878878Enter the Miller, his man Trotter, & Manuile. 879879Miller. I tell you
sir it is no little greefe to mee,
880880You
should
so hardly conceit of my daughter,
881881Who
se hone
st report, though I
saie it,
882882Was neuer blotted with any title of defamation.
883883Manuile. Father
Miller, the repaire of tho
se gentlemen to your (hou
se,
884884Hath giuen me great occa
sion to mi
slike.
885885Miller. As for tho
se gentlemen, I neuer
saw in them
886886Any euill intreatie. But
should they haue profered it,
887887Her cha
ste minde hath proofe enough to preuent it.
888888Trotter. Tho
se gentlemen are as hone
st as euer I
saw:
889889For yfaith one of them gaue me
six pence
890890To fetch a quart of Seck. See ma
ster here they come.
891891Enter Mountney and Valingford. 892892Miller. Trotter, call
Em, now they are here together,
893893Ile haue this matter throughly debated,
Exit Trotter. 894894Mountney. Father, well met. We are come to confer with you.
895895Manuile. Nay; with his daughter rather.
896896Valingf. Thus it is father, we are come to craue your friend
ship (in a matter.
897897Miller. Gentlemen as you are
strangers to me,
898898Yet by the way of courte
sie you
shall demand
899899Any rea
sonable thing at my hands.
900900Manuile. What is the matter
so forward
901901They come to craue his good will?
902902Valinford. It is giuen vs to vnder
stand that your daughter
903903Is
sudenly become both blinde and deafe.
904904Miller. Mary God forbid: I haue
sent for her, in deed
905905She hath kept her chamber this three daies.
906906It were no litle griefe to me if it
should be
so.
907907Manuile. This is Gods iudgement for her trecherie.
908908Enter Trotter leading Em. 909909Miller. Gentlemen I feare your words are two true:
910910See where
Trotter comes leading of her.
911911What ayles my
Em, not blinde I hope?
912912Em. Mountney and
Validgford both together?
913913And
Manuile, to whom I haue faithfully vowed my loue?
914914Now
Em suddenly helpe thy
selfe.
915915Mountney. This is no de
sembling
Valingford.
916916Valingford. If it be; it is cunningly contriued of all
sides.
917917Em. Trotter lend me thy hand,
918918And as thou loue
st me keep my coun
sell
919919And iu
sti
fie what
so euer I
saie, and Ile largely requite thee.
920920Trott. Ah, that is as much as to
saie you would tell a mon
strous,
921921Terrible, horrible, outragious lie,
922922And I
shall
sooth it, no berlady.
923923Em. My pre
sent extremitie wills me, if thou loue me
Trotter? 924924Trotter. That
same word loue makes me to doe any thing.
925925Em. Trotter wheres my father?
926926He thrusts Em vpon her father. 927927Trotter. Why what a blinde dunce are you, can you not
see?
928928He
standeth right before you.
930930Good father, giue me leaue to
sit
931931Where I may not be di
sturbed,
932932Sith God hath vi
sited me both of my
sight and hearing.
933933Miller. Tell me
sweet
Em how came this blindnes.
934934Thy eyes are louely to looke on,
935935And yet haue they lo
st the bene
fit of their
sight.
936936What a griefe is this to thy poore father?
937937Em. Good father let me not
stand as an open gazing
stock to (euerie one,
938938But in a place alone as
fits a creature
so mi
serable.
939939Miller. Trotter lead her in, the vtter ouerthrow
940940Of poore
Goddards ioy and onely
solace.
941941Exit the Miller, Trotter and Em. 942942Manuile. Both blinde and deafe, then is
she no wife for me;
943943And glad am I
so good occa
sion is hapned:
944944Now will I away to
Manchester,
945945And leaue the
se gentlemen to their blinde fortune.
Exit Manuile 946946Mountney. Since fortune hath thus
spitefully cro
st our hope,
947947Let vs leaue this gue
st and harken after our King,
948948Who is at this day landed at
Lirpoole.
Exit Mountney. 949949Valingford. Goe my Lord, Ile follow you.
950950Well, now
Mountney is gone
951951Ile
staie behind to
solicit my loue,
952952For I imagine that I
shall
find this but a fained inuention
953953Thereby to haue vs leaue o
ff our
suits.