offence Sultan prepare to quit your guilty Throne All these beneath your lustful Scepter groan You must no more your self nor them abuse Too guilty those appear whom all accuse Therefore in vain you 'l plead your innocence For these are arm'd against all such defence Sult My Lords I find no rigour in my fate Nor shall I seek my Crimes to mitigate Where you condemn the sentence must be just And if you think I ought to die I must Poor Sultan brave Prince and the like words of kindness murmur'd among the People Bect. By this so subtle and so soft a stile He hopes the easie People to beguile Kul They all begin to murmur and relent The People quarrel and are divided And we shall of our fond delay repent Dispatch him Sir Viz. What means this mutiny Nay Sultan than 't is time for thee to die One part of the People fall off to the Sultans side and cry a Sultan a Sultan the other part stick to the Vizier and cry Justice Justice They all fight The Vizier comes up to the Sultan and stabs him which having done there is a noise of Trumpets heard without Then enter Ipsir and Kuperly and others who drive off the Vizier and his Party Then enters to them Mufti and Solyman Ips. Oh my thrice honour'd Lord this happy hour Heaven set apart to save the Emperour Sult Heaven cannot save my life it may my fame By sending Ipsir to revenge my shame Kup. You are not wounded Sir Sult O Kuperly Staggers Wounded to death and yet I cannot die Rebell'd against betraid and which is more My Son a Bastard and my Wife a Whore Revenge my death on Oglar and on her She 's the Adulteress he the Murderer They in the People rais'd this discontent Yet guilty live while I die innocent Dyes Solym. I hope we all wear loyal hearts and Swords Who can forget the dying Sultans words Revenge my death Omnes Revenge Revenge Revenge Muf. Now my Lords you here may see too late The sad effects of discord in a State We Childish tears may on his body shed And vainly seek revenge without a head But if we would the fullest vengeance take We with the Foe must seeming Friendship make 'Till we are on a Successor agreed Then all by whom the Sultan bled shall bleed Ips. To what the Mufti says we must assent Our swords and tears are both impertinent Muster our Forces in the outward Court And draw 'em back in the Royal Fort. There they are alwayes ready for the Field In case the Rebels still refuse to yield Exit Soldiers Enter Young Queen veil'd and Attendants Y. Q. Dead And suppos'd by my contrivance slain Must I the loss and infamy sustain Can Earth a pleasure yield which to enjoy I could my honour and my Lord destroy Heaven knows I took no pleasure but in him I saught no Joy but Heaven and Ibrahim Muf. Madam you vainly hope to gain belief By your forc'd tears and your dissembled grief The pious Sultan he that was so good Dying charg'd you and Oglar with his blood On us a loyal care he did bequeath To punish the Contrivers of his death Y. Q. You must inflict a punishment too mild Since he believ'd I have his bed defil'd In this suspition he did far out-do All Torments I can ere receive from you In that my heart the worst of ills endures And since I lost his Love I ask not yours Sol. Before the Caddee Madam you must go 'T will be convenient that you tell him so Y. Q. This is a truth I dare say any where The Guilty Sir the only cowards are Since he liv'd not his sentence to Reverse I 'le only shed some tears upon his Hearse That duty once perform'd when ere you please My debt to Nature I shall pay with ease Ips. Be Madam in your Ceremony's brief A little time will vent a little grief Kup. Look where the Sultan do's for justice stay And seems though dead to frown at our delay She turns about see 's the Sultans body Runs and Imbraces it They whisper and go off all but the Queen Y. Q. Is this the relique of my Lord how chang'd Dying from me dead from himself estrang'd Behold where Majesty and Beauty lies Behold his Ruby lips his Diamond eyes But must they never speak nor shine again Must my black name wear an eternal stain O stain eternal stain Here I have found The fatal yet to me most fatal wound How cou'd so great a Soul and so much worth So quickly at so small a wound get forth Here will I clear my blasted Innocence And breath in Life or seek my death from hence She kneels with her face in his bosome and kisses his wounds Then Descends an Heavenly Shape in the Clouds and Sings SONG HE 's dead he 's dead seek not in vain To weep the dead to life again Spare O spare those Orient show'rs They fall too late on wither'd Flow'rs Your warmer sighs no comfort bring Nor can in Winter make a Spring Warm Winds as helpless prove as Dew Then let your sighs and tears be few Let your unspotted soul appear Through all the dismal Clouds you wear Let Innocence with grief partake Both will a watry Sunshine make While for the dead too much you grieve Your dying Fame you must retrieve As for the Balmy drops you shed The living want 'em not the dead Queen starts up and unvails her self Y. Q. How is my Soul wrapt up in sudden joys Methought I heard a sweet harmonious noise On which a glorious luster did attend Both seem'd my shame and sorrow to befriend If e're you 'l send relief your Pow'rs Divine To iujur'd Virtue send it now to mine Oglar brought on the Stage in a Chair to Mufti Ipsir Kuperli and Solyman Ogl. O quickly let me with the Sultan speak E're my tormented heart with sorrow break Muft. The Sultan's dead Sir Ogl. Dead O horrid Fate Then I confess the injury too late Y. Q. What injury Sol. Peace Madam we discern Too well your guilt by your too great concern What injury Ogl. His guiltless blood I shed T' injoy the sweets of his Sultana's bed Ips. She an Adultress what deceit there lies In Womens hearts what mischief in their eyes Kup. How yet unmov'd she stands her curs'd offence Nothing can equal but her impudence Sol. Shame of thy Sex before the Caddee come For such new Crimes he must invent a Doom Y. Q. What suddain Frenzy does your minds possess You hear but half and at the rest you guess Unless my Life you 'l wilfully destroy Ask him how oft he did those sweets enjoy Ogl. O never never her unspotted soul Would never condescend to deeds so foul When I all stratagems in vain had try'd Hell with unheard of villany supply'd My lustful heart for first I set on foot The late Rebellion from whose cursed root Sprung greater mischiefs far than you have seen Muft. How came the
Now Sir comes on that Ruine I foretold Mufty Madam forbear a while your early Grief There 's time enough for heaven to send relief Solym. Dread Sir If of the news you are assured Let the Seraglio Gates be all secured Within these Walls you may be safe a while ' Til the misguided Crowd we reconcile Great minds consume in sullen flames The Rout Send forth fierce blazes and go quickly out Ogl. O trust 'em not such shifts can't serve the turn For where they cannot enter they will burn Foes that such head-strong violence maintain We may deceive but we can ne'r restrain A noise afar off of Drums Trumpets c. Y. Q. Heark Sir they are before the outward Gate You 'l of your safety think when 't is too late Solym. Provide for your escape Sir while we go And try if we can pacifie the Foe Sult Shall the Grand Seignieur e're be said to flie No flight's too mean a thing for Majesty On that will all their innocence be built So their Rebellion will become my guilt Muf. Self preservation will not stain your fame Your glorious Ancestors have done the same Ogl. Sir if you love your self or us be gone And I will these Imperial Robes put on Takes up the Robes that lie in a Chair So that at last if nothing can asswage The furious tempest of the peoples rage Taking the seeming Sultan for the true Their swords shall murder me instead of you Sult Dear Oglar rather than I will expose So kind a Friend I 'le perish by my Foes Y. Q. Oh to refuse him Sir is cruelty Because he does so willing seem to die Solym. Accept it Sir for all your Subjects sake I 'le the same action gladly undertake Muf. I with a joyful pride would shed my blood To save a Prince so pious and so good Sult No you shall meet 'em to appease their wrath By your perswasions you may save us both Exit Mufti Solyman Oglar puts on the Robes Oh Oglar I am overcome with shame To take a kindness which I dare not name What I permit must in your own esteem Make me ungrateful and a Coward seem Heard within a noise of all instruments of war clashing of swords firing of Guns shouts and battering of Gates Ogl. Oh Sir the Foes your Pallace gates beat down Your stay exposes both your life and Crown While I about your safety am imploy'd You in a complement will be destroy'd Y. Q. Ah my dear Lord unless you will be gone You make the kindness he intended none Fly Sultan quickly fly for by your sloth Instead of saving one you ruine both Ogl. To the dark Cloyster Sir the way you know Thither you may with ease and safety go Sult You have prevail'd our mighty Prophet send Comfort to us and succour to our friend They embrace Sultaness weeps Exit Sultan Y. Q Farewel my only dearest Lord Farewel Ogl. Come Madam come these clouds you must dispel The Sultans safety should your grief subdue Y. Q. Suppose him safe Sir tears are debts to you Ogl. If you design my kindness to repay Madam it must be done some other way Y. Q. All such ungrateful thoughts I banish hence Your kindness Sir's above all recompence The only poor requital I can make Will be to Love your memory for your sake Ogl. A poor reward indeed Madam must I For the advantage of my memory die 'T is more when I am dead than you can give To injoy your love one minute while I live Y. Q. Of that I hope you did not doubt before I only wish I could express it more Ogl. Kindness in general is love 't is true Y. Q. But mine is more particular to you Ogl. Of common love there many Symptoms are But one of that which is particular I cannot now the time in Courtship spend Madam true love should in injoyment end Give me but that and I can die with joy If not my hated life you twice destroy Y. Q. What sudden madness does your mind distract Would dying Oglar such a mischeif act You die infected and before your death Seek to corrupt me with your poison'd breath O let more generous thoughts possess your mind Be not so cruel when you 've seem'd so kind Ogl. You 've the unkinder cruelty decreed Unless you crown that heart that is to bleed For else I fall the Sultans sacrifice And which is worse am murder'd by your eyes Y. Q. And if I grant what you expect to have I more destroy than I can hope to save I know the Sultan twenty deaths would choose Rather than I one vertuous thought should lose Nor shall our Annals e're of me record She lost her honour to preserve her Lord. Ogl. Madam if you 'l the Sultans death prevent You to my hopes must yield your quick assent Or else I 'le meet the foe and yield him up Who drinks the sweet must taste the bitter Cup For 't is in vain to think I 'le stay and die A foolish Martyr to your Chastity Y. Q. Oh cruel Fate O wretced Sultaness Aside What can I do in this so great distress I subtilly must his lustful heart beguile And hide my wrath in a dissembled smile Ogl. Madam by pausing you deny my suit I go if once the question you dispute He offers to go she holds him Y. Q. Why would you so come Oglar do not chide That I endeavour thus my love to hide There is to modesty a little debt Which I was studying only to forget Do you but go within that private place I le make my self more fit for your imbrace Ogl. Seal Madam your intention with a kiss Salutes her Who would not die so sweet a death as this Madam make haste when in your Arms I lie I Paradise enjoy before I die Retires into a Closset Y. Q. Can Heaven that does the Innocent protect Suffer his hellish Plot to take effect The Gods forbid it and some safeguard send By Mahomet our Prophet and their Friend A great noise without of People shouting Heark by th' approaching Triumphs of the Rout They seem at my deliverance to shout In what a strait I am Heaven only knows Who seek protection from my husbands Foes She runs and opens the door and speaks to Oglar Oh my dear Oglar Oh unhappy chance The rageing Rebels hitherward advance Like envious Messengers of Hell they 're sent Our heaven and our enjoyments to prevent You to the Inner Closet shall retire A place as private as you can desire There will I send the disappointed Rout Missing the Sultan here to find him out So while they are in search of him I 'le find A time to be more happy and more kind Ogl. By your perswasions I am ever sway'd Madam such love must ever be obey'd She goes out as to hide Oglar and returns Y. Q. Oh slow and lingring Rebels how they stay They cannot hurt me now but by delay My Lord is safe and they who did
The Queen to night a Banquet does prepare And I believe they are expected there For to her Lodgings as I took my round The Privy-Garden door unlock'd I found For which I cou'd no reason understand But that 't was left so by the Queens Command Mufti And all her Rooms seem hung with joyful light That guilds the chearful face of vanquish'd Night Repeated Healths they drink and Glasses large By Musick quickned every time they charge Kup. Their Songs the Prologues of their Slaughters are Like Trumpets when they sound a point of War Mufti This only opportunity we have Our Lord's our own and Childrens lives to save Let us with haste to the young Sultan go To tell him all we fear and all we know That back'd with his Authority we may Meet with no Guards t' oppose us in our way So we an easie Conquest shall obtain While they unarm'd resist us but in vain Soly. To night we must the fatal quarrel end On this one action all our hopes depend Which if succesful brings a double good Preserves our Princes Crown and Peoples blood Exeunt Sene drawn discovers the Y. Queen and Sultan asleep on a Pallet At the opening of the Scene they awake and come on the Stage Y. Q. How slept my Son and Lord did not you find A pleasing Greatness hanging on your mind Between the weight and lustre of a Crown Were you not lifted up and then cast down Mah. Madam Alas I find the Dreams of Kings And those of Subjects are far different things Before some sport my Childish Soul possest Which now I find with manly cares deprest Then did I entertain my mind with toys But now I dream of things unfit for Boys Y. Q. What dream't my sweetest Lord Mah. Madam methought Your self and I were to a Valley brought Solemn obscure and private separate From all the World and stil'd the House of Fate There at our entrance I my Father met He look'd so pale methinks I see him yet Y. Q. In what a sweet amazement he appears His courage gives a lustre to his tears Mah. By him there sat a Monarch all of Bone His Scepter was a Dart a Tomb his Throne This angry Prince in smiles with horrour mixt On both of us his hollow Sockets fixt And my poor Father shook his careful Head As I conceive he wou'd have had us fled I cry'd and strove but fear withheld me so Methought I wanted pow'r and strength to go Y. Q. O where will this unlucky Omen end What can such Dreams in such a Child portend Mah. At last the Prince his fatal arm held out Then drew it back as if he were in doubt Whether 't were best my life to take or save When loe a Shape more aged and more grave One that more pity had and more command Stept in and bad him stay his doubtful hand Daughter said he to you and Child to me Return till Seventy Nine and Eighty Three You have no business here go live and Reign Who my Decrees oppose oppose in vain Y. Q His kindness somewhat does abate my fear How arm'd and how attir'd did he appear Mah. From his bald head hung down a Lock before His hand an uncouth crooked weapon bore Upon his shoulders two fair Wings there grew In haste he seem'd and while he spoke he flew Y. Q. If I interpret not your dream amiss There lies a pretty mystery in this Mah. If dreams have in them any thing divine I wou'd be glad to know th' event of mine Y. Q. My Lord the Skeleton you saw was death The Valley so obscure the shades beneath Old time was he that all his care employ'd To save you ready then to be destroy'd And having got the advantage in the strife Promis'd to give you many years of life Mah. Had he his kindness spar'd I 'd been content I 'm sure I ne're can die more innocent Enter a Woman attendant who seems to tell the Queen something of importance in sign Y. Q. More ill news to disturb our short delight What can their business be so late at night Enter Mufti Solyman Ipsir Kuperli and several others Muf. We come Dread Sir to shew your Cause we own And to secure your Person and your Throne Ips. This is the minute which if you neglect A sudden ruin Sir you must expect Mah. My Lords can you a remedy advise When you have told me where the danger lies Kup. Sir 't is the chiefest of Physitians laws In all distempers to remove the cause Some superficial cures this State has found We never search'd the bottom of the wound Solym. The gangrin Sir through the chief limbs is spread And will 't is fear'd e're morning reach the head Y. Q. There 's danger in these mysteries of State I alwayes dread a way that 's intricate Mah. My Lords I question not your skill or care Methinks your terms of Art mysterious are Kup. Great Sir my self more fully to explain While the Queen lives you cannot safely reign 'T was she that did your Father's death contrive T is she that will not suffer you to live Yet she her Hellish Treasons does conceal Under false love and counterfeited zeal Mah. Sir do not her your self or me abuse Nor falsly aged Innocence accuse Kup. I do not Sir what I affirm is true I never ly'd but once to rescue you Bectas by her command grown impudent To the Divan for me in private sent And there his bloody Treason he began Of Murdering you and Crowning Solyman This with the Queen's authority he back'd And this to morrow he resolves to act Y. Q. My dearest Lord now call your Dream to mind This is that very time that was so kind And you must either quickly be advis'd Or look by sudden death to be surpris'd Mah. If they a strength more pow'rful have than mine What shall we do to hinder their design Muf. Sir to the Queen's Apartment we must go Kup. There we unlook'd for shall suprise the Fo Whose slender force we shall with ease destroy While they are overcharg'd with Wine and joy And if with them we apprehend the Queen Sir you may guess how guilty she has been Mah. Go and if possible a way contrive To bring the Queen with all her Friends alive So shall our sentence on our Laws be built And they find Deaths proportion'd to their guilt Succeeding times of them shall never say That Power but Justice took their lives away Ips. For a free passage Sir so late at night Your Signet Royal will be requisite Lest while the Centinels and outward Guard Dispute our pow'r they our design retard Muf. My Lord unless my slender Judgment fail Paper Comissions nothing will avail You with this pass port safely and unseen Gives him a Key May go to th' inward Lodgings of the Queen Else you may Conquer but can ne're Surprise For that way they expect no Enemies Y. Q Mufti I think you have no business there You by