Swetnam, the Woman-hater, arraigned by women: A new comedie, acted at the Red Bull, by the late Queenes seruants.Anonymous
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Swetnam, the Woman-hater, arraigned by women: A new comedie, acted at the Red Bull, by the late Queenes seruants.
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Swetnam, Joseph, active 1617 -- Drama
_Aur._ Was euer Father so vnmercifull,
But for that Monster that was cause of this,
That bloudie, cruell, and inhumane wretch,
That slanderous Detractor of our Sex:
That _Misogynos_, that blasphemous Slaue?
I will be so reueng’d.
_Enter Clowne._
_Atlan._ Madame, no more,
He is not worth your wrath:
Let me alone with him.
_Clow._ Whist, doe you heare?
_Atlan._ How now, what art thou?
_Clow._ Not your Seruant, and yet a Messenger,
No Seruingman, and yet an Vsher too.
_Atlan._ What are you then, Sir? speake.
_Clow._ That can resolue you, and yet cannot speake,
I am no Foole, I am a Fencer, Sir.
_Aur._ A Fencer, sirrah? ha, what Countrey-man?
_Clow._ This Countrey-man, forsooth, but yet borne in
England.
_Aur._ How? borne in England, & this Countrey-man?
_Clow._ I haue bin borne in many Countreyes, Madame,
But I thinke I am best be this Countrey-man,
For many take me for a silly one.
_Aur._ For a silly one?
_Clow._ I, a silly one.
_Atlan._ Oh, Madame, I haue such welcomenesse!
_Aur._ For me, what is’t?
_Atlan._ The baytes of women haue preuented vs,
And hee has intrapt himselfe.
_Aur._ How, by what accident?
_Atlan._ Loue, Madame, loue, read that.
_Aur._ How’s this?
To the most wise and vertuous Amazon,
Chiefe pride and glorie of the Female Sex.
A promising induction: what’s within?
Magnanimous Ladie, maruell not,
That your once Aduersary do’s submit himselfe
To your vnconquer’d beautie.
_Atlan._ Cunning Slaue.
_Aur._ Rather impute it to the power of loue,
Whose heauenly influence hath wrought in me,
So strange a Metamorphosis.
_Atlan._ The very quintessence of flatterie.
_Aur._ In so much, I vow hereafter, to spend all my dayes,
Deuoted to your seruice, it shall be
To expiate my former blasphemies:
My desire is shortly to visit you.
_Atlan._ It shall be to your cost then.
_Aur._ To make testimony of my hearty contrition,
Till when and euer I will protest my selfe,
To be the conuerted _Misogynist_.
_Atlan._ Ha, ha, ha, why, this is excellent!
Beyond imagination.
_Aur._ You must not slip this oportunitie.
_Atlan._ Ile not let passe a minute: his owne man
Ile make an instrument to feed his
Follies with a kind acceptance, and when he comes,
Let me alone to plot his punishment.
_Aur._ Excellent _Atlanta_, I applaud thy wit.
_Atlan._ Ile make him an example to all men,
That dares calumniate a womans fame.
Attend an answere, Ile reward thee well.
_Clow._ I thanke your Madame-ship, Ime glad o’ this,
Tis the best hit that euer Fencer gaue. _Exeunt._
_Enter_ Atticus, Iago, Sforza, _and_ Nicanor.
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