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A43306 The fatal contract, a French tragedy as it vvas acted vvith great applause by Her Majesties servants / written by William Hemings ... Hemings, William, b. 1602? 1653 (1653) Wing H1422; ESTC R12659 39,260 71

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I grant thou art his elder by which law Thou' rt born his subject not his equal Clovis Know Clotair's thy King and subjects hands Without the deep and dangerous traytors name May not advance against their sovereignes head Clota Neither shall his without Correction Upon him slaves Qu. Hold I command ye hold Oh Clotair thou art of a valiant soul And wilt thou basely thus beset thy Brother Fear argues spirits most degenerate And that thou fear'st th' advantage argues it O set not on thy slaves if he must die Let thy sacrifice not butcher him Clota That argument sounds harsh does Clotair fear Clo. Sacrifice me it is not in his power Eu. Exquisite Philter how it operates Qu. We hope so Clovis yet thy brother King Is as an earthly God his will his law His power uncircumscrib'd unlimited Whose Majesty can look a subject dead Clo. How look me dead I do not fear his frowns Qu. I grant th 'as great a Basiliske as he As thou art meerly man but as thy King Divinity doth prop him he stands firm That builds on that foundation yet I know Thy sword 's as sharp as his and where it lights Imprints as much of fate thine arm 's as strong Thy spirit as daring and thy will as prompt To any action that may write man Man Clot. He is your darling you do wel to praise him When I have slain him write his Epitaph Clo. My Epitaph this Pen of steel shall first Write on thy heart thine end Eu. Stil still better The venom'd poyson of a womans tongue Is more sublim'd than Mercurie they fight again Char. Hold hold O dearest Maddam your maternal breath Bears a Mandamus in it and like heaven Will lay this tempest Eu. As the wind the Sea Which makes it rage the lowder Clot. Where 's our guard That lets a tray tor pull me by the berd Upon him slaves The Guard fall on him and he falls Qu. O they have slain my Son Bloody villain thy hands have made these holes Hell take thee for 't Clot. Mother rise and depart For I am bent on mischief Qu. Do thy worst Thou murderous minded Prince this blood is mine For in some sort I bleed out Paricide Eu. How cunningly she spits her poyson forth I know her soul is light she 's glad he 's dead And joyes in the opportuntie to curse the killer For which she gaines the name of pious mother Here 's pretty woman-villany and dissimulation Aphe If they have slain him wherefore do I live O my swoln heart Clot. Remove the Corps withall Convey this Syren from our wandring eyes And howse her in a Dungeon let no light Peep through a cranney on her mask the day Put the all-searching eyes of Phaebus out Lest accidentally he gazing here Here fix eternally and so we may Despair of night as once we did of day Bear her to prison reason not the cause A Kings prerogative's above his lawes Aphe Be mercifull and lead to earth away Since he is gone it is to die to stay Exeunt some with the King others leading Aphelia and bearing away the Corps Manent Eunuch Queen Landrey Qu. Now we begin to flourish this black night Is onely lighted by our stars which smile Upon these actions and rejoyce to see Thee our sole favorite so neer a Crown But tell me Landrey how did I play the mother Did not I seem a Niobe in passion A deluge of salt tear Land Most true you wept Qu. As a good Actor in a play would do Whose fancy works as if he waking dreamt Too strongly on the Object that it copes with Shaping realities from mockeries And so the Queen did weep By this good night I think I could become the Stage as well As any she that sels her breath in publique Come shall we Act Landrey Land Act Lady what Qu. Nothing that 's new old Playes you know are best Eunuch is our bed ready Eu. Great Queen it is Qu. Come then my joy to bed where we will Act The truth which others doubt and in that sport We 'l laugh at death which triumphs in the Court. Exeunt Qu. Lan. Eu. Go sleep your last I 'l straight unto the King And he shall take them in the very act And then to cover my discoverie I 'l set on fire the Queens Bed-chamber That so I may disturb them more secure And yet the plot not mine I 'l tell the King Unlesse he present help his mother burns About it then this is a happie night The more it works their woe more 's my delight Exit Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter King Clotair and the Eunuch Eu. LOok how it fiames I fear some treachrie the bedchamb on fire Beat at her Chamber door cry it aloud And let your voice be thunder to this lightning Cry fire fire fire the Court is all a hot-house fire fire Clot. Great Queen royall mother open your door Lest you do sleep for ever mother awake The God of sleep lies heavie on her eyes Force up the door fire fire fire Eu. It 's fortifi'd ' gainst strength you must call louder Clot. Mother Queen Mother awake awake Your sleep was never more like death than now Lady Great Princess fire fire fire Enter Queen above in night attire Landrey Qu. What saucie Groom Beats our offendless doores thus daringly H 'had better rows'd a sleeping Lyoness Than thus t' have broke our slumbers what art thou Clot. Look The fire will give you light 't is I your Son Flie from your Chamber else you are but dead Your Court is all a Bonsire Qu. Let it burn I have lost my credit everlastingly I will not move afoot aside Clot. You must be forced then Exit Eunuch busie to quench the fire Land Ladie Where is your wit now in necessitie Whe shall be taken and you sham'd for ever Bethink bethink your self what shall we do aside Qu. I have 't it shall be so there put on that And as the door flies open meet him full Appearing in his Brothers warlike form Thou wilt amaze and so passe by him safely Do not appear to me I did not wound thee aloud this Seek out the beds of those that caus'd thy death And howl to them thy pittious complaints O do not look on me be gone be gone Clot. Whom d' ee hold discourse with with the air Bethink your self this is no time to dallie Qu O my Son such horrid apparitions full of dread Have I beheld have quite unwitted me Thy brothers Ghost young Clovis Ghost in armes Has thrice appear'd to me this dismall night You heard me speak too 't Clot. True I heard you speak But what of that Qu. Calls for Aphelia To bear him company i'th'other world Or else hee 'l nightly haunt us in our sleep Enter Landrey as in the Princes Armour Clot. O see it comes Qu. Fear it not Son Clot. What art thou that usurp'st this dead of night In metal like the age
dread Lanove the news En. Lanove the Monsiure Lamot others Monsi Brissac Dumain Martel and you the rest Think not I come a Traytor to your Camp I cannot gild my speech with eloquence If this will serve you sir I am a friend Bris The Monsiur's welcome and his worth will grace The dignity of this dayes work in hand Monsi My almost Brother once suffice I thank you And fairly greet this brave assembly Whose souls do look for stirring opposites When your resistance I fear will be slender But were they centupul'd I 'l fight your cause Kings arm their subjects when they break their laws Omnes Long live the Monsiure Monsi Lead on away Exeunt omnes SCEN. II. Enter the Eunuch Whilst the waits play sosily and solemn'y drawes the Canopie where the Queen sits at one end bound with Landrey at the other both as a sleep Eu. Here sits our Beldam dieted for Venerie And by her her Landrey not sur feited Her Ladyship 's allou'd a mouldie crust He stinking water to peece out his life Between them both they banquet like one slave Condemn'd perpetually to the Burdello They think I know not that they thus are us'd When it is ouely I that use them thus How wickedly they look oh I could laugh To hear them rail at others misery He curses her and she sooth curses him And both each other damn for their offences Learn ye that pamper up your flesh for lust The Eunuch in his wickedness is just Play louder they sleep too long Qu. A mischief take thee keeper hardned dog Whom no distress can melt or mollifie The cruell King doth not deny us sleep Although the Nursers of it food and ease Eu. Peace peace ye villains cease that ruder noise That breaks your softer slumbers gentle Queen I am not guilty of these harsh-voic'd words Your wilder sence hurls at me you mistake I am your Eunuch one that weeps for you Qu. Oh Castrato wast not those tears in vain Come hither and I 'l catch those falling drops Which prodigally over-flow their banks There 's Nectar in thine eye oh let me drink it These aged Cesterns are grown drie and yeeld Not one relenting drop to ease my thirst Castrato pitty me my veins are parcht And this same flesh which walls about my soul Chops with excessive heat a little water Castrato but a little though it hath been The birth of Toads or what the leapers bath'd in O shew thy love but in a little water What can a Queen ask lesse or subject grant her Eu Though I be tortur'd for it yet I 'l do it Ex Ennuch Qu. It hath quencht half my thirst to find some pitty Land I cannot bite mine arm their tyrannie Denyes me what 's mine own to feed upon One mouthfull would suffice I cannot get it Poor unfed sides that passe along the street I now am sensible of what ye want Did I e'r think to die for want of food Whose Table was the world from whence I cull'd The rarities of nature to delight me And more to feed my lust than Appetite One bit of bread though it were gray with age Hoary and crusted with a second bark Whose loathed outside would not court a Dog Arm'd with the edge of appetite would seem A rare rich banquet to my emptie gorge Oh I am worn to nothing with this want Such emptiness ha's hunger made of me That you may draw me on another man Some bread some bread Enter Eunuch with Wine and Meat he congees with great reverence and ceremony to the Queen Qu. Oh thou art welcome Quick dear Eunuch quick what needs this delay A way with form and ceremonious duty Respect in this is too respectless Eu. O give me leave I will begin a heald It 's very good exceeding pleasant Wine Qu. Dost thou deride my sufferance Eu. No no not I. Qu. Give me the drink then i 'm all flame and fire Eu. Say you so say you so then you must pardon me I love your safety and it 's dangerous To drink while you are hot pray cool and tarry In the mean while I will begin to you How tart and pleasing this is to the Palate A sweeter Pheasant Christendom affords not Land I thank thee Eunuch prethee give it me Eu. You 'l let me tast it for you will you not Are you so sharply set fie this sauce is naught Land Prethee make hast hunger digest's no tasters Eu. Come sir I must feed you oh oh not so fast Be not so hasty here still you are too hasty he puts it to his mouth puls it away again Gentle sir it will digest the better Land More more oh it is excellent Eu. Madam here 's for you now Qu May heaven reward thee for 't oh it 's rare Eu. How do you like your banquet great Landrey Land Beyond compare Eu. And you your drink Qu. The Gods tast not the like Eu. Ha ha ha y'have both eat and drunk abominable poyson Qu. Ha! Land How Eu 'T is true I tell your Oracle There 's not an hours life between ye both The poyson's sure I did prepare it for ye And have my self taken an Antidote What say'now to th' other bout with Landrey I can procure a second meeting for you Indeed I can think you not whoredome sweet Now you are a dying is not you soul at ease The murther of your Husband but a toy A flea-biting alack you feel it not Qu. Inhumane slave treacherous Rascal Eu. Good words Lady whore good words what are you loose Landrey gets loose Miraculous famine ha's your empty guts Perswaded you to valour will it scratch or bite I 'm sure't has no weapon Monsiure disarm it shews a keen knife which he pulls out of his sleeve staggers with faintness Lan. He did so Rascal yet your curious search Ne'r pri'd into this sheath do you see this With mine own hands it had let forth mine own life Had the proud Monsiure trusted us to any Thy self excepted whom I now perceive The onely Author of our misery The Eunuch tript up his heels in scuffle and sits on him You 'r very nimble Hell-hound Eu. O Lord sir you know the cause I 'm lighter by a stone or two than you Yet I am weight enough to keep you down Stir and thou dy'st now sir what say you to me How did you like your old Queen was she gamesome Did she apply her self like an apt whore Unto your loose imbraces Land Dog let me rest Eu. Good my Lord pardon me Under your Graces favour be it spoken You are our cushion and I 'l sit on you I am not very heavie and I sir joults upon him I do not altogether weigh a man Qu. Villanous Traytor O let him rise and wreck thy spite on me Eu. You cog now you 'd rather I should kill Qu. O spare him spare him Eunuch save my servant And I 'l forgive thee all thy sinnes against me There 's not an
Clovis shall prevent him in the fact And thus I shall endear my self to both Clovis inrag'd perhaps will kill the King Or by the King will perish if both fall Or either both waies make for me The Queen as rootedly does hate her sonnes As I her Ladyship to see this fraie She must be brought by me she 'l steel them on To one anothers damage for her sake I 'l say I set on foot this hopeful brawl Whilst she will hug and kisse me for the same Thus on all sides the Eunuch will play foul And as his face is black he 'l have his soul Alph. How witty sorrow ha's found out discourse Fitting a midnight season here I see One bath'd in Virgins tears whose puritie Might blanch a Blackmore turn natures stream Enter Clotair Back on it's self words pure and of that strain Might move the Parcae to bepittiful Clot. Methinks I stand like Tarquin in the night When he defil'd the chastity of Rome Doubtful of what to do and like a Thief she still reads on I take each noise to be an Officer She ha's a ravishing feature and her mind Is of a purer temper than her body Her vertues more than beauty ravish't me And I commit even with her piety A kind of incest with Religion Though I do know it is a deed of death Condemn'd to torments in the other world Such tempting sweetnesse dwels in every limb That I must venter my essentiall parts For the fruition of a moments lust Exit with a resolve not to do it A pleasure dearly bought Aphe Alack poor maid Poor ravisht Philomel thy lot was ill To meet that violence in a Brother which I in a stranger doubt not vet methinks I am too confident for I feel my heart Burd'ned with something ominous these men Are things of subtil nature and their oaths Unconstant like themselves Clovis may prove unkind Alack why not say he should offer foul The evil counsel of a secret place And night his friend might over-tempt his will I dare not stand the hazard guide me light To some untroden place where poor I may Wear out the night with sighs till it be day Ent. Clota Clot. I am resolv'd I will be bold and resolute Hail beautious Damsell Aphe Ha what man art thou That hast thy count'nance clouded with thy cloak And hid'st thy face from darknesse and the night If thy intents deserve a Mustler too Withdraw and act them not What art thou speak And wherefore cam'st thou hither Clot. I came to find one beautiful as thou And am a man willing to please a woman Aphe I understand you not Clot. But I must you yea and the right way too Or my strength shall fail me Aphe Help help help Clot. Peace none of your loud musick Lady If you raise a note or beat the air with clamor You see your death Drawes his Dagger Aphe What violence is this inhuman sir kneels Why do you threaten war fright my soft peace With most ungentle steel what have I done Dangerous or am like to do why do you wrack me thus Mine armes are guilty of no crimes do not torment'um Mine heart and they have been heav'd up together For mankind that was holy if in that act They have not prai'd for you mend and be good The fault is none of their's Clot. Come do not seem More holy than you are I know your heart Aphe Let your Dagger too noble sir strike home And sacrifice a soul to chastitie As pure as is it self or innocence Clot. This is not the way know you me beauty Aph. The Majestie of France discovers himself Clot. Be not afraid Aphe I dare not fear it 's treason to suspect My King can harbour thoughts that tend to ill I know you 'r godlike good and have but tri'd How far weak women durst be vertuous Clot. Cunning simplicity thou art deceiv'd Thy wit as well as beauty wounds me and thy tongue In pleading for thee pleads against thy self It is thy virtue moves me and thy good Tempts me to acts of evil wert thou bad Or loose in thy desires I could stand And onely gaze not surfeit on thy beauty But as thou art there 's witchcraft in thy face I must injoy thee or not thou thy life Enter Clovis Charles Aphe You are my King and may command my life My will to sin you cannot you may force Unhallowed deeds upon me spot my fame And make my body suffer not my mind When you have done this unreligious deed Conquer'd a poor weak maid a trembling maid What trophie or what triumph will it bring More than a living scorn upon your name The ashes in your Urn shall suffer for 't Virgins will sow their curses on your Grave Time blot your Kingly parentage and call Your birth in question do not think This deed will lie conceal'd the faults Kings do Shine like the fiery Beacons on a hill For all to see and seeing tremble at It 's not a single ill which you commit What in the subject is a petty fault Monsters your actions and 's a foul offence You give your subjects licence to offend When you do teach them how Clot. I will indure no longer come along Or by the curious spinstrie of thy head Which natures cunnin'st finger twisted out I 'l drag thee to my couch tempt not my fury Clov Hold hold my heart can I indure this Unhand me Charles and render me my self Lest I forget my self on thee Char. Great sir Remember 't is your brother and the King Clov O that I could forget it and shake off Duty at once and Consanguinitie Enter Eunuch That like a whirlwind I might rush upon him And bear him to destruction Monster of men Thou King of darknesse down unto thy Hell I have a Spel wil lay thy honesty And this abused goodnesse Is' t not enough That thou hast wrong'd Crotilda ravish't a Maid A Virgin of that puritie of life Might saint her here on earth but thou wilt add Unto the first a second violence the Gods must not forgive Don't arm your face Nor wear acount'nance of horror I can't fear Bearing a bosome innocent and pure Is' t even so then guard thy self Oh King For I am swift as thought that executes Char. Hold hold my Lotd forbear Eu. Beat down their swords what do the Princes mean Ring out the larum Bell call up the Court Ring the Bell. The Princes here will murder one another For shame for shame forbear Enter the Queen the Guard and Attendants Landrey at the other door Qu. What means this sudden outcry oh my Sonnes Hold hold part 'um good Gentlemen Clot. Brav'd by a subjects hand Qu Though nature by precedencie of birth Made thee his King it therefore follows not His Murtherer wherein is our Clotair Greater than Clovis the self same blood That spirits thee makes him as valiant The difference lyes in Anno Domini Eu. Most acurat mischief most rare Crocadile Qu.