Apply thy gentlest med'cines Enter Musicians Lam. Let us withdraw My life sir answer hers if she miscarry Clov What are ye Musi Musicianes whose obedience Doth here attend the Queen Clov Bawds arrant-bawds I 'l talk with you anon in in Exeunt omnes Enter the Guard 1 Gua. Stand close stand close I heard a busling within here while 2 Gua Busling and they come this way here 's that shall buslle them Enter Landrey 3 Gua. Fly upon him hee 's drunk and will betray us all Land I am betraid tht Monsiure seeks my life All waies ' gainst m'escape are fortifi'd O cruel fortune bawd to time and fate That sooth'st us up to make us ruinate For now thou know'st no tears anon no glee But onely constant in inconstancic finds the Robes Ha! what is here great Goddess pardon me I have offended ' gainst thy Deitie This shall delude the Watch thrice blessed hap That thus deliver'st whom they would intrap 2 Guard I will not stand nor I cannot stand d' ee think I 'm drunk what 's that Om. Gua. Blesse us Oblesse us Diabolo Diabolo 2 Gua. The Devil what a Devil care I keep off Devil I say keep off I do not fear thee are you Sneaking back you cowardly Rogue d' ee budge I hate a cowardly rogue as I hate as I hate the Devil take that knocks him down Land Oh oh oh 2 Guar. Oh oh oh I 'l make you cry oh What Devil made you in my way I 'l now see what money he carries about him Men say the Prince of darknesse is a Gentleman By'rladie he ha's good clothes but yet for all that He may have no money Enter Queen Clovis Lamot undisguised Musicians Qu. I know not were he is or if I did Before I 'd yeeld him up to thy revenge I 'l die the thousand deaths Clov Thou glorious light that in thy naturall Orb Didst comfortably shine upon this Kingdome How is thy worth ecclips'd what a dull darkness Hangs round about thy fame in all this piece To every limb whereof I once ow'd dutie I know not where now to find out my mother Qu. The Devil and disobedience blinds your eyes Clov O that I had no eyes so you no shame Murther your Husband to arrive at lust And then to lay the blame on innocents Blush blush thou worse than woman Qu. Ha ha ha Clov Hold my heart You 'r impudent in sin has your proud page Made you thus valiant tell me where he is For if you dally with me know this hand Shall rip him from thy heart though Cabin'd there Qu. How dar'st thou cloth thy speech in such a phrase To me thy naturall Mother Clov My Mother Adulterate woman shame of Royal tie I blush to call thee mother thy foul lusts Have taught me words of that harsh consequence That Stigmatize obedience and do brand With mis-becoming accents siliall duty Deliver quickly where this leacher is Here hous'd he must be for he cannot scape Lest wildness conquering my foster sense Thrust forth my hand into an act of horror And leave you breathlesse here Q. What French Neronian spirit have we here â—nsolent boy wilt thou turn Paricide Clov The justness of my cause would excuse me If I should execute speak murtheress Where have you mew'd your Monster Qu. Here lies the Monster oh rare Monster two Berds This is a comick Monster a Periwick too this is a Court Monister D' ee gape what in the Devils name would you beg now Lam. Behold my Lord the Woodcock 's in the Gin Here lies the great Landrey Qu. O horrid sin Clov This habit might have ruin'd all Lamot But Goblin now you are caught what is he dead Lam. Scarce hurt my Lord how is' t look up Eu. Where is the Queen Enter Eunuch Qu. Here Eunuch as thou fee'st in misery Eu. O my heart how came the Monsiur hither Lamot too Qu. All that I know is that we are betraid Eu. I 'l set them packing fear not my good Lord. Clov Thou art a faithful servant Eu Sir the Rebels Clov Give ' hem a nobler Title by my life I do applaud their courage come they on Eu. Yes and Brissac is made their Generall Clov A hopeful youth fraught with Nobility And all the graceful qualities that write Man truly honourable my injuries Have swell'd me up to this Eu. His Father 's dead Clov Trust me i 'm sorry grief has broke his heart And mine Castrato too canst thou imagine Who was the Author of our Fathers death Eu. Am I betraid then lend me impudence I 'm sure I cannot blush Royal sir whom Clov Our Mother with Landrey and this Lamot They ment should bear the blame this was Strephon. Eu. Indeed would I were fairly off Clov But what news with Aphelia and her Bridegroom Eu. As you could wish hee s lull of jealousie No Frenchman e'r was more Italian I 've wrought him bravely on your Physick works Hither i 've brough Aphelia to morrow You shall hear further sport I 'l warrant you In the mean while what will you do with these Clov Castrato thus Nature forbids me spill my Mothers blood And Landrey is unfit for my revenge For I must study torments for the slave Therefore I give them up to your tuition Until I shall return victorious Qu. Observ'd you that there is some comfort yet Clov Then wee 'l determine of them if we fall Let Clotair point them out a funerall Reward these with the whip these with my purse His merit is two hundred Crowns perform it 2. Guard Drink I adore thee drink good fellows all Sometimes we rise by drink but oftner fall Ex. 2 Guard Clov A moral drunkard go away with them Ex. Eunuch Musicians Landry Queen And on your life let them not stir from hence Now my revenge grows to maturity Wee 'l to Dumain Lamot and joyn with him Now France thou liest a bleeding thou shalt prove What 't is to cross the Monsiur in his love Exeunt omnes Actus Quintus Enter Brissac Dumain Bourbon Lanove Martel Dum. FOr certain then the Princes are at odds Bris Yes and the ground the marriage of my sister Bourb The Ulcerous state is ripe and we must launce it Bris The King doth Whore my sister she 's not his But true and lawfully the Monsiur's wife Dum. Did not one Strephon wait upon the Monsiure Bris What 's his condition Dum. A Surgion and famous for the cure o'ch' Prince Bris Yes such there was but litle nois'd at Court Dum. That was Lamot our fast and noble friend Mars There 's some design on foot that hinders him He would not else neglect us VVithin the Monsiure the Monsiure ho ho ho. Bris What noise is that Lanove step forth and see Du. O death we are suppris'd the Monsiure suddenly again Snared let each man to his charge again Bourb Hark still the noise increaseth Bris By the sound this is a shout of joy and not of
she faints Clov Is there a God left so propitious To rid me of my fears still let her sleep For if she wake O King she will appear Too monstrous a spectre for frail eyes To see and keep their senses Lam. Are you mad Clo. Nothing so happy Strephon would I were In times first progress I dispair the hour That brings such fortune with it I should then Forget that she was ever pleasing to me I should no more remember she would sit And sing me into dreams of Paradice Never more hang about her Ivory neck Believing such a one Diana's war Never more dote she breaths Arabia Or kiss her Corrall lip into a paleness Streph See she 's return'd an with majestique gaze In pity rather than contempt beholds you Clov Convey me hence some charitable man admiringly Lest this same Creature looking like a Saint Hurry my soul to Hell she is a fiend Apparel'd like a woman sent on earth For man's destruction Clot. Rule your disordea'd tongue Clovis what 's past we are content to think It was our brother spoke and not our subject Clov I had forgot my self yet well remember Yon Gorgon ha's transfrom'd me into stone And since that time my language ha's been harsh My words too heavie for my tongue to earthly I was not born so trust me Apbelia Before I was possest with these black thoughts I could sit by thy side and rest my head Upon the rising pillows of thy breast Whose naturall sweetnesse would invite mine eies To sinck in pleasing slumbers wake and kisse The Rose beds that afforded me such bliss But thou art now a generall disease That eat'st into my Marrow turn'st my blood And mak'st my veines run poyson that each sense Groans at the alteration am I Monsiure Do's Clovis talk his sorrows and not act O man bewomaniz'd wert thou not mine How comes it thou art his Clot. You have done ill And must be taught so you Capitulate Not with your equall Clovis she 's thy Queen Clov Upon my knees I do acknowledge her he kneels Queen of my thoughts and my affections O pardon me if my ill-tutor'd tongue Ha's forfeited my head if not behold Before the sacred altar of thy seet I lie a willing sacrifie Aphe Arise And henceforth Clovis thus instruct thy soul There lies a depth in fate which earthly eies May faintly look into but cannot fathom You had my vow till death to be your wise You being dead my vowes were cancelled And I as thus you see bestow'd Clov Farewell I will no more offend you would to God Those cruell hands not enough barbarous That made these bleeding witnesses of love Had set an endless period to my life too Clot. Where there 's no help it 's boothless to complain Clovis she 's mine let not your spirit war Or mutiny within you because I say 't Nor let thy tongue from henceforth dare presume To say she might or ever should be thine What 's past once more I pardon 't is our wedding day Clo. A long farewel to love thus do I break he breaks the King Your broken pledge of faith and with this kiss The last that ever Clovis must print here Unkiss the kiss that feal'd it on thy lips Ye powers ye are unjust for her wild breath That ha's the sacred tie of contract broken Is still the same Arabia that it was the King Clotain pulls him Nay I have done beware of jealousie I would not have you nourish jealous thoughts Though she ha's broke her faith to me to you Against her reputation shee 'l be true Farewel my first love lost I 'l chuse to have No wife till death shall wed me to my Grave Come Strephon come and teach me how to die That gav'st me life so unadvisedly Ex. Clovis Streph. Clot. Let Clovis that way go this way will we He 's great with grief we with felicity Exe all with Glotair Manent Queen and Eunuch Qu. Mischief grows lean Costrato all our plots Turn head upon themselves my brains grow weak And in this Globe the policie's not left To kill a worm unseen I am undone And all my plots discover'd Eu. This is strange Some comick Devil crosses our designes How else should he revive or yea prepar'd Nay in the arms Landrey when desire Had made you all a Venus meet events So barren in their expectations Qu. Their lies the grief Costrate Had the Court So I had quencht these burnings flames within Been buri'd her cinders I had car'd not Eu. But yet Landreis escape doth qualifie The non-performance Qu. That sits smiling here It set my brains upon the tentors Eunuch Was 't not a rare device Eu. And was not I As fortunate to leave that Armour there But now what 's to be done Qu. My dul Aethlope I will instruct thy blacknesse learn to know My reputation 's sichned and my fame Is look'd into with narrow eyes at Court Therefore it 's thus decreed I will remove And sequester my self from company Eu. Good Qu. Thou know'st where Childrick keep his Concubine To none discover'd by thy self and me For which she is no more Eu. Right Qu. There will I And my Landrey securely spend our time Revil imbrace and what not my Eunuch The Cave that leads unto the postern Gate Which Childrick made will give him entrance No ele acquainted being thus retir'd What lust inflam'd must be by lust unfir'd Eu. Excellent mistris I applaud your brain Qu. I will away to night I cannot brook These loathed Nuptials they have undone My hopes on earth for ever therefore my Eunuch Acquaint Landrey with these designes Eu. What else Qu. If by the engine of thy stronger brain Thou couldst remove Eu. Aphelia or the King Monsiure or all it is not so my Queen Qu. Thou hast a brain which doth ingender thoughts As regall as our own which do beget A race of rare events what pitty 't is Thy body should be sterril since thy mind Is of so pregnant and a fruitful kind Farewell remember me Exit Queen Eu. Remember you Your Gibship shall be thought on fear it not And now bethink thee Eunuch all thy plots Find fruitlesse issues onely in the King His worship walkt into the other world Like a tame suckling Pig that dy'd o' th pipp The trouble is behind my hate extends To the whole family I must root them up And beldam first with you but how but how If in her proud desire I do prevent Her lust this second time before the third She may repent and save her loathed soul Which my revenge would damn yet were she crost Her lust being now at full flood in her And no way left to quench her burning flame Her dryer bones would make a bonfire Fit forthe Devill to warm his hands by Stay stay Castrato no this must not be Nor Must the high and mighty Queen Aphelia This night enjoy her Bridegroom I must set Some mischief instantly on foot to stop it
H 'as vow'd destruction to your name and ashes Clot. Let them come on wee 'l dare them do their worst This Castle will indure a fortnights siege Before the expiration of which time My Brother with his fellow Peers of France Shall whip these Rebels for their insolence Know'st thou ought else why dost thou shake thy head 2 Sould. Fly fly my Lord. Enter another Souldier Clot. Villain it is no language for a Prince strikes him 2 Sould. Then stand upon your guard yet that 's as bad The Castle 's wall'd about with walking steel And you but tempt your death in your escape If you stay here provoke it The Monsiur like the God of war bestrides A bounding Courser who is therefore proud To be so back'd as knowing whom he bears So Centaur-like he 's anckor'd to his seat As he had twind with the proud steed he rides on He grows unto his saddle all one piece And that unto his Horse who thus unmov'd Sits like a Persons on his Pegasus Stable and fleet Who at head of all his Troops With words inflames 'em that did burn before But now appear much brighter their glistering arms Reflecting ' gainst the Sun doth lightning mock Unto which blaze their Drums and Horses hoofs Do not want much of Thunder such is the show As if great Mars angry with humane race Did lead the Gods to battel ' gainst the Earth Eu. How does your Grace how fares your Majestie Clot. The Monsiur did he not name the Monsiur 2 Sould. I did my Lord. Clot. Is he joyned with them too Then Dooms-day is at hand I see my ruine Go to the Castle walls to summon them To render an accompt of their intents Ask the proud Monsiur though I know the cause Looks on Aphelia Why his presumptious and ambitious feet Have on the bosome of his mother earth Made a broad road of treason go begone Exe. Souldiers Castrato thou dost love me i 'm sure thou dost I have such proofs of thy true hearted-love That I must put my life into thy hands Thou see'st how all things stand my wife she 's false Her brother seeks my life the Monsiur's thoughts Back'd with the ever factious souls of France Aim at the Gallick Crown and dignitie Whil'st I a catiff and neglected Prince Must fall by traytors hands Eu. What mean you sir Clot. Look here 's a Pistoll in whose womb lies death A heavie leaden sleep Eu. Would you I should Trie the conclusion here make her confesse By other instruments her horrid guilt In this there 's too much mercy Clot. Hear me speak I 'l trouble her no further let her sin Be punish'd from above I 'l wait heavens leisure Here Eunuch take thou this it was prepar'd For the adulterate Landrey here receive it And if thou lov'st me use it upon me Come shoot me through I know I shall be slain If not by thee yet by the enemie And therefore to prevent the bitter scorn Of the insulting foe which is a death So full of horror to the conquer'd No Tyranny is like it use this handfull The handsom'st weed that nature can produce In the large Storehouse of her providence Can shew no simple like it for this cures At once the sicknesse of the mind and body Thou shalt I know thou wilt I prethee take it It is not murder tender-hearted fool Which thou commits rather a sacrifice For which heaven will reward thee Eu. I do not know the nature of your Gods Yet on your words I 'l trie their kindnesse Clot. Nobly resoly'd come shoot me quickly then Eu. I never was liker t' express my selfe Than at this minute do not betray me tears aside The Eunuchs nature must be harsh and cruell Aphe O spare him Eunuch spare him save my Lord And I 'l forgive thee all thy sins ' gainst me Eu. Peace foollsh woman 't is thou that kill'st thy Lord Were 't not for thee he might live long and happy Pray let me kisse your hand and take my leave Of my best best Master Clot. Do 't and be sudden then ah what means this as he kisses his hand he snatches out his sword Eu. Marry sir this it means That if this fail this shall perform the deed Think not but I will kill you do not fear I am the excellent'st he alive at these same toyes Look here my coufin'd fool I do not bungle shews Landrey and the Queen Clot. Are these dead then Eu. As sure as you live pray ask them else Unlesse this Ewes flesh too intense in heat Be lingring yet behind she 's scarcely dead But in her dying ears I 'l howl this noise Look Queen here 's the top-branch of all thy Family Mark but how kindly for thy sake'i'l use him Clot. Then I perceive I have been much abus'd So ha's my chaster Queen oh my curst fate Eu. Oh do you so do you so Qu. Oh oh oh Queen dyes Eu. There broke a Strumpets heart hear me King Thy Mother was a foul adulteress A cruel butcherer of innocents Witnesse thy brother that thy Mother's false Witnesse thine own eyes that beheld the fall And ruine of the Dumain amily Thy Mother 's deep in blood for which she 's damn'd You ravisht fair Chrotilda Clodimir Your valiant Uncle brother to this Queen Was for the foul fact slain for which mistake Dumain Lamot Maria Isabel And the abus'd Chrotilda if by flight She had not sav'd her life had fall'n with them I knowing this and ever pittying The wrongs that they indur'd Have found it time thus to revenge them Clot. What were their wrongs to thee Eu. I 'l not Capitulate mine injuries hear a March softly within I hear my time is short Clot. How fain would I preserve my life from death Since my Aphelia's chast to think her false Not that I fear the foe made me dispair Of future comfort Eunuch spare my life I will forgive thee and reward thee too Remember who it is that sues to thee Eu. In that remembrance I have lost my self I cannot strike him my relenting heart Yerns on his Princely person take your sword But on condition Clotair thou shalt swear By thy descent thy princely parentage By the wrong'd souls of all those innocents To thy lust satisfi'd by Aphelia's self Or any thing thy soul shall hold more dear Upon receipt to guide the fatal point Directly to thy heart Clot. Why would'st thou so Eu. Pish I 'l teach thee to be speedy in the fact Remember how thy Royall Father fell Behold thy Mother murther'd by this hand Into thy bosome cast thine inward eyes And view the sorrows I have heaped on thee Look on Aphelia and let her wrongs Prompt thy slow hand to this most timely flaughter I cannot brook delay or do or suffer Clot. A Heathen and a Traytor die with thee Eu. A Christian Heathen Clotair if thou wilt Made so by thee read that and break thy heart Enter the Monsieur and his Comp. Mo.