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Captain, my Husband. What ha disturbed you sir, that you now look so Like and Enemy upon me? For love to you, did I neglect my state, Chide better Fortune's from me, Gave the world talk, laid all my friends at waste. That which you urge, should rather give me cause to repent then your self. What a miserable state am I led into? And honourably welcome. O my poison! Him, whom mine honour and mine eye abhors. I give it freely all. I beseech your Lordship cease in this, 'Tis never to be gram ̄ ted: if you come as a friend unto my honour and my husband, you shall be ever welcome, if not, I must entreat it— 'Tis more my grief my Lord, such as my self are judged the worse for such. To heaven and to you my modest thanks. I give it without suit. My honours evil. Captain, my husband. Have you no sense, neither of my good name or your own credit? O why do you so wilfully cherish your own poison? and breath against the best of life, chased credit. Well may I call it chased, for Like a Maid Once falsely broke it ever lives decaide. Oh Captain, husband, you name that Dishonest, By whose good power all that are honest live, What madness is it to speak ill of that, Which makes all men speak well, take away credit By which men amongst men, are well reputed, That man may live, but still lives executed. O then show pity to that noble Title Which else you do Usurp: you're no true Captain, To let your enemies lead you, foul disdain, And everlasting Scandal, O believe it! The money you receive for my good name Will not be half enough to pay your shame. Who hath laid violence upon my husband? My deer sweet Captain, help— I do beseech your pardon good my Lord. My kind Son, Whose liking I neglected in this match.
Plot summary
Plot — The Phoenix
The old Duke of Ferrara has reigned 45 years, and is now near death. He accepts his nobles’ advice that his son, ===== PAGE 76 ===== Prince Phoenix, should travel to other nations in order to prepare himself for government. Phoenix suspects a stratagem to have him out of the country at the time his father dies, jeopardizing the succession, so he decides instead to travel incognito within Ferrara itself, witnessing abuses which require reformation, but which would be concealed from a visitor known to be of high rank; he will be attended only by his servant Fidelio. Fidelio has a new stepfather, a sea-captain: against all advice, his mother Castiza has remarried, only to find herself tied to an abusive bully. The captain also regrets the marriage and is looking for a way out of it; so he agrees to sell his wife to the courtier Proditor. Phoenix and Fidelio hear of this and infiltrate the sales meeting in disguise: Fidelio poses as the scrivener who has.drawn up the contract, and Phoenix as a potential investor in the captain’s next voyage. Once the contract is signed and the money handed over, they confront the captain and force him to go into exile, giving the money to Castiza. Fidelio’s girlfriend has just lost her father, whose will leaves her in the custody of her uncle, the corrupt Justice Falso. He proposes to marry her, threatening to withhold payment of her dowry if she should marry anyone else (such as Fidelio). Fidelio goes to see her in disguise, bringing a letter and gift from himself, but on the way he and Phoenix are attacked by robbers and the token is stolen. The thieves are in fact Falso’s servants in disguise, seeking to supplement the meagre wage he pays them. Phoenix captures one of them and has him brought before a judge; but this happens to be Falso himself, and he commits the prisoner to the custody of the other servants, his accomplices. The niece explains to Phoenix what has happened and absconds with him and Fidelio. Falso also abets his own daughter’s adultery with her husband’s brother, a knight. She sets up an assignation, promising to give him money: he is gently to disturb the door-knocker after her jeweller husband has gone to bed, whereupon the maid will let him in. Phoenix accidentally gives the signal and is admitted by mistake. Meeting him in darkness, the wife does not notice the error, and gives him the money. Meanwhile the knight is arrested for debt. He takes the officers to his lover’s house, expecting to receive the…