to be just You will perceive that what I utterd of Love to the Cid was to secure my self But here 's my brother le ts withdraw a little SCENE IV. SPHERANTI CELIMANT SPHE. IS not this fight enough deare Celimant To choak that fire up within my brest Which I too long have nourish'd to my ruine For an ungratefull and perfidious woman Was it too little to disdain a Prince And run into the hands of one she knew not Unlesse having quitted him for whom his worth And valour pleaded she become the prey Of a y that will-seize her see Don Sancho Has made her his already and shall I Love where I am so rivall'd no my heart If thou must be a captive let thy fetters Be such as need not shame the wearer CEL. Friend Which name I rather chuse to call you by Then brother since you cannot be her husband With safety of your honour could you think That she can spare her modesty whose falshood Spar'd not her brother and her Country too No sir believe she that is base her self Cannot love vertue in an other person For how should she love that she never knew Heer then put out your flame and think Spheranti That this conformity of our lives and fortune Which makes me share in all your passions May link our hearts so fast we shall not need Such an alliance to confirme the knot SP. J know not friend whether I be more happy In losing of my love then in the finding Th' assurance of thy friendship now let fortune Look well or ill upon me in thy love I le summe up all my blisse nor can I think Brave Celimant will professe lesse to me CEL. Which to confirme no ceremonious oath The band of doubtfull and inconstant souls Shall I now take thee friendship I invoke When I do leave this Prince let me be left Without a friend I and without a name SP. J know my father at this time endevours My liberty if at least I can call This thraldom where I am so well receiv'd But I 'me resolv'd to run your course of fortune My freedom joyn'd with yours is welcome to me Else a worse torment then that bondage was Your sisters rigour did impose CEL. No more Deare friend of her come come forget her name SP. Since she could be so thanklesse to disdain The man that quit his liberty for her Which when the Cid did offer I refus'd To follow her who follow all men else And that her crime has merited my hate I have shook off that chain but finde my self Caught in another which thou dost not know T is such as makes me feare my liberty I cannot go from hence and think I 'me free CEL. You are in love it seems SP. Yes Celimant I am in love and as much in despaire CEL. Is there a beauty can oppose your Courtship What quality is higher then your own Why should you then despaire S. P. I but the horrour Of being vanquish'd makes me think my self Unworthy to look up to such a height CEL. Consider that your fortune was to yield His to orecome yet did you long dispute it And bravely too what can you feare Spheranti SP. To be too rash CEL. To be too rash let hope Remove those thoughts and you will not displease her A vertuous love was never odious But tell me sir what name has this your Mistris Honour my freedome with this trust SP. Th' Infanta Deere Celimant has snatcht my heart and though My eyes were caught in their first motion to her Yet durst I not discover it till now But such force has my flame it will not be Contain'd within the limits of my heart But must break out to thee and suddainly To her which if displeasing is my death CEL. Hope better sir I am your caution She shall receive the offer of your vowes SCENE V. Enter DON ARIAS. BUt here 's Don Arias D. ARI. The King sir askes for you CEL. I le wait him sir Exeunt SP. T is strange he should be sent for and not I SCENE VI. Enter INFANTA IN. WHat all alone SP. I Madam Celimant Is sent for to the King IN. Oh I know why His liberty is now in proposition And yours too shortly if you desire it SP. That Madam is the least part of my care J am so farre from wishing it I feare it IN. This is a Courtship sir I understand not Were not Toledo better than Sivill to you SP. Madam th' effect will make you see it is not IN. Well we shall hope to see it then adiew SP. My duty Madam will not give me leave To let you go alone do not deny me The honour to wait on you SCENE VII. CIMENA Page CIM. WHat said Roderigo boy when he departed PAGE Nothing but in his looks one might discover Amazement joyn'd with grief to be excluded CIM. Excluded whence not from my heart I 'me sure There he makes good the place he ever had Were it a easie to remove him thence As from my presence I should feare no rivall Take your Lute boy and sing the song I gave you It sutes my present state The Boy sings 'T Was not his person nor his parts Though nere so fam'd that wonne me He lov'd he said which I believ'd And that faith has undone me His vertues were alike to all Nor were they more to me I honor'd them but lov'd the man Because that he was he Who since he has his love forgon And is himself no more I love him not as he is now But as he was before CIM. T is true I must still love him the remembrance That I was once Roderigo's only object Is that I cherish now SCENE VIII. DON ARIAS. D. ARI. MAdam the King Stayes for you to come to him CIM. The King where Why would he speake with me D. ARI. J cannot tell But he expects you on the Infantas side CIM. Tell him I come I know what he would have But all his power shall not shake my firmenesse In vain he tryes to winne me by his greatnesse What is a throne to me that seek a grave I me sure he has no power ore my will He that first took my heart shall keep it still Exeunt Act IV. Scene I. SPHERANTI INFANTA SP. MAdam t is true I may have bin too rash To offer you a heart unworthy of you But yet my fault is such as cannot give Consent to any low thoughts of repentance And if my service find no other grace Let me have leave to cherish my attempt And let me love my self for loving you Then if you shall deny your presence to me My soule may do the office of mine eyes Which may contemplate what these cannot see And if my love cannot appeare from thence From this you shall perceive my obedience IN. Though I am better read in my own faults Then to believe I could charm any man Yet for your sake because you 'le have it so J am
Should receive better welcome she is me thinks Some what too full of vanity RO. Ah Madam I must not murmur though she be ungratefull She is Cimena and I cannot hate her IN. But this thy too much goodnesse will betray thee Thou mak'st thy constancie unhappy to thee RO. Madam you know where t is my duty calls me Pray give me leave to wait upon my father Exit IN. Go this was a pretext I know to leave mee But I shall be reveng'd of this neglect When against all thy hopes of future joy The rigor of Cimena I employ Exit Act III. Scene I. RODERIGO from CIMENA'S Lodging RO. Hence-forth Cimena live for euer quiet Roderigo shall no more be so unhappy As to disturbe your peace since you deny him The sight of you he is content to suffer Not only want of that but all things else You being all to him that he desir'd Good heaven was there ever so much rigour Practiz'd on any as on wretched me Did I hope any other recompence Of all my services my labours watchings To bring home victory but that she should Crown um with her acceptance and must I Courted by all else be by her despis'd Into whose arms I look'd to have bin receiv'd Nor is her anger more apparant then The cause of it conceal'd I am not worthy To know the reason of my banishment Therefore farewell for ever cruell Mistris I le seek some place unhabited by women Where I may never see such shining eyes As only light us to our miseries Exit SCENE II. KING th' INFANTA SERIFFA DON SANCHO DON DIEGO K. BUt Madam spare Roderigos innocence His vertues and your worth are both too great To suffer such a stain IN. Think of it Madam And call not him a traitour but your heart Which entertain'd a love that was not sent You were too credulous not he perfidious What you desir'd you were willing to believe And knowing the command of your own beauty With the advantage of your birth and fortune I cannot blame you if you thought that love Which was but civill application But now you have found your errour let your courage Finde scorn for him that has not love for you SER. How easily the whole Counsail the sick Aside And yet they have not hit my true disease K. My sister Madam tels you right desires That are not honorable ought to be short Your quality which your beauty only equals Invites a higher match then Roderigo SER. A conquerour is next unto a King Since hee s deny'd me how can my hopes look higher K. Don Sancho wait the Princesse to her lodgings And see that she command my Court as freely As I my self SAN. Your Graces humble creature Exit K. Don Diego is the Cid contented with The offer which I make him of my sister D. DIE. You are the King sir he your humble vassall He could not be my sonne if disobedient To you that are his master and I finde His inclination ready only feare And modesty keeps in his strong desires K. T is not his feare but Mistris which restrains him D. DIE. He will forget her sooner then his duty Of which the Count can give you the best proof For though at that time he ador'd Cimena Yet ventur'd he to lose her for my sake His honour and his duty so commanding He can love well t is true but obay better K. I never doubled his obedience Of which his excellent vertue does assure me I de have you sister to accept the Courtship Which he shall make to you and if you aske A reason why know I will have it so Though fortune have not blest him with a Crown And though his greatnesse be within himself Yet there propitious heaven has shew'd its power Heaping its richest treasures on his person Hi heart is valours proper spheare his soule The throne of vertue where she sits and governs Directing all his actions to honour These rare perfections must be the objects Sister of your desires IN. Such a command Makes my obedience ready to love vertue When you that are my King requires it of me I not to give consent to hard conditions T is your part to command mine to obay K. T is well it only rest now that Cimena Comply with my desires I will no longer Burn to so little purpose my affection hastes to its end there can be no content T' approach a fire that will consume not cherish I am resolv'd to have her as for love Which to the Cid she promis'd I have power T' absolve her of it Princes render lawfull What ever pleases them respects become The people not a King send for her sister And tell her I would see her in your lodgings To treat of somthing that concerns her neerly T is wearisome to live thus in desire This day enjoying her I le quench my fire Exit SCENE III SERIFFA DON SANCHO D. SAN. BEauty is loves object Madam and t were hard T' approach such flames and keep a frozen heart Dull fouls have eyes lent 'em to see their way But men of courage to behold what 's faire Pardon divinest Lady if my spirit Made me to love where I should have ador'd And though you do estrange me from your heart Envy me not the glory of my sufferings SER. Don Sancho cannot be so young a Courtier To think that any Lady can despise A noble love bounded with due respects We have no other witnesse of our beauty And heaven defend that we should hate our lovers D. SAN. Accept my vowes then Madam with the temper Of one that seem'd to love and let my service Be entertain'd at least with faire acceptance SER. How can I do that without injury Either to you or my own modesty To cherish you in what you cannot have Were to augment your punishment to give A heart which is not mine in me were falshood And no lesse wrong to you should you receive it Then to its proper owner D. SAN. But he seems As one that does not know his happinesse To be insensible of what your goodnesse Has offerd him why should you cast away That whereof Kings would be ambitious SER. Ay me D. SAN. That sigh the greatest Monarch scarce deserves Much lesse a subject thrust him from your thoughts And let some nobler love take up his room SER. Take heed Don Sancho you begin to forfeit Your first pretentions I must not think You can love one whom you believe to have The easie power to dislodge a love Which she had once receiv'd but hence-forth know My flame runs up into a point so small As cannot be divided into parts D. SAN. Not though there be division of your hearts The Cid I shame to say 't neglects you Madam SER. If he did not I were more miserable This now seems strange to you but when I shall Relate that to you which in part concerns you As you are Favourite to the King your Master And one that should advise him
content to think you love me sir And I am sensible of what I owe you But you must know that I depend upon A brother to whose will I am confin'de So that I am not Mistris of my heart Nor dare I hazard it without his leave Therefore to warrant your pretensions Make your addresse to him till then I dare not Be known to entertain you for a suitor SPH. T is fit I be obedient to this law Which is most reasonable but may I be As sure of your favour as his leave IN. Your vertue sir will be your best assurance My love proceeds not freely but deserts Must challenge it SP. Kissing your faire hands Madam J go to make my way to blisse or ruine Exit IN. What shall I do my heart this Prince is lovely So is the Cid but he lesse tractable Spheranti is more soft and courteous And yet not of lesse spirit then the other Let Roderigo then endeare his Mistris And since that love is th' only price of love Let him that offers his have his reward Alas what did I say how can I leave That object which rules all within my heart Roderigo's free possessor there and yet Me thinks there is a room left for Spheranti What shall I do then in this labyrinth Shall I to oblige Cimena quit the Cid No I le not leave him but with patience wait The pleasure of my brother and my fate Exit SCENE II. KING CELIMANT DON ARIAS. KING DOn Sancho sir and Arias do wait you With the conditions of your liberty They are but gentle ones that you forgive Your sister in the recompence of which Your ransome is remitted CEL. Greatest Monarch Who may dispose my life you know that here I am no lesse without a will then power I must obay what ever you impose But yet her crime joyn'd with the insolence In facing it is such that giving me My Kingdome back with her is worse to me Then to live here your captive with what pleasure Can I behold that power re-deliver'd Which with my enemies I must receive K. I le quit you of that feare in taking care To keep Seriffa in the terms of duty You shall command her wholy but at present Till you be better satisfied her fight Shall not offend you since her love has caus'd The treason which you blame her for I mean To keep her fast in fetters untill love And Hymen be the executioners Of the sweet sentence which I will pronounce CEL. Such is her want of worth the Prince you meant To Joyne her to despises her and truly I should believe him to be worth my pity Of whom so base an object were consider'd K. Sir your too quick resentment makes you speak so But leave that care to me there is a Lord Within my Court of birth as great as any But vertue much beyond his quality Which does a done your sister though it be true That he has mingled with his love some boldnesse Since he can't plead any descent from Kings Yet if our spirit bids us despaire nothing This noble Lover must obtain his wishes In a word t is Don Sancho that I mean CEL. Sir I beseech you think how great the distance Is between their conditions Don Sancho Has much worth in him but he is no Prince And though Seriffa has disgrac'd her birth She 's nere the lesse discended from a King K. Don Sancho sir is all you can desire Being my Favourite I will advance His fortune to that height as shall deserve Seriffa's and your love but did you know How much he has employ'd his favour with me For your advantage you would recompence His care with this alliance but if all That he has done cann't make you flexible Yet heare me that am King and do conjure you To love your sister and confirme this match A Kings entreaties must have no deniall CEL. Sir I am yours and since this marriage Is welcome to your thoughts Don Sancho may In Celimant meet a brother and Seriffa Being look'd on by me through you and him Shall see I can forget what she has done K. Now you oblige me and this clemencie Shews whence you are descended how I love This sweetnesse in you trust me your sister Now I may tell you so will well deserve This favour of you such a beautie sir Ought not to dwell clouded in your dislikes But you are for your businesse Arias See he finde no delay and call Roderigo My sister too I know they are without So good successe when I speak for another Makes me hope all things in my own behalf But I must change my countenance Roderigo SCENE III The KING RODERIGO INFANTA ALL Spain from thy brave hand has felt that peace And quiet which thy Prince cannot obtain This work is wanting to fill up thy glory Therefore to make thy victory more perfect For my sake undertake this enemy That would cut from thy valor half thy conquest RO. How sir dares any who may be so blest As to live under your just laws shake off Their due obedience what vain insolence Dares lift it self against so sweet a power Name him sir to me that I may destroy him K. There 's none can do 't Roderigo RO. None sir Why K. T is love that little tyrant which rules all The enemy which makes this warre upon me Regards not majesty but as a victor Triumphs already in my captiv'd heart Which has consented to its own defeat So much that I am on the brink of ruine If Roderigo's hand sustain me not RO. If your ease sir depend upon my service You may be sure of my readinesse Only sir let me know what you desire K. Oh Roderigo RO. Why do you sigh sir I st that you doubt of my obedience Or that my power is lesse then your desires K. By no means Roderigo but I feare Lest some ill fortune stead of putting me Into the haven cast me further from 't And lest the difficulty should change thy courage And leave me to my self in this fierce storm RO. My courage is exempted from such feare K. I 'me well assur'd of thy faith and valour And yet in this I feare because thou must Combat thy self subdue thy own desires Conquer thy own deare passions to make Thy self a sacrifice to my affections RO. Your Majesty may dispose then of my life K. T is not my purpose nor for all Castile Shall it be said that I wish'd any good Which must be purchast at so deare a rate RO. What can I do then for you K. Thou mayst put An end to all my pain in quitting of Cimena do not start they are her charms By which I 'me caught and suffer nor can I Believe though now she slight my offerd love Any thing else withholds her but the thought Of being thine RO. Oh sir assure your selfe If that be all and that your Majestie Vouchsafe to cast your eyes upon this beautie I shall not be so rash to
hope that good Which has the honour to please you my Prince In this sir you may free me from suspect My love is much indeed more my respect And howsoere my heart be link'd to hers J owe more to my Master then my Mistris K. Oh royall soule and truly generous Great Cid this instant thou hast made me happie Now I am King indeed for what thou giv'st me I prize above the value of a Crown In liew of which I mean to give thee one Behold th' Infanta whom I freely offer T is fit the state which owes all to thy valour Should make thee a great sharer in her fortune IN. Every thing smiles upon me blest effects Aside O're take my wishes what could I hope more Love is made for me to my hand Cimena Ingag'd to which Roderigo gives consent K. Thou dost not answer me RO. Excuse me sir I am your subject and you are my King T is not a Kingdome which I wish or hope for To serve you is the honour I aspire to Obaying you I learn how to command And since But see Cimena SCENE IV. CIMENA KING OH Madam The date now of your crueltie is out Your coldnesse and your hate no more in season Roderigo for my sake has quitted you And if he had an interest in your person He has now put me in full possession of it CIM. Sir Roderigo's free and may renounce me I have no scepters to bestow upon him But yet I think my birth is not so mean As to live under his command A slave I am not yet and my affections Are not to be inclin'd and rule by his Since greatnesse is the thing not love he aymes at Let him have his desires I shan't be jealous Though love do wound him with more pleasing darts So that the tyrant which shall end his sufferings Do not put me on new nor that his great Felicitie be purchast at the rate Of my lost honour or my libertie RO. Madam think better of the man which loves you To get you happinesse I quit mine own And to obtain the sovereigne power for you I make my affection stoop unto my duty If when I see a Crown is offered you I should come in to crosse your better fortune I must believe my love did then betray you And had relation to my self not you CIM. This Roderigo were a faire pretext If both our thoughts were levell'd at one height But let not any right that I can plead Divert your deare ambition mount upon A throne and taste its sweetnesse as for me I am so farre from blaming this your change You cannot finde more pleasure then I praise T' applaud your act you see sir I submit To the same laws your self has made IN. Oh heavens Aside How am I faln from all my hopes at once He is Roderigo still and she Cimena K. You are resolv'd then Madam to continue In the same cruelty my love I see Is uselesse and my vowes superfluous Yet think I am a King and can command What you deny my love you 'l give my power And since I can't perswade I must constrain CIM. Sir since my presence does but move your anger Suffer me to retire I beseech you Exit K. See Roderigo how my love is answered She flies my present leaving not so much As a kinde look behinde her if by this She thinks to coole the fire which burns my heart She is deceiv'd for this her suddainnesse Does not restrain but quicken more my flame Tell me was ever King so rudely treated RO. This her judicious and wise retreat Being no effect of spight or arrogance Should not excite your anger sir you know A modest feare keeps subjects in restraint When they are neer their King and in that sex The dazling lustre of a Princes person Strikes more respect into their hearts then love K. Why was I made a King then if my quality Must crosse my dearest wishes let me be A subject any thing so I have her Some kinde fare rob me of my crown and scepter And you shall see that I will blesse your rigour If in exchange you 'le give me but one heart Cimena limits my ambition On her depends either my life or death Then if thou ever hadst a thought to please me Roderigo winne Cimena to my love Accomplish what thou hast begun and try To melt the ice which circles in her heart Or if it be a fire oh turn it this way From thee I must expect all my content Exit RO. And I from you sir all my punishment Did ever any mischief equall this I 'me made the confident of my own rivall To my self faithlesse true to him that wrongs me My duty and my love run contraries One bindes me to obay a wilfull Prince Th' other my Mistris whom my heart adores If I obay my love I get his hate And if my dutie I must lose her love But that I may however since the King Has power to take her from me when he will Then let me serve my King which I have promis'd But that Cimena claims as well as he On both sides thus engag'd and thus distracted Roderigo what canst thou resolve to do Since with thy love or dutie thou must part Give him thy life and let her have thy heart Exit Act V. Scene I. RODERIGO CIMENA CIM. TH' Infanta's lodgings are that way RO. Madam CIM. You are mistaken sir I am Cimena He that courts titles must forget a name That sounds not Princesse nor would I divert The full stream of your hopes here lies my way RO. Madam Cimena stay and heare CIM. My ruine RO. One word CIM. Pray let me go RO. The last I mean To speak to any of your sex what rigor Is this you use did ever any yet Refuse to be a witnesse to a Will CIM. Was ever any cruelty like this Ah Roderigo is it not enough First to betray me to your love and then Leave me unlesse to shake my resolution You set upon me with new batterie I cannot heare and live RO. I do not come To urge ought in my own behalf my dutie And promise made to him who may command me Forces this from me can you love the King CIM. Can you be Roderigo and demand it RO. I have no more to say then but to take My last farewell perhaps when I 'me remov'd Your dutie or ambition will perswade What from your servant is not credited And when by this your obstinacie as sure It must fall out so my poore life grows forfeit You will too late repent the losse of both A lover and a Crown CIM. T is vainly urg'd How can I lose a Lover when he first Renounces me a Crown I never had And if I never seek it as I shall not Where is my losse but rather where 's thy courage Ah Roderigo must the feare of death Only come in to make some small pretence For leaving me you did not use to be Frighted at
lesse for her good when she made you Her speaker I shall think on 't call Don Diego My sister and Seriffa to them all I have to say Intreat the faire but cruell Cimena come and Roderigo too I shall dispose of them how unhappy Exit San. Are Princes that must love by others reason And not their own affections this Princesse Is faire and loves me so is my Cimena But she abhors me should I sacrifice To fame Seriffa must be mine but if To love Cimena one of these I 'me led to By reason to the other forc'd by love Must a Prince suffer violence he must Or else imprison them that offer it His wilde desires there being no other course But to submit to reason or to force SCENE IV. All the Actors the INFANTA and CIMENA on one side RODERIGO CELIMANT and SPHERANTI on the other BUt here they are sister I am resolv'd This day to see you married and to make Your joy more perfect I shall give you leave To choose your husband the Prince of Toledo Courts you with such a love as nought can equall But his perfections which you must honour As well as he your beauty yet Roderigo Is for himself so much to be considered That we can hardly finde a Mistris for him Which may deserve his vertues both of them Out-weigh your merits yet since equally They make an offer of their service to you Declare which is the object of your choice IN. I cannot sir believe my self so happy As to have either of em for my husband But if they do submit to my desires Being both equall I have no election K. They both adore you and on this assurance You may distingish of their love IN. How both I doubt it much K. If you do not believe me From their own voice I shall confirme it to you SP. Yes divine beauty from my heart I speak That heart which your fair eyes have set on fire The light of which may shew you how I love And if I lose my hope I lose my life K. Can you doubt yet of his affection And Roderigo sure will say as much RO. T is true great King all men adore the Princesse She has such universall power ore harts She cann't be seen by any and not lov'd But here 's the difference between my love And theirs they live with hope I with despaire K. What robs thee of thy hope RO. Love K. Speak more cleerly T is without reason that thou sayst can love Take thy hope from thee when it gives it thee RO. Then when I love my hope forsakes me quite K. But now it does restore what then it took RO. In doing so it keeps me further from 't K. These terms are too obscure I cann't conceive em RO. Time and my constancie will make it plain K. But I would know their meaning at this present RO. Th' effect will quickly tell you K. What effect RO. My death K. Thy death who can cause it RO. Cimena sir K. Cimena thou hast yielded her to me RO. It was your will prescrib'd that Law unto me I am your subject sir and you my King K. Though you be so I never had intent To do you wrong to do my self a pleasure Thou knowst how deare thy person is to me And that my sister is thy valours prize Will you refuse her your affection RO. I have not sir ambition enough To look so high pray sir regard not me But leave me to my self possesse Cimena In your love let her drown the memory Of mine I am your subject you my King K. Well then since you refuse my profferd honours And that my sister cannot touch your heart My promises are disingag'd for me I shall accept Cimena and this Princesse You are content to part with are you not What do you fix upon RO. On what I ought I am your subject sir and you my King K. Spheranti if my sister be your choice So that your father will give his consent I freely shall give mine SP. Your Majestie Shall quickly see that cleerd I know my father Will be well satisfied when he shall heare That I have joyn'd the Kingdoms of Toledo And Sevill by a match but may I Madam Receive this happinesse from your consent IN. The King has made you sir disposer of me And what he chooses answers my desires K. Th' art silent Roderigo what dost think RO. That she could hardly have a braver Prince Nor he hope more then her K. And you Cimena Will you not put an end unto my sufferings Will you be still obdurate to your King CIM. Sir I have no other faith then what I have given You know your father made me weare these bonds Which only death can break K. My constancie Shall overcome thy stubbornesse I know The ground and cause of thy aversion Thou hast some feeble hope t' enjoy the Cid But that 's without apparance his own mouth Has ruin'd it speak it again Roderigo Assure her that her hopes but flatter her Or if thou doft repent thy courtesie Deal freely with me say thy minde is chang'd And that thou lov'st her spight of all her rigors RO. Great sir my duty here restrains my tongue It is enough for me that I have told you You are my King and I your humble vassall K. Though I am so I will not force my subject To suffer for concealing his desires RO. Ah sir cast off all thoughts that may retard The course of your contentments when a businesse Concerns the good of such a gracious King What is the death of one unhappy man T will be a faire employment for my arme To punish him that 's troublesome to his Prince K. Well thou hast overcome thy extream vertue Shall serve for an example to thy King To Seriffa See where I am oblig'd Madam Don Sancho I hope has tane these blushes off I know What right you have to me and I to you This should have been your work Don Diego rather Then his that did it you were privy to All passages between our fathers but You I say as all else do 't is dangerous To turn the stream of Kings affections D. DIE. Your majestie is gracious and prevents Excuses from your subjects I could say No more in my own defence K. Here I restore to thee thine own Cimena Most perfect lover Madam I hope your rigour Is not habituall he 's Roderigo Who spight of my desires has always lov'd And honour'd you do not defer then longer His and your own contentment let his love Wrack'd with so many storms finde here its harbour He has conquer'd still abroad let him not lose At home but adde thy Mirtles to his Lawrels And so confirming to him the same faith Thou gav'st him once receive him for thy husband CIM. On what shall I resolve RO. To take my life If you denie the price of my deare love For since the hope of that has yet preserv'd it They both must fall together and t will be Some satisfaction to have dy'd your lover CIM. Rise t is enough I am Cimena ever Thou Roderigo and I wholy thine K. Live happy Lovers then and taste the pleasures Which with so many crosses you have purchast Quit all your cares and celebrate this day My Court shall be Loves Palace come faire Princesse Y are mine by a double tie of love and dutie Which I shall still preserve since I am taught To do not what I would but what I ought FINIS
makes him to forget his dutie But yet deare heart excuse my sad complaint True love was never yet without some feare Thou canst not be so generous and inconstant And I should feare lesse lov'd I not so much Come then my foule and make no longer triall Both of my passion and my patience Come to deliver me from those my doubts Or know that here I cannot live without thee SCENE II. DON SANCHO WHo 's this Don Sancho what may his businesse be SAN. The best of news unto the best of women CIM. What news Is Cid return'd SAN. Not yet sweet Madam He 's still expected but a greater joy Attends you which will soon dispell these clouds How glorious is your fortune like to be CIM. What has he overcome his enemies Is he come home laden with Palmes and Lawrels SAN. I heare his valor has assur'd our state But that is not the cause of this my visit CIM. What 's then my happinesse pray let me know it SAN. Madam advise but with your own perfections And you will know the good provided for you Aske counsell of your eyes and they will tell you Gainst whom their quick burning darts are thrown They 'l tell you that a King sprightly and young Chooses to be a slave before himself And that he findes his chains so sweet and pleasant He seems to have no will to reigne without you And I am sent to aske what he implores Be not then rigorous to your self and him But think what baits a Scepter carries in it And that 't will ill become you to be cruell When a Crown and title of a Queen is offerd CIM. I me sure it lesse becomes thee to afflict me With a discourse so hatefull perjur'd man Hast thou so little shame and courage in thee To speake this and not blush hast thou forgot The glory of thy bonds and that my self Permitted thee to weare em whilst my pitty Made my looks gracious to thee couldst thou then Having been once a Lover proud to be so Speak for another now and that I should For thy sake take his love into my heart Thou shewst by this thy basenesse how unworthy Was Roderigoes rivall since thou canst not Preserve the honour which thou hadst for once To have been his Competitor SAN. Did I think That you bore any thoughts of love to me Or that th' impression of my former flame Were not quite worn out of your heart I should not Speak for the King a word but for my self And you should see by my great constancie How much I de cherish such a hope CIM. What traitour Should I love thee canst thou imagine it Or tempt thy self with such a vanity I never yet receiv'd a flame so hatefull And if I thought my heart could entertain it I de pull it out my self but canst thou have The confidence Don Sancho to pretend To what thou wert not able to defend Hast thou forgot the Duell where thou wert Forc'd to bring me the sword thou vainly hadst Imploy'd against the Cid is it for that Thou lay'st thy clayme to my affection For that must I preferre thee to the man Whom the Moores feare and Spaine does reverence Come let me heare thy actions were our enemies Defeated by thy valour Did the Moores Yield themselves at the hearing of thy name Does thy arme hold our tottering Kingdome up Art thou the glory of it prove it true And I will run into thy deare embraces SAN. Madam I have not so much arrogance To challenge to my self such mighty deeds My actions bound themselves more narrowly I never did defeat the Moores my arme Could nere do any thing worth your acceptance And yet it reak not with your fathers bloud CIM. Knows thy fierce rage no bounds tak'st thou delight To persecute me still art thou not weary To see my teares run thou mightst easier draw My bloud and kill me with lesse cruelty Come make it perfect and revenge thy shame Upon my lives losse yet let thy rage forbeare To wrong that goodnesse which has spar'd thy life SAN. In telling truth I offer no man wrong Nor did my rage suggest my words unto me Your Designe 's fair indeed but your hope vain You care not how y'affront a Monarchs will Nor can you think that your Cid will be faithlesse You are the only she in all the Court To whom his love's unknown you have not heard That Cordubas Infanta is his Mistris But he himself avows it in his letters Which he has done so to the life that all Believe he 's lesse their enemy then her lover CIM. Well let th' Infanta come let her instead Of being captive be a conqueresse Let Cid that should be victor be her slave It matters not so I may have thy absence I le wait th' effects of his inconstancie With more assurance and farre lesse disquiet Pray leave me I demand it as a favour And finde some better office when you next Addresse your selfe to any 't is no shame Not to have well discharg'd such an employment As being done must needs betray thy honour SAN. 'Long as I serve my King I feare no blame But here 's an end of this I leave you Madam Till time shall make you to digest my counsaile In the mean while I ' me silent and obay Exit SCENE III KING DON DIEGO Guard and Attendants KING DO not believe Don Diego though I share My heart and Crown with the belov'd Cimena That I le usurpe by my authority A treasure which thy sonne deserv'd so well No his great services do live too fresh In my remembrance to be so requited Rather I mean t' augment his happinesse And his reward shall paralell his valour A nobler Mistris I designe for him To whom Cimena without blushing may Give place unto nor should thy sonne complain Of this my affection or of that his change DIE. But we have never sir deserv'd this honour Nor dare my sonne pretend to such a fortune A higher happinesse attends the Princesse Who is too generous to descend so low K. His actions tell me that he merits more Which to reward according to his value A Scepter is too little I will share With him in his desires he in my power Love may content us both if as my sister Is willing to receive him for her servant So will the fair Cimena me for hers Don Sancho from me is gone to see her He knows her spirit and should how to tame it I hope well of his fair tongues good successe But why is he so slow in his return Since he is conscious of my neerest secrets He must needs know that I burn all this while And that his slownesse causes me to languish SCENE IV. DON SANCHO DIE. YOur Majesty has no cause of further trouble See where he is K. Oh Don Sancho welcome What says Cimena SAN. All that rigour can All that disdain and scorn does usually Inspire proud spirits with that cruell faire Permitted to
her tongue my gentle words Were spent in vain the Northern wind would sooner Have given them hearing Roderigoes love Has made her to all else inexorable Nor can we hope to treat with her again As for a Crown Scepter or any greatnesse They seem but to stirre up her anger more K. What will she be so cruell to her King I must abate the pride of that fierce humour And my resentment of t shall make her see That Princes must be treated otherwise But these scorns her I le turn into her shame And Cid whom she believes her own already Shall as well fail her hopes as she has mine When a more worthy object shall invite him To change his love and his disdains of her Shall revenge hers of me SCENE V. DON ARIAS. Don Arias What news is it you bring ARI. Of Cids good fortune And of the Rebels fate he is hard by Victorious and in health K. I long to see him ARI. He is not farre sir from the City walls Mean-while this Letter will confirme your Majesty i th' truth of what I said K. How am I ravish'd And my soule burns with hot impatience After this object which she so desires Go tell him that my thoughts are swift to see him Don Diego see that he be well received Act II. Scene I. KING INFANTA and CIMENA KING IT seems Cimena you have no room left In this hard heart of yours for him that loves you Must a King live and die in the same fetters Were I a private man you 'd be ingratefull To hate me 'cause I love you howsoever You were too blame to use Don Sancho so Comming from me and offering my service He might deserve a kinder entertainment Civility would require so much and though He had displeas'd you courting you for me Duty should have made good your want of love CIM. I cannot tell sir what has raisd your anger Nor how Don Sancho has describ'd me to you But certainly no vanity of mine Did make me to forget my duty to you And my refusall of the soveraigne title Shew'd my respect and not my cruelty Don Sancho perhaps might be displeas'd But his discourse mov'd me to what I said Since he durst call to minde my fathers murder A wound still bleeding in my memory K. If thou hast yet a feeling of this grief Both for thy honour and content Cimena T is fit thou banish from thy kinder thoughts The Author of it nor does he now beare The same affection to thee which he did When he left thee hee left his first intentions And having chang'd his climate chang'd his love Seriffas beauty is the mark he aymes at Who once thy enemy is now thy rivall I 'me sure he 's much engag'd to this Jnfanta But if he were not yet the services My father had from all his Family Designe for him the Infanta of Castile SCENE II. DON ARIAS. AR. SIr K. What wouldst thou AR. Roderigo is without K. Admit him then now you shall see Cimena This glorious Conquerour I know he le come Triumphantly leading his Mistris with him You 'l easily perceive in this encounter Either his love or his ingratitude Make your best use then of this time compare Your Graces with your Rivals and by them Guesse what your fortune 's like to be CI. Oh Heavens With what eyes can I see this his approach SCENE III. to them RODERIGO SERIFFA SPHERANTI and CELIMANT RO. GReat King then whom the Sun sees nothing happier Joy of your subjects terror of your foes At length the warre respiring gives me leave To have the honour to kneele here before you But as unto the Deity of which You are the Image none should dare to come Without an offering so nor could I Hope to deserve the happinesse to see you Without a present Then be pleas'd great sir T' accept from my hand what Heavens bounty gives you This Crown and these two Princes so far happy That they are falne your prisoners under whom To be commanded is to live with freedom This was the King of Corduba and this The heire apparent of Toledos Kingdome K. He heare thy full relation but before it Let me embrace thee and behold this forehead Where Love and Mars do sit enthron'd and make thee Victorious in either of their wars RO. Oh sir how can I answer this discourse To spare my modesty sir spare your favours And share the honours as y'have done the labours Your souldiers as much as I procur'd This victory t is just they should receive Part of the honour from your Majesty Both for their valour and fidelity K. Their merit can be easily satisfied But for thy deeds there can be no rewards Sure thou wert born to make all men ungratefull Thy tongue 's no lesse a conquerour then thine arme But for my sake spare thy sweet eloquence Else I shall be thy captive as are these But now recite the fortune of thy armes No entertainment can be halfe so pleasant RO. Sir what soere it be since you command it T is fit that I obey Your rebels slain Or taken and those Darers that oppos'd The current of your fortune quite defeated To make your name more glorious I advanc'd My Army towards Corduba which even then I had made sure of if some timely succours Had not prevented me This noble Prince Seeing it beleaguerd straitly by his forces Thought to relieve it but that hope being vain He like a wise Commander chang'd his purpose And meant to try no valour but his owne Then by a Herald sent he me a challenge Which easily my spirit gave consent to I named the place where when we both were met Many fierce blows were dealt and sure the heavens Look'd pale to see the storms our anger made Shine more in our wilde looks than in their lightning Whilst men durst do that which they durst not see T was equally between us fought untill At length your fortune gave me th' advantage SPHR. Here sir your modesty betrayes your valour I suffered by your strength not my mishap You may vaunt freely what I cann't deny RO. This was the blow made Corduba to fall After this Princes yielding their great thoughts A bated of their pride and this fair Princesse To whom I owe for her intelligence Made the Town yours almost without resistance CEL. T is true great King this woman Natures monster By her base treachery betray'd my state You have my goods my scepter and my person But look sir who it is that gives them you See from what hand you do receive these presents The same put her brother in these fetters It is my sister or some Devill rather That took that name upon her to betray me SER. Leave to upbraid me thus that name of sister Has bin the greatest stain upon my life But you that stand so on the point of honour Was I us'd as a sister by you rather Was I not treated as a slave the name Away I
such a name RO. Nor must you think That I am now yet would I live to see Cimena in that lustre with her vertues Ever design'd her to for me I think Nothing can adde unto my present state More happinesse then to have been the ground Where on my Mistris would erect her glory CIM. And can you think Cimena will go lesse While you discourse thus you but teach my duty The honour of our love must not be yours More then mine own I have as great a share In it as you and should it come to suffering I can as well expect to see you great As my self miserable which must be so If fortune once divide us RO. Can our faith Be so rewarded heavens where is your justice If we must needs be sever'd why to both Gave you an equall minde and thoughts alike CIM. That being parted we might be more neere For they that love alike are always one Since but the sight nought can distinguish them RO. These mysteries Cimena are not strange Unto our loves in which there has not been Any thing known or easie yet me thinks We might finde out a way for intercourse CIM. Thy love is too materiall Roderigo I could be satisfied with thy Idea RO. And I with thine but is it not some pleasure To stand thus and to gaze on one another CIM. Go Roderigo for I feel within me Since this thy stay some thing that prompts me to Desire thy company which must be fatall To both of us adiew and think we may Be sever'd yet continue still our selves Exit RO. Our selves am I Roderigo or has she Bereft me of my spirit can she brave The majesty of Kings secur'd within Her own firme constancy and must I tremble If the Kings will have not the wish'd successe I ought him duty and I have perform'd it I 've offerd with my life all my desires Yet though I give I may refuse to take He cannot force me to a new affection Or make me love her lesse then she does mee In other things he rules in this I 'me free Exit SCENE II. DON SANCHO SERIFFA D. SAN. MAdam believe I could not justifie The love I did pretend if in this businesse I should preferre my passion before Your honour and content I heare your brother The King has reconcil'd to you it rests I let him know how much he owes to justice SER. But as you do it spare my modesty I would not be an offer but his choice D. SAN. As you have given credit to my faith In this distrust not my discretion It is your honour which I seek to which I made my love submit and can you think I will not now preserve it I am here T' attend the King as sent for and shall use All opportunities to do you service Please but your Highnesse to retire SER. Bequeathing to thy care the hopes of all My future happinesse Exit D. SAN. Your Highnesse servant SCENE III KING CELIMANT DON SANCHO KING IN this sir I confesse Spheranti has Oblig'd our Family the Prince is noble And I could wish my sister would embrace The love he offers what I can conferre He may be sure of but you know th' Jnfanta Is promis'd Roderigo to whose valour She has been long a debt and yet this businesse Is not arrived so farre as to cut off This noble Rivals hopes sometimes a moment Alters the state of things a Ladies minde Is not lesse changable tell him from me He shall have all assistance CEL. T is the summe Of his desires your Majestie will pardon Th' abruptnesse of my parting he 's my friend And such a happinesse he longs to heare As much as I to tell him K. Your own time You may command brave Celimant Don Sancho This Prince has royall thoughts more your friend Then you could hope D. SAN. Your Majesty still puts Fresh obligations on your humble vassall I am your creature and the Prince through you Looking on me may happily bestow His grace upon me as I am your servant Though otherwise I be not worth his thought K. This modesty becomes thee and sets off Thy vertues which I cherish in reward Of which and for thou hast been still an aid To my desires I have assisted thine The love thou mad'st to Corduba's Infanta I have tane notice of and though another Might suffer in the like attempt in thee I 've not dislik'd it but commend thy choice She is as great in beauty as in birth D. SAN. She is an object for which mighty Kings Being rivals should take arms such excellence Was never meant to be attain'd with ease K. You speak sir like a lover but Don Sancho What would he say that should be made the owner Of this rare beauty by consent of all D. SAN. That fortune had left nothing to confer Being undone in this hope cannot look So high K. She shall be thine nay more she is D. SAN. Leave me not now my faith and honesty Aside For I had nere more need of your assistance K. Thou dost not answer has thy suddain joy Surpriz'd thy sences and shut up thy speech D. SAN. I must confesse I 'me ravish'd with this offer And on my knees in signe of gratitude I here restore her to you K. Dost thou mock My courtesie or is it madnesse in thee Return unto thy self D. SAN. Your favours sir Have come so thick upon me that my thanks Are still ore taken only now my fortune Has given me leave to shew my gratitude This Princesse whom you offer I adore But dare not love nor any but your self K. Thou mak'st me wonder how can she concern me D. SAN. In justice sir she is your wife if contracts Can stand in force with Princes by your father In your minority with her a match Was made and ratifide of which Don Diego Cannot be ignorant nor Don Arias Who did transact the businesse L. Some such thing I heard but have forgotten my Cimena Cals back my thoughts and fixes them on her Beside she lov'd the Cid and for his sake Betray'd her Country and her brother D. SAN. True She did but not for him had you great sir But heard the story of her love and how It grew up in her fancy since the time The King her father mention'd first your name To her yet infant apprehension And gave your picture to her you would say Love entring by degrees gathers his strength From small beginnings but makes sure his hold In fine your Majestie has been the object For whom she has despis'd the Prince Spheranti Endur'd her brothers fury and at length To colour her desires made the occasion Of Roderigo's being there the means To bring her to your Court and acted that Unto the Cid she truly meant to you Feigned love is often better shew'd then true K. I must confesse my self a debtor to her But yet Cimena is my choice the Princesse Consulted well for her own modestie And no