapnyth so but is not this Simo

Ch
yes it is he.

S.
sekist me/Glycery thow dost say
was born here.

Cr.
sayst thou nay therto

S.
And cōmyst thow hyder for that purpose to day

Cr.
why for what.

S.
askyst/thow shalt not quyte skape away.
gost thow abowt to begyle our yong men so
that of small experiēs know not what they do
And fedist theym forth wyth wanhope and promise

Cr.
Art thow mad.

s.
and ioyn harlottes louis to gyder
In mariagis.

P.
I Am lost for I fere this
straūger wilbe dom.

Ch.
simo yf thou knewst hym here
Thow woldist not so say for he is of good maner

Si.
Callyst hym good that this day now comyn is
when the weddinges shold be and neuer before thes
what thinkist chremes is he to be beleuid now

P.
I cowd shew cryto and I feryd not my father
what he shold sey.

S.
o fals flatterer art thow

Cr.
what.

Chr.
Is it his properte thou must hī suffer

Cr.
He shall know what he is if that he here
Talk wyth me styll all that he wold
He shall here those thingis perhappis that he nold.
For these thingis do I now care thynkye
But thow shalt not take this pacyently It row
But whether my seyng trew or fals be
Now shalt thow know/one of athens long a go
Had his ship wrekt & was cast vp at Andro
And this damsell a lytle one wyth hym then he
By necessyte there aryuyd tho
And wyth Chrysis father hapnyd furst to be.



S.
He begyns a fable.

Ch.
yet let hym pas

Cr.
will he so interupt me.

Ch.
go to hardly

Cr.
He that reseyuid him than my kynsman was
And there I hard hym say that he was suerly
A cytyzyn of athens which after there did dy

Ch.
what was his mane.

Cr.
what so sone
Mary phania.

Ch.
Alas I am vndone.

Cri.
I thynk it was phania but this I know
He sayd he was a ramnusian.

Ch.
O godhy

Cr.
ye and these thingis many other in androw
that there were hard.

Ch.
god graūt it be suerly
As I trust but tell me sayd he playnly
That she was his doughter.

Cr.
no syr Iwis

Ch.
whos than.

Cr.
his brothers.

ch.
than myne she is

Cri.
what sayst.

S.
what sayst.

P.
pluk vp thyne hart pamphilus

S.
what beleuyst thow.

Ch.
phania my brother was

S.
I know that.

Ch.
he bycawse of war among vs
Folowyng me in ysya went from hens a pace
Then feryd he to leue my doughter in this place
and syth that tyme I neuer hard of him tyl now

P.
I am almost mad I make god a vow
My mynd is so troblyd wyth this good tythyngis
Hope fere Ioy & meruell euermore

S.
I am glad she is fownd thyne for many thingis

P.
I trust so.

ch.
one thing restyth that greuith me sore

P.
This peuyshnes thow oughtyst to be hatyd for
Thow sekyst a thing in vayne.

Cri.
what is the same

Ch.
the name doth not agre.

cr.
she had a nother name

Ch.
what was it remembrist not thow it yet

Cr.
I study for it.

P.
what the dyuell shall I
Tary now his studyeng my pleasure to let
when I my self may it remedy
I will not hark chremes for truly
Passibula it is.

cr.
euyn the same.

ch.
the same it is



P.
I haue hard it of her a thowsand tymys.

S.
I wene chremes ye think all vs glad to be
of this.

ch.
ye certaynly.

p.
father what restith more

S.
This matter now hath somwhat pleasyd me

P.
O gentyll father I am sure Chremes therfore
will let me haue her syth I had her byfore

Ch.
There is a good cawse why/if thy father agre

P.
I trust yes suerly.

S.
ye it plesyth me

Ch.
A.

C.
lī. wyth her I shall gyue the

P.
I take it.

Ch.
to my doughter now will I go
Cryto cum wyth me for I think that she
Now knowyth me not.

S.
why dost thow not commaund her lo
Hyther to be brought.

P.
ye say well it shalbe so
I shall set dauus for to do that

Si.
He may nat do it.

P.
why may he nat.

S.
For he hath a wors matter for hym self to do

D.
what thing is it.

S.
he is in prison tyed

P.
O father there is no good cause why so

S.
But that it shold so be I haue comaundid

P.
I pray you yet comaund hym to be losyd

S.
I am content.

P.
but let it be shortly

S.
I will go in this is a good day & a lukky.

The .v. scene

Here spekith charinus & pamphilus ech to him self a while.
Carinus
/Pamphilus/Dauus.
what pamphilus doth now I go to se
And yond he is.

P.
some man wold think that I
wold not beleue that that fallyn is to me
But that it shold be so it plesyth me suerly
For I beleue the goddis eternally
Lyue and theyre proper ioys be endles
So I accompt my self immortall veryly
yf this myx not with other heuynes.
But who is it trow ye I wold most gladly


Mete wyth all now my ioys to expres

C.
what thing is it that makith hym so myrry

P.
O I se dauus and there is non dowtles
That I wold so fayne non haue as he
which of all my Ioy I wot ryght glad wilbe

D.
where is pāphilus.

p.
dauus.

d.
who is there.

p.
I

D.
o pāphilus.

p.
thow wottist not what happid is to me

D.
But what to me is I know suerly

P.
And I also.

D.
it is wont euer to be
That all my mishap be knowen furst to the
before I know thy good chauns & moch rather

P.
Tush man Glycery hath fownd her father.

D.
O that is happy.

c.
what.

p.
ye & her father is one
of our gret frēdes.

d.
whoist.

p.
cremes.

d.
spekst truly

P.
Now is ther no taryeng but I alone
Shall wed her.

C.
dremyth he not now suerly
That thing which he wakyng desyred so gretly

P
But what of the chylde.

D.
stynt I say for thow
art he whō god louith.

c.
yf this be trew thā am I
well inough I will go speke wyth theym now

P.
what who is there O carinus now art thow
Come in good tyme.

Ca.
all is well I se

P.
Hast thow hard all.

C.
ye ych whit & now
Remember me in thy prosperyte
For now thow haste suerly chremes won
He will do all thing thou woldist to be done.

P.
I wot well but to long it wold be
Tyll he come owt agayn hym for to tary
For wythin wyth glycery now is he
Folow me in now therfore by and by
And go home dauus hy the quykly
To call theym forth that shall bryng her thēs fro
why gost thow not now.

D.
mary I go.
Loke not for theym now that they come owt
For wythin playnly maryed they shalbeo
If ony thing rest I tell you owt of dowt


wythin it shalbe performyd for a suerte
I can no more now but the one .ii. And thre
Saue you and kepe you both grete And small
Reynyng aboue the Region etheriall

Finis andrie.