Pietro. Lady, ha' done, ha' done : Come,* let us dance; be once from sorrow free. Aur. Art a sad man? Pietro. Yes, sweet. Aur. Then we'll agree. [FERNEZE takes MAQUERELLE, and CELSO BIANCA : then the cornets sound the measure, one change, and rest. Fer. [to BIANCA.] Believe it, lady; shall I swear? let me enjoy you in private, and I'll marry you, by my soul. Bian. I had rather you would swear by your body: I think that would prove the more regarded oath with you. Fer. I'll swear by them both, to please you. Bian. O, damn them not both to please me, for God's sake! Fer. Faith, sweet creature, let me enjoy you to-night, and I'll marry you to-morrow fortnight, by my troth, la. Maq. On his troth, la! believe him not; that kind of cony-catching is as stale as Sir Oliver Anchovy's perfumed jerkin: promise of matrimony by a young gallant, to bring a virgin lady into a fool's paradise; make her a great woman, and then cast her off;-'tis as common and† natural to a courtier, as jealousy to a citizen, gluttony to a puritan, wisdom to an alderman, pride to a tailor, or an empty hand-basket ‡ to one of these sixpenny damnations: of his troth, la! believe him not; traps to catch pole-cats. Mal. [to MARIA.] Keep your face constant, let no sudden passion Our senses? do I dream? or have I dreamt This two days' space? where am I? Mal. Where an arch-villain is. Men. O, lend me breath till I am fit to die! * For peace with heaven, for your own souls' sake, Vouchsafe me life! Pietro. Ignoble villain whom neither heaven nor hell, Goodness of God or man, could once make good! Mal. Base, treacherous wretch! what grace canst thou expect, That hast grown impudent in gracelessness? Mal. Slave, take thy life. Wert thou defencèd, th[o]rough blood and wounds, O, I have seen strange accidents of state! "The flatterer, like the ivy, clip † the oak, "And waste it to the heart; lust so confirm'd, "That the black act of sin itself not sham'd "To be term'd courtship. "O, they that are as great as be their sins, "Let them remember that th' inconstant people "Love many princes‡ merely for their faces "And outward shows; and they do covet more "To have a sight of these than of their virtues. "Yet thus much let the great ones still conceive, § "When they observe not heaven's impos'd conditions, "YOUR modest silence, full of heedy stillness, "Makes me thus speak: a voluntary illness "Is merely senseless; but unwilling error, "Such as proceeds from too rash youthful fervour, "May well be call'd a fault, but not a sin: "Rivers take names from founts where they begin. "Then let not too severe an eye peruse "The slighter brakes of our reformèd Muse,* "Who could herself herself of faults detect, "But that she knows 'tis easy to correct, * The slighter brakes of our reformed Muse] "I suppose by this expression is meant the uncultivated parts of our performance; brakes (i.e. fern) commonly grow in ground that is never tilled or broken up. or broken up."-Steevens. Here "brakes" seems to mean-flaws, breaks. See Mr. Halliwell's Dict. of Arch, and Prov. Words, sub “Brake.' F MONUMENTS OF HONOUR. Monuments of Honor. Derived from remarkable antiquity, and celebrated in the Honorable City of London, at the sole munificent charge and expences of the Right Worthy and Worshipfull Fraternity of the Eminent Merchant-Taylors. Directed in their most affectionate loue, at the Confirmation of their Right Worthy Brother John Gore in the High Office of his Maiesties Liuetenant ouer this his Royall Chamber. Expressing in a Magnificent Tryumph, all the Pageants, Chariots of Glory, Temples of Honor, besides a specious and goodly Sea Tryumph, as well particularly to the honor of the City as generally to the glory of this our Kingdome. Inuented and written by John Webster Merchant-Taylor. Non norunt hæc monumenta mori. Printed at London by Nicholas Okes. 1624. 4to. TO THE RIGHT WORTHY DESERVER OF THIS SO NOBLE A CEREMONY THIS DAY CONFERRED UPON HIM, JOHN GORE, LORD MAYOR AND CHANCELLOR OF THE My worthy lord, RENOWNED CITY OF LONDON. These presentments, which were intended principally for your honour, and for illustrating the worth of that worthy corporation whereof you are a member, come now humbly to kiss your lordship's hands, and to present the inventor of them to that service which my ability expressed in this may call me to, under your lordship's favour, to do you* honour, and the city service, in the quality of a scholar; assuring your lordship I shall never either to your ear or table press unmannerly or impertinently. My endeavours this way have received grace and allowance from your worthy brothers that were supervisors of the cost of these Triumphs; and my hope is, that they shall stand no less respected in your eye, nor undervalued in your worthy judgment which favours done to one born free of your company, and your servant, shall ever be acknowledged by him stands interested MONUMENTS OF HONOUR. I COULD in this my preface, by as great light of learning as any formerly employed in this service can attain to, deliver to you the original and cause of all Triumphs, their excessive cost in the time of the Romans; I could likewise with so noble amplification make a survey of the worth and glory of the Triumphs of the precedent times in this honourable city of London, that, were my work of a bigger bulk, they should remain to all posterity. But both my pen and ability this way are confined in too narrow a circle; nor have I space enough in this so short a volume to express only with rough lines and a faint shadow, as the painters' phrase is, first, the great care and alacrity of the right worshipful the Master and Wardens, and the rest of the selected and industrious committees, both for the curious and judging election of the subject for the present spectacles, and next that the working or mechanic part of it might be answerable to the invention. Leaving, therefore, these worthy gentlemen to the embraces and thanks of the right honourable and worthy Pretor,* and myself under the shadow of their crest, which is a safe one, for 'tis the Holy Lamb in the Sunbeams, I do present to all modest and indifferent judges these my present endeavours. I fashioned, for the more amplifying the show upon the water, two eminent spectacles in manner of a Sea-triumph. The first furnished with four persons in the front Oceanus and Thetis ; behind them, Thamesis and Medway, the two rivers on whom the Lord Mayor extends his power as far as from Staines to Rochester. The other show is of a fair Terrestrial Globe, circled about, in convenient seats, with seven of our most famous navigators; as Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Martin Frobisher, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Captain Thomas Cavendish, *Pretor] i. c. Lord Mayor. Captain Christopher Carlisle, and Captain John Davis. The conceit of this device to be, that, in regard the two rivers pay due tribute of waters to the seas, Oceanus in grateful recompense returns the memory of these seven worthy captains, who have made England so famous in remotest parts of the world. These two spectacles, at my Lord Mayor's taking water at the Three Cranes, approaching my Lord's barge, after a peal of sea-thunder from the other side the water, these speeches between Oceanus and Thetis follow: OCEANUS AND THETIS. Thetis. What brave sea-music bids us welcome, hark! Oceanus. No, Thetis, you're mistaken: we are led |