ACT V. Scœn. I.
Enter Lodovico, Eulalia.
Lod.FEar not good Madam, truſt my care and
Eul.Good
Lodovico, though I thank your care
And love to me, yet give me leave to doubt,
That as that cruel and Ambitious woman
Hath overſway’d the Judgement of the King,
She may pervert his Royal purpoſes
Of Peace and love, to your and my deſtruction.
Before you ſent, would you had tane my Counſel.
Enter Pedro with Gonzago, and Letters.
Lod.To end all doubts, ſee
Pedro is return’d.
Pedr.And happily: ſee Madam.
[Preſents Gonzago to her.]
My Prince, I ſhould have ſaid.
I thank
Petruccio, who preſerv’d my life,
For nothing more, then this one minutes Bliſs,
In which I find your Bleſſing in a kiſs.
Preſents you theſe.
[Letters. She Reads.]
Lod.Welcome my ſweet young Prince.
Lod.Now I ſee methinks a Court again.
[H6r]Pedr.
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Pedr.We ſhall do ſhortly; for the King is coming,
And not in terror, but with Grace and Favour.
Lod.’Tis happy Heavenly news.
Of Joys that do like waves orecome each other.
Brave, wiſe, and valiant
Petruccio!
That couldſt ſo happily deceive the King
By a ſuppoſed death, to ſave the Liſe
Of my ſweet Boy: all that I can be ſorry ſor,
Is this:
Alinda is Frantick.
[Lod. reads]
Pedr.Can that grieve you?
Eul.He brings her with him: and I hope the
Of Air, with wholſome Prayers and Phyſicks Art,
In which I am not ignorant, may reſtore her.
Lod.Madam, the Sun ſhines fairly.
Scœn. II
Enter Lollio and Poggio.
Lol.News, news upon news!
Lol.No nor the King neither, God bleſs him: they
are both alive, with all their Pomp and Train coming
to ſee our School-Miſtreſs.
Lol.They take us in their way, for they are pas-
ſing to
Nicoſia, where the King means to keep his
word with the Queen, in giving her three what d’ye
Lod.Three Boons, as the cuſtom is.
Lol.Boons? I Boons: I warrant ſhe’l ask no
[H6v]Pog.
and C O N C U B I N E.
Pog.O Miſtreſs, you were careful for her, that comes
I warrant but to jeere you.
Eul.Patience would die, if ’twere not exercis’d.
But now it reſts, that we prepare to entertain our
We muſt to welcome them make Holy day,
And give our Scholars leave to Feaſt and Play.
The Swaines you ſay are perfect in the Dance;
So are my Maids: wee’l leave it for the King.
Exeunt.
Scœn. III.
Enter King, Alinda, Horatio, Lodovico, Attendants.
King.I cannot but applaud your mind,
Alinda.
But am not much affected with the Subject
On which you purpoſe now to caſt your Favour.
Lod.More ſcorn upon my life, and rude vexation.
[aſide]
Alin.If my fair meaning Sir ſhall prove miſtaken,
’Tis but a loving purpoſe loſt.
(O that wretch
Flavello!)
[aſide]
Lod.If ſhe have further purpoſe then to raiſe
More ſorrow by the Kings diſpleaſure to her.
[aſide]
Hor.Let her alone, her Raign’s but ſhort we
know.
[aſide]
Soft Muſick.
Hor.Is this the ſound of want and miſery?
Alin.Of wantonneſs I fear, and Luxurie.
(The villain had no purpoſe but to flatter.)
[aſide]
O Sir, why came we hither?
King.’Tis moſt ſweet Muſick.
[H7]Scœn.
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Scœn. IV.
Enter Eulalia with three or four Girls, and
work in their hands.
Eul.Such as the rudeneſs of the Countrey yields
Hayl to the King and Queen, and may the thanks
Which on my knees I offer at thoſe Feet
That beautifie and bleſs this humble Earth
Add many years unto your happy lives.
Alin.We have e’en ſeen enough: ’twas all I
To find her knee-deep in Hypocriſie.
Eul.Seem not to turn away, moſt gracious Madam,
Before I ſhew for which I hop’d you came,
The manner how I get a competence to live.
[Shews her works, and makes a brave deſcription of
Pieces: As Sale-work, Day-work, Night-work,
wrought Night-caps, Coyfs, Stomachers.]
Alin.Your work you ſay, though’t be o’th neweſt
I fear your Play is ſtill at the old Game.
Both wayes bring money: is’t not ſo forſooth?
Lod.Too much, to tread upon Affliction.
[aſide]
King.What ſay you
Lodovico?
Lod.I ſay Sir, the diſtreſſes of that Lady merit a
Kings Pity, and not ſuch ſcorn
As I ſee caſt upon her: but the beſt are women.
Eul.May it pleaſe your Highneſs ſit, and note the
By which we gain when we lay work away.
[H7v]The
and C O N C U B I N E.
The Song I taught you laſt.
Song.
Alin.Theſe wenches will be a good help to you at
Eul.We have varietie for all the Seaſons,
Of ſuch poor entertainments, mighty Queen,
To ſhew our much contentment in their welcome.
Lod.Goodneſs ſpeaks in her.
Alin.There’s for your Song () No, ſtay, I may
Hor.Let her jeer on.)
[aſide]
King.Not if you give it for her pains,
Alinda.
Alin.Nay ſince you warrant it, let’s pay and go.
Though I have heard ſuch pains diſputed Begging.
Lod.As all Arts are, by the Rewards they find.
Eul.Nay I beſeech your Majeſties.
the Feat now?
[Muſick, Dance.]
Alin.Sir, are you pleas’d to proſecute your jour-
Or do theſe Beauties and delights enchant you?
King.Ha? no, come, let’s away.
Eul.Oh let me yet entreat your Highneſs ſtay.
Alin.Not a ſtroke more I thank you: we have
And ſeen enough: ſo much, as I muſt tell you
I cannot but commend your Parents Wiſdom,
Who having Calculated your Nativitie,
By which they had the foreſight of your fall,
Prevented thus the Planets by their care,
By teaching you to live by Hand and Foot.
Lod.Did ever Daughter of a King thus ſuffer?
Or has ſhe Pride to ſmile on Injuries?
Alin.Sir, you forget
Nicoſia.[Eulalia whiſpers her.]
Alin.She dreams of Treaſon intended againſt me.
[H8]Hor.
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Hor.No Divination againſt her own good, I hope.
[aſide]
Eul.Mighty ſir, hear me: not to implore your
No not your thanks, nor Popular Applauſe;
But for I am your Subject and your ſervant,
Bound by your Allegiance as well to prevent
All Ills might paſs againſt you, as to do none.
I could not think it but ſtrict dutie in me
To haſten this diſcoverie.
Lod.Treaſon, and a Letter?
We have never a falſe Brother amongſt us, have we?
Hor.If ever you held your peace, peace now.
King.It bears a face of Horror.
Alin.Cunning and Gipſie Tricks: will you to
Kin.What we meant there, we may do here as well.
The Treaſon’s there intended: look ye my Lords!
How careleſs is this woman of her ſafetie.
Alin.You Sir are careleſs: for if there be danger,
VVhere can I ſear it but in this place onely?
The world holds not an Enemy of mine,
But this enchantreſs you maintain againſt me.
King.Your motion and your own love drew us
Alin.I would fain love her, and certainly I ſhould,
But that ſhe ſtills begets freſh cauſe of Hatred.
She has ſome Devilliſh Plot in hand this Inſtant:
This ſhew is but the ſtraw that hides the Pit.
Lod.No enemy but ſhe? to let her know ſhe lies,
Even unto Prophanation againſt that Lady,
Lod.The King ſhall ſee his error.
Lod.The world
Eulalia’s Pietie.
[H8v]Lod.
and C O N C U B I N E.
Lod.Moſt mighty Sir, we here confeſs and ſay.
Hor.We? you hear not me ſay any thing; do
King.We eaſily believe it.
Lod.Nor any day or place as yet ſet down
Among our ſelves, for fact againſt the Queen.
Hor.Nor fact intended was there,
Lod.’Twas wiſh’d at leaſt by us.
King.Our Guard.
[Enter Guard.]
Lod.King ſhe’s the General grudge of all thy
Hor.You do not hear me ſay ſo.
King.Their grudge incites my love: take e’m
Come my wrong’d
Alinda: This place ſhall ſerve,
And this Aſſembly, to make a Kings word good.
Make your Demands: three things I promiſe you.
Ask what you will, even to my deareſt blood.
Alin.Your Highneſs will excuſe me, if I urge you
VVhat I have promis’d to my lawful Queen,
I will perform; ask freely.
Eul.Great Queen, vouchſafe to take an Admoni-
My laſt and trueſt Teſtimonie of Love.
The reſt were ſhadows to it.
Alin.Well, pray let’s hear it.
Eul.Let your Denmands be for the common good.
Not for your own reſpects: ſelf love may hurt you:
Beware Ambition, Envie, and Revenge.
King.The Oracle could not pronounce more
IAlin.
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Alin.Is this your love? ’tis fear of my juſt Ven-
Therefore hear my demands, my King and Husband.
Firſt I demand the lives of theſe conſpirators
Alin.Next that your Son, much of
By Act of Parliament be diſinherited.
Alin.Laſt, that this woman have
And be for ever baniſh’d your Dominions.
Omn.Crueltie and Ingratitude paſt all Example.
King.Was this your Charitie? you have now de-
And I of both have made ſufficient Tryal.
Come here
Eulalia, take now thy wonted Seat and
Thy povertie and patience have reſtor’d thee
By the juſt Providence: while her Exceſſe and Pride
Caſts her before thee, to receive that Doom
She had devis’d ’gainſt thy immortal Goodneſs.
Into perpetual Exile; hence, away with her.
Alind.Remember your Oath, my Lord.
King.My Oath was to perform what I had pro-
mis’d unto my lawful Queen: that’s my
Eulalia.
And let good
Lodowick and
Horatio be reſtor’d.
Exeunt King and Attendants. Alinda en-
tranſed carried out.
Scœn. V.
Enter Curate.
Cur.Oh! proh! proh
Nef as!
Ile have no hand in blood of any man.
[I1v]Eul.
and C O N C U B I N E.
Eul.More exclamations? what diſtracts you now?
Cur.Coram Senatu res acta eſt: ſub Judice lis eſt.
Ocurvæ in Terris animæ: the Ruſticks
Have tane again the Law into their hands.
And will you tender clemencie
non justante
A Courtiet hang, his ſweet Face
nec invante.
That Treaſon brought
in Pectore & Skonſo
Eul.VVho are the heads of the Judicious Faction?
Cur.Andrea, Lollio, Poggio, the Drudges
Have got the Peoples voice to be their Judges.
(be,
And kill, they ſay, the ſnake of Treachery.
Eul.I hope we may come yet to ſtay their Sen-
Eul.Pray bring us to the place: where if we can,
Let us avert their Judgment from this man.
Exeunt.
Scœn. VI.
Enter Andrea, Poggio, Lollio, a Typſtaff before
them.
Andr.And can theſe turmoiles never have an
Unleſs we load our heads and ſhoulders thus
Our bodies eke with Juſtice
Capa Pe.
And Pepper all our brains with Policie.
Pog.’Twas time to have a care: I, and a piteous
Lol.A pious care you mean.
You’l ſhew your own wit, whoſe clothes ſoever you
(So do the wits of the time) but as I ſaid,
I 2’Tis
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’Tis time we have a care, for though our Queen,
Our School Miſtreſs I would ſay, be mercifully, idleful
It is fit that we be prejudicious in the State.
Andr.Agree upon’t, Brother Sages
My Brother
Poggio here ſaid very well
And learnedly and as I would have ſaid my ſelf?
(If you will take his meaning) to wit that as
Our School Miſtris doats upon
Clemencie, it is fit that we run mad upon crueltie,
So meeting her in the midſt, we ſhall jump into the
Pog.I do ſay ſo, without all peradventure
For if the Candle of her mercy be not put out,
We ſhall ſhortly, ſee more honeſt men then Knaves
Lol.More Knaves you mean Brother.
Pog.I mean no more Knaves then your ſelf, Bro-
Andr.Agree again, Sage brothers of the Bench:
Itch grow to a publike Scab.
Do not I underſtand the purpoſe of our meeting
Here in our pettie Parliament, if I may ſo call it?
Is it not for a Reſormation, to pull down
The Queens mercy, and ſet up our Juſtice?
For the prevention of a ſuperabundance of Treaſon
Dayly practiced againſt her?
Andr.Moſt true. And is it fit therefore that you
brabble among your ſelves, and leave all worſe then
Lol.No, we will make ſuch a Reformation, that
Treaſon ſhall not dare to peep over the Hedge of
her Dominion, but we will take it by the noſe and
puniſh it indignely: moſt indignely will we puniſh
[I2v]Pog.
and C O N C U B I N E.
Pog.All this I grant: but before we ſit and buſtle
on the Bench, becauſe it is, and that without all per-
adventure, the ſtrſt time that ever we play’d ſo wiſe
a part, is it not fit to take advice, among our ſelves,
how to deform our ſelves in our office.
Lol.De did you ſay? in in you ſhould ſay.
with your Horns: how now?
Pog.Does he think to control me? becauſe he has
been a Sexton, and a little more book learned then a
Lay man with an Amen forſooth?
thers: this will control the buſineſs.
Pog.Or becauſe he has been in many a mans grave
before him, does he think no man ſo deep in grave
Pog.Shall he bid me In, In? as if I were not his
Pog.I will ſhew my ſelf his inferior I, and a
greater man then he; and to prove my ſelf a great
man, let him hang one, I will ſave two.
Andr.Pray Brothers yet agree: and remember we
Pog.Let him that uſes any mercy lack mercy, for
Lol.Then let us ſit, and fall to the Buſineſs.
Pog.Sit and fall: was that ſo wiſely ſpoken of a
Lol.Still I forbear Paſſion becomes not Judges,
Now bring in the offender, the new and laſt offender.
And.Pray thinke on your ſpeeches.
[Exit Typſtaff.]
Lol.I have made ſpeeches that I hope ſhall make
Lol.Aſham’d to wear their
own heads on their ſhoulders.
head is not his own head: ’tis forfeited by Law to
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the King; ’tis the Kings head.
Pog.I ſay a Traytors head is his own Head: and a
good Subjects head is the Kings Head.
Lol.I ſay that’s Treaſon: and the head thou
weareſt is not thine own then, is thou beeſt a good
Pog.Wilt thou tell me that?
Andr.Paſſion becomes not Judges, Brothers o’th
Now they are hot, he ſhall be ſure to ſmoak for it.
Scœn. VII.
Enter Alphonſo and Guard.
Alph.Whither do you hale me? you Peaſe- por-
Is this a place for me to come to Tryal in?
Is I had broke the Law, as I have not
I am a Peer, and do appeal unto
The Kings high Seat of Juſtice, publikely.
Lol.And will not our low ſtool of Juſtice, privily
In ſuccouring ’gainſt the Law, a diſſolute woman
Whom I command you, in the Kings high name,
She is our Queen and her Authority is in our hands.
Alph.That ſpeaks you Traytors: and the King has
Lol.When you are hang’d he has: to the next able
Tree with him, and hang him preſently.
Alph.Villains: you dare not ſo ſay.
[I3v]Omn.
and C O N C U B I N E.
Omn.We do all ſay Hang him with one accord:
Gua.If on cord will not do’t another ſhall:
Lol.Stay: hear a ſpeech firſt.
Alph.You dare not uſe me thus: dare you take
Lol.Yes, Sir, we can ſpie
Great faults in Noble Coats, with half an eye.
What though we nod? doeſ Treaſon therefore think
Juſtice is adle brain’d? or though ſhe wink
In us (as thus) that ſhe’s a ſleep? or ſay
She take a nap, d’ye think ſhee’l ſleep for ay?
No, ſhe but dreams a while, to circumvent,
Your vains hopes, with ſharper puniſhment.
For if ſhe be but jogg’d, no Maſtife takes
Swiſter or ſurer vengeance when ſhe wakes.
Pog.I, hang him, hang him.
Pog.Without all peradventure the Hangman
Guard.Come Sir along, never hang backward, for
Lol.Stay him, my ſpeeches will be loſt elſe.
Pog.Your long ſpeeches will looſe our purpoſe
again, without all peradventure.
Alph.Muſt I be mock’d out of my life? and have
My death by hanging made a ſport to Peaſants,
In this blind hole oth’ Kingdom?
Andr.Why thou choplogicall Fellow, doſt thou
not think, there are as good men hang’d, and as
good ſport made of it too, in the blind holes of
the Kingdom, as in the very eye or open mouth of
Pog.Away with him without peradventure.
Alph.I am a Courtier, and ſervant to the King.
Lol.Come all the Court in all your coſtly
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And Treaſon in your Breech, we’ll hang you for your
On tree in Hempen twine nay if you come
In open Arms, np ſhall you all and ſome.
For though for Tournament your Fames do flie
Run all at Tilt on us, wee’l draw you dry.
Andr.Tell us you are a Courtier? we find here
Faults to correct, which you perceive not there.
So, now away with him, I have ſpoke my beſt.
Pog.And without all peradventure well ſaid Judge
How long muſt we ſay away with him? ha!
Alph.You hobnayl’d Raſcals: can you think that
Are fit to ſpie or corrects faults at Court?
Lol.Stay, a ſhort ſpeech for that, and turn him off.
Your ſhoes at Court are all too fine and thin:
To tread out ſnuffes and ſparks of kindling Sin,
Which let alone the Ruſhes may take fire.
Then flame, then burn up higher ſtill, and higher:
You warm you at ſuch fire, ’tis we walk through’t
The hobnayl’d Common wealth muſt tread it out.
Andr.So, now away with him. Hang him firſt, d’ye
He has the baſt clothes, that will encourage
The Hangman the better to turn the reſt after him.
Enter Eulalia, Lodovico.
Enl.Whither away with him?
Pog.So, now you ſee what’s become of your fine
Eul.Will ye, ’gainſt all my Counſels and requeſts
Perſiſt to pull deſtruction by taking others lives upon
And ſeem to carry it as in care for me?
Pog.No, ’tis in care of our ſelves, becauſe we know
Not to breed our Children honeſtly without you.
[I4v]Ful.
and C O N C U B I N E.
Eul.Have I not often councell’d and entreated
Lol.Your councels and entreats
We are bound to diſobey by Proclamation:
For we muſt grant you nothing.
Pog.And therefore if you ſay, Hang not this man
We are bound to hang him; we will ſhew our ſelves
the Kings Subjects not yours.
Lod.If you can anſwer’t to the King, ’tis well;
His Majeſty is here at hand.
Andr.The King at hand? ’tis time for us to look
Lol.Muſt not we be hang’d now?
Pog.It will be ſo, without all peradventure.
Eul.Releaſe your Priſoner, ſet him free, and go
ſend the reſt of the confederats.
Exeunt Guard Alphonſo kneeles.
Alph.I was not bound till now
I have no power to move or ſtir a limb:
O ſacred Queen, uſe mercy, in adjudging me,
To preſent death, to quit me of the torment.
That rages all upon me, all within me.
The ſight of you has ſhot more paines into me
Then I have drops of blood: O let me die.
Eul.I cannot give thee death: nor will my
Be prevalent for thy cure poor ſinful man!
Till rhou layſt ope the cauſe of thy diſeaſe;
(Thy hainous ſin) by fair and free confeſſion.
Alph.I hope no cure, and therefore ask no life.
But the Kings Juſtice to afford me death,
That is no leſs deſerved then deſir’d;
For I confeſs, This my Device was but
To make my way to you, t’ have murder’d you.
Enter two Lieutenants, Doctor and Midwife.
Wrought thereunto by
Alinda’s Inſtigation.
[I5]More
The Q U E E N
More I confeſs; The Evidence againſt you,
Whereby you were deſpos’d, was falſe.
And all theſe witneſſes which now do bring
Addition to my to my torment, did I hire
Both for their perjury paſt, and for their late
Attempt upon your life, with the Queens money.
Omn.Heaven Pardon our miſdeed: it is moſt true.
Eul.Heaven grant you all your cures.
Omn.All bleſſings on the Queen.
Eul.All was confeſs’d before by
Fabio and
Strozzo
And you do well to ſeem ſo penitent:
I do forgive you: and will plead your pardon unto
Alph.Your ſacred mercy Madam, ſhall ſave a life
then, to be ſpent in Praiſes and Prayers for your
Eul.Go, and pray for grace to mend your lives.
[Exeunt offenders.]
So, let’s now to the King.
Lod.Now look you about you: caſt your Coats,
Haſt to the Curat, hee’s preparing ſports,
In ſpeech and Dance, to entertain the King:
Go and aſſiſt him: that muſt be the way
Andr.Come then, let’s away
No longer Brothers of the Bench wee’l be,
But of the Revels for his Majeſty.
Scœn. VIII.
[Recorders.]
Enter King, Horatio, Sforza, Petruccio.
King.Theſe troubles over: let us, now
Surveigh this part of my Poſſeſſion.
[I5v]I neve
and C O N C U B I N E.
I never ſaw before. I could contemplate
This late neglected peece of my Eſtate,
To be the happieſt: ſure it is no leſs,
To thoſe that think on earth there’s happineſs,
The Air diſperſeth pleaſure and the Earth
Of freſh delight to every ſtep gives birth.
Here plentie grows, and above it content,
Ore ſpreads the Face of all the Continent.
Eulalia, thou art happy, and didſt riſe,
Not fall from Court into this Paradiſe.
Nor can it move my admiration much,
Thy vertue wrought the change, and made it ſuch.
Sfor.My Lord, the King is ſad, what ſhall we
Hor.I am as ſad as he, and ſhould be dead,
If he were dead: and therefore no fit member
To make Him merry, I: try your vein with him,
Tell him your Daughters dying; that may cheer
Sfor.Are you ſo tart Court Blain-worm?
King.Yet can I ſmile in midſt of grief to think
How the Court malice hath been wav’d and
Appears again in the Kings ſmiles: obſerve.
Hor.I thank your Majeſtie, that ſweet ſmile re-
Hor.Not I, I’m ſure did you:
There could be no ſuch thing: who dares be mer-
ry, when the King’s ſad?
Shalmes.
Petr.Yes, here are ſome now coming, I hear ’m,
that are merry in hope to make the King ſo.
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Scœn. IX.
Enter Curat richly rob’d, and Crown’d with Bays,
playing on a Fiddle, many School Boys with
Skærfes and Noſegays, &c. then follow Gonzago,
dreſs’d and Crown’d as Queen of the Girles, fol-
lowing her: at laſt Eulalia ſupported by Lodovico
and Andrea: Alphanſo, Strozzo, Fabio. D. Mid-
wife. The former being all paſs’d over the Stage:
they kneel to the King.
Eul.Still the moſt humble
King.Thy words are ſweet:
Yet to my guiltie ſenſe they are no leſs
Then thunder bolts; fram’d of the wrongs I ſhot
Againſt the Heavenly Region of thy mind.
And ’tis but Juſtice that the repercuſſion
Eul.No Paſſion mighty Sir.
Hor.O my ſweet Queen! but I am thunder ſtruck.
Andr.Old Lad, art there? ſtill ſick oth’ Kings
Eul.If I may preſume of any favour, vouchſafe a
Alphonſo, Stro. Fab. Doctor and Mid.Beſeech your
Enter Curat Gonzago in his hand veil’d three or
four Laſſes.
Cur.Thus have you ſeen great King in beſt array,
Noſtri Diſcipuli have made Holy-day,
Whilſt I their Pædagogue or pettie King
Preſent in hand this little Royal Thing,
[I6v]Ycelp’d
and C O N C U B I N E.
Yclep’d their Queen or Miſtriſs:
certe fallor
For that’s the Royal School Miſtreſs as we call her.
And this her under Uſher: vey’ld is ſhe,
Dreading the Power of ſhinning Majeſty.
Might dazle her Dancing: for
nunc eſt ſaltandum,
And here are Lads and Laſſes that at Random
Have leſt their works, as we the School
& Templum,
To follow us; ’tis
Regis ad Exemplum.
The youth’s are muffled for their better graces,
Though you may like their feet, youl’d blame their
But Ile not trouble you with long Oration,
Becauſe I had but ſhort precogitation.
[Dance]
Hor.His Highneſs thanks you: and hath here dis-
An hundred Duccats in this Purſe inclos’d;
(pos’d
Drink it amongſt ye to the Kings well faring,
And ſee there be no falling out ith’ ſharing
Rex & Regina ſemper ſint Beati.Exeunt Curat and Laſſes.
Manent Fabio Strozzo Alphonſo Doctor and Mid-
wife; they all kneel.
You know my Story, Sir, and who have been
My ſtrong abuſers, and by me converted,
Therefore let me Petition: Royal King
You have by theſe diſcovered the abuſe
That led you into error: and that light,
Which makes diſcovery of their black miſdeeds,
Will ſhew you to a Throne of greater mercy
King.I muſt confeſs I need it,
Bee’t as thou wilt
Eulalia.
Eul.Go then, and thank the King.
All.Long live the King and Queen.
[Exeunt offenders.]
[I7]vil
The Q U E E N
vil had ’m, that thought ill of her.
Andr.And good King Pardon me, and my pure
brother Judges, and Sages of the Dorpe here, that
would have hang’d thoſe Manufactors.
King.’Tis quickly grauted.
Andr.And Ile as quickly make them run mad
Eul.My next ſuit is, (for now I’m ſet a begging)
You’l Pardon your
Alinda.
Should ſhe recover, as Heavens will be done.
Eul.Recover? fear not, Sir, this Traunſe has
Her Frenzie, and ſhee’l live a ſober life.
King.I ſhall forgive her,
But ſhe muſt no more, in her recovery:
Be confort or acquaintance unto me:
But where’s Poſteritie now? O my Boy!
Eul.Sir you have had but homely entertainment
Yet in my humble dwelling: now Ile ſhew you
(Since you appear ſo tender and ſo good
A Father) the ſweet comfort of a Son;
King.You cannot raiſe from
Eul.Can you forgive
Pttrucio that deceiv’d you
In his faign’d death, to ſave a real life:
King.Forgive? he won me in preſerving
Sforza,
Let me but ſee my Son, Ile honour him.
Enter Lodovico with Gonzrgo.
Hor.See the moſt Princely vertue that ſurvives.
Gonz.If you my Royal Father be not diſpleas’d
With me, or my good mother, I ſhall live.
Hor.And long live my ſweet Prince.
King.Let not my joy confound me! where’s
[I7v]Lod.
and C O N C U B I N E.
Lod.Sforza and he are bringing the entraunc’d
(Your fair Queene to your preſence.)
King.She is no Queen of mine.
Hor.No, hang her, hang her. This, this is the
A very Queen of harts: a better Title
Crowns not the beſt of women in our days.
King.Good
Lodovico, may the merited Fame of
While there are Kings on Earth, Shew them to gra-
All truſtie ſervants: love him
Gonzago.
Hor.Love him? my Loyaltie preſerv’d,
I ſhall not deſire the Princes love my ſelf
Is he not giv’t to faithful
Lodovico,
My true yoak fellow in State and Commonwealth.
[Recorders.]
Enter Sforza and Petruccio, bringing Alinda in
a Chayre, veyl’d.
King.But here’s the man
Gonzago, whom thou
A love of equal value to thy life.
Petr.I cannot Sir, in dutie nevertheleſs
But fall before your mercy, which I pray for,
That durſt aſſume the hardneſs to control:
Hor.There is a Loyaltie after my own heart now.
Here a new Song, Ealalia unvailes Alinda.
Eul.Bleſs’d Heaven! ſhe lives and wakes I hope
Sfor.If ſhe awake to vertue, ſhe is welcome,
Into the world again: but if ſhe riſe
With an Ambitious Throught of what ſhe was
Or meet the light with a preſumptuous look:
That renders her in thought but worthy of it:
By this bleſs’d preſence I will yet take leave.
[I8]To
The Q U E E N
To ſink her under earth immediatly.
Eul.Patience good
Sforza, fee what ſhe will do.
Alin.Where have I been? or how am I brought
Or where I am I know not; but that ſhall not.
[Muſick ceaſed.]
But unto me a wonder: for I know
Were it reveil’d, it could not be ſo ſtrange:
A ſtotie as my ſelf was to the world.
How have I wandred in the way of Error!
Till I was worn into an Arie vapour.
Then wrap’d into a cloud: and thence diſtill’d,
Into the earth to find a new creation.
’Tis ſound: and I am ſound in better ſtate,
Then I was in, before I loſt my Dutie.
For in this ſecond Birth: I find a knowledge
How to preſerve it. Therefore if an Heart
Diſſolved in its Tears may move your Pity
My noble Father, (if I may ſay Father,)
Whoſe bleſſing and forgiveneſs I entreat,
Let not your frown deſtroy my future hopes.
Sfor.What a rich ſound were this now, were it
Eul.As you may think I honour vertue
Sforza,
I do believe ’tis really unfaigned.
Sfor.It is Heavens goodneſs to your Grace then
The more to vindicate your injur’d vertue.
And manifeſt your merit to the world,
Thou art mine own again
Alinda.
Alin.My ſuit is next to you King, Queen, and
Whoſe love, whoſe Pietie, whoſe Innocence,
I have too much abus’d: that to appeal,
[I8v]My
and C O N C U B I N E.
My treſpaſſes at large by due confeſſion.
I ſhould appear but more impertinent to each eye
My ſuit is therefore (though you not forget
I ever was) you will be pleas’d to think,
There is not an
Alinda in the world.
So give me leave to leave it: and in this,
I beg my Fathers Aid, to be remov’d
Back to my countrey Naples; and in that,
Into the Magdalene Nunnerie at Lucera,
To ſpend this life in Tears for my amiſs,
And holy Prayers for eternal Bliſs.
[veiles her ſelf.]
Sfor.So thou art mine for ever.
King.She has anticipated my great purpoſe,
For on the reconcilement of this difference,
I vow’d my after life unto the Monaſterie
Of holy
Auguſtinians at
Solanto.
King.’Tis not to be gain-
So haſte we to
Nicoſia, where (my Son)
In lieu of former wrongs, Ile yield thee up my Crown
Your vertuous mother (whom may you for ever
Honour for her pietie) with theſe true
Stateſmen, will enable you to govern well.
Hor.Who makes a doubt of that?
King.And let your ſtudie, Sir, be ever watchful
To cheriſh vertue, as to puniſh vice.
And ſee that you conſiderative be
Of
Sforza, in the wrongs he felt by me.
His was the greateſt loſſe.
My wrongs are drown’d in her converſion.
King.Good
Sforza, ſee her plac’d as ſhe deſires,
KIn
The Q U E E N
In that Religious order. I have now
Plighted my Troth to Heaven, and ſo has ſhe.
Omn.O may (Sir) ſuch Wedlock ne’er broken be,
King.Now with ſuch melting ſilence as ſweet
From Bodies part to Immortalitie,
May we for better life divided be.
Exeunt Omnes.
Dedit Deus his quoq; finem.
RIC. BROME.
The Epilogue.
Lod.THrough much diſtreſs, and many perilous
Our Queen at laſt with more then conquering Bays
Is Crown’d with hearts: but now ſhe fals again,
And we, except her glory you maintain.
Our good depends on you then, thus it ſtands;
She chears our Hearts, if ſhe but gain your Hands.
FINIS.
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