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King Iohn and Matilda a tragedy : as it was acted with great applause by Her Majesties servants at the Cock-pit in Drury-Lane / written by Robert Davenport, Gent.
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Davenport, Robert, fl. 1623.
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1655
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Go get thee to the woods for thou art wild As flame or winter where so e're thou walk'st May wild winds chide thee and the reeling Trees Like a confus'd fall of many waters Rail on thy rudeness may the birds that build Among the wanton branches stead of teaching Notes to their young sing something like thy niceness And lastly may the Brooks when thou shalt lie And cast a pair of cruell busie eyes Upon their subtill slydings may the water The troubled image of my passions war With the stones the matter of thy heart that thou maist learn Thy hardnesse and my sufferings to discern And so whilst I if it be possible study to forget you May beasts and bird• and brooks and trees and wind Hear me and call Matilda too unkind Exit Mat. I le unto Baynards Castle to my father Oh she had a violent need of Castles where a King Layes such violent seige but Oh truth Thou art whilst tenant in a noble brest A crown of Christall in an Ivory chest Exit Enter King and Chester K. Shall I be dazled with effeminate darings Ches With a womans ward a knife too K. Here I left her Ch. But here she is not now sir K. Oh Chester run run as thou lov'st my peace Feather thy feet with lovers wishes let but my desires Dwel in thy eyes thou 'lt find her were she compast With a Cimerian mist Ch. I will do my best sir Exit K. Thy best do every thing do any thing Do all things that may find her whether Love Leads thy dark Labyrinth cannot Kings be free From thy impetuous buffets I have de••'d A heardned heart obdurate to thy shafts And some times am so when in the very minute Calling to mind Matilda's tears like drops Continued upon marble they pierce through And I am soft again Hast found her Ent. Chester Ch. No sir she is by this in Baynards Castle Where her Father and the Lords K. Command our Barge wee 'l after her like lightning We must have pledges Chester for their faiths if they refuse Thunder shall meet with thunder and each eye Shall see strange Comets in this troubled skie Exeunt Enter Fitzwater old Bruise young Bruise Richmond and Leister as in Baynards Castle Fitz. My noble Lords and honourable friends Not to particularlize what need plain dealing Be apparelled in particulars to a short supper Or a poor pittance rather ye are all Heartily welcome very heartily I must tell truth still O Br. Brother we thank you Eitz I would we had my sister your wife at Guilford with us Rich. Where are the Ladies Leis Comfo•ting Matilda sad return'd from Court Y. Bru. Betraid by Chester and again escap'd Like a chaste Dove out of the fowlers Net The lustfull King Fitz. Oh John John wilt thou never Leave thy wags tricks but let it passe t is best Because indeed t is past LeÃs I wonder how he receiv'd our resolv'd answer Y B•u No matter how he 's like to have no other Now by my blood you vext my very soul That you s•nt any O. Bru. Sonne have a tamer spirit Y Bru. Yes and like horses Be held by 'th nose by frivilous respect Whilst he casts Copperis into our sores and searches Past honours patience Fitz. Nephew Nephew hear me Le ts bear a little faith he is the King And though at Rome he does stand interdicted Yet now and then takes a good start or two Towards regularity till the fit comes on him And for your neat horse simile observe me Richmond and you are young men we three old But not too old to tell truth the horse that will not Stand till and endure searching how e're in summer With warmth and pasture he may strike at flies And play the wanton in a wealthy meadow For all his summer pastime yet t is said Winter will leave him but a lean scal'd jade Come come y' ar fooles y' ar fooles Leis Well let us bear then Y Bru. •et us Oh my blood Besides our in uries in his breach of promise He made by stains and publique grievances How in the flames of his adulterate heart Pursues he my chaste Cousin by flights gets her Within his tallon and but this afternoon Had not her friendly knife enfranchis'd her Even in the face of he•ven in his own Garden He would have ravish'd her O. Bru. Bro•her we are bound in honour not to bear it Leis Let him know our griefs and if Fitz. Well well with iss and ands Mad men leave Rocks and leap into the Sands But something shall be thought on Ent. Richmond Rich• The King attended Onely with the Earle of Chester Oxford and some Other Gentlement is new landed on the Stairs Om. The King Y Bru. Shut the stairs Gate Fitz. T were better Gate and stairs Were floating through bridg we are safe my cholerick cousin As in a Sanctuary t is enough A man would think to see a great Prince thus Cause wee 'd not go to him to come to us Ent. King Oxford Chester and other Lords Indeed indeed you speak unkindly K. Behold great Lords The Cedars of the Kingdome how the King A shrub shrincks out of majestie And comes to you here 's a fine Conventicle Are ye blowing up new sires and must Fitz•waters Plain-breasted as his unaffected habite Be Generall again again be call'd The Marshall of Heavens Army and the Churches Are you Planet st uck• you cannot talke Fitz. Your pardon sir I led the Barrons but t was when they could not choose But choose a leader and then me they chose And why so think ye they all lov'd your Grace And grieve grieve very heartily I tell you To see you by some state mice so misled This state mice that nibble so upon the Lands impaired freedom That would not so play in the Lyons eare But that by tickling him themselves to advantage This troubl'd us and griev'd the body Politique And this we sought to mend I tell truth John I We are thy friends John and if ye take from friendship The liberty of modest admonition Ye leave no mark whereby to distinguish it From the fawning passion of a Dog-base flattery If I speak plain this truth be my defence A good mans comsort is his Conscience And so much for plain Robin K. Fitzwater Bruce Richmond and stubborn Leister This is the last of our admonitions Either lay by those Arms those lawlesse arms Which you have listed 'gainst your Lord the King And give such pledges as we shall accept For settling of your loyalties or here By the abused sufferings of a King And by the unkind scars with which you have Deform'd the face of England misery Shall over take you in a shape shall fright The Iron heart of faction and the King Shall come no more acquainted with compassion But call the bloodiest ends a righteous vengeance Leis I will not leave mine arms Nor break my word to you Unlesse provok'd and justly you have
King Iohn AND MATILDA A TRAGEDY As it was Acted with great Applause by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit in Drury-lane Written by ROBERT DAVENPORT Gent. LONDON Printed for Andrew Pennycuicke in the Year 1655. The Names of the Persons in the Play And of the Actors that first Acted it on the Stage and often before their Majesties King John M. Bowyer Fitzwater M. Perkins Whose action gave Grace to the Play Old Lord Bruce M. Turner Young Bruce M. Sumner Chester M. Iackson Oxford M. Goat Leister M. Young Hubert M. Clarke Pandolph M. Allen Brand M. Shirelock who performed excellently well Other Lords and Gentlemen Attendants on the King Queen Isabel Matilda Ladies of honour Lady Abbesse To the knowing Reader A Good Reader helps to make a Book a bad injuries it The Author of this had no mind to be a man in Print nor tooke he any care for a Sculpture to illustrate the Frontis-piece by crowning himselfe with Laurel Neither did he write his owne Encomiums and to prejudicate the simple say his friends forc'd them upon him they may help to sell the Book not better the Matter And since this Tragedy is come to tell its own tale and to speak for it self he wil he glad to know it able to ca•ry its own commendation And being an Infant newly deliver'd to the world from the wombe of the Press he hopes the knowing Reader will rather Crown it by his Candor then kill it in the Cradle R. D. To the Right Honourable Mountague Berty Earle of Lindsey Lord Willougbby to Eresby c. YOu are no stranger to things of this nature and therefore the Dedication will not startle you such there are my Lord whose soules are confin'd to their Chinck and these looke squint-ey'd upon a Dedication because they feare there is a Spirit in 't will separate them But my Lord your Noblenesse to learning and wit raiseth your estimate to so high an accompt among knowing men thi• from thence I have derived this boldnesse which I hope is pardonable not onely for that your justice calls upon me for a duty I long since owed your Honour but also in regard the Thing presented is no sleight Piece but such my Lord at I presume will accord with your judgement and likeing It past the Stage with generall Applause my selfe being the last that that Acted Matilda in it and since through the absurdity of times it hath laine obscured My Lord though it doth not appeare in it 's ancient and full glory yet it comes drest first with an humble regard to your Honour and then a confidence of it's naked worth but both it and my selfe are willingly subjected unto your Honours sentence which I hope will not be too heavy especially upon My Lord Your Honours Honourer Andrew Pennycuicke King Iohn AND Matilda Actus 1. Scoena 1. Enter King Queen and Oxford King THey will not come Ox. They will not King They had been better What was their answer Ox. Thus said Fitzwater father of the faction That was Generall for the Barrons against your Majestie Tell John Ki. John Ox. That was his Epithite Alledging how you stood at Rome put from Your Kingly office Tell John quoth he and frown'd That here at Baynards Castle we intend A settled stay for private reformations Of conceiv'd injuries which by the peace The King made with us were not throughly search'd But like green wounds clos'd with too swift a salve Upon your private ends are with more danger Doubts and distracted difficulties again Broke forth but having drawn them to a head They would send them to you to be ratified And then give their attendance King This is brave Who was there else Ox. Richmond imperious Leister and old Bruce The second in this revolt who sent the same return K. A•nest of Rebels to try the truth of these fine florishes You with Lord Mowbray post unto Guilford And being there pretending a visite unto Bruces Lady Wind into observation of the Castle so from her The engine upon which these factions move Discover the intent of their disignes Queen Sure sir the Lady is noble but your Majesties Injunction shall be obey'd Exit Enter Chester K. This not onely advantages Our meeting with Fitzwaters Daughter O how the thought startles my blood But likewise furthers our resolv'd proceedings Chester the news Chest Conceal your selfe sir I have trapt her with a snare K. Agen then I shall see he• Exit Enter Matilda Ma. You told me Chester That the Queen did earnestly request my attendance You said she was here i' th Garden But it seems you were mis-inform'd Ches Excellent innocence how art thou trapt I must attend the King please you walk Madam But towards the Grove I was told the Queen and Ladies Retyred there for shade Mat. I shall Ches And I must vanish Exit Chest Ent. King Mat. Oh heaven the King K. Thy friend Mat. False Chester K. Fair Matilda Mistresse of youth and beauty sweet as a spring And comely as the holy shining Priest Deckt in his glorious sacerdotall vestment Yet heare the passions of a love sick Prince And crown thy too too cruell heart with pitty Mat. Yet let fall your too too passionate plea•ings And crown your royall heart with excellent reason K. Hear me Mat. The Queen will heare you K. Speak but a word that Mat. What K. That may sound like something That may but busie my strong labouring heart With hope that thou wilt grant and every morning I will walk forth and watch the early Lark And at her sweetest note I will protest Matilda spake a word was like that note Mat. Oh how you tempt remember pray your vows To my betroth'd Earl Robert Huntington Did you not wish just as the poyson toucht His manly heart i• ever you again Laid battery to the fair fort of my unvanquish'd Vertue your death might be like his untimely And be poyson'd Oh take heed sir Saints stand upon heavens silver battlements When Kings make vows and lay their Listening ears to Princes Protestations K. So did Matilda swear to live and die a maid At which fair Nature like a Snail shrunck back As loath to hear from one so fair so foul A wound my vow was vain made without Recollection of my reason and yours Oh madnesse Maids have sure forsworne such vowes For Huntington he like a heap of summers Dust into his Grave is swept and bad vows Still are better broke then kept Mat. Alas great sir your Queen you cannot make me What is it then instructs your tongue Oh sir In things not right Lust is but loves well languag'd hypocrite K. Words shall convert to deeds then I am the King Mat. Doe but touch me And as I graspe steel in my trembling hand Offers violence she drawes a knife So sure the King shall see Matilda fall A sacrifice to vertue K. Cruell Maid Crueller then the Kid that eanes her young On the rough bosome of a ragged flint