Here Madam what 's your will Euph. Call Constantine Tell him his deare friend Otho is return'd Iu. I will Otho Stay Iulia. Euph. Doe as I bid you goe Exit Iulia. Otho I had rather have a word or twaine with you Euph. I have heard him oft enquire for thee his friend I have heard him sigh I have seene him weepe for thee Imagining some mischiefe or distresse Had falne thee since the closets separation Otho And what a slave am I to wrong this friend Enter Constantine with Iulia. Con. Where is he Iu. Here. Con. The welcom'st man alive Vnkind how couldst thou stay from me so long Otho I have bin ill at ease pray pardon me But I reioyce to see my friend so well Euph. Some Ladies love hath made him melancholy Otho Shee hath read the letter that I lately sent her In a pomegranat by those words I hope Con. Why speak you not is' t love or melancholy Otho If upon love my griefe is melancholy Con. I le haue the best Phisitians here in Meath Assay by art to cure that malladie Eup. Gainst mellancholy minds your onely Phisick Our Saxon doctors hold that principle Now I remember you did lately send me A choice pomegranate fetch it Iulia Some of those graines well stir'd in Gascoine wine Is present remedie Otho Madam I le none Of all fruits that I hate Eu. And commended it so highly by the messenger that brought it Con. T was well remembred you shall take a graine Otho You will but vexe me Con. So his melancholly Doth make him froward with his dearest friend Enter Iulia with the pomegranate T is well done Iulia quickely cut it up And bring a cup of wine or let me doo 't Otho I see I shall be plagu'd with mine owne wit Being asham'd to speake I writ my minde Were you my friends you would not martyr me With needlesse phisicke fie upon this trasn The very sight is loathsome Con. Take it up But let me see what letter 's that that dropt Came it from you or from the Spanish fruit Iu. T is all the graines that the pomegranate had Con. Then ther 's some trechery within these grains I le breake it up And 't is directed to my Euphrata Eup. What may the tenure be I pray thee reade it He opens the letter reads Otho O fall upon me some wind-shaken turrer To hide me from the anger of my friend O from his frowne because he is my friend Were he an enemie I would be bold But kindnes makes this wound ô this horror The words of friends are stronger then their power Con. Withdraw good Iulia. Exit Iulia. Eup. 'Pray what is it love Con. T is love indeed to thee but to my heart Every loose sentence is a killing dart I brought this Gorges to my hearts delight And he hath drown'd his senses with the sight Except thy selfe all things to him were free Otho thou hast done me more then iniurie Well maist thou fixe thy eye vpon the earth This action fith breedes a prodigious birth It is so monstrous and against all kinde That the lights splendor would confound thy minde Otho I have offended prethee pardon me Con. What cause did move thee Otho Her all-conquering sight Con. Couldst thou usurpe upon my well known right Otho Thinke I am flesh and blood and she is faire Con. Thinke how I love thee Otho There proceeds my care Con. Our amitie hath bin of ancient dayes During which time wrong'd I thee any wayes Otho Never Con. But rather I have done thee good Otho I grant you have ô rather shed my blood Then number the kind deedes betweene us past For this unkindnesse here I love my last Euph. He doth repent and will renounce his suite Otho I doe renounce it Con. O thou canst not do 't Otho Suffer me stay a while in her faire sight 'T will heale my wound and all love banish quite Con. The sight of the belov'd makes the desire That burnt but slowly flame like sparkling fire As thou dost love me take thee to some place Where thou maist nere see her nor I thy face Otho By what is deere betwixt us by our selves I vow hencefoorth ten thousand deaths to prove Then be a hinderance to such vertuous love Con. Breake heart t is for thy sake Otho When I am dead O then forget that I haue iniured Con. O hell of love Otho Or rather hell of friends Con. Firmely till they love Otho Then thus all friendship ends Exeunt Actus Secundus Enter Duke Fredericke Hatto and Alfred Hat Good brother heare some Musicke t will delight you Al. I le call the Actors will you see a play Fre. Or gracious father see me runne the race On a light footed horse swifter then winde Duke I pray forbeare Al. This moode will make you mad For melancholy Vshers franticke thoughts Hat It makes hot wreaking blood turne cold and drie And drithe and coldnesse are the signes of death Duke You doe torment me Fred. Is it any thing That I have done offends your grace Hat Or comes this hidden anger from my fault Alf. Here 's none but gladly would resigne his life To doe you pleasure so please you to command Duke Ifaith you are too blame to vexe me thus Hat Then grounds this sorrow on your brothers death Fred. Or rather on the glove I lately found Duke A plague vpon the glove what 's that to me Your prating makes me almost lunatike As you respect my welfare leave me leave me The sooner you depart the sooner I Shall finde some meanes to cure my maladie Fred. Our best course is to be obedient Exeunt all but the Duke Duke Farewell Was ever slave besotted like to me That Kings have lou'd those that they never saw Is nothing strange since they have heard their praise Birds that by painted grapes have bin deceiu'd Had yet some shadow to excuse their error Pigmalion that did love an Ivory Nimph Had an Idea to delight his sence The youth that doted on Minerva's picture Had some contentment for his eye soft Musique But love or rather an infernall hagge Envying Saxons greatnes and his ioyes Hath given me nothing but a trifling glove As if by the proportion of the case Art had the power to know the jewels nature Or Nimph or goddesse woman or faire devill If any thing thou art within my braine Draw thine owne picture let me see thy face To doate thus grossely is a grosse disgrace Musique within I heare some Musique ô ye Deities Send you this heavenly consort from the spheares To recreate a love-perplexed heart The more it founds the more it refresheth I see no instruments nor hands that play And my deare brothers durst not be so bold 'T is some celestiall rapture of the minde No earthlie harmonie is of this kinde Now it doth cease speake who comes there Enter Fredericke Alfred and Hatto Fred. Father Duke From whence proceeds the Musicke that I heard Fred.
groome Enter Iulia. Iu. O God forbeare His Excellence your father's comming hither Mon. He comes in happie time to know the cause Why such great Princes have bin made your scorne Euph. What will you tell him Mon. Will I let me die Contemn'd of heaven in publique obloquie If I reveale not this lascivious course Iu. We are undone Con. Hence with this prating Maide If thou hast any anger in thy brest Towards this Lady turne it all on me She is a woman timerous by her kinde I man-like borne and beare a man-like minde Mon. I le trie your courage draw Eup. As thou fear'st my frowne As thou hast hope to thrive in thy new choice As thou respect'st the favour of the gods Welfare in any action thou intends Doe not reveale unto my fretfull father This humble choice that my high birth hath made Mon. Why then forsweare him Euph. Sooner set thy feet Vpon my breast and tread me to the ground Iu. As thou art any thing more then a beast Doe not procure my Ladie such disgrace Mon. Peace bawde I le have no conference with you Euph. He cannot hurt me 't is my Love I feare Although my father be as sterne as warre Inexorable like consuming fire As iealous of his honour as his crowne To me his anger is like Zephires breath Cast on a banke of sommer violets florish But to my Love like whirlewinde to a boate Taken in midst of a tumultuous sea Enter Duke of Saxonie and Fredericke Alas he comes Montane prethee peace Courage sweete Love Con. I see our love must cease Euph. Not if my wit can helpe It shall goe hard but I le prevent the traitor Mon. Heare me my Lord. Eup. Heare me my gracious father Mon. Heare me my liege ther 's treason in your Court I have found a peasant in the Princesse closet And this is he that steales away her honour Euph. This villaine gracious father 't is that seekes To rob me of mine honor you your daughter Mon. Now as you are a right heroike Prince Be deafe unto your daughters faire words Euph. Be deafe to him as you regard your selfe Duke What strange confusion's this that cloyes our hearing Fred. Speake beauteous sister who hath done thee wrong Mon. Her selfe Euph. This traitor Fre. Lord Montano Euphr. Hee Fred. Villaine thou dyest Mon. Stay she meanes Constantine Hee that I found infolded in her closet Reaping the honour which a thousand Lords Have fail'd in seeking in a lawfull course Con. He does me wrong my gracious soveraigne Iu. He wrongs my Ladie an 't please your grace Mon. I le tell the trueth Euph. Or rather let me tell it Mon. Lascivious love is ever full of sleights Euph. Villaines that seeke by treason their desires Want no suggestion to beguile a trueth Mon. Isay I found this peasant in her closet Kissing imbracing and dishonouring her Euph. I say an'c please your gracious Excellence I found this Gentleman within my closet There set by subornation of this Lord And here appointed to dishonor me Speake is' t not true Con. True if it please your grace Duke What say you strumpet Iul. Since my Ladie saies so I say and 't please your Excellence Duke Speake woman Iu. 'T is very true Mon. O monstrous forgerie Fre. O more then falshood to become so smooth In such a dangerous action Duke This is strange Montano seeke the ruine of my daughter Eup. Because I would not yeeld unto his suite Which hee in rapefull manner oft hath sought Hee set this Gentleman to doe me shame Intending by exclaimes to raise the Court But that repentance in my waiting Maide And of his sorrowfull selfe reveal'd the plot Mon. O ye gods how am I over-reacht Duke I know the yong man to be well discended Of civill carriage and approved faith How ere seduced to this enterprise Con. My conscience would not propagate that plot Ju. Nor mine my Lord though gold corrupted me Mon. Cleane from the byas wit by heaven rare wit I le tell another tale if they have done Duke What canst thou speake vild traitor Thou seest thou art prevented in thy plot And therefore desperately coin'st any thing But I am deafe to all such stratagems Mon. Will you not heare me Duke Forgeries and lies My daughters honour is of that high prize That I preferre it 'fore a traitors braine Let it suffice we know she hath deni'd thee And some denied like devills turne their love Into excrutiation of themselves And of the parties whom they have belou'd Revenge begins where flatteries doe end Being not her husband thou wilt be no friend Thus is thy policy by heaven prevented Therefore henceforth we banish thee our Court Our Court our territorie every place Wherein we beare the state of Royaltie Vrge no replie the fact is plainely prou'd And thou art hatefull where thou wert belou'd Mon. My gracious Lord. Duke We can afford no grace Stay there and reade thy ruine in my face Mon. I goe contented with this heavy doome 'T was mine owne seeking faire and wise adiew Deceit hath kil'd conceit you know t is true Fre. An vpright sentence of an act so vilde Duk. Remove this waiting virgin from your chamber But let this gentleman attend on me The best may be deceiu'd by trecherie Euph. Then so my gracious father may this maid Duke Then let her keep her place beware of gold Honour 's too precious to be baselie sold Now to our dying friend his grace of Meath Daughter prepare you you shall ride along For to that end we came come sonne to horse Ere we come there our friend may prove a coarse Euph. T was well done both this action rarely fell Where women trie their wits bad plots prove well Exeuxt omnes Enter three Beggers 1. Come away fellow louse thou art ever eating 2. Have I not neede that must feede so many Cannibals as will waite on me whether I will or no 3. Here 's one in my necke I would'twere on thy shoulder 1. Keepe it your selfe I have retainers enow of mine owne 2. But whether are you going now 1. Why are you our King and doe not know that 2. Your King I am a very rognish King and I hav A companie of lowsie subiects Enter Hatto and Alfrid conferring 2. But looke about my ragged subiects here comes some body 1. O the devills shall we aske them an almes 2. Why not now the rats haue eaten up their brother Bishop they will be more charitable your vecation you slaves 3. For the Lord sake be pittifull to a companie of poore men Hatto What cry is this beggars so neere the doore Of our deceased brother whip them hence Or bring the Mastiffe foorth worry them They are lazie drones 't is pittie such should live 1. I told you my Lord how we should find them whip us Leade the way soveraigne wee le none of your whipping Hat Hence with these dogs what make they neere this house 2. He will be
art that all blacke art excells Mon. I le walke into the farther gallery Enter Duke Valen. Sir you are welcome what so ere you be I guesse your birth great by your bounteous fee. Duke Your humble servant bound by a sweet kisse Valen. I give you freedome gentle Sir by this He whispers her Val I know your mind first censure of the sport Then you and I will enter Venus Court Du. More then immortall ô more then divine That such perfection should turne Concubine Mon. That voice is like unto the Saxon Dukes I feare he hath heard I liu'd here in this place And he is come to doe me more disgrace Montano hide thy selfe till he be gone His daughter thirsts for my destruction Exit Mont Val. Come sit by me the Maskers are at hand Enter Maske Where are my Maides to helpe to make the dance Enter 2. Maids They dance Valentia with them they whisper to to have her play at dice and stake on the drum Valen. VVhat shall we have a Mumming here 's my jewell Play on the drum head Duke Thou art a iewell most incomparable Malicious heaven why from so sweete a face Have you exempt the mind adorning grace they stake and play She wins the drum strikes up Val. More gold for this is mine I thanke yee dice Duke And so are all that doe behold thy beautie Were she as chaste as she is outward bright Earth would be heaven and heaven eternall night The more I drinke of her delicious eye The more I plunge into captivitie She wins strike up Valen. Have I wonne all then take that back agen What scorne my gift I see you are gentlemen No is' t not possible that I may know Vnto whose kindnesse this great debt I owe Well I le not be importunate farewell Some of your gold let the torch-bearers tell Duk. Beauteous Madona do you know these galants Valen. I guesse them of the Duke of Saxons Court. Duke My subiects and so many my corrivalls O every slave is grac't before his Prince Valen. Are you not well sir that your colour fades Duke If I be sicke 't is onely in the minde To see so faire so common to all kinde I am growne iealous now of all the world Lady how ere you prize me without pleasure More then a kisse I tender you this treasure O what 's a mint spent in such desire But like a sparke that makes a greater fire She must be made my Dutches there it goes And marrying her I marry thousand woes Adiew kind Mistresse the next nevves you heare Is to sit crown'd in an Imperiall crowne Exit Valen. Either the man dislikes me or his braine Is not his owne to give such gifts in vaine But 't is the custome in this age to cast Gold upon gold to encourage men to waste Lightly it comes and it shall lightly flie Whilst colours hold such presents cannot die Exit Enter Reinaldo Alfred and Albert. Alb. But this is strange that I should have her honour So farre from Court pray whither were you riding Alf. Vnto your mannor heard you not the newes Alb. What newes Alf. This morning by the breake of day His excellence sent to me by a post Letters by which the pillars of the state Should be assembled to a Parliament Which he intends my Lords to hold in Meath Alb. When if it please your honor Alf. Instantly withall the hast that winged time can make Albert. Sooner the better T is like the realmes affaires are of some weight Alb. I will bee there to night And so I take my leave Reinal We take our leaves Exit Albert and Reinaldo Alf. Farewell my honor'd friend There is within my braine a thousand wiles How I may heape up riches ô the sight Of a gold shining Mountaine doth exceede Silver is good but in respect of gold Thus I esteeme it Exit Enter Hatto with three petitioners Hat How now my friends what are you 1. Poore petitioners Hat Stand farther then the poore is as unpleasing Vnto me as the plague 2. An 't please your good Lordship I am a Merchant and gladly would convay a thousand quarters of wheate and other graine over the sea and here 's a hundred pounds for a commission Hat Thou art no beggar thou shalt ha't my friend Give me thy money 3. I an 't please your honour have a commoditie of good broad cloth not past two hundred may I shippe them over and there 's a hundred poundes Hat Thou shalt have leave 1. Although I seeme a poore petitioner My Lord I crave a warrant to transport A hundred Cannons fiftie Culverings VVith some slight armours halberts and halfe pikes And there 's as much as any of the rest Hat Away Cannibal wouldst thou ship ordnance What though we send unto the foes our corne To fatten them and cloth to keepe them warme Le ts not be so forgetfull of our selves As to provide them knives to cut our throates So I should arme a thiefe to take my purse Hast thou no other course of Merchandize Thou shouldst get gold t will yeeld thee ten in the hundred On bare exchange and raise the price with vs Make us for want coyn brasse and passe it currant Vntill we find profit to call it in There are a thousand waies to make thee thrive And I le allow of all bee it nere so bad Excepting guns to batter downe our houses 1. Letters of Mart I humblie then intreate To cease on Rovers that doe scoure the seas Hat And on our friends too if thou canst do 't cleanlie Spare none but passe it very closely VVe will be loath to sift thy Piracie But open care to heare what they complaine Hast thou a Letter 1. Ready drawne my Lord And here 's a brace of hundred pounds for you Hat 'T is very well I thinke I shall be rich If dayly tenants pay me rent thus fast Giue me your licenses they shall bee seal'd About an houre hence here attend our pleasure Omnes VVe thanke your Lordship Exeunt petiti Hat O vild catterpillers And yet how necessarie for my turne I have the Dukes seale for the Citie Meath VVith which I le signe their warrants This corne and twentie times as much Alreadie covertly convai'd to France And other bordering Kingdomes neere the sea Cannot but make a famine in this land And then the poore like dogs will die apace I le seeme to pittie them and give them almes To blind the world 't is excellent policie To rid the land of such by such denice A famine to the poore is like a frost Vnto the earth which kills the paltry wormes That would destroy the harvest of the spring As for the which I count them painefull men VVorthy to enioy what they can get Beggars are trash and I esteeme them so Starve hang or drowne themselves I am alive Loose all the world so I have wit to thrive But I must to the Parliament and then I le have a
clause to beggar some rich meu Exit Actus Tertius Enter Duke Fredericke Constantine Reinaldo Alberto Alfrid and amongst them Hatto shuffles in Alberto Princes and pillars of the Saxon State Duke You are the elected speake for the Court Stay Lord Alberto we usurpe your office Who had the charge to fetch Valentia Con. I gracious Lord and when I gave the charge A sudden scare by palenesse was displar'd Vpon her rosie cheeke the crimson blood That like a robe of state did beautifie The goodly buildings with a two fold grace From either side shrunke downewards to her heart As if those summons were an adversarie And had some mighty crime to charge her with Millions of thoughts were crowded in her braines Her troubled minde her abrupt words describ'd She did accuse her selfe without accusers And in the terrour of a soule perplext Cry'd out the Duke intends to cease my goods Cause I am noted for a Concubine I did replie such comfort as beseemes But comfortlesse I brought her to the Court. Duke Then she attends our pleasure Con. Mightie Lord in the next Roome Duke You are carefull Constantiue Conduct her in and Lords give mee your thoughts What thinke ye wee intend to Valentia Alf. Her selfe hath read my sentence in the speech That Constantine delivered to your grace Fred. What should my noble father thinke But that shee is a strumpet and in that A blemish to the state wherein she lives Hat She is rich in iewells and hath store of treasure Got by the slavery of that choice beautie Which otherwise admires her to the world Alb. Confiscate all her goods unto the Crown Thereby disburdening many heavie taxes Impos'd upon the commons of the land Hat Publique example make her to all such Offences in that kind are growne too common Lesse shamelesse now were the beautious dames Of Meath and Saxony when the sufferance Hath at this instant made them good my Lord Enact some mighty penaltie for lust Duke How wide these Archers shoote from the faire aime Of my affection bring Valentia in Enter Valentia usher'd by Constantine Valen. The duetie that in generall I doe owe Vnto your excellence and to this Court I pay at once upon my bended knee Duke Behold her Princes with impartiall eyes And tell me looks she not exceeding faire Hat If that her mind coher'd with her faire face Shee were the worthy wonder of this age Alfred I never saw a beautie more divine Grossely deform'd by her notorious lust Fred. Fairenesse and wantonnesse haue made a match To dwell together and the worst spoyles both Albert. Shee is doubly excellent in sin and beauty Duke That they speake truth my conscience speaks But that I loue her that I speake my selfe Stand up divine deformitie of nature Beautious corruption heavenly seeing evill What 's excellent in good and bad stand up And in this Chaire prepared for a Duke Sit my bright Dutchesse I command thee sit You looke I am sure for some apologie In this rash action all that I can say Is that I loue her and wil marry her Fred. How loue a Lais a base Rodophe Whose body is as common as the Sea In the receipt of every lustfull spring Albert. The elements of which these orbes consists Fire ayre and water with the good we tread Are not more vulgar common popular Then her imbracements Alberto To inchâ—yne the thoughts Vnto this dissemblance of lascivious loue Were to be maried to the broad rode way Which doth receiue the impression of every kind Fred. Speech doth want modesty to set her forth In her true forme base and contemptible The very hindes and peasants of the land Will bee Corrivals with your excellence If you espouse such a notorious Trull Albert. We shall haue lust a vertue in the Court The wayes of sinne be furthered by reward Panders and Parasites sit in the places Of the wise Counsellors and hurry all Fred. Father as you are princely in your birth Famous in your estate belou'd of all And which ads greatest glory to your greatnesse Esteem'd wise Shew not such open folly Such palpable such grosse such mountaine folly Be not the By-word of your neighbour Kings The scandall of your Subiects and the triumph Of Lenos mathrens and the hatefull stewes Why speake you not that are his brother friends You that doe weare the Liveries of time The silver cognizance of gravitie Shall none but young me schoole the reverent old Birds teach the Dam stars fill the glorious spheares Of the all lightning Sunne speake whilst you may Or this rash deede will make a fatall day Duke You haue said too much encourage none to speake More then haue spoke by my royall blood My mind 's establisht not to be withstood Those that applaude my choyse giue us your hands And helpe to tye these sacred nuptiall bands Hat What likes your excellence likes me well Alfred And I agree to what my Soveraigne please Fred. These are no brothers they are flatterers Contrary to themselues in their owne speech You that doe loue the honour of your Prince The care and long life of my father The hereditary right deriv'd to me Your countries Welfare and your owne renowne Lend me your hands to plucke her from the throne Valen. Princes forbeare I doe not seeke the match It is his highnesse pleasure I fit here And if he loue me t is no fault of mine Behoues me to be thankefull to his Grace And striue in vertue to deserue this place Duke Thou speak'st too mildly to these hare braind youthes He that presumes to plucke her from the chaire Dyes in the attempt this sword shall end all care Fred. Why shee 's notorious Duke But she will amend Fred. 'T is too farre growne to haue a happy end Duke The dangerous the disease greater's the cure Fred. Princes may seeke renowne by wayes more sure Shee is dishonest Duke Honestie 's vnseene Shee 's faire and therefore fit to be a Queene Fred. But vertue is to be preferd ere lust Duke Those that are once false shal we ne're trust Fred. Wise men approue their actions by the tryall Duke I say she is mine in spight of all deniall Bring me the Crowne Fred. To set upon her head Friends draw your swords first strike the strumpet dead Duke My guard my guard Alfred For shame put up your swords Fred. For shame great Rulers leaue your flattering words Albert. 'T is madnesse in the King and worse in you Hat Though you proue traytors we 'le not proue untrue Fred. Will you dismisse this Strumpet to the stewes Or our allegance in this act refuse Duke Doe what you dare the election still shall stand Fred. Woe and destruction then must rule the land Come Lord Rinaldo valiant Alberto come We haue friends enough to grace a warlike Drum A shout within Hearke how the Commons doe applaud our cause Lascivious Duke farewell father oh vilde Where Queanes are mothers Fredericke is no child Exeunt Duke
to me Is twenty deaths I will haue liberty Now as you are a father be more kind You did not find me in so sterne a mind And you forgetfull of the life I sav'd Shall a Dukes Sonne by treason thus be slau'd If you suspect my loue grant me the fight I dare in single combate any knight Any adventurer any pandorus hinde To proue my faith of an unfained mind Duke Away with him Fred. I see my death 's set downe And some adulterous heire must weare that Crowne To intreate a Rodophe I had rather dye Then haue my life lodg'd in such infamy If all my fortunes on her words depend Let her say kill me and so make an end Duke Why stay you Vander. Good my Lord. Fred. Peace untaught Groome My heart 's so great that I de forerun my doome There 's no release meant you haue vowed I see To dam your soules by wilfull periury Yet that I am my selfe let these words shew To die is naturall 't is a death I owe And I will pay it with a minde as free As I enioyed in my best libertie But this assure your selfe when all is done They 'l kill the father that will kill the sonne Exit Duke What 's to be done now Mon. Seale unto his death Your warrant nere the sooner takes effect 'T will be a meanes to make him penitent And pardon 's meet for such as doe repent Seeing his fault hee 'l taste your mercie best When now he proudly thinkes he is opprest Duke A Warrant shall be sign'd and unto thee I doe commend it deale not partially If he be sorry and in true remorse Cancell the Writ else let it haue full force Had I ten sonnes as I haue onely this They should all die ere thou depriv'd of blisse So great is my affection my faire wife That to saue thine Ide frankly giue my life Come wee le about it strait all time seemes long Where thou hast found flight cause to feare my wrong Valen. That writ I le take and a conclusion trie If he can loue he liues if hate me die For howsoere I seeme to scorne the man Hee 's somewhat deare in my affection Here comes your brothers Enter Alfred and Hatto Alfred May it please your grace By chance entring into Saint Maries Church This morne by breake of day I espied That that I know will vexe your Excellence Your daughter Euphrata is married To the ambitious beggar Constantine Duk. My daughter married my Chamber-squire Mon. Your Excellence did banish me the land Because I did suspect her with that fellow Duke He shall be tortur'd with th' extreamest plague For his presumption Haue you brought them That I may kill them with a killing looke Hat Without direction we haue ventured to lay upon them Your strict command and they attend Duke Bring the presumptuous Enter Constantine and Euphrata Otho following in disguise Euphr. Forward Constantine our Rites are done Thou art my husband doe not feare his eye The worst it can import is but to die Duke Base and degenerate Euphr. He is a Gentleman 'T was base in you to wed a Curtizan Mon. Her brothers spirit right bold and audacious Euph. Then I am no bastard wherefore should I feare The knot is sacred and I hold it deare I am wedded unto vertue not to will Such blessed unions never bring forth ill If I offend in disobedience Iudge of the power of loue by your offence Father you haue no reason for this ire Frowne whilst you kill us desire is desire Duke A Curtezan hath that ambitious boy Taught you such Rethoricke you shall taste like joy I will not reason with you words are vaine The fault is best discerned in the paine Your hastie marriage hath writ downe his death And thy proud words shall seale it with thy breath By what is dearest to mee here I sweare Both of your heads shall grace a fatall beere Take them to prison I le not heare a word This is the mercie that we will afford Since they are growne so proud next morne begun Let them be both beheaded with my sonne Con. Short and sweet Euphrata the doome is faire We shall be soone in heaven there ends my care I scorne entreatie and my deare I know All such slavery thou hatest so 'T will be a famous deed for this good man To kill all 's children for a Curtezan Euph. Wilt thou die with me Const Would I liue in heaven Thou art now too high for me death makes us even Eup. Looke to your dukedome those that hast our fall Haue by their avarice almost hurried all There 's a whole Register of the poores crie Whilst they are reading them imbrace and die Flings downe her lap full of Petitions Exeunt Euph. and Constant Duke Beare them away And now let 's reade these Writes What 's here complaints against my worthy brothers For corne transported Copper money stampt Our subjects goods ceaz'd and I know not what A plague upon this busie-headed rabble We will haue tortures made to awe the slaues Peace makes them ever proud and malapert They 'l be an Overseer of the State Valen. And plead reformation to depose you Duk. True my faire Dutchesse but I le cut them short Rule still deare brothers take these to the fire Let me reade somewhat that augments desire Authors and golden Poems full of loue Such the Petitions are that I approue So I may liue in quiet with my wife Let fathers mothers children all lose life If thou haue issue in despight of fate They shall succeed in our Imperiall state Come sweet to dauncing then to sport and play Till we haue ruled all our life away Exeunt Manet Otho Otho O pittifull condition of a Realme Where the chiefe ruler is ore-rul'd by pleasure Seeing my friend surpriz'd in this disguise I followed him to meete the consequence And to my griefe I see his marriage rites Will cut him short of all this earths delights What 's that to mee when Constantine is dead I have some hope to attaine her Nuptiall bed But shee is doom'd as well as hee to die Can the Duke act his daughters Tragedie It is impossible he will relent And I le perswade her freely to repent Yet 't is most likelie that he will agree He is so farre spent in vild tyrannie The commons hate him for the wrong he hath done By his brothers meanes the Nobles for his sonne Famine spreads through the land the people die Yet he lives senselesse of their miserie Never were subiects more mislead by any Nor ever Soveraigne hated by so many But Constantine to thee I cast an eye Shall all our friendship end in enmitie Shall I that ever held thee as my life Hasten thy death that I may get thy wife Or love or friendship whether shall exceed I le explaine your vertue in this following deed Exit Enter Valentia Montano and Vandermas Va. Have you the instruments I gave in charge
your highnesse laugh Valen. Why Lord Montane that I love to see He that hath sav'd my life to die for me But there 's a riddle in this Princes death And I le explaine it on this floore of earth Come to his sisters execution goe We have varietie of ioyes in woe I am sure you have heard his Excellence did sweare Both of their heads should grace a Kingly beare Vpon a mourning hearse let him be layd He shal be intombed with a wived maid Exeunt Actus Quintus Enter Duke Hatto and Alfred Duke Bring forth the prisoners wher 's my beauteous Dutches That she may see the ruine of her foes She that upbraided her with slanderous wordes She that in scorne of due obedience Hath matcht the honour of the Saxons blood Vnto a beggar let them be brought foorth I will not rise from this cribunall seate Till I have seene their bodies from their heads Alfred Here comes the Dutches with proud Fredericks hearse Enter Valentia Montano Vandermas with others bearing the hearse with Fredericke on couered with a blacke robe Duke So set it downe why have you honored it With such a sable coverture a traytor Deserves no cloth of sorrow set it downe And let our other off-spring be brought foorth My beauteous lovely and admired love Come sit by us in an imperiall chayre And grace this state throne with a state more fayre Valen. My gracious Lord I hope your excellence Will not be so forgetfull of your honour Prove so unnaturall to your loving daughter As to bereave her of her life Because she hath wedded basely gainst your will Though Fredericke dyed deservedly yet she May by her loves death cleare her indignitie Duke She and her love we have sentenced to die Not for her marriage onely tho that deede Crownes the contempt with a deserved death But chiefly for she raild against thy worth Vpbraided thee with tearmes so monstrous base That nought but death can cleare the great disgrace How often shall I charge they be brought foorth Were my heart guiltie of a crime so vilde I 'de rend it forth then much more kill my childe Val O that this love may last 't is sprung so hie Like flowers at full growth that grow to die Enter Iulia with a vaile over her head Otho with another with Officers Duk. What means these sable vailes upon their faces Val. In signe they sorrow for your high displeasure For since the houre they were imprisoned They have liv'd like strangers hood-winkt together You may atchieve great fame victorious Lord To save the liues of two such innocents Duke T is pretty in thee my soule lov'd Dutchesse To make this Princely motion for thy foes Let it suffice the' are traitors to the state Confederators with those that sought my life A kinne to Fredericke that presumptuous boy That durst beare armes against his naturall father Are they more deare then he off with their vailes Mon. O yet be mercifull unto your daughter Duke You make me mad headsman dispatch I say They are doom'd to die and this the latest day Otho Then let him strike who ever traitors be Otho pult of his vaile I am sure no treason lives in her or me Duke How now what 's here Otho and Iulia. Am I deluded where is Euphrata And that audacious traitor Constantine Otho Why fled Duke To whom Otho To safetie here was none I can resolve you of the circumstance Betwixt the noble Constantine and I Noble I call him for his vertuous minde There was a league of love so strongly made That time wants houres and occasion cause To violate the contract of our hearts Yet on my part the breach did first appeare He brought me to behold his beauteous love The faire Euphrata her Angel sight Begate in me the fire of private love I that before did like her for my friend Now to deceive him sought her for my selfe But my deuice was knowne unto my friend And worthilie he banisht me his sight Duke What 's this to their destruction seeke them forth Otho They are far enough for suffering such a death I well considering my unfriendly part Bethought me how to reconcile my selfe Vnto my hearts endeared Constantine And seeing him carried to the prison we Followed and found meanes for their libertie Duk. Are they escapt then Otho Both in our disguise And we stand here to act their tragedies It they have done amisse on us Impose the Law Iulia. O let our suites prevaile I aske to dye for my deare Ladies sake Otho I for my friend Duke This friendly part doth make My heart to bleede within me and my mind Much perplext that I haue beene so unkind What second funerall march is that I heare Enter Rainaldo and Alberto like schollers grieving before the Beare others following them with the bodies of Euphrata and Constantine covered with blacke Alberto Health to this presence though the newes Impairing health I bring unto this presence The bodies of the drowned Constantine And the faire Euphrata behold them both Duke Of drowned Constantine and Euphrata Declare the manner and with killing words Temper thy words that it may wound my life Albert. Passing the Rhine bordering upon the tower From whence it seemes they lately had escapt By an unskilfull Guide their gundelet Encountred with an other and the shocke Drown'd both the vessayles and their haplesseliues Their bodies hardly were recover'd But knowne we brought them to your excellence As to a father that should mourne for them Duke Vnto a tyrant doe not call me father For I haue beene no father to their liues The barbarous Canniball that never knew The naturall touch of humane beauty Would haue beene farre more mercifull then I Oh tyrannie the overthrow of Crownes Kingdomes subversion and the deaths of Kings Loe here a piteous object so compleate With thy intestine and destroying fruite That it will strike thee dead oh Euphrata Oh princely Fredericke never deare to me Till now in you I see my misery My sonne my daughter vertuous Constantine Hat What meanes this griefe my Lord these are the traytors That you in iustice sentenced to dye Alfred A trecherous sonne and a rebellious daughter Valen. Those that did seeke to take away your life Mon. Bereaue you of your Crownes prerogatiue Duke Hence from my sight blood thirsty Counsellors They never sought my life but you haue sought it Vertuous Alberto and Rinaldo Had I given eare to them and to my sonne My ioyes had flourished that now are done Valen. Yet for my sake allay this discontent Duke T is for thy sake thou vilde notorious woman That I haue past the limits of a man The bonds of nature 'T was thy bewitching eye thy Syrens voice That throwes me upon millions of disgrace I le haue thee tortur'd on the Racke Plucke out those basiliske enchaunting eyes Teare thee to death with Pincers burning hot Except thou giue me the departed liues Of my deare children Valen. What am I