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O Royal Sir, 'tis you that do despair, Wounds are not always mortal. Approve it in my death, if thou mistrust it Allured. Aye me distressed Queen. And kill your Mother first. Oh my deer sons! Fame spread abroad the wonder, And the fame of our dread Lords the Emperors, which in stead of death Hath given and happy passage to our lives. But Royal Sir, should I forget this shoemaker, We break a bound, wherein we all stand bound: My sons of you hath loving Parents found. So make a Mother prove unnatural, I will defend the foe Through this breast you pass unto him, have ye forgotten your Father? Here will I stay, until my eyes Like briny Pioneers With their continual Cadence, have dug up A woeful Sepulcher, for these sweet Corpse; And if these sterrill Founts prove weak, and dry, Here will I kneel till death has cloyed his Gorge, And left the putrefaction, the mortal damp Shall kiss me to his company for ever. Neither I beseech you gentlemen, will ye accept a poor widows Thanks, for all your loves, 'tis a thin gratitude; But 'tis all I have; I beseech ye haste away, If you do other, I'll not thank you for't. For here isle stay, and warm this cold remainder, Until some fiend, sent from the infernal pit, Does separate by force, what Heaven hath knit. That shelter cover you. Take it, Oh take it in and hour of sorrow, but leave that all with me, So you have all I can bestow upon you: follow, within follow. But mentally, I'll still be blessing of you, and never cease Hark, 'tis time you're gone, away; I charge ye on your duties. Leave me, and haste you hence I say, I'll take my blessing oft if you delay, And plant my curse instead; Eldred, and Offa, you're my Sons, I charge you to obey me. I'll never partly with that remembrance: Obey me and be gone. So, now come you Tyrants, here you shall find me Praying for curses on your cruelty. I'll answer for my self; Tyrant a Christian, a husbandless And Childless Christian, yet one so daring unto misery, She throws a Challenge, to the worst thou canst, Defiance to thee thus; O were it poison to swell this Tyrants bosom till it burst, and fallen thus low. And such and other may thy Daughter have. Like the Court thou keepest. My words I'll better spend in Prayers to Heaven, But if I chance to Curse, I'll think on thee: My Royal Plants, Heaven guard from their full gripe, Fallen Fate on me, my time and days are ripe. Exit. Sir, I have not been used to this hard travel, If you dare mitigate your Master's Cruelty, And let me rest a little, isle thank you for it. My eyes are not deceived, they are my Children. Dare you be so kind, to afford a distressed woman a stool? On thy knee Child, why dost thou kneel to me? Heaven bless thee for't, I have stolen thee a blessing. Wouldst thou add something too? Is he thy Brother, blessing on you both: This was a happiness beyond my hope, that I should once more Bless My Children really, keep in thou woman's frailty, Grief Chain my Tongue, least thou betray the utmost Of my Hope's, my tears may find excuse. 'Tis your trouble sir, they could be content with this kind Expense, a longer sojourn, but you instruct me well: Farewell, I can but thank ye, that's all I have To give for your kind youths — what will my tongue do, Pray use them well, so much the more cause They were kind to me. We talk of no stay, let not your hast make me Unthankful pray, and bar my thanks for kindness, But I have done: On to my house of woe, yet since we must, Delay the more annoys this comfort, yet heaven to my sorrows gives, In amid of Tyranny my children lives. Exit.
Plot summary
Plot — A Shoemaker a Gentleman
The Roman Emperors, Diocletian and Maximinus, bring an army to Britain to crush the Christians. Alured, the British King, is killed in battle. His sons, Eldred and Offa, change their identities and get themselves apprenticed to a shoemaker. They see their mother taken to prison after being captured on the battlefield; their sympathy for her plight impresses their new master. Alban is appointed to rule Britain and continue the persecution. Amphiabel comes from Wales and converts him to Christianity. Maximinus arrests Alban, and Amphiabel flees back to Wales, pursued by the Roman army. Meanwhile, the Welsh Queen Winifred, also converted by Amphiabel, asks her suitor Sir Hugh for a moratorium on his wooing efforts; when he completes the agreed period, however, she announces that she has given herself wholly to heaven and cannot marry him. One of the Romans pursuing Amphiabel mocks the power of Winifred’s holy well, and smears the water on his eyes; it blinds him. His sight is restored, but he ascribes the miracle to the pagan gods. Winifred and Amphiabel are both arrested and brought to see the martyrdom of Alban. Leodice, Maximinus’ daughter, becomes enamoured of her new shoemaker, Crispin, who is really Offa; she continually finds reasons to asks for new shoes and new fitting sessions. She offers to show him the image of his future wife in a magic mirror; but in fact it is an ordinary mirror, and he sees her reflection. He confides that he is not really base-born, but a disguised prince, and they are secretly married. The Romans are mustering an army to resist an invasion of the Empire by Goths and Vandals. Eldred volunteers, and the shoemaker employs Sir Hugh to fill his place. Eldred distinguishes himself in battle: he saves Diocletian’s life, takes back the eagle standard after it has been seized by the enemy, and captures the Vandal king Roderick. The barbarians are expelled, and Diocletian knights Eldred. Sir Hugh is arrested after he sees Winifred a prisoner and reviles the Roman gods. Alban and Amphiabel are tortured in an attempt to make them renounce Christianity, but they remain steadfast and are sent for execution; Alban becomes Britain’s first Christian martyr ~ but not the last. Winifred is allowed to choose the manner of her own execution; she opts to bleed to death. Sir Hugh is made to drink her blood, mixed with poison. He bequeaths his bones to the shoemakers who have come to support him, and declares that, since a prince has been a…