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May we built vpon't? What hope hath he in one So meanly bred? or she obtain a Prince Of such dissent and lineage? To be his strumpet Stroza? Thou shouldst be honest Stroza. The General Sforsa's daughter? is't not she? I never saw them yet familiar. I now repent Too late, since I too lavishly have given him The utmost he could ask, and stretched my honour Beyond all lawful bounds of modesty. He's covetous of others, and neglects His own; but I will partly those their stolen pleasures, And cross those lustful sports they have in chase, Not be the pillow to my own disgrace. Minion is't you? there's for you, know your own. Strumpet, why? Dare you contest with us? Did it Sir with yours But correspond, it would be bade indeed. Cause you should pity her. I struck her publicly. Go perjured and dispose thy false allurements amongst them that will believe thee, thou hast lost Thy credit here for ever. Eye spread thy snares To catch poor innocent Maids: and having taken them In the Like pitfall, with their shipwracked honours, Make seizure of their lives. I'll call him back: if Stroza be no villain, He is not worth my clamour. What was that startled Within me? O I am dishonoured Perpetually; for he hath left behind That pledge of his acquaintance, that will for ever Cleave to my blood in scandal, I must now Sue, send, and crave, and what before I scorned By prayers to grant, submissively implore. Haste Stroza, unto the Prince his chamber, Give him this letter, it concerns my honour, My state, my life, all that I can call good Depends upon the safe delivery Of these few broken Letters. What stays she to outface me? Speak, will he come? It is well: If prayers or tears can move him, I'll make way To save my own shame, and enforce his stay. That hand in Contract you so long have had, Should not seem strange to you now. O Sir, you come to know whither Tobacco be good for you or no; I'll tell you, if you never took it, never take it then, or it you ever used it, take it still; Nay, I'm and excel lent Philistian grown of late I tell you. Love me thou dost not. I say thou dost not: lay no wager with me, For if thou dost, there will be two to one On my side against thee. Do show your self a Prince: let her no longer Live, that hath thus disgraced your Royal Blood. Strike, I'll stand. You are not true to your own honour Father. To let me longer live. It is my Lord. Durst I presume my Lord, to know Whither you have send my son? Whom but Parma's Prince. I have done. Since I have lost the name of Child, I am a servant now and must obey. My blushes must speak for me. And yet but what's your own Sir, I am serious, And it will ill become your Oaths and Vows To jest at my undoing. In doing thus, you should undo me quite. You have dishonoured me, and by your flattery Have robbed me of my chaste Virginity: Yet ere I yielded, we were man and wife, Saving the Churches outward Ceremony. Can this be found in man? O miserable, Let me but reckon up ten thousand ills My looseness hath committed, the aspersion And scandalous reputation of my Child, My Father too, 'tmust come unto his care, O— Away. That all those black occurrents should conspire, And end in my disgrace. If all men were such, I should be sorry that a man begotten me, Although he were my father. How my Father! then do one thing For me your Daughter Instantly then draw your sword And pierce me to the heart. Nor I my self so well, as to desire A longer life: if you be then my Father, Punish a sin that hath disgraced your Daughter, Scandald your blood, and poisoned it with mud. See, I am strumpeted, A bastard issue grows within my womb. Prince Parma's. TO Hat she should doo't? A Suitor to that Lady Royal Father, Before she be a widow that you are So private in discourse? I'm glad I have found you in the giving vain Will you grant me one boon to? Say it my Lord? To have this modest Gentlewoman Banished the Court, Lady though You be i'th begging vain, I am not now In the giving, will you leave us? How chastitiy? A thing long sought amongst Captains wives and daughters, Yet hardly can be found. Came we thus far, to be thus wronged? Have you sent for me, to accuse me here In this stange Climb? It is not Princely done. Stroza was cause of all, but his submission Hath saved him from our hate, arise in grace. Whilst we thus greet Lauretta. It shall not, we are fixed and stand immou'd, And will be swayed by no hand. Submission is to me full recompense. He never exercised with me, I'm sure; I might have lain as safe, free, and untouched, By any Lady living. I received none Sir. When? Where? 'Twas in my dream then. O my perplexed heart! Pardon Sir, It well becomes my handling. Now have I my desires: Had I withal, The Princely babe I boar. Parma?
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…