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You have been missed Franciscus. Where? Sir, bid your own welcome, and command as much as all we have, were yours. Sir. Oh my Franciscus, o my gentle Lord! Something that's mighty, stain me Leopard Like, if ere I gave offence. Can you this behold, you upright Justices? Most courteous sir,—expect more. Calamity could not inflict so much as I could bear With patienee, did Franciscus imagine but the truth: No lenity, but all extremes that may Attend me with their sharpest violence, If ever I broke my vow: this sorrow, Nor the behaviour I sustain are for mine own endurings, Witness you that know all secrets, it's for him I wish thrice better than my self. Oh my Franciscus! Oh my dearest Lord! Never, never more. Oh inconstant world. The story would be too tedious for the time, And would undo the speaker: Friend no more, You shall do well to leave us. Even what you please: Whither I go, or wheresoever I rest, Sorrow with me, and I with sorrow feast. Welcome, welcome, welcome still, Never with a freer will Was welcome spoken, by the sky; Welcome, welcome heartily. Alack, alack, the rotten south begin to open his dewy mouth, Time to hide you: Father meek Give kind welcome, I beseek, To these white ones, bonny girls, Welcomer than heaps of Pearls. Thus gilded less ones, suffer the guilties blame, While they triumph in fraud, thus the strict Judge Condemns Innocent for the thieves offence; While partiality allows his wrong, And greatness makes it good; Will equity never take place again? Has trust left swaying here? that I but knew my crime: Or that Francisco but beheld my heart! Let mine eyes rain a river of salt drops, And my tears drown me, if any foul sin of mine, Deserve Franciscoes hate: I had rather heaven had made me any thing, Then one so much unhappy, When ere thou biddest on the plenteous shore, Or labouring flood, Prosperity adhere to thy proceedings, And fame conclude thy deeds, For me despised, such be my fortune as my loyalty, And I request no more, My sweet, my sweet Francisco. Show mercy, mercy, Duke. My sweet Franciscus. Franciscus I was ever true to you.
Plot summary
Plot — The Knave in Grain, New Vamped
Jorezzo, banished after his father’s conviction for treason, has returned to Venice under the alias Julio, confiding his identity only to his old schoolfellow Franciscus. He plans to raise his fortunes by marrying Franciscus’ sister Phemone. Unfortunately for him, she is already in love with Antonio; so he tells Franciscus that Antonio is attempting to seduce his wife Cornelia. The jealous Franciscus fights a duel with Antonio, leaves him for dead, and goes into exile. Antonio is found and nursed bya shepherd. Franciscus’ property is seized by the state, and Cornelia’s father, believing the accusation of adultery, turns her out of his house; Phemone leaves Venice with her. They are given shelter by the disguised Antonio, but do not realize his identity. Antonio’s father Arbaces offers a reward for the capture of the fugitive Franciscus, who is living in disguise near Venice. Julio seeks him out, pretending remorse, but really intending to claim the «reward. Franciscus accepts his company, but sneaks off to fetch Arbaces and the watch. Franciscus is arrested and brought before the Duke. At first he is condemned for Antonio’s murder, but the judgement is reversed when Antonio himself comes to the court. Franciscus generously asks the court to spare Julio, but his plea backfires when he lets it slip that Julio is really Jorezzo, the son of a traitor. The Duke sentences him to be branded on the forehead with the word ‘knave’, then banished. In the sub-plot, Stultissimo comes off worst in a fight with Clariflora, Lodowick’s courtesan, and falls in love with her. He sends her amorous verses, takes his revenge by giving her a powerful laxative, and then marries her, only to regret it when he realizes this makes him a cuckold. Meanwhile Lodowick’s friend Valentius is enamoured of the physician Vanderman’s wife Sibylia. Lodowick gets him taken into the doctor’s care as a mental patient in order to have easier access to her. The stratagem is successful, and Valentius has his way with Sibylla. Vanderman discovers the adultery, so Valentius is pronounced sane and discharged. Both Vanderman and Stultissimo appeal to the Duke in connection with their wives’ adultery, but are merely mocked as cuckolds. B-Text In this version, Julio sets up a brothel called the Leaguer, in association with the whore and bawd, and sets out to live on his wits. Three new episodes are inserted in relation to this. In the first, he buys cloth from a mercer on credit, asking him to send 1626…