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A59990
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The politician, a tragedy written by James Shirley.
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Shirley, James, 1596-1666.
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1655
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Wing S3482; ESTC R19495
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run our heads into their noose You give away your safty Pr. I will not Dispute my power let my intreat prevaile For their dismission Ol. You may dismiss Your head and mine and be laugh'd at these men Are honest and dare fight for us Pr. I know Their loves and will rewait dear dear Uncle Go. How he prepares his Tragedy Aquinus Let not thy hand shake Aqu. I am resolute Go. And I for thy reward 't is done the souldiers Disperse already Ol. If any mischiefe follow this Thank your credulitie Pr. May I now hope for access Ki. Descend Gotharus and Aquinus To meet the Prince while he containes within The piety of a Son we shall imbrace him Pr. When I degenerate let me be accurst By heaven and you Ol. Are you not pale to think on 't Pr. It puzzels me to think my father guilty Ol. I do not like things yet As the Prince is going forth a Pistoll is discharged within he falls Pr. O I am shot I am murder'd Ol. Inhumane Traytor villaine Olaus wounds Aquinus Go. So so his frend has saved my execution 'T is not safe for me to stay they are both sped rarely Exit Ol. O my dear Cousin treason treason Ki. Where Ol. In thy own bosome thou hast kil'd thy Sonne Convey his body guard it safe and this Perfidious trunke I 'le have it punish't Past death and scatter his torn flesh about The world to affright mankind thou art A murthdrer no blood of mine Go. 'T is done And all the guilt dyes with Aquinus falne By Olaus sword most happily who but Prevented mine this act concludes all feare Ki. He was my sonne I must needs drop a teare Exeunt Haraldus discovered sicke Queen Doctors Qu. It is not possible heâ—â—â—â—ch a feavor By excess of wine he was all temperance Do. He had a soft and tender constitution Apt to be inflam'd they that are most abstemious Feel the disorder with more violence Qu. Where who assisted him in this mis-fortune He had some company Do. He was invited He sayes by Sueno and Helga to a banquet Where in their mirth they careless of his health Suffered him drink too much Qu. They poyson'd him Go apprehend the murtherers of my child If he recover not their death shall wait Upon Haraldus but pray you tell me Gentlemen Is there no hope of life have you not art Enough to cure a feavor Do. We find Madam His disease more malignant by some thought Or apprehensions of griefe Qu. What griefe Y' are all impostors and are Ignorant But how to kill Ha. Is not my mother come Qu. Yes my deare sonne and here shall weep my selfe Till I turne Niobe unlesse thou givest me Some hope of thy own life Ha. I would say something Were you alone Qu. Leave us now my Haraldus How is it with my child Hal. I know you love me Yet I must tell you truth I cannot live And let this comfort you death will not come Unwelcome to your sonne I do not dye Against my will and having my desires You have less cause to mourne Qu. What is 't has made The thought of life unpleasant which does court Thy dwelling here with all delights that nature And art can study for thee rich in all things Thy wish can be ambitious of yet all These treasures nothing to thy mothers love Which to enjoy thee would defer a while Her thought of going to heaven Ha. Oh take heed mother heaven Has a spatious eare and power to punish Your too much love with my eternal absence I begge your prayers and blessing Qu. Th' art dejected Have but a will and live Ha. 'T is in vaine mother Qu. Sinke with a feavour into earth Look up thou shalt not dye Ha. I have a wound within You do not see more killing then all feavors Qu. A wound where who has murder'd thee Ha. Gotharus Qu. Ha! furies persecute him Ha Oh pray for him 'T is my duty though he gave me death He is my father Qu. How thy father Ha. He told me so and with that breath destroy'd me I felt it strike upon my spirits mother Would I had neer been born Qu. Believe him not Ha. Oh do not add another sinne to what Is done already death is charitable To quit me from the scorn of all the world Qu. By all my hopes Gotharus has abus'd thee Thou art the lawful burden of my wombe Thy father Altomarus Ha. Ha Qu. Before whose spirit long since taken up To meet with Saints and Troops Angelicall I dare agen repeat thou art his Sonne Ha. Ten thousand blessings now reward my mother Speake it againe and I may live a stream Of pious joy runnes through me to my soule Y 'ave stroke a harmony next that in heaven Can you without a blush call me your Child And sonne of Altomarus all that 's holy Dwell in your blood for ever speak it once But once agen Qu. Were it my latest breath Thou art his and mine Enough my tears do flow To give you thanks for 't I would you could resolve me But one truth more why did my Lord Gotharus Call me the issue of his blood Qu Alas he thinks thou art Ha. What are those words I am undone Agen Qu. Ha Ha. 'T is too late to call 'em back he thinks I am his son Qu. I have confess'd too much and tremble with The imagination forgive me child And heaven if there be mercy to a crime So black as I must now to quit thy fears Say I have been guilty off we have been sinful And I was not unwilling to oblige His active braine for thy advancement by Abusing his beliefe thou wer 't his own But thou hast no such staine thy birth is innocent Or may I perish ever 't is a strange Confession to a child but it may drop A balsome to thy wound live my Haraldus If not for this to see my penitence And with what tears I 'le wash away my sinne Ha. I am no bastard then Qu. Thou art not Ha. But I am not found while you are lost No time can restore you My spirits faint Qu. Will nothing comfort thee Ha. My duty to the King Qu. He 's here Enter King Ki. How is 't Haraldus Death sits in 's face Ha. Give me you blessing and within my heart I le pray you may have many my soul flyes 'Bove this vain world good Mother close mine eyes Qu. Never dyed so much sweetnesse in his years Ki. Be comforted I have lost my sonne too The Prince is slaine how now Enter officers with Helga Qu. Justice upon the murderer of my sonne This villaine Helga and his companion Sueno have kil'd him where 's the other Offi. Fled Madam But Helga does confesse he made him drunk He. But not dead drunk I do beseech you Madam Ki. Look here what your base surfet has destroy'd He. 'T was Sueno as well as I my Lord Gotharus Gave us commission for what we did Qu. Again