demand Lycaon This grant him Saturne since thy insinuation Hath wrought him quite out of the Cretans hearts That Tytans warlike issue may succeed thee Tytan Lycaon well aduis'd he during life Shall reigne in peace no interruption Shall passe from Tytan to disturbe his reigne So to our Gyant race thou wilt assure The crowne as due by right inheritance Saturne To cut off all hostile effusion Of human bloud which by our difference Must needs be spilt vpon the barren earth Wee 'le sweare to this accord Tytan Conditiond thus That to depriue all future enmity In our succeeding Issue thy male children Thou in their Cradle strangle Saturne Kill my sonnes Tytan Or sweare to this or all our warlike race Disperst in seuerall Kingdomes I l'e assemble To conquer thee and from thy ambitious head Teare that vsurped Crowne Saturne Tytan thy friendship Wee 'l buy with our own bloud all our male children If we hereafter shall haue any borne Shall perish in their births to this we sweare As we are King and Saturne Tytan I the like As I am Tytan and Vranus sonne This league confirm'd all my Allyes I 'le gather Search forreigne clymes in which I l'e plant my kin Scorning a seate here where I am dispis'd To liue a subiect to a younger birth Nor bow to that which is my owne by due Saturne farewell I l'e leaue thee to thy state Whil'st I in forreigne Kingdomes search my Fate Thinke on thy oath Saturne First stay with vs and feast Tytan this day shall be King Saturns guest Enter the Clowne and a Nurse Clown There is no dallying you must come with all speede For Madam Sibilla is growne a great woman Nurs. That is without question for she is now a Queene Clown Nay she is greater then many Queenes are for though you may thinke she is with ancient folkes yet I can assure you she is with childe you may imagine beeing now but morning shee is new risen yet t' is thought that ere noone she will bee brought a bed I neuer heard she was commited to prison yet t' is look't euery houre when she shall be deliuered and therefore Nurse I was sent to you in all haste Nurs. Is she so neere her time Clown Yes and yet t is thought shee will notwithstanding hold out because she is groning Nurs. Your reason Clowne Because you know the prouerbe A grunting horse and a groning wife neuer deceiue their Maister say will you make haste Nurse Nurs. What 's the best news abroad Clown The best newes abrode is that the Queene is likely to keepe at home and is it not strange that halfe an houres being abroad should make a woman haue a moneths minde to keepe in But the worst newes is that if the King haue a young Prince hee is tide to kill it by oath but if his maiesty went drunke to bed and got a gyrle she hath leaue to liue till she dye and dye when she can liue no longer Nurs. That couenant was the most vnnaturall That euer father made one louely boy Hath felt the rigor of that strict decree And if this second likewise be a sonne There is no way but death Clown I can tell you more newes the king hath sent to the Oracle to know whether my Lady be with childe of a boy or a gyrle and what their fortunes shall be the Lord that went is look't for euery day to returne with his answere it is so Gossipt in the Queenes chamber I can tell you O Nurse wee haue the brauest king if thou knewest all Nurs. Why I pray thee Clowne Let his vertues speake for himselfe he hath taught his people to sow to plow to reape corne and to skorne Akehorns with their heeles to bake and to brue we that were wont to drinke nothing but water haue the brauest liquor at Court as passeth Besides he hath deuised a strange engine called a Bow and Arrow that a man may hold in hand and kill a wilde beast a great way off and neuer come in danger of his clutches I 'le tell you a strange thing Nurse last time the King went a hunting he kild a beare brought him home to be bak't and eaten A Gentlewoman of the Court that sed hungerly vpon this pye had such a rumbling and roaring in her guts that her Intrails were all in a mutiny and could not be appeased No phisicke would helpe her what did the King but caused an excellent Mastiffe to be knock't in the head and drest gaue it to the gentlewoman of which when she had well eaten the flesh of the Mastiffe worried the beare in her belly and euer since her guts haue left wambling But come come I was sent in hast the Queene must needs speake with you Exeunt Enter Saturne with wedges of gold and siluer models of ships and buildings bow and arrowes c. His Lords with him Saturne You shall no more be lodg'd beneath the trees Nor chamber vnderneath the spreading Okes Behold I haue deuis'd you formes for tooles To square out timber and performe the Art Of Architecture yet vnknowne till now I 'le draw you formes of Cities Townes and Towers For vse and strength behold the models here 1 Lord Saturnes inuentions are diuine not humane A God-like spirit hath inspir'd his reigne Saturne See here a second Arte of Husbandry To till the earth to plow to sow to plant Deuis'd by Saturne here is gold refin'd From Grosser mettals siluer brasse and tinne With other minerals extract from earth I likewise haue found out to make your brooks Rivers and seas by practise Nauigable Behold a forme to make your Craers and Barkes To passe huge streames in safety dangerlesse 2. Lord Saturne is a God Saturn The last not least this vse of Archery The stringed bow and nimble-fethered-shaft By this you may command the flying fowle And reach her from on high this serues for warre To strike and wound thy foe-man from a farre What meanes this acclamation Alowd shout within 1. Lord T is thy people Deuinest Saturne furnisht with these vses More then the Gods haue lent them by thy meanes Proclaime to thee a lasting deity And would haue Saturne honoured as a God Saturn Wee 'l study future profits for their vse And in our fresh inuentions proue diuine But Gods are neuer touch't with my suspires Passions and throbs their God-like Issue thriue Whilst I vn-man-like must destroy my babes Oh my strict oath to Tytan which confounds All my precedent honours one sweete babe My yongest Ops hath felt the bloudy knife And perisht in his swathing And my Queene Swels with another Infant in her wombe Ready to taste like rigor Is that Lord Return'd from Delphos yet 2 Lord He is Saturn Admit him now what doth the Oracle Speake by the Delphian Priest 3. Lord Thus mighty Saturne After our Ceremonious Rites perform'd And Sacrifice ended with reuerence A murmuring thunder hurried through the Temple When fell a pleasant shower whose siluer drops
Their marble columnes by the ground fylls teare And kicke their ruin'd walles as high as heauen Tyt. Pursue them to their gates and 'bout their Citie Plant a strong siege Now Saturne all my suffrances Shall on thy head fall heauy wee 'l not spare Old man or babe The Tytans all things dare Exeunt Alarme Enter Saturne Sibilla Iuno with other Lords of Creet Sat. The heauens haue for our barbarous cruelty Done in the murther of our first borne Ops Powr'd on our head this vengeance Where oh where Shall we finde rescue Sib. Patience royall Saturne Sat. Bid Woolues be milde and Tygers pittiful Command the Libian Lions abstinence Teach me to mollifie the Corsicke rocke Or make the Mount Chymera passable What Monarch wrapt in my confusions Can tell what patience meanes Iuno Oh royall Father Sat. Oh either teach me rescue from these troubles Or bid me euerlastingly ey euer Sinke in despaire and horror Syb. Oh my Lord You haue from your owne loines issue reserued that may redeeme all these calamities Saturne Issue from vs Syb. From Saturne and Sybilla That royall Prince King of Pelagia And famous Melliseus foster-child Whom all the world stiles by the noble name Of Iupiter hee is King Saturnes sonne Satu. Thou hast Sybilla kept that sonne aliue That onely can redeeme mee from this thraldome Oh how shall we acquaint yong Iupiter With this his fathers hard successe in Armes Syb. My care did euer these euents foresee And I haue sent to your suruiuing sonne To come vnto your rescue Then great Saturne In your wiues pitty seeme to applaude the heauens That make me their relentfull minister In the repairing of your downe cast-state Satu. If royall Iupiter be Saturnes sonne We shall be either rescued or reueng'd And now I shall not dread those Tytanois That threaten fire and steele Syb. Trust your Sybilla Satu. Thou art my anchor and the onely columne That supports Saturnes glory Oh my Iupiter On thee the basis of my hopes I erect And in thy life King Saturnes fame suruiues Are messengers dispatch'd to signifie My sonne of our distresse Sib. As farre as Epire Where as we vnderstand Ioue now remaines Satu. Then Tytan and the proud Enceladus Hyperion and Aegeon with the rest Of all the earth-bread race we wey you not Threaten your worst let all your eyes sparke fire Your flaming nosthrils like Auernus smoake Your tongues speak thunder your armed hands Fling Trisulke lightning Be you Gods aboue Or come you with infernall hatred arm'd We dread you not we haue a sonne suruiues Shall calme your tempests beautious Iuno comfort And cheare Sybilla if he vndertake Our rescue we from danger are secure Wee in his valour all our liues assure Exeunt A flourish Enter Iupiter and Melliseus with attendants Mell. Faire Prince for lesse by your desertes and honour You cannot be your fortunes and your birth Are both vnknowne to me my two faire daughters As a swath'd infant brought you to my Court But whence or of what parents you proceed I am meerely ignorant Iup. Then am I nothing And till I know whence my descent hath bene Or from what house deriu'd I am but aire And no essentiall substance of a man Enter Calisto pursu'd by her yong sonne Archas. Cal. Help help for heauen sake help I am pursu'd And by my sonne that seemes to threate my life Iup. Stay that bold lad Cal. What 's he false Iupiter Iup. Calisto or I much deceiue my selfe Cal. Oh thou most false most treacherous and vnkind Behold Calisto by her sonne pursu'd Indeed thy sonne this little sauadge youth Hath liued 'mongst Tygers Lyons Wolues and Beares And since his birth partakes their cruelty Archas his name since I Diana left And from her chast traine was diuorc't this youth I childed in a caue remote and silent His nurture was amongst the sauadges This day I by misfortune mou'd his spleene And he pursu'd me with reuenge and fury And had I not forsooke the shades and forrests And fled for rescue to these walled Townes He had slaine me in his fury saue me then Let not the sonne the mother sacrifice Before the fathers eye Iup. Archas my sonne my yong son Archas Iupiters first borne Oh let me hugge thee and a thousand times Embrace thee in myne armes Lycaons grand-child Calisto's sonne Oh will you beauteous Lady Forsake the forrests and yet liue with vs Cal. No thou false man for thy periurious lusts I haue abandoned humaine subtelties There take thy sonne and vse him like a Prince Being sonne vnto a Princesse Teach him Arts And honoured armes For me I haue abiur'd All peopled Citties and betooke my selfe To solitary deserts Ioue adue Thou prouing false no mortall can be true Exit Arc. Since she will needs be gone be pleased then Weari'd with beasts I long to liue 'mongst men Iup. Yet stay Calisto why wilt thou out-runne Thy Iupiter Shee gone welcome my sonne My deere sonne Archas whom if fortune smile I will create Lord of a greater stile Enter the Clowne with letters Clowne Saue you sir is your name K. Melliseus Melli. We are Melliseus and the Epire King Clowne Then this letter is to you but is there not one in your Court cal'd let me see haue you here neuer a gibbit-maker Iup. Sirra here 's one cal'd Iupiter Clowne Ey Iupiter that 's he that I would speake with Here 's another letter to you but ere you reade it pray let me aske you one question Iup. What 's that Clowne Whether you be a wise child or no Iup. Your reason Clowne Because I would know whether you know your own father but if you do not hoping you are in good health as your father scarce was at the making hereof These are to certify you Iup. Newes of a father neuer could such tydings Haue glutted me with gladnesse They reade Clowne For mine owne part though I know not what belongs to the getting of children yet I know how to father a child because I would be loath to haue this Parish troubled with you I bring you newes where you were borne I was the man that laid you at this mans dore if you will not go home quietly you shall be sent from Constable to Constable till you come to the place where you were begot Reade further tell me more Melli. Is Iupiter then mighty Saturns sonne Iup. Am I the sonne of Saturne King of Creet My father baffled by the Tytanoys May all my toward hopes die in my birth Nor let me euer worthily inherite The name of royalty if by my valour I proue me not discended royally Clowne I was the man that tooke paines with you 't was I that brought you in the hand-basket Iup. Should I haue wisht a father through the world It had bene Saturne or a royall mother It had bene faire Sybilla Queene of Creet Great Epires King peruse these tragicke lines And in thy wonted bounty grant supplies To free my noble
custome is to th' Oracle To know what fortunes shall betide the babe Answer 's return'd by Phoebus and his Priests The Queene shall childe a daughter beautifull Who when she growes to yeares shall then bring forth A valiant Princely boy yet such a one That shall the King his grandsire turne to stone Danae is borne and as she growes to ripenesse So grew her fathers feare and to preuent His ominous fate pronounc'd by th' Otacle He mowlds this brazen Tower impregnable Both for the seat and guard yet beautifull As is the gorgeous palace of the Sunne Iup. Ill doth Acrisius to contend and warre Against th' unchanging Fates I l'e scale that Towers Or raine downe millions in a golden shower I long to be the father of that babe Begot on Danae that shall proue so braue And turne the dotard to his marble graue T is cast already Fate be thou my guide Whil'st for this amorous iourney I prouide Mel. But is the Lady there immur'd and clos'd From all society and sight of man Nept. So full of iealous feares is King Acrisius That saue himselfe no man must neere the Fort Only a guard of Beldams past their lusts Vnsensible of loue or amorous pitty Partly by bribes hir'd partly curb'd with threats Are guard vnto this bright imprisoned dame Plut. Too pittilesse and too obdur's the King To cloyster beauty from the sight of man But this concernes not vs Iup. That fort I 'le scale Though in attempting it be death to faile Brothers and Princes all our Courts rarities Lye open to your royal'st entertainment Yet pardon me since vrgence cals me hence To an inforced absence Nay Queene Iuno You must be pleas'd the cause imports vs highly Feast with these Princes till our free returne Attendance Lords we must descend in gold Or you imprisoned beauty ne'r behold Exit Enter foure old Beldams with other women 1. Beld. Heer 's a coyle to keep fire and tow a sunder I wonder the King should shut his daughter vp so close for any thing I see she hath no minde to a man 2. Beld. Content your selfe you speake according to your age and appetite We that are full fed may praise fast We that in our heate of youth haue drunke our bellyfuls may deride those that in the heate of their blouds are athirst I measure her by what I was not by what I am Appetite to loue neuer failes an old woman till cracking of nuts leaues her When Danae hath no more teeth in her head then you and I I l'e trust a man in her company and scarce then for if we examine our selues wee haue euen at these yeares qualmes and rhumes and deuises comes ouer our stomakes when we but look on a proper man 1. Beld. That 's no question I know it by my selfe and whil'st I stand centinell I 'le watch her for that I warrant her 2. Bel. And haue we not reason considering the penalty 1. Bel. If any stand centinel in her quarters we shall keep quarter here no longer If the Princesse miscarry we shall make gunpowder and they say an old woman is better for that then Salt-peter The 'larme bell rings 3. Beld. The larme bell rings It should be K. Acrisius by the sound of the clapper 4. Beld. Then clap close to the gate and let him in Enter Acrisius Acri. Ladies well done I like this prouidence And carefull watch ore Danae let me finde you Faithlesse you dye be faithfull and you liue Eterniz'd in our loue Go call her hither Be that your charge the rest keep watchfull eye On your percullist entrance which forbids All men saue vs free passage to this place See! Danae is descended Faire daughter Enter Danae How do you brook this palace Dan. Like a prison What is it else you giue me golden fetters As if their value could my bondage lessen Acri. The architectur 's sumptuous and the building Of cost inualuable so rich a structure For beauty or for state the world affoords not Is not thy attendance princely like a Queenes Are not all these thy vassails to attend Are not thy chambers faire and richly hung The walkes within this barricadoed mure Full of delight and pleasure for thy taste And curious palate all the chiefest cates Are from the furthest verges of the earth Fetch 't to content thee What distastes thee then Dan. That which alone is better then all these My liberty Why am I cloyster'd thus And kept a prisoner from the sight of man What hath my innocence and infancy Deseru'd to be immur'd in brazen walls Can you accuse my faith or modesty Hath any loose demeanour in my carriage Bred this distrust hath my eye plaid the rioter Or hath my tongue beene lauish haue my fauours Vn-virginlike to any beene profuse That it should breed in you such ielousie Or bring me to this durance Acri. None of these I loue my Danae But when I record The Oracle it breeds such feare in me That makes this thy reteinement Danae The Oracle Wherein vnto the least of all the Gods Hath Danae beene vnthankfull or profane To bondage me that am a princesse free And votaresse to euery deity Acri. I l'e tell thee Lady The vnchanging mouth Of Phoebus hath this Oracle pronoun'st That Danae shall in time childe such a sonne That shall Acrisius change into a stone Danae See your vaine feares What lesse could Phoebus say Or what hath Danae's fate deseru'd in this To turne you into stone that 's to prepare Your monument and marble sepulcher The meaning is that I a sonne shall haue That when you dye shall beare you to your graue Are you not mortall would you euer liue Your father dy'd and to his Monument You like a mourner did attend his herse What you did to your father let my sonne Performe to you prepare your sepulcher Or shall a stranger beare you to your tombe When from your owne bloud you may store a Prince To do those sacred rights or shall vaine feares Cloister my beauty and consume my yeares Acri. Our feares are certaine and our doome as fix't As the decrees of Gods Thy durance here Is with limit endlesse Go attend her Exit Danae Vnto her chamber there to liue an Ankresse And changelesse virgin to the period Of her last hower And you to whom this charge Solely belongs banish all womanish pitty Be deafe vnto her prayers blinde to her teares Obdure to her relenting passions Should she as heauen and th' Oracle forbid By your corrupting loose that precious Gemme We haue such care to keepe and locke safe vp Your liues are doom'd Be faithfull we desire And keepe your bodies from the threatned fire Exit 1 Beld. Heauen be as chary of your Highnesse life As we of Dana's honour Now if shee bee a right woman shee will haue a minde onely to loose that which her father hath such care to keepe There is a thing that commonly stickes vnder a womans stomacke 2. Beld. What do
Fil'd all the Altar with a roseate dew In this amazement thus the Delphian God Spake from the Incenst Altar Lord of Creete Thus say to Saturne Sibill his faire wife Is great with a yong Prince of Noble hopes That shall his fathers vertues much excell Ceaze on his Crowne and driue him downe to Hell Sat. The Gods if there be any boue our selfe Enuy our greatnesse and of one that seekes To beare himselfe boue man makes me more wretched Then the most slauish bruit What shall my Sibill Bring me a sonne that shall depose me then He shall not I will crosse the Deities I 'le toombe th' usurper in his Infant bloud I 'le keepe my oath Prince Tytan shall succeed Maugre the enuious Gods the brat shall bleed 1. Lor. Way for the dowager Queene Enter Vesta sad Sat. How fares our mother How i' st with faire Sibilla our deere Queene Vesta Your Queene 's deliuered Sat. Of some female birth You Deities I begge make me oh Heauens No more inhumane in the tragicke slaughter Of princely Infants fill my decreed number With Virgins though in them I loose my name And kingdome either make her barren euer Or else all generatiue power and appetite Depriue me lest my purple sinne be stil'd Many degrees boue murder What 's her birth Vesta Shee 's the sad mother of a second sonne Saturn Be euer dumbe let euerlasting silence Tong-tye the world all humane voyce henceforth Turne to confus'd and vndistinguisht found Of barking Hounds hoarse beares howling wolues To stop all rumour that may fil the world With Saturnes tyranies against his sonnes Vest. Ah did but Saturne see you smiling babe Hee 'd giue it life and breake ten thousand oathes Rather then suffer the sweet infant dye His very looke would begge a quicke reprieue Euen of the tyrant Tytan saw the vnkle With what a gracefull looke the Infant smiles Hee 'd giue it life although he purchas'd it with losse of a great Kingdome Saturn Then spare the lad I did offend too much To kill the first tell Sibill he shall liue I 'le be no more so monstrous in my rigor Nor with the bloud of Princes buy my Crowne No more their Cradles shall be made their Tombes Nor their soft swathes become their winding sheetes How can my subiects thinke I l'e spare their liues That to my owne can be so tyranous Tell Sibill he shall liue Uest. Vesta will be that ioyfull messenger Saturn Stay let me first reward the Oracle It told me Sibill should produce a sonne That should his Fathers vertues much excell Cease on my Crowne and driue me downe to Hell Must I then giue an Infant-traitor life To sting me to the heart the brat shall bleed Uesta Sweet sonne 1. Lord Deere soueraigne Saturn He that next replyes Mother or friend by Saturnes fury dyes Away fetch me his heart brimme me a bowle With his warme bloud Tyran my vow I 'le keep Life newly wakend shall as newly sleep Vest. Worse then a bruit for bruits preserue their own Worse then the worst of things is Saturne growne Saturn Command the childe to death Uesta Tyrant I will Tygers would saue whom Saturn means to kill Sat. It is my sonne whom I command to death A Prince that may succed me in my Throne And to posterity reuiue my name Call Vesta backe and bid her saue the Babe 1. Lord I 'le do 't my Lord Sat. Yet stay the lad to kill I saue my oath and keep my kingdome still Post after her and charge them on their liues Send me the babes bloud in a cup of gold A present which I 'le offer to the Gods Delay not bee 't our mother nay our wife Forfeits her owne to saue the Infants life 1. Lord I shall informe them so Sat. Is this a deity To be more wretched then the worst on earth To be depriu'd that comfort of my issue Which euen the basest of my land enioy I l'e henceforth for my rigor hate my selfe Pleasures despise and ioyes abandon quite The purest bloud that runnes within my veines I 'le dull with thicke and troubled melancholy I l'e warre with comfort be at oddes with solace And league with nothing but distemprature Henceforth my vnkem'd lockes shall knot in curles Rasor nor any edge shall kisse my cheeke Vntill my chin appeare a wildernesse And make we wild in knowledge to the world Perpetuall care shall cabin in my heart My tyranny I 'le punish in my selfe And saue the Gods that labour Saturns disturbance to the world shall be That planet that infuseth melancholy Enter Sibilla lying in child-bed with her child lying by her and her Nurse c. Sibilla Is not our mother Vesta yet return'd That made herselfe th' unwilling messenger To bring the king newes of his new-borne sonne Nurs. Madam not yet Sibil. Mother of all that euer mothers were Most wretched kisse thy sweet babe ere he dye That hath life onely lent to suffer death Sweet Lad I would thy father saw thee smile Thy beauty and thy pretty Infancy Would molifie his heart wer 't hew'd from flint Or caru'd with Iron tooles from the corsicke rocke Thou laughest to thinke thou must be kild in iest Oh if thou needs must dye I 'le be thy murdresse And kill thee with my kisses pretty knaue And canst thou laugh to see thy mother weepe Or art thou in thy cheerefull smiles so free In scorne of thy rude fathers tyranny Nurs. Madam the King hath slaine his first borne son Whom had hee seene aliue hee 'd not haue giuen For ten such Kingdomes as he now enioyes The death of such a faire and hopefull child Is full as much as Tytan can demand Sib. He shall spare this sweet babe I 'le ransome thee With my owne life the knife that pierceth thee Will wound thy mothers side and I shall feele The least sharpe stroke from his offensiue steele Nurs. The mother Queen 's return'd Enter Vesta How lookes she Nurse Let her not speake but yet a little longer My hopes hold in suspence oh me most wretched I reade my Lords harsh answere in her eye Her very lookes tell me the boy must dye Say must he must he kill me with that word Which will wound deeper then King Saturnes sword Vesta The boy must dye Sib. Oh! Nurs. Looke to the Queene she faints Vest. Oh let 's not loose the mother with her infant The losse of one 's too much Sibill. Oh wher 's my childe I le hide thee in my bed my bosome brest The murderer shall not finde my little sonne Thou shalt not dye be not afraid my boy Go tell the King hee s mine as well as his And I 'le not kill my part one he hath slaine In which I had like interest this I 'le saue And euery second sonne keepe from the graue Enter the first Lord Vesta Fobeare sir for this place is priuiledg'd And onely for free women 1. Lord Yet is the Kings command boue
father Mel. Iupiter as I am Melliseus Epyres King Thou shalt haue free assistance Iup. Come then Arme Assemble all the powers that we can leauy Archas we make thee of Pelagia King As King Lycaons Gran-childe and the sonne Of faire Calisto Let that Clime henceforth Be cal'd Arcadia and vsurpe thy name Go then and presse th' Arcadians to the rescue Of royall Saturne this great King and I Will lead th' Epyrians Faile me not to meet To redeeme Saturne and to rescue Creet Exeūt Manet Clown Clown I haue no mind to this buffeting I l'e walke after faire and softly in hope that all the buffeting may be done before I come Whether had I better go home by land or by sea If I go by land and mis-carry then I go the way of all flesh If I go by sea and mis-carry then I go the way of all fish I am not yet resolu'd But howsoeuer I haue done my message so cleanly that they cannot say the messenger is be-reau'd of any thing that belongs to his message Alarme Enter Tytan Lycaon Enceladus with Saturne Iuno and Sibilla prisoners Tyt. Downe trecherous Lord and be our foot-pace now To ascend our high tribunall Wher 's that God-head With which the people Auee'd thee to heauen Encel. 'T is sunke into the deep Abysme of hell Teare from his head the golden wreath of Creet Tread on his captiue bulke and with thy weight Great Tytan sinke him to the infernall shades So low that with his trunke his memory May be extinct in Lethe Sat. More then tyrannous To triumph or'e the weake and to oppresse The low deiected Let your cruelty Be the sad period of my wretchednesse Onely preserue my louely Iuno's life And giue Sibilla freedome Encel. By these Gods We neither feare nor value but contend To equall in our actions both shall dye There shall no proud Saturnian liue to braue The meanest of the high-borne Tytanoyes Lyca. Raze from the earth their hatefull memory And let the bloud of Tytan sway the earth Speake are the ports and confines strongly arm'd 'Gainst all inuasions Tytan Who dares damadge vs Let all the passages be open left Vnguarded let our ports and hauens lye All danger we despise mischance or dread We hold in base contempt Encel. Conquest is ours Maugre diuine or base terrestriall powers Alarme Enter Aegeon Aege. Arme royall Titan Arme Enceladus A pale of brandisht steele hath girt thy land From the earths Cauernes breake infernall fires To make thy villages and hamlets burne Tempestuous ruin in the shape of warre Clowds all thy populous kingdome At my heeles Confusion dogges me and the voyce of death Still thunders in mine eares Tyt. I st possible Beare Saturne first to prison Wee 'l after parly them Ence. Come Angels arm'd or Diuels 'clad in flames Our fury shall repell them Come they girt With power celestiall or infernall rage Wee 'l stand their fierce opposure Royall Titan Aegeon and Hyperion d'on your armes Brauely aduance your strong orbicular shields And in your right hands brandish your bright steele Drowne your affrightments in th' amazed sounds Of martiall thunder Diapason'd deep Wee 'l stand them be they Gods if men expell Their strengthles force and stownd them low as hell A Florish Enter marching K. Melliseus Iupiter Archas Drumme and souldiers Tit. Whence are you that intrude vpon our confines Or what portend you in these hostile sounds Of clamorous warre Iup. Tytans destruction With all the ruin of his giant race Tit. By what pretence or claime Iup. In right of Saturne Whom against law the Tytans haue depos'd Tit. What art thou speak'st it Iup. I am Iupiter King Saturnes sonne immediate heire to Creet Encel. There pause that word disturbs all thy claime And proues that Tytan seates him in his owne Tyt. If Saturne as thou say'st hath sonnes aliue His oath is broken and we are iustly seiz'd Of Creta's Crowne by his late forfeiture Aege. Thy tongue hath spoke thy owne destruction Since whom K. Saturne spar'd our swords must kill And he is come to offer vp that life Which hath so long beene forfeit Iup. Tyrants no The heauens preseru'd me for a further vse To plague your Off-spring that afflict the earth And with your threatnings spurne against the Gods Lyca. Now shalt thou pay me for Calisto's wrong Exiling me and for dishonouring her Iup. Are you there Caniball Man-eating woolfe Lycaon thou art much beholding to me I woman'd first Calisto and made thee A grand-father Dost not thanke me for 't See heer 's the Boy this is Archadia's King No more Pelagia now since thy exile Tyt. To thee that stil'st thy selfe K. Saturnes sonne Know thou wast doom'd before thy birth to dye Thy claime disabled and in sauing thee Thy father hath made forfeit of his Crowne Iup. Know Tytan I was borne free as my father Nor had he power to take that life away That the Gods freely gaue me Tyrants see Here is that life you by Indenture claime Seize it and take it but before I fall Death and destruction shall confound you all Encel. Destruction is our vassaile and attends Vpon the threatning of our stormy browes We trifle howers Arme all your fronts with horror Your hearts with fury and your hands with death Thunder meet thunder tempests stormes defie Saturne and all his issue this day dye Alarme The battels ioine Tytan is slaine and his party repulst Enter Aegeon Aege. Wher 's now the high and proud Enceladus To stop the fury of the Aduerse foe Or stay the base flight of our dastard troupes Tytan is slaine Hyperion strowes the earth And thousands by the hand of Iupiter Are sent into blacke darknesse All that stand Sink in the weight of his high Iouiall hand To shun whose rage Aegeon thou must flye Creet with our hoped conquests all adiew We must propose new quests since Saturnes sonne Hath by his puissance all our campe ore-runne Exit Alarme Enter Enceladus leading his Army Iupiter leading his They make a stand Ence. None stir be all your armes cramp't diseas'd Your swords vn-vsefull may your steely glaues Command your hands and not your sinewes them Till I by single valor haue subdu'd This murderer of my father Iup. Here he stands That must for death haue honour at thy hands None interrupt vs singly wee 'l contend And 'twixt vs two giue these rude factions end Encel. Two royall armies then on both sides stand To view this strange and dreadfull Monomachy Thy fall Saturnian addes to my renowne For by thy death I gaine the Cretan Crowne Iup. Death is thy due I finde it in thy starres Whil'st our high name giues period to these warres Alarm They combat with iauelings first after with swords and targets Iupiter kils Enceladus and enters with victory Iupiter Saturne Sibilla Iuno Melliseus Archas with the Lords of Crete Sat. Neuer was Saturne deifi'd till now Nor found that perfectnesse the Gods enioy Heauen can assure no greater happinesse Then I
attaine in sight of Iupiter Sib. Oh my deare son borne with my painful throws And with the hazard of my life preseru'd How well hast thou acquitted all my trauels In this thy last and famous victory Iup. This tels me that you royall King of Creet My father is and that renowned Queene My mother all which proues by circumstance That 't is but duty that by me 's atchieu'd Onely you beauteous Lady stands apart I know not how to stile Satu. 'T is Iuno and thy sister Iup. Oh my stars You seeke to make immortall Iupiter Iuno Iuno is onely happy in the fortunes Of her renowned brother Iup. Royall Saturne If euer I deseru'd well as a victor Or if my warlike deedes yet bleeding new And perfect both in eyes and memory May pleade for me Oh if I may obtaine As one that merits or intreate of you As one that owes being titled now your sonne Let me espouse faire Iuno and bright Lady Let me exchange the name of sister with you And stile you by a neerer name of wife Oh be my spouse faire Iuno Iuno 'T is a name I prise 'boue sister if these grace the same Satu. What is it I 'l deny my Iupiter Shee is thy owne I 'l royalise thy nuptials With all the solemne triumphes Creet can yeeld Melli. Epyre shall adde to these solemnities And with a bounteous hand support these triumphs Archas. So all Archadia shall Satu. Then to our Pallace Passe on in state let all raryeties Showre downe from heauen a lardges that these bridals may exceede mortall pompe March March and leaue mee To contemplate these ioyes and to deuise How with best state this night to solemnize They all march of and leaue Saturne alone Satu. Saturne at length is happy by his sonne Whose matchlesse and vnriual'd dignities Are without peere on earth Oh ioy ioy corsiue Worse then the throwes of child-birth or the tortures Of blacke Cimmerian darkenesse Saturne now Bethinke thee of the Delphian Oracle He shall his fathers vertue first excell Seise Creet and after driue him downe to hell The first is past my vertues are exceeded The last I will preuent by force or treason I 'l worke his ruine 'ere he grow too hygh His starres haue cast it and the boy shall dy More sonnes I haue more crownes I cannot winne The Gods say he must dy and t is no sinne Actus 4. Scoena 1. Enter Homer Homer O blind ambition and desire of raine What horri'd mischiefe wilt not thou deuise The appetite of rule and thirst of raigne Besots the foolish and corrupts the wise Behold a King suspicious of his sonne Pursues his innocent life and without cause Oh blind ambition what hast thou not done Against religion zeale and natures lawes But men are borne their owne fates to pursue Gods will be Gods and Saturne finds it true A dumbe shew Enter Iupiter Iuno Melliseus Archas as to reuels To them Saturne drawes his sword to kill Iupiter who onely defends himselfe but beeing hotly pursu'd drawes his sword beates away Saturne seiseth his crowne and sweares all the Lords of Creet to his obeysance so Exit Saturne against his sonne his force extended And would haue slaine him by his tyrannous hand Whilst Iupiter alone his life defended But when no prayers his fury could withstand Hee vs'd his force his father droue from Creet And as the Oracle before had told Vsurpt the Crowne the Lords kneele at his feete And Saturnes fortunes are to exile sold But leauing him of Danae that bright lasse How amorous Ioue first wrought her to his power How shee was closed in a fort of brasse And how he skal'd it in a golden showre Of these we next must speake curtious and wise Help with your hands for Homer wants his eyes A flourish Enter Iupiter Iuno the Lords of Creet Melliseus Archas Neptune and Pluto Iup. Our vnkind father double tyrannous To prosecute the vertues of his sonne Hath sought his owne Fate and by his ingratitude Left to our head th' Imperiall wreath of Creet Which gladly we receiue Neptune from Athens And Pluto from the lower Tartarie Both welcome to the Cretan Iupiter Those Starres that gouern'd our natiuity And stript our fortunes from the hand of death Shall guard vs and maintaine vs Nept. Noble Saturne Famous in all things and degenerate onely In that inhumaine practise 'gainst his sonnes Is fled vs whom we came to visite freely And filiall duties to expresse Great Athens The nurse and fostresse of my infancy I haue instructed in the sea-mans craft And taught them truely how to saile by starres Besides the vnruly Iennet I haue tam'd And train'd him to the saddle for my practise The horse to mee is soly consecrate Pluto I from the bounds of lower Tartarie Haue trauel'd to the fertile plaines of Creet Nor am I lesse in lustre of my fame Then Neptune or renowned Iupiter Those barren Kingdomes I haue richt with spoiles And not a people trafficks in those worlds For wealth or treasure but we custome them And they inrich our coffers our arm'd guards Prey on their Camels and their laden Mules And Pluto's through the world renown'd fear'd And since we haue mist of Saturne lately fled It glads me yet I freely may suruey The honours of my brother Iupiter Nep. And beauteous Iuno Empresse of all hearts Whom Neptune thus embraceth Pluto So doth Pluto Iun. All diuine honours crowne the royal temples Of my two famous brothers Iup. King Melliseus welcome them to Creet Archas do you the like Melli. Princes your hands Archas. You are my royall vnckles Iup. Nay hand him Lords he is your kinsman too Archas my sonne of faire Calisto borne I hope faire Iuno it offends not you It was before your time Iuno Shee was a strumpet Iup. Shee shall be a Starre And all the Qeenes and beautious maides on earth That are renown'd for high perfections We 'l woe and winne wee were borne to sway and rule Nor shall the name of wife be curbe to vs Or snaffle in our pleasures Beauteous Io And faire Europa haue by out transhapes And guiles of loue already bene deflour'd Nor liues shee that is worthy our desires But we can charme with court-ship Royal brothers what newes of note is rumor'd in those Realmes Through which you made your trauels Nep. Haue you heard Of great Acrisius the braue Arges King And of his daughter Danae Iup. His renowne And her faire beauty oft hath peirc't our eares Nor can we be at peace till we behold That face fame hath so blazd on What of her Nept. Of her inclosure in the Darreine Tower Guirt with a triple Mure of shining brasse Haue you not heard Iup. But we desire it highly What marble wall or Adamantine gate What Fort of steele or Castle forg'd from brasse Loue cannot scale or beauty not breake through Discourse the nouell Neptune Nept. Thus it was The Queene of Arges going great the King Sends as the
your decree And I must play th' intruder gainst my will The King vpon your liues hath charged you To see that infant Lad immediatly Receiue his death he stayes for his warme bloud To offer to the Gods To thinke him slaine Sad partner of your sorrowes I remaine Nurs. Madam you heare the king doth threat our liues Let 's kill him then Sib. Is he inexorable Why should not I proue as seuere a mother As he a cruell father since the King Hath doom'd him I the Queene will doo 't my selfe Giue me the fatall Engine of his wrath I l'e play the horrid murdresse for this once I 'le kisse thee ere I kill thee for my life The Lad so smiles I cannot hold the knife Uesta Then giue him me I am his Grand-mother And I will kill him gently this sad office Belongs to me as to the next of kin Sib. For heauens sake when you kil him hurt him not Vesta Come little knaue prepare your naked throat I haue not heart to giue thee many wounds My kindnesse is to take thy life at once Now Alacke my pretty Grand-child smil'st thou still I haue lust to kisse but haue no heart to kill Nurs. You may be carelesse of the kings command But it concernes me and I loue my life More then I do a sucklings giue him me I 'le make him sure a sharpe weapon lend I 'le quickly bring the yongster to his end Alacke my pretty knaue t' were more then sin With a sharpe knife to touch thy tender skin On Madame hee 's so full of Angell grace I cannot strike he smiles so in my face Sib. I 'le wink strike come once more reach him hither For dye he must so Saturne hath decreed 'Las for a world I would not see him bleed Vesta Ne shall he do but sweare me secresie The babe shall liue and we be dangerlesse Sib, O blesse me with such happinesse Vesta Attend me The king of Epires daughters two bright maids Owe me for many fauours the like loue These I dare trust to them I 'le send this babe To be brought vp but not as Saturns sonne Do but prouide some trusty messenger My honour for his safety Sib. But by what meanes shall we delude the king Vest. A yong Kids heart swimming in reeking bloud Wee 'l send the King and with such forged griefe And counterfet sorrow shadow it That this imposture neuer shall be found Sib. Oh twice my mother you bestow vpon me A double life thus to preserue my boy Nurs. Giue me the child I 'le finde a messenger Shall beare him safe to Melliseus Court Vesta The bloud and heart I 'le presently prouide T' appease the rage of Saturne Sib. First le ts sweare To keepe this secret from King Saturnes eare Vesta We will and if this plot passe vndiscouer'd By like deuise we will saue all your sonnes About our taskes you some choyce friend to finde I with my feigned teares the King to blinde Actus secundi Scoena prima Enter HOMER Homer WHat cannot womens wits they wonders can When they intend to blinde the eyes of man Oh lend me what old Homer wants your eyes To see th' euent of what these Queenes deuise The doombe shew sound Enter the Nurse and Clowne shee sweares him to secresie and to him deliuers the child and a letter to the daughters of King Melliseus they part Enter at one doore Saturne melancholy with his Lords at the other Vesta the Nurse who with counterfeit passion present the King a bleeding heart vpon a kniues point and a bowle of bloud The King departs one way in great sorrow the Ladies the other way in great ioy This past so currant that the third sonne borne Cal'd Neptune was by like deuise preseru'd And sent to Athens where he liu'd vnknowne And had in time command vpon the seas Pluto the yongest was sent to Tartary Where he in processe a strange City built And cald it Hell his subiects for their rapine Their spoils and theft are Diuels tearm'd abrode Thus melancholy Saturne hath suruiuing Three Noble sonnes in seuerall confines plac'd And yet himselfe thinks sonne-lesse one faire daughter Hight Iuno is his sole delight on earth Thinke kinde spectators seuenteene sommers past Till these be growne to yeares and Iupiter Found in a caue by the great Epyre King where by his daughters he before was hid Of him and of his fortunes we proceeed My iournie 's long and I my eye-sight want Courteous spectators left blind Homer stray Lend me your hands to guide me on your way Enter Lycaon with his Lords Iupiter with other Lords of Epyre Lycaon After long warre and tedious differences Betwixt King Melliseus and our selfe What craue the Epyre Lords Iupiter This King Lycaon Since truce and hostage hath tane vp these broiles And ended them in peacefull amity Since all the damadge by the Epyrians done Is on our part aboundantly made good We come Lycaon to demand the like Of thee and of thy Kingdome and for proofe That all our malice is extinct and dead We bring thy hostage backe demanding ours Lycaon Receiue him Lords a Banquet instantly You shall this day braue Epyre feast with vs And to your boord your hostage shall be brought There to receiue him freely meane time sit And taste the royall welcomes of our Court Iup. Lycaon's iust in keeping these conditions So strictly with a reconciled foe Lyc. But faire prince tell me whence you are deriu'd I neuer heard King Melliseus had A Prince of your perfections Iupiter This demand Startles my bloud being borne I know not where Yet that I am of gentry at the least My Spirit prompts me and my noble thoughts Giue me approued warrant being an infant Two beauteous Ladyes found me in a caue Where from their voluntary charity Bees fed me with their hony for that cause The two bright Ladies cal'd me Iupiter And to their Father Melliseus brought me My Foster-father who hath train'd my youth In feats of Armes and military prowesse And as an instance of his deerest loue Hath honor'd me with this late Embassy A banquet brought in with the limbes of a Man in the seruice Lyca. We are satisfi'd Princes sit round and feast You are this day Lycaons welcom'st guest Iup. This meat distasts me doth Lycaon feast vs Like Caniballes feed vs with humane flesh Whence is this portent Lycan. Feede Epyrians eate Lycaon feasts you with no common meate Iup. But wher 's the Epyre Lord we left as hostage Lyca. Behold him here hee 's at the table with you This is the Epyres head and these his limbes Thinkes Melliseus that Lycaon can Discended of the valiant Tytanoys Bury his hatred and intoombe his spleene Without reuenge bloud in these warres was shed And for that bloud your hostage lost his head Iup. Beare wrong that list those can brooke it best I was not borne to suffrance thoughts mount hye A King hath wrong'd me and a King shall
dye Lycaon Treason treason Iup. Downe with the tyrant and that hatefull crue And in their murdrous breasts your blades imbrue Lycaon Our guard A confused fray an alarme Iupiter and the Epyriens beat off Lycaon and his followers Iup. Lycaon's fled make good the pallace gates And to th' amazed Citie beare these limbs So basely by the tyrant massacred Happly his subiects by our words prepar'd May shake their bondage off and make this warre The happy meanes to rid a tyrant thence Beare in your left hands these dis-membred limbes And in your right your swords with which make way Courage braue Epyres and a glorious day Exeunt Alarm Lycaon makes head againe and is beat off by Iupiter and the Epirians Iupiter ceazeth the roome of Lycaon Iup. Lycaon's once more fled we by the helpe Of these his people haue confin'd him hence To whom belongs this Crowne 1. Lord To Iupiter 2. Lor. None shall protect our liues but Iupiter All A Iupiter A Iupiter Iup. Nay we are farre from such ambition Lords Nor will we entertaine such royalty 1. Lor. Faire Prince whō heauen hath sent by miracle To saue vs from the bloudyest tyrannies That ere were practis'd by a mortall prince We tender thee our fortunes oh vouchsafe To be our Lord our Gouernour and King Since all thy people ioyntly haue agreed None of that tyrants issue shall succed All A Iupiter A Iupiter Iup. We not refuse the bounty of the Heauens Exprest in these your voyces we accept Your patronage and 'gainst Lycaons tyrannyes Henceforth protect you but our conquest yet Is all vncertaine second vs deere subiects To assure our conquests first we must prouide Our safty ere attempt the helme to guide Exeunt Alarme Enter Calisto Cal. What meane these horrid these shrill alarmes That fright the peacefull Court with hostle cryes Feare and amazement hurry through each chamber Th' affrighted Ladies light the darkest roomes With their bright beauties whence ô whence ye Gods Are all you grones cryes and inhumane sownds Of bloud and death Licaon where is he Why in this dire and sad astonishment Appeares not he to comfort my sad feares And cheere me in this dull distemprature Enter in a hurrie with weapons drawne Iupiter and his souldiers Iup. The Iron bar'd dores the suspected vaults The Barricadoed gates and euery roome That boasted of his strength is forc'd to obey To our free entrance nothing can withstand Our opposite fury Come let 's ransacke further But stay what strange deiected beauty 's this That on the sodaine hath surpris'd my heart And made me sicke with passion Calisto Hence away When we command who dares presume to stay Iup. Bright Lady Cal. You afright me with your steele Iup. These weapons Lady come to grace your beautie And these my armes shall be your sanctuary From all offensiue danger cheere your sorrow Let your bright beauty shoote out of this cloud To search my heart as it hath daz'd my eyes Are you a Queene enthron'd aboue the Elements Made of diuine composure or of earth Which I can scarce beleeue Calist. I am my selfe Vnciuill stranger you are much to rude Into my priuate chamber to intrude Go call the King my father Iup. Are you then Lycaons daughter wonder without end That from a Fiend an Angell should descend Oh Loue till now I neuer felt thy dart But now her painted eye hath pierc'd my heart Faire can you loue Calisto To be alone I can Iup. Women faire Queene are nothing without men You are but cyphers empty roomes to fill And till mens figures come vncounted still Shall I sweet Lady adde vnto your grace And but for number-sake supply that place Cal. You 'r one too many and of all the rest That beare mens figure we can spare you best What are you sir Iup. We are Pelasge's King And these our subiects Calisto These did of late belong To King Lycaon Oh iniurious wrong Iup. Oh sute your pitty with your Angell-beauty And liue Pelasge's Queene Calisto Giue me a funerall garland to lament That best becomes my wretched discontent Iup. The sun-shine of my smiles and iocond loue Shall from your browes bright azure Elements Disperse all clouds behold my crowne is yours My sword my conquest I am of my selfe Nothing without your soft compassionate loue For proofe aske what the heauen earth aire or sea Can yeeld to men by power or orison And it is yours Cal. Sir I shall proue your loue Iup. Pray vse me Lady Cal. You 'l grant it me my Lord Iup. By all my honours and by all the sweets I hope for in your loues fruition Your wil 's your owne Cal. You 'l not reuoke your word Iup. Bee 't to inuest whom I did late degrade I 'le doo 't for you bright and diuinest maid Cal. This onely freedome to your captiue giue That I a Nunne and profest maid may liue Iup. More cruell then the tyrant that begat thee Hadst thou ask't loue gold seruice Empiry This sword had purchast for Calisto all Oh most vnkinde in all this vniuerse Ther 's but one iewell that I value hye And that vnkinde you will not let me buy To liue a maid what i st 't is to liue nothing 'T is like a couetous man to hoord vp treasure Bar'd from your owne vse and from others pleasure Oh thinke faire creature that you had a mother One that bore you that you might beare another Be you as she was of an Infant glad Since you from her haue all things that she had Should all affect the strict life you desire The world it selfe should end when we expire Posterity is all heauens number fill Which by your helpe may be increased still What is it when you loose your mayden-head But make your beauty liue when you be dead In your faire issue Cal. Tush 't is all in vaine Dian I am now a seruant of thy traine Iup. Her order is meere heresie her sect A schisme 'mongst maids not worthy your respect Men were got to get you borne others to beare Wrong not the world so much nay sweet your eare This flower will wither not being cropt in time Age is too late then do not loose your prime Sport whil'st you may before your youth be past Loose not this mowld that may such faire ones cast Leaue to the world your like for face and stature That the next age may praise your gifts of nature Calisto if you still grow thus precise In your strict vow succeding beautie dies Cal. I claime your oath all loue with men adue Dianae's Cloyster I will next pursue Exit Calisto Iup. And there all beauty shall be kept in iaile Which with my sword Ey with my life I 'd baile What 's that Diana 2. Lor. She is the daughter of an ancient King That swaid the Atticke scepter who being tempted By many suiters first began this vow And leauing Court betooke her to the forrests Her beauteous traine are virgins of best
can they deuise When they heauen knowes haue neither eares nor eyes Dan. Beshrow you sir that for your amorous pleasure Could thus sort all things person place and leasure Exclaime I could and a loude vproare keepe But that you say the Crones are all a sleepe And to what purpose should I raise such feare My voyce being soft they fast and cannot heare Iup. They are deafe in rest then gentle sweetly further If you should call I thus your voyce would murther And strangle with my kisses Dan. Kisses tush I 'le sinke into my sheetes for I shall blush I 'le diue into my bed Iup. And I behind No wer 't the Ocean such a gemme to find I would diue after Iupiter puts out the lights and makes vnready Dan. Good my Lord forbeare What do you meane oh heauen is no man neere If you will needs for modesties chast law Before you come to bed the curtaines draw But do not come you shall not by this light If you but offer 't I shall cry out right Oh God how hoarse am I and cannot fie Danae thus naked and a man so nye Pray leaue me sir he makes vnready still Well I 'le euen winke and then do what you will The bed is drawne in and enter the Clowne new wak't Clowne I would I were out of this tower of Brasse from all these brazen fac't Beldams if we should fall asleepe and the King come and take vs napping where were we My Lord staies long the night growes short the thing you wot of hath cost him a simple sort of Iewels But if after all this cost the thing you wot of would not do If the pedler should shew himselfe a pidler he hath brought his hog 's to a faire market Fye vpon it what a snorting forward and backeward these Beldams keep But let them sleepe on some in the house I am sure are awake and stirring too or I misse my aime Well here must I sit and waite the good howre till the gate be open and suffer my eyes to do that which I am sure my cloake neuer will that is to take nap Exit Enter Iupiter and Danae in her night-gowne Danae Alasse my Lord I neuer lou'd till now And will you leaue me Iup. Beauteous Queene I must But thus condition'd to returne againe With a strong army to redeeme you hence In spight of Arges and Acrisius That doom's you to this bondage Danae Then fare-well No sooner meete but part Remember me For you great Prince I neuer shall forget I feare you haue left too sure a token with me Of your remembrance Iup. Danae be 't a sonne It shall be ours when we haue Arges wonne Danae But should you faile Iup. I sooner should forget My name my state then faile to pay this debt The day-starre 'gins t' appeare the Beldams stir Ready t' vnlocke the gate faire Queene adue Dan. All men proue false if Ioue be found vntrue Iup. My man Exit Clown My Lord Iup. Some cloud to couer mee throw or'e my shoulders Some shadow for this state the Crones are vp And waite t' vnprison vs nay quickly fellow Clow. Here My Lord cast your old cloake about you Enter the foure Beldams in hast 1. Beld. Where be these Pedlers nay quickly for heauen sake the gate is open nay when fare-well my honest friends and do our humble duties to the great King Iupiter Iup. King Iupiter shall know your gratitude Farewell 2. Beld. Nay when I say fare-well fare-well Clow. Farewell good Miniuers Exeunt diuers 〈◊〉 Actus 5. Scaen. 1. Enter Homer Hom. Faire Danae doth his richest Iewell weare That sonne of whom the Oracle foretold Which cost both mother and the grand-sire deare Whose fortunes further leasure shall vnfold Thinke Iupiter return'd to Creet in hast To leuy armes for Danaes free release But hindred till the time be fully past For Saturne once more will disturbe his peace A dumbe shew Enter King Troos and Ganimed with attendents To him Saturne makes suite for aide shewes the King his models his inuentions his seuerall mettals at the strangnesse of which King Troos is moued cals for drum and collors and marches with Saturne The exil'd Saturne by King Troos is aided Troos that gaue Troy her name and there raigned King Creet by the helpe of Ganimed 's inuaded Euen at that time when Ioue should succors bring To rescue Danae and that warlike power Must now his natiue Teritories guard Which should haue brought her from the brazen tower For to that end his forces were prepar'd We grow now towards our port and wished bay Gentles your loue and Homer cannot stray Enter Neptune and Pluto Nep. Whence are these warlike preparations Made by the King our brother Plu. 'T is giuen out To conquer Arges But my sister Iuno Suspects some amorous purpose in the King Nep. And blame her not the faire Europaes rape Brought from Aegenor and the Cadmian rape Io the daughter of old Inachus Deflour'd by him the louely Semele Faire Laeda daughter to King Tyndarus With many more may breed a iust suspect Nor hath hee spar'd faire Ceres Queene of Graine Who bare to him the bright Proserpina shee Such scapes may breed iust feares what knowes But these are to surprise faire Danae Sound Enter Iupiter Archas with drum souldiers Iup. Arme royall brothers Creet 's too small an I le To comprehend our greatnesse we must adde Arges and Greece to our Dominions And all the petty Kingdomes of the earth Shall pay their homage vnto Saturnes sonne This day wee 'l take a muster of our forces And forward make for Arges Archas. All Archadia Assemble to this purpose Iup. Then set on The Eagle in our ensigne wee 'l display Ioue and his fortunes guide vs in our way Enter King Melliseus Melli. Whether intends the King this warlike march Iup. For Arges and Acrisius Melli. Rather guard Your natiue confines see vpon your Coast Saturne with thirty thousand Troians landed And in his aid King Troos and Ganimed Iup. In neuer worse time could the Tyrant come Then now to breake my faith with Danae Oh beauteous loue I feare Acrisius ire Will with seuerest censure chastice thee And thou wilt deeme me faithlesse and vnkinde For promise-breach but what we must we must Come valiant Lords wee 'l first our owne defend Ere against forreine climes our arme extend Sownd Enter with drum and colours King Troos Saturne Ganimed with other Lords and attendants Sat. Degenerate boyes base bastards not my sonnes Behold the death we threatned in your Cradles We come to giue you now See here King Troos In pitty of deposed Saturnes wrongs Is come in person to chastice your pride And be the heauens relentlesse Iusticer Iup. Not against Saturne as a Father we But as a murderer lift our opposite hands Nature and heauen giues vs this priuiledge To guard our liues gainst tyrants and inuaders That claime we as we 're men we would but liue Then take