Ivs. Well, my confcience is much eas'd; I ha'done my part, though it doth him no good, yet Adam hath offer'd fatisfaction! The fting is remoued from hence: poore man, he is much alter'd with his affliction, it has brought 5 him low! Now, for my other worke, reducing the young man (I haue follow'd fo long in loue) from the brinke of his bane, to the center of fafety. Here, or in fome fuch like vaine place, I shall be sure to finde him. I will waite the good time. ΙΟ ACT. V. SCENE. IIJ. COKES. SHAKRVVEL. IVSTICE. FIL How now? what's here to doe? friend, art thou the Mafter of the Monuments? SHA. 'Tis a Motion, an't please your worship. Ivs. My phantasticall brother in Law, Mafter Bartholmew Cokes! [73] 15 COK. A Motion, what's that? [He reads the Bill.] The ancient moderne hiftory of Hero, and Leander, otherwise called The Touchstone of true Loue, with as true a tryall of friendship, betweene Damon, and Pithias, two faithfull friends o'the Bankfide? pretty i'faith, what's the mean- 20 ing on't? is't an Enterlude? or what is't? FIL. Yes Sir, please you come neere, wee'll take your money within. Cok. Backe with these children; they doe fo follow mee vp and downe. [The boyes o'the Fayre follow him. 25 II Scene III in G begins here, and includes the remainder of Act V. 5 Iон. Вy your leaue, friend. FIL. IOн. Who, I? I perceiue thou know'ft not mee: call the Master o'the Motion. You must pay, Sir, an' you goe in. SHA What, doe you not know the Author, fellow Filcher? you must take no money of him; he must come in gratis: Mr. Littlewit is a voluntary; he is the Author. Iон. Peace, speake not too lowd, I would not haue any notice taken, that I am the Author, till wee fee how it 10 passes. COK. Master Littlewit, how do'ft thou? Іон. Mafter Cokes! you are exceeding well met: what, in your doublet, and hose, without a cloake, or a hat? COK. I would I might neuer stirre, as I am an honest 15 man, and by that fire; I haue loft all i'the Fayre, and all my acquaintance too; did'ft thou meet any body that I know, Master Littlewit? my man Numps, or my fifter Ouerdoo, or Miftreffe Grace? pray thee Mafter Littlewit, lend mee fome money to fee the Interlude, here. I'le pay 20 thee againe, as I am a Gentleman. If thou'lt but carry mee home, I haue money enough there. [74] IOн. O, Sir, you shall command it, what, will a crowne ferue you? COK. I think it well, what do we pay for comming in, 25 fellowes ? 30 FIL. Two pence, Sir. COK. Two pence? there's twelue pence, friend; Nay, I am a Gallant, as fimple as I looke now; if you see mee with my man about me, and my Artillery, againe. COK. Your man was i'the Stocks, ee'n now, Sir. Who, Numps? Yes faith. For what i'faith, I am glad o'that; remember to tell me on't anone; I haue enough, now! What manner 35 of matter is this, Mr. Littlewit? you? Are they good Actors? What kind of Actors ha' 24 well] will 1692, 1716, W, G Iон. Pretty youthes, Sir, all children both old and yong, heer's the Master of 'hem (LAN. [Leatherhead whispers to Littlwit.] Call me not Leatherhead, but Lanterne.) Іон. IOн. Mafter Lanterne, that giues light to the businesse, Coк. In good time, Sir, I would faine fee 'hem, I would be glad drinke with the young company; which is the Tiring-house ? 5 LAN. Troth, Sir, our Tiring-house is somewhat little, we are but beginners, yet, pray pardon vs; you cannot 10 goe vpright in't. Cok. No? not now my hat is off? what would you haue done with me, if you had had me, feather, and all, as I was once to day? Ha'you none of your pretty impudent boyes, now; to bring ftooles, fill Tabacco, fetch 15 Ale, and beg money, as they haue at other houses! let me fee fome o'your Actors. ION. Shew him 'hem, fhew him 'hem. Mafter Lanterne, this is a Gentleman, that is a fauorer of the quality. Ivs. I, the fauouring of this licencious quality, is the 20 confumption of many a young Gentleman; a pernicious enormity. [He brings them out in a basket. Coк. What, doe they liue in baskets? LEA. They doe lye in a basket, Sir, they are o'the fmall Players. Cok. These be Players minors, indeed. Doe you call these Players? LAN. They are Actors, Sir, and as good as any, none difprais'd, for dumb fhowes: indeed, I am the mouth of 'hem all! Coк. Thy mouth will hold 'hem all. I thinke, one Taylor, would goe neere to beat all this company, with a hand bound behinde him. IOн. I, and eate 'hem all, too, an' they were in cakebread. 25 30 35 5 Cok. I thanke you for that, Master Littlewit, a good ieft! which is your Burbage now? He is Іон. Good ifaith! you are euen with me,, Sir. LAN. This is he, that acts young Leander, Sir. extreamly belou'd of the womenkind, they doe fo affect [75] his action, the green gamesters, that come here, and this is louely Hero; this with the beard, Damon; and this 10 pretty Pythias: this is the ghoft of King Dionyfius in the habit of a scriuener: as you shall fee anone, at large. COK. Well they are a ciuill company, I like 'hem for that; they offer not to fleere, nor geere, nor breake iests, as the great Players doe: And then, there goes not fo 15 much charge to the feafting of 'hem, or making 'hem drunke, as to the other, by reafon of their littlenesse. Doe they vse to play perfect? Are they neuer fluster'd? LAN. No, Sir, I thanke my industry, and policy for it; they are as well gouern'd a company, though I say it— 20 And heere is young Leander, is as proper an Actor of his inches; and shakes his head like an hoftler. 25 30 35 Сок. But doe you play it according to the printed booke? I haue read that. LAN. A better way, Sir, that is too learned, and poeticall for our audience; what doe they know what Hellefpont is? Guilty of true loues blood? or what Abidos is? or the other Seftos hight? Cok. Th'art i'the right, I do not know my felfe. LAN. No, I haue entreated Mafter Littlewit, to take a little paines to reduce it to a more familiar straine for our people. Coк. How, I pray thee, good M'. Littlewit? But IOн. It pleases him to make a matter of it, Sir. there is no fuch matter I affure you: I haue onely made it a little eafie, and moderne for the times, Sir, that's all; As, for the Hellefpont I imagine our Thames here; and then Leander, I make a Diers fonne, about Puddle-wharfe: and Hero a wench o'the Banke-fide, who going ouer one morning, to old fish-street; Leander fpies her land at TrigfStayers, and falls in loue with her: Now do I introduce 5 Cupid, hauing Metamorphos'd himselfe into a Drawer, and hee ftrikes Hero in loue with a pint of Sherry, and other pretty paffages there are, o'the friendship, that will delight you, Sir, and please you of iudgement. ΙΟ Сок. I'll be fworne they fhall; I am in loue with the Actors already, and I'll be allyed to them presently. (They respect gentlemen, these fellowes) Hero fhall be my fayring: But, which of my fayrings? (Le'me fee) i'faith, my fiddle! and Leander my fiddle-fticke: Then Damon, my drum; and Pythias, my Pipe and the ghoft of Dionyfius, my hobby- 15 horfe. All fitted. L Аст. Ѵ. SCENE. IV. To them WIN-WIFE. GRACE. KNOCKHVM. WHITT. EDGVVORTH. VVIN. Miftris OVERDOO. And to them VVASPE. ooke yonder's your Cokes gotten in among his playfellowes; I thought we could not miffe him, at such a Spectacle. GRA. spie vs. LEA. Сок. [76] Let him alone, he is fo bufie, he will neuer 20 Nay, good Sir. [Cokes is handling the Puppets. I warrant thee, I will not hurt her, fellow; what doft think me vnciuill? I pray toward a wife. 24 doft think] dost thou think G 25 |