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It's true Silvanus, but you see the times Are altered now, and they so dainty grown, By being adored, and wooed, and followed so Of those vnsinowed amorous herdsmen, who By reason of their rich and mighty flocks, Supply their pleasures with that plenteousness, As they disdain our plainness, and do scorn Our company, as men rude and ill born. And so they are, but yet this was not wont To be the fashion here; there was a time Before Arcadia came to be diseased With these corrupted humours reigning now, That choice was made of virtue and desert, Without respect of any other ends: When love was only master of their hearts, And ruled alone: when simple thoughts produced Plain honest deeds, and every one contends To have his fame to follow his deserts, And not his shows; to be the same he was, Not seemed to be: and then were no such parts Of false deceivings played, as now wesee. But after that accursed greediness Of wealth began to enter and possess The hearts of men, integrity was lost, And with it they themselves, for never more; Came they to be in their own pour again. That Tyrant vanquished them, made them all slaves, That brought base servitude into the world, Which else had never been; that only made Them to endure all whatsoever weights Pour could devise to lay upon their neck. For rather the ̄ they would not have, they would not be But miserable. So that no device Needs else to keep them under, they themselves Will bear far more then they are made, the ̄ selves Will add unto their fetters, rather then They would not be, or held to be great men. But why Montanus do you look so sad? What is the cause your mind is not as free As your estate? what, have you had oflate Some coy repulse of your disdainful nymph, To whom love hath subdued you? who indeed Our only master is, and no Lord else But he, hath any power to vex us here; Which had he not, we too too happy were. That were to bite the stone, a thing unjust, To punish him for her conceived lust. These are but billows, tumbling after storms, They last not long, come let some exercise Divert that humour, and convert your thoughts To know your self; scorn her who scorneth you; Idolatrize not so that Sex, but hold A man of straw, more then a wife of gold.
Plot summary
Plot — Hymen's Triumph
Hymen has come to Arcadia incognito to promote married love; but Envy, Avarice, and Jealousy have also come to try and cross his objectives. Thyrsis mourns for his dead love Silvia, while his friend Palaemon tries to persuade him to forget her, but he has been told by the oracle that he wil] be happy again on the day he dies. Cloris sends her boy Clarindo to Thyrsis as a messenger of her unrequited love, remarking that he is rumoured to be in love with another nymph. This distresses Clarindo, who is actually Silvia: though deemed dead, she was in fact abducted by pirates, and has now returned in disguise in order to avoid a forced marriage to her father's preferred suitor (who is now to marry another woman). Meanwhile Phyllis, who once scorned love, has fallen in love with ‘Clarindo’. Her encounter with the ‘boy’ is witnessed by Montanus, who loves her, but when he jealously confronts her, he is persuaded that his eyes deceived him; as penance, he is asked to frighten the ‘boy’. Having witnessed Thyrsis’ grief, Silvia plans to reveal her true identity to him. First she leaves a message carved on a tree, then, at his request, tells him a story based on her own life: how one Sulia, beloved by Syrthis, was taken by pirates, entered the service of the pirate captain’s wife in Egypt dressed as a boy, and after two years was rescued and brought home by Corinthian merchants. Montanus stabs her, and is arrested; Thyrsis, tending to the body, realizes her identity and determines to die with her, but both lovers are restored to life by the medical skill of Lamia.