Scoena
Prima
.
Lysander
,
Tharsalio
.
Lysand.
SO
now
we
are
our selues
.
Brother
,
that
ill
relisht
speech
you
let
slip
from
your
tongue
,
hath
taken
so
deepe
hold
of
my
thoughts
,
that
they
will
neuer
giue
me
rest
,
till
I
be
resolu'd
what
't
was
you
said
,
you
know
,
touching
my
wife
.
Thars.
Tush
:
I
am
wearie
of
this
subiect
,
I
said
not
so
.
Lysand.
By
truth
it selfe
you
did
:
I
ouer-heard
you
.
Come
,
it
shall
nothing
moue
me
,
whatsoeuer
it
be
;
pray
thee
vnfold
briefly
what
you
know
.
Thars.
Why
briefly
Brother
.
I
know
my
sister
to
be
the
wonder
of
the
Earth
;
and
the
Enuie
of
the
Heauens
.
Vertuous
,
Loiall
,
and
what
not
.
Briefly
,
I
know
shee
hath
vow'd
,
that
till
death
and
after
death
,
shee
le
hold
inuiolate
her
bonds
to
you
,
&
that
her
black
shal
take
no
other
hew
;
all
which
I
firmely
beleeue
.
In
briefe
Brother
,
I
know
her
to
be
a
woman
.
But
you
know
brother
,
I
haue
other
yrons
on
th'
anuile
.
Exiturus
.
Lysand.
You
shall
not
leaue
mee
so
vnsatisfied
;
tell
mee
what
t
is
you
know
.
Thar.
Why
Brother
;
if
you
be
sure
of
your
wiues
loialtie
for
terme
of
life
:
why
should
you
be
curious
to
search
the
Almanacks
for
after-times
:
whether
some
wandring
Aeneas
should
enioy
your
reuersion
;
or
whether
your
true
Turtle
would
sit
mourning
on
a
wither'd
branch
,
till
Atropos
cut
her
throat
:
Beware
of
curiositie
,
for
who
can
resolue
you
?
you
le
say
perhaps
her
vow
.
Lysand.
Perhaps
I
shall
.
Thar.
Tush
,
her selfe
knowes
not
what
shee
shall
doe
,
when
shee
is
transform'd
into
a
Widdow
.
You
are
now
a
sober
and
staid
Gentleman
.
But
if
Diana
for
your
curiositie
should
translate
you
into
a
monckey
;
doe
you
know
what
gambolds
you
should
play
?
your
only
way
to
bee
resolu'd
is
to
die
and
make
triall
of
her
.
Lysand.
A
deare
experiment
,
then
I
must
rise
againe
to
bee
resolu'd
.
Thar.
You
shall
not
neede
.
I
can
send
you
speedier
aduertisement
of
her
constancie
,
by
the
next
Ripier
that
rides
that
way
with
Mackerell
.
And
so
I
leaue
you
.
Exit
.
Thar.
Lysand.
All
the
Furies
in
hell
attend
thee
;
has
giuen
me
a
Bone
to
tire
on
with
a
pestilence
;
slight
know
?
What
can
he
know
?
what
can
his
eie
obserue
More
then
mine
owne
,
or
the
most
piersing
sight
That
euer
viewed
her
?
by
this
light
I
thinke
Her
priuat'st
thought
may
dare
the
eie
of
heauen
,
And
challenge
th'
enuious
world
to
witnesse
it
.
I
know
him
for
a
wild
corrupted
youth
,
Whom
prophane
Ruffins
,
Squires
to
Bawds
,
&
Strumpets
,
Drunkards
,
speud
out
of
Tauerns
,
into
'th
sinkes
Of
Tap-houses
,
and
Stewes
,
Reuolts
from
manhood
;
Debaucht
perdu's
,
haue
by
their
companies
Turn'd
Deuill
like
themselues
,
and
stuft
his
soule
With
damn'd
opinions
,
and
vnhallowed
thoughts
Of
womanhood
,
of
all
humanitie
,
Nay
Deitie
it selfe
.
Enter
Lycus
.
Lys.
WElcome
friend
Lycus
.
Lyc.
Haue
you
met
with
your
capricious
brother
?
Lys.
He
parted
hence
but
now
.
Lyc.
And
has
he
yet
resolu'd
you
of
that
point
you
brake
with
me
about
?
Lys.
Yes
,
he
bids
me
die
for
further
triall
of
her
constancie
.
Lyc.
That
were
a
strange
Phisicke
for
a
iealous
patient
;
to
cure
his
thirst
with
a
draught
of
poison
.
Faith
Sir
,
discharge
your
thoughts
an
't
;
thinke
't
was
but
a
Buzz
deuis'd
by
him
to
set
your
braines
a work
,
and
diuert
your
eie
from
his
disgrace
.
The
world
hath
written
your
wife
in
highest
lines
of
honour'd
Fame
:
her
vertues
so
admir'd
in
this
I
le
,
as
the
report
thereof
sounds
in
forraigne
eares
;
and
strangers
oft
arriuing
here
,
(
as
some
rare
sight
)
desire
to
view
her
presence
,
thereby
to
compare
the
Picture
with
the
originall
.
Nor
thinke
he
can
turne
so
farre
rebell
to
his
bloud
,
Or
to
the
Truth
it selfe
to
misconceiue
Her
spotlesse
loue
and
loialtie
;
perhaps
Oft
hauing
heard
you
hold
her
faith
so
sacred
As
you
being
dead
,
no
man
might
stirre
a
sparke
Of
vertuous
loue
,
in
way
of
second
bonds
;
As
if
you
at
your
death
should
carrie
with
you
Both
branch
and
roote
of
all
affection
.
T'
may
be
,
in
that
point
hee
's
an
Infidell
,
And
thinkes
your
confidence
may
ouer-weene
.
Lys.
So
thinke
not
I
.
Lyc.
Nor
I
:
if
euer
any
made
it
good
.
I
am
resolu'd
of
all
,
shee
le
proue
no
changling
.
Lys.
Well
,
I
must
yet
be
further
satisfied
;
And
vent
this
humour
by
some
straine
of
wit
,
Somewhat
I
le
doe
;
but
what
,
I
know
not
yet
.
Exeunt
.
Enter
Sthenio
,
Ianthe
.
Sthe.
PAssion
of
Virginitie
,
Ianthe
,
how
shall
we
quit
our selues
of
this
Pandresse
,
that
is
so
importunate
to
speake
with
vs
?
Is
shee
knowne
to
be
a
Pandresse
?
Ian.
I
,
as
well
as
we
are
knowne
to
be
waiting
women
.
Sthe.
A
shrew
take
your
comparison
.
Sthe.
Le
ts
cal
out
Argus
that
bold
Asse
that
neuer
weighs
what
he
does
or
saies
;
but
walkes
and
talkes
like
one
in
a
sleepe
;
to
relate
her
attendance
to
my
Ladie
,
and
present
her
.
Ian.
Who
?
an
t
please
your
Honour
?
None
so
fit
to
set
on
any
dangerous
exploit
.
Ho
?
Argus
?
Enter
Argus
bare
.
Arg.
WHat
's
the
matter
Wenches
?
Sthe.
You
must
tell
my
Ladie
here
's
a
Gentle-woman
call'd
Arsace
,
her
Honours
Tennant
,
attends
her
,
to
impart
important
businesse
to
her
.
Arg.
I
will
presently
.
Exit
.
Arg.
Iant.
Well
,
shee
has
a
welcome
present
,
to
beare
out
her
vnwelcome
presence
:
and
I
neuer
knew
but
a
good
gift
would
welcome
a
bad
person
to
the
purest
.
Arsace
?
Enter
Arsace
.
Ars.
I
Mistris
.
Sthe.
Giue
me
your
Present
;
I
le
doe
all
I
can
,
to
make
way
both
for
it
and
your selfe
.
Ars.
You
shall
binde
me
to
your
seruice
Ladie
.
Sthe.
Stand
vnseene
.
Enter
Lyc
,
Eudora
,
Laodice
,
Reb
,
Hiar
Psor.
comming
after
,
Argus
comming
to
Eudora
.
Arg.
HEre
's
a
Gentle-woman
(
an
t
Please
your
Honour
)
one
of
your
Tennants
Desires
accesse
to
you
.
Eud.
What
Tennant
?
what
's
her
name
?
Arg.
Arsace
,
shee
saies
Madam
.
Eud.
Arsace
?
what
the
Bawde
?
Arg.
The
Bawd
Madam
?
shee
strikes
,
that
's
without
my
priuitie
.
Eud.
Out
Asse
,
know'st
not
thou
the
Pandresse
Arsace
?
Sth.
Shee
present
your
Honour
with
this
Iewell
?
Eud.
This
iewell
?
how
came
shee
by
such
a
iewell
?
Shee
has
had
great
Customers
.
Arg.
Shee
had
neede
Madam
,
shee
sits
at
a
great
Rent
.
Eud.
Alas
for
your
great
Rent
:
I
le
keepe
her
iewell
,
and
keepe
you
her
out
,
yee
were
best
:
speake
to
me
for
a
Pandresse
?
Arg.
What
shall
we
doe
?
Sthe.
Goe
to
;
Let
vs
alone
.
Arsace
?
Ars.
I
Ladie
.
Sthe.
You
must
pardon
vs
,
we
can
not
obtaine
your
accesse
.
Ars.
Mistris
Sthenio
,
tell
her
Honour
,
if
I
get
not
accesse
to
her
,
and
that
instantly
shee
's
vndone
.
Sthe.
This
is
some-thing
of
importance
.
Madam
,
shee
sweares
your
Honour
is
vndone
if
she
speake
not
with
you
instantly
.
Eud.
Vndone
?
Ars.
Pray
her
for
her
Honours
sake
to
giue
mee
instant
accesse
to
her
.
Sthe.
Shee
makes
her
businesse
your
Honour
Madame
,
and
entreates
for
the
good
of
that
,
her
instant
speech
with
you
.
Eud.
How
comes
my
Honour
in
question
?
Bring
her
to
mee
.
Enter
Arsace
.
Ars.
OVr
Cypriane
Goddesse
saue
your
good
Honor
.
Eud.
Stand
you
off
I
pray
:
How
dare
you
Mistris
importune
accesse
to
me
thus
,
considering
the
last
warning
I
gaue
for
your
absence
?
Ars.
Because
,
Madam
,
I
haue
been
mou'd
by
your
Honours
last
most
chast
admonition
,
to
leaue
the
offensiue
life
.
I
led
before
.
Eud.
I
?
haue
you
left
it
then
?
Ars.
I
,
I
assure
your
Honour
,
vnlesse
it
be
for
the
pleasure
of
two
or
three
poore
Ladies
,
that
haue
prodigall
Knights
to
their
husbands
.
Eud.
Out
on
thee
Impudent
.
Ars.
Alas
Madam
,
wee
would
all
bee
glad
to
liue
in
our
callings
.
Eud.
Is
this
the
reform'd
life
thou
talk'st
on
?
Ars.
I
beseech
your
good
Honour
mistake
me
not
,
I
boast
of
nothing
but
my
charitie
,
that
's
the
worst
.
Eud.
You
get
these
iewels
with
charitie
,
no
doubt
.
But
what
's
the
point
in
which
my
Honour
stands
endanger'd
I
pray
?
Ars.
In
care
of
that
Madam
,
I
haue
presum'd
to
offend
your
chast
eies
with
my
presence
.
Hearing
it
reported
for
truth
and
generally
,
that
your
Honor
will
take
to
husband
a
yong
Gentleman
of
this
Citie
called
Tharsalio
.
Eud.
I
take
him
to
husband
?
Ars.
If
your
Honour
does
,
you
are
vtterly
vndone
,
for
hee
's
the
most
incontinent
,
and
insatiate
Man
of
Women
that
euer
VENVS
blest
with
abilitie
to
please
them
.
Eud.
Let
him
be
the
Deuill
;
I
abhorre
his
thought
,
and
could
I
be
inform'd
particularly
of
any
of
these
slanderers
of
mine
Honour
,
he
should
as
dearely
dare
it
,
as
any
thing
wherein
his
life
were
endanger'd
.
Ars.
Madam
,
the
report
of
it
is
so
strongly
confident
,
that
I
feare
the
strong
destinie
of
marriage
is
at
worke
in
it
.
But
if
it
bee
Madam
:
Let
your
Honours
knowne
vertue
resist
and
defie
it
for
him
:
for
not
a
hundred
will
serue
his
one
turne
.
I
protest
to
your
Honour
,
When
(
VENVS
pardon
mee
)
I
winckt
at
my
vnmaidenly
exercise
.
I
haue
knowne
nine
in
a
Night
made
mad
with
his
loue
.
Eud.
What
tell'st
thou
mee
of
his
loue
?
I
tell
thee
I
abhorre
him
;
and
destinie
must
haue
an other
mould
for
my
thoughts
,
then
Nature
or
mine
Honour
,
and
a
Witchcraft
aboue
both
,
to
transforme
mee
to
another
shape
,
as
soone
as
to
an other
conceipt
of
him
.
Ars.
Then
is
your
good
Honour
iust
as
I
pray
for
you
,
and
good
Madam
,
euen
for
your
vertues
sake
,
and
comfort
of
all
your
Dignities
,
and
Possessions
;
fixe
your
whole
Woman-hood
against
him
.
Hee
will
so
inchant
you
,
as
neuer
man
did
woman
:
Nay
a
Goddesse
(
say
his
light
huswiues
)
is
not
worthie
of
his
sweetnesse
.
Eud.
Goe
to
,
be
gone
.
Ars.
Deare
Madam
,
your
Honours
most
perfect
admonitions
haue
brought
mee
to
such
a
hate
of
these
imperfections
,
that
I
could
not
but
attend
you
with
my
dutie
,
and
vrge
his
vnreasonable
manhood
to
the
fill
.
Eud.
Man-hood
,
quoth
you
?
Ars.
Nay
Beastly-hood
,
I
might
say
,
indeede
Madam
,
but
for
sauing
your
Honour
;
Nine
in
a
night
said
I
?
Eud.
Goe
to
,
no
more
.
Ars.
No
more
Madame
?
that
's
enough
one
would
thinke
.
Eud.
Well
be
gone
I
bid
thee
.
Ars.
Alas
Madam
,
your
Honour
is
the
chiefe
of
our
Citie
,
and
to
whom
shall
I
complaine
of
these
inchastities
,
(
being
your
Ladiships
reform'd
Tennant
)
but
to
you
that
are
chastest
?
Eud.
I
pray
thee
goe
thy
waies
,
and
let
me
see
this
reformation
you
pretend
continued
.
Ars.
I
humbly
thanke
your
good
Honour
,
that
was
first
cause
of
it
.
Eud.
Here
's
a
complaint
as
strange
as
my
Suiter
.
Ars.
I
beseech
your
good
Honour
thinke
vpon
him
,
make
him
an
example
.
Eud.
Yet
againe
?
Ars.
All
my
dutie
to
your
Excellence
.
Exit
.
Ars.
Eud.
These
sorts
of
licentious
persons
,
when
they
are
once
reclaim'd
,
are
most
vehement
against
licence
.
But
it
is
the
course
of
the
world
to
dispraise
faults
&
vse
them
;
that
so
we
may
vse
them
the
safer
.
What
might
a
wise
Widdow
resolue
vpon
this
point
now
?
Contentment
is
the
end
of
all
wordly
beings
:
Beshrow
her
;
would
shee
had
spared
her
newes
.
Exit
.
Reb.
See
if
shee
take
not
a
contrarie
way
to
free
her selfe
of
vs
.
Hiar.
You
must
complaine
to
his
Altitude
.
Psor.
All
this
for
triall
is
;
you
must
indure
That
will
haue
wiues
,
nought
else
,
with
them
is
sure
.
Exit
.
Tharsalio
,
Arsace
.
Thar.
HAst
thou
beene
admitted
then
?
Ars.
Admitted
?
I
,
into
her
heart
,
I
le
able
it
;
neuer
was
man
so
prais'd
with
a
dispraise
;
nor
so
spoken
for
in
being
rail'd
on
.
I
le
giue
you
my
word
;
I
haue
set
her
hart
vpon
as
tickle
a
pin
as
the
needle
of
a
Diall
;
that
will
neuer
let
it
rest
,
till
it
be
in
the
right
position
.
Thar,
Why
dost
thou
imagine
this
?
Ars.
Because
I
saw
Cupid
shoot
in
my
wordes
,
and
open
his
wounds
in
her
lookes
.
Her
bloud
went
and
came
of
errands
betwixt
her
face
and
her
heart
;
and
these
changes
I
can
tell
you
are
shrewd
tell-tales
.
Thar.
Thou
speak'st
like
a
Doctrisse
in
thy
facultie
;
but
howsoeuer
,
for
all
this
foile
,
I
le
retriue
the
game
once
againe
,
hee
's
a
shallow
gamster
that
for
one
displeasing
cast
giues
vp
so
faire
a
game
for
lost
.
Ars.
Well
,
't
was
a
villanous
inuention
of
thine
,
and
had
a
swift
operation
,
it
tooke
like
sulphure
.
And
yet
this
vertuous
Countesse
hath
to
my
eare
spun
out
many
a
tedious
lecture
of
pure
sisters
thred
against
concupiscence
.
But
euer
with
such
an
affected
zeale
,
as
my
minde
gaue
me
,
shee
had
a
kinde
of
secret
titillation
to
grace
my
poore
house
sometimes
;
but
that
shee
fear'd
a
spice
of
the
Sciatica
,
which
as
you
know
euer
runs
in
the
bloud
.
Thar.
And
as
you
know
,
sokes
into
the
bones
.
But
to
say
truth
,
these
angrie
heates
that
breake
out
at
the
lips
of
these
streight
lac't
Ladies
,
are
but
as
symptoms
of
a
lustfull
feuer
that
boiles
within
them
.
For
wherefore
rage
wiues
at
their
husbands
so
,
when
they
flie
out
,
for
zeale
against
the
sinne
?
Ars.
No
,
but
because
they
did
not
purge
that
sinne
.
Thar.
Th'
art
a
notable
Syren
,
and
I
sweare
to
thee
,
if
I
prosper
,
not
only
to
giue
thee
thy
mannor-house
gratis
,
but
to
marrie
thee
to
some
one
Knight
or
other
,
and
burie
thy
trade
in
thy
Ladiship
:
Goe
be
gone
.
Exit
.
Ars.
Enter
Lycus
.
Thar.
WHat
newes
Lycus
?
where
's
the
Ladie
?
Lyc.
Retir'd
into
her
Orchard
.
Thar.
A
pregnant
badge
of
loue
,
shee
's
melancholy
.
Lyc.
'T
is
with
the
sight
of
her
Spartane
wooer
.
But
howsoeuer
t
is
with
her
,
you
haue
practis'd
strangely
vpon
your
Brother
.
Thar.
Why
so
?
Lyc.
You
had
almost
lifted
his
wit
off
the
hinges
.
That
sparke
ielousie
falling
into
his
drie
melancholy
braines
,
had
well
neare
set
the
whole
house
on
fire
.
Thar.
No
matter
,
let
it
worke
;
I
did
but
pay
him
in
's
owne
coine
;
Sfoot
hee
plied
me
with
such
a
volley
of
vnseason'd
scoffs
,
as
would
haue
made
Patience
it selfe
turne
Ruffine
,
attiring
it selfe
in
wounds
and
bloud
:
but
is
his
humour
better
qualified
then
?
Lyc.
Yes
,
but
with
a
medicine
ten
parts
more
dangerous
then
the
sicknesse
:
how
know
you
strange
his
dotage
euer
was
on
his
wife
;
taking
speciall
glorie
to
haue
her
loue
and
loialtie
to
him
so
renowm'd
abrode
.
To
whom
shee
oftentimes
hath
vow'd
constancie
after
life
,
till
her
owne
death
had
brought
forsooth
,
her
widdow-troth
to
bed
.
This
he
ioi'd
in
strangely
,
and
was
therein
of
infallible
beliefe
,
till
your
surmise
began
to
shake
it
;
which
hath
loos'd
it
so
,
as
now
there
's
nought
can
settle
it
,
but
a
triall
,
which
hee
's
resolu'd
vpon
.
Thar.
As
how
man
?
as
how
?
Lyc.
Hee
is
resolu'd
to
follow
your
aduise
,
to
die
,
and
make
triall
of
her
stablenesse
,
and
you
must
lend
your
hand
to
it
.
Thar.
What
to
cut
's
throat
?
Lyc.
To
forge
a
rumour
of
his
death
,
to
vphold
it
by
circumstance
,
maintaine
a
publike
face
of
mourning
,
and
all
thinges
appertaining
.
Thar.
I
,
but
the
meanes
man
:
what
time
?
what
probabilitie
.
Lyc.
Nay
,
I
thinke
he
has
not
lickt
his
Whelpe
into
full
shape
yet
,
but
you
shall
shortly
heare
an
t
.
Thar.
And
when
shall
this
strange
conception
see
light
?
Lyc.
Forthwith
:
there
's
nothing
staies
him
,
but
some
odde
businesse
of
import
,
which
hee
must
winde
vp
;
least
perhaps
his
absence
by
occasion
of
his
intended
triall
bee
prolonged
aboue
his
aimes
.
Thar.
Thankes
for
this
newes
i'
faith
.
This
may
perhaps
proue
happie
to
my
Nephew
.
Truth
is
I
loue
my
sister
well
and
must
acknowledge
her
more
then
ordinarie
vertues
.
But
shee
hath
so
possest
my
brothers
heart
with
vowes
,
and
disauowings
,
seal'd
with
oathes
of
second
nuptialls
;
as
in
that
confidence
,
hee
hath
inuested
her
in
all
his
state
,
the
ancient
inheritance
of
our
Familie
:
and
left
my
Nephew
and
the
rest
to
hang
vpon
her
pure
deuotion
;
so
as
he
dead
,
and
shee
matching
(
as
I
am
resolu'd
shee
will
)
with
some
yong
Prodigall
;
what
must
ensue
,
but
her
post-issue
beggerd
,
and
our
house
alreadie
sinking
,
buried
quick
in
ruin
.
But
this
triall
may
remoue
it
,
and
since
t
is
come
to
this
;
marke
but
the
issue
Lycus
,
for
all
these
solemne
vowes
,
if
I
doe
not
make
her
proue
in
the
handling
as
weake
as
a
wafer
;
say
I
lost
my
time
in
trauaile
.
This
resolution
then
has
set
his
wits
in
ioynt
againe
,
hee
's
quiet
.
Lyc.
Yes
,
and
talkes
of
you
againe
in
the
fairest
manner
,
listens
after
your
speede
.
Thar.
Nay
hee
's
passing
kinde
,
but
I
am
glad
of
this
triall
for
all
that
.
Lyc.
Which
he
thinkes
to
be
a
flight
beyond
your
wing
.
Thar.
But
hee
will
change
that
thought
ere
long
.
My
Bird
you
saw
euen
now
,
sings
me
good
newes
,
and
makes
hopefull
signes
to
me
.
Lyc.
Somewhat
can
I
say
too
,
since
your
messengers
departure
,
her
Ladiship
hath
beene
something
alter'd
,
more
pensiue
then
before
,
and
tooke
occasion
to
question
of
you
,
what
your
addictions
were
?
of
what
tast
your
humor
was
?
of
what
cut
you
wore
your
wit
,
and
all
this
in
a
kind
of
disdainefull
scorne
.
Thar.
Good
Callenders
Lycus
.
Well
I
le
pawne
this
iewell
with
thee
,
my
next
encounter
shall
quite
alter
my
brothers
iudgement
.
Come
le
ts
in
,
he
shall
commend
it
for
a
discreet
and
honourable
attempt
.
Mens
iudgments
sway
on
that
side
fortune
leanes
,
Thy
wishes
shall
assist
me
:
Lyc.
And
my
meanes
.
Exeunt
.
Argus
,
Clinias
,
Sthenio
,
Ianthe
.
Arg.
I
Must
confesse
I
was
ignorant
,
what
't
was
to
court
a
Ladie
till
now
.
Sthe.
And
I
pray
you
what
is
it
now
?
Arg.
To
court
her
I
perceiue
,
is
to
woo
her
with
letters
from
Court
,
for
so
this
Spartane
Lords
Court
discipline
teacheth
.
Sth.
His
Lordship
hath
procur'd
a
new
Pacquet
from
his
Altitude
.
Clin.
If
he
bring
no
better
ware
then
letters
in
's
pacquet
,
I
shall
greatly
doubt
of
his
good
speede
.
Ian.
If
his
Lordship
did
but
know
how
gracious
his
Aspect
is
to
my
Ladie
in
this
solitarie
humour
.
Clin.
Well
these
retir'd
walkes
of
hers
are
not
vsuall
;
and
bode
some
alteration
in
her
thoughts
.
What
may
bee
the
cause
Sthenio
.
Sthe.
Nay
t
would
trouble
Argus
with
his
hundred
eies
to
descrie
the
cause
.
Ian.
Venus
keepe
her
vpright
,
that
shee
fall
not
from
the
state
of
her
honour
;
my
feare
is
that
some
of
these
Serpentine
suiters
will
tempt
her
from
her
constant
vow
of
widdow-hood
.
If
they
doe
,
good
night
to
our
good
daies
.
Sthe.
'T
were
a
sinne
to
suspect
her
;
I
haue
been
witnesse
to
so
many
of
her
fearfull
protestations
to
our
late
Lord
against
that
course
,
to
her
infinite
oathes
imprinted
on
his
lips
,
and
seal'd
in
his
heart
with
such
imprecations
to
her
bed
,
if
euer
it
should
receiue
a
second
impression
,
to
her
open
and
often
detestations
of
that
incestuous
life
(
as
shee
term'd
it
)
of
widdowes
marriages
,
as
being
but
a
kinde
of
lawfull
adulterie
;
like
vsurie
permitted
by
the
law
,
not
approu'd
.
That
to
wed
a
second
,
was
no
better
then
to
cuckold
the
first
:
That
women
should
entertaine
wedlock
as
one
bodie
,
as
one
life
,
beyond
which
there
were
no
desire
,
no
thought
,
no
repentance
from
it
,
no
restitution
to
it
.
So
as
if
the
conscience
of
her
vowes
should
not
restraine
her
,
yet
the
worlds
shame
to
breake
such
a
constant
resolution
,
should
represse
any
such
motion
in
her
.
Arg.
Well
,
for
her
vowes
,
they
are
gone
to
heauen
with
her
husband
,
they
binde
not
vpon
earth
:
And
as
for
Womens
resolutions
,
I
must
tell
you
,
The
Planets
,
&
(
as
Ptolomie
saies
)
the
windes
haue
a
great
stroke
in
them
.
Trust
not
my
learning
if
her
late
strangenesse
,
and
exorbitant
solitude
,
be
not
hatching
some
new
Monster
.
Ian.
Well
applied
Argus
;
Make
you
husbands
Monsters
?
Arg.
I
spoke
of
no
husbands
,
but
you
Wenches
haue
the
pregnant
wits
,
to
turne
Monsters
into
husbands
,
as
you
turne
husbands
into
monsters
.
Sthe.
Well
Ianthe
,
't
were
high
time
we
made
in
,
to
part
our
Ladie
and
her
Spartane
wooer
.
Ian.
We
shall
appeare
to
her
like
the
two
fortunate
Stars
in
a
tempest
,
to
saue
the
shipwrack
of
her
patience
.
Sthe.
I
,
and
to
him
to
,
I
beleeue
;
For
by
this
time
he
hath
spent
the
last
dramme
of
his
newes
.
Arg.
That
is
,
of
his
wit
.
Sth.
Iust
good
wittals
.
Ian.
If
not
,
that
my
Ladie
be
not
.
too
deep
in
her
new
dumps
,
we
shall
heare
from
his
Lordship
;
what
such
a
Lord
said
of
his
wife
the
first
night
hee
embrac't
her
:
To
what
Gentleman
such
a
Count
was
beholding
for
his
fiue
children
.
What
yong
Ladie
,
such
an
old
Count
should
marrie
;
what
Reuells
:
what
presentments
are
towards
;
and
who
penn'd
the
Pegmas
;
and
so
forth
:
and
yet
for
all
this
,
I
know
her
harsh
Suiter
hath
tir'd
her
to
the
vttermost
scruple
of
her
forbearances
,
and
will
doe
more
,
vnlesse
we
two
,
like
a
paire
of
Sheres
,
cut
a-sunder
the
thred
of
his
discourse
.
Sthe.
Well
then
,
le
ts
in
;
But
my
masters
,
waite
you
on
your
charge
at
your
perils
,
See
that
you
guard
her
approch
from
any
more
intruders
.
Ian.
Excepting
yong
Tharsalio
.
Sthe.
True
,
excepting
him
indeede
,
for
a
guard
of
men
is
not
able
to
keepe
him
out
an
t
please
your
Honour
.
Arg.
O
Wenches
,
that
's
the
propertie
of
true
valour
,
to
promise
like
Pigmey
,
and
performe
like
a
Giant
.
If
hee
come
,
I
le
bee
sworne
I
le
doe
my
Ladies
commandement
vpon
him
.
Ian.
What
?
beate
him
out
?
Sthe.
If
hee
should
,
Tharsalio
would
not
take
it
ill
at
his
handes
,
for
he
does
but
his
Ladies
commandement
.
Enter
Tharsalio
.
Arg.
WEll
,
by
Hercules
he
comes
not
here
.
Sthe.
By
Venus
but
hee
does
:
or
else
shee
hath
heard
my
Ladies
praiers
,
and
sent
some
gracious
spirit
in
his
likenesse
to
fright
away
that
Spartane
wooer
,
that
hants
her
.
Thar.
There
stand
her
Sentinells
.
Arg.
Slight
the
Ghost
appeares
againe
.
Thar.
Saue
yee
my
quondam
fellowes
in
Armes
;
saue
yee
;
my
women
.
Sthe.
Your
Women
Sir
?
Thar.
'T
will
be
so
.
What
no
courtesies
?
No
preparation
of
grace
?
obserue
me
I
aduise
you
for
your
owne
sakes
.
Ian.
For
your
owne
sake
,
I
aduise
you
to
pack
hence
,
lest
your
impudent
valour
cost
you
dearer
then
you
thinke
.
Clin.
What
senselesse
boldnesse
is
this
Tharsalio
?
Arg.
Well
said
Clinias
,
talke
to
him
.
Clin.
I
wonder
that
notwithstanding
the
shame
of
your
last
entertainment
,
and
threatnings
of
worse
;
you
would
yet
presume
to
trouble
this
place
againe
.
Thar.
Come
y'
are
a
widgine
;
Off
with
your
hat
Sir
,
acknowledge
:
forecast
is
better
then
labour
.
Are
you
squint
ey'd
?
can
you
not
see
afore
you
.
A
little
foresight
I
can
tell
you
might
sted
you
much
as
the
Starres
shine
now
.
Clin.
'T
is
well
sir
,
t
is
not
for
nothing
your
brother
is
asham'd
on
you
.
But
Sir
,
you
must
know
,
wee
are
chardg'd
to
barre
your
entrance
.
Thar.
But
Wifler
,
know
you
,
that
who
so
shall
dare
to
execute
that
charge
,
I
le
be
his
Executioner
.
Arg.
By
Ioue
,
Clinias
,
me thinks
,
the
Gentleman
speakes
very
honourably
.
Thar.
Well
I
see
this
house
needes
reformation
,
here
's
a
fellow
stands
behind
now
,
of
a
forwarder
insight
then
yee
all
.
What
place
hast
thou
?
Arg.
What
place
you
please
Sir
.
Thar.
Law
you
Sir
.
Here
's
a
fellow
to
make
a
Gentleman
Vsher
Sir
,
I
discharge
you
of
the
place
,
and
doe
here
inuest
thee
into
his
roome
,
Make
much
of
thy
haire
,
thy
wit
will
suit
it
rarely
.
And
for
the
full
possession
of
thine
office
;
Come
,
Vsher
me
to
thy
Ladie
:
and
to
keep
thy
hand
supple
,
take
this
from
me
.
Arg.
No
bribes
Sir
,
an
t
please
your
Worship
.
Thar.
Goe
to
,
thou
dost
well
;
but
pocket
it
for
all
that
;
it
's
no
impaire
to
thee
:
the
greatest
doo
't
.
Arg.
Sir
,
t
is
your
loue
only
that
I
respect
,
but
since
out
of
your
loue
you
please
to
bestow
it
vpon
me
,
It
were
want
of
Courtship
in
mee
to
refuse
it
;
I
le
acquaint
my
Ladie
with
your
comming
.
Exit
.
Arg.
Thar.
How
say
by
this
?
haue
not
I
made
a
fit
choise
,
that
hath
so
soone
attain'd
the
deepest
mysterie
of
his
profession
:
Good
sooth
Wenches
,
a
few
courtsies
had
not
beene
cast
away
vpon
your
new
Lord
.
Sthe.
Wee
le
beleeue
that
,
when
our
Ladie
has
a
new
Sonne
of
your
getting
.
Enter
Argus
,
Eudora
,
Rebus
,
Hiar
.
Psor.
Eud.
WHat
's
the
matter
?
whos
's
that
,
you
say
,
is
come
?
Arg.
The
bold
Gentleman
,
an
t
please
your
Honour
.
Eud.
Why
thou
flering
Asse
thou
.
Arg.
An
t
please
your
Honour
.
Eud.
Did
not
I
forbid
his
approch
by
all
the
charge
and
dutie
of
thy
seruice
?
Thar.
Madam
,
this
fellow
only
is
intelligent
;
for
he
truly
vnderstood
your
command
according
to
the
stile
of
the
Court
of
Venus
;
that
is
,
by
contraries
:
when
you
forbid
you
bid
.
Eud.
By
heauen
I
le
discharge
my
house
of
yee
all
.
Thar.
You
shall
not
neede
Madame
,
for
I
haue
alreadie
casheer'd
your
officious
Vsher
here
,
and
chos'd
this
for
his
Successor
.
Eud.
O
incredible
boldnesse
!
Thar.
Madam
,
I
come
not
to
command
your
loue
with
enforst
letters
,
nor
to
woo
you
with
tedious
stories
of
my
Pedigree
,
as
hee
who
drawes
the
thred
of
his
descent
from
Ledas
Distaffe
;
when
't
is
well
knowne
his
Grandsire
cried
Coniskins
in
Sparta
.
Reb.
Whom
meane
you
Sir
?
Thar.
Sir
,
I
name
none
,
but
him
who
first
shall
name
himselfe
.
Reb.
The
place
Sir
,
I
tell
you
still
;
and
this
Goddesses
faire
presence
,
or
else
my
reply
should
take
a
farre
other
forme
vpon
't
.
Thar.
If
it
should
Sir
,
I
would
make
your
Lordship
an
anser
.
Arg.
Anser's
Latine
for
a
Goose
,
an
t
please
your
honor
.
Eud.
Well
noted
Gander
;
and
what
of
that
?
Arg.
Nothing
,
an
t
please
your
Honor
,
but
that
he
said
he
would
make
his
Lordship
an
answere
.
Eud.
Thus
euery
foole
mocks
my
poore
Suiter
.
Tell
mee
thou
most
frontlesse
of
all
me
,
did'st
thou
(
when
thou
had'st
meanes
to
note
me
best
)
euer
obserue
so
base
a
temper
in
mee
,
as
to
giue
any
glance
at
stooping
to
my
Vassall
?
Thar.
Your
drudge
Madam
,
to
doe
your
drudgerie
.
Eud.
Or
am
I
now
so
skant
of
worthie
Suiters
,
that
may
aduance
mine
honour
;
aduance
my
estate
;
strengthen
my
alliance
(
if
I
list
to
wed
)
that
I
must
stoop
to
make
my
foot
my
head
.
Thar.
No
but
your
side
,
to
keepe
you
warme
a bed
.
But
Madame
vouchsafe
me
your
patience
to
that
points
serious
answere
.
Though
I
confesse
to
get
higher
place
in
your
graces
,
I
could
wish
my
fortunes
more
honourable
;
my
person
more
gratious
;
my
minde
more
adorn'd
with
Noble
and
Heroicall
vertues
,
yet
Madame
(
that
you
thinke
not
your
bloud
disparadg'd
by
mixture
with
mine
)
daine
to
know
this
:
howsoeuer
I
once
,
only
for
your
loue
,
disguis'd
my selfe
in
the
seruice
of
your
late
Lord
and
mine
,
yet
my
descent
is
as
honourable
as
the
proudest
of
your
Spartane
attempters
;
who
by
vnknown
quills
or
conduits
vnder
ground
,
drawes
his
Pedigree
from
Lycurgus
his
great
Toe
,
to
the
Viceroies
little
finger
,
and
from
thence
to
his
owne
elbow
,
where
it
will
neuer
leaue
itching
.
Reb.
T
is
well
Sir
,
presume
still
of
the
place
.
Thar.
Sfoot
Madame
,
am
I
the
first
great
personage
that
hath
stoopt
to
disguises
for
loue
?
what
thinke
you
of
our
Countrie-man
Hercules
;
that
for
loue
put
on
Omphales
Apron
,
and
sate
spinning
amongst
her
Wenches
,
while
his
Mistris
wore
his
Lyons
skin
and
Lamb-skin'd
him
,
if
he
did
not
his
businesse
.
Eud.
Most
fitly
thou
resembl'st
thy selfe
to
that
violent
Atlas
,
that
claim'd
all
other
mens
possessions
as
his
owne
by
his
meere
valour
.
For
what
lesse
hast
thou
done
?
Come
into
my
house
,
beate
away
these
Honourable
persons
?
Thar.
That
I
will
Madam
.
Hence
yee
Sparta
Veluet
.
Psor.
Hold
,
shee
did
not
meane
so
.
Thar.
Away
I
say
,
or
leaue
your
liues
I
protest
here
.
Hiar.
Well
Sir
,
his
Altitude
shall
know
you
.
Reb.
I
le
doe
your
errand
Sir
.
Exeunt
.
Thar.
Doe
good
Cosen
Altitude
;
and
beg
the
reuersion
of
the
next
Ladie
:
for
Dido
has
betrotht
her
loue
to
me
.
By
this
faire
hand
Madam
,
a
faire
riddance
of
this
Calidonian
Bore
.
Eud.
O
most
prodigious
audaciousnesse
!
Thar.
True
Madam
;
O
fie
vpon
am
,
they
are
intollerable
.
And
I
can
not
but
admire
your
singular
vertue
of
patience
,
not
common
in
your
sexe
;
and
must
therefore
carrie
with
it
some
rare
indowment
of
other
Masculine
and
Heroicall
vertues
.
To
heare
á
rude
Spartane
court
so
ingenuous
a
Ladie
,
with
dull
newes
from
Athens
,
or
the
Vicerois
court
;
how
many
dogs
were
spoil'd
at
the
last
Bull-baiting
;
what
Ladies
dub'd
their
husbands
Knights
,
and
so
forth
.
Eud.
But
hast
thou
no
shame
?
No
sense
of
what
disdain
I
shew'd
thee
in
my
last
entertainment
?
chacing
thee
from
my
presence
,
and
charging
thy
dutie
,
not
to
attempt
the
like
intrusion
for
thy
life
;
and
dar'st
thou
yet
approch
mee
in
this
vnmannerly
manner
?
No
question
this
desperate
boldnesse
can
not
choose
but
goe
accompanied
with
other
infinite
rudenesses
.
Thar.
Good
Madam
,
giue
not
the
Child
an
vnfit
name
,
terme
it
not
boldnes
,
which
the
Sages
call
true
confidence
,
founded
on
the
most
infallible
Rocke
of
a
womans
constancie
.
Eud.
If
shame
can
not
restraine
thee
,
tell
mee
yet
if
any
brainlesse
foole
would
haue
tempted
the
danger
attending
thy
approch
.
Thar.
No
Madam
,
that
proues
I
am
no
Foole
:
Then
had
I
been
here
a
Foole
,
and
a
base
low-sprited
Spartan
,
if
for
a
Ladies
froune
,
or
a
Lords
threates
,
or
for
a
Guard
of
Groomes
,
I
should
haue
shrunke
in
the
wetting
,
and
suffer'd
such
a
delicious
flower
to
perish
in
the
stalke
,
or
to
be
sauadgely
pluckt
by
a
prophane
finger
.
No
Madam
:
First
let
me
be
made
a
Subiect
for
disgrace
;
let
your
remorselesse
Guard
seaze
on
my
despised
bodie
,
bind
me
hand
and
foot
,
and
hurle
me
into
your
Ladiships
bed
.
Eud.
O
Gods
:
I
protest
thou
dost
more
and
more
make
me
admire
thee
.
Thar.
Madam
,
ignorance
is
the
mother
of
admiration
:
know
me
better
,
and
you
le
admire
me
lesse
.
Eud.
What
would'st
thou
haue
mee
know
?
what
seekes
thy
comming
?
why
dost
thou
hant
me
thus
?
Thar.
Only
Madam
,
that
the
Aetna
of
my
sighes
,
and
Nilus
of
my
teares
,
pour'd
forth
in
your
presence
,
might
witnesse
to
your
Honor
the
hot
and
moist
affection
of
my
hart
,
and
worke
me
some
measure
of
fauour
,
from
your
sweete
tongue
,
or
your
sweeter
lips
,
or
what
else
your
good
Ladiship
shall
esteeme
more
conducible
,
to
your
diuine
contentment
.
Eud.
Pen
and
Inck-horne
I
thanke
thee
.
This
you
learn'd
when
you
were
a
Seruing-man
.
Thar.
Madam
,
I
am
still
the
same
creature
;
and
I
will
so
tie
my
whole
fortunes
to
that
stile
,
as
were
it
my
happinesse
(
as
I
know
it
will
be
)
to
mount
into
my
Lords
succession
,
yet
vow
I
neuer
to
assume
other
Title
,
or
State
,
then
your
seruants
:
Not
approching
your
boord
,
but
bidden
:
Not
pressing
to
your
bed
,
but
your
pleasure
shall
be
first
known
if
you
will
command
me
any
seruice
.
Eud.
Thy
vowes
are
as
vaine
as
a
Ruffins
othes
;
as
common
as
the
aire
;
and
as
cheape
as
the
dust
.
How
many
of
the
light
huswiues
,
thy
Muses
,
hath
thy
loue
promist
this
seruice
besides
,
I
pray
thee
?
Thar.
Compare
shadowes
to
bodies
,
Madam
;
Pictures
to
the
life
;
and
such
are
they
to
you
,
in
my
valuation
.
Eud.
I
see
wordes
will
neuer
free
me
of
thy
boldnesse
,
and
will
therefore
now
vse
blowes
;
and
those
of
the
mortallest
enforcement
.
Let
it
suffice
Sir
,
that
all
this
time
,
and
to
this
place
,
you
enioy
your
safetie
;
keepe
backe
:
No
one
foote
follow
mee
further
;
for
I
protest
to
thee
,
the
next
threshold
past
,
le
ts
passe
a
prepar'd
Ambush
to
thy
latest
breath
.
Exit
.
Eud.
Thar.
This
for
your
Ambush
,
He
drawes
.
Dare
my
loue
with
death
?
Clin.
Slight
;
follow
an
t
please
your
Honour
.
Arg.
Not
I
by
this
light
.
Clin.
I
hope
Gentle-women
you
will
.
Sthe.
Not
we
Sir
,
we
are
no
parters
of
fraies
.
Clin.
Faith
nor
I
le
be
any
breaker
of
customes
.
Exeunt
.