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The siege of Rhodes made a representation by the art of prospective in scenes, and the story sung in recitative musick. At the Cock-pit in Drury Lane.
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D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.
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thou art young Is but too soon to fall asleep And lye asleep too long Haly. Your Dreadfull will what power can here Command But pitty Oh let pitty stay your hand Roxol. Sultan I will not weep because my tears Cannot suffice to Quench thy loves false flame Nor will I to a paleness bleed To show my loves true fears Because I rather need More blood to help to blush away thy shame Haly. How far are all his former Virtues gone Turn back the progress of forgetfull Time The many Favours by your Sultan done Should now excuse him for one purpos'd crime Roxol. Haly Consult Can I do ill If many foul adult'ries I prevent When I but one Fair Mistress kill Haly. Be not too early here with Punishment Your Sultan now Does only show The grudgings of a Lovers feavrish fit You find his inclinations strange But being new they soon may change And they have reacht but to intention yet Roxol. Long before deeds Heav'n calls intention sin T is good to end what he would ill begin Haly. Do not relinquish yet your first design Before you darken all her Light Examine by your judging Sight If in your Sphear she can unblemisht shine You ment to prove her Virtue and first try How well she here could as a Rival live E're as a judg'd Adultress she should Dye In pard'ning her you Solyman forgive And can you add to your lov'd greatness more When able to forgive the greatest pow'r Roxol. Tell me agen Alphonso's short reply When I by letter wak'd his Jealousie And counsel'd him to write and to advise His wife to lock her Breast and shut her Eyes Haly. With silence first he did his sorrows bear Then anger rais'd him till he fell with fear At last said she was now past Counsel grown Or else could take no better than her own Roxol. His thoughts a double Vizard wear And only lead me to suspence It seems he does her dangers fear And fain would trust her innocence Wake her I will pursue my first design Haly. I go to draw the Curtain of a shrine Awake Behold the pow'rfull Empress here Ianthe rises and walks at distance from Roxolana Iant. Heav'n has the greatest pow'r Heav'n seeks our love and kindly comforts fear This is my fatal how'r Roxol. Though beautious when she slept Yet now would I had kept Her safely sleeping still She waking turns my Envy into shame And does it so reclaim That I am Conquer'd who came here to kill Iant. What dangers should I fear Her brow grows smooth and clear Yet so much greatness cannot want disguise The Great live all within And are but seldome seen Looking abroad through Casements of their Eyes Roxol. Have courage fair Sicilian and come near Iant. My distance shews my Duty more than fear Roxol. I have a Present for you and 't is such As comes from one who does believe It is for you too little to receive And I perhaps may think it is too much Iant. Who dares be bountifull to low distress Who to Ianthe can a Present make When Rhodes besieg'd has all she would possess And all the world does ruin'd Rhodes forsake Roxol. The Present will not make the Giver poor And though 't is single now it quickly can Be multipli'd you shall have many more It is this kiss It comes from Solyman Iant. You did your Creature courage give And made me hope that I had leave to live When you from dutious distance call'd me near But now I soon shall courage lack I am amaz'd and must go back Amazement is the uggli'st shape of fear Roxol. Are Christian Ladies so reserv'd and shy Iant. Our sacred Law does give Them precepts how to live And Nature tells them they must Dye Roxol. T is well they to their Husbands are so true But speak Ianthe are they all like you Iant. I hope they are and better too Or if they are not will be so Roxol. They have been strangely injur'd then But Rumour does mistake Some say they visits make And they are visited by Men. Iant. What custom does avow Our Laws in Time allow And those who never guilty be Suspect not others liberty Roxol. This would in Asia wonderfull appear But Time may introduce that Fashion here Come nearer Is your Husband kind and true Iant. If good to good I may compare Excepting Greatness I would dare To say he is as Solyman to you Roxol. As he to me How strong is innocence Prevailing till t is free to give offence Indeed Alphonso has a large renown Which does so daily spread As it the world may lead And should not be contracted in a Town Iant. As we in all agree So he will prove like me A lowly servant to your rising Fame Roxol. But is he kind to you and free from blame Civil by day and loyal too at Night Iant. By Nature not by skill He is as cheerfull still And as unblemisht as unshaded light Roxol. These Christian-Turtles live too happily I wish for breed they would to Asia fly You must not at such distance stand Draw near and give me your fair hand I have another Present for you now And such a Present as I know You will much better than the first allow Though Solyman will not esteem it so T is from my self of friendship such a Seal Kisses her As you to Solyman must ne'r reveal And that I may be more assur'd By this agen you are conjur'd Iant. Presents so good and great as these I should receive upon my knees Roxol. I will not lest I may revive your fear Relate the cause of your confinement here But know I must Your virtue trust Which proving loyal you are safe in mine Iant. The light of Angels still about you shine Haly. The dang'rous secrets of th' Imperial Bed Haly takes Ianthe aside Are darker than the riddles of the Throne The Glass in which their Characters are read We Eunuchs grin'd and t is but seldome shown Iant. I shall with close and wary Eyes Retire from all your Mysteries And when occasion shall my honour trust You 'l find I have some courage and am just Roxol. Perhaps Ianthe you may shortly hear Of Clouds which threatning me may urge your fear Be virtuous still t is true my Sultan frowns She weeps But let him winn more Battails take more Towns And be all day the fore-most in the Fight Yet he shall find that I will rule at Night Haly looks in Haly. The Guards increase and many Mutes appear Lifting their Lights to shew the Sultan near Roxol. My new seal'd friendship I must now lay by A while and seem your jealous Enemy Be to your self and to Alphonso true Iant. As he to me and virtue is to you Ianthe steps at distance Enter Solyman Soly. Has Night lost all her dark dominion here High hopes disturb your sleep But I suspect you keep Ianthe waking not with hope but fear Roxol. Too well and much too soon I know
Heavâ—ns high Palace shall remove To meet much more compassion there Than you have ever felt and far more love Than ere your heart required here Will not your Bassas then presume to do What custom warrants and our Priesthood too Soly. Those are the secret Nerves of Empires force Empire grows often high By rules of cruelty But seldome prospers when it feels remorse Roxol. Accursed Empire got and bred by Art Let Nature govern or at least Divide our Mutual interest Yield yours to Death and keep alive my part Soly. Beauty retire Thou dost my pitty move Believe my pitty and then trust my love Exit Roxolana At first I thought her by our Prophet sent As a reward for Valours toils More worth than all my Fathers spoils And now she is become my punishment But thou art just O Pow'r Divine With new and painfull Arts Of study'd Warr I break the Hearts Of half the World and she breaks mine Exit The Fifth Act. The Scene is chang'd to a Prospect of Rhodes by night and the Grand Masters Palace on Fire Enter Solyman Pirrhus Rustan Soly. LOok Pirrhus Look what means that sudden light Which casts a paleness o're the face of Night The Flame shews dreadfull and ascends still higher Pirrh The Rhodian Masters Palace is on Fire Rust A greater from Saint Georges Tower does shine Soly. Chance it would seem but does import design Enter Mustapha Must Their Flagg of Treaty they have taken in Soly. Dare they this ending Warr again begin Pirrh They feed their flames to light their forces out Rust. And now seem sallying from the French Redoubt Must. Old Orcan takes already the Alarm Soly. Need they make fires to keep their Courage warm Pirrh The English now advance Soly. Let them proceed Their Cross is bloody and they come to bleed Set all the Turn-pikes open let them in Those Island Gamesters may Who Desperately for honour play Behold fair stakes and try what they can winn Exeunt omnes Enter Villerius Alphonso Admiral Marshal Vill. Burn Palace burn Thy flame more beautious grows Whilst higher it ascends That now must serve to light us to our Foes Which long has lodg'd our Friends Alph. It serves not only as a light To guide us in so black a Night But to our Enemies will terrour give Mar. Who seeing we so much destroy What we in triumph did enjoy That now we know not where to Live Will strait conclude that boldly we dare Dye Vill. And those who to themselves lov'd life deny Want seldome Pow'r to aid their will When they would others kill Adm. Speak both of killing and of saving too The utmost that our Valour now can do Is when by many Bassas Pris'ners ta'ne We freedome for distrest Ianthe gain Alph. A Jewel too sufficient to redeem Great Solyman were he in Chains with them Vill. Here spread our Front Our Rear is all come forth We lead Two Thousand Rhodian Knights All skill'd in various Fights Fame's Role contains no names of higher worth In whispers give command To make a stand Adm. Stand Within 1 Stand 2 Stand 3 Stand Vill. Divide our Knights and all their Martial Train Alph. Let me by Storm the Sultan's Quarter gain Adm. My Lot directs my Wing to Mustapha Mar. To Pirrhus o're his Trench I 'le force my way Vill. Our honour bids us give a brave defeat Whilst Prudence â—aves Reserves for a Retreat All Lovers are concern'd in what we do Loves Crown depends on you on you and you Love's Bow is not so fatal as my Sword Alph. As mine Adm. And mine Together Ianthe is the Word Exeunt A Symphony expressing a Battail is play'd awhile Enter Solyman Soly. MOre Horse more Horse to shake their Ranks Bid Orchan haste to gaul their Flanks Few Rhodian Knights making their several stands Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands Enter Mustapha Rustan Must. Morat and Valiant Zangiban are slain Rust. But Orcan does their yielded ground regain Soly. Our Crescents shine not in the shade of Night But now the Crescent of the Sky appears Our valour rises with her lucky light And all our Fighters blush away their fears Enter Pirrhus Pirrh More Pikes and pass the French fall in fall in That we may gain the day e're day begin Soly. Advance with all our Guards This doubtfull strife Less grieves me than our odds Of number against Rhodes By which we honour lose to rescue Life Exeunt A Symphany sounds a Battail again The Scene Returns to the Town Besieg'd Enter Villerius Marshal Vill. SEnd back send back to quench our fatal fire E're Morning does advance we must retire Justly asham'd to let the days great Light Shew what a little we have done to Night Enter Admiral Adm. We have been Shipwrackt in a Midnight storm Who hither came Great Master to perform Such deeds as might have given us cause to boast Mar. We found the Night too black And now no use can make Of Day but to discern that we are lost Vill. Can thy great Courage mention our defeat Whilst any Life is left to make retreat Adm. It is a just rebuke Vill. Where is the Duke Adm. Long tir'd with Valour 's toils and in his Breast O're charg'd with Lovers griefs he sought for rest To Fames eternal Temple he is gone And I may fear Is enter'd there Where Death does keep the narrow Gate And lets in none But those whom painfull Honour brings Many without in vain for entrance wait With warrants seal'd by mighty Kings Vill. Villerius never yet by Turkish Swords Was cut so deep as by thy wounding words Is that great Youth the Prince of Lovers slain Adm. Who knows how much of Life he does retain Twice I reliev'd him from the double force Of Zangibans old foot and Orcan's Horse My strength was over-pow'rd and he still bent To follow Honour to the Sultans Tent. Mar. Alphonso's Story has this sodain end Ianthe may a longer fate attend Vill. Of Lifes chief hope we are bereft Go rally all whom Death has left Let our remaining Knights make good the Peer Our hearts will serve to beat Unheard a stoln Retreat Adm. But shall we leave Ianthe Captive here Vill. I 'le to our Temple force our way And there for her redemption pray Her freedome now depends on our return In Temples we shall nothing gain From Heav'n whilst we of loss complain Wee 'l for our Crimes not for our Losses mourn Exeunt Enter Solyman Pirrhus Soly. Let us no more the Rhodians flight pursue Who since below our anger need our care Compassion is to vanquisht Valour due Which was not cruel in successfull Warr. Pirrh Our Sultan does his pow'r from Heav'n derive 'T is rais'd above the reach of human force It could not else with soft compassion thrive For few are gain'd or mended by remorse The world is wicked grown and wicked men Since jealous still of those whom they have harm'd Are but enabled to offend agen When they are pardon'd and