Come Captives here must be your doom She 'l have your lives if you were twenty more But yet my favour goes with you Orest I thank your Majesty Sist. Great King all glory wait on you But I am conduc'd by willingnesse to dye Orest So I am since I am an exile Aber. You are stay here 's the Queen Scen. 2. Adrenimia Nevermo Attendants Adr. Aberden welcome to your Kingdom and your Queen Loe I see Celerinus subjects bound And for my use which gives a resolution To my sense if your own Queen by tractive Operation work effect to dismisse From contemplation of your soul all Opportunities that doth bring dispair You shall find no stratagem that to be Irrevocable and the objects of Foul melancholly shall not afford the Idols of vain puffing fears For those are they that doth commit and doth Drop unto eternity great contrarieties Unto your majesty and place of Prince The service of a sadfull humour Works undiscreetly and changing certain things It 's alwayes proved the Chaos testifies You a great Warriour both in Waves and Land Whose pectorall force expected did prevail No losse of War or Arms if nature stood To oppose the slaughter of so many lost But I 'le sacrifice my wishes to your selfe Gladly received my King Aber. Your patient favour receives a great applause And I your King expect no future joy My Queen your receivance is most gratefull And bids adieu all sadnesse but not contemplation Which shews a firm judge of a prime design Safety pleads leasure and shew fair shape To commonalty not a vain flasse-glass Of best contriving virtues To effect the Gardian not a bad excuse Of their firm liberty the Gems of all The Indians strikes no lustre to your Fame you are not fair but virtue follows it My Queen the Captives stand at your command Adr. My Leige your favour Holl. Duty doth force obedience to my knees Kneels Great Queen your sacred will if 't please to grant A blessing to Hollarro a wounded subject To serve the Queen your will Adr. Rise valiant Prince my bless go to thy years To find Aberdens blood in thy young youth Holl. You may term void of sense unto my state But hope survives the spirits 'cause I bring A pardon firm and just 't is my duty Aber. Hollarro rise your duty binds no further But what I know Holl. Your will great Queen Faf It were a sacriledge and that rashly Committed against your Princess goodnesse Not to offer my selfe a Souldier to your will Buz Mine follows by a triple form great Queen Your subject salutes you with a happy Bliss Nev. I stand a safeguard to your goodnesse Adr. Faithfully done here wants brave Yernomoy Aber. Forgive the fact that 's done not rob'd your will He 's slain to pay devotion to your looks Rude was his fancy but senselesse was his guide Allowing no recovery to his kindled fame He dy'd a Hector a Prince nay more he slew Millions of Forces to ransom then his death He left the world by Burnomoy's stout arm But Burgargo Hollarro sleep did charm For to describe true valour in fancy fair In reall substance to deserve the chair The Goddess of all hope favour'd his deeds The Goddess of all might helpt him in needs The Goddess of all right stood true to him The Goddess of all happ did valour bring The Gods and Goddesses struck union to His well fast blade his stiffe fram'd bow of Yew So brave Hollarro shall be onely name Through all Numenia there to carry fame Adr. Hollarro still thy atchievements soar above The mean capacity of a Queens recompence These are the captives I like them well their Heads are large to be a pinnacle of fame They 're mine great King Aber. They are for recompence Of your deserts Adr. You render pure substance of a divine will By outward shew no excuse they expect But dye a sacrifice for to restore The jewel of my fainting liberty The Harchet's well prepar'd to execute The case the block perceives its finish'd not In gaud but martiall way to make the Harmony My attendants expecting the prosperous Sight of that same day by forming new Altitudes erecting large Houses for t•e Same I 'le make no great dispute but finish it Holl. Great Queen the subjects I avouch by true Affect and powerfull law descend of noble Blood Adr. Well they are no worse but better for my use Cap. Ah las we must then dye Adr. I I see who attends us there Scen. 4. Quermero Quer. I am here I am here Aberd. Well what art thou Que. A Gentleman of quality as good as your self Aber. Why I am a King Quer. Well so am I sause-box Aber. My Lords conduct the knave to prison and Prepare a lash to execute its office Quer. Oh las you will I 'le try your force They carry Quer. out and he struggles mightily with them How how how let go your hold Aber. The slaves and bondmen which have wrought a Councell to digg the works of War as the Pioneers do raggifie the walls And they who use to toyl in labyrinth And founders of their folly are prisoners To your pick-axe Hospitalls doth crave my Aid and Euncuchs make a market for My home return so force pleading my will I leave you with my Serpents and my foes As emblems to my valour and my state Use discretion as time doth interview And appoint a season to your sport For I must dismiss your rank Ex. Aberd. Adr. My King a happy repose unto your soul Who attends there Bellerrio Lerenica Histerica and attendants Adr. The passage of a drowsie pomp withdrew A door of breathing betwixt the ark of store Of hidden vowes shewing the pride of fortune In a chance ravishing the beauty of a Monsters hide and stuck a stage of desire To harbour the fancy of a dreadfull sign To spill the blood of captives Lerenica You 'l screek and vanish with the dame of fear But I 'le repulse that guide that titles it So bring the captives to the slaugher-house I 'le shift such Robes fit for such enterprise Exit Adre Holl. Madam I 'le improve my reverend service To see the same fulfill'd Ler. The soveraign balm for fear must be a heart Void of a sensuall cause but I 'le attend To see the genius of all mortall souls Wear the sad Cypress of a gloomy day Bell. Lerenica your servant will wait your time Orest Spare us and let us speak before we dye Holl. Give them time to breathe their last farewell Orest The stroke 's a Basilick the sight doth kill Confirms a death by venom of its raze Perfidious creature more degenerate Fate Steeping his aspects in foul Leth•'s streams So Adrenimia by her cursed hand But fury bids defiance to those guiles My time doth shew by prospect now full old Tossing my senses by grim horror's wav•s So noble Prince confirm to future time And to posterity I dye a Man A prop of th' Country the Numenia
course more plainer then doth I In your bright Horizon the sphere of hope Wherein my restlesse will doth make her Orb. While Titan drives four prauncing Horses That needs neither whip nor bridle so move I To please the tender affection of your Princely grace take not in least in heart My bad attempt which flyes by the swift wings of ignorance guided by staffe of folly Ranging within the bowers of restlesse will Seeking the corners of vain bad defigns Still let them fly for refuge to your grace Let them there take their most reserving place Adre You are most hollow-hearted while you see No good there is in gaining what your will Hath minde to work its force you then detard Most fatigated in that what your purpose was Desist your talk I leave your presence Holl. I Stand submissive as becomes your Son And wait your royal Person Exeunt Scen. 6. Aberden Yernomoy Fafrisius Buzaraine Nev•rmo Aber. The Legate is dismist from them 't is well Their answer riseth so high against our will Which hath bid stern Mars stand off and the Brute Of troy-novant his race hath stood with his Shoulders pending to the ground by its Massy and assured w•ight blest in the Perifery of a swallowing main burst Great Numenia's wall make skies to eccho As you do at Rome when Pope stand elevated Quell you their voyce by your secret harmony That will make Hercules for to wonder And Leo rejoyce to hear such single notes And Tygers repeat it as a loving Song That when the Inhabitants hear struck with the Amazement of a terrours will terming it Thunder let Auster Boreas and the other two Of Cardinall points your fame blow aloud In represention of wrongs new redrest Not to be vail'd by curtain of a foe Or frightment but fully resolved to be Revenged of th' quarrell and his Majesty Yer Our glorious purpose like the sparkling star Gives light in dark when leaden Saturn stands Nigh on his side whose pale-fac'd tanyed state Makes splendor rise of th•••ar above the rest When all the mists and watrish vapours of The middle Region cannot withstand him But like a Diamond among •ebble stones Cast bighter blaze above the rest then them So we proceed excell the others hope Faf. Liberty stands bound when with the crafty Whistle or second sound of their advanced Pinnions dives to the burroughs of a Childish fear we will afford upon their Terrestiall plains such unheard language That shall not by graduation but at first Seize on their clownish brains and endue Our native Land unto posterity With victorious praise Buza Right Fafrisius The caelestiall Quiers runs counter for to Gain us trophies by their help for the Globe Which was the Antipodes Land is now ours By fortunes onely guiding by womens Innocent looks strives with her force and will To have all good for us and nothing ill Nev. Your speeches are fully poys'd no venture done No good is had we 'l strike an oblick cross Unto their Land if 't be for no cause else But for our Countries good as for our King That all the Penates with divine sound Blesse all the Cities Towns and Castles of our Land With most tranquillous times Linraides Spreads Fields with Flora's Vesprey and that Sol May have perpetuall motion in the Ram Though hot and chollerick yet a handsome Spring which shall bestow on this the Title Of a fruitfull soyl Abe Your souls are generous To the last Yer And doth hope for to endure Aber. As long as blood doth warm the heart Faf. We will not flinch our ground Aber. Your valour 's stout Much like a Trojan blade Buz Or Irish Moor Who never stept from him that gain'd Ground Aber. Then you will fight Nev. VVe will my Leige Aber. Then let valour range her course go see what Ships are rig'd and Gallies fit for sayl That in two hours space or lesse we may Bestride the Sea with the whole Navy of Our Army ten thousand Ships well prepared To bear within concaves of their vast Great bellies both men and Ammunition Shot under the conduct of Hollarro Prince Twelve thousand horse and forty thousand foot Bearing the colours of a golden Ball Set in a large black field with chevern of Three Mullits ore next him you Yernomoy Bring up a wing of thirty thousand foot Furnish'd with pike and sword musket and bandalere And all displayed with Griffins rampant on Their shield so you Fafrisius follow next With nine thousand horse well saddled bearing A Rose upon their Armes beset in Arg. Buzaraine with your Captains and the rest As Nevermo stand you a distance from the rest VVith nine thousand both of foot and horse To aid these Lords if that need require VVhat subject you take bring home unto my Queen These are all your precepts Omnes Heavens bless Aberden King and prosper his success Exeunt Scen. 7. Chorus Song 1. 1. Acteon was not wise Diana him espies And caused him to be by Dogs tor• Because he did her see Naked with modesty And grac'd him with two horns before 2. Hellen she was most fair Paris thought none compare Unto her well shap'd soul and face She did at length destr•y That famous City Troy And caus'd both famine and disgrace 3. Demonica that Queen VV•o for lucre and gain Pe•raid Ephesus with a wile Unto Brennus that man VVhich afterwards became His sole distruction and exile 4. And Atalanta she Did chaste Peleus see Would not give way unto her will She falsely did accuse and basely did abuse Him to Acasius of ill Song 2. You see by these four examples how women they do fail In any matter that mantles the good in ill prevail They seek with sweet sugard words And all things that pleasure affords for to destroy their onely joy b• they •ar Knights or Lords Then fie upon this world that such a thing should be Then let us leave those silly brats that do perdition bring And discourse of more serious that 's belonging Aberden He draws his stout Capt•ins •n And his potent Army long against his foe which he doth know to be of the same throng Then fie upon this world that such a thing should be Act 3. Scen. 1. Celerinus Burgargo Orestes Sisterus Derisius Gervoron Burnomoy Souldiers Ensign Drums Flagge Cel. THeir first arrival on Numenia's Land They purchased it by a Legion of Their sacrificed lives Aberdens men Were new beginners in those stratagems Their Armour was no friend but plai'd a foe To their well nigh and half sweltred bodies Our trenches work by wisdom not by force While we like Trojans stood and maz'd their folly Come brave souls le ts meet them in the front Bur. Let them strike anchor in our barren forts While there no controversie riseth on ground For their determed wills to make a choyce Whether Sea or Land afford their execution Though AE•lus confirm with Neptunes Blustering noyse on the azure gliding Seas Which hoysteth to th' memory a panick fear
thou beats his breast Aber. Of future joy the Monarchs of the world Will sprinkle the notes of such a vain design Phaebus will make the heavenly Diamonds Strike rays to shew the folly of your will She is not worth a glimmering spark of stone Much lesse your Princely Bed Hollarro chuse One that is deserving and my will shall Not be against Holl. The Tartarian Prince is gone to forrain soyls With other strange Hecatombs of all men The Captain of my soul must follow them If your Princely grace deny my full request Could I sound sweeter then the Deltan Dames When the tall Cedars by my force did fall Having more fame then the Ephesian Towers At that same instant by the stately steps Oh manhood valour and not this request 'T is true she 's fair her virtues second it Which is the pinnacle of ambition I aim at For means are dregs of th' earth her person shews Her parts Princes must have their liking Not combind to objects of honour Aber. The Audacious pines do not stand without fear Nor doth your valour without trying it Therefore that blind and senselesse Boy must take His bow leave you his Arrows to supply his place The madding waves of love strives against stream Of reason bringing contempt and disgrace To noble spirits their smiles are smoothly Carried to delude the Olive-branch of hope Therefore take one that is of noble blood And follow discretion as your will doth guide Your disposition Holl. The sayls of hope is turn'd to leaden plumbs Because you plead still for a worthier one Though it might be said 't is my fortune so To mix with flashes of both fear and hope Yet when my restelsse Navy comes to shore That same coaste must give my sentence then So as I sayl by rudder of sweet love I hope the Magistrate of your affection Will give a glad mittimus to my soul For if contrariety plead at the bar Having its tryall to win over-throw That deadly sentence must close up my breath And make me fear neither Heaven Sea nor wind Therefore deny and kill Oh oh Sighs Aber. Strange to a common sense reason then with Your selfe she is a woman nought but flesh And bone and a meer gall of bitternesse You know your Mother well her savagenesse To brew her hands in teppid blood of foes And you thus stand in a disposition Contrary to her heart I wounder at That unnaturall sympathy but e're You dispair make choyce and venture there Where sense doth guide your fancy but for All she is too low your birth Enter Quermero in chains naked from the shoulders upwards and Ialors after him Quer. Oh my back oh my belly oh my sides Iayl 1. Oh your breech firra come away Quer. Oh prethee spare me give me time to breathe That I may have wind to cry withall oh oh oh Iayl 2. Ha ha ha what do you feel it then You must not be so bold Qu. What as to cry I will cry if the King were here Iayl 3. But you shall not cry long Quer. Oh bless thee bless thee shall I not cry long Nay then I 'l bid the gentle whip come come Exe Quer. Iayl Holl. The civill pleasures that a dewy shower Doth gratifie the earth withall cannot Be express'd so your reply trebles my joy Aber. Flort no more with Deities of fear But take the Empire of all hope and force Grief leads no more vain anger as a sign Of wrath and ill-disposed manners haste To the Rock of mirth make splinters fly To be attendants on your Majesty Thou hast been valiant no report shall go Thou art dismayed by a woman foe Pursue your course as you have then begun Holl. I will my Leige long live your Majesty Exeunt Scen. 6. Adrenimia Fafrisius Buzarain each of them bearing a mans head and Nevermo following with a Hat•het Adre The fiege of Thebes and Ulysses Acts Ne'r betraid fancy with so sweet a fight The Heads doth gape but cherisheth no amber breath Oh las it is a pitty that no sooner had Hold them up let 's see the glory of the same The night will betray my mirth before my eyes Be satisfied the Banquet and Musick That I took therein brought recreation To my vitall sense besides no equalls Or raptures promis'd by a future joy Could bring reward to what I here have seen The Artillery of all hope was waggon'd up Betwixt their heads and shoulders that 's their necks My soul cannot by publick or secrecy Be sufficient Actor to King Aberden In duty or in praise for this same fact Unbolt the Prison Gates set them open And let the numerous slaves be glad to see Such great Triumphs and their selves set full free And mysteries explain'd by Gods of Temples all Because such prosperous jubilee fell out I recruit my selfe to see those signs Faf. The progeny of humanity challenge title in 't Because you shew like the B•thinians The copulating troops doth entertain Of fame and valour your most bright Queens health The heads doth shew your praise and doth prepare A sacrifice unto your sacred shrine With amorous gesture of a lowly look Not like Amazons but a Persians smile The naturall rights within a Jewels hieu Doth shew the perfect vertues of its selfe So all your sex may with a comely brow Seeing your deservements by wisdoms deeds Turn thanks as bodies of a further fame Buz Discover Engins to subdue the hill Of all renowning praise that when obtain'd May be a ransome to your Empress The ancient Romans had ne'r reflection Of so great happinesse by any Pope As we obtain by your Soveraignty To keep all Lawes and customes in their forms Not suffering them to be wrong violated Making decent pavillions of sobriety To be the Magistrates and Rocks of right The streets rebound as Alexander came With redoubling voyces of your worth and fame Adr. When Sols bright rayes shines through the curtain Of an Eastern fogge then Animals rejoyce So do I by your conjuring words As if I had obtain'd the Phoenix nest Which is a fountain of all sweet incense Records and Chronicles to posterity Let them challenge memory of the same The •rook wherein the Nymphs correct their ga•bs Let shew the splendor of this brave design As orient matter of a minerall Strikes beauties pride through the dark of night The deed 's Syren cause it wins the hearts Of all my subjects unto Elizium Ner. I am executor bearing the Axe That brought content and pleasure to a Queen The Mayors and Senates of Bruzantia Stood Officers to th' act and instruments Thereto we live like Elephants disturb'd By none bearing the Castle of liberty On our shouldiers and Wars thrown down Living by Counsell of tranquillious time While our foes heads do obeysance to th' Queen Making a dance in a triangle Avoiding the tortures of a moments fear I 'le bear the Axe of hope Adr. Le ts muse no more seeing the deeds of worth The streets