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St. Cecily, or, The converted twins a Christian tragedy / written by E.M.
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Medbourne, M. (Matthew), d. 1679.
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was such a boding word Val. My Lord you honour me so much that I Seem courted by a happiness to which My more ambitious thoughts could hardly yet Aspire Mar. My Flavia what sayst thou to the match Fla. I like it not I tell you husband I Dislike it utterly Mar. How Fla. That parents should Make matches for their children Mar. I now thou speak'st Fla. No bring them face to face and let them parley Ah! T is the pretiest thing to hear them chat So far from the matter for love-sick wantons Are as impertinent as they who lie Perplext in burning feavers Love 's a phrensie As I remember forty years ago Mar. Twenty wife th' art not so old Flav. When one distracted was demanded whether He were a married man No no said he I am not yet so mad Mar. Ha! ha my Lord My Wife has brought you now within the compasse Of Fla. Madmen 'T is even so by Juno And after this a longing comes in breeders And what is this but a phantastick madnesse Ha! ha Wast not a pretty longing think you Fulvius Torquatus being Consul when The Knights of Mauritania brought to Rome A savage man who Polyphemus-like Had but one eye Torquatus Lady then Being with Child and hearing of this Monster Long'd infinitely desir'd to see him As he past by her door but none it seems Would bring him in and out she would not go In th' absence of her husband What pity She lost her longing next her life But then You know my Lord what did ensue The Senate The Grave Senate decreed that Roman Ladies Should not fail but every one should have Her longing Mar. Some come short of that Flavia. Fla. The more 's the pity Mar. Else they would not live Sequestred as they do Fla. Are you so waggish still But you my Lord you have a longing too To Val. Not to see a one-eyed man Monoculus But a fair Lady though I say 't that should not Val. That indeed Madam is my more humble suit And infinite desire Mar. That Cis may have her longing ha ha Fla. Why Cecilie where are you Palinodio No body there to wait Angustula Enter Augustula You too so narrow ear'd you cannot hear Ang. Madam your pleasure Fla. That your Lady Mistris Come hither in a trice instantly approach Ang. Approach Madam she 's in her Oratory Fla. I she flows in her Oratory but Let her leave that Eloquence and tell me In plain terms expound what means Our Terence Accede ad hanc ignem ut Calefias magis Ang. That Madam I can enucleat Come to this female fire That thou mayst be enflamed Lord Tiburtius I was about to say Enter Cecily Mar. But see my Daughter For that intent Ha. Must come to you my Lord Valerian Val. I long to have that happiness Mar. Is she not yet come Oh! she 's here Aug. Come Madam since there is no remedy Set a good face on 't that I am sure you have VVhy do you veyl it then you are not Nupta Till then like other Ladies make the best Of what you have Beauty and Truth are two That seek no Covert Needs will come to light Cec. Madam what is your Ladyships pleasure Fla. A thing of nothing only spell Roma backward Cec. 'T is Amor Madam Flav. True 't is Love my Girle Be as well vers'd 'i th Deed as in the Word And by thy Love this Lord shall be enrich'd But what is Amor passive Cec. I am lov'd Val. Here by your servant Lady Tib. I might have sayd As much but younger brothers must be curb'd Mar. So to her to her my Lord. She shall be yours Come Sweet-heart we 'le sit and see personated The lovely Courtships of our younger years Val. Ladies your Parents have left you to your choice Cec. Then I choose heaven Val. Myne is your self on earth Or were I 'bove the spangled Arch with you I 'de rival Jove himself in point of Love Cec. In point of Love Beauty and goodness Val. VVhich I admire in you Cec. Are the sole Objects of a chaster Love Goodness is courted by the Appetite As beauty should be by the understanding On which two senses properly attend To hear and see Val. Witnesse these happy ears Charm'd by your Musick and these happyer eyes Which gaze on th' object of their wished bliss Cec. But fair and good affect a Monarchy Establish'd by the will sole Sovereign To sway within the Microcosme of Man To which the faculties of soul and body As motions habits actions passions are Subordinate yea and concupiscence Though a rebellious Vassal to the will May be subjected Now if fair and good Be that you seek it totally consists In unity of essence whence deriv'd Are all the Fairs and goodness you behold Which scatter'd here and there in several Creatures Are but dependants on the soveraign good To reach to this within the highest Region Of the Soul a love divine refiding Dos offer sacrifice of awfull Prayer And Holocaustes to the Divinity Fla. Tittle tattle what 's all this to th' purpose Venus is fair and Jupiter is good Mar. My Lord a proper man well qualified Flav. I Daughter and all our hope of Offspring Must be in thee and good Lucina's aid Mar. And my Lord Valerian's help here what a la mort Val. I am by th' stream dismiss'd to seek the source Cast off to search a fairer then her self Ah! if such goodness as resides in her Dos but participate of that supreme And onely good to that I must afpire Tik had I but such a spark from the immense She speaks of my ambition ne're would seek A greater fire t'enflame Val. No more would I. Cec. Nor you nor you what earthly souls you bear Within your brests confin'd to carnal Iust Heaven is my choice while here you court but dust Exit Mar. Hi'da here 's a wooing with a witness My Lord the foolish Girle is not yet capable Of th' happiness which is atchiev'd by Love This was your fault that never would infuse Those sweeter drops distill'd from Venus rose Fla. VVhy Sir who would have thought one of her years Being now sixteen and upward could be so backward In learning that of Love which in their Nonage Enter Angusta Of teens others attain unto why Angustula VVhere 's your Lady Ang. Gone to her Closet Madam So very sad and pensive that it grieves me That she may have her choice of two and I of neither Aside Mar. My Lord y' are welcom this may now suffice At the first push of Pike let her retreat She shall come on again Fla. I and at next encounter Daign smile for smile and with a lovely glance As boldly in the shock of Love advance Val. So shall you ever oblige your servant Tib. And mee Mar. Had I another Daughter she should be yours Exeunt Val. Tib. Tib. Unhappy wooer that has but verbal Cures Mar. Angustula come thou diminitive wagg Ang. Sir Mar. Call Palinodio
fearing as much sent me after you Pal. Would you had gone before for me Pha. So I will Come here 's the Grotte Thrice with a gentle stamp but give the sign And to this darksome Cave shall way be made They stamp Urban ascends Urb. Who 's there if friends y' are welcome so must be Our enemies who by heavens permission Are but the Instruments to cut and hew And square us in this Quarry we may lie Fit for the Structure of Heavens Edifice Pha. May it please your reverence my Lady Cecilie Presents you w th these viands and a purse Of an hundred Ducats for your self and yours Hopes to be constant in her Faith and Vow If you to heaven for her vouchsafe to pray Which humbly she desires Urb. We are oblig'd To do no lesse Her charitable hand May never see corruption nor that pure And sanctified vessel where a treasure Her soul is habitant midst chast desires Farewel heaven grant you may as safe return Descends Phan. Come Palinodio now you 'l lead the way Pal. I I fear nothing now I have a companion Enter Maximus and Officers Max. Look round beset the wayes there there they go Phantasio slips away Pal. Oh let me come behind that I may not see him 1. Off. I see but one Max. Lay hold and apprehend him Palin feigns himself sick 2. Off. I have him but cannot hold him up 1. Off. Alas he 's in a swoon fetch him again he 's gone 2. Off. That I will were he gone farther than he is Box in the ear Pal. Ay me what are you my Masters 1. Off. Villain what art thou Art a Christian Pal. No Villain Christian I. 2. Off. What art then What 's thy Name Pal. Palinodio to cant and recant Say and vnsay I am as many are now adayes A Nullifidian have a conscience of Chiverel And am content to say any thing for a quiet life Max. Betray thy fellow Christians or so Pal. Or so or so ha ha ha ha yet I cannot but laugh To think how Hannibal here in Via Appia was laugh'd Out of countenance Ha ha ha methinks I should as well Outlaugh these Officers out of their little wits for countenance They have none to be laugh'd out of ha ha ha 2. Off. The fellow 's mad Palin Now I sacrifice to the God of Laughter Exeunt Scene 2. Enter Almachius with Attendants Alm. Live we not still in Rome Or is not Rome The eye of Justice splendor of the World Shall then blind Superstition intrude t' obscure the Iustre of our Deities Shall that base abject seum and dregs of th' earth Float on the surface of our Chrystal stream Christians I mean who first in Nero's time Were by the flames which burnt our palaces Discover'd and convinc'd to be The Flambeaux and th' Incendiaries Because they could not vindicate themselves Against our powerful Gods for which their horrid And enormous crime their Coryphaeus Was on a Gibbet topsie turvy hung While his companion cause in a City born That was enfranchiz'd had Roman-like th' honour To have his head struck from his shoulders These These were the traiterous pair who hither came To sow the Cockle of Sedition which As yet could nere be roote out O Romans Are you not Romans still have you not conquer'd The vaster Regions of th' Universe Yet suffer Pismires Pedants Boyes and Girles t'apostatize scorn and defie our Gods Have you not Tortures Manacles and Racks Have you not Fire and Sword and Ravenous Beasts To tear the Intrails of this cursed brood Slice off these Hydra's still increasing heads And sindge with flames of fire like Hercules Our Emperour commands shew your Devoir Our Gods command shew then your Roman Zeal Their Flamins Sacred Priests cry shame of you That suffer such abortive Impes to scorn Their Altars Jove himself though patient long Begins to take his Thunderbolts in hand To be reveng'd on you which to prevent Be vigilant suppress this creeping Cancer Be But Romans and you are what you should be Enter Maximus Saphricius and Palinodio Maximus Welcome Thy Name superlative Speaks what thou art Say then hast thou disrouted Those lurking Squadrons forc'd them from their Cavernes Where in the night conscious of fouler crimes They with their superstitious rites and fopperies Exasperate our Gods ' gainst us who suffer Such sacrilegious persons rather vipers T' escape unpunish'd Vipers which in their Birth Pernicious bring destruction to their Dams So they to the Republick Speak Maximus And if thy service shall deserve reward The Gods and we next to the Emperour Shall guerdon thine endeavours Max. My Lord I with my souldiers ere the morn Had banisht sable night as private as we could Went to surprize such irreligious persons As are offensive to the state yet 't was Our fortune but to light on two A pair Unparallell'd one for a sturdy Knave Th' other a fool or if a rational man 'T was then a guilty Conscience with sad fear Which did transport his brains beyond himself Alm. Sirrah why Sirrah Speak'st not when I But Sirrah thee was not this blast enough To make thee utter with a faltering tongue A more submissive and obsequious plea To beg a pardon for thy foul delict Sap. The toad is swelling and begins to belch The gall and venome of his poyson'd breast Alm. Sirrah I have a Rack Sap. And I have limbs Alm. I have a Torture Sap. I patience to endure Alm. But I have scorching flames Sap. Then let them burn Alm. Thou shalt by morsels die but piece by piece Sap. All 's one to me at last I can but die Alm. Yes die a thousand times and live again Or if thou wilt do but adore the Gods But sacrifice to them and thou art quit Sap. Or die or quit A play at fast and loose I scorn to live by adoring of thy Gods Fear not to die but dare in spight of them Yield this to fire or sword or beast or flame To raise a Trophy to th' Immortal Power Max. I told you my Lord he was a sturdy Knave Alm. A Bragadochio this a Famfarone Swells like a bubble will the sooner break Take him aside Nor Sirrah what are you Palin He 's a wiseman my Lord that knows what he is Alm. Sirrah are you a servant of Jupiters Pal. Jupiter would never entertain me Into his service yet my ambition was To have been a follower of his Ha ha ha But his Queen Juno said I had not wit and craft enough to be a Courtier ha ha ha But Venus she 's a beautiful Lady I have plaid at span-counter with her boy Cupid But he was blind and so I burst His Bow and Arrows since when I never was in love Alm. Sirrah will you sacrifice to the Gods Pal. And Goddesses too tagg and ragg to Smug Vulcan the Blacksmith and Priapus too With his fie for shame to scare away the birds That come to eat the Cherries and Mulberries ha ha ha Alm. Maximus