ACT. V. SCEN. I.
Enter Mildred, Offa.
MildHElp, help, oh help.
(vain.
Off.Your cries will be in
’Tis not in the power of any fleſh but
To allay, or to prevent my heat of blood.
Mild.O you diviner powers that or-
dain’d chaſtity
(guard it.
To be a vertue, lend your ſtrength to
Off.Thy cries ſhall be as fruitleſs as thy
If thou offend’ſt me with ’em; hear but
Impertinently peeviſh maid, and tremble
But to conceive a diſobedient thought
Againſt my will. Canſt thou without my
Off.How canſt thou judge
(wench
That knowſt not what is either? let a
That knows what’s what, or has been
But this is from the purpoſe; I am ſo far
From caſting of thee off to be a begger,
As I intend to make thee my rich equal,
And not a Whore, but wife; you know
Has undertaken to find it lawful for us
To marry; and canſt thou with modeſty
Deny me preſent pleaſure, that within
Shall confer honour on thee for thy life?
Mild.Would you firſt ſpoil my honor
Off.’Tis mine when I contract for’t.
Our Covenant is paſs’d; that is, the Prieſt
Has joyn’d our hearts and hands.
Off.By this account,
(paid for’t;
A man backs not his Horſe before he’s
Nor puts his noſe into a houſe before
He buyes the Leaſe on’t; leave your
Madam formality; force me not to force
Yield with that very breath thou now
Or it returns thy laſt.
Enter Edith.
Off.This Witch or Divel haunts me.
I told you late a wonder; I bring now
Off.What with a miſchief?
Ed.Your Brother is ſurviv’d from
My Lord
Anthynus is come home and
Mild.O grant that it be true.
Ed.Nay, run me in as far as you can if
Up to the Hilts if I lie.
Off.What canſt thou mean by this?
Ed.Nay, what he means I knew not,
Sayes he is not
Anthynus, but a
Northum-
brian Gentleman;
(Mildred
And deſires conference with my Lady
From the fine Lord was here (what call
The Kings great Favourite; But if I am I,
If you are you, if any thing be any thing,
It is
AnthynusEx. Mildred. Ex. Edith.
Off.Go you to your Chamber,
(enter,
And be not ſeen I charge you. Let him
But firſt ſend in my ſervants.
(Villains,
I did miſtruſt he liv’d; O thoſe falſe
That fac’d me down they kill’d him,
A year a famiſhing. Have you tricks
An-
How can he thinke, though he diſguis’d
Or Countrey, that we ſhould not know
What ſhould his aim or drift be? ſtay,
He does ſuſpect I was in the action
F 2Againſt
The Queens Exchange.
Againſt my fathers life and his, & thinks
So ſteals upon me thus as his own ghoſt,
To terrifie my conſcience, ſhallow, ſhal-
But I’l ſo fit him; It is moſt evidently he.
Enter Oſriick, Alfride, four Servants, at
the other door Arnold.
Some of your ſervants are pleas’d to
Merry with a pretended knowledge of
I do preſume your honour cannot know
Off.From one ſo falſe never came
Oſr.What means your honour?
Off.It is true, my honour
(Brother,
Cannot, nay, dares not know thee for a
Although mine eyes through tears of
Diſcern the monſter I have often call’d
Oſr.This is moſt ſtrange.
Off.Look that he come not near me;
Perfidious Parricide, haſt thou kill’d my
Deſtroy’d the life that gave thee life? and
Seek’ſt by ſurprize to take mine too?
Oſr.Pray hear me.
(pieces;
Off.Upon him all at once, hew him in
I’l bear you out in’t; he has kill’d your
Oſr.Forbear your outrage.
Alfr.Give us leave to ſpeak.
Off.Villains, are they to be obey’d or I?
Arn.My Lord, your judgement is too
Fellows forbear, and forbear you my
You ſhall not ſo heap blood upon your
I lov’d my Lord your father, and do
His blood and memory, as becomes a
Of the beſt rank: And if at moſt and
My Lord
Anthynus here ſtand guilty of
His fathers death, you muſt not be his
Become my maſter, you old Ruffian?
Your Servant Sir, but ſubject to the Law;
The Law that muſt determine this mans
Not you, nor we, what ever he deſerves.
And till he ſhall be cenſur’d by that law
We’l find a Priſon for him.
Serv.I, to Priſon with him.
Oſr.Will you but hear yet how you
Arn.Pray heaven we be, as you may
clear your ſelf;
(muſt be
That’s all the harm we wiſh you; this
Your courſe my Lord; would you heap
Alfr.Let me but ſpeak a word.
Off.Away with ’em.
Exeunt.
I could have lik’d the other ſhorter way
Much better; but my knaves will have
Yet not to wrong ’em, ſimple honeſty
May be in ſuch ſometimes as well as me.
Exit.
Enter Carpenter, Maſon, Smith, in Divels
habits; two dark Lanthorns, a Pickaxe
and a Rope, with an Engine faſtned to
a Poſt, and a bunch of Picklocks.
Mas.Prethee tread ſoftly yet a little
Smi.Hark, heard ye nothing? whiſt.
Carp.I never knew Thieves ſo time-
Can we expect a booty without bold-
Beſides, have we not ſhapes if we were
Able to fright better Believers then
My politick Lord oth’ houſe here.
Carp.All’s ſure I warrant thee.
Carp.Pray on I prethee; prayers be-
come this coat,
(are all,
Like ſwearing in a Surpliſſe; tuſh, they
All the whole houſe aſleep, and I heard
As we paſs’d through it, but uſuall
Puffing and blowing, ſnorting farting, and
[F2v]Yes
The Queens Exchange.
Yes, I cry mercy, as we paſs’d by the
I heard his bed crackle ſhrewdly, and I
The Dary-maid and he were jumbling of
A Poſſet together. Come, now we are
Fountain of our hopes, the well of com-
Down your Picklocks, they have done
well their office in our paſſage
Advance your Pickaxe, whilſt the Car-
Our new work; now for the honour of
Here is the Trap-door, the mouth of the
We’l make bold to open. And let men of
Learn the way that many grow rich by,
No body knows how they come by their
Is, when they make ſuch concavities as
Rich men to hide their treaſure in, that
Make alſo a privy way for themſelves to
Take a ſhare on’t.
(has laid in
Mas.This covetous Lord by this time
An unknown deal of wealth, I warrant
Smi.But we’l not take away too much
Carp.No, we’l but piddle; we’l not
A thouſand pounds to night.
(opens) So,
And when I ſhake the rope, then crane
me up again; give me one of
The Lanthorns: So, ſo, ſo, let me down
handſomely;
(before day yet.
I’l warrant you money, the Divel and all
Smi.Nay, if we get off clear but with
Amongſt us, it will ſerve for drinking
Money till we come for more.
Mas.This money will come luckily
I have three baſtards at nurſe and a
The rope ſtirs; pull luſtily, this pull for a
Thouſand pound.
(Outlaw comes up)
Smi.I fear ’tis light gold, methinks he
does not weigh
(what haſt thou
So heavy as he went down. Comrade,
Brought? what ail’ſt thou? canſt not
1. Outl.O help! where am I? drawn
from one hell into another? ha!
Mas.Come, leave your fooling, what
money have you?
(I’d give all
1. Outl.Had I the price of Kingdoms
But for one bit of meat; but I have none.
Smi.Slid, he would coſen us; how do
Smi.This is not he; it is a gaſtly ſpirit.
1. Outl.What? are you men?
Mas.Yes, but we have play’d the
1. Outl.If you be men, help me to food,
Mas.What art thou that canſt look
thus Piepickt, Crowtrod, or
1. Outl.O, I am pin’d with hunger.
Mas.Here, ſtay thy ſtomach; there’s
To ſtop the open mouth of the Maſtive,
Smi.There he is now I am ſure.
Carp.I ſhall be devour’d elſe.
Mas.What’s the matter Fellow?
Carp.Take his teeth out o’me, I can-
(Pull up Carp. an Outl. hanging on him.)
Mas.O Cannibal! wilt thou eat a Carpenter?
2. Outl.O meat, meat, if you be men.
Mas.No, we are Divels; but here’s
What e’re thou art; we have play’d the
Carp.He has gnaw’d a piece of my
And miſs’d very narrowly certain mem-
[F3]They’d
The Queens Exchange.
They’d have gone down glib with him;
Divels name, what are ye?
Smi.Until their cruſts be done they
Mas.Come, I do ſuſpect the ſubtilty of
Lord; would we were well out on’s
Maſters, and we’l bring you to meat
We’l hear your ſtory, and tell our own;
Here, may coſt all our lives.
Smith.Take up your tools and lead
Enter Mildred and Edith.
Smi.Come, ſoftly, ſoftly then.
Mild.I will away this night.
Ed.But Madam.
(perſwaſion,
Mil.Had you the only Tongue of all
So much I prize my life, & honour more,
I would not miſſe this opportunity
For all that you could ſay.
Smi.Are not theſe Sprites?
Carp.No evil ones I’l warrant, they are
Ed.To night he’s troubled ’bout
An-
So that he will not think of luſt or wan-
Mild.That trouble keeps him waking:
and I fear
(withhold him.
Will rather ſpur him forwards then
Smi.They talk methinks; but I cannot
For ſhaking.
(thy Picklocks,; ſlid,
Carp.Take heed thou doſt not jingle
They’l ring up the houſe like a larum
Ed.Well, ſince you are ſo reſolute,
Houſe once, if we be taken, ’tis not the
A million of Maiden-heads, as the market
Our lives.
(they be. They
Carp.Good, I have found what ſprites
Muſt needs be the wenches that I ſuſpe-
The Butlers chamber, and made the
ſtiff ſtanding bedſtead that
I ſet up but laſt week, crack like a
Ed.Oh me! we are undone and taken.
Mas.I’m glad ’tis no worſe.
Carp.Peace, if you have a mind to ſcape
out oth’ houſe alive.
they be
Mild.Come Nurſe, my fear is over, if
Men, and bring us out oth’ houſe,
They cannot be ſo dangerous as he I
Carp.Did he ſo put thee to’t, my little
Buſtlepate? what a ſtout blade’s
Mil.Theſe are good Fellows Nurſe.
Carp.Yes faith, and fear you nothing
Outſides; if we ſcape out o’ the houſe,
you ſcape, and
(by ’t; and ſo
If we fail, our necks are ſure to hang
On there afore once more in the name of
Off.If my attempt now fail, may my
Strike luſt for ever out of countenance.
(Ent. Offa, light and Dagger.)
It is decreed ſhe ſleeps with me or death.
1. Outl.S’death, it is he.
2. Outl.Let us fall to and beat him.
Carp.As you can hope for meat again,
Look big, and uſe no words; and ſo
Off.The night, the place, her fate, and
Do all conſpire unto my wiſh’d advan-
And ſo I come coy Damoſel.
(Hide the women under their habits, and ſo
Exeunt all but Offa.)
Ha? how? why? where? who? or what
They are all gone, and I am tottering left
Upon an Earthquake; gentle, holla, holla,
Set not too hard old Ops, thou’lt ſhake
Through thy chinky wrinkles into Lim-
I ſhall ſinke piecemeal if thou trot ſo
So, ſo, ſo, Holla, holla, gentle earth.
[F3v]Open
The Queens Exchange.
Open not here, not near that part of thee
That has but now diſgorg’d thoſe fa-
That with the Furies would have beck-
Along to hell with ’em; ſo, let me down,
I muſt not follow yet, but ſleep and
I will come time enough you need not
But firſt creep back to bed, as nothing
Enter Oſriick, Ethelſwick, Edelred, Alfride.
Oſr.You have told me wonders, which
have pierc’d my ſoul
(confeſſe,
With horror and amazement; yet I muſt
In all that I am like to ſuffer, heaven is
Whilſt wrath my wilfulneſſe has pull’d
Yet pardon, ſince thou gav’ſt me that
That wandred with me in this oblique
This unquoth way, with which I have
Further then love might lead an humane
Eth.You do conſider well, my Lord,
Beſeech you ſtrive to counter-check theſe
Still with your Kingly reaſon.
Oſr.Yes, and fall upon our preſent
buſineſſe; there you find me
Out of a ſpacious Kingdom of mine own,
Shut in a narrow Priſon; whilſt the bro-
Of her, whoſe love I came to ſeek, has
The Queen I might have had; before I
His Siſter; there was a quick expedition.
Eth.My Lord, for that before you left
In your ſuppos’d diſtraction; the ore-
Eaufride and
Theodwald, out of ſtrong
The ſight of her would cure you, feign’d
your letters
(us the Court,
Which fetch’d the Queen; then baniſh’d
Before we could take notice; we had
Strong Traitors elſe to let that match go
Nor heard we of it until now the Poſt
That brings the news oth’ Kings and
Arriv’d here in the City.
Oſr.All think him then their King ſtill?
Eth.Yes, yes, and though he told us
The overwiſe Lords imputed that to his
Oſr.It ſeems he was not ſo mad, but
Eth.Where ſhe lik’d him ſo well
That ſhe now brings him home unto her
Still thinking him your perſon.
Oſr.Whilſt I lie here for his,
Accus’d of Parricide; but I will not
Reveal my ſelf till trial.
Ent. Mildred.
Now all my ſufferings are turn’d into
Faireſt of Virgins welcome; marvail not
That at firſt ſight I knew you, when my
Wears the Impreſſion of your Portrai-
And all my intellectual faculties
Bow to no other object but your beauty.
Mild.O Sir, lay by this high diſſimu-
For though I find you now are not my
Oſr.Lo ye, ſhe knows I am not
An-
Her vertue like the Sun will clear the
Of error we were loſt in.
Yes, the bright Sun diſcovers not a truth
More evident then that you are
Anthynus
Nor ever ſhin’d on man I lov’d ſo well,
Or hop’d to marry, ſince you are not my
Oſr.I underſtand not this.
To tell you ſo, and could you clear your
Of the foul ſtain of blood you are ac-
Were I ſole monarcheſs of all this Iſland,
I’d kneel to beg a brides place in your
Oſr.If I can clear my ſelf?
Mild.Nay, mark me further;
(you,
If you clear not your ſelf, I’l not outlive
To call to mind the man that I ſo lov’d,
Butcher’d his Father; though he were
[F4]I lov’d
The Queens Exchange.
I lov’d him as a father; oh good heaven!
How good? how reverend a man was he?
Oſr.Weep not, but hear me; or hear
Mild.Prove that, I am yours.
Edel.I ſaw one i’th next room
Drinking and ſinging catches with ſome
Ed.Withhold your hands,
Anthynus
Fair Lady, is your brother.
Mild.Why did you mock me then?
Ed.To ſave you from your brother
I feign’d that you were not his Siſter;
In hope to marry you, he might forbear
Mild.Now I am loſt for ever,
In being the Daughter of a murder’d
And made uncapable of you in marriage.
Oſr.Yet hear me, and be comforted.
Ed.Hark my Lord
Anthynus.
Oſr.I do not know that name.
Ed.Go to, go to; nor you do not re-
How I behav’d my ſelf upon the eating
Comfects, that your Brother
Offa gave
And laid the fault on you; pray Jove, I
Be no more his fault then yours.
A ſhout within. Enter Keeper.
Oſr.Hark, the wide world abroad is
And muſt we only be ſhut from it? now.
Oſr.Still muſt I be
Anthynus?
Keep.You are call’d unto your Trial.
Keep.Thoſe that are bribe-free I dare
It may perhaps go ſomewhat the harder
For nothing but white innocence can
Pray heaven you hav’t about you; even
the King
(ſhould have ſaid,
And Queen, the Queen and King I
For ſhe’s our Soveraign,’tis her Law
Oſr.What King do you mean then?
Keep.King
Oſriick; you know nothing.
Oſr.Yes, I know him as well as he
Keep.Take heed Sir what you ſay.
But am as good as he; now carry me
Mild.Peace, he did not ſay ſo.
Keep.Slid, he’s as mad as his brother
Keep.O quite beſides himſelf, and talks
Of his fathers murder, your running away
And the deſire he has to hang his bro-
And then he is haunted with ſprites too,
You will know all anon; will you go
Oſr.Yes, will you be ſo kind as to ſee
Mild.Indeed I muſt not leave you.
Keep.’Tis a kinde part indeed, and
A Siſter; like the wife that would not
Her huſband till ſhe ſaw him totter.
Set the beſt foot forward, and the beſt
You can, my Lord, upon the buſineſſe.
Exeunt.
Hoboys.
Enter Theodwald and Eaufride, Kelrick and
Elkwin, Theodrick, Anthynus and Bertha.
Omn.Long live King
Oſriick and Queen
Anth.I joyn with ye in your wiſhes
And wiſh well to King
Oſriick as a
[F4v]Omn.
The Queens Exchange.
Anth.But will no longer perſonate
For now be it known to you that I am
But he that warns you call me ſo no
Anth.Nay, Madam, ’tis moſt ſerious.
Kelr. Elkw.Bleſſe us!
(was.
Theodw.He’s madder now then e’re he
Eauf.I am at my wits end too; if
Will not tame him, I know not what to
Anth.I have told you truth, and your
How violently I was thrown upon the
I thank thoſe provident Lords, againſt
Bert.I take it as the providence of
And from the Son of that moſt injur’d
Whom now in my joys ſtrength I could
ſhed tears for.
(handmaid.
I yield you are my head, and I your
(She ſets him down, and kneels; he takes
her up)
So, ſo, a few nights trial has got
For ever faſt enough; what notable old
Have we been made? nay, made our
Anth.Now further know, my Lords,
The Son of that old honeſt Lord, ’gainſt
Your ſulphurous malice kindled the
Elkw.Who’l have an head now for an
Kelr.And for tother two Tokens mine
Enter Keeper, with Oſriick, Ethelſwick,
Edith, Alfride, Edelred, Guard.
Keep.Make way there for the Priſoner.
Theodw.I, this is our King indeed.
Theodr.O let me waſh your feet Sir
with my tears.
(Theodrick,
Oſr.Thy treſpaſſe is thine honour my
And I muſt thank your care my Lords,
Your over-reaching care to give my
As much as in you lay unto another.
And for your Letters counterfeit in my
By which the Queen is mock’d into a
Theodw.That was your policy, your
Eauf.A ſhame on’t. Would I were
Bert.Fair Sir, the Queen is pleas’d,
and hopes you are
(thoughts.
In her that’s ſo much fairer in your
Oſr.Yes, my noble Brother,
(ſelf,
She ſtands in fortune equal with your
Anth.But not great Sir, untill
You are acquitted of my fathers murder.
Oſr.I am clear of that, as I am not
An-
Anthynus is accus’d, not
Oſriick Sir,
Your father is required at your hands.
Arn.But his accuſer reads another leſſon
Offa brought bound in a Chair.
Off.Whither do you hurry me?
If I muſt anſwer’t, give me yet ſome time,
To make proviſion of befitting Preſents,
To ſupply the hard hands of my ſtern
Into a tender feeling of my cauſe:
(likes,
I know what
Eacus loves, what
Minos
And what will make grave
Radamanthus
Arn.Yes, and ſpeaks hainous things
Againſt himſelf, both of my Lords mur-
And an intended rape againſt his Siſter.
Off.Hark, how the Divel lies;
Of that ſtrange error? I muſt ſatiſfie you;
That was meerly feign’d by me to ſave
G[1]From
The Queens Exchange.
From his outragious luſt.
Welcome my honour’d Lords.
(Enter Segebert, Alberto, Jeff. Outlaw.)
Jeff.A boon, a boon, my gratious
Arn.Hold your peace fool.
Seg.My Son
Anthynus living?
Oſr.You are my Father in your
Seg.My bleſſing on my Girle.
Oſr.But ſee
Anthynus at a greater
Bert.And my Father noble Sir.
Your pardon, and for ever welcome.
Seg.If this were real now, and not a
Jeff.Come, leave your fooling, hear a
Great King according unto thy beheſt
With Knights adventurers I went in
Through the Woods and Forreſts wild
To ſcoure the Dens of Outlaws vild;
Whence theſe old men, this Knave I
Together with this Starveling;
Whom I preſent not dead, but quick
Unto thy grace King
Oſriick.
This is King
Oſriick man.
Jeff.Whoſe fool am I then?
Jeff.Whoop, hold a little, beſt let me
Round about the houſe.
(ward;
But amongſt you all, let me not loſe re-
I muſt not fool for nought; the times
Oſr.Still the fool’s covetous.
Bert.I ow thee a juſt reward, for I
To him that brought this man alive or
A thouſand crowns; but ſince thou art
To bring him home alive and well re-
Jeff.I ſhall have nothing ſhall I?
Bert.I’l double thy reward, give thee
Jeff.It is enough in conſcience; who
For till you are out-bidden, I’l be your
But can you tell whoſe Favourite you
Theodr.Where I was firſt, I’l ever wiſh
Oſr.And I’l be thine,
Theodrick; for
Haſt above favour ſhewn me unto bliſſe.
Seg.I have perform’d your Majeſties
Though not in ſending, yet in bringing
My baniſh’d friend, Lord
Alberto, the
Bert.It ſhall be to his honour; wel-
Outl.Oh what an heavenly ſmell of
Seg.All the unhappineſs I now can ſee
Is but an argument of tears for thee,
In whom I’m juſtly puniſh’d.
From my grieved fathers ſight.
Be had for his recovery; his ſenſes may
Bring a new ſoul into him, for which I
Arn.Yes, yes, my Lord, all’s well.
Off.I knew my bribes would do it.
Jeff.I’l off with him,for ’tis unknown
What good a fool may on a mad man
do.
Ex. Arn. Offa, Jeffrey.
Seg.This ſword was evidence enough
But here’s one of the Outlaws that con-
[G1v]For
The Queens Exchange.
For whom, ſince he is penitent, I beg
Mild.The other two his fellows are
For whom together with three theeviſh
That were ſtrong inſtruments in my de-
Anth.I have heard of them that robb’d
And we are taught by heavens abundant
Shewn upon us beyond our expectation,
To imitate that goodneſſe.
Oſr.I pardon all on mine.
Bert.And now right royal Sir, let me
For former love, to make our laſt com-
You will be pleas’d a month with us to
In triumphs to commemorate this day.
Oſr.Next to my ſum of happineſſe my
I ſhould have ̷ought that honour, royal
Anth.Thus through tempeſtuous ſighs
Joy at the laſt more cheerfully appears.
Exeunt.
RIC. BROME.
Deus dedit his quoque Finem.
F I N I S.
