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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00456	A new tragicall comedie of Apius and Virginia wherein is liuely expressed a rare example of the vertue of chastitie, by Virginias constancy, in wishing rather to be slaine at her owne fathers handes, then to be deflowered of the wicked iudge Apius. By R.B. The players names. ...; Apius and Virginia	R. B.; Bower, Richard, d. 1561, attributed name.	1575 (1575)	STC 1059; ESTC S104446	15,890	34

one but all My Iuels somtime precious do vade and beare no hewe My sences they do shun there course my lights do burne as blewe My willing wights are wared slow that once were swifte in speede My hart it throbs in wonderous sort my nose doth often bleede My dreadfull dreames do draw my woe and hatefull hazard hale These tokens be of euell hap this is the old wiues tale But yet O thou Virginius whose hoary heares are olde Didst treason neuer yet commit of this thou maist be bould In Mars his games in marshall frates thou wast his only aide The huge Carrebd his hazards thou for him was ofte assaide Was Sillas force by thee oft shunde or yet Adrice lande Laceface childe that Minnotaur did cause thee euer stande To pleasure him to serue thy leach to keepe all things vpright Thou God aboue then what is it that yéeldeth me this spight Sith nothing néede misdoubted be where grounded cause is none I enter will Iudge Apius gate reiecting care and mone But stay Virginius loe thy Prince doth enter into place Oh sufferant Lord and rightfull Iudge the Gods do saue thy grace ¶ Here entreth Iudge Apius and Claudius With tender hart Virginius thou welcome art to me I sory am to vtter out the things I here of thee For Claudius a subiecte here a man of mickle fame Appealeth thee before my Courte in deede of open shame And though in deede I loue thee so as thy deserts desirer Yet not so but I must Iudgement geue as Iustice doth require Virginius My Lord and reason good it is your seruaunt doth request No parciall hand to aide his cause no parciall minde or brest If ought I haue offended you your Courte or eke your Crowne From lofty top of Turret hie persupetat me downe If treason none by me be done or any fault committed Let my accusers beare the blame and let me be remitted Apius Good reason to Virginius come Claudius shew thy minde Let Iustice here if Iudgment may Virginus gilty finde Claudius Thou sufferant Lord and rightfull Iudge this standeth now the case In tender youth not long agone nere sixtene yeares of space Virginius a thrall of mine a childe and infant yonge From me did take by subtell meane and keepes by arme full strong And here before your grace I craue that Iustice be exstended That I may haue my thrall agayne and faultes may be amended Virginius Ah Gods that guide the globe aboue what forged tales I here Oh Iudge Apius bend your eares while this my crime I cleare She is my child and of my wife her tender corpes did springe Let all the countrey where I dwell beare witnesse of the thing Apius and Claudius go forth but Apius speaketh this Nay by the Gods not so my friend I do not so decrée I charge thee here in paiine of death thou bring the maide to mée In chamber close in prison sound she secret shall abide And no kinde of wight shall talke with her vntill the truth be tride This doo I charge this I commaund in paine of death let see Without any let that she be brought as prisoner vnto me Exit Here let Virginius go about the scaffold Ah fickle faule vnhappy dome oh most vncertaine rate That euer chaunce so churlishly that neuer staide in state What Iudge is this What cruell wretch What faith doth Claudius The Gods do recompence with shame his false and faithles minde Well home I must no remedy where shall my soking teares Augment my woes decrease my ioyes while death do rid my feares ¶ Here entreth Rumour Come ventus come blow forth thy blast Prince Eol listen well The filthiest fackte that euer was I Rumor now shall tell You gods bend downe to here my crie reuengemente duly showe Thy Rumor craues did Claudius lay and bring Iudge Apius loe That wicked man that fleshly Iudge hath hiered Claudius To claime a childe the only heyre of olde Virginius A virgin pure a Quéene in life whose state may be deplored For why the Queene of chaste life is like to be defloured By false Iudge Apius cruell wretche who straightly hath commaunded That she to keping his be brought Prince Pluto this demaunded To skies I flie to blase abrode the trompe of depe defame Reuenge you Gods this Rumor craues this bloud and bloddy shame Haue through the ayre geue place you ayres this is my dutye done The Gods confound such lecherers loe Rumor this I run Virginius O man O mould oh mucke O clay O Hell O hellish hounde O faulle Iudge Apius wrablinge wretch is this thy treason found Woe worth the man that gaue the seede wherby the first didst spring Woe worth the wombe that bare the babe to meane this bluddy thing Woe worth the paps that gaue ye sucke woe worth the Fosters eke Woe worth all such as euer did thy health or liking seeke Oh that the graued yeares of mine were couered in the clay ¶ Here entreth Virginia Let pacience deare father mine your rigor something stay Why do you waile in such a sorte why do you weepe and mone Virginius Oh doughter deare and only heyre my life is neare forgone And all for loue of thee Virginia A Gods how may this be Deare father do withdraw your dread and let me know the cause My selfe wyll ayde with lyfe or death without demur or pause Then tender your childe that craueth this bound Virginius Oh harken deare daughter attend thou my sounde Iudge Apius prickt forth with filthy desire Thy person as Lemmon doth greatly require And no kinde of intreatie no feare nor no shame Will he heare aledge defending the same And straight without staying in paine of my death I must bring thee thither wherfore stop my breath O Sisters I search I seeke and I craue No more at your handes but death for to haue Rather then see my Daughter deflourde Or els in ill sorte so vildely deuourde Virginia Oh father oh friendship oh fatherly fauour Whose dulset words so sweetly do sauour On knees I beseeche thee to graunt my request In all things according as lyketh thee best Thou knowest O my father if I be once spotted My name and my kindred then forth wil be blotted And if thou my father should die for my cause The world would accompt me as gilty in cause Then rather deare father if it be thy pleasure Graunt me the death then keepe I my treasure My Lampe my light my life vndefiled And so may Iudge Apius of flesh be begiled This vpon my knees with humble beheste Graunt me O father my instant requeste Virginus Then ryse vp my daughter my aunswere doo note From mouth of thy father whose eyes do now flote O daughter oh deare O darling oh dame Dispatch me I pray thee regarde not my name But yet as thou satest sith remedy none But Lemmon thou must be if I were gone And better it is to dye with good fame Then longer to liue to reape vs but shame But if thou do dye no doubt is at all But presently after my selfe folow shall Then end without shame so let vs perseuer With trompe of good same so dye shall we neuer Virginia here kneeleth Then tender armes complect the neck doo dry thy fathers teares You nimble handes for wo whereof my louing hart it weares Oh father mine refraine no whit your sharped knife to take From giltles sheath my shame to ende and body dead to make Let not the shameles blouddy iudge defile my virgins life Doe take my head and send it him vpon your bloudy knife Bid him imbrue his bloudy handes in giltles bloud of mee I virgin dye he leacher liues he was my ende you see No more delayes so kisse me first then stretch your strongest arme Do ryd my woe increase my ioy do ease your childe of harme Virginius O weary wittes of wo or wealth oh feble aged man How can thy arme geue such a blow thy death I wishe thee than But sith that shame with endles trempe wil sounde if case thou ioy By meanes of false iudge Apius he myselfe will thee destroy Forgeue me babe this bloudy deede a no meekely take thy ende Here let him profer a blowe The Gode forgeue thee father deare farewell thy blow do bend Yet stay a whyle o father deare for fleash to death is fraile Let first my wimple bind my eyes and then thy blow assaile Now father worke thy will on me that life I may inioy ¶ Here tye a handcarcher aboute hir eyes and then strike of hir heade Now stretch thy hand Virginius that loth would flesh distroy O cruell handes or blouddy knife o man what hast thou done Thy daughter deare and onely heyre hir vitall ende hath wone Come fatall blade make lyke dispatche come Atropos come ende Strike home thou careles arme with speede of death be not afrayde Here entreth Comfort Oh noble knight Virginius do stay he not dismayde I curing Comfort present am your doller to ayde Virginius Sith ioy is gone sith life is deade What comfort can there be No more there is but deepe despaire Heere entreth Haphazard I came from Caleed euen the same houre And Hap was hyred to hackney in hempstrid In hazard he was of riding on beamestrid Then crow crop on thee top hoist vp the sayle Then groned their neckes by the weight of their tayle Then dyd Carmtex put these three together Pays them their pasporte for clustring thither Apius Why how now Haphazard of what doest thou speake Me thinks in mad sort thy talke thou deest breake Those three words chopt all in one