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A85334	Three excellent tragœdies. Viz. The raging Turk, or, Bajazet the Second. The courageous Turk, or, Amurath the First. And The tragoedie of Orestes· / Written, by Tho. Goff, Master of Arts, and student of Christ-Church in Oxford; and acted by the students of the same house.	Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629.; Meighen, Richard, fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing G1006; Thomason E1591_2; ESTC R202218	132,941	272

wits crosse my command Bassaes prepare for warre and since your grave discourse argues a will to stay at home you shall wee le lay you up where no loud ecchoing drums shall breake your sleepe even in the bowels of your mother earth I will entombe you Put them both to death Omnes What meanes great Bajazet Baja. To murder you unlesse you strangle them Ambo But heare us speake Baja. Stop up the damned passage of their throat Or you are all but ghosts What! stare you friends Isaack and Selymus a garter twist me that fatall string about his necke and either pull an end strangle Trizham Mesithes come joyne force with me by heaven y' were best make hast Or thou art shorter liv'd then is that bratt Tugge strongly at it strangle Mahomet So let the bastard droppe we have out-liv'd our tutors dunghill slaves durst they breath out their Stoicke sentences in opposition of our strickt command Selym. So things run well along and now I find Jove heares my prayers and the gods grow kind Baja. Did not I send these to their Provinces to hinder Zemes flight and did not they dejected bastards give him open way Mine anger hath been just Cherseo None doth deny 't you may proceed in your edict for warrs and make Achmetes General of the camp Baj. It is enough Achmetes go to hell stabs him the divels have rung out thy passing bell and look for thine arrival Shend me slaves Exeunt omnes They fly before my breath like mists of air and are of less resistance I 'le pursue Exit Achm. Oh I am slain Tyrant thy violent hand hath done me pleasure though against thy will had I as many lives as drops of bloud I 'de not outlive this hour fly hence vain soul climb yonder sacred mount strive upwards there there where a guard of stars shall hem thee round build thee a safe tribunal I am gone Oh tragick cruelty behold the end of two right Noble sons one faithful friend moritur Re-enter Bajazet in fury Baj. Have all forsaken me and am I left a prey unto my self did all their breath pass through his organs and in his sad death have I abruptly crackt the vital thred of all my Bassaes Achmetes groans Ha! where am I now In some Gebenna or some hollow vault where dead mens ghosts sigh out their heavy groans Resolve me Mahomet and rid me hence or I will spoil the fabrick of thy tomb and beat away the title of a God Dost thou not move a trunk a stock to die is to put on your nature so will I. Offering to stab himself Cherseogles Mesithes Mustapha Mahomates Achomates Selymus Asmehemides interrupt him Omnes Hold hold and live Baj. How come these bodies dead Filii Father it was your self Bajaz. Let me revoke my wandring sense Oh what a stream of blood hath purg'd me of my black suspition two sons one valiant Captain hence are wrought by mine own hand to cure one jealous thought As 't is they are the happier I out-live them whom I wisht to fall only to grave bear forth their bodies Bassaes carry them out We were curst in this and shall intomb with them much of our bliss indeed we had resolv'd to spend this day in things of more solemnity less wo. Now our most wished councel shall begin and bitter deeds weigh up the scales of sin Amasia is a province rich and strong Mahomates it is thine keep it as long as I have power to give it go provide for thy conveyance at the next fair tide Mahom. Farewell dear father Bajaz. Worthy son adieu the love my dead sons wanted falls to you as an hereditary good Selymus Then we aside may vail our heads in black no mourners be Baja. Achomates thy worth deserves some trophies of our love which to let slip unmention'd were to adde to this black day a fourth offence as bad Governe Manesia now the people stand dishfurnisht of an head let thy command be great amongst them so make speedy hast Honour stayes for thee Selym. Now the stormes are past Achom. Father adieu Exit Baja. Achomates farewell Selym. Now to my lot I thought 't would ne'r a fell aside Baja. Now Selymus wee know thy hopes are great and thine ambition gapes with open jawes to swallow a whole Dukedome but young Sir we dare not trust the raines of government into the hands of Phaeton Desire rashly fullfild may set the world on fire Greene youth and raw experience are not fit to shoulder up a Kingdomes heavie weight mixe wit with stay'd discretion and spend wild yeares in study then we doe intend to settle more preferment on thy head then thou can'st hope for Selymus Wilt thou envious dotard Strangle my greatnesse in a miching hole the world 's my study Bajazet my name Shall fill each angle of this round-built frame Exit Bajaz. I know he grumbled at it 't is good To calme the rebell heat of youthfull blood with sharpe rebukes Enter a Messenger● Messen Health to the Emperour Bajaz. What will your message Messen Duty first from Rome commended by the Bishop to your service with a firme promise to dispatch your will what ever it imply'd and would but stay till Times swift circle should bring forth a day secure for the performance Exit Bajaz. 'T is enough Thanks for your care This was to murder Zemes. War with the Bishop ' thad been pretty sport I knew my powerful word was strong enough to make him do my pleasure simple Priest only I vs'd it as a trick to send Achmetes from the City and his friends but Fate so smil'd upon me that I found a shorter means his life and hopes to wound with my sententious sons that when my foe fled through their Province finely let him goe which being wholy finish'd strait to please my friends I play'd a raging Hercules then to shut up the Scene neatly put on a passionate humour and the worst was done But who comes here A dumb show Enter Mahomates with store of Turks he as taking his leave they as ceremoniously with great humbleness taking their leavs depart at several doors I like not this Mahomates belov'd so dearly of the Comminalty ha Hee 's wise fair-spoken gently qualified powerful of tongue why hee 's the better son not to supplant his Father I mislike the prodigal affection thrown on him by all my subjects I bely'd my hopes when I presum'd this day had freely rid me of my worst vexation I was born to be a jade to Fate and fortunes scoff my cares grow double-great my cutting off Exit Actus 3. Scena 3. Enter Caigubus Achmetes Son Caig. If ever man lov'd sorrow wisht to grieve Father I do for thee Could I deprive my senses of each object but thy death then should I joy to sigh away my breath be Godhead to my griefe then shall these eyes with tributary tears bedeck thy shrine and thus I do invoke the nimble Ghost what ever or be of

resign'd my honours up to him he deeply swore when the usurping Sun of his bright-shining royalty had run It 's compleat course through the whole heaven of state and fainting dropt into the Western lapse my brightness next should throw it's golden beames upon the worlds wide face and over-peer the dusky clouds of hidden privacy and shall Achomates succeed Shall he shine in the spangled robes of Majesty then Bajazet is false let it be so I am secur'd from a huge masse of woe Yet I le toth ' Court that when Achomates shall spie mee and remember but my due 't will staine his lustre with a blushing hue Enter Bajazet Cherseogles Baja. My cares are grown too great to be compriz'd within the narrow compasse of my brest Vice-roy of Greece I le powre into thy heart part of my secrets which being entred in locke them as close up as thou wouldst a sinne committed yet not knowne I must impart things worth thy faithfull silence Chers Worthy Sir by the inclosure of my soule I sweare Baja. I le not heare out thine oath in briefe 't is thus the Bassaes are all false and love not us Nor doth my brain-sicke fury prompt me thus I read it in their gestures conventicles actions and counsells my suspitious eye hath found a great breach in their loyalty Chers Surely this cannot bee Bajazet By 't is true each man that guards mine honour is my foe I le shake these splendent robes of Majesty from my ore-burden'd shoulders and to ease my selfe bequeath them to Achomates Cherse Achomates Baja. Even he unlesse the voyce Of the whole Citie interdict my choice Enter Isaacke Mesithes Mustapha Cherse Here comes the Bassaes sure I see bad newes pourtrayed on the Index of their fronts Baja. Bad newes We have out-liv'd good dayes too long we can expect no other come unclaspe volumes of misciefes and make deafe my eares with an infused multitude of cares Bassaes Young Selymus hath crost Danubius floud and seiz'd upon the Provinces of Thrace and with a Navie plow'd the Euxine Sea Baja. Peace bellowing night-ravens with how cheerefull noise their puffing lungs croke out the balefull note Are these the warres ' gainst Hungary You powers of heaven brush off your cloddy patience If you but winke at these notorious crimes I 'le say you dare not check our stubborne times Well as yet I 'le make use of his pretence Vize-roy of Greece beare you this Embassie to that suspected Traytor Selymus Tell him the warres ' gainst the Hungarian foe are full of dangers and approved harmes never attempted by our Ancestors without repulse or damage bid him dismisse his rough Tartarian youths then if he stand Unmov'd and stiffe feigne vengeance is at hand make thy best speed Cherse I shall T will be well done to reconcile a Father and a Sonne Exit Baja. Thought he tumultuous uprores could deserve the favours of his Prince h 'as troad awry and mist the path that leades to Majestie These bright Imperious ornaments shall grace no rebell-monster nor base runne-away my resolution 's firme it shall not be Bassaes this day an Herauld shall proclaime in the worlds eare my great successours name are you content Bassaes We are Bajaz. Call forth an Herauld Isaak As our alleageance bindes us wee 'le obey Exit Mustapha calls in an Herauld But what we grant the Souldiers will gaine-say Aside Thou shalt not thrive in this I dare be bold my golden hookes hove ta'ne a faster hold Baja. Herauld be my loud Eccho ratifie my deede and say Achomates shall next succeede Herauld Bajazet the second by the appointment of our great Prophet Mahomet the onely Monarch of the World a mighty God on earth an invincible Caesar King of all Kings from the East unto the West Governour of Greece Sultan of Babylon Soveraigne of Persia and Armenia triumphant Tutor of Jerusalem Lord possessour of the Sepulcher of the Crucified God subverter and sworne enemie of the Christians and of all that call upon Christ proclaimeth Achomates his second son next and immediate successour An alarm of Trumpets Within None but Bajazet none but Bajazet Bajaz. By heaven they are corrupted none but I 'T is no love borne to me that moves this cry Mesith Great Bajazet the cause why they deny this just proposall riseth from an use and customary licence long observ'd to wit when their crown'd Emperour is dead the interpos'd vacation is a time of lawlesse freedome then they dare to spoile the Jewish Merchants of their traffick wares and prey upon all strangers so that should your Honour be conferr'd upon your sonne Whilst you your self yet breath then should they lose their long expected gaines therefore refuse what you propos'd Bajaz. If that be all the cause wee 'le give them such a Kingly donative as doubly shall buy out those ill-got spoiles five hundred thousand Duckats if they please with my free choise to crowne Achomates Proclaim'd to be their due A flourish of Trumpets Herauld Bajazet the second by the appointment of our great Prophet Mahomet c. proclaimeth that hee 'le attribute five hundred thousand Duckats if you yeeld alleageance to Achomates his successor Trumpets sound againe Within None but Bajazet none but Bajazet Baja. Achomates I sent for how hee 'le digest these grosse illusions I may justly feare by this I had discourag'd Selymus and kill'd his hopes by this I had cut off the growth of hate and choked discords seed Exit Enter Mustapha with a Messenger to the other Bassaes Mustaph Beare this to Selymus with thy best care Mesith And this Give him Letters Isaack And this fly let thy winged speed return a sudden answer else we bleed Actus 4. Scena 5. Enter Selymus Tartarian King Attendants Tartar Goe on brave Prince Lead on thy marshal'd troups degrade the Turkish Monarch let him faint at the deepe wounds which thy revengefull hand shall print upon the bosome of his land Goe on Me thinks I see Victoria sit triumphant on thy steely Burganet Exit Tartarian King Selym. Farewell now I will meete thee Bajazet with a careere as free as if Heavens Jove had bid me goe Bespeake the stoutest gods to take thy part tell them that thou must meete a Selymus who when the warres are done will scale the Forts and Castles of the Sunne breake up the brazen gates of Acheron and bury Nature with the world together Captaines leade on Now shall the sword and fire by publique ruines crowne my just desire Sleepe Hungary I 'le not breake off thy rest with the unwelcome Musick of my Drummes I 'le turne the edge of my revengefull sword upon the bosome of my native soyle There dwels the motive of my Tragick wars whose ruthlesse sad Catastrophe shall wound posterity in us Infants shall mourne over their Fathers tombs as yet unborne But who comes here I 'le meete him Noble Vize-roy Enter Cherseogles Cherseo Peace and health to Selymus Selym. Health but not peace whilst yonder light

Cherseogles Mesith Ha! we are sweetly plung'd if cold despaire benumme his youthfull courage and he faint Mustaph Would I were fairely rid of all these cares Isaack Dejected Cowards are you not asham'd thus to give up the goale of dignity to heartlesse feare Here comes the Messenger What newes from Selymus Messen Even nothing certaine ambiguously he promis'd to be here as soone as I. Mesith I' st even so Musta We are quite dash't undone Isa Lift up your downe-cast spirits Who comes here Enter Selymus Mesith Who Selymus Musta Where sweete Isaack doe not tell him that we were sending forth faith's latest breath Isaac Enough I will not Happy Selymus Bassaes Long live great Selymus Sely. We thanke you friends Your care hath fostered up our infant hopes beyond the pitch of expectation We heare that Bajazet is going now from hence to Constantinople my men lie closely ambusht in the middle way close by a ruinous city there expect a sudden on-set but till then farewell When we meete next our ensignes wav'd on high shall shine like Meteors blazing in the skie Exit Isaac Fortunes best care goe with thee Mesith Brave boy y'faith Musta I shall adore him whilest I breath for this Isaac Againe in heart Let 's follow Bajazet come lads away the sunne of all his glory sets this day Exeunt Enter Selymus with souldiers Selym. Come on the honored youth of Tartary my brothers and joynt sharers of my woe draw forth the weapons of inflam'd revenge against this horrid monsters Tyranny I seeme like Romes great Caesar when opprest with Pompeys grating malice he led forth his noble French-men through the snowy Alpes I have my Curio Isaack in the Court and Cherseogles like grim Catoes ghost soothes the rough humour of fierce Bajazet These mens examples were we faint and loath would set sharpe spurs unto our slow pac'd wrath and whet our dull-edg'd anger but I see in your smooth brow perfect alacrity We stand to thwart the passage of a fiend through whose wide yawning throat hath coasted downe the blood of Princes in continuall streames ha's fed and pamper'd up his appetite with the abhorr'd destruction of his owne and glutted on the blood of innocents Stood wee like marble statues in his way and had no use of policy and wit our Irefull Prophet Mahomet would send sense life and valour through our stony joynts that we might ruinate this gastly bore made by some hellish fury to confound the order of this wondred Universe I le grapple with the monster hee 's at hand If you stand firme the Common Wealth may bee a slave to Bajazet but I le live free Enter Bajazet Cherseogles Isaack Mesithes Mustapha Baja. No Drumme nor Trumpet hath disturb'd the ayre within the reach of mine attention Isaac And I admire it 't were a miracle if that ambitious boy intend no harme Omnes What noyse is that A confused noyse of exclamation within arme arme arme Soldiers Helpe Bajazet the vauntgard 's almost slaine the Tartars lay in ambush Baja. What so neere Set up our standard I le give battell here hang out defiance scorne and proud contempt write in the blood-red colours of your plumes summon our Army Enter a drum from these skirmishes speake out the traitors doome in thine alarmes Thought he to daunt our courage Drum sounds Enter souldiers severally dropping in sweating as from fight Valiant souldiers when I behold the manner of this warre when treason copes with awfull Majesty a gracelesse sonne with his owne aged Sire me thinks to bid you fight were full as vaine as to bid heavy clouds fall downe in raine but when I view the Chaos of the field and wild confusion striking valour dead I cald you not as Captaines doe to boyes to read a lecture of encouragement but that your ancient vertue may be showne in this my last defence I wish to dye reveng'd that death sorts best with Majesty Drums sounding A confused noyse with clashing of armour Excurrunt Bajazet and Selymus Baja. Selymus Selym. Bajazet Baja. Jove lend me but a minutes patience Unnaturall sonne Selymus Uncharitable Father Baja. Father My sword shall hew that title off and cut in twaine kindreds continued line by which thou canst derive thy blood from mine Abortive monster thou first breath of sin we had but slender shadows of offence till thou creptst forth to the offended light the very masse and stocke of villanie Crimes in all others are but thy influence Nature ha's planted viprous crueltie In thy darke brest the scandall of her workes her error and extract perfection of vices the first well-head of bad things from whence the world of ills draw their weake springs Sel. Then heare me speake too you have bin to me no Father but a sowre Pedanticke wretch one that with frosty precepts striv'd to kill the flaming heate of my ambitious youth as vainely as to strangle fire with straw you sit so dayly hovering on your Throne as if youl 'd hatch new Monarchies to feed the hungry gulfe of your unbridled pride Y 'ave surfeited on titles y 'ave ingrost honor you are the moth of eminence and liberall fortunes answered your desires You had deflow'rd th' infinitie of Crownes With your adulterate ambition Y' are Soveraignties horse-leach and have spild the blood of State to have your owne veines fild Baja. Hold hold thy venom'd tongue if there be hid more of this kind un-uttred I le rip up thy full fraught bosome and to save mine eare mine eyes shall overview what I 'le not heare Darst thou fight Traitor Selym. Dare I be call'd a King Dare I unsheath my sword or gather might If I dare ought of these I dare to fight Baja. Guard thee I 'de not omit the sweete desire and pleasure of revenge were heaven my hyre They fight Selymus is beaten off Bajazet pursues reenters at another doore The slave has scap't the power of my wrath midst the dissever'd troups of scattered foes I lost him in a smoky cloud of dust so thicke as if the tender Queene of Love had wrapt her brat Aeneas from my sight Enter Isaack Mesithes Mustapha Isaak Joy to my Liege of his last victory Mesith The bold Tartarians flew like fearefull Harts before the hunters rage Baja. So let them fly heaven raine downe vengeance on their cursed heads it is our honour that the frighted slaves owe their lives deerest safeties to their heeles Enter a Dwarfe How now whence come you Dwar. From yonder hay-ricke Sir Baja. Didst thou see Selymus when he fled the field Dwar. No indeed I was two farre crept in Baja. O you are brave attendants Let 's forward in our journey these affaires Achomates must know his golden wish the people have delayd perhaps hee le frowne and trample filiall duty under feete as this hath done but let them storme their fill Vertue 's not shipwrackt in a sea of ill Actus 5. Scena 1. Enter Achomates alone with a bloody sword in his

Hatun Daughter to the Lord of Phrygia married to Bajazet Aldines Wife Two little Boyes with her Mutes Men Christians taken given to Amurath for Janizaries Sixe Christian Maidens presented to Hatun supposed to be Kings Daughters THE COURAGEOUS TURK OR AMURATH THE FIRST Actus 1. Scena 1. Enter as from Warre Lala-Schahin at one doore with warlike Musicke Souldiers a March Enter to him at the other doore Amurath in State with Eumorphe his Concubine attendants Lords and Ladies AMURATH BE dumb those now harsh notes our softer cares shall never be acquainted with such sounds Peace our grand Captain see here Amurath that would have once confronted Mars himselfe Acknowledg'd for a better Deity Puts off ambitious burdens and doth hate through bloudy Rivers to make passages whereby his Soule might flote to Acheron Wrinckle your browes no more sterne fates for we scorne to be made the servile Ministers to cut those threads at which your selves have trembled esteeming us the fiercer Destiny Yet must great Amurath thanke those sacred powers they have enricht our soules with such a price as had those Heroes whose revengefull Armes serv'd Mars a ten yeares Prentiship at Troy ere dream'd succeeding times should be possest with such an unparallell'd unprized beauty as my Saint they would not have prevented so their blisse but beene most humble Sutors to the Gods to have protracted their then fond spent life but to behold this object which out-shines their Helena as much as doth the eye of all the World dazle the lesser fires Jove I le outbrave thee melt thy selfe in Lust embrace at once all starre-made Concubines I le not envie thee know I have to spare beauty enough to make another Venus And for fond Gods that have no reward in store to make me happier here I le place my Heaven And for thy sake this shall my Motto be I conquered Greece one Grecian conquered me Eum. But gracious Lord those streames we see soon ebb which with outragious swelling flow too fast forbid Lucina this soone kindled fire should ere burne out it self T is a true Theame That nere lasts long that seemeth most extreame Amur. Can this rich price of nature precious jem give entertainment to suspecting guests Come come these armes are curious chaines of love with which thou link'st my heart aeternally thy cheeks the royall Paper interlined with Natures Rhetorique and loves perswasion stands there attracting still my gazing eye This then I le read and here I now will faine that those all antique fables of the Gods are writ in flowing numbers first thy lip was faire Europaes which they say made Jove turne a wild Heyfer next this sparkling eye was the Aemonian Io's then this hand Laedaes faire Mother to those Star-made Twins Thus thus I le Comment on this golden Booke Nature nor Art have taught me how to faine Fairest 't was you first brought me to this vaine In loving Combats now I valiant prove let othets warre great Amurath shall love Scha. Brave resolution O the fond thoughts of man awake Euno I le find stratagems There shall be Physick to purge this disease light sores are gently us'd but such a part must be cut off left it infect the heart Amar. Schahin Our Tutor we command this night be solemniz'd with all delightfull sports thy learn'd invention best can thinke upon Prepare a Maske which lively represents how once the Gods did love that shall not teach us by examples but we 'll smile to thinke how poore and weake their idle faining was to our affection Schahin be free in wit and suddaine now come my Kingdomes Bride Hymen would wed himselfe to such a Bride Exeunt all but Schahin Actus 1. Scena 2. Schah. Nature and all those universall powers which shew'd such admirable Godlike skill in framing this true modell of our selves this Man this thing cal'd man why doe you thus make him a spectacle of such laughter for you when in each man we see a Monarchy For as in states all fortunes still attend So with a Kingdome with a compleat state will govern'd and well manag'd in him selfe both each man beares when that best part of man Reason doth sway and rule each Passion Affections are good Servants but if Will makes them once Master they 'l prove Tyrants still No more King now poore Subject AMURATH whom I have seen breake through a Troope of Men like lightning from a Cloud and done those Acts which ' ene the Furies would have trembled at Treading downe Armies as if by them he meant of dead mens backes to build up staires to Heaven And now ly'th lurking in a womans armes drencht in the Lethe of Ignoble lust appoints me for the wanton Engineer to keepe his so loose thoughts in smoothing tune Woman enticing woman golden hooke to catch our thoughts and when we once are caught to drag 's into the publike view of shame And there we lye bath'd in incestuous pleasure for all good men to laugh and scorne at once Bane to my senses I could eyther wish our birth were like those Creatures which we say Are bred from putrid and corrupted matter Then that we should acknowledge our deare being with grasse and flowers for what else is our state up to the top But then the waight shall fall upon their head that caus'd it Worke my braine tush bloud no● water must wash off this staine Exit Scena 3. Actus 1. Enter Amurath in state with Nobles Eumorphe with attendant Ladies while Amurath ascends his Throne and placeth Eumorphe by him Am. Shine here my beauty and expell the night more than a thousand starres that grace the Heavens Me thinkes I see the Gods inventing shapes in which they meane to court thee Jove he frownes and is more jealous more suspitious of thee then all the painted Truls whose eyes bedeck the all ennamel'd Firmament Eum. Beauty my Lord 't is the worst part of woman a weake poore thing assaulted every hour by creeping minutes of defacing time A superficies which each breath of care blasts off and every humerous streame of griefe which flowes from forth these Fountaines of our eyes washeth away as raine doth Winters snow But those blest guiders of all Nuptiall rites have wrought a better cement to make fast the hearts of Lovers the true name of Wife guilds o're our thrones with a more constant shape than can be subject or to time or care And in our selves yea in our owne true brests we have obedience duty carefull Love And last and best of all we may have Children Children are Hymens pledges these shall be perpetuall chaines to linke my Lord and me Amur. Art thou a Woman Goddesse we adore and Idolize what we but loved before What Divels have men beene whose furious braines have oft abus'd that Deity cald Woman dipping their Ravens quil in Stygian Inke to blast such heavenly paper as your faces Were all the enticing lusts damn'd policies prodigious fascinations unsearcht thoughts dissembled

in this weak condition to repute our selves above the stroak of Lady Chance a caution must divine it ever fixt that whilst her checks equally fall out community should ease their bitterness I could afresh now shed those Princely tears to think such suddain ruine should attend Heroick spirits glittering in bright arms But if the Graecian when he heard the dreams disputed subtilly by Philosophers to prove innumerable extant worlds was struck with pensiveness and wept to think he had not yet obtain'd one for himself what terror can affright a Christians thoughts who knows there is a world at liberty to breath in when this glass of life is broke our Foes with circling fury are intrencht Pelions of Earth and darkness shall orelade them whilst we shall mount and these our spirits light shall be yet ponderous to depress them lower Nay my Enthusiastick soul divines That some weak hand shall from the blazing Zone snatch Lightning which shall strike the snarling Cur with horror and amazement to the Earth which Hell cannot oppose Turk Tyrannize stand yet at length to fall my sacrifice Super Olympick vigor will no doubt squeez all thy supercilious rancor out Exeunt in a March Scena 3. Actus 5. The Heavens seem on fire Comets and blazing Stars appear Amurath speaks Am. Who set the world on fire How now ye Heavens grow you so proud that you must needs put on curl'd locks and cloth your selves in Periwigs of fire Mahomet say not but I invoke thee now command the puny-Christians demi-God put out those flashing sparks those Ignes fatui or I 'le unseat him or with my Looks so shake the staggring props of his weak seated Throne that he shall finde he shall have more to do to quell one Amurath than the whole Gyant brood of those same Sons of Earth than ten Lycaons Do the poor snaks so love their misery that they would see it by these threatning lights Dare ye blaze still I 'le toss up Buckets full of Christians blood to quench you by those hairs drag you beneath the Center there put out all your presaging flames in Phlegeton Can you outbrave me with your pidling Lights Yawn earth with Casements as wide as hell it self Vault opens Burn heaven as ardent as the Lemnian flames wake pale Tisiphon spend all thy snakes Be Eacus and Minos as severe as if the Goale delivery of us all were the next Sessions I le pull Radamant by his flaming furres from out his Iron Chaire Whilst he is in his fury arise four Fiends framed like Turkish Kings but black his supposed Predecessors daunce about him to a kind of hideous noyse sing this Song following 1. Fiend Horror dismal cryes and yells Of these thy Grandsires thee fore-tels Furies sent of thee to learn Crimes which they could nere discern All. Furies sent c. 2. Fiend O Amurath thy Father 's come To warn thee of a suddain doome Which in Cassanoe's fields attends To bring thee to thy hellish friends All. Which in Cassanoes c. 3. Fiend Megaera and Ennio both do stand Trembling lest when thou art damn'd Chief of Furies thou shouldst be And they their snakes resigne to thee All. Chief of Furies c. 4. Fiend Terror we a while will leave thee Till Cocytus Lake receive thee Cerberus will quake for feare Where he a new Turks fate shall heare All. Cerberus will c. Amu. Now who the divel sent my Grandsires hither Had Pluto no task else to set them too He should have bound them to Ixions wheel or bid them roule the stone of Sysiphus Beshrew me but their singing did not please me Have they not been so drunk with Lethe yet as to forget me They can portend no ill for should the fates be twining my last thread yet none durst come from hell to tell me so Shall I be scar'd with a Night-walking Ghost or what my working fancy shall present Why I can look more terrible then night and command darknesse in the unwilling day Make Hecate start and draw back her head to wrap it in a swarthy vaile of clouds Drop sheets of Sulphure you prodigious skyes Cyclops run all thy Bullets into Aetna then vomit them at once should Christians couch to the bottomlesse abysse of Styx or hide themselves under Avernaes shade this arm should fetch them out Day must perform what I intend wrath raines a bloody storm And now 'gins rise the Sun which yet not knows the misery it shall see on Amuraths Foes Lords Leaders Captaines Enter Schahin and others Scha. Your Highnesse up so soon Amu. He small rest takes that dreames on nought but bloody broyles and death Schah. Your Grace seems much distempered Beds of sweat bedew your brows with never-wonted paleness Am. Why see you not The heavens are turn'd Court Ladies and put on other Hair besides their own canst guess learn'd Schahin what these flames portend Schah. My Lord such things as these we men must see and wonder at and yet not search the reason perchance unwholsom fogs exhailed by th' Sun are set a blazing by his too neer heat but 't is not lawful that a mortal eye should dare to penetrate Heavens secrecy Am. Doth it not bode a Conquest Schah. Yes ' gainst the Christians for unto them it bends sinister looks and frowns upon their Army more than ours Amur. So so come on ere Phosphorus appear let 's too 't and so prevent that sluggard Sol. If we want Light we 'll from our Whinyards strike fire enough to scorch the Universe Mine Armour there Some go for his Armour Now Mahomet I implore thy promist Aid for this auspicious day toss me aloft and make me ride on Clouds If my Horse fail me those fire breathing jades which the boy Phaëthon knew not how to guide will I pluck out from out the flaming Team and hurle my self against those condense Spheares on which I 'le sit and stay their turning Orbs the whole vertigious Circle shall stand still but to behold me Mine Armour ho They bring his Armour So help on here now like Alcides do I girt my self with well knit sinewes able to stagger Earth and threaten Nature with a second Chaos If one impetuous broyl remain to come in future ages set on foote this houre How well this weight of steele bents my strength Me thinks the Gods stand quivering and doe feare when I am arm'd another Phlege●'s neare Chiron shall see his Piadus at my feet And I le climbe up to heaven and pull it downe and kick the weighty burden of the world from off the Babies shoulders that supports it for I am safer Buckled ' gainst my foe then sturdy Jason who by th' inchanted charmes Medea gave encountred Unicornes Queld Lyons struggl'd with fire-belching Buls obtain'd a glorious prize a Fleece A Fleece dipt deepe in tincture of the Christ'ans bloud shall be my spoyle nay should they hide their heads in their Gods bosome here 's a sword shall reach them Come

hadst rank'd the confus'd Chaos of all sins thou couldst not have found out a fault more black more stinking more infectious to my heart Art like my mother O transcendent crime Child Some say I 'm eyd like her but in the face I do resemble most the King my father Pyl. Poor babe Orest The King thy father yes too like them both Child Electra says I 'm somewhat like Orestes her brother that is dead Orest How like Orestes when didst see him child Child Indeed I never saw him but I love him Pyl. Alas dear friend see the pretty knave Ore Would thou wert not my mothers I could weep but see O see now my relenting heart must now grow flinty see my father see now to shew pity were impiety Enter Agamemnons ghost passing o're the stage all wounded Ghost Why flaggs revenge see thy now yeelding soul made me burst ope my strong jaw'd sepulcher and rip the seare-cloth from my wounded breast O can a child smile blanke the memory of all these horrid wounds that make me groan in the darke caverns of the uncoucht earth from whence I come for to infect thy soul with ayre of vengeance may make Acheron yea and our selves at the performance quake Fruit of our loynes first vigor of our youth look on these wounds as on the Gorgons head and turn thy heart to stone hovering revenge is falne into thy hands O grasp her close by her snake knotted front and make her do things may incite a horror to her self Forget all mother in that disloyal witch whose damned heate raging in strumpets blood so soon did condescend to murther me By all the rights of Father I conjure thee By Atreus Atreus he whose revengeful soul is eccho'd through the world superlative do thou make Nemesis as great a feast and be enthroniz'd in her fiery chaire in her triumphant chariot ever ride in which Beares hurry her from the womb of hell and bear this Title as thy deserved hire the brave revenger of thy murdred sire Think on me and revenge Exit Orest Stay stay and see 't stay Sprite thou strik'st no terror to my soul For unamaz'd I now would dare out-look ranks of Medusa's and the grim aspect of the most frowning object hell affords Think on me and revenge yes those two words shall serve as burthen unto all my acts I will revenge and then I 'll think on thee I 'll think on thee and then again revenge and stab and wound and still I 'll think on thee I have a dropsie now to suck up fumes and drink the reaking streams of vengeance fome Great Agamemnons Ghost I will bedew thy hearse with blood in stead of brinish tears and build a pile up of their murdered trunks to burn thy marrow-lesse consumed bones Arrows of forked lightening never flew more swiftly from the awful arms of Jove then Nemesis black Scorpions from me Pyl. 'T was a strange sight Ore I didst thou see 't friend all of those wounds will I stick in his brest Pyl. Alas one will be enough for him Orest I but she shall have more A while go by Pylades takes the child aside Were all the world their lives the world should die Now Tragedy fetch out thy crimson robes and buckle sure thy purple buskins on steep't ten grains deeper in their scarlet die this night shall give me now a deep carouse of Clytemnestrae's and Aegystheus blood and Cerberus himself stand by to pledge me whilest to hells fire I shall sacrifice three Hecatombs it doth the furies good when e'r we wet their Altars with such blood And now ye fiends of hell each take a place as 't were spectators at a first dayes play raise all the hellish winds to expel nature Great Goddesse give me leave now to forget all strains of duty all obedient thoughts die in me quite a mothers memory pious affections take no hold on me Be all my senses circled in with Fiends and let Erynnis hold her flaming brand to guide my murderous sword for all lights else vanish from out this Center be this room fraught so full of mischief may make the Fabrick crack and let no time now come into my thoughts but that dire night wherein my father dy'd I 'll only be a Doctor now in word each potion that I give shall be my sword But I must change Scena 8. Enter Aegystheus and Clytemnestra in their night-robes Aegyst O Doctor you are busie for our coming Orest My gracious Lord I had no cause to fail Orestes looking on the cups Clyt. Nay but is this fit time for physick Doctor Orest First Madam for the physick that I give now the diastal fabrick of your pulse shews all your passions most hysterical Pleaseth your Grace sit down on at each end o' th table Aegyst Yes must we sit sit there my Queen Orest Yes now is Saturn governour of nature in free conjunction with the planet Venus And just at this time Jupiter begat great Hercules Sol Luna Mercury in that Diameter now favour propagation and now will my Alexipharmacon stir the Analeptick veines and arteries If you out-live this night you 'll live to see a royal strange and Princely progeny Aegyst Think'st thou so Doctor Orest Think it nay I know 't Hem. Clyt. Surely he means to work rare Art upon us Aegy. Pray God thy physick take Ore Yes it shall take Hem. Pylades binds Clytemnestra to the chair Orestes Egystheus Pylades brings in the child Egy. Treason we are betraid Or. Nay t is your privat'st room View me wel mother ha do you know me yet Puts off his gown Here here 's the drugs my Art hath thought upon be pitilesse now Pylades be my friend Child O help me father else these men will kill me Egyst O my boy my boy Orest O ye 'r fast bound Yes he is thine thy face thy eyes thy heart and would I knew where Nature had couchd most of thy damnd blood I thus would let it out Stabs the child and thus 't should sprit in thy most loathed face Egy. O now the heavens rain vengeance on our heads Child O mother mother save me save me father Orest Hold Pylades be steadfast for by he wounds me that perswades me not to wound Clyt. O turn thy bloody weapon on my brest 't was this womb that brought forth this babe and thee If that be guilty I have made it so Rip up this place which first did bring thee forth 't is I intreat thee 't is thy mother she which gave thee hous-room here within this brest upon whose dugs thy infant lips did hang. Orest It was my father he intreated you who many a time had clipt you in his arms who made you Queen of Greece yes it was he good Agamemnon he did plead for life Egyst Bath not thy hands in a poor infants blood nor in thy mothers I deserve to die and yet remember how my doom sav'd thee how easily mercy did obtain her