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Stroza? Saw you the Princess? She? I have the power with her To bring thee into grace. I tell thee Stroza, I have that interest In Julia's bosom, that the proudest Prince In Italy cannot supplant me thence. What means Stroza? Whence comes this? it's suspicious, and I must be Inquisitive to know't. Prithee let's hear it. What of all this? We parted last with all the kindest greeting Lovers could add farewell with: but should this change Suit thy report, I should be forced to think That, which cuen Oracles themselves could never Force me to that she is. Your meaning Madame? Why did you strike that Lady? Small cause for blows. You give her blows in private. Stroza still? I shall find Faith elsewhere then. Injurious Lady, All thou canst touch my Honour with, I cast On thee, and henceforth I will fly thee as A Basaliske. I have found the change of lust, Your lose inconstancy, which is as plain To me, as were it writ upon thy brow, You shall not cast me off: I hate thy sighed, And from this hour I will abjure thee quite. This Letter came from you, it's your Character. You are with-child, So does your Letter say: what change your face? And this Child You would bestow on me: y are very liberal Lady, You give me more then I did mean to ask. You would say Rather your doing. What do you weep, that late did rail in clamor? Your thunders turned to showers? It is most strange. But Lady, you that would be won by me To such and act of lust, would soon consent Unto another. This Strozas language moves me, and I intend To try what patience, constancy, and love There can be found in woman: why do you weep? You are not hungry, for your belly's full; Lady, be ruled by me: take the advice A Doctor gave a Gentleman of ate, That sent to him to know, whither Tobacco Were good for him or no: My friend quoth he, If thou didst never love it, never take it; If thou didst ever love it, never leave it: So I to thee; if thou Wertenberg as thou hast Been always honest, I could wish thee still So to continue; but being a broken Lady, Your only way's to make use of your Talon, Farewell, I'll to my Country. Thou shouldst be mind: and durst I for my Head Even in the open Court I'de challenge thee. But I have so incensed th'offended Duke, And laid such heavy spots upon her head, I cannot doo't uviht safety: methinks this Child Does look me in the face, as if 'twould call Me Father, and but this suspected Stroza Stuffed my too credulous ears with jealousy's. For thee sweet Babe I'll swear, that if not all, Partly of my blood runs in thy tender veins, For those few drops I will not see the perish; Be it for her sake whom once I loved, And shall do ever: O injurious Stroza! I now begin to fear; for this sweet Babe Hath in his face no bastardy, but shows A Princely semblance: but Stroza and the Duke, This will I keep as chary as her honour, The which I prize above the Universe. Though she were forced to be unnatural, I'll take to me this Infants pupillage; Nor yet resolved, till I a way have found To make that perfect which is yet unsound. Be't no intrusion held, if a strange Prince (Setting behind, all complemental leave) Amongst strange Princes enters: Let me know Which is the Prince of Florance? Only to you, of all the Milan Peers, I dare expose my safety. I do not doubt it: But I pray you tell me, since I left the Court, How is my absence taken? But of the Princess Julia? Bravely managed, The Duke I see was more kind to her fame, Then to his pretty grandchild; well I'll salt it all, But what think you if after all I should Send Letters to her, or Ambassadors? I should not win her, for I know Th'aue her heart in bondage. No more: Pray leave me Sir. To be married, Ruimus in vestitum semper, I did neglect her, but being denied, I dote upon her beauty: Methinks it's fit, If I begotten the Child? I wed the Mother: The Prince, I pity he should be so wronged, And I the Instrument: Now help me brain, That near was wont to fail me: It's decreed Something to Plot, although I fail to speed. The Prince, the Prince, I come to seek the Prince, and was directed Unto this place. A Letter. Read, the Contents will show you; their eyes are from me, and I must hence. And Parma? It was a gift, I should be loath to partly with, But upon good conditions. Am I then To all a stranger: Do you not know me Lady? Ere I proceed, let me behold this babe; Near a Nurse here? Pray hand it you sweet Lady, Till I find out a Mother. Then Florence know, thou hast wronged me beyond, thought; Shipwrecked my Honour, and my Fame; nay strumpeted Her, whom I term my Bride. Then It maintain: Hast thou a Wife here? Then I'll approve her to be none of thine, That thou hast fetched her from another's arms. Nay more, that she's unchaste? And we content. Yes, here we are. Resolve me first? Was Julia found Chaste? Then I accept her, If you my Lord Be pleased so to partly with her. See Julia, Whom thy hardhearted Father doomed to death, My care hath still Conserved, Embrace it Lady; Nay, it's thy own never fear it.
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…