Alphonsus can reuenge thy wrong with speed Sound Trumpets and Drummes Now to Albinius which in all my toyles I haue both faithfull yea and friendly found Since that the Gods and friendly Fates assigne This present time to me to recompence The sundry pleasures thou hast done to me Sit downe by them and on thy faithfull head Take the Crowne from thy owne head Receiue the Crowne of peerlesse Aragon Albi. Pardon deare Lord Albinius at this time It ill becomes me for to weare a Crowne When as my Lord is destitute himselfe Why high Alphonsus if I should receiue This Crowne of you the which high Ioue forbid Where would your selfe obtaine a Diadem Naples is gone Millaine possessed is And nought is left for you but Aragon Alphon. And nought is left for me but Aragon Yes surely yes my Fates haue so decreed That Aragon should be too base a thing For to obtaine Alphonsus for her King What heare you not how that our scattered foes Belinus Fabius and the Millaine Duke Are fled for succour to the Turkish Court And thinke you not that Amurack their King Will with the mightiest power of all his land Seeke to reuenge Belinus ouerthrow Then doubt I not but ere these broyles do end Alphonsus shall possesse the Diadem That Amurack now weares vpon his head Sit downe therefore and that receiue of mee The which the Fates appointed vnto thee Albi. Thou king of heauen which by thy power diuine Dost see the secrets of each liuers heart Beare record now with what vnwilling mind I do receiue the Crowne of Aragon Albinius sit downe by Laelius Miles Alphonsus set the Crowne on his head and say Alphon. A rise Albinius King of Aragon Crowned by me who till my gasping ghost Do part asunder from my breathlesse corpes Will be thy shield against all men aliue That for thy kingdome any way do striue Sound Trumpets and Drummes Now since we haue in such an happie houre Confirmd three kings come let vs march with speed Into the Citie for to celebrate With mirth and ioy this blisfull festiuall Exeunt omnes Enter Amurack the great Turke Belinus Fabius Arcastus King of Moores Claramount King of Barbery Baiazet a Lord with their train Amu. Welcome Belinus to thy cosens Court Whose late arriuall in such posting pace Doth bring both ioy and sorrow to vs all Sorrow because the Fates haue bene so false To let Alphonsus driue thee from thy land And ioy since that now mightie Mahomet Hath giuen me cause to recompence at full The sundry pleasures I receiu'd of thee Therefore Belinus do but aske and haue For Amurack doth grant what ere you craue Beli. Thou second sun which with thy glimsing beames Doest clarifie each corner of the earth Belinus comes not as earst Mydas did To mightie Bacchus to desire of him That what so ere at any time he toucht Might turned be to gold incontinent Nor do I come as Iuppiter did erst Vnto the Pallace of Amphitrion For any fond or foule concupiscence Which I do beare to Alcumenaes hew But as poore Saturne forst by mightie Ioue To flie his Countrey banisht and forlorne Did craue the aide of Troos King of Troy So comes Belinus to high Amurack And if he can but once your aide obtaine He turnes with speed to Naples backe againe Amu. My aide Belinus do you doubt of that If all the men at armes of Affrica Of Asia likewise will sufficient be To presse the pompe of that vsurping mate Assure thy selfe thy kingdome shal be thine If Mahomet say I vnto the same For were I sure to vanquish all our foes And find such spoiles in ransacking their Tents As neuer any Keisar did obtaine Yet would I not set foote forth of this land If Mahomet our iourney did withstand Beli. Nor would Belinus for King Craesus trash Wish Amurack to displease the Gods In pleasuring me in such à trifling toy Then mightie Monarch if it be thy will Get their consents and then the act fulfill Amu. You counsel well therefore Belinus haste And Claramount go beare him companie With King Arcastus to the Citie walles Then bend with speed vnto the darksome groue Where Mahomet this many a hundred yeare Hath prophesied vnto our auncesters Tell to his Priests that Amurack your King Is now selecting all his men at armes To set vpon that proud Alphonsus troupe The cause you know and can enforme him well That makes me take these bloudie broyles in hand And say that I desire their sacred God That Mahomet which ruleth all the skies To send me word and that most speedely Which of vs shall obtaine the victory Exeunt omnes preter Baiazet and Amurack You Baiazet go poste away apace To Siria Scythia and Albania To Babylon with Mesopotamia Asia Armenia and all other lands Which owe their homage to high Amurack Charge all their Kings with expedition To gather vp the choesest men at armes Which now remaine in their dominions And on the twentie day of the same month To come and wait on Amurack their King At his chiefe Citie Constantinople Tell them moreouer that who so doth faile Nought else but death from prison shall him baile Exit Baiazet Assoone as he is gone sound musicke within What heauenly Musicke soundeth in my eare Peace Amurack and hearken to the same Sound musicke hearken Amurack and fall a sleepe Enter Medea Fausta the Empresse Iphigina her daughter Medea Now haue our charmes fulfild our minds full well High Amurack is lulled fast a sleepe And doubt I not but ere he wakes againe You shall perceiue Medea did not gibe When as she put this practise in your mind Sit worthie Fausta at thy spowse his feete Fausta and Iphigina sit downe at Amuracks feete Iphigina sit thou on the other side What ere you see be not agast thereat But beare in mind what Amurack doth chat Medea do ceremonies belonging to coniuring and say Thou which wert wont in Agamemnons dayes To vtter forth Apolloes Oracles At sacred Delphos Calchas I do meane I charge thee come all lingring set aside Vnles the pennance you thereof abide I coniure thee by Plutoes loathsome lake By all the hags which harbour in the same By stinking Stix and filthie Flegeton To come with speed and truly to fulfill That which Medea to thee streight shall will Rise Calehas vp in a white Cirples and a Cardinals Myter and say Cal. Thou wretched witch when wilt thou make an end Of troubling vs with these thy cursed Charmes What meanst thou thus to call me from my graue Shall nere my ghost obtaine his quiet rest Me. Yes Calchas yes your rest doth now approch Medea meanes to trouble thee no more When as thou hast fulfild her mind this once Go get thee hence to Pluto backe againe And there enquire of the Destinies How Amurack shall speed in these his warres Peruse their bookes and marke what is decreed By Ioue himselfe and all his fellow Gods And when thou knowst the certaintie thereof By fleshlesse visions
brood Shall brooke his foe for to vsurpe his seate Hee le die the death with honour in the field And so his life and sorrowes briefly end But did I know my froward fate were such As I should faile in this my iust attempt This sword deare father should the Author be To make an end of this my Tragedie Therefore sweet sire remaine you here a while And let me walke my Fortune for to trie I do not doubt but ere the time be long I le quite his cost or else my selfe will die Cari. My noble sonne since that thy mind is such For to reuenge thy fathers foule abuse As that my words may not a whit preuaile To stay thy iourney go with happie fate And soone returne vnto thy fathers Cell With such a traine as Iulius Cesar came To noble Rome when as he had atchiu'd The mightie Monarch of the triple world Meane time Carinus in this sillie groue Will spend his daies with praier and horizons To mightie Ioue to further thine intent Farewell deare sonne Alphonsus fare you well Exit Alphon. And is he gone then hie Alphonsus hie To trie thy fortune where thy fates do call A noble mind disdaines to hide his head And let his foes triumph in his ouerthrow Enter Albinius Alphonsus makes as though thou goest out Albinius Albi. What loytring follow haue we spied here Presume not villaine further her for to go Vnles you do at length the same repent Alphonsus comes towards Albinius Alphon. Villain saist thou nay vilain in thy throat What knowst thou skipnick whom thou vilain calst Albi. A common vassall I do villaine call Alphon. That shalt thou soone approoue perswade thy self Or else I le die or thou shalt die for me Albi. What do I dreame or do my dazeling eies Deceiue me I st Alphonsus that I see Doth now Medea vse her wonted charmes For to delude Albinius fantasie Or doth black Pluto king of darke Auerne Seeke to flout me with his counterfait His bodie like to Alphonsus framed is His face resembles much Alphonsus hewe His noble mind declares him for no les T is he indeed wo worth Albinius Whose babling tong hath causde his owne annoy Why doth not Ioue send from the glittring skies His Thunder bolts to chastice this offence Why doth dame Terra cease with greedie iawes To swallow vp Albinius presently What shall I flie and hide my trayterous head From stout Alphonsus whom I so misusde Or shall I yield Tush yeelding is in vaine Nor can I flie but he will follow me Then cast thy selfe downe at his graces feete Confesse thy fault and readie make thy brest To entertaine thy well deserued death Albinius kneels downe Alph. What newes my friend why are you so blanke That earst before did vaunt it to the skies Albi. Pardon deare Lord Albinius pardon craues For this offence which by the heauen I vowe Vnwittingly I did vnto your grace For had I knowne Alphonsus had bene here Ere that my tongue had spoke so trayterously This hand should make my very soule to die Alphon. Rise vp my friend thy pardon soon is got But prithi tell me what the cause might be That in such sort thou erst vpbraidedst me Albinius ryses vp Haue compassed the circle of the skie I le clog their toongs since nothing else will serue To keep those vilde and threatning speeches in Farwell Belinus loke thou to thy selfe Alphonsus meanes to haue thy Crowne ere night Exit Alphonsus Beli. What is he gone the diuel break his necke The fiends of hell torment his traiterous corpes Is this the quittance of Belinus grace Which he did shewe vnto that thankles wretch That runnagate that rachell yea that theefe For well I wot he hath robd me of a Crowne If euer he had sprung from gentle blood He would not thus misuse his fauourer Albi. That runnagate that rachel yea that theef Stay their sir King your mouth runnes ouer much It ill becomes the subiect for to vse Such trayterous termes against his soueraigne Know thou Belinus that Carinus sonne Is neither rachel nor runnagate But be thou sure that ere the darksome night Do driue God Phaebus to his Thetis lap Both thou and all the rest of this thy traine Shall well repent the words which you haue saine Beli. What traiterous villain dost thou threaten me Lay hold on him and see he do not scape I le teach the slaue to know to whom he speakes To thee I speake and to thy fellowes all And though as now you haue me in your power Yet doubt I not but that in litle space These eyes shall see thy treason recompenst And then I meane to vaunt of our victorie Beli. Nay proud Albinius neuer build on that For though the Gods do chance for to appoynt Alphonsus victor of Belinus land Yet shalt thou neuer liue to see that day And therefore Fabius stand not lingring But presently slash off his trayterous head Albi. Slash off his head as though Albinius head Were then so easie to be slashed off In faith sir no when you are gone and dead I hope to flourish like the pleasant spring Beli. Why how now Fabius what do you stand in doubt To do the deed what feare you who dares seeke For to reuenge his death on thee againe Since that Belinus did commaund it so Or are you waxt so daintie that you dare Not vse your sword for staining of your hands If it be so then let me see thy sword And I will be his butcher for this time Fabius giue Belinus thy sword drawne Belinus say as followeth Now sir Albinius are you of the minde That erst you were what do you looke to see And triumph in Belinus ouerthrow I hope the very sight of this my blade Hath chaungde your minde into an other tune Albi. Not so Belinus I am constant still My minde is like to the Abeston stone Which if it once be heat in flames of fire Deineth to becommen colde againe Euen so am I and shall be till I die And though I should see Attropos appeare With knife in hand to slit my threed in twaine Yet nere Albinius should perswaded be But that Belinus he should vanquisht see Beli. Nay then Albinius since that words are vaine For to perswade you from this heresie The sword shall sure put you out of doubt Belinus offers to strike off Albinius head strike vp alarum ener Alphonsus and his men flie Belinus and Fabius follow Alphonsus and Albinius Enter Laelius Milos and his seruants Laeli. My noble Lords of Aragon I know You wonder much what might the occasion be That Laelius which earst did flie the field Doth egge you forwards now vnto the warres But when you heare my reason out of doubt Yow le be content with this my rash attempt When first our King Flaminius I do meane Did set vpon the Neapolitans The worst of you did know and plainly see How farre they were vnable to withstand The mightie forces
of our royall Campe Vntill such time as froward fates we thought Although the fates ordaind it for our gaine Did send a straunger stout whose sturdie blowes And force alone did cause our ouerthrow But to our purpose this same martiall knight Did hap to hit vpon Flaminius And lent our King then such a friendly blow As that his gasping ghost to Lymbo went Which when I sawe and seeking to reuenge My noble Lords did hap on such a prize As neuer King nor Keisar got the like Mi. Laelius of force we must confesse to thee We wondred all when as you did perswade Vs to returne vnto the warres againe But since our maruell is increased much By these your words which sound of happinesse Therefore good Laelius make no tarrying But soone vnfolde thy happie chaunce to vs Lae. Then friends and fellow souldiers hark to me When Laelius thought for to reuenge his king On that same knight in steed of mortall foe I found him for to be our cheefest friend Mi. Our cheefest friend I hardly can beleeue That he which made such bloudie massacres Of stout Italians can in any poynt Beare friendship to the countrey or the King Lae. As for your king Miles I hold with you He beare no friendship to Flaminius But hated him as bloudie Attropos But for your countrey Laelius doth auowe He loues as well as any other land Yea sure he loues it best of all the world And for because you shall not thinke that I Do say the same without a reason why Know that the knight Alphonsus hath to name Both sonne and heire to olde Carinus whom Flaminius sire bereaued of his Crowne Who did not seeke the ruine of our host For any enuie he did beare to vs But to reuenge him on his mortall foe Which by the helpe of high celestiall Ioue He hath atchieu'd with honour in the field Mi. Alphonsus man I le nere perswaded be That ere Alphonsus may suruiue againe Who with Carinus many yeares agoe Was said to wander in the stigian fieldes Laeli. Truth Noble Miles these mine eares haue heard For certaintie reported vnto me That olde Carinus with his peerlesse sonne Had felt the sharpnesse of the sisters sheeres And had I not of late Alphonsus seene In good estate though all the world should say He is aliue I would not credit them But fellow souldiers wend you backe with me And let vs lurke within the secret shade Which he himselfe appointed vnto vs And if you find my words to be vntroth Then let me die to recompence the wrong Strike vp alarum Enter Albinius with his sword drawne and say Albi. Laelius make haste souldiers of Aragon Set lingring by and come and helpe your King I meane Alphonsus who whilest that he did Pursue Belinus at the very heeles Was suddenly enuironed about With all the troupes of mightie Millain land Mi. What newes is this and is it very so Is our Alphonsus yet in humane state Whom all the world did iudge for to be dead Yet can I scarce giue credit to the same Giue credit yes and since the Millain Duke Hath broke his league of friendship be he sure Ere Cynthia the shining lampe of night Doth scale the heauens with her horned head Both he and his shall very plainly see The league is burst that caused long the glee Lae. And could the traytor harbor in his brest Such mortall treason gainst his soueraigne As when he should with fire and sword defend Him from his foes he seekes his ouerthrow March on my friends I nere shall ioy at all Vntill I see that bloudie traytors fall Exeunt Strike vp alarum flie Belinus follow Laelius flie Fabius follow Albinius flie the Duke of Millaine follow Miles Act. 3. Strike vp alarum Enter Venus NO sooner did Alphonsus with his troupe Set on the souldiers of Belinus band But that the furie of his sturdie blowes Did strike such terror to their daunted mindes That glad was he which could escape away With life and limme forth of that bloudie fray Belinus flies vnto the Turkish soyle To craue the aide of Amuracke their King Vnto the which he willingly did consent And sends Belinus with two other Kings To know god Mahomets pleasure in the same Meane time the Empresse by Medeas helpe Did vse such charmes that Amuracke did see In soundest sleepe what afterward should hap How Amuracke did recompence her paine With mickle more this Act shall shew you plaine Exit Venus Enter one carrying two Crownes vpon a Crest Alphonsus Albinius Laelius and Miles with their souldiers Alph. Welcome braue youthes of Aragon to me Yea welcome Miles Lalius and the rest Whose prowesse alone hath bene the onely cause That we like victors haue subdued our foes Lord what a pleasure was it to my minde To see Belus which not long before Did with his threatnings terrefie the Gods Now scudde apace from warlike Lalius blowes The Duke of Millaine he increast our sport When doubting that his force was ouerweake For to withstand Miles thy sturdie arme Did giue more credence to his frisking skippes Then to the sharpnesse of his cutting blade What Fabius did to pleasure vs withall Albinius knowes as well as I my selfe For well I wot if that thy tyred steed Had bene as fresh and swift in foote as his He should haue felt yea knowne for certaintie To checke Alphonsus did deserue to die Breefly my friends and fellow peeres in armes The worst of you doo deserue such mickle praise As that my tongue denies for to set forth The demie parcell of your valiant deeds So that perforce I must by dutie be Bound to you all for this your curtesie Mi. Not so my Lord for if our willing armes Haue pleasured you so much as you do say We haue done nought but that becommeth vs For to defend our mightie soueraigne As for my part I count my labour small Yea though it had bene twise as much againe Since that Alphonsus doth accept thereof Alphon. Thankes worthie Miles least all the world Should count Alphonsus thanklesse for to be Laelius sit downe and Miles sit by him And that receiue the which your swords haue wonne Sit downe Laelius and Miles First for because thou Laelius in these broyles By martiall might didst proude Belinus chase From troupe to troupe from side to side about And neuer ceast from this thy swift pursute Vntill thou hadst obtaind his royall Crowne Therefore I say I le do thee nought but right And giue thee that which thou well hast wonne Set the Crowne on his head Here doth Alphonsus Crowne thee Laelius King Of Naples Towne with all dominions That earst belonged to our trayterous foe That proud Belinus in his regiment Sound Trumpets and Drummes Miles thy share the Millaine Dukedome is For well I wot thy sword deseru'd no lesse Set the Crowne on his head The which Alphonsus frankly giueth thee In presence of his warlike men at armes And if that any stomacke this my deed
you can resolue Me of a question that I shall demaund Duke I that I can what euer that it be Cari. Then to be briefe not twentie winters past When these my lims which withered are with age Were in the prime and spring of all their youth I still desirous as yoong gallants be To see the fashions of Arabia My natiue soyle and in this pilgrims weed Began to trauell through vnkenned lands Much ground I past and many soyles I saw But when my feete in Millain land I set Such sumptuous triumphs daily there I saw As neuer in my life I found the like I pray good sir what might the occasion bee That made the Millains make such mirth and glee Duk. This solemne ioy wherof you now do speak Was not solemnized my friend in vaine For at that time there came into the land The happiest tidings that they ere did heare For newes was brought vpon that solemne day Vnto our Court that Ferdinandus proud Was slaine himselfe Carinus and his sonne Were banisht both for euer from Aragon And for these happie newes that ioy was made Cari. But what I pray did afterward become Of old Carinus with his banisht sonne What heare you nothing of them all this while Du. Yes too too much the Millain Duke may say Alphonsus first by secret meanes did get To be a souldier in Belinus warres Wherein he did behaue himselfe so well As that he got the Crowne of Aragon Which being got he dispossest also The King Belinus which had fostered him As for Carinus he is dead and gone I would his sonne were his companion Cari. A blister build vpon that traytors tongue But for thy friendship which thou shewedst me Take that of me I frankly giue it thee Stab him Now will I haste to Naples with all speed To see if Fortune will so fauour me To view Alphonsus in his happie state Exit Carinus Enter Amuracke Crocon King of Arabia Faustus King of Babilon Fabius with the Turkes Ganesaries Amu. Fabius come hither what is that thou sayest What did god Mahound prophecie to vs Why do our Viceroyes wend vnto the warres Before their king had notice of the same What do they thinke to play bob foole with me Or are they waxt so frolicke now of late Since that they had the leading of our bands As that they thinke that mightie Amuracke Dares do no other then to soothe them vp Why speakest thou not what fond or franticke fit Did make those carelesse Kings to venture it Fa. Pardon deare Lord no franticke fit at all No frolicke vaine nor no presumptuous mind Did make your Viceroies take these wars in hand But forst they were by Mahounds prophecie To do the same or else resolue to die Amu. So sir I heare you but can scare beleeue That Mahomet would charge them go before Against Alphonsus with so small a troupe Whose number farre exceeds king Xerxes troupe Fa. Yes Noble Lord and more then that hee said That ere that you with these your warlike men Should come to bring your succour to the field Belinus Claramount and Arcastus too Should al be crownd with crownes of beaten gold And borne with triumphes round about their tēts Amu. With triumph man did Mahound tell them so Prouost go carrie Fabius presently Vnto the Marshalsie there let him rest Clapt sure and safe in fetters all of steele Till Amuracke discharge him from the same For be he sure vnles it happen so As he did say Mahound did prophesie By this my hand forthwith the slaue shall die Lay hold of Fabius and make as though you carrie him out Enter a souldier and say Mess. Stay Prouost stay let Fabius alone More fitteth now that euery lustie lad Be buckling on his helmet then to stand In carrying souldiers to the Marshalsie Amu. Why what art thou That darest once presume For to gainsay that Amuracke did bid Messen. I am my Lord The wretcheds man aliue Borne vnderneath the Planet of mishap Erewhile a souldier of Belinus band But now Amu. What now Mess. The mirror of mishap Whose Captaine is slaine and all his armie dead Onely excepted me vnhappie wretch Amu. What newes is this and is Belinus Slaine Is this the Crowne which Mahomet did say He should with triumph weare vpon his head Is this the honour which that cursed god Did prophesie should hapen to them all Oh Dadalus and wert thou now aliue To fasten wings vpon high Amuracke Mahound should know and that for certaintie That turkish Kings can brooke no iniurie Fabi. Tush tush my Lord I wonder what you meane Thus to exclaime against high Mahomet I le lay my life that ere this day be past You shall perceiue his tidings all be waste Amu. We shall perceiue accursed Fabius Suffice it not that thou hast bene the man That first didst beate those bables in my braine But that to helpe me forward in my greefe Thou seekest to confirme so fowle a lie Stab him Go get thee hence and tell thy trayterous King What gift you had which did such tidings bring And now my Lords since nothing else will serue Buckle your helmes clap on your steeled coates Mount on your steeds take Launces in your hands For Amuracke doth meane this very day Proude Mahomet with weapons to assay Messen. Mercie high Monarch t is no time now To spend the day in such vaine threatnings Against our god the mightie Mahomet More fitteth thee to place thy men at armes In battle ray for to withstand your foes Which now are drawing towards you with speed Sound drummes within Hark how their drummes with dub a dub do come To armes high Lord and set these trifles by That you may set vpon them valiantly Amu. And do they come you kings of Turkie Now is the time in which your warlike armes Must raise your names aboue the starrie skies Call to your minde your predecessors acts Whose martiall might this many a hundred yeare Did keepe those fearefull dogs in dread and awe And let your weapons shew Alphonsus plaine That though that they be clapped vp in clay Yet there be branches sprung vp from those trees In Turkish land which brooke no iniuries Besides the same remember with your selues What foes we haue not mightie Tamberlaine Nor souldiers trained vp amongst the warres But fearefull bodies pickt from their rurall flocke Which till this time were wholy ignorant What weapons ment or bloudie Mars doth craue More would I say but horses that be free Do need no spurs and souldiers which themselues Long and desire to buckle with the foe Do need no words to egge them to the same Enter Alphonsus with a Canapie carried ouer him by three Lords hauing ouer each corner a Kings head crowned with him Albinius Laelius Miles with Crownes on their heads and their souldiers Besides the same behold whereas our foes Are marching towards vs most speedilie Courage my Lords ours is the victorie Alph. Thou Pagan dog how darst thou be so bold To
set thy foote within Alphonsus land What art thou come to view thy wretched kings Whose traiterous heads bedeckt my tents so well Or else thou hearing that on top thereof There is a place left vacant art thou come To haue thy head possesse the highest seate If it be so lie downe and this my sword Shall presently that honor thee affoord If not pack hence or by the heauens I vow Both thou and thine shall verie soone perceiue That he that seekes to moue my patience Must yeeld his life to thee for recompence Amu. Why proud Alphonsus thinkst thou Amurack Whose mightie force doth terrefie the Gods Can ere be found to turne his heeles and flie Away for feare from such a boy as thou No no although that Mars this mickle while Hath fortified thy weake and feeble arme And Fortune oft hath viewd with friendly face Thy armies marching victors from the field Yet at the presence of high Amuracke Fortune shall change and Mars that God of might Shall succour me and leaue Alphonsus quight Alphon. Pagan I say thou greatly art deceiu'd I clap vp Fortune in a cage of gold To make her turne her wheele as I thinke best And as for Mars whom you do say will change He moping sits behind the kitchin doore Prest at commaund of euery Skullians mouth Who dares not stir nor once to moue a whit For feare Alphonsus then should stomack it Amu. Blasphemous dog I wonder that the earth Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete What froward fortune hapned on your side I hope your king in safetie doth abide Cro. I noble madam Amurack doth liue And long I hope he shall enioy his life But yet I feare vnles more succour come We shall both loose our king and soueraigne Fau. How so king Crocon dost thou speak in iest To proue if Fausta would lament his death Or else hath any thing hapt him amis Speake quickly Crocon what the cause might be That thou dost vtter forth these words to me Cro. Then worthie Fausta know that Amuracke Our mightie king and your approued spowse Prickt with desire of euerlasting fame As he was pressing in the thickest rankes Of Aragonians was with much adoo At length tooke prisoner by Alphonsus hands So that vnles you succour soone do bring You loose your spowse and we shall want our king Iphi. Oh haples hap oh dire and cruell fate What iniurie hath Amuracke my sire Done to the Gods which now I know are wrath Although vniustly and without a cause For well I wot not any other king Which now doth liue or since the world begun Did sway a scepter had a greater care To please the Gods then mightie Amuracke And for to quite our fathers great good will Seeke they thus basely all his fame to spill Fau. Iphigina leaue off these wofull tunes It is not words can cure and ease this wound But warlike swords not teares but sturdie speares High Amuracke is prisoner to our foes What then thinke you that our Amazones Ioynd with the forces of the Turkish troupe Are not sufficient for to set him free Yes daughter yes I meane not for to sleepe Vntill he is free or we him company keepe March on my mates Exeunt omnes Strike vp alarum flie Alphonsus follow Iphigina and say Iphi. How now Alphonsus you which neuer yet Could meete your equall in the feates of armes How haps it now that in such sudden sort You flie the presence of a sillie maide What haue you found mine arme of such a force As that you thinke your bodie ouerweake For to withstand the furie of my blowes Or do you else disdaine to fight with me For staining of your high nobilitie Alp. No daintie dame I wold not haue thee think That euer thou or any other wight Shall liue to see Alphonsus flie the field From any king or Keisar who some ere First will I die in thickest of my fo Before I will disbase mine honour so Nor do I scorne thou goddes for to staine My prowes with thee although it be a shame For knights to combat with the female sect But loue sweete mouse hath so benumbd my wit That though I would I must refraine from it Iphi. I thought as much when first I came to wars Your noble acts were fitter to be writ Within the Tables of dame Venus sun Then in God Mars his warlike registers When as your Lords are hacking helm es abroad And make their speares to shiuer in the aire Your mind is busied in fond Cupids toyes Come on I faith I le teach you for to know We came to fight and not to loue I trow Alph. Nay virgin stay and if thou wilt vouchsafe To entertaine Alphonsus simple sute Thou shalt ere long be Monarch of the world All christned kings with all your Pagan dogs Shall bend their knees vnto Iphigina The Indian soyle shal be thine at command Where euery step thou settest on the ground Shall be receiued on the golden mines Rich Pactolus that riuer of account Which doth descend from top of Tiuole mount Shall be thine owne and all the world beside If you will graunt to be Alphonsus bride Iphi. Alphonsus bride nay villain do not thinke That fame or riches can so rule my thoughts As for to make me loue and fancie him Whom I do hate and in such sort despise As if my death could bring to passe his baine I would not long from Plutoes port remaine Alph. Nay then proud pecock since thou art so stout As that intreatie will not moue thy minde For to consent to be my wedded spowse Thou shalt in spite of Gods and Fortune too Serue high Alphonsus as a concubine Iphi. I le rather die then euer that shall hap Alphon. And thou shalt die vnles it come to pas Alphonsus and Iphigina fight Iphigina flie follow Alphonsus Strike vp alarum Enter Alphonsus with his rapier Albinius Laelius Miles with their souldiers Amurack Fausta Iphigina Crocon and Faustus all bounde with their hands behind them Amuracke looke angerly on Fausta Enter Medea and say Med. Nay Amurack this is no time to iarre Although thy wife did in her franticke moode Vse speeches which might better haue bene sparde Yet do thou not iudge the same time to be A season to requite that iniurie More fitteth thee with all the wit thou hast To call to mind which way thou maist release Thy selfe thy wife and faire Iphigina Forth of the power of stout Alphonsus hands For well I wot since first you breathed breath You neuer were so nie the snares of death Now Amurack your high and kingly seate Your royall scepter and your stately Crowne Your mightie Countrey and your men at armes Be conquered all and can no succour bring Put then no trust in these same paltrie toyes But call to mind that thou a prisoner art Clapt vp in chaines whose life and deaths depends Vpon the hands of thy most mortall foe Then take thou heed that what some ere