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Revenge for honour a tragedie / by George Chapman.
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Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.; Glapthorne, Henry. Paraside. 1654.
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you call'd him to personal satisfaction had I been your husband you my wife and ravished by him my resolution would have arm'd my courage t o've stroke him thus The dead Prince sends you that Stab him Mu. O I am slain Car. Would it were possible to kil even thy eternitie Sweet Prince how shal I satisfie thy unhappie ruins Ha â— not yet breathlesse To increase thy anguish even to despair know Abilqualit was more dear to me then thy foul selfe was odious and did enjoy me freely Mu. That I had but breath enough to blast thee Car. 'T was his brother curse on his art seduc'd me to accuse him of my rape Do you groane prodigie take this as my last bountie Stab again Enter Perilinda Per. O Madam Madam what shal we do the house is round beset with Souldiers Madam they do sweare they 'le tear my Lord for the sweet Princes death in pieces Car. This hand has sav'd their furie that just labour yet I 'le make use of their malice help to convey him into 's Chamber Enter Osman Gasselles Souldiers Gas Where is this villain this traitor Mura Car. Heaven knowes what violence their furie may assault me with be 't death 't shall be as welcome as sound healthful sleeps to men oppress'd with sicknesse What 's the matter what means this outrage Os. Marry Ladie gay We 're come to cut your little throat pox on you and all your sex you 've caus'd the noble Princes death wild-fire take you for t wee l talk with you at better leisure you must needs be ravished and could not like an honest woman take the curtesie in friendly sort Gas We trifle her husband may escape us Say where is he or you shall die ere you can pray Sold Here here I have found the vallain what do you sleep so soundly ne're wake more this for the Prince you rogue let 's tear him piecemeale Do you take your death in silence dog Car. You appear indow'd with some humanitie you have tane his life let not your hate last after death let me embalm his bodie with my tears or kil me with him Os. Now you 've said the word we care not if we do Enter Tarifa Tar. Slaves unhand the Ladie who dares offer her least violence from this hand meets his punishment Gaselles Osman I thought you had been better temper'd then thus to raise up mutinies In the name of Abrahen our now Caliph I command you desist from these rebellious practises and quietly retire into the Camp and there expect his pleasure Gas Abrahen Caliph There is some hopes then we shall gaine our pardons Long live great Abrahen Souldiers slink away our vow is consummate Car. O my deare Lord Tar. Be gone Os. Yes as quietly as if we were in flight before the foe the general pardon at the coronation wil bring us off I ' me sure Tar. Alas good Madam I 'me sorrie that these miseries have faln with so much rigor on you pray take comfort your husband prosecuted with too much violence Prince Abilqualit's ruine Car. It appeared so what worlds of woes have hapless I given life to and yet survive them Tar. Do not with such furie torment your innocent self I 'me sure the Emperor Abrahen wil number 't 'mongst his greatest sorrows that he has lost your husband I must give him notice of these proceedings Best peace keep you and settle your distractions Car. not until I 'me setled in my peaceful urne This is yet some comfort to me midst the floods of woes that do overwhelm me for the Princes death that I reveng'd it safely though I prize my life at no more value then a foolish ignorant Indian does a Diamond which for a bead of Jet or glass he changes Nor would I keep it were it not with fuller more noble braverie to take revenge for my Lord Abilqualit's timelesse slaughter I must use craft and mysterie Dissembling is held the natural qualitie of our Sex nor wil't be hard to practice This same Abrahen that by his brothers ruine weilds the Scepter whether out of his innocence or malice 't was that perswaded me to accuse him of my rape The die is cast I am resolv'd to thee my Abilqualit wil come A death for love 's no death but Martyrdom Exit ACTUS QUINTUS Scena 1. Enter Abilqualit Selinthus Gasselles Osman Souldiers and Muts Abil. NO more good faithful Souldiers thank the powers divine has brought me back to you in safety the traitorous practises against our life and our deare fathers poison'd by our brother we have discoverd and shall take just vengance on the unnatural paricide Retire into your tents and peacefully expect the event of things you Osman and Gasselles shall into th' Citie with me Os. We wil march through the world with thee dear Soveraign great Abilqualit Abil. Selinthus give you our dear Tarifa speedie notice we are again among the living pray him to let our loyal Subjects in the Citie have sure intelligence of our escape and dearest friends and fellowes let not your too loud expressions of your joy for our unlook'd for welfare subject to discoverie our unexpected safety Sel. Never fear they 'r trustie Mirmidons and wil stick close to you their dear Achilles but my Lord the wisest may imagine it were safer for you to rest here 'mong your armed legions then to intrust your person in the City whereas it seems by the pass'd storie you 'le not know friends from enemies Abil. Selinthus Thy honest care declares the zealous duty thou ow'st thy Soveraign but what danger can assault us there where there is none suspects we are alive we 'l go surveigh the state of things i' th' morning we will seize the Palace and then proclaim our Right Come valiant Captains you shall be our companions Gas And we 'l guard you safe as you were encompass'd with an Army Sel. You guard your own fools heads Is 't fit his safety on which our lives and fortunes have dependance should be expos'd unto your single valour Pray once let your friends rule you that you may rule them hereafter Your good brother Abrahen has a strong faction it should seem i' th' Court and those these Blood-hounds follow'd the sent hoâ—ly till they had worried Mura He has other allies of no mean consequence your Eunuch Mesithes his chief Favourite and Simanthes Abil. It was that Villain that betray'd my Love to him and slaught'red Mura Sel. Very likely An arranter falser Parasite never was cut like a Colt Pray Sir be wife this once at my intreaties and for ever after use your discretion as you please these night works I do not like yet e're the morning I will bring Tarifa to you Abil. You shall o're rule us Poor Caropia these thoughts are thy vot'ries love thy active fire â—â—ames out when present absent in desire Exeunt Scen. 2. Enter Abrahen Simanthes and Mesithes Abr. What State and Dignitie 's like that of Scepters With what
injur'd honors ruines I 'me bound to do it in religious conscience It is a debt his incens'd ghost would quarrel me living for should I not pay 't with fulnesse Car. Of what frail temper is a womans weaknesse words writ in waters have more lasting Essence then our determinations Abr. Come I know thou must be gentle I perceive a combat in thy soft heart by th' intervening blushes that strive to adorn thy cheek with purple beauties and drive the lovely liverie of thy sorrows the Ivorie paleness out of them Think Caropia with what a setled unrevolting truth I have affected thee with what heat what pureness and when upon mature considerations I found I was unworthie to enjoy a treasure of such excellent grace and goodnesse I did desist smothering my love in anguish anguish to which the soul of humane torments compar'd were pains not easie but delicious yet stil the secret flames of my affections like hidden virtues in some bashful man grew great and ferventer by those suppressions Thou wert created only for an Empresse despise not then thy destinie now greatnesse love Empire and what ere may be held glorious courts thy acceptance like obedient Vassals Car. I have consider'd and my serious thoughts tel me t is folly to refuse these profers to put off my mortalitie the pleasures of life which like ful streams do flow from greatnesse to wander i' th' unpeopled air to keep societie with ghastly apparitions where 's neither voice of friends nor visiting suitors breaths to delight our ears and all this for the fame of a fell murdress I have blood enough alreadie on my soul more then my tears can e're wash off My roial Lord if you can be so merciful and gracious to take a woman laden with afflictions big with true sorrow and religious penitence for her amiss her life and after actions shal studie to deserve your love But surely this is not serious Abr. Not the vowes which votries make to the powers above can be more fraught with binding sanctitie This holy kiss confirms our mutual vows never til now was I true Caliph of Arabia Enter Enter Enter Abr. Ha what tumult 's that Be you all furies and thou the great'st of divels Abrahen wil stand you all unmov'd as mountains This good sword if you be air shal disinchant you from your borrow'd figures Abil. No ill-natur'd monster we 're all corporeal and survive to take revenge on thy inhumane acts at name of which the bashful elements do shake as if they teem'd with prodigies Dost not tremble at thy inhumane villaines Dear Caropia quit the infectious viper lest his touch poison thee past recoverie Abr. No she shall not nor you until this body be one wound Lay a rude hand upon me Abilqualit how ere thou scapst my practises with life I am not now to question we were both sons to one father whom for love of Empire when I beleev'd thee strangled by those Muts I sent to his eternal rest nor do I repent the fact yet I have been titled Caliph a day which is to my ambitious thoughts honor enough to eternize my big name to all posteritie I know thou art of valiant noble soul let not thy brother fal by ignoble hands oppress'd by number draw thy bright weapon as thou art in Empire thou art my rival in this Ladies love whom I esteem above all joyes of life for her and for this Monarchie let 's trie our strengths and fates the impartial fates to him who has the better cause in justice must needs design the victorie Abil. In this offer though it proceed from desperatenesse not valor thou showst a masculine courage and we wil not render our cause so abject as to doubt but our just arme has strength to punish thy most unheard of treacheries Tar. But you shall not be so unjust to us and to your right to try your causes most undoubted Justice 'gainst the dispairing ruffian Souldiers pul the Lady from him and disarm him Abil. Stay though he doth merit multitudes of death we would not murder his eternitie by sudden execution yeild your self and we 'l allow you libertie of life til by repentance you have purg'd your sin and so if possible redeem your soul from future punishment Abr. Pish tel fools of souls and those effeminate cowards that do dreame of those fantastick other worlds there is not such a thing in nature all the soul of man is resolution which expires never from valiant men till their last breath and then with it like to a flame extinguisht'd for want of matter 't dos not dy but rather ceases to live Injoy in peace your Empire and as a legacy of Abrahens love take this fair Lady to your Bride stab her Abil. Inhumane Butcher has slain the Lady Look up best Caropia run for our surgeons I 'le give half my Empire to save her precious life Abr. She has enough or mine aym fail'd me to procure her passage to the eternal dwellings nor is this cruelty in me I alone was worthy to have injoy'd her beauties Make good haste Caropia or my soul if I have any will hover for thee in the clouds This was the fatal engine which betray'd our father to his untimely death made by Simanthes for your use Abilqualit and who has this about him and would be a slave to your base mercy deserved death more than by dayly tortures and thus I kiss'd my last breath Blast you all dies Tar. Damn'd desperate villain Abil. O my dear Caropia my Empire now will be unpleasing to me since I must lose thy company This surgeon where 's this surgeon Sel. Drunk perhaps Car. 'T is but needlesse no humane help can save me yet me thinks I feel a kind of pleasing ease in your imbraces I should utter something and I have strength enough I hope lest yet to effect my purpose In revenge for your suppos'd death my lov'd Lord I slew my husband Abil. I 'me sorry thou hast that sin to charge thy soul with 't was rumour'd by the souldiers Sel. Couzens mine your necks are safe agen now Car. And came hither with an intent to have for your sake slain your brother Abrahen had not his curtesie and winning carriage alter'd my resolution with this poniard I 'de struck him here about the heart Stabs Abil. Abil. O I am slain Caropia and by thy hand Heavens you are just this is revenge for thy dear honor which I murdred though thou wer 't consenting to it Car. True I was so and not repent it yet my sole ambition was to have liv'd an Empresse which since fate would not allow I was resolv'd no woman after my selfe should ere enjoy that glory you dear Abilqualit which since my weak strength has serv'd me to performe I dye willingly as an infant O now I faint life's death to those that keep it by constraint dye Tar. My dear Lord is there no hopes of life must we be wretched Abil. Happier my Tarifa by my death but yesterday I playd the part in jest which I now act in earnest My Tarifa the Empire 's thine I 'me sure thou 'lt rul 't with justice and make the subject happy Thou hast a Son of hopefull growing vertues to succeed thee commend me to him and from me intreat him to shun the temptings of lascivious glances Sel. 'Las good Prince hee le dy indeed I fear he is so full of serious thoughts and Counsels Abil. For this slaughtred body let it have decent burial with slain Muras but let not Abrahens corps have so much honor to come i th' royal monument lay mine by my dear fathers for that trecherous Eunuch and Lord Simanthes use them as thy justice tells thee they have merited for Lord Selinthus advance him my Tarifa hee 's of faithfull and well deserving vertues Sâ—l So I am I thought t' would come to me anon poor Prince I e'ne could dy with him Abâ—l. And for those souldiers and those our most faithfull Muts that my life once sav'd let them be well rewarded death and I are almost now at unitie Farewell dyes Tar. Sure I shall not survive these sorrows long Muts take those Traitors to prison we will shortly passe their sentence which shall be death inevitable Take up that fatal instrument of poisonous mischief and see it burn'd Gaselles Gentlemen Fate has made us your King against our wishes Sel. Long live Tarifa Caliph of Arabia Tar. We have no time now for your acclamations these are black sorrows Festival Bear off in state that royal Bodie for the other since t was his will let them have burial but in obscuritie By this it may as by an ev'dent rule be understood they 're onely truly great wh are truly good Recorders Flourish Exeunt omnes FINIS EPILOGUE I 'M much displeas'd the Poet has made me The Epilogue to his sad Tragedie Would I had dy'd honestly amongst the rest Rather then live to th' last now to be prest To death by your hard Censures Pray you say What is it you dislike so in this Play That none applauds Beleeve it I should faint Did not some smile and keep me by constraint From the sad qualm What pow'r is in your breath That you can save alive and doom to death Even whom you please thus are your judgments free Most of the rest are slain you may save me But if death be the word I pray bestow it Where it best fits Hang up the Poet