now this discord newly set abroach Shall ease our Consuls and our Senates downe Anthony Vnhappy Rome and Romaines thrise accurst That oft with triumphs fild your Citie walls VVith kings and conquering Rulers of the world Now to eclipse in top of all thy pride Through ciuill discords and domesticke broiles O Romaines weepe the teares of sad lament And rent your sacred Robes at this exchange For Fortune makes our Rome a banding ball Tost from her hand to take the greater fall Gra: O whence proceeds these fowle ambitious thoughts That fires mens harts and makes them thirst for Rule Hath soueraignty so much be witcht the minds Of Romaines that their former busied cares VVhich erst did tire in seeking Cities good Must now be changd to ruine of her walls Must they that reard her stately Temples vp Deface the sacred places of their Gods Then may we waile and wring our wretched hands Sith both our Gods our temples and our walls Ambition makes fell fortunes spightfull thralls Ex all A great Alarum let young Marius chase Pompey ouer the stage and old Marius chase Lucretius Then let enter three or fowre souldiers and his Auncient with his cullors and Scilla after them with his hat in his hand they offer to flie away Scilla Why whither flie you Romaines VVhat mischiefe makes this flight Stay good my friends stay dearest Countrimen 1. souldier Stay let vs heare what our Lord Scilla saith Scilla What wil you leaue your chieftains Romains there And loose your Honors in the gates of Rome VVhat shall our Country see and Scilla rue These Coward thoughts so fixt and firmd in you VVhat are you come from Capua to proclaime Your hartles treasons in this happy towne VVhat will you stand and gaze with shameles looks VVhilst Marius butchering knife assailes our throats Are you the men the hopes the staires of state Are you the souldiers prest for Asia Are you the wondered Legions of the world And will you flie these shadows of resist VVell Romaines I will perish through your pride That thought by you to haue returnd in pompe And at the least your Generall shall proue Euen in his death your treasons and his loue Lo this the wreath that shall my body binde VVhilst Scilla sleepes with honor in the field And I alone within these cullors shut VVill blush your dastard follies in my death So farewell hartles souldiers and vntrue That leaue your Scilla who hath loued you Exit 1. souldier VVhy fellow souldiers shall we flie the field And carelesly forsake our Generall VVhat shall our vowes conclude with no auaile First die sweete friends and shed your purple blood Before you lose the man that wills you good Then to it braue Italians out of hand Scilla we come with fierce and deadly blowes To venge thy wrongs and vanquish all thy toes Exeunt to the Alarum Actus secundus Scena prima Appian solus Enter Scilla triumphant Lucretius Pompey with souldierr SCilla You Romaine souldiers fellow mates in Armes The blind fold Mistris of incertaine chaunce Hath turnd these traiterous chimers from the top And seated Scilla in the chiefest place The place beseeming Scilla and his minde For were the throne where matchles glorie sits Empald with furies threatning blood and death Begirt with famine and those fatall feares That dwell below amidst the dreadfull vast Tut Scillaes sparkling eyes should dim with cleere The burning brands of their consuming light And master fancie with a forward minde And maske repining feare with awfull power For men of baser mettall and conceipt Cannot conceiue the beautie of my thought I crowned with a wreath of warlike state Imagine thoughts more greater than a crowne And yet befitting well a Romane minde Then gentle ministers of all my hopes That with your swords made way vnto my wish Hearken the frutes of your couragious fight In spite of all these Romane Basilisks That seeke to quell vs with their currish lookes We will to Pontus wee le haue gold my harts Those orientall pearles shall decke our browes And you my gentle frends you Romane peeres Kinde Pompey worthie of a Consulls name You shall abide the father of the state Whilst these braue lads Lucretius and I In spight of all these brauling Senators Will shall and dare attempt on Asia And driue Mithridates from out his doores Pomp. I Scilla these are words of mickle worth Fit for the master of so great a minde Now Rome must stoop for Marius and his frends Haue left their armes and trust vnto their heeles Scilla But Pompey if our Spanish Iennets feete Haue learnt to poast it of their mother winde I hope to nip vpon the gray beards heeles Till I haue cropt his shoulders from his head As for his sonne the proud aspiring boy His beardlesse face and wanton smiling browes Shall if I catch him decke yond Capitoll The father sonne the frends and souldiers all That fawne on Marius shall with furie fall Luer: And what euent shall all these troubles bring Scilla This Scilla in fortune will exceed a king But frends and souldiers with dispersed bands Goe seeke out Marius fond confederates some poast along those vnfrequented paths That trackt by nookes vnto the neighbring sea Murther me Marius and maintaine my life And that his fauorites in Rome may learne The difference betwixt my fawne and frowne Go cut them short shed their hatefull blood Ex. Soul To quench these furies of my froward mood Lucr. Loe scilla where our senators approach Perhaps to gratulate thy good successe Enter Anthonie Granius Lepidus Scilla I that perhaps was fitly placed there But my Lucretius these are cunning Lords VVhose tongues are tipt with honnie to deceiue As for their hearts if outward eyes may see them The diuell scarce with mischiefe might agree them Lep. Good fortune to our Consull worthy scilla Scilla And why not Generall against the king of Pontus Gran: And generall against the king of Pontus Scilla sirrha your words are good your thoughts are ill Each milke white haire amidst this mincing beard Compard with milions of thy trecherous thoughts VVould change their hiew through vigor of thy hate But did not pitie make my furie thrall This sword should finish hate thy life and all I pre thee Granius how doth Marius Gran: As he that bydes a thrall to thee and fate Liuing in hope as I and others doo To catch good fortune and to crosse thee too Scilla Both blunt and bold but too much Mother wit To play with fier where furie streames about Curtall your tale fond man cut of the rest But here I will dissemble for the best Granius Scilla my yeares hath taught me to discerne Betwixt ambitious pride and Princely zeale And from thy youth these Peeres of Rome haue markt A rash reuenging hammer in thy braine Thy tongue adornde with flowing eloquence And yet I see imprinted in thy browes A fortunate but froward gouernaunce And though thy riuall Marius mated late By backward working
THE VVOVNDS of Ciuill VVar Liuely set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla As it hath beene publiquely plaide in London by the Right Honourable the Lord high Admirall his Seruants VVritten by Thomas Lodge Gent. O Uita miserolonga foelicibreuis LONDON Printed by Iohn Danter and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Paules Church-yarde 1594 The most Lamentable and true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla Enter on the Capitoll Sulpitius Tribune Caius Marius Q. Pompey Consull Iunius Brutus Lucretius Caius Granius Lictorius Lucius Merula Iupiters Priest and Cynna whom placed and their Lictors before them with their Rods and Axes Sulpitius beginneth SVLPITIVS TRIBVNE Graue Senators and Fathers of this State Our strange protractions vnkind delays wher waighty wars doth cal vs out to fight Our factious wits to please aspiring Lords You see hath added powre vnto our foes And hazarded rich Phrigia and Bithinia With all our Asian Holds and Cities too Thus Scilla seeking to be Generall VVho is inuested in our Consuls Pall Hath forced murders in a quiet State The cause whereof euen Pompey may complaine VVho seeking to aduance a climing friend Hath lost by death a sweete and curteous sonne VVho now in Asia but Mithridates Laughs at these fond discentions I complaine VVhile we in wrangling for a Generall Forsake our friends forestall our forward warre And leaue our Legions full of dalliance VVaighting our idle wills at Capua Fie Romaines shall the glories of your names The wondrous beauty of this Capitoll Perish through Scillas insolence and pride As if that Rome were robd of true renowne And destitute of warlike Champions now Loe here the man the rumor of whose fame Hath made Hiberia tremble and submit See Marius that in managing estate Through many cares and troubles he hath past And spent his youth vpon whose reuerend head The milke-white pledge of wisedome sweetly spreds He sixe times Consul fit for peace or warre Sits drooping here content to brooke disgrace VVho glad to fight through follies of his foes Sighs for your shame whilst you abide secure And I that see and should recure these wrongs Through Pompeys late vacation and delay Haue left to publish him for Generall That merites better titles farre than these But Nobles now the finall day is come VVhen I your Tribune studying for renowne Pronounce and publish Marius Generall To leade our Legions against Mithridates And craue graue Fathers signes of your content Q. Pomp: Beleeue me Noble Romains graue Senators This strange election and this new made Law VVill witnes our vnstable gouernement And dispossesse Rome of her Emperie For although Marius be renownd in Armes Famous for prowesse and graue in warlike drifts Yet may the sunne-shine of his former deeds Nothing eclipse our Scillas dignity By lot and by election he was made Chiefe Generall against Mithridates And shall we then abridge him of that Rule T were iniurie to Scilla and to Rome Nor would the height of his all daring minde Brooke to the death so vile and fowle disgrace Iu Brutus VVhy Pompey as if the Senate had not powre To appoint dispose change their Generals Rome shall belike be bound to Scillas Rule VVhose haughty pride and swelling thoughts puft vp Foreshowes the reaching to prowd Tarquins state Is not his lingring to our Romaine losse At Capua where he braues it out with feasts Made knowne thinke you vnto the Senate here Yes Pompey yes and hereof are we sure If Romaines State on Scillas pride should lie Romes Conquests would to Pontus Regions flie Therefore graue and renowned Senators Pillers that beare and hold our Rule aloft You stately true and rich Piramides Descend into the depth of your estates Then shall you finde that Scilla is more fit To Rule in Rome domesticall affaires Then haue the Conquest of Bithinia Which if once got hee le but by death forgoe Therefore I say Marius our Generall Lucretius Lo thus we striue abroad to win renowne And naught regard at home our waning states Brutus I say the many braue exploits The warlike Acts that Scilla hath atchieude Showes him a souldier and a Romaine too Whose care is more for Country than himselfe Scilla nill brooke that in so many warres So hard aduentures and so strange extreames Hath borne the palme and prize of victory Thus with dishonor to giue vp his charge Scilla hath friends and souldiers at commaund That first will make the towres of Rome to shake And force the stately Capitoll to daunce Yer any robbe him of his iust renowne Then we that through the Caspian shores haue runne And spread with ships the Orientall Sea At home shall make a murder of our friends And massaker our dearest Countrimen Licto The powre of Scilla nought will vaile gainst Rome And let me die Lucretius ere I see Our Senate dread for any priuate man Therefore Renownd Sulpitius send for Scilla backe Let Marius leade our men in Asia L. Merula The Law the Senate wholy doth affirme Let Marius lead our men in Asia Cynna Cynna affirmes the Senates Censure iust And saith let Marius leade the Legions forth C. Granius Honor and victory follow Marius steps For him doth Granius wish to fight for Rome Sulpitius why then you sage and auncient Syres of Rome Sulpitius here againe doth publish forth That Marius by the Senate here is made Chiefe Generall to lead the Legions out Against Mithridates and his Competitors Now victory for honor of Rome follow Marius Here let Marius rowse him selfe Marius Sage and imperiall Senators of Rome Not without good aduisement haue you seene Old Marius silent during your discourse Yet not for that he feard to pleade his cause Or raise his honor troden downe by age But that his words should not allure his friends To stand on stricter tearmes for his behoofe Sixe times the Senate by election hath Made Marius Consul ouer warlike Rome And in that space nor Rome nor all the world Could euer say that Marius was vntrue These siluer haires that hang vpon my face Are witnesses of my vnfained zeale The Cymbrians that yer-while inuaded France And held the Romaïne Empire in disdaine Lay all confounded vnder Marius sword Fierce Scipio the myrrour once of Rome whose losse as yet my inward soule bewailes Being askt who should succeede and beare his Rule Euen this quod he shall Scipios armour beare And therewithall clapt me vpon the backe If then graue Lords my former passed youth was spent in bringing Honors into Rome Let then my age and latter date of yeares Be sealed vp for honor vnto Rome Here enter Scilla with Captaines and Souldiers Sul: Scilla what means these Arms and warlike troops These glorious Ensignes and these fierce Allarms T is prowdly done to braue the Capitoll Scilla These Armes Sulpitius are not borne for hate But maintenance of my confirmed state I come to Rome with no seditious thoughts Except I finde too froward iniuries Sul: But wisedome would you did
war Then full of hope say Eccho shall I goe goe Is anie better fortune then at hand at hand Then farewell Eccho gentle Nymph farewel farewell Oh pleasing folly to a pensiue man VVell I will rest fast by this shadie tree VVaiting the end that fate allotteth mee sit downe Enter Marius the sonne Albinouanus Cethegus Lectorius with souldiers Marius My countrimen and fauorites of Rome This melancholy desart where we meete Resembleth well yong Marius restles thoughts Here dreadfull silence solitarie caues No chirping birds with solace singing sweetlie Are harbored for delight but from the oake Leaueles and saples through decaying age The scritch-owle chants her fatall boding layes VVithin my brest care danger sorrow dwells Hope and reuenge sit hammering in my hart The balefull babes of angrie Nemesis Dispearse their furious fires vpon my soule Lector: Fie Marius are you discontented still VVhen as occasion fauoreth your desire Are not these noble Romanes come from Rome Hath not the state recald your father home Marius And what of this what profit may I reape That want my father to conduct vs home Lector: My Lord take hart no doubt this stormie flawe That Neptune sent to cast vs on this shore Shall end these discontentments at the last Mar pat: VVhom see mine eyes what is not yon my son Mar iu: vvhat solitarie father walketh there Mar pa It is my sonne these are my frends I see vvhat haue forepining cares so changed mee Or are my lookes distempred through the paines And agonies that issue from my hart Fie Marius frolicke man thou must to Rome There to reuenge thy wrongs and waight thy tombe Marius iu Now fortune frowne palter if thou please Romanes behold my father and your frend Oh father Marius pa: Marius thou art fitly met Albinouanus and my other frends VVhat newes at Rome what fortune brought you hither Albino: My Lord the Consull Cynna hath restord The doubtfull course of your betrayed state And waits you present swift approch to Rome Your foe man Scilla poasteth verie fast VVith good successe from Pontus to preuent Your speedie entrance into Italy The neighbring Cities are your verie frends Nought rests my Lord but you depart from hence Mar iu: How manie desart waies hath Marius sought How manie Cities haue I visited To finde my father and releeue his wants Marius pat: My sonne I quite thy trauells with my loue And Lords and Citizens we will to Rome And ioyne with Cynna haue your shipping here VVhat are these souldiers bent to die with mee Soul: Content to pledge our liues for Marius Lect: My Lord here in the next adioyning port Our ships are rigd and readie for to saile Marius pa: Then let vs saile vnto Hetruria And cause our frends the Germanes to reuolt And get some Tuscans to increase our power Deserts farewell come Romanes let vs goe A scourge for Rome that hath deprest vs so Exeunt Actus quartus Scena prima Enter Marke Anthonie Lepidus Octauius Flaccus Senators Octa. WHat helpes my Lords to ouerhale these cares What meanes or motions may these mischiefe end You see how Cynna that should succor Rome Hath leuied armes to bring a traitor in O worthlesse traitor woe to thine and thee That thus disquieteth both Rome and vs Anth: Octauius these are scourges for our sinnes These are but ministers to heape our plagues These mutinies are gentle meanes and waies VVhereby the heavns our heauie errors charmes Then with content and humbled eyes behold The christall shining globe of glorious Ioue And since we perish through our owne misdeedes Go let vs flourish in our frutefull praiers Lepid: Midst these confusions mighty men of Rome VVhy wast we out these troubles all in words VVeepe not your harmes but wend we straight so armes Loe Distia spoyld see Marius at our gate And shall we die like milksops dreaming thus Octa: A bootles warre to see our countrey spoild Lep: Fruteles is dalliance whereas dangers bee Anth: My Lord may courage wait on conquered men Lep: I euen in death most courage doth appeare Octa: Then waiting death I meane to seate me here Hoping that Consulls name and feare of lawes Shall iustifie my conscience and my cause Enter a messenger Now sirrha what confused lookes are these VVhat tidings bringest thou of dreriment Messen My Lords the Consull Cynna with his frends Haue let in Marius by Via Appia VVhose souldiers wast and murther all they meete VVho with the Consull and his other frends VVith expedition hasteth to this place Anth: Then to the downfall of my happines Then to the ruine of this Citie Rome But if mine inward ruth were laid in sight My streames of teares should drowne my foes despight Octa: Courage Lord Anthony if Fortune please She will and can these troubles soone appease But if her backward frownes approch vs nie Resolue with vs with honor for to die Lep: No storme of fate shall bring my sorrowes downe But if that Fortune list why let her frowne Anth: VVhere state 's opprest by cruell tyrants bee Old Anthony there is no place for thee Drum strike within Harke by this thundring noyse of threatning drums Marius with all his faction hether comes Enter Marius his Sonne Cynna Cethegus Lectorius with souldiers vpon sight of whom Marke Anthony presently flies Octa: Then like a traitor he shall know ere long In leuying armes he doth his countrey wrong Marius pa: And haue we got the goale of honor now And in despight of Consulls entred Rome Then rouze thee Marius leaue thy ruthfull thoughts And for thy manie toiles and cares sustaind Afflict thy foes with twice as many paines Goe souldiers seeke out Bebius and his frends Attilius Munitorius with the rest Cut off their heads for they did crosse me once And if your care can compasse my decree Remember that same fugitiue Marke Anthony VVhose fatall end shall be my frutefull peace I tell thee Cynna nature armeth beasts With iust reuenge and lendeth in their kindes Sufficient warlike weapons of defence If then by nature beasts reuenge their wrong Both heauens and nature grant me vengeance now Yet whilst I liue and sucke this subtill aire That lendeth breathing coolenes to my lights The register of all thy righteous acts Thy paines thy toiles thy trauells for my sake Shall dwell by kinde impressions in my hart And I with linkes of true vnfained loue VVill locke these Romane fauorites in my brest And liue to hazard life for their releefe Cyn: My Lord your safe and swift returne to Rome Makes Cynna fortunate and well appaid Who through the false suggestions of my foes VVas made a coffer of a Consull here Lo where he sits commanding in his throne That wronged Marius me and all these Lords Mar iu: To quite his loue Cynna let me alone How fare these Lords that lumping pouting proud Imagine how to quell me with their lookes No welcome sirs is Marius thought so base VVhy stand you looking babies in my face