great And when I go t' injoy Her Sacred Charms VVhat though I quit the VVorld in those dear Arms Oh with what glory will th' exchange be given VVhen I shall Lose Earth only and find Heaven Exit Cesa ACT III. SCENE I. Enter King Ferdinand Oswell Guards and Attendants King GOne 't is impossible they should escape Osw. We 've searcht o'er all the Court but 't was in vain Cesario and Urania in the Night Fled from the Palace but which way they took Not all our care can learn Ferd. Curses pursue him Some Whirlwind snatch him up and on the back Of his Rough Wings transport the wandering Ravisher And Drop his Cursed Head into the Sea Or land him in some cold remote wild Desart There to inhabit amongst Brutes and Savages O' th' two the Innocenter Beasts of Prey King My Lord it is not Rage can help us now But e'er they are fled too far make swift pursuit Leave not a Corner of my Realm unsearcht Prepare me Men and Horse immediately I 'll after 'em my self Ferd. Most Royal Sir See at your Feet an Injur'd Prince thus kneels And begs that trust may be repos'd in him King Thy Suit is granted Haste delay not then Bring him alive or dead I care not which O that I cou'd Command a flash of Lightning Or usurp one minute the Prerogative of Death That I might shoot ruin as sudden on 'em As Waters fall from Mountains but away There is no danger now like our delay Ex. King Attendants Ex. Omn. Scene A Wood. Enter Cesario and Urania disguised Cesa Come my Souls Joy let not such painted griefs Press down thy Spirits the darkness but presents Shadows of fear for it is that secures us From dangerous pursuit Ura. Wou'd it were day My apprehension is so full of horrour I think each found the airs light motion makes To be my Father threatning our ruins With all the storm of his impending Vengeance Cesa Fear not that thunder blast whose Bolts too far to reach us Wrapt in the Arms of Night that favours Lovers We hitherto have scaped his eager search Ura. But when will it be day the light has comfort Our first of useful sences being lost The rest are less delighted Cesa The early Cock Has sung his Summons to the days approach 'T will instantly appear why starts my Love Ura. Heard you no sound Cesa Sound Ura. Some amazing sound Pray listen Cesa 'T is thy fear suggests Illusive fancies Under Loves protection We may presume of safety but retire And under yon kind Tree repose a while Ex. Enter four Banditti 1 Band. Well my dear Comrades of the Pad prithee how Long have we Brother Rogues hung in a knot together 2 Band. Hung together hum I don't like that word hanging But if you mean how long we have fairly robb'd together 1 Band. Robb'd pox that 's as bad as t'other Give it a genteeler Name for shame since we Four Noble Captains Sons of Thunder And Brothers of Mercury have been planted In the Post of Honour and given the Words of Command Stand and deliver 2 Band. I this is something like 3 Band. 'T is let me see some five Summers And almost as many Winters 1 Band. And in all that time I have been musing And hammering to find out whether the Mystery of Thieving Be an Art or a Science 3 Band. Oh fie fie a Science most certain and a Liberal Science too for the People give all and we take all Omnes Ay Ay A Liberal Science A Liberal Science 1 Band. But come Less Prattle and more Business For if these Eves-Droppers of mine have not damnably deceived me Here must be Game abroad I 'm certain I heard talking hard by and if the Devil does not play booty We shall have a Prize quickly 3 Band. Say you so hush then and sculk They retire to the side of the Stage Re-enter Cesario and Urania Uran. Sure my Cesario this is more than Fancy Did you not hear some talk Cesar. These must be Robbers No matter I 've a Sword ne'er fail'd me yet Though I 'd not stain it with the Blood of Villains 2 Band. I think I have you Sir Lays hold on Ces. left Arm. Cesar. Thy Death thou hast Cesario Runs him through But there 's yet more to do e'er I am ta'en They fight off Band. give way Uran. My Lord Cesario whither do you run Come back and shun by flight the Villains Swords He 's lost he 's lost what will become of me Whether Oh! whether which way shall I take Ex. confusedly at the wrong Door Re-enter Cesario bloody his Sword drawn Cesar. Urania my Love my Life where art thou My Soul speak to me 't is Cesario calls By Heavens I fear she has forsook the place And wanders in the dark to find me out Oh! I could rave but see the Day appears Blest Lamp of Heaven lead lead me to Urania With thy kind rising Beams guide me once more To those dear Eyes thy Sister-Twins of Light Or shrowd me Gods in Everlasting Night Ex. Ces. Scene changes to another Part of the Wood. Enter Urania Uran. The Day begins to break and trembling Light As if affrighted with this Night's Disaster Steals through the farthest Air and by degrees Salutes my weary Longings yet 't is welcome Though it betray me to the worst of Fate Love and Desire e'er suffer'd Oh Cesario Thy wisht for Presence wou'd have checkt these Passions And shot Delight through all the Mists of Sadness But thou art lost and all my Joys are fled Ne'er to return without thee Enter First and Third Banditti 1 Band. Have we found you Seize her Fabrichio our Companion 's Blood Shed by your Hero you shall now atone for Drag her along and tye her to yon' Tree Where we by turns will quench our furious Appetites Uran. Kill me Oh! kill me rather let me dye Than live to see the Jewel that adorns The Souls of vertuous Virgins ravisht from me Do not add Sin to Sin and at a Price That ruines me and not enriches you Purchase Damnation Do not do not do 't Sheath here your Swords and my departing Soul Like your good Angel shall sollicite Heaven To dash out your Offences See here 's Gold and Jewels Take all nay had I more you should command But do not stain my Vertue 3 Band. Ay this is something I love a Lass that pays well for her Pleasure Come let 's stop her Mouth I long till we 're aboard her Uran. Help Murder Murder a Rape Ex. Band. dragging Uran. Enter Cesario Cesar. For ever gone yet I am still alive Unpitying Gods why have you snatcht her from me Uran. within Help Help a Rape 3 Band. Stop her Mouth Cesar. Ha! do I dream or was 't Urania's Voice Uran. within Help Murder a Rape Cesar. Help to that Fair distrest quick let me fly Not a departing Soul wou'd mount with half the Wings To reach his Heaven as I to rescue mine Ex.
hastily The Scene draws and discovers Urania ty'd to a Tree by the Hair the Banditti's on each side of her Uran. Yet yet be merciful and take my Life Oh barbarous Men how can you be thus cruel 3 Band. Barbarous d'ye call us nay if this be cruel We 'll try a kinder way of Love to please you Uran. Dear Sir if ever Vertue Mercy Pity dwelt in your noble Breast 1 Band. If ever Passion and warm Desire Dwelt in my boyling Veins I love thee Uran. Is this Love 1 Band. No but though this be not We 'll shew thee what it is before we part Enter Cesario with his Sword drawn he drives 'em off Cesar. Dogs Blood-hounds Cannibals Death do you fly Your Crimes so heavy and your Heels so light Stay Satyrs stay you vanishing Furies stay And take your dear Damnation e'er you go Unbinds Uran Uran. My kind Cesario this is double Joy To be preserv'd and hold thee in my Arms. Cesar. Yes in thy Arms thy blest Cesario lives Thy dear thy soft thy charming and I hope Thy unpolluted Arms for say my Soul Art thou unspotted still as if there be Those Guardian-Gods that succour Vertue sure Heaven has not suffer'd those infernal Monsters To rifle this dear Casket of Divinity Uran. I am yet spotless thank your happy self My lovely Champion whose delivering Hand Has freed my darling Honour Cesar. I believe thee For thou' rt all Truth the Innocence on that Face Says thou art chaste the guilty cannot speak So heavenly as thou dost Enter Tachmas in the Habit of a Hermet Tach. What mournful Pair is this whose very Looks Inform me they are loaden with Misfortunes Ha! 't is Cesario by my Wrongs my Brother Oh Alphonzo Oh thou most barbarous King By Heaven I find more Gratitude 'mong Beasts Than ever dwelt within the Court of Naples The Blessings of the Day upon you both Uran. We thank you Reverend Father and if Pity E'er dwelt within your Breast Ah shew it now Shew it to us the most unhappy Pair That e'er were punisht by offended Heaven Tach. Who e'er you are you look indeed most wretched And Charity obliges me to help you Under yon' Mountain in the Earths deep Hollow I have a Cell please you to walk that way What Comforts that can yield you shall command Ces. Eternal Blessings crown you for this Goodness Come my dear Saint let 's to this Hermet's Cell And take that Refuge his poor Mansion yields None can fear Danger where Religion shields Ex. Omnes The Scene changes to the Palace Enter King attended King No Tydings yet no News from Ferdinand Curses and Plagues pursue this pair of Monsters Sink sink 'em in a Whirlpool of Confusion If they are fled by Land gape gape thou Earth And take into thy Womb the stinging Vipers But if by Sea if they that way 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blow Winds and raise ah Everlasting storm Till you have laid 'em in a Wat'ry Grave Attend. My Liege they may be found King They may they shall Not the deep Center of the Earth shall hide ' em Nay were they guarded by a band of Furies And kept secure in the Infernal Court I wou'd my self Assault the brazen Gates And in dispight of Hell compleat my Vengeance Attend. Do not torment your self great Sir with passion All care imaginable's ta'ne to find 'em Prince Ferdinand himself is in purshit And no disguise can hide 'em from his sight King Disguise by Heauen had I but follow'd 'em Not all the shapes of Proteus should secure ' em Argus with all his hundred watchful Eyes Had been but blind to my discovering Vengeance And when I 'd got the Fugitives in my Power I 'd use the Infamous abandon'd Miscreants The profligated Vagrants with less Mercy Than she has done my Peace or he her Honour Oh like a Faulcon I 'd the Quaries seize And grind and tear their Souls out by degrees Ex. Omn. Scene changes to the Hermets Cell Enter Cesario and Urania Cesa My Dear Urania Miracle of Women Was ever Love so great so true as thine Claspt in thy snowy Arms I find more bliss Than Scepter'd Pride and Crown'd ambition tastes In all their gust of Power and wreaths of Gold But my sweet Excellence I 've been unkind Ura. Unkind Cesa Unkind my Angel To take such Beauty born a Kingdoms Heir Light of my World and Treasure of my Soul Nurst up in all the softnesses of Courts And poorly strip thee to these homely Weeds Misery and want and lodg'd in Woods and Caves Ura. Whilst thou art with me they are Palaces For the Reception of an Eastern Monarch Abandon Crowns and Courts for Woods and Caves And is that all can thy Urania do No greater Miracle for Love than this True Love shou'd quit the World to grov'llng Minds Resign that worthless Toy the gewgaw Globe And leave the bandied Ball for Fools to play with Cesa Mirrour of Goodness thou art all Divine The Trojan Youth whose dazled Eyes survey'd Three Tempting Courting Goddesses at once Did not behold thy worth Enter Tachmas Tac. How fares my Son What are you still opprest with Melancholy Come you 're to blame for though your Cheer be mean Your Company a wretched poor old Man Here is Content and sure in that alone Lies all the happiness Man can desire Cesa Most Reverend Sir you shew such wondrous goodness We never shall have Power to recompense But oh forgive us if our weighty griefs Too heavy to be born pull down this sadness Tac. Alas Cesario Cesa Ha! thou knowst me sure Tac. As thou didst once thy wretched Brother Tachmas Discovers himself Cesa By Heaven and Earth by all that we call sacred 'T is he my Brother Oh let me thus Clasp thee Crush thee into my heart my dearest Tachmas Methinks I hold half Heaven when I embrace thee See my Urania now if thou shed'st tears Let 'em be tears of Joy to see my Brother Banisht from Naples by thy Cruel Father For killing his base cringing fawning Favourite Ura. I Joy to see the Brother of Cesario though in affliction Oh my dearest Lord. Cesa How does my Love Methinks I see A sickly fading on thy lovely Cheeks A languid paleness on those drooping Roses As thou wou'dst sink beneath the weight thou bear'st Ura. Indeed Cesario I am wondrous faint My weary'd Limbs and my long sleepless Eyes The Nights keen Blasts and all my frights and fears Have press'd a little rudely on my health And this too tender Frame bends down before ' em Cesa And all this for Cesario Curst Cesario The Impious Fatal Cause of all thy Sufferings The Atlas Load of thy o'er-burthening woes Ura. Oh hold this is too much to hear and live Shake not your Peace for me that shock will sink me For I can bear all Sorrows but Cesario's Tac. Dear Faithful Pair Were all Hearts join'd like these the Erring World Would shake her guilt off with her blushing shame And the revolving Age
VVe shou'd have dy'd abroad And then perhaps been talkt of in the Crowd Of honest men for giving up those Lives VVhich for our service they may now take from us VVe are not yet i' th' Snare and have the power To stifle their designs Vincent The Soldiers hearts are yours Cesar. No no Vincentio let 'em be the King 's If such as they forget their Office we Must keep our Thoughts unstain'd I 'll to the King But without any Train Sigis. In this you do not consult your Safety Cesar. Safety is a Lecture To be read to Children But for me I carry My own Security within The King I know Is gracious tho' at present His Passion reigns too strongly in his Breast Uran. Hear me Cesario e'er you see the King Hear me or poor Urania's lost for ever Cesar. VVhat says my Love Uran. Swear then to grant my Suit And I will name the means to make us happy Cesar. Oh speak And bless my Ears with the dear Sound Uran. Command your Soldiers first to greater distance Cesar. waves his hand the Soldiers fall back You see Cesario how our Hopes are crost And if you love as you have often swore You will not stop at any thing to gain me Cesar. Propose a Means that may not blot my Fame Nor make me Traytor to my Sovereign Not all the Dangers that can threaten Man Shall barr Cesario from Urania's Arms. Uran. Were it not better in some distant Clime To live and love and peaceably possess The small Remainder of our Lives to come What though we quit all glittering Pomp and Greatness The busie noisy Flatteries of Court We shall enjoy Content in that alone Is Greatness Power VVealth Honour all summ'd up Cesar. I cannot guess thy Meaning Instruct me plainer what you 'd have me do Uran. Since then the King will ne'er let me be thine Let 's in the dead of Night retire from Court And to th' Arcadian Plains direct our Steps There amongst Nymphs and Shepherds we may live And quite forget that we were ever great Cesar. My Soul my more than Life now thou art too kind But can my dear Urania born a Princess Nurs'd up in all the Tenderness of Power The Pride the Pomp and Glory of a Court From her Arch'd Roofs and Golden Towers descend To homely VVeeds and humble Cottages And all for worthless me Uran. For thee my Love Thou Lord of all my Joys Cells Caves and Desarts Are Palaces with thee Oh my Cesario There there where True Love reigns is only Empire Cesar. Thou Angel-kind and more than Angel fair Sigism My Lord the King comes this way Uran. Now Cesario thou hast thy Choice Love or Ambition Either to challenge bravely or resign me poorly But yet might I instruct you in your Choice Since rather than wed Ferdinand this hand Should give me Death yet Oh If I must die Let me expire in Pleasure not in Torment If thou disclaimst me slighted and despised In that distracted Thought I shall die wretched But if my dearest Lord will Nobly own me Charm'd with that Bliss then I can breath out Life Like Saints in Martyrdome not one weak Nerve Or shivering sigh shall of the Dart complain But the great cause shall sweeten all the pain Cesa Guide me you Gods in this Unhappy Labyrinth Enter King Ferdinand Oswell Fabio c. Cesa kneels Most Royal Sir Alas you too much honour The poor Cesario who at your Feet Lays all his Lawrels the fair Grove That your kind Sun has warm'd and cherisht King Did I not give you a strict Charge that none 〈◊〉 pass the Gates Tell me how she came hither To Fab. Fab. Indeed an 't please your Majesty you did Give Order that no Man shou'd but she said She was a Woman and I askt no farther King Hence you Buffoon Cesario rise I shall not flatter you Nor indeed have I any Grace for him Who durst attempt to steal my Kingdoms Heir Cesa Thus prostrate to the Earth I sue for Pardon That my ambitious Passion soars so high But oh there 's Irresistless Force in Love The Gods have felt it then can Man withstand it Such is my Fate nay kill me 't is the same For though I know 't is Death to ask the Gift Yet on my Knees I beg the fair Urania King What says the Traytor off thy Breath will blast me I see it like a Mist infect the Air. Good Gods was ever Insolence like this But sure I dream this cannot be Cesario Vincentio Souldiers speak is this your General Ferd. Yes yes Great Sir This is that Valiant Man That fought for Loyalty and not Ambition Now you may see for what he drew his Sword 'T was for Urania that he fought and Conquer'd 'T is she 't is she that must be his reward O Sir deny him not make him your Son Mould that course humble Clay t' Imperial Honour And mix it with the Royal Blood of Naples Cesa This humble Clay what saist thou haughty Lord By Heaven that Tongue did not the King protect it Had better challenge Iove and all his Thunder Thou titled Vanity thou Courtier made for peace How much my Merits for the fair Urania Exceed thy poor Pretences thou all Feather Too tender for the very VVind to ruffle When VVars loud Trumpet in a Field of Death Call'd me to wounds and dy'd me o'er in Blood Thou slepst securely lull'd on Beds of Downe Less soft than the effeminate Lord that fill'd ' em King Be silent Traytor this is perfect Raving Your Valour has been paid in the Success What you have done was Duty Cesar. True it was I must confess that it was Duty all King To shew us then you have not mix'd our Cause With private and particular Revenge Resolve before tomorrow Sun appears To quit Urania to Prince Ferdinand Or be for ever banisht from Our Kingdom And Daughter resolve you to meet his Love And make Cesario to your Heart a Stranger Or else expect to feel the worst of Tortures Consult your safest way Come Gentlemen And from a grateful King you all shall find The just Reward that 's due to Truth and Honour Uran. Ah my prophetick Fear To night Cesario Aside Cesar. To night my fair Remembrancer Aside to Uran. Exeunt King Ferd. Osw. Fab. Vincent Sigism and Soldiers Manent Cesario and Urania Cesar. Good Heaven Can this be real what all gone I that this morning was the Lord of Thousands Am not the Owner now of one poor Servant Banisht from Love or Naples this is hard But yet indeed 't is not a wonder here In this unhospitable Court of Naples So my unhappy Brother fell before me Who for the slaying of this King's Court Minion VVas doom'd for ever from his Native Soil Oh Tachmas what e'er Corner of the VVorld Now hides thy exil'd Head Thy wretched Brother The poor Cesario too must share thy Fate Yes we will hasten to some Rural Seat And never more in Cursed Courts be