me now so much to die as to have lived and thou been false If Lovers meet in Elizium and enjoy each other there will thy vertues gain Despina from me he dies Osm Stay hee 's gone and shall I live he and Despina dead 't were madnesse for what is in the world left that 's worthy or if there be two such it is not like that I shall love the one and serve the other The fates ordain'd me onely for this end he nurst and bred me to wait upon him here and in the other world But should I stay untill the Souldiers know hee 's dead some one of greater faith and courage may by a voluntary death seek to prevent me besides Despina and the expiation of my intended treason urges me to die Come my dear friend perform thy latest service in sending me thy Master to Elizium So me thinks I see Despina stand ready to embrace me but for Melco•hus sake even there again I will refuse her Here at his honoured feet I 'le lay me down You gods let not the noble affection of our soul change after death let us remain all three so linkt together in affection as we were before this bloody separation he dies Enter Odmer Hosa Captain and Souldiers Od. Be favourable you gods and grant that the clashing of swords we heard within Melcoshus's private walk have not prevented us my heart misgives me that we come too late Treason is swift in execution the devill thrusting on to mischiefe and see a bloody witnesse that my fears are true 't is Haly. Mahomet defend the Emperour Cap. See here are others dead the Emperour I think Odm. Ha! what sayest thou screetch Owl Hos Alas and noble Osmond too Odm. Cold as earth You gods was this your justice could you suffer this royall building which you had rais'd unto a glorious heighth to shew your power on mortalls to fall to earth again in such obscurity as none could be witnesse of his ruine But pardon me you powers I have profan'd we may conclude from these witnesses he nobly fell and died not unreveng'd He ever walked alone how then comes Osmond here one to suspect him for a traitor were a sin against Vertue his very posture witnesses his love kissing his Masters feet but more his faithfull hand assures me that his wounds are from himselfe as scorning the world since it no longer did contain Melcoshus who gave it lustre And shall so young years shew the way of love and duty yet old Odmer fear to follow him No Boy thou shalt not so outstrip me Hos Hold noble Odmer will you forsake us too then must the Tartar cease to be a people Who shall command us all will run to ruine Accept the Empire rather Om. Haile Odmer King of the Tartars Odm. Tempt not my faith so shall hope of honours make me live after Melcoshus Be this my witnesse to the contrary Capt. Odmer till now did never shew he was a greater lover of himselfe than vertue he would sleep quiet in his grave rather than by a little trouble in the world preserve us all from ruine But in the name of Mahomet I charge you forsake death and accept the Empire Odm. Grant that Melcoshus's son the dead Orcanes brother when hee 's of age may take my place and I 'le obey the gods in yielding to your desires Om. Long live Odmer King of the Tartars Odm. By whom you were inspir'd to teach me this more reasonable way of duty take up this noble Coarse for which I will erect a Tombe shall make his name live to eternity in which the faith and love of Osmond shall not be forgotten FINIS
was delivered Osmond so well I like cover her gives him his hand to kisse face lest I doe surfet with beholding nor must the vulgar equall me in such a happiness my envie makes me finde a torture for my selfe Off with that vail the meanest of creatures may behold the Sun and as his beames in showry April breakes through the clouds so does the lightening of her glorious eyes breake through their watery circle and grow more powerfull by that opposition so powerfull that a conquering Prince descends his throne and beggs that hee may heare you whom fortune hath made his slave yet to command both him and fortune for sure your tongue cannot be lesse powerfull then your eyes Des Ah me unhappie Despina Mel. Divinest creature rise and know thy happines thou shalt command Melcoshus King of the Tartars who not content with that intends to make all Asia the subject of his victories Haly. Sir feare and amazement have not yet forsook her let her be kept by your Eunuchs till time and they make her more capeable of your desires Mel. Thou counsellest well see it perform'd but let entertainment be such as may most delight and soonest free her from her grief I shall but languish till I may enjoy her Osm Lady you may boldly promise to your selfe all joy the earth affords Des The Gods reward your piety in saving of my life and honour but joy be ever far from me Exeunt Haly Despina Mel. Tell me thou noble youth how didst thou finde this glorious creature and what her name is Osm Shee calls her selfe Despin I found her so neere being unworthy of me to give or you to accept that being saved it does encrease her value Two Souldiers being fir'd with lust strove which should first enjoy her but seeing her a creature of such excellence I thought my soveraigne only worthy her embraces and she a fit present for me to offer which made me to oppose them both and my intention being nobler gave victory to my weake arme aided by this your guift Mel. Had they not perished so they should have found a death with studied torments name some Province thy reward Osm Other reward then your acceptance would marke me for the server of your pleasure an Eunuches office and soyle my act of dutie when I shall overthrow an enemy in field or in some doubtfull battaile guard your sacred person then Sir advance me to some honor if you please for so I shall become the powerfuller to serve you but for Despina thinke not of any recompence to me for by the Gods the Empire were too little did not my love and adoration of your sacred person force me to think she was created for You not for a subject Mel. This freedome in any other had bin death in thee it but augments our love be neere Us From whence Enter Messengers Mes From your Sonne Orcanes who is arrived Mel. We have already appointed Callibeus for his hoast to morrow he shall kisse Our hand Exeunt Enter Callibeus Cal. Our Great Cham out of his love appoints his son Orcanes to be my guest this were an honour I confess to one that were not old and had a beautious wife such as my Ozaca is but when the Prince shall view her and shee him their very eyes shall speake to my dishonour conclude me a Cuckold in their desires though they should nere converse I le let her know his comming hither and from her behaviour gather how she approves of it Ozaca Enter Ozaca Ozaca Your will Cal. Ozaca the Prince Orcanes will strait bee here he for whose sake 't is thought nature wil turne a bankrupt she hath in every part of him so plaid the prodigall his face such as might make you take him for the beautifullest of women yet through that beauty shines his fathers spirit Great Melcoshus how her blood boyles a personage equall to that but then so courteous though a Prince eloquent with all that every woman that but heares him speak modestly throwne by woes him to acts of love in which he far outgoes belief by all my hopes my feares are true I see a lustfull languishing in her eyes speak Ozaca could you not be content I being absent to pass an hour in conference upon your couch with this young Prince speake could you not ha Oza Oh sir your needless jealousies doe make me miserable but your selfe more Cal. I see thy heart strumpet and it writes a resolution to dishonour me and so revenge that which thou call'st a needless jealousie in me but by our sacred Prophet if thou shalt see this Prince except by chance I le pull thy eyes out if converse with him thy tongue or write thy hand is forfeit Oza I finde I am a woman I long extremely Aside they say indeed hee 's wondrous handsome and I have heard seeing by chance my picture he did not contemne my beauty Cal. It shall be so goe walke in the back garden I charge you till I send for you I would not have him see her nor shee him no not at a window it may bee the Emperor will send him away ere long but should he see Ozaca I feare he would never leave my house about this houre I expect him Exit Enter Orcanes and Hosa Ho. My Lord you see this back way you are free from the multitude of people by whom I would not have you seen till you appeare to morrow like your selfe I have sent to advertise your host Callibeus that you are entred this way by the back-garden Orc. T is well they say this Cham is most extreamely jealous of his wife we shall not see her sure Enter Ozaca Ho. Shee 's wondrous handsome he hath reason Oza O that I might but see this Prince Orc. Whose's that sure 't is the Lady of the house Oza My wish 't is certainely the Prince I le seeme to goe away Orc. Nay fly not Lady Oza If y' are the Prince Orcanes which I beleeve my duty is a warrant for my stay Orc. Lady I am Orcanes who come to be your guest Shee unvailes Oza Sir that assurance warrants me this further expression of my duty Orc. The Painter was a niggard of his skill or grossely ignorant that drew your picture but Art must ever yeeld to Nature in a peice so excellent and come far short since 't is but imitation Rise beautious Lady my father would not suffer this Enter Callibeus Cal. Hell and confusion what 's this I see peace hee 's thy Soveraign's Oza My husband Cal. Behold your humble servant who yeelds up the power both of himselfe and all that 's his to your command Or. Thanks Callibeus Cal. I am sorry your Highness came the worst way into the house Orc. I did it to avoid the press of people but trust me I found the passage very pleasant Calli. He meanes his kissing you but whoore thou hast a life to lose Orc. I never saw a Garden where I
justice makes thee bleed to cure it Orc. I hope you will not be so cruell for an offence like this committed through the heat of youth since you your selfe even at these yeares adde to Love's triumphs Mel. Degenerate bastard canst thou hope that an excuse like this will passe with me for currant who still hath bin a severe punisher of unjust acts it seldome hath bin known that such a wrong was e're appeas'd but with the offenders blood or else the partiall judge within whose power it was to punish he hath paid for 't or if they could escape the hands of men yet sure the gods will find them out and I that doe intend to be a punisher even of my selfe for my least follies dare not suffer lest I offend against heaven thy heinous crimes to pass unscourg'd and therefore marke thy sentence Orc. O Sir Remember who I am Mel. Whilst thou wast what thou oughtst to be thou needst not bid me to remember that thou wert my son but since thou art become a stranger to that noblenesse that should accompany thy birth like a corrupted branch I le cut thee from the stock lest I for my injustice by the justice of the heavens should perish with thee nor shall my subjects be a loser in it one of more vertue shal succeed me that wil not ravish women Orc. Sir I am miserable and must implore your mercy for in your eyes I read my death or something neere it oh speak then your tongue cannot pronounce like crueltie Mel. I find I am a father and if I hear him longer pittie will overthrow my justice and therefore I pronounce Orc. Oh hold what Sir my death or banishment I have bin all my life untill this present hour your hopefull son for so you oft have call'd me your heir and shall I now inherit nought but death or else a thousand deaths in being banisht from your presence which of the two to wish I know not Mel. Oh that I might lay by the office of a judge or else put off the nature of a father for I in this distraction suffer more then he can doe in death even injur'd Callibeus selfe would be content with a lesse punishment and the severest powers of heaven will call me cruell in execution of what I intend rather then partial since he is my son Orc. Oh speak not Sir if you intend my death rather by signes make me know Melchoshus stamps with his foot my doome t will be lesse cruell Mel. In this behold it then Enter Mutes Orc. Nay then Ozaca either thy honour or my life is forfeit these tongue-lesse men do yet pronounce my death certain as fate I see my end Sir but what the passage to it is I know not Mel. A darke passage trust me thou must have but longer much then thou expectest thou shalt not die Orc. Not die her honor 's safe prison or banishment I will endure Mel. These eyes the causes of thy ill least they againe betray thee shall for ever loose their light Orc. Is that your mercy rather take my life Mel. If thou hadst bin a private man thou should'st have died but being a Prince and my son this is more just and naturall however for the present thou think'st is greater crueltie for thou shalt live by sorrow to appease our Prophet Orc. Oh Sir your mercy reaches to the highest poynt of crueltie 't were better not to be at all then not have the comfort of the light what can life profit me a Prince if made uncapable of goverment Mel. Dispatch it is decreed They put out one eye Orc. Hold heare me sir I have indur'd enough to shew I prise Ozaca's honour one eye is lost Sir I have belied my selfe for know Ozaca was more willing to meet my wisht imbraces then I to offer them Mel. Now I repent my pittie thou wretch made up of basenesse wouldst thou to save that other wicked eye increase the villianies thou didst commit against Ozaca thou only didst before defile her person now thou dost murther her and her husband both alive but I in their behalfe and justice pronounce thy death for shouldst thou live thou wouldst infect the world with basenesse yet unheard of bear him from my sight and strangle him lest as I am a Father Pittie confound my Justice Orc. By Mahomet Sir father hear me Mel. Away with him the feare of death would make him heap more perjuries upon his soul A Prince that for the losse of sight dares lie Deserves death here hereafter infamie Exeunt Finis Actûs quarti Actus quintus Enter Haly Odmer Hosa and Captains Hal. ODmer you that have all the favours of the time can surely tell if you will honour us so much for what great cause it is that we and all the Captains are commanded to assemble here Odm. Great Haly who thinks all not done by him ill done and who envies the smallest grace that any other shall receive though their deserts perhaps may equall his can even as well informe himselfe he thinks as Odmer can and out of scorn does onely aske the question but know my Polititian that ere long you 'l find some alteration that you dreame not of Hoboyes Enter Melchoshus and Despina Haly. Odmer is this your change you talke of Odm. Why Haly in his eyes you may read something if you 'l observe not usuall I have not seen him looke like himselfe since he forsooke Mars to become the slave of Venus Mel. I hear that there are some amongst you that dare take upon them to maligne my pleasures and taxe me for my easie life alleadging that I have forgot the duty of the gods paying all my devotions to this Saint nay some have gone so far as to affirme I have given ore to be a King making my selfe my captives slave and so deserve no longer to beare Rule Although I need not make Apologies for none can call me to account but heaven yet I le so far discend from that high pitch of Majesty whereon I am seated as in familiar termes to question with you and by the honour of a King which I have yet kept pure from stain however some have by their divellish cunning striven to blot it I le give you liberty to answer in what I shall aske you with as much freedome as if you were all Kings or I your fellow subject 1. Cap. What can this meane Haly. I know not what will follow but well I understand what 's past and will prevent him since he hath found me out I shall be caught in mine own snare else Mel. Tell me and tell me truely which of you that had a beauty like to this but sometimes would to enjoy her company neglect our greatest businesse view her well for I le make no description onely let me advise you fix not your eyes at first upon her eyes if it be possible least their brightnesse should strike you blind before you had observ'd her
cause but would grieve something deal freely would it not move you ha if so then thinke what I now suffer who heaven knowes did love this Lady as my sister 2. Sol. Sir we grieve with you and wish the Emperour had not bin so cruell Osm Thanks soldiers but where wishes faile we must apply our reason to ease our griefe My ease alone consists in shedding his heart blood That gain'd and then destroyd earths cheefest good Exeunt Enter Ozaca Oza Shall I rejoyce or shall I grieve my present fortune rejoyce most certainly though all difficultie and danger attend my love for my Orcanes is a Prince so excellent in all that though I ne'ere againe enjoy him yet am 〈◊〉 happy but his affection sure which seem'd to equall mine will make him study some way how we againe may meet but soft here comes my husband with a joyfull Countenance Enter Callibeus Calli. My deere Ozaca I bring ease to thy vext soul I had bin here long since but that the Emperours expresse command upon affaires with held me and far too happy was the newes for any other but my selfe to bring kneele down with me and pray the Gods to prosper long Melco•hus Oza Why Sir what 's the occasion speak I pray you Calli. I knew his justice could not slacke what er'e he emd Oza What justice speak oh my feares Calli. The Prince Oza Speake what of him Calli. The lustfull Prince my deere Ozaca hath by his blood washt cleane thy staine Oza Ha. Shee Sownds Calli. Ozaca my Ozaca oh speake the joy of her revenge overcomes her know my deer wife the Prince Orcanes for his foule rape on thee is by his noble father justly put to death oh praise Melcoshus in thy soul who would not be unjust to save his son being a villaine Oza Is the Prince dead then Calli. I my best love to my great comfort now I may kisse thee joyfully the wound thy honour did receive is cur'd Oz. Forbear I must not kisse you till I know by whom the cure was wrought if any other then your selfe inform'd against O•canes and so provok'd the father to kill his son nay if you did not extoll justice and cry down mercy quite though it be the greatest attribute belonging to the gods hope not that I should ever look on you with love or come within your bed Cal. Thinks my Ozaca I so little love her that I did sleep in my revenge How often did I urge unto Melcoshus all arguments that might incense him against his son nay told him as I well might do O•canes could not be his Offspring that had so basely given himselfe to vice However I alledg'd in putting him to death he should perform a justice that would make him famous through the world since naturall affection the gods appointing him to hold the ballance could not yet weigh down justice Oz. Did you alledge all this and did this move him to put the Prince to death Cal. It did Me thinks thou lookst not kindly on me for all this Oz. And shall I live after Orcanes No Cal. What saies Ozaca Oz. Nothing but is he dead dead certainly and by your means Cal. He is Oz. Umh umh gone for ever gone Cal. Ozaca speak to me Oz. He died to save my honour and shall I live behinde him and live with him too that triumphs in his death It must not it shall not be I am too far indebted I 'l first make eeven with some Oh husband if you had kill'd Orcanes your selfe then the revenge had stood more noble You should stabs her husband and her selfe have struck him thus and thus Cal. Ozaca Oz. And then your selfe to escape shamefull death Cal. What can this cruelty in thee Ozaca mean Oz. Know thou dull beast I was so far from being forc'd that I did burn in a more ardent flame then he Yet had thy jealous brain not taught thee to frame that Letter for thine own dishonour I had been innocent in act perhaps how ere my will had horn'd thee But having once enjoyed a Prince so perfect I never would admit thy loathed embraces and so have rather chose death with revenge on thee too boot who wert the cause Orcanes suffered death Being thus divorc'd from thee I hope I in Elizeum shall enjoy him Enter Servants Cal. Help ho help ho I finde that this is truth my wounds are witnesse and that there is no trusting womens tears I durst have sworn thee more innocent than now I see thee wicked yet however live and repent thy sins for I can forgive thee nay perchance never cease to love thee Oz. D•ll fool canst thou believe my resolutions are so weak as for the fear and pain of death to give them over lesse for the love of thee wer 't thou the Monarch of the whole world I would not live after Orcanes to be the partner of thy glories but as it is this knife is far more welcome to me than thy sight flie my soul flie and leave this loathed prison to meet Orcanes. So so let this witnesse I for thee die Orcanes and hope I have revenged thee dies Cal My wound is far more dangerous than I thought and I for ought I know may bear thee company but we shall soon part waies if there be any justice in the gods I would live bear me to my chamber and for that wicked woman one my wife let her be buried honourably Exeunt servant with him Enter Melcoshus Mel Night dark thoughts and justly so since by my cruelties obscured that light which was my only comfort Oh Despina pardon me most penitent and now no more afflict me in my dreams if thou beest mercifull I will erect an Altar in this obscure Walk and in the dead of night offer thee sacrifice nay even at noon day would I perform it and in the sight of all but that I know it must appear too plainly that I to thee performed all rites with greater reverence than to our sacred prophet and so the people might rebell for fear of which and losse of my neere-fading honour I did become thy cruell butcher Bear me cold earth till I have some way reconciled my selfe to my dear saint Enter Haly and Captains Hal. Are they come over 1. Cap. They are How are we sure hee 's here now Hal. 'T is not so dark but we shall finde him stand close a little perchance he 's not come down yet Enter Osmond Osm You just powers be this night auspicious in aiding my revenge guide you this instrument as right unto his tyrant heart as I will give it strength to pierce it but soft by the Moons light I see some men before me what can it mean 't is death for any but Melcoshus to enter here 'T would grieve my soul to die and misse revenge too Behinde this bush unseen I shall observe Mel. Oh my Despina Hal. Hee 's in the Arbour I heard him groan let 's lose no time but