Case against them Tit. Then first to you whom I have wrong'd so much And next to all that 's here Sings Forgive me oh forgive me my cruel disdain Never poor Lover endured such pain As I will in my skill your praises to tell And never sing other till death rings my Knell Therefore no man hate a woman for now you may prove It lyes in their powers to restore Life and Love Therefore no man hate a woman for now you may prove It lyes in their power to restore Life and Love Exeunt A great Allarum and Excursions then enter Eusanius and Shepherds with Alcade Sophos and White moor prisoners Eus. The honor of thy overthrow brave Moor is due to great Pheander King of Thrace but thy Crowns ransom does belong to me Alcad. Take Life and all it is not worth the keeping Without Addition of a Victory To be a Peasants prisoner Cursed Fate Why should a King be so unfortunate Sophos Unhappy chance Came I to Thrace for this to loose both Life and Honor in the Land that gave me Life and by a Brother too Black destiny Eus. Some poste unto Pheander and glad his ears with this our Victory Enter 1 Th. Lord Why come ye on so slowly renew the fight our King is taken prisoner by that slave that by his falling off lost the last Battel Eus. Pheander taken Alcade That 's some comfort yet I hope Scicillia will not ransom him till he consent unto our Liberty Soph. And if he should he were unworthy to be term'd a King Eus Why then let 's summon 'em unto a Parley First offer to exchange our Prisoners A Parley And then begin the bloody Fight agen 1 Lord Summon a Parley then Enter Scicillia Lords with Pheander prisoner Look here Scicillia since by chance of war our Thracian King is taken prisoner to ransom him we will deliver back into your hands the great Alcade Sophos and this White moor Phe. Three prisoners for one detain 'em still I le not be ransom'd at so dear a rate Alcade And if thou shouldst I scorn it should be so For look what Ransom Scicillia sets down I le pay it trebly o're to ransom us Scicil. We 'l take no Ransom but will set you free by force of Arms Eus. Bear back the prisoners and renew the Fight Rad. Stay darest thou that seemest so forward hand to hand in single opposition end this Strife Eus. Oh were these Kings but pleased it should be so How soon would we decide this difference Scicil. What says Alcade if he be so content I le gladly put my Right upon his sword Phe. The like will I upon my Champion whose unmatcht valor has been well approved Alcade I like his fair Aspect and give consent Mayest thou prove happy in this Enterprize Rad. I le loose my life or gain your liberty Eus. The like will I or set Pheander free Exeunt Phe. Then till the Champions be in readiness let the Conditions be concluded on Pallatio draw the Articles for us Cicil. And you for us if we be overcome Pheander is to have his liberty and we depart this land resigning back all interest due by his permission and never seek revenge for our lost Son this as we are Royal we 'l consent unto Alcad. If Thrace be overcome he shall surrender all his dignity into our hands which Sophos shall enjoy which our fair daughter paying Cicilly a yearly tribute and your Soldiers pay since their abode in Thrace shall be discharged from our Exchecquer Phe. This I le add besides because by us Cicillia lost a for who ever shall enjoy the Crown of Thrace shall once a year clad in his pilgrims weeds offer sacrifice unto the Gods and lay his Crown down at Cicillias feet Soph. And Sophos vows to offer up his life A ransom for this beautuous Affrican If we be vanquisht by our enemy Scicil. There 's Scicillias hand Phe. And mine Alcad. There Alcade Lil. And mine Sop. And Sophos joyned in one 1 Thr. Lord A happy end crown this Contention Pal. Beseech your Graces since this difference is to be ended by a shepherds hand to let our Queen be set at liberty to see the Champion that must fight for her Phe. Go fetch her forth And now I call to minde the Oracle that said a shepherd should restore my Crown sure one of these will prove that happy man Cicil. The Trumpet sounds agen let 's take our seats and see who shall obtain the victory Phe. Nay altogether now till the last stroke make a division Enter Ariadne brought in by shepherds Oh the shepherds Queen Alcad. A lovely Dame sit by our Daughters side Tuckets The Combatants will take encouragement from your fair eyes hark now they come Enter Radagon brought in by the Cicilsian Lords Eusanius by the shepherds with shields pictured with Neptune riding upon the Waves Clown Now Boy thrust home 't is for a Lady Pal. Courage fellow Swain 1 Lord The Champions are prepared sound to the fight Rad. I for my King Eus. I for my Countries right fight 2 Lord So recover breath Phe. What means that strange Device upon their shields 't is something sure concerns the Oracle God Neptune riding on the Waves o' th Sea I le question them to know the meaning on 't Eus. Come Sir Alcad. What meanes the King of Thrace Phe. To ask a question e're they fight agen Alcad. Then speak aloud we 'l have no whispering Phe. I prithee tell me 't is to thee I speak what hainous wrongs hast thou received from us or good from these that thou alone shouldst prove the chiefest Champion for our Enemy Rad. So please these Kings vouchsafe me audience I shall tell you Both Speak freely Rad. In brief Pheander I am nor subject unto him nor you more then the duty of a Son allowes tho this rude transmigration of my hair barres me your knowledge with the change of time yet here behold the banisht Radagon Cicil. My Son Ariad. My husband Phe. Shame and my Joy so struggle in my breast I shall dissolve to air Oh my dear childe Rad. Can it be possible that we should live so long together and not know each other Ariad. I knew Menalchus but not Radagon Rad. I Mariana not my beautuous wife But what 's become of my Eusanius had I my childe agen my Joy were full Ariad. Alas I lost him fourteen years ago keeping my flocks upon the plain of Thrace Rad. This greater tide of Joy overcomes the less and will not suffer me as yet to mourn Soph. Pray speak those Words agen where did you loose him on the Plains of Thrace Ariad. Indeed I did just fourteen years ago Soph. The time the place how habited and then Ariad. In a small coat made of a Panthers skin a Garland on his head and in his hand a hook made of a Cane Soph. The very same the time the place the habit all things just as you describe to me that childe I being banisht from my native soyl found sporting in the Plains and that 's the childe I carried with me into Affrica Alcad. Was that the childe you brought into the Court wha adverse fate had I to banish him Lil. Far worser fate had I to loose my love Eus. That childe so found so lost Brought up in Affrica and banisht thence Should be my self Lil. Eusanius I't is he Ariad. Oh my deer childe Eus. Are you my Mother This my father then Phe. Is this my Warlicke Grand-childe Alcad. What wonder 's this Phe. Now is the Oracle confirm'd at full Here is the Wonder being wrackt at sea Which Neptune from his Waves cast up agen These are the Lions that did guide the Lambs Living as Shepherds being Princes born And these the Seas whose-equal valor neither Ebbs nor Tides But makes a stand striving for Victory Their shields proclaim as much whose Figure is Neptune commanding of the rugged Waves And this the happy Shepherd from the Plain Whose sight restores me all my joys agen Scicil. Radagon thou shalt wear Scicillia's Crown Phe. Pheanders too which is too small a satisfaction for the great wrongs he hath sustained by us Rad. Do not impose more Cares upon my head Until my joys be fully finished Good Father keep your Crown and govern still And let me frolick with my beautuous Bride And for Pheanders Crown let me intreat My Uncle Sophos Partner in our Wars May if he survive be King of Thrace Phe. With all my heart and for these harmless Shepherds Whose loves have bin Co-partners in our wars once every year They shall be feasted in our Royal Palace And still this day be kept as Holiday In the remembrance of the Shepherds Queen Alcad. 'T would ask an Age of Time to explicate all our delights Eusanius take our Childe with her our Royal Crown of Affrica Thy pardon Sophos for we promis'd thee Sophos I willingly resign my interest Sir Phe. One forty days we 'l hold a Festival Within the Court of Thrace before we part When was there such a Wonder ever seen Forty years banisht and live still a QUEEN Exeunt FINIS If any Gentlemen please to repair to my House aforesaid they may be furnished with all manner of English or French Histories Romances or Poetry which are to be sold or read for reasonable Considerations
shall end Deliver this unto your Thracian King Till this be full accomplisht 't is in vain Ever to hope or seek redress agen Phe. reads Content shall keep in town and field When Neptune from his waves c. Pish these moral Misteries are incredulous nor can they contradict the will of Kings Comets portend at first blaze but take effect within the bosom of the destinies so Oracles at Delphos though foretold are shap'd and finisht in your Councel-house and yet I charge you both upon your lives let not the commons understand so much lest several censures raise a Mutiny 'T is death to show a discontented brow but smooth your over-burthened grief with smiles there 's no disaster that afflicts a Clime but it contains some limitation Enter a Fisherman Le ts wait the time and with domestick care A Cry within Strive to maintain those Honors we have won Arm arm Le ts stand upon our guard I fear some Treason Speak Villains quickly what means this noise Fish My duty mighty King made me presume To press thus boldly to your Highness presence To bid you make prevention 'gainst your foes They are in number numberless to tell Tucket And as I guess are of Cicillia Phe. What Trumpet 's this is it our enemy 2 Lord One from the enemy Enter 1 Cicillian Lord Phe. Quickly the News that we may give an Answer Cic. Lord My Royal Master the Cicillian King Phe. We know your Message sir in that one word In naming him we understand the Cause 1 Cic. Lord Desires to parley with your Majesty Phe. We 'l parley in no language but in Steel This shall maintain the Justice I have done Against my Daughter and base Radagon Whose hateful name when I but think upon addes vigor to my heart to take Revenge Be gone and tell your King for his presumption we 'l lash him from our Land with iron rods and dragg him at our stirrop through the streets 1 Ci. L. Prepare for battel when this Answer 's known Exit Phe. We 'l meet him in the mid-way say we come 1 Th. Lord Your Grace were better parley with the foe and take a Truce my Liege for certain days let your pretence be search of Radagon which proposition they 'l consent unto then have we time to fortifie our Land and muster stronger powers to make resistance for as we are we are but a handful to a multitude Phe. Were they ten times as many and we fewer they should not rest one night within our Bounds till I have sated my revenge in blood Have we so many foreign Conquests won and shall we fear a Broil in our own Land our powers shall march and issue forth the Towns Armies shall grapple and the earth shall groan to bear the burthen of Wars horror Come let 's on base Fear 's the brand of slaves Trom Flor. They that die nobly shall have honor'd graves Exeunt Enter Cicillia 1 Lord 2 Lord Captains Drums and Soldiers Cicil. Did he receive our Message with such scorn 1 Cic. Lord With such a barbarous and proud disdain he scarce would suffer me to utter it but bid me back return and tell your Grace he 'd lash you from his Land with whips of Steel and when he had ta'ne you Prisoner hand to hand he 'd dragg you at his stirrops through the streets Cicil. I 'm glad they are so valiant then they come 1 Cic. Lord The voice of Arm Arm hurried through the Court as swift as Lightning and their clattering Arms put on in haste made such a horrid noise as if a voice had issued from the Clouds and all the way pursued me methinks my ears still tingle with the sound Cic. Courage Cicilians let this be your honor they are no Cowards that you fight withal for they have been approved in foreign Lands Cic. 2 Lord Let 'em be what they will we stand prepared if they be bold we are as resolute if valiant we undaunted and resolved Let it be seen which of our swords this day carves deepest wounds upon the breast of Thrace Cic. 1 Lord In equal balance since our fortunes lye Let each man strive to conquer vanquisht die Cic. I like your forward spirits and commend 'em in all our Troops I cannot spie a man whom I mislike or dread and for my part as you have seen a burning Taper fall and burn most bright when it begins to fade so shall you see me in declining Age Methinks I cannot hear their Drums to thunder nor their hoarse brazen pipes breath forth a sound to publish their defiance Cic. 1 Lord Does not that Eccho issue from the town Cic. These are no braving Tones Cic. Lord Yet neerer neerer still Cic. Beat up our Drums and drown their Hornets sound Enter the King of Thrace and Lords his Drum unbras'd Ensigns folded up himself in a Palmers Gown Hat and Staff Cic. How now what are these 1 Cic. Lord Mummers my Lord I think Set down your Drums we 'l play for all your Crowns I am sure you know me you have too much cause Phe. Behold great Sir my Ensigns folded up my Drums unbrac'd and all those instruments that should encourage War quite put to silence there 's not a hand in all our warlike Host that 's armed for opposition or defence 2 Cic. Lord Is this the man would lash us from his Land with whips of Steel Cic. Where are the horses to whose curled Tails we must be bound and dragg'd along the streets 1 Th. Lord Can you my Lord bear these injurious brands This would put life in statues carv'd with hands Much more encourage Cowards we that late Perswaded you to peace upon our knees Entreat you to command your Ensigns wave And by our ancient Honors which our foes Cannot without a blushing cheek deny We 'l make 'em know they do defie their Victors Phe. He forfeits his Allegiance that agen presumes to motion War I wish my sorrows shadows but alas they are too real too essential they dwell not in the face and outward brow but have their habitation here within where they torment me and shall ever till I behold Cicilia's Son secured and my fair Daughter fast closed in my arms those two poor innocent and spotless souls whom my remorseless rage and tyranny hath sold to all afflictions Cic. Speak Pheander are not-those passions meerly counterfeit Do they proceed from Fear and Cowardise that thus thou fold'st thy warlick Ensigns up and without stroke of battel giv'st the day Or which I rather deem from Policy and Matchevillian cunning Phe. Neither Prince but meer repentance for my late misdeed which is so hainous in the eyes of Heaven it seems beyond their pardon therefore now in expiation of that horrid act and to inflict due pennance on my self all Regal ornaments of State put off Awe and Command that wait on Majesty I henceforth vow a lasting Pilgrimage either to bring the Prince thy Son alive and tender him to safety
that he is loyal let not false surmize suspect and jealousie beget belief to wrong your Princely thoughts In killing him you make me guilty and a murderer for I first brought him hither to my hands he did commit his life being a childe when on the Plain of Thrace I took him up let him not loose it at a holy Altar and Princes Courts are such and should maintain as divine Priviledge as Sanctuary For Kings that circle in themselves with death Poison the Air in which themselves draw breath Lil. Blest be that Orator Gracious Father Alcad. Let her not speak her words confirm suspect bear her away unto her private chamber there let her be confin'd a prisoner till we determine further 1 Moor It shall be done Exit Guard with Lillia Alcad. Sophost his life is thine but not his freedom Eus. Durance Worse then death Alcade No banishment save Affrica make all the world thine own Soph. The Kings all mercy Eus. I le Proclaim as much 1 Moor I but my Lord what safety for my life which he so much hath threatned Eus. I scorn to touch thy life thou timerous slave But Traitors are all Cowards Fare thee well And my deer Foster-father wanting whom I loose my better part Thus they thrive That cannot flatter Kings feel death alive Exit Eusanius Alcade Nay Sophos be not sad 't is thy pretended good that we pursue the Girl was wanton and the Boy was young and Love is kindled by desire as soon in one poor minute as an age of time we banisht him that she might fancy thee whom we intend shall have her 't is true as we are royal if you please for to accept of her Sophos 'T is an honor that I shall never merit to spouse a Princes of her exellency For I have nothing worthy her affection She cannot give consent to love a man That 's bannisht from his Land and native soyl I have no titles for to honor her And that 's a thing that women most affect Alcade Sir you inherit vertue that 's a thing no mortal can restore all other State we will invest you with the crown of Thrace shall be your own or cost ten thousand lives our sable Ensigns never yet before displayed beyond the Mediterean Sea shall now be seen to fly men have livers there pale as their faces and when we appear will frighted run from such a Golden soyl our home-bred fear have end foreign foes must be our conquest now Come my best Sophos e're the next moon spring My childe shall call thee husband Thrace her King Tromp Flor. Exeunt Omnes Finis Actus Tertii ACT. 4. SCENE 1. Enter Pheander in a Pilgrims habit alone reading the Oracle Phe COntent shall keep in town and field c. I know not in what sence to apprehend it So intricate this matter seems to me Yet in these latter lines I read a comfort Read Then shall a shepherd from the plains Restore your Health and Crown agen There is a sign of truth already past for when Apollo did pronounce this doom I was a king and did enjoy my Crown and I must be deposed before restored But then the man I there 's the doubt of all for ever since I took this Pilgrims habit I have wandered up and down to finde this shepherd wandered indeed for in the search of him I have lost my self siting upon the plain I saw a face of such surpassing beauty that Jove and Nature should they both contend to make a shape of their mixt purity could not invent a sky-born form so beautiful as she be she a mortall and a shepherdess her beauty may become a Princes Court Why may not I wedding this shepherds Queen beget an heir that may restore my Crown I le lay my life the Oracle meant so the stars from earthly humors gain their light our humors from their lights possess their powers but now the means for to obtain this prize I le send a private messenger to Court to bid Pallatio with a well Armed-troop at such a certain hour-to meet me here and lie in secret ambush 'bout the house I will conceal my self and watch a time To bear away this Wonder of our Clime Stands aside Enter Ariadna and Titterus after her singing c. Titter. Oh stay oh turn oh pitty me that sighs that sues for love of thee Oh lack I never loved before if you deny I le nere love more No hope no help then wretched I must loose must lack must pine and die Since you neglect when I implore Dance Farewel hard I le nere love more Enter Pallemon frantickly habited dancing over the Stage old Antimon antick-like Clown-like maid Marian Tit. Here 's a sight gives a fresh wound unto my love-sick heart to think a man that was reputed wise should loose himself in a Dedalion maze and run mad for a woman woman that 's the cause it is indeed happy remembrance in searching out his wound I have cured my self shall I see my brother wits caught in a purse-net and run my head into the same noose then count me for a Woodcock no I am now the man I was and will stil say There is not any wise man that fancy can a woman Then never turn your eyes on a thing that is so common For be they foul or fair They tempting devils are since they first fell They that love do live in Hell and therefore men beware Exit Ariad. What a distraction 's this was ever seen so strange a dotage not in him alone but 't is in general that did not grief usurp too much upon a heart supprest 't were mirth would move to laughter Enter Eusanius like a Shepherd This is no Louse sure I know him not Yet I mistrust the hanging of his head I le note him further 't is a handsom fellow Eus. This habit is most frequent in this place I le wear 't for fashion sake 't may be a means to gain a sight of the fair Shepherdess whose beauty fills the Clime with wonderment Ariad. Alas poor man he 's troubled too in minde Would I could over-hear him how he stands Eus. I know not where to lye and it grows late I have not since I enter'd on these Plains seen any creature that has humane sence A woman first good luck and be thy will Ariad. Why kneel you sir Eus. Not to ask blessing Sweet That were a foul disgrace unto a Virgin Ariad. For ought you know I am a Mother sit Eus. Would you were mine Please you I le make you one Ariad. I thank your love sir but I am one already Eus. Then my suit 's at an end yet one word more Ariad. What is 't sit I 'm in haste Enter Radagon Eus. No more but this nay in your ears lest you mis-construe me Rad. So close and privately then I perceive I have been too neglectful shallow fool that having had such opportunity so long continuance place and privacy durst