some offences you are banish'd Your houses and estates 2. For nothing but being drunke 3. And offring to kill the King 4. He will not live amongst us as a good King ought Mus. Alas good men I doe presume you would not have kill'd the King in any malice to him 3. I love the King with all my heart and a pox take him that does not would he would but pardon us 1. There 's no hope now we have submitted our selves too often Mus. Yet let him heare well of you and tho Necessitie compell you to be theeves Be honest theeves and ravish no body And this report ariving at his eares It inclines him to have pittie on you And call you to his favour Cap. Vnhand the Gentlewoman he that offers her But a wry looke had better eate my sword 3. Or my scabbard tho it have been pist in 2. Faith Captaine he hath given us good councell let us deale Honestly if we take away but all they have they will Have more cause to speake well of us Cap. Vnbinde the malefactor 3. Shall I give him his sword Cap. His sword thou ignorant theefe no so he may chance to aske us againe for his Iewels take thy Penelope sweete tong'd Vlisses and on the next back smother her in kisses farwell Mus. Oh my Pamela 3. Captaine captaine come backe he calls her Pamela that should be the Kings daughter Cap. How vmh now I looke better on her I have seene that face in a maske before now Mus. We are lost agen Pam. I am the same Pamela 2. What ha we done here are all your Iewells not a stone deminish'd 3. If there be let me be gelded Pam. I easily forgive all and will be So far from a complaint that I le pleade for Your pardons to my father and he sha' not Be able to denie me Omnes A pardon a pardon if it please your highnes wee l goe backe with you Pam. Not with me Cap. As we are true men and theeves Madam Pam. We are undone agen Mus. At our returne I le ioyne with her 3. Returne why whether are you going so farre from the lodge this is the way to the sea Cap. Vmh I guest treason are not you an 't shall please your Ladyship running away with this Gentleman 2. He said she was his wife 3. I doe not like him Cap. Lay hands on him agen well thought upon you shall Iustifie your selves before the King Mus. Dare you goe to the King without a pardon 2. 'T is the only way to procure one Mus. Rather goe with us and as I am 3. What are you Mus. I am I know not Cap. Wee l teach you to know your selfe away with 'em we are all made Mus. Villaines and Rebells Exeunt Enter Basilius and Gynecia Bas. Zelmane has abus'd me Gy. Chide not her 'T was mine owne plot to trie your constancie Death cease upon Zelmane for his comming But I will be reveng'd when did I fall From my high birth in what lascivious action Lost I my fame that this Basilius should wrong his owne Gynecia Bas. I am asham'd I prithee chide no more She gave me sure some philter to betray My bloud to this dishonor Gy. Tho your lust Mist the enjoying him for whom your heart Grew wanton yet the sin cannot be purg'd They are adulterate sheetes and those embraces Which lock'd mine armes thy guilt not one warme kisse But was intended for Zelmanes lips Oh my fate Bas. Prithee forgive Gy. The silence which I vs'd I wish'd might save my modesty a language To accuse you now indeede you have done ill Touse me thus Bas. My love to thee hereafter Shall redeeme all wound me no more I prithee Gy. If vice have so possest you that my bed Is now growne hatefull make me not the scorne Of all your kingdome send me home agen To Argos to weare out my life in weeping My Lord has quite forsaken me Bas. Not for The crownes of Greece and all the world deere deerest Gynecia pardon thou hast sau'd mine honor Destroy me not agen on what a rocke Had not thy goodnes rescued me had I Been ever ship wrack'd take me to thy love A sad man for my fault never oh never Shall such unworthy thoughts corrupt my heart To leave a chaste wife Gy. I doe freely pardon this error Bas. Then I am straite agen Gy. But Zelmane shall accompt Deerely for this unlesse he satisfie My furious bloud new welcome to my bosome Bas. A cup of wine would crowne our reconcilement As I remember in the cave I saw A golden bottle Exit Gy. Your Majestie may taste on 't but I meant it A draught for false Zelmane it being virtuall To increase affection to me a guift My mothers love bestow'd when I was married To Basilius if ever he grew cold Enter Basilus To quicken his desires I never yet Made tryall Bas. It is the gods Nepenthe or a drinke more precious I prithee giu 't a name and if my kingdome Afford th' ingredients let me tast it often Ha Gynecia where am I Gy. Here my Lord Bas. I thinke I am deceiv'd my tongue o th sudden drawes backeward and my limbes grow very feeble Ha oh-farwell Falls Gy. My Lord my Lord Basilius oh hee 's deade If he be poyson'd I have made faire worke Deere husband then for ever mourne Gynecia The gods have punish'd thy lascivious heate With hastie justice hath my care so long Almost religiously preserv'd this drinke To kill thus in a minute oh my soule Doth feele a scorpion and my lust appeares Enter Dametas and a Shepheard Circled with thousand furies Shep. Treason treason Dam. Doe set out your throate here and let me alone to rore treason in the eares of my Lord Philonax I should ha' beene the towne cryer Shep. Make hast Dam. Oh yes treason Gy. When you have spent your voyces let your eyes Speake a more killing language Dam. Ha the Queene Madam Pamela is gon Gy. No matter for Pamela looke here shepheards Here lies the King Dam. No matter for Pamela I am glad of that Is his majestie a sleepe Gy. Never to awake hee 's deade poyson'd by this violl Dam. Oh base violl why here is more treason then we look'd for this is admirable did he dye against his will or was he kill'd a naturall death let vs sit upon him Gy. For beare I can direct you to the murderer Looke heere you shepheards it was I that kill'd him Dam. You your Majestie is very merry Gy. Will you not trust me Dam. Yes for more then I am worth but if you kill'd him your selfe your majesty must pardon me for that I have nothing to say to you but treason treason Exit Gy. Yet flie Gynecia and save thy life Betray not thine owne life why doe I talke Of safety can there be in all the World A consort when my honor and Basilius Have both forsaken me Enter Philonax and Dametas with a guard Philon. Pamela
is falne already if I but dreame of her My slumbers shall be happy he sleepes Enter Dametas as from a Vault Dam. There be more wayes to the woode then one she may be in her sisters Chamber I may thanke my acquaintance with the Buttery and a trap doore for this passage shee has shut me out of doores of all vmh a sword I had rather it were Pamela naked I durst undertake to handle her with lesse feare vmh Philoclea 't is she and this is-no this is not Pamela she was a woman unlesse she be crept into breeches since I left her no 't is a man heere is no tarrying for me and he were not soundly a sleepe my smell were enough to wake him treason treason Exit Py. Ha what voyce is that who cryes out treason Phi. Pyrocles what 's the matter Pyr. Nothing Within Treason treason Pyr. Harke i st not treason my sword my sword Is gon we are betray'd some theefe has been Within the Chamber yet the doores are safe ha Le ts see search every where alas Philoclea If now I must be ravisht from thee how Can there be charity enough on earth To pitty me they die but once who still Dispaire of blisse but the Fares twise destroy A lover whom they kill so neere his ioy Exeunt Actus Quartus Enter Rebells Cap. COme my bloods since there is no hope of our pardons let us be honest out-lawes one to another and doe all the mischeife we can we are Masters of the Woods and we will domineere like Lords of the soyle I say we will live we will eate and we will drinke 3. Would I were at my forge againe Cap. Arcadia shall be thy Anvile smith and thou maist live to beate Great men to dust 2. Some of them are so rotten they will save us a labor Cap. Be resolute and strike the iron while it is hot where is the little miller 3. Thumbe the miller is cut off Cap. Who can helpe it be not crest falen but shew your selues Cockes of the game wee l make the state send for us home and agree to our own conditions let vs therefore play the theeves manfully 3. And so be hang'd honorably Cap. Hang hang ng we defie the lawes and we will execute when we list in our owne quarters we will rob man woman and child 2. Do you fight with the men and let me alone with the women 1. And Thumbe had he beene alive he had been a fit match for the children Enter 4. Rebell 4. A prise a Captaine I see a Gentleman and a Lady strike into a grove hard by their horses are for their better behavior already bound to a tree follow me and I le conduct Cap. Without noyse or tumult le ts steale upon them Enter Musidorus and Pamela Pam. This grove is all one bower nature her selfe Must be delighted to dwell heere the Sunne Can shoote no beame upon us through this Arbor Tho he does rage abroad Mus. The heate betrayes The Sunne is angry Madam to see you Whose brightnes takes all wonder from his shine And leave him a pale starr Pam. You complement Mus. Are you not weary Madam Pam. I shall never In thy societie yet we may rest A little in this shade oh Musidorus He should be enemy to vertue now To cherrish one suspectfull thought of thee Some wild licencious Prince had now undone me And carelesse of his owne ruin'd my honor Mus. It were not simple theft but Sacriledge To rob you of one peacefull thought if any Service already have obtaind so much Trust I am so familliar with mine owne Desires that hereafter I le deserve to keepe Your faire opinion of me lust could never Intrude himselfe a guest heere I should not Love mine owne eyes had they been but tempted To see an unchast picture with delight Pam. What 's that behinde the trees Mus. Nothing the birds are dancing on the leaves Call'd heither by the musique of your tongue Those that are silent doe but listen to Your voyce to mend their singing Pam. Still methinkes I heare annother noyse Mus. It is your feare Pam. There 's some thing whispers Mus. Shall I tell Pamela Pam. Pray if you can Mus. It is the winde that would Steale through the boughes to give you more refreshing Whom the trees envie I doe heare it murmer To be kept from your lips which it would kisse And mixing with your breath catch odors thence Enough to sweeten all the wood there can No other danger enter heere The Rebells cease upon Pamela Pam. We are betray'd helpe Mus. Ha villaines y 'ad better lay violent hands Vpon your mothers Cap. Let your courage coole and heare us you were best If you doe love this Gentlewomans life Put up your toole d ee see this bodkin sir With it I le punch her heart if you but offer A blow at any of my traine I le doo 't As I am true Rebell and for the more security Deliver up your whinyard to our uses Or I le make an eylet-hole presently Pam. Doe not resigne your sword but use it Mus. Hold heare me Pam. Let us both die with honor doe not give Your strength and trust t 'the mercy of those slaves In humane villanes to us Mus. But thy life as you are men but heare me Cap. Drop your steele quickly or Mus. Alas she is my wife 2. Your wife if you love her be not troublesome I tell you againe Pam. Pamela bids thee fight feare not for me If I die I shall not be dishonord And thou shalt take a brave revenge on them Pitty not me to loose us both wee l meete Again in death and love eternally Mus. My soule 's devided shall I venture her Cap. I le stay no longer Mus. Hold and take my sword But sweare by some religion you will use No violence to her 3. We sweare Cap. So first and formost throw his sword out of the way we have no vse on 't secondly bind him to a tree Mus. Set her at liberty And use what cruelty you please on me Kill me and I le forgive you 3. Forgiv'e us heaven forgive thee say thy prayers Mus. I see there 's pittie in you if your wants Councell you to this sinfull trade we both Will freely give our wealth we have some Iewells Of valew to redeeme you all and make You rich if you dare first be so in goodnes And exercise no tyrany upon Our bodies what a misery it is Such spirits as you are should not have fortunes High as your thoughts when every dunghill fellow Surfets with honors and estates and vomits In Taverns what would keepe your families But 't is the times disease when merrit thus Disgrac'd and unrewarded by the state Makes subjects desperate 3. He says true Mus. I prithee take my cloathes would they were rich And worth your pillage and will serve me 3. Alas good Gentleman let e'en strip him Cap. None dare to take a skirt Mus. Perhaps for
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