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The siege of Rhodes made a representation by the art of prospective in scenes, and the story sung in recitative musick. At the Cock-pit in Drury Lane.
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D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.
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force Which does out-vvrestle Nature vvhen vvedye Turn to a Tempest all my invvard strife Let it not last But in a blast Spend this infectious vapour Life Ianthe It is my Lord Enough of strength I feel To bear me to him or but let me kneel He bled for me when he atchiev'd for you This daye 's success and much from me is due Let me but bless him for his Victory And hasten to forgive him e're I dye Alphon. Keep back Ianthe for my strength will fail If on thy Cheeks I see thy Roses pale Draw all the Curtains and then lead her in Let me in darkness mourn away my sin Exeunt Chorus of Souldiers 1. WIth a fine merry Gale Fit to fill ev'ry sayl They did cut the smooth Sea That our Skins they might flea Still as they landed we firkt them with Sallys We did bang their silk Shashes Through Sands and through Plashes Till amain they did run to their Gallies 2. They first were so mad As they Jealousies had That our Isle durst not stay But would float strait away For they landed still faster and faster And their old Bassa Pirrhus Did think he could fear us But himself sooner fear'd our Grand-Master 3. Then the hug'ous great Turk Came to make us more work With enow men to eat All he meant to defeat Whose wonderfull worship did confirm us In the fear he would bide here So long till he dy'd here By the Castle he built on Philermus 4. You began the Assault With a very long Hault And as haulting ye came So ye went off as lame And have left our Alphonso to scoff ye To himself as a Daintie He keeps his Ianthe Whilst we drink good Wine and you drink but Coffy The Curtain is let fall The End of the Fifth ENTRY FINIS THE SIEGE OF RHODES The Second Part As it was lately Represented at His Highness the Duke of YORK'S Theatre In Lincoln's-Inn Fields LONDON Printed for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Anchor on the Lower-walk in the New-Exchange 1663. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE the EARL of CLARENDON Lord High Chancellor of England c. MY LORD THough Poems have lost much of their Antient value yet I will presume to make this a Present to your Lordship and the rather because Poems if they have any thing precious in them do like Jewels attract a greater esteem when they come into the possession of great Persons than when they are in ordinary hands The excuse which men have had for dedication of Books has been to protect them from the malice of Readers but a defence of of this nature was fitter for your forces when you were early known to Learned men and had no other occasion for your abilities but to vindicate Authors than at this Season when you are of extraordinary use to the whole Nation Yet when I consider how many how violent they are who persecute Dramatick Poetry I will then rather call this a Dedication than a Present as not intending by it to pass any kind of obligation but to receive a great benefit since I cannot be safe unless I am shelter'd behind your Lordship Your name is so eminent in the Justice which yon convey through all the different Members of this great Empire that my Rhodians seem to enjoy a better Harbour in the Pacifique Thames than they had on the Mediterranean and I have brought Solyman to be arraign'd at your Tribunal where you are the Censor of his civility magnificence Dramatick Poetry meets with the same persecution now from such who esteem themselves the most refin'd and civil as it ever did from the Barbarous And yet whilst those vertuous Enemies deny heroique Plays to the Gentry they entertain the People with a Seditious Farce of their own counterfeit Gravity But I hope you will not be unwilling to receive in this Poetical dress neither the Besieg'd nor the Besiegers since they come without their vices for as others have purg'd the Stage from corruptions of the Art of the Drama so I have endeavour'd to cleanse it from the corruption of manners nor have I wanted care to render the Ideas of Greatness and Vertue pleasing and familiar In old Rome the Magistrates did not only protect but exhibit Plaies and not long since the two wise Cardinals did kindly entertain the great Images represented in Tragedy by Monsieur Corneille My Lord it proceeds from the same mind not to be pleas'd with Princes on the Stage and not to affect them in the Throne for those are ever most inclin'd to break the Mirrour who are unwilling to see the Images of such as have just authority over their guilt In this Poem I have reviv'd the remembrance of that fatal desolation which was permitted by Christian Princes when they favour'd the ambition of such as defended the diversity of Religions begot by the factions of Learning in Germany whilst those who would never admit Learning into their Empire lest it should meddle with Religion and intangle it with Controversy did make Rhodes defenceless which was the only fortify'd Academy in Christendome where Divinity and Arms were equally profess'd I have likewise for variety softened the Martial encounters between Solyman and the Rhodians with intermingling the conjugal vertues of Alphonso and Ianthe If I should proceed and tell your Lordship of what use Theatres have antiently been and may be now by heightening the Characters of Valour Temperance Natural Juststice and complacency to Government I should fall into the ill manners and indiscretion of ordinary Dedicators who go about to instruct those from whose abilities they expect protection The apprehension of this error makes me hasten to crave pardon for what has been already said by MY LORD Your Lordships most humble and most odedient Servant WILL. D'AVENANT The Persons represented Solyman The Magnificent Pirrhus Vizier Bassa Mustapha Bassa Rustan Bassa Haly Eunuch Bassa Villerius Grand Master of Rhodes Alphonso A Cicilian Duke Admiral Of Rhodes High Marshal Of Rhodes Roxolana Wife to Solyman Ianthe Wife to Alphonso Women Attendants to Roxolana Women Attendants to Ianthe Four Pages Attendants to Roxolana The Scene RHODES Prologue WHat if we serve you now a Trick and do Like him who posted Bills that he would show So many active feats and those so high That Court and City came to see him fly But he good man carefull to empty still The Money-Boxes as the House did fill Of all his Tricks had time to shew but one He lin'd his Purse and Presto he was gone Many were then as fond as you are now Of seeing stranger things than Art can show We may perform as much as he did doe We have your Money and a Back-Door too Go and be couzen'd thus rather than stay And wait to be worse couzen'd with our Play For you shall hear such course complaints of Love Such silly sighing as no more will move Your Passion then Dutch Madrigals can