A GAME AT CHESS
BY THOMAS MIDDLETON:

A TEXTUAL EDETION BASED ON THE MANUSCRIPTS
WRITTEN BY RALPH CRANE

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ABS‘RACT

A GAl-lE 5.3 CHESS

BY THOMAS MDDLETON:

A TEXTUAL EDITION BASED ON THE MANUSCRIPTS
WRITTEN BY RALPH CRANE

By
Hilton Arthur Buettner

Ralph Crane was employed by the King's Men during the second and
third decades of the seventeenth century to copy plays before the time of
publication. Among the transcripts believed to have been used to set type
for the first folio of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623 were five

which critics have generally agreed were written by Crane: 'Ihe Winter's

 

 

Tale, The Tempest, The 'Itro Gentlemen 93 Verona, The Merry Wives 9;; Windsor,

and Measure for Measure. If this be true, it would aid Shakespearean scho-

 

larship to know how faithful Crane is in transcribing his original text,
what kinds of orthographic or syntactical changes he frequently makes--
in short, what Crane's habits of transcription are. Knowing these
idiosyncracies, furthermore, would assist in the identification of manu-
scripts as either having been or not having been written by Crane.

For the purpose of learning Crane's writing habits it is fortunate
that there are extant three transcriptions of Middleton's play it. 93313
at _C_ll§_s_s_ written by Crane, as well as a Middleton holograph of the same
play. Using print-outs from the microfilm COpies of these manuscripts,
I have compared them with the version of the play prepared by R. C. Bald
from the Trinity MS at Cambridge which he believes is in Middleton's

or-m hand. The textual edition of this play which forms the major

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portion of the dissertation is the fruit of that collation. In the
Introduction, after indicating the guiding principles for the collation,
I discuss Crane's penmanship, word changes, stage directions, orthography,
contractions, capitalization and punctuation.

In Crane's penmanship are to be found both secretary and italic
letters, but when writing minuscules he greatly favors the secretary
g, g, g, h, _1_c_, g, .Y; E, 35 and y. Among italic forms of the minuscule he
prefers only '9, f, p, r, and 2. He exhibits no marked preferences with
regard to the majuscule, often writing both the secretarial and italic
forms of the same capital on consecutive lines. There does seem, however,
to be a slight predilection toward the secretary y, g, f, i}, I, _T_' and g.

Only 288 of the 2,h21 lines in the play contain substantive changes
by Crane. He frequently changes 9.9.9.3.. to M, has to hath, and £03 to
2121.]... While the great majority of changes do not affect the meaning of
the lines, in 19 places there are semantic differences.

All the manuscripts contain act and scene divisions, but the stage
directions in m 25 differ from the others in that all the entrances
for the entire scene are given at the outset rather than at the exact
point specified by Ifiddleton.

In matters of spelling Crane generally prefers the forms which have
come down to our own day. Except for they, pronouns are written as we
write them, and many words which now no longer end in g are already
written that way by Crane. Although in many respects Crane is no more
consistent than his contemporaries in the spelling of words, there is a

clear tendency to change words like euerie, uerie, and anie to every,

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Crane retains Middleton's contractions seventy per cent of the time
and when he does make changes he more frequently writes out contractions
he finds than the reverse. He uses the apostrophe more often than Mid-
dleton does, but typically does not in words like wi__l_b_g and _s_h__a__l£e_.

In the section of the play examined for capitalization, 76% of the
nouns are capitalized and mug of the adjectives, but only 753 of the verbs
and 6%% of the adverbs. Just it and me. are capitalized among the pro-
nouns with any frequency.

Crane's favorite mark of punctuation is the colon, employed very
often at the end of a rhetorical unit. His employment of the period
appears to be chiefly confined to the end of speeches. Parentheses are
used so profusely as to constitute a major idiosyncracy. In general,
Crane does not hesitate to change Middleton's punctuation when he considers
a more precise mark to be called for.

An overall assessment of Crane's practices as a scrivener would be
that he is faithful to Viddleton's diction about 90% of the time,
that he has his own preferences in orthography, that he uses punctuation
with much greater precision than does the playwright, and that the

semantic changes are not only few in number but minor in nature as well.

gmgcmss

BY THOMAS MIDDIE TON :

A TEXTUAL EDITION BASED ON THE MANUSCRIPTS
WRITTEN BY RALPH CRANE

By
Milton.Arthur Buettner

A THESIS

Submitted to
Michigan State University
in.partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Department of English

1972

DEDICATED
to
Dr. George R. Price
in appreciation for

his counsel and scholarship

TABLE OF CONTENTS

IistofAbbreviations----- ---------- ----v

Introduction-- ------------- .. ....... vi
ThePurposeofThisEdition------------- x

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Q'ane's Penmanship------ ----- ..
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WordChanges-----------—----

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Contractions----—--- ----- -....

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Sequence of the Manuscripts - - - - ......... xlvi

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Bibliography------ -------------- --..

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Changes in Number - --------- - ----- xx
Table 2: Crane's Additions - -------------- .. m1
Table 3: Word Changes Made by Crane - ---------- mm
Table h: Spelling Variants - --------------- m;

Table 5 : Comparison of Punctmation between Crane and
Middleton------ --------- -xxrv

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ArchdaJl-Folger MS v.a. 231.
Innsdowne MS 690 in the British Museum.
Malone 25 MS in the Bodleian library.

Trinity M8 at the Trinity library, Cambridge.

INTRODUCTION

Ralph Crane, by reason of his clear and elegant pemnanship,
was frequently commissioned by the King's Men during the second and
third decades of the seventeenth century to transcribe plays before
they were published, either to present to aristocratic patrons or
to sell in the mrkelmlace} One of these plays was mamas Middle-
ton's A an; 33 92.93.22; 9. political and religious satire against
Philip IV, the Roman Catholic king of Spain, and his court. It is
very likely that it was between the time when the play was licensed

for performance by Sir Henry Herbert (June 12, 162102 and the last
days 03 December 01’ the same M33 that Crane, probably at Middle-
ton's own request, wrote the three copies that have heretofore come
to light. These three manuscripts are now prized possessions of
the Bodleian Library, the British Museum and the Folger library re-
spectively. In addition to these Crane mamscripts, three other
copies of the play have survived: one in the Trinity library,
written almost entirely by Middleton himself} one in the 1mm.
ting of two unlmown scribes but which contains eighteen pages and
the title page in Middleton's own hand, now at the Huntington li-

brary,5 and an erratic but more complete version of the play at
the F0136? Iibrary.6 The larger number of extant manuscripts of

this Jacobean drama, the last of madleton's creative career, is

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probably due to the extraordinary circumstances attending the
play's success on the stage of the Globe Theatre.

A 2.13 at MS Opened on Friday afternoon, August 6th, and
from the start was a great papular favorite. Instead of the usual
one or two performances which were the lot of most plays, this po-
litical allegory played to large and enthusiastic audiences for
nine consecutive performances, excluding SundayS. No doubt the
play would have continued even longer had not the Privy Council
banned all future performances on August 16, and issued a warrant
for Pfiddleton's arrest. This action was taken after strong and in-
dignant protest had come from the Spanish ambassador, Don Carlos Co-
loma, but the actors and author were arraigned technically because
they had disregarded the order which prohibited the representation
of any Christian king on the stage.7 Although the personae consisted
only of white and black chessmen, and no mention was made of
either James I or Philip N, the allusions were too obvious to ad-
mit any doubt on that score. Clearly the White House was the Eng-
lish Court and the Black House represented the Spanish Court and clergy.
In the allegory the White Knight stood for Prince Charles and the
White lee for Buckingham, both of whom had, only a few months
before, returned from Spain after an unsuccessful negotiation
for a marriage between Charles and the Infanta Maria. On the other
side of the allegorical chessboard, the Black Knight unmistakably
stood for the recent influential ambassador from the Court of
Spain, Count Gondomar, whose well-known litter and "chair of ease"

were actually brought onto the stage, and whose equally well-

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known fistula was satirized in one of the scenes. As J. W. Harper
has expressed it:
The success of the play was obviously due to its
being a transparent political allegory, fully in
accord with papular opinion of the day concerning
current relations between England and Spain. The
Spanish monarchy and its most successful ambassa-
dor were held up to ridicule, the Roman Catholic
Church was savagely satirized, and in the final

sceneBthe whole Spanish nation was consigned to
hell.

The little that is known about the man who transcribed this
play on three separate occasions was set down by Crane himself in
the induction to his poem Eflmflflm 13_o_t_h_ Comral and;
finial, published in 1621 and republished around 1625 with the
new title _I_h_e_ Filames _N_e_w_ m _Cr_if__t_. According to the autobio-
graphical details he provided there, he was born in London ("The
Citie"), the son of a well-to-do member of the Merchant Taylors'
Company. Trained for the law, he served Sir Anthony Ashley as
clerk before achieving renown as scrivener for lawyers. Apparent-
ly his "one blest Gift, a Ready Writers Pen"9 was appreciated. At

one time he served for seven years as Clerk of the [Prim] Council,
but, not having a firm hold, he "slipt" out of that position. me
work for the King's an he alludes to in the following couplets:

And some inployment hath my vsemll Pen

Had 'mongst those ciuill, well-deseruing men,

That grace the Stage with honour and delight,

Qt‘ whose true honesties I could much write

But will comprise't (as in a Cashe of 601:13

Vnder the Kingly Seruice they doe hold.
If at the time the poem was entered in the Stationers Register
(1620) he was nearly sixty years old, as stated in a preliminary

verse to the main body of the text, he would have been approximately

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sixty-three when he transcribed the play that concerns us here.
During these latter years of his life he describes himself as being
in.debt because of "Time and Sicknesse," not thriftlessness. His
verse may be undistinguished, but his habits of copying when ems
played as a professional scrivener may prove to be important aids
to a scholarship which is turning more and.more to handwritten
manuscripts to solve hitherto refractory problems of authorship and
the original texts of literary works.

Had Crane transcribed only'élgam2_§tgghg§§§, his influence
upon.pub1ished.plays of the early seventeenth century would not
have been.important, perhaps. But critics have generally ascribed
to Crane the transcripts for Fletcher's Ibmetrius ang_Enanthe,
Fletcher and Massinger's §_i_1_‘_ £9313 y_a_n_ 919; Barnevelt, Jonson's
Pleasure Reconciled _tg_ m Middleton's _l_'_h__e_ 11.29.13. and his £03
3; Several my From the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare '3
plays, the following have been thought to derive from Crane tranp
scripts: l'hg Winter's gale, 1132 Tflest, 1113 __Tw_g Gentlemen of 17332-
ng, Ehg_fl§£§zlflizgg_g£ Windsor, and Measure §g£,Measure.11 In_gd,
dition.to this consensus, there are a few other plays which one or
two critics believe to have been.printed.from.a Crane manuscript.
M. A. Shaaber and J. Q. Adams concur in so ascribing amakespeare's
_I_I_ M _I_v;_ from the First Folio.12 H. J. Oliver thinks a portion
of __Tim__o_n_ of: £11633 from the same folio follows a Crane copy.13 The
first quarto of Webster's W 93 w is thought by J. R. Brown
and T. H. Howardpflill to have derived from.Crane.1’4 Furthermore,

four plays from the Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 161:7, according

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to R. C. Bald and C. Roy, were printed from Crane transcripts:
aims-senate sinuses meanwhile was
Prephetess.15 Boy would add to this list 3913 E23 2'92. 993 and
92. M of; _I~I_al_t_a, also from the same folio, but Howard-Hill

believes the evidence for these is insufficient.16 He does, how-

ever, include Massinger's London's Visitation when he compares the
proportion of parentheses to the lines of text in Crane manuscripts.
Even when the doubtful ascriptions are set aside, it seems, there-
fore, that a significant number of Jacobean dramas have reached

us in the form they now have through the editing hand of the
scrivener Ralph Crane.

The Moss 93: 212.5 Edition

Since Crane was such an influential scribe of the late Jaco-
bean period, it is deemed profitable to scholarship to collate
the three Crane manuscripts for 5 Eng at 933323 and prepare an
edition which will preserve the fruits of this collation. The
text from the printed edition of R. C. Bald has been used as the
version from which Crane's variants are noted, because for his
edition the manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge,
almost all of which was written in Middleton's own handwriting,
was followed. After noting the variants from each line of the
mld text, we arrive at a composite of Crane's three manuscripts
according to the principles to be fully explained a little later
on in this introduction.

Perhaps it ought first be established that the Archdall-

Folger MS v. 231, the Iansdowne MS 690, and the Malone-Bodleian
MS 25 are unmistakably by the same penman. Besides the evidence
of the penmanship possessing the same characteristics in all three
transcripts, an analysis of which will follow in subsequent para-
graphs, there is the similarity between the pemanship of these

manuscripts and the dedication page to Fletcher's Demetrius and

 

Enanthe signed by Crane.” Furthermore, although in a number of
instances the same word is spelled differently in each manuscript,
there are many more instances of spellings consistent among the
three manuscripts but differing from the Trinity holograph. llfis
is particularly true of pronouns: the 113, £13, 132, E) ml; and
1151.32 are consistently spelled in the modern manner in contractin-
tinctionto fiddleton'sw_e_e, ghee, Egg, meg, meandwgh. 0n
the other hand, the demonstrative plural these is always 1213922 in
the manuscripts. Other words are also spelled the same way in all
three manuscripts, notably Chastetie, Leaprouzig, Ear}, 1.111.295
m secreat, b2, and £123. Still more evidence that the same
hand wrote all three can be found in identical word changes from
the Trinity MS. In I.1.251, for example, Middleton has Fellow,
but the three Crane MSS all have 23%. Another instance occurs
at n.2.153, where the misty reading E his infected _Na_i_n_e be-
comes wi___t_h_ his infested gang in the Crane MSS. Compare, too, the
following variants of II.2.68-9:

Trusty: A both sides for the phisick hee prouided
Iansdowne: on both Sides, for the Phisick he prescribd

Malone: on both Sides, for the phisick he prescrib'd.
(The line is mitted in the Archdall-Folger MS.)

These are but a few of many examples of consistency common to the

three mmscripts being collated, but different from the {trinity MS.
Moreover, Arabic numbers in the latter are invariably written out
with the same orthography in the collated lines. And, as the last
detail to be cited, there is the consistent writing out of the word
m in place of E. as it is found in the Trinity MS (hereafter
referred to as 2).

Q: the occasions when the three manuscripts differ and one
version must be selected, the Lansdowne 690 (hereafter designated
£1) has been chosen as the copy-text because it contains all but 63
of the lines in Bald's edition. Forty-six of these omitted lines
consist of the entire second scene of Act III, which Malone 25
(hereafter referred to as 35) also omits. Consequently, there is
no other choice in this scene but to transcribe the Folger text
(hereafter designated 5) verbatim. M is a greatly shortened ver-
sion of I, and therefore cannot be employed as a copy text. The
omission of the scenes containing the role of the Fat Bishop from
5, one of which alone constitutes 109 lines, likewise (fisqualifies
this manuscript from consideration as the copy-text. The relative
completeness of I, therefore, makes this manuscript the one best

qualified to be the copy-text for the edition.

Editing Principles
Where all three Crane manuseripts are consistent in spelling,
word changes, or punctuation, there is obviously no question about
the way the line should appear. Where only two are consistent,

theirs is the reading that is adopted, the variant reading being

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Placed in a footnote. Oh those occasions when, let us say, A and
_I_. capitalize a word, but g and M agree in the spelling of the same
word, A's version is printed because it has the capital letter as
‘well as the preferred spelling. If all the manuscripts are inconp
sistent with each other, the reading in I: is adopted by reason of
this manuscript‘being the copybtext. The other two variants are
then, of course, footnoted.

Speech headings have been uniformly capitalized, regardless
of Crane's practice, with the single exception.noted below. In
this play the first abbreviation is usually either Eh, (for White)
or'§§,, since all the characters represent either white or black
pieces on a chessboard. The speech heading for the Eat Bishop,
however, invariably'has a minuscule £.and a capitaluB, This
‘unique practice, so different from Crane's usual custom, I have
signalized by setting down the heading in each instance just as
Crane wrote it. On the occasions when only the single word m
is abbreviated as a speech heading, Crane writes §§§,~ Since, in
the great majority of speech headings, Crane always capitalizes
the ELin.Bl[acé], but is often ambiguous about whether or not the
E of WhElte] is a capital or lower case letter, it has seemed best
to capitalize all such speech heading abbreviations without excep-
tion.

In the event that a substantive difference exists between the
Minty-Middleton version and the Crane rendering, the fact is
footnoted,‘but differences of spelling between them.are not. An

exception is made in the matter of contractions, it being thought

that Crane's penchant for contracting or expanding the manuscript
he was capying might guide scholars in deciding what the original
state of a missing holograph likely was. As far as is possible,
Crane's punctuation is followed, at least where tin or three manu-
scripts agree. Only at the end of a character's speech is punc-
tuation silently added where there is none in the originals. Since
it is not possible to distinguish when a question mark and when an
exclamation point was intended, I have decided on the basis of the

sense of the line. Of course, as Tannenbaum has stated,18 many

questions are exclamatory in nature, in which case the question
mark usually evokes the appropriate inflection. Where such is not
the case, however, supplying an exclamation point is usually help-
ful.

All variants involving parentheses, hyphens and apostrOphes
have been footnoted. Parentheses being used so lavishly by Crane
as to be one of his most characteristic idiosyncracies, it seems
important to record their occurrences to see if any pattern can be
discerned from a close inspection of this stylistic detail. Crane's
hyphens seem to have been used more capriciously, but since a study
of them in his transcripts may turn out to be helpful in furnishing
yet another indication that a quarto was set up from a Crane manu-
seript, hyphenated words have been documented in this edition. All
words in which apostrophes were inserted in at least one manuscript

are similarly footnoted, and for the same reason.

Crane ' s Penmanship

As is to be expected in a penman of the first quarter of the

seventeenth century, there are in Crane's writing letters written
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in both the secretary and italic hands.19 He greatly favors the
secretary mixflscule when writing the letters 5, g, g, h, 1_c, s, z,
3, g and I. There are fewer italic mixmscules which are as fre-
quently preferred: 1), f, p, g, and E. The only difference be-
tween the secretary a and its italic counterpart is the long de-
scender (a: ) which Crane uses sparsely. He employs the two _c_1_'s
in about equal proportions, using A with the unusual separate
downstroke chiefly as an initial and medial letter, while prefer-
ring the looped italic d at the end of words. He often makes the
italic f so large, with large dots at each end (f ), that it
night be confused with a capital letter were it not for the fre-
quency with which he employs it in prepositions like £93 and m.
The long vertical 3 is the dominant form, except, of course, as a
terminal letter.

For his majuscules Crane exhibits no clear-cut preference,

a secretary capital and an italic capital of the same letter appearing
sometimes in the same or consecutive lines. The secretary forms

of the majuscule M, 9, P, R, I_[, T and _A_ appear more frequently than
the italic forms, but with the other letters there is not this
precfilection.

A problem facing all editors of manuscripts of the early seven-
teenth century is concerned with whether or not the penman meant
the initial letter tn be a capital letter. The judgment is diffi-
cult, however, with only a comparatively few letters. When Crane
writes the secretary Q ( C ) there is no- question about the capi-

tal, but his italic Q's (t9 ) are sometimes written very little if

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any larger than the minuscules which follow them. There seem to

be enough times, though, when the intention to capitalize the word
is sufficiently clear to cause one to treat all such forms of the
letter as capitals, a practice which has been followed in the present
echtion. The difficulty with the capital 2 centers around the bot-
tom of the letter and has been solved in the following manner for
the text of the play: if the letter begins with an oval before
making the loop ( (9 ), it has been judged to be an italic minus-
cule; if, on the other hand, the writer writes the letter in one of
the ways shown to be a majuscule in "The Secretary Alphabet,"

printed as a frontispiece in Tannenbaum's The Handwritng 2f the

Renaissance ( >20 it has been treated as a capital in the text
and footnotes. The letter 13 offers no difficulty except for one
variant of the secretary form. When Crane wrote or , the
lower case letter was intended, and when he wrote 7"! the capital
was unmistakable. Bit sprinkled through the manuscripts is this
form of the letter written large and sometimes with three
separate strokes of th pen. After some deliberation I have deci-
ded to consider it a lower case variant because of its close appro-
ximation to the ornate design of the secretary nlirn'scule and because
it occurs at times when the context renders it unlikely to be a
capital letter. Another puzzling letter sometimes is l, E. Since
Crane always begins initial 1'8 with downstrokes, the decision re-
garding its lower case-capital status has to be made on the basis
of what he does at the end of the downstroke (that is, when the

size of the letter is not decisive in itself). If no stroke to the

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left is made (E ) I have interpreted it to be a mimscule,
whereas if such a stroke is present (0C or L ) I have treated
it as a majuscule. The most troublesome letter of all, however,
is the _w_. When a long upstroke originates below the line )
it is clearly a mimscule, and when a sweeping flourish from above
precedes the major portion of the leter ) its capital status
seems sure. But when neither of these features is present, and the
size of the letter is not a clear criterion, an arbitrary decision
has been made, depending whenever possible upon Crane's practice in
other similar and less ambiguous situations.

The mjuscule _I_ is a special case. I have thought it would be
significant, in view of the later development of 1 as a separate

letter in its W11 right,21 to footnote those times when Crane de-
viates from the usual secretary I ( ) and writes what would to-
day be a capital 51 g ). He uses the latter when he writes
Jesuits, but to begin words like Emance or Inocence (his usual
spelling) he might use one or the other.

In all other doubtful instances, the size of the initial letter
has to serve as the deciding factor. If there is no large initial
flourish, the 1's status has had to be decided after comparing its
size with the letters which followed it. Mast of the other capitals
are easily identified, not only by their size but also by character-
istics which are never present when the letter is written as a
numscule.

Ed Crane Write the Stage Directions in. g?

In a description of the Folger-Archdall MS by an anonymous
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bibliographer the stage directions and scene divisions are said to
be "added in a different hand. "22 After a careful examination of
the stage directions in all three Crane manuscripts, I am not con-
vinced that Crane did not write the above-mentioned items. The
Spacing of the act and scene divisions gives no evidence of their
being interpolated into a previously written text. Then, too, the
writing of the letters is the same in all three copies. The capital
A of 52313 is identical in form, even though the first downstroke

is carried further to the left in _I_._ and g. The second and third
letters are a ligature in all three, and at the beginning of the
second act all three manuscripts have the same long superior flourish
toward the right at the end of the letter _d_ in Secundus. As yet,

to my knowledge no one has questioned Crane's having written his

own act and scene divisions in I; and y.

The stage directions within the scenes likewise all have the
appearance of being written by the same hand. The minuscules are
not distinguishable from those in the tent of the dialogue and the
kinds of capitals are consistent in the three documents. It is
true that in the body of the text (h'ane usually writes the secre-
tary E (6 ) and that the word 3325 in the stage directions is
either in the printed (fl ) or epsilon form ( 6 ). But this is
true not only for Abut for I: and E as well. The m is, in
all three documents, written with an epsilon capital followed by an
italic 5. Either Crane did not write any of the stage directions
or act and scene divisions for am of these documents or he wrote
them all, for they are too similar to be written by trio different
writers.

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It is barely possible, of course, that someone with a very
similar penmanship added the stage directions, but the evidence is
strongly against it. One thing is sure: if another hand did write
the stage directions it was neither Middleton's nor the one that
crossed out the word Ignorance in 1.1.5 of g and wrote above it the
word Heresie. The penmanship of the :1; is different in almost every
respect from that of the stage (firections, and the use of the three
ndnuscule epsilon-2's in the word Heresie is inconsistent with the
practice of the writer of the stage directions, as is also the

crabbed form of the capital _I_I_.

Word M23

 

(If a total of 2,1421 lines in the play, 288 had their wording
changed in a substantive way by Crane. I count 32 lines containing
mnitted words, 16 lines in which singular forms are changed to
plurals or m m 112 changes involving dogs-goth, hag-hath)
m—Ehg and similar literary replacanents, ll inversions, 23 ad-
ditions and 16h substitutions of words, phrases, clauses and speech
headings.

more are 52 times when all three Crane mamscripts have the
same variant from 2. The close relationship betwoen _I_.._ and g is
borne out by the 142 variants they have in common in addition to the
above tabulation, no two other combinations of Crane manuscripts
even coming close to that figure. Considering the variants that
single Crane manuscripts share with no other, g has almost four

times as many unshared variants as I: and g; the totals are 68, 18

m

and 17, respectively. This naturally leads to the presumption
that Middleton made many changes by the time he wrote the 2 manu-
script, and that the A variants represent wordings which Crane
copied from a very early transcript or holograph.

His omissions, naturally enough, are single words for the
most part. The word _S_i_._r_ alone is omitted in one or more manuscripts
at least five times. The pronouns m and me are each omitted
once, the articles a and the three altogether. Four exclamatory
words figure in the omissions, too, 1131 being omitted twice and
_'_m_a_s_, h3g7 and _'_s_:_£‘_<_)_c_>_t_ once each. kelve other single words are
missing from one or more Crane manuscripts. Only three phrases
found in _1_‘_ are not included in the transcripts, aside from the
3:08.33 in I.l.l;l which Middleton repeats but which, in L and M,
Crane does not. A complete line was, I think, inadvertently omit-
ted in A (V.3.lh0), for, although the first word of the line
appears as a catchword at the bottom of the preceding page, the
line itself is not transcribed at the top of the new page.

Variants changing a singular noun to its plural fonn occur
seven times, while the reverse is true in five lines. The readings
for these changes in mnnber, with the manuscripts that contain

them, are as follows :

Table 1: Changes in Number

 

Singular to Plural Plural to Singular
b ti A T) honors to honour (A L)
g L) 3:: otoirflfgs 68,18) (T) Easel—“T58 to 333%?- (A’L)
(T L, advers t3 adversaries (A) (T A5 names to name (I. M
(T) fame—{37% (an (M) g L Mwssjto te i; 213
T f.) t owers ,9 _._....1‘3 03....
(ngmm £231. t: monasteries (A, L,M)

 

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Crane makes only one pronoun change, from we to I in V.3.l92, but
the change occurs in all three of his manuscripts. The remaining
changes involve verbs only. In V.2.llh :1." reads: "yes, till thy
ear swells / with thy own venom," which, in all three manuscripts,
Crane renders _s_w_e_l;i_. A syntactical slip probably is responsible
for another change. "Some that are pleased" 07.3.1310 is changed,
only in é, to "Some that's pleased." The only other such change
has the verb is after a compound subject (1.1.290-1) in _T_ and _A-,
andtheverbargingandgg.

Six kinds of inversions can be found in Crane. The contraction
22.3 is often inverted to its, particularly in 1,. Then there is
the adjective- (or adverb-) noun inversion: (1) Italica Eggs
“eleme- <2> wealaeaflihailssaeas <3) Malam-
§_a_n;d/_f_i_w_rg thousand 9.35.3233: In another line two nouns separated
by g_r_ are reversed (III.l.lO9). There is also the passage in which
the word new is placed in three different positions in the sentence.
_T_ and _A_, in v.2.8h read: "now you may go," but 1: reads "you may
now go“ and g has "you may go now. " A similar treatment of 1133
occurs in V.3.238. One would expect verbs and subjects to be
inverted and this does happen two times: (1) am. I 932?. off/I an
92.2 2313(2)§92m___smthin Lei/massamm- Finally.
there is an instance of a reversal of speech order. In T and A
the White Knight's speech (v.3.129) follows the Black Duke's line
(128), but in .13. and _}_I_ this order is reversed.

The longest of the passages which do not occur in 2 may be

found near the end of the play, when the White Duke is dissembling

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preparatory to checlonating the Black House. After line 1114 of v.3
_A_ inserts these ten words:
I tell you in private.
Bl. Kt. Oh: we are your cabinets.
This may have been a part of the early manuscript Crane was capying
for 5 which Middleton later eliminated. Other added clauses are
these:
What's that? (11.1.275, asked by the Black Bishop's Pawn
in A and by the Black Knight's
Pawn in _L_)
What have we here? (11.1.12, added in L)
'tis he (37.1.1413 not in T or A: added in _I._ and 12)
there is no remedy (Iv.h.6§, ad ed in g)
I abhor thee (V.3.2lS, added in L)
a staff that will not break (11.2.2h1, added in 11g)
Between lines 32 and 33 in the fourth scene of the fourth act,
_A_ and .1: add the parenthetical compound phrase : "for your sake,
and the expulsion of sad thoughts." Except for two other phrases
(well smug, map that), all the remaining additions are single

words. There is quite a range of these:

Table 2 : Crane's Additions

aux. verb: would

noun: Venice

form of address: sir (added twice)
noun as adjective: Crosier-staff

adverbs : first, new
prepositions : like, at
intensive : indeed

exclamatory word: 'faith
coordinating conj.: and
pronoun: I

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In the matter of word substitutions (used in the neutral sense
of the term), no part of Speech can be said to dominate the others.
Although nineteen verb forms are substituted for others, the other
parts of speech are almost as frequently changed. Sixteen preposi-
tions are transposed, fifteen pronouns, fifteen nouns, fourteen
adjectives, ten adverbs, two conjunctions and one article. Five
changed phrases compare with two clauses. Five different exclama-
tory words are replaced by Crane (E1219. is transcribed as pig}; three
times) and once _l; (that is, a) is changed to 192' Two numbers are
substituted: all three (h'ane manuscripts read threescore for T's
fourscore, and _I: and g change thirty-three to thirteen (111.2.103).
In the table below, the changes which involve very little change of
meaning and those which are not approidmately synonymous are shown:

Table 3 : Word Changes Made by Crane

Nearly Synonymous Changes Changes in Meaning
fame—name fellow—felon
path—way public-"private
deep-great good-«own
HuguenotsuIntherans pliant-pleasant
with all speed, Sir-Go, be gone I have done it—Be it thus
infected-~infested hand—light
treasure—j ewel danm-dampen
lock up—shut up provided-n-prescrib ed
muses—raises invented--provided
rous cum-raised unadndred—without any

cursed—hapless
duke-piece
severed—secured
keepube
applied-resolved
request—desire
uncloses-u-encloses
have-see
be-have

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The only other noteworthy kind of change is the assignment of
speeches to other players than those prescribed by _T. Although this
is effected fifteen times in the five acts, the changes in no way
confuse the plot. They are, for the most part, single-line speeches
which are spoken when many of the "chessmen" are on stage, and any-
one in the white or black houses could say them without affecting

the drama's meaning.

Stage Directioy;

Anong the three Crane nenuscripts, A gives details in stage
directions not found in the others. For example, at the beginning
of Act 1, Scene 1, A is the only one to say that each of the two
pawns that enter is a "woman pawn." Similarly, in III.1.296, at
the moment the White King's Pawn is revealed to be a traitor, A
and A merely say "he appears black underneath, " but A prefaces
this with "His upper garment taken off." Only A, moreover, has
the playing of music in the stage directions at line 53 of the In-
duction and at the beginning of v.1. And at the beginning of the
next scene, A is the only manuscript to say that the Black Bishop's
Pawn is attired "in his reverend habit."

(h the other hand, there are two instances in the play when A
fails to give details which A and 11 do give. In the Induction the
latter mention that Error is asleep at Loyola's feet, whereas A
mentions only that he is asleep. Then, at the start of Act II,

A and A indicate that the entering White Queen's Pawn is reading,
but A merely has her enter "with a book in her hand." A person

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reading the play is grateful for the eocplicit direction, because of
course an individual may have a book in hand and not be reading it.
In the above-mentioned examples A is faithful to A four times, and
different from A three times.

Crane also differs from Middleton at times concerning the en-
trances and exits of characters while scenes are in progress. Four
times Crane's entrances are "timed entries;" that is, the characters
enter two or three lines before they speak, thus giving them time to
move downstage. The audience sees them at the same time they are
mentioned as coming by a character already onstage. In the stage
directions as given by 2, however, the entrances do not take place
until the speech announcing the new arrival is completed.

Exits are recorded in A which appear in no other manuscript.
Both times, though, the exits make good dramatic sense because the
following soliloquy which closes both scenes (1.1 and 111.3) ob-
viously should not be heard by the person who is the subject of the
mocking soliloquy.

m 25 is unique among the three manuscripts with regard to
stage directions. While it is true that there are occasional
ants in A not found in the other two transcripts (11.1.168 and 222),
the usual pattern is that which mentions all the entrances for the
scene in one stage direction at its outset. Consequently, when A
and A signal entrances during the course of the action, A does not,
having already in the general direction indicated who would be en-
tering but not when. F. P. Wilson, noting that the stage directions

an unmatched in any other Crane manuscript, speculates that A may

have been prepared from the piecemeal parts of the actors with the
help of the theatrical Iplots, " rather than from a completely
written out transcript.2h A typical stage direction from I} fol-
lows. Note the recurrence of the word thin for the later entrances :

Scene prime. The white-Queenes Pawne (reading) The

Black Bs. Pawns; Then the Black Queenes-Pawne. Then

the Black Bishop, & Black-Knight. (11.1)

‘Ihere are two omissions of a minor nature in the stage direc-
tions of the Crane manuscripts. At the beginning of Act IV, in
the scene that begins with a meeting between the Black Knight's
Pawn and the Black BishOp's Pawn, 3 describes the latter as being
"richly accoultred," a phrase that is omitted in A, la, and y. The
other omission occurs in the third scene of Act III. The Black
Bishop '3 Pawn appears behind the "magic glass" which is able to
reproduce the likeness of those swunoned by an incantation. T
explicitly adds the phrase "then exit," but the three Crane manu-
scripts leave this action implicit.

A few miscellaneous items concerning the Crane stage direc-
tions remain to be mentioned. All three manuscripts include the
dumb show between the second and fourth scenes of Act IV, but only
_I_- and a follow 3 in making it the third scene. A. closes the second
scene with the dumb show, begins the third scene where the others
start Scene h, and after line 50 ushers in its own Scene h. This
same manuscript, not having in its dramatis personae the Fat Bish-
op, omits the large scenes in which the latter appears, but a few
of the lines later given to the Fat Bishop are spoken by the Black

Bishop in A. Finally, in the fifth act, at the point where an

 

altar appears, I and A denote those standing about as statues,

but I; and _12 refer to them as images.

Crane 's fielling

While consistency in Spelling is not to be expected of writers
in the Jacobean period, it will be instructive for identifying
other manuscripts as Crane's if his idosyncracies are looked at
closely as they are disclosed in 5 95.132 .332. 211—9219.. With regard to
some frequently used words he is consistent in spelling; in many
other instances he seems to have written as caprice would dictate.
Besides these, there are spelling practices which seem to have been
habitual with him without regard to individual words so much as to
general tendencies .

Crane is probably most consistent in his writing of pronouns.
As has already been mentioned, Middleton's holograph shows the
dramatist favoring final 3's for some of the maximum and
mg, for example-end adding another 3 to those already ending
in g-m_e_,e Ellis, .1323, 122. Crane, however, except for rare lapses,
spells these and other pronouns as they are written today. The
lone exception to this generalization, as already noted, is 1311333,
which Crane invariably writes %. He also consistently writes
out the relative pronoun which) in contrast to the playwright 's
vch.

There are other common words in the spelling of which Crane is

very consistent. Some are written just as modern orthography re-

quires: know, against, blood, m conscience, any, to mention

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only a few. But a umch larger percentage of words in ordinary

usage have spellings now obsolete: PE; ale, m nomber, a3;-
ie-Lae seam (for sexes): 2122 (for 9292): 2__._.:riva’° Elle 293.11;
93.11;: chastetie, secreats, acgiaintauncg, misterie, Mm
hmnaine (for M). Besides these there is a series of words
ending with 9353'. such as cleere, 2e33, h_e_e_I_‘_e_, appeares, endeer'd.
5% is consistently written gen, and an 2 is written rather than
the modern _i. in words like 1% and absurdetie. The frequently
used sudden is always written sodaine.

A controversial aspect of orthography in Elizabethan and Ja-
cobean times was the gradual disappearance of the final 3. Although
Crane mamscripts have their words which retain the 2 (1-29.33:
scorne, drawne, 103g), the reader cannot but be struck by the
large number of words which have the final 2 in _T_ but which are
not usually so found in Crane. Compare Middleton with Crane in the
following line from 7.2.106:

Middleton: Can 5 yeares stamps a Bawde, praye looks
uppon mee
Crane : Can five yeeres stamp a Bawd? (pray looks
upon Me
A list of words usually spelled by Crane without the final 3. but
which occur in 3 with it, follows: narrow, beshrew, sorrow, 1131.2,
w (mtmafle): 2&2: flat max: mschei-L zen m
ghi_1_c_l, £1113 and um. Crane is not as consistent in these Spell-
ings as in the words singled out in earlier paragraphs, but it
can be said that it is characteristic of him to drop the final 2

in many instances. For some reason not readily apparent, g has

this 3 dropped more frequently than is true of the same word in

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either _A_ or I.

Another spelling predilection noticeable in the Crane manu-
scripts concerns the letter z and its alternate 1.3. Where Middle-
ton ends a word with is, it is fairly certain that Crane's version
will endwithaz. This is particularlytrue withguflg, 1_1_e_ri_§,
and egg: Crane's spelling is m 333;. and fl. Words like
new bawdy: gracefully; 95.11, 212.112; 5.1% M; 2391; is.-
stantll, 19393.1 and already are mch more frequent than the few
words Crane habitually ends with 1-? such as 9251.?) subtletie,

aduersarig, and integriti_e_. The reverse is also true for the

 

middle letters of a word. Frequently when Middleton writes plazas,
Crane writes p__la_i;_§_s_. A few other instances of the same kind are:
Bauer-m m de-or.......damd axe-2.12. was}; pate--
Ed, flag mwfaigne, belliesubellies, t --_t_1_*_i_a1__l_._
and mug—£3.

So much for consistency in Crane. Probably the most notorious
example of his capriciousness in spelling is the word 11935 which
is just as apt to be lolly or holis- as lggly. The other examples
in the table below, while not appearing in the text as often as
3.1231) represent the variants found at identical points in the colla-

“on.

Table 1;: Spelling Variants
Spoke ignorance poisoned f 8166110“ Pitt?
3P08k° ignoraunce poysond falsehood pittie
Speak poisond

Table I; (cont'd.)

mastery mallice publique ruynde win
maystrie malice publick ruin'd wynn
maistery mynd wyn
roaguery tainted politick
roguery teynted politique
roguerie taynted

There is at least one other orthographic idiosyncracy worthy
of mention and that is Orane's penchant for inserting a 2 between
the letters of the syllable 31;. Sometimes this occurs in words
with the suffix -a__n_c_e_ (acquaintaunce, assuraunce, advaunce), but
it shows up also in commaund and slaunder. Because of the simil-
arity of a written 2 and a written _u_, I was not able to be sure
Crane had not instead written a double n, until an unambiguous
slaunder appeared (11.2.221 in A) and an equally unmistakable
commaund occurred three times (II.1.2 in both I; and lg, III.3.35
in E). Since no clear instance of the double 2 has been found,
it seems safe to assume that in ambiguous cases the correct read-
ing is gun. This assumption is fortified by IV.2.69, where there
is no doubt that the word is M in A and g (_I._ has Mud), yet
the writing looks Just like the passages that could be read 93.
There is no ambiguity, however, about the word W in _I; (V.l.h8,
stage direction), for the u and the g are clearly differentiated.
The same clarity does not exist for chaunce and glaunce, but the
evidence elsewhere would suggest that this is the intended Spelling.
Middleton's practice in this category is to Spell the word in the

modern mannerucommand, slander, chance, dance, etc.

and

Crane 's spelling, therefore, in spite of many irregularities
and caprices, does have certain identifiable characteristics.
This pronouns, with the single exception noted, are written as we
write them today. He drops many more final 3's than he retains,
and he prefers the final y to the final i_._e_. He shows a preference
for gun where Middleton and others write an. Fbrthermore, he drape
the final _s of the suffix -_n_§_§_s_ more consistently than does Middle-
ton, and inclines toward the double f in words like safe and
trifles (gaffe, triffles). In other reapects he can be inconsis-
tent and even chaotic, sometimes writing three different spellings

for the same word.

Contractions

In order to find out Crane's practice concerning contractions,
I tabulated all the contractions in the fourth act. In doing so
I ignored the presence or absence of apostrophes, since Crane em-
ploys a geat many and Middleton relatively few, even though he
writes many contractions like 121.2 and 199.99.. I discovered that
70% of the contractions are left unchanged by Crane, except for
spelling or the addition of an apostrophe. (Middleton's _:_twcu___l_._d_
and Crane's 'twould are considered identical contractions, for
example, as are m and £132.) Of the other 30% which contain
changes, Crane more frequently changes contractions to complete
words than he does the reverse. Eighteen per cent of the contrac-

tions in the act are changed to complete words (that is, _Img

becomes I g), while 114% appeared as whole words in _T and are
changed by Crane into contractions (in it, for example, is sane-
times contracted to i_n___'t).

How consistent is Crane in his use of contractions? Sixty-one
per cent of the time he writes the same construction in all. his
manuscripts, but he is then, of course, inconsistent 39% of the
timc. These inconsistencies range from _Sh_a_:_§_ and w to Time
and _I am. The most frequent shift in which he indulges is that
which changes 11.1.3 to 1-2.?) the latter form appearing most fre-
quently in a.

A curious aspect of Crane's practice is the placement of an
apostrophe between two complete words: aim or w. Since
generally there are contractions in other manuscripts when he does
this, the probability is that he is thereby signalling the presence
of a contraction in the manuscript he is copying, even though he
has chosen to write the words out. He does not always follow this
procedure, however. In V.2.60 Middleton's E2333. becomes 292.2
in A, m'are in _I_._ and m are in g, an extreme instance but in-
dicative of the latitude Crane allowed him3elf in writing contrac-
tions.

Not all the contractions involve the apostrophe, interesting-
1y enough. Crane normally writes the phrase wi__l_..1_ be or §_ha__l_l_ be
as single words: m___l_._b_e_ and w. Then, too, there are the
words 933 and page which Crane habitually writes. If he does use
an apostrophe when writing these words, they usually read 9215

and neu'r.

Capitalization

In a random selection of 100 lines of text which, because of
omitted lines came, not to 300 lines in the Crane manuscripts, but
to 179, I tabulated the percentage of nouns, pronouns, adjectives,
verbs and adverbs which Crane capitalized. There probably is a
linfited value to these statistics, since some nouns or adjectives
occur more often than others and sometimes they are capitalized and
sometimes not, but if not pressed too far for significance, they
are at least more helpful than subjective impressions. The same
lines were used for all the categories, and there is no reason to
believe they were not as typical as any other hundred lines would
have been.

One would expect to find a much larger percentage of nouns
capitalized than any other parts of Speech, so it is not surprising
to learn that, out of 151; nouns present in the passage, 11? are
capitalized, a percentage of 76, or three out of four. The second
highest category for capitalized words is the adjective. Out of
70 adjectives present, 31 are capitalized or approximately 111% of
the total. Sixteen times two manuscripts capitalize the same par-
ticular adjective, and once all three capitalize the same word.
Only 7% of the us verbs, however, are capitalized and only 6%
of the 146 adverbs.

In tabulating the pronouns within the same lines I followed
a different procedure. I wanted to know which pronouns are never
capitalized, which are rarely capitalized and which are capitalized

most frequently. Disregarding the first person singular pronoun,

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the pronouns most often given a capital letter are it and 121.9. . In
the case of the neuter pronoun each of the capitals is given because
the word it followed a colon or other form of terminal punctuation.
0n the other hand, there did not seem to me to be any explanation
for the six times 133 is capitalized when one considers the many
instances when it is written with a mnemle m. The pronouns
m and t_h_o_l_1_ are each capitalized once, but these times also
follow terminal punctuation. That leaves my, we, they, Lugs,

95133 and gu_r_s_ among the pronouns which are capitalized at least

once in the midst of a phrase or clause. _‘Ih__e_i;_r, his, h5__._1_n, gu__r_,

m and her are never capitalized in the passage.

Crane ' s Punctuation

Punctuation practices in the Crane manuscripts of A _G§m__e_ a};
3135333 take on extrinsic significance from the consensus that,
in the words of A. C. Partridge, Crane "is considered to have had
an influence on the punctuation and other orthographical features
of some of the plays in the First Folio."2S It would seem, then,
not mere pedantry to Show in some detail what his punctuation prac-
tice was in a play for which we have as many as three transcripts.
For this purpose I have noted all the marks of punctuation and
elision in the entire second scene of Act V and, wherever possible,
have attempted deductions regarding the logic and degree of pre-
cision that dictated this aspect of writing.

I have chosen this particular scene partly because its 13h

lines manifest abundant variety of emotions to require a wide range

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of punctuation and is long enough for the analysis I wanted to
make, and partly because all three manuscripts carry more of the
Trinity text than do other scenes. The omitted lines in _I~_I_ are
fewer than in other scenes where large sections of the text are
often omitted, and A, too, carries the bulk of the scene's lines.
In fact, the 391; lines we have from Crane's pen here are only
eight fewer than would have been the case had all the Trinity
lines been transcribed on each of the three manuscripts.

That Crane supplied much fuller punctuation than Middleton's
holograph is evident when one glances at the comparison in the
table below:

Table 5: Comparison of Punctuation between Crane and Middleton

Act V, Scene 2 Crane Middleton
Apostrophe SI 17
Semicolon 9 11;
Period bl l
Colon SS 3
fibcclamation-Question mark 38 21
Conuna 99 100
Hyphen 26 2

 

Insh E 3
Totals 2 161

In the "Crane column" the items of punctuation are tabulated only

once if all three manuscripts agree. That is, if a period is

placed at the same place in _A, I: and 14, it is counted as a single

use. However, if two or three different marks of punctuation appear at

the same point in the three manuscripts, each item is recorded once.

Even when one has made allowance for this, however, it is still
true that Crane "edited punctuation to conform more or less to his
own ideas," to quote Partridge again.26

The greatest difference between the punctuation practice of
the dramatist and that of his scribe is found in this passage to
lie in the use of the period. Whereas Middleton's only period is
placed at the very end of the scene, Crane inserts a period in at
least one manuscript hl times during the course of the action.
Looking more closely, I found that 63% of these places are at the
end of a speech by one of the characters. Five times there seems
to be no better reason for a period than for a colon, which is
Crane's favorite form of punctuation for marlcing off the rhetorical
units of the speeches. In four other places the period is justi-
fied logically, as ending a major assertion before the Speaker
starts on a new tack. The remaining instances can either be seen
to be Slips of the pen or inappropriate to their contexts. (A
curious observation is that E carries most of the periods at points
where A and/or _I_._ have colonS. In each instance a modern writer
would also append a period, I believe.) There are eleven times
when a period is placed at the same spot in all Crane MSS, but
even in the other instances there is consistency in his employment
of the full stop.

R. C. Bald and others have called. attention to the large num-
ber of colons in Crane's work, and this is amply borne out in all
Crane scenes of _A_ Esme; at 299E22- In the scene under discussion he

has put down 90 colons in 55 Places, eleven times inscribing them in

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all three manuscripts, and fourteen times in two out of the three.
Generally his colons are set down where a rather full stop is
called for, but when I compare a large number of contexts involving
periods and colons, I think I can detect a difference between
Crane '8 employment of the Wo marks of punctuation. There is a
finality to the period which is lacking in places where the colon
is supplied. Even when the period does not signal the end of a
character's speech, it does indicate that the speaker is going to
veer off sharply in a new direction.
[31. Q8. PJ By th'Emperious powrefull Name,
and the Vrtiuersall Fame
of the mightie Black-house-Queene

I coniure Thee to be seene.
What! see you nothing yet?

Wh. Qs. P. not any part.
'pray try an other. (III.3.27ff.)

In contrast, let us note a typical occasion when Crane employs
colons:
B1. B3. P. She's impregnable:
A second Seige must not fall-off so tamsly:
She's one of those must be inform'd to know
a Daughters Dutie... (1.1.201-10
It can be seen that one should expect more of the same matter when
he comes to a colon in Crane. It is not his practice to separate
clauses with a comma, where there is no conjunction. In such
cases he has recourse to the colon, thus showing an affinity in
content between the clause preceding it and the one following. As
in all punctuation considered here, there are many lapses, but the
overriding preponderance of colons between Similar rhetorical units

and the equal preponderance of periods at the end of speeches or

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segments of related content show that Crane did distinguish in his
use of these two kinds of punctuation.

Relatively consistent as crane is in his colon/period punctua-
tion design, his highest degree of consistency is in the placement
of the question mark/exclamation point. The latter as a distinc-
tive signal for an exclamation appears first (according to the
Q. E. 2.) in 1657, but the first appearance in the 2. E. 2. for the
question mark is from Florio's Dictionary of 1598. Certain it is
that Crane nukes the same mark for both questions and exclamations,
a kind of compromise between the two signs as we know them today
( , ). Of course many questions are also exclamations, but there
are too a large number of sentences which clearly call for one mark
or the other, and the modern editor must choose what to print
according to the sense of the content. In the scene we are analy-
zing, 91 question mark/exclamation points are penned in 38 places,
which means that 21; times this point of punctuation appears in all
three mmscripts and five additional times it turns up in two unnu-
scripts. Middleton's _T: manuscript contains 21 of these marks in
the same lines, 12 of which Bald prints as question marks and 9 as
exclamation points. The difference in the number of places between
2 on the one hand and the Crane manuscripts on the other, however,
is even greater than the statistical totals indicate. There are
times when Middleton puts a question mark in the middle of the
question as well as at the end, as at 11.2.13: "Are my Bookes
printed, Pawns? my last Inuectiuss agaynst the Black-House?"

Crane, on the other hand, places a question mark just at the end.

1..

There are other lines, though, when Middleton's exclamation point
is more appropriate than Crane's colon or period, as in II.2.77
where the Black Bishop sympathetically exclaims "Oh Insufferablel"
Crane follows his own ideas of punctuation as insistently with re-
gard to this mark, then, as he does with reSpect to all the others.
The correlation between his marks and the dramatist's is not very
high, taking the play as a whole.

In passing on to the semicolon it met be stated that this
kind of punctuation plays a small part in Crane's choices. Even
Middleton, who relies almost exclusively on the comma and the ques-
tion mark for his punctuation needs, places five more semicolons
in the passage being analyzed than Crane does. When one examines
the context surrounding the few semicolons he does place, moreover,
one is hard put to it to find a reason for the choice. In over 90%
of these cases the semicolon appears in no more than one manuscript,
and this manuscript is usually 5, the early copy he made before
Middleton enlarged the play during the course of the performances.
Yet he does not, even in _A_, put semicolons where Middleton does.
The only deduction one can draw concerning Crane's usage here is
that he has no clear-cut role for the semicolon as he has for the
other marks of punctuation. What slight evidence there is would
suggest that he thinks of the semicolon as a longer pause than the
sauna and a shorter one than the colon. For example, in lines 2-h,

both A and I read:
and in that Vertue

most worthelie hath Fate pron-ided for Me; Enter Jesuits.
Bah! 'tis the &d-Man, in the Reuerend habit!

nun-5.x

In general, however, the rarity of Grane's semicolons and the fact
that even when he does use them it is in only a Single marmscript
lead me to the conclusion that there is no discernible principle
illmninating his semicolon practice.

AS for the comma, the difference in number between Middleton
and Crane is misleading. There appears to be almost no difference
in practice when the table shows Middleton with 100 and Crane with
99 places where commas are placed, respectively, but when one re-
members that Middleton strokes come at times when Crane places
either a period or a colon, the scrivener is seen to have used the
coma much more frequently than the playwright. One unusual aspect
of Crane's habitual comma practice is the presence of a comma
after the first of two compound adjectives, as in III.3.h9: "By
her fairs, and fruitful Laue." This occurs frequently enough
perhaps to be considered, along with all the other identifying
traits, a means of identifying a manuscript of unknown authorship
as likely to be one of Crane's. He does the same thing sometimes
with nouns: (III.3.3S) "I double my Commaund, and Powre, / and
at the instant of this howre / Inuoake Thee in the VJhite-leenes
Nana, / with stay for Time, and Shape the same." With this excep-
tion, the come in Crane aid in the reading of the lines, setting
off the metrical rhythm3 and breaking up the long phrases and claus-
es into more intelligible syntactical groupings.

The hyphen is utilized thirteen times more frequently by
Crane than by Middleton in T, according to our findings in the

scene analyzed. Most often Crane joins an adjective to the following

1:].

noun (Bad-Man, nyce-Irrigfitie, Common--BeddJ holly-Dension, PEP."
phaine-lifes m poore-Suffrer, white-Bishop's, flack-Villains).
The times he coins a hyphenated adjective from two words not usually
joined together: marble-fronted, over-common. Once he separates a
prefix from the rest of the word (vn-chastnes ) . Three times two
words indicating possession are joined: Deuills-Shape, Decorum-sakeJ
Devills-part. Verbals are linked with the prepositions that idio-
mtically follow them, on four occasions (Carries-vp, setting-aside,
soalder-vp, find-32) and five instances of single words divided by
hyphens are encountered (Git-criesJ thanckes-giving, Bed-fellow
twice and Blood-hound). There is, in g a whole phrase that is
hyphenated (after-Bianckes-giving) but the longest such phrase
occurs in the third scene of the third act, where in line 29 1’;
reads Pfightie-Black-house-Queene. To return to our sample scene,
there is, finally, a hyphenated pair of words that does not easily
fit into any category: "See what a Scourge-Fate hath provided for
Thee." In general one can say that Crane is fairly free with
hyphens but that a definite design of usage does not readily emerge
from the data, except in the special cases inherent in the play
itself. Black-houseJ white-house and similar combinations involv-
ing characters which, because they are chessmen, have no surnames,
are almost always hyphenated by Crane.
T. H. Howard-Hill, in his monograph on Crane's parentheses,”

has treated the subject so exhaustively that I will only report my
corroborative findings, taken, not from Act I as his are, but from

the entire fifth act of the play. A point made in the monograph is

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that Crane does not prefer vocative parentheses. This is borne
out in Act V, for in contrast to the 29 lines having vocative
parentheses, 51 contain non-vocative ones. My findings with regard
to the number of parentheses in the individual manuscripts also
confirm Howard-Hill's data. 9: contains more parentheses than T,
but far fewer than both _I: and ET, further corroborating the thesis
that Crane added parentheses when transcribing a holograph and that
he added still more when copying from his own transcript. If there
is a detail I might add, it would be that 1;! contains a considerable
number of non-vocative parentheses not found in any other manuscript.
Aside from the vocative parentheses, a majority of which

enclose the single word _S_i_1_', Crane's parentheses seem to be of
three varieties. One of these is the appositive phrase. For exarrple,
in V.3.h7-8, g reads "There was once a Ruler / (Gyrenes Gouernour)...".
In addition to these, a significant number of w__h_i_<_:_11 and that clauses
are enclosed within parentheses in some manuscripts:

Bl. Bs. P. Well: setting-aside the Dish you loath

somnch
(which hath byn hartely tasted by your
Betters)
(V.2.h6-7)

Many other dependent clauses are similarly put between parentheses,
as though the scribe were supplying his readers with the changed
voice inflection given by actors when speaking the lines onstage.
The third category of parentheses, though related to the second, is
more properly termed an "aside" in that the utterance is more like

a commentary upon what was just spoken, as can be seen in V.l.h2-3:

Wonder, work some strange delight
(this Place was neuer yet without)...

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The remainder of the parentheses consist of short phrasesutwo
or three words-not integrally related to the rest of the sentence
but, as it were, afterthoughts or spur-of-the-moment embellishments
of what has immediately preceded. All in all, Crane's parentheses
are strikingly numerous and it must certainly be admitted that
their'proliferation must be among those characteristics looked for
in attributing anonymous manuscripts to Crane.

Five distinct uses for the apostrophe can be discerned in
the (bane copies. Of these, of course, contractions account for
the bulk of the apostrophes, there being in the scene under analy-
sis 38 contractions set down in 96 manuscript places. 0n the whole,
Crane employs more often the modern contractions all, thfl're
and thfl've than those more frequently used in his day: 113, m
and th'have. Sometimes one encounters in .1}- an archaic form like
wher's, only to find in E and 1‘_’I_ the later where 's. The state of
flux in which contractions existed in 1621; can be seen in the four
varieties of the same contraction that are not uncommonly found at
a single point in the text. In 17.2.20, for instance, _‘I_‘_ has Hyde,
_A_ reads Eu'll'd, _I_. yo_u_'1'd, and E m'lld. Although, as will
soon appear, Crane sometimes does not contract when Middleton does,
seventy percent of the time he retains at least some form of the
original contraction. When he does not, he contracts approximate-
ly eleven.percent of the whole phrases he finds in.Middleton and
writes out the latter's contractions in the remaining nineteen
percent of the instances. Thus, £393 is often changed by Crane to
m _h§_u_e_, and Middleton's £2113 2.232 255 all h__a_n_d_§ becomes in Crane

3"}

I am surprised to read the following observation in Partridge's

Orthograpgy in Siakespeare 3E Elizabethan Drama concerning con-

 

tractions involving the pronoun they}: " [Crane is found to employ
_'_e_m_, M and them for the accusative of the personal pronoun in
unstressed positions, but 122?; outweighs 13g. "28 Whatever may be
true in Crans's transcription of other plays, in g 93.1113 at _C_l_1_e§_s_e_
instances of :21. abound, but I find not one instance when 1.9933. is
used in any of the manuscripts. Perhaps Crane adapted himself to
the particular author whose work he was transcribing at the tim.
At any rate, 13:3 is the only form used in this play.

The second use of the apostrophe in Crane is occasionally to
indicate syncope in the past participle. Generally he omits the
apostrophe, but three times in V.2 he includes it. Participles
like absolu'd, M and others with roots ending in P. _v_Jor 3
almost invariably receive the apostrOphe.

There is, however, an even more characteristic minor employ-
ment of the apostrophe in Crane. This time it stands for words
which are understood and taken for granted but which in colloquial
usage are not actually spoken. In III.1.61:

'too happie to be true: you speaks what should be...
the words Egg is are understood to precede too happis and the
apostrophe signals this colloquial shorthand.

The fourth and fifth functions for the apostrophe are the
possessive genitive and what for want of a better term I shall

call the allusive function. Crane is supposed not to have used

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the apostrophe to indicate possession, and this is true enough

as a generalization, since he rarely does so use it. It is not
true, however, that he never puts an apostrophe between the noun
and the s. In v.2.ho, the A manuseript has {.3323 shelter and
line 128 in 31. contains 3113 white-Bishop's game. The allusive
apostrOphs is such because it alludes to a contraction that is not
there. Eighteen percent of Middleton's contractions in the scene
are eliminated in the Wane transcripts, but the apostrophe is
retained nonetheless to indicate where the original contraction

has been. Such is the case in V.2.123. The holograph reads I'me

 

_l_<_>_s_‘l_'._ 9}: all hinge, but in all three manuscripts Crane writes m
1.933.... In another place he changes 1'33? to m'haue.

Very little need be said concerning the dash as used in the
Wane copies. While there is logic in the few tines Middleton
wrote the dash, no such logic can be seen in Wane's five dashes
in the scene we are discussing. They seem to have been placed on
impulse, for in no case does the dash appear in more than one manu-
script at a particular point. In one line (A: 97) the dash follows
a period and in another it is placed after a comma (E: 116). When
stage directions indicate characters are to leave the stage, a dash
sometimes precedes the single word W. Otherwise Wane does
not apparently utilize the dash in any predictable way and his
practice in this regard is valueless as an identifiable character-
istic.

In summary it can be said that Wane puts into his transcripts

a. great deal more punctuation than Middleton employs in 2 and does

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19v.

not hesitate to change what punctuation he finds if it does not
seem precise enough to suit him. He particularly favors a colon
at the end of rhetorical units, placing periods principally at the
end of speeches. He sprinkles apostrophes in profusion, not only
to indicate contraction, elision and sync0pe but also to signal a
change from colloquial to formal constructions. Besides changing
many of Middleton's commas to what he considers to be more precise
punctuation, he adds many commas of his own, especially after the
first of a pair of adjectives separated by a_1_1__d. His placement of
semicolons, dashes and hyphens is apparently capricious, but not
so the question mark/ exclamation point. Considerably more than
half the time, if he puts one of these marks in one marmscript

he puts it in the other two as well. It is in the proliferation
of parentheses, however, that Crane shows his hand most noticeably.

Non-vocative parentheses outnumber the vocative ones two to one.

Seflence 2f- thg Marmscripts

There can be no reasonable doubt that g is the earliest of
the four manuscripts collated for this edition. The total absence
of the role of the Fat Bishop would seem to indicate that A was
copied from a holograph very early in the play's run, before the
papularity of the drama stimflated Middleton to add the Archbishop
of Spalatro to his satire. That this early holograph could not
have been the Trinity MS is clear from the fact that most of the
word changes from _T_ are to be found in _A_. There is abundant evi-

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dence, furthermore, of a close affinity between T: and _I_._ which is
not true beWeen I and _A_. _I_L_ has all but a handful of lines found
in T, including the long scenes involving the Fat Bishop.

In spite of the close relationship between T and _I_i_, however,
_T_ could not have been the manuscript from which Wane copied I;
or g. This is evident because both E and fl omit entirely the second
scene of Act III which is contained in 2. Unless Crane was told to
omit this scene when he made the Lansdowne copy, it appears most
likely that he had a manuscript to transcribe which was subsequent
to I but similar to it, differing most noticeably by omitting
Scene 2.

This leaves M 25 to be accounted for. Two pieces of
evidence support the twelnsioni that it"i: thelatest of the four
manuscripts to be capied. The dedicatory verse to "Mr: William
Hammond" that follows the title page in g asserts that the c0py
is a New Year's gift, the January lst of 1625, Roi Style, being
the most probable date meant, since the play itself was produced
in August, 1621;.”

This which nor Stage nor Stationers Stall can shows
(The Common Eye maye wish for, but nere knowe)
Comes in it's best Lone with the New-years forth
As a fit Present to the Hand of Worth.

The verse in-
dicates that the play could not yet be bought in a stationer's
stall, which would have been the truth at the New Year, 1625 be-
cause the first published edition came out later that year. The
other item to support the probability that E is the latest of the

M88 is the fact that except for two lines (11.2.23-2h) all the

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"N

lines included in H are also found in _I_._. While this excludes the
possibility that Wane used his own I: copy from which to transcribe
the greatly abridged lg mamscript, it does strengthen Bald's belief
that both _I; and g were capied from a common text which has not yet
come to light.30 It is certain that a very close affinity exists
between _I; and y, for it became increasingly evident as the colla-
tion progressed that the two had the same variant from _T_'_ and _A_ line
after line after line. The following is a typical line (V,3,l73):
You neuer yet came neere our soules till now,

You never yet came neere our Soules, till now.

You never came so users our Soules, as now;
You never came so users our Soules as now.

0. O. O. O.

[Sit-1H6

C. J. Stewart thought that H was "the original draught of the
work."31 but F. P. unison was of the opinion that this mamscript
is a shortened version of the play as given in the printed editions
and in the other M38. "The abridgement betrays by its broken and
hypermetrical lines that it is later than the nine:- version, "32

he continued.

*****

If, as F. P. Wilson has asserted, "we have no dramatic mam-
scripts used as copy by an Elizabethan or Stuart printer, "33 there
can be little doubt that the study of what handwritten manuscripts
we have can be helpful in identifying the penmen who wrote other
mnuseripts still lying undiscovered in private libraries or in
some storage chambers. They can also be valuable for providing
a means of determining what changes were made by compositors. It
is to be hoped, then that the present inquiry into the habits of

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Ralph Wane will aid in the identification of hitherto unidentified
manuscripts. Future researchers, moreover, knowing Wane's usual
practices, may be able to discover, with reference to those drama-
tists for whom Crane is known to have made copies, the dramatists'
original intention and meaning.

Hit the significance of having a defimitive Wane version
of _A_ £60,110; at. W has implications for the better understanding
of the play itself, even if no wider ramifications are taken into
account. Since Wane's spelling and punctuation practices are,
on the whole, more consonant with modern usage than those of Middle-
ton, a reader who wishes to enjoy the flavor of the Jacobean era
and who does not, therefore, care to read a completely modernized
edition will have an easier and more insightful time of it if he
reads Wane.

Arthur Symons clearly thought no serious student of Jacobean
drama and of Thomas Middleton in particular should fail to become
familiar with this play. "It is the most perfect of Middleton's
works," he wrote, "and it carries some of his most intimate qua-
lities to a point they had not reached before. Banter turns to a
'quite serious and clear and bitter satire; burlesque becomes a
severe and elegant thing; the verse, beginning formally and always
kept well within bounds, is fitted with supreme technical skill

to this new, outlandish matter. "31‘ same I concur with use judg-

ment, I believe than an edition of the play which enhances the
enjoyment and understanding of its readers is worth producing, es-
pecially if in truth the play is, as Swinburne thought, "the only

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work of English poetry which may properly be called Aristophanic."35

NOTES

1 In the autobiographical poem The Works of Mer Both Co a1
and iritual which was enter-5'5 Fae-Stationers Fe ster
W0 ed. Ar er, IV, 1411), Crane alludes tothe transcripts of
plays he executed for the King's Men. A copy of this work is in
the Huntington library. The only MS we have which is signed by
Crane is the dedication page (to Sir Kenelm Digby) of his tran-
script of Fletcher's play Demetrius and. Eaarrthe.

2 R. C. Bald, "The Ghronolog of Middleton's Plays," _T_hg Modern
we Review, 32 (1937), 37.

3 In the dedicatory verse to William Hammond, following the title
page in Malone gfi, the manuscript is said to be a New Year's
gift. Sinc'e Jo'he first publication of the play occurred in 1625,
this latest of Crane manuscripts which the verse declares "nor
Statzgomrsh Stall. can shows" mist have been written near the end
of 1 2 .

h R. c. Bald based his edition or 5 Game upon the Irinity MS be-
cause it was in his judgment in mddleton's own hand. .5 Game at
Chesse (Cambridge: Gambridge University Press, 1929), p. 35.

5 George R. Price, "The Huntington MS of A Game at Cheese " Hunt-

iesbsa Lam 91316212; 17 (1953). 83-

6 MS. V. a. 3112. This is not the Archdall MS, but another copy
of the play at the Folger Library.

7 c. F. Tucker Brooke and Nathaniel Burton Paradise, eds. lish
Dram: 1580-16h2 (New York: D. 0. Heath & Co., 1933), p. 91311.

8 Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess, ed. J. W. Harper (New York:
Hill and Wang, 1966)“, p. xii.

9 his is a line from Crane's The Works 92" Mercy, Both Corporal
and fiifltual. See Note 1, EBB-vs.

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10 A. C. Partridge, Ortho in ShakeSpgare and Elizabethan

ll. T. H. Howard-Hill, "Ralph Crane's Parentheses," Notes and
Queries, 12 (1965), 33h. """"

12 932.
13 an.

11‘ an. and 933., p. no.
15 3.2.2.

15 933., p. 337.

17 F. P. Wilson, "Ralph Crane, Scrivener to the King's Players, "

 

18 Samuel A. Tannenbamn, The gandwritigg 2;; the Renaissance (New
York: Frederick Ungar "Pub'l. Co., 19 7), p733.

19 Ibid., pp. 21-26.

20 This alphabet served also as a source for the secretary forms
of E and m.

21 lannenham, pp. h8-h9.

22 The advertisement concerning this MS accompanied the photogra-
phic reproduction of the text.

23 Because it would have been confusing to quote all the variant
spellings, the Spelling of the words in this section of the
introduction has been normalized. The word changes are the
focus of the section and these are not affected by the spellings.

2’4 F. P. Wilson, p. 2111.
25 Partridge, p. 172.
26 922g.

27 See note ll. above.

28 Partridge, p. 173.

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29 It is possible that the legal New Year's Day (March 25) is
referred to, which would mean that the first quarto dated 1625
was published after March 25th of that year.

30 Bald, A Game at Cheese, p. 111.
31 Quoted in F. P. Wilson, p. 211.
32 Ibid.

33 Ibid., p. 191..

31‘ Arthur Symons "Middl "
, eton and Rowley, The Cambridge Histo
of En lish literature eds. A. W. Ward 5m War (New
E IEmlfl-m I932;
’

YET 3 ’ VI, p. 890

3S Algernon Charles Swinburne, Introduction to Thomas Middleton
(Mermaid Series), ed. Havelock Ellis (London, 1887), l, xxiii.

162h

 

 

A
GAME
ATT
CHESSE

 

By Tho: Pfidfleton

 

_A_ tsBy'Iho: fiddletongdaddsAugustlB
1621;.

 

To the Worthilie-Accomplish'd,
Mr: William Halmnond.

This, which nor Stage nor Stationers Stall can Show-re,
(The Common Eye maye wish for, but ne're knowe)

Comes in it's best Loue, wth the New-yeare forth,

As a fit Present to the Hand of Worth.

A Seruant to youre

Vertues ,

11.14.

L

This dedication is found only i M.

THE INDUCTION

Ifltius discovered; A Error, a-sleepe.

Ig. Bah! where? what Angle of the world is this
that I can neither see the Politique Face,
nor with W refinde Nosthrills taste the Foote-steps
of any of my Disciples? Sons, and heires
5 as well of my Designes, as Institution!
I thought they'had Spread over the World by this time,
Coverd the Earthes Face, and made Ihrk the land
like the AEgiptian-Grashopp ers .
Heere's too much Light appeeres, shot from the Eies
10 of Truth, and Goodnes (never yet deflowr'd)
Sure They were never here: Then is their Monarchie
vnperfect yet: a iust Reward I see
for their Ingratitude so long to Me
(their Father, and their Founder)
15 'tis not Five yeeres since I was Saincted by 'em:
Where slept mine Honor all. the time before?
Could they be so forgetfull. to Cannornze
their prosperous Institutor? When they'had Saincted me,
they found no Roome in all their Kallander
20 to place my Name, that should haue remou'd Princes,
pull'd the most Eminent Prelates by the Rootes vp
for my deere comming, to make way for Me.
'Iet every petty-Martir and Saint-Homilie
Roch, Main, and Petronell, (Itch and Ague Curors)
25 Your Abbesse Aldegund, and anigund
the widow Marcell, Parson Policarpe,
Sicelie and Vrsula, all take place of Me:

 

Ignatius discovered, and: A; a-sleepe:o only__ in A. 3. Foote-
stepps: A L. h. Sonnes: A; first Ltter _<_>_f_ heires 1331 be A
capital: A. 6. they'de: A. 7. face: A.“— 8. Egiptian: —:M.
9. eies: A. 10. deflow'rd': L; deflowrde: A. 11. they:
Heere: A; then: A. 12. A: 9,131.13. For: A; Mee: A 1:1,

1h. Fman'der: ll- 15. It's: LEI; five: M. To. sleipt? A;
Time: M. 18. they had: A; They'had: M; Sainted: A; Saincted-Me:
M. 19.. noe: A. 20. Remov'd: M. 21'. eminent: A, Prelats:
I? M. 22. Coming: L; Hake: L. 23. Let: A; Patti‘s-Martin
T."- Sainct: L. 211,. curors: A; curers: L. 25. Cunigung: M.
76. The: A; Vicar: A, but Parson was written in th___e_ margn.

And, but for the Bis-sextile, or Leape years
(and that's but one in Three) I fall by chaunce

30 into the Nine and twentith daie of Februarie
there were no Rooms els for Me: See their Love,
(their Conscience too) to thrust Me (a Lam Soldier)
into Leape-yeare! My wrath's vp: and (me-thincks)
I could with the first Sillable of my Name

35 blow-vp their Colledges: Vp Error, wake:
Father of Supererogation, Rise:
It is Ignatius calls Thee (Loyola).

Er. Mist haue you don? oh, I could sleepe in Ignorance
immortally, the Slomber is so pleasing.
’40 I saw the bravest Setting for a Game now
that ever my eie fixd on.

lg. What Game 'pre'thee?

Er. The noblest Game of all: a Game at Cheese
betwixt our Side and the White-house: The Men sett
115 in their iust Order, ready to goe to't.

Ig. Were any of my Sons plac'd for the Game?

Er. Yes, and a Daughter too: a Secular-Daughter
that plaies the Black-Queene's-Pawne: He, the Black-Bishop's.

Ig. If ever Powre could show a Mastery in Thee
50 Let it appeere in this.

Er. 'tis but a Dreame,
a Vision, you must thinck.

Ig. I care not what
so I behold the Children of my Cunning
55 and see what Ranck they keepe.

«I’Iusickufihter (seuerally) the white House A the
Black AA they are sett for the Game.

 

28. Bissextile: A; Leape-yeere: M. 29. three: A. 30. Inne:
L; day: A. 31. -roome: A. 33. _Leape-yeere: AI; -wrathe's: A.
56.31perarrogation: A A,I. 37. it: A. to. brauest: A; Bravest:
M. bl. mine: A, M: fix-t: A. L2. T reads Game? That; game?;
pres-thee: A; pre'rthee: omitted in E. E5. Noblest: A, M GAME: A.
Mr. 'twirt: A; Our: A,A,I- widte-HB'u'se: A; The: A; set? A. As."
readie: A. E reads to it. A6. Sonnes: A; placd:M. 118.
playes: A; Plaies: M. 119. powre: A; Maystrie: A; Maistery: A,I-
thee: A.—’ 51. It's: A. Musick: omitted in L, AI; seuerally:
omitted i__I_1_ A. (as in order of theGam Gameh _;_(in order of the Game):
A,I- as they are sett for the Game: 9_n_ly Ag_ A.

Er. You haue your wish;
Behold, there's the full Nomber of the Game.
Kings, and their Pawnes, Queenes, Bishops, Knights and Dzkes.

Ig. Iltkesl They are call'd Bookes by some.

60 Er. Corruptively:
Le Roe the word, C‘ustode de La Roch.
the Keeper of the Forts: In whom both Kings
repose much Confidence: and for their Trust-sake
Courage, and worth, doe well deserve those Titles.

65 Ig. The Answeare's high: I see my Son, and Daughter.
Er. Those are Tm Pawnes: the Black-Queenes, and the Bishop's.
Ig. Pawnes argue but poore Spirits and slight Preferments,
not worthie of the name of 11y Disciples.
If I had stood so nigh, I would haue out
70 that Bishop's Throat, but I'would haue had his Place,
and told the Queene a Laue-Tale in her eare

would make her best Pulsse daunce: There's no Iliadr
of Brains, or Spirit amongst 'em.

Er. why, would you haue them play against themselues?
75 that's quight against the Rule of Game (Ignatius).

Ig. pish: I would Rule myself: not observe Rule.
Eb. wmr, then you'would play a Game all by your self.

Ig. I would doe any thing to Rule alone:
'tis rare to haue the World reignd-in by One.

80 Er. See 'em anon: and mark 'em in their Play.
Observe: (as in a Daunce) they glide away.

Ig. Oh, with what Longings will this Brest be tost,
vntill I see this Great Game won, and lost!

 

58. Bishop's: L, M; and: T has a. 59. they're: A. 6l.La
Roch: M; de La_Roche: A. '62.. in: A. 63. confidence: A _,AI,
And: A? trust: A. 65’.‘ Answere's: I; 8:: A. 66. two: AAA
2__; The Black-Queenes: A; 8:: A. 67. Spiritts: A _,A; and: _T_
has a. 68. Name: M. 69. Gutt: A1. 70. Throate: A; throat
A; —-'Ill d: A; haue'had: A. 71. love-Tale: M. 72. pullse:
Pullse: AA; there's: A. 73. Brayne: A. 7K. haue 'em: A;

Ll‘gbm

Play: A; Themselues :‘A. 77. you'u'Ef: A; you'ld: M. 79.
It's: A; Raign'd: A; raig'nd-in: M; one: A. 80. Th'e-m: M;
Mark: M them: A. 81. Glide: A? 82. Breast: A. 83'." greate: A;

Lost :

THE PROLOGUE

What of the Game (call'd Chess-Play) can be made

to make a Stage-Play, shall this daie be Plaid.

First, you shall see the Men, in order sett

States, and their Pawnes, when both the Sides are mett
the Houses well distinguish'd, In the Game

some Men en-trap'd, and Taken, to theire shame,
Rewarded by their Play: and in the close

you shall see Checque-Mate giuen to Vertues Foes:

But the fairst Jewell, that our hopes can deck,

is so to play our Game, t'auoid your Checque.

 

£32 prologue appears only in g, immediatelz following the Induction.

 

ACTUS PRIMUS

ScenaPrim

Enter (from the Black-house) g Wmnan-Pawne (in
E531?)& (from th___e_ White-house) a Wow-Pawne—
_White)—

B1. Q8. P. I neuer see that Face, but my pittie rises
When I behold so cleere a Master-Pesos
of heavens Art, wrought out of met, and Ashes,
and at next Thought, to give her lost eternally
5 in being not Oars, but the Daughter of Heresie:
nw Souls bleedes at mine eies.

Wh. Qs. P. Where should 'Iruth speaks,

if not in such a Sorrow? Theds are Teares, plainely:
beshrew me if Sme weepe not hartely:

10 What is my Peace to her, to take such paines in'tl
If I wander to lease, and with broad Flies
yet rrdsse the path she can run blind-fold in
(through often exercise) wlv should my Ouen-sight
(though in the best Game, that ere Christian lost)

15 raise the least Spring of Pittie in her eie?
It's doubtles a great Charitie, and no Verme
could wyn me surer.

Bl. Q8. P. Blessed Things prevaile with't.
If ever Goodnes made a gratious promise
20 it is in yonder looke : What litle paines
would build a Fort for Vertue, to all Memorie
in that sweet Creature, were the Ground-work timer!

Wh. Q8. P. IthathbynallmGlorytobeFirme
in what I haue professd.

 

when: the white-Queen» Pawne, 8: the Black meshes-Pawns. : L;
The white-queenes, & the Black-queenes Pawnee. Then the Black
Bishop's Pawns: Then the whi: Bishop's Pawns, & the B1. Knights
Pawns, Then the Black-laxight. Then the wh. King's Pawne.: M.
1.115'1‘6: A' pitty: A‘ Pittie: Lo 2. mater-'PGGCB: Mo 3.
Resume: L. 1:. And: II; thought: _A_. 6. bleeds: M. 7. A con-
sistentlz uses th___e_ speech ESQ-EB. wh. P. and B1. P. , What shah-Id
th: M. 3. they're: A. 9. be-shrow:L II omits this line.
hartelie: L. 10. peace: A. 11. M omits tchu yf: _I_,
eies: L. “12. Path: L; She: A; 13. -whie: L; Over-sight: A.
16. Wis: g; charitie? A; _i_._n_ f§§_____ curve ) fo__3:1___mrs. 18. things:
A. 20. Locke: A. 21. Build: M. 22. sweets: “A; Filmer: A.
'23. has: A; glorfv': A; Gloria: £1.— '-

I, 30.1 6

25 Bl. QS.P . that is the Enemie
that steales your strength away, and fightes against you;
dis-Armss your Soule, even in the heats of Battaile:
your Firmenes that way, makes you more infirme
for the right Christian Conflict. ‘Ihere I spide
30 a zealous primative Sparcle but now flew
from your devoted Ede,
able to blow-vp all the Heresies
that ever sat in councell with your Spirit.

--Enter the Black Bps. Pawns.

 

And here comes He, whose Sanctimonious Breath

35 will make that Sparck a Flame: List to him (Virgin)
at whose First Ehtrance, Princes will fall prostrate.
Woemen are weaker Vessells.

Wh. Qs. P. By my Penitence
a comely Presentation, and the habit,
110 to Admiration reverend.

31. Q8. P. But the Hart (lady) so meeke,

that, as you see good Charitie pictur'd still
with yong-Ones in her Armes, so will he cherish
all his yong 'Ik'actable, sweet obedient Daughters

15 even in his Bosom: (in his owne deere Bosom)
I am myself a Secular Jesuits:
(as many ladies are of wealth, and Greatnes)
A Second sort, are Jesuites in Voto,
giving their Vow into the Father-generall

50 (that's the Black-Bishop of our House, whose Pawn
this Gentleman now stands for) to Receive
the Colledge-habit at his holy pleasure.

 

25. your Enemie: 13. 26. M omits 26,27, Strength: L. 27.
ev'n: A. 28. firmenes: M3 infirme: A- In-firme: L. 29. there:
A. 30. Primatiue: M. 31. eie: A M. 32. heresies: L. 33.
satt: A3 Councell: M7 St. (fir. omitted f__'.r_'___om M__3 St. dir.: T adds
a Jesuits. 31:. he: M3 sanctimomous: _A_. 35. Can: T3 flame:
L M 36. first: A3 Entraunce: A. 38. by: _A_, _L_3 penitence:
f. 39. Habit: A3 "Habitt: L. Ho. Admiracion: ‘A- reuerend:

A. hl. but: A felt the heart, the heart: T_3 th'é hart, the hart:
I: the hart: y} soe Meeke: L. 1.2. picturd: M. A3. ones. M.
Ii. tractable: A. ’45. ev' n: A; bosome: A; Bosom, Bosome: L.
h8. Sort: L. H9. in to: A. 51. receive: A. 52. Habit: A_3
holly: A; Pleasure: E. .-

 

I, 30.1 7

Wh. Qs. P. But how are those in Vctc emploid (lady)
'till they receive the Habit?

55 Bl. Q8. P. They're not idle:

He findes 'em all. true Labourers in the Work

of the Vniuersall Monarchie, which he,

and his Disciples principally ayme at.

Those are maintaind in many Courts, and Pallaces,
60 and are induc'd by noble Personages

into great Princes Services: and prove

some Counsellors of State, some Secretaries;

All serving in Notes of Intelligence

(as Parish Clerks their Mortuarie Bills)
65 to th' Father-generall: so are Designes

oft-times prevented : and important Secreats

of State discoverd: yet no Author found

but those suspected oft, that are most sound.

r[his bfisterie is too deepe yet for your Entrance,
70 and I offend to sett your Zeale so back:

checkd by Obedience, with desire to hasten

your Progresse to Perfection: I commit you

to the Great Workers hands; to whose Grave worth

I fit my Reverence, as to you my wishes.

75 Bl. BS. P. Doe you find her supple?
Bl. Qs. P. there's a litle passage:
"Mt.

B10 B80 Po Lat me contemplate:
with holy wonder season my Accesse,
and by degrees approach the Sanctuary
80 of vn-match'd Beutie, set in Grace, and Goodnes.
Amongst the Daughters of Men, I haue not found
a more Catholicall Aspect: That Eie
doth promise Single Life, and meeke Obedience:

 

53. M monits 53-683 Those: L. 51L. Habitt: A. 55. They are:

Idl. e: E. 56. find's: I. 57. th' vnqursall: A. 60.
fable: _L_.- 61. Seruices: I. 62. Councellors: A. 61;.
Clerks: A. 65. So: L. 69. deep: M3 Entraunce: A. 70.
zeale: A: 71. Checde: M. 72. progresse: A; comitt: A;
committ: L. 73. grave: A; Worth: L. 7h. fitt: A; Reuerence:
L3 reverence: M3 Wishes: M. 75. doe: A; Do'st finde: T3
finde: A; Her: _A. .AIl thre_____e_ MSS c_:m_i_t made after passage.
Ebdt: only___ in 1:1 an_.__d_._7 L. 77. Contemplate: M. 7.810mits
78-80. 79. Sanctuarie: L; 80. vn-matchd: L. 81-1. no: L3
Found: A. 82. catholicall: A; that: A; eie: A. 83. do's:
A3 single: A; Meeke: M.

I, Sc.l 8

Vpon those Lipps (the sweet fresh Buds of youth)
85 the holy Dew of Praire, lies like a Pearle

dropd from the opening Eie-lids of the Morne

vpon the bashful]. Rose: how beuteously

a gentle Fast, (not rigorously imposd)

would looke Vpon that Cheeke! and how delightfully
90 the curteous phisick of a Tender Pennance

(whose vtmost Crueltie should not exceed

the first Feare of a Bride) to beat down Frailetie

would work to sound Health, your long festerd Iudgement!

and make your Merit, (which through erring Ignorance
95 appeeres but spotted Righteousnes to me)

far cleerer then the Inocence of Infants!

Wh. Qs. P. To that good work I bowe: and will becom
Obedience humblest Daughter, since I find
th'assistance of a sacred Strength to ayd me:

100 The Labour is as easie to serve Vertue
the right way, (since 'tis She I ever seru'd
in my Desire, though I transgressd in Judgement).

B1. BS. P. that's easely Absolu'd amongst the rest:

You shall not find the Vertue that you serve now

105 a sharp, and Cruell Mistris: her Eare's open
to all your Supplications: you may boldly
and saffely let in the most secreat Sin
into her knowledge, Which (like vanishd Man)
never returnes into the world agen:

110 Fate locks not Vp more trulier.

Who Q3. P. to the mil-hie
that may appeere some Benefit.

Bl. Bs. P. who's so Inocent
that never stands in need on't, in some kinda!
115 yf every Thought were blab'd, that's so confesd
the very Aire we breathe would be vnblessd.

 

8h. vpon: A_3 buds. A. 85. dewe: A3 dew: M3 Praier: A. 86.
drop'd: A3 Jdropt: IA; Eyelids: A3 eye-lids: A. 87. Bashfull:

M_3 How: AI. 88. Gentle: A3 rigorouslie:A _. 89. cheeks: A.

90. Phisick: A3 Curteous: -A, M3 tender: A3 —Penance: M. 91.
crueltie: M3 exceede: A. ‘33:? Beat-downs: M3 beate: A3 Erailtie:
_A_. 93. health: M3 A has a capital letter similar to the modern
ca ital J f_p__r Iudgement. 9H.—(through Ehrring IgnoranceT-IA.
95,93: Parentheses in A. 95. Me: A. 97. to: A. 98.
obedience: A. 99. assistannce: A3 aid: IA. 100. the: A3 labour:
1.. 101. it's: L. 102. transgresd: M. 103. That's:1:I3
absolu'd: A. 1574. that: omitted i__n_ A _a_n__d AI. 103. Sharpe: A3
cruell: A.‘ 107. Let: A. ‘T‘E‘o . vanishd: “A? no 0: A. 109."
neuer: ML: 110. truelierr: A. 111. To: I_,I3 guiltie: M. 1.12.
benefit: A; Benefitt: ;. 13. Who's: A3 soe: A. 1117. kind: _M.

 

I, So. 1 9

Now, to the Work indeed, which is to Catch
her Inclination: that's the speciall vse
we make of all our practise, in all Kingdomes.

120 for, by disclosing their most secreat Frailties,
Things, which once ours, they must not hide from vs,
that's the first Article in the Creed we teach 'em,
finding to what point their Blood most enclines
know best to apt them then to our Designes.

125 Daughter, the sooner you dispeirse your Errors,
the sooner you make haste to your Recouerie:

You must part with 'em: to be nyce, or modest
toward this good Action, is to inwtate
the Bashfullnes of one conceales an Vlcer,

130 for the vncomely parts the Tumour vexes
till't be past Cure: Resolue you thus far (Lady)
the privatst ‘Ihought, that runs to hide it selfe
in the most secreat Corner of your hart now,
mst be of my Acquaintaunce, so fam'LDiarly,

135 Never She-frend of your Night Councell neerer.

Wh. Qs. P. I stand not much in feare of any Action
guilty of that Black-Time (Most Noble Holines)
I must confes, as in a sacred Temple
(throngd with an Auditorie) some come rather
1110 to feed on rmmaine Obiect, then to taste
of Angells Foode.
So in the Congregation of Quick Thoughtes
(which are more infinite then such Assemblies)
I camot (with Truthes saffetie) Speaks for all:
1115 Some haue byn Wanderers, some fond, some sin full:
But those found ever but poore Enterteinement,
they'had small Encouragement to come againe.
The Single Life which strongly I profes now
(heaven pardon me) I was about to part from.

150 B1. Bs. P. then you haue passd through Loue!

Wh. Q8. P. but left no Stains
in all my passage (Sir) no print of wrong
for the most chaste Maid, that may 'h'ace my foote-stepps.

115. if: A; If: M_3 blabd: M3 confessd: A3 Confesd: L. 116.
breath: A, IA; vn-bless'd: A3 vnblesd: I_-_I. 117. Worck: L.

118. Inclination has the modern canital A _1_._I_1_ A___ and I_,1- (that's
...I<'ingdomes): I_I_. 119. Practise: 1A3 kingdomes: A._, 120. A omits
120-12113 Fraileties: A. 121. Ours: A. 123. inalines: A.

125. You: M3 Dispeirse: A. 126. hast: A3 Recoverie: A. 127.

M omits fr___o_m_ to be nyce...to past Cure in 131° To: A31}.odest: A.
130. Parts: L. 131. farr: "‘L; Ladie: 3,. T5. thought: 1‘15 itselfe:
L3 it self: M. 13h. acquaintaunce: A3 Acquaintance: A13
famillierly: AI. 135. never: A3 She-Frend: A. 136. Feare: A.

137. Black-time: A; most: A3 noble: A. 138. Sacred: 113 Genres: 295'

 

Bl. Bs. P. how came you off so cleere?

155 Wh. Qs. P. I was dischargd
by an Inhumaine Accident: Which Modestie
forbids me to put any Language to.

Bl. Bs. P. how you forget your selfel All Actions

clad in their proper Language (though most sordid)
160 my Eare is bound by Dutie, to let in

and lock vp everlastingly: Shall I help you?

he was not found to answeare his Creation:

A Vestall Virgin in a slipp of Praire

could not deliuer Mans losse modestlier.
165 'twas the white-Bishop's Pawne?

1%. Q3. Po the 58.1719 (BleSSd Sir).
Bl. 138. P. An heretique well pickelld.

I” . Q3. P. by base Treacherie
and Violence, prepard by his Competitor
170 (the Black-Knights Pawne) whom I shall ever hate for't.

Bl. Bs. P. 'twas (of Revenges) the Vnmanliest way
that ever Riuall tooke: a Villany
that (for your sake) I'll nere Absolue him of.

Wh. Qs. P. I wish it not so heavy.

175 B1. B3. P. he must feele it:
I neuer yet gave Absolution
to any Crime of that vn-Manning Nature:
It seemes then you refusd him for Defect!
therein you stand not pure from the Desire
180 that other Women haue in ends of Marriage.

 

139. Q__ in M _o_1_1__lz. 1110. Hnmaine: M. 1112. See: A3 congega-
tion: A3 quick: A. 111:. A omits $1.116. some: ‘A3 Some fond:
_I_,43 Some sin full: M. 1h6-b'ut: A3 “_Those: L. llfl. Come: AM;
no apostrophe: IA. 1138. the: A3 (which...now): A. 1119. Me:
A3Qlonfi.tteds__ in L. 150. You: M. 151. But: M3 staine: A3 Stayne:

A3 Chaste: M3 trace. A. 156. -inhumaine: A3
which: (”14.131589 yourself: A3 Your self: M. 160. Let: A.
161. shut-vp: A3 You: M. 163. a: A3 slip: A. 1611.].osse: A.
166. blessd: A3 Bessd: A. 167. a: -A3 Heritique: A (another-
word crossed out and this word written above _i__t in mafia-Tana);
hereticque: L3 pickled: A. 168. treacherie: A.—169. violence:
A3 Competitor:A11 t___hree "1_1_s___s. 170. A1;— omitted in A. 171.
Reuenges: A3 vrmanliest: A3 “Q omitte in A. 1—2'. Rivall: A3
Villanie: A. 173. neu'r: A3 absolue: A3 off: M. 17h. M Limits
1714-177. -l.76 never: A. 177. Vn-Maning: A. 179. there-‘- in:
A3 Therein: M. 180. that: A reads Which; Woemen: L.

 

pardon my Boldnes, if I sift your Goodnes
to the last Graine.

Wh. Qs. P. I reverence your paines (Sir.)
and must acknowledge, Custome to enioy
185 what other Women challenge, and possesse
more ruld me then Desire: for my Desires
dwell all in Ignorance, and I'll neuer wish
to know that fond way may redeeme 'em thence.

Bl. Bs. P. I neuer was so taken: Besett doubly

190 now with her Iudgement: what a strength it putts forth!
I bring work nearer to you: When you'haue seene
a Master-peece of Man, composd by heaven,
for a Great Princes favour, Kingdomes Loue
so exact, Envy could not find a Place

195 to stick a Blot, on Person or on Barrie.
haue you not found Ambition swell your wish then,
and Desire steers your Blood?

Wh. Q6. P. by Vertue never:
I'haue onely, in the Dignitie of the Creature,
200 adnfir'd the Makers Glorie.

Bl. BS. P. She's impregnable:

A second Seige must not fall-off so tamely:
She's one of those must be inform'd to know
a Daughter's Ditie (which some take vn-taught)

205 her Modestie brings her be hind hand much.
My old Meanes I rust fly to: (yes, 'tis it)
'please you pervse this small Tract of Obedience!
'twill help you foreward well.

Twih. Qs. P. (Sir) that's a Vertue
210 I'haue ever thought on with especiall Reuerence.

B1. B5. P. you will conceive by that, my Powre, your D1tie.

 

182. graine: A. 185. posses: IA. 186.1‘ulde:A_, robab
reads IIe3 (for: A, but no end parenthesis. 187. Ignoraunce:
gnorance: M has the J—Form capital; never: A. 188.
maie: A3 them: 7T. 189. M omits 189-2003 never: A3 soe: A3
besett: A3 doblv: A. 190. MAE—AT 191. to You: A. 193.
Princesse: A3 Iove7 A. 1911. soe: A3 Ehrvie: A3 place: A. 195.
blott: A. 196. Wish: A. 199. dignitie: A._, 200. admirde:
A; glory: A; 202. a: A; M omits 202-205. 203. informd: A.
2011.. Ibughters: A3 _Q________ omitted AA A. 206. my: A3 A2 omitted i__r_1_
A. 207. please: A3 33:13:11: 1:1.."508. forward: A. 209.
omitted in A3 vertue: A3 Virtue: A. 210. I haue: A3 Reverence:
A. 211. That: A13 powre: A3 Conceive: L E.

I, Sc.l 12

Wh. 08. P. the lmowledge wilbe pretions of both (Sir) --
Enter _tAg white Egg. Pawns.

Wh. BB. P. What makes yond Trouble:- of all Christian Waters

so neere that Blessed Spring? fit that I know

215 her Goodnes is the Rock from whence it issues
vnmoveable as Fete, 'twould more afflict me
then all my Saffrings for her: which, so long
as She holds constant to the House she comes of
the whitenes of the Cause, the Side, the Qualitie,

220 are Sacrifices to her Worth, and Vertue,
and (though conflnde) in my religious Ioies-
I'would Merrie her, and posses her.

Enter the; Black Knigh__ts Pawns.

Bl. BB. Po BahOId (13”)
the Two Inhmnaine insides: 'me Black-Knights Pawns,
22S and the white-Bishop's (the Guelder, and the Gnelded).

We Q80 Po there's W Eras-f, m 118.“.

Bl. Kts. P. What! in the Jesuites fingers? by this hand
I'll give my part new, for a Parrotts feather,
She neuer returnes Vertuous, 'tis inmossible:
230 I'll vndertake more Wagers wilbe laid
Vpon a Vsurers returns from Hell,
then vpon here, from him now: I'hane by'n guilty
of such base Memos, that nw verie Conscience
shakes at the Moxie of: and when I looks
235 to gather fruit, find nothing but the Ssuin-Tree:

 

212. ‘mezu HQ omitted in A: St. dir. Wh.:A M omits St. dir.
213. troub er: A7713. ”Blessed: A. 216. '17s: "'A_""""§17. Wm}: (:
eclosi arenthesis does note ear 1’_.__n L_3 H omits which...

I7 33%22. 51. :MA. 220535 zes: "A. Zmeligous:
22. would is s si_____Eg from all L_,ISS inclnd_1_.%_, T exceEt____ for

I. It a ent s nec ess for the m o the context3 mm:
71'. 2'23. behold: L3 *mHe: "'12 . mm nozT-the
mack: A3 Knightes-z' L. 2257 gelder: A- gel'ded: A, in A The: last
fivewordsaarenotincrane'shandwri £53 norareth- -e§13'l'os€3
5611227 e s gelder anYI gelded as 1n FAQ-Be ops: JI_ 1:.
There's:0 3greefe: A3 Gre1f:Mo T fies-the Black Pawn enter
here instead of ha__t_B 221 at which Oint tA andT ve he entrance.

KHz—e- eecE of“? 13113850 '8 wn in2 o-E-w d seem
e earEern- entrance more a o ria 63-...(111'1‘. _T_n Eat eitEer
fie-foe 25;. % ms End? 031- in A _ax-JH T. 228.

e note .
Parrots: 229. never: A3 vertuorns: A. 2 0. wagers-{E _Taid: M.
231. Rehfizne: L. 232. haue I byn: A ("1' also has the inversion)
haue: .13 guiltie: L. 233. mllLice: A 3meTE __3-V5ry: E: 23.
memory: A3 And: M.‘ 235. Fruit: A: Savin: 1..

I, So. 1 13

too frequent in Nuns Orchards: and there planted
by all Coniecture, to destroy fruit rather.
I wilbe resolu'd now: (Most noble Virgin)

Wh. Qs. P. Ignoble Villains: Dare that vnhallowed Tongue
2110 lay-hold vpon a Sound so gratious?
What's Noblenes to thee? or Virgin-Chastetie?
they'are out of thy Acquaintaunce: Talks of Violence
that shames Creation; Deeds would make Might blush:
that's Companie for Thee: ha'st thou the Impudence
215 to Court me, with a leaprouzie Vpon thee
able to infect the Walls of a great Building?

Bl. BS. P. Son of offence, forbeare: Goe, sett your evil].
before your Pies: a penitentiall Vesture
would better becom You: some Shirt of hairs.

250 Bl. Kts. P. And you a Three pound Smock, 'stead of an Alb,
an Epiceane Cassible: This holly Fellon
robbs saffe, and close: I feele a Sting, that's worsse too:
White Pawns! 'hast so much Charitie, to accept
a Reconcilementl Make thine owne Conditions:
255 for I begin to be extreemely burthend.

Wh. Bs. P. No Truth, or Peace of that Black-house protested
is to be trusted: But for hope of Qtfittance,
and warnd by Riffidence, I may Entrap him soonest.
I admit Conference.

260 B1. Kts. P. It is Noblenes
that makes Confusion cleave to all my Meritts.

B1. B8. P. That Treatise will instruct you fully.

-Ebceunt

 

Enter EA. Knight
Bl. Kt. Soe: Soc:

236. (and there...rather): M. 238. M {12.3 Ladv for Virgin; _Q omitted
in A. 239. M omts 239-2116. 21:0. hofi'i: A. "251. what's: "'""""'
A3 Thee: L3 Virgina: 15.22.52 they're: A,- cut: T reads not; Talk:

I3 violence: A. 2113. Deedes: L. 2146. t'infectg: neat: L.

217. Offence: "A: set: L3 Evill: "L. 218. eies: M3 Penitentiall:

L3 penetential'i‘: A. 21:9. will better: A. 250. three: A3

stead: A M Albe: A. 251. Epicoene: A; _Casible: A3 this: A3

holy: M3 T has Fefiow; all three Crane "nss have Fellon. 233.

ha'st: "A ,A. “-2511. make: A3 thine: T r__e_a___ds thy. 256. House: A.

257. but: A; Quitcaunce: A. 258. warn'd: L3 entrap: A.

259. admitt: L. 260. Only__ A and. T ha___v_e a Before Noblenes. 261.
Merritts: A3 262. that: St. dir.: the :Fnite fishog's Penn and the
Black Knight's Pawn exeunt'here M39 .3 __ _ ESL 153*“

 

the Busynes of the Vniuersall Monarchie
265 goes forward well now: The Great Colledge Pot,
that should be almaies boyling, with the Fuell
of all Intelligencies possible
through the Christian Kingdomes: Is this fellow
our Prime Incendiarie? and one of Those
270 that promisd the white-Kingdome seaven years since
to our Black-house? Put a New Daughter to him
the Great Work stands: he mndes nor Monar chie,
nor Hierarchie (Diviner Principallitie)
I haue bragd lesse,
275 but I'haue don more then all the Conclaue on 'em:
take their Assistant Fathers in all Parts,
I, and their Father-general]. in to boote:
And what I'haue don, I'haue don facetiously,
with pleasant Subtletie, and bewitching Courtship:
280 Abusd all my Beleevers with Delight,
They tooke a Comfort to be Cozond by Me:
To mam;r a Soule, I'haue let in Mortall Poyson,
whose Cheekes haue crackd with laughter to receive it:
I could so rowle my Pills in sugerd Sillables,
28S and straw such kindly Mirth ore all my Mischm'i‘es,
they tooke their Bay-he in way of Recreation,
as Pleasure steales Corruption into youth.
he Spies me now: I must vphold his Reuerence,
(especially in publique) though I know
290 Priapus (Guardian of the Cherry Gardens)
Bacchus, and Venus Chitt, are not more Vitious.

B1. B3. P. Blessings Accumulation keepe with you (Sir).

Bl. Kt. honors Dissimulation be your due (Sir).

less appropriately A line earlier. M his n__o_ stage direction3 1%.:
L.- 263. Knight: A. 2.671 The (1):}13 Vniversall: A. 2 .
Pott: A. 266. few-ell: M. 267. IntElligences: A3 Intelligencies:
all Crane MSS have the J—form capital. 268. is: A3 Fellow: A.
2622”"— prime: A3 Incendiarie: all 'C'rane MSS have the J-form
capital; and-J one: T omits the aha; 550%: A. 275. WEE : _I_.._3
yeare: M. 271. Our: L3 House: A3 put: A3_ new: A. 272.

great: A3 minds: M. 273. Divinir: A3 Deviner: L3 Principalitie:

M. 2711'. I'ue: T. 275. T omits I3 I haue: M3 U6nclave: A3

31' 'em: L. 276'.‘ 1A omits 27677, 7 3 (take: L But no end oi par nthe-
sis appears; partszA _. 277. yea: only_ L-u-T and A have I3 T has

or instead" of and; Boote: L. 278. what "1 Kane ""dS‘nThaidon: A3
What I Kine—l. don, I haue don: M. 279. BeWitching: II. 280.
Beleeuers: L. 281. they: A3 comfort: A3 cozend: A3 me: M.

282. I haue-:- A,_M31ett: A3 mortall: A3 poyson: M. 283. crackt: A3
Crackd: L_3 nghter- . " 2.313.. en '1rd3 A3 sugerd: 1A. 285. Mi 3-
cheEi’f' cs: —’_I_1_. 236. They: A3 Baine: A. 287. youth: A.

 

 

I, Sc.l IS

Wh. Q3. P. how deepe in D1tie his Observance plundgest
295 his Charge must needes be reverend.

Bl. Bs. P. I am Confessor
to this Black-Knight too: You see Devotion's fruithll.
Sh'ath many Sons, and Daughters.

Bl. Kt. I doe this the more
300 t'amaze our Aduersaries, to behold
the Reverence we give theis Guytinens,
and to beget a sound opinion
of Holines in them, and Zeale in Vs,
as also to Invite the like Obedience
305 in other Pusills, by our Meeke example.
Soe: is your Triffle vanishd?

B1. B8. P. ‘Itmlffle call You her? 'tis a good Pawns (Sir)
sure, She's the Second Pawne in the white-house,
and to the opening of the Gene, I hold her.

310/1 Bl. Kt. I: you hold well for that: I know your Play
of old
yf there were more Queenes Pawnee, you'ld ply your We
a great deale harder: (Now Sir, we'are in privat)
But what for the thine-Work? the Great Existence?
315 the hope Monarchall?

Bl. BS. P. It goes on in this.
Bl. Kt. In this? I cannot see't.
El. 83. P. you may deny see

a Diall's Motion, 'cause you cannot see
320 the hand move: or a Wind, that rends the Cedar.

 

288. Reverence: A. 289. publick: g; privat: II; _(_)_ omitted in
A. 290. This line omitted _i__n L ,M. 291. is: _A. 595. Eeepe:
AT reads be, ondtt‘mf‘ 1n 593251 omitted in A_; Honors. L-
honours: A; smonz’ M. 291:. deuTep: I- du-t'ie: A;
observance: M; Observaunce: A. 295. needs: L1. 297. you: L3
Deuotion's: L. 298. Sh'as: A. 301. Ralerence: M; Guietinens:
A. 303. hoflynes:A°1hem:I° zeale: Ao vs: A. "3oh.As : M;
Tnvyte: L; Obedience: 5. 3ngV meeke: K: 303. Is: M. 307.
you: L; It's: L. 308. Sure: M; she's (If; second: _A_; House: L.
31.1. Your: 11. 312. you'll‘d: —A; the Game: A T; ply: all three
MSS. 313.- now: A: wee' re: A; we are: H. 313'. Hope: I_1.

'3‘13'. This: _I_._. 3 7. Ms: L'." 319. Dials: 51;. 320. Bends: I_-_I_.

I, Sc. 1 16

B1. Kt. Where stops the Current of Intelligence?
Your Father-generall, Bishop of the Black-house
Complaines for Want of work.

B1. B3. P. heere's from all Parts
325 sufficient to employ him: I reoeiu'd
a Packett from th'Assistant Fathers lately:
Looke: there's Anglica: this Galica.
Bl. Kt. I marry Sir: there's some quick flesh in this.
B1. B3. P. Germanica.
330 B1. Kt. I thinck they'haue seald this with Butter.
Bl. BS. P. This Iwcao
Bl. Kt. they'haue put their Pens the hebrew way (me-thincks) ,
B1. B5. P. Hispanics. here.
Bl. Kt. Hispanical blind work 'tis.
335 The Jesuits hath writt this with Iuyee of Lenmans sure,
It must be held close to the fire of Rirgatorie

ere it can be read.

B1. B3. P. you will not loose your last (Knight)
though it wound your owne Name.

Enter the white Kig's Pawne.

 

3&0 B1 0 Kt . eranda Pemnia 0

B1. 33. P. Take heed (fir) we'are Entrap'd: the white-King's Pavmel

 

321. stepps: _L_; Intelligence: All Crane IISS have the J-form capital.
322. your: L; Generall: A; (Bishop...house): L; o'th': A; House: A.
323. want: A. 3211. heer' s: M; parts: A. 325. receiud: M.

326. Packet“? M; fathers: M. ‘327. Looke you: A3 GaJJica: A.
328.1nary :A II; Sir): II; ther's: A. 330. 'thinck: A; they' ue: A;
they haue: 3’3", seal'd: A. 331. Italica: A an; _L have 3313 J-form—

ca ital; Italica this}: '_I‘_. 332. they'ue: A; They put: T; They
53119: H; omitted i__r_1_ A; P'ees: A; Hebrew: A; Methincks: M.

33h. BIin: mo. - "A." 335. th'é: A; Jesuit: M; has: T; Writt: A;
Writ: M. 336.1t: A. 337. ere't: A. 338. Iest: H has the J-form
g_________ap1taI. 339. though't: A; wounded: A T; Fame instea Tof'fiam 31‘;
name: A, St. dir.: the ond't'ted in A; no St. din-_T_ in .3131. take: A;
wee're: A; we are: AI; em A; Entrapd'? I_I_; The—II”

I, Sc. 1 1?

Bl. Kt. he's made our owne (Man) half in Voto yours,
his hart's in the Black-house: Leave him to Me.
Most of all Fronds endeer'd, pretiously speciaJl.

315 Mh. Ks. P. you see my Out-side, but you know my hart (Knight)
great difference in the Colour: There's some Intelligence;
and, as more ripens, so your knowledge still
shall prove the richer: There shall nothing happen
(beleeve it) to extenuat your Cause,

350 or to oppresse her frends, but I will strive
to Crosse it with my Councell, Pursse and Powre.
keepe all Supplies back, both in Meanes and Men
that may raise Strength against you: we must part;

I Dare not longer of this ‘Iheame Discusse,

355 the Eare of State is quick and iealious.

--}3bcit

 

Bl. Kt. mcellent Estimation, thou art valued
aboue the Fleete of Gold, (that came short home)
Poore Jesuits-ridden Soule, how art thou fool'd
out of thy faith: from thy Allegeance drawnel
which waie soe-ere thou tak'st, ‘I'hou'art a Lost Pawne.

“Exit

 

31:2. man: A. 3&3. His. M3 hart's: A; hart is: M3 leave: L.
3AA. frend's': L3 Endeer'd: "M__3 spetialI: T and ( rBhah ) L."‘ 31:6.
'great: L; Difference: A; Ther's: A; Intelligence 3 and II
have the J-fom capital; Intelligences: L. 3117. KnowIedge “WI
353. Richer: LI- A omits 3138-353. 3119. b'eleeue: A; Eb:tem1at:1_§.
350. Oppresse: H; Frends: L. 351. and: M reads or. 352.
Keep: M. 353.3133: M, 331:. dare: L. 753755. _dAr_.o orgy in
L. 336. Thou: _L_3 Valued: L. 357. -3%‘WEIT omitted in T3 Came: M:
358. poore: A; ar't: L3 fooId: M. 3171' and A r'é'ad
Path for waie; way: AI; so: A; Thou tak'st: AI; taEst: r—th'ou “IR-:3

A; lost: L.

 

 

II, 33.1 18

ACTUS SECUNDUS

 

Wh. QB. P. And here agen: It is the mughters Dutis
to obaie her Confessors Command in all things
without Exception or Expostwflaticn.

It's the most generall Elle that are I read of;
5 Yet, when I thinck how boundlss Vertue is,

600de and Grace, 'tis gently reconcilds

And then it appssres well, to haue the powre

of the mapsnsour as vncirc'umscribd.

filter 2'}... as... Pawns.

Bl. R. P. file's hard vpon't: 'twas the most modest key
10 that I could vse to cpsn nor Intents:
What litle or no paines goes to some Peepls!
bah! what haue we here? a scald Note! whence this?
To the Black Bishop's Pawns, theis: How! to Me?
Strange: Who Subscribes it? the Elack King! what would he?
15 Pawns (sufficiently holie, but un-msasurably
Politiqus) We had late Intelligence from our
most industrious Seruant (famous in all Parts of
Enrops) 01.]? Knight of the Black-house, That you
haue at this instant, in Chaos, the
white Queenes Pawns: and usrie likelie
20 (by the Carriage of your Game) to sntrap,

 

_S__t. dir. . Scene. prima filter the white-Queenss-Pawne (reading) 8:

to her, the Black Bishop's Pawne.: L; Scena prima The white-Queenes

Pawns (reading) The Black 33. Pawns; Then the Black Queenes-Paims.

Then the Black Bishop, 8: Black Knight.:M. 1. mughtsr's: A; dutis:

L. 2. obey: A Obay: M- Gonfsssor's: A; Things: M. 3. exception:

I exposmlatiem A. II: 'Tis: A T- I E’re: A. 32'yet: _I_..

K: it' s: L; reconsilds: A. 7. A; Powre: M. 8. Dispenser: A;

moireums'e'rihtde: Air vnci'rcumscrib'd:_M. St. 35.3.: ggy_ in A3 seé"

note on L Lnd Mrs the St. dir. _§_t the b of"- Act

9. M‘- omitsfi 9-2 . 15. fitmts: J__-_-_____f'5'r'm"- ca 151111 .A—é'nf-

what Wave ere?; ssal'd: A; 'whsncs:A I3. m‘l'fisis: A. 311'.

who: A; subscribes: A; no Crane MS includes T's the letter which

a ears centered after IE. IE. un-measurabfid A- aneasurab'éft's:

f the letter is written in a different __ha_n_,d apparently. See
troduction; I: omitted in L:; politique: A; theTIins arrangement

is not consistent in the I738. 16. Both Eon TEE-sees in 133° $___ the

310% arenthssis ‘31s}? in "A. 18. Hon cuss: mass:
0. Wham 1;;- D_______ omitted in A.-

 

II, &0 l 19

25

30

35

1:5

50

and Take her: Theis are therefore to require
you, by the hinting affection I bears to the Rape
of Donation, that speedelie (upon the Surprisall
of her) by all watchful]. Adnantage, you mks ems
attanpt upon the white-Queues Person,
whose Fall or Prostitution, our last nest violentlie
rages rue

(Sir) after nw Desire hath tooloe a 111an

for it's owns Inflamtion, (that yet soortchss Me)

I shall have cooler time to thinck of yours.

fla'ath past the gmerall Rule, the large Extent

of our Prescription for Obedience,

and yet, with what Alacritie of Souls

her as notes on the letters!

Wh. Q8. P. (holy Sir)
too long I'haue missd you: oh, your Absence starres Me;
hasten, for Times redemption (verthie Sir)
leyyour Commands as thick, andfast vponMe
asyoucanspsake 'em: howIthirsttoheare '93:!
Set ms to Work vpon this spatious Vertue, 3
which the poore Span of life's too narrow for,
Boundles (bedience, 3
the Inmblest, yet the mightiest of all Ihties,
sell hears set-dome a Vniuersall Goodnes.

Bl. Bs. P. By holynes of Garment, her saffe Inocence
hath frightsd the full Meaning from itself:
fixe's farther off from Vnderstanding now
thelanguageefann‘tentthenatfirstheting.

Wh. Q8. P. for Vertue-sake (good Sir) Ommnaund me something:
Make trial]. of 1V mtie in some small Service,
and, asyoufindthsfaithofwwediencethere,
than trust it with a greater.

Bl. Be. P. you speaks sweetsly:
Idoecomundyoufirstthen,

 

21. Take: A. 22. burning: A. 23. That: _L_; surprisall: A- A '
omitted in A. 213. aduantage: A. 25. Attanpt: A. 26. 12193

H
L.
E3

. (here): L; sstt-downeTA;

oemIe3A. 27.313333311375333:on 13.333351331133335 28. Q

__3
omitted _i_n_A; It's: A: as: F15. .7500 er: 1.; thinekd: L- no (.

's: I and A; : A; Large: M. 31. Prescri ons: A;

ETA 3.1.30 has tum}; form. '52. macri'tie: L. 33. eie: L.

7.6137333 in A M."'§s. me: A; I haue: A.‘ 36. Redemption: A;
L SE BET t'é'd .12 A. 37. M omits 37.-1:7. ho. liffe's:

bid; Who-(a est-59W h2.Mightisst:A.
Whihamr. 1:6.

vnderstandin-g': A. ’47. m'Intent: A. h3."Verms's: A. - 119.
make: A. 50. fiediance: l"... 53. Command: 1!.

II, Sc. 1 20

“1. Q8. P. With that lay
55 I doe prepare my mus:

mOBBOP. “mm,
mdsealeausseoflouevponwlipp.

Uh. QB. P. bah?

Bl. Be. P. Atfirst meobedient?insolitle too!
60 howshallItrustyounithagreaterthen?
luchnsyourolnersquestl

Wh. Q8. P. 'pray send not back

line Inocence to round me: Be more Gurteous:
I met confes, mch like an Ignorant Wf, who

55 presumingonthefairepathofhisMeanmg
goes rashly on, till on a sodaine, brcmght
into the wildernss of law, byWords
ch'opd vnaduissdly, hurts his good (hose,
and fives his Aduersarie Advantadge by't :

70 Apply it you can best: (8dr) if my (bedience
and your Cumund can find no better way,
fond Hen Osmond, and Wanton: best obey.

Bl. Be. P. yeranat thetdlstance sendyouaBlessing,

is itnotnesrsrtoyouinnineArnes?

75 It flies from theds mppa, dealt abroad in parcells,
and I (to honour 'mse aboue all mughters)
Invyte thee home to th' House: where thou mist surfeyt
on that uhich others miserably pine for,
a Fauour which the lhughters of Mat Potentates

80 would looks of hmiee Colour but to hears.

"11. Q8. P. Good-nenmyerresanetines: youaremstaloensure:

yf this be Vertues Path, 'tis a nest strange one,
I neuer cans this way before.

Bl. Be. P. that's your Ignorance:

 

560 1'0: Ho 57. 1079);.” A' 11p: He 59. at: L. diBOdeiOflt:

In: H. .63. sz :M Me: A; be:A AfflJ—S hem in“?

to include 3.. in 5”” o. 311. ignorant: 1’ W33 A. .

ream 37'. dsrnes: A; wordes: _. 68. drop'd: A;

mdvissdl'y: A; L reads one for good. -69. advantage: A. 70.
:L- 13314133th 3 A.“72. men: A.L 73. M aunt's" 73-81.

76. than: emitted in '1. 77. T1166: house Coll

A. 79. Az-{A'Q' 30. E res-Es- on for of; Iles: A- our:

I. 81. 33533301333 A.‘ 122-1313 @315; path: At 83. never:

_I; Game: A. 81:. I'Enoraunce: A: Ignorance: A has the J-f___g__rn

M.

11, So. 1 21

85 and therefore shall that Idiot still conduct You?
that knowes no sale but one, nor ever seekes it?
yf there be twentis Weiss to some peers Village,
'tis strange that Vertue should be put to one:
your Feare is wondrous faultie; Cast it from you:

90 'tnill gather els, in time, a Disobedience
too stubborne for my Pardon.

“he Q30 P. we I 1.0de melt

at mauarss, into Sins Servituds
with more desire of Geodnes? Is this the Tap

95 of all strict Order? and the holiest
of all Societies? the Three-void People
for Pouertie, (beaches, Chaststie?
the last the most forgot? when a Virgin's ruin'd
I see the great Work of (beauence

100 is better than half finishd.

Bl. Bs. P. What a stranger
are you to Thine me! what Distance keeps you!
hot I bid you come forward to a happines
your self should sue for? 'tuas neuer so with me:
105 I dare not let this Stubbornenes be knoune
'tuould bring such feirce hate on You: yet presume not
to males that Ourteous Gare a pfiviledge
for Will full Disobedience, it turnes then
into the Blacknes of a Curses open you,
110 Gene: Gene: be nearer:

uh. Qs. P. Nearer!

Bl. Bs. P. Was that Some?
I would not bane it prove see, for the hopes
of the Grand Monarchie: yf it were like it,
115 Letit netdaretostirr abroad agen,
a stronger III, will Geape with't.

Wh. Q8. P. 'blesse no: 'threatens me;

 

85. u end.__t_s 85-883 Conduct: L. 86. way: A. 87. sales: A.

89. Your: _E; fears: L; cast :‘L. 92. lock? d: L. 93. vnaFI'ares: IA;
servitude: A. 91:. H emits fi'em is this to in'é'lnde nest forget

in l. 98. ”'95. smztm'oITIoot3 A. FéTTF‘oo-mtm A.
97.-ob'e'&i.enoe:l.. 98.thn:L;ruyn3e:A ruynd:M. 99.-
Great: Ho verb-M. loo. finis'h'd:L. 1. what: '13..“ omits

to 1. 113.102. Distaunce: A. 105.3181". ushfilcme: A. O—W.
H3: A.—-lo7. cartoons: A. 108. nill:A.

112. was: A. 113. oo3“_L_. 11A. 113 A'." 115. stirre:A "'stir:
H. 116. soaps: A. 117. Blesse: A; Hesse no: omd.__}___ted AI;
R re___a_.__ds he threatens Me.

Egg:

II, Sc. 1 22

and quight dismiss the good strength that should help me:
I neuer was so doubtfnll of my Saffetie.

120 31. Be. P. 'twns but my Ieleusis: forgive me (Sweetnes)
YondistheHouseefMeekenes, andneVenomlives
vnder that Reoffe: Be neerer: why so fears full?
Nearer the Altar, the more saffe, and sacred.

Wh.Q9. P. butneerertetheaffrereftmreflicked.

125 In. Do. P. a plains, and nest insufferable Centanpt:
Hy Glory I haue lest 7pm this Woman
infreelyeffring that she shouldhanekneeld
a years in veins for: My Respect is Ihrcken'd
Give me n Reuerence againe: thou ha'st robd no of

130 in thy Bepullse: Thou shalt not Garry't hence.

"be QB. P0 (are)

31.38. P. ThouartteegreataWynnertedepal-t,
andIteodeepealoossrte glvewayte't.

Wh. Qs. P. eh heaven:

3.35 31. Bs. P. lay no downs Reputation

before than. stirst: Thy Nice Virgimtie

is recompense tee litle for my Loue,

'tis well if I accept of that for both:

{my losse is but thins owns: there's Art to help thee:
11:0 and Feeles to passe thee to: In nw Discousrie

the whole Sociefie suffers : and in that

the hope of Absolute Monarchie ecclipsd.

Assurance thou sanst make none for thy Secresie

but by thy Honours losse: that Act must Ase thee:

1145 “h. Qs. P. oh my distressd Conditieni
Bl. Be. P. de'st thou weeps?

if thou hadst any Pittie, this Necessitie
wouldwrlng it than Thee: I met els destroy thee:

 

118. «times: M omits llB-th. 119.A never: A. 120.
Iealousie: A. 12W 2. be:A whie3" A fearefull:
A. 123. mu: m&: ”12);... “Ck“: 50 fig. A3312} 1260
W: A. 127.knee 'd: L. 128. my: -A; M omits from :17 Respect
to 137.: darkend: A. 129. Rsverence: A; -hast: A, 5?f:A.
B'o.1lsse3 A} then: A. 131. Q omitted in A. 132.
thou'rt: A; tamed-3 A; not}: A and L mflt‘ro arte'r" depart,”
found in 1'. 133.A reaai'groa TL'ErTé'pe 3136333 A. 133.
13y: M: "136. stirrst: L; thy nice: A. 137. A reads thy for
“1.39. M emits 139-1138. 1133. Segrecie: A.” 111?: L est;
by, y_u_t it Mfig‘figy honors: A; awe? A. new

11, Se. 1 23
Hamstnottrustthe PoJJicieofEhrope
150 mm a News Tongue.

1411. Q8. P. thentalnemylife (Sir)
andleaveflnehonourfornweuidetoheaven.

Bl. Be. P. takeheedltaksnotboth, WhichIhanevowd,
sinceiflongerthouresistne.

155 Uh. Q8. P. help: oh help:
Bl.Bs.P. artthousocruell,foranfionorsBubble
t'vndooe a Whole Fratendtie? and dispeirse
the Secreats utmost Princes, lockdinvs?
Rh. QB. P. for heaven, and Vei'tues sake.
160 Bl. 38. P. mot force confound Noyce?

«Noise within

 

rah! what's that? Silence if fairs worth be in than.
Rh. QB. P. I'll venture my Escape, won all Ihngers now.

31.36. P. Whoconestofakene? Ietnesee thatPaIneaface,
orhis prowd Tinpanousflaster (swelldwith Statewind)
165 which being once prickd i'th'Comocation-house,
the Corrupt Aire puffs out, and he falls shrivelld.

Wh. QB. P. I rill discover Thee (Areh-Mpocrite)
to all the kindred! of the Earth.

—Mt
31. Ba. P. Confusion

170 in that Voice rings th'Allarm of ly Vndooing
host which way scapd she from He?

 

then, but it a earsin T and A. 11:7. 31’: A,- pittie:A.
1’48. 15531.5'11‘3353‘ HT 15 SO. Insane: A,- tongue:
A. 151. IEen:M _3 (Sir): omitt’eain M. 152. n'i’3 A3 Honour:
Guid: A, 14-; heauen: L. which: A; Vowd: H.
.ainoe3" emitted in H- me: omittea’ in M_, longer: M. “155.
helpe: A; Mp: o—help: E; __I __t file line 993% Effie
mrection: a noise within. L and M insert the entrance at
: A; M units 156-159 Honor's:m1'e'? I: 15753311313:
Dispense:- “813317-337; obscure in I: 158. '1' reads nations
for Princes. '160. Must: M 533m 3? H Noise:I noice: M,
3?.- dir.: see not__e_ on afloam L. 61. M mt; this line.
162. I nenture: A; dangers: A. 133. who:A-E'7ne1: _31 _M om‘ts
163-166 take: A. 1613. Q omitted _i_n_ A. 7. 3.4. ME

11, Se. 1 f 2h
Enter Eh: AA. .93. Pawns.

B10 Q30 Po Are you mad?
Can Inst infatuat a Man so hopefull?
No Patience in your Blood? The Dogstar raignes sure:
17S lime and faire Temper would haue wrought her pleasant.
I Spide a Pawne o'th'white-house walk neere vs
and made that Noice on purpose to give warring
(for mine owns Turns; Which end in all I work for.)

B1. B8. P. Methincks I stand over a Powder Vault,
180 and the Match now a-kindling: What's to be don?

Bl. Q8. P. Ask the Black Bishop's Councell: y'ar his Pawns,
it's his owne Case, he will defend you maynly:

__Ehter 16.123.21- 1.323 gins;- _a_Kni t.
and (happely) here he comes: with the Black Knight too.

Bl. B. oh: you 'haue made noble Work for the white-house yonder:
185 this Act will fill the Aduersaries mouth
and blow the Intherans Cheekes, till they crack agen.

B1. Kt. This will advaunce the Great Monarchall Busynes
in all Parts well: and help the Agents forward:
What I in seaven yeeres labourd to accomplish
190 one Mymtt setts back, by some Cod-peece Colledge still.

B1. 88. P. I dwell not (Sir) alone in this Default,
the Black-house yeilds me Partners.

B1. Bp. all more Cautulous:

Bl. Kt. Qui Cauted Caste that's my Pbtto ever:
195 I haue-Era with that Word over most Kingdomes
and Jayne saffe with most Nations: of a leaking Bottom,
I haue byn as often tossd on Venus Seas

 

And will discover; thee: A; Hipocrite: M. 168. earth: M; St.
fir. in M. 169. M omits 169-171. 170. voice: A.- 171.
scap'o: _; me: A; St. dir. 33 A: Her Black woman-Pawns.
172. are: A. I73. '"soéTAf‘ 17h. patience: A3 the: A3 M omits
this line. 175. T reads —plyant. 176. walks: A. I77.___ noyse:
I on purpose: A reads a purpose; Naming: M. 178. turne: A;
genitted in A; which: A. 179. M omits 179-18 3 Ins-thincks: A.
2 1tie Fmainely: A; St. dir. omitted in 1813. Oh: A-
y'haue: A; Noble: L; Wl'xi-tem.—18§. TEE :1; -Adver3aries: I:
186. A reads Hugomtes for Intherans; Cheeke: A; till't: A;
Crack: r187. this: A; M _g_mi____ts 187-190; great: A; Busines: A.
188. parts: A. 190. 05133 _A; mynutt: A; God-peeice: A. 192.
y'eildes:L. 193. M omits I 3-19, ° cautulous: A. 191;. Cautt,
Castt: probable readi§g__ in_ 195. word: A; Engdomes: A.

11, SC. 1 25
as trymr kosher Barcks : When sounder Vessells
haue lane at Anchour, that is kept the dare.

200 EL. Bp. She hath m mtnes then?

31. Be. P. none: none:

Bl. Kt. grosse: Witnesl
whenmt aHanofhis Societie
to meshed: with a Witnes?

205 Bl. Bp. I hens don't then:

Away: vpon the Wings of Speed: Take Post-horse,

(bet turbie leagues of earth behind thee sodainely.
Leave Letters (ante-dated) with our house.

ten daies at least from this.

210 El. Kt. Bishop, I taste thee:
good strong Episcopal]. Councell: hire a Bottle on't.
'twill serve thee an the Iorney.

how for 1w getting forth vii-spide?

215 Bl. Kt. there's (heck agen.
Bl. Qs. P. No: I'll help that.
Bl. Kt. well said (w Bouncing Jemitesse)!
El. QB. P. there lies a secreat Vault.
El. Kt. Away: mks hast than.
220 Bl. Bs. P. Run for nw Cabinet of IntelJigencies

 

196. wm311 lm3 A. 1970 t08t3 A. 198. Barks:
when: A. 2.1333333 A. 201. M omits tfiie line. 203. When:
11 man? A. 2013. Mis'éheife: A; "mm. "'2'05. H reads:

it thus then. 206. away: "A: Vpon: A; wings: A; m;
post-horse. - L. 207. Thirtieffi Leagues: _,Ee3-t'h3 A. 208.
Ante-dated: In House:A. 209': Ten: 3:. 1152110. M omits 210-212.
211. take: A- “’Bfitie3 A. "213. but: 5 Tam-)3 L- m
211:. Vn-spi e: 215'. There's: M. 216. me: Ila"; m
217. well: A; ferrite this line- in A Litle laces Bowncfing,
but Cranedrew-a I‘InetE-r‘fii t. *Eeword anabove 2L9

”name-3M

«eased-out ".93 a to bebounsing. 218. There: M.
5:9. fl omits—'_ this away: A. 220. run: CabynetE: A-
InteJflgenc‘fieTF 15753113333333.3353 Both L and_ _Le the J onlcapAtsl.

 

II, Sc. 1 26

for rears they search the house: good BishOp burns 'en rather.
I cannot stand to pick 'em new.

“mt .

B1. Bp. Be-gon:
the Ranger's all in you:

225 Bl. Kt. Let me see (Queenes Pawns)
how formJJy'hath packd-vp his Intelligenciesl
'hath laid 'em all in TmekIe-beds (methincks)
and (like Oourtpharbingers) he hath writ their Names
in (bank, vpon their (members: Anglica:

230 oh, this is the English-home: What Hates there tree?
Anglica: Most of theis are Bandy histles,
('time they were burnd indeed: whole Handles of 'em)
heere's from his mnghter Blanch, and lbughter Bridget
from their saffe Sanctuary in the White-Fliers.

23S iheis from two tender Sisters of compassion
in the BoweJls or Blamesburie.
Theisfromthe Wank-unsung
(a fire: a fire: good Jesuitesse: a fire)
What haue you there?

21:0 Bl. B. A Note (Sir) or State-Policie,
and one exceeding saffe one.

Bl. Kt. 'prsy let's see it
To sellawayallthe PowderinaKingdome,
to preuent blowing up (that's saffe: I'll hable it)

221. House: A- (Bishop): L. 222. Stage dir.: gnu.“ 223.
H Inondts 223 214 began: A. 221:.damgslJ s: A.
I" T223315?” A; In ‘t'elligenoes: A3 Intaui Again-its3A_‘5_§dd‘13

and M have the J- ounce. cagtal. 22. ha'szA
ITomjts 211.—2223 omittedinA. 228. Haihingers his. 33:
E; A_- writ: A El. 229. Chalk: A. 230.
Oh: H3 3513.: L_3 film 3 tr names: "A? tro: T. 231. land M omits
Rah: thishand, asinT. Ao'sntainsthe emclanatra'fiZnI—
the %%%132 but res—HE Mt for mm

M: Sanctufirie: L. 235. them: A; Two Tender: A._ 237. three
on: the Nunnene: A; Drury: A; In A without Temple-Bar is
crossed out and in fiery Lane -w:_'i:__ten _i__n another hand. 238. Only
sme in A is ca italized. '___-All other occurrences of:—
{gem .12. _‘I'Ah__ __MSS-E'amwf— e cur-f. omittea 1n' __omi ted
reads good Jesuitesse i_A addifiom g E. 239.. 14m' ‘7
inA butafteraplus_ si tfie Enemsw_ n . anotfier

whose hand has th_'3haracterlstlcs of Min eton's-
IIETMEE‘i: ""1102” . note: "“A,’-“_Q omi"tt"e"d '___in“ '_A"§'t"3'3‘3 te' Tiofi:cie_:_ A.A
2132. 's'eett: A A adds: Sir- T also has Sir. 2 3.a way. 3
awaie: L_3 kingdoms-1r.— 2AA. "éVénfi‘A; Blowing: Jblowifig-

 

 

 

 

 

II, Sc. 1 27

2’45 heere's a facetlcus Cbscruation now,
and suites w humour better: he writes here
some fires in England will count Adultcrie—
andthenscndtoRomeforaBulltortheirHusbands.

31. DP. haue they those shifts?

250 Bl. [to Oh, mwe's m Fall ”Cam
sweeter, and subtler. here (Hench) take this Papa's:
scortch In no soundly: burne has to trench-meet.
and put 'an in agen:.

Bl. B. why, what's your materie?

255 Bl. Kt. oh Sir, 'twill mock the We strangely
it ere the house he searchd: 'twas don in Venice
span the Jesuiticall Emulsse there:

When the Inquisitors came (all spectacled)
to pick out Sillables out of the Doong of Treason

260 (as Children pick out Cherry-stones) yet found none
but what they made thenselnes, with ends of Letters.
Doe, as I bid you Pawns.

-Mt

Bl. W. P. fears not: inall,
IloveRoguerytoorell, toletitfall.

-____mw 23.3 223 its. __Pam
265 has now! that Newes with you?
Bl. Its. P. the sting of Conscience
afflicts me soc, for that intmaine Violence

on the white Bishop's Pawns, it takes away
my Ioie, 1w Rest.

 

vp: A: able: A; Q mitted in A. 2&5. Ooservation: A. 21:6.
wrytes: I._; here: sic! 2E7. "Sofie: A; wives: A- men-M coedttz
y; Comfit: L. 258- husbands: A. #250. fulfil: _I_3_. £2.11
omits from Earns in this line to 262° Scortch nee 'em: T-

ch Iemu-me: A; 153333331331. _2 what's: A° misterie: A:
253. Sir): 1.3 Adversarie: A'.‘ 257. Jemtijfi-hpgllsfi;
2 .Inqui tors:BothAandLhavetheJ-formcai "'
omitted in A; SpecE'c'Iea'T “2'59? WW— W:+W_,ong.

E3 Doung— 111-, A A. 260. pick-out: A; Q omitted in A. 262. doe:
-_:(Pawne) E: 2614. loue: M; Roagucry: _;I PSguerie: M; Well:
A; St. dir.:" Ed}! the era exeunt here: the remainder of the
scene is ondt 3 Es of m enEr-A :52: ”IR
7m: A:— neweT: A. 2%53‘810138. 25?.
0y: A; rest: A.

 

ll, Sc. 1 28
270 Bl. Qs. P. this 'tis to make an Evenmh:
yea ends a sport on't then.
Bl. Kts. P. Cease Aggravation:
I come to be absolu'd for't: where's my Gontessor?
why do'st thou point to th' ground?
275 Bl. 08. P. 'canse he went that way:
[131. Kts. P. What's thaw]
Bl. Q8. P. Come: helps me with this Cabinet,
andaftethanesngdtheispapersthl-oughly
I'll tell thee a strange Story.

Bl. Kts. Po yf't be sad
280 'tis wellcan.

EL. Q3. P. 'tis not troubled with much Mirth (Sir).
“Elm.

II,Sc.2 Scena2" erJBism,A s .

Fat B. Paine.
Paw. I attend at your Great Holines Service.

Fat B. for Great I grant you: But for greatly holie,
there the Soils alters: fat Chthedrall Bodies

 

 

 

 

gmec is more in charac for the ck t's'Pait-n;
ceassez'A. 273'.- 155513371335“; essour: I. 275.
waie: A: The bracketed line is written on th__e_ _s___ame line as
the Black 03.7mm (737)1233 _ain it is Wok
thm to whom it is assi- ed._The rack-éta— verszto
from _T—i§-§o—'I.. 2'75. ELBB We, come: 2;
witth A3 1553.755 A. 277. Papers: A3 278. sto3ie3 A.
279. B1. B8. P.: A3 if't: A. 230. it's: L3'fie11con3 A. 281‘.
omitted in A. _,Sc. 2: Since A omits the Fat Bisth "from its
amaEIs Personae, the _i_‘_i___rst IO 8 li___n__es Memos are This
in A. St. dir. in M: Scene seconds: ”The mshop:
15:33:33 'Thei'the'Bl. Hp. 8: Bl. Knight. Then the uh. 8: Bl. 3011898
(sexually). 2. Your: L_3 great: A,- 1333133339.: L. 3. great: A
grant or graunt: L_3 greately: A.

II, Sc. 2 29

5 haue verie often but leans, litle Soules,
such like the Indie in the Iobsters head
a. great deals at Shell, and Gsrbish of all Colours;
But the pure part, that should take wings, and Mount,
isatlastgaspe;asifalhnshouldgape,

lo and from this huge Bulke, let forth a. Butterflye,
Like those big-bellied Hountaines, which the Poet
deliucrs, that are brought a-bed with Mme-flesh.
Are my Bookes printed (Pawns) no“ last Inuectiues
against the Black-house?

15 Pan. reach for Publication,
for I saw perfect Bookes this naming (Sir).

fat B. fetch no a few: which I will instantly
distribute 'mongst the white-house.

Paw. with all speed (Sir).
--Ezit

20 fat B. It's a most lordly life, to rails at ease:
Sit, cats, and feed vpon the fat of one Kingdoms,
and rails vpon an other with the Iuyce on't.

I bane writt this Books out of the strength and mrrow
ofsixandtlfirtie Dishes atameale
u- * a- a

30 (If all things I commend the white-house best

for plentie and varietie of Vicmalls:

When I was one of the Black-Side professd,

my Flesh fell half a Qibitt: 'time to turns
when mine owns Ribbs revolted: But (to say true)

35 I haue no Preferment yet, that's suitable
to the Greatnes of my Person and my Parts.

Igrant Ilive at ease, for Iammade
theMasteroftheBeds (thelongacreofBeds)
But there's no Mari-golds, that shutts, and opens:

 

5. have: L. 6. inch: mu. 7. great-dealelzl A121. 9. As: M.

10. Bulk: 3'h3 Butter-fly? 11. M omits 13. Three-
tines: Bo_t§ use have the J-rorm cafimj-‘E’ 'gainst: L_;
noose3L.—" EMMA. l7.fswe: M-Frcnnt__h;1_s 31333331393,
thee ital talFbecomsnfimsculeEEthJ-ayeechhea Hingeiglhg
FEE . adEE—Coe‘te, gen: 19. mottedAAM3 St.
3335.: fled-”213913.75 0. Tie: T_3 Iordly: figmeed: M.
23.1, L 03$ 23 2 . None of”, the Crane S contai 25- -22,
ham-fissurofirm‘ 17". W3 A. 38. Aaron A. 39. but: A3
Maria M.

 

II, Sc. 2 30

1:0 Flowre gentles: Venus-Bath: Apples of Ions,
Pinoks, Hyacinthes, Honey-suckles; Mfadownpdillies
There was a time I had more such Ih‘abs then Beds,
now I haue more Beds then Drabs.
Iet there's no eminent Trader, deales in hole-file
1&5 but flleandIhaue claptamrgainevp
'let in at Water-gate: for which I haue rackd
11w lbnnaunts Pursse-strings, they haue Wangd agen:
Yonder Black-knight (the Fistula of Ezrope)

noter p_1_. KnigAt 222 51.3 pp.

whose Disease once I mdertooke to Cure

50 with a high-holborne halter: When he last
vouchsaffd to peep into nw Priniledgd Iodmgs
he saw good store of Plato there, and rich Hangings,
he lmew I brought none to the white-house with me,
I haue not lost the vse of my Profession

55 since I hand white-house Bishop.

Enter Pawns with Bookes.

Bl. Kt. Looks: more Bookes yet:
yond yeazie Tame-Coats, Gurmndizing—Prelat
doth work our House more mischeif by his Scripts
(his fat, and fullsom Volunns)
60 then the mole Body of the Aduerse-Parfie.

Bl. B. oh, 'twere a Master-pesos of Serpent Subtletie
to fetch mm on this Side agen.

Bl. Kt. and then dampne him
into the Bag for ever: or expose him
65 against the Adncrse Part (which now he feedes vpon)
and that would doble Inmpne him: It Reuenge
hath prompted me already: I'll confound him
on both Sides, for the Phisick he prescribd

 

ho. Moire-gentle“ M. 131. M omits this line. 133. Due: _T.
we mgm.— 1‘7. E omits BE"), found _,.-_Jfgtgi Ste dire;

see note at the b o 3 scene. 0.
lLEIEE‘IEIITo'rnemmter3 E 31?. prifiedgEdkj ;’131. 3'2 . Rich-
hangings: H. 55. 123363313 M_; white-house-BIshop: M. _SA.____ dir.
omitted 5.3311. 57. Croatia: M; Coat: M; Gumndiz'i'ng 9_r Gunmndizing:
__t_—58.15073: T. 61. "twer: M. 62" Treads a; han‘é'reads
on. 63.nomts63tothenfidaegg6l? m3fiaas—ons:
66.Treadsao-u'5l:e_dax-n_.77.!resumeswith1'llwounthim.
68. on: Treads a; phisick: M_;— pres "5d: _T_ reads presided,
prescride—E'3

II, Sc. 2 31

and the base airgeon he provided for He:
70 I'll tell you what a most Vncatholique lest
he put vpon me once, When 1w Paine tortur'd me.
he told no he had found a present Cure for me
(which I grew prowd on, and obseru'd him seriously).
what thinck you Haves? Boning hecution his,
75 heshowdtheHangmntoHe,outatifi.ndowe
(the Cannon Hang-mu).

EL. Bo 1w: arable.

Bl. Kt. I'll make him the Balloon-Bell of the Churches,
and both the Sides shall tosse trim (he lookes like one:
80 a hing swelld-vp with mingled-11inch, and Wu
and will. bownd-well from one Side to an other.)
Dune: you shall wry-ts: Our Second Bishop absent,
which hath yet no Emloynent in the Game,
perhaps, nor ever shall: it may be won
85- without his Motion: It rests most in Cars.
he shalbe flatterd with Sede Vacante :
make him beleeve he comes into his Place,
and that will fetch him with a veng'ance to Vs.
for I know Powder is not more Ambitious
90 when the Match meetes it, then his Mind for Mounting,
as Oovetous, and Ioaoheroua.

miter 313 white-House §_3_ _thg Black-House (seu'fl)

Bl. B. no more now (Sir)
baththe Sides fill.

flh.K. mishathhynlookdforlong.

95 fat B. the stronger Sting it shootes into the Blood
on! the Elack-Adnersarie: I am ashand now
Iwas Theires over: Whatalnmpwas I
when I was lead in Ignorance, and Blindnesl
I met confes I haue all my lire-tins plaid
100 the Fbole till now.

Bl. Kt. and now he plaies two parts the Fools, and Rome.

 

69. provided: I reads imented. 71. torturd: 14; men He: g.

73. omitted _,Fb prowd-on: 5. 7h. day: g. 75. Hang-ma:

H ow: E 6. Coonnon-hang-nan: g. 77. f_1‘_ reads Oh Insufferablet;
ferable: L. 78. Baloon Ball: H. 79.1! cm lookea...

Shall write (82'). 82. second: H. "83. hatE:T"_ reads has;

Illployment: 1.. 8h. _15 omits gig-8 . 87. Make: Wears: 33

comes: H. 88. Vmgame‘z'lj vs: . 89. g omits Sgt-El. St.

dir.: ‘F'reads m both houses; I! omits but-BEE e_ e b

3395 of L5 scene §_l_._1_ mtrances 1:33ng order E

'.". o o 31» 93“.!
as 3° 32 . WW1; 97.

II, Sc. 2 32

fat B. more is n Reoantafion in the last leaffe,
Writ (libs a accretion) in pure lattyn.

Uh. B. pure honestie: the playner lattin serves then:

105 B1. Kt. Out on those pestilent Panphletts, those are they
thatwound our Gauss to the hart.

Enter _t_h_e_ white Queen's Pawns.
Bl. 3. here cause more Angora
Bl. Kt. but we some well prouided for this Stem.

Wh. Q. IsthisnyPawne? ShethatshouldmardourPerson?
110 or some pale figure or Detection
her Shape warping? Sorrow, and Affrightnent

hath provaild strangely with her.

Wh. Q8. P. King of Integritle,
Queens of the sane: And all the House Professors
1.15 e: noble candor, men-opted Instice,
and Truth of hart, through aw alone mscoverie
wy life, and honor wondrously presem'd
I bring into your knowledge, with my Mfr-ings,
fearet‘ull Affrightmente, and hart-killing Terrors,
120 the great Incendiary of Christendome,
the Absolutst Abuser of true Sanctitie
fairs Peace, and holy Order, can be found
in any part o'th'Vniversall Globe,

 

theires: M what: g. 98. When: 1!; leadd: L. 99. life tin:
u. 101. Parts: 14- 102. H omits E9. 166. 105. 3 reads
Plague or those pestil’est.... 2W .3 oa‘t'ted in n. 15?".
anger: L. 108. g omits this line; 2 Emu een's Pawn
enter at. this ain‘t—E. 9m 5 resumes—__with this .
W rrow and umghmht ss‘Twe ss‘lJI’V‘sur'fi'fiZ:
H. 1322—53.: 5, '_1', 113. IntegrifieTL-ES the‘T-Ifom tel.
111:. and: £3 House-Professors: g. 115'.- file: In 'Vncorrup :
L: Instice: g has the J-Iorm ca tel. 116. tru : 5: Discovery:
I.) Discovery: E7117. 55: _314 immupreseru'd): A. 119.
earfull: L mulling-Terrors: A. 120. Great: I}; recessions:
written in with the J-form cagtal. 121. absolntst: g3
mmg" .____n_gcontraotionshere;vmm-
8311: A.

Who, making meeke Devotion keeps the Dore,
Ids Iipps being full of holy Zeale at first,
would haue (matted a fowle Rape wpon Me.

125

Uh. Q. tub?

_Hh. K. A Rape! that's fowle indeed: the very sow
to our Bare fowler, then the Offence itself
130 to some Kings of the Earth.

We Q30 Po Sir: t0 proceed:
gladly I offerd life, to preserve Honour,
which would not be accepted without both,
the (heir oftds illAyme, being atnineHonour,
135 till heaven was pleasd (by some anookd for Accident)
toavemCouragetoredeenemself.

Wh. K. Hhmwefind Desperate SinsinillMens Comm“,

We place a Charitable Sorrow there.
But Custom, and their leaprous Inclination

1140 quitts we of wonder: for our Expectaflon
isansweardinthedrlives: Bittofindm,
(I, and a Master-pesos of Ihrolmes) shelterd
mder a Roabe of Sanctitie, is able
to draw all Wonder to that Monster onely,

1115 and leave Created Monsters vnadmird.
The Pride of him, that tooke first fall for Pride,
is to be Angeu-shap'd: and inwtate
the Forms from whence he fell: mt this Offendour
(far baser then Sins Master) fixd by Vow,

150 to holy Order (which is Angelle Method)
takes Pridetovse thatShapetobea Devill.
It greives no that my knowledge mat be teynted
with his infested Name:
oh rather with thy finger paint him out.

155 Wh. 0:. P. the Place which he should £111, is void (my lord)
his Guilt hath ceisd him: the Black-Bishop's Pawns,

 

121:. Hooks: L necks-Devotion: £5 keep: M. 125. holly: 3
holie: 1., 156. omitted: 53 as: _L_. I27. ghee this
line in Crane. 128. a: A. 129. cares: M: enoeTE.

To. Eng—“es: 51.3 earth: g. 131. H omits'i31-151. I32.
life: A; preserue: A- honour: A. 135. chm-m honor: £3
honour: A. 135. g omitted in; A; mlookdpfor: A. 136. aw
selfe: 1': 13?. en: _,I° Espra't': L: sins: g; 111: 5: mens:
A. 138'. charitable: _L_; we: A. 1131. answerd: 5. 11:2.
names: A. 1131:. wonder: £3 '15. created: A3 vnadmird:

A reads without any. 1’46. the pride: A. 1147': Angell shap'd:
L mate: A. 11:8. form: 5: 11:9. vow: _A_. 150. holly:
: 151. pride: 1:. 152. grives: _A_; tainted: _i__; taynted: I}.
153. I: infected; Infested: g. 155. ‘me: M. 156. has: 3:
Ceizd: g: The: E3 Black Bishops: g; (the BlaEk...Pawne): 1.;

11, So. 2 313

El. B. hah? mnel 1w Pawns? the Glory of his Order?
the prime, and president Zelot of the earth?
Inipudent Pawns: for thy sake, at this Mymtt
160 Modestis suffers: all that's vertuous blushes,
and '.l‘nithes-self (like the Sun, vexd with a Hist)
lookes redd with Anger.

Wh. B. be notyou drunckwith Rage too:

Bl. B. Sober Sinceritie, nor You 8. (hp
165 spied with Hipocresie:

Wh. Kt. you name there (BishOp)
butyour owns Christmas Bowls: your Mornings Draught
next your Episoopall hart, all the Twelue daies,
Which smack you cannot leave all the yeere following.

170-1 Bl. Kt. a shrewd Retort: h'as made our Bishop smell of
Earning-to.
would I stood farther off: Wer't no inpeachenent
to my honour, or the Game, would they'll'd play faster,
white-Knight: there is acknowledgd from our House,
175 A Reuerence to You: and a Respect
to that Lou'd Dike, stands next you: with the favour
of the white-Eng, and-th'aforenan'd Respected
I Combat with this Cause: yf with all speed
waste not one Sillable (anorhznate Pawns)
180 of what I speaks; thou do'st not plead Distraction
(a Plea which will but faintly take thee off neither
fran this Ieuiathan-ScandaJJ, that lies rowling
vpon the (hristall Waters of Devotion)
Or (what may quitt thee more, though enough: nothing)
185 fall downs and Foams: and by that pangue discover
the Voting-Spirit of Falsehood, strong within thee:
mks thyself reach for Perdition.
There's no Remoue in all the Game, to scape it:

 

I; A adds Sir after Pawns. 157. M6 omits 157-1773 mine: A.
58'.‘ m: A._I59. remit: A. WWW; s3 omi'tted
in A.165.-8P‘1c'd: A_; hipocresie: 6A. 166. Qomi tam
E7. Gilliam-Bowler, A. 168.h heart: A: Crane u writes
hart, but in this instEnoe he follows {M3 e e: A.
169. wEZh?‘ AW; 170—1773. 0 ts 3 A combi'fi'es

 

T's 170 171- into a 1e line.- 175. Wed in' _,I-
fierenoe: _A_; you: _A. 7.6 land: A. 177. white—Eng: A:
and the def-teams: 3,3. 178. combat: A- M omits from yf if:

. 195. 179. vnfortunate: A. 183. _A_ does not ea the enthesis
until nothing, 1. 181:. “181:. or: A _,.—quit: . e¥&- We:
' Pangus: A. 186. vexing: A_; sperit: A; falsehood:

I: 187. selfe: E. 188. there's: A.

II, Sc. 2 35

This Pawns, orthis, the Bishop, ornyself
190 willTaketheeintheend,playhowthoucamt.

"he Q‘s Po 'Bpight Of Sins glorious Ostentation,
and all lewd Tin-sates (those blunder-(racks of Pride)
ushring a Storm of Malice: house of Immdence,
Craft, and muiuocation, ny true (hose
195 shall beeps the Path it treades in.

Bl. Kt. I play thus then:
Now, inthehearingofthinhighAsseablie,
bring forth the Time of this Attempts Conception.

Uh. QB. P. Conception: oh, how tenderly you handle it.
200 Wh. B. It scenes (Black-Knight) you are afraid to touch it.

Bl. Kt. Well: It's Euption: Will she have it so than?
or you (white-Bishop) for her? no Vncleaner,
vile, and more impious, that you vrge the Strains to,
the greater will her Slams-heaps show in th'endg
205 and the wrongd Mesh-mus Glory: The Time (Pawns!)

Who Q30 Po ”8W” haplss We

B1. Kt. Oh the Treasure
ofaneuenge: Ieannotspendallon Thee:
Ruyne enough to spare for all tlv kindred too:
210 for Honors-sake, call in more Slaunderers,
I haue such plentifull Confusion
I knownot howtowaste it: I'llbe nobler yet,
and put her to her owns House: King of Meekenes,
Take the Cause to thee, for our band's too heavy,
215 Our Prooffes will fall Tpon her, like a Tours,
and grind her Bones to powder.

Wh. QB. P. Whatnewmgine
haththestillraisdinhinnow?

 

190. take: A. 191. Sill-8111:: A. 192. lininder-(h‘ackes: A
omitted 33: A3 193. was: A Impudence: Both A L
we the 3-f'o'rm ca tal. 19h. vocation: A. 155. path:

E m. H remes And play.... 197. ”away: .11.

I98. time 3‘A.—"I$.Tosits 199-205 3 Conception! 'Iord, how: A3
oh how: _T_. - 201. wall:mshe: 2 reads you; She: A;
too: A. 202. Or: A; to 3181105: A the: I- meleaner: A.
203. $00: A. 201:. i'th'end: A: 205;}wrongd- ks: A. 206.
Instead or‘haples, T and A read'mrsed. 207. treasure: _A_3
m 267.218. 2oB'Th'é’vnge: A3 thee: A. 209. mine: A;

I at? 50. 210. honor-sake: A. 212. nobeler: A. 211:.
m 215. “11‘ W98: A. - 21.7. mt: A. 213. has: 20

ll, Sc. 2 36

B1. Kt. Is it he?
220 andthatthetime28tandfimnowtoyour8candall:
'pray doe not shift your Slannder.

Who QB. Po Shift your WM“
they'haue worne one Suit too long.

225 so wrongfully accusd by this Lost Palms
hath not byn seene theis Ten daies, in theis Parts.
Wh. Kt. how?
B1. Kt. nay, at this instant, thirtie leagues from hence.
Wh. QB. P. faddomles falcehood: will it scape vnblasted?
230 Wh. K. Can you mks this appeere?

B1. Kt. Light is not clearer:
by his owns letters (most impartiall Monarch.)

Wh. mags P. how wrongfully may sacred Vertue suffer (Sir)!
Bl. Kt. (BishOp) we haue a Treasure of that false hart.
235 Wh. K. Step forth, and reach those Prooffes.
Wh. Q8. P. Amzement Covers no:
CanIbe soforsakenofa Cause
so strong in bath, and Equitie? Will Vertue
send me no Aide in this hard time of freindship?

21:0 Bl. Kt. there's an infallible Staff, and a Red hat
reseru'd for you.

 

220. line: A; Your: 1.. 221. A omits the a str be. 222.

Shift: A. 223. they'ue: A3 long: I. holly: A.

225. lost: L_3 lost-Pawns: I. 226. 'has: A, T3 ten: 5’1 227.

M omits this line- L was "this ejaculation-_ to the to Egg.
e: M- l.—

§2m . segues: LL. “2 9. es: —A3 '.Falzfiod:
A: line omitted’in 230. can: A. 231. Clearer: H.
32. 557: H. 233.”. omitted in A. 231:. Iewell for Treasure:

omitted in A Woe-hart: A. 235. fa'u'dts 23
:23}ng MagmA prooffes: A. 236. amasmeFtT-K 1%: A.
238'. will: A.” 239. 3J3”. 21:0._Ihere's: 313 infalli e: A3
Infalliblez-M 3A: Redzhat: M Hatt: A. 03.32% oudtted InA _3
reseru'd (A start that will not reaks: 01:de __tg

Knight's Pawn's gees eech.

II, Sc. 2 37

“1. no Po Oh Sir, endeer'd.

EL. Kt. A Staff
that will not easely breaks: you my trust to't;
21:5 (and such a one had your Corruption need of.
there's a State-Pig for you now.)

Wh. K. Behold all
howtheyCoheareinone: Ialwaies held
a Charitie so good to holynes professd,
250 that I ever beleeu'd rather
the Acousour false, then the Professour vitdous.

Bl. Kt. A (haritie like all your Vernies els,
gratious and glorious.

m. K. Where setles th'offenoe
255 Let the faultes punishment be deriv'd from thence:
we leave her to your Censure.

El. Kt. lost inst Hsiestiel

Wh. QI. P. Calnitie of Vertue: aw Queens leave me too?
An I cast off, as th'Olliff casts her Flowre?
260 poore frendles Inocence, art thou left a prey
to the Mowrer?

Wh. Kt. No: thou art not lost:
Let 'em put on their bloodiest Resolutions
yf the fairs Policie I ayme at, prospers:
265 thy Councell (Noble Dike)?

Wh. D. for that Work cheereful'ly.

 

21:2. 131 units this line or: A3 word: A. 21.3. A omits
2113-211- . . efigThis : on__tL'sd in M3 you may trust m
inn. 2 . n inL°forMsesnote
011.251 .256. fig: L_E'Thas Ifie doubliflzcatgl arm-Ere
Toads—fins arenthesis Jin'b'b'tfi find-m {glin TI.
WA. 258.11 oats Eon I—lwaies m 25__3_3this
in A ineIud_____e__s 33.1.13. I'ir's‘t'Your w__o____rds of 2132“, A rE'uirTs' to T__'_s
Ens-— 1tern at 2119. charitie: A hollynes: A3 professd:
5': %L8 Is the £___s_t word of 250. 0. Neither far; A 29.
fiat. 251—— accusour: _3I I reads-Profession Lor Frofessour.
252. a: A. 253. most grat'ious: A. 25h. where: 3 settles: TA:
Qtfenoez- L the offence: mgr. 235. F'aultss: A3 ts: M:
deriu'd: F6 256. We: '258. 13:33:13 Leaver 31133333
259. I as? A3 cast-off: "A- olliff: 260. tre'i’hdles: 33:2
Inocence: written with J-form cagtal in M3 Prey:M. 2 2.
noe:A A3 Thou: 11C 253. : surround this line _i_n_
22611. pollIcie:A. 265. 'L'ny: K: ous
'fi'Lestion mrk-exolanifion point. Nate- ommane an

(5ng

 

 

II,Sc.2 38

“he Kt. ‘ m for Speed We

Nh.Bs. P. Letitbeninshonour (Sir)
also no that Flight, that owes her 1w lifes Service.

"km.

 

270 Bl. Kt. was not this brought about well for our honour?
Bl. B. pish: that Gallician Brains can work out Wonders:

Bl. Kt. Let's vse her, as (vpon the like Discouerie)

a Maid was red at Venice; Everie one
be ready with a Penmnce: Begin Maiestie.

27S Vessel]. of Foolish Scandall, take thy freight,
had there byn in that Cabinet of Nicenes
half the Virginities of the Earth lockd vp,
and all swept at one cast, by the dexteritie
of a Jesuiticall Gamster, it had not valued

280 the least part of that general]. Worth thou hast teynted.

EL. K. first I enioyne thee to a Three-miss Fast for't.
Bl. Q. you are too pemrious (Sir) I'll make it fours.
Bl. B. I to a Twelue howres Kneeling at one time.

131. Kt. And in a Rooms 1?in all with Aretines Pictures,

285 more then the Moe-Tasha labours of Inmrie:
Ihou shalt not see so such as the mast Powell

of Increce Dagger peeping: Nay, I'll punish thee

 

tuation after the mthesis. 266. A reads most for work3
work: M. 237. mam-13 speed: A. 268. let: L_3 11w:A.""269.
liffes: L3 service: L. 270. M _ondts 270 2713 honors: T. 271.
Galisian-Skonce: A3 I and T read §once or'E3'aine3 wonders: A.
272. Discovery: A. ”273" at'3'"A'and M reid'in3 every: A3 Every":
H. 271:. Penna'uuce: A3 Psnance:T _3 Fem— A. 275. 14—61111“
275-2803 foolish:A Freight: A. 276. Chbynst: A3 ficenes: A.

. 3 279'. 't'had: A. 280. tainted: A. 281.
Thee: M3 three-daies fast: A3 “nu-so noise: M. 2'82. you're:

23%. twsluezA hither-hm: H3 kneeflng: A. 281:.

Iretines-Picturesfgt. 285. More:M- twice twelne: A. 286.
thou: A3 Chaste: L_3 _Ptmnell: A. 23%.Increce-1hggs'r': A3 Thee:
1A3 nay: 4A.

II, Sc. 2 39

for a mscouerer: I'll torment thy Modestie:

Bl. D. After that fours daies Fast, to th'Inquisifion-house,
290 strengthend with Bread, and Water, for worsse Pennance.

Bl. Kt. why, well said (Dike of our House) nobely aggravated.

Wh. Q8. P. Vertue (to show her Influence more strong)
fitts Me with Patience, mightier then 1w Wrong.

haunt.

 

inasmm

 

289.9.fter :_A_3 Feare: L fowre—daies fast: A3 Ihies: M (probable

reading)3 to the: A an 3: Inquisition house:L L3 ImuIsifion:
All three Crane MSS We 3.232....— J-form caEAtal. ‘290. strengthnsd:
Twater:r—- . 25'1- why is omitted in and M3 aggravated: A3

omitted'in A. 292. shows: _31: founifife'd" _i_g A. 293.
me:Ws Acms Secundd 92.11 Ag 2.

 

LOWS TERCIUS

Scmprim fittethgAFAABism.

fat 3. I know aw Pen drains Blood of the Black-house,
there's never a Books I uryte, but their (hues bleedes.
Ithathlostmanyanownceoflteputation
since I cane of this Side: I strike deepe in
5 and leave the Oriferx gushing where I cane
But where is my Advancement all this while?
I would haue some round Preforment, Corpulent mgmtie
that beares some breadth, and Oompasse in the guift on't.
I am persuaded that this Flesh would fill
10 the biggest (hair Ecclesiasticall
if it were put to triall.
Tobemade Masterofanflospitall
is but a kind of Diseasd Bed-rid honour.
or Deans of the poore Althea-Knights (that wears Badges)
15 there's but two lasie beggerly Preferneuts
in the white-Kingdom, and I haue got 'an both:
It Merit doth begin to be Crop-sick
for want of other Titles.

Bl. Re Oh, here was
20 his fullsoaae holynes : Now for the Master-Trick
t'vndoe-him overlastingly: that's put home
andnakelmnhanginhellmst seriously
that Iested with a halter vpon He.

fat B. the Black-ugh“ I met looks to raw Play than.

 

Actus Isrtius: A. A omits the first §_2_ lines of this scene.
films the role of the m3? Is absent-Faun 1 the sta
Eastion In"! ream c -W@. 33 M: Es
m: 15611556 Bl. Kt. flan his Paine.-_hen 63 white,
83 Black-Houses (seuerally). 1. Black house: _L_. 2. neuer: A.
3. M omits 33-53 has: T. 6. where's: £3 Aduaunoement: 13
Kim T's-I ha' gapte fort. 7. M omits 7- Ida:
T. IBT'Honor. 3 35—31:. Poore-Almes-knights {-313 g E o
InM; Wears: M. ’15. mer3n3M Two: M, Begger 3M"""1‘6"'. .
at. Kingdom's: L. 17. do's:-‘i'. St. "dir.3 i'n' L. See St.
dir. note at _tAg'bfggfig of this scene conc 1C “26.-
men Felines: . tm m e: H3 Black-
knight: A.

III, Sc. 1 131

. 25 EL. Kt. I bring fairs Greetings to your Reverend Vertues,
from (hrdinall Paulus, your most princely Kinesman.

fat 3. our Princelie-Kinesmn (saist thou?) We accept 'en:
'pray keep your aide and Distaunce. I an Charis
of my Episcopall Person:
30 IhwtheKfightsWalkinthisGametooWell:
hemayskip over We, andwhereamIthen?

Bl. Kt. there where thou shalt be shortly, if Art fails not.

fat B. reades: Right reuerend and holie (meaning He)

our Eras Kines-mn in blood, but alienated in Affection;

35 your unkind disobedience to the Mother Cause,
prouesattMstimetheonelycauseofyourill-
fortune: My present Ranoue by generall Reaction, to the
Papal]. dignitie, had now auspiciouslie setled you in
aw Sede Vacante (howl had it see?) which at my next

ho Remoue by death, night haue proou'd your step to
Supremcie.
hah! all m Bodies blood, nountes to W face
to looks me this Mt”.

Bl. Kt. the Pill workes with him.

1:5 fat B. reades: 'Ihinck on't seriouslie: It is not yet too late
the submissiue acknowledgment of
your disobedience to he louinglie receiued
into the Brotherlie bosom of the Gonolaus.
This was the Chairs of has I ever aym'd at.
50 I '11 make a Ben-fire of my Bookes imediatly,
All that are left (against that Side) I'll sacrifice
Pack-1p my Plate, and Goods, and steals away
by night, at Water-gate : It is but penning
an other Recantafion: and Inventing
55 two or three bitter Bookes against the white-house.

 

25. Reuerend: M. 26. tines-nan: M3 Princely: 3.4.3 27. M omits
2 - 2. 28. Me: ME also e Distannce. 33. The

fill}; ement Ag different mass from that in 37mg: :_43
m3 E%: E _T res. f3? 1:53an: _,H3 1' reads our
8932; for MB. 31;. H omits tag line. 35. Vnkind: JM
Motherztsuse: g. 36'.'III'£BT~EEn“K.3 _ 37. T does not have
Generall. 38. Dignitie: A: (auspitiously): E. 397-5011:

'1' reads hah3 1' reads by for at3 A omits 393-133. 112. hah: 1' reads
How. M. The: __H: hS.Tomits Eli-55E on't' seriouslie. 1:5.
thrmgh your submissiue: 33";EEow1egment:y_. 137. M omits of
your disobedience3 Louing e: A. 138. Boson: A. 133%:

A. 52. Pack ‘71): A. 53. fl omits 52-35 .

III, Sc. 1 1:2

andthenIaminenthother Sideagen

as firms as are I was, as fat and flourishing.
Black-Knight, expect a Wonder ere't be long.
thou shalt see me one of the Black-house shortly.

60 Bl. Kt. your Holines is merry with the Messenger,
'too happie to be true: you speaks what should be
if naturall Connunction touchd you truely.

GI, y'aus drawne Bood: life Blood: the Blood of honour,
from your most deere: your Prima’due-Mothers hart

65 Your sharp Inuectiues haue byn points of Speares
in her sweet tender Sides: ‘nie vnkind woundes
which a Son gives: (a Son of Reusrsnce specially)
they ranckle ten times more then the Aduersaries
I tell you (Sir) your reverend Reuolt

70 did give the fearefullst Blow to Adoration
our (hues are felt: It shocks the very Statues,
the Vrnss, and Ashes of the Saincted Sleepers.

fat B. forbeare, or I shall melt i'th'place I stand.
[and 1st forth a Fat Bishop in sad Sirropfl
75 suffices I an Yours, when they least Il'eame on't,
Ambition's fodder (Powre, and Riches) drawes me:
thnIsmellHonourthat's the Lockofhay
that leadss me through the World's feild every way.

-kit

Bl. Kt. heere's a sweet Paunch to propagate Beleif on:

80 like the foundation of a ChappeILl laid
vpon a (hag-3mm: I may nonber him now
amongst my Inferiour Polliciss, and not shuns 'sm:
But let me a litle sollace aw Designes
with the remembrance of some Brave-Ones past,

85 to cherish the futuritie of Proiect:
Whose Motion must be rsstlss, till that great work
(call'd the Possession of the World) be (hrs.

 

56. Due: 23 in a tether: '1'- th: A lacks the a str he. 58.
(flack-knight): M3 Epsom-£13 wonder: E: 19. you s : _'I_'3
'mou: A. 60. : M3 Messinger: L. 61. 'Too: A3 Speak: A.
62. 1'. omits 623-68. 63. Bood: _a_; the first time3 the second time
the word reamed 3 life-blond : _T_:- Warsaw—T.
Enfid: _K 73. IA omits 7 7h. 7h. No Crane pg contains
this line. 75. misfi'Tos: 3 3 M. 7Witious“: 3:
Wires: .15 Fodder: _M_. 76. Me: A; Fed.1d:_1;§3 St. dir.: m: A.
79. Beleif: not clear _i_n_Aggyj could alsobges. 80. 14952
this line. ‘85... M omits vpon a Quag-Ffirs3 Nomber: M. 82'.
Ialt-mgst: M3 Policies: E3 A omits and not shame 'em3-Here A be
Act III with the it. gig. Ih"“'ter Black Knight. 83. Tom" ' ta 3
13763313 Etz—H: 8h. remembrance: Ag ones: L. 83. (Tl-Isrish: A.
: A.

86. A guts 86:23 whose: A3 Great Wor 3'7. ours: A3

HI, Sc. 1 1‘3

Was it not I procurd a Gallant Fleets
has the White-Kingdoms, to secure our Coastes
, 90 'gaimt th'Infidell Pirate, wuder pretext
of more neoessitous Expedflon!
Who made the (holes fly Open (without Miracle)
and let the locusts out, those dangerous Flies
whose propertie is to burns Gorne with touching?
95 the heritique Gramriss feele it to this renntt 3
And now they'ue got amongst the Gantry Crops
they stick so fast to the Converted Eares
the lowdest Tempest that Authoritie rowaes
will hardly shake 'en off: 'Ihey haue their Dans
100 in ladies Cowches: there's saffe Groves, and Fans:
Bay, were they followed, and found out by th' Scent,
Palms-oils will make a Purssuant relent.
Whose Policie was't to put a silencd-Muszell
on all the Barking-Tongue-men of the lime?
105 Beds Pictures, that were dosh enough before,
poore Sufferers in that politique Restraint?
Hy light Spleene skipps, and shakes nw Ribbs to thinck on't,
Whilst our Ih'ifts walkd vncensurd, but in thought,
a whisper, or a Whistle would be questiond:
110 In the most fortunate Angle of the World,
the Court hath held the Gittis by the hornes
whilst I haue milkd her: I haue got good Soapss too
from Guntrie Ladies, for their Liberties.
from some, for their most vainsly hop'd Preforments,
115 high Offices in th'Aire: I should not live
but for this Hel-Aerium, this firth-Manna.

EhterAAg_B_l_.Atg. Pawns.
WPawnethownow?thslIewesl

 

87. Q omitted in A. 88. Gallant Fleets: A reads pretious
Saffs-guar33 prE't'ious safeguard: A. 89. WEIR—Engdom: A.

90. mate: 1'. 92. Goalss: A. 93. flies: A. 91:. Milling:
H. 95. lbs: H3 heretique-Granaries: A: Wes: A3 Hyunt:
K. 96. they' .3 M3 Gantry-Crops: A3 (hubris Cropps: .133

We meag A. 99..fiil.l: L they: $0 100. (bushes: '
There's: A. " 101. nay: A3 e Scent: A. 102. Palms oils: M
Palm-Oyle: A. 103. pa cie: A: silencd meals: A3 Silenc d-
Nuzzell: H. 101:. Barcking Tongue-men: L. 105. made: A:

(that wer'é'...: no closi mark 9.1: enthssis 9. cars defile: A.
106. Mfrsrs: rpo ° que: A. 0 . 11w ght: 3 bb's: A.
108. whilst: A ought: L. 109. A whistle or a whisper: A131
Whisper: A. . A adds-Vance after World3 T A and A do _.
m. has: Ar; n2.“n'n'113d-her3 r”. gott: A3 _ reamed—Tor got3
Sopes: A. In. Guntris-Iadies: E 1113.13:de 115'l'I'th'm3e3
A. St:- dir.: Enter Bl. Pawns: A. 117. newes: A.

111,3c.1 AA

Paw. expectnoneveryplsasing
thatcanss (Sir)ofmbringing: Iamforsadthings.

120 Bl. Kt. thy Conscience is so tender hooffd of late
every Nails pricks it.

Bl. Kts. P. thismayprick yourstoo
yftherebeanyquickflsshinayardon't.

Bl. It. M8
125 fleshed: met find a deepe Nails, and a Driver
beyond the strength of any Machiauill
the Politique Kingdoms fatten, to reach Lflns3
'pre-thes Compunction, Needle-prism, a litle
vnbind this sore wound.

130 Per. (Sir) your Plott's discovsrd.

Bl. Kt. much of the twentis thousand, and Nine hundred
three-score and five? canst tell?

Paw. 'blssss vs: so mny?
how doe poore Gmtrymn haue but one Plot
135 toloeepaCowon,yetianwforthat?
you cannotknow 'emallsursbytheis Names (Sir!)

Bl. Kt. yes: were the Nomber trebled: Thou hast scene
a Globe, stands on the Table in w Cl.osset?

’ Paw. athdng (Sir)fullofCuntu-iss,andhardwordsx
1130 B1. Kt. True: with lines drawns, some Tropicall, acme oblique.
Paw. I scarce can read, I was brought vp in Blindnes.

Bl. Kt. inst such a Thing (if are my Skull be spend)
will my Braines looks like.

 

ll9. I'ms: T I'am:L Things: A. 120. A omits 120-12 3 tender-

hooffdo' lists: A. 21. nails? A. 123'.‘ M3T'ea'382’A.

1213. nine: A. 125. mischedf: A.“ 126. Machaflll: A. 1‘27.

nine: A. I28. Pres-thee: L3 nesdls-prickd: A. 136'. Plot's:

M ms'c'overd: Lea omitted AA A. 131. A onIt___A the t from Kt.
the gpeech fit the 33_ is not-'__- onsEge__ at -tEi'___s_ time;

which: A3 Twentie: A3 nine: A. 132. three-score: T reads

fourescore; Three-score: A3 can'st: A3 'canst: M. '133. A 9_____nd.ts
133-1523 blesss: A. 131:. do's: A. 136. A omits this line”

a: T reads th'é'dr. 137. the:-A reads them-name}:
treabled 3mm: A. 138. mesh? TH 39. omitted in A.
1110. A assi' this- 8 each to the Black £353 e: _E m.
scores can: revs—Tees the order3 ‘533%“: A. 1112. A also
assigns this- each to _t_h__e mack m3 thing: A: Scull: A.
mam-3_

 

III, Sc.l 2:5

Paw. like a Globe of thries?

1135 B1. Kt. I: and some Master-Polititian
that hath Sharpe State-mes, will goe neere to pick out
the Plotts, and every Clymat where they fastend:
'twill puzzsll 'an too.

Paw. I am of your mind for that (Sir).

150 Bl. Kt. they'll find 'em to fall thick vpon some Guntnes
they'had need vse spectacles: But I turns to You now:

What Plot is that discoverd?

Paw. your last Brat (Sir)
beget betwixt the Black-Bishop, and yourself.
155 Your Ants-dated Letters 'bout the Jesuits.

Bl. Kt. discoverd? how?

Paw. The White-Knightes Pollicie
hath out-stripd yours (it sesmes)
ioynd with th'assistant Councell of his mks;
160 'Jhe Bishops white-Pawns vndertooke the Iorney:
Who (as they say) dischargd it like a Flight.
I made him for the Msynes fitt and light.

Bl. Kt. 'tis but a Bawdy Pawns out of the Way a litle,
«Exten- the BI. $3 A 3113 3.1.1.3 House, A AA. House
Wen—@7—

 

1M3. GLoab: A. 115. I: L reads yes. 1136. hath: T and A read
has. 11:8.1'1; will: L hEtT'and A reed 3mm. 113971133”
T3 Q omitted in A. SE-tEey 6: AT, vse: T and A but L
reads 'T-Io . 5‘2?“ what: A. 153. Your: L ganIbiSEo—us;a 73
1.535% gm omitted in A. 151:. betwixt: __ __ 3
yourse fine as two words. 15;..wa :A.—Inte-dsted-
letters: A; anteaam— M. 156. Discoverd: A3 A omits this line.
157. the? A; white-knigfits: A3 White Knightss: A3 FREE: e:
158. hath: _T reads has 3 yours': A3 omitted in 4A. 159.-
onnd: M. _JHTFEhs: A: Bishop's: 3 WERE-Fanny L. 161.
uho:A A3‘Dischsrgd: A. 4162. (for tEe Buynes): L3 £13.31! A;
Light:H. 163. H omits 163-1663 It's: L3 o'th'way: A; way: A.
Both urine MSS mamas in the other an
new Wratfier eas in mfii—tw—o—lhess___, 33..., r3 rdoes E

_Ten‘t'ion '53 T_Et doe T
nee AKA-Eta: sp_e_ak_ WWfie_ rance _,hi: Ffianchtmmi cit.

III, Sc. 1 1:6

enough of them in all parts.
165 Bl. B. you haue heard all then?

Bl. Kt. lhe wonder's past with Me: but some shall downs fer't.

Wh. K. Set free that Vertuous Paine from all her Wrongs:
Let her be brought, with honour, to the face
of her mlitious Aduersarie:

170 EL. Kt. good:

Wh. King Noble fiaste Knight: a Title of that Candour,
the greatest Prince on earth, Without impeachment
my haue the dignitie of his Worth cemprizd in,

This fairs delivering-Act, thue will register
175 in that White Books of the Defence of Virgins
Where the claws Fames of all Preseruing Mghtes
are to Eternal]. Memerie, consecrated.
And we anhrace (as Partner of that Honour)
this Werthie hike (the Councell of the Act)
180 When we shall ever place in our Respect.

Wh. D. Most blessd of Kings, throand in all Reiall Graces
every good Deed sends back its one Reward
into the bosom of the Enterprisour:
But you, to empresse yourself, as well to be
135 King or muficence, as Integritie
adds Glory to the Guift.

-Enter 11A. 93. Paine.
Wh. King by Ibsert Clay-mes it:

 

16h. enough: A. 165. A out: then. 166. the. A- me: A. ‘
167. Bald's t_§_:_r_t ascribes‘tEt's s eech to the White Kni 't'
but c ear 9. e fif-three ane'ESS—TF-ver ons:A5
wron'é's : Sim Iet: E TfitFT-‘nour 5: l753ner: M. 169.
Mentions: M; Aduersaries: A. 170. M omits this hne. 171.
finder: A, E emits from a litle to 173.—'T7 . witHe-nT:A5
impeachment: E. I'D-worth: A. 1711. this: A Delivering-
Act: L_3 delinezing Act: M; Register: M. 175. reads hw £9};
that, white: L_3 White-Beam: A. 176? M omits 176—177;
whwe: A: Fame: '1'; preserving-Knights: I“ prese :A. 178.
and: A, mom-M 03W omittedA in A. 9. vertue: .A; A reads
Fame"omi for Duke, tte‘fii" “An "180. Our: M; respect: 13488
l l. _Komi ts 1.81- 7 as _t_1_1__e first three words of __3
most: A,- ream-AT" 1'8‘2. deed: A: __Its: L. 133. Bosome: A
firtwprizer: A. "181:. but: A; t'expresse: A. 185.1nt tie:
Beth A and L Have the J-formca ital. 1362' leie: L. g.
0353-11.. 52"" ”.2. m... we: :2. his m @2923.

III, Sc. 1 h?

Zeale, and Fidelitie: Appeere thou Beutie
of Truth, and Inocence, best Ornament
190 of Patience, thou that makst thy Suffrings glorious.

Bl. Kt. (I'll take no knowledge on't:) What makes She here?
how dares yond Pawne (vn-pennancd) with a Cheeke
fresh as her Faleeheed yet, Where Castigation
hath left no pale print of her Visiting-Anguish
195 appewe in this Assemblie? (Let me alone
Sin must be bold, that's all the Grace 'tis borne to.)

Wh. Kt. what's this?
Wh. Eng I am wonder-strooke.

Wh. Q8. P. Assist me Goodnes:
200 I shall to prison agen.

Bl. Kt. (at least I'haue maz'd 'em:
scatterd their Admration of her Inocence,
as the fir'd Shipps put in, severd the Fleets
in Eightie-eight: I'll on with't: Immdence

205 is bfischeiffes Patrimenie) Is this Instice?

Is Iniurd Reusrsnce no sharplier righted?
I ever held that Maiestie Impartiall
that (Like most equal—l heaven) lookes on the Manners,
not on the Siapes they shrewd in.

210 Wh. King This Black-Knight
will never take an Answeare: 'tis a Victorie
to make him vnderstand he doth amisse,

 

Pawn but her entrance now rather than with the rest 9_f the

te House, i__s_ not only more dramatic ~UTut mikes it easier to
account for the art tea? the White King's next see'é‘éh Beginning
IPPeere'tF- e.... .187. thy: A; desert: A; Es
claymes: '_I‘fm reads deserts clayme;c1a1mes: A. 188. zeale: A;
fidelitie: A; A ppeare: A; (thou Beutie: L. 189. Inocencef‘L
and M have t_3_1__e J-ferm capital; Best: M. 190. of Patience) :—_I_.3

 

 

 

T6" ':' JET—make”? :T‘f mak'st: 191. M omits I'IL'L...on't; 18- omitted
in A. 192. vnpennancd: A; '_vn-Penanc'd Eggenfitted_ in .
Esehood: M; falcehood: A; where: A. reads-ha s;

pale-print: _L_; visiting-Anguish:A -Visiting Anguish: M. 195.
Assembly: M omits from let me fiene _t_o_ §Q_9;ne renthesis

in A. 1972;11ats'fl115: T. 198. I am: '_T readF'I'me. 9.
assist: A. 201. N_9_ parenthesis in A; I haue: A. 202. Admira-
tions: A'.‘ 203. fi-r-‘deT-Bffip: A; Eé'curd: A. 261;. Eightie Eight: A.
205. Pfischeifes: A: patrimemr: A. 206. is: A; imur'd: A.

207. impartiallz I”. 208. _Q__________ omitted in A.

III, Sc.l 1:8

when he horse in his owns clears Vnderstanding

that he doth nothing els: Shew him the Testim0nie
215 (confirm by Good-men) how that fowle Attanptour

got but this Morning to the Place from whence

he dated his forgd lynes, for Ten daies past!

Bl. Kt. my may not that Corruption sleep in this
by some Connyvence? as you haue wak'd in Ours
220 by too rash Confidence?

Wh. D. I'll vndertake
this Knight shall teach the Devill how to lye.

Wh. Kt. yf Sin were half so wise as Impudent,
she would nsre seeks farther for an Advocate.

Enter E. 92. Pawns.

225 Bl. Qa. P. New to Act Treacheris with an Angslls tongue,
since all's come out: I'll bring him strangely in agen:
Where is this Iniurd Chastetie? this Goednes?
Whose Worth no transitorie Pesce can Value?
This Rock of Constant, and Invincible Vertue

230 that made ans-Tanpest weary of his Fury?

Bl. Q. What! is my Pawns distracted?
Bl. Kt. I thinck rather

there is some notable Master-Prise of Begueris
this Dram strikes vp for.

 

210. This: 1 reads That, knight:M. 211. m1: A; neuer: L;

answers: 37117211.. 'tis a Victwis...not1n.ng els: omitted" 1n

M. 212. do's: A. 213. When: A; vnderstanding: A.

hoe: A: am: A: 'Ihatehonde: A; Téstimony: M. 213.0o Confirm'd:

M- good-men: A; Goodman: L_; fowle: M reads Pelee, Attempter: A:
omitted in A. 216. gott: L; mohniTgTA; place: L Whence:
"'21‘71'ro'hg1'd: A: lines: M- “tea: A. 2128.1:hie: A; sleeps:

'11. 219. Conyvsnce: A; As: h; wak'd'e': A; Wakd: M. 222.

this: Aand_T_rea___d_that: lie: M. 223. -i_f: : sh:AandIread

as, im‘hud‘hht? A. 221;. shee'lI'd: A; She: 142’ St. iii?

inA erahe_M§_s. Taleohasthem'é'nter‘h ere.

new: A; ow: L_; act: A; AngelTG:_-' M; Tongue: M. 226. Since:

M Come: M; strangely: omitted i_.__n A; In: A: againe): A; tins

thesis found an}; 331' _,A______ serves the ctien _o_f si
to the reader that this _13 an i__si-T-e. ‘2‘27. iniur'd: A: lug-112’;
Trans t e:

Chaststie?: M. 228. whose worth: *A; transitory: L;
M; Peice: A; valns: A. 229. this: "A; invincible:- A; M omits

3.29 J20 230. Sins Taupest: A. 231. what: A. 23h.__ strikes-
‘P’ A.

L.“

III, Sc. 1 A9

235 Bl. Q8. P. Let me fall with Reversnce
before this Blessed Altar.

Bl. Q0 this is madnss.

Bl. Kt. well: mark the end: I stand for Roguerie still.
I will not change my Side.

210 B1. Q3. P. I shalbe taxd, I know:
I care not what the Black-house thincks of Me.

Bl. Q. What say You now?
131. Kt. AI will not be vnlaid yet.

B1. 0.8. P. how am Censure flies: I honour Sanctitie,
215 that is my obiect: I intend no other:
I saw this glorious, and most valiant Vertue
fight the most noblest Combat with the Devill.

B1. Kt. yi' both the Bishops had byn there for Seconds
it had by'n a Complsat mall.

250 Wh. King then thou heardst
the Violence intended?

B10 Q5. Po .1518 3 mm
I ioy to iustefis: I was an Agent
on Vertues part, and raisd that confusd Noise
255 that startled him, and gave her Libertis.

Wh. Qs. P. oh, 'tis a righteous Storie she hath told (Sir)
my Jiffe, and Fame, stand mutually engagd
both to the Truth, and Goodnes of this Pawns.

Wh. Eng doth it appears to you yet, cleere as the Sun?

260 B1. Kt. ('las) I bsleeu'd it long before 'twas don.

 

235. M omits 235-215: reverence: A; the third word in A AA An:-
distiict. 2 . essed: A. 210. SEJI be: A: 2731. House:

A: me: . 2112. what: A; you: A. 21:5. Obiect: A. 2116.
Valiant? 1.. 21:8. M omits 2118 2149- if: A. 251. violence: A

252. truth: A. 25’§.T"ust eff-’3 adds (Sir). No Crane M3 does.
25h. Vermes:part: M; raysd: A; ni‘usd: L; noycsz-A. .

him: A and T read his Attempt: libertie: I. 256. h omits
2g6-2hoT—,sthry“'I: . has: A; _Q omitted in A. 257. fir‘A'e: _:
engag'd: A 2§§i dos: A. 25. H oz-Ettsd _i_n_ A.

III, &. 1 so

Bl. King Degenerate!
Bl. Q. Base!
El. B. Perfidouel
Bl. D. haiteroue Paine:
265 Bl. Qs. P. What: are ye all beside your selnes?

Bl. It. but I:
remember that (Pawns).

31. Q8. P. my a feareiun Barrennee
blast both Aw hopes, and Pleasures, if I brought not
270 her Raine, in my Pittie: a new trap
for her more sure Confusion.

Bl. Kt. haue I won now?
Did not I say 'trlas Craft, and Lhchination?
I smelt Conspiracie allthewayitient
275 although the Hesse wed-e Corerd: I'am ee ved to't.

Bl. King that Queene would I fayne finger.

Bl. Kt. You are too hot (Sir)
If She were toolne, the Gene would be ours quickly:
my Ayne'e at that White-Knight: Entrap him first
280 the Duke will follow too.

Bl. B. I would that Bishop
were in my moceeee, I would scone change his mamas.

131. Kb. Sir, IeouldvhipyouvpaPaIneimediatly
Ilmowwherenwcmnestande.

28S Bl. King do't sodainely
Advantage least met not be lost in this Play.

 

263. perfidious: A. 261;. trayteroue: A. 265. uhat:A A-
ye: A and T read you, Be-aide: M; yoursaneezA. 66.-fiat:
“267': QTm'tted in A. 268‘. LMay: m- fteeri'un:2 A.
569. pleasures. I. 270. Ruyne: pit e: _A_.; New: 15.7272.
have: A. 273. 'did: A. 271...» M omits 27132
275. caved—d: A Plum '1; to it: 3. 375m 27.
you're: A; be t: A- omitted in A. 278. yr: I Tooke: M.
279. Wz-M white ”mama 3'4, entrap. 280. the
Ihke: A reads that Peice. 282. I'll : _A_g White-nee: M.
283. ($1577; whip-you: 1:. 286. in thde: A reads i'tEia.

Bl. Kt. Pawns, thou art ours.

Wh. Kt. he's Taken by Default,
by Willrull Negligence: Guard the Sacred Persons:
290 Looks well to the white-Bishop: for that Pawns
gaueGuardtothemeene, andlrhninthe IhirdPlace.

B1. Kt. See what sure Peace you lock your Confidence in.
I made this Pawns here, by Corruption, ours,
as scene as Honor, by Creation, yours:
295 Ms whitenes vpon him, is but the Ieaprouxie
of pure Dissimlation; View him now,

His _m m__ takenoi' he appear «Lack vnderneath.
his hart, and his Intents, are of our Colour.
Wh. Kt. most dangerous hipocrite!
Wh. D. One made against 78.
300 Wh. Q. his Iruth of their Complexion.

Wh. King hath my Goodnes,

(anemia, Laue, and tauour gratious, raisd thee
from a Condition next to Popular labour,
Tooke thee frau all the Dibitable hazards

305 of Forums her most measure Adventures,
andgraftedlheeintoaBrannchofhonour,
and dost thou fall fran the Top-Bough, by the Rottennes
of thy alone Corruption, like a fruit
that's over-ripend by the Beemes of fauourl

310 Let thine owns Weight reward thee: I haue forgot thee:
Integritie of Liffe, is so deere to Me,
Where I find Falcehood, or a Chying-‘Hespasse
beitinanywhanourGraceshinesnoston,

 

287. (Pm ): H 'Ihm: M; (hrs: M. 288. taken: J». 289.711].

full: A; -Neg]igence:M M- -neg]igence: LA; sacred: A_; Sacred-

Persons: M. 290. looks: L; white Bishop:L. 291. gave: _A_x

thi Queens: A; Third-Place:M place: L. 2'92. See: A reads Se;

Peice: é: ee'nridenee: A. 293.11 emit; 293 291;, cars? 17"2'95.

white-nee: 14- Ieapu‘ozie: é.- StZ' Fr“ 0 : one}: of: is meant

I. and M inc do only he appeeres Black undernea 296..-

maon:A 297. Hart: 14- Intents: g M has the J-forn

capital, (Mr: 113.011]er A. 268.1'Iipocr1 M77997;

this eechs _t2 the White Queen- one: A. 300.1; omits 300-
R” hto the 1:6 111.159.301.1138: I 302.
Iowa: I rous 703'?ng 353-305. 306. thee:A 5

 

In, &.

l 52

Iwufldtearefimfromnyhart.

315 who Be 8pm like heavens Sibstitu‘be.

Wh.

Bl.

B1.
320

King youhanelrm: Hecansparehim: andfisShame
will make the rest looks better to their (Same.

K. the more Cunning we met use then:

Kt. We shall match you,
play how you can, perhaps, and Nate You too:

fat B. Is there so much Amazement spent on him

325
Wh.

that's but half Black? (there fight be haps of that non)
But how will this House wonder, if I stand forth

and show a whole one! instantly discover

One that's all Black! where there's no hope at all!

K. I'll say thy hart then instefies thy Bookes:
I long for that mscoueris.

fat B. Looks no farther then:

330

Bl.
335 fat

Wh.

BearewitnesalltheHouse, IamthsMan,
and turns herself into the Black-house freely:
I am of this Side now.

Kt. Monster nere matchd him.

K. This is your Noble Horck (Knight.)

Kt. Now I'll halter him:

B. neat newes you hears, expect my Bookes against you
Printed at Doway, Bruxells, or Spoletta.

K. See his Goods ceisd on:

 

Brannch. -

permanship ambi ous:t Bcould also be Brunch. 30?.

do'st: A, bowgh: A. o . "I".‘31‘6 "thy: I” weight: A.

311. Life: A. BIZ. .where: A.t 831:3. (be...on):

I'll'd:A
317. Re
318‘3200

311:.
:A '1'. "315. spoke: A. 33.671011: H.
: u- A has t _at'ter this eeeh’. 318. A end‘is
3.5-9. 1'- ves t s soeec sBlack w E
one to the __e_}: KniTstT we: ”QAT" 3'12 . A eni____t_s_ 321..

 

yious
3E0. 3ZZ-Man:_ M. 323. H. 327. Discovery: M. .358.

e: L.

Next: AC

330. Turns: Me 3330 ! M“ 333 _i__-3’40- 3350
3370 Ceizd: LC

III, Sc. 1 53

fat B. ('las) theywere all Convaid
last night by Water, to a Tailor's house,
31:0 a frond of the Black Cause.
Wh. Kt. a prepard hipocrits.
Wh. D. premeditated Turns-Coats.
“km.

fatB. yes: raileon:
I'llrsaehyouinnwflrytingswhenIamgon.

31:5 131. Kt. flatter him a while with honour till we put his
vpon some dangerous Service, and then burns him.

Bl. K. this came vnlookd for:
El. D. howwoioyto see you!
fat B. now I'll discover all the White-house to You.
350 B1. D. indeed: that will both Reconcile and raise you.
Wh. Ks. P. I rest vpon You (Knight) for my Aduauncenent now.
Bl. Kt. oh, for the Staff! (the strong Staff that will hold)
and the Red-hat, (fitt for the guilty Hazard)
Intothefiuptie Bag; knowthyfirstway
355 Pawnee that are lost, are ever out of M.
Wh. Ks. P. how's this?
Bl. Kt. No Beplications: You know no:
No doubt are long, you'll haue more Companie:
the Bag is big enough, 'twill hold vs all.

--&mnt e

 

338. (alas): M: They: M. 339. Tailors: M. 3ho. Black-Genes:
M. 31:1. Wh. -Kt: _L_ vse this s eh to t 3White ngamma-its:
11. 31:2. permedit'a't WTFIEJE. s: 1.1.3

Thus: ‘1'. 31:5. while: :15. Honor: M3 honour: Tm reads honors.
31:6. ea'rne: M. 31:7. fendts 3m" 3_h_§_. 3h§.T‘?ow- M°you : M.
350. Indeedi'H. 351. you: M3 auncenent: A3 Aduancementf'M.
352. oh: L_3 A _adds Sir after- the first Staff, _A_ reads Crosier-
Staff and JomIt—TIJ lasFIhr-ee wor “35 353. red: I fit: LE
WWI-Em. Slap-HE'Wg' M. Way: In 3550

u- ener: "Mo play: A. 356"}: omits this he. 3'57. nozré
g’add: wefieneegh 358. firm—AW: L. 359. . _rg.

III, Sc. 1 Sh

360 Wh. QB. P. I sue to ‘Ihes: 'prethee be one of vs:
Let In Love wyn thee: Thou'hast don Truth this day,
and yesterday, urine Honour noble Service,
the best Pawns of our House could not transcend it:

31. Q8. P. W pittie flam'd with Zeale, especially
365 When I fore-saw your Marriage: then it mounted.

Wh. Q8. P. how? Mags!

Bl. Q8. P. that Contemmfing Act
would hens spoild all your fortunes: A Rape! 'blesse vs all:

me Q30 Po Thou tallcst Of W6?

370 Bl. Q3. P. yes: yes: you doe Harris:
I saw the Man.

who Q8. P. the MI
Bl. Qs. P. an absolute handscm Gentleman: a Coupleat one:
you'll say see when you see him: heirs to three Red-hatts,
375 besides his general]. hopes in the Black-house.

Wh. Q8. P. why sure, thou art much mistaken in this Men.
I haue proudsd Single life to all my Affections.

Bl. Qs. P. promise you what you will: or I: or all on's
there's a Fate rules, and over-rules vs all (ne-thincks).

380 Wh. Q8. P. why, how came you to see, or know this Misteris?

Bl. QB. P. A Magicall Glasse, I bought of an Egiptian,
whose Stone retaines that Speculative Vertue

 

360. thee: A3 prethee: A3 'pre-thee: A3 Vs: A. 361. let:
Lone: A3 wynn: A3 wyn-thee: M thou'hast: '1; Thou hast: M.
3’62. yesterdaie:A A- : A and o’lghoAnour: N5‘ols:L. 363.
The: M3 of: M mag in; Hausa-i. 361:. 55: M pit't'y: A3
Pittie: I. seaETI. 365. when: A; It: A. 367. M omits 367-
369. 3 .Iour: A3a A: blesse: A3_ L omits aJl,A. Edit It occurs
in A and T. 369. thou: A. 370. Ian? gig-firm”. ”“372.
refute-this line. 373. "An: L handsome: A. 37I.Iaut11:
H—Ie: TTTH' Three: M, Ha ts: A- Red Mitts:A. 375.
1:- e: A.‘3 376. M Knits 376— 6.3?9- thou'rt: A and I} for
this Inn: A and T. 377. '1' reaas wfi _a_t the be'
m; singly-me: A. 373'. '5? us: T.'- W. oner- 93—38;}:—
(ne thincks): A. 3%.le Wm: M. 381:. a: A; Glas: M.
Whose: A3 specE'lative:LSpeculative-Vsrh1e . M.

III, Sc. 1 55

presented the Man to Me: Your Name brings him,
as often as I vse it: and nethincks

385 I neuer haue enough: Person, and Pastures
are all so pleasing.

Wh. Q8. P. his is wondrous strange:
the Faculties of Soule, are still the same:
I can feele no one Motion tend that way.

390 Bl.Q8. P. WedoenotalwaiesreeleourFaithweliveby,
Nereverseeourmowth: yetbothworkvaards.

Wh. 08. P. 'twas well applied: but my I see him too?

Bl. Q8. P. surely you may, without all doubt or feare,
observing the right vse, as I was taught it,
395 Not looking-back, or Questioning the Spectour.

Wh. Q8. P. that's no hard obseruation: trust it with me:
Is't possible? I long to see this Man!

Bl. Q8. P. 'pray follow me then, and I'll ease you instantly.

”amt.

III, Sc. 2 Scena secunda filter Hack-Aestgg-Pawne

Bl. Iest. P. I would so fayne take one of theis white Pawnee now,
I'll'd mks him doe all mder-drudgerie.
feed him with Asses Milk, crumbd with Goates Cheese
and all the Whit-meates could be devisd for him,
5 1'11th make h-in my white-Janet, when I prannc'd
after the Black-Knights litter.

 

383. your: L. 38h. me-thincks: _A_3 (methincks): M. 385.
never: A: (Person: M. 386. pleasing): M. 387: this: A.

388. file Faculfies3 :_A_3 faculties: A. 39.0. we: A3 faith: L.

391. nor: A3 vaards: _A_ and ‘I' have "vaard. 392. applied:

A reads resolu'd3 T reads am But: M. 391:. Observing: M.
395. not: A3 looking Eack': A3 looking: or: A reads nor3
questioning: A. 396. observation: A3 fisema't‘io : A3 Trust:

H. 397. is'?: M omits the remi'n'der of this scene and all
of Scene 2. 398: 'pray W035»: me then: L _reads WE then _OFs-Erve.
'58. 333. : §_____ince A 5.92 A_____ omit Scenein A entirel and the Black
Queen's Pawn c__o________ntim1es her see tFE____e_-Ts' a course
92 age: exit indicated_ in __e____se _tigmamzcripts.

III, Sc. 2 56

Enter 23. EA. Pawns.

Wh. P. and you'll'd looks thyn,
inst like the Devill, strychng are a Night-Mare
made of a Miller's hughter.

10 El. P. 'pox on you:
were you so neere: I an taken like a Black-bird
in the great Snow, this white-Pawns grynning over me.

Wh. P. and new, because I will not fowle ny Clothes
ever hereafter, for white quickly soyles, you know.

15 Bl. P. I pres-thee get thee gen then, I shall smtt thee.

Wh. P. no, I'll put that to venture, now I haue snap'd thee,
thou shalt doe all the mudgerie and durty Busynes
that Slaverywas ever put to.

Bl. P. I shall season you:
20 you my chaunce come, and find your work mdon then
for I am too proud to labour: I'll starve first,
I tell you that before-hand.

with a black whip that shall not be behind-hand.

25 Bl. P. pish: I haue ben vsd to Whipping: I haue whip'd mslf
three—uleoutof'lbwneinaMorningand
IcenfastaforthnightandnakeallyourMsat
stinck, and lye on your hands.

Wh. P. to prevent that your food shalbe Black-berries
30 and vpon gawdy-daies, a pickelld Spider
cut-out like an Anchovis3 I am not to learns
a Monkeys Ordinary: Come Sir, will you frisk?

~mter _2_ AA. Pawns
2 Bl. P. soft: soft you: you haue no such Bargains on't
if you looks well about you.

 

7.1'hasthe entsrafterthisline. lO.TreadsApoa:.
211.—I"— amTrea I'me I6. '1' readS-Naye Ile.... I7. T reads
all the durtffii'ndgene. The‘ila‘EEThz-ee words of the 1156* are
Crane's additions. 18. s'rs: '_1'_. Mums: ”Ms.—

me: T. 25. pish: T reads Pub. 28. on: _T_reads a. 31.
I an: T & I'm. 33. _on:'t _T reads of it.

III, Sc. 2 57

35 Wh. P. by this hand
I an snap'd too: a Black-Pawns in the h3eech of no:
we three looloe like a Bird-Spit: a White (hick
betweene two Russet woodcocks.

1. Bl. P. I am so glad of this:

1:0 Wh. P. but you shall haue small cause: for I'll firck you.
2 Bl. P. then I'll firck you agen.
Wh. P. and I'll firck him agen.

1. Bl. P. 'masse, here wilbe old fircking: I shall haue
the worst on't, I can firck no-body: We draw
145 togeather now for all. the world like We Flies
with one Straws in their Buttocks .

«Exeunt.

III, Sc.3 Scenatertia MADAE. Pawns,Awhite A, Pawns.

Bl. Q8. P. This is the Rooms he did appesre to Me in:
and (looks you) this'the Magical]. Glasse that showd him:

Wh. Q8. P. I find no Motion yet: What should I thinck on't?
a sodaine Feare invades me: a faint Doubling
5 vnder this Onen3
as is oft felt, the panting of a Turtle
vnder a streaking hand.

Bl. Q8. P. that boades good luck still:
'signe you shall change Stats speedely: for that bottling
10 is alwaies the first Simptane of a Bride:
for any vainer Feares that may accompanie
his Apparition, by any truth to Frendship
I quitt you of the leaste: Never was Ooiect
more gracefully presented: the very Airs

 

39. I'm: T. 1:3. The eech head in both T and Amere
Bl. P. PEA-the sens'e-ieems __ ' mac-EeE- £1513 or
pagismaWW-Mream. Soene3: St. dir.:
See_n_o__tegn§j,,dir.i_n$cen__e;, .1398. 1.Rome A. 2..Q.ond.tted

in 71A; this the: A3 ‘Ihis'the: M3 Glas: A3 show'd: A.- 3. A om s
- 73 motion: A3 what. A. 7. Crane in both MISS—that have tfies ese

nco ratsswha__‘§_A8__._}_I_l_T “1551-3—83 beads: A.
9.11358885315ng1‘ A. l . Symptoms: A. 11. For: A. 12. Freina'smp: A.
13. least: A. "'

III, Sc. 3 58

15 censpires to doe him honour, and Creates
sweet vocall Sounds, as if a Bride-grooms enterd,
which argues the blast harmow or your Loves.

Wh. Q8. P. andwillthevsingomeame,proch1cehiin?

Bl. Qs. P. nay: of yours onely: els the wonder halted.
20 To clsere you of that doubt: I'll put the Difference
in practise, the first thing I dos, and make
his Imocation in the Name of others.

Wh. Qs. P. 'tllill satisfis me much, that.

Bl. QB. P. It shalbe den.
25 Ihou, whose gentle Forms, and ice
fill'd Iatelie this ngptique (Eases,
By th'I-imsrious powrefull Name,
and the Vniuersall Farm
of the mightie Black-house-Queem
30 I conim Thee to be ssene.
What! see you nothing yet?

Wh. Qs. P. not am part.
'praytryanother.

mo Q30 Po youshallhaueyourifill.
35 I double aw Command, and Pours,
and at the instant of this hours
Imoaks 'Ihee in the White-Queues Name
with stay for lime, and Slaps the same.
What see you yet?

ho wh. Qs. P. there's nothing showss at all.

__g

15. creates: A. 16. am: A. 17. Which: _A_. 18. And: E3

Vsing: A. 19'. Nay: M3 Wonder: M. 20. to: A3 Doubt: A3

(tiffrence: A. 21. IEke: A. 22'. Invocation: 1, Imocation:
3.

L and PI have the J-form ca _ital3 Names: A T. A omits 23 2h.

211.—It: nefien 25 aha—Er"! has centered thewe Tfiocatiom
W jsz'i‘orme: A3 face: A. ptique-Glasse:

rmcme-a-E: M. 27. eznperious:M M3 Timerious- :

I: 28. urfinersall: A'.’ 29. House: A3Mim§ty-Blacm1c-house-Queene:

K3 Black-house Queens: A. 30. Coninre: 1% conjure: L3 thee: A3
émeene: A. 31. you 3%: _A_. 32.311015: _. 33. another: 1'.-,
3h. You: grow: A3 will. A. 36. :A. 37. inuoake: _A3
name. L. ”39. A combines 3_8' and 3_9 into a M31316. ho.
There's: A: shewes: A.

III, Sc. 3 59

B1. Qs. P. ny Truth reflects the clearer: Then now fix

and blesss your fairs eie, with your owns for ever.
'mou well-compos'd, by Fates hand drawne
to enioy the White-Queenes Pawns,

1:5 of when Thou shalt (by Vertue nett)
may gracefull Issues gett.
By the Beutie of her Fame,
By the Whitenes of her Name
By her fairs, and fruitfull Laue,

50 By her Truth (that mates the Done)
By the lleelcenes of her Hind
By the softnes of her Kind,
By the Lustre of her Grace

 

--Musick Enter __JBl. Be. Pawns inrich
anI afition.

By all theis thou art sumond to this Place.
55 hark how the Airs, enchaunted with your Praises,
and his Approach, those Words, to sweet Notes raises.

Wh. Qs. P. (11, let him stay a While: a litle longer.
Bl. Qs. P. that's a good hearing.
Wh. Q8. P. yf he be Mine, why should he part so scone?
60 B1. QS. P. why, this is but the Shadow of yours: how doe you?

Wh. Qs. P. oh, I did ill to give consent to see it.
What Csrtentie is in our Blood, or State?
what we still wryte, is blotted out by Fate?
Our Wills are like a. Cause, that is Iaw-tost.
65 what one Court orders, is by an other Great.

hl.Pw : H..h2 bles: M Eis: A. 113. well compos'd: A3 Oompos'd:
Ag Fates-hand: A. .‘iwhite A; White-enemSes-Pawne: A.

Issues: $31 A has the J-form ca ital. 0. Mates:— A3
omitted in A. SI. neeFe'ies: go: I. 52. Softnes: 4M9

.grace—z A. St. dir.: T laces the st. dir. aftsr 56. "It

laces Black Bishop's Pawnh‘ffi th: ISsuIt'e' ands the—

era's then exit, which no Cranm contains. fie ma
{Fe-Black Bps Pawns Etsrs, (as 33' an Apparition)'?fchelis habittd.
M reads Musique: The Bl. Bps. Pawns (as in an Apparition) cones
513W habittd. 51:. unis: A3 Thou: A. 55. hark: Alt
the form of the first letter i__s not Crane's usual fem or e
caE‘m',__ TE e-si'zs and Ema— te flourishes 1mm aca omits-II-
m harck: L3 Zenchznmted: _I,___ but there is no clo aren-
thesis Mk3 Inchaunted: A3 praises: I. ‘31:: E3 fpproa'éhe:
A; firm 57. while:- A3 Longer: A. 58. A omits _t___his line.

 

III, Sc. 3 60

B1. Qs.P . I find no fit place for this Passion here,
'tis meerely an Intrudom‘: he is a Gentleman
most wishfuJJy Composd: honor groves on him,
and Wealth pilde-vp for him: 'hath Youth enough too. 3
70 and yet, in the Sobrietie of his Countenaunce
grave as a Tetrach (which is gratious i'th'eis
of Modest Pleasure) Where's the Fmptines?
What can you more request?

Wh. QB. P. I doe not know
75 What Answsare yet to make: It doth require
a Meeting 'twixt my Feare, and my Desire.
“'Edto

Bl. Q8. P. She's caught: and (which is strange) by her
most Wronger.

«Exit.

Fi nis Actus Tercij

 

59. If: M3 mine: A. 60. shadow: A3 how doe you?: omitted

in L. 33.. Oh: A3 It: M. 62. certentie: A. 63.-__-— What: M.
3?." What: M3 Orders: A; "Is: M3 another: 3.2- 66. fitt: L3
passion: A. 67. It's: L3 Etruder: A. 68. composd: I:
Honour: L. 69. And: L_3 pill' de-Vp: A3 h'as: A3 yout FL.

70. And3 :‘M. 71. Grave: M_3 Tetrarch: _,A3 which...pleasure:
omitted i__n_ M3 Which: A3 in Jthe 'ye: L. 72. modest: A.
73. what: ""‘A'; You: L3 request: A reads Odesirs. 71:. fiawe: M.
75. what: A3 answers: A. Ezdt (TS: in L. 76. fears:
L. 77. Wr’onger: A3 manger: M. Plant 27? I and M naturaAAZ

Ir'iav_._____e__ Exeunt he___r__e. _,F‘inis...: does not appear__ in 9_r_ _.

Iv, Sc. 1 61

ACTUS QUARTUS

Scena prima Ehter the Black-B . Pawns &
W @fla “

Bl. Kts. P. "13.8 he, my Confessor: he might haue passd me
ssaven yeeres togeather, had I not by chaunce
advauncd mine Eis vpon that letter 'd-hat-band,
the Jesuiticall Symboll, to be lmowne by,
5 worne by the brave Golledgians, by Consent;
"his a strange habit for a holy Father
(9. President of Pouertie, especially)
But Wee, (th'Sons, and Ibughters of Obedience)
dare not once thinck a-wry: but must Confesse ourselues
10 as humbly,r to the Father of that Feather
Long Spur, and Poynard, as to the Alb, and Altar,
and happie were so highlie grac'd t'attaine to't.
holy and Raierend.

 

 

31. BS. P. how hast found me out?

15 B1. Kts. P. 0h, Sir, put on the Sparcklingst Try-m of Glory
Perfection will shine fore-most: and I knew you
by the Catholicall Merck you Wears about you,
the Merck above your fore-head.

Bl. Be. P. Are you growns
20 see Ambitious in your Observaunce? Well: Your Busynes?

 

St. dir.: Since M omits the first 3__8__ lines i__t_s sta s direction
makes no men tie on _of the 33cm ht's T adds rIc Elle
accELt'fed. It's-{1.3 Hans: T r_§_a__ds Ha". I. Uofi'essour: A.

2. years: A3 chaunce: ambiggous, __y__ be channce. 3. advauncd:
be advannod; me: A,- eie: A3 Iitterate-Hatband: A. h.
:A. 5. Brave: A3 consent: A. 6.1t's: A3 fioly: A.

7. Povertis: A3 _Q omitted in A. 8. wee: A3 l1the Sonnes: A3
omitted in A. §"“"“. awry :""‘A3 confes: A. 11. Poyniard: A”:
be: A. 12‘. We're: A3 wee'ars: T_3 to attayne: T3 to it: T.

13. hofly: A; Reverend: A. 11:. ha'st: A. 15. Trim: A.

16. foremost: A3 knew: obscure vowel in I. 17. Catholicall: A
reads Vniversafi3 Mark: A3 wears: A. "18'. aboue: A3 forehead: A3
m A. 19. are: A. 20. so: A3 ambitious: A3 Ubservaunce:
__y__ be Observanncs; well: A3 observaunce: A.

IV, SC. 1 62

I haue my Game to follow.

Bl. K“. P. I haue a. mme
followes me see, that I can follow no Game:
the most faint-harted Pawns, if he cmld see his Play,
25 might Snap me vp at pleasure: I desire (Sir)
to be Absolu'd: my Conscience being at ease,
I could then with more Courage ply ny Game:

Bl. Bs. P. 'twas a base fact.
B1. Kts. P. Haas to a Schismatick Paine (Sir),

3O Bl. Ba. P. what's that to the Nobillitie of Rsuenge?
'chs, I haue neither Will, nor Powre
to give you Absolution for that Violence.
Make your Petition to the Penmms-thnbsr,
yf the Tax-Register releeve you in't.

35 by the Black-Bishop's Clemsncie, you haue wrought out
a singular peace of fauour with your Money.
that's all your Refuge, now.

Bl. Kts. P. the Sting shootss deeper.
«Exit.
«Enter the white and the EL. 08 Pawne___s_.

Bl. Bs. P. yondsr's my Cams, which (like a Politique Ghee-master)
no I must not some to see.

Wh. Q8. P. oh, ny hart: 'tis he:
Bl. Q8. P. that "his.

Wh. Q8. P. the very self-same that the Magicall Mirrour
presented lately to Me.

23. so: A. 25. snap: A omitted in A. 2?. ply: not play. 28.
met: A3— 29. Schisma unPa'Ffi-e-rAg-I- omits Sir. 3o. “‘nobintie: A
Revenge: A. 31. suffices: A3 powre: A. 55. violence: A. 314. rs sine:
A. 35. Fleck-Bishops: A3 wrought-out? A. 36. peice: L. 37. refuge:
I. 38. the: T reads 'IhIs; sting: A. 3t. dir.: A reads Enter uh. Qs.
P. A: 31. Q8. Paine-:_- 39. Yonder's :‘h pollitick: Io __,Temitted in A.

ho. T has the two enter after __rinstead of after 38": "'E}. Oh: A;
the m1: Tee's: Swami _

K3. veHe: M MWM:_ EE. me:_

Iv, Sc. 1 63

1:5 Bl. Qs. P. andhow 111::
a most regardles Stranger he walkes by
neerely ignorant of his Fate: you are not minded
(the principallst part of him) What strange Misteries
Inscrutable 10118 works by.

50 Wh. Q8. P. the fine, you see
is not yet come.

Bl. Q8. P. but 'tis in ourpowre now
to bring Time nearer (lmowledge is a Mastery)
to make it observe vs, and not we it.

55 Wh. QB. P. I would force nothing from It's proper Vertue.
Iet Time haue his full Course: I had rather die
the modest Death of vndiscoverd Lone,
then haue heavens least, and lowest Seruant suffer,
or in his Motion, receive Check for Me.
60 how is my Soules growth alterd, that Single life
_ .~ (the fittest Garment that Peace ever made for't)
is groans too straight, too stubborne, on the sodainel

Bl. Q8. P. be comes this wayagen.

Who Q30 Po 0h, there's a Traitour
65 leap'dfrommyhartinteanheebealready
thatwillbetrayalltohis powrafull eie
if it but glannce vpon Me.

Bl. We P. by W Vfitie
looks, he's past by agsn, drownd in Neglect,
70 without the prosperous hint of so mch happines
to looks vpon his fortune: how close Fate
scales vp the eie of humaine vnderstanding,
till (like the Suns-flours) Time, and Laue vncloses it.
'twer pitty he should dwell in Ignorance longer.

 

1A7. Ignorant: M You: A. M. what:A msflries: M. 1:9. inscru-
table-Love: A3 orkesz-L 50. The: A"; time: A. 31. Cone: M.
53. BothLandMomit tleine. Sh. tozAandTrsadand3 flassrve:
L3 oEserue3 {33' We: I. 53.17fi'd: A. 57. 3.95:1; vndiscouerd:
H Love: A. 58. s'é‘rvent: M. 60. Km $.62; si'ngle: A.

.Oh: A3 ther's: A. 65.'1eepd: A: alredie: A. 67. glaunce:

Eeebabgz- glannce3 135: A reads him con to :the sense. 68.
7 e: A. 69. Looks: A3 Bee's’: L3 mgect: A:- 70. M omits 70-73.
71. fortunes: 1'3 Fortune: A. 72. seales-vp: A3 vndersW I.

73. Suns-Flowre: A3 Love A3 encloses 3 153 Qom__t____ted in A. 7h. 'twere:
A3 pittie: A3 Ignorance:A3 e J—form 321 1:51..

Iv, Sc. 1 6h

75 mm. P. Whatwillyoudoe?

Bl. Q8. P. yes: (he a bashfull death: dos
and let the remedie passe by med still:
you're changd enough alreadie, yf you'ld looks into't.
Absolute Sir (with your most Noble Pardon

80 for this my rude Intrusion) I am bold

to bring the lmowledge of a Secreat neerer
by many daiss (Sir) then it would arive
in Its owns proper Revelation with you:
'pray turns, and fix: Doe you know yond Noble Goodnes?

85 Bl. 38. P. ”is the first Mymtt mine Elie blessd me with her,
and clsersly showes how much my knowledge wanted
not knowing her till now.

B10 03. P. She's to be Md then?
'pray View advisedly: there is strong reaBOn
90 that I am so bold to vrge it: You must ghssse
the Work concernes you nearer then you thinck for.

BI. Bs. P. her Glory, and the Wonder of this Secreat
putts a reciprocall Amazement on Me.

Bl. Q8. P. and 'tis not without worth: You two must be
95 better acquainted.

El. 138. P. 18 there Cause? Affinitie?
or arm Gurteous help Creation ioyes in
to bring that foreward?

Bl. Q8. P. yes: yes: I can show you
100 the nearest way to that Perfection
(of a most Vertuous one) that lay are found:
'pray mark her once agen:, then follow me,
andeillshowyouher, mstbeyourWife (Sir).

Bl. 33. P. the Misterie extends: or els Creafion

 

75. M omits 75-78 what: A. 76. Death: A. 77. passe-by: A:

vn-v's-d: A. 73. you'ar: I: alrsdy: A3 yr: A and 3 read and3 into

it: _T_. _‘79. Absolute-Sir : M3 no ' parEFEhesis mark3 With: A3

noble: A3 pardon: A3 (with..:Infiuann): 2% A 2&5 L vs the en-

thesis. 82. Dies: A3 AA omitted _i_n_ A. . doe: A3 15: Arno e:

I. 35. nwmtt: A3 Mymt: __,M- mine: T reads my; eye: L3 eie: A3 bleed:

II. 88. 11m: A. 89. A omits 89-IoI'H: or: A. 96. I'me: AA.

3.30.1 work: A. 96'. is: A3 can-Ts: A. 97. ourteous: A. :9. A3:; A.
.Talsohasthis hrassin theses butAdoesno3v one:

A. 10m: L3 aggl'i'l'e: A.- Iog. Me :17;- Dmtta i_A A.

Iv, Sc. 1 65
105 hath sett that admirable Peece before vs,
to choose our (haste Delightes by.
Bl. Q8. P. 'please you follow (Sir)?

131.33. P. WhatArthaueyoutoputmeonanObiect
and cannot get me off? 'tis pains to part from't.

-Exeun:t.

 

ZL'LO Wh. Q8. P. yf there prove no Check in that Magical]. Glas now,
but 1w Proportion come as fare, and full
into Iris Eie, as his into nine lately,
then I'am confirmd he is mine owne for ever.

“2% @2-
Bl. Be. P. The very self-sane that the Mirrour bleed me with,
1.15 from head to roots, the Beutie, and the habit:
Kept you this place still? did you not ranove (Indie?)
Who Q3. Po mt a £00139 farther (Sir).
B1. 33. P. is't possible? .
I would haue sworne I'had scene the atbstance yonder 3
120 Haas to that lustre, to that Life presented.
Wh. Q8. P. even so was yours to Me, (Sir).
Bl. BB. P. 33" you me?

Wh. ‘23. P. perfectly cleere: no sooner my Name red
but yours appeer'd.

125 31. Be. P. iust so did yours at mine now.
Bl. Qs. P. why stand you idle? will you let Tine cozon You,

 

10h. The: M- Mistery: H. 105. has: A3 set: A13 Admirable: AI; Peice:
A. 106. so: 14- CEast: M. 107. please: A3 Q omitted in A.
108. what: A. 109': from it? A. 110. If: A?! Glasse: A; _T does not
have the final word now. 112. eie: A3 eye: _3 Mine: L° Lately: E-
Efie: I and T- I an: 113 St. dir.: this is Arare Instance of
eement ii- 511' Your MSS. 11h. the: _31 self same: AW?!)
figtf-fi: ‘13: Rpm-f: Place: A; 111d: M: Renews: M: lady: A.
117. Not": Mo Foote: A- omitted _i_A A. '113. 13".: _. 119. I'de:
_3 I had: SC 120. fire: rm. Jean: 3; 67'!“ A- Q omitted _13
A. 123. No: A. 121;. appeerd: A. 125. your's: A: .
roneous Eves this each 3.2 A12 White Queen's Pawn; Why: 21';
e: __3 cozen: _,I- Cozon: _

Iv,Se.1 66

(protracting fine) of those Delitious Benefitts
that Fate hath marckd to you? you Modest Pairs
of blushing Gemsters, and you (fir) the bashfullst,
130 I cannot flatter a fowle Fault in any.
Chn you be more then Man, and Wife assign'd?
and by a Powre the most Irrevocable?
Others, that be Adventurers in Delight
my meets with Crosses, flame, or Separation,
135 their forhme's hid, and the Events lockd from 'em:
You know the mind of Fate, you met be coupled.

Bl. Be. P. She speakes but truth in this: I see no reason then
that we should misse the relJish of this Night,
but that we are both shame-facd.

11:0 Wh. 0:. P. how? this Night (Sir?)
Did not I know you must be mine (and therein
your priviledge runs strong) for that loose Motion
You neuer should be. Is it not nor fortune
to Match with a pure Mind? then an I miserable:
1&5 The Doves, and all Cnast loving-Winged Creatures
haue their Paires fitt, their Desires iustly mated,
is Womn more vnfortunate? a Virgin?
(the May of Woman?) Fate, that hath ordaind (31:)
we should be Man and Wife, hath not given warrant
150 for any Act of lmowledge, till we are soe.

Bl. Bs. P. tender-ey'de Modestie, how it gives at this!
I am as far-off, for all this strange Imposture
as at first Enter-view: Where lies our Game now?
YouknowIcannotMarrie, bymine Order!

155 B1. QB. P. I know you cannot (Sir) yet you may Venture
vpon a Contract!

Bl. BS. P. m»?

 

127. M omit_____s_ 121-430 3 Q omitted i_AA delitious: A3 Benefitts: L

reads Beuties. 128. harm“ to ou: A3 nodest" pairs: A. "

mlnsshing-Gemsters: A. 130. fault: A. 131. assign'd‘: M.

132. irrevocable: A. 133'. M omits 133-136 delight: A. 131:. meet:

A. 135. L omits this line.— ‘137': mi. 138. men: :33

Eight: A. ”1397-sz A° shame-fac'd- :."1. 11:0. omitted in
11:1'. ddd: L, Mine: M_3 ondttedinA. “5.12. Your: mags:
omitted in" A. 1113. never: H. 111;. match: A; : A.

2. Davies: M Chaste: L: Loving Winged: L. 11:6. fit: M_3 Hated: L.

11:7. Is: M. 11:8. A11 endtted in A3 tIe: A3 has: A.T_3 ordelntd':

L. 11:9.‘We: A: exam W3“ fe: "A3 has: A T3 Warrant: A.

150. Knowledge : M. lBlTTender-Eide-Iodestie. - _I_3 Tender-eiH-Modestie. .

M. 152. Inna; gig: (I am as far-off (for...Imposture): M- no c_lo__s__e

e

Is indicated £93; 2533 Mel ougA___ the asfié" ends 7th

IV, Sc. 1 6?

Bl. Qs. P. surely you may Sir,
without all question so far, without danger,
160 or any Staine to your Vow, and that may Take her:
nay doe't with Speed: she'll thinck you meane the better too.

B1. B3. P. Be not so lavish of that blessed Spring:
y'aue wasted that vpon a cold occasion now,
would wash a sinfull Soule white: By our Iove-Ioies
165 that Motion shall nere light vpon my Tongue more
till we are Contracted: then I hope y'are Mine:

Wh. Qs. P. in all iust dutie ever.

Bl. Qs. P. then: doe you question it?
pish: then y'are Ihn, and We, all but CImrch~Ceremony:
170 'pray let's see that don first: She shall doe reason then.
(Now I'll enioy the Sport, and Cozon 'em both:
My Bloods-Game is the Wages I haue work'd for»).

"km 0

Scene seounda Enter _t_h_e_ Black-KnigAt, A A13 Pawne.

Bl. Kt. (Pawne) I haue speaks to the Fat-Bishop for Thee3
I'll get thee Absolution from his owne mouth.
Reach me my Chairs of Ehse, my Chairs of Cozonage;
seaven thousand pound, in Women, reach me that.

 

Enter-view. 153. enterv'iew: L3 Enter-View: M__3 lyes: M. 151:.
you: L Marry: L my: A A. 135. _Q omitted in A3 Yet: M. 157.
M omits Ahi__s line. 1.8 (Sir): L. IE. stayne: A3 taMe: A.
161.5! omits this line do't: A3 shee'L'L: A. 162.4 be: A3 Blessed:
A. 163. You Eu ue: M3 y'aue: T an__q A. 1671. Love Ioies: A. 165.
nm'r: A. 166. weeTre: A3 Then: A; -(I hope): L, you're: A3 you'are:
ytar'é': T3 mine: A. 167. In: A3" Dutie: L. '168. Then: M.
I6 . push: _T3 You are: A3 You'are: A13 (all...01mrch-Ceremony)3 L_3
Church Ceremom‘.e: A. 170. lets: A3 Let's: M3 she: A3 Here A end_____§
the scene: St. dir.: Exeunt. 171’ coozen you: T. 172. M has no
3135' parenthesis. work'd: M reads wrought for. Scene 2'3 .‘St. '-
313: M reads Ihter Bl. Km‘.ght, 8: his Pawne. M reads Scena secunda:
The Bl. Knight, 8: his Pawne: Then the Fat-Bishop: Then the
Black-King. 1. Spoke: A3 speak: M3 Fat: A reads Black; thee: A3
omitted in A. 2. Mouth: A. I. Chaire- E‘Ese: A read______s_ Go den
Is; My UMaire of Cozonage: M3 Chairs of Cozonage: MA reads Stools
of Cozonage. 1:. Seauen-thousand: A3 Pound: A3 Woman: "ATJ ach: M.

 

IV, s:.2 68

5 I love (chute) to sit vpon a Banck
of heretique Gold: (oh: soft, and gently, (Sirha,)
there's a fowle Flaw, i'th'bottcm of my Dram (Pawns)
I nere shall make sound Soldier, but sound Trencher
with any he, in EArope) how now Qualmel

10 thou hast the wldngst Souls that are I nett with.
it cannot bears one suckling Vfllany:
Mine can digest a Monster, without Crufitie,
a Sin, as weightie as an Ellephant
and never wanble fcr't.

15 Bl. Kts. P. I, you haue byn vsd to't (Sir)
that's a great he1p3 the swallow of 1v Conscience
hath but a Narrow passage, you must thinck yet,
it lyes i'th'pmtent Pipe, and will not downs:
yf I had got seaven thousand pound by Offices
20 and gulld downs that, the Bore would haue byn bigger.

Bl. Kt. nay, if thou precast facetious, I shall hngg thee:
(hn a soft reare, poore-poachd-Ifiquitie
so ride vpon thy Conscience? I am asham'd of thee:
hadst thou betrayd the white-house to the Black:
25 haggard a Kingdome by Illssimlation:
vnioynted the faire frame of Peace, and Traffique,
paysond Allegeance; sett Faith back, and wrought
Womens soft Soules, even vp to Masculine Malice
to pursue Truth to death, if the Cause rowsd 'm:
30 that Stares, and Parrotts are first taught to cursse thee.

Bl. Kts. P. I marry (Sir) heere's swapping Sins indeed.

Bl. Kt. all. theis, and ten times trebled, hath this Brains
byn parent tc3 they are m Qfsprings all.

 

5. a-life: A; a life: T liue-of-life: M. 6. Heretique:M

slatted in _3 first enthesis mark axis in M before t voca-
:Give a EI'IEtiom heretique-Go 7. wan—Wm M3
Me: $31 i115: L3 Bottmn: M. 8. Mhasa _1_3_ar__edas das'hat the Jend
of the line. 9._M:rope): Tfie parenth'e'as'b egant “FEE '55 RTtTEe:

gg'ggfiaborate h 22 have 0% final form 9;; AAA
inende mmeonm I #mm: M, pI-EEngst:
flat: M: 11.155317 Suckling: A," suckling-Vim: A. 13.
1h. neuer: A. 15. M omits I3 bimM to 1+3;
ESP omitted!" E A3 16. M omits 16482—17. has: If‘M. 3:3: 3; narrow:
. m the:T A3 pmfipe: A. 19.11' . 20. guild-
game: A. 21. 21.233 proou'gt: A,- hugg-tHee: A. 22.
Reare-poore-poachdgfir ts'tIe:A 23. I'me: A and _T3 a§hamd: A.
25. haggard: A3 Beggard: M. 2‘6. vmoynted: fij‘fiane: A. 27.
Poysond: A; Set: A: faith: A. 28. ev'n: A3 e'en: _T_; (Even...nalice):
3; “'11: A3 Mallice: A. 29. Death: A3 yf: y; rowzd 'm): I».
0. Gursse:_ 31. nary. M Q_______ omitted in A. 32.1! _ Mom—t3 22.-1:2 3

Iv, Sc. 2 69

Bl. Kts. P. a goodly Brood.

35 El. Kt. yet I can Iest as titely,
laugh and tell stirring Stories, to Court Madame
(mnghters of m Seducement) with Alacritie
as high, and hartie, as youthes time or Inocence,
that never knew a Sin, to shape a Sorrow by:

’40 I feele no Tempest, not a Leafe-wind stirring
to shake a fault: aw Conscience is be-calmd rather.

B1. Kts. P. I am sure there is a Whirlwind huffs in mine (Sir).

Bl. Kt. Sirha, I haue scald the Grooms o'th'Stoole six times,
and receiu'd Money of six senerall Indies
AS Ambitious to take place of Baronetts wives.
To three old aney-Matrons I haue promisd
the Mother-ship o'th'Maides: I haue taught our trends too
to Convay White-house Gold to our Black- Kingdozne
in Oold-bak'd-Pasties, and so Cozon Searchers.
50 for Venting hallowed (tile, Beades, Medalls, Pardons,
Pictures, Veronica's heads in privat Presses,
that's don by one in th'abit of a Pedler.
Letters convaid in Rowles, Ibbacco Balls,
When a Restraint comes, by my politique Councell
55 some of our Jesnites turne Gentlemen-Vshers,
some Faulconers, some Park-keepers, and some Huntsman.
One tooke the shape of an old ladies Cooke once
and dispatchd two Chewres on a Sonday Morning
the Altar, and the Dresser: 'pray what vse
6O put I my Sommer Recreation to,

 

has: _A_. 33. Parent: A. 314. ROG“: A. 350 13815: E. 36.
mdam'e‘s: A: 37. aiac'fltie: A. 38. Yauthes: A. 1to. never feele
a Tempest: L_3 not: omitted in—L, Ieaffe: L. III. Fault: 5. 1:2.
I'me: A and y WWCI- _Q omitted— in A. A3. ha'sonld: A.
M. recec'fiTd: L. 1:5. ambit one: W-fiiace: A. 1:7. Mother-ship:
y I'haue: y Frauds: M. 1:8. convey: L- white: 1;; White-house-Gold:
g Gould-1r; Kingdom: 1'. A9. Coldb ade Pasties: y Cold Bakde-
sties: _, cozen: A. 50. venting: A_3 hallowd: A oyle: _L_; Beads:
- Medals: M. 51.'Veron1caes-heades: A: Vironica's: L3 Heads: H_3
vat: M: “firesses: A. 52. th'abitt: 15} i'th'habit: I. 53. convayd:
- Belles: M. Sh. when: A. 55. A Touts our3 Vsshers: ° Gentlanen
shers:L. 56. FauJJcners: A3and : s Vthe ersand- semen: A3
Buttes-men: M. 5?. Shape: H. 58. "NO: Veggrfh: by
SondaiezL J morning: L. 59. (the...]1‘esser):_31'pray: E.

Iv, Sc. 2 70

but more t'inrorme m lmowledge in the State
and Strength of the white-Kingdoms! No Fbrtification,
haven, Creeks, Lending-place 'bout the white-Coast
but I got draught, and Plat-fame; Learnd the depth
65 of all their W3 knowledge of :11 Sends,
Shelves, Rocks, and Rivers, for Invasion properst.
A Catolougue of all the Many Roiall,
the Burthen of each Ship: the Brassy Mderers:
the Nomber of the Men, to what Cape bound.
"(0 Agen, for the Discovery of the In-Lands,
Never a Sheire, but the State better knowne
to Me, then to the Brest-Inhabitants,
What powre of Men, and horse: Gentries Revenewes,
Who well-affected to our Side, who ill:
75 Who neither Well, nor 131: all the NeutralJitie:
mirtie eight thousand Soules, haue byn sedncd (Pawns)
since the Geoles vomited with the Pill I gave'em.

EL. Kts. P. sure you put oils of Toad into that Phisick (31:).

BI. Kt. I am now about a Master-peece of Play,
80 to Entrap the White-Knight, and with false AJJnrements
entice him to the Black-House: more will follow:
Whilst our Fat Bishop setts vpon the Queens.
then will our Game lye sweetely.

Bl. Kts. P. he's come now (Sir).
85 fat B. heere's 'l‘axa Poefitenflaria (Knight)
the Books of Generall Pardons of all Prices.
I haue byn searching for his Sin this half hours,
and cannot light vpon't.

Bl. Kt. that's strange: Let me see't.

 

61.t'enforne: E. 63.haven:pEba JagacaOital letterinAandL
Hanan: E3 Place: M. 61:. Platf E finer ers: E3 Mei-Tit?!
A. 67. Catalogue: A_3 Navy-Roiall: ._A_3 roiall: L. 68. lbs Earthen:
H: each: T reads the JShips; The Brassie: L Brassy-Mnrderers: A.
69.11: W To: L3 What: M- howndi'i. 7o. Agen: A reads
Then; Di.scouery:M Inlands: A3 5:11 MSS have the J-fom capiral?
(for...In-Lands) :‘h. M71. Sh'é'irT'I mwrg. mmmts:
A: Brest Inhabitants. Inhabitants: written in L and M with the
ifomca ital. 73. Mclauses: M3 Revenues: 33.1 Entries-Remnants: E.
o: cag well affected: _L_,- our-Side: _A_,- de: M reads State: 111:
M. 75. well: A11: M3 Neutralitie: M. 76. @513“ A seduc'd:
I. 77. gene: 78. "Oiie: L_3 pisick: A3 phisique: _3 omitted
In A. 79. Ian :T reads I'me?’ Master-Peace: A. 80. went—Trap-
BI."hotiee: M. :85 .m-Bishop: y fat-BishOp: E3 vpon: M.

has

IV, Sc.2 71

90 BI. Kts. P. Pawns nreatched that I am: hath my Rage don that
there is no President of Pardon for?

Bl. Kt. for millfifll Murder, thirteene pound fowre shillings,
and six pence: (that's reasonable cheapo): for Killing:
Killing: Killing: Killing:
95 Why, heere's nothing but Killing (Bishop) on this side.

fat B. turne the Sheete over, you shall find Adulterie
and other Triviall Sins.

Bl. Kt. Adulterie? (oh, I am in't now)
For Adulterie a couple of shillings: and for Fornication
100 fine Pence: 'mas (theis are two good penmrworthes: I
cannot see how a Man can mend himself.)
For Lying with Mother, Sister, and Ihnghter
(I marry Sir) thirteene pound, three shillings, three pence.
The Sins gradation right: paid all in Mass.

105 fat B. you haue read the story of that Monster (Sir)
that got his mughter, Sister, and his wife
of his one Mother?

Bl. Kt. Symonie, nine pound.
fat B. they may thanck me for that: 'tnas nineteene
llo before I came:
I haue mittigated many of the Somes.

Bl. Kt. Sodomie six pence: (you Should put that Sane
ever on the back-side of your Books, Bishop),

 

83. Then: M3 he: L. T reads Enter Bl. Hp. 81:. Eg_S'_t_. Q. in E3
hee's: E3 He's: Mo-él whim-in A. 85. Since A does not contain
th role of 3'21 Bis op, Here aid ElsewhereE'thi's scenE—flzg eech
head reads-Bl. B.3 heer's: Afmnitentia: A. . 0: H3 generall:
_,L- pri'ces: A. 89. see it:—T; l'étz E. 90. (Pawn...am):'E3
wretched: M7 has: A. 91. president: A. 92. 'I'lfirteene: 3 poundes:

 

y Pound: M: 93o-six-pence: M3 Q omitted £2 9..- 9h.
A repeats 't‘he word three times, _M mm m g; twice _a_._n_cl

then reads 5". T re eats the word five times. 95. shy: omitted

in A: on: T reads—o . 9 .m. 97. Eden: E. 9 .
Eultrie: I3-T—reads I'me; at it: y ( omitted in 5. 99. for: y

a couple: I rEads-fio; cople: E3 And: JW.'Line arr—augments
inconsistent with T and with each other. 100. five: A3 pence: A:
We: _ a; egg—Z,— sut—omTt edT—Il .meie: g3 penneyl’h'erthes: I};

Q omitted in E. T61. man: A. £02. for: A. 103. nary: y thirtie
three: E,_T3'Thirteene: E3 pounds: A; Three shillings: E3 Pound: E3
Ponce: M. 101:. the: A- Madation: E3 threes: E3 2 fl too. 105.
Story: A} Storie: y omitted _igy 106. niffe: A. 107. Mothre:

 

17, So. 2 72

fat B. there's fess en's very forward (Sir).
115 Bl. Kt. What's here (Sir?) Two old Presidents of Encmragelwntl
fat B. I: those are auncient Notes.

Bl. Kt. (fiuen as a gratuitie for the Killing of an
Hereticall Prince, with Poisond knife; Diccatts, fine thousand.

120 fat B. true (Sir) that was paid.

B1. Kt. Prmdsd also to Doctor Lopez for Poysoning the Maiden
Queens of the white Kingdoms,
Diccatts twentie thousand, which said some was
afterwards giuen as a meritorious Almes
125 to the Numerie at Lisbon: hauing at this present Ten
126/7 thousand pound more at vse, in the Towns-house of Antwerpe.

Bl. Kts. P. What's all this to Iv Conscience? (Worthie Holines)
I sue for Pardon; I haue brought money with me:

130 fat B. You must depart: you see there is no President
of any Price, or Pardon for your Fact.

Bl. Kts. P. most miserable: are fowler Sins remitted?
Killing? nay nillfull Murder?

fat B. true: there's Instance:
135 Were you to kill him, I would pardon You :
there's president for that, and Price set downs.
but none for Guelding.

 

L. 108. Simon: A: Nine-Pound: E. 109. E omits 109-lll They: M3
Nineteene: M. 112: Ponce: M3 some: E3 iFflB. BacEside:
M3 A omits Bishop: (Bishop) :‘M. 111:. er—TTEe3 s: "few: omitted
In L—lI S. what's: E3 two:I () omitted in A. 115-126.%.ne
arranganent impossible to dist-1%s 85. 117'- Gratiitie: M3 I ont'Lt____s_

the. 118. poysond: L3 reads five thousand Duckstts, :
Duccats: M3 fine Thousand. M. "320.15“: 143 14...... omits Sir3 omitted
in A. 121. promised: A3 Promis'd: E3 poysoning: A. 122. fi-
E'eenemfl white-Kingdoms: M. 123. A omits mcketts3 mccats: E3 twen-
ty: E3 fipen tie: E. 1211. given: E3 lie-Mons: E. 125. haying:

A_3 Honing: _L_3 ten: E. 126. Pound: M: Vse: M3 of: _L_ reads at. 128.
worthie: E.-, 129. pardon: E3 Money: __3 Me: E. 130. ion ousee: E3
president: E. 131. price: pardon: A. 32. Are: L- A reads
permitted. 133. Key: M: Willmll: L3 Further: A. 131:. "Irue: E3
instance: A. 135. : L- you:_A_."’136.therTs: E3 Resident:

L_3 price: K3 sett: yr. 137. A omits this iine.

 

Iv, Sc. 2 73

Bl. Kts. P. I haue pickt out Vndsrstanding now for ever
out of that (hbalistique Bloody Ridls.
111.0 I'llmakeawayallnwEstate,andld.llmm:
and by that Act obtains full. Absolution.

‘.th
Eater Black E25.

Bl. K. Why Bishop: Knight, wher's your Remoues? your 'Jlraps?
stand you now idle in the heats of Game?

B1. Kt. My life for yours (Black Sousraigne) the Gene's ours.
MS I haue wrought vnder-hand for the flute-Knight,
and his Brave flake, and find 'em Coming both.

fat B. then for their Senetimordous Queenes airprizall
in that State-puzzsh, and distracted hurrery.
trust 1w Arch-31bt1stie with.

150 Bl. K. oh Eagle-pride,
Never was Game more hopefull of our Side.

“km.

 

Bl. Kt. yf Bishop Ball-beeff, be not kap'd at next Bowt,
(as the Men stand) I'll neuer trust Art morsz-n-

“mt .

 

138. pickd: A pickd-eut: E3 vnderstanding: L. 139. Chbalistique-
bloody: E3 ddle: A. 1110. Since E omits the exits hero-
mks-away: E3 1:111:14. 11:1. No 5t. Fig _. . ere's: _I3
h‘apps: 3. 11:3. St'a'nd: M3 Isl-:13 Fat: M. 11:14. my: A3 Life: E3
Black-Saueraigne: M- Games: L3 blaatz E. 116. conning: E: 11:7.
men: E3 airpri : A3 "A adds Sir. 11:8. that: '1' reads this3
State puzzell: E3 Dis c {-1. (7S 3 hurry: _A_. 1149. Ircmtlstis:
M. 150. Fgle pride: A Pride: M. 151. neuer: E. 152. A omits
£53, 1523 Bull-Beef: Egat: 922335 _‘1_‘_. Exit: E reads mount.

7h

IV, Se. 3 Scena Tertia. Enter the Black Quesnes Pawns (with a
Tapour in her hand) and Conducts the
Domb white Queenes Pawns (in her Might
Attire) into one Chamber3 and then
Show Comaies the Black Bps. Pawns (in his

Night habit) into an other Chamber.
So putts out the Light, and followes
him

0

IV, Sc. 11 Scene. Qaarta. ter thwhits—Kni t Ewhite Dike.

Wh. Kt. True Noble Dike, fairs Vertues most endeer'd one,
let vs prevent their ranck Insinuafion,
with truth of Cause, and Courage: meets their Plotts
with Confident Goodnes, that shall strike 'an groveling.

S Wh. D. (Sir) All the Jins, Traps, and Arming-Snares
the Devin hath byn at work since Eightie-sight on,
are layd for the great hope or this Gem onely.

Wh. Kt. why, the more Noble will nuthes Triumph be,
When they haue woownd about our Constant Courages
10 the glittringst Serpent, that ere Falsehood fashiond,
and glorying most in his resplendent Poysons,
iust heaven can find a Belt, to bruise his head.

whiter ESE. K1112 .

IV, 3: with a Tapor in her hand: A reads with lights; A isamb $
re ar the White Queen's Pawn. :nTEI—Ms a? E 5.,
18.1513: :t9__ i__n_______dicate werE'EtE tE____e e second aha—hiber

 

 

door or t one of the E%__. Egg? tIV t. _

the dw'iih s ow s not-3e? as 8. sm arate scene. IV, )4: _IE'E

tEs_ scene is SEene 3%:3 no e. m. in M: 'me
em , enetE agimg ht:_ Then _the -w’51.ts-Q1esne:

the Fat Bishop: the white Bishop: & the wh. MKing. 1. noble: E3
(faire...one): L3 Meer'd-one: E. 2. Let:M Ranck: E. 3. Truth:
M3 Meets: E. E: confident: E. 5. all: A Sifirms: L I:yns E,-
'h‘apps: E3 _allwring: A Alluring Srares: L_3—33113): L3 JEE omitted in
E: Jins:o%1%hWA has e J-form ca 'tal. 6. has: E; orm‘g'fitie
eight: L3 d:_, eat: E. 8. why. E reads
Sir; More: M3 noble: A3'h-u huthes-fl‘imuph: E. 9. when: 3 m: E:
woound-about: A: constant: E. 10. glistringst: E3 Giit’trimgst:
M3 Falcehood: 13.11. his: -T reads theirs; poysons: A3 Poisons: E.
1'5. Iuls-Z:_ M. "'St. dir.: T ease-355 have th__e_ Blae__Exm Mn'i'égt e__n____ter
until

IV, Sc. 1: 75

Wh. D. Looks, would you see Distraction lye a Stmning?
in yonder Smile, sitts Blood, and Treacheris basking:
15 In that perficnous redeii of Face-Falsehood
hell is drawne grynning.

Wh. Kt. what a pains it is
for Truth to faigne a litle!

B1. Kt. oh fairs Knight.

20 The Rising Gloria of that House of Condor,

have I so many Protestations lost?

lost? lost? quight lost? Am I not worth your Confidence?

I that haue vow'd the Faculties of Souls,

Life, Spirit, and Brains, to Your sweet Game of Youth?
25 (your Noble fruitfull Game?) can You mistrust

any fowle play in Me, that haue byn ever

the most sutmdsse Ooserver of your Vertues,

and no way taynted with Ambition

save onely to be thought your first Admirer?
30 how often haue I changd, for your Delight

the Roiall Presentation of my Place

into a Wok-Jester! and becom

[_(m your sake, and th'expulsion of sad 1houghts)]

of a (have State-Sire, a Light Son of Pastime!

ands Three-score yeeres a Tomboy! a more Wanton!
35 I'll tell you what I told a Saucy Imus once,

New Wedd, high, plump, and lusting for an Issue,

Within the years I promisd her a Child

if She could stride over St. Rumbants Breeches

(a Relique kept at Mechlin) The next Morning

 

13. looks: _A_; would: E reads will; a-sunning: L. 1h. In: M; Treachery:
A_3 here T has the mack—__- Kni t enter. 15. in:A face: '_Falsehood:
M. I7.Lonut_s-a3 EL andIBareas __'__ne. limit,
2'0. the: 13mg!" Hat-Em -Hi§i-.ng:Gl%—A. “‘21. haue: M.-
Althou Ens i_s (trio's usual written form b__<_>__tH A and L read Have

23. facultiss: L. 25. Ariffs: L_3 Brayne:M 3your: 5; youth:

A. __.-225. g omits 25-29:- noble: canyon: A. 26. fowle-pléy: E.
2'8. taintedT: . Weenght: 31. 3015111: A reads Reall3

presentationz-A. 32-3h. and b'é'come...Tombay: ofiifi‘a'in M. 32.
Jester: _L_ and M have the J-form ca ital. 33. grave-Eta-te-Sire: E3
light: A_3" Fefiem m _, but not in '1'. 3h. three:
A3 Moore: W. Saucy-Enm.- ‘3‘6‘. new teas? A" New-Wedd. 3 L3
ed: M; Pimp. M3 Issue: M 3_A_3 the J-form 2%“, 37. beate:-£1,
Chums: A. 38. she:A ousr: 117mg, A, Rmhants-
Breeches: L. 39. Re que: E; the: E3 morning: E.

IV, Sc. ’4 76

MO one of my Followers old Hose, was convaid
into her (number, where she tryde the feats,
by that, and a Court-fiend, after grew Great.

Wh. Kt. why who could be without thee?

Bl. Kt. I will change
1:5 to any Shape, to please you: and my Ayme
hath byn to Win your Love, in all this Game.

Wh. Kt. thou hast it nobely: and we long to see
the Black-house Pleasure, State, and Dignitie.

Bl. Kt. of Honour you'll so surfeyt, and Delight,
SO you'll nere desire agen to see the White:

“manta
“km 222 White Queene.

Wh. Q. My Lone, my hape: nor Dearest, oh, he's gon:

Ensnar'd, Entrap'd, Surprizd amongst the Black-ones:

I never felt Ebrtremitie like this:

'Ihick Darlcnes dwells wrpon this howre: Integritie
55 (like one of heavens bright Innn'naries, now

by Errors dullest Element interposd)

suffers a Black Ecclipze: I never was

more sick of Lane, then now I am of horrour:

Enter E E0

 

ho. hose: A: Convaid: M. 1:1. her: A reads the, Where: M_: She: M:
tride:A Feate: A. E2. By: M; Court‘f'": L- Court-From: M
great: :Greate :_Lo ’43. Why: L, 11136: Mo mo M6311. is.
shape:l' You: L. I46. has: A_; wynn: L Wyn: M love: _A_. -h7.
Thou: _M'Egha'st: "A; We: M; See: M. 118. House: A; pleamre: L.

1:9. 01': L- Honor-':" A_: honour: L; "eurfeit: A. st’.d1r.: M he; the
Exeunt but not the entrance; Euter the White Queene: Here- We

the roux-555‘- scene. 353 note at IV 3. 51. LOVE: A; Hope: _3
firm “Uh—7A. "5'2. ensnar :;I entrap'd: A: "surprizd: A. 53.
extremitie: A. "Sh. M omits he58-" thick: A_3 Integritie: L he’s the
J_-_-______formed ca Ital. 5;.‘132‘5': 56. interposde: A. 57. BEoFA
neuer: _A_. .Love: A. St. (fun: Enter Fat Bp.:- $8341! but L
inchicates the entrance at 5Q,_ Ab Mags in the _B_l_.a___ck 318th Egg;

M omits m4 St“ E

 

IV, SC. ’4 77

I shalbe Taken: me Game's lost: I'am set vpon:
60 Oh : 'tis the Turne- Coate-Bishop, (having watchd

th'advantage of his Play) comes now to Ceize on Me:

oh, I am hard be-sett, Itistressd most miserably.

fat B. 'tis veins to stirr: Remove which way you can
I take you now: ‘lhis is the Time we bane hop'd for.
65 Queens, you must downs: there is no remedie.

Wh. Q. No Rescue: no Deliveretr?
fat B. The Black-Kings Blood, burnes for thy Prostitution,
and nothing but the Spring of tlw mast Vertue
can Cools his Inflamation: Instantly
70 he dies vpon a Pluresie of Inxurie

filter white as

 

If he de-flowre thee not.
Wh. Q. oh straight of Ifiserie.
Wh. B. And is your Holines his Devine Precursor?

fat B. The Devill's in't: I am Taken by a Ring-Done:
75 Where stood thLe Bishop, that I saw him not?

Wh. B. you were so Ambitious, you lookd over Me:
You aym'd at no losse Person then the Queens,
(the Glory of the Game): y! She were won

filter white we

 

the way were open to the Master-Check,
80 Which (looks you) he, and his, lives to give you:
Honor, and Vertue guid him in his Station.

 

59. taken: 55 the: A: Games: 5: I'me: .45 I am: 3;: sett: L. 60.
the BishOp of the Black-House: A: 61. the: A and 'r 3, has no en-
thesis mark; Comes: .12; ceize: A. 62. besett? '1';- se : dgfigosd
I Estresa: 1.2. 63. Veins: M: stir: A; Barnum-A3 Way: L. 611.

e: E; haue: 3 reads euer; Hopd: M. — 65. there:..remedi'e: o
in M not i__n_ T: (fieene: y, but no classy arenthesis mark; on: M.
3.51 Baits ’3 line; no: AMuerance: 3 Deliuerer: I. 67. '-
the: AT‘BTISod“: .A.—38. ma'é'te: L. 69. coB'le: A; Inflama'tion: M
has t e J-formed I. 70. dyes: E: No stage direction in M. 717
If? ydeflowre: I. 72. streyt: MEI-msery: M. '73. and: A. 711.
the: £5 taken: 53M done: A. 75. where: g. 76. You: gr, ambitious:
A- me: A: 78. if: is omitted in A. St. dir.: omitted in _M,
7). Cheque: L. 80. : T and I Feed or; Lives: 5; Eve: __M:
81. HOW: E. - _- .-

IV, 30. h 78

Wh. Q. oh my saffe Sanctuarie:

Wh. K. Let heavem Blessings
be mine no longer then I am thy Sure-One.
85 The Danes-house is not saffer in the Rock
then Thou in my firms Bosome.

Wh. Q. I am blessd in't.

Wh. K. Is it that lamp of ranck Ingratitude

swelld with the poyson of Hipocresie?
90 Could he be so malitious? hath pertaken

of the sweet fertill Blessings of our Kingdoms:

Bishop, Thou hast don our White-house gatious Service,

and worthie the fairs Reverence of thy Place;

for Ihee (Black-holines) that workst out thy death
95 as the Blind Moale (the properst Son of Earth)

Who, in the Casting his Ambitious hills vp

is often Taken, and Destroyd i'th'lfidst

of his Advaunced Work: ”over well with 'Jhee,

If (like that Ventinous labourer which thou inwtatst
100 in hills of Pride, and Mallice,) When Death putts thee Vp,

the silent Grave might prove thy Bag for ever,

No deeper Pit then that: for thy Vaine hope

of the white-Knight, and his most firms Assistant

Two Prinoely Peeces, which I know thy Thoughtes
105 give lost for ever now; My strong Assuraunce

of their fixd Vertues, could you let in Seas

of populous Vntruthes against that Fort,

'twould burst the proudest Billowes.

Wh. Q. My feare's past then.

1.10 Wh. K. Feare! You were neuer guilty of an Iniury
to Goodnes, but in that.

Wh. Q. it staid not with me (Sir).

 

82. 0h: L_3 Summary: L. 83. blessings: L. 8h. sure: _A_. 85.
Doues House: _A_. 86. thou: _A_; bosome: A. 88. A and M oi‘ut BB-L.
90. hath: T reads has. 92. thou: A_3 ha'st: L; House: A. 93.
Reuerence: m. For: M_; Holines: A_; holynes:L. 9‘3. Mole: A_3
Blind-Meals: M: M omits from the properst to 'tner well in 98.
95. casting: Ii- 7?. taken: A_; destroid: I: midest: _A_. _98- advaunced:
A 'twere: L_3 well indeed with Thee: M. 99. if: A; yf: M- verminous:
_3Vernwnous: L: (which: M; infitat'st: A. 100. Adios: _; when: A
Puts: M3 VP: If) 101. ‘Ihy: M. 102. (Bo...thet): M- For: M. 10.
White:-M mun—1mm: I Peices: A; thoughts: _A_. 10;. my: 5:-
assuraamce: A but % Crane has witten nn instead of un here.
106. fixt: _A_; you: they—3.138: FE IOT vn-tru 6881.109.
Feare's: L. 110. Mm llO-ll fears: _A_; you: A never: _A_;
guiltie: g. 1.12. METE— ed i__nA.

IV, Sc. 1: 79
Wh.K. Itwastoomuchifit vsurpda'mought:
'place a good Guard there.
115 Wh. Q. Confidence is sett (Sir).

Wh. K. Tales that Prize hence: Goe (Reuerend of Men)
put Gouetousnes into the Bag agen.

fat B. The Bag had need be sound, or it goes to wrack,
Sin, and my Waight, will make a strong-one Crack.

"kmnt.

Finis Actus Quarti

 

113. it: A; vsurp'd: A; thought: A. 111:. theirs: I; place: A.
1.15. ondtted in A. 116. aoe:“r reads you: _(_)_ omitted in M.
117. t: _H; fiE’Eu'Eusnes: A- Scen'é' E's—here _i_n_ A. 118.-35nd:
M reads strong; Wreck: M. WWW: Q :3 A.

v, Sc. 1 80

ACTUS QU'IN'IUS

Scena prime Enter the Black Knigt (in his litter)
° mm. awne (above).

31. Kt. [Ho1d, holdJ
Is the-Black-Bishop's Pawns, the Jesuits,
planted above for his Concise Qratien?

Bl. Be. P. Ecce Triumphanti Me fimm Caesaris Arcs.

5 Bl. Kt. Ar't there (nw holy Boy)? Sirha: Bishop Tunbrell
is Snap'd i'th'Bag by this time.

B1. B3. P. Baeretici pereant sic.

Bl. Kt. All Iattin? sure the Oration hath infected him:
Away: make haste: They are Coming.

Enter Black House, meeting the white It _A_: Dike.

10 Bl. Bs. P. Si quid mortalibus vnquam Coulis hilarsm et gratum
aperuit Diem: Si quid peramantibus Amicerum
Animis gaudlum attulit, psperitue
Iaetitiam (Eques Candidissime-praelucentissime)
faelicem profecto Tuum, a Demo Canderis, ad Donnm mmmdinis
15 Accessum, promisisse, peperisse, attulisse fatemur.
Omnss Adnentus ‘Ihi conflagrantissimi, ani qua

 

St. dir.: A reads (Lewd Misick) Ehter Bl. King: Queens, Dike, 8:
Pawnss, a: BI. __Knight: meeting the white Knight 8: Dike: (the B1.

Bps. Pawns aboue. Enterteines them, with this Iattin Oratien) . M
adds 1‘2 the directions rinted at the t of this act men the BlacE-
r—uuee, Gus-our. the fitment; a te Dike. “I. _i_n_ _‘I_'_. No
Crane Ms has this line: A omits 1-9: Iesuite: A has the - orm ca um.
6:13 ’EEe?!.“F.‘FE£h :-T__'Hsrea Es. 9. they :‘M.’ “st“. dir. :+—_
reads Hoboyes, Enter Bl. Kit—15. .: omitted _i_n_ M; jg has the Oration
E'él'ore 39; but no Crane MS does. . aquamli. 12'. animis: A
m: M. 13': mdfis'fiE-praelncentissime: _A_. 114. tuum: g

 

 

possums lastitia, Candie, Congratulations, Acclamtione,
Animus obseruantissinds, Affectibus
diuetissinds, ebssqws Venerabundis Te

20 Sospitem congratulamr.

Bl. K. Sir,) In this short Congratulaterie Speech
You may Conceive how the whole House affects you.

Bl. Kt. The Galledges, and Sanctimonious Seed-Plotts.
Wh. Kt. ”his clears, and so aclmowledg'd (Reiall Sir).

25 Bl. K. What honours, Pleasures, Rarities, Delightes
your Nehls Thought can thinck.

31. Q. your fairs eie fix on,
that's comprehended in the spatious Circuit
01' our Black-Kingdoms, they are your Servants all.

30 Wh. Kt. how amply you endsere vs!
Wh. D. they are fauours V
that equally enrich the Roiall Giver
as the Rsceivour, in the free Donation.

Bl. Kt. harck: (to enlarge your Wellcem) from all Parts
35 is heard sweet-sounding Aires: Abstruse things open

--Musick. An Altar discouerd richs adorned
usr______s_ mes 31553333 93 each side.

of voluntary frsenes: and yend Altar
(the Seats of Adorafion) sesmss t'adore
the Vertues you bring with you.

Wh. Kt. there's a taste
110 of the old vessell still.

 

l7. gaudio: _3 congratulations: A. 18. affectibus: A. 19. Obse-
quy's: M; venerabuncfls: A. 20. Congratulamr: M. ZI. Sir, In: A

Congra't'ulatery: A- Spee'éhezM. 22. you: A. 2'3. sanctimonious:
Sesde-Plotts: M. 21:. macknofledgd: M. 23. m. K: E9. both _A_ and
but T ves th:? s eechto the Black Kni%. Mtomts __fieig- 4:.

M5”; 7" ITTE— circle.

29. Kingdoms"lg A_3 “they're: A. 33. Free: A. 311.sz A- Enlarge:

M: wellcom: A? Welcom: When: 3,: omitted in A. 35: sweet sound-
Ing: L AyreszL Abstruse-‘Jhings: Wu Se reads A. T
omits richely .Both 1. and M'add with tapers “on‘Tt': "'.Sts‘fires -
m M read Images. 3T—‘Seat713- to adore: T. 39. There's: 13
W: M. he. Vessell: _A_.

v, Sc. 1 82

[Wh. D. the'Erronlous Rellishoj
som

Wonder, work some strange delight
(this Place was neuer yet without)
to wellcom the fairs White-house Knight,
and to bring our Hepes about.

115 Maia fran the Altar Flames aspire,
lThese 'lhpers sett themselues on fire:
May senoeles 'Jhings our Joies Appreue,
and those Brazen-Statues mus,

~28}: Em we... is. A __...hme:

quickend by some Pours aboue.
50 or what more strange, to show our Ions.

Bl. Kt. A happie Qnsn waytes vpon this hours:
All nous portentously the right-hand way.

Bl. K. (bins: Let's sett free all. the most Choice Delightes
that over adernd miss, or quickend Nightes.

“We
ScenaSecunda Enterwh. Qs. Pawns mam.
(In—Kim 11$”

Wh. QB. P. I see 'twas but a Triall of my Ditie now,
h'ath a more modest mind; and in that Vertue
most worthelie hath the prouided for Me;

 

[Wh. D....Benish] : InT this line is 131313 .White ht as
a continuation of 1:0" 'E‘n-onious: g
strange-EEght: :_me .‘Ib: M- welcom: M_3 White-Knight: A; White-

Raise-Knight: M. "MIA. hopes: I: I45.May :M. A6. those: _L_3 set: M_;
on fire: T rea'd's afire. 1:7. maie: L_3 Ioies: M has the J-form 351.23%;
tal A and me the intermediate _f____orm o_f_ th___e_ "units: 733'." 'th" es:
525 fifies: _A_.-__.St. dir.:l reads “Statues f_3_r Images; wanes: _5
none 8: Dance: A. A9. quickentd. :‘IT" 50. or: A. 51. happy: A.

52. move: A3 Mme: M3 portentuously: A3 (portentously): M_3 Bight: M.
53. let's:-, M: choice delightes: A. V, 2: St. dir.: So reads A. _IE
omits (in his reusrsnd. . .her. M'adds Then the Black QEeenes-Pawne:
1HerT'the white Bishop's Pawns a -t5'e_B'l. Knights Pawne. 1. triall: A3
mtie: T reads loue. » 2. 'hath: M_3 ha's:A minds: A Ifind: M_3 vertue:
A. 331137551"; reads has; provided: M. . dir.: in '1'."

V, Sc. 2 83

hahl "tie the Bad Man, in the Rsuerend habit!
5 fires he be some agen? Traitour to helynes,
eh marble fronted Impudence; and knowes
how ill 'hath vsd me: I am ashamd he blushes not.

Bl. Be. P. Are you yet stoard with any Womans pittie?
Are you the Mistris of someh Devotion,
lo kindnes, and mantis, as to bestows
an Almes of love, on Your poore Suffrer yet?
for your sake onsly?

Wh. Q3. P. Sir, for the reverend Respect you ought
to give to Sanctitis (though none to Me)

15 in being her Seruant vowd, and wears her Livorie:
yf I might Councell you, you should nere speaks
the Language of Vnehastnes in that habit,

You would not thinck how ill it doth with you:
The World's a Stage, on which all Parts are plaid,

20 you'l'd thinck it most absurd to see a Devill
presented there, not in a Irv-ills shape,
or (wanting one) to send him out in yours,
you'l'd rails at that for an Absurdetis
no Colledge are committed: for Deeerum-sake, then,

25 for Pitties Chase, for sacred Vertues honour,
yf you'll persist still in your Devills part,
present him, as you should dos: and let one
that CarriesvptheGoodnes ofthePlay
come in that habit, and I'll speaks with him:

30 Then will the Parts be fitted, and the Speetatours
know which is which: They must haue Cunning Iudgemsnts
tofinditels; for suchaOnsasyou
is able to deceive a mightie Audience:

 

man.: A: Bad-Man: L- reverend: A. .dares: A: againe: L- Tray-tour:
A- (Trai‘t'éur...holynes):M 6. mrbls-fronted :_L Marble:'f(_. 7.

: T reads much; 1211:1437 h'as: A; vsd: T reads wrongd; I'me: T3
Itsm:"L'o‘?sIsmtd: A. pitty: A. 9. so mm. 10. bestow 'M:.
11. Laue: M- poore'i-‘shffrer: A.“ 12. _M_ omits thIs line. 13. (fir):

Reuere respect: A; '1' reads Reusrsnce and R's'spect. 111.
gm omitted in‘i. 15. ServaSt-z-mer: T reads the; Livery: M.

Wcouneell:A 17. language: A;-v_n:c'hastnss: A; Vnchastenee:

L Habit: M. 18. you: A; doth: T and A read do's. l9. world's: it;

Which: M. 20. You'lld: ou'll'd:A M- see: Arcade hone.
21. mums—maps: A. 22’ Manting: M’ omitted" in A. ’23“. you'll'd:
A; You'ld: M_; rayle: L. 21:. Committed: ;decorums- sake: _A_. 25.
pittiss: A3", canes: A.‘ 26. if: - Devills-Part: M. 27. Let: M.

28. Carries-vp: A. 29. Come: MT, 30. Memits 30-36 then: A. 31.
they: A; ‘1hey...1udgements:T reads it Bust 53 e cunning.

32. one: A.

v, Sc. 2 8h

Nay, those you haue seduc'd (if there be any

35 in the Assembly) if they see what manner
You play your Game with Me, they cannot love you:
Is there so litle hope of you, to smile (Sir)?

Bl. Be. P. yes: at Your feares: at th'Ignorance of your Powre,
the litle vse you make of line, youth, Forttme,
1:0 knowing you haue a Husband, for Insts shelter,
you dare not yet make bold with a Frends Comfort:
this is the plague of Weakenes.

Wh. Qs. P. so hott burning
the Sillables of Sin fly from his Lipps,
1:5 as if the Letter came new Cast from hell.

Bl. Be. P. Well: setting a—eide the Dish you loath somch
(which hath byn hartely tasted by your Betters)
I come to Harrie you to the Gentleman
that last enioyd you: I hope that pleases you!
50 there's no immcdest rellish in that Office.

Wh. Qs. P. strange, of all men he should first light on him
to Tye that holy Knot, that sought t'vndooe me:
Were you requested to performs that Busynes (Sir?)

31.38. P. Inamsyouasure'roken.

55 who Q80 P. (as for that, 311‘)
Now y'ar most wellcom: and my fairs hope's of you
You'll never break the sacred Knot you tye once,
with any lewd Solliciting hereafter.

 

3h.nay :A. 36. you play: A3 me: A3 love: A. 37. omitted _iAA3

is: A. 58. the: A and T_3 Ignoraunce: A: your Feares: _3 Your Powre:

L- powre: A. to. "In-'35s: A. bl. You: M: sfronds: L comfort: A.
.lhis: M_3 weakenes: A. 'ves We eech o the Black—

Queen's Pawn hot: M_3 hott-burning: aimles 3T sin: _3

Epps: A. 5. new-cast: M. ’46. well: A3 dish: A° loathe: A3

so men? M. 1:7. bath: '1' E A read has3 Batters: _M'Sne no olo"
enthesis mark. 118. We: _3M marry: A3 Gentle" man: M-

hope: T 53 I read 'hope. 50. Rellish: M3 office: M. 51. men:

T reads others; Men: M3 light: M3 T reads-hes should—light. 52.

tye:A holly: A3 knot: A3 undooe: A3 toundoo: T. M53. were: A3

msynes: T reads office; ‘11 omitted-3 in A. 55. Jfiromit:t

AA A- _i_n_ M LEE; pagen‘thgsis i-Ii-fi—t th' the vocative
1're:A3wel£l.1::ou:e: A. 577—. you'll: A3 neuer: L3 breaks:

sacred: g3 knot: A. ‘58. with:o __n_1_y.A______ reads by3'1ew :1: M3 so‘J’Jioiting: A.

B

I)

v, Sc. 2 35

Bl. Be. P. but all the Graft's in getting of it knitt:
60 You'are all on fire to make your Gozoning Market.
Iamthethrrier, andtheMan: doeyouknowme?
Doe you know me? I‘Vce Iniquitie, Strict Inxurie,
and holy whoredome, that would clap on Marriage
with all hott speed, to soalder vp your Game?
65 See what a Scourge Fate hath provided for Thee.
You were a Maid? swears still: y'ar no worsse noun
I left you as I found you: haue I startled you?
I am quitt with you now for my Discovery,
Your (ht-cries, and your Gunnings: farewell Brockage.

7O Wh. Q8. P. nay, stay, and hears me but give thancks a litle,
(yf your Ears can endure a Work so gratious)
then you may take your pleasure.
Bl. Bs. P. I haue don that.
Wh. Q8. P. that Powre, that hath preseru'd me from this Dev-ill.
75 Bl. Be. P. how?

Wh. Q8. P. This, that may Challenge the Gueif Chairs in hell,
and sitt above his Master.

Bl. E. P. bring in Merit!

Wh. Qs. P. that sufferdst him, through blind lost, to be ledd
80 last night, to the Action of some Gomon-Bedd.

Bl. Q8. P. (within) not over Common neither.
Bl. Be. P. bah! what Voice is that?

Wh. Q8. P. of Virgins be than ever honoured.
You may now goe: you hears I haue given thancks (Sir).

 

59. But: A3 Grafte's 8: A3 knit: A. 60. you'r: A3 You are: A3 a fire:
Aandgzonefireud M- cozenlng:A. 61.Doe:L. 62.doeItA3
Ital-(films: M has the ca ital J-fh- strict: 1.6321162...) (nyce- quitie...
whoredome): 31.-Em: I whore can: ° L: Clap: _L_.

6h. hot: M- 's‘oaJder-vp: 65. Scourge-Fate: M_3 113’s: A° provided:
thee: 66. you: A3 y'are: L. 68. I'amf’ Azquyt M:3Ill.scorue:rie:
E: 69. your: A: Git-Cries: M_3 BroccadgezM. _ 0. Nayzlf’

'é'are: A3 work: A3 _Q_______ omitted in A, 71:. That: M3 pawre: A. 76.
this: A3 challenge: A” cheif: A. 77. sit: M- aboue: A. -78. Bring:
M3 Merrit: A. 79. (Bhrongh...1nst :A. 80.
th':A Bed: M_3 St.dir .: thus the St. dir. BI: Qs. Pawne within.
81. p:(In‘hAs) T3 Mom?“ over-Common: M. 82. voice: A.
83. virginszp A3 honourd: A. 8. Now you may goe: T and A3 You may
goe now: M_3 y'a'u heare: A3‘uaanoka: A3 _Q______ ondttod i__n_ "gamut. __

V, 30. 2 86

85 Bl. Be. P. heere's a strange Game: Did not I lye with you?
Bl. Q8. P. (within) Noe:
Bl. Bs. P. whataDevillartthou!

Wh. Q8. P. Iwillnot answeareyou (Sir)
after thanckes-giflng.

90 B1. Be. P. why, You made promisetoMe
after the Gontractt

(Within) yes:
B1. Be. P. udscheif (bnfound thee,
I epeake not to thee: And you were prepard for'tt
9S and set your Icies more high,
(within) them you could reach (Sir).
B1. Be. P. this is a Bawdy Pawne3 I'll slyt the throat cn't.
-Eh‘bel‘ a. 9.2. Pm.

Bl. Qs. P. What? offer Violence to your Bedfellow?
to one that workes so kindly without Rope?

100 Bl. 38. P. nw Bed-fellow!

Bl. Qs. P. Doeyouplantyour Scorne againstms?
Why, when I was Probaticner at Bmxells
that Engine was not knowne: then Adoration
fill'd vp the place3 and wonder was in fashion:
105 Is't turnd to the wild Seed of Contempt so scone?
Can five yeeres stamp a Band? ('pray looks vpon Me:

 

85. did: A. 86. use: A. 87. What: L. 88. I'll: A3 answers: A3
onittea' in A. 89. Zrter-rhsnokes-Eiving: A. 90. why: omitted
AmadeaproMsezT. 92.Moud.tsfrom92—_t_o_AAndyouwereprepard

93. mischeif :fil‘ readsI pox; WMeH : confound: A.

§E."" and: A3 you: A reads thou didst prepare thy 8A 3 prepar'd: M.

95. sett: A3 thy: .A. §6. Then: M: 13(Ilhorrutted in A. 97. T reads

light, 'ti's" a bawdy Voyce3 A ondts FTvo" ce: A3 This: A? 31156:

- slytt: A. St. dir.: onit't‘e‘d'fi L and A. 98. violence: A-

Tour our: A3 Bed-fellow: L. W: . .Bedfellow: A. 161.

doe: A3 scorne: A3 Me: A. 102. why": A: '_IOOmm: A. 103. there

was no such Engiie: A3 'Ihon: A. 101:. filld-vp: M3-Place: A. 105.

is't: A3 th'wild: A3'l’aid:M "seod: A. 106. A L_ndts the words of

th___e_ "nthesis in the two 106“ and A913 me: A3 ""'"A adds:_'_"('SIr

.atthee ofthe-line.

v, Sc. 2 8?

I haue youth enough to take it!) 'tis no longer
since you were Cheif Agent for the h‘anspm'tafion
of ladies Ihnghters, yf you be remembred:
110 some of their Portions I could name3 Who pureed 'em too:
They were scone disposest of worldly Cares
that came into your fingers.

Bl. Be. P. shall I hears her?
Bl. Q8. P. holy Derision, yes: till. thy Ears swell
ll5 with thine owns Venom: (thy prephaine liffes Vomitt).
Whose Neice was she, you poysond with Child twice,
and gave her out possessd with a fowle Spirit
Enter white Q. E Ell-e. H20 92. Pawne.
when 'twas indeed your Bastard?

me 33. Po I am T8191).
120 in none owns Toiles.

Wh. Be. P. yes: and 'tis lost you should be.
Wh. Q. And thou lewd Pawns, the shame of Womnhood.
31035. Po Iamlostofallhands.
EL. Q30 P. And I cannot £8616
125 the weight of My Perdition now he 's taken.
't hath not the Burthen of a Grashopper.
Bl. Be. P. Thou where of War, Cockatrix in Vote.

Enter E. 51.3. Pawne.

 

107. I'haue: A: It is: M_3 longer (Sir): longer: T reads more.

108. cheif: A. 109. da’ugnters: A223 .Sone:"A3"‘é‘6'uld:_ A
reads can3 who: A pursd: M. 131'. they: A3 dispossessd:A disposeed:
Worldly: A. .oene? 1.. 111:. hons‘r-nerision: A3 miisionu.

ne: M; T reads swells. 115. thy owns: T- venom: 7’M omits this
line prephaIn'J-Iifes vomit: _A_,- omitted {AA A. .Qle: I m
a word has been Eartigi erased etween Whose- and Noise. whose: A.
117. Treads men gaue. SETH-fr. can't-ted in M: 118. When: M.
119. tahen: A. 121. Inst: M. 122. _T h'a's—hs White Bisho 's'Pawn
continue with this line but A and tL éve“ th:-Ens 5 ts Queen.

3 the-fits Queen's Pawns £311 and: A3 __.-(low dPawh-e7:_ M_3 womanhood:

$1237?“ 'me: mmm: 12" 126." T'as: T' 't'hath: A, it
hath: A3 burthsn: A3 grashoppsr: A. 127. thou: _A_: Whore: A.
St. dire: ant__Ԥ__ed- in Me

V, Sc. 2 88

Bl. Kts. P. yond's the white-Bishops Pawns: I'll play at's hart now.
Wh. Q8. P. how now (Black Villains), wouldst thou heaps a Thrder
130 on thy first fowle offence? oh msrcyles Blood-hound.
"his time that thou wert Taken.
Bl. Kts. P. howl prevented!

Wh. 08. P. for tlmP sake, and that Partner in thy Shams,
I'll neuer know Man farther then by Name.

haunt.
V, Sc. 3 Scena Tertia. Mter 213 Rack-House, A _% white _. A e.

 

 

Wh. Kt. You hms enrichd my Knowledge! (Roisll Sir)
and nw Content togeather.

B10 Kc 'stead 0f R1013
we sett you onely Welloom: Surfeyt is
5 a thing that's seldom heard of in theis Parts.

Wh. Kt. I hears of the more Vertue when I misse on't.
B1. Kt. We doenotvse toburyinourBleies

two hundred thousand Incestts, and then boast on't:
Or exercise th' old Romaine painefull Idlsnes

 

128. white Bishops: A- Play: M3 Bishop's: M.) I'll...hart: So all Crane
hugs? T reads haue at s heart'. 129. hw...ViJJaine: So mm]?-

‘1' “a? Hold Monster-mama; (Black-Villains) : M; My
Ether 130. offence: T reads attempt; 0: A3 merciles: A3
Mercilssz-M. 131. wer't: A; m: A. 132. how: T and A read
Death. 133. that: T reads yond: shame: A. 1314. never: ”I me:

A. V, 3: St. dir.:_ M“ reads The Black-House, 8c the white- ght, 8c
Ihke: Then the white 'Kingj-Queene, Bishop. A reads Enter Bl. King:
Queens: Eught, Duke & Pawnes, with white Knightme. 1. E‘m'iohd:
1,30% T reads Y'ans both senricht3 knowledge: A: roiall: A. 3. stead: A3
15th vesthi eech to the Black Kni ht. II. Wee: L_3 set:

no Welcomi'p fa? . ”'3': ommuJ thou Eresent as 9.
catchward on sthe FWM} Wt's: A reads we. 77
we: I Ex??? 0: W: M_3”, mckatts: A. §. or: A3
her se: M3 the: A.

I.

g—l

v, So. 3 89

10 with care of fetching Fishes far from home,
The golden-headed Coracine out of Egipt,
the Salpa from mousis, or the Pelamis
(Which some call Sewer-Whiting) from (hlcedon:
Salmons from Aquitaine, Helops from Rhodes,
15 Cockles fran duos, (franckd, and fatted vp,
with For, and Sepa, flowre and Cocted Wyne.)
We Cramb no Birds, nor (Epicurean like)
enclose some Crookes o'th'Sea, as Sergius Crate did.
he that invented the first Stewes for Oysters,
20 and other Sea Fish: Who, besides the pleasure
of his owns Throate,
got large Revenewes by th'Invention,
whose Fat example the NobilJitie followed.
Nor doe we ymitate that Arch-Gurnendizer
25 with two and twentie Courses at one Dinner,
and, betwixt every Course, he, and his Guests
washd, and vsd woemen, then sat downs and strengthend,
Inst swyming in their Dishes: Which no sooner
was tasted, but was ready to be vented.

30 Wh. Kt. most impious bicures.

Bl. Kt. We Commend rather
(of two Extremes) the Parsimonie of Pertinax,
who had half Lsttysses set 17p to serve agen3
01‘ his Successour Julian, that would make
35 three mealesofaleanshare, andoftensup
with a greens Fig, and wipe his Beard, as we can:
The old Bswaylers of Excesse in those daies,
complaind there was more Coyne bid for a Cooke
then for a War-horse: But now Cookes are purchasd
’40 after the rate of Triumphes: and some mshes
after the rate of Cookes: Which must needss make
some of your white-house Gurmondisers (specially

 

11. the: A: Golden: M golden headed: A: Corasine: M. 12. The Salpa:

L. 11:. omits 1h- . 15. 8 omitted 1:11. 162' Flowre: A_3
Uocted-wiheTAT' mi F5571— mi'curean-like) : M.

18. of the: 3'; 19. M omdts 1 -23. o. besides: T reads heside3
8389:1811: A} m: 5; “ms... oat): A. 210 tfil‘an: _A_. 230
Whose: A; Tett: A. 2h. imitate: A Inytate: A; Arch-Gurmandizer: A.
25. Two: A; TwenEle: M- Cowrses: 3 dimer: A. 26. Gowrse: A. 27.
wanen: A3 Woenen: A3 men: A. 28'. which: A. 31. we: 13 command: .1.“
32. extremes: A3 Parcymorda: A- Parsinony: A. 33. Who: L3 Iettusses:
A sett: A3 agai'ne: A. 3h. Jfiiian: J-form caEAtal 2 each MS. 35.

es: Afheales: L jeans-hare: A3 supp: _,A° : 33. Rene: A3
fig: A. 38. Comp d: M. 39. war-horse: Mf‘gjf‘out: A. 1:1.
which? _A_. 1:2. Your: A3 mute-hues: A3 Chrmsndises: A3 (specially...
Plsbeians) : _Q omitted _i_g A.

v,s:.3 90

onn' Wealthis fat Plsbednns) like the Hoggs
which Scaligsr Cytes, that could not wave for fat3
115 so insencibls of either prick or Goad
that myce nude holes to needle in their mttocks,
and they nere felt 'em: There was once a Ruler
(Cyrenes Gouernour) choakd with his owns Paunch,
Which Death fat Sanctius (King of Castils) fearing,
50 through his infinite mess of Belly, rather chose
to be kill'd sodainely, by a pernitious herbs
taken to who him Loans, Which old Corduba
(King of Morocco) counselld his Feare to,
then he would hazard to be stunck to death,
55 as that huge Cormorant, that was choakd before him.

Wh. Kt. Well: y'are as sound a Spoakss-mn (Sir) for Parsimonis,
Cleans Abstinence, and scarce one Meals a-day

as ever spake with tongue.

Bl. K. Csnsure him mildly (Sir)
60 'twas but to find Discourse.

Bl. Q. hee'll raise of any thing.
Wh. Kt. I shalbs half afraid to feed hereafter.
Wh. D. or I, (bsshrsw my hart) for I fears Fattnes,
(the Fog of Fattnes) as I fears a Ih'agon:
65 . the Comelynes I wish for, that's as glorious.

Wh. Kt. your Course is wondrous strickt; I should transgresse sure,
were I to change nw Side, as you'haue much wrought ms to't.

Bl. Kt. how you misprizet This is not meant to you-ward.
You, that are woond-vp to the height of Feeding
70 by Clyme, and Customs, are dispencd withall:

 

1:3. Your: M3 wealthie: A fat: T and A read plnmp3 plump-Pleibeians:

A bags: I Hogs: M. .cytesTI Ms: A: fatt: A. ’15. M omits
5-55. h. nere: Ireads not. omitted in A; Choakd: "AT"

GEE-moor: A. 1:9.“me A fatt: A3 med—{n A. 50. masse:

A. 51. hearbe: A. 52. (Which...fsare to): A. ‘53. (King of Morocco):
omitted in A- ears: A. you'r: A3 y'ar: M: Parsymonie:
3Farsim' ony: A 57. cll'sans:6 A. 59.13 omits 59' _6_9_3 csi’surs: A:

ildly: A reads meeksly3 Q omitted in A. 31. Althou Middleto

in T hahi writes hee,_'thi§-Is— a rare instance Crane 's a'oubli

'thseina tsHITSSMassignsfiiss echt'o'hhsmac 52.

maid: K‘Feod: MT“ 63'. M omits 33-67Eg'ofi'tt33 51—17%“

A. 61:. og: A3 Ffi'tnes: A3 omit T_tnct: A. 67.

to it: T- (as...to t): A."' . mT-priE-e: "M3 this: A3 you many

Tau-w We'rzfiM. 69. you: “A: woound-Vp or woo‘fi'hd-vp: A, woond v9: _3

feeding: A: 70. Clims: A3 dispsnc'd: A_3 diSpensd :_A_3 with all. A.

V, Sc.3 91

You may sate Kid, Cabrito, Calf and Ions:
oats, and eats every dais, twice if you please,
my, the franckd hen, fattend with Milk, and Corns,
(a Riot, which th' Inhabitants of Delos

75 were first Inventours of) or the Crambd Cockle.

Wh. Kt. Well: for the Food, I am happsly resolu'd in:
But for the Diet of my Disposition,
there comes a treble: You will hardly find
Food to please that.

80 Bl. Kt. It must be a strange Nature
We cannot find a Dish for: having Pollicie
(the Master-Cooke of Christendom) to dresse it:
'pray name your Natures met!

Wh. Kt. he first Messe
85 is hott Ambition.

Bl. Kt. that's but seru'd in Puff-paste:
alas, the meanest of our cardinalls Bookes
can dresse that Dinner: Your Ambition (Sir)
can fetch no farther Gompasse then the Worldt

9O Wh. Kt. that's certaine (Sir).

Bl. Kt. We'are about that alrsdy:
And in the Large Feast of our Vast Ambition
we count but the white-Kingdoms (whence You came from)
the Garden for our Cooks, to pick his Ballads.
95 The Food's leans France, larded with Germaine,
before which Gmnes the Grave Chast Signoris
of Venice, seru'd in (Capon-liks) in White-broth.

 

71. kid: A- Cabuto: A3 Calff: A3 Tons's: A. 72. A and A unit this
line. 7 . Nay: 1A: Tranck'd: A3 franckd-Fen: M3 (fatfind: H __m 92
cIosi nthesis mark. 7h. M omits 7h 7 ° A: A. 75. enters:
E 3%. Es: T3 33: T reads on: '73. (53323: _3 trouble: A3 '.lroble:
H: you: A. 85'. it: Ems: A. 81. we: A3 Policie: M.- 82.
stenHome: L oi'r'itted in A. 83. Diett: A. 814. tEe: A.

85. hot: M. . ""i‘“"'t s: M-‘Ee'firtd: L- puff: A- Puffs: L- Paste: A.
87. Alan-A: Cardinalls- _i'ces: M. . your: _3 unified EA.
89. Douglas: M. 90. certen: A; D omitted in A. . wssire: Ag”
We are: A3 aIready: L. 92. and: A3 EgeiAfFeaste: L. 93. :
M Count: 33;: white KIngdcm: A White: M- Q omitted in I3 you: A.

. for: Arsads of. 95. té: A° Lar d: . . ms: M_3 Titans:
A: Chaste: A: 96. comes: A. 9”]. serv'dz-A3 white: A.

v, s:.3 92

from our leif Ousn, Italy, the Balce-msates,
Sauoy the Salt, Gensua, the Chip'd Manchet:
100 Below the Salt, the Netherlands are placd,
a Common Dish, at ' lower-end o'th' Table,
for meaner Pride to fall to: For our Second Course
3. Spit of Portugal]: seru'd in for Plouers
Indiam, and Moores for Black-Birds : All this while
105 Holland stands ready melted, to make Sawce,
on all occasions: When the Voyder comes:
And, with such Cheers, our full hopes, we suffice.
Zealand saies Grace (for fashion) then we rise.

Wh. Kt. heere's meat enough on-conscience for Ambition.

110 Bl. Kt. yf there be any want, there's Switzerland,
Polonia, and such pickelld ihings, will serve
to furnish out the Table.

Who Kt. I“ say W911 (fir)
But heere's the misery: When I haue stopd the mouth
115 of one Vice, there's an other gapes for Food.
I am as Couetous, as a Barren-Womb,
the Grave, or what's more ravenous.

Bl. Kt. we are fm‘ m (311‘):
Call you that hey-nous, that's good husbandrie?
120 Why, we make Money of our Faithes, our Praires.
We make the very Death-bed buy her Comforts,
most deerely pay for all her pious Councells 3
Leave rich Rovenewes, for a few Weake arisens,
or els they passe vn-reconcilde without 'an.

 

98. cheif: Italy: AA A and the ca 1 J-fom3 Italie: M.
99. MantcheL t: M. lo‘c'i .‘b‘é‘fingT‘Ket'hEFEoE-s‘w Wthsrland's: A3
plac'd: L. lOI. (a...Fa11 to)3 :‘M; Comon-Msh: H: lower end: A3
Lower: M- 102. Meaner: M, Fa11:-M_, for our: A3 Uowrse:M. 103.
Spitt: I3 serv'd: L3 (semi d...Plouers): M. 10h. Indians: In L
_jgggcagntalm I; J -form3 birds: A. 105. ready-melted:r

: WM. 107. _and: A3 full: all Crane-i138Fhke
‘o’ut T reads oramhfi3 sorrise? A. 108. Zsland: A3 gf'omitt'é'a 111 A.
15?. 'hssr's: A3 Meat: M_3 on: ’E reads a3 on'conscience: I3 ( onl-Conscience):
M. 110. if: A: If: Ag" Want :‘AT‘rfix-e's: A. m Pic ld-Things:
M3 things: _A_.-"112. the: A reads a. 113. you: A311 onittsd in A.
m. but: A7 miserie: A3 s‘o'opT‘L; A adds I tell 13.-ion in privat: "7"
Bl. Kt. 3ft: we'are your Cabbynetts.7'Wh. Kt. when I haue stopd.
my mouth. 116. Couetuous: A3 barren Wombe: L. 117. Qraus: 1A3
Ravenous: M. 118. we: A3 omitted in A. '119. haynous: A.
120. A omi't's this line 131 defm cause the catchword at the bottom
ofthemfiAZ-fl sis w3monfi :M_30ur: Lreads or. “172 Most:
M3 Pious3M 3. Rich: M3 Rsuenewes: M3we'a'ke '_T'Weake: T reads
gle-Orisonu Weake-Orisons: A. 121:.(-2 vn-rsc ): M_3 vnreconcildct
£3 Withalt: Es

v, Sc. 3 93

125 Did you but view the Vaultes within our Monasteries,
You'would swears then, Plutus (which the Faction calls
the Lord of Riches,) were en-tombd within 'em.

Wh. Kt. is't possible?
Bl. D. you cannot walks for Turns.

130 Wh. D. But how shall I bestow the Vice I bring (Sire?)
you quight forget me : I shalbe shutt out
by your strict key of life.

Bl. Kt. Is yours so vild (Sir?)

Wh. D.. some that are pleasd to make a Wanton on't
135 call it Infirmitie of Blood, Flesh-Frailetie:
but certaine, there's a worsse Name in your Bookes for't.

Bl. Kt. The Triffle of all Vices: the mere Inocent,
the very Novice of this house of Clay: Veneriel
if I but hug thee hard, I show the worst on't.

11:0 'tis all the Fruit we haue here, after Shipper;
May, at the Ruines of a We once
six thousand Infants heads, found in a Fish-Pond.

Who Do 11W?

Bl. Kt. I: how? how came they thether, thinck you?
1’45 Huldrick, Bishop of Awsberge, in's Epistle
to Nicholas the first, can tell you how:
'may be he was at Olensing of the Pond.
I can but smile to thinck how it would puzzell

 

125. View: M_3 Within: MIA: Monasteries: T reads Monasterie. 126.
you'll'd: A3 ym'ld:M_3J%om1tted in I ‘uTi‘i‘é'h: M reads whom; fiction:
1.. 127. 'é’ntembtd: A3 .Is't: .A.-1'29. You: A3
want: A3 walke.‘1‘readspasse3 wakezA3 InAandT128 129arein
reversed 9______rder. mt: A3 Sir: A... 131. TE: “M_3 qui'gFt' forge:
I reafi neuer “mind3 shall be: shu tt-out: A3 shut: M3 Tg reads
Ioc E on .132. Life: M. 133‘. is: A3 17113: A and '1' ream”
EE- ondtted in _A_. 131;. A reads 'faith: some that-G pleas' . 135.
M3 tie: A1755 the J-form ca tal Fi-ailuezA Flesh
Frailetie:M.136.certen3 Mile: A3 neere:
M. 138. V'é'nerie: omitted in I.139.y£M"rmgg. A: hug-thee. M.
1140. It's: L3 wee: L. I51.“ talnay: A. 11:2. 383:: Thousand: M3 Infants:
% M has the J-form ca ital 3heades: L Fish-pond: 3 Pond: M.
Manet Sassi eechtothe mama butA-reads
Wh. Kr." 1115': T_efis “marrow-A: yew—A 1335':
Asburge: A3 Ausberge: _M. 1148. smile: A reads laugh.

v, Sc. 3 913

all Mothsr-Maides, that ever liv'd in those Parts
150 to know their owne Childes-head. But is this all?

Bl. D. Are you (hrs yet?

Wh. Kt. One more, and I am silenc'd:
mt this that Comes now will devide vs questionles 3
'tis ten times, ten-times worsse then the fore-runners.

155 B1. Kt. Is it so vild, there is no Name ordaind for't?
Toades haue their Titles, and Creation gave
Serpents, andAdders those Names tobeknowneby.

Wh. Kt. This, of all others, beares the Mddenst Venom,
the smoothest POY‘Bon: I'am an Arch-mssembler (Sir).

160 Bl. Kt. hm?

Wh. Kt. It's my Natures Brand: Turns from me (Sir)
the time is yet to come, that ere I speaks
what W hart meant.

Bl. Kt. And call you that a Vice?
165 avoid all prophsmtion, I beseech you:
the onely prime State Vertue vpon earth,
the Pollicie of Enipires: oh take heed (Sir)
for fears it take displeasure, and forsake you;
It's like a Iewell of that pretious Value
170 whose North's not lcnowns, but to the sld.l.l.fu11 Iapidarie,
the Instrument that picks-ope Princes harts,
and locks vp Ours from them, with the same Motion:
You never came so neere our Soules, as now.

Bl. D. New y'are a Brother to vs.

 

1139. 1133331: A3 those Parts: A reads that place. 150. theire: A3
wilds-headfi: (laildes head-:- H.151. are: A_3 ours: A. 152.
silencd: A. “153. comes: A. 1513. ten times, ten tin'é's3A ten times,
ten-times: M3 ten-times, ten-times: A. 155. name: A. 15’. Toads:
M. 157. dars: L names: A. 158. this:MA3 others: A reads Vices3
Tor all others): M'svenom: A: 159. I am: _, §2F____ omitted 33A.- 160.

M omits 160 161. .‘ti's: A Natures- 3turns: A3
WE. 162.1![hezM Tin-g:1_4; Come: M_3 I Ere: A. ~I6BQWhet:
M." "I613:— and: A. 165. avoid...you): A: A'Tf’oid: M. .166. The:M

153-3433333143 prime:State: State-Vertue. - 167. the: 1% Policie. - M

Q omitt'ed in A. 168.‘i‘lispleasure: L. ”169. 'tis: A3 reads It s
aewJ 6.11 1:70. Whose: M3 worthe's: A3 unknowne: A33 QEWpidarie:

A. 171. The: M Instrument: M has the J-form ca 1tal3 picks ape: A.

172. locks-17p: é ours: A3 memffl: _T73. never ye came neere:

so: omitted AT3 till now: A.T. 171:. Crane, in all three MSS

has We ___<__e fl___ here what -T reads as a conE'mzat'ion of tfié’mack

mfi ggeech 3 now: A,'-""' yon7'" 33": ”A3" AA _'T"'A_h.;""“bm"6keted*"

(Ell

 

v, Sc. 3 95

[31. Kt. What we haue dozfl
175 hath byn mesmblance ever.

Wh. Kt. there you lye then;
and the Game's ours: We give thee Check-Mate, by
mscouerie (King) the Noblest Mate of all.

Bl. K. I'm lost: I am Taken.
180 Wh. Kt. Ambitious, Couetous, luxurious, Falsehood-
Wh. D. Dissenbler includes all.

-Flourish. Enter white King: Qieene, Rim,
68.

0
Bl. Kt. all hope's confounded.
Bl. Q. miserable condition!

Wh. K. 0h, let me bleese mine Armes with this deere Treasure,
185 Truthes glorious Master-Pesos: See, (Queens of Sweetnes)
he's in m- Bosom saffe: And this fairs Structure
of Oomely Honour, (Iris true blessd Assistant.)

Wh. Q. Hey their Integrities ever posses
that powrerull SanehAary.

190 Wh. Kt. As 'twas a Gme (Sir)
won with much hazard, so with much more Triumph,
I gave him Check—Mate, by Discouerie (Sir).

171; what: A. 175. has: A To 176. There: M.
137—1313? Ra'fmemlf 178. A omi.t§’King3 Discouery: E3
13 adds this _sg. dis-2'3 A great Icshout Aha? ro‘Eish; Noblest-Mate: A
1'79. Lost: M3 taken: A3 _i_3_3_ A the Black Kni ht 3.3%; this line.
180. Falsehood: M; CouetuouszT E I
this line. 33.—5331.3 A reads'mourish._ A "'3 We wgfim
one-fits tlB'BT—‘M—has no St. dir. “271113-35 ounded:
A7 FATlTe—‘ngfiaen eaEs'Ttfil—‘JE—neff'assi thee eech 0to the
m’saz ' ‘7 183.-5133.3533533-353 {331751233335 as $—
@5— 3 line. es: ere: EM. “183— Master- eice: J
Sweetnes: A reads Msekene33nz(;)_ onfitted in" A. 186. bosom: L3 and: A3
this: T reads yond. 187. nor: I3 Bless'cI-Assistant: A3 bIesd: L3-
Blessd: M3 BIessd: M. 188.1ntegrities: L and M have the J-form"
ca ital, possesse: I. 189. powrefull: T aha—I read peac
me: A. 196. A omits As. 1.91 'MoT: 131.—1:92. I: _T_ reads
We; gene: A.

 

 

 

V, &. 3 96

Wh. K. Oosmuius is now the fittest fauour
Falsehood can sue for: It will suites Perdition:
195 'tis their best Course, that so haue lost their Fans,
to put their heads into the Bag for Siame.

£132 255. gene, A _% Black-Side put into Ag.

And there behold, the Bag's mouth (like hell) cpens "
to take her due: And the lost Sons appeere~
greedely gaping for encrease of Fellowship

200 in Infamie (the last desire of Wretchss)
advanncing their Perdition-branded Fore-heads
like Raise Issue, or a Bed of Snakes.

Bl. Bs. P. 'tis too apparent; the Game's lost, King's Taken:
fat B. 111s white-house hath given vs the Bag, I thanck 'em:
205 Paw. thsy'had need haue given you a whole Bag by your self,
This Fat Black-Bishop, hath so over-layd me
so squelchd, and squeezd me, I haue no veriuyce left in me;
you shall find all my Goodnes (if you looks for't,)
in the bottom of the Bag.
210 fat B. thou Mslepert Pawns,
the Bishop mst haue Rooms, he Will haue Rooms,
and Rooms to lye at pleasure.

Past. all the Bag, I thinck
is Home too scant for your Spoletta Paunch.

215 El. Be. P. Downs Viper of our Order: I abhour thee: Thou show
tw Mmrish front?

Bl. QB. P. yes (Monster-holynes).
Wh. Kt. Contention in the Pittt is hell devided?

 

19h. Falsehood: M3 it: A. 195. It's: £1; (that...Fame): A. 196.

orsrme3A3shafie3L3Aesssthe ere withExeurrt:aA1_d_F‘i.ni.s
Acme . 19?. t5: 343-35. .: fis-EE opens, as the Black

Lost Pawnee appears in it: L7 Q mnittsd is A. 198. Take: A3 Lost:
H. 199. fellowship: M. 2) . De e. 3 wretches: M3 Infamy: Both
1: and M have the J-forfi ca tal. 201. Idvzmncing: AffPerdition-
firmed':__FM3 Ere—reds 3 rea heads. 202. Enuies 3 A3 Issue: A

has the J:form ca ital. _ 203. T reads See, all's confounded, the
233537;; Tomi-s 03-237. 20m: T. 205. eech head AA T:
Jesting p. “2661', 07‘1”“. reads Sfoote, this Fat 1333313533 so squeIcht
and squsszde mes, / So EnerEyd mes, I haue no Vsrgis left in mes.
208. if: T reads and. 215. A reads art thou showing / 'Ihy impudent-
whorish fiont? 3 I abhor thee: pig-E 2.

V: 333 3 97

Mb. K. Iou'had need haue some of Maiestie and Powre
220 to keeps good rule amongst you: Make Rooms (Bishop).

fat B. I am not easily mov'd, when I am once sett,
I scorne to stirr for any King on earth.

Wh. Q. here comes the Queens; What say you then to her?
fat B. indeed a Qleene may make a Bishop stirr.

225 Wh. Kt. Rooms for the mightiest Machiaufll Polititian
that are the Devill hatchd of a Nuns Egg.

fat B. hse'll peck a hole i'th'Bag, and get out shortly:
I am sure to be the last Man; that (‘reepes out,
and that's the miserie of Greatnes ever.
230 [Foh, yours polititian is not sound ith Vent
I smell him hetherJ

Wh. D. Rooms for a Sun-hurn'd Tanzey-faol Belou'd,
an Olliff-Colourd Ganimed; and that's all
that's worth the Bagging.

235 fat B. Crowdinallyoucan
The Bishop will be still Vppermost Man
mugre King, Queens, or Polititian.

Wh. K. Soe, let the Bag cloase now: (The fittest Wombs
for Treacherie, Pride, and Falsehood) Whilst We (wynner-like)
2140 destroying (through Hsauens powre) what would destroy,
wellcom our White-Knight, with Lowd Peales of lay.

Ekaunt.

 

221. _T: not so easilis3 I'me: A. 228. _T_ reads Bit I'me sure I shall
be the last creepes out; Man. 230. lines __,230 231 do not a ear

in Crane MS. 238. So: M3 T reads 5, now latth'e-Eg c so;
Fan : . 39'.- Falsehood: reads—mos; Falsehood: M3 whilst we:
M. 2710. Destroying: M. Moon: A. At the :_an _o_f_ 11332st
fisheries-ms I”?£h£§£___5'f°m£2@—

98

EPILCXEUE

ggoken 131 gig white-Queenes Pawns.

My Mistris (the White Queens) hath sent me forth,
and had me bows (thus Laws) to all of worth,
that are true Fronds of the white-House, and Gauss,
which (she hopes) most of this Assanbly drawes.
5 For am els, by Enniss mark denoted

to those Night flow-womes in the Bag deuotsd,
where ere They sitt, stand, or in prinat Inrck.
They'll be soons knowne by their deprauing-Worck.
But she's assur'd, what They'would conmdtt to myne,

10 Her White fiends lanes, will build up fairs againe.

 

The O e_i£not.i_._n__A_. St. dir.: by the White Queenss Pawns: _L_.
I. fi%%sms:w . That: M3 trends: A; house: M. 5. Emiss-
mark: M. 6. Tor-143 fight-Glowmormes (in the Bag):-231_. 7. Where: )3
they $3: A3 or in priuat Inrck: T reads and in Corners lurks.

9. commit: M. 10. White-Frendszmd-vp: M; Fairs: M3 agayne:
A. _L_ adds-Finis.

 

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