shall center in our selves But I am yet in th'dark what juggle has Been play'd and to what end they feign'd our Deaths Daf. Entering That Mystery my self alone can clear And first thus kneeling I for Pardon sue To this offended Heav'n 't was by the Kings command I to each other feign'd your Deaths he hop'd That diffâ—rent Passions ruleing in your Breasts Despair in yours and Female Pride in hers Something might be effected to his wish VVhat caus'd me to unravle his designs And backward tread my steps this Lady knows She sure will Pardon Crimes her self has caus'd Za. And can reward the Virtues too take all That gratitude and best esteem can give Takes him up Bar. Triumph Triumph my Soul let thy Vast joy reach the last borders of the World From either side with double force rebound And meeting make a Whirlpool with your Streams Which may suck in each heart to joy with me Yet further if it be in Nature further go If not inspire ev'n Nothing with my Joy Let Nothing be endu'd with Apprehension vast To rouze it's new form'd Soul at my Alarm Shake off its drowsie fit and help to push The rolling Heaven on What! what can be Joy enough when my Zaraida Lives Ring Your Eternal Clangours for the great News The Goddess Lives whom we Blasphem'd with Death And gen'rous honour flourishes in you Embraceing her passionatly and him Enter to them the Emperour talking to Zanhaga Em. Now for my Plot if she be VVoman it Succeeds Death to my hopes he here Seeing Bar. Da. The Emperour Then I am lost indeed Em. Dye Traytour early base nor shall my Blood Stabs Daf. That trickles in thy Veins excuse this Crime Ev'n that I 'll Sacrifice to Love I 'll have Thy Bowels ript search if thou hast a Heart Or thou' rt no Victim for this Deity Da. Oh you will find Zaraida there her looks Will awe your Sacrilegious Hands yet take Take cruel King my Heart The only part of her you e're can have Bar. Oh for a Sword to end this Tyrants Life Revenge at once my Friend and Right my Love Fate I accept thy gift and thank thee thus Snatches Dafila's Sword and runs at the Emp. but is hindered by the Guard Oh feeble Arm unfit thy Masters Soul Or all his Guards could not have hind'red thee Yet I will watch a Time when tho' unarm'd I 'll seize the Blood hounds Throat again prevented Gods I submit Em. Secure this Mad-man Ev'n you his Father must confess his Crime Deserv'd the Blow I gave Zan Poor Boy his fault Indeed was great and yet in one so young Aside But 't is not fit my Frowns disclose my thoughts Till time afford a Season for Revenge To Zar. Zar. Sweet Youth how often hast thou urg'd his suit With Pray'rs as earnest as most Pious Souls To their expected Heaven give tho I Thy Master loath'd yet thy Devotion was So great that were my Breast but capable Of any Love but what Gualata gave Thou only thou could'st enter there Ingrate Find now some way to satisfie his Ghost Em. Consent but to be mine and he shall live I 'll force unravel'd Nature to disclose Some wondrous secret to cement his Wounds Da. Too late thou vaunt'st thy Pow'r trust me tho I. Deserv'd my Fate 't was base in you to give it me Oh! Bear me to that Heavn ' of weeping Chrystal That Heav'n which my fond soul would never leave But a less lov'd one calls me hence farewel Dyes Em. Convey him hence such objects suit not Love The ruling Passion of my Breast Guards carry off Daf. Bar. Ev'n yet rash King your may regain your Honour Restore what you 've unjustly ta'en this Fair She is my due oh I deserve her not For where 's the Man e're merited Divinity Yet since the Gods have joyn'd our Hearts so close What Pow'r dare part us now part us said I Oh Zaraida while I 've a Hand an Arm Embraces her Ill never leave thee more nay tho my Limbs By some disastrous Chance were from my Body torn Yet my bare am'rous Trunk would kindly bend And make a hold for thee some part of me Would soon transform into a Sword and hew The Monster down that durst divide our Souls Zar. Teach me my Lord how to return your love I 've nothing new but Misery to give Bar. Oh thou art always ravishingly new Embraces her Zar. How can you hug your Ruin in your Arms Oh shake me shake me off this Viper off Give up this Fatal Beauty to Despair Let me not draw your Ruine down with mine Bar. Cease your harsh Sounds or I shall think you changâ—d That would be new indeed new Misery Em. My small remains of Pity struggle now But Love puts in his Claim and tears my Breast Teach her to yield or me to Love no more Bar. I will support your honour it shall o're look Your Lust Gygantick grown I 'll be your Friend Tho often Injur'd be what you should be And I will yet forget 'em all forget If possible you ever wrong'd this tender Flow'r Zar. Nay Love will plead sure that can't be deny'd Hear me 't is the first time I ever pray'd To you how often have you begg'd this Boon In vain despise it not now it is giv'n I will not call you Tyrant Monster now No you shall be a God and I 'll adore Your Deity if you will grant my wish I ask not Kingdoms keep them all 't is but Gualata's Liberty and mine forbear To stop the peaceful Current of our Joys Permit us wander where our wills shall lead We 'll seek for shelter in some Mountains Root Where Nature as fore-seeing our Distress A rev'rend Cave has form'd there we 'll retire And be securely blest with Mutual Love No Monarch will invade that Throne no Arms The quiet calm of Sacred Love disturb Sure you will grant me this this which makes me Richer than Heav'n and not Impoverishes you Em. Trust me her words strike through my very Soul My feeble honour reinforc'd by these All conq'ring helps assays to lead the way Now all the fogs of lewd Debauches fly And ev'ry stenching Vapour is exhal'd Honour alone now seems to keep the Field And I could almost give her up but Love Resumes my Heart and drives th' Usurper thence The Combat's hot he fights and now retreats Now Strong now weak and now Triumphant sits Proclaiming with a Tyrants Voice his â—aws Whilst humbled Honour but in whispers speaks Give up Zaraida ha give what to whom Zaraida to the Man I hate as Hell Forbid it Love I hear not Honour now Like drowning Men this was its last effort To rear its sinking head above the Floods And now 't is lost for ever ever gone No your Proposal I retort to you Take all your Crowns your Kingdoms take 'em back But my Zaraida shall be mine Bar. Hold off bold sacrilegious Wretch Tempt not Thy Fate lest naked as I am some
Actus Quarti ACT V. SCENE I. Enter the Emperour Barnagasso chain'd Zaraida Zanhaga and Guards Zaraida in disshevell'd hair intreats the Emperour Zar. OH spare him spare him spare my Husband's Life His Blood can't make you Beautiful to me 'T will paint you worse than horrid Monsters are Why will you kill him then O cruel King Is that the way to Love because he 's mine He dyes how can I love his Murderer My Eyes are weak they cannot look on Blood That colour makes me weep my Heart 's so soft Like our quick plant from a rude touch it flyes But kindly opens to the gentle hand More mercy and less Blood might do much more Aside Oh! I d say any thing to save his Life Which I have brought to such a shameful Death Oh could we now but dye with Honour I were blest Bar. Forgive me love if I reproach thee now My Friend too who disswaded me from Death See what your pray'rs have done I was unjust When I would end this miserable Life Oh my Prophetick fears are true 't was once My own to dye the happy minute fled Unheeded by the slighted Friend will ne're return Now lead me where you please to death which ne're Can come too soon to a wise man lead on Zar. Why hast you so my Lord Death is not slow To come can you leave me for death Emp. My Love admits of no delay speak Fair Accept my flame and he shall live live great But for your self good Gods the Earth shall groan Millions of Slaves shall sweat in her rich veins Slaves who are born and dye in Golden Mines Their e'ry stroke shall cleave an Empire forth The rough form'd â—ass shall loose it 's close embrace The Embryo Gold shall from the Womb be torn And shall by curious art be form'd a new By pray'rs or force I will enjoy your charms Zar. Vain Promises you ask so high a price The Universe's now worth what I must give Bar. Vain Promises you ask so high a price The Universe's now worth what I must give Bar. Spare all thy tears Zaraida spare thy sighs My life 's not worth the Ransom he requires Zar. Oh cruel King are you a Man yet bear Unmov d what bent the stormy Winds and Seas My face alone could calm their Rage but now Nor that nor tears nor sighs can move your Breast My voice has lost it's sweetness now Oh call The Winds and Waves call them not cruel now No more be they accurst for they were kind Much kinder than the cursed Monster Man Em. 'T is you are cruel now curse on 't I could Force her Love but then I 've imperfect joy Aside Have you thought To Zar. Zar. Yes I have thought Emp. And what is the result Zar. That if one crime can sink a Soul to Hell Where will thy World of Murders hurry thee Emp. To Heav'n poor fool where should great Jamoan go Zar. What for Murder Emp. Ask thy self that if common Murder sinks Where must thou go whose hands are dipp'd In a fond Husbands Blood Bar. Why dost thou sport Almighty justice thus Think'st thou such slight evasions weigh with Heav'n Emp. If they weigh here I look no further Aside How can you call me cruel yet endure Your Husbands limbs by drawing Engines stretch'd His Veins drawn fine as silken wefts His Blood inflam'd by journeyiâ—â— on now finds A longer course renew'd and now it's dams Broke down irregularly runs forc'd up To the last limits of that little world It under dyes the white with scarlet streakes The snowy Corps blushes at the disgrace Can you bear this without reluctancy Zar. Oh do you know so well the pains o' th' rack And yet can cruelly design him there Emp. And now he curses Heav'n that made him young For life in youth is rivetted more close To the Inwrapping Flesh Now he roars loud with more than Lyons rage And now he flings his Body forward on The rack provoking Death who bears his taunts And servilely attends my nod O life Wretched indeed when Death so terrible To Humane thoughts is languish'd for Bar. Were it yet more wretched I have a Soul To bear it all cease then to threat and do Emp. The burning Vessel now boyls o're he foams And froths at mouth he struggles with the choaking stench His Eye-balls strain'd crack their suspending threads And from their splinter'd jaggy roots a deluge flows Nature quite tir'd with passion raves no more Yet still the Body huggs th' unwilling Soul In fond Embraces locks the Spirit fast Thristing for Separation Can you be Yet unmov'd at this description Alas You little know the thousand pains he bears Zar. O Gualata Now I feel I fear for you My Female-Courage trembles at the thoughts Yet I 'll not shrink a jot from Virtues Rules Nor give this Beauty to that Tyrants Arms Tho at my first Embrace thy pains should cease Bar. Where are ye Gods if the loud fall of two Such mighty wrecking Orbs can't rouze your souls Awake nor let a Mortal brave ye thus Em. Think Can you bear to see him piece-meal torn His angry flesh wrench'd from th' unwilling bones His Bowels ript while Life yet shivers there His big heart dancing in a Sea of Blood Shall first be mash'd then thrown into his Face Zar. I cannot think it thought startles at it Em. I 'll aid your barren Imagination I 'll lead you where your eyes shall straight behold That horrour which your lagging fancy could not reach Zar. Hold hold tho all your arts can't make me yield I 've heard enough to dye farewell Swoons Bar. That thou wert dead indeed there all my fears Would end the weary Soul retires for ease Em. By Heav'ns a lucky opportunity Bear her to the Royal Bed and him to Death Bar. Oh stay no pow'r shall force me hence till she Revive Zaraida Curse on my weak Voice Why was 't not loud as Whirl-winds Tempests roar Oh that my Chains could ring a loud alarm To wake the sleeping Gods and her Where Father where Oh that my Teeth my Nails could straitway dig Quite through this Globe to find the wand'ring God! What shall I do to save her from his Lust I 'll wake or crush her Soul out with my weight Rushes upon her Zar. Oh Barnagasso Am I once more here Thus let my Kisses breath my Soul into Waking gets between his Arms. Your Body that we may together dye Bar. Oh Love nor Hell nor Heav'n shall part us now Emp. Then Earth shall Guards force her from him or Racks Unheard of be your Fate unbind him first He struggles Then force her from her hold As they unbind him he snatches a Sword and holds her in his left hand Bar. Now I am loose no Power shall bind my Hands again Em. Curse on my Dalliance it has ruin'd all Bar. See King my Fate is now my own but I Will live live to revenge my self by Heav'ns 'T is ominous 't is the
one side of the Stage while this Song 's sung within Sung by Mr. Freeman Ease with soft Sleep your weary Eyes Refresh your Spirits till you rise While Musick shall your dreams surprize To me your fatal Birth is due Doom'd by that God you never knew To dye on Seas where you were Tost And thrown on Sooty Africk's Coast Where falsely you to Creatures pray And leave that God your God's obey Give not so soon to th' hungry Grave That Beauty he profusely gave 'T is brave to bear with Misery Break not his Laws nor strive to dye When he sees fit he 'll set you free Bar. How strange her Fancy works What Fear suggests Death seems too dreadful to her tender years I 'll bear me to relieve her troubl'd thoughts Exit SCENE Drawn discovers Zaraida Asleep on the Couch her Mothers Ghost by her Ghost Descends Zar. Stop not your Airs blest Shade yet if you must Go tell Gualata that we must not Dye In her sleep Enter Barnagasso to her Bar. What fast Asleep she 's gone to rest t'inure Her thoughts to Death How Beautiful she lyes Coming forward And feeds each Sence with exquisite delights Oh she has a continu'd round of Joys Which sharpen not abate desire Why Heaven Why was this sweetest Beauty wretched made Oh! that some pitying God would seal my Eyes With hers be both for ever ever seal'd How sweet she breaths I 'll catch the blest perfume And with soft Kisses I 'll awake my Fair. Kisses her she starts Zar. Where Where my Barganasso Where am I Bar. Oh you are in a tender Husbands Arms Zar. There hold me till I have recover'd strength To tell you how I have labour'd in my Sleep When I had left you full resolv'd on Death My Sences frighted at the leap you meant Here I retir'd to ease my burden'd Mind Expecting you Sleep scarce had clos'd my Eyes When a Pale Ghost appear'd and Sung such Airs As both Instructed and Delighted too Bar. I heard a Voice my Love and thought 't was yours Such Harmony is in your Thoughts and Words That Musick comes unfelt from both in Dreams You Chant such Airs as Charm the Drowsy'st Dead Zar. How could I Dream of what I never thought My Soul was gone to rest had left to think Ev'n thought it self was weary'd into sleep It was no Dream caus'd by unsetl'd Thoughts How could I think of what I never knew My Lord it was a Ghost the unknown God Forbids our deaths you cannot must not dye Bar. That proves it but a Dream the Child of Fear You form'd the danger great for succour flew To Thoughts extravagantly wild and gross Is there a God above our Glorious Sun The mighty Deity now jealous grown Checks the rude Question Oh my Zaraida Let not our crimes draw down more thunderbolts And yet forgive me Heav'n I wish we could But be they such as end at once not Plagues That ling'ring keep us cruelly alive Zar. What is it your despair would urge you to Bar. I would secure my self and you from shame The lustful King back'd by the Cunning Priest Prepares for Force How can you bear the thought of this Zar. Oh never never I 'll be only yours Bar. I know you 'd dye e're think of change but pow'r Too weakly answers to our will his Slaves Are train'd to Rapes perhaps I too must view The deed if mortal eyes can bear what would Deprive the Sun himself of sight Oh Heav'ns If there be yet a way to save my Love Shew it me point it out to my dark Soul For Humane Wisdom's at a loss to help us Zar. Trust Heav'n that sure will guard my Innocence Bar. 'T is too presumptious to lye down at ease And leave the Gods to work our freedom out No let 's employ the little time we have To live in searching after death for death 's The only means can save us now inclos'd By miseries on every side besieg'd In vain I search no Nook no Cranny's found No passage left unguarded to escape but death Prepare my fairest Love for we must dye Oh that so sweet a thing should want a Name That 's soft enough t' express how sweet it is Zar. I 'm ever your obedient Wife but death 's So terrible it shakes my heart yet worse Much worse 't would be to part How must we dye Bar. Some death that 's quick for I expect with fear Each moment when they 'll force thee from my Arms Our Minutes are as dear as Miser's Gold We have not time to starve our Souls away Hell will o retake us ere that 's done but hold Here 's one says he 's my Friend if he speak true He 'll not deny the Passport which I want Enter to them the General Barsiloa Gen. Forgive my abseuce which my place requir'd I 've heard what cheats were us'd in th' Oracle And fearing the effects of just despair I 'm come to bid you think of Life of Love In spite of Priests you shall be great again Bar. I Laugh to see you shoot so wide o' th' mark Yet if you mean by bravely dying to be great I 'm yours no Priest indeed can hinder that Gen. No you shall live blest both with liberty and love Bar. Perhaps my Father 's heard my earnest Pray'r And sends thee to point out a way to live Speak if I can have honourable Life I must not dye death would be a rashness then Much unbecoming Barnagasso's Soul Gen. Know then in Tombu ther'e 's a Law preserv'd These many years by Sacred care enroll'd By the First King e're wore the Imperial Crown By this the General who Victorious comes From Foreign Wars is Priviledg'd to Ask What his extreamest wishes prompt him to Ev'n to the Crown h 'as won Bar. Are these your mighty hopes credulous Man Why didst thou sound so brave a Charge to raise My Spirits high with expectation vast Then sink 'em down unable to sustain their weight Think'st thou a Law can bar his hot desires He who can trample on Divine Commands May safely break such Mothy Bonds as these Gen. Still has it been inviolable kept With fresh repeated Oaths he Swore to grant What e're Ambition with red Vict'ry flusht Could Ask if I would Lead his Armys on Bar. You Argue weaker still so lame his Oaths Observ'd he 'd sooner keep another Mans. Gen. But 't is his Interest That will go far He knows the Soldiers are at my Command Prone to resent my injuries as their own What tho' he 's amorous he loves his Crown Too well to lose it for a moments sport Bar. That argument I confess were strong For Fear works wonders had he not such helps As ne're can fail to buoy his Spirits up A States-man burning Lust and a damn'd Priest If he 's a Coward spite of these 't is strange Oh! I 've consider'd well whatever look'd The least resembling hope and find no Ground To Anchor in but Death