Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) SWETNAM, THE VVoman-hater, ARRAIGNED BY WOMEN. _A new Comedie_, Acted at the _Red Bull_, by the late Queenes Seruants. [Illustration] LONDON, Printed for _Richard Meighen_, and are to be sold at his Shops at Saint _Clements_ Church, ouer-against _Essex_ House, and at _Westminster_ Hall. 1620. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Enter_ LORETTA, PROLOGVS. _The Women are all welcome; for the men, They will be welcome: our care’s not for them. ’Tis we poore women, that must stand the brunt Of this dayes try all: we are all accused. How wee shall cleere our selues, there lyes the doubt. The men, I know, will laugh, when they shall heare Vs rayl’d at, and abused; and say, ’Tis well, We all deserue as much. Let vm laugh on, Lend but your kind assistance: you shall see We will not be ore-come with Infamie, And slanders that we neuer merited. Be but you patient, I dare boldly say, (If euer women pleased) weele please to day._ Vouchsafe to reade, I dare presume to say, Yee shall be pleased; and thinke ’tis a good play. ACTORVM NOMINA. Atticus, _King of Sicilie_. Lorenzo, _his Sonne_. Lisandro, _Prince of Naples_. Iago, } __{t}hree Noblemen_ Sforza, } __{o}f Sicilie_. Nicanor, } Scanfardo, _Servant to_ Nicanor. _Two Gentlemen._ _A Captaine._ Swetnam, _alias_, Misogynos, _The Woman-hater_. Swash, _his Man_. _Two Iudges._ _Notarie._ _Cryer._ _Womens Parts._ Aurelia, _Queene_. Leonida, _the Princesse_. Loretta, _her Maid_. _Three or foure other Women._ [Illustration] ACT. I. SCEN. I. _Enter_ IAGO _and_ NICANOR, _two Noblemen of_ Sicilia, _in private conference_. NICANOR. Hee was a vertuous and a hopefull Prince, And we haue iust cause to lament his death, For had he liu’d, and Spaine made war agen, He would ha’ prou’d a Terror to his Foe.