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A12578	The tragedye of Solyman and Perseda Wherein is laide open, loues constancy, fortunes inconstancy, and deaths triumphs.; Solimon and Perseda.	Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 22894; ESTC S110829	37,858	71

for her I would sacke the towne ere I would sound a parle The Drum soundes a parle Perseda comes vpon the walles in mans apparell Basilisco and Piston vpon the walles Per. At whose intreatie is this parle sounded Soli. At our intreaty therefore yeeld the towne Per. Why what art thou that boldly bids vs yeeld Soli. Great Soliman Lord of all the world Per. Thou art not Lord of all Rhodes is not thine Soli. It was and shall be maugre who saies no Per. I that say no will neuer see it thine Soli. Why what art thou that dares resist my force Per. A Gentleman and thy mortall enemie And one that dares thee to the single combate Soli. First tell me dooth Perseda liue or no Per. She liues to see the wrack of Soliman Soli. Then I le combate thee what ere thou art Per. And in Erastus name I le combat thee And heere I promise thee on my Christian faith Then will I yeeld Perseda to thy hands That if thy strength shall ouer match my right To vse as to thy liking shall seeme best But ere I come to enter single fight First let my tongue vtter my hearts despight And thus my tale begins thou wicked tirant Thou murtherer accursed homicide For whome hell gapes and all the vgly feends Do waite for to receiue thee in their iawes Ah periur'd and in humaine Soliman How could thy heart harbour a wicked thought Against the spotlesse life of poore Erastus VVas he not true would thou hadst been as iust VVas he not valiant would thou hadst bin as vertuous VVas he not loyall would thou hadst beene as louing Ah wicked tirant in that one mans death Thou hast betrayde the flower of Christendome Dyed he because his worth obscured thine In slaughtering him thy vertues are defamed Didst thou misdoe him in hope to win Perseda Ah foolish man therein thou art deceiued For though she liue yet will she neare liue thine VVhich to approoue I le come to combat thee Soli. Iniurious foule mouthd knight my wrathfull arme Shall chastise and rebuke these iniuries Then Perseda comes downe to Soliman and Basilisco and Piston Pist I but heere you are you so foolish to fight with him Bas. I sirra why not as long as I stand by Soli. I le not defend Erastus innocence But thee maintaining of Persedas beautie Then they fight Soliman kils Perseda Per. I now I lay Perseda at thy feete But with thy hand first wounded to the death Now shall the world report that Soliman Slew Erastus in hope to win Perseda And murtherd her for louing of hir husband Soli. What my Perseda ah what haue I doone Yet kisse me gentle loue before thou die Perse. A kisse I graunt thee though I hate thee deadly Soli. I loued thee deerelie and accept thy kisse VVhy didst thou loue Erastus more then me Or why didst not giue Soliman a kisse Ere this vnhappie time then hadst thou liued Basi. Ah let me kisse thee too before I die Then Soliman kils Basilisco Soli. Nay die thou shalt for thy presumption For kissing her whom I do hould so deare Pist. I will not kisse hir sir but giue me leaue To weepe ouer hir for while she liued Shee loved me deerely and I loued hir Soli. If thou didst loue hir villaine as thou saidst Then wait on her thorough eternall night Then Soliman kils Piston Ah Perseda how shall I mourne for thee Faire springing rose ill pluckt before thy time Ah heauens that hitherto haue smilde on me Why doe you vnkindly lowre on Soliman The losse of halfe my Realmes nay crownes decay Could not haue prickt so neere vnto my heart As doth the losse of my Persedaes life And with her life I likewise loose my loue And with her loue my hearts felicitie Euen for Erastus death the heauens haue plagued me Ah no the heauens did neuer more accurse me Then when they made me Butcher of my loue Yet iustly how can I condemne my selfe When Brusor liues that was the cause of all Come Brusor helpe to lift her bodie vp Is she not faire Bru. Euen in the houre of death Soli. Was she not constant Bru. As firme as are the poles whereon heauen lies Soli. VVas she not chast Bru. As is Pandora or Dianaes thoughts Soli. Then tell me his treasons set aside VVhat was Erastus in thy opinion Bru. Faire spoken wise curteous and liberall Kinde euen to his foes gentle and affable And all in all his deeds heroyacall Soli. Ah was he so how durst thou then vngratious Counseller First cause me murther such a worthy man And after tempt so vertuous a woman Be this therefore the last that ere thou speake Ianisaries take him straight vnto the block Off with his head and suffer him not to speake Exit Brusor. And now Perseda heere I lay me downe And on thy beautie still contemplate Vntill mine eyes shall surfet by my gasing But stay let me see what paper is this Then he takes vp a paper and reedes in it as followeth Tyrant my lips were sawst with deadly poyson To plague thy hart that is so full of poison What am I poisoned then Ianisaries Let me see Rhodes recouerd ere I die Souldiers assault the towne on euery side Spoile all kill all let none escape your furie Sound an alarum to the fight Say Captaine is Rhodes recouered againe Capt. It is my Lord and stoopes to Soliman Soli. Yet that alayes the furie of my paine Before I die for doubtlesse die I must I fates iniurious fates haue so decreed For now I feele the poyson gins to worke And I am weake euen to the very death Yet some thing more contentedly I die For that my death was wrought by her deuise Who liuing was my ioy whose death my woe Ah Ianisaries now dyes your Emperour Before his age hath seene his mellowed yeares And if you euer loued your Emperour Affright me not with sorrowes and laments And when my soule from body shall depart Trouble me not but let me passe in peace And in your silence let your loue be showne My last request for I commaund no more Is that my body with Persedas be Interd where my Erastus lyes intombd And let one Epitaph containe vs all Ah now I feele the paper tould me true The poison is disperst through euery vaine And boiles like Etna in my frying guts Forgiue me deere Erastus my vnkindnes I haue reuengd thy deaths with many deaths And sweete Perseda flie not Soliman When as my gliding ghost shall follow thee With eager moode thorow eternall night And now pale Death sits on my panting soule And with reuenging ire dooth tyrannise And saies for Solimans too much amisse This day shall be the peryod of my blisse Exeunt Then Soliman dyes and they carry him forth with silence Enter Chorus Fortune I gaue Erastus woe and miserie Amidst his greatest ioy and iollitie Loue But I that haue power in earth and heauen aboue Stung them both with neuer failing loue Death But I bereft them both of loue and life Loue Of life but not of loue for euen in death Their soules are knit though bodies be disioynd Thou didst but wound their flesh their minds are free Their bodies buried yet they honour me Death Hence foolish Fortune and thou wanton Loue Your deedes are trifles mine of consequence Fortune I giue worlds happines and woes increase Loue By ioyning persons I increase the world Death By wastning all I conquer all the world And now to end our difference at last In this last act note but the deedes of death VVhere is Erastus now but in my triumph VVhere are the murtherers but in my triumph VVhere 's iudge and witnesse but in my triumph Where 's falce Lucina but in my triumph Where 's faire Perseda but in my triumph VVhere 's Basilisco but in my triumph VVhere 's faithfull Piston but in my triumph VVhere 's valiant Brusor but in my triumph And where 's great Soliman but in my triumph Their loues and fortunes ended with their liues And they must wait vpon the Carre of death Packe Loue and Fortune play in Commedies For powerfull death best fitteth Tragedies Loue I go yet Loue shall neuer yeeld to Death Exit Loue Death But Fortune shall for when I waste the world Then times and kingdomes Fortunes shall decay For. Meane time will Fortune gouerne as she may Exit Fortune Death I now will Death in his most haughtie pride Fetch his imperiall Carre from deepest hell And ride in triumph through the wicked world Sparing none but sacred Cynthias friend Whome Death did feare before her life began For holy fates haue grauen it in their tables That Death shall die if he attempt her end VVhose life is heauens delight and Cynthias friend FINIS Imprinted at London for Edward White and are to be sold at his shop at the little North doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Gunne

life VVhat is thy hand to weake then mine shall helpe To send them downe to euerlasting night To waite vpon thee through eternall shade Thy soule shall not go mourning hence alone Thus die and thus for thus you murtherd him Then he kils the two Ianisaries that kild Erastus But soft me thinkes he is not satisfied The breath doth murmure softly from his lips And bids me kill those bloudie witnesses By whose treacherie Erastus dyed Lord Marshall hale them to the towers top And throw them headlong downe into the valley So let their treasons with their liues haue end 1. Witn. Your selfe procured vs 2. Witn. Is this our hier Then the marshall beares them to the tower top Soli. Speake not a word least in my wrathfull fury I doome you to ten thousand direfull torments And Brusor see Erastus be interd VVith honor in a kingly sepulcher VVhy when Lord marshall great Hectors sonne Although his age did plead for innocence VVas sooner tumbled from the fatall tower Then are those periurde wicked witnesses Then they are both tumbled downe VVhy now Erastus Ghost is satisfied I but yet the wicked Iudge suruiues By whome Erastus was condemnd to die Brusor as thou louest me stab in the marshall Least he detect vs vnto the world By making knowne our bloudy practises And then will thou and I hoist saile to Rhodes VVhere thy Lucina and my Perseda liues Bru. I wil my lord lord Marshal it is his highnes pleasure That you commend him to Erastus soule Then he kils the Marshall Soli. Heere ends my deere Erastus tragedie And now begins my pleasant Comedie But if Perseda vnderstand these newes Our seane will prooue but tragicomicall Bru. Feare not my Lord Lucina plaies her part And wooes apace in Solimans behalfe Soli. Then Brusor come and with some few men Le ts saile to Rhodes with all conuenient speede For till I fould Perseda in mine armes My troubled eares are deft with loues alarmes Exeunt Enter Perseda Lucina and Basilisco Perse. Now signior Basilisco which like you The Turkish or our nation best Basi. That which your ladiship will haue me like Luci. I am deceiued but you were circumcised Bas. Indeed I was a little cut in the porpuse Per. VVhat meanes made you to steale back to Rhodes Basi. The mightie pinckanied brand bearing God To whom I am so long true seruitour When he espyde my weeping flouds of teares For your depart he bad me follow him I followed him he with his fier brand Parted the seas and we came ouer drieshod Luci. A matter not vnlikely but how chance Your turkish bonet is not on your head Basi. Because I now am Christian againe And that by naturall meanes for as The old Cannon saies verie pretily Nihill est tam naturali quod eo modo colligatum est And so foorth so I became a Turke to follow her To follow her am now returnd a Christian Enter Piston Pist. O Lady and mistris weepe and lament And wring your hands for my Maister Is condemnd and executed Luci. Be patient sweete Perseda the foole but iests Perse. Ah ho my nightly dreames foretould me this Which foolish woman fondly I neglected But say what death dyed my poore Erastus Pist. Nay God be praisd his death was reasonable He was but strangled Perse. But strangled ah double death to me But say wherefore was he condemnd to die Pist. For nothing but hie treason Perse. What treason or by whom was he condemnd Pist. Faith two great knights of the post swore vpon the Alcaron that he would haue firde the Turkes Fleete Perse. VVas Brusor by Piston I Per. And Soliman Pist. No but I saw where he stood To heere and see the matter well conuaid Perse. Accursed Soliman prophane Alcaron Lucina came thy husband to this end To lead a Lambe vnto the slaughterhouse Hast thou for this in Solimans behalfe With cunning words tempted my chastitie Thou shalt abie for both your trecheries It must be so Basilisco dooest thou loue me speake Basi. I more then I loue either life or soule VVhat shall I stab the Emperour for thy sake Perse. No but Lucina if thou louest me kill her Then Basilisco takes a Dagger feeles vpon the point of it Basi. The point will marre her skin Perse, What darest thou not giue me the dagger then There 's a reward for all thy treasons past Then Perseda kils Lucina Basi. Yet dare I beare her hence to do thee good Perse. No let her lie a pray to rauening birds Nor shall her death alone suffice for his Rhodes now shall be no longer Solimans VVee le fortifie our walles and keepe the towne In spight of proud insulting Soliman I know the letcher hopes to haue my loue And first Perseda shall with this hand die Then yeeld to him and liue in infamie Exeunt Manet Basilisco Basi. I will ruminate Death which the poets Faine to be pale and meager Hath depriued Erastus trunke from breathing vitalitie A braue Cauelere but my aprooued foeman Let me see where is that Alcides surnamed Hercules The onely Club man of his time dead VVhere is the eldest sonne of Pryam That abraham couloured Troion dead VVhere is the leader of the Mirmidons That well knit Accill dead VVhere is that furious Aiax the sonne of Telamon Or that fraudfull squire of Ithaca Iclipt Vlisses dead VVhere is tipsie Alexander that great cup conquerour Or Pompey that braue warriour dead I am my selfe strong but I confesse death to be stronger I am valiant but mortall I am a with natures gifts A giddie goddesse that now giueth and anon taketh I am wise but quiddits will not answer death To conclude in a word to be captious vertuous ingenious Or to be nothing when it pleaseth death to be enuious The great Turque whose seat is Constantinople Hath beleagred Rhodes whose chieftaine is a woman I could take the rule vpon me But the shrub is safe when the Cedar shaketh I loue Perseda as one worthie But I loue Basilisco as one I hould more worthie My fathers sonne my mothers solace my proper selfe Faith he can doe little that cannot speake And he can doe lesse that cannot runne away Then sith mans life is as a glasse and a phillip may cracke it Mine is no more and a bullet may pearce it Therefore I will play least in sight Exit Enter Soliman Brusor with Janisaries Soli. The gates are shut which prooues that Rhodes reuolts And that Perseda is not Solimans Ah Brusor see where thy Lucina lies Butcherd dispightfullie without the walles Bru. Vnkinde Perseda couldst thou vse her so And yet we vs'd Perseda little better Soli. Nay gentle Brusor stay thy teares a while Least with thy woes thou spoile my commedie And all to soone be turnd to Tragedies Go Brusor beare her to thy priuate tent Where we at leasure will lament her death And with our teares be waile her obsequies For yet Perseda liues for Soliman Drum sound a parle were it not