in thine arms withal with her fair Beauty in rich Thrace rob'd of so rare a Jewel Or if dead end the remainder of my afflicted hours in exile and forsaken solitude in desarts scare discovered Cic. A sad Vow Phe. To make which good to thee Cicillia's King in part of recompence to thy great wrongs I here resign all State and Empire up my Crown my Scepter and Majestick Orb until the Truce prefixt be quite expired And charge you all on your Allegiance Lords that you the Faith and Homage sworn to me pay to this King in all just Loyalty This Pilgrims weed be now my Robe of State no other gay Trim will Pheander wear my Sword the Sword of Justice born before now is now no better than a Palmers Staff by which I will do justice on my self in humble penance and in stead of Gold and Cups of hollowed Pearl in which I us'd to quaff deep Healths of rich Pomegranate Wine this Scallop shall be now my Drinking cup to sip cold water I am now Cicillia a man reformed for loe I die to State Live onely to Devotion Lords adieu These are my arms you Kingdom to pursue Exit Phe. I hear your Princes minde and hope his vowes are out of his meer zeal and penitence which I accept will you accord with him and promise your true Fealties to us 1 Thr. L. As we to him were we are now to you as loyal and as faithful 't was his pleasure and we submit to both acknowledging his wrongs to you and take them at the best far above all forgiveness 2. Thr. L. You cannot boast of any Conquest won To gain a kingdom and loose such a Son Scicil. This to us is a full satisfaction and my Lords we know how to require your gratitude the Regency by him assigned to us we in our bounty reassign to you be your own Lords excepting still the fealty due to your Sovereign at his back return in whose forc'd absence should you use our aid we shall be your Protector Thr. Lords Noble in all his Arts is Scicilly Scicil. Billet our Soldiers in such Neighboring-towns where Victual and best Harbor may be had withal Proclaim not the least violence be done to any Thracian they are ours now tho under your command Here was a happy War fought without blows yet no dishonor in 't he that endures such War within can be no coward sure In all designs this still must be confest He that himself subdues conquers the best Exeunt ACT. 3. SCENE 2. Enter Alcade King of Affrica Sophos Lillia Guida Tromp Flor. Eusanius and Moors and Guard Alcad. WHere 's Sophos Soph. Here my Lord Alcad. Has our command been well effected that we gave in charge Soph. Great King it has Alcad. Our purse and people are at thy dispose leave an army of the stoutest men Affrick affords we love thee thou art honest In Affrica the Moors are onely known and never yet searcht part of Christendom nor do we levy Arms against their Religion but like a Prince and Royal Justicer to patron Right and supplant Tyranny We are in this as Gods and in like care Should punish Ignomy and Vertue spare Eusan. They gave a partial measure that subscribed Affrick within so small and strict a limit making great Europe boundless Royal Sir give me but leave to go with Sophos to the Thracian Wars that I may speak your Fame unto the world and where you are but heard of make you famous If ever Fame or Valor crown my youth with the least Honors all my services I le dedicate to you and my fair Mistriss Wonder of her Sex whose beauty shines like to a Star amongst so many clouds of her own Nation Lillia Guida's name shall be as much in Christendom as Greekish Hellen's was God sir speak for me Sophos ' Thad bin my first request but that I fear'd It would offend your Mistriss she being pleas'd Upon my knee I do entreat for you Lillia. To show my willingness I le be the third my self and humbly crave it may not be deny'd I do not love to be attended on in a wrought Night-cap obeyed with quilted calves give me a man that Agues cannot quake nor fire tremble Pardon me Princely Father it is your spirit speaks I am your own and by that priviledge become your Suitor Alcad. Our Daughter has prevail'd Sophos your ear Lillia. To give encouragement unto thy hopes receive this favor may it prove a charm unto thy arm and double puissance adde unto thy strength when any danger 's extant 1 Moor This it was that I long since suspected this shall prove his tragick Fate and ruine to her love Eus. You grace me beyond merit while I live I will make known your honors rank your name amongst the bravest Dames of Christendom and when I view this Scarf it will infuse undaunted vigor make me overcome impossibilities there easie to desire Alcad. Treason didst say 1 Moor Against your Majesty dishonor of your fair and beautuous Childe their motions gestures looks and conference I have observed and watched with jealous eyes and finde 'em all corrupt Lack my Liege behold before your face their amorous fire breaks forth into bright flames is 't not apparent his suit to leave the Court her seconding his Treason with a Boon and Favor too You thought 't was his desire to go to Wars believe it not there 's no such man in him It is some secret Plot they have contrived to flie away Prevent it speedily Alcad. Thou hast infused a spirit into my brest I never yet did feel strange impudence Ambition never heard of in a Peasant A slave that neither knows his birth nor breeding should thus presume for to seduce a Princess Hence with that Traitor let him have a death as horrid as his crime Soph. How 's this Eus. A Traitor 1 Moor I Traitor Traitor sirrah Eus. Sirrah you lie this shall maintain 't 'gainst thee or any dares affirm this Title Mount us great King upon some lofty spire where is but room for two place him amidst an host in this just Cause to clear my honor and her innocence I le pierce thorough armed Guards and make my way through Halberts Pikes and deadly killing shot break through many Battels sally thorough whole Squadrons and make him like a confused lump that ne're had form Guard me you sacred Powers lest I forget time presence place and on this ugly slave commit an out-rage Alcad. Kill and stop his fury insolent boy how dares thy violence offer it self in blows and we in presence Had we no other cause this were enough to take away thy Life Away with him Soph. Stay yet dear sir as ever I deserved grace at your hand hear me first speak Behold him bow to you that in your Cause hath made great Kings to kneel and tender you submission for my sake let him not suffer death 't is undeserved I will engage all that I have on earth
'm sure 1 Th. Lord What 's he 1 Lord Some stranger 3 Th. Lord How came he in the Guard 1 Sc. Lord They speak I le try if they can hear 1 Th. Lord Keep back who are you The cause of your approach so near the King 1 Sc. Lord Your out-sides speak you noble Know my Lords the Cause of my arrival in this Land is in the search of Princely Radagon now Son and Heir to the Scicilian King if ever you did hear of such a Prince let not fore-passed hate extinguish him but glad an aged Father with a Son who now is all the children he hath left They shake their heads and weep Good Gods I fear they have ta'ne away his life by tyranny Enter Pheander ready Phe. What stranger 's that what makes him in our Court What are you dumb Why do you not resolve us 1 Lord He is a Subject to Cicillias King and comes in search of banisht Radagon 1 Sc. Lord How banisht Phe. I sir banisht And 't was too milde a satisfaction for the base wrongs that I sustained by him in a small Boat hopeless of help or life he was put forth to sea by our Command This you may tell your King and so be gone 1 Sc. Lord You could not be so unmerciful to use a vertuous Prince so cruelly you durst not so transgress the Law of Kings to murther him although your Enemy I know no cause of his did merit it but the stern hate of ancient Enmity Phe. How dare you sir capitulate the Cause Go bid your Master come himself to know and then perchance we may resolve it him 1 Sc. Lord Be sure he will thou cruel Homicide and ask the Cause in such a thundring Language will make both thee and all that hear it tremble Exit Scil. Lord Phe. We 'l answer him as loud sir fear it not But to our first Affairs what is your Censure is Life or Death the Sentence we must give 1 Lord Mine is his Life my Liege 2 Lord And so is mine 3 Lord Mine is his life but not his liberty Phe. Why not his death as well His fact is Treason 1 Lord Suspected but not proved therefore 't is fit he should be kept close Prisoner till we hear how the rude multitude do stand affected for he was deeply seated in their hearts Phe. We are resolved let him be streight brought forth We 'l use him with what clemency we may I know the Gods whom Kings should imitate Have plac'd us here to rule not overthrow Enter Sophos Justice shall hand in hand with mercy go We speak before a King but now a brother If you will yet confess your Guilt and Cause That moved you first unto this Forgery We may perhaps forgive you otherwise There is no other favor but to die Soph. Ha ha ha to die I do not think I shall be made so happy for death 's the honest mans felicity there is no favor that I crave but death in living here I shall more torments finde but being dead there ends my misery Phe. If you will yet confess we will have mercy Soph. Mercy on whom for what You are deceiv'd It is a thing not in thy power to give Mercy 's immortal and to humane eyes Is never seen till fleshly passion dies Phe. It seems then sir you do desire to die Soph. With full consent for life 's a loathsom vale of misery Phe. In which thou still shalt live thy life we give but doom thee to perpetual banishment we limit you no time therefore dispatch See that he instantly depart the Court Soph. Dost think I le stay by all our gods thy Crown and Kingdom shal not hire me to 't Tyrant fare vel if e're I do return cities that now stand shall be heaps of stone Exit Sophos Phe. This foggy Cloud disperst I hold it fit some poste to the Delphos to the Oracle to know what shall ensue these Thunderclaps that threaten such destraction we our self will see you furnisht for the Offering Whom shall we send Cleanthes No you two prepare for your departure presently What though he was our Brother 't is not fit mistrustful men should live within our Court what is 't to be a King and stand in aw Cor. and Flor. Those that intreat and may command with fear Are fitter to climb up than tarry here Exeunt omnes Enter Titterus and Radagon severally Tit. Stirring so early Partner then I see you 'l prove a wealthy shepherd watchfulness is the chief star within our Kalendar 't were vain to ask you how you affect this life your forwardness expresses that you like it Rad. Who can dislike a peaceful happiness Methinks I never proved a sweeter happiness in every corner here Content sits smiling the Mountain tops I make my Morning-walks the evening-shades my recreation and when Nights Queen puts on her gorgeous Robe I take delight to gaze upon the stars in which methinks I read Philosophy and by the Astronomical Aspects I search out Natures secrets the chief means for the preventing my Lambs prejudice I tell-you sir I finde in being a shepherd what many Kings want in their Royalties Tit. I joy in your content yet wonder sir you do frequent such melancholly Walks I have observ'd your passions many times and seen you sit sole companied with thought as if your passions were your Comforters I fear some foolish female has entrapt you Rad. Not any sir believe it that 's a thing I thank my stars I ne're did estimate Love that imparadizeth some to me Is hell it self if hell on earth there be Tit. Blest be the hour that e're I met with thee Not love a woman have I a second self Oh happy happy man not love a woman Rad. I do not yet assure you Tit. Nor ever do if you do love your self of all things in the world take heed of 'em I have a brother mad forsooth for Love But that I had a mother I could wish that there were no such things as women are We shall have such a hoyting here anon you 'l wonder at it 'T is Pan's Holiday the chiefest Festival the shepherds keep 't is held upon this Green Rad. I thought as much belike then that 's the cause Musick This place is so bedeckt and strowed with flowers Tit. The very same they come observe the custom Enter old Antimon and another old Shepherd after them two Shepherds to dance then the Clown with Garlands upon his Hook himself drest with Ribbons and Scarfs then Ariadne the Princess like a Shepherdess with Serena and two other Shepherdesses to dance Cease Musick Ant. Titterus well met you are the welcomest man I see to day the wenches were afraid you 'd not have come and then our Roundelays had all bin spoiled Tit. Sir you may thank this man pray bid him welcome he 's a stranger here Ant. What Countrey-man Rad. Scicillia gave me life on whose fair Promontories I have lived this many yeares
provided for Come sir take leave and part Exeunt they two Ariad. Good rest to both there is a fire kindled in my breast I have not felt a flame this twenty years betwixt these two I stand in a delemma not knowing which to fancy or forsake so equal my heart doth stand affected Enter Pheander agen and two Lords in ambush Phe. That 's she I le not be seen Ariad. I am resolved since from them both I am free'd thus I le conclude he that first speaks shall speed 1 Lord That 's I 2 Lord I Ariad. Help help 1 Lord It is in vain to call Ariad. Oh would this hour might be my Funeral Exeunt Enter Antimon and Clown Antimon brave antickly atired in brave Clothes Ant. A Glass a glass a glass I le trust my face no more in the fair water 't is not bright enough to show me in my smugness reach a glass Clo. A Looking-glass Ant A Looking-glass I say Clo. You shall sir presently there 's one stands under my bed Ant. Why that 's a Jorden fool Clo. So much the better father 't is but making water in 't and then you may behold your sweet Phisnomy in the cleer streams of the river Jordan Ant. I smell 't will be a match Clo. If you smell a match take heed of your nose for a little thing will set it a fire Ant. How sits my suit is it not spruce and neat Clo. A most impertinent suit I assure you Ant. She cannot chuse but love me now I 'm sure old Menophon nere courted in such clothes were it not best I should leave off some part of this my bravery lest appearing suddenly in this bright splendor the wenches overcome and ravisht with my sight fall at dissention and so go by 'th ears about me Clo. 'T was well remembred that in any case look you put off some of those glittering Weeds until you see your Mistriss all the Maids will be stark mad to see you do but mark when they behold you how they 'l fight for you you 'l hardly scape their fingers I 'm afraid Ant. I sayest thou so here do thou wear 'em then And give 'em me when Mariana comes Clo. Yes marry will I if you can overtake me I le court her first my self Father farewel Ant. Nay but Clo. I shoot at no such Butts Father farewel Ant. Oh villain slave I have sold half my Flocks To buy these Clothes and now am cheated Enter Titterus and Serena See if the Rogue has not sent company to laugh at me if Titterus should see me in this shape he would make a Ballad on 't I le after him and if I catch the Rascal I le say nothing Exit Ant. Tit. Yet Beauty of these fields be less obdure And stay his laboring brains of that great toyl In which it travels for thee Seren. Love a mad-man Tit. If he be mad 't is you have made him so Can you not fancy your own workmanship Will you not cure him whom you helpt to kill Serena Were his hurts made in the body I have helping herbs and such choice simples as should cure his wounds no shepherdess knows better than my self how to restore him But where that Herb or Science can ye finde That hath the vertue to restore the minde Tit. Minde he minded you too much the more fool he That man's mad that mindes any of you all For you are let me see Foolish idle toys that Nature gave unto us But to curb our joys and onely to undo us For since Lucretias fall there are none chaste at all Or if perchance there be one in an Empory Some other malady makes her far worse than she Out upon ye all I were too much to tell the follies that attend ye He must love you well that can but discommend ye For your deserts are such man cannot rayl too much Nor is the world so blinde but it may eas'ly finde The body or minde tainted in woman kinde Oh the devil take you all Ser. Have you now done Tit. Done 'Sfoot if I could finde words enough and bad enough I 'd rail at you all till tomorrow morning Ser. If ye should I le have the last word I have been silent yet vex me no more For if I once begin I le make thee mad too And send thy Wits a wool-gathering After thy brothers Enter Radagon and Eusanius Tit. What the devil are these women made of Do not think I would surcease my suit But for this interruption Rad. Is there no valley nor no mountains top Free from these Clamors You see we are intercepted But for these this should have been the place Eus. Let 's watch a fitter time and spie a place of more conveniency Rad. 'T is agreed All friends Eus. Till then Rad. Think you I meant otherwise Eus. No Rad. Well then Enter Antimon running after the Clown Clo. Oh father well overtaken Ant. 'T is well you are return'd sir I was coming I was e'en coming for you How now what are these Rad. Receive this stranger to your fellowship A partner and a brother that desires a life retired And if my genius prompts me not amiss He will deserve our Loves Tit. However sir to me he 's welcome Chiefly for your sake my love I tender Rad. Pray know this man this is the jovialest shepherd in all Thrace Eus. His Aspect speaks for him Sir I desire to be known Better to you and you fair Dame whose beauty adds more Lustre to these fields then all that summer Flora can produce Ser. And these plains much honored by your presence Ant. Receive a welcome too of Antimon Clo. And I his son Sir welcome good partner Nay good sir I crave less of your courtesie And more of your acquaintance Ant. Since we are met by chance so luckily Let us proceed unto our countries pastimes To give this courteous stranger entertain Clo. I good father Let 's not loose our sports in any case Ser. Whom shall we crave to call upon the Queen Rad. That office shall be mine stay my return Now if the Palmer do but keep his word I shall enjoy what I so long have wisht Enter a Shepherd wounded running Ha what sad object 's this How camest thou wounded Clo. Sure some sheep has bit him Rad. Speak how camest thou hurt Shep. In rescue of our Queen basely surprized Rad. Surprized by whom Shep. By Thrace his King who Pilgrim-like wrapt in a russet weed taking advantage when she was alone has with a private ambush stole her hence Rad. To the Court-gates let us pursue the Ravisher his Court and all the powers that he can raise shall not protect him Plague upon his craft Is this his skill in Physiognomy Worthy friend let me but call you so and let our strife be buried in our loves The Cause removed let the effect thus die and as our hands so let our hearts unite to take revenge on this injurious king Eus. Sir what