11461146Enter the Miller and Valingford. 11471147Mill. Alas gentleman, why
should you trouble your
selfe
so much,
11481148Con
sidering the imperfe
ctions of my daughter,
11491149Which is able to with-draw the loue of any man from her,
11501150As alreadie it hath done in her
fir
st choyce.
11511151Mai
ster
Manuile hath for
saken her,
11521152And at Che
ster
shall be maried to a mans daughter of no little (wealth.
11531153But if my daughter knew
so much:
11541154It would goe verie neere her heart I feare me.
11551155Valingf. Father miller:
such is the entire a
ffe
ction to your (daughter,
11561156As no mi
sfortune what
soeuer can alter.
11571157My fellow
Mountney thou
see
st gaue quickly ouer,
11581158But I by rea
son of my good meaning
11601160Although I am borne o
ff with
scornes and deniall.
11621162Miller. Tru
st me
sir I know not what to
saie,
11631163My daughter is not to be compelled by me,
11641164But here
she comes her
selfe:
speake to her and
spare not:
11651165For I neuer was troubled with loue matters
so much before.
11661166Em. Good Lord!
shall I neuer be rid of this importunate man?
11671167Now mu
st I di
ssemble blindne
sse againe.
11681168Once more for thy
sake
Manuile thus am I inforced,
11691169Becau
se I
shall complete my full re
solued minde to thee.
11711171Miller. Here
sweet
Em, an
swer this gentleman
11721172That would
so faine enioye thy loue.
11731173Em. Where are you
sir? will you neuer leaue
11741174This idle and vaine pur
suit of loue?
11751175Is not England
stor'd enough to content you?
11761176But you mu
st still trouble the poore
11771177Contemptible maid of Manche
ster.
11781178Valingf. None can content me but the faire maid of Manche
ster.
11791179Em. I perceiue loue is vainly de
scribed,
11811181Would haue you likewi
se troubled with a blinde wife,
11821182Hauing the bene
fit of your eyes,
11831183But neither follow him
so much in follie,
11841184But loue one, in whom you may better delight.
11851185Valingford. Father Miller, thy daughter
shall haue honour
11871187I am a Gentleman of king
Williams Court,
11881188And no meane man in king
Williams fauour.
11891189Em. If you be a Lord
sir, as you
say:
11901190You o
ffer both your
selfe and mee great wrong:
11911191Yours, as apparant in limiting your loue
so vnorderly,
11921192For which you ra
shly endure reprochement:
11941194When being
shut from the vanities of this world,
11951195you would haue me as an open gazing
stock to all the world:
11961196For lu
st, not loue leades you into this error:
11971197But from the one I will keepe me as well as I can,
11981198And yeeld the other to none but to my father,
12001200Valingford. Why faire
Em,
Manuile hath for
saken thee,
12011201And mu
st at Che
ster be married, which,
12021202If I
speake otherwi
se than true,
12031203Let thy father
speake what credibly he hath heard.
12041204Em. But can it be
Manuile will deale
so vnkindly,
12051205To reward my iu
stice with
such mon
strous vngentlenes.
12071207And doe
st thou now thus requite it?
12081208Indeed the
se many daies I haue not
seen him,
12091209Which hath made me maruell at his long ab
sence.
12101210But father, are you a
ssured of the wordes he
spake,
12121212Miller. In
sooth daughter, now it is forth,
12141214Ma
ster
Manuile hath for
saken thee,
12161216To a mans daughter of no little wealth.
12211221Em. Then good father pardon the iniurie,
12221222That I haue done to you only cau
sing your griefe,
12231223By ouer-fond a
ffe
cting a man
so trorhle
sse.
12241224And you likewi
se
sir, I pray hold mee excu
sed,
12251225As I hope this cau
se will allow
su
fficiently for mee:
12261226My loue to
Manuile, thinking he would requite it,
12271227Hath made me double with my father and you,
12291229Which I will no longer hide from you.
12301230That inticing
speeches
should not beguile mee,
12311231I haue made my
selfe deafe to any but to him.
12321232And le
st any mans per
son
should plea
se mee more than his,
12331233I haue di
ssembled the want of my
sight:
12341234Both which
shaddowes of my irreuocable a
ffe
ctions,
12351235I haue not
spar'd to con
firme before him.
12361236My father, and all other amorous
soliciters:
12371237Wherewith not made acquainted, I perceiue
12381238My true intent hath wrought mine owne
sorrow
12391239And
seeking by loue to be regarded,
12401240Am cut o
ff with contempt, and de
spi
sed.
12411241Mill. Tell me
sweet
Em, ha
st thou but fained all this while for (his loue,
12421242That hath
so di
scourteou
sly for
saken thee.
12431243Em. Credit me father I haue told you the troth,
12441244Wherewith I de
sire you and Lord
Valingford not to be di
splea
sed
12461246Let my pre
sent griefe hold me excu
sed.
12471247But may I liue to
see that vngratfull man
12481248Iu
stly rewarded for his trecherie,
12491249Poore
Em would think her
selfe not a little happie.
12501250Fauour my departing at this in
stant,
12511251For my troubled thought de
sires to meditate alone in
silence
12531253Valingf Will not
Em shew one cheerefull looke on
Valingford? 12541254Miller Alas
sir, blame her not, you
see
shee hath good cau
se,
12551255Being
so handled by this gentleman:
12561256And
so Ile leaue you, and go comfort my poore wench
12571257As well as I may.
Exit the Miller. 12581258Ualingford. Farewell good father.
Exit Valingford.