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"Let him come in, one knows not what may
"chance :

"God's will that I should set this tree,
"But even so masters, ungrateful servants, reared
"from nought,

"And then they hate them that did bring them up.

Enter the Painter.

"Paint. God bless you, sir.

"Hier. Wherefore? why, thou scornful villain! "How, where, or by what means, should I be " blest?

"Isa. What would'st thou have, good fellow? "Paint. Justice, madam.

"Hier. O ambitious beggar, would'st thou have "that,

"That lives not in the world?

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Why, all the undelved mines cannot buy

An ounce of justice, 'tis a jewel so inestimable.
I tell thee, God hath engrossed all justice in his
"hands,

"And there is none but what comes from him.
"Paint. O then I see, that God must right me
"for my murdered son.

"Hier. How! was thy sou murdered?
"Paint. Ay, sir, no man did hold a son so dear.
"Hier. What, not as thine? that's a lie,
"As massy as the earth: I had a son,
"Whose least unvalued hair did weigh
"A thousand of thy son's; and he was murdered.
"Paint. Alas, sir, I had no more but he.
"Hier. Nor I, nor I; but this same one of mine
"Was worth a legion. But all is one,-
"Pedro, Jaques, go in a doors; Isabella, go,
"And this good fellow here, and I,
"Will range this hideous orchard up and down,
"Like two she lions reaved of their young.
"Go in a doors, I say.

[Exeunt. [The Painter and he set doron. "Come, let's talk wisely now :"Was thy son murdered?

"Paint. Ay, sir.

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"With villains' swords, hanging upon this tree. "Canst thou draw a murderer?

"Paint. I'll warrant you, sir;

"I have the pattern of the most notorious villains, "That ever lived in all Spain.

"Hier. O, let them be worse, worse: stretch

"thine art,

❝ 211 And let their beards be of Judas's own colour,

211 And let their beards be of Judas's own colour.—It is observed, that "in an age when but small part "of the nation could read, ideas were frequently borrowed from representations in painting or tapestry." Leland, in his Collectanea, asserts, that painters constantly represented Judas the traitor with a red head. Dr Plot's Oxfordshire, p. 153., says the same. This conceit is thought to have arisen in England from our ancient grudge to the red-haired Danes. See the Notes of Mr Steevens and Mr Tollet to Merry Wives of Windsor, A. I. S. 4.

To the instances there produced may be added the following:

Middleton's Chaste Maid of Cheapside, 1620: "What has he given her? what is it Gossip? A fair high standing cup, and the two great postle spoons, one of them gilt. Sure that was Judas with the red "beard."

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Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, p. 104.:

"Methought a sweet young man,

"In years some twenty, with a downy chin,
"Promising a future beard, and yet no red one,
"Stole slily to my cabin all unbraced,

"Took me in his arms, and kiss'd me twenty times."

"And let their eye-brows jetty over: in any case | Then stay, Hieronimo, attend their will, For mortal men may not appoint

"observe that;

"Then, sir, after some violent noise,

"

Bring me forth in my shirt, and my gown under "my arm,

"With my torch in my hand, and my sword reared up thus,

"And with these words:

"What noise is this? who calls Hieronimo?

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May it be done.

"Paint. Yea, sir.

"Hier. Well, sir, then bring me forth, bring "me through alley and alley, still with a distract"ed countenance going along, and let my hair "heave up my night-cap.

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"Let the clouds scowl, make the moon dark, "the stars extinct, the winds blowing, the bells tolling, the owls shrieking, the toads croaking, "the minutes jarring, and the clock striking "twelve.

"And then at last, sir, starting, behold a man 'hanging, and tot'ring, as you know the wind will wave a man, and I with a trice to cut him "down.

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"And looking upon him by the advantage of
my torch, find it to be my son Horatio.
"There you may shew a passion, there you may
"shew a passion!

"Draw me like old Priam of Troy,
"Crying-the house is a-fire, the house is a-fire.
And the torch over my head: make me curse,
"Make me rave, make me cry, make me mad,
"Make me well again, make me curse hell,

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Invocate, and in the end leave me

"In a trance, and so forth.

"Paint. And is this the end?

212 their time.

Per scelus semper tutum est sceleribus iter.

Strike, and strike home, where wrong is offered

thee;

For evils unto ills conductors be,

And death's the worst of resolution;

For he that thinks with patience to contend,

To quiet life, his life shall easily end.

Fata si miseros juvant, habes salutem;
Fata si vitam negant, habes sepulchrum.

If destiny thy miseries do ease,

Then hast thou health, and happy shalt thou be.
If destiny deny thee life, Hieronimo,
Yet 213 shalt thou be assured of a tomb;
If neither; yet let this thy comfort be,
Heaven covereth him that hath no burial.
And, to conclude, I will revenge his death:
But how? not as the vulgar wits of men,
With open, but inevitable ills,
As by a secret, yet a certain mean,
Which under kindship will be cloaked best.
Wise men will take their opportunity,
Closely, and safely, fitting things to time.
But in extremes advantage hath no time:
And therefore all times fit not for revenge.
Thus therefore will I rest me in unrest,
Dissembling quiet in unquietness;
Not seeming that I know their villainies,
That my simplicity may make them think,
That ignorantly I will let 214 all slip;
For ignorance I wot, and well they know,
Remedium malorum mors est.

"Hier. O no, there is no end: the end is death Nor aught avails it me to menace them,

"and madness;

"And I am never better than when I am mad;
"Then methinks I am a brave fellow;
"Then I do wonders, but reason abuseth me;
"And there's the torment, there's the hell:
"At the last, sir, bring me to one of the mur-
"derers;

"Were he as strong as Hector, thus would I
"Tear and drag him up and down.

"[He beats the Painter in, then comes out
66 again, with a Book in his hand."

Vindicta mihi.

Aye, heaven will be revenged of every ill;
Nor will they suffer murder un-repaid:

Who, as a wintry storm upon a plain,
Will bear me down with their nobility.
No, no, Hieronimo, thou must enjoin
Thine eyes to observation, and thy tongue
To milder speeches than thy spirit affords, 215
Thy heart to patience, and thy hands to rest,
Thy cap to courtesy, and thy knee to bow,
Till to revenge thou know, when, where, and how.
[A noise within.
How now! what noise? what coil is that you
keep?

Enter a Servant.

Ser. Here are a sort 216 of poor petitioners,

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That are importunate; and it should please you, sir,

That you should plead their 217 cases to the king. Hier. That I should plead their several actions? Why let them enter, and let me see them.

Enter three Citizens and an Old Man.

1 Cit. So, I tell you this, for learning, and for law,

There's not any advocate in Spain

That can prevail, or will take half the pain,
That he will, in pursuit of equity.

Hier. Come near, you men that thus importune

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Hier. Say, father, tell me what's thy suit? Senex. No, sir; could my woes Give way unto my most distressful words, Then should I not in paper (as you see) With ink bewray what blood began in me. Hier. What's here?-The humble supplication of Don Bazulto, for his murdered son. Senex. Aye, sir.

Hier. No, sir, it was my murdered son! Oh my

son,

Oh my son, Oh my son Horatio!

But mine, or thine, Bazulto, be content.
Here take my handkerchief, and wipe thine eyes,
Whiles wretched I in thy mishaps may see
The lively pourtrait of my dying self.

[He draweth out a bloody Napkin.

O no, not this, Horatio, this was thine:
And when I dyed it in thy dearest blood,
This was a token 'twixt thy soul and me,
That of thy death revenged I should be.
But here, take this, and this,-what, my purse!
Aye, this, and that, and all of them are thine:
For all as one are our extremities.

1 Cit. Oh, see the kindness of Hieronimo! 2 Cit. This gentleness shows him a gentleman. Hier. See, see, oh see thy shame, Hieronimo; See here a loving father to his son;

Behold the sorrows and the sad laments,
That he delivereth 223 for his son's decease.
If love's 22+ effects so strive in lesser things,
If love enforce such moods in meaner wits,
If love express 225 such power in poor estates;
Hieronimo,-when as a raging sea,
Tost with the wind and tide, o'erturneth then
The upper billows, course of waves to keep,
Whilst lesser waters labour in the deep :-
Then shamest thou not, Hieronimo, to neglect
The sweet 226 revenge of thy Horatio?
Though on this earth justice will not be found,
I'll down to hell, and, in this passion,

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217 Causes, 1623.33.

218 This, 1618. 23. 33.

219 Band. This was altered to bond in the former edition. Band was, however, the manner in which the word was formerly written, and I imagine pronounced. See several instances in Mr Steevens's Note on The Comedy of Errors, A. 4 S. 2. Again, Churchyard's Challenge, p. 152.:

"Since faith could get no credit at his hand,
"I sent him word to come, and sue my band."

Beaumont and Fletcher's Noble Gentleman. Vol. VIII. edit. 1778, p. 389. :

220 Stand you, '618. 23. 33.

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221 Corsick-The Glossary to Gawain Douglas's Virgil, explains the word corssy to be big-bodied; corsick is therefore large, huge, great. In Churchyard's Challenge, p 37. we have the substantive corzies, for. swellings, protuberances.

22 Rueful, 1618, 23. 33. 224 Love, 61.

226 Swift, 1618. 23, 38.

"And corzies rose, that made a running sore."

223 Delivered, 1618. 23. 33.
225 Enforce, 1618. 23. 33.

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227

Knock at the dismal gates of Pluto's court, Getting by force (as once Alcides did) 2 A troop of furies, and tormenting hags, To torture Don Lorenzo and the rest. Yet, lest the triple-headed porter should Deny my passage to the slimy strond, The Thracian poet thou shalt counterfeit.— Corne on, 228 old father, be my Orpheus; And if thou can'st 229 no notes upon the harp, Then sound the burden of thy sore heart's grief Till we do gain, that Proserpine may grant Revenge on them that murdered my son. Then will I rend and tear them thus, and thus, Shivering their limbs in pieces with my teeth. [Tears the Papers. [Exit HIERONIMO, and they after.

1 Cit. O, sir, my declaration!

2 Cit. Save my bond.

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Hier. What, not my son? thou then 234 a fury
art,

Sent from the empty kingdom of black night,
To summon me to make appearance
Before grim Minos and just Rhadamant,
To plague Hieronimo that is remiss,
And seeks not vengeance for Horatio's death.
Baz. I am a grieved man, and not a ghost,
That came for justice for my murdered son.
Hier. Aye, now I know thee, now thou nam'st
thy sou:

Thou art the lively image of my grief,
Within thy face, my sorrows I may see:
Thy eyes are gum'd 235 with tears, thy cheeks are

wan,

Thy forehead troubled, and thy muttering lips.
Murmur sad words abruptly broken off,
By force of windy sighs thy spirit breathes,
And all this sorrow riseth for thy son:
And self-same sorrow feel I for my son.
Come in, old man, thou shalt to Isabel :
Lean on my arm; I thee, thou ine, shalt stay,
And thou, and I, and she, will sing a song;
Three parts in one, but all of discords framed :
Talk not of chords, but let us now be gone,
For with a cord Horatio was slain. [Exeunt,
Enter King of Spain, the Duke, Viceroy, and
LORENZO, BALTHEZAR, Don PEDRO, and BE-

LIMPERIA.

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King. And now to meet these 237 Portingales;
For as we now are, so sometimes were these,
Kings and commanders of the western Indies.--
Welcome, brave Viceroy, to the court of Spain,
And welcome all his honourable train.
'Tis not unknown to us, for why you come,
Or have so kingly crost the raging seas;
Sufficeth 238 it in this, we note the troth,
And more than common love you lend to us.
So is it that mine honourable niece

227 Did, omitted, 1618.

228 On, omitted, 1618. 23. 33.

229 Can'st no notes-i e. says Mr Iawkins, " understandest not; hast no knowledge of, or power in.”

So, Spenser, and others.

230 Them, 618 23.33.

232 Thou art, 1623. 33.

234 Then thou, 1633.

236 Be, sir, 1618.-Be done, sir, 1623.

238 Sufficed, 1618. 23. 33.

VOL. I.

231 How, omitted, 1618.

233 Older, 1618. 23. 33.

235 Dimmed, 1618. 23. 33.
237 The, 1618. 23. 33.

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(For it beseems us now that it be known)
Already is betrothed to Balthczar;
And, by appointment and our condescent,
To-morrow are they 239 to be married.
To this intent we entertain thyself,
Thy followers, their pleasure, 240 and our peace.
Speak, men of Portingale; shall it be so?
If ave, say so; if not, say flatly, no.

Vice. Renowned king, I come not as thou think'st,
With doubtful followers, unresolved men,
But such as have upon thine articles
Confirmed thy motion, and contented me.
Know, sovereign, I come to solemnize
The marriage of thy well-beloved niece,
Fair Belimperia, with my Balthezar ;
With thee, my son, whom sith I live to see,
Here take my crown, I give it her and thee:
And let me live a solitary life,

In ceaseless prayers,

To think how strangely heaven hath thee preserved.

King. See, brother, see, how nature strives in him!

Come, worthy Viceroy, and accompany
Thy friend, with thine extremities;

A place more private fits this princely mood. Vice. Or here, or where your highness thinks it good.

[Exeunt all but CASTILE and LORENZO. Cast. Nay, stay, Lorenzo, let me talk with you; See'st thou this entertainment of these kings? Lor. I do, my lord, and joy to see the same. Cast. And knowest thou why this meeting is? Lor. For her, my lord, whom Balthezar doth

love,

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241

Cast. I tell thee, son, myself have heard it said, When (to my sorrow) I have been ashamed To answer for thee, though thou art IDY SOD Lorenzo, know'st thou not the common love, And kindness that Hieronimo hath won

By his deserts, within the court of Spain?
Or seest thou not the king my brother's care
In his behalf, and to procure his health?
Lorenzo, should'st thou thwart his passions,
And he exclaim against thee to the king,
What honour were't in this assembly,
Or what a scandal were't among the kings,
To hear Hicronimo exclaim on thee?
Tell me, and look thou tell me truly too,
Whence grows the ground of this report in court!

243

Lor. My lord, it lies not in Lorenzo's power To stop the vulgar, liberal 243 of their tongues; A small advantage makes a water-breach, And no man lives, that long contenteth all.

Cast. Myself have seen thee busy to keep back Him and his supplications from the king.

Lor. Yourself, my lord, have seen his passions, That ill-bescemed the presence of a king; And, for I pitied him in his distress,

I held him thence with kind and courteous words,
As free from malice to Hieronimo,
As to my soul, my lord.

Cast. Hieronimo, my son, mistakes thee then.
Lor. My gracious father, believe me, so he doth.
But what's a silly man, distract in mind,
To think upon the murder of his son?
Alas? how easy is it for him to err?
But, for his satisfaction, and the world's,
'Twere good, my lord, that 244 Hieronimo and I

Were reconciled, if he misconstrue me.

Cast. Lorenzo, thou hast said, it shall be so.— Go one of you, and call Hieronimo.

Enter BALTHEZAR and BELIMPERIA. Bal. Come, Belimperia, Balthezar's content; My sorrow's ease, and sovereign of my bliss, 245 to be mine,

Sith heaven hath ordained thee
Disperse those clouds and melancholy looks,
And clear 246 them up with those thy sun-bright

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239 They are, 1633.

241 Wert, 1618. 23. 33.

240 Pleasures, 1623. 33.

242 Too, omitted, 1618. 23. 33.

243 Liberal-Liberal, in our ancient writers, is, as here, frequently used to signify licentious. So, in

Field's Woman's a Weathercock:

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244 That, omitted, 1623. 33. 246 Cheare, 1618. 29. 33.

245 Heaven hath thee ordained, 1623. 33.

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