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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47392	Three playes written by Sir William Killigrew, vice-chamberlain to Her Majesty the Queen Consort, 1664, viz. [brace] Selindra, Pandora, Ormasdes.	Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695.	1665 (1665)	Wing K470; ESTC R39061	136,865	334

is above my understanding As Nature has fram'd Women of a more refined matter then us men so she has given to some Souls so much above ours Excellent that their Intrincique purity dazles our Judgements more then their brightest beauty does our eyes Theodocia is cetainly without blemish yet may have some notions of my love which she thinks not fit to cherish because she likes not me And yet may have a virtuous concern for my birth and sufferings such as her good Nature is unwilling to destroy 'T is Theodocia's Excellencies makes me thus humbly seek my Right as her Gift Else my Sword should make my way to ascend this Throne which is my own but no more of that yet For if I can be rightly understood My love may save the expence of so much blood Exit FOURTH ACT. Pandora with Lindamira are seen sitting on a Couch Enter Clearcus to them they rise Cle. MAdam T is a felicity to love you though neglected by what Name then shall I call my Joy Now you allow my Love to what height raise my thoughts Shall I dare to enter upon such a state of bliss To be thus snatch'd into so much Light from the long Chaos I have liv'd in may prove more ruinous to me then that Hell I came from Pan. My Lord you speak a new Language I understand not Cle. Alas Madam I have this night seen Visions and do find my passion growing much above my own command For when I look on your eyes I forget that there are gods and shall do such Idolatry to you as will provoke them to make me more miserable then you can wish me happy But when I consider how vast a Chasme your resolves have made between us I sink into such an abyss of misery that I can ne're get out of Pan. I understand you less and less The more you say the more you do confound my Judgement Lin. All this Madam is onely to let us see how he could talk if any Woman were worthy of his real love pray my Lord proceed I shall take Notes and Edifie Pulls out a Table ' Book Cle. Your mirth Madam is now out of season when every word I utter flowes from my wounded heart Lin. Why do you not speak to me then who can change my mind as often as your self I was made for you this Lady is impregnable Cle. I yield Lindamira let not your wit destroy a man that does submit to mercy I beg quarter Lin. Oh! do you so Pan. 'T is enough Lindamira that he does confesse himself o're-come let it be Registred amongst our Victories And now my Lord what is your next desire Cle. My next Madam I have scarce begun with this you do mistake all I say for mirth Does not my looks and Language shew an Alteration All those Chymeras that did possess my idle head are vanished and I become a serious man Your Miracle is already wrought and I now see the onely way to my Felicitie is to gain what I so much contemn'd Lin. Excellently well Acted this might cozen twenty that did not know him Pan. You shall do well my Lord to persue this new path untill you do obtain a general opinion of your virtue But I hope you would not have us credit it at first sight Cle. Though my love cannot yet gain credit in your Esteem do not deny me the joy to think that you see how much I love and honour you Pan. This is too serious for our Comedy my Lord. Cle. Nothing can be too serious Madam to expresse my love by which the gods are pleas'd to bring me to them thus by forbidding what might intice me to slight Paradice by having had you here 'T is fit then that I submit and raise a joy from what I am now too apt to repine at for 't is a blessing to be so fixt as Antidates my Elizium here on Earth this Souls joy will endure like its own nature unto Eternity Pan. You are cured then Clearcus and will unto the Prince confess your conversion if we call you to it Cle. Propose away for my acknowledgement and try Lin. Let us take time Madam to consider of it least we loose half the Entertainment by our hast and so spoile the jest Cle. Madam let not this Ladies mirth prevaile with your good nature to afflict a man who can live onely by your smiles Pan. I must confess I have some pain to hold in my smiles thus long for this serious way of fooling I expected not from you my Lord. Cle. Why Madam do you take all this for jest still Pan. Yes indeed do I. Cle. By all the powers above I do Adore you next to them I Worship Lin. That 's no Oath Madam for he Worships none Pan. I have the same thoughts Lindamira and am safe Cle. What a Monster am I grown give me credit Madam or give me death If I do not love you let Jove strike me with suddain Thunder or I will gladly seal what I have said with my best blood if nothing less will satisfie Pan. Hold Clearcus He Draws Lin. Oh! let him alone he 'l not hurt himself he onely hopes to fright us Pan. My Lord you fright me now and since you think fit to turn our Commick Scene into a Tragedy I shall quit my part in it and from this time admit no farther visits from you Let us retire Lindamira his converse grows dangerous Exeunt Ladies Cle. This had been my fate had I ingaged a little farther and this the fruit of chast virtuous love What a folly 't is to give our freedoms up unto the will of Women so humbly to obey those we are Created to command But I am safe yet and will now play with 'um at their own game and through a seeming sorrow for my rejection laugh at them who think to laugh at me Enter Lonzartes Lon. A good day unto my Friend Cle. You speak too late Lonzartes this is a fatal day and I am studying how I may make it more Eminent by death then by my sufferings Lon. Why what 's the matter man have you visited the Ladies before they are drest and made 'um froward Cle. Thy love Lonzartes has ruin'd me yet I thank thee for my conversion I shall now dye a sober man Lon. Thy looks speak some disaster tell me the worst that I may joyn to find a Remedy Cle. In a word then I do love Pandora as she deserves and did so to the life express my love that in spight of Lindamiras mirth she did believe it and has forbid my farther visits Lon. 'T is not possible that she can be so fool'd she forbad thee in jest come let us go to her now Cle. I 'le swear she did forbid me and in great anger turn'd from me I dare not go Lon This is pretty would'st thou have me believe thou lovest Cle. Lonzartes I am not in humour to be play'd with Lon Nor I in humour to be fool'd

my Court-Friends Sanga shut the windows close then call 'um in and say that I am grown sad of late Exit Sanga monstrous sad Now for a grave face to suite with my disguise I have some fear my sides will burst with holding in my laughter He sits in a sad posture Enter Sanga with Lonzartes and Silvander Sanga Softly pray for a strange Melantholy has seiz'd him on the suddain He is now talking to Pandora Sil. She is not here San. He entertains her Idea in her absence with the same passion he would her the only sure way for a lovers happiness hark Cle. Blessed Angel turn not away these tears must be my daily Incence offer'd at your feet if you refuse this Tribute from my captiv'd heart you 'l turn the Elizium I enjoy to Hell Oh stay and take my Soul with thee that gentle look that Lon. Why so sad fond lover let not one repulse dismay so great a Conquerour thy next charge may prove more prosperous we come to councel thee Clearcus and to raise thy drooping Spirits by new hopes Cle Or to laugh at my affliction whose Soul is sunke so low by my dispair that all my Spirits are vanished I must submit to my Captivity Lonzartes He sighes Lon. That sigh had almost blown me over yet I am glad to see this and am now fully satisfied thou art in love in love Clearcus let me Imbrace my fellow-Prisoner we will now shake our shackles to the same sad tune Cle. I know you came to mock me but I must bear it Lon. Oh no! who can have so hard a heart we pitty you and have some fears Pandoras heart will break when we relate your mighty sufferings but if I should sit thus in the dark would it create the like Angelical Idea in my brain Clearcus Cle. This is barbarous to catch a Lion in your Toyles and bait him like an Asse thus to render my passion Rediculous will beget Pandoras scorn and may prove my destruction Lon. If she discern not your passion how can she proportion her favours to your merrit Cle. Do I deserve this mirth from you thus to highten my affliction Lon. Do you not all that I can do this Twelvemonth will not bring me on equal terms for thy abuses remember how you held me to the Ladies and made me your mirth by which scandal you destroy'd my credit with the Princess this is my revenge Cle. 'T was a great scandal indeed to procure you the Princess leave to love her by my means you have obtain'd a happiness beyond your hopes which all your whining Poetry or your Eternall sighes could ever reach for which speciall service prethee good sweet Lonzartes spare Hangs on him me by our old Friendship I do beg by thy own virtue and unparalel'd chast heart I do conjure thee not to raise a publique mirth out of my souls sorrow which you have brought me to Lon. Well then if I find you do continue thus humbly penitent and truly thus afflicted I will shew more mercy then I found from you come chear up we will sigh and condole together Embraces Clearcus and if possible so order our sad hearts that both may the same moment break and infect the world with such a sorrow as may fright the female Sex from like rigour unto men so shall we become a Noble Sacrifice to love for the good of a whole Nation or if you please we 'l send for some of our old Gang to dance and drink these Melancholly vapours from our hearts to let the Ladies see their beauties are not so destructive as we make them believe Clearcus Imbraces Lonzartes with great joy Cle. I marry Lonzartes now thou talkest like a Phylosopher now thou prescribest the onely remedy for our disease Sanga bid the Musick strike a chearfull Ayre and then call in those Friends in the next room Nay if you allow this way of cure I shall soon expell loves venome from my heart into my heeles Embraces Lonzartes Lon. What is all this Clearcus art thou mad still Lonzartes starts back Cle. I am wise and do not mean to quit my cool pleasant flowry paths for your consuming flames of restless love who walke on tops of Steeples and at that height plead that your chast desires are pleasing to the gods But I who know the end of such fair flashes as at first appear with such folded Armes and down cast looks are but steps to approach the Ladies fingers ends Then by degrees grown bolder you aspire Till nought but ruine quench the subtle fire Enter Dancers Lon. What doest thou mean by this misterious language Cle. I mean to follow thy advise to sigh only when I make love to Ladies their backs turn'd I mean to dance and sing as often as I can that their neglects may pierce no deeper then their eyes discern here Lonzartes this Girle will cure the bite of a Tarantula and drive the poyson from thy heart Lon. Out Hypocrite is this thy love unto Pandora was all thy passion counterfeit the other day Cle. No 't was fairly growing up to equal thine in all sincerity of Noble thoughts But the nice Lady would not permit it to take so deep root as yours before she blasted all my hopes and in a moment let me see that love is like a bitter potion which many tast and flying away rather chusing their disease then so ill a relish'd remedy This made me return to my old Antidotes Lonzartes what think you of a heat or two before you go call in the Musique Sil. Pandora was to blame to throw him off so rashly Lon. Let us retyre Silvander this Ayre is infected Exeunt Lonzartes and Silvander Cle. Go whine fond lover go whine I say go whine While we chear our hearts with Wenches and Wine I say go whine Exeunt Omnes Here they Dance Enter Lonzartes Lindamira and Ladies Lin. I do not wonder that he is fallen off t was what I feared when his passion went so high I saw Pandora was concern'd but we will bring it on again Lon. You are mistaken Madam all he said then was jest for he is now as mad as ever I left him Incirculed with six wild men and as many wanton Girles prepar'd to dance and Revel all the night Lin. There is no harm in dancing my Lord unless they do catch cold you judge Clearcus by what is past but when I see him with Pandora next I 'le give my opinion of his concern Lon. By what means may their meeting be procured Lin. We 'l think on 't Enter Theodocia and Ladies to them The. I am sorry Lonzartes that Pandora has cast off Clearcus which has occasioned his relapse when a little patience would have setled him in the way of virtue Lon T is every way what I expected not his love was as strange as his rejection and his relapse in the old humour beyond all the rest I know not what to think of him Lin. Let us

will either cure one another or become quite mad together when their disease is known some remedy may be found 't is now past judgement what either of them ayle The. Lindamira saies well 't is very strange you will not declare so far as to let us see how we may serve you Pan. Do but leave me to my self and I am well Madam The. Many sick people are of that opinion when in most danger and must therefore by their friends be govern'd Pan. As many healthy people think themselves sick when they are not and by seeking remedies for nothing do create evils they never can finde cure for such high passions as Lindamira's do never let us rest in peace but do create perpetual storms Lin. You argue well Madam if a dull calme were the onely happiness appointed us on Earth then one degree from being asleep would prove our greatest bliss sure no age did e're produce two such Icy-hearted Ladies as the Princess you Enter to them Lonzartes and Clearcus Lin. Here comes a Homely and a Jigg hand in hand now for the second part to the same tune Of love me and love me not Duke Clearcus it troubles me to see you delight in a retired darkness or else to walk in such clouds as we cannot see through I would perswade you to regain Pandora's good opinion Cle. Is the mistery of love to be discuss'd in publique Sir Duke With us who are so near ali'd unto you both I think it may because we all know what you both profess in private and now desire to hear what you will face to face avow and we intreat you Pandora first to shew why you threw off Clearcus Pan. You do amaze me Sir to examine me as a Criminal Duke You have no cause for this displeasure Pandora but mis-judge our love and our respects we know your worth and would to the World Illustrate that virtue you design to smother by a single life I allow your purpose did become your younger dayes and did express an Angelicall Innocense but I question whether now on mature judgement you may not do better for your self and us to reclaim Clearcus Pan. You demand impossibilites from me for if I should change my mind he will change his too Pray shew me a rule to reclaim him by before you do condemn me Duke We onely desire you will afford him the same civility as did first induce him to adore that virtue he dispised before Pan. I have done this The. You did begin but you gave o're too soon Lin And all her kindness but in jest too Madam which he discern'd Duke How do you answer this Lindamira was of your councel Pan. I undertook him but in jest and was by him injoyn'd to such severity as I perform'd and 't was then thought the only way to vindicate our Sex and to work his conversion which he at first did counterseit so well as to deceive and fright me from his farther visits Lin. Was his love so terrible Pan. To me it was who thought him uncapable of ever having Noble thoughts for any of our sex Duke But when you found him growing worthy why did you not cherish that virtue as your own Creation Lin Because she fear'd her Virgin-vow might be defil'd by owning such a Man-child of her own begetting for he began to aske her blessing till she laugh'd him into so great anger that one day he proffer'd to kill himself which gave end unto our Comedy Pan. If his cure had lain within the reach of Raleary I had gloried in my part but never shall consent to inslave my self unto the humours of a man who cannot be a minute in one mind his imaginations are beyond the Moon and would have he knows not what Duke Clearcus you have heard your charge Guilty or not Guilty Lin. Guilty Sir Cle I shall never want your good word Madam Lindamira tells you true Sir I am guilty Duke Of what Cle. Of all the crimes that offended Lady does object pray Sir pronounce my doom and put me out of pain Duke Will you submit then and obey it Cle If it can put me out of pain I will Duke I doubt it not my Sentence is that you revive that love you shew'd unto Pandora lately Cle. Oh Sir the very name of love puts me into a shaking fit for Heaven sake give me Halters Poysons Daggers any means to let out life rather then renew those torments which I felt that hour I lov'd Lin. Pray Sir give me leave to put him some Interogatories Duke Do so Lin. Your Lordship has confest that you have lov'd one hour and must have some reason why you lov'd no longer shew us that reason or for ever hold your peace and submit to judgement The. How Clearcus nonplust by a Judge in Petticoates Clearcus stands mute Lin Why Madam many of our Sex have pussled the wisest men give him leave to think a little but if what I have said has struck your Lordship dumb hold up your finger 't is He holds it up enough He has nothing to say for himself but submits unto the mercy of the Court I understand him Sir and have now found a remedy for both their evils If you will trust me with your hand my Lord I will not harm it and Clearcus gives his hand if I have credit enough Madam to be trusted with your hand too pray lay it without fear on mine that I may try a charm I have to conjure out the evil Spirits that possess you both you may at your own pleasure take back your hands only let me hold 'um while I pronounce my charm within Pandora turns away Duke Pandora I intreat you to try Lindamira's charm give her your hand she deals not with the Devil Pandora gives her hand Lin. The Devil I work by Sir is truth drest in her rich robe of Innocence if truth do not convince both these Delinquents my charm will have no power on them My Lord you have in this great Assembly often said that you could never value any woman you could win if now you have found this Lady as impregnable as you can wish she is your fate hold Sir remember He proffers to speak you are dumb till I have done Now Madam I must speak serious sence to you who stand here the expectation and the wish of all the Court yet I know you must not consent to give your hand to him nor in a look or word comply with what I say for if you yield Clearcus will forsake the Field I shall therefore onely put your hands together no marriage nor no contract make only desire that you will thus hand in hand retire a while with me in private to apply my charm who now do pray that all the evils which ever did befall the most unhappy lovers may light on him or you that shall their hand remove before my charm does work now come with me Exeunt hand in hand Duke What the