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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01836	The couragious Turke, or, Amurath the First A tragedie. Written by Thomas Goffe Master of Arts, and student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and acted by the students of the same house.	Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629.	1632 (1632)	STC 11977; ESTC S122361	35,029	66

one Prophet we acknowledge now So of one King in state we must allow You know the Turkish Lawes Prince be not nice To purchase Kingdomes whatsoever the price He must be lopt send for him he must dye Baiaz. O happy Baiazet that he was borne To be a King when thou was Counseller Call in our Brother ●…cup Some goes for him Here six●… m●…●…e vp Am●…raths Trunke on their should●…rs Baj. Why Lords is Am●…rath so light a weight Is this the Truncke o th' T●…rkish Emperor Oh what a heape of thoughts are come to naught What a light weight is he unto sixe men Who durst stand under Ossa and sustaine it Euren. My Lord these Meditations fit not you You are to take the honour he hath left And thinke you of his rising not his fall Enter Iacup Let your decree be suddaine heere 's your Brother B●…j B●…other I could have wished we might have met At tim●…s of better greeting Our father hath Bequeath'd to the Grave these ashes to us his State No●… have we leysure yet to mourne for him Brothe●… you k●…ow our state hath made a Law That he that sits in a Majesticke Chayre Must not endure the next succeeding heyre ●…ac Yes we doe And Brother doe you thinke 't is crime enough To dye because I am sonne to an Emperour S●…ah My Lord we know their breathes in him that ay●… Of true affection that he doth much desire You should be equall in his Kingdome with him But still when two great evils are propos'd The lesse is to be chosen E●…ren My Lord your life 's but one Kings are the threads whereto there are inweaved Millions of lives and he that must rule all Must still be one that is select from all Although we speake yet thinke them not our words But what the Land speakes in us Kings are free And must be impatient of equality 〈◊〉 And is 't ene so How have th●…se Dogs fawn'd on me lickt my feet When A●…th yet lived Felt all my thoughts And soothed them to the sight of Empyrie And now the first would set their politique hands To strangle up that breath a blast of which Their nosthrils have suckt up like perfum'd ayre Well brother well by all men this is spoke That heart that cannot bow may yet be brok●… 〈◊〉 Brother you must not now stand to upbraid They which doe feare the vulgars murmuring tongue Must also feare th' authority of a King For rulers mu●…t esteeme it happinesse That with their government they can hate suppresse They with too faint a hand the Scepters sway Who regard love or what the people say To Kindred we must quite put off respect When 't is so neare it may our Crowne affect ●…ac Then name of Brother doe I thus shake off For 't is in vaine their mercy to implore When impio●…s Scatists have decreed before Yet King although thou take my life away See how ●…le dye in better state then thou Who like my Father after his greatest glor●… May fall by some base hand The Minister To take my breath shall be to thy selfe a King Here lacu●… takes a Scarfe from his Arme and p●…ing ●…t about his necke gives one end to Bajazet Yet give me leave a while to Prophesie You that so Puppet-like delude your hopes And Miser-draw th●… ancestry from Kings Thinking that fates dare not app●…oach your bloud Till they doe seize you then you leave this Earth Not as you went but by compulsion dragg'd Still begging for a morrow from your Grave And with such shifts you doe deceive your selves As if you could deceive mortality No Brother King nor all the Glow-worme state Which makes thee be a Horse-leach for thy bloud Not all the Parasites Minions thou maintaines Nor the restorative Dishes that are found out Nor all thy shifts a●…d trickes can cheat mortality Or keepe thee from a death that 's worse then mine Shoul●… all this faile age would professe it selfe A slow but a sure Executioner O 't is a hard thing well to temperate Decaying happinesse in great estate But this example by me may you gaine That at my death I not of Heaven complaine P●…ll then and with my fall pull on thy selfe Mountaines of burdenous honor which shall curse thee Death l●…ades the willing by the hand But spurs them headlong on that dares command ●…ere himselfe pulls ●…e end Bajazet the other ●…acup dyes ●…azet Take up this Trunke and let us first appoin●… O●… Fathers and our Brothers Funerals The sencelesse body of that Ca●…fe slave Hurle to a Ditch Posterity shall heare Our lesse ill Chronicled but time shall heare These minutes rather then repeate their woe Now Primacy on thee I le medi●… Which who enjoy thee are in blest estate Whose age in secure silence fleets away Without disturbance to his funerall day Nor ponderous nor unquiet honours can Vexe him but dyes a primate ancient man What greater powers threaten inferiour men A greater power threatens him agen And like to wasted Tapers Ki●…gs must spend Their lives to light up others So a●…l end Exeunt bearing o●…t solemnely the bodies of Amurath and Iacup FINIS ●…er 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lu●…an de ●…il crede cum qu●…a ●…sset age●… * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Al●…x

Kites for Lords 't is fit No sparke of such a Mountaine threatning fire Be left as unextinct least it devoure And prove more hot unto the 〈◊〉 Emperie Then the 〈◊〉 blaze did trouble Iov●… First sacrifice those Brats All. Wife Deare father let thy fury rush on me Within these entrailes sheath thine unsatiate sword And let this ominous and too fruitfull wombe Be torne in sunder For from thence those Babes Tooke all their crimes error made them guilty 'T was Natures fault not theirs O if affection Can worke then now shew a true Fathers Love If not appease those murdering thoughts with me For as 〈◊〉 pleaded with her sonnes For their deare Father so to a Father I For my deare Babes and husband husband father Which shall I first embrace Victorious father Be bl●…t those now sharpe thoughtsllay downe those threats Vn●…laspe that impious Helmet fixe to earth That monumentall Spheare looke on thy child With pardoning lookes not with a Warriers eye Else shall my brest cover my husbands brest And serve as Buckler to receive thy wounds Why dost thou doubt Fearest thou thy Daughters faith Am●…r I feare for after Daughters perjurie All Lawes of Natures shall di●…tastfull be Nor will I trust thy children or thy selfe All. Wife No Father 't is I feare you him he you I both but for you both for both you warre So that 't is best with him that 's overcome O let me kisse kind father first the Earth On which you tread then kisse mine husbands cheeke Great King embrace these Babes you are the stocke On which these Grafts were planted Am. True and when sprouts do●… rob th●… tree of sap They must be prun'd Wife Deare Father leave such harsh similitudes By my deceased Mother to whose wombe I was a ten months burden By your selfe To whom I was a pleasing In●…ant on●…e Pitty my husband and these tender Infants Am. Yes to have them collect a manly strength And their first lesson that their Dad ●…hall teach them Shall be to read my misery Al. Sterne Conqueror but that thy daughter shews There ●…nce dw●…lt good in that ob●…urate brest I would not ●…pend a teare to soften thee Thou seest my Countries turn'd into a Grave My Cities ●…carre the Sunne with fiereer flames Which turne them into ashes all my selfe So slickt and carved that my amazed blood Knowes not through which wound first to take it's way If not on me have mercy on my Babes Which with thy mercy thou mayst turne to Love Am●…rath No sir we must root out malitious seed Nothing sproutes faster then an envious weed We see a little Bullocke 'mongst an heard Whose hor●…es are yet scarce crept from out his front Growes on a suddaine tall and in the Fields Frolicks so much he makes his Father yeild A little twig left budding on an ●…lme Vngratefully barres his mother ●…ight from Heaven I love not 〈◊〉 Aladins Alad. Threat all a Conquerour can canst threat but death And I can die but if thou wouldst have mercy Wife O see you feete we 're prou'd with this hands kisse The higher those great powers have rais'd you Presse that which lyes below with gentler weigh●… To pardon miseries is Fortunes height Alas these Infants these weake sinewed hands Can be no terror to these Hectors armes Beg Infants beg and teach these tender joynts To aske for mercy learne your lisping tongues To giue due accent to each syllable Nothing that Fortune urgeth too is base Put from your thoughts all memory of discent Forget the Princely titles of your fathers If your owne misery you can feele Learne thus of me to weepe of me to kneele Al. Doe boyes and imitate your Parents tea●…es Which I like 〈◊〉 shed when he beheld H●…ctor thrice dragg'd about the ●…rojan Walles He that burst ope the gates of Erebus And rouz'd the yelling Monster from his Den Was conquer'd with a teare great Monarch learne To know how deare a King doth weeping earne 1. C●… Good Grandsire see see how my father cries 2. Ch. Good mother take my napkin for your eyes Wife Good father heare heare how thy daughter pr●…yes Thou that know'st how to use sterne Warriers armes Learne how to use mild Warriers pitty too Alas can er●… these ungrowne strengths repaire Their Fathers batter●…d Cities Or can these These orethrowne Turrets Jconium what small hopes Hast thou to leane upon If these be all Not halfe so mild hath our misfortune beene That any can ere feare us Be pleased Am. Rise my deere child as Marble against raine So I at these obedient showers melt Thus I doe raise thy husba●…d thus thy Babes Freely admitting you to former state But Alad●… wake not our w●…ath agai●…e Patience growes fury that is ofter stirred When Conquerours waxe calme and cease to ●…ate The conquered should not dare to reite●…ate Be thou our sonne and friend Alad. By all the rites of Mahomet I vow it Am. Then for to seale u●…o our love Your selfe shall leade a wi●…g in ●…ervia In our immediate Wa●…res we are to meet The Christians in Cassanoe's Plaines with speed Great Amurath nere had time to breath himselfe So much as to have warring with new foes No day securely to ●…is Scepter shone But one Warres end still brought another on Ex●…t Scaena 2. Actus Enter La●…s Cobelitz Souldiers all armed Cob. Let now victorious wreathes ingirt our ●…rowes Let Angels ' stead of Souldiers wield our armes 'Gainst him who that our Citti●…s might be his Strives to depopulate and make them none But looke looke in the ayre me thinks I se●… An host of Souldiers brandishing their swords Each corner of the Heaven shoots thunderbolts To naile these impious forces to the Earth Laz. Souldiers stand to ' t though fortune bandy at 's Let 's stand her shockes like sturdy Rockesith ' Sea On which the angry foaming Billowes beat With frivolous rush and breake themselves not th●…m Stand like the undainted countenance o th' sky Or like the Sunne which when the foolish King Thought to obscure with a Cloud of Darts Out lookt them all our lives are all inchanted And more i●…vulnerate than Thetis sonne We shall have hands snd weapons if the stone Of fortune glide from under our weake feet And we must fall yet let all Christians say 'T is she and not the cause that wins the day We must beleeve Heaven hath a greater care Of them whom fortune doth so oft out dare Cob. Gentlemen brothers friends Souldiers Christians We have no reason to command of Heaven A thing denyed to all mortality Nor should we be so impude●…tly proud As in this weake condition to repute Our selves above the stroake of Lady Chance A caution must divine it ever fixt That whil●…t her checkes equally fall out Community should ease their bitternesse I could afresh now shed those Princely teares To thinke su●…h suddaine raine should attend Heroicke spirits glittering in bright armes But if the Grecian when he heard the dreames