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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63834	The adventures of five hours a tragi-comedy.	Tuke, Samuel, Sir, d. 1674.; Coello, Antonio, 1611-1652. Empeños de seis horas.; Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681.	1663 (1663)	Wing T3229; ESTC R23158	54,649	80

THE ADVENTURES OF FIVE HOURS A Tragi-Comedy Non ego Ventosae Plebis suffragia venor Horat. Febr. 21 o 1662. IMPRIMATUR JOHN BERKENHEAD LONDON 〈…〉 To the Right HONORABLE HENRY HOWARD OF NORFOLK SInce it is Your Pleasure Noble Sir that I should hold my Fortune from You like those Tenants who pay some Inconsiderable Trifle in lieu of a Valuable Rent I humbly offer You this Poem in Acknowledgment of my Tenure and I am well pleas'd with this Occasion to Publish my Sense of Your Favours since it seems to me a kind of Ingratitude to be Thankful in Private It was bred upon the Terrace-Walks in Your Garden at Aldbury and if I mistake not it resembles the Place where it was Brought up The Plot is Delightful the Elevations Natural the Ascents Easie without any great Embellishments 〈…〉 I design'd the Character of Antonio as a Copy of Your Stedy Virtue if it appear to those who have the Honor to know You short of the Original I take leave to inform them that You have not sat to me long 'T is possible hereafter I may Gratifie my Country for their Civility to this Essay with something more worthy of Your Patronage and their Indulgence In the Interim I make it my Glory to avow That had Fortune been Just to me She could not have Recompens'd the Loyal Industry of my Life with a more Illustrious Title than that which You have been pleas'd to Confer upon me of YOUR FRIEND To which as in Gratitude I am bound I Subjoyn that of Your most humble Servant S. TUKE The First SCENE is The City of SEVIL The Prologue Enters with a Play-Bill in his hand and Reads This Day being the 15 th of December shall be Acted a New Play never Plai'd before call'd The Adventures of Five Hours A NEW PLAY TH' are i' the right for I dare boldly say The English Stage ne'r had so New a Play The Dress the Author and the Scenes are New This ye have seen before ye'l say 't is true But tell me Gentlemen who ever saw A deep Imrigue confin'd to Five Hours Law Such as for close Contrivance yields to none A Modest Man may praise what 's not his own 'T is true the Dress is his which he submits To those who are and those who would be Wits Ne'r spare him Gentlemen for to speak truth He has a per'lous Cens'rer been in 's Youth And now grown Bald with Age Doating on Praise He thinks to get a Periwig of Bays Teach him what 't is in this Discerning Age To bring his heavy Genius on the Stage Where you have seen such Nimble Wits appear That pass'd so soon one scarce could say th'were here Yet after our Discoveries of late Of their Designs who would Subvert the State You 'l wonder much if it should prove his Lot To take all England with a Spanish Plot But if through his ill Conduct or hard Fate This Forein Plot like that of Eighty Eight Should suffer Shipwrack in your Narrow Seas You 'll give your Modern Poet his Writ of Ease For by th' Example of the King of Spain He resolves ne'r to trouble you again THE PROLOGUE AT COURT He Addresses himself to the Pit AS to a dying Lamp This refers to the Authors purpose of Retirement at that time when his Majesty recommended this Plot to him one drop of Oyl Gives a new Blaze and makes it live a while So th' Author seeing his decaying Light And therefore thinking to retire from sight Was hindred by a Ray from th'upper Sphere Just at that time he thought to disappear He chanc'd to hear his Majesty once say He lik'd this Plot he staid and writ the Play So should Obsequious Subjects catch the Minds Of Princes as your Sea-men do the Winds If this Attempt then shews more Zeal than Light 'T may teach you to Obey He looking up and seeing the King starts though not to Write HA he is there himself * He Kneels He Rises Pardon my sight My Eyes were dazled with Excess of Light Even so the Sun who all things else displays Is hid from us i' th' Glory of his Rays Will You vouchsafe Your Presence You that were given To be our Atlas and support our Heaven Will You Dread Sir Your Pretious Moments lose To Grace the first Endeavours of our Muse This with Your Character most aptly suits Even Heaven it self is pleas'd with the first Fruits DRAMMATIS PERSONAE Porcia Camilla Young Ladies Don Carlos A Kind Brother to Camilla Don Henrique A Severe Brother to Porcia Don Antonio Pimentel Contracted by the Mediation of Friends to Porcia before he saw her Don Octavio Secret Gallant to Porcia but feigning to be in Love with Camilla Flora. Waiting-woman to Porcia Ernesto Sancho Servants to Don Antonio Diego Servant to Octavio Sylvio Geraldo Pedro. Servants to Don Henrique The Corigidor and Attendants THE SCENE SEVIL The Reader is desir'd to take notice of these Errors of the Printer Page 6. line 4● read Does fully state the difference of our Fortunes Page 12. line 8. read These Descants on our Griefs c. Page 19. line 43. read And trusted to her Eyes when she did Wake The First Act. THE SCENE DON HENRIQVE's HOUSE Enter Don Henrique who is immediately follow'd by Sylvio Sylvio SIgnior Don Carlos is without Henr. Wait on him in Enter Carlos Car. Cozin to me this day hath longer seem'd than usual Since 't is so far advanc'd without our seeing one another Henr. Me thinks so too but you repair your Stay By coming hither opportunely now You have so often born with my Distempers 'T is fit that once at least you should partake Of my Good humour Car. What ere the Cause may be I 'm sure I joy In the Effect and may it long continue Henr. I can inform you by experience now How great a satisfaction 't is to find A Heart and Head eas'd of a weighty care For a Gentleman of my warm temper Jealous of the Honour of his Family Yet never blemish'd to be fairly freed From the Tuition of an Orphan Sister Rich Beautiful and Young Car. You know Don Henrique that for divers years Your Friend has been with the like Province charg'd A tender Sister by our Parents will When they were call'd from all their Cares below To mine committed and though more expos'd Still to the world than yours and Sir unless Nearness of blood deceive me short of few In the advantages that draw Pretenders Yet thanks to my Temper Cozin as well As to her Virtue I have seen her grow Up from her Childhood to her Dangerous Age Without the least Disturbance to my rest And when with equal Justice I reflect On the great Modesty and Circumspection Of lovely Porcia I conclude that you Might well have slept as Undisturb'd as I. Henr. Sir I complain not of my Sisters conduct But you know well young Maids are so expos'd To the Invasion of audacious men And to

the Malice of their envious Sex You must confess the Confines of their Fame Are never safe till guarded by a Husband The wisdom of Relations ought to use Preventions of all sorts but dear Carlos The Blemish once received no Wash is good For stains of Honor but th' Offenders blood Car. Y' are too severe a Judge of point of Honor. Henr. And therefore having not long since receiv'd The news that Don Antonio Pimentel Is likely to be here this night from Flanders To whom my Sister by Velladas means Our common Friend and Patron is contracted I will not close these eyes till I have seen Her and my Cares safe lodg'd within his arms Car. I find you travels Cozin have not cur'd you Of that innate Severity to Women Which grows to be a National reproach Unto us all abroad the world laments That miserable Sex amongst us here Born onely to be honorable Prisoners The more of Quality the Closer kept Which Cruelty is reveng'd upon our selves Whilst by Immuring those whom most we Love We sing and sigh onely to Iron Grates As cruel is that over-cautious use By Proxy to contract Parties Unknown To one another this is onely fit For Soveraign Princes whose high qualities Will not allow of previous interviews They sacrifise their Love to Publick good Consulting onely Interest and Blood A custom which as yet I never know Us'd between persons of a Lower rank Without a sequel of sad Consequence Sir understand me right I speak not this By way of Prophecy I am no stranger To Don Antonios great reputation Which I believe so just I no way doubt Your Sisters being happy in him Hen. Don Carlos let us quit this Argument I now am going to our noble friend And kinsman the Corigidor to see If he will honor with his Company My Sisters Wedding will you come along Car. Most willingly as soon as I have brought My Sister hither and left her with yours Henr. I have some business Cozin by the way I 'l go before Henrique waits on him to the door and wait you i' th' Henrique waits on him to the door Piazza Your Servant Cozin Exit Carlos This Kinsman is my bosom friend and yet Of all men living I must hide from him My deep resentments of his Sisters scorn That cruel Maid to wound me to the Heart Then close her Ears against my just complaints But though as yet I cannot heal my wound I may by my Revenge upon my Rival Divert the Pain and I will drive it home There 's in Revenged a Balm which will appease The present grief and Time cure the disease Exit Henrique Enter Porcia Porcia My heart is so opprest with fear and grief That it must break unless it find relief The Man I love is forc'd to flie my sight And like a Parthian kills me in his flight One whom I never saw I must embrace Or else destroy the honour of my race A Brothers Care more cruel than his Hate O how perplext is my unhappy fate Enter Carlos and Camilla Car. Cozin I thought my Sisters company Would not displease you whilst I wait upon Your Brother in visit Porc. Sir you oblige me with a welcom favour aside I rather should have stil'd it Charity To bring a friend to her whose cruel fate Has robb'd her of her self Cam. Me thinks 't is pitty that a wall should make The houses two of friends so entirely one As you and I and our two Brothers are Porc. If it be true that Lovers live much more There where they Love than where they Breath I 'm sure No walls can sever us w' are still together Car. Were I not much engag'd I would not quit So sweet a Conversation but Sister At my return I 'l wait upon you home Porc. For this night Cozin pray let her be mine I beg it of you both Car. You may command we are both yours Exit Carlos Porc. My dear Camilla Porcia throws her self on camillas neck how I long'd to have thee Where freely breathing out my Grief I might Some mitigation from thy Pitty find But since there 's no true Pitty without Pain Why should I Ease by thy Affliction gain Cam. Ah Porcia if Compassion Suffering be And to Condole be Pain my Destiny Will full revenge in the same kind afford Should I but my unequal'd griefs relate And you but equally participate Porc. If yours as mine from Love-disasters rise Our Fates are more alli'd than Families Cam. What to our Sex and blooming age can prove An anguish worthy of our Sighs but Love Porc. 'T is true Camilla were your fate like mine Hopeless to hold unable to resign Cam. Let 's tell our Stories then we soon shall see Which of us two excells in Misery Porc. Cozin agreed Cam. Do you begin then Porc. You know After a little pause Camilla best how generously How long and how discreetly my Octavio Hath serv'd me and what trials of his faith And fervour I did make ere I allow'd The least hope to sustain his noble Love Cozin all this you know 't was in your House We had our interviews where you were pleas'd To suffer feign'd addresses to your Self To cover from my watchful Brother's eyes The real passion which he had for me Cam. My memory in this needs no refreshing Porc. And how one Evening O that fatal hour My Brother passing by Don Carlos house With his great Friend and Confident Don Pedro Did chance to see th' unfortunate Octavio At your Balcony entertaining me Whom not believing there he took for you Where mad with Jealousie his cruel nature To which all Moderation is unknown Resolves to stamp all your Neglects of him In 's suppos'd Rival poor Octavio's heart He and his Friend both draw Octavio Retires they assault him who in 's own defence Does kill Don Pedro and is forc'd to flie My Brother cruelly pursues him still With such insatiate thirst after revenge That nothing but Octavio's blood can quench Yet covering still his Rage and Jealousie With the resentment of Don Pedro's death Cam. Is this the sum of your sad story Porcia Is this all Por. No no Camilla 't is the Prologue onely The Tragedy does follow this Tyrant This cruel Brother to th' Impetuous Laws Of whose Tuition our deceased Parents My Person and my Fortune have condemn'd In his unjust Suspition restless grown Which he to palliate Vice with Virtues name Does Sense of Honor call takes an Allarm And starts at every shadow as if reproach Attended all the actions of a Sister Though ne'r so Circumspect and uses me As if the Honor of our Family Were over-thrown for ever should my Eyes Or Judgment be but the least part allow'd In making choice of him should be my Husband Therefore to frustrate all my hopes at once He has already marri'd me by Proxie To one in Flanders whom I never saw Who is this very night expected here Cam. Is such a rigour possible dear