8787Enter the Miller and Em his daughter. 8888Miller. Come daughter we mu
st learne to
shake o
ff pompe.
8989To leaue the
state that ear
st be
seemd a Knight,
9090And gentleman of no meane di
scent,
9191To vndertake this homely millers trade:
9292Thus mu
st we maske to
saue our wretched liues,
9393Threatned by Conque
st of this haple
sse Ile:
9494Who
se
sad inua
sions by the Conqueror,
9595Haue made a number
such as we
subie
ct 9696Their gentle neckes vnto their
stubborne yoke,
9797Of drudging labour and ba
se pe
santrie.
9898Sir
Thomas Goddard now old
Goddard is,
9999Goddard the Miller of faire Manche
ster.
100100Why
should not I content me with this
state?
101101As good Sir Edmund
Trofferd did the
flaile.
102102And thou sweete
Em mu
st stoope to high e
state.
103103To ioyne with mine that thus we may prote
ct 104104Our harmele
sse liues, which ledd in greater port
105105Would be an enuious obie
ct to our foes,
106106That
seeke to root all Britaines Gentrie
107107From bearing countenance again
st their tyrannie.
108108Em. Good Father let my full re
solued thoughts,
109109With
setled patience to
support this chance
110110Be
some poore comfort to your aged
soule:
111111For therein re
sts the height of my e
state,
112112That you are plea
sed with this deie
ction,
113113And that all toyles my hands may vndertake,
114114May
serue to worke your worthines content.
115115Miller, Thankes my deere daughter: the
se thy plea
sant words
116116Tran
sfer my
soule into a
second heauen:
117117And in thy
setled minde, my ioyes con
sist,
118118My
state reuiued, and I in former plight.
119119Although our outward pomp be thus aba
sed,
120120And thralde to drudging,
stay le
sse of the world,
121121Let vs retaine tho
se honourable mindes
122122That lately gouerned our
superior
state.
123123Wherein true gentrie is the only meane,
124124That makes vs di
ffer
from ba
se millers borne:
125125Though we expe
ct no knightly delicates,
126126Nor thir
st in
soule for former
soueraigntie.
127127Yet may our mindes as highly
scorne to
stoope
128128To ba
se de
sires of vulgars worldline
sse,
129129As if we were in our pre
sedent way.
130130And louely daughter,
since thy youthfull yeares
131131Mu
st needs admit as young a
ffe
ctions:
132132And that
sweet loue vnpartiall perceiues
133133Her dainie
subie
cts through euery part,
134134In chiefe receiue the
se le
ssons from my lips,
135135The true di
scouerers of a Virgins due
136136Now requi
site, now that I know thy minde
137137Something enclinde to fauour
Manuils sute,
138138A gentleman, thy Louer in prote
st:
139139And that thou mai
st not be by loue deceiued,
140140But try his meaning
fit for thy de
sert,
141141In pur
suit of all amorous de
sires,
142142Regard thine honour. Let not vehement
sighes
143143Nor earne
st vowes importing feruent loue,
144144Render thee
subie
ct to the wrath of lu
st:
145145For that transformed to former
sweet delight,
146146Will bring thy body and thy
soule to
shame.
147147Cha
ste thoughts and mode
st conuer
sations,
148148Of proofe to keepe out all inchaunting vowes,
149149Vaine
sighes, for
st teares, and pittifull a
spe
cts,
150150Are they that make deformed Ladies faire,
151151Poore wretch, and
such inticing men,
152152That
seeke of all but onely pre
sent grace,
153153Shall in per
seuerance of a Virgins due
154154Prefer the mo
st refu
sers to the choyce
155155Of
such a
soule as yeelded what they thought.
156156But hoe: where is
Trotter? 157157Here enters Trotter the Millers man to them: and they 158158within call to him for their grist. 159159Trotter. Wheres Trotter? why Trotter is here.
160160Yfaith, you and your daughter go vp and downe weeping,
161161And wamenting and keeping of a wamentation,
162162As who
should say, the Mill would goe with your wamenting.
163163Miller. How now Trotter? why complaine
st thou
so?
164164Trotter. Why yonder is a company of young men and maids
165165Keepe
such a
stir for their gri
st, that they would haue it before
166166My
stones be readie to grind it. But yfaith, I would I coulde
167167Breake winde enough backward: you
should not tarrie for your
169169Miller. Content thee Trotter, I will go paci
fie them.
Here he ta- 170170Trotter. Iwis you will when I cannot. Why looke,
keth Em a- 171171You haue a Mill. Why whats your Mill without mee?
bout the neck. 172172Or rather Mi
stres, what were I without you?
173173Em. Nay Trotter, if you fall achiding, I will giue you ouer.
174174Trotter. I chide you dame to amend you.
175175You are too fine to be a Millers daughter
: 176176For if you
should but
stoope to take vp the tole di
sh 177177You will haue the crampe in your
finger
178178At lea
st ten weekes after.
179179Miller. Ah well said
Trotter, teach her to plaie the good hu
swife
180180And thou
shalt haue her to thy wife, if thou can
st get her good wil.
181181Trotter. Ah words wherein I
see Matrimonie come loaden
182182With ki
sses to
salute me: Now let me alone to pick the mill,
183183To
fill the hopper, to take the tole, to mend the
sailes,
184184Yea, and to make the mill to goe with the verie force of my loue.
185185Here they must call for their grist within. 186186Trotter. I come, I come, yfaith now you
shall haue your gri
st 187187Or el
se
Trotter Will trot and amble him
selfe to death.
188188They call him againe.Exit.