th' other Maria OH kill me ere you stain my chastity King My hand holds death but love sits in mine eye Exclaim not dear Maria do but hear me Though thus in dead of night as I do now The lustfull Tarquin stole to the chast bed Of Collatines fair wife yet shalt thou be No Lucrece nor thy King a Romane slave To make rude villanie thine honours grave Maria Why from my bed have you thus frighted me King To let the view a bloody horrid Tragedy Maria Begin it then I 'le gladly loose my life Rather then be an Emperours Concubine King By my high birth I swear thou shalt be none The Tragedy I 'le write with my own hand A King shall act it and a King shall dye Except sweet mercies beam shine from thine eye If this affright thee it shall sleep for ever If still thou hate me thus this Noble blade This Royall purple temple shall invade Maria My husband is from hence for his sake spare me King Thy husband is no Spaniard thou art one So is Fernando then for countries sake Let mee not spare thee on thy husbands face Eternall night in gloomy shades doth dwel But I 'le look on thee like the guilded Sun When to the west his fiery horses run Maria True true you look on me with Sun set eyes For by beholding you my glory dies King Call me thy morning then for like the morn In pride Maria shall through Spain be born This musick I prepar'd thine ears musick plays within Loue mee and thou shalt hear no other sounds Lo here 's a banquet set with mine own hands A banquet brought in Love me and thou shalt feast thee like a Queen I might command thee being thy Soveraign But love me and I 'le kneel and sue to thee And circle this white forehead with the Crown Of Castile Portugall and Arragon And all those petty Kingdoms which do bow Their tributarie knees to Philip's heir Maria I cannot love you whilst my husband lives King I 'le send him to the wars and in the front Of some maine army shall he nobly dye Maria I cannot love you if you murder him King For thy sake then I 'le call a Parlament And banish by a law all Moors from Spain Maria I 'le wander with him into banishment King It shall be death for any Negroes hand To touch the beauty of a Spanish dame Come come what needs such cavells with a King Night blinds all Jealous eyes and we may play Carowse that bole to me I 'le pledg all this Being down we 'l make it more sweet with a kiss Begin I 'le lock all doors begin Spains Queen Locks the doors Loves banquet is most sweet when 't is least seen Maria Oh thou conserver of my honours life Instead of poisoning him drown him in sleep Because I 'le quench the flames of wild desire I 'le drink this off let fire conquer loves fire King Were love himselfe in reall substance here Thus would I drink him down let your sweet strings Speak lowder pleasure is but a slave to Kings In which love swime Maria kiss thy King Circle me in this ring of Ivory Oh! I grow dull and the cold hand of sleep Hath thrust his Icie fingers in my brest And made a frost within me sweet one kiss To thaw this deadnesse that congeales my soul Maria Your Majestie hath overwatch'd your self He sleeps already not the sleep of death But a sweet slumber which the powerfull drugg Instill'd through all his spirits Oh! bright day Bring home my dear Lord ere his King awake Else of his unstain'd bed he 'l shipwrack make Offers to go Enter Oberon and Fairyes dancing before him and musick with them Maria Oh me what shapes are these Oberon Stay stay Maria Maria My Soveraign Lord awake save poor Maria Oberon He cannot save thee save that pain Before he wake thou shalt be slain His mothers hand shall stop thy breath Thinking her own son is done to death And she that takes away thy life Does it to be thy husbands wife Adieu Maria we must hence Imbrace thine end with patience Elves and Fairyes make no stand Till you come in Fairy Land Exeunt dancing and singing Maria Fairyes or Divels whatsoe're you be Thus will I hide me from your company Offers to be gone Act. III Scena III To her Enter Queen Mother suddainly with Alvaro and Roderigo with Rapiers Q Mo. LAy hold upon the strumpet where 's the King Fernando son ah me your King is dead Lay hand upon the murdresse Maria Imperious Queen I am as free from murder as thy self Which I will prove if you will here me speak The King is living Roder If he liv'd his breath would beat within his breast Q. Mo. The life he leads Maria thou shalt soon participate Maria Oh father save me Alvero thou' rt no child of mine had'st thou been owner of Alvero's spirit Thy heart would not have entertain'd a thought That had converst with murder yet mine eyes Howe're my tongue want words brim full with tears Intreat her further tryall Verdugo To what end here lies her tryall from this royall brest Hath she stolne all comfort all the life Of every bosom in the Realm of Spain Roder She 's both a traytor and murdress Q. Mo. I 'le have her forthwith strangled Alv. Hear her speak Q. Mo. To heaven let her complain if she have wrong I murder but the murdresse of my son Alv. We murder the murdresse of our King Alv. Ah me my child oh Oh cease your torturing Maria Heaven ope the windows that my spotlesse soul Riding upon the wings of innocence May enter paradice Fairyes farewell Fernandoes death in mine you did foretell She dyes King wake King Who calls Fernando love Maria speak Oh! whither art thou fled whence flow these waters That fall like winter storms from the drown'd eyes Alv. From my Maria's death King My Maria dead Damn'd be the soul to hell that stop'd her breath Maria Oh me who durst murder her Q. M. I thought my dear Fernando had been dead And in my indignation murdred her King I was not dead untill you murdred me By killing fair Maria Qu. Mo. Gentle son King Ungentle mother you a deed have done Of so much ruth that no succeeding age Can ever clear you of Oh my dear love Yet heavens can witnesse thou wert never mine Spains wonder was Maria Qu. Mo. Sweet have done King Have done for what for shedding zealous tears Over the tomb of virtues chastitie You cry have done now I am doing good But cri'd do on when you were shedding blood Have you done mother yes yes you have done That which will undo your unhappy son Roder These words become you not my gracious Lord King These words become not me no more it did Become you Lords to be mute standers by When lustfull fury ravish'd chastity It ill becomes mee to lament her death But it became you well to stop her
Cardinall And the young Prince who bearing in his mind The true Idea of his late disgrace In putting him from the Protectorship And envying the advancment of the Moor Determined this night to murder you And for your Highnesse lodg'd within my Castle They would have laid the murder on my head King The Cardinall and my Brother bring them forth Their lives shall answer this ambitious practice Eleaz. Alas my Lord it is impossible For when they saw I had discovered them They train'd two harmlesse Friers to their lodgings Disrob'd them gagg'd them bound 'em 〈◊〉 two posts And in their habits did escape the Castle King That Cardinall is all ambition And from him doth our Brother gather heart Que. Mo. Th' ambition of th' one infects the other And in a word they both are dangerous But might your mothers counsell stand force I would advise you send the trusty Moor To fetch them back before they had seduc'd The squint ey'd multitude from true allegiance And drawn them to their dangerous faction King It shall be so therefore my States best prop Within whose bosome I durst trust my life Both for my safety and thine own discharge Fetch back those traitors and till your return Our self will keep your Castle Eleaz. My Leige the tongue of true obedience Most not gainsay his Soveraigns impose By heaven I will not kiss the cheek of sleep Till I have fetch'd those traitors to the Court King Why this sorts right he gon his beauteous wife Shall sail into the naked arms of love Qu. Mo. Why this is as it should bee he once gon His wife that keeps me from his marriage bed Shall by this hand of mine be muthered King This storm is well nigh past the swelling clouds That hang so full of treason by the wind In awfull Majestie are scatt'red Then each man to his rest good night sweet friend Whil'st thou persu'st the traitors that are fled Fernando means to warm thy marriage bed Exit Ele. Many good nights consume and dam your souls I know he means to Cuckold mee this night Yet do I know no means to hinder it Besides who know whether the lustful King Having my wife and Castle at command Will ever make surrender back again But if he do not with my falchions point I 'le lance those swelling veins in which hot lust Does keep his Revels and with that warm blood Where Venus's bastard coold his sweltring spleen Wash the disgrace from Eleazars brows Act. II. Scena VI. Enter Maria Maria DEar Eleazar Ele. If they lock the gates I 'le tosse a ball of wild-fire o're the walls Maria Husband sweet husband Eleaz. Or else swim o're the moat And make a breach through the flinty sides Of the rebellious walls Maria Hear me dear heart Eleaz. Or undermine the chamber where they lie And by the violent strength of gunpowder Blow up the Castle and th' incestuous couch In which lust wallows but my labouring thoughts Wading too deep in bottomless extreams Do drown themselvs in their own stratagems Maria Sweet husband dwell not upon circumstance When weeping sorrow like an Advocate Importunes you for aid look in mine eyes There you shall see dim grief swimming in tears Invocating succor Oh succor Eleaz. Succor Zounds for what Maria To shield me from Fernando's unchast love Who with uncessant praiers importun'd me Eleaz. To lie with you I know 't Maria Then seek some means how to prevent it Eleaz. 'T is possible for to the end that his unbridled lust Might have more free accesse unto thy bed This night he hath enjoined me To fetch back Philip and the Cardinall Maria Then this ensuing night shall give an end To all my sorrows for before foul lust Shall soil the fair complexion of mine honour This hand shall rob Maria of her life Eleaz. Not so dear soul for in extremities Choose out the least and ere the hand of death Should suck this Ivorie pallace of thy life Imbrace my counsell and receive this poison Which in the instant he attempts thy love Then give it him do do Do poison him he gon thou' rt next Be sound in resolution and farewell By one and one I 'le ship you all to hell Spain I will drown thee with thine own proud blood Then make an ark of carcasses farewell Revenge and I will sail in blood to hell Exit Maria Poison the King Alas my trembling hand Would let the poison fall and through my cheeks Fear suted in a bloodless livery Would make the world acquainted with my guilt But thanks prevention I have found a means Both to preserve my Royall Soveraignes life And keep my self a true and Loyall wife Exit The end of the second Act Act. III Scena I. Enter Queen Mother with a Torch solus Qu. Mo. FAir eldest child of love thou spotlesse night Empresse of silence and the Queen of sleep Who with thy black cheeks pure complexion Mak'st lovers eyes enamour'd of thy beauty Thou art like my Moor therefore will I adore thee For lending me this opportunity Oh with the soft skin'd Negro heavens keep back The saucy staring day from the worlds eye Untill my Eleazar make return Then in his Castle shall he find his wife Transform'd into a strumpet by my son Then shall he hate her whom he would not kill Then shall I kill her whom I cannot love The King is sporting with his Concubine Blush not my boy be bold like me thy mother But their delights torture my soul like Devills Except her shame be seen Wherefore awake Christophero Verdugo raise the Court Arise you Peers of Spain Alvaro rise Preserve your country from base infamies Enter severally at severall doors with lights and Rapiers drawn Alvero Roderigo and Christophero with others All Who rais'd these exclamations through the Court Qu. Mo. Sheath up your Swords you need not swords but eyes To intercept this treason Alv. What 's the treason Who are traitors ring the larum bell Cry arm through all the City once before The horrid sound of treason did affright Our sleeping spirits Qu. Mo. Stay you need not cry arm Arm for this black deed Works treason to your King to me to you To Spain and all that shall in Spain ensue This night Maria Eleazars wife Hath drawn the King by her Lascivious looks Privately to a banquet I unseen Stood and beheld him in him in her lustfull arms Oh God! shall bastards wear Spains Diadem If you can kneel to basenesse vex them not If you disdain to kneel wash of this blot Roder Le ts break into the chamber and surprize her Alve. Oh miserable me do do break in My Country shall not blush at my childs sin Queen Mo. Delay is nurse to danger follow me Come you and witnesse to her villany Alvero Haplesse Alvero how art thou undone In a light daughter and a stubborn son Exeunt omnes Act. III Scena II. Enter King with his Rapier drawn in one hand leading Maria seeming affrighted in
breath Had she been fair and not so virtuous This deed had not been halfe so impious Alv. But she was fair in virtue virtuous fair oh me King Oh me she was true honours heir Hence beldame from my presence all flye hence You are all murderers com poor innocence Clasp thy cold hand in mine for here I 'le lye And since I liv'd for her for her I 'l die Act. III Scena IV. Enter Eleazar with a Torch and Rapier drawn Eleazar BAr up my Castle Gates fire and confusion Shall girt these Spanish Currs was I for this Sent to raise power against a fugitive To have my wife deflowr'd Zounds where 's my wife My slaves cry out she 's dallying with the King Stand by where is your King Eleazars bed shall Scorn to be an Emperours brothelrie Qu. Mo. Be patient Eleazar here 's the King Eleaz. Patience and I am foes where 's my Maria Alu. Here is her haplesse coarse that was Maria King Here lies Maria's body here her grave Her dead heart in my breast a tomb shal have Eleazar Now by the proud complexion of my cheeks Tan'e from the kisses of the amorous sun Were he ten thousand Kings that slew my love Thus shou'd my hand plum'd with revenges wings Requite mine own dishonour and her death Stabs the King Qu. Mo. Ah me my son All The King is murdred lay hold on the damn'd traitor Eleaz. In his brest that dares but dart a finger at the Moor I 'le bury this Sharp steel yet reeking warm With the unchast blood of that lecher King That threw my wife in an untimely grave Alv. She was my daughter and her timelesse grave Did swallow down my joies as deep as yours But thus Eleaz. But what bear injuries that can I 'le wear no forked crest Roder Damn this black feind crie treason through the Court The King is murdred Eleaz. He that first opes his lips I 'le drive his words Down his wide throat upon my rapiers point The King is murdred and I 'le answer it I am dishonour'd and I will revenge it Bend not your dangerous weapons at my brest Thinke where you are this Castle is the Moors You are inviron'd with a wall of flint The Gates are lock'd Purcullesses let down If Eleaz spend one drop of blood Zarack and Baltazar above with Calivers On those high turret tops my slaves stand arm'd And shall con found your souls with murdring shot Or if you murder me yet under ground A villain that for me will dig to hell Stands with a burning limstock in his fist Who firing gunpowder up in the air Shall fling your torn and mangled carcasses Qu. Mo. Oh! sheath your weapons though my son be slain Yet save your selvs choose a new Soveraign All Prince Philip is our Soveraign choose him King Eleaz. Prince Philip shall not be my Soveraign Philip's a bastard and Fernando's dead Mendoza sweats to wear Spains Diadem Philip hath sworn confusion to this Realm They both are up in arms warrs flames do shine Like lightning in the air wherefore my Lords Look well on Eleazar value me not by my sun-burnt Cheek but by my birth nor by My birth but by my losse of blood Which I have sacrificed in Spains defence Then look on Philip and the Cardinall Look on those gaping currs whose wide throats Stand stretch'd wide open like the gates of death To swallow you your country children wives Philip cries fire and blood the Cardinall Cries likewise fire and blood I 'le quench those flames The Moor cries blood and fire and that shall burn Till Castile like proud Troy to Cinders turn Roder Lay by these Ambages what seeks the Moor Eleaz. A Kingdom Castiles crown Alve. Peace divell for shame Qu. Mo. Peace doting Lord for shame Oh miserie When Indian slaves thirst after Empery Princes and Peers of Spain wee are beset With horror on each side you deny him Death stands at all our backs we cannot flye him Crown Philip King The Crown upon his head Will prove a fiery Meteor Warr and vengeance And desolation will invade our land Besides Prince Philip is a bastard born Oh! give mee leave to blush at mine own shame But I for love to you love to fair Spain Choose rather to rip up a Queens disgrace Then by concealing it to set the Crown Upon a bastards head Wherefore my Lords By my consent crown that proud Blackamore Since Spains bright glory must so soon grow dim Since it must end let it end all in him All Eleazar shall be King Alv. Oh treachery have you so soon rac't out Fernando's love So soon forgot the duty of true Peers So soon so soon buried a mothers name That you will crown him King that slew your King Eleaz. Will you hear him or me who shall be King All Eleazar shall be Castiles Sovereign Alv. Do do make hast to crown him Lords adieu Here hell must be when the Divel governs you Exit Eleaz. By heavens great Star which Indians do adore But that I hate to hear the giddy world Shame that I waded to a Crown through blood I 'de not disgest his pills but since my Lords You have chosen Eleazar for your King Invest me with a generall applause All Live Eleazar Castiles Royall King Roder A villain and a base born fugitive Aside Christo. A bloody tyrant an usurping slave Aside Eleaz. Thanks to you all 't is not the Spanish Crown That Eleazar strives for but Spains peace Amongst you I 'le divide her Empery Christofero shall wear Granado's Crown To Roderigo I 'le give Arragon Naples Navar and fair Jerusalem I 'le give to other three and then our vice Roys Shall Shine about our bright Castilian crown As stars about the Sun Cry all arm arm Prince Philip and the Cardinall do ride Like Jove in thunder in a storme we 'l meet them Go levy powers if any man must fall My death shall first begin the funerall Exeunt Act. III Scena V. Enter Zarack and Baltazar with Calivers Baltaz. IS thy cock ready and thy powder dry Zarack. My cock stands pearching like a cock o' the game With a red cole for his crest instead of a colme And for my powder 't is but touch take Baltaz. I have tickling geer too anon I 'le cry here I have it And yonder I see it But Zarack is 't policie for us To kill these bald-pates Zarack. Is 't pollicy for us to save our selves If they live we die Is 't not wisdom then To send them to heaven rather then be sent our selves Come you black slave be resolute This way they come Here they will stand and yonder wil I stand Baltaz. And in yonder hole I Zarack. Our amiable faces cannot be seen if we keep close Therefore hide your cocks head left his burning cocks-comb betray us But soft which of the two shall be thy white Baltaz. That black villain Frier Cole Zarack. I shall have a sharp piece of service Frier Crab shall be
And that way you Card. The rest I will divide The Lords shall be convented Eleaz. Good Card. Let 's meet Qu Mo. Where Eleaz. Here anon this is thy winding-sheet Exit Cardinal The Moor walks up and down musing Qu. Mo. What shape will this prodigious womb bring forth Which groans with such strange labour Eleaz Excellent Qu. Mo. Why Eleazar art thou wrap't with joyes Or does thy sinking policy make to shore Eleaz. Ha! Qu. Mo. Eleazar mad man hear'st thou Moor Eleaz. Well so you turn my brains you mar the face Of my attempts i' th making for this chaos This lump of projects ere it be lick't over 'T is like a Bears conception stratagems Being but begot and not got out are like Charg'd Cannons not discharg'd they do no harm Nor good true policy breeding in the brain Is like a bar of Iron whose ribs being broken And softned in the fire you then may forge it Into a sword to kill or to a helmet to defend life 'T is therefore wit to try All fashions ere you apparel villany But but I ha suited him fit fit Oh fit Qu. Mo. How prethee how Eleaz. Why thus yet no let 's hence My heart is nearest of my counsel yet I scarce dare trust my heart with 't what I do It shall look old the hour wherein 't is born Wonders twice seen are garments over-worn Exeunt Act. IV. Scena V. Enter Cardinal at one door Philippo half arm'd and two souldiers following him with the rest of the armour the Cardinal seeing him turns back again Phil. SIrrah you Cardinal coward run-away So ho ho what Cardinal Card. I am not for your lure Exit Phil. For that then Oh! that it had nail'd thy heart Up to the pommel to the earth come arm me Ha! s'foot when all our swords were royally guilt with blood When with red sweat that trickled from our wounds Wee had dearly earn'd a victory when hell Had from their hinges heav'd off her iron gates To bid the damn'd Moor and the divels enter Then to lose all then to sound base retreat Why souldiers hah 1. Sould. I am glad of it my Lord Phil. Hah glad art glad I am dishonored That thou and he dishonored 1. Sould. Why my Lord I am glad that you so cleanly did come off Phil. Thou hast a lean face and a carrion heart A plague on him and thee too then s'heart then To crack the very hearts-strings of our Army To quarter it in pieces I could tear my hair And in cursing spend my soul Cardinal what Judas come wee 'l fight Till there be left but one if I be hee I 'le die a glorious death 1. Sould. So will I I hope in my bed 2. Sould. Till there be but one left my Lord why that 's now for all our fellows are crawl'd home some with one leg some with ne're an arm some with their brains beaten out and glad they scap't so Phil. But my dear Countrymen you 'l stick to me 1. Sould. Stick I my Lord stick like Bandogs till wee be pull'd off Phil. That 's nobly said I 'le lead you but to death Where I 'le have greatest share we shall win fame For life and that doth crown a souldiers name 1. Sould. How to death my Lord not I by gadelet I have a poor wife and children at home and if I die they beg and do you think I 'le see her go up and down the wide universal world Phil. For every drop of blood which thou shalt lose Coward I 'le give thy wife a wedge of gold 2. Sould. Hang him meacock my Lord arm your self I 'le fight for you till I have not an eye to see the fire in my touch-hole Phil. Be thou a King's companion thou and I Will dare the Cardinal and the Moor to fight In single combate shall we hah 2. Sould Agreed Phil. Wee 'l beat 'em to hell gate shall we hah 2. Sould. Hell gate 's somwhat too hot somewhat too hot the Porter 's a knave I 'de be loath to be damn'd for my conscience I 'le knock any bodies costard so I knock not there my Lord hell gates Phil. A pox upon such slaves 1. Sould. Hang him a peasant my Lord you see I am but a scrag my Lord my legs are not of the biggest nor the least nor the best that e're were stood upon nor the worst but they are of God's making And for your sake if ever we put our enemies to flight again by Gad's lid if I run not after them like a Tiger hoffe me Phil. But wilt thou stand to 't e're they flye ha wilt thou 1 Soul Will I quoth a by this hand and the honour of a souldier Phil. And by a souldiers honour I will load thee Whith Spanish pistolets to have this head Thy face and all thy body stuck with scars Why 't is a sight more glorious then to see A Lady hung with Diamonds If thou lose A hand I 'le send this after if an arm I 'le lend thee one of mine com then le ts fight A mangled Lame true souldier is a jem Worth Cesars Empire though fools spurn at them 1 Soul Yet my Lord I ha seen lame souldiers not worth the crutches they leant upon hands and arms quotha Zounds not I I 'le double my files or stand centry or so But I 'le be hang'd and quartred before I 'le have my members cut off 2 Sould. And I too hold thee there Beats 'em both in Phil. Hold you both there away you rogues you durt Thus do I tread upon you out begon One valiant is an host fight then alone Enter Cardinall Alvero Christofero and Souldiers Car. Prince Philip Phil. For the Crown of Spain come all Car. We come in love and peace Phil. But come in warr Bring naked swords not lawrell boughs in peace Plague on your rank peace will you fight and cry Down with the Moor and then I 'm yours I 'le dye I have a heart two arms a soul a head I 'le lay that down I 'le venture all s'foot all Come tread upon me so that Moor may fal Car. By heaven that Moor shall fall Phil. Thy hand and thine Flings down his weapons Give me but halfe your hearts you have all mine By heaven shall he fall Car. Yes upon thee Like to the ruines of a tower to grind Thy body into durt traitor and bastard I do arrest thee of High treason Phil. Hah Traitor and bastard and by thee my weapons Car. Lay hands upon him Phil. I you 're best do so Car. Alvero there 's the warrant to your hands The prisoner is committed Lords le ts part Look to him on your life Exeunt Cardinall c. Manent Philip and Alvero Phil. Hart hart hart hart Tears the warrant The Devill and his dam the Moor and my Mother Their warrant I will not obey Old gray beard Thou shalt not bee my Jayler there 's no prison No dungeon deep enough no grates so strong