and if deep enough bring a certain Cure Phil. This way Gentlemen Hip. We shall follow Sir Exeunt omnes ACT. II. SCEN. II. Enter Eucracia Leucanthe Dion Gillippus Cremnofeild and Zenon Leuc. NOble Gillippus thus to venture your self and fortunes in our hazard is an obligation we know not how to pay for the preparation you speak of brings our certain ruine if by treaty we cannot appease his fury Gil. Pray Madam from whence springs his anger Euc. 'T is just you know the cause of this War that thus venture your self into the dangers of it this Island blest beyond our Neighbours with a fruitful peace drew us into a consideration how we came to be so happy and in the search we found Ambition had no dwelling here for our custome admits no one man chief which kept all from that sin our Government is here in the hand of a Priest and Judge which are chosen by lot not faction and their power remains to them during life if they obey our Laws the breach of one of which Laws has begot this danger for when our Predecessors made their vow to peace a Law was then enacted to prohibit our taking Arms but in our own defence Leuc. This Law the King credits not for when we return'd it as the Reason that forbad us to yield that aid to him he then implor'd he says we urg'd it but to hide our Treachery and concludes we assisted his Enemy because we would not fight for him so that now having labour'd through that storm that threatn'd Sicily his rage bends this way Dion And at a time when we have neither Arms nor Counsel to defend us now Madam the punishments your Fathers have call'd down pursue us banish'd for abusing the Oracle and trust repos'd in them Theagines being chief Judge and Memnon chief Priest of this Island their Counsel and your Brothers swords were aids which we shall best finde when to our despairs we feel the want Cremn. Yet let us not quit our selves when we must fall the dearer we sell our lives the greater fame will wait us nor have our men forgot to fight though we have left to invade Gil. Spoke like a Souldier How is the Town fortifi'd towards the Harbour for there your danger will begin Cremn. 'T is no regular Fortification yet 't is in defence Gil. Madam I beseech you remove your fears they are ill omens here Speak Courage you know not what Miracles we may act the night comes on apace pray retire to your rest while Cremnofeld Dion and my self go set the Watch and provide for the entertainment of these strangers that come so rudely without inviting Euc. We 'll go and joyn our strength of prayer with our Arms which I hope will protect us though they fail to conquer them Gil. I 'll but order my Galleys to joyn with yours and be ready in the Harbour to board 'em as they come stragling in then I 'll meet you upon the Guard Dion Eucratia is the Word to night Farewell Ex. all but Gil. Gil. Farewell shallow Fools Think ye Gillippus will sell his bloud for airy honour No 't is Revenge or the satisfying some other Lust engages me therefore I 'll to my Galley and while this dark protects us command Zenon to lanch from the Harbour and in a little Creek ly loose and undiscover'd with his Galley 't is wisdom to secure a Retreat nor will I again put my happiness in the power of Slaves whose Treachery wrack'd my soul and depriv'd me of the pleasures I had promis'd to my self in the embraces of the fair Lysimella but these faces have remov'd that pain for he that like me loves beauty where e're he meets it sows his Love and when he enjoys it reaps his Mistress ACT. II. SCEN. III Enter Lysimella and Philon Lys. WAs the Fleet within sight of Land this morning Phil. Yes Madam they hung about the Isle of Asmarae these four days kept back by contrary Windes Lys. When returns the Galley that came from my Brother Phil. This Tide she puts off Lys. This opportunity then will advance my Design Have you fitted those Prisoners with a Disguise Phil. Yes Madam Lys. Hark what 's that a Lute Are they musical Phil. One of 'em plays and sings Lys. Prithee let 's hear A Song FOnd Pausanes let not thy Love aspire To a hope of coming higher But let thy faith grow under a Cloud Of being not allow'd And still pursue thy Love till she like well To know it but thou not tell Next thy care must be she not perceive Thou believ'st sh' has given leave Thy love and suffrings thus being humbly told And not a sigh too bold Nor with a look speak or let a fear be proud To be discern'd lest thou love too loud Whilest fairly thus thou do'st thy love pursue Pretending nothing due Who knows but that in time her heart may grow To wish thee well whether she will or no By such soft steps as these and slow degrees And ever on his knees Pausanes still shall approach his bliss But not come neer enough to miss But at a distance look and love And see Lysimella far above Yet not wish her descending to my sense Or hope of meeting but by influence Lysimel. Call him hither Now Lysimella arm thyself with Exit Philon resolution that thy sex may not still be call'd weak nor thou yield to thy passion lest this god in a cloud deceive thee and force thee with his yieldings he sings his actions and acts his opinions which makes him a dangerous friend here he 's one that boldly dares yet humbly loves he struck his Master and bow'd to me and when his rage had fill'd his eyes with fire he sighing turn'd and looking this way in languishing streams quench'd their rising flames Oh power of honour that makes this gallant in him and honour in me not to return his love it starts me to find honour pleas'd still to confound our Reason and impose upon us an obedience to her Laws when Nature and Reason plead against it but see they come ACT. II. SCEN. IV. Enter Philon with Hipparchus and Pausanes like common Souldiers Paus. DO thou speak while I collect my self yet do not why should I refuse by my disorder to speak her power if He sees Lysimella and her woman she deserve my love I 'me certain she may command my fears nor is it a dishonour to shake here 't is not I tell thee Hipparchus it is not these are valiant fears and I 'll speak to her even what my heart sends out for by my life all that I resolved of I have quite forgot Hippar. But do not rashly tempt her to a scorn Paus. Scorn Oh no Hipparchus if ever her softness hath felt Loves power she knows his proper language is free prose and their distractions wrap the powerfull'st truth confin'd Verse tells us they are too much themselves nor is he afflicted who can compose his sufferings See where
Brother has no ends beyond his Honour it cannot be he should forget mine and his own injuries or so bury a Brothers and a Fathers loss but if absence can do all this yet his Honour is with him and that may tell him how glorious in story a Slave appears whilst he keeps his Honour and how mean and poor that Prince is that sells it for his passion Facertes aside Excellent Maid Madam I am sorry my discourse displeas'd you Cicil. I would I were with him or I would I could but write to him Facert. Madam if you 'le please to write I 'le deliver it him Cicil. No Sir that would be too great a trouble for I believe those Occasions which drew you hither are of more consideration then a letter Facert. None of such importance as to serve my Prince 'T is true I have a Comrade a Prince that has disguis'd himself into that condition and is resolved under that private habit to see the world a scurvy Accident befel him to day upon the Mole at the Slaves Mart where he 'scaped hardly with his life some wounds he has too which will retard him I fear till my return Cicil. Was it not this morning a young man brown-hair'd Facert. Yes it was about a slave he saw and fell in love with and while he stay'd for money to redeem her another bought her I was not at the beginning but I thank my fate I came time enough to his Rescue Cicil. Is he safe then Facert. Yes Madam but so impatient for fear some violence should be offer'd to her I am now going in search of her for I know he 'le find no Peace till he has gain'd her freedom Cicil. Is he a Prince say you and in love with that Slave Facert. Yes Madam and now his soul labours in pain to know what condition she is of but I hope his flame is made of young mens fire such as will not last Cicil. Why do you hope so Facert. Because I have the honour to be his friend and though I serve his passion yet I should be loath to see him continue his Love for a Slave that has nothing but miseries for his Honour to work upon Cicil. A Prince then all my Prayers fall not to the Earth nor lose their way 'twixt heaven and my miseries Facert. Your prayers Madam how under pardon are you concern'd in his love or birth Cicil. You are a Souldier and by your honour I conjure you you are a Sicilian and now I le take the power you gave and command you or by my Brother and his friendship I enjoyn you Facert. What Madam Cicil. Nothing nothing ye gods whither am I falling down She stops and turns from him down Woman All the pleadings of my Sex be gone I will not be a slave to my Passion Facert. Nor will I be so rude as to press a Secret from you yet your Brother Madam should not serve you more faithfully nor more willingly then I Cicil. I must not no I will not yet I durst tell you but 't is not like Cicilia nor the Laws that she has ever followed Facert. Madam your name has given Laws and Cicilia's Acts have ever stood Examples as unquestioned as unimitable and by your self I beg this trust Cicil. Then as you are a Souldier take it and protect it I know no guilt why should I fear I was that slave he fought for and I rejoyce the man I honour is so favoured of the Gods Facert. O Madam this is a blessing beyond my hopes dare you trust me to discover who you are I 'le first sound whether his Love aim with honour and by degrees work upon him till I have found the secrets of his heart he shall despair too and in fear spend some days But at length dare you not let him know there is a hope pray leave it to me I 'le see all the Laws of Love observ'd he shall doubt and hope and you shall defer his Joys But still She walks and looks down he follows her I 'le wish your Love may increase too for I know he 'le deserve it Cicil. Sir I have not said I love nor will not till I hear him say so first I confess I hope he loves and what that hope can be call'd I acknowledge Facert. Then all my Joys are full Nay my Sister you must not turn away Cicil. Sister Facert. Did I say Sister Cicil. Yes and if my Ears abuse me not this morning you call'd me sister Facert. Then I 'le hide my self no longer from thee and since you could confess to a stranger you hop'd he loved I claim so He pulls off a patch from his eye He shews her a Ring much trust as to confess you love will this satisfie you who I am I mean to give it to the Prince Cicil. Oh my Brother why did you hide your self from me is it true you told of your self are you in love shall not I know your story that I may rejoyce in your joys Facert. Thou shalt know all but let me not now defer the Prince's joy who waits without and suffers in the doubts which longing love brings Cicil. The Prince without is that a truth pardon me for since you have deceiv'd me once it is lawful to suspect Facert. Yes and there is another truth which I durst not discover till thy love warranted it me But now know the man thou hated'st is the man thou lovest for Virgilius is that Prince but when thou hast made an acquaintance with him thou wilt confess thy ignorance only could hate him Cicil. Virgilius then I am miserable Facert. Do not say so but take a Brothers knowledge of him I have tryed him friend and enemy and by both find him pure and I conjure you give me your griefs and believe my love before your hate of the man you love Cicil. Is it Virgilius then Facert. By thy self it is he Cicil. Swear not unworthy witness the Gods that saw and piti'd not my griefs with what pain I lost thee yet that was nothing compar'd to this affliction that finds thee thus Go boast to thy friend what success thy treachery assisted by a Brothers interest has gain'd upon a Sister o'recome with misery Facert. Why do you accuse me thus have I injur'd you is it a fault to tell you your opinion wrongs a gallant man Cicil. Were he a God and his friendship of so sovereign a nature it would protect us against their rods when with a plague they make a curious search amongst men were he this yet in thee and me 't were sin to sacrifice to him and I would sooner oppose that plague which only wounds my mortal part then meet Virgilius as a friend Facert. Why do you conclude me so unworthy as to call him friend without a satisfaction Cicil. Thou art not Facertes he knows there can be no satisfaction did he not ruine our Country fell not my aged Father under a Roman sword is not Lucius
Where 's the Prince Virg. Here how fares Facertes Facer. Well onely a little scratch'd Paul Sir I hope you believe I had no hand in this Treachery Virg. No Madam we know the unworthy cause Cicilia What was it Facer. All our Joyes within this minute had a cloud on them and I confess I was afraid it had hid my Sisters faults whilst I fear'd a mistake of Justice had betray'd thee to a Murther yet then in his wounds the Prince was himself and collected I chid my mistrust see he bleeds still do's not that expiate This is twice he has shed it in sacrificing to thy liberty and now to be angry is wilfull and humor not honour Cicilia Do you command Cicilia shall obey for I confess the Prince is Master of that honour I but talked of will you mediate a pardon for the Injuries my Passion threw upon him and I shall joy to find I was mistaken Virg. O Madam do not speak of pardon for your Innocence knows not the way to that Injury I could not forgive But I will not talk for I should hate my self if I had words to express this Joy Paul Ha! The Prince slain and Olympia dead as you love your safety haste hence he whom your Justice has found is the Vice-Roy's Son and its present death if you be taken Facer. No distraction The Galley is ready and waits us at the Mole thither we 'll immediately Sister dare you yet put your self into the Princes Protection Cicilia Yes but not now when I am free I will and as I refus'd at first because it was early so now 'cause it is forced and looks like giving upon the Death-bed and I would be loath to become the Princes Legacy Virg. I beseech you let not a nicity interrupt my Joyes but trust me with your protection till I have made good my vowes to your Brother whose Joyes my Affairs have deferr'd But when you see him possessed of his Country then I 'll kneel for a Blessing in the fair Cicilia dare you bid me hope Cicilia I promise to do what honour shall warrant me and when these wounds are heal'd I shall not call it weakness that makes me yield to my passion Facer. This Cloud is blown over by Fate and now I 'll smile and prophecy through all our wounds and tears a joyfull issue Virg. We 'll for Sicily first the Vice-Roy being dead they dare not refuse my Authority besides if they do the Army is mine and that shall secure Facertes Madam what Commands have you to enjoyn me that I may return this favour Paul When you appear'd a private Man and compass'd with dangers you had a power here which now is turn'd to duty and I beg a protection in your company for the Prince was known to have an Interest here and to be found dead in my Garden will bring a certain ruine upon me For that I am Innocent will be no guard but I shall fall now to expiate my other faults and I confess I would fain live now for I am certain I repent and shall ever sacrifice to the Prince Virgilius as my good Genius Cicilia Sure we shall not deny you a safety to whom we owe all ours Facer. No Complement but this way through the Garden to the Galley the wind is somewhat high Virg. The Clouds are black we 'll keep under the shore that if need be we may put in upon the Coast of Calabria Facer. Not I as I live Virg. Let me beg that Olive branch sign of Peace and witness He refuses to lead his Sister all I joy more to be thus bound then to have conquer'd Sicily Exeunt omnes ACT. V. SCEN. I. Enter Cilius solus Cilius THe Captain has refused to give me the freedom of her I Love but if the Lieutenant keep his word I shall make him repent it at as sad a rate as I bear my misery 't is not Love sure that afflicts my Heart for I have heard 'em say That it is a soft and gentle Passion which strokes and courts the Mind and his Cilius lies down service perfect freedom for Love is both the Famine and the Food none of these chains afflicts them I have seen Women and Boyes play with this Power 'T is the sport of Virgins and yet their Hearts last Ages Nay they can be false too and yet not lose one Grace nor one Beauty falls Even the perjur'd Lovers weare their quiet Minds and fair Faces still whil'st I pine and wither under these two dayes misery I cannot eat nor sleep since I saw her and my frinds are irksome to me I love loanness and hunt Corners and prize a thought of being her slave more then a Conquest over the world Yet I stammer still and cannot speak sence when my griefs would tell her the story of what I ail I have lost my Courage too of late for by all our Gods I start and tremble when I see her Nay I am a Dog if I do not weep when I behold her no Boy at School has his tears readier then I I could weep like froward Children This makes me mad to find my self abandoned by all the Gods whose ends I cannot guess nor why they send me this new way to misery Enter Lieut. Lieut. How Sir upon the ground up Sir the Souldiers are prepared and expect your presence only to finish the work The slaves too are loose and privately arm'd and when he is once aboard give but the sign and be Master both of him and her Fie Sir what means this dejection up for shame Cilius See Lieutenant I am grown the obedient'st thing that He helps him up ever sigh'd himself away O Lieutenant kind old Friend if we miscarry in this design I am lost for ever for I am become the wretched'st thing thy heart can fancy Prithee pray He leans upon him Lieut. Bondue pray you have found your Man indeed Cilius The Angry Gods to send Men and bold wounds not cowardly thoughts and Women when they will call Cilius to the Earth again Lieut. Death what ayle you Sir Cilius Oh Friend this trouble of my Mind is sent like some new disease to scourge thy Friend and act what sword and sickness could not do and my despair will throw me upon some horrid Crime against which 't is in vain to oppose or Armes or Virtue The Tyrant-Boy Lords it o're my Heart and now he has wounded me will make me kiss the Dart Lieut. Oh! is this it you complain of Let me know Man or boy that dares wrong you By this hilt I will send him on a cold Errand Cilius Thy threats are vain for my griefs are a disease I never felt before The remedy too is hid from Gods and Men the Maid the lovely Maid thou gav'st me Lieut. A pox on her the Wench is she the cause was she not sound Sir Cilius Sound Lieut. I sound by this hand for all that I know she was I am a Dog if I touched
live By our Gods but to serve you he should not What ho Lieutenant Sirrah what was it you said to disturb this calm Enter Lieu. and two Souldiers Lieu. Faith little Sir something that tended to the use of handsome women Cil. Slave didst thou look upon her and not kneel by her self I swear purer then which our Temples shew nothing if any act or word of thine shall henceforth pay less reverence here then at the Altar thou art Earth mark me this shall wound the into Earth He lays hand on his sword Lieu. Sir it shall and I 'll call it justice death has taken six I think and is drunk with her beauty a pox upon me I must be praising her forsooth Soph. Sir you need not threaten the reward is not worth the hazard and I am safe Cil. The reward oh that it were to be purchas'd at the rate of Kingdoms then the sword might gather those Beauties but they are neither within the compass of conquering nor dying for else I durst say after all my wounds and triumphs see your slave but now I am lost in my despairs Soph. Sir Truth has such affinity with truth that I can scarce hide one from you which I fear will be displeasing Cil. To serve you is the first thoughts of my heart and since I cannot my self be happy let me contribute my Power to make you so dare you tell me who you are Enter a Souldier Soph. A vow forbids me Sould. Sir the Captain expects you Cil. Me I 'll wait him presently Lieutenant see you cheerish your first act and with honour treat this Lady and you shall command me your pardon fair one our Captain commands me hence but you shall be safe from all dangers but what your sadness brings and I shall be proud to be call'd yours though despis'd Soph. Witness heaven all that honour can spare me is yours And therefore I beg you will not injure me to say I despise you When we have not we cannot pay and I shall mourn to think I must dye your Debtor Cil. Madam But I can admire and sacrifice in thoughts pray command me to do something for you oh that these five tedious days were wasted that without a treachery I might say you are free but if you can find a strength to resist these miseries till then By our Gods you are as free as they and as readily I 'll obey you Sophia Sir your first bounties make me happy and since I have your protection for my Honour all the rest when they are blown over bring but a pleasure in the relation Cilius I must go There is a necessity that forces me to obey I cannot else command your safety Lieutenant Lieut. Sir Cilius Need I say again Protect this Lady Lieut. No Sir By this hand he hath gelt me with a look Madam will it please you to walk Exit Cilius Sophia Yes Sir I le follow you and I hope I shall not be asham'd to follow my Facertes whose Soul I think holds Intelligence with this Souldier and were it not that I been accustomed to see such Virtue this would start me Exeunt omnes ACT. II. SCEN. I. Enter Nigro wounded and Cicilia holding him by the Arm Nigro FLy oh fly and save your self Madam This Piety will give wings to your Innocence for it is just ye Powers A noise of fighting within by Miracle to save that Miracle Cicilia No Father The fears and nicities of our Sex I have long since banish'd hence and so many have been my dayes of mourning that I thought not to have shed a tear for any new misery But this is a loss I could not foresee and by surprize this grief has got into my heart look if I have not tears left Oh! ye Heavens Where is that Justice and Mercy we sacrifice to Why were you absent when his sword strooke in your own cause He faints Wounds and Age There is a kind of Sacriledge in this Murther and I could be wicked in my anger to see his faithful youth preserv'd thus to a punishment and instead of a reward see him pursu'd like the wicked and his Age set in Blood Nigro O excellent Maid let not my ruine beget faults in thee A noise within nor do thou thus repine at the last and greatest of my Honours is it not better to sink thus Then blushing say I surfeited or go shaking out with an Ague like a Coward School-Boy to my Grave Fairest I have been bred a Souldier and had it been as noble to yield as conquer I could have died as easily as kil'd Your Hand Madam for I find I faint Why should I grieve to die that have this to lay me in the Earth O weep not By this last smile I conjure you weep not But let your sadness die and my Memory live For witness that power to whom I am now offring my self as my last Sacrifice I have all that dying Nigro could wish am I not blest with my Countries cause to die in while a Princess mourns at my Funeral and an Angel Virgin is He swounds She looks sadly upon him They seize Cicilia sent to close mine Eyes Cicilia He 's dead Enter the Vice-Roy and Souldiers the Vice-roy is wounded and taken he falls 1. Sould. Hands off This is my Prisoner 2. Sould. She 's finely built I think she was furnished for the Mart Crabb I le have her Cloathes I spy'd them first 1. Sould. I le have her and let whose will take the rest I desire but to be lost in the wood with her for a night and let him take her that finds her in the morning 2. Sould. He were a bold fellow that would come after thee Crabb Come leave this squabling lest the Lieutenant come and then you get not a bit 1. Sould. Faith and thou art in the right and I confess I would be glad to find a way to be revenged for the last he took from us 3. Sould. I could tell you how to do it and profitably too if you would all take my counsel 2. Sould. Propose propose 3. Sould. Then quit your thoughts of this dainty bit and le ts away with her and the rest to Naples and sell 'em This fine Points to Cicilia thing shall yield Money that will buy Wine and Wenches that bring no fears along with 'em This gay thing should we touch her forbidden fruit we were damn'd and we are sure our Lieutenant will pursue us with fire and sword All Agreed Agreed 3. Sould. Thus rigg'd then le ts away But we had best leave one to tell our Captain we are put to Sea in pursuit of a Galley that bore the Roman Eagle that will take off suspition while we are absent then we may return and say they out sail'd us 2. Sould. I le stay but remember my share 3. Sould. What dost thou think we are Thieves amongst our selves Come help draw these dead Bodies into the Wood we 'l bury them when we return
Capt. Give him a Bowl Tullius drinks Tul. Give me another give me a third Lieut. Farewell Farewell look you be dead to morrow or by these hilts I 'll apply my Dagger to thy side and that will be a certain cure come Sir will you please to go Tul. Captain Captain stay a little and see me die give me another Tullius is drunk Cup Cap. By this light the Rogue is drunk Tul. Now do I not see any Reason why I should die Lieut. But I shall give you a Reason to morrow Tul. To die with all this Sack about me No I am immortal let those die that are dry Hum give me my sword Capt. Come leave him he is drunk Lieut. How now what would'st you have As they go away be rises out of his bed and reeles after them to the door Tul. You 'll give me leave to wait on my Captain down Capt. No Ceremony good Tullius no Ceremony Tul. It shall be yours Captain indeed it shall be yours Lieut. Alass Sir give him leave to take cold Capt. Nay if it must be so I obey Tul. Nay why Lieutenant what do you take me for how do you think I have been bred Exit Captain Lieut. Remember to morrow Tul. Remember to morrow let to morrow remember me ACT. IV. SCEN. V. Enter Facertes solus Facer. THis is the Place Love be thou propitious and let my fears prove false hereabout should be the door Exit Enter Paulina and Cicilia Paul It is true I have promis'd him when he comes to deliver you but he has vow'd to use you with Honour do you not know him Cicilia No Madam this is the first time I ever saw him Paul Pray what Country claimes your Birth Cicilia Greece Madam Paul Pray grow not in Love with your griefs but give some part of 'em to me that now but begin to be sad Cicilia Why should you be sad that know no grief of Mind have you lost Friends or forfeited Freedom Paul Fair one I am more a slave then you for I am bound by faults and none can set me free your miseries are but for a time and I can release 'em and yet cannot command my own Fate Cicilia What strange misery can you apprehend do you love unfortunately Paul No I love happily but I have fallen unfortunately and no length of dayes can set a period to my misery I love but cannot hope a return for I should hate him I love if he could love me yet as his Honour forbids him that and me all hopes to enjoy him so if he be a perfect Man he hath Mercy too and he may pity and forgive though not love Paulina Cicilia I would ask another Question but that I am afraid it would search too near your griefs dare you trust me with the knowledge who it is you love can I serve you Paul You must not and therefore cannot for it is the stranger that fought for you When first my Eye met his it shot a flame in here and the nobleness of that Act which was sacrific'd to you shook me and waked my sleeping Honour and I began to find desires that till then were strangers here for they had more of love then blood in them What 's the business One knocks Enter Baud. Baud. There 's a young fellow without desires to speak with you Paul Your pardon Exit Paulina Baud. I have spoil'd your sport if all hit right ACT. IV. SCEN. VI. Enter Facertes and Paulina Facert. MAdam I come from that stranger that this morning your Charity preserv'd what directions do you command me in his affairs of Love Paul Sir you are welcome and from him all is so This night I would desire him meet in the garden where he shall receive her Facert. I must beg the favour to speak with that Lady I have a message to impart to her Enter Cicilia Paul You shall command any thing my power can serve you in there she comes and I 'le wait upon you straight Exit Paulina Facert. What shall I say to her my joys have rob'd me of my Tongue Cicil. It is he that this morning nam'd me in the street Sir have you any commands for me Facert. No Madam I come to serve if you 'le please to enjoyn and though a poor Sicilian yet I know what duty all that wretched Nation owes your Excellence Cicil. Me Sir sure you mistake Facert. No Madam I cannot mistake nor can any miseries so cloud your Beauties but through all the Innocency and Majesty of such a Princess will appear sure you will not deny the name of Cicilia She looks about her Cicil. To you Sir I will not yet I conjure you to conceal me and let me know to whom I stand endebted for this Civil opinion Facert. My name is not worth your knowledge but my fortunes I boast of for I had the honour to be a Souldier and a Prisoner with your Princely Brother and fell with him the same day when we lost the battel at Siracusa Cicil. Who Facertes where is he at Rome Oh tell me how do's he bear the Insolence of that unworthy Conquerour It is many years since I saw that beloved Brother did he never speak of me Facert. Yes Madam I have often heard him mention you with Tears and like a Brother give your Character to the fair Sophia sister to Virgilius who saved his Life when he was doom'd to the hook Cicil. The Hook Oh ye powers why do you let this wicked Tyrant thus triumph o're our miseries But for Virgilius that false seed of the old Tyrant that 's young and false and cruel in his youth let him find some curse strange as his wickedness Facert. Madam upon my life you injure him for my soul to pawn he loves your Brother and had no share in that guilty Triumph for he was then in Gallia Cicil. Oh thou art deceiv'd he envies my Brother and cannot love and when he could not by force conquer him by falshood he sought his ruine Facert. I perceive Madam you are a stranger to the Prince's affairs at Rome Cicil. What are they new miseries Facert. Have you not heard how at the Triumph the fair Sophia and he in a look chang'd hearts and that now he has his freedom Cicil. No this is the first time that I heard of it Facert. Madam I saw him free and by his friendship with Virgilius 't is hoped he shall marry the Princess Sophia But this is a secret I dare not give to any ear but your own Cicil. My Brother and Virgilius friends 't is false it must be false I know he is too much my Brother to make a Friendship there Facert. His Love to the Sister and her merits who has a virtue equal to her Beauty made him forget the injuries which Virgilius in ambitious honour not malice threw upon him besides it will be a guard for Sicily hereafter and Facertes gains his ends upon them Cicil. Pray no more of this discourse I hope my
his hopes Enter Virg. Facert. No no give 'em him when you see him Exit Facertes and pulls to the door Virg. 'T is just you fly me 't is just you scorn me and here I stand mine own judge my own accuser and executioner too if you frown and bid me strike Cicil. Sir you mistake me if you think I scorn you there are other ways and just ones to be revenged without a fault Virg. Facertes you do not covet a revenge more then I thirst to give it and now I know what you desire with wings I 'll haste to serve you Cicil. You cannot her fruits are seldom sweet unless we pluck them our selves Virg. Let me beg you will not pay such a rate as your innocence for it can you not forgive Is there nothing can expiate what my fate was only guilty in for I was never faulty to you Cicil. Nothing my honour tells me I must not find a peace But my heart tells me I belie it Aside Virg. Oh do not frown can you not be just but you must be angry too The Judge that speaks the Malefactors fate and tells him to morrow thou shalt dye he do's it because it is just not that he is pleas'd with the wretches misery Oh be you but so merciful let my doom come but as a necessity from you and not appear to affect my miseries Cicil. Brother Facertes what shall I say Cicilia be thy self or thou hast lost the glory of thy revenge Virg. No divinest do not wrong me so as to think I plead for life 't is for your pity onely that I beg do not you destroy me command some one that the act but addes to his guilt stain not with blood that innocence nor with cruelty punish cruelty Cicil. No Sir I know your friend has said enough to secure you I cannot be cruel but since such a sullen fate attends me that my passion will rob me of the revenge I hop'd to have had on you I 'll take it on my self and if thou lovest through my own wounds strike thy false heart which I see yet have no power to punish Virg. False oh do not say so any thing but false Cicil. Did'st thou not plead thus till thy Arguments prevail'd with my Brother that Brother under whose Sword thou fellest and found'st protection though his enemy did'st thou not vow there he should not be led in triumph who else would not have lived for he defended himself only to let thy pride see thou could'st not overcome him and when he had taught thee with his sword that he could conquer he yielded to let thee see he durst dye Virg. Dare you be judg'd by that Brother Cicil. Yes when he is himself but these injuries are silent when I call to mind that barbarous rage that did not spare the aged snow of my honoured Father What glory could his death add to your conquest whose heart had not blood enough to stain the sacrilegious weapon Virg. Oh! Madam for these misfortunes which call me their head I plead the duty I owed a Father whose Battel I fought and it became me to obey mine as it do's you to mourn yours Cicil. Then to these add the vanity of this journey promising your self a victory over our hearts too and because your sword is forbid in this war alone you undertook the journey as if Virgilius name were enough to slave the world Virg. Madam witness Facertes how full of despairs I obeyed my fate and your misfortunes will quit me of vanity for when they had set a rate upon your beauty when there was a price made for the excellent Cicilia yet then I durst not hope a purchase Vain false and cruel think me any thing but such a monster Cicil. Oh Brother cruel Brother Sir if I have injur'd you I shall teach you to forgive by forgiving greater faults my faith and my faith alas that can neither advantage me nor prejudice Virgilius Virgil. Do not say so 't is the saving balm 't is mercy it self and your faith of me must save me here as mine hereafter Oh Divinest stop not your mercy but let it fall here your eyes are full of pity let that precious dew drop upon my thirsty heart and save me ere despair hath licked all my life thence Turn not away but look upon me as I appear in repentance in the whiteness of my He kneels tears in their Innocency in my Souls Love to Cicilia strewed upon the Earth in submission Behold me and view me not as I stand stained with thy miseries but speak to me and speak mercy Mercy whose figure thy fair self wears and adorns O let her softness guide thy tongue and let my Souls bleeding sadness make thy fathers wounds dumb Cicilia Oh ye gods why did not ye make him Innocent pray Sir Why do you kneel Virgil. For mercy is there no mercy your tears should be He rises friendly can you weep when you are Angry He rises Cicil. No Sir my tears have Prophetique misery and so much weakness in them they deserve your pity Virgil. Oh Madam do not call it weakness This is Charity and her Alms yields a double benefit and adorns as well as saves Oh my fate would you had made me any thing that 's most scorn'd rather then an Enemy here Cicil. That had been too great a Blessing for know Sir you do not more then I wish your Innocence or with sadder thoughts mourn your guilt Enter Facertes Facert. She must not see this Passion Sir pray let your love give way a little to Our safety Paulina is coming and 't will be dangerous by the discovery of yours to put her Love to a despair Sister I hope your Reason has found a way to be reconcil'd to this Prince whose misfortunes I know cannot deserve your hate when your Justice guides pray let her not see you here Cicil. I can forgive him and you But I can ne're forgive my self and something I 'le do shall save my honour Exit Cicilia Facert. Pray Sir put off this sadness and sollicite Paulina to deliver her this Night is she as unsensible of your Love as she appear'd to be Virgil. She is all honour all her self All thy Sister and I happy onely to be more miserable Facert. Pray retire before Paulina comes Virgil. I 'le follow you Facert. This way we shall meet her courage Sir After Parly Womans wars give Quarter still and she cannot long be cruel ACT. IV. SCEN. VIII. Enter Bragadine and Bravo's Bragad. ARe you all provided Barv. Yes Sir how many are they Bragad. Three is the most give me a Pistol 't is about the time she appointed stay here and whistle if she comes I 'le look out Ex. 1. Brav. This wench has every day a Quarrel I kil'd two for her the last Olympick 2. Brav. Marry the gods send her many Quarrels peace Brings us no harvest Who comes here Enter Baud. Baud. The Moon is up and he not come They
are upon departure This Coward will fail me and they will escape and the Rascal will scorn me to death 1. Brav. Who 's there Baud. 'T is I whos 's that the Prince 1. Brav. No Madam but one of his Creatures Baud. Who 's that Ennius why where have you been many a day 1. Brav. Faith I durst not be seen till last night Baud. You promis'd me a visit once but you broke your word 1. Brav. Le ts retire and call my Lord I 'Ie pay it now Baud. Follow me then is my Lord this way 1. Brav. Yes let me guide you Enter Bragadine Bragad. Who 's that passed by 2. Brav. It 's the old Woman that serves Paulina Enter Baud and Bravo again Baud. O are you ready Sir you have stayed the utmost time she expects him with longing thoughts they are all provided and a Gally lies ready at the Mole to convey them away but if your hearts be true we will stay their Journey Bragad. We are all ready and resolute Baud. Follow me then I 'le see you plac'd where they must pass by Bragad. Lead the way ACT. IV. SCEN. IX. Enter Cicilia and Paulina Cicilia WHat return to make you for this good Act I know not But I shall ever admire you for daring in so wicked a Place to be so singly good Paul I that durst be wicked ought not to dispute now but with shame to look upon my faults and offer this as my first sacrifice to witness I repent and may my wishes prove fortunate and make you happy in that Love that makes me miserable Cicil. You cannot be so miserable as I That must love my Aside Enemy Enter Baud. Baud. Madam are you ready they stay at the Garden gate shall I let them in Paul Yes yes and see the gates shut that lead to the street Baud. All is safe pray make haste Paul Wee 'le meet you call at my window Exeunt omnes ACT. IV. SCEN. X. Enter Virgilius and Facertes Facert. THis Moon is friendly come pray let not this cloudy sadness hang upon our Joys you see she consented to put her self into your protection her tears too are your warrant for all Womens storms are past when those showers fall Virgil. I do not now grieve for fear she should be angry but that I am so unlucky as to deserve it and my Friends can witness my heart never sinned against her yet something lies heavy upon it I cannot remove for my fears tell me shee 'l take some Revenge upon her self for you saw it was her Passion not her reason that forgave me Facert. I know her Religion will protect her against her self and she has too much honour to wish health and put poyson in the Cup and though she threatned revenge yet she scorns to take it when she is reconcil'd Virgil. Oh she is too Excellent to be false Peace Whos 's there Enter Baud. Baud. Is the Galley ready they Expect you Facert. All 's ready lead the way Baud. Follow me Exeunt omnes Bragad. within Stand close I hear 'em come Enter Virgil Facertes and Baud again Baud. Stay here while I return with the Key Facert. This is the Garden Bragadine shoots Virgil puts his hand to his eye with a bloody spunge and the blood runs down Facertes draws his sword and takes him in his Arms Virgil. Oh! This may be just but whether it be fair or no Heaven thou see'st Facert. How do you Sir Virgil. Why well Facertes The Bullet but glanced Facert. Oh my sister If thou hast a hand in this Treachery may Plagues suddain and lasting find and sink thee with despairs when mercy flies thee as thou hast done thy honour nor shall all Virgil is still in Facertes Arms the tyes of love or nature prove thy guard nor the mercies due to thy weeping penitence No thy sex shall not protect thee from the Justice of my swoln rage which with sword and words that wound more shall afflict thee Virg. Why dost thou rage and curse her still mistaking that excellent Maid Upon my Soul she has no hand in 't she is too full of Honour to take so base a way to her Revenge or seek by Treachery a life that 's onely worn to serve her and when she frownes may command me put it off Facer. Draw your sword then and take my counsel if your strength fail not and fall as if their malice had been more prosperous He speaks softly to him perchance the Villain Author of this deed lurks here about and expects such a sign ere he dare discover himself Pray Sir Aloud let me bear you home Virg. No Facertes let me die here Virgilius draws his sword and lies down Facer. Unfortunate Youth Murther Villaines where are you you accursed Actors of this black deed do you hide already Cowards dare you not look on your Act Cicilia and Paulina above Cicilia It was my Brothers voice that cry'd Murther Paul I heard a Pistoll where 's Olympia Enter Bragadine Baud and Bravoes Cicilia Heark there 's some body comes Facer. Villaines dare you not yet appear Bragad. Yes fool we dare and laugh upon your miseries Baud. Yes an old Woman will laugh fool thou had'st better have destroy'd thy Mother then with scorn have awaked my Malice now where is all your young wits am not I prov'd a Mother of your Joyes fool I am reveng'd now Cicilia What cry was that Bragad. How now what ailes you Virgilius as he lies runs his sword into the Baud and kills her she squeckes Baud. Oh me oh me I am dead Facer. Then though our miseries be great they are not so ill as I fear'd what moved thee Villain to this base Act Bragad. Revenge fool thought'st thou I could forgive a wound and such an Injury as to have her I call mine possess'd by another Facer. Villain thou shalt dearly pay for this base Act Rise Sir Virgilius rises and kills one of the Bravoes the Truth is now at large discovered Brav. Oh! Bragad. Ha alive Virg. Yes and I hope shall find so much Mercy as to punish thy Treachery They fight Virgilius and Bragadine Facertes and Ennius They are all wounded Bragad. faints and falls Kills him Facertes and Ennius struggle on the ground Facertes kills him Dies Bragad. Draw Ennius we have yet as many swords as they Ennius I warrant you Sir and as good hearts Virg. Traitor thou want'st the cause Cicilia above It is they they are set upon I hear their swords too let 's haste our presence may bring some aid for Heavens sake let us not look on and see them murthered Bragad. Hold as thou hast Mercy hold and as thou hast faults shew Mercy Virg. Yes in this Justice for Justice is ever merciful Facer. There Villain There 's thy treacheries first reward thou art going for thy last Enter Cicilia and Paulina whilst they are fighting upon the ground Cicilia runs to Facertes Cicilia Ha! upon the ground Facertes what accident is this Facer.
far from hoping she should be my prisoner that I would have suffer'd all the miseries of war ere struck one blow against her freedom Seleucus turns sleightly from Melintus Seleu. Here is a Prince whose youthful fire blown with desire to serve your Highness has through thousand dangers this day courted your favour and in his hand you 'll seem more aptly worne Appius Madam though his friendship seem to direct your highness has an interest that commands here and 't is honour enough if you please to let me kiss your hand Clar. Sir civilities are always fruitful and beget civilities if they meet with honour which I hope shall not be wanting to give a a growth to what you venture here Melin. Madam I see 't is not my opinion only but this Lords too that I am unworthy of this honour Clar. If it be an honour Sir wear it you first secur'd it She gives him her hand again Seleu. Will you make your hand the reward of Fortune then and scatter your favours so that they may be had for stooping is that an honour due to the first comer if so I grudge it not for such favours and upon such tyes he may wear else I should be loath to stoop to her that bows to him Clar. You are insolent Melin. Thus Madam be pleas'd to accept your due and then give me leave to exact mine Sir let not your interest here He turns to Seleucus and the opinion you have but a single enemy make you presume to injure me nor so mistake my bounty as to think I have thrown my blood away in vanity for though I set no price upon my wounds and contract not for killing of a Traytor yet I can tell whether I am bid fair or no when I have don 't and 't is nobler far to give a courtesie then sell it under Do you smile it may be Seleucus smiles and turns you have had good markets and such weak chapmen for those few good deeds you have done Seleu. Yes but if thou wert from this place I would make thee pay dear for one which should on thy heart write Thou wert but my factor and all the honour thou art thus proud of but my store Melin. You promise to your self too fair and noises fright only when we are ignorant of the cause and there 's too much in thee to have a dangerous depth Seleucus offers to strike Appius Hold Seleucus Sir when you know his good you will pardon this ill nor do I conceive it an injury to shew by his envy what value he sets upon your glories and I make no doubt when his reason hath purg'd this choler from his honour you 'll find him a healthy friend and his acquaintance not subject to these sickly passions if he does as of a surety command my faith to make this good Melin Sir I can easier bear injuries that I deserve not then receive obligations that I cannot pay for injuries have a cure growing within my reach but obligations I must suffer under their weight if you propose not the remedy too Appius Come embrace Seleucus had not wont to hate the person of an enemy much less fall in love with injuries especially when jealoous honeour begets them upon mistakes among friends They embrace coldly Seleu. Love and Honour farewell to both my ends are the gods I 'll worship now and my Net once thrown I 'l catch 'em though they swim in blood Enter King and attendants Clar. See my royal Father and I have reap'd my belssings ere I have paid my sacrifice thus Sir to the gods I bow in pious obedience here to you King Welcome dear Claricilla rise twice born to a Crown twice parent and twice the issue of my joys live and enjoy all the blessings that my prayers and sacrifice can call down upon thee and you Sir to whom we stand thus oblig'd for unmerited favours since you have left no other waty to return them take the blushes you have begot and be pleas'd to let us know your name and Country that our grateful mentions may not fall like darts thrown at nothing Sure 't is a happy one that hath such store of vertues that she can spare from her helm such a Pilot in the course of honour Melin. Your pardon royal Sir for disobeying your command my Country I dare not tell for as my Parent I would hide her faults and my name is where 't is known so displeasing that I dare not venture it here where I would remain an humble servant King. Come my Claricilla let us not forget the heart to sacrifice unto the hand thus acknowledging the means and forget the power that commands them but remember that the gods though they oft-times are seen but in the success and latter end of things yet their place is first and ought ot be so in our worship Melin In the morning I shall beg leave to visit your Highness Clar. I hope so Exeunt King Claricilla and attendants Melin Sure I have supriz'd my joys they had not wont to come thus naked thus like Angels whose cloathing is all we see the rest a mystery My friend pardon when I forget my self if thou appear'st lost in my joys Seleu. He 's alone and something I 'll do But stay who 's this Timil Prithee call thy bird back again for mine is flown that we may have something to trust to this is the comfort of a Comrade a man may go halfs and be both savers Melin Thou art wounded Timil Why do you wonder I should get a wound I wonder I got no more I am sure I have been where fewer have been dealt ere now and yet more has fallen to my share but by this hand I am glad thou got some of Fortunes goods as they call 'em by this wrack I had a smock too but it tore in taking up what are those that stand so at distance are they enemies or no Mel. Where O no Seleucus gazes in a corner upon them Tim. Why then are they worse for they are friends that will be enemies Mel. They are Enemies to nothing but this days fortune I prithee what subject is there else for their hate or wish but thy wounds and those are things I believe few court else on my Conscience one or other would have mine ere this time Sel. I must take some other time Exit Seleucus Mel. They are gone Tim. Let 'em go And now prithee tell me what was that that she that went in as thou lov'st me her not be ransom'd till I have hung these Fetteres about her for a night By this hand we 'll share Mel. Dost thou know whatt thou hast said Tim. Know what I have said No nor I don't care but pray what I have I said Melint. That thou 'lt be asham'd of when thou knowst of whom Tim. Why I have not ly'd Melinutus and for the Who in woman 't is a thing I look not after when my eye is pleas'd the
Mart because I was wounded no body would buy me the soul of a Slave in their esteem not weighing down his limbs Ye Gods either send me liberty or take your gifts again Honour and her Issue Courage Justice Faithfulness are of no use to me Who would be judg'd by a Slave Courage in Chains what can it hurt or to be faithful of what use when we are not trusted O my fate Why was I born free Had I been bred a Slave I could have sung in Chains nay to have perish'd in them had been dying in my Calling but to fall from greatness and without a fault be punish'd with the guilty nay where the guilty scape False Rhodes my Curse kindle a fire within thee the freedom that my soul brought thither threw me into her dangers which their Cowardice had made such certain ruine in their apprehension that not one amongst them had man enough to look upon their fears I then a God was held because I durst venture thus to become a Sacrifice ACT. II. SCEN. II. Enter Seleucus solus Sel. YE Gods by what ways or marks should men follow what is good when virtue it self does not always keep one path when Claricilla who has all I know of virtue shall quit the God-like attribute of Truth and the Guard which Innocence secures her from impious men with and fly for safety to an Excuse She deny'd my visit at the price of a Ly and at that rate of sin bought a strangers company Olinda assures me he 's at this time with her but why do I thus without dangers bark against him and let this Tree without a Root this Ly stand in my prospect It shall not I will see her and since she can so put off her Honour as to ly for one man who knows but she may ly with two Exit ACT. II. SCEN. III Enter Melintus and Claricilla Mil. YOu have now heard all the passages of my life since that sad day we parted to this joyful hour which if poor Philemon had liv'd to see how happy had we three been Clar. Have you not heard of him since his loss at Rhodes Do you believe him dead Mel. My love makes me believe what I fear for he had many wounds besides I know his Ransom would have pleas'd the Conquerour better than his bonds for they were Pirates but no more of this sad subject now Clar. O Melintus grow not weary of mentioning a Friend though it be sad 't is just and let that bear the weight had Philemon liv'd to have seen me and Melintus lost we should have spent our days in your story ere suffer'd your name to have past un-mention'd Philemon to his Friend a Lamb and in such softness he always wore his Lions heart Philemon whose youth had growth with us a Plant by the same hand set a flower from our own stock and all his sweets akin to us and we ought to be ally'd to his misfortunes too but why do I teach Melintus 't is boldly done to give Laws to him that is such a Master in the rights of friendship She weeps Mel. To let you see I love Philemon I do not grudge him that precious dew and gentle Claricilla to witness my soul hath one consent with yours See I can bear you company in your own Sex Clar. O ye Gods he weeps Melintus weeps What Agony must this noble Youth feel when his Soul sweats such drops Pardon me for thus stirring thy grief Mel. Do not think I left the subject because I was weary of the discourse or could enough mention Philemon that durst be my Friend when 't was certain ruine and now he 's dead I break no trust to tell you the cause was a greater tie than any effect it had Know Philemon was in love with Claricilla and it was with Claricilla and not himself for when by my trust he found your softness had receiv'd impression from my constant love and you were pleas'd to call me your Melintus I became his too and to serve us in our wishes was all the Heaven he aimed at And now my Soul you must either confess me unworthy or else grant such daring courage and such fearful love as Philemon commanded could never sink from the soul of Melintus Clar. Since Melintus hath begun take my confession too know I saw it long ago and decreed rewards of friendship for the noble youth but when 't was beyond my power to cure it had been cruelty to have inquired the pain and therefore would not see what I pity'd And now you have all the secrets of my heart those of joy thy friendship multiplies and those of grief thus thou divid'st the pains Enter Olinda Mel. O lay the whole weight here Ol. Madam Seleucus upon earnest business as he pretends will see you Clar. How will see me Tell him Enter Seleucus and surprizes them Melintus is transported into rage Seleuc. Nothing Madam he knows too much already and though my Anger which Envy and your Cause begot was grown to such a destructive height that I could not rule it till it found mine own ruine in your frown yet a Souldiers envy is no sin nor ought his anger be punished by his friends when he appears not in love with his fault nor seeks to justifie it This day I begg'd leave to crave your pardon for my offence and your Highness refus'd my visit and made an Excuse to admit this Madam 't will be He points in scorn to Melintus no glory to you that you could withstand the sieges which Silvander and my self laid against you by many services when it shall be known you were o'recome by a single one and yielded at first sight to a stranger Clar. Seleucus when I take you for my friend I 'll take your counsel and not till then for the services you urge they have been always drest so in commands that they appear'd unbecoming Sel. Madam you did not look with equal eyes upon them else their passion would have appear'd their greatest beauty and I never spake Loves language more than when I was least a Poet Clar. The love of Subjects to their Prince is duty and those whom we pay we do not thank the Hireling ought to serve Sel. Madam you speak as if I serv'd for bread and forget that Subjects are Heavens servants and 't is the Gods that appoint us Kings and I am doom'd to it 'T is that not want that makes me a Subject which condition your Highness is not exempt from But I wonder what mighty Prince this is that thus vouchsafes to hide himself Clar. This insolence here Mel. Your pardon Madam 't is my Q. your Sex cannot strike and 't was the respect which this place claims made me stand his mark thus long-Now to you who this second time have with scorn look'd upon my temper when a calm has hid it Know in the best of all thy ills thy love thou art a Traitor else thou durst not hope this
my Daughters fault till you might be a witness of it and then you would not wonder at my displeasure when you perceive she could so put off her honour as to leave me lost in my promise to your self and hope of a wish'd Heir to succeed me here Appius Sir I hope some mistake has begot this doubt the Princess ever promis'd a fair return of love to your Majesty and I shall be glad to finde you are deceiv'd King No Sir 't is too true for had not Seleucus his faith been watchful this night she had made her base flight into the loath'd embraces of a Traitor and a Subject nor does she yet know she shall be prevented Appius I am sorry Sir your doubts have so much reason to build upon Manlius whistles Sel. We are call'd Man This way your hand Sel. Manlius do they know how to distinguish me Man Yes I have given them a Sign He leads the King and Seleucus and delivers 'em to the Slaves King Is it long to the time she appointed Man No Sir 't is the hour she commanded me to wait one of you look out and if you spy a fire call that we may approach to the Garden-wall with the Boat Phil. I go Exit Sel. If it be possible let Olinda fall by the board I 'de have her dead she 'll be talking else Enter Philemon Phil. I have made a Light from the Princesses Window Manl. Quickly then set to the Wall and do you hear Rhodian They whisper Phil. Leave that to me Enter Claricilla and Olinda above Clar. Dost think they 'll come Dost thou believe I shall be happy My Love was ever of her bliss afraid Olind. You need not fear I am confident your thoughts will be prosp'rous I hear the water dash Who 's there the Souldier Man Yes 't is I Who 's there Olinda Olind. Yes and the Princess Man Come to the next corner we are all ready be speedy Exit Enter King Appius and Seleucus to them Manlius and Claricilla Man You are safe the Slaves are the men I told you of your Father Appius and Seleucus are all here but be confident Sel. Stand close till they be off the Wall and Olinda come for she is guilty too Enter Manlius Melintus Philemon and Ravack Man Fall'n by the board and not to be found S'death Slave thy life shall answer the neglect Phil. She perish'd by her haste no fault of mine Man Leave your prating Sirrah Madam your pardon for this unfortunate accident your Maid is lost fall'n by chance by the board and drown'd I should not dare to look you in the face after this but that I am confident I shall shew you other Friends that are as dear to you Clar. My Maid lost O set me back again this ill omen foretells a greater danger Man Can there be danger to Claricilla where these Friends are Discovers the King Appius and Seleucus Clar. Ha! Traitor to my Love and me What hast thou done King Thou art a Traitor unworthy no more a Daughter but the sin and shame of my blould Fool that thou art couldst thou thou believe that thy base passion could walk id so close a disguise that my anger could not finde it no thou art deceiv'd and to urge thee to despair know thy obscure Paramours Melintus and Philemon the two Wolves to my heart thou hast thus with safety cut away put off to the shoar and there thou shalt behold their ruine Manlius stands by the King Philemon goes to Claricilla Ravack to Appius they seize them Sel. Yes Put off that 's the Word and then put off hope and in amazement behold the Lightning that 's wrap'd in this swoln cloud which now breaks and in death shoots your several fates King Heaven thou art just and 't is equal to let me fall in the design I laid to destroy those noble youths but for thee I will not look upon such an hated Traitor when I am so near my home Sel. No you must be witness first to the Marriage of this Princess then you shall both be a Sacrifice to our Hymen Clar. Thy wife I smile upon thee thou art so base a thing thou couldst never finde my anger yet my scorn was ever strong enough to strangle thy hopes Sel. Anon 't will be my time to smile when dy'd in thy Father's bloud my Revenge shall force all their Sweets from thee which I will gather in the presence of thy Paramour nor shall he or these have liberty to dy before I have enjoy'd thee but that act once past the Earth shall not redeem their Lives Do you perceive how small a share you are like to have in this Kingdom Appius I am glad to see thee grown to such a height of sin for now my hopes tell me the Gods will not suffer such a Dog to bay them long their Lightning will shoot thee Monster Man Sir stay not to talk but away to Neptune's Temple when we have perform'd what you resolv'd there then to the Gally and end your hunt Sel. Binde them then and let 's be gone ACT. V. SCEN. IX. Enter Timillus above Jacomo below knocking Tim. WHo 's there Jac. 'T is I Jacomo we are lost if you stay this night your Friends aboard are betray'd to the King and the Princess that was this night to meet him is surpriz'd in her journey by the treachery of a Souldier that they trusted and if you attempt not your escape you are lost your Window 's large and stands upon the Haven if you can swim this night leap in and I 'll be ready on the shoar to receive you with dry Cloaths and Horses to convey us to our safety if you stay you perish Tim. Nay I can swim but the season is somewhat too cold for that pleasure I could be glad to have the wounds the mad Dog gave me cur'd without being drench'd in Salt-water but however if you 'll assist me I 'll leap far enough Jac. What hour shall I expect you Tim. At Twelve Jac. Till then Farewell Exit Tim. There 's some comfort yet where there is a way when leaping forth a Window can do 't Well if I get free if ever I come into any company that think it lawful to love any woman longer than a man has use of the Sex they shall geld me By this hand I have lain with a hundred unsound Wenches with less danger than I have look'd upon this wooing this scurvy honourable Matrimony which is so dangerous a thing the very standers by are not safe I must swim but for wishing well to it but from this time either Melintus shall quit his honourable way to his Loves or I 'll leave him to the honourable dangers ACT. V. SCEN. X. Enter Seleucus King Melintus Manlius Ravack Appius Philemon Claricilla and a Priest Seleuc. STand now Priest do your office He take Clar. by the hand Clar. Has this impious Traitor bound the hands of Justice that thus she lets
are why did you land here he durst not have pursu'd us to the harbour my Brothers fleet now in readiness to depart would have protected us Eugene This way the slave ran that went to call for aid Pyrats within cry follow follow Philon Hark Madam w' are pursu'd 't is now no time to talk upon my life it is Gillippus and the bold Pyrat I fear knows the value of the prize he hunts Within follow follow Lysimel. They come take some other way and try if you can divert their chase whilst we take Covert in these woods Exeunt omnes ACT. I. SCEN. III Enter Gillippus Hipparchus and Souldiers of their party Gillip. FOllow Mates for we have in chase the wealth of Kingdoms one whose maiden mine the gods would dig in nor has her virgin earth been wounded yet for that precious metal but keeps her Indies still unconquer'd if we gain her we need sail no more to find uncertain fates she 's prize enough Hippar. Slip not this opportunity then you know not how long fortune will Court us which path took she Gillip. I know not let us divide our selves I 'll take this Exit Gillippus Enter Pausanes and meets Hipparchus Paus. Hipparchus Hipparchus what glorious things were those that fled us as if we durst hurt 'em Hippar. They were handsome women man Paus. Were they but women Hippar. But women no but women What ail'st thou Pausanes stands with his eyes fix'd on the ground Paus. I 'me sure they are more then man for I never saw any of that sex that made me tremble yet these did and with a cold fear the memory dwells in my breast still Hippar. What thunder-struck by a woman courage man Black eyes though they lighten yet they do not use to shrink our He shakes him hearts in the scabbard Paus. These do not use to fight do they If they do by all Hipparchus laughs the gods they 'le conquer me oh Hipparchus do not mock my misery but tell me hast thou seen many such are such formes usual amongst 'em this has Medusas power in a beauteous form and I am chang'd to weeping Marble Hippar. By this good day he 's in love could I be so how happy should I be for I have been pretty lucky in the sex and could I have lov'd all that I have lain with what a share of heaven should I have had Look how he stands now Pausanes what dost mean let fall thy weapon when thou pursu'st a Wench Paus. A Wench what 's that I thought of none Hippar. What is a Wench why the greater part and the handsomest and that they are not the better part of woman is yet to be disputed Paus. How canst thou distinguish 'em how dost thou know a Wench Hippar. How do I know 'em several ways but the best and certain'st is by feeling 'em Paus. But that I know from our rocking in the Cradle it still has been so I should wonder how we two came to be friends ther 's such contrarieties even in our natures that both looking on one and the same heavenly form we should thus from the same subject draw such different thoughts for whilst I was Philosophysing upon her diviner part and preparing how to worship her thou wert casting to pollute her but prithee tell me were it not better to find those beauties that adorn her the cloathing of a perfect goddess then such a falling image Hippar. Faith in serious thoughts which handsome women ought not to be mingled with worship is a good thing but to have them worship me I should think were better But prithee put off this serious discourse now this is no time to talk when we have such prey in chase Paus. Fare thee well but that I know thee stout faithful to thy friend and one that speaks worse of himself then any other dares I 'de tear thee from my bosome but when I know this and how strictly thou wilt pay thy vows to honour thou shalt dwell for ever here ACT. I. SCEN. IV. Enter Gillippus following Lysimella Gillip. YOu are very fair let that remove your wonder how I dare again gaze upon that excellence Why do you frown is it your innocence or your beauty that you mistrust She frowns that thus you arm your self with anger to defend you Pray leave to be an enemy you see that could not protect you Lysimel. No Monster 't is not to see thee play thy part that troubles me but to think that heaven fails in hers thus to leave vertue without a guard while lust and rapine grow strong in mischief as if the innocent were created white only to be fit to take the murtherers purple Gillip. As you have mercy remove that threatning danger He kneels that ruine in your curl'd brow and in justice which your anger cannot know weigh my action and cross fate together then call to mind how severely I was punish'd for a single fault a fault that my love pleaded for but did not excuse and when you have found that blot in my story if you are equal you must confess all my life to that hour paid you an humble and a faithful service and to the King my Master a ready hand and a loyal heart nor could he urge any thing against my pretence but that I was born his subject yet that I could willingly have undergone and all things else but your scorn which still left me to my despairs I had else waited my fortune and not by force attempted to have gain'd my wishes Oh Madam had you not bow'd me that way but try'd what I could have suffer'd for you not from you 't would have started your soft soul to have seen me suffer that would through a thousand hazards have courted your favour till I had faln your Beauties Martyr Lysimel, Away thy oyly tongue nor bloody hand can prevail thy flattery and thy force I am by my resolutions above both for Love and his soft fire thou never felt'st it nor know'st that god but by the name These thy false stoopings conclude thou canst not worship that thus durst again by force attempt me that heart that truly loves nobly suffers and knows that god of passion is to the longing soul both the hunger and the food and if his heaven be not reach'd by knees their hands dare not nay cannot yet may'st thou live to love and me I wish it not to glory in but to punish thee Gillip. Are you so resolv'd then I 'll kneel no more but frowning gather all thy sweets begging Lovers teach women a way to deny He rises up which else they durst not know A slave there Hipparchus take to your charge this fair folly and as your eyes look to Enter a Slaue and Hipparchus her let not her face betray your faith away I say convey her to the Galley there my Empire will begin The slave binds her Lysimel. Think'st thou thy threats can fright me no I cannot so much doubt the care of