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Sir, I have tried, By all the ways that fit a subject, to Inquire a truth of one that is his Princess. Nothing more Then what my son Cleander did before. 'Tis true. She herein was ingenuous, and confessed, That she foresaw what search would be made for her, Therefore with some about her she had plotted, To hire a bark, that might convey her hence, In a disguise to Smyrna, where she stayed, Till time did fit her; that with safety She might return in habit of a Nymph, Unto the place, where then Cleander found her: But why she left the Court, she will not tell. I should believe, they' resent for to delight Your Majesty, as they were wont. It cannot be: she will not stain her birth With such ignoble love; yet I confess, Revolving all the causes of her strange Departure, I could fix on none but that. Well, if she do so, I will let her forth, Forth of my blood, and whosoere he be Whose fortune marked him out to be the object Of this her love, shall find Ixion's Fate, He shall embrace a shadow; by my life They both shall die. Oh my gracious Lord, Remember she's your daughter. How? both my Lord? Your daughter too? What hast thou done? thou rash inhumane boy? Deprived thy father of a child, thy self Of thine own sister, whom but now thou knewest. Well may the King take that deer life away, Which he did never give: I will go tell him, I am her father: but I lose my life If I do that, as guilty of a treason. Go Murderer, hadst thou no pity in thee? Go take thy way, whither thou wilt thy self, That way is best, which leads me to my grave. Exit. Your Majesty as found me always real, but this truth he Oracles accomplishment will prove, hat did foretell their match. See where they are. He is delivered to me for the shepherd, Of whom your Majesty may if you please Be well informed of all those passages, I left untold. If ere thy Issue Male thou livest to see, The child thou thinkest is thine, thine shall not be. His life shall be obscure, twice shall thy hate Doom him to death, yet shall he escape that Fate. And thou shalt live to see that not long after Thy only son shall wed thy only daughter.
Plot summary
Plot — The Shepherds' Holiday
Thyrsis, who was found by Montanus as a baby with a mysterious inscribed circlet around his neck, is distraught. He left his girlfriend Sylvia in a grove, and she has disappeared; he self-reproachfully worries that she has been raped by a passing satyr, and neglects his flocks. The oracle of Apollo reassures him that he will get her back, but only when they cease to be Thyrsis and Sylvia. Sylvia is really the Princess, Calligone. She fell in love with Thyrsis when the shepherds last came to court with some musical entertainment, and went into the country in pastoral disguise to be with him; she was also hoping to escape the amorous attentions of Cleander, but he found her in the grove and took her home. Her father, Euarchus, suspects the reason she absconded, and summons the shepherds to perform at court again, in the hope of identifying one of them as her lover. They prepare a masque. Cleander is warned off Calligone by his father, Eubulus. Before she was born, the oracle foretold that King Euarchus would see his only son after having a child who is not really his own, that he would twice condemn that son to death, and that the son would marry Euarchus’ daughter. The King took this to mean that, should the pregnant Queen produce a baby boy, it would be a bastard, so he ordered Eubulus to have the infant killed if male. When the child was indeed a boy, Eubulus plotted with the Queen to swap it for his own new-born daughter, who grew up to be Calligone. He then left the baby boy in the forest with money for his education and an identifying necklet inscribed in a diplomatic code known only to him and the King. Calligone is therefore Cleander’s sister. ‘Sylvia’ sends for Thyrsis, but Cleander sees her with him and reports the fact to the King, who orders their execution: Calligone dishonours herself in romantic entanglement with a mere shepherd. The shepherds arrive at court, but are sent away with their masque unseen. When Thyrsis removes his doublet to be strangled, however, Cleander sees the necklet, realizes that this is the long-lost Prince, and arranges for him to marry Calligone instead. The oracle is fulfilled, and King Euarchus gives his blessing to his son and daughter-in-law. In the sub-plot, Dorinda loves the wealthy Daphnis, but he only has eyes for Nerina and, moreover, has her father’s favour. Nerina loves only Hylas, but finds herself caught between love and duty. She tells both Hylas and her father that she prefers not to marry at all, but…