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Let it therefore be the main of our assembly, to sur vay our old laws, and punish their transgressions, for that continued ̄ tinually the continued ̄ plaints of lovers ascend up to our deity, that love is abused, and basely bought and sold, beauty corrupted, affection feigned, and pleasure her self sophisticated. That young Gallants are proud in appetite, and weak in per formance, that young Ladies are fantastically inconsta ̄ to, old Ladies impudently unsatiate: wives complain of unmarried women, that they steal the dews belonging to their sheets: and maids exclaim upon wives, that they unjustly in gross all into their own hands, as not content with their own husbands, but also purloining that which should be their comfort: Let us therefore be severe in our justice: And if any of what degree soever have approvedly offended, let him be instantly unpartially arrested and punished, read our statutes. Read. Our mercy is nothing, unless some Lady will beg thee. Acquitted by the express parol of the statute, hence and in thy ignorance be quietly happy, away with him. on. Proceed. If your relenting Lady will have pity on you, the fault against our Deity be pardoned. The penalty. Since multitude of laws are signs either of much tyranny in the prince, or much rebellious disobedience in the subject, we rather think it fit to study, how to have our old laws thoroughly executed, then to have new statutes combo rously invented. On to the next.
Plot summary
Plot — Parasitaster, or The Fawn
After failing to persuade his son Tiberio to marry, Hercules, the widowed Duke of Ferrara, plans to marry Princess Dulcimel of Urbino, and sends Tiberio to negotiate the treaty. Hercules goes to Urbino himself, assumes the alias Faunus, meets Nymphadoro and Herod, and hears some unflattering remarks about himself in his other persona, Hercules. He gets them to introduce him at court, and becomes a favourite with the Duke of Urbino. Dulcimel would rather marry Tiberio than Hercules, and contrives to woo him using her father, Duke Gonzago, as an intermediary. She brings him a scarf which she has embroidered with a message, and tells him that it was sent by Tiberio; the outraged Gonzago gives it to the young man, thinking he is returning an unwanted would-be lover's gift. She then reports to ===== PAGE 176 ===== Gonzago that Tiberio intends to climb up the tree by her bedroom window and surreptitiously marry her. Gonzago repeats the plan back to Tiberio, revokes his diplomatic status, and orders him to leave Urbino. Instead, Tiberio. puts the plan into effect and marries Dulcimel in her bedroom. Faunus: observes the foolish behaviour of the courtiers at Urbino. Herod cuckolds his brother, the impotent Sir Amoroso, and gets his sister-in-law with child — in effect, dispossessing himself of the estate by producing an heir apparent. Donna Zoya, who bas not slept with her husband Zuccone for four years, feigns pregnancy, and the gossip spreads rapidly through the court, each person telling the next on condition that they keep it strictly to themselves. Zuccone repudiates her, then regrets it on learning she is not really an adulteress, but she will only take him back on new terms which give her the upper hand in the marriage. Faunus lays on a court entertainment: a parliament of Cupid to consider the many grievances lovers have sent to heaven. Cupid’s statutes are read, and several of the foolish courtiers are tried. Nymphadoro is convicted as a multiple philanderer and sent to the ship of fools, Herod for falsely boasting of love, and Granuffo for affecting silence to seem wiser than he is. Sir Amoroso (charged with wooing on false pretences) and Zuccone are spared. The last fool to be exposed is Gonzago, for procuring the seduction of his own daughter. Resuming his own identity, Hercules thanks Gonzago for securing Tiberio’s marriage.