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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31023	Mirza a tragedie, really acted in Persia, in the last age : illustrated with historicall annotations / the author, R.B., Esq.	Baron, Robert, b. 1630.	1647 (1647)	Wing B891; ESTC R17210	172,168	287

miserable prisoners were sometimes near famished none daring to relieve them lest the jealous King might have them in suspition Thus by this child of virtue and innocence gained they what they pined for food and comfort But behold the effects of mad melancholy it ex●sperates the blinded Prince to this strange resolve He hearing of the immoderate joy and pleasure that the King his father took in his little Grandchild Fatyma being incapable of obtaining any better revenge vowes to rob him of that his Darling though h● wounded him through his own sides So strong and so sweet a passion is Revenge So that one time when his sad W●fe and Son were sitting by him in comes pretty Fatyma with relief unto her Father by all actions of love and duty striving to sh●w her selfe obedient Such time cu●sed time as this young Princess played about him the Prince called h●r who readily came to him to be m●de much of but see a h●rrid entertainment for instead of the embraces of love with admirable celerity and rage grasping her tender Neck with his strong and wrathfull hands whirling her about ere she could implore pitty the inraged Son of a cruell Father threw sta●k dead upon the floor his own daughter Fatyma and in her the chief joy left to himself and his distrested Princess for the comfo●t of his revenge how sweet soever in the Act van●shed with it the excessive delight of the aged King and sole ornament and comfort of all that Kingdom that seemed to enjoy the greatest of their condition for the Heir was with his Father buryed alive in a too early and unjust captivity His poor Princess with all the strength of her weakness seeing the Act struggled with him crying out to him that it was Fatyma that he killed little thinking he therefore killed her because Fatyma But he hearing his Son Soffie cry out too in blind sort pursued him who led by his better fate escaped down the stairs and was safe Fatyma dead begat as much sorrow and rage in old Abbas as alive she did love who now sends threats of terrible satisfactions as Famine Chains Strapadoes and all sharp and exquisite tortures to the inraged Prince his Son who by his Messenge●s returns his Father as many bitter curses hopes of better and more perfect revenge and wishes of whole Cataracts of miseries to poure themselves upon him In this Rage he spent two sad dayes and in the third with a Roman resolution gave a period to his sufferings in this world by quaffing off a cup of poyson to the confusion of his unnatural Father The sad Princess his Wife like a true Turtle surfeiting with sorrow mew'd her self up and since that time has seldom been seen by any Lastly Allybeg's Treason being discovered by a woman we end with the punishment of the Conspirators the Kings reassuming of the Princes friends into his favour and declaring of his Son Soffie Heir to the Persian Dignity after his Grandfather Abbas his decease which happening in the year 1629. the young Prince took upon him the Empire aged sixteen years hopeful and ingenious so fresh in memory is this sad story The persons of the Play EMIR-HAMZE-MIRZA'S Ghost ABBAS King of Persia. MAHOMETALLY-BEG the Kings Favourite BELTAZAR a privy Counsellour FARRABAN Courtiers creatures to Allybeg SELEVCVS Courtiers creatures to Allybeg ELCHEE A Duke vice-roy of Hyrcania MATZED Collonels and his creatures MOZENDRA Collonels and his creatures BENEFIAN Collonels and his creatures FLORADELLA The Kings Concubine OLYMPA Cou●t Ladies EARINA Cou●t Ladies OMAY Cou●t Ladies CLOE Floradella's woman MIRZA The Prince SOFFIE a child his Son EMANGOLY Duke of Shiras and Lievtenant Generall of the Army under the Prince METHICVLI Noble men Officers in the Army fast friends to the Prince HYDASFVS Noble men Officers in the Army fast friends to the Prince ALKAHAM Noble men Officers in the Army fast friends to the Prince DORIDO a Page to the Prince VASCO Page to Emangoly NYMPHADORA The Princess FATIMA Her Daughter a Child IFFIDA The Princesses woman PAGES Seven MVTES Executioners Two THEEVES OFFICERS SOULDIERS CHORUS THE SCENE PERSIA MIRZA Act. 1. EMIR-HAMZE-MIRZA'S Ghost AND dost thou swim in Pleasures Tyrant still Or hast thou got a Patent to do i● When will the date expire hast thou not yet Contracted guilt enough that th' ponderous weight Of all thy Tyrannies Ra●ines Murders fell May like a Milstone sink thee quick to Hell Are these too light leave thy Adulteries Thy Rapes thy Incests heaps of Perjuries And Ghomorean sports no sting behind Or are the Gods grown all like Fortune blind Or has dull IOVE no Thunder left Doth not 1. The murder of our Sire so soon forgot 2. And Me deserve a Bolt Sleep'st thou with what Philtries is thy strange Pillow stuft do not Ten thousand Fur●es with their flaring hair And knotted whips of wire at thee still stare And threaten stripes Is our great Fathers Ghost Weary with haunting thee or us'd to 't do'st Account it now familiar and not quake If so behold I come from the dark Lake To be thy evill Genius and distill Into thy darker bosom deeds shall fill The measure of thy sins up and pull down With violent hand heavens vengeance on thy Crow● The foul Fiend aid thy councells and unto Thee dictate what he would but cannot do Discovers Abbas in his study Upon thy self and thine own Princely line Revenge our Fathers wronged Ghost and mine Inherit all my fury and obey What jealousie shall prompt mine did I say Alas vain voice how weak is that for thee The spirits of all unnaturall Fathers be Doubled upon thee 3. Act what the Mogull 4. And Turk shall start to hear what 5. th' Tartar shal Pitty what 6. BAHAMAN could not wish should be And 7. the Arabian will lament to see Faulter not in thy course now but pursue New mischiefs till no mischief can be new No cruell actions unlesse throughly done Are done secure Let not thy gallant Son Engrosse the subjects loves all his brave parts And deeds are Privy seales to take up hearts How will he stick arm'd with the strength o' th Land To snatch the Scepter from thy hated hand As thou didst from thy Father Such dire deeds Are still revenged with their like no seeds So fruitfull are as wrongs Who doth not thirst For Soveraign sway or who that may be first Is pleas'd with being second then do thou Begin with him and wait not the first blow But with a Sons and Grandchilds blood appease Fathers and brothers Ghosts What though thine ease Be bought with razing out the family And strangling th' hopes of all Posterity What need'st thou care so here thy race be even If when thou fall'st the Poles and studds of Heaven Be shiver'd the starrs quench'd thy house great names And all the world too with thee sink in flames Free villanies a hated reign assure And swords still drawn dire deeds dire deeds secure ABBAS The vow is

MAHOMET-ALLYBEG ELCHEE MOZENDRA EARINA OLYMPA OMAY CLOE Officers Souldiers Guard FIrst my EMANGOLY and you my Lords METHICULI HYDASPUS ALKAHEM We here revoke our sentence against you Of Banishment and impower you to sit With us in judgment on these dire Delinquents Ema We thank your Majesty and glory more In that we are capable of serving you Then in the honour which you grace us with Oly. They 'l complement our lives away at last Ben. Then we are judg'd already wel th' other day I studied speeches for the Ladies now secret I want one to the People but lets see The common place is to avoid ill company A curse on these state matters Abb. Next we here Degrade that Viper ALLY-BEG from all Those places or of publique trust or Honour To which too rashly we advanced him Those which he held of yours EMANGOLY We do to you restore Ema Your Grace shall find Me faithfull as at first Abb. The Treasurer-ship We do conferr on you METHICULI Met. My service as i 'm able shall requite it Mah. May they requite you as I would have done Alk. Bold Traytor cannot armed justice awe thee Abb. Now BELTAZAR produce your proofs against These criminals Bel. They 're guilty all of Treason CLOE accuses that impostum'd monster MAHOMET to have forg'd the whole conspiracy But not without the help of FLORADELLA Flo. A curse on that loose Gossip Mah. And you too Abb. Give them no name but Traytors Bel. First they meant To shift away the Prince dissolve the Army That no force might oppose the Traytors rising You Majestie the horror of it choaks My utterance your sacred Majestie Mah. So try again Bel. This viperous woman should Have poysoned Mah. So now 't is out would she had Bel. And FARRABAN SOFFIE then held the Castle At the devotion of this monstrous man Who aim'd to set the Crown on his own head Having already gotten a strong Guard Towards which that strumpet did disburse a Mass Of ready Treasure making still her Purse As common to him as her wicked body Flo. You might preserve the modesty of the Court Bel. To this end be their Levies afoot too In Larr SELEUCUS MATZED in Hyrcania Are raising Forces so that this lewd woman And FARRABAN and sly SELEUCUS were Chiefe complices that knew his utmost aime The other we believe drawn in as onely Crediting his pretence to free the Prince And MATZED'S Levies are on ELCHEE'S score E●c Urge that my Lord. Oly. Oma Ear. Yes yes sir urge that home Abb. Monster what say you knew the rest yo● meant Your selfe their King Mah. They knew as much as I did Oly. 'T is false Moz That thou wert worthy but to bear A Sword that I might claim the combat 'gainst thee I 'd write it on thy heart in stabbes thou lyest Mah. A brave Rodomantado Hyd. This vile man Given up to Treason late and now despaire Accuses these but to have company In 's fall Ben. True my good Lord. Come you and I Were Comrades once Ema This I indeed believe Mah. The more the merrier Moz Hear my gracious Lord He intimates as much before your Grace Elc. What if I say I levyed in Hyrcania To Mozendra With an intent to help the King and ballance MAHOMETS strength having the greater hopes For doing him service so unexpected Moz 'T will gaine no faith and then Secret 't was Treason too To list without Commission know your doom first If you fall urge it some will credit you 'T will beget pitty to your memory I'●h ' vulgar who are still fond of the wretch●d Alk. These persons could not be so lost to sence Being noble as t' advance so vile a thing Over themselves O●y We scorn him for our Groom Hyd. His envy and his rage will peal us too Anon I think Met. How strong is malice in thee Pernicious wretch thou car'dst not how foul Thy Treasons were on earth nor weighst thou now How great thy plagues for them shall be in hell Bel. Disburden yet thy soul of so much guilt And speak these innocent in what they are so Mah. Your selfe's not innocent good Rhetorician Hyd. I thought so slit his impudent throat some body Mah. You did as much as I exasperate The King against his Son Bel. If this be true I here beseech your Grace command me stand Among the Traytors Come come Officers bind My hands I am accused here of treason Abb. You more then feignedly did act his friend And O that I had heard your pregnant reasons So urg'd to save him with an equall eare Bel. Heaven knows I urg'd them strongly as I durst Mah. The Tyrant's selfe 's not innocent Alk. Bold head Mah. He 's guilty of his Sonnes blood and FATYMA'S too I was but 's instrument Met. O extasie Abb. Varlet the guilt is thine though the grief mine That I gave faith unto thy forgeries Proceed Lord BELTAZAR Bel. Sir hoping these May yet be worthy of your timely mercy What have I but t'inveigh against those other Look up fair Mother Persia and see Thy selfe redeem'd put off the horrid fright Thy plotted ruine late amaz'd thee with Now shall not thy fair breast be stained with Thy best Sons blood but freed of thy worst Had this gone on th'hadst been but thine own prey Th'hadst seen thy Prince that toyl'd so oft for thee Groaning his soul out into empty air The hopeful blossom nipt as soon as blown Thy aged King swell'd up with deadly poyson And burning as in Aetna till he 'd burst And impious MAHOMET upon thy Throne Unworthy of thy Gallies and this strumpet His fine loose Queen Mah. That yet I never meant Flo. The more wretch thou so oft to swear it to me Mah. The more fool thou though ever to believe me Bel. Thy noblest Sons torn some to cruell death And some to servile misery worse then that This was the sight prepared for thine eyes Mah. And it had been a brave one Abb. Cursed monster No sence of guilt no teares can no remorse Touch thy scar'd Conscience Mah. Yes I see my guilt Guilty of folly I am to trust a woman To keep for me what for her self she cannot A secret tears I could profusedly shed Tears of just wrath and for each one that drops Afford a curse too that I sped no better I 'de spend my soul in sighs could they but scald thee To be so near a Crown and reach it not O Hell and Furies Abb. In thy soul they 're all Ema Proceed to judgement sir. Mah. Tyrant remember ●n me thou judgest thy own Cause I meant No more to thee then thou didst to thy Father And brother too and that for the same reason Ema Prodigious boldnesse sir regard him not Abb. Monster since thou hast toyl'd to be ungrateful And with thy Treasons to out-vie my favours To let thee die were too much pitty to thee Nor is there a death equall to thy guilt Besides we having so much honoured thee And