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A47379	Fovr nevv playes viz : The seege of Vrbin, Selindra, Love and frienship, Tragy-comedies, Pandora, a comedy / written by Sr. William Killigrew ...; Plays. Selections	Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695.; Stapylton, Robert, Sir, d. 1669.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.; Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695. Ormasdes.; Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695. Seege of Vrbin.; Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695. Selindra.; Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695. Ormasdes.; Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695. Pandora.	1666 (1666)	Wing K458; ESTC R17595	186,688	237

said This Parragon of all our Sex now dyes Because Ormasdes does her Love despise Ormas No Madam I do suffer more then she Does for her self hers is my miserie I dare not virtue with vain hopes abuse I cannot love and therefore do refuse To dally with so bright a Saint whose Shrine Compels all hearts to bow before 't but mine I am not capable of Love not blest That way my heart 's with other flames possest Queen All flames you feel would vanish did you see Valeriana in such misery As she endures now fetching her last breath Enquiring your health neglecting her own death Thus my compassion has her sorrowes learn'd I weep her Tears while you stand unconcern'd Ormas Madam your passion does my pitty move Though my dull heart cannot consent to Love My resolution is now fixt I 'le try My self to vanquish or her Martyr Dye I swear I did not hear that she was ill And now it does my soul with horror fill For her concern no danger is so great But I will rather dye in 't then retreat Queen 'T is bravely said but dare you try the effect Of one short visit after such neglect Ormas Thus provok'd if your Majesty stands by I will not such a visit now deny Queen You speak and look as if you meant to fright Much rather then revive her by your sight Ormas Madam to Complement I have no skill Nor can be pleas'd if lov'd against my will Yet sensible and civil I can be Though it do prove unfortunate to me Queen When shall I bring this comfort to revive Her fainting soul if she be still alive Ormas Is she really so weak so soon grown Thus ill I have no skill in this unknown Mystery of love but will boldly try What I can do for her recovery Queen High passions do weak bodies sooner bring To the Graves mouth then any other thing Her despairs are of a much longer date Though suddain sicknesse do break out thus late When I your humour did a first reherse And shew'd how your whole life had been averse To Love she sigh'd and presently grew pale Despair that minute made her spirits fail And so transported by her fancy fell As if my doubts had rung her passing bell Orm Though I cannot speak nor do yet know how To look I 'm ready to attend you now Queen I fear so suddain and so great a joy As your approach may equally destroy Let me her heart prepare that by degrees She may but hope retain before she see The comfort that your visit brings and then Ormasdes may ere long prove best of Men. Ormas Madam I do my self to you submit Pray order me in all as you think fit Queen You shall then stand unseen while I do tell This welcome story which will make her well And then by what you 'l see you may observe How my true friendship will from both deserve Who have no wish beyond Ormasdes good When time shall make me rightly understood Ormas Madam I have now no more to say But that I will your Majesty obey Queen You shall not stirre Ormasdes till I send Exit Queen and Traine Enter to him Nearous Ormas Did you not meet Cleandra going out Near Yes but I have businesse of importance Pray let us withdraw and be more private Ormas Come this way then They go out and Re-entey Ormas Why have you drawn me to this inner Room Is the secret of so piercing quality That fewer Walls then these cannot contain't Near It is my Lord of a high nature grown I must impart it to your self alone You and I must kill one another now Ormas May not I live though you are pleas'd to dye Near No Sir since 't is decreed that I must die I am resolv'd to have you Company There 's a Sword the same with mine defend you Ormas Hold a while May not I know the cause of this hatred Near I have no hatred yet endeavour must That we together may revert to dust Though you by chance have rob'd me of my right I 'de not out-live Ormasdes if I might Ormas From whence does this strange kindnesse to me grow Say for I will not fight untill I know Near This then will teach you to defend your self Runs at him he puts his Sword by and holds him Ormas I shall call my Servants unlesse you now show The cause of this distracted fury Near I will Lets him go Valeriana's my Quarrel She throwes neglects on me and dotes on you Ormas You are mistaken sure and much abus'd It is not possible She dotes on me Who never courted Lady in my life Near By all that 's good she told me so her self Ormas This must be some design beyond my reach But if true from whence does my guilt arise Who never heard of your pretence 'till now Nor have a serious thought for hers to me If such a folly do her heart possesse Am I to answer for her guiltinesse Near I do accuse you of no guilt at all But joy to think if by my hand you fall It will Create in her such miserie As will adorn my death with Victorie Ormas If such revenge and malice you intend Where is the Love that you so much pretend Near Wee 'l talk of that as our two souls expire She flatter'd me with hopes that blew my Fire She threw out vowes to marry me and now In hope of you disowns that holy vow Ormas Made vowes to marry you and yet love me Pray shew me how this story does agree I swear I never had a thought of Love To Lady in my life and will now quit The interest you pretend rather then fight For such imaginary Dreams as this Near You must Fight Nearcus offers at him he rings a Bell. Enter Servants Ormas No disarm him so now leave us alone Exeunt Nearcus I have lov'd you and shall still If you 'l permit what does this story mean Near By Hea Valeriana did ingage To marry me if my Birth equal'd hers But now repents in hope to marry you Ormas This story growes stranger and stranger still Does your Birth equal hers on which you ground Your Title and on which her vow was made Near It does Ormasdes and did hers exceed When I first urg'd that sacred Vow she made She but a Subject unto me appear'd Ormas And are you other now Near Yes have you not heard that Prince Orontes Brother to our late King had a young Son Call'd Leonatus who by sad mishap Fencing with the Prince hurt him in the Eye Of which hurt he dyed and the King inrag'd Made vowes to Sacrifice the Murtherer As if the mischief purposely were done In order to his own Succession After Cleandra who was then married To a young Prince in Greece and setl'd there Orm I 'ave often heard the Queen with sighs lament Her Brothers losse by that sad accident And say she pittied Leonatus death As innocent

Rampier you shall finde me Exeunt severally Enter Florio and Pedro. Florio Happy and blest occasion for my crosse fate the best here I may fall without the crime of my own hands acting in my long wish'd for Death here unknown without pitty or reproach I may Sacrifice my loath'd life to appease my inraged Father whose unnaturall impositions have destroy'd me Methinks Melina our disguise becomes us excellently well and this Town besiedg'd will keep us undiscover'd while we stay what sayes my fellow Souldier canst thou fight Pedro. If my Argument to put on Breeches were the same with yours Madam I should like this habit and your designe much better then I doe you flye the man you hate and I leave him I love to waite on you Florio I see thy Complement in its best dress Fidelity but t is now two late to sigh or to repent we are ingag'd past retreating and must on Pedro. I wonder Maddam you do not shake to think what hazzards you must runne this looks like leaping into the Sea to avoid Shipwrack the cure more desperate then the evill you fly from Florio Not more desperate Melina I cannot feare nor fancy an evill beyond the imbraces of that rich rotten Carcas my unkind Father would match me to as if guilding a sad heart would make it happy 'T is easy to consent to dye when we consider how much better 't is to be in Heaven then here Melina Pedro. True Madam if we be sure this were the way thither but how shall we answer at the Resurrection for our Vira-goships for ou● own and others blood thus shed if our Needles should prick our Fingers and those small wounds fester to Gangreens that were to dye in our own callings but this way to fall is a kind of self murther and beyond my Faith to merrit Heaven by doing mischiefe to our selves and others who have no way offended us Florio I have no thought of mischiefe in my heart towards any nor is my Nature lesse smooth then thine but my starres have ordain'd me a Rugged Fate that I cannot subdue Pedro. Allow all this the meanes you still propose are hopelesse as the end you aime at How will drawn Swords look in our weak ha●s how soon will feeble strokes discover our faint hearts and lay us open to reproach Florio Thou art mistaken Melina 't is courage and not strength that is ●o necess●●y here when Multitudes fall on none can observe whose Sword does the Execution but thou shalt stay at home while my dispaire leads me where danger strikes the greatest terror thou know'st part of my younger dayes led with my banish'd Father in wilde Mountaines there train'd for this work at hand but my businesse is now to dye as thine to live 't is not thy Valour I ingag'd to this adventer but thy fidelity who after my decease must witnesse to the World the truth of my sad story least our sex be scandaliz'd you shall not ●ight Melina Pedro. If I survive will a relation from me your fellow wanderer have credit with the World I fear your flight from home and such a Romantick death may prove eternall scandall to your Name Innosence is not enough to justify so bold an Act Florio Conceale me then I carry here an innosence beyond the reach of Censure and though I flye that moving Sepulcher at home I have a courage that dares meet againe my old acquaintance the Ravening Wolfe and hungry Bear rather then be so buried while I live Melina Is all this danger to avoid the man that you dislike no inclination for another you would have Florio Had I been so weak as to like any I had not found strength for this bold adventure prethee sweet Melina do not betray me by thy feares I did believe thee bold and a fit Confident or I had neer imparted my designe Pedro. I must confesse I did not fear to go at midnight in the darke through our long entries to meet my Lover those joyes were ever above the thought of shadowes but these dangers are of a higher Nature Madam our lives and Credits both at stake Florio Fye Melina dost thou own courage in actions void of Modesty and shrink when honour bids the hazzard thou makest me tremble now indeed lest some guilt of thine should pull a crosse Fate on us Pedro. Remove those thoughts of me and all your feares together for I am Arm'd with such a vertuous confidence as will shrink at no danger you dare look on but will vie Perills with you when occasions call me to it Florio Bravely resolv'd thus then let us in private practice how to wave our Swords lest we show ignorance when we have use of She drawes with the Scabbard on them Why should not Womens hearts agree with such a strength as our Arms have to mannage this Sword 't is only custome and a tender Education makes us lesse bold and active then the bravest men the Amazons we read have done great things and my spirit prompts me to an honourable death before a wretched life which makes me thus endeavour to fall worthy a Noble Character for after times to pitty or to praise and wonder at Pedro. I am now fully confirm'd Madam and hope to see you fight like the brave Maid of Orleance who drove the English from those parts of France when almost all was Conquer'd by that Warlike Nation So that in after Ages your Renowne May out-shine hers that sav'd the Gallique Crowne Florio If France do that bould Virgins vallor own Why should not we now make that wonder none Enter towards them Fernando muffled in a gray Cloake behind him five Banditee who seize on his Cloake he drawes and fights till Florio and Pedro rescue him and beate off the Theeves he returnes starts as he imbraces Florio Fernando To what Angels Face and Heroes Arme do I owe my Life or has great Mars put Venus figure on my amazement is beyond the sence of my deliverance what are you Sir Florio A stranger here but now ariv'd Fern. Are not you hurt Florio I feel none Sir pray who were those assaulted you Fern Banditee who in such times of Warre stand in corners to take Clokes Perd. If this be all the danger our drawn Swords will bring us I shall To Florio aside neer be out Enter Luco Luco Are these Enemies Sir Fern They are my good Angells Luco from Heaven sent to guard me have you taken lodgings Luco I have Fern But I must first attend you to your house Sir lest these To Florio Villains return upon you Florio We yet have none but were inquiring where to lodge when you came by us Luco The house that I now came from has Roome for all Fern Pray let us lodg together that I may finde some way to serve you who have ingaged me so highly Florio We shall gladly be obliged as you desire and will wate on you Fern By your daring courage I judge you come to

are so mingled that neither his force nor subtlest Art can ere devide us tell him I despise his Love who with an Iron rodd does wooe his former Menaces became him better then this flattery I le heare no more Offers to goe out Officer Then give Judgment Madam ere you go on the guilty person you despise for if my love cannot prevaile to excuse what I have done Let me by your doome fall Ferrara is at your mercy Discovers himselfe Silviana Sir Your excuse is bolder then your Crime thus to surprize me in disguise is as offensive as your Warre and works the same effect in me who see through all your designes but can discerne no love 't is our Dukedome you expect and so much labour for not me Ferrara This Warre and my disguise are both the effects of Love Madam and at worst can be look'd on but as tryalls whether by your brothers or your own aversion I have been rejected I ledde my Army hither to remove his constraint on you as I suppose and now freely offer up my selfe a sacrifice to your dislike if by that I fall neglected such is the power of Love it makes the greatest dangers most delightfull Silviana Such Romances take not me your first approaches and all your Treaties were accompanied with such unreasonable demands and such Rude threats as shew'd you were a man of Blood no Characters of gentle love appear'd I remember also the Succession was your maine Article that must be setled or you would not have me by which you bound my Brother from a second Marriage and would take me as an appendix to the Crowne and through all this I must now discerne your unvisible love no Sir though the Principallity must be my beauties foyle to raise esteem in you I can set a value on my self● above the Dukedome you ayme at Ferrara Madam Though I come hither lifted high on the delightfull wings of hope dispaire must now be my Reserve for my Retreate yet thus by your scornes arm'd for your Revenge I shall rather smile then shrinke at your Brothers malice after this repulse from you and shall glory here to fall Lov 's Martyr at your feet Silviana You shall be safe from all harmes here Sir I will secure your safe returne though I answer not your hope you shall not suffer Enter Tigil by this rash visit Tigillo pray see this Officer safe convey'd to his Campe. Ferrara No Madam now I have put off that clowd which did secure my passage hither by which my undertaking is perform'd to put it on againe may looke like feare as if I valued safety at a higher rate then Honour I will therefore with an open face Now I have kneel'd at Silvianas feet Pass on through all the dangers I can meet Silviana My endeavours and my wishes do concurre for your security but if you suffer ought by your own rash choice I shall take care that you have no pretence to lay a blemish on my innocence Tigillo waite on the Duke as I direct I will answer it to my Brother Exit Princess and Ladies Tigillo I shall not doubt to do what you command Madam Ferrara I am sad to think Tigillo on those evills which Silviana compells me in honour now to Act. For since no submission can make her relent VVe are oblig'd to fight though we repent Exeunt Enter Florio as in his Chamber sitting sadly Pedro by Pedro. Madam What want you will you think your selfe into the other World Florio I wish I were so happy no Melina I am doom'd to more disasters here Pedro. Pray impart the trouble of your minde that I may argue on your griefes a little to divert you Florio Thou wilt raise my distemper higher by thy discourse but yet I 'le try I was thinking Melina how much better it had been to have stay'd at home and sufferd all my Fathers anger still saying no to his unjust commands I might so have shew'd a much more becomming courage by such sufferings then thus by ●lying them for had he forc'd me to the Church so often threatned he could not there compell me to comply I might at worst have dyed on that account with honour as now with infamy Pedro. If you pursue these thoughts they will distract you 't is childish to look back when you must pursue the Fortune your first thoughts have led you to does not the Dukes love grow higher and higher still why then do you create evills in your fancy beyond what can happen Florio Oh Melina had I not better dye then ever own my selfe a Woman when the Duke shall finde the favourite he dotes on to be a transform'd wanderer how will he hate himselfe and me for placing such a scorne on his great Name for ever I love and honour him so much I dare not seek the happinesse I wish but must undiscover'd dye to save my reputation and his Fame Pedro. These are waking dreames Madam Florio And then if Fernando should discover me how will his honour be concern'd what vengeance will his just anger finde out for me there is but one way Melina besides Death Pedro. May I be trusted with it you have made me Sadder then I look'd for Florio The Siege ended I le returne and take a Cloyster where I will wash away my shame in Penetentiall Teares and if I dye before I do conjure thee Melina to conceale my sex I have adventur'd what I can to get an honourable death and 't will not be which makes me apprehend some sadder Fortune does attend me Pedro. Madam I have thus farre against my judgment and my interest been wholly govern'd by you but now I see you will destroy your selfe I am resolv'd to let Fernando or the Duke know your condition to prevent a greater evill Florio How Melina wilt thou betray my trust and prove a Traytor at the last thou dar'st not do so great a villany Pedro. Rather then see you ruin'd I will do any thing what crymes what guilt frights you into this dispaire I will no longer be accessary to your destruction now I can bring you off with honour She offers to goe off Florio rises and steps between Melina and the Dore and drawes Florio Stay Melina so now 't is my fault if you discover me by all my hopes ' le k●ll thee instantly unlesse thou dost now sweare not to reveale me speak quickly for when thou art dead I will by my own hand dye by thee offers at her Pedro. Hold and I will by this I swear as you desire But that I do a greater mischiefe feare Your threatned death should not have made me sweare Enter the Duke who drawes and offers at Pedro. Florio steps in Duke False villaine to lift thy hand against thy Lord Florio steps between Florio I did assault him Sir in my unjust fury Duke Florio has no unjust fury Pedro must be faulty Florio By truths selfe I sweare he is not the fault was

had been lost if the all conquering Florio with his guards had not come timely in to his reliefe who with such vigour and such force renew'd the fight that the amaz'd Enemy ran headlong from the Walls againe and struck such terror in the rest of their assailing friends that altogether sled in great confusion to their Campe. Princess All this I do rejoyce at but methinks those shouts of joy are chang'd into a dismall silence on the suddaine why do not the streets ring with acclamations for our Victory good Heav'n preserve the Duke I have some apprehension that he may be hurt Officer No hurt appear'd at my departure only Florio was beaten down by an accidentall shot at randome from the slying Enemie after which I saw him stand though but weakly Princess Let us retyre Phylora till my brother does arive Exeunt Enter the Duke with others his Shirt bloody bearing in Florio neere dead they set him in a Chayre with Pedro helping to dresse him Duke A Surgeon a Surgeon my Dukedome for a Surgeon gently gently set him downe Florios death strikes deep friendship I finde takes faster hold on hearts then love poore youth he slew quick as lightning to my rescue and as I fell oppress'd by Multitudes he scatter'd them like frighted Birds at an approaching storme and thus by saving me has lost himselfe by an accidentall shot from the beaten flying Enemy but sure the Gods will not permit that so great vertue from the World be taine lest offended Nature into its first Chaos shrinke Through suddaine horror and a just disdaine To hold the World up after Florio slaine Enter Surgeons Duke Now Surgeon shew your skill while I powre out my prayers to Heav'n for his recovery He leanes against the Wall and weeps Enter Silviana and Philora with Ladies Duke Oh Silviana I am undone Florio is slaine friendship is ravish●d from the earth and all my joyes sled with it speak Surgeon does he live Surgeon Here is life Sir but little hope of long continuance unlesse what we apply do suddenly shew better signes Duke By what unknown crymes have I provok'd Heav'n when vertue is thus punish'd thus to shew me Paradice and cast me into Hell is more then Nature can submit to and not repine Enter Lorenzo and Longino with the Duke of Ferrara prisoner and his Officers prisoners Lor. We bring you joy Sir and a full viory with this great prisoner Urbin Here is no roome for joy Lorenzo I am destroy'd by victory see where Death in Triumph sits prowder of that prey then for all the Heroes in past Ages fall'n Lorenzo Ha! Florio slaine how could this happen after I was gone and the day wonne I may now curse my selfe for not preventing this how short are those glittering joyes we so much labour for when all the glories we have gain'd are in a moment turn'd into heart breaking griefes I am undone too Lorenzo weeps over Florios head Urbin He receiv'd this wound in rescuing me can bold Lorenzo weep and be so much concern'd for me is he as great in sorrow as in Armes will he outfight and now outweep me too ye Duke leanes over Florios Head on the other side powers Above if ever you heare prayers from a sad heart sent Let Florios soule and mine expyre together Oh Lorenzo you cannot fancy what I feele the losse of such a friend is unsupportable Lorenzo Alas Sir your sorrowes will go higher yet when you know who Florio is I have a greater losse in Florio then you discerne or can pretend to which will no longer now be hid hold Surgeon and let the Ladies help to undresse her she is a Lady and my neer relation Sir who loves you more then you love Florio He starts from the Chayre Duke A Woman Lorenzo Oh do not mock me with a hope to make this losse beyond Mortallity to beare a Woman let me gaze on this dying wonder 'till my Eyes drop out and lov's me as I do Florio that is impossible this is a fatall blow indeed Oh Sister now your help Surgeon if she live thou shalt be whatever I can make thee great work worke apply the rarest remedies some help from Heav'n or I am lost a Woman Florio a Woman and in my rescue dye and love me too Oh this is much too much to know and to outlive He lies on the ground Surgeon Pray Sir a little patience her Eyes have some small motion now Ladies your help is usefull here The Duke rises Duke Gently deere Silviana kind Philora gently every touch she suffers grates on my heart Florio thy love was not well mannag'd the more I think the more I am amaz'd give her life or strike me dead a Woman Lorenzo I Sir a Woman and of Noblest birth The Duke kneels and holds her Hand Duke I value not her birth 't is Vertue thus adorn'd that I adore He kneeles and hold her head blest figure of those shapes which do inhabit Heav'n she looks up Silviana and may live runne good Alphonso runne Alphonso Whither Sir and why Duke Fetch my Mothers Diadem and Royall Robe flye now Alphonso Exit Alpho flye I have a thousand thoughts at once what Triumphs I will make what Trophies raise if my Faire Saint survive but if she dye these glitring fancies will be drench'd in Blood Lorenzo I will swimme in blood to overtake her Ghost when ever she departs Surgeon Now she is drest pray give her leave to rest a little Loren. My Prophetique soule foresaw some mighty evill towards when I desir'd that Florio might not fight to day Duke One word of Woman had prevented all to conceale her Sex Lorenzo was as cruell as unkinde that known she had been safe and I most happy Lorenzo I now wish that I had broke my Oath to Celestina and run all hazzards by it Duke Now I understand those her misterious vow 's so often made to me which I then took for gratitude how blinde was love rather how powerfull is thy Deity Oh love what mighty things do those by thee inspir'd produce when the weak hands of this soft sex can raise such Emulation in the bravest men and can outdoe us too in what they undertake how strangely dull was I that did not all this while by sympathetick Love her Sex discerne through this disguise Enter Alphonso with Crowne and Robes the Duke puts them on Florio as he slumbers Duke Helpe me Lorenzo to put on these Robes so now Sir you shall see that I do credit what you have said and in assurance of her love to mee here in the sight of Heav'n I take this Lady to my Wife thus she shall live or thus dye my Dutches Silviana He looks at Florio earnestly Our victory does yet so dismall show No ruine could have caus'd a greater woe My heart my heart Lorenzo shrinks away so fast that I shall fall how dull were we Silviana to think such beauty could belong to man Leanes on

dragge me did you not call him Pollnesso Titi. Yes Selin King Pollinesso Titi I think we did Selin That name is mine those wounds are mine then She offers to go to him but they hold her off Titi I wish they were Selin And so do I with all my heart pray let me go to him I can heal him with my tears I 'le suck his wounds well for I have heard wounds have been cur'd so Tene How comes his name in her mouth Teck 'T was not well done of us to name him as we did best to strangle her lest she discover us Titi. Shall I shoot her in the head though the Act be horrid 't is better she perish then all wee Teck Let us first hear what she will say to him we shall have time enough to kill her after Selin I pray who are all you Tene We are the hurt mans servants Lady pray who are you by whom we have receiv'd such dammage Selin If my Eyes deceive me not I may be happy but am yet the most miserable accurs'd Woman living Titi I think so too Aside Polli What Woman is that weeps so Tene 'T is she you rescued Sir Polli Did I rescue her losse of blood makes my Eyes dazzle and my fancy work even to a lightnesse that Face brings to my memory something that I have known why does she weep and why do you hold her so rudely Tenedor Pollidor and Selindra both look earnestly at each other Selin In charity to me Sir though they know it not for had they sooner let me know that Pollinesso liv'd my suddain joy had slain me Polli What is this she sayes Titi She is a Witch Sir I think Selin Does not my Brother know me yet have my sorrowes wrought such a change that Pollinesso should not know me Polli Oh! my Astella pardon my dull sight for I am very weak He faints Selin Would I had dyed rather then be rescued at this rate so joyful and so sad a day I have not seen before Teck He does but slumber Madam and 't is good he should do so Selin But slumber say you it looks so like death that I would dye to see it Tene Madam the Joy will out-live the sorrow of this day the Prince's hurt is without danger can your goodnesse pardon the rude words which my selfe and these Lords in our distraction speake Selin Alas my Lord I was not sensible of what you sayd my mind was so o're-loaden with my griefs and so intent on Pollinesso that I heard you not Now while my Brother takes this rest pray make me know how he escaped when my Father and Barzanes fell and why he has been thus long conceal'd Tene Madam in that sad day Pollinesso in vain attempting to save his Father was with my self and these you see here cast on a sandy bank from whence by good swimming we got to shoar and have been since disguised for fear of Lascares in several Princes Courts soliciting for aid to force the Grecians to quit their stolen possession of Hungary when in the midst of Pollinesso's preparation he hears that Phillocles had resign'd the Crown to be preserv'd for you This made us lay aside all further preparation for a Warre and thus disguis'd to passe this way to Belgrade It seems by destiny directed to your recsue Selin I shall find some fitter time for my own story 't were good that we removed my Brother he wa●kes how are you Sir has this repose refresht you Polli I am something better then I was Astella and shall soon be well now I may look on thee Selin And I most happy my brother you must give us leave to remove you to some place of rest and safety and you must be still conceal'd which these new wounds with your Perriwig will be disguise enough Polli I shall be directed by you Sel You must also a little counterfeit your voice lest you be remember'd by it for should Lascares know who were in his power all his hopes of Hungary would vanish untill he saw you dead I am call'd Selindra here Poll Who were those Robbers and how came you amongst them Selin 'T was Cleonel who did beguile me after he had sworn to carry me to Belgrade was conveying me to his own Castle Pol Was not Cecropins's son and will not his death be our ruine if we stay here Sel My interest in the Princess Ordella will secure you and his guilt was such a crime as can expect no justice from the Law to touch you besides the rescue you brought the Prince will merrit a reward but where is Phillocles where is the Prince we are all lost indeed if he be fallen I have been so much distracted that I mist him not till now Tecknor What Prince mean you Madam Selin Prince Phillocles 't was he my brother rescued runne look search about the Wood for heaven sake search unfortunate Astella and unworthy that could thus long forget him now Polliness● lives I have no hate to Phillocles methinks his vertues now look gloriously upon him but how shall I look on Ordella if her beloved brother have lost his life to save my honour Pol Was it Phillocles that I found fighting with Cleonel and his two men Selin 'T was he Polli 'T is strange I knew him not but I now remember as I came in he did persue the man that fled into the Wood let some looke that way Selindra I must glory in my wounds that have sav'd thee from false Cleonel and relieved Phillocles who my soul thirsts to see next thy self most dear to me Sel And mine trembles at his absence Enter Phillocles to them bloody and weary leaning on his Sword he calls before he is seen to Enter Phil Selindra Selindra is Selindra safe has she any mercy yet for Phillocles Selin She is safe and happy too now she sees you alive Sir my heart is so much disturb'd by my fears and joyes that I know not how to expresse she goes kindly to him my gratitude good Sir let these strangers dress your Wounds they have shewed much skill on this hurt man Phil My Wounds are but slight scratches when Selindra smiles my joyes are much more dangerous then my Wounds Selin My life Sir and my honour you have saved I must look on you with devotion pray be pleas'd to own these our Redeemers and give them some assurance of your Protection they fear Cleonel's death may by Cecropius's power with the Emperor prove their destruction Phill I will be their security Selindras Redeemers shall command my life of what Country are they Tene Hungarians Sir Men that since the late Warre have sought Fortunes in Forraign Lands and now on private Affaires were returning home Selindra brings Phillocles to Pollidor Phillo Unto you Sir I have a great Obligation such as my whole Life shall express my Zeale to serve you for by you Selindra lives Polli Sir I am rewarded much above my

for that unhappy youth She heard was drown'd endeavouring to escape Her Fathers Vengeance he unjustly vow'd Near She was mis-inform'd my Lord he yet lives 'T was by this fatall hand her brother fell And I accurs'd that have thus long surviv'd To fall a mis-becoming Sacrifice To Love by a disdainfull Ladies Eyes After so long concealment and so safe By Old Nearcus put in this disguise Bred as his Son but now I life despise And call to have that Justice on me done Which I have us'd much industry to shun Ormas You tell me wonders of a different kind Of which I shall enquire and if I find Valeriana stands ingag'd to you And all this story of your self prove True I will my best endeavors soon imploy This grosse mistake of me to rectifie Near If my addresse do find no good successe The businesse of my life shall be to dye And whether by your hand or by command From our great Queen it is the same to me The Princess must my life or death decree Ormas I shall conceal your Name untill I see I may reveal it with securitie And in few hours if my desires succeed You shall from all your doubts and fears be freed Near You will oblige me ever if you do Exit Near Ormas My hour is come to wait upon the Queen Unto Valeriana where this Newes I hope will bring me off from the first Rock By Valeriana to be thus lov'd And by Cleandra for another woo'd And by Nearcus kill'd I know not why To me is a new kind of Misterie Exit Enter Valeriana brought in very weak lying on a Couch with Physitians and Servants She speaks very faintly Valer Is not the Queen return'd to Court yet Lady No Madam Valer I wish she were my heart dissolves so fast That I do find I shall few minutes last She faints Doctor Your fancy does your weaknesse much increase This passion is the worst of your disease Enter Queen and Ormasdes she sets him to stand unseen Doctor Oh Madam you are much wish'd for here Queen Let all withdraw I must be private now Onely do you Ormasdes stand unseen How is it with my friend Val I 'm glad that you are come to close my Eyes My spirits waste so fast that I must dye Queen I hope not yet Valeriana Val A lasse Madam I had not liv'd till now But for the joy my broken heart conceives In hopes to hear Ormasdes is grown well Before I leave this World Queen 'T was the distemper of an Ague fit And he is now so farre from being sick That he without begs leave to visit you Val Me did you say to visit me Madam Will Ormasdes visit me is it so Queen Yes he 's without and does by me desire You will admit him Why are you silent Now my endeavours prosper to your wish Val Does wise Cleandra think it will be sit That I in such a passion leave this World As I shall do if I see Ormasdes I shame to think that he should see me dye Yet cannot chuse but wish it hartily Queen Shall I call him in then why do you doubt Val. Oh Madam I dare not see him must not You have said something to bring him hither Makes me fear to see him it must not be Queen Pray see him and let this great crime be mine His presence may your troubl'd heart revive Val He cannot Madam for 't is now too late I do feel here the heavy hand of Death Is crushing me to Ayre She faints in the Queens Arms. Queen Ormasdes your help she dies she dies He drawes and proffers to kill himself Ormas By all our Gods I will dye with her then Queen She lives again Ormasdes your help now He flings away his Sword and helps So let her head lye a little from us He kneels and holds her hand Ormas For Heav'n sake Madam tell what I must say Or what now must do is she not dead still Queen Does not her hand inform you that she lives Is it not warme Ormas Oh yes 't is warm but I who never dar'd Thus boldly touch a Ladies hand till now Understand not how to use it as I ought He kisses her Hand Queen There needs no other kindnesse then you shew How is it now Valeriana Val Well Madam too well I fear to last so I dare not look that way because I blush To think how I have scandaliz'd my Sex And how Ormasdes now is justified In his contempt of Women for my sake I have no power to take away my hand Yet dare not own to leave it with him longer Ormas Oh why what has Ormasdes ever done Justly to merrit this dissertion Val Pray Madam say something in my behalf Either to hide or to excuse my shame Queen Turn this way then and let your Eyes excuse That guilt which will Ormasdes disabuse They turn her Ormas She looks desperately ill Queen 'T is only weaknesse and no danger in 't Pray call her Servants and let us retire Ormas Retire you have engag'd me now so farre That I must see the Battle wonne or lost Before I can consent to a Retreat Queen 'T is late and she must sleep Ormas Why Madam so she may though I be by I 'le sit as silent as the God of sleep And here attend while her tir'd servants rest Queen You will not watch all night Ormasdes Ormas Oh but I will Madam watch night by night Till she recover This is my fixt Post Appointed by the Gods not your command Nor any force has power to take me hence While this good Sword will hold for my defence Takes up his sword Queen Why so fierce and violent Ormasdes I am much joy'd to see you thus concern'd And on this quarrel am not like to fight With such a man at Arms by Candle-light Ormas For Heav'n sake Madam pardon my rash words And disrespect unto your Majesty For I do scarce know what I say or do I am become a stranger to my self So suddainly transform'd that I would hide Me from your sight if I durst stir from hence Queen I will forgive so you 'l let me direct Your future actions I 'le your Love protect Ormas If you 'l command I gladly will obey Queen You must submit to what she does appoint Ormas Most willingly Valer sighs aloud and weeps Queen Does our discourse these sighs and tears produce Val You have said nothing that will need excuse These Tears slow from joy and gratitude To you great Queen who by this act include More pious pitty then past stories tell To make Ormasdes counterfeit so well This thought rais'd those unruly sighs you heard And Madam now it makes my soul afraid To see so great a courage thus submit To flatter me because you think it fit At your command to put on this disguise In kindnesse unto one he does despise Queen Do you then think his kindnesse counterfeit Can his great soul consent to

Valeriana Exeunt omnes Enter Nearcus Near 'T is strange I hear not of Ormasdes yet If he oblige me really I 'm his If not I shall resume my first resolves This his delay begets more jealousies Then my impatient burning heart can bear Enter Ormasdes Near Now Sir how have I prosper'd in your hands Ormas As you deserve Near How is that Ormas With much scorn rejected Near Is that my merrit in your opinion Ormas In mine as in Cleandras and in all Who have heard the ground of your false claim Which the fair Princess and her Servants tell A Treachery so base an act so foul That all do think Nearcus has no soul. Near This you dare justifie Ormas I had not dar'd to tell it else me thinks My looks might shew my businesse was to find You out and now to let you know I must Defend the Princess in a cause so just Before I knew Valerianas heart Or was at all acquainted with my own I judg'd your cause against her innocence But now inform'd the right from all I find No argument in Justice to compell Such a forc'd promise to Nearcus made Should now to Leonatus be perform'd Your jugling Arts and your disguised Name With your unworthy force ore throws your claim Near You are become a subtle Orator Since you convers'd with Ladies but I shall Your great Eloquence with this steel convince I am not to be frighted by big words We now must try the temper of our Swords Ormas We must indeed though I lament my hand Should harm a man unto the Queen aly'd Near Shall that scruple and this good Sword once more Teach you to call for help as heretofore Ormas I may change your opinion with my own Near Come then They Fight Ormasdes runs him through Disarms him Ormas Get Surgeons for Nearcus presently My hurt is slight Exit Ormasdes Enter Surgeons or Servants who carry off Nearcus Enter the Queen in Valerianas Chamber with her and attended by Old Titus Old Nearcus Lords and Ladies a full Train Queen 'T is by your good nature Valeriana That this mans evil spirit threatens us Had you reveal'd Nearcus treachery His punishment had suted with his crime Val Madam I do confesse my lenity May have imbolden'd him to higher ills Which my just complaint might have prevented But then how hard a censure should I gain By ruining so Eminent a man Who from his principles of honour fell Through love to me though I contemn'd his hopes His passion made me pitty his distresse So far as his first error to forgive In hope he might in better order live Queen You argue well and ought to justifie Your gentle disposition to forgive Mercy does a young Princess much adorn But I am bound to vindicate my self My Nation suffers if I be not just To punish crimes like this I break my trust He is the first that ever da●'d asperse The Citherean Name by such a fact As no past Chronicle can parallel I shake to think how great your danger was And how much greater might have been my shame To trust a man who values not his fame Val Let not his faults your anger higher raise The punishment he feels by ill successe Is a just doom for his unworthinesse Queen His sentence must to after times appear Lest my story be blemish'd with a thought That I did wink at such a crime as this My people will exclaim the Gods will frown If such a wickednesse unpunisht passe He must dye Valeriana his house Be burnt the ashes scatter'd in the Ayre With prayers t' appease our Citherian Gods We cannot offer a lesse Sacrifice Val For my sake let his doom be banishment If I have any favour in your Eyes Make not me guilty by that Sacrifice She kneels Queen Rise Madam you shall govern as you please Enter to them Ormasdes and Young Titus Queen Ormasdes are you hurt by that vil'd man Ormas It is too little to be call'd a wound I come now to beg Nearcus pardon 'T was I that did inforce him to this fight Val And I most wrong'd who freely do forgive Queen The wrong was done to me Valeriana I put you in his power my trust he broke My honour for your safety was ingag'd Our Nation suffers by his Villany The Citherean honour calls for Justice Against so barbarous a breach of Faith Nor was it you provok'd but were compell'd By him to fight for innocence aspers'd Ormas Madam though I shall never justifie Nearcus actions his misfortune may Admit excuse Because humane nature Is subject to passions which the best men Can never mannage as they ought how then May Valeriana's beauty guilty be That did excite Nearcus love and led Him into this distraction past his power To mannage his own heart as we think best If so 't is she has turn'd him to a Beast But when your Majesty shall call to mind The gallant service by this Mad-man done You will then pitty his Distraction Enter to them Nearcus brought in a Chair Queen What means this boldnesse Near Madam I come not to beg your pardon But to justifie my actions and my self Against Ormasdes who does now with-hold Valeriana my betroathed Wife Confirm'd by vows in presence of the Gods Queen Now Ormasdes is he fit for pardon Ormas Yes Madam as a distracted person Near Why do you wrong my person and my cause To call my just Title a distraction Do me Justice Cleandra or give me Death Queen You may have both your wishes in good time Cleobulus guard him to the Castle Val Pray Madam let his doom be banishment Because his Crime went not beyond intent Queen Madam he must thank you for his life then Cleobulus see him a close prisoner Untill his wounds permit his Banishment Near I do your proffer'd mercies all refuse And either Death or Valeriana chuse Queen Lead him to banishment make him obey Near Hold a little Cleandra look this way T is Leonatus calls he who at foyles The young Prince your Brother slew And fled your Fathers rage untill his death Then shelter'd by this borrow'd Name return'd And in Nearcus Family secur'd By this disguise liv'd as his only Son Who dyed as I return'd is it death yet Queen No this insolence shall not change your doom Nor your confest disguise long known to me Force a punishment beyond the merrit Of that sad mishap which I believe Was fatall accident no purpos'd crime Though my Father look'd on his onely Son By your hand slain with such revenging rage As might his losse become and him ingage To throw out vowes that Justice should persue So great a Traytor as he then thought you For your succession after me became His fancies object which encreas'd your blame But I who have exactly been inform'd Of my dead Brothers love and yours now must For that sad accident to you be just Near I 'le rather quit my innocence then own Your mercy when you Justice do

deny Give me the fair Princesse or give me death Queen I cannot with Justice give you either How can I a free Princes will compell Or how Ormasdes true pretence deny Or how afford you death for that offence Which your unluckie hand did act by chance Near Would I had dyed the day of my return Since great Cleandra dares not do me Right But suffers false Ormasdes to possesse What is my due I all your mercy scorn And will the worst of Tyranny endure Queen I have imploy'd you as my Brothers friend Thus long not at his Murtherer conniv'd And untill now by force compell'd my face To frequent smiles in favour of your worth While my heart ak'd to think what you had done But you of late unworthy our great Name Have scandaliz'd the Citherean Fame Boldly to own a Crime so great as may insence The World to question your first innosence Which clearly shewes you are for mischief built That dar'd to entertain so base a guilt My mercy may prove sin unlesse betimes My Justice do prevent your farther crimes Near. Must I be held and baited thus to death Be torn and tortur'd by a Womans breath Queen See my Command obey'd Cleobulus I shall take order for an Equipage Fit for your great and shall now confine You to an Island near from whence you may Return if you out-live me and mine Remove him hence Ne Hold a while curse on curse light on you all For this unjustice which you mercy call Tyrants cruel Tyrants your jugling Art Lay by and strike a Dagger through my heart If Ormasdes any honour have in store He 'l fight another bout upon the Shore As I take ship and if I chance to Dye My soul shall then applaud thy Victory And sing thy praise to the infernal Ghosts That they may chuse thee Captain of their Hosts When thou com'st down Let not a Ladies word Destroy by piercing deeper then thy sword Will you not answer cruel and unjust Ye Gods why put you Scepters into Womens trust Who crushes me to raise a Cowards Name Whom I will in the Elizium fields Defame No honor'd Ghost of Troy shall there own thee The Grecian and the Roman Souls with me Will trample on thy Cowards neck with scorn Poor shadow of a gallant man only born To lye in Ladies laps perfum'd and curl'd I 'le Poste thee Coward in the other World They force him away on the Queens back with her Hand Adm T is strange that none of us should know him Y. Tit The general opinion he was drown'd Made us not see through his disguise Admir But his strange passion does amaze me most Ormasdes wedding will his frenzy cure When love does see no possibility Desires and hopes will vanish by degrees Y. Tit We see dispairs work often other wayes Queen He has disturb'd me but I 'le forget him Valeriana come let us consult The Ceremony of your Wedding-day Ormasdes joyes and yours will blow away The farther thought of Leonatus crimes Val Our Wedding Madam I see no reason For so great a haste now we are secure Or Madam since you have rais'd my hopes so high It were a sinne to doubt my destiny Yet say when shall my thoughts so fixt remain That I may never think I dream again Val Ormasdes not too fast we must proceed With much discretion to so great a deed The Eyes of all this Nation do behold Our actions and may think my part too bold If I again shall do what I repent It would deserve a double punishment My over-hasty Love was once my crime I must redeem that fault by taking time To finish what so violent begun Lest into greater errors I do run A year or two's delay will adde much grace To our young Love which Time cannot deface Ormas Why have you led me forth with gentle gales Into this dangerous deep why fill'd my Sails With such propitious winds us would convey Me safe to my wish'd Port the nearest way Why do you now abstruct this happy course As if you wish'd for storms or something worse Why thus forsake the Light to sailith● dark As if you sought out hazzards for this Bark In which you are the onely fraight that I Can fear to loose by my mortality Oh! do not then my Joyes to time betray Lest you do ruine all by your delay Queen How Valeriana must this Scene of Love Fall from its height and now no farther move Does your quick conquest of Ormasdes make Him lesse worthy when we such pris'ners take As might our selves command if they will serve We cannot give them more then they deserve Consider well lest you your self destroy If thus you do deferre Ormasdes joy Val Madam you and the World too well do know My love to him can now no higher grow I onely thus stand off lest he despise A conquest gain'd without an enterprize And that by injur'd Sex hereafter may Judge of my innocence by this delay Honour forbids that we in haste ingage Rash actions often ill events presage Though I like a tall Ship that spreads her sails When she is carried on with prosperous gales To her wish'd Port do sigh to be delay'd And blame the Remora by which I 'm staid Ormas Honour and fancy at great distance stand You have no argument for this command But your own nice unnecessary thought By which your Virtue may become a fault T is true that my neglects to Woman kind May urge that I should now no favour find Till my whole life be spent to gain a bliss To crown my latests hours with joyes like this I do confesse such judgment were my due From all the women in the World but you Who have no argument nor a pretence Why you should prove the Rod for my offence Val Ormasdes true I only now would prove By some short time the temper of your Love And shew the World that mine was not in hast Though its first motion mov'd so fierce and fast It makes me blush to think that this great Queen And her whole Nation have such weaknesse seen As all commanding Love forc'd me to show Oh! 't is a bold attempt when Women wooe Ormas What ere the vulgar think great Princes may The dictates of their greater souls obey 'T is a self-doubting sin when you alone Dare not avow what Gods and men do own Queen These cautious wayes are onely fit for such As have suspected virtues you are much Above the reach of Censures 't was I That woo'd him first mine be the infamy Who boast the active part with the successe And would not for the World it had been lesse It does become me now to see your hands United as your hearts If my commands Be slighted and my self not understood When I require what 's for your mutuall good I shall repent the kindnesse I have shown And wish you never had Ormasdes known Val Madam when you command I must submit But will Ormasdes