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Let me embrace you simply. That's perfectly, and more in heart then hand: Let affectation keep at Court. I was mad, stark mad, nine years together. Going to law, i'faith it made me mad. Alas I pity him. Yet a men worth pity, My quiet blood ha blessed me with this gift, I have cured some, and if his wits be not Too deeply cut, I will assay to help e'm. Has he it? Let him go, trouble him not, lock the door qui etly after him, and have a safer care who comes in next. O, isle give him the table too first. Better endure a fist then a sharp sword: I had rather they should pull off my clothes then flay of my skin, and hang that on mine enemies hedge. True, and in it self 'tis glorious and divine, Law is the very Master piece of heaven: But see yonder. Ther's many Clouds between the sun and us, There's too much cloth before we see the Law: The world is nothing but vexation, Spite and uncharitable Actium. Not I. You're quieter I hope by so much Dregs. Behold my Lord: 'Tis told me you love quiet I above life: I have been wild and rash Committed many and unnatural crimes, Which I have since repented. There do I keep. 'Tis my suit. A blessing to this fair assembly. 'Tis the foul fiend my Lord ha God within him the rest are fair to this, this breeds in Ink, And to that colour turns the blood possessed, For instance, now your grace shall see him dressed. Ah, good sir, this is for want of patience. This is for lack of grace, You never say your prayers. The power of my charm come over thee, Place by degrees thy wits before thee, With silk en patience here I bind thee, Not to move till I unwind thee. Yes my honoured Lord. I therefore seek to keep it,—now burst out Thou filthy stream of trouble, spite and doubt. 'Tis the diseases Nature, the Fiends drink. The Balsum of a temperate brain, I pour into this thirsty vein, And with this blessed oil of quiet, Which is so cheap, that few men buy it, Thy stormy Temples I allay, Thou shalt give up the Devil and pray, Forsake his works, the'yre foul and black, And keep thee bore in purse and back. No more shalt thou in paper quarrel, To dress up Apes in good apparel. He throws his stock, and all his flock, Into a swallowing gulf, That sends his Goose unto his Fox, His Lamb unto his Wolf. Keep thy increase, And live at peace, For war's not equal to this battle, That eats but men this men and cattail, Therefore no more this combat choose: Where he that wins, do's always lose, And those that gain all, with this curse receive it, From fools they get it, to their sons they leave it.
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…