downe for ever Let 's to the Prince and to him Offer up our lives and griefes together Th' one 's the onely medicine for the other 1 Guard The Traytor 's scapt 2 Guard We were to soft to obey a dying speech Cap. His scape 's as Strange as was his enterance We had power to hinder neyther Exeunt Om. Enter Tymeus and sees his father slaine Timeus Give me a power mighty as my rage That my revenge may reach unto the Clouds And unthrone those gods that joynd hands with men To comit so black a deede it were but Justice they should loose their diety that So would throw it off O my father did I unload thy shoulders of the Kingdome That thou might fall under a lesse waight And bereft thee of all thy jealousies to Ruine thee with more assurance onely Where are all those flattering tongues that when There was noe neede would in a complement Howerly suffer for thee not one to dy In thy defence or by his fall to make Thine more decent how dismall is this place The graves where death inhabits are not so Dreadfull I 'le fly thee though I runne amongst The thickest of my foes they can present Noe dangers like this lonenesse the cryes the Sword the Trumpet in the battle strike not So deepe amazement what ho Clitus Charisius Erastus Amanthes Not one voyce He goes out in Search and returnes againe I walke like Aeneas among the shades All is hell about me I see nothing But what my Fantasy frames in horrid shapes O the vaine feares of guilty men all are Unreasonable but yours ridiculous When you have contemn'd the greatest powers On earth threatening with strength and hatred You tremble at a ghost a thing lesse then is A man and when the substance could not the Shaddow frights you There is noe way but this To set me above my feares when I am Lesse I shall be equall to them Enter the Captaine of the guard and two more Cap. O hold my Lord offer not up your selfe A sacrifice when there are so many That gladly would releeve you with their lives Let that thought prevaile with you hat you ought To live for them that so willingly would Dy for you y' are the prop of thousands and If you fall you sinke a Kingdome with you Take the Sword by the other end and so Holding it seeke to appease this Sacred Ghost such a will exceeds this performance If you can't confirme the Crowne yet confirme Your memory by the losse of it This Object makes your greife a burden to your Honour Leane on me my Lord I 'le beare you To the Campe Exeunt Om. Enter Poliander Menetius Comastes a Captaine and others as in their Tent A shout is heard from among the enemies Poli. What shout is that among the enemies Cap. T is the acclamation of the Campe at the receaving of their fellowes this night they expected their other forces and it seemes they are now arrived Poli. I am glad on 't I hope we shall have command to try the fortune of the Feild to morrow would the whole knot of them were there that we might make quicke worke and like Alexander unty it with a blow Com. I and a wall round about 'em to keepe them to the slaughter that we may not be troubled to kill a thousand in a thousand places I don't like this persuing 't is the greatest evill next to the being persued the wine neere tasts well when 't is so jumbled Give me a Standing Campe that florishes like a peacefull City and want's no necessaries here stand your Engins there your beefe on this hand a Palesado defends you on the other a Baracado of Porke-Tubs impregnable before a Ditche is cut of some two hundred paces and the Souldiers tipling in 't behind a Coope runns out of the same length the Poultry tipling in their Trenches whose body are too dilicate and tender for bare travell here a man may even among the Tents forget to be a Souldier All Ha ha ha Pol. O my conscience Comastes thou art weary o' th Campe allready Com. Yes faith as your selves are if you 'd confesse the truth Poli. Why me thinks there is noe pleasure to be compar'd with it every man hath his delights here as if he tooke his leave on 'em and if he chance to returne at night like friends which parted in the morne two dangerous and hopelesse ways of ever seeing they meet with a multiplyed and unexpected joy these very wounds are pleasures and Elizium comes faster on them then their deathes Com. When honor is the prize and wrong'd Justice The cause that thrusts them on they throw of one That they may get a better life a life Of fame which is eternall even on earth That they enjoy'd before was fading Sustayned onely by the infirmities Of one weake body now 't is supported By the memoryes of all the charge of it Is committed unto a world of men Nor i st extinguisht before the fame o' th Whole universe none are so surviving As the Sonns of glorious Warre Jove gave Life to Hercules and Theseus but Mars Eternity they breath'd from one but gain'd Heaven by the other these were the great thoughts Which when I was yet young and not able To embrace them did dwell in me they did Suggest unto my soule that I ought to raise my hand Against the gods if they slept At perjury and favour'd injustice Poli. Holloe what aylst thou Mene. What meanst thou Comastes Com. To shew you how easy a thing it is to talke like a Souldier and be as brave a fellow as eyther of you All Ha ha ha Mene. Thou wouldst make an excellent runne-away Souldier such a speech on the high-way were greater violence than bidding stand a long staffe would not get an almes so soone Poly. What wilt thou say now Comastes to a joviall round or two beyond the Court healths those at the Kings owne Table Comast. I thinke I shall say more than you at this as well as in the other Poly. Captaine prithee command 'um to bring some wine in Come let us sit in the meane time and take away these fearefull things from Comastes hee bids them remove the Armor off the Table Com. And why from me me I pray Poly. Why they 'le fright thy mirth away looke it gapes upon thee but won't bite Com. No more than your Lordships sword Is this the terrible thing I know not what it may doe in a darke night with a candle in 't but in the day and your Lordship looking through it I shall never turne my backe unlesse it be to laugh Pray God the enemy thinke of no such stratagem with a pitcher in the Progenerall-ship it may be as much as the Kings Army lies on Poly. Ha ha Mene. Take this away too is not this a Divells hand Comastes Coma. Yes There 's a couple pray remove 'em both and his wit that is so devillish that we may
feete falsely doe prompt us All that is white is innocent and all that 's blacke is sinnefull without exception Should those which looke on you be led so by the scence they must kneele downe before you and adore you as some Deity not being able to fantasie so much god as they doe see in you such formes their power have given you that you may become a rivall in their worships Eudo. Why talkst thou thus thy tongue hath no more Power than hath thy hands Pall. Neither intend violence would you could entertaine of me one thought of goodnesse as hopelesse as you thinke me I de undertake to make it good and better 't daily Eudo. Why delayest thou what wouldst thou have Pall. Forgivenesse I dare not say love Eudo. Love thy thoughts are more mishapen than thy selfe even in thy hopes th' art cruell This base imagination hath wrong'd mee more than all thy actions before thou onely soughtst my ruine now the ruine of my name that thou intendst a rape it was a glory to me and though I had lost it would have got me same the honour of a ravisht virgin Didst thou woe mee with the greatest services as thou comst in my fathers blood I could reward thee but could never yeeld thee love I was too long a Princesse and lost the name too late to entertaine so low a thought Pall. The world of causes that part me and happinesse Eudo. Love is softe and full of curtesie a greater opposite to lust than hate the flames thou feelst are more preposterous than those which burne the breasts of Satyrs and of beasts w kill the young and in that blood injoy the Damme Thinkest thou that any is so bold in lust to embrace such feares thy love bring with it Pall. My youth and comelinesse whither are you fled Eudo. My miseries have put a new nature in me chang'd that calmenesse I had wont t' enjoy into the lookes and language of a fury how ill doth rage become a virgins breast I will suppresse it and if it must breake forth dissolve it into teares An age worne out in thought cannot present one comfort to mee I am so wretched Her griefe and anger make her shewe signes of fainting Oh my soule 's more earthly than my body This warre that is within mee will gaine a victory ore me I finde decayes already Pall Accursed that I am to be the Author of such misery is there no way to restore that peace which you have lost if there be any dispaire not of it though it be held in the iawes of death I le snatch it for you though it were lost in the darkest masse of things my love would distinsh 't in a Chaos if it have no being but what your thought gives life too I le wish it for you So strong my fantasie is to serve you let it be any thing to be done I le doe 't can I the wretched cause removed bring ease unto you here on my knee I yeeld my life unto your taking or if you had rather I le offer 't up my selfe Eudo. No and yet there is a way and thou maist doe it Pall. Is there a way O my ioyes the gods are mercifull name it name it to me Eudo. If thou 'lt vow to doe it presently Pall. Need I an oath to confirme I would be happy t is my owne happinesse I thus eagerly persue in yours every sigh you give doth make me breathlesse and every teare which you let fall doth bow mee nearer to the earth than all the yeares and wounds that I have suffered yet I will sweare by all things holy all that I feare and reverence to refuse no labours deaths to gaine your ease Eudo. Then Pall. And restore ioy unto your life againe Eudo. Now thou canst not thy last words have rendred thee unable The ease was death which yet I beg from thee Pall. From what a heaven of happines am I fallen Eudo. Assist me all my Strength the gods this way you have ordeyned I should come to you pardon that Fate then which your selves did give me Eudor a makes an offer to kill her selfe La O my Lady Pall. Stay O stay that hand let that goodnesse in you which would spare things faire and holy preserve the fairest and the holyest The angells would be prowd to take such shape upon them when they visit earth 't is such as your selfe ought to looke with reverence on Eudo. Ther 's a weapon hid within my heart which none can take away it wounds deepely Now Death thou art a lover and dost court me mildly She faints La. O my Lady helpe helpe O my Lady Rodia Give her more ayre Pall. Shee s gone my times noe longer our lives were woven on the same web the destynies condemn'd me to see her death and then to follow Hee wounds himselfe and falls Rodia Shee breathes stand off Eudo. My Brother O my Father Rodia How do you Madam Eudo. Too well my Strength returnes too fast upon me Pall. Were my Soule fled that voyce would call it backe againe it selfe would returne and choose this Paradice on earth I 'le not disturbe her with my longer stay He speakes to Rodia If that your Lady shall neede any thing you may have it with a thought a long peace shall not present it with more care and speed shee shall not find lesse tendernes and honor then if her Father still ruld all The Guards at your command and shall stay onely for your safety Exit Pallanius Rodia Souldier th art noble may the gods reward thy goodnesse Madam you had best goe in They lead of their Lady Exeunt omnes Enter Timeus Polyander Menetius Comastes and a Captaine Tim. Fortune glory Victory all are fled Unto their severall habitations And have left Dishonor Losses Danger In their Stead not so much prayse to all our Dead Story as that we lost one man to Save a Kingdome not bleed a drop for the Whole bodyes safety Poli. My Lord let not the treachery of such Villaines trouble you more then your thought of safety shew your hate unto their false-hood by seeking to revenge it you have yet hopes left if timely you put your former Resolution into practise when wee have gain'd the Forte there 's meanes to escape the I'sle and seeke forraigne aide you have many friends that you may trust too This our obscure flight will make our returne more glorious which shall bee i' th face of the whole Kingdome nor will we choose another way but what passes o're Cities Armies and through a generall ruine to our Revenge Exeunt Om. He who injustly swaid the State Lives noe where now but in their Hate Ther 's nothing left of him but shame Which both preserues and Clouds his name When civell Beasts fall Let it be Cald slaughter and not Victorie Cho. When that he dies that liv'd a shade His sleepes continued then not made Arise thou Starre of honor there And in
his stead shine round our Spheare Grace thou the Throne and let us see Thy father once more Raigne in thee Wee le now in naught but love conspire And noe brest burne but with true fire Cho. While that such manners rule the Throne Live all by his he by his owne Actus Quintus Scaena I. Enter Eudora Rodia and Ladies Eudo. This quiet we enjoy doth strike amazement in me sure they have slaine the body with the head which makes this generall calme Rod. Madam 't is more innocent I had newes brought by one I sent to learne that did astonish me that the people knew noe cause of griefe or gladnesse but rose to their affaires as in a time when neyther enemies nor holidayes doe distract them from their labours The Kings death was newes this morning in the City such care the Victors tooke least the many headed but unbrained multitude should pull a slaughter on them Eudo. Their piety is too late nor will it satisfie the gods when they have spilt so much blood that they will spill noe more Rod. The Souldiers though their charge was gone kept their Guard Still they of the party durst not disclose it for their owne safety Some there were which whisperd it but they seemed rather curious in the State then those dull which knew it not Eudo. Can a Kingdome fall and the ruine not wake the people Rod. The messinger with this doubted what he had seene and heard nor durst hee bee confirm'd least his question might seeme Treason the first opening of it was by Proclamation with such secresy the plot was carried that now it was a labour to discover it After this Aratus and the rest of the Conspirators went into the Market-place where the people were comanded to attend by publique voyce and there to the assembly when they had declared the Justice of their action they produced the yong Prince which in the last alteration of the State was lost But by all supposed to have beene murdered which that hee was the Kings Sonne was confirmed by Aratus his conferring the Kingdome on him himselfe being the next heire unto the Crowne if the Kings Issue fail'd The Story of the Princes life bred much Love and Pity and his lookes were able to have led them to a civill Warre had he beene Counterfet Eudo. This may be true they who can beleeve there is a providence may easily give credit to this Justice our sinnes were mightier then our sufferings and had wee a greater debt then life we ought to pay it my Miseries are due to mee I was a party and enjoy'd my Fathers violence Rod. Madam you are as Innocent as at that time your age was and onely doe offend in your teares and too much love which on this occasion spent excessively is not to greeve but to repine the King was old and taking his latest leave and was hastned onely a litle sooner to shew the Justice of the gods 't is true my Lord Timeus was yong yet had noe patent for his life but as all brothers was an uncertaine joy Eudo. How ill these words become thee and me to heare think'st thou my Fathers faults can bring a comfort to mee Rod. Madam t would be noe glory to you that an unworthy greife should be your death your enemies noe doubt are noble sure they chose the crewellest to execute their businesse and him though his churlish out-side promist not we found more courteous then they which doe professe it his words were the lawes of Complement One that simpathizd in all your sufferings and though his manlinesse would not suffer him faint he died together with you One knocks at the dore Eudo. See who 't is disturbes us Who i st Rodia goes out and returnes Rod. Madam I know not nor did I ere see any like him his beauties beyond all similitude he speakes like the Souldier we were talking of but him it cannot be he was the terror this the darling of mankind Eudo. Whether wilt thou loose thy selfe in commendation in men beauties the least part Rodia Madam it appeares so in him yet such features lay a necessity of noblenesse on the minde hee humbly craves admittance nor would hee take it before that it were granted Eudo. Call him in wee must indure their pleasures it will not become our state to deny commands much lesse when they intreat Rodia goes out and returnes with Pallantus Pall. The Kingdome owes a Sacrifice for your life all will ioy to heare it which had it faild would have pulld more guilt upon us than the sinnes of a whole age Eudo. It is my fault you tell me of and a great share of my griefe that thus I stay to grieve Pall. My offensive tongue can utter nothing pleasing to you so great are your misfortunes and your honor so tender to you the wounds that I have given you are beyond my cure Eudo. Thou art not hee that gave 'um Pall. If my repentance can make me cleare I am not otherwaies t is I that partially hearing my owne cause beleev'd and iudg'd for it that hastily without examining what I did decreed on all your woe Eudo. Th art strangely altered if thou beest hee Pall. Nothing so strangely as my hopes are at first they did appeare in a divine and holy forme beyond all that I can fantasie such a mind though ravishd with the beauty could not expresse then and promist all should bee as heavenly as their shape calld mee the instrument of Iustice the saver of my Countrey set all the sinnes before mee I was to punish told mee there was no heaven but what their clowdes did veile thus they crept into mee and won mee with the most specious shewes unto their service on my bare resolution gave mee part of that happinesse I was to ayme at Then they clothed mee in a body foule as the Tragedy I was to act and made me dote on those deformities which all did loath when they had bewitcht mee with these false yet glittering names and I obeyed their blacke commands in a moment they changd into Repentance a mournefull figure and sadly left mee as they first did find me and as I now appeare to you Eudo. Thou hadst no cause for all that thou hast done the faults were generall and concernd not thee but thou wert ready for all ill as well as goodnesse Pall. Yet I had a cause Pardon me that I say and being that I saw not you before I did it a iust one I lost a Soveraigne as nere to me in blood as love and if this cause may seeme remote I had a father murdered whose death as it becomes you thus to mourne so it did mee for to revenge my selfe was banisht loyaltie was both our faults and when they had heapt these sorrowes on me left mee not one hope to leane on they were not yet content with my despaire but sought my life which was so poore it could not be distinguisht then from
death their injuries forcd a new one in mee and blew the sparke untill the flame consumde 'um But had I beheld you before their danger it would have turnd my soule within mee changd mee from a Foe unto their partie I cannot now beleeve I had a Justice that there could bee any where you were iniurd in it so much my love doth mount above my griefe that it makes mee thinke I have onely lost your father Why weepe you thus Could that recall him I 'de beare you company and breake those stubborne gates which from my childe-hood to this present houre hath kept them backe and spend my whole store here But nothing can redeeme him let that common remedy which all apply and helpeth all give ease unto you that nothing can redeeme him O learne a strength of me that is the worst name for it to beare a fathers losse Let the innocence of mine excuse my violence to yours wee are the wretchedst two alive made so by our selves and can be onely happy in our selves Eudo. Oh O. Pall. Look on this it may bring you comfort with making out of love with the subiect of your griefe Hee delivers her that letter which hee found in the villaines pocket to murder him written by her brother Shee starts in the reading Eudo. Ha Pall. Falls not my deformityes away Eudo. Pallantus art thou Pallantus Pall. This is the first time I darde to be so Eudo. And to all this villany is signd Tymeus couldst thou be thus cruell thus basely cruell unworthy brother This hath made a mercy of all that hath befallen thee thou dost deserve to have thy punishments out-live thee to have engraven on thy Tombe Heere lies the treacherous bloody and to make thee monstrous have thy age adde to it The young Timeus that was subtile in his youth what remaines for mee that happinesse the most wretched doe enjoy is taken from me a worthy cause of griefe Now I can neither live nor die without a staine Pall. Can you yet read a resemblance but of Iustice in my Actions Eudo. I know not how to answere The tongue must bee as wicked as the will that did commit 'em that can defend such deeds had equity pointed all your Actions out given you Rules to work by told you how much how farre you must have gone you could not have done more justly there wants not any thing to crowne your iudgement but my death the onely issue of that sinnefull race I have a long time loathed my life and now I loath my selfe too I find I know not how a guiltinesse within me my fathers faults flow like his blood within mee Pall. You are not at all allide unto his vices Profane not then your goodnesse it is a sinne though you your selfe commit it that you was a Princesse was not your ambition but obedience you are onely guilty in thinking of your selfe so why then doe yue talke of death thus Eudo. Can any life be noble after such losses Pall. My selfe and the many which have suffered them doe thinke so and are receiv'd of all with pity and with honour can you expect to find lesse humanity you are not fallne so low but the greatest Prince would be proud to do you service T is vainenes to professe all civility is your due Eudo. You reward me good for bad before that I was certaine of a cause I slandered your vertues with those names foule deeds deserve or a worse nature could invent I falsely did apply to you that which was true in me Pall. You are a Iudge too cruell to your selfe I did deserve them at the least from you it was a noble passion and owed unto your friends had they beene worse yet if you 'de make amends where there was no wrong give one comfort to your selfe and I shall receive a million ample and satisfactory Eudo. You have given me many more than I did hope or wish for and removed those killing doubts within me I shall remember you no more the cause but mourner of my fathers death O that name of father how ever thou deserv'st thou dost deserve these teares of me Pall. Fall not to a relapse againe I dare not leave you thus Eudo. You may there is no danger in 't they were but teares and are already wipt away Pall All about you does minister to your griefe The King would gladly comfort you can you admit his visit Eudo. I finde hereafter that I may yet t is too soone Pray excuse me Pall. May peace and quiet returne to their home againe to this place Exeunt omnes Enter the King Aratus Phronimus Eunilochus attendants People Jove Neptune Apollo and the gods of Greece preserve and blesse the King King Through the happines of my people may I know no other ioy or sadnesse but what passes you still the middle way of blessings twixt the gods and me People The gods preserve your Majesty Ara. Sir give us leave too to ease our selves of that ioy that doth oppresse us how hath these your virtues rewarded all our travell made our deede honourable and to our faith have joynd discretion in shewing your selfe thus worthy of the place you are chose too you have made it plaine as none ought so none but your selfe can rule what praises will after-ages give us for this our loyalty Had you beene brought in with fire with blood with desolation as you with wonder are given a gift of peace in the height of warre yet your endowments would have made all innocent and like a yeare of good things made the bad forgotten Sir I hope you doe not thinke I flatter King My Lord I doe not you that have so many virtues for to live by neede no dishonest Arts nor by such waies seeke to endeare me when you have alreadie so really ingaged me that I am not able to give you a thankes much lesse a returne that 's equall not to say if I could what I would do deserving you and if you cannot in some kinde reward your selfe t is not in my power to doe it These praises you have given me doe tell if not what I am yet what I should be they shall not make mee proud but good nor will I glory in them but make them still my ayme I le first offer them to the gods and humbly from their hands pray for them againe and at the second gift account them mine Ara. These men wrought hard too for you King My Lord I know it and could I thanke them in 't I de stoope lower than the place from whence they raysed me Enter Clearchus Hianthe Haimantus Melissa Ladies to them Ara. See Sir what ioyes approch you your royall Sister King This way let me expresse a brothers love Before I speake it O my Sister y' are My Throne my Scepter and my Crowne or what Is more deare and estimable with me The Grace the Maiesty that rises from them Pardon if my much love make me a rude