noyce Whistle like Orpheus reed Ti•an in Aestivious time• when torrid heat hath power Dismisseth night and gives day the full hour Of number twenty four then Burgargo This Region which I named by scituation Transcends the metropolis of every Nation I stand defiance with a barbarous call I purpose to choose you my Generall Burg. When sense doth rave beyond its bounds why then There is no reason that we should be men Let sense and reason scorn my onely state When I deny to govern this by fate Which hath been separated from the rest By Iove his hand and he to be the guest That it should entertain this Ile that which Gives livelihood and makes the inhabitants rich My hope is fixt upon and firmly too That sacred Gods will aid and fortune shew Because we stand in our defence not lust To have a War but this our cause is just We stand for right not what is got by pelfe For lives for wives who are our second selfe 'T is pitty that this Nation should go down And save your Majesty none ought to wear the Crown Except your selfe who wisely with your hand With voyce gives leave with that their force with-stand Let them display their colours black visage so unseemly sight with plaited hair you know Much like a Horses main which gives a light They are savage creatures speciall in the night When skyes become their favour let them come I 'le be your Generall till day of doome Cel. Your answer 's good they are both rash and rude In judgment doing actions and before Their nature be by valour curbed so They 'l ne're rest silent but stratagems Inventing still though with grief and amazing Flashes bring a float of destruction With whole waves of sorrow to their pedigree My breast doth breathe not with a fair clear passage Because corruption grows from nomination of Such hellish heathens the Numenia's Land They strive to make their prey and spoil of it 'T is not the fear of their great potent arme 'T is not Aberden with his hellish charm 'T is not their Chariots with their Iron wheels 'T is not their Ships with their well pitched keels 'T is not the fiercenesse of their nature soul 'T is not the savagenesse of their grim soul 'T is not the words of their well threatned 〈◊〉 'T is not the stroaks with which they make their noyse 'T is not the armour that they dayly wear 'T is not the colours wrought with silver clea• 'T is not the conditions that they all sent 'T is not the words that they pleased to put in 't 'T is neither this nor that shall work so fast But I will fight their fury to the last Deris Your answer 's like your selfe noble and that Most generous I like a branch you are The root if you perish I must not stand Gervo Let fame want Trumpets for to blaze her self Let my poor soul want blood to raise her selfe Wh•n I deny to be as firm as you Cele Then my Lord Orestes see a Legate Be prepared to send to King Aberden You know the drift of th' cause we will maintain The War he promiseth to our Land and Burgargo with these two Captains which are Derisius and Gervoran and that valiant Souldier Burnomoy draw down your forces To the port-Towns cast trenches ditches that If they gain the Land they know not where to Lead a squadern up but stand amazed at their rash stricking shore Omnes Heavens blesse Numenia's King Cel. After you return as undoubtedly victorious Trophies shall be prepared of pure Gold Elixars essence what doth Nature hold Be presents to your reward Exeunt Scen. 5. Adrenimia Hollarro with Attendants Adre My soul runs wandring from its way Not knows its guide till fortune by favours Whip lash the occasion forward that they May joyn their Forces by Sea or Land My hands want blood that by its natural heat R•ceive a quickning sense my •ury playes U•on the strings of the ••••cordium Which causeth a palfie in my hand th•• Hold I cannot till some blood I have I could with ease disgest the wrong that 's done If I should cause one of Aberdens friends To use my Altar his head upon my spear In the air to be an attom of delight It is a thing disgorge with me most sure I feel a weakning cause rise in my bones Which can be deemed nought else but want of blood Prethee Hollarro what must still vacation A rust corrupt your souls and weapon too Resolve my quere sure you are not bent To raise perplexity to a Queen her will Blood blood still I will call Holl. Great Adrenimia the conditions which your King Was pleased to make a War expected answers Are when Post brings news the tydings which you Wait leasure on unto my Fathers Court No sooner arrival shall take its abode But with a fiery look and watry eyes Bring to your Highnesse those same prodigies Which lurk betwixt affection and defraud Your pleasure wills to crave that harsh design Like Ebian wood whose colour cannot be Changed to a whitish hue no more can your Intreaty turn its black melanchollious Humour to a white waterish flegmatick Cause my spirits raise ambition in my Veins that such who works against natures will Receives no free permission there to lay Its store for that same matter which you crave But if a War go on with immatchlesse forces My father 's such a man your Husband Aberden Stands to a word though mentioned long before To let those captive subjects which by lot Caught in the gins of our free-born like souls Of Amazons ne'r yeeld field to any Either foe or friend to lesse or many Adr. What is it so what is it so still Hollarro stand against That same cannary bird what 's e're it be Sings such a note with pains repining forth Such unagreeing discord and unhandsome Quavers shall quickly have a Pip upon His tongue a slit or ga•• about his neck Make him sing sweeter changes then those same Hollarro take care look not to untwist Those arms of great Aberden and his Queen He granted me you stand in opposition Talk more with silent counsell then to th' face Of a Queens power condemn it a disgrace That she takes pleasure in it's blood that I Crave of my King untill the day I dye If none can have from forraign Countries then Constrain'd I must take then our innocent men Your part shall not scape free if you do not Go to the Wars the next will be your lot Therefore blow up those fires that almost dye In your stout Souldier that perpetually They may bring home great spoils unto the Queen As captives bracelets all what my youth hath seen See see you do do so dispatch the cause Or else in this Land I will bring new Lawes Hol. Your will 's a Law great Madam to my force I shall not be him that withstands your losse The frigid Zone ne'r new the Icie way Or tract her
quintessence of a•• the earth Lerenica she disposeth of My fickle will and fancy at one both Ner. What she how backward runs the course The time hath been when opportunities Hath sought occasion in their properties By casting favours by her mush-red eye Deluding objects to sobriety To get the will of him who intended The Zenith of love where under it did •est should be prolonged further casting Aside those indisposed fight and tricks As vain and whom doth none regard Bel. The Styx her mists doth paraphrase your words VVherein grim Cerberus doth bathe himselfe Let the same vapour rise and by its stench Infuse an opiate virtue there to dull My vitall spirits to cut the hair Of danger's purpose and whereby I shall Receive a quiet death for a vexed life Ner. Fear not A gilded bait shall intrap this Barbell VVe 'l find her stratagems devise a way The filly blind boy knows not the which shall Imploy affairs deserving worth a name Of Chronolgoy a cheat or somewhat May worke effect with this same peevish brat Bel. Let hope go with that design to the end Methinks my top-sayls move with celerity I gain acuteness and agility VVho ever did take arrogance in strength Or sound brave Nectars notes with Bacchus juyce More freely then do I must be more then Mother Nature doth put forth sweep away Inclose within thy arms oh Cynthia Thy master Titan's Candle let not him Praunce on his journey to the top of th' hill But curb his fiery trigon suffer not No more his fight till we have done our plot Mur. Though friendship promise more then strangenesse doth Deride not one but do receive them both I 'l bring whole fountaines of new-found desires VVhich shall suck up the hony of your fires And flames of love we go Exeunt Scen. 4. Celerinus Bugargo Orestes Sisterus Dirisius Gervoron Burnamoy Cel. Since time tradition forces against will And all the Countries invitations Me to withstand Aberdens 〈◊〉 Of choller which at length consumes all what It meets with whose vast supportment would Not subsist but be demolisht and top Submissive to its feet know if let rest Sloath would enter course yet Fame not be Ejected your valour still would •••gne And Bugargo if you maintain our right Supporting all our cause and not detarding Shame but Derisius Gervoron both Take part with him you shall have recompence I stand oblig'd all due to common sense Burg. Courage strikes my resolute contentment High Celerinus immense vast Trophies A Diadem be purged from my thoughts If all the prises then were equall poysed And shar'd the lot deciding judgement would As me possest term trouble for a Peasant Without delay transported to a Prince VVere a too great Hyperboly I 'le undertake Cele All grateful motions attend then your soul You are the head we members wait there on And what composure may be thought upon By loving deeds all experientiall skill May be put forth or sacrifice thy will Stand firm to it inform us then no more Affection lead thou shalt have gold or ore I wave my selfe though speciall charge commands Either gain Kingdom or else lose your Lands VVhat spoyls can blind or mask our piercing glance VVhat keen struck sword black armour or the lance VVhose sight corrupts the Element which pare Contain'd in its selfe the cold moist air Put forth betwixt my eye all my desire To know the day it 's that thou dost require Deris VVhat is it thought that King Aberden will Hoyst sayles to us dreads he nor land nor soyl Which lends a death a murror and a broyl To their inhabitants they 'l nere wait Pitching a leagure to o'recome the wall They are bent against which shares with Nile The Alpes would fair imprint a backward call If once their eyes cast upwards be Burgargo doe command my legion when Fear smites thy arm fire Beacons and let Drums sound loud Ger. Let Bizantia's Monarch pursue the way He has at length begun for Morpheus Doth bear more frequent rule with leaden Mace Then Mars with valour carried in his face Here 's no determed theam by whose oppose May vent hot sparks of manhood from our Loyns for as quick sight with well wrought temper Gives a gloss to affect the matter so Oft experience by assiduate practice Makes that which is uncord then most prompt Though love is strong yet Cupid by might Combines with Mars a steely shirt though hard Yet oftentimes is safer then a linnen frock My blood doth buble when is brought before Idle disposed fashions martiall blades Seeking lost nothing all armour proof yet Uselesse are which would possesse with a Fear they stand in danger of each other Nor can the same be nought but great They raise a Camp postreeme with us when as The East and West doth seem a distance not A foot in length being fadomed by their might Since then so large our enemies be found Our glory still grows greater by their sound What answer you Orest 'T is right renowned friend In prime to carefull be of our Soveraign In maintaining right next to this City And thy Country good if truth thou binds in That same Gordian knot Sist. Then bold fac'd Champions leviated from the blood Of well tryed Princes you may discern the Blast if by prevention not made sure Cause ruine o're this Land if flint and sie Being met expell their fiery beams Well may your generous souls inflaming With valour betwixt rough danger and Mild sloth let fly over sleepy hill until you Are conducted to th' contrary by grim death Bur. Since cause is equall victory cannot be Debard from us and no wayes misery Take here abode Cele Le ts then beguile the time no more by talk But see your guard and front be sure Call o're in summons display your Colours Flags Banners Pendents Streamers see your men Be right for th' cause great Generall Bugardo When that is done I 'l cause my sacred Priests To move the gods and all their hymnes set forth For your welfare all what can thought be worth Exeunt Scen. 5. Quermero Perpurgerus Perp. Why so since time delivers otherwise to be Stretch forth thy arm it 's nought but exercise Brings on the same Quer. Oh hold then pray you there I 'l stretch my hand if fortune will give leave But shall not be to kill but to maintain Life by its help Per. How strange to common sense Draw out thy sword I 'l shew thy postures What if a man should challenge field with thee Quer. Then I should dye Per. Before the blow did come Quer. I quickly sure the sight 's as good as blows With me but since your Treaty is to draw He stands in a foolish posture I stand hear guardian of my selfe Per. See see If 't were possible he would invite Heraclitus To laugh I dare swear Plato might read A piece of Philosophy in his posture Stand up man with a full breast surely Mr. Quermero your breech and feet are
Come Captives here must be your doom She 'l have your lives if you were twenty more But yet my favour goes with you Orest I thank your Majesty Sist. Great King all glory wait on you But I am conduc'd by willingnesse to dye Orest So I am since I am an exile Aber. You are stay here 's the Queen Scen. 2. Adrenimia Nevermo Attendants Adr. Aberden welcome to your Kingdom and your Queen Loe I see Celerinus subjects bound And for my use which gives a resolution To my sense if your own Queen by tractive Operation work effect to dismisse From contemplation of your soul all Opportunities that doth bring dispair You shall find no stratagem that to be Irrevocable and the objects of Foul melancholly shall not afford the Idols of vain puffing fears For those are they that doth commit and doth Drop unto eternity great contrarieties Unto your majesty and place of Prince The service of a sadfull humour Works undiscreetly and changing certain things It 's alwayes proved the Chaos testifies You a great Warriour both in Waves and Land Whose pectorall force expected did prevail No losse of War or Arms if nature stood To oppose the slaughter of so many lost But I 'le sacrifice my wishes to your selfe Gladly received my King Aber. Your patient favour receives a great applause And I your King expect no future joy My Queen your receivance is most gratefull And bids adieu all sadnesse but not contemplation Which shews a firm judge of a prime design Safety pleads leasure and shew fair shape To commonalty not a vain flasse-glass Of best contriving virtues To effect the Gardian not a bad excuse Of their firm liberty the Gems of all The Indians strikes no lustre to your Fame you are not fair but virtue follows it My Queen the Captives stand at your command Adr. My Leige your favour Holl. Duty doth force obedience to my knees Kneels Great Queen your sacred will if 't please to grant A blessing to Hollarro a wounded subject To serve the Queen your will Adr. Rise valiant Prince my bless go to thy years To find Aberdens blood in thy young youth Holl. You may term void of sense unto my state But hope survives the spirits 'cause I bring A pardon firm and just 't is my duty Aber. Hollarro rise your duty binds no further But what I know Holl. Your will great Queen Faf It were a sacriledge and that rashly Committed against your Princess goodnesse Not to offer my selfe a Souldier to your will Buz Mine follows by a triple form great Queen Your subject salutes you with a happy Bliss Nev. I stand a safeguard to your goodnesse Adr. Faithfully done here wants brave Yernomoy Aber. Forgive the fact that 's done not rob'd your will He 's slain to pay devotion to your looks Rude was his fancy but senselesse was his guide Allowing no recovery to his kindled fame He dy'd a Hector a Prince nay more he slew Millions of Forces to ransom then his death He left the world by Burnomoy's stout arm But Burgargo Hollarro sleep did charm For to describe true valour in fancy fair In reall substance to deserve the chair The Goddess of all hope favour'd his deeds The Goddess of all might helpt him in needs The Goddess of all right stood true to him The Goddess of all happ did valour bring The Gods and Goddesses struck union to His well fast blade his stiffe fram'd bow of Yew So brave Hollarro shall be onely name Through all Numenia there to carry fame Adr. Hollarro still thy atchievements soar above The mean capacity of a Queens recompence These are the captives I like them well their Heads are large to be a pinnacle of fame They 're mine great King Aber. They are for recompence Of your deserts Adr. You render pure substance of a divine will By outward shew no excuse they expect But dye a sacrifice for to restore The jewel of my fainting liberty The Harchet's well prepar'd to execute The case the block perceives its finish'd not In gaud but martiall way to make the Harmony My attendants expecting the prosperous Sight of that same day by forming new Altitudes erecting large Houses for t•e Same I 'le make no great dispute but finish it Holl. Great Queen the subjects I avouch by true Affect and powerfull law descend of noble Blood Adr. Well they are no worse but better for my use Cap. Ah las we must then dye Adr. I I see who attends us there Scen. 4. Quermero Quer. I am here I am here Aberd. Well what art thou Que. A Gentleman of quality as good as your self Aber. Why I am a King Quer. Well so am I sause-box Aber. My Lords conduct the knave to prison and Prepare a lash to execute its office Quer. Oh las you will I 'le try your force They carry Quer. out and he struggles mightily with them How how how let go your hold Aber. The slaves and bondmen which have wrought a Councell to digg the works of War as the Pioneers do raggifie the walls And they who use to toyl in labyrinth And founders of their folly are prisoners To your pick-axe Hospitalls doth crave my Aid and Euncuchs make a market for My home return so force pleading my will I leave you with my Serpents and my foes As emblems to my valour and my state Use discretion as time doth interview And appoint a season to your sport For I must dismiss your rank Ex. Aberd. Adr. My King a happy repose unto your soul Who attends there Bellerrio Lerenica Histerica and attendants Adr. The passage of a drowsie pomp withdrew A door of breathing betwixt the ark of store Of hidden vowes shewing the pride of fortune In a chance ravishing the beauty of a Monsters hide and stuck a stage of desire To harbour the fancy of a dreadfull sign To spill the blood of captives Lerenica You 'l screek and vanish with the dame of fear But I 'le repulse that guide that titles it So bring the captives to the slaugher-house I 'le shift such Robes fit for such enterprise Exit Adre Holl. Madam I 'le improve my reverend service To see the same fulfill'd Ler. The soveraign balm for fear must be a heart Void of a sensuall cause but I 'le attend To see the genius of all mortall souls Wear the sad Cypress of a gloomy day Bell. Lerenica your servant will wait your time Orest Spare us and let us speak before we dye Holl. Give them time to breathe their last farewell Orest The stroke 's a Basilick the sight doth kill Confirms a death by venom of its raze Perfidious creature more degenerate Fate Steeping his aspects in foul Leth•'s streams So Adrenimia by her cursed hand But fury bids defiance to those guiles My time doth shew by prospect now full old Tossing my senses by grim horror's wav•s So noble Prince confirm to future time And to posterity I dye a Man A prop of th' Country the Numenia
So by a swifter motion life surviews The dregs of mortalls to the prime of things My appetite is fresht by gizard of a cause To view the spirits of transcendent Kings Great Iove who weighs the ponder of this ball Make creatures Angels in Numenia's Land To stand the stratagems of forrai• foes Brazen their souls to yield to no deceits Oh death makes my senses fly And dare Aberden rule great Ce•erinus Suffer the primum mobile to rest Which rules the sphere according to their Orbs Consume the highest Region and drive down The splendent lights but at length I must die Desist thy talk thy Candle waxeth dim And onely such is left to see death grim Sist. The smoaky mists bids light adieu with her Obscure cloak then suffer a dolefull sound To eccho my spirits with an Ebian cry These chaines sayes Mirth depart So decent are These new found novelties unto my soul So hymns of Elegies please a parting close Rack I must suffer for my King and Land Well 't is my duty my breath 's bound thereto Onely a faculty's left to close a hymn to Spend all its bounds to eternize your fame Inform some Goddess where I shall begin To make a prayer according to the time Brave valiant soul Burgargo I 'le relate Because thy death my pain doth propagate Thy sacred shrine directed journey sweet In leaving us bids mine go to and sleep The griefs doth punish consume the fountain Of my weak vitall spirits and the main A frustrous case bids anger play her part And aim at nothing but my wounded heart My life is trouble but my death gives ease So Jaylemen Keepers take us when you please Attend We are ready in our office H•ll Procure them to the Queen her grace I 'le stay a season but I 'l follow straight Exeunt omnnes praeter Hollarro Bellerrio and Lerenio• and Histerica and while Beller and Lerenica discourse Hollarro walketh on one side of the Stage viewing Lerenica Scen. 4. Bellerrio Lerenica Histerica Hollarro Bell. Madam It is a vain trifle of a small dispair I bring to presence and not tediousness The businesse concerns much your safe-guard Grant it and then I will relate Ler. 'T were colours of a melanchollious sight For to convert the gesture to the sense And meaning of the close your generous thoughts Must speak to Ladies not covert with a smile Bell. The night spends forth her dews beguils her hour With strange adventures of a darksome truth So I diluted in the practice of In courting Ladies to their own content Shall crave a place of watchman to your selfe In the foul progress of a dangerous time Ler. Contempt despise and onely disdain grows In my own breast against a cowards soul If that report doth bring a news unto My audience not valour flowes from veins Of your Microcosm I should deride The case unto your face so plead not that I 'le shift for one take you no care for me Bell. Oh obstinate Holl. Heavens bless the wisdom of my genius now Aside What State or Generall drew that velvet screene Of painting troubles 'twixt my eye and heart Lerenica what 's that name Lerenica Sure 't is no Taper of a fiery blaze She pierceth the rights and joyneth union Could my stiffe arm withstand Numenia And not the glances of a womans eye The Realm produceth no such knots of fear I see her basis and her vertex too Surround the Camp of her delicious soul Yet stand a loof not undertake the cause Because discr•erest deeds bid me forbear The various forms that heart and spirit moves Were cause enough to make one lunatick She enters souls not cares for mortall shews And makes my tongue tremble 'cause I report it Well 't is thy garb and gesture wins the soul Of Prince Hollarro to a nuptiall song My breath must have no passage if dis-joyn'd From the bright rayes of such a mo•-•un's light Bellerrio shall know 't was 〈◊〉 laid The same design I love Lerenica I long to see the wells and springs of fire Still kindled more so I 'le go to my sire And make his Majestie acquainted with 't Exit Hollarro Hist. A heap of vermine dispatch a famine To a common-wealth and ill-disposed manners So you dispair unto a Ladies will Bell. Hold your tongue you are troubled with Histerical fits Time which reacheth forwards by its means Falls under question of a sole denyall Muse no more but let discretion answer Unto the cause the bud is sprung and fruit Must have its time to come unto maturity But too long kept grows putrid in it selfe Trenches and shelves are horrid stratagems Unto the ships tost on the ruder waves But time dilate them to their confusion Making no Caves but solid earth of them Mark then that Gentleman which is rough before But bald behind and there no hold to get Lere The revenue of a Maiden• life Is the whole Wardrope of all mirth and joy But when combin'd unto a fouler Mass Provision of all strife and vain discord Venturing the plundering of such nature gifts Were sacriledge beyond the end of hope Therefore desist a truder to bereive The same which never nature doth restore Mine's kept for better spirits than your selfe Bell. Those words are like a Parthian flying kills And raise a mutiny of f•ries in my brain Forbear that contemplating case Homer Had ne're blast•d fair ••elen's fame so far But knew the disposition of that shrine Would equalize her ••ibuted parts Prefer no more those sparing words but quench The concealed fire of affection Shall limbrace gran• help my mind Lere Great D•k• you take a spangled action of No man to cou•• he meeting of two Opposites secresie requir•• advantage of a sight But you erre grosl• losing honour by it Because you fo•c• rather then perswade Bel. Madam 't is my desire must br•ng excuse Because it's parts are invisibl• to the eye Then a short return shall not impoverish My honour I must because in love Lere Vouchsafe no further to prolong your talk For it is tedious and the time requires Our absence now Histerica make a Fire in my Bed-chamber Hist. 'T is done Madam Bell. Since yet dejected still I 'le beg the place To be your servant for an hours space Exeunt Scen. 5. Aberden Hollarro Aber. Dismiss that faculty Holl. Forbear I cannot My Leige Aber. Oh strange that pale Eos should feed the Tweed Shouting such murdering cryes unto th' Altar Steeping its sound in poyson of a rage Of all victorious souls your own fame Strives at a higher glory then one fair It is a painted hieu that Ladies use To put fine art before true plain Nature Though you feel a pain 't is onely love A foggy wrath ascends when bright Sol mounts Swift Pyrosus play no more upon faire Let worth surmount the Towers of its foul mask That influence cannot strike such unheard blows As make your soul fly to dispair for help Holl. Oh Lerenica Lerenica thou