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A60965	Oroonoko a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesty's servants / written by Tho. Southerne.	Southerne, Thomas, 1660-1746.; Congreve, William, 1670-1729.; Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko.	1696 (1696)	Wing S4761; ESTC R12217	52,791	96

of her has charm'd me Well You 'll see whether it has flatter'd her or no in a little time If she recover'd of that Illness that was the reason of her staying behind us I know she will come with the first opportunity We shall see her or hear of her death Stan. We 'll hope the best The Ships from England are expected every day Well What Ship is this Stan. A Rover a Buccaneer a Trader in Slaves That 's the Commodity we deal in you know If you have a curiosity to see our manner of marketting I 'll wait upon you Well We 'll take my Sister with us Exeunt SCENE II. An Open Place Enter Lieutenant-Governor and Blandford Gov. THere 's no resisting your Fortune Blandford you draw all the Prizes Blan. I draw for our Lord Governor you know his Fortune favours me Gov. I grudge him nothing this time but if Fortune had favour'd me in the last Sale the Fair Slave had been mine Clemene had been mine Blan. Are you still in love with her Gov. Every day more in love with her Enter Capt. Driver teaz'd and pull'd about by Widow Lackitt and several Planters Enter at another door Welldon Lucia Stanmore Wid. Here have I six Slaves in my Lot and not a Man among 'em all Women and Children what can I do with 'em Captain Pray consider I am a Woman my self and can't get my own Slaves as some of my Neighbours do 1 Plan. I have all Men in mine Pray Captain let the Men and Women be mingled together for Procreation-sake and the good of the Plantation 2 Plan. Ay ay a Man and a Woman Captain for the good of the Plantation Capt. Let 'em mingle together and be damn'd what care I Would you have me pimp for the good of the Plantation 1 Plan. I am a constant Customer Captain Wid. I am always Ready Money to you Captain 1 Plan. For that matter Mistress my Money is as ready as yours Wid. Pray hear me Captain Capt. Look you I have done my part by you I have brought the number of Slaves you bargain'd for if your Lots have not pleas'd you you must draw again among your selves 3 Plan. I am contented with my Lot 4 Plan. I am very well satisfied 3 Plan. We 'll have no drawing again Capt. Do you hear Mistress You may hold your tongue For my part I expect my Money Wid. Captain No body questions or scruples the Payment But I won't hold my tongue 't is too much to pray and pay too One may speak for ones own I hope Capt. Well what wou'd you say Wid. I say no more than I can make out Capt. Out with it then Wid. I 〈◊〉 things have not been so fair carry'd as they might have been How do I know how you have juggled together in my absence You drew the Lots before I came I 'm sure Capt. That 's your own fault Mistress you might have come sooner Wid. Then here 's a Prince as they say among the Slaves and you set him down to go as a common Man Capt. Have you a mind to try what a Man he is You 'll find him no more than a common Man at your business Wid. Sir You 're a scurvy Fellow to talk at this rate to me If my Husband were alive Gadsbodykins you wou'd not use me so Capt. Right Mistress I would not use you at all Wid. Not use me Your Betters every Inch of you I wou'd have you to know wou'd be glad to use me Sirrah Marry come up here who are you I trow You begin to think your self a Captain forsooth because we call you so You forget your self as fast as you can but I remember you I know you for a pitiful paltry Fellow as you are an Upstart to Prosperity one that is but just come acquainted with Cleanliness and that never saw Five Shillings of your own without deserving to be hang'd for ' em Gov. She has giv'n you a Broadside Captain You 'll stand up to her Capt. Hang her Stink-pot I 'll come no near Wid. By this good light it wou'd make a Woman do a thing she never design'd Marry again tho she were sure to repent it to be reveng'd of such a J. Stan. What 's the matter Mrs. Lackitt Can I serve you Wid. No no you can't serve me You are for serving your self I 'm sure Pray go about your business I have none for you You know I have told you so Lord how can you be so troublesome nay so unconscionable to think that every Rich Widow must throw her self away upon a Young Fellow that has nothing Stan. Jack You are answer'd I suppose J. Stan. I 'll have another pluck at her Wid. Mr. Welldon I am a little out of order but pray bring your Sister to dine with me Gad's my life I 'm out of all patience with that pitiful Fellow My flesh rises at him I can't stay in the place where he is Exit Blan. Captain You have us'd the Widow very familiarly Capt. This is my way I have no design and therefore am not over civil If she had ever a handsome Daughter to wheedle her out of Or if I cou'd make any thing of her Booby Son Well I may improve that hint and make something of him aside Gov. She 's very Rich. Capt. I 'm rich my self She has nothing that I want I have no Leaks to stop Old Women are Fortune-Menders I have made a good Voyage and wou'd reap the fruits of my labour We plow the deep my Masters but our Harvest is on shore I 'm for a Young Woman Stan. Look about Captain there 's one ripe and ready for the Sickle Capt. A Woman indeed I will be acquainced with her Who is she Well My Sister Sir Capt. Wou'd I were a-kin to her If she were my Sister she shou'd never go out of the Family What say you Mistress You expect I should marry you I suppose Luc. I shan't be disappointed if you don 't turning away Well She won't break her heart Sir Capt. But I mean following her Well And I mean Going between him and Lucia That you must not think of her without marrying Capt. I mean so too Well Why then your meaning 's out Capt. You 're very short Well I will grow and be taller for you Capt. I shall grow angry and swear Well You 'll catch no fish then Capt. I don't well know whether he designs to affront me or no. Stan. No no he 's a little familiar 't is his way Cap. Say you so Nay I can be as familiar as he if that be it Well Sir look upon me full What say you How do you like me for a Brother-in-law Well Why yes faith you 'll do my business If we can agree about my Sister 's turning him about Capt. I don't know whether your Sister will like me or not I can't say much to her But I have Money enough And if you are her Brother as you seem to

Oroonoko A TRAGEDY As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal By His MAJESTY'S SERVANTS Written by THO. SOUTHERNE Quo fata trahunt virtus secura sequetur Lucan Virtus recludens immeritis mori Coelum negatâ tentat iter viâ Hor. Od. 2. lib. 3. LONDON Printed for H. Playford in the Temple-Change B. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate And S. Buckley at the Dolphin against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet M DC XC VI. To His GRACE WILLIAM Duke of Devonshire c. Lord Steward of His Majesty's Houshold Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council MY LORD THE Best part of the Fortune of my last Play The Innocent Adultery was that it gave me an Opportunity of making my self known to Your Grace You were pleased to countenance the Advances which I had been a great while directing and aiming at You and have since encourag'd me into an Industry which I hope will allow me in this Play to own which is the only way I can the great Obligations I have to You. I stand engag'd to Mrs. Behn for the Occasion of a most Passionate Distress in my Last Play and in a Conscience that I had not made her a sufficient Acknowledgment I have run further into her Debt for Oroonoko with a Design to oblige me to be honest and that every one may find me out for Ingratitude when I don't say all that 's sit for me upon that Subject She had a great Command of the Stage and I have often wonder'd that she would bury her Favourite Hero in a Novel when she might have reviv'd him in the Scene She thought either that no Actor could represent him or she could not bear him represented And I believe the last when I remember what I have heard from a Friend of hers That she always told his Story more feelingly than she writ it Whatever happen'd to him at Surinam he has mended his Condition in England He was born here under Your Grace's Influence and that has carried his Fortune farther into the World than all the Poetical Stars that I could have sollicited for his Success It was Your Opinion My Lord that directed me to Mr. Verbruggen and it was his Care to maintain Your Opinion that directed the Town to me the Better Part of it the People of Quality whose Favours as I am proud of I shall always be industrious to preserve My Lord I know the Respect and Reverence which in this Address I ought to appear in before You who are so intimate with the Ancients so general a Knower of the several Species of Poetry and so Just a Judge in the Trials of this kind You have an Absolute Power to Arraign and Convict but a prevailing Inclination to Pardon and Save and from the Humanity of Your Temper and the true Knowledge of the Difficulties of succeeding this way never aggravate or insist upon Faults Quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parùm cavit Natura Hor. Art Poet. to our Condemnation where they are Venial and not against the Principles of the Art we pretend to Horace who found it so says Gratia Regum Pieriis tentata modis The Favour of Great Men is the Poets Inheritance and all Ages have allow'd 'em to put in their Claim I only wish that I had Merit enough to prefer me to Your Grace That I might deserve in some measure that Patronage which You are pleased to bestow on me That I were a Horace for such a Mecoenas That I could describe what I admire and tell the World what I really think That as You possess those Infinite Advantages of Nature and Fortune in so Eminent a degree that as You so far excel in the Perfections of Body and Mind You were design'd and fashion'd a Prince to be the Honour of the Nation and the Grace and Ornament of the Court Sir In the Fulness of Happiness and Blessings which You enjoy I can only bring in my Wishes for the Continuance of 'em they shall constantly be devoted to you with all the Services of MY LORD Your Grace's most Obliged most Thankful and most Humble Servant THO. SOUTHERNE PROLOGUE to Oroonoko Sent by an Unknown Hand And Spoken by Mr. Powell AS when in Hostile Times two Neighbouring States Strive by themselves and their Confederates The War at first is made with awkard Skill And Soldiers clumsily each other kill Till time at length their untaught Fury tames And into Rules their heedless Rage reclaims Then every Science by degrees is made Subservient to the Man-destroying Trade Wit Wisdom Reading Observation Art A well-turn'd Head to guide a Generous Heart So it may prove with our Contending Stages If you will kindly but supply their Wages Which you with ease may furnish by retrenching Your Superfluities of Wine and Wenching who 'd grudge to spare from Riot and hard Drinking To lay it out on means to mend his thinking To follow such Advice you shou'd have leisure Since what refines your Sense refines your Pleasure Women grown tame by Use each Fool can get But Cuckolds all are made by Men of Wit To Virgin Favours Fools have no pretence For Maidenheads were made for Men of Sense 'T is not enough to have a Horse well bred To shew his Mettle he must be well fed Nor is it all in Provender and Breed He must be try'd and strain'd to mend his speed A Favour'd Poet like a Pamper'd Horse Will strain his Eye-balls out to win the Course Do you but in your Wisdoms vote it fit To yield due Succors to this War of Wit The Buskin with more grace shall tread the Stage Love sigh in softer Strains Heroes less Rage Satyr shall show a Triple Row of Teeth And Comedy shall laugh your Fops to death Wit shall refine and Pegasus shall foam And soar in search of Ancient Greece and Rome And since the Nation 's in the Conquering Fit As you by Arms we 'll vanquish France in Wit The Work were over cou'd our Poets write With half the Spirit that our Soldiers fight Persons Represented MEN. BY Oroonoko Mr. Verbruggen Aboan Mr. Powell Lieutenant-Governor of Surinam Mr. Williams Blanford Mr. Harland Stanmore Mr. Horden Jack Stanmore Mr. Mills Capt. Driver Mr. Ben. Johnson Daniel Son to Widow Lackitt Mr. Mich. Lee. Hottman Mr. Sympson Planters Indians Negroes Men Women and Children WOMEN BY Imoinda Mrs. Rogers Widow Lackitt Mrs. Knight Charlot Welldon in Man's Cloaths Mrs. Verbruggen Lucy Welldon her Sister Mrs. Lucas The SCENE Surinam a Colony in the West-Indies at the Time of the Action of this Tragedy in the Possession of the English OROONOKO ACT I. SCENE I. Enter Welldon following Lucia Luc. WHAT will this come to What can it end in You have persuaded me to leave dear England and dearer London the place of the World most worth living in to follow you a Husband-hunting into America I thought Husbands grew in these Plantations Well Why so they do as

way have been the Instruments Of finding her again Imoinda's found And every thing that I wou'd have in her Embracing her in the most passionate Fondness Stan. Where 's your Mistriss now Governour Gov. Why where most Men's Mistrisses are forc'd to be sometimes With her Husband it seems but I won't lose her so Aside Stan. He has fought lustily for her and deserves her I 'll say that for him Blan. Sir we congratulate your happiness I do most heartily Gov. And all of us but how it comes to pass Oro. That will require more precious time than I can spare you now I have a thousand things to ask of her And she as many more to know of me But you have made me happier I confess Acknowledge it much happier than I Have words or pow'r to tell you Captain you Ev'n you who most have wrong'd me I forgive I won't say you have betray'd me now I 'll think you but the minister of Fate To bring me to my lov'd Imoinda here Imo. How how shall I receive you how be worthy Of such Endearments all this tenderness These are the Transports of Prosperity When Fortune smiles upon us Oro. Let the Fools who follow Fortune live upon her smiles All our Prosperity is plac'd in Love We have enough of that to make us happy This little spot of Earth you stand upon Is more to me than the extended Plains Of my great Father's Kingdom Here I reign In full delights in Joys to Pow'r unknown Your Love my Empire and your Heart my Throne Exeunt ACT III. SCENE I. Aboan with several Slaves Hottman Hott WHat to be Slaves to Cowards Slaves to Rogues Who cann't defend themselves Abo. Who is this Fellow he talks as if he were acquainted With our design is he one of us Aside to his own Gang. Slav. Not yet but he will be glad to make one I believe Abo. He makes a mighty noise Hott Go sneak in Corners whisper out your Griefs For fear your Masters hear you cringe and crouch Under the bloody whip like beaten Currs That lick their Wounds and know no other cure All wretches all you feel their cruelty As much as I can feel but dare not groan For my part while I have a Life and Tongue I 'll curse the Authors of my Slavery Abo. Have you been long a Slave Hott Yes many years Abo. And do you only curse Hott Curse only curse I cannot conjure To raise the Spirits of other Men I am but one O! for a Soul of fire To warm and animate our common Cause And make a body of us then I wou'd Do something more than curse Abo. That body set on Foot you wou'd be one A limb to lend it motion Hott I wou'd be the Heart of it the Head the Hand and Heart Wou'd I cou'd see the day Abo. You will do all your self Hott I wou'd do more than I shall speak but I may find a time Abo. The time may come to you be ready for 't Methinks he talks too much I 'll know him more Before I trust him farther Slav. If he dares half what he says he 'll be of use to us Enter Blanford to ' em Blan. If there be any one among you here That did belong to Oroonoko speak I come to him Abo. I did belong to him Aboan my Name Blan. You are the Man I want pray come with me Exeunt SCENE II. Oroonoko and Imoinda Oro. I do not blame my Father for his Love Tho' that had been enough to ruine me 'T was Nature's fault that made you like the Sun The reasonable worship of Mankind He cou'd not help his Adoration Age had not lock'd his Sences up so close But he had Eyes that open'd to his Soul And took your Beauties in he felt your pow'r And therefore I forgive his loving you But when I think on his Barbarity That cou'd expose you to so many Wrongs Driving you out to wretched Slavery Only for being mine then I confess I with I cou'd forget the Name of Son That I might curse the Tyrant Imo. I will bless him for I have found you here Heav'n only knows What is reserv'd for us but if we ghess The future by the past our Fortune must Be wonderfull above the common Size Of good or ill it must be in extreams Extreamly happy or extreamly wretched Oro. 'T is in our pow'r to make it happy now Imo. But not to keep it so Enter Blanford and Aboan Blan. My Royal Lord I have a Present for you Oro. Aboan Abo. Your lowest Slave Oro. My try'd and valu'd Friend This worthy Man always prevents my wants I only wish'd and he has brought thee to me Thou art surpriz'd carry thy duty there Aboan goes to Imoinda and falls at her Feet While I acknowledge mine how shall I thank you Blan. Believe me honest to your interest And I am more than paid I have secur'd That all your Followers shall be gently us'd This Gentleman your chiefest Favourite Shall wait upon your Person while you stay among us Oro. I owe every thing to you Blan. You must not think you are in Slavery Oro. I do not find I am Blan. Kind Heaven has miraculously sent Those Comforts that may teach you to expect Its farther care in your deliverance Oro. I sometimes think my self Heav'n is concern'd For my deliverance Blan. It will be soon You may expect it Pray in the mean time Appear as chearfull as you can among us You have some Enemies that represent You dangerous and wou'd be glad to find A Reason in your discontent to fear They watch your looks But there are honest Men Who are your Friends You are secure in them Oro. I thank you for your caution Blan. I will leave you And be assur'd I wish your liberty Exit Abo. He speaks you very fair Oro. He means me fair Abo. If he should not my Lord. Oro. If he should not I 'll not suspect his Truth but if I did What shall I get by doubting Abo. You secure not to be disappointed but besides There 's this advantage in suspecting him When you put off the hopes of other men You will rely upon your God-like self And then you may be sure of liberty Oro. Be sure of liberty what dost thou mean Advising to rely upon my self I think I may be sure on 't we must wait 'T is worth a little patience Turning to Imoinda Abo. O my Lord Oro. What dost thou drive at Abo. Sir another time You wou'd have found it sooner but I see Love has your Heart and takes up all your thoughts Oro. And canst thou blame me Abo. Sir I must not blame you But as our fortune stands there is a Passion Your pardon Royal Mistriss I must speak That wou'd become you better than your Love A brave resentment which inspir'd by you Might kindle and diffuse a generous rage Among the Slaves to rouze and shake our Chains And struggle to be free Oro. How can we