And now in the kinges eare like a bell he ringes,
Crying, that flatterers have ben the destroyers of kinges.
Crying, that flatterers have ben the destroyers of kinges.
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Father, you have good butter teeth, full seene;
You weare weaned, els you would have ben calfe.
Ah trimme lippes sweepe manger! here As soft as the hoofe of an horse.
good
great chinne,
praieomee well the former Edition, Mr. Dodsley had altered this pay mee wel.
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Grimme. Doth the kinges daughters rubbe so harde? Jacke. Holde your head straite, man, els, wyll
marde. -
Byr ladie, you are good complexion,
right Croyden sanguine”, beshrew mee.
Hould up, father Grimme. —Wyll, can you besturreye?
Grimme. Me thinks, after do besmoure me.
Jacke. with unguentum very costly:
geue not this washinge ball
marvelous fashion you Daucus Maucus, that
every body.
After you have ben drest finely my hande, You may kisse any ladies lippes within this lande.
you are trimly washt! how say you, water?
not this trimm vengeaunce
Grimme.
may holsome, but SOWet.
Jacke. scours the better. —Syr boy, geve me raysour.
Wyll. Here hand, syr. Grimme. Gods aymes, ’tis
chopping knyfe,
raysour. very good one; Jacke. raysour, and that
came lately from Palermo", cost mee twenty crownes alone.
Your eyes dassell after your washing, these spectacles
put on raysour, tell mee,
not good one?
yet never see
Now vew this
Grimme. They better.
gay barnikels, -
Jacke. deede they the matter;
young sight, and that
From the manner which this expression used Sir John Harrington, The Anatomie Metamorphosis Ajar, Sig.
seems though was intended for sallow hue. “Both “complexion inclining the oriental colour Croyden sanguine. ”
came lately from Palermol The 4tos read Pallarrime. The razors Palermo were anciently famous. They are mentioned more than one our old Plays, and particularly The Wounds Civil
War Thomas Lodge, 1594, vol. VIII. 83. “Neighbour sharpen the edge tole your wits upon the whetsone indiscretion, that
“your wordes may shave like the rasers Palermo. ”
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But I warrant you, this raysour is very easie.
241
Grimme. Go too then; since you begonne, doo as please ye.
Jacke. Holde up, father Grimme.
Grimme. O your raysour doth hurt my lippe.
Jacke. No, it scrapeth of a pimpell to ease you of the pippe.
I have done now, how say you? are you not well? Grimme. Cham lighter then ich was, the truth to tell.
- Grimme. Mas, content; but chill be polde first or I
Jacke. Will you singe aster your shavinge?
singe. -
Jacke. Nay that shall not neede, you are pould neare
enough for this time.
Grimme. Go too then lustyly, I will singe in my man's voyce:
Chave a troublinge base busse.
Jacke. You are lyke to beare the bobbe, wyll geve
Set out your bussyng base, and wee wyll quiddell upon
GRIMME singeth Busse. Jacke singes. Too nidden, and too nidden.
-
Wyll singes. Too nidden, and toodle midden;
toodle doo
not Grimme the colier most finely shaven?
Grimme. Why, my fellowes, thinke iche am cowe,
that you make such toying
Jacke. Nay by’r ladie, you are cow, your
singing;
Yet your wife told me you were oxe.
Grimme. Did she so? 'tis pestens quene”, she full of such mockes.
But go let singe out our songe merely.
The songe the shaving
the colier.
Jacke. Suche barbers, God send you all times neede.
Wyll. That can dress eyou finely, and make such quicke
speede.
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242 DAMON AND PITHIAS,
Jacke. Your face like an incorne now shineth so gay—
Wyll. That I with your nostrels of force must needes play,
With too midden, and too midden. .
Jacke. With too midden, and todle todle doo nidden.
Is not Grimme the colier most finely shaven 2
Wyll. With shaving you shine lyke a pestle of
porke”.
Jacke. Here is the trimmest hogges-flesh from London to Yorke.
Wyll. It would be trimme baken to hange up a while,
Jacke. To play with this hogline, of force I smyle,
With too midden, and too midden.
Wyll. With too nidden, and todle, &c. I
must
your
Wyll. Your wife now will busse you, because you are sweater.
Grimme. Neare would I be poled, as neere as cham shaven.
Wyll. Then out of your jerkin needes must you be shaken.
With too nidden, nnd too nidden, &c.
Grimme. It is a trimme thing to be washt in courte.
Wyll. Their handes are fine, that they never hurte.
Grimme. Methinke ich am lighter then ever ich was. Wyll. Our shaveinge the courte hath brought this
to passe.
With too nidden, and too midden.
Jacke With too midden, and todle todle doo nidden.
not Grimme the colier most finely" shaven [Finis.
Grimme. This trimly done: now chil pitche coles not farre hence,
And then the taverne chil bestowe whole tway pence.
Grimme. Your shaving doth please me, debter.
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Jacke. Farewel cocke. Before the colier againe doo us seeke,
Let us into the courte to parte the spoyle, share and share like.
Wyll. Away then.
Here entreth GRIMM E.
[Ereunt.
Grimme. Out alas, where shall I make my mone? My pouche, my benters, and gone!
Wher that villayne that dyd me shave Hath robbed me, alas all that have.
Here entreth SNAP.
Snap. Who crieth the courte gate? Grimme. the poore colier, that was robbed
late.
Snap. Who robbed thee?
Grimme. Twoo the porters men that dyd shave me.
Snap. Why, the porters men are barbers.
Grimme. vengance take them, they are quicke carvers.
Snap, What stature weare they of:
Grimme. As little dapper knaves, could scoffe.
Snap. They were lackeyes, neare them.
they trimly can gesse
Grimme. Such lackies make mee lacke; beswinge them:
Cham undon, they have my benters too.
halter
Snap. Doest thou know them, thou seest them? Grimme. Yea, that doo.
Snap. Then come with me, we wyll finde them out, and that quickly.
Grimme. folow, mast tipstaffe; they courte likely.
the
Snap. Then crie more, come away. [Ereunt. Here entreth CARIsoPH. Us and ARISTIPPUs.
ever you wyll shew your friendship, now Seing the king displeased with me,
without any crime.
Aristippus. should appeare, comes
behaviour.
That you sodenly are cast out favour.
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244 . DAMON AND PITH IAS.
Carisophus. Nothing have I done but this; in talke
I overthwarted
When he lamented Pithias' case to kinge Dionisius. Which to morrow shall die, but for that false knave
Damon,
He hath left his friend in the briers, and now is gone. Wee grew so hot in talke, that Eubulus protested
playnely,
Dionisius” held his eare open to parasiticall flatterie.
And now in the kinges eare like a bell he ringes,
Crying, that flatterers have ben the destroyers of kinges.
Which talke in Dionisius' harte hath made so deepe impression,
That he trusteth me not, as heretofore, in no condition: And some wordes brake from him, as though that hee Began to suspect my trouth and honestie,
Which you of friendship I know wyll defend, how so
Eubulus,
ever the world goeth:
My frind, my honestie will you not take Aristippus. To sweare for your honestie,
mine OWne. -
Carisophus. Should you indeede? were knowne.
othe'' should lose
would that
your voyde friendship come thus passe? Aristippus. folow the proverbe: Amicus usque
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Carisophus. Where can you say ever lost mine honestie
*Dionisius. ] Both the 4tos read Whiche. The alteration Mr. Dodsley.
Perhaps alteration was necessary; for our old writers, which and who are sometimes used indifferently: all events, would have been doing less violence the text (especially taking the measure into consideration) merely who had been substituted for which, stands the old copies, and not Dionisius, Mr. Dodsley conjectured, and Mr. Reed allowed remain. The sense the passage clearly this, “that Eubulus protested plainly
“who was that held his ear open parasitical flattery,” viz. Dionisius whom Carisophus intends understood rather- than expressly named.
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Aristippus. You never lost for you never had as farre as know.
Carisophus. Say you so, friend Aristippus, whom trust so well
Ario. Because you trust me, you the truth tell. -
Carisophus. Wyll you not stretche one poynt,
bring mee favour agayne
Aristippus. love myne owne payne.
stretching;
may breede payne,
very
Carisophus. friende ought shonne stand his friend stead.
Aristippus. Where true friendship deede.
Carisophus. Why, sir, hath not the chaine true frindship linked two together?
Aristippus. The chiefest linke, lacked therof, must needs desever.
Carisophus. know.
true friendship
Aristippus. Yea, truely, and that knot knit wyll
never slippe.
Carisophus. Belike then, there frindship but
betweene honest men.
Aristippus. Betwene the honest only; for, Amicitia inter bonos”, saith learned man.
Carisophus. Yet evell men use frindship things unhonest, wher fancy doth serve.
Aristippus.
Aristippus. That lastes but
Carisophus. What
frindship, but lewde likeing while.
the perfectst frindship among
What linke
that? faine would
Honestie.
Carisophus. Doth honestie knit the perfect knot
men that ever grew
Aristippus. Where men love one another, not for
profit, but for vertue.
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246 DAMON AND PITIIIAS.
Carisophus. Are such frindes both alike in joy and
also in smarte?
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Aristippus. They must needs; for in two bodies they have but one harte.
Carisophus. Friend Aristippus, deceave me not with sophistrie :
Is there no perfect frindship, but where is vertue and honestie 7
Aristippus. What a devell then ment Carisophus
To joyne in frindship with fine Aristippus :
In whom is as much vertue, trueth and honestie,
As there are true fethers in the three Craines of the
Vintree *:
Yet their “fethers have the shadow of lively fethers, the truth to scan,
But Carisophus hath not the shadowe of an honest man. To be playne, because I know thy villany,
In abusinge Dionisius to many mens injury,
Under the cloke of frindship I playd with his head,
And sought meanes how thou with thine owne fancy might be lead. .
My frindship thou soughtest for thine owne commoditie,
As worldly men doo, by profite measuring amitie:
Which I perceaving, to the lyke myselfe I framed,
Wherein, I know, of the wise I shall not be blamed:
If you ask me, Quare 2 I answer, Quia prudentis est mul tum dissimulare.
wyll speake 1 not
o:three Craines Vintree] Sometimes called New Queen Street, where there seems have been the sign the three
Jonson mentions this place The Devil Ass,
To speake more playner, as the proverb doth go,
In faith Carisophus, cum Cretense cretiso.
Yet a perfect frinde Ishew myselfe to thee in one thing,
I doo not dissemble, now I say thee the king
then
“From thence shoot the bridge child, the Cranes the Vintry, “And see there the gimblets how they make their entry
Stow says was place some account for the Costermongers who had ware-houses there; and appears from Dekkar's Belman
London, Sign. that the beggars his time called one their places rendezvous this name.
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24:
Therfore sinke in thy sorrow, I doo not deceave thee,
o:
Which seeing me in distresse, unfainedly goes his wayes.
Loe this is the perfect frindship among men now a daies;
Which kinde of frindship toward him I used secretly; And he with me the like hath requited me craftly.
It is the Gods judgment, I see it playnely,
A false knave I found thee, a false knave I leave thee. Exit.
Carisophus. He is gone is this frindship
his friend in the plaine fielde? Well, I see now I myselfe have beguyeld,
In matching with that false fox in amitie, Which hath me used to his owne commoditie:
For Well,
Until
the worlde may know, Incidi foveam quam feci.
must content my selfe, none other helpe knowe,
merier gale winde may happe
Enter EUBULUs.
blowe. [Erit.
great
Eubulus. Who deals with kinges matters waight,
When froward wyll doth beare the chefest sway,
Must yeld force; there neede Ne paynted” speach the matter
No prayer can move when kindled
The more quench, the more increased the fire. This thinge prove Pithias’ woful case,
Whose heavy hap with teares doo lament:
The day come, when Damon's place,
fully spent. Nought can my words now with the king prevaile,
Must lose his life: the time
Against the wind and strivinge stream sayle:
For die thou must, alas thou sely Greeke. Ah, Phithas, now come thy dolefull houre: perfect friend, none such world seeke.
paynted] vaunted, edit. streams, 2d edit.
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248 DAM ON AN id PITH I. A. S.
Though bitter death shall geve thee sauce full sower, Yet for thy faith enrold shall be thy name,
Among the gods, within the booke of fame.
Who knoweth his case, and will not melt in teares? His giltless bloud shall trickle downe anon.
THEN THE MUSES SING E.
Alas, what happe hast thou, poore Pithias, now to die!
Wo worth the man which for his -death hath geven us cause to crie.
Eubulus. Methinke I heare, with yelow rented heares, The Muses frame their notes, thy" state to mone: Among which sorte, as one that morneth with harte,
In doleful tunes myself wyll beare a parte.
Muses. Wo worth the man which for his death, &c.
Eubulus. With yelow rented heares, come on you * Muses nine; *,
Fyll now my breast with heavy tunes, to me your plaints resigne :
For Pithias I bewayle, which presently must die,
Wo worth the man which for his death hath geven us
-
Eubulus. Was ever such a man, that would die for friend
cause, &c.
Muses. Wo worth the man which for his, &c.
thinke even from the heavens above, the gods did him
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shew true friendshipp's power, which forst thee now
downe sende
-
Eubulus. What tigar's whelp was he, that Damon dyd accuse
What faith hast thou, which for thy friend thy death doth not refuse?
Both the old copies have “my state mone” which may
right, and the substitution should not have been made without notice.
to die.
Wo worth the man which for thy death, &c.
Muses. Wo worth the man, &c.
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DAM ON AND PIT H IAS. 249
0 heavy happe hadst thou to play this tragidie
Wo worth the man which for thy death, &c. Muses. Worth the man, &c.
Eubulus. Thou young and worthy Greeke, that showest such perfect love,
The gods receave thy simple ghost into the heavens above: Thy death we shall lament with many a weepinge eye. Wo worth the man, which for his death, &c.
Muses. Wo worth the man, which for thy death hath geven us cause to crie. [Finis.
Eubulus. Eternall be your fame, ye Muses, for that In mlSerle
Ye did vouchsafe to strayne your notes to walke.
My harte is rent in two with this miserable case,
Yet am I charged by Dionisius' mouth, to se this place
At poynts ready for the execution Neede hath law wyll”
Pithias.
must done,
But loe, the bloodie minister Gronno, came hether now
even here understand,
hande.
thinges are well appoynted for the execution Pithias.
The kinge him selfe wyll done here Gronno. Sir, thinges are ready, here here the hand, here the sword Here lacketh non but Pithias, whose head
were present, coulde finely strike You may reporte that thinges are ready.
this place. the place,
worde.
Ah, -
Eubulus. with heavy harte
report
woful Pithias'
Full neare now thy misery.
-
[Exit. Gronno. marvell very much, under what constilation
All hangmen are borne, for they are hated all, beloved ofnone
Which hatred showed this poynt evidently:
The hangman alwayes dwelles the vilest place the citie.
*wyll
the Collier Croydon, vol. XI.
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250 DAMON a n d PITH I. A. S.
That such spight should be, I know no cause why, Unlesse it be for their offices sake, which is cruel and
bloody.
Yet some men must do execute lawes.
Me thinke they hate me without any just cause.
But must looke my toyle; Pithias must lose his
head one blow,
Els the boyes wyll stone me death the streat O.
But hao, the prisoner cometh, and the kinge also:
see there help, Pithias his life must forgo. Here entreth Dion 1s1Us and EUBULUs.
Bring forth Pithias, that pleasant companion,
Which tooke mee my worde, and became pleadge for Damon.
injurie, now lose his head, for requested me,
pricketh fast upon noone, doo him
Damon returne not, which now Greece full metW
Therfore shall Pithias pay his death, and that and by, He thought belike, Damon were out the citie,
would not put him death for some foolishe pitie: But seeing was his request, wyll not mockt,
shall die; Bring him forth.
Here entreth SNAP. ”
Snap. Geve place, the prisoner come by; give place.
Dionisius. How say you, sir; where Damon, your trustie friend?
You have playd wise part, make God vow:
You know what time day make you ready. Pithias. Most ready am, mightie king, and most
ready also
For my true friend Damon this lyfe forgo, Even your pleasure.
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pricketh] i. e. rideth fast upon noon. The word used
Spenser and many
With Pithias the rest the scene.
our ancient writers.
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DAMON AND PITH IAS. 251
Dionisius. A true frend a false traytor, that so breaketh his oth.
Thou shalt lose thy life, though thou be never so loth. Pithias. I am not loth to doo what so ever I sayde,
Ne at this present pinch of death am I dismayde:
The Gods now I know have heard my fervent prayer,
That they have reserved me to this passynge great honour,
To die for my frend, whose faith even now I doo not mistruste;
My frinde Damon is no false traytour, he is true and Juste:
Butsithheis noGod,butaman, hemustdooashe may,
The womy be contrary, sicknes may him
some misadventure the way,
Which the eternall Gods tourne
That fame may resound how Pithias for Damon did die:
can, His minde heare, hath some let, but man.
He breaketh no oth which doth much
That might not returne the Gods did require,
Which now my joy "graunt my desire.
But why doo. I stay any longer, seing that one man's
death
May suffise, king, pacifie thy wrath?
thou minister justice, doo thyne office and by, Let not thy hand tremble, for tremble not die. Stephano, the right patrone true fidelitie,
Commend me thy master, my sweet Damon, and him crave libertie
When am dead, my name; for thy trustie services Hath well deserved gift farre better than this.
Oh my Damon, farewell now for ever, true friend,
me most deare;
Whyles lyfe doth laste, my mouth shall styll talke thee,
And when am dead, my simple ghost, true witnes amitie,
Shall hoover about the place wheresoever thou bee. him, i. e. hinder him. dol doth. Both 4tos.
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252 DAM ON AN D PITH IAS.
Dionisius. Eubulus, this geare is straunge; and because
Damon hath falst his faith, Pithias shall have the lawe, Gronmo, dispoyle hym, and eke dispatch him quickly.
Gronno. shal done; since you came into this place,
might have stroken off seven heades this space. Ber lady, here are good garments, these are myne
the roode
evyll winde that bloweth man good.
You weare weaned, els you would have ben calfe.
Ah trimme lippes sweepe manger! here As soft as the hoofe of an horse.
good
great chinne,
praieomee well the former Edition, Mr. Dodsley had altered this pay mee wel.
Aloyse, aloysel Aloue, Fr. allow, approve, praise.
know no other word that resembles that the text. Chaucer, praised.
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DAMON AND PITHIAs.
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Grimme. Doth the kinges daughters rubbe so harde? Jacke. Holde your head straite, man, els, wyll
marde. -
Byr ladie, you are good complexion,
right Croyden sanguine”, beshrew mee.
Hould up, father Grimme. —Wyll, can you besturreye?
Grimme. Me thinks, after do besmoure me.
Jacke. with unguentum very costly:
geue not this washinge ball
marvelous fashion you Daucus Maucus, that
every body.
After you have ben drest finely my hande, You may kisse any ladies lippes within this lande.
you are trimly washt! how say you, water?
not this trimm vengeaunce
Grimme.
may holsome, but SOWet.
Jacke. scours the better. —Syr boy, geve me raysour.
Wyll. Here hand, syr. Grimme. Gods aymes, ’tis
chopping knyfe,
raysour. very good one; Jacke. raysour, and that
came lately from Palermo", cost mee twenty crownes alone.
Your eyes dassell after your washing, these spectacles
put on raysour, tell mee,
not good one?
yet never see
Now vew this
Grimme. They better.
gay barnikels, -
Jacke. deede they the matter;
young sight, and that
From the manner which this expression used Sir John Harrington, The Anatomie Metamorphosis Ajar, Sig.
seems though was intended for sallow hue. “Both “complexion inclining the oriental colour Croyden sanguine. ”
came lately from Palermol The 4tos read Pallarrime. The razors Palermo were anciently famous. They are mentioned more than one our old Plays, and particularly The Wounds Civil
War Thomas Lodge, 1594, vol. VIII. 83. “Neighbour sharpen the edge tole your wits upon the whetsone indiscretion, that
“your wordes may shave like the rasers Palermo. ”
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DAMON AND PITHIAS.
But I warrant you, this raysour is very easie.
241
Grimme. Go too then; since you begonne, doo as please ye.
Jacke. Holde up, father Grimme.
Grimme. O your raysour doth hurt my lippe.
Jacke. No, it scrapeth of a pimpell to ease you of the pippe.
I have done now, how say you? are you not well? Grimme. Cham lighter then ich was, the truth to tell.
- Grimme. Mas, content; but chill be polde first or I
Jacke. Will you singe aster your shavinge?
singe. -
Jacke. Nay that shall not neede, you are pould neare
enough for this time.
Grimme. Go too then lustyly, I will singe in my man's voyce:
Chave a troublinge base busse.
Jacke. You are lyke to beare the bobbe, wyll geve
Set out your bussyng base, and wee wyll quiddell upon
GRIMME singeth Busse. Jacke singes. Too nidden, and too nidden.
-
Wyll singes. Too nidden, and toodle midden;
toodle doo
not Grimme the colier most finely shaven?
Grimme. Why, my fellowes, thinke iche am cowe,
that you make such toying
Jacke. Nay by’r ladie, you are cow, your
singing;
Yet your wife told me you were oxe.
Grimme. Did she so? 'tis pestens quene”, she full of such mockes.
But go let singe out our songe merely.
The songe the shaving
the colier.
Jacke. Suche barbers, God send you all times neede.
Wyll. That can dress eyou finely, and make such quicke
speede.
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242 DAMON AND PITHIAS,
Jacke. Your face like an incorne now shineth so gay—
Wyll. That I with your nostrels of force must needes play,
With too midden, and too midden. .
Jacke. With too midden, and todle todle doo nidden.
Is not Grimme the colier most finely shaven 2
Wyll. With shaving you shine lyke a pestle of
porke”.
Jacke. Here is the trimmest hogges-flesh from London to Yorke.
Wyll. It would be trimme baken to hange up a while,
Jacke. To play with this hogline, of force I smyle,
With too midden, and too midden.
Wyll. With too nidden, and todle, &c. I
must
your
Wyll. Your wife now will busse you, because you are sweater.
Grimme. Neare would I be poled, as neere as cham shaven.
Wyll. Then out of your jerkin needes must you be shaken.
With too nidden, nnd too nidden, &c.
Grimme. It is a trimme thing to be washt in courte.
Wyll. Their handes are fine, that they never hurte.
Grimme. Methinke ich am lighter then ever ich was. Wyll. Our shaveinge the courte hath brought this
to passe.
With too nidden, and too midden.
Jacke With too midden, and todle todle doo nidden.
not Grimme the colier most finely" shaven [Finis.
Grimme. This trimly done: now chil pitche coles not farre hence,
And then the taverne chil bestowe whole tway pence.
Grimme. Your shaving doth please me, debter.
am now
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243
Jacke. Farewel cocke. Before the colier againe doo us seeke,
Let us into the courte to parte the spoyle, share and share like.
Wyll. Away then.
Here entreth GRIMM E.
[Ereunt.
Grimme. Out alas, where shall I make my mone? My pouche, my benters, and gone!
Wher that villayne that dyd me shave Hath robbed me, alas all that have.
Here entreth SNAP.
Snap. Who crieth the courte gate? Grimme. the poore colier, that was robbed
late.
Snap. Who robbed thee?
Grimme. Twoo the porters men that dyd shave me.
Snap. Why, the porters men are barbers.
Grimme. vengance take them, they are quicke carvers.
Snap, What stature weare they of:
Grimme. As little dapper knaves, could scoffe.
Snap. They were lackeyes, neare them.
they trimly can gesse
Grimme. Such lackies make mee lacke; beswinge them:
Cham undon, they have my benters too.
halter
Snap. Doest thou know them, thou seest them? Grimme. Yea, that doo.
Snap. Then come with me, we wyll finde them out, and that quickly.
Grimme. folow, mast tipstaffe; they courte likely.
the
Snap. Then crie more, come away. [Ereunt. Here entreth CARIsoPH. Us and ARISTIPPUs.
ever you wyll shew your friendship, now Seing the king displeased with me,
without any crime.
Aristippus. should appeare, comes
behaviour.
That you sodenly are cast out favour.
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244 . DAMON AND PITH IAS.
Carisophus. Nothing have I done but this; in talke
I overthwarted
When he lamented Pithias' case to kinge Dionisius. Which to morrow shall die, but for that false knave
Damon,
He hath left his friend in the briers, and now is gone. Wee grew so hot in talke, that Eubulus protested
playnely,
Dionisius” held his eare open to parasiticall flatterie.
And now in the kinges eare like a bell he ringes,
Crying, that flatterers have ben the destroyers of kinges.
Which talke in Dionisius' harte hath made so deepe impression,
That he trusteth me not, as heretofore, in no condition: And some wordes brake from him, as though that hee Began to suspect my trouth and honestie,
Which you of friendship I know wyll defend, how so
Eubulus,
ever the world goeth:
My frind, my honestie will you not take Aristippus. To sweare for your honestie,
mine OWne. -
Carisophus. Should you indeede? were knowne.
othe'' should lose
would that
your voyde friendship come thus passe? Aristippus. folow the proverbe: Amicus usque
00:70s.
Carisophus. Where can you say ever lost mine honestie
*Dionisius. ] Both the 4tos read Whiche. The alteration Mr. Dodsley.
Perhaps alteration was necessary; for our old writers, which and who are sometimes used indifferently: all events, would have been doing less violence the text (especially taking the measure into consideration) merely who had been substituted for which, stands the old copies, and not Dionisius, Mr. Dodsley conjectured, and Mr. Reed allowed remain. The sense the passage clearly this, “that Eubulus protested plainly
“who was that held his ear open parasitical flattery,” viz. Dionisius whom Carisophus intends understood rather- than expressly named.
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Aristippus. You never lost for you never had as farre as know.
Carisophus. Say you so, friend Aristippus, whom trust so well
Ario. Because you trust me, you the truth tell. -
Carisophus. Wyll you not stretche one poynt,
bring mee favour agayne
Aristippus. love myne owne payne.
stretching;
may breede payne,
very
Carisophus. friende ought shonne stand his friend stead.
Aristippus. Where true friendship deede.
Carisophus. Why, sir, hath not the chaine true frindship linked two together?
Aristippus. The chiefest linke, lacked therof, must needs desever.
Carisophus. know.
true friendship
Aristippus. Yea, truely, and that knot knit wyll
never slippe.
Carisophus. Belike then, there frindship but
betweene honest men.
Aristippus. Betwene the honest only; for, Amicitia inter bonos”, saith learned man.
Carisophus. Yet evell men use frindship things unhonest, wher fancy doth serve.
Aristippus.
Aristippus. That lastes but
Carisophus. What
frindship, but lewde likeing while.
the perfectst frindship among
What linke
that? faine would
Honestie.
Carisophus. Doth honestie knit the perfect knot
men that ever grew
Aristippus. Where men love one another, not for
profit, but for vertue.
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246 DAMON AND PITIIIAS.
Carisophus. Are such frindes both alike in joy and
also in smarte?
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Aristippus. They must needs; for in two bodies they have but one harte.
Carisophus. Friend Aristippus, deceave me not with sophistrie :
Is there no perfect frindship, but where is vertue and honestie 7
Aristippus. What a devell then ment Carisophus
To joyne in frindship with fine Aristippus :
In whom is as much vertue, trueth and honestie,
As there are true fethers in the three Craines of the
Vintree *:
Yet their “fethers have the shadow of lively fethers, the truth to scan,
But Carisophus hath not the shadowe of an honest man. To be playne, because I know thy villany,
In abusinge Dionisius to many mens injury,
Under the cloke of frindship I playd with his head,
And sought meanes how thou with thine owne fancy might be lead. .
My frindship thou soughtest for thine owne commoditie,
As worldly men doo, by profite measuring amitie:
Which I perceaving, to the lyke myselfe I framed,
Wherein, I know, of the wise I shall not be blamed:
If you ask me, Quare 2 I answer, Quia prudentis est mul tum dissimulare.
wyll speake 1 not
o:three Craines Vintree] Sometimes called New Queen Street, where there seems have been the sign the three
Jonson mentions this place The Devil Ass,
To speake more playner, as the proverb doth go,
In faith Carisophus, cum Cretense cretiso.
Yet a perfect frinde Ishew myselfe to thee in one thing,
I doo not dissemble, now I say thee the king
then
“From thence shoot the bridge child, the Cranes the Vintry, “And see there the gimblets how they make their entry
Stow says was place some account for the Costermongers who had ware-houses there; and appears from Dekkar's Belman
London, Sign. that the beggars his time called one their places rendezvous this name.
their] these, 1st edit.
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DAMON AND PIT : I. A. S.
24:
Therfore sinke in thy sorrow, I doo not deceave thee,
o:
Which seeing me in distresse, unfainedly goes his wayes.
Loe this is the perfect frindship among men now a daies;
Which kinde of frindship toward him I used secretly; And he with me the like hath requited me craftly.
It is the Gods judgment, I see it playnely,
A false knave I found thee, a false knave I leave thee. Exit.
Carisophus. He is gone is this frindship
his friend in the plaine fielde? Well, I see now I myselfe have beguyeld,
In matching with that false fox in amitie, Which hath me used to his owne commoditie:
For Well,
Until
the worlde may know, Incidi foveam quam feci.
must content my selfe, none other helpe knowe,
merier gale winde may happe
Enter EUBULUs.
blowe. [Erit.
great
Eubulus. Who deals with kinges matters waight,
When froward wyll doth beare the chefest sway,
Must yeld force; there neede Ne paynted” speach the matter
No prayer can move when kindled
The more quench, the more increased the fire. This thinge prove Pithias’ woful case,
Whose heavy hap with teares doo lament:
The day come, when Damon's place,
fully spent. Nought can my words now with the king prevaile,
Must lose his life: the time
Against the wind and strivinge stream sayle:
For die thou must, alas thou sely Greeke. Ah, Phithas, now come thy dolefull houre: perfect friend, none such world seeke.
paynted] vaunted, edit. streams, 2d edit.
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248 DAM ON AN id PITH I. A. S.
Though bitter death shall geve thee sauce full sower, Yet for thy faith enrold shall be thy name,
Among the gods, within the booke of fame.
Who knoweth his case, and will not melt in teares? His giltless bloud shall trickle downe anon.
THEN THE MUSES SING E.
Alas, what happe hast thou, poore Pithias, now to die!
Wo worth the man which for his -death hath geven us cause to crie.
Eubulus. Methinke I heare, with yelow rented heares, The Muses frame their notes, thy" state to mone: Among which sorte, as one that morneth with harte,
In doleful tunes myself wyll beare a parte.
Muses. Wo worth the man which for his death, &c.
Eubulus. With yelow rented heares, come on you * Muses nine; *,
Fyll now my breast with heavy tunes, to me your plaints resigne :
For Pithias I bewayle, which presently must die,
Wo worth the man which for his death hath geven us
-
Eubulus. Was ever such a man, that would die for friend
cause, &c.
Muses. Wo worth the man which for his, &c.
thinke even from the heavens above, the gods did him
-
shew true friendshipp's power, which forst thee now
downe sende
-
Eubulus. What tigar's whelp was he, that Damon dyd accuse
What faith hast thou, which for thy friend thy death doth not refuse?
Both the old copies have “my state mone” which may
right, and the substitution should not have been made without notice.
to die.
Wo worth the man which for thy death, &c.
Muses. Wo worth the man, &c.
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DAM ON AND PIT H IAS. 249
0 heavy happe hadst thou to play this tragidie
Wo worth the man which for thy death, &c. Muses. Worth the man, &c.
Eubulus. Thou young and worthy Greeke, that showest such perfect love,
The gods receave thy simple ghost into the heavens above: Thy death we shall lament with many a weepinge eye. Wo worth the man, which for his death, &c.
Muses. Wo worth the man, which for thy death hath geven us cause to crie. [Finis.
Eubulus. Eternall be your fame, ye Muses, for that In mlSerle
Ye did vouchsafe to strayne your notes to walke.
My harte is rent in two with this miserable case,
Yet am I charged by Dionisius' mouth, to se this place
At poynts ready for the execution Neede hath law wyll”
Pithias.
must done,
But loe, the bloodie minister Gronno, came hether now
even here understand,
hande.
thinges are well appoynted for the execution Pithias.
The kinge him selfe wyll done here Gronno. Sir, thinges are ready, here here the hand, here the sword Here lacketh non but Pithias, whose head
were present, coulde finely strike You may reporte that thinges are ready.
this place. the place,
worde.
Ah, -
Eubulus. with heavy harte
report
woful Pithias'
Full neare now thy misery.
-
[Exit. Gronno. marvell very much, under what constilation
All hangmen are borne, for they are hated all, beloved ofnone
Which hatred showed this poynt evidently:
The hangman alwayes dwelles the vilest place the citie.
*wyll
the Collier Croydon, vol. XI.
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250 DAMON a n d PITH I. A. S.
That such spight should be, I know no cause why, Unlesse it be for their offices sake, which is cruel and
bloody.
Yet some men must do execute lawes.
Me thinke they hate me without any just cause.
But must looke my toyle; Pithias must lose his
head one blow,
Els the boyes wyll stone me death the streat O.
But hao, the prisoner cometh, and the kinge also:
see there help, Pithias his life must forgo. Here entreth Dion 1s1Us and EUBULUs.
Bring forth Pithias, that pleasant companion,
Which tooke mee my worde, and became pleadge for Damon.
injurie, now lose his head, for requested me,
pricketh fast upon noone, doo him
Damon returne not, which now Greece full metW
Therfore shall Pithias pay his death, and that and by, He thought belike, Damon were out the citie,
would not put him death for some foolishe pitie: But seeing was his request, wyll not mockt,
shall die; Bring him forth.
Here entreth SNAP. ”
Snap. Geve place, the prisoner come by; give place.
Dionisius. How say you, sir; where Damon, your trustie friend?
You have playd wise part, make God vow:
You know what time day make you ready. Pithias. Most ready am, mightie king, and most
ready also
For my true friend Damon this lyfe forgo, Even your pleasure.
-
pricketh] i. e. rideth fast upon noon. The word used
Spenser and many
With Pithias the rest the scene.
our ancient writers.
his custody, and Stephano, evident from
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DAMON AND PITH IAS. 251
Dionisius. A true frend a false traytor, that so breaketh his oth.
Thou shalt lose thy life, though thou be never so loth. Pithias. I am not loth to doo what so ever I sayde,
Ne at this present pinch of death am I dismayde:
The Gods now I know have heard my fervent prayer,
That they have reserved me to this passynge great honour,
To die for my frend, whose faith even now I doo not mistruste;
My frinde Damon is no false traytour, he is true and Juste:
Butsithheis noGod,butaman, hemustdooashe may,
The womy be contrary, sicknes may him
some misadventure the way,
Which the eternall Gods tourne
That fame may resound how Pithias for Damon did die:
can, His minde heare, hath some let, but man.
He breaketh no oth which doth much
That might not returne the Gods did require,
Which now my joy "graunt my desire.
But why doo. I stay any longer, seing that one man's
death
May suffise, king, pacifie thy wrath?
thou minister justice, doo thyne office and by, Let not thy hand tremble, for tremble not die. Stephano, the right patrone true fidelitie,
Commend me thy master, my sweet Damon, and him crave libertie
When am dead, my name; for thy trustie services Hath well deserved gift farre better than this.
Oh my Damon, farewell now for ever, true friend,
me most deare;
Whyles lyfe doth laste, my mouth shall styll talke thee,
And when am dead, my simple ghost, true witnes amitie,
Shall hoover about the place wheresoever thou bee. him, i. e. hinder him. dol doth. Both 4tos.
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252 DAM ON AN D PITH IAS.
Dionisius. Eubulus, this geare is straunge; and because
Damon hath falst his faith, Pithias shall have the lawe, Gronmo, dispoyle hym, and eke dispatch him quickly.
Gronno. shal done; since you came into this place,
might have stroken off seven heades this space. Ber lady, here are good garments, these are myne
the roode
evyll winde that bloweth man good.
