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A05206	The true chronicle history of King Leir, and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella As it hath bene diuers and sundry times lately acted.; King Leir.	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, attributed name.; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641, attributed name.	1605 (1605)	STC 15343; ESTC S111094	45,240	74

Leaues a Cony when she pulls off his skin Gon. Yet there is a further matter Mes. I thirst to heare it Gon. If my sister thinketh conuenient as my letters importeth to make him away hast thou the heart to effect it Mess. Few words are best in so small a matter These are but trifles By this booke I will kisse the paper Gon. About it presently I long till it be done Mes. I fly I fly Exeunt Enter Cordella solus I haue bin ouer-negligent to day In going to the Temple of my God To render thanks for all his benefits Which he miraculously hath bestowed on me In raysing me out of my meane estate When as I was deuoyd of worldly friends And placing me in such a sweet content As far exceeds the reach of my deserts My kingly husband myrrour of his time For zeale for iustice kindnesse and for care To God his subiects me and Common weale By his appoyntment was ordaynd for me I cannot with the thing that I do want I cannot want the thing but I may haue Saue only this which I shall ne're obtayne My fathers loue oh this I ne're shall gayne I would abstayne from any nutryment And pyne my body to the very bones Bare foote I would on pilgrimage set forth Vnto the furthest quarters of the earth And all my life time would I sackcloth weare And mourning-wise powre dust vpon my head So he but to forgiue me once would please That his gray haires might go to heauen in peace And yet I know not how I him offended Or wherein iustly I haue deserued blame Oh sisters you are much to blame in this It was not he but you that did me wrong Yet God forgiue both him and you and me Euen as I doe in perfit charity I will to Church and pray vnto my Sauiour That ere I dye I may obtayne his fauour Exit Enter Leir and Perillus fayntly Per. Rest on me my Lord and stay your selfe The way seemes tedious to your aged lymmes Leir Nay rest on me kind friend and stay thy selfe Thou art as old as I but more kind Per. Ah good my Lord it ill befits that I Should leane vpon the person of a King Leir But it fits worse that I should bring thee forth That had no cause to come along with me Through these vncouth paths and tirefull wayes And neuer ease thy faynting limmes a whit Thou hast left all I all to come with me And I for all haue nought to guerdon thee Per. Cease good my Lord to aggrauate my woes With these kind words which cuts my heart in two To think your will should want the power to do Leir Cease good Perillus for to call me Lord And think me but the shaddow of my selfe Per. That honourable title will I giue Vnto my Lord so long as I do liue Oh be of comfort for I see the place Whereas your daughter keeps her residence And loe in happy time the Cambrian Prince Is here arriu'd to gratify our comming Enter the Prince of Cambria Ragan and Nobles looke vpon them and whisper together Leir Were I best speak or sit me downe and dye I am asham'd to tell this heauy tale Per. Then let me tell it if you please my Lord T is shame for them that were the cause thereof Cam. What two old men are those that seeme so sad Me thinks I should remember well their lookes Rag. No I mistake not sure it is my father I must dissemble kindnesse now of force She runneth to him and kneeles downe saying Father I bid you welcome full of griefe To see your Grace vsde thus vnworthily And ill befitting for your reuerend age To come on foot a iourney so indurable Oh what disaster chaunce hath bin the cause To make your cheeks so hollow spare and leane E He cannot speake for weeping for Gods loue come Let vs refresh him with some needfull things And at more leysure we may better know Whence springs the ground of this vnlookt for wo Cam. Come father e're we any further talke You shall refresh you after this weary walk Exeunt manet Ragan Rag. Comes he to me with finger in the eye To tell a tale against my sister here Whom I do know he greatly hath abusde And now like a contentious crafty wretch He first begins for to complayne himselfe When as himselfe is in the greatest fault I le not be partiall in my sisters cause Nor yet beleeue his doting vayne reports Who for a trifle safely I dare say Vpon a spleene is stolen thence away And here forsooth he hopeth to haue harbour And to be moan'd and made on like a child But ere 't be long his comming he shall curse And truely say he came from bad to worse Yet will I make fayre weather to procure Conuenient meanes and then I le strike it sure Exit Enter Messenger solus Mes. Now happily I am arriued here Before the stately Palace of the Cambrian King If Leir be here safe-seated and in rest To rowse him from it I will do my best Enter Ragan Now bags of gold your vertue is no doubt To make me in my message bold and stout The King of heauen preserue your Maiesty And send your Highnesse euerlasting raigne Ra. Thanks good my friend but what imports thy message message Mes. Kind greetings from the Cornwall Queene The residue these letters will declare She opens the letters Rag. How fares our royall sister Mes. I did leaue her at my parting in good health She reads the letter frownes and stamps See how her colour comes and goes agayne Now red as scarlet now as pale as ash She how she knits her brow and bytes her lips And stamps and makes a dumbe shew of disdayne Mixt with reuenge and violent extreames Here will be more worke and more crownes for me Rag. Alas poore soule and hath he vsde her thus And is he now come hither with intent To set diuorce betwixt my Lord and me Doth he giue out that he doth heare repore That I do rule my husband as I list And therefore meanes to alter so the case That I shall know my Lord to be my head Well it were best for him to take good heed Or I will make him hop without a head For his presumption dottard that he is In Cornwall he hath made such mutinies First setting of the King against the Queene Then stirring vp the Commons 'gainst the King That had he there continued any longer He had bin call'd in question for his fact So vpon that occasion thence he fled And comes thus slily stealing vnto vs And now already since his comming hither My Lord and he are growne in such a league That I can haue no conference with his Grace I feare he doth already intimate Some forged cauillations 'gainst my state T is therefore best to cut him off in time Lest slaunderous rumours once abroad disperst It is too late for them to be reuerst Friend as the tennour of these

accurst To seeke his blood whose blood did make them first Leir Ah my true friend in all extremity Let vs submit vs to the will of God Things past all sence let vs not seeke to know It is Gods will and therefore must be so My friend I am prepared for the stroke Strike when thou wilt and I forgiue thee here Euen from the very bottome of my heart Mes. But I am not prepared for to strike Leir Farewell Perillus euen the truest friend That euer liued in aduersity The latest kindnesse I le request of thee Is that thou go vnto my daughter Cordella And carry her her fathers latest blessing Withall desire her that she will forgiue me For I haue wrongd her without any cause Now Lord receyue me for I come to thee And dye I hope in perfit charity Dispatch I pray thee I haue liued too long Mes. I but you are vnwise to send an errand By him that neuer meaneth to deliuer it Why he must go along with you to heauen It were not good you should go all alone Leir No doubt he shal when by the course of nature He must surrender vp his due to death But that time shall not come till God permit Mes. Nay presently to beare you company I haue a Pasport for him in my pocket Already seald and he must needs ride Poste Shew a bagge of money Leir The letter which I read imports not so It only toucheth me no word of him Mess. I but the Queene commaunds it must be so And I am payd for him as well as you Per. I who haue borne you company in life Most willingly will beare a share in death It skilleth not for me my friend a whit Nor for a hundred such as thou and I Mes. Mary but it doth sir by your leaue your good dayes are past though it bee no matter for you t is a matter for me proper men are not so rife Per. Oh but beware how thou dost lay thy hand Vpon the high anoynted of the Lords O be aduised ere thou dost begin Dispatch me straight but meddle not with him Leir Friend thy commission is to deale with me And I am he that hath deserued all The plot was layd to take away my life And here it is I do intreat thee take it Yet for my sake and as thou art a man Spare this my friend that hither with me came I brought him forth whereas he had not bin But for good will to beare me company He left his friends his country and his goods And came with me in most extremity Oh if he should miscarry here and dye Who is the cause of it but only I Mes. Why that am I let that ne're trouble thee Leir O no t is I O had I now to giue thee The monarchy of all the spacious world To saue his life I would bestow it on thee But I haue nothing but these tears and prayer And the submission of a bended knee kneels O if all this to mercy moue they mind Spare him in heauen thou shalt like mercy find Mes. I am as hard to be moued as another and yet me thinks the strength of their perswasions stirres me a little Per. My friend if feare of the almighty power Haue power to moue thee we haue sayd ynough But if thy mind be moueable with gold We haue not presently to giue it thee Yet to thy selfe thou mayst do greater good To keepe thy hands still vndefilde from blood For do but well consider with thy selfe When thou hast finisht this outragious act What horrour still will haunt thee for the deed Think this agayne that they which would incense Thee for to be the Butcher of their father When it is done for feare it should be knowne Would make a meanes to rid thee from the world Oh then art thou for euer tyed in chaynes Of euerlasting torments to indure Euen in the hotest hole of grisly hell Such paynes as neuer mortall toung can tell It thunders He quakes and lets fall the Dagger next to Perillus Leir O heauens be thanked he wil spare my friend Now when thou wilt come make an end of me G He lets fall the other dagger Per. Oh happy sight He meanes to saue my Lord The King of heauen continue this good mind Leir Why stayst thou to do execution Mes. I am as wilfull as you for your life I will not do it now you do intreat me Per. Ah now I see thou hast some sparke of grace Mes. Beshrew you for it you haue put it in me The parlosest old men that ere I heard Well to be flat I le not meddle with you Here I found you and here I le leaue you If any aske you why the case so stands Say that your tounges were better then your hands Exit Mess. Per. Farewell If euer we together mee It shall go hard but I will thee regreet Courage my Lord the worst is ouerpast Let vs giue thanks to God and hye vs hence Leir Thou art deceyued for I am past the best And know not whither for to go from hence Death had bin better welcome vnto me Then lenger life to adde more misery Per. It were not good to returne from whence we came Vnto your daughter Ragan back againe Now let vs go to France vnto Cordella Your youngest daughter doubtlesse she will succour you Leir Oh how can I perswade myselfe of that Since the other two are quite deuoyd of loue To whom I was so kind as that my gifts Might make them loue me if 't were nothing else Per. No worldly gifts but grace from God on hye Doth nourish vertue and true charity Remember well what words Cordella spake What time you askt her how she lou'd your Grace Se sayd her loue vnto you was as much As ought a child to beare vnto her father Leir But she did find my loue was not to her As should a father beare vnto a child Per. That makes not her loue to be any lesse If she do loue you as a child should do You haue tryed two try one more for my sake I le ne're intreat you further tryall make Remember well the dreame you had of late And thinke what comfort it foretels to vs Leir Come truest friend that euer man possest I know thou counsailst all things for the best If this third daughter play a kinder part It comes of God and not of my desert Exeunt Enter the Gallian Ambassador solus Am. There is of late newes come vnto the Court That old Lord Leir remaynes in Cambria I le hye me thither presently to impart My letters and my message vnto him I neuer was lesse welcome to a place In all my life time then I haue bin hither Especially vnto the stately Queene Who would not cast one gracious looke on me But still with lowring and suspicious eyes Would take exceptions at each word I spake And fayne she would haue vndermined me To know what my Ambassage

father liue Oh whom should man trust in this wicked age When children thus against their parents rage But he the myrrour of mild patience Puts vp all wrongs and neuer giues reply Yet shames she not in most opprobrious sort To call him foole and doterd to his face And sets her Parasites of purpose oft In scoffing wise to offer him disgrace Oh yron age O times O monstrous vilde When parents are contemned of the child His pension she hath halfe restrain'd from him And will e're long the other halfe I feare For she thinks nothing is bestowde in vayne But that which doth her fathers life maintayne Trust not alliance but trust strangers rather Since daughters proue disloyall to the father Well I will counsell him the best I can Would I were able to redresse his wrong Yet what I can vnto my vtmost power He shall be sure of to the latest houre Exit Enter Gonorill and Skalliger Gon. I prithy Skalliger tell me what thou thinkst Could any woman of our dignity Endure such quips and peremptory taunts As I do daily from my doting father Doth 't not suffice that I him keepe of almes Who is not able for to keepe himselfe But as if he were our better he should thinke To check and snap me vp at euery word I cannot make me a new fashioned gowne And set it forth with more then common cost But his old doting doltish withered wit Is sure to giue a sencelesse check for it I cannot make a banquet extraordinary To grace my selfe and spread my name abroad But he old foole is captious by and by And sayth the cost would well suffice for twice Iudge then I pray what reason i st that I Should stand alone charg'd with his vaine expence And that my sister Ragan should go free To whom he gaue as much as vnto me I prithy Skalliger tell me if thou know By any meanes to rid me of this woe Skal. Your many fauours still bestowde on me Binde me in duty to aduise your Grace How you may soonest remedy this ill The large allowance which he hath from you Is that which makes him so forget himselfe Therefore abbridge it halfe and you shall see That hauing lesse he will more thankfull be For why abundance maketh vs forget The fountaynes whence the benefits do spring Gen. Well Skalliger for thy kynd aduice herein I will not be vngratefull if I liue I haue restrayned halfe his portion already And I will presently restrayne the other That hauing no meanes to releeue himselfe He may go seeke elsewhere for better helpe Exit Skal. Go viperous woman shame to all thy sexe The heauens no doubt will punish thee for this And me a villayne that to curry fauour Haue giuen the daughter counsell 'gainst the father But vs the world doth this experience giue That he that cannot flatter cannot liue Exit Enter King of Conrwall Leir Perillus Nobles Corn. Father what ayleth you to be so sad Me thinks you frollike not as you were wont Leir The neerer we do grow vnto our graues The lesse we do delight in worldly ioyes Corn. But if a man can frame himselfe to myrth It is a meane for to prolong his life Leir Then welcome sorrow Leirs only friend Who doth desire his troubled dayes had end Corn. Comfort your selfe father here comes your daughter Who much will grieue I know to see you sad Enter Gonorill Leir But more doth grieue I feare to see me liue Corn. My Gonorill you come in wished time To put your father from these pensiue dumps In fayth I feare that all things go not well D Gon. What do you feare that I haue angred him Hath he complaynd of me vnto my Lord I le prouide him a piece of bread and cheese For in a time hee le practise nothing else Then carry tales from one vnto another T is all his practise for to kindle strife 'Twixt you my Lord and me your louing wife But I will take an order if I can To cease th' effect where first the cause began Corn. Sweet be not angry in a partiall cause He ne're complaynd of thee in all his life Father you must not weygh a womans words Leir Alas not I poore soule she breeds yong bones And that is it makes her so tuteliy sure Gon. What breeds young bones already you will make An honest woman of me then belike O vild olde wretch who euer heard the like That seeketh thus his owne child to defame Corn. I cannot stay to heare this discord sound Exit Gon. For any one that loues your company You may go pack and seeke some other place To sowe the seed of discord and disgrace Exit Leir Thus say or do the best that e're I can T is wrested straight into another sence This punishment my heauy sinnes deserue And more then this ten thousand thousand times Else aged Leir them could neuer find Cruell to him to whom he hath bin kind Why do I ouer-liue my selfe to see The course of nature quite rouerst in me Ah gentle Death if euer any wight Did wish thy presence with a perfit zeale Then come I pray thee euen with all my heart And end my sorrowes with thy fatall dart He weepes Per. Ah do not so disconsolate your selfe Nor dew your aged cheeks with wasting teares Leir What man art thou that takest any pity Vpon the worthlesse state of old Leir Per. One who doth be are as great a share of griefe As if it were my dearest fathers case Leir Ah good my friend how ill art thou aduisde For to consort with miserable men Go learne to flatter where thou mayst in time Get fauour 'mongst the mighty and so clyme For now I am so poore and full of want As that I ne're can recompence thy loue Per. What 's got by flattery doth not long indure And men in fauour liue not most secure My conscience tels me if I should forsake you I were the hatefulst excrement on the earth Which well do know in course of former time How good my Lord hath bin to me and mine Leir Did I ere rayse thee higher then the rest Of all thy ancestors which were before Per. I ne're did seeke it but by your good Grace I still inioyed my owne with quietnesse Leir Did I ere giue thee liuing to increase The due reuennues which thy father left Per. I had ynough my Lord and hauing that What should you need to giue me any more Leir Oh did I euer dispossesse my selfe And giue thee halfe my Kingdome in good will Per. Alas my Lord there were no reason why You should haue such a thought to giue it me Leir Nay if thou talke of reason then be mute For with good reason I can thee confute If they which first by natures sacred law Do owe to me the tribute of their liues If they to whom I alwayes haue bin kinde And bountifull beyond comparison If they for whom I haue vndone my selfe And brought my

did import But she is like to hop without her hope And in this matter for to want her will Though by report shee le hau 't in all things else Well I will poste away for Cambria Within these few dayes I hope to be there Exit Enter the King and Queene of Gallia Mumford King By this our father vnderstands our mind And our kind greetings sent to him of late Therefore my mind presageth ere 't be long We shall receyue from Brittayne happy newes Cord. I feare my sister will disswade his minde For shee to me hath alwayes bin vnkind King Feare not my loue since that we know the worst The last meanes helpes if that we misse the first If hee 'le not come to Gallia vnto vs Then we will sayle to Brittayne vnto him Mum. Well if I once see Brittayne agayne I haue sworne I le ne're come home without my wench And I le not be forsworne I le rather neuer come home while I liue Cor. Are you sure Mumford she is a mayd still Mum. Nay I le not sweare she is a mayd but she goes for one I 'le take her at all aduentures if I can get her Cord. I that 's well put in Mum. Well put in nay it was ill put in for had it Bin as well put in as ere I put in in my dayes I would haue made her follow me to Fraunce Cor. Nay you 'd haue bin so kind as take her with you Or else were I as she I would haue bin so louing as I de stay behind you Yet I must confesse you are a very proper man And able to make a wench do more then she would do Mum. Well I haue a payre of slops for the nonce Will hold all your mocks King Nay we see you haue a hansome hose Cor. I and of the newest fashion Mum. More bobs more put them in still They 'll serue instead of bumbast yet put not in too many lest the seames crack and they fly out amongst you againe you must not think to outface me so easily in my mistris quarrel who if I see once agayne ten teame of horses shall not draw me away till I haue full and whole possession King I but one teame and a cart will serue the turne Cor. Not only for him but also for his wench Mum. Well you are two to one I le giue you ouer And since I see you so pleasantly disposed Which indeed is but seldome seene I le clayme A promise of you which you shall not deny me For promise is debt by this hand you promisd it me Therefore you owe it me and you shall pay it me Or I le sue you vpon an action of vnkindnesse King Prithy Lord Mumford what promise did I make thee Mum. Fayth nothing but this That the next fayre weather which is very now You would go in progresse downe to the sea side Which is very neere King Fayth in this motion I will ioyne with thee And be a mediator to my Queene Prithy my Loue let this march go forward My mind foretels 't will be a lucky voyage Cor. Entreaty needs not where you may cōmaund So you be pleasde I am right well content Yet as the Sea I much desire to see So am I most vnwilling to be seene King Wee le go disguised all vnknowne to any Cor. Howsoeuer you make one I le make another Mum. and I the third oh I am ouer-ioyed See what loue is which getteth with a word What all the world besides could ne're obtayne But what disguises shall we haue my Lord King Fayth thus my Queene I wil be disguisde Like a playne country couple and you shall be Roger Our man and wayt vpon vs or if you will You shall go first and we will wayt on you Mum. 'T were more then time this deuice is excelent Come let vs about it Exeunt Enter Cambria and Ragan with Nobles Cam. What strange mischance or vnexpected hap Hath thus depriu'd vs of our fathers presence Can no man tell vs what 's become of him With whom we did conuerse not two dayes since My Lords let euery where light-horse be sent To scoure about through all our Regiment Dispatch a Poste immediately to Cornwall To see if any newes by of him there My selfe will make a strickt inquiry here And all about our Cities neere at hand Till certayne newes of his abode be brought Rag. All sorrow is but counterfet to mine Whose lips are almost sealed vp with griefe Mine is the substance whilst they do but seeme To weepe the lesse which teares cannot redeeme O ne're was heard so strange a misaduenture A thing so far beyond the reach of sence Since no mans reason in the cause can enter What hath remou'd my father thus from hence O I do feare some charme or inuocation Of wicked spirits or infernall fiends Stird by Cordella moues this innouation And brings my father timelesse to his end But might I know that the detested Witch Were certayne cause of this vncertayne ill Myselfe to Fraunce would go in some disguise And with these nayles scratch out her hatefull eyes For since I am depriued of my father I loath my life and wish my death the rather Cam. The heauens are iust and hate impiety And will no doubt reueale such haynous crimes Censure not any till you know the right Let him be Iudge that bringeth truth to light Ra. O but my griefe like to a swelling tyde Exceeds the bounds of common patience Nor can I moderate my toung so much To conceale them whom I hold in suspect Cam. This matter shall be sifted if it be she A thousand Fraunces shall not harbour her Enter the Gallian Ambassador Am. All happinesse vnto the Cambrian King Cam. Welcom my friend from whence is thy Ambassage Am. I came from Gallia vnto Cornwall sent With letters to your honourable father Whom there not finding as I did expect I was directed hither to repayre Rag. Frenchman what is thy message to my father Am. My letters Madam will import the same Which my Commission is for to deliuer Ra. In his absence you may trust vs with your letters Am. I must performe my charge in such a maner As I haue strict commaundement from the King Ra. There is good packing twixt your King and you You need not hither come to aske for him You know where he is better then our selues Am. Madam I hope not far off Ra. Hath the young murdresse your outragious Queene No meanes to colour her detested deeds In finishing my guiltlesse fathers dayes Because he gaue her nothing to her dowre But by the colour of a fayn'd Ambassage To send him letters hither to our Court Go carry them to them that sent them hither And bid them keepe their scroules vnto themselues They cannot blinde vs with such slight excuse To smother vp so monstrous vild abuse And were it not it is 'gainst law of Armes To offer violence to a Messenger