I wrong'd her What cursed charm hath lead me in this maze Surely I have been abus'd young Duke of Novogrod to Paul Have you not told me lies I fear you have And done it to revenge your friend the Prince Bat. Hark he calls my Princess Duke of Novogrod aside Jo. Discover to him Al. Madam undisguize and let the Duke affront you if he dares Paul Yes Sir I 've led you in this maze of jealousie And done it to revenge my injur'd honour discovers Om. A woman Jul. A woman Paul Yes and a Princess Madam Great as your self by birth greater in misfortunes The daughter of the mighty Czar of Muscovy Become a wandring Pilgrim hidden lies In the poor Hermitage of this disguize By Curlands treachery now brought so low I even am asham'd my self to know weeps aside Bat. Now I perceive the Mystery Lad. The Princess Paulina Paul And dar'st thou mention then Paulina's name And proudly stand without remorse or shame Because in war thou hast a captive been Wilt thou in spite thy victories begin On Vertue on Religion Love and me And hate my name because I pitied thee VVhen all the world forsook thee I alone Bestow'd thy life and made thy chains my own Yea more so fondly I betray'd my flame At thy petition I thy wife became When Crowns lay at my feet I married thee Who hadst no Armies Crowns nor liberty Yet promis'd one but meant in that above A Crown of Martyrdom for injur'd love Yet after all perfidious man to fly And leave me in thy Chains condemn'd to die And when I found thee basely to disclaim Thou hadst relation to Paulina's name Know Duke I do abhor thee and to day This Hand this Steel had taâ—ne thy life away But that some power did the blow withstand And when I proffer'd did withhold my hand But my revenge now alters its design The death it aim'd at thee now shall be mine Not that I dye because I grieve to part But thus to punish my rebellious heart Jo. Al. Oh she hath hurt her self Oh Madam Madam Offers to skilâ— her self but Jo. Al. snatch the Dagger Paul What means this cruelty oh let me die Bat. I now perceive the maze in which they wander Oh I have been too slow in my discovery Jul. And have I wept and bled for this Lad. What cursed Fantome did abuse my shape As ever heaven thou 'st regard to truth Or innocence now by thy thunder shew If it was I that wrong'd this Lady so Jo. Oh horrid horrid Al. Oh immortal Powers and can you suffer this Jul. Prodigy Con. Oh! Madam rule your haughty passions There is a Ring of Angels made about you To see how you 'l come off in this great combat Jul. And let 'um make a Ring they to themselves The pleasure of revenge would not deny Were they but flesh and blood as well as I. Bat. I must reveal in time before more mischief ensues Royal Madam Jul. Ha what art thou Bat. I 'm one whom if you please Can in one word rectifie all mistakes 'T is a deceitful marriage then breeds this Confusion the Princess was not married To the Duke but to my Prince Demetrius He who to day was Madam in your Tent to Jul. Condemn'd to die Lad. My innocence is clear'd by Miracle Paul Is Prince Demetrius here and did he abuse me so Bat. Madam he ventur'd on so grand an enterprise Partly t' allay the torment of his love And partly for revenge upon your Father Who having promis'd you as a reward to him For taking the Duke prisoner slighted his Royal word Upon the news of the King o' Polands death And proffers you to the Duke with a great army Only in hopes to make you Queen o' Poland The Duke indeed did nobly slight the proffers Jul. So Count Sharnofsky said VVhat have I done to wound that gallant man Bat. My fiery Prince resenting the affront As proudly as the Emperour did his 'Twixt rage and love did by a wile entice you Unto the Castle where the Duke was pris'ner Pretending danger penitence and love And if you if you remember married you in the dark Because he would not trust as he pretended The Priest himself with such a dangerous secret Om. Amazement Bat. And e're you could discover the mistake You fled away in a fright and ere you went Brib'd the Cipier for the Dukes liberty Then he in innocence forsaking you And you as innocent in pursuing him Occasion'd this unhappiness Col. Heavens 't was this the Cardinal took advanage on to breed all this disorder Om. Now all 's come to light Paul How have I been abus'd unhappy I born to misfortunes Bat. See my Prince is here Enter Demetius and Landlord strugling with the Guard Lad. I think my Landlord the Prince perhaps was the other strang lodg'd in the same house petty humour of fortune Land Come honest Cardinal Bembo dost thou not remember to the Guard I made thee a Cardinal at the Councel o' Trent Hast thou forgot Pope Pauls great Toe boy Dem. Slave shall I stay here all night Guard Well what would you see all 's done Land Nay I told you I d'e get you in if any body could the Rogues all know me as well as a beggar knows his Clap-dish Dem. Curland have I found thee 't is not thy friends draws Nor the Queens Guards that shall protect thee Bat. Hold Sir all 's well holds Dem. Dem. Not till Curland or I fall Land Why what a mad fellow 's this draw in the presence why Sirrrah do you know where you are you malapert lad you I shall be hang'd for bringing in a quarrelsome Jackanapes if I had known I would ha' kept him at home I warrant him Bat. O! hold and turn your eyes on that sad object that there lies weeping bleeding for your crimes Dem. My Princess I 'm in a trance oh bloody Vision what cursed hand hath done this wretched deed Paul 'T is you have done it oh Demetrius How have you injur'd me what horrid dangers And miseries have you expos'd me to Land This young man hath been in a scuffle I see Paul I 'de lost my life under my Fathers anger Had it not been for this good Count Alexey Who had the charge of me and help't me away And now in passion I have chas'd the Duke Thinking him guilty of forsaking me His lawful Wife and made him kill his friend Injure his Princess and had fallen himself By my revenge this Steel had pierc't his breast But heaven to whom his innocence was known Thus made me turn the blow against my own Land What 's the meaning of all this blind story Dem. And have I injur'd thus the Duke and you What miseries what torments are my due First by some slave or Villain let me dye And when I 'm dead then stab my memory By my own hand or your's to dye would be A death too brave for such a Fiend as me And when
as formerly it was in Arms witnesse those new Academies and Societies Erected amongstus for Philosophical Commerce and the improvement of Language Wit and Arts Commodities which Forreigne Vertuosoes would have engrossed to themselves and till of late denyed to be the native growth of this now in all respects most happy and most fertile Island It is from your Lordships Pen that Solyman may be truly stiled Magnificent and you have made him succeed to the Civility and Gallantry of the Greeks as well as to their Empire nor was Mustapha ever so much the hopes of his Barbarous Nation as in his Image and the generous Character you have given him he is the delight of England who weep the Fate not of Mustapha but of Murder'd Vertue And indeed what Pen but your Lordships could have refined and softned a Story so Barbarous and made a people so remote from Friendship Honour and Religion walk disguised in the Highest Characters of them all It is your Lordships Pen that hath assisted Henry the fifth in a second conquest of France and in the noblest Characters of Valour Love and Friendship hath made the English Wit and Language as tryumphant as their Arms nor could a story acted with so much glory and success be attempted by any Pen beneath your Lordship's In fine it is your Lordship that hath Charmed up the Ghosts of many Noble Heroes who otherwise would have lain unlamented in their Tombs And they have walked on the Stage in Brighter Shapes than ever they lived and have been conducted to their Fates with more sorrow of the Spectators then perhaps they had when they dyed And all this your Lordship hath done not in the pleasure of Shade Ease and Retirement and with the Advantages and Assistances that meaner Spirits are forced to make use of for their Compositions but they are only the Sallyes of your Pen and that during the uneasie intervals which pain sometimes borrows from State Affairs and what a fit of the Gout snatches from the use and benefit your Lordship takes care to employ to the delight and pleasure of the World and if your Lordship can do all this upon the rack of pain and with some glances of your thoughts whil'st the rest like scattered Rayes of Light are dispersed on various Objects what would you do with all the Freedom and Ease of other men and with the united force of your Soul But I am sinking again out of my depth and must retreat once more to that shore from whence I am insensibly wandred I mean my Lord to the consideration of my self and of this worthless Present which I make to your Lordship Which my Lord I cannot but look with much contempt upon as being conscious to my self in what hast and confusion it was composed and of what ex-tempore thoughts the greatest part of it consists Nor should I have presumed to have usher'd it into the world under so great a Patronage had not I first obtained your leave And now I hope your Lordship that at the hearing of it whil'st it was in loose sheets was pleased to forgive the faults of the Poem will now in this address pardon those of the Author whose chief design is not to gain the name of Poet Author Wit or Critick but that of Octo. 4. 1671. My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most obedient servant JOHN CROWN The Names of the Persons CArdinal Governour of Poland ex Officio during the Interregnum Mr. Harris Ladislaus Duke of Curland a Soveraign Prince Foedatory to the Crown of Poland oft General of their Armies contracted to Juliana in her Fathers life-time and in an Expedition against the Muscovite was taken prisoner and carried to Moscow Mr. Betterton Demetrius a young Prince of the Imperial House of Muscovy in love with Paulina and privately married to her by deceit she supposing him the Duke Mr. Young Sharnofsky a Count Palatine friend to the Duke Mr. Smith Ossolinsky Lord Grand Marshal of Poland and of the Cardinals Faction Mr. Bamsield Cassonofsky Lubomirsky Count Palatines of the Cardinals Faction Mr. Sandford Colimsky A Count Palatine friend to Sharnofsky and of the Princesses Faction Mr. Norris Landlord of the house in Warsow where the Duke lay concealed Mr. Angel Theodore Servant to the Duke M. Metburn Alexey A Russian Lord that assists and accompanies Paulina in her flight Mr. Crosby Battista Servant to Demetrius Mr. Westwood Juliana Daughter of the deceased King of Poland in love with the Duke of Curland and contracted to him before her Fathers death M rs Btetterton Paulina Daughter of the great Tzar of Muscovy in love with the Duke and upon a supposed marriage with him assists him in his escape and pursues him to Poland in the habit of a man Mrs. Long. Joanna Maid of Honour to Paulina Mrs. Shadwel Francisca Emilia Maids of Honour to Juliana Souldiers Servants Guards c. The Scene Warsow in Poland at the meeting of the Ban and Arreer Ban arm'd in the field for the Election of a King The PROLOGUE YOu Judges Criticks Wits and Poets too And whatsoever Titles are your due As pretty Features each in proper place Put altogether make a pretty face So you good Wits and you that would be so You all together make a pretty show And when you thus in general Councel sit You are the body Politick of Wit Vnto you all our Poet bid me say Good faith you 'r kindly welcome to his Play 'T is a plain Complement to speak the truth But you must know he is a modest youth Like Country Gallant just whom Courtier brings To see fine dainty Mis who playes and sings Approaching to'r poor Gallant falls a mumping Scraping o' leggs and feign he would say something And round about the room he slings and skips Whil'st tongue lyes still i' th' scabbard of his lips Just so our Poet usher'd to the door To court coy Wits h 'ad never seen before Wits that have all the sparkish Gallants known And tryed th' abilities of all the Town Poor bashful Poet faith h 'ad got his Play Vnder his arm and had run quite away â—ad not we promis'd him to use our skill And in'trest w'e'e to gain him your good will Then faith for ence since he 's so eager for 't Seem kind and coming though it be for sport Then like some Cully on his wedding night Thinking his Bride lyes ravisht with delight Bestirs his simple self whil'st she lies still Laughs at the Fool and lets him work his will So will our Poet to 't and work his brain To try to entertain you once again And if he mends you that delight to range With every Youth may use him then for chang If not e'en huff the Fool and give him o're Then he perhaps will trouble you no more JULIANA OR THE Princess of Poland ACT THE FIRST Paulina sleeping under a Tree Joanna sitting by and singing The Scene a Grove and Gardens The Song LO behind a Scene of Seas
fight of him aside Dem. Where are these murders done Bat. In the Landlords pate No other we shall meet withall to night Ser. Master Enter a servant Land Master you Rogue where 's a light shall we be all killed in the dark here Ser. All 's over Sir Land Over or under I 'le have a light Sir I won't loose my life in the dark a light I say whil'st I go call up all my people Ex. Dem. VVhat an impertinent cowardly follow is this Bat. Fear Sir is natural to vulgar spirits Dem. VVhat people are those in the room here Bat. Your fellow lodgers Sir Lad. I do suppose the Guards are searching for me aside to Theo. Perhaps they may break into the house 'T is safer being abroad call for the key of the Garden door I 'le go walk in the Grove Ex. Alex. Follow follow Madam he is going out Bat. Come my Lord y 'ave slept but little will you to your Chamber or walk abroad Dem. 'T is too early yet hardly day and I feel my eyes a little heavy I care not if I take the t'other slumber and finish the remainder of my dream Bat. Had you a dream I thought you slept so little you had no time to dream Dem. 'T was a confus'd one of the Duke and my Princess methoughts I met 'um in a Grove and in a house I wounded him she fainted and they both vanisht and a thousand such wild things Bat. This busie soul of ours cannot be idle It must be doing and doth it knows not what Dem. Come I 'le to my Chamber take t'other flumber and then in chase of the Duke and I 'le find him if all the arts of hell can discover him Enter Ladislaus Theodore and Landlord The Scene the Gardens Followed by Paulina Joanna Alexey Land Now you may venture to walk in the Garden all 's over beshrew me I tremble like a quaking pudding Lad. How comes your Grove and Gardens to lie open Land How comes a Wench to lie open and common when no body will fence her Your Grandfather you wonder to hear me say your Grandfather I warrant You must know I call all my lodgers my sons and so I being your Father my Landlord is your Grandfather Now Sir your Grandfather is in Law about it with the Monastery of Santa Clara and did you never see a couple of Hectors fight for a Wench here I tickle thee and there I tickle thee so sa sa Co ' your Grandfather a homethrust Co ' the Monastery and so they fetch one another with whiscum whascums and I know not what and neither of 'um will suffer it to be fenc'd and so my Garden lies stark naked without ever a rag to her back but I keep the poor Jade as private as I can and suffer none to pass but those that go between the Counts Gardens and the Monasteries Paul There is no speaking whil'st this fellow 's here aside Lad. What Gardens are those yonder Land One Count Colimsky's Gardens A very brave man he hath a gallant house at the t'other end ah many sousing soakings have I had in his Cellar There have I sail'd top and top gallant all Sailes aloft and bravely boarded the French-man the high Dutcher the Spaniard the Grecian then Sir there hath made up to me a Fleet of Algerines Tunis and Salley men for so I call the drunken dogs A Saile a Saile quoth I strike for Algier quoth they strike for Dantzick quoth I then to 't we go and board one another with small shot pint glasses and the like from them we go to Cuddy-guns and so to Demy-cannon whole Cannon and all our lower Teer Romers of an Ell and then there 's bloody work here sinks a Galley there a Galleass there a stout Frigot turns up his Keel then high for the main boyes cry I. The. What a tedious impertinent fellow is this Lad. And what high wall is that that faces to the Counts Gardens Land That 's the Monastery wall I told you of Paul Will this fellow never ha' done Lad. You don't know who those young Gentlemen are that lodge in your house do you Land Not I they are pretty youths strangers speak but bad Polish I askt 'um when they came Rosmepopolsky said I no Rosmepopolsky quoth they but one may make a shift to understand ' um Lad. How came you to have any room in your house at so great a concourse as this of all the Nobility and Gentry of Poland with their Trains for the election of a King Land How came my neighbours wife to have any room in her she was delivered of a boy and my big-bellied house of a man and both were brought to bed yesterday morning the great Count Palatine of Smolensko if you know him lodged here and he whipt out o' town upon some bickerings betwixt him and the Cardinal he told the Cardinal his own he made a most brave mutinous speech in the Diett which is highly applauded I have a Copy on 't in my pocket Lad. No matter for the Copy Landlord The. This fellow's tongue hath the perpetual motion Good my Lord rid your self of him aside to Lad. Lad. Well Landlord I have a little business with my servant you 'l excuse me Land I think I ha' lost the Copy of this same Speech I must run in to find it I 'le be back presently Ex. Theo. Heaven be prais'd Paul So now I 'le venture to him Jo. Do and we 'l stay behind Ex. Jo. Al. Theo. Ha! who 's this follows the Duke My Lord retire here 's some one follows you to Lad. Lad. Some of the lodgers for the morning aire Theo. No no my Lord he makes directly to you Lad. I think he doth as if he 'd speak with me Paul My Lord. goes up to the Duke Lad. To me Sir Paul Yes to you my Lord Come make it not so strange I know you well enough Lad. Oh! heaven's betray'd Paul Nay be not startled Sir I 've no defign but what is honourable Lad. Surely you do mistake your person Sir I 'me but a stranger here Paul I know you are not Sir You lately came out of Muscovy You were a pris'ner there Sir were you not yes Sir I 'me sure you were and your name is Ladislaus Duke of Curland Lad. Ha! he names my name How came I thus discover'd Paul So 't is he Now I have born him down with confidence Lad. I know him not but since he names my name Let him be Man or Devil Friend or Enemy I 'le not disown it Sir I am Ladislaus Duke of Curland what 's your business with me Paul That Letter Sir that Letter will tell you Gives the Duke a letter Lad. Whence is this Paul Read and you 'l see Lad. Ha! subscrib'd Demetrius peruses it What is this from Muscovy where 's the Prince Paul The Letter Sir will tell you Lad. Reads I am now at the Frontiers of Poland my Errand you your self may conjecture
and I had rather tell you with my Sword then my Pen which I had done if an unhappy accident had not confin'd me to a small Village and my Chamber and enforc't me to make use of the kindness of the bearer my Cousen the Duke of Novogrod to seek you The acquaintance you have had of my temper will easily give you to believe that I had rather fight ten battles then write six lines and therefore you must not expect long Epistles from me Then in short you have abus'd me with dissembled friendship affronted and ruin'd me by stealing away my Princess your crimes are unexpiable by any thing but your life which I expect you tender me on the point of your sword The circumstance as of time place and weapon I refer to your self and you may acquaint my Cousen the Duke whose return from you I expect with impatience Demetrius Lad. The Prince is very severe and his charge is high Paul Sir I suppose he hath reason Lad. That he ought to ' have been assur'd of e're he had condemn'd his friend Paul Well Sir in short your answer Lad. My answer is Sir that the Prince hath wrong'd me I 've not abus'd him with dissembled friendship Nor stole his Princess she remaines with him For ought I know so may my friendship too If 't pleases him Paul Oh heavens how unfortunate Am I in my love see he disowns my flight And he 'l disown the marriage too and I Shall pass for some base prostrate thing aside Lad. You seem disorder'd Sir Paul I am disorder'd Sir at what y 'ave said I only thought before the Princess lost to all her friends and fortunes but now 't is worse I see she 's lost to honour and fallen into the hands of one that basely disowns her Lad. You are too quick and fierce in your assertions Sir Paul No fiercer Sir Then the case merits Had you own'd her flight And own'd a marriage too it had been honourable For upon other tearms she would not flie But let me tell you Sir in the same breath In which you disown her flight you little less Then call her Strumpet Lad. Do you come here young Duke to talk or fight Paul Sir which you please To fight now that I had a Furies whip Totear thy heart and scourgethy perjur'd soul draws aside Lad. Must it be so Jo. Oh! murder murder Enter Joanna and Alexey Alex. Hold hold your hand Sir save that tender life Here is an enemy more fit for thee The. What Villains are these draws Lad. Ha! an ambush Paul Begone what mean you to betray me thus aside to Jo. Al. I am but humouring my part retire These are my servants Sir regard 'um not to Lad. I 'le play you no foul play retire I say to Jo. Al. Come come my Lord let us put up our anger This time and place are not convenient puts up For this besides I exceed my Commission in 't I should displease the Prince to take your life And grieve him to loose my own come let us talk By all that 's good I honour you And do believe you 'l tell me sacred truth Then tell me truly by the faith and honor Of a brave man do you know where the Princess Is fled and are you married to her or no Lad. Then by those sacred things by which you conjure me by any thing that 's more Divine then they I know not of her flight nor am I married to her Paul Walks up and down in a passion and disorder Paul Oh! horrid horrid I shall sink and die aside Lad. Sir you look pale how do you Paul I could find in my heart to stab him aside Lad. Your countenance changes Sir I fear you 'r ill and but dissemble it in complaisance pray let me wait upon you to your Chamber Paul No good my Lord no Ceremony pray Sweetnatur'd Devil aside Enter Sharnofsky conducting Juliana followed by Hypolita Emilia Francisca the Women all Vizarded Lad. Ha! what is 't I see It is a Vision Count Sharnofsky conducting a Lady out of yonder Monastery she and her Train all Mask't what should it mean my Lord I beg your pardon I 'le wait on you instantly Paul Oh! my sweet Lord Ironicè Ho there Jo. Al. Madam the news to her Joanna Alexy Paul Curland's a Monster Al. I 'le run and kill him Paul No let me alone I 'le kill him but it shall be with torments Steel Poison Fire Racks Scorpions Hell oh me unfortunate Jo. She 's grown distracted Paul Lead me I faint Jo. She swounes help help they carry her out Al. Who should these be The. Who 're these my Lord is gazing on so earnestly ha it should be his friend the Count but what 's that Vizard Lady see she unmasques Jul. Where are we now my Lord Shar I 'm sure not far from Count Colimskyes Gardens The. It is the Princess Lad. Heavens 't is my Princess 'T is she 't is she my guilty soul retires At th' apparition of that bright Divinity VVhich my soul whispers I have now offended Just so a suffering Saint that long had bin Triumphant over all the Arts of Sin And in all combats made a brave defende And still preserv'd entire his innocence But yet at last before he is aware Begins to slide into some pleasing snare By heaven surpriz'd his soul is then afraid Of joyes for which he had endur'd and pray'd Sh. I see the Garden gate this this way Madam Ex. Sh. Jul. c. Lad. Ha! vanquish't thus heavens unsold this Mystery It is too dark for me and I must follow To see the opening of this cloudy Scene Ex. The. See my Lord chases 'um I dread the event I wish some Mist had screen'd this horrid Vision from his sight Ex. Enter Sharnofsky Juliana Hyp. Em. Fran. The Scene a Garden at the one end a Palace Jul. Heavens in what shady path's my fortunes leads me And must I hide my head in Natures Nunnery among these Virgin flowers to save my self From him who now though he so proud can be Hath often for his safety fled to me Nor would it grieve me if I did but know For what it is he persecutes me so Or how I ever did offend this proud Aspiring Man that he should seek my blood Shar The Tyrant Madam thinks the Duke and you Do all his towring policies undo And then his active brain wants no design The strongest innocence to undermine Then for the State he doth bewitch their sense VVith the love-powder of his eloquence His sliding tongue doth with its charming strains Like a smooth Serpent coyle about their brains And with its sting not only taints the blood Of fools and bigotts but the wise and good But yet in spight of all such arts as these VVe 'l darken his proud Starrs and on his knees Yet make him er'e w' have done this fatal strife At these fair hands thus humbly ask his life At the instant that Shar
braver appearance then could b' expected on so little warning Enter another Officer Off. Madam the Cardinal desires to treat in person with you and demands caution for the security of himself and those that shall attend him Jul. Let sufficient caution be given Sh. Open to the right and left to make way for the Cardinal Enter Cardinal Ossolinfsky Cassonosky Lubormisky and Train The Cardinal looks about and smiles Card. The women arm'd then sure w' are all mistaken This preparation 's only made For some great Masquerade Jul. A Play 't is only to divert you Sir And call'd The downfall of the Cardinal Card. And was it this you and your Mighty Poets Have so long studied on The Plot 's too mean For such great wits and such a mighty Scene An usurp't Crown a better plot would be For arm'd Tragedians such as here I see And if we make inquiry we shall find T' was such a Plot your Poetry design'd And to deny it Madam is in vain For we have searcht your Vaults and found your Train And 't will but set you higher on the score To justifie your ills by doing more But if in this contempt you will proceed Then thank your own ambition if you bleed You are an Orphan so is the Kingdom too And no less trusted to my care then you Jul. How blest am I with this great State to share In such a holy Guardians pious care Whose thoughts are busied for me night and day That my good Angel may have leave to play Whose love to that Romantique height is flown That he to save my soul would lose his own For though in complement he seem'd t' approve The little youthful vanities of love And did my Marriage with the Duke advance To shew the King and me his complaizance Nay more did to my dying Father swear Our mutual loves should be his chiefest care He had a far more heavenly intent And swore in Courtship what he never meant For he who from his youth hath understood The pleasing Mysteries of flesh and blood And knows how seldom those that are in love In their embraces think of joyes above He therefore charitably breaks his oath And becomes perjur'd to preserve us both Card. I am not ignorant what you design By Ironyes like these so sharp so fine 'T is true I promis'd I would ever bear Even of your loves a most Religious care And that I would endeavour to redeem The captive you did then so much esteem And faithfully engag'd when that was done I would compleat the vows you had begun Things good and just like these I vowed to do But not to uphold you in all evil too I did not swear if you should both combine T' oreturn the State to share in the design Though with my honour you so pleasant be And think to laugh me into perjury Sport with me Madam as your scorn thinks fit We can distinguish innocence from Wit And if I 'm perjur'd Poland then shall know Their safety did require it to be so For know my Lords th' ambitious Duke and she turning to the Lords Whom I have injur'd as she charges me Have sought this Crown by Treason to obtain Which by just wayes they did despair to gain And to all Princes have addresses made The Commonwealth by fire and sword t' invade Seeking that Throne which they dispair t' injoy By mean revenge and envy to destroy And here their Partizans do seek by stealth To gain upon the sleeping Commonwealth And now to stop so evil a design Stepping to take the Actours in the Mine Enrag'd their enterprize should hinder'd be They strive to blow up both themselves and me Shar No more proud Priest how dar'st thou at this rate Sport with a Princes and a Kingdomes Fate And charge us boldly with this black intent When as thy conscience knows w' are innocent But thou whose valiant conscience never fears To rifle Urns and sell an Orphans tears To break thy Oathes made to a dying King Must have a soul debauch't for any thing Alas poor man here are ten thousand eyes That see thy plots through all their vain disguize Poor vulgar spectacles can fit at home And read thy darkest policies at Rome At Rome the Market for thy Royal ware Thou chaffer'st Poland for the Papal Chair And here thou striv'st to beat that Interest down Which spoils thy trading for the tripple Crown Nay more for fear thy Chapmen there should fail Thou to all Princes set'st this Crown to sale 'T is plac't upon thy private Stalls And cheapned in thy dark Caballs No Pacquets come nor envy doth resort But brings thee pelf from every Christian Court And not a Princely Suitor sends to woe But thy good will must first be courted too Each Royal youth of Europe panting lies For fear the Cardinal his consent denies And now because some cannot beare to see A Priest make Merchandize of Royalty That Money should the Throne invade And turn the Crown into a Trade He all impending evils to prevent Accuses us to be thought innocent Car. Well Sir then since you have so good a cause Repose your life and honour in the Laws Deliver your self unto the State and I Will lay my Maces and my Scarlets by And from my Office waving all pretence VVill to the State submit my innocence Then let the Diett freely try VVhich is the Traytor you or I. Card. party shout Osso 'T is bravely spoken Lub Greatly like himself Casso Knavishly like himself aside Sh. Agreed here bind my hands Jul. My Lord you shall not Shar His Proposition's fair the Cardinal Never preach't any thing so much Divine And let no blood be shed but his or mine Jul. 'T is all deceit through you he aims at me That he my Fathers Throne might freely invade And proudly triumph o're his Royal Shade But that he shall not do whil'st I 've a hand To hold a Spear and Armies to command Card. And Madam do you think that fate is amorou Or to find any Courtship from a bullet They like raw travellers court all they meet Nor can we send a Guide to give advice VVhom to respect but let 'um take their choice Jul. Their rugged Courtship Sir I shan't deny Send them abroad and give them all supply That may defray the charges of their flight Draw bills of death they shall be paid on sight I will your faithful correspondent be And pay as fast as you can draw on me Card. Madam I 'm sorry you resolve t' expose Your self and such a lovely Guard as those To all the sad uncertainties of Fate To try your skill in fencing with the State For justice at a Traytours life doth flie And when it makes a pass you put it by But if the sword doth hap to run astray Then thank your self for standing in the way Ex. Card. Osso Casso Lub shouting and waving their Fauchions Jul. Come valiant friends the talking Prologue 's done The Curtain 's drawn
he foames with poyson Lad. Heavens I fear something is strangely amiss with aside with the young Duke he hath talk't all day at this distracted rate What should the reason be some secret sorrow sets heavy on him but I 'le take no notice Come Theodore Theo. My Lord upon my knees Lad. No more I 'm wrong'd abus'd by my false friends And I will in and dye in their defence Since they have lost their guard of innocence If in a cause so bad my blood is spilt I have revenge by adding to their guilt My noble Lord farewel a thousand blessings Lad. turns to Paul Crown your sweet youth and when you see the Prince Do me the right t' inform him of my story And recommend me to his noble thoughts Tell him the dying Duke o' Curland begs A place a Monument in his fair soul And so heaven bless you both Paul Oh! oh I faint she swoones Lad. Now Theodore Farewel to thee if I ne're see thee more Here take these Jewels they are all I have At present to reward thy love and faithfulness And now dear Theodore when the day is done And with it me seek out my lifeless carcass Among the dead and give it a private Monument Let not my Princesses insulting eye Find out where injured Curland's ashes lie Lest she in scorn should visit him and there Profane my Tombe with a dissembled tear Ex. The. My Lord be sure I shall do this and more Ten thousand times if I 'm not dead before Ex. Paul Ha is he gone and hath he left me thus Ne're was false Lady so belov'd as she Nor any so unfortunate as me But see he is not gone there there he stands Come here my kindest Lord and kiss me once But once before I die for I am going VVhere poor Paulina ' l trouble you no more Jo. Oh heavens her grief mislayes her noble reason what shall we do Alex. I 'le run and kill the Villain Paul Alexey see what shadow 's that Is 't not a Coffin 't is come lock me in I know not whether I am dead or no But if I am not I would feign be so Alex. Oh I shall run my sword into my self Jo. And I shall break my heart Paul Sirs lead me in VVell since th' art gone brave Ladislaus adieu I 'de not have dealt thus cruelly by you But I forgive thee and when no one 's by I 'le pray for thee then fetch a groan and dye The Fourth ACT. Enter Ossolinsky Cassonossky Lubomirsky After shouts and acclamations without The Scene an open field covered with Tents Osso Casso ALl 's our own victory victory Come for the plunder of the Princess Tent. Enter Demetrius and Battista Lub But see Prince Radzevile Commander of the Transilvanian horse what news from the dead did not I see thee fall under thy horse feet Casso Come for the plunder of the Tent brave Prince Osso Move slow Devils Ex. Osso Casso Lub shouting Dem. Never did such a gale of fortune blow I 'le sail in tides of blood up to their Tents and take the Duke o' Curlands Mistress prisoner carry her to Moscow and keep her captive till Poland ransomes her with Curlands blood follow brave men Ex. Bat. Go 't is in vain to hinder thee When honour calls nor will I stop thee now Although he fights he knows not where nor how Ex. Enter Colimsky the Seene continued Col. Must we not only fight with men but Devils Radzevile Commander of the Transilvanian horse who fell by my sword is mounted afresh hath broke through all our Troops and Stands o' Pikes and flies like lightning to the Princes Tent and doth greater things now dead then living Pursue the Warlike Ghost all all to the Princes Tent But see whole Troops of flame A flame flashes through the Tents a thousand fiery Spears pierce every way and a bright Cloud of fire breaks from the Town what should it mean Enter an Officer running Off. My Lord to the Princes Tent or she is lost Col. Teach me my duty you slave Strikes him with his Sword What meanes this flame Off. It is some valiant stranger but who I know not that hath flown about just like a Fire-ship in Seas of blood to grapple with whole Fleets and seeing the enemy flow all in Tides up to the Princes Tent hath set the Tents and all the Town on fire and here with five hundred resolute Cavalry he comes to force his passage Col. Brave men I 'le lead the way to glory all all to th' Princes Tent. Ex. Enter Ladislaus Theodore and followers with Flambaux in their hands Lad. Come valiant men let 's give 'um brave diversion Le ts set their Tents afloat in blood and flames And fill the Air with Clouds of humane ashes Set all on fire the Town the Tents the Temple Spare not the very houses of Religion Ex. The. Brave Prince how generous thy actions are Unseen he changes all the Scenes of warr And with a noble scorn he fights for them Who both his courage and his love contemn These Glories must at last themselves betray And through all gloomy Clouds must pierce a way Ex. The Scene is chang'd to the Princesses Pavilion A noise of arms The women shrieke within And enter Hypolita Emilia Francisca running Hyp. Em. Fran. Murder murder the Princess will be murdered Enter Sharnofsky defending the Princess pursued by Demetrius Ossolinsky Cassonossky Lubomirsky Battista and Guard the Women run about shrieking and crying murder Jul. Stand by Sharnofsky I 'le defend my self Shar Madam for heavens sake do not deprive me in the last moment of my life of that which I have liv'd and fought for all this while For if without defending you I 'me slain I loose my honour and I die in vain Jul. That honour you shall have but not alone Nor rob my courage Sir to crown your own Shar Oh! whether doth she rush for shame ye cowards set not your swords against a Ladies breast your Princess too she bleeds you saucy Villains y 'ave wounded a Divinity th' Americans would have kneeled and prayed to ye Powers what are ye all asleep above the Clouds if ye are lend me your thunder oh she 's lost Osso You are my prisoner Sir to Shar Dem. You Princess are mine to Jul. Casso So now shall I have a full draught of revenge Dem. Now know fond Poles I have deluded you I am not Radzevile but Demetrius a Prince o' the Imperial house of Muscovy a mortal an eternal enemy to you all I come to search your General the Duke of Curland who like a treacherous Pole after I had took him prisoner shew'd him kindness hath stole my Princess and I 'le enslave his and the next time I come enslave you all And now stand by me valiant Transilvanians I 'le give you all a hundred crowns a man Bat. Oh! the good heavens he betrayes himself Osso Casso Lub Ha! what saith Radzevile Shar This is distraction