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.Take him away,My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fallShall taze my feares of little vanitie,Hauing vainly fear'd too little.Away with him,Wee'l sift this matter furtherBer.If you shall proueThis Ring was euer hers, you shall as easieProue that I husbanded her bed in Florence,Where yet she neuer was.Enter a Gentleman.King.I am wrap'd in dismall thinkingsGen.Gracious Soueraigne.Whether I haue beene too blame or no, I know not,Here's a petition from a Florentine,Who hath for foure or fiue remoues come short,To tender it her selfe.I vndertooke it,Vanquish'd thereto by the faire grace and speechOf the poore suppliant, who by this I knowIs heere attending: her businesse lookes in herWith an importing visage, and she told meIn a sweet verball breefe, it did concerneYour Highnesse with her selfe.A Letter.Vpon his many protestations to marrie mee when his wife wasdead, I blush to say it, he wonne me.Now is the Count Rossilliona Widdower, his vowes are forfeited to mee, and myhonors payed to him.Hee stole from Florence, taking noleaue, and I follow him to his Countrey for Iustice: Grantit me, O King, in you it best lies, otherwise a seducer flourishes,and a poore Maid is vndone.Diana CapiletLaf.I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toulefor this.Ile none of himKin.The heauens haue thought well on thee Lafew,To bring forth this discou'rie, seeke these sutors:Go speedily, and bring againe the Count.Enter Bertram.I am a-feard the life of Hellen (Ladie)Was fowly snatchtOld La.Now iustice on the doersKing.I wonder sir, sir, wiues are monsters to you,And that you flye them as you sweare them Lordship,Yet you desire to marry.What woman's that?Enter Widdow, Diana, and Parrolles.Dia.I am my Lord a wretched Florentine,Deriued from the ancient Capilet,My suite as I do vnderstand you know,And therefore know how farre I may be pittiedWid.I am her Mother sir, whose age and honourBoth suffer vnder this complaint we bring,And both shall cease, without your remedieKing.Come hether Count, do you know these Women?Ber.My Lord, I neither can nor will denie,But that I know them, do they charge me further?Dia.Why do you looke so strange vpon your wife?Ber.She's none of mine my LordDia.If you shall marrieYou giue away this hand, and that is mine,You giue away heauens vowes, and those are mine:You giue away my selfe, which is knowne mine:For I by vow am so embodied yours,That she which marries you, must marrie me,Either both or noneLaf.Your reputation comes too short for my daughter,you are no husband for herBer.My Lord, this is a fond and desp'rate creature,Whom sometime I haue laugh'd with: Let your highnesLay a more noble thought vpon mine honour,Then for to thinke that I would sinke it heereKin.Sir for my thoughts, you haue them il to friend,Till your deeds gaine them fairer: proue your honor,Then in my thought it liesDian.Good my Lord,Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do's thinkeHe had not my virginityKin.What saist thou to her?Ber.She's impudent my Lord,And was a common gamester to the CampeDia.He do's me wrong my Lord: If I were so,He might haue bought me at a common price.Do not beleeue him.O behold this Ring,Whose high respect and rich validitieDid lacke a Paralell: yet for all thatHe gaue it to a Commoner a'th CampeIf I be oneCoun.He blushes, and 'tis hit:Of sixe preceding Ancestors that IemmeConfer'd by testament to'th sequent issueHath it beene owed and worne.This is his wife,That Ring's a thousand proofesKing.Me thought you saideYou saw one heere in Court could witnesse itDia.I did my Lord, but loath am to produceSo bad an instrument, his names ParrollesLaf.I saw the man to day, if man he beeKin.Finde him, and bring him hetherRos.What of him:He's quoted for a most perfidious slaueWith all the spots a'th world, taxt and debosh'd,Whose nature sickens: but to speake a truth,Am I, or that or this for what he'l vtter,That will speake any thingKin.She hath that Ring of yoursRos.I thinke she has; certaine it is I lyk'd her,And boorded her i'th wanton way of youth:She knew her distance, and did angle for mee,Madding my eagernesse with her restraint,As all impediments in fancies courseAre motiues of more fancie, and in fine,Her insuite comming with her moderne grace,Subdu'd me to her rate, she got the Ring,And I had that which any inferiour mightAt Market price haue boughtDia.I must be patient:You that haue turn'd off a first so noble wife,May iustly dyet me.I pray you yet,(Since you lacke vertue, I will loose a husband)Send for your Ring, I will returne it home,And giue me mine againeRos.I haue it notKin.What Ring was yours I pray you?Dian.Sir much like the same vpon your fingerKin.Know you this Ring, this Ring was his of lateDia.And this was it I gaue him being a bedKin.The story then goes false, you threw it himOut of a CasementDia.I haue spoke the truth.Enter Parolles.Ros.My Lord, I do confesse the ring was hersKin.You boggle shrewdly, euery feather starts you:Is this the man you speake of?Dia.I, my LordKin.Tell me sirrah, but tell me true I charge you,Not fearing the displeasure of your master:Which on your iust proceeding, Ile keepe off,By him and by this woman heere, what know you?Par.So please your Maiesty, my master hath bin anhonourable Gentleman.Trickes hee hath had in him,which Gentlemen haueKin.Come, come, to'th' purpose: Did hee loue thiswoman?Par.Faith sir he did loue her, but howKin.How I pray you?Par.He did loue her sir, as a Gent.loues a WomanKin.How is that?Par.He lou'd her sir, and lou'd her notKin.As thou art a knaue and no knaue, what an equiuocallCompanion is this?Par.I am a poore man, and at your Maiesties commandLaf.Hee's a good drumme my Lord, but a naughtieOratorDian.Do you know he promist me marriage?Par.Faith I know more then Ile speakeKin.But wilt thou not speake all thou know'st?Par.Yes so please your Maiesty: I did goe betweenethem as I said, but more then that he loued her, for indeedehe was madde for her, and talkt of Sathan, and ofLimbo, and of Furies, and I know not what: yet I was inthat credit with them at that time, that I knewe of theirgoing to bed, and of other motions, as promising hermarriage, and things which would deriue mee ill will tospeake of, therefore I will not speake what I knowKin.Thou hast spoken all alreadie, vnlesse thou canstsay they are maried, but thou art too fine in thy euidence,therefore stand aside.This Ring you say was yoursDia.I my good LordKin.Where did you buy it? Or who gaue it you?Dia.It was not giuen me, nor I did not buy itKin.Who lent it you?Dia [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]