will punish I will giue thee freely Vnto the fire nor will I weare a limbe That with such rashnes shall offend his Lord Por. What wil the madman doe Sce. Porsenna so punish my hand thus for not killing thee Three hundred noble lads beside my selfe Haue vow'd to all the Gods that Patron Rome Thy ruine for supporting tyrannie And though I faile expect yet euerie houre When some strange fate thy fortunes wil deuoure Por. Stay Roman we admire thy constancie And scorne of fortune go returne to Rome We giue thee life and say the King Porsenna Whose life thou seek'st is this honourable Passe freely gard him to the walles of Rome And were we not so much ingadge to Tarquin We would not lift a hand against that nation that breedes such noble spirits Exit Sce. Well I go and for reuenge take life euen of my foe Por. Conduct him safely what 300 Gallants Sworne to our death and all resolu'd like him We must be prouident to morrowes fortune Wee le proue for Tarquin if they faile our hopes Peace shal be made with Rome but first our secretary Shall haue his due rights of funerall then our shield We must addresse next for to morrowes field Exit Enter Brutus Horatius Valerius Collainte Lucretius marching Bru. By thee we are consul stil gouerne Rome Which but for thee had bin dispoild and tane Made a confused heape of men and stones Swimming in bloud and slaughter dere Horatius Thy noble picture shal be caru'd in brasse And fixt for thy perpetuall memory in our high capitoll Hor. Great consul thankes but leauing this le ts march out of the citie And once more bid them battell on the plaines Vale. This day my soule diuines we shal liue free From all the furious Tarquins but where 's Sceuola we se not him to day Enter Scenola Here Lords behold me handlesse as you see The cause I mist Porsenna in his tent And in his stead kild but his secretary The mazed King when he beheld me punish My rash mistake with losse of my right hand Vnbegd and almost scornd he gaue me life Which I had then refus'd but in desire to venge faire Lucrece Rape Soft alarum Hor. Deare Sceuola thou hast exceeded vs in our resolue But wil the Tarquins giue vs present battell Sceu. That may ye heare the skirmish is begun already twixt the horse Lucre. Then noble consull leade our main battell on Bru. Oh Ioue this day ballance our cause and let the innocēt bloud Of Rape staind Lucrece crowne with death and horror The heads of all the Tarquins see this day In her cause do we consecrate our liues And in defence of Iustice now march on I heare their martiall musique be our shock As terrible as are the meeting clowdes That breake in thunder yet our hopes are faire And this rough charge shal all our hopes repaire Exeunt Alarum battell within Enter Porsenna and Aruns. Porsenna Yet grow our lofty plumes vnflagd with bloud And yet sweet pleasure wantons in the aire how goes the battell Aruns Aruns. T is euen ballanct I enterchang'd with Brutus hand to hand a dangerous encounter both are wounded had not the rude prease diuided vs one had dropt downe to earth Por. T was brauely fought I saw the King your father free his person from thousand Romans that begirt his state where flying arrowes thick as atoms hung about his eares Aruns. I hope a glorious day come Tuskan king le ts on thē Alarum enter Horatius and Valerius Hor. Aruns stay that sword that late did drinke the consuls bloud Must with his keene phange tire vpon my flesh or this on mine Aruns. It sparde the consuls life to end thy daies in a more glorious strife Vale. I stand against thee Tuscan Pors. I for thee Hora. Where ere I find a Tarquin hee s for me Alarum Fight Aruns slaine Porsenna Expulst Alarum Enter Tarquin with an arrow in his brest Tullia with him pursude by Collatine Lucretius Sceuola Tar. Faire Tullia leaue me saue thy life by flight Since mine is desperate behold I am wounded Euen to the death there staies within my tent A winged Iennet mount his back and fly Liue to reuenge my death since I must dy Tul. Had I the heart to treade vpon the bulke Of my dead father and to see him slaughtered Only for loue of Tarquin and a crowne And shall I feare death more then losse of both No this is Tulliaes fame rather then fly From Tarquin mongst a thousand swords shee l dy All Hew them to peeces both Tar. My Tullia saue and ore my caitiue head those meteors waue Colla. Let Tullia yeeld then Tul. Yeeld me cuckold no mercy I scorne let me the danger know Sceu. Vpon them then Lucr. Le ts bring them to their fate And let them perish in the peoples hate Tul. Feare not I le back thee husband Tar. But for thee sweet were the hand that this chargd soule could free Life I dispise let noble Sextus stand To auenge our death euen til these vitals end Scorning my owne this life will I defend Tul. And I le sweete Tarquin to my power gard thine Come on you slaues and make this earth diuine Alarum Tarquin and Tullia slaine Alarum Brutus all bloudy Brut. Aruns this crimsin fauor for thy sake I le weare vpon my forehead maskt with bloud Till all the moistures in the Tarquins veines Be spilt vpon the earth and leaue thy body As dry as the parcht sommer burnt and scorcht with the canicular starres Hora. Aruns lies dead by this bright sword that 's here about his head Colla. And see great consull where the pride of Rome lies sunke and fallen Vale. Besides him lies the queene mangled and hewd amongst the Roman soldièrs Hora. Lift vp their slaughtered bodies help to reare them against this hill in view of all the camp This sight wil be a terror to the so and make them yield or fly Brut. But where 's the rauisher iniurious Sextus that we see not him Short alarum Enter Sextus Sext. Through broken speares crackt swords vnboweld steedes Flaude armors mangled limbes and battered caskes Knee deepe in bloud I ha pierct the Roman host to be my fathers rescue Hora. T is too late his mounting prid 's sunke in the peoples hate Sex My father mother brother fortune now I do defy thee I expose my selfe To horrid danger saftie I despise I dare the worst of perill I am bound On till this pile of flesh be all one wound Vale. Begirt him Lord this is the Rauisher There 's no reuenge for Lucrece til he fall Lu. Cease Sextus then Sex Sextus defies you all yet wil you giue me language ere I die Bru. Say on Sex T is not for mercy for I scorne that life That 's giuen by any and the more to ad To your immense vnmeasurable hate I was the spur vnto my fathers pride T was I that awde the Princes of the Land That made thee
THE RAPE OF LVCRECE A True Roman Tragedie With the seuerall Songes in their apt places by Valerius the merrie Lord amongst the Roman Peeres Acted by her Maiesties Seruants at the Red Bull neere Clarken-well Written by Thomas Heywood LONDON Printed for I.B. and are to be solde in Paules Church-yard at the Signe of the Pide Bull 1608 To the Reader I Thath beene no custome in mee of all other men curteous Readers to commit my plaies to the presse the reason though some may attribute to my own insufficiencie I had rather subscribe in that to their seueare censure then by seeling to auoide the imputation of weakenes to incurre a greater suspition of honestie for though some haue vsed a double sale of their labours first to the Stage and after to the presse For my owne part I heere proclaime my selfe euer faithfull in the first and neuer guiltie of the last yet since some of my plaies haue vnknown to me and without any of my direction accidentally come into the Printers handes and therfore so corrupt and mangled coppied onely by the eare that I haue bene as vnable to know them as ashamde to chalenge them This therefore I was the willinger to furnish out in his natiue habit first beeing by consent next because the rest haue beene so wronged in beeing publisht in such sauadge and ragged ornaments accept it Curteous Gentlemen and prooue as fauourable Readers as wee haue found you gratious Auditors Yours T. H. Dramatis personae 1 Seruius King of Rome 2 Tarquin The prowde 3 Tullia Wife of Tarquin Superbus 4 Arnus and the two Sonnes of Tarquin 5 Sextus the two Sonnes of Tarquin 6 Brutus Iunior 7 Collatinus 8 Horatius Cocles 9 Mutius sceuola 10 Lucretius 11. Porsenna King of the Tuscans 12. Porsennaes Secretarie 13. Pub Valerius 14. The priest of Appollo 16. 2. Centinels 17. Lucretia rauisht by Sextus 18. Myrable Lucretius Maide 19. The Clowne THE Rape of Lucrece SENATE Enter Tarquin Superbus Sextus Tarquinus Tullia Arnus Lucretius Valerius Poplicola and Senators before them Tullia WIthdraw we must haue priuate conference With our deere husband Tarq. What wouldst thou wife Tullia Be what I am not make thee greater farre Then thou canst ayme to be Tarqu. Why I am Tarquin Tul. And I am Tullia what of that What Diapasons more in Tarquins name Then in a Subiects or what 's Tullia More in the sound then to become the name Of a poore Maide or waiting Gentlewoman I am a princesse both by birth and thoughts Yet al 's but Tullia there 's no resonance In a bare stile my title beares no breadth Nor hath it any state oh me i 'me sicke Tarq. Sick Lady Tul. Sick at heart Tarq. Why my sweete Tullia Tul. To be a Queene I long long and am sicke With ardence my hot appetite 's afire Till my swolne feruor be deliuered Of that great Title Queene my heart 's al royal Not to be circumscribed in seruill bounds While there 's a King that rules the Peeres of Rome Tarquin makes legs and Tullia curtesies lowe Bowes at each nod and must not neere the state Without obey sance oh I hate this awe my prowd heart cannot brooke it Tar. He are me wife Tul. I am no wife of Tarquini if not King Oh had God made me man I would haue mounted Aboue the base tribunals of the earth Vp to the clowdes for pompeous soueraintie Thou art a man oh beare my royall minde Mount heauen and see if Tullia lag behinde There is no earth in me I am all fire Were Tarquin so then should we both aspire Tar. Oh Tullia though my body taste of dulnesse My soule is wingde loe I soare as high as thine But note what flags our wings fortie fiue yeares The King thy father hath protected Roome Tul. That makes for vs the people couet change Euen the best things in time grow teadious Tar. T' would seeme vnnaturall in thee my Tullia The reuerend King thy Father to depose Tul. A kingdomes quest makes Sonnes and Fathers foes Tar. And but by Seruius fall we cannot climbe The balme that must annoynt vs is his blood Tul. Le ts laue our browes then in that crimson flood We must be bolde and dreadlesse who aspires Mounts by the liues of Fathers Sonnes and Sires Tar. And so must I since for a kingdomes loue Thou canst despise a Father for a Crowne Tarquin shall mount Seruius be tumbled down For he vsurpes my state and first deposde My father in my swathed Infancye For which he shall be countant to his end I haue sounded all the Peires and Senators and though vnknowne to thee my Tullia They al imbrace my faction and so they Loue change of state and new King to obey Tul. Now is my Tarquin worthy Tullias grace Since in my armes I thus a King embrace Tar. The King should meete this day in Parliament With all the Senates and Estates of Rome His place will I assume and there proclaime All our decrees in Royall Tarquins name Florish Enter Sextus Arnus Lucretius Valerius Colatine and Senators Lucr. May it please thee Noble Tarquin to attend The King this day within the high Capitol Tul. Attend Tarq. We intend this day to see the Capitoll You knew our father good Lucretius Lucre. I did my Lord Tar. Was not I his Sonne The Queene my Mother was of royall thoughts and heart pure as vnblemisht Innocence Lucre. Why askes my Lord Tar. Sonnes should succeede their fathers but anon You shall heare more high time that we were gone Florish Exeunt manent Colatine and Valerius Col. There 's morrall sure in this Valerius Heere 's modell yea and matter too to breed Strange meditations in the prouident braines Of our graue Fathers some strange proiect liues This day in Cradle that 's but newly borne Vale. No doubt Colatine no doubt heere 's a giddie world it Reeles it hath got the staggers the common-wealth is sicke of an ague of which nothing can cure her but some violent and suddaine affrightment Cola. The wife of Tarquin would be a Queene nay on my life she is with childe till she be so Valer. and longes to be brought to bed of a Kingdome I deuine we shall see some scuffling to day in the Capitoll Cola. If there be any difference among the Princes and Senate whose faction will Valerius follow Valer. Oh Collatine I am a true Cittizen and in this I will best shew my selfe to be one to take part with the stronger If Seruius ore-come I am Liegeman to Serutus if Tarquin subdue I am for Viue Tarquinius Col. Valerius no more this talke does but keepe vs from the sight of this solemnitie by this the Princes are entring the Capitoll come we must attend Exeunt SENATE Tarquin Tullia Sextus Arnus Lucretius one way Brutus meeting them the other way very humerously Tar. This place is not for fooles this parliament assembles not the straines of Ideotisme Only the graue and wisest of the land
that despise thir loue Must seeke some meanes how to maintaine this awe Tarq. By forreine leagues by our strength abroad Shall we that are degreed aboue our people Whom heauen hath made our vassals reigne with them No kings aboue the rest tribunald hie Should with no meaner then with kings ally For this we to Mamilius Tusculan The Latine King ha giuen in mariage Our royall daughter now his people 's ours The neighbour princes are subdude by armes And whom we could not conquer by constraint Them ha we sought to winne by courtesie Kings that are proud yet would secure their owne By loue abroad shall purchase feare at home Tullia We are secure then yet our greatest strength Is in our children how dare treason looke Vs in the face hauing issue barren princes Breed danger in their singularity Hauing none to succeed their clame dies with them But when in topping on three Tarquins more Like Hydraes heads grow to reuenge his death It terrifies blacke treason Tarq. Tullia's wise and apprehensiue were our princely sons Sextus and Aruns back returned safe With an applausiue answer of the Gods From th' oracle our state were able then Being Gods our selues to scorne the hate of men Enter Sextus Aruns and Brutus Sext. Wher 's Tullia Arun. Where 's our mother Hor. Yonder princes at Counsell with the king Tul. Our sons return'd Sext. Roiall mother Arun. Renowned Queene Sex I loue her best therefore will Sextus do his duty first Aruns. Being eldest in my birth I 'le not be yongest In zeale to Tullia Brut. Too 't lads Arun. Mother a kisse Sext. Though last in birth let me be first in loue A kisse faire mother Arun. Shall I lose my right Sex Aruns Shal downe were Aruns twice my brother If he presume fore me to kisse my mother Ar. I Sextus thinke this kisse to be a crowne thus wold we tug for t Sext. Aruns thou must downe Tarq. Restraine them Lords Br. Nay to 't boies ô t is braue they tug for shadowes I the substance haue Arun. Through armed gates and thousand swords I l'e breake To shew my duty let my valour speake Breakes from the Lords and kisses her Sext. Oh heauens ye haue dissolu'd me Aru. Here I stand what I ha done to answer with this hand Sex Oh all you Delphian Gods looke downe and see How for these wrongs I will reuenged be Tar. Curb in the proud boyes fury let vs know From whence this discord riseth Tul. From our loue how happy are we in our issue now When as our sons euen with their blouds cōtend To exceed in duty we accept your zeale This your superlatiue degree of kindnes So much preuailes with vs that to the king We engage our owne deere loue twixt his incensement And your presumption you are pardond both And Sextus though you faild in your first proffer We do not yet esteeme you least in loue ascend touch our lips Sext. Thanke you no Tul. Then to thy knee we will descend thus low Sex Nay now it shall not need how great 's my heart Ar. In Tarquins crowne thou hast now lost thy part Sex No kissing now Tarquin great Queene adiew Aruns On earth we ha no foe but you Exit Tarq. What meanes this their vnnaturall emnity Tul. hate borne from loue Tarq. Resolue vs then how did the Gods accept Or sacrifice how are they pleasd with vs How long will they applaud our soueraignty Brut. Shall I tell the king Tarq. Do Cosen with the processe of your iorny Brut. I will We went from hither when we went from here arriued thither when we landed there made an end of our praiers when we had done our Orisons when thus quoth Phoebus Tarquin shall be happy whilest he is blest gouerne while he raignes wake when he sleeps not sleepe when he wakes not quaffe when he drinkes eate when he feedes gape when his mouth opens liue till he die and die when he can liue no longer So Phoebus commends him to you Tarq. Mad Brutus still Son Aruns What say you Arun. That the great Gods to whom the potent king Of this large Empire sacrific'd by vs Applaud your raigne commend your soueraignty And by a generall Synode grant to Tarquin Long daies faire hopes Maiestique gouernment Brut. Adding withall that to depose the late king which in others had bin arch treason in Tarquin was honour what in Brutus had beene vsurpation in Tarquin was lawful succession and for Tullia though it be parricide for a child to kil her father in Tullia it was charitie by death To rid him of all his calamities Phoebus himselfe said she was a good child and shall not I say as he saies to tread vpon her fathers skull sparkle his braines vpon her chariot wheele And weare the sacred tincture of his bloud Vpon the seruile shoe but more then this After his death deny him the due claime Of all mortality a funerall An earthen sepulcher this this quoth the Oracle Saue Tullia none would doe Tul. Brutus no more lest with our surpast eies of wrath fury We looke into the humour were not madnes And folly to thy words a priuilege Euen in thy last reproofe of our proceedings Thou hadst pronounct thy death Brut. If Tullia will send Brutus abroad for newes and after at his returne not endure the telling of it let Tullia either get closer eares or get for Brutus a stricter tongue God boye Exit Tarq. Alas t is madnes pardon him not spleene Nor is it hate but frensie we are pleasde To heare the Gods propitious at our prayers But whither 's Sextus gone resolue vs Cecles We saw thee in his parting follow him Hor. I heard him say he would straight take his horse Vnto the warlike Gabines enemies Tarq. To Rome and you saue them we haue no opposites And dares the boy confederate with our foes Attend vs Lords we must new battels wage And with bright armes confront the proud boyes rage Exeunt Manet Lucretius Collatine Horatius Valerius Sceuola Hor. Had I as many soules as drops of bloud In this brancht vaines as many liues as starres Stucke in yond azure roofe and were to dy More deathes then I see wasted weary minuts To grow to this I de hazard all and more To purchase freedome to this bondag'd Rome I 'me vext to see this virgin conqueresse weare shackles in my fight Luc. Oh would my teares would rid great Rome of these prodigious feares Enter Brutus Brut. What weeping ripe Lucretius possible now Lords Ladies friends fellows yong madcap gallāts old courtly ruffins al subiects vnder one tirāny therfore shold be partners of one the same vnanimity Shall we go single our selues by two two go talke treason then t is but his yea and my nay if we be cal'd to question Or shal s go vse some violent bustling to breake through this thorny seruitude or shall we euery man go sit like a man in desperation and
potent King Por. Brutus therein thou dost forget thy selfe And wrongst the glory of thine Ancestors stayning thy bloud with Treason Brut. Tuscan know the Consull Brutus is their powerfull foe Ali Tarquin Consull Hora. I consull and the powerfull hand of Rome Graspes his imperiall sword the name of King The tirant Tarquins haue made odious Vnto this nation and the generall knee Of this our warlik people now lowe bends To royall Brutus where the kings name endes Bru. Now Sextus where 's the Oracle when I kist My Mother earth it plainely did foretell My noble vertues should thy sin exceed Brutus should sway lust-burnt Tarquin bleed Vale. Now shall the blood of Seruius fall as heauy as a huge mountaine on your Tyrant heads orewhelming all your glory Hor. Tullias guilt shall be by vs reuengd that in her pride In blood paternal her rough coach-wheeles dide Lucre, Your Tirannies Ser. Pride Col And my Lucrece fate shall al be swalowd in this hostile hate Sex Oh Romulus thou that first reard yon walles In sight of which we stand in thy soft bosome Is hangd the nest in which the Tarquins build Which in the branches of thy lofty spires Tarquin shal pearch or where he once hath stood His high built airy shall be drownd in blood alarum then Brutus by heauen I vow My sword shall prooue thou nere wast mad till now Bru. Sextus my madnes with your liues expires Thy sensuall eyes are fixt vpon that wall Thou nere shalt enter Roome confines you all Por. A charge then Tar. Ioue and Tarquin Hor. but we cry a Brutus Bru. Lucrece force and victory Alarum the Romans are beaten of Alarum Enter Brutus Horatius Valerius Sceuola Lucretius Colatine Bru. Thou Iouiall hand hould vp thy scepter high And let not iustice be oprest with pride Oh you Senators leaue not Roome and vs Graspt in the purple hands of death and ruine the Tarquins haue the best Hora. Yet stand my foote is fixt vpon this bridge Tyber thy arched streames shall be changd crimson with Roman bloud before I trudge form hence Sceuol Brutus retire for if thou enter Rome We are all lost stand not on valor now But saue thy people le ts suruiue this day To try the fortunes of another field Valer. Breake downe the bridge lest the pursuing enemy Enter with vs and take the spoile of Rome Hor. Then brea kt behind me for by heauen I le grow And roote my foote as deepe as to the center before I leaue this passage Lucr. Come you 'r mad Collat. The foe comes on and we in trifling here hazard our selfe and people Hor. Saue them all to make Rome stand Horatius here will fall Brut We would not lose thee do not brest thy selfe Mongst thousands if thou frontst them thou art wingde With million swords and darts and we behind Must breake the bridge of Tiber to saue Rome Before thee infinits gase on thy face And menace death the raging streames of Tiber are at thy backe to swallow thee Horat. Retire to make Rome liue t is death that I desire Brut. Then farewell dead Horatius thinke in vs The vniuersall arme of potent Rome Takes his last leaue of thee in this embrace All embrace him Hor. Farwell All Farwell Brut. These arches all must downe to interdict their passage the towne Exeunt Alarum Enter Tarquin Persenna and Aruns with their pikes and Targetieres All Enter enter enter A noise of knocking downe the bridge within Hor. Soft Tarquin see a bulwarke to this bridge You first must passe the man that enters here Must make his passage through Horatius brest See with this target do I buckle Rome And with this sword defy the pussāt army of two great king Porsen. One man to face an host Charge souldiers of full forty thousan Romans There 's but one daring hand against your host To keep you from the sacke or spoile of Rome charge charge Aruns. Vpon them Souldiers Enter in seuerall places Sextus and Valerius aboue Alarum Alarum Sex Oh cowards slaues and vassals what not enter Was it for this you plac'd my regiment Vpon a hill to be the sad spectator Of such a generall cowardise Tarquin Aruns Porsenna souldiers passe Horatius quickly And they behind him will deuolue the bridge And raging Tyber that 's impassible Your host must swim before you conquer Rome Val. Yet stand Horatius beare but one brunt more The arched brunt shall sinke vpon his piles And in his fall lift vp thy real me to heauen Sext. Yet enter Val. Deare Horatius yet stand saue a milliō by one powerful hand Alarum and the falling of the bridge Aruns and all Charge charge charge Sex Degenerate slaues the bridge is falne Romes lost Valer. Horatius thou art stronger then their Hostes Thy strength is vertue theirs are idle boastes Now saue thy selfe and leap into the waues Hor. Porsenna Tarquin now wade past your depths And enter Rome I feel my body sinke Beneath my pondrous waight Rome is preseru'd And now farewell for he that followes me Must search the bottome of this raging streame Fame with thy golden wings renowne my crest And Tiber take me on thy siluer brest Exit Por. Hee 's leapt off from the bridge and drownd himselfe Sext. You are deceiu'd his spirits soares too hie To be choakt in with the base element Of water lo he swims armd as he was Whilest all the army haue dischargd their arrowes Of which the shield vpon his backe sticke ful Shout and flourish And harke the sute of all the multitude Now welcomes him a land Horatius fame Hath chekt our armies with a generall shame But come to morrowes fortune must restore This scandall which I of the Gods implore Por. Then we must find another time faire prince To scourge these people and reuenge your wrongs For this night I le betake me to my tent A table and lights in the tent Tarq. And we to ours to morrowe we will renowne Our army with the spoile of a Rich-towne Exit Tarquin cum suis Enter Secretarie Por. Our secretary Secret My Lord Por. Command lights and torches in our tents Enter souldiers with torches And let a Guard ingirt our safety rownd Whilest we debate of military busines come sit and le ts consult Enter Sceuola disguised Sceu. Horatius famous for defending Rome But we ha done nought worthy Sceuola Nor of a Roman I in this disguise Haue past the army the puissant guard Of king Porsenna this should be his tent And in good time now fate direct my strength Against a king to free great Rome at length Secret Oh I am slaine treason treason Por. Villaine what hast thou done Secret Why slaine the king Por. What king Sce. Porsenna Por. Porsenna liues to see thee tortured With plagues more diuillish then the plague of hel Sceu. Oh too rash Matius hast thou mist thy aime And thou base hand that didst direct my poniard Against a peasants brest behold thy errour Thus I
Brutus mad these discontents I rauisht the chaste Lucrece Sextus I The daughter and thy wife Brutus thy cosen Allide indeed to all t was for my Rape Her constant hand ript vp her innocent brest t was Sextus did all this Collat. Which I le reuenge Hor. Leaue that to me Lucr. Old as I am I le do 't Scenol. I haue one hand yet left of strength inough to kill a rauisher Sex Come all at once I all yet heare me Brutus thou art Honorable And my words tend to thee my father dide By many hands what 's he mongst you can challenge The least I smallest honor in his death If I be kild amongst this hostile throng The poorest snakie souldier well may claime As much renowne in royall Sextus death As Brutus thou or thou Horatius I am to die and more then die I cannot Rob not your selues of Honor in my death When the two mightiest spirits of Greece and Troy Tugde for the mastrie Hector and Achilles Had puissant Hector by Achilles hand Dide in a single monomachie Achilles Had bene the worthie but being slaine by ods The poorest Mermidon had as much honor As saint Achilles in the Troians death Brut. Hadst thou not done a deed so execrable That Gods and men abhorre I de loue thee Sextus And hugge thee for this chalēge breath'd so freely Behold I stand for Rome as Generall Thou of the Tarquins dost alone suruiue The head of all these garboyles the chife actor Of that blacke sinne which we chastise by armes Braue Romans with your bright swords be our lists And ring vs in none dare to offend the Prince By the least touch lest he incurre our wrath This honor do your Consull that his hand may punish this arch mischiefe that the times Succeeding may of Brutus thus much tell By him pride lust and all the Tarquins fell Sext. To rauish Lucrece cuckold Collatine And spill the chasest bloud that euer ran In any matrons vaines repents me not So much as to ha wrong'd a gentleman So noble as the Consul in this strife Brutus be bold thou fightst with one scornes life Brut. And thou with one that lesse then his renowne Priseth his bloud or Romes imperiall crowne Alarum a fierce fight with sword target then after pause and breath Brut. Sextus stand faire much honour shall I winne To reuenge Lucrece and chastise thy sin I repent nothing may I liue or die Though my bloud fall my spirit shall mount on hie Alarum fight with single swords and being deadlie wounded panting for breath making a stroke at each together with their gantlets they fall Hor. Both slaine oh noble Brutus this thy fame To after ages shall suruiue thy body Shall haue a faire gorgious Sepulchre For whom the matrons shall in funeral black Mourne twelue sad moones thou that first gouern'd Rome And swaid the people by a consuls name These bodies of the Tarquins wee le commit Vnto the funerall pile you Collatine Shall succeed Brutus in the consuls place Whom with this Lawrel wreath we here relate Crowne him with a laurel Such is the peoples voice accept it then Col. We do and may our power so iust appeare Rome may haue peace both with our loue feare But soft what march is this Flourish Porsenna drum Collatine and Souldiers Por. The Thuskan king seeing the Tarquins slaine Thus arm'd and battelled offers peace to Rome To confirme which we 'le giue you present hostage If you deny we 'le stand vpon our guard And by the force of armes maintaine our owne Val. After so much effusion and large wast Of Roman bloud the name of peace is welcome Since of the Tarquins none remaine in Rome And Lucrece rape is now reueng'd at full T were good to entertaine Porsennaes league Col. Col. Porsenna we embrace whose royall presence Shall grace the Consull to the funerall pile March on to Rome Ioue be our guard and guide That hath in vs veng'd Rape and punisht pride Exeunt