a false Courage when thou threat'nest me Thou canst not stir a hand to touch my Life Do not I see thee tremble while thou speak'st Lay by the Lions Hide vain Conqueror And take the Distaff for thy Soul 's my Slave Emp. Confusion How thou viewest my very Heart I cou'd as soon Stop a Spring-tide blown in with my bare hand As this impetuous Love Yes I will wed thee In spight of thee and of my self I will Alm. For what To people Affric with new Monsters Which that unnatural mixture must produce No were we joyn'd e'vn tho it were in death Our Bodies burning in one Funeral Pile The Prodigy of Thebes wou'd be renew'd And my divided flame shou'd break from thine Emp. Serpent I will engender Poyson with thee Joyn Hate with Hate add Venom to the birth Our Off-spring like the seed of Dragons Teeth Shall issue arm'd and fight themselves to death Alm. I 'm calm again thou canst not marry me Emp. As gleams of Sun-shine soften storms to show'rs So if you smile the loudness of my rage In gentle Whispers shall return but this That nothing can divert my Love but Death Alm. See how thou art deceiv'd I am a Christian 'T is true unpractis'd in my new Belief Wrongs I resent nor pardon yet with ease Those Fruits come late and are of slow increase In haughty Hearts like mine Now tell thy self If this one word destroy not thy designs Thy Law permits thee not to marry me Emp. 'T is but a specious Tale to blast my hopes And baffle my pretensions Speak Sebastian And as a King speak true Sebast Then thus adjur'd On a King's word 't is truth but truth ill tim'd For her dear Life is now expos'd anew Unless you wholly can put on Divinity And graciously forgive Alm. Now learn by this The little value I have left for life And trouble me no more Emp. I thank thee Woman Thou hast restor'd me to my native Rage And I will seize my happiness by force Sebast Know Muley-Moluch when thou dar'st attempt Emp. Beware I wou'd not be provok'd to use A Conqueror's right and therefore charge thy silence If thou wou'dst merit to be thought my Friend I leave thee to perswade her to compliance If not there 's a new gust in Ravishment Which I have never try'd Bend. They must be watch'd aside For something I observ'd creates a doubt Exeunt Emperour and Benducar Seb. I 've been too tame have basely born my Wrongs And not exerted all the King within me I heard him O sweet Heavens he threat'ned Rape Nay insolently urg'd me to perswade thee Ev'n thee thou Idol of my Soul and Eyes For whom I suffer Life and drag this being Alm. You turn my Prison to a Paradise But I have turn'd your Empire to a Prison In all your Wars good fortune flew before you Sublime you sate in Triumph on her Wheel Till in my fatal Cause your Sword was drawn The weight of my misfortunes drag'd you down Seb. And is' t not strange that Heav'n shou'd bless my Arms In common Causes and desert the best Now in your greatest last extremity When I wou'd ayd you most and most desire it I bring but Sighs the succors of a Slave Alm. Leave then the luggage of your fate behind To make your flight more easie leave Almeyda Nor think me left a base ignoble Prey Expos'd to this inhuman Tyrant's lust My Virtue is a guard beyond my strength And Death my last defence within my call Seb. Death may be call'd in vain and cannot come Tyrants can tye him up from your relief Nor has a Christian privilege to dye Alas thou art too young in thy new Faith Brutus and Cato might discharge their Souls And give 'em Furlo's for another World But we like Centry's are oblig'd to stand In starless Nights and wait the pointed hour Alm. If shunning ill be good then Death is good To those who cannot shun it but by Death Divines but peep on undiscover'd Worlds And draw the distant Landshape as they please But who has e'er return'd from those bright Regions To tell their Manners and relate their Laws I 'll venture landing on that happy shoar With an unsully'd Body and white Mind If I have err'd some kind Inhabitant Will pity a stray'd Soul and take me home Seb. Beware of Death thou canst not dye unperjur'd And leave an unaccomplish'd Love behind Thy Vows are mine nor will I quit my claim The tye of Minds are but imperfect Bonds Unless the Bodies joyn to seal the Contract Alm. What Joys can you possess or can I give Where groans of Death succeed the sighs of Love Our Hymen has not on his Saffron Robe But muffled up in Mourning downward holds His dropping Torch extinguish'd with his Tears Seb. The God of Love stands ready to revive it With his etherial breath Alm. 'T is late to joyn when we must part so soon Seb. Nay rather let us haste it ere we part Our Souls for want of that acquaintance here May wander in the starry Walks above And forc'd on worse Companions miss our selves Alm. The Tyrant will not long be absent hence And soon I shall be ravish'd from your arms Seb. Wilt thou thy self become the greater Tyrant And give not Love while thou hast Love to give In dang'rous days when Riches are a Crime The wise betimes make over their Estates Make oer thy Honour by a deed of trust And give me seizure of the mighty wealth Alm. What shall I do O teach me to refuse I wou'd and yet I tremble at the grant For dire presages fright my Soul by day And boding Visions haunt my Nightly Dreams Sometimes methinks I hear the groans of Ghosts Thin hollow sounds and lamentable screams Then like a dying Eccho from afar My Mothers Voice that cries Wed not Almeyda Forewarn'd Almeyda Marriage is thy Crime Seb. Some envious Demon to delude our joys Love is not Sin but where 't is sinful Love Alm. Mine is a flame so holy and so clear That the white taper leaves no soot behind No smoak of Lust but chast as Sister's love When coldly they return a Brothers kiss Without the zeal that meets at lovers mouths Seb. Laugh then at fond presages I had some Fam'd Nostradamus when he took my Horoscope Foretold my Father I shou'd wed with Incest Ere this unhappy War my Mother dy'd And Sisters I had none vain Augury A long Religious Life a Holy Age My Stars assign'd me too impossible For how can Incest suit with Holiness Or Priestly Orders with a Princely State Alm. Old venerable Alvarez sighing Seb. But why that sigh in naming that good Man Alm. Your Fathers Counsellor and Confident Seb. He was and if he lives my second Father Alm. Mark'd our farewel when going to the sight You gave Almeyda for the word of Battel 'T was in that fatal Moment he discover'd The Love that long we labour'd to conceal I know it though my eyes
might have allur'd some of the Shee-slaves to him and was resolv'd to prevent what might have been betwixt him and them when on the sudden he rush'd out upon me caught me in his arms with such a fury Muf. I have heard enough away with him Joh. Mistaking me no doubt for one of his fellow Slaves With that affrighted as I was I discover'd my self and cry'd aloud But as soon as ever he knew me the Villain let me go and I must needs say he started back as if I were some Serpent and was more afraid of me than I of him Muf. O thou corrupter of my Family that 's cause enough of death once again away with him Joh. What for an intended Trespass No harm has been done whatever may be He cost you five hundred Crowns I take it Muf. Thou say'st true a very considerable Sum He shall not dye tho he had committed folly with a Slave 't is too much to lose by him Ant. My only fault has ever been to love playing in the dark and the more she cry'd the more I play'd that it might be seen I intended nothing to her Muf. To your Kennel Sirrah mortifie your flesh and consider in whose Family you are Joh. And one thing more remember from henceforth to obey better Muf. aside For all her smoothness I am not quite cur'd of my Jealousie but I have thought of a way that will clear my doubts Exit Mufti with Johayma and Servants Ant. I am mortify'd sufficiently already without the help of his ghostly Counsel Fear of Death has gone farther with me in two Minutes than my Conscience wou'd have gone in two Months I find my self in a very dejected condition all over me poor Sin lyes dormant Concupiscence is retir'd to his winter quarters and if Morayma shou'd now appear I say no more but alas for her and me Morayma comes out of the Arbour she steals behind him and claps him on the back Morayma And if Morayma shou'd appear as she does appear alas you say for her and you Antonio Art thou there my sweet temptation my Eyes my Life my Soul my all Morayma A mighty Complement when all these by your own Confession are just nothing Ant. Nothing till thou cam'st to new create me thou dost not know the power of thy own Charms let me embrace thee and thou shalt see how quickly I can turn wicked Morayma stepping back Nay if you are so dangerous 't is best keeping you at a distance I have no mind to warm a frozen Snake in my bosom he may chance to recover and sting me for my pains Ant. Consider what I have suffer'd for thy sake already and make me some amends two disappointments in a night O cruel Creature Mor. And you may thank your self for both I came eagerly to the Charge before my time through the back walk behind the Arbour and you like a fresh-water Soldier stood guarding the Pass before if you miss'd the Enemy you may thank your own dulness Anton. Nay if you will be using stratagems you shall give me leave to make use of my advantages now I have you in my power we are fairly met I 'll try it out and give no quarter Mor. By your favour Sir we meet upon treaty now and not upon defiance Ant. If that be all you shall have Carte blanche immediately for I long to be ratifying Mor. No now I think on 't you are already enter'd into Articles with my Enemy Johayma Any thing to serve you Madam I shall refuse no drudgery whose words were those Gentleman was that like a Cavalier of honour Anton. Not very heroick but self preservation is a point above Honour and Religion too Antonio was a Rogue I must confess but you must give me leave to love him Mor. To beg your life so basely and to present your Sword to your Enemy Oh Recreant Ant. If I had died honourably my fame indeed wou'd have sounded loud but I shou'd never have heard the blast Come don't make your self worse natur'd than you are to save my life you wou'd be content I shou'd promise any thing Mor. Yes if I were sure you wou'd perform nothing Ant. Can you suspect I wou'd leave you for Johayma Mor. No but I can expect you wou'd have both of us Love is covetous I must have all of you heart for heart is an equal truck In short I am younger I think handsomer and am sure I love you better she has been my step-mother these fifteen years you think that 's her face you see but 't is only a dawb'd Vizard she wears an Armour of proof upon 't an inch thick of Paint besides the Wash her Face is so fortifi'd that you can make no approaches to it without a Shovel But for her constancy I can tell you for your comfort she will love till death I mean till yours for when she has worn you out she will certainly dispatch you to another world for fear of telling tales as she has already serv'd three Slaves your Predecessors of happy memory in her favours She has made my pious Father a three pil'd Cuckold to my knowledg and now she wou'd be robbing me of my single Sheep too Ant. Prithee prevent her then and at least take the shearing of me first Mor. No I 'll have a Butchers Pen'worth of you first secure the Carcass and then take the fleece into the bargain Ant. Why sure you did not put your self and me to all this trouble for a dry come off by this hand taking it Mor. Which you shall never touch but upon better assurances than you imagine Pulling her hand away Ant. I 'll marry thee and make a Christian of thee thou pretty damn'd Infidel Mor. I mean you shall but no earnest till the bargain be made before witness there 's love enough to be had and as much as you can turn you to never doubt it but all upon honourable terms Ant. I vow and swear by Love and he 's a Deity in all Religions Mor. But never to be trusted in any he has another name too of a worse sound Shall I trust an Oath when I see your Eyes languishing your Cheeks flushing and can hear your heart throbbing no I 'll not come near you He 's a foolish Physitian who will feel the pulse of a Patient that has the Plague-spots upon him Ant. Did one ever hear a little Moppet argue so perversly against so good a Cause Come prithee let me anticipate a little of my Revenue Mor. You wou'd feign be fingring your Rents before-hand but that makes a man an ill Husband ever after Consider Marriage is a painful Vocation as you shall prove it manage your Incomes as thriftily as you can you shall find a hard task on 't to make even at the years end and yet to live decently Ant. I came with a Christian intention to revenge my self upon thy Father for being the head of a false Religion Mor. And so you
who lov'd you Ant. It makes me mad to think how many a good night will be lost betwixt us take back thy Jewels 't is an empty Casket without thee besides I shou'd never leap well with the weight of all thy Fathers sins about me thou and they had been a bargain Mor. Prithee take 'em 't will help me to be reveng'd on him Ant. No they 'll serve to make thy peace with him Mor. I hear 'em coming shift for your self at least remember I am yours for ever Servants crying this way this way behind the Scenes Ant. And I but the empty shadow of my self without thee farewel Father-in-Law that shou'd have been if I had not been curst in my Mothers belly Now which way fortune Runs amazedly backwards and forwards Servants within Follow follow yonder are the Villains Ant. O here 's a gate open but it leads into the Castle yet I must venture it Going out A shout behind the Scenes where Antonio is going out Ant. There 's the Rabble in a Mutiny what is the Devil up at Midnight however 't is good herding in a Crowd Runs out Mufti runs to Morayma and lays hold on her then snatches away the Casket Muf. Now to do things in order first I seize upon the Bag and then upon the Baggage for thou art but my flesh and blood but these are my Life and Soul Mor. Then let me follow my flesh and blood and keep to your self your Life and Soul Muf. Both or none come away to durance Mor. Well if it must be so agreed for I have another trick to play you and thank your self for what shall follow Enter Servants Joh. From above One of them took through the private way into the Castle follow him be sure for these are yours already Mor. Help here quickly Omar Abedin I have hold on the Villain that stole my jewels but 't is a lusty Rogue and he will prove too strong for me what help I say do you not know your Masters Daughter Muf. Now if I cry out they will know my voice and then I am disgrac'd for ever O thou art a venomous Cockatrice Mor. Of your own begetting The Servants seize him First Servant What a glorious deliverance have you had Madam from this bloody-minded Christian Mor. Give me back my Jewels and carry this notorious Malefactor to be punish'd by my Father I 'll hunt the other dry-foot Takes the Jewels and runs out after Antonio at the same Passage First Servant I long to be handselling his hide before we bring him to my Master Second Servant Hang him for an old Covetous Hypocrite he deserves a worse punishment himself for keeping us so hardly First Servant Ay wou'd he were in this Villains place thus I wou'd lay him on and thus Beats him Second Servant And thus wou'd I revenge my self of my last beating He beats him too and then the rest Muf. Oh oh oh First Servant Now supposing you were the Mufti Sir Beats him again Muf. The Devil 's in that supposing Rascal I can bear no more and I am the Mufti Now suppose your selves my Servants and hold your hands an anointed halter take you all First Servant My Master you will pardon the excess of our zeal for you Sir indeed we all took you for a Villain and so we us'd you Mufti Ay so I feel you did my back and sides are abundant testimonies of your zeal Run Rogues and bring me back my Jewels and my Fugitive Daughter run I say They run to the Gate and the first Servant runs back again First Servant Sir the Castle is in a most terrible combustion you may hear 'em hither Muf. 'T is a laudable commotion The voice of the Mobile is the voice of Heaven I must retire a little to strip me of the Slave and to assume the Mufti and then I will return for the piety of the People must be encouraged that they may help me to recover my Jewels and my Daughter Exit Mufti and Servants Scene changes to the Castle-yard and discovers Antonio Mustafa and the Rabble shouting they come forward Ant. And so at length as I inform'd you I escap'd out of his covetous clutches and now fly to your illustrious feet for my protection Must Thou shalt have it and now defie the Mufti 'T is the first Petition that has been made to me since my exaltation to Tumult in this second Night of the Month Abib and in the year of the Hegyra the Lord knows what year but 't is no matter for when I am settled the Learned are bound to find it out for me for I am resolv'd to date my Authority over the Rabble like other Monarchs Ant. I have always had a longing to be yours again though I cou'd not compass it before and had design'd you a Casket of my Masters jewels too for I knew the Custom and wou'd not have appear'd before a Great Person as you are without a present But he has defrauded my good intentions and basely robb'd you of 'em 't is a prize worth a Million of Crowns and you carry your Letters of mark about you Must I shall make bold with his Treasure for the support of my New Government The People gather about him What do these vile Ragga-muffins so near our Person your savour is offensive to us bear back there and make room for honest Men to approach us these fools and knaves are always impudently crowding next to Princes and keeping off the more deserving bear back I say They make a wider Circle That 's dutifully done now shout to show your Loyalty A great shout Hear'st thou that Slave Antonio these obstreperous Villains shout and know not for what they make a noise You shall see me manage 'em that you may judge what ignorant Beasts they are For whom do you shout now who 's to Live and Reign tell me that the wisest of you First Rabble Even who you please Captain Must La you there I told you so Second Rabble We are not bound to know who is to Live and Reign our business is only to rise upon command and plunder Third Rabble Ay the Richest of both Parties for they are our Enemies Must This last Fellow is a little more sensible than the rest he has enter'd somewhat into the merits of the Cause First Rabble If a poor Man may speak his mind I think Captain that your self are the fittest to Live and Reign I mean not over but next and immediatly under the People and thereupon I say A Mustafa A Mustafa All Cry A Mustafa A Mustafa Must I must confess the sound is pleasing and tickles the ears of my Ambition but alas good People it must not be I am contented to be a poor simple Vice-Roy but Prince Muley-Zeydan is to be the Man I shall take care to instruct him in the arts of Government and in his duty to us all and therefore mark my Cry A Muley-Zeydan A Muley-Zeydan All Cry A Muley-Zeydan A