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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

hand Achom. An honour'd Legate an Ambassadour as if that title like Medaeas charme could stay the untam'd spirit of my wrath Had he bin sent a messenger from heaven and spoke in thunder to the slavish world If he had roar'd one voice one syllable crosse to my humour I 'de a searcht the depth of his unhallowed bosome and turnd out his heart the prophane seate of sawcy pride Slaine an Ambassador no lesse 't is done and 't was a noble slaughter I conceive a joy ineffable to see my sword bath'd in a blood so rare so precious as an Ambassadours must we be told of times delayes and opportunities that the base souldier hath gaine-sayd our blisse Thought Bajazet his son so cold so dull so innocently blockish as to heare an Embassie most harsh and grossely bad the people to deny me We contemne with strange defiance Bajazet and them Actus 5. Scena 2. Enter Isaacke Mesithes Mustupha Mesith Mischiefe on mischiefe all our hopes are dead slaine in the haplesse fall of Selymus Must I thinke the divells fought for Bajazet and all the infernall haggs how could he else with a confused army and halfe slaine breake the well-ordered ranks of a strong foe Mesith And unexpected too Now Isaacke what Sadly repenting for thy last misdeeds Plots and conspiracies against thy Prince Faith we must hang together Isaack Good Mesithes 't is nothing so they say Achomates disdaining to be mockt out of his hopes and most desired possession of the Crowne ha's in contempt of Bajazet and all slaine the Ambassador and vowes revenge on every guilty agent in his wrong Mustaph I lookt for that and therefore first shranke back when Bajazet made choyce of one to send on such a thanklesse errand as that was Mes Grant the report be true what 's that to us Isa Fame in mine eare nere blab'd a sweeter tale this shall redeeme our low dejected hopes to their full height No more be it my charge to chose out the event What 's this comes here Musta Upon my life the body of the slain Ambassador Enter the Ambassadors followers with the dead body Mesi 'T is so Isa We greet you friends and your sad spectacle Followers T is sad enough to banish peace and patience from each brest that owes true loyalty to Bajazet Isa And so it shall lay down the injur'd corps Achomates ha's wrong'd his Fathers love too grosly in the murder even of him that bore his sacred person and should stand inviolably honor'd by the law of men and nations But here comes Bajazet Enter Bajazet and Cherseogl● Baja. A tragick spectacle Whose trunk is this Follow The body of your slain Ambassador Baja. Slain by what cursed violence what 〈◊〉 durst touch the man that represented me Follow Achomates Baja. Achomates Follow The same Highly displeas'd with the unexpected newes of a denyal from the peoples mouth his reason slipt in fury and contempt hath thus abus'd your gracious Majesty Withall he threatned to maintain this sin with force of armes and so resolv'd to win your Crown without such tarriance Baja. Oh! no more I am unfortunate in all my blood Hath he thus guerdon'd my fair promises my daily sweat and care to further him and fix him in the Paradise of joy Nations cry out for vengeance of this fact I 'le scourge this black impiety to hell Muster our forces to the utmost man once more I 'le bury this my aged corps in steely armour and my coloured crest like a bright star shall sparkle out revenge before the rebels faint amazed eyes Lose not a minute Bassaes hence be gone muster our men stay not that from the tide of our fierce wrath no drop may ebb away by causelesse lingering Must Whom speak you General Baja. Whom but my self whom doth the cause concern more nearly then my self Isa My honoured Liege bear your best care about you 't is a time of double danger but remove the one the other straight call'd forward Selymus great in the favour of Tartaria's King is man'd afresh with souldiers his assault threatnes as much as fierce Achomates and must be born off with your ablest forces then if you leave the City to subdue one of these two expect e're you return tother possest and seated on your throne Baja. Distraction rends my soul what shall I do Isa Force out one nayl with tother of these two chuse him you most affect and best dare trust allure him farely home wink at his crimes and then create him your high General to lead against his brother since your self cannot at once oppresse two foes so stout trie if one heate can drive another out Baja. Isaack we like thy counsel but of these which can we pardon either so deboist so guilty of rebellion so divorc'd from pious loyalty that my soul even both with bitter hatred equally may loath Isa First weigh their faults the one a brain-sick youth endeavour'd to supplant your Majesty the other in defiance and contempt of God and man prophan'd the holy rites of an Ambassador Mesi For which dire fact should it slip up unpunished the name the feareful name of Bajazet would prove the subject of each libel and the scoffe of petty Princes Baja. Enough we have decreed Achomates shall quake beneath the stroke of our fierce anger Isaack speed away to Selymus he shall confront the slave the best of two so bad go stay yet go 't is hard when we beg succour of a foe Begg stay again first will I drop before the sword of proud Achomates goe tell him upon his low submission we will daigne to make him Champion to his Soveraigne Exit Isaack Enter Corcutus to his Father My deare Corcutus welcome Corcu. Royall Father Kneeles Baja. Arise thou onely solace of mine age it was a night of harmlesse innocence of peace and rest in which kinde nature laid thee in thy mothers womb Right vertuous boy how hast thou liv'd untainted with the breath of that infectious vice Rebellion Corcut. Right noble Father 't is a faithful rule in moral rites that who desires a good and most suspects his right to it is bold and turbulent and eager in pursuit whereas the man to whom this good is due rests happily contented till time fit Crown him in the possession of his wish Baja. Well moraliz'd I understand thee Boy my grant shall melt thy prayers in ful joy Exeunt Actus 5. Scena 3. Enter Selymus and Souldiers Sely. Once more in hope to gain and fear to lose a Crown and Kingdom we have march'd thus neare the seat of a dread Emperor to try the chance of war or resolutely die Feare no crosse blow for with this hand I move the wheele of Fate and each successe shall run even with our pleasures till our hopes are spun up to their ful perfection this dayes light that looks so chearfully shall see as bright as it my crown and glory Makes a stand As they march on enter Isaack Bassa

and borrowed luster then descend rankt with the vulgar heads first let me feel the Titian vultur or Ixions wheel and the worst torture hell it selfe can bring to scourge my soul ô let me die a King But stay I must bethink me at what rate I purchase these fair trappings ha the curse of him that got mee start my danted spirits shall I usurp a throne and sit above my father whilst the gaping pit of hell with wide stretcht jawes yawnes for my fall O I am struck with horror and the slaves of Stix already sting my wounded soul Cher. Will you fair Prince reject all future hopes of just succession and afflict your Sire by your unjust detainment of his Crown Corcu. I am distracted and me thinks I burn under these robes of State a boyling heat runs from them through my veins Joves hardy son when he bewrapt himselfe in Nessus shirt felt not more bitter agonies then I cloath'd in the trappings of my majesty I am resolv'd Bassaes go meet our father allure him home with this I am begun to be no King but a repentant son Exeunt Mesithes and Cherseogles Pallas I aske thy pardon I have straied A gracelesse trewant from thy happy schooles Whither I le now returne there 's not a ranke Place or degree can sort us out true blisse Without thy temple there my dwelling is Amongst the sacred monuments of wit Which Classique authors carefully have writ For our instruction I will wast my time So to wash out the spots of this sad crime Court honours and you shadows of true joy That shine like starres till but a greater light Drowne your weake luster I adjure your sight Even from my meditations and my thoughts I banish your entising vanities And closely kept within my studie walls As from a cave of rest henceforth I le see And smile but never taste your misery I but as yet am floating on the waves Of stormy danger nor am sure to scape The violent blast of angry Bajazet Blow faire my hopes and when I touch the shore I le venture forth on this rough surge no more Enter Bajazet Cherseogles Achmetes Isaack Mesithes Mustapha Mahomet Achomates Selymus Trizham Mahomet Zem●s disguised See where he comes oh how my guilty blood Starts to my face and proves my cause not good Our dutie to our father kneeles Baja. Ours to the Emperor kneeles Cor. Why kneels great Bajazet I am thy son Thy slave and if thy wrath but frowne undone VVhy kneeles great Bajazet heavens hide thy face From these proposterous doings Ba. What not asham'd To circle in thybrow with that bright crown Yet blush to see me kneel though filiall rites And morall precepts say the son must bend Before the Father yet your high degree and power bids you rise commands my knee Corc. These ornaments be thine Here Bajazet I Crowne thee Monarch of the spacious West Asia and Affrica if ought be mine greater then these I here proclaim it thine Omnes Live Bajazet our mighty Prince live rule and flourish Baja. Is this your zeale is it Did every voice breath out a willing suffrage I am crowned my joyes are fully perfect and I feele my lightned spirits caper in my brest Rise thou starre-bright mirrour of thine age To Corcutus kneeling by thee our iron daies prove full as good as when old Saturne thundred in the clouds Be an example to succeeding times how sons should use their Parents and I vow when I shall faile this honour to thy brow Attend us Bassaes I le lead on to joy never was Father blest with such a boy Exeunt omnes manet Corcutus Corcu. Freed from a princely burthen I possess A Kingly liberty and am no lesse Princely observance waite on him on me thoughts undisturb'd I shall then happy be Exit Actus 1. Scena 5. Enter Zemes the brother of Bajazet alone Zemes. Scarce had I set my foot within these walls in expectation of a solemne hearse due to the wandring Ghost of Mahomet but lowd alarmus of abundant joy ring in mine eares and every servile groome Congratulates the coronation A showt within of Bajazet harke how they roare it out A cold disturbance like a gelid frost settles my blood withinme and I hate his cheerefull triumphs more then mine owne fate 'T is true indeed I prov'd not the first fruites an elder off-spring of my Fathers breed yet was it so that Bajazet and I both tumbled in one wombe perhaps the Queene of womens labours doted at our birth and sent him first abroad or else I slept and he before me stole into the world must I then lose my glory and be hurld A slave beneath his feet no I must be An Emperor as full as great as he Exit Actus 1. Scena 6. Enter Isaack alone Isa Divorc'd my Daughter fond and insolent man I le crush thee into nothing if I can endure the noise of my disgrace I know how to return it I am a flame of fire a chafing heat distempers all my blood Achmetes thou must cool it when thy limbs are emptied of that moysture they sucke in and thy stain'd blood inchanted from thy veins then shall I be appeased meane while I live thy mortall foe But stay let me contain mine anger undiscover'd Friend how is' t Enter Mesithes Mesi Know you not Isaack Isa What Mes The flight of Zemes hence to Armenia Isa Of Zemes Mes Yes he walkt about the City disguis'd and unseen till his escape Isa 'T is strange and full of fear Mes We meet him frequent in the vulgar mouth Isa Zemes is valiant and Armenia strong here 's Bajazet he must beware the wrong Enter Bajazet Ba. What is' t thou murmurest Bajazet wrongd something it is thou knowest concerning us Take thee faire leave and speak it Isa Yes I know matters of weight such as concern thy life Baja. Such as concern my life Speak out thy tale we are so flesht in joy bad news proves strange and touch my sense too harshly Isa But you must hear Your brother Zemes when swift winged Fame told him your father Mahomet was dead flew quickly hither first to celebrate his funeral pomp then to assume his State his Crown and Scepter which he rightly knew unto your hand and head both to be due But when applausive joy and peales of mirth sounded loud Musick in his troubled eares of you enthron'd then he began too late to brawl at heaven and wrangle with his Fate So he went hence and cryed revenge be mine quake thou great City of proud Constantine at my fierce anger when I next return with clouds of misty powder I shall choak thy breath and dul thy beauty with it's smoak Thus posted he hence to Armenias King there to implore his ayde which he will bring to front thy power nor doth he yet despair to dispossess and fright thee from thy chair Baja. First from my body shall he fright my soul and push me into dust Isaack

resign'd my honours up to him he deeply swore when the usurping Sun of his bright-shining royalty had run It 's compleat course through the whole heaven of state and fainting dropt into the Western lapse my brightness next should throw it's golden beames upon the worlds wide face and over-peer the dusky clouds of hidden privacy and shall Achomates succeed Shall he shine in the spangled robes of Majesty then Bajazet is false let it be so I am secur'd from a huge masse of woe Yet I le toth ' Court that when Achomates shall spie mee and remember but my due 't will staine his lustre with a blushing hue Enter Bajazet Cherseogles Baja. My cares are grown too great to be compriz'd within the narrow compasse of my brest Vice-roy of Greece I le powre into thy heart part of my secrets which being entred in locke them as close up as thou wouldst a sinne committed yet not knowne I must impart things worth thy faithfull silence Chers Worthy Sir by the inclosure of my soule I sweare Baja. I le not heare out thine oath in briefe 't is thus the Bassaes are all false and love not us Nor doth my brain-sicke fury prompt me thus I read it in their gestures conventicles actions and counsells my suspitious eye hath found a great breach in their loyalty Chers Surely this cannot bee Bajazet By 't is true each man that guards mine honour is my foe I le shake these splendent robes of Majesty from my ore-burden'd shoulders and to ease my selfe bequeath them to Achomates Cherse Achomates Baja. Even he unlesse the voyce Of the whole Citie interdict my choice Enter Isaacke Mesithes Mustapha Cherse Here comes the Bassaes sure I see bad newes pourtrayed on the Index of their fronts Baja. Bad newes We have out-liv'd good dayes too long we can expect no other come unclaspe volumes of misciefes and make deafe my eares with an infused multitude of cares Bassaes Young Selymus hath crost Danubius floud and seiz'd upon the Provinces of Thrace and with a Navie plow'd the Euxine Sea Baja. Peace bellowing night-ravens with how cheerefull noise their puffing lungs croke out the balefull note Are these the warres ' gainst Hungary You powers of heaven brush off your cloddy patience If you but winke at these notorious crimes I 'le say you dare not check our stubborne times Well as yet I 'le make use of his pretence Vize-roy of Greece beare you this Embassie to that suspected Traytor Selymus Tell him the warres ' gainst the Hungarian foe are full of dangers and approved harmes never attempted by our Ancestors without repulse or damage bid him dismisse his rough Tartarian youths then if he stand Unmov'd and stiffe feigne vengeance is at hand make thy best speed Cherse I shall T will be well done to reconcile a Father and a Sonne Exit Baja. Thought he tumultuous uprores could deserve the favours of his Prince h 'as troad awry and mist the path that leades to Majestie These bright Imperious ornaments shall grace no rebell-monster nor base runne-away my resolution 's firme it shall not be Bassaes this day an Herauld shall proclaime in the worlds eare my great successours name are you content Bassaes We are Bajaz. Call forth an Herauld Isaak As our alleageance bindes us wee 'le obey Exit Mustapha calls in an Herauld But what we grant the Souldiers will gaine-say Aside Thou shalt not thrive in this I dare be bold my golden hookes hove ta'ne a faster hold Baja. Herauld be my loud Eccho ratifie my deede and say Achomates shall next succeede Herauld Bajazet the second by the appointment of our great Prophet Mahomet the onely Monarch of the World a mighty God on earth an invincible Caesar King of all Kings from the East unto the West Governour of Greece Sultan of Babylon Soveraigne of Persia and Armenia triumphant Tutor of Jerusalem Lord possessour of the Sepulcher of the Crucified God subverter and sworne enemie of the Christians and of all that call upon Christ proclaimeth Achomates his second son next and immediate successour An alarm of Trumpets Within None but Bajazet none but Bajazet Bajaz. By heaven they are corrupted none but I 'T is no love borne to me that moves this cry Mesith Great Bajazet the cause why they deny this just proposall riseth from an use and customary licence long observ'd to wit when their crown'd Emperour is dead the interpos'd vacation is a time of lawlesse freedome then they dare to spoile the Jewish Merchants of their traffick wares and prey upon all strangers so that should your Honour be conferr'd upon your sonne Whilst you your self yet breath then should they lose their long expected gaines therefore refuse what you propos'd Bajaz. If that be all the cause wee 'le give them such a Kingly donative as doubly shall buy out those ill-got spoiles five hundred thousand Duckats if they please with my free choise to crowne Achomates Proclaim'd to be their due A flourish of Trumpets Herauld Bajazet the second by the appointment of our great Prophet Mahomet c. proclaimeth that hee 'le attribute five hundred thousand Duckats if you yeeld alleageance to Achomates his successor Trumpets sound againe Within None but Bajazet none but Bajazet Baja. Achomates I sent for how hee 'le digest these grosse illusions I may justly feare by this I had discourag'd Selymus and kill'd his hopes by this I had cut off the growth of hate and choked discords seed Exit Enter Mustapha with a Messenger to the other Bassaes Mustaph Beare this to Selymus with thy best care Mesith And this Give him Letters Isaack And this fly let thy winged speed return a sudden answer else we bleed Actus 4. Scena 5. Enter Selymus Tartarian King Attendants Tartar Goe on brave Prince Lead on thy marshal'd troups degrade the Turkish Monarch let him faint at the deepe wounds which thy revengefull hand shall print upon the bosome of his land Goe on Me thinks I see Victoria sit triumphant on thy steely Burganet Exit Tartarian King Selym. Farewell now I will meete thee Bajazet with a careere as free as if Heavens Jove had bid me goe Bespeake the stoutest gods to take thy part tell them that thou must meete a Selymus who when the warres are done will scale the Forts and Castles of the Sunne breake up the brazen gates of Acheron and bury Nature with the world together Captaines leade on Now shall the sword and fire by publique ruines crowne my just desire Sleepe Hungary I 'le not breake off thy rest with the unwelcome Musick of my Drummes I 'le turne the edge of my revengefull sword upon the bosome of my native soyle There dwels the motive of my Tragick wars whose ruthlesse sad Catastrophe shall wound posterity in us Infants shall mourne over their Fathers tombs as yet unborne But who comes here I 'le meete him Noble Vize-roy Enter Cherseogles Cherseo Peace and health to Selymus Selym. Health but not peace whilst yonder light

all the heavens see how the shining starres in carelesse ranks grace the composure and the beauteous Moone holds her irregular motion at the height of the four poles this is a compleat heaven and thus I weare it But methinks 't is fixt but weakly on my brow whilst there yet breath any whose envie once reflect on it and those are three the angry Bajazet puling Corcutus proud Achomates One of these three is car'd for that 's Corcutus who ere the blushing morn salutes the Sun shall be dispatcht by two most hideous slaves whom I have bred a purpose to the fact The other rival wise Achomates I 'le bear a side by force of men and armes which ready Mustred but attend the stroke Then attend our Fathers Enter Hamon Here 's one deales for him shall send him quick to hell It is decreed he that makes lesser greatness soon shall bleed Hamon draw near most welcome my dear Hamon what guesse you of your patient Bajazet Is he all healthful Ham. No my gracious prince Neither his body nor his mind is free from miserable anguish Sely. A sad case Hamon I love him would rid him from 't were I so skill'd in naturals as you Ham. All that my art can work to cure his grief shall be applied Sely. Unapprehending fool I must speak broader Hamon is he ill in minde and body both Ham. Exceeding ill Sely. Then should I think him happier in his death then in so hateful life and so weak breath Ham. And that 's the readier way to cure his ill Sely. H 'as found me now But Hamon can thy Art reach to the cure Ham. With easie diligence Sely. Then let it Ham. I 'me yours Exit Hamon Sely. Walk and thy paines shall be rewarded highly with the like as thou bestowest on Bajazet the Court makes it a fashion now first to bring the event about and then hang up the instrument Actus 5. Scena 6. Enter Cherseogles above disguised like a common Souldier Chers Thus Cherseogles hast thou wound thy self out of thy self to act some fearful plot by which the Authors of this publick woe shall skip into their graves It is confirm'd a deed of lawful valour to defeat those of their lives that rob'd the world of peace On this side the false hearted Selymus with his confederate Bassaes lie incampt just opposite the proud Achomates The Sun now sunk into the VVestern lap bids either part unlace their warlike helmes until to morrow light where both intend the hazard of a battel but you powers that with propitious cares tender the world and us frail mortals help me to prevent a general ruine by the fall of some assist my spirits in a deed of blood cruel yet honest and austerely good VVho Selymus as I expected Enter Selymus Sely. VVhat A souldier thus licentious in his walks a stranger Ha! VVhat art thou Che. A sworn friend a servant to thy greatness Sely. Then return back into thy ranks and orders no edict from me hath ratified this liberty to scout at randome from the standing camp Cher. 'T is true my honour'd Lord nor have I dared for some poor trivial prey thus to remove my self but for a cause of greater weight the ruine of our enemies Sely. How 's that The ruine of our enemies Cher. No lesse The quick fall of great Achomates can work it Sely. Souldier as thou hop'st to live mock not my thoughts with false and painted tales of a supposed stratagem Cher. I sweare Sely. What wilt thou sweare Cher. By all the heavenly powers I speak the truth and if I fail in ought grind mine accursed body into dust Sely. Enough unfold the meaning and the way by which this happy project must be wrought Cher. 'T is thus at the 12th hour of this black night Achomates I have induc'd to walk forth to this valley weapon'd but unmand in expectation of your presence there where being met hee 'l urge a single fight 'twixt you and him after a stroake or two I have ingag'd my self closely to start from ambush and against you take his part Sely. Then thou art a traytor Cher. Worse then a divel should my heart have made that promise with my tongue but heaven bear witness that my inward thoughts labour his welfare only whom you powers have prov'd most worthy therefore only yours Meet but this foe whom I have flattered thus to his destruction and great Selymus shall see my strength imployed to offend Achomates and stand thy faithful friend Sely. Oh wert thou faithful Cher. If I shrink in ought that I profess death shall strike me to the grave so thrive all falshood and each perjur'd slave Sely. Th' ast won our credit bear a noble mind about thee then to find me forward trust this night when sleep triumphant hath subdu'd her wakeful subjects and the mid-night clock sounded full twelve in this appointed place expect my presence and till then adieu our next shall be a tragick enterview Chers The first is car'd for here a second comes Enter Achomates Assist me thou quick issue of Joves brain and this one night shall make their labors vain Acho. It shall be so my fears are too to great to joyn all in one on-set a strong band shall with a circle hem the traytor round and intercept the passage of their flight How now from whence com'st thou what art thou Cher. A Liege-man to Achomates Acho. To me Cher. Yes noble Prince and one whose life is vowd to further your desert and therefore yours Acho. We thank you and pray you leave us Cher. I can unfold an easie stratagem would crown the hopes of great Achomates Acho. What means the fellow Cher. to secure your state by Selymus his fall Acho. What i' st thou breath'st speak it again for many careful thoughts possesse my Soul that every blessed voice steales in the passage twixt my eare and haste By Selymus his fall to secure my state Cherse I can Achom. Delude me not and I will rain such an unmeasured plenty in thy lap heap such continuall honors on thy head that thou shalt shrink and stagger with the waight Cher. Judge of the means This night I have induc'd young Selymus to walk forth in this grove at the twelfth hour in hope to meet you here where having urg'd a combat and both met in eager conflict I have pawn'd my vow to rush from yonder thicket and with him joyne against you Acho. Villaine Cher. And Divel had my heart made promise with my tongue but heaven bears witness that my soul affects none but Achomates Try but my faith and meet this foe whom I have bayted thus with golden hopes and you will finde my deed in your defence all promise shall exceed Acho. I 'm resolv'd souldier when day is past and the full fancies of mortality busie in dreames and playing visions at the sad melancholy hour of twelve I le meet thee in this plaine Cher. And you shall find

imperious looks should grace so base a stroke with sad aspect thus will I muffle up and choke my grones lest a griev'd teare should quite put out the name of lasting courage in Carmanias fame Am. What still stiffe necked Is this the truce you beg Sprinkled before thy face those Rebel Brats shall have their braines and their dissected limbes hurld for a prey to Kites for Lords 't is fit no spark of such a mountain threatning fire be left as unextinct least it devoure and prove more hot unto the Turkish Empier then the Promethean blaze did trouble Jove first sacrifice those Brats All. Wife Deare father let thy fury rush on me within these entrailes sheath thine unsatiate sword and let this ominous and too fruitful womb be torn insunder for from thence those Babes took all their crimes error made them guilty 't was Natures fault not theirs O if affection can work then now shew a true fathers love if not appease those murdering thoughts with me For as Jocasta pleaded with her sons for their deare Father so to a Father I for my dear babes and husband husband father Which shall I first embrace Victoriors father be blunt those now sharp thoughts lay down those threats unclasp that impious Helmet fix to earth that monumental Speare look on thy child with pardoning looks not with a warriers eye Else shall my brest cover my husbands brest and serve as buckler to receive thy wounds Why dost thou doubt Fearest thou thy daughters faith Amu. I feare for after Daughters perjury all Lawes of Nature shall distasteful be nor will I trust thy children or thy self Wife No Father 't is I fear you him he you I both but for you both for both you war so that 't is best with him that 's overcome O let me kisse kind father first the earth on which you tread then kisse mine husbands cheek Great King embrace these babes you are the stock on which these Grafts were planted Amu. True and when sprouts do rob the tree of sap they must be prun'd Wife Dear Father leave such harsh similitudes By my deceased Mother to whose womb I was a ten moneths burden By your self to whom I was a pleasing Infant once pitty my husband and these tender Infants Amu. Yes to have them collect a manly strength and their first lesson that their Dad shall teach them shall be to read my misery All. Stern Conqueror but that thy daughter shews there once dwelt good in that obdurate brest I would not spend a teare to soften thee Thou seest my Countries turn'd into a grave my Cities scare the Sun with fiercer flames which turn them into ashes and my self so flickt and carved that my amazed blood knows not through which wound first to take it's way if not on me have mercy on my babes which with thy mercy thou mayst turn to Love Amu. No sir we must root out malicious seed nothing sprouts faster than an envious weed We see a little Bullock ' mongst an Herd whose horns are yet scarce crept from out his front grows on a suddain tall and in the Field frolicks so much he makes his Father yield A little Twig left budding on an Elm ungratefully bars his Mother sight from Heaven I love not future Aladins Alad. Threat all a Conquerour can canst threat but death and I can die but if thou wouldst have mercy Wife Let 's see your feet we 're proud with this hands kiss The higher those great powers have rais'd you press that which lyes below with gentler weight to pardon miseries is Fortunes height alas these infants these weak sinewed hands can be no terror to these Hectors arms Beg Infants beg and teach these tender joynts to ask for mercy learn your lisping tongues to give due accent to each syllable nothing that Fortune urgeth to is base put from your thoughts all memory of descent forget the Princely Titles of your Fathers if your own misery you cannot feel learn thus of me to weep of me to kneel Al. Do boys and imitate your Parents tears which I like Priam shed when he beheld Hector thrice dragg'd about the Trojan Walls He that burst ope the Gates of Erebus and rouz'd the yelling Monster from his Den was conquer'd with a tear Great Monarch learn To know how dear a King doth weeping earn 1. Ch. Good Grandsire see see how my Father cries 2. Ch. Good Mother take my napkin for your eyes Wife Good father hear hear how thy daughter prays Thou that know'st how to use stern Warriers arms learn how to use mild VVarriers pity too Alas Can ere these ungrown strengths repair their Fathers battered Cities Or can these these orethrown Turrets Iconium what small hopes hast thou to lean upon If these be all Not half so mild hath our misfortune been that any can ere fear us Be pleased Am. Rise my dear Child as Marble against rain so I at these obedient showers melt thus I do raise thy Husband thus thy Babes freely admitting you to former State But Aladin wake not our wrath again Patience grows fury that is often stirred when Conquerours wax calm and cease to hate the conquer'd should not dare to reiterate Be thou our Son and Friend Alad. By all the Rites of Mahomet I vow it Am. Then for to seal unto you this our love your self shall lead a wing in Servia in our immediate VVars we are to meet the Christians in Cassanoe's Plains with speed Great Amurath nere had time to breath himself so much as to have warring with new Foes no day securely to his Scepter shone but one VVars end still brought another on Exeunt Actus 5. Scena 2. Enter Lazarus Cobelitz Souldiers all armed Cob. Let now victorious wreathes ingirt our brows let Angels ' stead of Souldiers wield our arms ' gainst him who that our Cities might be his strives to depopulate and make them none But look look in the air me thinks I see an Host of Souldiers brandishing their Swords each corner of the Heaven shoots thunderbolts to nail these impious forces to the Earth Laz. Souldiers stand to 't though fortune bandy at 's let 's stand her shocks like sturdy Rocks i th' Sea on which the angry foaming Billows beat with frivolous rush and break themselves not them stand like the undaunted countenance o th' sky or like the Sun which when the foolish King thought to obscure with a cloud of darts out lookt them all our lives are all inchanted and more invulnerate than Thetis Son We shall have hands and weapons if the stone of Fortune glide from under our weak feet and we must fall yet let all Christians say 'T is She and not the Cause that wins the day We must believe Heaven hath a greater care of them whom Fortune doth so oft out dare Cob. Gentlemen Brothers Friends Souldiers Christians we have no reason to command of Heaven a thing denied to all mortality Nor should we be so impudently proud as

the weak jaws of man Aegyst Why what portentous newes Amaze us not tell us what e'r it be Nun. Were my mind settled would the gellid feare that freeseth up my sense set free my speech I would unfold a tale which makes my heart throb in my intrals when I seem to see 't Clyt Relate it quickly hold 's not in suspence Nun. Upon the mount of yonder rising cliffe which th' earth hath made a bulwark for the sea whose pearelesse head is from the streams so high that whosoe'r looks down his brain will swim with a vertigo The space remov d so far the object from the eye that a tall ship seem'd a swift flying bird upon this top saw I two men making complaints to heaven one's voyce distinctly still cry'd Father King great Agamemnon whose diviner soul fled from thy corps exil'd by butchers hands his friend still sought to keepe his dying life with words of comfort that it should not rush too violently upon the hands of Fate He deafe as sea to which he made his plaints still cryed out Agamemnon I will come and find thy blessed soul where e'r it walk in what faire Temple of Elysium so e'r it be my soul shall find it out With that his friend knit him within his arms striving to hold him but when t was no boot they hand in hand thus plung'd into the maine strait they arose and striv'd me thought for life but swelling Neptune not regarding friends wrapt their embraced limbs in following waves Until at last their deare departing souls hastned to Styx and I no more could see Stro. O 't was Orestes 't was my Pylades which arm in arm did follow him to death Elect. O my Orestes O my dearest brother 'T is he 't is he that thus hath drown'd himself Aegyst Why then if Agamemnon and his son have brought their lease of life to the full end I am Thyestes son and the next heire to sit in Argos Throne of Majesty Thanks to our Alpheus sea who as 't'ad striv'd to gratifie Aegystheus rais'd his force and gathered all his waters to one place they might be deep enough to drown Orestes But come my Queen let us command a feast To get a kingdome who 'ld not think it good to swim unto it through a sea of blood Actus 3. Scena 1. Enter Tyndarus Misander Tynd. Our daughter sends for us how fares she well she mournes I 'm sure for her husbands death Mis My Lord she took it sadly at the first But time hath lessen'd it Tind I grief soon ends that flows in teares they still are womens friends But how is' t rumord now in Argos though that Agamemnon died Mis Why he was old and death thought best to seize on him at home Tynd. 'T was a long home he got by coming home Well well Misander I like not the course the peoples murmure makes my cheeks to blush Mis My gracious Lord who trusts their idle murmur must never let the blush go from his cheek They are like flags growing on muddy banks whose weak thin heads blown with one blast of winde they all will shake and bend themselves one way Great minds must not esteem what small tongues say All things in state must ever have this end the vulgar should both suffer and commend if not for love for feare great Majesty should do those things which vulgars dare not fee. Tynd. O Sir but those that do commend for feare do in their hearts a secret hatred beare Ever learn this the truest praise indeed must from the heart and not from words proceed I feare some soul play doth Aegystheus meane then totally for to invest himself in Agamemnons seate Where 's young Orestes Mis Why my Lord he for the great grief conceiv'd being young not knowing well to rule himselfe with sway of reason ranne upon his death and threw himselfe with my lord Strophius sonne into the midst of Alpheus so was drown'd Ty. How took my daughter that Mys Why wisely too and like her selfe not being in despaire her royal wombe will bring forth many more shall be as deare as e'r Orestes was Tynd. I feare heaven cannot look with equall eyes upon so many deaths but meanes to send plague after plague for in a wretched state one ill begets another dismal Fate But go and tell my daughter I will come and help to solemnize her nuptial night Her hasty wedding and the old Kings neglect makes my conjectural soul some ill suspect Exeunt Scen. 2. Enter Orestes and Pylades Orest If ever God lent any thing to earth whereby it seem'd to sympathize with heaven it is this sacred friendship Gordian knot which Kings nor Gods nor Fortune can undoe O what Horoscopus what constellation held in our birth so great an influence which one affection in two minds unites How hath my woe been thine my fatal ill hath still been parted and one share been thine Pyl. Why dearest friend suppose my case were thine and I had lost a father wouldst not thou in the like sort participate my grief Ores Yes witnesse heaven I would Pyl. So now thou hast lost a father Orest True Pylades thou putst me well in mind I have lost a father a dear dear father a King a brave old King a noble souldier and yet he was murdered O my forgetful soul Why should not I now draw my vengeful sword and strait-way sheath it in the murderers heart Minos should never have vacation whilst any of our progeny remain'd Well I will go and so massacre him I 'll teach him how to murder an old man a King my father and so dastardly to kill him in his bed Pyl. Alas Orestes Grief doth distract thee who is' t thou wilt kill Orest Why he or she or they that kill'd my father Pyl. I who are they Orest Nay I know not yet but I will know Pyl. Stay thy vengeful thoughts and since thus long we have estrang'd our selves from friends and parents let 's think why it is and why we had it noised in the Court we both were dead the cause was thy revenge that if by any secret private meanes we might but learn who 't was that drench'd their swords in thy deare fathers blood we then would rouze black Nemesis in flames from out her cave and she should be the umpire in this cause Mans soul is like a boistrous working sea swelling in billows for disdain of wrongs and tumbling up and down from day to day grows greater still in indignation turns male-content in pleaselesse melancholy spending her humours in dull passion still locking her senses in unclosed gins till by revenge she 's set at liberty Orest O now my thirsty soul expects full draughts of Ate's boyling cup O how twoul'd ease my heart to see a channel of his blood streaming from hence to hell that kill'd my father Pyl. I but deare friend thou must not let rage loose and like a furious Lion from whose den the