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book_n	life_n	read_v	write_v	3,333	5	5.3999	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08065	The tragedy of Nero, newly written; Nero.		1624 (1624)	STC 18430; ESTC S113150	37,080	68

How many Bookes thinke you t' include it in Nero I thinke to write about foure hundred Bookes Cornu Foure hundred why my Lord the 'yle nere be read Nero Hah Tigil: Why he whom you esteeme so much Crisippus Wrote many more Cornu But they were profitable to common life And did Men Honestie and Wisedome teach Nero Tigillinus Exit Nero Tigeli Cornu See with what earnestnesse he crau'd my Iudgment And now he freely hath it how it likes him Neoph: The Prince is angry and his fall is neere Let vs begon least we partake his ruines Exeunt omnes praeter Cornu Manet Cornutus solus What should I doe at Court I cannot lye Why didst thou call me Nero from my Booke Didst thou for flatterie of Cornutus looke No let those purple Fellowes that stand by thee That admire shew and things that thou canst giue Leaue to please Truth and Vertue to please thee Nero there 's nothing in thy power Cornutus Doth wish or feare Enter Tigellinus to him Tigel: T is Neroes pleasure that you straight depart To Giarae and there remaine confin'd Thus he out of his Princely Clemencie Hath Death your due turn'd but to banishment Cornu Why Tigellinus Tigel: I haue done vpon your perill goe or stay ex Ti. Cornu And why should Death or Banishment be due For speaking that which was requir'd my thought O why doe Princes loue to be deceiu'd And euen doe force abuses on themselues There Eares are so with pleasing speech beguil'd That Truth they mallice Flatterie truth account And their owne Soule and vnderstanding lost Goe what they are to seeke in other men Alas weake Prince how hast thou punisht me To banish me from thee O let me goe And dwell in Taurus dwell in Ethiope So that I doe not dwell at Rome with thee The farther still I goe from hence I know The farther I leaue Shame and Vice behind Where can I goe but I shall see thee Sunne And Heauen will be as neere me still as here Can they so farre a knowing soule exyle That her owne roofe she sees not ore her head Exit Enter Piso Sceuinus Lucan Flauius Piso Noble Gentlemen what thankes what recompence Shall hee giue you that giue to him the world One life to them that must so many venture And that the worst of all is too meane paye Yet can I giue no more Take that bestow it Vpon your seruice Lucan O Piso that vouchsafest To grace our headlesse partie with thy name Whom hauing our conductors we need not Haue fear'd to goe again the well try'd vallor Of Iulius or stayednesse of Augustus Much lesse the shame and Womanhood of Nero When we had once giuen out that our pretences Were all for thee our end to make thee Prince They thronging came to giue their names Men Women Gentlemen People Soldiers Senators The Campe and Cittie grew asham'd that Nero And Piso should be offered them together Sceu. We seeke not now as in the happy dayes O' th common wealth they did for libertie O you deere ashes Cassius and Brutus That was with you entomb'd there let it rest We are contented with the galling yoke If they will only leaue vs necks to beare it We seeke no longer freedome we seeke life At least not to be murdred let vs die On Enemies swords Shall we whom neither The Median Bow nor Macedonian Speare Nor the firce Gaule nor painted Briton could Subdue lay downe our neckes to Tyrants axe Why doe we talke of Vertue that obay Weakenesse and Vice Piso Haue patience good Sceuinus Lucan Weakenesse and seruile gouernment we hitherto Obeyed haue which that we may no longer We haue our liues and fortunes now set vp And haue our cause with Pisoes credit strengthned Flaui: Which makes it doubtfull whether loue to him Or Neroes hatred hath drawne more vnto vs Piso I see the good thoughts you haue of me Lords Le ts now proceede to th' purpose of our meeting I pray you take your places Le ts haue some Paper brought Sceuin: Whos 's within Enter Milichus to them Meli. My Lord Sceu. Some Inke and Paper Exit Meli enter againe with Incke and Paper Flaui: Whos 's that Sceuinus Sceui: It is my freed man Melichus Luca: Is he trustie Sceuin: I for as great matters as we are about Piso And those are great ones Luca: I aske not that we meane to neede his trust Gaine hath great soueragintie ore seruile mindes Sceui: O but my benifits haue bound him to me I from a bondman haue his state not onely Aduanc't to freedome but to wealth and credit Piso Meli waire i th' next chamber tell we call abscondit se The thing determinde on our meeting now Is of the meanes and place due circumstance As to the doing of things t' is requir'd So done it names the action Melis: I wonder What makes this new resort to haunt our house When wonted Lucius Piso to come hither Or Lucan when so oft as now of late aside Piso And since the field and open shew of armes Dislike you and that for the generall good You meane to end all styrres in end of him That as the ground must first be thought vpon Melic: Besides this comming cannot be for forme Our visitation they goe aside aside And haue long conferences by themselues Luca: Piso his comming to your house at Baiae To bathe and banquet will fit meanes afford amidst his cups to end his hated life Let him die drunke that nere liu'd soberly Pisa O be it farre that I should staine my Table And Gods of Hospitalitie with blood Let not our cause now Innocent be soyld With such a blot nor Pisoes name made hatefull What place can better fit our action Then his owne house that boundlesse enuied heape Built with the spoyles and blood of Cittizens That hath taken vp the Citie left no roome For Rome to stand on Romanes get you gone And dwell at Uciae If that Vciae too This house ore runne not Lucan But t will be hard to doe it in his house And harder to escape being done Piso Not so Bufus the Captaine of the Guard 's with vs And diuers other o th' Preterian Band Already made many though vnacquainted With our intents haue had disgrace and wrongs Which grieue them still most will be glad of change And euen they that lou'd him best when once They see him gone will smile o' th comming times Let goe things past and looke to their owne safetie Besides th' astonishment and feare will be So great so sodaine that 't will hinder them From doing any thing Meli. No priuate businesse can concerne them all aside Their countenances are troubled and looke sad Doubt and Importance in their face is read Lucan Yet still I thinke it were Safer t' attempt him priuate and alone Flaui. But 't will not carry that opinion with it T will seeme more foule and come from priuate malice Brutus and they to right the common