H 'as vow'd destruction to your name and ashes Clot. Let them come on wee 'l dare them do their worst This Castle will indure a fortnights siege Before the expiration of which time My Brother with his fellow Peers of France Shall whip these Rebels for their insolence Know'st thou ought else why dost thou shake thy head 2 Sould. Fly fly my Lord. Enter another Souldier Clot. Villain it is no language for a Prince strikes him 2 Sould. Then stand upon your guard yet that 's as bad The Castle 's wall'd about with walking steel And you but tempt your death in your escape If you stay here provoke it The Monsiur like the God of war bestrides A bounding Courser who is therefore proud To be so back'd as knowing whom he bears So Centaur-like he 's anckor'd to his seat As he had twind with the proud steed he rides on He grows unto his saddle all one piece And that unto his Horse who thus unmov'd Sits like a Persons on his Pegasus Stable and fleet Who at head of all his Troops With words inflames 'em that did burn before But now appear much brighter their glistering arms Reflecting ' gainst the Sun doth lightning mock Unto which blaze their Drums and Horses hoofs Do not want much of Thunder such is the show As if great Mars angry with humane race Did lead the Gods to battel ' gainst the Earth Eu. How does your Grace how fares your Majestie Clot. The Monsiur did he not name the Monsiur 2 Sould. I did my Lord. Clot. Is he joyned with them too Then Dooms-day is at hand I see my ruine Go to the Castle walls to summon them To render an accompt of their intents Ask the proud Monsiur though I know the cause Looks on Aphelia Why his presumptious and ambitious feet Have on the bosome of his mother earth Made a broad road of treason go begone Exe. Souldiers Castrato thou dost love me i 'm sure thou dost I have such proofs of thy true hearted-hearted-love That I must put my life into thy hands Thou see'st how all things stand my wife she 's false Her brother seeks my life the Monsiur's thoughts Back'd with the ever factious souls of France Aim at the Gallick Crown and dignitie Whil'st I a catiff and neglected Prince Must fall by traytors hands Eu. What mean you sir Clot. Look here 's a Pistoll in whose womb lies death A heavie leaden sleep Eu. Would you I should Trie the conclusion here make her confesse By other instruments her horrid guilt In this there 's too much mercy Clot. Hear me speak I 'l trouble her no further let her sin Be punish'd from above I 'l wait heavens leisure Here Eunuch take thou this it was prepar'd For the adulterate Landrey here receive it And if thou lov'st me use it upon me Come shoot me through I know I shall be slain If not by thee yet by the enemie And therefore to prevent the bitter scorn Of the insulting foe which is a death So full of horror to the conquer'd No Tyranny is like it use this handfull The handsom'st weed that nature can produce In the large Storehouse of her providence Can shew no simple like it for this cures At once the sicknesse of the mind and body Thou shalt I know thou wilt I prethee take it It is not murder tender-hearted fool Which thou commits rather a sacrifice For which heaven will reward thee Eu. I do not know the nature of your Gods Yet on your words I 'l trie their kindnesse Clot. Nobly resoly'd come shoot me quickly then Eu. I never was liker t' express my selfe Than at this minute do not betray me tears aside The Eunuchs nature must be harsh and cruell Aphe O spare him Eunuch spare him save my Lord And I 'l forgive thee all thy sins ' gainst me Eu. Peace foollsh woman 't is thou that kill'st thy Lord Were 't not for thee he might live long and happy Pray let me kisse your hand and take my leave Of my best best Master Clot. Do 't and be sudden then ah what means this as he kisses his hand he snatches out his sword Eu. Marry sir this it means That if this fail this shall perform the deed Think not but I will kill you do not fear I am the excellent'st he alive at these same toyes Look here my coufin'd fool I do not bungle shews Landrey and the Queen Clot. Are these dead then Eu. As sure as you live pray ask them else Unlesse this Ewes flesh too intense in heat Be lingring yet behind she 's scarcely dead But in her dying ears I 'l howl this noise Look Queen here 's the top-branch of all thy Family Mark but how kindly for thy sake'i'l use him Clot. Then I perceive I have been much abus'd So ha's my chaster Queen oh my curst fate Eu. Oh do you so do you so Qu. Oh oh oh Queen dyes Eu. There broke a Strumpets heart hear me King Thy Mother was a foul adulteress A cruel butcherer of innocents Witnesse thy brother that thy Mother's false Witnesse thine own eyes that beheld the fall And ruine of the Dumain amily Thy Mother 's deep in blood for which she 's damn'd You ravisht fair Chrotilda Clodimir Your valiant Uncle brother to this Queen Was for the foul fact slain for which mistake Dumain Lamot Maria Isabel And the abus'd Chrotilda if by flight She had not sav'd her life had fall'n with them I knowing this and ever pittying The wrongs that they indur'd Have found it time thus to revenge them Clot. What were their wrongs to thee Eu. I 'l not Capitulate mine injuries hear a March softly within I hear my time is short Clot. How fain would I preserve my life from death Since my Aphelia's chast to think her false Not that I fear the foe made me dispair Of future comfort Eunuch spare my life I will forgive thee and reward thee too Remember who it is that sues to thee Eu. In that remembrance I have lost my self I cannot strike him my relenting heart Yerns on his Princely person take your sword But on condition Clotair thou shalt swear By thy descent thy princely parentage By the wrong'd souls of all those innocents To thy lust satisfi'd by Aphelia's self Or any thing thy soul shall hold more dear Upon receipt to guide the fatal point Directly to thy heart Clot. Why would'st thou so Eu. Pish I 'l teach thee to be speedy in the fact Remember how thy Royall Father fell Behold thy Mother murther'd by this hand Into thy bosome cast thine inward eyes And view the sorrows I have heaped on thee Look on Aphelia and let her wrongs Prompt thy slow hand to this most timely flaughter I cannot brook delay or do or suffer Clot. A Heathen and a Traytor die with thee Eu. A Christian Heathen Clotair if thou wilt Made so by thee read that and break thy heart Enter the Monsieur and his Comp. Mo.
dread Lanove the news En. Lanove the Monsiure Lamot others Monsi Brissac Dumain Martel and you the rest Think not I come a Traytor to your Camp I cannot gild my speech with eloquence If this will serve you sir I am a friend Bris The Monsiur's welcome and his worth will grace The dignity of this dayes work in hand Monsi My almost Brother once suffice I thank you And fairly greet this brave assembly Whose souls do look for stirring opposites When your resistance I fear will be slender But were they centupul'd I 'l fight your cause Kings arm their subjects when they break their laws Omnes Long live the Monsiure Monsi Lead on away Exeunt omnes SCEN. II. Enter the Eunuch Whilst the waits play sosily and solemn'y drawes the Canopie where the Queen sits at one end bound with Landrey at the other both as a sleep Eu. Here sits our Beldam dieted for Venerie And by her her Landrey not sur feited Her Ladyship 's allou'd a mouldie crust He stinking water to peece out his life Between them both they banquet like one slave Condemn'd perpetually to the Burdello They think I know not that they thus are us'd When it is ouely I that use them thus How wickedly they look oh I could laugh To hear them rail at others misery He curses her and she sooth curses him And both each other damn for their offences Learn ye that pamper up your flesh for lust The Eunuch in his wickedness is just Play louder they sleep too long Qu. A mischief take thee keeper hardned dog Whom no distress can melt or mollifie The cruell King doth not deny us sleep Although the Nursers of it food and ease Eu. Peace peace ye villains cease that ruder noise That breaks your softer slumbers gentle Queen I am not guilty of these harsh-voic'd words Your wilder sence hurls at me you mistake I am your Eunuch one that weeps for you Qu. Oh Castrato wast not those tears in vain Come hither and I 'l catch those falling drops Which prodigally over-flow their banks There 's Nectar in thine eye oh let me drink it These aged Cesterns are grown drie and yeeld Not one relenting drop to ease my thirst Castrato pitty me my veins are parcht And this same flesh which walls about my soul Chops with excessive heat a little water Castrato but a little though it hath been The birth of Toads or what the leapers bath'd in O shew thy love but in a little water What can a Queen ask lesse or subject grant her Eu Though I be tortur'd for it yet I 'l do it Ex Ennuch Qu. It hath quencht half my thirst to find some pitty Land I cannot bite mine arm their tyrannie Denyes me what 's mine own to feed upon One mouthfull would suffice I cannot get it Poor unfed sides that passe along the street I now am sensible of what ye want Did I e'r think to die for want of food Whose Table was the world from whence I cull'd The rarities of nature to delight me And more to feed my lust than Appetite One bit of bread though it were gray with age Hoary and crusted with a second bark Whose loathed outside would not court a Dog Arm'd with the edge of appetite would seem A rare rich banquet to my emptie gorge Oh I am worn to nothing with this want Such emptiness ha's hunger made of me That you may draw me on another man Some bread some bread Enter Eunuch with Wine and Meat he congees with great reverence and ceremony to the Queen Qu. Oh thou art welcome Quick dear Eunuch quick what needs this delay A way with form and ceremonious duty Respect in this is too respectless Eu. O give me leave I will begin a heald It 's very good exceeding pleasant Wine Qu. Dost thou deride my sufferance Eu. No no not I. Qu. Give me the drink then i 'm all flame and fire Eu. Say you so say you so then you must pardon me I love your safety and it 's dangerous To drink while you are hot pray cool and tarry In the mean while I will begin to you How tart and pleasing this is to the Palate A sweeter Pheasant Christendom affords not Land I thank thee Eunuch prethee give it me Eu. You 'l let me tast it for you will you not Are you so sharply set fie this sauce is naught Land Prethee make hast hunger digest's no tasters Eu. Come sir I must feed you oh oh not so fast Be not so hasty here still you are too hasty he puts it to his mouth puls it away again Gentle sir it will digest the better Land More more oh it is excellent Eu. Madam here 's for you now Qu May heaven reward thee for 't oh it 's rare Eu. How do you like your banquet great Landrey Land Beyond compare Eu. And you your drink Qu. The Gods tast not the like Eu. Ha ha ha y'have both eat and drunk abominable poyson Qu. Ha! Land How Eu 'T is true I tell your Oracle There 's not an hours life between ye both The poyson's sure I did prepare it for ye And have my self taken an Antidote What say'now to th' other bout with Landrey I can procure a second meeting for you Indeed I can think you not whoredome sweet Now you are a dying is not you soul at ease The murther of your Husband but a toy A flea-biting alack you feel it not Qu. Inhumane slave treacherous Rascal Eu. Good words Lady whore good words what are you loose Landrey gets loose Miraculous famine ha's your empty guts Perswaded you to valour will it scratch or bite I 'm sure't has no weapon Monsiure disarm it shews a keen knife which he pulls out of his sleeve staggers with faintness Lan. He did so Rascal yet your curious search Ne'r pri'd into this sheath do you see this With mine own hands it had let forth mine own life Had the proud Monsiure trusted us to any Thy self excepted whom I now perceive The onely Author of our misery The Eunuch tript up his heels in scuffle and sits on him You 'r very nimble Hell-hound Eu. O Lord sir you know the cause I 'm lighter by a stone or two than you Yet I am weight enough to keep you down Stir and thou dy'st now sir what say you to me How did you like your old Queen was she gamesome Did she apply her self like an apt whore Unto your loose imbraces Land Dog let me rest Eu. Good my Lord pardon me Under your Graces favour be it spoken You are our cushion and I 'l sit on you I am not very heavie and I sir joults upon him I do not altogether weigh a man Qu. Villanous Traytor O let him rise and wreck thy spite on me Eu. You cog now you 'd rather I should kill Qu. O spare him spare him Eunuch save my servant And I 'l forgive thee all thy sinnes against me There 's not an
Force ope the door seiz on his Royal person now Clotair Thou are the Monsieur 's pris'ner Tyrant say Where is Aphelia your Adulteres stands amaz'd Clot. It makes no matter where Bris O my dear Sister O my dearest life Dum. See Noble Lords Here lies that Hel-hound Eunuch villain up And tell us who ha's done these fatall deeds Eu. They 'r ne'r ali'd to thee that did these Acts Chrotilda and a woman Dum. Villain thou li'st my sister 's gone a weary pilgrimage And for this many years with grief I speak it Been travel'd none knows where Clot. What am I What strange and uncouth thing Eu. A ravisher And better to instruct thee in thy self Had not Chrotilda been incestuous Omnes Hold hold your Royal hand what will you do Clot. What else but follow her shall Clotair live A Captive to his Brother slav'd to sin Inthral's in wedlock that 's incestuous O ravisher and murtherer of his friend There 's no way left to rid me but my sword Of all these ills at once Oh wrong'd Chrotilda Dum. My sister Clot I Dumain no Eunuch she No sun-burnt vagabond of Aethiope Though entertain'd for such by Fredigond I say here lies thy ravisht sister slain By me the ravisher Dum. Hold hold my heart Eu. Lend me thy hand Clotair have I thy hand Clot. Thou most abus'd of womenkind thou hast Eu. I should have kill'd thee King and had put on A masculine spirit to perform the deed Alas how frail our resolutions are A womans weakness conquer'd my revenge I 'd spirit enough to quit my Fathers wrongs And they which should have seen me act that part Would not believe I should so soon prove haggard But there is something dwels upon thy brow Which did perfwade me to humanitie Thou injur'dst me and yet I spar'd thy life Thou injurd'st me yet I would fall by thee And like to my soft sex I fall and perish Clot. Speak for ever speak Chrotilda Chrotilda Dum. My Sister 's in mine eies this brave revenge Should have been mine and not thy act Chrotilda Away salt rhume Chrotilda laughs at thee Her spirit is more manly Aphe I must weep too Mine injuries and hers are so near kin That they must bear each other company In tears of blood and death For my griev'd heart too long with earth Would gladly seek a way to find out rest Clot. Art thou joyn'd with her too against thy self Will my Aphelia leave me pardon sweet My love is fatall and too well thou know'st The deadly proof in fair Chrotilda death Yet leave me not though I refrain thy bed And must abandon all those thoughts of love Which married couples use yet we may sit And gaze upon each other tell sad tales Of ruin'd Princes wrong'd Virginitie And when our utterance is tyr'd by speech Wee 'l sit and sigh a sad parenthesis And then proceed again then sigh again A silent Chorus to our History Our tears shall keep our sorrows ever green Still springing never ripe shall we do thus To lengthen out our grief Aphe For ever King The hand of heaven lies on me for I feel My in ward and externall injuries Wrestle with life in which condition My soul is woried by that Tyrant death I must forsake thee Clotair Clot. Stay awhile it is unkindly done to leave me thus O she is gone for ever ever gone And I stand prating here between them both The fatall cause of death unto them both Wilt thou not break proud heart I prethee break Prove not a Rebell to thy Prince like these It 's well there is some loyaltie in thee yet Thou art commanded by me the King faints Bris Gracious my Liege Clot. Charles I have injur'd thee and thee Dumain Can ye forgive me Bris Good your Grace Call back your spirits think what 's to be done Clot. I consider well and the now King The quondam Mounsieur shall not denie me this Half of the honours of the deal Landrey We do confer on thee the other half Be thine Dumain Charles shall be Duke of France Thou of the Palace Major this is our will Dum. Great King you are not yet so neer your end Forsend it heaven Bris Look up my Gracious Lord. Monsi My Royall Brother Clot. I begin to faint A darknesse like to death hangs on mine eies Lend me thine hand Brissac and thine Dumain. Good gentle souls when ye shal mention me And elder time shall rip these stories up Diffected and Anatomiz'd by you Touch sparingly this story do not read Too harsh a comment on this loathed deed Left you inforce posterity to blast My name and Memory with endlesse curses Call me an honouralbe murtherer And finish there as I do He dyes Dum. O Noble Lord Whose fame was very essence to his souls That gone the other fled choosing to die Rather then live a King in infamy Monsi A heavie spectacle of grief and woe Have beheld since our arivall here Take up the body of the King and these That for his love on either hand lie slain They shall lie buried in one Monument And take up these this was Royall Queen When virtue steer'd her thoughts but we may see When we turn foes to good to vice a friend We fall like these and like these thus we end A dead March within FINIS