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Nay now I must needs tell you that your anger Is grounded with no reason to maintain it, If you intend your Daughter shall not marry him, Say so, but play not with his passion, For it's inhumane wit which jeers the wretched. And yet me thinks you sing, Come then let's have a round. Ho Truga ; who's within there? Well, I would gladly have and answer of you, Since I have made Palaemon here my son, If you conceive your Daughter is so good, We will not press you, but seek out some other Who may perhaps please me and him aswell. Nay, then I see you are disposed to make us fools,— Did not I tell you that 'twas my intent To adopt Palaemon for my son and heir? Nay; prithee leave these tricks, and tell me What you intend, is Hylace ready? Nay, here's wonders; Now Callidorus is found out a woman, Bellula not my Daughter, and is married To yonder Gentleman, for which I intend To do in earnest what before I jested, To adopt Palaemon for my heir. It's very likely pretty Mistress Maukin, You with a face looks Like a winter apple When it's shrunk up together and half rotten, I'de see you hanged up for a thing to skare The crows away before I'll spend my breath To teach you any. Alas poor Gentleman! Sure he hath lost some Mistress; beauteous women Take notice of him, (pray) your speaking is Worth more then all the rest. I will, and here do openly protest, That since my Bellula (mine that was once) Thinks her self wiser then her father is, And will be governed rather by her passion, Then by the square that I prescribe to her, That I will never count her as my Daughter. That estate Which Fortune and my care hath given to me, The money which I have, and that's not much, The sheep, and Goats. Yes; every thing. I tell you, every thing. Well, since we are both agreed, why do we stay here I know Palaemon longs embrace his Hylace. Come on then, let's not stay too long in trifling, Palaemon go, and prepare your self against the time. I'll go acquaint my Bellula with your plot, Lest this unwelcome news should too much grieve her, Before she know my meaning. Let him enjoy his madness, the same liberty he'll grant to you, when you're a Lover too. And because Crows Foretell wet weather, you interpret it The rain of your own eyes; but leave these tricks And let me advice you. Here comes Melarnus. Melarnus, opportunely: we were a coming Just now unto you. Spoken with you? Why, are you mad? have you forgotten your promise? Come, what's the business? You see we have not failed our word Melarnus, I and my son are come. You mean Palaemon sure, would, do you not? How now? what are you both dumb? both thun der-strooke? This was your plot Alupis. A curse upon thee! And upon me for trusting thy found counsels! Was this your cunning trick? why thou hast wounded My conscience and my reputation too, With what face can I look on the other Swains? Or who will ever trust me, who have broke My faith thus openly? Nor me. Dost thou upbraid us too? We will do more; Palaemon, come away He hath wronged both; and both shall satisfy. I do not Like this straggling, come along, By your leave Gentlemen, I hope you will Pardon my bold intrusion. Bellula! Why Bellula ? would you have ought with her Sir? Which only I can promise; for her fortune Is beneath you so far, that I could almost Suspect your words, but that you seem more noble. How now, what say you Girl? And I'll not be and enemy to thy good fortune. Take her Sir, and the Gods bless you. Lest you should think when time, and oft enjoying Hath dulled the point, and edge of your affection That you have wronged your self and family, By marrying one whose very name, a Shepherdess, Might fling some spot upon your birth, I'll tell you, She is not mine, nor born in these rude woods: I speak truths Sir, Some fifteen years ago, as I was walking I found a Nurse wounded, and groaning out Her latest spirit, and by her a fair child And, which her very dressing might declare, Of wealthy parents, as soon as I came to them I as'kd her who had used her so inhumanly: She answered Turkish Pirates; and withal Desired me to look unto the child, For it's, said she, a Nobleman's of Sicily, His name she would have spoke, but death permitted not. Her as I could, I caused to be buried, But brought home the little Girl with me, Where by my wives persuasions we agreed, Because the Gods had blessed us with no issue, To nourish as our own, and call it Bellula Whom now you see, your wife, your Daughter. I call the Gods to witness, this is true. And for the farther testimony of it, I have yet kept at home the furniture, And the rich mantle which she then was wrapped in, Which now perhaps may serve to some good use Thereby to know her parents. I'll fetch them hither. They're not far off, and if you please to help The match betwixt Hylace and Palaemon, 'Twould be a good deed, I'll go fetch them. Nay, that was your plot Melarnus, I met with him, and he denies it to me. By all the Gods I will. Of every thing; I call These gentlemen to witness here, that since I have no child to care for; I will make Palaemon heir to those small means the Gods, Have blessed me with, if he do marry Hylace. Alupis welcome, now w'are friends I hope? Give me your hand. Come, shall we knock?
Plot summary
Plot — Love's Riddle
Before the start of the action, Callidora was the victim of an attempted rape when she was alone in her absent parents’ house. Aphron, who was obsessed with her, broke into the house, but she hid in a corner and evaded him. Afraid of a second encounter, she borrowed a suit of her brother’s clothes and fled into the forest. Aphron went mad, and initially believed every woman he met to be Callidora. In the forest, the cross-dressed Callidora becomes ‘Callidorus’. She meets Alupis, a shepherd who sold his inheritance to see the city and came home penniless but with a witty devotion to pleasure. She takes him on as her man, and asks him to teach her indifference to love. She sets up home in the country, only to find that, seeming to be a beautiful youth, she attracts the amorous attentions of the local women, young and old. Palaemon is interested in marrying Hylace, but her father Melarnus refuses the match, thinking him too poor. But Hylace has only been leading him on, more interested in his gifts than himself. Alupis encourages him to turn the tables: she will come to heel if he treats her with masterful disdain; but when this doesn’t bring about her immediate devotion, he loses his nerve and tells her it was all a joke. Alupis decides to recruit her mother, the ancient but amorously inclined Truga, to support Palaemon’s suit. Though infatuated with ‘Callidorus’, Truga transfers her affections to Alupis when he speaks politely to her, and gives him a ring as a lover’s token. Alupis uses the ring to blackmail her: he will show it to her husband, as evidence of adultery, if she doesn’t ensure that Palaemon and Hylace are married before the end of the day. When he brings Palaemon to Truga’s cottage to arrange the wedding, Hylace eavesdrops on the meeting and decides to cross the plan. Palaemon and Alupis meet with Melarnus. The problem of Palaemon’s relative poverty is resolved when Aegon pretends to adopt him as his heir, disinheriting his daughter Bellula for her unseemly interest in ‘Callidorus’; so Melarnus accepts Palaemon, though he still has reservations about the young man’s habit of writing poetry. Before the wedding, however, he changes his mind and pretends that Hylace is to marry someone else—Hylace has had a word with him. Florellus, Callidora’s brother, returns home after five years’ travel, and goes to look for his missing sister. In the forest, he sees Bellula and falls for her; but she is more interested in ‘Callidorus’, and urges the…