We serue you Madam in that and all your
worthiest affaires.
Rossillion, none in France,
Rossillion,
drum and trumpets, soldiers, Parrolles.
Letter.
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We serue you Madam in that and all your
worthiest affaires.
Letter.
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I know that knaue, hang him, one
Parolles,
a filthy Officer he is in those suggestions for the young
Earle, beware of them
Diana; their promises,
entise
ments, oathes, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are
not the things they go vnder: many a maide hath beene
seduced by them, and the miserie is example, that so
terrible shewes in the wracke of maidenߛhood, cannot
for all that disswade succession, but that they are limed
with the twigges that threatens them. I hope I neede
not to aduise you further, but I hope your owne grace
will keepe you where you are, though there were no
further danger knowne, but the modestie which is so
lost.
You shall not neede to feare me.
I hope so: looke here comes a pilgrim, I know
she will lye at my house, thither they send one another,
Ile question her. God saue you pilgrim, whether are
bound?
At the S.
Francis heere beside the
Port.
Is this the way?
Is it your selfe?
If you shall please so Pilgrime.
I thanke you, and will stay vpon your leisure.
you came I thinke from
France?
I did so.
His name I pray you?
The Count
Rossillion: know you such a
one?
I surely meere the truth, I know his Lady.
What's his name?
Monsieur
Parrolles.
The goddes forbid else.
Which is the Frenchman?
I like him well.
Which is he?
That Iacke an‑apes with scarfes. Why is hee
melancholly?
Perchance he's hurt i'th battaile.
Loose our drum? Well.
He's shrewdly vext at something. Looke he
has spyed vs.
Marrie hang you.
And your curtesie, for a ring‑carrier.
The troope is past: Come pilgrim, I wil bring
you, Where you shall host: Of inioyn'd penitents
There's foure or fiue, to great S.
Iaques bound,
Alreadie at my house.
Wee'l take your offer kindly.
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<head type="supplied">[Act 3, Scene 5]</head>
<stage rend="italic center" type="business">A Tucket afarre off.</stage>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter old Widdow of Florence, her daughter, Violenta
<lb/>and Mariana, with other
<lb/>Citizens.</stage>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Widdow.</speaker>
<l n="1549">Nay come,</l>
<l n="1550">For if they do approach the Citty,</l>
<l n="1551">We shall loose all the sight.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Diana.</speaker>
<l n="1552">They say, the French Count has done</l>
<l n="1553">Most honourable seruice.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<l n="1554">It is reported,</l>
<l n="1555">That he has taken their great'st Commander,</l>
<l n="1556">And that with his owne hand he slew</l>
<l n="1557">The Dukes brother: we haue lost our labour,</l>
<l n="1558">They are gone a contrarie way: harke,</l>
<l n="1559">you may know by their Trumpets.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-mar">
<speaker rend="italic">Maria.</speaker>
<l n="1560">Come lets returne againe,</l>
<l n="1561">And suffice our selues with the report of it.</l>
<l n="1562">Well<hi rend="italic">Diana</hi>, take heed of this French Earle,</l>
<l n="1563">The honor of a Maide is her name,</l>
<l n="1564">And no Legacie is so rich</l>
<l n="1565">As honestie.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Widdow.</speaker>
<l n="1566">I haue told my neighbour</l>
<l n="1567">How you haue beene solicited by a Gentleman</l>
<l n="1568">His Companion.</l>
</sp>
<pb facs="FFimg:axc0263-0.jpg" n="243"/>
<cb n="1"/>
<sp who="#F-aww-mar">
<speaker rend="italic">Maria.</speaker>
<p n="1569">I know that knaue, hang him, one<hi rend="italic">Parolles</hi>,
<lb n="1570"/>a filthy Officer he is in those suggestions for the young
<lb n="1571"/>Earle, beware of them<hi rend="italic">Diana</hi>; their promises, entise
<lb n="1572"/>ments, oathes, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are
<lb n="1573"/>not the things they go vnder: many a maide hath beene
<lb n="1574"/>seduced by them, and the miserie is example, that so
<lb n="1575"/>terrible shewes in the wracke of maidenߛhood, cannot
<lb n="1576"/>for all that disswade succession, but that they are limed
<lb n="1577"/>with the twigges that threatens them. I hope I neede
<lb n="1578"/>not to aduise you further, but I hope your owne grace
<lb n="1579"/>will keepe you where you are, though there were no
<lb n="1580"/>further danger knowne, but the modestie which is so
<lb n="1581"/>lost.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Dia.</speaker>
<p n="1582">You shall not neede to feare me.</p>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Hellen.</stage>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<p n="1583">I hope so: looke here comes a pilgrim, I know
<lb n="1584"/>she will lye at my house, thither they send one another,
<lb n="1585"/>Ile question her. God saue you pilgrim, whether are
<lb n="1586"/>bound?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<l n="1587">To S.<hi rend="italic">Iaques la grand</hi>.</l>
<l n="1588">Where do the Palmers lodge, I do beseech you?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<p n="1589">At the S.<hi rend="italic">Francis</hi>heere beside the Port.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1590">Is this the way?</p>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="business">A march afarre.</stage>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<l n="1591">I marrie ist. Harke you, they come this way:</l>
<l n="1592">If you will tarrie holy Pilgrime</l>
<l n="1593">But till the troopes come by,</l>
<l n="1594">I will conduct you where you shall be lodg'd,</l>
<l n="1595">The rather for I thinke I know your hostesse</l>
<l n="1596">As ample as my selfe.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1597">Is it your selfe?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<p n="1598">If you shall please so Pilgrime.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1599">I thanke you, and will stay vpon your leisure.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<p n="1600">you came I thinke from<hi rend="italic">France</hi>?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1601">I did so.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<l n="1602">Heere you shall see a Countriman of yours</l>
<l n="1603">That has done worthy seruice.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1604">His name I pray you?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Dia.</speaker>
<p n="1605">The Count<hi rend="italic">Rossillion</hi>: know you such a one?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<l n="1606">But by the eare that heares most nobly of him:</l>
<l n="1607">His face I know not.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Dia.</speaker>
<l n="1608">What somere he is</l>
<l n="1609">He's brauely taken heere. He stole from<hi rend="italic">France</hi>
</l>
<l n="1610">As 'tis reported: for the King had married him</l>
<l n="1611">Against his liking. Thinke you it is so?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1612">I surely meere the truth, I know his Lady.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Dia.</speaker>
<l n="1613">There is a Gentleman that serues the Count,</l>
<l n="1614">Reports but coursely of her.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1615">What's his name?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Dia.</speaker>
<p n="1616">Monsieur<hi rend="italic">Parrolles</hi>.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<l n="1617">Oh I beleeue with him,</l>
<l n="1618">In argument of praise, or to the worth</l>
<l n="1619">Of the great Count himselfe, she is too meane</l>
<l n="1620">To haue her name repeated, all her deseruing</l>
<l n="1621">Is a reserued honestie, and that</l>
<l n="1622">I haue not heard examin'd.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Dian.</speaker>
<l n="1623">Alas poore Ladie,</l>
<l n="1624">'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife</l>
<l n="1625">Of a detesting Lord.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<l n="1626">I write good creature, wheresoere she is,</l>
<l n="1627">Her hart waighes sadly: this yong maid might do her</l>
<l n="1628">A shrewd turne if she pleas'd.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<l n="1629">How do you meane?</l>
<l n="1630">May be the amorous Count solicites her</l>
<l n="1631">In the vnlawfull purpose.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<l n="1632">He does indeede,</l>
<l n="1633">And brokes with all that can in such a suite</l>
<cb n="2"/>
<l n="1634">Corrupt the tender honour of a Maide:</l>
<l n="1635">But she is arm'd for him, and keepes her guard</l>
<l n="1636">In honestest defence.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="mixed">Drumme and Colours.
<lb/>Enter Count Rossillion, Parrolles, and the whole Armie.</stage>
<sp who="#F-aww-mar">
<speaker rend="italic">Mar.</speaker>
<p n="1637">The goddes forbid else.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<l n="1638">So, now they come:</l>
<l n="1639">That is<hi rend="italic">Anthonio</hi>the Dukes eldest sonne,</l>
<l n="1640">That<hi rend="italic">Escalus</hi>.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1641">Which is the Frenchman?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Dia.</speaker>
<l n="1642">Hee,</l>
<l n="1643">That with the plume, 'tis a most gallant fellow,</l>
<l n="1644">I would he lou'd his wife: if he were honester</l>
<l n="1645">He were much goodlier. Is't not a handsom Gentleman</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1646">I like him well.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Di.</speaker>
<l n="1647">'Tis pitty he is not honest: yonds that same knaue</l>
<l n="1648">That leades him to these places: were I his Ladie,</l>
<l n="1649">I would poison that vile Rascall.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1650">Which is he?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia">
<speaker rend="italic">Dia.</speaker>
<p n="1651">That Iacke an‑apes with scarfes. Why is hee
<lb n="1652"/>melancholly?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<p n="1653">Perchance he's hurt i'th battaile.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-par">
<speaker rend="italic">Par.</speaker>
<p n="1654">Loose our drum? Well.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-mar">
<speaker rend="italic">Mar.</speaker>
<p n="1655">He's shrewdly vext at something. Looke he
<lb n="1656"/>has spyed vs.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<p n="1657">Marrie hang you.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-mar">
<speaker rend="italic">Mar.</speaker>
<p n="1658">And your curtesie, for a ring‑carrier.</p>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exit.</stage>
<sp who="#F-aww-wid">
<speaker rend="italic">Wid.</speaker>
<p n="1659">The troope is past: Come pilgrim, I wil bring
<lb n="1660"/>you, Where you shall host: Of inioyn'd penitents
<lb n="1661"/>There's foure or fiue, to great S.<hi rend="italic">Iaques</hi>bound,
<lb n="1662"/>Alreadie at my house.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-hel">
<speaker rend="italic">Hel.</speaker>
<l n="1663">I humbly thanke you:</l>
<l n="1664">Please it this Matron, and this gentle Maide</l>
<l n="1665">To eate with vs to night, the charge and thanking</l>
<l n="1666">Shall be for me, and to requite you further,</l>
<l n="1667">I will bestow some precepts of this Virgin,</l>
<l n="1668">Worthy the note.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-aww-dia #F-aww-mar">
<speaker rend="italic">Both.</speaker>
<p n="1669">Wee'l take your offer kindly.</p>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
</div>