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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34577	Heraclius, Emperour of the East a tragedy / written in French by Monsieur de Corneille ; Englished by Lodowick Carlell, Esq.; Héraclius, empereur d'Orient. English	Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684.; Carlell, Lodowick, 1602?-1675.	1664 (1664)	Wing C6310; ESTC R1574	31,333	70

you better chuse To Leons Madam 't is you alone can end the strife Either the Empire 's mine or she 's my wife LEON And can I then alone the difference end HERAC Who else on your knowledge all things depend LEON You may suspect me yet of artifice Believe not me then but the Emper 〈…〉 To Pulch Madam you know her hand 't is you that must To both pretenders shew what they must trust This at her death she did deliver me PVL Which thus I kiss upon my bended knee Pulcheria reads After so many miseries endur'd Just Powers have me this happiness procur'd Before my eies by faithful Leontine My Son is once more chang'd the great design Not known so Phocas he believes him his And so the Empire mine can hardly miss Those of our friends that yet have faith for us Must Martian love he 's my Heraclius Constantine To Herac. You are my Brother then HERAC I wisht to be T is mutual loves yields all felicity LEON You know enough and need no incest fear Nor could that have faln out such was my care But pardon Sir that blood I would have spilt To Mart. As being yours though none it looks like guilt MARTIAN Against the common joy I 'le not oppose What Nature makes me feel I will keep close Though he from any did not merit love A Parent 's death some inward grief must move HERAC That you your grief the better may decline Leontius be again Martian resign Under that name great glories you have won You have no vice to suit a Tyrants Son You my Eudoxia take my heart and throne For in exchange I know you give me one EVD This your deliverance a joy affords Too high to be express'd in my low words HERAC O be not sad since your PVLCHERIA may To Mart. Think strange she yours to see a gloomy day MARTIAN A mixture of such joies as yet cause grief Only from time and her should find relief HERAC to Leontina and Exuperius You my Preservers made my troubles blest Your love and courage bravely did contest The Victory I reap your Harvest too Honours are still mine whilst confer'd on you But first to the just Powers our thanks we 'l pay That none but Traitors blood sprinkled our way Long live Heraclius EPILOGUE spoken by LEONTINA MY part was bold and high throughout the Play In all of consequence I bore the sway I with my tongue the Tyrant often shook Now I do so fearing your angry look Pass by our faults in acting his low stile And seal our pardons though but with a smile Books lately printed for John Starkey at the Miter nere Temple-Bar in Fleet-street ANdronicus Comnenius a Tragedy written by John Wilson Author of the Cheats 4. Aminta the famous Italian Pastoral written by Torquato Tasso and englished by J D. The Shepheards Paradise a Pastoral Comedy written by the honourable Walter Mountague Esq The Works of the famous Francis Rabelais Dr. in Physick a Book highly esteemed in France for it's excellent drollery translated into English by Sir Tho. Vrchard Knight The History of Gavelkind with the Etymology thereof containing also an assertion that our English Laws are for the most part those that were used by the ancient Britains notwithstanding the several Conquests To which is added a short History of William Conqueror in Latine written in the time of Henry the first The Abridgment of all the Publick Acts of Parliament in force and use from the 4th of Jan. 164 1 2. to the 16th of March 166 1 4. by William Hughs Esquire In the Press Philosophicall Conferences of the Virtuosi of France upon the most curious questions concerning man Philosophy the liberall Arts and Sciences and all other natural knowledge translated into English by G. H. folio FINIS