but gives Them warning of a greater Ki. We are confident Thou hast happily expounded what lightning Darts from those angry exhalations Ho. It speakes the flame of our revenge Ki. What thunder Ho. The loudnesse of our canon let their feares Apply it and runne mad with apprehension Tri. Our ships must needes fall foule on one another Riding i th haven Ho. Let em cracke their ribs We have the more necessity to tug for 't Ki. Yet would thou wert at home Ros. Feare not for me sir Your absence would present my imagination With more affliction I suffer lesse In knowledge and shall rise by brave examples Valiant above my sex these horrors fright Not me Ki. This fire will quicken the whole army Souldiours pursued by Vittori Cassandra halfe dead under his arme What mutinie is here Vi. Base vilaines to take part With all the malice of the world against me Ki. What are you Vi. I am a Gentleman and dare Rather than suffer a rude hand divorce This burden from my armes defie you all Alas she will be gone oh my Cassandra Thy soule shannot forsake thee thus I le take it In with a kisse Tr. Some whom the wracke has cast Vpon the shore Ro. Pitty the gentlewoman Vi. Come not too neere the man that first attempts This Lady had better rip his mothers wombe Ki. Whence are you Vi. You are strangers I perceive Then I presume to tell you I have more justice To tread upon this earth then you or any The proudest it once gave us birth and fate Vngentle fate hath sent us backe to dye here But I will not outlive my deere Cassandra Ki. Doe you delight in wounds resigne that Lady Vi. Not while my hand can manage this the blood You take will make us walke on even pace To death and when my soule can stay no longer I le leave a curse to blast you but if you Beare hearts of flesh about you and will promise A pitty to this poore departing Spirit I will not use a sword but give my life To be commanded from me at your pleasure Your care will come too late Ki. I promise by The word and honour of a King she shall Be carefully attended Vi. Though that name Breed wonder in me it secures all thoughts That may concerne her safety Ki. See Rosinda With as much diligence to this Ladies health As you 'd preserve your owne Hor. An excellent creature Ki. My faith is past Now if you please you may acquaint us with Your name and quality Vi. Something on the sudden Weighes my hart lower I ha not power to thanke him Ki. Already you have exprest your selfe this Country man Be more particular Vi. My name 's Vittori Ki. Hor. The Admirall of Naples Vi. It was a title I had too late and lost it for my service I cannot conjure up the dead to witnesse There be some living that remember me It was my chance to have the best at sea Against the bold Sicilian Ki. A chance sayst Vi. Few victories can boast more all is but The dye of Warre which valour must obey My lot was to bring peace and triumph home And my reward was banishment the sea Held me a sinfull burden to the waves Or else the blood I shed to mixe with em In anger and revenge conspir'd to throw Our Barke with the distressed lading backe Vpon this flinty bosome of your Country You have at full my misery be just To that poore Lady whatsoe're I suffer Ki. Your fame was with us earlier entertaine him They disarme Vittori You are welcome man there 's cause we should Be kinde to you Vi. Will a King staine his honour Ki. Know miserable man thy destinies Have made thee his that will exact severe Account for many lives most happy storme Thy master too shall finde a punishment Great as his pride how fortunate we are Vi. I aske no mercy for my selfe be kind To that poore Lady as y' are a Prince and I Will kisse my fate Ki. We violate no promise made to her Though torment make thee curse thy selfe blest heavens You shall pay deere for all Vi. Oh my Cassandra When at the expence of all my blood I have bought Thy precious life from these hard hearted men Shed one teare on me and I am pay'd agen Exeunt The third Act Pag. You should have thought of this afore Paz. I did thinke and thinke on 't agen but there was necesity of going with the princesse or losing my place at court when she came backe prethee sweete Didimo councell me I shall nere endure these bounsing of gunnes happy are they that can destroy gunpowder without offence in their musterings souldiers may talke but there 's neither wit nor honesty in making so many cripples yet I would give one of my legs to have the tother secur'd I care not which cowards are commonly creatures of understanding would I had purg'd away my soule at sea there had beene peace among the Haddocks Pag. Come I have a tricke to save thee harmelesse thou shat entreate to be gentleman of a company Paz. Shall I what 's that Pag. A singular priviledge I can tell you oh the right hand file doe not you know 't Paz. A right handed file Pag. There 's no honour like it I le not give a rush to be an officer your Gentleman of a company marches in the vanne Paz. Vanne what 's that Pag. The bullets first salute him he goes up to the mouth of a Canon he lies perdue Paz. Perdue Pag. More glorie than to command an army to lye two houres upon his belly in the field and digge a hole for his chin when the bullets whisper in both his eares whize to be trod upon by horses and scorne to reveale himselfe sometimes to be snatch'd up by a party of firelockes or if he fight to bee cut into honourable collups or his limbes strewed about the field which found by a subtlers wife is sod for the knapsacke men and goes currant for campe mutton my father was a Captaine and I have heard him tell brave stories of these gentlemen of companies Paz. And thou wodst ha me one of these gentlemen Pa. By any meanes Paz. Have the bullets first salute me lye perdue as you call it and be cut into honorable collups or have my haunches sod by a subtlers wife and passe for Campe mutton this is the preferment you wish me to M. Didimo Pag. You shall be in no danger I have but told you what fortunes other men have met withall you shall be secure and march in the vanne Paz. and come up to the mouth of a Canon Pag. T is my meaning Paz. Which if I doe I le give the Canon leave to eate me Pag. Dost thou thinke I would advise thee any thing for thy hurt Paz. Hurt no no these are but fleabitings to have my limbes strew'd about the field or so Pag. Come I love thee and will give thee proofe thou
THE YOVNG ADMIRALL AS IT WAS PRESENTED By her Majesties Servants at the private house in Drury Lane Written by James Shirly LONDON Printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke 1637 Names of the Persons THe King of Naples The King of Sicily The Prince of Naples Vittori the Young Admirall Alphonso his Father Noblemen of Naples Julio Alberto Fabio Noblemen of Sicily Horatio Trivulsi Captaines Fabrichio Mauritio Didimo a Page to Rosinda Pazzorello a servant to Rosinda Soldiers Rosinda the daughter of Sicily Cassandra Vittories mistresse Flavia Lady attendant on Rosinda TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE GEORGE LORD BARKLEY of Barkely Castle My Lord THe many testimonies of your excellent nature with so much furniture and ornament of learning have in the hearts of the knowing world erected monuments to your living fame and long since prepard my particular ambition to be knowne to you that I among other whose more happy wits have gaind by being onely read under so noble a Patron might by some timely application derive upon me your Lordships influence Be pleas'd my most honourable Lord to accept this Poeme till something of more high endeavour may present my service yet let me not barre it the truth of this Character it hath beene grateful to the stage and graciously entertain'd at Court by their Majesties Now if your Lordship smile upon it in this addresse and bid it welcome it shall dwell with honour and security under your name and the author glory to professe himselfe My Lord Your most humble Honourer IAMES SHIRLY THE YOVNG ADMIRALL The first Act Enter Prince and Alberto ALberto My Lord y 're sad Pr. I am thinking Alberto Of many things have I not cause Al. You may Thinke on em with lesse trouble Pr. But of all What dost imagine most afflicts me I le Prevent thy answere I am not troubled With the present threatnings of the Enemy With all his preparations to invade us Al. You have more confidence in Vittori sent To meete the insulting King he has beene fortunate In many warres Pr. The warres consume Vittori He has beene too fortunate Al. Your wishes ere Against the common peace if he prove not A happie Admirall we are lost Pr. Be thou And all thy name lost and may no age Find it agen how dare you interrupt us When we do want your Councell wel 'e call for you Al. I am gone sir Enter Iulio Pr. My Iulio welcome What speakes Cassandra yet Iu. Nothing to encourage you the same obstinate thing Victory has her heart she much condemnes The roughnesse which you mix'd with your last courtship She saies your Father may command her life But you must be a stranger to her bosome Pr. I was too rude at my last visit Iu. Rather sir too tame Pr. Have I for this drawne warre vpon my countrey Neglected Sicilies Daughter left a staine Vpon his Court and paid his Entertainment With wounding one he lou'd Iu. His favourite You had beene lesse sir then your selfe to have suffered His insolence nor was 't an act becomming His Master to send hither to negotiate A marriage for his Daughter and when you So farre engag'd your selfe upon a visite To permit any of his gaudy upstarts Affront your person Pr. I acquit the King T was no state quarrell high with wine he did Throw some disgrace on our Italian Ladies Whilst he would magnifie some beauties there This he did second with a pride and rudenesse My patience was not tame enough to suffer And carelesse of all danger I did punish him Iu. T was home and hansome Pr. I must owe to fortune Iu. For your returne she did but do her duty To make it swift and happy Pr. I confesse the princesse usd me nobly though my fancy Was not surpris'd for here I kept the image Of faire Cassandra whose divine beauty Doth scorne all competition Iu. Did you love Cassandra before you went to Sicily Pr. Yes but with too much silence and that love Did make me apprehend more fiercely the Occasion to breake off all forraine treaty Horatio's fall and my quitting the Country Vpon 't the king interprets a disgrace To his daughter and himselfe and in revenge Hath added this new tempest to the Sea Mean't to our ruine Iulio Iu. All their fury May soone be interrupted if Vittory Mannage his businesse well Pr. That 's all my trouble Iu. What Pr. Vittory ther 's the devill on 't he may Be fortunate and overcome Iu. Can there Be ill in that Pr. Ill thou art shallow I Made him not Admirall but to engage His youth and spirit apt to fly on dangers To perish in his hot pursuit of honour If he come home with victory my Father And his wise state must give him thankes the people Giddily runne to meete the Conquerour And owe their lives and safety to his triumph But where am I what peace brings it to me What blessing i' st to heare the generall voyce Shoot their wild joyes to heaven and I in torment Certaine to lose my hopes in faire Cassandra Iu. There may be waies at home to remove him And plant you in your wishes Pr. It would be Most happinesse to heare his death Ju. That may Ruine a Kingdome Pr. Ruine twenty more So I enioy her first nothing can be Too precious to forfeit I am mad And my desires by opposition grow More violent Iu. I thought your masculine soule Lesse capable of vexation shall a subject Whom with your breath you may blow out o' th' world Raise such a storme within you Pr. No he sha'not I ha found my selfe againe come I le be merry But I will have Cassandra spight of fate Iu. Resolve and have her Pr. Stay it were convenient We did know how to doe this Iulio Iu. Y' are in the right sir it were first indeed Convenient to know how Pr. Thou knowst his Father Iu. Sighnior Alphonso Pr. A bold and daring Gentleman all flame When he is mov'd and carelesse of a danger To vindicate his honour Iu. What of this Pr. He shall beare the foundation of a plot To make me Lord of my desires Iu. Hee le rather Meet torture then consent his arme is not Yet withered and while he can lift a sword He will employ it to revenge Vittori Pr. Thou art no Polititian Iulio Enter Fabio How now what newes with you Fa. And please your grace An humble creature of yours proud of the least Occasion to expresse how faithfully My heart is fixt to serve you Pr. What 's your businesse In. I have businesse of some consequence I had not beene so bold else to disturbe Your Princely conference for I durst never Assume that impudent garbe that other courtiers Are knowne by my devotion has beene still To appeare in modest services Pr. To 'th point Fa. It were a point of deepe neglect to keepe Your grace in expectation yet delaies Make ioyes the sweeter arrowes that fly compasse Arrive with as much happinesse to the
treason As heathens blush at Nature and Religion Tremble to heare to fight against my country T is a lesse sinne to kill my Father there Or stab my owne heart these are private mischeefes And may in time be wept for but the least Wound I can fasten on my Country makes A Nation bleed and my selfe too blasts all The memory of former actions And kils the name we live by oh Cassandra Thou didst not well to praise the King for this Cas. His words did sound more comfort Vi. Prethee tell me How canst thou hope I should preserve my faith Vnstain'd to thee and breake to all the world Cas. Naples has beene injurious and we made No solemne vow to love what hath betrai'd us Vi. Take heed and do not greeve the Saints to heare thee If Naples have forgot Vittories service I must not make a desperate shipwracke of My piety what greater vow It was Articled in the creation of my soule I should obey and serve my Country with it Above my selfe death is a brave excuse for 't No he shall see I am a Souldier And dare be just say he should torture me Shall wickednesse be strong in punishment And we not be as valiant in our suffering Ca. Can then Vittori be content to leave his Cassandra to the misery of life Alone for in the number of mankinde I nere shall finde another in whose love I can place any comfort Vi. Do not say so Princes will court thee then and at thy feete Humble their Crownes and purchase smiles with Provinces When I am dead the world shall dote on thee And pay thy beauty tribute I am thy Affliction and when thou art discharg'd From loving me thy eyes shall be at peace A Sunne more glorious shall draw up thy teares Which gracing heaven in some new forme shall make The Constellations blush and envy em Or if thy love of me be so great that when I am sacrific'd Thou wot thinke of me let this comfort thee I die my Countries Martyr and ascend Rich in my scarlet robe of bloud my name Shall staine no Chronicle and my Tombe be blest With such a garland time shall never wither Thou with a troupe of Wives as chaste as thee Shall visite my cold Sepulcher and glory To say this doth enclose Vittories dust That died true to his honour and his country Methinkes I am taking of my leave already And kissing the wet sorrowes from thy cheeke Bid thee rejoyce Vittori is a conqueror And death his way to triumph Cas. This is all A new disguise for griefe to make it shew well Vi. To make it shew indeed I have talk'd idly And miserably forgot my selfe I am check'd This tels me another tale if I refuse To obey the Kings directions he is not So kinde to take the forfeit of my life But he will make the price of my neglect Cassandra's innocent bloud if I obey not To do an act injurious to vertue Thy soule must be divorc'd Cas. Sir I have read it And were not worthy of Vittories love To value this poore life above his honour Keepe your high thoughts preserve all peace within you You shall not buy my breath with your owne shame I le die with that devotion I ha praid for you Which trust me was most heartily and I le shed No teares for my owne funerall if any Vnruly drop breake forth when we are parting T is more to leave Vittori then the world Yet if thou wot give me leave I le confesse to thee Before my head fall from this other peece I would deceive the hangman for ere thou Go from me with a sigh into thy bosome I would convey my spirit and leave him But a pale ghost to mocke his execution Vi. I cannot hold this conflict is more fierce Then many thousand battells canst thou dy Cas. If you will have it so you have taught me To be in love with noble thoughts I shall Have some weepe ore my hearse and when I m'e gone Seald by my bloud a Martyr for thy love The world shall praise me for it and the Virgins And Wives if I obtaine no other monument Build me a toombe within their hearts and pay Their yeerely songs and garlands to my memory That died to save Vittories life and honour Vi. How should Cassandra die to save Vittori Cas. Allow it So you be happie and although my wishes Are rather for the punishment of Naples More cruell then our enemies yet if you Thinke it dishonour to oppose that country I have a heart most willing to preserve By any death your fame lose not a scruple Of your selfe for me I carry thy love with me And prophesie my story shall throw more Disgrace on Naples then all thy revolt Can bring upon thy name Vi. I am in a tempest And know not how to steere destruction dwels On both sides Ca. Come resolve Vi. I must to let Thee live I will take armes forgive me then Great Genius of my Country that to save Her life I bring my honour to the grave Exeunt Enter Fabio and Mauritio at severall doores Fa. I know not what to say to these garboiles there 's a hot Naples toward and the Prince is so humerous a thother side I dare not come neere him Captaine Mauricio Ma. Signior Fabio you dishonour your body by straining so much Complement Fa. Your humble servant Captaine Ma. A court instrument and so deepe a base you forget your selfe have the Warres made this alteration keepe your garbe and be staunch Signior a Captaine is a thing too course for your acquantance you wonot know Souldiers in peace Fa. Alas sir the necessity of my affaires at Court and place so devoures my attendance that I cannot give that respect which is due to a Gentleman of your quality no neglect I beseech you Sir Ma. I am glad t is come about what do you thinke now of a Musket bullet next your heart t is very provocative come be not sad thou maist live a day or two longer Fa. I hope Captaine the state of the City is not so desperate Ma. We expect a battell every houre the wals to fly about Our eares if they should be patient we ha not provision to endure a siege what will become of your pumps signior your wrought shirts and rich nightcaps I say nothing of your wardrobe jewells and other trinkets Fa. I stand not upon them my life is more precious to me then all these Ma. What pitty it is so profound a gentleman should dye by gunpowder what would you give to be sav'd now Fa. How d ee meane Captaine Ma. For your soule let it shift I thinke thou hast little care on 't thy selfe there be many would give all their estate to out-live these combustions Fa. I would I were sure on 't condition I lost halfe my land Ma. A match my life against halfe your land to secure you And make an indifferent bargaine presently Fa. Your life