late service you have done me here Which is so great and meritorious That with my ablest power I scarce can quit you Cha. Your sole acceptance my dread soveraigne I more rejoyce in than in all the fortunes That ever chanc'd me but when may it please Your Highnesse to order the execution The haste thus farre hath spar'd no pinions King No my Lord your care Hath therein much deserv'd Cha. But where proportion Is kept toth ' end in things at start so happy That end set on the crowne King I le speede it therefore Cha. Your thoughts direct it they are wing'd Exit King I joy this boldnesse is condemn'd that I may pardon And tâ—erein get some ground in his opinion By so much bounty as save his life And me thinks that weigh'd more should sway the ballance Twixt me and him held by his owne free Iustice For I could never finde him obstinate In any minde he held when once he saw Th' error with which he laboured and since now He needs must feele it I admit no doubt But that his alteration will beget Another sence of things twixt him and me Whos 's there Goe to the Captaine of my â—uard and will him To attend his condemn'd prisoner to me instantly As I shall sir Ewer Treasurer Secretary King My Lords you were spectators of our Admirall Tre. And hearers too of his most just conviction In which we witnest over-weight enough In your great bounties and as they there were weigh'd With all the feathers of his boasted merits King Has felt a scorching triall and the test That holds fires utmost force we must give mettalls That will not with the hammer and the melting Confesse their truth and this same sence of feeling Being ground to all the sences hath one key More than the rest to let in through them all The mindes true apprehension that thence takes Her first convey'd intelligence I long To see this man of considence agen How thinke you Lords will Chabot looke on mee Now spâ—ild of the integrity he boasted Sec. It were too much honour to vouchsafe your sight Tr. No doubt my Leigh but he that hath offended In such a height against your crowne and person Will want no impudence to looke upon you Enter Asâ—ll Captaine Admirall Cap. Sir I had charge given me by this Gentleman To bring your condemn'd prisoner to your presence King You have done well and tell the Queene and our Lord Constable we desire their presence bid Our Admiralls Lady and her father too Attend us here they are but new withdrawne As I shall sir Tre. Doe you â—â—serve this confidence He stands as all his triall were a dreame Sâ—c He le finde the horrour waking the King 's troubled Now for â— thuâ—der-clap the Queene and Constable Enter Queene Constable Wise and Father Tr. I doe not like their mixtuâ—e King My Loâ—d Admirall You made it your desire to have this triall That late hath past upon you And now you feele how vaine is too much faith And flattery of your selfe as if your brest Were proofe gainst all invasion t is so slight You see it le ts in death what 's past hath beene To satisfie your insolence there remaines That now we serve our owne free pleasure therefore By thâ—t most absolute power with which all right Puts in my hands these issues turnes and changes I here in eare of all these pardon all Your faults and forfeits whatsoever sensur'd Againe advancing and establishing Your person in all fulnesse of that state That ever you enjoy'd before th' attainder Tre. Wonderfull pardon'd Wif. Heaven preserve the King Qu. Who for this will deserve all time to honour him Con. And live Kings best example Fa. Sonne y are pardon'd Be sure you looke hereafter well about you Adm. Vouchsafe great Sir to assure me what you said You nam'd my pardon King And agen declare it For all crimes past of what nature soever Adm. You cannot pardon me Sir King How 's that Philip Adm. It is a word carries too much relation To an offence of which I am not guilty And I must still be bold where truth still armes In spight of all those frownes that would deject me To say I neede no pardon King Ha howe 's this Fa. Hee s mad with over-joy and answers nonsence King Why tell me Chabot are not you condemn'd Adm. Yes and that justifies me much the more For whatsoever false report hath brought you I was condemn'd for nothing that could reach To prejudice my life my goods or honour As first in firmenesse of my conscience I confidently told you not alas Presuming on your slender thred of favour Or pride of fortunate and courtly boldnesse But what my faith and justice bade me trust too For none of all your learned assistant Judges With all the malice of my crimes could urge Or felâ—ny or hurt of sacred power King Doe any heare this but my selfe My Lords This man still justifies his innocence What prodigies are these have not our Lawes Past on his actions have not equall Iudges Certified his arraignement and him guilty Of capitall Treason and yet doe I heare Chabot accuse all these and quit himselfe Tr. It does appeare distraction sir King Did we Seeme so indulgent to propose our free And royall pardon without suite or prayer To meete with his contempt Sec. Vnheaâ—'d of impudence Ad. I were malicious to my selfe and desperate To force untruths upon my soule and when T is cleare to confesse a shame to exercise Your pardon sir were I so foule and monstrous As I am given to you you would commit A sinne next mine by wronging your owne mercy To let me draw out impious breath it will Release your wonder if you give command To see your processe and if it prove other Thaâ— I presume to Informe teare me in peeces King Goe for the Processe and the Chancellor With the assistant Iudges I thanke heaven Exit As That with all these inforcements of distraction My reason stayes so cleare to heare and answer And â—â— direct a message This inversion Of all the loyalties and true deserts That I beleev'd I govern'd with till now In my choice Lawyers and chiefe Counsellors Is able to shake all my frame of reason Adm. I am much griv'd King No more I doe incline To thinke I am abus'd my Lawes betrai'd And wrested to the purpose of my Judges This confidence in Chabot turnes my judgement This was too wilde away to make his merits Stoope and acknowledge my superior bounties That it doth raise and sixe e'm past my art To shadow all the shame and forfeits mine Enter Asall Chancellor Iudges As The Chancellor and Judges Sir Tre. I like not This passion in the King the Queene and Constable Are of that side King My Lord you dare appeare then Cha. Dare Sir I hope King Well done hope still and tell me Is not this man condemn'd Cha. Strange question Sir The processe will declare
aversation So much affects him that he shunnes and flies it What 's the strange reason that he will not rise Above the middle region he was borne in Adm. He saith Sir t is because the extreame of height Makes a man lesse seeme to the imperfect eye Then he is truely his acts envied more And though he nothing cares for seeming so His being just stand firme twixt heaven and him Yet since in his soules jealousie hee feares That he himselfe advanced would undervalue Men placed beneath him and their businesse with him Since height of place oft dazles height of judgement He takes his toppe saile downe in such rough stormes And apts his sailes to ayres more temperate Kin. A most wise soule he has how long shall Kingâ— Raise men that are not wise till they be high You haue our leave but tell him Phillip wee Would have him neerer Con. Your desires attend you Enter another Kin. We know from whence you come say to the Queene We were comming to her t is a day of love And she seales all perfection Exit Tre. My Lord We must beseech your stay Con. My stay Cha. Our Counsells Have led you thus farre to your reconcilement And must remember you to observe the end At which in plaine I told you then wee aim'd at You know we all urg'd the attonement rather To enforce the broader difference betweene you Then to conclude your friendshippe which wise men Know to be fashionable and priviledg'd pollicie And will succeede betwixt you and the Admirall As sure as fate if you please to get sign'd A sute now to the King with all our hands Which will so much increase his precise justice That weighing not circumstances of politicke State He will instantly oppose it and complaine And urge in passion what the King will sooner Punish than yeeld too and so render you In the Kings frowne on him the onely darling And mediate power of France Con. My good Lord Chancellor Shall I so late atton'd and by the Kings Hearty and earnest motion fall in peeces Cha. T is he not you that breake Tre. Ha not you patience To let him burne himselfe in the Kings flame Cha. Come be not Sir infected with a spice Of that too servile equitie that renders Men free borne slaves and rid with bits like horses When you must know my Lord that even in nature A man is Animall politicum So that when he informes his actions simply He does in both ' gainst pollicie and nature And therefore our soule motion is affirm'd To be like heavenly natures circular And circles being call'd ambitious lines We must like them become ambitious ever And endles in our circumventions No tough hides limiting our cheverill mindes Tre. T is learnedly and past all answer argued Y are great and must grow greater still and greater And not be like a dull and standing lake That settles putrifies and chokes with mudde But like a river gushing from the head That windes through the undervalles what checkes ore flowing Gets strength still of his course Till with the Ocean meeting even with him In sway and title his brave billowes move Con. You speake a raâ—e affection and high soules But give me leave great Lords still my just thankes Remembred â—o your counsells and direction I seeking this way to confirme my selfe I undermine the columnes that support My hopefull glorious fortune and at once Provoke the tempest though did drowne my envie With what assurance shall the King expect My faith to him that breake it for another He has engag'd our peace and my revenge Forfits my trust with him whose narrow â—ight Will penetrate through all our mists could we Vaile our designe with clouds blacker than night But grant this danger over with what Iustice Or satisfaction to the inward Iudge Shall I be gultie of this good mans ruine Though I may still the murmuring tongues without me Loud conscience has a voyce to shadder greatnesse Secr. A name to fright and terrifie young statists There is necessitie my Lord that you Must lose your light if you ecclipse not him Two starres so Lucide cannot shine at once In such a firmament and better you Extinguish his fires then be made his fuell And in your ashes give his slame a Trophy Cha. My Lord the league that you have vow'd of friendship In a true understanding not confines you But makes you boundlesse turne not edge at such A liberty but looke to your owne fortune Secure your honour a Precisian In state is a rideculous miracle Friendship is but a visor beneath which A wise man laughes to see whole families Ruinde upon whose miserable pile He mounts to glory Sir you must resolve To use any advantage Con. Misery Of rising Statesmen I must on I see That ' gainst the politicke and priviledg'd fâ—shion All justice tasts but affectation Cha. Why so we shall do good on him i th' end Exeunt Enter Father and the Admirall Adm. You are most welcome Fa. I wish your Lordships safetie Which whilst I pray for I must not forget To urge agen the wayes to fixe you where No danger has accesse to threaten you Adm. Still your old argument I owe your love for t Fa. But fortified with new and pregnant reasons That you should leave the Court. Ad. I dare not Sir Fa. You dare be undone then Ad. I should be ingratefull To such a master as no subject boasted To leave his service when they exact My chiefest dutie and attendance Sir Fa. Would thou weâ—t lesse degraded from thy titles And swelling offices that will i th' end Engulfe thee past a rescue I had not come So farre to trouble you at this time but that I doe not like the loud tongues o' the world That say the King has tane another favorite The Constable a gay man and a great With a hugh traine of faction too the Queene Chancellor Treasurer Secretary and An army of state warriers whose discipline Is sure and subtile to confusion I hope the rumour 's false thou art so calme Adm. Report has not abus'd you Sir Fa. It has not And you are pleas'd then you doe meane to mixe With unjust courses the great Constable And you combining that no suite may passe One of the graples of your eithers rape I that abhorr'd must I now entertaine A thought that your so straight and simple custome To render Iustice and the common good Should now be patch'd with pollicy and wrested From the ingenious step you tooke And hang Vpon the shoulders of your enemy To beare you out in what you shame to act Adm. Sir We both are reconciled Fa. It followes then that both the acts must beare Like reconcilement and if hee will now Maligne and mallice you for crossing him Or any of his faction in their suites Being now atton'd you must be one in all One in corruption and twixt you two millstones New pickt and put together must the graine Of good mens
needfull meanes to live be ground Into your choking superfluities You both too rich they ruinde Adm. I conceive Sir Wee both may be enrich'd and raise our fortunes Even with our places in our Soveraignes favour Though past the height of others yet within The rules of Law and Iustice and approove Our actions white and innocent Fa. I doubt it While inforc'd shew perhaps which will I feare Prove in true substance but a Millers whitenesse More sticking in your clothes then conscience Adm. Your censure herein tasts some passion Sir And I beseech you nourish better thoughts Then to imagine that the Kings meere grace Sustaines such prejudice by those it honours That of necessitie we must pervert it With passionate enemies and ambitious boundlesse Avarice and every licence incident To fortunate greatnesse and that all abuse it For the most impious avarice of some Fa. As if the totall summe of favorites frailties Affected not the full rule of their Kings In their owne partially disposed ambitions And that Kings doe no hazard infinitely In their free realties of rights and honours Where they leave much for favourites powers to order Adm. But wee have such a master of our King In the Imperiall art that no power flies Out of his favour but his policie ties A criance to it to containe it still And for the reconcilement of us Sir Never were two in favour that were more One in all love of Iustice and true honour Though in the act and proâ—ecution Pehaps we differ Howsoever yet One beame us both creating what should let That both our soules should both one metâ—le beare And that one stampe one word one character Fa. I could almost be won to be a Courtier There 's some thing more in 's composition Then ever yet was favourites Enter a Courtier What 's hee Cour. I bring your Lordship a sign'd bill to â—ave The addition of your honor'd hand the counsell Have all before subscribed and full prepar'd it Ad. It seemes then they have weigh'd the importance of it And know the grant is just Cour. No doubt my Lord Or else they take therein the Constables word It being his suite and his power having wrought The King already to appose his hand Adm. I doe not like his working of the King For if it be a suite made knowne to him And fit to passe he wrought himselfe to it However my hand goes to no such grant But first I 'le know and censure it my selfe Cour. A he if thou beest goddesse of contention That Iove tooke by the haire and hurl'd from heaven Assume in earth thy empire and this bill Thy firebrand make to turne his love thus tempted Into a hate as horrid as thy furies Adm. Does this beare title of his Lordships suite Cour. It does my Lord and therefore he beseech'd The rather your dispatch Adm. No thought the rather But now the rather all powers against it The suite being most injust and he pretending In all his actions justice on the sudden After his so late vow not to violate it Is strange and vile and if the King himselfe Should owne and urge it I would stay and crosse it For t is within the free power of my office And I should straine his kingdome if I past it I see their poore attempts and giddy malice Is this the reconcilement that so lately He vow'd in sacred witnesse of the King Assuring me he never more would offer To passe a suite unjust which I well know This is above all and have often beene urg'd To give it passage be you Sir the Judge Fa. I wonot meddle With any thing of state you knew long since Adm. Yet you may heare it Sir Fa. You wonot urge My opinion then go to Adm. An honest merchant Presuming on our league of France with Spaine Brought into Spaine a wealthy ship to vent Her fit commodities to serve the country Which in the place of suffering their saile Were seas'd to recompence a Spanish ship Priz'd by a French man ere the league was made No suites no letters of our Kings could gaine Our merchants first right in it but his letters Vnreverently received the Kings selfe scandall Beside the leagues breach and the foule injustice Done to our honest merchant who endured all Till some small time since authoris'd by our counsell Though not in open Court he made a ship out And tooke a Spaniard brings all home and sues To gaine his full prov'd losse full recompence Of his just prize his prize is staid and ceaz'd Yet for the Kings disposure and the Spaniard Makes suite to be restor'd her which this bill Would fâ—ine get granted faining as they hop'd With my allowance and way given to make Our Countrey mans in Spaine their absolute prize Fa. I were absolute injustice Adm. Should I passe it Fa. Passe life and state before Adm. If this would seeme His Lordships suite his love to me and justice Including plots upon me while my simplenesse Is seriously vow'd to reconcilement Love him good vulgars and abhorre me still For if I court your slatterie with my crimes Heavens love before me fly till in my tombe I sticke pursuing it and for this bill Thus say t was shiver'd blesse us equall heaven Exit Fa. This could I cherish now above his losse You may report as much the bill discharg'd Sir Exeunt Actus Secundus Enter King and Queen Secretary with the Torne bill Kin. IS it enâ— so Que. Good heaven how tame you are Doe Kings of France reward foule Traitors thus Kin. No Traitor y' are too loude Chabots no Traitor He has the passions of a man about him And multiplicitie of cares may make Wise men forget themselves come be you patient Qu. Can you be so and see your selfe thus torne Kin. Our selfe Qu. There is some left if yoâ— dare owne Your royall character is not this your name Kin. T is Francis I confesse Qu. Be but a name If this staine live upon 't affronted by Your subject shall the sacred name of King A word to make your nation bow and tremble Be thus profain'd are lawes establish'd To punish the defacers of your image But dully set by the rude hand of others Vpon your coine and shall the character That doth include the blessing of all France Your name thus written by your royall hand Design'd for Justice and your Kingdomes honour Not call up equall anger to reward it Your Counsellors of state contemn'd and slighted As in this braine more circumscrib'd all wisedome And pollicy of Empire and your power Subordinate and subject to his passion Kin. Come it concernes you not Qu. Is this the consequence Of an attonement made so lately betweene The hopefull Mountmorencie and his Lordship Vrge by your selfe with such a precious sanction Come he that dares doe this wants not a heart But opportunitie Kin. To doe what Qu. To teare your crowne off Kin. Come your language doth taste more Of rage and womanish flame than
may wrong in you Your rights of kinde and dignities of fortune And I advanc'd you not to heape on you Honours and fortunes that by strong hand now Held up and over you when heaven takes off That powerfull hand ' should thunder on your head And after you crush your surviving seedes Adm. Sir your regards to both are great and sacred But if the innocence and right that rais'd me And meanes for mine can finde no friend hereafter Of him that ever lives and ever seconds All Kings just bounties with defence and refuge In just mens races let my fabricke ruine My stocke want sap my branches by the roote Be â—orne to death and swept with whirlewindes out King For my love no relenting Adm. No my leige T is for your love and right that I stand out King Be better yet advis'd Adm. I cannot Sir Should any Oracle become my counsell For that I stand not out thus of set will Or pride of any singular conceite My eÌ„neÌ„mies and the world may clearely know I taste no sweetes to drowne in others gall And to affect in that which makes me lothed To leave my selfe and mine expos'd to all The dangers you propos'd my purchas'd honours And all my fortunes in an instant lost That mony cares and paines and yeares have gather'd How mad were I to rave thus in my wounds Vnlesse my knowne health felt in these forc'd issues Were sound and fit and that I did not know By most true proofes that to become sincere With all mens hates doth farre excëede their loves To be as they are mixtures of corruption And that those envies that I see pursue me Of all true actions are the naturall consequents Which being my object and my resolute choise Not for my good but yours I will have justice King You will have justice is your will so strong Now against mine your power being so weake Before my favour gave them both their forces Of all that ever shar'd in my free graces You Philip Chabot a meane Gentleman Have not I-rais'd you to a supremest Lord And given you greater dignities than any Adm. You have so King Well sed and to spurre your dulinesse With the particulars to which I rais'd you Have not I made you first a Knight of the Orderâ— Then Admirall of France then Count Byzanges Lord and Livetenant generall of all My country and command of Burgady Livetenant generall likewise of my sonne Daulphine and heire and of all Normandy And of my chiefely honor'd privy Counsell And cannot all these powers weigh downe your will Adm. No Sir they were not given me to that end But to uphold my will my will being just King And who shall judge that Justice you or I Adm. I Sir in this case your royall thoughts are fitly Exempt from every curious search of one You have the generall charge with care of all Kin. And doe not generalls include particulars May not I Iudge of any thing compriz'd In your particular as well as you Adm. Farre be the misery from you that you may My cares paines broken sleepe therein made more Then yours should make me see more and my forces Render of better judgement King Well Sir grant Your force in this my odds in benefits Paid for your paines put in the other scale And any equall holder of the ballance Will shew my merits hoist up yours to aire In rule of any doubt or deed betwixt us Adm. You merit not of me for benefits More than my selfe of you for services King I st possible Adm. T is true King Stand you on that Adm. I to the death and will approve to all men Kin. I am deceiv'd but I shall finde good Judges That will finde difference Adm. Finde them being good King Still so what if conferring My bounties and your services to sound them We fall foule on some licences of yours Nay give me therein some advantage of you Adm. They cannot King Not in sisting their severe discharges Of all your offices Adm. The more you sift The more you shall refine mee King What if I Grant out against you a commission Ioyn'd with an extraordinary processe To arrest and put you in lawes hands for triall Adm. Not with lawes uttermost King I le throw the dice. Adm. And I le endure the chance The dice being square Adm. Repos'd in dreadlesse confidence and conscience That all your most extreames shall never reach Or to my life my goodes or honours breach King Was ever heard so fine a confidence Must it not pâ—ove presumption and can that Scape brackâ—s and errors in your search of law I prethee weigh yet with more soule than danger And some lesse passion Adm. Witnesse heaven I cannot Were I dissolv'd and nothing else but soule King Be shrew my blood but his resolves amaze me Was ever such a Iustice in a subject Of so much office left to his owne swinge That left to law thus and his Soveraignes wrath Could stand cleare spight of both let reason rule it Before it come at law a man so rare In one thing cannot in the rest be vulgar And who sees you not in the broad high-way The common dust up in your owne eyes beating In quest of riches honours offices As heartily in shew as most beleeve And he that can use actions with the vulgar Must needes embrace the same effects cannot informe him Whatsoever he pretends use them with such Free equitie as fits one just and reall Even in the eyes of men nor stand at all parts So truly circular so sound and solid But have his swellings out his crackes and crannies And therefore in this reason before law Take you to hâ—r least you affect and flatter Your selfe with mad opinions Adm. I were mad Directly Sir if I were yet to know Not the sure danger but the certaine ruine Of men shot into law from Kings bent brow There being no dreame from the most muddie braine Vpon the foulest faâ—cie that can forge More horrour in the shaddowes of meere fame Then can some Lawyer in a man expos'd To his interpretation by the King But these grave toyes I shall despise in death And while I live will lay them open so My inocence laid by them that like foiles They shall sticke of my merits tenne times more And make your bounties nothing for who gives And hits i th teeth himselfe payes with the glory For which he gave as being his end of giving Not to crowne merits or doe any good And so no thankes is due but to his glory King T is brave I sweare Adm. No Sir t is plaine and rude But true and spotlesse and where you object My hearty and grosse vulgar love of riches Titles and honours I did never seeke them For any love to them but to that justice You ought to use in their due gift to merits To shew you royall and most open handed Not using for hands talons pincers grapples In whose gripes and upon whose gord
that was never true scholler in the least degree longs as a woman with child to be great with scholler she that was never with child longs Omnibus vijs modis to be got with child and will weare a cushion to seeme with child and hee that was never just will fly in the Kings face to be counted just though for all he be nothing but just a Traytor Sec. The Admirall smilâ—s Jud. Answer your selfe my Lord. Adm. I shall and briefely The furious eloquence of my accuser hath Branch'd my offences hainous to the King And then his subject a most vast indictment That to the King I have justified my merit And services which conscience of that truth That gave my actions life when they are questioned I ought to urge agen and doe without The least part of injustice for the Bill A foule and most unjust one and prefer'd Gainst the Kings honour and his subjects priviledge And with a policie to betray my office And faith to both I doe confesse I tore it It being prest immodestly but without A thought of disobedience to his name To whose mention I bow with humble reverence And dare appeale to the Kings knowledge of me How farre I am in soule from such a rebell For the rest my Lord and you my honour'd Iudges Since all this mountaine all this time in labour With more than mortall fury gainst my life Hath brought forth nought but some ridiculous vermine I will not wrong my right and innocence With any serious plea in my reply To frustrate breath and fight with terrible shaddow That have beene forg'd and forc'd against my state But leave all with my life to your free censures Onely beseeching all your learned judgements Equall and pious conscience to weigh Pro. And how this great and mighty fortune hath exalted him to pride is apparant not onely in his bâ—aves and bearings to the King the fountaine of all this increase but in his contempt and scorne of the subject his vast expences in buildings his private bounties above royall to souldiers and schollers that he may be the Generall and Patron and protector of armes and arts the number of domesticke attendants an army of Grashoppers and gay Butterflies able to devoure the Spring his glorious wardrobes his stable of horses that are prick'd with provender and will enforce us to weede up our Vineyards to sow Oates for supply of their provision his caroches shining with gold and more bright than the chariot of the Sunne wearing out the pavements nay he is of late so transcendently proud that men must be his Mules and carry him up and downe as it were in a Procession for men to gaze at him till their chines crackes with the weight of his insupportable pride and who knowes but this may prove a fashion But who grones for this the subject who murmure and are ready to beginne a rebellion but the tumultuous saylers and water-rats who tunne up and downe the citie like an over-bearing tempest cursing the Admirall who in duty ought to undoe himself for the generall satisfaction of his countrymen Adm. The varietie and wonder now presented To your most noble notice and the worlds That all my life and actions and offices Explor'd with all the hundred eyes of Law Lighted with lightning shot out of the wrath Of an incenst and commanding King And blowne with foes with farre more bitter windes Then Winter from his Easterne cave exhailes Yeh nothing found but what you all have heard And then consider if a peere of State Should be expos'd to such a wild arraignement For poore complaints his fame faith life and honours Rackt for no more Cha. No more good heaven what say My learned assistants 1 Iu. My Lord the crimes urg'd here for us to censure As capitall and worth this high arraignement To me seeme strange because they doe not fall In force of Law to arraigne a Peere of State For all that Law can take into her power To sentence is the exaction of the Fishermen 2 Iu. Here is no majesty violated I consent to what my Brother has exprest Cha. Breake then in wonder My frighted words out of their forming powers That you no more collect from all these forfeits That Mr. Proctor generall hath opened With so apparant and impulsive learning Against the rage and madnesse of the offender And violate Majestie my learned assistants When Majesties affronted and desied It being compar'd with and in such an onset As leap'd into his throate his life affrighting Be justified in all insolence all subjects If this be so considered and insult Vpon your priviledg'd malice is not Majestie Poyson'd in this wonder and no felony set Where royaltie is rob'd and Fie how it fights with Law and grates upon Her braine and soule and all the powers of Reason Reporter of the processe shew the sedule No. Here my good Lord. 1. No altering it in us 2. Farre be it from us Sir Cha. Here 's silken Iustice It might be altered mend your sentences Both. Not wee my Lord. Cha. Not you The King shall know You slight a duty to his will and safety Give me your pen it must be capitall 1. Make what you please my Lord our doome shall stand Cha. Thus I subscribe now at your perills follow Both. Perills my Lord threates in the Kings free justice Tre I am amaz'd they can be so remisse Sec. Mercifull men pittifull Iudges certaine 1. Subscribe it matters nothing being constrain'd On this side and on this side this capitall I Both which together put import plaine Vi And witnesse we are forc'd 2. Enough It will acquit us when we make it knowne Our names are forc'd Cha. If traiterous pride Vpon the royall person of a King Were sentenc'd unfelloniously before I le burne my Bookes and be a Iudge no more Both. Here are our hands subscrib'd Cha. Why so it joyes me You have reform'd your justice and your judgement Now have you done like Iudges and learned Lawyers The King shall thanke and honour you for this Notary read No. We by his sacred Majestie appointed Judges upon due triall and examination Of Philip Chabot Admirall of France Declare him guiltie of high treasons c. Cha. Now Captaine of the gaurd secure his person Till the King signifie His pleasure for his death this day is happy To France thus reskued from the vile devourer A shoute within Harke how the votes applaud their blest deliverance You that so late did right and conscience boast Heavens mercy now implore the Kings is lost Exeunt Actus Quartus Enter King Queene and Constable Kin. YOu raise my thoughrs to wonder that you Madam And you my Lord unite your force to pleade i th' Admiralls behalfe this is not that Language you did expresse when the torne Bill Was late pretended to us it was then Defiance to our high prerogative The act of him whose proud heart would rebell And arm'd with faction too soone attempt To teare
it sign'd with all These my assistant brothers reverend hands To his conviction in a publike triall King You said for foule and monstrous facts prov'd by 〈◊〉 Cha. The very words are there sir King But the deedes I looke for sir name me but one that 's monstrous Cha. His foule comparisons and affronts of you To me seem'd monstrous King I told you them sir Nor were they any that your so vast knowledge Being a man studied in him could produce And prove as cleare as heaven you warranted To make appeare such treasons in the Admirall As never all Lawes Volumes yet had sentenc'd And France should looke on having scap'd with wonder What in this nature hath beene cleerely prov'd In his arraignement 1. Nothing that we heard In slendrest touch urg'd by your Advocate King Dare you affirme this too 2. Most considently King No base corruptions charg'd upon him 1. None sir Tr. This argues Chabot has corrupted him Seâ— I doe not like this 1. The summe of all Was urg'd to prove your Admirall corrupt Was an exaction of his officers Of twenty souse taken from the Fishermen For every boate and that fish'd the Normand coast King And was this all The mountaines and the marvells promist me To be in cleere proofe made against the life Of our so hated Admirall Iud. All sir Vpon our lives and consciences Cha. I am blasted King How durst you then subscribe to his conviction 1. For threats by my Lord Chancellor on the Bench Affirming that your Majestie would have it Made capitall treason or account us traitors 2. Yet sir we did put to our names with this Interposition of a note in secret In these two letters V and I to shew Wee were enforc'd to what we did which then In Law is nothing Fa. How doe you feele your Lordship Did you not finde some stuffing in your head Your braine should have beene purg'd Cha. I fall to peeces Would they had rotted on the Bench. King And so you sav'd the peace of that high Court Which otherwise his impious rage had broken But thus am I by his malicious arts A parly rendred and most tyrannous spurre To all the open course of his base envies A forcer of my Iudges and a thirst Of my nobilities blood and all by one I trusted to make cleere my love of Iustice Cha. I beseech your Majestie let all my zeale To serve your vertues with a sacred value Made of your royall state to which each least But shade of violence in any subject Doth provoke certaine death King Death on thy name And memory for ever one command Our Advocate attend us presently As He waites here King But single death shall not excuse thy skinne Torne ore thine eares and what else can be inflictedâ— If thy life with the same severity Dissected cannot stand so many fires Sec. Tre. Be mercifull great Sir King Yet more amaze Is there a knee in all the world beside That any humane conscience can let bow For him y are traitors all that pitty him Tr. This is no time to move King Yet t was my fault To trust this wretch whom I knew fierce and proud With formes of tongue and learning what a prisoner Is pride of the whole slood of man for as A humane seede is said to be a mixture And faire contemperature extracted from All our best faculties so the seede of all Mans sensuall frailty may be said to abide And have their confluence in onely pride It stupifies mans reason so and dulls True sence of any thing but what may fall In his owne glory quenches all the spirits That light a man to honour and true goodnesse As Your Advocate Enter Advocate King Come hither Adv. My most gracious Soveraigne Adm. Madam you infinitely oblige our duty Qu. I was too long ignorant of your worth my Lord And this sweete Ladies vertue Wâ—f Both your servants Adm I never had a feare of the Kings Iustice And yet I Know not what creepes ore my heart And leaves an ice beneath it my Lord Chancellor You have my forgivenesse but implore heavens pardon For wrongs to equall justice you shall want No charitie of mine to mediate To the King for you Cha. Horrour of my soule Confounds my gratitude Con. To me now most welcome Adv. It was my allegiance sir I did enforce But by directions of your Chancellor It was my office to advance your cause Gainst all the world which when I leave to execute Flea me and turne me out a most raw Advocate King You see my Chancellor Adv. He has an ill looke with him King It shall be your province now on our behalfe To urge what can in justice be against him His riot on our Lawes and corrupt actions Will give you scope and field enough Adv. And I Will play my law prize never feare it sir He shall be guilty of what you please I am studied In him sir I will squeeze his villanâ—es And urge his acts so whom into his bowells The force of it shall make him hang himselfe And save the Lawes a labour King Iudges for all The poisonous outrage that this viper spile On all my royall freedome and my Empire As making all but servants to his malice I will have you revise the late arraignement And for those worthy reasons that already Affect you for my Admiralls acquitall Employ your justice on this Chancellor away with him Arrest him Captaine of my guard to answer All that due course of Law against him can Charge both his Acts and life Cap. I doe arrest thee Poyet Lord Chancellor in his Highnesse name To answer all that equall course of Law Can charge thy acts and life with Cha. I Obey King How false a heart corruption has how base Without true worth are all these earth-bred glories Oh blessed justice by which all things stand That stills the thunder and makes lightning finke Twixt earth and heaven amaz'd and cannot strike Being prov'd so now in wonder of this man The object of mens hate and heavens bright love And as in cloudy dayes we see the Sunne Glide over turrets temples richest fields All those left darke and slighted in his way And on the wretched plight of some poore shed Powres all the glories of his golden head So heavenly vertue on this envied Lord Points all his graces that I may dinstinguish Him better from the world Tre. You doe him right King But away Iudges and pursue the afraignement Of this polluted Chancellor with that swiftnesse His fury wing'd against my Admirall And be you all that sate on him compurgators Of me against this false Iudge Iud. We are so King Be you two joyn'd in the commission And nothing urg'd but justly of me learning This one more lesson out of the events Of these affaires now past that whatsoever Charge or Commission Iudges have from us They ever make their ayme ingenuous Iustice Not partiall for reward or swelling favour To which if your King
THE TRAGEDIE OF CHABOT ADMIRALL OF FRANCE As it vvas presented by her Majesties Servants at the private House in Drury Lane Written by George Chapman and James Shirly LONDON Printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke 1639. Speakers ASall Allegre King Queene Treasuror Chancellor Admirall Father Generall Chabot Iudges Officers Secretary Vshers Constable Courtiers Porter Guard THE TRAGEDIE OF PHILIP CHABOT ADMIRALL of FRANCE Actus Primus Enter Asall and Allegre Asall NOw Phillip Chabot Admirall of France The great and onely famous Favorite To Francis first of that Imperiall name Hath found a fresh competitor in glory Duke Montmorancie Constable of France Who drinkes as deepe as he of the streame Royall And may in little time convert the strength To raise his spring and blow the others fall Al. The world would wish it so that will not patiently Endure the due rise of a vertuous man As If he be vertuous what is the reason That men affect him not why is he lost Toth ' generall opinion and become Rather their hate than love Al. I wonder you Will question it aske a ground or reason Of men bred in this vile degenerate age The most men are not good and it agrees not With impious natures to allow what 's honest T is an offence enough to be exalted To regall favours great men are not safe In their owne vice where good men by the hand Of Kings are planted to survey their workings What man was ever fixt 'i th Sphere of honour And precious to his Soveraigne whose actions Nay very soule was not expos'd to every Common and base dissection and not onely That which in Nature hath excuse and in Themselves is priviledg'd by name of frailtie But even Vertues are made crimes and doom'd Toth ' fate of Treason As A bad age the while I aske your pardon Sir but thinkes your judgement His love to Justice and Corruptions hate Are true and hearty Al. Iudge your selfe by this One argument his hearty truth to all For in the heart hath anger his wisest seate And gainst unjust suites such brave anger fires him That when they seeke to passe his place and power Though mov'd and urg'd by the other minion Or by his greatest friends and even the King Leade them to his allowance with his hand First given in Bill assign'd even then his spirit In nature calme as any Summers evening Puts up his Whole powers like a Winters sea His bloud boyles over and his heart even cracks At the injustice and he teares the Bill And would doe were he for 't to be torne in peâ—ces As T is brave I sweare Al. Nay it is worthy your wonder That I must tell you further there no Needle In a Sunne Diall plac'd upon his steele In such a tender posture that doth tremble The timely Diall being held amisse And will shake ever till you hold it right More tender than himsefe in any thing That he concludes in Iustice for the State For as a fever held him hee will shake When he is signing any things of weight Least humane frailty should misguide his justice As You have declar'd him a most noble â—usticer Al. He truely weighes and feeles Sir what a charge The subjects livings are being even their lives Laid on the hand of power which abus'd Though seene blood flow not from the justice seate T is in true sence as grievous and horrid As It argues nothing lesse but since your Lord Is diversly reported for his parts What 's your true câ—nsure of his generall worth Vertue and Iudgement Al. As of a Picture wrought to opticke reason That to all passers by seemes as they move Now woman now a Monster now a Divell And till you stand and in a right line view it You cannot well judge what the maine forme is So men that view him but in vulgar passes Casting but laterall or partiall glances At what he is suppose him weake unjust Bloody and monstrous but stand free and fast And judge him by no more than what you know Ingenuously and by the right laid line Of truth he truely will all stiles deserve Of wise just good a man both soule and nerve As Sir I must joyne in just beleefe with you But what 's his rivall the Lord high Constable Al. As just and well inclin'd when hee 's himselfe Not wrought on with the counsells and opinions Of other men and the maine difference is The Admirall is not flexible nor wonne To move one scruple when he comprehends The honest tract and justnesse of a cause The Constable explores not so sincerely The course hee runnes but takes the minde of others By name Iudiciall for what his owne Iudgement and knowledge should conclude As A fault In my apprehension anothers knowledge Applied to my instruction cannot equall My owne soules knowledge how to informe Acts The Sunnes rich radiance shot through waves most faire Is but a shaddow to his beames i th' ayre His beames that in the ayre we so admire Is but a darkenesse to his flame in fire In fire his fervour but as vapour flies To what his owne pure bosome rarifies And the Almighty wisedom having given Each man within himselfe an apter light To guide his acts than any light without him Creating nothing not in all things equall It seems a fault in any that depend On others knowledge and exile their owne Al. T is nobly argued and exemplified But now I heare my Lord and his young rivall Are to be reconcil'd and then one light May serve to guide them both As I wish it may the King being made first mover To forme their reconcilement and enflame it With all the sweetnesse of his praise and honour Al. See t is dispatch'd I hope the King doth grace it Loud Musicke and Enter Vshers before the Secretary Tresuror Chancellor Admirall Constable hand in hand the King following others attend Kin. This doth expresse the noblest fruit of peace Cha. Which when the great begin the humble end In joyfull imitation all combining A gardian beyond the Thrigian knot Past wit to lose it or the sword be still so Tre. T is certaine Sir by concord least things grow Most great and flourishing like trees that wrap Their forehead in the skies may these doe so Kin. You heare my Lord all that is spoke contends To celebrate with pious vote the attonement So lately and so nobly made betweene you Ad. Which for it selfe Sir resolve to keepe Pure and inviolable needing none To encourage or confirme it but my owne Love and allegiance to your sacred counsell Kin. T is good and pleases like my dearest health Stand you firme on that sweete simplicitie Con. Past all earth pollicie that would infringe it Kin. T is well and answers all the doubts suspected Enter one that whispers with the Admirall And what moves this close message Phillip Adm. My wives Father Sir is closely come to Court King Is he come to the Court whose
my crowne off Qu. I was ignorant Then of his worth and heard but the report Of his accusers and his enemies Who never mention in his character Shadowes of any vertue in those men They would depresse like Crowes and carrion birds They sly ore slowrie Meades cleare Springs faire Gardens And stoope at carcasses for your owne honour Pitty poore Chabot King Poore and a Colossus What could so lately straddle ore a Province Can he be fallen so low and miserable To want my pitty who breakes forth like day Takes up all peoples eyes and admiration It cannot be he hath a Princely wife too Qu. I interpose not often Sir or presse you With unbecomming importunitie To serve the profitable ends of others Conscience and duty to your selfe inforce My present mediation you have given The health of your owne state away unlesse Wisedome in time recover him King If he proove No adulterate gold triall confirmes his value Qu. Although it hold in mettle gracious Sir Such fiery examination and the furnace May wast a heart that 's faithfull and together With that you call the feces something of The precious substance may be hazarded King Why you are the chiefe engine rais'd against him And in the worlds Creede labour most to sinke him That in his fall and absence every beame May shine on you and onely guild your fortune Your difference is the ground of his arraignement Nor were we unsollicited by you To have your bill confirm'd from that that spring Came all these mighty and impetuous waves With which he now must wrastle if the strength Of his owne innocence can breake the storme Truth wonot lose her servant her wings cover him He must obey his fate Con. I would not have It lie upon my fame that I should be Mentioned in Story his unjust supplanter For your whole Kingdome I have beene abused And made beleeve my suite was just and necessary My walkes have not beene safe my closet prayers But some plot has pursued me by some great ones Against your noble Admirall they have frighted My fancy into my dreames with their close whispers How to uncement your affections And reâ—der him the fable and the scorne Of France Qu. Brave Montmorancie King Are you serious Con. Have I a soule or gratitude to acknowledge My selfe your creature dignified and honor'd By your high favours with an equall truth I must declare the justice of your Admirall In what my thoughts are conscious and will rather Give up my claime to birth title and offices Be throwne from your warme smile the top and crowne Of subjects happinesse then be brib'd with all Their glories to the guilt of Chabots ruine King Come come you over act this passion And if it be not pollicie it tasts Too greene and wants some counsell to mature it His fall prepares your triumph Con. It confirmes My shame alive and buried will corrupt My very dust make our house-genious grone And fright the honest marble from my ashes His fall prepare my triumph turne me first A naked exile to the world King No more Take heede you banish not your selfe be wise And let not too much zeale devoure your reason Enter Asall As Your Admirall Is condemn'd Sir King Ha strange no matter Leave us a great man I see may be As soone dispatch'd as a common subject Qu. No mercy then for Chabot Enter Wife and Father Wif. From whence came That sound of Chabot then we are all undone Oh doe not heare the Queene she is no friend To my poore Lord but made against his life Which hath too many enemies already Con. Poore soule shee thinkes the Queene is still against him Who employeth all her powers to preserve him Fa. Say you so my Lord daughter the Queen 's our friend Wif. Why doe you mocke my sorrow can you flatter Your owne griefe so be just and heare me sir And doe not sacrifice a subjects blood To appease a wrathfull Queene let mercy shine Vpon your brow and heaven will pay it backe Vpon your soule be deafe to all her prayers King Poore heart she knowes not what she has desir'd Wif. I begge my Chabâ—ts life my sorrowes yet Have not destroid my reason King He is in the power of my Lawes not mine Wif. Then you have no power And are but the emptie shadow of a King To whom is it resign'd where shall I begge The forfeit life of one condemnâ—d by Lawes To partiall doome King You heare he is condemn'd then Fa. My sonne is condemn'd fit King You know for what too Fa. What the Iudges please to call it But they have given tâ— a name Treason they say Qu. I must not be denied King I must deny you Wif. Beâ—lest for ever for t Qu. Grant then to her King Chabot condemn'd by law Fa. But you have power To change the rigor in â—our breast there is A Chancellor above it I nere had A suite before but my knees joyne with hers To implore your royall mercy to her Lord And take his cause to your examination It cannot wrong your Iudges if they have Beene steer'd by conscience Con. It will fame your Iustice King I cannot be prescrib'd you kneele in vaine You labour to betray me with your teares To a treason above his gainst my owne Lawes Looke to the Lady Exeunt Enter Asall As Sir the Chancellor King Admit him leave us all Enter Chancellor How now my Lord You have lost no time and how thrive the proceedings Cha. T was sit my gracious Soveraigne time should leave His motion made in all affaires beside And spend his wings onely in speed of this King You have shew'd diligence and what 's become Of our most curious Iusticer the Admirall Cha. Condemn'd sir utterly and all hands set To his conviction King And for faults most foule Cha. More than most impious but the applausive issue Strooke by the concourse of your ravish'd subjects For joy of your free Iustice if there were No other cause to assure the sentence just Were proofe convincing King Now then he sees cleerely That men perceive how vaine his Iustice was And scorne him for the foolish net he wore To hide his nakednesse i st not a wonder That mens ambitions should so blinde their reason To affect shapes of honesty and take pride Rather in seeming then in being just Cha. Seeming has better fortune to attend it Then being sound at heart and vertuous King Professe all nothing doe like those that live By looking to the Lamps of holy Temples Who still are busie taking off their snuffes But for their profit sake will adde no oyle So these will checke and sentence every fame The blaze of riotous blood doth cast in others And in themselves leave the sume most offensive But he to doe this more deceives my judgement Than all the rest whose nature I have sounded Cha. I know Sir and have prov'd it King Well my Lord To omit circumstance I highly thanke you For this
to one but another is exalted by the execution of the Law since the corruption of one must conclude the generation of another though not alwayes in the same profession the corruption of an Apothecary may be the generation of a Doctor of Physicke the corruption of a Citizen may beget a Courtier a Courtier may very well beget an Alderman the corruption of an Alderman may be the generation of a Country Iustice whose corrupt ignorance easily may beget a tumult a tumult may beget a Captaine and the corruption of a Captaine may beget a Gentleman-Vsher and a Gentleman-Vsher may beget a Lord whose wit may beget a Poet and a Poet may get a thousand pound a yeare but nothing without corruption Tre. Good Mr. Advocate be pleased to leave all digressions and speake of the Chancellor Adv. Your Lordship doth very seasonably premonish and I shall not neede to leave my subject corruption while I discourse of him who is the very fenne and stigian abisse of it five thousand and odde hundred foule and impious corruptions for I will be briefe have beene found by severall examinations and by oathes prov'd against this odious and polluted Chancelor a man of so tainted and contagious a life that it is a miracle any man enjoyeth his nostrills that hath lived within the sent of his offices he was borne with teeth in his head by an affidavit of his Midwife to note his devouring and hath one toe on his left foote crooked and in the forme of an Eagles talon to foretell his rapacitie What shall I say branded mark'd and design'd in his birth for shame and obloquie which appeareth further by a mole under his right eare with only three Witches haires in t strange and ominous predictions of nature Tre. You have acquainted your selfe but very lately With this intelligence for as I remember Your tongue was guilty of no such character When hee sat Iudge upon the Admirall A pious incorrupt man a faithfull and fortunate Servant to his King and one of the greatest Honours that ever the Admirall received was That he had so noble and just a Iudge this must Imply a strange volubilitie in your tongue or Conscience I speake not to discountenance any Evidence for the King but to put you in minde Mr. Advocate that you had then a better opinion Of my Lord Chancellor Adv. Your Lordship hath most aptly interpos'd and with a word I shall easily satisfie all your judgements He was then a Judge and in Cathedra in which he could not erre it may be your Lordships cases out of the chaire and seate of Iustice he hath his frailties is loos'ed and expos'd to the conditions of other humane natures so every Iudge your Lordships are not ignorant hath a kinde of priviledge while he is in his state office and being and although hee may quoad se internally and privately be guilty of bribery of Iustice yet quoad nos and in publike he is an upright and innocent Iudge we are to take no notice nay we deserved to suffer if wee should detect or staine him for in that we disparage the Office which is the Kings and may be our owne but once remov'd from his place by just dishonour of the King he is no more a Iudge but a common person whom the law takes hold on and wee are then to forget what hee hath beene and without partialitie to strip and lay him open to the world a counterfeit and corrupt Iudge as for example hee may and ought to flourish in his greatnesse and breake any mans necke with as much facilitie as a jeast but the case being altered and hee downe every subject shall be heard a Wolfe may be appareld in a Lamb-skinne and if every man should be afraid to speake truth nay and more than truth if the good of the subject which are clients sometime require it there would be no remove of Officers if no remove no motions if no motion in Court no heate and by consequence but cold Termes take away this moving this removing of Iudges the Law may bury it selfe in Buckram and the kingdome suffer for want of a due execution and now I hope your Lordships are satisfied Tre. Most learnedly concluded to acquity our selfe 1 Iud. Mr. Advocate please you to urge for satisfaction Of the world and clearing the Kings honour how In justly he proceeded against the Admirall Adv. I shall obey your Lordship So vâ—st so infinite hath beene the impudence of this Chancellor not onely toward the subject but even the sacred person of the King that I tremble as with a Palsie to remember it This man or rather this monster having power and commission trusted for the examination of the Lord Admirall a man perfect in all honour and justice indeede the very ornament and second flower of France for the Flower de lis is sacred and above all flowers and indeede the best flower in our garden Having used all wayes to circumvent his innocence by suborning and promising rewards to his betrayers by compelling others by the cruelty of tortures as namely Mounsieur Allegre a most honest and faithfull servant to his Lord tearing and extending his sinewes upon the â—acke to force a confession to his purpose and finding nothing prevaile upon the invincible vertue of the Admirall Sec. How he would flatter him Adv. Yet most maliciously proceeded to arraigne him to be short against all colour of Iustice condemn'd him of high treasons oh thinke what the life of man is that can never be recompenced but the life of a just man a man that is the vigour and glory of our life and nation to be torne to death and sacrifis'd beyond the mallice of common persecution What Tiger of Hercanian breede could have beene so cruell but this is not all he was not guilty onely of murder guilty I may say In foro coÌ„sctieniae though our good Admirall was miraculously preserv'd but unto this he added a most prodigious fearefull rape a rape even upon Iustice it self the very soule of our state for the rest of the Iudges upon the Bench venerable images of Austria he most tyranously compel'd to set their hands to his most unjust sentence did ever story remember the like outrâ—ge and injustice what forfeit what penalty can be enough to satisfie this transcendent offence and yet my good Lords this is but veniall to the sacriledge which now followes and by him committed not content with this sentence not satisfied with horrid violence upon the sacred Tribunall but hee proceedes and blasphemes the very name and honour of the King himselfe observe that making him the author and impulsive cause of all these rapines justifying that he mov'd onely by his speciall command to the death nay the murder of his most faithfull subject translating all his owne blacke and damnable guilt upon the Kings heires a traytor to his Country first he conspires the death of one whom the King loves and whom every