English drama; Kings and rulers -- Succession -- Drama; Love -- Drama; Sicily (Italy) -- Drama; Tragicomedy
_Bell_. Oh my Noble Lord,
View my strange fortune, and bestow on me,
According to your bounty (if my service
Can merit nothing) so much as may serve
To keep that little piece I hold of life
From cold and hunger.
_Phi_. Is it thou? be gone:
Go sell those misbeseeming Cloaths thou wear'st,
And feed thy self with them.
_Bell_. Alas! my Lord, I can get nothing for them:
The silly Country people think 'tis Treason
To touch such gay things.
_Phi_. Now by my life this is
Unkindly done, to vex me with thy sight,
Th'art fain again to thy dissembling trade:
How should'st thou think to cozen me again?
Remains there yet a plague untri'd for me?
Even so thou wept'st and spok'st when first
I took thee up; curse on the time. If thy
Commanding tears can work on any other,
Use thy art, I'le not betray it. Which way
Wilt thou take, that I may shun thee;
For thine eyes are poyson to mine; and I
Am loth to grow in rage. This way, or that way?
_Bell_. Any will serve. But I will chuse to have
That path in chase that leads unto my grave.
[_Exeunt_ Phil. _and_ Bell. _severally_.
_Enter_ Dion _and the_ Woodmen.
_Di_. This is the strangest sudden change! You _Woodman_.
_1 Wood_. My Lord _Dion_.
_Di_. Saw you a Lady come this way on a Sable-horse
stubbed with stars of white?
_2 Wood_. Was she not young and tall?
_Di_. Yes; Rode she to the wood, or to the plain?
_2 Wood_. Faith my Lord we saw none.
[_Exeunt_ Wood.
_Enter_ Cleremont.
_Di_. Pox of your questions then. What, is she found?
_Cle_. Nor will be I think.
_Di_. Let him seek his Daughter himself; she cannot stray
about a little necessary natural business, but the
whole Court must be in Arms; when she has done, we
shall have peace.
_Cle_. There's already a thousand fatherless tales amongst
us; some say her Horse run away with her; some a Wolf
pursued her; others, it was a plot to kill her; and that
Armed men were seen in the Wood: but questionless, she
rode away willingly.
_Enter_ King, _and_ Thrasiline.
_King_. Where is she?
_Cle_. Sir, I cannot tell.
_King_. How is that? Answer me so again.
_Cle_. Sir, shall I lie?
_King_. Yes, lie and damn, rather than tell me that;
I say again, where is she? Mutter not;
Sir, speak you where is she?
_Di_. Sir, I do not know.
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