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I am half a statue Freeze me up quite ye Gods, and let me be My own sad monument. Do you think My griefs so light? or was the interest So small which I had in her? I a comforter? Alas! she was my wife, for we were married In our affection, in our vows; and nothing Stopped the enjoying of each other, but The thin partition of some ceremonies. I lost my Hope's, my expectations, My joys, nay more, I lost my self with her; You have a son, yet left behind, whose memory May sweeten all this gall. Why do I play thus with my misery? It's vain to think I can live here without her, I'll seek her where ever she is; patience in this Would be a vice, and men might justly say My love was but a flash of winged lightning, And not a Vestal flame, which always shines His wooing is a compliment, not passion, Who can if fortune snatch away his Mistress, Spend some few tears, then take another choice, Mine is not so; O Callidora! So it is; And I will therefore shape some other course, This diolefull place shall never see me more, Unless it see her too in my embraces, You sister may retire unto my Farm, Adjoining to the woods; And my estate I leave for you to manage, If I find her, expect me there, if not Do you live happier then your Brother hath: 'Twould be a wrong to charity to dismiss ye Before I see you friends, give me your weapons. What do you mean? (Swounds) Rise, prithee rise; sure you have wounded him. Deceive me not good eyes; what do I see? My Callidorus dead? It's impossible! Who is it that lies slain there? are you dumb? Who is't I pray? Was his name Callidorus ? it is strange. What shall we do? I have a sister dwells Close by this place, let's hast to bring them thither. But lets be sudden. I did protest without my Callidora Never to return, but pity hath overcome. How should he know my name? it's to me a riddle Nay Shepherd find another time to court in, Make hast now with your burden. Do happy Mistress for the recordation, Of before passed ils, makes us the sweetlier relish Our present good. Why so did all beside I'll warrant you, Nor can I blame them, though they were my rival. How Sister? are you two so near upon a match? No Sir, if you both Agree, to me it shall not be unwelcome. Why here's a day indeed; sure Hymen now Means to spend all his torches. You're welcome all, and I desire you all To be my guests to day; a Wedding dinner, Such as the sudden can afford, we'll have, Come will ye walk in Gentlemen? Never, farewell: good Demophil, Farewell Spodaia, temper your laments; If I return we shall again be happy. I knit delays; 'twere time I were now ready, And I shall sin if I seem dull or slow In any thing which touches Callidora,
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…