my crowne off Qu. I was ignorant Then of his worth and heard but the report Of his accusers and his enemies Who never mention in his character Shadowes of any vertue in those men They would depresse like Crowes and carrion birds They sly ore slowrie Meades cleare Springs faire Gardens And stoope at carcasses for your owne honour Pitty poore Chabot King Poore and a Colossus What could so lately straddle ore a Province Can he be fallen so low and miserable To want my pitty who breakes forth like day Takes up all peoples eyes and admiration It cannot be he hath a Princely wife too Qu. I interpose not often Sir or presse you With unbecomming importunitie To serve the profitable ends of others Conscience and duty to your selfe inforce My present mediation you have given The health of your owne state away unlesse Wisedome in time recover him King If he proove No adulterate gold triall confirmes his value Qu. Although it hold in mettle gracious Sir Such fiery examination and the furnace May wast a heart that 's faithfull and together With that you call the feces something of The precious substance may be hazarded King Why you are the chiefe engine rais'd against him And in the worlds Creede labour most to sinke him That in his fall and absence every beame May shine on you and onely guild your fortune Your difference is the ground of his arraignement Nor were we unsollicited by you To have your bill confirm'd from that that spring Came all these mighty and impetuous waves With which he now must wrastle if the strength Of his owne innocence can breake the storme Truth wonot lose her servant her wings cover him He must obey his fate Con. I would not have It lie upon my fame that I should be Mentioned in Story his unjust supplanter For your whole Kingdome I have beene abused And made beleeve my suite was just and necessary My walkes have not beene safe my closet prayers But some plot has pursued me by some great ones Against your noble Admirall they have frighted My fancy into my dreames with their close whispers How to uncement your affections And reâ—der him the fable and the scorne Of France Qu. Brave Montmorancie King Are you serious Con. Have I a soule or gratitude to acknowledge My selfe your creature dignified and honor'd By your high favours with an equall truth I must declare the justice of your Admirall In what my thoughts are conscious and will rather Give up my claime to birth title and offices Be throwne from your warme smile the top and crowne Of subjects happinesse then be brib'd with all Their glories to the guilt of Chabots ruine King Come come you over act this passion And if it be not pollicie it tasts Too greene and wants some counsell to mature it His fall prepares your triumph Con. It confirmes My shame alive and buried will corrupt My very dust make our house-genious grone And fright the honest marble from my ashes His fall prepare my triumph turne me first A naked exile to the world King No more Take heede you banish not your selfe be wise And let not too much zeale devoure your reason Enter Asall As Your Admirall Is condemn'd Sir King Ha strange no matter Leave us a great man I see may be As soone dispatch'd as a common subject Qu. No mercy then for Chabot Enter Wife and Father Wif. From whence came That sound of Chabot then we are all undone Oh doe not heare the Queene she is no friend To my poore Lord but made against his life Which hath too many enemies already Con. Poore soule shee thinkes the Queene is still against him Who employeth all her powers to preserve him Fa. Say you so my Lord daughter the Queen 's our friend Wif. Why doe you mocke my sorrow can you flatter Your owne griefe so be just and heare me sir And doe not sacrifice a subjects blood To appease a wrathfull Queene let mercy shine Vpon your brow and heaven will pay it backe Vpon your soule be deafe to all her prayers King Poore heart she knowes not what she has desir'd Wif. I begge my Chabâ—ts life my sorrowes yet Have not destroid my reason King He is in the power of my Lawes not mine Wif. Then you have no power And are but the emptie shadow of a King To whom is it resign'd where shall I begge The forfeit life of one condemnâ—d by Lawes To partiall doome King You heare he is condemn'd then Fa. My sonne is condemn'd fit King You know for what too Fa. What the Iudges please to call it But they have given tâ— a name Treason they say Qu. I must not be denied King I must deny you Wif. Beâ—lest for ever for t Qu. Grant then to her King Chabot condemn'd by law Fa. But you have power To change the rigor in â—our breast there is A Chancellor above it I nere had A suite before but my knees joyne with hers To implore your royall mercy to her Lord And take his cause to your examination It cannot wrong your Iudges if they have Beene steer'd by conscience Con. It will fame your Iustice King I cannot be prescrib'd you kneele in vaine You labour to betray me with your teares To a treason above his gainst my owne Lawes Looke to the Lady Exeunt Enter Asall As Sir the Chancellor King Admit him leave us all Enter Chancellor How now my Lord You have lost no time and how thrive the proceedings Cha. T was sit my gracious Soveraigne time should leave His motion made in all affaires beside And spend his wings onely in speed of this King You have shew'd diligence and what 's become Of our most curious Iusticer the Admirall Cha. Condemn'd sir utterly and all hands set To his conviction King And for faults most foule Cha. More than most impious but the applausive issue Strooke by the concourse of your ravish'd subjects For joy of your free Iustice if there were No other cause to assure the sentence just Were proofe convincing King Now then he sees cleerely That men perceive how vaine his Iustice was And scorne him for the foolish net he wore To hide his nakednesse i st not a wonder That mens ambitions should so blinde their reason To affect shapes of honesty and take pride Rather in seeming then in being just Cha. Seeming has better fortune to attend it Then being sound at heart and vertuous King Professe all nothing doe like those that live By looking to the Lamps of holy Temples Who still are busie taking off their snuffes But for their profit sake will adde no oyle So these will checke and sentence every fame The blaze of riotous blood doth cast in others And in themselves leave the sume most offensive But he to doe this more deceives my judgement Than all the rest whose nature I have sounded Cha. I know Sir and have prov'd it King Well my Lord To omit circumstance I highly thanke you For this
THE TRAGEDIE OF CHABOT ADMIRALL OF FRANCE As it vvas presented by her Majesties Servants at the private House in Drury Lane Written by George Chapman and James Shirly LONDON Printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke 1639. Speakers ASall Allegre King Queene Treasuror Chancellor Admirall Father Generall Chabot Iudges Officers Secretary Vshers Constable Courtiers Porter Guard THE TRAGEDIE OF PHILIP CHABOT ADMIRALL of FRANCE Actus Primus Enter Asall and Allegre Asall NOw Phillip Chabot Admirall of France The great and onely famous Favorite To Francis first of that Imperiall name Hath found a fresh competitor in glory Duke Montmorancie Constable of France Who drinkes as deepe as he of the streame Royall And may in little time convert the strength To raise his spring and blow the others fall Al. The world would wish it so that will not patiently Endure the due rise of a vertuous man As If he be vertuous what is the reason That men affect him not why is he lost Toth ' generall opinion and become Rather their hate than love Al. I wonder you Will question it aske a ground or reason Of men bred in this vile degenerate age The most men are not good and it agrees not With impious natures to allow what 's honest T is an offence enough to be exalted To regall favours great men are not safe In their owne vice where good men by the hand Of Kings are planted to survey their workings What man was ever fixt 'i th Sphere of honour And precious to his Soveraigne whose actions Nay very soule was not expos'd to every Common and base dissection and not onely That which in Nature hath excuse and in Themselves is priviledg'd by name of frailtie But even Vertues are made crimes and doom'd Toth ' fate of Treason As A bad age the while I aske your pardon Sir but thinkes your judgement His love to Justice and Corruptions hate Are true and hearty Al. Iudge your selfe by this One argument his hearty truth to all For in the heart hath anger his wisest seate And gainst unjust suites such brave anger fires him That when they seeke to passe his place and power Though mov'd and urg'd by the other minion Or by his greatest friends and even the King Leade them to his allowance with his hand First given in Bill assign'd even then his spirit In nature calme as any Summers evening Puts up his Whole powers like a Winters sea His bloud boyles over and his heart even cracks At the injustice and he teares the Bill And would doe were he for 't to be torne in peâ—ces As T is brave I sweare Al. Nay it is worthy your wonder That I must tell you further there no Needle In a Sunne Diall plac'd upon his steele In such a tender posture that doth tremble The timely Diall being held amisse And will shake ever till you hold it right More tender than himsefe in any thing That he concludes in Iustice for the State For as a fever held him hee will shake When he is signing any things of weight Least humane frailty should misguide his justice As You have declar'd him a most noble â—usticer Al. He truely weighes and feeles Sir what a charge The subjects livings are being even their lives Laid on the hand of power which abus'd Though seene blood flow not from the justice seate T is in true sence as grievous and horrid As It argues nothing lesse but since your Lord Is diversly reported for his parts What 's your true câ—nsure of his generall worth Vertue and Iudgement Al. As of a Picture wrought to opticke reason That to all passers by seemes as they move Now woman now a Monster now a Divell And till you stand and in a right line view it You cannot well judge what the maine forme is So men that view him but in vulgar passes Casting but laterall or partiall glances At what he is suppose him weake unjust Bloody and monstrous but stand free and fast And judge him by no more than what you know Ingenuously and by the right laid line Of truth he truely will all stiles deserve Of wise just good a man both soule and nerve As Sir I must joyne in just beleefe with you But what 's his rivall the Lord high Constable Al. As just and well inclin'd when hee 's himselfe Not wrought on with the counsells and opinions Of other men and the maine difference is The Admirall is not flexible nor wonne To move one scruple when he comprehends The honest tract and justnesse of a cause The Constable explores not so sincerely The course hee runnes but takes the minde of others By name Iudiciall for what his owne Iudgement and knowledge should conclude As A fault In my apprehension anothers knowledge Applied to my instruction cannot equall My owne soules knowledge how to informe Acts The Sunnes rich radiance shot through waves most faire Is but a shaddow to his beames i th' ayre His beames that in the ayre we so admire Is but a darkenesse to his flame in fire In fire his fervour but as vapour flies To what his owne pure bosome rarifies And the Almighty wisedom having given Each man within himselfe an apter light To guide his acts than any light without him Creating nothing not in all things equall It seems a fault in any that depend On others knowledge and exile their owne Al. T is nobly argued and exemplified But now I heare my Lord and his young rivall Are to be reconcil'd and then one light May serve to guide them both As I wish it may the King being made first mover To forme their reconcilement and enflame it With all the sweetnesse of his praise and honour Al. See t is dispatch'd I hope the King doth grace it Loud Musicke and Enter Vshers before the Secretary Tresuror Chancellor Admirall Constable hand in hand the King following others attend Kin. This doth expresse the noblest fruit of peace Cha. Which when the great begin the humble end In joyfull imitation all combining A gardian beyond the Thrigian knot Past wit to lose it or the sword be still so Tre. T is certaine Sir by concord least things grow Most great and flourishing like trees that wrap Their forehead in the skies may these doe so Kin. You heare my Lord all that is spoke contends To celebrate with pious vote the attonement So lately and so nobly made betweene you Ad. Which for it selfe Sir resolve to keepe Pure and inviolable needing none To encourage or confirme it but my owne Love and allegiance to your sacred counsell Kin. T is good and pleases like my dearest health Stand you firme on that sweete simplicitie Con. Past all earth pollicie that would infringe it Kin. T is well and answers all the doubts suspected Enter one that whispers with the Admirall And what moves this close message Phillip Adm. My wives Father Sir is closely come to Court King Is he come to the Court whose
aversation So much affects him that he shunnes and flies it What 's the strange reason that he will not rise Above the middle region he was borne in Adm. He saith Sir t is because the extreame of height Makes a man lesse seeme to the imperfect eye Then he is truely his acts envied more And though he nothing cares for seeming so His being just stand firme twixt heaven and him Yet since in his soules jealousie hee feares That he himselfe advanced would undervalue Men placed beneath him and their businesse with him Since height of place oft dazles height of judgement He takes his toppe saile downe in such rough stormes And apts his sailes to ayres more temperate Kin. A most wise soule he has how long shall Kingâ— Raise men that are not wise till they be high You haue our leave but tell him Phillip wee Would have him neerer Con. Your desires attend you Enter another Kin. We know from whence you come say to the Queene We were comming to her t is a day of love And she seales all perfection Exit Tre. My Lord We must beseech your stay Con. My stay Cha. Our Counsells Have led you thus farre to your reconcilement And must remember you to observe the end At which in plaine I told you then wee aim'd at You know we all urg'd the attonement rather To enforce the broader difference betweene you Then to conclude your friendshippe which wise men Know to be fashionable and priviledg'd pollicie And will succeede betwixt you and the Admirall As sure as fate if you please to get sign'd A sute now to the King with all our hands Which will so much increase his precise justice That weighing not circumstances of politicke State He will instantly oppose it and complaine And urge in passion what the King will sooner Punish than yeeld too and so render you In the Kings frowne on him the onely darling And mediate power of France Con. My good Lord Chancellor Shall I so late atton'd and by the Kings Hearty and earnest motion fall in peeces Cha. T is he not you that breake Tre. Ha not you patience To let him burne himselfe in the Kings flame Cha. Come be not Sir infected with a spice Of that too servile equitie that renders Men free borne slaves and rid with bits like horses When you must know my Lord that even in nature A man is Animall politicum So that when he informes his actions simply He does in both ' gainst pollicie and nature And therefore our soule motion is affirm'd To be like heavenly natures circular And circles being call'd ambitious lines We must like them become ambitious ever And endles in our circumventions No tough hides limiting our cheverill mindes Tre. T is learnedly and past all answer argued Y are great and must grow greater still and greater And not be like a dull and standing lake That settles putrifies and chokes with mudde But like a river gushing from the head That windes through the undervalles what checkes ore flowing Gets strength still of his course Till with the Ocean meeting even with him In sway and title his brave billowes move Con. You speake a raâ—e affection and high soules But give me leave great Lords still my just thankes Remembred â—o your counsells and direction I seeking this way to confirme my selfe I undermine the columnes that support My hopefull glorious fortune and at once Provoke the tempest though did drowne my envie With what assurance shall the King expect My faith to him that breake it for another He has engag'd our peace and my revenge Forfits my trust with him whose narrow â—ight Will penetrate through all our mists could we Vaile our designe with clouds blacker than night But grant this danger over with what Iustice Or satisfaction to the inward Iudge Shall I be gultie of this good mans ruine Though I may still the murmuring tongues without me Loud conscience has a voyce to shadder greatnesse Secr. A name to fright and terrifie young statists There is necessitie my Lord that you Must lose your light if you ecclipse not him Two starres so Lucide cannot shine at once In such a firmament and better you Extinguish his fires then be made his fuell And in your ashes give his slame a Trophy Cha. My Lord the league that you have vow'd of friendship In a true understanding not confines you But makes you boundlesse turne not edge at such A liberty but looke to your owne fortune Secure your honour a Precisian In state is a rideculous miracle Friendship is but a visor beneath which A wise man laughes to see whole families Ruinde upon whose miserable pile He mounts to glory Sir you must resolve To use any advantage Con. Misery Of rising Statesmen I must on I see That ' gainst the politicke and priviledg'd fâ—shion All justice tasts but affectation Cha. Why so we shall do good on him i th' end Exeunt Enter Father and the Admirall Adm. You are most welcome Fa. I wish your Lordships safetie Which whilst I pray for I must not forget To urge agen the wayes to fixe you where No danger has accesse to threaten you Adm. Still your old argument I owe your love for t Fa. But fortified with new and pregnant reasons That you should leave the Court. Ad. I dare not Sir Fa. You dare be undone then Ad. I should be ingratefull To such a master as no subject boasted To leave his service when they exact My chiefest dutie and attendance Sir Fa. Would thou weâ—t lesse degraded from thy titles And swelling offices that will i th' end Engulfe thee past a rescue I had not come So farre to trouble you at this time but that I doe not like the loud tongues o' the world That say the King has tane another favorite The Constable a gay man and a great With a hugh traine of faction too the Queene Chancellor Treasurer Secretary and An army of state warriers whose discipline Is sure and subtile to confusion I hope the rumour 's false thou art so calme Adm. Report has not abus'd you Sir Fa. It has not And you are pleas'd then you doe meane to mixe With unjust courses the great Constable And you combining that no suite may passe One of the graples of your eithers rape I that abhorr'd must I now entertaine A thought that your so straight and simple custome To render Iustice and the common good Should now be patch'd with pollicy and wrested From the ingenious step you tooke And hang Vpon the shoulders of your enemy To beare you out in what you shame to act Adm. Sir We both are reconciled Fa. It followes then that both the acts must beare Like reconcilement and if hee will now Maligne and mallice you for crossing him Or any of his faction in their suites Being now atton'd you must be one in all One in corruption and twixt you two millstones New pickt and put together must the graine Of good mens
needfull meanes to live be ground Into your choking superfluities You both too rich they ruinde Adm. I conceive Sir Wee both may be enrich'd and raise our fortunes Even with our places in our Soveraignes favour Though past the height of others yet within The rules of Law and Iustice and approove Our actions white and innocent Fa. I doubt it While inforc'd shew perhaps which will I feare Prove in true substance but a Millers whitenesse More sticking in your clothes then conscience Adm. Your censure herein tasts some passion Sir And I beseech you nourish better thoughts Then to imagine that the Kings meere grace Sustaines such prejudice by those it honours That of necessitie we must pervert it With passionate enemies and ambitious boundlesse Avarice and every licence incident To fortunate greatnesse and that all abuse it For the most impious avarice of some Fa. As if the totall summe of favorites frailties Affected not the full rule of their Kings In their owne partially disposed ambitions And that Kings doe no hazard infinitely In their free realties of rights and honours Where they leave much for favourites powers to order Adm. But wee have such a master of our King In the Imperiall art that no power flies Out of his favour but his policie ties A criance to it to containe it still And for the reconcilement of us Sir Never were two in favour that were more One in all love of Iustice and true honour Though in the act and proâ—ecution Pehaps we differ Howsoever yet One beame us both creating what should let That both our soules should both one metâ—le beare And that one stampe one word one character Fa. I could almost be won to be a Courtier There 's some thing more in 's composition Then ever yet was favourites Enter a Courtier What 's hee Cour. I bring your Lordship a sign'd bill to â—ave The addition of your honor'd hand the counsell Have all before subscribed and full prepar'd it Ad. It seemes then they have weigh'd the importance of it And know the grant is just Cour. No doubt my Lord Or else they take therein the Constables word It being his suite and his power having wrought The King already to appose his hand Adm. I doe not like his working of the King For if it be a suite made knowne to him And fit to passe he wrought himselfe to it However my hand goes to no such grant But first I 'le know and censure it my selfe Cour. A he if thou beest goddesse of contention That Iove tooke by the haire and hurl'd from heaven Assume in earth thy empire and this bill Thy firebrand make to turne his love thus tempted Into a hate as horrid as thy furies Adm. Does this beare title of his Lordships suite Cour. It does my Lord and therefore he beseech'd The rather your dispatch Adm. No thought the rather But now the rather all powers against it The suite being most injust and he pretending In all his actions justice on the sudden After his so late vow not to violate it Is strange and vile and if the King himselfe Should owne and urge it I would stay and crosse it For t is within the free power of my office And I should straine his kingdome if I past it I see their poore attempts and giddy malice Is this the reconcilement that so lately He vow'd in sacred witnesse of the King Assuring me he never more would offer To passe a suite unjust which I well know This is above all and have often beene urg'd To give it passage be you Sir the Judge Fa. I wonot meddle With any thing of state you knew long since Adm. Yet you may heare it Sir Fa. You wonot urge My opinion then go to Adm. An honest merchant Presuming on our league of France with Spaine Brought into Spaine a wealthy ship to vent Her fit commodities to serve the country Which in the place of suffering their saile Were seas'd to recompence a Spanish ship Priz'd by a French man ere the league was made No suites no letters of our Kings could gaine Our merchants first right in it but his letters Vnreverently received the Kings selfe scandall Beside the leagues breach and the foule injustice Done to our honest merchant who endured all Till some small time since authoris'd by our counsell Though not in open Court he made a ship out And tooke a Spaniard brings all home and sues To gaine his full prov'd losse full recompence Of his just prize his prize is staid and ceaz'd Yet for the Kings disposure and the Spaniard Makes suite to be restor'd her which this bill Would fâ—ine get granted faining as they hop'd With my allowance and way given to make Our Countrey mans in Spaine their absolute prize Fa. I were absolute injustice Adm. Should I passe it Fa. Passe life and state before Adm. If this would seeme His Lordships suite his love to me and justice Including plots upon me while my simplenesse Is seriously vow'd to reconcilement Love him good vulgars and abhorre me still For if I court your slatterie with my crimes Heavens love before me fly till in my tombe I sticke pursuing it and for this bill Thus say t was shiver'd blesse us equall heaven Exit Fa. This could I cherish now above his losse You may report as much the bill discharg'd Sir Exeunt Actus Secundus Enter King and Queen Secretary with the Torne bill Kin. IS it enâ— so Que. Good heaven how tame you are Doe Kings of France reward foule Traitors thus Kin. No Traitor y' are too loude Chabots no Traitor He has the passions of a man about him And multiplicitie of cares may make Wise men forget themselves come be you patient Qu. Can you be so and see your selfe thus torne Kin. Our selfe Qu. There is some left if yoâ— dare owne Your royall character is not this your name Kin. T is Francis I confesse Qu. Be but a name If this staine live upon 't affronted by Your subject shall the sacred name of King A word to make your nation bow and tremble Be thus profain'd are lawes establish'd To punish the defacers of your image But dully set by the rude hand of others Vpon your coine and shall the character That doth include the blessing of all France Your name thus written by your royall hand Design'd for Justice and your Kingdomes honour Not call up equall anger to reward it Your Counsellors of state contemn'd and slighted As in this braine more circumscrib'd all wisedome And pollicy of Empire and your power Subordinate and subject to his passion Kin. Come it concernes you not Qu. Is this the consequence Of an attonement made so lately betweene The hopefull Mountmorencie and his Lordship Vrge by your selfe with such a precious sanction Come he that dares doe this wants not a heart But opportunitie Kin. To doe what Qu. To teare your crowne off Kin. Come your language doth taste more Of rage and womanish flame than
solid reason Against the Admirall what commands of yours Not to your expectation obey'd By him is ground of your so keene displeasure Qu. Commands of mine he is too great and powerfull To stoope to my employment a Colossus And can stride from one Province to another By the assistance oâ— those offices You have most confidently impos'd upon him T is he not you take up the peoples eyes And admiration while his Princely wise Kin. Nay then I reach the spring of your distaste He has a wife Enter Chancellor Treasurer and whisper with the King Qu. Whom for her pride I love not And I but in her husbands ruine Can triumph ore her greatnesse King Well well I le thinke on 't Exit Cha. He beginnes to incline Madam you are the soule of our great worke Qu. I le follow and imploy my powers upon him Tre. We are confident you will prevaile at last And for the pious worke oblige the King to you Cha And us your humblest creatures Que. Presse no further Exit Que. Cha. Le ts seeke out my Lord Constable Tre. And inflame him Cha. To expostulate with Chabot something may Arise from thence to pull more weight upon him Exeunt Enter Father and Allegre Fa. How sorts the businesse how tooke the King The tearing of his bill Al. Exceeding well And seem'd to smile at all their grimme complaints Gainst all that outrage to his highnesse hand And said in plaine he sign'd it but to try My Lords firme Iustice Fa. What a sweete King t is Al. But how his rivall the Lord Constable Is labour'd by the Chancellor and others to retort His wrong with ten parts more upon my Lord Is monstrous Fa. Neede hee their spurres Al. I Sir for hee s afraid To beare himselfe too boldly in his braves Vpon the King being newly entred Mynion Since t is but patience sometime they thinke Because the favor spending in two streames One must runne low at length till when he dare Take fire in such flame as his faction wishes But with wise feare containes himselfe and so Like a greene faggot in his kindling smoakes And where the Chancellor his chiefe Cyclops findes The fire within him apt to take he blowes And then the faggot flames as never more The bellowes needed till the too soft greenenesse Of his state habit shewes his sappe still flowes Above the solid timber with which then His blaze shrinkes head he cooles and smoakes agen Fa. Good man he would be wod the bad not spoile him Al. True sir but they still ply him with their arts And as I heard have wrought him personally To question my Lord with all the bitternesse The galls of all their faction can powre in And such an expectation hangs upon 't Though all the Court as t were with child and long'd To make a mirror of my Lords cleare blood And therein see the full ebbe of his flood And therefore if you please to counsell him You shall performe a fathers part Fa. Nay since Hee s gone so farre I wod not have him feare But dare e'm and yet I le not meddle in t Enter Admirall Hoes here if he have wit to like his cause His spiriâ— wonot be asham'd to die in t Exit Al. My Lord retire y' are way-laid in your walkes Your friendes are all fallen from you all your servants Suborn'd by all advantage to report Each word you whisper out and to serve you With hat and knee while other have their hearts Adm. Much profit may my foes make of such servants I love no enemy I have so well To take so ill a bargaine from his hands Al. Their other oddes yet shun all being combinde And lodg'd in ambush ariv'd to doe you mischiefe By any meanes past feare of law or soveraigne Adm. I waâ—ke no desart yet goe arm'd with that That would give wildest beasts instincts to rescue Rather then offer any force to hurt me My innocence is which is a conquering justice As weares a shield that both defends and fights All. One against all the world Adm. The more the oddes The lesse the conquest or if all the world Be thought an army fit to employ gainst one That one is argued fit to fight gainst all If I fall under them this breast shall beare Their heape digested in my sepulchre Death is the life of good men let e'm come Enter Constable Chancellor Treasurer Secretary Con. I thought my Lord our reconcilement perfect You have exprest what sea of gall flow'd in you In tearing of the bill I sent to allow Adm. Dare you confesse the sending of that bill Con. Dare why not Adm. Because it breake your oath Made in our reconcilement and betrayes The honour and the chiefe life of the King Which is his justice Con. Betraies Adm. No lesse and that I le prove to him Omnes You cannot Trea. I would not wish you offer at an action So most impossibly and much against The judgement and favour of the King Adm. His judgement nor his favour I respect So I preserve his Iustice Cha. T is not Iustice Which I 'le prove by law and absolute learning Adm. All your great law and learning are but words When I plead plainely naked truth and deedes Which though you seeke to fray with state and glory I 'le shoote a shaft at all your globe of light If lightning split it yet t was high and right Exit Con. Brave resolution so his acts be just He cares for gaine not honour Chan. How came he then By all his infinite honour and his gaine Tre. Well said my Lord. Sec. Answer but onely that Con. By doing justice still in all his actions Sec But if this action prove unjust will you Say all his other may be so as well And thinke your owne course fitter farre than his Con I will Exit Cha. He cooles we must not leave him we have no Such engine to remove the Admirall Exeunt Enter King and the Admirall Kin. I prethee Philip be not so severe To him I favour t is an argument That may serve one day to availe your selfe Nor Does it square with your so gentle nature To give such fires of envie to your bloud For howsoeuer out of love to Iustice Your Iealousie of that doth so incense you Yet they that censure it will say t is envy Adm. I serve not you for them but for your selfe And that good in your Rule that Iustice does you And care not this what others say so you Please but to doe me right for what you know King You will not doe your selfe right why should I Exceede you to your selfe Adm. My selfe am nothing Compar'd to what I seeke t is justice onely The fount and flood both of your strength and kingdomes King But who knowes not that extreame justice is by all ruld lawes the extreame of injurie And must to you be so the persons that Your passionate heate calls into question Are great and many and
may wrong in you Your rights of kinde and dignities of fortune And I advanc'd you not to heape on you Honours and fortunes that by strong hand now Held up and over you when heaven takes off That powerfull hand ' should thunder on your head And after you crush your surviving seedes Adm. Sir your regards to both are great and sacred But if the innocence and right that rais'd me And meanes for mine can finde no friend hereafter Of him that ever lives and ever seconds All Kings just bounties with defence and refuge In just mens races let my fabricke ruine My stocke want sap my branches by the roote Be â—orne to death and swept with whirlewindes out King For my love no relenting Adm. No my leige T is for your love and right that I stand out King Be better yet advis'd Adm. I cannot Sir Should any Oracle become my counsell For that I stand not out thus of set will Or pride of any singular conceite My eÌ„neÌ„mies and the world may clearely know I taste no sweetes to drowne in others gall And to affect in that which makes me lothed To leave my selfe and mine expos'd to all The dangers you propos'd my purchas'd honours And all my fortunes in an instant lost That mony cares and paines and yeares have gather'd How mad were I to rave thus in my wounds Vnlesse my knowne health felt in these forc'd issues Were sound and fit and that I did not know By most true proofes that to become sincere With all mens hates doth farre excëede their loves To be as they are mixtures of corruption And that those envies that I see pursue me Of all true actions are the naturall consequents Which being my object and my resolute choise Not for my good but yours I will have justice King You will have justice is your will so strong Now against mine your power being so weake Before my favour gave them both their forces Of all that ever shar'd in my free graces You Philip Chabot a meane Gentleman Have not I-rais'd you to a supremest Lord And given you greater dignities than any Adm. You have so King Well sed and to spurre your dulinesse With the particulars to which I rais'd you Have not I made you first a Knight of the Orderâ— Then Admirall of France then Count Byzanges Lord and Livetenant generall of all My country and command of Burgady Livetenant generall likewise of my sonne Daulphine and heire and of all Normandy And of my chiefely honor'd privy Counsell And cannot all these powers weigh downe your will Adm. No Sir they were not given me to that end But to uphold my will my will being just King And who shall judge that Justice you or I Adm. I Sir in this case your royall thoughts are fitly Exempt from every curious search of one You have the generall charge with care of all Kin. And doe not generalls include particulars May not I Iudge of any thing compriz'd In your particular as well as you Adm. Farre be the misery from you that you may My cares paines broken sleepe therein made more Then yours should make me see more and my forces Render of better judgement King Well Sir grant Your force in this my odds in benefits Paid for your paines put in the other scale And any equall holder of the ballance Will shew my merits hoist up yours to aire In rule of any doubt or deed betwixt us Adm. You merit not of me for benefits More than my selfe of you for services King I st possible Adm. T is true King Stand you on that Adm. I to the death and will approve to all men Kin. I am deceiv'd but I shall finde good Judges That will finde difference Adm. Finde them being good King Still so what if conferring My bounties and your services to sound them We fall foule on some licences of yours Nay give me therein some advantage of you Adm. They cannot King Not in sisting their severe discharges Of all your offices Adm. The more you sift The more you shall refine mee King What if I Grant out against you a commission Ioyn'd with an extraordinary processe To arrest and put you in lawes hands for triall Adm. Not with lawes uttermost King I le throw the dice. Adm. And I le endure the chance The dice being square Adm. Repos'd in dreadlesse confidence and conscience That all your most extreames shall never reach Or to my life my goodes or honours breach King Was ever heard so fine a confidence Must it not pâ—ove presumption and can that Scape brackâ—s and errors in your search of law I prethee weigh yet with more soule than danger And some lesse passion Adm. Witnesse heaven I cannot Were I dissolv'd and nothing else but soule King Be shrew my blood but his resolves amaze me Was ever such a Iustice in a subject Of so much office left to his owne swinge That left to law thus and his Soveraignes wrath Could stand cleare spight of both let reason rule it Before it come at law a man so rare In one thing cannot in the rest be vulgar And who sees you not in the broad high-way The common dust up in your owne eyes beating In quest of riches honours offices As heartily in shew as most beleeve And he that can use actions with the vulgar Must needes embrace the same effects cannot informe him Whatsoever he pretends use them with such Free equitie as fits one just and reall Even in the eyes of men nor stand at all parts So truly circular so sound and solid But have his swellings out his crackes and crannies And therefore in this reason before law Take you to hâ—r least you affect and flatter Your selfe with mad opinions Adm. I were mad Directly Sir if I were yet to know Not the sure danger but the certaine ruine Of men shot into law from Kings bent brow There being no dreame from the most muddie braine Vpon the foulest faâ—cie that can forge More horrour in the shaddowes of meere fame Then can some Lawyer in a man expos'd To his interpretation by the King But these grave toyes I shall despise in death And while I live will lay them open so My inocence laid by them that like foiles They shall sticke of my merits tenne times more And make your bounties nothing for who gives And hits i th teeth himselfe payes with the glory For which he gave as being his end of giving Not to crowne merits or doe any good And so no thankes is due but to his glory King T is brave I sweare Adm. No Sir t is plaine and rude But true and spotlesse and where you object My hearty and grosse vulgar love of riches Titles and honours I did never seeke them For any love to them but to that justice You ought to use in their due gift to merits To shew you royall and most open handed Not using for hands talons pincers grapples In whose gripes and upon whose gord
now turn'd mortall Must passe examination and the test Of Law have all his offices rip d up And his corrupt soule laid open to the subjects His bribes oppressions and close sinnes that made So many grone and curse him now shall finde Their just reward and all that love their country Blesse heaven and the Kings Iustice for removing Such a devouring monster Fa. Sir your pardon Madam you are the Queene she is my daughter And he that you have character'd so monstrous My sonne in Law now gon to be arraign'd The King is just and a good man but 't does not Adde to the graces of your royall person To tread upon a Lady thus dejected By her owne griefe her Lord 's not yet found guilty Much lesse condemn'd though you have pleas'd to execute him Qu. What sawâ—y fellow 's this Fa. I must confesse I am a man out of this element No Courtier yet I am a gentleman That dare speake honest truth to the Queenes care A duty every subject wonot pay you And justifie it to all the world there 's nothing Doth more ecclipse the honours of our soule Than an ill grounded and ill followed passion Let slie with noise and license against those Whose hearts before are bleeding Con. Brave old man Fa. Cause you are a Queene to trample ore a woman 〈◊〉 tongue and faculties are all tied up 〈◊〉 out a Lyons teeth and pare his clawes And then a dwarfe may plucke him by the beard T is a gay victory Qu Did you hëare my Lord Fa. I ha done Wif. And it concernes me to beginne I have not made this pause through servile feare Or guiltie apprehension of your rage But with just wonder of the heates and wildnesse Has prepossest your nature gainst our innocence You are my Queene unto that title bowes The humblest knee in France my heart made lower With my obedience and prostrate duty Nor have I powers created for my use When just commands of you expect their service But were you Queene of all the world or something To be thought greater betwixt heaven and us That I could reach you with my eyes and voyce I would shoote both up in defence of my Abused honour and stand all your lightning Qu. So brave Wif. So just and boldly innocent I cannot feare arm'd with a noble conscience The tempest of your frowne were it more frightfull Then every fury made a womans anger Prepar'd to kill with deaths most horrid ceremony Yet with what freedome of my soule I can Forgive your accusation of my pride Qu. Forgive what insolence is like this language Can any action of ours be capable Of thy forgivenesse dust how I dispise thee Can we sinne to be object of thy mercie Wif. Yes and have dont already and no staine To your greatnesse Madam t is my charity I can remit when soveraigne Princes dare Doe injury to those that live beneath them They turne worth pitty and their prayâ—rs and t is In the free power of those whom they oppresse To pardon e'm each soule has a prerogative And priviledge royall that was sign'd by heaven But though i th knowledge of my disposition Stranger to pride and what you charge me with I can forgive the injustice done to me And striking at my person I have no Commission from my Lord to cleere you for The wrongs you have done him and still he pardon The wounding of his loyaltie with which life Can hold no ballance I must talke just boldnesse To say Fa No more now I must tell you daughter Least you forget your selfe she is the Queene And it becomes not you to vie with her Passion for passion if your Lord stand fast To the full search of Law Heaven will revenge him And give him up precious to good mens loves If you attempt by these unruly wayes To vindicate his justice I me against you Deere as I wish your husbands life and fame Suffer are bound to suffer not contest With Princes since their Will and Acts must be Accounted one day to a Judge supreme Wif. I ha done if the devotion to my Lord Or pietie to his innocence have led me Beyond the awfull limits to be observ'd By one so much beneath your sacred person I thus low crave your royall pardon Madam I know you will remember in your goodnesse My life blood is concern'd while his least veine Shall runne blacke and polluted my heart fed With what keepes him alive nor can there be A greater wound than that which strikes the life Of our good name so much above the bleeding Of this rude pile wee carry as the soule Hath excellence above this earth-borne frailty My Lord by the Kings will is lead already To a severe arraignement and to Iudges Will make no tender search into his tract Of life and state stay but a little while And â—rancâ— shall â—â—â—ho to his shame or innocence This suit I begge with teares I shall have sorrow Enough to heare him censur'd foule and monstrous Should you forbeare to antidate my sufferings Qu. Your conscience comes about and you incline To feare he may be worth the lawes condemning Wif. I sooner will suspect the starres may lose Their way and cristall heaven returne to Chaos Truth â—its not on her square more firme than he Yet let me tell you Madam were his life And action so foule as you have character'd And the bad world expects though as a wife T were duty I should weepe my selfe to death To know him falne from vertue yet so much I a fraile woman love my King and Country I should condemne him too and thinkâ— all honours The price of his lost faith more fatall to me Than Cleopatra's aspes warme in my bosome And as much boast their killing Qu. This declares Another soule than was deliver'd me My anger melts and I beginne to pitty her How much a Princes eare may be abus'd Enjoy your happie confidence at more leasure You may heare from us Wif. Heaven preserve the Queene And may her heart be charitable Fa. You blesse and honour your unworthy servant Qu. My Lord did you observe this Con. Yes great Madam And read a noble spirit which becomes The wife of Chabot their great tiâ— of mâ—rriage Iâ— not more strong upon em than their vertues Qu. That your opinion I thought your judgement Against the Admiâ—all doe you thinke him honest Con. Religiously a true most zealous Patrior And worth all royall favour Qu. You amaze me Can you be just your selfe then and advance Your powers against him Con. Such a will be farre From Montmoranzie Pioners of state Have left no art to gaine me to their faction And t is my misery to be plac'd in such A sphere where I am whirl'd by violence Of a fierce raging motion and not what My owne will would encline me I shall make This appeare Madam if you please to second My free speech with the King Qu. Good heaven protect all Haste to the King
steere you spare to obey For when his troubled blood is cleere and calme He will repent that he pursued his rage Before his pious Law and hold that Iudge Vnworthy of his place that lets his censure Flote in the waves of an imagin'd favour This shipwracks in the haven and but wounds Their consciences that sooth the soone ebb'd humours Of their incensed King Con. Tre. Royall and sacred King Come Philip shine thy honour now for ever For this short temporall ecclipse it suffer'd By th' interpos'd desire I had to try thee Nor let the thought of what is past afflict thee For my unkindnesse live still circled here The bright intelligence of our royall spheere Exeunt Actus Quintus Enter Queene Constable Father Qu. THe Admirall sicke Fa. With danger at the hâ—â—rt I came to tell the King Con. He never had More reason in his soule to entertaine All the delights of health Fa. I feare my Lord Some apprehension of the Kings unkindnesse By giving up his person and his offices To the Lawes gripe and search is ground of his Sad change the greatest foules are thus oft wounded If he vouchsafe his presence it may quicken His fast decaying spirits and prevent The hasty ebbe of life Qu. The King is now Fraught with the joy of his fresh preservation The newes so violent let into his eare May have some dangerous effect in him I wod not counsell sir to that Fa. With greater reason I may suspect they 'le spread my Lord and as A river left his curl'd and impetuous waves Over the bankes by confluence of streames That fill and swell her channell for by this time He has the addition of Allegres suffering His honest servant whom I met though feeble And worne with torture going to congratulatë His Masters safetie Qu. It seemes he much Affected that Allegre Con. There will be But a sad interview and dialogue Qu. Does he keepe his bed Fa. In that alone He shewes a fortitude he will move and walke He sayes while his owne strength or others can Support him wishing he might stand and looke His destiny in the face at the last summon Not sluggishly exhaile his soule in bed With indulgence and nice flattery of his limbs Qu. Can he in this shew spirit and want force To wrastle with a thought Fa. Oh Madam Madam We may have proofe against thë sword and tyranny Of boysterous warre that threatens us but when Kings froune a Cannon mounted in each eye Shoote death to apprehension ere their fire And force approach us Enter King Con. Here 's the King Qu. No words To interrupt his quiet Fa. I le begon then King Our Admiralls father call him backe Qu. I wâ—not stay to heare e'm Exit Con. Sir be prudent And doe not for your sonne fright the Kings health Exit King What ha they left us how does my Admirall Fa. I am forbid to tell you sir King By whom Fa. The Queene and my Lord Constable King Are there Remaining seedes of faction have they soules Not yet convinc'd i th truth of Chabots honour Cleare as the christall heaven and bove the reach Of imitation Fa. T is their care of you And no thought prejudiciall to my sonne King Their care of me How can the knowledge of my Admiralls state Concerne their feares of me I see their envie Of Chabots happinesse whose joy to be Rendr'd so pure and genuine to the world Doth grate upon their conscience and affright 'em But let 'em vexe and bid my Chabot still Exalt his heart and triumph he shall havë The accesse of ours the kingdome shall put on Such joyes for him as she would bost to celebratë Her owne escape from ruine Fa. He is not in state to heare my sad newes I perceive King That countenance is not right it does not answë◠What I expect Say how is my Admirall The truth upon thy life Fa. To secure his I would you had King Ha Who durst oppose him Fa. One that hath power enough hath practised on him And made his great heart stoope King I will revenge it With crushing crushing that rebellious power to nothing Name him Fa. He was his friend King A friend to malice his owne blacke impostume Burne his blood up what mischiefe hath ingendred New stormes Fa. T is the old tempest King Did not we Appease all horrors that look'd wilde upon him Fa. You drest his wounds I must confesse but made No cure they bleede a fresh pardon me sir Although your conscience have clos'd too soone He is in danger and doth want new surgerie Though he be right in fame and your opinion He thinkes you were unkinde King Alas poore Chabot Doth that afflict him Fa. So much though he strive With most resolv'd and Adamantine nerves As ever humane fire in flesh and blood Forg'd for example to beare all so killing The arrowes that you shot were still your pardon No Centaures blood could rancle so King If this Be all I le cure him Kings retaine More Balsome in their soule them hurt in anger Fa. Farre short sir with one breath they uncreate And Kings with onely words more wounds can make Then all their kingdome made in balme can heale T is dangerous to play to wilde a descant On numerous vertue though it become Princes To assure their adventures made in every thing Goodnesse confin'd within poore flesh and blood Hath but a queazie and still sickly state A musicall hand should onely play on her Fluent as ayre yet every touch command King No more Commend us to the Admirall and say The King will visite him and bring health Fa. I will not doubt that blessing and shall move Nimbly with this command Exeunt Enter Officers before Treasurer Secretary and Iudges attended by Petitioners the Advocate also with many papers in his hand they take their places The Chancellor with a guard and plac'd at the Barre Tre. Did you beleeve the Chancellor had beene So foule Sec. Hee 's lost toth ' people what contempts They throw upon him but we must be wise 1 Iud. Were there no other guilt his malice shëw'd Vpon the Admirall in orebearing justice Would well deserve a sentence Tre. And a deepe one 2 Iud. If please your Lordships to remember that Was specially commended by the King As being most blemish to his royall person And the free justice of his state Tre. Already He has confest upon his examinations Enough for sensure yet to obey forme Mr. Advocate if you please Adv. I am ready for your Lordships It hath beene said and will be said agen and may truely be justified Omnia ex lite fieri It was the position of Philosophers and now proved by a more Phylosophycall sect the Lawyers that Omnia ex lite fiant we are all made by Law made I say and worthily if we be just if we be un just marr'd though in marring some there is necessitie of making others for if one sall by the Law tenne
to one but another is exalted by the execution of the Law since the corruption of one must conclude the generation of another though not alwayes in the same profession the corruption of an Apothecary may be the generation of a Doctor of Physicke the corruption of a Citizen may beget a Courtier a Courtier may very well beget an Alderman the corruption of an Alderman may be the generation of a Country Iustice whose corrupt ignorance easily may beget a tumult a tumult may beget a Captaine and the corruption of a Captaine may beget a Gentleman-Vsher and a Gentleman-Vsher may beget a Lord whose wit may beget a Poet and a Poet may get a thousand pound a yeare but nothing without corruption Tre. Good Mr. Advocate be pleased to leave all digressions and speake of the Chancellor Adv. Your Lordship doth very seasonably premonish and I shall not neede to leave my subject corruption while I discourse of him who is the very fenne and stigian abisse of it five thousand and odde hundred foule and impious corruptions for I will be briefe have beene found by severall examinations and by oathes prov'd against this odious and polluted Chancelor a man of so tainted and contagious a life that it is a miracle any man enjoyeth his nostrills that hath lived within the sent of his offices he was borne with teeth in his head by an affidavit of his Midwife to note his devouring and hath one toe on his left foote crooked and in the forme of an Eagles talon to foretell his rapacitie What shall I say branded mark'd and design'd in his birth for shame and obloquie which appeareth further by a mole under his right eare with only three Witches haires in t strange and ominous predictions of nature Tre. You have acquainted your selfe but very lately With this intelligence for as I remember Your tongue was guilty of no such character When hee sat Iudge upon the Admirall A pious incorrupt man a faithfull and fortunate Servant to his King and one of the greatest Honours that ever the Admirall received was That he had so noble and just a Iudge this must Imply a strange volubilitie in your tongue or Conscience I speake not to discountenance any Evidence for the King but to put you in minde Mr. Advocate that you had then a better opinion Of my Lord Chancellor Adv. Your Lordship hath most aptly interpos'd and with a word I shall easily satisfie all your judgements He was then a Judge and in Cathedra in which he could not erre it may be your Lordships cases out of the chaire and seate of Iustice he hath his frailties is loos'ed and expos'd to the conditions of other humane natures so every Iudge your Lordships are not ignorant hath a kinde of priviledge while he is in his state office and being and although hee may quoad se internally and privately be guilty of bribery of Iustice yet quoad nos and in publike he is an upright and innocent Iudge we are to take no notice nay we deserved to suffer if wee should detect or staine him for in that we disparage the Office which is the Kings and may be our owne but once remov'd from his place by just dishonour of the King he is no more a Iudge but a common person whom the law takes hold on and wee are then to forget what hee hath beene and without partialitie to strip and lay him open to the world a counterfeit and corrupt Iudge as for example hee may and ought to flourish in his greatnesse and breake any mans necke with as much facilitie as a jeast but the case being altered and hee downe every subject shall be heard a Wolfe may be appareld in a Lamb-skinne and if every man should be afraid to speake truth nay and more than truth if the good of the subject which are clients sometime require it there would be no remove of Officers if no remove no motions if no motion in Court no heate and by consequence but cold Termes take away this moving this removing of Iudges the Law may bury it selfe in Buckram and the kingdome suffer for want of a due execution and now I hope your Lordships are satisfied Tre. Most learnedly concluded to acquity our selfe 1 Iud. Mr. Advocate please you to urge for satisfaction Of the world and clearing the Kings honour how In justly he proceeded against the Admirall Adv. I shall obey your Lordship So vâ—st so infinite hath beene the impudence of this Chancellor not onely toward the subject but even the sacred person of the King that I tremble as with a Palsie to remember it This man or rather this monster having power and commission trusted for the examination of the Lord Admirall a man perfect in all honour and justice indeede the very ornament and second flower of France for the Flower de lis is sacred and above all flowers and indeede the best flower in our garden Having used all wayes to circumvent his innocence by suborning and promising rewards to his betrayers by compelling others by the cruelty of tortures as namely Mounsieur Allegre a most honest and faithfull servant to his Lord tearing and extending his sinewes upon the â—acke to force a confession to his purpose and finding nothing prevaile upon the invincible vertue of the Admirall Sec. How he would flatter him Adv. Yet most maliciously proceeded to arraigne him to be short against all colour of Iustice condemn'd him of high treasons oh thinke what the life of man is that can never be recompenced but the life of a just man a man that is the vigour and glory of our life and nation to be torne to death and sacrifis'd beyond the mallice of common persecution What Tiger of Hercanian breede could have beene so cruell but this is not all he was not guilty onely of murder guilty I may say In foro coÌ„sctieniae though our good Admirall was miraculously preserv'd but unto this he added a most prodigious fearefull rape a rape even upon Iustice it self the very soule of our state for the rest of the Iudges upon the Bench venerable images of Austria he most tyranously compel'd to set their hands to his most unjust sentence did ever story remember the like outrâ—ge and injustice what forfeit what penalty can be enough to satisfie this transcendent offence and yet my good Lords this is but veniall to the sacriledge which now followes and by him committed not content with this sentence not satisfied with horrid violence upon the sacred Tribunall but hee proceedes and blasphemes the very name and honour of the King himselfe observe that making him the author and impulsive cause of all these rapines justifying that he mov'd onely by his speciall command to the death nay the murder of his most faithfull subject translating all his owne blacke and damnable guilt upon the Kings heires a traytor to his Country first he conspires the death of one whom the King loves and whom every
defence Of my owne merits and my honest faith to him Was rare past example Enter Father Fa. Sir the King Is comming hither Al. It will Become my duty sir to leave you now Adm Stay by all meanes Allegre ' tshall concerneÌ„ you I 'me infinitely honor'd in his presence Enter King Queene Constable and Wife King Madam be comforted I le be his Phisitian Wif. Pray heaven you may King No ceremoniall knees Give me thy heart my deare my honest Chabot And yet in vaine I chalenge that t is here Already in my owne and shall be cherish'd With care of my best life violence Shall ravish it from my possession Not those distempers that infirme my blood And spirits shall betray it to a feare When time and nature joyne to dispossesse My body of a cold and languishing breath No stroake in all my arteries but silence In every faculty yet dissect me then And in my heart the world shall read thee living And by the vertue of thy name write there That part of me shall never putrifie When I am lost in all my other dust Adm. You too much honour your poore servant sir My heart dispares so rich a monument But when it dies King I wonot heare a sound Of any thing that trenched upon death He speakes the funerall of my crowne that prophesies So unkinde a fate wee le live and die together And by that duty which hath taught you hitherto All loyall and just services I charge thee Preserve thy heart for me and thy reward Which now shall crowne thy merits Adm. I have found A glorious harvest in your savour sir And by this overslow of royall grace All my deserts are shadowes and slie from mee I have not in the wealth of my desires Enough to pay you now yet you encourage me To make one suite King So soone as nam'd possesse it Adm. You would be pleas'd take notice of this Gentleman A Secretary of mine Con. Mounsieur Allegre He that was rack'd sir for your Admirall Adm. His limbs want strength to tender their full duty An honest man that suffers for my sake King He shall be deare to us for what has past sir By the unjustice of our Chancellors power Wee le study to recompence i th' meane time that office You exercis'd for Chabot we translate To our selfe you shall be our Secretary Al. This is An honour above my weake desert and shall Oblige the service of my life to satisfie it Adm. You are gracious and in this act have put All our complaints to silence you Allegre Enter Tresuror Secretary Cherish your health and feeble limbs which cannot Without much prejudice be thus employ'd All my best wishes with thee Al. All my prayers Are duties to your Lordship Exit King T is too little Can forfeit of his place wealth and a lasting Imprisonment purge his offences to Our honest Admirall had our person beene Exempted from his mallice he did persecute The life of Chabot with an equall wrath You should have powr'd death on his treacherous head I revoke all your sentences and make Him that was wrong'd full Master of his destiny Be thou his judge Adm. O farre be such injustice I know his doome is heavie and I begge Where mercy may be let into his sentence For my sake you would soften it I have Glory enough to be set right in yours And my deare countries thought and by an act With such apparent notice to the world King Expresse it in some joy then Adm. I will strive To shew that pious gratitude to you but Kng. But what Adm. My frame hath lately sir beene tane a peecâ—s And but now put together the least force Of mirth will shake and unjoynt all my reason Your patience royall sir King I le have no patience If thou forget the courage of a man Adm. My strength would â—latter me King Phisitianâ— Now I begin to feare his apprehension Why how is Chabots spirit falne Qu. T were best He were conveid to his bed Wif. How soone turn'd widdow Adm. Who would not wish to live to serve your goodnes Stand from me you betray me with your feares The plummets may fall off that hang upon My heart they were but thoughts at first or if They weigh me downe to death let not my eyes Close with another object then the King Let him be last I looke on King I would not have him lost for my whole Kingdome Con. He may recover sir King I see it fall For Iustice being the proppe of every Kingdome And mine broke violating him that was The knot and contract of it all in him It already falling in my eate Pompey could heare it thunder when the Senate And Capitoll were deafe so heavens loud chiding I le have another sentence for my Chancellor Vnlesse my Chabot live In a Prince What a swift executioner is a frowne Especially of great and noble soules How is it with my Philip Adm. I must begge One other boone King Vpon condition My Chabot will collect his scatter'd spirits And be himselfe agen he shall divide My Kingdome with me Fa. Sweete King Adm. I observe A fierce and killing wrath engendred in you For my sake as you wish me strength to serve you Forgive your Chancellor let not the story Of Philip Chabot read hereafter draw A teare from any family I beseech Your royall mercy on his life and free Remission of all seasure upon his state I have no comfort else King Endeavour But thy owne health and pronounce generall pardon To all through France Adm. Sir I must kneele to thanke you It is not seal'd else your blest hand live happy May all you trust have no lesse faith then Chabot Oh. Wif. His heart is broken Fa. And kneeling sir As his ambition were in death to shew The truth of his obedience Con. I feard this issue Tre. Hee s past hope King He has a victory in s death this world Deserv'd him not how soone he was translated To glorious eternitie t is too late To fright the ayre with words my teareâ— embalme him Wif. What can become of me Qu. I le be your husband Madam and with care Supply your childrens father to your father I le be a sonne in what ouâ— love or power Can serve his friends Chabot shall nere be wanting The greatest losse is mine past scale or recompence We will proceede no further gainst the Chancellor To the charitie of our Admirall he owes His life which ever banish'd to a prison Shall not beget in us or in the subject Nâ—w feares of his injustice for his fortunes Great and acquir'd corruptly t is our will They make just restitution for all wrongs That shall within a yeare be prov'd against him O Chabot that shall boast as many monuments As there be hearts in France which as they grow Shall with more love enshrine thee Kings they say Die not or starve succession oh why Should that stand firme and Kings themselves despaire To finde their subject still in the next heire Exeunt FINIS
late service you have done me here Which is so great and meritorious That with my ablest power I scarce can quit you Cha. Your sole acceptance my dread soveraigne I more rejoyce in than in all the fortunes That ever chanc'd me but when may it please Your Highnesse to order the execution The haste thus farre hath spar'd no pinions King No my Lord your care Hath therein much deserv'd Cha. But where proportion Is kept toth ' end in things at start so happy That end set on the crowne King I le speede it therefore Cha. Your thoughts direct it they are wing'd Exit King I joy this boldnesse is condemn'd that I may pardon And tâ—erein get some ground in his opinion By so much bounty as save his life And me thinks that weigh'd more should sway the ballance Twixt me and him held by his owne free Iustice For I could never finde him obstinate In any minde he held when once he saw Th' error with which he laboured and since now He needs must feele it I admit no doubt But that his alteration will beget Another sence of things twixt him and me Whos 's there Goe to the Captaine of my â—uard and will him To attend his condemn'd prisoner to me instantly As I shall sir Ewer Treasurer Secretary King My Lords you were spectators of our Admirall Tre. And hearers too of his most just conviction In which we witnest over-weight enough In your great bounties and as they there were weigh'd With all the feathers of his boasted merits King Has felt a scorching triall and the test That holds fires utmost force we must give mettalls That will not with the hammer and the melting Confesse their truth and this same sence of feeling Being ground to all the sences hath one key More than the rest to let in through them all The mindes true apprehension that thence takes Her first convey'd intelligence I long To see this man of considence agen How thinke you Lords will Chabot looke on mee Now spâ—ild of the integrity he boasted Sec. It were too much honour to vouchsafe your sight Tr. No doubt my Leigh but he that hath offended In such a height against your crowne and person Will want no impudence to looke upon you Enter Asâ—ll Captaine Admirall Cap. Sir I had charge given me by this Gentleman To bring your condemn'd prisoner to your presence King You have done well and tell the Queene and our Lord Constable we desire their presence bid Our Admiralls Lady and her father too Attend us here they are but new withdrawne As I shall sir Tre. Doe you â—â—serve this confidence He stands as all his triall were a dreame Sâ—c He le finde the horrour waking the King 's troubled Now for â— thuâ—der-clap the Queene and Constable Enter Queene Constable Wise and Father Tr. I doe not like their mixtuâ—e King My Loâ—d Admirall You made it your desire to have this triall That late hath past upon you And now you feele how vaine is too much faith And flattery of your selfe as if your brest Were proofe gainst all invasion t is so slight You see it le ts in death what 's past hath beene To satisfie your insolence there remaines That now we serve our owne free pleasure therefore By thâ—t most absolute power with which all right Puts in my hands these issues turnes and changes I here in eare of all these pardon all Your faults and forfeits whatsoever sensur'd Againe advancing and establishing Your person in all fulnesse of that state That ever you enjoy'd before th' attainder Tre. Wonderfull pardon'd Wif. Heaven preserve the King Qu. Who for this will deserve all time to honour him Con. And live Kings best example Fa. Sonne y are pardon'd Be sure you looke hereafter well about you Adm. Vouchsafe great Sir to assure me what you said You nam'd my pardon King And agen declare it For all crimes past of what nature soever Adm. You cannot pardon me Sir King How 's that Philip Adm. It is a word carries too much relation To an offence of which I am not guilty And I must still be bold where truth still armes In spight of all those frownes that would deject me To say I neede no pardon King Ha howe 's this Fa. Hee s mad with over-joy and answers nonsence King Why tell me Chabot are not you condemn'd Adm. Yes and that justifies me much the more For whatsoever false report hath brought you I was condemn'd for nothing that could reach To prejudice my life my goods or honour As first in firmenesse of my conscience I confidently told you not alas Presuming on your slender thred of favour Or pride of fortunate and courtly boldnesse But what my faith and justice bade me trust too For none of all your learned assistant Judges With all the malice of my crimes could urge Or felâ—ny or hurt of sacred power King Doe any heare this but my selfe My Lords This man still justifies his innocence What prodigies are these have not our Lawes Past on his actions have not equall Iudges Certified his arraignement and him guilty Of capitall Treason and yet doe I heare Chabot accuse all these and quit himselfe Tr. It does appeare distraction sir King Did we Seeme so indulgent to propose our free And royall pardon without suite or prayer To meete with his contempt Sec. Vnheaâ—'d of impudence Ad. I were malicious to my selfe and desperate To force untruths upon my soule and when T is cleare to confesse a shame to exercise Your pardon sir were I so foule and monstrous As I am given to you you would commit A sinne next mine by wronging your owne mercy To let me draw out impious breath it will Release your wonder if you give command To see your processe and if it prove other Thaâ— I presume to Informe teare me in peeces King Goe for the Processe and the Chancellor With the assistant Iudges I thanke heaven Exit As That with all these inforcements of distraction My reason stayes so cleare to heare and answer And â—â— direct a message This inversion Of all the loyalties and true deserts That I beleev'd I govern'd with till now In my choice Lawyers and chiefe Counsellors Is able to shake all my frame of reason Adm. I am much griv'd King No more I doe incline To thinke I am abus'd my Lawes betrai'd And wrested to the purpose of my Judges This confidence in Chabot turnes my judgement This was too wilde away to make his merits Stoope and acknowledge my superior bounties That it doth raise and sixe e'm past my art To shadow all the shame and forfeits mine Enter Asall Chancellor Iudges As The Chancellor and Judges Sir Tre. I like not This passion in the King the Queene and Constable Are of that side King My Lord you dare appeare then Cha. Dare Sir I hope King Well done hope still and tell me Is not this man condemn'd Cha. Strange question Sir The processe will declare