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The injur'd lovers, or, The ambitious father a tragedy acted by Their Majesty's servants at the Theatre Royal / by W. Mountfort ...
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Mountfort, William, 1664?-1692.
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Wing M2974; ESTC R11790
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THE INJUR'D LOVERS OR THE Ambitious Father A TRAGEDY Acted by Their Majesty's Servants AT THE THEATRE ROYAL By W. MOVNT FORT Com. Licensed March 8. 1687 8. Ro. L'Estrange LONDON Printed for Sam. Manship at the Black Bull in Cornhill MDCLXXXVIII TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES EARL of ARRAN Son to his Grace the Duke of Hamilton One of the Lords of his Majesty's Bed-chamber and Knight of the Honourable and Ancient Order of the Thistle My LORD THE abundance of indulgent Favours I have received from your Lordship and the Noble Family to which you are now ally'd made me presume humbly to crave your kind Acceptance of this First Fruits of a Young Muse And tho I cannot assure my self of deserving so great an Encouragement as your Lordship's Espousal of this Trifle yet I will to my utmost Endeavours satisfy the World how much a generous Patronage may encrease a natural Genius and that an indifferent Beginning may by the Assistance of so great a Person extreamly improve it self For what bold Censurer tho never so Malitious dares question what your Lordship takes into your Protection Safe I 'm sure it will remain as plac'd upon an Altar And indeed when I call to mind how many less deserving than your Lordship have been stiled Hero's and Demi-Gods it makes me accuse the Ingratitude of our Age and call much in Question its Judgment Give me leave my Lord but to call to mind tho far too worthy for my Pen the famous and never to be enough praised Actions of your Ancestors the Douglasses whose personal Valours have always been so great that they seem'd the Souls of Armies as having Life only where they charged And whatsoever Quarrel they espous'd Victory always dwelt there Their Courages were such that what is in ancient Legends of others Romantick was really justly true of them And since they are gone to encrease the Number of the Hero 's above who does not see the true Image of their Souls in your Lordships Every thing you undertake must have Success for what you do is with such a noble Assurance that Fortune seems afraid to contradict it and you carry her with you always bound and in Subjection to your Pleasure Indeed every thing in you is Extraordinary To witness only your first early Valour with a Person of Honour which shew'd an Example of your exact Niceness in Gallantry and was the true Test of Courage Give me leave to add to the rest of the Virtues the Loyalty of your self and Family the never to be forgotten Transactions now fresh in Memory of your Two illustrious Relations the Dukes of Hamilton One sacrificed for his Prince by the barbarous and detestable Rebels and the other regardless of his Life in so meritorious a Cause dying in endeavouring the late King's Restauration And tho their Sufferings are as well set forth as an original Collection and an ingenious Historiographer could well model Yet the secret Virtues of that inestimable Pair which but themselves and the glorious Martyr they liv'd and dy'd for knew Imagination cannot reach of if known 't would tire Fame to sound ' em And still to add to your Never-dying Name This last happy Union with a Family of such Worth that Fortune seem'd proud of the Match and contrived it as an Honour to both Parties What a vast Happiness do I enjoy that have a Person of so unparallell'd a Family as your Lordship to countenance my feeble Endeavours and tho the Worthies of the World might justly claim the Honour I sue for yet as the Widdow's Mite was acceptable so may this poor Performance be to your Lordship's unbounded Goodness Perhaps some Momuses of this Time may immediately without farther Thought decry this Paper and call it Flattery but those that will impartially judge must own that Flattery and Truth were never ally'd and I have said nothing here but what the well-known Merits of the Persons will justify May the noble Partner of your Heart live like her Virtues which were a sufficient Security if Heaven would suffer her Absence for an Immortality on Earth May the Excellencies o◠both Generations wait on you two may Goodness Honour and Loyalty never depart from whence they have seem'd to take their Dwelling but with tha◠untir'd Sincerity which your Predecessors have still perform'd to their Soveraign attend you whilst I at a Distance shall rejoice and with all Humility crave the Title of Your Lordships most Obedient and Dutiful Servant Will. Mountfort PROLOGUE To the Injur'd Lovers spoken by Mr. Mountfort JO Haynes's Fate is now become my Share For I 'm a Poet Married and a Player The greatest of these Curses is the First As for the latter Two I know the worst But how you mean to deal with me to Day Or how you 'l Massacre my harmless Play I must confess distracts me every Way For I 've not only Criticks in the Pit. But even in the upper Gallery they sit Knaves that will run down Mr. Mountforts's Wit Pm the unlucky'st Dogg that ever Writ Some Care then must be taken that may save This Dear my First Begotten from the Grave Some Friends Advise like Brother Ben declare By God 't is Good deny 't the Slave that dare Were I but sure 't would Take I 'd do my best But to be kick'd you know would spoil the Jest However I must still my Play maintain Damn it who will Damn me I 'll write again Clap down each Thought nay more than I can think Ruin my Family in Pen and Ink. And tho' my Heart should burst to see your Spite True Talboy to the last I 'll Cry and Write That 's Certain Or since I am beset so by my Foes I beg your Favours Friends Brother Beaux Join with the Ladies to whose Power I bow Where I see Gentleness on every Brow To whose acuter Judgments I submit O! Save me from the Surlies of the Pit Those Nauseous Wretches which have not the tast Of Wit or Gallantry if nicely drest I never writ till Love first touch'd my Brain And surely Love will now Loves Cause Maintain Besides my Natural Love to write again Yet as you Please Ruin or Pity bear Sir Courtly fears no Enemy so Fair Execute as you please your Tyrant-Will His Character 's Your humble Servant still Dramatis Personae King of Sicily Mr. Williams Rheusanes his General and betroth'd to Antelina Mr. Betterton Ghinotto the Ambitious Father Mr. Griffiin Dorenalus his Son Friend to the General and in Love with the Princess Mr. Mountfort An old Collonel belonging to the Army Mr. Sanford Several Souldiers Mr. Lee. Mr. Jevon Mr. Underhill c. The Princess Oryala in Love with Rheusanes Mrs. Barry Antelina Daughter of Ghinotto Mrs. Bracegirdle  Pages and Attendants Scene SICILY THE Injur'd Lovers ACT I. SCENE I. Discovers the King lying on a Couch After a Song he Rises I. LUcinda Close or Veil your Eye Where thousand Loves in Ambush lye Where Darts are Pointed