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A53459
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Herod the Great a tragedy / written by the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery.
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Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679.
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1694
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Wing O479; ESTC R21923
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none Her Since all were present at the black Debate 'T is they the Guiltless must discriminate My Resolution is on Justice built Who in this Case conceals does share the guilt Pheroras take my Guards and carry all The Sanhedrim into the Judgment-Hall There torture them till you from some have got Who first propos'd and then approv'd the Plot. Phalt. The Jews will rise in Tumults through despair Her Tumults the Frenzies of the People are And who in Frenzies strive must be withstood Such fits are quickly cur'd by letting Blood Sam. 'T is hard with a whole Nation to dispute Her But harder when Kings are not Absolute He of a Throne should be unworthy held Who to his will makes not his Subjects yield Who to obtain that end his Life does give Does dy more glorious than he else can live Brother you seem as if you were afraid Go you and see these Orders now obey'd To Phalt. Sam. and Asdr. Pher. Sir I will never give you cause to say That what you Order I dare not obey Come all with me Pher. Phalt. Sam. and Guards go out Her Abner to thee alone My Counterfeited Passion I made known But now I fear 't is Mariana's due That false Love made to her must change to true Love by her Eyes that Fiction would upbraid And burns me in those Flames with which I play'd Abn. Sir since the Queen some coldness did express While she unrivall'd did your heart possess May it not Sir provoke her to despair Seeing another in that Glory share Her Perhaps it may Perhaps too It may not Few Women are by reason lost or got Since to the Love I paid her shee 'd not bend I try'd a different way to reach my end Yet Abner I must say to be possest As much of hers as she is of my Breast And to enjoy that Monarchy alone I would despise the Universal Throne Though I her Coyness and her Pride abhor Yet her triumphant Beauties I adore Oft I resolve her coldness to resent But I as often that Resolve repent How was it Mariana did receive Those Jewels which to her I bid you give Abn. As soon as the vast present she had seen She said I had mistook her for the Queen But when to her I solemnly did swear That they by you presented were to her She trembl'd instantly then blushing said They were too mighty Presents for a Maid And beg'd me I would make you her Excuse Since 't was her Vertue did those gifts refuse Then from the Chamber she in hast did go Her She had good Cause the Off'ring was too low 'T was fit so great a Beauty should decline A present made by any hand but mine O Love where didst thou get the Power or Art Thus to erect two Thrones within one heart That Empire must be stormy and decay In which at once two different Powers bear sway My Queens aspiring Soul does daily rise Her Mind is as Imperious as her Eyes While Mariana with as Conquering Charms By her humility my heart disarms Thus to subdue me Opposites agree Yet both produce the same effects in me Let the Queen know I 'm to the Garden gone And tell her I expect her there alone Herod and Abner go out several ways The Scene the private Gallery of Herod's Palace Sohemus meets Mariana Sohe O Sister I am now for ever lost My flatt'ring hopes by my ill Stars are crost The Queen to my Address does cruel prove My Services she takes but slights my Love While Solome her former flame renews And with such guilty Love my Love pursues That I perceive 't is the Decree of Fate I must be ruinâ—d by her Love or hate Mar. If you but for the Queen can Love admit Solome must be paid with Counterfeit Else all your hopes of Life will be but Dreams Her Soul no Passion knows but in extreams Sohe Sister you know my Heart could never brook Whatever did but like dissembling look Mar. Dissembling must to you uneasy be And to perswade you to it is to me But since on you depends all I hold dear My Virtue now indulges to my fear When in this Love you did at first engage The sad effects of it I did presage Now my Prophetick fears I find are true But may it not be yet supprest by you Sohe O 't is in vain me to that change to move Who once lov'd well can never cease to Love Mar. Then you at first lov'd Solome but ill Or by that Rule you ought to love her still And if for her a Passion you did feign For both Our Sakes dissemble it again Sohe Though once her Beauties gave my Heart the Law Yet her Change froze more than her Eyes can thaw And you as well may raise the dead again As Love which has been murther'd by disdain Solome order'd me to meet her here Sister retire yonder she does appear Mar. O ere I go let me this promise win That you 'l not think what saves us both a Sin This on my Knees I would of you implore Mar. says the last Verse as she is going out Sohe I 'll do what Honour bids me and no more Enter Solome Solo. Though the last usage I endur'd from you Made me resolve your Ruine to pursue And by the Power which I with Herod have I with one word can send you to your Grave Yet Love has purchast for you a Reprieve And makes me this last meeting to you give You know the trust which he on you did lay And Love I know made you that trust betray Herod as Lawful King you would not own Either of these by me to him made known Would raise his Anger and Revenge so high As nothing but your Death could satisfy Sohe Madam you need not to your Brother sue To take a Life that is abhorr'd by you From me your Will shall no resistance meet I freely lay it Madam at your Feet Solo. Your Life Sohemus would my Blessing prove If you would reassume your former Love She puts her hand before her face Sohe Why would you have that Passion live again Which when you could reward you did disdain In pity Madam do not press me more To suffer Shipwrack twice upon one Shore Solo. I told you Herod forc'd me to that Crime Sohe Force which once aw'd you may a second time Solo. But to repeat a Sin few dare consent Of which they once did really repent Sohe Herod I know will make you soon repent Of that Divorce you to your Husband sent Solo. Brother and King Husband of best degree Are empty Names to one that loves like me Do but declare that I possess your Heart Then all the rest trust to my care and Art Those who oppose me I 'll to Death pursue And in vast Crimes shew as vast Love for you Sohe So much your Servant I resolve to be That you shall never act a Crime for me Solo. Perfidious Man since you my Love disdain I 'll
tear you hence where you too long did raign All those Objections you to me did move Were now I see to triumph o're my Love And when all Obstacles I would subdue I find my greatest nay my Only You. Sohe Were I as proud or false as now you say I might with ease you by your Love betray But by my Faithfulness I make you shun Crimes which would make you hate your self when done Ah Madam 't is severe to use me thus We give not Laws to Love but Love to us Could we at will quench or revive â—is Flame You 'd kill that Love which now you blush to name If what I say cannot your wrath asswage Here in my Blood be pleas'd to drown your Rage Opening his Arms. If over Love I could the Victor prove To whom I give my Life I 'd give my Love Solo. Too deep a wound thy bold contempt affords Ere to be heal'd by Fawnings and by words Since thou with scorn my proffer'd Love dost brand 'T were too great Death to perish by my hand Striking her Breast Thus with one blow Love's Image I deface Revenge do thou ascend and take the place In thy black Empire few successless prove Whose Hearts are fill'd with Rage as once with Love Solome goes out Sohe I see her fury cannot be withstood She will allay this tempest in my Blood Yet to my Death 't is nobler to submit Than to Contract a guilt which merits it Sohemus goes out The Scene the first obscure Grotta Enter Antipater Pollio Ant. Disswade me not by all my hopes I swear Nothing shall hinder me to wait on her Poll. Your Life in doing it will hazard run Ant. 'T will run more hazard if it be not done For Life on no account to me is dear But only as it does belong to her Poll. Lose not that Life which for her sake you prize Ant. Ah 't is not Life while banish'd from her Eyes To them Phaltiel and Samias Phalt. Sir from the Judgment-Hall we now are come Where forty noble Jews receiv'd their doom Th' Arabians putting many to the Rack Which in the Plot did not at all partake The rest urg'd by a Vertue most sublime The guiltless clear'd and did confess their Crime But those which were absolv'd did boldly say They 'd rather perish than be sav'd that way Sam. Never did men so generously contend Each would have lost his Life to save his Friend Ant. My Father's Crown and Life in danger lies Attempted thus by them who Death despise Sam. He that in this great Action led the way Was Abner's Father aged Barzillai All hop'd the favour Herod shews the Son Would for the Father a Reprieve have won But as we came out of the Hippodrome The Orders that he first should dye were come Ant. What is this Abner for whose sake you thought My Father might from his revenge be brought Since my disgrace he did to favour climb Phalt. To draw him Sir at length requires much time He is to give his Character in short In War most fierce most humble in the Court Who merits favour yet obtains it not In him unask'd an Advocate has got Respect for him he in all hearts has bred Because it is not sought but merited Malice does fear such Vertue to pursue Which makes him favour'd without Envy too Enter Hazael hastily who takes Antip. aside Haz. Tamar your Trust did with such Joy receive And in such Raptures learnt you were alive That in disguise as you desir'd she 's gone To Nathan's Tomb to meet you there alone Your stay with her she begs may be so short As none may mind her absence from the Court Where over her there are suspicious Eyes Ant. My Joys from this blest meeting take their Rise My generous Friends excuse me for one hour I 'm drawn from hence by Love's Resistless Power Mean while disperse your selves in several ways For this rough Justice must a Tempest raise And drive into despair the furious Jews What ere you learn let me soon hear the News Ant. and Haz. go out hastily Phalt. I 'll try to stay him Sam. Do not 't is in vain Reason and Love never together reign Sam. Phalt. and Poll. go out The Scene is the Palace-Garden Enter Herod and the Queen Her 'T is to Agrippa Madam that I owe At once my Liberty and Kingdom too With such success he did my Cause debate As he did alter what was thought my Fate Queen Does it not meanly in a Monarch show Both those to a Proud Roman King to owe. But to his Subject thus in Debt to run Is what I should elect by Death to shun Her Freedom you seem and Empire to abhor Queen No I love both but I love Glory more For those who do not Glory more esteem Than Life and Empire cannot merit them Her You my Return so coldly entertain As if some other in your heart did reign Queen I for your absence had no cause to mourn Nor can I joyful be for your Return Neither in me had reason to prevail Since I but change my Jaylor not my Jayl Your part Sohemus acted you being gone And now you are return'd you act your own Her While Rules of Honour you on me obtrude You quite forget your Debts of gratitude 'T was I that rais'd you to my Bed and Crown When all your House were by their Fate cast down Queen You made them Victims to your Pride and Hate And then ascribe their Ruins to their Fate With them I rather would have lost my Life Than be Condemn'd to live their Murtherers Wife Her Madam there are affronts which press so near That 't is beyond the strength of Love to bear Queen And there be Loves which so offensive are That to be hated were more pleasant far Her Take heed your Death may end so bold a strife Queen You should not threaten me with Death but Life Her Oh Cursed Herod to give all thy heart To her who is unworthy of a part Queen 'T is hard to credit I have all your heart Sure Mariana does possess a part Love that divided is must quickly fall Her Then Mariana shall possess it all Unworthy 't is of Monarchs nay of Men To pay their Loves where they 're not lov'd again He merits scorn who tamely scorn endures Yes I 'll recal my heart as you do yours Queen The losing such a heart should I take ill Which you can give and take when ere you will Pray teach me too how I should grieve for it Yet such a Passion is for her most fit Whose Family you for her sake thought good To waft to Heaven through a Sea of blood Of this new Love let this new proof appear By the like passage pray Sir send me there The greatness of your Love will more be seen In making me your Martyr than your Queen Her Spight of affronts so sensible and high Yet for your Beauties sake you shall not dye Since while you scorn me