fall a little to our business Enter with wine if we must let 's to it stoutly and like Souldiers what say yee shall wee drinke a battle the triall of to morrowes victory I le take the Kings part against you all I am the strongest and when I have orecome I le send him word of the good omen t is worth a thousand of your paltry birds and oxe entralls t is a piece of service will gaine the favour from you all Poly. Come wee 'l undertake you begin that honour belongs to your side one brings Comastes a cup Com. Here 's how now what 's this what does such a boy doe in the warre disroole him I scorne to bee Captaine of such a youngster Poly. O whilst you live begin with your light Armature the Legionaries follow Com. Is that the trick on 't Here then for the King I throw the first reede this boy can manage no greater weapon He drinkes and they all pledge him Com. I marry there stands a rank of lusty fellowes a man may rely upon such valours their very looks wil orecome common stomacks I long to see them buckle to it this is too much sport Poly. Reach them downe then They fill a great Goblet to Comastes Com. Give it me and found an assault Pallas and victory for the King why I this was a tall fellow I don 't thinke but Alexander had alwaies a Guard of such attending on his Person He have a doozen of them and call them my twelve Labours Hee perceives Menetius hard set O for a shout a little noise would gaine the conquest Mene. In good time but not so easily Poly. You doe but dreame a victory yet Com. No helpe me then old Souldier Hee drinkes and shewes signes of faultring Men. Hold up Comastes for the greatnesse of your cause hold up you shew signes of fainting how now Com. Hah goe thy waies nere a Goblet the King has ere got the honour to struggle so long with me Poly. I feare wee must lose in loyalty you le nere orecome else Com. I warrant you I retired but to an ambush But who keepes the doore all this while Say the enemies should come and cut all our throates I can tell you I have read such pretty stories Poly. How now Comastes what words are these does Wine breed feares in you Com. A pox on this Warre t will bee my undoing I shall come out with some such roguish question or other at the Kings Table and have my bones broken by the Guard Mene The Wine workes not at all Comastes you begin not fast enough Com. Fill another So now bring me the Armour againe Poli. What will you doe with it Com. Bring it againe I say I 'le put mirth into you all pray let him helpe me that has nothing to doe One fetches it and he armes himselfe with some of it Men. Here will you take this Com. Noe I shall have noe need of that Mene. O I had forgot thy Face is allwayes arm'd enough Com. Well Sr when I returne I 'le pay you that As Comastes goes out and they all sit in expectation what he will doe one that was present at the Kings death enters Guard O the King 's kild All The King They all start up and draw their Swords Poli. Thou look'st distractedly speake it againe Guard Hee 's slaine my selfe was present at his fall Poli. By what accursed hand Guard That divell that wounded the Prince hath murderd him he was before his terror and was now his death Poli. O the heavy hand of Justice Is the Prince safe Guard Slaine too if report be true but by what hand I know not he left the King just before his fall to come hither and being that he is not heere we have much cause to feare the worst Enter Six Souldiers 1 Sol. Feare not now you have past the greatest danger when we have made an end of these there 's none left to punish us the King and Prince are killd and those which remaine we doe the busines for and will reward us richly according to the service and their great promises We have no other way to gaine ought by this alteration our pardons all that we can hope for if we still let us on presently least some others doe prevent us follow me I 'le give the first blow They walke up to the Captaines and when they looke upon 'em it dashes their resolution Poli. How now what gaze you at know you where you are does your feet leade you without the councell of your head get you to your quarter or I 'le stretch you up in 't The Souldiers retyre and goe out These Villains dare doe any thing Captaine follow 'em and see 'em punish't Exit Captaine What shall we doe here we stand like so many trunkes of men headles and livelesse none to obey nor able to command there is noe way can present us safety but this we are now in is the most unworthy danger So beasts when they have beene fed unto the slaughter submit unto it let us not stand still but resolve to turne our Swords upon our enemies or bend them against our owne brestes eyther wayes a victory and will bring us happines and glory Mene. I am for the last it is the safest way and in our griefes the noblest Enter the Captaine Cap. Sr These fellowes came to kill us one of the weakest on 'em when he saw himselfe laid hold on for his other fault suspecting he was discover'd out of mere guiltines confest that unwillingly he was brought into the plot by the perswation of his fellowes who in hope of preferment from the enemy had decreed on all our deathes he sayes too that himselfe and many more were attempted by some of the adverse party with promises and threates to lay downe their Armes and that the Campe is full of such commotors Poli. This then will confirme our former resolutions come let us number up our selves and if we are equall each man set his sword against his fellowes brest and with a friendly wound in spite of Fate or Fortune being our selves Lords of a greater power give happines to eyther Then these wild Beasts will deplore the losse of that they so indeavour to throw away and leape like head-lesse bodyes into flames and ruine As they thinke to kill themselves Timeus enters to them they run and kneele to him Poli. O! my Lord let us imbrace you with such a love as dead and revived friends would expresse to eyther to us you were dead and are alive againe And have bestowed this life we now enjoy we must not owe it to another Parent So is the Judge a Father to the guilty your sentence was past upon us and the hand held up to put it into practise when you as if from heaven you had fallen set all right that was in such confusion what trifles will the greatest dangers appeare to us Tim. Rise you have noe lesse quickened
when they shall spie The powers that formerly vouchsaf't to tie Their lasting knot againe with the same grace With which they once incourag'd their embrace To smile upon their service 't will bring on In their deere Brests a Rare contention Of zeale to your delight Such grace commands A strife of duty though from joyned hands FINIS THE CONSPIRACIE Actus 1. Scena 1 Enter two servants preparing for a Banquet 1 SO dispatch dispatch what wines are those 2 The late present from the Merchants 1 T is well Enter Polyander Pol. Are all things ready fellowes the King 's on entring 1 They are my Lord Enter King Polyander Menetius Comastes Aratus Phronimus Eurylochus attendants King Ha ha ha no happinesse like the Fooles Comastes Com. No none Sir hee s mirth it selfe and the cause of it in others they say all pleasure is a shadow then that which wee enjoy is but the shadow of a shadow hardly the Picture of what he imbraces our Delights are faint thwarted by the Conscience started with feares and after an hower of pleasure a weeke of repentance in which time wee live by rule and not by custome laugh not though the jest bee good nor rage though at a just cause but sickly whisper out our sayings as though they were our last and eate our chickens with the curtaines drawne when the Foole lusts with his whole soule too and sinnes till hee 's weary knowes no Conscience but his want that way nor remorse but disability King Hah ha ha Com. Nature never shewed her liberality more than to those she was sparing of her best gifts to shee houses wisedome in a body full of decayes and requires her whole strength to beare off the ruine measures his legges with the spiders gives him pale and wan lookes scarce altered from the earth hee was made of where to the Ideot she bestowes a body equall with the bulke of trees and armes as Thunder-proofe makes him a strong a large and healthy foole King Ha ha ha Ara. Fit Lectures for such a Sholler King Well Comastes thou shalt not want for a coate if that will doe 't Com. Send me a minde to with it and you have not a greater present for your neighbour Princes King Come my Lords let 's sit and fill up our cups Make them like our joyes still full and flowing Thus it should be my Lords in a State that Knowes no troubles let unhappy Princes Whom losses doe afflict and feares affright Make yearely feasts But wee whose even affaires Doe follow one another and doe keepe There just Periods though the reines are loose And their guide sleepe seeming rather so to Have fallen out than so caus'd each day shall Bee a triumph each houre a feast Ara. Wee may chance to finde one out for Funeralls King A health to all and a long peace Com. You are mellancholly Aratus claps him somewhat rudely Ara. You are rude Comastes and let me tell you Pol. His Lordship is one of those which say their Prayers backward for the State and ends in black wishes Ara. You are the Foxes that thrive by it Phro. Aratus your anger is unseasonable and the King marks it King How now Aratus what 's the matter our table should know no frownes then least of all when we our selfe forbeares them Ara. Royall Sir I aske your pardon hee wakt mee something rudely and got a froward answer King What all dead fill another round our wine moves not here Polyander to thee what thinkst thou of Comastes happines Pol. I thinke Sir 't is as dull as foolish there cannot bee a sence of pleasure where there is so little sence Greatnesse is the center of all happinesse and felicity like our lands at first is tyed to the Crowne kings come nere unto the gods and are like them both in power and pleasure doe command all enjoy all are miserable onely in too much and want but what to wish for this is the dazeling happinesse T is vaine therefore to preferre private joyes before the Crowne-pleasures the King may throw by his greatnesse when he please and be poorely happy the beggar will nere sigh unto a Scepter King Why I Polyander ther 's some life in this a little heaven even in the apprehension Aratus art not thou of this opinion Ara. Not I Sir nor of my Lord the Foole 's there Kings are more miserable than they seeme Happy flattered by themselves and others Into a Ioy that is not and what they Feele they rather doe beleeve than finde so Yet I grant too a King may be happy But never as a King Felicity Is a purchase and no inheritance Nor hath the prerogative more than one Life in 't neither it dies still with the buyer Troubles are the good kings profession In the warres the first dart is throwne at him Where his happinesse is in a glorious death Or else his God-like rayes pluckt from him By some accursed hand and so falls lesse Happie being but wishd so by a poore Revenge hee knowes not Com. Very grave and unseasonable thus your Lordship gets the reputation of singularity which the vulgar suspect to be wisedome Ara. Sir you see how this place and my freenes are injurd King Mirth onely mirth Aratus he meanes 't would better become a counsaile than a banquet Enter Timeus King Timeus welcome nay keepe your seates would thou hadst beene partaker of our sports Time When that my actions or mine age shall make mee worthy of your ease and pleasures I shall be a thankefull sharer but till then your troubles will become me better than your sports and cares will sit more lovely on my brow than roses Sir those that are about you seeke to drowne your virtues Ara. Your Lordship meanes none here Time I name none here my Lord King Nay Timeus thou nere lookst friendly on our pleasures Time I must confesse Sir I had rather see you bloody than thus wet nor are my wishes impious Poliander Pol. My Lord Time How basely that smile becomes thee I had Rather thou hadst answered me with a blow Than such a looke I thought to have ask'd thee Something but I see thou art unworthy Of a brave demand Thy skill lies onely In the curiosity of a meale To say at the first touch a th tongue this is A Chian this a Falernian wine Streight by the colour of the flesh to know Whether the fowle were cram'd or whether fed Prithee Polyander how sat the wind When this Bore was slaine were not these apples Pulld the Moone increasing Degenerate I have seene thee put thy face into a frowne And wer 't so constant in that looke as if Thou hadst no other Pol. Sir when you shall finde or make a cause I le put them on againe here they le but sowre the entertainment Com. You see my Lord they are not drownd they live still under water Time Like thine beast King Prithee Timeus let us enjoy our mirth while the gods give
it the time will come that we shall wish for it and not have it on my Conscience thou wishest for enemies that thou mightst cut them off Tim. I am sorry I have offended against your mirth t was not my intent I came to bring you newes King Newes what is 't good Tim. T is as you shall esteeme on 't Sir There 's a Stranger Prince arriv'd King Hither Tim. Yes Sir his visits forc't by a storme as he pretends King What ere the occasion bee hee shall bee welcome The time 's farre spent Aratus it shall be thy imployment from us fairely salute the Prince and tell him though the Seas have been unfriendly the land shall court him Ara. Great sir you highly honor me Exeunt King Timeus Pol Com. Men attendants Phro. So now we have time to speake what thinkst thou Aratus of these passages Ara. Well bravely well Euril. Your speech strooke desperatly at the King hee will not swallow it without some touch of Iealousie Ara. T is no matter hee cannot crosse us now None but the Gods can do 't nor they without a miracle great as was their providence Which hitherto hath sav'd us we have not Ta'ne so many yeares to build a worke up And then to have it ruind with a push No he that will shak 't must first orethrow A Kingdome a Prince a Law so large The extents are nere did plot thrive like it It has infected with the holy sore The greatest part o' th Realme and catches daily Like some unheard of new opinions Streigthned at first and prisoned in the brests Of two or three gaines strength by time and eares And dayly fed by curiosity Thrusts out at last the old and most receiv'd And growes the whole religion of the place When we have calld our party forth the worke Will seeme done the thinne numbers which are left Not deserving the name of enemies The Tyrant then will see himselfe no more A Klng onely the wretched cause of warre His power being ravishd from him Phro. While the fruit thus ripe why doe we let it grow Eur. And spoile perhaps Ara. We will not longer onely a little ceremony detaines us to crowne our King that past our actions and our thoughts shall then contend in motion Euri. How sped your visit to the young Prince Ara. Most happily Oh had you seene with me there the deare cause Of this our danger you would have thought it So no more but stood contemning life Thinking your blood ill stord within your veines When that his service calld it Sure t was some such Shape and sweetnesse which first slav'd men And gain'd a Rule before there was a kingdome Eura. You forgot your message to the Prince Ara. O t is true our next part is to delight our selves in doing something pray beare me company we may get thankes for it another day Exeunt Enter Harpastes Har. Devill whether wilt thou hurle mee the ship Sunke under so much ill nor can the earth Beare us both together the greatest hills Presse not her face with halfe that load one thought Of goodnesse made me lighter than the waves And at an instant taught me how to swim Enter Metampus to him Mel. Harpastes Har. Melampus Mel. Are wee onely scap'd Har. I hope so Mel. Then the storme has plaid the hangman and sav'd us innocent Har. Innocent what 's that it has sav'd us so much labor and a broken head perhaps Mel. The wracke was great and full of horror Har. How the rogues praid and rored above the waves vowed whole heards of offerings for their safetie But Neptune sav'd em charges and tooke the verger beasts Mel. Wee scapt miraculously Har. I hope you le burne no bullocks to the Sea Mel. No my vowes were of another nature I vowd To live well and chang'd my bloody purpose Har. Thou didst not meane in earnest Mell. I did then but I no sooner toucht the shore and safety but my old thoughts returnd Har. Come wee le goe claime our hire and sweare wee kild him before the storme our fellowes dead pay will fall to us wee le demand for losses I and our dangers too Mel. If mine eyes deceive mee not here comes one will deny the payment Har. T is he be resolute and follow me Enter Pallantus to them Pall. How now friends amazde at what 's past dangers ore-blowne are dreames no more to bee esteem'd of within this houre you would have given a world to stand thus were it yours let not smaller losses then afflict you the greatest goods are trifles after such deliverance our birth day was not halfe to us so happie as is this minute then wee had no sense of life now we perceive and ioy in 't They assault him and he kills them Pall. What mov'd these villaines hatred sure they know me not nor did I ere see them before this voyage they could not hope for money there 's more in 't here 's a paper which He searches thē may chance to tell me something by this I see they are murtherers what 's here a beard and haire blacke patches sure t is their trade they are so furnish'd both of the same profession A Letter I am glad to heare you have found Pallantus receive this man the bearer into your company and councell and if your secret practises faile you assault him openly and by violence performe the murther let the one or other bee done speedily my imployments here for you are many and instant Your Lord and friend Timeus Art thou the Lord my wonder then is done Thy treacheries is greater than thy hate And that too is something more than malice Above the search of innocence a knot Unto the subtilest Traytors a riddle To thy selfe were not thy home villanies Enough but thou must maintaine thy Factors Out for lives in forraigne Kingdomes bloody Marchant I have laine hid so long am now So new form'd by time no friend can know me Hate thine eyes are more perceiving farre than Friendship I have not dar'd to name my selfe Because with it I doe name my Father And yet thou hast it perfect him with Many more who were too good to looke on So much ill as thine and thy fathers lives Were made away ease my brest or too much Rage instead of a Revenger will turne me A stocke a foole Heare me you banisht gods For I may justly feare if that your Powers Are absent any where 't is from this place Where tyranny doth raigne on this Altar I doe vow to be your Martyr if not Your surviving instrument nere to let Fall your vengeance till it light on those which Slew the King your King the image of your Goodnesse which killd the Prince and dar'd to say That he was lost lost indeed which on the Princesse doe intend a rape their marriage is No better which kill'd my father and last Resolv'd on me Had I a thousand lives I 'de gage them here And thinke your Indgement yet not
bought too deare Enter Aratus Phronimus Eurilochus and others to him Ara. In the name of wonder what art thou Pall. Why what am I Sir Ara. Nay I know not not does any but an Antiquary or a Conjurer certainely thou art no man or if beest I am sure none of the last Edition Pall. Were your troope absent I 'de make you finde I were without those helpes 't was so long since you saw a man a true one that you know not when you meet one your Lordships glasse shewd you none this morning Eur. Whence cam'st thou Ara. I that I 'de faine know heere 's no hole open In the earth Pall. From Sea Ara. From the bottome of it I thinke there 's nothing like thee above water Phro. Of what profession art thou a Souldier Pall. Yes Ara. Thou shouldst be hang'd for thy very lookes if thou wert not they are excusable in no calling else Pall. These are some insolent scoffers which breath their wits on all they see weaker then themselves against they meete the foole next I wrong my selfe to talke with 'em Eur. Dost heare Pall. None of your wit yet Eur. Thou bleedest Pall. Was it that made me such a wonder I doe so Phro. And much blood is spilt upon the ground knowst thou the cause Pall. Yes I was assaulted by two ranke rascalls which I let blood and cured Phro. Hast thou not killd and rob'd 'em Pall. Sr. your thoughts are base and you doe ill thus to insult upon mine innocence Robd 'em monyes more below my thoughts then Earth my education hath beene noble and though the Mid-wife lapt me not in Purple nor Princes gossipt at my birth I have dard to bee as honest as the richest my word hath commanded more then all your Land or mony Those deeds which I have donne dishonestly dard not to have lookt on they would have frighted your Lordship if but told you towards bedd time Phro. I never saw such feircenesse Ara. I begin to admire this fellow Eur. Where hast thou bestowed 'em Pall. Behind there if you search 'em you may finde more if they had any mony the Sea washt them cleane on 't before their deaths Eur. Why were they cast away Pall. Yes but it seemes they had a land-fate Ara. They search them What 's here a roges Limbs Beards their two heads a peece Phro. Her 's a Paper confirms them most notorious Villaines Eur. Sure I have seene some faces like them Phro. They were propper men Ara. They were so didst kill them both alone Pall. I tould you once so I am no proud on 't to boast it ore againe and tell you how I did it Ara. Trust me thou art a brave fellow and I admire thy stoutnesse thou lookst as if thou hadst beene nurst in perills darst thou withstand a bould one but as honest as t is great what sayst thou canst thou like of us Phro. Thou shalt not finde us as we appeard at first Pall. While you talke thus I can and in your busines if honesty goe yoakt with danger it cannot fright me then though it have more terror then Seamen faigne at their returne or Cowards feares suggest horred even unto a ly I dare face it and wager a life I 'le conquer it Arat. Thy words goe high as Thunder Pall. Pardon my words if my actions prove as fatall Ara. I beleeve thee and dare promise thou wilt doe wonders let me imbrace thee thou art welcome to our friendship mine eyes did looke on thee unworthyly before methinks th art comely now thy scarrs are so many graces not set by an effiminate but by a manly and warlike Skill Busines calls us hence thou shalt not part one minute from me thy wound needs helpe Come thou shalt heale before me Exeunt Om. Enter Clearchus Haimantus Clear Have you commanded all the Marriners aboard each Captaine to his charge bid the Souldiers fill the decks with their full numbers and display their collours Let nothing wanting that may add to the glory of the Navy Hai. Sr there is not all things are in their pride and height the Captaines seeme to lend brightnes to the day and like the Sunne throws raies and light about them nor lookes their gold lesse awfull then the Souldiers Steele on the Ships appeare the joy and riches of a conquest and yet keepes the strictnesse of a joyning battell there want's nothing to make a warlike like princely and well commanded Navy but your presence Sr. Clea. I would not have them thinke us such poore men that we are drove to seeke for their releife to due for bread and water but rather that wee come like Noble wooers full of rewards and presents able to returne all favours wee receive and equally to honor them which honor us As great as they It shall appeare hee that is master of such a Fleete may Stile himselfe King though Lord of nothing else Hai. The people flocke upon the shore and with one voyce say you come to fetch their Princesse you have more then their consents already you have their wishes too Clea. I marry Haimantus such a Jewell would Make the rest looke dimme there are two Ladies in this I le if fame say true the wonders of the World When nature made 'em shee summond her whole God-head and unwearied wrought till shee Had don form'd each limbe as if she had begun there Shee seem'd to practise on the World till now and what like beautifull she Fram'd before were but degrees to this height These the assent from which she now must fall They made her older then the labour of A thousand yeares Enter a Messenger What 's the matter Hai. Ther 's a great Traine it seemes from Court comming to your grace Clea. How nigh are they Mess. They are on entring my Lord Clea. Wee le meete 'em Enter Aratus Phronimus Eurylochus Palluntus and attendants to them Ara. Sr. the King congratulates your safety and is glad of your arrivall though the cause were dangerous you would have oblig'd him much Sr. if you had beene bound for Creta Clea The King is royall and chides me kindly he binds a stranger ever to his Service Ara. His Majesty expects you le honor him with your presence this night at Court Clea. I shall wait upon him but my Lord I must first desire you le honour mee with your company a Ship-board I shall not need to excuse a Souldiers entertainment I doubt not but your Lordship knowes it well plainnesse is halfe the praise on 't Arat. Sir you are the envie of our neighbour Princes you so farre exceed them in a brave command I nere was happie in the like sight before and my Lord they that can boast the strangest have not seene one so common and so rare your Navie lookes as if shee wore the spoiles of a whole Land or came to buy them Clea. My Lord you le make me proud your presence yet will adde unto its glory Exeunt omnes Enter
to let downe some God unto this contract Let us withdraw The Power is now descended and all Within is sacred and misterious And if we doe pry into these secrets Our curiosity will bee punishd Exeunt Aratus Pallantus Haimantus Clea. This honourable admittance you have granted mee shall hereafter be my onely glory the sweet meditation that accompanies my old age nor shall the much envied youth make mee wish one day backe to bee partaker of their lesser pleasures when I shall call these greater unto minde what cordiall will it bee when I can silently boast within my selfe my younger daies were grac'd by a Princesse the fairest in the world so I may say Fian. O my Lord when you talke thus though I am loath you doe compell me to turne my face away Clea. I humbly crave your pardon T is strange so much seriousenesse can produce such follies yet I have faire grounds for what I said which most excellently shew themselves in every part Hian. They shew but to the fantasie ther 's no such beauty here t is borrowed from your speech and faire esteeme which thus I le pay you backe againe you are all that you have said and when I first saw you so you did appeare to me and I think to all the world the first sight promises all vertues and the next performes 'em nothing seem'd then so low in you as this passion Clea. What honours you have laid upon mee I may bleed for but cannot purchase any like 'em nor returne such back againe there all must submit your gifts as your beauties are excelling But away vaine words I will endeavour to grow strong in those virtues and not melt in the passion you have named I 'le set new Lawes to all noble Lovers that shall make all their idle passions appeare as fond unto themselves as others make them throw by their Pen and with their Sword to act those Fictions nor daring to name nor thinke upon the Saint they worship but when they have an offering some vertuous increase to bring them neere Thus is a Love that 's free to all none is injur'd by it Himens Torch burnes brighter by such flames and Vestas fires more lasting and more pure who can complaine the want of beauty when any any that dares be good may adore any and she like her Picture though she truely looke one way may seeme to cast a gratious eye o're all Hian. How his soule labours to soare above the pitch of honor Clea. How glad how much greater should I grow if I could promise to my selfe but one of those seeming lookes from you Hian, My Lord I have not heard you without admiration and wish I could bestow favours rich and lovely worthy your acceptance but seeing that I cannot I 'le strive to honor you not with peevish and womanish commands but such as shall be worthy of your valour and make you yet more a Prince The bravery you have shewne hath not rais'd a vaine passion in me but a confidence a noble confidence that all those vertues were not nam'd by you but spoke in you which thus I 'le shew my Lord my Lord Aratus Enter Aratus But I must leave you to an instructer 't is fit for your Sword and therefore above my power to utter shame not Sir that I put a tutor to you you are but to ground with him you may build to what height you please Come my Lord you must lay off all Strangenesse here and receive a noble helper whole bring both Strength and honor to your Cause Ara. I may stand amazed at the noblenesse in you both but not at this agreement in you I know vertues are still a kinne though the persons are strangers they are in Exeunt omnes Whiles this old Puppy thus doth sleepe And doth in vice as age grow deepe Benumming all these Plants are nigh Into a drowsy Let bargie Behold a nobler Branch appeares As farr from 's manners as his yeares Chorus O shed thou then thy influence And wee le returne fresh beauties thence The feircer sweetnes of his face Presents a rigour mixt with grace And though there were a want of blood His worth would make his Title good Virtues so growne in so few yeeres Make him eu'n such become their feares Chorus On then and make the Scepter be Thought but reserud not snatcht from thee Actus Tertius Scaena I. Enter Aratus Phronimus Pallantus Eurilochus and others ARa. Are all things ready for the ceremony the Crowne and robes Phro. They are ther 's nothing wanting if the Prince were come Euri. Hee 's come now Enter Clearchus Hiamantus Ara. Your grace is welcome but it may seeme to a Strange place and person what thinke you my Lord are not you fallen into the company of so many trayterous and lost men Clea. Sir say not so you have not warrant though you ranke your selfe within the number The place and persons rather appeare to me as if there were some Religion towards Ara. My Lord you understand it right there is a Religion towards and I may truely say that this our private meeting and close Counsell is more just and glorious then the lowdest deede in Court that all our publike Acts edicts and formes of Law are darke and impious compared to it nay that this time and place made holy by our purposes hath the gods more manifest and present then the Sacrifice and Temples long since made void and empty of a Deity by those which sue for favours and request for him who justly heare deserves their horridst vengeance we are not met heere to plot a generall ruine for a private injury we know and teach the greatest Donne by the King unto the Subject can not give him cause to throw off his faith Kings are petty gods and may tempt us nor is it want or desire of Innovation that thus Stirreth us wee are in the best ill State allready nor ambition to Strike at that Lawrell which the Thunder spares no we reverence it and know that as men are the workes of nature so Kings of Jove But 't is our oath the Sacrament we tooke which still holds us though our Lord be dead untill his successor doe quit us from it by taking of a new one we are not subjects but slaves to him we now obey and therefore as slaves we ought to hate our Master he was borne lesse then we and hides the private man under the publique gowne the purple which he weares was dipt deepe in the blood of Innocents to collour 't so But I vainely wast my selfe in words here are no minds to be perswaded nor eares to be instructed the sinnes we are to punish we all know and the gods remember our Strength then is all we are to speake of which is the greatest halfe of the Isle 16. yeares undisturb'd provision so carelesly was that provided for which was got by blood there is but one Lordship small in respect of others the
ready hand to doe you service Clea. Sir is not the Traitour knowne that did it Tim. No doubt he is Clea. My Lord you speake very doubtfull I hope you doe not thinke but I am sorry for the accident Time I know not what to thinke your disposition is as great a stranger to me as your selfe Clea. I see my Lord you know to bestow injuries though no curtesies to a stranger Tim. Iniuries are deserving to an intruding guest Clea. You are unworthy Timeus offers to draw and they hold him And though I am encompast with all the dangers I may justly feare from so barbarous a place which dares doe any thing it lusts unto without regard of lawes or hospitality I 'de tell you so and were you from the Dung-hill that you stalke on it is no better I 'de pull downe that unmanner'd pride within you Tim. Let mee goe nothing shall priviledge him to talke thus Clea. They hold you in your safety nor is the distance twixt your life and death longer than this space that parts us If you dare oretake me I le stay you out a daies sayle at Sea I challenge you to a princely combate where come with all your Power that I may destroy so many bruite beasts from of the earth Exit Clearchus Time Shall I bee tyed while I am bayted I le send those that shall oretake you and cut you off before your shipping yet Coracinus hast unto the City presently and in my fathers name command them to raise all speedie Power to stop the Prince bid them fire his ships in the Haven Ara. O my Lord consider a little more before you lay a scandall on the Kingdome which future ages cannot wipe off no story can paralell such a fact your grace moved him much and gave him cause of choller Tim. Does hee helpe your Lordship with ships that thus you plead his cause shall I be tutord by a Traytor Ara. Sir you are happie if you can find a Tutor when you thus much need one and for your other language if I understood it I 'de give you an answere in the meane time it must returne upon you Enter the King Polyander Menetius Comastes and attendants Time Well Sir I shall finde other waies than words to answer you King How now Timeus what bloody Time No more than you see Sir the sword rather left it on me then drew it out King Who is the traytor that durst attempt such outrage Tim. He's scapt unknowne King Unknowne that cannot bee when he has past thus farre in the court some must take notice of him Can you describe him Time Hee was habited like a Souldier but his lookes had more of Devill than of man King Upon my life I saw him but t is some two dayes since he must be knowne in all this time enquire who brought in any such man or was seene with him Com. This can be no bodie but my Hobgoblin An 't please your grace was hee not in a buffe Coate and his face all to bee dab'ld with patches Tim. Yes he was so Com. Then doe I know him hee belongs to my Lord Aratus there no bodie durst speake to him but hee hee shewed his teeth at every bodie else he had like to have bit me once King Aratus doe you heare they say hee that committed this outrage belongs to you Ara. To mee Sir hee wrongs mee that thinkes so I maintaine none that dare commit such insolence Poli. My Lord I saw him with you Ara. Who pray make me know the man Poly. A blacke sterne Souldier that followed you Ara. I feare I understand you now there is such a one does follow mee but I never discoverd anie disloyall spirit in him his outside t is true was as you discribe not moulded after the common frame of men but threatned more than anie I have seene yet t was but his outside that threatned so within hee was gentle all a Courtier to be wound and turnd by the smallest courtesie I must confesse if he were injurd then hee was proud and Lordly stormes rose within his lookes and thunder was in his voice King And you knowing this how durst you turne such a wild beast loose into the Court whom had I met and chancd to have anger'd my fortune had beene the same Lay hands upon him you shall find that such a Spirit lodges in my brest too and when t is stird will raise Tempests as greate we shall find other matters to examine you of Through this seeming neglect we doe put on we can observe all your actions and with a halfe and sleeping eie see into your darkest plots The King turnes to goe away Ara. Then the Gods send their aid or all is lost yet Sir heare me speake the jealousies you have on mee I shall not bee able to cleare but will leave them to the triall of my innocence and your favour Yet Sir to shew you in this last accident how much I am guiltlesse I will relate unto you how first I met the actour of it T was on that day I was imploid on an honorable message from your Majesty to the Stranger Prince on the shore I found him having lately scapt a Shipwracke and as great a danger on the Land for he was assaulted by two Villaines that were in the same voyage with him but the cause of their hate himselfe he could not tell he had no acquaintance with them but in the Ship but as he had before the waves so in this Tempest too as I may call it he bore himselfe above and left them both as calme as death upon the shore In the instant when he was yet hot in his anger and their blood we came upon him Tim. Pray Sir let me speake to you there is a wonder discovered to me by his relation and under this Monster he hath spoke of a greater doth ly hid one that you would rather have in Chaines then all the list of Traytors I have named Sir commit the uncasing him to me and suffer me to free Aratus let it suffice I am an eye upon him and the rest and will suddenly by their distruction distroy their Plot King Take your way I 'le leave him to you Exeunt King Poliander Comastes c. Tim. My Lord with the perswasion of your innocence I have procured your freedome of my father and doe desire in requitall of this kindnesse if it be such to let me see the face of this my enemy once more if your acquantance as appeares by your words be not too late to know his aboade My Lord I shall receive him otherwise then you expect the relation you have made of him and what my selfe was witnesse on hath turn'd my hate into admiration and if I can move his Love as I have donne his anger I shall be happy in his vallour 'T is noe strange thing that the vallor of enemies have made them friends and that wounder have beene the first seale of Love I doe
downe for ever Let 's to the Prince and to him Offer up our lives and griefes together Th' one 's the onely medicine for the other 1 Guard The Traytor 's scapt 2 Guard We were to soft to obey a dying speech Cap. His scape 's as Strange as was his enterance We had power to hinder neyther Exeunt Om. Enter Tymeus and sees his father slaine Timeus Give me a power mighty as my rage That my revenge may reach unto the Clouds And unthrone those gods that joynd hands with men To comit so black a deede it were but Justice they should loose their diety that So would throw it off O my father did I unload thy shoulders of the Kingdome That thou might fall under a lesse waight And bereft thee of all thy jealousies to Ruine thee with more assurance onely Where are all those flattering tongues that when There was noe neede would in a complement Howerly suffer for thee not one to dy In thy defence or by his fall to make Thine more decent how dismall is this place The graves where death inhabits are not so Dreadfull I 'le fly thee though I runne amongst The thickest of my foes they can present Noe dangers like this lonenesse the cryes the Sword the Trumpet in the battle strike not So deepe amazement what ho Clitus Charisius Erastus Amanthes Not one voyce He goes out in Search and returnes againe I walke like Aeneas among the shades All is hell about me I see nothing But what my Fantasy frames in horrid shapes O the vaine feares of guilty men all are Unreasonable but yours ridiculous When you have contemn'd the greatest powers On earth threatening with strength and hatred You tremble at a ghost a thing lesse then is A man and when the substance could not the Shaddow frights you There is noe way but this To set me above my feares when I am Lesse I shall be equall to them Enter the Captaine of the guard and two more Cap. O hold my Lord offer not up your selfe A sacrifice when there are so many That gladly would releeve you with their lives Let that thought prevaile with you hat you ought To live for them that so willingly would Dy for you y' are the prop of thousands and If you fall you sinke a Kingdome with you Take the Sword by the other end and so Holding it seeke to appease this Sacred Ghost such a will exceeds this performance If you can't confirme the Crowne yet confirme Your memory by the losse of it This Object makes your greife a burden to your Honour Leane on me my Lord I 'le beare you To the Campe Exeunt Om. Enter Poliander Menetius Comastes a Captaine and others as in their Tent A shout is heard from among the enemies Poli. What shout is that among the enemies Cap. T is the acclamation of the Campe at the receaving of their fellowes this night they expected their other forces and it seemes they are now arrived Poli. I am glad on 't I hope we shall have command to try the fortune of the Feild to morrow would the whole knot of them were there that we might make quicke worke and like Alexander unty it with a blow Com. I and a wall round about 'em to keepe them to the slaughter that we may not be troubled to kill a thousand in a thousand places I don't like this persuing 't is the greatest evill next to the being persued the wine neere tasts well when 't is so jumbled Give me a Standing Campe that florishes like a peacefull City and want's no necessaries here stand your Engins there your beefe on this hand a Palesado defends you on the other a Baracado of Porke-Tubs impregnable before a Ditche is cut of some two hundred paces and the Souldiers tipling in 't behind a Coope runns out of the same length the Poultry tipling in their Trenches whose body are too dilicate and tender for bare travell here a man may even among the Tents forget to be a Souldier All Ha ha ha Pol. O my conscience Comastes thou art weary o' th Campe allready Com. Yes faith as your selves are if you 'd confesse the truth Poli. Why me thinks there is noe pleasure to be compar'd with it every man hath his delights here as if he tooke his leave on 'em and if he chance to returne at night like friends which parted in the morne two dangerous and hopelesse ways of ever seeing they meet with a multiplyed and unexpected joy these very wounds are pleasures and Elizium comes faster on them then their deathes Com. When honor is the prize and wrong'd Justice The cause that thrusts them on they throw of one That they may get a better life a life Of fame which is eternall even on earth That they enjoy'd before was fading Sustayned onely by the infirmities Of one weake body now 't is supported By the memoryes of all the charge of it Is committed unto a world of men Nor i st extinguisht before the fame o' th Whole universe none are so surviving As the Sonns of glorious Warre Jove gave Life to Hercules and Theseus but Mars Eternity they breath'd from one but gain'd Heaven by the other these were the great thoughts Which when I was yet young and not able To embrace them did dwell in me they did Suggest unto my soule that I ought to raise my hand Against the gods if they slept At perjury and favour'd injustice Poli. Holloe what aylst thou Mene. What meanst thou Comastes Com. To shew you how easy a thing it is to talke like a Souldier and be as brave a fellow as eyther of you All Ha ha ha Mene. Thou wouldst make an excellent runne-away Souldier such a speech on the high-way were greater violence than bidding stand a long staffe would not get an almes so soone Poly. What wilt thou say now Comastes to a joviall round or two beyond the Court healths those at the Kings owne Table Comast. I thinke I shall say more than you at this as well as in the other Poly. Captaine prithee command 'um to bring some wine in Come let us sit in the meane time and take away these fearefull things from Comastes hee bids them remove the Armor off the Table Com. And why from me me I pray Poly. Why they 'le fright thy mirth away looke it gapes upon thee but won't bite Com. No more than your Lordships sword Is this the terrible thing I know not what it may doe in a darke night with a candle in 't but in the day and your Lordship looking through it I shall never turne my backe unlesse it be to laugh Pray God the enemy thinke of no such stratagem with a pitcher in the Progenerall-ship it may be as much as the Kings Army lies on Poly. Ha ha Mene. Take this away too is not this a Divells hand Comastes Coma. Yes There 's a couple pray remove 'em both and his wit that is so devillish that we may
his stead shine round our Spheare Grace thou the Throne and let us see Thy father once more Raigne in thee Wee le now in naught but love conspire And noe brest burne but with true fire Cho. While that such manners rule the Throne Live all by his he by his owne Actus Quintus Scaena I. Enter Eudora Rodia and Ladies Eudo. This quiet we enjoy doth strike amazement in me sure they have slaine the body with the head which makes this generall calme Rod. Madam 't is more innocent I had newes brought by one I sent to learne that did astonish me that the people knew noe cause of griefe or gladnesse but rose to their affaires as in a time when neyther enemies nor holidayes doe distract them from their labours The Kings death was newes this morning in the City such care the Victors tooke least the many headed but unbrained multitude should pull a slaughter on them Eudo. Their piety is too late nor will it satisfie the gods when they have spilt so much blood that they will spill noe more Rod. The Souldiers though their charge was gone kept their Guard Still they of the party durst not disclose it for their owne safety Some there were which whisperd it but they seemed rather curious in the State then those dull which knew it not Eudo. Can a Kingdome fall and the ruine not wake the people Rod. The messinger with this doubted what he had seene and heard nor durst hee bee confirm'd least his question might seeme Treason the first opening of it was by Proclamation with such secresy the plot was carried that now it was a labour to discover it After this Aratus and the rest of the Conspirators went into the Market-place where the people were comanded to attend by publique voyce and there to the assembly when they had declared the Justice of their action they produced the yong Prince which in the last alteration of the State was lost But by all supposed to have beene murdered which that hee was the Kings Sonne was confirmed by Aratus his conferring the Kingdome on him himselfe being the next heire unto the Crowne if the Kings Issue fail'd The Story of the Princes life bred much Love and Pity and his lookes were able to have led them to a civill Warre had he beene Counterfet Eudo. This may be true they who can beleeve there is a providence may easily give credit to this Justice our sinnes were mightier then our sufferings and had wee a greater debt then life we ought to pay it my Miseries are due to mee I was a party and enjoy'd my Fathers violence Rod. Madam you are as Innocent as at that time your age was and onely doe offend in your teares and too much love which on this occasion spent excessively is not to greeve but to repine the King was old and taking his latest leave and was hastned onely a litle sooner to shew the Justice of the gods 't is true my Lord Timeus was yong yet had noe patent for his life but as all brothers was an uncertaine joy Eudo. How ill these words become thee and me to heare think'st thou my Fathers faults can bring a comfort to mee Rod. Madam t would be noe glory to you that an unworthy greife should be your death your enemies noe doubt are noble sure they chose the crewellest to execute their businesse and him though his churlish out-side promist not we found more courteous then they which doe professe it his words were the lawes of Complement One that simpathizd in all your sufferings and though his manlinesse would not suffer him faint he died together with you One knocks at the dore Eudo. See who 't is disturbes us Who i st Rodia goes out and returnes Rod. Madam I know not nor did I ere see any like him his beauties beyond all similitude he speakes like the Souldier we were talking of but him it cannot be he was the terror this the darling of mankind Eudo. Whether wilt thou loose thy selfe in commendation in men beauties the least part Rodia Madam it appeares so in him yet such features lay a necessity of noblenesse on the minde hee humbly craves admittance nor would hee take it before that it were granted Eudo. Call him in wee must indure their pleasures it will not become our state to deny commands much lesse when they intreat Rodia goes out and returnes with Pallantus Pall. The Kingdome owes a Sacrifice for your life all will ioy to heare it which had it faild would have pulld more guilt upon us than the sinnes of a whole age Eudo. It is my fault you tell me of and a great share of my griefe that thus I stay to grieve Pall. My offensive tongue can utter nothing pleasing to you so great are your misfortunes and your honor so tender to you the wounds that I have given you are beyond my cure Eudo. Thou art not hee that gave 'um Pall. If my repentance can make me cleare I am not otherwaies t is I that partially hearing my owne cause beleev'd and iudg'd for it that hastily without examining what I did decreed on all your woe Eudo. Th art strangely altered if thou beest hee Pall. Nothing so strangely as my hopes are at first they did appeare in a divine and holy forme beyond all that I can fantasie such a mind though ravishd with the beauty could not expresse then and promist all should bee as heavenly as their shape calld mee the instrument of Iustice the saver of my Countrey set all the sinnes before mee I was to punish told mee there was no heaven but what their clowdes did veile thus they crept into mee and won mee with the most specious shewes unto their service on my bare resolution gave mee part of that happinesse I was to ayme at Then they clothed mee in a body foule as the Tragedy I was to act and made me dote on those deformities which all did loath when they had bewitcht mee with these false yet glittering names and I obeyed their blacke commands in a moment they changd into Repentance a mournefull figure and sadly left mee as they first did find me and as I now appeare to you Eudo. Thou hadst no cause for all that thou hast done the faults were generall and concernd not thee but thou wert ready for all ill as well as goodnesse Pall. Yet I had a cause Pardon me that I say and being that I saw not you before I did it a iust one I lost a Soveraigne as nere to me in blood as love and if this cause may seeme remote I had a father murdered whose death as it becomes you thus to mourne so it did mee for to revenge my selfe was banisht loyaltie was both our faults and when they had heapt these sorrowes on me left mee not one hope to leane on they were not yet content with my despaire but sought my life which was so poore it could not be distinguisht then from
Brother and too credulously soone I Proudly call my selfe by that honourable Name when so lately I had leave to doe 't Yet had it not been before declar'd Unto me I could not so easily Consent to the beleefe your face before Did ioy me but then an Angell wore it And appeard more heavenly in your borrowed Shape than in his owne I cannot blame the Troubles of my former life when I was Barr'd from such felicities as these Hian. The gods were not so favourable to me As in a Dreame faintly and a farre off To shew the Blessings I was to hope how Gladly J would have changd my greatest ioyes For such your troubles This I may call my Birth-day I walk't and breath'd and spoke before But lived not till this hower I had a being Then but not a life till now King T is so to both of us And we will ever celebrate it as the first day that we were borne Brother and Sister before we were Strangers now we are twinns of love My Lord I understand the holy League betwixt you and though I lay my hand thus on it I Intend not for to breake it nor make a divorse though thus I part you pardon me that I seeme covetous of so great a happines and shew a loathnes to part from it before I have my selfe enjoyed it She must sit some time my Queene before she be crown'd yours Clear It were a creuelty to wish it other I will not be guilty of such desires if after a brother I an humble servant shall be thought on 't is the time and place I am ambitious off I will withdraw Sir and though there is noe happines I can enjoy so great as beholding yours I will deny my selfe the view King O my Lord say not so though I am kinde I am not fond I 'le give up my interest or any thing rather then you shall leave us I spoke it as a meanes to stay you make it not then a parting word helpe me to perswade him Hian. My Lord Clear T is enough I obey my busines is much below my love and I will rather distroy the one then offend the other yet now I have granted I 'le intreat againe as for a new favour I may perswade though deny nothing My voyage was bound to another place before happily I was cast upon this shore and though I call my selfe a Prince I am a servant to my imployments and obey the Commission of a Father the expence and expectation of a Kingdome King My Lord if your imployments are so great we would not make you guilty of a dishonorable Stay Cle. If with your leaves I shall depart as a man that is pull'd from his delights with a strong hand being freed recoyles againe to them so speedy shall be my returne and in my absence account al violence that does detaine me by that time too your first troubles wil be setled you more fit to receive an idleman King Our passion ought to give way unto your reason Phro. Aratus you are in a maze Ara. Hah I must confesse I am so These Princes play their parts so rarely that there is nothing left for us but wonder King My Lord shall we intreat you to beare us company unto the Temple thither we 're a going to give that perfection to our joyes which yet is wanting and for unusuall benefits offer unusuall thanks Enter Pallantus and kneeles and kisses the Kings hand Pall. Sr I humbly crave your pardon that thus tardily after the people and your enemies I present my service to you and wish you happines King I cannot be deceived thou must be my Pallantus ther 's none can speake or looke like thee thy least resemblance is above all men 't is noe wonder to see thee Chang'd thy deede has thus transform'd thee it sits upon thy brow and Casts a glory round about thy face Ara. Me thinks the times had such a vizor on and till this day shewd not a true face Sr you shall see him each day make new discoveries of virtues Pall. My Lord you promise too highly for me Ara. Thou look'st sadly after all thy Honors King So me thought what can be the cause A King they say's the best Physition for a discontent If I cannot bring you comfort I sacrifice in your behalfe Pall. Sr I bow to you But that which is my greife will be noe longer mine alone then while I doe conceale it all that hears't will also have their share in it 't is a disease that good men catch meerely by the fantasy Justice could never yet with all her care so carue out her punishment but that the Innocent were wounded with the blow and felt the Judgement of another sinne while with her Sword she cuts off the offending parent the child is made an Orphan in the Cradle and mournes hereafter because he had noe fault King Whether doth this sad beginning tend Pall. To this Sr as we have slaine withall religion a bloody tyrant one that was greater in his sinnes then in the Kingdome he purchast by them So too we have causelesse slayne the father of a Lady that knew not so much guilt as to satisfie her why shee lost him for want of whose life she now contemnes her owne a Jewell of inestimable value with all that does behold it but her selfe Sr you cannot call her an enemy though her goodnesse hath stood against you and preserved her Father so many yeeres in spite of all his sinnes she ought to resist all piety if it were an enemy to her owne Hian. Her cause of greife is mighty and if care be not taken as their faults have donne the rest her goodnesse will distroy her we that beheld the past deformities can beare witnes of her virtues she was the only mine of honour and when we have beene wearyed in seeking one graine in her we could finde a treasure nor wast a beauty set of onely with the blemishes of others or foild by generall vices but a reall and a native excellence which as it could not be obscured with thickest darkenesse so neyther could it be outshind by other lights King Her greife concernes us all and ought to be considered before our joyes beare these teares to her we wish the excesse of ours may lessen her's and say that comfort which is left we will preserve and carefully offer to her Her brother with many of her friends are fled unto the Fort and are there shut up would I could give them life what say you my Lord may I doe this Is not mercy in this place folly Ara. Sir 't is so at no time you may doe this or any thing you have a minde too even in your fantasiy there is a secret councell and seeing that all your actions nay all your pleasures are in some exercise of virtue we will not crosse you but make it our greater care to preserve you in them and have a more diligent eye least your pity may
prove crewell to your selfe King You have given me resolution hast presently unto 'em t was their desire this morning to have conference with one of note and if you find 'em fit for mercy or to be made fit offert to 'um Exeunt Omnes Enter Tymeus at one dore Menetius Poliander Comastes a Captaine at the other Tim. Noe answer yet returnd Mene. Not yet Sir Tim. One Looke out againe Exit Cap. Polyander I remember I heard thee once say when I condemnd thee for thy smiles that if I had a cause thou wouldst frowne why lookst thou sadly then our fortunes ought rather to stirre our anger than our griefe Poly. Were they Sir my misfortunes alone and not yours I would not now fall below my words the greatest should not move any affection in me unlesse it were some glory Enter Captaine Cap. There 's now one arriv'd Sir who certainely hath brought us newes Tim. Let us seate our selves before he enters that he may see on what strength we doe demand every man put on a face of mirth now we are at a Banquet that will refresh us after all our toyle There stands a Table and a cup of poyson on it they all sit about Enter Pallantus and a guard Pall. Now retire but on the least call bee ready for to enter Tim. Who 's this doe any of you know him Pol. Men. Not I my Lord Tim. Sir y' are welcome but wee invite you onely to looke on these cates are not easie of digestion the gods give not life more certaine than this gives death doe you thinke you can endure the sight would Aratus himselfe were heere that once hee might bee satisfied with a spectacle of blood You looke pale on us already sure they have a plot upon you and sent you hither to see your death had they none to send us to behold our resolutions but such a trifle Pall. What shape can I put on and thou not iniure mee in 't I never yet appeard to thee in any forme but that I suffered by thee at first I was thy feare as all that were innocent did fright thee because thou wert guilty I was banisht not to remove me but my death which with treachery thou soughtst And when I had with wonder escapt thy intended mischiefes by chance thou wouldst have slaine mee when thou hadst no cause of hatred my disguise wrongd thee not t was as much a stranger to thee as an inhabitant of remotest Africa Timeus and the rest start from their places and draw Timeus I know thee now thou needs not further declare thy selfe and th' art come past all my wishes to satisfie my revenge Pallantus knockes and the guard enters and they runne upon Timeus and the rest Pall. Hold I came to bring peace and not destruction doe you yet perceive how vaine is all your malice Tim. If thou art that man thou would seeme to bee and equally with me dost honour a dead father yet setting by these helpers let us singly try our hatred the grant of this will please above all our demands I had rather see thee dead or by this meanes not see thee live then againe be Master of the fortunes I have lost I am unfit for life I shall but curse the givers of it Pall. If I thought so I 'de grant to your request and kill you I could doe it I have strength and justice enough to make me able but you are not so bad as you suppose these are dispairing and not malitious thoughts yet ere I goe one way or other I le give you satisfaction I came for that intent Let me see your Articles Hee seemes to read them to himselfe and speakes out the last And if these may not be granted that thus accompanied wee may depart the Isle How poore are these requests without more commission I dare grant you greater Why these are demands within the compasse of a subjects breast deceive not your selves you were not so safe in your owne raigne as in your enemies The State is not translated from one tyranny to another but to a kingdome A Prince governes now which is the name of mercy as well as power which he truly knowes and in his first deeds desires to shew on you he does not thinke he 's then like Iove when he can thunder but when he can hold it in not when he is the voice of death but when he sits harmelesse with the power of death about him Revenge Torments Executions are not expressions of a king but a distruction he rivalls not the immortall powers in Temples statues adoration but transcendent virtues divine performances these are the additions by which he climbes heaven and appeares a god on earth Tim. Why should I bee a stranger to these virtues more than this man I was not borne for lesse things than he certainly when nature made this frame she intended it for the noblest actions Pall. Have you yet resolv'd on any thing Tim. If you will goe on I can heare you still Pall. I will goe on in mercy t is my commission and if you will not dam against its streames it may flow to you yet the way is even why looke you strangely at the word t is no wonder to the sender of it nor they which live about him Though the dangers may seeme great t were not worthy of the high name of his mercy if the offence were not such This is but the least of his expressions that his enemies were courted for to live but presently you thinke t is not to save you but to deferre your death A vaine thought when can it be done more safely and more justly you are now as farre from those to help you as to pity you None but himselfe has any care of you T is true there is a Lady that had a share in you but with your honor you threw her off nor can you claime an interest when you have neglected her in all her miseries not in your flight your articles no not in your thoughts providing for her And had she not fallen into the hands of enemies that were servants too to honour you had throwne away a Jewell that had a first thought even among the gods Tim. O Sir you have underminde my pride and remov'd me from that advantage ground I stood on to my owne low height These your last words comes neere unto me and makes me with reverence beleeve all that you have spoken before your virtues onely sturd my hate and envie this deed first taught me to admire and cannot doubt there is a want of any noblenesse when you have shewne such passionate care in preserving a distressed Virgin whom I durst not thinke of least I should thinke too of her dishonour Pall. Sir keepe in your joy wee doe not thinke our selves such high deservers in doing that which barbarous people would have done they which would have burnt the Temples would have kneeld to her and what duties they neglected
to the Altar would have paid at her feet Thinke you wee could desire to save such enemies as you and not adore an enemy of her virtues Tim. Give me not scorne and honour in the same breath you have made me leave my selfe hate me not now I am nothing Pall. Now I meete you and first give me leave with this to throw away all danger that does threaten you He spills the poyson Next my request is if you dare trust me to leave this place and presently goe with me whether I shall lead you All but Comastes follow Pallantus Com. I breath am warme all alive The Sunne shines too I have not heard of any of his rayes in the other world T is earth I tread on at least if I am not mounted higher and yet I hope I am not in heaven for let them say what they will t is to bee dead to be there and I like not the society though they be Angels what doe I see I begin to mis-doubt I doe behold some such shapes here Faces heavenly and di Divine or else my fantasie abuses me if I be alive and on the earth then there was poyson in that cup A poxe o my curiositie He takes it and tasts a little of the bottome what need I have car'd whether I had beene so long as I found my selfe well I should have got fearefull honour if I had drunke my share By this I see 't was not a dreame nor swound I was in but all true story I did not thinke before it had beene in the power of all the Kings in the world to have given mee life when I was yet living but these thoughts shall passe And now I le looke before me presently I le to the new Court and though the King be chang'd not despaire to be the same man exit Enter Eudora Eudo. My father my brother why doe you flye mee your wellcome and lov'd shapes O my sad fantasie Enter Rodia Rod. Madam The King wishes you ioy and comfort Eudo. The King what King oh Rod. And desires to visit you Eudo. Returne all duty and service to the King Exit Rodia Enter Pallantus Pall. Joy attend you Madam Eudo. My Comforter Pall. Your unfortunate one to see that litle he had wrought with much care so soone decay'd againe yet I hope I shall this time be more happie in my cure before I brought but Physicke for your greife but now I bring you joy it selfe it makes me bold and assures me of my wellcome though thus without leave I enter He needs noe ceremony that can say your brother lives Eudo. My brother O where and how alas it cannot be why doe yee mocke my sadnes thus such false hopes as these make more wretched Pall. I dare not play with holy things nor would I deferr your hopes much lesse delu'd 'em he came along with me and stayd but till I had thus prepar'd his way I know to have given him you as you immagine had beene twice onely to have taken him away noe danger threatened him but his owne discontent The King among his first cares provided for his safety he shall himselfe confirme my words Enter Rodia Eudo. Pray stay I doe beleeve and aske you pardon but now I am certaine of him I would not at first shew any signes of joy I have thought a way to entertaine him Rodia fetch the paper that lyes within upon the Table so now Sr you may admit him Rodia goes out and brings the Letter written by Timeus to kill Pallantus Pallantus goes out and returnes with Timeus Tim. Here let me alone be happy without a covetous wish of what I have lost O Eudora wonder not at my excessive passion misery layes stronger bonds of love then nature and they are more one whom the same misfortune joynd together then whom the same wombe gave life Eudo. But stay my brother I knowledge that you say most true and was noe lesse surpriz'd at first to heare of this your safety for when I once beleev'd you dead that you were alive againe was a greater good then I could give credit to But when I consider the cause of my greefe and gladnesse and found it was merely the name of brother nay not so much the dishonor of our name onely with teares I threw away what with teares I sought for looke on this unworthy man Shee gives him the Letter Heere you are discected and see if I ought to mourne for any part being lost or rejoyce for any that safe in the whole Anotamy Pall. O be not too severe but suddenly give that joy you have prepared for him Eudo. Now I meet your love pardon me my brother I was to rejoyce at this your sadnesse before I could share with you in another joy Enter a Lady La. Madam the King 's hard by Pall. The King Eudo. Yes he sent before that he would visite me what will you doe Tim. Not see him willingly at this time Pall. Sir you need not he understands the nature of your losses and will not expect so suddenly to see you Eudo. Stay within till he be gone Exeunt Tim Rodia and Lady Pallantus Madam I 'le meet the King and meete upon him in Eudo. Did you say this was the King's mercy Pall. I did Madam Exit Pallantus Enter the King Pallantus as in talke with him Clearchus Hianthe Haimantus Aratus Phronimus Eurylochus and Attendants King And does she know of it yet Pall. She lives onely by the favour As the King drawes neere Eudora offers to kneele King Madam fall not so low we have already too much dejected you and would our selves gladly submit in recompence y' are still in the esteeme of all that which you have beene not by the sinnes of others but by your owne indowments admired Princesse and may a curse light light on those who shall dare to unthrone a Majesty which the gods themselves have seated we are come confident in these your virtues that you will not disdaine when nobly we endeavour it to have your greife lessened by your enemies Madam though unpropper yet we are willing comforters and have as true a sence of what you suffer as those who in a neerer name doe share their losses with you Eudo. Sr admit me to kneele before you I ought not to stand an equall height with Majesty and vertue so much above me what undeserving name is due to me when you are pleas'd to call your selfe an enemy if you are one it is to your selfe in thus prefering your mercy before your safety you have given my brother life to bring your owne in danger and removed my greife which hereafter may be the cause of it to your selfe Sr thinke me unworthy but not a scorner of these favours were my sorrowes heaver Thus offerd t were but religion to bow and to receive 'em King You make us all happy and shew a virtue above your sex in being able so much to love and yet to loose a