day in which the World should perish by fire Lastly they had their Priests Temples Altars We have seen now the Parallel let us enquire whether those things they seem to have in common with us we have not in a more excellent manner and whether the rest in which we differ from all the world we take not up with reason To begin then with their Jupiter for all before were but little stealthes from Moses workes how much more like a Deity are the actions our stories declare our God to have done then what the Ethnick Authors deliver of theirs How excellently elevated are our descriptions of him Theirs looking as if they knew that power onely by their fears as their Statues erected to him declare for when he was Capitolinus he appeard with thunder when Latiaris besmear'd with blood when Feretrius yet more terrible We may ghesse what their conceptions were by the worship they gave him How full of cruelty were their sacrifices it being received almost through the whole world that gods were pleased with the blood of men and this custom neither the Grecian Wisdom nor Roman Civility abolished as appears by sacrifices to Bacchus Then the ceremonies of Liber Pater and Ceres how obscene and those daies which were set a part for the honour of the gods celebrated with such shews as Cato himself was ashamed to be present at On the contrary our services are such as not only Cato but God himself may be there we worship him that is the purest Spirit in purity of spirit and did we not beleeve what the Scriptures deliver from himfelf yet would our reason perswade us that such an Essence could not be pleased with the blood of beasts or delighted with the steam of fat and in this particular Christians have gone beyond all others except the Mahometans besides whom there has been no Nation that had not sacrifice and was not guilty of this pious cruelty That we have the same vertues with them is very true but who can deny that those vertues have received additions from Christianity conducing to mens better living together revenge of injuries Moses both took himself and allowed by the Law to others Cicero and Aristotle placed it in vertues quarter We extol patient bearing of injuries and what quiet the one what trouble the other would give the world let the indifferent judge Their justice only took care that men should not do wrong ours that they should not think it the very coveting severely forbidden and this holds too in chastity desire of a woman unlawfully being as much a breach of the commandement as their enjoying which shew'd not only the Christians care but wisdom to prevent ill who provided to destroy it where it was weakest in the Cradle and declared He was no lesse then a God which gave them these Laws for had he been but man he never would have provided or taken care for what he could not look into the hearts of Men and what he could not punish their thoughts What Charity can be produced answerable to that of Christians Look upon the Primitive times and you shall find that as if the whole World had been but a private Family they sent from Province to Province and from Places farre distant to Releeve them they never saw nor knew Now for the happinesse which they proposed if they take it as the Heathens understood it it was an Elizium a place of blessed shades at best but a handsom retirement from the troubles of this World if according to the duller Jewes Feastings and Banquettings for it is evident that the Sadduces who were great observerâ— of the Mosaical Law had but faint thoughts of any thing to come there being in Moses books no promises but of Temporal blessings and if any an obscure mention of eternity The Mahometans are no lesse sensual making the renewing of youth high Feasts a woman with great eyes and drest up with a little more fancie the last and best good Then the hell How gentle with the Heathens but the rowling of a stone filling of a sieve with water sitting before Banquets and not daring to touch them exercising the trade and businesses they had on earth with the Mahometans but a Purgatory acted in the grave some pains inflicted by a bad Angel and those qualified and mitigated too by an assisting good one Now for the Jewes as they had no hopes so they had no fears so that if we consider it rightly neither their punishments were great enough to deter them from doing ill nor their rewards high enough to invite men to strictnes of life for since every man is able to make as good a heaven of his own it were unreasonable to perswade him to quit that certain happines for an uncertainty whereas Christians with as much more noble consideration both in their heaven and hell took care not onely for the body but the soul and for both above mans apprehension The strangest though most Epidemical disease of all Religions has been an imagination men have had that the imposing painful and difficult things upon themselves was the best way to appease the Deity grosly thinking the chief service and delight of the Creator to consist in the tortures and sufferings of the Creature How laden with chargeable and unnecessary Ceremonies the Jews were their feasts circumcisions sacrifices great Sabbaths and little Sabbaths fasts burials indeed almost all their worship sufficiently declare and that the Mahometans are much more infected appeares by the cutting of the Praepuces wearing iron rings in the skin of their Fore parts launcing themselves with knives putting out their eyes upon the sight of their Prophets Tombe and the like Of these last we can shew no patterns amongst us for though there be such a thing as whipping of the body yet it is but in some parts of Christendom and there perchance too more smil'd at then practis'd Our Religion teacheth us to bear afflictions patiently when they fall upon us but not to force them upon our selves for we beleeve the God we serve wise enough to chuse his owne service and therefore presume not to adde to his commands With the Jews it is true we have somthing in common but rather the names then thinges Our Fasts being more the medicines of the body then the punishments of it spiritual as our Sabbaths both good mens delight not their trouble But least this discourse should swell into a greatnesse such as would make it look rather like a defence which I had labour'd to get then an accompt which I alwaies carry about me I will now briefly examine whether we beleeve not with reason those things we have different from the rest of the world First then for the perswasion of the truth of them in general let us consider what they were that conveigh'd them to us men of all the world the most unlikely to plot the cozenage of others being themselves but simple people without ends without designes seeking
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
wav'ring thought if thy flame Were not still even still the same Know this Thou lov'st amisse And to love true Thou must begin again and love anew 2. If when she appears i' th' room Thou dost not quake and art struck dumb And in striving this to cover Dost not speak thy words twice over Know this Thou lov'st amisse And to love true Thou must begin again and love anew 3. If fondly thou dost not mistake And all defects for graces take Perswad'st thy self that jeasts are broken When she hath little or nothing spoken Know this Thou lov'st amisse And to love true Thou must begin again and love anew 4. If when thou appear'st to be within Thou lett'st not men ask and ask agen And when thou answer'st if it be To what was askt thee properly Know this Thou lov'st amisse And to love true Thou must begin again and love anew 5. If when thy stomack calls to eat Thou cutt'st not fingers ' steed of meat And with much gazing on her face Dost not rise hungry from the place Know this Thou lov'st amisse And to love true Thou must begin again and love anew 6. If by this thou dost discover That thou art no perfect Lover And desiring to love true Thou dost begin to love anew Know this Thou lov'st amisse And to love true Thou must begin again and love anew Vpon two Sisters BEleev't yong Man I can as eas'ly tell How many yards and inches 't is to hell Unriddle all predestination Or the nice points we now dispute upon Had the three Goddesses been just as fair It had not been so easily decided And sure the apple must have been divided It must it must hee 's impudent dares say Which is the handsomer till one 's away And it was necessary it should be so Wise Nature did foresee it and did know When she had fram'd the Eldest that each heart Must at the first sight feel the blind-god's dart And sure as can be had she made but one No plague had been more sure destruction For we had lik't lov'd burnt to ashes too In half the time that we are chusing now Variety and equal objects make The busie eye still doubtful which to take This lip this hand this foot this eye this face The others body gesture or her grace And whilst we thus dispute which of the two We unresolv'd go out and nothing do He sure is happy'st that has hopes of either Next him is he that sees them both together To his Rival NOw we have taught our Love to know That it must creep where 't cannot go And be for once content to live Since here it cannot have to thrive It will not be amisse t' enquire What fuel should maintain this fire For fires do either flame too high Or where they cannot flame they die First then my half but better heart Know this must wholy be her part For thou and I like Clocks are wound Up to the height and must move round She then by still denying what We fondly crave shall such a rate Set on each trifle that a kisse Shall come to be the utmost blisse Where sparks and fire do meet with tinder Those sparks meer fire will still engender To make this good no debt shall be From service or fidelity For she shall ever pay that score By onely bidding us do more So though she still a niggard be In graceing where none's due shee 's free The favors she shall cast on us Least we should grow presumptuous Shall not with too much love be shown Nor yet the common way still done But ev'ry smile and little glance Shall look half lent and half by chance The Ribbon Fan or Muffe that she Would should be kept by thee or me Should not be giv'n before to many But neither thrown to 's when there 's any So that her self should doubtful be Whether 't were fortune flung't or she She shall not like the thing we do Sometimes and yet shall like it too Nor any notice take at all Of what we gone she would extol Love she shall feed but fear to nourish For where fear is love cannot flourish Yet live it must nay must and shall While Desdemona is at all But when shee 's gone then Love shall die And in her grave buried lie Farewel to Love 1. WEll shadow'd Landskip fare-ye-well How I have lov'd you none can tell At least so well As he that now hates more Then e're he lov'd before 2. But my dear nothings take your leave No longer must you me deceive Since I perceive All the deceit and know Whence the mistake did grow 3. As he whose quicker eye doth trace A false star shot to a mark't place Do's run apace And thinking it to catch A gelly up do's snatch 4. So our dull souls tasting delight Far off by sence and appetite Think that is right And real good when yet 'T is but the Counterfeit 5. Oh! how I glory now that I Have made this new discovery Each wanton eye Enflam'd before no more Will I encrease that score 6. If I gaze now 't is but to see What manner of deaths-head 't will be When it is free From that fresh upper skin The gazers Joy and sin 7. The Gun and glist'ning which with art And studi'd method in each part Hangs down the heart Looks just as if that day Snails there had crawl'd the Hay 8. The Locks that curl'd o're each eare be Hang like two Master-worms to me That as we see Have tasted to the rest Two holes where they lik't best 9. A quick coarse me-thinks I spy In ev'ry woman and mine eye At passing by Check and is troubled just As if it rose from Dust 10. They mortifie not heighten me These of my sins the Glasses be And here I see How I have lov'd before And so I love no more FINIS LETTERS To divers Eminent PERSONAGES Written on several Occasions By Sir JOHN SUCKLING Printed by his owne Copy LONDON Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Princes Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard 1646. FOrtune and Love have ever been so incompatible that it is no wonder Madam if having had so much of the one for you I have ever found so little of the other for my self Comming to Town and having rid as if I had brought intelligence of a new-landed Enemy to the State I find you gone the day before and with you Madam all that is considerable upon the place for though you have left behind you faces whose beauties might well excuse perjury in others yet in me they cannot since to the making that no sin Loves Casuists have most rationally resolved that she for whom we forsake ought to be handsomer then the forsaken which would be here impossible So that now a gallerie hung with Titians or Vandikes hand and a chamber filled with living Excellence are the same things to me and the
for ever Zir. For ever I there 's it For in those Groves thou talk'st of There are so many by-wayes and odd rurnings Leading unto such wild and dismall places That should we goe without a guide or stir Before Heav'n calls 't is strongly to be feared We there should wander up and downe for ever And be benighted to eternitie Agl. Benighted to eternitie What 's that Zir. Why 't is to be benighted to eternitie To sit i' th' darke and doe I know not what Unriddle at our owne sad cost and charge The doubts the learned here doe onely move Agl. What place have murtherers brother there for sure The murtherer of the Prince must have A punishment that Heaven is yet to make Zir. How is religion fool'd betwixt our loves And feares poore Girle for ought that thou hast done Thy Chaplets may be faire and flourishing As his in the Elysium Agl. Doe you thinke so Zir. Yes I doe thinke so The juster Judges of our Actions Would they have been severe upon Our weaknesses Would sure have made us stronger Fie those teares A Bride upon the marriage day as properly Might shed as thou here widowes doo 't And marrie next day after To such a funerall as this there should be nothing common Wee 'll mourne him so that those that are alive Shall thinke themselves more buried far than hee And wish to have his grave to find his Obsequies But stay the Body Brings up the body she swounâ— and dies Agen Sister Aglaura O speake once more once more looke out faire Soule Shee 's gone Irrevocably gone And winging now the Aire Like a glad bird broken from some cage Poore Bankrupt heart when ' thad not wherewithall To pay to sad disaster all that was its due It broke would mine would doe so too My soule is now within mee Like a well metled Hauke on a blind Faulk'ners fist Me thinkes I feele it baiting to be gone And yet I have a little foolish businesse here On earth I will dispatch Exit Enter Pasithas with the body of Ariaspes Pas Let me be like my burthen here if I had not as lieve kill two of the Bloud-royall for him as carrie one of them These Gentlemen of high actions are three times as heavie after death as your private retir'd ones looke if he be not reduc'd to the state of a Courtier of the second forme now and cannot stand upon his owne legs nor doe any thing without helpe Hum. And what 's become of the great Prince in prison as they call it now the toy within us that makes us talke and laugh and fight I why there 's it well let him be what he will and where he will I 'le make bold with the old Tenement here Come Sir come along Exit Enter Ziriff Zir. All 's 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 For lust does take as little rest as care or age Courting her glasse I sweare fie that 's a flatterer Madam In me you shal see trulier what you are Knocks Ent. the 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 free from the great load Wee sweat and labour under here on earth Be to be well he is Orb. Why hee 's not dead is hee Zir. Yes Madam slaine and the Prince too Orb. How where Zir. I know not but dead they are Orb. Dead Zir. Yes Madam Orb. Did'st see them dead Zir. As I see you alive Orb. Dead Zir. Yes dead Orb. Well we must all die The Sisters spin no cables for us mortalls Th' are thred and Time and chance Trust me I could weepe now But watrie distillations doe but ill on graves They make the lodging colder She 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 I 'm 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 unto 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 And '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 Queen studies Orb. May be 't is a plot to keep off Ariaspes Greatnesse which hee must feare because he knowes He hates him for these great States-men That when time has made bold with the King Subject Throwing down 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 and Pasithas throwing down the dead body of Ariaspes Orb. Ha! murthered too Treason treason Zir. But such another word and halfe so loud And th' art Orb. Why thou wilt not murther me too Wilt thou villaine Zir. I do not know my temper Discovers himselfe Looke here vaine thing and see thy sins full blowne There 's scarce a part in all this face thou hast Not been forsworn 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 Had I but staid and not began revenge Till thou had'st made an end of changing I had had the Kingdome to have kill'd As wantons entring a Garden take The first faire flower they meet and Treasure't in their laps Then seeing more do make fresh choyce agen Throwing in one and one till
good But so as 't made his sins the greater for 't Those ills which singly acted bred despaire In others he acted daily and ne're thought Upon them The grievance each particular has against him I will not meddle with it were to give him A long life to give them hearing I 'le onely speake my owne First then the hopes of all my youth And a reward which Heaven had settled on me If holy contracts can doe any thing He ravisht from me kill'd my father Aglaura's father Sir would have whor'd my sister And murther'd my friend this is all And now your sentence Sir Ther. We have no punishment can reach these crimes Therefore 't is justest sure to send him where Th' are wittier to punish than we are here And cause repentance oft stops that proceeding A sudden death is sure the greatest punishment Zor I humbly thanke you Sir King What a strange glasse th have shew'd me now my selfe In our sins like to our shadowes When our day is in its glorie scarce appear'd Towards our evening how great and monstrous They are Zor Is this all you have to say Drawes Ther. Hold now goe you up Zor What meane you Sir Ther. Nay I denyed not you That all thy accusations are just I must acknowledge And to these crimes I have but this t' oppose Hee is my Father and thy Soveraigne 'T is wickednesse deare Friend wee goe about to punish and when w'have murther'd him What difference is there 'twixt him and Our selves but that hee first was wicked Thou now would'st kill him ' cause he kill'd thy Father And when th' hast kill'd have not I the selfe same Quarrell Zor Why Sir you know you would your selfe Have done it Ther. True and therefore 't is I beg his life There was no way for mee to have Redeem'd th' intent but by a reall Saving of it â—e ready Courtiers and Guard with their swords drawne at the brests of the Prisoners If he did ravish from thee thy Orbella Remember that that wicked issue had A noble parent Love Remember How he lov'd Zorannes when he was Ziriff Ther 's something due to that If you must needs have bloud for your revenge Take it here despise it not Zorannes Zorannes turnes away The gods themselves whose greatnesse Makes the greatnesse of our sins And heightens'em above what wee can doe Unto each other accept of sacrifice For what wee doe ' gainst them Why should not you and 't is much thriftier too You cannot let out life there but my honour Goes and all the life you can take here Posterity will give mee back agen See Aglaura weepes That would have beene ill Rhetorique in mee But where it is it cannot but perswade Zor Th'have thaw'd the ice about my heart I know not what to doe King Come downe come downe I will be King agen There 's none so fit to be the Judge of this As I the life you shew'd such zeale to save I here could willingly returne you back But that 's the common price of all revenge Enter Guard Orsames Philan Courtiers Orithie Semanthe Jol. Ari. Ha ha ha how they looke now Zor Death what 's this Ther. Betray'd agen All th'ease our Fortune gives our miseries is hope And that still proving false growes part of it King From whence this Guard Ari. Why Sir I did corrupt while we were his prisoners One of his owne to raise the Court shallow soules That thought wee could not countermine Come Sir y' are in good posture to dispatch them King Lay hold upon his instrument Fond man do'st thinke I am in love with villany All the service they can doe mee here Is but to let these see the right I doe Them now is unconstrain'd then thus I doe proceed Upon the place Zorannes lost his life I vow to build a tomb and on that tomb I vow to pay three whole yeares penitence If in that time I finde that heaven and you Can pardon I shall finde agen the way To live amongst you Ther. Sir be not so cruell to your selfe this is an age King 'T is now irrevocable thy Fathers lands I give thee back agen and his commands And with them leave to weare the Tyara That man there has abus'd To you Orbella Who it seemes are foule as well as I I doe prescribe the selfe same physick I doe take my selfe But in another place and for a longer time Diana's Nunnerie Orb. Above my hopes King For you who still have beene The ready instrument of all my cruelties And there have cancell'd all the bonds of brother Perpetuall banishment nor should This line expire shall thy right have a place Ari. Hell and Furies Exit King Thy crimes deserve no lesse yet ' cause thou wert Heavens instrument to save my life Thou onely hast that time of banishment I have of penitence Comes down Ziriff offers to kisse the Kings hand Jol. May it be plague and famine here till I returne No thou shalt not yet forgive mee King Aglaura thus I freely part with thee And part with all fond flames and warme desires I cannot feare new agues in my bloud Since I have overcome the charmes Thy beauty had no other ever can Have so much power Thersames thou look'st pale Is 't want of rest Ther. No Sir but that 's a storie for your eare They whisper Ors A strange and happy change Ori. All joyes wait on you ever Agl. Orithie How for thy sake now could I wish Love were no Mathematick point But would admit division that Thersames might Though at my charge pay thee the debt he owes thee Ori. Madam I loved the Prince not my selfe Since his vertues have their full rewards I have my full desires King What miracles of preservation have wee had How wisely have the stars prepar'd you for felicitie Nothing endeares a good more than the contemplation Of the difficultie wee had to attaine to it But see Nights Empire 's out And a more glorious auspitiously does begin Let us goe serve the gods and then prepare For jollitie this day I le borrow from my vowes Nor shall it have a common celebration Since 't must be A high record to all posteritie Exeunt omnes Epilogue PLays are like Feasts and every Act should bee Another Course and still varietie But in good faith provision of wit Is growne of late so difficult to get That doe wee what wee can wee are not able Without cold meats to furnish out the Table Who knowes but it was needlesse too may bee 'T was here as in the Coach-mans trade and hee That turnes in the least compasse shewes most Art How e're the Poet hopes Sir for his part You 'll like not those so much who shew their skill In entertainment as who shew their will FINIS THE GOBLINS A Comedy Presented at the Private House in Black-Fryers by His Majesties servants WRITTEN By Sir JOHN SUCKLING LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his
be negligent because I was not troublesom And were I not safe in your goodnes I should be Madam in your judgement which is too just to value little observances or think them necessary to the right honouring my Lady Your Ladyship I make no doubt will take into consideration that superstition hath ever been fuller of Ceremony then the true worship When it shall concern any part of your real service and I not throw by all respects whatsoever to manifest my devotion take what revenge you please Undo me Madam Resume my best Place and Title and let me be no longer Your humble servant Madam BY the same reason the Ancients made no sacrifice to death should your Ladyship send me no Letters since there has been no return on my side But the truth is the place affords nothing all our dayes are as the Women here alike and the difference of Fair does rarely shew it selfe Such great State do Beauty and the Sun keep in these parts I keep company with my own Horses Madam to avoid that of the men and by this you may guesse how great an enemy to my living contentedly my Lady is whose conversation has brought me to so fine a diet that wheresoever I go I must starve all daies are tedious companies troublesom and Books themselves Feasts heretofore no relish in them Finding you to be the cause of all this Excuse me Madam if I resent and continue peremptory in the resolution I have taken to be Madam during life Your humblest Servant Madam BUt that I know your goodnes is not mercinary and that you receive thanks either with as much trouble as men ill news or with as much wonder as Virgins unexpected Love this letter should be full of them A strange proud return you may think I make you Madam when I tell you it is not from every body I would be thus obliged and that if I thought you did me not these favours because you love me I should not love you because you do me these favours This is not language for one in Affliction I confesse and upon whom it may be at this present a cloud is breaking but finding not within my self I have deserv'd that storm I will not make it greater by apprehending it After all least Madam you should think I take your favours as Tribute to my great grief I here declare that the services I shall be able to render you will be no longer Presents but payments of Debts since I can do nothing for you hereafter which I was not obliged to do before Madam Your most humble and faithful servant My Noble Friend THat you have overcome the danger of the Land and of the Sea is news most welcom to us and with no lesse joy receiv'd amongst us than if the King of Sweden had the second time overcome Tilley and again past the Meine and the Rhine Nor do we in this look more upon our selves and private interests then on the publike since in your safety both were comprised And though you had not had about you the affairs and secrets of State yet to have left your own person upon the way had been half to undoe our poor Iland and the losse must have been lamented with the tears of a whole Kingdom But you are now beyoud all our fears and have nothing to take heed on your self but fair Ladies A pretty point of security and such a one as all Germany cannot afford We here converse with Northern Beauties that had never heat enough to kindle a spark in any mans breast where heaven had been first so merciful as to put in a reasonable soul There is nothing either fair or good in this part of the world and I cannot name the thing can give me any content but the thought that you enjoy enough otherwhere I having ever been since I had the first honour to know you Yours more then his owne My Lord TO perswade one that has newly ship-wrackt upon a Coast to imbarque sodainly for the same place again or your Lordship to seek that content you now enjoy in the innocence of a solitude among the disorders and troubles of a Court were I think a thing the King himself and Majesty is no ill Orator would find some difficulty to do And yet when I consider that great soul of yours like a Spider working all inwards and sending forth nothing but like the Cloister'd Schoolmens Divinity threads fine and unprofitable if I thought you would not suspect my being serious all this while for what I should now say I would tell you that I cannot but be as bold with you as your Ague is and for a little time whether you will or not entertain you scurvily When I consider you look to me like I cannot but think it as odd a thing as if I should see Van Dike with all his fine colours and Pensills about him his Frame and right Light and every thing in order and yet his hands tyed behind him and your Lordship must excuse me if upon it I be as bold The wisest men and greatest States have made no scruple to make use of brave men whom they had laid by with some disgrace nor have those brave men so laid by made scruple or thought it a disgrace to serve again when they were called to it afterwards These general motives of the State and Common good I will not so much as once offer up to your Lordships consideration though as 't is fit they have still the upper end yet like great Oleoes they rather make a shew then provoke Appetite There are two things which I shall not be ashamed to propound to you as ends since the greater part of the wise men of the world have not been ashamed to make them theirs and if any has been found to contemn them it hath been strongly to be suspected that either they could not easily attain to them or else that the readiest way to attain to them was to contemn them These two are Honour and Wealth and though you stand possest of both of them yet is the first in your hands like a sword which if not through negligence by mischance hath taken rust and needs a little clearing and it would be much handsomer a present to posterity if you your self in your life time wipe it off For your Estate which it may be had been more had it not been too much though it is true that it is so far from being contemptible that it is Nobly competent yet must it be content to undergo the same fate greater states Common-wealths themselves have been are subject to which is when it comes to be divided in it self not to be considerable Both Honour and Estate are too fair and sweet Flowers to be without Prickles or to be gathered without some scratches And now my Lord I know you have nothing to urge but a kind of incapability in your self to the service of this State when indeed you have
neither honour riches nor pleasure but suffering under the contrary ignominy poverty and misery enduring death it self nay courting it all which are things distasteful to nature and such as none but men strangely assured would have undergone Had they feigned a story certainly they would not in it have registred their owne faults nor deliver'd him whom they propounded as a God ignominiously crucified add to this the progresse their doctrine made abroad miraculous above all other either before or since other Religions were brought in with the sword power forcing a custom which by degrees usurp'd the place of truth this even power it self opposing For the Romans contrary to their custome which entertained all Religions kindly persecuted this which by its owne strength so possessed the hearts of men that no age sex or condition refused to lay down life for it A thing so rare in other Religions that among the Heathens Socrates was the sole martyr and the Jews unlesse of fome few under Manasses and Antiochus have not to boast of any If we cast our eyes upon the healing of the blind curing the lame redeeming from the grave and but with a touch or word we must conclude them done by more then humane power and if by any other by no ill These busie not themselves so much about the good of man and this Religion not only forbids by precept the worship of wicked spirits but in fact destroys it wheresoever it comes Now as it is clear by Authors impartial as being no Christians that strange things were done so it is plain they were done without imposture Delusions shun the light These were all acted openly the very enemies both of the master and disciples daily looking on But let us descend to those more principal particulars which so much trouble the curious wits these I take to be the Incarnation Passion Resurrection and Trinity For the first That man should be made without man why should we wonder more at it in that time of the world then in the beginning much easier certainly it was here because neerer the natural way Woman being a more prepared matter then earth Those great truths and mysteries of salvation would never have been received without miracles and where could they more opportunely be shown then at his entrance into the world where they might give credit to his following actions and doctrine So far it is from being against my reason to think him thus borne that it would be against it to beleeve him otherwise it being not fit that the Son of God should be produced like the race of men That humane nature may be assumed by a Deity the enemy of Christians Julian confirms and instances himself in AEsculapius whom he will have descend from heaven in mortal shape to teach us here below the Art of Physick Lastly That God has liv'd with men has been the general fancy of all Nations every particular having this tradition that the Deity at some time or other conversed amongst men Nor is it contrary to reason to beleeve him residing in glory above and yet incarnate here So in man himself the soul is in heaven when it remains in the flesh for it reacheth with its eye the Sun why may not God then being in heaven be at the same time with us in the flesh since the soul without the body would be able to do much more then with it and God much more then the soul being the soul of the soul But it may be urged as more abstruse how all in heaven and all in earth Observe man speaking as you have done seeing Is not the same speech at the instant it is uttered all in every place Receives not each particular ear alike the whole and shall not God be much more Ubiquitary then the voice of man For the Passion to let alone the necessity of satisfying divine Justice this way which whosoever reads more particularly our Divines shall find rationally enforced we find the Heathen had something neer to this though as in the rest imperfect for they sacrificed single men for the sins of the whole City or Countrey Porphyrius having laid this foundation That the supreme happines of the soul is to see God and that it cannot see him unpurified concludes That there must be a way for the cleansing of Mankind and proceeding to find it out he tells that Arts and Sciences serve but to set our wits right in the knowledge of things and cleanse us not enough to come to God the like judgment he gives of purging by Theurgie and by the mysteries of the Sun because those things extend but to some few whereas this cleansing ought to be universal for the benefit of all mankind in the end resolves that this cannot be done but by one of the three In-beings which is the word they use to expresse the Trinity by Let us see what the divinest of the Heathens and his Master Plato delivers to admiration and as it were Prophetically to this purpose That a truly just man be shewn saith he it is necessary that he be spoil'd of his Ornaments so that he must be accounted by others a wicked man be scoffed at put in prison beaten nay be crucified and certainly for him that was to appear the highest example of patience it was necessary to undergo the highest tryal of it which was an undeserved death Concerning the Resurrection I conceive the difficulty to lie not so much upon our Lord as us it being with easie Reason imagined that he which can make a body can lay it down and take it up again There is somthing more that urges and presses us for in our estate we promise our selves hereafter there will be no need of Food Copulation or Excrement to what purpose should we have a mouth belly or lesse comely parts it being strange to imagine God to have created man for a moment of time a body consisting of particulars which should be uselesse to all eternity Besides Why should we desire to carry that along with us which we are ashamed of here and which we find so great a trouble that very wise men were it not forbidden would throw it off before it were worn out To this I should answer that as the body is partner in well or ill doing so it is but just it should share in the rewards or punishments hereafter and though by reason of sin we blush at it here yet when that shall cease to be why we should be more ashamed then our first Parents were or some in the last discover'd parts of the World are now I cannot understand Who knowes but these unsightly parts shall remain for good use and that putting us in mind of our imperfect estate here they shall serve to increase our content and happines there What kind of thing a glorified body shall be how chang'd how refin'd who knowes Nor is it the meanest invitement to me now to think that my estate there is above my
Instruments doe oft convey The Soule to her propos'd Intents and where Our Stars deny Art may supply Exit Enter Semanthe Orithie Orsames Philan. Sem. Thinke you it is not then The little jealousies my Lord and feares Joy mixt with doubt and doubt reviv'd with hope That crownes all love with pleasure these are lost When once we come to full fruition Like waking in the morning when all night Our fancie has been fed with some new strange delight Ors I grant you Madam that the feares and joyes Hopes and desires mixt with despaires and doubts Doe make the sport in love that they are The very dogs by which we hunt the Hare But as the dogs would stop and straight give o're Were it not for the little thing before So would our passions both alike must be Flesh t in the chase Ori. Will you then place the happinesse but there Where the dull plow-man and the plow-mans horse Can find it out Shall Soules refin'd not know How to preserve alive a noble flame But let it die burne out to appetite Sem. Love 's a Chamelion and would live on aire Physick for Agues starving is his food Ors Why there 's it now a greater Epicure Lives not on earth my Lord and I have been In 's Privie kitchin seen his bills of Fare Sem. And how and how my Lord Ors. A mightie Prince And full of curiositie Harts newly slaine Serv'd up intire and stucke with little Arrowes In stead of Cloaves Phi. Sometimes a cheeke plumpt up With broth with creame and claret mingled For sauce and round about the dish Pomegranate kernells strew'd on leaves of Lillies Ors. Then will he have black eyes for those of late He feeds on much and for varietie The gray Phi. You forget his cover'd dishes Of Jene-strayes and Marmalade of Lips Perfum'd by breath sweet as the beanes first blossomes Sem. Rare And what 's the drinke to all this meat my Lord Ors. Nothing but pearle dissolv'd teares still fresh fetch'd From Lovers eyes which if they come to be Warme in the carriage are streight cool'd with sighs Sem. And all this rich proportion perchance We Would allow him Ors. True but therefore this is but his common diet Onely serves When his chiefe Cookes Liking and Opportunitie Are out o' th' way for when hee feasts indeed 'T is there where the wise people of the world Did place the vertues i' th' middle Madam Ori. My Lord there is so little hope we should coÌ„vert you And if we should so little got by it That wee ll not loose so much upon 't as sleepe Your Lordships servants Ors. Nay Ladies wee ll wait upon you to your chambers Ph. Prithee le ts spare the complement we shall doe no good Ors. By this hand I le try They keepe me fasting and I must be praying Exeunt Aglaura undressing of her selfe Jolina Agl. Undresse mee Is it not late Iolina It was the longest day this Enter Thersames Ther. Softly as Death it selfe comes on When it does steale away the sicke mans breath And standers by perceive it not Have I trod the way unto these lodgings How wisely doe those Powers That give us happinesse order it Sending us still feares to bound our joyes Which else would over-flow and lose themselves See where shee sits Like day retir'd into another world Deare mine where all the beautie man admires In scattered pieces does united lye Where sense does feast and yet where sweet desire Lives in its longing like a Misers eye That never knew nor â—aw sacietie Tell me by what approaches must I come To take in what remaines of my felicitie Agl. Needs there any new ones where the breach Is made already you are entred here Long since Sir here and I have giv'n up all Ther. All but the Fort and in such wars as these Till that be yeilded up there is no peace Nor triumph to be made come undoe undoe And from these envious clouds slide quicke Into Loves proper Sphere thy bed The wearie traveller whom the busie Sunne Hath vex't all day and scortch d almost to tinder Nere long'd for night as I have long d for this What rude hand is that One knockes hastily Goe Iolina see but let none enter Iolina goes to the doore Iol. 'T is Zeriff Sir Ther. Oh Something of weight hath falne out it seemes Which in his zeale he could not keepe till morning But one short minute Deare into that chamber Enter Ziriff How now Thou start'st as if thy sinnes had met thee Or thy Fathers ghost what newes man Zir. Such as will send the blood of hastie messages Unto the heart and make it call All that is man about you into councell Where 's the Princesse Sir Ther. Why what of her Zir. The King must have her Ther. How Zir. The King must have her Sir Ther. Though feare of worse makes ill still relish better And this looke handsome in our friendship Ziriff Yet so severe a preparation There needed not come come what i st Ziriff leads him to the doore and shewes him a Guard A Guard Thersames Thou art lost betray'd By faithlesse and ungratefull man Out of a happinesse He steps between the doore and him and drawes The very thought of that Will lend my anger so much noble justice That wert thou master of as much fresh life As th' ast been of villany it should not serve Nor stocke thee out to glorie or repent The least of it Zir. Put up put up such unbecomming anger I have not seene you weare before What draw upon your friend Discovers himselfe Doe you beleeve me right now Ther. I scarce beleeve mine eyes Zorannes Zir. The same but how preserv'd or why Thus long disguis'd to you a freer houre must speake That y' are betrai'd is certaine but by whom Unlesse the Priest himselfe I cannot ghesse More than the marriage though he knowes not of If you now send her on these early summons Before the sparks are growne into a flame You to redeeme th' offence or make it lesse And on my life yet his intents are faire And he will but besiege not force affection So you gaine time if you refuse there 's but One way you know his power and passion Ther. Into how strange a labyrinth am I Now falne what shall I doe Zorannes Zir. Doe Sir as Sea-men that have lost their light And way strike saile and lye quiet a while Your forces in the Province are not yet In readinesse nor is our friend Zephines Arriv'd at Delphos nothing is ripe besides Ther. Good heavens did I but dreame that she was mine Upon imagination did I climbe up to This height let mee then wake and dye Some courteous hand snatch mee from what 's to come And ere my wrongs have being give them end Zir. How poore and how unlike the Prince is this This trifle woman does unman us all Robs us so much it makes us things of pittie Is this a time to loose our
a Lover dye it grieves Although 't is in worse language that he lives Will like't w are confident since here will bee That your Sex ever lik'd varietie Prologue to the Court. T Is strange perchance you 'll thinke that she that di ' dâ— At Christmas should at Easter be a Bride But 't is a privilege the Poets have To take the long-since dead out of the grave Nor is this all old Heroes a sleepe 'Twixt marble coverlets and six foot deepâ— In earth they boldly wake and make them doe All they did living here sometimes more too They give fresh life reverse and alter Fate And yet more bold Almightie-like create And out of nothing onely to deifie Reason and Reasons friend Philosophie Fame honour valour all that 's great or good Or is at least ' mongst us so understood They give heav'ns theirs no handsome woman dies But if they please is strait some star i' th' skies But oh How those poore men of Meetre doe Flatter themselves with that that is not true And ' cause they can trim up a little prose And spoile it handsomly vainly suppose Th' are Omnipotent can doe all those things That can be done onely by Gods and Kings Of this wild guilt hee faine would bee thought free That writ this Play and therefore Sir by mee Hee humbly begs you would be pleas'd to know Aglaura's but repriev'd this night and though Shee now appeares upon a Poets call Shee 's not to live unlesse you say shee shall ACTUS V. SCENA I. Enter Ziriff Pasithas and Guard hee places 'em and Exit A State set out Enter Ziriff Jolas Ariaspes Iol. A Glorious night Ari. Pray Heav'n it prove so Are wee not there yet Zir. 'T is about this hollow They Enter the Cave Ari. How now what region are we got into Th'enheritance of night Have wee not mistaken a turning Ziriff And stept into the confines of some melancholy Devils Territorie Iol. Sure 't is a part of the first Chaos That would not suffer any change Zir. No matter Sir 't is as proper for our Purpose as the Lobbie for the waiting womans Stay you here I 'le move a little backward And so we shall be sure to put him past Retreat you know the word if it be the prince Ziriff goes to the doore Enter King Ziriff Here Sir follow me alâ—'s quiet yet King Is hee not come then Zir. No. King Where 's Ariaspes Zir. Waiting within Iol. I do not like this waiting Nor this fellowes leaving of us Ari. This place does put odd thoughts into thee Then thou art in thine owne nature too As jealous as Love or Honour weare thy sword In readinesse and thinke how neere we are a Crowne Zir. Revenge Guard seiseth on 'em King Ha! what 's this Zir. Bring them forth Brings them forth Ari. The King Zir. Yes and the Princes friend Discovers himselfe D' you know this face King Zorannes Zor The very same The wrong'd Zorannes King D you stare Away with them where I appointed King Tâ—aytours let mee goe Villaine thou dar'st not doe this Zor Poore Counterfeit How faine thou now would'st act a King and art not Stay you to Ariaspes Unhand him Whispers Leave us now Exeunt Manet Ariasp Zoran Ari. What does this meane Sure hee does intend the Crowne to mee Zor Wee are alone Follow mee out of the wood and thou shalt be Master of this againe And then best aâ—me and title take it Ari. Thy offer is so noble in gratitude Icannot But propound gentler conditions Wee will divide the Empire Zor Now by my fathers soule I doe almost repent my first intents And now could kill thee scurvily for thinking If I had a minde to rule I would not rule alone Let not thy easie faith lost man Foole thee into so dull an heresie Orbella is our quarrell I have thought it fit That love should have a nobler way of Justice Than Revenge or Treason If thou dar'st die handsomly follow me Ex. And enter both agen Zor There Gives him his sword Ari. Extremely good Nature tooke paines I sweare The villaine and the brave are mingled handsomely Zir. 'T was Fate that tooke it when it decreed Wee two should meet nor shall they mingle now Wee are but brought together strait to part Fight Ari. Some Devill sure has borrowed this shape My sword ne're staid thus long to finde an entrance Zir. To guiltie men all that appeare is Devill Come trifler come Fight Ari. Dog thou hast it Zir. Why then it seemes my star's as great as his Ariaspes pants and runs at him to catch his sword I smile at thee Thou now would'st have me kill thee And 't is a courtesie I cannot afford thee I have bethought my selfe there will be use Of thee Pasithas to the rest with him Exit Enter Pasithas and two of the Guard Exeunt Enter Thersames Ther. The Dog-star's got up high it should be late And sure by this time every waking eare And watchfull eye is charm'd and yet mee thought A noyse of weapons struck my eare just now 'T was but my Fancie sure and were it more I would not tread one step that did not lead To my Aglaura stood all his Guard betwixt With lightning in their hands Danger thou Dwarfe drest up in Giants clothes That shew'st far off still greater than thou art Goe terrifie the simple and the guiltie such As with false Opticks still doe looke upon thee But fright not Lovers wee dare looke on thee In thy worst shapes and meet thee in them too Stay these trees I made my marke t is hereabouts Love guide mee but right this night And Lovers shall restore thee back againe Those eyes the Poets tooke so boldly from thee Exit A Taper Table out Enter Aglaura with a Torch in one hand a Dagger in the other Agl. How ill this does become this hand much worse This suits with this one of the two should goe The shee within mee sayes it must be this Honor sayes this and honour is Thersames friend What is that shee then is it not a thing That sets a Price not upon me but on Life in my name leading me into doubt Which when 'tas done it cannot light me out For feare does drive to Fate or Fate if wee Doe flie oretakes and holds us till or death Or infamie or both doe seize us Puts out the light Ha! would 't were in agen Antiques strange mishapes Such as the Porter to my Soule mine Eye Was ne're acquainted with Fancie lets in Like a disrouted multitude by some strange accident Piec'd together feare now afresh comes on And charges Love too home Hee comes he comes A little noyse below Woman if thou would'st be the Subject Of mans wonder Not his scorne hereafter Now shew thy selfe Enter Thersames from the vault she stabs him as hee riseth Ther. Unkindly done Agl. The Princes voyce defend it Goodnesse Ther. What art thou that thus poorely Hast destroy'd a life
flame with constancy Fran. If the discovery will ease your thoughts My Lord know Almerin is as the man I never saw Bren. You doe not marry then Condemned men thus heare and thus receive Repreeves One question more and I am gone Is there to latitude of eternity A hope for Brennoralt Fran. My Lord Bren. Have I a place at all When you doe thinke of men Fran. My Lord a high one I must be singular did I not value you The world does set great rates upon you And you have first deserv'd them Bren. Is this all Fran. All. Bren. Oh be lesse kinde or kinder Give me more pity or more cruelty Francelia I cannot live with this nor die Fran. I feare my Lord You must not hope beyond it Bren. Not hope This sure is not the body to views himselfe This soule it was mistaken shufled in Through haste Why else should that have so much love And this want lovelinesse to make that love Receiv'd I will raise honour to a point It never was do things studies Of such a vertuous greatnesse she shall love me She shall I will deserve her though I have her not There 's something yet in that Madam wilt please you pardon my offence Oh Fates That I must call thus my affection Fran. I will doe any thing so you will thinke Of me and of your selfe my Lord and how Your stay indangers both Bren. Alas Your pardon is more necessary to My life then life to me but I am gone Blessings such as my wishes for you in Their extasies could never reach fall on you May ev'ry thing contribute to preserve That exc'lence my destruction till 't meet joyes In love great as the torments I have in 't Exit ACT IV. SCENE I. Enter Brennoralt Bren. VVHy so 't is well Fortune I thanke thee still I dare not call thee villaine neither 'T was plotted from the first That 's certaine it looks that way Hum caught in a trap Here 's something yet to trust to To his sword This was the entry these the staires But whether afterwards He that is sure to perish on the land May quit the nicetie of Card and Compasse And safe to his discretion put to Sea He shall have my hand to 't Exit Enter Raguelin Orilla the waiting-woman Ra. Looke By this light 't is day Oril. Not by this by t' other 't is indeed Ra. Thou art such another peece of temptation My Lord raves by this time A hundred to one the Centinells Will discover us too Then I doe pay for night-watch Oril. Fie upon thee Thou art as fearfull as a young colt Boglest at every thing foole As if Lovers had considered houres I 'le peep in she peeps Ra. I am as weary of this wench As if I were married to her She hangs upon me like an Ape upon a horse She 's as common too as a Barbers glasse Conscienc't too like a Dy-dapper Orilla there 's no body within My Lady sleeps this houre at least Ra. Good the Divel 's even with me Not be an honest man neither Enter Bren. a guard What course now S. Nay Sir we shall order you now Bren. Dogges Enter Fresolin Fres What tumult 's this ha Brennoralt 't is he In spite of his disguise what makes he here Hee 's lost for ever if he be discover'd How now companions why doe you use my friend thus S. Your friend my Lord if he be your friend H 'as us'd us as ill H' has plaid the Divell amongst us Six of our men are Surgeons worke this moneth We found him climbing the walls 2 S. He had no word neither Nor any language but a blow Fres You will be doing these wilde things my Lord Good faith y' are too blame if y' had desir'd To view the walls or Trenches 't was but Speaking we are not nice I would my selfe have waited on you Th' are the new out-workes you would see perchance Boy bring me blacke Tempest round about And the gray Barbary a Trumpet come along too My Lord wee 'l take the neerer way And privater here through the Sally-Port Bre. What a Divell is this sure I dreame Exeunt S. Now you are so officious Manet Sold. 2 S. Death could I guesse he was a friend S. 'T was ever to be thought How should he come there else 2 S. Friend or no friend he might have left us Something to pay the Surgeon with Grant me that or I le beat you to 't Exeunt Enter Fresolin and Brennoralt Fres Brennoralt start not I pay thee backe a life I owe thee And blesse my Starres they gave me power to do 't The debt lay heavy on me A horse waits you there a Trumpet too Which you may keep least he should prate No Ceremony 't is dangerous Bren. Thou hast astonish't me Thy youth hath triumph'd in one single act O're all the age can boast and I will stay To tell thee so were they now firing all Their Cannons on me farewell gallant Fresolin And may reward great as thy vertue crowne thee Exeunt diverse wayes Enter Iphigene Francelia Fran. A peace will come And then you must be gone And whither when you once are got upon the wing You will not stoop to what shall rise Before ye flye to some lure With more temptation garnisht is a sad question Iph. Can you have doubts and I not my feares By this the readiest and the sweetest oath I sweare I cannot so secure my selfe of you But in my absence I shall be in paine I have cast up what it will be to stand The Governors anger and which is more hard The love of Almerin I hold thee now but by thy owne free grant A slight securitie alas it may fall out Giving thy selfe not knowing thine owne worth Or want of mine thou mayst like Kings deceiv'd Resume the gift on better knowledge backe Fran. If I so eas'ly change I was not worth your love And by the losse you ' l gaine Iph. But when y' are irrecoverably gone 'T will be slight comfort to perswade my selfe You had a fault when all that fault must be But want of love to me and that agen Finde in my much defect so much excuse That it will have no worse name Then discretion if inconcern'd doe Cast it up I must have more assurance Franc. You have too much already And sure my Lord you wonder while I blush At such a growth in young affections Iphi Why should I wonder Madam Love that from two breasts sucks Must of a child quickly become a Giant Dunces in love stay at the Alphabet Th' inspir'd know all before Enter waiting woman And doe begin still higher Woman Madam Almerin returned has sent to kisse Your hands I told him you were busie Franc. Must I my Lord be busy I may be civill though not kind Tell him I wait him in the Gallery Iphi. May I not kisse your hand this night Whisper Franc. The world is full of jealous eyes