my Courage shall maintain I will endure no Partners in my Throne I ll govern as I please and rule alone Do not I trample Kings beneath my feet Will Caesar then let his own slaves be great Caesar shall be the only Soveraign Lord And Senate be a vain and useless word And therefore wholly laid aside ere long Amongst the Rubbish of the Roman Tongue Val. A. Then will the name of Emp'ror be low Sir your Throne stands on golden Columns now On Men who are by Birth and Fortune great Wou'd you be King of Beggars six you seat On a vile Dunghil on the dirty Croud This by your friends can never be allow'd Sir your mistakes are your most dang'rous foes And for your service I 'll your self oppose And in the face of any danger fly You have not a more faithful friend than I Compar'd with Caesar's service how I slight Danger and Death I 've often shew'd in fight Ces Cherish him Caesar Cal. Well let quarrels cease Th' ast a great Genius both in War and Peace But love not if th' art one of Caesar's friends A Senate for the very name offends But call 'em in for they shall quickly know I have a farther quarrel with 'em now Enter the Consuls and Senate When Caesar by a Triumph honour'd Rome How durst you tarry sullenly at home As if my Victories you proudly scorn'd Or thought 'em curses and in darkness mourn'd Val. A. Who dares reply for to this raving Prince What can be said that will not give offence Aside Con. The honour Sir we humbly did implore To fill your Triumphs to be triumph'd o'r To be led Captives but we beg in vain Our great devotion met your high disdain Cal. 'T is true I scorn all honours you bestow And you resent th' affront ha is it so Con. That were presumptuous arrogance indeed Sir with united hearts we 've all decreed The highest honours Cal. How Dare you pretend To grant me Honours Honour must descend Con. We humbly beg Cal. You 'd beg me for a Fool Beg me to own you have the Sovereign rule By this Decree you sawcily invade Imperial Power Imperial Glory shade Affronts from his own slaves will Caesar bear Refuse or grant me Honours if you dare Con. My errors wrong the Senate I perceive To shew our love we humbly beg your leave Cal. Your love Mankind is envious vain and proud Love nothing that 's above 'em bad or good You hate a Prince unless he 'll tamely bear Partners in power let Senates have a share Where Laws and domineering Senates reign Princes are slaves in purple slaves in grain Sword bearers to a many-headed Lord I mean the Croud and weak upon Record For ev'ry Law made by the State implies That Princes are defective Senates wise Such Demi-Kings have half your hearts no more While they have any share of Soveraign power But if a Prince entirely quits his Throne He 's lov'd by all because he 's fear'd by none The Votes of Senators tho' ne'r so great Shall but like Ecchoes my commands repeat So Forrests may advise and utter Law L. Vit. The wisest Monarch the Sun ever saw Cal. Fear me I care not how I am abhorr'd Your hearts I 'll have with my Imperial Sword I 'll rip 'em from your Breasts when I think good In short I 'll have your Duty or your Blood This you all know and therefore you 'll obey Fear is the Parent of all Sovereign sway Val. A. Sir with triumphant pomp to Court they 've brought Your Image wrought in gold is that a fault Cal. My Image may have faults the Gold has none 'T is th' only faultless thing below the Sun Ces No Caesar no if Art has done you right Th' Image is faultless bring it in my sight If Caesar's graces in the Image shine There is no gold on Earth so rich so fine This shining shadow I wou'd feign behold This constant shadow fix'd in solid gold Enter Priests in Procession singing carrying a golden Image of the Emperor attended by the Consuls and Senate The SONG Sung by the Priests HAIL Mighty Prince whose loud renown O'r ev'ry Region flies On whom with wonder Gods look down And gaze with envious eyes Whom more than Hell all Nations fear And more than Heav'n obey Who o'r-runs Kingdoms ev'ry year With Jove has equal sway Who ruins Realms enriches Graves Makes mighty Kings of humble Slaves And Slaves of mighty Kings His praise this great Assembly here With all devotion sings Our bloody Wars are ended The Sword is now But worn for shew And the stubborn bow unbended Our hours of ease and leisure We 'll give to pomp and pleasure And Songs in praise of Caesar Who War with glory ended The Sword is now But worn for shew And the stubborn Bow unbended Now Peace begins to heal our wounds And all our wants repair We 'll Plough the Seas and Plough our Grounds And Plough the tempting fair Our lofty Tow'rs shall scale the Sky Our Wealth unbounded like our joy Shall fly more free than air Our Wars are done And the World is won So now farewel to care Ex. om ACT III. The SCENE continues Enter Valerius Asiaticus Annius Minutianus An. M. CAESAR triumphs and is by Rome ador'd For Battels won by your victorious Sword Val. A. 'T is true to triumphs he has small pretence Put wou'd y 'ave me proudly out brave my Prince And boast I won those Fields he durst not see This wou'd be fatal saw ciness in me Soldiers in fight their courage shou'd display They have a triumph when they win the day Let them be brave against the bold and great But humble to all those beneath their feet An. M. A gen'rous thought Val. A. In most triumphal shews A conqu'ring Coxcomb o'r a beaten crows The fopp'ry in the Hero then appears The Lyon's couch'd the Ass pricks up his Ears Vain ostentation does too oft enslave The learn'd the wise the mighty and the brave The Man of Learning no content can reap From all his knowledge till he spreads the heap And great applause and admiration gains For that poor chaff how he will thrash his brains He is-in throws before but then he 's eas'd When he 's a publick fool he 's highly pleas'd For Fame vain Wits take all their soaring flights For Fame the ostentatious Hero fights For shew with wounds will be embroider'd o'r And deeply died in his own purple gore An. M. Vain ostentation deforms ev'ry grace 'T is like a blister in a beauteous face Val. A. 'T is hard to know whose brains have wider flaws They who sit ratling chains and pleating straws Or they who toyl only for vain renown To wear in History a paper Crown Whilst Caesar now for a design so vain Takes Poets and Historians in his Train How like a Lunatick this Prince appears Pleas'd because Bells hang jingling at his ears â—â—us he resolves oblivion to subdue 〈◊〉 and the graces of
CALIGULA A TRAGEDY As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal BY His MAJESTY's Servants Written by Mr. Crowne LONDON Printed by J. Orme for R. Wellington at the Lute in St. Paul's Church-Yard and sold by Percivil Gilborne at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-Lane and Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys in St. Martins-Lane near Long-Acre 1698. ADVERTISEMENTS ☞ There is lately published the History of Polybius the Megalopolitan containing an Account of the Affairs of the whole World Translated by Sir Henry Sheers and Mr. Dryden in three Volumes the third never before Printed Love in Ruins or the Fatal Discovery Imposture Defeated or a Trick to cheat the Devil Mrs. A. Behns three Plays will suddenly be printed viz. The Round-heads City Heiress or Sir Timothy Treat-all Young King or the Mistake An Italian Voyage or a Compleat Journey through Italy In two Parts With the Characters of the People and the Description of the chief Towns Churches Monasteries Tombs Libraries Pallaces Villa's Gardens Pictures Statues and Antiquities As also of the Interest Government Riches Force c. of all the Princes With Instructions concerning Travel By Richard Lassels Gent. the Second Edition Tho. Brown's New and Easie Method to understand the Roman History by way of Dialogue for the use of the Duke of Burgundy Done out of French with very large Additions To the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of RUMNEY Master-General of the Ordnance Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports Gentleman of His Majesty's Bed Chamber and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council c. My Lord AN address of this kind from a Man so idle and unusefull as I am is at all times unseasonable to a Person whom the Wisdom o' the King and the good Fortune o' the Kingdom employ in so many great Affairs as take up your Lordships hours But it can never be more out of time than now when your Lordship is in sorrow for the loss of your Brother the late great Earl of Leicester who mourns not that knew him All that knew him lov'd him if they lov'd mankind for a greater Example of humanity the World I believe has seldom found All honour'd him that knew him if they valued Truth and Wisdom so much good sence sell from him in his common Conversation that none convers'd with him but were both Entertain'd and Improv'd if they were capable of it And no doubt many great Men were the greater for his Acquaintance and thus tho' in a private Life he influenc'd the publick and the whole Kingdom was the better for him Some survive themselves and their Understandings die before ' em His mind retain'd its wonderfull vigor to the last He was pleasant to all when years and pains â—ad taken all pleasures from him but what he found in doing good of his bounty I have often shar'd and so have many more And I was always extreamly proud of any marks of favour from such an impartial and discerniâ—â— Judge I cou'd dwell on so pleasing a subject as the extraordinary Qualities of this great Nobleman but since Providence has taken him from the World to number up his deserts and vertues were but to set before your Lordship your losses and the misfortunes of the Kingdom Now I am entring on another copious subject what does this Kingdom owe your Lordship you have been in several Reigns one of the greatest Ornaments of England but you have of late been one of its fortunate preservers your Lordship was an eminent Instrument in this Revolution which has been so happy to England and the greatest part of Europe Had not this change been almost all Europe had been overrun by France England for certain had lost its Rights Liberties and Religion and perhaps been no more a Kingdom but a Province to France a Vassal to Vassals and for all its Wealth had nothing but a Wafer What cou'd have stop'd that inundation of power which was rolling on and swelling as it roll'd delug'd many parts of Europe and threatned all What cou'd a formidable Fleet and Army almost innumerable have ask'd of a few divided Counsellors at White-hall which they durst have deny'd And what a glorious figure does England now make in comparison of what it did some years ago It lay one Reign becalm'd in Luxury In another Fetter'd In this Reign it has not only freed it self but humbled France and protected Germany Spain and Holland and appears one of the greatest Powers in Christendom How much then is owing to your Lordship by whose Wisdom and Courage this Revolution was contriv'd and carry'd on in a Reign when the least opposition to unlimited power was judg'd an unpardonable Crime But I may quit this subject since what your Lordship has done will make a noble part of English History In this Play I set Tyranny before the Eyes of the World and the dreadfull Consequences of lawless and boundless power But some wou'd not have the World frightned with such a Figure nor an Image of a Government profan'd which they adore 'T is well for 'em that they worship an unknown God If their Dwellings and Estates if they have any lay in the reach of a mighty Prince whose Will is Law I believe they wou'd be glad if they were secur'd from Forreign Invasions by the English Seas and from boundless power at home by English Laws I have suffer'd severely and therefore may be allow'd to speak The Favour or rather Authority which a mighty Neighbouring Kingdom had in our Court some years ago got my Inheritance which tho' it lay in the Desarts of America would have enabled me if I cou'd have kept it to have liv'd at my ease in these beautifull parts o' the World the loss of it has made England a Desart to me No wonder then if I am pleased with the Successes of our Wise and Valiant King who was born to free and do justice to opprest mankind and I hope to my self And now I doubt not but your Lordship who has been so instrumental in preserving and establishing the Liberties of all Englishmen will also permit a Poet to enjoy Poetick Liberties I mean that leave which has been long granted of addressing to such great Men as your Lordship for your Favour and Protectionâ— I need Encouragement from others because I have none from my self No Man can have a meaner opinion of me than I have of my self I am opprest by my self I will not say by my modesty for modesty is a vertue and modesty and boasting are inconsistent my fortune has long languished under an unmanly spiritless temper of mind which makes me rather choose to suffer than give trouble to any nay than to seek the favour of those who take a pleasure in obliging A Poet may very well hope for Patronage from a Nobleman who is of the blood of Sir Philip Sidney And I have found your Lordship ready to assist me your Lordship addrest to the late Queen of ever-blessed Memory in my behalf
chastize For Cassius speedily search all the Town For he has wrong'd my honour and his own He wrought no doubt the Villany I fear'd But by his death my honour shall be clear'd Enter Cesonia and her Woman Ces My Caesar murder'd stand away forbear Now I 've lost Caesar what have I to fear Oh! here 's my Caesar I so Lov'd Ador'd Lord of the World I 'm sure Gesonia's Lord Mangled by Villains here in blood he lies In his own blood Caesar who gave my eyes Ay and my heart such infinite delight Is now a mournfull and a dreadfull Sight The World to me is all a desart now For a lost Caesar Gods revenge bestow Revenge all Princes by this horrid deed All thrones are shaken and all Princes bleed Revenge two Lovers here by Villains torn One murder'd and I only live to mourn Revenge my Princely Babe from Caesar sprung It cannot sin why shou'd it suffer wrong Now the Tree's fallen the little branch will soon Decay and wither Oh! I faint I swoun Val. A. Help her Ces Stand off I 've pleasure in my grief Except revenge I desire no relief Take up the precious relicks of your Prince Oh! take 'em up whilst I've remains o' sence Oh! gently gently if you be humane His wounds pain me and he feels all my pain For his Cesonia he more dearly Loves Than all the beauties in th' Elizian Groves They take up the Emperor Come my dead Lord with thy Cesonia dwell In Love at least I all my Sex excell Now in the dead and death are all my joys I 'll weep till tears and death have quench'd my eyes Ex. Cesonia and her Attendants with the body of the Emperor Val. A. Unhappy Princess the worst fault she had Was an excess of Love for one so bad Now bring the sentenc'd Pris'ners in with speed Whose unjust deaths the Tyrant had decreed Enter Pastor Lepidus Philo and the Jews Your fortunes and freedoms I restore The tyrants dead he 'll plague the World no more Pas The dreadfull Emp'ror dead good news indeed Oh! to his Vices may no Prince succeed Enter Salome she runs to Lepidus Sal. Oh! my dear Love Lep. My Love art thou so near Oh! how durst thou expose thy beauty here Sal. Ask me no Questions I am mad with Joy And have not sence to make thee a reply I in distraction came to die with thee Die in thy arms and find thee safe and free Val. A. Go marry of each other take your fill And now you Jews go believe what you will Pas Yes marry Son th' ast nobly earn'd my leave Lep. Oh! with what joy this favour I receive Phi. Most Gallant Youth not many minutes since When the keen weapon of a dreadfull Prince Was on your Father drawn you stept between Such an Example we have rarely seen Now shall we turn the edge of Law on you More favour to your piety is due My Daughter Sir I to your arms resign Lep. Oh! my dear Love th' art mine Sal. And thou art mine Val. A. The Imperial Throne I can with ease ascend I know no power which can with mine contend But shou'd I reign the World which thinks me proud Will charge me with the Guilt of Caesar's blood And say the horrid Villany was done By my command that I might mount the throne I 'd rather be an honest slave I swear Than buy the Empire of the world so dear I never yet in crimes employ'd my Sword When I 've the Senate to their right restor'd And reveng'd Caesar as our Laws require I 'll to some quiet privacy retire And there disarm'd and all my powers laid down I will be great in nothing but renown And in my solitude till death Iâ—ll mourn Over my Martyr'd Julia's sacred Urn. Exeunt FINIS PROLOGUE Spoken by Mr. Powell who Acted the Emperor SO mad a Tyrants part I act to day That you will think him mad who wrote the Play In Comick humours he takes most delight And yet he rants in Tragedy to night And strives to give diversion for an hour With a young Prince mad with excess of power He had that mighty power you all desire Power you all love and labour to acquire Some have desir'd a French Invasion here For under them they hop'd to domineer But Oh! shou'd France this nobler Realm subdue Ev'ry Dragoon wou'd be a Caesar too Poor Rogues who for three-half-pence sell their Lives Wou'd lord it o're your Lands your Selves your Wives What wretched slav'ry is we shew to day 'T is well you only see it in a Play Thanks to the Brave who well deserve their pay Some gentle pity we have hopes to move By the misfortunes of sweet vertuous Love The nicest Lady need not blush today At least at what the Women do or say Chast all the beauties are they represent Their loves are Conjugal or Innocent We are young actors yet we hope to please By Acting Love for love with youth agrees You love the Actors who have pleas'd you long But th' Images of Love shou'd all be young EPILOGUE Spoken by a Girl SInging in Plays is grown so much in vogue I had some thoughts to sing the Epilogue Since singing such delight to you affords To please you we 'll all turn Canary Birds When I 'm a Woman which will be e'ne long No Man I swear shall have me for a Song If you 'll tempt me do it with glitt'ring Gold And those enchanting words To have and hold Iâ—ll on those Terms yield to some worthy Man Have me he may and hold me if he can Well let me be an Actress I 'm content Provided Gallants you 'll give your consent I mean your gen'rous Encouragement But to the famous Actors you resort Who fled from us to an old Tennis-Court Thither let all the old Gallants repair And toss and racket the fine Beauties there Applaud admire 'em and do what they will If you young Sparks will please sometimes to fill And grace our House with an alluring throng Methinks you shou'd for most of us are young Tender young plants most of our Women are Some it is said are ripe enough to bear Here 's a Spring-Garden which deserves your care Persons Represented Mr. Powell Caligula Emperor of Rome Mr. Williams Valerius Asiaticus General of the Imperial Army in Germany Mr. Simpson Annius Minutianus A noble Roman Married to one of the Emperor's Sisters Mr. Mills Vitellius Proconsul of Asia Mr. Thomas Cassius Cheraea A Tribune in the Emperor's Guard  Pastor An old Roman Knight Mr. Evans Lepidus Pastor's Son Mr. Disney Philo A Learned Jew Embassador from the Egyptian Jews to the Emperor WOMEN Mrs. Knight Cesonia The Emperour 's beloved Wife Mrs. Temple Julia A young beauty Wife to Valerius Mrs. Cross Salome Philo's Daughter  Consuls Senators Guards Attendants The SCENE the Imperial Palace of Rome the Time the last hoâ—â— of the Emperor's Life Books lately Printed for Richard Wollington at the Lute in St. Paul's Church-Yard A Mathematical Compendium or the Description and Use of a new sliding Rule by which many Usefull and Necessary Questions in Arithmetick Military Orders Interests Trigonometry Planometry Sterenometry Geography Astronomy Navigation Fortification Gunnery Dyalling may be speedily resolved without the help of Pen or Compasses By William Hunt Philomath A Discourse upon the Nature and Faculties of Man in several Essays With some considerations on the Occurrences of Human Life By Tim. Nourse Gent. Familliar Letters written by John late Earl of Rochester to the Honourable Henry Savile Esq and other Persons of Quality with Love-Letters written by the late Ingenious Mr. Ottway and several Letters written by Sir George Ethridge the late Duke of Buckingham c. in two Volumes each Vol. may be had singly Ovid Travestie or a Burlesque on Ovid's Epistles by Captain Alaxander Radcliff The Novels c. of the late Ingenious Mrs. Behn Collected into one Vol. viz. Oroonoko or the Royal Slave Fair Jilt or Prince Tarquin Agnes de Castro or the force of Generous Love The Lovers Watch or the Art of Love The Ladies Looking-Glass The Lucky Mistake And the History of the Nun or fair Vow-breaker Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning By William Wotton B. D. 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