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A85334	Three excellent tragœdies. Viz. The raging Turk, or, Bajazet the Second. The courageous Turk, or, Amurath the First. And The tragoedie of Orestes· / Written, by Tho. Goff, Master of Arts, and student of Christ-Church in Oxford; and acted by the students of the same house.	Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629.; Meighen, Richard, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing G1006; Thomason E1591_2; ESTC R202218	132,941	272

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Hatun Daughter to the Lord of Phrygia married to Bajazet Aldines Wife Two little Boyes with her Mutes Men Christians taken given to Amurath for Janizaries Sixe Christian Maidens presented to Hatun supposed to be Kings Daughters THE COURAGEOUS TURK OR AMURATH THE FIRST Actus 1. Scena 1. Enter as from Warre Lala-Schahin at one doore with warlike Musicke Souldiers a March Enter to him at the other doore Amurath in State with Eumorphe his Concubine attendants Lords and Ladies AMURATH BE dumb those now harsh notes our softer cares shall never be acquainted with such sounds Peace our grand Captain see here Amurath that would have once confronted Mars himselfe Acknowledg'd for a better Deity Puts off ambitious burdens and doth hate through bloudy Rivers to make passages whereby his Soule might flote to Acheron Wrinckle your browes no more sterne fates for we scorne to be made the servile Ministers to cut those threads at which your selves have trembled esteeming us the fiercer Destiny Yet must great Amurath thanke those sacred powers they have enricht our soules with such a price as had those Heroes whose revengefull Armes serv'd Mars a ten yeares Prentiship at Troy ere dream'd succeeding times should be possest with such an unparallell'd unprized beauty as my Saint they would not have prevented so their blisse but beene most humble Sutors to the Gods to have protracted their then fond spent life but to behold this object which out-shines their Helena as much as doth the eye of all the World dazle the lesser fires Jove I le outbrave thee melt thy selfe in Lust embrace at once all starre-made Concubines I le not envie thee know I have to spare beauty enough to make another Venus And for fond Gods that have no reward in store to make me happier here I le place my Heaven And for thy sake this shall my Motto be I conquered Greece one Grecian conquered me Eum. But gracious Lord those streames we see soon ebb which with outragious swelling flow too fast forbid Lucina this soone kindled fire should ere burne out it self T is a true Theame That nere lasts long that seemeth most extreame Amur. Can this rich price of nature precious jem give entertainment to suspecting guests Come come these armes are curious chaines of love with which thou link'st my heart aeternally thy cheeks the royall Paper interlined with Natures Rhetorique and loves perswasion stands there attracting still my gazing eye This then I le read and here I now will faine that those all antique fables of the Gods are writ in flowing numbers first thy lip was faire Europaes which they say made Jove turne a wild Heyfer next this sparkling eye was the Aemonian Io's then this hand Laedaes faire Mother to those Star-made Twins Thus thus I le Comment on this golden Booke Nature nor Art have taught me how to faine Fairest 't was you first brought me to this vaine In loving Combats now I valiant prove let othets warre great Amurath shall love Scha. Brave resolution O the fond thoughts of man awake Euno I le find stratagems There shall be Physick to purge this disease light sores are gently us'd but such a part must be cut off left it infect the heart Amar. Schahin Our Tutor we command this night be solemniz'd with all delightfull sports thy learn'd invention best can thinke upon Prepare a Maske which lively represents how once the Gods did love that shall not teach us by examples but we 'll smile to thinke how poore and weake their idle faining was to our affection Schahin be free in wit and suddaine now come my Kingdomes Bride Hymen would wed himselfe to such a Bride Exeunt all but Schahin Actus 1. Scena 2. Schah. Nature and all those universall powers which shew'd such admirable Godlike skill in framing this true modell of our selves this Man this thing cal'd man why doe you thus make him a spectacle of such laughter for you when in each man we see a Monarchy For as in states all fortunes still attend So with a Kingdome with a compleat state will govern'd and well manag'd in him selfe both each man beares when that best part of man Reason doth sway and rule each Passion Affections are good Servants but if Will makes them once Master they 'l prove Tyrants still No more King now poore Subject AMURATH whom I have seen breake through a Troope of Men like lightning from a Cloud and done those Acts which ' ene the Furies would have trembled at Treading downe Armies as if by them he meant of dead mens backes to build up staires to Heaven And now ly'th lurking in a womans armes drencht in the Lethe of Ignoble lust appoints me for the wanton Engineer to keepe his so loose thoughts in smoothing tune Woman enticing woman golden hooke to catch our thoughts and when we once are caught to drag 's into the publike view of shame And there we lye bath'd in incestuous pleasure for all good men to laugh and scorne at once Bane to my senses I could eyther wish our birth were like those Creatures which we say Are bred from putrid and corrupted matter Then that we should acknowledge our deare being with grasse and flowers for what else is our state up to the top But then the waight shall fall upon their head that caus'd it Worke my braine tush bloud no● water must wash off this staine Exit Scena 3. Actus 1. Enter Amurath in state with Nobles Eumorphe with attendant Ladies while Amurath ascends his Throne and placeth Eumorphe by him Am. Shine here my beauty and expell the night more than a thousand starres that grace the Heavens Me thinkes I see the Gods inventing shapes in which they meane to court thee Jove he frownes and is more jealous more suspitious of thee then all the painted Truls whose eyes bedeck the all ennamel'd Firmament Eum. Beauty my Lord 't is the worst part of woman a weake poore thing assaulted every hour by creeping minutes of defacing time A superficies which each breath of care blasts off and every humerous streame of griefe which flowes from forth these Fountaines of our eyes washeth away as raine doth Winters snow But those blest guiders of all Nuptiall rites have wrought a better cement to make fast the hearts of Lovers the true name of Wife guilds o're our thrones with a more constant shape than can be subject or to time or care And in our selves yea in our owne true brests we have obedience duty carefull Love And last and best of all we may have Children Children are Hymens pledges these shall be perpetuall chaines to linke my Lord and me Amur. Art thou a Woman Goddesse we adore and Idolize what we but loved before What Divels have men beene whose furious braines have oft abus'd that Deity cald Woman dipping their Ravens quil in Stygian Inke to blast such heavenly paper as your faces Were all the enticing lusts damn'd policies prodigious fascinations unsearcht thoughts dissembled

the same bloud he tooke a share so let him beare his part in Government Sch. My Lord within the selfe-same Hemispheare It 's most prodigious when two Sunnes appeare One body by one soule must be inform'd Kingdomes like marriage beds must not indure any corrivall Rome was nere secure whilst she contain'd a Pompey and a Caesar Like as one Prophet we acknowledge now so of one King in state we must allow You know the Turkish Lawes Prince be not nice to purchase Kingdomes whatsoe'er the price He must be lopt send for him he must dye Bajazet O happy Bajazet that he was borne to be a King when thou wast Counseller Call in our Brother Jacup Some goe for him Here sixe men take up Amuraths Trunke on their shoulders Baj. Why Lords is Amurath so light a weight Is this the Trunk o th' Turkish Emperor Oh what a heape of thoughts are come to naught What a light weight is he unto sixe men who durst stand under Ossa and sustaine ' t Euren. My Lord these Meditations fit not you You are to take the honour he hath left and thinke you of his rising not his fall Enter Jacup Let your decree be suddaine here 's your Brother Baj. Brother I could have wished we might have met at times of better greeting Our father hath bequeath'd to the Grave these ashes to us his State Nor have we leysure yet to mourne for him Brother you know our state hath made a Law that he that sits in a Majestick Chayre must not endure the next succeeding heyre Jac. Yes we doe And Brother doe you thinke 't is crime enough to dye because I am sonne to an Emperour Scah. My Lord we know there breathes in him that ayre of true affestion that he doth much desire you should be equall in his Kingdome with him But still when two great evils are propos'd the lesse is to be chosen Euren. My Lord your life 's but one Kings are the threads whereto there are inweaved millions of lives and he that must rule all must still be one that is select from all Although we speake yet thinke them not our words But what the Land speakes in us Kings are free And must be impatient of equality Jac. And is' t eene so How have these Dogs fawn'd on me lickt my feet when Amurath yet lived Felt all my thoughts and soothed them to the sight of Empyrie And now the first would set their politique hands to strangle up that breath a blast of which their nostrils have suckt up like perfum'd ayre Well brother well by all men this is spoke that heart that cannot bow may yet be broke Bajazet Brother you must not now stand to upbraid They which doe feare the vulgars murmuring tongue Must also feare th' authority of a King For rulers must esteeme it happinesse that with their gov'rnment they can hate suppresse they with too faint a hand the Scepters sway Who regard love or what the people say To Kindred we must quite put off respect when 't is so neare it may our Crowne affect Jac. Then name of Brother doe I thus shake off for 't is in vaine their mercy to implore when impious Statists have decreed before Yet King although thou take my life away see how I le dye in better state then thou Who like my Father after his greatest glory May fall by some base hand The Minister 'To take my breath shall be thy selfe a King Here Jacup takes a Scarfe from his Arme and putting it about his neck gives one end to Bajazet Yet give me leave a while to Prophesie You that so Puppet-like delude your hopes and Wyer-draw the ancestry from Kings thinking that fates dare not aproach your bloud till they doe seize you then you leave this Earth Not as you went but by compulsion dragg'd Still begging for a morrow from your Grave and with such shifts you doe deceive your selves as if you could deceive mortality No Brother King not all the Glow-worme state which makes thee be a Horse-leach to thy bloud Not all the Parasitest ' Minions thou maintainst nor the restorative Dishes that are found out Not all thy shifts and trickes can cheat mortality or keepe thee from a death that 's worse then mine Should all this faile age would professe it selfe a slow but a sure Executioner O 't is a hard thing well to temperate decaying happinesse in great estate But this example by me may you gaine that at my death not of Heaven complaine Pull then and with my fall pull on thy selfe Mountaines of burdenous honor which shall curse thee Death leades the willing by the hand But spurs them headlong on that dare command Here himselfe pulls one end Bajazet the other Jacup dyes Bajazet Take up this Trunke and let us first appoint our Fathers and our Brothers Funerals the sense lesse body of that Caitiffe slave hurle to a Ditch Posterity shall heare Our lesse ill Chronicled but time shall heare these minutes rather then repeate their woe Now Primacy on thee I le mediate Which who enjoy thee are in blest estate Whose age in secure silence fleets away Without disturbance to his funeral day Nor ponderous nor unquiet honours can Vexe him but dyes a primare ancient man What greater powers threaten inferiour men a greater power threatens him agen And like to wasted Tapers Kings must spend their lives to light up others So all end Exeunt bearing out solemnely the bodies of Amurath and Jacup FINIS THE TRAGEDY OF ORESTES Written by THOMAS GOFF Master of Arts and student of Christ-Church in OXFORD AND Acted by the STUDENTS of the same house The second Edition LONDON Printed for G. BEDELL and T. COLLINS at the middle Temple Gate Fleet-street 1656. The Prologue THe hush'd contentment of two silent howres Breath pleasing ayres on these attentive eares And since wee see in this well furnish'd roome All our best neighbours are so kindely met Wee would devise some pleasing talke to spend The lazie houres of the tedious night But for our owne invention 't was too weake Whereon our young Muse durst not wholly leane We here present for the revive a tale Which once in Athens great Eurypedes In better phrase at such a meeting told The learn'd Athenians with much applause The same we will retell unto your eares Whose Atticke judgement is no lesse then theirs We here as builders which doe oft take stones From out old buildings then must hew and cut To make them square and fitting for a new So from an old foundation we have ta'n Stones ready squar'd for our aedifice Which if in pleasing our weake skill offends In making corners disproportionate Some roome too narrow or some loft to a high Yet we well hope if the whole structure fall Your hands like props will serve to beare up all Spoken by the Authour himselfe The Names of the Actors Agamemnon King of Greece Clytemnestra The Queene Tyndarus Clytemnestra's father Strophius Father to Pylades