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A53462	The history of Henry the Fifth ; and, The tragedy of Mustapha, son of Solyman the Magnificent as they were acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theater / written by the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery.	Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679.; Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679. Mustapha, the son of Solyman the Magnificent.	1668 (1668)	Wing O480; ESTC R22002	39,499	58

doubting adde not to his pain You cannot but know him in whom you reign Prin. Kath. Since he 'twixt France and all her safety stands How dares he trust his person in her hands King He who adores you and dares tell you so What is there after which he dare not do Prin. Kath. To what a streight Sir have you brought me too I must be false to France or false to you The Dauphin discovers himself Dauph I will enlarge you though you wicked grow In calling that a streight which was not so For she who doubts if evil she should act Does in that very doubt a guilt contract No wonder now that France is faln so low The Daughter of it treating thus our Foe Prin. Kath. Brother I nothing of his coming knew His being here surpriz'd me more then you Dauph Sister when he reveal'd himself your eyes Shew'd greater signs of liking then surprize And to convince me clearly of your crime You doubted if you should discover him King I shall want patience to attend this storm Prin. Kath. The only fault you should in me reform Is that I doubted whether I should do As it became the Sister Sir of you But to the King Heav'n will this truth averr I ne're would have reveal'd his being here My Father's vertue to the world is known Who to my falshood would not owe his Throne If acts of Treachery he does not hate What he now suffers he deserves from Fate Since by fair War France now assaulted is Let her sink lower or by Vertue rise To abject deeds I 'le never condescend Nor make the means unworthy of the end King Vertue a higher pitch did never rise It has a lustre which out-shines her Eyes Madam in saying what you pleas'd to say You broke that silence my respects did pay And now Sir something I shall let you see To make you grant you injur'd her and me Dauph Have you a Pass-port then for coming here King This is my Pass-port to go ev'ry where Who e're a Pass-port such as this can show Pointing to his Sword Will find all places safe or make 'em so And Sir it is by this that you must swear Not to reveal what you discover'd here This must be sworn and sworn without a pause Dauph You should subdue me e're you give me Laws Yet I will swear but 't is that to this chance I owe the pow'r to pay my debts to France Debts which so weighty were as I did bow More under them then France does under you Those debts which by a cruel Mother's sway Till now I to my Birth could never pay Fortune and Sister here I pardon you For all you did and all that you would do Since through her Blindness and your Treachery My self I single in condition see To make our France such a revenge receive As all her Swords in Battel could not give I only grieve one false to France and me Should of that justice th' only witness be But yet that cause of grief should dis-appear Since seeing of your death will punish her King Oh could I justly think my self so blest That what relates to me could touch her breast Though I should perish in this present strife My death would be more happy then my life But since no service I have paid her yet Can make me hope a happiness so great I 'le strive to merit that which you but fear By now revenging what you said to her But yet we should not fight she being by Dauph That is the reason why you here must dye Draws his Sword King Then Madam you 'l forgive me if I now King draws Defend that life which does belong to you Prin. Kath. Oh Heavens whom shall I call perhaps I may Saving my Brothers life the King betray Exit and enters again with La Marr. You broke your trust Think on the Kings high worth La Marr. Blamount's without and stays to lead him forth King closes with him and dis-armes him Prin. Kath. Go open strait the Garden Gallery Keep for the Kings escape the passage free First for my Brother in the Lobby stay La Marr. When he is gone I 'le shut it with this key Exit La Marr. Prin. Kath. My Brother is dis-arm'd what shall I do King Your life young Prince is at my mercy now Prin. Kath. Sir for my Brothers life let me implore Nature speaks now as Honour did before King I to your pleasure ever will submit 'T is to your blood you owe my sparing it Your life I give you at the Princess word And for her sake I here restore your Sword But Sir remember y' are oblig'd by me No more t' invade your Sisters privacy Nor practise to obstruct that passions way Which is a debt so due as I must pay These not observing my revenge shall prove As strong to you as she shall find my love But if in both your courtesie be shown What here has past shall vanish as unknown Dauph Your Fortune Sir is great o're France and me Great is your promise too of secresie But if I can my self with silence please You may thank that and not your Menaces Exit Dauphin Prin. Kath. I 'le follow him t' observe which way he takes Whilst for the King she th' other passage makes Sir you should stay a while I 'le straight return Exit King Oh Heavens why have I given her cause to mourn Blamount whose conduct did me hither bring Will surely with a Friend and with a King His promise keep which was to see me out I cannot his unblemish'd honour doubt But I will stay to speak with her though all The World were to be bury'd in my fall Enter Princess Madam Can you the cause in me forgive Which gave you terrours here and make you grieve When you he injures not much more then me Your presence will his Sanctuary be Prin. Kath. I will forgive you Sir all terrours here If by your quick return you 'l end my fear To all your longer stay Alarms will give My Brother's Nature is Vindicative I fear from his revenge all that is ill Here where he wants no pow'r to act his will King A greater ruine Madam I fore-see Then he though in this place can cast on me If I from hence should to my Camp remove Before I know how you receive my love Prin. Kath. The first day Sir you 'l think it were unfit I should do more then only know of it Nor have you any reason to despair When for your safety I express my care King Vertue may make you be my safeties friend But to what 's dearer to me I pretend My safety lies not in my going hence But in that blessing you may here dispence I would not safety without that enjoy And with it nought my safety can destroy Prin. Kath. I will say any thing you 'l have me say Rather then keep you here in ruines way But yet that what I speak may not a appear To

can give their pride content Queen Since these bold Foes take pleasure to make War Proud that they dare do worse then others dare And prouder with success let us provide T' advance our merit and debase their pride Burg. Madam in this just cause I shall afford Th' assistance of my Counsel and my Sword Queen It is on those my chief dependance lies For you my Lord both pow'rful are and wise Prepare for Action and let Treaties cease The wise may lose by War fools lose by Peace Burg. The better to obey what you desire Excuse me Madam if I now retire Exit Queen He being gone my Lord I 'le let you know What France and I do to this Lady owe. The Duke has broke the English Treaty now That to the Dauphin he may keep his Vow And false De Chastel made 'em both agree Out of my hands to force the regency And then between themselves they are to share The high employments both of Peace and War Const. This Duke does all my faculties amaze Yet still he lov'd to walk in crooked ways Queen They all shall sink and their own ruine find Within that depth which they for me design'd My Secretary Perrot understands The Art of counterfeiting Seals and hands I 'le make him straight write to the English King As from the Duke proposing every thing Which false De Chastel offer'd from my Son Yet when all promis'd by the King is done Though less then what my Son did e're propose Him he 'l forsake and with the English close La Marr shall entertain De Chastel so As of the Duke he may suspicious grow La Marr. Some doubts which seem perplex'd I will unfold I 'le say he with the King does Treaty hold Queen Which can no other way be brought to light But by those Letters ta'ne which he may write These Letters shall though forg'd authentick seem And must be intercepted too by him La Marr. This will between them raise a jealousie Const. And when that seed is sown 't will never dye The Dauphins Soul I never understood If he revenge not this affront with blood Queen My Lord withdraw and write with instant care Exit Constable The Letter for Du Perrot you La Marr Shall sooth De Chastel with your former Art And subtly play your self in all your part Exit La Marr. Great troubles to a Throne the way prepare And greater troubles must preserve us there Yet the Ambitious envy those who reign They know the Pomp of Crowns but not the pain Exit The Princess Katherine meeting Princess Anne Prin. Kath. Madam What News Prin. An. The worst that I could bring They have dissolv'd the Treaty with the King Peace is quite fled which did before but hide Her chearful face The Sword must all decide Thou forward hope Wars voice has call'd thee back Prin. Kath. I ne're could think suspence was such a rack Prin. An. Suspence in any thing a pain does prove But turns a torment when 't is mix'd with love Enter La Marr in haste La Marr. Madam I doubt the Queen and Duke have heard Of that disguise in which the King appear'd The busie Whisp'rers run from place to place And fear or news is seen in every Face Small Parties meet then to a throng they grow As Clouds unite before a storm does blow Enter Blamount Blam Madam I left the Dauphin with the Queen They have this morning in a Tempest been Their meeting was both violent and short Your Brother instantly will leave the Court He said he would no longer vainly strive But boldly take what some deny to give Safely the Duke th' event of this attends And his apartment fills with Guards and Friends Enter Earl Charelloys E. of Char. Madam just now I from the Dauphin came His Friends are kindled with his anger's flame He is to sudden Execution bent To Deeds so swift as he 'l too late repent He puts on wings for what he will pursue And says my Father does usurp his due And fierce De Chastel too which all admire Against his Nature strives to quench this fire Enter French Lady Lady Madam you are expected by the Queen Prin. Kath. This storm will fall as soon as it is seen My Lord I 'le strive to make the Queen apply To this distemper a quick remedy Charl. I 'le still near my suspicious Father stay Too much suspition does it self betray Prin. An. Brother I 'le follow Madam we in vain In storms of Love of other storms complain Love's Queen did rise from the Tempestuous Sea Which shews that Love in storms must ever be Exeunt Enter Tudor Tudor By what the King related I may see The Princess is for ever lost to me 'T is evident she has her Love resign'd To his great Title and his greater mind Why should I thus what she has done deplore She did but that which I had done before But Fate thou art unjust in making me To quit the Love yet keep the jealousie Which is of Loves fair tree the foulest fruit A Branch whose nourishment offends the root Shall jealousie a pow'r o're judgment gain Though it does only in the fancy reign With knowledge thou art inconsistent still The minds foul Monster whom fair truth does kill Thy tyranny subverts even Natures Laws For oft thou hast effects without a cause And which thy strength or weakness does detect Thou often hast a cause without effect In all thou dost thou ever dost amiss Seest what is not or seest not that which is Whilst thou dost live sickness does thee pursue And he who cures thee needs must kill thee too Enter King King Tudor you must not think my Friendship rude Though it pursue you to your solitude Some fatal sorrow has your heart opprest Divide it and send half into my Breast Tudor What is it can invade me in excess But joy whilst I your favour Sir possess King If my warm favour has your blessing made Why leave you then that Sun to seek this shade Tudor Sir from your bounties I retire to show I would prevent th' increase of what I owe. I study here to pay my former score And I avoid your making of it more King Tudor I no such answer will admit I must be paid with truth and not with wit The truth of Friendship has forsook the Earth Thou dost dissemble thy accustom'd mirth A sudden sigh does thy feign'd smiles detect Nature betrays more Art then I suspect Tudor Let me not Sir be for that shape despis'd In which I am ev'n to my self disguis'd King Friendship above all tyes does bind the heart And faith in Friendship is the noblest part 'T is ill unaskt not to have told your pain But worse when askt if your excuses feign Farewel frail man our Friendship here must end You wrong your Honour when you wrong a Friend King offers to go out Tudor Stay Sir and to your vertue I 'le unfold The saddest story that was ever

do I then propos'd we all should flye to you As the securest way to scape his rage And so your Vertue by our trust engage Vertue so known as would her fears controul King Trust is the strongest Bond upon the Soul That sacred Tye has Vertue oft begot It binds where 't is and makes it where 't was not Charl. I said she might to break her Son's design Give you for Bride the Princess Katherine And urge th' Estates t' entail the Crown on you This to your right that to your love is due This done what could resist your Arms and mine As she consider'd how she should incline Clermount came in disguis'd in whose known care Her Wealth and Jewels lay who did declare Her Treasure was surpriz'd by some who said That they the Dauphin in that act obey'd Who would employ that wealth vilely procur'd So as that France should have her peace assur'd King The Dauphin in his rage or want has done What was below him as a Prince or Son Charl. Though she this wrong and loss did calmly bear Yet the high Dictates of Revenge and Fear Made her resolve immediately to do What I with reason first advis'd her to And now at Troy the Queen and Princess are To which the Dauphin will Transport the War A Garrison of mine secures that Town And since 't is mine you know it is your own King 'T is chiefly to your favour I must owe My being blest in Love and Conquest too Charl. 'T were fit Sir that you sent some Troops of Horse The Garrison of Troy to re-inforce King I 'le lead them Sir my self all that are mine In France aae but the Guards of Katherine My Duty else she might in question bring Charl. 'T is spoken like a Lover and a King Blamount I 'le send before that she may know What Honour to her you intend to do Exit Blamount When you to Troy are come it shall appear I will perform more then I promis'd here King You may augment my debt as you think fit But nothing can encrease my sense of it Unless your favour Sir I could incline To make my Brother's joys keep time with mine His Love to Princess Anne wants your consent Charl. She made me in their Loves her confident And in your Brother I shall think her blest King This Sir unites our bloods and interest Bedf. This grant great Prince my happiness secures King It makes my happiness as much as yours Now Tudor if our prosp'rous Stars design That we shall both see beauteous Katherine I will perform all that I promis'd thee And when thy story she has heard from me In which by all her truth I 'le do thee right We then our Supplications will unite That she our Judge will only him prefer Whom she believes is least unworthy her Without regarding in the cause we bring That thou my Subject art or I thy King Tudor In Vertue Sir so much you me out-shine That you all other Motives may decline King Brother 't is fit the Duke with you and I Should on the Princess wait immediately Tudor's Brigade the Princess Guard shall be And with the Army you must follow me Exeunt Enter Queen Princess Katherine Princess Anne Countess La Marr. Queen Our sins make us defenceless and we flye For our protection to our Enemy Thy Laws Oh Heav'n have I offended so That thou hast made my Son my greatest Foe Into the World I have the Monster brought And now no suff'rings can transcend that fault Prin. Kath. Madam you make whilst thus you bear his crime Our grief more just for you then yours for him La Marr. If he should hear you grieve in this excess The triumph of his malice would increase Prin. An. My Duty has th' assault of grief withstood For since his fury shed my Fathers blood That wasted time which you employ to grieve I to design'd revenge more justly give Let all your sorrow in such thoughts expire Queen Grief is the Fuel and Revenge the fire Prin. An. Think then on all the Crimes which he has done And let those thoughts cancel the name of Son Queen Since faln so low from what is great or good I hate his Crimes more then I love his blood Enter Blamount Blam Madam my Duty has provok'd my speed The King and Duke most strictly are agreed And both this night will wait upon you here Queen This happy news suppresses all my fear And makes me hope assisted by their Fate That I shall live to punish what I hate Blam Those Troops now on their March he does design As Guards t' attend the Princess Katherine And therefore would not send but leads them here That his respect and love may both appear Queen We were when to this Monarch we did trust Kind to our selves and to his Vertue just Blamount for his reception straight prepare All that can joy and our respect declare Daughter you must a while retire with me I have some Words which need your privacy Exeunt Enter Constable and Bishop of Arras Arras Our Ecclesiastick States are all agreed This day the Dauphin for his bloody deed Will summon'd be to answer what was done Const. I have the Peers to that conclusion won And those who represent the Commons too Will now not slowly yield to what we do I 'le lose my judgment if he dares appear Arras He loses his and life in coming here This murder has incens'd them to the heighth Const. All hate a Prince who violates his Faith The peoples temper does occasion give T' obey those orders we did now receive I find already that the most incline The King should marry Princess Katherine And on their Issue would the Crown entail Arras The Dauphin's crime will make that King prevail Const. Rather then bow beneath a Murd'rers pow'r Let 's to the Throne advance our Conquerour The Queen and Duke expect it at your hands Arras I never durst obey unjust commands Const. Do you then think that those commands are such Arras If you think so my Lord you wrong me much My judgement by a better guide was led When I our Annals and Records had read For then I doubted that since Charls the Fair Our Kings insensibly Usurpers were The Crown if truth did dictate what I read Belong'd to the Victorious Edward's head Which no prescription from his Line should take I 'le therefore to this change no scruple make But if the Dauphin were the rightful Heir You might of my obedience then despair For Reason's Maxim I must ever own No King can make a forfeit of his Crown Much less can I admit the States Decree Has power to give away this Monarchie Const. My justice shall now I am taught by you Perform what I resolv'd revenge should do My Lord let 's go where all our Friends are met And jointly pay to Heav'n this double debt Exeunt Enter King Princess Katherine Tudor King Madam I have injurious been to him As far

depose the Child adore Your Love will be in proofs of hatred shown You on her Countries ruines build her Throne This strange design Sir does my wonder raise King A Love like mine moves not in common waies Such unexampl'd things I 'le strive to do That when I reach to what I now pursue When men name one who lov'd to a degree Ne're known before they 'l say he lov'd like me Prepare thy self to go within an hour To the French Court as my Embassadour And let them know if they resign up France Mine both by Conquest and Inheritance They shun such force as cannot be withstood They shew their justice and they spare their blood Success now asks but what I ask'd before Tudor He that at first ask'd all can ask no more Much is not in the proffer I shall make King Yes it is much to ask what I can take And to accept from them that Crown which I Have giv'n me from the hand of Victory Tudor in this they cannot but confess I make my mercy hinder my success Tudor It might be then convenient that I try'd T' obtain with France the Princess for your Bride Since you as well for her as France contend Without her you 'l not reach your noblest end King She justly Tudor might my passion hate If Love's high int'rest I should mix with state If I this great concern by Treaty move 'T will be below her Beauty and my Love That blessing must in nobler ways be sought Though Heav'n may be bestow'd 't is never bought But that which chiefly makes me send thee now Is that my Friend should let my Princess know My flames are such as Martyr'd Saints sustain The glory of them takes away the pain Exeunt Tudor Was ever such a Curse impos'd by Fate His favour wounds much deeper then his hate I must unworthy or else wretched prove Be false to Honour or else false to Love To which of both shall I precedence give I 'm kill'd by this by that unfit to live But stay why should not I even I alone Raise Love and Honour to a height unknown If for his sake my passion I forego In that great Act I pay him all I owe Who for his King against his Love does act Pays Debts much greater then he can contract Nor are these all th' advantages will flow From that great action I intend to do If I her right above my Love prefer In that by losing I shall merit her And to obtain not merit her will prove Less then to lose her and deserve her Love 'T is worthy of my flame and of her eyes To make love be to love a sacrifice Exeunt Enter Queen Duke of Burgundy the Constable Earl of Charaloys and Count de Chastel Queen The fatal cause why we assemble now We by the worst of sad experience know Heav'n does at once on this our Empire showre All the fierce marks of anger and of power The King my Lord whose head and heart and hand Should be imploy'd our ruine to withstand Under his old disease still worser grows Yields to his pain as France does to his Foes Yet is he not unhappy in that state Which makes him not to feel the wounds of Fate The Dauphin whose green years make him unfit In such a storm at Empires helm to sit Yet for that great and dang'rous place does press And missing it forsake us in distress As these two miseries assault us here So th' English late success fills all with fear Yet France surviving such destructive blows Ev'n in her ruine still her greatness shows By your wise help she hopes yet to be freed And on your breasts she leans her weary head Shall we again by Battel try our Fate Or with the English King Capitulate Const. Our shoulders but attend for heavier weight If in the Field we shun to try our Fate For doubtless Madam he less Vertue shows Who yields to than who falls by fortunes blows Rome though she lost four Fields to Hannibal Her valour rais'd ev'n in her Fortunes fall Her steady vertue did all storms suppress And made her Empress of the Universe I would not doubt but we at length should find A Roman Fate had we a Roman mind De Chast. Those who too hastily with Victors treat Make them too proud who were before too great Such condiscention would to fear dispose Your Subjects hearts and elevate your Foes Let not Posterity have cause to say That you lost France and lost her in one day Const. The chance of Arms are still alternative Fortune one day does take next day does give And all the English fame will be o'rethrown If we of twenty Fields can win but one All thoughts of Treaties Madam then despise Which but excuses fear whilst we seem wise Burg. Madam what the great Constable does say Becomes that place you rais'd him to this day He who the head of all your Armies is Safe Counsels should obey but not advise If to my judgment you will please to trust Chuse not what great appears but what is just Madam it is alone by Arms you reign O're Anjou Normandy and Aquitane Those three the noblest Provinces of France Are th' English King 's confest Inheritance What-ever of prescription Gown-men write Yet length of time changes not wrong to right Why should you not er'e things are desp'rate grown By giving what is his preserve your own Keeping those Countries will at last be found A Gangreen the corrupt will eat the sound Ear. of Char. Justice is more then but an empty word Therefore whilst that assists the English Sword Success will alwaies to their side resort And every Field will be an Agin-Court Burg. Can Councils prosp'rous be or Armies strong Both aiming to perpetuate a wrong If after this fair offer he pursue The War our Swords will act what his does now If he accepts it as no doubt he must You will be safe as soon as you are just Pursue the Acts of Justice those alone Have pow'r to save and to exalt a Throne Enter Blamount Blam Young Tudor is arriv'd and craves to be With speed admitted to your Majesty By those few words which have between us past I find his message does require some haste Queen Know you what 't is which does him hither bring Blam Some overtures of peace from th' English King Blamount whispers in the Queens Ear. Queen Yes I consent and give her notice I Expect she should receive him civilly Exit Blamount My Lords I find your judgments various are Two are for Treaty th' other two for War Such reasons you for both opinions give That I with reason either may receive But Tudor being come does surely bring Something important from the English King 'T is fit our resolutions we defer Till I his bus'ness in his message hear Exeunt Enter Princess Katherine and Blamount Blam Madam what I have said the Queen will own Prin. Kath. What That with Tudor I should speak