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Wits led by the nose, or, A poets revenge a tragi-comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal.
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Chamberlayne, William, 1619-1689.
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and a Priests Roabes in his hand Oro. This fair Amasia was a happy hour To Rescue thee from such a Villains pow'r Lust in these Roabs so dreadful did appear Beyond an Armies strength it made me fear Ama. The Impious Villain in such Crimes did move Striving to force what he at first cal'd Love That I almost mistrusted Heav'n who gave Such sawcy Boldness to th' injurious Slave Till you my chief Protector came with aid And th' injurious Mass of sin display'd Oro. Under this Masque of Heav'n and Silver age The impious Rebel ' mongst his sins did rage The blooming beauty of a fragrant flower To crop and kill while it was in his pow'r The Slaves confession may perhaps ingage Our King in Clemency to cease his rage Those Counterplots laid to prevent your fall Though seeming Ominous may save us all These Roabs which he has so abus'd shall prove The Guardian Angel to preserve my love Ama. Run not such dangerous hazards for her sake Who knows no way to pay your favours back By the King Vow and Laws I 'm doom'd to die A minute cuts off my Mortality And then my Gratitude and Debts remain Too Great and Vast ere to pay back again Oro. All the return I ask for or desire Is but your equal love and equal fire Grant I in death may so much comfort meet To fall a Lover at Amasia's feet Ama. You had my word before and if ere Fate Changes my doom for a serener fate Before the Gods and you I vow that hour Amasia shall submit to your great pow'r Your Chains I 'le wear and give up Victory The toyles of War for brave Captivity To be o'recome by one so truly brave Makes a most Glorious Captive of your Slave Oro. Those noble Chains I 'le wear and tryumph more Then ere I did in Conquering before To be your Slave is such a pleasing fate The mighty blessing doth my fears rebate In Life or Death or smooth fac'd Victory No pleasures like this sweet Captivity Ama. We soon must part with all those joys and breath How e're I shall be happy in my death If Life with you be bliss Death must be more Since real happiness is there in store For all who do a true Loves fate deplore Oro. Think not of death first see Oroandes fall And let a sigh attend his Funeral For whilst I live no force shall reach thy heart When I am wounded in each mortal part And bleeding death about my Soul doth wait Prepare Amasia to receive thy fate Till then my pow'r and this disguise believe Either of these may bring a safe repreive Ama. Thus to prophane the holy Roabs will be A greater trouble then the loss of me Heaven will be angry at your strange pretence Oro. Heav'n cannot frown to save such innocence They what we Sacrifice injustice call Else vertue would be banish'd from us all Vertue expatiates to blot out Vice Reaching her Glorious Arms to Paradise And if we root that Angel from the Earth Our weak humanity is out of breath For that conducted by the Powers above Teaches the way to Duty and to Love Come my fair Sacrifice these Roabs can be Never prophan'd worn to deliver thee Exeunt ACT III. SCENE the Court Enter Antellus Glorianda and Guards King URge me no more the Gods have so decreed Amasia and her Brother both must bleed Glo. Consider Sir the Nature of the Crime And for my sake withdraw your Rage this time Look on Amasia's Charms and then declare If Zeal and Beauty are not both at War The Cruel Tyrant to secure his own Usurps this beauty to enrich his Throne King You sue in vain for what must be deni'd The Gods prescrib'd this way to scourge their pride Glo. Call not that Pride which was Revenge alone Nor is it Justice Sir to Kill the Son Your veng'ance scourg'd the Rebels as they flew And ev'ry factious man your Valour slew You strong Rebellion hunted out of breath Which Sir expir'd in brave Zoranzo's death King The fathers fall did but foment him more Proving a greater Rebel then before Still he grew on and in Rebellion mov'd Glo. Your self Sir by a Son would be belov'd His Fathers Death new veng'ance did implore Could he do less for one had sought before Rebellious Nature did the faction head And he fought only to revenge the Dead His Army weak wounded on ev'ry part Fought not to Conquer but Revenge their smart King Why for the bold Usurper do you move I shall grow angry and believe you love Glo. You gave me leave and made a worthy choice Brave Oroandes had my Brothers voice But he as well as I preserves a flame For dead Zoranzo's Issue King Dare you name An Act so base to love your Countries foe He dies and never shall your pashions know The Gods expect their Sacrifice with care And ' cause you shall not languish in dispair Against to morrow for their Deaths prepare Glo. What have I said that should your anger move If you will save his Life I will not love Let him but live and I 'le forget the wrong Though love is grown too pow'rful and too strong With ease to be remov'd in youth when first Kind conversation in each eye had nurst A gentle Cupid and our hearts though poor Wanting th' effects of love could love no more Down with content we by each other sate Weeping to think upon our Childish fate Till he forc'd by a Fathers pride did flie From me and honour to your Enemy Though then he lost obedience to the Crown A mutual love did our Souls Current drown Within one Silver stream and shall I now Cause his dejected state to fate doth bow Kill him with pride whose noble growth would be A joyful Harvest of felicity No let his Titles Sacrifices fall To his first Guilt his Vertue merits all King Call Treason Vertue and the Traytor just Rebellion's a desire to Rule and Lust Of Empire makes 'em break their trust ill Acts committed by success made good And Nations staggering for want of blood Drawn out by Civil strifes and unjust fears Are only debts to Nature in Arrears You know my Vow which I will ne're evade Glo. Heav'n blushes when that bloody Vow is paid If he must fall the worthiest of men Heav'n will be pleas'd with Sacrifices then My blood and his shall mount up to the Skys And feed the Nostrils of our Deities Till they in Rage to see such goodness fall Rain down our blood on veng'ance on ye all Amasia's Charms shall with such swiftness move The Gods out of meer pity from above Shall plague you all when 't is too late with Love Exit Glorianda King Amasia 's Charms shall with such swiftness move The Gods out of meer pity from above Shall plague you all when 't is too late with Love What can she mean 'T was spoke as she did spy The little Tyrant dancing in my eye Something unruly
doth about me wait Like hidden Charms my anger to rebate The surly motion tells me I do ill Can I pretend to be a King and kill Amasia was no Rebel to the State Why therefore should she share a Brothers Fate 'T is true her life did from that spring take head And she may own those factions which they bred How ere If she can love she lives if not she dies Bring then a Rebel fit for Sacrifice Call in Amasia though her Charms appear Exit some Guards So uncontroul'd they must submit to fear Fearful to try what joy or bliss would be Found while they 'r strangers in Eternity Enter Amasia Having consider'd Madam your Estate And how each Title now submits to Fate I could not chuse but rob the Gods of one One only fit for Siracusia's Throne Ama. To say I 've no desire to live would prove A Barren Gratitude for Royal Love Death though a debt which is to Nature due We all would fain prolong and so would you But how I am thus blest being so nigh The welcome brink of Immortality Staggers my Faith and strikes my Reason blind King You 'l make all perfect by your being kind Ama. I know so well you love that Conquerour Who made us Captive to your mighty Pow'r You 'd not deny might it with safety be My Brothers Life my Love and Liberty King Your Liberty without dispute I grant Yet all those Graces must your Brother want His Life must be to Heav'n a Sacrifice Your own is Ransom'd by your Charming eyes Ama. What have I heard shall Zannazarro find His Sister prov'd so weak to stay behind Must he alone stoop to the Cruelty I was a Rebel Sir as well as he King In acts of Love you but a Rebel prove Conqu'ring the Conquerour yet scorn to Love He Wading through blood to Massacre did run Outdid the Father to undo the Son Ama. My Fathers Crimes he never did partake Kill me and spare him then for Honours sake Nature can never consent to stay behind He is my Brother and in that I find Some secret motion though my love be strong Which tells me that I needs must go along Thus Love and Nature struggle in desires King Consider Madam who it is admires And the vast gift I give to quench my fires Ama. You give me life which I would gladly take Might he live too for brave Or'andes sake Affections 'twixt the Victor and the Slave So strong are knit they both will share one Grave Then if he die Or'andes too must fall And Heav'n will blush to see the Funeral The Gods made drunk with such a vast expence Of Royal blood will pardon us from thence King You love Or'andes then and for his sake This tedious Pilgrimage of Death will take Charm'd by your Charms I gave Reprieve for life In hopes you would consent to be my Wife But since to him your faith 's already giv'n This day you keep your Nuptial feast in Heav'n You by the Law must fall a Sacrifice He only out of duty to your eyes May if he please translate himself from hence Death will confirm what now is but pretence Guards bring this Prisoner to the Temple streight My Love shall end when she receives her Fate Exit King and attendants Enter Glorianda Glo. Go Cruel Brother who at once withstood His Friend his Sister and his Countries good And all to satisfie the Gods with blood You weep Amasia and those pearly tears Confirm my Brothers rage and my own fears His Cruel heart will no impression take From bended Knees kind Words or Natures sake Ama. Yes he is kind too kind alas for me He gen'rously gave me Liberty Urging my Crime so little did appear Heav'n could not see 't and he 'd forget it here But then the recompence I was to give Prov'd so severe my Justice could not live Brave Oroandes I must dispossess And make him rich in my unhappiness Which once deny'd he then my Death decreed Glo. The Chast Amasia not alone shall bleed For Zannazarro I Oroandes You Dying together will proclaim us true He in our fall shall so much vertue see When we 'r extracted from humanity As Heav'n shall turn to smooth felicity Ama. My Cares are many for your noble life Since you ought not to suffer in the strife Earth will be Rob'd when so much goodness dies And Heav'n be too much stor'd with Sacrifice Live and be happy in a second choice Or'andes once has had your Brothers voice Let him possess in Zannazarro's stead All the enjoyments of a Nuptial Bed I can resign that blessing up to you And I am sure you 'r satisfi'd he 's true Glo. In Life and Death so generous you prove In Heav'n you 'l be rewarded for your Love Know fair Amasia though you did resign Your int'rest I can never remove mine Death's but a toy a moments fear and then We Launch into a World of Bliss again Ama. I for that World must instantly prepare And how to know you there shall be my care Shrouded in Clouds of glorious innocence And Angels waiting on each petty sence Shall draw our Souls through Clouds of bliss from hence SCENE a Wood. Enter Sir Symon Credulous Arm'd Cap a Pe with him Slywit Sly Believe me Sir 't is true Sym. I fear him not I am intollerable this case of Steel makes me as free from wound as if enchanted Sly Yet Sir there is a greater danger near the Wood is lin'd with men in Arms whom he hath hir'd if you should be the Victor to cut your throat if he survive to drag your Body to the Sea and there intomb it that your name and actions may be lost to future ages Sym. How is he so great a Villain Sly He Kil'd his Father Ravish'd his Sister Poys'ned the Great Turk and has committed outrages innumerable Sym. Then I think it fit to forbear the honourable employment of fighting for this time and go home rather then stay to meet with these unavoidable dangers Sly Sir I love you and I cannot see so much vertue perish fight him in spight of all and at convenient time fall down Sir Jasper imagining you are dead will fly behind the Castle waits your Father with Officers to seize him and hurry him to Prison to give you the more priviledg and uncontroul'd freeness to Marry his Daughter Sym. Can this be true Sly Upon my honour Sir my love to you forc'd me to be a Traytor to my Master and relate this secret Sym. It shan't go unrewarded Sly You won't walk long before my Mistress meet you farewell Exeunt severally Enter Sir Jasper Arm'd Cap a pe with him Drayner Dra. Nay he has vow'd to kill you your Armour were it more impregnable the Mambrosia's Helmet his Sword will find a passage through Jas Tell Sir Symon I am Arm'd all over if Wine Steel and Impudence are not enough t' oppose one single Hector Rot me for a Wigeon I am come