_Assist._ Away: for you, my hungry white-loaf'd face, You must to th' Gallies, where you shall be sure To have no more bits, than you shall have blows. _Laz._ Well, though herrings want, I shall have rowes. _Assist._ Signior, you have prevented us, and punish'd Your selfe severelier than we would have done. You have married a whore: may she prove honest. _Pio._ 'Tis better, my Lord, than to marry an honest woman, That may prove a whore. _Vit._ 'Tis a hansome wench: and thou canst keep her tame I'll send you what I promis'd. _Pio._ Joy to your Lordships. _Alv._ He[re] may all Ladies learn, to make of foes The perfect'st friends: and not the perfect'st foes Of dearest friends, as some do now a daies. _Vit._ Behold the power of love, to nature lost By custome irrecoverably, past the hope Of friends restoring, Love hath here retriv'd To her own habit, made her blush to see Her so long monstrous Metamorphoses, May strange affairs never have worse success. [_Exeunt._ EPILOGUE. _Our Author fears there are some Rebel hearts,_ _Whose dulness doth oppose loves piercing darts;_ _Such will be apt to say there wanted wit,_ _The language low, very few Scænes are writ_ _With spirit and life; such odd things as these_ _He cares not for, nor ever means to please;_ _For if your selves a Mistriss or loves friends,_ _Are lik'd with this smooth Play he hath his ends._ FINIS. WOMEN PLEAS'D A TRAGEDY-COMEDY. The Persons Represented in the Play. Duke of _Siena, Suitor to_ Belvidere. Silvio, _A Gentleman of quality, servant to_ Belvidere. Claudio, Silvio's _friend, brother to_ Isabella. Bartello, _Captain of the Citadel, Uncle to_ Silvio. Lopez, _A sordid Usurer, the jealous Husband of_ Isabella. Lords _of_ Florence. Lords _of_ Siena. Counsellors. Courtiers. Penurio, _A hungry servant to_ Lopez. Soto, _A merry servant to_ Claudio. A Farmer, _Father to_ Soto. Captain. Soldiers _of the Guard_. A Clarke. Bomby, _An enemy to Watches and May-poles._ Morris-dancers. Masquers. WOMEN. Dutchess _of_ Florence. Belvidere, _A virtuous Princess, daughter to the Dutchess in love with_ Silvio. Rodope, _wife to_ Bartello. Isabella, _Wife to_ Lopez, _and Sister to_ Claudio. Jaquenet, _servant to_ Isabella. Two Gentlewomen. The Scene Florence. The principal Actors were _Joseph Taylor_, _John Underwood_, _Rob. Benfield_, _Rich. Sharpe_, _John Lowin_, _Will. Eglestone_, _Nicholas Toolie_, _Thomas Holcombe_. _Actus Primus. Scæna Prima._ _Enter_ Bartello _and_ Silvio. _Sil._ Tis true she is a right good Princess, and a just one, And _Florence_ when she sets, has lost a Planet.