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IT were better we were all dead; the enjoying Of tedious life is a worse punishment Then losing of my Daughter; O! my friends, Why have I lived so long? O! never, never, it's impossible As to call back sixteen, and with vain Rhetoric Persuade my life's fresh April to return, She's dead, or else far worse, kept up by Aphron Whom if I could but see, me thinks new blood Would creep into my veins, and my faint sinews Renew themselves, I doubt not but to find Strength enough yet to be revenged of Aphron. This news, alas! Will be but a sad welcome to him. The Gods that pity Lovers (if there be any) attend upon you. O! that name wounds me; we'll bear you come pany A little way, and Clariana look To see us often at your Country Farm, We'll sighs, and grieve together. Exeunt. My Daughter found again, and son returned! Would, would! me thinks it makes me young again. My Daughter and my Son meet here together! Philistus with them too! that we should come To grieve with Clariana, and find her here. Nay, when we thought we had lost Florellus too To find them both, me thinks it makes me young again. Come girl; go on, go on. His wild lust— Pish, pish: And made a Shepherd— Go on. Where's that Shepherd? Here, where? You should have used some other means, Florellus. Be patient Son, and temper your desire, You shall not want a wife that will perhaps Please you as well, I'm sure befit you better. Since't must be so, I'll bear it patiently, Shepherd you see how much our son is taken With your fair Daughter, therefore if you think Him fitting for her husband speak, and let it Be made a match immediately, we shall Expect no other dowry then her virtue. Sure this is Aphrons sister then, for just About the time he mentions, I remember, The governor of Pachinus, then his Father Told me that certain Pirates of Argier Had broke into his house, and stolen from thence With other things his Daughter, and her Nurse, Who being after taken, and executed, Their last confession was, that they indeed Wounded the Nurse, but she fled with the child, While they were busy searching for more prey. Whom since her father, neither saw, nor herd of. Most willingly: Come, Aphron, welcome, We have forgotten the wrong you did my Daughter, The name of love hath covered all; this is A joyful day, and sacred to great Hymen 'Twere sin not to be friends with all men now. It's my Son Sir, New come from travail, and your Brother now. Had you not a sister? Is't not about some fifteen years ago Since that the Nurse scaped with her from the hands Of Turkish Pirates that beset the house? We'll be his sureties. Yes, yes, What crosses have ye born before ye joined! What seas passed through before ye touched the port! Thus Lovers do, ere they are crowned by Fates With Palm, the tree their patience imitates. Nay, she is lost for ever, and her name Which used to be so comfortable, now Is poison to our thoughts, and to augment Our misery paints forth our former happiness, Oh Callidora, Oh my Callidora! I shall never see thee more. Your sister lives then, and is married Now to Florellus ; this is she, you shall be Informed of all the circumstances anon.
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…