277277Enter Manuile alone disguised. 278278Manuile. Ah
Em the
subie
ct of my re
stle
sse thoughts,
279279The Anuyle whereupon my heart doth beat,
280280Framing thy
state to thy de
sert,
281281Full ill this life becomes thy heauenly looke,
282282Wherein
sweete loue and vertue
sits enthroned.
283283Bad world, where riches is e
steemed aboue them both,
284284In who
se ba
se eyes nought el
se is bountifull.
285285A Millers daughter
saies the multitude,
286286Should not be loued of a gentleman.
287287But let them breath their
soules into the ayre:
288288Yet will I
still a
ffe
ct thee as my
selfe.
289289So thou be con
stant in thy plighted vow,
290290But here comes one, I will li
sten to his talke.
291291Enter Valingford at another dore, disguised. Manuile staies 292292Valingford. Goe
William Conqueror and
seeke thy loue.
hiding him- 293293Seeke thou a mynion in a forren land
selfe. 294294While
st I draw backe and court my loue at home,
295295The Millers daughter of faire Manche
ster
296296Hath bound my feet to this delight
some
soyle:
297297And from her eyes do dart
such golden beames,
298298That holds my heart in her
subie
ction.
299299Manuile, He ruminates on my beloued choyce:
300300God grant he come not to preuent my hope.
301301But heres another, him yle li
sten to.
302302Enter Mountney disguised at another dore. 303303L. Mountney. Nature vniu
st, in vtterance of thy art,
304304To grace a pe
sant with a Princes fame:
305305Pe
sant am I
so to mi
s-terme my loue
306306Although a Millers daughter by her birth:
307307Yet may her beautie and her vertues well
su
ffice
308308To hide the blemi
sh of her birth in hell,
309309Where neither enuious eyes nor thought can pierce,
310310But endle
sse darkne
sse euer
smother it.
311311Goe
William Conqueror and
seeke thy loue,
312312While
st I draw backe and court mine owne the while:
313313Decking her bodie with
such co
stly robes
314314As may become her beauties worthine
sse,
315315That
so thy labours may be laughed to
scorne,
316316And
she thou
seeke
st in forraine regions,
317317Be darkned and eclip
st when
she arriues,
318318By one that I haue cho
sen neerer home.
319319Manuile. What comes he to, to intercept my loue?
320320Then hye thee
Manuile to fore
stall
such foes.
Exit Manuile. 321321Mountney. What now Lord
Valingford are you behinde?
322322The king had cho
sen you to goe with him.
323323Valingford. So cho
se he you, therefore I maruell much
324324That both of vs
should linger in this
sort.
325325What may the king imagine of our
stay?
326326Mountney. The king may iu
stly think we are to blame:
327327But I imagin'd I might well be
spared
328328And that no other man had borne my minde.
329329Valingford. The like did I: in frend
ship then re
solue
330330What is the cau
se of your vnlookt for
stay?
331331Mountney. Lord
Valingford I tell thee as a friend,
332332Loue is the cau
se why I haue
stayed behind.
333333Valinford. Loue my Lord? of whom?
334334Mountney. Em the millers daughter of Manche
ster.
335335Valingford. But may this be?
336336Mountney. Why not my Lord? I hope full well you know
337337That loue re
spe
ctes no di
fference of
state
338338So beautie
serue to
stir a
ffe
ction.
339339Valingford. But this it is that makes me wonder mo
st,
340340That you and I
should be of one conceit
341341In
such a
strange vnlikely pa
ssion.
342342Mountney. But is that true? my Lord: I hope you do but ie
st.
343343Valingford. I would I did: then were my griefe the le
sse.
344344Mountney. Nay neuer grieue: for if the cau
se be
such
345345To ioyne our thoughts in
such a Sympathy:
346346All enuie
set a
side: let vs agree
347347To yeeld to eithers fortune in this choy
ce.
348348Valingford. Content
say I, and what
so ere befall,
349349Shake hands my Lord and fortune thriue at all.
Exeunt.