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Loves victory a tragi-comedy / by William Chamberlaine ...
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Chamberlayne, William, 1619-1689.
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you are all bound as you love your Prince To see 't reveng'd with torments here 's a note Will when I 'm dead direct you where to find him And now I 've done my businesse on the earth I le give the first stroak to revenge and here Sets the Sword to his breast Open a passage for your Swords to enter As he is offering to stab himself the King stayes his hand Oro. What bold hand is that Kin One that here may claim a priviledge Throwes off his disguize Rise thou mirror of true loyalty Ne'r higher in our favour They all kneel All Our gratious Soveraign Welcome oh welcome royall Sir Kin You are all my much loved Subjects such in whom Never was king more blest Madam Your presence crowns our blessings now I stand Exalted in the zenith of my fate Who would not passe a stormy night to be Thus courted by a lovely glorious day You all are sharers in my heart But thou my Love To Heroina The great commandresse of that royall fort Off with these night p••c't curtains no such vail Shall cloud the perfect beauty of our joyes Puls off the black from the throne Ascend this throne a place too humble for Virtues so near allied to heaven as thine Now you expect the story of my fate In Syracus•s seeming Widowhood But the full sea of pleasure cannot yet Contract its swelling waves tumultuous joyes Cannot be reconcil'd into discourse Till Hymens topour to possession lights Our just desires that eldest childe of hope I only have a promise to perform Before you all unto this Gentleman And then will hasten to discharge the Arrears 〈…〉 and ingag'd in to your loyalty Are the Prisoners ready Van. They wait at the door Sir Kin Go fetch them in thou must my dear Ent. 2 Band•e•s leading Carlo Meet my first known imbraces in the seat Of long neglected Justice set forth the Prisoners My Lord read the Indictment Reads Vincentio Carlo you are here accused of a murther committed on a Syracusian Gentleman his name Vanl•re the act done by two Souldiers whom you hired in the Camp at the siege of Ardenna Guilty or not guilty Car. Not guilty and please your good Grace alas I never knew the man I therefore I beseech your Majesty to be good to me I am a poor ignorant man and full of grief for the losse of my only daughter Kin That will be proved an act of your own Read on Reads My Lord Arratus you are here accused to be of confederacy with Signior Carlo in the murther of his daughter Theocrine Arr. Who I why I who dares Kin Bandeets lay hold of him where are the witnesses Enter two officers leading Creon and Lewcippus going lame and bound about the head Cre. Oh oh so weak I am hardly able to go to the Bar. Lew. I doubt we shall find it a harder march To the Gallowes but this I may thank thy villainy for Cre. Thou liest Rascal thou promptedst me to all Kin Read their accusations Reads Creon and Lewcippus you are hear accused for murthering Vanlore at the siege of Ardenna and being accessary to the death of Theocrine daughter to Vincentio Carlo Guilty or not guilty Cre. Not guilty my Lord I confesse I was with this villain Lewcippus hir'd to do it by this wretched Carlo but had no hand in the murther it was Lewcippus committed it Lew. I hope your Majesty will not believe him For the Varlet is composed of falsehood In the death of Vanlore he was as far forth As my self but for the losse of Theocrine We neither of us had any hand in it It was a plot contrived by Carlo and my Lord Arratus but for what ends we know not Arr. I hope my good service to your Majesty Hath merited better then to have my reputation To be call'd in question by a common Rogue I protest I will sue the Rascall for a slander I will slave by mine honour I will Kin Swear not my Lord by what you have abus'd Honour that venerable title was Slain when to 'th law you forfeited your life Bleeding to death at those unworthy wounds Which these low actions to high titles gave Stand all forth and attend your doom Car. Be merciful oh good my Liege be merciful Arr. Swounds I see I shall be cheated of my head Kin Your actions merit none yet since it is The best companion of a Judge we 'l in Her virgin zone the sword of Justice wear Discover your selves Puls off the veil from Theocrine at which Vanlore discovers himself Here are the witnesses brought to affirm our accusation Car. Oh let me go they are Spirits Ghosts Hobgoblins I will not stay This is some inchanted place 1. Ban Nay Sir you are too fast to stir Arr. S-death what jugling's this Vanlore and Theocrine kneel to Carlo Van Sir recollect your spirits and bestow A blessing on us both your children now Car. Nay it is no point of my Religion to pray for the dead The Sir we still live and live to want your prayers Car. I want my money more that these two Rogues have Cousened me of I hope your charity will Make them restore it again I am An old man and like to come to want And every one hales what he can catch from me Kin Cursed Miser the Law will free thee from the fear of want For though thy damn'd intentions did not wade So far as action into guilt thy life Is forfeited for the intended sin Vanlore and Theo. kneels The If we were ever gracious in your eyes Let us beg pardon for him Kin Their lives are yours yet justice must not be Robb'd of all interest in them for your sakes We 'll miti gate their punishments All Carloes wealth That Devill which did tempt him to this sin Being by the Law made forfeit unto us We with his daughter the fair Theocrine Wholly bestow on Vanlore Car. Oh I am undone I am undone I had better been hang'd out of the way Then to have liv'd to have seen my goods Thus gave away before my face Oh that ever I was born Kin For Arratus because he valued wealth More then his honour he shall ever lose Those glorious titles now grown burthensome Unto his age which may betake it self To needfull rest whilst all his places of High trust are by the worthier Vanlore managed On whom as but a just reward unto His merits we bestow them Van. Your Majesty will by your goodnesse teach Me future gratitude Arr. And me perhaps repentance when too late Kin For these two villains the base instruments Unto your guilt since we desire to have No bloud defile this dayes solemnity Let them by publick Edict be for ever Excluded our Dominions And now we 've sheath'd The sword of Justice let me open wide The armes of Friendship unto you that have Been masqu'd in this Meander of our fate My debts are great to all but must remain In full arrear untill my offerings paid To sacred Hymen gives me liberty Whose Altars now we 'l all prepare to warm With the purest flame that ere Sicilia saw Come Heroina let 's conduct them to The Temple where united hands shall prove Our cares are conquer'd by Victorious Love THE END