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Dorinda, you are yet in happy case, You are beloved, you needs not to complain; It's I have reason only to bewail My Fortune's, who am cast upon disdain, And on his rocky heart that wracks my youth With storms of sorrows, and contemnes my truth; It's I that am shut out from all delight This world can yield a maid, that am removed From only joy on earth, to be beloved: Cruel Carinus scorns this faith of mine, And lets poor Amarillis grieve and pine. How may that be Dorinda? you know this, You can enjoy but one, and one there is Ought to possess your heart, and love alone, Who Hunt's two Hares at one time, catches none. Well Cloris yet he may, for ought I see Before you come, unless you make more haste. Ah cruel maid, she little knows the grief Of such a heart that's desperate of relief, Nor understands she her own happiness, To have so true a lover as he is. And yet I see sh'is touched, if not too late, For I perceived her colour come and go, And though in pride she would have hid her woe, Yet I saw sorrow look out at her eyes. And poor Amyntas if thou now be gone, Thou hast (Like to the Be that stinging die, And in another's wound leaft his own life) Transpierced by thy death, that marble heart, Which living thou, couldst touch by no desert. And if thou shalt escape, thou hast survived Her cruelty, which now repents her wrong, And thou shalt by her favours be revived, After the affliction thou hast suffered long. Which makes me think, that time, and patience may Intenerat at length the hardest heart, And that I may yet after all my woe, Live overtake Carinus mercy too. Indeed Dorinda you have done him wrong, But your repentance, and compassion now May make amends, and you must learn to do As I long time have done, endure and hope, And on that turn of Fortune's Scene depend, When all extremities must mend, or end. Ah gentle Lelaps, pretty loving dog, Where hast thou leaft thy master, where is he, That great commander over thee and me? Thou Wertenberg not wont be far off from his feet, And o no more would I, were he so pleased; But would as well as thou go follow him, Through brakes, and thickers, over cliffs and rocks So long as I had life to follow him, Would he but look upon me with that eye Of favour, as h'is used to look on thee. Thou canst be clapped, and strookt with that fair hand That thrusts away my heart, and beats it back From following him, which yet it ever will And though he fly me I must after still. But here he comes, me thought he was not far. Alas the least of this regard before, Might have help all, then when 'twas in her power, To-have saved his heart, and to revive his mind, Now for all this, her mercy is unkind; The good that's out of season, is not good. There is no difference now betwixt cruelty, And the compassion thats not understood. There may for me, if now Carinus thou Wilt stand but to thy word, as thou hast said. Oh deer Carinus blessed be this good hour, That I have lived to overtake at last That heart of thine which fled from me so fast.
Plot summary
Plot — The Queen's Arcadia (Arcadia Reformed)
Arcadia is no longer the place of pastoral simplicity it once was: old shepherds have grown litigious, young ones are falling in love unwisely and unrequitedly, and the nymphs, who seem less beautiful than before, have abandoned the modest simplicity of traditional Arcadian dress in favour of quirky new fashions. The problems arise from foreign influences on this previously sequestered land. Colax has travelled abroad, and brought back with him the city woman Techne, and they are selfishly interfering in the love- lives of the nymphs and shepherds: they have made Silvia and Palaemon jealous of one another with mendacious tales of infidelity; and Colax has persuaded Dorinda to jilt Myrtillus in his favour, making her the latest in a string of sexual conquests. Meanwhile Lincus, a lawyer, and Doctor Alcon have both come from town to set up practices in Arcadia. Lincus has found the local amity bad for business: the Arcadians do not covet one another’s property and so never go to law. For Alcon, however, the Arcadians’ fellow-feeling is profitable, because when one falls ill, others follow suit, and they all want the same medicine from him — which is just as well, because he has only one to offer, and that is a placebo. Both are keen to drum up trade, so Lincus has set Montanus and Acrisius against one another, and Alcon has introduced the Arcadians to an unhealthy habit: tobacco-smoking. Carinus (who has recently jilted Amaryllis) and Amyntas are rivals for the love of Cloris, and argue about which of them has the greater command of her affections; but in fact Cloris loves neither of them, and has sworn chastity until she finds a worthy man. Colax now wants a change of girlfriend, and asks Techne to make Cloris love him. Techne offers to give Cloris a new outfit, and arranges for them to meet at a cave so she can try it on; but it is Colax who keeps the appointment, and attempts to rape her. Techne herself has fallen for Amyntas, and arranges for him to see Cloris meeting Colax. Amyntas becomes suicidal, so Techne sends Cloris to stop him; but she arrives too late, and he has already taken poison. Melibaeus and Ergastus have overheard everything, and identify the four interlopers as the cause of Arcadia’s problems. Colax admits that he lied to Silvia ===== PAGE 228 ===== and Palaemon. Amyntas is cured by a herbalist, Montanus and Acrisius are persuaded. to abandon their boundary dispute, and the couples all revert to their original, appropriate pairings:…