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Tyrannick love, or, The royal martyr a tragedy, as it is acted by His Majesties servants, at the Theatre Royal / by John Dryden ...
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
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may'st thou live thy thousand years in peace And see thy AEry progeny increase So may'st thou still continue young and fair Fed by the blast of pure AEtherial Air. And thy full term expir'd without all pain Dissolve into thy Astral source again Dam. Name not my hated Rival Gemory And I 'le speak true whate're thy questions be Nig. Thy Rivals hated name I will refrain Speak shall the Emperour his love obtain Dam. Few hours shall pass before your Emperour shall be Possess'd of that he loves or from that love be free Placid Shall I enjoy that Beauty I adore Dam. She Suppliant-like e're long thy succour shall implore And thou with her thou lov'st in happiness may'st live If she not dies before who all thy joys can give Nig. Say what does the AEgyptian Princess now Dam. A gentle slumber sits upon her brow Nig. Go stand before her in a golden dream Set all the pleasures of the world to show And in vain joys let her loose spirit flow Dam. Twice fifty Tents remove her from your sight But I 'll cut through e'm all with rays of light And covering other objects to your eyes Show where intranc'd in silent sleep she lies Damilcar stamps and the Bed arises with S. Catharine in it Dam. singing You pleasing dreams of Love and sweet delight Appear before this slumbring Virgins sight Soft visions set her free From mournful piety Let her sad thoughts from Heav'n retire And let the Melancholy Love Of those remoter joys above Give place to your more sprightly fire Let purling streams be in her fancy seen And flowry Meads and Vales of chearful green And in the midst of deathless Groves Soft sighing wishes ly And smiling hopes fast by And just beyond e'm ever laughing Loves A Scene of a Paradise is discovered Placid Some pleasing objects do her mind employ For on her face I read a wandring Joy SONG Dam. Ah how sweet it is to love Ah how gay is young desire And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Loves fire Pains of Love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are Sighs which are from Lovers blown Do but gently heave the Heart Ev'n the tears they shed alone Cure like trickling Balm their smart Lovers when they lose their breath Bleed away in easie death Love and Time with reverence use Treat 'em like a parting friend Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send For each year their price is more And they less simple than before Love like Spring-tides full and high Swells in every youthful vein But each Tide does less supply Till they quite shrink in again If a flow in Age appear 'T is but rain and runs not clear At the end of the Song a Dance of Spirits After which Amariel the Guardian-Angel of S. Catharine descends to soft Musick with a flaming Sword The Spirits crawl off the Stage amazedly and Damilcar runs to a corner of it Amar. From the bright Empire of Eternal day Where waiting minds for Heav'ns Commission stay Amariel flies a darted Mandate came From that great will which moves this mighty Frame Bid me to thee my Royal charge repair To guard thee from the Daemons of the Air My flaming Sword above 'em to display All keen and ground upon the edge of day The flat to sweep the Visions from thy mind The edge to cut 'em through that stay behind Vain Spirits you that shunning Heav'ns high noon Swarm here beneath the concave of the Moon What folly or what rage your duty blinds To violate the sleep of holy minds Hence to the task assign'd you here below Upon the Ocean make loud Tempests blow Into the wombs of hollow Clouds repair And crush out Thunder from the bladder'd Air. From pointed Sun-beams take the Mists they drew And scatter 'em again in pearly dew And of the bigger drops they drain below Some mould in Hail and others stamp in Snow Dam. Mercy bright Spirit I already feel The piercing edge of thy immortal steel Thou Prince of day from Elements Art free And I all body when compar'd to thee Thou tread'st th' Abyss of light And where it streams with open eyes canst go We wander in the Fields of Air below Changlings and Fooles of Heav'n and thence shut out Wildly we roam in discontent about Gross-heavy-fed next man in ignorance and sin And spotted all without and dusky all within Without thy Sword I perish by thy sight I reel and stagger and am drunk with light Ama. If e're again thou on this place art found Full fifty years I 'le chain thee under ground The damps of Earth shall be thy daily food All swoln and bloated like a dungeon toad And when thou shalt be freed yet thou shalt ly Gasping upon the ground too faint to fly And lag below thy fellows in the sky Dam. O pardon pardon this accursed deed And I no more on Magick fumes will feed Which drew me hither by their pow'rful steams Ama. to S. Cath. Go expiate thy guilt in holy dreams Ex. Dam. But thou sweet Saint henceforth disturb'd no more With dreams not thine thy thoughts to Heav'n restore The Angel ascends and the Scene shuts Nig. Some holy Being does invade this place And from their duty does my Spirits chase I dare no longer near it make abode No Charms prevail against the Christians God Exit Placid How doubtfully these Specters Fate foretell In double sense and twi-light truth they dwell Like sawning Courtiers for success they wait And then come smiling and declare for Fate Enter Maximin and Porphyrius attended by Valerius and Guards But see the Tyrant and my Rival come I like the Fiends will flatter in his doom None but a Fool distastful truth will tell So it be new and please 't is full as well Placid whispers with the Emperour who seems pleas'd Max. You charm me with your news which I 'le reward By hopes we are for coming joys prepar'd Possess her Love or from that Love be free Heav'n speaks me fair if she as kind can prove I shall possess but never quit my Love Go tell me when she wakes Exit Placidius Porphyrius seems to beg something of him Porphyrius no She has refus'd and I will keep my vow Por. For your own sake your cruel vow defer The time 's unsafe your Enemies are near And to displease your men when they should fight Max. My looks alone my Enemies will fright And o're my men I 'le set my careful Spies To watch Rebellion in their very eyes No more I cannot bear the least reply Por. Yet Tyrant thou shalt perish e're she dye Aside Enter Valeria Valeria here how Fortune treats me still With various harms magnificently ill Max. Valeria I was sending to your Tent To Valeria But my Commands your presence does prevent This is the hour wherein the Priest shall joyn Your holy Loves and make Porphyrius mine Val. aside Now hold my Heart and Venus I implore Be Judge
if she he loves deserves him more Por. aside Past hope and all in vain I would preserve My life not for my self but her I serve Val. I come great Sir your justice to demand To the Emp. Max. You cannot doubt it from a Fathers hand Por. Sir I confess before her Suit be known And by my self condemn'd my crime I own I have refus'd Val. Peace peace while I confess I have refus'd thee for unworthiness Por. I am amaz'd Max. What Riddles do you use Dare either of you my Commands refuse Val. Yes I dare owne how e're 't was wisely done T' adopt so mean a person for your Son So low you should not for your Daughter chuse And therefore Sir this Marriage I refuse Max. You lik'd the choice when first I thought it fit Val. I had not then enough consider'd it Max. And you have now consider'd it too much Secrets of Empire are not safe to touch Por. Let not your mighty anger rise too high 'T is not Valeria merits it but I. My own unworthiness so well I knew That from her Love I consciosly withdrew Val. Thus rather than endure the little shame To be refus'd you blast a Virgins name You to refuse and I to be deny'd Learn more discretion or be taught less pride Por. O Heav'n in what a Labyrinth am I led I could get out but she detains the thred Now I must wander on till I can see Whether her pity or revenge it be Aside Max. With what childs anger do you think you play I 'le punish both if either disobey Val. Since all the fault was mine I am content Perphyrius should not share the punishment Por. Blind that I was till now that could not see 'T was all th' effect of generosity She loves me ev'n to suffer for my sake And on her self would my refusal take Aside Max. Children to serve their Parents int'rest live To Val. Take heed what doom against your self you give Por. Since she must suffer if I do not speak 'T is time the Laws of Decency to break She told me Sir that she your choice approv'd And though I blush to owne it said she lov'd Lov'd me desertless who with shame confest Another flame had seiz'd upon my brest Which when too late the generous Princess knew And fear'd your justice would my crime pursue Upon her self she makes the Tempest fall And my refusal her contempt would call Val. He raves Sir and to cover my disdain Unhandsomly would his denial feign And all means failing him at last would try T' usurp the credit of a scorn and dye But let him live his punishment shall be The grief his pride will bring for losing me Max. You both obnoxious to my justice are And Daughter you have not deserv'd my care 'T is my Command you strictly guarded be Till your fantastick quarrel you agree Por. Sir Max. I 'le not hear you speak her crime is plain She owns her pride which you perhaps my feign She shall be Prisoner till she bend her mind To that which is for both of you design'd Val. You 'l find it hard my free-born will to bound Max. I 'le find that pow'r o're wills which Heav'n ne're found Free will 's a cheat in any one but me In all but Kings 't is willing slavery An unseen Fate which forces the desire The will of Puppets danc'd upon a wyre A Monarch is The Spirit of the World in every mind He may match Wolves to Lambs and make it kind Mine is the business of your little Fates And though you war like petty wrangling States You 're in my hand and when I bid you cease You shall be crush'd together into peace Val. aside Thus by the world my courage will be priz'd Seeming to scorn who am alas despis'd Dying for Love's fulfilling Honour's Laws A secret Martyr while I owne no cause Exeunt Porphyrius and Valeria severally To Maximin enter S. Catharine S. Cath. I come not now as Captive to your pow'r To beg but as high Heav'ns Embassadour The Laws of my Religion to fulfill Heav'n sends me to return you good for ill Your Empress to your Love I would restore And to your mind the peace it had before Max. While in anothers name you Peace declare Princess you in your own proclaim a War Your too great pow'r does your design oppose You make those breaches which you strive to close S. Cath. That little beauty which too much you prize Seeks not to move your heart or draw your eyes Your Love to Berenice is due alone Love like that pow'r which I adore is one When fixt to one it safe at Anchor rides And dares the fury of the winds and tides But losing once that hold to the wide Ocean born It drives away at will to every wave a scorn Max. If to new persons I my Love apply The Stars and Nature are in fault not I My Loves are like my old Praetorian Bands Whose Arbitrary pow'r their Prince commands I can no more make passion come or go Than you can bid your Nilus ebb or flow ` T is lawless and will love and where it list And that 's no sin which no man can resist Those who impute it to me as a crime Would make a God of me before my time S. Cath. A God indeed after the Roman style An Eagle mounting from a kindled Pile But you may make your self a God below For Kings who rule their own desires are so You roam about and never are at rest By new desires that is new torments still possest Qualmish and loathing all you had before Yet with a sickly appetite to more As in a fev'rish dream you still drink on And wonder why your thirst is never gone Love like a ghostly Vision haunts your mind 'T is still before you what you left behind Max. How can I help those faults which Nature made My appetite is sickly and decay'd And you forbid me change the sick mans ease Who cannot cure must humour his disease S. Cath. Your mind should first the remedy begin You seek without the Cure that is within The vain experiments you make each day To find content still finding it decay Without attempting more should let you see That you have sought it where it ne're could be But when you place your joys on things above You fix the wand'ring Planet of your Love Thence you may see Poor humane kind all daz'd in open day Erre after bliss and blindly miss their way The greatest happiness a Prince can know Is to love Heav'n above do good below To them Berenice and Attendants Ber. That happiness may Berenice find Leaving these empty joys of Earth behind And this frail Being where so short a while Th' unfortunate lament and prosp'rous smile Yet a few days and those which now appear In youth and beauty like the blooming year In life's swift Scene shall change and cares shall come And heavy age and death's relentless doom S. Cath.