th' other Maria OH kill me ere you stain my chastity King My hand holds death but love sits in mine eye Exclaim not dear Maria do but hear me Though thus in dead of night as I do now The lustfull Tarquin stole to the chast bed Of Collatines fair wife yet shalt thou be No Lucrece nor thy King a Romane slave To make rude villanie thine honours grave Maria Why from my bed have you thus frighted me King To let the view a bloody horrid Tragedy Maria Begin it then I 'le gladly loose my life Rather then be an Emperours Concubine King By my high birth I swear thou shalt be none The Tragedy I 'le write with my own hand A King shall act it and a King shall dye Except sweet mercies beam shine from thine eye If this affright thee it shall sleep for ever If still thou hate me thus this Noble blade This Royall purple temple shall invade Maria My husband is from hence for his sake spare me King Thy husband is no Spaniard thou art one So is Fernando then for countries sake Let mee not spare thee on thy husbands face Eternall night in gloomy shades doth dwel But I 'le look on thee like the guilded Sun When to the west his fiery horses run Maria True true you look on me with Sun set eyes For by beholding you my glory dies King Call me thy morning then for like the morn In pride Maria shall through Spain be born This musick I prepar'd thine ears musick plays within Loue mee and thou shalt hear no other sounds Lo here 's a banquet set with mine own hands A banquet brought in Love me and thou shalt feast thee like a Queen I might command thee being thy Soveraign But love me and I 'le kneel and sue to thee And circle this white forehead with the Crown Of Castile Portugall and Arragon And all those petty Kingdoms which do bow Their tributarie knees to Philip's heir Maria I cannot love you whilst my husband lives King I 'le send him to the wars and in the front Of some maine army shall he nobly dye Maria I cannot love you if you murder him King For thy sake then I 'le call a Parlament And banish by a law all Moors from Spain Maria I 'le wander with him into banishment King It shall be death for any Negroes hand To touch the beauty of a Spanish dame Come come what needs such cavells with a King Night blinds all Jealous eyes and we may play Carowse that bole to me I 'le pledg all this Being down we 'l make it more sweet with a kiss Begin I 'le lock all doors begin Spains Queen Locks the doors Loves banquet is most sweet when 't is least seen Maria Oh thou conserver of my honours life Instead of poisoning him drown him in sleep Because I 'le quench the flames of wild desire I 'le drink this off let fire conquer loves fire King Were love himselfe in reall substance here Thus would I drink him down let your sweet strings Speak lowder pleasure is but a slave to Kings In which love swime Maria kiss thy King Circle me in this ring of Ivory Oh! I grow dull and the cold hand of sleep Hath thrust his Icie fingers in my brest And made a frost within me sweet one kiss To thaw this deadnesse that congeales my soul Maria Your Majestie hath overwatch'd your self He sleeps already not the sleep of death But a sweet slumber which the powerfull drugg Instill'd through all his spirits Oh! bright day Bring home my dear Lord ere his King awake Else of his unstain'd bed he 'l shipwrack make Offers to go Enter Oberon and Fairyes dancing before him and musick with them Maria Oh me what shapes are these Oberon Stay stay Maria Maria My Soveraign Lord awake save poor Maria Oberon He cannot save thee save that pain Before he wake thou shalt be slain His mothers hand shall stop thy breath Thinking her own son is done to death And she that takes away thy life Does it to be thy husbands wife Adieu Maria we must hence Imbrace thine end with patience Elves and Fairyes make no stand Till you come in Fairy Land Exeunt dancing and singing Maria Fairyes or Divels whatsoe're you be Thus will I hide me from your company Offers to be gone Act. III Scena III To her Enter Queen Mother suddainly with Alvaro and Roderigo with Rapiers Q Mo. LAy hold upon the strumpet where 's the King Fernando son ah me your King is dead Lay hand upon the murdresse Maria Imperious Queen I am as free from murder as thy self Which I will prove if you will here me speak The King is living Roder If he liv'd his breath would beat within his breast Q. Mo. The life he leads Maria thou shalt soon participate Maria Oh father save me Alvero thou' rt no child of mine had'st thou been owner of Alvero's spirit Thy heart would not have entertain'd a thought That had converst with murder yet mine eyes Howe're my tongue want words brim full with tears Intreat her further tryall Verdugo To what end here lies her tryall from this royall brest Hath she stolne all comfort all the life Of every bosom in the Realm of Spain Roder She 's both a traytor and murdress Q. Mo. I 'le have her forthwith strangled Alv. Hear her speak Q. Mo. To heaven let her complain if she have wrong I murder but the murdresse of my son Alv. We murder the murdresse of our King Alv. Ah me my child oh Oh cease your torturing Maria Heaven ope the windows that my spotlesse soul Riding upon the wings of innocence May enter paradice Fairyes farewell Fernandoes death in mine you did foretell She dyes King wake King Who calls Fernando love Maria speak Oh! whither art thou fled whence flow these waters That fall like winter storms from the drown'd eyes Alv. From my Maria's death King My Maria dead Damn'd be the soul to hell that stop'd her breath Maria Oh me who durst murder her Q. M. I thought my dear Fernando had been dead And in my indignation murdred her King I was not dead untill you murdred me By killing fair Maria Qu. Mo. Gentle son King Ungentle mother you a deed have done Of so much ruth that no succeeding age Can ever clear you of Oh my dear love Yet heavens can witnesse thou wert never mine Spains wonder was Maria Qu. Mo. Sweet have done King Have done for what for shedding zealous tears Over the tomb of virtues chastitie You cry have done now I am doing good But cri'd do on when you were shedding blood Have you done mother yes yes you have done That which will undo your unhappy son Roder These words become you not my gracious Lord King These words become not me no more it did Become you Lords to be mute standers by When lustfull fury ravish'd chastity It ill becomes mee to lament her death But it became you well to stop her
Cardinall And the young Prince who bearing in his mind The true Idea of his late disgrace In putting him from the Protectorship And envying the advancment of the Moor Determined this night to murder you And for your Highnesse lodg'd within my Castle They would have laid the murder on my head King The Cardinall and my Brother bring them forth Their lives shall answer this ambitious practice Eleaz. Alas my Lord it is impossible For when they saw I had discovered them They train'd two harmlesse Friers to their lodgings Disrob'd them gagg'd them bound 'em 〈◊〉 two posts And in their habits did escape the Castle King That Cardinall is all ambition And from him doth our Brother gather heart Que. Mo. Th' ambition of th' one infects the other And in a word they both are dangerous But might your mothers counsell stand force I would advise you send the trusty Moor To fetch them back before they had seduc'd The squint ey'd multitude from true allegiance And drawn them to their dangerous faction King It shall be so therefore my States best prop Within whose bosome I durst trust my life Both for my safety and thine own discharge Fetch back those traitors and till your return Our self will keep your Castle Eleaz. My Leige the tongue of true obedience Most not gainsay his Soveraigns impose By heaven I will not kiss the cheek of sleep Till I have fetch'd those traitors to the Court King Why this sorts right he gon his beauteous wife Shall sail into the naked arms of love Qu. Mo. Why this is as it should bee he once gon His wife that keeps me from his marriage bed Shall by this hand of mine be muthered King This storm is well nigh past the swelling clouds That hang so full of treason by the wind In awfull Majestie are scatt'red Then each man to his rest good night sweet friend Whil'st thou persu'st the traitors that are fled Fernando means to warm thy marriage bed Exit Ele. Many good nights consume and dam your souls I know he means to Cuckold mee this night Yet do I know no means to hinder it Besides who know whether the lustful King Having my wife and Castle at command Will ever make surrender back again But if he do not with my falchions point I 'le lance those swelling veins in which hot lust Does keep his Revels and with that warm blood Where Venus's bastard coold his sweltring spleen Wash the disgrace from Eleazars brows Act. II. Scena VI. Enter Maria Maria DEar Eleazar Ele. If they lock the gates I 'le tosse a ball of wild-fire o're the walls Maria Husband sweet husband Eleaz. Or else swim o're the moat And make a breach through the flinty sides Of the rebellious walls Maria Hear me dear heart Eleaz. Or undermine the chamber where they lie And by the violent strength of gunpowder Blow up the Castle and th' incestuous couch In which lust wallows but my labouring thoughts Wading too deep in bottomless extreams Do drown themselvs in their own stratagems Maria Sweet husband dwell not upon circumstance When weeping sorrow like an Advocate Importunes you for aid look in mine eyes There you shall see dim grief swimming in tears Invocating succor Oh succor Eleaz. Succor Zounds for what Maria To shield me from Fernando's unchast love Who with uncessant praiers importun'd me Eleaz. To lie with you I know 't Maria Then seek some means how to prevent it Eleaz. 'T is possible for to the end that his unbridled lust Might have more free accesse unto thy bed This night he hath enjoined me To fetch back Philip and the Cardinall Maria Then this ensuing night shall give an end To all my sorrows for before foul lust Shall soil the fair complexion of mine honour This hand shall rob Maria of her life Eleaz. Not so dear soul for in extremities Choose out the least and ere the hand of death Should suck this Ivorie pallace of thy life Imbrace my counsell and receive this poison Which in the instant he attempts thy love Then give it him do do Do poison him he gon thou' rt next Be sound in resolution and farewell By one and one I 'le ship you all to hell Spain I will drown thee with thine own proud blood Then make an ark of carcasses farewell Revenge and I will sail in blood to hell Exit Maria Poison the King Alas my trembling hand Would let the poison fall and through my cheeks Fear suted in a bloodless livery Would make the world acquainted with my guilt But thanks prevention I have found a means Both to preserve my Royall Soveraignes life And keep my self a true and Loyall wife Exit The end of the second Act Act. III Scena I. Enter Queen Mother with a Torch solus Qu. Mo. FAir eldest child of love thou spotlesse night Empresse of silence and the Queen of sleep Who with thy black cheeks pure complexion Mak'st lovers eyes enamour'd of thy beauty Thou art like my Moor therefore will I adore thee For lending me this opportunity Oh with the soft skin'd Negro heavens keep back The saucy staring day from the worlds eye Untill my Eleazar make return Then in his Castle shall he find his wife Transform'd into a strumpet by my son Then shall he hate her whom he would not kill Then shall I kill her whom I cannot love The King is sporting with his Concubine Blush not my boy be bold like me thy mother But their delights torture my soul like Devills Except her shame be seen Wherefore awake Christophero Verdugo raise the Court Arise you Peers of Spain Alvaro rise Preserve your country from base infamies Enter severally at severall doors with lights and Rapiers drawn Alvero Roderigo and Christophero with others All Who rais'd these exclamations through the Court Qu. Mo. Sheath up your Swords you need not swords but eyes To intercept this treason Alv. What 's the treason Who are traitors ring the larum bell Cry arm through all the City once before The horrid sound of treason did affright Our sleeping spirits Qu. Mo. Stay you need not cry arm Arm for this black deed Works treason to your King to me to you To Spain and all that shall in Spain ensue This night Maria Eleazars wife Hath drawn the King by her Lascivious looks Privately to a banquet I unseen Stood and beheld him in him in her lustfull arms Oh God! shall bastards wear Spains Diadem If you can kneel to basenesse vex them not If you disdain to kneel wash of this blot Roder Le ts break into the chamber and surprize her Alve. Oh miserable me do do break in My Country shall not blush at my childs sin Queen Mo. Delay is nurse to danger follow me Come you and witnesse to her villany Alvero Haplesse Alvero how art thou undone In a light daughter and a stubborn son Exeunt omnes Act. III Scena II. Enter King with his Rapier drawn in one hand leading Maria seeming affrighted in
Lusts Dominion OR THE Lascivious Queen A TRAGEDIE Written by Christofer Marloe Gent. LONDON Printed for F. K. and are to be sold by Robert Pollard at the sign of Ben Johnsons head on the back-side of the Old-Exchange 1657 The Actors Names Eleazar the Moor Prince of Fesse and Barbary Philip King of Spain Father to Fernando Philip and Isabella Fernando King of Spain Philip Prince of Spain Sons to Philip Alvero a Nobleman and Father in Law to Eleazar and Father to Hortenzo and Maria Mendoza the Cardinal Christofero Roderigo two Noblemen of Spain Hortenzo Lover to Isabella and son to Alvero Zarack Baltazar two Moors attending Eleazar Cole Crab two Friers Emmanuel King of Portugal Captain Souldiers cum aliis Two pages attending the Queen The Queen Mother of Spain and wife K. Philip Isabella the infanta of Spain Maria wife to Eleazar and daughter Alvero The Scene SPAIN Lusts Dominion OR The Lascivious Queen A TRAGEDY Written by Christopher Marloe Gent. LONDON Printed for Fr. Kirkman at the John Fletchers Head over against the Angel-Inn on the backside of St. Clements without Temple-Barre 1661 To my worthily honored Friend William Carpenter Esquire SIR MY Ambition hath long soared so high as to prompt me to somewhat whereby I might in part render to you my gratitude and not yet finding any service I can act for you a sufficient or competent return of any part of those many favours you have still honored me withall I took on me the resolution rather then to be thought wholly negligent of you to lay hold on this means of rendring you my service SIR This Piece which without your favour and command had never past the Presse I here present to you with this confidence that as you were instrumental in its production to the world so your name and favour will be sufficient to protect it from the calumny of this censorious age In doing of which you will multiply those obligations you have conferred upon Your devoted servant FRA. KIRKMAN June Lusts Dominion OR THE Lascivious Queen A TRAGEDIE Act. Imus Scena Ima Enter Zaracke Baltazar two Moors taking tobacco musick sounding within enter Queen Mother of Spain with two Pages Eleazar sitting on a chair suddenly draws the curtain Eleaz. ON me do's musick spend this sound on me That hate all unity hah Zarack Baltazar Que. Mo. My gracious Lord Eleaz. Are you there with your Beagles hark you slaves Did not I bind you on your lives to watch that none disturb'd us Qu. Mo. Gentle Eleazar Eleaz. There off Is 't you that deafs me with this noise Exeunt 2 Moors Queen Why is my loves asspect so grim and horrid Look smoothly on me Chyme out your softest strains of harmony And on delicious Musicks silken wings Send ravishing delight to my loves ears That he may be enamored of your tunes Come let 's kisse Eleaz. Away away Queen No no saies I and twice away saies stay Come come I 'le have a kiss but if you strive For one denial you shall forfeit five Eleaz. Nay prithee good Queen leave me I am now sick heavie and dull as lead Queen I 'le make thee lighter by taking something from thee Eleaz Do take from mee this Ague and these fits that hanging on me Shake me in pieces and set all my blood A boiling with the fire of rage away away Thou believ'st I jeast and laugh'st to see my wrath wear antick shapes Be gone be gone Queen What means my love burst all those wyres burn all those Instruments For they displease my Moor Art thou now pleas'd Or wert thou now disturb'd I 'le wage all Spain To one sweet kisse this is some new device To make me fond and long Oh! you men Have tricks to make poor women die for you Eleaz. What die for me away Queen Away what way I prithee speak more kindly Why do'st thou frown at whom Eleaz. At thee Queen At me Oh why at me for each contracted frown A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow Spend but one hour in frowns I shal look Like to a Beldam of one hundred years I prithee speak to me and chide me not I prithee chide if I have done amisse Kiss But let my punishment be this and this I prithee smile on me if but a while Then frown on me I 'le die I prithee smile Smile on me and these two wanton boies these pretty lads that do attend on me Shall call thee Jove shall wait upon thy cup And fill thee Nectar their enticing eies Shal serve as chrystal wherein thou maist see To dresse thy self if thou wilt smile on me Smile on me and with coroners of pearle And bells of gold circling their pretty arms In a round Ivorie fount these two shal swim And dive to make thee sport Bestow one smile one little little smile And in a net of twisted silk and gold In my all-naked arms thy self shalt lie Eleaz. Why what to do Lusts arms do stretch so wide That none can fill them I 'le lay there away Queen Where hast thou learn'd this language that can say No more but two rude words away away Am I grown ugly now Eleaz. Ugly as hell Queen Thou lovd'st me once Eleaz. That can thy bastards tell Qu. What is my sin I will amend the same Eleaz. Hence strumpet use of sin makes thee past shame Qu. Strumpet Eliaz. I Strumpet Qu. Too true 't is woe is me I am a Strumpet but made so by thee Eleaz. By me no no by these young bauds fetch thee a glasse And thou shalt see the bals of both thine eies Burning in fire of lust by me there 's here Within this hollow cistern of thy breast A spring of hot blood have not I to cool it Made an extraction to the quintessence Even of my soul melted all my spirits Ravish'd my youth deflour'd my lovely cheeks And dried this this to anatomy Only to feed your lust these boies have ears Yet wouldst thou murther me Queen I murder thee Eleaz. I cannot ride through the Castilian streets But thousand eies through windows and through doors Throw killing looks at me and every slave At Eleazar darts a finger out And every hissing tongue cries There 's the Moor That 's he that makes a Cuckold of our King there go's the Minion of the Spanish Queen That 's the black Prince of Divels there go's hee That on smooth boies on Masks and Revellings Spends the Revenues of the King of Spain Who arms this many headed beast but you Murder Lust are twins and both are thine Being weary of me thou wouldst worry me Because some new love makes thee loath thine old Qu. Eleazar Eleaz. Harlot I 'le not hear thee speak Queen I 'le kill my self unless thou hear'st me speak My husband King upon his death-bed lies Yet have I stolne from him to look on thee A Queen hath made her self thy Concubine Yet do'st thou now abhor me hear me speak Else shall my sons plague thy adult'rous
face Pish hence Maria Enter Alvero Maria To the King I 'le fly He shall reveng my Lord's indignity Exit Alve. Mendoza woo's the King to banish thee Startle thy wonted spirits awake thy soul And on thy resolution fasten wings Whose golden feathers may out-strip their hate Eleaz. I 'le tye no golden fethers to my wings Alvero Shall they thus tread thee down which once were glad To Lacquey by thy conquering Chariot wheeles Eleaz. I care not I can swallow more sower wrongs Alve. If they triumph o're thee they spurn me down Eleaz. Look spurn again Alve. what Ice hath coold that fire Which sometimes made thy thoughts heaven aspire This patience had not wont to dwell with thee Enter Fernando Maria Eleaz. 'T is right but now the World 's chang'd you see Though I seem dead to you here lives a fire No more here comes the King my Maria The Spaniard loves my wife she swears to me Shee 's chast as the white Moon well if she be Well too if shee be not I care not I I 'le climb up by that love to dignitye Fernan. Thou woo'st me to revenge thy husbands wrong I woo thy fair self not to wrong thy self Swear but to love me and to thee I 'le swear To crown thy husband with a diadem Maria Such love as I dare yeeld I 'le not deny Fernan. When in the golden armes of Majesty I am broke off yonder thy husband stands I 'le set him free if thou unite my bands Soe much for that Durst then the Card'nall Put on such insolence tell me fair Madam Wher'e 's your most Valiant Husband Eleaz. He see 's me and yet inquires for me Maria Yonder 's my Lord Fernan. Eleazar I have in my brest writ down From her Report your late receiv'd disgrace My father lov'd you dearly so will I Eliaz. True for my wife's sake aside Fernan. This Indignitye will I have Interest in for being your King You shall perceive I 'le curbe my underling This morning is our Coronation And father's funerall solemnized Be present step into your wonted place wee 'l guild your dim disgraces with our grace Exeunt Eleaz. I thank my Soveraign that you love my wife I thank thee wife that thou wilt lock my head In such strong armour to bear off all blows Who dare say such wives are their husband foes Let 's see now by her falling I must rise Cardinal you die if the King bid me live Philip you die for railing at me proud Lorde you die That with Mendoza cry'd Banish the Moors And you my loving Liege you 're best fit fast If all these live not you must die at last The end of the first Act Act. II. Scena I. Enter two Lords Philip his brother Mendoza Eleazar with him the King Crown'd Queen mother Alvero Zarack Baltazar and attendants Mend. WHy stares this Divell thus as if pale death Had made his eyes the dreadfull messengers To carry black destruction to the world Was hee not banisht Spain Phil. Your sacred mouth pronounc'd the sentence of his banishment Then spurn the villain forth Eleaz. Who spurns the Moor were better set his foot upon the Devill Do spurn me and this confounding arm of wrath Shal like a thunderbolt breaking the clouds Divide his body from his soul Stand back Spurn Eleazar Rode Shall wee bear his pride Alve. Why not he under went much Injurie Mendo. What injury have we perform'd proud Lord Eleaz. Proud Cardinall my unjust banishment Mendo. 'T was wee that did it and our words are laws King 'T was wee repeal'd him and our words are laws Zara. Baltaz. If not these are All the Moors draw Phil. How threatned and out-dar'd King Shal we give arm to hostile violence Sheath your swords sheath them it 's wee command Eleaz. Grant Eleaz justice my dread Leige Mendo. Eleazar hath had justice from our hands And he stands banish'd from the Court of Spain King Have you done justice why Lord Cardinall From whom do you derive authority To banish him the Court without our leave Mendo. From this the Staffe of our Protectorship From this which the last will of your dear Father Committed to our trust from this high place Which lifts Mendoza's spirits beyond the pitch Of ordinary honour and from this King Which too much over-weening Insolence Hath quite ta'ne from you Eleazar up takes the staff from Mendoza and gives it to Eleaz. And from us sway this Staffe of Regency All How 's this Phil. Dare sons presume to break their fathers will King Dare Subjects counter-check their Soveraigns will 'T is done and who gainsaies it is a Traitor Phil. I do Fernando yet I am no Traitor Mendo. Fernando I am wrong'd by Peters Chair Mendoza vows revenge I 'le lay aside My Cardinals hat and in a wall of steel The glorious livery of a souldier fight for my late lost honour King Cardinall Mend. King thou shalt be no King for wronging me The Pope shall send his bulls through all thy Realm And pul obedience from thy Subjects hearts To put on armour of the Mother Church Curses shal fal like lightnings on your heads Bell book and candle holy water praiers Shal all chim vengeance to the of Court Spain Till they have power to conjure down that feind That damned Moor that Devil that Lucifer That dares aspire the staffe the Card'nall swaid Eleaz. Ha ha ha I laugh yet that the Cardinall 's vext Phil. Laughts thou base slave the wrinckles of that scorn Thine own heart blood shall fill Brother farewell Since you disprove the will our father left For base lust of a loathed Concubine Eleaz. Ha Concubine who does Prince Philip mean Phil. Thy wife thy daughter base aspiring Lords Who to buy honour are content to sell Your names to infamy your souls to hell And stamp you now do do for you shal see I go for vengeance and she 'l com with me Eliaz. Stay for she 's here already see proud boy They both draw Q. Mo. Hold stay this fury if you long for blood Murder me first Dear son you are a King Then stay the violent tempest of their wrath King Shall Kings be overswaid in their desires Roderi. Shall Subjects be opress'd by tyranny Q. Mother No State shall suffer wrong then hear mee speak Mendo you have sworn you love the Queen Then by that love I charge you leave these arms Eliaz for those favours I have given you Embrace the Cardinall and be friends with him Eliaz. And have my wife call'd strumpet to my face Qu. Mo. 'T was rage made his tongue erre do you not know The violent love Mendoza bears the Queen Then speak him fair for in that honied breath I 'le lay a bait shall train him to his death Come come I see your looks give way to peace Lord Cardinall begin and for reward Ere this fair setting Sun behold his bride Be bold to challenge love yet be deni'd Aside Mendoz. That promise makes
breath Had she been fair and not so virtuous This deed had not been halfe so impious Alv. But she was fair in virtue virtuous fair oh me King Oh me she was true honours heir Hence beldame from my presence all flye hence You are all murderers com poor innocence Clasp thy cold hand in mine for here I 'le lye And since I liv'd for her for her I 'l die Act. III Scena IV. Enter Eleazar with a Torch and Rapier drawn Eleazar BAr up my Castle Gates fire and confusion Shall girt these Spanish Currs was I for this Sent to raise power against a fugitive To have my wife deflowr'd Zounds where 's my wife My slaves cry out she 's dallying with the King Stand by where is your King Eleazars bed shall Scorn to be an Emperours brothelrie Qu. Mo. Be patient Eleazar here 's the King Eleaz. Patience and I am foes where 's my Maria Alu. Here is her haplesse coarse that was Maria King Here lies Maria's body here her grave Her dead heart in my breast a tomb shal have Eleazar Now by the proud complexion of my cheeks Tan'e from the kisses of the amorous sun Were he ten thousand Kings that slew my love Thus shou'd my hand plum'd with revenges wings Requite mine own dishonour and her death Stabs the King Qu. Mo. Ah me my son All The King is murdred lay hold on the damn'd traitor Eleaz. In his brest that dares but dart a finger at the Moor I 'le bury this Sharp steel yet reeking warm With the unchast blood of that lecher King That threw my wife in an untimely grave Alv. She was my daughter and her timelesse grave Did swallow down my joies as deep as yours But thus Eleaz. But what bear injuries that can I 'le wear no forked crest Roder Damn this black feind crie treason through the Court The King is murdred Eleaz. He that first opes his lips I 'le drive his words Down his wide throat upon my rapiers point The King is murdred and I 'le answer it I am dishonour'd and I will revenge it Bend not your dangerous weapons at my brest Thinke where you are this Castle is the Moors You are inviron'd with a wall of flint The Gates are lock'd Purcullesses let down If Eleaz spend one drop of blood Zarack and Baltazar above with Calivers On those high turret tops my slaves stand arm'd And shall con found your souls with murdring shot Or if you murder me yet under ground A villain that for me will dig to hell Stands with a burning limstock in his fist Who firing gunpowder up in the air Shall fling your torn and mangled carcasses Qu. Mo. Oh! sheath your weapons though my son be slain Yet save your selvs choose a new Soveraign All Prince Philip is our Soveraign choose him King Eleaz. Prince Philip shall not be my Soveraign Philip's a bastard and Fernando's dead Mendoza sweats to wear Spains Diadem Philip hath sworn confusion to this Realm They both are up in arms warrs flames do shine Like lightning in the air wherefore my Lords Look well on Eleazar value me not by my sun-burnt Cheek but by my birth nor by My birth but by my losse of blood Which I have sacrificed in Spains defence Then look on Philip and the Cardinall Look on those gaping currs whose wide throats Stand stretch'd wide open like the gates of death To swallow you your country children wives Philip cries fire and blood the Cardinall Cries likewise fire and blood I 'le quench those flames The Moor cries blood and fire and that shall burn Till Castile like proud Troy to Cinders turn Roder Lay by these Ambages what seeks the Moor Eleaz. A Kingdom Castiles crown Alve. Peace divell for shame Qu. Mo. Peace doting Lord for shame Oh miserie When Indian slaves thirst after Empery Princes and Peers of Spain wee are beset With horror on each side you deny him Death stands at all our backs we cannot flye him Crown Philip King The Crown upon his head Will prove a fiery Meteor Warr and vengeance And desolation will invade our land Besides Prince Philip is a bastard born Oh! give mee leave to blush at mine own shame But I for love to you love to fair Spain Choose rather to rip up a Queens disgrace Then by concealing it to set the Crown Upon a bastards head Wherefore my Lords By my consent crown that proud Blackamore Since Spains bright glory must so soon grow dim Since it must end let it end all in him All Eleazar shall be King Alv. Oh treachery have you so soon rac't out Fernando's love So soon forgot the duty of true Peers So soon so soon buried a mothers name That you will crown him King that slew your King Eleaz. Will you hear him or me who shall be King All Eleazar shall be Castiles Sovereign Alv. Do do make hast to crown him Lords adieu Here hell must be when the Divel governs you Exit Eleaz. By heavens great Star which Indians do adore But that I hate to hear the giddy world Shame that I waded to a Crown through blood I 'de not disgest his pills but since my Lords You have chosen Eleazar for your King Invest me with a generall applause All Live Eleazar Castiles Royall King Roder A villain and a base born fugitive Aside Christo. A bloody tyrant an usurping slave Aside Eleaz. Thanks to you all 't is not the Spanish Crown That Eleazar strives for but Spains peace Amongst you I 'le divide her Empery Christofero shall wear Granado's Crown To Roderigo I 'le give Arragon Naples Navar and fair Jerusalem I 'le give to other three and then our vice Roys Shall Shine about our bright Castilian crown As stars about the Sun Cry all arm arm Prince Philip and the Cardinall do ride Like Jove in thunder in a storme we 'l meet them Go levy powers if any man must fall My death shall first begin the funerall Exeunt Act. III Scena V. Enter Zarack and Baltazar with Calivers Baltaz. IS thy cock ready and thy powder dry Zarack. My cock stands pearching like a cock o' the game With a red cole for his crest instead of a colme And for my powder 't is but touch take Baltaz. I have tickling geer too anon I 'le cry here I have it And yonder I see it But Zarack is 't policie for us To kill these bald-pates Zarack. Is 't pollicy for us to save our selves If they live we die Is 't not wisdom then To send them to heaven rather then be sent our selves Come you black slave be resolute This way they come Here they will stand and yonder wil I stand Baltaz. And in yonder hole I Zarack. Our amiable faces cannot be seen if we keep close Therefore hide your cocks head left his burning cocks-comb betray us But soft which of the two shall be thy white Baltaz. That black villain Frier Cole Zarack. I shall have a sharp piece of service Frier Crab shall be
That can keep in a man so mad with wrong What do'st thou weep Alve. I would fain shed a tear But from mine eyes so many showrs are gon Grief drinks my tears so fast that here 's not one You must to prison Phil. Do'st thou speak to me Alve. You must to prison Phil. And from thence to death I thought I should have had a tomb hung round With tottred colours broken spears I thought My body should have fallen down full of wounds But one can kill an Emperor fool then why Would'st thou have many curse be mad and dye Exeunt The end of the fourth Act Act. V. Scena I. Enter Roderigo and Christofero two bare-headed before them Alvero Cardinall alone Zarack and Baltazar bearing the Crown on a cushion Eleazar next Queen Mother after him other Lords after her Alvero sad meets them Card. ALvero 't is the pleasure of the King Of the Queen Mother and these honoured States To ease you of Philip there 's a warrant Sent to remove him to a stronger guard Alve. I thank you you shall rid me of much care Eleaz. Sit down and take your place Alve. If I might have the place I like best it should be my grave Sits down The Moors stand aside with the Crown Eleazar rising takes it Eleaz. Stand in voice reach away Both Moors Wee are gon Exeunt Eleaz. Princes of Spain if in this royall Court There sit a man that having laid his hold So fast on such a jewel and dare wear it In the contempt of envie as I dare Yet uncompell'd as freely as poor pilgrims Bestow their praiers would give such wealth away Let such a man step forth what do none rise No no for Kings indeed are deities And who 'd not as the sun in brightnesse shine To be the greatest is to be divine Who among millions would not be the mightest To sit in God-like state to have all eyes Dazled with admiration and all tongues Showing lowd Praiers to rob every heart Of love to have the strength of every arm A Soveraigns name why 't is a Soveraign charm This glory round about me hath thrown beams I have stood upon the top of fortunes wheel And backward turn'd the Iron screw of fate The destinies have spun a silken thread About my life yet Noble Spaniards see Hoc tantum tanti thus I cast aside The shape of Majestie and on my knee Kneels the Cardinall fetches the Crown and sets it on the chair To this Imperiall State lowly resigne This usurpation wiping off your tears Which stuck so hard upon me let a hand A right and royall hand take up this wreath And guard it right is of it self most strong No kingdom got by cunning can stand long Car. Proceed to new election of a King All Agreed Eleaz. Stay Peers of Spain if young Philippo Be Philips son then is he Philips heir Then must his Royall name be set in gold Philip is then the Diamond to that ring But if he be a bastard here 's his seat For basenesse has no gall till it grow great First therefore let him blood if he must bleed Yet in what vein you strike him best take heed The Portugall's his friend you saw he came At holding up a finger arm'd this peace Rid hence his dangerous friendship he 's at home But when he hears that Philip is ty'd up Yet hears not why he 'l catch occasions lock And on that narrow bridg make shift to lead A scrambling army through the heart of Spain Look to 't being in he 'l hardly out again Therefore first prove and then proclaim him bastard Alve. How shall we prove it Eleaz. He that put him out to making I am sure can tell if not Then she that shap'd him can here 's the Queen Mother Being prick'd in conscience and preferring Spain Before her own respect will name the man If he be noble a Spaniard born hee 'l hide The apparent scarrs of their infamies With the white hand of marriage that and time Will eat the blemish off say shall it All No Card. Spaniard or Moor the saucy slave shall dye Hort. Death is too easie for such villany Eleaz. Spaniard or Moor the saucy slave shall dye I would he might I know my self am clear As is the new born Infant Madam stand forth Behold to speak shame in the grave wants sence Heaven with sins greatest forfeits can dispence Q. Mo. Would I were covered with the vail of night You might not see red shame sit on my cheecke But being Spains common safety stands for truth Hiding my weeping eyes I blush and say Philippo's father sits here Roder Here name him Q. Mo. The Lord Mendoza did beget that son Oh! let not this dishonour further run Alve, What Cardinall Mendoza Qu. Mo. Yes yes even hee Eleaz Spaniard or Moor the saucy slave shall die Car. I Philips father Coms down the rest talk Q. M. Nay deny me not Now may a kingdom and my love be got Car. Those eyes and tongue bewitch me shame lie here That love has sweetest tast that is bought dear Christo. What answers Lord Mendoza to the Queen Car. I confesse guilty Philip is my son Her Majestie hath nam'd the time and place Alv. To you but not to us go forward Madam Q. Mo. Within the circle of twice ten years since Your deceast King made warr in Barbarie Won Tunis conquered Fesse and hand to hand Slew great Abdela King of Fesse and father To that Barbarian Prince Eleaz. I was but young but now methinks I see my fathers wounds poor Barbaria No more Q. Mo. In absence of my Lord mourning his want To me alone being in my private walk I think at Salamanca I 't was there Enters Mendoza under shew of shrift Threatens my death if I deni'd his lust In fine by force he won me to his will I wept and cri'd for help but all in vain Mendoza there abus'd the bed of Spain E'eaz Spaniard or Moor that saucy slave shall die Alve Why did not you complain of this vile act Q Mo. Alas I was alone young full of fear Bashful and doubtfull of my own defame Knowing King Philip rash and jealous I hid his sins thinking to hide my shame Horten. What says the Cardinall Car. Such a time there was 'T is past I 'le make amends with marriage And satisfie with Trentalls dirges praiers The offended spirit of the wronged King Queen and they talk Eleaz. Spaniard or Moor that saucy slave shall die Oh! 't would seem best it should be thus Mendoza She to accuse I urge and both conclude Your marriage like a comick interlude Lords will you hear this hatefull sin confest And not impose upon the ravisher death The due punishment oh it must be so Alve. What does the Queen desire Qu. Mo. Justice revenge On vile Mendoza for my ravishment I kiss the cold earth with my humbl'd knees From whence I will not rise till some just hand Cast to the
Stood gracious in their sight well go Do what you will Hortenzo if this charm Unbinds them here 't is Lady you and I Aloof will follow him and when we meet Speak for me for I 'le kisse Philippo's feet Hort. I shall be proud to see all reconcil'd Exit Eleaz. Alas my Lord why true go go Isabel. Make hast dear love Eleaz. Hortenzo is a man Compos'd of sweet proportion ha's a foot A leg a hand a face an eye a wit The best Hortenzo in the Spanish Court Oh! he 's the Nonpareil Isabel. Your tongue had wont To be more sparing in Hortenzo's praise Eleaz. I I may curse his praises rather ban Mine own nativity why did this colour Dart in my flesh so far oh would my face Were of Hortenzo's fashion else would your Were as black as mine is Isabel. Mine like yours why Eleaz. Hark! I love you yes faith I said this I love you I do leave him Isabel. Damnation vanish from me Eleaz Coy were you as hard as flint Oh! you shou'd yield Like softned wax were you as pure as fire I 'le touch you yes I 'le taint you see you this I 'le bring you to this lure Isabel. If I want hands To kill my self before thou do'st it do Eleaz. I 'le cut away your hands wel my desire Is raging as the Sea and mad as fire Will you Isabel. Torment me not good Devill Eleazar Will you Isabel. I 'le tear mine eyes out if they tempt thy lust Eleaz. Do Isabel. Touch me not these knives Eleaz. I I kill your selfe Because I jest with you I wrong Hortenzo Settle your thoughts 't was but a trick to try That which few women have true constancy Isabel. If then my speeches tast of gall Eleaz. Nay faith You are not bitter no you should have rail'd Have spit upon me spurn'd me you are not bitter Why do you think that I 'de nurse a though To hurt your honour If that thought had brains I 'de beat them out but come by this Hortenzo Is fast Isabel. Hah fast Eleaz. I fast in Philip's arms Wrestling together for the price of love By this they 're on the way I 'le be your guard Come follow me I 'le lead you in the van Where thou shalt see four chins upon one chain Exeunt Act. V. Scena IV. Enter Hortenzo Queen Mother Cardinall and Philip chaind by the necks Zarack and Baltazar busie about fastning Hortenzo Hort. YOu damned Ministers of villany Sworn to damnation by the book of hell You maps of night you element of Devills Why do you yoak my neck with Iron chains Baltaz. Many do borrow chains but you have this Gratis for nothing Card. Slaves unbind us Both No Exeunt two Moors Phil. I am impatient veins why crack you not And tilt your blood into the face of heaven To make red clouds like Ensignes in the sky Displaying a damn'd tyrants cruelty Yet can I laugh in my extreamest pangs Of blood and spirit to see the Cardinall Keep ranck with me and my vile Mother Queen To see her self where she would have mee seen Good fellowship I'faith Hort. And I can tell True misery loves a companion wel Phil. Thou left'st me to the mercy of a Moor That hath damnation dy'd upon his flesh 'T was well thou Mother did'st unmotherly Betray thy true son to false bastardy Thou left'st me then now thou art found and staid And thou who did'st betray me art betraid A plague upon you all Card. Thou cursest them Whom I may curse first may I curse my self Too credulous of Loyalty and love Next may I curse the Moor more then a Devill And last thy Mother mother of all evill Queen Mo. All curses and all crosses light on thee What need I curse my selfe when all curse mee I have been deadly impious I confesse Forgive mee and my sin will seem the less This heavie chain which now my neck assault Weighs ten times lighter then my heavie faults Phil. Hortenzo I commend my self to thee Thou that art near'st stand'st furthest off from mee Horten. That mold of Hell that Moor has chain'd me here 'T is not my self but Isabel I fear Act. V Scena V. Enter Eleazar Zarack and Baltazar Eleaz. IT 's strange will not Prince Philip come with Hortenzo Zarack He swears he 'l live and die there Eleaz. Marry and shall I pray perswade him you to leave the place A prison why it s hell Alas here they be Hah they are they i'faith see see see see All Moor Devill toad serpent Eleaz. Oh sweet airs sweet voices Isabel. Oh my Hortenzo Eleaz. Do not these birds sing sweetly Isabella Oh! how their spirits would leap aloft and spring Had they their throats at liberty to sing Phil. Damnation dog thee Card. Furies follow thee Qu Mo. Cometts confound thee Horten. And hell swallow thee Eleaz. Sweeter and sweeter still Oh! harmony Why there 's no musick like to miserie Isabel. Hast thou betrai'd me thus Eleaz. Not I not I Phil. Sirrah hedge-hog Eleaz. Hah I 'le hear thee presently Isabel. Hear me then Hell-hound slaves Unchain my love Or by Eleaz. By what is 't not rare walking here Me thinks this stage shews like a Tennis Court Do's it not Isabell I 'le shew thee how Suppose that Iron chain to be the line The prison doors the hazard and their heads Scarce peeping ore the line suppose the bals Had I a racket now of burnish'd steel How smoothly could I bandy every ball Over this Globe of earth win sett and all Phil. How brisk the villain jetts in villany Eleaz. Prating he 's proud because he wears a chain Take it off Baltazar and take him hence They unbind him Phil. And whither then you dog Isabel. Pity my brother Eleaz. Pity him no away I come do come Phil. I pray thee kill me come Eleaz. I hope to see Thy own hands do that office down with him Phil Is there another hell 2 Moors Try try he 's gone Eleaz. So him next he next and next him and then All Worse then damnation feind monster of men Eleaz. Why when down down Card. Slave as thou thrusts me down Into this dungeon so sink thou to hell Q. Mo. Amen Amen Eleaz. Together so and you Isabel. O pity my Hortenzo Horten. Farewel sweet Isabel my life adieu All Mischief and horror let the Moor pursue Eleaz. A consort that amain play that amain Amain Amain No so soon fallen asleep Nay I 'le not loose this musick sirrah sirrah Take thou a drum a Trumpet thou and Hark Mad them with villanous sounds Zarack. Rare sport let 's go Exeunt Zarack Baltazar Eleaz. About it Musick will doe well in woe How like you this Isabel. set my Hortenzo free And I 'le like any thing Eleaz. A fool a fool Hortenzo free why look you hee free no Then must he marry you you must be Queen Hee in a manner King these dignities Like poyson make men swell this Ratsbane honour O 't is so
sweet they 'le lick it till all burst Hee will be proud and pride you know must fall Come come he shall not no no 't is more meet To keep him down safe standing on his feet Isabel. Eleazar Eleaz. Mark the imperial chair of Spain Is now as empty as a Misers Alms Be wise I yet dare fit in 't it 's for you If you will be for me there 's room for two Do meditate muse on 't it 's best for thee To love me live with me and lye with me Isabel. Thou knowst I 'le first lye in the arms of death My meditations are how to revenge Thy bloody tyrannies I fear thee not Inhumane slave but to thy face defie Thy lust thy love thy barbarours villany Eleaz. Zarack Enter Zarack. Zarack. My Lord Eleaz. Where 's Baltazar Zarack. A drumming Elea. I have made them rave and curse and So guard her Your Court shall be this prison guard her slaves With open eyes defie me see my veins Struck 't out being over heated with my blood Boyling in wrath I 'le tame you Isabel. Do do Eleaz. Hah I wil and once more fil a kingdoms Throne Spain I 'le new-mould thee I will have a chair Made all of dead mens bones and the ascents Shall be the heads of Spaniards set in ranks I will have Philip's head Hortenzo's head Mendoza's head thy Mothers head and this This head that is so crosse I 'le have 't The Scene wants Actors I 'le fetch more and cloth it In rich Cothurnall pompe A Tragedy Ought to be grave graves this shall beautifie Moor execute to 'th life my dread cōmands Vengeance awake thou hast much work in hand Exit Zarack. I 'm weary of this office and this life It is too thirsty and I would your blood Might scape the filling out By heaven I swear I scorn these blows and his rebukes to bear Isabel. Oh! Zarack pity me I Iove thee well Love deserves pity pity Isabel Zarack. What would you have me do Isabel. To kill this Moor Zarack. I 'le cast an eye of death upon my face I 'le be no more his slave swear to advance me And by yo'n setting sun this hand and this Shall rid you of a tyrant Isabel. By my birth No Spaniards honour'd place shall equall thine Zarack I 'le kill him then Isabel. And Baltazar Zarack. And hee Isabel. I pray thee first fetch Philippo Hortenzo Out of that Hell they two will be most glad To ayd thee in this Execution Zarack. My Lord Philippo and Hortenzo rise Your hands so talk to her at my return This sword shall reek with blood of Baltazar Exit Phil. Three curses like three comendations To their three soules I send thy tortur'd brother Does curse the Cardinall the Moor thy Mother Isabel. Curse not at all dear soules revenge is hot And boyles in Zaracks brains the plot is cast Into the mold of Hell You freemen are Zarack will kill the Moor and Baltazar Hort. How can that relish Isabel. Why I 'le tell you how I did profess I and protested too I lov'd him well what will not sorrow do Then he profest I and protested too To kill them both what will not devils do Phil. Then I profess I and protest it too That here 's for him what will not Philip do Hort. See where hee coms Enter the two Moors Balt. Zarack what do I see Hortenzo and Philip who did this Zarack. I Baltazar Balt. Thou art halfe damn'd for it I 'le to my Lord Zarack. I 'le stop you on your way lie there thy tongue shal tel no tales to day Stabs him Phil. Nor thine to morrow his revenge was well Stabs him By this time both the slaves shake hands in hel Isabel. Philippo and Hortenzo stand you still what doat you both cannot you see your play well fare a woman then to lead the way Once rob the dead put the Moors habits on and paint your faces with the oil of hell so waiting on the Tyrant Philip Come no more 't is here and here room there below stand wide bury them well since they so godly di'd Hort. Away then fate now let revenge be plac'd Philip Here Hort. And here a tyrants blood doth sweetly tast Exeunt Act V. Scena VI. Enter Eleazar Alvero Roderigo Christofero and other Lords Eleazar WHat I imprison who All Philip and Hortenzo Eleaz. Philip and Hortenzo Ha ha ha Roder Why laughs the Moor Eleaz I laugh because you jest laugh at a jest who I imprison them I prize their lives with weights their necks with chains their hands with Manacles do I all this because my face is in nights colour dy'd Think you my conscience and my soul is so Black faces may have hearts as white as snow And 't is a generall rule in morall rowls The whitest faces have the blackest souls Alvero But touching my Hortenzo Eleaz. Good old man I never touch'd him do not touch me then with thy Hortenzo Christofero. Where 's Philip too Eleaz. And where 's Philippo too I pray I pray is Philip a tame Spaniard what can I philip him hither hither make him flye First where 's Hortenzo where 's Philippo too Roderigo And where is Isabel she was with you Eleaz. And where is Isabel she was with me and so are you yet are you well you see but in good time see where their keepers come Come hither Zarack Baltazar come hither Zarack old Lord Alvero asks of thee where young Hortenzo is Enter Philip and Hortenzo like Moors Horten My Lord set free Eleaz Oh is he so come hither Baltazar Lord Christofero here would ask of thee where Prince Philippo is Phil. My Lord set free Eleaz. Oh is he so Roderigo asketh mee for Isabel Philip I say my Lord shee 's free Eleaz. Oh! is she so Phil. Believe me Lords Hortenzo And mee Philip I set Philippo Hortenzo I Hortenzo free Eleaz. My Lords because you shal believe me too Go to the Castle I will follow you Alv. Thanks to the mighty Moor and for his fame Be more in honour then thou art in name But let me wish the other prisoners well The Queen and Cardinall let all have right Let law absolve them or disolve them quite Eleaz. Grave man thy gray hairs paint our gravity Thy counsells wisedom thy wit pollicie There let us meet and with a general brain Erect the peace of spirit and of Spain Alv. Then will Spain flourish Eleaz. I when it is mine Roder O heavenly meeting Eleaz. we must part in hell Chri. True peace of joy Exeunt manent Ele Phil. Hor. Ele. 'T is a dissembling knel. Farewell my Lords meet there so ha ha ha Draws his Rapier Now Tragedy thou Minion of the night Rhamnusias pew-fellow to thee I 'le sing Upon an harp made of dead Spanish bones The proudest instrument the world affords When thou in Crimson jollitie shalt Bath Thy limbs as black as mine in springs of blood still gushing from the Conduit-head of Spain To