English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Lea_. Heer's the Duke his father, heele marr all.
_Albe_. O villaine, he that lockt her in his arms
And through the river swims along with her.
Staie, traiterous _Nessus_, give me bowes and shafts.
Whirre! I have strooke him under the shorte ribs:
I come, _Hyanthe_! O peace, weepe no more. [_Exit_.
_Alp_. Meanes he not me by _Nessus, Hardenbergh_?
_Hard_.[60] My lord, he is surelie mad.
_Alph_. _Hyanthe_ loves him:
See how she trembles and how pale she lookes!
She hath enchanted my deere _Alderbure_
With crafts and treasons and most villanous Arts
Are meanes by which shee seekes to murder him.
_Hardenbergh_, take her and imprison her
Within thy house: I will not loose my sonne
For all the wealth the Loves of heaven embrace.
_Hya_. What meanes your grace by this?
_Alp_. Away with her!
_Hya_. You offer me intolerable wrong.
_Alp_. Away with her, I say.
_Har_. Come Ladie, feare not, Ile entreate you well.
_Hya_. What injurie is this!
[_Exit Hard. with Hyan_.
_Alph_. So now I have obtainde what I desir'd,
And I shall easilie worke her to my will;
For she is in the hands of _Hardenbergh_
Who will continually be pleading for me.
_Enter Doctor_.
_Doct_. Roome! a halle, a hall! be garr, vere is de Duke?
_Alp_. Heere, maister Doctor.
_Doct_. O we have grand important matter for tella your grace how de
know de cause for de wish cause your sonne is da madman.
_Enter Alberdure running_.
_Alb_. What? art thou heere? sweete _Clio_, come, be bright;
Take me thy Timbrell and Tobaccho pipe,
And give _Hyanthe_ musicke at her windowe.
_Doct_. Garrs blurr, my cap, my cap, cost me de deale a French crowne.
_Alb_. But I will crown thee with a cod of Muske,
Instead of Lawrell, and a Pomander[61]:
But thou must write _Acrostignues_ first, my girle.
_Doct_. Garzowne, what a pox do you stand heere for, de grand poltrone
pezant, and see de Doctor be dus?
_Alb_. Aye me, what _Demon_ was it guide me thus?
This is _Melpomene_, that Scottish witch[62],
Whom I will scratche like to some villanous gibb,
And--
_Doct_. O Garzowne, la diabole, la pestilence, gars blur!
_Alp_. Lay holde upon him, helpe the Doctor there!
_Alb_. Then reason's fled to animals, I see,
And I will vanish like Tobaccho smoake. _Exit_.
_Doct_. A grand pestilence a dis furie
_Alp_. Follow him, sirs, _Leander_, good _Leander_!
But, Doctor, canst thou tell us the true cause
Of this suddaine frenzie?
_Doct_. O by garr, pleaze your grace heare de long tale [or] de short
tale?
_Alp_. Briefe as you can, good Doctor.
_Doct_. Faite and trot, briefe den, very briefe, very laccingue. De
Prince, your sonne, feast with de knave Jeweller, _Flores_, and he for
make a Prince love a de foule croope-shouldra daughter _Cornelia_, give
a de prince a de love poudra which my selfe give for the wenche a before,
and make him starke madde be garr because he drinke a too much a.
_Alp_. How know you this?
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