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A37017
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The siege of Memphis, or, The ambitious queen a tragedy acted at the Theater-Royal / written by Tho. Durfey.
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D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
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1676
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innocence took care 'T was the effects of a chast Virgins pray'r Zelm. Our base Egyptians lives dishonour'd choose Whilst the fierce foe victoriously persues I only hither fled to thy defence Least you should suffer by their insolence 'T is true I think the Syrian Prince retains Of his late love to you some small remains And might be brought his forces to remove And to restore the Crown a prize to Love But deeds wherein your fame and honour lies I would do nothing without your advice Her secret thoughs will now be Straight exprest aside And by this Plot I soon shall sound her breast Amas. Let not such blest Events be then withstood My life 's too little for the Nations good Instruct me sister what I have to do To save the State I 'd fate it self persue Zelm. No action our great danger can convince By your consent again to love the Prince Amas. To Love the Prince what tides of blessings meet I love him more than Angels do their Seat An ardent passion do's my breast inspire My life is not so dear Zelm. Furies and fire aside Amas. If that blest action can extend your sway Le ts hence and see how gladly I 'le obey Zelm. Oh horrid Amas. that all doubts I may remove I long to see the Object of my Love Zelm. Behold it then drawing her Sword This is thy Lover this relucent toy The latest bliss thou ever shalt enjoy Dull fool my Jealousie was strong before But this confession has inflam'd it more I did expect that when I had remov'd Your passions cause you would forget to Love But your late words have rais'd my fears again And in my heart caus'd an unusual pain A pain so feeling that compar'd to this Tortures are Joys and Hell a Paradice Therefore prepare to die Amas. To die oh no. Zelm. Stand firmly now and bravely meet the blow Amas. I cannot oh such horrid thoughts remove I will perform your will renounce my Love I 'le hate the Prince his proffer'd Love defie Rail slight I can do any thing but die Confine me to some Dungeon wanting light Whose obscure Walls inclose perpetual night Or place me here do any thing to give Your self a choice content but let me live You in my death all cruelty surpass Alas I yet ne're knew what woman was Take pity of my Youth and spare my breath Heaven knows as yet I am unfit for death Zelm. Unfit for Death how vainly you remove My Cautious doubts were you unfit to Love I might believe your argued policy But being fit to Love you 'r fit to die Amas. Nature our hearts to passion do's bequeath Zelm. But nature always must submit to death Within few years the tyrant will grow bold Amas. Then Sister do but stay till I am old Zelm. Oh fie should lifes reprieve so tedious be Your death would be an act of charity By dying young fame Lawrels will provide And tell succeeding ages how you dy'd Amas. A fatal glory that no fame can have But in the gloomy Mansion of the grave Zelm. Besides some comfort 't is you do not die Alone lot I will keep you company When my brave sword hath sent thee to thy rest Warm with thy blood it then shall peirce my breast But should you live and fervently renew His Love that only to my merit 's due I my revenge in t'other world would boast And daily haunt thee with my restless Ghost But in your Death I rest shall find and you A happiness unthought of shall pursue shout These shouts declare the Enemy's intent I must make hast least fate the deed prevent Love guide my hand wounds Amasis Amas. Hold hold look how I bleed Let this suffice oh do not now proceed Zelm. Fond foolish Girle why dost retard thy bliss Hadst thou stood still thou hadst been dead e're this And free from danger there wounds her again Amas. will nothing do Gods must I die thus poorly basely too Assist me Heaven Runs and snatches up Zichmi's Sword and then comes to the Queen Zelm. Is your courage warm'd Amas. So now thanks fate as well as you I 'me arm'd Infernal fury come if I must die I 'le give my self a noble destiny If death to nature be a debt we owe I 'le meet it bravely come you move too slow Zelm. 'T was bravely done this act I must commend It saves your life if you can well defend Amas. 'T is gone yet in my Death my tongue shall move fight and Amasis falls Upon no theam but my unspotted Love I feel my life in lukewarm streams depart And natures palefac't tyrant gripes my heart Take Cruel Queen and by my death receive In him the Quintessence of all that 's brave Whilst I surrender heaven that life it gave Dies Zelm. Farewell to pity thee is now too late A stubborn heart best suits a wretched State And I that scorn'd the ills of destiny Will dare its worst effects and fearless die But what is death or whither do I go To heaven or some dark Region plac't below If any State or government serene Be where I am should hell encrease its spleen And strive to oppose yet I would be their Queen Stay thou bright soul of my dear sister stay And be my star to guide me on the way She 's cold as earth no greifs her Spirits seize Her pain is vanisht and she sleeps in peace And I too long delay now she is gone But my past promise straight I will make known And thus revenge her Murder by my own Stabs her helf Enter Selabdin Moaron Aldabar Ptollomy Psamnis Phillopater Achmades Saphrena And Guards Moar. entring Hold hold Oh baleful object dismal fate Snatches the dagger from her Zelm. No Sir 't is done your triumph comes too late Too late you think my glory to defame And fix a blemish on Zelmura's name Besides this hand that did but lately bear The lofty Scepter ill would fetters wear These two my Sword did late from life remove Pointing to Amasand Zichm One for his Lust t'other for too much Love Phillo Unconstant chance that could permit this deed See here great Queen your Son and subjects freed Your Cruel hand has rob'd you of your bliss For at Moarons suit you now possess Your fertil Land your Crown is back restor'd By him that won it with his conqu'ring Sword Zelm. To my lost fame they ill their bounty use To give what I for ever must refuse Moar. What envious demon did your rage incite This to eclipse your sisters glorious light Oh Cruel Queen how could you peirce her breast In whose Angellick sight mankind was blest Her excellence made heaven appear a shade And had not a frail mind her Mortal made She would have been a Goddess more divine Then e'r in Starry robes do's yonder shine Zelm. Let not your fancy faithless thoughts persue Know Sir she to your Love was heavenly true It was my pow'r made her your flame withstand Nor
can in vice exceed Were I a man and consequently blest With that excelling vigor they possess My Arm with Trophies should this realm have stor'd Of Monarchs that paid tribute to my Sword But henceforth let the title only frame A lasting blot to mens eternal shame For if a womans Courage can convince 'T is fit the Sex should bear preheminence With smiles I 'le meet with death but first set free My Captiv'd soul from Griping Jealousie My Sisters death my fears shall soon remove I cannot dye and leave her here to Love And the brave Prince I know will soon consent But what I fear I will with haste prevent Exit SCENE A Tent Royal. Selabdin Aldabar and Souldiers Phillopater Ptollomy Achmades Prisoners Selab Sound a retreat to our remaining Pow'rs Since fate now plainly shews the conquest ours I 'e it your charge to keep the Pris'ners Close to Aldabar Till at my leasure I their fate dispose But see the Author of our happiness And brave disposer of our good success Enter Moaron Psamnis and Souldiers Moaron kneels to Selabdin This lowly Posture do's some suit express T is thine what e're it be thou canst not want A Boon that lyes within my pow'r to grant Moar. Encourag'd then by awful Majesty I boldly ask these pris'ners liberty And though this Land we have by conquest gaind From hostile acts I beg you to refrain And still permit the noble Queen to reign In this a Fathers kindness will be seen This gives me pow'r to gratifie the Queen Who Goddess like while I incompast round With troops of Horse when reeling on the ground Dispairing of all aid my Sword I held Up brandisht thus to give a last farewel With an unmatcht command their rage appeas'd And from a swift destruction me releas'd If then dread Sir my merits claim a Place In th' unvallued blessings of your grace Give back her Kingdome set these pris'ners free And by one act of generosity Perfected let your glorious deeds relate You excel all in honour as in fate Selab To render back a Nation bravely won Honour sole Ransome and to please a Son In stubborn hearts perhaps regret might move Where proud ambition swayes paternal Love But I so well thy mind and vertue know In a less act my Love I cannot shew Thy suit is granted do what likes thee best Either to sign a Peace or still molest This act shall shew to forraign Enemies How much I honour above profit prize Moar. This noble grant all heaven do's out do The drowsie Gods can Monarchy bestow But to such fame their title is not good They give no Kingdoms won with loss of blood They Sit on easie Thrones and take delight Being far themselves from hurt to see us fight But were they flesh and frail Mortallity As timerous and as prone as we to die They'd soon confess a dear bought Nation given Would quite surpass the bounty of their heaven Phillo To souls so fraught with Honours Dignity 's Vnbinds the Pris'ners The Gods do justly bestow victory 's Ptollo This act 's so great it were too much to do For any Son of Glory less than you Achm. Since fate decrees our future Dignity Should the brave off-spring of your bounty be Wee 'l to the Queen this joyful news declare And from the peoples hearts vanish dispair Selab No tumult let on pain of Death be shown When we shall enter with our pow'r the town And see that none my present deeds dispute This act of honour shall be absolute Moar. In this brave grant you doubly bless your Son Selab 'T is fit you should dispose a Crown you won My age Fame's Lawrels ne're can better know Than when they nobly flourish on thy brow For when the Winter of my blood shall seize My heart and chillness usher a disease Thy fame resounding load from every tongue Shall thaw my veins and once more make me young Exeunt SCENA Vltima Zichmi Amasis Zich THese dull delayes do only bliss remove Coucht in the essence of united Love Madam you too much time in thought have spent Dull thought a friend to passion ne're was meant Dispeirce those frowns that fatal storms presage And by consenting make this hour an age Amas. Consider Sir what torments will succeed The Curst persuance of so foul a deed Zichm I have consider'd on my certain fate I know my death this crime must expiate But e're I dye in Heav'ns bright Sphere I 'le rove And reach an immortallity by Love Each minuit will our bliss make more sublime And put new Sands into the Glass of time Amas. I cannot Love you thus this rudeness bears So strange a shape it do's increase my fears Calm your fierce passion let the Love you own To my desert in your respect be shewn Be milder Sir soft kindness may proclame My free consent to what I dare not name But your impatience do's my passion charm And 'gainst your hateful suit my fancy arm No succour yet approaching no blest aid Ye Heav'nly pow'rs releive an injur'd Maid aside Hem'd in with horrour and past help distrest Zichm In this your sexes frailty is exprest Thus you with glossing Phrases hope to blind And then deceive with falshood half mankind But this gross pill must then be swallow'd by One that dotes more upon your face than I 'T is true I Love you but my grosser flame Burns not so clear and has a Courser name Then that which dotards Court you with a fire Sprung from hot blood and nourisht with desire And therefore I that am not blinded yet Can look through the thin vail of your deceipt And find that you my passion have delay'd In expectation of some posting aid Perhaps because you do mislike my hair I am not as you wish me fat or fair For 't is not vertue or dull modesty That makes your stubborn tongue my suit deny No sense of ruin'd Honour is embrac't But only grief the pleasure will not last Since then I know your Sex prone to be kind Since your denials plainly shews your mind I am resolv'd thus the effects to prove And make revenge my cheifest act of Love goes to seize her Amas. Help help oh help Enter Zelmura Zelm. Hah our high blood defam'd Sink Impious slave to Hell perjur'd and damn'd Rushes in and e're he can get his Sword that leys on the Table wounds him mortally Zichm 'T is done thy bloody Sword has forc't its way Hell and curst fate still traitors thus repay Oh that I could but lift my arm so high To strike one stroke though I were doom'd to lye Ever in flames and in Hells Sulphure fry I would thy soul through thy life blood persue And to revenge my Brother stab that too But 't is too late I 'me gone dies Zelm. Hast then and die A horrid Scene of lasting infamy Amas. Oh let me kiss the Sword that did the deed And my dear honour from that traitour freed Heaven of my injur'd