made the onely bar you have by imagining you have one I confesse though had vice so large an Empire in the Court as heretofore it has had or were the times so dangerous that to the living well there wise conduct were more necessary then vertue it self Your Lordship would have reason with AEsops countrey-mouse to undervalue all change of condition since a quiet-mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity but these things are now no more and if at any time they have threatned that Horizon like great clouds either they are fallen of themselves to the ground or else upon the appearing of the Sunne such a Prince as ours is they have vanished and left behind them clear and fair daies To descend to parts envie is so lessen'd that it is almost lost into vertuous emulation every man trusting the Kings judgement so far that he knows no better measure of his own merit then his reward The little word behind the back and undoing whisper which like pulling of a sheat-rope at Sea slackens the sail and makes the gallantest ship stand still that that heretofore made the faulty and the innocent alike guilty is a thing I beleeve now so forgot or at least so unpractiz'd that those that are the worst have leisure to grow good before any will take notice they have been otherwise or at least divulge it 'T is true Faction there is but 't is as true that it is as winds are to clear and keep places free from corruption the oppositions being as harmlesse as that of the meeting-tides under the bridge whose encounter makes it but more easie for him that is to passe To be a little pleasant in my instances The very women have suffered reformation and wear through the whole Court their faces as little disguised now as an honest mans actions should be and if there be any have suffer'd themselves to be gained by their servants their ignorance of what they granted may well excuse them from the shame of what they did So that it is more then possible to be great and good and we may safely conclude if there be some that are not so exact as much as they fall short of it just so much they have gone from the great Original God and from the best Copies of him on earth the King and the Queen To conclude If those accidents or disasters which make men grow lesse in the world as some such my Lord have happened to you were inevitable as death or when they were once entered upon us there were no cure for them examples of others would satisfie me for yours but since there have been that have delivered themselves from their ills either by their good Fortune or Vertue 't would trouble me that my friends should not be found in that number as much as if one should bring me a Catalogue of those that truly honoured my Lord of and I should not find among the first Your humble Servant To Mr. Henry German in the beginning of PARLIAMENT 1640. Sir THat it is fit for the King to do something extraordinary at this present is not onely the opinion of the wise but the expectation Men observe him more now then at other times for Majestie in an Eclipse like the Sun draws eyes that would not so much as have looked towards it if it had shined out and appeared like it self To lie still now would at the best shew but a calmnesse of mind not a magnanimity since in matter of government to think well at any time much lesse in a very active is little better then to dream well Nor must he stay to act till his people desire because 't is thought nothing relishes else for therefore hath nothing relisht with them because the King hath for the most part stayed till they have desired done nothing but what they have or were petitioning for But that the King should do will not be so much the question as what he should do And certainly for a King to have right counsel given him is at all times strange and at this present impossible His party for the most part I would that were modestly said and it were not all have so much to do for their own preservation that they cannot without breaking a law in nature intend anothers Those that have courage have not perchance innocence and so dare not shew themselves in the Kings busines and if they have innocence they want parts to make themselves considerable so consequently the things they undertake Then in Court they give much counsel as they beleeve the King inclin'd determine his good by his desires which is a kind of setting the Sun by the Dial Interest which cannot erâ—e by passions which may In going about to shew the King a Cure now a man should first plainly shew him the disease But to Kings as to some kind of Patients it is not alwaies proper to tell how ill they be and it is too like a Countrey clown not to shew the way unles he know from whence and discourse of things before Kings may be mistaken and Councellors corrupted but true interest alone saith Monsieur de Rohan cannot erre It were not amisse then to find out the Interest for setting down right principles before conclusions is weighing the scales before we deal out the commodity Certainly the great interest of the King is A union with his People and whosoever hath told him otherwise as the Scripture saith of the divel was a seducer from the first If there ever had been any one Prince in the whole world that made a felicity in this life and left fair Fame after death without the love of his Subjects there were some colour to despise it There was not among all our Princes a greater Courtier of the People then Richard the third not so much out of fear as out of wisedom And shall the worst of our Kings have striven for that and shall not the best it being an Angelical thing to gain love There are 2. things in which the people expect to be satisfied Religion and Justice nor can this be done by any little acts but by Royal and Kingly resolutions If any shall think that by dividing the factions a good rule at other times he shall master the rest now he will be strangely deceived for in the beginning of things That would do much but not when whole Kingdoms are resolv'd Of those now that lead these parties if you could take off the major number the lesser would govern and do the same things still nay if you could take off all they would set up one and follow him And of how great consequence it is for the King to resume this right and be the author himself let any body judge since as Cumneus said those that have the art to please the People have commonly the power to raise them To do things so that there shall remain no jealousie is very necessary and is no more
shalt have it all nay sigh not Such blasts will hinder all the passage Do'st thou remember how wee parted last Agl. Can I forget it Sir Ther. That word of parting was ill plac'd I sweare It may be ominous but do'st thou know Into whose hands I gave thee Agl. Yes into Ziriffs Sir Ther. That Ziriff was thy brother brave Zorannes Preserv'd by miracle in that sad day Thy father fell and since thus in disguise Waiting his just revenge Agl. You doe amaze me Sir Ther. And must doe more when I tell all the storie The King the jealous King knew of the marriage And when thou thought'st thy selfe by my direction Thou wert his Prisoner Unlesse I would renounce all right And cease to love thee ô strange and fond request Immur'd thou must have been in some sad place And lockt for ever from Thersames sight For ever and that unable to indure This night I did attempt his life Agl. Was it well done Sir Ther. O no! extremely ill For to attempt and not to act was poore Here the dead-doing Law like ill-paid Souldiers Leaves the side 't was on to joyne with power Royall villany now will looke so like to Justice That the times to come and curious posteritie Will find no difference weep'st thou Aglaura Come to bed my Love And wee will there mock Tyrannie and Fate Those softer houres of pleasure and delight That like so many single Pearles should have Adorn'd our thread of life wee will at once By Loves mysterious power and this nights help Contract to one and make but one rich draught Of all Agl. What meane you Sir Ther. To make my selfe incapable of miserie By taking strong preservative of happinesse I would this night injoy thee Agl. Doe Sir doe what you will with mee For I am too much yours to deny the right How ever claim'd but Ther. But what Aglaura Agl. Gather not reses in a wet and frowning houre They 'll lose their sweets then trust me they will Sir What pleasure can Love take to play his game out When death must keep the Stakes A noise without Hark Sir grave-bringers and last minutes are at hand Hide hide your selfe for Loves sake hide your selfe Ther. As soon the Sunne may hide himselfe as I. The Prince of Persia hide himselfe Agl. O talke not Sir the Sunne does hide himselfe then When night and blacknesse comes Ther. Never sweet Ignorance he shines in th' other world And so shall I if I set here in glorie Enter Opens the doore enter Ziriff Yee hastie seekers of life Sorannez Agl. My brother If all the joy within mee come not cut To give a welcome to so deare an object Excuse it Sir sorrow locks up all doores Zir. If there be such a Toy about you Sister Keep 't for your selfe or lend it to the Prince There is a dearth of that Commoditie And you have made it Sir Now What is the next mad thing you meane to doe Will you stay here when all the Court 's beset Like to a wood at a great hunt and busie mischiefe hastes To be in view and have you in her power Ther. To mee all this For great griefe 's deafe as well as it is dumbe And drives no trade at all with Counsell Sir Why doe you not Tutor one that has the Plague And see if he will feare an after ague sit Such is all mischiefe now to me there is none left Is worth a thought death is the worst I know And that compar'd to shame does look more lovely now Than a chaste Mistresse set by common woman And I must court it Sir Zir. No wonder if that heav'n forsake us when we leave our selves What is there done should feed such high despaire Were you but safe Agl. Deare Sir be rul'd If love be love and magick too As sure it is where it is true Wee then shall meet in absence and in spight Of all divorce freely enjoy together What niggard Fate thus peevishly denies Ther. Yea but if pleasures be themselves but dreames What then are the dreames of these to men That monster Expectation will devoure All that is within our hope or power And e're we once can come to shew how rich We are we shall be poore Shall we not Sorannez Zir. I understand not this In times of envious penurie such as these are To keepe but love alive is faire we should not thinke Of feasting him come Sir Here in these lodgings is a little doore That leads unto another that againe Unto a vault that has his passage under The little river opening into the wood From thence 't is but some few minutes easie businesse Unto a Servants house of mine who for his faith And honestie hereafter must Looke big in Storie there you are safe however And when this Storme has met a little calme What wild desire dares whisper to it selfe You may enjoy and at the worst may steale Ther. What shall become of thee Aglaura then Shall I leave thee their rages sacrifice And like dull Seamen threatned with a storme Throw all away I have to save my selfe Agl. Can I be safe when you are not my Lord Knowes love in us divided happinesse Am I the safer for your being here Can you give that you have not for your selfe My innocence is my best guard and that your stay Betraying it unto suspition takes away If you did love mee Ther. Grows that in question then 't is time to part Kisses her When we shall meet again Heav'n onely knowes And when wee shall I know we shall be old Love does not calculate the common way Minutes are houres there and the houres are dayes Each day 's a yeare and every yeare an age What will this come to thinke you Zir. Would this were all the ill For these are pretty little harmlesse nothings Times horse runs full as fast hard borne and curb'd As in his full carreere loose-rain'd and spurr'd Come come let 's away Ther. Happinesse such as men lost in miserie Would wrong in naming 't is so much above them Aâ—l that I want of it all you deserve Heav'n send you in my absence Agl. And miserie such as wittie malice would Lay out in curses on the thing it hates Heav'n send me in the stead if when y' are gone I welcome it but for your sake alone Exeunt Leads him out enters up out of the vault Zir. Stir not from hence Sir til you hear from me So goodnight deare Prince Ther. Goodnight deere friend Zir. When we meet next all this will but advance Joy never feasts so high As when the first course is of miserie Exeunt ACTUS IV. SCENA I. Enter three or foure Courtiers 1 Court BY this light a brave Prince He made no more of the Guard than they Would of a Taylor on a Maske night that has refus'd Trusting before 2 Court Hee 's as Active as he is valiant too Did'st mark him how he stood like all the points
other thing thus done And in good language him for these adore While I want words to doo 't yet doe iâ— more Thus will wee doe till death it selfe shall us Divide and then whose fate ' tshall be to die First of the two by legacie shall all Her love bequeath and give her stock to her That shall survive for no one stock can serve To love Thersames so as he 'll deserve Enter King Ziriff King What have we here impossibilitie A constant night and yet within the roome That that can make the day before the Sunne Silent Aglaura too Agl. I know not what you say Is 't to your pitie or your scorne I owe The favour of this visit Sir for such My fortune is it doth deserve them both King And such thy beauty is that it makes good All Fortunes sorrow lookes lovely here And there 's no man that would not entertaine His griefes as friends were he but sure they 'd shew No worse upon him but I forget my selfe I came to chide Agl. If I have sinn'd so high that yet my punishment Equalls not my crime Doe Sir I should be loth to die in debt To Justice how ill soe re I paid The scores of Love King And those indeed thou hast but paid indifferently To me I did deserve at least faire death Not to be murthered thus in private That was too cruell Mistresse And I doe know thou do'st repent and wilt Yet make me satisfaction Agl. What satisfaction Sir I am no monstet never had two hearts One is by holy vowes anothers now And could I give it you you would not take it For 't is alike impossible for mee To love againe as you love Perjurie O Sir consider what a flame love is If by rude meanes you thinke to force a light That of it selfe it would not freely give You blow it out and leave your selfe i' th' darke The Prince once gone you may as well perswade The light to stay behinde when the Sun posts To th' other world as mee alas wee two Have mingled soules more than two meeting brooks And whosoever is design'd to be The murtherer of my Lord as sure there is Has anger'd heav'n so farre that 'tas decreed Him to encrease his punishment that way Would he but search the heart when he has done Hee there would find Aglaura murther'd too King Thou hust o'recome me mov'd so handsomely For pitie that I will dis-inherit The elder brother and from this houre be Thy Convert not thy Lover Ziriff dispatch away And he that brings newes of the Prince's welfare Looke that he have the same reward we had decreed To him brought tidings of his death ' Tmust be a busie and bold hand that would Unlinke a chaine the Gods themselves have made Peace to thy thoughts Aglaura Exit Ziriff steps back and speakes Zir. What e're he sayes beleeve him not Aglaura For lust and rage ride high within him now He knowes Thersames made th'escape from hence And does conceale it only for his ends For by the favour of mistake and night He hopes t' enjoy thee in the Prince's roome I shall be mist else I would tell thee more But thou mayest ghesse for our condition Admits no middle wayes either we must Send them to Graves or lie our selves in dust Exit Aglaura stands still and studies Agl. Ha! 't is a strange Act thought puts me now upon Yet sure my brother meant the selfe-same thing And my Thersames would have done 't for me To take his life that seekes to take away The life of Life honour from me and from The world the life of honour Thersames Must needs be something sure of kin to Justice If I doe faile th' attempt howe're was brave And I shall have at worst a handsome grave Exit Enter Jolas Semanthe Semanthe steps backe Jolas stayes her Jol. What are we growne Semanthe night and day Must one still vanish when the other comes Of all that ever Love did yet bring forth And 'thas been fruitfull too this is The strangest issue Sem. What my Lord Jol. Hate Semanthe Sem. You doe mistake if I doe shun you 't is As bashfull Debtors shun their Creditors I cannot pay you in the selfe-same coyne And am asham'd to offer any other Jol. It is ill done Semanthe to plead bankrupt When with such ease you may be out of debt In loves dominions native commoditie Is currant payment change is all the Trade And heart for heart the richest merchandize Sem. 'T would here be mean my Lord since mine would prove In your hands but a Counterfeit and yours in mine Worth nothing Sympathy not greatnesse Makes those Jewells rise in value Iol. Sympathy ô teach but yours to love then And two so rich no mortall ever knew Sem. That heart would Love but ill that must be taught Such fires as these still kindle of themselves Iol. In such a cold and frozen place as is Thy breast how should they kindle of themselves Semanthe Sem. Aske how the Flint can carrie fire within 'T is the least miracle that Love can doe Jol. Thou art thy selfe the greatest miracle For thou art faire to all perfection And yet do'st want the greatest part of beautie Kindnesse thy crueltie next to thy selfe Above all things on earth takes up my wonder Sem. Call not that crueltie which is our fate Beleeve me Iolas the honest Swaine That from the brow os some steepe cliffe far off Beholds a ship labouring in vaine against The boysterous and unruly Elements ne're had Lesse power or more desire to help than I At every sigh I die and every looke Does move and any passion you will have But Love I have in store I will be angrie Quarrell with destinie and with my selfe That itis no better be melancholy And though mine owne disaâ—â—ers well might plead To be in chiefe yours only shall have place I 'le pitie and if that 's too low I 'le grieve As for my sinnes I cannot give you ease All this I doe and this I hope will prove 'T is greater Torment not to love than Love Exit Iol. So perishing Sailours pray to stormes And so they heare agen So men With death about them looke on Physitians that Have given them o're and so they turne away Two fixed Stars that keep a constant distance And by lawes made with themselves must know No motion excentrick may meet as soone as wee The anger that the foolish Sea does shew When it does brave it out and rore against A stubborne rock that still denies it passage Is not so vaine and fruitlesse as my prayers Yee mighty Powers of Love and Fate where is Your Justice here It is thy part fond Boy When thou do'st find one wounded heart to make The other so but if thy Tyranny Be such that thou willt leave one breast to hate If we must live and this survive How much more cruell's Fate Exit ACTUS V. SCENA I. Enter Ziriff Ariaspes Iolas Iol.
Murder Murder Murder Or. I must not stay I heare them swarme Exit Enter Constable People Con. Where is he where is he Ser. Here here oh a Manmender A Manmender Has broacht me in so many places All the Liquor in my body will run out Con. In good sooth neighbour has tapt you at the Wrong end too He has been busie with you here behind As one would say lend a hand some of you And the rest follow me Exeunt Enter Orsabrin Or. Still pursu'd Which way now I see no passage I must attempt this wall Oh a luckie doore And open Exit Enters agen Where am I now A garden and a handsome house If 't be thy will a Porch too 't And I 'm made 'T will be the better lodging of the two goes to the Porch Enter Maid Phemilia Oh! welcome welcome Sir My Lady hath been in such frights for you Or. Hum for me Phe. And thought you would not come to night Or. Troth I might very well have fail'd her Phe. Shee 's in the Gallery alone i' th darke Or. Good very good Phe. And is so melancholly Or. Hum. Phe. Have you shut the Garden doores Come I 'le bring you to her enter enter Or. Yes I will enter He who has lost himselfe makes no great venter Exit ACT II. Enter Sabrina Orsabrin Sab. OH welcome welcome as open aire to prisoners I have had such feares for you Or. Shee s warme and soft as lovers language Shee spoke too pretilie Now have I forgot all the danger I was in Sab. What have you done to day my better part Or. Kind little Rogue I could say the finest things to her mee thinks But then shee would discover me The best way will be to fall too quietly kisses her Sab. How now my Samorat What saucy heat hath stolne into thy bloud And heightned thee to this I feare you are not well Or. S'foot 't is a Platonique Now cannot I so much as talke that way neither Sab. Why are you silent Sir Come I know you have been in the field to day Or. How does shee know that Sab. If you have kill'd my brother speake It is no new thing that true Love Should be unfortunate Or. 'T was her brother I kill'd then Would I were with my Devils agen I got well of them That will be here impossible Enter Phemillia Phe. Oh! Madam Madam Y' are undone The garden walls are scal'd A floud of people are entring th' house Or. Good why here 's varietie of ruine yet Sab. 'T is so The Feet of Justice Like to those of time Move quick And will destroy I feare as sure Oh Sir what will you do There is no ventring forrh My Closet is the safest Enter there While I goe down and meet their fuâ—ie Hinder the search if possible Exit Or. Her Closet Yea where 's that And if I could find it What should I do there Shee will returne I will venture out Exit Enter the Prince Philatell Phontrell Companie Musique Phi. The lightest aires 't will make them More secure Upon my life hee 'le visite her to night Musick plaies and sings Prince Nor shee nor any lesser light Appeares The calme and silence 'bout the place Perswardes me shee does sleep Phi. It may be not but hold It is enough let us retire Behind this Pillar Phontrell is thy place As thou didst love thy Master shew thy care You to th' other Gate There 's thy Ladder Exeunt Enter Sabrina Sab. Come forth my Samorat come forth Our feares were false It was the Prince with Musicke Samorat Samorat He sleepes Samorat Or else hee 's gon to find me out I' th Gallery Samorat Samorat it must be so Exit Enter Orsabrin Ors This house is full of Thresholds And Trap-doores I have been i' th Cellar Where the Maids lie too I laid my hand groping for my way Upon one of them And shee began to squeake Would I were at Sea agen i' th storme Oh! a doore Though the Devill were the Porter And kept the Gate I 'de out Enter Samorat Or. Ha! guarded taken in a trap Nay I will out And there 's no other But this Retires and dâ—aâ—es runs at him Another pâ—sse they close Sam. Philatell in ambush on my life Enter Sabrina and Phemillia with a light Sab. Where should he be Ha! Good Heavens what spectacle is this my Samorat Some apparition sure They discover one another â—y the light throw away their weapons and eâ—bâ—ace Sam. My noble friend What angry and malicious Planet Govern'd at this point of time Sab. My wonder does grow higher Or. That which governes ever I seldome knew it better Sam. It does amaze me Sir to find you here How entred you this place Or. Forc't by unruly men it 'h street Sab. Now the mistake is plaine Or. Are you not hurt Sab. No but you bleed Or. I do indeed But 't is not here This is a scratch It is within to see this beauty For by all circumstance it was her brother Whom my unlucky Sword found out to day Sab. Oh! my too cruell fancy Weepes Sam. It was indeed thy Sword But not thy fault I am the cause of all these ills Why d' you weep Sabrina Sab. Unkind unto thy selfe and me The tempest this sad newes has rais'd within me I would have laid with Sheares But thou disturb'st me Oh! Samorat Had'st thou consulted but with love as much As honour this had never been Sam. I have no love for thee that has not had So strict an union with honour still That in all things they were concern'd alike And if there could be a division made It would be found Honour had here the leaner share 'T was love that told me 't was unfit That you should love a Coward Sab. These handsome words are now As if one bound up wounds with silke Or with fine knots Which do not helpe the cure Or make it heale the sooner Oh! Samorat this accident Lies on our love Like to some foule disease Which though it kill it not Yet wil't destroy the beauty Disfigur't so That 't will looke ugly to th' world hereafter Sam. Must then the Acts of Fate be crimes of men And shall a death he pul'd upon himselfe Be laid on others Remember Sweet how often You have said it in the face of Heaven That 't was no love Which length of time or cruelty of chance Could lessen or remove Oh kill me not that way Sabrina This is the nobler Take it and give it entrance any where Kneeles and presents his Sword But here For you so fill that plaee That you must wound your selfe Or. Am I so slight a thing So bankerupt So unanswerable in this world That being principally i' th debt Another must be cal'd upon And I not once look't after Madam why d' you throw away your Teares On one that 's irrecoverable Sab. Why therefore Sir Because hee 's irrecoverable Ors But why on him He did
no brave Spirit ever car'd for that Which in Down-beds with ease he could come at Shee 's but an honest whore that yeelds although She be as cold as ice as pure as snow He that enjoys her hath no more to say But keep us Fasting if you 'l have us pray Then fairest Mistresse hold the power you have By still denying what we still do crave In keeping us in hopes strange things to see That never were nor are nor e're shall be A Ballade Vpon a Wedding I Tell thee Dick where I have been Where I the rarest things have seen Oh things without compare Such sights again cannot be found In any place on English ground Be it at Wake or Fair. At Charing-Crosse hard by the way Where we thou know'st do sell our Hay There is a house with stairs And there did I see comming down Such folk as are not in our Town Vorty at least in Pairs Amongst the rest one Pest'lent fine His beard no bigger though then thine Walkt on before the rest Our Landlord looks like nothing to him The King God blesse him 't would undo him Should he go still so drest At Course-a-Park without all doubt He should have first been taken out By all the Maids i' th' Town Though lusty Roger there had been Or little George upon the Green Or Vincent of the Crown But wot you what the youth was going To make an end of all his woing The Parson for him staid Yet by his leave for all his haste He did not so much wish all past Perchance as did the maid The maid and thereby hangs a tale For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce No Grape that 's kindly ripe could be So round so plump so soft as she Nor half so full of Juyce Her finger was so small the Ring Would not stay on which they did bring It was too wide a Peck And to say truth for out it must It lookt like the great Collar just About our young Colts neck Her feet beneath her Petticoat Like little mice stole in and out As if they fear'd the light But oh she dances such a way No Sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight He would have kist her once or twice But she would not she was nice She would not do 't in sight And then she lookt as who should say I will do what I list to day And you shall do 't at night Her Cheeks so rare a white was on No Dazy makes comparison Who sees them is undone For streaks of red were mingled there Such as are on a Katherne Pear The side that 's next the Sun Her lips were red and one was thin Compar'd to that was next her chin Some Bee had stung it newly But Dick her eyes so guard her face I durst no more upon them gaze Then on the Sun in July Her mouth so small when she does speak thou 'dst swear her teeth her words did break That they might passage get But she so handled still the matter They came as good as ours or better And are not spent a whit If wishing should be any sin The Parson himself had guilty bin She lookt that day so purely And did the youth so oft the feat At night as some did in conceit It would have spoil'd him surely Just in the nick the Cook knockt thrice And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey Each serving man with dish in hand Marcht boldly up like our Train'd Band Presented and away When all the meat was on the Table What man of knife or teeth was able To stay to be intreated And this the very reason was Before the Parson could say Grace The Company was seated The bus'nesse of the Kitchin 's great For it is fit that men should eat Nor was it there deni'd Passion oh me how I run on There 's that that would be thought upon I trow besides the Bride Now hatts fly off and youths carrouse Healths first go round and then the house The Brides came thick and thick And when 't was nam'd anothers health Perhaps he made it hers by stealth And who could help it Dick O' th' sodain up they rise and dance Then sit again and sigh and glance Then dance again and kisse Thus sev'ral waies the time did passe Till ev'ry Woman wisht her place And ev'ry Man wisht his By this time all were stoln aside To counsel and undresse the Bride But that he must not know But yet 't was thought he ghest her mind And did not mean to stay behind Above an hour or so When in he came Dick there she lay Like new-faln snow melting away 'T was time I trow to part Kisses were now the onely stay Which soon she gave as who would say Good Boy with all my heart But just as heav'ns would have to crosse it In came the Bridemaids with the Posset The Bridegroom eat in spight For had he left the Women to 't It would have cost two hours to do 't Which were too much that night At length the candles out and out All that they had not done they do 't What that is who can tell But I beleeve it was no more Then thou and I have done before With Bridget and with Nell MY dearest Rival least our Love Should with excentrique motion move Before it learn to go astray Wee 'l teach and set it in a way And such directions give unto 't That it shall never wander foot Know first then we will serve as true For one poor smile as we would do If we had what our higher flame Or our vainer wish could frame Impossible shall be our hope And Love shall onely have his scope To joyn with Fancy now and then And think what reason would condemn And on these grounds wee 'l love as true As if they were most sure t' ensue And chastly for these things wee 'l stay As if to morrow were the day Mean time we two will teach our hearts In Loves burdens bear their parts Thou first shall sigh and say shee 's fair And I 'le still answer past compare Thou shalt set out each part o' th face While I extol each little grace Thou shalt be ravisht at her wit And I that she so governs it Thou shalt like well that hand that eye That lip that look that majesty And in good language them adore While I want words and do it more Yea we will sit and sigh a while And with soft thoughts some time beguil But straight again break out and praise All we had done before new-waies Thus will we do till paler death Come with a warrant for our breath And then whose fate shall be to die First of us two by Legacy Shall all his store bequeath and give His love to him that shall survive For no one stock can ever serve To love so much as shee 'l deserve Song 1. HOnest Lover whosoever If in all thy love there ever Was one
and doubts I had about me of your welfare to an unquietnesse within my self till I have deserv'd this Intelligence How pleasingly troublesome thought and remembrance have been to me since I left you I am no more able now to expresse then another to have them so You onely could make every place you came in worth the thinking of and I do think those places worthy my thought onely because you made them so But I am to leave them and I shall do 't the willinger because the Gamester still is so much in me as that I love not to be told too often of my losses Yet every place will be alike since every good object will do the same Variety of Beauty and of Faces quick underminers of Constancy to others to me will be but pillars to support it Since when they please me most I most shall think of you In spite of all Philosophy it will be hottest in my Climate when my Sun is farthest off and in spite of all reason I proclaim that I am not my self but when I am Yours wholy THough desire in those that love be still like too much sail in a storm and man cannot so easily strike or take all in when he pleases Yet Dearest Princesse be it never so hard when you shall think it dangerous I shall not make it difficult though Well Love is love and Aire is Aire and though you are a Miracle your self yet do not I believe that you can work any without it I am confident you can never make these two thus different in themselves one and the self same thing when you shall it will be some small furtherance towards it that you have Your humble servant J. S. Who so truly loves the fair Aglaura that he will never know desire at least not entertain it that brings not letters of recommendation from her or first a fair Pasport My Dear Dear THink I have kist your Letter to nothing and now know not what to answer Or that now I am answering I am kissing you to nothing and know not how to go on For you must pardon I must hate all I send you here because it expresses nothing in respect of what it leaves behind with me And oh Why should I write then Why should I not come my self Those Tyrants businesse honour and necessity what have they to do with you and I Why should we not do Loves commands before theirs whose Soveraignty is but usurped upon us Shall we not smell to Roses ' cause others do look on or gather them ' cause there are prickles and something that would hinder us Dear I fain would and know no hindrance but what must come from you and why should any come since 't is not I but you must be sensible how much time we lose It being long since I was not my self but Yours Dear Princesse FInding the date of your Letter so young and having an assurance from who at the same time heard from Mr. that all our Letters have been delivered at B I cannot but imagine some ill mistake and that you have not received any at all Faith I have none in Welch man and though Fear and Suspition look often so far that they oversee the right yet when Love holds the Candle they seldom do mistake so much My Dearest Princesse I shall long next hearing you are well to hear that they are safe for though I can never be ashamed to be found an Idolater to such a shrine as yours yet since the world is ful of profane eyes the best way sure is to keep all mysteries from them and to let privacy be what indeed it is the best part of devotion So thinks My D. D. P. Your humble Servant SInce the inferiour Orbes move but by the first without all question desires and hopes in me are to be govern'd still by you as they by it What mean these fears then Dear Princesse Though Planets wander yet is the Sphere that carries them the same still and though wishes in me may be extravagant yet he in whom they make their motion is you know my dear Princesse Yours and wholy to be disposed of by you And till we hear from you though according to the form of concluding a Letter we should now rest we cannot Fair Princesse IF parting be a sin as sure it is what then to part from you if to extenuate an ill be to increase it what then now to excuse it by a letter That which we would alledge to lessen it with you perchance has added to the guilt already which is our sodain leaving you Abruptnesse is an eloquence in parting when Spinning out of time is but the weaving of new sorrow And thus we thought yet not being able to distinguish of our owne Acts the fear we may have sinn'd farther then we think of has made us send to you to know whether it be Mortal or not For the Two Excellent Sisters THough I conceive you Ladies so much at leisure that you may read any thing yet since the stories of the Town are meerly amorous and sound nothing but Love I cannot without betraying my owne judgement make them news for Wales Nor can it be lesse improper to transport them to you then for the King to send my Lord of C. over Ambassador this winter into Green-land It would want faith in so cold a Countrey as Anglesey to say that your Cozen Dutchesse for the quenching of some foolish flames about her has endured quietly the losse of much of the Kings favour of many of her houses and of most of her friends Whether the disfigurement that Travel or sicknes has bestowed upon B W. be thought so great by the Lady of the Isle as 't is by others and whether the alteration of his face has bred a change in her mind it never troubles you Ladies What old Loves are decay'd or what new ones are sprung up in their room Whether this Lady be too discreet or that Cavalier not secret enough are things that concern the inhabitants of Anglesey not at all A fair day is better welcom and more news then all that can be said in this kind And for all that I know now the Divels Chimney is on fire or his pot seething over and all North-Wales not able to stay the fury of it Perchance while I write this a great black cloud is sayling from Mistris Thomasses bleak Mountains over to Baron-hill there to disgorge it self with what the Sea or worse places fed it with before It may be the honest banks about you turn bankrupt too and break and the Sea like an angry Creditor seizes upon all and hath no pitty because he has been put off so long from time to time For variety and it is not impossible some boysterous wind flings up the hangings and thinking to do as much to your cloths finds a resistance and so departs but first breaks all the windows about the house for it in revenge These
O' th' Compasse and as good Pictures Had his eyes towards every man 3 Court And his sword too All th' other side walk up and down the Court now As if they had lost their way and stare Like Grey-hounds when the Hare has taken the furze 1 Court Right And have more troubles about 'em Than a Serving-man that has forgot his message When he 's come upon the place 2 Court Yonder 's the King within chafing swearing Like an old Falconer upon the first flight Of a young Hawke when some Clowne Has taken away the quarrie from her And all the Lords stand round about him As if he were to be baited with much more feare And at much more distance Than a Countrey Gentlewoman sees the Lions the first time Look he 's broke loose Enter King and Lords King Find him or by Osiris selfe you all are Traitours And equally shall pay to Justice a single man And guiltie too breake through you all Enter Ziriff Zir. Confidence Thou paint of women and the States-mans wisdome Valour for Cowards and of the guilties Innocence Assist me now Sir send these Starers off I have some businesse will deserve your privacie King Leave us Jol. How the villaine swells upon us Exeunt Zir. Not to punish thought Or keepe it long upon the wrack of doubt Know Sir That by corruption of the waiting woman The common key of secrets I have found The truth at last and have discover'd all The Prince your Sonne was by Aglaura's meanes Convey'd last night unto the Cypresse Grove Through a close vault that opens in the lodgings Hee does intend to joyne with Carimania But e're he goes resolves to finish all The rites of Love and this night meanes To steale what is behind King How good is Heav'n unto mee That when it gave me Traitours for my Subjects Would lend me such a Servant Zir. How just Sir rather That would bestow this Fortune on the poore And where your bountie had made debt so infinite That it grew desâ—erate their hope to pay it King Enougâ— of that thou do'st but gently chide Me for a fault hat I wîll mend for I Have been toopoore and low in my rewards Unto thy vertâ—e but to our businesse The questioâ— is whether we shall rely Upon our Guards agen Zir. â—y no meanes Sir Hope 〈◊〉 his future fortunes or their Love Unto his person has so sicklied o're Their resolutions that we must not trust them Besides it were but needlesse here Hee passes through the vault alone and I My selfe durst undertake that businesse If that were all but there is something else This accident doth prompt my zeale to serve you in I know you love Aglaura Sir with passion And would enjoy her I know besides Shee loves him so that whosoe're shall bring The tidings of his death must carrie back The newes of hers so that your Justice Sir Must rob your hope but there is yet a way King Here take my heart for I have hitherto Too vainly spent the treasure of my love I 'le have it coyn'd streight into friendship all And make a present to thee Zir. If any part of this rich happinesse Fortune prepares now for you shall owe it selfe Unto my weake endeavours I have enough Aglaura without doubt this night expects The Prince and why You should not then supply his place by stealth And in disguise King I apprehend thee Ziriff But there 's difficultie Zir. Who trades in love must be an adventurer Sir But here is scarce enough to make the pleasure dearer I know the Cave your Brother and my selfe With Iolas for those w' are sure doe hae him With some few chosen more betimes wll wait The Princes passing through the vault iâ— hee Comes first hee 's dead and if it be yourselfe Wee will conduct you to the chamber doorâ— And stand 'twixt you and danger afterwards King I have conceiv'd of joy and am grown â—reat Till I have safe deliverance time 's a cripple And goes on crutches as for thee my Ziriff I doe here entertaine a friendship with thee Shall drowne the memorie of all patternes past Wee will oblige by turnes and that so thick And fast that curious studiers of it Shall not once dare to cast it up or say By way of ghesse whether thou or I Remaine the debtors when wee come to die Exeunt Enter Semanthe Orithie Philan Orsames Lords and Ladies Ori. Is the Queen ready to come out Phi. Not yet sure the Kings brother is but newly entred Sem. Come my Lord the Song then Ori. The Song Ors A vengeance take this love it spoyles a voyce Worse than the losing of a maiden-head I have got such a cold with rising And walking in my shirt a nights that A Bittorne whooping in a reed is better musicke Ori. This modestie becomes you as ill my Lord As wooing would us women pray put 's not to 't Ors Nay Ladies you shall finde mee As free as the Musicians of the woods Themselves what I have you shall not need to call for Nor shall it cost you any thing SONG WHy so pale and wan fond Lover Prithee why so pale Will when looking well can't move her Looking ill prevaile Prithee why so pale Why so dull and mute young Sinner Prithee why so mute Will when speaking well can't win her Saying nothing doo 't Prithee why so mute Quit quit for shame this will not move This cannot take her If of her selfe shee will not Love Nothing can make her The Devill take her Ori. I should have ghest it had been the issue of Your braine if I had not been told so Ors A little foolish counsell Madam I gave a friend Of mine foure or five yeares agoe when he was Falling into a Consumption Enter Queene Orb. Which of all you have seene the faire prisoner Since shee was confinde Sem. I have Madam Orb. And how behaves shee now her selfe Sem. As one that had intrench'd so deepe in Innocence Shee fear'd no enemies beares all quietly And smiles at Fortune whil'st shee frownes on her Orb. So gallant I wonder where the beautie lies That thus inflames the royall bloud Ori. Faces Madam are like bookes those that do study them Know best and to say truth 't is still Much as it pleases the Courteous Reader Orb. These Lovers sure are like Astronomers That when the vulgar eye discovers but A Skie above studded with some few stars Finde out besides strange fishes birds and beasts Sem. As men in sicknesse scorch'd into a raving Doe see the Devill in all shapes and formes When standers by wondring aske where and when So they in Love for all 's but feaver there And madnesse too Orb. That 's too severe Semanthe But we will have your reasons in the parke Are the doores open through the Gardens Lo. The King has newly led the way Exeunt Enter Ariaspes Ziriff with a warrant sealed Ari. Thou art a Tyrant Ziriff I shall die with joy Zir.
I must confesse my Lord had but the Princes ills Prov'd sleight and not thus dangerous Hee should have ow'd to me at least I would Have laid a claime unto his safetie and Like Physicians that doe challenge right In Natures cures look'd for reward and thanks But since 't was otherwise I thought it best To save my selfe and then to save the State Ari. 'T was wisely done Zir. Safely I 'me sure my Lord you know 't is not Our custome where the Kings dislike once swells to hate There to ingage our selves Court friendship Is a Cable that in stormes is ever cut And I made bold with it here is the warrant seal'd And for the execution of it if you thinke We are not strong enough we may have Iolas for him the King did name Ari. And him I would have named Zir. But is hee not too much the Prince's Sir Ari. Hee is as lights in Sceanes at Masques What glorious shew so e're he makes without I that set him there know why and how Enter Jolas But here he is Come Jolas and since the Heav'ns decreed The man whom thou should'st envie should be such That all men else must doo 't be not asham'd Thou once wert guiltie of it But blesse them that they give thee now a meanes To make a friendship with him and vouchsafe To find thee out a way to love where well Thou couldst not hate Jol. What meanes my Lord Ari. Here here he stands that has preserv'd us all That sacrific'd unto a publique good The dearest private good we mortalls have Friendship gave into our armes the Prince When nothing but the sword perchance a ruine Was left to doe it Iol. How could I chide my love and my ambition now That thrust me upon such a quarrell here I doe vow Zir. Hold doe not vow my Lord let it deserve it first And yet if Heav'n blesse honest mens intents 'T is not Impossible My Lord you will be pleas'd to informe him in particulars I must be gone The King I feare already has been left Too long alone Ari. Stay the houre and place Zir. Eleven under the Tarras walke I will not faile you there Goes out returns back again I had forgot 'T may be the small remainder of those lost men That were of the conspiracie will come along with him 'T were best to have some chosen of the Guard Within our call Exit Ziriff Ari. Honest and carefull Ziriff Jolas stands musing How now Planet strooke Iol. This Ziriff will grow great with all the world Ari. Shallow man short â—â—ghteder than Travellers in mists Or women that outlive themselves do'st thou not see That whil'st hee does prepare a Tombe with one hand For his friend he digs a Grave with th' other for himselfe Iol. How so Ari. Do'st thinke hee shall not feele the weight of this As well as poore Thersames Iol. Shall wee then kill him too at the same instant Ari. And say the Prince made an unluckie thrust Iol. Right Ari. Dull dull he must not dye so uselesly As when we wipe off filth from any place We throw away the thing that made it cleane So this once done hee 's gone Thou know'st the People love the Prince to their rage Something the State must offer up who fitter Than thy rivall and my enemy Iol. Rare our witnesse will be taken Ari. Pish let me alone The Giants that made mountaines ladders And thought to take great Iove by force were fooles Not hill on hill but plot on plot does make Us sit above and laugh at all below us Exeunt Enter Aglaura and a Singing Boy Boy Madam 't will make you melancholly I 'le sing the Prince's Song that 's sad enough Agl. What you will Sir SONG NO no faire Heretique it needs must bee But an ill Love in mee And worse for thee For were it in my Power To love thee now this hower More than I did the last I would then so fall I might not Love at all Love that can flow and can admit increase Admitts as well an Ebb and may grow lesse 2 True Love is stil the same the torrid Zones And those more frigid ones It must not know For Love growne cold or hot Is Lust or Friendship not The thing wee have For that 's a flame would die Held downe or up to high Then think I love more than I can expresse And would love more could I but love thee lesse Agl. Leave mee for to a Soule so out of Tune As mine is now nothing is harmony When once the maine-spring Hope is falne into Disorder no wonder if the lesser wheeles Desire and Ioy stand still my thoughts like Bees When they have lost their King wander Confusedly up and downe and settle no where Enter Orithie Orithie flie flie the roome As thou would'st shun the habitations Which Spirits haunt or where thy nearer friends Walk after death here is not only Love But Loves plague too misfortune and so high That it is sure infectious Ori. Madam so much more miserable am I this way than you That should I pitie you I should forget my selfe My sufferings are such that with lesse patience You may indure your owne than give mine Audience There is that difference that you may make Yours none at all but by considering mine Agl. O speake them quickly then the marriage day To Passionate Lovers never was more welcome Than any kinde of ease would be to mee now Ori. Could they be spoke they wre not then so great I love and dare not say I love dare not hope What I desire yet still too must desire And like a starving man brought to a feast And made say grace to what he nere shall taste Be thankfull after all and kisse the hand That made the wound thus deepe Agl. 'T is hard indeed but with what unjust scales Thou took'st the weight of our mis-fortunes Be thine owne Judge now Thou mourn'st for losse of that thou never hadst Or if thou hadst a losse it never was Of a Thersames Would'st thou not thinke a Merchant mad Orithie If thou shouldst see him weepe and teare his haire Because hee brought not both the Indies home And wouldst not thinke his sorrowes very just If having fraught his ship with some rich Treasure Hee sunke i' th' very Port This is our case Ori. And doe you thinke there is such odds in it Would Heaven we women could as easily change Our fortunes as 't is said we can our minds I cannot Madam thinke them miserable That have the Princes Love Agl. Hee is the man then Blush not Orithie 't is a sinne to blush For loving him though none at all to love him I can admit of rivalship without A jealousie nay shall be glad of it Wee two will sit and thinke and think and sigh And sigh and talke of love and of Thersames Thou shalt be praising of his wit while I Admire he governes it so well Like this thing said thus th'
at the length The first poor flower o're-charg'd with too much weight Withers and dies So hast thou dealt with mee And having kill'd me first I will kill Orb. Hold hold Not for my sake but Orbella's Sir a bare And single death is such a wrong to Justice I must needs except against it Find out a way to make me long a dying For death 's no punishment it is the sense The paines and feares afore that makes a death To thinke what I had had had I had you What I have lost in losing of my selfe Are deaths farre worse than any you can give Yet kill me quickly for if I have time I shall so wash this soule of mine with teares Make it so fine that you would be afresh In love with it and so perchance I should Again come to deceive you Sherises up weeping hanging down her head Zir. So rises day blushing at nights deformitie And so the prettie flowers blubber'd with dew And ever washt with raine hang downe their heads I must not looke upon her Goes towards him Orb. Were but the Lillies in this face as fresh As are the Roses had I but innocence Joyn'd to their blushes I should then be bold For when they went on begging they were ne're deni'de 'T is but a parting kisse Sir Zir. I dare not grant it Orb. Your hand Sir then for that 's a part I shall Love after death if after death we love ' Cause it did right the wrong'd Zorannes here Steps to him and opens the box of poyson Zorannes falls Sleepe sleepe for ever and forgotten too All but thy ills which may succeeding time Remember as the Sea-man does his marks To know what to avoyd may at thy name All good men start and bad too may it prove Infection to the Aire that people dying of it May help to curse thee for me Turnes to the body of Ariaspes Could I but call thee back as eas'ly now But that 's a Subject for our teares not hopes There is no piecing Tulips to their stalks When they are once divorc'd by a rude hand All we can doe is to preserve in water A little life and give by couretous Art What scanted Nature wants Commission for That thou shalt have for to thy memorie Such Tribute of moyst sorrow I will pay And that so purifi'd by love that on thy grave Nothing shall grow but Violets Primroses Of which too some shall be Of the mysterious number so that Lovers shall Come thither not as to a tomb but to an Oracle She knocks and raises the Court. Enter Ladies and Courtiers as out of their beds Orb. Come come help me to weep my selfe away And melt into a grave for life is but Repentance nurse and will conspire with memorie To make my houres my tortures Ori. What Scene of sorrow 's this both dead Orb. Dead I and 't is but halfe death's triumphs this The King and Prince lye somewhere just Such empty truncks as these Ori. The Prince Then in griefes burthen I must beare a part Sem. The noble Ariaspes valiant Ziriff too Weeps Orb. Weep'st thou for him fond Prodigall do'st know On whom thou spend'st thy teares this is the man To whom we owe our ills the false Zorannes Disguis'd not lost but kept alive by some Enter Pasithas surveys the bodyes finds his Master Incensed Power to punish Persia thus He would have kill'd me too but Heav'n was just And furnisht me with meanes to make him pay This score of villanie e're he could do more Pas Were you his murth'rer then Pasithas runs at her kills her and flies Ori. Ah me the Queene Rub her till she come to her selfe Sem. How doe you Madam Orb. Well but I was better and shall Dies Sem. Oh! she is gone for ever Enter Lords in their night-gownes Orsames Philan. Ors What have we here A Church-yard nothing but silence and grave Ori. Oh! here has been my Lords The blackest night the Persian world e're knew The King and Prince are not themselves exempt From this arrest but pale and cold as these Have measured out their lengths Lo. Impossible which way Sem. Of that we are as ignorant as you For while the Queene was telling of the Storie An unknowne villaine here has hurt her so That like a sickly Taper she but made One flash and so expir'd Enter tearing in Pasithas Phi. Here he is but no confession Or. Torture must force him then Though 'T will indeed but weakly satisfie To know now they are dead how they did die Phi. Come take the bodies up and let us all Goe drowne our selves in teares this massacre Has left so torne a State that 't will be policie Aswell as debt to weep till we are blinde For who would see the miseries behinde Epilogue OVr Play is done and yours doth now begin What different Fancies people now are in How strange and odd a mingle it would make If e're they rise 't were possible to take All votes But as when an authentique Watch is showne Each man wiâ—des up and rectifies his owne So in our very Judgements first there sits A grave Grand Jurie on it of Towne-wits And they give up their verdict then agin The other Jurie of the Court comes in And that 's of life and death for each man sees That oft condemnes what th' other Jurie frees Some three dayes hence the Ladies oâ— the Towne Will come to have a Judgement of their owne And after them their servants then the Citie For that is modest and is still last wittie 'T will be a weeke at least yet e're they have Resolv'd to let it live or give 't a grave Such difficultie there is to unite Opinion or bring it to be right Epilogue for the Court. SIR THat th' abusing of your eare 's a crime Above th' excuse any six lines in 〈◊〉 Can make the Poet knowes I am but senâ— T' intreat hee may not be a President For hee does thinke that in this place theâ—e hee Many have done 't as much and more than hee But here 's he sayes the difference of the Fates Hee begs a Pardon after 't they Estates FINIS AGLAURA REPRESENTED At the Court by his Majesties Servants Written by Sir JOHN SVCKLING LONDON Printed for Tho Walkley and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley at his shop at the signe of the Princes armes in St. Pauls Church-yard 1646. Prologue FOre love a mighty Sessions and I feare Though kind last Sizes 't will be now severe For it is thought and by judicious men Aglaura ' scap't onely by dying then But 't would be vaine for mee now to indeare Or speake unto my Lords the Judges here They hold their places by condemning still And cannot shew at once mercie and skill For wit's so cruell unto wit that they Are thought to want that find not want i th' play But Ladies you who never lik'd a plot But where the Servant had his Mistresse got And whom to see
Agl. Oh sad mistake 't is hee Ther. Hast thou no voyce Agl. I would I had not nor a being neither Ther. Aglaura it cannot be Agl. Oh still beleeve so Sir For 't was not I Indeed but fatall Love Ther. Loves wounds us'd to be gentler than these were The paines they give us have some pleasure In them and that these have not Enter Ziriff with a taper Oh doe not say 't was you for that does wound agen Guard me my better Angell Doe I wake my eyes since I was man Ne're met with any object gave them so much trouble I dare not aske neither to be satisfied Shee lookes so guiltily Agl. Why doe you stare and wonder at a thing That you your selfe have made thus mizerable Zir. Good gods and I o' the partie too Agl. Did you not tell me that the King this night Meant to attempt my honour that our condition Would not admit of middle wayes and that we must Send them to graves or lye our selves in dust Zir. Unfortunate mistake Ziriff knocks I never did intend our safety by thy hands Enter Pasithas Pasithas goe instantly and fetch Andrages From his bed how is it with you Sir Ther. As with the besieg'd My soule is so beset it does not know Whether 't had best to make a desperate Sally out by this port or not Agl. Sure I shall turne statue here Ther. If thou do'st love me weepe not Aglaura All those are drops of bloud and flow from me Zir. Now all the gods defend this way of expiation Think'st thou thy crime Aglaura would be lesse By adding to it or canst thou hope To satisfie those powers whom great sins Doe displease by doing greater Agl. Discourteous courtesie I had no other meanes left mee than this To let Thersames know I would doe nothing To him I would not doe unto my selfe And that thou takest away Ther. Friend bring me a little neerer I find a kind of willingnesse to stay And find that willingnesse something obey'd My bloud now it perswades it selfe You did not call in earnest Makes not such hast Agl. Oh my dearest Lord This kindnesse is so full of crueltie Puts such an uglinesse on what I have done That when I looke upon it needs must fright Me from my selfe and which is more insufferable I feare from you Ther. Why should that fright thee which most comforts mee I glorie in it and shall smile i' th' grave To thinke our love was such that nothing But it selfe could e're destroy it Agl. Destroy it can it have ever end Will you not be thus courteous then in the other world Shall we not be together there as here Ther. I cannot tell whether I may or not Agl. Not tell Ther. No The Gods thought me unworthy of thee here And when thou art more pure Why should I not more doubt it Agl. Because if I shall be more pure I shall be then more fit for you Our Priests assure us an Elysium And can that be Elysium where true Lovers Must not meet Those Powers that made our loves Did they intend them mortall Would sure have made them of a courser stuffe Would they not my Lord Ther. Prethee speake still This musique gives my soule such pleasing businesse Takes it so wholly up it findes not leisure to Attend unto the summons death does make Yet they are loud and peremptorie now And I can onely Faints Agl. Some pitying Power inspire me with A waâ— to follow him heart wilt thou not Breake it of thy selfe Zir. My grieâ—es besot me His souâ—e will saiâ—e out with this purple tide And I shall here be found staring After't like a man that 's come too short o' th' ship And 's left behind upon the land Shee swounes Enter Andrages Oh welcome we come here lyes Andrages Alas too great a trâ—all for thy art And. There 's life in him from whence these wounds Zir. Oh 't is no time for storie And. 'T is not mortall my Lord bow him gently And help me to infuse this into him The sou e is but asleepe and not gone forth Ther. Oh ho Zir. Hearke the Prince does live Ther. What e're thou art hast given me now a life And with it all my cares and miseries Expect not a reward no not a thanks If thou would'st merit from me Yet wh would be guilty of so lost an action Restore me to my quietnesse agen For life and that are most incompatible Zir. Still in despaires I did not thinke till now 't was in the power Of Fortune to have robb'd Thersames of himselfe For pitie Sir and reason live If you will die die not Aglaura's murther'd That 's not so handsome at least die not Her murthered and her murtherer too For that will surely follow Looke up Sir This violence of Fortune cannot last ever Who knowes but all these clouds are shadowes To set off your fairer dayes if it growes blacker And the stormes doe rise this harbour's alwayes open Ther. What say'st thou Aglaura Agl. What sayes Andrages And. Madam would Heaven his mind would admit As eafie cure as his body will 'T was onely want of bloud And two houres rest restores him to himselfe Zir. And by that time it may be Heaven Will give our miseries some ease Come Sir repose upon a bed There 's time enough to day Ther. Well I will still obey Though I must feare it will be with me But as 't is with tortured men Whom States preserve onely to wrack agen Exeunt Take off table Enter Ziriff with a taper Zir. All fast too here They sleepe to night I' their winding sheets I thinke there 's such A generall quiet Oh! here 's light I warrant you For lust does take as little rest as care or age Courting her glasse I swear fie that 's a flatterer Madam In me you shall see trulier what you are He knocks Enter Queen Orb. What make you up at this strange houre my Lord Zir. My businesse is my boldnesse warrant Madam And I could well afford t' have been without it now Had Heav'n so pleas'd Orb. 'T is a sad Prologue What followes in the name of vertue Zir. The King Orb. I what of him is well is he not Zir. Yes If to be on 's journey to the other world Be to be well hee is Orb. Why he 's not dead is he Zir. Yes Madam dead Orb. How where Zir. I doe not know particulars Orb. Dead Zir. Yes Madam Orb. Art sure hee 's dead Zir. Madam I know him as certainly dead As I know you too must die hereafter Orb. Dead Zir. Yes dead Orb. We must all die The Sisters spin no cables for us mortalls Th' are threds and Time and chance Trust me I could weep now But watrie distillations doe but ill on graves They make the lodging colder Shee knocks Zir. What would you Madam Orb. Why my friends my Lord I would consult and know what 's to be done Zir. Madam 't is not so safe to raise
the Court Things thus unsetled if you please to have Orb. Where 's Ariaspes Zir. In 's dead sleepe by this time sure Orb. I know he is not find him instantly Zir. I 'm gone Turnes back againe But Madam why make you choyce of him from whom If the succession meet disturbance All must come of danger Orb. My Lord I am not yet so wise as to be Jealous Pray dispute no further Zir. Pardon me Madam if before I goe I must unlock a secret to you such a one As while the King did breathe durst know no aire Zorannes lives Orb. Ha! Zir. And in the hope of such a day as this Has lingred out a life snatching to feed His almost famish'd eyes Sights now and then of you in a disguise Orb. Strange this night is big with miracle Zir. If you did love him as they say you did And doe so still 't is now within your power Orb. I would it were my Lord but I am now No private woman if I did love him once as 't is so long agoe I have forgot My youth and ignorance may well excus't Zir. Excuse it Orb. Yes excuse it Sir Zir. Though I confesse I lov'd his father much And pitie him yet having offer'd it Unto your thoughts I have discharg'd a trust And zeale shall stray no further Your pardon Madam Exit Orb. May be 't is but a plot to keep off Ariaspes Greatnesse which he must feare because he knowes Hee hates him for these great States-men That when time has made bold with the King And Subject throwing downe all fence That stood betwixt their power And others right are on a change Like wanton Salmons comming in with flouds That leap o're wyres and nets and make their way To be at the returne to every one a prey Enter Ziriff Zir. Looke here vaine thing and see thy sins full blown There 's scarce a part in all this face thou hast Not been forsworne by and Heav'n forgive thee for 't For thee I lost a Father Countrey friends My selfe almost for I lay buried long And when there was no use thy love could pay Too great thou mad'st the principle away Prompt As wantons entring a Garden take The first faire flower they meet and Treasur't in their laps Then seeing more doe make fresh choyce agen Throwing in one and one till at the length The first poor flower o're-charg'd with too much weight Withers and dies So hast thou dealt with me And having kill'd me first I will kill Orb. Hold hold Not for my sake but Orbella's Sir a bare And single death is such a wrong to Justice I must needs except against it Find out a way to make me long a dying For death 's no punishment it is the sense The paines and feares afore that makes a death To thinke what I had had had I had you What I have lost in losing of my selfe Are deaths farre worse than any you can give Yet kill me quickly for if I have time I shall so wash this soule of mine with teares Make it so fine that you would be afresh In love with it and so perchance I should Again come to deceive you She rises up weeping hanging down her head Zir. So rises day blushing at nights deformitie And so the prettie flowers blubber'd with dew And over washt with raine hang downe their heads I must not looke upon her Queen Goeâ— towards him Orb. Were but the Lillies in this face as fresh As are the Roses had I but innocence Joyn'd to these blushes I should then be bold For when they went a begging they were ne're deni'de 'T is but a parting kisse Sir Enter Pasithas and two Guard Zir. I dare not grant it Pasithas away with her A bed put â—â—t Thersames and Aglaura on it Andrages by Ther. Shee wake't me with a sigh And yet shee sleepes her selfe Sweet Innocence Can it be sinne to love this shape And if it be not why am I persecuted thus Shee sighs agen sleepe that drownes all cares Cannot I see charme loves blest pillowes Through whose finenesse does appeare The Violets Lillies and the Roses You are stuft withall to whose softnesse I owe the sweet of this repose Permit me to leave with you this Kisses them shee wakes See if I have not wake't her Sure I was borne Aglaura to destroy Thy quiet Agl. Mine my Lord Call you this drowsinesse a quiet then Beleeve me Sir 't was an intruder I much Struggled with and have to thanke a dreame Not you that it thus left me Ther. A dreame what dreame my Love Agl. I dreamp't Sir it was day And the feare you should be found here Enter Ziriff Zir. Awake how is it with you Sir Ther. Well extreamly well so well that had I now No better a remembrancer than paine I should forget I e're was hurt Thanks to Heav'n and good Andrages Zir. And more than thanks I hope we yet shall Live to pay him How old 's the night And. Far-spent I feare my Lord. Zir. I have a cause that should be heard Yet ere day breake and I must needs intreat You Sir to be the Judge in 't Ther. What cause Zorannes Zir. When you have promis'd Zorannes Ther. 'T were hard I should deny thee any thing Exit Know'st thou Andrages what he meanes And. Nor cannot ghesse Sir Draw in the bed I read a trouble in his face when first Hee left you but understood it not Enter Zorannes King Ariaspes Jolas Queene and two or three Guard Zor Have I not pitcht my nets like a good Huntsman Looke Sir the noblest of the Herd are here Ther. I am astonished Zor This place is yours Helps him up Ther. What wouldst thou have me doe Zor Remember Sir your promise I could doe all I have to doe alone But Justice is not Justice unlesse 't be justly done Here then I will begin for here began my wrongs This woman Sir was wondrous faire and wondrous Kinde I faire and kind for so the storie runs She gave me looke for looke and glance for glance And every sigh like eccho's was return'd Wee sent up vow by vow promise on promise So thick and strangely multiplyed That sure we gave the heavenly Registers Their businesse and other mortalls oaths Then went for nothing we felt each others paines Each others joyes thought the same thought And spoke the very same Wee were the same and I have much a doe To thinke she could be ill and I not Be so too and after this all this Sir Shee was false lov'd him and him And had I not begun revenge Till she had made an end of changing I had had the Kingdome to have killd What does this deserve Ther. A punishment he best can make That suffered the wrong Zor I thanke you Sir For him I will not trouble you His life is mine I won it fairly And his is yours he lost it foully to you To him Sir now A man so wicked that he knew no
shop at the Signe of the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard MDCXLVI PROLOGUE WIt in a Prologue Poets justly may Stile a new imposition on a Play When Shakespeare Beamont Fletcher rul'd the Stage There scarce were ten good pallats in the age More curious Cooks then guests for men would eat Most hartily of any kind of meat And then what strange variety each Play A Feast for Epicures and that each day But marke how odly it is come about And how unluckily it now fals out The pallats are growne higher number increas't And there wants that which should make up the Feast And yet y' are so unconscionable You 'd have Forsooth of late that which they never gave Banquets before and after Now pox on him that first good Prologue writ He left a kind of rent charge upon wit Which if succeding Poets faile to pay They forfeit all their worth and that 's their play Y' have Ladies humors and y' are growne to that You will not like the man lesse that his boots and hat Be right no play unlesse the Prologue be And Epilogue writ to curiositie Well Gentiles ' â—is the grievance of the place And pray consider 't for here 's just the case The richnesse of the ground is gone and spent Mens braines grow barren and you raise the Rent Francelia ACT I. SCENE I. Enter as to a Duell Samorat Philatell Torcular Samorat BUt my Lords May not this harsh businesse Yet be left undone Must you hate me because I love your sister And can you hate at no lesse rate then death Phil. No at no lesse Thou art the blaster of our fortunes The envious cloud that darknest all our day While she thus prodigally and fondly Throwes away her love on thee She has not wherewithall to pay a debt Unto the Prince Sam. Is this all Tor. Faith what if in short we doe not thinke You worthy of her Sam. I sweare that shall not make a quarrell I thinke so too ' Have urg'd it often to my selfe Against my selfe have sworn't as oft to her Pray let this satisfie Phil. Sure Torcular he thinks we come to talke Looke you Sir drawes And brother since his friend has fail'd him Doe you retire Tor. Excuse me Philatell I have an equall interest in this And fortune shall decide it Phil. It will not need hee 's come Enter Orsabrin Ors Mercury protect me what are these The brothers of the high way Phil. A stranger by his habit Tor. And by his looks a Gentleman Sir will you make one We want a fourth Ors I shall be rob'd with a tricke now Sam. My Lords excuse me This is not civill In what concernes my selfe None but my selfe must suffer Ors A duell by this light Now has his modestie And t'others forwardnes warm'd me goes towards them Gentlemen I weare a sword And commonly in readines If you want one speake Sir to Samorat I doe not feare much suffering Sam. Y' are noble Sir I know not how t' invite you to it Yet there is Justice on my side And since you please to be a witnesse To our actions 't is fit you know our Story Ors No Story Sir I beseech you The cause is good enough as 't is It may be spoil'd i' th telling Phil. Come we trifle then Sam. It is impossible to preserve I see My honor and respect to her And since you know this too my Lord It is not handsome in you thus to presse me But come Torcular beckens to Orsabrin Oh! I understand you Sir Exeunt Philatell and Samoratt fight Phil. In posture still Oh y' are mortall then it seemes A slight wound Sam. Thou hast undone thy selfe rash man For with this bloud thou hast let out a spirit Will vex thee to thy grave Fight agen Samorat takes away Philatells sword and takes breath then gives it him Sam. I 'm coole agen Here my Lord. And let this Present bind your friendship Phil. Yes thus Runs at him Sam. Treacherous and low Enter Orsabrin Ors I have dril'd my gentleman I have made as many holes in him As would sinke a Ship Royall In sight of the Haven How now Samorat upon his knee S'foot yonder 's another going that way too Now have I forgot of which side I 'm on No matter I 'le help the weakest There 's some Justice in that Phil. The Villaine sure has slaine my brother If I have any friends above Guide now my hand unto his heart Orsabrin puts it by runs at him Samo steps in Sam. Hold noble youth Destroy me not with kindnesse Men will say he could have kil'd me And that injustice should not be For honours sake leave us together Ors 'T is not my businesse fighting puts up Th'employment's yours Sir If you need me I am within your call Sam. The gods reward thee Now Philatell thy worst They fight agen and close Samo forces his sword Enter Orsabrin Ors Hell and the Furies are broke loose upon us Shift for your selfe Sir Flyes â—nto the woods sâ—verall wayes pursued by Theeves in Devils habits Enter Torcular weak with bleeding Tor. It will not be My body is a Jade I feele it tire and languish under me Those thoughts came to my soule Like Screech-owles to a sick mans window Enter Theeves back agen Thee Here here Tor. Oh! I am fetcht away alive Exeunt They bend him and carry him away Enter Orsabrin Ors Now the good gods preserve my senses right For they were never in more danger 'I th name of doubt what could this be Sure 't was a Conjurer I dealt withall And while I thought him busie at his praiers 'T was at his circle levying this Regiment Heere they are agen Enter Samoratt Sam. Friend Stranger Noble youth Ors Heere heere Sam. Shift shift the place The wood is dangerous As you love safety Follow me Exeunt Enter Philatell Phi. Th' have left the place And yet I cannot find the body any where May be he did not kill him then But he recover'd strength And reacht the Towne It may be not too Oh that this houre could be call'd backe agen But 't is too late And time must cure the wound that 's given by fate Exit Enter Samoratt Orsabrin Ors I' th shape of Lions too sometimes And Beares Sam. Often Sir Ors Pray unriddle Sam. The wiser sort doe thinke them Theeves Which but assume these formes to rob More powerfully Or. Why does not then the State Set out some forces and suppresse them Sam. It often has Sir but without successe Or. How so Sam. During the time those leavies are abroad Not one of them appeares There have been That have attempted under ground But of those as of the dead There has been no returne Or. Strange Sam. The common people thinke them a race Of honest and familiar Devills For they do hurt to none Unlesse resisted They seldome take away but with exchange And to the poore they often give Returne the hurt and sicke
not make him so Sab I do confesse my anger is unjust But not my sorow Sir Forgive these tearâ—â— my Samorat The debts of nature must be paid Though from the stocke of love Should they not Sir Sam. Yes But thus the precious minutes passe And time e're I have breath'd the sighs Due to our parting Will be calling for me Sab. Parting Sam. Oh yes Sabrina I must part As day does from the world Not to returne till night be gone Till this darke Cloud be over Here to be found Were foolishly to make a present Of my life unto mine enemy Retire into thy Chamber faire There thou shalt know all Sab. I know too much already Exeunt Enter Phontrell Hold rope for me and then hold rope for him Why this is the wisdome of the Law now A Prince looses a subject and does not Think himselfe paid for the lossâ— Till he looses another Well I will do my endeavour To make him a saver â—or this was Samorat Exit Enter Samorat Orsabrin bleeding Or. Let it bleed on you shall not stirre I sweare Sam. Now by the friendship that I owe thee And the Gods beside I will Noble youth were there no danger in thy wound Yet would the losse of bloud make thee Unfit for travell My servants waite me for direction With them my Surgeon I 'le bring him instantly Pray go back Exit Enter Philatell Guard Phil. There places them at the doorâ— You to the other Gate The rest follow me Ex. Enter Orsabrin Sabrina Sab. Hearke a noise Sir This tread's too loud to be my Samorats Searchers Which way which way to them Some villany in hand Step in here Sir quick quick Locks him into her Closet Enter Philatell Guard and passe ore the Stage Phi Looke every where Philatell dragging out his Sister Protect thy brothers murderer Tell me where thou hast hid him Or by my fathers ashes I will search In every veine thou hast about thee for him Oâ—sabâ—in â—ounces thriâ—e â—t the doore it â—lâ—â—s opâ—â— Enter Orsabrin Or. Ere such a villany should be The Gods would lend unto a single arme Such strength it should have power to punish An Armie such as thou art Phi. Oh! are you here Sir Or. Yes I am here Sir sight Phil. Kill her Shee interpos'd Or. Oh! save thy selfe faire excellence And leave me to my Fate Base Comes behind him â—â—tâ—hes bold of his Armes Phi. So bring him one The other is not far Exeunt Enter Sabrina Phemilia Sab Run run Phemillia To the Garden walls And meet my Samorat Tell him oh tell him any thing Charge him by all our loves He instantly take Horse And put to Sea There is more safety in a storme Then where my brother is Exeunt ACT III. Enter Theeves Thee A Prize A prize A prize Per. Bring him forth bring him forth They dance about him and sing Welcome wâ—â—come mortall wight To the â—ansion of the night Good or bad thy life discover Truly all thy deeds declare For about thee Spirits hover That can tell tell what they are Pinch him if he speake not true Pinch him pinch him black and blew Per. What art thou Stra I was a man Per. Of whence Str. â—he Court Per. Whether now bound Str To my owne house Per. Thy name Stra. Stramador Per. Oh you fill a place about his Grace And keep out men of parts d' you not Str. Yes Per. A foolish Utensill of State Which like old Plate upon a Gaudy day ' Sbrought forth to make a show and that is all For of no use y' are y 'had best deny this Str. Oh no! Per. Or that you do want wit And then talke loud to make that passe for it You thinke there is no wisedom but in forme Nor any knowledge like to that of whispers Str. Right right Per. Then you can hate and fawn upon a man At the same time And dare not urge the vices of another You are so foule your selfe So the Prince seldome heares truth Str. Oh! very seldome Per. And did you never give his Grace odde Councels And when you saw they did not prosper Perswade him take them on himselfe Str. Yes yes often Per. Get baths of Sulphur quick And flaming oyles This crime is new and will deserve it He has inverted all the rule of State Confounâ—ed policie There is some reaâ—on why a Subject should suffer for the eâ—rours of his Prince But why a Prince should â—earâ— The faults of 's Ministers none none at All. Cauldrons of Brimstone there Thee Great Judge of this infeâ—nall pâ—ace Allow him yet the mercy of the Couâ—t Str. Kind Devill Per. Let him be boyl'd in scalding lead a while T'enure and to prepare him for the other Str. Oh! heare me heare me Per. Stay Now I have better thought upon 't He shall to earth agen For villanie is catching and will spread He will enlarge our Empire much Then w' are sure of him at any time So 't is enough where 's our Governour Exeunt Enter Goalor Samorat Nassurat Pellegrin three others in disguise Iai. His haire curles naturally A handsome youth Sam. The same Drinkes to him Is there no speaking with him He owes me a trifling summe Iay. Sure Sir the debt is something desperate There is no hopes he will be brought To cleare with the world He struck me but for perswading him To make even with Heaven He is as surly as an old Lion And as sullen as a Bullfinch He never eate since he was taken Gentlemen Sam. I must needs speake with him Heark in the eare Iai. Not for all the world Sam. Nay I do but motion such a thing Iai. Is this the businesse Gentlemen Fare you well Sam. There is no choice of waies then Run after him draw their dagâ—ers set â—t tâ— his Bâ—est Stir not if thou but think'st a noise Or breath'st aloud thou breath'â—t thy last So bind him now Undoe Quickly quickly His Jerkin his Hat Na. What will you do None of these Beards will serve There 's not an eye of white in them Pell Pull out the Silver'd ones in his And sticke them in the other Na. Cut them cut them out The bush will sute well enough With a grace still Sam. Desperate wounds must have desperate Cures extreames must thus be serv'd You know your parts Feare not let us alone Sings a Catch Some drinke what Boy some drinke Fill it up fill it up to the brinke When the Pots crie clinke And the Pockets chinke Then 't is a merry world To the best to the best have at her And a Pox take the Woman-hater The Prince of darknesse is a Gentleman Mahu Mohu is his name How d' you Sir You gape as you were sleepy Good faith he lookes like an O yes Pell Or as if he had overstrain'd himselfe At a deep note in a Ballad Na. What think you of an Oyster at a low ebb Some liquor for him You will not be a Pimpe for life you Rogue Nor hold
knew to value What we had Alme Fame victory are light to himself Huswifes that throw themselves into the armes Not of the valiant but the fortunate To be tane thus Iph. Almerin Alm. nipt ' i th' bud Of honour Iph. My Lord Alm. Foil'd by the man That doe's pretend unto Francelia Iph. What is 't you doe my Almerin sit still And quarrell with the Winds because there is A shipwrack tow'â—ds and never thinke of saving The barke Almer The Barke What should we doe with that When the rich freight is lost my name in armes Iph. Who knowes What prizes are behind if you attend And waite a second Voyage Almer Never never There are no second Voyages in this The wounds of honour doe admit no cure Iph. Those slight ones which misfortune gives must needs Else why should Mortals value it at all For who would toyle to treasure up a wealth Which weake inconstancy did keep or might Dispose of Enter Melidor Oh my Lord what newes Mel. As ill as your owne feares could give you The Councell has decreed him sudden death And all the wayes to mercy are blockt up She weeps and sighs Almer My Iphigene This was a misbecomming peece of love Women would manage a disaster better Iphig weeps sighs agen Againe thou art unkinde Thy goodnes is so greaâ— it makes thee faulty For while thou think'â—t to take the trouble from me Thou givest me more by giving me thine too Iph. Alas I am indeed a uselesse tâ—iâ—ie A dull dull thing For could I now doe any thing But grieve and pitty I might help my thoughts Labour to finde a way but like to birds In cages though they never rest tâ—ey are But where they did set out at first Enter Jaylor Jay My Lords your pardon The prisoner must retire I have receiv'd an order from the King Denies accesse to any Iph. He cannot be So great a Tyrant Almer I thanke him nor can He use me ill enough I onely grieve That I must dye in debt a Bankrupt Such Thy love hath made me My deare Iphigene Farewell It is no time for Ceremony Shew me the way I must Exit Iph. Griefe strove with such disorder to get out It stopt the passage and sent backe my words That were already on the place Melid. stay there Is yet a way Iph. O speake it Mel. But there is Danger in 't Iphigene to thee high danger Iph. Fright children in the darke with that and let Me know it There is no such thing in nature If Almerin be lost Melid. Thus then You must Be taken pris'ner too and by exchange Save Almerin Iph. How can that be Mel. Why studies Step in and pray him set his hand about To the Jaylor This distance his seale too Jay My Lord I know not what this is Mel. Setling of money-busines foole betwixt us Jay If 't be no more Exit Mel. Tell him that Iphigene and I desire it I 'le send by Strathocles his servant A Letter to Morat thus sign'd and seal'd That shall informe the sudden execution Command him as the only meanes To save his life to sallie out this night Upon the quarters and endeavour prisoners Name you as most secure and slightest guarded Best pledge of safety but charge him That he kill not any if it be avoydable Least 't should inrage the King yet more And make his death more certaine Enter Jaylor with the writing Jay He understands you not He sayes but he has sent it Melid. So Iph. But should Morat mistrust now Or this miscarry Melid. Come Leave it to me I 'le take the Pilots part And reach the Port or perish in the Art Exeunt ACT II. SCENE I. Enter Almerin in prison Almer SLeep is as nice as woman The more I court it the more it flies me Thy elder brother will be kinder yet Unsent for death will come To morrow Well What can to morrow doe 'T will cure the sense of honour lost I and my discontents shall rest together What hurt is there in this But death against the will Is but a slovenly kinde of potion And though prescrib'd by Heaven It goes against mens stomacks So does it at fourescore too when the soule 's Mew'd up in narrow darknes Neither sees nor heares pish 't is meer fondnes in our nature A certaine clownish cowardise that still Would stay at home and dares not venture Into forreigne Countries though better then It 's owne ha what Countries for we receive Descriptions of th' other world from our Divines As blinde men take relation of this from us My thoughts leade me into the darke And there they 'l leave me I 'le no more on 't Within Knocks Enter Some paper and a light I 'le write to th' King Defie him and provoke a quicke dispatch I would not hold this ling'ring doubtfull State So long againe for all that hope can give Enter 3 of the Guard with paper and Incke That sword does tempt me strangely writing Wer 't in my hands 't were worth th' other two But then the Guard it sleeps or drinks may be To contrive it so that if I should not passe Why if I fall in 't 'T is better yet then Pageantry A scaffold and spectators more souldier-like One of the Guard peeps over his shoulder Uncivill villaine read my letter Seizes his sword 1 Guar. Not I not I my Lord. Alm. Deny it too Guar. Murder murder Guar. Arme arme The Guard runs out Alm. I 'le follow Give the alarum with them 'T is least suspitious Arme arme arme All the enemy the enemy Enter Soldiers running â—ver tâ—e Stage one throwing away his armes Soul Let them come Let them come Let them come Enter Almerin Alm. I heare fresh noise The camp 's in great disorder where am I now 'T is strangely darke Goddesse without eyes Be thou my guide for blindnes and sight Are equall sense of equall use this night Enter Grainevert Stratheman Villanor Mariâ—â—ll Gra. Trouble not thy selfe childe of discontent 'T will take no hurt I warrant thee The State is but a little drunke And when 'tas spued up that that made it so 'T will be well agen there 's my opinion in short Mar. Th' art i' th' right The State 's a pretty forehanded State And will doe reason hereaâ—â—er Let 's drinke and talke no more on 't All. A good motion a good motion Let 's drinke Villa I I let 's drinke agen Stra. Come to a Mistris Gra. Agreed Name name Villa Any body Vermilia Gra. Away with it Shee 's pretty to walke with And witty to talke with And pleasant too to thinke on But the best use of all Is her health is a stale And helps us to make us drinke on Stra. Excellent Gentlemen if you say the word Wee 'l vant credit and affect high pleasure Shall we Villa I I let 's do that Stra. What thinke ye of the sacrifice now Mar. Come wee 'le ha 't for trickling teares are vaine Villa
sanke downe As water in a weather-glasse Prest by a warme hand Mens A cordiall of kind lookes Enâ—er a Trumpet blinded From the King M. Let 's withdraw And heare him Exit Enter Brennoralt Doran Raguelin Dor. Yes to be married What are you mute now Bren. Thou cam'st too hastily upon me puâ—â—â— So close the colours to mine eye I could Not see It is impossible Dor. impossible If 't were impossible it should be otherwise What can you imagine there of Constancy Where 't is so much their nature to love change That when they say but what they are They excuse themselves for what they doe Bren. She hardly knowes him yet in such an instant Dor. Oh you know not how fire flies When it does catch light matter woman B. No more of that She is Yet the most precious thing in all my thoughts If it be so Studies I am a lost thing in the world Doran D. How Bren. Thou wilt in vaine perswade me to be other Life which to others is a Good that they Enjoy to me will be an evill I Shall suffer in Dor. Looke on another face that 's present remedy Bren. How ill thou doest conclude ' Cause there are pestilent ayres which kill men suddenly In health must there be soveraigne as suddenly To cure in sicknes 't never was in nature Exit and Enters againe hastily Bren. I was a foole to thinke Death only kept The doores of ill-pay'd love when or disdaine Or spite could let me out as well Dor. Right were I as you It should no more trouble me To free my selfe of love Then to spit out that which made me sicke Bren. I 'le tell her so that she may laugh at me 〈◊〉 at a prisoner threatning his Guard He will breake loose and so is made the faster She hath charmes Studies Doran can fetch in a rebellious heart 〈◊〉 while it is conspiring liberty Oh she hath all The vertues of her sexe and not the vices Chaste and unsullied as first op'ning Lillies Or untouch'd buds Dor. Chaste why do you honour me Because I throw my selfe not off a precipice 'T is her ruine to be otherwise Though we blame those that kill themselves my Lord We praise not him that keeps himselfe alive And deserves nothing Bren. And 't is the least She doe's triumph when she doe's but appeare I have as many Rivals as beholders Dor. All that encreases but our jealousies If you have now such qualmes for that you havenot What will you have for that you shall possesse Bren. Dull haeritique Know I have these because I have not her When I have her I shall have these no more Her fancy now her vertue then will governe And as I use to watch with doubtfull eye The wavering needle in the best Sun-dyall Till it has setled then the trouble 's o're Because I know when it is Fixt it 's True So here my doubts are all afore me Sure Doran crown'd Conquerours are but the types Of Lovers which enjoy and really Possesse what th' other have in dreames I 'le send A challenge to him Dor. Do and be thought a mad-man To what purpose If shee love him shee will but hate you more Lovers in favour Brenkoralt are Gamesters In good fortune the more you set them The more they get Bren. I 'le see her then this night by Heaven I will Dor. Where in the Cittadell Bren. Know what and why Dor He raves Brennoralt Bren. Let me alone I conjure thee by the discretion Left betwixt us that 's thine For mine 's devour'd by injuries of fortune Leave me to my selfe Dor. I have done Bren. Is there such a passage As thou hast told me of into the Castle Rag. There is my Lord. Bren. And dar'st thou let me in Rag. If you my Lord will venture Bren. There are no Centry's neare it Rag. None Bren. How to the chamber afterward Rag. Her woman Bren. What 's shee Rag. A wicket to my Ladies secrets One that stands up to marriage with me Bren. There upon thy life be secret flings a purse Rag. Else All punishment to ingratitude Bren. Enough I am a storme within till I am there Oh Doran That that which is so pleasant to behold Should be such paine within Dor. Poore Brennoralt Thou art the Martyr of a thousand tyrants Love Honour and Ambition raigne by turnes And shew their power upon thee Bren. Why let them I 'm still Brennoralt Ev'n Kings Themselves are by their servants rul'd sometimes Let their own slaves govern them at odde houres Yet not subject their Persons or their Powers Exeunt ACT III. SCENE I. Enter Iphigene as in a Garden Iphi. WHat have I got by changing place But as a wretch which ventures to the Wars Seeking the misery with paine abroad He found but wisely thought h 'had left at home Fortune thou hast no tyranny beyond This usage Weepes Would I had never hop't Or had betimes dispair'd let never in The gentle theife or kept him but a guest Not made him Lord of all Tempests of wind thus as my stormes of griefe Carry my teares which should relieve my heart Have hurried to the thankelesse Ocean clouds And showers that needed not at all the curtesie When the poore plaines have languish't for the want And almost burnt asunder I 'le have this Statues place and undertake At my own charge to keepe the water full Lies down Enter Francelia Fran. These fond impressions grow too strong upon me They were at first without designe or end Like the first Elements that know not what And why they act and yet produce strange things Poore innocent desires journeying they know Not whether but now they promise to themselves Strange things grow insolent threaten no rest Till they be satisfied What difference was between these Lords The one made love as if he by assault Would take my heart so forc't it to defence While t'other blew it up with secret mines And lest no place for it here he is Teares steale too from his eyes As if not daring to be knowne To passe that way make it good cunning griefe Thou knowst thou couldst not dresse thy selfe In any other lookes to make thee lovely spies Francelia Iphi. Francelia If through the ignorance of places I have intruded on your privacies Found out forbidden paths 't is fit you pardon Madam For 't is my melancholly not I offends Fran. So great a melancholly would well become Mischances such as time could not repaire Those of the warre are but the petty cures Of every comming hower Iphi. Why should I not tell her all since 't is in her To save my life who knowes but she may be Gallant so far as to undo her selfe To make another happy Madam The accidents of war contribute least To my sad thoughts if any such I have Imprisonment can never be Where the place holds what we must love and yet Fran. My Lord Iphi. In this imprisonment Fran. Proceed my Lord Iphi. I dare not
's gone Shee 's gone Life like a Dials hand hath stolne A â—oyse within Enter souldiers Shee thinkeâ— them Almer From the faire figure e're it was perceiv'd What will become of me Too late too late Y' are come you may perswade wild birds that wing The aire into a Cage as soon as call Her wandring spirits back ha Those are strange faces there 's a horrour in them And if I stay I shall be taken for The murtherer O in what streights they move That wander 'twixt death feares and hopes of love Exit Enter Brennoralt Granivert Souldiers Bren. Forbeare upon your lives the place There dwels divinity within it All else The Castle holds is lawfull prize Your valours wages This I claime as mine Guard you the door Grani. Coronell shall you use all the women your selfe Bren. Away 't is unseasonable drawes the curtain Awake fair Saint and blesse thy poore Idolator Ha! pale and cold dead The sweetest guest fled murdered by heaven The purple streams not drye yet Some villaine has broke in before me Rob'd all my hopes but I will find him out And kick his soule to hell I le doe 't dragging out Iphigene Speak Iphi. What should I say Bren. Speak or by all Iph. Alas I doe confesse my selfe the unfortunate cause Bren. Oh d' you so Hadst thou been cause of all the plagues That vexe mankinde th' adst been an Innocent To what thou art thou shalt not think repentance kils her Iph. Oh thou wert too suddaine And dies Bren. Was I so The lustfull youth would sure have spoil'd her honour Which finding highly garded rage and feare To be reveal'd counsell'd this villany Is there no more of them Exit Enter Almerin Alm. Not enter Yes dogge through thee ha a course laid out In stead of Iphigene Francelia dead too Enter Bren. Where shall I begin to curse Bren. Here If he were thy friend Alm. Brennoralt A gallant sword could ne're have come In better time Bren. I have a good one for thee If that will serve the turne Alm. I long to trie it That sight doth make me desperate Sicke of my selfe and the world Bren. Didst value him A greater villaine did I never kill Alm. Kill Bren. Yes Alm. Art sure of it Bren. May be I doe not wake Alm. Th' ast taken then a guilt off from me Would have waigh'd downe my sword Weakned me to low resistance I should have made no sports hadst thou conceal'd it Know Brennoralt thy sword is stain'd in excellence Great as the world could boast Bren. Ha ha how thou art abus'd Looke there there lies the excellence Thou speak'st of murdred by him too He did confesse he was the cause Alm. Oh Innocence ill understood and much worse us'd She was alas by accident but I I was the cause indeed Bre. I will beleeve thee too and kill thee Destroy all causes till I make a stop In nature for to what purpose should she Worke agen Alm. Bravely then The title of a Kingdome is a trifle To our quarrell Sir know by sad mistake I kill'd thy Mistres Brennoralt And thou kild'st mine Bren. Thine Alm. Yes that Iphigene Though showne as man unto the world Was woman excellent woman Bren. I understand no riddles guard thee Fight and pause Alm. O could they now looke downe And see how wee two strive Which first should give revenge They would forgive us something of the crime Hold prethee give me leave To satisfie a curiosity I never kissed my Iphigene as woman Bren. Thou motion'st well nor have I taken leave Rising It keeps a sweetnesse yet As stills from Roses when the flowers are gone Alm. Even so have two faint Pilgrims scorch't with heat Vnto some neighbour fountaine stept aside Kneel'd first then laid their warm lips to the Nymph And from her coldnesse took fresh life againe As we doe now Bren. Le ts on our journy if thou art refresht Alm. Come and if there be a place reserved For heightned spirits better then other May that which wearies first of ours have it Fight agood while Alm. fals Bren. If I grow weary laugh at me that 's all Alm. Brave soules above which will Be sure inquisitive for newes from earth Shall get no other but that thou art Brave Enter King Stratheman Lords Minse Stra. To preserve some Ladies as we guest King Still gallant Brennoralt thy sword not sheath'd yet Busie still Bren. Revenging Sir The fowlest murder ever blasted eares Committed here by Almerin and Iphigene Alm. False false The first created purity Was not more innocent then Iphigene Bren. Lives he agen Alm. Stay thou much wearied guest Till I have thrown a truth amongst them We shall look back else to posterity King What sayes he Lord. Some thing concerning this he labours to Discover Alm. Know it was I that kild Francelia I alone Mins O barbarous return of my civilities Was it thy hand Alm. Heare and forgive me Minse Entring this morning hastily With resolution to preserve The faire Francelia I found a theefe Stealing the treasure as I thought Belongd to me Wild in my mind As ruin'd in my honour in much mistaken rage I wounded both then oh too late I found My errour Found Iphigene a woman Acting stolne love to make her own love safe And all my jealousies impossible Whilst I ran out to bring them cure Francelia dies and Iphigene found here I can no more dies King Most strange and intricate Iphigene a woman Mel. With this story I am guiltily acquainted The first concealments since her love And all the wayes to it I have bin trusted with But Sir my greife joyn'd with the instant busines Begges a deferrement King I am amaz'd till I doe heare it out But i th' mean time Least in these mists merit should loose it selfe Those forfeitures Of Trock and Menseck and Brennoralt are thine Bren. A Princely guilt But Sir it comes too late Like Sun-beames on the blasted blossomes doe Your favours fall you should have giv'n me this When 't might have rais'd me in mens thoughts and made Me equall to Francelia's love I have No end since shee is not Back to my private life I will returne Cattell though weary can trudge homewards after King This melancholy time must cure Come take The bodies up and lead the prisoners on Triumph and funerals must walke together Cipresse and Laurell twin'd make up one chaplet For we have got The day but bought it at so deare a rate That victory it selfe's unfortunate Exeunt FINIS Earth Sunne Moon Starres Fixed Planets Element of fire Ayre Sea Winter Summer Thus far Shakespear