hope that good Which has the honour to please you my Prince In this sir you may free me from suspect My love is much indeed more my respect And howsoere my heart be link'd to hers J owe more to my Master then my Mistris K. Oh royall soule and truly generous Great Cid this instant thou hast made me happie Now I am King indeed for what thou giv'st me I prize above the value of a Crown In liew of which I mean to give thee one Behold th' Infanta whom I freely offer T is fit the state which owes all to thy valour Should make thee a great sharer in her fortune IN. Every thing smiles upon me blest effects Aside O're take my wishes what could I hope more Love is made for me to my hand Cimena Ingag'd to which Roderigo gives consent K. Thou dost not answer me RO. Excuse me sir I am your subject and you are my King T is not a Kingdome which I wish or hope for To serve you is the honour I aspire to Obaying you I learn how to command And since But see Cimena SCENE IV. CIMENA KING OH Madam The date now of your crueltie is out Your coldnesse and your hate no more in season Roderigo for my sake has quitted you And if he had an interest in your person He has now put me in full possession of it CIM. Sir Roderigo's free and may renounce me I have no scepters to bestow upon him But yet I think my birth is not so mean As to live under his command A slave I am not yet and my affections Are not to be inclin'd and rule by his Since greatnesse is the thing not love he aymes at Let him have his desires I shan't be jealous Though love do wound him with more pleasing darts So that the tyrant which shall end his sufferings Do not put me on new nor that his great Felicitie be purchast at the rate Of my lost honour or my libertie RO. Madam think better of the man which loves you To get you happinesse I quit mine own And to obtain the sovereigne power for you I make my affection stoop unto my duty If when I see a Crown is offered you I should come in to crosse your better fortune I must believe my love did then betray you And had relation to my self not you CIM. This Roderigo were a faire pretext If both our thoughts were levell'd at one height But let not any right that I can plead Divert your deare ambition mount upon A throne and taste its sweetnesse as for me I am so farre from blaming this your change You cannot finde more pleasure then I praise T' applaud your act you see sir I submit To the same laws your self has made IN. Oh heavens Aside How am I faln from all my hopes at once He is Roderigo still and she Cimena K. You are resolv'd then Madam to continue In the same cruelty my love I see Is uselesse and my vowes superfluous Yet think I am a King and can command What you deny my love you 'l give my power And since I can't perswade I must constrain CIM. Sir since my presence does but move your anger Suffer me to retire I beseech you Exit K. See Roderigo how my love is answered She flies my present leaving not so much As a kinde look behinde her if by this She thinks to coole the fire which burns my heart She is deceiv'd for this her suddainnesse Does not restrain but quicken more my flame Tell me was ever King so rudely treated RO. This her judicious and wise retreat Being no effect of spight or arrogance Should not excite your anger sir you know A modest feare keeps subjects in restraint When they are neer their King and in that sex The dazling lustre of a Princes person Strikes more respect into their hearts then love K. Why was I made a King then if my quality Must crosse my dearest wishes let me be A subject any thing so I have her Some kinde fare rob me of my crown and scepter And you shall see that I will blesse your rigour If in exchange you 'le give me but one heart Cimena limits my ambition On her depends either my life or death Then if thou ever hadst a thought to please me Roderigo winne Cimena to my love Accomplish what thou hast begun and try To melt the ice which circles in her heart Or if it be a fire oh turn it this way From thee I must expect all my content Exit RO. And I from you sir all my punishment Did ever any mischief equall this I 'me made the confident of my own rivall To my self faithlesse true to him that wrongs me My duty and my love run contraries One bindes me to obay a wilfull Prince Th' other my Mistris whom my heart adores If I obay my love I get his hate And if my dutie I must lose her love But that I may however since the King Has power to take her from me when he will Then let me serve my King which I have promis'd But that Cimena claims as well as he On both sides thus engag'd and thus distracted Roderigo what canst thou resolve to do Since with thy love or dutie thou must part Give him thy life and let her have thy heart Exit Act V. Scene I. RODERIGO CIMENA CIM. TH' Infanta's lodgings are that way RO. Madam CIM. You are mistaken sir I am Cimena He that courts titles must forget a name That sounds not Princesse nor would I divert The full stream of your hopes here lies my way RO. Madam Cimena stay and heare CIM. My ruine RO. One word CIM. Pray let me go RO. The last I mean To speak to any of your sex what rigor Is this you use did ever any yet Refuse to be a witnesse to a Will CIM. Was ever any cruelty like this Ah Roderigo is it not enough First to betray me to your love and then Leave me unlesse to shake my resolution You set upon me with new batterie I cannot heare and live RO. I do not come To urge ought in my own behalf my dutie And promise made to him who may command me Forces this from me can you love the King CIM. Can you be Roderigo and demand it RO. I have no more to say then but to take My last farewell perhaps when I 'me remov'd Your dutie or ambition will perswade What from your servant is not credited And when by this your obstinacie as sure It must fall out so my poore life grows forfeit You will too late repent the losse of both A lover and a Crown CIM. T is vainly urg'd How can I lose a Lover when he first Renounces me a Crown I never had And if I never seek it as I shall not Where is my losse but rather where 's thy courage Ah Roderigo must the feare of death Only come in to make some small pretence For leaving me you did not use to be Frighted at
Imprimatur MATTH CLAY Aprilis 6. 1639 THE Second Part of THE CID LONDON Printed by I. Okes for Samuell Browne and are to be sold at his shop in St. Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the white Lion M. D. C. XL. XL. TO THE TRUELY Noble the Ladie Theophila Cooke MADAM IF I had no obligation to your Ladiship which might challenge my endevours of honouring you a fitter or a happier name could not protect this piece whose subject is the preferring of Dutie and respects before Love as the former did Honour and courage which I therefore offer to your Ladiship because in them there is none better studied than your selfe in whom I have observ'd from the strength of Vertue such a serenity as conducts your mind to the performance of whatsoever is fit and decent in humane life And I remember I had the Honour to heare your Ladiship discourse of this subject when you concluded that a perfect Lover should submit his desires to his Mistresses advancement which made mee wish that our French Author had spoken with those Graces here in this with which your Ladiship then did But since it pleased his Majesty to thinke it worth the translating and commanded it to be put into my hands I will not censure it though I believe if that may carry the place which is free from deformities without excellence before that which is here and there exceeding faire and as much blemished I think this may deserve it which is rather not to be excepted to then much extold Whatsoever it be I beseech your Ladiship to let it passe under your name lest I be thought indiscreet in placing it else-where or unmindfull of what I owe you though this be the least part of that returne which is meant to you from Your most humble and obedient Servant ERUTTER The Persons of the Play The young King of Castile Da URRACA the INFANTA his Sister CELIMANT King of Corduba SPHERANTI Prince of Toledo SERIFFA Sister to CELIMANT D. DIEGO Father to the CID RODERIGO the CID CIMENA D. SANCHO Favourite to the King D. ARIAS Guard Attendants Page to CIMENA The Scene The Court of SEVILLE The Second Part of The CID ACT I. SCENE I. INFANTA CIMENA INFANTA Tell me Cimena and deal truly with me What makes you thus disdain to be a Queen Are the allurements of a Kingdome such As they can hardly touch lesse charm your heart No I shall nere believe it but must wonder At your refusall do you think your Cid With all his fortune and the best effects Of his great valour can at any time Impale this faire head with a Diadem That from the King alone you must expect Cid is as much a subject as thy selfe And though he lift thy fortune to a height As great as any subjects yet a thousand Will side with thee when this my brother offers Will set thy beauties in a point to strike The gazers eyes with envy or amazement CIM. Madam t is true so great a Princes love Might take another though it cannot me And the false lustre of a Soveraigne greatnesse May dazell any fond young Virgins eyes But for my own direction I le take lesse Of their ambition more of modesty And truly Madam I shall never envy Her who enjoyes the happinesse you offer The pomp of Thrones seems troublesome to me My desires draw themselves within their compasse And look no higher then their proper reach Equality does make the perfect match Unequall persons render the link so weak That love can hardly make it hold together IN. I know Cimena thy great modesty But let it not divert thee from a good Sent from the hand of Heaven and a King That power which gave thee such rare parts would never They should be streightned in a narrow fortune It knows this fore head 's destin'd for a Crown Which to confirme it makes a Monarch know That nought lesse then himselfe can suite thy merit Though Cid have heretofore made thee his Idoll Dost think his love 's not subject unto change And that he must continue in his absence As a great souldier so a faithfull lover Perhaps thy love may trouble him at present Whilst his ambition grows up with his fortune If ere he gain'd his glorious name of Cid He thought himself already worthy thee Dost think his heart will stay in the same bounds Now that all Spain and other Nations Admire and feare his valour ah Cimena Some thing perswades me that his hopes fly higher A throne will be the certain rock whereon Thy so much boasted faith must finde its Tombe CIM. Oh heavens how handsomely she would surprize me And ravish that from me her self would have Aside I without doubt she loves him and I know She speaks more for herself then for the King Madam if Roder go leave Cimena To give his heart unto a nobler love You shall perceive that she is one can suffer With as much ease his lightnesse as his absence IN. But since thou hast the very same advantage Serve thy selfe of it and as his great honours Alter his passions so let thine Cimena Take the same flight and do not thinke thou shalt For that be calld inconstant or lesse faithfull Or that thy change should stick a crime upon thee The wils of Kings can render all things lawfull Besides thy fathers death may well excuse thee And I remember with how much constraint Thou mad'st a promise of thy love to him Which was no more then hope the King has power To cancell that nor must thy vertue suffer So great a stain as to preferre the man Who kild thy father to the King CIM. But Madam You know how strong a conflict I had in me Before I gave consent whilst his great love Did lesse then my obedience I resisted Till in the end I saw I must obey What the King will'd he said I must forget His Crime and my revenge your father Madam Gave me into his hands and since I am His prisoner the same bonds shall end my life And fortune both at once IN. But heare my reasons CIM. To what purpose Should we dispute of what 's resolv'd already IN. Well you may think of it at better leasure Exit CIM. Yes and I know the object of my Choice If the Cids glory do put out his flame And that 's great lustre quench the heat of this I shall not stay the progresse of his fortune Let him be on a Throne me in my grave Yet if this head must ever weare a Crown From none but Cid himselfe shall I accept it But what 's the reason that he writes not to me I had some letters from him at the first When the same hand which was bedewd in bloud Dry'd up my teares but yet alas I feare Least distance of our eyes estrange our hearts For of late save the conquest of the Rebels I can heare nothing from him he destroyes His enemies and my hopes both at one time His glory
lesse for her good when she made you Her speaker I shall think on 't call Don Diego My sister and Seriffa to them all I have to say Intreat the faire but cruell Cimena come and Roderigo too I shall dispose of them how unhappy Exit San. Are Princes that must love by others reason And not their own affections this Princesse Is faire and loves me so is my Cimena But she abhors me should I sacrifice To fame Seriffa must be mine but if To love Cimena one of these I 'me led to By reason to the other forc'd by love Must a Prince suffer violence he must Or else imprison them that offer it His wilde desires there being no other course But to submit to reason or to force SCENE IV. All the Actors the INFANTA and CIMENA on one side RODERIGO CELIMANT and SPHERANTI on the other BUt here they are sister I am resolv'd This day to see you married and to make Your joy more perfect I shall give you leave To choose your husband the Prince of Toledo Courts you with such a love as nought can equall But his perfections which you must honour As well as he your beauty yet Roderigo Is for himself so much to be considered That we can hardly finde a Mistris for him Which may deserve his vertues both of them Out-weigh your merits yet since equally They make an offer of their service to you Declare which is the object of your choice IN. I cannot sir believe my self so happy As to have either of em for my husband But if they do submit to my desires Being both equall I have no election K. They both adore you and on this assurance You may distingish of their love IN. How both I doubt it much K. If you do not believe me From their own voice I shall confirme it to you SP. Yes divine beauty from my heart I speak That heart which your fair eyes have set on fire The light of which may shew you how I love And if I lose my hope I lose my life K. Can you doubt yet of his affection And Roderigo sure will say as much RO. T is true great King all men adore the Princesse She has such universall power ore harts She cann't be seen by any and not lov'd But here 's the difference between my love And theirs they live with hope I with despaire K. What robs thee of thy hope RO. Love K. Speak more cleerly T is without reason that thou sayst can love Take thy hope from thee when it gives it thee RO. Then when I love my hope forsakes me quite K. But now it does restore what then it took RO. In doing so it keeps me further from 't K. These terms are too obscure I cann't conceive em RO. Time and my constancie will make it plain K. But I would know their meaning at this present RO. Th' effect will quickly tell you K. What effect RO. My death K. Thy death who can cause it RO. Cimena sir K. Cimena thou hast yielded her to me RO. It was your will prescrib'd that Law unto me I am your subject sir and you my King K. Though you be so I never had intent To do you wrong to do my self a pleasure Thou knowst how deare thy person is to me And that my sister is thy valours prize Will you refuse her your affection RO. I have not sir ambition enough To look so high pray sir regard not me But leave me to my self possesse Cimena In your love let her drown the memory Of mine I am your subject you my King K. Well then since you refuse my profferd honours And that my sister cannot touch your heart My promises are disingag'd for me I shall accept Cimena and this Princesse You are content to part with are you not What do you fix upon RO. On what I ought I am your subject sir and you my King K. Spheranti if my sister be your choice So that your father will give his consent I freely shall give mine SP. Your Majestie Shall quickly see that cleerd I know my father Will be well satisfied when he shall heare That I have joyn'd the Kingdoms of Toledo And Sevill by a match but may I Madam Receive this happinesse from your consent IN. The King has made you sir disposer of me And what he chooses answers my desires K. Th' art silent Roderigo what dost think RO. That she could hardly have a braver Prince Nor he hope more then her K. And you Cimena Will you not put an end unto my sufferings Will you be still obdurate to your King CIM. Sir I have no other faith then what I have given You know your father made me weare these bonds Which only death can break K. My constancie Shall overcome thy stubbornesse I know The ground and cause of thy aversion Thou hast some feeble hope t' enjoy the Cid But that 's without apparance his own mouth Has ruin'd it speak it again Roderigo Assure her that her hopes but flatter her Or if thou doft repent thy courtesie Deal freely with me say thy minde is chang'd And that thou lov'st her spight of all her rigors RO. Great sir my duty here restrains my tongue It is enough for me that I have told you You are my King and I your humble vassall K. Though I am so I will not force my subject To suffer for concealing his desires RO. Ah sir cast off all thoughts that may retard The course of your contentments when a businesse Concerns the good of such a gracious King What is the death of one unhappy man T will be a faire employment for my arme To punish him that 's troublesome to his Prince K. Well thou hast overcome thy extream vertue Shall serve for an example to thy King To Seriffa See where I am oblig'd Madam Don Sancho I hope has tane these blushes off I know What right you have to me and I to you This should have been your work Don Diego rather Then his that did it you were privy to All passages between our fathers but You I say as all else do 't is dangerous To turn the stream of Kings affections D. DIE. Your majestie is gracious and prevents Excuses from your subjects I could say No more in my own defence K. Here I restore to thee thine own Cimena Most perfect lover Madam I hope your rigour Is not habituall he 's Roderigo Who spight of my desires has always lov'd And honour'd you do not defer then longer His and your own contentment let his love Wrack'd with so many storms finde here its harbour He has conquer'd still abroad let him not lose At home but adde thy Mirtles to his Lawrels And so confirming to him the same faith Thou gav'st him once receive him for thy husband CIM. On what shall I resolve RO. To take my life If you denie the price of my deare love For since the hope of that has yet preserv'd it They both must fall together and t will be Some satisfaction to have dy'd your lover CIM. Rise t is enough I am Cimena ever Thou Roderigo and I wholy thine K. Live happy Lovers then and taste the pleasures Which with so many crosses you have purchast Quit all your cares and celebrate this day My Court shall be Loves Palace come faire Princesse Y are mine by a double tie of love and dutie Which I shall still preserve since I am taught To do not what I would but what I ought FINIS
such a name RO. Nor must you think That I am now yet would I live to see Cimena in that lustre with her vertues Ever design'd her to for me I think Nothing can adde unto my present state More happinesse then to have been the ground Where on my Mistris would erect her glory CIM. And can you think Cimena will go lesse While you discourse thus you but teach my duty The honour of our love must not be yours More then mine own I have as great a share In it as you and should it come to suffering I can as well expect to see you great As my self miserable which must be so If fortune once divide us RO. Can our faith Be so rewarded heavens where is your justice If we must needs be sever'd why to both Gave you an equall minde and thoughts alike CIM. That being parted we might be more neere For they that love alike are always one Since but the sight nought can distinguish them RO. These mysteries Cimena are not strange Unto our loves in which there has not been Any thing known or easie yet me thinks We might finde out a way for intercourse CIM. Thy love is too materiall Roderigo I could be satisfied with thy Idea RO. And I with thine but is it not some pleasure To stand thus and to gaze on one another CIM. Go Roderigo for I feel within me Since this thy stay some thing that prompts me to Desire thy company which must be fatall To both of us adiew and think we may Be sever'd yet continue still our selves Exit RO. Our selves am I Roderigo or has she Bereft me of my spirit can she brave The majesty of Kings secur'd within Her own firme constancy and must I tremble If the Kings will have not the wish'd successe I ought him duty and I have perform'd it I 've offerd with my life all my desires Yet though I give I may refuse to take He cannot force me to a new affection Or make me love her lesse then she does mee In other things he rules in this I 'me free Exit SCENE II. DON SANCHO SERIFFA D. SAN. MAdam believe I could not justifie The love I did pretend if in this businesse I should preferre my passion before Your honour and content I heare your brother The King has reconcil'd to you it rests I let him know how much he owes to justice SER. But as you do it spare my modesty I would not be an offer but his choice D. SAN. As you have given credit to my faith In this distrust not my discretion It is your honour which I seek to which I made my love submit and can you think I will not now preserve it I am here T' attend the King as sent for and shall use All opportunities to do you service Please but your Highnesse to retire SER. Bequeathing to thy care the hopes of all My future happinesse Exit D. SAN. Your Highnesse servant SCENE III KING CELIMANT DON SANCHO KING IN this sir I confesse Spheranti has Oblig'd our Family the Prince is noble And I could wish my sister would embrace The love he offers what I can conferre He may be sure of but you know th' Jnfanta Is promis'd Roderigo to whose valour She has been long a debt and yet this businesse Is not arrived so farre as to cut off This noble Rivals hopes sometimes a moment Alters the state of things a Ladies minde Is not lesse changable tell him from me He shall have all assistance CEL. T is the summe Of his desires your Majestie will pardon Th' abruptnesse of my parting he 's my friend And such a happinesse he longs to heare As much as I to tell him K. Your own time You may command brave Celimant Don Sancho This Prince has royall thoughts more your friend Then you could hope D. SAN. Your Majesty still puts Fresh obligations on your humble vassall I am your creature and the Prince through you Looking on me may happily bestow His grace upon me as I am your servant Though otherwise I be not worth his thought K. This modesty becomes thee and sets off Thy vertues which I cherish in reward Of which and for thou hast been still an aid To my desires I have assisted thine The love thou mad'st to Corduba's Infanta I have tane notice of and though another Might suffer in the like attempt in thee I 've not dislik'd it but commend thy choice She is as great in beauty as in birth D. SAN. She is an object for which mighty Kings Being rivals should take arms such excellence Was never meant to be attain'd with ease K. You speak sir like a lover but Don Sancho What would he say that should be made the owner Of this rare beauty by consent of all D. SAN. That fortune had left nothing to confer Being undone in this hope cannot look So high K. She shall be thine nay more she is D. SAN. Leave me not now my faith and honesty Aside For I had nere more need of your assistance K. Thou dost not answer has thy suddain joy Surpriz'd thy sences and shut up thy speech D. SAN. I must confesse I 'me ravish'd with this offer And on my knees in signe of gratitude I here restore her to you K. Dost thou mock My courtesie or is it madnesse in thee Return unto thy self D. SAN. Your favours sir Have come so thick upon me that my thanks Are still ore taken only now my fortune Has given me leave to shew my gratitude This Princesse whom you offer I adore But dare not love nor any but your self K. Thou mak'st me wonder how can she concern me D. SAN. In justice sir she is your wife if contracts Can stand in force with Princes by your father In your minority with her a match Was made and ratifide of which Don Diego Cannot be ignorant nor Don Arias Who did transact the businesse L. Some such thing I heard but have forgotten my Cimena Cals back my thoughts and fixes them on her Beside she lov'd the Cid and for his sake Betray'd her Country and her brother D. SAN. True She did but not for him had you great sir But heard the story of her love and how It grew up in her fancy since the time The King her father mention'd first your name To her yet infant apprehension And gave your picture to her you would say Love entring by degrees gathers his strength From small beginnings but makes sure his hold In fine your Majestie has been the object For whom she has despis'd the Prince Spheranti Endur'd her brothers fury and at length To colour her desires made the occasion Of Roderigo's being there the means To bring her to your Court and acted that Unto the Cid she truly meant to you Feigned love is often better shew'd then true K. I must confesse my self a debtor to her But yet Cimena is my choice the Princesse Consulted well for her own modestie And no