AMADINE

Help Segasto help, help sweated Segasto or ele I die. Alas madam, there is no way but flight, Then hast and save your self. Why then I die, ah help me in distress, That fowl deformed monster is he dead? Thanks worthy shepherd, thanks a thousaud times This gift assure thy self contents me more, Then greatest bounty of a mighty prince: Although he were the monarch of the world. No goddess shepherd, but a mortal wight A mortal wight distressed as thou seest: My father here is king of Arragon. I Amadine his only daughter am: And after him sole heir unto the crown. Now where as it is my father's will, To marry me unto Segasto, On whose wealth through father's former usury Is known to be no less then wondered, We both of custom oftentimes did use, Leaving the court to walk within the fields, For recreation esecially the spring, In that it yields great store of rare delights: And passing further then our wonted walks, Scarce were entered within these luckless woods, But right before us down a steep fallen hill A monstrous ugly bear did High him fast, To meet us both, I faint to tell the rest, Good shepherd, but suppose the ghastly looks, The hiddious fears, the thousant hundred woes, Which at this instant Amadine sustained. Believe me shepherd so it does no less. I know not I, that know the powers divi But God grant this that sweet Segasto live. Well Shepherd for thy worthy valour tried, Endangering thy self to set me free: Unrecompensed sure thou shalt not be. In court thy courage shall be plainly known: Throughout the Kingdom will I spread thy name, To thy renown and never dying fame: And that thy courage may be better known. Bear thou the head of this most monstrous beast In open sighed to every courtiers view So will the king my father thee reward. Come lets away, and guard me to the court. Dread sovereign and well-beloved sire. On bent kees I crave the life of this condemned shepherd, which heretofore preserved the life of thy sometime distressed daughter. K. preserved the life of my sometime distressed daughter How can that be; I never knew the time Whrein thou wast dist est, I never knew the day But that I have maintained thy state, As best beseemed the daughter of a king I never saw the shepherd until now, How comes it then that he preserved thy life? Once walking with Segasto in the woods, Further then our accustomed manner was, Right before us down a steep fall hill, A monstrous ugly bear does High him fast To meet us both, now whither this be true, I refer it to the cerdit of Segasto. The bear being eager to obtain his pray; Made forward to us with and open mouth, As if he meant to swallow us both at once, The sighed whereof did make us both to dread, But specially your daughter Amadine, W oh for I saw no succour incident But in Segastoes valour, I grew desperate, And he most cowardlike began to fly. Left me distressed to be devoured of him, How say you Segasto is it not true? Then I amasded stressed all alone, Did High me fast to escape that ugly bear, But all in vain, for why he reached after me, And hardly I did oft escape his paws, Till at the length this shepherd came, And brought to me his head. Come hither boy, lo here it is, which I present unto your majesty. The shepherd in the woods oh king preserved me. So would the shepherd had he been in field The shepherd's force have saved thousand, more. Arinea if any body ask for me, Make some excuse till I return. Do thou the Like to him, I mean not to stay long Shepherd, well met tell me how thou dost. Shepherd, although thy banishment already be decreed and all against thy will, yet Amadine. Say on with all my heart. Not so. I honour thee as sovereign with my heart. Yet Like enough where there is no dislike. Shepherd, it is only Segasto that procures thy banishment. Would God they would freeth from banish meant, or likewise bamish me. Well shepherd, sith thou sufferest this for my sake, with thee in exile also let me live. On this condition shepherd thou canst love. Oh flat I loved one indeed, now love I none but only thee. Well shepherd, hark what I shall say, I will return unto my Father's court. Therefore to provide me of such nescessaries, As for our journey I shall think most fit, This being done I will return to thee, Do thou therefore appoint the place where we may meet. I Like I very well. Full three hours hence God willing, I will return. Then Mucedorus forthreee hours farewell. God grant my long delay procures no harm Nor this my tarring frustrate my pretence, My Mucedorus surely stays for me, And thinks me over long, at length I come My present promise to perform: Ah what a thing is firm unfeigned love, What is I which to we love dares not tempt My fat er he may make but I must match, Segasto l ves b to Amadine must Like, When e likes he best c mpulsion is a thrall, No, no, the hearty choice is all in all, The shepherds virtue Amadine esteems. But what me thinks my shepherd is not come? I muse at that, the hour is sure at hand, Well here isle rest till Mucedorus come. What must I die? Yet pity me and let me live a while. Ah now I want my shepherds company. Ah spare ah spare to shed my guiltless blood As Like the woods of Bremoes cruelty, Though I were dumb and could not answer him, The beasts themselves would with relenting tears Bewail thy savage and unhuman deeds. My Bremo, no the shepherd is my love. O spare me Bremo love should limit life, Not to be made a murderer of him self If thou wilt glut thy loving heart with blood, Encounter with the lion or the bear, And a Like wolf pray not upon a lamb. You may, for who but you? You may, for who but you? , oh may not you. You may, for who but you. You may for who but you? Yet give him leave to speak for my sake. hold Bremo hold, You promised that I should have my will, Then save this hermit's life, for he may save us both: Ah hermit, none but bade & such as thou know west. Not my Bremo nor his Bremo woods; I Like him not, his love to me is nothing wrath Ah hermit, I take no, pleasure in his love. Neither yet does Bremo Like me best. Hermit I will, of late a worthy shepherd I did love you. This is to big, I cannot wield it in my arm. I so I do , and none but only him. And will do still as long as life shall last I will disguised wander through the world Till I have found h m out, Ah none so happy then as Amadine And lived so long unknown to Amadine. Not so Segasto, no such thing in hand, show your assurance, then isle answer you. But what he promised he hath not performed No I. So is my will and therefore even so. Then seek and other that may you better please It shall not need if Amadine do live, Thou shalt be crowned king of Arragon, Ah how I joy my fortune is so good, Ah father what of him, And good Segasto these great cur esies Shall not be forgotten. How can she fight that weapons cannot wield? I think the very same. Hast shepherd hast or else thon comest to lat. Then Mucedorus farewell my hopedioi S farewell. Yea farewell life, and welcome present death, To thee Oh God I yield my dying ghost. Fain would I live, yet loath to live in woods, Hermit this is true, and when we had. My Mucedorus hath he set me from ? I may not Bremo and therefore pardon me. My choice is made, for I will none but thee. Yet pare him Bremo spare him You promised me to make me your Queen. It glads my heart this tyrants death to see. My gracious father pardon thy disloyal daughter