pride is not folly I Who General of Heav'n and Earths Protector Suppress'd the proud Rebellion of the Gyants In Pilegra's Plains I who in burning TROY Supplying the bold Greeks with fire and sword Saw frighted Xanthus scud 'twixt â—â—â—ks of Cyndarâ—â— I who through Romes revenging fury saw Of the great Carthage scarce one stone remaining For a dumb witness that she once had been I who upon Iberian Walls beheld Turbants for Battlements and Barb'ry Mares Turn'd loose into the Andalusian Corn Now a PEACE-MAKER bring not signs of Wars But Leagues confirm'd with Characters of Stars The Gods who call you by a hid impulse To people the grave Temple and wast Grove Of the most chast best Goddess know the WORLD Has not a Prince deserves so high perfections For Heav'n is stuck all o're with injur'd Beauties Thou gallant CLARIDORO Rule as King Great Tartary and FLORANTEO thou Reign in the famous and the fair Arabia For the most Valiant Knight and perfect Lover Though ZELIDAURA know not this or will not Let the Great KING of Persia be Crown'd Queens lay down Arms for to make War on Beasts From painted Quivers at your shoulders hung Of Shafts a flying Squadron will suffice DIANA'S Nuns are coming to receive you Their Heads with Olive Flowers and Laurel bound This in the rolling chambers of the Spheres The glorious Heptarchie of Heav'n ordains By a Law always just always inviolable Drums and Trumpets Fel. Hold MARS divine for thou both Judge and Party Envy'st my Flame whose object doth as far Outshine thy Mistress as the Sun a Star Claro Stay Soveraign MARS I 'd rather be than have The whole Worlds Empire ZELIDAURA's Slave Flo. I from this sentence to those Gods appeal Who feel more love or more compassion feel Zel. Princes resist not Heav'n for still ye may Love without hope and that 's the noblest way Cla. I reverence it and adore its Laws Rif. A foolish ending Were 't not just Into a Cloyster if they must Heav'n for these Virgins did reserve Some portions that they may not sterve When they repent them And must not After their Dames the Damsels trot Ros. The Damsels stay for visible Example To a bad World in which they are a TEMPLE And CLOYSTER to themselves meaning to live Not less austere though less contemplative Fel. I always lov'd thee only for Love's Cause And Joy a glimpse of Hope once blest mine Eyes Which on his Altar I may sacrifice Claro Thou ZELIDAURA shalt still guide the Helm Whilst I am still the Defender of thy Relm To Claridiana Flo. And thou shalt be ARABIA'S Queen and mine Zel. Virtues are Kingdoms at DIANA'S Shrine If so then their Possessions greatest call Who dispossess themselves of All. Cla. Crown FLORANTEO Soldiers Thy Feet kisses Crown Him ARABIA Live Crown'd with Blisses Crown Claridoro Live CLARIDORO Claro Cry Dye CLARIDORO dye The Temple opens Cornets Gen. The TEMPLE opes the Air rejoices Gay Nymphs present sweet Flow'rs and Voices They sing within Live Fair Ones for your Selves whilst the Men do Think it enough if They may Dye for You. The Queens enter the Temple from whence many Nymphs come forth to receive them and therein let Diana appear Zel. I born was for my Self alone Cla. The Altar now shall be my Throne Claro My Love doth no reward pretend Flo. My torment ne're will have an end Fel. TO LOVE ONLY TO LOVE is Love Like that w' are lov'd with from above He that hopes no Love doth bear Claro Then what should he that hopes not fear Rif. It remains now Gen. What now remains Rif. That the Magnifick POET give Some Thirty Mannours all with large Demains Amongst the Actors upon which to live And do in any Case declare That All our Worships Cosen Germans are Gen. What a Conceipt of a stale date Rif. SIR for now Men say not STATE Here endeth the PLAY Of for Ever and Aye Tiring Female and Male Without a Marriage in the Tayle And this it doth git By being Penn'd without Wit FINIS Of the Dramatick ROMANCE OF To LOVE only to LOVE Immediately upon pronouncing the last words the Temple or Throne ascended to the Place where it was before viz the upper Tower of the Castle and in it Zelidaura and Claridiana seated on either side the Goddess also some Nymphs and at the same time Trumpets and Drums Sounding the two Armies went Marching off at several doors the Comedy ending there and the Festival in a Dance after the manner of a Tournament by The Lady Mary Gusman The Lady Anne Sandi The Lady Margarite Zapata The Lady Margarite Tavara The Lady Mary Cutinio The Lady Frances Tavara All Armed in Mens Apparel and the Dance being ended all the Instruments Sounded out at once FIESTAS de ARANIVEZ FESTIVALS REPRESENTED AT ARANVVHEZ BEFORE THE KING and QUEEN of SPAIN In the Year 1623. To Celebrate The BIRTH-DAY of that KING Philip IV. Written in Spanish by Don Antonio de Mendoza Translated into English Anno 1654. London Printed by WILLIAM GODBID 1670. FESTIVALS OF Aranwhez The Site of Aranjuez ARANVVHEZ is the Recreation of the Kings and Queens of Spain One and Twenty Miles from Madrid the Court thereof a Sear which makes it credulity even to believe ones Eyes the more seen the more wondered at and which in its natural simplicity would rather have scorn'd than admitted of Art had not the Greatness of the Owners made it beholding to them for what was impossible adorning it not only with a sumptuous Building which not exceeding the proportion of a Villa or Countrey-House deserves the Name of a Pallace-Royal but also with transcendent Culture in which there is a constant variety what in the Luxuriancy of its Gardens what in the Gallantry of its Meadows which for Flowers Birds and Plants leave nothing to be admired in the strangeness of the most remote Provinces that being there common which is singular in every of them and what in the excellency of its Groves which peopl'd with all manner of Game and Beauty excuse no Royal Entertainment The Fields of Aranjuez THe least of its Beauty is under the Charge of two the most celebrated Rivers of Castile Xarama which dilated through the Fields hereof begins their Fertility and with a gentle Plain Crown'd with Corn and Fruits draws the first respect to the Majesty of its Master defended by that respect better than by the watching of so numerous Guards for in so vast Limits in vain would be the Care of many if they were not kept by the veneration of All the Courage of the Bulls thereof giving the second estimation to the Borders of this River which civil to Tagus retires it self leaving to him the upper and nearer place and afterwards Duty more than Custom carries it to joyn with him making him greater not more beautiful The Garden of the Isle THis Seat which will always seem an Hyperbole to the Ear and a Deception to the Eye being only used
he ensure It must be full as much at least As His Divine Sister exprest With their two Brothers All High Born Children of Phoebus and the Morn The Dames w' are sure of to their powers All then is safe all then is ours In so much Beauty so much Glory Vel. And the Forreign Auditory Guz. Friend thou wilt drown in shallow water Bespeak not Ills things hap thereafter My Life upon 't our Festivall To see will hurt none of them all Whip me if of the Twenty four They feel not many hours creep slower Vel. Away then with the Prologue Wench But beg not favour of the Bench Nor silence Nor whine out at first Pardon our faults that Fault 's the worst Be out nor praise the King for fair Beauty is perishable Ware And I my Master would commend For parts alone which time will mend Shape is the humane By of Kings Who in the Main are God-like Things Call me the Queen French Flower no more But in Field Azure a Sun Or Now so much Native of Casteel That ev'n Her Soul is Spanish Steel Nor Charles and Fernand Branches both Of the old Lawrel of the Goth But Scyons of a better Tree In Paradice's Nursery And of MARIA Glorious Dame Beauty without lin'd with the same Since ev'n strong Lines cannot afford To do her right speak not a word But let her praise to it self sing Like Bells that without pulling ring Guz. Kings should be prais'd with reverence then As they are Kings not as they 're Men Their fortitude and not their face The sordid Flatterers Common-place His Actions I will Celebrate His parts as they are parts of State Much of King in Years but few Spains Honour and her Indies new And his fair Spouse Vel. That task is Fames Begin Guz. Still vailing to the Dames The Lady Isabella Guzman advances some steps and begins the Main PROLOGVE as follows WHilst Thee Great PHILIP apprehensive Scholar In the Great Book of GOVERNING well Read The Nations Wonder and Applause proclaim In every Action of thy Life a King Whilst on the Occidental Gulphs a Yoak Whilst on the Seas of the Levant a Law Thy Hand imposes and thy boundless Valour Props Heaven and Is the Bridle of the Earth Whilst thou art like thy Great Grandsire before The Worlds suspension and thy thundring Ships To Northern Regions Arm'd with Plates of Ice Are fiery Mountains on their snowy Waves And thy Iberian Flags Victory 's Wings Both Germanies and Africk fear and strike to For if of old their Valour made those bow They do 't by Custom and prescription now Grace the Solemnities of thy bright CONSORT Which strive in vain to equal the Occasion So every way Majestick A Perfection Divine the utmost stretch of humane Nature And thou ISBELLA fair even to the Soul The Daughter of a King whose valiant Hand More trusting to it self than unto Chance Hammer'd his Crown out with his Sword receive With a benign and amiable Brow It must be amiable this small Earnest Of our Devotions whom to see alone Claims Knees and Hearts sat'st thou beneath the Throne And thou the pleating terrour of the Earth In smooth Apollo's Spirit Spirit of Mars King of two Worlds let thy good hap enjoy Another greater Empire in her Beauty Vel. Live Reign High Princes more than Time it self And fairer in your Virtues than your Persons Drop Stars with Heaven The blessed Progeny Of your Immortal Loves your Beauties sparkles Let Spain Adore and in so great a Glory PHILIP the Fifth expunge Fifth CHARLES's Story And you young Men who by your budding Greatness Proclaim the Splendour of your Royal Cradle Pave with a lofty and a radiant Foot The Milky Way And thou the Envy of the Goddesses Illustrious INFANTA may thy Fortune Equal thy rare Endowments To be Fair Ah! let it not a woful Blessing be Nor Beauty a desired Miserie Vel. We two Is'bellas ISABELL Divine Present thee one Play more with more Refine Fram'd and Endited by Earths greatest King Penn'd with the fairest Plume in Cupid's Wing Acted by Queens below by Saints above A truer Comedy call'd LOVE for LOVE Guz. And may this Birth-Day Ecce t' another Birth E're next Spring do 't with Flowers perfume the Earth With a sweet Prince like Him from whom He came Vel. In FACE Guz. In VIRTUE Vel. In RENOWN Guz. In NAME A Song After the Main Prologue Painting the Festival of Aranwhez THe Flowers that most adorn Of Aranwhez the Plain Following a black-ey'd Morn A Laurel entertain Of flow'ry May the King Apollo's gallant Son He at His Fifteenth Spring Ware of the Field the Crown When His Seventeenth April came Worshipping that Goddess yonder Wonders wrought He in Her Name But His Faith the greatest Wonder CHORVS O how deft how sweet to boot First handsome and then light of foot Tagus's Nymphs of best renown To whom no Love nor Grief is known Brighter fairer from Heavens Globe Steal away the Starry Robe And the Earths embroider'd Gown OF all the World admires For rare a fair disdain Plac'd bounds to her desires And that best object made her Eyes refrain How great and how well plac'd A Roses love With Vse How well was it at last Paid by a Flower-de-luce Love from complaints is free That we for once might find Beauty may happy be And Happiness be kind CHORVS O how deft how sweet to boot First handsome and then light of foot Tagus's Nymphs of best renown To whom no Love nor Grief is known Brighter fairer from Heavens Globe Steal away the Starry Robe And the Earths embroider'd Gown YEars which deserve perpetual Spring And which deserve to be his Years Ioy them He that loves the King And adore them He that fears Clasp let his early Valour on Strong and glittering Steel of Spain Multitudes in whom alone Of Fernand's and Alfonso's Reign Never let him rust with Calms But His Hand purchase His Hand cut As many Crowns out and as many Palms As His Fore-Fathers tumbled at his Foot CHORVS O how deft how sweet to boot First Handsome and then light of foot Tagus's Nymphs of best renown To whom no Love nor Grief is known Brighter fairer from Heavens Globe Steal away the Starry Robe And the Earths embroider'd Gown The Final End of the Prologue The Persons in the first Act. Represented Representing ZELIDAURA Queen of Tartaria Lady Mary Gusman CLARIDIANA Queen of Arabia Lady Anne Sandi FELISBRAVO Young King of Persia Lady Frances Tavara PRINCE CLARIDORO Lady Mary Cutinio PRINCE FLORANTEO La. Margaret Tavara The CAPTIVE PRINCE Lady Izabella Gusman The GENERAL La. Margaret Zapata ROSELINDA Lady attending Zelidaura Lady Izabella Velasco FLORINDA attending Claridiana Lady Mary Salier of the Privy-Chamber First GYANT Lady Lucy Prada of the Privy-Chamber Second GYANT Lady Frances Quiros of the same RIFALORO the Drole La. Katherine Quiros Querer por solo Querer To Love only to Love THE FIRST ACT. Drums and Trumpets and enter at one end of the Stage
worth Aside I by her Fame drawn from Cicilia where The King my Father all those Nations fear As far as Nile 'mongst many to present My self one Trophy of her Beauty went True always always firm always in vain And when in highest tow'rings of my Flame In lowest stoops of humble Adoration Excess of Love with me was Moderation And wonders possible It so befel Fel. ' She Marry'd Capt. She Fel. What prou'd Capt. Invincible Fel. Conclude thy Story then and let her be In a good hour fair and at liberty Aside Capt. My Father sick'ned Noble Felisbrave And in a War where Love and Duty strave That which I sided with was overcome For with two Ships to visit him I come When five of that Armada meet with me New-wrecking Quicksands of the cruel Sea 'Gainst which receiving thousand wounds I strive That for their killing me I might forgive Their making me a Slave Thy Gen'ral comes To round thy Coasts He them again overcomes Chains them conducts them where the King may put Upon their Bellies his tryumphant Foot I Captive twice on peevish FORTUNES Frown Pretend not to establish a Renown For a Fool too may be unfortunate But if a King If by an Antidate Of early VIRTUE when years fifteen came Thou wrot'st Eternal If thou' rt like thy Fame If thou knowest Pity If admitt'st of Tears To supple thee Of Prayers to storm thy Ears Past Ages to incite thee History To make thee glorious to Posterity Offers to throw himself at the Feet of Felisbravo but he doth not permit him Or set me free or kill me instantly If it be possible a wretch can dye Fel. Rise gallant Youth and Courage new acquire Capt. My Soul bates to be gone proud to expire At so brave Feet Fel. Alas he swounds and mine Two tender Passions doth partake from thine Let in at several doors Love at my Ear Grief at my Eye Hoe General Gen. I am here Enter General Fel. New matter that thy virtue may not miss Save me this Slave from death and tell him this A King that knows how to be one commands Thee trust thy Life and Fortune in his hands Gen. He would not let his wounds be drest Fel. Ply serve him As thou would'st me and all the Gods preserve him The General carries him out upon his shoulders and Felisbravo remains alone What Circe in a moment hath purloyn'd The wonted peace and freedom of my Mind What War is this that lays soft batteries Unto a Soul inur'd to Victories What heav'nly Zelidaura is this same What new device of Love out of a Name To shoot so sweet a Poison O then I Less wounded Slave Thou ' lt leave me if thou dye Something t' envy in what thou dost deplore And in thy Story something to adore But though so great a Beauty force my Love And to suppress it against Nature prove I 'le be a better Prince than Lover Brave And hard therefore my Act Free be the Slave And if he live see Tartary whilst I Of Love of Sorrow and of Honour dye And let us bring in fashion 'twixt us both Justice in Rivalship in Absence Troth Enter General with a Picture Gen. He lies all weltring in his Blood and live He cannot This fair Picture he doth give For thee to keep And if he dye for Wife Prays thee to make a conquest of the Life To him he said and all the World but Thee Angelical Impossibilitie Fel. Reach it Return and let your care be more Gust yield to Reason then it was before Exit Tempt me not Love The Face I will not see Blind Argus if my Ears were scall'd by thee What second engine 'gainst my Eyes must move To burn my Heart to Cindars I in love I pangs I pulings I to be afraid My Faith cannot deserve my Vows perswade Tears from a Manly Face Sighs that shall find Themselves no more regarded than the Wind Oh! Why should Love such servile things enjoyn But why this Pride Does Beauty not enshrine A Deity Did it not GODS subdue Then let it tame a Man and let me view The lovely noble Feature and the bright Of this fair Shade Love is a less'ning flight When he doth vail his Plumes it 's such a thing As when an Eagle stoops upon the Wing Looks upon the Picture This Face all Soul is and so full of Life That Life and Beauty are in it at strife Which shall be more What Spirits What Spells too If in a little Card a Compass shew The Earth and lay it out in several In this a PENCIL hath Mapp'd Heav'n and all And Mapp'd it to the Life For on these Cheeks Looks upon it again and again Where white and red divinely intermix Aurora's hands hang snowing Iesamines Her Fingers bleeding Roses The MOON shines Bright in these Tresses where each Hair 's a Ray Two twinkling Stars Two speaking Rubies May Buds The MORN Blushes At one skip the Sun Gets up High NOON assoon as Day 's begun I 'l love I 'l dye O most unhappy man In love a Phoenix and in death a Swan Enter General Gen. The Captive Sir is something livelier Fel. How What doest thou say Gen. That he is better Fel. Now Aside Must he needs mend Good News And I would do thee Some good for bringing it Gen. Heav'n keep him to thee Fel. Love I shall crush thee yet as arrogant As false too as thou art As I am Man I may be staggered but as I 'm a KING Born for more Sov'raign Ends thou canst not throw me We should with sprawling of our Childish Arms The cruel Serpents of ALCIDES strangle We in the midst of all the SIRENS Charms Should the wise caution of ULISSES carry Let my desire be tam'd and not My Obligation be forgot I more provoking Envy's Sting As virtuous than as being a King The World admiring in my Pains Sober Madness and free Chains Exeunt Trumpets Enter the Queen Zelidaura her Head-dress full of Plumes Roselinda Lady of Honour to her Prince Claridoro and Train as in heat of Argument begun in the Tyring-Room Zel. My Will to me 's a Law If it appear Prepost'rous for a Woman Arms to bear Let it suffice I make the Precedent Since there be Men effeminately bent We Manly Women must that wrong undo For you see sometimes NATURE can lie too Claro Brave ZELIDAURA thy Heroick Mind Who does not wonder at Zel. Little inclin'd Always to sloath the Pride I have I place In a great Heart and not in a fair Face If on the Borders of my Land we have A Novelty so manifoldly brave A woing Warfare this INCHANTED QUEEN A Beauty the more sought the less 't is seen Nor of less difficulty to the Wit Than to the Sword shall I not step to see 't To see such Noble Action chiefly I Giving the frailty of my Sex the Lye Not that my Courage hath so much of heat As to thrust Prudence wholly from her seat So metled I
Thy Fortune in th' Adventure try Claro Ah! how much more 's th' Inchantment of that Eye Exeunt Enter Felisbravo the General and Rifaloro in the Spanish Habit or how they will out of the Persian as in Iourney towards Tartaria Felisbravo replying to their disswasions from it Fel. This is Love start not at the word 't will blind Soonest the clearest sight and read you ' l find Great Lover and Great Prince went ever joyn'd It is a Spirit an immortal Guest The prop'rest Passion of a Kingly brest As higher by the head than all the rest If Bounteous prudent constant valiant Secret and affable and vigilant Are Royal Stiles and Love is all these things See if good Lovers will not make good Kings 'T is a dull Wisdom not to love a curst Imperfect Virtue and it is at worst A Manly fault high Beauty to adore 'T is fit my youth divinely bent explore Not sweet variety to please my taste But to contemplate on a Phoenix chast Whom having found out of the vulgar path My Soul then wholly taken up with Faith Shall shut out hope For this pure Spirit that grasps In its immenseness whatsoever Heav'n clasps And Earth contains yet but one Will which one Should be so brave and firmly mov'd upon Her centre as to love eternally In a Life's moment So without a Why As if all Beauty it were death to covet Or saving only to love it to love it As if ev'n to deserve were to encroach And the least spark of favour Faith's reproach Then rackt with passion to confess i' th' end A flame which only pardon shall pretend Who loving much himself hath little sought If fault it be hath done a civil fault Nor added to in his more noble fire The sin of Love the crime of a desire Forcing his Mistress with too close pursuit To kick him off with an enraged foot Importun'd pity causes just disdain Whilst self-denyers may enjoy their pain Rif. There 's no such Lyar as your Lover is Not one of them but says not one does this Would'st thou have humane Love without desire No all below is culinary fire Talk what they will Fel. The Captive dy'd and me This ZELIDAURA'S Beauty calls to see If fame have not been lavish in her Praise And following the bright Lanthorn of her Raies Pretending to that God a Pilgrimage Whom superstitious Greeks adore in Delos I quit my Kingdom a poor Complement For I would quit as many in her quest As Spain possesses or old Rome possest But if I greater than a Kingdom be Since where I am I am not without me What do I quit Gen. Although there is no Law Which can a Countrey and a People awe Like their KING'S Eye thou leav'st at the stern two Great Statesmen whose least praise is that they bridle Envy's black Muzzel who of themselves good Surpass themselves in goodness since we see They are the better ev'n for fear of thee Fel. Their Zeal and prudent Courage prop my Throne Yet I too am not absent though from home For Princes care is over all that 's theirs Nor can good Kings have evil Counsellors A King should be all Eye and Ear he shou'd Be learned to be wise wise to be good Rif. I quake This Prince was born to rule the World O the transcendent baseness of a pack Of Hounds of us who with what we call Loyalty Not follow but ev'n hunt so sweet a King And worry him For those whom I have known To boast most faith and pure devotion Have never been concern'd how Riches Stream Ebb'd with our Master so it flow'd with them Gen. In RIFALORO for thy Recreation Thou hast a Mirth without scurrility An understanding wrap'd in Raylery In him is found a sober Madness sport Without abuse all very new in COURT A Man so honest that he will I know Speak always truth to thee Rif. He will not though Nor lye nor truth shall from my mouth proceed Good my Lord General there 's no such need Not lye because to lye is a disgrace Not truth for it belongs not to my place My gay and frolick humour shall dispence Not lyes I scorn 't not truths they give offence I Truths I 'm not a Fool to that degree 'T would count'nance lyes to have truths told by me Gen. Such then about all Majesty should come As will tell Truths and whom Truths will become Sound a Trumpet within Fel. What 's that Rif. A Trumpet here Fel. I 'm ravish'd this To noble Ears the sweetest Musick is Amongst these Trees a stately Pile I spy Fair butt of the Desire bound of the Eye Gen. Is 't not the Sphear of that Illustrious QUEEN Thy Heart 's strong Load-stone drawing it unseen Fel. We are not got so far as Tartary For yet we tread the Happy Araby Gen. Draw neerer let us Fel. Rather let us balk Vain Curiosities For when I walk Another way then towards my North Pole I am complain'd upon by my own soul. Gen. See various Works and strange Inscriptions under Where Novelties lay to arrest our wonder Fel. It says here Reads upon the 〈◊〉 I am a Bondage or I am a Prize I Marry with the Valiant and the Wise Valiant or Wise alone will not suffice And it says here Beauty is deny'd a voice In making for it self a choice 'Cause Reason would not trust a Bliss I' a thing so prone to chuse amiss The words are plain But why they are writ here I cannot reach Rif. I can Gen. Then prethee say Rif. To make wise fools of all that pass this way Fel. Let 's call Rif. Here hangs a Trumpet Must we call Gen. Blow't Rifaloro do Fel. If here I shall Be held but for one instant my Love mourns For a true Lover's Heart sits upon Thorns They call as before and a Trumpet answers from within and another different Gyant comes up who puts off his Hat Rif. They come Gy. 2. Your pleasure Knight Draw near Rif. What 's that ' Fig for your Courtship Prodigal of Hat Thou sleep'st in sheets drink'st thy Sherbet with Snow And wait'st on Ladies doubtless to a Show A Gyant A-la mode Gy. 2. What is your Worships pleasure Rif. Worships too Mountain of Bone if thou canst tell us do What is embraced by this Castle 's Dyke Say prodigy to humane creature like Gy. 2. The fair Claridiana who gives Laws To all this Countrey For so strange a cause And in so strange a way Inchanted here As if you are at leisure you shall hear The first Gyant comes up very angry and the second sneaks away Gen. Say on Gy. 1. Peace Busy get you whence you came Gy. 2. I go Rif. He seems a GYANT is a LAMB Gy. 1. Who is 't would be inform'd Rif. A Squire Gy. 1. A Squire Squires are no piece of History Retire Rif. O Rogue as long as this year and the last Vizard of Valour Gy. 1. Squire It makes me Rif. Nay I deserve no better
fair one A COWARD or a FOOL govern ARABIA This said and seconded with a dire SPEL The cleft Earth trembles utt'ring to the Air This glitt'ring EDIFICE In which incloyst'ring His fair INHERITRIX with double wards Of task on task secur'd He one INCHANTMENT Locks in another leaving to the end Great Souls may try th' Adventure much for VALOUR To cut as much for WISDOM to untye To have ARABIA so Her Queen the Prize Defended by the STOUT Rul'd by the WISE For to oblige his Realm he did ordain These two which make one PERFECT PRINCE should Reign Then on Young-men A Beauty and a Crown He gains that wins the loser gains Renown Fel. He who doth seek this Realm this Beauty wish Let him these dangers conquer court this Bliss Not he who doth adore a greater LIGHT And mourns its absence in a longsome night Zel. One worn One sought A third lov'd facil Man Fel. Nor think inamour him that Scepters can Whose Mistress is all Dowry who reproves The Common truck of Mercenary Loves By his more noble thoughts and doth disclaim All guerdon but the glory of his Flame Claro The same say I and that I too adore A greater Mistress fortify'd with more Impossibilities than Heav'n hath Lights Flo. I must propose a Question Are ye Knights Fel. I am Claro And I. Flo. Then tell them BROCADAN The LAW observed here by every Man Gy. 1. The LAW is this That whatsoever KNIGHT Presumes t' approach this famous CASTLES sight Shall if th' ADVENTVRE he shall then eschue Confess himself a FOOL and COWARD too Else We the GYANTS and WILD BEASTS that wait On our Commands are bound to fight him straight Flo. And Whoso tries it and shall fail that he Remain behind t' expound the Mysterie My Case Who had the Heart t' attempt the thing But not the fortune to succeed therein Fel. Such baseness do these barbarous Laws obtrude On KNIGHTS twice Valiant by their Oath and Blood I 'll end th' Adventure that another's Eyes More fair may have a Rival to despise Claro Vyes he the Game then I will see 't Whose LAWRELS here I vow For strewings to another's Feet Not garlands of my Brow Trumpets and Drums softly Flo. Let the Trumpets give the sign Let the second Draw bridge fall And to the proof of WIT divine Both enter for that first doth call The Draw-bridge falls down like a Percullis and let Rocks full of horrour appear and in them many dreadful Animals spitting fire This Labyrinth decides the thing Which he will shew he understands Who by the one door entering Comes forth by that which right against it stands Fel. Have at the Castle then Claro The same I say This day I am immortalliz'd Fel. This day Imp I new feathers in the Wings of FAME With which to Heav'n she shall advance my Name Zel. Clear Spirits both and if one's WIT burn dim I in my Picture 's right shall blush for him But if he twice prove VICTOR he must Marry Th' Arabian Queen It cuts two ways Rif. They tarry Exceeding long me thinks my little bit What if try'd of Prowess and of Wit 'T is but to thrid a Maze and t' other thing Of being Valiant and I am a KING Gy. 1. Said not I Squires are only to look on In acts of CHIVALRY Presto Be gone Rif. St. Belianis a Snake stung my toe Zel. IN COURT THERE' 's NOT A WORM BUT STINGS YOU KNOW Rifaloro either flyes back or is swallowed into the mouth of one of the Monsters or a Gyant snatches him and the Gyant goes out in wrath Sound Trumpets Within VICTORIA VICTORIA Zel. Who has won The Prize of Wisdom Claridoro enters at the contrary door Claro CLARIDORO Flo. Son Of PALLAS shadow with that Tree thy Head Which ciphers hope and yet of scorns 't was bred He proffers Claridoro a Crown of Lawrel and he refuses it Claro No Conquest this since for an unseen face And ZELIDAURA is not in the case Enter Felisbravo very angry at the same door by which he went it Fel. I lost the Prize of Wit the stuff that lines A gallant Man fond Errour which defines It WIT a misty LABYRINTH to hit More savouring of Memory than WIT Whose lofty Plumes to higher things aspire And fetch from Heaven the Promethean Fire Quite contrary a Memory was never A friend to Wit but its discredit ever Zel. The Man wants BRAINS and well he may that gives His Mind to sleeping so and idlely lives Trumpets and Drums softly Flo. Again Young man Those Monsters which did bear Thy Wit respect make now thy Valour fear Claridoro draws and charges and the Monsters spit fire Claro All their grim horrour does but whet my Blade Have at you dogs Zel. How bold he does invade Flo. How bravely he attacks Claro But I aspire Impossibles for though my Soul 's on fire Though it scorn all that 's Monster kick at danger My strength is not immortal like my anger O Devils Devils Claridoro retires and Felisbravo assaults the shut Gates and they open in two parts and the Gyants appear to stop his passage Fel. This day it will be seen if Heav'n think fit Valour shall recompence the the want of WIT. I come pale Monsters Coward Beasts 'T is I In my HAND Thunder Light'ning in my EYE The Serpents spit fire and go retiring and sinking down and let the Gyants come with their Clubs and let there be much tumult and demonstration of war and danger Gen. This can my valour suffer to forsake My King 's brave side INCHAUNTMENT I would make My way thorough thee and his displeasure too But that I know his Sword can more subdue Zel. They run they run with steel and terrour strook Trumpets and Drums His arm may play he kills them with his look Let the Gyants and Wild Beasts fly sinking down Fel. Fantastick dangers Conquests of light Air Give me fresh Foes for I have deaths to spare Within Floranteo Crowns him with Lawrel Victoria Victoria Flo. To thy Brow This Lawrel MARS presents there to root grow And multiply Th' Inchantment 'twixt you twain Is now dissolv'd In her it doth remain To chuse And see her Godhead doth unshrowd Like Phoebus breaking glorious through a Cloud Corners Let the Castle come down with much Musick and let doors fall open with Chrystal Casements and much splendour that it may be admirable to behold and sitting in a Throne the Queen Claridiana with a Garland of Flowers upon her head What a rare Beauty Claro May she WIT abhor Zel. Grant Love she may not like a Man of War Let Claridiana come forth of the Inchantment Cla. Arrogant KNIGHTS who foolish and presumptuous Before you have been SUITORS would be HUSBANDS One of you two ye look now I should chuse How fond and vain an Errour since there be Yet greater charms to overcome in Me. 'T were more than time the disinchanted Queen Thank'd both your Loves for
you account Is one Woman to subdue But upon an Audit true It will not to so much amount LOVERS are HEROICAL When they sigh and when they weep When before our Feet they fall When they stand in studies deep MANHOOD I despise not This And justly all the WORLD approve But show what kind of Manhood 't is Which conquers in the Wars of LOVE And the great odds if Thou regard Betwixt MY SELF and this dire Spell To vanquish It Thou found'st it hard But Me it is impossibel Aside Fel. RESPECT may to this Dame be shown Though MISTRESSE I another call For though the Heart can lodge but one CIVILITY hath Room for all To Her aloud CLARIDIANA Theam of FAME I am a Man would blush my Flame Should own an Object but the most Accomplisht one the WORLD can boast And know my Spirit is so high That at less Game it scorns to flye Then where the greatest difficulties lye This which my lucky SWORD hath lately reapt Was not the Victory I did design Whose Valour for a SHIELD is kept To bear the brunt of scorns divine Over strong Spells to be victorious Guilds I must confess a name But to submit unto a DAME This to me seems much more glorious For there my valour takes my part My strength and my good Sword befriend me But in this War I have no heart No steel Brest-plate can defend me If first the Foe 's invincible And I betray'd by my own fear T' o'recome how is it possible Where arms against my self I bear In the glorying of my Love I abide no Competition Nor in the cause whence it doth move Nor of the pain in the fruition Yet so great Love my grief exceeds And this grief likewise owns a chief For a lost Lady my Heart bleeds But 't will not break and that 's my grief Aside Cla. Equally witty and discreet He covers but not hides his Flame Holds his Game so that I may see 't Yet I 'll not seem to see his Game To him With what end lov'st thou Fel. With what end My Love is the perpetual moving No end in loving I pretend No end will ever make of loving Love is of Love the only scope Love scorneth to be mercenary You find not such a word as Hope In all the Lovers Dictionary Nay LOVE alone doth scandal me For the silent'st and most wise From sights from peeping is not free Out at the casements of the EYES See 't will now and now 't will hear And the least of joy it gits Whether at the Eye or Ear Puts it clean beside the wits First know I have a Misteriss Then that to her true Faith I bear And where Faith once through kindled is Superfluous are the SENSES there Cla. Hop'st thou nothing Fel. Nothing I. Either hope or yet desire Yes I do to live and dye In this elemental fire She in her self is proof 'gainst all Then for me to aim at her Were to add a Brazen Wall So successless is my Star Nor so alone in things of Love But my Life over and above Because on her it doth depend I have no power to make it end And the full Case to understand My Life and Death because in fine Love hath put them in her hand Both are therefore out of mine Aside Cla. From the mark I shot not wide When him of folly I did quit For the sharp SWORD that arms his side Hath much to envy in his WIT. 'T is not against Majesty His discretion to approve Nor if his good parts I spy Must it presently be love His goodly shape his flowing meen His talk and what his valour wrought May claim attention from a QUEEN Yet ne're sink deeper in her thought A leaning KNIGHT I do confess Enter Zelidaura and Roselinda in the habit of Shepherdesses their Faces muffled with silver Scarfs Zel. In this Countrey-tone and dress Disguised rudely safe we are Ros. Man-like bent to feats of War Of a Woman's left in thee Only Curiositie What boots it thee to understand Who a Man is Zel. What doth't boot When I my picture found in 's hand And now may opportunely do 't To Felisbravo Cla. Lies your happiness in this To overcome the other Knight Fel. Madam all my life and bliss Cla. In the name of MARS then fight Aside Who grant say I thou maist subdue Zelidaura spies them together Zel. Bless me who is this I see Is it 'T is not Ah! 't is HE With CLARIDIANA too O Sigh base brat not of the Royal Mind With which I 'm lin'd But of this Clown 's false cover I have drawn over What matters it Much the contempt In Love The least misprission doth High Treason prove This hath a tang of Iealousie I disorder'd Plaintiff I Should any thing the Heav'ns beneath Make me a mean complaint to breath I resentments I in wroth I concern'd in breach of Troth I who to make fond LOVE depart Hung padlocks on my Eyes and Heart Though in this war I feel beginning I doubt not in the end of winning The victory one moments wasting This way I pay with blushes everlasting CLARIDORO scorn'd and curb'd Not for neglect but too much Love Am I asleep to one I have disturb'd Doth one that sleeps at me my Larum prove Odd figaries hath this CUPID Strangely kill'd and strangely born If kindness make him dull and stupid And if that he be rows'd with scorn But what have I to do with LOVE And the frailer WOMAN'S LAW Cla. Women are there in this grove Then 't is time that I withdraw Aside Fel. 'T was for manners I forbore To take leave of her before Ah! ZELIDAURA Mistress fair No joy is but where you are Aside Cla. Of Valour thou maist justly boast That conquer'st wheresoe're thou go'st Claridiana goes away by degrees casting looks back at him Zel. So is split in twain a RIVER And the streams bound sev'ral ways In a kind of am'rous maze Back at one another gaze As this melting Couple sever Cla. Inclination not so fast For from me one gracious look Speaks more in that diminutive book Then other Women in a VOLUME vast From me then LOVE enough is wrung For where HONOUR tyes the tongue She who doth a Suppliant hear Makes him answer with her Ear. To Him Knight to overcome endeavour Fel. Lady I shall do 't or dye Aside Cla. Disinchanted more than ever Re-inchanted now am I. Exit Claridiana Zel. Just there where I did point thee stay But come if any bend this way Ros. Alone you 'll be if I am gone Zel. By my self is not alone Ros. True The Man doth still remain Zel. Then I am alone again Exit Roselind I 'll see whether his wit keep pace With his valour garb and face Fel. What a spanking LABRADORA Zel. Yow th'unkent Knight Godyegudmora Fel. The Time of day thou dost mistake Zel. And joy Fel. Of what Zel. That I discover By a sure sign yow are awake Fel. Awake the
sign Zel. Yowr being a Lover Fel. In love am I Zel. And very deep Fel. Deep in love how is that seen Zel. Perfectly yow do not sleep Fel. Rustick Excellence unskreen And discover that sweet face Which covers so much Wit and Grace Zel. Yow but dreamt so sleep agin And forget it Fel. Why now Saint Zel. Why the LADY that went in Lukes as if that she did paint Fel. What has that to do with sleeping She is indeed Angelicaâ— Zel. That Picture now 's well worth yowr keeping For why 't is an ORIGINAL Fel. Is this Shepherdess a Witch Or saw the sleeping Treason which I committed against LOVE Erst in the INCHANTED GROVE Me hast thou ever seen before Zel. Seen I and know thee for a Man That will turn him and sleep more Than a dozen Dunces can Thow kenst little what Sighs mean Fel. Unveil by JOVE that Face serene Zel. What to make thee sleep agene Fel. Still in Riddles Zel. Now he sees This pinching wakes him by degrees Fel. Art thou a Nymph Zel. Of PARNASS-GREEN Fel. Sleep I indeed or am I mad Zel. None serve thee but th' INCHAWNTED QUEEN I think what dull conceipts y' have had Of the Bird PHOENIX which no Eye E're saw an odoriferous Lye How of her Beauties spells she 's told That by her spirit thow art hawnted And having slept away the old With this new Mistress worse inchawnted Fel. I affect not Shepherdess My self in such fine terms t' express Suffizeth me an humble strain Too little happy to be vain Vnveil Zel. Sir Gallant not so fast He offers at her Scarf Fel. See thee I will Zel. See me yow shall But towch not Fruit yow mun not tast What says it now the leaf doth fall Vnmuffles her self Fel. It says 't is worthy to comprize The KERNEL of so rare a Wit Nor that it grows in PARADICE But Paradice doth grow in it The tall and slender TRUNK no less divine Though in a lowly Shepherdesse's RINE Aside This should be that so famous Queen For unquell'd Valour and disdain In these INCHANTED WOODS is seen Nothing but Illusions vain Zel. What stares the Man at Fel. I compare A Picture I once mine did call With the divine Original Zel. Fall'n asleep again yow are We poor humane Sepherd-lasses Nor are pictur'd nor use Glasses Who skip their rank doe ' mselves and Betters wrong T' our Dames God bless them such queint things belong Here a tiny Brook alone Which freng'd with borrowed Flowers he has Gold and Siller enough on 's own Is HEAVENS proper Looking-glass Copies us and Iâ—â— reflections Shewing natural perfections Free from soothing free from Errour Are our Pencil are our Mirrour Fel. Art thou a Shepherdess Zel. And bore On a Mountain called There Fel. Wear'st thou ever heretofore LADY'S Cloaths Zel. I LADY'S Gear Yes what a treach'rous Powl have I In a COUNTREY-COMEDY I once enacted a main part Still I have it half by heart The famous HISTORY it was Of an ARABIAN let me see No of a Queen of TARTAREE Who all her Sex did far surpass In Beauty Wit and Chivalree Who with invincible disdain Would fool when she was in the vain Princes with all their Wits about them But and they slept to death she 'd flout them And by the Mass with such a Meen My Majesty did play the Queen Our Curate had my Picture made In the same Robes in which I Play'd Fel. And what 's thy name Zel. LAURA forsooth Fel. O pleasant Play and bitter truth That I who dreamt of ZELIDAURA Should wake should wake and find her LAURA Aside O beauteous Counterfeit of Majesty NATURE what made thee make so fair a Lye Where is that crowned Beauty now become That Lyon's Courage kindling at a Drum Those manly Deeds Those Papps which Armour prest ACHILLES once more in a Kercher drest SEMIRAMIS ' is Mode who not with Box But Teeth of LAURLEL comb'd her golden Locks Where my heroick and dear Flame which sprung From Painters Pencil and a Captives Tongue Consum'd to ashes of a Rustick Love Rude Goddess of these Rocks and this wild Grove Is 't come to this I then absolve thee sleep And blame my high thoughts that so low could creep To TARTARY will I But I am mad If I do love that Queen unless she add This Beauty to those Virtues and shall rave If both this Body and that Soul she have Aside Zel. What stands he mutt'ring to himself May be He likes me not If he fought after me Under the notion of a QUEEN I 'd have Him find me a mean Shepherdess I save My Honour so The Traitor shall not think He ZELIDAURA in his hand could wink Hence Women learn for all your LOVERS brags Men are no friends to Beauty cloath'd in Rags If Beauty strike LOVE'S Fire why should it less Than in a QUEEN plac'd in a SHEPHERDESS Nor does but when it seems the World to set On fire where dowry wants the tinder 's wet To Him Mought I entreat yowr Worships Name And the bus'ness yow have here Fel. Squire of a forreign Prince I am Who to this glorious Theatre Zel. Not a Master By my troth My own tongues end it was upon A mischief take thee by thy sloth I thought thou wert a Zerving-mon Fel. No more that string Zel. He goes conceal'd Aside A Knight he is I 'm certain At Th' Inchanted Castle I saw that And by his garb too 't is reveal'd To Him Follows he saidst thou this Emprize Fel. In love upon the score of Fame With the most accomplisht DAME That ever murther'd Man with Eyes And the Worlds greatest Queen to this Inchantment came he where an envious Thief The Coward Rival of his Bliss Found means to rob him of his chief Delight and Glory in that thing From which his most Heroick thoughts did spring Zel. O Usage courser than my Coat and more Then I could bear were I as Lambkin meek That one who ZELIDAURA wore Should CLARIDANA seek 'T is to apostatize from Reason To think more of him Treason Treason To enter my Benevolence At the back-gate of an Offence Enter Roselinda Ros. CLARIDORO comes he 's here Muffle thee quickly Zel. What disgust Fel. One to be born a Mountaneer That ows such Beauty how unjust Who is ' t Zel. A Man of whom I stand In awe a little Fel. O that hand Rural Goddess keep'st thou Sheep Zel. Yes and my self I better keep Enter Claridoro Claro I 'd love without reward and cannot do 't To love is Love's Reward I would endure For her what not and that such joy to boot That in my smart I play the EPICURE I pray 'gainst Life and with the self same breath Unpray that Pray'r lest it the GODS should hear 'T is to be out of pain I then fly death And Valour councels me what others fear If I do live my wound may seem but slight And if I dye LOVES TROPHY I remove To live 's to pine to
the white Skin SOL might envy her least grace Zel. I knew yow'd mock me to my face How easily are People got To praise that which they envy not I am not yet a Clown so much But when I see yowr Beauty such I find into my CROWN yow beat The part I should to yow repeat Nothing beneath or in the Sky Holds beautiful when yow are by Possessing not so much in common As Envy with an ugly woman But when the splendor of your Rays Is more than all the World can praise Releasing much of what should come to you Yow pay to all the World above their due Cla. A new delight her words provoke By the rare grace with which they 'r spoke Zel. I know why LADY likes my wit And why my Face remains her debter Cla. Why Zel. I know Cla. Then out with it Zel. Vaith because her own are better I 'd have all fair ones discommend My Face I would upon my word Cla. Why so my understanding friend Zel. O! then they are with Envy sturd Cla. But Envy croaks and Snake-like stings Zel. Believe me Princess no such matter No Sycophant so sweetly sings For she that envies me doth flatter This back-hand praise goes homest still 'T is strucken with so good a will Cla. ENVY is Adulation then Zel. Thou hitst the Nail on the head right And I have heard from Book-learn'd Men 'T is courtly Rudeness and kind spight Cla. Prethee what wouldst thou counsel me to doe If me for Goodness ENVY should pursue Zel. Be ten times better than thou wert before That ENVY may pursue thee ten times more That is the way which I affect No treason lurks no malice there If I my self alone correct To be at full reveng'd on Her Cla. In every point she doth perform Zel. Envy a piteous creeping worm A brave and happy Pride it is To envy neither WORTH nor BLISS Cla. Do'st thou happily know LOVE Zel. Who is his Worship Is it not A forreign Prince who they said dy'd above A twelve-month sin of a great Cold he got Yes by hear-say I do know him Not that any spleen I owe him For mischief he to me or mine hath done Though I have heard a long-long-while agon The COURT he troubled and the COUNTREY spoyl'd Till he both COURT and COUNTREY was exil'd Cla. Do'st thou not Love Zel A Question To ask a fool have I not youth Cla. Whom lov'st thou then Zel. My sell alone Nay I have a curious tooth Love what a base disgraceful word The sound is harsh and shrill Lyes all the Valour in the Sword No conquest o're the Will Nor it a decent part hold I So much unto my self I owe To speak of that thing knowingly I do not nor I will not know But do yow love Cla. What is to Love Zel. To deny 't Cla. A Rustick LASSE Hard question to one bred in Court 't would prove Zel. Not when she 's in her Teens my word I 'll pass If yow do love with wond'rous Care Hide that unfortunate disease For feggs declar'd Affections are The Mother of Unthankfulness I knew a Gallant from zuch keep Who having zome how made his prize But a Dame's Picture dropt asleep With that Sun shining in his Eyes Cla. Troth let them sleep or let them watch All Men alike are cheap with me To whom for favours none they catch They never can ungrateful be From Love a contemptible Foe My retreat make I by broad-day And look on Suitors just as though They were Mad Lovers in a Play No Fear not me in such a way Zel. Kenn'st thou the Tow're where Confidence doth dwell REPENTANCE lives hard by in a low Cell Cla. Ill dissembling Shepherdess For now dissemble Shepherdesses too If thy Courtesie 's not less Than thy Beauty thy Name shew By my Life Zel. A powerful Spell This now would make a Gallants heart Leap out much more his name Cla. Well well Tell me both what and who thou art Zel. Fairest CLARIDIANA than I say I am no Shepherdess Cla. A Woman asks not like a Man Tell me thy Name Zel. I am suppress My Name I will a great Lord's Daughter Nor a less Soldier taking after My Father so much that his Trade I follow in the Mountain-shade For such do I take HUNTING for Not counterfeit but substitute of WAR Rev'rence I bear to thy Command But Madam do not ask me more The Keys are in a sullen hand And Porter Silence keeps the dore Cla. I will not press thee 'gainst thy Mind But since thy Soul hath manly scope And that great MARS and PHOEBUS joyn'd Are Masters of thy HOROSCOPE I will that thou in habit fit Come streight to witness with thine Eyes And by Our Self in Iudgment sit Betwixt the Valiant and the Wise And I shall then make my Election More by thy vote than my own Eye For more and chiefly in affection Than Gamesters see the Standers by Zel. Madam my part is to be rul'd To whether stand'st thou most inclin'd Cla. To him that loves me most Zel. I should To him that bears the bravest mind Cla. My liking upon thine depends Thus I shall dive into her ends Aside Zel. I 'll study the contentment of your GRACE But with your leave mine own in the first place Aside Exeunt and enter Rifaloro crippled between two Gyants Rif. Charitable loving sweet Good fac'd Gyants and discreet Spight of so many lying Books That paint you Fools with ugly looks ORLANDO and the KNIGHT O' TH' SUN Pay you this good work ye have done And peaceably dye in your beds With all your senses in your heads No Errant Knight in hideous duel Be so unconscionably cruel Armour and all with Blade in fist To cleave you down from poul to twist Squires inconsiderable Wights That bind your selves Prentice to Knights Mark well this doleful Story all And take Example by my fall Leave ERRANTY to those staid Wags Who charge upon their running Nags Who enter ne're the Lists though sore Threat'ned above a Month before To those too who do there appear Having nothing to do there Their Gennets Bells and their own Gulls The Peoples laughter and the Bulls Leave it Gy. 1. Leave satyrizing thou Rif. If I am not abusive How Shall I in reputation git And be canoniz'd for a WIT A Drole and not satyrical I never knew but one in all My life and 't was a precious Fool The never-enough-prais'd O TOOL Gy. 1. Sas Coward bustle up thy self Gy. 2. Ah! Brother do not harm the Elf. Rif. O Gyant of my Guard into Thy hands I recommend me do Gy. 2. The PERSIAN entertain no fear Rif. I do not but it will be here Gy. 2. Shall I heal thee in a trice By Magick Rif. Hast thou that Device Gy. 2. See! thou art whole Rif. Hah I am well A MIRACLE A MIRACLE St. Sacrapant I run leap skip And fly like Beggar cur'd with Whip Let not the DOCTORS know of this For they
thousand hands a PALACE frame Yet he whose Head contriv'd it bears the Name Just so a PRINCE who acts with others hands His own Head steering EARTH and SEA Commands Upon a Couch the CONTINENT he awes And from a COUNCIL gives the OCEAN Laws To hack wild Beasts is not a Soveraign's part Kings fight not with their Hands but with their Art I end In Iron WAR in PEACE's Down Their MAXIMS Conquer and their COUNCILS Crown A Flourish With the noise whereof Feli bravo rowses as out of a deep Muse. Fel. Little of all he said heard I Such a diversion have I had Of Beauty like a Rustick clad Sometimes sometimes with Majesty Aside THE SWORD Takes off his Hat makes a Reverence then covering again proceeds speaking to the Throne Made EMPIRES VALOUR guards rich WISDOM'S Coffers As Fear betrays the succours which it offers He then whom Danger mazes may for Brain Go to the Camp he went to School in vain When a great Leader a great Rest doth play PRUDENCE gives aim but VALOUR wins the day And though he 's not oblig'd a Breach to enter The first his Men must know that he dares venter If Valour he ne're shew'd what 's truly Wise Will be in him reputed Cowardize COWARD is a Disease bred in the Liver Which qualifi'd may be but cured never Wise Men and therefore they are Wise do know How to seem valiant if they are not so Who venters farther than is fit a Sot A Mad-man may be call'd but Coward not And who his Valours Proof doth long forbear Would be thought wise but will be thought to fear To dye is very well but yet to kill Is more the Victor is the Victor still A Souldier boasted to a King his gashes But give me him quoth he that gave such slashes A valiant Prince he is his Empire 's Wall Safe without Armies Terrible to all Of Realms acquested THESE THE SWORD DID WIN We say though POLICY did most therein Now to whose Name the FECIT put you see The MASTER-BUILDER past all doubt is he Council may moderate a Prince that 's rash But who shall fortifie a Spirit lash High Mettles like strong Wines may water bear But Council's vain where there 's the Traitor FEAR No King should so presume on WIT to think To govern Lands with Pens and Seas with Ink Better than at a COUNCIL-TABLE He In TENTS the Land in CABBINS rules the Sea Well may a Prince be learned Perfect none Who wants that best supporter of a Throne But for we skirmsh'd have too long with words Prepare to feel that SCEPTERS live in SWORDS Trumpets They Draw The Queens rise in their Seats sound a Charge the Gyants put themselves between the Knights A Cloud descends and in it the God of Love with a Nymph who in a Bason brings many fresh Flowers and amongst those some withered Cup. How 's this Suspend your Furies Zel. Heaven With wonder new lets down the Skies And crowns the Earth with Prodigies Cla. The Valianter did much out-go Zel. That is because you wish'd it so But the Dispute was ballanc'd even Cornets Cup. Claridiana fair and bright I am LOVE who come to light Thee out of this dark Wood th' art in And if thou wouldst have him to win Who loves thee best I 'll let thee see Which infallibly is He. But will or nill the soveraign Decree of Heav'n doth thus ordain That he by whom th' art most ador'd Shall be thy Husband and thy Lord. Aside Cla. Since he that was the Valianter Loves me I 'm sure what need I fear The sentence but may well submit My Soul and Will to Heaven and It Thus cut I with my People's grain Nor can the losing Knight complain To Cupid Great LOVE my Glory 't is that thou To clear my doubts to Earth wouldst bow With thee I trust them Cup. Then that Man Who these wither'd Flowers can Put into my hand recover To pristine state is thy best Lover Zel. Who but that stranger Knight there can it be That came to fight for her and injure me Claro In me what venture is 't if I Do for ZELID AURA dye Fel. If ZELID AURA I adore I may venter upon that score Cup. Noble CLARIDORE advance Let him take a dry Flower and put it in the hand of Cupid and let it dissolve to ashes Claro In Name of the ARABIAN Queen Let this wither'd Flower grow green Cup. 'T is faln to ashes Cla. What good chance Zel. What ill luck Cla. The Victory Stays with my wishes wings to fly Zel. O maist thou ne're victorious prove Cup. Glorious INCONNU move Fel. I deliver thee this same In CLARIDIANA'S name This Flower too falls to dust Cup. Dust it is and transitory Cla. This is Treason Zel. This is Glory Rif. Into my Countrey I will carry A Receipt so necessary To prove all Men what ever Lyars Who blind poor credulous Women with false Fires Cup. Brave FLORANTEO draw thou near Cla. Avaunt Cup. If he in worth and birth is peer Unto the proudest of them all in vain CLARIDIANA dost thou him distain Draw near Flo. In name of fair but merciless CLARIDIANA who contemns Much Love and little Happiness Receive this Flow'r Cup. See how it gems Smiles and recovers Noble Youth Loe LOVE in person doth reward thy truth Offers to join them and Claridiana flyes back Cla. I 'll lose my life first Cup. Thou hast said Thou't obey HEAVEN and HEAV'N will be obey'd All. Live Floranteo Cla. Live say I Claridiana and All dye Cup. To FLORANTEO 'longs Arabia's Throne Give him the joy and homage every one Cla. Is HEAV'N become a cousener too What ill Example Trait'rous Crew Citizens Of FLORANTEO Wife thou art And he our King Fel. Dare none to start From his Allegiance Claro Cowards stay In her defence do I this Sword display Enter the Servant of Claridoro as in a great fright Serv. CLARIDORO without peer Mixest thou in Quarrels here When in Tartary they are All in confusion all in War For ZELIDAURA being self exil'd In uncouth Mountains and in Forrests wild Nor chusing any Husband out Her Subjects to uncrown her go about Thou then since of her Blood thou art Draw thy Sword to take her part And thy faith and prowess high In that just Cause alone employ If thou linger Claro 'T is enough Fel. Heav'ns I shall be sure accurst If my Sword aid her not the first For an eternal Love and tough Revenge for Cause declared now Me furiously into that War doth throw Exit in a Rage To Rifaloro Gen. Let 's follow FELISBRAVE Rif. You know I trundle Under you Gen'ral By my Persian faith This sweet inchanted Creature is a Bundle And Nosegay of AURORA'S Claro There 's my path To serve you Madam So LOVE wills that I Who dye his Martyr should your Souldier dye Cla. What an unlook'd for Change Zel. The Rout Heav'ns in my absence without doubt Is blown up into Tumults Queen
and Laws Of Hospitality perdon the Cause Now no more curious Fooleries in old And valiant Earnest let the WORLD behold Arm'd ZELIDAURA and TARTARIA feel The dire effects of her provoked Steel Exeunt Zelidaura and Roselinda All. For FLORANTEO Victory Flo. Villains in your Throats ye lye Citiz. To Floranteo Madam yield your Hand Or all Arabia falls from your Command Cla. Coward and Raskal-Heard that shall be try'd This is my Hand Who who will give the Bride Approach that dare See Traitors whom my breath Draws Should drive like chaff It holds the Key of Death And Floranteo draws in defence of her Flo. Retire His Sword for whom ye mutiny Defends Claridiana Citiz. Enemy To thine own Heart Thy self and all the Gods Thou dost oppose provoking their just Rods. Flo. Insolent Varlets All. Kill him Flo. I had rather Serve her than have her Cla. O my deep-read Father Permit'st thou this Now save me by thy Art Now is the moment Flo. Madam Take good Heart He drives them out and returns to Claridiana The Cloud 's dispers'd y' are safer in my Guard Then if the Stars all own'd you for their ward Trumpets Exeunt The End of the second Act. The Persons of the third Act are the same with those of the second adding MARS AURELIO A CAPTAIN And OTHERS Querer por solo Querer To Love only to Love THE THIRD ACT. Enter Aurelio and others as receiving with joy Zelidaura with her Roselinda in Tartaria Zel. THis is t' entrap me well my Foot Within the City I 'll not put Till a full Tryal make it clear Whether things are as they appear Aur. Great Madam 't is enough the Realm Thy secret wand'ring did incline To murmur at thee and repine Our Pilot absent from the Helm But to be censur'd once disloyal TARTARIA merits not What Tryal Would'st thou have more than the Applause And Ioy which thy Return doth cause Both this which meets thee on the Bounds And that which from yon Walls resounds Though as to lighting us some time Abscence eclips'd thee to our Clime Not as to Influence for to Faith No Back at all a SOV'RAIGN hath Since the false news did thee no harm And now thy Beams TARTARIA warm This Errour 's debtor we remain For giving us our Queen again Enter the City we implore Nor let thy Anger cost it more Zel. First in that Rural Palace hid with Bow'rs I 'll rest But what 's this noyse Rif. Help Heav'nly Pow'rs Trumpets Within a great noyse of Swords The World sinks with their stroaks Zel. Make hast hast make Enter Felisbravo and Claridoro fighting and much People endeavouring to part them and with them the General Rifaloro and a Captain Fel. Now on thy treach'ry will I take A full Revenge Claro Now on thy Head Shall be reveng'd what I have bled Zel. Rule me those Swords two lives defend Which th' Owners prodigally spend O Heavens Fel. Leave of all his Train Not one alive Gen. Cowards in vain Ye muster Regiments of Hares The more you are the more your fears Aur. What Fury Tide encounters Tide Vain Labour Rif. I am by thy side None of your petty Clownlings we The Bombast of a Comedie Zel. Part them I say The two that fight Are CLARIDORO and the Knight Of the Picture Rif. There 's thy score Rifaloro hits one of them No fencing it with RIFALORE The Knights are parted Fel. That e're so many People came I kill'd him not I blush for shame Claro That I by these should hind'red be From killing him it vexes me Capt. Both are hurt Zel. The Stranger bear First to be Cur'd And OFFICER Quarter him in the Mansion Of LAURA'S Father CORIDON Capt. I shall Zel. Prince Claridoro too Whose Life I fear less of the two Place in an equal Quarter near Aur. I shall Zel. Before you go d' ye hear Clap in such wise on both a Guard That they perceive not their way barr'd I would secure them each from either Yet not be seen to do it neither The Captain comes to Felisbravo and Aurelio to Claridoro Aside And how O LOVE how shall I know Whether he fought for me or no Capt. Please you to come where they may cure you Fel. The wound is nothing I assure you Capt. By your Life Sir consider 't more Aur. Prince reply not y' are hurt sore Claro A scratch believe 't Aur. You 'll find it none Howe're the Queen will have it done Claro A spark of pity now from Her Then look for quarter from a Murd'rer Fel. Captain how far from hence to Court Capt. Your Cure Sir Knight doth more import You than that knowledge Fel. To secure ZELIDAURA is my Cure Capt. What Faith a groundless lye will win And O! how late it is call'd in But come along and you shall see How well this Care may spared be Fel. To my Revenge I do prefer The greater sweet of serving her Exeunt Felisbravo and Captain Aur. Come Prince Claro 'T is so Now Madam I do find You who ev'n then are cruel when y' are kind Because from Life I sue out a divorce To punish me will make me live perforce Exeunt Claridoro and Aurelio Rif. Do they bear them Pris'ners hence Gen. Pris'ners I 'll follow my dear Prince Resolving by his side to dye Rif. That 's not for me and yet I lye For I to give my self my due Do whiff the smoak of HONOUR too Exit General and Rifaloro offers to follow him but is staid by Roselinda Zel. Stop that Servant Ros. Gentleman I come to call you Rif. Virgin can You pick out of this face and meen No higher Title Well 't is seen You know me not you don't in troth You don't How low our Market go'th You have been somewhere neerly bred So thin your Courtesie you spred 'T has vext me Gentleman quoth you When Knighthood is so common too Well your bus'ness Ros. She that calls Herself the Mistress of these Walls Rif. Is a Goddess and clep'd is Ros. What a new strain new Humour 's this If she a Goddess be or no Let thine Eyes tell thee Rif. Where 's de Froe Rifaloro turns takes off his Hat and falls at her Feet Zel. Approach Rif. Now let me never stir What diff'rence 'twixt the Sun and hir A Clustre of ripe Stars she is Let me that hand adoring kiss That hand by which the LILLIES brown appear And the Crystal is not clear Lac'd with Saphyr tagg'd with shell In which the Orient Pearl doth dwell Give me that pretty foot which goes Knitting sweet flow'r with Ivory Toes But none so short as It for thine Is BREVIAT of a JESAMINE Give me Zel. Withdraw and let him stay Roselinda goes aside Art thou the Stranger 's Servant Say Rif. I am nor of him do complain Zel. Is he so good Rif. So bad w' are fain At ev'ry turn to be made friends But seldome in this World meet Ends Ill Masters have good Servants Good
To love her less than at this time Or not to love only to love Nor would I quench the fire in which I dye To be the light of any other Eye Enter Zelidaura in a Rustick Habit. Zel. The wounded Knight I come to see Let no one stop me Is that he Claro Who is so out of fashion as to look Upon a Man whom Fortune hath forsook What a sparkling Shepherdess Here may be more than I yet guess Zel. Ay me 'T is CLARIDORO This. Claro Through her disguise how fair she is 'T is ZELIDAURA for my sight Hath found her out by her own light But 't is a Happiness and I In that may ev'n mistrust my Eye Possible in nature is it That to me can be this visit Or so beside my self am I To think ought mine that is Felicity Zel. He knows me but I 'll face him down I am not I But he is such a Clown He 'll not believe me should I swear it Aside Claro Why might not my immortal passion merit And force thus much from Her It might do so If I were not a Man made sure to Woe Nor would it the first glorious tryumph prove O're scornful Beauty by submissive Love Though I do mainly doubt it and should say 'T were a great wonder were it true I 'll pay My truth her wages with believing 'tis And so deceive my self into a Bliss Addresses himself to her SHEPHERDESSE whose Sheep-Walks reach From CHINA'S WALL to the MUSCOVIAN BEACH Who to a thousand Flocks do'st look And rul'st them with a Golden Hook Whom Title Beauty Wit combine To render in all points divine Humane only toward me Nor that till thou these hurts didst see As if to dye that I had need By other hand than thine to bleed Such pity ZELIDAURA keep For all these Wounds I long may live A Foe 's Weapon cuts not deep Pity that a Friend doth give For this high Grace thou now bestow'st Aside Zel. Were 't meant I see it were not lost But yes It were an Ill-plac'd Boon On one that can believe 't so soon To Him Where 's any ZELIDAURA here Dost thou a simple Body jeer 'T is well Claro You over act it ZELIDAURA Zel. ZELIDAURE not me I LAURA Am the Daughter of thine Host. Thou little Zelidaura know'st A Majesty so proud so grave To come and visit thee do'st rave With me thou double-wrong'st her GRACE In her Discretion and her Face I 'm pitifull a little much at home To see thee hurt on these two scores I come Claro Thou art my Health when Health's away And of my Hopes the only stay Zel. Thou 'rt of the Sect of HOPERS than Claro Fair ZELIDAURA if you can In this sweet truth or errour dye let me Zel. Either I am not or will not be she Claro Goddess of snow fair Copy of the Sun Ecclipsing this and making that look dun Whose piercing sight predominant in Souls Two Globes of Light two Sphears of Beauty rowls 'Bout which ten thousand flutt'ring CUPIDS swarm And sindge those wings they there presum'd to warm Whom with one gracious smile if thou requite Thou kill'st with Life and strik'st them blind with Light Thou from whom arm'd with steel and love are sent Thy Billets into every ELEMENT Inraged rending and ADORNING Fair The Earth with Stars with Cannon-shot the Air. The WOODS from which all other Sun is shut With Lilly Hand with odoriferous foot Speeding unerring Shafts recruiting Bow'rs Thou robb'st of Beasts and pay'st again in Flowers Celestial ZELIDAURA fair Comptrol Of all that share an understanding Soul For 't is the least of Praise thy Beauty boasts To trample outward force and vanquish'd Hoasts Though 't was the dream of one that ill did rest To fancy gentle pity in thy Brest The wrack of Hearts and temple of a Saint Whose Walls can boast not one reliev'd Complaint It was a vanity my LOVE brought forth When I consider'd that and not thy worth Nor dare I so much wrong that noble Passion To think it might not merit a Compassion Though not return Yet Bliss on any score Which knock'd at mine it seems mistook the dore For when THOU com'st and then THAT comes to ME BLISSE is not Bliss nor ZELIDAURA She. I know thee not let not thy choler rise For I believe THEE more than my own EYES Zel. Alack alack much loss of Blood Hath turn'd his Brain and makes him wood Claro O LOVE thou well maist be call'd blind The happier Stranger came she not to find O Heav'ns with this suspition I do pass To be envious and base But if blind LOVE made me conceit Fondly of her as to me Stranger the wonder 's not so great If I think meanly of her as to thee Here me LAURA Zel. Now 't's too late Poor Soul thou talk'st at a strange rate Besides I do not like thee half so well Since I perceive thy thoughts so vastly swell Exit Zelidaura flying away from him Claro Why ungrateful fly'st thou me And seek'st my Rival Was disdain O HEAV'NS too little without JEALOUSIE Envy was 't not sufficient to complain Kill'd with anothers Happiness Suffic'd not for a WRETCH his own distress I took anothers Bliss for mine A wise Conceit That harms themselves cannot my Wits refine That from my ill that good I could not get That I should not be able To make some use of being miserable My Soul shall follow thee Too fleet for me For from my Soul I 'm sure thou canst not go And I know all the paths that lead to Woe O Life with Sorrows rife Only to Misery thou art a Life Exit Enter Felisbravo with his Arm in a Scarf Fel. Lash'd by the Winds the OCEAN raves and craves To be a Star and not an Element The WINDS cry FREEDOM from their horrid Caves Not clogs of Mountains can their scape prevent The MOUNTAINS crack the crouded Air upheaves The Pillars of the Rocking FIRMAMENT For none to that which smart or loss receives Forbids a sigh a tear or a lament I only a dead mark of Fortune's spight Stand on the highest pinacle of Grief Firm as a Diamond silent as Night O Smart well disciplin'd without Relief For a poor LOVER to support his woe So much a sorrow doth to custom owe. Immortal doubtless is the thing Which me doth pain And that again Which doth eternally remain From a Celestial Cause must spring My Soul is short as unto Me 'T is Epigram But Madam to the World I came Eternal as to loving Thee For unto thee all Soul I am The greater torment I sustain The less I wou'd My days conclude For dying to be out of pain Is the Cowards fortitude Grant I should my pain to cure Suffer Smart Break Thee HEART Can I another Heart procure To love with when thou broken art But little skill in love thou hast Who e're thou art that think'st or Bliss Or Valour is In dying for 't since Life once past Neither
T' inform my self whether the Picture boast Real Perfections of her Queen I fly And reach in a few days to ARABY Where Mortal Frailty yielding to Sleeps pow'r A Villain steals it An Inchanted Tow'r Is interpos'd 'twixt our drawn Swords at once That thund'ring with its fall and I with groans Thence to this Forrest we adjourn the War His Treason's Altar my Revenge's Bar. We meet when ours so many Swords repel As if each Blade of Grass were one of Steel To lose my Picture and not lose my Life I pierc'd with Woe And that to Poison that to Sword nor Knife My Death I owe. To Persia dare not for the King return For coldest Hearts when fir'd once fiercest burn Who sweetly snar'd with ZELIDAURA'S Fame No Love else answers hears no other Name Rare SHEPHERDESSE whether thou be the Flow'r Of forreign Plains or of these Hills the Tow'r If help thou have or help to thee be known If more thou art or canst than thou dost own Pity my Woes set my Confusions right Ease so great pain shew day to so great night Aside Zel. Most undoubtedly 't is He Because for more disguise I see His proper Praise he did not spare To Him I shall soon find it Thy great Care And Courage PERSIAN I admire Couldst thou the Picture know again Fel. If it take up my Thoughts entire And Copied in my Heart remain Must I not know it Zel. Look on this And mark it well Fel. Had I no Aim By any feature whose it is The matchless Beauty would proclaim Aside What Bon-fires HEART wilt thou now make for Joy I would not have them less Than my LOVE'S Flame or those of TROY And monstrous as to me is Happiness A Lover is not glad Unless withall he 's Mad Nor can my Gratitude expressed be With any thing that 's less than Lunacie I do not celebrate my Good With so much splendour as I ought Nor its full worth have understood If this effect it have not wrought Zel. He 's like a Man that talks t' a Spirit To the Picture Fel. Beautiful and injur'd Shade More blame I must confess I merit Than past his Hour a LOVER who hath staid To Her Shepherdess who gave it thee For amidst varietie Seeing the self-same Beauty ever I credit what I tremble to assever Zel. Then Persian of a Countrey Lass Perceive an Act a Queen might do Through this blind Labyrinth to pass My Pity giving thee a Clew I am the Woman thou didst see In several shapes in Arabie And who from thee this Picture stole And whom if that rare King the Soul And Martial Glory of the Chase Merit the Praise thou giv'st His GRACE Wish thee return to Persia faster Than thou cam'st hither and thy Master The Gen'rous FELISBRAVO tell He shall to TARTARY do well To come with wings where if he prove As humble and as much in love As great in Courage and high-flown Queen ZELIDAURA is his own The most exempted Heart reserving For the Person most deserving And say thou heard'st it from one LAURA Who heard it in this place from ZELIDAURA Aside Fel. Shall I think my Senses true ZELIDAURA 't is I view No no it is not 'T is my Eye Flatters my Wishes with so sweet a Lye To Her Angel I go and shall the King Quickly to TARTARIA bring Zel. It is not FELISBRAVO no For he his Mask now off would throw What have I done My being kind I will retract unless I find This Face this Courage and this Meen In a Kings Person to deserve a QUEEN Compares her with the Picture interchangeably regarding either Fel. That of the Hand which made us all Picture is thy Originall None that before appeared such Did Face to Face avow so much An Egg is not more like an Egg Nor the Left to the Right Leg. NATURE that drain'd her Stores to do One Face like this despair'd of Two They descant to themselves upon eaâ—h other Zel. Is this a Servant Fel. Is this Laura I ne're was in a Maze till now Zel. Then art not FELISBRAVO thou Fel. Art thou then ZELIDAURA Aside Zel. His fear compels him to conceal My love shall prompt him to reveal Himself Sir Knight Fel. Fair Shepherdess Thy divine commands express Zel. The Picture 's mine I am not LAURA If thou art FELISBRAVO follow To the Temple of APOLLO I am relenting ZELIDAURA Exit Fel. Suspend thy steps With all my Heart Beauteous Queen I follow thee But that 's already where thou art As going after her when Enter hastily Claridiana in Mans Apparel and stays him Cla. Valiant King come back to me Fel. Off Remora Cla. Whom hurlst thou fro thee Fel. Youth for this ill turn beshrow thee Cla. Hear me thou new Alcides Fel. What Wouldst thou with me Cla. Know'st me not Fel. No nor would Cla. So soon unkind CLARIDIANA out of mind Fel. Me that the Sea burneth tell Cla. Look upon me Stranger well Fel. The Cloaths and smartness thou put'st an Speak the bold language of a Man But that Complexion and that Grace WOMAN write upon thy Face And one whom I have elsewhere seen Cla. Ah! Wonder not the most distrest Of Women seeks of Men the best Of ARABIA I am Queen On which the Gold that therein is The Name of HAPPY did bestow And of PERFUMED from her Trees The Aromatick Tears that flow My Father through whose Magick Lore The shook Earth groan'd and on whose back As on strong Atlas'is of yore The Heaven was a Golden Pack Erected there th' inchanted Tow'r For curious and magnificent Proportioned to Regal Pow'r And Art's Divine Astonishment Th' intention was to thee made known Then when thou couldst not keep by WIT That which by Valour thou didst git So many Monsters overthrown The Duel was abruptly done Abruptly was the War begun Feign'd to be here in TARTARY By CLARIDORO'S Jealousy Certain Eyes were thy North-Stars Which directed thy Course hither If Ruth or Love or love of Wars The Cause thou know'st I know not whether I staid alone My Subjects broke Loose from their Duty They require T' an Idol I should offer smoke For whom my Altar had no Fire Up-sighing to the Gods Complaints Heav'ns sacred pity I implore The Sun surpriz'd with darkness faints The Thunder in the Ayre doth roar My Magick-Father reconcil'd By her misfortunes to his Child Informs me how this Cabbin mean Inshrines the Persian King serene Thou art the Man thou FELISBRAVO art In Praise of whom Fame sings her well conn'd Part Two Worlds already with thy Name doth fill And makes both Poles hear plain her Trumphet shrill Thy Aid I crave to thee my wrongs discover As thou art brave not as thou art a Lover For tell not me of constant Lovers such I have heard much of but believe not much Restore CLARIDIANA to her Crown Thy Name will make the Loyal who are down O'retop the rest These are the spoyls thou ow'st To Fame's bright Temple These are
four lame With equal Tropes and Emphasis To Cry a Beast up and a Dame Fel. Her BEAUTY then she brings along And that 's ten thousand Graces strong Zel. Flat jealousie in my Face hurl'd The greatest Clown'ry this i' th' World If that I brought I by did throw Shall I catch this he throws me No Let CLARIDIANA come With her her BEAUTY and her FELISBRAVE In ev'ry thing I 'll her o'recome Ev'n in this too that less of vain I 'll have Back FELISBRAVO put into each Troop As much of Courage as I hope to quail To whom thy Fear and not thy Love shall stoop And I by Force not Beauty will prevail Thou art my Pris'ner foolish Man Conquer'd by putting this shape an But 't is not thou shalt pay me 'T is my boast To pay my self that which to me thou ow'st Fight well to day Since thou dost love CLARIDIANE Let not Twain Thee reprove One Woman call thee Coward t' other Twit thee with perfidious LOVER But this I 'll say had I lov'd thee Thou would'st not thus have used mee Nor durst have acted such a valiant Sin As unto Me UNGRATEFUL to have bin Fel. Madam how high an obligation This lays on me and on my passion A Servant now that takes no Wages of thee But LOVES THEE why only to love thee In the hearing of the rest Hear me ZELIDAURA Zel. Turn This Fellow back to his own Camp And with my glitt'ring Bands though these Woods burn Though on these plains my numbers strike a damp Tell FELISBRAVO CLARIDORE and I Without or MARS or SOL their Pow'rs defie Aside Fel. Ev'n her Anger O! how sweet I hope my self yet at her Feet To prostrate Victory But no To Her Her Eyes will snatch it first I go Set thy People in Array Zel. This CLARIDORO is thy day Claro Where thou art all things must go well Zel. Sound an Alarum Fel. Tole my Knell Trumpets a little Exeunt Enter General with his Sword drawn Gen. Bloody perdition tyrannizing yoake Grim War that strewd'st with Carcases the way To th' first Injustice which free Mortals broke And Iron Scepter plac'd in hand of Clay Barbarous Trade so murmur'd at in vain To spur the fiery Coursers of pale Death As if Time flagg'd as if to be humane Were not Disease enough to stop our Breath But though thou WAR art dire art full of dread There is a Feud more dire more dreadful far When BEAUTY's bloody Flag hang'd out and spread In Virgins Cheeks proclaims a scornful War Love let me rather be a rough-hand's Prize Than the soft Captive of insulting Eyes Enter Rifaloro with his Sword drawn Rif. They March to shock these Girls some small Wit now Would Lids of Marchpane call Caesars of Snow Gen. Why Rifaloro Went'st not with Him Thou 'T is not well done to fail thy Duty so To jest out faults is an uncomely thing Rif. Can I that from the Trojan BRUTUS spring That vaunt great Blood I have much Blood I spill Be wanting to the Huff to the Punctil Of Honour Being of the Mountains too In which the HECULESSES always grew Gen. Art thou a BRITTON then Rif. So brags each one That would write Gentleman when he is none This day shall set the King high on my score For such an honest Man is RIFALORE So faithful to his Master that a Trim Map of Misfortune might be made of him And see the fate which still attends upon it The scurvy Poet giving each a SONNET Leaves only me without But by the faith Of a MAHUMETAN since thus he hath Provok'd me to 't upon his skirts I 'll sit Damme all his Matter 'cause in Verse 't is writ And in defiance of the TRIPLE THREE Promote a Law importing that to bee Or not to be a POET shall suffice To prove past doubt one is not or is wise Gen. Stand RIFALORO to thy Arms The Drums Do beat a Charge and FELISBRAVO comes Rif. St. whom invoke they Gen. MARS the God of Wars Rif. St. GEORGE for Vs the Garter'd English MARS Exeunt Enter Marching at one Door Claridiana as with an Army Drums and Files and her self in the Reare with a Truncheon and Felisbravo by her side At the other Door Zelidaura in like manner with Claridoro before her all Armed Cla Valiant ARABIANS let these barb'rous Troops Men built to serve their bending Foreheads yield As with a fierce South Wind an Army stoops Of drowsie Poppies in a barren field Zel. Food for your Steel brave Sons of Tartarie Let these soâ—t Peasants of Arabia be For ill can brook the glitt'ring of a Sword A Countrey only famous for a Bird. Cla. In our contention now not Mars But CUPID is the God of Wars And turn'd to tears thy proud disdain Puts Love in Arms makes HEAV'N complain If thy coming be to wring From me the famous Persian King Though I do love him I esteem From thee t' have got him more than him For 'mongst my Glories I less prize My Conquest than thy HUE and CRYES Zel. To pull this fickle Prince from thee Is Honour and not Love in me For with so false a Lover know I 'll part at all times to a Foe To give to him no hand I bring But feet on both your necks to print For in my greatest Conquering And utmost of tryumphing in 't Having first punish'd his Inconstancie For more Revenge I 'll after give him Thee Offers to Charge and Felisbravo throws himself at her Feet Fel. ZELIDAURA hold thy Hand Conquer not twice a Man unmann'd She needs not Weapons that is fair He needs not Death who hath despair Already of thy generous Feet I kiss the yoak In the most sweet And glorious Cause of LOVE let my life owe To me the divine choice to lose it so Zel. Rise hence begone I will not have thee dye At thy Election nor in Courtesie But by my Fauchion Not like FELISBRAVE Not my devoted but my conquer'd Slave Cla. Stay Traitor where thou art Reveng'd I 'll be Both on the proud and on the humble THEE I 'll conquer and forget and both your Hearts Transfixt with other than with am'rous Darts Under my vext feet trample Rif. Well plaid Girls Mastiffs of Ivory Dragons of Pearls Fel. I 'll have no Battail Cla. The whole Earth a Lake Of Blood and Scene of Horrour I will make Rif. O how Sir Poll my Grandsire would cry 'S Bears Kings and Queens seen together by the Ears Well there 's no flinching now my strengths I summon To see the last Man born and the last Woman Zel. Sound Sound a Charge Cla. Lock with the Foe Fel. Hold Claro Charge them home But the Heav'ns loe Rash the Clouds open Rif. Monsieur JOVE Throws thund'ring 'twixt them his steel Glove Sound Drums and Trumpets and let Mars pass over the Stage in a Chariot drawn with Lyons having in his hand a fiery Lance. Mars CLARIDIANA second Phoenix of Arabia and thou Tartarian QUEEN In whom alone
short Petticoat and Kirtle of massie Tissue with Plate-Lace three pair of large Skirts and the formost down to the Hem of her Coat with Scallops Scrolls written with Diamonds and set on upon a perfum'd Jupe French Sleeves slash'd and held together again with Buttons and Loops of Diamonds a Head-dress of Silver Purl and Gold-smiths Work with variety of Plumes a Mantle of of rich Cloth of Silver plain with three Constellations of Diamonds which insured it to the Shoulder falling gracefully over the back and at her Neck the Kings great Diamond with the incomparable Pearl That of the Infanta a Petticoat of massie Cloth of Silver Carnation with Scallops trim'd with Silver Passemans and Black Silk with a Sleeve of Needle-Work the Mantle of the same Stuff and to it three Booches of Diamonds a Diamond Chain athwart and her Head-dress of Gold-smiths Work and Roses That of the Lady Anna Maria Manrique a Petticoat of Orange Colour Sattin embroidered with clingcant and flat Pease of Silver both upon the Field and Trimming a Hungarlin of Orange Colour Taffaty open'd upon Cloth of Silver drawn through the Cuts with four pair of Scallops Orange Colour and White all sprinkled with Flowers wrought with the Hand round Sleeves of Cloth of Silver smooth with the same Handy-work Flowers a Mantle of massie Cloth of Silver sew'd with Flowers and hanging by Roses of Diamonds the Head-Dress of Diamonds and Pearls with a Bunch of White Plumes That of the Lady Maria de Cardenas a Petticoat and Hungarlin of a rich Gold Tabby Orange Colour imboss'd with Silver a Cloth of Silver Mantle with three Roses of Diamonds Plumes Carnation and White That of the Lady Antonia de Acunia a Silver Petticoat Carnation garnish'd with Silver and an Hungarlin of Black Velvel Lac'd long ways with Silver Passemans a Mantle of Cloth of Silver with Roses of Diamonds and Plumes Carnation and White That of the Lady Margarita de Tavara a Petticoat and Hungarlin of Cloth of Silver Carnation a Mantle of Cloth of Silver White held by three Roses of Diamonds Plume Carnation and White That of the Lady Iuana Boria Petticoat and Hungarlin of Cloth of Silver Orange Colour with Gathers Trimm'd with Silver Cloth of Silver Mantle with Roses of Diamonds Plume Orange and White That of the Lady Isabella de Velasco Petticoat of Cloth of Silver Carnation Hungarlin of Black Velvet with Silver Passemans Mantle of Cloth of Silver with Roses of Diamonds That of the Lady Antonia de Mendoza Cloth of Silver Petticoat Carnation Black Velvet Hungarlin Laced long ways with Silver Passemans the Mode Moorish a Turbant of Tynsel upon a Bonnet of Black Velvet sewn with Roses of Diamonds and other Jewels Plume Carnation White and Black a Silver Embroider'd Belt thereat hanging a Fauchion an African Cassack called by those People an Albornoz The Fable proceeds AT the approach of Amadis to the place where the Inchantment appear'd dissolv'd Anastarax stood upon his Guard and with deep fetch'd Groans complain'd of the violence of Fate and of Heaven that had given to Morral Man so great Valour as to that Adventure Amadis condemn'd him to the torments of his own Jealousie and took Niquea out of the Inchanted Castle But forasmuch as the Persons here representing did exceed the greatness of the represented therefore the Verses in the Sequel did not observe the promise of the History but the respect due to the Actors And so when Amadis with all courteous and lowly submissions imaginable endevoured to make Niquea more sensible of his Love than of his Prowess she above all those kind of Batteries would not allow him in reward of his Affection so much as to dare to place it upon her heightening his diffidences to so great despair that she left them no safety but in silence And the Nymphs seeing the refined Love of Amadis told him the Queen of Beauty received him into her protection and he more proud to be a true Lover than to be a successful one thank'd Niquâ—a for her scorn and the Goddess for her pity These Verses were Penn'd with such accurate Respect that they deserv'd to be pronounced by Her Highness Here Ended the First SCENE The Instruments Play'd which were always in readiness to fill up the Spaces and the Second began thus The Second SCENE A Nymph appearing came forth singing a Sonnet in which she presented the Festival to the King when presently the Squire and the Shepherd struck with admiration of what they had seen hear the rattling of Chains and grievous Lamentation with which Anastarax did bemoan himself from the Hell of Love and imagining it was some new Inchantment had not the courage either to advance or stay where they were Putting aside the Boughs with their hands forth came the Lady Mary of Arragon and the Lady Frances Tabara in different Habits from the former that of the Lady Mary who Acted Albida Petticoat and Hungarlin of Cloth of Silver Grass Green laid thick with Silver Passemans Cloth of Silver Mantle with Roses of Diamonds Plume White and Green That of the Lady Frances who Acted Lurcano Petticoat of Cloth of Silver Primrose Colour with Embroidery of Silver and Gold both on the Field and Border and a Hungarlin of Black Velvet uncut Laced long-ways with Silver Passemans a Sword and sprightful Hat the Brim turn'd up to the Crown with a Black Plume fasten'd on with a Brooche of Diamonds I advertised before that this which the People would think strange for a Comedy and in Court is called an Invention or Opera is not measur'd by the common Rules of a Play which is a Fable all of one piece is made up of incoherent variety of which the Sight got a better share than the Hearing and where the Comedy if it may be call'd so was such to the Eye more than to the Ear. Lurcano painted forth in rich and no vulgar Verses the Pleasures and Content of a Countrey Life in general and Albida described her Gardens as in the beautiful Season of May then her Lover Lurcano imparted to her his amorous Passion mask'd in cautiousness and fears and Albida not to favour him by doubting it nor oblige her self by believing it answer'd him according to the little heed she gave unto other folks torments living without any of her own In this Dialogue no less than in that of Amadis and Niquea the Author shew'd the Decorum with which Verses should be written for Ladies those which they hear discreet those which they speak severe Where whatsoever is not despair is presumption all should be Veneration and nothing Love It was superexcellent and if it were possible the Acting of it exceeded the Penning Anastarax return'd to his Complaints Cursing the Knight of the Burning Sword with so hearty a good will with so melting a voice with so doleful groans that he adorned his pain and the Lady Antonia Mendoza her Part so much that nothing was ever so applauded or more worthy to
be so Albida demanded of Darinel the cause of those Lamentations but he was as ignorant thereof as her self In the mean time the howling went on and the compassionate Albida had a longing desire to set Anastarax at liberty She heard a voice which singing animated her pity she read an Inscription and that incited it likewise she followed the Ecchoes of the Complaints and advising Lurcano as a Friend to Cure himself with loving some other Beauty taking him it should seem for a Man she had the daring to undertake that which appeared so difficult Lurcano endevoured to stay her and not being able follow'd her to get first to the danger And making hast to outstrip her a flying Dragon opposeth his passage who carryed between his Wings Florisbella represented by the Lady Anxa Manrique with whom he admiring her Beauty and to verifie the Prognostication of Albida falls presently in Love endevouring to arrest her Perfections by the force of Sighs and Prayers he made Love to her most in feeling language the Dragon flew away and the disdainful Nymph would not leave him so much as a presumption that she had heard his Addresses Lurcano remain'd in amorous Doubts sometimes he thought himself asleep sometimes inchanted he found in her more Marks of a Goddess than of a Nymph he thought his Love much for so short a view little for so beautiful an Object The Pen of the Author left me no gallant thing unsaid in these Verses and the Lady Franscisca pronouncing them added of her own a Spirit the perfection of Poetry this being one of the most admired Strains in the whole Festival A Quire of Musick bid him not despair for that he should sometime and that soon behold her again He demanded Aid of Love in so doubtful an occasion and in so soveraign a devotement when on the top of the Theatre a Balcone open'd it self in which at the Sounds of many Instruments appeared the Nymph Arethusa represented by the Lady Mary Gusman this second Habit much surpassing the former Clad in a Carnation Petticoat laid thick with flat Pease and Embroideries of Pearl and Silver and a deep Kirtle after the Mode of France with Gathers of Cloth of Silver Carnation wrought with little Snails or Periwincles of Silver as it were creeping up from the bottom to the top and half Sleeves of Needle-work lin'd with Cloth of Silver White and Ermins a flying Mantle Carnation and Silver with Roses of Diamonds and a Bunch of Plumes Carnation and White a Bough of Laurel and Mirtle she carried in her hand saying that she came sent from the Goddess Venus to disperse the Cloud which involved so great Lovers she bade Lurcano be of good Courage since Anastarax himself was now coming out of the Hell of Love This Scene was accompanied with great Harmony and from the midst of the flames which were made with various splendour not causing horrour but delight came forth Anastarax handed by Albida whom Arethusa thank'd for her valour and Anastarax for his deliverance Then the different Quires of Musick joyning forth came the Goddess of Beauty with Niquea Amadis and all the Nymphs and Anastarax begg'd pardon of Niquea for his presumptuous Love and she pardon'd him The Goddess of Beauty gave to Amadis the name of the most refined Servant and valiant Knight in the whole World loving without design conquering without reward and Amadis with that of being acknowledged so perfect a Lover rested fully satisfied Florisbella came forth to whom Lurcaro fell down upon his Knees and begg'd in recompense of all his Love she would not look upon it as an injury being the most courteous affront that could be offer'd to Beauty Arethusa celebrated the great Mercy extended by one Sex the great Love made good by the other she gave to Niquea the joy of her disinchantment and to the Goddess the Glory of the Festival She commanded that with Musick and Dances should be celebrated the Liberty of the Princess of the Beauty of the Goddess and so with a great Harmony of all the Instruments at once they went out concluding the Representation in which being the last the Lady Mary Gusman carried the first Praise All of a sudden the Mountain cover'd the whole Face of the Theatre and presently that Bulk open'd it self at the sounding of the Instruments when with unexpected novelty that which was a Mountain and a Building we saw turn'd into most beautiful Gardens of Flowers and natural Fountains so ingeniously and with so great quickness metamorphosed that though the Artifice was much the brevity was the thing admired And for a decision of a Wager between the Queen and the Lady Leonor Pimentel observing an ancient Pastime in the Spanish Court which is called Divination at which they stake a Jewel for victory not for avarice there appeared on the highest part of the Throne Her Majesty and the Infawa the Ladies and Menina's seated upon the Steps thereof making a glorious show and each of them having tyed about her right Arm a Scarlet Ribbon all of one length and breadth and fastened in such manner that made no distinction the Preceipt that shuffling all these together the Lady Leonor to overcome must light upon that which had hung upon the Arm of the Queen The Lady Leonor approached and lost only the possibility of gaining for to be an absolute loser the Law was the Queen when her turn came should light upon the Ribbon that was fastened to Leonors Arm. The Action was accompanied by all the Instruments and Singers For as Spain is the most proper Element of the most excellent Voyces in the World so the Centre of them is the Kings Chappel to whose Master Musick is beholden for uniting dexterity in the Tunes with an excellent Ayr in Singing making the Majesty of the Theorbo comply with the sweetness of the Lute and to the eminency of whose Art she owes the Novelty of Palomares the Delicacy of Iohn Blas the Spirit of Alvaro and all made use of upon this occasion The Queen the Infanta the Lady Anna Maria Maâ—â—ique the Ladies Isabella of Arragon Antonia de Mendoza and Diana Franscisca de Tabara Dancing the Turdion with Swords and Hats gave an End to the Festival Wit Motion and Bravery were drawn dry and wearied in the Service nay the Graces themselves had not any delight which by this time was not afforded to the Spectators nor any thanks which they return'd not to the Actors If the Expectation had been infinite the Performance was more The admirations and praises paid but a small part of the sight for to go about to measure it that way Hyperboles themselves would have made a luke-warm Narration and of such none were wanting and the greatest was none The flourishing years of the King which may they multiply to as many as his Virtues deserve and as Spain prays for and hath need of could by no less demonstrations of joy be sufficiently solemnized nor at any time with
greater reason have disengag'd the pleasing thirst of seeing more The Splendour of the Court had been always admirable but was never seen greater than now having in the first place the Queen whom God preserve of few Years of much Beauty accompanied with all those excellent Endowments which form a Royal Perfection then the Infanta of equal Majesty and Beauty also the Ladies who in Bravery Beauty and Greatness were inferiour unto those two only for they were a Pool of all the Illustrious Blood in the Kingdom and being wheresoever they are the Load-stone of all Eyes Imagin them seen upon the Theatre on the most Tryumphant day of the World every of them vying with other and making a modest ostentation of her Bravery her Meen and her Beauty No one can be particularly commended without an injury to all She seem'd the most glorious drest upon whom the Eye happen'd to be she the best Actor who was then Speaking The Queen Foundress and Glory of the Festival so twice Hers and justly for neither from Her could it be expected less nor did it deserve a less Mistress by her presence did free it from the fear of competition and from the hope of being more who because only by Her being of the Company She gave the Scene so much Lustre without pronouncing one Verse In these following was written in Figures that which many had not been sufficient to comprehend in words at length The Speaking being the best Thing of the Play SHE who spake nothing bare the Bell away FINIS A DESCRIPTION IN VERSE DIALOGUE-WISE OF THE FESTIVAL AT ARANVVHEZ In the YEAR 1623. Gyant THe Bounds where wandering Tagus meets Himself in Gardens and long Streets Of double Elms whose Feet he drowns And Rains down from their lofty Crowns Every April every May Fair Green Flow'ry Rustling Gay BELLZA twice the Queen of them By her Face and Diadem With wonder fills They prouder far To ponder whose than what they are To celebrate the Day of Birth Of the most Glorious Youth on Earth To whom her Greatness and her Beauty Pays a Homage pays a Duty The World she doth conjure and summon T' invent and see what is not common And what is thereupon prepar'd Makes things impossible not hard Instead of Quires of Nymphs to friend To serve to that Heroick End Press'd Goddesses she doth inroll Souldiers of LOVE Rivals of SOL Gen. What a sublime AMPHITHEATER Eclypse of that which Rome did flatter GREAT POMPEY in He having there Flatter'd with it the WORLD and HER. How proudly rais'd How richly deckt That ev'n the learned Architect Stands pos'd thereat and the fair Skies See in its Lamps their thousand Eyes Rif. What Harmony of Seraphins Now now the Festival begins Wipe your Eyes your Hearing cleer Other Sense ye need not here What a gallant MASCARADE The Cloaths were by APOLLO'S made Rather the same he wore that day Whilst he in Bed with Thetis lay So fair a preface of her own By a near Neighbour to the Throne An Earnest gave of what so great Expectation did beget In a Crystal Chariot loe TAGUS from the Roof doth flow Translated to a Nymph more pure Than He out of his golden Ew're Now gives she her sweet Voice the reins Not as a little Bird that strains To sooth the Morn that dawning is But Trumpet of the Sun that 's risse Flaunting in tryumphant Green After him is APRIL seen With sensitive Flow'rs not stuck but set Cherish'd by two Suns of Jet Such a Complection such Eyes Grace The Lusitanian Goddess Face Fair super of the highest Praise Which fears t' abase what it would raise Her leavy Coach forsaking now She acts with Garland on her Brow The first Grace giving to the whole And to the Lines a second Soul Gen. The Ayr inviron'd round with Lights Some unexpected Object frights AN EAGLE 't is with Golden Plumes Which through that wandring Region comes By a fair NYMPH the Bird is backt Who doth above the Danger Act And without any scruple Time So bold is Beauty in her prime Gy. Behold indeed a Primrose here The Prologue as that is o' th' year How sprightly She for making known The Praise of others hears her own But not till she hath done her doe There is applause in silence too Fortune when she this Child design'd For so much Greatness was not blind From Trunks of Trees asunder rent A LEASH OF NYMPHS forthwith present In harmonious Ditties rare Prodigious sweetnese to the Ayre At a fair Tagan Swains desire Of AMADIS the Noble SQUIRE Doth courteous Newes to him afford Of his brave Illustrious Lord. Now doth the DAME that Acts him come Gallant assur'd compleat in whom Joyn'd to Niquea's Beauty is The Valour of her Amadis For the Inchanted Wood she stares And in a Civil War of Cares Quarter his fatigue demands Of slumber at the courteous hands NIGHT a black Syren in soft Chains Of her Voice his Steps detains And his twice captive thoughts doth keep Fetter'd in the Bands of Sleep Bright AURORA him doth tell In sweet Accents he doth not well For a Love that 's nobly got Merits Eyes which slumber not AMADIS awakes and sees How the ones languid Song doth freeze His Spirits t' other doth infuse Courage with her sprightful Muse. The Burning Sword he now whips out With a gallant briskness stout Bold and fiery as his Blade The dreaded Doors he doth invade Four proud Pillars sinking fall To the lowest pit of all Four proud Gyants in their places Make four thousand dreadful faces They are saucy on his Blade His victorious Hand he laid Amongst four POLYPHEMES alas Fear the only Gyant was Flatt'ring NYMPHS with purpose base Flow'rs upon his Temple place To lose him for a Wreath of Sand The Laurels he had half in hand He shews them the Inchanted Shield Turn'd LYONS when they that beheld Being Lyons with new horrour strook Their ever-curling Manes they shook An Illustrious PALACE bright Rises like a Sphere of Light That of Sol was such a one Where his rash ambitious Son Begg'd the Coach-box from which hurl'd He drown'd himself and burnt the World Leaving his Dad to see his Errour Too plainly in that Diamond Mirrour Gen. What an admirable Scheme See upon the Throne Supreme That pure GODDESSE whom Heaven lent To be Earths best Ornament The Greatest Majesty alive Ev'n by her own Prerogative The summ'd Perfection of all Faces One wonder and a thousand Graces And by her side that MORNING'S ROSE Who if her Breast did not inclose A Royal Mind t' inform the whole Her Body might ev'n serve for Soul The Representative th' Idea Of the most Beautiful NIQUEA Who strikes respect before she 's seen The Knight she thanks with courteous Meen For disinchanting her which makes The Martyred ANASTARAX Sick of the Ill of others Bliss Now Crown'd with Laurel AMADIS Whose Valour was the fear alway Of Monsters
and of Beasts of Prey Coward to so much Beauty and His own worst Enemy underhand Letting in no Light to Hope Yet giving all his Passion scope Speaks but she Audience doth deny For in Affections plac'd so high You shall always hear Men tell There he aspir'd and there he fell LURCANO and ALBIDA see Who teach the Rules of Modesty Show Lovers how to be discreet And keep them within Limits meet Now hear ANASTARAX complain Who in so much fire and pain Earns soft pity praise and glory Ev'n in Lovers Purgatory Inclinable to be entreated By Groans so sensibly repeated Albida stopt but not her Ear At the Laments which eccho'd there O how humane and how brave She thrids the must'ring flames to save Only Ador'd is Beauty cruel The Wretch that is of those the fewel Lurcano left and in despair Peoples with wild Complaints the Air. When to extremity things come Discretion is not always dumb On flying Dragon's back behold A GODDESSE who in DELPHOS old Would from the SUN himself have ta'ne His Adoration and his Fane Without an Ear to those Complaints Which poor LURCANO so well paints Whose Flame so fair an Object sought No Errour is though 't is a Fault She flies like Light'ning and the Lover To his own Thoughts deliver'd over Feeds upon those enjoys Despair In it th' Ambition of his Pray'r ANASTARAX refined came Out of the Bosom of the Flame For 't is the Good of Ill to be Acquainted with 't familiarlie AMADIS in fine disdain'd For all the Conquest his Sword gain'd Of the most Soveraign Love and hard Frames to himself his own Reward And bleeding inward bitter Tears For those tyrannick Scorns of hers Counts not to sit down by the loss A Boldness greater than his Cross. NIQUEA sole Exception of Natures General Rule of Love And of high Faith the richest Prize If the World durst kerve to her Eyes Loves his Worth but hates his Love And praising that all Mens above To other Gifts than of his Mind Is not only dumb but blind ARETHUSA Nymph compleat Slides down from her Starry Seat Receipting Pills in pity wrapt To swage the torments so ill hapt With what a grace doth she set forth Of ALBIDA the vast worth NIQUEA'S Beauty and her scorn Which must be kept since it is born Confusions of ANASTORAX Of Jealousie and Love the Flax LURCANO'S high divided Flame And AMADIS his still the same These Heroick Lovers all Paid in that we them so call Marriage at any rate eschew'd In which your vulgar Plays conclude Armies of Minstrels in the Air Which to their several Quires repair The Elements together dart But make them Friends before they part The SCENE is chang'd and by and by Those which had been Mountains dry Transform'd to Gardens fresh and green As Hyblean Groves are seen In HYERARCHIES of Steps distinct A Ribbon on each ANGEL linkt Diversifies with streaks of Red The Azure Pavements which they tread Approacheth an Illustrious DAME But could not hit on when she came Of the Great LIGHT the pendant Ray In guessing which the Conquest lay Now the victorious GODDESSE She The Wonder tryes but 't will not be 'T was quit because She likewise mist The Lady LEONORA'S List. Dancing She ends the FESTIVALL In its full Glories summing All That modern Spirits can invent Or draw from ancient Precedent The CAESARS Birth-days to Grace whom The Majesty of their own ROME With ravish'd Plumes from Conquer'd GRECE Were oft distill'd into one piece Observ'd like this were never known No Years e're worthier of a Throne Or to encrease to infinite This Tryumph to Hopes Wishes Sight By being what and whose it was Set Pillars which they could not pass Astonish'd the Spectator stands Tearing the Air with Voice and Hands What mute attention first commended Loud Plaudits Crown when it is ended Rif. But what new Dorick Tow'rs adorn The Garden where the Statues mourn What Noise which bandied to and fro The more we hear the less we know A Second THEATRE it is Which the perfection if it miss Of the first disdains but That All that was ever wondred at Now the Musick Plays away Sign of a new beginning Play Erected there is a new Throne Which Golden SOL himself might own Of MASKERS entred a new Band Where Lamps to Lamps opposed stand And with new Lights the Visage cheer Of that other HEMISPHERE The substance and invention Of the Cloaths they now have on In what they bought their Riches shows And their Wit in what they chose FAME and ENVY loe at strife Whether of them most to the life The past FESTIVAL shall paint Treading the Stage with lofty Plant The Play begins COLCHOS the Scene The Subject JASON HIPPOCRENE By Pailsuls was pour'd into It With Feather of a PHOENIX writ O what sad duplicated Groans From the hoarse Sea came up at once Whence the Center with Blew Waves APOLLO'S Golden Circles laves Favour Neptune Joves next brother Cryes one Voice and straight another Billows let us pass in peace And your swelling anger cease Thou pitying daughter of the Main Let not two Mariners pray in vain Who without Sails the Air cut through Who without Oars the Ocean plough By a curl'd Bark of Gold unshorn To their desired Port are born The Fugitives this Pray'r that made The sweetest Twins the World e're had Those who are plac'd for Signs in Heaven With these in Beauty are not even Nor the green Woods have ever known So much VENUS and ADONE NEREUS'S Daughters one and all Beautiful in Love did fall With this their GOLDEN BRUTE a rare Emblem of a foolish Heire In Coasts by them ne're seen before This pair of lovely Strangers pore Unto a wandring Life their just Hopes of a Royal Scepter trust FRIXUS relates in Language good The Greatness of their injur'd Blood The Poison of an envious Soul And an Envy's poison'd Bowl In this sad plight of all forsook MARS upon them pity took For to Complaints by Earth prefarr'd The Ears of Heaven are not barr'd A Noble Dame makes a Divine Composition In Her joyne A Flow'r less vain less noxious Star NARCISSUS and the GOD OF WAR Her sprightful Body she hath drest In a strong glitt'ring Back and Brest And her Temple Walls with those Which won in Fight you must suppose This God of Honourable Men Valiant Wonders tells them then Who prov'd in spight of Times and Fate Famous though not Fortunate He wish'd them to the High-lands get For Deserts still were a retreat A Sanctuary Coop and Pen As well to Great as Holy Men. The GOLDEN FLEECE gives him the Prince Worn by so many PHILIPS since Near their Great Hearts And by the Fourth Who writes the first of all in worth His Cheeks with Tears FINEO drowns Because his fair MEDEA frowns For hopeless Love is so unwise To make it self Fetters of Ice The second Pilgrim
AGE Which from a higher ground survays The Labyrinth of humane ways And undeceiv'd by Time doth know That all 's deception here below And whether calm or storm appears Is laid up in the Bay of Years And lets it shine and lets it blow No ancient Fester no new Sore Makes Age wish CUPIDS Bow were burst For TIME by this hath cur'd the first And high time 't is to have no more Love's golden Field being now all hoar Free I was born and remain free Mine own I am If I will be Another's 't is my fault with whom For me unhappy to become Can never happen without me Liberty my noble Will For these Ills so well forecast How bitter will they be to taste When imagin'd but they kill Indeed the Fates have us'd me ill I ask them not Revenge nor Pelf But quiet and to 'scape a shelf This sure can be no great offence 'T is begging in my own defence To pray I may but save my self Enter Floranteo Flo. This now is LOVE'S last Will and last shall be Which thankful to the hand that gave me death Shall leave my Murtheress a Legacie And sigh her Blessings with my dying breath And these shall be not the first tears which still'd Out of the Bosom's principaller part Shall have the Fate of Wealth profusely spill'd Which seldom meets with any grateful heart And this shall be a Love so obstinate That for all Love it shall a pattern grow To live in spight of Time or Change or Hate Yet there 's one comfort amidst all this woe That for a wretch his way to death to grope There needs in fine nor Remedy nor Hope To Her Upon the License giv'n by thee This glorious Pilâ— to come and see Hundreds do flock to view the Place But thousands to behold thy Face Whom though these Knights did disinchant Th' Adventure is not finisht ye Because that WISE and VALIANT Have not in one subject met So in the SWORD again it lies By DUEL to decide the Prize Cla. I weigh not my dead Sires command Where his Will his Law I find No King that ever Rul'd a Land Could stretch his Empire to the mind I wonder in my heart that he With all his Wisedom could not see The Husband he did fore-decree Would not so well examin'd be By an Inchantment as by Me Nor so authentick in Love-matters An Old Man's judgement as his Daughters This is a Lott'ry I profess Not giving him the happiness Who hath most worth but best success And may not I acquainted be With who they are Flo. It may suffice To know they 're both of Knights degree And that thy Sire was very wise Cla. I have a better way to know Who 's Valiantest and Wisest Flo. How Cla. He shall be the Valiantest Who my scorns best suffer can Flo. Good Cla. And him that loves me best I shall count the wisest Man But sadly I do live in fear For though I would not fair appear And though in truth I am not fair Haunted I am like those that are And here among these rustling leaves With which the wanton Wind doth play Inspir'd by it my Sense perceives This snowy Iesamine whisp'ring say How much more frolick white and fair In her green-lattice she doth stand T' enjoy the free and cooler Air Than in the prison of a hand Flo. Madam Thou might'st be pleas'd to read Other Lessons in this Mead All whose Flowers as from the Spring Take from thee their life and being See this JESAMINE which doth owe To thy HAND fingers of Snow To its soveraign whiteness how All his silver Banners bow See that sanguine Gilly-flow'r Spicy big with pearly showre Which a new AURORA dips In the scarlet of thy Lips See the LILLY'S so pure white It might be margent to the Light Such a white Foyl to those black EYES Is that smooth Forehead 's christal Rise See a quire of Nightingales Bidding thee a thousand Hales Twice taken for their MORNING bright By the Flowers and by the Light For in those clear Eyes Ray for Ray The SUN'S translated and made better And flow'r for flow'r in those Cheeks MAY Copied in a FAIRER LETTER But least in limning Thee my Art Should play th' unskilful PAINTERS part Let this Christal RIVER pass For thy liquid Looking-glass See thy self there but if thine Eye Too long on that sweet Centre dwell Cla. This Man I fear me by and by Will drop into NARCISSUS WELL. Since now I came where I am Witness to The WORLDS Ambitions I have no content Flo. Not that your self you disinchanted view Cla. Thou nam'st the thing which I do most resent Till then I liv'd in jollity On others dangers looking down From the serene Tranquility Which my Soul truly term'd her own For plac'd above what MAN calls Bliss And into her self retir'd By a heavenly Ecstasis Ravish'd elevated fir'd She saw the multitude of Woes A fair one on her self bestowes When 't is her Riches and her Pride To see her LOVERS multiply'd Who ev'n to qualifie disdains For not disdaining BEAUTY's dull Must be content to take the pains To be reputed Beautiful And if with beautiful disdain To let Men fall it be her stile Ev'n by Refusals this they ' â—l gain That she hath thought of them the while I look'd if underneath the Cope Were one that lov'd and did not hope But from his Nobler Soul remove That modern Heresie in Love When hearing a shrill voyce I turn And loe a sweet-tongu'd Nightingal Tender adorer of the Morn In him I found that one and all For that same faithful Bird and true Sweet and kind and constant Lover Wond'rous Passion did discover From the terrace of an Eugh And though ungrateful she appear'd Unmov'd with all she saw and heard Ev'ry day before 't was day More and kinder things he 'd say Courteous and never to be lost Return'd not with complaints but praise Loving and all at his own cost Suff'ring and without hope of Ease For with a sad and trembling throat He breaths into her breast this Note I love thee not to make thee mine But love thee 'cause thy Form's Divine Here now was candour Here Faith strove How rul'd a pain how full of duty Not his own happiness to love But to love anothers Beauty Where O how base the Man whose flame Soars highest if he spy no Game AURORA'S self so fresh so gay Shall see him late a second day And I was scandaliz'd at Love If since the thing did hence remove The name remains to find one can Believe a Nightingale and not a MAN Flo. Believe 't when he does love a MAN Loves more than BRUITS or do or can His tow'ring Passion scorns to vale T' a silly short-wing'd NIGHTINGALE The Nightingale loves nothing else But the presence of his Dame Love like Faith in this excels That see or not it is the same The MORNING hears his Roundelaies Which though she do not thank him for A
Dame that listens to her praise May be presum'd not to abhor The diff'rence then is very great For where there is most diffidence A Cause that can a hearing get Will pick an Eye of Hope from thence But Oh! the space Madam the space Betwixt his passion and relief Who suffers and restrains his Grief Nor open'd to the JUDGE his Case For once I will discover mine Not to perswade thee to incline The least but only let thee see What silence thou hast ow'd to me O how it sweeten would my pain Could my CAUSE hope but to be cast Out after formal sentence past In the fair Court of thy Disdain For though I have a Patience Which needs not this experiment Yet I would owe experience It self to being a Patient Cla. Henceforth thou shalt not to my face Tell me I would not hear thy CASE Nor me with thy dumb Passion twit For thou hast disinvelop'd it Him who his silence for respect Obtrudes upon my estimation For punishment I will direct To speak in nothing nor no fashion For if he persevere not mute I 'll tell him and I 'll smiling do 't What time his pain hath speechless been 'T was 'cause being small he bit it in Which if he now could do no more But LOVE brake ope his prison dore Though with dark-keeping he was mad He 's tame since he began to gad I make no diff'rence 'twixt a wrong And telling me thou do'st despair LOVE haulks at hope when in a Tongue He walks abroad to take the Air. If nourish hope thou ought'st not Thou Do'st thy self wrong as well as me Confiscating by speaking now The merit of thy Secrecie He that of honour understands Pain'd hath his cure in his own hands The glory of concealing it The smart of suff'ring it doth quit And FLORANTEO for the Truth Of thy Affection I should doubt it But that one thing confirm me doth That I desire to be without it Flo. My Errour did not think to be So much beholding unto Thee And faintly hop'd from thine own mouth The undeceiving of my Youth I better than I look'd for fare Though I presum'd to entertain Some thought that to compleat despair I might be help'd by thy disdain Be not so prodigal of scorns On me thy Rigours do not wast With such a deluge of good turns I may grow insolent at last And I to thee would owe no more Meaning to dye to pay this shot And set thee something on my score Cla. I hear thee and I hear thee not Flo. My death will bring some good to thee In ridding thee of me Cla. I doubt it Thy death will bring no good to me For I 'll be rid of thee without it Offers to go away Flo. Into the Garden comes a Knight Cla. Withdraw that I may see unseen Whether or no he doth acquit The promise of his Princely Meen Exit Florantâ—o Cla. No Man was born to be my Husband no Man Deserves a Love For as when this Man 's scorn'd His everlasting whining deafs a Woman So that grows sawcy if his Love 's return'd The best unjustly blames the worst of Fate Is it unjust to give to all their due He is a Man enough to merit Hate He loves me that 's unpardonable too Nor let fair Virgins murmur at their chance Of being entit'led to ill luck O dull Though frequently repeated Ignorance Is 't no good luck then to be beautiful For if to make us happy Men were able What needed more to make us miserable Enter Felisbravo Fel. A second ARGO fraighted With Fear and Avarice Between the Sea and Skies Hath penetrated To the new World unworn With the red footsteps of the snowy Morn Thirsty of Mines She comes rich back and the curl'd Rampire past Of watry Mountains cast Up by the winds Ungrateful shelf near home Gives her usurped Gold a silver Tomb. A devout PILGRIM who To forreign Temple bare Good pattern fervent prayre Spurr'd by a pious Vow Meas'ring so large a space That Earth lack'd Regions for his Plants to trace Joyful returns though poor And just by his aboad Falling into a Road Which Laws did ill secure Sees plunder'd by a Thief O happier Man than I for 't is his Life Conspicuous grows a TREE Which Wanton did appear First fondling of the Year With smiling Braverie And in his blooming pride The lower house of Flowers did deride When his silk Robes and fair His Youth 's imbellishing The Crownet of a Spring Narcissus of the Air Rough Boreas doth confound And with his Trophies strews the scorned ground Trusted to redious hope So many months the CORN Which now begins to turn Into a golden Crop The lusty Grapes which plump Are the last farewell of the Summers pomp How spatious spreads the VINE Nurs'd up with how much care She lives she thrives grows fair 'Bout her lov'd Elm doth twine Comes a cold Cloud and lays In one the Fabrick of so many days A silver RIVER SMALL In sweet Accents His Musick vents The warbling Virginal To which the merry Birds do sing Timed with stops of gold the chrystal string He steals by a green Wood With fugitive feet Gay jolly sweet Comes me a troubled Flood And scarcely one sand stays To be a witness of his golden days The SHIP' 's up weigh'd The PILGRIM made a Saint Next Spring recrowns the PLANT Winds raise the CORN was laid The Vine is prun'd The Rivulet new tun'd But in the Ill I have I 'm left alive only to dig my Grave Lost BEAUTY I will dye But I will thee recover And that I dye not instantly Shews me more perfect LOVER For my Soul gone before I live not now to live but to deplore Cla. This is he that was more stout Aside Fel. In these blind Paths I go To hunt my Foe Whom having once found out His Blood shall purge the soyl Of a short nap and an immortal spoyl Cla. Well believe 't the Man 's no Fool Nor a boist'rous Sword-man solie For Wisdom taught in Sorrow's School Is the Child of Melancholy Aside Fel. Am I a Prince or am I vile Am I a refined LOVER Am I stout yet all this while Not the PICTURE to recover Cla. Heav'n be juster then that he Have a Picture had of me Aside Fel. Fairest Madam well 't is seen I was ignorant indeed That durst wrong so bright a Queen Cla. Wrong'd he me in word or deed Aside Fel. Yet wise enough I am to know Losing my painted Mistress The unpainted one will after go Cla. Else she her self a STATUE is Aside Fel. A Voice Cla. He has me in his Ear Therefore will I my self unshroud And try his Wit too Knight Fel. Who 's there Claridiana shews her self What Heav'n what Sun breaks through a Cloud Cla. Though my presence All admit Thy presumption wants much Wit If before the ENTERPRIZE Be wholly finish'd thou suppose To pry into the Mysteries Which these inchanted Walls inclose To tame two Dragons