it lye unfenc't Dem. Look I see a man And I am got into a Garden here Whos 's there Land Nay who 's there an' you go to that Here 's one that hath authority to be here Bat. The Master of the house I do perceive And by his tone a kind of Letter of Lodgings I 'le ask the Question Sir we are strangers newly come to Town Could you afford us any room in your house Land I cannot tell Sir whether I can or no According as I like you Bring a light here Dem. Nay then w' are well enough take up my rooms Ne're stand agreeing with him give him twenty Thirty forty a hundred crowns a week what he Hath a mind to I 'le into Town I grow impatient Exit Bat. Oh! heavens Sir whether do you go To rush in armed crowdes so late a stranger Curse on all rashness I must follow him For fear some mischief happens to him Landlord look to the things provide our rooms We 'l return within this half hour or never Ex. Land Ha! gone and left their Cloak-bags with me What kind of fellows are these some High-way men I know by their hast But sure I 'm in a dream is this a Cloak bag Let 's see what weather 't is it doth not rain Cloak-bags Come I 'le go see what 's in it ho a light there Ser. Here Sir Enter a servant with a Candle Land Nay here Sir Here 's a Cloakbag dropt i' my mouth Come let 's see the Entrails of this beast A rich Chesticore with Diamond buttons Enough enough I 'm satisfied These are stollen goods as sure as I am here And now what shall I do with this Cloakbag Shall I keep the Cloakbag or shall I cry the Cloakbag or shall I sell the Cloakbag nay then I may chance to stretch for the Cloakbag so I may if I should keep the Cloakbag if the right owner should come with an Officer and find the Cloakbag why then the Devil take the Cloak-bag for never was any one so plagued with a Cloakbag well if no body comes to claim the Cloakbag I 'le sell the Cloakbag buy Land and marry a Lady with the Cloakbag and then be Dub'd a Knight of the Order of the Cloakbag Ex. Enter Ladislaus and Theodore The Scene continues Lad. Ungrateful men and do they thus reward me For all the blood I 've shed in their defence To set my head to sale That head which once these flatt'ring Poles would cry Their State could live no more without then I. Theo. I wish your Highness had not flung that Letter It seems you were discover'd I 'me amaz'd Which way Lad Sharnofsky hath betrayed me Thus had he done had I expos'd my person Instead of a trifling paper or had sent thee He would have wrackt thee to discover me Theo. But I 'de have been torn limb from limb first Lad. I doubt not thy fidelity good Theodore I 've ever found thee generous and faithful More generous then those whose birth and Grandeur Obliges them to higher pretence of Honour Good heavens what 's this world I should have sooner Suspected Angels then the Count or Princess Theod. Good Sir do not discompose your Soul With these suspicions of your noble friends 'Till you know more Lad. My noble friends ah Theodore I have no friends my fortune fame and honour Heaven and Earth and she whom I adore Above 'um all deserts me nothing adheres to me But my own courage I see the Count and she Convert the news of my escape from Moscow By the generous kindness of the Russian Princess Into pretences to disguise their falshood To ruine my interests and unite their own To marry and to aspire to the Crown All Poland sees it and the Card'nal dreads u'm Much more then me and all this great alarum You 'l find aimes at their lives as well as mine The. Ah! do not credit Sir the common Vogue Lad. Come Theodore 't is true but that I 've learnt How to command my passions as well as Armies And owe more reverence to my own memory Then after death to have my head plac'd aloft On some old Tower to feed the greedy eyes Of my proud Enemies this very instant Shanofsky's soul or mine should fleet in air The. Well Sir I say no more I only beg you Take into some house you see what danger You 'r in the Guards are searching all about And here we wander up and down i' th' dark Only what sickly light the Moon will lend us But Sir I think we 're got into a Garden Lad. On the backside of a house knock Theodore Knocks and enter Landlord with a light Land Who 's there well this is not to be endur'd Every one gets into my backside If my Landlord will not fence it I 'le promise him I 'le do 't and stop it in his Rent well what 's the Business with you now more Cloakbags Theo. Sir we are strangers newly come to Town And are in great want of Lodgings If you could furnish us name your own price By this Gold we 'l not refuse it you Gives him money Land Let 's look on you according as I like you By this Gold you have good honest faces I have a room for you Theo. Thank you Sir pray what other Lodgers have you We ask you ' cause we would be very private Land I have none at present but some fidling women that come from Cracow to see the choosing of the new King a young Gentleman and a Cloakbag Lad. VVhat doth this fellow mean by this Cloakbag Theo. Your Highness hath hap'ned very fortunately Aside to Lad. Land Well but how did you pass the Guards so late For here 's a heavy pudder about the Duke of Curland He 's come to Town it seems in disguize And here 's five thousand crowns bid for his head Happy man be his dole that catches him For my part I don't expect so good luck Five thousand Crowns and a Cloakbag are too much for one night The. I perceive this fellow 's none of the honestest Aside I here 's a great alarum what 's the matter Land Why Sir the Duke of Curland look ye you must know VVas a great favourite of the last Kings And he contracted him to his Daughter And intended to marry him to her but then it hap'ned The Muscoviters invaded us with a great army The Duke Sir upon a simple quibble of Honour Goes General of our Army against 'um I was a Corporal under him at the same time Tho. De' e hear my Lord pray keep your disguize close Land And thought forsooth to have come back in triumph And married the Lady and he was taken prisoner And ne're comes back at all Lad. That was unfortunate Land Now Sir it seems he hath given 'um the slip out of Muscovy by the help o' the Russian Princess and they are run away together and here he lies lurking in Poland to fit his business and now all
the mighty Play 's begun The Musick of the field in Martial rage Calls us to enter on this fatal Stage Where each brave man shall doubly have applause Crown'd by his courage and his glorious Cause A Cause more glorious there cannot be I for the Kingdom die and you for me Ex. Jul. and Train shouting and waving their Poleaxes Enter Theodore and a Surgeon The Scene the Dukes Chamber The. Offer to let my Master go out in this condition Surg. I could not hold him Sir he would go out whether I would or no but there 's no danger his wound 's not great nor was the arrow venom'd as first you fear'd The. Oh! he 'l hear all the news aside And then I tremble at the consequence Now comes this babling rascal Enter Landlord Land Nay I thought 't would be as I said the Count is to be King and marry the Princess How now where 's your Master I 've news for him The. Get you gone with your news you prating bufflehead or I 'le set you down stairs come here with your news Land Prating Bafflehead and you 'l set me down stairs do you know who you speak to Sirrah come come you lie you lie you don't know who you speak to and you 'r drunk Sirrah you would not talk to me at this rate else Sirrah get me down stairs with my news Sirrah I 'de have to know the best men in the Kingdom are glad of my intelligence you drunken rascal you The. Yes no doubt you have all the intelligence pray Mr. Corantoe-Master-General what may your Envoyes and Spies in Forraign Courts cost you yearly Land What may they cost me Sir pray what may your Envoyes and Spiâ—s which you maintain with the Duke of Gally-pots Count Palatine o' Glister-pipes Marquess o' Mouth-glue and Baron o' Bathing-tubs for the support o' your rotten body politick cost you yearly ha Sir-Ragmanners my intelligence comes from better men then you or your Master either I met no less now because you prate then six Lords of my old acquaintance coming out of the field together all of a knot The. What knot a bow-knot Land A bow knot saucy-chops when did you see six Lords tyed of a bow-knot ha can you tye your nose of a bow knot you had not best provoke me sirrah but so here comes my man now it shall be seen whether I am a lyer or no. Enter Joanna and Alexey peeping Jo. How not here where did we loose her Al. I 'le hold a wager the person we met in the Cloak was the Duke and she went after him somewhere and is lost in the crowd Land Come come Sir you Mr. Peagoose that stand peeping there pray Sir thrust in your nose a little further I have some employment for you pulls in Jo Jo. The Rogue will discover all my design and render us suspicious to the Duke's servant I am afraid come in Alexey and help me to out-face the fool aside to Al. Land Come Sir did not you hear in the field as much as to say as if the Count was to be made King and to marry the Princess come answer directly to the point why don't you speak Sir Jo. Who me do you mean Land I you sir who should I mean else Jo. I hear it how should I hear it was I in the field to day Land Why you impudent stinking lying Rascal you won't tell me such a lie will you Alex. You mistake me Landlord and ha' met some body like him Land No sir I don't mistake I can see when I see surely I don't carry my eyes in a Hand-basket and more then that ' cause he goes to 't he 's the very man and no other from whom I 'de all this news now The. Is this your six Lords of a knot you Ninny I see you can invent for a need Jo. Oh a most grievous impertinent lying fellow I 'm so plagu'd with him sometimes Alex. Hark you Landlord are not you troubled with a dizziness in your Noddle a Megrim sometimes I am afraid you eat too much mustard and such hot things Jo. Some snush would purge your simple brain Land A little more would make me run distracted don't you tell me o' your Megrims your Snush and your Mustard a company of Rascals Sirrah did not I meet you coming out o' th' field and I ask't you what news ' cause I was loath to go farther ' cause I was to go buy a pole o'Ling for the womens dinner that lie in my house here and you told me all this bibble babble and bid me go no farther but go to my Lodgers with it deny 't if you dare sirrah I 'le promise you if you do I 'le churn those Buttermilk-chops o' yours and let your Master take it off I care not if you and your Master both get out 〈◊〉 my house I can ha' customers for my rooms Alex. Come enough o' this Landlord Land I han't enough Sir I won't be made a lyar on The. Why what a troublesome fellow art thou Land And what a troublesome fellow art thou I won't be born down by a company o' saucy Valets that are good for nothing but to twirle a whisker and a shave the crown o' some Sir Nicolas Emptipate his Master and be kickt thrice a day for a cast suit and Bread and Cheese Alex. Come Landlord I perceive you are abusive this is not to be endured you must be corrected out o' this humor it will be for your good another day and now our Masters backs are turn'd we 'l make bold to give you a tast of our Parmesau The. And Iâ—le give him one lick for the sake of his Corantoes Come Sir since you ' r so good at Corantoes pray let 's see how you can dance a Coranto come up with your news quikcly Land Rogues you won't murder me will you Theo. On the fourteenth instant at the Port of Hucklebone was drove in by storm a Vessel call'd the Royal Cudgel bound for back bum belly noddle or any part of the Kingdom of Coxcomb Jo. And near the same Port another Alex. And another laden with Snush for the cure of the Megrim Surg. They 'l kill their Landlord Land Rogues Rascals Thieves will you murder me Why Surgeon wilt thou stand by and see me Murder'd I 'le lay my death to thee Surg. Pray Gentlemen Alex. How now Sirrah do you prate shaver o' shin-bones Drawer of Gum-stakes Grafter o' broken Stilts Trapanner o' crackt Coxcombs I 'le teach you more manners Land Murder murder Ex. They beat Landlord and Surgeon off o' th' Stage Andenter Ladislaus and Paulina The. See our Lords Lad. And is it thus come Theodore my Sword The. Oh heavens what is 't I hear Land Come Sir I know they 'r wrong'd by the fond talking world they 'r constant generous they 'r Angels Angel's not a pound o' flesh about 'um Sir and doth it sting thy soul crawl crawl about aside his heart thou Serpent jealousie until he foames with poyson Lad. Heavens I
Jul. Must I be carried then a slave to Moscow Hyp. Em. Fran. Oh the Princess oh this Russian slave Dem. drags her along Osso Casso Lub He 's mad he raves Casso Hold Sir cleave the Rebels head slaves Fran. Heaven what stupid Lethargy hath seiz'd thee assist unbind me or else strike me dead rather then torture me with such a sight Osso Casso Lub Hold Rebel Villain Osso My Lords command all your men Horse and Foot to surround the Transilvanian Troops and make 'um fling down their Arms or dye Ex. Lub Let all the Cossacques wheele Dem. Fire give fire a hundred of you stay and guard the prisoners Bat. Oh! the unruly fire that governs thee Where will it lead thee Ex. Casso Now to guard the Prisoners shall be my work Jul. How am I made the sport and scorn of Fortune abus'd by Curland trampled on by slaves and now led bound to follow the Triumphant Chariot of Scarlet perjury Sh. My soul is torn with grief and rage Casso Come then I 'le ease you both alas I pity you but chiefly you good Princess your kind Father I thank him eas'd me of many a burthen some employment and I in gratitude will ease your shoulders of such a weighty head laden with sorrow Call Oss Dem. Bat. bound Hyp. Em. Fran. Oh bloody Villain Jul. Insolent slave dares such a thing as thee threaten a Princess life Shar Barbarous Dogg bring me but to him I le kick his dirty soul out of his body Casso I 'le snap thy saucy head from off thy shoulders first Guards kill the prisoners I 'le not allow the formality of praying and he that asks what Orders I have for it let 'um know I wear my Orders by my side this is my Cardinal Senate and my King off with their heads his crooked Majesty commands it shews his naked Faulchion Shar Thou Monster of mankind hast thou no sense of pity or humanity nor of thy own nor of thy Countries honor which such a horrid act will render infamous to all the world here quench thy barbarous thirst of blood with mine open all my veins take my life my fortune honour all I have but spare oh spare the Daughter of thy King Jul. No more my Lord swell not the Villains pride by falling prostrate to it Quick Hypolita give me a Ponyard Casso Fetch a Wrack an Engine I 'le torter him to death But ha more sport de' e come to put affronts upon the Kingdoms Enter Ossolimsky and Guard with Demetrius and Battista bound Osso In the face of the whole Army Sir I le cool your fiery insolence Dem. Yes murder me you slaves I do deserve this punishment and more That my revenge should be so low and poor I ought t' have set it at no lower rate Then the whole ruine of your Polish State All of you hudled in one common doom Curland the Cipher to make up the sum Casso Tame the proud Rebel Guards off with his head Osso Hold strike who dares till I give the command Dem. Come Villains level me right against the Clouds And then give fire discharge my flaming soul Against such saucy Destinies as those As dare thus basely of my life dispose Then from the Clouds rebounding I will fall And like a clap of thunder tear you all Osso VVell then Sir since your spirit is so high Your head shall be as lofty by and by Yes you 'r exalted thoughts shall have their due Your head shall stand in both the Armies view Casso Guards are you asleep cleave all their heads at once Osso Casso Strike All the Women give a shriek and at that instant enter Lubomirsky running Lub Hold. Osso Casso Count Lubomirsky the news Lub All 's lost I am in such a confusion I cannot speak some Devil in humane shape hath quite turn'd all the fortune of the day hath fir'd the Town the Tents and here he 's coming on waves of blood and flame Lasso Hell take thee for thy news where is this Devil Casso Osso The Gurads retire stand Villains or you die Lub Stand cowardly slaves Dem. Is Fortune penitent Battista loose me Bat. I am bound too Sir Dem. Are your teeth bound too Sir Shar Ha! is the Scale a turning A thousand crowns but for one hand loose Jul. Deliverance swift like lightning Heaven I thank thee Enter Ladislaus driving the Gaurds before him followed by Theodore and Cavaliers Lad. Stay flying Cowards disparage not my sword Let it be said at least I fought with men Osso Casso Lub We are lost they are taken prisoners Dem. And must I stand to be a thing of pity To receive the charity of this mans sword Shar I blush at our own chaines and this mans glory Lad. Secure the Lords Madam the Scene is chang'd You 'r all at liberty And now my next great deed shall be aside To set my heart at liberty from thee Ex. The. My noble Lord Thus through the field with unseen triumphs flies As souls make their Entradoes in the skies Sure Heaven some mighty glory hath design'd At last to crown such an Illustrious mind Ex. Jul. What Prodigy 's this Hyp. 'T is your Angel Madam Jul. A thousand Crowns to know him Shar A Warlike Fantome By heaven created for this exigence Dem. His haughty Valour hath affronted me Iâ—le out and kill him for his insolence And when he 's dead I 'le hug him for his bravery Exit Bat. To arms again thus doth his active soul Leap from one danger to another Here we destroy and there we save As Vessels tost from Wave to Wave Ex. Shar Let 's out and help to reap this glorious Harvest But hark a loud Volley of Martial shouts All within Long live Juliana our Queen Shar Blest noise your name is bandied in the Clouds There 's a victorious Tempest in the Aire And see a thousand lights approach the Tent. Casso Oh cursed sight and cursed noise Enter Colimsky Col. Now Madam all 's our own your enemies have all flung down their arms some come to crave your pardon others flie in multitudes to the Cardinals Tent the Cardinal in transports of rage for his misfortune confest his horrid villanies and fled I sent an Officer to conduct him to a private Grotto in a neighbouring Grove pretendingly for his security In the interim the croudes rifled his Tent and found the Crown conceal'd and here they 'r coming sailing along with shouts and acclamations resolving to repose it on your brow Jul. The weight's too great for me All within Secure the distracted State Col. The people grow impatient Jul. I 'le sacrifice my self t' appease the croudes Heavens never was such a turn of fortune known From a Scaffold to a Throne In one moment to be seen A dying Captive and a Queen Ex. Col. So now my good Lords you may be all at leasure for holy contemplations Shar Guards see especially To that malicious Count. Ex. Shar Col. Casso I know your kindness
and I had rather tell you with my Sword then my Pen which I had done if an unhappy accident had not confin'd me to a small Village and my Chamber and enforc't me to make use of the kindness of the bearer my Cousen the Duke of Novogrod to seek you The acquaintance you have had of my temper will easily give you to believe that I had rather fight ten battles then write six lines and therefore you must not expect long Epistles from me Then in short you have abus'd me with dissembled friendship affronted and ruin'd me by stealing away my Princess your crimes are unexpiable by any thing but your life which I expect you tender me on the point of your sword The circumstance as of time place and weapon I refer to your self and you may acquaint my Cousen the Duke whose return from you I expect with impatience Demetrius Lad. The Prince is very severe and his charge is high Paul Sir I suppose he hath reason Lad. That he ought to ' have been assur'd of e're he had condemn'd his friend Paul Well Sir in short your answer Lad. My answer is Sir that the Prince hath wrong'd me I 've not abus'd him with dissembled friendship Nor stole his Princess she remaines with him For ought I know so may my friendship too If 't pleases him Paul Oh heavens how unfortunate Am I in my love see he disowns my flight And he 'l disown the marriage too and I Shall pass for some base prostrate thing aside Lad. You seem disorder'd Sir Paul I am disorder'd Sir at what y 'ave said I only thought before the Princess lost to all her friends and fortunes but now 't is worse I see she 's lost to honour and fallen into the hands of one that basely disowns her Lad. You are too quick and fierce in your assertions Sir Paul No fiercer Sir Then the case merits Had you own'd her flight And own'd a marriage too it had been honourable For upon other tearms she would not flie But let me tell you Sir in the same breath In which you disown her flight you little less Then call her Strumpet Lad. Do you come here young Duke to talk or fight Paul Sir which you please To fight now that I had a Furies whip Totear thy heart and scourgethy perjur'd soul draws aside Lad. Must it be so Jo. Oh! murder murder Enter Joanna and Alexey Alex. Hold hold your hand Sir save that tender life Here is an enemy more fit for thee The. What Villains are these draws Lad. Ha! an ambush Paul Begone what mean you to betray me thus aside to Jo. Al. I am but humouring my part retire These are my servants Sir regard 'um not to Lad. I 'le play you no foul play retire I say to Jo. Al. Come come my Lord let us put up our anger This time and place are not convenient puts up For this besides I exceed my Commission in 't I should displease the Prince to take your life And grieve him to loose my own come let us talk By all that 's good I honour you And do believe you 'l tell me sacred truth Then tell me truly by the faith and honor Of a brave man do you know where the Princess Is fled and are you married to her or no Lad. Then by those sacred things by which you conjure me by any thing that 's more Divine then they I know not of her flight nor am I married to her Paul Walks up and down in a passion and disorder Paul Oh! horrid horrid I shall sink and die aside Lad. Sir you look pale how do you Paul I could find in my heart to stab him aside Lad. Your countenance changes Sir I fear you 'r ill and but dissemble it in complaisance pray let me wait upon you to your Chamber Paul No good my Lord no Ceremony pray Sweetnatur'd Devil aside Enter Sharnofsky conducting Juliana followed by Hypolita Emilia Francisca the Women all Vizarded Lad. Ha! what is 't I see It is a Vision Count Sharnofsky conducting a Lady out of yonder Monastery she and her Train all Mask't what should it mean my Lord I beg your pardon I 'le wait on you instantly Paul Oh! my sweet Lord Ironicè Ho there Jo. Al. Madam the news to her Joanna Alexy Paul Curland's a Monster Al. I 'le run and kill him Paul No let me alone I 'le kill him but it shall be with torments Steel Poison Fire Racks Scorpions Hell oh me unfortunate Jo. She 's grown distracted Paul Lead me I faint Jo. She swounes help help they carry her out Al. Who should these be The. Who 're these my Lord is gazing on so earnestly ha it should be his friend the Count but what 's that Vizard Lady see she unmasques Jul. Where are we now my Lord Shar I 'm sure not far from Count Colimskyes Gardens The. It is the Princess Lad. Heavens 't is my Princess 'T is she 't is she my guilty soul retires At th' apparition of that bright Divinity VVhich my soul whispers I have now offended Just so a suffering Saint that long had bin Triumphant over all the Arts of Sin And in all combats made a brave defende And still preserv'd entire his innocence But yet at last before he is aware Begins to slide into some pleasing snare By heaven surpriz'd his soul is then afraid Of joyes for which he had endur'd and pray'd Sh. I see the Garden gate this this way Madam Ex. Sh. Jul. c. Lad. Ha! vanquish't thus heavens unsold this Mystery It is too dark for me and I must follow To see the opening of this cloudy Scene Ex. The. See my Lord chases 'um I dread the event I wish some Mist had screen'd this horrid Vision from his sight Ex. Enter Sharnofsky Juliana Hyp. Em. Fran. The Scene a Garden at the one end a Palace Jul. Heavens in what shady path's my fortunes leads me And must I hide my head in Natures Nunnery among these Virgin flowers to save my self From him who now though he so proud can be Hath often for his safety fled to me Nor would it grieve me if I did but know For what it is he persecutes me so Or how I ever did offend this proud Aspiring Man that he should seek my blood Shar The Tyrant Madam thinks the Duke and you Do all his towring policies undo And then his active brain wants no design The strongest innocence to undermine Then for the State he doth bewitch their sense VVith the love-powder of his eloquence His sliding tongue doth with its charming strains Like a smooth Serpent coyle about their brains And with its sting not only taints the blood Of fools and bigotts but the wise and good But yet in spight of all such arts as these VVe 'l darken his proud Starrs and on his knees Yet make him er'e w' have done this fatal strife At these fair hands thus humbly ask his life At the instant that Shar
kneels to kiss her hand Lad and Theo. enter Lad. Heaven blast my eyes rather then see this sight I 'me abus'd Villain draws Theo. Oh my Lord what mean you holds the Duke Lad. Loose me Theodore or thou diest The. I die ah Sir t' will be a fate too glorious to die by your hand thus saving of your friend Shar Hark I hear a noise Hyp. See see the Guard Jul. Flie I command you flie we are betray'd Jul. pulls Shar who retreats with his sword in hand the women run off shrieking Lad. See shee entices him and the Coward flies And hast thou lost thy courage with thy honesty This man was valiant once I 've now done more Then I have seen whole Armies do before But guilt now so unman's him that he flies What once he had the courage to despise But I 'le pursue thee to thy base retreats Ha! the Gates fastened are they barricadoed Fetch me a Torch I 'le fire my way to 'um And kill him in the arms of that false woman Yea rage perhaps may tempt me to destroy Her whom I once thought heaven to enjoy The. Oh! how his passion like a clap of Thunder rends her great soul but ha they fire upon us my Lord you will be shot a showre of bullets flies from each corner see some Musqueteers upon the Battlements the fatal Hail falls thick Lad. Poor men how dangerously they stand against so numerous an Army how bloudily they wound the drooping flowers The. A flight of arrows Covers the Garden with a poyson'd shade And one just glanc't your side you 'r shot you bleed Lad. I feel it not The. 'T is fallen at your foot Shot from some Tartars bow curse on the slave The horse-fed dogg oh let me suck the wound For fear the Dart was venom'd Lad. Ha I bleed Indeed these are Juliana's Darts of love Thank you kind Princess Come then Theodore I will retire I ought not to resign T' each common shaft a life so great as mine No perjur'd woman I will live to have Such a revenge as shall be great and brave Suiting thy birth and mine and be above My injur'd honour and affronted love And when I 've done I 'le make my last retreat To her that never hath deceiv'd me yet Honour a Mistress worthy of my mind Both fair and great as thou and far more kind Ex. Enter Juliana Sharnofsky Hypolita The Scene a room in Colimskyes Palace Jul. Fire on 'um still Sh. I can descry but two from the Terrace walk Jul. They ' r hid behind the trees But see th' affrighted Maids Enter Francisca and Emilia running Em. Oh! out of breath w 'ave been pursued by such a crew o' Rogues Fran. I indeed Madam there was Horse and Foot I was pursued at least by twenty Pikemen Em. And sixteen Musqueteers ran after me Jul. The Count my Lord did you not meet the Guards Enter Colimsky Col. Not I. Jul. Then sure we' are pursued by fantomes Col. Well Madam I 've had fortunate success And rais'd a Force very considerable For the small time I had to do it in I find the young Nobles and many Commons And almost all the Ladies highly sensible Of your great wrongs and ready to engage with you Madam in short fear not the Cardinals threats But above all things trust not his promises Hell 's not so false Madam you can but die And you had better bravely give your life Then be deluded out on 't but I hope You 'l be constrain'd to neither if a wall Of fifty thousand bucklers can protect you Jul. Blest news let 's arm I will have Poland see My Fathers Royal Soul survives in me Ex. The Third ACT. Enter Paulina Joanna Paul MArry a Lady o' my quality and then deny the marriage oh perfidious ungrateful man and was it then for this trampled on my self my Honors Fortunes run on the pikes of my great Fathers anger bestow'd thy life when all thy friends abandon'd thee and for thy sake am now become a poor and wandring Exile and thou thus reward me basely abandon me oh horrid horrid weep bleed die fall at my feet thou Tyrant quick quick or see this Steel is in thy heart Jo. How wild she looks and talkes oh my poor Princess how deadly pale she is now weeps again Paul What shall I do in a strange Country here Expos'd to shame yet strangled if I return Death waits me at home disgrace and ruine here Like a poor Ship thus lab'ring in a storm I view the angry Ocean o're and o're And see a thousand Waves but not one Shore Jo. Oh that I were a Witch to torture him Paul To night he dies where is Alexey gone Jo. Gone out to see what means these strange confusions shouts clamours cryes billows and tydes of people flowing in the streets calling to arms to arms Paul Alexey knows his Chamber then to night When weariness betrayes him to his rest And he lies Coffin'd in the Vaults of sleep Haunted with mournful dreams Iile to his bed Unwrap his breast Anatomize his heart Here runs a vein of courage there of falshood This Fiber shews him man but that a Devil Then if he groans or else with cast up eyes Shall sigh a prayer I 'le stab it as it flies And beg of heaven both soul and prayer may To those blest Regions never find their way But then lest heaven should deny my prayer I 'le kill my self even to torment him there Enter Alexey Alex. Oh Madam there 's the strangest news abroad The Princess and the Count are up in arms Poland's in a blaze all 's in confusion The General Diett's equally divided And millions of reports fly to and fro Some say they design to Crown the Duke Others to murder him and Crown themselves The Duke lies sick of an invenoin'd wound But more of jealousie I listned at his Chamber and heard him groan of both his soul is bubling a little heat would boyle him to a height Paul I le go I le go I 'le sting his poyson'd soul Put fire under his heart I 'le boyl him boyl him Till in his rage he runs and kills his friend His Mistriss and himself then we 'l be merry Be jolly carouze drink health in their bloud Jo. Our Landlord too 's a talking News-monger I 'le go and stuff the fools Cranny with all the rascally news I can invent Paul Do all tools shall help there 's nothing now So base I would not do to have revenge Revenge to me doth even seem above Celestial joyes or the delights of love Ye Powers Let but revenge give me one minutes ease And cast your other joyes to whom you please Enter Ossolinsky Cassonofsky Lubomirsky and their Trains at several doors running in confusion Two Gentlemen The Scene the Town Om. To arms to arms Osso Not mounted yet my Lords the Cardinal is ready to march into the field Casso Heaven speed his Eminence I hope he is in his
I need not go to an Astrologer to know my doom What a long neck shall I have when my head 's set upon a Pole on one of the City Gates Osso Lub This is the giddiness of Fortune Lead away with Guard as prisoners Enter Demetrius and Battista Dem. This way the Spirit went and as it walk't I saw a kind of shape resembling Curland Bat. My Lord your fancy in the heat of passion forges a thousand Images Dem. If 't was his Ghost I 'le find out his abode let it be Aire Earth or Fire Ba. If it walks any where 't is there amongst the Queens tryumphant Train Dem. I hear 'um shout I 'le amongst ' um Bat. Hold Sir pray let 'um not discover you for fear the Poles revenge th' affront you did their Princess Dem. Then I 'le revenge th' affront the Poles did me Ex. Bat. Heavens what a task have I It is the same To bridle a tempest or to steer a flame Ex. Enter the Cardinal conducted by an Officer The Scene a hollow Rock in a Grove Card. Heaven have mercy whither dost thou lead me Off. I was commanded to conduct you hither The Count will come to you here and bring the news Card. He is a worthy friend Off. 'T is dark and private Here you may lie with safety Card. Thus in a moment is my Sun gone down Enter a Gentleman running Gent. My Lord convey your self away with speed All 's lost your men are fled your Tent is plunder'd the Princess Crown'd and all your friends betray you my Lord Grand Marshal's â—oming with a Guard from the Queen to secure you Card. Then there 's no trust in man Gent. This way Sir hasten Off. Hold Sir not so fast Card. Art thou set here to betray me too Off. To guard you Sir Card. To guard me as a Victim for Sacrifice I am at last outwitted in Villany Gent. Oh heavens Sir you 'r lost shout The Queen approaches heark the dreadful shouts A thousand streaming lights flow all this way Card. And let 'um come I have a friend in private will not betray me pulls out a Handkerchif Gent. A poisoned Handkerchief I fear Card. The little winding-sheet of all my glories Ah! had I studied but as much to gain Heaven as this world I had not sweat in vain Instead of horrours that pursue me now Immortal Crowns had waited for my brow But my amazing miseries now are Beyond the aid of Penitence and Prayer To my own Idols I too long did bow To put that fawning cheat on heaven now For he hath my Religion understood To be but craft and my devotion blood My heaven was t' ascend the Papal Throne Where to save others souls I 've lost my own And now alas 't were folly to deny My self the pleasure to despair and die May all great men learn by my wretched Fate Never to stake their souls at games of State For though a while perhaps they seem to win They 'l find at last there is no cheat like sin dies Gent. He 's gone irrecoverably gone his great souls fled And see a thousand lights usher the Queen She comes to see her mighty enemy The Scene shuts upon the Card. c. Lye a cold Statue prostrate at her feet Enter Juliana Crown'd Hypolita Emilia Francisca Sharnofsky Colimsky and Guards at one end of the Theater Paulina as mixt with the crowd Om. Long live Juliana Queen of Poland Jul. My Lords I thank you for all this great honour Paul I 've stole from Count Alexey and Joanna aside To seek my Lord and I 'me afraid to find him Or with my Rival here or with the dead If here I find him I 'm resolv'd he dyes Only to spoil the tryumphs of her eyes But see my servants come I 'le get away Ex Enter Alexey Joanna and Landlord Jo. Heavens where is she wander'd and how came we to lose her Al. What do'st thou do crowding in here idle body come help us to look our Master Land I look your Master go hang your self with your Master Jul. What murmurings that Col. See Guards what means that noise Land No Rascals I remember your Megrim your Snush and your Mustard I 'le make you pay dear for that Mustard it shall be costly Mustard Guard Oh! is it you Sir layes hold on Landlord Col. Guards keep off the Rabble take that rude fellow clap him neck and heels Ale Jo. Begone quick quick and leave the Rogue i' th' Bilboes Ex. Land Oh good your Honour I beseech your sweet Honour Al. Jo. Col. Sirrah what 's your business here Land Nothing an 't like your honour but a couple of idle quarrelsome Rascals that lie at my house ha' lost their Master and they 'd make me look for their Master Now if they ha' lost their Master I 'm not bound to make good their Master by no Law in Poland I refer it to your Honour Col. Get you about your business Sirrah and make no references to me Land I thank your Honour I believe your Honour knows me don't you remember where you lay when your Honour kept the fat Lady the Lady Clumsky you could make references to her for all your pride aside Col. Bâ—gone Sirrah Land I thought I should put you in mind of a reference I 've done an 't like your Honour aside Jul. Now my Lords what news of the Cardinal Col. Nigh to this part of the field is the Grotto where I commanded him to be conveigh'd and see the Officer I sent to guard him Enter an Officer Off. My Lord the Cardinal Osso Where is he Off. Dead Om. Dead Off. He lies so near Torches may shew him you The Scene is drawn the Cardinal presented dead in a Grotto a Gentleman waiting by him Land Oh bominable kild and is the Councel o' Trent and Pope Paul come to this thou must know honest Guard I 'm a merry man and I us'd to visit this good man's back Cellar o' Rhenish and then I call'd it the Council o' Trent and there was a great Tun great Grandfather or Gossip at least to the great Tun o' Heydelburgh and that I us'd to call Pope Paul the third and there did the Beef-eaters o' the Guard and I Guard Beef-eaters you Rascal Land Sit in Councel about the good o' Christendom till at parting we did our reverences to Pope Paul fall down and kiss his great Toe the Spigot and let the heavenly Benediction drop into our mouthes Guard You 'd have my Halbeard drop into your mouthes would you Beef-eater you saucy Cur Jul. A mournful spectacle how died the Cardinal Off. Proudly as he liv'd he would not stoop to pray Or if he pray'd 't was so as he would seem He expected heaven should first pray to him He gave up's glory but with such a pride He scorn'd to keep it since he was deny'd And though with death he found some little strife Rather then ask he would resign his life Land What a
wicked fellow was this oh sye upon him not say his Prayers when he died how doth he ever think to come to good my Lord he was as arrant a Col. Guard Land I ha' done an 't like your Honour Guard Sirrah I could find in my heart to Beef-eat you Jul. I 'm sorry for his soul but heaven's merciful ah had this great mans piety been equal to 's wisdom and his many other Noble Vertue he had been a man too glorious Land Nay truly he had as good a Study of Books I 'le say for that him good old Authours Sack and Claret Rhenish and old Hock come said I to the Library keeper tap me St. Gregory or that good old Father a tilt that looks like St. George a Horse back take his Nag by the Spigot and give our brains a leap said I. Guard Thou hast a mind to be laid by th' heels with thy Pope Paul Land I ha' done honest Guard Shar He was too self admiring and conceited The Church and we did but his wisdom owe All honours Rome or Poland could bestow Land He was something self-conceited indeed that 's the truth on 't Col. He had a soaring spirit Shar Reaching wisdom Col. Unsatiably ambitious and inexorable Land He was a notable man Jul. No more my Lords what he hath done he 's gone to answer for then for the reverence we owe Religion let him be Interr'd with decency they take up the Car. Land And for the reverence I owe burnt Claret I 'le be at 's Funeral Jul. Now all the Storms are past the Winds are down The Waves transport me gently to a Crown Kind heaven smiles and I am got above All other Tempests but the World and Love And now I 'le seek Religions flowry shore And be expos'd to all these storms no more My Lords attend me and you all shall know How I 'le my person and the Crown bestow Ex. Land Well I swear this is a delicate woman I 'de give all I 'am worth in the world I were a young Prince for her sake I 'de so jumble her and tumble her I 'de set her upon her head and her heels and kiss this end and that end and all in an honest way too Col. These words are of dubious and mysterious sense Shar To a Cloyster I fear Hyp. My Lords prevail with her I can assure you she designs a Cloyster Col. Let 's attend her to the Palace and then meet in Councel Ex. Om. Ma. Land Land Well it 's a lovely Creature I love her so well I could be contented to be a little Shock â—or her sake that I might lye in het lap lick her lips and be stroak't but hang 't it would but puff me up I should be too proud and self-conceited But here 's a devillish fall in my wishes now I think on 't from a Prince to a Puppy-Dog but love is humble Well now there 's a Harvest a coming a Coronation oh what a crop of Dollars will I reap for my windows and Belcony I 'le have a Rix Dollar for every quarry in my window and a hundred for my Belcony that is to say fifty for my Bell and fifty for my Coney In all I 'le have in currant Polish money A hundred Rix Dollers for my Bell-coney Ex. Enter Battista Bat. Heavens I 've lost him whither is he wander'd What new Fury hath transported him But ha the glittering of a naked Sword A person tall and of my Princes stature Walking about and hark I hear a voice Enter Paulina Paul Heavens I walk about here in the dark And hear the labours of departing souls A thousand aiery formes flie round about me And fan me into cold and dewey sweats Oh! if my Lord be dead would I were with him Bat. The place is inchaunted Enter Demetrius with his naked sword Dem. There the dying voice fainted away by that old wall no lyar that was an eccho Bat. My Prince some frightful Apparition leads him about Dem. What art thou that usurp'st the sacred name of my divinity Speak or I 'le turn a Ghost as thin as thee And torture thee Paul Heark the Guards are near I will avoid 'um and go fetch a Torch and seek my Lord among the dead in those pale Groves he is unkindly wander'd t' avoid his poor Paulina Ex. Bat. Heark the voice cries Paulina Dem. Paulina still what faucy Spirit mocks me with that name could I but find thee I 'de tear thy aerial body into Atomes and I 'le have light or I 'le fire this Grove I set thee on a Rack of flame to make thee confess who and what thou art and a light comes from behind that wall a youth with a Torch I 'le run and fetch it Bat. He 's grown distracted I must speak to him Sir Dem. And dost appear at last runs at Battista Bat. 'T is I Battista Sir Dem. I know I might have kil'd thee so I 'm led about with voices groans illusions fetch me that Torch Bat. A fair and lovely youth walking among the dead sure 't is some Spectre Dem. Fetch me that Torch Joanna and Alexey run over the Stage Jo. There she is all alone walking with a Torch Al. Where Jo. Under that Tree Al. I see her let 's run let 's run to her Dem. Hark a consort of voices Bat. Let 's leave this dismal place there 's a Cabal of melancholly Spirits that haunt it see two flying shapes come towards this youth Dem. I think the dead hold here their Rendesvouze heark there are more come from yonder Grove I 'm tortur'd plagu'd fetch me the Torch I say Bat. Ex. and enter Lad. and Theo. Lad. Now Theodore press me no more I now renounce her and her Sex for ever And now I 've steer'd her safely to a Throne I 'le leave her in her Ports and to my own From whence the war she hath on me begun Shall now on all the world be carried on And captive Monarches shall of her complain And curse my injuries and her disdain Whil'st I shall still by blood and slaughter prove The scorn and hate I bear to her and love Dem. Ho! stand what are you Battista come with a Torch Lad. Heark the Perdues call to the Guard I 'le in my Chariot to Town do you ride before Theodore and get Post-horses ready this night I 'le onward on my way to Curland Ex. Lad. Theo. Dem. To Curland Ye Powers stand stand come with the Torch you slave Enter Battista running and layes hold on Dem. Bat. Sir Sir Dem. I see a Chariot Villain stand by or I 'le kill thee Bat. Are you distracted Sir yonder 's your Princess I 've overheard their talk Dem. Yonder 's Curlands Chariot and the slave holds me Bat. Ha! I see a Chariot I 'le after it do you go to your Princess here here Sir Enter Paulina Joanna Alexcy with a Torch Paul Hark I hear a voice Al. It is the Guards Bat. Here Sir by all that