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Thyestes a tragedy acted at the Theatre-Royal by Their Majesties servants / written by Mr. Crown.
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Crown, Mr. (John), 1640?-1712.; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Thyestes.
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Wing C7408; ESTC R7604
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THYESTES A TRAGEDY Acted at the Theatre-Royal By their MAJESTIES SERVANTS Written by Mr. CROWN LONDON Printed for R. Bently and M. Magnes in Russel-street in Covent-Garden near the Piazza's Anno Domini MDCLXXX The Song at Atreus his Banquet 1. A Lovely pair endowed by Fate With Loves and Beauties whole Estate At the sweetest game have been You know you know what I mean You know you know what I mean 2. For Kisses first the Lovers play'd The pleasant sport provok'd the Maid To that height she growing mad Had almost play'd for all she had But the Maid was not so mad 3. She 'll ask her Father's leave she swears And then she 'll play for what he dares Leave is had and to 't they go VVhat I mean you know you know VVhat I mean you know you know 4 To deeper Play they now begin The happy young man's hand is in Both have stak'd down all their joys But she loses for she cryes See! she cryes oh see she cryes 5 But now the Bride oh tempting sight Has won her lapful of delight To deeper Play she urges on But alas his stakes are gone But alas his stakes are gone 6 And now she locks her Cabinet But he 'll play another set When his hand again is in You know you know what I mean You know you know what I mean A Chorus of Priests Goddess Minerva Wise Austere Sober Valiant Chast and Fair We bring thee here A Kind a Young a Lovely Pair Who beg thy leave to joyn their hands In Chast and Holy Marriage-bands 1 Pr. Oh! Let him be active Fire Ever burning in desire Ever free From any smoak of Jealousy Let her be water soft to all his touches Ever hot when he approaches When he takes away his Eye Even froze with Chastity Long let love possess her heart And ne're let Love and Beauty Part. The First Chorus Sung over again PROLOGUE WHat cursed Planet o're this Play house raigns Palsies and Gouts are all the Old mens gains And we young men e're we have learnt to speak Have learnt the Old mens cursed trick to Break. Some went to Scotland they had cunning Plots Who went to sell the English wit to Scots Scots in that traffique excell you I fear Witness their Covenant they sold you so dear So those young men are come as wealthy home As they return devout who go for Rome But still we are followed with a cursed blast For in the harbours mouth we have split our Mast And such Poetique Jewels perish here As might be worn with pride in any Ear Our massy treasure we shall ne're buy up But live on poor slight stuff that floats atop To day like cunning Romish Priests we try If we can awe you with an antient lye Some say you must not dare to pass a doom On what has been admir'd by Greece and Rome You upstart Sectaries of wit cry down What has for twenty ages had renown The world will ask in scorn of your dispraise Where was your wit Sirs before Shakespears days No matter where we 'l say y'have excellent sence If you will please to let us get your pence We like the Pope regard not much your praise He Tickets sells for Heaven and we for Plays 〈…〉 ll but to make advantage of the Keys 〈…〉 y for your Tickets and go where you please The Persons of the Tragedy ATreus King of Argos Thyestes Brother of Atreus Philisthenes Son to Thyestes in love with Antigone Peneus an old Philosopher once Tutour and Governour to Atreus Aerope Wife of Atreus Antigone his Daughter in love with Philisthenes SCENE Atreus his Court THYESTES A TRAGEDY ACT I. SCENE I. Thunder The Ghost of Tantalus Megaera SCENE the Palace Tan. THOU merciless detested horrid Fury To what new Colonies of mocking Fruits And vanishing false Streams dost thou transplant The Hungry Thirsty Shade of Tantalus Me. To Colonies where thou shalt eat and drink Thy fill in quiet Tan. Wilt thou clothe me then In Flesh and Blood again For had I them Thou woud'st permit me to devour my self Me. I lash thee hither to devour thy self Monsters I mean descended from thy self Thou lazy Ghost hast done thy work by halves I chas'd thee hither once to fill thy House With Incest Treason Blood Incest I see Brother whor'd Brother's Wife Treason I see Brother depos'd his Brother from his Throne But where 's the Blood I see no blood at all Th' incestuous Traytour is in Exile safe Let me have Murders such as all my Snakes May rear themselves to see and hiss Applause The Father eat the Nephew he begot The Bastard Nephew go out of the World A way more horrid than he came into it Let the vast Villany of thy damn'd Race Reach and confound the Heavens make the Night Engender with the Day the groaning Day Bring forth Gygantick darkness at full Noon Such as for hours may pluck the Sun from Heaven At this black Feast I 'le let thee be a Guest Devour thy fill in quiet when thy Cup Flowes with the Blood of thy incestuous Race Nothing shall dare to snatch it from thy Lips Tan. Return me to my dark dire Prison in Hell And all you tortur'd Spirits hug your pains Nor might you be releas'd return to Life For Earth in Sin and Torment exceeds Hell Finish thy execrable work thy self The pain is more than I am bound to bear Me. Look'st thou for Laws and Equity in Hell Thy Sword was all thy Reason upon Earth And this is ours Tan. Oh! hold thy gnawing Whip I will obey Me. Enter the Palace then Here with thy Son didst thou once feast thy Gods With thy great Grand-Sons now Feast all the Furies The Scene is drawn Atreus asleep Behold a Shadow of thy pains in Hell Heir'd by thy Grand-son Atreus upon Earth Night seems to offer him her shady Fruit And squeeze her Balmy slumbers in his Eyes And when he catches at 'em she pulls back So from the Evening's Valley to the Morning Hill He rowls his time as Sysiphus his Stone The trembling Shade obeys and pours himself Into the Palace which shakes more than he Ex. Tan. Nature's diseas'd and scar'd at his approach Trees shed their Leaves as poyson'd men their Hair Streams crowd into their Mother-Fountain's Womb The Seas that hung on the Corinthian Neck Like Rival Queens in endless enterview Swell'd with Convulsion Fits run foaming back Nor can be held by all their watry Train And in their fright miscarry of new Isles Winds scowre the Air like midnight Revellers Mad with strong Spirits they ne're drunk before Night us'd to Apparitions sweats at this And calls the Morning up Morn dares not rise But like a timerous Virgin lower creeps Enter Tantalus The work is done Atreus begins to rise And rising raves descend damn'd Shade the Earth Cannot support at once Atreus and thee You both will break both Poles Descend to Hell Tan. and Me. descend Atreus rises Atr. All of the sudden
pains are pleasures when compar'd With what I feel within me for the loss Of all my honour and my Husbands Love The Heavens are not so spotless as my Soul Nor Gods so fond of Heaven as I of him Yet am I thought a Strumper nay a lew'd Incestuous monstrous Strumpet Furies Hell Stand from me Child for I shall do thee hurt My Wits are going when I think of this They always leave me stand away dear Child Who says I am a Strumpet is it thou Lyar 't is well I have thee in my Arms I 'le throw thee piece-meal to the Furies thus Tears her self Ant. holds her Hands Ant. Oh! Mother Mother 't is your self you rend Qu. How now contend with me This is a Whore Ant. Help the Queen 's mad Qu. Ay! help me from a Whore That comes to get my Husband from my Arms Oh! this is right the Picture of the Age A shining Strumpet and a tatter'd Wife Indeed and am I thus abus'd for thee Some Water there I 'm burnt out o' my Bed My Husbands Arms by a hot flaming whore Ant. Oh! Mother Mother I 'm Antigone Your Daughter oh the Queen will kill me help Qu. The Fire goes out alloo the ashes flye Pulls some loose Ornaments from Ant. So now in the King's arms I will go sleep Falls Ant. Help help the Queen what are there none in call Ha! her Heart strongly beats breath comes and goes Upon Lifes errant with no little force Then all is well I hope she sweetly sleeps Her raving Spirit 's in a wild uproar Thrust her in tumults to the Vaults of sleep Then shut the door with violence upon her Sleep on dear Mother heal thy wounded mind With these sweet balmy slumbers though alas 'T is only heal'd for new and deeper wounds Oh! were there ever two so innocent And yet so miserable as we are Enter Keeper Keep Where is the Queen Ant. Peace peace she 's fallen asleep Keep The King is coming here to visit her Ant. The King Keep The King Ant. See in her Sleep she smiles Her Spirits rebound at mentioning a Name That has such sweet agreement with her Soul As strings when tun'd alike if one be touch'd The other leaps and now she starts as if She fain wou'd break through all the Gates of Sleep To meet the Voice that bears the pleasing sound And now she wakes Qu. Oh! I have had a sweet Reviving slumber not these many months Have I been so refresh'd Antigone Now I perceive whence I had all my rest From the delight my Soul did take in thee But oh my Child was I not very ill Before I slept did I no hurt at all Ant. Yes to your self I fear Qu. If that be all It is no matter 't is as it shou'd be I am the Center of all Miseries What wander from me leave their proper course Enter Women with a rich Role and other Attires Wom. Madam the King Qu. The King ha what of him Wom. Sends you these Robes and begs you wou'd be pleas'd With these to hide your misery from his sight And let the wondrous joy he means to take In seeing you be pure from any grief Qu. Will he see me and can the sight of me Be joy to him Why does he tell me this He does not well to make the miseries Of his poor ruin'd injur'd Wife his sport I love him dearly witness all ye Gods In spite of all my sufferings and wrongs Ant. Oh! Mother Mother sudden beams of hope Shine out upon me oh there is a change Wom. Madam upon our lives we tell you truth The stormd toss'd King is on the sudden calm We know not what shou'd charm the billows down Except the good old Peneus Ant. Oh! no doubt It was the Wisdom of that wond'rous man Enter Keeper Keep The King is near Qu. Fling the Robe loosely o're I never yet dissembled with the King Nor hid from him was ever yet my heart The wretch I am let his own Eyes behold I ne're deserv'd to be thus cast away Enter Atreus attended The Queen kneels Atr. Kneeling this must not be Rise Madam rise Qu. I do not kneel Sir as a Criminal But as an innocent poor VVoman thrown By grievous wrongs into a state unfit For you to see I fall upon the Earth To hide my self and save your generous heart From the affliction it must bear to see My woful change whether deserv'd or not Atr. Kneeling's a state I cannot bear to see Qu. You may be Sir assur'd I 'le quit it then Chairs brought Atr. Now seat your self Madam I think you 'l own I lov'd you well Qu. I were ungrateful else And I lov'd you as dearly the Gods know And I have ever been your faithful Wife And ne're deserv'd to lose that glorious Name Atr. Well Madam I will shew I love you still If you have wrong'd me be it to your self The Gods forgive you freely as I do If not Gods bring your innocence to light Qu. Oh! Gods good Gods grant grant so good a prayer Atr. However Madam whatsoe're you be All things are so forgot as if the Gods Had made a Queen o' purpose for my Love And you were newly come out of their hands Just when they finish'd you and said 't is well We cannot add one beauty to our work So I receive you to my arms and heart Qu. Oh! this is too much joy for me to bear You build new Palaces on broken Walls Atr. Madam Eternal Gates are lock'd and bar'd On all past deeds ne're to be open'd more By this new happy meeting of our Lips Which have been Strangers now these many Months You are as dear to me as when you came A fond young beautious Virgin to my Arms. Qu. How bounteous are the Gods in the Rewards Of suffering Innocence Atr. Oh! my dear Queen Never admit past sufferings in thy thoughts I 'le have this joyful day without one Cloud And joy shall shine through all my Family Even my Brother shall not want his share Qu. Your Brother Atr. Yes I can forgive even him Nay have invited him home to my Court Both to receive my Pardon and my Love Qu. Invite that wicked man home to your Court Atr. You do not know how dearly once we lov'd Qu. Nor you believe how much he injur'd me Atr. I know his violent desires by mine We were so one one Fire must burn us both And where Fire comes all things asunder fall Our Union ruin'd us but I 'le build Our Friendship more magnificent than ever Qu. Then will my Life as wretched be as ever The sight of him will like a Winter Cloud Darken and Freeze the Joy I have in you Atr. I send not home for him who did you wrong But him whose penitence has done you right Wicked Thyestes you shall ne're see more But new Thyestes so to goodness chang'd You will know nothing of him but his Name Oppose not then what all the Gods design These