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PREFACE. 


IN  the  scanty  annals  of  the  early  Scotish  drama,  the  comedy  of 
Philotus  occupies  a  very  conspicuous  place.  It  is  therefore  a  sub 
ject  of  some  regret  that  the  name  of  the  poet  has  not  hitherto  been 
ascertained ;  for  there  is  no  evidence,  and  indeed  no  great  proba 
bility,  of  its  having  been  written  by  Robert  Semple,  who  has  some 
times  been  represented  as  the  author.  He  is  mentioned  as  the 
writer  of  a  play,  which  on  the  17th  of  January  1568  was  acted 
before  the  regent  and  others  of  the  nobility  j !  and  it  has  been  taken 
for  granted  that  he  was  the  writer  of  Philotus,  which  has  not  been 
appropriated  by  any  other  author.  Various  plays  were  however 
written  and  acted  which  were  never  printed,  and  which  are  no 
longer  preserved  in  manuscript ;  nor  must  we  so  rapidly  hasten  to 
the  conclusion,  that  this  particular  drama  could  only  be  the  com 
position  of  an  individual  who  is  recorded  as  the  writer  of  some 
drama,  unnamed  and  undescribed. 

1  Bin-el's  Diary,  p.  14,  in  DalyelTs  Fragments  of  Scotish  History.  Edinb.  1798, 
4to. 


ii  PREFACE. 

On  evidence  equally  doubtful,  several  writers  have  represented 
this  poet  as  a  Scotish  peer.1     The  evidence  indeed  amounts  to  lit 
tle  more  than  this  : — the  fourth  Lord  Semple  bore  the  same  name, 
and  after  the  year  1570  the  poet  changed  his  signature  to  Semple. 
The  identity  of  the  name  is  itself  a  very  slender  proof,  and  requires 
no  particular  consideration.     In  Bannatyne's  MS.  he  appears  as 
Semple,  without  the  addition  of  his  Christian  name  ;   but  if  this 
circumstance  is  to  be  admitted  as  evidence,  Dunbar,  Henryson, 
Scott,  and  various  other  poets  may  in  the  same  manner  be  elevated 
to  the  dignity  of  the  peerage.     Lord  Semple  succeeded  his  grand 
father  in  1572,2  and  the  manuscript  was  written  in  1568  :  it  is  evi 
dent  that  at  this  latter  date  Robert  Semple  was  not  a  peer,  though 
we  find  him  here  mentioned  by  his  surname.  In  the  Legend  of  the 
Bishop  of  Sanctandrois  Lyfe,  which,  as  it  mentions  Adamson's 
journey  to  London,  must  have  been  written  so  late  as  the  year 
1583,  the  author  describes  himself  by  his  initials  R.  S.     It  is  ad 
mitted  that  Lord  Semple  continued  to  profess  the  popish  religion  ; 
but  the  poems  of  Robert  Semple  contain  the  most  unequivocal 
proofs  of  having  been  written  by  a  protestant,  and  the  Legend 
was  manifestly  written  by  a  zealous  presbyterian.     According  to 

1  Sibbald's  Chronicle  of  Scottish  Poetry,  vol.  iii.  p.  397.  Preface  to  Semple's  Sege 
of  the  Castel  of  Edinburgh.  [Lond.  1813]  4to.  Motherwell's  Essay  on  the  Poets 
of  Renfrewshire  (p.  xvii.)  prefixed  to  the  Harp  of  Renfrewshire.  Paisley,  1819, 
12mo. 

*  Wood's  Peerage  of  Scotland,  vol.  ii.  p.  494. 


PREFACE.  iii 

Dempster,  the  poet  died  in  1595  ; 1  but  the  peer  is  known  to  have 
survived  till  1611.  Whatever  credit  may  be  due  to  this  literary 
historian,  there  are  other  circumstances  more  than  sufficient  to 
render  their  identity  extremely  dubious.  Montgomery,  in  a  sonnet 
addressed  to  Robert  Hudson,  specifies  Semple  as  not  exempted 
from  the  ordinary  misfortunes  of  poets  ;  and  as  this  sonnet  appears 
to  have  been  written  when  he  was  advanced  in  years,  it  affords 
another  presumption  against  the  identity  of  the  poet  and  the  peer. 

Ye  knau  ill  guy  ding  genders  irony  gees, 
And  specially  in  poets  :  for  example, 

Ye  can  pen  out  tua  cuple,  and  ye  pleis, 
Yourself  and  I,  old  Scot  and  Robert  Semple.* 

It  is  not  perhaps  to  be  considered  as  very  probable  that  Montgo 
mery  would  have  applied  these  expressions  to  the  presumptive  heir 
of  a  baron  ;  and  it  is  certain  that  he  would  not  thus  have  described 
the  baron  himself.  There  is  some  reason  to  believe  that  Semple 
was  a  captain  in  the  army  :  he  speaks  of  himself  as  having  been 
present  at  the  siege  of  Edinburgh  Castle  ;  in  the  progress  of  his 
narrative,  he  specifies  particular  incidents  which  he  had  not  himself 

1  Dempsteri  Historia  Ecclesiastica  Gentis  Scotorum,  p.  602. — He  represents  Sem 
ple  as  exhibiting  the  combined  excellencies  of  Propertius,  Tibullus,  Ovid,  and  Calli- 
machus ;  an  eulogium  which  cannot  but  be  regarded  as  extravagant  by  those  who 
have  perused  such  of  his  compositions  as  are  now  to  be  found. 

*  Montgomery's  Poems,  p.  75.     Edinb.  1821,  8vo. 


iv  PREFACE. 

an  opportunity  of  observing-,  and  he  distinctly  mentions  a  captain 
of  his  own  name. 

Four  capitanis  followit,  at  thair  bak  to  byde, 
Sempill  and  Hectour,  Ramsay  and  Robesoun. 

The  comedy  of  Fhilotus  exhibits  a  plot  sufficiently  complex. 
The  principal  character,  from  which  the  play  derives  its  name,  is  a 
very  rich  and  very  old  man,  deeply  enamoured  of  Emily,  the  young 
and  beautiful  daughter  of  Alberto.  As  she  feels  little  inclination 
to  listen  to  the  addresses  of  such  a  lover,  he  employs  a  macrell,  or 
procuress,  "  to  allure  the  madyn  ;"  though,  with  his  honourable 
intentions,  it  is  not  very  obvious  why  he  should  have  had  recourse 
to  an  agent  of  this  class.  In  the  course  of  a  long  conference,  she 
endeavours,  but  without  success,  to  persuade  Emily  to  marry  Phi- 
lotus.  Some  of  her  suggestions  may  be  supposed  to  reflect  consi 
derable  light  on  the  usages  of  that  period.  He  afterwards  addresses 
himself  to  Alberto,  who  very  willingly  listens  to  his  proposal,  and 
endeavours  to  obtain  his  daughter's  consent  j  but  she  declares  her 

repugnance  to  such  a  match,  and  thus  excites  the  violent  indigna- 

« 

tion  of  her  father.  Flavius,  a  youthful  lover,  now  makes  his 
appearance,  and  finds  a  more  favourable  reception.  He  commen 
ces  with  a  long  and  pedantic  oration,  interspersed  with  divers  noti 
ces  of  Apollo,  Daphne,  Mars,  Venus,  Demosthenes,  and  other 
notable  personages.  We  may  suppose  the  young  gentleman  to  be 


PREFACE.  v 

newly  dismissed  from  the  schools,  but  the  young  gentlewoman 
seems  to  be  equally  familiar  with  Parnassus  and  Helicon. 

Last,  sen  ze  may  my  meladie  remeid, 

Releiue  zour  Sysiphus  of  his  restles  stane  : 
Zour  Titius  breist  that  dois  full  ryfely  bleid, 

Grant  grace  thairto,  befoir  the  grip  be  gane. 

Cum  stanche  the  thrist  of  Tantalus  anone, 
And  cure  the  wounds  geuin  with  Achilles  knyfe  : l 

Accept  for  zours,  fair  maistres,  such  a  one, 
That  for  zour  saik  dar  sacrifice  his  lyfe. 


1  Telephus,  when  wounded  by  Achilles,  could  only  be  cured  by  the  spear  which  had 
inflicted  the  injury.  See  Hygini  Fabulae,  p.  161,  edit.  Munckeri,  and  Musgrave's 
Euripides,  vol.  iii.  p.  588.  This  subject  has  furnished  the  ancient  poets  with  many 
allusions,  which  are  frequently  of  the  amatory  kind.  The  following  distich  Valck- 
enaer  has  quoted  from  a  manuscript  Anthology.  (Diatribe  in  Euripidis  perditorum 
Dramatum  Reliquias,  p.  210.  Lugd.  Bat.  1767,  4to.) 

o  Tfu<r»s  noli  uxt<r<ruro'  pt,t>  rv 
yt'no 


The  entire  story  is  contained  in  an  epigram  of  another  ancient  poet.    (Poematia  ve- 
tera  Pithoei,  p.  49.     Anthologia  Burmanni,  torn.  i.  p.  80.) 

Telephus  exccllens  Alcidis  pignus  et  Augae 

Externae  sortis  bella  inopina  tulit. 
Nam  Grai  Trojam  peterent  cum  mille  carinis, 

Tangeret  et  classis  litus  adacta  suum, 
Occurrens  Danais  forti  dum  pugnat  Achilli, 

Syria  pugnanti  percutit  hasta  femur. 
Pro  cujus  cura  consultus  dixit  Apollo, 

Hostica  quod  salubrem  cuspis  haberet  opem. 

b 


vi  PREFACE. 

EMILY.  Zourorisoun,  sir,  sounds  with  sic  skil, 

In  Cupids  court  as  ze  had  bene  vpbrocht, 
Or  fosterit  in  Parnassus  forkit  hill, 

Quhair  poetis  hes  thair  flame  and  ftirie  socht, 

Nocht  taisting  of  sweit  Helicon  for  nocht, 
As  he  zour  plesant  preface  dois  appeir, 

Tending  thairby,  quhill  as  we  haue  na  thocht, 
To  mak  vs  to  zour  purpois  to  adheir. 

Emily  assumes  the  dress  of  a  young  gentleman,  and  in  this  disguise 
leaves  her  father's  house.  In  the  mean  time,  her  brother  Philerno 
returning  after  a  long  absence,  is  mistaken  for  Emily,  to  whom  he 
bears  a  striking  resemblance :  he  concurs  in  his  sister's  stratagem, 
and  consents  to  marry  Philotus ;  who  commits  his  supposed  bride 
to  the  custody  of  Br  is  ill  a,  his  daughter  by  a  former  marriage. 
This  youthful  pair  find  themselves  pleased  with  each  other's  com 
pany  ;  and,  after  certain  invocations,  Philerno  pretends  to  be  me 
tamorphosed  into  a  man.  An  interval  of  a  month  is  supposed  to 
elapse  between  the  elopement  of  Emily  and  the  nuptials  of  Philo- 

Mox  precibtu  flexi  Pelidae  robore  sacro 

Injecto  membris  pulvere  plaga  fuit. 
Monstrant  fata  viri  vario  miracula  casu  : 

Unde  datum  est  vulnus,  contigit  inde  salus. 

In  the  eighth  of  these  verses,  the  poet  has  shortened  the  penult  of  salubrem ,-  and 
several  modern  poets  have  ventured  to  follow  the  example.  Among  this  number  is 
Buchanan,  Psalm,  xcix,  whose  error  was  long  ago  noted  by  Pincier.  (Parerga  Otii 
Marpurgensis  Philologica,  p.  380.  Herbornae  Nassov.  1617,  8vo.) 


PREFACE.  vii 

tus ;  but  the  period  at  length  arrives,  and  a  priest  performs  the 
marriage-ceremony  with  sufficient  formality.  Philerno,  "  fearing 
to  be  discovered,  maketh  a  brawling  that  same  night  with  Philo- 
tus,  and  abuseth  him  vyllie,  and  to  colour  the  mater  the  better, 
agreeth  with  a  whore  to  go  to  bed  with  Philotus."  Flavius, 
who  had  been  secretly  married  to  Emily,  is  struck  with  astonish 
ment  on  witnessing  the  marriage  of  this  old  man  to  a  person  whom 
he  supposes  to  be  the  real  daughter  of  Alberto ;  and,  after  various 
conjurations,  he  dismisses  her  as  an  evil  spirit  who  had  assumed 
an  earthly  shape.  She  returns  to  her  father's  house,  and  is  there 
met  by  Philotus  :  the  one  complains  of  her  husband,  and  the  other 
of  his  wife,  and  a  comic  situation  is  thus  produced.  The  mystery 
being  at  length  explained,  Emily  returns  to  Flavius,  and  Brisilla 
is  married  to  Philerno.  After  this  arrangement  of  their  domestic 
affairs,  Philotus  expatiates  on  his  own  folly,  and  a  person  named 
the  Messenger  makes  a  concluding  address  to  the  audience. 

This  comedy,  in  its  plan  and  execution,  discovers  a  much  nearer 
approach  to  the  modern  drama  than  Sir  David  Lindsay's  "  Satyre 
of  the  three  Estaitis."  It  possesses  the  merit  of  easy  versification, 
but  the  speeches  are  frequently  too  long  and  declamatory.  The 
author  has  not  divided  his  play  into  acts  and  scenes.  The  proba 
bility  of  the  incidents  is  sometimes  impaired  by  the  introduction  of 
a  certain  character  denominated  the  Pleasant,  who,  without  any  ap 
parent  concern  in  the  business  of  the  drama,  intrudes  himself  into 


viii  PREFACE. 

the  most  private  conferences  for  the  mere  purpose  of  aiming  at  a 
joke. 

The  plot  and  indeed  the  entire  story  of  Philotus  are  borrowed 
from  a  work  of  Barnaby  Rich,  published  under  the  title  of  "  Rich 
his  Farewell  to  Militarie  Profession  ;  conteining   very   pleasant 
Discourses  fit  for  a  peaceable  time."     The   work  includes  eight 
different  tales,  of  which  he  has  given  this  preliminary  account : 
"  The  histories  (altogether)  are  eight  in  number,  whereof  the  first, 
the  seconde,  the  fift,  the  seuenth,  and  eight  are  tales  that  are  but 
forged  onely  for  delight,  neither  credible  to  be  beleued,  nor  hurt- 
full  to  be  perused.      The  third,  the  fowerth,    and  the    sixt  are 
Italian  histories,  written  likewise  for  pleasure,  by   Maister  L.  B." 
The  tale  of  Phylotus  and  Emelia  is  the  eighth  in  the  series,  and, 
according  to  this  account,  belongs  to  the  author's  original  stock. 
As  the  book  is  of  great  rarity,  it  has  been  thought  advisable  to  in 
sert  this  tale  in  an  appendix.     For  the  use  of  a  mutilated  copy  of 
a  very  early,  if  not  the  first  edition,  we  are  indebted  to  Charles 
Kirkpatrick  Sharpe,  Esq.     It  is  a  small  quarto,  printed  in  black 
letter ;  but  as  it  wants  the  title  and  nearly  all  the  last  leaf,  the 
date  cannot  be  ascertained.     The  first  edition  is  said  to  have  been 
printed  in  the  year  1583.     In  the  following  reprint  of  the  eighth 
tale,  the  defects  of  this  copy  have,  by  the  kindness  of  Dr  Bliss,  been 
supplied  from  the  edition  of  1606,  a  copy  of  which  is  preserved  in 
the  Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford.     The  passages  taken  from  the 


PREFACE.  ix 

latter  impression  are  distinguished  by  being  enclosed  in  brackets. 
Rich's  second  tale,  of  Apolonius  and  Silla,  appears  to  have  fur 
nished  the  plot  of  Shakspeare's  Twelfth  Night. 1 

In  what  he  entitles  the  Conclusion,  he  has  introduced  a  tale 
of  a  certain  devil  named  Balthaser,  who  married  a  young  lady  of 
singular  beauty,  rejoicing  in  the  name  of  Mildred.  The  husband 
was  so  pestered  with  the  wife's  love  of  the  new  fashions  in  dress, 
that  he  finally  determined  to  relinquish  the  connexion ;  and,  in  pur 
suance  of  this  resolution,  he  directed  his  course  to  Edinburgh,  where 
he  possessed  the  king  of  Scots.  "  While  Mistres  Mildred  was  pro 
ceeding  in  these  speeches  or  suche  other  like,  the  deuill  her  hous- 
bande  was  stroke  in  suche  a  dumpe,  that  not  able  any  longer  to 
indure  her  talke,  he  not  onely  auoided  hymself  from  her  presence, 
but  also  deuised  with  speede  to  flie  the  countrie,  and  cummyng 
to  Douer,  thinkyng  to  crosse  the  seas,  finding  no  shippyng  readie, 
he  altered  his  course,  and  gat  hym  into  Scotlande,  neuer  staiyng 
till  he  came  to  Edenbrough,  where  the  kyng  kept  his  court ;  and 
now  forgettyng  all  humanitie  whiche  he  had  learned  before  in  Eng- 
lande,  he  began  againe  a  freshe  to  plaie  the  deuil,  and  so  possessed 
the  king  of  Scots  himself  with  such  strange  and  vnaquainted  pas 
sions,  that  by  the  coniecture  of  phisitions,  and  other  learned  men 
that  were  then  assembled  together,  to  iudge  the  kynges  diseases, 

>  See  Boswell's  Shakspeare,  vol.  xi.  p.  321.  Collier's  Annals  of  the  Stage,  vol.  i. 
p.  328,  and  likewise  his  Poetical  Decameron,  vol.  ii.  p.  134. 


x  PREFACE. 

thei  all  concluded  that  it  must  needes  bee  some  feende  of  hell 
that  so  disturhde  their  prince."  Such  is  the  story  as  it  stands  in 
the  earlier  edition  ;  but  before  the  year  1606,  a  king  of  Scots  had 
become  formidable  to  an  English  author  or  printer,  and  in  the 
later  edition  we  find  a  prudent  substitution  of  the  Grand  Turk. 
"  Thinking  to  crosse  the  seas,  finding  shipping  ready,  he  toke  his 
course  and  gat  him  to  Rome,  neuer  staiyng  till  he  came  to  Con 
stantinople,  where  the  Turke  kept  his  court ;  and  nowe  forgetting 
all  humanitie  which  he  had  learned  before  in  England,  he  began 
againe  afresh  to  play  the  deuill,  and  so  possessed  the  Turke  him- 
selfe." 

The  comedy  of  Philotus  is  here  reprinted  from  a  copy  of  the 
first  edition  deposited  in  the  Advocates'  Library.  A  second  edi 
tion  of  this  delectable  treatise  was  printed  at  Edinburgh  by  Andrew 
Hart  in  the  year  1612.  Both  editions  are  in  quarto,  and  both  are 
extremely  rare.  The  song  inserted  at  the  end  of  the  first  edition, 
and  omitted  in  the  second,  is  transcribed  from  Campion ;  and,  ac 
cording  to  the  opinion  of  Mr  Crowe,  it  exhibits  "  the  most  extra 
ordinary  combination  of  English  verse  that  is  perhaps  any  where 
to  be  found."  ]  From  a  copy  belonging  to  the  Duke  of  Devon 
shire,  the  various  readings  of  the  second  edition  have  been  very 
politely  supplied  by  J.  Payne  Collier,  Esq.  It  has  not  been  con 
sidered  of  any  importance  to  mark  such  variations  as  are  merely 

1  Crowe's  Treatise  on  English  Versification,  p.  105.     Lend.  1827,  8vo. 


PREFACE.  xi 

literal.  Here  we  clearly  perceive  such  corrections  and  changes  as 
may  be  supposed  to  have  proceeded  from  the  author ;  nor  is  it  ne 
cessary  to  discuss  the  hasty  conclusion  of  Mr  Pinkerton,  which  he 
himself  deliberately  abandoned,  that  Philotus  must  have  been  writ 
ten  long  before  the  date  of  the  first  impression,  that  it  must  have 
been  written  during  the  reign  of  James  the  Fifth. 

The  indecency  of  this  early  drama  rendered  it  a  matter  of  no 
small  doubt  and  hesitation,  whether  we  could  venture  to  reprint 
it  without  suppressing  the  most  flagrant  passages  ;  of  which  we  do 
not  feel  inclined  to  adopt  the  defence  urged  by  a  learned  writer, 
to  whom  we  have  already  referred.  "  The  recent  editor  of  a 
Biographia  Dramatical  he  states,  "  has  attacked  this  piece  vio 
lently  on  the  score  of  immodesty.  This  writer's  philosophy,  it 
would  seem,  is  exactly  equal  to  his  learning.  Had  he  the  smallest 
share  of  philosophy,  he  would  know  that  our  bashfulness,  so  re 
markable  to  foreigners,  is  a  weakness,  and  not  a  virtue ;  and  that 
it  is  this  bashfulness  alone  which  makes  us  so  nice  about  matters  so 
freely  discoursed  by  other  nations.  If  the  generation  of  man  be  a 
matter  of  shame  and  infamy,  it  follows  that  man  is  the  child  of 
shame  and  infamy.  Now  nothing  excites  vice  so  much  as  low 
ideas  of  human  nature ;  and  those  nice  writers,  while  they  are 
preaching  virtue,  are  from  mere  ignorance  opening  the  door  to 
every  vice.  Had  this  writer  any  learning,  he  would  know  that 
the  comedies  of  Aristophanes,  written  in  the  brightest  period  of 


xii  PREFACE. 

Athenian  politeness,  are  quite  indecent  to  British  ears.  Are  we 
wiser  than  the  Athenians  ?  Are  we  not  far  more  foolish  in  this 
respect  than  all  modern  nations  ?"  Of  the  validity  of  this  extra 
ordinary  defence  he  seems  however  to  have  felt  a  secret  distrust, 
or  perhaps  his  abstract  science  was  encountered  by  the  bookseller's 
homely  prejudice ;  for,  after  an  interval  of  six  years,  when  he 
republished  the  same  comedy,*  he  suppressed  those  very  passages 
which  he  here  represents  as  so  consonant  to  the  dictates  of  sound 
philosophy,  as  well  as  Attic  taste.  Without  entertaining  the  faint 
est  wish  to  study  moral  science  under  so  great  a  master,  we  have 
been  induced  to  hope  that  the  peculiar  circumstances  of  such  a  re 
print  as  this,  overshadowed  by  the  decent  veil  of  Gothic  characters, 
and  confined  to  a  narrow  and  select  circulation,  might  be  consi 
dered  as  affording  some  justification  of  our  departure  from  the 
plan^  of  a  family  Philotus. 

1  Pinkerton's  List  of  the  Scotish  Poets,  (p.  cxi.)  prefixed  to  Ancient  Scotish 
Poems.     Lend.  1786,  2  vols.Svo. 

1  Scotish  Poems,  reprinted  from  scarce  editions,  vol.  iii.  p.  1.  Lond.  1792,  3  vols. 

870. 


Ane  verie  excellent  and  dele&a- 
bili  Treatife  iutitulit 

PHILOTVS. 

Q^VHAIRIN  WE  MAY  PERSAVE  THE 

greit  inconveniences  that  fallis  out  in  the 
Manage  betwene  age  and  zoutb. 


Ovid. 
Siqua  velis  apt6  nubere,nube  pari. 


IVSTTTIA. 


RSLIGIOi 


IMPRINTED  AT    EDINBVRGH 

be  Robert  Charteris.      1603. 
CVM    PRIVILEGIO    REGAL  I. 


THE  NAMES  OF  THE  INTER- 

LOQVITORS. 


Philotus,  the  auld  man. 
The  Plefant. 
Emilie,the  Madyn. 
The  MacrelL 

Alberto,the  Madynis  father. 
Flavius,ane  zoung  man. 
Stephano,  Albertois  fervant. 
Philerno,Albertois  fone. 
Brifilla,Philotus  his  Dochter. 
TheMinifter. 
The  Huir. 
TheMeflinger. 


verfe  i 

4 
6 
8 

45 

55 
81 

88 

102 
II7 

X39 
169 


Ane  Verie  excellent  and  dele&a 
bill  Treatife  intitulit 

PHILOTVS. 


Philotus  directis  his  fpeich  to  Emilie. 


laur  ijtng 


Luflie  Iniffome  lamp  of  licijt, 
^our  fionpnetf  ?our  fietutiefirftfjt 
^our  fiaitlp  fiatnre  trpm  $  titljt 
geffure  graue  anD  gutie: 
countenance^out  rullouv 
our  fm^iing  rDfit,     (clef  c 
Dots  all  appear, 


6$£  fenfed  to  illu&e, 

2  CluDen  3(^out6etut!e  Do  beljalfc, 
3f  man  unto  |out  fairness  fate: 
31  Dotu  not  flie  Ijotoliett  31  toalt», 

15ot  fiounts  31  man  fie  ^outfsJ: 
JFo^  ^oto  ftueit  ^avt  31  toald  fo?fatft, 
C&e  (JBmp^ce  fo^  to  be  mp  matfe, 
Cljattcoii:  Deft  Dotu  fum  pitte  tab, 
faif  mee  fva 


3  Deme  na  ill  of  m^  age  m^  troto, 
3(fe  plap  tlje  ^onketi$J  part  to  ?oto* 
JFirfl  tr  tDe  treut[j,tDen  map  ?e  troto, 


JFo?  <2>olb  no?  geir  ?e  fall  not  tuant, 
^toeit  ^art  twitlj  me  tljato  fie  na  fcant, 
Cfjairfotr  fome  grace  tmtome  grant, 


PHILOTVS. 

Plefant.  it)a,(ja,qut)a  b?ocljt  tljf  i;  kittocks  Ijftljec 
Clje  mefcill  f  rind  vefaue  tljc  fitljtu: 
31  tcoto  K  tuatf  not  al  together, 

Cbte  ttoel-montl)  at  ane  pgef  rijing* 
ailace  31  laurlj  fo?  Iptill  lucfee, 
31  laurl)  to  fie  ane  auto  Cade  gucfee: 
Q&oft  tuoto  fa  f at ne  a$  Ije  tuatd  f    , 

JFva  be  fall  till  lji0  flr itcDing. 

5  jl^oti)  toallf e  a0  tDe  Cade  ye  raigetf, 
<$uDeutan  qulja  IjcjJ  maiD  ^out  mufiagedr* 
llo  au  tDebo^  of  fouvelroiv  agejS, 

%$  Ije  mir Ijt  not  be  biDDln: 
Came  5c  to  tooto  our  Laffe,  noui  lac  Ijtei*, 
3e  av  fa  vafclj  tljair  tuill  be  flac^ter, 
^e  tuill  not  fpaic  no?  fpefe  quljaf  js  auc  Ijt  Ijir, 

^e  at  fa  vafcljlie  nDDtn» 

6  Emily.  3Jtuait  nottueill  fiv  quljat  ?e  metne, 
T5ot  fuidie  31  Ijaue  feinbtll  feine, 

3ne  tuotoet  of  ?out  ?eldu  fa  feeine, 

%$  $t  appett  to  be: 
31  tljinb  ane  man  fit,of  ?ont  ?eiuis$, 
Moults  not  be  blpnDit  tuitlj  tljc  bleivijj, 
6a  feife  ane  pattie  of  ^out  pelted, 

jFo^e  get  nane  of  mee. 

The  auld  man  fpeikis  to  the  Macrell  to  allure  the  Madyn. 

7  <5uDe  Dame,  31  fjaue  ^oto  to  implop, 
^a  ?e  m^  putpofe  ran  conuog: 

Onti  tljat  ^on  Lafle  31  micljt  Inio^, 

^efoulD  not  toant  retuatvO: 
0tue  t)tt  tljtsi  Cablet  anti  tljijj  IRing, 
C&I0  IPudTe  of  golti  and  fpair  naming: 

about  all  toeill  map  bung, 


PHILOTVS. 
£Df  gold  tab  naregaird, 


8.  Macrell.  jRa  fir,let  me  and  tfjat  allane, 
§>uppofe  ft  Ijo  toar  maid  of  a  ftane, 
3[fe  gat  Dir  grant  o?  all  be  gane, 

Co  tie  at  ?onr  command: 
Cljocfjt  fcljo  be  ftrange,  J  tljinb  na  toonder, 
TBlait  things  tj$  fone  ^ocljt  in  ane  blunder, 
$  not  tlje  fitfi  fit:,of  ane  Bundet, 

Cfjat  31  Daue  fiad  in  fjand, 


9  31  a»t  ane  JFifcDe  31  am  ane  Cile, 

Can  fteir  nip  toung  and  taple  ritjjt  tpeill, 
31  gine  me  to  tlje  mefeill  Deill, 

<^if  onie  can  do  mail:: 
3[  can  tpit{>  fait  ani0  fleitcf)  and  flatter, 
2nd  tuin  ane  Ctolun  bot  mitlj  ane  clatter, 
Cljat  garss  me  Dank  gnde  tojme  foa  latter, 

^uppoiss  mp  bac&  ga  bair* 

The  Macrell  intends  to  allure  the  Madyn. 

10  <5od  bli0  ^oto  9@aiftre3E5  tuitlj  ?onr  IBuib, 
£eife  me  tljap  lips  t&at  31  on  luib: 

3  &ope  in  <^od  to  fie  ?oto  bjnib, 

ane  nobill  ijoufc  at  game: 
31  ben  ane  ^an  into  tgi0  toun, 
S)f  Dpeft  Donour  and  renoun, 
CDat  tuald  be  glaid  to  gine  ijijs  <$otane, 

jfo?  to  fjaue  ?o\»  §i$  Dame* 

1  1  Emily,  jftoto  be  nip  faull  31  tan  not  fie, 
Cljat  tljair  fife  uertetp  ij5  in  me, 

,  31  pvap  ?oto  qnfiat  i«5  Be, 

man  qnljome  of  ?c  meine/ 
Macrell.  psjilotnss  iss  tljc  man  a  f  aitlj, 
ane  gronnd-ricBe  man  and  full  of  gtaitfj: 


PHILOTVS. 

he  mantis!  na  jcturlci  r  laitlj  nor 
0  baitij  big  anD  brine. 


toau  tlje  tooman  all  ijii  h>fe, 
baD  Dap  to  lie  lite  toeDbit  torfe, 
£  rljo  nu  rl)t  Ijaur  gold  and  gciv  ate  vrf  r  , 

30  Coppet  in  ijiv  fef  ft: 
v  a  ,  not  a  L  aDie  in  all  tijis  L  anD  , 
3  luait  niirljt  Ijaur  mail  lur  altlj  in  IjanD, 
J!3or  mir  ijt  ijanr  mait  at  ijii  romutanti, 

Co  Do  vu  itD  q  nljat  frljo  (iff. 

13  JFait  floutt  ,noto  fen  ^e  ma^  {jim  fang, 

It  luav  not  guD  c  to  let  Dim  gang, 
Onto  ?out  ftlC  ^e'ile  Do  gteit  to^ang, 

•^lucit  lja?t  nolu  and  3f  flip  Dim: 
lOoti)  tpatr  ijj  ttuentie  into  tljiu  toun  , 
fl)  f  gteiteft  tirDns  and  renoun, 
CDat  toalb  lie  glad  f  02  to  fit  Don  n  , 

(Upon  tijnir  knr  10  to  g^ip  Dim* 

14  CDotDt  De  be  aulD  mr  jop,  quDat  ve  r  k, 
Cnlj  rn  De  i^  gane  giuc  Dim  ane  geek, 

tak  anotljrv  be  tlje  ncr  k, 

Ouijr  n  3c  tlje  gvaitlj  ijaue  gottin: 

me  ^out  nu>nD  and  quljat  >e  nirinr, 
31  fall  r  onnop  all  tljid  fa  eleine, 
CDat  me  ne"  fall  efieme  ane  trrinr, 
CluDen  31  am  DeiD  and  vottin  . 

15  EmUie.  31  gtant  guDe-tupfe  De  is  tirDtgu&e, 
^nc  man  of  toealtD  and  nobill  blutte, 

loot  De0  mait  millet  of  ane  Ion  De, 
3nD  e@ittaned  till  ijiss  DanDijs: 
Jl5oj  of  ane  baitnelie  Laflfr  Irke  mr  e, 
3@ait  meit  Did  ^D?  noa  to  J?f  e  to  be: 


-    PHILOTVS. 

lj)i  tf  age  and  mpne  cannot  agtie, 
£Xu6ilI  t&at  tye  toatld  flandfc* 

16  Macrell.  Let  tljat  allane,  fjeia  not  fa  auto, 
jBot  £it  of  cutage  Ijalf  fa  raid, 
15ot  gif  5e  toat  {us  tnpfe,?e  tpalO, 

Q5e  toeill  aneucD  content, 
OTitlj  Ijf  m  matt  tteitment  on  ane  dag, 
8nfc  get  matt  making  off  ^e  map, 
U3o£  toit^  ane  22Jamflet,fuit&  to  fap, 

dnljen  ttoentie  ^ettid  at  fpent 

1  7  ^e  neptftet  meU  toltD  lad  no?  (oun, 
15ot  toit^  tfte  fiefl  in  a»  tDii3  toim, 
5>ij5  to^f  e  map  ap  fit  f  oamefi  Ooun, 

Ht  eptljet  bu  tDe  o  ?  btnfu 
(giang  foameft  in  at  Oute  02  ^et, 
3nd  ap  tlje  fitfl  gude-dap  toald  get, 
Z&iitlj  ail  men  ijonoutit  attd  toeill  t|et> 

3jJ  onie  Jjatt  tuald  t^infe, 

i  8  %e  quDat  a  taoman^  mpnde  map  mef  fe 
^nd  ijeit  quljat  (jonout,toealtlj  and  eife, 
?&  map  get  tuitB  Btm  and  ?e  pleife, 

Co  do  ajs  31  deupfe: 
5out  fpte  fall  fitfi  de  Sitnand  cleit, 
^ont  S^adpniiS  tljan  fall  Bane  ?out  geft, 
l^utin  gnde  oadout  and  effett, 

3llfe  moaning  02  ?otu  tpfe* 


19  and  fap,lo 

iput  on  £out  OTplicote  foa  it  cuillisJ, 

!Lo,ljeu*  ane  of  ^ont  Oeltiote  ffuiUiSr, 

IXuBaiton  f  e  fall  fit  doun: 
Cfjan  ttuafum  rummig  to  camfte^out  Bait, 

on  pout  geidgeit  foft  and  fait, 


PHILOTVS. 

Cak  tljati*  ?ou  v  glafle  fie  all  tie  rlafir, 
and  fa  gats  on  ?ouc  &oun, 

20  Cljan  tak  to  ftanclje  tljc  mowing  djoutfc, 
3nc  flip  of  a3auefie  fo?  50111-  uiouty, 
JFoj  fume  cad  fuc&er  in  at  foutlj, 

CogtddettoitfjaCoift: 
Cfjjie  0atDrn  gotop**  tab  of  tlje  Hti% 
3nt>  bid  |  out  l^agc  in  Ijaift  p^epait, 
JToa  ^out  Difjone  fum  daintie  fail*, 
rail*  not  foi  na  roill. 


2  1  3ne  pair  of  Pleuatid  popping  i?ait, 
3ne  Ipectdr  k  and  ane  duail^ie  get, 

cup  of  %ar  &,frucit  and  toeill  fet, 

Q9ap  fo;  ane  b^eckfad  gaine. 

Catec  ^e  ma^  cait  fo^  f^ne, 
um  delicate  agane  ?  e  d^ne, 
5out  Cuke  to  feafoun  all  fa  fpne, 

CDan  doi^  implojp  lji0  painc. 

22  Co  fie  50111:  fevuantejj  ma^  ?e  gang, 
luke  5oui*  C^ad^nisJ  all  amang, 
giftijaitonietoatkbefriang, 
CDan  bittetlic  t^eni  blame, 
may  ?e  Ijaue  baitl)  CUiaifffo  and 
Candie  Kuffes  and  TSatlet  16ellijJ 
fo?  5ouv  toeiting  and  not 
in  ?our  ljous5  at 


23  and  notu  quljen  all  tljir  iwaukss  id 
JFo?  four  teftefcljing  eftetnone, 
$at  bjing  unto  30111  cljalmcu  four, 
%mn  daintie  Difr  Ijc  of  meate; 
ane  cup  o:  ttoa  luitlj  Q^ufc  aDalf, 
^uiii  utDec  lit  ijt  tl)ing  tljai  ctuitDall, 


done, 


PHILOTVS. 

iRafinjs  o?  fo?  Capeta  rail, 
®iftfiat?epleafetoeate* 

24  Cill  fuppet  tpme  tljen  ma|>  ?e  c  Jioftf, 
(Unto  ?out  ®atden  to  tepoitf, 

£D|  metelte  to  tab  ane  gloitf, 

flDt  tafe  ane  fcufee  and  tetti  on: 

^ne  to  ?out  fuppeu  at  ^e  fyocfjt, 

Cill  fair  full  fat  tlmt  Ijejs  fiene  focljt, 

anti  Daintie  tilftljexJ  tjeftliefiocljt, 
Cljat  ILaDless  lotieg  to  fetD  on, 

25  Clje  D?gane0  tDan  into  ?out  IjaH, 
52Jttlj^tDalmeanti  Cjmftaell  found  tlja^faU, 
Clje  O^ole  and  tlie  Hute  tmtlj  all, 

Co  gat  ^out  meate  Dtfgefl: 
Cfie  fuppet  done  tljan  up  ^e  t^fe, 
Co  gang  ane  quisle  aj5  tss  tlje'gpfe, 
IBe  ^e  Ijauetotomit  ane  Sllep  t^^pfe, 

3(t  t0  ane  mple  almaifl* 


26  Cljan  ntaj>  ?e  to  ^out  CSalmet  gang, 
IBegple  tlje  ntrfit  gtf  it  fie  lang, 

Witl}  talk  and  metie  molue0  antang, 

Co  eleuate  tlje  fplene; 
JFo?  ^out  Collation  tafe  and  taiff, 
Sum  la?till  licljt  t&ing  till  difgeft, 
Ht  nicljt  ufe  Eenfe  to^ne  a^  almaiC, 

JFo|  it  i$  cauld  and  dene, 

27  2nd  fo?  ^out  fiacfc  3[  datfie  fiould, 
Cfiat  ?e  fall  tweit  euen  ass  ?e  toould, 

doubill  (^atnift|iing0  of  gould, 
3nd  Ctaip  afioue  ?out  &ait: 
tleluote  5at,^out  Dude  of  €?tait, 
'Jout  a9j.>fleH  qu&en  ?e  gang  to  gait, 

15  2 


PHILOTVS. 

JFra  ^ont  and  toind  baitfj  air  and  latt, 
Co  krip  that  face  fa  fait* 


28  Df  IPareftf  toatk  ui:orljt  bi>  tljr  laif  , 
$ou  v  Owe  toalf-r  IKMKUJ  ?e  fall  Daue, 
jfoi  to  decott  ane  Cataat  ctaif 

C[)at  cumlie  Collout  bane: 
^oitt  gieit  goulD  Clictinie  foj  3ouv  net  k> 
i5e  boUifum  to  tljc  Caulc  and  beck, 
Jfo?  Ijt  l)fJ5  goulD  aneur  lj,qul)at  ver  k.x 

3!t  uull  not  OanO  on  nane. 

^  t|je  netu  gu|?fe, 


29  and  fo?  ?o«t 


Co  ijaue  tljriu  loufe  tuitlj  pletjs  and 

£D?  clafped  rlotjj  behind: 
CDe  ftuffe  nip  ijart  yt  neid  not  ijaine, 
IPan  (Ueluot,ta£fde  fignvit  o?  platne, 
^ilk^at^ne^amapfe  o?  <$cogtafne, 

Clje  f^nefl  ^e  can  find* 

30  3>out  rlaitljr  j5  on  culloutt0  cuttit  out, 
^nd  all  Pafmenttt  round  about, 
£$£  bleftmg  on  tijat  femelte  fnout, 

^a  toeill  31  troto  fall  fet  t&em: 
^out  fcljankijJ  of  filfc  ?out  ueluot  fcljone, 
^our  bo^devit  JlO^licote  abone, 
a$5  ^e  deupfe  all  fall  be  done, 

^Incratfit  quljen  ~?t  get  tljeni. 

3  1  ^our  Cablet  be  ?out  Ijal0  tftat  lif  nge0 
<Sould  bracelet*!  and  all  utijcc  tljingjs,  ' 
and  all  3ouc  fingcrxs  full  of  IRiugjJ, 

Witty  jpearle  and  p^ecioufii  ftanejs: 
^e  fall  Ijaue  aj?  quljill  ?e  ctp  Do, 
IRtckillte  of  goulD  and  jetoellttf  jo, 

IXuljat 


PHILOTVS. 


reck  to  tafc  ttje  15ogill-bo, 
$02  bonie  butd  fo?  ante, 

32  @)toelt  fiatt  qufjat  fattfjet  toald  ge  Ijaue 
ilXujjat  gteitet  plefout  tuald  ?e  ctaue, 
jftoto  be  mp  faull  ?ot»  totll  befaue, 

^ouv  felf  and  ?e  f  o^fatfe  ^tm: 
Cljafvfoit  ftuett  fjonte  3i  ?oto  paa^, 
Cafe  tent  in  tjmte  and  noc&t  bela^, 
^toeit  fucfeev,necfe  me  not  toltlj  na^, 

15ot  be  content  to  tafe 


33  Plefant.  CD*  denili  mm  If  cfe  tfiat  fcefrd  auld 
Jl3olu  fie  t&e  ttottioug  and  ttolwane,  (totwan 
^>a  Imfilie  a0  fto  i0  tootuane, 

%te  ass  tfje  catling  ctafeis: 
IBegple  t^e  name  fto  10  Dot  ^oung, 
JFouft  fall  tlja^  lip$,<$od  no^  tljat  tonng, 
DOav  douolll  gilt  tuit^  l^utiftft  doung, 

3ind  ill  cljefr  on 


34  Emily.  <£ude-tMgfe  all  10  bot  gude  31  6^i^» 
Jfoj  tueill  31  lufe  to  mafe  gnde  c&efr, 
jFoi  jjononvi0,gould,and  utljec  gefr, 

CDa|>  can  not  be  tefufit: 
31  gtant  lndeid,m^  da|?lie  fait*, 
(KJill  be  fnflScient  and  mait% 
IBot  belt  gude  ?e  do  not  fyalt*, 


35  31  fitant  all  da|)  to  be  toeill  ttet, 
5)onouti3  aneto  and  Ijicljtupfet, 
IBot  qnljat  intteatment  fall  3  get, 

31  p?a^?oto  In  nibbed.'' 
IBot  toitfi  ane  laltbait  fo^  to  l#, 
ane  anld  detd  flocfe,bait^  cauld  and 

153 


PHILOTVS. 


all  mp  daped  ijcit 

Cljat  Ije  nip  fr  Ijankns  fr  IjeD. 

36  IMd  cine  ijalf  finikin  in  Ijis  ijeid, 
|t)ia  Lp$e  far  rauldet  tDan  tlje  leid, 
fj)itf  ftoflle  flefrD  ajs  Ije  mat  DeiO, 

^lill  f  01  na  Dapping  ijcit: 
Onljc  altljfuni  Dotting  curt  niaiv, 
fi)ij5  tiltljfuni  flcvunic  isi  natDtng  fair, 
%  vuuiifr  l)ing  tuitD  rift  and  vaiv, 
gif  tljat  lie  f\ncit, 


37.  B)i0  jsftpnnc  IjavD  clappit  to  tDr  bane, 
^JOitD  <$ut  and  <$taiicU  liaitlj  ouiiganc, 
JT^otu  qnljcn  tljiv  ttoutile^  Ijcjs  Dim  tanr  , 

5)ijs  topfe  getjs  all  tfje  tupte: 
/Foj  (IIenu0  games  31  If  t  tljem  ga, 
31  geflc  Dee  lie  not  guDc  of  tljav, 
31  roulD  vucill  of  Did  manevjj  ma, 

(5if  31  lift  till  infcpte, 


38  Macrell.  JF  03  ^lemisJ  game  rate  not  a  ru  it, 
ftflaill  me  ane  fc&amflet  tDat  ran  Do'it, 
%tn  tDait  map  be  na  utDet  buit, 
on  Did  Dead  ane  Dojne: 
me  tDat  luitlj  tuit  and  gftill, 
5c  map  Dane  eafmentd  at  ?oiit  vuiU, 
at  nirDt  gat  ^oung  men  rum  ^oto  till, 
Jput  tDem  atoap  at  mo^ne* 


39  Emily.  <£jnde-topfe,all  is?  botuaine 
Co  nice  of  fik  matettf  to  fpeik, 
^ont  putpoid  i0  not  luo^tD  ane  leib, 

31  Ujill  Deit  ^oto  na  mait: 
Q9atk  Dame,and  tDid  id  all  and  fum  , 
31f  enet  ?etDid  eatand  rnm, 


feib, 


PHILOTVS. 

13D?  of  ?our  Ijead  31  Wr  ane  mum, 
3e  fall  tepent  it  fait* 

40  Macrell.  3011  dalntle  Dame  fcljo  is  fa  npcr 
©clje'lll  nocljt  be  twin  fie  na  deupce, 
JFo?  noutljet  plages  noi  fo?  P3£ce, 

jfo?  goulb  no?  Dtljei:  gaine, 
^djo  id  fa  arfetoavt  and  fa  t^a, 
CDat  tuitlj  tefufe  31  tome  &tt  fta, 
£>>c!jci,fee  ^anft  Q^atie  fa^nde  mee  fa, 

3(  dav  not  ga  agane* 

Philotus  enteris  in  conference  with  the  Madynis  father. 

41.  (JSufce  6offe,fen  ^e  aue  euev  bene, 


and  auld  familiar  fwnd, 
Co  mafe  mail:  quentance  ti0  bettuene, 

31  slaidl^  could  agtfe: 
^e  6aue  ane  doubter  quljome  tmtill, 
31  beate  ane  pafling  grit  gude  twill, 
Cluljate  IP^ifnomie  p^efiguteg  jjfelll, 
twit  and  Ijoneftie, 


42  (^if  mee  tljat  jLafle  to  be  nt£  tu^fe, 
JFo?  Cocljev-gude  fall  be  na  fitpfe, 
IBelelue  mee  fcljo  fall  Ijaue  ane  l^fe, 

and  f  03  ?ouv  geir  31  fait;  not: 
JF  aitlj  ^e  ?out  felf  fall  modlfte, 
5>it  Lpfe  Eent  Land  and  Conjunftfie, 
<£oflbp,qu!jait  tlja^  fame  fall  be, 
appoint  tlje  place  and  fpaiv  not 


43 


biuife  m^  Ijedtage  allljaill, 
IXuljilfess  gif  tljat  tljap  Dappen  to  f  aid, 


$$$  moueabletf  31  twill  denude, 


PHILOTVS. 

anr  pairt  my  iDourljtcv  to  p:oin>De, 
anc  paivt  to  Irauc  fuin  freind  afyde, 
Cnljrn  Dcitlj  fall  U0  Diflruc  r. 

44  Alberto.  <$ude  fii',and  goflbp  31  am  glaid, 
CDat  all  be  Done  atf  ?c  ijauc  fatD, 

Cafe  baitlj  nu>  bulling  and  tljt  09a^b, 
Ipanie  to  ^ouv  ijous  togiddet: 

and  gif  tljat  fctjo  pla^  not 

3ln  onie  lain  full  ijonrft  aiit, 

and  ^onout  ?otu  tuittj  all  bit 
31  tuald  Q)o  gaid  not  tljitljt  i% 

Alberto  fpeiks  to  his  Dochter. 

45  JFo?  tlje  anr  man  31  Baue  f  o^efeine, 
ane  man  of  mirgt  and  lucltlj  31  mefne, 
C^at  ftaitlicr  mar  tljc  fuftciuc, 


anr  man  of  Ijonou  v  and  vrnoun, 
anr  of  tlje  Potente^  of  tyc  toun: 

nane  nia;>  beinllet  fit  Doun, 
Cljte  Citic  all 


46  Emily.  <^od  and  fiude  nature  doftf  allotw, 
C&at  31  obedient  be  to  ?oto, 

9nd  father  IjitljettiUf  3  ttoto, 

3e  Siaue  nane  ntljec  feine: 
^nd  alj5  eftemto  ^otu  fo|  to  be, 
ane  toning  fatljcr  Ditto  nice, 
Cgattfott  deit  fatljcu  let  mee  fee, 

Clje  man  of  quDome  >e  meitu« 

47  Alberto,  ipfjilotujj  ijj  tlje  man  indeid, 
Ciuljaiv  tljoto  anenobill  l^fcmap  leid, 
fl^ltlj  qu^om  31  did  fa  fatpjoteid, 

Win  tnant  bot  tbp  gude  toill: 


PHILOTVS. 

giue  t[j£  frie  content  tljaitfoit, 
SDecfe  Dp  and  do  ttjgfelf  decoit, 
<£ang  quickly  to  and  fap  no  moir, 
Cljoto  man  ague  tljairtill, 

48  Emilie.  <£if  ?e  fra  futte  toald  reftaine, 
and  patientlie  Sett  me  agane, 

31  foulD  ^otu  fcljatti  in  tetnris  plane, 

2BttD  teafon  ane  ercufe: 
%tn  ^attage  oene  but  t^taltiome  fvee, 
(^oD  and  gufce  nature  doijj  agree, 
C|ja  1 3f  qufjafr  afi  it  I^feesx  not  mee, 

^a^latufnllietefufe, 

49  3  am  fourtene,an&  Ijee  fouvefcoir, 
31  fiaill  and  fonnd,|jee  feife  and  (bit, 
IJ)oto  can  31  gtue  confent  ttjaivfofr, 

£D?  ?it  till  Jjim  agteer 
3(ndge  gif  Pljilotug  6e  difcteit> 
Co  feife  ane  matcfj  fa  fat  unmeit, 
Cfiocljt  31  ntfufe  Dim  father  ftueit, 

31  paap  ^oto  pardon  mee* 

50  Alberto.  Jj^oto  durft  tfioto  trumpet  &e  fa 


Co  tant  0^  tell,tl)at  Ije  urns  aid.'' 
D?  durft  tefufe  odjt  tljat  31  tuald, 

Jbaue  biddin  tlje  obeg: 
IBot  fen  ?e  fland  fa  l^till  ato, 
3ffe  gat  ^oto  a^aiflteiES  fo^  to  fenato, 
CDe  3[mpp?e  Patents  Ije0  be  lato, 

abuif  t^ait  C&ildaen  ap» 

5 1  and  ijeir  to  (Sod  31  mak  ane  uotu, 
15ot  gif  tfiot»  at  m|>  bidding  botu, 
31  fall  tljc  d^efle  and  Catkin  ijovu, 
and  f^ne  adupfetlje  better: 

*  C 


(bald 


PHILOTVS. 

31  fall  tljrr  raft  in  1  1  1  1  ane  pit, 
Cluljaic  tjjoto  fo;  ?eir  anD  Dap  fall  fit, 
CCUtlj  l):riD  anD  in  arc  u  fuirlp  hntt 
liounD  infill  anr  t'cttci, 


$2  CDoto  faf  fa  foff  upon  tljjj  fin  ill, 
CDat  making  off  maiD  f  ijc  ane  f  tall, 
T5ot  31  Call  mab  t  Dp  rurage  mill, 

JFor  all  tl))>  ftomark  flout: 
Cfjat  f  f  tmuavD0  qu  lj  t  II  tljat  f  ijoiu  l  c  if, 
CDou'0  lie  agafl  mee  fo  j  to  gretf  , 
pnrDanr  c  f  ijoui  gvrinns  tljat  plap  to  p?f  if  , 

3Durfc  f  ijcc  anD  fpeib  ouf  . 

53  Emily,  ^totit  fatDer,«iitigate  Courtage, 
^out  uj?aitl)  anD  anger  fiv,afluiagr, 
I  )anr  pi  ic  on  nuj  ^outljlir  agr  , 

^otir  axuin  flcfrlj  anD  ?ou  v  bhtDe: 
<$if  in  pout  pit  31  be  ouettfoatoin, 
CluDomc  Dane  ^e  lu^aikit  bot  ?ouv  aurin, 
^ir  nc  tuc  Itir  Ijc^  not  bene  bnatuin, 

fartiDe. 


54  Cljt  fauage  beifi$$  into  tljaic  k)>nDr, 
(Eljaiv  foung  to  pitie  av  inrlpuDr, 
Let  mriT  it  tyaiif  oil'  nuiif  pout*  nuwDf  , 

Co  Ijf  u  tljat  l)u  inblif  rn>ij3  : 
Cab  Dp  anD  U  ni  fie  ?our  pee, 
^ufpfnD  tljf  furie  of  ?ouv  fp?e, 
£InD  grant  me  lapfer,3l  Defpre, 
iptill  to  aDupfe. 


Heir  followis  the  Oratioun  of  the  zonker  Flavias  to  the 
Madyn,  hir  anfwer  and  confent,  The  convoying  of  her  from 
her  father  :  her  father  and  the  auld  wower  followis,  and  finds 
Philerno  the  Madyns  brother  laillie  arryued,  quhoine  thay 
tak  to  be  the  Madyn,  and  of  his  deceit. 


PHILOTVS. 

taging  lotu,  t|je  feitce  and  flaming  ty\t 
*•  C&at  Ooi0  m#  b^eift  and  bodp  al  combute 

3incendit  toitlj  tlje  datt  of  gtit  defj^e, 
jFta  fbK*  of  tljefe  ttoa  fpatking  epte  f  ul  fute, 
I|)ej5  me  confttagnit  to  cum  and  feik  nip  cute 
flDf  l)cv,fva  quljoni  p^omdit  f)t0  m;>  txiound, 
duljoui  nejjtljn;  ^aluc  no^  ^pp  can  nffuve, 
15ot  onlp  Q)o  can  mak  me  faif  and  found* 

56  Lj)fee  a0  t&e  capttne  toit^  ane  t^ant  taine, 
Perforce  mitl)  paomife  toiftit  to  and  f  to, 
Ctutjen  tljat  lie  feijs  all  utfter  graces  gaine, 
a^an  fuccour  feik  of  Ijtm  tljat  to^ocljt  fyi$  too, 
^a  mon  31  fald  to  m^  maifl  fveindlp  fo, 
Co  feik  fo?  falue  of  [jet  t&at  gane  tip  fait: 
Co  ptap  fot  pcarr,tljorl)t  tigout  bid  me  go, 
Co  ct^  foj  metcie,qn^en  au  31  »«a^  na  mait* 


57  §>a  fen  ^e  pane  me  captinate  a0  tljtall> 
^en  K  p^euail(,let  pitie  noto  Dane  place: 
5)aue  metcie  fen  ?e  a^aifltess  at  of  all, 
^tudge  not  to  gtant  ?ont  fnpplicant  fum  gtace 
Co  fla^  ane  taine  man,tuat  bot  lack  allace, 
jfta  tljat  lie  cum  uoluntatlie  in  toill: 

^en  31  am,a@iflteg,in  t&e  felf  famecace, 
3ne  t^tall  confenting  pitie  toat  to  fpilL 

58  Cluljat  fetla?  tljocljt,puit3[  tuit^  luif  opp^eft 
Confer  tDe  fo^ceof  t|»e  bl^nd  Htcljet  IBogr 
}l)oto  toais  appollo  fo?  ^i0  Dapljne  daefl, 

3nd  a^at0  amafit  Iji0  Oenujs  to  enjop, 
Did  nott^e  t^untieting  31upitet  contiop 
JFot  Danae  ^im  felf  into  ane  ftoto^e, 
Clje  gods  aboue  fen  luif  Ijatlj  maid  tljem  co^, 
lato  tljen  qu^  fould  31  not 

€  2 


PHILOTVS. 

59  30  taf  ne  untlj  ane  no:  Dapljne  mair  deroit 
Clu&aitf  milt  to  Oenutf  map  rompaint  be: 
3nd  ben r  in  brume  Danae  bcf  oil*, 
^uppofr  tljr  <$od  on  Ijiv  Did  raft  Ijis  rpr: 
Ouijate  geared  to  ijir  betotie  Doi0  ague, 
ClnD  in  quljaijs  fairness  is  no  folp  founD, 
Culjat  mrviir II  a9iftvf S  tljan ,fuppofc  ?c  fr, 
CcUtij  nulling  band  me  to  ?out  betotte  bound. 

60  duijato  bcirDt  rontepning  bclutic  Vuitlj  tljr 
Jl3a  Icj3  al utljrr  pulr IjiituDc  dot0  pa0  (beamiss 
Jl3ot*  to  rompait  ane  clud  to  glanung  gleamed, 
T5?ir Ijt  Oenu<5  rullouv  tttttj  ane  landuiavt  (ajES: 
Cl)e  quljptcft  lapkr  bottuitlj  tfje blafheft  aflr, 
Ctje  ntbent  Eoi0  bot  luitlj  tljr  tuallotuit  iuciD 
OsJ  puteft  gold  id  p^ectoufet  no?  glafife, 

^our  betotte  fa  allutDetDotss  ercetd, 

61  ^out|jeifr[|)ljgol 

^ont  fnaiuifrlj  rljetks  Ipkc  qu'jptcft 
^our  lourfum  lipd  faD,foft,anD  Axietttoee  fie, 
0j5  Eofcs  ted  quljcn  tljat  ane  (botoie  iss  pafi: 
^out  toung  nitrljt  mak  Demofltbened  agaQ, 
^onr  tettl)  f  peivljs  nur  Ijt  of  ttjair  place  dep  jpue 
2^itlj  TBtotllijj  of  3|ndian  Cbuc  at  tlje  laft 
^out  Ipapttf  f  o?  tljc  pjio?ttic  dotiS  fltpne. 

62  and  Ipfec  a0  quljcn  tljr  fiamping  feale  id  frt 
3fn  toaj:  toeill  to^oc&t,  quljill  it  id  foft  31  fap, 
CDeprent  tljaitof  temapning  ma^  ?e  get, 

tlje  feale  itfelf  be  tane  atoap, 
r  femlie  fljaip  fa  fall  ab^de  fo?  ap, 
Cluljilfe  t&roto  t^e  fir  Ijt  mp  fenfid  IjejJ  reOaifit, 
Cljorljt  abfent  ?e,>it  3  fall niclit  and  da^, 
^ont  p^efenre  6aue  as  in  mp  &aut  ingvaifit. 

63 


PHILOTVS. 

63  Cljodjt  fanfie  be  bot  of  ane  figure  fainit, 
I13a  figure  feidtf  quljair  t&air  isJ  na  effeft: 
Cuin  fa  ftoeit  faull  31  penfclj  bot  ag  painit, 
flBitlj  fanfie  feti  tljat  toill  na  faffing  brerb, 
gwppoig  31  ijauc  tljc  acdOent  quljat  vcrk, 
me  tljc  foliDc  fubftanrr  to  atteine, 
,qu^en  ?e  to  fcetttj  fall  me  timft, 
CtuDoin  bot  ^ouv  atoin  Ijaue  ^e  cofountiit 


64  lafl,fen  ?e  maj)  mp  meladie  temeiD, 
iReleiue^our  ^fip^uss  of  ^to  teflle0  ftane: 
^ouv  Cittuis  b^eift  tljat  Dotss  full  spfelp  bletd, 
0rant  grace  tDairto,befoti;  t|ie  grip  be  gane, 
Cum  ftaur  IK  tljc  tljull  of  Canta(u$$  anone, 
Clnd  cure  pe  toounDg  geui  a  viutlj  Or  ijillt  s$  kmjf  e 
Accept  foi  ^ouvjs  fair  ^aiflue^,fucD  a  one, 
Cljat  fo?  50111;  faik  tiar  famfi'ce  fyi$  Igfe, 

65Emily.  ZOVR2D?ifoun  fit  fountisS  trnt  jj  fie  ffeil 
3!n  Cupitid  Court  ad  ic  ijaD  bene  tipb^ocgt: 
iSD?  fofterit  in  parnaOit^  forfeit  $)iU 
£luljair  IPoetiiS  ^eg  tDair  flame  and  furie  foftt 
Jftocljt  taifiing  of  ftweit  helicon  fo^  nocfit, 
00  be  ;ouv  plefant  preface  Doi0  appeir: 
CenDing  tljairb£,quljiU  ai5  tue  Daue  na  tfjoc&t, 
Co  mak  U0  to  50111*  purpoi0  to  aDl)eii% 

66  2JQlitD  lotting  language  tending  till  allure, 
ffltitb  ftoeit  difcourfe  tlje  fimpill  till  ouirf^le, 
*$t  cad  ^our  craf  t,^our  tunning  and  ?our  cure, 
T5ot  puir  €)?pljanej5  and  0^ad|)nij5  to  begple, 
^our  tuaillit  out  tooids5,intienfit  fo?  a  tu^le, 
Co  trap  all  tljofe  tljat  trouiiu  in  ?otu  na  traine 
CBe  frute  of  flattrie  is5  bot  to  defile, 
fp?ed  t^at  tuee  can  neuer  get  agane* 
C  3 


PHILOTVS. 

67  v  gat  tttf  ttoto  tljat  all  out  ijciDS  be  count, 
Jn  piapfing  of  out  brume  lip  tljc  ^kpitf: 
diifc  to  ->oui  in oiDjj  xuc  at  na  mait  bot  mount 
C6te  ujag  to  fie  gif  to*  ?e  map  fupp2£fe, 
^out  doubill  ijait  doitf  euetie  Dap  Dnipfc, 
Hue  tijoiufauD  fljif ttf  urns  neuet  in  30111  tljocOt, 
^e  (about  tDu55  ujitD  all  tljat  in  3om  l£i#, 
till  Dndo,and  b^ing  u^  all  to  nocljt. 


68  9ind  tlji<5  conceate  id  common  to  ^otu  all, 
JFo^  ?out  atoin  luff,?e  fet  not  bp  out  fcljame, 

>oui  fxncitcft  U)o:D,ai  feafonit  all  mitlj  gall, 
3out  fail-fit  pijiafc,  digfigutesf  bot  defame, 
31  tljinh  tljau-f oiv  tijap  gtitlie  at  to  blame, 
CDat  tcoiuijj  in  ?oui  mait  no;  tljc  tljinrj  tljap  fe 
15ot  3!,  quljill  tljat  OBmilia  id  HIP  Jftame 
Co  ttoU)  3!  fall  like  to  §anft  Ci)oma0  be« 

69Flavius. jToi  feit  ftoeit maiflted  qnljat rcmciD  % 


map  petftuade  quljatv  tljaiv 
deme  -5C  ta^angoufiie  in  deid, 
H3oU3  be  mp  faull  3!  ftoeit: 
^out  ijonouiMiot  -50UV  fr Ijamc  3i  fcik, 
31  count  not  b|>  mp  lnft  ane  Icik, 
3!t  iua0  na  fib  tiling  a^aiftteg  meib, 
maid  me  to  cum  ijciv. 


70  Cbi0  ijJ  m^  fute  ^e  fall  me  ttuff, 
Judge  ?e  ?out  felf  gif  it  be  )'uff, 
3In  Ijonr n  luif  and  Ijoncft  luff, 

2Uit[)  ^OU)  to  leid  nip  h>fc : 
€ljij5  ijs  tljc  ttcu t ij  of  HIP  intent, 
3!n  latofull  lufe  bot  onlie  bent, 
Sdupfe  |oto  gif  ?e  can  confent, 

Co  be  HIP  toeddit  lupf c. 


« 

71  Emily. 


yi  Emily.  %it  futeliegif3itmdctftude> 
^DUE  twining  fo?  to  fie  ag  gude, 
3[tljinfe  in  ane  toee  fould  conclude, 

OBefoit  t&at  it  toet  lang: 
31  am  content  to  be  ?oui;  topfe, 
Co  lufe  and  fetue  ?oto  all  m  j>  Igfe, 
IBot  tat^et  fla^  me  toritlj  a  fen^fe, 

H3oj  offes  me  ane  to^ang* 

72  IBot  fii;,ane  tl)ing  31  Ba«e  to  fap, 


3|n  ^adage^^omifit  me 

Opott  ane  tieiti  auld  man: 
2^it|)  qnljome  tljoc^t  31  to  «ot  content, 
Cill  naneutljevljetoillronfent, 
a^ab  to  tDaitfoir  fo?  tillinuent 

3ne  conuo^,  gif  ^otu  can* 

73  Ipfeetoapte  ?oto  mon  fivfl  to  me  ftueit, 

to  me  fall  do  na  fcefr, 
fall  not  cum  mj>  Iiotiie  neir, 
JFo?  uillante  no?  ill: 
3^  qu&ill  tfie  Bnptiall  Oa^  fall  flanti, 
fatt&et  fiu,  gif  mee  ^onu  fiant), 
me  fo?  to  compleit  t^e  band, 
3nD  pvomciQ  to  fulfill* 


74Flavius.}j)aue  tfjafr  mp  fjand  twitlj  al  mg  jjatt 
faitljfull  p^omete  fo?  mp  patt, 
tpme  to  change  quljill  deitlii^  datt, 
Put  till  mp  Ipfe  ane  end: 

IBot  oe  ane  ^u^dand  tvaift  and  tteto, 

JFo?  na  fufpeft  tfjat  ani0  fall  teta, 

TBot  teadie  a^  to  do  mj?  deto, 
neuev  till  offend* 


PHILOTVS. 

75  Emily.  311  t)fl£  Qufjaitto  tlje  tteutjj  to  tell, 
3  Dae  norljt  uiitlj  tljat  mattet  mrl, 

T5ot  ?it  31  fall  Deupfe  mp  fell, 
3ne  fr  Ijif  t  to  fr  vuc  out  ttmir  : 

JTo?  kciping  flatit  baitD  lait  and  ait, 

&nfenD-futtl)  map  31  "tw^t  fait, 

a^ake  31  ane  mint  and  Do  na  mait, 
31  map  fo?  curt  uuititr  . 

76  dulien  31  [jauc  t)ttbetDocl)t  me 
31  can  na  bettet  toa#  Den^fe, 
'Bot  tljat  31  man  me  Difagpre, 

3|n  ijaliitc  of  ane  man: 
Cljug  31  but  Danget  o?  but  Dout, 
Cljto  bufinris  map  lining  about, 
3In  mans  atta^  unhenD  pajs  out, 

JToi-  octjt  iiu>  {icipavxs  ran* 


77  CDaitfoit  ?e  fall  gang  anD  ptoupDe, 
anr  15)agc  0  rlaitljitf  in  tljt  meine 
all  orrafionss  me  bcfjjDe, 


Let  me  euin  ax5  tljap  lid  me  rail, 
HD?  qu^at  fumeuet  me  befall, 
31  Ijope  toitDin  tljtie  Da^ijs  31 
Cum  qupetlj?  ?oto  to. 


78  Flavius.  IBe  m^  atoin  mentis  31  fall  atteine, 
3nD  fenD  to  ^oto  tljaj>  claitljio  unfene, 
Contjoji)  (at  fie  all  ttnng0  fa  rleine, 

Cljat  neuet  nane  fufperb: 
31  toill  toait  on  mp  felf  anD  mett  ?otu, 
Co  fe  ?  out  neto  rlaitjjtf  ais  tljap  fet  ?oto, 
£ljc  Carle  tljat  Ijcrljt  fa  toeill  to  tteit  foto, 

31  tijiuu  fall  get  ane  gerb. 

Emily 


PHILOTVS. 

79  Emilie.  31  Ijaue  to  on  narrotolie  atoap 
^on  Carle  Dalf  put  me  in  effrag, 
intuait  and  toaiting  aj>, 
3|n  c&anging  aff  mj>  claitfjig: 
,let  tog  ga  out  of  Ijte  ficljt, 

am  frie,nt£  freind  gude-nicfjt, 
il)e  luktsJ  as  all  tinngjs  tuav  not  ticljt, 
Lo  f  ontiri-  quljatc  Ijc  gate, 


80  Flavius.  9^5  onlte  luif  and 
S@^  fcarling  Deiv  and  m 
Jt)oto  fall  31  f  uet  tfje  requite, 

C^iss  grit  guDe  toill  let  fee: 
Cljat  but  refpeft  t&at  men  callis  fc^ame, 
513oa  fta^avt  of  tljp  atoin  gude  name, 
jf  03  ba«te,foa  ftlafptjemie  no?  blame 

^e$$  tjentertt  all  fo?  mee* 

Stephano  Albertus  Servant. 

8  1  a^aifter  full  far  31  &aue  ?oto  forljt, 
and  full  ill  netoejs  3!  Daue  ?oto  b^orfit, 
Cfje  t^ing  allace,  3f  neuer 

J])e0  Ijappinnit  ^oto  tljiss 
^our  dour^ter  fir  (^e  [jafc  bot  ane) 
rate  manni0  rlnitljtg  lje0  on  l)ir  tane, 
2nd  qu^etlie  tjejs  ftir  earand  gane, 

31  ran  not  tell  quljat  toa^» 


82  3[toonderit  firft  and  toajs  agafi, 
TBot  qu^en  31  fatu  tljat  fto  toa$j  pafl, 
31  follotoit  efter  toonder  faff, 
^it  toas  31  not  tlje  better: 
fcljiftit  ties  Ijir  felf  af^de, 
in  fum  ijou0  fljo  did  tjir 
H5a  fir,quDat  euer  fall  betpde, 
31t  toill  be  Jjard  to  get  &er, 
D 


PHILOTVS. 

83  Alberto.  JFaltf  petotene  Ijcss  frijo  plamt  tljat 
lore;  frljo  me  IjanDlit  in  tins  (bit.-  i  ipoit 
Co  #ob  31  uotij  rum  31  atijojt, 

8nb  laj>  on  ijii  HIP  ijanDte: 
31  fall  in:  ane  rrniupill  mab, 
Co  tin  m  pci.s  all  Dmfi  tmbettab, 
J^o:  to  commit  fa  foull  ane  farb, 
"  duljill  t&at  tljtJJ  Citie  HanDi0. 

84  Oploe  Dagabounb,fal0  ijat  lot  ijuir, 
1-3  a  D  $0  na  frljamr  ,tubr  ll)o  na  cute, 
Of  patentig  tijat  ijii  gat  anb  buic, 

Bo?  blube  of  qufjilk  (!)o  fpjangt 
011  Ijoncft  betDtieto  Difprfe, 
0nb  Ipkc  ane  man  ijii  bifag^fe, 
(UntDomanlie  in  (tb  ane  to^fe, 

30  gutigetfo?  to  gang. 

85  JFate  mifc[)ant,full  of  all  tnifcbeif, 
Diflaitfull  ttaitout,  commoun  tijcif, 
£Df  all  tljr  kin  emit  not  tljr  gictf  , 

JFo?  flefcDI^  foull  bel^te: 
Cu'ja  fall  into  fik  trumpet^  tiuft  J 
£Xufjaij5  tdickit  toa^ijs  at  fa  un  juft, 
0nb  leb  luitij  letub  licentious 
beafilie  appetpte, 


86  Philotus.  SD  fex:  tmcettaine,fta£le  anb  f  al0, 
Diffimulate  anb  biflaitfull  alj5, 
&Uitl)  Ijonie  lipd  to  IjalD  in  Ijal0, 

TBot  tuitlj  anetuicMt  mpnbe: 
Clubome  tuill  bois  mail  no:  teafoun  mufe, 
a^ait  Icrljeuir  no?  Ijonrft  luf  e, 
^aii  Ijailotiie  no?  gube  be  Ijufr  , 

Onronflant  anb  unkimbe. 


PHILOTVS. 

87  3I«  quljome  aneftato^ot  na  fljame  finfetf, 
C&at  ane  tying  fajns  and  trtljer  tljinfes; 
3ne  epe  lufete  Dp,ane  Dttjet  toinfcg, 

Witfy  fait  and  fein?eitface: 
15ot  goflbp  go,qu[jill  it  iss  gteine, 
JFoj  to  feife  out  qtifta  Ijeg  ijir  feine, 

of  [jit  mo^eu  tuee  get  ane  meine, 

3|t  tuai;  ane 


can  tell, 


88  Philerno.  (gwfce  fivjs,iis  nane 
31n  qu&at  flmt  Doi0  aibetto  Dtoell, 
D|  6e  quljat  finge  31le  fenatu  m^  fell, 

®utie  oaet&jen  all  about; 
jFos  tliotljt  31  to  &te  ^one  and  iDe^^e, 
31  fenato  &iiu  not  a  mpte  t^e  mair, 

to  tljijs  Coton  Doijs  notu  vepait, 
father  to  finD  out* 


89  Alberto,  ^ea  ftarlote,ttotutt  tljofcu  fo?  to  ffeip 
^en  31  ftaue  gottin  of  tlje  ane  grip, 
IBe  Clinfi  3f  fall  tty  nuutute  nip, 

Eiclit  frfjauplp  o?  tuee  frljeD: 

($oD  no|  3f  tar  in  ane  taip, 

euev  tljotu  fta  nip  IjanD  efcaip, 
dufiill  31  Ijaue  pullit'tlie  Ipfee  ane 

duljait  nane  fall  be  to 


goPhilotus.  Eage  not  gube  gofle,bot  Bald  ?ouv 


Clje  lass  bot  bairnlie  tj5  and  ^oung, 
31  toald  be  laitD  to  tuit  Bit*  dung, 

^uppofe  frljo  ^atljoffendit: 
jfojgiue  bit  tljig  ane  fault  fo?  niee, 
9nd  3[  fall  fouevtie  fo?  l)it  bee, 
Cljat  inflantlp  fto  fall  agree, 

CDat  tljijj  flip  fould  be  mendit 


(toung 


PHILOTVS. 

91  Philerno.  jFatljet  31  Btant  wp  Ijaill  offence, 
<T  tjic  clai  tljca  31  ijauc  tane  till  ga  ij  cure, 
and  gif  it  plrafc  ">oiu  till  difpence, 
5rj5  2£lit&  tljit  tljingtf  tljat  at  pad: 

(43     C&it  bpgane  faulted  toill  ?e  fo^giue, 
3nD  eftet  father  qu^ill  31  Wue, 
3gane  31  fall  ?oto  neuet  gteiue, 

t^at  m^  lj>fe  map  latt. 


92  %rljci\n  me  ti)r  manet  and  tljr  ujai>, 
3nD  3  ?out  bidding  fall  obq>, 
3nd  neuet  fall  ?ouc  \uill  gane  fap, 

15ot  be  at  30111-  command: 
Alberto.  C&te  fault  Ijeit  ftelie  31  fo?giue  tjee, 
l^ljilotusj  is  tljc  man  velriueo  tljcc, 
fl);  ntljeruja^iss  31  Ijad  mifcljeifit  tljcr, 

and  noiu  giue  nice  tljp  Ijand. 


93  Cf)i0  10  mp  ordinance  and  toill, 
<&iue  tlj)>  confent  Ipljilotu^  til!, 
Co  marie  ytm  and  to  fulfill, 
Cljat  godlte  bliffit  band: 
Philerna  jfatDet,  31  tactile  am  content, 
and  ijciito  gtucjs  mp  full  confent, 
it  ticljt  fait  toald  mee  tepent, 
fould  ?oto  gainftand. 


94Philotus.  Jpcit  i£  mp  Ijanb  mp  da  t  ling  Dotu, 
Co  be  ane  faitljfull  fpou0  to 
be  mp  fault  (^oflbp 
Cf)i0  i0  ane  ijappie  inciting: 
matet  0offc,  10  fa  tueill  D?cH, 
Cljat  all  tljingjj  at  cumdefo?  tlje  beff, 
T5ot  let  ujs  fet  amang  tljc  tefi, 
ane  dap  f  02  all  compleiting. 

95 


PHILOTVS. 

95  Alberto.  3ne  Sl^onetlj  and  na  langer  dap, 
jfoa  it  requpseg  na  grit  delag, 

Cafe  t&air  ?our  topfe  toitl)  ?oto  atoap, 

3nd  tofe  Ijir  as  ?e  toill: 
Philotus.  JFoafuitb  ?e  fall  ga  tuitlj  me  Ijame, 
IXuljair  31  fall  &eip  ?oto  faif  fua  fcDame, 
Onto  tljr  da;;,  o?  tljan  nice  blame, 

Cljat  frljo  fall  ijaue  nane  ill. 

96  Plefant.  Ciulja  euev  (atxi  in  all  t^aiv  Ipfe, 
Ctua  cappit  Cairli0  mafe  fife  ane          ^ 
Co  tafe  a  ?oung  man  fo^  ijis  lu^f 

3011  cadgell  tuald  be  glaid: 
Cfje  feind  refaue  tlje  fe^felejj  frunt, 
Put  doun  tiip  Ijand  and  gtaip  Ijiv  runt, 
C&e  Carle  feennig  not,lje  isi  fa  blunt, 

<£if  fc^o  be  man  03  maid* 

97  Quid  gucfeis  tlje  mundie,(}jo  is  a  gillie, 

a  Colt-foill,  not  a  fillie, 

a  doto,  bot  l]e<5  a  pillie, 
Cljat  tuill  pla^  tlje  ane  paflfe: 
Put  doun  tlj^  fjand  Dane  Carle  and  graip, 
3&  tf>a£  tjad  tuont  to  rljciss  tljr  Paip, 
Jfo?  tDoto  Ijejs  gotten  ane  jolie  iaip, 
3(n  Ipfeenetf  of  ane  Lafle. 

Philotus  fpeiks  to  his  Dochter  Brifila. 

98  1B?ifilla  Ooc^ter  mpne  giue  eir, 
3  ^ot&et  31  &aue  b^odjt  tfje  Ijeit, 
Co  mee  a  topfe  and  darling  deir, 

3[  fte  command  tljairfoir 
J|)ir  Ijonour,  ferue,  obep  and  luif, 
Cfttirfe  a^  tlje  befl  fo?  fjir  beljuif , 
Co  plei0  fiir  fie  tfy$  pairt  tljotu  p^uif , 
' 


PHILOTVS. 


Cdlulj  tmt  and  all 

Philotas  to  bis  new  Bryde. 

99  Ofe  Ijq  turn  a0  ?out  atoin  nip  doto, 
ftcip  6it,foj  fto  fall  lp  toitD  ?oto, 

Ouijill  31  map  latufullieatootu, 

Co  lap  ->o\u  br  HIP  0>Dr: 
Philerno.  j  fall  ?our  Doc^tev  5)usJbanD  ftueit, 
Jfl^a  Irs*  no?  mp  conipainr  oun  ticit, 
3nD  foI(oU)  baitlj  at  bed  and  nicit, 

Culjill  tljat  31  be  ane  biPdr  . 

Philerno  to  Brifilla. 

100  Ipouj  doi0  tljc  quDctll  of  Jfoztonn  go, 
£Uiljat  uiir  kit  toettd  tjcjJ  ixi?or  Ijt  out 

and  mime  alfo, 


£Du  v  fa  tljci-0  baitlj  ijcs  done  agtie, 
Cljat  31  to  ?oun0,euin  ass  ?c  fie, 
Ond  ?e  to  ntpnc  fall  mannt  be, 
3nd  all  uponc  ane  Dap, 


101  !i)ard  ij3  out  Ijap  and  lur  klcj5  rljanrc  , 
dulja  pitied  uss  fuppofe  tucr  pance/ 
JMl  oft  tljiJJ  matet  did  31  ffeance, 

TBot  toitlj  mp  felf  befo  it: 
31  ijaurbrnc  tljicatnit  and  fo^flttttn, 
oft  tljat  31  am  untlj  it  bittin, 

a  iuap  o{  it  be  tpittin, 
3nd  vr  medic  tljaijfoit. 

102  Briiilla.  Q9atfivc<s  allace  fo?  fib  temeid, 
(Tijat  fib  ane  putpoi^  fould  p^oceid, 

31  vuald  luifr  0  vatljn  to  be  deid, 

Boj  in  tljat  manet  matrljit: 
Culjat  aillit  ?e  {patented  to  pzcpaiv, 


PHILOTVS. 

^out  Cfjilt^entf  fceip  continuall  cait, 
^out  cvetoell  Ijan&eg  quljp  t»i&  ?e  fpafr, 
to 


1  03  Onnatutall  fatljetsJ  note  quljaitfoir  .' 
32MD  ^e^ouv  Oocfjtetg  tljus  Druoirr' 
jFo?  ^out  uane  f  antaftess  far  mof  t, 

J13oi  onie  guDe  vefpecfe: 
3|js  it  not  boittuie  Ije0  ^oto  trcewn, 
8>af  knaj>t£S  to  feife  foa  Ijaifl  to  l|)eauin.'' 
31  ttoto  t&at  all  tlje  luaclD  euln, 

§;>all  at  ^out:  gucbvie  gecfe* 

104  Solace  to  fetb  tljemfelueis  to  fla, 
3ne  m^?e  to  inifle  tljap  fall  in  ma: 
C^a^  get  feot  gteif  qu^en  a0  tljap  ga> 

Co  get  ttiaiv  gveiteft  game: 
3nti  toee^oung  t^ingjs  to?mentit  to, 
CljairDafftng  Doid  us;  ftua  undo, 
®if  tlja^  be  to^fe,tljaiv  doingg  lo, 

COillfignifie  t&e  fame, 

1  05  Philerno.  3[t  p?of  eitt0  not  f  o?  to  cotupleine, 
Let  t>j$  fo^fieouufeluess  fiettoene, 
Jpoto  toee  t^iss  ytutii  map  p^eueine, 
anti  faif  uss  fta  tliai?  fnaicijs: 

j3  t^a^  toeill  can, 
meetvan^fo^meintillane  man, 
Wtt  ttua  oucfelue0  fould  made  tljan, 
3nD  faif  us  fva  t^ait 


1 06  Brifilla.^afe  ^oto  a  ma,  tljat  ij5  bot  motoitf 
Co  tljinfe  tljaivon  ^our  gteif  ftot  gtotoiss, 
jFoj  ttiat  fceupfe  Deuill  Ijaiti  it  Dotot'0, 

^enitranneuevfce: 
Philerno.  CluJ^  notr*  gif  tljat  tuitlj  faitft  toep^a^  E 


PHILOTVS. 

JFo?  oft  t&e  tfoDDetf  as  31  &atD  fap, 
!De0  Done  t&e  l£he  anD  ?it  Qa;  map, 

Ipcvrljaiue  till  tJ0  ague. 

107  Ctiat3!p&i0  toa0  a  8£apD  toeteiD, 
3nD  ftua  DiD  fo;  Ijir  p^rv  (pdD, 
Detie  mitlj  tbc  <boDDr  0  inDeid, 
C  vanff  o?iuDc  On  in  ane  man: 


ane 


Onto  Ijio  ncxu  r  bunif  alUurfr  , 


CG  i  tlj  D  ifagr  paill  anD  team 


108  Ciul)i>  map  not  note  ate  tueill  aj3  tljan, 
€ijc  $oDDe0  ronucvt  me  in  ane  man, 

Clje  Ipbe  gif  tljat  mp  ptapet  ran, 

3J  futelie  tuill  afla|>: 
a^aifi  frr  i  tit  <$oDDe0  Celeftiall, 
^e  inirljtir  Q3uif  ccjs  gteit  anD  fmall, 
anD  Dcauinltr  potcier^  ane  anD  all, 

a^aiff  ljumblie  31  ?oto  prap, 

109  Hube  Doun  from  ?out  impr?c  abonr  , 
3nD  from  ?out  ijctr  I)  tciumpljant  Crone, 
Cill  ud  puiv  fauHiis  fenD  furroui-  fonc, 

Of  >ouv  maid  fperiall  genre: 

Ijotu  tuee  pniv  q^aDjjni-j  mutne, 
fete  anD  luif  Ijoto  baitlj  taeebutne, 
C  [jaivfoii:  intill  ane  man  mee  tu  vnr  , 
till  cfr  ijcvu  tijtd  rate, 


1  10  TBefjalD  out  Patents  [jc<5  opp^tft, 
3nD  bp  ali  Deft  tljait  Dorljtci'<5  D^eft, 
CClitlj  unmcit  matrljco  to  moled, 

£10  fillic  faul(i0  jt  fie: 
Cljaivfoit  immottall  ($>oDDe0  of  gtace, 


PHILOTVS. 

<£rant  tljat  our  paageritf  mag  tafe  place, 
Conuert  ing  fegnde,  tljitf  cairfull  cace, 
folac  c  to  fupplie* 


1  1  1  Plefant.  8ne  fattfj  perf  umit  tmtfj  fgne  folie, 
3nd  monie  Dane  too^d  alla*ttolie, 
Cfjg  paaget  tfi  not  Ijalf  fa  Ijolte, 

ll)oufe=lui;Dane  ais  it  femisJ: 
15ot  all  tnuenttt  f  o?  a  togle, 
Clip  DeOfallotu  fo?  to  beggle, 
Clje  borne  Laflfe  hot  to  Defile, 

5l5a  tJotobllness  tftat 


1  1  2  Brifilla.  a^aifitf  0  quljat  noto  ?  lietlitnfe  ?e 
Di  t&an  to  be  in  fotone  ?e  feime:  (D?eme, 
^c&o  Igis  al0  Deid,  quljat  fall  3(  fceime, 

flDf  tlji0  nnljappierlianrer' 
^c^o  toill  not  Deit  me  fo?  na  ctgiis, 
Jfor  plucking  on  ftljo  toill  not  v^ij5, 
^a  latfmiv-lj>fee  lo  a0  fcljo  I|>ij5, 

30  saueift  in  a  trance* 

1  13  Philerno.  £D  bliffull  Deitie  Diu^ne, 
^aift  Dappie  tonuent,  Coutt  and 
Cljat  Doi0  ^out  gloaioujs  ems$  incline, 

£Dur  piapevte  to  adDetv: 
Wit  tander  tljanfcs  unto  ^oto  all, 
jfo?  Ijeiting  tiss  quljen  t^at  toee  call, 

ridding  us  fcom  bondage  tl^all, 

00  plainlie  doid  appeit;* 


1  14  3  am  ane  man  TBaifilla  lo, 
and  toitlj  all  neceflarijJ  tljairto, 
Q@^  all  tjjat  onie  man  mag  do, 
31  fall  gat  ?oto  confidder: 
fen  tljc  ($oddi0  abone  ijes  baoc!)t, 


law 

1  -i 


PHILOTVS. 

Ct)i0  uionDrroiijs  tuai-k,anD  ljc<5  it  unor  Ijt, 
3nb  jjvantit  all  ruin  as  tore  forljt, 
Lrt  D0  be  glaiD  togiDDrr. 

1  15  Brifilla.jf3ot»  fen  tDe$oD0  fjetf  furrour  fent 
8nD  Done  euen  ajs  tuce  DiD  inucnt, 
^3i}  IOP  31  ijaitlp  am  content, 

Co  Do  a0  ?e  Deupfr: 
<Llj:ouj  ^otijj  Dcncit  nip  onlie  rljopfr, 
3In  mutuaK  luif  toee  fall  vrjopfr, 
Our  f  uitoujj  f  atljrvjs  liaitlj  fuppofe 

€ljaj>  toalD  jcibip  in 


1  1  6  Philotus.a9j>  Doto  fuppoijs  31  t>id  Delap, 
Ji^oto  rum  ijs  our  fumt  ff3uptiall  Da|>, 
(Tliaiif  oiv  mak  Ijaift  f\ua  tljat  tu  ec  map, 

3In  tpmr  rum  to  tpr  kivk: 
Philerno.  ^a  quljen  ?e  lift  fie,  31  ant  teaDie, 
Cijait  ijs  ane  <$uf-tjeiD,fo^  be  our  HaDie, 
31  toajJ  ?our  ^>one,anD  ^e  m^  DaDie, 
mo  211  ing  in  tljc  mirk, 


1  1  7  Minifter.3i  Dout  not  bot  ^t  unDerftanD, 
Joouj  <$oD  is  3utlj  our  of  tljid  band, 
ClnD  tlje  actioun  tljat  luce  ijaur  in  IjanD, 

iDeDiDtjimfelfoutfet: 
Co  tijat  effrft  all  men  31  meine, 
Q^ir&t  kcip  tljair  boDprjs  puir  anb  rleinr, 
j?ra  JFo^niration  till  abfleine, 

0nD  CftilDrrn  to  beget. 

j  1  8  OBot  fen  tlje  mater  niinu  atj>o?t, 
31lk  titljer  Dap,  31  toill  be  frljo^t, 

0nD  Doijs  tljr  parties  baitlj  crljoit, 
CorljaritieanDluif: 

Ca&  [jcir  tljijs  ujoman  f  o?  ?our  lupf  r  , 


drip 


PHILOTVS. 

!£eip,luif  and  cSjetifcD  Ijit  &ut  ffrpfe, 
311  titfjet;  alg  tetme  of  ?oiu;  Igfe, 


1  19  Cafe  foa  ?ouv  Spoils  Pljilotug  tfjan, 
flDbep  anD  Intf  Jim  as  ?e  can, 
jfo?faife  fo?  Dim  all  titljet*  man, 

fXnljill  Deitlj  tio  ^oui  Difleuev: 
Cfje  Ho^ti  to  fanftifie  anD  blefle  ^ot», 
ij)ijs  grace  anD  fauouv  alss  31  tuifclj  ?oto, 
JLet  not  Ijt0  luif  anD  mevcie  mifle  ^otu, 

16ot  be  toitlj  ^oto  fo?  enei% 

Flavius  conjuration. 

120  £D  metde  (^oD,  DOUJ  mag  tljitf  tot 


inDeiD  ricljt  OBmilie, 
3jn  fo?me  of  Ijiv  a  faitlj  3!  fa* 

%mn  Deuill  Ije0  meoefatfit: 
31  tuill  in  Ijaifl  t^aiufoti;  gang  Dame, 
padt  fo?  fin  anD  fcDame, 
to  tell  me  tlje  aluin  ricljt  Jftame, 
Jfot  0oD^s  caujs  31  toill  (  taif  it» 


121  Clje  Cvoce  of  (^oD,  out  ^autout  ftoeit, 
Co  faif  anD  fane  me  fra  tljat  ^p?ett, 
Cljat  tljoto  na  Dap  Dane  fo?  to  meit, 

C^itlj  me  in  all  tljp  l|)fe; 
3In  (^oD0  beljalf  31  cljavge  tlje  Jeft, 
Cljat  tljoto  fiuaik  in  mg  Dart  na  feiv, 
T5ot  pasJ  tljp  toa^  anD  Do  na  Deir, 

Co  negtljei;  man  no?  togfe. 

122  jFirft  31  fonjnte  tfje  to  ^anft  ^atle, 
05e  aivifcl)  king  anD  Cineene  of  Jfavie, 

to  tlje  Ctinitie  to  tatfe, 

duljill  tljoto  tfje  twitlj  fjaue  taull: 

OB  2 


PHILOTVS. 

'Be  ClwfianD  Ijitf  0poflillej5  ttoell, 

of  Jt)eutn  and 

aulD  &anft  Cafiian  ijuu  fell, 
ipetet  and  be  Ipaull, 


123  'Be  a^atljetu,  fl^atb,  be  Luife  and  31ofine, 
15e  LetDe,  ^>tij:  an&  acljetone, 
15e  ijelliff&e  furtejs  euene  one, 

£Xuljair  Ipluto  ijj  tlje 
CUat  tt)0tp  Depart  anD  Do  na  \uonDrr, 
T5e  lirbtnf  ng,  qu^irle  toinD,  Daple  noj  tfjun&et, 
Ctjat  bead  no?  boDie  get  na  blunder, 

Ijavmt  quljcu  tljoiu  gat^  Ijcnr  r  . 


1  24  Ctj^oto  potuer  31  cljarge  tlje  of  t^e  IPatp, 
CDotu  nepttjec  gime,gotol,gloiume,noi  gaip, 
Li?fee  anbet  fai&ell,  like  tjnfell  3ip, 
L  j>  kc  Dftle  noi  aicifr  ijc  OElfe: 
JL^ke  fy\it  Dragon  full  of  fett, 
Lgfee  mattoolf  ,Lpon,T5ull  no?  IBeit, 
l?ot  pa0  3ovu  Ijcnrc  ad  tljotu  rome  ijrir, 


1  25  Emily.  <$utie-man  quljat  metne  ic  or  ijt  bot 
dulja  [jess  >oto  put  in  fib  ane  milder  (gtifc  t 
15efoit  31  neuev  untievftuDr, 

Ct)e  f  onnr  of  3ou  i  roniuiing: 
Flavius.  31  charge  tbe  ?tt  a$  of  befof  t, 
Pass  ijenr  e  anD  ttoubill  in  c  no  mot  v, 
Ctototo  tljouj  to  D?avu  me  ouir  tljc  fr  oil, 

JTal0  feinD  tuitlj  tlji>  alluving. 


126  Emily.  (^uDe-man  qu^at  mifletijJ  all 
3tf  ?e  toat  cumbieD  tottlj  tDe  cotDtss, 
3e  at  31  tDtnb  l^fee  31oljnr  of  ILofti*, 
ane  out  of  ijis  mpuDe: 

Flavius. 


PHILOTVS. 

Flavius.  3(n  <$od$  fceDalfe  31  tlje  fcefeic&e, 
^mpcfrljr  me  not  uritlj  tuoad  \m  fpeicge, 

o  <^od  31  me  beteic&e, 
JFta  t|ie  and  al  tfi^  fegnde. 


1  27  Plefant.  it)a  jja,ija  6a,fja  fja>6a  Ija, 
Clje  fetnti  tefaue  tlje  lar^tei:0  a, 
IXuljilk  10  tlie  tupfefi  of  U0  ttoa» 


ot 


jr  lemit  fUiII,be0  tljoto  not  tint  tDp  frill, 
Cljat  tafetjs  tDa?  topfe  to  lie  ane  DetH, 
Cljoto  i0  fav  uatnefl  3!  toait  tuetll, 


3  •   128  Flavius.  31  rfjatge  tfje  ?it  a?5  31  fiaue  ellii5, 


T5e  Humitoaiss  anti 
IBe  ftueit  ^anft  ^teuin  Ganit  to  t&e  tieid, 


and  6e  15eiD, 


lie 


129 

OBe  ^aljomeit  tlie  Curfeifclj 
IBt  Julian  anD  ^anft  OBlousi  nod, 
TBr  15evnard  and  be  IB^Or: 
15e  a@ic6aell  tDat  tDe  Dragon  Dang, 
IBr  (^abaiell  and  Jitf  auld  fang, 
^5e  Eaptiaell  in  t^meof  t&iang, 


EoO, 


3oEmily.^  lnif,31  tfjinfe  it  uetie  Ipfee, 
to?  JL 
fidge 


PHILOTVS. 

C.  u  I)  at  i0  tlje  mater  tijat  ->t  mtntt 
dutjatgarritf  ?oto  bjai&.-'qiiljaii;  tjaue?e 
dutjat  nilli0  ?oto  joj>.;quljat  tjaue  ^c  fener* 
Co  rage  toittj  fib  unreil/ 

131  Flavius.  Cluljat  Ijaue  31  fene  fal<5  Ijound  of 
31  trotoit  quijrn  3j  bid  toitlj  tlje  null, 
Cljoto  toad  vtrljt  OBmilic  tljp  fell, 

JT3ot  ane  incarnate  Deuill: 
13ot  J  virljtnoiutuitlj  nu»  atoin  (2Bine> 
Bicljt  <2Binilie  Ijaut  mar^it  feint, 
§a  tljoto  mon  be  ane  §>p?eit  tmcleine, 

Lo:D  faif  me  fra  tijj>  euilL 


T5euettetu  of  tlje  Dalte  (^fjaift, 
C>epaitt  out  of  mpne  DOUJJ  in  Ijatfi, 
3nD  ^oD  quljaijs  potaer  and  mirljt  is  maift, 

Confetue  me  fva  tijr  cummer: 
<^ang  Ijence  to  IDell  o?  to  fte  JFatie, 
KLlitlj  me  tljoui  ma;)  na  langet  tarie, 
JFo?  qutjp.^31  ttoeiv  t&e  be  ^anft  S^atie, 

Ct)ou'0  benane  of  m^  nttmmet* 

1  33Philerno.(^at  tofc  fje  tljiis  tioujj  f  o?  it  gtotoss 

((ait 


DuffaanD  31  Oaue  fo^  to  Debait, 

>oto  a  Iptill  of  r  ftait, 
IBefoit  toee  go  to  bed: 

am  ?oung  and 

riiiage  kene,and  ?e  bot  cauld, 
Clje  ane  mon  to  tlje  DtDev  faulD, 
3  f  aitlj  befoit  toe  fcljed* 


134  Philotus,  3^e  toil  not  foi  tfte  maifltie 
^[Jc  mon  gtie  better  and  toe  tft^ue,    (fttgue, 
Philerno.  j(5a  be  m£  faull  toe'ijs  toit  belpue, 
£Xu^a  gettf  tlje  upper  Ijano: 


PHILOTVS. 

3(ndeid  tljoto  fall  beic  mee  a  benell, 
jFo£  toitlj  mj>  J!3eiue0  31  fall  t&e  nauell  , 
3uld  ruftuonc  Carle  tafe  tljaii-  a  veuell, 
Cljan  do  as  31  command, 

1  35  Philotus.  3|  fie  It  nttnmto  to  cnffite  t&e  man, 
31le  end  t&e  jrtap  tljat  tljota  ftegan, 
Cijat  uifto?ie  tljotu  ncncv  tuan  , 

Cljat  fall  be  borljt  fa  Dm: 
5>a  meme,tnetde  (Smilfe, 
Cafe  ^e  tfie  maiftne  all  fo?  me, 
JFo?  31  fall  at  ?our  fiiDDing  be, 

3nt»  fla^  me  not,3|  ftuext* 

1  36  PlefantOHel  rlappit  buvd  quljan  lull  ^e  feitTe 
auld  futll,  t^e  feind  refaue  tljt  mtflTe, 
^e  ttoiuit  to  get  ane  butd  of  blifle, 
Co  fjaue  ane  of  t^ic  a^aggieS: 
Ctntiat  tljinfe  ^e  noto.''  fjoto  tjs  tlje  rare, 
^e'ill  all  doit,allace,allace> 
gtace  and  ^onout  on  t&at  face, 
IXuoti  Eobein  to 


i37Philerno.  Cljan  ijecljt  in  fjaift  tfjaitfoit  tljat 
§>all  uadte  at  mp  bidding  boto,          (tljoto 
duljat  euet  31  do  t&oto  fall  allotu, 

8$g  fanfie  to  fulfill: 
^a  gang  31  out,  fa  mm  3  in, 
^)a  gif  31  iuaifl,  fa  gif  3f  toin , 
duDat  euet  31  do  maft  ^e  na  din, 

'Botlet  me  tuitb  nt|> 


138  CJjou  mag  not  fpeit  tlie  rau0,$ 
dnljen  tljat  31  lift  not  twit&  ^oto  Ig, 
CUijjat  3|  t^e  bid,and  tlioto  den#, 
Witt  mill  not  tueill  ague: 


PHILOTVS. 

Ctuljen  tfjat  31  vM&  turtb  to  tepait 
&peir  not  the  ru  mpanir  ,no:  q  u  ijaiv  : 
Content  tii  i>  felf  a  nD  ma  k  na  mam 
3f  man  tDp  maifler  be* 


139  Philotus.  31  am  content  quljrn  (f  Ijoto  Cone, 
ail  till  olir  i>  that  ->c  intone, 

CDat  ?e  commanD  it  man  be  Done 

CDait  us  nane  utljrr  butt: 
Philerno.  Ciuljat  ijj  f  pur  p?j>ce  Damefall  fair.'' 
Ciu^at  tak  ?e  foj  a  nicbtu  lairr' 
Huir.  v  fall  a  Croun  upon  me  fpaiv, 

15ot  quljom  toitlj  fall  31  Do  itt 

140  PhUerno.  3[le  get  a  man,ljaue  lieit  a  Ctoun, 
15ot  be  toeill  Orange  quljen  ?e  l£  Doun, 

nj?ce  and  gar  tljc  iLarbair  lotane, 


Huir.  CDe  ?oungeft  JLasJ  in  all  tljijs  Citie, 
^all  b^De  na  matr  requeifi  no?  treitte, 
3Ile  rvj>  a0  3I  toar  fmirt  f  02  pitie, 
Ciuljen  31  am  frit!)  Dim  laiD, 

141  EmUy.  j|3ouj  fen  mp  pufband  jjejJ  Done  fa 
"But  rauis  foi  to  put  me  ijim  fra, 

31  toill  unto  nu>  f  atljcv  ga, 

05efoir  IjijJ  feit  to  falD: 
JFatljer  fa  far  31  DiD  offenD, 
Cljat  31  mar  not  mp  11110  amenD, 
9nD  am  ouir  pert  fog  to  pietenD 

3oitr  Dor  ijtrv  to  be  ralD, 

142  Alberto.  Lament  notjet  tyat  matet  be, 
C^^  faltig  ar  buriet  all  vuitij  me* 
IBettoirt  tljj?  ^uf  faanD  nouj  anD  tljee, 

31?5  onie  neto  Debait.'' 

Emily. 


s 

?fc 

25r 


PHILOTVS. 

Emily.  31  fenato  of  naiu,  fcot  Ijee  indeid, 
i])ej&  put  mee  fra  ljim,qufjat  teinetd.' 
and  lu  ill  na  matt:  fik  f ofiedtf  f rid, 
JJ)e  fapis  of  mgne  efiait? 

143  Alberto,  Ciuljat  t$  tlje  matet  tljat  ?e  metne 
againfl  all  oj&ouv  f laii*  anO  rlcine, 

%cl)iit  game  >ottv  tu;pfe  tljat  ljc0  not  btnr , 

^it  f|?ue  fcapetf  in  ^our  aucljt: 
3(i5  tljte  ane  plefant  goDlte  l^fe, 
Co  lie  in  6au*ac e,ftutt  anti  ftrgfe, 
Cljc  feind  lualD  faine  man  be  ?out  tupf e, 

Can  neuet;  fit  in  faucet, 

144  Philotus.  ftneto  ?e  tlje  tuentlj  glide-man  31 
J  3tt;  laboui:  K  fould  not  alloiu,  (ttota 
iluiie  all  mp  face,be()ald  nuj  li?otu, 

CDat  ijs  battl)  blafe  and  bla: 
Alberto.  3[t  ma^  toeill  fie,  31  *an  not  tell, 
Cljat  frljo  duufi  tuitlj  tljat  matet  mcll, 
Let  Ijit  mafe  anftoet  fot  git;  fell, 

Cofiegifitliefa* 

145  Docljtei;  gaue  31  tlje  tljiu  command, 
Cljat  tljoiu  tljp  $)u^liand  foiild  ganedand, 
}l)oto  dutfl  t&otu  ^uir,ljim  ujit&tfi^  Jand, 

IPnt  to  tlje  point  of  felling.' 
Emily.  Cljat  toac  grit  tu^ang  fiv,  gif  fa  bee, 
TBot  Ijee  na  iDussband  ijs  to  mee, 
Cyan  Ijoto  could  tuee  ttoa  difague, 

Cljat  ncuevljati  na  nulling. 

146  Alberto.  5i5a  melling  a^ifitij5?tDil  ?e  tljan 
Denp  tge  ^anage  of  tljat  man, 

3In  face  of  fjalie  S\ivk  qulja  can, 
Cfii0  open  deid  denp? 


PHILOTVS. 

Emily.  Let  rrfoun  fit  umij  ?oto  p?  ru  ai  1  1, 
Con  Dmi  nc  mee  not  full  in  t  ij  r  t  ai  II, 
Q5f  foir  tljat  ?e  bane  liaiD  nip  tai  II, 
CDe  treutlj  fpne  map  ?e  ttp* 

147  J13oto  tljitf  i«3  ad  tljat  31  toalD  fap, 
Ctjat  pla  wus  tube  nice  atoap, 
about  a  Qgonetlj  anD  a  Dap, 

Died  in  a  Claviers  uiciD: 
COitt)  q  uljouif  31  Dane  bene  run  tlill, 
3nr  ntl)  ri  (ZBmtlie  ap  anD  q  uljill, 
fDre  fato  -50iu  gine  l?lj  ilotuss  till, 


148  %upponing  mrr  ant  DeuiU  of  !bcll, 
Witty  rrrturll  ronjuratiounro  fed, 
DiD  mre  out  ofljig  ijouss  rrprll, 


ane  out  of  ijts  mpnde  o?  mattit, 

nirr  of  Ijis5  ljou.c>  fcebattit, 
31  ran  not  tell  q  u  Ijat  Ijrjs  Ijim  f  bai'tit, 
man 


149  Alberto.  CfjuJ  puvpoi<s  goflc,appritj3  to  me 
%a  tu  onD  r  v  npre  anD  ftcang  t  to  be, 
Cgat  u?  r  r  to  lu  it  tlj  r  D  r  1  1  tir, 

JTo?  JFlatJiujs  man  fend: 
%iv  gif  >e  rould  Derlaitttf  note, 
}i)ouj  lang  tljijj  vuoman  mass  tuitlj 
anD  all  tijc  manet  q  ttljrn  anD  Ijoto, 

Wtt  VualD  virDt  glaDlie  krnD  , 


i5oFlavius.  ®a  fat  aibetto  ajj  31 
31  fall  tljr  fiutlj  Dnto  iciu  frljato, 
Clutien  31  ?ouc  Dour  &terj$  betotf  e  31  fato, 
3[offetitf)itguDe4oiU: 

arrepttng 


1 


PHILOTVS. 

accepting  tfjan  tfje  paomife  maid, 
Cled  Ipfee  a  TBop  but  mait  abaid, 
jfta  ?oto  diflaitfullie  fcljo  flaid, 
and  come  mj>ne  Doug  ttntilL 

151  CtuDait  31  &it  feetptt  as  mp  to^fe, 
Ctet,  luifit  anfc  cDeteid  ytt  fo^  l|?f  e, 
dujittl  eftev-tuavti  fell  out  ane  fl^fe, 

Cjjiv  matets  all  amang: 
JFo?  plalnlte  in  tlje  Etrfe  31  fat»> 
C&tj5  man  became  ^out  ^>one  in  lata, 
3(  diO  tljaitfoit  petf^tlj?  fenato, 

^  Cmilie  toa0  to?ang» 

152  and  tDat  Come  ^p^eit  Jit  fcDaip  Bad  tane 
^)en  (ZEmiUesJ  tjjait  toass  Sot  ane, 

31  tjaitfof  t  to  tljat  (^tiaift  Ijaue  gane, 

Confuting  Dit  m#  fell: 
0nti  fva  m^  Ijou0  erpellit  Dit  to, 
Cljiss  tooman  feirnis  f oj  to  be  fc&o, 
^enf^ne  31  Dad  na  matt  ado, 

mitlj  tjjat  f  al0  f  eind  of  !J>ell. 

153  Philotus.  jRoto  JFlauiu^s,  31  tuaitticBt  toeil 
^>en  ane  of  tftem  man  be  a  IDeill, 

&&$  maiglit  face  mafes  mee  to  feill, 

C&at  mjwe  man  be  tfie  fame: 
JFo?  qujgr'  tic^t  Cmilie  is  ?outi0, 
and  tjiat  incatnate  DenillijS  outte, 
31  gat,  ?e  ana^  fie  bemp  clouti0, 

a  Deill  tmto  m^  Dame* 

i54Philerno.  |{)eit  3(  am  cum  to  ted 
JFo?  31  am  neptljet  Deill  noa  £2J^fe, 
15ot  am  ane  ?oung  man  be  mp  Igfe, 
,  and  ?out  ait* 


PHILOTVS. 

£\uljomc  3t  fo?  <$milie  Daif  tanr. 
0nD  ui  a  I  D  not  fii.s  let  nice  allane, 
Cniiili  ->r  fato  11  uijat  gait  it  is  gane, 

31  can  tr  1  1  ->oiu  na  mail. 

155  Philotus.  0  man,allace,anD  Ijavmifap, 
<£ljat  tpitlj  nip  onlp  iDorljtr  u  lap, 

^pnr  Dang  IH'P  fc  IKquljat  fall  31  tw- 

£Df  tljitf  tfnDappic  rljanrr.' 
!  )au  r  31  not  maid  a  briTir  block  , 
Ctjat  [jcj$  fo|  31ntnie  matpit  Jock  .' 
C])at  ntotoit  HIP  Docket  fo:  a  mock  , 

CDc  Dcuill  be  at  tljc  Dance, 

156  3llace,31  am  foi  mtt  fcftamit, 

Co  be  tijus  in  uu>  cilD  Defamit, 
03  1»  H?ocljtcv  i?5  not  to  be  blaiu  it  , 

JFo?  31  DaD  all  tDe  to^te: 
HuID  mm  ijj  riupfc  uaiunis5,3i  petfaif, 
Cljc  tupfcft  VuiU  in  tootuing  vat  f  , 
31  fo?  nip  labout  tuitlj  tDc  laif, 

^m  Dtiuin  to  tijiz 


157  Alberto.  <$uDe  gofle^out  tu^aitft  to  pacific 
^en  tljat  tljaii*  map  na  better  bee, 

31  am  content  nip  ^o  one  tijat  Dee, 
^all  in  itl)  ?ou  v  Docljteu  03ane: 

Philemo.  3|  am  content  toitti  Ijatt  anD  tuill, 

CljtjJ  e^atiage  f  atljet  to  fulfill, 

Clnljat  neiDijS  ^IjilotujJ  to  tljink  ill, 
O:  fit  l)i£  taeitD  to  \uavie. 

158  Flavius.1Be  fcolicfe  JFlauiuss  anD  faine, 
Co  get  tljp  OBmilie  againe 

Co  Deme  mp  DOUJ,  \uas3  31  not  toaine, 
Cfjat  tijouj  Dad  bene  a  Qyitit  t 

JSotu 


PHILOTVS. 

fen  J  am  fted  fta  tljat  frit, 
3nD  uaine  illufioun  DiD  appett, 

mp  datltng  and  m#  deit, 
fucfcet  anti  m#  toeit, 


159  <$ude  fitfisQiiljat  is  tljait  matt;  ado, 
3lih  ^outlj  pi0  lufe  Dess  gotten  lo, 
!Letu0  tDairfoti;  go  qnicfelie  to, 

3nD  matte  tuitl)  our  mattt'0: 
JLet  ug  fouve  lufevjs  novu  tejo^fe, 
3flb  ane  fo^  to  injo^  tjf  is  rljopfe, 
meitev  matrlje  no?  ane  of  tljofe, 


1  60  let  ^0  all  foute  noto  iuttlj  ane  fang> 
2Bitlj  navtlj  and  meloote  amang, 
^tuegloitto  (Sod  tljatln  tljitft^ang, 

5>ejs  bene  all  ouv  relief: 
CBat  Ije0  fta  tlj?alDome  fet  Ui5  frte, 
0nD  ()e0  130  placttin  fife  degvie, 
3!lk  ane  ai$  i)ee  tuald  iu  ifr  lj  to  te, 
glaionejj  fo?  Ijtss  gmf. 


Ane  fang  of  the  foure  Lufearis. 

WERE  Jacobs  ^onejx  matt  fogfull  fo^  to  fe, 
Cfje  toaltnngtoatoes  Etng  Ipljataoid  SDtfl 
Jifrael  matt  glaiD  in  ija  vt  to  tie  (cof  ound 
from  all  fett,befotr  in  bondage  bound.'' 
€tufjen<£od  tDebjoc  Ijt  ftp  f  ([Bgtpttangtound, 
medetnoitxiee, 
altent  Di0  dettie/ 


1 62  ft&aggteitet  glaidnetf  intlje  land  of  (Steice 
duljen  3l30on  come  ftom  Colcfjog  Same  agane    ^ 
^nd  ronquetft  gad  ttyt  famous  golden  JFleitf,     (£& 
Witty  (about  lang,ujitij  pettell  and  toitty  pane.' 


. 


PHILOTVS. 

(Tljr  JFatljer  jEzon  tojau  not  Ijalf  (a  faine, 
Co  fie  l)i£  %one  returning  Uriel)  fib  gloir, 

3ou>f  f  ,quljaio  m  imdi0  at  fati0fyit,and  moir. 

163  £>if  onie  joy  into  tlji<3  Caitlj  bclatu, 
0?  tuarldlie  plefour  vcput  be  perfyte, 

gutter  Colace  fall  ?e  to  nice  flja\u  , 
till  in  joy  ^ouv  DaitijJ  all  ijaid  Delytef 
Co  l)  an  r  3ou  v  L  u  ff  and  luft  ic  L  aDic  q  n  Ijptc, 
J  n  q  u  ij  oiu  c  5c  map  I  ai  tlj  nt  rljt  anD  Day  re  joy  fe  : 
3|n  quijom  eie  may  ?out  plefnre0  all  repofe. 

i64ilett)tf  tljattfoi^fm  euin  ajs  toetoalti  tpifle, 

Brripjorklie  luitlj  If  ill  anD  mutual  I  luff, 
30  fleitanD  in  tlje  j?lude0  of  joy  and  blifle, 
C^itlj  folace  fing  and  foa-oinco  all  remufe, 
Let  us  tljf  f  rnftejj  of  pjcfent  plefour  p?nf  e, 
3ln  rr  r  ompeure  of  all  our  former  pane, 
mifrrie,quljairin  toee  Did  remane* 


Philotus. 

1  65.15ot  noto  atiucrt  gude  fyctljciin  all  about, 
CDat  of  my  labour  ijrss  tlje  furr  c0  feine: 
3e  tljat  ijeo  bard  tlji0  ijaill  difcourfe  tl)  jotuout, 
a^ay  knaiu  ijoiu  far  tlja  1  31  abufit  ijatte  bene, 
31  grant  indeid  tljair  in  ill  na  man  me  meine, 
JFo?  3f  "iy  Telf  am  autljour  of  my  greif  , 
Cl)at  by  my  calling  fould  be  rary  it  rleine, 
Witty  3outfilie  toyi0  unto  fa  griet  m  ifrljeif. 

1  66  <&if  31  |jad  Uieyit  my  grauitieand  age, 
1R  em  ember  it  al0  my  firlt  and  auncient  fait, 
31  ijad  not  fotomit  in  fik  tmkyndlie  rage, 
jfo?  to  difgr  are  mine  ijonour  and  efiait, 
€luljat  Ijad  31  borljt  bot  to  my  felf  debait, 
^uppoi0  tlje  mater  ijad  rum  tijan  a0  31  meinit: 

JI3ay 


PHILOTVS. 

J13ap  nip  repentance  is  not  ftalf  fa  lait, 

0S  3  &a&  fitotin  tlje  t&ing  quljaitfoit  3  greinit, 

167  jf  03  tljocljt  mg  folie  DiD  tlje  Ho^D  offenD, 
ni)»  gnDe  ®oD  ijes  Ui?orljt  all  foi  Ujr  bed: 
tljt<5  tebuik  ijc^  tijatvf  oiv-  to  me  fenO, 
fik  inojDiaatc  Doings  to  Deteft, 
Clnljilk  ftueit  tefeutb  3  tecbin  tuit^  tlie  teff, 
jFroni  fatljevlte  affeftion  to  jj^oc  etD, 

I^ltepafliouns  poflTeff, 
lettne  be  nu>  ejcamptli  to  tak 


1  68  ^en  age  t&airfoit  fulti  gouetmt  be  fe  fbill 
Let  rountenance  accord  tot  tji  ^ont  gta^  IjatcijJ 
^e  aundents  all,let  tefonn  tetoll  ?out;  twill, 
^ubDeto  ^onv  fenfis  till  eft  fjeto  tbtr  fnatns, 
(Sif  ?e  tuald  not  Incomb^eD  be  toitfj  taivis, 
'Beniatflet:  oner^onr  atotn  affefttontf  fjaill: 
jFot  ^ailillie  tlje  ptaife  is  onl^  tljaiusJ, 
Ctjat  may  againft  ft  k  paulonsj  p^enaill, 

The  Mefsinger. 

1  69  (5uDe  u'ts,noto  Dane  ^e  Ijatti  and  fene  tfif  35 
OntDO^tljie  of  ^oni;  auDience  3  grant,     (ferfe 
9Jnfo?mallie  letontin  uulgartietfe, 
Df  taailltt  out  tooaDjS  and  leimtt  leiD  bot  ffeant 


3  tuait  toill  neuet  fo?  mp  tnDeness  vufe  mee: 
^it  m^  guDe-totll  fo?  to  fnpplie  t^e  toant, 
3  Dope  fall  of  ?ont;  ronttefies  ewnfe  mee« 

1  70  jfot  paffing  toeil  3  6a«e  implo^it  m^  pants 
§>toa  tljat  ?e  ran  be  tmtlj  tlje  fame  content: 
jFo?  Deto  tegaitD  gnDe  acceptionns  gained, 
anD  parties  pleifit  Dots  mab  tlje  tpme  toel  fpet 
<^tf  <£oD  IjaD  gvetter  leirning  to  mee  lent, 


PHILOTVS. 


31  fulD  fiaue  ft  Ijatoin  tlje  fame  to  ato  gufce  toil!: 
flftlpte  ignorance  tljat  3  &id  not  inuent, 

anr  fn-fr  tljat  uu  rljt  ->ou  u  fantafietf  fulfill. 


171  Laflfiu5,noU)  Irtuss  pjaiumtlj  ane  acco?&, 
foi  to  p :  r  frm  r  the  petfoun  of  out  King: 
Accounting  a#  t|jte  gift  a0  of  tl>e  Lo^D, 
3ne  pgufcent  Prince  aboue  ufii  fot  to  ting. 
Cljan  gloitto  <£>o&  and  pgapfis*  lettotf  fing, 
Clje  Jf  at&et,  %one  anD  Ijalie  <$aifl  put  gpde, 
Of  hiss  nietcicss  ttf  to  conduct  and  bang, 
Co  IjXu in  fot  ap,in  plefouiess  to  abj>De. 

FINIS. 

"TT7HAT  if  a  day  or  a  month  or  a  zeere 
^  *^  Crown  thy  defire  with  a  thoufend  wifched  contentingsf 
Can  not  the  chance  of  ane  nicht  or  ane  houre, 
Crofle  thy  delightes  with  a  thowfand  fad  tormentings  ? 
Fortune,honour,bewtie,zouth  are  but  bloflbmes  dying 
Wanton  plefoures,dotting  loue  are  but  ihadowes  flying: 
All  our  joyes  are  but  toyes  idle  thoughtes  deceauing, 
None  hes  power  of  an  houre  in  thair  lyues  bereauing. 

Earth's  but  a  point  of  the  World,and  a  man 
Is  but  a  poynt  of  the  Earths  compared  centure. 
Shall  than  the  poynt  of  a  poynt  be  fo  vaine 
As  to  delight  in  a  fillie  poynts  aventure? 
All  is  hazard  that  wee  haue^iere  is  nothing  byding: 
Dayesof  pleafures  ar  but  ftremes  throgh  fair  medowes  gly- 
Well  or  wo  tyme  dois  go,in  tyme  is  no  returning,  (ding 

Secreete  fates  guydes  our  ftates,  both  in  mirth  and  murning. 


The  Printer  of  this  prefent  Treatife  hes  (according  to  the 
Kings  Majefties  licence  grantit  to  him)  printit  findrie  vther 
delectabill  Dtfcourfes  vnderaamit,  fie  as  are,  Sir  Dauid  Lyn- 
deiayis  play,  The  Preiftis  of  Pebles  with  merie  Tailes,  The 
Freiris  of  Berwick,  and  Bilbo. 


VARIOUS  READINGS 
IN  THE  EDITION  OF  1612. 


IN  collating  the  two  early  editions  of  this  Play,  the  following  appear  to  be  the 
principal  variations  ;  the  words  of  the  edition  of  1603  being  first  quoted,  followed  by 
the  corresponding  words  of  the  edition  of  1612. 

The  TITLE  PAGE  of  Hart's  edition  has  an  Arabesque  ornament  at  the  top,  with  a 
shield  in  the  centre,  charged  with  the  figure  of  a  Heart  interlaced  with  the  letter  A  ; 

LINE  1.  <Ane'— <A;' 

2.  '  Treatise,' — '  Comedie  ;' 

5.  <  Fallis,'— «  fall ;' 

8.  «  Velis,' — '  voles  ;' 

Andrew  Hart's  device,  with  A,  H.  below  it,  in  place  of  Charteris' ;  and  the  imprint, 
«  EDINBURGH,  Printed  hy  Andro  Hart,  and  are  to  he  Solde  at  his  Buith,  on  the 
North-side  of  the  gate,  a  litle  beneath  the  Crosse,  ANNO  DOM.  1612." 

On  the  reverse  of  the  Title — THE  ARGUMENT.  Philotus,  an  olde  rich  man,  is  ena- 
morued  with  the  loue  of  Emilia,  daughter  to  Alberto,  who  being  refused,  imployeth 
a  Macrell  or  Pandrous  to  allure  her  thereto,  but  all  in  vain ;  afterward  he  dealeth  with 
her  father,  Alberto,  who  being  blinded  with  the  man's  wealth,  vseth  first  faire  words, 
aad  thereafter  threatnings  to  perswade  her  thereto ;  the  mayde  still  refuseth.  In  the 
mean  time,  Flavius,  a  young  man,  enters  in  conference  with  the  Mayde,  and  obtain- 
eth  her  consent,  who,  being  disguised,  conveyeth  herselfe  away  priuilie  with  the  said 
Flavius.  Her  father  and  Philotus  searches  for  her  in  the  house.  Philerno,  the  Maydes 
brother,  laitlie  arryued  out  of  other  countries  (being  verie  lyke  her)  is  mistaken  by  her 

o 


father  and  Philotus,  to  be  Emilia,  who  takes  the  person  of  his  sister  vpon  him :  and 
after  diuerse  throat  nings  of  his  father,  consenteth  to  marrie  Philotus  :  and  so  Philo 
tus  committeth  Philerno  to  the  custodie  of  his  daughter,  Brisilla,  vntill  the  mariage 
should  be  accomplished.  Pbilerno  faines  himselfe  to  Brisilla,  to  be  transformed  in  a 
man,  and  so  maketh  himselfe  familiar  with  her.  Thereafter,  Philerno  is  maried  to 
Philotus,  who,  fearing  to  be  discovered,  maketh  a  brawling  that  same  night  with  Phi- 
lotus,  and  abuselh  him  vyllie,  and  to  colour  the  mater  the  better,  agreeth  with  a 
whore  to  go  to  bed  with  Philotus.  Flavius  seeing  the  supposed  Emilia  to  bee  maried 
to  Philotus,  imagines  the  right  Emilia  to  be  a  deuill,  and,  after  many  conjurations, 
expelleth  her  his  house,  she  returneth  to  her  father,  Alberto,  acknowledging  her  mis 
behaviour,  and  lamenting  her  case.  Flavius  being  sent  for,  perceiuing  how  he  had 
mistaken  Emilia,  reuealeth  the  whole  trueth,  and  so  taketh  her  home  agane  to  his 
wife,  and  Philerno  Brisilla.  In  the  end  Philotus  bewaileth  his  follie  for  pursuing  so 
vnequall  a  match,  warning  all  men  to  beware,  by  bis  example. 

LINE  1.  '  Interlocutors,'  «  Speakers.' 
— 13.  «  Huir,'  <  Whore.' 

TITLE,  1.  1.  «  Ane,' «  A ;' 

1.  2.  «  Treatise,'  <  Comedie.' 

St.  ii.  v.  4.  «  man,'  '  must ;'  7.  «  dow,'  «  doue.'  This  word  is  sometimes  printed 
dow  in  the  edition  of  1612,  and  sometimes  altered  to  doue.  The  same  remark  will 
apply  to  man  and  must ;  gar  and  make,  &c. 

St.  in.  v.  2.  «  Ise,'  «  He ;'  6.  <  theirs,' « the  rer's.' 

St.  iv.  v.  7.  <  f    ,' «  fucke.' 

St.  x.  v.  2. '  Leise  me  thay,'  '  Grace  on  these.' 

6t.  xni.  v.  1. '  sen,' «  sith.' 

St.  xiv.  v.  7. « freine,' '  freind.' 

St.  xvi.  v.  5. '  on,'  '  in.' 

St.  xvin.  v.  3. «  and,'  '  if;'  5.  «  birnand,'  «  birning,' 

St.  xix.  v.  1.  '  muilles,'  '  mooles.' 

St.  xx.  v.  1.  « the,'  «  your ;'  8.  <  not,'  <  you.' 

St.  xxni.  v.  1.  « is,' «  are  ;'  5.  «  with,'  <  of.' 

St.  xxviii.  v.  2. «  cheinzeis,'  '  cheinies.' 

St.  xxix.  v.  5. «  stufFe,'  «  stuste.' 

St.  xxxi.  v.  6.  «  rickillis,'  '  heapes.' 

St.  xxxn.  v.  6.  «  nocht,'  <  not ;'  7.  «  neck  me  not  with,'  <  doe  not  say  me.' 

St.  xxxin.  v.  1. '  rowan,'  '  rowdan ;'  6.  « thay,'  '  these ;'  8.  '  thay,'  '  these.' 

St.  xxxiv.  v.  3.  «  and,'  <  an.' 

St.  xxxv.  v.  7. «  heir,' «  may.' 


3 

St.  xxxvi.  v.  6.  «  filthsum,'  '  filthie  ;'  8.  <  sweit,'  <  weit.' 

St.  xxxvu.  v.  3.  '  thir,'  '  these.' 

St.  xxxviu.  v.  1.  <  care,'  «  cure ;'  '  cult,'  <  coote  ;'  7.  '  gar,'  <  make.' 

St.  XLII.  v.  7.  <  thay,'  '  the.' 

St.  XLVII.  v.  8.  '  man,'  '  must.' 

St.  XLVIII.  v.  5.  '  sen,'  <  sith.' 

St.  L.  v.  1.  '  tmmper,'  '  strumpet ;'  2.  '  was,'  '  is ;'  6.  <  gar,'  <  make.' 

St.  LII.  v.  2.  <  off,'  <  of.' 

The  lines  printed  in  Roman  letters  at  the  end  of  Stanza  LIV.  are  omitted  in  the 
edition  of  1612. 

The  word  <  FLAVIUS'  is  inserted,  in  the  edition  of  1612,  between  the  running-title 
and  the  first  verse  of  Stanza  LV. 

St.  LVI.  v.  2.  '  toistit,'  '  tossed ;'  4.  <  man,'  «  must.' 

St.  LX.  v.  3.  «  clud,'  '  cloud ;'  5.  «  asse,'  «  ashe ;'  7.  «  nor,'  <  then.' 

St.  LXI.  v.  7.  «  bwillis,'  «  ballis.' 

St.  LXV.  v.  1.  '  Orisoun,'  <  oration ;'  5.  '  nocht,'  <  no.' 

St.  LXVIII.  v.  3.  «  word,' '  words.' 

St.  LXIX.  v.  1.  <  Flavius,'  <  Fla. ;'  6.  '  by,'  '  for ;'  7.  <  na,'  '  not.' 

St.  LXXIV.  v.  5.  <  ane,'  <  na;'  6.  <  anis,'  '  once.' 

St.  LXXV.  v.  5.  «  stairt,'  '  strait.' 

St.  LXXVI.  v.  7.  '  vnkend,'  <  unknowne.' 

St.  LXXVII.  v.  6.  '  sumeuer,'  '  soever.' 

St.  LXXVIII.  v.  6.  <,  as,'  '  how.' 

St.  LXXXIII.  v.  6.  '  trumpers,'  '  strumpets." 

St.  LXXXIV.  v.  4.  '  quWlk,'  '  whom.' 

St.  LXXXV.  v.  3.  <  curit,'  '  caired ;'  5.  '  trumpers,'  '  strumpets.' 

St.  LXXXVII.  v.  4.  '  feinzeit,'  '  fained.' 

St.  LXXXVIII.  v.  3.  '  singe,'  «  signe.' 

St.  LXXXIX.  v.  6.  <  hand,'  '  hands.' 

St.  xc.  v.  8.  «  sould,'  '  shall.' 

St.  xci.  v.  4.  '  thir,'  '  these ;'  5.  <  thir,'  « these.' 

St.  xcn.  v.  5.  '  Alberto,'  <  Alb.' 

St.  xcnr.  v.  5.  «  Philerno,'  <  Phil.' 

St.  xciv.  v.  1.  «  Philotus,' '  Phi.' 

St.  xcv.  v.  1.  <  Alberto,'  «  Alb.' 

St.  xcvr.  v.  1.  '  Plesant,'  <  Pie. ;'  5.  '  the,'  '  your.' 

St.  xcvn.  v.  2.  '  colt-foill,'  <  colt  fool.' 

St.  xcvm.  v.  8.  '  all  devoir,'  <  indeuoure.' 


St.  xcix.  v.  5. «  Philerno,' '  Phil.' 

St.  cvi,  v.  1. «  Brisilla,'  «  Bri.' 

St.  cxi.  v.  1. «  Plesant,' '  Pie.' 

St.  cxi  i.  y.  1. '  bethink,'  '  methink  ,-*  2. «  than,' '  els.' 

St.  cxiu.  y.  1.  '  blisful,' '  blessed;'  4.  «  to  adheir,'  <  for  to  heare.' 

St.  cxiv.  r.  4. «  gar,'  «  make.' 

St.  cxv.  y.  1.  «  Brisilla,'  <  Bri.' 

St.  cxvn.  v.  3.  dele  «  that.' 

St.  cxx.  v.  3. «  a,' « in.' 

St.  cxxi.  y.  2.  <  sane,'  <  keepe ;'  « that,'  <  thee.' 

St.  cxxn.  y.  4. « taull,'  '  tauld  ;'  7.  '  Tastian,' «  Austian.' 

St.  cxxv.  y.  1.  «  Emily,'  <  E. ;'  5.  <  Flaying,' «  Fla.' 

St.  cxxvi.  v.  1 .  «  Emily,' '  E.1 

St.  cxxx.  v.  1. «  Emily,'  '  Emi.' 

St.  cxxxi.  y.  I. «  Flavius,'  '  Fla.' 

St.  cxxxin.  v.  1.  '  Philerno,' «  Philer. ;'  «  gar  wsche,'  '  cause  ush.' 

St.  cxxxiv.  v.  1 .  <  Philotus,' «  Philot. ;'  3.  <  Philerno,'  «  Philer.' 

St.  cxxxv.  v.  1.  «  Philotus,'  «  Phi.' 

St.  cxxxvi.  y.  1. «  Plesant,'  «  Pie. ;'  6.  «  all  doit,'  «  do  it  all.' 
St.  cxxxvn.  y.  1. '  Philerno,'  «  Philer.' 

St.  cxxxix.  v.  1. «  Philotus,'  <  Philo. ;'  5.  <  Philerno,'  '  Philer.' 

St.  CXL.  y.  1. '  Philerno,'  <  Philer. ;'  5.  •  Huir,'  <  Whore.' 

St.  CTLI.  v.  1. «  Emily,'  '  Em.' 

St.  CXLII.  v.  1. «  Alberto,'  «  Alber. ;'  5. «  Emily,'  «  Em.' 

St.  CXLIII.  y.  5. '  Alberto,'  «  Alb. ;'  6.  «  barrace,'  '  barrtite  ;'  7.  '  feind,'  *  feiud.' 

St.  CXLIV.  v.  1. «  Philotus,'  <  Philo. ;'  5. «  Alberto,'  «  Alb.' 

St.  CXLV.  v.  3. «  huir,'  «  whore.' 

St.  CXLVI.  v.  8.  '  syne,'  « then.' 

St.  CLII.  v.  1. «  some,' «  her,' '  hir,'  «  some ;'  3.  '  haue,'  <  hes.' 

St.  CLIII.  v.  1.  «  Philotus,'  «  Philot.' 

St.  CLIV.  v.  1.  «  Philerno,'  '  Philer.' 

St.  CLV.  y.  1.  '  Philotus,'  '  Philo. ;'  4. «  chance,'  <  chauce.' 

St.  CLVI.  v.  5. « is,' '  are.' 

St.  CLVII.  v.  1.  <  Alberto,'  <  Alb. ;'  5.  <  Philerno,'  «  Philer. ;'  8.  '  his,'  •  this.' 

St.  CLVII  i.  v.  1. «  Flavius,'  '  Fla.' 

St.  CLXIV.  v.  3.  <  fleitand,'  «  fleiting.' 

St.  CLXVIII.  y.  7.  '  hailillie,' '  wholie  all.' 

St.  CLXIX.  y.  1.  «  and  sene  this  ferse,' '  vs  here  reherse ;'  4. '  leid  bot,'  '  language.' 


St.  CLXX.  r.  3. '  acceptiouns  gaines,' «  acceptance  doth  gaine ;'  8.  <  Ane  ferse,' '  And 
search.' 

St.  CLXXI.  r.  1.  '  Last,  sirs,  now  let  vs  pray  with  ane  accord,'  <  Last,  let  vs  pray  to 
God  with  ane  accord;'  4.  '  ring,'  <  reigne.' 

The  poem,  printed  at  the  end  of  the  play  in  the  edition  of  1603,  is  omitted  in 
the  edition  of  1612. 


APPENDIX; 


CONTAINING 


BARNABY  RICH'S   TALE 


OF 


PHYLOTUS    AND    EMELIA. 


OF 

PHYLOTUS  AND  EMELIA. 


[THE  ARGUMENT  OF  THE  VIII  HISTORIE. 

^  Philotus,  an  old  and  auncient  Citizen  of  Rome,  fatteth  in  love  with  Emelia, 
a  yong  and  beautifull  virgin  the  Daughter  of  Alberto,  who  knowing  the 
wonderfull  wealth  of  Phylotus,  would  have  forced  his  daughter  to  have 
married  him  ;  but  in  the  ende  was  pretelie  deceiued  by  Phylerno,  the  bro 
ther  of  Emelia,  who  married  with  Phylotus  in  his  sisters  stead,  and  other 
prety  actions  that  fell  out  by  the  waye. 

IT  hath  many  times  bin  had  in  question,  and  yet  could  neuer  be  decided 
from  whence  this  passion  of  extreame  loue  doth  proceed,  whose  furie  is  such 
where  it  once  taketh  possession,  that  (as  they  say)  loue  is  without  law,  so  it 
maketh  -the  Pacientes  to  be  as  utterly  void  of  reason,  but  in  my  opinion  the 
selfe  same  thing,  which  is  many  times  shadowed  under  the  title  of  loue,  may 
more  properly  be  termed,  and  called  by  the  name  of  lust,  but  be  it  loue,  or 
be  it  lust,  the  difference  is  nothing  so  much  as  the  humour  that  feedes  it,  is 
wonderfull  strange,  and  hath  no  maner  of  certainty  in  it,  excepting  this,  it 
is  without  pareiality,  for  commonly  when  it  driueth  us  to  effect,  it  is  done  with 
out  any  maner  of  respect,  for  some  time  it  maketh  us  to  linger  after  our  friends, 
sometimes  to  languish  after  our  foes,  yea,  betweene  whom  there  hath  bin  had 
mortall  hostility  :  the  sonne  hath  bin  scene  to  fall  in  loue  with  the  wife  of  his 
Father,  the  Father  againe  in  like  manner  with  the  wife  of  his  sonne,  the  King 
hath  bin  attached  with  the  poore  and  needie  begger,  the  poore  againe  in  lyk- 
ing  with  those  of  high  degree,  yea  and  though  there  haue  bin  many  which 

H 


10  OF  PHYLOTUS 

haue]  seen  their  owne  errour,  and  there  withall  haue  confessed  their  abuse,  yet 
thei  haue  not  bin  able  to  refraine  themselues,  from  prosecuting  their  follie 
to  the  ende,  and  all  be  it,  reason  proffereth  us  sondrie  sufficient  causes,  why 
we  ought  to  refraine  the  appetite  of  our  own  desires,  yet  fancie  then  is  he 
that  striketh  suche  a  stroke,  that  reasons  rules  can  naught  at  all  preuaile,  and 
like  as  those  whom  loue  hath  once  intangled,  the  more  thei  striue  the  far 
ther  thei  bee  tied,  so  it  is  vnpossible  that  loue  should  be  constrained,  where 
affection  breedes  not  likyng,  nor  fancy  is  not  fed,  but  where  these  two  hath 
once  ioyned  in  election,  all  other  affects  be  so  dimme  and  blinded,  that  euery 
vice  seemeth  to  vs  a  vertue,  whereof  springeth  this  Prouerbe,  In  loue  there 
is  no  lacke,  so  that  in  deede  to  saie  the  truth,  if  there  be  any  pietie  to  be 
imputed  to  this  ragyng  loue,  it  is  in  that  it  is  not  parciall,  nor  hath  it  any 
respect  of  persons,  but  bee  thei  frendes,  be  thei  foes,  be  thei  riche,  be  thei 
poore,  be  thei  young,  be  thei  olde,  bee  thei  wise,  bee  thei  foolishe,  loue  is 
still  indifferent,  and  respecteth  all  a  like  :  but  if  any  man  will  thinke  that  in 
respect  of  beautie,  wee  esteeme  not  all  the  rest :  I  am  able  to  saie  it  is  not 
true,  consideryng  how  many  haue  forsaken  the  better  likyng,  and  haue 
chosen  the  worse,  so  that  for  my  parte  the  more  I  consider  of  it,  the  more 
I  am  amazed,  and  therefore  will  beate  [my  braines  no  more  about  it,  but  leave 
it  to  the  credit  of  such  as  have  bin  louers  themselves,  whose  skil  in  the 
matter  I  preferre  before  mine  owne,  and  will  come  to  my  Historic  of  Phy- 
lotus,  who  being  an  aged  man,  fell  in  loue  with  a  yong  maiden,  farre  unfit 
ting  to  his  yeares,  and  followeth  in  this  sort. 

In  the  gallant  citty  of  Naples,  there  was  remaining  a  young  man,  called 
by  the  name  of  Alberto.  This  Alberto  beeing  married  not  fully  out  a  yeere, 
his  wife  was  deliuered  of  a  Sonne  whom  he  named  Phylerno,  and  upon  diuers 
considerations,  minding  to  chaunge  his  habitation,  he  prepared  himselfe  to 
goe  dwell  at  Rome,  and  first  taking  order  for  his  sonne  Phylerno,  who  for  the 
tendernesse  of  his  age  he  left  still  in  Naples  at  nurse,  himselfe,  his  wife,  with 
all  the  reste  of  his  household  came  to  Rome,  where  he  had  not  long  remained,] 
but  his  wife  was  likewise  deliuered  of  a  daughter,  whom  he  called  by  the 
name  of  Emelia,  who  as  she  grewe  in  yeares,  she  likewise  proued  to  bee 


AND  EMELIA.  11 

very  beautifull  and  faire,  and  amongst  a  greate  nomber  of  others,  there  was 
dwellyng  in  Rome  an  auncient  Citizen,  whose  name  was  Phylotus,  a  man 
very  orderly  in  yeares,  and  wonderfully  aboundyng  in  goodes,  this  Phylotus 
hauing  many  tymes  taken  the  viewe  of  Emelia,  beganne  to  growe  very  sore 
in  loue  with  her,  or  rather  I  maie  saie  in  his  olde  yeares  beganne  to  doate 
after  this  young  maiden,  for  it  can  not  bee  properly  called  loue  in  these  olde 
men,  whose  dotage  if  it  were  not  more  then  outragious,  either  their  greate 
discretion  would  represse  it,  either  their  many  yeares  would  mortifie  it.  But 
Phylotus  in  the  ende  desired  Emelia  of  her  father  in  the  waie  of  Mariage, 
Alberto  accordyng  to  the  custome  of  Parentes,  that  desires  to  marrie  their 
daughters,  more  for  goods,  then  for  good  will  betweene  the  parties,  more  for 
lucre  then  for  loue,  more  for  liuing  then  for  learning,  more  for  wealth  then 
for  wit,  more  for  honour  then  for  honestie,  and  so  thei  maie  haue  great 
store  of  money  thei  neuer  consider  farther  of  the  man:  Alberto  in  like  maner 
knowyng  the  wealth  wherewith  Phylotus  was  indued,  who  had  neuer  a 
childe  but  one  onely  Daughter,  whose  name  was  Brisilla,  gaue  his  full  con 
sent,  without  any  farther  consideration  of  the  inequalitie  [of  the  yeares  that 
was  betweene  Phylotus  and  his  daughter :  he  neuer  remembred  what  strifes, 
what  iarres,  what  debates,  what  discontentment,  what  counterfaiting,  what 
dissembling,  what  louring,  what  loathing,  what  neuer  liking,  is  euer  hac^ 
where  there  is  such  differences  betweene  the  married,  for  perfect  loue  can 
neuer  be  without  equalitie,  and  better  were  a  married  couple  to  continue 
without  liuing,  then  without  loue :  and  what  are  the  occasions  that  make  so 
many  women  to  stray  from  their  husbands,  but  when  they  be  married  to 
such  as  they  cannot  like  of :  but  surely  if  women  did  throughly  consider  how 
dangerous  it  is  for  them  to  dealev  with  these  olde  youthes,  I  thinke  they  would 
be  better  aduised  in  medling  with  them,  for  besides  that  they  be  unwildie, 
lothsome,  (and,  sir,  reuerence  of  you,)  very  unlouely  for  you  to  lye  by,  so 
they  be]  commonly  inspired  with  the  spirite  of  Jelousie,  and  then  thei  will 
looke  to  you  so  narrowly,  and  mewe  you  vp  so  closely,  that  you  will  wishe  a 
thousande  tymes  the  Priest  had  bin  hanged  that  maried  you,  but  then  to  late. 


12  OF  PHYLOTUS 

But  to  retourne  to  our  Historic :  Alberto  respectyng  more  the  wealth  of 
Phylotus,  then  the  likyng  of  his  daughter,  gaue  his  consent  to  take  hym  for 
his  sonne  in  lawe,  and  told  Emelia  how  he  had  disposed  on  her :  Emelia 
seyng  what  an  olde  babie  her  father  had  chosen  to  be  her  housebande,  moste 
humbly  desired  hym  to  giue  her  leaue  to  choose  for  her  self,  whereat  her 
father  being  very  angrie,  beganne  sharply  to  rate  her,  saiyng :  And  arte 
thou  then  so  muche  wedded  to  thine  owne  will,  that  thou  skornest  to  be  de- 
rected  by  me  thy  louyng  father,  or  thinkest  thou  that  thy  wisedome  doeth 
so  farre  surmount  my  wit,  that  thou  canst  better  prouide  for  thy  self,  then 
I  whiche  so  carefully  haue  hetherto  brought  thee  vp,  or  doeth  the  tender 
loue  or  the  chargeable  cost  whiche  I  haue  bestowed  on  thee,  deserue  no  bet 
ter  recompence,  then  to  despise  those  that  I  would  haue  thee  to  like  of. 

Emelia  fallyng  doune  of  her  knees  before  her  father  saied :  Moste  deare 
and  louyng  father,  moste  humbly  I  beseech  you,  for  the  affection  whiche  by 
nature  you  beare  me,  not  to  think  me  so  gracelesse  a  childe,  that  I  would 
goe  about  to  contrarie  you,  or  stubbornly  would  refuse  what  soeuer  you 
would  think  conuenient  for  my  behoofe,  and  although  you  shall  finde  in  me 
suche  duetie  as  is  meete  for  a  daughter,  and  al  obedience  that  is  fit  for  a 
childe,  yet  sir  consider  the  harte  whiche  can  not  bee  compelled,  neither  by 
feare,'  neither  by  force,  nor  is  not  otherwise  to  be  lured,  then  onely  by 
fancies  free  consent,  and  as  you  haue  bestowed  on  me  this  fraile  and  transi- 
torie  life,  so  my  bodie  shall  be  at  your  disposition  as  it  shal  please  you  to 
appoint  it,  and  will  conclude  with  this  humble  petition,  desiryng  you  not  to 
bestowe  me  of  any  that  is  not  agreeable  to  my  fancie  and  good  likyng. 

Well  (quoth  her  father)  then  see  you  frame  your  liking  to  like  well  of  my 
likyng.  I  haue  promised  you  to  Phylotus  in  mariage,  and  Phylotus  is  he 
that  shall  be  your  housband,  and  looke  you  goe  not  aboute  to  contende 
against  that  I  haue  determined,  if  you  doe,  neuer  accompt  me  for  father  nor 
freende,  and  thus  he  departed. 

Emelia  hearyng  this  cruell  conclusion  of  her  father,  was  wonderfully 
abashed,  and  beeyng  by  her  self  in  her  Chamber,  she  beganne  to  consider  of 


AND  EMELIA.  13 

her  fathers  wordes,  and  for  feare  to  incurre  any  farther  displeasure,  she 
deused  how  she  might  frame  her  self  to  the  likyng  of  her  louer,  and  with  a 
yong  womans  minde,  she  first  beganne  to  consider  of  his  wealth,  of  his  call- 
yng,  of  the  reuerence  wherewith  he  was  vsed  in  the  Citie,  and  that  likewise 
in  beyng  his  wife,  she  should  also  bee  had  in  estimation,  and  bee  preferred 
before  other  women  of  meaner  credite,  and  to  desire  superioritie,  it  is  com 
monly  euery  womans  sicknesse,  and  therefore  this  could  not  choose  but  please 
her  very  well :  then  she  remembered  how  commodious  it  were  to  marrie  one 
so  wealthie  as  Phylotus,  whereby  she  should  not  neede  to  beate  her  braines 
aboute  the  practising  of  housewiferie,  but  should  haue  seruauntes  at  com- 
maundment  to  supplie  that  tourne,  this  likewise  pleased  her  very  well,  but  be 
cause  she  would  well  perswade  her  self,  she  beganne  to  coniecture  how  she 
should  spende  the  tyme  to  her  contentment,  and  therefore  she  beganne  to 
thinke  what  a  pleasure  it  was  to  bee  well  furnished  with  sondrie  sutes  of  ap- 
parell,  that  in  the  mornyng  when  she  should  rise,  she  might  call  for  what  she 
list  to  put  on,  accordyng  as  the  tyme  and  the  fasshion  did  require,  and  her 
fancie  serued  best,  for  thus  Phylotus  was  well  able  to  keepe  his  wife,  and  this 
pleased  her  likewise  very  well,  &  then  when  she  were  vp,  she  might  breake 
her  fast  with  a  cuppe  of  Malmsie,  or  Muskadine  next  her  harte.     It  was 
very  good  for  ill  Ayres  in  a  mornyng,  and  this  she  thought  was  but  an  easie 
matter,  and  likewise  pleased  her  very  well :  when  she  had  broken  her  fast, 
then  she  might  stirre  about  the  house,  and  looke  to  this,  and  see  to  that,  and 
where  she  found  any  thyng  amis,  not  to  touche  it  with  her  owne  fingers,  for 
marryng  the  beautie  of  her  hande,  but  to  call  for  Cicelie,  lone,  or  Gate,  and 
to  chide  them  like  Sluttes,  that  thei  could  not  spie  a  fault  but  when  thei 
must  be  tolde  :  this  likewise  pleased  her  very  well,  then  to  haue  prouided  for 
Dinner  some  iuncketts,  that  serued  best  her  appetite,  her  housbade  had  good 
store  of  coine,  and  how  could  it  bee  better  spente,  then  vpon  themselues  : 
to  make  their  fare  the  better,  this  likewise  pleased  her  verie  well,  now  when 
she  had  dined,  then  she  might  goe  seeke  out  her  examplers,  and  to  peruse 
whiche  woorke  would  doe  beste  in  a  Ruffe,  whiche  in  a  Gorget,  whiche  in  a 


14  OF  PHYLOTUS 

Sleeue,  whiche  in  a  Quaife,  whiche  in  a  Caule,  whiche  in  a  Handkercheef, 
what  Lace  would  doe  beste  to  edge  it,  what  seame,  what  stitche,  what  cut, 
what  gard,  and  to  sit  her  doune,  and  take  it  forthe  by  little  and  little  :  and 
thus  with  her  Nedle  to  passe  the  after  noone,  with  deuising  of  thinges  for 
her  owne  weary  ng,  this  likewise  pleased  her  passyng  well :  Then  to  prouide 
for  Supper  some  shift  of  diet,  and  sondrie  sauces,  the  better  to  help  the  sto- 
macke,  Oranges,  Lemos,  Oliues,  Caphers,  Salades  of  sondrie  sortes,  alas  a 
Croune  will  goe  a  greate  waie  in  suche  trifles.  This  likewise  pleased  her 
verie  well,  whe  she  had  supped,  to  vse  some  exercise,  accordyng  to  the  cea- 
son :  if  it  were  in  Sommer,  to  goe  walke  with  her  neighbours  to  take  the 
aire,  or  in  her  Gardein  to  take  the  verdure  of  sweete  and  pleasaunt  flower,  this 
likewise  pleased  her  verie  well,  when  she  was  come  in,  and  readie  to  goe  to 
her  Chamber,  a  Cup  of  cold  Sacke  to  bedward,  is  verie  good  for  digestion, 
and  no  coste  to  speake  of,  where  suche  abondaunce  doeth  remaine,  and  this 
likewise  pleased  her  verie  well. 

But  now  although  she  had  deuised,  to  passe  the  daie  tyme  with  suche  conten- 
tation,  when  she  remembred  at  Night,  she  must  goe  to  bed  to  bee  lubber  leapt : 
and  with  what  cold  courtesie  she  should  be  entertained  by  her  graie  hedded 
bedfelowe,  what  frosen  embracementes  he  was  able  to  bestowe  of  her,  all 
was  marde,  and  quite  dashte  out  of  remembraunce,  and  all  the  commodities 
before  spoken  of,  that  she  should  receiue  in  the  tyme  of  the  daie,  would  not 
serue  to  counteruaile  that  one  incommoditie,  in  the  season  of  the  Night : 
Like  as  wee  saie,  one  vice  spilles  a  greate  nomber  of  vertues.  Thus  Emelia 
was  now  to  seeke,  and  could  in  nowise  frame  her  self  to  loue  Philotus :  but 
when  she  had  flattered  her  self  with  a  thousande  delightes,  that  she  should 
receiue  in  the  daie  time  by  his  wealth,  when  she  remembred  bedde  tyme,  she 
was  as  newe  to  beginne  as  before.  Wherefore  she  remained  in  great  per- 
plexitie,  thinkyng  her  happe  to  bee  ouer  hard,  and  the  comforte  verie  bare, 
where  the  beste  choice  had  suche  assuraunce  of  doubtfull  ende.  For  to 
Marrie  after  her  Fathers  mynde,  she  knewe  would  breede  her  lothed  life : 
and  to  gainsaie  what  he  had  determined,  would  likewise  loose  her  fathers 


AND  EMELIA.  15 

likyng,  that  she  wiste  not  for  her  life  whereon  to  resolue,  and  thus  from  dale 
to  daie,  as  she  continued  in  this  doubt ;  there  happened  to  hit  into  her  com- 
panie  a  yong  Romaine  gentleman,  whose  name  was  Flanius,  who  sodainly 
fell  in  Loue  with  Emelia,  and  takyng  the  tyme  whilest  his  oportunitie 
serued,  he  let  Emelia  to  vnderstande,  of  the  greate  loue  he  bare  her.  Eme 
lia,  accordyng  to  the  custome  of  women,  made  the  matter  verie  coie  at  the 
firste,  although  in  her  harte  she  wer  right  glad,  cosideryng  her  case  how  it 
stood.  Flanius  was  so  muche  the  more  importunate  vppon  her,  and  with 
suche  nice  termes  as  woers  be  accustomed :  He  so  Courted,  and  followed 
Emelia,  that  she  perceiuyng  his  feruente  affection,  tolde  hym  a  verie  short 
circumstaunce,  how  her  father  had  disposed  her,  to  one  that  she  could  not 
like  of,  and  therfore,  if  he  would  firste  promise  to  take  her  as  his  wife,  and 
that  he  could  finde  suche  meanes,  to  conueigh  her  from  her  Fathers  house  in 
secrete  sorte  (for  otherwise  she  was  sure  her  Father  would  bee  a  let  to  hinder 
their  purpose)  she  was  contented  to  harken  to  his  speeche,  and  yeeld  to  his 
demaunde.  Flanius  the  gladdest  man  in  the  world,  to  heare  these  ioyfull 
newes,  sware  vnto  her,  that  all  should  bee  accomplished,  and  that  with  as 
muche  speede  as  her  self  would  desire. 

There  was  no  more  to  conclude  of  the,  but  how  she  might  be  conueighed 
from  out  her  fathers  house.  Flanius  deuised  that  late  in  an  Euenyng,  or  in 
the  Night  tyme  when  euery  one  were  quiete  in  their  beddes,  if  she  could 
finde  the  meanes  to  gette  forthe  of  doores,  then  he  would  be  readie  to  receiue 
her.  But  that  could  not  be,  for  bothe  her  Father  and  Mather  neuer  failed, 
to  bee  at  home  in  the  Euenynges,  and  at  Nightes  she  was  lodged  in  her  Fa 
thers  Chambers,  that  it  was  impossible  for  her  to  gett  forthe.  So  that  there 
was  no  remedie,  but  that  the  feate  must  bee  wrought  in  some  after  Noone, 
when  bothe  her  Father  and  Mother  vsed  to  bee  abroade,  about  their  busi- 
nesse  :  And  then  she  knewe  not  how  to  come  forthe  alone,  because  she  had 
not  been  accustomed  so  to  dooe,  and  to  followe  a  straunger,  it  would  breede 
the  greater  suspition. 

But  Flanius  to  auoide  all  these  surmises,  deuised  the  nexte  euenyng  to 


16  OF  PHYLOTUS 

conueigh  her  in  at  some  backe  windowe  of  her  fathers  house,  a  sute  of  mannes 
apparell :  wherin  the  next  daie  in  the  after  noone,  her  father  &  mother  be- 
yng  abroad,  she  should  shift  herself,  and  so  come  her  waies  vnknowne  of  any, 
to  suche  a  place  :  where  he  himself  would  be  ready  awaiting  for  her,  and  so 
conueigh  her  home  to  his  owne  house.  This  deuise  Emelia  liked  passyng 
well,  and  accordyng  as  it  was  appoincted,  the  next  euening  Flanius  co- 
ueighed  this  sute  of  apparell  in  at  the  windowe,  where  Emelia  was  ready 
to  receiue  it,  and  laiyng  it  vp  in  safetie,  til  the  next  daie  in  the  after  noone, 
her  father  and  her  mother  beyng  bothe  forthe  of  dores,  she  quickly  shifted 
her  self,  into  this  manes  apparell,  and  thus  forth  of  dores  she  goes  to  her  ap 
pointed  place,  where  Flanius  was  staiyng,  who  accordyng  to  promise,  con- 
ueighed  her  home  to  his  owne  house. 

This  matter  was  not  so  closely  handeled  by  Emelia,  but  she  was  espied  by 
one  of  her  Fathers  seruauntes,  who  beeyng  on  the  backside  through  a  Win 
dowe,  sawe  her  how  she  was  stripping  of  her  self,  and  marked  how  she  put 
on  the  mannes  apparell,  whereat  the  yong  fellowe  had  greate  meruaile,  and 
stoode  still  beholdyng  to  see  what  would  fall  out  in  the  ende.  But  whe  he 
sawe  her  goe  forthe  a  dores,  he  hastened  after  into  the  streate  :  But  Emelia 
was  so  sodainly  gone,  that  for  his  life  he  wist  not  whiche  waies  to  seeke  after 
her,  wherfore  in  a  woderfull  haste,  he  came  to  his  Maister,  whom  he  founde 
in  the  Citee,  in  the  companie  of  Philotus,  saiyng  :  Oh  sir,  I  haue  verie  euill 
newes  to  tell  you,  what  is  the  matter  (q.  his  maister)  is  any  thyng  a  misse  at 
home  :  Yea  sir  (q.  the  seruaunte)  your  daughter  Emelia  is  euen  now  depart 
ed  into  the  citee,  in  the  habite  of  a  man  :  But  whiche  waies  she  wente,  I 
could  not  for  my  life  deuise,  for  after  she  gat  once  forthe  of  the  place  where 
she  shifter  her,  I  could  neuer  more  set  eye  of  her. 

Is  Emelia  gone  (quoth  her  louer  Philotus)  Oh  God,  what  euill  newes  bee 
these  that  I  heare :  And  without  any  further  staie,  bothe  the  Father  and 
the  Louer,  gat  them  out  at  the  doores  together,  and  aboute  the  streates  thei 
runne  like  a  couple  of  madde  men. 

Now  it  fell  out,  that  Philerno  the  Sonne  of  Alberto,  and  Brother  to 


AND  EMELIA.  17 

Emelia,  whom  you  haue  heard  before,  was  lefte  at  Naples,  beeyng  an  Infante, 
and  had  remained  there  till  this  tyme  at  Schoole,  and  at  this  verie  instaunte 
was  come  from  Naples  to  Rome,  to  visite  his  Father  and  Mother,  of  whom 
he  had  no  maner  of  knowledge,  otherwise  then  by  their  names.  And  it  for 
tuned  that  Alberto  and  Philotus,  happened  to  meete  with  Philerno  in  the 
streates,  who  was  so  like  his  sister  Emelia,  that  bothe  Alberto  and  Philotus, 
assured  themselues,  that  it  could  bee  no  other  but  she.  Wherefore  Alberto 
commyng  to  hym,  saied  :  staie,  staie,  moste  shamelesse  and  vngracious  Girle, 
doest  thou  thinke  that  by  thy  disguising  of  thy  self,  in  this  maner,  thou 
canst  escape  vnknowne  to  me,  who  am  thy  Father,  Ah  vile  strumpet  that 
thou  art :  what  punishement  is  sufficient  for  the  filthinesse  of  thy  facte :  And 
with  this  he  seemed,  as  though  he  would  haue  fline  vpon  her  in  the  streate, 
to  haue  beate  her :  but  Philotus  thruste  in  betweene  them,  and  desired  his 
neighbour  to  staie  hymself,  and  then  imbracyng  Philerno  in  his  armes,  he 
saied :  Ah  Emelia  my  sweete  and  louing  wenche,  how  canste  thou  so  vn- 
kindelie  forsake  thy  Philotus,  whose  tender  loue  towardes  thee  is  suche,  that 
as  I  will  not  let  to  make  thee  soueraigne  of  my  self,  so  thou  shalt  be  Dame 
and  Mistresse  of  all  that  euer  I  haue,  assuryng  thee,  that  thou  shalt  neuer 
want  for  Golde,  Gemmes,  Jewelles,  suche  as  bee  fit  and  conuenient  for  thy 
degree. 

Philerno  seeyng  a  couple  of  old  dotyng  foole  thus  clusteryng  aboute  hym, 
not  knowyng  what  thei  were :  had  thought  at  the  first,  thei  had  been  out  of 
their  wittes,  but  in  the  ende  by  their  woordes,  perceiuyng  a  farther  circum 
stance  in  the  matter,  he  deuised  some  thyng  for  his  owne  disporte,  to  feede 
them  a  little  with  their  owne  follie,  saied  :  Pardon  me  I  beseeche  you  this 
my  greeuous  offence,  wherein  I  knowe  I  haue  too  farre  straied  from  the 
limites  and  boundes  of  modestie,  protestyng  hereafter  so  to  gouerne  my  self, 
that  there  shall  bee  no  sufficient  cause,  whereby  to  accuse  me  of  suche  vn- 
maidenlike  partes,  and  will  euer  remaine  with  suche  duetie  and  obediece,  as 
I  trust  shall  not  deserue  but  to  be  liked  duryng  life. 

Philotus  hauyng  heard  this  pitifull  reconciliation,  made  by  his  Emelia, 


18  OF  PHYLOTUS 

verie  gently  entreated  her  father,  in  her  behalf,  well  (q.  her  father)  seeyng 
you  will  needes  haue  me  to  forgiue  this  her  leudnesse,  at  your  requeste  I  am 
contented  to  pardon  her,  and  then  speakyng  to  Philerno,  he  saied  : 

How  saie  you  houswife,  is  your  stomacke  yet  come  doune,  are  you  con 
tented  to  take  Philotus  for  your  Housebande,  yea  my  good  Father  (q.  Phi 
lerno)  and  that  with  all  my  harte,  Oh  happie  newes  (q.  Philotus)  and  here 
u  it hal  1  he  began  to  sette  his  cappe  on  the  one  side,  and  to  turne  up  his  mus- 
chatoes,  and  fell  to  wipyng  of  his  mouthe,  as  though  he  would  haue  falne 
a  kissyng  of  her  by  and  by  in  the  streates,  but  reraebryng  hym  self  where 
he  was,  he  brought  Alberto  with  Philerno,  into  a  freendes  house,  that  was 
of  his  familiare  acquaintaunce,  and  there  the  Marriage  betweene  theim  was 
throughlie  concluded,  and  all  parties  seemyng  to  giue  their  full  consentes. 
Philotus  desired  his  father  in  Lawe,  that  he  might  haue  the  custodie  of 
Emelia,  swearing  by  his  old  honestie,  that  he  would  not  otherwise  vse  her, 
then  his  owne  Daughter  Brisilla,  vntill  the  daie  of  his  Nuptials,  and  then  to 
vse  her  as  his  wife  :  to  which  request  Alberto  seemed  verie  willynglie  to  giue 
consent :  but  then  because  Philotus  would  not  carrie  his  beloued,  through 
the  streates  in  her  mannes  apparell,  he  desired  his  Father  in  Lawe  to  goe 
home,  and  sende  some  sute  of  her  apparell,  wherwith  to  shift  her,  before  he 
would  Carrie  her  to  his  owne  house.  Alberto  seyng  matters  so  throughly 
concluded,  toke  his  leaue  of  theim  bothe,  and  goyng  his  waies  home,  he 
caused  all  his  Daughters  apparell  to  be  looked  together,  and  to  bee  sent  to 
the  place  where  Philotus  was  remaining  with  Philerno,  who  taking  forthe 
suche  as  should  serue  the  tourne  for  that  present,  Philerno  so  well  as  he 
could  arraied  hymself,  in  one  of  his  sisters  sutes  of  apparell,  and  thus  de 
parted  with  Philotus  to  his  owne  house,  where  Philotus  callyng  his  daugh 
ter  Brisilla,  he  saied  vnto  her,  beholde  here  the  partie,  whom  I  haue  chosen 
to  bee  your  Mother,  chargyng  you  of  my  blessyng,  that  you  honour,  reue- 
rence,  and  obeie  her,  and  with  all  diligence  that  you  be  attendaunt  vpon  her, 
and  readie  at  an  ynche  to  prouide  her  of  any  thing,  that  she  shall  either  want 
or  call  for.  And  you  my  deare  and  louyng  Emelia,  I  dooe  here  ordaine  and 


AND  EMELIA.  19 

appoincte  you  to  bee  Mistresse  of  this  house,  and  of  all  that  is  in  it,  desiryng 
you  to  accepte  of  this  my  Daughter,  to  doe  you  seruice  in  the  daie  time, 
and  in  the  night  to  vouchsafe  her  for  your  bedfellowe,  vntill  our  daie  of 
Marriage  bee  prefixed,  and  then  my  self  will  supplie  the  rome.  Philerno 
seyng  the  excellent  beautie  of  Brisilla,  was  nothyng  sorie  to  haue  suche  a 
bedfellowe,  but  thought  euery  hower  a  daie,  till  night  was  come,  whiche 
beyng  approched,  to  bedde  thei  went,  where  Philerno  did  not  thinke  it  his 
readiest  waie  to  giue  any  sodaine  attempte,  but  therefore  he  brake  into  this 
discourse  followyng. 

My  Brisilla,  were  it  not  but  that  wee  bee  founde  parciall  in  the  causes  of 
our  frendes,  but  especially  where  the  causes  doe  touche  our  parentes,  our 
iudgementes  be  so  blinded  by  affection,  that  we  can  neither  see,  nor  well  con- 
fesse  a  manifest  truth :  but  if  matters  might  be  considered  on,  without  re 
spect  of  persones  with  indifference,  and  accordyng  to  the  truthe  and  equitie 
of  the  cause  :  I  durst  then  put  my  self  in  your  arbitremente  my  Brisilla,  and 
to  abide  your  sentence,  whereto  I  doubte  not,  but  you  would  confesse  the 
preiudice  I  sustaine,  it  is  muche  intolerable,  and  almoste  impossible,  for  a 
yong  maide  to  endure,  and  the  rather,  if  you  would  measure  my  condition, 
by  your  owne  estate,  who  beeyng  as  you  see,  a  yong  maiden  like  your  self, 
and  should  be  thus  constrained  by  my  freendes,  to  the  mariyng  of  your  fa 
ther,  whom  I  doe  confesse  to  bee  worthie  of  a  better  wife  then  my  self.  But 
consideryng  the  inequalitie  of  our  yeres,  I  cannot  for  my  life,  frame  my  self 
to  loue  him,  and  yet  I  am  forced  against  my  will  to  Marrie  hym,  and  am 
appointed  to  be  your  mother  :  that  am  more  meete  to  be  your  copanion  and 
plaie  fellowe.  But  that  affiaunce  whiche  I  haue  concerned  in  your  good 
Nature,  hath  made  me  thus  boldly  to  speake  unto  you,  desiryng  but  to  heare 
your  opinion  with  indifferencie,  whether  you  thinke  I  haue  good  cause  to 
c5plain  or  naie :  and  then  peraduenture  I  will  sale  farther  vnto  you,  in  a 
matter  that  doeth  concerne  your  owne  behoofe. 

Brisilla  hearyng  this  pitifull  complaint,  verie  sorrowfull  in  her  behalfe, 
saied :  would  to  God  I  were  as  well  able  to  minister  releef  vnto  your  dig- 


20  OF  PHYLOTUS 

tresse,  accordyng  to  your  owne  contentment,  as  I  am  hartely  sorie  to  con 
sider  your  greef,  and  do  well  perceiue  the  iuste  occasion  you  haue  to  com- 
plaine. 

Ah  my  Brisilla,  saied  Philerno,  I  am  as  hartely  sorie  in  your  behalf,  and 
peraduenture  doe  vnderstande  somethyng,  whiche  your  self  dooe  not  yet 
knowe  of,  whiche  will  greeue  you  verie  sore.  But  first  Brisilla,  let  me  aske 
you  this  question,  dooe  you  knowe  my  father,  or  naie. 

No  sure  (quoth  Brisilla)  I  haue  no  maner  of  knowledge  of  hym,  neither  did 
I  knowe,  whether  you  had  any  father  aliue,  or  naie,  but  now  by  your  owne 
reporte,  and  as  straunge  it  was  to  me,  to  heare  the  wordes,  whiche  my  Fa 
ther  vsed  to  me  this  daie,  when  he  brought  you  home,  for  that  I  neuer  vn- 
deretoode  before,  that  he  went  about  a  wife. 

Philerno  was  verie  glad  to  heare  these  newes,  because  it  serued  so  muche 
the  better  for  his  purpose  :  and  therefore  saied  as  followeth. 

This  tale  that  I  minde  to  tell  you  (my  Brisilla)  will  seeme  more  straunge 
then  all  the  reste,  and  yet'  assure  your  self,  it  is  nothyng  so  straunge  as  true, 
and  therefore  giue  eare  to  that  I  mynde  to  saie  :  Doe  you  not  thinke  it 
verie  straunge  in  deede,  that  the  one  of  vs  should  bee  made  bothe  mother 
and  daughter  to  the  other,  and  that  our  fathers,  whiche  be  now  so  diescrepit 
and  olde,  should  bee  so  ouer  haled,  with  the  furie  of  their  fonde  and  vnbridel- 
ed  affections,  that  to  seme  their  owne  appetites,  thei  force  not  with  what 
clogges  of  care,  thei  comber  vs  that  be  their  louyng  daughters,  but  haue  con 
cluded  betwene  them  selues  a  crosse  Marriage,  and  so  in  deede  it  maie  well 
be  tearmed,  that  will  fall  out  so  ouerthwarte  to  our  behoofes,  who  beyng 
now  in  our  yong  and  tender  yeres,  and  should  bothe  of  vs  bee  made  the 
dearlynges  of  twoo  old  men,  that  seekes  to  preferre  their  owne  lust,  before 
their  childrens  loue,  and  measure  their  fierie  flames  of  youth,  by  the  ded 
coles  of  age,  as  though  thei  were  able  with  their  cold  and  rare  imbracementes, 
to  delaie  the  forces  of  the  fleshe,  whose  flames  doeth  excede  in  these  our 
grene  and  tender  yeres,  and  as  muche  possible  for  vs  to  cotinue  in  likyng,  as 
flowers  are  seen  to  agree  with  Froste,  but  in  plaine  tearmes  (my  Brisilla) 


AND  EMELIA.  21 

and  to  discipher  a  verie  trothe,  it  is  contracted  betweene  our  aged  parentes, 
that  your  father  (as  you  see)  should  first  take  me  to  his  wife,  whiche  wed- 
dyng  beyng  once  performed,  then  my  Father  in  like  maner,  should  chalenge 
you,  accordyng  as  it  is  concluded  betweene  them. 

Alas  (q.  Brisilla)  these  newes  bee  straunge  indeede,  and  it  should  seem 
by  your  woordes  so  fullie  resoiued  on,  that  there  is  no  hope  of  redresse  to  be 
had  in  the  matter. 

None  in  the  worlde  (q.  Philerno)  but  thus  betweene  ourselues,  the 
one  of  vs  to  comfort  the  other. 

A  colde  comforte  (q.  Brisilla)  wee  shall  finde  in  that,  but  oh  pitilesse 
parentes,  that  will  preferre  your  own  pleasures  with  your  childrens  paine  : 
your  owne  likyng,  with  your  childrens  loathyng  :  your  owne  gaine,  with  your 
childrens  greefe  :  your  owne  sporte,  with  your  childrens  spoile  :  your  owne 
delight,  with  your  childrens  despight.  O  how  muche  more  happie  had  it 
been,  that  we  had  neuer  been  borne. 

Alas  my  Brisilla  (q.  Philerno)  tormente  not  your  self  with  suche  ex- 
treame  anguishe,  for  if  that  would  haue  serued  for  redresse,  the  matter  had 
been  remedied,  and  that  long  sithence :  But  I  would  to  God  my  Brisilla, 
that  I  were  a  man  for  your  only  sake,  and  hauing  so  good  leisure,  as  thus 
beyng  together  by  our  selves,  we  should  so  handle  the  matter,  that  our  fa 
thers  should  seeke  newe  wiues. 

Alas  (q.  Brisilla)  suche  wishes  are  but  waste,  and  vnpossible  it  is,  that  any 
suche  thing  should  happen. 

Impossible  (quoth  Philerno)  naie  surely  Brisilla,  there  is  nothing  impos 
sible,  but  I  haue  knowne  as  greate  matters  as  these  haue  been  wrought : 
Doe  we  not  read  that  the  Goddesse  Venus,  transformed  an  luorie  Image, 
to  a  liuely  and  perfect  woman,  at  the  onelie  request  of  Pygmalion.  Diana 
likewise  conuerted  Acteon  to  a  Harte.  Narcissus  for  his  pride  was  turned 
to  a  flower.  Archane  to  a  Spider,  with  a  greate  number  of  others  haue  bin 
transformed,  some  into  Beastes,  some  into  Foules,  and  some  into  Fishes, 


22  OF  PHYLOTUS 

but  amongst  the  rest  of  the  miracles  that  haue  bin  wrought  by  the  Goddesse, 
this  storie  falleth  out  moste  meete  and  fittyng  to  our  purpose. 

There  was  sometime  remainyng  in  the  Countrey  of  Phestos  a  maried 
couple,  the  housbande  called  by  the  name  of  Lictus,  the  wife  Telethusa, 
who  beyng  with  childe,  was  willed  by  her  housbande  so  sone  as  she  should 
be  deliuered,  if  it  were  not  a  lad,  that  the  childe  should  presently  be  slaine, 
his  wife  beyng  deliuered  at  her  appointed  tyme,  brought  forthe  a  girle,  and 
yet  notwithstandyng  her  housbandes  commaundement,  brought  vp  the  childe, 
makyng  her  housebande  beleeve  it  was  a  boye,  and  called  it  by  the  name  of 
Iphis,  and  thus  as  it  grew  in  yeares,  was  apparelled  like  a  lad,  and  beeyng 
after  by  his  father  assured  to  a  wife  called  by  the  name  of  lanthe,  a  young 
Maiden,  and  the  daughter  of  one  Telest  dwellyng  in  Dictis,  Telethusa  the 
mother  of  Iphis,  fearyng  her  deceipt  would  bee  knowne,  deferred  of  the  Mar 
riage  daie  so  long  as  she  could,  sometymes  fainyng  tokens  of  ill  successe, 
sometimes  faining  sicknesse,  sometymes  one  thyng,  sometymes  an  other,  but 
when  all  her  shift es  were  driuen  to  an  ende,  and  the  Manage  daie  at  hande, 
Telethusa  comming  to  the  Temple  of  the  Goddesse  Isis,  with  her  heire  scat 
tered  aboute  her  eares,  where  before  the  Aulter  of  Isis,  she  made  her  humble 
supplications,  and  the  gentle  Goddesse  hauing  compassion,  transformed  Iphis 
to  a  man. 

Loe  here  Brisilla,  as  greate  a  matter  brought  to  passe  as  any  wee  haue 
spoken  of  yet,  and  the  Goddesse  bee  of  as  greate  force  and  might  in  these 
daies,  as  euer  thei  were  in  times  past,  we  want  but  the  same  zeale  and  faith 
to  demaunde  it,  and  sure  in  my  opinion,  if  either  of  vs  made  our  request  to 
the  Goddes,  who  commonly  bee  still  assistant  to  helpe  distressed  wightes, 
thei  would  neuer  refuse  to  graunt  our  reasonable  requestes,  and  I  will  ad- 
uenture  on  it  my  self,  and  that  without  any  farther  circumstaunce. 

And  here  with  all  he  seemed,  with  many  piteous  sighes,  throwyng  vp  his 
handes  to  the  heauens,  to  mumble  forth  many  woordes  in  secrete,  as  though 
he  had  beene  in  some  greate  contemplation,  and  sodainly,  without  any  maner 
of  stirryng  either  of  hande  or  foote,  did  lye  still  as  it  had  been  a  thyng  im- 


AND  EMELIA.  23 

mouable,  whereat  Brisilla  beganne  for  to  muse,  and  in  the  end  spake  to 
hym,  but  Phylerno  made  no  maner  of  aunswere,  but  seemed  as  though  he 
had  bin  in  some  traunce,  wherewith  Brisilla  began  to  call  and  with  her  arme 
to  shake  him,  and  Phylerno  giuyng  a  piteous  sigh,  as  though  he  had  bin 
awaked  sodainly  out  of  some  dreame,  saied,  O  blessed  Goddesse  Venus,  I 
yeeld  thee  humble  thankes,  that  hast  not  despised  to  graunt  my  request ; 
and  then  speakyng  to  Brisilla,  he  saied :  and  now  my  Brisilla  be  of  good 
comforte,  for  the  same  Goddesse  whiche  haue  not  disdained  to  heare  my 
supplication,  will  likewise  be  assistaunt  to  further  our  farther  pretences,  as 
hereafter  at  our  better  leisure  we  shall  consider  of,  in  the  meane  tyme  re- 
ceiue  thy  louyng  freende,  that  to  daie  was  appoincted  to  bee  thy  fathers 
wife,  but  now  consecrated  by  the  Goddesse  to  be  thy  louyng  housbande ; 
and  here  withall  imbrasyng  Brisilla  in  his  armes,  she  perceiued  in  deede 
that  Emelia  was  perfectly  metamorphosed,  which  contented  her  very  well, 
thinkyng  her  self  a  thrise  happie  woman  to  light  of  suche  a  bedfellowe  :  thus 
bothe  of  them  the  one  pleased  very  well  with  the  other,  thei  passed  the 
tyme,  till  Phylotus  had  prepared  and  made  all  thinges  readie  for  his  Mariage 
daie,  and  then  callyng  his  frendes  and  neighbours  about  him,  to  the  Churche 
thei  goe  together,  where  Alberto  gaue  Phylerno  his  sonne,  in  the  steede  of 
his  daughter  Emelia  to  Phylotus  for  his  wife :  when  all  the  rest  of  the 
Mariage  rites  that  are  to  bee  doen  in  the  Churche  were  performed,  thei  passed 
forthe  the  daie  with  feastyng  and  great  mirthe  vntill  it  was  night.  When  the 
companie  beganne  to  breake  vp,  and  euery  one  to  take  his  leaue,  and  Phy 
lotus  with  his  bride  were  brought  into  their  Chamber,  where  Phylerno  de- 
siryng  the  companie  to  auoyde,  and  makyng  fast  the  doore  he  saied  to  Phy 
lotus,  there  resteth  yet  a  matter  to  bee  decided  betweene  you  and  me,  and 
seyng  we  bee  here  together  by  our  selues,  and  that  tyme  and  place  doeth  fall 
out  so  fit,  I  hold  it  for  the  best  that  it  be  presently  determined. 

What  is  the  matter  then  (q.  Phylotus)  speake  boldly  my  Emelia,  and  if 
there  be  any  thyng  that  hanges  in  dispence  betweene  vs,  I  trust  it  shall 
easely  bee  brought  to  a  good  agreement. 


24  OF  PHYLOTUS 

I  praie  God  it  male  (q.  Phylerno)  and  to  reuealc  the  matter  in  breefe 
and  shorte  circumstaunce,  it  is  this.  You  are  now  my  housebande,  and  I 
your  lawfull  wife,  and  for  that  I  dooe  knowe  the  difference  in  our  yeares, 
your  self  beyng  so  old  and  I  very  yong,  it  must  needes  fall  out  there  wil  be 
as  greate  deuereitie  in  our  conditions ;  for  age  is  commonly  giuen  to  bee  fro- 
warde,  testie,  and  ouerthwart :  youth  againe  to  be  frolique,  pleasaunt,  and 
merrie,  and  so  likewise  in  all  our  other  conditions  wee  shall  bee  founde  so 
contrary  and  disagreyng,  that  it  will  be  impossible  for  vs  to  like  the  one  of 
the  others  doinges,  for  when  I  shall  seeme  to  followe  my  owne  humour,  then 
it  will  fall  out  to  your  discontentment.  And  you  againe  to  followe  that  diet 
whiche  your  age  doeth  constraine,  will  be  most  lothsome  vnto  me,  then  you 
beyng  my  housbande  will  thinke  to  commaunde  me,  and  I  must  be  obedient 
to  your  will,  but  I  beyng  your  wife  will  thinke  scorne  to  be  controlde,  and 
wil  dispose  of  my  self  according  to  my  owne  liking,  and  then  what  braules 
and  brabbles  will  fall  out,  it  were  to  muche  to  be  rehearsed,  and  thus  we 
shall  Hue  neither  of  vs  bothe  in  quiet,  nor  neither  of  vs  bothe  contented,  and 
therefore  for  the  auoidyng  of  these  inconueniences,  I  haue  deuised  this  waie, 
that  beyng  thus  together  by  our  selues,  we  will  trie  by  the  eares  whiche  of 
vs  shall  bee  maister  and  haue  authoritie  to  commaunde :  if  the  victory  hap 
pen  on  your  side,  I  am  contented  for  euer  after  to  frame  my  self  to  your  or- 
dinaunce  and  will  as  it  shall  please  you  to  appoinct :  if  otherwise  the  con 
quest  happen  on  my  side,  I  will  triumph  like  a  Uictor,  and  will  looke  to  beare 
suche  a  swaie,  that  I  will  not  be  contraried  in  any  thing,  what  so  euer  it  shall 
please  me  to  commaunde. 

Phylotus  knowyng  not  what  to  make  of  these  speeches,  and  thinkyng  the 
tyme  very  long,  till  he  had  taken  his  first  fruites,  saied :  Come,  come  my 
Emelia  let  vs  goe  to  bed,  where  I  doubt  not  but  we  shall  so  well  agree,  that 
these  matters  wil  easely  be  taken  vp,  without  any  controuersie,  suche  as  you 
haue  spoken  of. 

Neuer  while  I  liue  (q.  Phylerno)  before  I  knowe  whereon  to  resolue ;  and 
whether  you  shall  rest  at  my  commaundement,  or  I  at  yours. 


AND  EMELIA.  25 

Why  (q.  Phylotus)  doe  you  speake  in  earnest,  or  would  you  looke  to 
commaunde  me  that  am  your  housbande,  to  whom  you  ought  to  vse  all  due- 
tie  and  obedience. 

Then  were  I  in  good  case  (q.  Phylerno)  that  should  be  tied  to  vse 
duetie  or  obedience  to  a  man  of  your  yeares,  that  would  not  let  to  prescribe 
vs  rules  of  your  owne  dotage,  to  be  obserued  in  steede  of  domesticall  disci 
pline. 

Then  I  perceiue  (q.  Phylotus)  wee  shall  haue  somethyng  adoe  with 
you  hereafter,  that  will  vse  me  with  these  tearmes  the  very  first  night.  But 
see  you  make  no  more  to  dooe,  but  come  on  your  waies  to  bed. 

And  I  perceiue  (quoth  Phylerno)  the  longer  that  I  beare  with  you,  the 
more  foole  I  shall  finde  you ;  and  with  this  vp  with  his  fiste  and  gaue  Phy 
lotus  a  sure  wheritte  on  the  eare.  Phylotus,  in  a  great  rage,  flies  againe  to 
Phylerno  :  there  was  between  them  souse  for  souse,  and  boxe  for  boxe,  that 
it  was  harde  to  Judge  who  should  haue  the  victorie.  In  the  ende  Phylerno 
gettes  Phylotus  faste  by  the  graie  bearde,  and  by  plaine  force  pulles  him 
doune  on  the  flower,  and  so  be  pomels  hym  aboute  the  face,  that  he  was  like . 
to  haue  been  strangled  with  his  owne  bloud,  which  gushed  out  of  his  nose 
and  mouth.  Wherefore,  holdynge  vp  his  handes,  he  cried,  Oh  Emelia,  I 
yeeld  my  self  vanquished  and  ouercome ;  for  Gods  sake  holde  thy  handes, 
and  I  will  neuer  more  contende  with  thee  during  life. 

Phylerno,  staiyng  hymself,  saied :  Art  thou  contented  then  to  yeeld  me 
the  conquest,  and  hereafter  this  according  as  thou  hast  saied :  neuermore  to 
striue  with  me,  neuer  to  gainsaie  any  thyng,  what  soeuer  it  shall  please  me 
to  commaunde. 

Neuer  while  I  Hue  (q.  Phylotus)  and  therefore  for  Gods  sake  let  me 
arise,  and  chalenge  to  your  self  what  superioritie  you  please,  whiche  for  me 
shall  neuer  be  denaied  so  long  as  I  shall  Hue. 

Well  (q.  Phylerno)  but  before  I  will  let  you  arise,  I  will  haue  you 
promise  me  to  confirme  these  conditions,  whiche  folowe  in  this  maner.  First, 
that  at  my  pleasure,  I  male  goe  abroade  with  my  freendes,  to  make  merrie 

K 


26  OF  PHYLOTUS 

so  often  as  I  list,  whither  I  list,  and  with  whom  I  list.  And  neither  at  my 
goyng  forthe,  to  be  demaunded  whither  I  will,  ne  at  my  returne  to  bee  asked 
where  I  have  been.  I  will  farther  haue  you  condescende  to  this,  that  foras- 
muche  as  I  haue  learned,  that  it  is  not  onely  very  vntothsome,  but  likewise 
very  vnwholesome,  for  youth  and  age  to  lye  sokyng  together  in  one  bedde, 
I  will  therefore  make  no  bedfellowe  of  you,  but  at  my  owne  pleasure.  And 
in  maner  as  followeth,  that  is  to  saie :  this  first  yere  I  shall  be  contented  to 
bestowe  one  night  in  a  moneth  to  doe  you  pleasure,  if  I  maie  see  you  wor- 
thie  of  it,  or  that  you  bee  able  to  deserue  it :  but  the  first  yere  beyng  once 
expired,  fower  tymes  a  yeere  maie  very  well  suffice,  that  is  one  night  a  quar 
ter,  as  it  shall  please  myself  to  appoinct.  There  be  many  other  matters 
whiche  I  will  not  now  stande  to  repeate,  but  these  before  rehearsed,  bee  the 
principall  thynges  wherein  I  wil  not  be  controlde,  but  meane  to  follow  myne 
owne  liking  :  How  saie  you  Phylotus,  can  you  bee  contented  to  frame  your 
self  herein,  to  followe  my  direction. 

Alas  (quoth  Phylotus)  I  see  no  other  shift,  I  must  perforce  endeuour  my 
self  paciently  to  abide  what  soeuerit  shall  please  you  to  commaunde,  and  doe 
yeeld  myself  as  recreant,  and  ouercome,  and  wholy  doe  put  my  self  to  your 
fauour  and  mercie,  readie  to  receiue  what  soeuer  it  shall  please  you  to  awarde 
vnto  me.* 

Phylerno,  letting  hym  now  arise,  saied :  prepare  your  self  then  to  goe  to 
your  bedde,  and  anon,  at  myhe  owne  leasure,  I  will  come  vnto  you ;  and  de- 
parte  againe  at  myne  owne  pleasure,  when  I  shall  see  tyme. 

Phylotus,  comforting  hymself  with  these  sweete  speeches,  did  thinke  it 
yet  to  be  some  part  of  amendes,  that  she  had  promised  to  come  and  visite 
hym :  went  quietly  to  his  bedde,  there  to  abide  the  good  hower  till  Emelia 
did  come. 

Phylerno,  hauyng  prepared  one  of  these  marcenarie  women  (whereof  there 
are  greate  store  in  Rome  to  bee  had)  conueighed  her  to  the  bedd  of  Phylo 
tus,  giuyng  her  enstructions  how  to  vse  her  selfe  :  and  went  hymself  to  his 
best  beloued  Brisilla,  whom  he  had  made  priuie  to  his  whole  deuise ;  and  in 


AND  EMELIA.  27 

this  maner  it  was  agreed  betweene  them,  thei  had  thought  to  haue  dieted 
Phylotus  once  a  moneth  with  some  cast  stuffe,  suche  as  thei  could  hire  best 
cheape  in  the  Toune. 

But  it  fell  out  that  Flanius,  whom  you  haue  heard  before,  had  stolne 
awaie  Einelia,  beyng  at  the  Churche  the  same  daie  that  Phylotus  was  maried, 
and  sawe  Alberto  giue  his  daughter  Emelia  to  Phylotus  for  his  wife  :  had 
thought  assuredly  that  hymself  had  been  deceiued  by  some  Deuill  or  spirite, 
that  had  taken  vpon  hym  the  likenesse  of  Emelia.  And,  therefore,  hastyng 
hymself  home  with  all  possible  speede,  came  to  Emelia,  and  blessing  him 
self,  he  saied:  I  charge  thee  in  the  name  of  the  liuyng  GOD,  that  thou 
tell  me  what  thou  art,  and  that  thou  presently  departe  to  the  place  from 
whence  thou  earnest.  And  I  conjure  thee  in  the  name  of  the  Holie  Trini- 
tie,  by  our  blessed  Ladie  the  Virgine  Marie,  by  Aungels  and  Archaungels 
Patriarkes  and  Prophetes,  by  the  Apostles,  and  fower  Euangelistes,  Mat- 
thewe,  Marke,  Luke  and  Jhon,  by  al  the  holie  Martyres  and  Confessours, 
and  the  rest  of  the  rable  and  blessed  route  of  Heauen,  that  thou  quietly  de 
parte  without  any  maner  of  preiudice,  either  to  man,  woman,  or  childe,  either 
to  any  maner  of  beast  that  is  vppon  the  face  of  the  earth,  the  Foules  of  the 
ayre,  or  the  Fishes  of  the  Sea,  and  without  any  maner  of  Tempest,  Storme, 
Whirle  winde,  Thunder  or  Lightnyng,  and  that  thou  take  no  maner  of  shape, 
that  rnaie  seeme  either  terrible  or  fearfull  vnto  me. 

Emelia  hearyng  these  wordes,  merueilyng  muche  what  thei  ment,  with  a 
smilyng  countenaunce  came  towardes  Flanius,  saiyng  :  Why  how  now,  Seig 
nior  Flanius,  what  doe  you  thinke  me  to  be  some  Deuill,  or  any  Hagge  of 
Hell,  that  you  fall  so  to  Coniuryng  and  blessyng  of  your  self? 

I  charge  thee  come  no  nere  (quoth  Flanius)  stand  backe,  for  these  intice- 
mentes  can  no  longer  abuse  me,  when  I  haue  seen  with  myne  eyes,  my  be- 
loued  Emelia,  maried  in  the  Churche,  and  giuen  by  Alberto  her  Father,  to 
Phylotus  for  his  wife,  what  should  I  thinke  of  thee  but  to  be  some  Feend,  or 
sent  vnto  me  by  some  Inchauntment  or  Witchcraft ;  and  therefore  I  will  no 
longer  neither  of  thy  companie,  neither  of  thy  conference:  And  here  withall 


28  OF  PHYLOTUS. 

takyng  Emelia  by  the  shoulders,  he  thrust  her  forthe  of  doores,  and  shut- 
tyng  the  doore  after  her:  He  gat  hym  to  his  Chamber,  where  he  fell  to  his 
praiere,  thinkyng  assuredly  that  Emelia  had  been  some  spirite. 

But  Emelia,  after  she  had  a  three  or  fower  daies  made  what  meanes  she 
could  to  Flanius,  and  sawe  it  was  in  vaine,  was  driuen  to  goe  to  her  Father, 
before  whom  fallyng  vppon  her  knees,  she  desired  hym  moste  humbly  to  for- 
giue  her. 

Alberto  takyng  her  vp  in  his  armes  saied:  that  he  knewe  nothyng  where 
in  she  had  offended  hym,  but  her  suite  might  easily  be  graunted. 

Deare  father  (quoth  Emelia)  I  know  I  haue  offended,  and  so  farr  as  my 
fact  deserueth,  rather  to  be  punished  than  pitied :  the  remembraunce  where 
of  is  so  lothsome  vnto  me,  that  I  feare  to  call  you  by  the  name  of  father, 
hauing  shewed  my  self  so  vnworthie  a  daughter.  These  wordes  she  pro 
nounced  with  such  sorrowe,  that  the  teares  streamed  doune  her  cheekes  ; 
wherewith  Alberto,  moued  with  natural  affection,  said  :  Deare  child,  I 
knowe  no  suche  offence  that  ought  to  bee  so  greeuously  taken ;  but  speake 
boldly,  whatsoeuer  it  be,  I  freely  forgiue  it. 

Emelia  very  well  comforted  with  these  speeches,  beganne  to  discourse  how 
she  first  disguised  herself  in  Page's  apparell,  and  what  greef  it  was  to  her 
conscience,  that  she  should  so  farr  straie  from  the  duetie  and  obedience  of  a 
child,  and  to  become  a  fugitiue  in  a  man's  apparell.  But  her  father  not 
sufleryng  her  further  to  proceede  in  her  tale,  saied :  Alas,  deare  daughter 
if  this  bee  the  matter,  it  is  long  agoe  sithe  I  haue  bothe  forgiuen  and  for 
gotten  these  causes :  and  therefore  let  these  thynges  neuer  trouble  you.  But 
tell  me  nowe  how  doe  you  lik  of  your  bedfellowe  ?  how  agree  you  with  hym, 
or  he  with  you,  I  would  be  glad  to  knowe  ? 

Alas  deare  father  (quoth  Emelia)  that  is  the  matter  that  I  come  to  you, 
he  hath  turned  me  awaie,  and  wil  no  longer  take  me  for  his  wife,  and  what 
is  the  cause  that  hath  moued  hym  vnto  it  I  protest  before  God  I  knowe 
not  for  my  life. 

Hath  he  turned  thee  awaie  (q.  Alberto)  my  self  wil  quickly  find  a  re- 


AND  EMELIA.  29 

medie  for  that  matter,  and  without  any  more  to  do,  (would  not  tary  so  much 
as  while  his  goune  was  a  brushing)  but  out  of  doores  he  goes  towards  Phy- 
lotus,  whom  by  chaunce  he  met  withall  in  the  Streates,  and  in  a  greate  chafe 
begins  to  chalenge  hym  for  abusyng  of  his  daughter,  swearyng  that  he  would 
make  all  Rome  to  speake  of  his  abuse,  if  he  ment  to  proceede  in  that  he  had 
begunne. 

Phylotus,  wonderyng  to  see  the  man  in  suche  an  agonie,  beganne  to  wishe 
that  he  had  neuer  seene  hym  nor  his  daughter  neither,  and  that  if  any  bodie 
haue  cause  to  complaine  it  is  I  (quoth  Phylotus)  that  haue  maried  such  a 
wife,  that  is  more  like  to  a  deuill  then  a  woman ;  and  I  perceiue  now  is 
maintained  in  her  mischiefe  by  you  that  are  her  father,  who  ought  rather  to 
rebuke  her  then  so  to  take  her  part,  and  to  incourage  her  in  her  leudenesse. 

What  incouragment  is  this  you  speake  of  (q.  Alberto)  I  knowe  not  what 
you  meane  by  these  wordes ;  but  assure  your  self  of  this,  that  as  I  wil  not 
maintaine  my  child  in  any  thing  that  is  euill,  so  I  will  not  see  her  take  a 
manifest  wrong. 

Doe  you  thinke  this  to  be  good  then  (quoth  Phylotus)  that  your  daugh 
ter  should  bestowe  suche  hansell  on  her  housband  as  she  hath  alreadie  be 
stowed  vpon  me,  and  then  pointyng  to  his  face,  he  saied :  See  here  your 
daughter's  handie  woorke,  how  thinke  you,  is  this  requisite  to  be  borne  with 
all,  that  you  stande  so  muche  in  your  daughter's  defence  ? 

Alberto  seeyng  his  face  all  swolne,  and  the  skinne  scratched  of,  perceiued 
that  Phylotus  was  at  a  fraie,  and  had  good  cause  to  complaine :  And  wonderyng 
that  his  daughter  was  so  sodainly  become  a  shrewe,  saied :  If  this  bee  my 
daughter's  handie  woorke,  I  can  neither  beare  withall,  neither  will  I  allowe 
it  in  her,  so  to  vse  her  housebande.  And  therefore  I  praie  you,  lette  me  heare 
the  matter  debated  betweene  you ;  and  I  doubt  not,  but  to  take  suche  order, 
as  there  shall  no  more  any  suche  rule  happen  betweene  you. 

I  am  contented  you  shall  debate  what  you  will  (q.  Phylotus)  so  it 
maie  be  doen  with  quietnesse,  but  I  will  neuer  more  contende  with  her  for 


30  OF  PHYLOTUS 

the  maisterie  while  I  Hue,  she  hath  alredie  wonne  it,  I  am  contented  she 
shall  weare  it. 

I  praie  you  then  (quoth  Alberto)  that  you  wil  goe  home  to  your  owne 
house,  and  I  will  goe  fetche  my  daughter,  and  will  come  vnto  you  straight 
waie,  and  I  doubt  not  but  to  take  suche  order  betweene  you  as  shall  fall  out 
to  bothe  your  likinges. 

I  praie  God  you  maie  (q.  Phylotus)  and  I  will  goe  home,  and  there  will 
staie  your  commyng. 

Alberto  likewise  went  to  his  owne  house,  and  callyng  Emelia,  saied  neuer 
a  woorde  to  her,  but  willed  her  to  followe  hym  :  and  commyng  to  the  house 
of  Phylotus,  whom  he  founde  within  tariyng  his  commyng.  And  it  fortuned 
at  the  same  instante,  Philerno  and  Brisilla  bothe  were  gone  into  the  Toune 
to  buye  certaine  thynges  that  thei  had  neede  of.  And  Alberto  beginnyng 
first  to  rebuke  his  Daughter,  that  would  seme  in  suche  maner  to  abuse  her 
housebande,  and  with  a  long  discourse  he  preached  vnto  her,  with  what  due- 
tie  and  obedience,  women  ought  to  vse  their  housebandes  withall,  and  not  to 
take  vpon  them  like  Maisters,  to  correcte  and  chastise  theim,  Emelia  de- 
naied  not  onelie  the  facte,  but  also  she  denaied  Phylotus  to  be  her  house 
bande. 

What  haue  wee  here  to  dooe  (quoth  the  Father)  how  canst  thou  (shame- 
lesse  queane)  denaie  that,  whiche  within  these  fower  dales  was  performed  in 
the  face  of  the  whole  worlde  ? 

Emelia  standyng  stiffe  to  her  tackelyng:  would  in  nowise  confesse  that 
euer  she  was  married. 

Then  her  Father  beganne  to  charge  her  with  her  owne  woordes,  whiche 
she  had  vsed  to  him  before,  how  she  had  disguised  her  self  in  mannes  ap- 
parell,  and  so  stolne  awaie  forthe  of  doores,  the  which  Emelia  neuer  de 
nied.  Why  then  (quoth  her  father)  did  not  I  meete  thee  in  the  streates, 
and  at  the  requeste  of  thy  housebande  here  presente,  did  forgiue  thee  thy 
faulte,  to  whom  I  then  deliuered  thee,  and  with  whom  thou  haste  euer  sith- 
ence  remained. 


AND  EMELIA.  31 

Emelia  made  flat  deniall  of  any  of  all  these  saiynges  to  bee  true.  Alberto 
in  a  greate  furie,  would  haue  taken  witnesse  of  Philotus  in  the  matter,  but 
Philotus  fearyng  an  other  banket  at  night,  when  he  should  goe  to  bedde, 
durste  not  in  any  wise  seeme  to  contrarie  Emelia :  In  the  ende  after  greate 
fendyng  and  prouyng  had  in  the  matter,  Emelia  from  poinct  to  poincte  dis 
coursed  to  her  Father,  how  she  firste  fell  into  the  likyng  of  Flanius,  and  by 
his  practise  so  conueighed  her  self  awaie  in  his  Pages  apparell,  and  had  with 
hym  remained  all  this  while,  till  now  he  had  tourned  her  awaie. 

Her  father  would  in  nowise  allow  this  tale  to  be  true,  but  Flanius  beeyng 
well  knowne  to  bee  a  courteous  Gentleman,  Alberto  deuised  to  sende  for  hym, 
who  presently  at  his  gentle  intreatie,  came  to  the  house  of  Philotus,  where 
he  spared  not  to  confesse  a  truth,  that  onely  for  the  loue  that  he  bare  to 
Emelia,  he  deuised  to  steale  her  awaie :  and  there  came  one  vnto  him  in  the 
likenesse  of  Emelia,  and  in  the  same  apparell  that  he  had  prouided  for  her, 
whom  he  verie  charely  kept,  vntill  suche  tyme  as  he  sawe  with  his  owne 
eyes,  that  Emelia  was  married  in  the  Churche  to  Philotus,  and  then  assur- 
yng  hym  self,  that  he  had  been  deceiued  by  some  Spirite,  that  had  taken 
vppon  the  similitude  and  likenesse  of  Emelia,  he  presently  came  home,  and 
tourned  her  awaie,  and  what  was  become  of  her,  he  could  neuer  learne. 

Alberto  muche  amazed  to  heare  this  tale,  saied :  Seignior  Flanius  doe  you 
knowe  your  Emelia  again,  if  you  see  her,  and  then,  poinctyng  to  his  daugh 
ter,  he  saied:  Is  not  this  the  same  Emelia  that  you  speake  of,  whiche  you 
haue  tourned  awaie. 

I  knowe  not  (q.  Flanius)  the  one  from  the  other;  but  sure  I  sawe 
with  myne  eyes  twoo  Emelias  so  like,  that  the  one  of  them  of  force  must 
needes  bee  the  Deuill. 

There  is  no  question  (q.  Philotus)  but  that  is  my  wife,  if  there  bee 
euer  a  Deuill  of  them  bothe,  I  knowe  it  is  she  :  Out  alas  that  euer  I  was 
borne,  what  shall  I  now  dooe,  I  knowe  I  haue  married  the  Deuill. 

And  by  fortune  as  Alberto  chaunced  to  looke  forthe  of  the  windowe,  he 
espied  Philerno  and  Brisilla  in  the  Streate  commyng  homewardes.  Peace 


32  OF  PHYLOTUS  AND  EMELIA. 

(q.  Alberto)  here  commeth  the  other  Emelia,  wee  shall  now  trie,  whiche  of 
them  is  the  Deuill  (I  thinke)  before  we  departe. 

By  this  Philerno  was  come  in,  and  hearyng  how  matters  had  been  de 
bated,  and  were  falne  out :  againe,  knowing  Alberto  to  be  his  Father,  and 
what  preiudice  his  sister  Emelia  was  like  to  sustaine,  if  she  should  be  forsaken 
by  her  freende  and  louer  Flanius,  confessed  the  whole  matter,  humblie  de- 
siryng  his  Father  to  forgiue  hym. 

When  he  had  a  while  wondered  at  the  circumstaunce,  and  the  truthe  of 

euery  thyng  laied  open,  and  come  to  light,  all  parties  were  well  pleased  and 

contented,  sauyng  Philotus,  for  when  he  remembred,  first  the  losse  of  his 

loue  Emelia,  then  how  Philerno  had  beaten  hym,  what  a  bedfellowe  he  had 

prouided  hym,  while  he  hym  self  went  and  laie  with  his  daughter ;  these 

thinges  put  all  together,  made  hym  in  suche  a  chafe,  that  he  was  like  to 

runne  out  of  his  wittes.    But  when  he  had  regarded  a  good  while,  and  sawe 

how  little  helpe  it  did  preuaile  hym,  he  was  contented  in  the  ende  that  his 

daughter  Brisilla,  should  Marrie  with  Philerno,  and  Flanius  verie  ioy- 

fully  receiued  againe  his  Emelia  (when  he  knewe  she  was  no 

Deuill,)  and  bothe  the  Marriages  consummate  in  one  daie. 

And  so  I  praie  God  giue  them  ioye,  and  euery  old  do- 

tarde  so  good  successe  as  had  Philotus. 


FINIS.