gon how does the King take it Dam. The King would he could take it any way good gentleman hee 's in a pittifull taking himselfe Philon. What sales the screech-oule Dam. The truth is he is sent of an errand to Erebus hee 's dead and for my Lady Philoclea whom I suspect Philon. Ha Dam. And you make hast you may take her napping there is a thing in the likenes of a man with her whom very valiantly I dis-arm'd and brought away his naked weapon Philon. What traytor didst disarme him Dam. Did I and there had been twentie of 'em I would not have car'd a rush though they had been as valiant as Hector had I not treason a' my side so soone as I came in Philon. Thou dost amaze me what said he Dam. Never a word my friend quoth to his sword Philon. Ideot didst speake to his sword Dam. Why he was fast a sleepe my Lord And never so much as dreamt of me Philon. A sleepe we loose time goe you along with Dametas seize upon that Traytor oh I am rent with sorrow Dam. Come my Masters be not afraid as long as I have a sword You shall goe before and follow my example ther 's the King my Lord Exeunt Dametas and guard Philon. Madam Gy. Oh Philonax Philon. Be comforted Gy. You shannot neede to mocke me when you know By whom he dye'd thou wilt call in thy charity And curse me it was I that poysoned him Philon. Good Madam speake that I may understand You poysoned him he was Basilius Your husband and your King it cannot be You are the Queene his wife Gy. His murderer The horror of my sinne dwells round about me I neede no more accusers then my Conscience Doe with me what you please the wicked reasons That mov'd me to it you shall know hereafter Philon Blesse me eternitie I le not beleeve That any woman after this can love Her husband oh my Lord mercilesse woman For heere all other titles lost away With her see her lodg'd within the Castle Enter Dametas and a guard with Philoclea and Pyrocles at one doore at the other Enter the Rebells with Musidorus and Pamela Dam. Heere they are my Lord Cap. Where is the King Philon. New uprores Dam. My charge 't is Pamela my Lord Philonax 't is Pamela Philon Pamela and Philoclea Cap. Yes my Lord we suspected they were running away together and therefore in hope of his maiesties pardon Py. Musidorus and thy sister under guard Mus. Pyrocles and Philoclea prisoners too Philon. Looke heere unnaturall children for I cannot pronounce you Innocent this circumstance betrayes your guilt see where your king and father lyes a cold patterne for a tombe Pam. Dead Phi. Oh we are miserable Pyr. Basilus dead Mus. Slaine Philon. He was murder'd and you are accessaries Sure I have seene your face were not you call'd Zelmane the Amazon Pyr. I was Philon. Disguises injurious villaine Prophaner of all hospitable lawes Pyr. I am not loose to answer thee Dam. And this was my man Dorus my Lord a ha have I found you sirra you sent me abroad to be a gold-finder Philon. You have done service worthy all your pardons Now in my rage I could prevent the Law And sacrifice their treachrous bloods my selfe To this reverend hearse Mus. You are transported Philonax But that I have compassion for the death Of that good King I could laugh at thee Philon. Hence load them with Irons Ladies you must both Be patient to be confinde untill You cleere yourselves Pam. What sawcie fellowe 's that Meant you me Philonax vnhand those prisoners Philon. Away with 'em I command Pam. Yet stay and heare me As you did love Basilius heare his daughter This insolence doth interupt the teares Due to my deere dead father and inforces Me since he thus forgets to declare to you With confidence who I am I am Pamela The eldest daughter of Basilius Your Queene if I mistake not since my father Is dead to whose memorie these pious dropps Fall as the tribute of my griefe who then Shall be obay'd he that was trusted with My fathers power which in his death is cancell'd Or I your naturall princesse Dam. Vmh my charge speakes to the purpose Pam. Have you found so much sweetenesse in the raigne You borrowed of my father that you would Vsurpe now he is dead I have not signed Any commission for your office how Dare you then in my presence command any To prison nay like a bould insolent traitor Talke of confining me we are mercifull To let you keepe your proud heade on Reb. What will be come of us Dam. You shall have cleane halters Pam. But in the justice to my royall father Snatch'd hence untimely from us since you attempt To charge them with his death we give you space To live and to accuse them they shall be Our prisoners i th meane time t' will become Your person to goe home and study how To play the Advocate when you are call'd By us and the grave lawes you are dismis'd Philon. I am astonish'd doe you not wonder with me To heare the daughter of our late good King Lost to her filiall pietie this comes To neere apracide Pamela Contrie-men It is apparent they have all conspird The death of the old king me thinks I heare His groanes confirme it if you suffer such A treason passe Arcadia will become The scorne of all the world nor ever shall Any good prince trust his life amongest you For my Ambition all the angells know How tedious the houres have beene since I Was forc'd to take this kingdomes weight upon me But let not ceremony to the daughter Whose title I dispute not shame our duties To him that was her father and our Master Poyson'd yes poyson'd by those men that have No names and will betray in our remisnes The honor of these Ladies and our countrie As they have done his pretious life already As you are good men let them be arraign'd If they be innocent their goodnes will Protect them but if guilty let them dye Like slaves unpittied Reb. A Philonax a Philonax Pam. Dare ye all be traytors then Philon. This your great love reviues me then convey All to the Castle but command these two As traytors to be made safe the ladies shall Be vnder mild restraint Pyr. Villaines Mus. You lives shall deerely answer this We must obay the tyrant were our hands At liberty and arm'd with our good swords We should not off so tamely Exit Dam. Come away traytors Philon. Well remember'd you Are not to be discharg'd lodge him safe too Dam. Who I he does not meane me my Lord these fellowes Phi. Take him a way a traytor with the rest Enter Messenger Dam. Away away Reb. So you must sir Dam. Would I might never see my wife and children in my right wits if I be a traytor that 's enough my Lord the 'il carry me away too Reb. De' e remember a cleane halter come on sir
be sent for Sim. 'T is done and they are readie Philon. My Lord my part to day is to accuse And not side in compassion Enter Gynecia Mufidorus Pyrocles and Dametas guarded a Barre set out Eu. That the Queene Philon. Yes My Lord Eu. She shewes a much deiected Lady Philon. Has she not cause Eu. Those the pretended Princes Of comely presence both what 's he Philon. Dametas to whose trust the King gave up Pamela his eldest daughter Eu. Where is she Philon. Accompanied with her sister in the Castle Their presence might occasion some tumult Nor doe the Arcadian Lawes allow proceeding Against the next of bloud as they permit not She should determine anything her selfe Till yeares or marriage enable her Dam. I will forgive thee Philonax for more malice then thou hast brought against my life for being so honest to Pamela Philon. Sir I looke not for your thankes Pyr. As you are honorable I beseech you I' th name of sacred Iustice ere you further Proceed against our facts declare what you Determine of Philolea who is all Innocence And most unjustly suffers tho in thought You doubt ther virgin honor Eu. She must become a recluse And all her life with strict profession Of Chastity repaire her blemish'd honor Pyr. A Vestall Not if I live yet if I die it carries This comfort none hereafter shall enjoy The faire Philoclea Eu. Now to the Queene Philon. Madam stand to the barre Gy. My barr indeede which I have laide my selfe To bring my honor to a fall and ruine Oh my deere Lord my teares doe now enbalme thee My blood shall quickly follow Philon. As you are just Let not her sorrow tempt you to forget What sin she hath committed I want words To expresse the horror of the deede which will Throw shame on all her sex Gy. Stay Philonax sh'at have What thou desirest I have been a judge already Vpon my selfe and doe not desire life That am condem'd by my owne killing sentence I doe againe confesse I was the murderer Of your and my Lord robd Arcadia and My children of a father I none but I Poyson'd Basilius Pyr. Palladius dost heare Mus. Vnfortunate Lady Gy. And what could Philonax say more against me There remaines onely to obay your Iudgement Which cannot come in any shape of death Too horrid for my sinne I 'me very weary Of this bad world be just and take a life From me that else will groane it selfe away And mocke your Iustice Philon. You heare my Lord Evar. And thus proceede to sentence Having confest to spare your proofe how much She hath offended an example to all times We censure thus she shall presently Be carried to prison where she may Have foode but only to sustaine her life Vntill her husbands buriall with whom In the same vault she shall be clos'd alive To keepe his body company from which Her cruelty divorc'd his soule Gy. Ya 're Iust Pyr. My heart weepes for her Mus, 'T is a severe sentence Gy. Who binds my hands Basilius I come To be a living guest in thy sad tombe Exit Philon. The others to the barre Eva. What are their names Pyr. Daiphantas of Licia mine Mus. Mine Palladius of Iberia Ev. We do not dispute their titles heere they are Privat persons you may proceede Phil. I shall and with as much brevitie Ev. Choose whom you 'l first accuse Philon. Then first this Daiphantas this Zelmane This what you will for he hath yet no name Nor shape that we can trust to having knowledge Of our late masters solitary life Came not without a purpose of this treachery And by the cunning of Gynecia i th habit of a woman was received As an unsuspected guest enjoy'd the freedome Of those whom the King plac'd neerest his bosome His children not more deere treason thus fortified They soone conspird the death of this good King A cave this Gentlewomans lodging was The fatall sceane where the unhappy Queene By his direction forc'd his deere life from him I omit what lustfull motive prompted her That with more licence she might twine with this Hermophrodite and that they had appointed Where they might meete when this blacke deede was done But heaven was mercifull and prevented her Flight by the happy comming in of Shepheards In the meane time transported with the confidence Of her performance that he might not leave Any revenger of this hatefull murder He hastily makes up to Philocleas Chamber Whereby the mingling what he could her shame With his offence he easily might enforce Her to be accessarie to her fathers death And under her protection and her sisters Gainst whom they knew we were not to rebell Seize with one gripe the state but heaven preserv'd All by the unexpected comming up Of this Dametas Dam. Yes heaven and I preserv'd all Philon. Who sought then for Pamela Which the other Princely theefe had stolen away And finding these I meane Philoclea And this young man together found occasion To inclose the ravisher till by command They were apprehended thus you have in short His wicked storie and what punishment Will not be thought a mercy to that monster That kills a King dishonoreth a Queene And violates the daughter Pyr. In things promoted with such cunning mixture 'T is hard to shape a square and direct answer My accusers sordid and malicious railing More greevious to my tender sence of honor Then death can be I forget him A thing beneath my anger and arm'd with My owne simplicity doubt not to assure How much my cause is iniur'd know Grave Iudge This prince and I drawne hither by the fame Of the rare beauties in Basilius daughters Knowing that with their parents they liv'd heere Secluded from the world where no accesse In our owne persons was to be expected Put on these formes as soonest might conduce To make our loves knowne this Palladius Became so fortunate that his Princely Mistris Consented to forsake and trust his conduct To a happier kingdome my fortune Was not so happy for I did not cherrish A greater flame yet modest of Philoclea Then her weake father in my sex deceiv'd Retain'd of me that tyr'd with his solicites I had no time to perfect my desires With his faire daughter Till under collour of some devotions I made a cave my lodging to invite Basilius thether with full hope to enjoy me But this revealing to the Queene she tooke My place to make the old King see his follies In the meane time I must confesse I went To bright Philocleas Chamber hoping to Win her by all the charmes of noble love To leave Arcadia but she unhappily Obeying her owne Genius gave no Consent when in the midst of my securitie I know not by what meanes I was made prisoner And heere 's the thred to guide through this laborinth Me thinkes your man of mightie tongue should blush To have spent his rage so poorely Ev. What ic all this to the death of the old King Pyr.
By all the gods I am innocent The Queene hath absolu'd me as for Philoclea If you will call 't a cryme in that I lov'd her I am and shall be guiltie but had never A thought so rude to force her unstain'd chastity Or if the honor of this excellent Lady Suffer it 'h blind opinion of the world Our marriage not my death may cure all wounds Malice can fasten on her name Philon. Oh impudence Ev. If this be all you have to say proceede To his confederate Philon. The imagination how miserable These juglers would have made us and our Country If their disguise had prosper'd strikes a terror Through all my faculties my tongue 's enfeebled Therefore to omit his practice in the murder Which you may easily collect by circumstance This is enough to call him a foule traytor He did attempt to steale a way out princesse The hope and treasure of Arcadia And taken in the fact dares not deny it Had he no other cry me to answer for This pulls severe death on him and to insist Vpon offences of so foule a nature Were to distrust your wisdome or your Iustice Thou to ther shame of mankinde speake to this Mus. Not for thy sake who in this misery Hast only merrited to be my scorne But for the truth I answer pardon sir If passion make me not remember language That should become this place this ill tongu'd man That with such vehemence accuseth thus Is himselfe guilty Philon. How Mus. Of a more hatefull vice ingratitude Is this the paiment for our services Which once thy tongue acknowledged had desev'd Statues to the eternall memory Of the preservers of your King and Country Is all the vallor of this young man cancell'd When Rebells had advanc'd their daring swords High as the throat of your old King his wife And trembling daughters is the time forgotten When wild beasts had prepared their riotous mawes To bury the deere pledges of your kingdome Oh where had been my treason or his rape Had they been then devourd the ground has not Drunke up the blood so perfectly but there Remaines a coulour to teach impious men To blush for their ingratitude have we Beene carelesse of our lives to preserve The King when danger threatend horror to him And can a temperate man imagine we Should be his murderers we had not sav'd To be our selves the hangmen but I 'me charg'd For stealing of your Princesse can your breathes Acknowledge her your Soveraigne and allow No faith to what she sayes you have degraded My blood from honor and vnlesse you make me Lesse then her subject I was bound to obay When she commanded I should waite upon her But you 'l object I counsell'd her I did And justifie the act she was confinde Too narrowly and I durst leade her to A throane above the Majesty her birth Can challenge in Arcadia love whose force The gods have not resisted may plead for me Ev. Is this all Mus. Tho it want method 't is enough to vindicate My honor from his base aspertion Ev. To him you call Dametas Dam. Not guilty my Lord as I hope to be sav'd not guilty Philon. Neglect of the great charge with which the King Our Master trusted him summes up his fault Dam. I was made a gould-finder I desire Iustice for him and Mercy for my selfe Philon. Silence Eu. I have heard you with attention and whereas To the Kings death the unhappy cause of this Assembly you have answer'd with deniall Which you thinke fortified by the Queenes Selfes only accusation I must tell you It frees you not for tho no manifest proofes Yet circumstances well examin'd make you The accidentall causes of his murder For the other part of your offence I finde not You have deny'd your guilt but onley use Quallification and excuse your services In themselves high and honorable allow you No priviledge to offend but give your blacke faults A blacke die then justly weighing your offence you meete In equall guilt for tho you first conveid Away Pamela his intention was Earely as yours and by the rules of justice The will stands for the act both ravished Although not of the Ladies from themselves Yet from their parents and their countrie which By all the Grecian Lawes is paid with death Thus then I must pronounce Daiphantas shall Be throwne from some high tower to meere his death Palladius loose his head before Sunne-set The executioner shall be Dametas Which office of the common hangman he Shall for his whole life execute a punishment For his neglect of duty Dam. must I be hangman oh brave heaven preserve your Lordship I shall quickly learne the trade and if ever any of your honors have occasion to use me I will owe you a good turne and in token I have beene bound to you the knot of my dutifull affection shall tell a tale in your eare you shall thanke me when you are hang'd come your wayes but I beseech your Lordship I may be allow'd a man some times I would be loath to hange or to behead my selfe my wife or my owne kindred but if it happen there be more worke then he can turne his hands to I will not sticke with him to hang my selfe provide you malefactors and let me alone for halters Enter Callander and Calodoulus Cala. Hold stay the prisoners my Lord Protector Calo. Oh my Lord Mus. My servant Calodoulus by thy duty Reveale us not Calo. Let me rather be dumbe eternally Then two such princes be lost by my silence Ev. My sonne and Nephew are they living Calo. Your owne Pyrocles and his Princely Nephew Cala. Aske your father blessing unhand 'em rascalls Philon. The two most famous Princes in the world Mus. 'T is Evarchus thy father Pyrocles my vncle king of Macedon all yee gods my heart is extaside with ioy Pyr. My father Ev. My blessing and my teares you both divide Witnesse with me yee immortall powers this day I have done nothing but what justice and Your native lawes require without the knowledge How neere they were to my owne blood but since They are prou'd my Sonne and Nephew Endow'd by nature richly and how merriting The fame and love of all the world before This accident I leave to your owne thoughts Besides these two I have no joyes of life Cala. Excellent Evarchus why did you change your names Pyr. To prevent the dishonor of our blood If we had suffer'd Ev. But I have judg'd already and if right I have not wrong'd vnlesse the name Of child have power to alter sacred Iustice You both must dye though when I speake your death It creeps upon my heart Mus. We dreame is this thy father Pyrocles Ev. Away with em Mus. 'T is most tyranicall he is thy sonne Thou wot not be a murderer of thy owne Make not thy name hated of all the world When it shall say hereafter Pyrocles Had no fault in him but he was thy sonne Pyr. For me I am his owne and being so Dispos'd of by his Iustice to whom rather I hop'd to have been a comfort then a shame I kisse my sentence but you cannot place Your Kinsman in the sacrifice his mother And countrie pleade a title he is theirs Oh save my princely cosen Ev. Sure I shannot live Long after them and Gentlemen if I dye Before I leave Arcadia let my ashes Mingle with theirs Bas. oh oh oh Dam. My Lord Gentlemen there 's something stirs and groans Come backe Ev. Basilius alive assist him Philonax He breathes what streames of joy runne through me Send for Gynecia and his daughters Bas Why am I supported thus like a dead man What are you Ev. Evarchus your old friend Bas. I ha seene that face before 't is like sweete Zelmane Ev. My sonne Pyr. But was a conterfeit Zelmane Bas. Wonders and you Ev. My Nephew prince of Thessaly Enter Gynecia Pamela and Philoclea Mus. Tho late your servant Dorus Bas. Very strange Gynecia Gy. My deere Lord return'd A thousand kisses welcome him to life Which I was wearie of in thy losse Bas. My daughters Pam. Oh my father Bas. Are you Philonax Ev. Your trusty servant Philon. The oracle is accomplish'd Bas. You amase me let me collect Phi. Oh my sweet Pyrocles Pam. We shall not be divor'd I hope agen Pyr. I am your servant ever Mus. Devinest Mistris Ev. Your soules I see are married Let me present these princes to be your sonnes Bas. Is this reall Gy. 'T is dangerous to expect the storie I fear'd the drinke but it may be his vertue To encrease his love to me I le tell you more within sir Philon. Let me obtaine your pardons Ev. To his Chamber lead him gently Bas. All is strange Mus. Never was day so full of happy change Florish FINIS