quintessence of a•• the earth Lerenica she disposeth of My fickle will and fancy at one both Ner. What she how backward runs the course The time hath been when opportunities Hath sought occasion in their properties By casting favours by her mush-red eye Deluding objects to sobriety To get the will of him who intended The Zenith of love where under it did •est should be prolonged further casting Aside those indisposed fight and tricks As vain and whom doth none regard Bel. The Styx her mists doth paraphrase your words VVherein grim Cerberus doth bathe himselfe Let the same vapour rise and by its stench Infuse an opiate virtue there to dull My vitall spirits to cut the hair Of danger's purpose and whereby I shall Receive a quiet death for a vexed life Ner. Fear not A gilded bait shall intrap this Barbell VVe 'l find her stratagems devise a way The filly blind boy knows not the which shall Imploy affairs deserving worth a name Of Chronolgoy a cheat or somewhat May worke effect with this same peevish brat Bel. Let hope go with that design to the end Methinks my top-sayls move with celerity I gain acuteness and agility VVho ever did take arrogance in strength Or sound brave Nectars notes with Bacchus juyce More freely then do I must be more then Mother Nature doth put forth sweep away Inclose within thy arms oh Cynthia Thy master Titan's Candle let not him Praunce on his journey to the top of th' hill But curb his fiery trigon suffer not No more his fight till we have done our plot Mur. Though friendship promise more then strangenesse doth Deride not one but do receive them both I 'l bring whole fountaines of new-found desires VVhich shall suck up the hony of your fires And flames of love we go Exeunt Scen. 4. Celerinus Bugargo Orestes Sisterus Dirisius Gervoron Burnamoy Cel. Since time tradition forces against will And all the Countries invitations Me to withstand Aberdens 〈◊〉 Of choller which at length consumes all what It meets with whose vast supportment would Not subsist but be demolisht and top Submissive to its feet know if let rest Sloath would enter course yet Fame not be Ejected your valour still would •••gne And Bugargo if you maintain our right Supporting all our cause and not detarding Shame but Derisius Gervoron both Take part with him you shall have recompence I stand oblig'd all due to common sense Burg. Courage strikes my resolute contentment High Celerinus immense vast Trophies A Diadem be purged from my thoughts If all the prises then were equall poysed And shar'd the lot deciding judgement would As me possest term trouble for a Peasant Without delay transported to a Prince VVere a too great Hyperboly I 'le undertake Cele All grateful motions attend then your soul You are the head we members wait there on And what composure may be thought upon By loving deeds all experientiall skill May be put forth or sacrifice thy will Stand firm to it inform us then no more Affection lead thou shalt have gold or ore I wave my selfe though speciall charge commands Either gain Kingdom or else lose your Lands VVhat spoyls can blind or mask our piercing glance VVhat keen struck sword black armour or the lance VVhose sight corrupts the Element which pare Contain'd in its selfe the cold moist air Put forth betwixt my eye all my desire To know the day it 's that thou dost require Deris VVhat is it thought that King Aberden will Hoyst sayles to us dreads he nor land nor soyl Which lends a death a murror and a broyl To their inhabitants they 'l nere wait Pitching a leagure to o'recome the wall They are bent against which shares with Nile The Alpes would fair imprint a backward call If once their eyes cast upwards be Burgargo doe command my legion when Fear smites thy arm fire Beacons and let Drums sound loud Ger. Let Bizantia's Monarch pursue the way He has at length begun for Morpheus Doth bear more frequent rule with leaden Mace Then Mars with valour carried in his face Here 's no determed theam by whose oppose May vent hot sparks of manhood from our Loyns for as quick sight with well wrought temper Gives a gloss to affect the matter so Oft experience by assiduate practice Makes that which is uncord then most prompt Though love is strong yet Cupid by might Combines with Mars a steely shirt though hard Yet oftentimes is safer then a linnen frock My blood doth buble when is brought before Idle disposed fashions martiall blades Seeking lost nothing all armour proof yet Uselesse are which would possesse with a Fear they stand in danger of each other Nor can the same be nought but great They raise a Camp postreeme with us when as The East and West doth seem a distance not A foot in length being fadomed by their might Since then so large our enemies be found Our glory still grows greater by their sound What answer you Orest 'T is right renowned friend In prime to carefull be of our Soveraign In maintaining right next to this City And thy Country good if truth thou binds in That same Gordian knot Sist. Then bold fac'd Champions leviated from the blood Of well tryed Princes you may discern the Blast if by prevention not made sure Cause ruine o're this Land if flint and sie Being met expell their fiery beams Well may your generous souls inflaming With valour betwixt rough danger and Mild sloth let fly over sleepy hill until you Are conducted to th' contrary by grim death Bur. Since cause is equall victory cannot be Debard from us and no wayes misery Take here abode Cele Le ts then beguile the time no more by talk But see your guard and front be sure Call o're in summons display your Colours Flags Banners Pendents Streamers see your men Be right for th' cause great Generall Bugardo When that is done I 'l cause my sacred Priests To move the gods and all their hymnes set forth For your welfare all what can thought be worth Exeunt Scen. 5. Quermero Perpurgerus Perp. Why so since time delivers otherwise to be Stretch forth thy arm it 's nought but exercise Brings on the same Quer. Oh hold then pray you there I 'l stretch my hand if fortune will give leave But shall not be to kill but to maintain Life by its help Per. How strange to common sense Draw out thy sword I 'l shew thy postures What if a man should challenge field with thee Quer. Then I should dye Per. Before the blow did come Quer. I quickly sure the sight 's as good as blows With me but since your Treaty is to draw He stands in a foolish posture I stand hear guardian of my selfe Per. See see If 't were possible he would invite Heraclitus To laugh I dare swear Plato might read A piece of Philosophy in his posture Stand up man with a full breast surely Mr. Quermero your breech and feet are
court their Garlands miseries Ceres doth lavish forth her full ripe ears Venus complains her selfe with watrish fears Iuno is lumpish and her love is gone Pallas turn'd foolish and she wit hath none Mars rules full out with his most severe look Themis stands potent with her justice book Nemesis is troubled from the funded deep Morpheus is waken from his creeping sleep Apoll• stands smiling at their folly so Iove bids me fight and know my friend from foe Per. More aid shall come I 'l fetch them out my self Exit Per. Qu. Great Prince my valour risse beyond its bounds All for your Fathers right Holl. Now let Burgargo come my weapon's fixt To play its part pierce tender bowel with Its three form'd point and make his blood Still wait upon his shooes Scen. 3. Burgargo following the flight Bur. Stand still your ground the day breaks from the Skies for to discern the foe my hands are over loaded by the spoyls of this days labour While some lie gasping others crying loud Here leggs there arms all bodies mortified My spirit thirsts to see the Prince Hollarro And to change Gloves with him try valour at The point of naked nimble swords Oh Goddesse blind thou fortune hath inforc'd To shew my progress of my lingering dayes In this brave soul so stand prepare to fight Hol. Your worthy carriage shews as much nay more After the encounter of our steelly blades Let after victory either rise or fall And let Astrea poyse the truest cause By this the combate of our martial will So General come on stand see your selfe Bur. Your valour 's to be prais'd he that dare Twist his hand with me must have a grace More then such young years can put forth I praise thy courage but not thy discretion Because thou runs upon thy death They fight and he wounds Hollarro Hol. Desist your purpose till I close my wound The blood speaks on my cause a fury leads •y temper now stand still and pause and then • will renew the second blow Bur. Vain purpose of your will to strive with him Who alwayes return'd with victory in his hands You cherish folly in a strange conceit strive with a weaker hand for to oppose A decreed sense which is much stronger Yet shall it not be utter'd with a voyce I kill'd thee unawares but take thy time Holl. Rest upon your blade ground its point The time runs in swift motion to one Of our ends the Elizium field doth open Large her panting soul for to disgorge The vicious humour of our Fabricke Within that space the which we shall possesse Rewards stand ushering in our power To have the Crown allotted by those Saints Come lend your force again I now prepare For to receive my death by your unnaturall Hand Bur. Fortune support then both our hands Valour with-drawes unskilful helps And shews a fair prospect to a foul design They fight and he gives Burgargo a deadly wound Burg. Hold hold I dye take you the day And Crown your self with Trophies of my blood Your riper years sprung in a blossome stout Shall be Encomium to Bruzantia My spirit it doth vanish as my blood Flowes from the veins sending by legate cause All praise to your most severe stoutest arm * * sighs Oh my breath is prov'd an airy substance now I wish it were confin'd a longer space To run its course that I my King may shew The man gave me this wound him to exalt Above the rest by Title degree and honour * * sighs Oh now the fading hour-glass consumes its sand Each corn a drop of blood and the three fates Come with their hungry appetite to cut My fatall end and blood doth b•bble by The hottest combate that us two did fight * * sighs Oh I must I must the bones begin to be Afraid of flesh the sinews stand at difference All my body cold save onely heart doth Leap by its extremity of pains and Hot with sorrow * * staggers I come I come make room Amongst you ghosts see there be place for Me I dye Falls dow• and dies Hol. Thou dyes then like a man whose breath did bear The whole Numenia's Land in a subjection The onely pillar of thy Countries good Death hath surpris'd the conquest of thy soul And this thy trickling blood that 's here display'd Doth shew thy progeny to take its flight From rutus or other greater Monarch My spirit 's sorry for such a thrice noble friend Derisius enters Holl. Return return thou runs upon thy death Deris Draw in that sulphurous breath I live and Here my Generall he lies slain no no Fight Deris falls and dyes Hol. Die slave as thou hast been ordained Exit Hol. Quer. turns the bodies over and over to see whether they be dead or no Quer. R•bi• dead dead Iack dead dead are you Or no faith if you be not I 'le make you He drawes his Sword I 'le panch you Rogue• and make you know What I am what not Deris shakes his legge and Quer. runs away but after draws nigh again Dead still but stir you hang You hang you I 'le have one of you sure Enough come away come away come come He trayles Deris off the Stag• by his hea• Scen. 4. Yernom•y Yer Fight fight the day 's our own Squeeze forth thy spleen with a censorious frown And turn my serious blows into a wrack of gall Deliver'd to my sight ten thousand men Were slain and like an Abyssus did the earth Inclose all in a lump converting so Their oakey chaists into a putrid form And these my Robes a badge receives from those Of honour pomp and glory to the day I follow them my selfe so the compunction Of their boyling blood did then rebate My f•rm•r st••mes into most pleasant cal•s Stand stand thou slave B•rnomoy enters Bur. I fear no Rebell such an one as thee They fight he kills Yerno Consume thy selfe to ashes and there lie My Generall Burgargo what thou kill'd What mortall motion propagated it This cannot be withstood but hymns must sound And El•gies complain thy dolefull fall The Firmament crack with a thunder and The stars want light at this thy funerall A marble shall inclose thy sacred soul But cause its nature weeps and may be term'd for thee Exit Bur. and carries out Burg. Aberd•n Hollarro Fafrisius Buzarai Nevermo Orestes Sisterus taken captives and bound Perpurgerus Quermero Souldiers Fla• Ensigns Drums aretreat Aber. We contemn liberty and honour with the same By a most sottish will and by idlenesse Their ranks dispers'd doth inflame fear with it The blew pavillions in which comfort liv'd Are routed by the heavens stormy blasts His Forts demolished and his Army broke Into a hundred squadrons not able To do a damage to our potent strength His Subjects hear our captives and his chiefs Of all the Souldiers slain shot powder by Them vanished all Bulworks they consum'd The best politick way that must come here
Come Captives here must be your doom She 'l have your lives if you were twenty more But yet my favour goes with you Orest I thank your Majesty Sist. Great King all glory wait on you But I am conduc'd by willingnesse to dye Orest So I am since I am an exile Aber. You are stay here 's the Queen Scen. 2. Adrenimia Nevermo Attendants Adr. Aberden welcome to your Kingdom and your Queen Loe I see Celerinus subjects bound And for my use which gives a resolution To my sense if your own Queen by tractive Operation work effect to dismisse From contemplation of your soul all Opportunities that doth bring dispair You shall find no stratagem that to be Irrevocable and the objects of Foul melancholly shall not afford the Idols of vain puffing fears For those are they that doth commit and doth Drop unto eternity great contrarieties Unto your majesty and place of Prince The service of a sadfull humour Works undiscreetly and changing certain things It 's alwayes proved the Chaos testifies You a great Warriour both in Waves and Land Whose pectorall force expected did prevail No losse of War or Arms if nature stood To oppose the slaughter of so many lost But I 'le sacrifice my wishes to your selfe Gladly received my King Aber. Your patient favour receives a great applause And I your King expect no future joy My Queen your receivance is most gratefull And bids adieu all sadnesse but not contemplation Which shews a firm judge of a prime design Safety pleads leasure and shew fair shape To commonalty not a vain flasse-glass Of best contriving virtues To effect the Gardian not a bad excuse Of their firm liberty the Gems of all The Indians strikes no lustre to your Fame you are not fair but virtue follows it My Queen the Captives stand at your command Adr. My Leige your favour Holl. Duty doth force obedience to my knees Kneels Great Queen your sacred will if 't please to grant A blessing to Hollarro a wounded subject To serve the Queen your will Adr. Rise valiant Prince my bless go to thy years To find Aberdens blood in thy young youth Holl. You may term void of sense unto my state But hope survives the spirits 'cause I bring A pardon firm and just 't is my duty Aber. Hollarro rise your duty binds no further But what I know Holl. Your will great Queen Faf It were a sacriledge and that rashly Committed against your Princess goodnesse Not to offer my selfe a Souldier to your will Buz Mine follows by a triple form great Queen Your subject salutes you with a happy Bliss Nev. I stand a safeguard to your goodnesse Adr. Faithfully done here wants brave Yernomoy Aber. Forgive the fact that 's done not rob'd your will He 's slain to pay devotion to your looks Rude was his fancy but senselesse was his guide Allowing no recovery to his kindled fame He dy'd a Hector a Prince nay more he slew Millions of Forces to ransom then his death He left the world by Burnomoy's stout arm But Burgargo Hollarro sleep did charm For to describe true valour in fancy fair In reall substance to deserve the chair The Goddess of all hope favour'd his deeds The Goddess of all might helpt him in needs The Goddess of all right stood true to him The Goddess of all happ did valour bring The Gods and Goddesses struck union to His well fast blade his stiffe fram'd bow of Yew So brave Hollarro shall be onely name Through all Numenia there to carry fame Adr. Hollarro still thy atchievements soar above The mean capacity of a Queens recompence These are the captives I like them well their Heads are large to be a pinnacle of fame They 're mine great King Aber. They are for recompence Of your deserts Adr. You render pure substance of a divine will By outward shew no excuse they expect But dye a sacrifice for to restore The jewel of my fainting liberty The Harchet's well prepar'd to execute The case the block perceives its finish'd not In gaud but martiall way to make the Harmony My attendants expecting the prosperous Sight of that same day by forming new Altitudes erecting large Houses for t•e Same I 'le make no great dispute but finish it Holl. Great Queen the subjects I avouch by true Affect and powerfull law descend of noble Blood Adr. Well they are no worse but better for my use Cap. Ah las we must then dye Adr. I I see who attends us there Scen. 4. Quermero Quer. I am here I am here Aberd. Well what art thou Que. A Gentleman of quality as good as your self Aber. Why I am a King Quer. Well so am I sause-box Aber. My Lords conduct the knave to prison and Prepare a lash to execute its office Quer. Oh las you will I 'le try your force They carry Quer. out and he struggles mightily with them How how how let go your hold Aber. The slaves and bondmen which have wrought a Councell to digg the works of War as the Pioneers do raggifie the walls And they who use to toyl in labyrinth And founders of their folly are prisoners To your pick-axe Hospitalls doth crave my Aid and Euncuchs make a market for My home return so force pleading my will I leave you with my Serpents and my foes As emblems to my valour and my state Use discretion as time doth interview And appoint a season to your sport For I must dismiss your rank Ex. Aberd. Adr. My King a happy repose unto your soul Who attends there Bellerrio Lerenica Histerica and attendants Adr. The passage of a drowsie pomp withdrew A door of breathing betwixt the ark of store Of hidden vowes shewing the pride of fortune In a chance ravishing the beauty of a Monsters hide and stuck a stage of desire To harbour the fancy of a dreadfull sign To spill the blood of captives Lerenica You 'l screek and vanish with the dame of fear But I 'le repulse that guide that titles it So bring the captives to the slaugher-house I 'le shift such Robes fit for such enterprise Exit Adre Holl. Madam I 'le improve my reverend service To see the same fulfill'd Ler. The soveraign balm for fear must be a heart Void of a sensuall cause but I 'le attend To see the genius of all mortall souls Wear the sad Cypress of a gloomy day Bell. Lerenica your servant will wait your time Orest Spare us and let us speak before we dye Holl. Give them time to breathe their last farewell Orest The stroke 's a Basilick the sight doth kill Confirms a death by venom of its raze Perfidious creature more degenerate Fate Steeping his aspects in foul Leth•'s streams So Adrenimia by her cursed hand But fury bids defiance to those guiles My time doth shew by prospect now full old Tossing my senses by grim horror's wav•s So noble Prince confirm to future time And to posterity I dye a Man A prop of th' Country the Numenia
die I die thou vain destroyer Of mens lives Here all Aberdens s•d• with himself is kill'd save onely Adrenimia who is cha•'d and carried out and Hollarro who defends himselfe and escapes and takes Lerenica with him Cel. Conduct the Queen to prison The day 's our own with the Supreams of th' Land Bur. We will great Leige let 's follow out the chaise Exeunt march Quermero with a dish full of furmity Quer. Oh me stay what 's here to do what a sleep or tumbling Pox take 't you 'l break your brains with it and I My belly with plum pottage rise for shame What is here the slave that imprison'd me A bard a burd or a turd tell what art thou Dead alive or drunk rise and stand Takes the Kings Cloak and puts it on wrong side outwards Thou haste a velvet Cloak I 'le see how it fits me Hey it becomes my Princely person right I look like some grave Minister or Divine A black blew velvet and scarlet gippo See my foot stands like some reverend Bishop And my back-side like a Prince behind These pottage pottage trouble when I King But stay they 'l do me courtesie at time I 'le put them up hold up velvet Jacket Puts the Pottage in his pocket Oh these are warm still from the heart to th' breast But for all my jesting what do you mean To go to dinner or no I 'le promise Here 's good furmity for the same Come go What you are mad sure but if you be I 'le right your senses straight to its same form He kicks them Oh how their guts cry Pease and Bacon hot Nevermo pisseth I 'l break the Pitcher and let the juyce out As hot as my pottage stay where are they Ho in my pocket in my pocket Scen. 5. Enter Burnomoy Bur. What art thou and for whom Quer. A turn-coat and for my selfe Bur. Dye then thou slave Falls as if he were dead while he lies eats up his pottage Que. I with all my heart Bur. Once righteous cause shews face against its foe And Northern scourge brings yoak of Scipio's fear My hands imbrew'd in warlike Champions All save Hollarro the B•zantian soul A Brennus or Nenius of fame Quer. I sleep 〈…〉 all th•re swallow's Custara and pelts of 〈…〉 Whose shallowed concaves compels in valour All mushrums of fear save onely he Trampled by beast of forrest and of plains I shall be Lord or King by the conquest Enter 〈◊〉 Holl. Nay that thou shalt not stand then like a man Fights Bur. falls dyes An equall bond is now shar'd by my blade The Cyprian Queen like chaste Diana Of all my hope waits leisure of a time I 'le not stay from her but requite my self Exit H•llar Que. Oh oh I have got the wind chollick by Lying on my belly the pease and Broath Doth run such Barly-breaks within my maw That if the back-door hold not I shall leak Hold Punniard and Sword I dare not stir Fear lest I send my broath then parboyl'd out Ill ventur'd my breeches is clean up up He riseth I go as if I had a Frenchman in my Boots But now I 'm forc'd to turn I shall be kill'd Or else fouly bestride lies down again Celer•nus Gervoron Bellerro Souldiers Drum Ensign Cel. The wrath of Nero is not yet appeas'd We are like Nevervian souls stout to a spoyle Though Law and Nature be our enemies Yet we will raine the Hype•borean pole And make our Land like shepherd Hyraeus hoste A place for to receive none but the Gods But after Gradivus hath then clattered thus Let 's make a buriall to the Elizium field So Souldier take up the bodies of the dead Carry them as Trayo•s to their long sought home Quer. Then they 'l let me alone for I am not dead Ger. See you perform your office the King commands Soul We will great King and noble Generall Ger. Lo here is slain brave Burnomoy the blade Who deserves pomp as much as Burgargo had Cel. That time and this is not now poys'd alike The War conveys a change of Sea and Land Therefore he must be buried 'mong the rest So then confirm your place Exeunt omnes praeter Souldiers Sould. 1 Come le ts make a hole and put them all in Quer. Oh what must I do then faith I 'le dye with them For I shall be kill'd if I stir Sould. 2. Let 's take the plunder of the field first Oh here 's a good suit I 'le have this none else Sould. 3. What here 's one fellow warm I believe he Is alive still He kicks Quer. to see whether he be alive or no and Quer. answerth nothing but makes a face But if he be quick he shall be put in the grave first Exeunt and carrie 〈◊〉 the dead bodies Scen. 5. Hollarro Lerenica Holl. The time runs round by hidden motion I was a King but now more desperate And you my Queen but fortune frown'd thereon I wish that Halia could have then opprest To drown their ships in Cynthia's merciless realm Her Father Nere•s with a glad design Before they footed this Bruzantia Fair Lerenica I must fly for fear To adore the sorrows of an exiles place I 'le leave my Princely Robes and dress my bones According to the custome of a Pilgrims form And beat the banks which Neptunes waves have tost To hunt my death because I loathe the same And at my last farewell I 'le use no art Let sighs tears kisses bid loath to depart Lere Those drops of blood doth stain my maiden face Because my sole Artemon must fly hence Sure Iove will strive to make the Ganymedes For the Hesperidon Dragon cannot stand The force of such a Hercules let hope Where 's e're you tread your Princely guard then guide Your hood-winck actions in unknown places I willing am to stay to make a prayer When you depart you 'l kill my life that thing The Swan's near death when she begins to sing Holl. Oh Damsel of my breath let not such debt Lie on the fabrick of Hollarro Though I have •iomedes fame I 'm loath To prove Domitianus to thy soul Heaven and Earth will not forgive the fact No sacrifice nor kneeling pay the act The st•rry bowers would send a loathsome smell To strangle death in the prime of my days Besides the edge of furious war would bring A State to begge reliefe for thy great woe What I be D•mophoon to Phillis To cause untimely death far from Hollarro Aid requires no help I 'le carry you Along with me to make the Indian foes Grow stiffe with fear because they see the Sun Eclips'd by your bright brow then go with me Ler. Display your self no more in i•ward love My heart and tongue cannot express my mind I 'le dwell within the Land Bruzantia's walls As long as breath sees still the inner rooms Go noble Prince as power doth give thee aid For thy own sake I'•• live and die a maid Holl.