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A07238	The Emperour of the East· A tragæ-comœdie. The scæne Constantinople. As it hath bene diuers times acted, at the Black-friers, and Globe play-houses, by the Kings Maiesties Seruants. Written by Philip Massinger.	Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 17636; ESTC S112418	43,955	95

bee Archer or the bow From which 't is sent it cannot hit the white Vnlesse your approbation guide it right Prologue at Court AS euer Sir you lent a gratious eare To oppress'd innocence now vouchsafe to heare A short petition At your feete in mee The Poet kneeles and to your Maiestie Appeales for iustice What wee now present When first conceiu'd in his vote and intent Was sacred to your pleasure in each part With his best of fancie iudgment language art Fashiond and form'd so as might well and may Deserue a wellcome and no vulgar way Hee durst not Sir at such a solemne feast Lard his graue matter with one scurrilous ieast But labour'd that no passage might appeare But what the Queene without a blush might heare And yet this poore worke suffer'd by the rage And enuie of some Catos of the stage Yet still hee hopes this Play which then was seene With sore eyes and condemn'd out of their spleen May bee by you The supreme iudge set free And rais'd aboue the reach of calumnie The Emperour of the East The Scaene Constantinople Act 1. Scaene 1. Paulinus Cleon Paul IN your six yeeres trauaile friend no doubt you haue met with Many and rare aduentures and obseru'd The wonders of each climate varying in The manners and the men and so returne For the future seruice of your prince and country In your vnderstanding betterd Cleon. Sir I haue made oft The best vse in my power and hope my gleanings After the full crop others reapd before me Shall not when I am call'd on altogether Appeare vnprofitable yet I left The miracle of miracles in our age At home behind me euery where abroad Fame with a true though prodigall voyce deliuer'd Such wonders of Pulcheria the Princesse To the amazement nay astonishment rather Of such as heard it that I found not one In all the States and Kingdomes that I pass'd through Worthy to be her second Paul She indeed is A perfect Phoenix and disdaynes a riuall Her infant yeeres as you know promis'd much But growne to ripenesse shee transcendes and makes Credulitie her debtor I will tell you In my blunt way to entertaine the time Vntill you haue the happinesse to see her How in your absence shee hath borne her selfe And with all possible breuitie though the subiect Is such a spatious field as would require An abstract of the purest eloquence Deriu'de from the most famous Orators The nurse of learning Athens shew'd the world In that man that should vndertake to bee Her true Historian Cleon. In this you shall doe mee A speciall fauour Paulinus Since Arcadius death Our late great Master the protection of The Prince his Sonne the second Theodosius By a generall vote and suffrage of the people Was to her charge assigned with the disposure Of his so many Kingdomes For his person Shee hath so train'd him vp in all those arts That are both great and good and to be wished In an Imperiall Monarch that the Mother Of the Gracchi graue Cornelia Rome still boasts of The wise Pulcheria but nam'd must be No more remembred She by her example Hath made the court a kinde of Academy In which true honour is both learnd and practisd Her priuate lodging 's a chaste Nunnery In which her sisters as probationers heare From her their soueraigne Abbesse all the precepts Read in the schoole of vertue Cleon. You amaze me Paulinus I shall ere I conclude For heere the wonder Begins not ends Her soule is so immense And her strong faculties so apprehensiue To search into the depth of deepe designes And of all natures that the burthen which To many men were insupportable To her is but a gentle exercise Made by the frequent vse familiar to her Cleon. With your good fauour let me interrupt you Being as she is in euery part so perfect Me thinkes that all kings of our Easterne world Should become riualls for her Paulinus So they haue But to no purpose She that knowes her strength To rule and gouerne Monarchs scornes to weare On her free necke the seruile yoke of marriage And for one loose desire enuie it selfe Dares not presume to taint her Venus sonne Is blinde indeed when he but gazes on her Her chastity being a rocke of Diamonds With which encountred his shafts flie in splinters His flaming torches in the liuing spring Of her perfections quench'd and to crowne all Shee 's so impartiall when she sits vpon The high tribunall neither swayd with piety Nor awd by feare beyond her equall scale That 't is not superstition to beleeue Astrea once more liues vpon the earth Pulcheriaes brest her temple Cleon. You haue giuen her An admirable character Paulinus She deserues it And such is the commanding power of vertue That from her vicious enemies it compells Paeans of prayse as a due tribute to her Solemne lowd musick Cleon. What meanes this solemne musicke Paulinus It vshers The Emperours morning meditation In which Pulcheria is more then assistant T is worth your obseruation and you may Collect from her expence of time this day How her howres for many yeeres haue beene dispos'd of Cleon. I am all eyes and eares Enter after a strayne of musicke Philanax Timantus Patriarch Theodosius Pulcheria Flaccilla Arcadia followed by Chrysapius and Gratianus Informer Seruants Officers Pulcheria Your patience Sir Let those corrupted ministers of the court Which you complayne of our deuotions ended Be cited to appeare For the Embassadours Who are importunate to haue audience From me you may assure them that to morrow They shall in publike kisse the Emperours robe And we in priuate with our soonest leasure Will giue 'em hearing Haue you especiall care too That free accesse be granted vnto all Petitioners The morning weares Pray you on Sir Time lost is ne're recouerd Exeunt Theodosius Pulcheria and the trayne Paulinus Did you note The maiesty she appeares in Cleon. Yes my good Lord I was rauish'd with it Paulinus And then with what speede Shee orders his dispatches not one daring To interpose the Emperour himselfe Without replie putting in act what euer Shee pleas'd to impose vpon him Cleon. Yet there were some That in their sullen lookes rather confessed A forc'd constraint to serue her then a will To bee at her deuotion what are they Paulin. Eunuchs of the Emperours chamber that repine The globe and awfull scepter should giue place Vnto the distaffe for as such they whisper A womans gouernment but dare not yet Expresse themselues Cleon. From whence are the Embassadours To whom she promisde audience Paulinus They ate Imployd by diuers Princes who desire Alliance with our Emperour whose yeeres now As you see write him man One would aduance A daughter to the honour of his bed A second his fayre sister to instruct you In the particulars would aske longer time Then my owne designes giue way to I haue letters From speciall friends of mine that to my care Commend a stranger virgin whom this morning I