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The famous tragedy of Osmond the great Turk, otherwise called the noble servant written by Lodowick Carlell, Gent.
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Carlell, Lodowick, 1602?-1675.
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1657
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Wing C579; ESTC R7498
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cause but would grieve something deal freely would it not move you ha if so then thinke what I now suffer who heaven knowes did love this Lady as my sister 2. Sol. Sir we grieve with you and wish the Emperour had not bin so cruell Osm Thanks soldiers but where wishes faile we must apply our reason to ease our griefe My ease alone consists in shedding his heart blood That gain'd and then destroyd earths cheefest good Exeunt Enter Ozaca Oza Shall I rejoyce or shall I grieve my present fortune rejoyce most certainly though all difficultie and danger attend my love for my Orcanes is a Prince so excellent in all that though I ne'ere againe enjoy him yet am 〈◊〉 happy but his affection sure which seem'd to equall mine will make him study some way how we againe may meet but soft here comes my husband with a joyfull Countenance Enter Callibeus Calli. My deere Ozaca I bring ease to thy vext soul I had bin here long since but that the Emperours expresse command upon affaires with held me and far too happy was the newes for any other but my selfe to bring kneele down with me and pray the Gods to prosper long Melco•hus Oza Why Sir what 's the occasion speak I pray you Calli. I knew his justice could not slacke what er'e he emd Oza What justice speak oh my feares Calli. The Prince Oza Speake what of him Calli. The lustfull Prince my deere Ozaca hath by his blood washt cleane thy staine Oza Ha. Shee Sownds Calli. Ozaca my Ozaca oh speake the joy of her revenge overcomes her know my deer wife the Prince Orcanes for his foule rape on thee is by his noble father justly put to death oh praise Melcoshus in thy soul who would not be unjust to save his son being a villaine Oza Is the Prince dead then Calli. I my best love to my great comfort now I may kisse thee joyfully the wound thy honour did receive is cur'd Oz. Forbear I must not kisse you till I know by whom the cure was wrought if any other then your selfe inform'd against O•canes and so provok'd the father to kill his son nay if you did not extoll justice and cry down mercy quite though it be the greatest attribute belonging to the gods hope not that I should ever look on you with love or come within your bed Cal. Thinks my Ozaca I so little love her that I did sleep in my revenge How often did I urge unto Melcoshus all arguments that might incense him against his son nay told him as I well might do O•canes could not be his Offspring that had so basely given himselfe to vice However I alledg'd in putting him to death he should perform a justice that would make him famous through the world since naturall affection the gods appointing him to hold the ballance could not yet weigh down justice Oz. Did you alledge all this and did this move him to put the Prince to death Cal. It did Me thinks thou lookst not kindly on me for all this Oz. And shall I live after Orcanes No Cal. What saies Ozaca Oz. Nothing but is he dead dead certainly and by your means Cal. He is Oz. Umh umh gone for ever gone Cal. Ozaca speak to me Oz. He died to save my honour and shall I live behinde him and live with him too that triumphs in his death It must not it shall not be I am too far indebted I 'l first make eeven with some Oh husband if you had kill'd Orcanes your selfe then the revenge had stood more noble You should stabs her husband and her selfe have struck him thus and thus Cal. Ozaca Oz. And then your selfe to escape shamefull death Cal. What can this cruelty in thee Ozaca mean Oz. Know thou dull beast I was so far from being forc'd that I did burn in a more ardent flame then he Yet had thy jealous brain not taught thee to frame that Letter for thine own dishonour I had been innocent in act perhaps how ere my will had horn'd thee But having once enjoyed a Prince so perfect I never would admit thy loathed embraces and so have rather chose death with revenge on thee too boot who wert the cause Orcanes suffered death Being thus divorc'd from thee I hope I in Elizeum shall enjoy him Enter Servants Cal. Help ho help ho I finde that this is truth my wounds are witnesse and that there is no trusting womens tears I durst have sworn thee more innocent than now I see thee wicked yet however live and repent thy sins for I can forgive thee nay perchance never cease to love thee Oz. D•ll fool canst thou believe my resolutions are so weak as for the fear and pain of death to give them over lesse for the love of thee wer 't thou the Monarch of the whole world I would not live after Orcanes to be the partner of thy glories but as it is this knife is far more welcome to me than thy sight flie my soul flie and leave this loathed prison to meet Orcanes. So so let this witnesse I for thee die Orcanes and hope I have revenged thee dies Cal My wound is far more dangerous than I thought and I for ought I know may bear thee company but we shall soon part waies if there be any justice in the gods I would live bear me to my chamber and for that wicked woman one my wife let her be buried honourably Exeunt servant with him Enter Melcoshus Mel Night dark thoughts and justly so since by my cruelties obscured that light which was my only comfort Oh Despina pardon me most penitent and now no more afflict me in my dreams if thou beest mercifull I will erect an Altar in this obscure Walk and in the dead of night offer thee sacrifice nay even at noon day would I perform it and in the sight of all but that I know it must appear too plainly that I to thee performed all rites with greater reverence than to our sacred prophet and so the people might rebell for fear of which and losse of my neere-fading honour I did become thy cruell butcher Bear me cold earth till I have some way reconciled my selfe to my dear saint Enter Haly and Captains Hal. Are they come over 1. Cap. They are How are we sure hee 's here now Hal. 'T is not so dark but we shall finde him stand close a little perchance he 's not come down yet Enter Osmond Osm You just powers be this night auspicious in aiding my revenge guide you this instrument as right unto his tyrant heart as I will give it strength to pierce it but soft by the Moons light I see some men before me what can it mean 't is death for any but Melcoshus to enter here 'T would grieve my soul to die and misse revenge too Behinde this bush unseen I shall observe Mel. Oh my Despina Hal. Hee 's in the Arbour I heard him groan let 's lose no time but
justice makes thee bleed to cure it Orc. I hope you will not be so cruell for an offence like this committed through the heat of youth since you your selfe even at these yeares adde to Love's triumphs Mel. Degenerate bastard canst thou hope that an excuse like this will passe with me for currant who still hath bin a severe punisher of unjust acts it seldome hath bin known that such a wrong was e're appeas'd but with the offenders blood or else the partiall judge within whose power it was to punish he hath paid for 't or if they could escape the hands of men yet sure the gods will find them out and I that doe intend to be a punisher even of my selfe for my least follies dare not suffer lest I offend against heaven thy heinous crimes to pass unscourg'd and therefore marke thy sentence Orc. O Sir Remember who I am Mel. Whilst thou wast what thou oughtst to be thou needst not bid me to remember that thou wert my son but since thou art become a stranger to that noblenesse that should accompany thy birth like a corrupted branch I le cut thee from the stock lest I for my injustice by the justice of the heavens should perish with thee nor shall my subjects be a loser in it one of more vertue shal succeed me that wil not ravish women Orc. Sir I am miserable and must implore your mercy for in your eyes I read my death or something neere it oh speak then your tongue cannot pronounce like crueltie Mel. I find I am a father and if I hear him longer pittie will overthrow my justice and therefore I pronounce Orc. Oh hold what Sir my death or banishment I have bin all my life untill this present hour your hopefull son for so you oft have call'd me your heir and shall I now inherit nought but death or else a thousand deaths in being banisht from your presence which of the two to wish I know not Mel. Oh that I might lay by the office of a judge or else put off the nature of a father for I in this distraction suffer more then he can doe in death even injur'd Callibeus selfe would be content with a lesse punishment and the severest powers of heaven will call me cruell in execution of what I intend rather then partial since he is my son Orc. Oh speak not Sir if you intend my death rather by signes make me know Melchoshus stamps with his foot my doome t will be lesse cruell Mel. In this behold it then Enter Mutes Orc. Nay then Ozaca either thy honour or my life is forfeit these tongue-lesse men do yet pronounce my death certain as fate I see my end Sir but what the passage to it is I know not Mel. A darke passage trust me thou must have but longer much then thou expectest thou shalt not die Orc. Not die her honor 's safe prison or banishment I will endure Mel. These eyes the causes of thy ill least they againe betray thee shall for ever loose their light Orc. Is that your mercy rather take my life Mel. If thou hadst bin a private man thou should'st have died but being a Prince and my son this is more just and naturall however for the present thou think'st is greater crueltie for thou shalt live by sorrow to appease our Prophet Orc. Oh Sir your mercy reaches to the highest poynt of crueltie 't were better not to be at all then not have the comfort of the light what can life profit me a Prince if made uncapable of goverment Mel. Dispatch it is decreed They put out one eye Orc. Hold heare me sir I have indur'd enough to shew I prise Ozaca's honour one eye is lost Sir I have belied my selfe for know Ozaca was more willing to meet my wisht imbraces then I to offer them Mel. Now I repent my pittie thou wretch made up of basenesse wouldst thou to save that other wicked eye increase the villianies thou didst commit against Ozaca thou only didst before defile her person now thou dost murther her and her husband both alive but I in their behalfe and justice pronounce thy death for shouldst thou live thou wouldst infect the world with basenesse yet unheard of bear him from my sight and strangle him lest as I am a Father Pittie confound my Justice Orc. By Mahomet Sir father hear me Mel. Away with him the feare of death would make him heap more perjuries upon his soul A Prince that for the losse of sight dares lie Deserves death here hereafter infamie Exeunt Finis Actûs quarti Actus quintus Enter Haly Odmer Hosa and Captains Hal. ODmer you that have all the favours of the time can surely tell if you will honour us so much for what great cause it is that we and all the Captains are commanded to assemble here Odm. Great Haly who thinks all not done by him ill done and who envies the smallest grace that any other shall receive though their deserts perhaps may equall his can even as well informe himselfe he thinks as Odmer can and out of scorn does onely aske the question but know my Polititian that ere long you 'l find some alteration that you dreame not of Hoboyes Enter Melchoshus and Despina Haly. Odmer is this your change you talke of Odm. Why Haly in his eyes you may read something if you 'l observe not usuall I have not seen him looke like himselfe since he forsooke Mars to become the slave of Venus Mel. I hear that there are some amongst you that dare take upon them to maligne my pleasures and taxe me for my easie life alleadging that I have forgot the duty of the gods paying all my devotions to this Saint nay some have gone so far as to affirme I have given ore to be a King making my selfe my captives slave and so deserve no longer to beare Rule Although I need not make Apologies for none can call me to account but heaven yet I le so far discend from that high pitch of Majesty whereon I am seated as in familiar termes to question with you and by the honour of a King which I have yet kept pure from stain however some have by their divellish cunning striven to blot it I le give you liberty to answer in what I shall aske you with as much freedome as if you were all Kings or I your fellow subject 1. Cap. What can this meane Haly. I know not what will follow but well I understand what 's past and will prevent him since he hath found me out I shall be caught in mine own snare else Mel. Tell me and tell me truely which of you that had a beauty like to this but sometimes would to enjoy her company neglect our greatest businesse view her well for I le make no description onely let me advise you fix not your eyes at first upon her eyes if it be possible least their brightnesse should strike you blind before you had observ'd her