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Praise and honour (Neptune) nothing less, except it be commendable to be coy, and honourable to be peevish. Sweet Neptune, if Venus can do any thing, let her try it in this one thing, that Diana may find as small comfort at thy hands, as Love hath found curtain sie at hers. This is she that hates sweet delights, envieth loving desires, masketh wanton eyes, stoppeth amo rous ears, bridleth youthful mouths, and under a name, or a word constancy, entertaineth all kind of cruelty: she hath taken my son Cupid, Cupid my lovely son, using him Like a prentice, whypping him Like a slave, scorning him Like a beast, therefore Nep tune I entreat thee by no other God, then the God of love, that thou evil entreat this Goddess of hate. Scars Diana call you them that I know to be bleeding wounds? alas weak deity, it stretcheth not so far, both to abate the sharpness of his Ar rows and to heal the hurts. No, Loves wounds when they seem green, rankle, and having a smooth skin without, fester to the death within. Therefore Neptune, if ever Venus stood thee in steed, forth read thy fancies, or shall at all times be at thy continued ̄ maund, let either Diana bring her Virgins to a continual massacre, or release Cupid of his martyrdom. It is and honour for Diana to have Venus mean ill, when she so speaks well, but you shall see I come not to trifle, therefore once again Neptune, if that be not buried, which can never die, fancy, or that quenched which must ever burn, affection, show thy self the same Neptune that I knew thee to be when thou wast a Shepherd, and let not Venus words be vain in thine ears, since thine were imprinted in my heart. I agree to this willingly: for I will be wary how my Son wander again. But Diana cannot for bid him to wound. But beauty is a fair mark to hit. Sir boy where have you been? always ta ken, first by Sapho, now by Diana, how happeneth it you unhappy Elphe? I am glad I have you. Alas poor boy, thy Wings clipped? thy brands quenched? thy Bow burned? and thy Arrows broke? Well you shall up to heaven with me, for on earth thou wilt loose me. I Like well and allow it, they shall both be possessed of their wishes, for never shall it be said that Nature or Fortune shall overthrow Love, and Faith. Is your loves unspotted, begun with truth, con tinued with constancy, and not to be altered till death? Then shall it be seen, that I can turn one of them to be a man, and that I will. What is to Love or the Mistress of love un possible? Was it not Venus that did the Like to Iphis and Iauthes; how say ye are you agreed, one to be a boy presently? Well you are both fond, therefore agree to this changing, or suffer your Daughters to endure harden chance. Neptune you will not dislike it. Nor you Diana. Cupid shall not. Then let us depart, neither of them shall know whose lot it shall be till they come to the Church door. One shall be, does it suffice? Fortune tellers; tell me my fortune. Yet they will be as good as Minstrels at the marriage, to make us all merry. Can you sing? And you? And what can you do? Then shall ye go with us, and sing Hymen before the marriage. Are you content? Then follow us.
Plot summary
Plot — Gallathea
Every five years, Lincolnshire’s fairest and chastest virgin is sacrificed to N&@ptumé; this ancient custom keeps the land safe from the monster Agat. The fathers of Galatea and PHyllidd independently attempt to preserve their respective daughters from selection for sacrifice by disguising her as a boy and sending her to hide in the woods. They meet: each takes the other for the boy she seems, and falls in love with ‘him’. Meanwhile, to make mischief among Diana’s nymphs, @upid cross-dresses too and gives them all amorous thoughts about the two disguised girls; but Galatea and Phyllida reject them all, each preferring the other. Cupid is captured, and set fiddly tasks by way of punishment. The day of the sacrifice arrives. M@be, the most suitable remaining virgin, is offered in sacrifice, but Neptune has seen through Galatea and Phyjllida’s disguises and will not take her; Hebe is relieved to-have survived and disappointed not to be the fairest virgin. WenGsS arrives to release her son, and appeals for Neptune’s help. He offers to discontinue the custom of sacrifice if Dia@iia will release Cupid, and, knowing it will save the lives of future virgins, Diana agrees. Galatea and Phyllida each discover the other's true gender, but Venus agrees to change one of them into a boy, but they are not to know which of them it is until they are married. In the sub-plot, three brothers are shipwrecked on the Lincolnshire coast, and seek their fortune by some other means than the sea. Raifé successively serves an alchemist and an astronomer, but ends up no richer than before; RGB too has little success, but Diek claims prosperity. The goddesses engage them to sing at the wedding of Galatea and Phyllida.