a Lover dye it grieves Although 't is in worse language that he lives Will like't w are confident since here will bee That your Sex ever lik'd varietie Prologue to the Court. T Is strange perchance you 'll thinke that she that di ' dâ— At Christmas should at Easter be a Bride But 't is a privilege the Poets have To take the long-since dead out of the grave Nor is this all old Heroes a sleepe 'Twixt marble coverlets and six foot deepâ— In earth they boldly wake and make them doe All they did living here sometimes more too They give fresh life reverse and alter Fate And yet more bold Almightie-like create And out of nothing onely to deifie Reason and Reasons friend Philosophie Fame honour valour all that 's great or good Or is at least ' mongst us so understood They give heav'ns theirs no handsome woman dies But if they please is strait some star i' th' skies But oh How those poore men of Meetre doe Flatter themselves with that that is not true And ' cause they can trim up a little prose And spoile it handsomly vainly suppose Th' are Omnipotent can doe all those things That can be done onely by Gods and Kings Of this wild guilt hee faine would bee thought free That writ this Play and therefore Sir by mee Hee humbly begs you would be pleas'd to know Aglaura's but repriev'd this night and though Shee now appeares upon a Poets call Shee 's not to live unlesse you say shee shall ACTUS V. SCENA I. Enter Ziriff Pasithas and Guard hee places 'em and Exit A State set out Enter Ziriff Jolas Ariaspes Iol. A Glorious night Ari. Pray Heav'n it prove so Are wee not there yet Zir. 'T is about this hollow They Enter the Cave Ari. How now what region are we got into Th'enheritance of night Have wee not mistaken a turning Ziriff And stept into the confines of some melancholy Devils Territorie Iol. Sure 't is a part of the first Chaos That would not suffer any change Zir. No matter Sir 't is as proper for our Purpose as the Lobbie for the waiting womans Stay you here I 'le move a little backward And so we shall be sure to put him past Retreat you know the word if it be the prince Ziriff goes to the doore Enter King Ziriff Here Sir follow me alâ—'s quiet yet King Is hee not come then Zir. No. King Where 's Ariaspes Zir. Waiting within Iol. I do not like this waiting Nor this fellowes leaving of us Ari. This place does put odd thoughts into thee Then thou art in thine owne nature too As jealous as Love or Honour weare thy sword In readinesse and thinke how neere we are a Crowne Zir. Revenge Guard seiseth on 'em King Ha! what 's this Zir. Bring them forth Brings them forth Ari. The King Zir. Yes and the Princes friend Discovers himselfe D' you know this face King Zorannes Zor The very same The wrong'd Zorannes King D you stare Away with them where I appointed King Tâ—aytours let mee goe Villaine thou dar'st not doe this Zor Poore Counterfeit How faine thou now would'st act a King and art not Stay you to Ariaspes Unhand him Whispers Leave us now Exeunt Manet Ariasp Zoran Ari. What does this meane Sure hee does intend the Crowne to mee Zor Wee are alone Follow mee out of the wood and thou shalt be Master of this againe And then best aâ—me and title take it Ari. Thy offer is so noble in gratitude Icannot But propound gentler conditions Wee will divide the Empire Zor Now by my fathers soule I doe almost repent my first intents And now could kill thee scurvily for thinking If I had a minde to rule I would not rule alone Let not thy easie faith lost man Foole thee into so dull an heresie Orbella is our quarrell I have thought it fit That love should have a nobler way of Justice Than Revenge or Treason If thou dar'st die handsomly follow me Ex. And enter both agen Zor There Gives him his sword Ari. Extremely good Nature tooke paines I sweare The villaine and the brave are mingled handsomely Zir. 'T was Fate that tooke it when it decreed Wee two should meet nor shall they mingle now Wee are but brought together strait to part Fight Ari. Some Devill sure has borrowed this shape My sword ne're staid thus long to finde an entrance Zir. To guiltie men all that appeare is Devill Come trifler come Fight Ari. Dog thou hast it Zir. Why then it seemes my star's as great as his Ariaspes pants and runs at him to catch his sword I smile at thee Thou now would'st have me kill thee And 't is a courtesie I cannot afford thee I have bethought my selfe there will be use Of thee Pasithas to the rest with him Exit Enter Pasithas and two of the Guard Exeunt Enter Thersames Ther. The Dog-star's got up high it should be late And sure by this time every waking eare And watchfull eye is charm'd and yet mee thought A noyse of weapons struck my eare just now 'T was but my Fancie sure and were it more I would not tread one step that did not lead To my Aglaura stood all his Guard betwixt With lightning in their hands Danger thou Dwarfe drest up in Giants clothes That shew'st far off still greater than thou art Goe terrifie the simple and the guiltie such As with false Opticks still doe looke upon thee But fright not Lovers wee dare looke on thee In thy worst shapes and meet thee in them too Stay these trees I made my marke t is hereabouts Love guide mee but right this night And Lovers shall restore thee back againe Those eyes the Poets tooke so boldly from thee Exit A Taper Table out Enter Aglaura with a Torch in one hand a Dagger in the other Agl. How ill this does become this hand much worse This suits with this one of the two should goe The shee within mee sayes it must be this Honor sayes this and honour is Thersames friend What is that shee then is it not a thing That sets a Price not upon me but on Life in my name leading me into doubt Which when 'tas done it cannot light me out For feare does drive to Fate or Fate if wee Doe flie oretakes and holds us till or death Or infamie or both doe seize us Puts out the light Ha! would 't were in agen Antiques strange mishapes Such as the Porter to my Soule mine Eye Was ne're acquainted with Fancie lets in Like a disrouted multitude by some strange accident Piec'd together feare now afresh comes on And charges Love too home Hee comes he comes A little noyse below Woman if thou would'st be the Subject Of mans wonder Not his scorne hereafter Now shew thy selfe Enter Thersames from the vault she stabs him as hee riseth Ther. Unkindly done Agl. The Princes voyce defend it Goodnesse Ther. What art thou that thus poorely Hast destroy'd a life
good But so as 't made his sins the greater for 't Those ills which singly acted bred despaire In others he acted daily and ne're thought Upon them The grievance each particular has against him I will not meddle with it were to give him A long life to give them hearing I 'le onely speake my owne First then the hopes of all my youth And a reward which Heaven had settled on me If holy contracts can doe any thing He ravisht from me kill'd my father Aglaura's father Sir would have whor'd my sister And murther'd my friend this is all And now your sentence Sir Ther. We have no punishment can reach these crimes Therefore 't is justest sure to send him where Th' are wittier to punish than we are here And cause repentance oft stops that proceeding A sudden death is sure the greatest punishment Zor I humbly thanke you Sir King What a strange glasse th have shew'd me now my selfe In our sins like to our shadowes When our day is in its glorie scarce appear'd Towards our evening how great and monstrous They are Zor Is this all you have to say Drawes Ther. Hold now goe you up Zor What meane you Sir Ther. Nay I denyed not you That all thy accusations are just I must acknowledge And to these crimes I have but this t' oppose Hee is my Father and thy Soveraigne 'T is wickednesse deare Friend wee goe about to punish and when w'have murther'd him What difference is there 'twixt him and Our selves but that hee first was wicked Thou now would'st kill him ' cause he kill'd thy Father And when th' hast kill'd have not I the selfe same Quarrell Zor Why Sir you know you would your selfe Have done it Ther. True and therefore 't is I beg his life There was no way for mee to have Redeem'd th' intent but by a reall Saving of it â—e ready Courtiers and Guard with their swords drawne at the brests of the Prisoners If he did ravish from thee thy Orbella Remember that that wicked issue had A noble parent Love Remember How he lov'd Zorannes when he was Ziriff Ther 's something due to that If you must needs have bloud for your revenge Take it here despise it not Zorannes Zorannes turnes away The gods themselves whose greatnesse Makes the greatnesse of our sins And heightens'em above what wee can doe Unto each other accept of sacrifice For what wee doe ' gainst them Why should not you and 't is much thriftier too You cannot let out life there but my honour Goes and all the life you can take here Posterity will give mee back agen See Aglaura weepes That would have beene ill Rhetorique in mee But where it is it cannot but perswade Zor Th'have thaw'd the ice about my heart I know not what to doe King Come downe come downe I will be King agen There 's none so fit to be the Judge of this As I the life you shew'd such zeale to save I here could willingly returne you back But that 's the common price of all revenge Enter Guard Orsames Philan Courtiers Orithie Semanthe Jol. Ari. Ha ha ha how they looke now Zor Death what 's this Ther. Betray'd agen All th'ease our Fortune gives our miseries is hope And that still proving false growes part of it King From whence this Guard Ari. Why Sir I did corrupt while we were his prisoners One of his owne to raise the Court shallow soules That thought wee could not countermine Come Sir y' are in good posture to dispatch them King Lay hold upon his instrument Fond man do'st thinke I am in love with villany All the service they can doe mee here Is but to let these see the right I doe Them now is unconstrain'd then thus I doe proceed Upon the place Zorannes lost his life I vow to build a tomb and on that tomb I vow to pay three whole yeares penitence If in that time I finde that heaven and you Can pardon I shall finde agen the way To live amongst you Ther. Sir be not so cruell to your selfe this is an age King 'T is now irrevocable thy Fathers lands I give thee back agen and his commands And with them leave to weare the Tyara That man there has abus'd To you Orbella Who it seemes are foule as well as I I doe prescribe the selfe same physick I doe take my selfe But in another place and for a longer time Diana's Nunnerie Orb. Above my hopes King For you who still have beene The ready instrument of all my cruelties And there have cancell'd all the bonds of brother Perpetuall banishment nor should This line expire shall thy right have a place Ari. Hell and Furies Exit King Thy crimes deserve no lesse yet ' cause thou wert Heavens instrument to save my life Thou onely hast that time of banishment I have of penitence Comes down Ziriff offers to kisse the Kings hand Jol. May it be plague and famine here till I returne No thou shalt not yet forgive mee King Aglaura thus I freely part with thee And part with all fond flames and warme desires I cannot feare new agues in my bloud Since I have overcome the charmes Thy beauty had no other ever can Have so much power Thersames thou look'st pale Is 't want of rest Ther. No Sir but that 's a storie for your eare They whisper Ors A strange and happy change Ori. All joyes wait on you ever Agl. Orithie How for thy sake now could I wish Love were no Mathematick point But would admit division that Thersames might Though at my charge pay thee the debt he owes thee Ori. Madam I loved the Prince not my selfe Since his vertues have their full rewards I have my full desires King What miracles of preservation have wee had How wisely have the stars prepar'd you for felicitie Nothing endeares a good more than the contemplation Of the difficultie wee had to attaine to it But see Nights Empire 's out And a more glorious auspitiously does begin Let us goe serve the gods and then prepare For jollitie this day I le borrow from my vowes Nor shall it have a common celebration Since 't must be A high record to all posteritie Exeunt omnes Epilogue PLays are like Feasts and every Act should bee Another Course and still varietie But in good faith provision of wit Is growne of late so difficult to get That doe wee what wee can wee are not able Without cold meats to furnish out the Table Who knowes but it was needlesse too may bee 'T was here as in the Coach-mans trade and hee That turnes in the least compasse shewes most Art How e're the Poet hopes Sir for his part You 'll like not those so much who shew their skill In entertainment as who shew their will FINIS THE GOBLINS A Comedy Presented at the Private House in Black-Fryers by His Majesties servants WRITTEN By Sir JOHN SUCKLING LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his
my Lord And were they all lockt up you are a spye Once entred in my chamber at strange houres Iphi. The vertue of Francelia is too safe To need those little arts of preservation Thus to divide our selves is to distrust our selves A Cherubin dispatches not on earth Th' affaires of heaven with greater innocence Then I will visit 't is but to take a leave I begg Franc. When you are going my Lord Exeunt Enter Almerin Morat Almer Pish Thou liest thou liest I know he playes with woman kind not loves it Thou art impertinent Mor. 'T is the campe talke my Lord though Al. The camp 's an asse let me hear no more on 't Exeunt Talking Enter Granivert Villanor Marinel Grani. And shall we have peace I am no sooner sober but the State is so too If 't be thy will a truce for a month only I long to refresh my eyes by this hand They have been so tyr'd with looking upon faces Of this country Villa And shall the Donazella To whom we wish so well-a Look Babies agen in our eyes-a Grani. Ah a sprightly girle above fifteen That melts when a man but takes her by the hand Eyes full and quick with breath Sweet as double violets And wholesome as dying leaves of Strawberries Thick silken eye-browes high upon the fore-head And cheeks mingled with pale streaks of red Such as the blushing morning never wore Villa Oh my chops my chops Grani. With narrow mouth small teeth And lips swelling as if she pouted Villa Hold hold hold Grani. Haire curling and cover'd like buds of Marioram Part tyed in negligence Part loosely flowing Marin Tyrant tyrant tyrant Grani. In pinck colour taffata petticoate Lac't smock-sleeves dangling This vision stolne from her own bed And rustling in ones chamber Villa Oh good Granivert good Granivert Grani. With a waxe candle in her hand Looking as if she had lost her way At twelve at night Marm. Oh any hower any hower Grani. Now I thinke on 't by this hand I le marry and be long liv'd Villa Long liv'd how Grain Oh he that has a Wife eats with an appetitâ— ' Has a very good stomacke to 't first This living at large is very destructive Variety is like rare sawces provokes too far And draws on surfets more then th' other Enter Doran Dor. So is this a time to foole in G. What 's the matter Dor. Draw out your choise men and away to Your Coronell immediately There 's worke Towards my boyes there 's worke Grain Art in earnest Dor. By this light Grain There 's something in that yet This moiety Warre Twilight Neither night nor day Pox upon it A storme is worth a thousand Of your calme There 's more variety in it Exeunt Enter Almerin Francelia as talking earnestly Alm. Madam that shewes the greatnes of my passion Fran. The imperfection rather Jealousie 's No better signe of love my Lord then feavers are Of Life they shew there is a Being though Impair'd and perishing and that affection But sicke and in disorder I like 't not Your servant Exit Al. So short and sowre the change is visible Enter Iphigene Iph. Deare Almerin welcome y' have been absent long Alm. Not very long Iph. To me it hath appeared so What sayes our Camp am I not blamed there Alm. They wonder Iph. While we smile How have you found the King inclining Alm. Well The Treaty is not broken nor holds it Things are where they were 'T has a kind of face of peace You my Lord may when you please returne Iph. I Almerin Alm. Yes my Lord I 'le give you an escape Iph. 'T is least in my desires Alm. Hum Iph. Such prisons are beyond all liberty Alm. Is 't possible Iph. Seemes it strange to you Alm. No not at all What you finde the Ladies kinde Iph. Civill smiles A. You make love well too they say my Lord. Iph. Passe my time Alm. Addresse unto Francelia Iph. Visit her Al. D' you know she is my Mistres Pallatine Iph. Ha Alm. D' you know she is my Mistresse Iph. I have been told so Alm. And doe you court her then Iph. Why smiles If I saw the enemy first Would you not charge Alm. He doe's allow it too by Heaven Laughs at me too thou filcher of a heart False as thy title to Francelia Or as thy friendship which with this I doe drawes Throw by draw Iph What doe you meane Alm. I see the cunning now of all thy love And why thou camest so tamely kinde Suffering surprise Draw Iph. I will not draw kill me And I shall have no trouble in my death Knowing 't is your pleasure As I shall ha ve no pleasure in my life Knowing it is your trouble Alm. Oh poor I lookt for this I knew th' wouldst find 't was easier to doe a wrong Then justifie it but Iphi. I will not fight heare me If I love you not more then I love her If I doe love her more then for your sake Heaven strangely punish me Alm. Take heed how thou dost play with heaven Iphi. By all that 's just and faire and good By all that you hold deare and men hold great I never had lascivious thought or ere Did action that might call in doubt my love To Almerin Alm. That tongue can charme me into any thing I doe beleev 't prethee be wiser then Give me no further cause of jealousie Hurt not mine honour more and I am well Iphi. But well Of all Our passions I wonder nature made The worst foule jealousie her favorite And if it be not so why took she care That every thing should give the monster Nourishment And left us nothing to destroy it with Alm. Prethee no more thou plead'st so cunningly I feare I shall be made the guilty And need thy pardon Iphi. If you could read my heart you would I will be gone to morrow if that will satisfie Indeed I shall not rest untill my innocence Be made as plain as objects to the sence Alm. Come You shall not goe I le think upon 't no more Distrusts ruine not friendship But build it fairer then it was before Exeunt Enter Brennoralt Captaines Stratheman Doran Bren. No more but ten from every company For many hands are theeves and rob the glory While they take their share how goes the night Stra. Halfe spent my Lord. We shall have straight The Moones weaker light Bren. 'T is time then call in the officers Friends if you were men that must be talkt Into a courage I had not chosen you Danger with its vizard oft before this time Y'have look'd upon and out-fac'd it too We are to doe the trick agen that 's all Here drawes his sword And yet we will not sweare For he that shrinks in such an action Is damn'd without the help of perjury Doran if from the virgin tow'r thou spiest A flame such as the East sends forth about The time the day should break goe tell the King I hold
things now we that live in London cannot help and they are as great news to men that sit in Boxes at Black-Fryars as the affairs of Love to Flannel-Weavers For my own part I think I have made a great complement when I have wisht my self with you and more then I dare make good in Winter and yet there is none would venture farther for such a happines then Your humble servant The Wine-drinkers to the Water-drinkers greeting WHereas by your Ambassador two daies since sent unto us we understand that you have lately had a plot to surprize or to speak more properly to take the waters and in it have not onely a little miscarryed but also met with such difficulties that unlesse you be speedily relieved you are like to suffer in the adventure We as well out of pitty to you as out of care to our State and Common-Wealth knowing that Women have ever been held necessary and that nothing relisheth so well after Wine have so far taken it into our consideration that we have neglected no means since we heard of it first that might be for your contents or the good of the cause and therefore to that purpose we have had divers meetings at the Bear at the Bridge-foot and now at length have resolv'd to dispatch to you one of our Cabinet-Councel Colonel Young with some slight Forces of Canary and some few of Sherry which no doubt will stand you in good steed if they do not mutiny and grow too head-strong for their Commander him Captain Puffe of Barton shall follow with all expedition with two or three Regiments of Claret Monsieur de Granville commonly called Lieutenant Strutt shall lead up the Reer of Rhenish and White These succors thus timely sent we are confident will be sufficient to hold the Enemy in Play and till we hear from you again we shall not think of a fresh supply For the Waters though perchance they have driven you into some extremities and divers times forc't their passages through some of your best guarded places yet have they if our intelligence fail us not hitherto had the worst of it still and evermore at length plainly run away from you Given under our hands at the Bear this fourth of July SInce Joy the thing we all so Court is but our hopes stript of our fears pardon me if I be still pressing at it and like those that are curious to know their fortunes aforehand desire to be satisfied though it displeases me afterward To this Gentleman who has as much in-sight as the t'other wanted Ey-sight I have committed the particulars which would too much swell a Letter if they shall not please you 't is but fresh subject still for Repentance nor ever did that make me quarrel with any thing but my owne starres To swear new oaths from this place were but to weaken the credit of those I have sworn in another if heaven be to forgive you now for not beleeving of them then as sure as it was a sin heaven forgive me now for swearing of them then for that was double sin More then I am I cannot be nor list Yours I. S. I am not so ill a Protestant as to beleeve in merit yet if you please to give answer under your owne hand such as I shall for ever rely upon if I have not deserv'd it already it is not impossible but I may To a Cosin who still loved young Girles and when they came to be mariageable quitted them and fell in love with fresh at his fathers request who desired he might be perswaded out of the humour and marry Honest Charles VVEre there not fooles enow before in the Common-Wealth of Lovers but that thou must bring up a new Sect Why delighted with the first knots of roses and when they come to blow can satisfie the sence and do the end of their Creation dost not care for them Is there nothing in this foolish transitory world that thou canst find out to set thy heart upon but that which has newly left off making of dirt-pyes and is but preparing it self for loam and a green sicknes Seriously Charles and without ceremony 't is very foolish and to love widdows is as tolerable an humour and as justifiable as thine for beasts that have been ridd of their legges are as much for a mans use as Colts that are un-way'd and will not go at all Why the divel such yong things before these understand what thou wouldst have others would have granted Thou dost not marry them neither nor any thing else 'Sfoot it is the story of the Jack-an-apes and the Partridges thou starest after a beauty till it is lost to thee then let'st out another and starest after that till it is gone too Never considering that it is here as in the Thames and that while it runs up in the middle it runnes down on the sides while thou contemplat'st the comming-in-tide and flow of Beauty that it ebbes with thee and that thy youth goes out at the same time After all this too She thou now art cast upon will have much ado to avoid being ugly Pox on 't Men will say thou wert benighted and wert glad of any Inne Well! Charles there is another way if you could find it out Women are like Melons too green or too ripe are worth nothing you must try till you find a right one Tast all but hark you Charles you shall not need to eat of all for one is sufficient for a surfet Your most humble servant I should have perswaded you to marriage but to deal ingeniously I am a little out of arguments that way at this present 'T is honourable there 's no question on 't but what more in good faith I cannot readily tell Madam TO tell you that neither my misfortunes nor my sins did draw from me ever so many sighs as my departure from you has done and that there are yet tears in mine eyes left undryed for it or that melancholy has so deeply seized me that colds and diseases hereafter shall not need above half their force to destroy me would be I know superfluous and vain since so great a goodnesse as yours cannot but have out-beleeved already what I can write He never knew you that will not think the losse of your Company greater then the Imperialists can all this time the losse of all their Companies and he shall never know you that can think it greater then I who though I never had neither wisdom nor wit enough to admire you to your worth yet had my Judgement ever so much right in it as to admire you above all And thus he saies that dares swear he is Your most devoted servant Madam THe distrust I have had of not being able to write to you any thing which might pay the charge of reading has perswaded me to forbear kissing your hands at this distance So like Women that grow proud because they are chaste I thought I might
the Court Things thus unsetled if you please to have Orb. Where 's Ariaspes Zir. In 's dead sleepe by this time sure Orb. I know he is not find him instantly Zir. I 'm gone Turnes back againe But Madam why make you choyce of him from whom If the succession meet disturbance All must come of danger Orb. My Lord I am not yet so wise as to be Jealous Pray dispute no further Zir. Pardon me Madam if before I goe I must unlock a secret to you such a one As while the King did breathe durst know no aire Zorannes lives Orb. Ha! Zir. And in the hope of such a day as this Has lingred out a life snatching to feed His almost famish'd eyes Sights now and then of you in a disguise Orb. Strange this night is big with miracle Zir. If you did love him as they say you did And doe so still 't is now within your power Orb. I would it were my Lord but I am now No private woman if I did love him once as 't is so long agoe I have forgot My youth and ignorance may well excus't Zir. Excuse it Orb. Yes excuse it Sir Zir. Though I confesse I lov'd his father much And pitie him yet having offer'd it Unto your thoughts I have discharg'd a trust And zeale shall stray no further Your pardon Madam Exit Orb. May be 't is but a plot to keep off Ariaspes Greatnesse which he must feare because he knowes Hee hates him for these great States-men That when time has made bold with the King And Subject throwing downe all fence That stood betwixt their power And others right are on a change Like wanton Salmons comming in with flouds That leap o're wyres and nets and make their way To be at the returne to every one a prey Enter Ziriff Zir. Looke here vaine thing and see thy sins full blown There 's scarce a part in all this face thou hast Not been forsworne by and Heav'n forgive thee for 't For thee I lost a Father Countrey friends My selfe almost for I lay buried long And when there was no use thy love could pay Too great thou mad'st the principle away Prompt As wantons entring a Garden take The first faire flower they meet and Treasur't in their laps Then seeing more doe make fresh choyce agen Throwing in one and one till at the length The first poor flower o're-charg'd with too much weight Withers and dies So hast thou dealt with me And having kill'd me first I will kill Orb. Hold hold Not for my sake but Orbella's Sir a bare And single death is such a wrong to Justice I must needs except against it Find out a way to make me long a dying For death 's no punishment it is the sense The paines and feares afore that makes a death To thinke what I had had had I had you What I have lost in losing of my selfe Are deaths farre worse than any you can give Yet kill me quickly for if I have time I shall so wash this soule of mine with teares Make it so fine that you would be afresh In love with it and so perchance I should Again come to deceive you She rises up weeping hanging down her head Zir. So rises day blushing at nights deformitie And so the prettie flowers blubber'd with dew And over washt with raine hang downe their heads I must not looke upon her Queen Goeâ— towards him Orb. Were but the Lillies in this face as fresh As are the Roses had I but innocence Joyn'd to these blushes I should then be bold For when they went a begging they were ne're deni'de 'T is but a parting kisse Sir Enter Pasithas and two Guard Zir. I dare not grant it Pasithas away with her A bed put â—â—t Thersames and Aglaura on it Andrages by Ther. Shee wake't me with a sigh And yet shee sleepes her selfe Sweet Innocence Can it be sinne to love this shape And if it be not why am I persecuted thus Shee sighs agen sleepe that drownes all cares Cannot I see charme loves blest pillowes Through whose finenesse does appeare The Violets Lillies and the Roses You are stuft withall to whose softnesse I owe the sweet of this repose Permit me to leave with you this Kisses them shee wakes See if I have not wake't her Sure I was borne Aglaura to destroy Thy quiet Agl. Mine my Lord Call you this drowsinesse a quiet then Beleeve me Sir 't was an intruder I much Struggled with and have to thanke a dreame Not you that it thus left me Ther. A dreame what dreame my Love Agl. I dreamp't Sir it was day And the feare you should be found here Enter Ziriff Zir. Awake how is it with you Sir Ther. Well extreamly well so well that had I now No better a remembrancer than paine I should forget I e're was hurt Thanks to Heav'n and good Andrages Zir. And more than thanks I hope we yet shall Live to pay him How old 's the night And. Far-spent I feare my Lord. Zir. I have a cause that should be heard Yet ere day breake and I must needs intreat You Sir to be the Judge in 't Ther. What cause Zorannes Zir. When you have promis'd Zorannes Ther. 'T were hard I should deny thee any thing Exit Know'st thou Andrages what he meanes And. Nor cannot ghesse Sir Draw in the bed I read a trouble in his face when first Hee left you but understood it not Enter Zorannes King Ariaspes Jolas Queene and two or three Guard Zor Have I not pitcht my nets like a good Huntsman Looke Sir the noblest of the Herd are here Ther. I am astonished Zor This place is yours Helps him up Ther. What wouldst thou have me doe Zor Remember Sir your promise I could doe all I have to doe alone But Justice is not Justice unlesse 't be justly done Here then I will begin for here began my wrongs This woman Sir was wondrous faire and wondrous Kinde I faire and kind for so the storie runs She gave me looke for looke and glance for glance And every sigh like eccho's was return'd Wee sent up vow by vow promise on promise So thick and strangely multiplyed That sure we gave the heavenly Registers Their businesse and other mortalls oaths Then went for nothing we felt each others paines Each others joyes thought the same thought And spoke the very same Wee were the same and I have much a doe To thinke she could be ill and I not Be so too and after this all this Sir Shee was false lov'd him and him And had I not begun revenge Till she had made an end of changing I had had the Kingdome to have killd What does this deserve Ther. A punishment he best can make That suffered the wrong Zor I thanke you Sir For him I will not trouble you His life is mine I won it fairly And his is yours he lost it foully to you To him Sir now A man so wicked that he knew no
sanke downe As water in a weather-glasse Prest by a warme hand Mens A cordiall of kind lookes Enâ—er a Trumpet blinded From the King M. Let 's withdraw And heare him Exit Enter Brennoralt Doran Raguelin Dor. Yes to be married What are you mute now Bren. Thou cam'st too hastily upon me puâ—â—â— So close the colours to mine eye I could Not see It is impossible Dor. impossible If 't were impossible it should be otherwise What can you imagine there of Constancy Where 't is so much their nature to love change That when they say but what they are They excuse themselves for what they doe Bren. She hardly knowes him yet in such an instant Dor. Oh you know not how fire flies When it does catch light matter woman B. No more of that She is Yet the most precious thing in all my thoughts If it be so Studies I am a lost thing in the world Doran D. How Bren. Thou wilt in vaine perswade me to be other Life which to others is a Good that they Enjoy to me will be an evill I Shall suffer in Dor. Looke on another face that 's present remedy Bren. How ill thou doest conclude ' Cause there are pestilent ayres which kill men suddenly In health must there be soveraigne as suddenly To cure in sicknes 't never was in nature Exit and Enters againe hastily Bren. I was a foole to thinke Death only kept The doores of ill-pay'd love when or disdaine Or spite could let me out as well Dor. Right were I as you It should no more trouble me To free my selfe of love Then to spit out that which made me sicke Bren. I 'le tell her so that she may laugh at me 〈◊〉 at a prisoner threatning his Guard He will breake loose and so is made the faster She hath charmes Studies Doran can fetch in a rebellious heart 〈◊〉 while it is conspiring liberty Oh she hath all The vertues of her sexe and not the vices Chaste and unsullied as first op'ning Lillies Or untouch'd buds Dor. Chaste why do you honour me Because I throw my selfe not off a precipice 'T is her ruine to be otherwise Though we blame those that kill themselves my Lord We praise not him that keeps himselfe alive And deserves nothing Bren. And 't is the least She doe's triumph when she doe's but appeare I have as many Rivals as beholders Dor. All that encreases but our jealousies If you have now such qualmes for that you havenot What will you have for that you shall possesse Bren. Dull haeritique Know I have these because I have not her When I have her I shall have these no more Her fancy now her vertue then will governe And as I use to watch with doubtfull eye The wavering needle in the best Sun-dyall Till it has setled then the trouble 's o're Because I know when it is Fixt it 's True So here my doubts are all afore me Sure Doran crown'd Conquerours are but the types Of Lovers which enjoy and really Possesse what th' other have in dreames I 'le send A challenge to him Dor. Do and be thought a mad-man To what purpose If shee love him shee will but hate you more Lovers in favour Brenkoralt are Gamesters In good fortune the more you set them The more they get Bren. I 'le see her then this night by Heaven I will Dor. Where in the Cittadell Bren. Know what and why Dor He raves Brennoralt Bren. Let me alone I conjure thee by the discretion Left betwixt us that 's thine For mine 's devour'd by injuries of fortune Leave me to my selfe Dor. I have done Bren. Is there such a passage As thou hast told me of into the Castle Rag. There is my Lord. Bren. And dar'st thou let me in Rag. If you my Lord will venture Bren. There are no Centry's neare it Rag. None Bren. How to the chamber afterward Rag. Her woman Bren. What 's shee Rag. A wicket to my Ladies secrets One that stands up to marriage with me Bren. There upon thy life be secret flings a purse Rag. Else All punishment to ingratitude Bren. Enough I am a storme within till I am there Oh Doran That that which is so pleasant to behold Should be such paine within Dor. Poore Brennoralt Thou art the Martyr of a thousand tyrants Love Honour and Ambition raigne by turnes And shew their power upon thee Bren. Why let them I 'm still Brennoralt Ev'n Kings Themselves are by their servants rul'd sometimes Let their own slaves govern them at odde houres Yet not subject their Persons or their Powers Exeunt ACT III. SCENE I. Enter Iphigene as in a Garden Iphi. WHat have I got by changing place But as a wretch which ventures to the Wars Seeking the misery with paine abroad He found but wisely thought h 'had left at home Fortune thou hast no tyranny beyond This usage Weepes Would I had never hop't Or had betimes dispair'd let never in The gentle theife or kept him but a guest Not made him Lord of all Tempests of wind thus as my stormes of griefe Carry my teares which should relieve my heart Have hurried to the thankelesse Ocean clouds And showers that needed not at all the curtesie When the poore plaines have languish't for the want And almost burnt asunder I 'le have this Statues place and undertake At my own charge to keepe the water full Lies down Enter Francelia Fran. These fond impressions grow too strong upon me They were at first without designe or end Like the first Elements that know not what And why they act and yet produce strange things Poore innocent desires journeying they know Not whether but now they promise to themselves Strange things grow insolent threaten no rest Till they be satisfied What difference was between these Lords The one made love as if he by assault Would take my heart so forc't it to defence While t'other blew it up with secret mines And lest no place for it here he is Teares steale too from his eyes As if not daring to be knowne To passe that way make it good cunning griefe Thou knowst thou couldst not dresse thy selfe In any other lookes to make thee lovely spies Francelia Iphi. Francelia If through the ignorance of places I have intruded on your privacies Found out forbidden paths 't is fit you pardon Madam For 't is my melancholly not I offends Fran. So great a melancholly would well become Mischances such as time could not repaire Those of the warre are but the petty cures Of every comming hower Iphi. Why should I not tell her all since 't is in her To save my life who knowes but she may be Gallant so far as to undo her selfe To make another happy Madam The accidents of war contribute least To my sad thoughts if any such I have Imprisonment can never be Where the place holds what we must love and yet Fran. My Lord Iphi. In this imprisonment Fran. Proceed my Lord Iphi. I dare not
Madam Fran. I see I do disturbe you and enter upon secrets Which when I know I cannot serve you in them Iphi. Oh most of any You are the cause of all Fran. I my Lord Iphi. You Madam you alone Fran. Alas that 't is too soone to understand Iphi. Must not you marry Almerin Fran. They tell me 't is design'd Iphi. If he have you I am for ever lost Fran. Lost The Heavens forbid they should designe so ill Or when they shall that I should be the cause Iphi. Ha! her eyes are strangely kind Shee prompts me excellently Stars be propitious and I am safe A way I not expected Fran. His passion labours for vent Iphi. Is there a hope you will not give your selfe To Almerin Fran. My Lord this ayre is common The walkes within are pleasanter Exit Iphi. Invitation God of desires be kind and fill me now With language such thou lend'st thy Favourites When thou wouldst give them easie victories And I forgive thee all thy cruelties Exit after Enter Pallatine of Trock Menseck Almerin Brennoralt Lords Mens Consider too that those Who are necessiated to use violence Have first been violent by necessity Pall. But still you judge not right Of the Prerogative For oft it stands With Pow'r and Law as with our Faith and Reason It is not all against that is above my Lord. 2. Lord. You Lithuanians had of all least reason For would the King be unjust to you he cannot Where there 's so little to be had Almer Where there is least there 's liberty my Lord. And 't is more injurie to pull haires From the bald then from the bushy heads They go off talking Trock puls Brennoralt Pall. of Tro. Brennoralt a word My Lord the world hath cast its eye upon you And mark'd you out one of the formost men Y'have busied fame the eareliest of any And send her still on errands Much of the bravery of your nation Has taken up it's lodging in you And gallant men but coppy from you Bren. 'T is goodly language this what would it meane Pall. of Tro. The Lithuanians wish you well and wonder So much desert should be so ill rewarded Bren. Good Pall. While all the guifts the Crown is Mistris of Are plac'd upon the empty Bren. Still I take yon not P. Then to be plaine our Army would be proud of you Pay the neglected scores of merit double All that you hold here of command and what Your fortune in this Sigismund has suff er'd Repaire and make it fairer then at first Bren. How Then nothing Lord trifle below ill language How came it in thy heart to tempt my honour Pall. My Lord Bren. Do'st thinke ' cause I am angry With the King and State sometimes I am fallen out with vertue and my selfe Draw draw or by goodnesse P What meanes your Lordship Bren. Draw I say He that would thinke me a villaine is one And I do weare this toy to purge the world Ent. K of Pal. Lords Melid. Miesla Of such Th'have sav'd thee wert thou good natur'd Thou wouldst love the King the better during life K. If they be just they call for gracious answers Speedy how e're we promise They all kisle the Kings hand All. Long live great Sigismond Bren. The Lithuanians Sir Are of the wilder sort of creatures must Be rid with Cavilons and with harsh curbs And since the war can only make them tride What can be used but swords where men have fal'ne From not respecting Royalty unto A liberty of offending it what though Their numbers possibly equall yours Sir And now forc't by necessity like Catts In narrow roomes they fly up in your face Thinke you Rebellion and Loyalty Are empty names and that in Subjects hearts They don't both give and take away the courage Shall we beleeve there is no difference In good and bad that there 's no punishment Or no protection forbid it Heaven If when great Polands honour safety too Hangs in dispute we should not draw our Swords Why were we ever taught to weare 'em Sir Mi. This late commotion in your Kingdom Sir Is like a growing Wen upon the face Which as we cannot looke one but with trouble So take 't away we cannot but with danger War there hath foulest facâ— and I most feare it Where the pretence is fair'st Religion And Liberty most specious names â—hey urge Which like the Bils of subtle Mountebankes Fill'd with great promises of curing all Though by the wise Pass'd by unread as common cosenage Yet By th' unknowing multitude they 're still Admir'd and flock't unto K. Is there no way To disabuse them Melid All is now too late ` The vulgar in Religion are like Unknown Lands those that first possesse them have them Then Sir consider justnesse of Cause is nothing When things are risen to the point they are 'T is either not examin'd or beleev'd Among the Warlike The better cause the Grecians had of Yore Yet were the Gods themselves divided in 't And the foule ravisher found as good protection As the much injur'd husband Nor are you Sir assur'd of all behinde you For though your Person in your Subjects hearts Stands highly honour'd and belov'd yet are There certaine Acts of State which men call grievances Abroad and though they bare them in the times Of peace yet will they now perchance seeke to Be free and throw them off For know Dread Sir The Common People are much like the Sea That suffers things to fall and sinke unto The bottome in a Calme which in a Storme Stird and inraged it lifts and does keep up Then Time distempers cures more safely Sir Then Physick does or instant letting-bloud Religion now is a young Mistris there For which each man will fight and dye at least Let it alone a while and 't will become A kind of marry'd wife people will be Content to live with it in quietnesse If that at least may be my voyce is therefore Sir For Peace Mies Were Sir the question simply War or Peace It were no more then shortly to be askt Whether we would be well or ill Since War the sicknesse of the Kingdome is And Peace the health But here I do conceive 'T will rather lye whether we had not better Endure sharpe sicknesse for a time to enjoy A perfect strength then have it languish on us For Peace and War in an incestuous line Have still begot each other Those men that highly now have broke all Lawes The great one only 't is 'twixt man and man What safety can they promise though you give it Will they not still suspect and justly too That all those civill bonds new made should be Broken againe to them so being still In feares and jealousies themselves they must Infect the People For in such a case The private safety is the publike trouble Nor will they ever want Praetext Since he That will maintaine it with his Sword hee 's iniur'd May say 't at any