Company One Glance of him as he past by th' other day Broke the Kings Draught which a Cubit-Cup could Nere do See see here he comes with as many Enter Pallantus Patches and such like properties as would Furnish a Casheerd Companie to beg with Sure he was Scar-Bearer to some Armie Let 's observe it what it does look look its Pleas'd with the Hangings Poly. He cannot be thus By Nature nor by Accident ' has studied To appear horrid Mene. Danger is not so Dreadfull in it self as it shewes in him Com. Well I cannot forbear I must enter Parley with it What Rare things shall I know If I can get it speak I 'le enquire the fortune O' th' Kingdome for the next thousand Yeares That 's not worth the asking I 'le enquire when The Dissolution of the World shall be And where it's Treasure lies He cannot choose But know the very Heart o' th' Earth If I Can't perswade I 'le Conjure something from him Bo Bull-begger What art thou Who let thee loose Where is any Gold hid My feares were just Nothing but a Charm will do 't Anaell Maâ—fo Rachimas Thulnear Vemoby Savâ—an Vernesa Elty Famelron Ausculta obtempora madatis meis This was not terrible enough it must be More powerful yet I adjure thee by those Bootes Thy Velvet Eye the Taylors work about thee Pall Peace Fool the King will hear and thou 't be Whipt for bawling Com. Prethee good Devill something Exit Pallantus O' th' other World Mene. Ha ha ha Poly. I hope 't has Satisfied your Curiosity Comastes ha ha ha Com. Nay I 'le not leave him thus be baffl'd by A Goblin I 'le follow it to the place Where it shakes the Chain that 's certain Exit Comastes Men Ha ha ha Come let 's see the End o' th' Conjuration Exaunt Omnes Enter King and Timeus King But these are things for the following Age Timeus we are hedg'd in beyond all fear If Loyalty can prove destructive there is Yet some danger Time Because you see a Calm enwrap all round About you you conceive 't will be as Lasting As 't is Pleasing Tempests Sir may contradict you Even while you think so Evils are silent now Not done away they Couch and lie in-wait Sedition walks with Clawes bow'd in and a Close Mouth Which onely she keeps for Opportunity Of Prey Y' are not to suppose that all Shut Eyes Do sleep they are ne'er more watchful than when thus They counterfeit neglect securely they Pry into the Depth of things by seeming Not to observe the Face and Out-side Your Ruine yet appears not and you think Because it Lurks y' are Safe Enemies Reconcil'd are like Wilde-Beasts brought up to hand Th 'ave more Advantage given them to do Mischief King Can the Urnes quicken their Ashes into Souldiers Can the Graves and Tombs send forth a Race Of Enemies From those that Live we are safe They have no will to hurt us and those that Sleep in the forgotten Dust cannot There 's Nothing remaining to our Care but to Give thanks the gods are favourable and if We could be grateful our Felicity And safety were both summ'd and perfect I tell Thee often thou let'st thy best dayes pass Without receiving of that Fruit that should Be crop'd from 'em I did expect thou should'st Have urg'd me to thy Nuptials such Cares Befit thee best how the Triumphs should be Ordered and Hymen's Torch well lighted Time Pray Heaven no other Flames break out But such as Mirth shew forth But Sir I must Be bold to tell you a few flattering Lords Guild o'er the Defects and Ruines of your State They make you call a Lethargie Security And that a Kingdome which like to Childrens Houses on the Sand rear'd up in Sport and Toying will become a Prey unto the Wave That first approaches it They can perhaps Judge well of Meats and Wines good Table-States men Souldiers at a Banquet strong to overcome A Charger or a Goblet but Kingdomes Safeties are not ow'd unto the Palat And the stomack if these were State-Affairs Your Councel were most sound and every Breast A Synod If Musick could now raise Walls And Cityes as of Old your Realm would be Impregnable King Hast thou yet done Not all The Ghosts that I have made have been thus Cruel To me nor at yet their Graves have threatn'd Half these Evils Thy Mothers Labour was A Conception to the pains thou hourly Bring'st upon me Time Sir I am sorry Yet 'T was my Love that so did dictate to me My desire that your sports might follow one Another and succeed so just that they Might seem to bring the season on and not The season them that thus they might continue Ever but 't was then that they might continue And not fail by Treason But Sir I will No more I shall hereafter think 't more Piety Hand in hand to fall in Perils with you Than my self to bring them King What would'st thou have The Power I have is wholly thine If that I never did deny was not thought given Now I do Use all the Means thou wilt by Lawes Or our Prerogative to remove thy fears Time Sir I thank you humbly thus Low I thank you Nor will I in a Complement return You back this Power till I have made you safe I shall work like a Resolute but skilful Surgeon that dares feel and search a Wound And if he find Dead-flesh dares cut it off Exeunt Omnes Or more Corruption will not spare a Limb Enter Clearchus habited like a Flamen Aratus Haimantus and Pallantus Ara. My Lord Cupid put his Hood-wink on you Heuses to Aime with and then you could not Miss the Mark I fear the second View will not Prove so Ravishing The most Excellent Things Scarce please twice Clear My Lord think not so For were the World dark about her or I blind To all things else in Her I could find Variety enough and so long as Her Beauties were not Eclips'd I could not Envy him that were so plac't as to behold The World as in a Map Ara. These Habits then My Lord will secure your Visite Me thinks Your Highness becomes them Rarely well Y' are a Person now most Sacro-sanct Twice Holy made so by your Dignity And Order We 'll go before Sir and inform The Princess of your Coming You 'll draw less Suspicion likewise if you walk alone Exeunt all but Clearchus Clear The King of Crete is a Usurper His Son 's a Villain by their Masters Blood They have reach'd the Diadem and by The Violation of his Daughter Seek to support their Greatness but this last Evil is still i' th' Forge not yet Compleated And the fair Princess looks on her Destin'd Nuptials as her Rape her Lover as her Murtherer Fates I hope have in their Blest Decrees Writme the Rescuer of this Royal Virgin The VVinner and the VVearer of this Jewel And neither the Error that threw me Unawares upon her close
to the Prince and there unburden Our hearts of this our grief and if he have A Service that commands our Lives all hazards Now will be welcome to us 1. Guard The Villain That committed this Sacrilegious Act 's escap't 2. Guard We were too soft to obey Dying-Speech Cap. His Entrance and Escape were ordained Both by Fate 't was not in Our Power to hinder Either Exeunt Omnes Enter Timeus Give me a Power Mightie as my Rage That my Revenge may reach unto the Clouds And unthrone those Gods that joyn'd hands with Men To commit so Black a Deed It were but Justice they should loose their Deitie that So would throw it off Oh my Father did I Unload thy Shoulders of the Kingdome That thou might'st fall under a lesse Weight And bereft thee of thy Jealousies to Ruine thee with more Assurance onely Where are all those Flatt'ring Tongues that when There was no Need would in a Complement Hourlie Suffer for Thee Not One to die In thy Defence Or by his fall to make Thine more Decent What ho Charisius Erastus Acmanthes not one Voyce How Dismall is this Place The Graves where Death Inhabits are not so dreadfull l I 'le flie thee Though I run among the thickest of my Foes They can present no Horrors like this Lownesse The Cries the Sword the Trumpet in the Battell Strike not so deep Amazement I walk like He goes out as in search of some of those that had wont to attend and returnes again Aeneas among the Shades all is Hell About me I see nothing but what my Phansie frames in Horrid Shapes O yee vain fears Of Guiltie Men All are Unreasonable But yours Ridiculous When you have contemn'd The greatest and most reall Dangers You tremble at a Ghost a Thing lesse than a Man And when the Substance could not the Shadow Frights you There is no way but this to set me Above my Feares when I am Lesse I shall Be Equall to 'em Cap. O hold my Lord He prepares to fall on his Sword and the Guard return and save him Offer not up your Self a Sacrifice When there are so many that gladly would Redeem you with their Lives Let that thought Prevail with you That you ought to Live for them That so willinglie would Die for you Y' are the Prop of thousands and if you sink You pull a Kingdome with you Take your Sword By the Other End and so holding it Seek to appease this Royal Ghost If you Cannot regain a Crown yet win a Memorie By the losse of it This Object makes your Grief A burden to your Honour Lean on us My Lord and we 'l conduct you to the Camp Exeunt Omnes Enter Polyander Comastes Menetius and a Captain at their entrance a Shout is heard Poly. What Shout is this among the Enemies Cap. 'T is their Acclamations still for the Arivall Of their Fellowes with whom they have now joyn'd Campes Poly. I am glad of 't I hope we shall have Command to trie the Fortune Of the Field to morrow Would the Whole Knot Of them were there that we might make quick Work And like Alexander untie it with a Blow Com. I and a Wall round about 'em to keep Them to the Slaughter that we may not be Troubl'd to kill a Thousand in a Thousand Places I like not this pursuing 't is The greatest Evill next to the being Pursued the Wine nere tasts well when 't is so Jumbl'd Give me a Standing-Camp that Flourishes like a Peacefull City and wants No Necessaries Here stand your Engins There Victuall on this hand a Palesado Defends you on the other a Barecado Of Pork-tubs as impregnable before A Fose is cut of some two hundred paces And the Souldiers tipling in 't behind a Coop Runs out of the same length and the Poultrie Tipling in their Trenches whose bodies are Too delicate and tender to bear travell Here a Man may even among the Tents forget To be a Souldier Poly. Ha ha ha On my Conscience Comastes thou art wearie Of the Camp alreadie Com. Yes faith As your Selves are if you 'd confesse the truth Poly. Why me thinks there 's no Pleasure like the Souldiers Who takes his Swing in all Delights and sates Himself with 'em as if he were near to Tast 'em more and if Fortune be so kind To grant him a second and a third Fruition Like Friends which parted in the Morn two Dangerous And Hopeless wayes of ever seeing they Meet With a Multiply'd and Unexpected Joy His very Wounds are Pleasures and Elizium Comesfaster on him than his Death Com. When Honour is the Prize and wrong'd Justice The Cause that thrust him on he throws off One That he may gain a Better Life a Life Of Fame which is Eternal even in Death That he enjoy'd before was Fading Sustain'd onely by the Infirmities Of One Weak Body now 't is supported By the Memories of All the Charge of it Is committed unto a World of Men Nor is 't Extinguish'd before the Frame o' th' Whole Universe None are so surviving As the Sons of Glorious War Jove gave Life to Hercules and Theseus but Mars Eternity they breath'd from one but gain'd Heaven by the other These were the great Thoughts Which when I was yet Young and not able To effect 'em did dwell in me they did Suggest unto my soul that I ought to raise my hand Against the Gods if they slept at Perjury And favour'd Injustice Poly. Holloe Comastes What Rapture 's this Com. To shew you how easie A thing it is to talk like a Souldier And be as brave a fellow as either of you Omnes Ha ha ha Mene. Thou wouldst make an excellent Run-away-Souldier Such a speech on the High-way Were greater Violence than Bidding-stand A long staff would not get an Almes so soon Poly. What saist thou now Comastes to a jovial Round Or two beyond the Court-Healths Those at the Kings Own Table Com. I believe I shall say more Than you at this as well as at the Other Poly. Captain command 'em to bring some VVine in Exit Captain Come in the mean time le ts sit Enter to 'em one of the Guard that was present at the Kings Death Guard My Lords stand upon your Guard The King 's slain Omnes The King They all start up upon the Newes and draw their Swords Poly. Thou look'st distractedly speak it again Guard He 's slain My self was present at his Death Poly. By what accursed Hand Guard That Devil that Awhile since wounded the Prince has Murder'd him But my Lords I lose the time and Betray you In it The Prince is come into the Camp And commands you strait to repair to him He finds the Army wavering in their Faith The City Bands are already Revolted And others begin to draw off The Kings death And a Declaration from the Enemy Pretending that a Son of the former King 's Preserv'd by Aratus heads their Forces Has almost gain'd them a Victory
the Compasse Of a Subjects Asking Be not Deceiv'd You were not so Safe in your Own Raign As in your Enemies The State is not Translated from one Tyrannie to another But a Prince governes now which is a Name Of Mercy as well as Power which He truly Knowes And in his first Deeds desires to shew on you He does not think he 's then like Jove when he can Thunder but when he can shoure down Blessings On a Nation Not when he is the Voyce Of Death but when he sits Harmlesse with the Power Of Death about him Revenge Torments Executions are not the Attributes Of a King but a Destruction He Rivals not The Immortall Powers in Temples Statues Adoration but in Transcendent Vertues Divine Performances the Saving Helping Qualities not the Stern and Awefull Are the Steps by which he Climbes above the Heads O' th' people and appeares a God on Earth Time Why should I be a Stranger to these Vertues More then this man I was not born for Lesse Things Then He Certainlie when Nature made this Frame She intended it for the Noblest purposes Pall What doe you yet Resolve or Demand further He mindes not what Pallantus sayes but continues his meditation Time How my Soul 's Acquainted with these Excellent Precepts though it have been ever Kept A Stranger to 'em how it approves consents Takes part with 'em at first hearing even winding And twisting with 'em as if its Highest Good Were in their Fellowship Pall If you have no more To Ask or Hope for hear what is Freely Offer'd to you Your Lives in the first place Are granted you In the next your Fortunes Honours in a word whatever with Justice You can call yours Why look you Wildlie at this Gift Of Grace It is no Wonder to the Giver Of it nor them which live about him though The Consequence may seem Dangerous ' I were not worthie the High Name of his Vertue If either the Perill or Offence were Lesse And 't is but a Mean Expression of his Goodnesse to say His Enemies were Courted To Live by him But presentlie you 'l think This Offer'd Mercie is not to Save you But to Deferre your Death A Vain Thought When can it be done more Justlie Or more Safely Y' are as farre from those to Pittie you As to Help you None but Himself has any Care Of you 'T is true there is a Lady that had A share in you but Injuriously You threw her off nor can you claim an Interest When you have Neglected Her in all her Miseries Not in your Flight your Articles no not In your Thoughts provided for Her And had She not fallen into the Hands of Enemies That were Servants too to Honour You had Thrown away a Jewel that had a First Esteem Even among the Gods Time O Sir you have undermin'd My pride and remov'd me from that Advantage-Ground I stood on to my Own Low Pitch These your Last Words come Near unto me and make me With Reverence believe all that you have spoken Your Vertues before did onely stir my Hate And Envie but this Deed has taught me Admire you Nor can I doubt there is a want of any Honour When you have shewn such Noble Care in preserving A Distressed Virgin whom I durst not think of Least I should think too of Dishonour Pall Sir keep your Transportation to your self We doe not think Our Selves such High Deservers In doing that which Barbarous People Would have done They which would have burnt the Temples Would have Knelt to Her and what Duties their Want of Faith deni'd unto the Altars So Visible an Image of the Deitie Would have call'd from 'em Think you we could desire To save such Enemies as you and not Adore an Enemie of Her Vertues Time Give me not Scorn and Honour in the same breath You cannot so Nicelie so Abstractedlie Conferre a Benefit on the Unfortunate Eudora but it will Reflect on me Your Words besides with a kind of God-like Power have remov'd not onely my Despaires And troubles but like Heavens Lightning shot into My Soul has torn me from my self burnt and Consum'd all that was Vitious and Corrupt Within me Be not then Unlike the Powers You have yet resembl'd to scorn the Person That your Grace Converted Pall All Vertues crown'd With Happinesse flourish in Timeus I meet you to the fullest of your Wishes And believe as my Bodie is now One They imbrace With yours my Soul is no lesse joyn'd I perfectlie Forgive whatever you Have done to me Forget what I have done To You. Next believe with This I throw away All Danger that does threaten you In the last place He casts away the poyson Exeunt all but Comastes Follow me whether I shall Lead you Com. I breath am warm alive all over feel smell hear but when I look on * Thee I thank God I taste not I see too and more particularlie that 't is not Death but a Dream of Death onely that hangs on me Some ill Vapours of the Spleen bred from Noise of Warre hearing of Murders Varietie of Danger and no Feasting The King my bountifull and loving Master was kill'd suddainlie his Son deserted by the Armie and the whole Kingdome on the Newes scap't hardiie with his Life a few friends and followers to this Fort where with as much adoe we shut our Selves in and our Enemies out But Honour a subtiler and more pernicious Adversarie than all the rest shuffled it self into the Hold with us and has never ceas'd one minute since in its Own Name and the Name of Honestie of the Condition we have Lost and the Disgraces we were to expect to present us with Halters Daggers Poyson any thing that might give us as she term'd it a Noble End I must confesse I am not for these Melanchollie Things my Ends have still lain otherwise 'T is true I bear on me the Dignitie of a Lord But how As a Pedler does his pack upon my Shoulders not in my Heart And what is Honour at the best But a bare Name onely and not alwayes so much to me the Title was never given me Seriouslie but by Rascals with my Fellow Peeres if I pleas'd 'em in the Feast I was my Lord Comastes If not Comastes-with-my-face-full-of-Sauce and my Locks of Liquour my hair and beard dropping like a Wine-presse as if my being there were not to Drink the Wine but Make it But again I have a Lordship in Land to loose as well as Title What then shall I sell my Life for Dirt My Soul for a few Acres I 'le batter the World too for a Grave and maintain 't I make as Wise a Bargain But say this Land be taken from me pray how came I by it Was it the Inheritance of my Noble Father or the Purchase of my own Wit Good Yeoman-of-the-Bottles Sleep in peace your Sonnes Being was from you but his Well-Being and his Dignities from his proper Vertues Which as the Philosopher
without A drop of Bloud Poly. Away we stay too long Lead us where you left the Prince Exeunt Omnes Enter Aratus Never did Justice shew her self so Eminent This was a Deed as if her own Hand Had wrought it Who can complain the want of Providence Or say the Guiltie and the Innocent make one Heap in Judgement when This is told A Tyrant in the Midd'st of All his Strengths guarded with Friends and Armes What ever Power or Policie could make him Safe with by a Single Hand strengthen'd with Justice was snatcht from the midd'st of all The Ligt'ning melts not the enclos'd Gold With half that wonder leaving that Containes it Nor doth the Plague in a Multitude of Men Make a Choice so Curious Enter to him Cleander and Clearchus Clean My Lord we may Sheath our Swords This Gallant Act of the Heroick and The brave Pallantus has not onely Remov'd a Tyrant but I may say Dissolv'd an Armie and Reduc'd a Kingdome The Pretor in the Cities Name offers Allegiance And divers Bodies both of Horse And Foot have left th' Enemies Camp and are Come over to us What can we attribute To this Noble Deed that in any measure May reach the Greatnesse of it We ought to Acknowledge it the Compendium of all Our Future Fortunes and what over High And Happy shall succeed to us to be The Consequents alone of this A Benesit Of that Universall Nature that like The Sunnes Influence our Enemies feel The Good of it as well as we Ara. Sir you weigh This Action as you ought And while you can look Thus Nobly on the Services are done you You 'l make this Isle a Land of Heroes The Princes Eyes breed Vertues when they shine Upon 'em and what ever has been found To be his Temper quickly growes to be The Genious of the People Clear What thinkes your Lordship If we drew out and fac'd the Body of The Enemy that yet holds together And with Fear or Forces sought to dissolve 'em Ara. My Lord what can we return you for this Gallant Forwardnesse But the Force that now Stands against us will not be worth your Highnesse Hazard nor yet paines to face ' eur A little Shame and Obligation to their Late Master Is all the Bond that holds 'em And a few Dayes if not Houres will scatter 'em without Our Swords But this Message from the City Will require your Majesties attendance To it Please you to hear what their Demands Are to you Exeunt Omnes Drums and other noyses of an Assault Pall Within Spare no Opposition Bréak the Gates add fire unto your Force Enter Rodia and another Lady frighted in Endora after them Rodia O Madam they break in upon us Eud. O my Father when thou art slain I cannot Fear what after does befall me The same That was their Crueltie to Thee will to Me be Pittie A noyse as if the doores were forc'd Pallantus and other Souldiers break in Pall Stand No man advance to touch a Life Or doe a further Violence My Rage Has blindly lead me on to Violate A place no lesse Sacred than the Temples And rudelie ere I lookt about hath thrust me On the Deitie So those that are led To see some Glorious Sight eager and longing Ask still as they passe which is the way and How near till they are engag'd within its Splendour which opening suddainly upon them Makes 'em retire as fast again with Reverence Eud. What stayes thee Monster And makes thee pant thus Ore the Prey Here I stand ready and doe Invite thy Furie Come and save my hand A labour if thou art Surfeited I 'le Whet thy Appetite Th' art a Murderer A Villain these Name thee not They are but Diseases of the State Thou the Death The Law Comprehends them within her Verge thy Giant Faults doe so much O're-top Her that Justice Cannot reach thee and if there were no Gods Thou then wert Innocent and would'st stand Safe Because thou art so Wicked Thou hast Kill'd Thy King O no thou had'st no share in him He was a King of Men thou a Beast the Foulest and the bloudiest that ever preyd On Innocence Pall My Revenge how false Thy Beautie was Eud. How Monstrous thou appear'st Thou represents unto me all Ill I ever heard of Pall And thou all that I ever heard of Good Eud. Thou mov'st like so many Living-Mischiefes had the Priests beheld thee They might have Divin'd all these Future Evills So exactlie in thy Form that what they told Would rather have seem'd a Story than A Prophesie and have sav'd us from thee Nature was never Guiltie of such a Work Some Hellish-Power hath given thee Birth and Spirit And sent thee on the Earth to destroy all That 's Fair and Holy Cap. Sir raise your Spirits Can you endure such words as these Souldiers on And make Her feel those Evils She hath utter'd Pall Hold hold Thou Worse than she hath Named darest thou Command or move to such a Sacriledge If thy Sinnes were told thee from the Heavens Thou'dst blaspheme the Voice that spoke to thee Withdraw thy Rage is too Unhollow'd for This Place Provoke me not with another Offer I shall not swollow your Bitterness Though guilded in the Name of Friendship Exeunt Captain and Souldiers Eudo. What next intend'st thou What Master-piece Of wickedness wilt thou glory in alone Know thou canst not Force me here within thy Reach I am as safe as if an Army All resolute to death divided us She shewes a Dagger This Hand something weaker than a Womans Can resist all thy strength were it as great In Mischief as in Will Pall Though I seem all That you have Named and Fouler yet this is A sin I dare not do O think me not Worse than you have said already and then I may again wash off my Stains The Beasts Are Noble meek to Chastity and humbly Lick the feet of Majesty Judge me not By shew our Eyes deceive us and as oft Perswade us to the Wrong as do the Blind- Mans feet falsely do prompt us All that is VVhite is Innocent and all that 's Black is Sinful without exception Should those That look on you be led so by the sense They must kneel down before you and adore you As some Deity not being able To phansie so much God as they do see In you Such Formes their Powers have given you That you may become a Rival in their VVorships Eudo. VVhy talk'st thou thus Thy Tongue hath no more power Than hath thy Hands Pall Neither intend Violence VVould you could entertain of me one thought Of Goodness as hopeless as you think me I 'd undertake to make it good and Better't Daily Eud. Why delay'st thou VVhat would'st thou have Pall Forgiveness Love I dare not say Eudo. Love Thy Thoughts are more Mishapen than thy self In thy very Hopes thou art Cruel This Base Imagination hath wrong'd me more Than all thy Actions In those thou onely Sought'st the
nere Committed Clean Whither does this Sad beginning tend Pal. To this Sir As we have slain with all Religion A bloudy Tyrant and Usurper one That was Greater in his Sins than in the Kingdome he purchas't by them So too we have Unjustly slain the Father of a Lady That knew not so much Guilt as to satisfie her Why she lost him And for want of his Life She now Contemns her Own a Jewell Of Jnestimable Valew to all the World But to her self Sir you cannot call Her An Enemy though her Goodnesse stood against You So Many Years and preserv'd her Father In despite of all his Sinns It became her To withstand the greatest Piety what ere If it were an Enemy to her Owne Hian. Her Cause of Grief is Mighty and if Care Be not taken as their Faults have done the Rest Her Goodnesse will destroy her We that beheld The past Deformities can bear Witnesse Of her Vertues She was the onely Mine Of Honour and when we had been wearied In seeking one Grain else where in Her We could find a Treasure Nor was this a Beauty In her set off onely with the Blemishes Of Others And Foyl'd by Generall Vices But t was a Reall and a Native Excellence Which as it could not be obscur'd by Thickest Darknesse so neither could it be out-shined By the most Radiant Brightnesse King Her Grief Concerns us all and ought to be provided for Before our Feasts and Triumphs Returne In our Name to Her and tell Her be the Advantages Nere so Eminent we have receiv'd by 'em We truly Mourn for whatever Losses may be Called Hers Say too in Person we had come to Comfort her But that we thought a Visit in the Freshnesse Of her Sufferings too much Violence VVhat ever there remaines that can bring a Joy To Her shall carefully be sought out And offered to her Her Brother with many Of her Friends are fled into the Fort And are there shut up VVould I could give 'em Life VVhat say you my Lord May I do this VVill not Mercy in this place be Madnesse Ara. Sir t' will be so in no place You may do this Or any thing you have a mind too Even in your Suddain'st Uncousidered Thoughts There is a Secret Counsell and Depth of VVisdome And seeing all your Actions Nay all your Pleasures Are in some Exercise of Vertue we VVill not crosse you in 'em but make 't Our greater Care to see you no time Suffer By your Goodnesse or that your Mercy prove A Cruelty to Your self Clean You have given me Resolution Haste then in the first place Unto the Fort 'T was their desire this Morning To have Conference with one of Note And if you finde 'em fit for Mercy Or to be made fit offer 't to 'em Exeunt Omnes Enter at one doore Polyander Menetius Comastes and the Captain of the Guard Timeus to them at the other Time No Answer yet return'd Poly. Not yet Sir Time One look out again Polyander I remember Exit Captain I heard thee once say when I condemnd thee For thy smiles That if there were a Cause thou Couldst Frown VVhy look'st thou Sadly at this Time then Our Fortunes ought rather to stir our Indignation Than our Grief Poly. Sir were they my Own Misfortunes I were under and not yours the Heaviest Pressures should not move a Passion in me Unlesse it were some Glory but when I look On you a Fellow-Sufferer with me Remember the State from which y' are fallen Though in my Own Miseries I had a Heart Of Flint and Rock In yours I could desolv't Into a Stream of Teares Cap. Sir ther 's now one arriv'd Enter Captain Has certainly brought an Answer Time Letus Seat our selves before he Enters that he They all sit down about a Table that has a Cup of poyson on it May see on what strength our Demands are made Every Man put on a Face of Mirth and Resolution and fancie to himself He 's at a Banquet that will refresh him After all his Toyle VVho 's this Do any Enter Paliantus Of you Know him Poly. Not I my Lord Men Nor I Time Sir Y' are VVelcome But we Invite you onely To look on The Liquor this Goblet holds Though it be Brisk and of a Luâ—ty Operation VVe cannot Commend so much for Purity Or help to Good Digestion The Gods Give not Life more Certain than this gives Death Do you think you can behold the Drinking Of it VVould Aratus himself were here That once he might be Glutted with A Spectacle of Death You look Pale on t is Already Fly Sir while you may for certainly Your Enemys have a Plot upon you And sent you hither to take your Death in By your Eyes Had they none to send us To behold our Resolutions but such a Trifle Pal. What Shape can I put on and thou not Injure Me in 't I never yet appeard to thee In any Form but Either I found thy Scorn Or Hatred in it At first I was thy Fear As all that were Innocent did Fright thee And because Thou wert Guilty I was Banisht Not to remove me neither but my Death VVhich standing firme 'gainst any Stroke of Law By Treachery thou would'st have reach't it Am when by Miracle I scapt thy Plotted Mischiefs by Chance thou would'st have slain me A Stranger and Unknown to thee My Disguise VVrongd thee not nor couldest thou pretend a Quarrel To it more than to him that in the remotest India drawes his breath Timeus starts from the Table and draws his Sword the rest doe the like Time I know thee now Thou need'st not further declare thy self And thou art Come past all my Wishes To Satisfie my Regenge Pallantus Knocks and a Guard rushes in Pall Hold I came To bring Peace and not Destruction Doe you Perceive yet how vain is all your Malice Time If thou art that man thou would'st seem to be And Equallie with Me do'st honour a Dead Father yet setting by these Seconds Let us Singlie trie our Hatred The Grant Of This will please me more then a Consession Of all the Articles proposed by me I had rather see thee Dead or by this Meanes Not see thee Live then again be Master Of the Fortunes I have Lost. I am unfit For Life And shall but curse the Givers of it Pall If I thought so I 'd grant to your Request And Kill you I could doe it I have Strength And Justice enough to make me Able But you are not so Bad as you suppose These are Despairing not Malitious Thoughts Yet ere I gooe rest assured one way or other I 'le give you Satisfaction I came For that Intent Shew me your Articles Here one gives him the Articles which he seems to run over with his Eye and reads the last aloud And last That thus attended we may depart The Isle How poor are these Conditions Without more Commission I dare grant you Better Why these are demands within
and Haimantus Cler. Have you commanded all the Mariners Aboard each Captain to his charge bid the Souldiers fill the Decks with their full numbers And display their Colours left nothing wanting That may add to the Glory of the Navy Haim Sir all things are in their Pride and height The Captains Bravery seems to lend brightness To the day and like the Sun throwes raies and light About 'em Nor lookstheir Gold less awful Than the Souldiers Steel On the Ships appear The Joy and Riches of a Conquest and yet they Keep the Order of a joyning-battel There wants nothing to make a War-like Princely And well-commanded Navy but your Presence Sir Clear I would not have them think us such Poor Men That we are drove to seek for their Relief To sue for Bread and Water but rather That we come like Noble Woers full of Rewards and Presents able to return All favours we receive and equally To honour Them that honour Us as Great As they It shall appear that he that is Master of such a Fleet may style himself Prince though Lord of nothing else Haim The people Flock upon the shore and with one Voyce say You come to fetch their Princess Sir you have More than their Consents already you have Their wishes too Clear I marry Haimantus Such a Jewel would make the rest look dim There are two Ladies in this Isle if fame Say true the wonders of the World When Nature Made them she summon'd her whole God-head And unwearied wrought till she had done Form'd each limb as if she had begun there She seem'd to practise on the World till then And what like beautiful she fram'd before Were but Degrees to this Height these the Ascent From which she now must fall They made her Older Than the labour of a thousand years Enter a Servant Serv. Ther 's a great train it seems from Court coming To your Highness Clear Come le ts meet 'em As Clearchus is going out Arats Phronimus Eurylochus and Pallantus meet him Ara. Sir the King congratulates your safety And is glad of your Arrival though the Cause Were dangerous You would have Oblig'd him Much Sir if you had been bound for Creet Clear The King is Royal and chides me kindly He binds a Stranger ever to his Service Ara. His Majesty expects you 'll honour him With your Presence this night at Court Clear My Lord I shall wait upon him But I must fist Entreat you 'l favour me with your Company A ship-board I shall not need to excuse A Souldiers Entertainment I doubt not But your Lordships knows it well Coursnesse and Plainnesse are the Praise of it Arat. Sir you are The Envy of your Neighbour Princes you So farre exceed them in a Brave Command I nere was happy in the like sight before And my Lord they that can boast the strangest Have not seen one so Common and so Rare Your Navy lookes as if she wore the Spoiles Of a whole Land or came to purchase 'em Clea. My Lord you 'l make me proud Your presence yet Will adde unto its Glory Enter Timeus and Coracinus Exeunt Omner Time Found dead upon the shore Cor. I my Lord Thrown into a Cliffe Time Were they drown'd Cora. 'T is believ'd not my Lord for many fresh Wounds Were found upon their bodies and yet their Clothes Were wet Time 'T is strange Were there but two Cor. No my Lord Time That 's stranger yet Reward the Men that found them And bid'm make no farther enquiry After their Deaths nor speak of it Let it Exit Coraos Die with you too doe you hear The Villaines Have rob'd at their return and got their deaths That way I nere could spare 'em worse the State Stands in greater need of theirs than of the Sword of Justice Rodia Rod My Lord He calls Rodia and she Entern Time Is your Lady to be spoke with Rod Alwayes My Lord by you But now she 's coming forth Enter Endora Time Save you sweet Sister End O y' are welcome Sir Time Sure Eudora Venus and the Graces Had their hands to day about you You look Fairer than your self and move in the Sphear Of Love and Beauty Cupid has taken His Stand up in your Eyes and shootes at all That come before him Pray Venus he misse me Eud. When doe you grow serious Time These are the Fair Lookâ— Must captivate the Stranger Prince in a Free Country And this the Dresse that must inchant him ha Eud. There is no Charm in 't certainly it pleas'd Me the least of Many No 't is your Fair Mistresse that beares those Love-Nets about her If the Stranger'scape her he 's safe Time ' Had better Kill his Father and then gaze upon the Spectacle than look upon her with the Eyes of Love Eud. Nay then you are unjust Would you have him stronger than your self was If he for that be guilty the same Doom Must belong to both alike Time But I have Prevail'd so far that he shall be free both From the danger of Love and seeing Nor must You make up his entertainment Eud. I was Commanded to be ready and Attend there Time But now the Commissions alter'd And runs in the Other Sence Eud. I shall be Content to obey either May I not Know the cause Time You may We would not feed The Prince here with hopes to get a Wife This Was the Storm that drove him in Nor must you Onely for this time forbear his presence But while he staies He 's unworthy of you Eud. If you know him so I shall then without Excuse denie his Visits But I think This businuesse may be borne a Nobler Way Nor will the End Fail though the Meanes be Fair Leave it to me If he Sue with Honour He will take an Honourable Answer Though he gain none from me I 'le get his Love And send him home no lesse a Friend than if He were a Husband By my Restraint you 'l Onely procure unto your self the markes Of Jealousie and Rudenesse and fouler Staines If that the Crime were nam'd to the desert Besides it does proclaim in Me too such A Weaknesse as I am much asham'd of Had he a Face adorn'd with the Graces Of both Sexes Beauty and Manlinesse And these after the Custome of the Roman Princes in their Statues Engrafted on On the body of some God I could look on Converse I and neglect him too when I Have reason for it Fear not me then Time I doe not I know thee strong the Honour Of a Kingdome may lean with safety on Thee But he will linger here too long besot The State with Feastings and in this Jollity Give Opportunity to Treacherous Practises He must be us'd Ill there are Reasons for it Eud. Is there then a Policie In Rudenesse Why doe you not rather send A Defiance to him Proclaim him Enemie This were Nobler far than to receive him In your armes and then Affront him say Health And wish Poyson in
the Cup Are you so much Below him Time There are greater thoughts in hand Than Curious Points of Gallantry If he send Any Present to you you must return it Back with Scorn Eud. Pride is ill becomming And hateful even to the next Proud man does Practise it Time Then take 'em and laugh at him Eud. No where my thankes are too much I 'll rather Return Gifts for Gifts I should shame to be A gainer on such a Score which the Meanest Honest Purchaser would blush at Time He 'l take Those Gifts for Favours Eud. They will not prove so Yet He will deserve some as he is a Stranger Time Not from You. Presents the State will send him You hear my Fathers Will You must not see him While he stayes Eud. I doe and shall eas'ly keep That I doe not care to break Time Farewell Eud. Must you be gone Time There 's a little business Calls me Eud. If it be but a little stay Time Onely the Welcome of the Stranger Eud. 'T is too much to hinder I see a Causelesse and a Needlesse Rage Hid in your breast The Prince may be Noble Valiant if you receive him then with Scorn Hee 'l prove a stronger Enemy than those Unworthy Ones you fear at home whose own Actions daily ruine and whose ill-made Knots will loosen faster than they tie 'em You have prevail'd with me I 'll not be wonn To see him now but let it not Appear By your Default and that my Retirement Is onely in scorn to him which will be Made plain if that you change not this Face you Have put on It becomes you at no time A Prince should alwaies Smile or look indifferent He has no need of Frowns as other men Life and Death are in his breath and if any do Offend his Revenge is known and need not Be declar'd by Face-expressions Where there 's Power to Punish 't is Tyranny to Rage Anger is no Attribute of Justice 'T is true she is painted with a Sword but looks As if she held it not Though Warbe in Her Hand yet Peace dwels in her Face Learn once Of me and when you have no Cause of A Distemper express none Now you have made All sure doubt not but receive the stranger With fearless and confident Imbraces Time I will or at lest I 'll tell thee so when Thou perswad'st me thus Farewel Eudora Exit Timues Eud. Thy subtile Plots will ruine thee at last Valour and Policy do seldom meet Yet here they are in their Extreams in One But do most strangely Divide the Owner Make him Dread none and yet confirm him not Within a Guard Exit Eudora CHORUS What can our Wishes deprecate When Vice is seen both Law and Fate When for the good o' th' Commonweal The Councel 's cal'd to Plot a Meal And Beasts brought in with solemn Cry As Spoyles got from the Enemy Whose life 's the Table and the Stage He doth not Spend but Lose his Age The Kings eyes like his Jewels be Set to Adorn not to Fore-see And as his Crown he thinks each thing Runs round in a continued Ring But Sacrifices Crowned be And Garlands fit for destinie Fates thus we fear have writ this Latt That Wint shall lose what Blood hath Gott ACTUS 2. SCENA 1. Enter Clearchus IS this your Royal Entertainment A common Host would have given one as Civil Have shewn his Guests their Quarter and then left'em To stumble out again My Receivers are Are all vanish'd An undeserved Affront Will trouble me Neither of the Princesses Were in the Train they might have trusted 'em I could have gag'd a Kingdom for their security One passes by him reeling and by and by after another Last of all Melissa they all make reverence to Clearchus as they pass Enter Comastes Was not that fellow drunk Now they begin To Muster up again Here I stand like one That learns to make his first Honour in a Dauncing School Sir by your favour If your Business calls you not pray let me intreat Your Company a while Com. Troth and 't like your Highness I am in hast in very great hast The King has sent for me and I know he 's thirsty till I come I would your Highness were as resolute and as well Arm'd this way as I * you 'd be the welcom'st man He loves a Royal-Drunkard to admiration he never saw one yet but in a Glass Sir have you any business with him You need no other Orator than such as this such a Mouth without a Tongue will perswade any thing Yet this is o' th least fit onely for Physick-dayes when he would not surfeit a meer Toy that troubles the Wayters with often filling But I have One as high Here 's nothing to measure't by but 't was that made me so Inward with him I alwayes use to Petition him with it 't is bigger than any of his own and pleas'd him above Measure The first time he saw it he commended the Gallantry of my Mind and said it was a Noble Emulation in me He has a Daughter Sir a beautiful Lady my Hopes unless some Neighbour-Prince do Reel betwixt us Your Highness comes the right way he hates a dry In-land Traveller but that you Kiss the Cup when you should Drink and have too much Bounce and Down-with-him in you which are things he surfeited of some sixteen years since and still the very Names turn his stomack Besides your Navy and Attendants are too great he 'd have esteemed more of you had they been fewer enough onely to lean on when you were Overtaken or if you had wanted those and borrowed his unto your Chamber it had been better Where he finds Worth the Pomp delights him not Your pardon Sir Exit Comastes Clear Why here 's a fellow now With what Licence He belies his Master or speaks Truths Altogether as Unpardonable Sure He has his Patent for 't I find at my Return from Travel I shall want Names For all the Monsters I have seen Enter Aratus to him Ara. Though your Highness be here a stranger I may demand of you where the King is Clear If none know more than I my Lord y 'ave lost Your King Arat. Sure he is not well I hope he is not with a safe Loyalty I may wish he hath a Dangerous Cause Rather than none to take him from a Prince The first Night of his Arival in his Court Clea. My Lord I have found much Honour in you One that knowes to shew more Civility To a Stranger than he can deserve And y' are unhappy onely at this time In an Unworthy Choyce but if still you Can continue this Noblenesse though the King frown I shall gladly make some stay at least Till I have satisfied a Strangers Curiosity And may seem rather to have left the Place Than to have been thrust from it Ara. Believe me Sir Both your Reception and this Necessity That you are drove to seek so mean