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A85334	Three excellent tragœdies. Viz. The raging Turk, or, Bajazet the Second. The courageous Turk, or, Amurath the First. And The tragoedie of Orestes· / Written, by Tho. Goff, Master of Arts, and student of Christ-Church in Oxford; and acted by the students of the same house.	Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629.; Meighen, Richard, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing G1006; Thomason E1591_2; ESTC R202218	132,941	272

you all should sterve had I but known 't What must my father make a feast for you O ye devouring creatures Pyl. Now some Archilocus to help him make vengeful Iambicks that would make these worms to burst themselves Passion must please it self by words grief told it self doth ease Ore You cowardly bones would you be thus uncloth'd by little crawling worms by I never thought my fathers bones could e'r have been such cowards O you ungrateful worms how have you us'd him See their ingratitude O ambitious creatures how they still domineere o're a Kings carcasse Py. How could they think when thou cam'st to'the crown that thou shouldst bear that these should eat thy father Orest True Pylades should I not rend their maws devise new tortures O most horrible treason that worms should come unto a great Kings face and eate his eyes why I would undertake but at one stamp to kill a thousand of 'em and I will kill these Stamps upon them Goe you King-eating creatures I will mar all your digestion Pyl. Alas where be his wits He stands declaming against senselesse worms and turns more senselesse then the worms themselves where 's now the oracle you should consult The great Magician now the Centaurs thought shall be example to all future years and now transcend Proserpina's invention Ha hast thou found them out ha were they worms Orest O prethee laugh not at me call her call her Pylades knock whilst I stand gathering up my fathers bones his deare dissected bones O I remember here ran the strong sinews 'twixt his knitting joynts here to this bone was joyn'd his princely arme here stood the hand that bare his warlike shield and on this little joynt was plac't the head that Atlas-like bare up the weight of Greece here here betwixt these hollow yawning jaws stood once a tongue which with one little word could have commanded thousand souls to death Good hands indure this your weighty task and good eyes strive not to make moist his bones with weeping teares What Scinis or Procustes ever could have hackt a King into such things as these Alas here 's every part now so deform'd I know not which was his yet all was his Sound infernal Musick Scena 5. Enter Canidia like an Enchauntresse Orest Protect us O ye Ministers of heaven stand neare me my good Genius my soul hath lost his humane function at this hellish sight Can. Who is' t disturbs our cave what messenger hath Pluto sent that would know ought from us what are you speak Canidia cannot stay Pyl. Prompt us some Ghost Great feare of earth and governesse of nature in whose deep closet of that sacred heart are writ the characters of future Fate and what is done and what must be thou knowst Whose words make burning Acheron grow cold and Jove leave thundring when he hears thy name to thee we come O turn thy secret book and look whose names thou there shalt see inscrib'd for murderers reade o'r all the catalogue untill thou findest there engraven those which kill'd the King of Greece great Agamemnon Orest Yes he that did owe these bones which worms have eate it is not now one of the meaner sort that craves this boone but 't is the heire of Greece heire only now but to my fathers grave I not command but my astonisht soul entreats to know If in thy book it be not yet put down command the gods t' unlock the gates of heaven and fetch forth death command him to relate who 't was put Agamemnon in his hands this is our businesse this great prophetesse made us approach to thy most hallowed cell Can. Ho ho ho I tell thee fond young prince a lesser power thou mightst have implor'd which might have urg'd th' unwilling fiends to this our dire enchantments carry such a force that when the stars and influence of heaven have suckt the lively blood from out mens veines I at my pleasure bring it back again I knew each hour in the Trojan fight what Grecian or what Phrygian should die and fierce Achilles had no sooner pierc't great Hectors side but Fate did send me word Earth Sea deep Chaos all the stony hills will ope themselves to shew me prodigies Night will unmask her brow to let me see what black conceptions reem within her womb Orest O then relate great Mistresse of thy Art the things we crave Can. What time of night is' t Pyl. Upon the stroke of twelve Can. Strait when a cloudy even clappeth the Ayre and all light 's drench't in misty Acheron when the black palpheries of the full cheekt moon have got behind this part o' th' Hemispheare and dark Aldebor and is mounted high into the sable Cassiopeias chaire and night full mounted in her seate of jet sits wrapt within a cabinet of clouds when serpents leave to hisse no dragons yell no birds do sing no harsh tun'd toads do croake the Armenian Tyger and the ravenous woolf shall yeild up all their tyranny to sleep and then none walk but hells disturbed spirits children of night such as belong to me I 'll shew thee thy desire give me these bones Orest Here take them Mother use them gently they were a Kings bones once O not so hard Can. Why senselesse boy dost think that I respect a Kings dead bones more then another mans O they smell rankly I this sent doth please Smells to them but I must now to work why Sagana Pyl. Looke here thou King of Greece fond Menelaus thou which didst bring so many goodly shapes into such things as these and all for Helen Takes up the scull Which when the worms bred of her dainty flesh shall have knaw'd off her tender rubie lips and left her gumlesse looke upon her then and thou wouldst even disgorge thy self to see such putrid vermine to lie kissing her Orest This head had once a royall diadem now knock it beat it and 't will ne'r cry treason Can. Why Sagana Orest There was a player once upon a stage who striving to present a drecry passion brought out the urn of his late buried son it might the more affect him and draw tears But I as if I had no passion left not acting of a part but really in a true cause having my fathers bones his hollow scull yet crawling full of worms I cannot weep no not a teare will come Can. Why Sagana Veia Erictho know you not your time Scen. 6. Enter Sagana Veia Erictho three witches Sag. What would you Beldam Can. Hath not triform'd Hecate put on her Styx-dyed mantle is' t not now fit time to work our charms in Veia We here are ready ' gainst thy sacred charm Can. You two sit by and beare in minde this charge Who e'r you see who ever I present let your tongues be perculiss'd in your jaws stir not nor speak not till the charm be done Pyl. Fear not it shall be chain'd with silence Can. Night and Diana sacred Queen Which ever hath

Shall I confine thy wandring ghost in some high marble prison Or shall I hither fetch the flying Tombe of proud Mausolus the rich Carian King No Religion shall cloake no such injurie no hired Rhethorick shall adorne thy coarse no pratling stone shall trumpet forth thy praise the world 's thy tombe thy Epitaph I 'le carve in Funerals destruction is the booke in which we 'le write thy annalls blood 's the Inke our sword the Pen. A Tragedy I intend Which with a Plangity no Plaudity shall end FINIS THE COURAGEOUS TURK OR AMURATH THE FIRST A Tragedie Written by THOMAS GOFF Master of Arts and student of Christ-Church in OXFORD and Acted by the Studens of the same house The second Edition LONDON Printed for G. BEDELL and T. COLLINS at the middle Temple Gate Fleet-street 1656. TO THE No lesse honored then deserving Sir WALTER TICHBORNE Knight SIR THis with another Tragedy intituled The raging Turk the issue of one mans braine are now come forth together from the Presse neerer allyed even as Twins in this their second birth They are full of Glory Strength and indeed full of what not that beautifies The more apt to be soyled opposed and disgraced the rather because the Auther ha's made his Exit hence The intent and use of Dedication as I have observed is to no other end then that ignorance and spite sworne Enemies to ingenuity should know upon their dull or envious dislikes whether to repayre and recieve reformation The Fatherlesse fellow-Orphan to this work resteth safe under the protection of your most noble Brother my much honoured Friend Sir Richard Tichborne Knight and Baronet Now for these reasons and that I might not make them strangers by remote fosterings but especially standing to you most worthy SIR equally engaged I this to you Present and Dedicate Together tendring the Love and unfained acknowledgements of Your most embounden Servant RICHARD MEIGHEN TO THE AUTHOR In that Transcribing his Book without his knowledge I was bound by promise to stand to his pleasure to keepe it or burne it I Will not praise this Worke 't were lost Rich Pearles best praise themselves nor will I boast To be possest of more than India's wealth That were the way to lose 't since I my selfe Distrust my selfe in keeping it and stand In feare of robbing by some envious hand Rob'd of it said I Alas that fate were just Since I am found first thiefe to you who durst Unbidden thus ransacke your pretious store This magazine of wit so choyce nay more Steale from the chariot of the glorious Sunne This heavenly fire What shall I say 't is done I doe confesse the enditement pity then Must be my surest Advocate ' mongst men None can abate the rigor of the Law But the Law-giver but me thoughts I saw Or hop'd I saw some watry beames of Mercy Breake glimpsing forth of your imperious eye O let me beg reprive your pardon may By due observance come another day Here loe I tender 't backe to bide the doom By promise bound to him to him with whom I would not breake for all rich Tagus sands Now he the Prisoner at your mercy stands Ergo ibit in ignes Hoc opus aeternum ruet tot bella tot Enses In Cineres dabit hora nocens THE PROLOGUE VVEre not our present subject mixt with feare 'T would much affright us to see all you here One would suffice us or no Auditor Each to himselfe an ample Theater Let rude Plebeians thinke so but we know All judgements here from the same Spring doe flow All here have but one censure all one brest All sonnes of the same Mother but the rest We preoccupate their Censure and fore-tell What after may be said not to be well As in most decent Garments you may see Some gracious Ornaments inweaved bee Which serve for little use but on some day Destin'd to please himselfe the wearer may Without a blush put on when his best friends Intend to visit him So our hope intends The sacred Muses Progeny to greet Which under our Roofe now the third time meet We will not ope the booke to you and show A story word by word as it doth goe But give invention leave to undertake Of it's owne straines some benefit to make For though a Tragicke Pen may be confin'd W thin a studies private Walles the mind Must be unbounded and with inventions steele Strike fire from the alient Flints So free we are from setting any price On these our studied Vanities that advice Almost disdain'd the whispers of those tongues Which private first though vented publike wrongs To the Patient Patient oft We 'il here begin To be a litle peremptory Oh that sinne Of willfull indiscretion 't is no bayes To make us Garlands of our owne mouthes praise Which who affect may they so Lawrell lacke That slanders Thunders may behind their backe Blast them with Calumny for we vow they deare Pay for their paines that give attention here And since it 's suffered with kind indulgence We hope that Kingly Parent 's our defence Who would not have his dandling love be knowne But unto those had off-spring of their owne And for we are assured that here be No braines so curst with blacke sterilitie But of some nature they can frely call Births more mature and Caelestiall Their studies issue they like kindest Mothers With tender hands will swath the limbes of others THE ARGUMENT A Suppo'd Victory by AMURETH Obtain'd in Greece where many captives tane One among the rest IRENE conquers him For taken with her love he sounds retreat Eternally from Warre but after mov'd With murmur of his Nobles in her bed Before his Councils face strikes off her head Then ruminating former bloudy broyles He straight o'recomes all Christian Provinces Invades the Confines of his Sonne in Law Fires Caramania and makes Aladin With 's Wife and Children suppliant for their lives At length appointed his great'st Field to fight Upon Cassanae's Plaines where having got A wondrous Conquest ' gainst the Christians Comes the next morne to overview the dead ' Mongst whom a Christian Captaine Cobelitz Lying wounded there at sight of Amurath Rising and staggering towards him desperately With a short dagger wounds him to the heart And then immediately the Christian dyes The Turke expiring Bajazet his Heyre Strangles his younger brother Thus still springs The Tragick sport which Fortune makes with Kings THE ACTORS Amurath Lala Schahin Tutor to Amurath two Turkish Captaines Eurenoses Chase Illibegge Cobelitz a Christian Captaine Lazarus the Despot or Governour of Servia Sasmenos Governour of Bulgaria Aladin Sonne in Law to Amurath and King of Caramania Two Lords with Aladin Two Embassadors Bajazet Eldest Sonne to Amurath Jacyl Youngest Sonne to Amurath Carradin Bassa A Governour under the Turke For the Maske Jupiter Juno Mars Ve●us Hector Achil Apollo Pallas Alexander Philoxenus Neptune Cupid Women Actors Eumorphe Concubine to Amurath Menthe An attendant on Eumorphe

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