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The vvarres of Pompey and Caesar Out of whose euents is euicted this proposition. Only a iust man is a freeman. By G.C.; Caesar and Pompey
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Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
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or their owne particular wealth or honor They will not enterprise to saue the Empire Cat. I know it yet let vs doe like our selues Exeunt Enter some bearing Axes bundles of rods bare before two Consuls Caesar and Metellus Anthonius and Marcellus in couples Senators People Souldiers c. following The Consuls enter the Degrees with Anthonius and Marcellus Caesar staying a while without with Metellus who hath a paper in his haâ—d Caes. Moue you for entring only Pompâ—ys army Which if you gaine for him for me all iustice Will ioyne with my request of entring mine Met. T is like so and I purpose to enforce it Caes. But might we not win Cato to our friendship By honoring speeches nor perswasiue gifts Met. Not possible Caes. Nor by enforciue vsage Met. Not all the violence that can be vsde Of power or set authoitry can stirre him Much lesse faire words win or rewards corrupt him And therefore all meanes we must vse to keepe him From off the Bench. Caes. Giue you the course for that And if he offer entry I haue fellowes Will serue your will on him at my giuen signall They ascend Enter Pompey Gabinius Vibius Demetrius with papers Enter the Lists ascend and â—it After whom enter Cato Minutius Athenodorus Statilius Porcius Cat. He is the man that sits so close to Caesar And holds the law there whispering see the Cowherd Hath guards of arm'd men got against one naked I le part their whispering virtue 1 Hold keepe out 2 What honor'd Cato enter chuse thy place Cat. Come in He drawes him in and fits betwixt Caesar and Metellus Away vnworthy groomes 3 No more Caes. What should one say to him Met. He will be Stoicall Cat. Where fit place is not giuen it must be taken 4 Doe take it Cato feare no greatest of them Thou seek'st the peoples good and these their owne 5 Braue Cato what a countenance he puts on Let 's giue his noble will our vtmost power 6 Be bould in all thy will for being iust Thou maist defie the gods Cat. Said like a God Met. We must endure these people Caes. Doe begin Met. Consuls and reuerend Fathers And ye people Whose voyces are the voyces of the Gods I here haue drawne a law by good consent For entring into Italy the army Of Romes great Pompey that his forces here As well as he great Rome may rest secure From danger of the yet still smoaking fire Of Catilinet abhorr'd conspiracy Of which the very chiefe are left aliue Only chastisde but with a gentle prison Cat. Put them to death then and strike dead our feare That well you vrge by their vnfit suruiuall Rather then keepe it quick and two liues giue it By entertaining Pompeys army too That giues as great cause of our feare as they For their conspiracy onely was to make One Tyrant ouer all the State of Rome And Pompeys army sufferd to be entred Is to make him or giue him meanes to be so Met. It followes not Cat. In purpose clearely Sir Which I le illustrate with a cleare exaâ—â—ple If it be day the Sunne 's aboue the earth Which followes not you le answere for 't is day When first the morning breakes and yet is then The body of the Sunne beneath the earth But he is virtually aboue it too Because his beames are there and who then knowes not His golden body will soone after mount So Pompeys army entred Italy Yet Pompey 's not in Rome but Pompey's beames Who sees not there and consequently he Is in all meanes enthron'd in th' Emperie Met. Examples proue not we will haue the army Of Pompey entred Cato We which we intend you Haue you already bought the peoples voices Or beare our Consuls or our Senate here So small loue to their Country that their wills Beyond their Countrys right are so peruerse To giue a Tyrant here entire command Which I haue prou'd as cleare as day they doe If either the Conspirators suruiuing Be let to liue or Pompeys army entred Both which beat one sole path and threat one danger Caes. Consuls and honor'd Fathers The sole entry Of Pompeys army I le not yet examine But for the great Conspirators yet liuing Which Cato will conclude as one selfe danger To our deare Country and deterre all therefore That loue their Country from their liues defence I see no reason why such danger hangs On their sau'd liues being still safe kept in prison And since close prison to a Roman freedome Ten fold torments more then directest death Who can be thought to loue the lesse his Country That seekes to saue their liues And lest my selfe Thus speaking for them be vniustly toucht With any lesse doubt of my Countryes loue Why reuerend Fathers may it be esteem'd Selfe praise in me to proue my selfe a chiefe Both in my loue of her and in desert Of her like loue in me For he that does Most honour to his Mistrisse well may boast Without least question that he loues her most And though things long since done were long since known And so may seeme superfluous to repeat Yet being forgotten as things neuer done Their repetition needfull is in iustice T' enflame the shame of that obliuion For hoping it will seeme no lesse empaire To others acts to truely tell mine owne Put all together I haue past them all That by their acts can boast themselues to be Their Countries louers first in those wilde kingdomes Subdu'd to Rome by my vnwearied toyles Which I dissauag'd and made nobly ciuill Next in the multitude of those rude Realmes That so I fashiond and to Romes yong Empire Of old haue added Then the battailes numbred This hand hath fought and wonne for her with all Those infinites of dreadfull enemies I slue in them Twice fifteene hundred thousand All able Souldiers I haue driuen at once Before my forces and in sundry onsets A thousand thousand of them put to sword Besides I tooke in lesse then ten yeares time By strong assault aboue eight hundred Cities Three hundred seuerall Nations in that space Subduing to my Countrey all which seruice I trust may interest me in her loue Publique and generall enough to aquit me Of any selfe-loue past her common good For any motion of particular iustice By which her generall Empire is maintaind That I can make for those accused prisoners Which is but by the way that so the reason Metellus makes for entring Pompeys armie May not more weighty seeme then to agree With those imprison'd nobles vitall safeties Which granted or but yeelded fit to be May well extenuate the necessity Of entring Pompeys armie Cat. All that need I tooke away before and reasons gaue For a necessity to keepe it out Whose entry I thinke he himselfe affects not Since I as well thinke he affects not th' Empire And both those thoughts hold since he loues his Country In my great hopes of him too well to seeke His sole rule of her when so many
turnd on me for feares With mocks and scandals that would make a man Of lead a lightning in the desperat'st onset That euer trampled vnder death his life I beare the touch of feare for all their safeties Or for mine owne enlarge with twice as many Selfe-liues selfe-fortunes they shall sinke beneath Their owne credulities before I crosse them Come haste dispose our battaile Vib. Good my Lord Against your Genius warre not for the world Pom. By all worlds he that moues me next to beare Their scoâ—s and imputations of my feare For any cause shall beare this sword to hell Away to battaile good my Lord lead you The whole six thousand of our yong Patricians Plac't in the left wing to enuiron Caesar. My father Scipio shall lead the battaile Domitius the left wing I the right Against Marc Anthony Take now your fils Ye beastly doters on your barbarous wills Exeunt Alarme excursions of al The fiue Kings driuen ouer the Stage Crassinius chiefely pursuing At the dore enter againe the fiue Kings The battell continued within Epir. Fly fly the day was lost before was fought Thess. The Romans feard their shadowes Cil. Were there euer Such monstrous confidences as last night Their Cups and musique shew'd Before the morning Made such amazes ere one stroke was struck Iber. It made great Pompey mad which who could mend The gods had hand in it Tra. It made the Consuls Run on their swords to see 't The braue Patricianâ— Fled with their spoyled faces arrowes sticking As shot from heauen at them Thess. T was the charge That Caesar gaue against them Epir. Come away Leaue all and wonder at this fatall day Exeunt The fight neerer and enter Crassinâ—us a sword as thrust through his face he fals To him Pompey and Caesar fighting Pompey giues way Caesar follows and enters at another dore Caes. Pursue pursue the gods foreshew'd their powers Which we gaue issue and the day is ours Crassineus O looke vp he does and shewes Death in his broken eyes which Caesars hands Shall doe the honor of eternall closure Too well thou keptst thy word that thou this day Wouldst doe me seruice to our victory Which in thy life or death I should behold And praise thee for I doe and must admire Thy matchles valour euer euer rest Thy manly lineaments which in a tombe Erected to thy noble name and virtues I le curiosly preserue with balmes and spices In eminent place of these Pharsalian fields Inscrib'd with this true soule of funerall Epitaph Crassineus fought for fame and died for Rome Whose publique weale springs from this priuate tombe Enter some taking him off whom Caesar helps Enter Pompey Demetrius with black robes in their hands broad hats c. Pom. Thus haue the gods their iustice men their wils And I by mens wils rulde my selfe renouncing Am by my Angell and the gods abhorr'd Who drew me like a vapour vp to heauen To dash me like a tempest 'gainst the earth O the deserued terrors that attend On humane confidence had euer men Such outrage of presumption to be victors Before they arm'd To send to Rome before For houses neare the market place their tents Strowd all with flowers and nosegayes tables couer'd With cups and banquets bayes and mirtle garlands As ready to doe sacrifice for conquest Rather then arme them for fit fight t' enfore it Which when I saw I knew as well th' euent As now I feele it and because I rag'd In that presage my Geniuâ— shewing me clearely As in a mirror all this cursed issue And therefore vrg'd all meanes to put it off For this day or from these fields to some other Or from this omâ—nous confidence till I saw Their spirits settl'd in some grauer knowledge Of what belong'd to such a dâ—are decision They spotted me with feâ—re with loue of glory To keepe in my command so many Kings So great an army all the hellish blastings That could be breath'd on me to strike me blinde Of honor spirit and soule And should I then Saue them that would in spight of heauen be ruinde And in their safeties ruine me and mine In euerlasting rage of their detraction Dem. Your safety and owne honor did deserue Respect past all their values O my Lord. Would you Pom. Vpbraid me not goe to goe on Dem. No I le not rub the wound The misery is The gods for any error in a man Which they might rectify and should because That man maintain'd the right should suffer wrong To be thus insolent thus grac't thus bleâ—t Pom. O the strange carriage of their acts by which Men order theirs and their deuotions in them Much rather striuing to entangle men In pathlesse error then with regular right Confirme their reasons and their pieties light For now Sir whatsoeuer was foreshowne By heauen or prodigy ten parts more for vs Forewarning vs deterring vs and all Our blinde and brainlesse frenzies then for Caesar All yet will be ascribde to his regard Giuen by the gods for his good parts preferring Their glosse being starck impostures to the iustice Loue honor piety of our lawes and Countrey Though I thinke these are arguments enow For my acquitall that for all these fought Dem. Y' are cleare my Lord. Pom. Gods helpe me as I am What euer my vntoucht command of millions Through all my eight and fifty yeares hath woonne This one day in the worlds esteeme hath lost So vile is praise and dispraise by euent For I am still my selfe in euery worth The world could grace me with had this dayes Euen In one blaze ioyn'd with all my other Conquests And shall my comforts in my well-knowne selfe Faile me for their false fires Demetrius Dem. O no my Lord. Pom. Take griefe for them as if The rotten-hearted world could steepe my soule In filthy putrifaction of their owne Since their applauses faile me that are hisses To euery sound acceptance I confesse That till th' affaire was past my passions flam'd But now its helplesse and no cause in me Rest in these embers my vnmoued soule With any outward change this dystick minding No man should more allow his owne losse woes Being past his fault then any stranger does And for the worlds false loues and ayry honors What soule that euer lou'd them most in life Once seuer'd from this breathing sepulchre Againe came and appearde in any kind Their kinde admirer still or did the state Of any best man here associate And euery true soule should be here so feuer'd From loue of such men as here drowne their soules As all the world does Cato sole accepted To whom I le fly now and my wife in way Poore Lady and poore children worse then fatherlesse Visit and comfort Come Demetrius They disguise themselues We now must â—ute our habites to our fortunes And since these changes euer chance to greatest Nor desire to be Doe fortune to exceed it what she can A Pompey or a Caesar but a man