Albumazar A comedy presented before the Kings Maiestie at Cambridge, the ninth of March. 1614. By the Gentlemen of Trinitie Colledge.

ACT. 5. SCEN. 6.

ANTO. PAND. EVG. LEL. FLA. SVLP.

AN.

EVgenio, Flauia, Lelio, and Sulpitia▪ Marriages once confirm'd, and consummate, Admit of no repentance. Therefore 'tis fitting All parties with full freedome speake their pleasure, Before it be too late.

PAN.

Good! excellent!

ANT.

Speake boldly therefore: do you willingly Giue full authoritie, that what I decree Touching these businesses, you'l all performe?

EVG.

I rest at your dispose: what you determine, With my best power I ratifie; and Sulpitia, I dare be bold to promise, sayes no lesse.

SVL.

What e're my father, brother, and your selfe Shall thinke conuenient pleaseth me.

LE.

In this, As in all other seruice, I commit my selfe To your commands; and so I hope, my sister.

FLA.

With all obedience: sir dispose of me As of a child, that iudgeth nothing good But what you shall approue.

AN.

And you Pandolfo?

PAN.

I most of all. And, for I know the mindes Of youth are apt to promise, and as prone To repent after; 'tis my advice they sweare T'obserue, without exception, your decree.

FLA.

Content.

SVL.

Content

PAN.

By all the powers that heare Oathes, and raine vengeance vpon broken faith,

I promise to confirme and ratifie Your sentence.

LE.

Sir, I sweare no lesse.

EV.

Nor I.

FLA.

The selfe-same oath binds me.

SVL.

And me the same.

PAN.

Now deare Antonio, all our expectation Hangs at your mouth: None of vs can appeale From you to higher Courts.

AN.

First for preparatiue, Or slight Praeludium to the greater matches; I must intreate you that my Armellina Be match't with Trincalo. Two hundred crownes I giue her for her portion.

PAN.

'Tis done. Some reliques Of his old Clownery, and dregges o'th Countrey, Dwell in him still: how carefull he prouides For himselfe first! Content. And more, I grant him A lease of twenty pounds a yeare.

ANT.

I thanke you. Gentlemen, since I feele my selfe much broken With age, and my late miseries, and too cold To entertaine new heate; I freely yeeld Sulpitia, whom I lou'd, to my sonne Lelio.

PAN.

How cunningly the Farmer hath provided T'obserue the semblance of Antonio's person, And keepe himselfe still free for Armellina!

AN.

Signior Pandolfo, y'are wise, and vnderstand How ill hot appetites of vnbridled youth Become gray haires. How graue and honourable Wer't for your age to be inamored With the faire shape of vertue, and the glory Of your fore-fathers! Then would you blush to thinke How by this dotage, and vnequall loue, You staine their honour, and your owne. Awake, Banish those wild affections; and by my example Turne t'your reposed selfe.

PAN.

To what purpose, pray yo Serues this long proaeme? on to th'sentence.

AN.

Sir, Conformitie of yeares, likenesse of manners, Are Gordian knots that bind vp matrimony. Now betwixt seuenty Winters, and sixteene, There's no proportion, nor least hope of loue. Fye, that a gentleman of your discretion,

Crown'd with such reputation in your youth, Should in your Westerne dayes, loose th'good opinion Of all your friends; and run to th'open danger Of closing the weake remnant of your dayes With discontentment vnrecouerable.

PAN.

Wrack me no more: pray you let's heare the sentence. Note how the Asse would fright me, and indeere His seruice; intimating, that his power May ouer-throw my hopes. Proceed to th'sentence.

AN.

These things consider'd, I bestow my daughter Vpon your sonne Eugenio; whose constant loue With his so modest carriage, hath deseru'd her. And, that you freeze not for a bed-fellow, I marry you with Patience.

PAN.

Trecherous villaine! Accursed Trincalo! Ile— But this no place, Hee's too well back't. But shortly when the date Of his Antonioship's expir'd, revenge Shall sweeten this disgrace.

AN.

Signior Pandolfo, When you recouer your selfe, lost desperately In disproportion'd dotage, then you'l thanke me For this great fauour: be not obstinate: Disquiet not your selfe.

PAN.

I thanke you sir.