with nature To pledge his Darling He and thirtie more Of noble linage shall assure our faith Besides I pawne my life Caes. Enough I 'le once more crosse the Seas For your good more than mine That happier skie May blesse your Townes with peace your fields with plentie Perpetuall spring in gay perfum'd attire Sirname your I le the Garden of the West Mand. Thanks gracious Caesar for this kind acceptance My knee doth kisse the ground my lippe your knee Pardon ye gods if any haunt our land Ye Nymphes and Lares Fawnes and Silvanes wild That thus I bring a stranger on our coasts Whose forraine shape and language may affright Our lazie clownes and on my Countries backe Once tread victorious steps Be pleas'd to view Wrongs now redrest neglected first by you Caes. Now Volusene Our glorious state like the noone-pointed Sunne When he bestrides the Lyons flaming fleece Doth North-west rowle his burning brand whose fire The Oceans blue lake cannot stop but flies With brighter blaze to thaw the frozen Iles But how proceedes our preparation Volus. Many strong Ships are built fiue Legions arm'd Readie to launch Caes. Blow gently Africus Play on our poopes When Hyperions Sonne Shall couch in West his fome-bedappled iades Wee 'l rise to runne our course Exeunt Act. 4. Scen. 2. Eulinus Eul. Though Orpheus Harpe Arions Lute the Chimes Whose siluer sound did Thebane towers raise Though sweet Vrania with her ten-string Lyre Vnto whose stroke the daily-rowling sphaeres Dance their iust measures Should with tune and tone Tickle my eare-bred ayre Yet can their notes Those fabulous stones more enter than my Soule Lead poppy Slumber stupifie my heart But Bedlame griefe actes gambolles in my braine The Centaures Wheele Prometheus Hawke The Vulture Of Tityus Sisyphus neuer mossie stone The tale of Danaids tubbe and Tantalus gaping Are but flea-bitings to my Smart I 've slaine A kinsman more A friend I dearely lou'd Nay more no cause prouoking but in rash And hellish choller I had thought my Loue had cannon-proofe bin 'gainst A world of iniuries when see all is split By a small wind Cursed be thou my Sword The Instrument of Fury Cursed hand Which mad'st the thrust But most accursed Part Whose ruddy flesh triangular boyld in flame Like an Aetnean or Vesuvian Salamander That Breast I so could hugge that faithfull breast That snowy white I with darke sanguine stayn'd And from the wounds red lips his panting heart Did seeme to speake Is this a friendly deed O no Hirildas Beares can harmelesse play Lyons can dally and sheath vp their clawes I onely worst of brutes kill friends in iest Why dost Androgeus kindly-cruell keepe Mee from their Sentence Say Law bids me dye If Law should not I le make that Law my selfe Shall Ensignes be display'd and Nations rage About so vild a wretch Shall forraine hoofes Kick vp our trembling dust and must a Caesar Redeeme my folly with a kingdomes fall First may I stop blacke Cerberus triple iawes Dye Dye thou hast out-liv'd thy selfe Thou only Phaenix of females still dost bind and bound My runnagate spirit in these walles of mudde From thee and For thee t is I breath Yet how Borrow can I his Shape or vse mine owne Odious before now worse than hell-borne goblin With brand and chaines to skare this Doue all quaking Twixt wrath and feare But Time may fauour win When Hope doth fayle then Knife or Rope begin Exit Act. 4. Scen. 3. Cassib. Belin Rollano Cass. Wisdome confirme my Sense what seem'd their number Roll. Rising from shore Coniecture might descry A thousand Ships with painted prowes to pave The briny fields of Neptune their broad sayles Did Nereus canopy Titans taper vayle As nations twenty nine 'gainst Troy built vp A floating Delos of a thousand Ships To plough the liquid glasse No frame of Pallas No crafty Sinon but Those woodden horse Did Troy dis-Troy So Troynovant shall feele Her Mothers Fate Achilles comes againe And Pergamus againe shall sinke in dust They threaten Exit Cass. Wonder What can their Arsenalles spawne so fast Last yeere his Barkes and Gallyes were debosht This spring they sprout againe Belike their Nauy Like the Lernean adder faster growes The more t is prun'd They come their last Lord Deputy Lead on the present troopes and leauy new T were best I thinke to lett Him land least view Of his huge Nauy should our Commons fright Retire our selues to some place of advantage Entice him from his ships So cutt the veines Which nourish both Enclos'd he cannot scape Bel. I rather iudge We should oppose his footing Vsing the benefit of our naturall mound Cass. Vncertaine t is where when he makes in-road To furnish all vnlikely to neglect Any were dangerous as Pelides heele Our shores are large and levell Then t' attend His time and leasure would exhaust the state Weary our souldiers Bel. All places may be strengthned more or lesse As by last yeere Discretion now may guesse The Clifts themselues are Bullwarkes strong The Shelves And Flats refuse great ships the coast so open That euery stormy blast may rend their cables Put them from anchor Suffering double warre Their men pitcht battaile and ships navall fight For charges t is no season to dispute Spend something or loose all Shall he maintaine A fleete to inthrall vs we detract small costs When freedome life and kingdome lye at stake Cass. But the Assaylants are the flower of Italy Backt with foure hundred Gallick horse all tried And gallant troopes ioyn'd in one martiall body To giue a fuller stroke When we Defendants Scatterd along can weake resistance make Plainenesse of ground affoording vs no shelter Bel. For what serues Art and Engines Mounts and Trenches But to correct the nature of a plaine A few on firme land may keepe out a million Weaken'd by sea false footing billowes rage And ponderous rage When as receiu'd within He prospers by our spoile We feed a Viper And male-contents and rebells haue a refuge Nor were it safe to venter all at once When one fought field being lost swift ruine runnes And rushing throwes downe all Cassib. We know our strength and his wee 'l fight in field Some dozen miles from sea An open Theater Giues luster to our prowesse To keep him out Supposes feare not manhood No let him march Till he rowse death and stride his future graue Bel. Your will commands and mine obeies Exeunt Act. 4. Scen. 4. Caesar c. Ensigne Drumme Trumpet Flag Souldiers Shipmen The noyse of landing Caes. The coast is cleere Our honour is the Goale In vaine doth Tagus yellow sand obey Rhenes horned front and nimble Tygris running For wager with the wind which skimmes his top In vaine from Ganges to Hesperian Gades The Bounds markt out by Ioues two base-borne Sonnes Our Ecchoed Name doth sound If we recoyle From hence againe not victours Ye Pilotes old who were begot on mere-Maides Whose Element is the Sea bred and brought vp In cradles
Nor Loue-Obiect For well my Poet saies Militat omnis Amans Each Louer is a Souldier I can ioyne Cupids bow and Mars his Launce A pewter-coate fits me as well as silke It grieues me see Our Martiall spirits trace The idle streetes while weapons by their side Dangle and lash their backes as t' were to vpbraid Their needlesse vse Nor is it glory small They set vpon vs last when their proud Armes Fadome the Land and Seas and reach both Poles On then So great a Foe so good a cause Shall make our name more famous So thinkes Eulinus Cassib. Then Friends and Princes on this Blade take oath First to your Country to reuenge her wrongs And next to me as Generall to be lead With vnity and courage they kisse the sword All The gods blesse Britaine and Cassibelane Nenn. Now royall friends the Heires of mighty Brute You see what storme hangs houering ore this land Ready to poure downe cataclysmes of blood Let antient glory then inflame your hearts Beyond the craggy hilles of grim-fac'd death Bright honour keepes triumphant Court and deedes Of martiall men liue there in marble rolles Death is but Charon to the Fortunate Iles Porter to Fame What though the Romane arm'd with forraine spoyle Behind him lead the conquered world and hope To sinke our Iland with his Armies waight Yet we haue gods and men and horse to fight And we can brauely die But our iust cause Your forward loues and all our people edg'de With Dardane spirit and the powerfull name Of Country Bid vs hope for victory We haue a world within our selues whose breast No Forainer hath vn-revenged prest These thousand yeeres Though Rhine and Rhoane can serue And enuie Thames his neuer captiue streame Yet mauger all If we our selues are true We may despise what all the earth can doe Cassib. Le ts then dismisse the Legate with a frowne And draw our forces toward the Sea to ioyne With the foure Kings of Kent and so affront His first arriuall But before all let Our Priests and Druids in their hallowed groues Propitiate the gods and scanne events By their mysterious Artes Exeunt Act. 2. Scen. 2. Eulinus Hirildas Rollano Hir. Well so your tongue 's your own though drunk or angry Roll. Vmh seales his mouth Hir. Speake not a word vpon your life Be dumbe Roll. Vmh gives him money Hir. I 'le winch vp thy estate Be Harpocrates Roll. Vmh Hir. Thy fortunes shall be double-guilt Be midnight Roll. Vmh Hir. An excellent instrument to be the Bawd To his deare Lady But Rollano harke What words what looks did giue my letter wellcome Roll. Vmh Hir. Nay now thy silence is ante-dated Speake Roll. Vmh Hir. I giue thee leaue I say Speake Be not foolish Roll. Then with your leaue She vs'd vpon receipt No words but silent ioy purpell'd her face And seeing your Name strait clapt it to her heart To print there a New Copy As shee 'd say The words went by her eyes too long a way Hir. You told her my Conditions and my Oath Of silence and that only you be vs'd Roll. All Sir Hir. And that this night Roll. I Sir Hir. You guard the Doore Roll. I Sir Hir. But I nere meane to come Roll. No Sir Oh wretch Shall I deceiue when Shee remaines so true Hir. No Thou shalt be true and She remaine deceiu'd I 'le lye and yet I will not lye My Friend Eulinus in my shape shall clime her Bed This is the point You 'le promise all your ayd Roll. Your Seruant to Command and then Reward Eul. Wee 'll draw thee Meteor-like by our warme fauour Vnto the roofe and feeling of the Court Wee 'll raise thee hold but fast on Fortunes ladder Exit Roll. This Fellow is a Medley of most lewd And vicious qualities A braggart yet a coward A knave and yet a slave True to all villany But false to Goodnesse Yet now I loue him Because he stands iust in the way of loue Hir. Coosse I commend you to the Cyprian Queene Whil'st I attend Diana in the Forrest My kinsman Mandubrace and I must try Our Grey-hounds speed after a light-foot hare Exit Hirild Eul. O Loue whose nerves vnite in aequall bonds This massy frame Thou Caement of the world By which the Orbes and Elements agree By which all Liuing creatures ioy to bee And dying liue in their Posteritie Thy holy raptures warme each noble breast Sweetly inspiring more Soule Thy delight Surpasses melody Nectar and all pleasures Of Tempe and of Tempe's eldest Sister Elysium A banquet of all the Senses By thy Commanding power Gods into Beasts And Men to Gods are chang'd as Poets say When Sympathy rules All like what they obey But Loue triumphes when Man and Woman meete In full affection Double vowes then fill His sacred Shrine Yet This to mee denied More whets my Passion Mutuall Loue growes cold Venus be thou Propitious to my wiles And laugh at Louers periuries and guiles Exit Act. 2. Scen. 3. Lantonus Hulacus Two Druids in long robes hats like Pyramids branches of Mistletoe Lant That Soules immortall are I easily grant Their future State distinguisht Ioy or Paine According to the merits of this Life But then I rather thinke being free from Prison And bodily contagion they subsist In places fit for Immateriall Spirits Are not transfus'd from Men to beasts from beasts To men againe wheel'd round about by change Hul. And were it not more cruell to turne out Poore naked Soules stript of warme flesh like Landlords Bidding them wander Then forsooth imagine Some vnknowne Caue or Coast whether all the myriads Of soules deceas'd are slipt and thrust together Nay Reason rather sayes As at one moment Some dye and some are borne so may their Ghosts Without more cost serue the succeeding age For sure they do'nt weare to be cast aside But enter strait lesse or more noble bodies According to desert of former deedes The valiant into Lyons coward mindes Into weake Hares Th' ambitious into Eagles Soaring aloft But the peruerse and peeuish Are next indenniz'd into wrinkled Apes Each vice and vertue wearing seemely shapes Lant So you debase the gods most liuely image The humane Soule and ranke it with meere Brutes Whose life of reason void ends with their sense Enter Belinus Bel. Hayle to Heauens priuy Counsellors The King Desires your iudgement of these troublesome times Lant The gods foretold these mischiefes long agoe In Eldells raigne The Earth and Sky were fild With prodigies strange Sights and hellish shapes Sometime two Hostes with fiery launces met Armour and Horse being heard amid the Cloudes With Streamers red now march these ayrie Warriours And then a sable hearse-cloath wrappes vp all And bloody droppes speckled the grasse as falling From their deepe-wounded limbes Whilst staring Comets shooke their flaming haire Thus all our Warres were acted first on high And we taught what to looke for Hul. Nature tunes step-dame to her brood and dammes Deny their monstrous
gird my Temples Rome must keep her boundes Or fish for Tribute in the dredfull deepe Act. 5. Scen. 6. Caesar Mandubrace Andr. Let gracious fauour smooth warres rugged brow Cassibelane will compound All rage must end We choose you Vmpire for a friendly cloze Caes. It is my glory to end all with peace And for that cause I Comius sent in hast For to conduct him hither Them This trump giues warning of the Kings approach Cassibelane Comius Lantonus Cassib. Fate and no fault of mine makes me appeare To yeeld as far as honour giues me leaue Caes. Haile valorous prince disdaine not this ingrafting Into Romes Empire whose command incloses The whole Leuant and whose large shadow hides The triple-bounded Earth and bellowing Seas Cassib. We shall obserue your will so you impose A league no yoake They shake hands Caes. Thus we determine That Crowne still shall stand Raigne as the totall Monarch of this I le Till death vn-kings you 'T were Androgeus best You in our traine kept honourable place And let Themantius weare the royall wreath You must forgiue the Townes which did reuolt Nor seeke reuenge on Trinobants but let Young Mandubrace possesse his Fathers Princedome Cassib. Be all wrongs drencht in Lethe Andr. Pardon my rash attempts Cassib. embraces Androg and Mand. Mand. Count me your loyall friend Caes. In signe of league you shall vs pledges giue And yeerely pay three thousand pound of siluer Vnto our Treasury So let these decrees Be straight proclaim'd through Troynovant whose Tower Shall be more fairely built at my charge as A lasting Monument of our arriuall Cassib. All shall be done Renowned Prince whose worth Vnparalelld both as a Friend and Foe We doe admire Accept this Surcoate starrified with pearles And Diamonds such as our owne shoares breed Caes. And you receiue this massie Cup of gold Loues earnest and Memoriall of this day By this suppose our Senate cals you friend They sit together Lant Now time best Oracle of Oracles Father of truth the true sense doth suggest Of Dians answer The Lyon and the Eagle doe designe The Britaine and the Romane states whose armes Were painted with those Animals Both fierce Weary at last conclude The Semicircles First letters of the Leaders names we see Are ioyn'd in true loues endlesse figure Both come of Troiane race both nobly bold Both matchlesse Captaines on one Throne behold Caes. Now the Tarpeyan rocke ore-lookes the world Her Empire bounded onely by the Ocean And boundlesse Fame beates on the starry Pole So Danow crawling from a mountaines side Wider and deeper growes and like a Serpent Or Pyramis reuerst improues his bignesse As well as length Till viewing countries large And fed with sixty riuers his wide mouth On the Euxine Sea-nymph gapes and feare doth stir Whether he will disgorge or swallow her Cassib. Since the great guide of all Olympus King Will haue the Romanes his Vice-Royes on earth Since the red fatall eyes of crow-blacke night Fling their malignant influence on our state Since Britaine must submit It was her fame None but a Iulius Caesar could her tame While Trumpets sound Androgeus and Themantius imbracing take leaue All depart Act. 5. Scen. 7. Chorus 1. Song Come fellow Bards and sing with cheere Since dreadfull Alarums we shall no more heare Come louely peace our Saint diuine Oliue and Lawrell doe loue for to twine The Graces and Muses and Nymphes in a round Let voice beate the aire and feet beat the ground So Hells blacke image chas'd away Eos doth dandle the goldy-lock'd day So Bruma banisht all forlorne Cupid and Flora the spring doe adorne And so the grim fury of Mars laid in graue A merrier ending doth friendly peace craue 2. Song A Morisko The Skie is glad that Starres aboue Doe giue a brighter splendor The Starres vnfold their flaming gold To make the ground more tender The ground doth send a fragrant smell That aire may be the sweeter The aire doth charme the swelling Seas With pretty chirping meeter The Sea with rivers water doth The plants and flowers dainty The plants doe yeeld their fruitfull seed That beasts may liue in plenty The Beasts doe giue both food and cloth That man high Ioue may honour And so the world runnes merrily round When peace doth smile vpon her Oh then then Oh Oh then then Oh This Iubilee last for euer That Forraine spight or Ciuill fight Our quiet trouble neuer Exeunt Mercury reducing the Ghostes of Camillus and Brennus Cam. How brauely Caesar past the angry Maine Brenn. How brauely was he backe repulst againe Cam. How did he wheele his sword in Nennius face Brenn. How did he loose his sword and flie apace Cam. How did againe his Army fill your coast Brenn. I when our Princes did conduct his hoast Cam. How did they pierce through Isis dangerous flood Brenn. But made her swell and bank-rupt with their blood Cam. Mirrour of Captaines Iulius stile hath wonne Brenn. But we may iustly brag of two for one Cam. Confesse our valorous race hath now repaid The Allian Massacre and our cities Flame See how they yeeld and yeerely Tribute pay Brenn. No proud Dictator Both do weary stand On equall termes Both wish a peacefull League But if they shall oppresse know Generous spirits Will breake this Compact like a Spiders webbe Merc. Ioues will is finisht And though Iuno frowne That no more Troiane blood shall die the stage The worlds fourth Empire Britaine doth embrace The Thunder-bearer with a Ianus looke At once viewes ruddie morne and cloudie West Her wings displaied ore this Terrestriall egge Will shortly hatch an Vniuersall peace For Ioue intends a fauour to the world It now remaines That you two martiall wights Cease from your brauing one anothers worth You must be friends at last The cloze is sweete When after tumults hearts and hands doe meete Exeunt Nec Lusisse pudet sed non incidere Ludum FINIS