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A00968	The tragedy of Thierry King of France, and his brother Theodoret As it was diuerse times acted at the Blacke-Friers by the Kings Maiesties Seruants.	Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.; Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 11074; ESTC S102375	40,778	76

he should kill The first he met being female from the Temple And then he should haue children the mistake Is now to perfect Lady Ordella Still 't is I Sir For may this worke be done by common women Durst any but my selfe that knew the blessing And felt the benefit assume this dying In any other t'ad bin lost and nothing A curse and not a blessing I was figur'd And shall a little fondnesse barre my purchase Mart. Where should he then seeke children Ordella Where they are In wombes ordainde for issues in those beauties That blesse a marriage bed and makes it proceede With kisses that conceiue and fruitefull pleasures Mine like a graue buries those loyall hopes And to a graue it couets Mart. You are too good Too excellent too honest robbe not vs And those that shall hereafter seeke example Of such inestimable worthies in woman Your Lord of such obedience all of honor In coueting a cruelty is not yours A will short of your wisedome make not error A tombestone of your vertues whose faire life Deserues a constellation your Lord dare not He cannot ought not must not run this hazard He makes a separation nature shakes at The gods deny and euerlasting iustice Shrinkes backe and sheathes her sword at Ordella All 's but talke Sir I find to what I am reseru'd and needefull And though my Lords compassion makes me poore And leaues me in my best vse yet a strength Aboue mine owne or his dull fondnesse finds mee The gods haue giuen it to me drawes a knife Mart. Selfe destruction Now all good angells blesse thee o sweete Lady You are abus'd this is a way to shame you And with you al that knowes you al that loues you To ruine all you build would you be famous Is that your end Ordella I would be what I should be Mart. Liue and confirme the gods then liue and be loaden With more then oliues beare or fruitefull Autum This way you kill your merit kill your cause And him you would raise life to where or how Got you these bloody thonghts what diuell durst Looke on that Angell face and tempt do you know What 't is to die thus how you strike the stars And all good things aboue do you feele What followes a selfe blood whither you venter And to what punishment excellent Lady Be not thus cozen'd do not foole your selfe The priest was neuer his owne sacrifice But he that thought his hell here Ordella I am counsell'd Mart. And I am glad on 't lie I know you dare not Ordella I neuer haue done yet Mart. Pray take my comfort Was this a soule to lose two more such women Would saue their sex see she repents and prayes O heare her heare her if there be a faith Able to reach your mercies she hath sent it Ordella Now good Martell confirme me Mart. I will Lady And euery houre aduise you for I doubt Whether this plot be heauens or hells your mother And I will find it if it be in mankind To search the center of it in the meane time I 'le giue you out for dead and by your selfe And shew the instrument so shall I find A ioy that will betray her Ordella Do what 's finest And I will follow you Mart. Then euer liue Both able to in grosse all loue and giue Exeunt Enter Brunhalt Protaldye Brun. I am in labour To be deliuerde of that burthenous proiect T haue so long gone with ha here 's the mid-wife Or life or death Enter Lecure Lecure If in the supposition Of her death in whose life you die you aske me I thinke you are safe Brun. Is she dead Lecure I haue vsde All meanes to make her so I saw him waiting At the Temple doore and vsde such art within That only she of all her sexe was first Giuen vp vnto his fury Brun. Which if loue Or feare made him forbeare to execute The vengeance he determinde his fond pitty Shall draw it on himselfe for were there left Not any man but he to serue my pleasures Or from me to receiue commands which are The ioyes for which I loue life he should be Remoude and I alone left to be Queene O're any part of goodnesse that 's left in me Lecure If you are so resolude I haue prouided A meanes to ship him hence looke vpon this But touch it sparingly for this once vsde Say but to drie a teare will keepe the eyelidde From closing vntill death performe that office Brun. Giue 't me I may haue vse of 't and on you I 'le make the first experiment if one sigh Or heauy looke beget the least suspition Childish compassion can thaw the ice Of your so long congealde and flinty hardnesse Slight go on constant or I shall Prot. Best Lady We haue no faculties which are not yours Lecure Nor will be anything without you Brun. Be so And we will stand or fall together for Since we haue gone so far that death must stay The iourney which we wish should neuer end And innocent or guilty we must die When we do so let 's know the reason why Enter Thierry and Courtiers Lecure The King Thier. We 'le be alone Prot: I would I had A conuoy too to bring me safe off For rage although it be allaide with sorrow Appeares so dreadfull in him that I shake To looke vpon it Brun. Coward I will meete it And know from whence t 'as birth sonne kingly Thierry Thier. Is cheating growne so common among men And thriues so well heere that the gods endeauour To practice it aboue Brun. Your mother Thier. Ha! or are they only carefull to reuenge Not to reward or when for your offences We study satisfaction must the cure Be worse then the disease Brun. Will you not heare me Thier. To lose th' ability to performe those duties For which I entertainde the name of husband Askde more then common sorrow but t' impose For the redresse of that defect a torture In marking her to death for whom alone I felt that weaknesse as a want requires More then the making the head bald or falling Thus flat vpon the earth or cursing that way Or praying this oh such a sceane of griefe And so set downe the world the stage to act on May challenge a Tragedian better practisde Then I am to expresse it for my cause Of passion is so strong and my performance So weake that though the part be good I feare Th' ill acting of it will defraude it of The poore reward it may deserue mens pitty Brun. I haue giuen you way thus long a King and what Is more my sonne and yet a slaue to that Which only triumphs ouer cowards sorrow For shame looke vp Thier. I' st you looke downe on me And if that you are capable to receiue it Let that returne to you that haue brought forth One markde out only for it what are these Come they vpon your priueledge to tread on The tombe of my

afflictions Prot. No not we Sir Thier. How dare you then omit the ceremony Due to the funerall of all my hopes Or come vnto the marriage of my sorrowes But in such colours as may sort with them Prota. Alas we will weare any thing Brun. This is madnesse Take but my counsell Thier. Yours dare you againe Though armde with the authority of a mother Attempt the danger that will fall on you If such another sillable awake it Go and with yours be safe I haue such cause Of griefe nay more to loue it that I will not Hane such as these be sharers in it Lecure Madam Prota. Another time were better Brun. Doe not stir For I must be resolude and will be statues Enter Martell Thier. I thou art welcome and vpon my soule Thou art an honest man do you see he has teares To lend to him whom prodigall expence Of sorrow has made banker out of such treasure Nay thou doest well Mart. I would it might excuse The ill I bring along Thierry Thou makest me smile In the height of my calamities as if There could be the addition of an Atome To the gyant body of my miseries But try for I will heare thee all sit down 't is death To any that shall dare to interrupt him In looke gesture or word Mart. And such attention As is due to the last and the best story That euer was deliuerde will become you The grieude Ordella for all other titles But take away from that hauing from me Prompted by your last parting grone enquirde What drew it from you and the cause soone learn'd For she whom barbarisme could deny nothing With such preuailing earnestnesse desirde it 'T was not in me though it had bin my death To hide it from her she I say in whom All was that Athens Rome or warlike Sparta Haue registred for good in their best women But nothing of their ill knowing herselfe Markde out I know not by what powre but sure A cruell one to die to giue you children Hauing first with a setled countenance Look'd vp to heauen and then vpon her selfe It being the next best obiect and then smilde As if her ioy in death to do you seruice Would breake forth in despite of the much sorrow She showde she had to leaue you and then taking Me by the hand this hand which I must euer Loue better then I haue done since she touch'd it Go sayd she to my Lord and to go to him Is such a happinesse I must not hope for And tell him that he too much prizde a trifle Made only worthy in his loue and her Thankfull acceptance for her sake to robbe The Orphan kingdome of such gardians as Must of necessity descend from him And therefore in some part of recompence Of his much loue and to shew to the world That 't was not her fault only but her fate That did deny to let her be the mother Of such most certaine blessings yet for proofe She did not enuy her that happy her That is appointed to them her quicke end Should make way for her which no sooner spoke But in a moment this too ready engin Made such a battery in the choicest castle That euer nature made to defend life That straite it shooke and sunke Thier. Stay dares any Presume to shed a teare before me or Ascribe that worth vnto themselues to merit To do so for her I haue done now on Mart. Falne thus once more she smilde as if that death For her had studied a new way to seuer The soule and body without sence of paine And then tell him quoth she what you haue seenē And with what willingnesse 't was done for which My last request vnto him is that he Would instantly make choice of one most happy In being so chosen to supply my place By whom if heauen blesse him with a daughter In my remembrance let it beare my name Which sayd she dide Thier. I heare this and yet liue Hart art thou thunder proofe will nothing breake thee She 's dead and what her entertainement may be In th' other world without me is vncertaine And dare I stay heere vnresolude Mart. Oh Sir Brun. Deare son Prota. Great King Thier. Vnhand me am I falne So low that I haue lost the powre to be Disposer of my owne life Mart. Be but pleasde To borrow so much time of sorrow as To call to mind her last request for whom I must confesse a losse beyond expression You turne your hand vpon your selfe 't was hers And dying hers that you should liue and happy In seeing little models of your selfe By matching with another and will you Leaue any thing that she desirde vngranted And suffer such a life that was layd downe For your sake only to be fruitelesse Thier. Oh thou doest throw charmes vpon me against which I cannot stop my eares beare witnesse heauen That not desire of life nor loue of pleasures Nor any future comforts but to giue Peace to her blessed spirit in satisfying Her last demand makes me defer our meeting Which in my choice and suddaine choice shall be To all apparant Brun. How do I remoue one mischiefe To draw vpon my head a greater Thier. Go thou only good man to whom for her selfe Goodnesse is deare and prepare to interre it In her that was o my hart my Ordella A monument worthy to be the casket Of such a iewell Mart. Your command that makes way Vnto my absence is a welcome one For but your selfe there 's nothing here Martell Can take delight to looke on yet some comfort Goes backe with me to her who though she want it Deserues all blessings Exit Brun. So soone to forget The losse of such a wife beleeuē it will Be censurde in the world Thier. Pray you no more There is no argument you can vse to crosse it But does increase in me such a suspition I would not cherish who 's that Enter Memberge Memb. One no guarde Can put backe from accesse whose tongue no threats Nor praiers can silence a bould suitor and For that which if you are your selfe a King You were made so to grant it Iustice Iustice Thier. With what assurance dare you hope for that Which is denide to me or how can I Stand bound to be iust vnto such as are Beneath me that find none from those that are Aboue me Memb. Their is iustice 't were vnfit That any thing but vengeance should fall on him That by his giuing way to more then murther For my deare fathers death was parricide Makes it his owne Brun. I charge you heare her not Memb. Hell cannot stoppe iust prayers from entring heauen I must and will be heard Sir but remember That he that by her plot fell was your brother And the place where your pallace against all Th' inuiolable rites of hospitality Your word a kings word giuen vp for his safety His innocence his protection and the gods Bound to reuenge the impious breach