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<p>THE TRAGEDY OF THE DVTCHESSE Of <hi>Malfy.</hi> As it was Presented priuatly, at the Black-Friers; and publiquely at the Globe, By the Kings Maiesties Seruants. The perfect and exact Coppy, with diuerse things Primed, that the length of the Play would not beare in the Presentment.</p>
<p>VVritten by <hi>Iohn Webster.</hi>
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<hi>Hora.</hi>
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<l>—Si quid—</l>
<l>—Candidus Imperti si non his vtere mecum.</l>
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<hi>LONDON</hi>: Printed by NICHOLAS OKES, <gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 word">
<desc>〈◊〉</desc>
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<desc>〈◊〉</desc>
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<head>The Actors Names.</head>
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<hi>Bosola,</hi> I. Lowin.</item>
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<hi>Ferdinand, 1</hi> R. Burbidge. <hi>2</hi> I. Taylor.</item>
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<hi>Cardinall, 1</hi> H. Cundaile. <hi>2</hi> R Robinson.</item>
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<hi>Antonio, 1</hi> W Ostler. <hi>2</hi> R. Benfeild.</item>
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<hi>Delio,</hi> I. Vnderwood.</item>
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<hi>Forobosco,</hi> N. Towley.</item>
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<hi>Malateste.</hi>
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<item>The Marquesse of <hi>Pescara,</hi> I. Rice.</item>
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<hi>Siluio,</hi> T. Pollard.</item>
<item>The seuerall mad men, N. Towley. I. Vnderwood, &c.</item>
<item>The <hi>Dutchesse,</hi> R. Sharpe.</item>
<item>The <hi>Cardinals M<hi rend="sup">is</hi>.</hi> I. Tomson.</item>
<item>The <hi>Doctor,</hi> R Pallant.</item>
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<hi>Cariola,</hi> R Pallant.</item>
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<hi>Court Officers.</hi> R Pallant.</item>
<item>Three young Children.</item>
<item>Two Pilgrimes.</item>
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<head>TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, <hi>GEORGE HARDING, Baron</hi> Barkeley <hi>of</hi> Barkeley Castle and Knight of the Order of the <hi>Bat<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
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<salute>My Noble Lord,</salute>
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<seg rend="decorInit">T</seg>HAT I may present my excuse<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
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</gap> the Sea, yet desire to behold that regi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment of waters,) choose some eminent Riuer, to guide them thither; and make that as it were, their Conduct, or <hi>Postilion:</hi> By the like ingenious meanes, has your <hi>fame</hi> arriued at my knowledge, receiuing it from some of worth, who both in <hi>contemplation,</hi> and <hi>practise,</hi> owe to your <hi>Honor</hi> their clearest service. I do not altogether looke vp at your <hi>Title</hi>: The ancien'st <hi>Nobility,</hi> being but a <hi>rellique</hi> of time past, and the truest <hi>Honor</hi> indeede beeing for a man to conferre <hi>Honor</hi> on himselfe, which your <hi>Learning</hi> striues to
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propagate, and shall make you arriue at the <hi>Dignity</hi> of a great <hi>Example.</hi> I am confident this worke is not vnworthy your <hi>Honors</hi> perusal for by such <hi>Poems</hi> as this, <hi>Poets</hi> haue kist the hands of <hi>Great Princes,</hi> and drawne their gentle eyes to looke downe vpon their sheetes of paper, when the <hi>Poets</hi> them<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selues were bound vp in their winding-sheetes. The like curtesie from your <hi>Lordship,</hi> shall make you liue in your graue, and <hi>laurell</hi> spring out of it when the ignorant scorners of the <hi>Muses</hi> (that like wormes in <hi>Libraries,</hi> seeme to liue onely, to destroy <hi>learning</hi>) shall wither, neglected, and forgotten. This worke and my selfe I humbly present to your approued censure. It being the vtmost of my wishes, to haue your Honorable selfe my weighty and perspicuous Com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment: which grace so done me, shall euer be acknow<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ledged</p>
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<head>In the iust VVorth, of that well Deseruer, <hi>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi>. IOHN WEBSTER,</hi> and Vpon this Maister-peece of Tragoedy.</head>
<lg>
<l>IN this Thou imitat'st one Rich, and Wise,</l>
<l>That sees His Good Deedes done before he dies;</l>
<l>As He by Workes, Thou by this Worke of Fame,</l>
<l>Ha'st well prouided for thy Liuing Name;</l>
<l>To trust to others Honorings, is Worth's Crime,</l>
<l>Thy Monument is rais'd in thy Life Time;</l>
<l>And 'tis most iust; for euery Worthy Man</l>
<l>Is his owne Marble; and his Merit can</l>
<l>Cut Him to any Figure, and expresse</l>
<l>More Art, then Deaths Cathedrall Pallaces,</l>
<l>Where Royall Ashes keepe their Court: thy Note</l>
<l>Be euer Plainnes, 'tis the Richest Coate:</l>
<l>Thy Epitaph onely the <hi>Title</hi> hee,</l>
<l>Write, <hi>Dutchesse,</hi> that will fetch a teare for thee,</l>
<l>For who e're saw this <hi>Dutchesse</hi> liue, and dye,</l>
<l>That could get off vnder a Bleeding Eye.</l>
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<head>In Tragaediam.</head>
<l>Vt Lux ex Tenebris ictu percussa <hi>TONANTIS;</hi>
</l>
<l>
<hi>Illa,</hi> (Ruina Malis) claris fit Vita Poetis.</l>
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<signed>Thomas Middletonus, <hi>Poëta & Chron: Londinensis.</hi>
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<head>To his friend M<hi rend="sup">r</hi>. <hi>Iohn Webster</hi> Vpon his Dutchesse of <hi>Malfy.</hi>
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<hi>I</hi> Neuer saw thy Dutchesse, till the day,</l>
<l>That She was liuely body'd in thy Play;</l>
<l>How'ere she answer'd her low rated Loue,</l>
<l>Her brothers anger, did so far all prooue,</l>
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<l>But (neuer in her life) so well before.</l>
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<signed>WIL: ROVVLEY.</signed>
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<head>To the Reader of the Authour, and his Dutchesse of <hi>Malfy.</hi>
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<l>CRowne Hi<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="2 letters">
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<desc>•</desc>
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<hi>Rome,</hi> nor <hi>Greece,</hi>
</l>
<l>Transcend in all their's, for a Master-peece:</l>
<l>In which, whiles words and matter change, and Men,</l>
<l>Act one ano<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>her; Hee, from whose cleare Pen.</l>
<l>They All tooke life, To Memory hath lent</l>
<l>A l<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>sting Fame, to raise hi<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap> Monument.</l>
<closer>
<signed>IOHN FORD.</signed>
</closer>
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<div n="1" type="act">
<pb facs="tcp:20242:4"/>
<head>Actus Primus.</head>
<div n="1" type="scene">
<head>Scena Prima.</head>
<stage>Antonio, and Delio, Bosola, Cardinali.</stage>
<sp>
<speaker>Delio.</speaker>
<l>
<seg rend="decorInit">Y</seg>OV are wel-come to your Country (deere <hi>A<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>toni<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>
</hi>)</l>
<l>You haue bin long in <hi>France,</hi> and you returne</l>
<l>A very formall French-man, in your habit.</l>
<l>How doe you like the French Court?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>I admire it,</l>
<l>In seeking to reduce both State, and People</l>
<l>To a fix'd Order, there iuditious King</l>
<l>Begins at home: Quits first his Royall Pallace</l>
<l>Of flattring Sicophants of dissolute,</l>
<l>And infamous persons which he sweetely termes</l>
<l>His Masters Master-peece (the worke of Heauen)</l>
<l>Considring duely, that a Princes Court</l>
<l>Is like a common Fountaine, whence should flow,</l>
<l>Pure siluer-droppes ingenerall: But if 't chance</l>
<l>Some curs'd example poyson't neere the head,</l>
<l>"Death, and diseases through the whole land spread.</l>
<l>And what is't makes this blessed gouernment,</l>
<l>But a most prouident Councell, who dare freely</l>
<l>Informe him, the corruption of the times?</l>
<l>
<pb facs="tcp:20242:5"/>Though some oth'Court hold it presumption<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
</l>
<l>To instruct Princes what they ought to doe,</l>
<l>It is a noble duety to informe them</l>
<l>What they ought to fore-see: Here comes <hi>Bosola</hi>
</l>
<l>The onely Court-Gall: yet I obserue his rayling</l>
<l>Is not for simple loue of Piety:</l>
<l>Indeede he rayles at those things which he wants,</l>
<l>Would be as leacherous, couetous, or proud,</l>
<l>Bloody, or enuious, as any man,</l>
<l>If he had meanes to be so: Here's the Cardinall.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>I doe haunt you still.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Car.</speaker>
<l>So.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>I haue done you</l>
<l>Better seruice then to be slighted thus:</l>
<l>Miserable age, where onely the reward</l>
<l>Of doing well, is the doing of it.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Car.</speaker>
<l>You inforce your merrit to-much.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>I fell into the Galli<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>s in your seruice,</l>
<l>Where, for two yeares together, I wore two Towells in stead of</l>
<l>A shirt, with a knot on the shoulder, after the fashion of a</l>
<l>Romaine Mantle: Slighted thus? I will thriue some way:</l>
<l>Black-birds fatten best in hard weather: why not I,</l>
<l>In these dogge dayes?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Car.</speaker>
<l>Would you could become honest,</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>With all your diuinity, do but direct me the way to it, I</l>
<l>Haue knowne many trauell farre for it, and yet returne as</l>
<l>Arrant knaues, as they went forth; because they carried</l>
<l>Themselues alwayes a long with them; Are you gon?</l>
<l>Some fellowes (they say) are possessed with the diuell,</l>
<l>But this great fellow, were able to possesse the greatest</l>
<l>Diuell, and make him worse.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>He hath denied thee some suit?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>He, and his brother, are like Plum-trees (that grow crooked</l>
<l>Ouer standing-pooles) they are rich, and ore-laden with</l>
<l>Fruite, but none but Crowes, Pyes, and Catter-pillers feede</l>
<l>On them: Could I be one of their flattring Panders, I</l>
<l>Would hang on their eares like a horse-leach, till I were full, an</l>
<l>
<pb facs="tcp:20242:5"/>Then droppe off: I pray leaue me.</l>
<l>Who wold relie vpon these miserable dependances, in expectation to</l>
<l>Be aduanc'd to morrow? what creature, euer fed worse, then hoping</l>
<l>
<hi>Tantalus?</hi> nor euer did any man more fearefully, then he that hop'd</l>
<l>For a pleadon: There are rewards for hawkes, and dogges, and</l>
<l>When they haue done vs seruice; but for a Souldier, that hazards his</l>
<l>Limbes in a battaile, nothing but a kind of Geometry, is his last Supportation.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Del.</speaker>
<l>Geometry?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>I, to hang in a faire paire of slings, take his latter-swinge in the</l>
<l>World, vpon an honorable pare of Crowtches, from hospitall</l>
<l>To hospitall, fare ye well Sir. And yet do not you scorne vs, for</l>
<l>Places in the Court, are but likes beds in the hospitall, where this</l>
<l>Mans head lies at that mans foote, and so lower, and lower.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Del.</speaker>
<l>I knew this fellow (seauen yeares) in the Gallies,</l>
<l>For a notorious murther, and 'twas thought</l>
<l>The Cardinall suborn'd it: he was releas'd</l>
<l>By the French Generall <hi>(Gaston de Foux)</hi>
</l>
<l>When he recouer'd <hi>Naples.</hi>
</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>'Tis great pitty</l>
<l>He should be thus neglected, I haue heard</l>
<l>He's very valiant: This foule mellancholly</l>
<l>Will poyson all his goodnesse, for (i'le tell you)</l>
<l>If too immoderate sleepe, be truly sayd</l>
<l>To be an inward rust vnto the soule;</l>
<l>It then doth follow want of action</l>
<l>Breeds all blacke male-contents, and their close rearing</l>
<l>(Like mothes in cloath) doe hurt for want of wearing.</l>
</sp>
</div>
<div n="2" type="scene">
<head>SCENA II.</head>
<stage>
<hi>Antonio, Delio, Ferdinand, Cardinall, Dutchesse, Castruchio, Siluio, Rod<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>cico, Grisolan, Bosola, Iulia, Cariola.</hi>
</stage>
<sp>
<speaker>Del.</speaker>
<l>The Presence 'gins to fill, you promis'd me</l>
<l>To make me the partaker of the natures</l>
<l>Of some of your great Courtiers.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
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<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>The Lord Cardinalls</l>
<l>And other strangers, that are now in Court,</l>
<l>I Shall: here comes the great <hi>Calabrian</hi> Duke.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Who tooke the Ring oftnest?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Sil.</speaker>
<l>
<hi>Antonia Bologna</hi> (my Lord)</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Our Sister Duchesse great Master of her houshold?</l>
<l>Giue him the Iewell: when shall we leaue this sportiue-action,</l>
<l>And fall to action indeed?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>Me thinkes (my Lord)</l>
<l>You should not desire to go to war, in person.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Fer.</speaker>
<l>Now, for some grauity: why (my Lord?)</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>It is fitting a Souldier arise to be a Prince, but not necessary</l>
<l>A Prince descend to be a Captaine?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Noe?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>No, (my Lord)</l>
<l>He were far better do it by a Deputy.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Why should he not aswell sleepe, or eate, by a Deputy?</l>
<l>This might take idle, offensiue, and base office from him,</l>
<l>Whereas the other depriues him of honour.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>Beleeue my experience: that Realme is neuer long in quiet,</l>
<l>Where the Ruler, is a Souldier.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Thou toldst me</l>
<l>Thy wife could not endure fighting.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>True (my Lord.)</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Fred.</speaker>
<l>And of a iest, she broke of a Captaine;</l>
<l>She met, full of wounds: I haue forgot it.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>She told him (my Lord) he was a pittifull fellow, to lie,</l>
<l>Like the Children of <hi>Ismael</hi> all in Tents.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Why, there's a wit were able to vndoe</l>
<l>All the Chyrurgeons o'the City, for although</l>
<l>Gallants should quarrell, and had drawne their weapons,</l>
<l>And were ready to goe to it; yet her perswasions would</l>
<l>Make them put vp.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>That she would (my Lord)</l>
<l>How doe you like my Spanish Gennit?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Rod.</speaker>
<l>He is all fire.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>I am of <hi>Plin<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>y's</hi> opinion, I thinke he was begot by the wind,</l>
<l>
<pb facs="tcp:20242:6"/>He runs, as if he were ballass'd with Quick-siluer.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Sil.</speaker>
<l>True (my Lord) he ro<gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>les from the Tilt-often.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Rod. Gris.</speaker>
<l>Ha, ha, ha.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Why do you laugh? Me thinks you that are Courtiers</l>
<l>Should be my touch-wood, take fire, when I giue fire;</l>
<l>That is, laugh when I laugh, were the subiect neuer so wity,</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>True (my Lord) I my selfe haue heard a very good iest,</l>
<l>And haue scorn'd to seeme to haue so silly a wit, as to vnderstand it.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>But I can laugh at your Foole (my Lord<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>)</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>He cannot speake (you know) but he makes faces,</l>
<l>My Lady cannot abide him.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Noe?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cast.</speaker>
<l>Nor endure to be in merry Company: for she saies</l>
<l>Too much laughing, and too much Company, fils her</l>
<l>Too full of the wrinckle.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>I would then haue a Mathematicall Instrument made for</l>
<l>Her face, that she might not laugh out of compasse: I shall shortly</l>
<l>Visit you at <hi>Millaine</hi> (Lord <hi>Siluio.</hi>)</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Sil.</speaker>
<l>Your Grace shall arriue most wel-come.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>You are a good Horse-man (<hi>Antonio</hi>) you haue excellent</l>
<l>Riders in <hi>France,</hi> what doe you thinke of good Horse-man-ship?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>Noblely (my Lord) as out of the Grecian-horse, issued</l>
<l>Many famous Princes: So, out of braue Horse-man-ship,</l>
<l>Arise the first Sparkes of growing resolution, that raise</l>
<l>The minde, to noble action.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>You haue be-spoake it worthely.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Sil.</speaker>
<l>Your brother, the Lord Cardinall, and sister Dutchesse.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Card.</speaker>
<l>Are the Gallies come about?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Gris.</speaker>
<l>They are (my Lord.)</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Here's the Lord <hi>Siluio,</hi> is come to take his leaue.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Del.</speaker>
<l>Now (Sir) your promise: what's that Cardinall?</l>
<l>I meane his Temper? they say he's a braue fellow,</l>
<l>Will play his fiue thousand crownes, at Tennis, Daunce,</l>
<l>Court Ladies, and one that hath fought single Combats.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>Some such flashes superficially hang on him, for forme:</l>
<l>But obserue his inward Character: he is a mellancholly</l>
<l>Church-man: The Spring in his face, is nothing but the</l>
<l>
<pb facs="tcp:20242:7"/>Ingendring of Toades: where he is iealious of any man.</l>
<l>He laies worse plots for them, then euer was impos'd on</l>
<l>
<hi>Hercules</hi>: for he strewes in his way Flatters, Panders,</l>
<l>Intelligencers, A thiests,: and a thousand such politicall</l>
<l>Monsters: he should haue beene Pope: but in stead of</l>
<l>Comming to it, by the primatiue decensie of the church,</l>
<l>He did bestow bribes, so largely, and so impudently, as if he would</l>
<l>Haue carried it away without heauens knowledge. Some good he Hath done.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Del.</speaker>
<l>You haue giuen too much of him: what's his brother?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>The Duke there? a most peruerse, and turbulent Nature,</l>
<l>What appeares in him mirth, is meerely outside,</l>
<l>If he laugh hartely, it is to laugh</l>
<l>All honesty out of fashion.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Del.</speaker>
<l>Twins?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>In qualitie:</l>
<l>He speakes with others Tongues, and heares mens suites,</l>
<l>With others Eares: will seeme to sleepe o'th bench</l>
<l>Onely to intrap offenders, in their answeres;</l>
<l>Doombes men to death, by information,</l>
<l>Rewards, by heare-say.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Del.</speaker>
<l>Then the Law to him</l>
<l>Is like a fowle blacke cob-web, to a Spider,</l>
<l>He makes it his dwelling, and a prison</l>
<l>To entangle those shall feede him.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>Most true:</l>
<l>He neu'r paies debts, vnlesse they be shewed turnes,</l>
<l>And those he will confesse, that he doth owe,</l>
<l>Last: for his brother, there, (the Cardinall)</l>
<l>They that doe flatter him most, say Oracles</l>
<l>Hang at his lippes: and verely I beleeue them:</l>
<l>For the Diuell speakes in them.</l>
<l>But for their sister, (the right noble Duchesse)</l>
<l>You neuer fix'd you eye, on three faire Meddalls,</l>
<l>Cast in one figure, of so different temper:</l>
<l>For her discourse, it is so full of Rapture,</l>
<l>You onely will begin, then to be sorry</l>
<l>
<pb facs="tcp:20242:7"/>When she doth end her speech: and wish (in wonder)</l>
<l>She held it lesse vaine-glory, to talke much</l>
<l>Then your pennance, to heare her: whilst she speakes,</l>
<l>She throwes vpon a man, so sweet a looke,</l>
<l>That it were able raise one to a Galliard</l>
<l>That lay in a dead palsey; and to doate</l>
<l>On that sweete countenance: but in that looke,</l>
<l>There speaketh so diuine a continence,</l>
<l>As cuts off all lasciuious, and vaine hope.</l>
<l>Her dayes are practis'd in such noble vertue,</l>
<l>That, sure her nights (nay more her very Sleepes)</l>
<l>Are more in Heauen, then other Ladies Shrifts.</l>
<l>Let all sweet Ladies, breake their flattring Glasses,</l>
<l>And dresse themselues in her.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Del.</speaker>
<l>Fye <hi>Antonia,</hi>
</l>
<l>You play the wire-drawer with her commendations.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>I'll case the picture vp: onely thus much,</l>
<l>All her particular worth, growes to this somme:</l>
<l>She staines the time past: lights the time to come,</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cariola.</speaker>
<l>You must attend my Lady, in the gallery,</l>
<l>Some halfe an houre hence.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ant.</speaker>
<l>I shall.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Sister, I haue a suit to you:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Duch.</speaker>
<l>To me, Sir?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>A Gentleman here: <hi>Daniel de Bosola:</hi>
</l>
<l>One, that was in the Gallies.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Duch.</speaker>
<l>Yes, I know him:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>A worthy fellow h'is: pray let me entreat for<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
</l>
<l>The prouisorship of your horse.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Duch.</speaker>
<l>Your knowledge of him,</l>
<l>Commends him, and prefers him.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Call him heither,</l>
<l>Wee now vpon parting: Good Lord <hi>Siluio</hi>
</l>
<l>Do vs commend to all our noble friends</l>
<l>At the Leagues.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Sil.</speaker>
<l>Sir, I shall.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>You are for <hi>Millaine?</hi>
</l>
</sp>
<sp>
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<speaker>Sil.</speaker>
<l>I am:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Duch.</speaker>
<l>Bring the Carroches: we'll bring you down to the Hauen.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Car.</speaker>
<l>Be sure you entertaine that <hi>Bosola</hi>
</l>
<l>For your Intelligence: I would not be seeene in't.</l>
<l>And therefore many times I haue slighted him,</l>
<l>When he did court our furtherance: as this Morning.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>
<hi>Antonio,</hi> the great Master of her houshold</l>
<l>Had beene farre fitter:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Card.</speaker>
<l>You are deceiu'd in him,</l>
<l>His Nature is too honest for such businesse,</l>
<l>He comes: I'll leaue you:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>I was lur'd to you.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>My brother here (the Cardinall) could neuer abide you.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>Neuer since he was in my debt.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>May be some oblique character in your face, made him suspect you?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>Doth he study Phisiognomie?</l>
<l>There's no more credit, to be giuen to th'face,</l>
<l>Then to a sicke mans vryn, which some call</l>
<l>The Physitians whore, because she cozens him:</l>
<l>He did suspect me wrongfully:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>For that</l>
<l>You must giue great men leaue to take their times:</l>
<l>Distrust, doth cause vs seldome be deceiu'd;</l>
<l>You see, the oft shaking of the Cedar-Tree</l>
<l>Fastens it more at roote.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>Yet take heed:</l>
<l>For to suspect a friend vnworthely,</l>
<l>Instructs him the next way to suspect you,</l>
<l>And prompts him to deceiue you.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Berd.</speaker>
<l>There's gold.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>So:</l>
<l>What followes? (Neuer raind such showres as these</l>
<l>Without thunderbolts i'th taile of them;) whose throat must I cut?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Your inclination to shed blood, rides post</l>
<l>Before my occasion to vse you: I giue you that</l>
<l>
<pb facs="tcp:20242:8"/>To liue i'th Court, here: and obserue the Duchesse,</l>
<l>To note all the particulars of her hauiour:</l>
<l>What suitors doe sollicite her for marriage</l>
<l>And whom she best affects: she's a yong widowe,</l>
<l>I would not haue her marry againe.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>No, Sir?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Doe not you aske the reason: but be satisfied,</l>
<l>I say I would not.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>It seemes you would create me</l>
<l>One of your familiars.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Familiar? vvhat's that?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>Why, a very quaint inuisible Diuell, in flesh:</l>
<l>An Intelligencer.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Such a kind of thriuing thing</l>
<l>I would wish thee: and ere long, thou maist arriue</l>
<l>At a higher place by't.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>Take your Diuels</l>
<l>Which Hell calls Angels: these curs'd gifts would make</l>
<l>You a corrupter, me an impudent traitor,</l>
<l>And should I take these they 'll'd take me Hell.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Fer.</speaker>
<l>Sir, I'll take nothing from you, that I haue giuen:</l>
<l>There is a place, that I procur'd for you</l>
<l>This morning: (the Prouisor-ship o'th' horse)</l>
<l>Haue you heard out?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>Noe.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Fer.</speaker>
<l>'Tis yours, is't not worth thankes?</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>I would haue you curse your selfe now, that your bounty</l>
<l>(Which makes men truly noble) ere should make</l>
<l>Me a villaine: oh, that to auoid ingratitude</l>
<l>For the good deed you haue done me, I must doe</l>
<l>All the ill man can inuent: Thus the Diuell</l>
<l>Candies all sinnes are: and what Heauen termes vild,</l>
<l>That names he complementall.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Fer.</speaker>
<l>Be your selfe:</l>
<l>Keepe your old garbe of melencholly: 'twill expresse</l>
<l>You enuy those that stand aboue your reach,</l>
<l>Yet striue not to come neere'em: This will gaine</l>
<l>
<pb facs="tcp:20242:9"/>Accesse, to priuate lodgings, where your selfe</l>
<l>May (like a pollitique dormouse,</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>As I haue seene some,</l>
<l>Feed in a Lords dish, halfe a sleepe, not seeming</l>
<l>To listen to any talke: and yet these Rogues</l>
<l>Haue cut his throat in a dreame: whats my place?</l>
<l>The Prouisors-ship o'th horse? say then my corruption</l>
<l>Grew out of horse-doong: I am your creature.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Away.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Bos.</speaker>
<l>Let good men, for good deeds, couet good fame,</l>
<l>Since place, and riches oft are bribes of shame</l>
<l>Sometimes the Diuell doth preach.
<stage>Exit Bosola.</stage>
</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Card.</speaker>
<l>We are to part from you: and your owne dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cretion</l>
<l>Must now be your director.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>You are a Widowe:</l>
<l>You know already what man is: and therefore</l>
<l>Let not youth: high promotion, eloquence,</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Card.</speaker>
<l>No, nor any thing without the addition, <hi>Honor,</hi>
</l>
<l>Sway your high blood.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Marry? they are most luxurious,</l>
<l>Will wed twice.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Card.</speaker>
<l>O <gap reason="illegible" resp="#PDCC" extent="1 letter">
<desc>•</desc>
</gap>ie:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Their liuers are more spotted</l>
<l>Then <hi>Labans</hi> sheepe.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Duch.</speaker>
<l>Diamonds are of most value</l>
<l>They say; that haue past through most Iewellers hands.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ferd.</speaker>
<l>Whores, by that rule, are precious:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Duch.</speaker>
<l>Will you heare me?</l>
<l>I'll neuer marry:</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Card.</speaker>
<l>So most Widowes say:</l>