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What are those pray. How say by that? you're a very wise counseller. I think very well. Nor you neither I believe. But what when you were a Maid? God forgive him if he do, for I'll be sworn I ne ver deserved his love, nor never will while I live. He? I dare say, he knows not what wood loves shafts are made of, his Signiory would think it the deepest dis paragement could be done to him, to say that ever he spent sighs for any Dame in Italy. To be doing withal? love three or four? Oh my Theagine, not Theagines, thy love hath turned me woman Like thy self, shall thy sighed never turn me man again. Come lets to the Minster, God hear my prayers as I intend to stop mine ears against all my suitors. Ignoble Lodwicke, should I take thy life, It were amends too little for the wrong. Well do not jest it out, for I protest If this disguise, which my inhumane fate Puts on my proper sex, be by thy means Seen through, by any other then thy self, The quarrel betwixt us shall be more then mortal. And thy dishonour to a friendless stranger (Exiled his native country, to remnine Thrall to the mercy of such unknown miads As fortune makes the rulers of my life) Shall spread it self beyond my misery, In the more then temper my late rage And show your virtues perfectly derived From the Venetian noblesse; for my name It is Lucr tio, which to fit this habit I turned Lucretia : the rest that rests To be related of my true estate, I'll tell some other time: least now your presence Might dumbly tell it (if it should be seen) To all the world, or else make it suspect My female life of lightness: then with thanks And vow of all true friendship, for th'amends Your kindness makes me, take your sword again, And with it while I live the power of mine In any honoured use shall command. Then till we meet, and may laugh at this error, I'll once more try the free peace of my chamber. Exit. Stand not amazed, nor disparage him: you see sir, this habit truly does suit my sex, howsoever my hard for tunes have made me a while reject it. Those you know of my father sir: who feared my following of him in my native likeness, to the haven, where he by stealth embarqu't us, and would have discovered him, his offence being the slaughter of a Gentleman, that would h we slain him. I told you I was betrothed to one Theagine, not Theagines, who indeed was a woman, Do you know her Gentlewoman? Pre thee forbear, more happy then unlooked for this deer accident: adopted and noble father, this is the Gentlewoman to whom I told you I was betrothed, the happy news she had to relate to me, made her a traveller, the more search of her passage made her a Page, and her good fortune obtained her — this honest Gentleman to her Master, who I thank him, being (as he supposed me) ou'd me, accept us both for your children. Nay it is you friend Lodovico that are most to blame, that holding the whole feminine sex in such con tempt, wou worser yet play the pickpurse, and steal a poor maids maidenhead out of her pocket sleeping. I am beholding to her, she was loath to have me lead apes in hell.
Plot summary
Plot — May Day
It is May morning. In accordance with the season, old Lorenzo is planning an amorous, adulterous adventure with Francischina, and approaches her kinsman Angelo to act as go-between. Francischina’s husband too is going out with his gull, Innocentio, who is to observe gentlemanly behaviour at an ordinary. Lodovico makes doubly sure of his absence by introducing him to an admirer, Giovanelli, and they go to a tavern together. He is implicated in a second plot which in turn requires Lorenzo to be away from his home: Lorenzo’s daughter Aemilia, whom he plans to marry against her will to Gasparo, loves Aurelio, and Lodovico has promised to bring him to her at the house’s rear terrace. Meanwhile, Leonoro conspires with Temperance to win the love of Lucretia, Aurelio’s cousin. Nothing goes entirely according to plan. Lorenzo comes to Francischina disguised as a chimney-sweep, so that he can enter the house without risk to her honour, but Lodovico lets his friends in on the secret and they tease him on the way; later Angelo pretends to be Quintiliano coming home early, and frightens Lorenzo into hiding. Aurelio’s assignation with Aemilia turns out to involve more than talking when Lodovico provides a rope ladder and he climbs up onto the terrace, which gives access to her bedroom. Lodovico waits below, muffled in his cloak, and Temperance mistakes him for Leonoro; she invites him in just as the real Leonoro arrives and is taken to Lucretia’s chamber. When he gets into bed with her, however, the liaison ends with fighting when he discovers ‘her’ to be a cross- dressed man. Meanwhile Quintiliano cozens Giovanelli of his money and then returns home drunk to find Lorenzo, still disguised, hiding in his coal-house. Lorenzo goes home in turn and discovers Aurelio and Aemilia together; Angelo helps Aurelio escape while Lorenzo is changing out of his disguise before fetching the Provost to administer justice, then substitutes Francischina in Aurelio’s clothes so that Lorenzo will infer that he misunderstood an innocent jest. Everyone goes to the May night show at Honorio’s house, which includes a masque. Leonoro and Quintiliano have the page Lionel cross-dress as a woman with a view to tricking Innocentio into chatting her up. Leonoro confronts Lodovico over his liaison with ‘Lucretia’, and he explains what happened. In fact ‘she’ is really Lucretio, whose father was a Sicilian exile and close friend of Aurelio’s family. ‘Lionel’ turns out to be Lucretio’s fiancée…