it the time will come that we shall wish for it and not have it on my Conscience thou wishest for enemies that thou mightst cut them off Tim. I am sorry I have offended against your mirth t was not my intent I came to bring you newes King Newes what is 't good Tim. T is as you shall esteeme on 't Sir There 's a Stranger Prince arriv'd King Hither Tim. Yes Sir his visits forc't by a storme as he pretends King What ere the occasion bee hee shall bee welcome The time 's farre spent Aratus it shall be thy imployment from us fairely salute the Prince and tell him though the Seas have been unfriendly the land shall court him Ara. Great sir you highly honor me Exeunt King Timeus Pol Com. Men attendants Phro. So now we have time to speake what thinkst thou Aratus of these passages Ara. Well bravely well Euril. Your speech strooke desperatly at the King hee will not swallow it without some touch of Iealousie Ara. T is no matter hee cannot crosse us now None but the Gods can do 't nor they without a miracle great as was their providence Which hitherto hath sav'd us we have not Ta'ne so many yeares to build a worke up And then to have it ruind with a push No he that will shak 't must first orethrow A Kingdome a Prince a Law so large The extents are nere did plot thrive like it It has infected with the holy sore The greatest part o' th Realme and catches daily Like some unheard of new opinions Streigthned at first and prisoned in the brests Of two or three gaines strength by time and eares And dayly fed by curiosity Thrusts out at last the old and most receiv'd And growes the whole religion of the place When we have calld our party forth the worke Will seeme done the thinne numbers which are left Not deserving the name of enemies The Tyrant then will see himselfe no more A Klng onely the wretched cause of warre His power being ravishd from him Phro. While the fruit thus ripe why doe we let it grow Eur. And spoile perhaps Ara. We will not longer onely a little ceremony detaines us to crowne our King that past our actions and our thoughts shall then contend in motion Euri. How sped your visit to the young Prince Ara. Most happily Oh had you seene with me there the deare cause Of this our danger you would have thought it So no more but stood contemning life Thinking your blood ill stord within your veines When that his service calld it Sure t was some such Shape and sweetnesse which first slav'd men And gain'd a Rule before there was a kingdome Eura. You forgot your message to the Prince Ara. O t is true our next part is to delight our selves in doing something pray beare me company we may get thankes for it another day Exeunt Enter Harpastes Har. Devill whether wilt thou hurle mee the ship Sunke under so much ill nor can the earth Beare us both together the greatest hills Presse not her face with halfe that load one thought Of goodnesse made me lighter than the waves And at an instant taught me how to swim Enter Metampus to him Mel. Harpastes Har. Melampus Mel. Are wee onely scap'd Har. I hope so Mel. Then the storme has plaid the hangman and sav'd us innocent Har. Innocent what 's that it has sav'd us so much labor and a broken head perhaps Mel. The wracke was great and full of horror Har. How the rogues praid and rored above the waves vowed whole heards of offerings for their safetie But Neptune sav'd em charges and tooke the verger beasts Mel. Wee scapt miraculously Har. I hope you le burne no bullocks to the Sea Mel. No my vowes were of another nature I vowd To live well and chang'd my bloody purpose Har. Thou didst not meane in earnest Mell. I did then but I no sooner toucht the shore and safety but my old thoughts returnd Har. Come wee le goe claime our hire and sweare wee kild him before the storme our fellowes dead pay will fall to us wee le demand for losses I and our dangers too Mel. If mine eyes deceive mee not here comes one will deny the payment Har. T is he be resolute and follow me Enter Pallantus to them Pall. How now friends amazde at what 's past dangers ore-blowne are dreames no more to bee esteem'd of within this houre you would have given a world to stand thus were it yours let not smaller losses then afflict you the greatest goods are trifles after such deliverance our birth day was not halfe to us so happie as is this minute then wee had no sense of life now we perceive and ioy in 't They assault him and he kills them Pall. What mov'd these villaines hatred sure they know me not nor did I ere see them before this voyage they could not hope for money there 's more in 't here 's a paper which He searches thē may chance to tell me something by this I see they are murtherers what 's here a beard and haire blacke patches sure t is their trade they are so furnish'd both of the same profession A Letter I am glad to heare you have found Pallantus receive this man the bearer into your company and councell and if your secret practises faile you assault him openly and by violence performe the murther let the one or other bee done speedily my imployments here for you are many and instant Your Lord and friend Timeus Art thou the Lord my wonder then is done Thy treacheries is greater than thy hate And that too is something more than malice Above the search of innocence a knot Unto the subtilest Traytors a riddle To thy selfe were not thy home villanies Enough but thou must maintaine thy Factors Out for lives in forraigne Kingdomes bloody Marchant I have laine hid so long am now So new form'd by time no friend can know me Hate thine eyes are more perceiving farre than Friendship I have not dar'd to name my selfe Because with it I doe name my Father And yet thou hast it perfect him with Many more who were too good to looke on So much ill as thine and thy fathers lives Were made away ease my brest or too much Rage instead of a Revenger will turne me A stocke a foole Heare me you banisht gods For I may justly feare if that your Powers Are absent any where 't is from this place Where tyranny doth raigne on this Altar I doe vow to be your Martyr if not Your surviving instrument nere to let Fall your vengeance till it light on those which Slew the King your King the image of your Goodnesse which killd the Prince and dar'd to say That he was lost lost indeed which on the Princesse doe intend a rape their marriage is No better which kill'd my father and last Resolv'd on me Had I a thousand lives I 'de gage them here And thinke your Indgement yet not
bought too deare Enter Aratus Phronimus Eurilochus and others to him Ara. In the name of wonder what art thou Pall. Why what am I Sir Ara. Nay I know not not does any but an Antiquary or a Conjurer certainely thou art no man or if beest I am sure none of the last Edition Pall. Were your troope absent I 'de make you finde I were without those helpes 't was so long since you saw a man a true one that you know not when you meet one your Lordships glasse shewd you none this morning Eur. Whence cam'st thou Ara. I that I 'de faine know heere 's no hole open In the earth Pall. From Sea Ara. From the bottome of it I thinke there 's nothing like thee above water Phro. Of what profession art thou a Souldier Pall. Yes Ara. Thou shouldst be hang'd for thy very lookes if thou wert not they are excusable in no calling else Pall. These are some insolent scoffers which breath their wits on all they see weaker then themselves against they meete the foole next I wrong my selfe to talke with 'em Eur. Dost heare Pall. None of your wit yet Eur. Thou bleedest Pall. Was it that made me such a wonder I doe so Phro. And much blood is spilt upon the ground knowst thou the cause Pall. Yes I was assaulted by two ranke rascalls which I let blood and cured Phro. Hast thou not killd and rob'd 'em Pall. Sr. your thoughts are base and you doe ill thus to insult upon mine innocence Robd 'em monyes more below my thoughts then Earth my education hath beene noble and though the Mid-wife lapt me not in Purple nor Princes gossipt at my birth I have dard to bee as honest as the richest my word hath commanded more then all your Land or mony Those deeds which I have donne dishonestly dard not to have lookt on they would have frighted your Lordship if but told you towards bedd time Phro. I never saw such feircenesse Ara. I begin to admire this fellow Eur. Where hast thou bestowed 'em Pall. Behind there if you search 'em you may finde more if they had any mony the Sea washt them cleane on 't before their deaths Eur. Why were they cast away Pall. Yes but it seemes they had a land-fate Ara. They search them What 's here a roges Limbs Beards their two heads a peece Phro. Her 's a Paper confirms them most notorious Villaines Eur. Sure I have seene some faces like them Phro. They were propper men Ara. They were so didst kill them both alone Pall. I tould you once so I am no proud on 't to boast it ore againe and tell you how I did it Ara. Trust me thou art a brave fellow and I admire thy stoutnesse thou lookst as if thou hadst beene nurst in perills darst thou withstand a bould one but as honest as t is great what sayst thou canst thou like of us Phro. Thou shalt not finde us as we appeard at first Pall. While you talke thus I can and in your busines if honesty goe yoakt with danger it cannot fright me then though it have more terror then Seamen faigne at their returne or Cowards feares suggest horred even unto a ly I dare face it and wager a life I 'le conquer it Arat. Thy words goe high as Thunder Pall. Pardon my words if my actions prove as fatall Ara. I beleeve thee and dare promise thou wilt doe wonders let me imbrace thee thou art welcome to our friendship mine eyes did looke on thee unworthyly before methinks th art comely now thy scarrs are so many graces not set by an effiminate but by a manly and warlike Skill Busines calls us hence thou shalt not part one minute from me thy wound needs helpe Come thou shalt heale before me Exeunt Om. Enter Clearchus Haimantus Clear Have you commanded all the Marriners aboard each Captaine to his charge bid the Souldiers fill the decks with their full numbers and display their collours Let nothing wanting that may add to the glory of the Navy Hai. Sr there is not all things are in their pride and height the Captaines seeme to lend brightnes to the day and like the Sunne throws raies and light about them nor lookes their gold lesse awfull then the Souldiers Steele on the Ships appeare the joy and riches of a conquest and yet keepes the strictnesse of a joyning battell there want's nothing to make a warlike like princely and well commanded Navy but your presence Sr. Clea. I would not have them thinke us such poore men that we are drove to seeke for their releife to due for bread and water but rather that wee come like Noble wooers full of rewards and presents able to returne all favours wee receive and equally to honor them which honor us As great as they It shall appeare hee that is master of such a Fleete may Stile himselfe King though Lord of nothing else Hai. The people flocke upon the shore and with one voyce say you come to fetch their Princesse you have more then their consents already you have their wishes too Clea. I marry Haimantus such a Jewell would Make the rest looke dimme there are two Ladies in this I le if fame say true the wonders of the World When nature made 'em shee summond her whole God-head and unwearied wrought till shee Had don form'd each limbe as if she had begun there Shee seem'd to practise on the World till now and what like beautifull she Fram'd before were but degrees to this height These the assent from which she now must fall They made her older then the labour of A thousand yeares Enter a Messenger What 's the matter Hai. Ther 's a great Traine it seemes from Court comming to your grace Clea. How nigh are they Mess. They are on entring my Lord Clea. Wee le meete 'em Enter Aratus Phronimus Eurylochus Palluntus and attendants to them Ara. Sr. the King congratulates your safety and is glad of your arrivall though the cause were dangerous you would have oblig'd him much Sr. if you had beene bound for Creta Clea The King is royall and chides me kindly he binds a stranger ever to his Service Ara. His Majesty expects you le honor him with your presence this night at Court Clea. I shall wait upon him but my Lord I must first desire you le honour mee with your company a Ship-board I shall not need to excuse a Souldiers entertainment I doubt not but your Lordship knowes it well plainnesse is halfe the praise on 't Arat. Sir you are the envie of our neighbour Princes you so farre exceed them in a brave command I nere was happie in the like sight before and my Lord they that can boast the strangest have not seene one so common and so rare your Navie lookes as if shee wore the spoiles of a whole Land or came to buy them Clea. My Lord you le make me proud your presence yet will adde unto its glory Exeunt omnes Enter
to let downe some God unto this contract Let us withdraw The Power is now descended and all Within is sacred and misterious And if we doe pry into these secrets Our curiosity will bee punishd Exeunt Aratus Pallantus Haimantus Clea. This honourable admittance you have granted mee shall hereafter be my onely glory the sweet meditation that accompanies my old age nor shall the much envied youth make mee wish one day backe to bee partaker of their lesser pleasures when I shall call these greater unto minde what cordiall will it bee when I can silently boast within my selfe my younger daies were grac'd by a Princesse the fairest in the world so I may say Fian. O my Lord when you talke thus though I am loath you doe compell me to turne my face away Clea. I humbly crave your pardon T is strange so much seriousenesse can produce such follies yet I have faire grounds for what I said which most excellently shew themselves in every part Hian. They shew but to the fantasie ther 's no such beauty here t is borrowed from your speech and faire esteeme which thus I le pay you backe againe you are all that you have said and when I first saw you so you did appeare to me and I think to all the world the first sight promises all vertues and the next performes 'em nothing seem'd then so low in you as this passion Clea. What honours you have laid upon mee I may bleed for but cannot purchase any like 'em nor returne such back againe there all must submit your gifts as your beauties are excelling But away vaine words I will endeavour to grow strong in those virtues and not melt in the passion you have named I 'le set new Lawes to all noble Lovers that shall make all their idle passions appeare as fond unto themselves as others make them throw by their Pen and with their Sword to act those Fictions nor daring to name nor thinke upon the Saint they worship but when they have an offering some vertuous increase to bring them neere Thus is a Love that 's free to all none is injur'd by it Himens Torch burnes brighter by such flames and Vestas fires more lasting and more pure who can complaine the want of beauty when any any that dares be good may adore any and she like her Picture though she truely looke one way may seeme to cast a gratious eye o're all Hian. How his soule labours to soare above the pitch of honor Clea. How glad how much greater should I grow if I could promise to my selfe but one of those seeming lookes from you Hian, My Lord I have not heard you without admiration and wish I could bestow favours rich and lovely worthy your acceptance but seeing that I cannot I 'le strive to honor you not with peevish and womanish commands but such as shall be worthy of your valour and make you yet more a Prince The bravery you have shewne hath not rais'd a vaine passion in me but a confidence a noble confidence that all those vertues were not nam'd by you but spoke in you which thus I 'le shew my Lord my Lord Aratus Enter Aratus But I must leave you to an instructer 't is fit for your Sword and therefore above my power to utter shame not Sir that I put a tutor to you you are but to ground with him you may build to what height you please Come my Lord you must lay off all Strangenesse here and receive a noble helper whole bring both Strength and honor to your Cause Ara. I may stand amazed at the noblenesse in you both but not at this agreement in you I know vertues are still a kinne though the persons are strangers they are in Exeunt omnes Whiles this old Puppy thus doth sleepe And doth in vice as age grow deepe Benumming all these Plants are nigh Into a drowsy Let bargie Behold a nobler Branch appeares As farr from 's manners as his yeares Chorus O shed thou then thy influence And wee le returne fresh beauties thence The feircer sweetnes of his face Presents a rigour mixt with grace And though there were a want of blood His worth would make his Title good Virtues so growne in so few yeeres Make him eu'n such become their feares Chorus On then and make the Scepter be Thought but reserud not snatcht from thee Actus Tertius Scaena I. Enter Aratus Phronimus Pallantus Eurilochus and others ARa. Are all things ready for the ceremony the Crowne and robes Phro. They are ther 's nothing wanting if the Prince were come Euri. Hee 's come now Enter Clearchus Hiamantus Ara. Your grace is welcome but it may seeme to a Strange place and person what thinke you my Lord are not you fallen into the company of so many trayterous and lost men Clea. Sir say not so you have not warrant though you ranke your selfe within the number The place and persons rather appeare to me as if there were some Religion towards Ara. My Lord you understand it right there is a Religion towards and I may truely say that this our private meeting and close Counsell is more just and glorious then the lowdest deede in Court that all our publike Acts edicts and formes of Law are darke and impious compared to it nay that this time and place made holy by our purposes hath the gods more manifest and present then the Sacrifice and Temples long since made void and empty of a Deity by those which sue for favours and request for him who justly heare deserves their horridst vengeance we are not met heere to plot a generall ruine for a private injury we know and teach the greatest Donne by the King unto the Subject can not give him cause to throw off his faith Kings are petty gods and may tempt us nor is it want or desire of Innovation that thus Stirreth us wee are in the best ill State allready nor ambition to Strike at that Lawrell which the Thunder spares no we reverence it and know that as men are the workes of nature so Kings of Jove But 't is our oath the Sacrament we tooke which still holds us though our Lord be dead untill his successor doe quit us from it by taking of a new one we are not subjects but slaves to him we now obey and therefore as slaves we ought to hate our Master he was borne lesse then we and hides the private man under the publique gowne the purple which he weares was dipt deepe in the blood of Innocents to collour 't so But I vainely wast my selfe in words here are no minds to be perswaded nor eares to be instructed the sinnes we are to punish we all know and the gods remember our Strength then is all we are to speake of which is the greatest halfe of the Isle 16. yeares undisturb'd provision so carelesly was that provided for which was got by blood there is but one Lordship small in respect of others the
Tyrants owne possession that will stand strong for him but they are so besotted with their fortunes that their greatest aide will be but in their will to doe him service They may offer up their lives like so many Sacrifices for his sake but not like Souldiers they are unworthy of that name They may dy but never conquer warr is never talk't of but in their banquets nor dare they fight beyond a Brawle Phro. And if we would count part of our Strength in their weaknesse we have no opposition In the City where they and their vices are daily seene nothing is to contemptible and in the remoter parts where Majestie is no more reverenc'd being knowne onely by the Power and lawes and where the name of King heares like the name of God even there those sonnes of the earth as I may so call them dare minace at him and pile hills on hills to set their bodies equall to their hates Euri. Heere we are three can each of us raise such forces which though they could not yet could make the Kingdome feare a conquest Pall. You are a Souldier my Lord and though but young perhaps have seene already what others whole lives have not shewne them yet wee 'l play a game we dare invite you to though you were accompanied with all the ancient Heroes who had they leave but in their airie shapes to sit on a Tribunall spectators of the warre this their second leaving of the earth should bee more grievous to them than their former deaths and they would wish this Kingdome might bee their Elizium Ara. You see my Lord how each can bring his forces in and prompt the other those which have none on earth can bring them downe from heaven in stead of men bring manly spirits words and lookes confirming more than Armies Clea. If you have not yet done I can heare you still and with such lectures bee content to have my selfe perswaded to that thing whose imbraces I would leape into would I could lend aides equall to yours but there 's none so good yet if you can stay so long I can command worthy helpers Ara. My Lord it shall not neede all that wee desire is to have you not our enemy Phro. Are you ready for the Priest yet Ara. Yes pray call him in Though wee need Exit Phro. nothing to strengthen our resolutions yet wee 'l take an oath t is good to have the Gods along with us a Sacrament is the tie no lesse of loyalty than of treason Phronimus returnes and a Flamen to them with the Images of some of the gods Ara. Here let us all before the sacred witnes of faith and periury make a holy vow of loyalty to our selves and cause and as we draw neere to so divine an Essence consider t is not gold or marble that wee touch but a modle of a sensible and living Power which has vouchsafd to be imbracd by one hand when the vastnesse of our thoughts could not comprehend it Here they all seeme to take an oath by touching of the Image Ara. Now we are ready for the Prince Eurilochus prethee doe thou conduct him in Exit Eurilochus Ara. Your grace shall see a stronger perswation than any you have yet heard the lively image of her you so much serve he knowes not yet his fortunes but I dare warrant hee 'l beare them bravely hee has read the lives of kings though hee never acted any and you shall perceive he 's princely borne though not bred in Court Enter Eurilochus and Cleander the young Prince Euri. This way Sir at his entrance they all stand bare and after some pause Aratus speaks to him Ara. Royall Sir you are wellcome Start not at the name it is your due you were borne to that title and I doubt not though you never heard it thus applide before t is not altogether a Stranger to you there was a sparke which in the first wombe after a speciall manner was infusd into you and is as another soule within you as the one informes your body so this informes that soule we may call it the difference of a King that will tell you we are all heere your subjects and this no strange Phylosophy I teach and though this rich persume hath hitherto beene wrapt in this disguise of learning and defended from the aire o th court t is not decayde but growne stronger by such keeping which when it shall bee opened will cast a fragrant smell ore all the Kingdome and cure the infections of the former age to open it we are met it is a medicine we too long have languishd for And Sir though it bee a short warning to so great a matter you must presently preparè to bee a King wee have no time now to instruct you in your right and how you lost it it was yeares a doing and will require yeares for to relate it In the meane time let what you see perswade you our serious lookes respects and the presence of these holy rights Clean. I neede not excuse my want of answer to you there is nothing fit for me to say which way so ever I ope my mouth to this purpose will appeare foolish whether I refuse or grant both are alike ridiculous I cannot turne my selfe in this place without committing shame 't is not with me as with elder yeares they may deny such offers and be admired for their modesty or accept them and bee honor'd for that Noblenesse I have nothing yet at my dispose obedience is my best part here I am you may use me as you please command me even to weare a Crowne and make me submit unto the highest honors set me on the Throne you speake of and when I have had it long enough take it againe from me like other toyes I play with yet my Lords I am not so young but that I know I am a subject and that I have a King that thus though but a sport to use his titles is a fault or for any to acknowledge such a spirit as you my Lord have spoken is no lesse a traytor then he which strikes the Crowne from off his head Ara. You have beene heavenly taught and shall be ever instructed in such Lectures But the treason which is committed is committed against your selfe your spirit is usurpt and he that holds it is your servant as I am or at least should be so please you to attend Sir yond place is provided for you Clean. My Lord set me not such a spectacle of shame Eury. Phro. It must be so Ara. Submit now and command ever My Lord will you honor us with your helpe Here they seate Cleander in the Throne and after they take of his blacke habit and put on him a Scarlet Robe Clearchus and the Flamen hold the Crowne over his head and the rest stand before and salute him saying the gods preserve the King Omnes The gods preserve the King Ara. We have now perform'd the one halfe of our
ready hand to doe you service Clea. Sir is not the Traitour knowne that did it Tim. No doubt he is Clea. My Lord you speake very doubtfull I hope you doe not thinke but I am sorry for the accident Time I know not what to thinke your disposition is as great a stranger to me as your selfe Clea. I see my Lord you know to bestow injuries though no curtesies to a stranger Tim. Iniuries are deserving to an intruding guest Clea. You are unworthy Timeus offers to draw and they hold him And though I am encompast with all the dangers I may justly feare from so barbarous a place which dares doe any thing it lusts unto without regard of lawes or hospitality I 'de tell you so and were you from the Dung-hill that you stalke on it is no better I 'de pull downe that unmanner'd pride within you Tim. Let mee goe nothing shall priviledge him to talke thus Clea. They hold you in your safety nor is the distance twixt your life and death longer than this space that parts us If you dare oretake me I le stay you out a daies sayle at Sea I challenge you to a princely combate where come with all your Power that I may destroy so many bruite beasts from of the earth Exit Clearchus Time Shall I bee tyed while I am bayted I le send those that shall oretake you and cut you off before your shipping yet Coracinus hast unto the City presently and in my fathers name command them to raise all speedie Power to stop the Prince bid them fire his ships in the Haven Ara. O my Lord consider a little more before you lay a scandall on the Kingdome which future ages cannot wipe off no story can paralell such a fact your grace moved him much and gave him cause of choller Tim. Does hee helpe your Lordship with ships that thus you plead his cause shall I be tutord by a Traytor Ara. Sir you are happie if you can find a Tutor when you thus much need one and for your other language if I understood it I 'de give you an answere in the meane time it must returne upon you Enter the King Polyander Menetius Comastes and attendants Time Well Sir I shall finde other waies than words to answer you King How now Timeus what bloody Time No more than you see Sir the sword rather left it on me then drew it out King Who is the traytor that durst attempt such outrage Tim. He's scapt unknowne King Unknowne that cannot bee when he has past thus farre in the court some must take notice of him Can you describe him Time Hee was habited like a Souldier but his lookes had more of Devill than of man King Upon my life I saw him but t is some two dayes since he must be knowne in all this time enquire who brought in any such man or was seene with him Com. This can be no bodie but my Hobgoblin An 't please your grace was hee not in a buffe Coate and his face all to bee dab'ld with patches Tim. Yes he was so Com. Then doe I know him hee belongs to my Lord Aratus there no bodie durst speake to him but hee hee shewed his teeth at every bodie else he had like to have bit me once King Aratus doe you heare they say hee that committed this outrage belongs to you Ara. To mee Sir hee wrongs mee that thinkes so I maintaine none that dare commit such insolence Poli. My Lord I saw him with you Ara. Who pray make me know the man Poly. A blacke sterne Souldier that followed you Ara. I feare I understand you now there is such a one does follow mee but I never discoverd anie disloyall spirit in him his outside t is true was as you discribe not moulded after the common frame of men but threatned more than anie I have seene yet t was but his outside that threatned so within hee was gentle all a Courtier to be wound and turnd by the smallest courtesie I must confesse if he were injurd then hee was proud and Lordly stormes rose within his lookes and thunder was in his voice King And you knowing this how durst you turne such a wild beast loose into the Court whom had I met and chancd to have anger'd my fortune had beene the same Lay hands upon him you shall find that such a Spirit lodges in my brest too and when t is stird will raise Tempests as greate we shall find other matters to examine you of Through this seeming neglect we doe put on we can observe all your actions and with a halfe and sleeping eie see into your darkest plots The King turnes to goe away Ara. Then the Gods send their aid or all is lost yet Sir heare me speake the jealousies you have on mee I shall not bee able to cleare but will leave them to the triall of my innocence and your favour Yet Sir to shew you in this last accident how much I am guiltlesse I will relate unto you how first I met the actour of it T was on that day I was imploid on an honorable message from your Majesty to the Stranger Prince on the shore I found him having lately scapt a Shipwracke and as great a danger on the Land for he was assaulted by two Villaines that were in the same voyage with him but the cause of their hate himselfe he could not tell he had no acquaintance with them but in the Ship but as he had before the waves so in this Tempest too as I may call it he bore himselfe above and left them both as calme as death upon the shore In the instant when he was yet hot in his anger and their blood we came upon him Tim. Pray Sir let me speake to you there is a wonder discovered to me by his relation and under this Monster he hath spoke of a greater doth ly hid one that you would rather have in Chaines then all the list of Traytors I have named Sir commit the uncasing him to me and suffer me to free Aratus let it suffice I am an eye upon him and the rest and will suddenly by their distruction distroy their Plot King Take your way I 'le leave him to you Exeunt King Poliander Comastes c. Tim. My Lord with the perswasion of your innocence I have procured your freedome of my father and doe desire in requitall of this kindnesse if it be such to let me see the face of this my enemy once more if your acquantance as appeares by your words be not too late to know his aboade My Lord I shall receive him otherwise then you expect the relation you have made of him and what my selfe was witnesse on hath turn'd my hate into admiration and if I can move his Love as I have donne his anger I shall be happy in his vallour 'T is noe strange thing that the vallor of enemies have made them friends and that wounder have beene the first seale of Love I doe
feete falsely doe prompt us All that is white is innocent and all that 's blacke is sinnefull without exception Should those which looke on you be led so by the scence they must kneele downe before you and adore you as some Deity not being able to fantasie so much god as they doe see in you such formes their power have given you that you may become a rivall in their worships Eudo. Why talkst thou thus thy tongue hath no more Power than hath thy hands Pall. Neither intend violence would you could entertaine of me one thought of goodnesse as hopelesse as you thinke me I de undertake to make it good and better 't daily Eudo. Why delayest thou what wouldst thou have Pall. Forgivenesse I dare not say love Eudo. Love thy thoughts are more mishapen than thy selfe even in thy hopes th' art cruell This base imagination hath wrong'd mee more than all thy actions before thou onely soughtst my ruine now the ruine of my name that thou intendst a rape it was a glory to me and though I had lost it would have got me same the honour of a ravisht virgin Didst thou woe mee with the greatest services as thou comst in my fathers blood I could reward thee but could never yeeld thee love I was too long a Princesse and lost the name too late to entertaine so low a thought Pall. The world of causes that part me and happinesse Eudo. Love is softe and full of curtesie a greater opposite to lust than hate the flames thou feelst are more preposterous than those which burne the breasts of Satyrs and of beasts w kill the young and in that blood injoy the Damme Thinkest thou that any is so bold in lust to embrace such feares thy love bring with it Pall. My youth and comelinesse whither are you fled Eudo. My miseries have put a new nature in me chang'd that calmenesse I had wont t' enjoy into the lookes and language of a fury how ill doth rage become a virgins breast I will suppresse it and if it must breake forth dissolve it into teares An age worne out in thought cannot present one comfort to mee I am so wretched Her griefe and anger make her shewe signes of fainting Oh my soule 's more earthly than my body This warre that is within mee will gaine a victory ore me I finde decayes already Pall Accursed that I am to be the Author of such misery is there no way to restore that peace which you have lost if there be any dispaire not of it though it be held in the iawes of death I le snatch it for you though it were lost in the darkest masse of things my love would distinsh 't in a Chaos if it have no being but what your thought gives life too I le wish it for you So strong my fantasie is to serve you let it be any thing to be done I le doe 't can I the wretched cause removed bring ease unto you here on my knee I yeeld my life unto your taking or if you had rather I le offer 't up my selfe Eudo. No and yet there is a way and thou maist doe it Pall. Is there a way O my ioyes the gods are mercifull name it name it to me Eudo. If thou 'lt vow to doe it presently Pall. Need I an oath to confirme I would be happy t is my owne happinesse I thus eagerly persue in yours every sigh you give doth make me breathlesse and every teare which you let fall doth bow mee nearer to the earth than all the yeares and wounds that I have suffered yet I will sweare by all things holy all that I feare and reverence to refuse no labours deaths to gaine your ease Eudo. Then Pall. And restore ioy unto your life againe Eudo. Now thou canst not thy last words have rendred thee unable The ease was death which yet I beg from thee Pall. From what a heaven of happines am I fallen Eudo. Assist me all my Strength the gods this way you have ordeyned I should come to you pardon that Fate then which your selves did give me Eudor a makes an offer to kill her selfe La O my Lady Pall. Stay O stay that hand let that goodnesse in you which would spare things faire and holy preserve the fairest and the holyest The angells would be prowd to take such shape upon them when they visit earth 't is such as your selfe ought to looke with reverence on Eudo. Ther 's a weapon hid within my heart which none can take away it wounds deepely Now Death thou art a lover and dost court me mildly She faints La. O my Lady helpe helpe O my Lady Rodia Give her more ayre Pall. Shee s gone my times noe longer our lives were woven on the same web the destynies condemn'd me to see her death and then to follow Hee wounds himselfe and falls Rodia Shee breathes stand off Eudo. My Brother O my Father Rodia How do you Madam Eudo. Too well my Strength returnes too fast upon me Pall. Were my Soule fled that voyce would call it backe againe it selfe would returne and choose this Paradice on earth I 'le not disturbe her with my longer stay He speakes to Rodia If that your Lady shall neede any thing you may have it with a thought a long peace shall not present it with more care and speed shee shall not find lesse tendernes and honor then if her Father still ruld all The Guards at your command and shall stay onely for your safety Exit Pallanius Rodia Souldier th art noble may the gods reward thy goodnesse Madam you had best goe in They lead of their Lady Exeunt omnes Enter Timeus Polyander Menetius Comastes and a Captaine Tim. Fortune glory Victory all are fled Unto their severall habitations And have left Dishonor Losses Danger In their Stead not so much prayse to all our Dead Story as that we lost one man to Save a Kingdome not bleed a drop for the Whole bodyes safety Poli. My Lord let not the treachery of such Villaines trouble you more then your thought of safety shew your hate unto their false-hood by seeking to revenge it you have yet hopes left if timely you put your former Resolution into practise when wee have gain'd the Forte there 's meanes to escape the I'sle and seeke forraigne aide you have many friends that you may trust too This our obscure flight will make our returne more glorious which shall bee i' th face of the whole Kingdome nor will we choose another way but what passes o're Cities Armies and through a generall ruine to our Revenge Exeunt Om. He who injustly swaid the State Lives noe where now but in their Hate Ther 's nothing left of him but shame Which both preserues and Clouds his name When civell Beasts fall Let it be Cald slaughter and not Victorie Cho. When that he dies that liv'd a shade His sleepes continued then not made Arise thou Starre of honor there And in
his stead shine round our Spheare Grace thou the Throne and let us see Thy father once more Raigne in thee Wee le now in naught but love conspire And noe brest burne but with true fire Cho. While that such manners rule the Throne Live all by his he by his owne Actus Quintus Scaena I. Enter Eudora Rodia and Ladies Eudo. This quiet we enjoy doth strike amazement in me sure they have slaine the body with the head which makes this generall calme Rod. Madam 't is more innocent I had newes brought by one I sent to learne that did astonish me that the people knew noe cause of griefe or gladnesse but rose to their affaires as in a time when neyther enemies nor holidayes doe distract them from their labours The Kings death was newes this morning in the City such care the Victors tooke least the many headed but unbrained multitude should pull a slaughter on them Eudo. Their piety is too late nor will it satisfie the gods when they have spilt so much blood that they will spill noe more Rod. The Souldiers though their charge was gone kept their Guard Still they of the party durst not disclose it for their owne safety Some there were which whisperd it but they seemed rather curious in the State then those dull which knew it not Eudo. Can a Kingdome fall and the ruine not wake the people Rod. The messinger with this doubted what he had seene and heard nor durst hee bee confirm'd least his question might seeme Treason the first opening of it was by Proclamation with such secresy the plot was carried that now it was a labour to discover it After this Aratus and the rest of the Conspirators went into the Market-place where the people were comanded to attend by publique voyce and there to the assembly when they had declared the Justice of their action they produced the yong Prince which in the last alteration of the State was lost But by all supposed to have beene murdered which that hee was the Kings Sonne was confirmed by Aratus his conferring the Kingdome on him himselfe being the next heire unto the Crowne if the Kings Issue fail'd The Story of the Princes life bred much Love and Pity and his lookes were able to have led them to a civill Warre had he beene Counterfet Eudo. This may be true they who can beleeve there is a providence may easily give credit to this Justice our sinnes were mightier then our sufferings and had wee a greater debt then life we ought to pay it my Miseries are due to mee I was a party and enjoy'd my Fathers violence Rod. Madam you are as Innocent as at that time your age was and onely doe offend in your teares and too much love which on this occasion spent excessively is not to greeve but to repine the King was old and taking his latest leave and was hastned onely a litle sooner to shew the Justice of the gods 't is true my Lord Timeus was yong yet had noe patent for his life but as all brothers was an uncertaine joy Eudo. How ill these words become thee and me to heare think'st thou my Fathers faults can bring a comfort to mee Rod. Madam t would be noe glory to you that an unworthy greife should be your death your enemies noe doubt are noble sure they chose the crewellest to execute their businesse and him though his churlish out-side promist not we found more courteous then they which doe professe it his words were the lawes of Complement One that simpathizd in all your sufferings and though his manlinesse would not suffer him faint he died together with you One knocks at the dore Eudo. See who 't is disturbes us Who i st Rodia goes out and returnes Rod. Madam I know not nor did I ere see any like him his beauties beyond all similitude he speakes like the Souldier we were talking of but him it cannot be he was the terror this the darling of mankind Eudo. Whether wilt thou loose thy selfe in commendation in men beauties the least part Rodia Madam it appeares so in him yet such features lay a necessity of noblenesse on the minde hee humbly craves admittance nor would hee take it before that it were granted Eudo. Call him in wee must indure their pleasures it will not become our state to deny commands much lesse when they intreat Rodia goes out and returnes with Pallantus Pall. The Kingdome owes a Sacrifice for your life all will ioy to heare it which had it faild would have pulld more guilt upon us than the sinnes of a whole age Eudo. It is my fault you tell me of and a great share of my griefe that thus I stay to grieve Pall. My offensive tongue can utter nothing pleasing to you so great are your misfortunes and your honor so tender to you the wounds that I have given you are beyond my cure Eudo. Thou art not hee that gave 'um Pall. If my repentance can make me cleare I am not otherwaies t is I that partially hearing my owne cause beleev'd and iudg'd for it that hastily without examining what I did decreed on all your woe Eudo. Th art strangely altered if thou beest hee Pall. Nothing so strangely as my hopes are at first they did appeare in a divine and holy forme beyond all that I can fantasie such a mind though ravishd with the beauty could not expresse then and promist all should bee as heavenly as their shape calld mee the instrument of Iustice the saver of my Countrey set all the sinnes before mee I was to punish told mee there was no heaven but what their clowdes did veile thus they crept into mee and won mee with the most specious shewes unto their service on my bare resolution gave mee part of that happinesse I was to ayme at Then they clothed mee in a body foule as the Tragedy I was to act and made me dote on those deformities which all did loath when they had bewitcht mee with these false yet glittering names and I obeyed their blacke commands in a moment they changd into Repentance a mournefull figure and sadly left mee as they first did find me and as I now appeare to you Eudo. Thou hadst no cause for all that thou hast done the faults were generall and concernd not thee but thou wert ready for all ill as well as goodnesse Pall. Yet I had a cause Pardon me that I say and being that I saw not you before I did it a iust one I lost a Soveraigne as nere to me in blood as love and if this cause may seeme remote I had a father murdered whose death as it becomes you thus to mourne so it did mee for to revenge my selfe was banisht loyaltie was both our faults and when they had heapt these sorrowes on me left mee not one hope to leane on they were not yet content with my despaire but sought my life which was so poore it could not be distinguisht then from
death their injuries forcd a new one in mee and blew the sparke untill the flame consumde 'um But had I beheld you before their danger it would have turnd my soule within mee changd mee from a Foe unto their partie I cannot now beleeve I had a Justice that there could bee any where you were iniurd in it so much my love doth mount above my griefe that it makes mee thinke I have onely lost your father Why weepe you thus Could that recall him I 'de beare you company and breake those stubborne gates which from my childe-hood to this present houre hath kept them backe and spend my whole store here But nothing can redeeme him let that common remedy which all apply and helpeth all give ease unto you that nothing can redeeme him O learne a strength of me that is the worst name for it to beare a fathers losse Let the innocence of mine excuse my violence to yours wee are the wretchedst two alive made so by our selves and can be onely happy in our selves Eudo. Oh O. Pall. Look on this it may bring you comfort with making out of love with the subiect of your griefe Hee delivers her that letter which hee found in the villaines pocket to murder him written by her brother Shee starts in the reading Eudo. Ha Pall. Falls not my deformityes away Eudo. Pallantus art thou Pallantus Pall. This is the first time I darde to be so Eudo. And to all this villany is signd Tymeus couldst thou be thus cruell thus basely cruell unworthy brother This hath made a mercy of all that hath befallen thee thou dost deserve to have thy punishments out-live thee to have engraven on thy Tombe Heere lies the treacherous bloody and to make thee monstrous have thy age adde to it The young Timeus that was subtile in his youth what remaines for mee that happinesse the most wretched doe enjoy is taken from me a worthy cause of griefe Now I can neither live nor die without a staine Pall. Can you yet read a resemblance but of Iustice in my Actions Eudo. I know not how to answere The tongue must bee as wicked as the will that did commit 'em that can defend such deeds had equity pointed all your Actions out given you Rules to work by told you how much how farre you must have gone you could not have done more justly there wants not any thing to crowne your iudgement but my death the onely issue of that sinnefull race I have a long time loathed my life and now I loath my selfe too I find I know not how a guiltinesse within me my fathers faults flow like his blood within mee Pall. You are not at all allide unto his vices Profane not then your goodnesse it is a sinne though you your selfe commit it that you was a Princesse was not your ambition but obedience you are onely guilty in thinking of your selfe so why then doe yue talke of death thus Eudo. Can any life be noble after such losses Pall. My selfe and the many which have suffered them doe thinke so and are receiv'd of all with pity and with honour can you expect to find lesse humanity you are not fallne so low but the greatest Prince would be proud to do you service T is vainenes to professe all civility is your due Eudo. You reward me good for bad before that I was certaine of a cause I slandered your vertues with those names foule deeds deserve or a worse nature could invent I falsely did apply to you that which was true in me Pall. You are a Iudge too cruell to your selfe I did deserve them at the least from you it was a noble passion and owed unto your friends had they beene worse yet if you 'de make amends where there was no wrong give one comfort to your selfe and I shall receive a million ample and satisfactory Eudo. You have given me many more than I did hope or wish for and removed those killing doubts within me I shall remember you no more the cause but mourner of my fathers death O that name of father how ever thou deserv'st thou dost deserve these teares of me Pall. Fall not to a relapse againe I dare not leave you thus Eudo. You may there is no danger in 't they were but teares and are already wipt away Pall All about you does minister to your griefe The King would gladly comfort you can you admit his visit Eudo. I finde hereafter that I may yet t is too soone Pray excuse me Pall. May peace and quiet returne to their home againe to this place Exeunt omnes Enter the King Aratus Phronimus Eunilochus attendants People Jove Neptune Apollo and the gods of Greece preserve and blesse the King King Through the happines of my people may I know no other ioy or sadnesse but what passes you still the middle way of blessings twixt the gods and me People The gods preserve your Majesty Ara. Sir give us leave too to ease our selves of that ioy that doth oppresse us how hath these your virtues rewarded all our travell made our deede honourable and to our faith have joynd discretion in shewing your selfe thus worthy of the place you are chose too you have made it plaine as none ought so none but your selfe can rule what praises will after-ages give us for this our loyalty Had you beene brought in with fire with blood with desolation as you with wonder are given a gift of peace in the height of warre yet your endowments would have made all innocent and like a yeare of good things made the bad forgotten Sir I hope you doe not thinke I flatter King My Lord I doe not you that have so many virtues for to live by neede no dishonest Arts nor by such waies seeke to endeare me when you have alreadie so really ingaged me that I am not able to give you a thankes much lesse a returne that 's equall not to say if I could what I would do deserving you and if you cannot in some kinde reward your selfe t is not in my power to doe it These praises you have given me doe tell if not what I am yet what I should be they shall not make mee proud but good nor will I glory in them but make them still my ayme I le first offer them to the gods and humbly from their hands pray for them againe and at the second gift account them mine Ara. These men wrought hard too for you King My Lord I know it and could I thanke them in 't I de stoope lower than the place from whence they raysed me Enter Clearchus Hianthe Haimantus Melissa Ladies to them Ara. See Sir what ioyes approch you your royall Sister King This way let me expresse a brothers love Before I speake it O my Sister y' are My Throne my Scepter and my Crowne or what Is more deare and estimable with me The Grace the Maiesty that rises from them Pardon if my much love make me a rude
to the Altar would have paid at her feet Thinke you wee could desire to save such enemies as you and not adore an enemy of her virtues Tim. Give me not scorne and honour in the same breath you have made me leave my selfe hate me not now I am nothing Pall. Now I meete you and first give me leave with this to throw away all danger that does threaten you He spills the poyson Next my request is if you dare trust me to leave this place and presently goe with me whether I shall lead you All but Comastes follow Pallantus Com. I breath am warme all alive The Sunne shines too I have not heard of any of his rayes in the other world T is earth I tread on at least if I am not mounted higher and yet I hope I am not in heaven for let them say what they will t is to bee dead to be there and I like not the society though they be Angels what doe I see I begin to mis-doubt I doe behold some such shapes here Faces heavenly and di Divine or else my fantasie abuses me if I be alive and on the earth then there was poyson in that cup A poxe o my curiositie He takes it and tasts a little of the bottome what need I have car'd whether I had beene so long as I found my selfe well I should have got fearefull honour if I had drunke my share By this I see 't was not a dreame nor swound I was in but all true story I did not thinke before it had beene in the power of all the Kings in the world to have given mee life when I was yet living but these thoughts shall passe And now I le looke before me presently I le to the new Court and though the King be chang'd not despaire to be the same man exit Enter Eudora Eudo. My father my brother why doe you flye mee your wellcome and lov'd shapes O my sad fantasie Enter Rodia Rod. Madam The King wishes you ioy and comfort Eudo. The King what King oh Rod. And desires to visit you Eudo. Returne all duty and service to the King Exit Rodia Enter Pallantus Pall. Joy attend you Madam Eudo. My Comforter Pall. Your unfortunate one to see that litle he had wrought with much care so soone decay'd againe yet I hope I shall this time be more happie in my cure before I brought but Physicke for your greife but now I bring you joy it selfe it makes me bold and assures me of my wellcome though thus without leave I enter He needs noe ceremony that can say your brother lives Eudo. My brother O where and how alas it cannot be why doe yee mocke my sadnes thus such false hopes as these make more wretched Pall. I dare not play with holy things nor would I deferr your hopes much lesse delu'd 'em he came along with me and stayd but till I had thus prepar'd his way I know to have given him you as you immagine had beene twice onely to have taken him away noe danger threatened him but his owne discontent The King among his first cares provided for his safety he shall himselfe confirme my words Enter Rodia Eudo. Pray stay I doe beleeve and aske you pardon but now I am certaine of him I would not at first shew any signes of joy I have thought a way to entertaine him Rodia fetch the paper that lyes within upon the Table so now Sr you may admit him Rodia goes out and brings the Letter written by Timeus to kill Pallantus Pallantus goes out and returnes with Timeus Tim. Here let me alone be happy without a covetous wish of what I have lost O Eudora wonder not at my excessive passion misery layes stronger bonds of love then nature and they are more one whom the same misfortune joynd together then whom the same wombe gave life Eudo. But stay my brother I knowledge that you say most true and was noe lesse surpriz'd at first to heare of this your safety for when I once beleev'd you dead that you were alive againe was a greater good then I could give credit to But when I consider the cause of my greefe and gladnesse and found it was merely the name of brother nay not so much the dishonor of our name onely with teares I threw away what with teares I sought for looke on this unworthy man Shee gives him the Letter Heere you are discected and see if I ought to mourne for any part being lost or rejoyce for any that safe in the whole Anotamy Pall. O be not too severe but suddenly give that joy you have prepared for him Eudo. Now I meet your love pardon me my brother I was to rejoyce at this your sadnesse before I could share with you in another joy Enter a Lady La. Madam the King 's hard by Pall. The King Eudo. Yes he sent before that he would visite me what will you doe Tim. Not see him willingly at this time Pall. Sir you need not he understands the nature of your losses and will not expect so suddenly to see you Eudo. Stay within till he be gone Exeunt Tim Rodia and Lady Pallantus Madam I 'le meet the King and meete upon him in Eudo. Did you say this was the King's mercy Pall. I did Madam Exit Pallantus Enter the King Pallantus as in talke with him Clearchus Hianthe Haimantus Aratus Phronimus Eurylochus and Attendants King And does she know of it yet Pall. She lives onely by the favour As the King drawes neere Eudora offers to kneele King Madam fall not so low we have already too much dejected you and would our selves gladly submit in recompence y' are still in the esteeme of all that which you have beene not by the sinnes of others but by your owne indowments admired Princesse and may a curse light light on those who shall dare to unthrone a Majesty which the gods themselves have seated we are come confident in these your virtues that you will not disdaine when nobly we endeavour it to have your greife lessened by your enemies Madam though unpropper yet we are willing comforters and have as true a sence of what you suffer as those who in a neerer name doe share their losses with you Eudo. Sr admit me to kneele before you I ought not to stand an equall height with Majesty and vertue so much above me what undeserving name is due to me when you are pleas'd to call your selfe an enemy if you are one it is to your selfe in thus prefering your mercy before your safety you have given my brother life to bring your owne in danger and removed my greife which hereafter may be the cause of it to your selfe Sr thinke me unworthy but not a scorner of these favours were my sorrowes heaver Thus offerd t were but religion to bow and to receive 'em King You make us all happy and shew a virtue above your sex in being able so much to love and yet to loose a