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Orgula, or, The fatall error a tragedy / composed by L.W. ; whereunto is annexed a preface, discovering the true nature of poesie, with the proper use and intention of such publique divertisments.
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Willan, Leonard.
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Kingdome to thy Ministry Were fear but an Authentike Evidence To truth The worlds Philosophy stiles Ill What they would shun to suffer not what they Shun to act Which practice makes good where they Are no relatives Oh! th' abusive world Whose well known Mysteries instruct my sense That ills are none which want their Evidence Fancy works high o' th Object of delight Yet let not joy elate the spirits least Thus rarified they should effuse themselves Before they reach to Action Hah who 's this Fidelius ent. If doubtful light may yeeld a Certainty This is the Stripling that escap'd my fur• Whose bosom only can disclose the deed I have already done or yet pervert What I intend to act this both secures stabs him Fi. Oh! oh cruell villain Falls to the ground Ludaster ent Wounds Mu. who falls being hurt in the arm the dagger drops from him Lu. So swift be justice in thy punishment And in the progress lasting till it meet A measure equal unto the dese•t Hadst thou of man so little left in thee To violate such tender innocence Speak what art thou or why this mischief w•ought Is insolence swell'd up to stubbornness In thy mouth and daring in thine eyes Speak That little life thou hast shall be reserv'd binds and ties him to a tree with his girdle kneels raises Fi. To make exemplar farther sufferings Now my Fidelius what hopes of safety Fi. Little where yours is yet in hazard Sr. Lu. 'T is but the figure of thy jealousie Fi. Withdraw good Sr and timely yet provide For your security Lu. Thou would'st not have me yet more infamous Thus to involve thee in an accident Speaks nothing louder than my own dishonour And to abandon thee in this ex•ream Fi. Your presence Sr may prejudice your being Mine not suppo•t past the capacity Of succour Lu. Heav'n is more gracious to my misery Nor let the fear of me suggest thy ills To be more gre•t than tho• conceivest them Human•ty enjoynes us ne're to leave The means so long as there is motive to 't Try if thy st•ength will suffer thee to be Transported So gently raises him Fi. Oh! I fa•nt My soul is sliding from her mansion Sets him gently on the earth again Restore me to the earth Th•ther I must O 〈◊〉 Original where set I may Spin o•t but so much breath as may remove Doubt and dishonour from my memory pause Will you remember me when I am dead Lu. Else must forget my self Fi. 'T were needful thereto that you knew me first Lu. Know thee why so I do I know thou art Fidelius My faithful lov'd Fidelius Fi. I would not rob you of his memory Who gave me access to your knowledge Sr Yet pardon me if I must say you erre Lu. Erre in what my sweet Fidelius Fi. When you affirm me him you name Lu. Why art thou not Fi. No Although our souls had but one motion Our bodies still held their distinction He died when he departed from you sick With so much passion to your vertue Sr That I became transported with th' admir'd Idea and took the advantage which Nature had lent me in similitude I might succeed to his relation Yet with a flame so pure did never reach To the distinction of my hidden Sex Which was the only difference made us known Unto the womb that bore us Lu. Wonder hath captiv'd ev'ry faculty To the detention of their offices And but suspends a grief will soon or'eflow Her shallow Continent to pay the Rights To double Interests Yet say how must They be distinguished Fi. Fidelia twin'd sister to Fidelius Lu. As if nature had but one only frame And Constellation to produce so rare And exact a moddell Fi. Oh! Lu. Courage thou miracle of Nature Fi. Oh! the cloud of death hangs o're my senses And steals away my Spirits yet I dy Content in the belief I have receiv'd The fatal stroak directed unto you Lend me your hand thereon my vows to seal Be all united here which man calls weal Kissing his hand and languishingly uttering his last words dies Lu. They are divorc'd fairwell the loveliest pair That ever made one happy union Kisses her cheek Accept this offering to your vertuous loves weeps Though too too mean Yet strugling nature nere could force them forth The tainted source of proper interest Ambigamor discovers Amb. If yet in thy exterior part thou hast Thy self but truly figur'd unto me That habit and this place speak thee Ludaster Lu. Ambigamor Thou welcome balsome to my wounded soul Open thine Arms that I may slide into Thy bosom where mutual imbraces may Translate our Members to an union Lu. running to imbrace him Amb. puts him by with his hand Amb. Forbear Lu. What new disorder hath disguis'd thy love In this sullen Austerity Amb. Such as that name of Friend thus casteth off Like a despised triffe and bids the Waves his hand draws his sword To be such unto thy proper safety Lu. How strangely art thou wandred from thy self Collect thy thoughts to a becoming temper stands amaz'd Amb. Play not with Rage Be sudden in defence I east my distraction this proceeding judge More grace than thy guilt deserves Lu. Let me first know the nature of my crime Amb. Persevere not herein Ask me not why Who knows ills t' act knows how them to deny Lu. I shall suspect the Base whereon I rais'd That holy Title keeps my hand in Aw If thou insistest thus Amb. No more those vain illusions Draw Lu. I will not do thy worst since thy folly Hath cast away the last thing I held dear Chance hath left nought for chance to work upon Amb. Tempt not thy Ruine from which this hand restrains But to take off the blemish of the manner Lu. Hold Casts off his disguise Perhaps the cloud of this disguise resists The influence of our Amity Vainly He 's hid from others to himself is lost Doth thy wild sence perceive thy errour yet Amb. Those were the masques but to conceal thine own Draw or the lightning is not swifter than My execution Lu. Hold I to my self may prove an Homicide Who doth betray his being by neglect Is guilty of his own destruction What Nature first commands see I obey What friendship though contemned thus I may Draws his sword Letting the point of his sword fall on the ground breaks off the point with his foot Amb. A handsome flourish but I must not vie Revenge is not restrain'd by Gallantrie They fight Lu. only defends himself Eumena ent. Lu. Oh! thou hast thy will he 's but half guarded I see stands only on his own defence Eu Hold I enjoyn by your Allegiance hold By all those ties are strictest to your soul If there rest any unattainted yet to Amb. In this your violence Amb. It is the Princess voice Eu. And such her person though misfortune hath Transfigur'd it in shew as it hath you In truth Sharper Rebukes I should insist upon But
may by your fair Innocence You may Eu. Another would believe this but a snare To work upon their easines but I Will on thy promis'd faithfulnesse relie Ziz. And never more shall suffer in 't by me Be pleased to withdraw your self a while I hear some one approach Hard destiny My ruine must repair my Infamy Filathes Ent. Brother what chance hath led you hither Fi. No chance Zizania but Loves direction Ziz. T was chance you err'd not with so blind a guide Fi. Blinde in his sense not in his Intellect Ziz. Yet sensuall sure was your intelligence Fi. T is true Zizania We have a Father tender of us both Ziz. T is manifest in your behalf But how In mine Fi. That in the sequel will apparent be First tell me how the Princess brooks this change Ziz. With longer use it may become lesse strange Fi. And how succeeds my Hopes Ziz. T is time must be your better Advocate You have already opportunity Powerfull disposers of a womans will Fi. But how by your art find you her inclin'd• Ziz. Not past possibility Nor yet so facile as to flatter you Women have reserv'd motives not easie To disclose Fi. When unto my admittance shall I come Ziz With formed purpose that must not be done But carelesly on some slight Accident I will advise you in the manner when I finde her temper and the season fit Fi. Thou hast a wit fit onely to direct Ziz. But how all this concerns the care of me I cannot judge Fi. Thou hast awak'd my Memory I am to let thee from my Father know He hath concluded of thy Marriage With Ambigamor confident his will Disposeth thine in thy obedience To which he wills thee forme thy resolution For thy advantage and to farther his In his pretences to faire Orgula Ziz. 'T is very sudden Fi. Why seem'st thou troubled He is a man in my opinion Whose full de•ert might make thy wishes vain Ziz. I think as much Nor is my trouble grounded on dislike But on a sorrow for occasion lost Might this Command have fill'd if then but known And my Agreement vail'd with Modesty Fi. What was 't Ziz. Upon the importunacy of his sute But yesterday I promist to consult My Fathers will and e're the Evening clos'd To send him my l•st Resolution Fi. Time is not so far spent but this may yet Be done Ziz. Not well without suspition of my being Fi. I am indebted for my Interests And with an Equall care will tender thine Which thus securely may effected be The Messenger imployed shall pretend Your letter left unto his Charge last Night But the distraction of the Princes losse And yours diverted him to which the date And place agreeing 't will undoubted pass Ziz. T is well advis'd and I will follow it Walk but one turn i' th lower Gallery I 'le finish it immediately Ex. severall wayes Act III. Scene 2. Orgula The Princes lost it is incredible It can be but some idle Rumour sprung From the distemper'd heat of wine when as The giddy Fantasie works high upon Each slight Impression to make the tongue Licentious It is impossible Admit it true what would vain Hope infer That I agreeing to Sinevero Stand fairest to succeed her Dignity Love interdicts that fond Reflection Tush Beauty if not joyn'd with Majesty Is honour'd but for sensuality 'T is well attempted to suppresse my flame Yet vainly do my thoughts avouch to what They cannot frame and with a false apparrell Palliate my wound Mundelo Enter Mu. Madam the Princes is for certain lost Or. For certain then another must be found The Practice of the world hath made thee wise Mundolo which teacheth thee to value All publique dammages no farther than Our private Interests do on them depend Mu. 'T was your Command that chang'd the Property Or. Which errour now my second thoughts have found And blame that troubled curiosity Which to overpass tell me Mundolo What youth is that come lately to my Brother Or in what quality received Mu. His business speaks him a Messenger His Privacy a friend beyond both which I yet have nothing learnt particular Of him Or. Thou hast then lost thy sensuall faculty Mu. What means your honour to conclude of mine Beyond the information of your own Or. Can any Eye if not defective See and not judge him Natures miracle Mu. So far from that mine cannot judge in what Or. Is not his form exactly excellent Mu. More than the bashfull smoothness of his years Which reach not yet to the distinction Of his Sex I can not see Or. Thou stupid art beyond credulity Mundolo while yet I was an Infant My Father of a slave designed thee To my Attendance since I have found thee Diligent and faithfull to my Purposes Mu. Your honour's Testimony is The End and Glory of my Servitude Or. In that belief Mundolo I intend T' impart the secret of my Love to thee Mu. It is the gen'ral Subject of each tongue Which now prepare to publish through the world Their vows to your obedience as joyn'd To him extracts a Soveraigne Right from that Of our Protection Or. The vulgar voice is a meer bable grown Which reacheth but to the first appearance Of things to involve the world in Errour In which Mundolo thou art also faln If thy words truly figure thy Belief The Object of my Love the Subject is Of our last difference which thy sense finds Not out because it not distinguisheth Mu. Means your Honour the youth you spake of last Or. The same Mu. The grounds of Love in their dependencies Are imperceptible even to them That suffer the Effects to which it may Become the meanness of my Condition To be an Instrument no Counsellour Or. I do approve thy modesty and will So far make use thereof Mu. My obedience waits on your Direction Or. Which is at present but to find the means I may have private Conference with him Mu. The occasions fair he being now without Viewing intentively those Pictures sent From Rome I 'le use some slight unwittingly May guide him hither Ex. Mundolo Or. Do make tryall of your Art How Imperious is the force of Love What are these glorious trophies which the world Admire in their Captivity since they Waves her hand with a slighting gesture to her face Must be laid down to grace Anothers triumph In my own against the Rites of Beauty Or our Sex Fidelius Ent. Fi. That here should be a fairer piece than that I cannot cred•t though I press to see Seems surprised seems to retyre Hah this fellow hath abused me Your Honours Pardon Or. If your Intention guide you hither Sir Here is no object will oppose your course Fi. It was but errour Madam which Were multiplyed in the continuance Or. The Errour lyes but in your own dislike Nor wants but your own satisfaction To repair it Fi. It is your bounty so to censure it Extended it no farther he deserv'd To bear his guilt