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A36681
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Secret-love, or, The maiden-queen as it is acted by His Majesties servants, at the Theater-Royal / written by John Dryden.
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
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1668
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the first Paradise With levell'd eyes gaz'd each upon their kind There fix'd their love and ne're look'd up to view That glorious Creature man their soveraign Lord. Qu. Y' are too severe on little faults but he has crimes untold Which will I fear move you much more against him He fell this day into a passion with me And boldly contradicted all I sed Phil. And stands his head upon his Shoulders yet How long shall this most insolent Qu. Take heed you rail not You know you are but on your good behaviour Phil. Why then I will not call him Traytor But onely rude audacious and impertinent To use his Soveraign so I beg your leave To wish you have at least imprison'd him Qu. Some people may speak ill and yet mean well Remember you were not confin'd and yet Your fault was great In short I love him And that excuses all but be not jealous His rising shall not be your overthrow Nor wil I ever marry him Phil. That 's some comfort yet He shall not be a King Qu. He never shall But you are discompos'd Stay here a little I have somewhat for you Shall shew you still are in my favour Exeunt Queen and Asteria Enter to him Candiope weeping Phil. How now in tears my fair Candiope So through a watry Clowd The Sun at once seems both to weep and shine For what Forefathers sin do you afflict Those precious eyes for sure you have None of your own to weep Cand. My Crimes both great and many needs must show Since Heav'n will punish them with loosing you Phil. Afflictions sent from Heav'n without a cause Make bold Mankind enquire into its Laws But Heav'n which moulding beauty takes such care Makes gentle fates on purpose for the fair And destiny that sees them so divine Spinn's all their fortunes in a silken twine No mortal hand so ignorant is found To weave course work upon a precious ground Cand. Go preach this doctrine in my Mother's ears Phil. Has her severity produc'd these tears Cand. She has recall'd those hopes she gave before And strictly bids me ne're to see you more Phil. Changes in froward age are Natural Who hopes for constant weather in the fall 'T is in your pow'r your duty to transfer And place that right in me which was in her Cand. Reason like foreign foes would ne're o'recome But that I find I am betray'd at home You have a friend that fights for you within Phil. Let Reason ever lose so love may win Enter Queen and Asteria Queen with a Picture in her hand Qu. See there Asteria All we have done succeeds still to the worse We hindred him from seeing her at home Where I but onely heard they lov'd and now She comes to Court and mads me with the sight on 't Ast. Dear Madam overcome your self a little Or they 'l perceive how much you are concern'd Qu. I struggle with my heart but it will have some vent To Cand. Cousin you are a stranger at the Court. Cand. It was my duty I confess To attend oftner on your Majesty Qu. Asteria Mend my Cousins Handkerchief It sits too narrow there and shows too much The broadness of her Shoulders Nay fie Asteria Now you put it too much backward and discover The bigness of her breasts Cand. I beseech your Majesty Give not your self this trouble Qu. Sweet Cousin you shall pardon me A beauty such as yours Deserves a more then ordinary care To set it out Come hither Philocles do but observe She has but one gross fault in all her shape That is she bears up here too much And the malicious Workman has left it open to your eye Phil. Where and ' please your Majesty methinks 't is very well Qu. Do not you see it Oh how blind is love Cand. And how quick-sighted malice Aside Qu. But yet methinks those knots of sky do not So well with the dead colour of her face Ast. Your Majesty mistakes she wants no red The Queen here plucks out her Glass and looks sometimes on her self sometimes on her Rival Qu. How do I look to day Asteria Methinks not well Ast. Pardon me Madam most victoriously Qu. What think you Philocles come do not flatter Phil. Paris was a bold man who presum'd To judg the beauty of a Goddess Cand. Your Majesty has given the reason why He cannot judge his Love has blinded him Qu. Methinks a long patch here beneath her eye Might hide that dismal hallowness what think you Philocles Cand. Beseech you Madam aske not his opinion What my faults are it is no matter He loves me with them all Qu. I he may love but when he marries you Your Bridal shall be kept in some dark Dungeon Farwel and think of that too easie Maid I blush thou shar'st my bloud Exeunt Queen Asteria Cand. In humane Queen Thou canst not be more willing to resign Thy part in me then I to give up mine Phil. Love how few Subjects do thy Laws fulfil And yet those few like us thou usest ill Cand. The greatest slaves in Monarchies are they Whom Birth sets nearest to Imperial sway While jealous pow'r does sullenly o're spy We play like Deer within the Lions eye Would I for you some Shepherdess had been And but each May ne're heard the name of Queen Phil. If you were so might I some Monarch be Then you should gain what now you loose by me Then you in all my glories should have part And rule my Empire as you rule my heart Cand. How much our golden wishes are in vain When they are past we are our selves again Enter Queen and Asteria above Qu. Look look Asteria yet they are not gone Hence we may hear what they discourse alone Phil. My Love inspires me with a gen'rous thought Which you unknowing in those wishes taught Since happiness may out of Courts be found Why stay we here on this enchanted ground And choose not rather with content to dwell If Love and we can find it in a Cell Cand. Those who like you have once in Courts been great May think they wish but wish not to retreat They seldom go but when they cannot stay As loosing Gamesters throw the Dice away Ev'n in that Cell where you repose would find Visions of Court will haunt your restless mind And glorious dreams stand ready to restore The pleasing shapes of all you had before Phil. He who with your possession once is blest On easie terms may part with all the rest All my Ambition will in you be crown'd And those white Arms shall all my wishes bound Our life shall be but one long Nuptial day And like chaf't Odours melt in Sweats away Soft as the Night our Minutes shall be worn And chearful as the Birds that wake the Morn Cand. Thus hope misleads it self in pleasant way And takes mores joyes on trust then Love can pay But Love with long possession once decayd That face which now you Court you will
the falshood I intended But I thank Heav'n it has recal'd my vertue aside To her O my dear I love you and you onely Go in I have some business for a while But I think minutes ages till we meet Cand. I knew you had but yet I could not choose But come and look upon you Exit Candiope Phil. What barbarous man could wrong so sweet a vertue Enter the Queen in black with Asteria Madam the States are straight to meet but why In these dark ornaments will you be seen Qu. They fit the fortune of a Captive Queen Phil. Deep shades are thus to heighten colours set So Stars in Night and Diamonds shine in Jet Qu. True friends should so in dark afflictions shine But I have no great cause to boast of mine Phil. You may have too much prejudice for some And think 'em false before their trial 's come But Madam what determine you to do Qu. I come not here to be advis'd by you But charge you by that pow'r which once you own'd And which is still my right ev'n when unthron'd That whatsoe're the States resolve of me You never more think of Candiope Phil. Not think of her ah how should I obey Her tyrant eyes have forc'd my heart away Qu. By force retake it from those tyrant eyes I 'le grant you out my Letters of Reprize Phil. She has too well prevented that design By giving me her heart in change for mine Qu. Thus foolish Indians Gold for Glass forgo 'T was to your loss you priz'd your heart so low I set its value when you were advanc'd And as my favours grew its rate inhanc'd Phil. The rate of Subjects hearts by yours must go And love in yours has set the value low Qu. I stand corrected and my self reprove You teach me to repent my low-plac'd love Help me this passion from my heart to tear Now rail on him and I will sit and hear Phil. Madam like you I have repented too And dare not rail on one I do not know Qu. This Philocles like strange perverseness shows As if what e're I said you would oppose How come you thus concern'd for this unknown Phil. I onely judg his actions by my own Qu. I 've heard too much and you too much have said O Heav'ns the secret of my soul 's betray'd He knows my love I read it in his face And blushes conscious of his Queens disgrace aside To him Hence quickly hence or I shall die with shame Phil. Now I love both and both with equal flame Wretched I came more wretched I retire When two winds blow it who can quench the fire Exit Philocles Qu. O my Asteria I know not whom t' accuse But either my own eyes or you have told My love to Philocles Ast. Is' t possible that he should know it Madam Qu. Me thinks you ask'd that question guiltily Her hand on Ast. shoulder Confess for I will know what was the subject of your long discourse I' th Antichamber with him Ast. It was my business to convince him Madam How ill he did being so much oblig'd To joyn in your imprisonment Qu. Nay now I am confirm'd my thought was true For you could give him no such reason Of his obligements as my love Ast. Because I saw him much a Malecontent I thought to win him to your int'rest Madam By telling him it was no want of kindness Made your refusal of Candiope And he perhaps Qu. What of him now Ast. As men are apt interpreted my words To all th' advantage he could wrest the sence As if I meant you Lov'd him Qu. Have I deposited within thy breast The dearest treasure of my life my glory And hast thou thus betray'd me But why do I accuse thy female weakness And not my own for trusting thee Unhappy Queen Philocles knows thy fondness And needs must think it done by thy Command Ast. Dear Madam think not so Qu. Peace peace thou should'st for ever hold thy tongue For it has spoke too much for all thy life To her Then Philocles has told Candiope And courts her kindness with his scorn of me O whither am I fallen But I must rouze my self and give a stop To all these ills by headlong passion caus'd In hearts resolv'd weak love is put to flight And onely conquers when we dare not fight But we indulge our harms and while he gains An entrance please our selves into our pains Enter Lysimantes Ast. Prince Lysimantes Madam Qu. Come near you poor deluded criminal See how ambition cheats you You thought to find a Prisoner here But you behold a Queen Lys. And may you long be so 't is true this Act May cause some wonder in your Majesty Qu. None Cousin none I ever thought you Ambitious Proud designing Lys. Yet all my Pride Designs and my Ambition Were taught me by a Master With whom you are not unacquainted Madam Qu. Explain your self dark purposes like yours Need an Interpretation Lys. 'T is love I mean Qu. Have my low fortunes giv'n thee This insolence to name it to thy Queen Lys. Yet you have heard love nam'd without offence As much below you as you think my passion I can look down on yours Qu. Does he know it too This is th' extreamest malice of my Stars aside Lys. You see that Princes faults How e're they think 'em safe from publick view Fly out through the dark crannies of their Closets We know what the Sun does Ev'n when we see him not in t'other world Qu. My actions Cousin never fear'd the light Lys. Produce him then your darling of the dark For such an one you have Qu. I know no such Lys. You know but will not own him Qu. Rebels ne're want pretence to blacken Kings And this it seems is yours do you produce him Or ne're hereafter sully my Renown With this aspersion Sure he dares not name him aside Lys. I am too tender of your fame or else Nor are things brought to that extremity Provided you accept my passion I 'le gladly yield to think I was deceiv'd Qu. Keep in your error still I will not buy Your good opinion at so dear a rate As my own misery by being yours Lys. Do not provoke my patience by such scornes For fear I break through all and name him to you Qu. Hope not to fright me with your mighty looks Know I dare stem that tempest in your brow And dash it back upon you Lys. Spight of prudence it will out 'T is Philocles Now judge when I was made a property To cheat my self by making him your Prisoner Whether I had not right to take up armes Qu. Poor envious wretch was this the venome that swell'd up thy brest My grace to Philocles mis-deem'd my love Lys. 'T is true the Gentleman is innocent He ne're sinn'd up so high not in his wishes You know he loves elsewhere Qu. You mean your Sister Lys. I wish some Sybil now would tell me Why you refus'd her to him