already stird Beyond the temp'rate suff'rance of a man Du. Thou seest the Prince weares trouble in his locks Though any opposition he can make Be but impertinent and weak yet charge Thy Officers if he endeavor to Disturbe my will imprison him i' th Fort Vas I shall observe him Sir I do not like This employment the Prince will find no Enemies in all my tribe Du. If you have any words from Millaine th•t Imports their knowledge ere they dye be briefe My Lords Embassadors I give you leave To whisper your affaire or if you please To make it publique to the world 1 Emb. Your cruell resolutions sir have so Confin'd our liberality that all We shall deliver to Evandra now Is but her Fathers and her Countries teares And those we can by deputation pay To the indang'ring of our eyes 2 Emb. And to Melora that in kindnesse thus Hath shar'd her destiny we do confer The worlds eternall wonder and applause Evan. It will deprive me of some joy in death to think My Father needs must suffer by a vaine Unprofitable griefe and 't is the last Request I make that he would wisely now Forget my obsequies and name Mel. And my desires make sute that those who shall Hereafter write the businesse of this day May not beleeve I suffer for the hope Of glorious Fame but for a secret in my hidden love 1 Emb. Question your justice Sir must they both dye Du. Both and I think my payment is but short When I consider well the measure of My brothers worth with their unvalu'd Sex And wish some man that boasts your masters bloud Were singly here to undergoe their fate It would more pleasure my revenge but since There is no hope in that desire away lead them to death Leon Stay Sir reprieve them but one minutes space Untill you heare a stranger speake Alva What meanes this noble youth Du. Be sudden in thy speech for my revenge brooks no delay Leon If I produce a man ally'd unto this Family you so abhor Great as your selfe in title and descent Will you with solemne vow confirme their liberty And take his life to satisfie your wrath Du. By th' honour of a Princes faith I wil And such a miracle would ravish me Leon I dare beleeve your vow you were so just Though cruell in your last and know my joyes Must take the privilege to boast you now Have lost the power to make them dye Duk. It shall be wonderfull if that prove true Leo I am not Leonell the Millaine Knight But Leonell the Duke of Parmas Son Heire to his fortune and his fame Evan. O Melora thy brother will reveale Himselfe and quite undoe our glorious strife Leo By this you find I am to Millaine neer Ally'd but more to tempt your fury on My life know 't was my valiant Father took Your brother prisoner and presented him Where he receiv'd his death my Father that So oft hath humbled you in war and made His victories triumph almost upon The ruines of your State Alva So young and fill'd with thoughts so excellent That they surprise my wonder more than love Well mayest thou worship Prospero but darst not envy him Pro. B'ing your Disciple Sir I 'm better taught but 't is no crime to wish Fortune had made me Heire of Parma and Not him then I had dy'd for them Vas This is some comfort yet I 'm for the Ladies Cal. But ' thath not given our sorrows a full cure Du. Sir you are boldest with your selfe but you Shall see I need no provocation to Observe my vow unbind the Ladies there And beare him straight to death 1 Emb. Stay Sir he must not dye Du. How age and griefe makes thee a foole and mad 1 Em. He must not Sir if your revenge be wise And fix your anger where 't is most deserv'd Takes off a false beard Behold Millaine himselfe your Enemy Live princely youth and let my yeares which time Would soone determine be the ransome of My chiefest bloud Evandra do not weep Evan. O Sir there was lesse use of me why would You with this danger on your selfe destroy That noble fame I vertuously pursu'd Mel. Our hope of endlesse glory now is lost Alva Sure heaven intends more blessings to this day Du. I have atchiev'd my wishes in full height This was a justice sir more than I could Expect from my own Stars free Leonell And let him suffer the prepared stroake 2 Emb. First heare me speak and fir how ever you 'l Interpret the discretion of my words I am resolv'd he shall not dye nor none Of these though all in your command and power Vas Say'st thou so old Shaver make but that good The maids of Savoy shall everlastingly Pay thee tribute in dainty gloves and Nosegays To stick in thy girdle Du. This were a mystery would please indeed 2 Emb. Look on me well I am your brother Sir Pulls off a false beard And though ten years I have been hidden from Your sight this noble Duke hath us'd me so I cannot call it banishment but the Retir'd and quiet happinesse of life Alva How wisely have the heavens contriv'd this joy 1 Emb. And though his fortune in the war which made Your Armies ever flourish with successe Taught me prevent my Countries ruine by Detaining him from your employment there Yet he enjoy'd all the delights that solitude Affords and when he chose his happinesse In Books and deep Discourses of the learn'd I search'd the most remote and knowing world For men to furnish his desires 2 Emb. It is acknowledg'd sir and with a bounteous thanks Duk. How welcome are these miracles let me Embrace thee as the greatest joy that since My birth I have receiv'd O my lov'd brother Thou see'st though absent I 've been faithfull to Thy vertues and thy memorie 2. Emb. But sir too strict a master of your vow Yet t is a fault my gratitude should more Admire with thankfulnesse than chide Duk. This happy day deserves a place supreme And eminent i' th Kallander 2. Emb. First I will give into your courteous armes The Duke of Millaine sir good renoun'd And now the bold and princely Leonell Then Alvaro my honourd nephew that Deserves the best of humane praise and love The Duke embraces them Alva Dread sir that every one may share the joy And blessings of this precious houre let me Restore poore Prospero into your breast Duk. He shall bee cherish'd and his faults forgiven Pros I shall deserve it sir in future deeds Of honour and of loyall faith how I Am rap'd to see those wonders strangely thrive Vas What thinke you of the starrs now Caladine Doe these small twinkling Gentlewomen Looke to their business well have they a care of us Cal. It is beyond our merit or our hope Vas I le buy me an optick study Astrologie And visit e'm ev'ry faire night ore my house leds Duk. The chiefest happiness of virtue is Th'
much of softnes as Declares you had a mother too must I Be led a captive land in a cruell land Lament your victorie Pros Altesto be are her from my sight make haste I am not safe when I converse with teares Exeunt Altesto Evandra I would ambition were not brave in war Or that the rage of Princes had not made It lawfull to subdue whom they dislike Or 't were ignoble to inflict a miserie As to indur 't our selves Frivolo where Didst thou leave the prince Friv. In pursuit of the Duke who since we heare Recovered Millaine which causs'd him sound us Drum march afar off A retreat heark sir his march leades hither It is his way to Turin Enter Calladine The prince the prince my Lord Prospero You have been sought for the valiant prince For this day's action hath advunt'd you to The publique eare and we your friends rejoyc'd Pros I did but as his bold example gave Me fire I saw him conquer kill and leade In fetters sad Faces which I 〈…〉 Before and I beleev'd 't was good I wish That heaven may thinke so too I do converse VVith bookes but I have heard our enemies Although they wrong'd not me must be so us'd Enter Alvaro Soldiers stripping off his Corslet Vnbuckle Calladine the day is hott And our great businesse cooles like to their heates That fled to humbled Millaine have lest Their fainting honour hovering over our crests Leade on my horse in triumph I will march On foot he hath perform'd his worke as he Had equall'd me in sence of what he did Cal. Sir Prospero the Count whom your kind feares Pros-kneeles kisses his hand So heartily inquir'd for i' th retreat Alva Passe noble youth and let me hold thee neere My heart joyne thy stout brest to mine that we May grow a while together in our love Yet when divided be the same in thought And act this day then hast begot an historie And given our Savoy Chronicles a theame To teach them boast and be beleev'd Pros Alvaro my dread Prince why should you lose Your prayse on me that did but imitate The faintest of your vigour and your skill You bred mee from my childhood to doe things That they call glorious though dull and much unlearnd I cannot teach the cause of what I doe More than your example and command Alva Since thou gott'st strength to weare a sword thou hast Been mine and t' hath been drawn to execute My will and though I know not why thou wast A verse to arts and written labours of The wise yet discipline of warre thou lov'dsts And bring thee to a 〈◊〉 steed him thou VVouldst sit and mannage with such gentle rule That our Idolatrous Philosophers Beleev'd thou hadst created whom thou I caught'st Pros Your love will breed me envy sir something I 've done since you are pleas'd to vallew so My weaker toyles which may perhaps deserve Your fathers thanks and yours and 's yet unknown Vnto you both Evandra heir of Millaine I have sought for tane prisoner and sent To Turin a reward for our just war Alva Hah the faire Evandra made prisoner And Prospero by hee Pros Why should you thinke him whom you prais'd So much unfit for such a victorie Alva Now all the blessings of my faithfull love Are lost she whom I doated on with my Most chast and early apetite is sent In bonds t' apease my cruell fathers wrath Call My Lord he lov'd her much though temp'rately Conceald from gen'rall knowledge and his friends Pros Then mount my courser Frivolo and try If by the happy quicknesse of his speed Thou canst recover her returne and use Her with such faire respective homage as May expiate my violent surprize Ex. Friv. Alva Fly fly I would thy nimble motion could Oretake the arrow from th' Assyrian bow Or swifter lightning whom our fight pursues And is to slow to reach Pros What have I done that I should thus mistake An act of valiant glorie for a deed That argues an austere Ignoble rage Alv. Faire Evandra the pide of Italy In whom the Graces met to rectifie Themselves that had not cause enough to blush Vnlesse for pitty they were not so good As she think now the Easterne spices sweet And that the blossoms of the spring perfume The morning ayre necessity must rule Beliefe le ts strew our Altars with them now Since she 's imprisond stifled and chok'd up Like weeping Roses in a still whose Inarticulate breath Heaven through a purer sacrifice than all our orizons Pros Is she not fitter then For Turin than for Millaine sir I saw You take prisoners and in my fury had Discretion to atchieve the best Alva O thou hast lost my heart hence doth proceed This recreant act that to thy savage courage I could never joyne the temperature Of sweet Philosophy hadst thou been learnd And read the noble deeds of gentle knights Reason had check'd thy rage thy vallor would Have been more pittifull than to have lead A virgin into harsh captivity Pros I thought I had done well Alv. How well draw back that falshood in thy breath Agen or I will pierce thy heart that thou Mayst dye Impenitent Drawes his sword Call stayes him Vnhand me Callandine I 've already met My better thoughts why should I waste my wrath On such a forester wild as the woods Where he should graze with the brute heard who though they want Discoursive soule are lesse inhumane farre than he Pros She was the daughter of our greatest enemie And so I us'd her sir Alva A cholerick Beare or hungry Panther would Have us'd her with more soft remorce had I Incounterd her in the mad heate of chace In all the fury of the fight I would Have taught my angry steed the easie and The peacefull motion of a lambe She should have set his back soft as the ayre And in her girdle bridle him more curb'd Than in his soaming bitt whilst I her slave Walk'd by marking what hasty flowers sprung up Invited by her eye-beames from their cold rootes And this would each true soldier do that had Refin'd his courage with the sober checks Of sweet Philosophy Pros Would you had taught me some Philosophy Before I learn'd to fight Enter Frivolo All hope is past she was convey'd in one Of your swift chariots sir which it doth seem Altesto did unhappily oretake And she 's ere this within our Turnt walls Pros Such language and such newes better become The fatall birds of night so Ravens croke When they fly ore the mansions of the sick And bode their deaths Alv. Prospero see me no more Th' art a disease unto my injurd sight Flye to some lustfull coast where none but Goates And Satyrs live where the name of virgin is As strange as this thy cruelty there thou Mayst hope to wander not contemn'd should I Behold thy face agen and let thee live My patience would become my vildest guilt Cal. See sir he weepes can
then for more dispatch answer you selfe Trist The Duke hath sent for him by Calladine Who told me 't was for busines of import The Court is all disturb'd but for what use He is designd I cannot learne where is he Altest Follow wee 'l convey thee to him strange luck Sir Leonells ransome this widowes wealth And now imployd at Court Uasco th' art a gon man Vsury furrd gownes long dinners and short sleepes Thou art condemd to without help or hope Exeunt Enter Evandra Melora Leonell at one dore at the other Prospero muffled and hid A Table and lights set out Evandra sits to reade Leo Sister where is your tendernesse shall I Be ever lost through your defect of will And courage to present me to her care In winning characters tell her how long VVith fervencie I have pursued my love Melo Vnhappy Leonell why dost thou tempt Me with impossible desires how oft Have I sollicited thy sute with a Repulse and she hath charm'd me by a vow Never to mention's more till her release Pros False Leonell did I for this assist Thee to injoy her lov'd societie That thou shouldst rivall me and have more fit Convenience for thy wishes than me self Melora is his sister too what strange New chances have these later howers produc'd I have no Advocate nor am I hold Enough to be mine owne Leon I see you love me not And since I am a trouble to your sight Ere long thou shalt behold my face no more Pro. Thou art a Prophet to thy self and I Thy Priest to cut thee out in Sacrifice Although unworthy of Evandras deity Leon Melora can you shew no kind remorse Mel. Alas you do mistake my power and will Think on some other beauty for the world Hath many that may make you fortunate Leon None but Evandra governs in my breast Pro. Her thou shalt nere enjoy lend me thine eare Leads him aside Leon Ha! Prospero Pro. False Knight was this the cause That made thee beg conceal'd admittance here To practice love where I had planted mine Leon My Lord I understood not of your love Pro. If thou art bold and since thy vanquishment Darst tempt a second hazard of my sword Go waite me on the garden mount there I Will order though my heart is doubtfull to Enjoy Evandras love thine never shall Leon I will expect thee there and fiercely long To ravish from thy crest the honour that I lent thee in our former fight Exit Enter Alvaro Alva Evandra reach me thy faire hand that I Seale on it my last farewell Evand Ha whither do you go Alva Where shadows vanish when the worlds eye wincks Behind a cloud and they are seene no more The place of absence where we meet by all The guesse of learned thought we know not whom Only a prompt delight we have in faith Gives us the easie comfort of a hope That our necessitie must rather praise than feare as false Evan. O horrid mystery my tender senses are amaz'd I faine Would learne what it is dangerous to know Mel. Why do the stars neglect us thus why should VVe lose the noblest and the best of men Pro. Me thinks my spirits climbe and life me to A valiant envy of his sufferings Alva That thou mayest live here safe till Prospero Restore thee unto liberty and light I must to darknesse go hover in clouds Or in remote untroubled aire silent As thoughts or what is uncreated yet Or I must rest in some cold shade where is No flowry spring nor everlasting growth To ravish us with sent and shew as our Philosophy hath dreamt and rather seems To wish than understand Evan. All this for me you shall not dye why will You lay so cheape a value on your selfe To think the world should lose you for my sake Alas a needlesse triviall Virgin that Can never shew in hopefull promise halfe That excellence which you reveale in art Alv. It is decreed Evandra thou mayst live T' encrease the small example we have lest Of vertue which hath made thy breast her throne Time hath begun to weare away my youth And all the good I can performe is to Preserve the future hope of it in thee Evan. Melora help sorrow hath fild my heart With such a heavinesse that I must sink Beneath its weight here let me lye and mourne And chide that haughty destiny that thinks Us so unworthy of their care Mel. My Lord the Prince Is it no lesse than death Of her or you can ease your Fathers wrath Alv. ' The doome is past and the sad houre will want No wings to hasten its approach come hither Prospero Pro. It must not be though I want phrase to shew My nature smooth it shall appeare in deeds Alv. I charge thee by our love by all my care That bred thee from thy childhood to a sense Of honour and the worthiest feates of war Thou keep Evandra safe till happier daies Conspire to give her liberty use her With such respective holinesse as thou Wouldst do the reliques of a Saint inshrind And teach thy rougher manners tendernesse Enough to merit her society Pro. What need this conjuration sir I meane To dye for her that I may save your life A brave design disswade me not though I Faile oft in choice of fitting enterprise I know this is becoming sir and good Alva Thou dye for her alas poore Prospero That will not satisfie the shaft aimes here Or if it would I do not like thou shouldst Thus presse into a cause that I reserve To dignifie my selfe urge it no more Pros VVhat am I fit for then if not to die Eva How am I worthy of this noble strife Alva Evandra rise that I may see some hope And comfort in thy strength before I take My everlasting leave Evan. You have the voyce of death already sir Mel. Dismall it sounds like the last groane which men In torture breath out with their soule Alva I could have wish'd I might enjoy thee and Be mortall still mix in a love that should Produce such noble vertues as would soone Entice the Angels to live here yet not B'our conversation grow impain'd but these Are wishes made too high and late to thrive For evermore farewell Evan. O sir where will you leave me then Alva How pittie moystens me there in the Cave Evan. It is the mansion Sir of death something Horrid as midnight thoughts can forme so frights Me still I tremble when I enter it Alva Ha! what that is but humane dares disturbe thy quietnesse Pro. Sir let me see it dies if it be vulnerable Alva Still you usurpe my Businesse Prospero Bide there I will go down my selfe Evan. Sir 't will not presently appeare Alva I will attend its saucy leasure then descends the Cave Evan. Lock safe the doore Melora with this Key Pro. VVhat 's your designe meane you t' imprison him Evan. Discover Prospero the inside of Thy breast dost thou affect the Prince Pro.
Next to the absent blessings that our faith Perswades us to eternity of joyes Evan. VVhy then wilt thou permit that he should taste A long forgetfulnesse in a darke grave Let us invent some way to ease him of This penance undeserv'd and suffer it our selves Mel. O glorious maid th's goodnesse will confer A dignity for ever on our Sexe Pro. I 'm strangely taken with this virgins thoughts Let me embrace your hand upon my knee I thank you much you have some mercy on My dull unknowing youth and can believe Me fit for noble enterprize though he Unkindly did deny my sute I le to The Duke and tempt his fury till he cause My death perhaps when his revenge hath quench'd Her thirst with my warm bloud it may grow cold And kindly temperd to you both And then I 've fully satisfied the crime Of your captivity and his free sufferance Mel. This Souldier hath a great and daring heart Pro. But how shall I enjoy her then I scarce Can understand the happinesse it beares T is odd ambition this but yet 't is brave He do 't besides though I 'm not learn'd to know VVith certainty yet I have hope I shall Be sensible of all her visits to My tombe and ev'ry flower she strewes will there Take growth as on my garden banks whilst I Delighted spirit walke and hover 'bout Their leaves comparing still their sent with hers O t will be wondrons brave Lady dispatch That I may goe and die Evan. Since you expresse your will so kinde and violent That small provision there allotted to Sustaine my life reach up and straight convay Into the cave that he may finde it out And not exchange the paine his father would Inflict for famishment Pros. takes from behind the Arras a bottle and bag they open the Cave Pros I had almost forgot false Leonell He waits me on the mount I will be with Him straight and end his hopes by a long sleepe Ere I begin mine owne Descends the Cave Evan. Once more Melora lock the doore now they Are both secure t is thou and I that must Take solemne leave and never meete in this Our beauty colour or our warmth agen Melo I am astonish'd at her excellence And scarce have humble grace enough to keepe Ambitious envy from my thoughts Evan. VVhy should these mighty spirits lay so vast An obligation on our sex and leave Eternall blushes on our soules 'cause we In acts of kinder pitty and remorse The vertues sure wherein we most excell Durst not adventure like to them Melo The Prince deserves a liberall choice of lives To ransome his would mine would satisfie Evan. How Melora I cannot thinke thou dost So faintly love my happinesse and my Renowne to wish to hinder me of both Melo Alas th' example is so good I faine would follow it Evan. But there is reason that I suffer first I have a mourning weed within which thou Shalt dresse and teach me weare then so Apparelled like my cause I 'le walke to 'th Duke Melo O leave me not behind let me accompany Your mourning too perhaps my death may be Accepted best and you bee thought more fit to live Evan. Thy inclinations have a noble sence Thou shalt along go call thy brother in And call aloud this hollownesse is such He will not heare thee else Mel. Hoa Leonell my brother Leonell Enter Leonell Leo T is strange this Prospero appeares not yet Sure he is faint and 's aguish courage comes To him by fitts what is your will Evan. If thou dost love me Leonell as thou Hast sworn and with assertions most devout I know there is no strict command I can Present but thy obedience will performe Leo Bring me to triall straight if I prove weake Or false I am unworthy to appeare In the suns light or evermore enjoy The better influence of your eyes Evan. Give me confirm'd assurance on your knee That you will execute with reall faith And punctuall circumstance what I injone Leo Let me salute your hand I breath on it my vow Evan. Now I le informe thee Leonell the Prince And Prospero are both within the cave Shut and inclos'd by us where hourely thou Through a small slender wicket shall't convay Such food as a disguised servant of The house who heretofore provided our Reliefe shal helpe thee to take here this key And not permit their passage forth till I Am gone t'ordaine by death their liberty Secure which I will suffer to appease the angry Duke Leon Furies and Fiends cease on my sences straight What have I promis'd in the rashnes of My dull and inconsiderate love Evan. If thou dost break thy vow the curses of The Saints and mine which dying will not least Afflict thy perjury fall on thy heart Mel. Never be call'd my brother nor assume The honour of my valiant Fathers name Evan. Melora come we are too slow in such An act as will outlive all history Ex. Evan. and Mel. Leon O what a dull inhumane Lover am I grown that simply by a forward and Unskilfull duty can consent the Queene And Lady of my life should be a Sacrifice To hinder others deaths this sure is such A great example of a female fortitude As must undo all men and blushing make Us steale from our unjust advancement ore The world teare off our sawcy beards before The scatt'ring winds that give us the preheminence Of Sexe when this is known let women sway Counsels and war whilst feeble men obey Exit Act. 4. Scaena 1. Enter Calladine in a night Gowne and a Servant Cal. A Lady sayst thou in a mourning Vest What should this earely visit meane ere yet By full appearance of the Sun we can Distinguish day from night Ser. Sir she importunes much to speak with you Saies her affaire asks secrecy and haste Cal. Retire a while without and let her in Exit Ser. Enter Melora in mourning she unvailes Since first my eyes had judgement to discerne A meane from excellence they nere beheld A beauty so ore coming and exact What are the lov'd commands you 'ld lay on me I not remember that I ever saw A face I would more willingly obey If it were civill too I 'ld aske your name Mel. Beleeve me gentle Sir when that is known You 'l think me too unfortunate to live I am call'd Evandra Cal. Ha! the Princesse wisely did Prospero Preserve thee from my sight thy beauty is Too great and dangerous for youth to know And be secure though I nere saw her till This blessed houre yet Fame assisted me T' imagine an Idea like her selfe But why have you forsaken your conceal'd Aboad and thus adventure into th' view Of men I feare it is not safe Mel. 'T is to employ your vertue sir I know You love the Prince though not with so devout A heart as mine for that I may restore Him unto liberty and 's Fathers love I here present my selfe to cruell death Cal.
that marry gold instead Of flesh is a divorse it must be thought On suddenly Altesto haste to your charge Altest Good morrow Cavaliers Vas 'T will be an houre yet before that greeting Be in season pray heaven Tristan remember the crowd Exeunt Enter Alvaro Prospero Leonel and Boy to sing Alva This glorious hazzard in thy sister Leonel Doth equally perplex my sufferance With what the faire Evandra must endure Leo You now have heard the chearefull Art she us'd To be the first that should confirme her love With prostitution of her virgin life Alva But why for me how poore they make me now That have betra'yd me to a debt the wealth Of Saints that are in kindnesse ever rich Is not of able value to discharge I love them both with equall flame and I Distinguish neithers beauty when compar'd 'T is vertue and remorce give Ladies eminence In the severe discretion of my heart Pro. I want the wisdome how to love but I Am sure I find I love and 't is too much Alva Come sing would musick had the power to give A life as it hath had to move things dead Song O draw your Curtaines and appeare Ere long like sparkes that upward flie We can but vainly say you were So soon you 'l vanish from the eye And in what Star we both shall find For sure you can't divided be Is not to Lovers Art assign'd 'T will puzzle wise Astrology Enter Evandra and Melora above Evan. Who is it that assumes the office of The dying Swan all Musick now me thinks Is obsequy and he that sings should sing his death Mel. The gentle and most valiant Prince bold Prospero Evan. And there behold the faithfull Leonell Leon O pardon me that I have kept my vow Evan. Brave youth I prize thy truth great as thy love We now are mark'd here and inclos'd for death So you have all a blessed liberty Alva A liberty we are more bound than slaves unto Th' unwieldy oare like harness'd cattell in A Teeme we draw a load of sorrow after us That tires our strength Evan. There was no way but this To keep you still among the living who Before endeavour'd nobly to procure Our freedome with your deaths do not repine At destiny all remedy is past Alva A fatall truth for we but now dejected on our knees Did wooe my Fathers mercy and in vaine Mel. Then strive not by untimely rage to help And further our impossible release With certaine hazzard of your selves our last Sute is we may begin our willing death As quietly as undisturbed sleep Evan. The silly crime of envy which unlearn'd And haughty Lovers use I shall prevent You 'l want the object now that makes you interchange The vext remembrance of each others claime Alva Were you to live we could not share that guilt Though number make us three wise love hath given Us all one peacefull heart Evan. O Melora were it but timely now To wish continuance of mortality Like them we should not differ though the same One virtue were our mutuall hope and choice But you should chide her sir for she hath lov'd Your happinesse too much vainely to lose Her life when mine would satisfie Alva Why Melora didst thou undo my soule VVith so strange courtesie but why did you Evandra stay o stay leave us not yet Evan. The Guard are entred here and now the last And shortest of our houres is come farewell Brave Prince brave Leonell farewell farewell brave Prospero Mel. The gentle valiant Prince Farewell and valiant Leonell farewell Farewell the hardy Prospero Ex. from above Leon and Pro. draw their swords Alva Nay stir not Gentlemen it is in vaine They are beyond all humane help would you Scale heaven and coole the sawcy Sun with your Fraile breath when he doth scorch you with his beames For such is now the enterprise that strives To rescue them from this high Fort Leon Would I were in a Cannon charg'd then straight Shot out to batter it and be no more Pro. Would all the stones might be ordain'd my food Till I could eat their passage out Alva These angry exaltations shew but poore Pro. Sir whither shall we go Alva To see them dye but not like vaine and colerick boyes to shew A fury that can hazzard none but our Disdained swords yet still my worthy friends There is an undertaking left and such As valiant lovers may performe why should The base and durty Guard be honour'd with Our opposition or our bloud have we Not griefe enough to dye without their help Let us with fix'd and watry eyes behold These Ladies suffer but with silence still Calmely like pinion'd doves and when we see The fatall stroak is given swell up our sad And injur'd hearts untill they break Leon I do not find my self unapt for this Pro. My breast containes an angry lump that is Too stubborne for a quiet bravery He that shall strike Evandras life shall feele Me till he sink low as the hollownesse where Devills dwell Alva This way let us avoid the gazing multitude Exeunt Enter Duke Caladine Vasco 2 Embassadors and Attendants Du. Have you unto your Officers given charge To guard the passage from the Fort unto The Pallace yard with bold well-govern'd men Vas All is directed Sir as you command But for their government if it be to be had In prisons galleys or stews you may Trust them with a mutiny Cal. His resolution 's fi'xd and there remaines No comfortable signe to flatter hope Du. My Lords Embassadors sit down and though You now behold a Prince that rather loves To be thought cruell than to break his vow Do not beleeve to be severely just Is tyranny you shall have faire admittance Yet your request unkindly ought to be Deny'd and though your Master when the chance Of war rendred my brother in his power Stole in the dark his noble life and durst Not give the wrathfull act a gen'rall view I 'm not asham'd to publish my revenge It shall be openly perform'd to shew I not suspect mens censure or dislike 1 Emb. Sir he that ministers revenge may hurt And damage others but can bring no good Or reall profit to himselfe 2 Emb. And with your Highnesse leave we think it were More wise to mulct our Masters treasure which Shall be exhausted freely to your own Proportion and content so you will take His Daughter and her lov'd companion from The danger of this day Enter Evandra Melora Guard at one doore Alvaro Prospero Leonell at the other Du. I will not sell my brothers bloud The prisoners approach make roome ere long They shall enjoy the liberty of soules Vasco lend me thine eare whispers Alva How beautifull is sorrow when it dwells Within these Ladies eyes so comely that it makes Felicity in others seeme deform'd I wish my patience may be strong enough Leon I now begin to doubt I am not fit To see their hazard and indur't Pro. Nor I my loyalty