Now Sir comes on that Ruine I foretold Mufty Madam forbear a while your early Grief There 's time enough for heaven to send relief Solym. Dread Sir If of the news you are assured Let the Seraglio Gates be all secured Within these Walls you may be safe a while ' Til the misguided Crowd we reconcile Great minds consume in sullen flames The Rout Send forth fierce blazes and go quickly out Ogl. O trust 'em not such shifts can't serve the turn For where they cannot enter they will burn Foes that such head-strong violence maintain We may deceive but we can ne'r restrain A noise afar off of Drums Trumpets c. Y. Q. Heark Sir they are before the outward Gate You 'l of your safety think when 't is too late Solym. Provide for your escape Sir while we go And try if we can pacifie the Foe Sult Shall the Grand Seignieur e're be said to flie No flight's too mean a thing for Majesty On that will all their innocence be built So their Rebellion will become my guilt Muf. Self preservation will not stain your fame Your glorious Ancestors have done the same Ogl. Sir if you love your self or us be gone And I will these Imperial Robes put on Takes up the Robes that lie in a Chair So that at last if nothing can asswage The furious tempest of the peoples rage Taking the seeming Sultan for the true Their swords shall murder me instead of you Sult Dear Oglar rather than I will expose So kind a Friend I 'le perish by my Foes Y. Q. Oh to refuse him Sir is cruelty Because he does so willing seem to die Solym. Accept it Sir for all your Subjects sake I 'le the same action gladly undertake Muf. I with a joyful pride would shed my blood To save a Prince so pious and so good Sult No you shall meet 'em to appease their wrath By your perswasions you may save us both Exit Mufti Solyman Oglar puts on the Robes Oh Oglar I am overcome with shame To take a kindness which I dare not name What I permit must in your own esteem Make me ungrateful and a Coward seem Heard within a noise of all instruments of war clashing of swords firing of Guns shouts and battering of Gates Ogl. Oh Sir the Foes your Pallace gates beat down Your stay exposes both your life and Crown While I about your safety am imploy'd You in a complement will be destroy'd Y. Q. Ah my dear Lord unless you will be gone You make the kindness he intended none Fly Sultan quickly fly for by your sloth Instead of saving one you ruine both Ogl. To the dark Cloyster Sir the way you know Thither you may with ease and safety go Sult You have prevail'd our mighty Prophet send Comfort to us and succour to our friend They embrace Sultaness weeps Exit Sultan Y. Q Farewel my only dearest Lord Farewel Ogl. Come Madam come these clouds you must dispel The Sultans safety should your grief subdue Y. Q. Suppose him safe Sir tears are debts to you Ogl. If you design my kindness to repay Madam it must be done some other way Y. Q. All such ungrateful thoughts I banish hence Your kindness Sir's above all recompence The only poor requital I can make Will be to Love your memory for your sake Ogl. A poor reward indeed Madam must I For the advantage of my memory die 'T is more when I am dead than you can give To injoy your love one minute while I live Y. Q. Of that I hope you did not doubt before I only wish I could express it more Ogl. Kindness in general is love 't is true Y. Q. But mine is more particular to you Ogl. Of common love there many Symptoms are But one of that which is particular I cannot now the time in Courtship spend Madam true love should in injoyment end Give me but that and I can die with joy If not my hated life you twice destroy Y. Q. What sudden madness does your mind distract Would dying Oglar such a mischeif act You die infected and before your death Seek to corrupt me with your poison'd breath O let more generous thoughts possess your mind Be not so cruel when you 've seem'd so kind Ogl. You 've the unkinder cruelty decreed Unless you crown that heart that is to bleed For else I fall the Sultans sacrifice And which is worse am murder'd by your eyes Y. Q. And if I grant what you expect to have I more destroy than I can hope to save I know the Sultan twenty deaths would choose Rather than I one vertuous thought should lose Nor shall our Annals e're of me record She lost her honour to preserve her Lord. Ogl. Madam if you 'l the Sultans death prevent You to my hopes must yield your quick assent Or else I 'le meet the foe and yield him up Who drinks the sweet must taste the bitter Cup For 't is in vain to think I 'le stay and die A foolish Martyr to your Chastity Y. Q. Oh cruel Fate O wretced Sultaness Aside What can I do in this so great distress I subtilly must his lustful heart beguile And hide my wrath in a dissembled smile Ogl. Madam by pausing you deny my suit I go if once the question you dispute He offers to go she holds him Y. Q. Why would you so come Oglar do not chide That I endeavour thus my love to hide There is to modesty a little debt Which I was studying only to forget Do you but go within that private place I le make my self more fit for your imbrace Ogl. Seal Madam your intention with a kiss Salutes her Who would not die so sweet a death as this Madam make haste when in your Arms I lie I Paradise enjoy before I die Retires into a Closset Y. Q. Can Heaven that does the Innocent protect Suffer his hellish Plot to take effect The Gods forbid it and some safeguard send By Mahomet our Prophet and their Friend A great noise without of People shouting Heark by th' approaching Triumphs of the Rout They seem at my deliverance to shout In what a strait I am Heaven only knows Who seek protection from my husbands Foes She runs and opens the door and speaks to Oglar Oh my dear Oglar Oh unhappy chance The rageing Rebels hitherward advance Like envious Messengers of Hell they 're sent Our heaven and our enjoyments to prevent You to the Inner Closet shall retire A place as private as you can desire There will I send the disappointed Rout Missing the Sultan here to find him out So while they are in search of him I 'le find A time to be more happy and more kind Ogl. By your perswasions I am ever sway'd Madam such love must ever be obey'd She goes out as to hide Oglar and returns Y. Q. Oh slow and lingring Rebels how they stay They cannot hurt me now but by delay My Lord is safe and they who did
decree His murder now are come to rescue me She goes off to her Bed Chamber The Scene closes Oglar steals softly on the Stage and looks about him Ogl. I like not the contrivance I am taught Women are ever good at second thought She was compell'd this Stratagem to use 'T was safer to comply than to refuse I 'le fetch the Sultan and secure him here Then will her true or feigned love appear If she intended the kind things she said She will rejoyce to find the Sultan dead How e're he 'l make but an unhappy end Whose life does on one Womans will depend Exit Enter Ipsir and Kuperly Kup. I fear his flight will his destruction prove Great Fabricks cannot without ruin move And on that mischief our sad fate depends For falling Greatness buries all its friends Ips. We must in time endeavour to prevent A danger which we see so imminent E're the Rebellion spread we 'l gain a force Among the Bosnion and Sclavonian Horse Kup. The Asiatick Spahees gain renown Both zealous for the Laurel and the Crown Of their assistance we may rest secur'd And with it be of Victory assur'd Ips. Come on the Empire does begin to bleed The reeking Current must be stopt with speed Brave Prince for thee we 'l spend our latest breath To save thy life or to revenge thy death Exit Enter Oglar in the dark he gropes and lights on the Sultan Ogl. My Lord my Lord Sult Who Oglar Ogl. I Sir I find this place no safety will afford Some Rebel has discover'd you are here They all with Torches and with shouts dray near Sult Oh Oglar let me go and meet their force Since I must die I 'le take the noblest course Ogl. O no! Sir follow me and I 'le provide A place where you may more securely hide That done I hither quickly will return And quench the thirsty rage with which they burn Sult Heaven knows with what unwillingness I go And yet I must since you will have it so They go out and steal in again at the other side of the Stage Oglar hides him in the Closset and Exit After a great noise and shouting without Enter Mufti and Solyman on one side Vizier Bectas Kara Kulcayha and after them several Ianizaries crowding and shouting Alla Alla on the other side Muf. My Lords the Sultan does desire to know From whence your doubts and your disorders grow Is any injur'd let him but complain No man did ever sue to him in vain Viz Mufti we seek no favour at his hands We come not with petitions but demands Solym. What you demand the Sultan wills to hear Bect. That he shall quickly know he need not fear Kul We want his head All. His Head his head his head shout Muf. Why then you rage in vain the Sultan's fled Kar What you in wisdom have convey'd him hence Viz. Then they have both contracted his offence All. Down with them down with them both The People fall on Solyman draws and defends the Mufti they give back the People follow them shouting Alla alla and shoutings Having driven them off return as to the Queens Apartment Crying down with the Doors Exit The Scene the Queens Bed Chamber she comes in veil'd and opens the door They all enter Y Q. My Lords what need you use this violence winningly I neither make resistance nor defence You 'l find that I can tread a rugged path I can do any thing t' appease your wrath Omnes She prates she prates a Mute a Mute a Mute Shout Viz. We have no time with Women to dispute We want the Sultan ask no reasons why It is our pleasure therefore he must die Y. Q. If you resolve it she must die and shall A Prince when by his People left must fall Grant me but time thus to express my grief To the afflicted tears are some relief Now my Love 's conquered e're my Griefs return I 'le yield him up and then take time to mourn His Crime my Lord I shall not mitigate Only I beg I may not see his fate Viz. Let no man dare his Scimitar t' unsheath Nor touch the Sultan upon pain of death Till I command him Madam show the way Revenge with Power joyn'd brooks of no delay The Queen enters the Closet followed by Vizier Bectas Kara and Kulcahai they lead out the Sultan the Queen runs to the other side of the Stage and seems to weep Sult And am I tamely thus to loose my life By the adultrous Treasons of a Wife The Vizier here how causless were my fears My Lord what want these saucy Mutineers Viz. The saucy People want the Sultans Head Sult Poor Sultan hast thou then a Viper fed Ungrateful Viper Villain most accurst Of all my Foes that thou shouldst be the worst Viz. Pish this is childish womanish and vain Your business is to die not to complain Bect. If to the Queen you 've any thing to say Dispatch the people here for Justice stay Omn. Justice Justice Justice They shout Sult My Lords I thank you let the Queen be brought I would commit to her a dying thought The Queen is brought to him she kneels Y. Q. My Lord with sorrow and with shame I kneel Unable to support the weight I feel To think your Wife should to your death consent Of this I hope I shall in time repent Forgive me Sir the rest I speak in tears It was my love was conquer'd by my fears Sult Oh Impudence thy Sexes stain and blot No 't was thy Lust thy treachery begot Y. Q. The Sultan She swounds they run to her and set her in a Chair Sult Adulterous Impudence she makes it strange Did not you mine for Oglars life exchange Now you can swoon but I the care will take From your dissembled sleep you ne're shall wake Take that Offers to stab the Queen Ogler enters in disguize and enterposing receives the blow Villain thou justly to the Shades art sent For daring my just Vengeance to prevent Viz. If this be all the love you bear to her Yet Sir me thinks the name of Murderer They close and disarm him then Manecle him Should dying men from such attempts deter Who is it he has hurt Kar and Kul We cannot learn Viz. Is he so wounded that he cannot speak Ogl. O wretched Oglar thou thy death hast found E're with full joy thy ripen'd hopes were crown'd Omn. The brave Lord Oglar Viz. Oh most strange surprize How came you here or why in this disguize Sult Kind Heaven how strangely just thy Judgmentr are While we accuse thee of mistaken care What on the Author of my shame was meant Thou hast diverted on the Instrument Ogl. Oh Royal Sir forgive me I have been Traytorous to you and to your injured Queen Oh torment of my Soul I cannot die Till some way I repair the injury Oh Queen oh Sultan Groans Viz. Convey the Sultanness and Oglar hence We shall take time t' examine their
avoid my sight Thou art a Traytor and an Hyppocrite Bect. Traytor and Hyppocrite Sul. No more but fly Thy very stay confirmes thy treachery Bect. Sir I obey but Sul. But He 's gone why did I suffer him to go He 's guilty though I cannot prove him so Ungreatful Bectas wretched Ibrahim whence Proceeds thy danger or his insolence Oh! 't is from kindness too much Love does give The Subject that by which a Prince should live Subjects when too much favour they enjoy Like Louhcy over fed the stock destroy He stamps and seems enrag'd Bectas goes out Exit Sultan Enter Meleck Hamet at the other door as the Sultan is going out and runs after him Mel. Brave opportunity he is alone Now Melek for a Mistress and a Throne Exit after him Scene drawn is discovered the Queen's Apartment she sitting on an Alcove and attended by several Ladyes is led on the stage by the Queen Mother and Flatra the Young Queen is very much discompos'd and talks disorderly often starting and carlesly answering what they say to her Q. Mo. Daughter how d' e Flatra how does my Sultaness Y. Queen Sensible of the kindness you express And nothing else but take head what you do You will not Murder him nor you nor you He is your Lord your brother and your Son And yet who knowes what must be must be done Q. Mo. What strange distraction does possess her breast Fla. Alas her thoughts grow wilde for want of rest She stands in need of her Physicians care Q. Mo. Cordials to her the best Physicians are Go get her something that may make her sleep Exit Attend. Y. Queen In vain we prize those Gems we cannot keep How short liv'd Empire is when every hour A Prince is subject to his Subjects power Hark she starts Fla. Sister you 're discompos'd with causeless fear Q. Mo. Dear Child there 's neither foe nor danger here Enter Attendance Atten. Madam the Queens Physician does command That she no Cordial take but from his hand to the Q. Mo. Q. Mo. These learned Grandees are so over wise All safe and common med'cines they despise Must she then without rest these fits endure Scornfully Y. Queen The Sultans presence is my only cure All my tormenting feares he drives away As Ghosts do vanish at the approach of day Enter Sultan embraces her Sul. How does my Formina Y. Queen Ah! my dear Lord Your presence does new life and soul afford I was even now like Memnons Statue dumb My Organs move afresh now you are come My dreams did such unwelcome fears suggest As in your absence I could find no rest Sult What dreamt my Sultaness Y. Queen Bectas me thought Unwilling Death into your presence brought Q. Mo. Daughter 't is ill such fancies to pursue They are both vain unlikely and untrue Y. Queen I know not that Heaven grant they may be so Bectas reproved Death for b'ing too slow And forceing him t' erect his fatal dart Shew'd him new wayes in his long practic'd art Men seldome such sad Omens long survive Flat My Brother yet you se's return'd alive Sultan and Queen Mother talk apart Qu. Mo. 'T is you encourage her to these extreams By hearkning to her vain fantastick Dreams Sult She has been my guardian Angel hitherto And has foretold things I have found too true But Madam let not her concern be yours She for her self and me enough endures Turns from her frowning Yo. Qu. My Lord with you I would retire awhile Perhaps I may my thoughts to rest beguile Vast Treasures thus prove Enemies to health We cannot sleep till we secure our Wealth Qu. Mo. Daughter I 'm glad to sleep you are inclin'd Rest proves the sovereign balsom of the mind Son Heaven preserve you and your Sultaness Exeunt Q. M. and Flatra Sul. And with like favour the Qu. Mother bless See a strict watch at every Gate you keep And doubly guard the Chamber where I sleep Those need a more than ord'nary defence Who are not safe beneath their innocence The Scene drawn the King and Queen retire to the Alcove and sit down the Queen leans on his bosome as composing her self to sleep after soft Musick this Song is sung SONG SEe see how full of troubles are The Crowns which wakeful Monarchs wear They Court short slumbers but in vain While sleep seems coy to those that reign O wretched State of him whose mind Most care and least relief does find Soft Chorus sung by Shepheards and Shepheardesses Then happy are we who attend on our Sheep For the nights when we wake seem too short for our sleep We meet with no cares to disturb our delight Not with sorrow by day nor with danger by night More refin'd are our pleasures the meaner we are When the greatest of Kings are most subject to care Then while you thus take your repast Who knows but this may be your last Sleep sleep apace perhaps you may Be wak'd to everlasting day When sleep is in your way to rest The shortest slumbers prove the best Chorus Then happy are we c. In spight of Morpheus and his Art Wak'd with some frightfull dream they start They thoughtful are asleep and take More care than silly Swains awake Yet after all the pain they endure Regardless we sleep more secure Chorus Then happy are we c. Scene closes upon the Sultan and Sultaness Enter Flatra and Queen Mother Q. Mo. Flatra what lazy fools do you employ That are so long ' ere they one foole destroy Fla. Perhaps t is from their fate not laziness For Bectas Madam finds the like success Q. Mo. Alas poor man he 's grown infirme with age Unfit to act upon the Tragick stage He will do well if coupl'd with a Mute One to advise the other to execute But Melek Hamet wants not trust or power This day to kill the next be Emperour Fla. The best designes unfortunate have been Witness your last attempt upon the Queen But Melek went away in such a rage He did what cou'd be done I dare engage Q. Mo. Come do not thus extenuate his offence You must severely check his negligence He growes more careless while his hopes are faire For hopes are far less powerful then despair Which to the greatest actions can perswade As Laurels flourish best that grow in shade Bla. By that alone is his ambition fed For while the Sultan lives his hopes are dead My promise is no obligation yet My Brothers death alone makes it a debt And while I angry seem his blood will prove The greatest Cement to unite our Love Q. Mo. Daughter in all your actions I confesse Your Wisdome and your duty you express I le leave you with the first advice I gave With frowns and distance keep him still your slave For while you storme you heitghten his desire But too much sunshine will put out his fire Exit Q. Mother Enter Vizier and Bectas to Flatra Viz. Madam we find
all our endeavours vain The Sultan seems in spight of us to reign And either there 's deceit among our Friends Or some strange fate our enterprise attends Fla. We through our fears become unfortunate Then lay the blame on Providence and Fate You were driven hence with an impetuous blast I thought that violence too great to last Then nothing cou'd oppose your force and now Your weakness under one defeat must bow So Billows rage with unsuccessful toil Against the Rocks and faintly then recoil Bect. While we on past miscarriages reflect We present opportunities neglect Now Madam is the time to joyn our power And to assault the sleeping Emperour Let but the Vizier countenance th' attempt None from the action will himself exempt Viz. To kill a lustful Tyrant is a fact The Vizier will both countenance and act As many as dare follow I dare lead Find me a Body and I 'le find a head Fla. Brave actions do the meanest birth controul They shew the gallant greatness of the Soul I neither wealth nor dignity esteem Of me the valiant only worthy seem See then you prosecute your vast design So having shewn your love you challenge mine Exit Viz. Inspir'd by her how rapidly I burn Bectas my love does into furv turn Why did I not destroy him when I coud Oh! how I now repent of being good How came a man born in the Turkish School To be a Loyal conscientious fool Bect. Come come hear me The Janizaries are at my command Of which ten thousand chosen are at hand The valiant Kara and Kulchaia are Of equal fame in policy and war They own our Cause and will what e're we please Attempt with Courage and effect with ease Viz. Then strait for Kara and Kulchaia send Those are the Men on which our hopes depend Bect. They both in my appartment are and stay Only to be commanded and obey I 'le call 'em in Exit Viz. O mighty Love thy power will now be shown For thee I dare do more than I dare own With an unwilling rage I go prepar'd To take that life even now I freely spar'd With what amazement will the Sultan look To see the bloody cause I 've undertook To see the only person he dares trust Become the greatest Rebel and the first Hence Conscience hence away you loyal charms Good thoughts are things too foft for men of arms O Flatra Flatra Flatra there 's a spell Can drive away all thoughts but those of Hell My love to her my Crimes shall mitigate Of doing and of loving what I hate Studies and then shakes his head In passion Enter Bectas Kara and Kulchaia Bect. These Sir are men in whom you may confide I have their faith as well as courage try'd Viz My Lords Since of the business you 'r not ignorant I hope you do not my Instructions want The Cause is worthy tho the attempt be great We meet with worse than death in a retreat We know our fate and therefore we must all Or through the danger run or in it fall Kul To noble spirits Sir 't is hard to flie But 't is not so to conquer or to die Kar Distrust not Sir our Valour or success We 've often conquer'd greater force with less Viz. Come on we lose advantage by our stay Your Courage has already won the day Exeunt Enter Ipsir and Kuperli Ips. What Fate alas are Princes like to know Who favour those that seek their overthrow And either slight the service or distrust The faith of Loyal hearts that would be just Kup. The same which Marriners are like to find Who quit their Harbours to caress the Wind Their helpless Friends from the neglected shore Look on and hear the Threatning Billows roar They see the giddy Ship turn up her Keel And their Friends sinking in their hearts they feel Until at last all swallowed up in grief They cannot lend an eye to their relief Then do they howl out unheard obsequies Wishing in sighs their Friends had been more wise Ah Ipsir this this is the Sultan's Fate And we shall see his fall when 't is too late Unhappy Prince thou 'st too much innocence To think men can rebel without pretence But too much favour teaches men t' aspire And greatness ever studies to be higher Yet Princes never till their ruin find The inconvenience of being too kind Ipsir 'T is true but one ill instrument of State Does many greater than himself create In wicked fav'rites Kings are doubly curst They being bad still recommend the worst So vertuous Statesmen are become despis'd Subjects oppress'd and Princes ill advis'd Kup. This is the fatal end we must expect Yet my dear Prince my counsel does reject He thanks me for my kindness but the while Seems to reprove my folly in a smile 'Twixt both I find my fears and kindness such Wou'd he saw more or I saw not so much Ips. Janizar-Aga and the Vizier oft In secret Councels are and whisper soft What they design to their own breasts they keep Kup. For the Queen Mothers 't is an old intrigue But Flatra's with the Vizier's a new league Where the beginning of their Plot th' intend Heaven only knows but I know where 't will end We 'l to the Sultan and the danger shew Where it takes root how fast 't is like to grow Perhaps he 'll seem offended but I 've chose Rather his favour than his life t' expose Exeunt ACT. III. Enter Mufti and Solyman at one door and Oglar at the other they meet Ogl. It was my chance this minute Sir to learn Something that is the Sultans near concern I thought the secret to his ear a debt And fain I would a quick admittance get Which whether out of Duty or of pride The Guard of Janizaries have deny'd Mufti My Lord the loyalty you seem t' express Calls for our thanks and you deserve no less But too strict watch the Sultan has injoyn'd The Guards and he himself a while confin'd Yet since your business urgent does appear We will acquaint the Sultan you are here Exit Muf. Solym. Ogl. My heart in labour is and stops my breath Now is the Wager laid 'twixt love and death The Wager is unequal yet 't is just If death imbrace me not my Mistress must The Pride is greater where the hope is less I 'le venture ten lives for one Sultanness The Scene drawn appears the Queens Bed Chamber The Sultan and Sultaness Mufti and Solyman who all enter to Oglar he kneels and being rais'd whispers the Sultan Y Q. Oh how these secret Messengers I hate They are the cursed Labyrinth of State Mufty Madam he comes in Love and as a friend Y. Q. But secret Love do's oft in Ruine end Sult Oh horrid Traitors to my Crown and Name The City Rages in Rebellious Flame The Commons are incourag'd by the Peers Vizier and Bectas head the Mutiniers My Lords what hope when Villains grow thus bold Y. Q.
offence Sultan prepare to quit your guilty Throne All these beneath your lustful Scepter groan You must no more your self nor them abuse Too guilty those appear whom all accuse Therefore in vain you 'l plead your innocence For these are arm'd against all such defence Sult My Lords I find no rigour in my fate Nor shall I seek my Crimes to mitigate Where you condemn the sentence must be just And if you think I ought to die I must Poor Sultan brave Prince and the like words of kindness murmur'd among the People Bect. By this so subtle and so soft a stile He hopes the easie People to beguile Kul They all begin to murmur and relent The People quarrel and are divided And we shall of our fond delay repent Dispatch him Sir Viz. What means this mutiny Nay Sultan than 't is time for thee to die One part of the People fall off to the Sultans side and cry a Sultan a Sultan the other part stick to the Vizier and cry Justice Justice They all fight The Vizier comes up to the Sultan and stabs him which having done there is a noise of Trumpets heard without Then enter Ipsir and Kuperly and others who drive off the Vizier and his Party Then enters to them Mufti and Solyman Ips. Oh my thrice honour'd Lord this happy hour Heaven set apart to save the Emperour Sult Heaven cannot save my life it may my fame By sending Ipsir to revenge my shame Kup. You are not wounded Sir Sult O Kuperly Staggers Wounded to death and yet I cannot die Rebell'd against betraid and which is more My Son a Bastard and my Wife a Whore Revenge my death on Oglar and on her She 's the Adulteress he the Murderer They in the People rais'd this discontent Yet guilty live while I die innocent Dyes Solym. I hope we all wear loyal hearts and Swords Who can forget the dying Sultans words Revenge my death Omnes Revenge Revenge Revenge Muf. Now my Lords you here may see too late The sad effects of discord in a State We Childish tears may on his body shed And vainly seek revenge without a head But if we would the fullest vengeance take We with the Foe must seeming Friendship make 'Till we are on a Successor agreed Then all by whom the Sultan bled shall bleed Ips. To what the Mufti says we must assent Our swords and tears are both impertinent Muster our Forces in the outward Court And draw 'em back in the Royal Fort. There they are alwayes ready for the Field In case the Rebels still refuse to yield Exit Soldiers Enter Young Queen veil'd and Attendants Y. Q. Dead And suppos'd by my contrivance slain Must I the loss and infamy sustain Can Earth a pleasure yield which to enjoy I could my honour and my Lord destroy Heaven knows I took no pleasure but in him I saught no Joy but Heaven and Ibrahim Muf. Madam you vainly hope to gain belief By your forc'd tears and your dissembled grief The pious Sultan he that was so good Dying charg'd you and Oglar with his blood On us a loyal care he did bequeath To punish the Contrivers of his death Y. Q. You must inflict a punishment too mild Since he believ'd I have his bed defil'd In this suspition he did far out-do All Torments I can ere receive from you In that my heart the worst of ills endures And since I lost his Love I ask not yours Sol. Before the Caddee Madam you must go 'T will be convenient that you tell him so Y. Q. This is a truth I dare say any where The Guilty Sir the only cowards are Since he liv'd not his sentence to Reverse I 'le only shed some tears upon his Hearse That duty once perform'd when ere you please My debt to Nature I shall pay with ease Ips. Be Madam in your Ceremony's brief A little time will vent a little grief Kup. Look where the Sultan do's for justice stay And seems though dead to frown at our delay She turns about see 's the Sultans body Runs and Imbraces it They whisper and go off all but the Queen Y. Q. Is this the relique of my Lord how chang'd Dying from me dead from himself estrang'd Behold where Majesty and Beauty lies Behold his Ruby lips his Diamond eyes But must they never speak nor shine again Must my black name wear an eternal stain O stain eternal stain Here I have found The fatal yet to me most fatal wound How cou'd so great a Soul and so much worth So quickly at so small a wound get forth Here will I clear my blasted Innocence And breath in Life or seek my death from hence She kneels with her face in his bosome and kisses his wounds Then Descends an Heavenly Shape in the Clouds and Sings SONG HE 's dead he 's dead seek not in vain To weep the dead to life again Spare O spare those Orient show'rs They fall too late on wither'd Flow'rs Your warmer sighs no comfort bring Nor can in Winter make a Spring Warm Winds as helpless prove as Dew Then let your sighs and tears be few Let your unspotted soul appear Through all the dismal Clouds you wear Let Innocence with grief partake Both will a watry Sunshine make While for the dead too much you grieve Your dying Fame you must retrieve As for the Balmy drops you shed The living want 'em not the dead Queen starts up and unvails her self Y. Q. How is my Soul wrapt up in sudden joys Methought I heard a sweet harmonious noise On which a glorious luster did attend Both seem'd my shame and sorrow to befriend If e're you 'l send relief your Pow'rs Divine To iujur'd Virtue send it now to mine Oglar brought on the Stage in a Chair to Mufti Ipsir Kuperli and Solyman Ogl. O quickly let me with the Sultan speak E're my tormented heart with sorrow break Muft. The Sultan's dead Sir Ogl. Dead O horrid Fate Then I confess the injury too late Y. Q. What injury Sol. Peace Madam we discern Too well your guilt by your too great concern What injury Ogl. His guiltless blood I shed T' injoy the sweets of his Sultana's bed Ips. She an Adultress what deceit there lies In Womens hearts what mischief in their eyes Kup. How yet unmov'd she stands her curs'd offence Nothing can equal but her impudence Sol. Shame of thy Sex before the Caddee come For such new Crimes he must invent a Doom Y. Q. What suddain Frenzy does your minds possess You hear but half and at the rest you guess Unless my Life you 'l wilfully destroy Ask him how oft he did those sweets enjoy Ogl. O never never her unspotted soul Would never condescend to deeds so foul When I all stratagems in vain had try'd Hell with unheard of villany supply'd My lustful heart for first I set on foot The late Rebellion from whose cursed root Sprung greater mischiefs far than you have seen Muft. How came the
The Queen to night a Banquet does prepare And I believe they are expected there For to her Lodgings as I took my round The Privy-Garden door unlock'd I found For which I cou'd no reason understand But that 't was left so by the Queens Command Mufti And all her Rooms seem hung with joyful light That guilds the chearful face of vanquish'd Night Repeated Healths they drink and Glasses large By Musick quickned every time they charge Kup. Their Songs the Prologues of their Slaughters are Like Trumpets when they sound a point of War Mufti This only opportunity we have Our Lord's our own and Childrens lives to save Let us with haste to the young Sultan go To tell him all we fear and all we know That back'd with his Authority we may Meet with no Guards t' oppose us in our way So we an easie Conquest shall obtain While they unarm'd resist us but in vain Soly. To night we must the fatal quarrel end On this one action all our hopes depend Which if succesful brings a double good Preserves our Princes Crown and Peoples blood Exeunt Sene drawn discovers the Y. Queen and Sultan asleep on a Pallet At the opening of the Scene they awake and come on the Stage Y. Q. How slept my Son and Lord did not you find A pleasing Greatness hanging on your mind Between the weight and lustre of a Crown Were you not lifted up and then cast down Mah. Madam Alas I find the Dreams of Kings And those of Subjects are far different things Before some sport my Childish Soul possest Which now I find with manly cares deprest Then did I entertain my mind with toys But now I dream of things unfit for Boys Y. Q. What dream't my sweetest Lord Mah. Madam methought Your self and I were to a Valley brought Solemn obscure and private separate From all the World and stil'd the House of Fate There at our entrance I my Father met He look'd so pale methinks I see him yet Y. Q. In what a sweet amazement he appears His courage gives a lustre to his tears Mah. By him there sat a Monarch all of Bone His Scepter was a Dart a Tomb his Throne This angry Prince in smiles with horrour mixt On both of us his hollow Sockets fixt And my poor Father shook his careful Head As I conceive he wou'd have had us fled I cry'd and strove but fear withheld me so Methought I wanted pow'r and strength to go Y. Q. O where will this unlucky Omen end What can such Dreams in such a Child portend Mah. At last the Prince his fatal arm held out Then drew it back as if he were in doubt Whether 't were best my life to take or save When loe a Shape more aged and more grave One that more pity had and more command Stept in and bad him stay his doubtful hand Daughter said he to you and Child to me Return till Seventy Nine and Eighty Three You have no business here go live and Reign Who my Decrees oppose oppose in vain Y. Q His kindness somewhat does abate my fear How arm'd and how attir'd did he appear Mah. From his bald head hung down a Lock before His hand an uncouth crooked weapon bore Upon his shoulders two fair Wings there grew In haste he seem'd and while he spoke he flew Y. Q. If I interpret not your dream amiss There lies a pretty mystery in this Mah. If dreams have in them any thing divine I wou'd be glad to know th' event of mine Y. Q. My Lord the Skeleton you saw was death The Valley so obscure the shades beneath Old time was he that all his care employ'd To save you ready then to be destroy'd And having got the advantage in the strife Promis'd to give you many years of life Mah. Had he his kindness spar'd I 'd been content I 'm sure I ne're can die more innocent Enter a Woman attendant who seems to tell the Queen something of importance in sign Y. Q. More ill news to disturb our short delight What can their business be so late at night Enter Mufti Solyman Ipsir Kuperli and several others Muf. We come Dread Sir to shew your Cause we own And to secure your Person and your Throne Ips. This is the minute which if you neglect A sudden ruin Sir you must expect Mah. My Lords can you a remedy advise When you have told me where the danger lies Kup. Sir 't is the chiefest of Physitians laws In all distempers to remove the cause Some superficial cures this State has found We never search'd the bottom of the wound Solym. The gangrin Sir through the chief limbs is spread And will 't is fear'd e're morning reach the head Y. Q. There 's danger in these mysteries of State I alwayes dread a way that 's intricate Mah. My Lords I question not your skill or care Methinks your terms of Art mysterious are Kup. Great Sir my self more fully to explain While the Queen lives you cannot safely reign 'T was she that did your Father's death contrive T is she that will not suffer you to live Yet she her Hellish Treasons does conceal Under false love and counterfeited zeal Mah. Sir do not her your self or me abuse Nor falsly aged Innocence accuse Kup. I do not Sir what I affirm is true I never ly'd but once to rescue you Bectas by her command grown impudent To the Divan for me in private sent And there his bloody Treason he began Of Murdering you and Crowning Solyman This with the Queen's authority he back'd And this to morrow he resolves to act Y. Q. My dearest Lord now call your Dream to mind This is that very time that was so kind And you must either quickly be advis'd Or look by sudden death to be surpris'd Mah. If they a strength more pow'rful have than mine What shall we do to hinder their design Muf. Sir to the Queen's Apartment we must go Kup. There we unlook'd for shall suprise the Fo Whose slender force we shall with ease destroy While they are overcharg'd with Wine and joy And if with them we apprehend the Queen Sir you may guess how guilty she has been Mah. Go and if possible a way contrive To bring the Queen with all her Friends alive So shall our sentence on our Laws be built And they find Deaths proportion'd to their guilt Succeeding times of them shall never say That Power but Justice took their lives away Ips. For a free passage Sir so late at night Your Signet Royal will be requisite Lest while the Centinels and outward Guard Dispute our pow'r they our design retard Muf. My Lord unless my slender Judgment fail Paper Comissions nothing will avail You with this pass port safely and unseen Gives him a Key May go to th' inward Lodgings of the Queen Else you may Conquer but can ne're Surprise For that way they expect no Enemies Y. Q Mufti I think you have no business there You by