THE MAYOR OF Quinborough A COMEDY As it hath been often Acted with much Applause at Black-Fryars By His Majesties Servants Written by THO. MIDDLETON LONDON Printed for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Blew-Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange 1661 GENTLEMEN YOu have the first flight of him I assure you this Mayor of Quinborough whom you have all heard of and some of you beheld upon the Stage now begins to walk abroad in Print he has been known sufficiently by the reputation of his Wit which is enough by the way to distinguish him from ordinary Mayors but Wit you know has skulk'd in Corners for many years past and he was thought to have most of it that could best hide himself Now whether this Magistrate fear'd the decimating times or kept up the state of other Mayors that are bound not to go out of their Liberties during the time of their Mayoralty I know not 't is enough for me to put him into your hands under the title of an honest man which will appear plainly to you because you shall find him all along to have a great picque to the Rebel Oliver I am told his drollery yields to none the English Dramma did ever produce and though I would not put his modesty to the blush by speaking too much in his Commendation yet I know you will agree with me upon your better acquaintance with him that there is some difference in point of Wit betwixt the Mayor of Quinborough and the Mayor of Huntingdon Drammatis Personae Constantius Aurelius Ambrosius Uther Pendragon Vortiger Hengist Horsus Devonshire British Lord Stafford British Lord Gentlemen Symon Oliver Taylour Barber Aminadab Footmen Souldiers Cheaters Castiza Roxena Ladies Raynulph Monck of Chester Germanus Monck Lupus Monck Grasiers The Mayor of Quinborough ACT. 1. SCENA 1. Enter Raynulph Ray. WHat Raynulph Monck of Chester can Raise from his Polycranicon That raiseth him as works do men To see long parted light agen That best may please this round fair ring With sparkling Diamonds circled in I shall produce If all my powers Can win the grace of two poor hours Well apaid I go to rest Ancient stories have been best Fashions that are now call'd new Have been worn by more then you Elder times have us'd the same Though these new ones get the name So in story what now told That takes not part with days of old Then to approve times mutual glory Joyn new times love to old times story Exit Shouts within Then Enter Vortiger Vor. Will that wide throated Beast the multitude Never leave bellowing Courtiers are ill Advised when they first make such Monsters How neer was I to a Scepter and a Crown Fair Power was even upon me my desires Were casting glory till this forked Rabble With their infectious Acclamations Poyson'd my Fortunes for Constantines sons Well though I rise not King I 'le seek the means To grow as neer to one as policy can And choak their expectations Now good Lords Enter Devon and Stafford In whose kind loves and wishes I am built As high as humane dignity can aspire Are yet those Truncks that have no other souls But noise and ignorance something more quiet Devon Nor are they like to be for ought we gather Their wills are up still nothing can appease them Good speeches are but cast away upon them Vor. Then since necessity and fate withstand me I 'le strive to enter at a straighter passage Your sudden aid and counsels good my Lords Staff They are ours no longer then they do you service Enter Constantius as a Monck attended by other Moncks Vortiger stays him Vor. Vessels of sanctity be pleas'd a while To give attention to the general peace Wherein Heaven is serv'd too though not so purely Constantius eldest son of Constantine We here seize on thee for the general good And in thy right of Birth Con. On me for what Lords Vor. The Kingdome Government Con. Oh powers of Blessedness Keep me from growing downwards into earth again I hope I am further on my way then so set forwards Vor. You must not Con. How Vor. I know your wisdom Will light upon a way to pardon us When you shall read in every Britains brow The urg'd necessity of the times Con. What necessity can there be in the world But prayer and repentance and that business I am about now Vor. Hark afar off still We lose and hazard much holy Germanus And Reverend Lupus with all expedition Set the Crown on him Con. No such mark of Fortune Comes neer my head Vor. My Lord we are forc'd to rule you Con. Dare you receive Heavens light in at your Eye-lids And offer violence to Religion Take heed the very Beam let in to comfort you May be the fire to burn you On these knees Hardned with zealous Prayers I entreat you Bring not my cares into the world again Think with how much unwillingness and anguish A glorified Soul parted from the Body Would to that loathsome Gaol again return With such great pain a well subdued affection Re-enters wordly business Vor. Good my Lord I know you cannot lodge so many Vertues But Patience must be one As low as earth We beg the freeness of your own consent Which else must be constrain'd and time it were Either agreed or forc'd Speak good my Lord For you bind up more sins in this delay Then thousand Prayers can absolve again Con. Were 't but my death you should not kneel so long for 't Vor. 'T will be the death of Millions if you rise not And that betimes too Lend your help my Lords For fear all come too late Con. This is a Cruelty That peaceful man did never suffer yet To make me dye again that once was dead And begin all that ended long before Hold Lupus and Germanus you are lights Of Holiness and Religion can you offer The thing that is not lawful stand not I Clear from all temporal charge by my profession Ger. Not when a time so violent calls upon you Who is born a Prince is born a general peace Not his own only Heaven will look for him In others actions and will require him there What is in you religious must be shown In saving many more Souls then your own Con. Did not great Constantine our Noble Father Deem me unfit for Government and Rule And therefore prais'd me into this profession Which I have held strict and love it above glory Nor is there want of me your selves can witness Heaven hath provided largely for your peace And bless'd you with the lives of my two Brothers Fix your obedience there leave me a Servant All Long live Constantius Son of Constantine King of Great Britain Con. I do feel a want And extream poverty of Joy within The peace I had is parted mongst rude men To keep them quiet I have lost it all What can the Kingdom gain by my undoing That riches is not
best though it be mighty That 's purchas'd by the ruine of another Nor can the peace so filch'd ever thrive with them And if 't be worthily held Sacriledge To rob a Temple 't is no less offence To ravish meditations from the Soul The consecrated Altar in a man And all their hopes will be beguil'd in me I know no more the way to temporal Rule Then he that 's born and has his years come to him In a rough desart well may the weight kill me And that 's the fairest good I look for from it Vor. Not so great King here stoops a faithful servant Would sooner perish under it with cheerfulness Then your meek Soul should feel oppression Of ruder cares such common coarse employments Cast upon me your servant upon Vortiger I see you are not made for noise and pains Clamours of Suitors Injuries and Redresses Millions of Actions rising with the Sun Like Laws still ending and yet never done Of power to turn a great man to the state Of his marble Monument with over-watching To be oppress'd is not requir'd of you my Lord But only to be King the broken sleeps Let me take from you Sir the toyls and troubles All that is burthenous in Authority Please you lay it on me and what is glorious Receive it to your own brightness Con. Worthy Vortiger If 't were not sin to grieve anothers patience With what we cannot tolerate our self How happy were I in thee and thy love There 's nothing makes man feel his miseries But knowledge only reason that is plac'd For mans director is his chief afflictor For though I cannot bear the weight my self I cannot have that barrenness of remorse To see another groan under my burthen Vor. I am quite blown up a conscionable way There 's even a trick of murthering in some pity The death of all my hopes I see already There was no other likelihood for Religion Was never friend of mine yet Con. Holy Partners in strictest abstinence Cruel necessity hath forc'd me from you We part I fear for ever but in mind I will be always here here let me stay Devon My Lord you know the times Con. Farewel blest Souls I fear I shall offend Ex. all but Vor He that draws tears from you takes your best frend Vor. Can the great motion of Ambition stand Like wheels false wrought by an unskilful hand Then time stand thou too let no hopes arrive At their sweet wishfulness till mine set forwards Would I could stay the existence as I can Thy glassie counterfeit in hours of sand I 'ld keep thee turn'd down till my wishes rose Then wee 'ld both rise together What several Inclinations are in nature How much is he disquieted and wears Royalty Disdainfully upon him like a Curse Calls a fair Crown the weight of his afflictions When here 's a Soul would sink under the burthen Yet well recovered I will use all means To vex authority from him and in all Study what most may discontent his bloud Making my Masque my Zeal to the publick good Not possible a richer policy Can have conception in the thought of man Enter two Grasiers 1 Gra. An honourable life enclose your Lordship Vor. Now what are you 2 Gra. Grasiers if 't like your Lordship Vor. So it should seem by your Enclosures What 's your affair with me 1 Gra. We are your Petitioners My Lord Vor. For what depart Petitioners to me You have well deserved my grace and favour have you not a Ruler After your own Election hye you to Court Get neer and close be loud and bold enough You cannot chuse but speed Exit 2 Gra. If that will doe 't We have throats wide enough wee 'l put them to 't Exeunt Dumb show Fortune discovered in her hand a round Ball full of Lots then enters Hengist and Horsus with others they draw Lots and having opened them all depart save Hengist and Horsus who kneel and embrace then enter Roxena seeming to take leave of Hengist in great passion but more especially and warily of Horsus her Lover she departs one way Hengist and Horsus another Enter Raynulph Ray. When Germany was over-grown With Sons of peace too thickly sown Several guides were chosen then By destin'd Lots to lead out men And they whom Fortune here withstands Must prove their Fates in other Lands On these two Captains fell the Lot But that which must not be forgot Was Roxena's cunning grief Who from her Father like a thief Hid her best and truest tears Which her lustful Lover wears In many a stoln and wary kiss Unseen of Father Maids do this Yet highly scorn to be call'd Strumpets too But what they lack of 't I 'le be judg'd by you Exit Enter Vortiger Feltmonger Button-maker Grasier Petitioners Vor. This way his Majesty comes All Thank your good Lordship Vor. When you hear you door open All Very good my Lord Vor. Be ready with your several suits put forward Gres. That 's a thing every man does naturally Sir That is a Suitor and doth mean to speed Vor. 'T is well you are so deep learn'd take no denials All No my good Lord Vor. Not any if you love The prosperity of your Suits you marre all utterly And overthrow your fruitful hopes for ever If either fifth or sixth nay tenth repulse Fasten upon your bashfulness All Say you so my Lord We can be troublesome if we list Vor. I know it I felt it but too late in the general summe Of your ranck Brother-hood which now I thank you for While this vexation is in play I 'le study For a second then a third to that one still To vex another that he shall be glad To yield up power if not it shall be had Exit But. Hark I protest my heart was coming upwards I thought the door had opened Gras. Marry would it had Sir But. I have such a treacherous heart of my own 't will throbb At the very fall of a Farthingale Gras. Not if it fall on the rushes But. Yes truly if there be no light in the room I shall throbb presently The first time it took me my wife was in the company I remember the room was not half so light as this But I 'le be sworn I was a whole hour in finding her Gras. Berlady y 'had a long time of throbbing of it then But. Still I felt men but I could feel no women I thought they had been all sunk I have made a Vox for 't I 'le never have meeting while I live by Candle-light again Gras. Yes Sir in Lanthorns But. Yes Sir in Lanthorns But I 'le never trust candle naked again Gras. Hark hark stand close it opens now indeed Enter Constantius and two Gentlemen But. Oh Majesty what art thou I 'ld give any man Half my Suit to deliver my petition It is in the behalf Of Button-makers and so it seems by my flesh Con. Pray do not follow me unless you do it To wonder
And having a Coach ready turns her in Hurrying her where he list for the sins safety Making a rape of honour without words And at the low ebb of his lust perhaps Some three days after sends her coach'd again To the same place and which would make most mad She 's robb'd of all yet knows not where she 's robb'd There 's the dear precious mischief Vor. Is this practis'd Hor. Too much my Lord to be so little known A Sprindge to catch a Maiden-head after Sun-set Clip it and send it home again to the City There 't will ne're be perceiv'd Vor. My raptures want expression I conceit enough to make me fortunate and thee great Exit Hor. I praise it then my Lord I knew 't would take Exit ACT. 3. SCENA 2. Enter Castiza with a Book and two Ladies Cast. MEthinks you live strange lives When I see it not It grieves me less you know how to ease me then If you but knew how well I lov'd your absence You would bestow it upon me without asking 1 La. Faith for my part were it no more for Ceremony then for Love You should walk long enough without my attendance And so think all my Fellows though they say nothing Books in womens hands are as much against the hair methinks As to see men wear stomachers or night rayles She that has the Green-sickness and should follow her counsel Would dye like an Ass and go to the worms like a sallad Not I so long as such a Creature as man is made She is a fool that knows not what he is good for Exeunt Ladies Cast. Though among lives elections that of Virgin I did speak noblest of yet it has pleas'd the King To send me a contented blessedness In that of marriage which I ever doubted Enter Vortiger and Horsus disguised I see the Kings affection was a true one It lasts and holds out long that 's no mean vertue In a commanding man though in great fear At first I was enforc'd to venture on it Vor. All 's happy clear and safe Hor. The rest comes gently on Vor. Be sure you seize on her full sight at first For fear of my discovery Hor. Now fortune and I am sped Cast. Treason treason Hor. Sirrah how stand you prevent noise and clamour Or death shall end thy Service Vor. A sure Cunning Cast. Oh rescue rescue Hor. Dead her voice away make speed Cast. No help no succour Hor. Louder yet extend Your voice to the last rack you shall have leave now Y' are far from any pity Cast. What 's my sin Hor. Contempt of man and he 's a noble Creature And takes it in ill part to be despis'd Cast. I never despis'd any Hor: No you hold us Unworthy to be lov'd what call you that Cast. I have a Lord disproves you Hor. Pish your Lord Y' are bound to love your Lord that is no thanks to you You should love those you are not tyed to love That 's the right tryal of a womans Charity Cast. I know not what you are nor what my fault is If it be life you seek what ere you be Use no immodest words and take it from me You kill me more in talking sinfully Then acting Cruelty be so far pitiful To end me without words Hor. Long may you live 'T is the wish of a good Subject 't is not life That I thirst after Loyalty forbid I should commit such Treason you mistake me I have no such bloudy thought only your love Shall content me Cast. What said you Sir Hor. Thus plainly To strip my words as naked as my purpose I must and will enjoy thee gone already Look to her bear her up she goes apace I fear'd this still and therefore came provided There 's that will fetch life from a dying spark And make it spred a Furnace she 's well straight Pish let her go she stands upon my knowledge Or else she counterfeits I know the vertue Cast. Never did sorrows in afflicted woman Meet with such cruelties such hard hearted ways Humane invention never found before To call back life to live is but ill taken By some departing Soul then to force mine back To an eternal act of death in lust What is it but most execrable Hor. So so But this is from my business list to me Here you are now far from all hope of friendship Save what you make in me scape me you cannot Send your Soul that assurance that resolv'd on You know not who I am nor ever shall I need not fear you then but give consent Then with the faithfulness of a true friend I 'le open my self to you fall your servant As I do now in hope proud of submission And seal the deed up with eternal secresie Not death shall pluck it from me much less the Kings Authority or torture Vor. I admire him Cast. Oh Sir what e're you are I teach my knee Thus to requite you be content to take Only my sight as ransom for my honour And where you have but mock'd my eyes with darkness Pluck them quite out all outward lights of body I 'le spare most willingly but take not from me That which must guide me to another world And leave me dark for ever fast without That cursed pleasure which will make two souls Endure a famine everlastingly Hor. This almost moves Vor. By this light he 'le be taken Hor. I 'le wrestle down all pity what will you consent Cast. I 'le never be so guilty Hor. Farewell words then You hear no more of me but thus I seize you Cast. Oh if a power above be reverenc'd by thee I bind thee by that name by manhood nobleness Vort. snatches her away And all the charms of honour Hor. Ah ha here 's one caught For an example never was poor Lady So mock'd into false terrour with what anguish She lyes with her own Lord now she could curse All into barrenness and beguil her self by it Conceit 's a powerful thing and is indeed Plac'd as a palate to taste grief or love And as that relishes so we approve Hence comes it that our taste is so beguil'd Changing pure bloud for some that 's mix'd and soil'd Exeunt ACT. 3. SCENA 3. Enter Hengist Heng. A Fair and fortunate Constellation reign'd When we set foot here for from his first gift Which to a Kings unbounded eyes seem'd nothing The Compass of a Hide I have erected A strong and spacious Castle yet contain'd my self Within my limits without check or censure Thither with all th' observance of a Subject The liveliest witness of a grateful mind I purpose to invite him and his Queen And feast them nobly Bar. We will enter Sir 'T is a state business of a twelve moneth long The chusing of a Mayor Heng. What noise is that Tay. Sir we must speak with the good Earl of Kent Though we were never brought up to keep a door We are as honest Sir as some that do Enter a Gentleman Heng.
at my garments there 's no cause I give you why you should 'c is shame enough Methinks to look upon my self It grieves me that more should the other weeds Became me better but the Lords are pleas'd To force me to wear these I would not else I pray be satisfied I call'd you not Wonder of madness can you stand so idle And know that you must dye 1 Gent. We are all commanded Sir Besides it is our duties to your grace To give attendance Con. What a wild thing is this No marvel though you tremble at deaths name When you 'l not see the cause why you are fools For Charities sake desist here I pray you Make not my presence guilty of your sloth Withdraw young men and find you honest business 2 Gent. What hopes have we to rise by following him I 'le give him over shortly 1 Gent. He 's too nice Too holy for young Gentlemen to follow That have good faces and sweet running fortunes Con. Eight hours a day in serious contemplation Is but a bare allowance no higher food To the Soul then bread and water to the body And that 's but needful then more would do better But. Let us all kneel together 't will move pity I have been at the begging of a hundred Suits Con. How happy am I in the sight of you Here are religious souls that lose not time With what devotion do they point at Heaven And seem to check me that am too remiss I bring my zeal among you holy men If I see any kneel and I sit out That hour is not well spent methinks strict souls You have been of some Order in your times Gras. Grasiers and Braziers some and this a Felt-maker But. Here 's his Petition and mine if it like your Grace Gras. Look upon mine I am the longest Suitor I was undone seven years ago Con. You have mockt my good hopes call you these Petitions Why there 's no form of Prayer among them all But. Yes in the bottom there 's half a line prays for your Majesty If you look on mine Con. Make your requests to Heaven not to me But. 'Las mine 's a supplication for brass buttons Sir Felt. There 's a great enormity in wool I beseech your Grace consider it Gra. Pastures rise 2d an acre what will this world come to But. I do beseech your Grace Gra. Good your Grace Con. Oh this is one of my afflictions That with the Crown enclos'd me I must bear it Gra. Your Graces answer to my supplication But. Mine my Lord Con. No violent storm lasts ever that 's the comfort of it Felt. Your Highness answer Gra. We are almost all undone the Country begger'd But. See see he points at Heaven as who should say There 's enough there but 't is a great way thither There 's no good to be done I see that already We may all spend our mouths like a company of Hounds In chase of a Royal Deer and then go home And fall to cold mutton bones when we have done Gra. My wife will hang me that 's my currish destiny Exeunt Con. Thanks Heaven 't is over now we should never know rightly The sweetness of a calm but for a storm Here 's a wish'd hour for contemplation now All 's still and silent here is a true Kingdom Enter Vortiger Vor. My Lord Con. Again Vor. Alas this is but early And gentle to the troups of businesses That flock about Authority You must forthwith Settle your mind to marry Con. How to marry Vor. And suddenly there 's no pause to be given The peoples wills are violent and covetous Of a succession from your Loyns Con. From me there can come none a profess'd abstinence Hath set a Virgin Seal upon my bloud And alter'd all the Course the heat I have Is all enclos'd within a zeal to vertue And that 's not fit for earthly propagation Alas I shall but forfeit all their hopes I 'me a man made without desires tell them Vor. I prov'd them with such words but all were fruitless A Virgin of the highest Subjects bloud They have pickt out for your embrace and send her Blest with their general wishes into fruitfulness Enter Castiza Lo where she comes my Lord Con. I never felt Th' unhappy hand of misery till this touch A patience I could find for all but this Cast. My Lord your vow'd love ventures me but dangerously Vor. 'T is but to strengthen a vexation politique Cast. That 's an uncharitable practice trust me Sir Vor. No more of that Cast. But say he should affect me Sir How should I scape him then I have but one faith my Lord And that you have already our late contract is a divine witness to 't Vor. I am not void of shifting rooms and helps For all projects that I commit with you Exit Cast. This is an ungodly way to come to honour I do not like it I love Lord Vortiger But not these practices th' are too uncharitable Con. Are you a Virgin Cast. Never yet my Lord Known to the will of man Con. Oh blessed Creature And does too much felicity make you surfeit Are you in soul assur'd there is a state Prepar'd for you for you a glorious one In midst of Heaven now in the state you stand in And had you rather after much known misery Cares and hard labours mingled with a curse Throng but to the door and hardly get a place there Think hath the world a folly like this madness Keep still that holy and immaculate fire You chast lump of eternity 't is a treasure Too precious for deaths moment to partake This twinckling of short life disdain as much To let mortality know you as stars to kiss the pavements y'have a substance As excellent as theirs holding your pureness They look upon corruption as you do But are stars still be you a Virgin too Cast. I 'le never marry what though my truth be engag'd To Vortiger forsaking all the world I save it well and do my faith no wrong Y'have mightily prevail'd great vertuous Sir I am bound eternally to praise your goodness My thoughts henceforth shall be as pure from man As ever made a Virgins name immortal Con. I will do that for joy I never did As he kisses her Enter Vortiger and Gentlemen Nor ever will again Gent. My Lord he 's taken Vor. I am sorry for 't I like not that so well Th' are something too familiar for their time methinks This way of kissing is no way to vex him Why I that have a weaker faith and patience Could endure more then that coming from a woman Dispatch and bring his answer speedily Exit Gent. My Lord my gracious Lord Con. Beshrew thy heart Gent. They all attend your Grace Con. I would not have them 'T would please me better if they 'ld all depart And leave me to my self or put me out And take it to themselves Gent. The Noon is past Meat 's on the table Con.
to make doubt of it You question things that horror long ago Resolv'd us on Vor. Give me leave Horsus though Hor. Do what you will Sir question them again I 'le tell them to you Vor. Not so Sir I will not have them told again Hor. It rests then Vor. That 's an ill word put in when thy heart knows There is no rest at all but torment making Hor. True my heart finds it that sits weeping bloud now For poor Roxena's safety You 'l confess my Lord My love to you has brought me to this danger I could have liv'd like Hengist King of Kent London York Lincoln and Winchester Under the power of my Command the portion Of my most just desert enjoyed now By pettier Deservers Vor. Say you so Sir And you 'l confess since you began Confession A thing I should have died e're I had thought on Y'have mari'd the fashion of your affection utterly In your own wicked counsel there you paid me You were bound in conscience to love me after You were bound to 't as men in honesty That vitiate Virgins to give Dowries to them My faith was pure before to a faithful woman Hor. My Lord my Counsel Vor. Why I 'le be judg'd by these That knit death in their Brows and hold me now Not worth the acception of a flattery Most of whose faces smil'd when I smil'd once my Lords Uth. Reply not Brother Vor. Seeds of scorn I mind you not I speak to them alone whose force makes yours a power Which else were none Shew me the main food of your hate Which cannot be the Murther of Constantius That crawls in your Revenges for your loves Were violent long since that 1 Lo. And had been still If from that Pagan wound th'hadst kept thee free But when thou fledd'st from Heaven we fled from thee Vor. This was your Counsel now Hor. Mine 't was the Counsel Of your own lust and bloud your appetite knows it Vor. May thunder strike me from these walls my Lords And leave me many Leagues off from your eyes If this be not the man whose Stygian Soul Breath'd forth that counsel to me and sole Plotter Of all those false injurious disgraces That have abus'd the vertuous patience Of our Religious Queen Hor. A Devil in madness Vor. Upon whose life I swear there sticks no stain But what 's most wrongful and where now she thinks A rape dwells on her honour only I Her Ravisher was and his the Policy Aur. Inhumane practice Vor. Now you know the truth Will his death serve your fury Hor. My death Vor. Say will it do it Hor. Say they should say 't would doe 't Vor. Why then it must Hor. It must Vor. It shall speak but the word it shall be yielded up Hor. Believe him not he cannot do it Vor. Cannot Hor. 'T is but a false and base Insinuation For his own life and like his late submission Vor. Oh sting to honour alive or dead thou goest Stabs him For that words rudeness only 1 Lo. See sin needs No other destruction then it breeds in its own bosom Vor. Such another brings him Hor. What has thy vile rage stamp'd a wound upon me I 've send one to thy soul shall never heal for 't Vor. How to my soul Hor. It shall be thy master-torment Both for the pain and the everlastingness Vor. Ha ha ha Hor. Dost laugh take leave of it all eternity Shall never see thee do so much again Know th' art a Cuckold Vor. What! Hor. You change too soon Sir Roxena whom th' hast rais'd to thy own ruine She was my Whore in Germany Vor. Burst me open the violence of whirl-winds Hor. Hear me out first For her embrace which my flesh yet sits warm in I was thy friend and follower Vor. Deafen me Thou most imperious noise that starts the world Hor. And to serve both our lusts I practis'd with thee Against thy vertuous Queen Vor. Bane to all Comforts Hor. Whose faithful sweetness too precious for thy bloud I made thee change for loves Hypocrisie Vor. Insufferable Hor. Only to make my way to pleasure fearless free fluent Vor. Hells Trump is in that throat Hor. It shall sound shriller They stab each other Rox. enters in fear Vor. I 'le damme it up with death first Rox. Oh for succour Who 's neer me help me save me the flame follows me 'T is in the figure of young Vortimer the Prince Whose life I took by poyson Hor. Hold out breath and I shall find thee quickly Vor. I 'le tug thy soul out here Hor. Do Monster Rox. Vortiger Vor. Monster Rox. My Lord Vor. Toad Pagan Hor. Viper Christian Rox. Oh hear me Oh help me my Love my Lord 't is here Horsus look up if not to succour me To see me yet consum'd oh what is love When life is not regarded Vor. What strength 's left I 'le fix upon thy throat Both stab Hor. falls Hor. I have some force yet Rox. No way to scape is this the end of glory Doubly beset with enemies wrath and fire It comes nearer rivers and fountains fall It sucks away my breath I cannot give A curse to sin and hear 't out while I live Help help She falls Vor. Burn burn now I can tend thee Take time with her in torment call her life A far off to thee dry up her strumpet-bloud And hard y parch the skin let one heat strangle her Another fetch her to her sense again And the worst pain be only her reviving Follow her eternally oh mystical Harlot Thou hast thy full due whom lust crown'd Queen before Flames crown her now a most triumphant Whore And that end crowns them all He falls Aur. Our peace is full In you Usurpers fall nor have I known A Judgement meet more fearfully Here take this Ring deliver the good Queen And those grave pledges of her murthered honour Her worthy Father and her noble Uncle How now the meaning of these sounds Enter Hengist Devon Staf. Soldiers Heng. The Consumer has been here she 's gone she 's lost In glowing Cinders now lye all my joys The headlong Fortune of my rash Captivity Strikes not so deep a wound into my hopes As thy dear loss Aur. Her Father and her Uncle 1 Lo. They are indeed my Lord Aur. Part of my wishes What fortunate power has prevented me And e're my love came brought them victory 1 Lo. My wonder sticks in Hengist King of Kent Devon My Lord to make that plain which now I see Fix'd in astonishment the only name Of your Return and Being brought such gladness To this distracted Kingdom that to express A thankfulness to Heaven it grew great In charitable Actions from which goodness We taste our liberty who liv'd engag'd Upon the Innocence of womans honour A kindness that even threatned to undo us And having newly but enjoy'd the benefit And fruits of our enlargement 't was our happiness To intercept this Monster of Ambition Bred in these times of Usurpation The ranckness of whose Insolence and Treason Grew to such height 't was arm'd to bid you Battle Whom as our fames Redemption on our knees We present Captive Aur. Had it needed reason You richly came provided I understood Not your deserts till now my honoured Lords Is this that German Saxon whose least thirst Could not be satisfied under a Province Heng. Had but my fate directed this bold arm To thy life the whole Kingdome had been mine That was my hopes great aim I have a thirst Could never have been full quench'd under all The whole must doe 't or nothing Aur. A strange draught And what a little ground shall death now teach you To be content withal Heng. Why let it then For none else can y'have nam'd the only way To limit my Ambition a full cure For all my fading hopes and sickly fears Nor shall it be less we come to me now Then a fresh acquisition would have been Unto my new built Kingdoms Life to me Less it be glorious is a misery Aur. That pleasure we will do you Lead him out And when we have inflicted our just doom On his usurping head it will become Our pious care to see this Realm secur'd From the Convulsions it hath long endur'd Exeunt omnes FINIS