MARGARITA

'Tis true, I have for to preserve my credit, Yet not so much for that as for my state Ladies, Conceive me right, there lies the main o'th question, Credit I can redeem, money will imp it, But when my money's gone, when the law shall Cease that, and for incontinency strip me Of all. I find it as all bodies are that are young and lusty, Lazy, and high fed, I desire my pleasure And pleasure I must have. Yes why was I made a woman. Why fair and young but to use it. No it's no matter, I care not what they are, so they be lusty. No ther's no trusting them, they are too subtle, The Law has moulded they of natural mischief. If he have honour I am undone, isle none such, I'll have a lusty man, honour will cloy me. Is he a Gentleman? Those isle allow him, They are for my credit, does he understand, But little? 'Tis the better. Has not the war es read him up to anger? Has no capacity what honour is? For that's the soldiers God. Is he so goodly a man do you say? I would have him so, I shall add branches to him to adorn him, Go, find me out this man, and le me see him, If he be that motion that you tell me of, And make no more noise, I shall entertain him, Let him be here. Is he come? Have you searched him Ladies? Call him in Altea. Exit Lady. A man of a good presence, pray you come this way, Of a lusty body, is his mind So am. Can you love a young Lady? How he blushes. You shall be taught, and can you when she pleases Go ride abroad, and stay a week or two? You shall have men and horses to attend you, And money in your purse. Be as merry as you will: can you as handsomely When you are sent for back, come with obedience, And do your duty to the Lady loves you? And when you see her friends here, Or noble kinsmen, can you entertain Their servants in the Cellar, and be busied, And hold your peace, what ere you see or hear of. Let me try your kisses, How the fool shakes, I will not eat you sir, Beshrew my heart he kisses wondrous manly, Can you do any thing else? You shall then be instructed; If I should be this Lady that affects ye, Nay say I marry ye? What money have ye? You must not look to be my M r Sir, Nor talk ith house as though you wore the breeches, No, nor command in any thing. Nor do not labour to arrive at any, 'Twill spoil your head I take you upon charity And Like a servant you must be unto me, As I behold your duty I shall love you, And as you observe me, I may chance lie with you, Can you mark these. There is one thing, That if I take you in I put you from me, Utterly from me, you must not be saucy, No, nor at any time familiar with me, Scarce know me, when I call you not. Nor must not now. Indeed you must fetch and carry as I appoint you. Kiss me ag n; a strong fellow, There is a vigor in his lips: if you see me Kiss any other, twenty in and hour sir, You must not start, nor be offended. 'Tis the man I wished for; the less you speak. Get me a Priest, isle wed him instantly, But when you are married sir, you must wait Upon me, and see you observe my laws. I'll give you better clothes when you deserve um, Come in, and serve for witnesses. And then away to'th city presently, I'll to my new house and new company. You have gained a proper man. Come, let's go in, are all the rooms kept sweet wench. Why where's your husband? Well, send you joy, you would not let me know to, Yet I shall not forget you. I am at peace Altea. If he continue but the same he shows, And be a master of that ignorance He outwardly professes, I am happy, The pleasure I shall live in and the freedom Without the squint-eye of the law upon me, Or prating liberty of tongues, that envy. But if he should prove now A crafty and dissembling kind of husband, One read in knavery, and brought up in the art Of villainy concealed. That's it I aim at, That's it I hope too, then I am sure I rule him, For Innocents are Like obedient children Brought up under a hard mother in law, a cruel, Who being not used to breakfasts & collations, When they have course bred offered um, are thankful, And take it for a favour too, are the rooms Made ready to entertain my friends, I long to dance now And to be wanton; let me have a song, is the great couch up, The Duke of Medina sent? And day beds in all chambers? Let um gaze on, I was brought up a Courtier, high and happy, And company is my delight, and courtship, And handsome servants at my will, where's my good husband Where does he wait? 'Tis well Altea. Enter Leon. It should be so, my ward I must preserve him, Who sent for him, how dare he come uncalled for, His bonnet on too. How scornfully he looks. They shall be welcome, See all be ready in the noblest fashion, The house perfumed, now I shall take my pleasure, And not my neighbour Justice mand at me, Go, get your best clothes on, but till I call ye, Be sure you be not seen, dine with the gen lewomen, And behave your self cleanly sir, 'tis for my credit. Tell her no, i'th afternoon I'll call on his. Why are not you gone to prepare your self, May be you shall be sewer to the first course, A portly presence, Alten he looks lean, 'Tis a wash knave, he will not keep his flesh well. How now what's this? No your old clothes And get you into the country presently, And see my hawks well trained, you shall have victuals, Such as are fit for saucy palates sir, And lodgings with the hinds it is to good too. Well go get you handsome, And let me hear no more. See you preserve him thus upon my favour, You know his temper, tie him to the grindstone, The next rebellion I'll be rid of him, I'll have no needy rascals, I tie to me, Dispute my life, come in and see all handsome. All welcome to your Grace, and to these soldiers, You honour my poor house with your fair presence Those few slight pleasures that inhabit here sir, I do beseech your Grace command, they are yours; Your servant but preserves um to delight you, Bring in the Dukes meat. Why where's this dinner? Why sirrah, why sirrah you. I'll be divorced immediately I do command you from me thou poor fellow, Thou cozened fool. Am I braved thus in mine own house. As you love me give way. Get me my coach. Yes truly had I. I dare not swear for her, For she had but a scant fame. Not that I ever knew, now I look better I think you married her, give you much joy sir, You may reclaim her 'twas a wild young girl. All are mine sir, And every thing you see about the building, She only kept my house when I was absent, And so ill kept it, I was weary of her. Do not you know that have her? She is yours now, why should I look after his, Since that first hour I came I never saw her. Yes many times, so often that I was ashamed to keep her, But I forgave her sir, in hope she would mend still, And had not you o'th instant married her, I had put her off. No sooner love you, Love you entirely sir, brought to consider The goodness of your mind and mine own duty, But lose you instantly, be divorced from you, This is a cruelty, isle to the King And tell him it's unjust to partly two souls, Too minds so nearly mixed. f he were married but four days as I am. He would make it treason for that tongue that durst But talk of war, or any thing to vex him, You shalt not go. I'll to the Duke my cozen, he shall to King. Would I were able sir to bear you company, How willing should I be then, and how merry, I will not live alone. I go alas. Woudl I were able, Let me have a nurse, And all such necessary people with me, And and easy bark. I am with child sir. Pray do not swear, I thought I was a maid too, But we may both be cozened in that point Sir. Faith let me stay, I shall but shame you Sir. I can tell ye nothing. Why then the house is his, and all thats in it, I'll give away my skin but I'll undo ye, I gave it to his wife, you must restore Sir, And make a new provision. Now thou art a brave Gentleman, And by this sacred light I love thee dearly, The house is none of yours, I did but jest Sir, Nor you are no coze of mine, I beseech ye vanish, I tell you plain, you have no more right then he Has, that senseless thing, your wife has once more fooled you: Go you and consider. Let me request you stay but one poor month, You shall have a Commission and isle go too, Give me but will so far. I shall not fail sir No sure Sir, Has now no policy to bring him hither Whither you will, I wait upon your pleasure; Live in a hollow tree Sir, I'll live with you. A way a way & help him, all the house help. Exit How came you hurt sir? He's most desperate ill sir, I do not think these ten months will recover him. What ail you sir? You have done hand omely I must confess sir. Alas I pity you. You are always, You carry a kind of bedlam still about you. I have lost my self sir, And all that was my base self, disobedience, kneels My wantonness my stubbornenesse have lost too, And now by that pure faith good wives are crowned with, By your own nobleness. Secure your self sir, give me the candle, Pass away in silence. Exit Leon and Altea. My Lord. I have my Lord, Enter Duke in a gown. Come forth it's I, come gently out I'll help you, Come softly too, how do you. Alone to comfort you. Cacafogo makes a noise below. The fat thing's mad i'th cellar, And stumbles from one hogs head to another, Two cups more, and he never shall find the way out, What do you fear, come, fit down by me cheer ully, My husband's safe, how do your wounds. What noise, why look you pale, I hear no stirring, This goblin in the vault will be so tippled, You are not well I know by your flying fancy, Your body's ill at ease, your wounds. Weak in your blood you would say, How wretched is my case willing to please you, And find you so disable. I know you will venture all you have to satisfy me, Your life I know, but is it fit poile ye, Is it my love do you think. You are hurt mortally, And fitter for your prayers sir then pleasure, What starts you make, I would not kiss you wantonly, For the world's wealth have I secured my Husband, And put all doubts aside to be deluded. And bless us both, for sure this is the Devil I plainly herd it now, he will come to fetch you, A very spirit, for he spoke under ground, And spoke to y u just as you would have snatched me, You are a wicked man, and sure this haunts you, Would you were out o'th house. And that's the least leap if you mean to escape sir, Why what a frantic man were you to come here, What a weak man to counterfeit deep wounds, To wound another deeper. Yes then and now, and ever, & excellent honest, And exercise this pastime but to show you, Great men are fools sometime as well as wretches, Would you were well hurt with any hope of life, Cut to the brains, or run clean through the body, To get out quietly as you God in sir, I wish it Like a friend that loves you dearly, For if my husband take you, and take you thus a counterfeit, One that would clip his credit out of his honour, He must kill you presently, There is no mercy nor and hour of pity, And for me to entreat in such and agony, Would show me little better then one guilty, Have you any mind to a Lady now. If you be well and lusty, fie fie shake not You say you love me, come, come bravely now, Despise all danger, I am ready for you. Thou cruel Lord, wouldst thou betray my honesty, Betray it in mine own house, wrong my husband, Like a night thief, thou darest not name by daylight. You are indeed, And Like a foolish thing you have made your self so, Could not your own discretion tell you sir, When I was married I was none of yours, Your eyes were then commanded to look off me, And I now stand in a circle and secure, Your spells nor power can never reach my body, Mark me but this, and then sir be most miserable, 'Tis sacrilege to violate a wedlock, You rob too Templars, make your self twice guilty, You ruin hers, and spot his noble husbands. You cannot go, it's not in me to save you, Dare you do ill, and poorly then shrink under it? Were I the Duke Medina, I would fight now, For you must fight and bravely, it concerns you, You do me double wrong if you sneak off sir, And all the world would say I loved a coward, And you must die too, for you will be killed, And leave your youth, your honour and your state, And all those deer delights you worship't hear. Noise below. The Devil haunts you sure, your sins are mighty, A drunken Devil too, to plague your villainy. There S a deep well In the next yard, if you dare venture drowning, It is but death. Out of a garrat window I'll let you down then, But say the rope be rotten, it's huge high too. Now you are frighted thoroughly, And find what 'tis to play the fool in folly, And see with clear eyes your detested folly, I'll be your guard. I may kiss a stranger, for you must now be so. Is she your sister? Well I could chide ye, But it must be lovingly and Like a sister, I'll bring you on your way, and feast ye nobly, For now I have and honest heart to love ye, And then deliver you to the blue Neptune. The fellows mad. Thou darest not alke. Do you hear him talk? First isle untie my self, did you mark the Gentlema ̄ , How boldly and how sawsily he talked, And how unlike the lump I took him for, The piece of ignorant dow, he stood up to me And mated my commands, this was your providence, Your wisdom, to elect this gentleman, Your excellent forecast in the man, your knowledge, What think you now. I'll have my cellar locked, no school kept there Nor no discovery I'll to rne my drunkards, Such as are understanding in their draughts, And dispute learnedly the whyes and wherefores, To grass immediately, I'll keep all fool S, Sober or drunk, still fools that shall know nothing, Nothing belongs to mankind, but obedie ce, And such a hand isle keep over this husband. I see not what I expect to see. What k ockings this, o heave ̄ my head, why rascals I think the war's begun i'th house already. You must provide a cradle, and what a troubles that 'Tis loud too. Sure ther's some mischief done i'th street look out there. I shall observe you. Fit down and give me your opinions seriously. No, certainly, I am sure my money paid for it, And I never remember yet I gave it you sir. I do Sir. 'Tis Estifanias, that was once my woman. Is a monster, deliver me from mountains.