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Certaine small poems lately printed with the tragedie of Philotas. Written by Samuel Daniel.; Selections
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Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.
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disgraced cause would let The language of my hart be vnderstood Is all which I haue euer sought to get And which o leaue mee now and take my bloud Let not your enuy go beyond the bound Of what you seeke my life stands in your way That is your ayme take it and do not wounde My reputation with that wrong I pray If I must needes be made the sacrifice Of enuy and that no oblation will The wrath of Kings but onely bloud suffize Yet let me haue something left that is not ill Is there no way to get vnto our liues But first to haue our honour ouerthrowne Alas though grace of Kings all greatnesse giues It cannot giue vs vertue that 's our owne Though all be theirs our harts and hands can do Yet that by which we doo is onely ours The trophies that our blood erects vnto Their memory to glorifie their powres Let them inioy yet onely to haue done Worthy of grace let not that be vndone Let that high swelling riuer of their fame Leaue humble streames that feed them yet their name O my deare father didst thou bring that spirit Those hands of vallour that so much haue done In this great worke of Asia this to merit By dooing worthily to be vndone And hast thou made this purchase of thy sword To get so great an Empire for thy Lord And so disgrac'd a graue for thee and thine T' extinguish by thy seruice all thy line One of thy sonnes by being to valourous But fiue daies since yet ô well lost his breath Thy deare Nicanor th' halfe arch of thy house And here now the other at the barr of death Stands ouerchardgd with wrath in far worse case And is to be confounded with disgrace Thy selfe must giue th' acquitance of thy blood For others debts to whom thou hast done good Which if they would a little time afford Death would haue taken it without a sword Such the rewards of great imployments are Hate kills in peace whom fortune spares in war And this is that high grace of Kings we seeke Whose fauour and whose wrath consumes a like Eph. Lo here the misery of kings whose cause How euer iust it be how euer strong Yet in respect they may their greatnesse drawes The world to thinke they euer do the wrong But this foule fact of yours you stand vpon Philotas shall beside th' apparancy Which all the world sees plaine ere we haue done By your owne mouth be made to satisfie The most stiffe partialist that will not see Phi. My mouth will neuer proue so false I trust Vnto my hart to shew it selfe vniust And what I here do speake I know my lords I speake with mine owne mouth but other where What may be said I say may be the words Not of my breath but fame that oft doth erre Let th' oracle of Ammon be inquired About this fact who if it shall be true Will neuer suffer those who haue conspird Against Ioues sonne t' escape without their due But will reueale the truth or if this shall Not seeme conuenient why then lay on all The tortures that may force a tongue to tell The secret'st thought that could imagin ill Bel. What need we sēd to know more then we know That were to giue you time t' acquaint your friends With your estate till some combustion grow Within the camp to hasten on your ends And that the gold and all the treasury Committed to your fathers custody In Media now might arme his desp'rat troupes To come vpon vs and to cut our throtes What shall we aske of Ioue that which he hath Reueald already but let 's send to giue Thanks that by him the king hath skapt the wrath Of thee disloyall traitor and doth liue Guar. Le ts teare the wretch in peeces let vs rend With our owne hands the traitrous paracide Alex. Peace Belon silence louing souldiers You see my lords out of your iudgments graue That all excuses sickly colours haue And he that hath thus false and faithles bene Must finde out other gods and other men Whom to forsweare and whom he may deceiue No words of his can make vs more belieue His impudence and therefore seeing t is late We till the morning do dismisse the court ACTVS 5. Chorus Grecian and Persian Per. WEll then I see there is small difference Betwixt your state and ours you ciuill Greeks You great contriuers of free gouerments Whose skill the world from out all countries seekes Those whom you call your kings are but the same As are our soueraigne tirants of the East I see they onely differ but in name Th' effects they shew agree or neere at least Your great men here as our great Satrapaes I see laid prostrate are with basest shame Vpon the least suspect or iealousies Your King t' conceive or others enuyes frame Onely herein they differ that your Prince Proceeds by forme of law t' effect his end Our Persian Monarch makes his frowne conuince The strongest truth his sword the proces ends With present death and maks no more adoo He neuer stands to giue a glosse vnto His violence to make it to appeare In other hew then that it ought to beare Wherein plaine dealing best his course commends For more h' offends who by the law offends What neede hath Alexander so to striue By all these shewes of forme to find this man Guilty of treason when he doth contriue To haue him so adiudgd do what he can He must not be acquit though he be clere Th' offendor not th' offence is punisht here And what availes the fore-condemnd to speake How euer strong his cause his state is weake Gre. Ah but it satisfies the world and wee Think that well don which done by law we see Per. And yet your law serues but your priuate ends And to the compasse of your powre extends But is it for the maiesty of Kings To sit in iudgments thus themselues with you Gre. To do men iustice is the thing that bringes The greatest maiesty on earth to Kings Per. That by their subalternate ministers May be performed as well and with more grate For to command it to be don infers More glory then to doo It doth imbase Th' opinion of a powre t' inuulgar so That sacred presence which should neuer go Neuer be seene but even as Gods below Like to our Persian Kings in glorious show And who as starres affixed to their Sphere May not descend to be from what they are Gre. Where kings are so like gods there subiects are not men Per. Your king begins this course what wil you be thē Gre. Indeed since prosperous fortune gaue the raine To head-strong powre and lust I must confesse We Grecians haue lost deepely by our gayne And this our greatnesse makes vs much the lesse For by th' accession of these mighty states Which Alexander wonderously hath got He hath forgot himselfe and vs and rates His state aboue mankind and ours at noughs This hath
to the safetie of the state in the case of so great an aspirer who no doubt had he not beene preuented hosoeuer popularly in the Armie it might be otherwise deemed he had turnd the course of gouernment ment vpon his Father and himselfe or else by his imbroylments made it a monster of many heads as it afterwards proued vpon the death of Alexander The Chorus consisting of three Graecians as of three estates of a Kingdome and one Persian representing the multitude and body of a people who vulgarlie according to their affections carryed rather with compassion on great mens misfortunes then with the consideration of the cause frame their imaginations by that square and censure what is done The names of the Actors Philotas Cebalinus Chalisthenes Polidamas Alexander Nichomachus Ephestion Metron Craterus Thais a Curtizan Antigone sometimes one of the concubines of Darius Attarras Clitus Sostratus Perdiccas Chorus 3. Graecians and a Persian THE TRAGEDIE of PHILOTAS ACTVS I. Philotas Chalisthenes Philotas reading his Fathers letter MAke thy selfe lesse Philotas then thou art What meanes my father thus to write to me Lesse then I am in what how can that bee Must I be then set vnderneath my hart Shall I let go the holde I haue of grace Gaynd with so hard aduentures of my bloud And suffer others mount into my place And from below looke vp to where I stood Shall I degrade th' opinion of my worth By putting off imployment as vndone In spirit or grace whilst other men set forth To get that start of action I haue wonne As if such men as I had any place To stay betwixt their ruine and their grace Can any go beyond me but they will Goe ouer me and trample on my state And make their fortune good vpon my ill Whilst feare hath powre to wound me worse thē hate Ch. Philotas you deceiue your selfe in this Your father meanes not you should yeeld in place But in your popular dependences Your entertainments guifes and publique grace That doth in iealous Kings distaste the Peeres And makes you not the greater but in feares Phi. Alas what popular dependences Do I retaine can I shake off the zeale Of such as do out of their kindnesses Follow my fortunes in the common-weale Cha. Indeed Philotas therein you say true They follow do your fortunes and not you Phi. Yea but I find their loue to me sincere Cha. Euen such as to the Wolfe the Fox doth beare That visits him but to pertake his pray And seeing his hopes deceiu'd turnes to betray Phi. I know they would if I in danger stood Runne vnto me with hazard of their bloud Cha. Yea like as men to burning houses run Not to lend ayde but to be lookers on Phi. But I with bountie and with guifts haue tyde Their harts so sure I know they will not slide Cha. Bounty guifts loose more then they do find Where many looke for good few haue their mind Each thinkes he merits more then than he hath And so guifts laid for loue do catch men wrath Phi. But many meerely out of loue attend Cha. Yea those that loue and haue no other end Thinke you that men can loue you when they know You haue them not for friendship but for show And as you are ingag'd in your affaires And haue your ends thinke likewise they haue theirs Phi. But I do truly from my hart affect Vertue and worth where I do finde it set Besides my foes do force me in effect To make my partie of opinion great And I must arme me thus against their scornes Men must be shodd that go among the thornes Cha. Ah good Philotas you your selfe be guile T is not the way to quench the fire with oyle The meeke and humble Lambe with small adoo Sucks his owne dam we see and others too In Courtes men longest liue and keepe their rankes By taking iniuries and giuing thankes Phi. And is it so then neuer are these haires Like to attaine that sober hew of gray I cannot plaster and disguise m' affaires In other coulours then my hart doth lay Nor can I patiently indure this fond And strange proceeding of authoritie That hath ingrost vp all into their hand By idoliuing feeble maiestie And impiously do labour all they can To make the King forget he is a man Whilst they deuide the spoyles and pray of powre And none at all respect the publique good Those hands that guard and get vs what is our The Solderie ingag'd to vent their bloud In worse case seeme then Pallas old-growne Moyle Th' Athenians fostred at their publique cost For these poore soules consum'd with tedious toile Remayne neglected hauing done their most And nothing shall bring home of all these wars But emptie age and bodies chardgd with skarres Ch. Philotas all this publique care I feare Is but some priuat touch of your dislike Who seeing your owne designes not stand to square With your desires no others courses like The griefe you take things are not ordred well Is that you feele your selfe I feare not well But when your fortunes shall stand parallel With those you enuy now all will be well For you great men I see are neuer more Your ends attain'd the same you were before You with a finger can point out the staynes Of others errors now and now condem The traine of state whilst your desire remaines without But once got in you iumpe with them And interleague ye with iniquity And with a like neglect do temporize And onely serue your owne commodity Your fortune then viewes things with other eyes For either greatnesse doth transforme the hart Int' other shapes of thoughts or certaynly This vulgar honesty doth dwell apart From powre and is some priuate quallity Or rather those faire parts which we esteeme In such as you are not the same they seeme You double with your selues or els with vs And therefore now Philotas euen as good T imbrace the times as swell and do no good Ph. Alas Chalisthenes you haue not layde True leuell to my nature but are wide From what I ame within all you haue sayde Shall neuer make me of another side Then that I am and I do skorne to clyme By shaking hands with this vnworthy time Ch. The time Philotas then will break thy neck Ph. They dare nor freind my faith wil keep my neck My seruice to the state hath causioned So surely for myne honor as it shall Make good the place my deedes haue purchased With daunger in the loue and harts of all Ch. Those seruices will serue as waights to charge And presle you vnto death if your foot faile neuer so little vnderneath your charge And will be deem'd donne for your owne auayle And who haue spirits to do the greatest good May do most hurt if they remaine not good Ph. Tush They cannot want my seruice in the state Ch These times want not men to supply the state Ph. I feare not whilst Parmenios