vpon my soule that hurt her It is the boy that wicked boy that seru'd her PHA. O thou damn'd in thy creation what cause couldst thou shape to strike the Princesse BOY Then I am betrayd LEON Betrayd no apprehended BOY I confesse vrge it no more that big with euill thoughts I set vpon her and did make my ayme her death For charity let fall at once the punishment you meane And do not load this weary flesh with tortour PHA. I will know who hir'd thee to this deed BOY My owne reuenge CLE. Reuenge for what BOY It pleas'd her to receiue me as her Page And when my fortunes eb'd that men strid o're them carelesse She did showre her welcome graces on me And did swell my fortunes till they ouer-flowde Their bankes threatning the men that crost them When as swift as stormes arise at sea she turnde Her eyes to burning Sines vpon me and did drie the streames She had bestow'd leauing me worse and more contem'd Then other little brookes Because I had beene great In short I knew I could not liue And therefore did desire to die reueng'd PHA. If tortures can be found long as thy naturall life Resolue to feele the vtmost vigor CLE. Helpe to leade him hence PHILASTER creepes out of a bush PHI. Turne back you rauishers of innocents Know you the price of what you beare away So rudely PHA. Who 's that LEON My Lord Phylaster PHI. T is not the treasure of all the Kings in one The wealth of Tagus nor the rocks of pearle That paue the Court of Neptune can weigh downe That vertue It was I that hurt the Princesse Place me some god on a Pyramades higher then Hils of earth and lend a voyce lowd as you Thunder to me that from thence I may teach The vnder-world the worth that dwels in him PHA. How 's this BOY My Lord some man weary of life that would be glad to dy PHI. Leaue this vntimely courtesie Bellario BOY Alas he 's mad come will you beare me hence PHI. By all the oathes that men ought most to keepe And gods to punish most when men do breake He toucht her nor take heede Bellario How thou doost drowne the vertues thou hast showne With periurie by all the gods t was I You know she stood betwixt me and my right PHA. Thy owne tongue be thy Iudge LEON It was Phylaster TRA. I' st not a braue boy Well I feare me sir we were deceiued BOY Haue I no friend here LEON Yes BOY Then shew it some good body lend a hand to draw vs neerer Would you haue teares shed for you when you die then lay me gentlie on his neck that there I may weep flouds and breath forth my spirit Not all the wealth of Pluto nor the gold locked in the heart of earth can buy away this arm-full from me this had beene a ransome to haue redeem'd the great Augustus Cesar had hee beene taken you hard-hearted men more stony then these Mountaines can you see such a cleere pure bloud drop and not cut your flesh to stop his life to binde whose bitter wounds Queenes ought to teare their haires and with their teares bathe them forgiue me thou that art the wealth of poore Phylaster Enter the King Princesse and a guard KING Is the villaine tane LEON Sir here be two confesse the deed but sute it was Phylaster KING Question it no more it was PHA. The fellow that did fight with him will tell vs that PRIN. Ay me I know him well KING Did not you know him PRIN. Sir if it were he he was disguis'd PHI. I was so Oh my starres that I should liue still KING Thou ambitious foole thou that hast layd a trayne for thy owne life now I doe meane to doe I 'le leaue to talke beare them to prison PRIN. Sir they did plot together to take hence this harmelesse life should it passe vnreuengd I should to earth weeping Grant mee then by all the loues a father beares his child their custodies that I may appoint their tortures and their deathes LEON Death soft your law will not reach that for this fault KING T is granted take vm to you with a guard Come Princely Pharamont this businesse past We shall with more security go on With our intended match Exit King and PHARAMONT LEON I pray that this action loose not Phylastor the hearts of the people CLE. Feare it not their ouer-wise heads Will thinke it but a trick Exeunt Actus 5. Scoen. 1. Enter LEON CLE. and TRA. LEON Has the king sent for him to death CLE. Yes but the king must know 't is not in his powor to warre with heauen TRA. We linger time the king sent for Phylastor and the headsman an houre agoe LEON Are all his wounds well TRA. All they were but scratches but the losse of blood made him faint CLE. We dally Gentlemen LEON Away Exit TRA. Wee 'le shufle hard before he perish Enter PHYLASTER Princesse BOY in prison PRIN. Nay faith Phylaster grieue not we are well BOY Nay good my Lord forbeare we are wondrous well PHI. Oh Arethusa and Bellario Leaue to be kinde I shall be shut from heauen If you continue so I am a man false to a paire Of the truest ones that euer earth bore Can it beare vs all forgiue me and leaue me But the King hath sent to call me to my death Oh shew it me and then forget me and for thee my boy I shall deliuer words will mollifie the hearts of beasts To spare thy innocence BOY Alas my Lord My life is not a thing worthy Your noble thoughts t is not a life t is but a peece Of child-hood throwne away should I out liue you I should out liue vertue and honour And when that day come if euer I shall close These eyes but once may I liue spotted for my periurie And waste by time to nothing PRIN. And I the wofulst maide that euer liu'd Forc't with my hands to bring my Lord to death Do by the honour of a Virgin sweare To tell no houre behind it PHI. Make me not hated so PRIN. Come from this prison all ioyfull to our deaths PHI. People will teare me when they finde you true To such a wretch as I I shall die loath'd Inioy your Kingdome peaceably whilst I for euer sleepe Forgotten with my faults Euery iust maiden euery maide in loue Will haue a peece of me if you be true PRIN. My deerest say not so BOY A peece of you he was not borne of woman that can cut it and looke on PHI. Take me in teares betwixt you For my heart will breake with shame and sorrow PRIN. Why t is well BOY Lament no more PHI. Why what would you haue done If you had wrong'd me basely and had found My life no whit compar'd to yours for loue Sirs deale with me truely BOY 'T was mistaken Sir PRIN. Why if it were BOY Then sir we would haue askt you pardon PHI.
And haue hope to inioy it PRIN. Inioy it I PHI. Would you indeed be plaine PRIN. We would my Lord PHI. Forgiue me then PRIN. So so BOY T is as it should be now PHI. Leade to my death Exeunt Enter the King LEON CLE. TRA. and a guard KING Gentlemen who saw the Prince LEON So please you Sir he 's gone to see the Citie And the new Plot-forme with some Gentlemen Attending on him KING Is the Princesse ready to bring her prisoner out CLE. She waites your grace KING Tell her we stay Exit TRA. LEON King you may be deceiu'd yet the head you ayme at Cost more setting on then to lose it so lightly aside If it must off like a wild ouer-flow that soopes before him A golden stocke and with it shakes downe bridges Cracks the strong hearts of Pynes whose cable rootes Held out a thousand stormes a thousand thunders And so made weightier takes whole villages vpon his back And in the heate of pride charges strong Townes Towers Castels Pallaces and leaues them desolate So shall thy head thy noble head bury the liues Of thousands that must bleed with thee like a sacrifice In thy red ruines Enter PHI. Princesse BOY with a garland of flowers on 's head KING How now what maske is this BOY Right royall Sir I shal sing you an Epethelamon but hauing lost my best aires with my fortunes and wanting a celestiall harpe to strike this blessed vnyon thus in glad story I giue you all these two faire Caedor branches The noblest of the mountaines where they grew straightest and tallest vnder whose still shades the worthier beasts haue made their layers and slept free from the firuer of the Serian starre and the fell thunder-stroke free from the Clouds when they were big with humour and deliuer in thousand spouts that issues to the earth O there was none but silent quiet there till neuer-pleased fortune shot vp shrubs base vnder branches to deuour these branches and for a while they did so and did raigne ouer the Mountaine and did choake vp his beauty with brakes rud thornes and thistles till the Sunne scorcht them to the roote and dride vm there and now a gentle gaile has blowne againe that made these branches meete and twine together neuer to be vnarmde The god that sings his Number ore marriage beds has knit their noble hearts and heere they stand your children worthy king and I haue done KING How how PRIN. Sir if you loue it in plaine truth for now there is no masking in 't this gentleman the prisoner that you gaue mee is become my keeper And through all the bitter threats your Iealousies and his il fate haue wrought him thus nobly hath hee strugled and at length arriued here My deere husband KING Your deere husband Call in the Captaine of the Citadell where you shall keepe your wedding I 'le prouide a maske shall make your Hymen turne his saffron into a sullen coate and sing sad requiems to your departing soules blood shal put out your torches and insteed of gawdy flowers about your wanton necks an Axe shall hang like a prodigious Metour ready to crop your loues sweetes Heare you gods From this time do I shake all title off of father to this woman this base woman and what there is of venge in a Lyon chast amongst dogs or rob'd of his deere young the same inforc't more terrible more mighty looke from me PRIN. Sir by that little life that I haue left to sweare by There 's nothing can stirre me from my selfe What I haue done I haue done without repentance For death to me can be no bugbare as long as Pharamont Is not my heads-man LEON Sweete peace vpon thy soule thou worthy maid When ere thou diest for this time I 'le excuse thee ore by thy prologue PHI. Sir let me speake next And let my dying words be better with you Then my dull liuing actions If you aime at the life Of this sweete innocent you are a tyrant and a sauage monster That feedes vpon the blood you gaue a life to Your memory shall be as foule behind you as you are liuing All your better deedes shall be in water writ But this in marble No Chronicle shall speake you Though your owne but for a shame of men No Monument though high and big as Pelion Shal be able to couer this base murder make it rich with brasse Gold and shining Iasper like the Pyramides Lay on Epitaphes such as make great men gods My little Marble that onely clothes my ashes not my faults Shall farre out shine it and for after issues Thinke not so madly of the heauenly wisedomes That they will giue you more for your mad rage to cut off Vnlesse it be some snake or something like your selfe That in his birth shall strengle you Remember my father king There was a fault but I forgiue it let that sinne Perswade you to loue this Lady if you haue a soule Thinke saue her and be saued for my selfe I haue so long Expected this glad houre so languisht vnder you And dayly withered that by the gods it is a ioy to die I finde a recreation in 't Enter a Messenger MES. Where 's the King KING Heere MES. Get to your strength And rescue the Prince Pharamont from danger He 's taken prisoner by the Citizens For the Lord Phylaster LEON O braue fellowes Muteny my fine deere countrimen Muteny Now my braue valiant formen show your weapons In honour of your Mistresses 2 MES. Arme arme arme KING A thousand diuels take these Citizens LEON A thousand blessings on them MES. Arme O king the Citie is in Muteny Led by an old gray Ruffin who comes on In rescue of the Lord Phylaster KING Away to the Citadell I 'le see them safe And then cope with these burgers let the guard And all the Gentlemen giue strong attendance Exit King Manet LEON CLE. and TRA. CLE. The Citie vp this was aboue our wishes LEON I and the marriage too by al the gods this noble Lady has deceiued vs all a plague vpon my selfe a thousand plagues for hauing such vnworthy thoughts of her deare Honor O I could beat my selfe or doe you beat mee and I 'le beat you for wee had all one thought CLE. No no 't will but lose time LEON You say true are your swords sharpe Well my deere Countrimen what you lackes if you continue and fall not Backe vpon the first broken skin I 'le see you Chronicled And Chronicled and cut and Chronicled and all to be prais'd And sung in sonets and bath'd in braue new ballads That all tongues shall troule you in Secula seculorum My kinde Countrimen TRA. What if a toy take vm i' ch hee les now and they run all away and cry the diuell take the hindmost LEON Then the same diuell take the formost too and sawce him for his breakefast if they all prooue cowards my curses flush amongst vm and ill speeding
has not broke your lawes but how could I looke to be heard of gods that must be iust praying vpon the ground I hold in wrong Enter LEON LEO. Sir I haue askt and her women sweare she is within but they I thinke are baudes I tolde vm I must speake with her they laught and said their Lady lay speechlesse I said my businesse was important they said their Lady was about it I grew hot and cried my businesse was a matter that concern'd life and death they answered so was sleeping at which their Lady was I vrg'd againe shee had scarce time to bee so since last I saw her they smilde againe and seemde to instruct mee that sleeping was nothing but lying downe and winking answers more direct I could not get from them in short sir shee 's not there KING T is then no time to dally you a' the guard wait at the back-doore of the Princes lodging and see that none passe thence vpon your liues Knock Gentlemen knock lowde what has your pleasure taken off your hearing I 'le breake your meditation knock againe and lowder not yet I do not thinke he sleepes hauing such larumes by him once more Pharamont They knock Enter Pharamant aboue PHA. What sawcy groome knocks at this dead of night where be our waiters by my vexed soule he meetes his death that meetes me for this boldnesse K. Prince Prince you wrong your thoughts wee are your friends come downe PHA. The king KING The same sir Come downe sir we haue cause of present counsell with you PHA. If your grace please to vse mee I 'le attend you to your chamber K. No t is too late Prince I 'le make bold with yours PHA. I haue certaine priuate reasons to my selfe sir They prease to come in Makes me vnmannerly and say you cannot Nay prease not forward he must come through my life That comes heere K. Sir be resolued I must come and will come enter PHA. I will not be dishonoured thus hee that enters enters vpon his death sir t is a signe you make no stranger of mee to bring these runagates to my chamber at these vnseasoned houres K. Why do you chafe your selfe you are not wrongd Nor shal be onely search your lodging For some cause to our selfe Enter I say PHA. I so no ME. Let vm enter Prince let vm enter I am vp I know their businesse t is a poore breaking of a Ladies honour they hunt so hotly after let vm enioy it you haue your businesse Gentlemen I lay here O my Lord the King this is not noble in you To make publicke the weakenesse of a woman KING Come downe ME. I dare my Lord your whoting and your clamours your priuate whispers and your broad fleerings can no more vex my soule then this base carriage but I haue vengeance still in store for some shall in the most contempt you can haue of mee bee ioy and nourishment KING Will you come downe ME. Yes to laugh at your worst but I shall wring you if my skill faile me not KING Sir I must chide you deerely for this loosenesse You haue wrongd a Lady but no more Conduct him to his lodging and to bed CLE. Get him another wench and you bring him to bed indeed LEON T is strange a man cannot ride a Stage or two To breath himselfe without a warrant if this geare hold That lodgings be searcht thus pray God we may lye With our owne wiues in safety that they be not they come downe to the King by some tricke of state mistaken KING Now Lady of honour where 's your honour now No man can fit your palat but the Prince Thou most ill shrowded rottennesse thou peece Made by a Painter and Apothecaries thou troubled sea of lust Thou wildernesse inhabited by wild thoughts Thou swolne clowd of infection thou ripe mine of all diseases Thou all sinne and hell and last all diuels tell me Had you none to pull on with your courtesies But he that must be mine and wrong my daughter By all the gods all these all the Pages and all the Court Shall whoote thee through the Court fling rotten orrenges Make reball rymes and seare thy name with candles Vpon wals doe you laugh Lady Venus ME. Faith sir you must pardon me I cannot chuse but laugh To see you merry if you do this O King Nay if you dare do it by all those gods you swore by And as many more of my owne I will haue fellowes And such fellowes in it that shall make noble mirth The Princesse your deere daughter shall stand by me Vpon wals and sung in ballads or any thing vrge me no more I know her and her haunts her fayre leaps And out-lying and will discouer all and will dishonour her I know the boy she keepes a hansome boy about eighteene Knowes what she dos with him where when Come sir you put me to a womans madnesse The glory of a fury and if I doe not doe it to the height KING What boy is that she raues at ME. Alas good minded Prince you know not these things I am loth to reueale vm keepe this fault As you would keepe your health from the hote ayre Of the corrupted people or by heauen I will not sinke alone what I haue knowne Shall be as publike as in Print all tongues shall speake it As they doe the language they 're borne in as free and commonly I 'le set it like a prodigious starre for all to gaze at And so high and glowing that other kingdomes far and forraigne Shall read it there trauaile with it till they finde no tongue To make it more nor no more people And then behold the fall of your faire Princesse KING Has she a boy LEON So please your grace I haue seene a boy waite on her a faire boy KING Go get you to your quarters for this time I 'le study to forget you ME. Do so and I 'le forget your Exit King MEGRA and the guard CLE. Heere 's a male spirit fit for Hercules if euer there be nine worthy of women this wench shall ride aside and be their Captaine LEON Sure she has a Garison of diuels in her tongue She vttered such bals of wild fire she has so netled the King That all the Doctors in the Countrey will not cure him That boy was a strange found out antidote to cure her infections That boy that Princesse boy that chast braue vertuous Ladies boy and a faire boy a wel-spoken boy All these considered can make nothing else But there I leaue yee Gentlemen TRA. Nay wee 'le go wander with you Exit three Gentlemen Actus 3. Scoen. 1. Enter three Gentlemen CLE. And doubtlesse t is true LEON I and t is the gods That raisd this punishment to scourge the King With his owne yssue is it not a shame for all vs That write noble in the Land for vs that should be freemen To behold a man that is the brauery of
so smooth a brow I cannot now thinke he is guilty BOY Health to you my Lord The Princesse doth commend her loue her life and this vnto you He giues him a letter PHI. O Bellario now I perceiue she loues me She dos shew it in louing thee my boy She has made thee braue BOY My Lord she has attir'd me past wish Past my desert more fit for her attendant But far vnfit for me that doe attend PHI. Thou art growne Courtly my boy O let all women that loue black deedes learne to dissemble here Heere with this paper she dos write to me As if her heart were twines of Adamant To all the world besides but vnto me a maiden snow That melted with my lookes tell me my boy How dos the Princesse vse thee BOY Scarce like her seruant but as if I were Something alied to her or had preserued her life Three times by my fidelity as mothers fond Doe vse their onely sonnes as I 'de vse one that 's left vnto my trust For whom my life should pay If he meete harme so she dos vse me PHI. Why t is wondrous well But what kinde language dos she feede thee with BOY Why she dos tell me she will trust my youth with al her maiden store and dos call mee her pretie seruant bids mee weepe no more for leauing you she 'le see my seruice rewarded such words of that soft straine that I am neerer weeping when she ends then ere she speakes PHI. This is much better still BOY Are you not well my Lord PHI. Ill no Bellario BOY Me thinkes your words fall out from your tongue so vneuenly nor is there in your looks that quicknesse that I was wont to see PHI. Thou art deceiued boy And she strokes thy head BOY Yes PHI. And she dos clap thy cheekes BOY She dos my Lord PHY. And she dos kisse thee boy ha BOY How my Lord PHY. She kisses thee BOY Neuer my Lord by heauen PHY. That 's strange I know she dos BOY No by my life PHY. Why then she dos not loue me Come she dos I bid her do 't I charg'd her by all charmes of loue betweene vs by the hope of peace wee should inioy to yeeld thee all delight naked as to her Lord I tooke her oath thou shouldst inioy her Tell mee gentle boy is shee not paradise is not her breath sweete as Arabian winds when fruites are ripe are not her breasts two lickquid Iuory bals is she not all a lasting mine of ioy BOY Yes now I see why my discurled thoughts were so perplext When first I went to her my heart held augeries you are abus'd some villaine has abus'd you I doe see where you tend Fall rocks vpon his head that put this to you t is some subtile traine to bring that noble friend of yours to naught PHY. Thou thinkst I will bee angry with thee come thou shalt know all my drift I hate her more then I loue happinesse and plac't thee there to pry with sparrowes eyes into her deedes hast thou discouered is shee falne to lust as I would wish her speake some comfort to me BOY My Lord you did mistake the boy you sent Had she the lust of sparrowes and of goates Had she a sin that weighed from the world beyond the name of lust I would not aide her base desires But what I come to know as seruant to her I would not reueale to make my life last ages PHI. Oh my heart This is a salue worse then the maine deceit Tell me thy thoughts for I will know the least That dwels within thee or will rip thy heart To know it I will see thy thoughts as plaine As I doe now thy face BOY Why so you doe she is for ought I know by all the gods As chast as ice but were she foule as hell And I did know it thus the breath of Kings The points of swords tortures nor buls of brasse Should wrack it from me PHI. Then t is no time to dallie with thee I will take thy life For I doe hate thee I could curse thee now BOY If you do hate me you could not curse me worse The gods haue not a punishment in store To me then is your hate PHI. Fie fie so young and so dissembling tell me when where Thou didst inioy her or let plagues fall vpon me If I destroy thee not He drawes his sword BOY By heauen I neuer did and when I lie to saue my life May I liue long and loathed hew me asunder And whilst I can thinke I 'le loue those pieces you haue cut away Better then those that grow and kisse those limbes Because you made vm so PHI. Fear'st thou not death can boyes contemne that BOY Oh! what boy is he could be content to liue To be a man that sees the best of men thus passionate Thus without reason PHI. O thou dost not know what t is to die BOY Yes I doe know my Lord t is lesse then to be borne A lasting sleepe a quiet resting from all iealousie A thing we all persue I know besides it is but giuing ore againe That must be lost PHI. But there are paines false boy For periur'd soules think but those and then thy heart will melt And then thou wilt vtter all BOY May they fall all vpon me whilst I liue If I be periur'd or haue euer thought of that you charge me with If I be false send mee to suffer in those punishments you speake of Kill me PHI. Oh! What should I doe why who can but beleeue him Hee dos sweare so earnestly that if it were not true the gods would not indure him Rise Bellario thy protestaions are so deepe and thou dost looke so truely when thou vtterest them that though I knew vm false as were my hopes I cannot vrge thee further but thou wert too blame to iniuie me for I must loue thy honest lookes and take no reuenge vpon thy honest lookes a loue from mee to thee is firme what ere thou dost it troubles me that I haue cald thy blood out of thy cheekes that did so well become thee But good boy let me not see thee more something is done that will distract me that will make mee mad if I behold thee if thou tenderest mee let me not see thee BOY I will flie as farre As there is morning ere I giue distaste to that most honord frame but through these teares shed at my haplesse parting I can see a world of treason practis'd vpon you and her and me farewell for euermore if you shall heare that sorrowes strucke me dead and after finde me loyall let there be a teare shed from you in my memory and I shall rest at peace PHI. Blessing be with thee what ere thou deseruest O where shall I go bathe this body nature too vnkind That mad'st no medicine to a troubled minde Exit PHILASTER Enter Princesse PRIN, I maruaile my boy comes not backe But that I