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Masters allace for sik remeid, That sik ane purpois should proceed, I walled wisch rather to be dead, Nor in that manner matchit: Quhat aillit ȝe Parents to prepair. Ȝour Children's deip continual cair, Ȝour cruel hands quhy did ȝe spair, First us to have dispatchit. Unnatural father's now quhairfoir? Walled ȝe ȝour Daughters thus devoir? For ȝour vane fantasies far moir, Nor any Good respect: Is it not doittrie hes ȝow dreuin, Haiknayis to seek for haist to Heauin? I trow that all the World evin, Shall at ȝour guckrie geck. Solace to seek them selves to sla, Ane mire to miss they fallen in ma: They get bot grief when as they Gam, To get their greitest game: And we young things tormentit to, Their daffing dois us swa undo, Give they be wise, their doings lo, Will signify the same. Make ȝow a ma ̄ , that is bot mowis To think thairon ȝour grief bot growis, For that devise devil haid it dowis, Sen it can never be: Maistris quhat now? bethink you dream. Or than to be in sown ȝe seime: Scho lyis also dead, quhat shall I deime, Of this unhappy chance? Scho will not heir me for nam cryis, For plucking on scho will not ryis, Sa larbair-lyke lo as scho lyis, As raueist in a trance. Now sen the Gods hes succour sent And done even as we did invent, My joy I heartily am content, To do as ȝe devise: Throw Gods decreit my only choice, In mutual luif we shall rejoyse, Our furious father's baith suppose They walled skip in the Skyis.
Plot summary
Plot — Philotus
Rejected by Emily, Philotus engages a bawd to help with his wooing. She recounts to Emily the advantages of marrying a rich old man: social position, fashionable clothes, a life of luxury, and the prospect of early widowhood. Emily is more concerned about his sexual performance, but the bawd emphasizes the opportunities she will have to commit adultery. When Emily remains unconvinced, Philotus agrees with her father Alberto that each will marry the other’s daughter. Emily still refuses, so Alberto threatens her with imprisonment on a bread-and-water diet. She asks for time to think it over. Flavius is a suitor more to Emily’s liking. She absconds disguised as a page, but is seen by her father’s servant. Philotus and Alberto search for her, but find her brother Philerno, who has returned home unrecognized. They take him for his cross-dressed sister: Alberto forgives ‘her’ provided that ‘she’ now consents to the marriage. Philotus takes ‘her’ home and lodges ‘her’ with Brisilla, his daughter and Alberto’s fiancée. Brisilla witnesses a miracle: Philerno prays to be turned into a man to evade the marriage, and instantly becomes one. The nuptial day arrives, and Flavius sees Philotus being married to ‘Emily’. Assuming the Emily he has at home to be a devil in human form, he throws her out of the house. Meanwhile, Philerno hires a whore to take - his place on the wedding night, and she demonstrates who is the dominant partner by beating Philotus. Confronted by Alberto and Flavius, he shows’ his bruises and insists that his Emily, not Flavius’, must be the interloping devil. Philerno reveals his true idéntity, and Philotus realizes with horror that the young man has been sleeping with his daughter. Alberto agrees to waive his claim on Brisilla so that she can-marry Philerno. Philotus acknowledges that he is to blame for ===== PAGE 353 ===== 1585 his own misfortunes, for failing to behave like the old man he is.