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Speak the true Tenor of your Embassy. It's granted: only our Sons consent Is wanting: but see here, he wished for comes. About a match, Which if you't please, we highly shall applaud. They offer you a fair and virtuous Princess Unto your bed: It's the fair Princess Julia you must Marry. I marry must you Sir, Or you divorce your self from our deer love. Ther's in that dish, some Moral. There should be more in't, then a feasting dish; What's here, a Child? Son, Son, you wrong Your self and me too, to accuse a Lady Of such high birth and fame; unless you confess Your self to have erred, you needs must forfeit us. Sir, he never sleeps Longer then day, nor keeps his bed by Sun: It's not the lone of the fairest Lady lives, Can make him leave his morning exercise. We do conceit you: But for the Dowry you crave? Princes, forbear: First see the Issue of the former Combat, Before more blood you hazard. Injuries, Beyond the thought of man. But Peers, the Virgin that this Stroza hired To Justify thee wrongs? Of what birth is that Lady? With which we are pleased. Faithfully As we intend it: But you first shall taste The bounty of our Court, with royal Presents Both to the Duke your master, and the Princess; It done, prepare we for this great solemnity, Of Hymeneal Jubilees. Fixed is the day, Wherein rich Florens shall her pomp display. What means our son? Nay, good Brother Accept him as your Son.
Plot summary
Plot — A Maidenhead Well Lost
Julia has given herself sexually to her flance, the Prince of Parma, but is now concerned that he mav have fost interest in her: she has been told of a dalliance between him and Lauretta. When lulia publicly strikes Eauretta, Parma breaks off the engagement. In fact, Julia’. informant, Stroza, was lying: he has a grudge agamoat ===== PAGE 406 ===== Lauretta’s father, General Sforza, and has also been working to secure his downfall by delaying the shipment of money and supplies to the front. News arrives that the war is won, but that Sforza, unable to pay his men, gave them everything he had and died of grief. His widow pays the soldiers’ arrears out of her estate and leaves Milan with Lauretta. Fearful of dishonour, Julia tries to persuade Parma to stay by telling him she is pregnant. He denies paternity — she consented so readily to pre-marital sex that, misled by Stroza, he believes she must also have had other men - and leaves anyway. Her father the Duke learns of the situation, and sends Stroza to fetch Parma back, dead or alive. Julia’s unborn child saves her from execution for her misdeed, and she goes into hiding until the baby is born. When it is, the Duke orders Stroza to dispose of it, and plans to conceal her shame with a hasty marriage to another foreign prince. Stroza leaves the baby in a grove to be found by passers-by; sure enough, when he returns a few hours later, it has gone, found by Parma and recognized as his own true issue. Lauretta and her mother are found in the forest by the Prince of Florence, and installed by him in a ducal hunting lodge. She falls in love with him, but, knowing herself too low-born, gives cryptic answers to his questions about her love-life. Stroza arrives in Florence as an ambassador to negotiate a marriage between the Prince and Julia. The Duke of Florence accepts, and the Prince is obliged to consent. When he tells Lauretta about it, she initially assumes herself to be the bride, and continues her cryptic answers, telling him that she too will be marrying a prince at the exact same time; on learning he is to wed Julia, she faints. The Prince receives a letter from Parma warning him that Julia is unchaste, and he interrupts the wedding to raise the matter; only on receiving assurances of the bride’s virginity does he allow the ceremony to be completed. To avoid the deception being exposed on the wedding night, Stroza plans to put a substitute bride in the Prince’s bed, and bribes Lauretta to undertake the…