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The phaenix in her flames A tragedy. The scene, Arabia. The author, Master William Lower.
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Lower, William, Sir, 1600?-1662.
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helpe our King and Country Amand. I am glad You are so alter'd in your inclination And rudenesse of your nature but where is The faire Lucinda and old Consolario Enter Lucinda and Consolario Faire Lady welcome you have made this place Poore by your absence Lucind. But you have enricht it With your faire presence Sir Amand. I 'm sorry Lady That we must part so soone the Prince of Persia Is come to fetch you with a mighty army Who claimes you as his wife therefore in justice And conscience too we cannot hold you from him You shall have all that is your owne and more Wee 'l wait upon you as becomes the state Of such a mighty Princesse with a guard To safe conduct you to the Persian campe How is your minde dispos'd Lucind. Vnkinde Amandus More cruell farre then proud Narcissus was Vnto the constant Nymph that lov'd him so More salvage hearted then the boy Adonis That scorn'd the love of Venus these were never Halfe so belov'd as you yet will you leave me To dye in your disdaine and put me over To him I cannot love unkinde Amandus Amand. Sweet Lady thinke I doe preferre your good Before mine owne misconstrue not my words For I doe speake this for your great advantage If you conceive me rightly but we will not Force you to any thing against your will I 'm sorry that you will participate Our evill fortunes and refuse to live The Persian Empresse 't was for this I did Perswade you unto what I did Lucind. O let me Goe with you Sir and if you cannot love me In nature of your wife yet I beseech you Respect me as your handmaid who 's still ready To waite on your command Amand. You do confound me And make me blush to heare so great a Princesse To speak to me in such an humble key Who do confesse my selfe your lowly vassaile And since you 're bent so much to wrong your selfe And to forget your state my life shall stand 'Tweene you and danger Madam you have heard Our resolution to assist and helpe Th' Arabian King against the Prince of Persia Will you goe over with us Lucind. Where you goe There doe I bend my journey Amand. Consolario I must dispatch you to the Arabian King About this businesse wherein I 'le instruct you Particularly more before you goe Consol. My faith and care shall not be wanting in The trust you shall commit unto my Charge How I may doe you service is my study Amand. So then al 's done but this to crave you hand And lead you wheresoee'r you shall command exeunt Enter the Persian and the Embassadour of Aegypt Perseus So let this most inhospitable Land Suffer our wrath so let the whippe of warre Inflicted on this countrey by our hand Lash them severely that have violated The lawes of Nations and therein committed What even the base Barbarians hate to thinke off Now let the speedy messenger of death The king of weapons call'd the sword unsheath him And drinke his fill in bloud let every souldier Freely enjoy his pleasure make his pillage And do the greatest outrage that he can We will no longer now suppresse our fury But let it burne unto full height the cries Of ravish'd Maids and Virgins shall no more Enter our eares the humble supplications Of undone Orphants shall not move my pitty So much I am incens'd against the King Embassad. I would divert you from this cruelty Great Prince if you would heare me and alleage Some reasons too to fortifie my speech First t is a beauteous country and the world I thinke not parralels it next you do Intend it for a conquest will you spoile So sweet a habitation and lay waste A seate will make you proud to be enthron'd in If this be not sufficient to induce you To spare the rodde of vengeance let respect Vnto your Princely fame with-hold your hand What sordid blot what foule aspersion can More taint the candid honour of a Prince Then tyranny upon poore seely wretches You know as much my Lord and histories Show many soule examples of such tyrants Whose names live in reproach to these our times But Sir have you receiv'd the newes my mind Was bigge to bring it forth before your speech Hindered the birth Perseus Newes I heare none but that The fearefull King dares not fight a battle We must enforce him to it or pursue him As greedy grey-hounds do the heartlesse Hares Till we have tane his Crowne and Life away Now what is that you heare Embassa. Quite contrary To what you last diliver'd for they say He is prepar'd to fight and with his army Meanes speedily to seeke you all the theeves That in your passage through the deserts did So damnifie your army have submitted Vnto their King and serve him in this war His force is much augmented and you 're like To to have a speedy triall of your fortune Perseus And after that a speedy strong possession Of all this Kingdome I am confident That with our breathes we shall destroy them all Powr'd forth in anger our great multitudes Will scater them as Wolves a flock of Sheepe Suppose his army doth amount unto Some fifty thousand men which is the most His strength can raise our army doth exceed it By halfe the number put away our horse Whose gallantry is spoaken of by all The Nations of the World and held to be The best for service in the universe Can he resist our Force or the Arabian Stand up against the Persian in a battle Speake your opinion Embassa. Sir you know the chance Of warre is doubtfull and plum'd victory Doth oftentimes deceive great expectations Besides dame fortune is a fickle Lady We know not how to trust her but if things Be justly carryed with an equall hand If iugling be not us'd amongst the fates T is evident your army must o'recome But judge we cannot till we see th' event Perseus We doubt not nor despaire of the successe But from this talke I have beene oftentimes Resolv'd to aske you but till now forgate What might be gather'd hence that faire Lucinda Your Princesse in this time of her restraint Sollicites nothing for her liberty Nor writes a word unto us of her state We heare she lives at the Arabian Court Embassa. I heare so too and worthily entreated According to her by th and high degree Perseus This makes me to admire nay to suspect The streame of her affection is diverted Another way and holds no constant course It must be so else being so entertain'd And high respected in all points of honour Would any man conjecture that the King Would hold her 'gainst her will if she desir'd To come unto us now she hath forgate us And may be too her honor and good name Then we are grosse abus'd fool'd with a match And must be full reveng'd I have no patience My Lord Embassadour doth your opinion Goe hand in hand with mine Embassa. Then I
marriage shall advance thy regall state Above the clouds and make thee overtop The greatest Queenes and Empresses that are Phaenic. Vnlesse it be Amandus I shall be The most unhappiest Princesse of the earth aside Please you my royall Father to acquaint me Who is the party meant The Persian Prince He loves and serves you with a strong devotion Yea doth even jdolize you in his heart His saint and goddesse he hath se'd unto me My liking might procure you to his wife And I have granted what he did demand I know your vertue 's such and your obedience As not to stand against our will and pleasure Especially when it presents you nothing But what is for your honour and high fortune Phaenic. Please you to heare me this you do propose Is most unlawfull and my conscience tels me It were a sinne to thinke off for you know The Prince of Persia is betroathed to The beautifull Lucinda and shall I Be guilty of the breach of faith betweene them Farre be it from me I beleeve he is Inconstant in his love and apt to change From one unto another his large titles Shall never winne me to his wavering humour I rather would content me with a match Inferiour farre so I might marry vertue In him indeed I cannot for not only Fame but experience manifests his vices King Come come you are a foolish girle to make These vaine excuses to put off your good You do presume too much upon our love And tender nature we have beene too fond And given you too much of your will unlesse You do conforme your selfe to our command We shall be are o're you a severer hand Get out my sight and thinke upon your duty Exit Phaenicia Is this not strange Alecto that my daughter Is so averse unto her good you tould me Iust as she entred that there was a barre Lay in the way might chance to stop the match What is it prethee that we may remove it Alecto She loves Amandus Sir and he loves her I over heard their courtship in the garden Their amourous discourse and protestations Of love and service such affection showne In action gesture speech as greater was not Express'd betweene faire Hero and Leander Their eyes stood fixt upon each others face Their tongues were sometimes mute and could not utter Th' abundance of their hearts then would their sighes Supply that silence till they had recover'd The instrument of speech to make it move I never saw more passion us'd in love King This makes me wonder much that her ambition Beares such an humble wing we must not suffer This businesse to runne on what though we are Bound to Amandus in a high degree Yet not so much his benefits oblige us As to conferre our Daughter and our Crowne Vpon his merits whose poore state is such As he can give her nothing for a Dower This must nor shall not be our full indeavour Shall be imploy'd this love to breake and sever Exeunt Perseus Alecto Perseus musing Alecto Why how now noble Prince within a dump How come you so dejected in your thoughts I do beseech you hath your love sped ill Vnto the faire Phaenicia or some other Ill accident befall you that you are So melancholy Sir Perseus My dearest friend Welcome the mistresse of my thoughts hath slain me With too much cruelty alas for when I marched with my army led by love And came before the fortresse of her beauty To lay my siege there how she playd upon me From all her batteries but when I began To make approach then from her angry eyes Flew balles of wilde-fire and granadoes follow'd Which scorch't and rent my heart but last of all The cannon of her mouth so thundred on My poore besieging thoughts as I was faine To raise my siege in haste and get me gone This is the poore successe of my designe Alecto D' ye know Sir what 's the cause you speed so ill Perse. I have been thinking on 't but cannot lay The blame on any thing but fortunes malice Can you informe me better Alecto Would I could not I have found out Amandus hath her heart By what smooth guile or Syren oratorie He wonne her to himselfe I am not able To give you satisfaction or to guesse it This ancient enemy of yours and mine For who stands ill affected unto you Shall ne're affected be by me your friend Hath now the second time deceiv'd your match Wrong of all wrongs disgrace of all disgrace So to be cheated of two princely brides Sir you must be reveng'd deeply reveng'd Or else your Princely name will be reproach'd With foulest infamy that can be spoke Blinde men and boyes will sing you in the streets In Ballads and at length 't will grow a proverb So patient as the Prince of Persia If you sustaine those injuries which lye So heavy on your Princely reputation Perseus I am even burst with rage and jealousie That villaine vagabond that renegado Borne to be author of my sufferings Shall not out-live one day I am incens'd Beyond all measure and I cannot longer Containe my selfe I 'le finde that begger out Alecto Stay Sir be patient and doe things discreetly I 'le joyne with you and have a hand as deep Or deeper as your selfe in your revenge For the great love I beare you by the gods I am as much touch'd with your wrongs and am As zealous in your cause as you your selfe And now to worke to bring our ends to passe I have a dainty powder here that was Ordain'd for such a purpose which will worke Effect unto our wish in it but fall Into his cup or light upon his haire 'T will soone dispatch him with a powder hence Such vertue is therein we shâ—â—â—â—â—rupt His Barber by rich gifts or by some other Vnthought of way yet procure the same To be imploy'd and us'd upon the Patient This physicke is ordain'd for 〈◊〉 you this Or shall we yet devise some 〈…〉 Perseus These figges are too too common and besides It doth not sute the honour of a Prince By such a way of 〈…〉 Destruction to his foe although Amandus Deserve from me an ignominious death Yet 'cause he is a Prince and bred in warre Iâ—â—â—ine would have him like a souldier dye Nobly by sword or pistoll Alecto He shall fall then According to your will and in this manner If you approve it Sir what if you send A challenge to him for to meet you single A foot or horsebacke in the field to answer These shamefull wrongs he did you I will be Ready to rescue you when I perceive You need my help with certain friends of mine Who will lye close the while and undiscover'd Vntill we see you have the worst then forth Wee 'l breake and soon dispatch that traytor Prince Perseus This noble Duke is daintily devis'd I shall be gratefull ever to your love And shew it in a large and ample manner Well I 'le dispatch my