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A67349	The second part of Mr. Waller's poems Containing, his alteration of The maids tragedy, and whatever of his is yet unprinted: together with some other poems, speeches, &c. that were printed severally, and never put into the first collection of his poems.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687. Maid's tragedy. aut	1690 (1690)	Wing W521A; ESTC R219928	35,197	139

or more unjustly No! Justice from hence long since is gone And reigns where I shall be anon Like Slaves redeem'd Death sets us free From Passion and from Injury The Living chain'd to Fortunes Wheel In Triumph led her changes feel And Conquerors kept Poysons by Prepar'd for her Inconstancy Bays against Thunder might defend their Brow But against Love and Fortune here 's the Bow Here she puts some of the Berries to her mouth Enter Amintor in haste strikes the Berries out of her hand and snatches the Bough Am. Rash Maid forbear and lay those Berries by Or give them him that has deserv'd to dye Asp. What double Cruelty is this Would you That made me wretched keep me always so Evadne has you let Aspasia have The common refuge of a quiet grave If you have kindness left there see me laid To bury decently the injur'd Maid Is all the favour that you can bestow Or I receive Pray render me my Bough Am. No less than you was your Amintor wrong'd The false Evadne to the King belong'd You had my promise and my Bed is free I may be yours if you can pardon me Asp. Your Vows to her were in the Temple paid The sacred Altar Witness'd what you said Am. The pow'rs above are to no place confin'd But every where hear promises that bind The Heav'n the Air Earth and the boundless Sea Make but one Temple for the Deity That was a Witness to my former Vow None can Amintor justly claim but you Who gives himself away the second time Creates no title but commits a Crime Asp. I could have dy'd but once but this believ'd I may alas be more than once deceiv'd By what new Gods Amintor will you swear Am. By the same Gods that have been so severe By the same Gods the justice of whose Wrath. Punish'd the infraction of my former faith May every Lady an Evadne prove That shall divert me from Aspasia's Love Asp. If ever you should prove inconstant now I shall remember where these Berries grow Am. My Love was always constant but the King Melantius friendship and that fatal thing Ambition me on proud Evadne threw And made me cruel to my self and you But if you still distrust my faith I vow Here in your presence I 'll devour the Bough Asp. Snatching the Bough from him Rash Man forbear if not restrain'd by doubt From my stretcht heart my Spirits would fly out But for the mixture of some unbelief My Joy had been as fatal as my Grief The sudden news of unexpected bliss Would yet have made a Tragedy of this Secure of my Amintor still I fear Evadne's mighty friend the King Am. He 's here Enter the King and his Brother to them King turning to his Brother How shall I look upon that noble Youth So full of Patience Loyalty and Truth The fair Aspasia I have injur'd too The guilty author of their double woe My passion gone and reason in the Throne Amaz'd I see the mischiefs I have done After a Tempest when the Winds are laid The calm Sea wonders at the wrecks it made Am. Men wrong'd by Kings impute it to their sate And Royal kindness never comes too late So when Heav'n frowns we think our anger vain Joyful and thankful when it smiles again Taking Aspasia by the hand This knot you broke be pleas'd again to bind And we shall both forget you were unkind King May you be happy and your sorrows past Set off those Joys I wish may ever last But Madam make not that fair fruit your food It is the greatest Poyson in the Wood. Am. She knows it Sir yet had not I made haste Upon these Berries she had broke her fast K. Read this Am. Evadne with the Vestals Now You 'll have no more occasion for this Bough Enter a Messenger from Melantius applying himself to the King Mess. Melantius Sir has let the people know How just you are and how he 's grac'd by you The Town 's appeas'd and all the air does ring With repititions of Long live the King Luc. Sir let us to the Sacred Temple go That you are safe our Joy and Thanks to shew King Of all we offer to the Pow'rs above The sweetest Incense is fraternal Love Like the rich Clouds that rise from melted Gums It spreads it self and the whole Isle perfumes For such a Brother to th' Immortal Gods More thanks I owe than for the Crown of Rhodes EPILOGUE Spoken by the King THE fierce Melantius was content you see The King should live be not more fierce than he Too long indulgent to so rude a Time When Love was held so capital a Crime That a Crown'd Head could no compassion find But dy'd because the Killer had been kind Nor is 't less strange such mighty Wits as those Should use a Style in Tragedy like Prose Well sounding Verse where Princes tread the Stage Should speak their Vertue or describe their rage By the lowd Trumpet which our Courage aids We learn that sound as well as sense perswades And Verses are the potent charms we use Heroic Thoughts and Vertue to infuse When next we act this Tragedy again Vnless you like the Change we shall be slain The innocent Aspasia's Life or Death Amintor's too depends upon your breath Excess of Love was heretofore the cause Now if we dye 't is want of your applause EPILOGUE Design'd upon the first alteration of the Play when the King only was left alive ASpasia bleeding on the Stage does lye To shew you still 't is the Maids Tragedy The fierce Melantius c. as before to the Killer had been kind This better natur'd Poet had repriev'd Gentle Amintor too had he believ'd The fairer Sex his pardon could approve Who to Ambition sacrific'd his Love Aspasia he had spar'd but for her Wound Neglected Love there could no Salve be found When next we act this Tragedy again Unless you like the change I must be slain Excess of Love was heretofore the Cause Now if I dye 't is want of your Applause Some Verses that seem to be a part of the foregoing Play NO Forrest Cave nor Savage Den Holds more pernicious Beasts than Men. Vows Oaths and Contracts they devise And tell us they are Sacred Tyes And so they are in our esteem But empty Names despis'd by them Women with studied Arts they vex Ye Gods destroy that impious Sex And if there must be some t' invoke Your Pow'rs and make your Altars smoke Come down your selves and in their place Get a more just and nobler Race Such as the old World did adorn When Heroes like your selves were born But this I wish not for Aspasia's sake For she no God would for Amintor take Epitaph on the Lady Sidly HEre lyes the learned Savil's Heir So early wise and lasting fair That none except her years they told Thought her a Child or thought her old All that her Father knew or got His Art his Wealth fell to her Lot And

Legacy to Britain left The Ocean which so long our hopes consin'd Could give no limits to his vaster mind Our bounds enlargement was his latest toil Nor hath he left us Prisoners to our Isle Under the Tropick is our Language spoke And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our Yoke From Civil Broils he did us disingage Found Nobler Objects for our Martial Rage And with wise Conduct to his Country show'd Their ancient way of Conquering abroad Ungrateful then if we no tears allow To him that gave us Peace and Empire too Princes that fear'd him griev'd concern'd to see No pitch of Glory from the Grave is free Nature her self took notice of his Death And sighing swell'd the Sea with such a breath That to remotest Shores her Billows rowl'd Th' approaching Fate of her great Ruler told To Chloris The two following Copies are in the Edition Printed 1645. CHloris what 's eminent we know Must for some cause be valued so Things without use tho they be good Are not by us so understood The early Rose made to display Her blushes to the youthful May Doth yield her sweets since he is fair And Courts her with a gentle Ayre Our Stars do shew their Excellence Not by their Light but Influence When brighter Comets since still known Fatal to all are lik'd by none So your admired Beauty still Is by effects made good or ill Madam AS in some Climes the warmer Sun Makes it full Summer e're the Spring 's begun And with ripe fruit the bending boughs can load Before the Violets dare look abroad So measure not by any common use The early love your brighter eyes produce When lately your fair hand in Womans weed Wrapt my glad head I wish'd me so indeed That hasty time might never make me grow Out of those favours you afford me now That I might ever such Indulgence find And you not blush or think your self too kind Who now I fear while I these joys express Begin to think how you may make them less The sound of Love makes your soft Heart affraid And guard it self though but a Child invade And innocently at your white Breast throw A Dart as white a Ball of new faln Snow An Epigram On a Painted Lady with ill Teeth WEre Men so dull they could not see That Lyce Painted should they flee Like simple Birds into a Net So grosly woven and Ill set Her own Teeth would undo the knot And let all go that she had got Those Teeth fair Lyce must not show If she would bite her Lovers though Like Birds they stoop at seeming Grapes Are disabus'd when first she gapes The rotten bones discover'd there Show 't is a Painted Sepulcher To my Lady MADAM YOur Commands for the gathering of these sticks into a Faggot had sooner been obeyed but intending to present you with my whole Vintage I stayed till the latest Grapes were ripe for here your Ladiship hath not only all I have done but all I ever mean to do in this kind Not but that I may defend the attempt I have made upon Poetry by the examples not to trouble you with History of many Wise and Worthy Persons of our own times As Sir Philip Sidney Sir Fra. Bacon Cardinal Perron the ablest of his Country-men and the former Pope who they say instead of the triple Crown wore sometimes the Poets Ivy as an Ornament perhaps of lesser weight and trouble But Madam these Nightingals sing only in the Spring it was the diversion of their Youth As Ladies learn to Sing and Play when they are Children what they forget when they are Women The resemblance holds further for as you quit the Lute the sooner because the posture is suspected to draw the body awry so this is not always practised without some Villany to the mind wresting it from present occasions and accustoming us to a Still somewhat removed from common use But that you may not think his case deplorable who had made Verses we are told that Tully the greatest Wit among the Romans was once sick of this Disease and yet recover'd so well that of almost as bad a Poet as your Servant he became the most perfect Orator in the World So that not so much to have made Verses as not to give over in time leaves a man without excuse the former presenting us with an opportunity at least of doing Wisely that is to conceal those we have made which I shall yet do if my humble request may be of as much force with your Ladiship as your Commands have been with me Madam I only whisper these in your ears if you publish them they are your own and therefore as you apprehend the reproach of a Wit and a Poet cast them into the fire or if they come where green Boughs are in the Chimney with the help of your fair Friends for thus bound it will be too hard a task for your hands alone to tear them in pieces wherein you shall honour me with the fate of Orpheus for so his Poems whereof we only hear the form not his limbs as the Story will have it I suppose were scattered by the Thracian Dames Here Madam I might take an opportunity to Celebrate your Vertues and to instruct you how Vnhappy you are in that you know not who you are how much you excel the most excellent of your own And how much you amaze the least inclined to wonder of your Sex But as they will be apt to take your Ladiship for a Roman Name so would they believe that I endeavoured the Character of a perfect Nymph Worshipp'd an Image of my own making and Dedicated this to the Lady of the Brain not of the Heart of your Ladiships most humble Servant E. W. Mr. Wallers Speech in Parliament 1641. about Innovations in Doctrine and Discipline c. WE shall make it appear the Errors of Divines who would that a Monarch can be absolute and that he can do all things ad libitum receding not only from their Text though that be wandring too but from the way their own Profession might teach them Stare super vias antiquas and remove not the ancient bounds and Landmarks which our Fathers have set If to be Absolute were to be restrained by no Laws then can no King in Christendom be so for they all stand obliged to the Laws Christian and we ask no more for to this Pillar be our Priviledges fixt our Kings at their Coronation having taken a Sacred Oath not to Infringe them I am sorry these men take no more care for the informing of our Faith of these things which they tell us for our Souls Health whilst we know them so manifestly in the wrong way in that which concerns the Liberties and Priviledges of the Subjects of England They gain Preferment and then it is no matter though they neither believe themselves nor are believed by others but since they are so ready to let loose the Conscience of our Kings we are the

this In this very Parliament you have not been without some taste of the experience hereof it is now somewhat more than two years since you had an Army in the North paid and directed by your selves and yet you may be pleased to remember there was a considerable number of Officers in that Army which joyned in a Petition or Remonstrance to this House taking notice of what some of the Members had said here as they supposed to their disadvantage and did little less than require them of you 't is true there had been some tampering with them but what has happened at one time may wisely thought possible to fall out again at another Sir I presume but to point you out the danger if it be not just I know you will not do me the wrong to expose me to this tryal if it be just your Army may another time require the same Justice of you in their own behalf against some other Member whom perhaps you would be less willing to part with Necessity has of late forced you into untrodden Paths and in such a Case as this where you have no President of your own you may not do amiss to look abroad upon other States and Senates which exercise the supream Power as you now do here I dare confidently say you shall find none either Antient or Modern which ever exposed any of their own order to be Tryed for his Life by the Officers of their Armies abroad for what he did while he resided among them in the Senate Among the Romans the practice was so contrary that some Inferiour Officers in the Army far from the City having been Sentenced by their General or Commander in chief as deserving Death by their Discipline of War have nevertheless because they were Senators Appealed thither and the Cause has received a new hearing in the Senate Not to use more Words to perswade you to take heed that you Wound not your selves thorough my sides in violating the Priviledges belonging to your own Persons I shall humbly desire you to consider likewise the Nature of my offence not but that I should be much ashamed to say any thing in diminution thereof God knows 't is Horrid enough for the Evil it might have occasiooed but if you look near it it may perhaps appear to be rather a Civil than a Martial Crime and so to have Title to a Trial at the Common Law of the Land there may justly be some difference put between me and others in this business I have had nothing to do with the other Army or any intention to begin the offer of violence to any body It was only a Civil pretence to that which I then Foolishly conceived to be the right of the Subject I humbly refer it to your considerations and to your Consciences I know you will take care not to shed the Blood of War in Peace that Blood by the Law of War which hath a right to be Tryed by the Law of Peace For so much as concerns my self and my part in this business if I were worthy to have any thing spoken or patiently heard in my behalf this might truly be said that I made not this business but found it it was in other mens hands long before it was brought to me and when it came I extended it not but restrained it For the Propositions of letting in part of the Kings Army or offering violence to the Members oi this House I ever disallowed and utterly rejected them What it was that moved me to entertain discourse of this business so far as I did I will tell you ingenuously and that rather as a warning for others than that it make any thing for my self it was only an impatience of the inconveniences of the present War looking on things with a carnal eye and not minding that which chiefly if not only ought to have been considered the inestimable value of the Cause you have in hand the Cause of God and of Religion and the necessities you are forced upon for the maintenance of the same as a just punishment for this neglect it pleased God to desert and suffer me with a fatal blindness to be led on and ingaged in such Councils as were wholly disproportioned to the rest of my life this Sir my own Conscience tells me was the cause of my failing and not malice or any ill habit of mind or disposition toward the Common-wealth or to the Parliament For from whence should I have it If you look on my Birth you will not find it in my Blood I am of a Stock which hath Born you better Fruit If you look on my Education it hath been almost from my Child-hood in this House and among the best sort of Men and for the whole Practice of my Life till this time if another were to speak for me he might reasonably say that neither my Actions out of Parliament nor in my Expressions in it have savoured of Dis-affection or Malice to the Liberties of the People or Priviledges of Parliament Thus Sir I have set before your Eyes both my Person and my Case wherein I shall make no such Defence by denying or Extenuating any thing I have done as ordinary Delinquents do my Address to you and all my Plea shall only be such as Children use to their Parents I have offended I confess it I never did any thing like it before it is a passage unsuitable to the whole Course of my Life beside and for the time to come as God that can bring Light out of Darkness hath made this business in the event useful to you so also hath he to me You have by it made an happy discovery of your Enemies and of my self and the Evil Principles I walk'd by so that if you look either on what I have been heretofore or what I now am and by Gods grace assisting me shall always continue to be you may perhaps think me fit to be an Example of your Compassion and Clemency Sir I shall no sooner leave you but my Life will depend on your Breath and not that alone but the subsistence of some that are more Innocent I might therefore shew you my Children whom the rigour of your Justice would make compleat Orphans being already Motherless I might shew you a Family wherein there are some unworthy to have their share in that mark of Infamy which now threatens us But something there is which if I could shew you would move you more than all this it is my Heart which abhors what I have done more and is more severe to it self than the severest Judge can be A Heart Mr. Speaker so awakned by this Affliction and so intirely devoted to the Cause you maintain that I earnestly desire of God to incline to you so to dispose of me whether for Life or for Death as may most conduce to the Advancement thereof Sir not to trouble you any longer if I Dye I shall Dye Praying for you if I Live I shall Live serving you and render you back the use and Imployment of all those Days you shall add to my Life After this having withdrawn himself he was called in again and being by the Speaker required thereto gave them an exact account how he came first to the knowledge of this business as also what Lords were acquainted therewith or had ingaged themselves therein FINIS The Epitaph on Mr. WALLER'S Monument in Beconsfield Church-yard in Buckinghamshire written by Mr. Rymer late Historiographer-Royal On the WEST-END EDMUNDI WALLER HIC JACET ID QUANTUM MORTI CESSIT QUI INTER POETAS SUI TEMPORIS FACILE PRINCEPS LAUREAM QUAM MERUIT ADOLESCENS OCTOGENARIUS HAUD ABDICAVIT HUIC DEBET PATRIA LINGUA QUOD CREDAS SI GRAECÈ LATINÈQUE INTERMITTERENT MUSAE LOQUI AMARENT ANGLICÈ On the SOUTH-SIDE HEUS VIATOR TUMULATUM VIDES EDMUNDUM WALLER QUI TANTI NOMINIS POETA ET IDEM AVITIS OPIBUS INTER PRIMOS SPECTABILIS MUSIS SE DEDIT ET PATRIAE NONDUM OCTODECENALIS INTER ARDUA REGNI TRACTANTES SEDEM HABUIT À BURGO DE AGMONDESHAM MISSUS HIC VITAE CURSUS NEC ONERI DEFUIT SENEX VIXITQUE SEMPER POPULO CHARUS PRINCIPIBUS IN DELICIIS ADMIRATIONI OMNIBUS HIC CONDITUR TUMULO SUB EODEM RARA VIRTUTE ET MULTA PROLE NOBILIS UXOR MARIA EX BRESSYORUM FAMILIA CUM EDMUNDO WALLER CONJUGE CHARISSIMO QUEM TER ET DECIES LAETUM FECIT PATREM V FILIIS FILIABUS VIII QUOS MUNDO DEDIT ET IN COELUM REDIIT On the EAST-END EDMUNDUS WALLER CUI HOC MARMOR SACRUM EST COLESHILL NASCENDI LOCUM HABUIT CANTABRIGIAM STUDENDI PATREM ROBERTUM ET EX HAMPDENA STIRPE MATREM COEPIT VIVERE III o MARTII A. D. MDCV. PRIMA UXOR ANNA EDWARDI BANKS FILIA UNICA HAERES EX PRIMA BIS PATER FACTUS EX SECUNDA TREDECIES CUI ET DUO LUSTRA SUPERSTES OBIIT XXI OCTOB A. D. MDC LXXXVII On the NORTH-SIDE HOC MARMORE EDMUNDO WALLER MARIAEQUE EX SECUNDIS NUPTIIS CONJUGI PIENTISSIMIS PARENTIBUS PIISSIMÈ PARENTAVIT EDMUNDUS FILIUS HONORES BENE-MERENTIBUS EXTREMOS DEDIT QUOS IPSE FUGIT E L.W.I.F. H.G. EX TESTAMENTO H. M. P. IN JUL. MDCC