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Love and war a tragedy / written by Tho. Meriton.
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Meriton, Thomas, b. 1638.
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1658
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Wing M1822; ESTC R29528
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course more plainer then doth I In your bright Horizon the sphere of hope Wherein my restlesse will doth make her Orb. While Titan drives four prauncing Horses That needs neither whip nor bridle so move I To please the tender affection of your Princely grace take not in least in heart My bad attempt which flyes by the swift wings of ignorance guided by staffe of folly Ranging within the bowers of restlesse will Seeking the corners of vain bad defigns Still let them fly for refuge to your grace Let them there take their most reserving place Adre You are most hollow-hearted while you see No good there is in gaining what your will Hath minde to work its force you then detard Most fatigated in that what your purpose was Desist your talk I leave your presence Holl. I Stand submissive as becomes your Son And wait your royal Person Exeunt Scen. 6. Aberden Yernomoy Fafrisius Buzaraine Nev•rmo Aber. The Legate is dismist from them 't is well Their answer riseth so high against our will Which hath bid stern Mars stand off and the Brute Of troy-novant his race hath stood with his Shoulders pending to the ground by its Massy and assured w•ight blest in the Perifery of a swallowing main burst Great Numenia's wall make skies to eccho As you do at Rome when Pope stand elevated Quell you their voyce by your secret harmony That will make Hercules for to wonder And Leo rejoyce to hear such single notes And Tygers repeat it as a loving Song That when the Inhabitants hear struck with the Amazement of a terrours will terming it Thunder let Auster Boreas and the other two Of Cardinall points your fame blow aloud In represention of wrongs new redrest Not to be vail'd by curtain of a foe Or frightment but fully resolved to be Revenged of th' quarrell and his Majesty Yer Our glorious purpose like the sparkling star Gives light in dark when leaden Saturn stands Nigh on his side whose pale-fac'd tanyed state Makes splendor rise of th•••ar above the rest When all the mists and watrish vapours of The middle Region cannot withstand him But like a Diamond among •ebble stones Cast bighter blaze above the rest then them So we proceed excell the others hope Faf. Liberty stands bound when with the crafty Whistle or second sound of their advanced Pinnions dives to the burroughs of a Childish fear we will afford upon their Terrestiall plains such unheard language That shall not by graduation but at first Seize on their clownish brains and endue Our native Land unto posterity With victorious praise Buza Right Fafrisius The caelestiall Quiers runs counter for to Gain us trophies by their help for the Globe Which was the Antipodes Land is now ours By fortunes onely guiding by womens Innocent looks strives with her force and will To have all good for us and nothing ill Nev. Your speeches are fully poys'd no venture done No good is had we 'l strike an oblick cross Unto their Land if 't be for no cause else But for our Countries good as for our King That all the Penates with divine sound Blesse all the Cities Towns and Castles of our Land With most tranquillous times Linraides Spreads Fields with Flora's Vesprey and that Sol May have perpetuall motion in the Ram Though hot and chollerick yet a handsome Spring which shall bestow on this the Title Of a fruitfull soyl Abe Your souls are generous To the last Yer And doth hope for to endure Aber. As long as blood doth warm the heart Faf. We will not flinch our ground Aber. Your valour 's stout Much like a Trojan blade Buz Or Irish Moor Who never stept from him that gain'd Ground Aber. Then you will fight Nev. VVe will my Leige Aber. Then let valour range her course go see what Ships are rig'd and Gallies fit for sayl That in two hours space or lesse we may Bestride the Sea with the whole Navy of Our Army ten thousand Ships well prepared To bear within concaves of their vast Great bellies both men and Ammunition Shot under the conduct of Hollarro Prince Twelve thousand horse and forty thousand foot Bearing the colours of a golden Ball Set in a large black field with chevern of Three Mullits ore next him you Yernomoy Bring up a wing of thirty thousand foot Furnish'd with pike and sword musket and bandalere And all displayed with Griffins rampant on Their shield so you Fafrisius follow next With nine thousand horse well saddled bearing A Rose upon their Armes beset in Arg. Buzaraine with your Captains and the rest As Nevermo stand you a distance from the rest VVith nine thousand both of foot and horse To aid these Lords if that need require VVhat subject you take bring home unto my Queen These are all your precepts Omnes Heavens bless Aberden King and prosper his success Exeunt Scen. 7. Chorus Song 1. 1. Acteon was not wise Diana him espies And caused him to be by Dogs tor• Because he did her see Naked with modesty And grac'd him with two horns before 2. Hellen she was most fair Paris thought none compare Unto her well shap'd soul and face She did at length destr•y That famous City Troy And caus'd both famine and disgrace 3. Demonica that Queen VV•o for lucre and gain Pe•raid Ephesus with a wile Unto Brennus that man VVhich afterwards became His sole distruction and exile 4. And Atalanta she Did chaste Peleus see Would not give way unto her will She falsely did accuse and basely did abuse Him to Acasius of ill Song 2. You see by these four examples how women they do fail In any matter that mantles the good in ill prevail They seek with sweet sugard words And all things that pleasure affords for to destroy their onely joy b• they •ar Knights or Lords Then fie upon this world that such a thing should be Then let us leave those silly brats that do perdition bring And discourse of more serious that 's belonging Aberden He draws his stout Capt•ins •n And his potent Army long against his foe which he doth know to be of the same throng Then fie upon this world that such a thing should be Act 3. Scen. 1. Celerinus Burgargo Orestes Sisterus Derisius Gervoron Burnomoy Souldiers Ensign Drums Flagge Cel. THeir first arrival on Numenia's Land They purchased it by a Legion of Their sacrificed lives Aberdens men Were new beginners in those stratagems Their Armour was no friend but plai'd a foe To their well nigh and half sweltred bodies Our trenches work by wisdom not by force While we like Trojans stood and maz'd their folly Come brave souls le ts meet them in the front Bur. Let them strike anchor in our barren forts While there no controversie riseth on ground For their determed wills to make a choyce Whether Sea or Land afford their execution Though AE•lus confirm with Neptunes Blustering noyse on the azure gliding Seas Which hoysteth to th' memory a panick fear
court their Garlands miseries Ceres doth lavish forth her full ripe ears Venus complains her selfe with watrish fears Iuno is lumpish and her love is gone Pallas turn'd foolish and she wit hath none Mars rules full out with his most severe look Themis stands potent with her justice book Nemesis is troubled from the funded deep Morpheus is waken from his creeping sleep Apoll• stands smiling at their folly so Iove bids me fight and know my friend from foe Per. More aid shall come I 'l fetch them out my self Exit Per. Qu. Great Prince my valour risse beyond its bounds All for your Fathers right Holl. Now let Burgargo come my weapon's fixt To play its part pierce tender bowel with Its three form'd point and make his blood Still wait upon his shooes Scen. 3. Burgargo following the flight Bur. Stand still your ground the day breaks from the Skies for to discern the foe my hands are over loaded by the spoyls of this days labour While some lie gasping others crying loud Here leggs there arms all bodies mortified My spirit thirsts to see the Prince Hollarro And to change Gloves with him try valour at The point of naked nimble swords Oh Goddesse blind thou fortune hath inforc'd To shew my progress of my lingering dayes In this brave soul so stand prepare to fight Hol. Your worthy carriage shews as much nay more After the encounter of our steelly blades Let after victory either rise or fall And let Astrea poyse the truest cause By this the combate of our martial will So General come on stand see your selfe Bur. Your valour 's to be prais'd he that dare Twist his hand with me must have a grace More then such young years can put forth I praise thy courage but not thy discretion Because thou runs upon thy death They fight and he wounds Hollarro Hol. Desist your purpose till I close my wound The blood speaks on my cause a fury leads •y temper now stand still and pause and then • will renew the second blow Bur. Vain purpose of your will to strive with him Who alwayes return'd with victory in his hands You cherish folly in a strange conceit strive with a weaker hand for to oppose A decreed sense which is much stronger Yet shall it not be utter'd with a voyce I kill'd thee unawares but take thy time Holl. Rest upon your blade ground its point The time runs in swift motion to one Of our ends the Elizium field doth open Large her panting soul for to disgorge The vicious humour of our Fabricke Within that space the which we shall possesse Rewards stand ushering in our power To have the Crown allotted by those Saints Come lend your force again I now prepare For to receive my death by your unnaturall Hand Bur. Fortune support then both our hands Valour with-drawes unskilful helps And shews a fair prospect to a foul design They fight and he gives Burgargo a deadly wound Burg. Hold hold I dye take you the day And Crown your self with Trophies of my blood Your riper years sprung in a blossome stout Shall be Encomium to Bruzantia My spirit it doth vanish as my blood Flowes from the veins sending by legate cause All praise to your most severe stoutest arm * * sighs Oh my breath is prov'd an airy substance now I wish it were confin'd a longer space To run its course that I my King may shew The man gave me this wound him to exalt Above the rest by Title degree and honour * * sighs Oh now the fading hour-glass consumes its sand Each corn a drop of blood and the three fates Come with their hungry appetite to cut My fatall end and blood doth b•bble by The hottest combate that us two did fight * * sighs Oh I must I must the bones begin to be Afraid of flesh the sinews stand at difference All my body cold save onely heart doth Leap by its extremity of pains and Hot with sorrow * * staggers I come I come make room Amongst you ghosts see there be place for Me I dye Falls dow• and dies Hol. Thou dyes then like a man whose breath did bear The whole Numenia's Land in a subjection The onely pillar of thy Countries good Death hath surpris'd the conquest of thy soul And this thy trickling blood that 's here display'd Doth shew thy progeny to take its flight From rutus or other greater Monarch My spirit 's sorry for such a thrice noble friend Derisius enters Holl. Return return thou runs upon thy death Deris Draw in that sulphurous breath I live and Here my Generall he lies slain no no Fight Deris falls and dyes Hol. Die slave as thou hast been ordained Exit Hol. Quer. turns the bodies over and over to see whether they be dead or no Quer. R•bi• dead dead Iack dead dead are you Or no faith if you be not I 'le make you He drawes his Sword I 'le panch you Rogue• and make you know What I am what not Deris shakes his legge and Quer. runs away but after draws nigh again Dead still but stir you hang You hang you I 'le have one of you sure Enough come away come away come come He trayles Deris off the Stag• by his hea• Scen. 4. Yernom•y Yer Fight fight the day 's our own Squeeze forth thy spleen with a censorious frown And turn my serious blows into a wrack of gall Deliver'd to my sight ten thousand men Were slain and like an Abyssus did the earth Inclose all in a lump converting so Their oakey chaists into a putrid form And these my Robes a badge receives from those Of honour pomp and glory to the day I follow them my selfe so the compunction Of their boyling blood did then rebate My f•rm•r st••mes into most pleasant cal•s Stand stand thou slave B•rnomoy enters Bur. I fear no Rebell such an one as thee They fight he kills Yerno Consume thy selfe to ashes and there lie My Generall Burgargo what thou kill'd What mortall motion propagated it This cannot be withstood but hymns must sound And El•gies complain thy dolefull fall The Firmament crack with a thunder and The stars want light at this thy funerall A marble shall inclose thy sacred soul But cause its nature weeps and may be term'd for thee Exit Bur. and carries out Burg. Aberd•n Hollarro Fafrisius Buzarai Nevermo Orestes Sisterus taken captives and bound Perpurgerus Quermero Souldiers Fla• Ensigns Drums aretreat Aber. We contemn liberty and honour with the same By a most sottish will and by idlenesse Their ranks dispers'd doth inflame fear with it The blew pavillions in which comfort liv'd Are routed by the heavens stormy blasts His Forts demolished and his Army broke Into a hundred squadrons not able To do a damage to our potent strength His Subjects hear our captives and his chiefs Of all the Souldiers slain shot powder by Them vanished all Bulworks they consum'd The best politick way that must come here