Foul with Virgin faces purging ere Their Paunches arm'd with tallons bent to tear And still with famine pin'd The Harpyes are feigned to be the daughters of Neptune and Tellus of old esteemed the Parents of Monsters some lay them to Neptune alone the Sea for the most part being Father of Prodigies and not without cause for according to Thales Milesius all things are ingendred of Humour whence it commeth that the Ocean is called Father Some will have them take their name of Harpalyce Phineus his wife being sent to revenge the wrongs done to her Sonns but it seems more probable that they were so called of of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rapio being the Emblemes of Rapine and wrong They are said to be Virgins in that barren because goods so gotten descend but seldom to posterity To fly in that they are swift in extorting to be covered with plumes for cloaking their prey and to have talons of vultures for griping and fast holding of their ill gotten riches These qualities are also charactered in their names Aello Ocypetes and Celaeno signifying a taking away that which is anothers celeritie in the Act and subtilty in concealing those three Virgil mentions Hesiod names but the two first Homer calls the last Podarge and saith that of her the wind Zephyrus engendred the Chariot Horses of Achilles named Balius and Ximphus The Harpyes are said to have the faces of women in that Avarice of which they are the Hieroglyphicks allures with a beauteous pretence but ends in a Serpent to this allusion some Mythologists and among them our excellent Sandys restrain the whole Fable making Phineus said to have put out his sonnes eyes in having abandoned wisdom and Liberality to have lost his sight and to suffer perpetuall Famine in that so blinded with Avarice that he could not see into hâ—mâ—elf nor afford himself the necessaries of life The Harpyes called elsewhere his Daughters are his covetous desires not suffering him to eat of the meat that was set before him himselfe polluting it with his sordid disposition being infected with Solomons evill to have riches and not a heart to use them therefore tormented with furies those being said as Servius observes to be afflicted with Furies who covetously abstained from the use of their own excellently expressed by Virgil in the punishment of Tantalus Aen. l. 8. Calais and Zetes import a calling of himself to account and a diligent inquiry into his own condition by a speedy Reformation expelling those ravenous Harpyes though forbidden utterly to destroy them in that they are the Dogs of Iupiter the Ministers of his wrath upon the covetous who are ever their own Tormentors Neither is this Fable of the Harpyes unnaturally wrested to Flatterers Delators prodigall Sycophants and greedy Officers who devour the Treasure and pollute the fame of Princes abused in their trust and blinded in their understandings Calais and Zetes are no other then timely advice and swift execution they are therefore winged in freeing Courts of such Monsters Natales Comes makes a somwhat different Mythologie understanding by the Harpyes the winds l. 7. Mythol Du Bartas in his third day called the petty fogging Lawyers Harpyes it being a common Metaphor to expresse any by that are rapacious injurious or blood-suckers of poor people The misery Phineus sustain'd by them and his happy deliverance from them are wittily described by Ronsard in his Hymn of Calais and Zethes 6 Mâ—y all the Scorpions of Cushan sting thee Cashan or for the better sound Cushan is a famous City in Parthia some six miles distant from Spawhawn the Metropolis The people are orderly and more given to trade then in the â—eighbour Cities Silkes Sattens and cloath of Gold are her ordinary Commodities plentifull and at a reasonable 〈◊〉 She is well seated well peopled and well built Here is a Carravansraw or common Inne which exceeds all in Persia and is fit to entertain the greatest Prince in Asia yet built by King Abbas onely for Travellers to lodge in upon fâ—ee cost 'T is two large stories high the material Brick varnished and coloured with knots and Arabian Letters Poâ—es of Azure red and white From the Basis 't is built six foot high of good stone The Fabrick is Quadrangular and each proportionable Angle 200. paces In the middle is a fair large Court whereof in the midst is a foursquare Tanck or Pond of puâ—e Water about it are spacious and fragrant Gardens This civility of the King to strangers is secondâ—d as they say there even by the stinging Scorpions and Serpents that infest this City and the neighbour Country in great abundance whose Love and understanding the inhabitants report to be such to Travellers as that they never hurt them Thâ—se Scorpions so numerous here as it is a frequent curse throughout all the Persian Empire May a Scorpion of Cushan sting thee Herbert 7 My Vncle and my Grandsire meaning Emir-hamze-Mirza and Mahomet Cadoband See the fiâ—st and second notâ—s upon the first Act. 8. Paradise The Paradise which Mahomet pâ—omises to his sect exceeds the vanity of a Dream and all old wives Fables though it is to be more then conjâ—ctured that he took his Pattern from the Pâ—ets Elyzium but hath so far mistoâ—â— his copy as of an ingenious Fancy to present an absurd extravagancy Thus Tibullus describes Elyzium Sed me qui facilis tenero sum sâ—mper amori Ipsa Venus câ—mpâ—s ducet in Elysios Hic choreae cantusque vigent passimque vagantes Dulce sâ—nant tenui gutture carmen aves Fert cassiam nâ—n culta seges totosque per agros Floret odoratis terra â—enigna rosis Ac juvenum serâ—es teneris immista puellis I â—â—it assiduè praelia miscet amor Ilâ—â—â— est quicunque rapax mors venit amanti Et gerit insigni myrtea serta coma Fleg l. 1. Eleg 3. But me whose heart to soft Love easily yields Venus shall lead to the Elyzians fields Here Song and dance abound Their slender throats The tripping Birds still strain for pleasing notes The wildest shrub doth odorous Casia yeeld And Roses each where paint the beautious field Youths mixt with tender Virgins there disport And still encounter in an amorous sort What Lover e're untimely dies is there A Myrtle wreath crowning his glorious hair And thus Virgil speaking of Aeneas his going thither to visit his Father Anchises Devenere locos laetos amaena vireta Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas Largior hic campos aether lumine vestit Purpureo Solemque suum sua sidera norunt Pars in gramineis exercent membra palaestris Contendunt ludo fulva luctantur arena Pars pedibus plaudunt choreas carmina dicunt Nec non Threicius longa cum veste sacerdos Obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum Jamque eadem digitis jam pectine pulsat eburno Hic genus antiquum Teucri pulcherrima proles Magnanimi heroës nati melioribus annis Ilusque Assaracusque
murdered his Father Mahomet Codâ—band or purblind Herbert's Travells pag. 89.127 c. 2. And me viz. Emir-hamze-Mirza King Abbas his Elder Brother whom also he murdered as standing between him and the Crown A crime most usuall in these Eastern Princes especially in Persia in this line of Guzpan Acuculu or white sheep of whom few attended patiently the death of their Predecessours but by impious means laâ—oured their own untimely establishment Herb. p. 100. c. Of Emir-Hamz's bravery and prowesse See more in the 32. note upon the fourth Act. 3. mirza's Ghost irritating his Brother Abbas to revenge him upon himself bids him act those things upon his Son which his very enemies shall pitty not without the example of the matchless Johnson who in his Catiline which miraculous Poem I propose as my pattern makes Sylla's Ghost perswade Catiline to do what Hannibal could not wish of the Persians Enemies I set the Mogull in front against whom our Prince Mirza served in Person in his Fathers wars and gained much from him towards Candahor The great Mogul according to others Mogor or Emperour of East India boâ—ders upon the Persian by the River Oxus and is at continual enmity with him somtimes for Religion somtimes for Empire though it is no smal let to the accquests of the Mogul against him that the Frontiers of Persia are on every side hem'd in with those outstreatches branches of Caucasus which the Grecians call Paropamise more defensive then any artificiall rampire to Persia making it inaccessible to the Moguls horse wherein the chief sinewes of his force consist About the year 1300. as Barros writes the great Sanosardin King of Delos conquered much of these parts and attempted the Conquest of all Asia but died by the Persian Powers The present Mogul boasts himself of the race of Tamberlain which abridgeth his antiquity and saieâ— he is the tenth from him The probable opinion indeed is that they descended of the Tartar or from the antient Massagetae from whose coasts they came whose chief City is Shamascand from whence came Tamberlain A word of this Princes Puissance may not seem superfluous because it magnifies our conquering Mirza his bounds are one way divided from the Persian by the River Indus betwixt which and Ganges hee swaies far and wide a territory no lesse puissant then pleasant a temperate air over a fertile soyl abounding with all sorts of commodities rich and curious stately beasts as the best horses Elephants and Dromedaries precious stones especially Diamonds and Cornelians most delicious spices and fruits among which is most of note a Tree they call Moses whose fruit is so delicate as the Jewes and Mahometans which are the religions of those parts the last swaying the first believe to be the same that tempted Adam This Prince enjoyes 47. Kingdomes the chief are Mandao Citor Bengala Delly where he keeps his Court and to name no more Cambaia a Kingdom enjoying a City of the same name consisting of 130000 houses this one Province is also reported to have 60000. Burroughs a number great and admirable if we compare it to the best of our European Kingdomes to name but two Ptome saith there are in France excepting Burgundie and as I take it Normandie 27000. Burroughs having parish Churches though D' Juigne will have the number of Parishes 132000. Guiccardine recounts that in the Netherlands within the Territory of the 17. Provinces are 208 walled Townes and 150. Boroughs enjoing the priviledges of Cities and 6300. Villages having parish Churches In Bohemia are 780. Towns and 32000. Villages But because no absolute judgement can bee made of the power of any Province by the number of parishes see the forces of Cambaia Maffeus writes that Bandurius who about the year 1536 ruled in Cambaia by what right he dâ—termines not had under his standard 150000. horse wher of 35000. were barbed and 500000. foot among these only 15000. were forraigners some 80. Christians French and Portugals The force that this Prince can on a short warning bring into the field are reputed 300000. horse infinite foot proportionable ships and 50000. Elephants beasts which they yet find usefull in war so that in the year 1571. Idalcano had 60000. of them at the Siege of Goa Nor let any wonder that this Prince ingrosses not all the Orient for he has as potent neighbours as himself as the King of Barma the Persian and others besides he is so shut up with Rocks as he has no good egresse for his Armies nor have those vast multitudes of men so much true strength as they carry terror they sink with their own weight are long gathering together but not long held together the numberlesse Army Marhumedius led against Cambaia did not onely wast the regions where through it passed but by devouring all things that the earth yeilded bereaved its selfe of sustenance against such mighty impressions the way is to draw the warre out in length and onely to stand upon the defensive for such armies will soon waver either for want of provision scarcity of coin infection of the air or infirmities of their own bodies as the inundations of Attila into Italie and of Tamberlain into Asia were but as running marches in comparison of what the Romans Grecians Macedonians Carthaginians English Guales and Portugals have done with more nimble powerâ— 800. onely of which last named at Demain upon the Coast of Cambaia setled in spight of this mighty Mogor as another small number of them did at Diu at which two places they have built and do maintain two most invincible Citadells thâ—t shut up the whole gulf of the Cambaian Sea a greater detriment to him then the losse of an inland Kingdom for on one side he has no haven and on the other the Portugals are his jealous neighbours 4 And Turk He is another and the greatest of the Persians Enemies He enjoyes an Empire the greatest that is or perhaps that ever was from the beginning comprehending the better part of the antient threefold division of the Earth His government is like his Neighbours Tyrannycall his strength lies in his Janizaries as the Moguls do in his Nairs His Religion is Mahumetan of which sect he is the chiefe patron and more then slights the Persian for being lesse zealous then himselfe so that in ballancing the state of Christianity with Mahumetism I have heard these two Princes compared to the two Kings of France and Spain the French to the Persian the Spaniard to the Turk For the state of those differences and for the quality of the Ottoman Empire I refer the Reader to the most elaborate and accurate discourse of M. Sandys and M. Knolles his Turkish History c. See more of the Turk in the third note upon the second Act. 5 The Tartar or great Cham against whom also our Mirza had watâ—es and gain'd much from him east of the Hyrcanian Sea Herb. p. 9â— Of this Princes Empire larger then strong see Paul
love to see these Actions they will put Spirit into me Is the Princesse ready Iff. She will be presently You stand on thorns now Fat Shall I see 't too Iff. Yes yes my pretty Lady If you 'l sit patient there and weep no more Fat Indeed I will not but I could not hold Lâ—st day they were so cruell could you IFFIDA To see hard-hearted PROGNE stab her Son And all the while the boy cling to her breast And for each wound she gave return a kisse Sof Go y' are fainthearted If. Nay Sir she 's good natur'd Fat This too is some sad story tell me IFFIDA Why do's this woman look so angry here Sof What ailes that old man so to weep I can't Indure to see a man weep it showes cowardly Iff. That fierce Lady MEDEA resolv'd to fly With her new servant JASON from her Father To hinder his pursuit she tore in pieces Her brother ABSYRTUS and bestrewd i th' way His limbs which that old man their father finding He stopt his vaine pursuit oâ—'s cruell Daughter To gather up by peace meal his torn son And seems to bath each piece with teares as if He thought them Cement strong enough to set The tatter'd joynts and flesh again together Fat Was she a sister O I could not do So by you SOFFIE for all the world I care not now for seeing it presented I hate all cruelty so perfectly Yet could I bear a part with that old man And weep as fast as he so infectious Is a just sorrow chiefly in old persons NYMPHADORA SOFFIE FATYMA IFFIDA PAGE WHat ailes my FATYMA to drown her blossomes Of beauty thus in tears Child art not well Fat Yes Madam but this piece is limnd so lively As it doth strain tears from me to embalm Poor torn ABSYRTUS with Nym. Pretty compassion I like this tendernesse in thee but we think This a feign'd story O may reall griefs Ne'r touch thy breast poor thing wilt see it acted Fat It will I fear make me too melancholy Nym. Do as thou wilt my Heart Fat This piece shall be My mâ—lancholly study and sad Tutor When I have either cause or will to weep I le take up this and sit and think I see The tender boy stretcht out his hands unto me For help and sigh because I cannot rescue'him Then think again the old man calls out to me To help him gather up his sons limbs and weep Because I cannot Iff. Pretty innocence Sâ—f Pray Madam let me wait upon your Highnesse To th' Tragedy Nym. Thou shalt sweet-heart Iff. What now Pag. If 't please your grace the Lady FLORADELLA Is lighted at the gate and means a visite Nym. She 's welcome Sof Pish pish now her idle chat Will keep us beyond time Nym. Soft my young Gallant NYMPHADORA FLORADELLA SOFFIE FATYMA IFFIDA HAil my good Lady Flo. Mighty Princesse hail Nym. Please you to sit Flo. How does my little Lady Fat I thank you Madam Flo. And you my Lord Sof Madam At your service Flo. Troth an early courtier How happy are you Madam in these copies Of your fair selfe and your renowned Lord By which you 've fild times sharp teeth and secur'd Your names your formes and natures from the wast Of death and eating age nor is it fit So eminent a beauty and cleer vertue Should for lesse then eternity grace the world Nym. Why Madam give you me the trouble to Speak your words over for these heights of courtship Are but like sounds made in a hollow room In expectation of the Eccho's answer FLo. No Madam by your beauty and that is The greatest Power that I can swear by I Oft lose my self in pleasing Contemplation Of you as Natures and as Fortunes darling By whose best gifts yet can you never be So highly grac'd as you do grace their gifts And them too by your bare receiving them What had the Gods in all their Treasury Oâ— greater worth or lustre then the Prince Your excellent Lord A Prince that striketh dumb Envy and slander and gives Fortune eyes And who could they find worthy to bestow This great result of all their sweat upon But you who yet deserve him every inch Nym. In him indeed I am compleatly happy But he is so far above all deserving As I can plead no merit yet the Gods Themselves have sometimes deign'd a mortall love Flo. In which of all the Gods fortunate Princesse Could you have been so happy as in him With better grace thou Phoebus dost not hold Thy gorgeous rein nor from thy glistring Throne Scatter more beauty or more Majesty A Majesty indeed too great to know Any Superior And now that the King Is bow'd down with the burden of old age The heavy weight of the unweildy Empire Grow but a trouble to his aged shoulders His Crownes are to his head a load no more An ornament It 's fitter his white Age Should now indulge his genius and release His thoughts from all the ruffle of the world And give him time to contemplate the place He tends to every day So should the Prince Make his few daies brighâ—er and easier to him By taking on himself now fit for labour That load of care we call the Soveraignty Nym. Pray Madam give such thoughts no longer breath Thoughts that the loyall Prince and I detest 'T is the base viper gets a life by forcing A violent passage through his Parents bowells 19 My Country Phoenix when he duly mounts His Fathers spicie Throne brings on his wings His honour'd ashes and his funerall odours To shew he climb'd not till his death his seat Flo. Your Highnesse rather should assist his rising By gaining more to 's party which is done With but a gracious look or smile from you ' So prevalent an Oratour is beauty Nym. No by his life and all the love I bear him I 'd rather follow him fairly to his Tombe Perfum'd with that unblemish'd stock of honour He now stands in then that so fouly broke See him untimely thrust into the Throne And justifie my self a loyaller wife In loving more his honour then his life Flo. Unconquerable Vertue if the Gods in secreâ— Give me a Plague 't will be for th' injury I do this noble pattern of all goodnesse Well Madam you may feed upon that air But there are those wish the design on foot And promise to themselves a fair successe So great 's the love they have for the brave Prince An expâ—ctation of a braver King ' For 't is Authority declares the man Nym. I 'l thrive their trai'trous plots Iff. My Lord speak to her Nym. But in his face I read my SOFFIE think 's This conference might be spar'd as well as I For he was wooing me to carry him To see MEDEA play'd at Madam OMAY'S And I am loth to disappoint his hopes Flo. I 'le be no cause of that I 'le wait you thither Nym. You 'l honour me Flo. I 'le go before you one day
Brass and what Wilt thou sayes she that hast given up thy name To me go wanton in the Courts soft pleasures When yet the field is cover'd with thy Army And new attempts resolv'd Alk. Heare heare her sir. Mâ—r. Then filial duty calls loud from the Temple T' obey is your chiefe honour the contrary Would fix more staines upon your Name then all The Ottoman blood could you set it a Tilt Could ever wash away O strait who sayes not To go is Cowardize to stay Rebellion Ema Excuse me sir were it not blasphemy 'Gainst our great 7 MITHRA to say the Sun wants light When he doth but keep state in gloomy dayes No no your Highness have possess'd the world Enough with your known valour now no spot Will stick to you besides who knows your business Your Highness going may be necessary And so your journey give more honour to you Then kicking ope this Towns Gates with your foot Met. O' th' other side some handsome excuse may Give satisfaction to the King till this Design be over and not incur displeasure Ema It may so yet why should our Lord the Prince Run that hazard his stay may do him hurt In losing th' opportunity of some Action Sure of concernment else the King would not Have sent knowing the weight of his work here Or worse it may provoke his Fathers anger At least suspition His going cannot harm him This Plot is so contriv'd as we may act it Nor need the common Souldier know he 's gone Put one into his Armour to disguize it When he is there if the affair be urgent 'T is well he went if not he may return To us before the Action Mâ—r. I 'm confirm'd Obedience possesses me all over I le up and down again quick as your thought If I be forc't to stay go on and prosper But duty bears me not faster to him Then Love and honour shall again to you And so adieu my Lords Ema Heaven keep your Highness Elc. Go safe Met. And safe return Hyd. And well as safe BELTAZAR EMANGOLY ELCHEE METHICVLI Hâ—DASPVS ALKAHEM MATZED BENEFIAN HAil my Lord Duke of Shiras Ema My Lord BELTAZAR What wind wast drave hither trow In secret Elc. No good one You may be confident Bel. Save you my Lords Ema O my apprehensive soul I 'd give Aside An eye my Lord the Prince were here again Bel. 'T is thus in short my Lords His Majestie Dreading some sickness growing strong upon him Hyd. He was in health even now Aside Alk. Stay sir observe Bel. Thought good to send down for his Sonne the Prince The staffe of his old age to be about him And has done me the honour to command me Hither to stand in joynt Commission over Th' Army with you My Lord EMANGOLY My honour'd Colleague Ema Your standing is my fall Aside Bel. My Lords methinks I see and grieve to see Something like Discontent in all your faces Ema I 'm justly proud sir to be joyned with So eminent a Vertue but this in this Conjuncture of time I think was ill advis'd Now when the Army is neer worried out In a long war to tear their darling from them Will rellish ill Ben. I 'l up and turn Platonick Met. And I Stoick Mat. I le to my Farm and there They whisper Sow Mustard-seed the Prince gone farewell Arms. Elc. This is a trick the Prince nere dreamt of it Alk. A bait to lure him up and lodge him O. Ema My Lord his Highness ere we lost him laid The Plat-form of a Plot to gain this City By a surprize till that be done wil't please you To keep close your Commission lest th'novelty Disturbs the Action Bel. Sir I 'l be advis'd In this and all things by your better judgement Met. We all do know our duties let 's attend them Ema Go then my Lords I 'l follow or I thinke We had as good let this adventure fall 'T was but to please the Prince Bel. Sir as you please I 've some dispatches those over I am yours EMANGOLY ELCHEE METHICULI HYDASPUS ALKAHEM MATZED BENEFIAN THe Prince call'd up to stay and one sent down To take his place and that a Courtier too Plot of some Turk to ruine Persia By striking her good Genius Impudent head Worthy a thousand thunderbolts that durst Once mention it why stay we in the Army There 's not a Captains place now to be given But some Court-Madam must dispose it to Perhaps some little leg'd Gentleman-Usher Ben. Or decay'd Stallion Elc. Though we toil'd and sweat To purchase honour for the Prince we will not That BELTAZAR shall share with us Ema Shall I Be coupled now after so many Triumphs With a Court Spaniell I 'le let the Turk in first Say my good Lords what can you shrug and fawn And complement your Generall is a Courtier Now you must fight in method exercise Your men as in a Dance Met. Pox let all fall Hyd. Best call MOZENDRA back and le ts do nothing Mat. But mutiny Elk. Or at beâ—t raise the Siege Ema The shame wil not be ours but the dul Kings That knowes â—ot how to prize a worthy Son Omneâ— With all our hearts Met. Let'â—hold together then And we are safe Ema You are an Oracle The King shall know that nothing shall be done Lesse we be pleas'd and have again his Son BELTAZAR SELEUCUS SELEUCUS is thy Post upon his wings T' inform thy master of the Princes coming Sel. My Lord I have dispatch'd him Bel. Prethee stay him For my Packet Sel. My Lord I 'l after him Bel. Do so and then the King shall know he must not Pull down his Son and let these great ones stand That are but his dependents pieces of him They 're grown too great to obey any but Their Prince and will not brook my rising ore them And yet to speak my conscience they 're but honest And do but what I should yet now that is not The way to thrive and so may well be lov'd And wished but not practis'd without losse As he that fells an Elm must also fell The Ivy Vine and under shrubbs that dwell Beneath his shade and cling in loving sort About his bole some but for their support Some to suck sap from him So who 'd remove A Prince or great man strong i th' Peoples love Must strike his followers too A mighty man Doth never fall alone no more then can The beams and columns of a Palace and The Rafters and the sparrs unmoved stand CHORUS WHat dire effects evill Counsell workes Even to unhinging greatest states It doth allure with specious baits But underneath foul Poison lurkes The Prince to please a factious few Must rob himself even of his best Of friends and discontent the rest Which he may ever after rue This happens when the Princes ear Is open droâ—n'd in soft delight Unto the bosom Favorite Or undermining Flatterer How hard and difficult a thing Almost above the power of man Or
Can ere requite such favours But Sir I Am conscious of mine own defects for such A Province that requires the ablest man A man A God Phoebus himself to rule it A rule as glorious as his flaming Throne Abb. Thou art modest ALY-BEG He is most fit Who we dare trust and that is thee my MHOMET ABBAS MAHOMET-ALLYBEG FARRABAN Two THEEVES OFFICERS WHo have you brought into our presence Dogs And are the sons of filth and povertie Fit objects for our eye 2 Theev Mercy O mercy Far. An 't please your Majesty these two were soldiers Ran from their colours hither and turn'd Theeves They rob'd i th' Court it selfe my chamber Theev Mercy Abb. 'T were to disgrace our mercy to bestow her Vpon such vagabondâ— who besides your Theft And cowardly sulking from the Camp shall die If but for so disgracing so prophaning Our Court with such base rags and bands of vermine Compounds of Oyle and stench spawn of a Toad Are these weeds for a Court Or is our Marble To be polluted with your dust and sweat Rascalls spued out of Gaoles and Charnel houses Rotten already that bear graves about you Go Officers away with them to death 'T is plain they are Theeves they 've rob'd some of their fellowes Long since hung up in chains of those foul raggs That danc'd ith'air many a frosty night Yet that they may die neatlier then they liv'd Give them new Coats then dragg'd out of the Town Impale them high on stakes thrust through their bodies 1 Thee This may thank you could keep the dore no better 2 Thee T' may thank us both for robbing without killing They 're wise that make sure work Mah. T is true Abb. Away Mah. T is a good Prologue this to his sons Tragedy Aside Attend without there FARRABAN I 've somewhat To move the King you may be usefull in Be within call Far. I will my honoured Lord. ABBAS MAHOMET-ALLYBEG DRawes not the time on you expect the Prince in Mah. Yes How will you that he be entertain'd Abb. How entertain'd why how but with a bow-string Is 't not decreed Entice the trusty Son From his Eccliptick line he shall obey Your beck and wander from his sphear ere I From my resolves Mah. Admired Constancy Abb. Set you some spy of faith 'gainst his arrivall There let him stay him to attend my comming Then give us notice and thou and I will plant Our selves in secret to behold the justice To act which get seven Executioners Deaf dumb and dextrous to rush in upon him So all Rebellions shall be strangled in him Th'Hydra of Treason at one pluck shall lose Her numerous heads and we our fears and be For ever cured of all jealousie Mah. I le appoint FARRABAN to be his last Master of Ceremonies FARRABAN MAHOMET-ALLYBEG FARRABAN WHich is the way to rise at Court thinkst thou Far. T' obey and please Mah. Right and thou art ambitious Far. What do I here else Mah. Whither tends thy aime Give me the utmost height of thy aspiring Far. Troth there you pose me for Our thoughts still rise As our estates and power the avarice Of honour is no lesse insatiable Then that of gold But for the present I Know mine own wish and so shall you my Lord. When I walk by the Cittadell so strong So stately that claimes reverence from mine eye I think if I had but the government 0f that I should be happy enough to pitty 7 The grand Signior and envy him no more Mah. The government o th' Castle is that all Thou art too modest Far. Good my Lord do'nt scoffe me Mah. I am in earnest thou shalt have it FARRABAN The King has but one piece of Service for thee Do that and thou art Governour Far. If I Can do 't t is done Mah. Come I le instruct thee how FLORADELLA CLOE COme why staid you so long abroad this morning You 'l never leave your Gossiping till you Be double rib'd as GLAVCA was and then You may go seek a Father for 't 'bove all things Beware of a great belly there is losse Of time and losse of sport in 't besides trouble Clo. O Madam I can make sirrup of Savin My selfe and twenty tricks I have besides Here is the book EARINA promis'd you Flo. What ARETINE so famous for his postures Let 's see it Were you at ERINA's house Or sent she this Clo. I was there Madam and Had the luck too to see her fine new servant Flo. What for a creature is 't Clo. A pretty silk-worm Flo. How happy am I therein 'bove the rest That dote on sleeked limbs and finest bloud Looking but for couch comforts not aspiring The godlike ornament of a crown let them Melt in their youngsters armes I le sacrifice To hair and bristles cling to MAHOMET Or hug a coffin to arrive at honour Me thinks this Purruck leans to th'left hand somewhat Clo. No Madam 't is well set and rarely sented I would we'd more of the prepared Pomatum And powder I bought last Flo. What talk's most rife Abroad wench Clo That my Lord MAHOMET is sworn Lord Treasurer he 's now the only Sun Next to the King of greatest light Flo. He shall Ecclips him one day What do you now Clo. This fucus Is laid too thick I le mend it with my scarlet Flo. Have you got Puppy Dogs and an after burden Clo. Yes Flo. Well distill them then with care my Lord MAHOMET-ALLYBEG FLORADELLA CLOE WHy this is as it should be now my beauty Displaies her lustre throwing sweets and graces About the place her selfe being as the spring A box wherein all sweets compacted lie Flo. This spring Sir owes it selfe but to your beams I wish you joy Sir of your treasurership Mah. A step that 's but a step to a greater height I 've something more to tell thee that is fit For thy ear only Flo. CLOE prethe leave us Clo. Now can't I for my soul but listen I Have such an itch of novelty Mah. Come my dear Art ready to ascend thy throne hast practised Aside she places her selfe behind the hangings to listen To Queen it with a Majesty seest thou not All creatures bow in homage to thy foot And Princes throng into thy set of servants â—lo This is fine Pageantry would it were reall O how I should be courted Flo. Jeast not jeast not How proceed you Mah. Smoothly the dreaded Prince Is on 's last journey an hour brings him hither An other sends him Elâ—zium The army kicks at BALTAZAR's command And pines for th' Prince the two Dukes fume and fret Like Lions caught in toiles or Buls in nets Where strugling but intangles them the more Since the King can't trust these men thus inrag'd Nor knowes he where to serve himselfe of others He means a league with th' Turk so falls this army And leaves him no force to oppose my rise He shew'd me his thoughts of outing ELCHEE From his vice-royship of Hircania And stout EMANGOLY
20. foot in compasse in height about 60 It was erected upon this occasion when Abbas was proclaimed King the Spawhawnians would not admit him but charged him with the death of Mahomet his Father and the murther of Emir-hamze the Prince his elder Brother This netled Abbas who stoutly swoâ—e for this Rebellion he would chastise them bravely and cut off 40000. of their heads to raise a Pillar of terrour and admiration as a ready Sacrifice unto Mahomet At length he Conquers and ransacks the City kills 1000. of them and miâ—dfull of his oath gives order to behead 40000. A lamentable cry is raised but to small purpose the vow of the Persians never alters nor could he be disswaded till the Mufti or sacred Messenger assures him Mahomet by revelation told him his oath might be dispensed with so 40000. were beheaded no matter what at length he consented whereupon ensued a massacre of all sorts of beasts of whose heads this barbarous Columne was reared higher then any Mosque in that City though now grown ruinous Herbert p. 89. c. 11 The Buzzarr In our language the Market place Hâ—rbert p. 147. 12. Your great Ancestors from MORTYS ALLY the present King of Persia will have himself of true discent from Mortys-alâ—y or Haly an honor he conceives so great as he puts it among his titles This Ally was Cosin to Mahomet the Persian Prophet to whom he gave in marriage his daughter Fatyma born of his first wife and made him his heir and head of his superstition by the title of Caliph but after his death Abubacer Father of Aissa Mahomets 2d wife taking ill the preferment of Ally by the aid of Omar and Ottomar Mahomets kinsmen whose desires were in hope of succession by reason of the old mans years and for kindreds sake rather to see Abubacer then Haly Caliph resisted Haly and set up himself after him Omar and Ottomar succeeded Omar was slain by a slave Ottomar in a private Quarrell after them Haly reigned against him arose Mavius who accusing him as accessary to the death of Ottamar caused him to be slain near Cafe a City some two daies journey from Babylon where he lies buried and there in his honour the Persian Kings have ever since used to be consecrated the place is called Massadell or the house of Haly. Ossan or Hussan his Son was pâ—oclaimed but resisted by Mavius and by him poisoned about the year 657. He had twelve Sons eleven whereof were murdered with him and with him lay buried at Cafe or Massad the twelfth Son escaped from whom the now King derives his pedegee his name was Mahomet Mahadin alias Musa or Prince Cherisim The Persians so highly honour Mortys-ally as still they place him in their devotions with Mahomet and sware by his name their usuall oaths being by Serrey Mortys Ally the head of Mortys-Ally or Serrey Shaw by the Kings head and putting one finger upon their eye and then you may beleeve them if you list they honour no less his son Hussan whose death they yearly celebrate with many ceremonies nine severall daies in great multitudes in the streets altogether crying out Hussan Hussan so long and so fiercely till they have spent their voices on the ninth day they find him whom they imagine lost in a Forrest or one in his place and then in a tumult crying out Hussan Hussan with drums fifes and all sorts of loud Musick they bring him to the Mosque where after some adoration and thanks giving their Orgie end Most believe that Hocem or Mahomet Mahadin is not dead but strongly expect his return to convert the world wherefore their Prophet Mahomet also having promised them his second glorious coming after 1000. year which they seriouysl late looking for and seeing themselves gulled by such credulity began to stagger till the Mufti assured them the figures were mistaken and that upon better view of the Originall he found 2000. when he would not fail to visit them till the first thousand years end the King of Persia ever kept in the Mosque of Massadella a horse ready sadled richly camparison'd and well attended which with one of his daughtrs he reserved for Mahomet the Prophet or for Mahadin his Nephew first come first sarved The lineal descent of this King of Persia from Mortys Ally superfluous and tedious here to insert as also of the difference in religion between the Persian and Turk raised by his family An. 1375. or at least by Syet Guynet who pretended to be so read at large in Mr. Herberts Travells and Mr. Sandies his Relation 13 14 CYRVS and DARIVS The Alpha and Omega of the Persian Monarchy when it was the second and greatest in the world and stretched from East to West from India to Ethiopia if it can be that any is not yet acquainted with the memory of these two mâ—ghty Princes they may soon be so by the means of Quintus Curtius and Iustine They were both the most fortunate and unfortunate the one overcome by Thomyris Queen of Scythia the othor by great Alexander The two examples they wâ—re of the fragility of mundane gâ—eatnesse wheâ—eof the last that led an Army of 1000000. fighting men against Alexander professed it his mishap at his death that hee had not werewith to requite Polystratus for a draught of cold water but was forced to leave it to his noble Enemy to do And the first that possessed so large a Dominion and had 200000. men to attend his fall was content with this modest Epitaph over his narrow doâ—mitory O man whatsoever thou art and whencesoever thou comest for I know thou shalt come I am Cyrus that conquered the Empire of Persia I pray thee envie me not for this little earth that covereth my body Words powerfull enough to pierce even the heart of Alexander considering the instability of worldly things as witnesseth Plutarch in vit Alex. 15 Would ope MAHOMETS shrine Mahomet the Saracen Law giver died in his 63. year his great Clymacterick giving his seduced sect a promise of his Resurrection the third day after till when they kept him unburied and as Anthonius writes 30. daies after the reckoning till smelling he was a lier the air being infected with the monstrous stink of his carkass by Abubecher or Ebbubecher his Father in law he was purified entombâ—d and laid in a new Sepulcher at Medina Talnby some two daies journey from Mecha to which place is daily resort by such of his sect as have zeal to Pilgrimage and those not onely are ever after accounted Syets or holy men and cannot lie from that time forward but their Camels and apparell also are of such esteem that they never after do them service in vile carriages or servile occasions The lay people are not permitted to approach much lesse to look into his Monument But the vulgar Tradition that he hangs in an Iron Chest attracted to the roof of a Mosque by a loadstone there placed I find approved of
most flourishing estate fearfull even to the Parthians and the rest of Asia minor The same I find in Plutarch who indeed makes Pompey in vit Pomp. in chase of Mithridates passe by those Nations that inhabit about Caucasus and conquer the Albanians and Iberians but they are still of this side of the hill the Iberians as himself say stretch out unto Mount Moschium and to the Realm of Pontus the Albanians lie towards the East mare Caspium So true is it that the greatest Empires have hidden fates allotted them and certain periods both of time and place Nor doth Lucan in his muster roll of Pompeyes forces set down any from beyond the hill nor over Ganges though just up to them in that agreeing with Plutarch who also agrees with him where hee makes Ganges the utmost bounds of Alexanders Conquests no small fame to this hill and river to bound the Roman and Macedonian Empires to remember the Poets words is not superfluous at least so much of them as concern Ganges the subject of the next note Movit Eoos bellorum fama recessus Qua colitur Ganges toto qui solus in orbe Ostia nascenti contraria solvere Phaebo Audet adversum fluctus impellit in Eurum Hic ubi Pellaeus post Tethyos aequora ductor Constitit magno vinci se fassus ab orbe est Phars l. 3. The farthest East range of these famous warrs Where Ganges flowes the onely stream that dares Crosse rising Phaebus and with horrid might Force 'gainst the Eastern wind his rouling tide Here the Pellaean stop'd was forc'd confesse His boundlesse mind then this one world was lesse 2 From Ganges head to towring Atlas foot The strange and unusuall course of this River Ganges crosse to the Sun you have seen well described by Lucan It takes its source in the Mountains of Scythia as most believe though some say in the Mountains of Tartarie others that it is uncertaine as that of Nile It traverseth the East Indies giving a name to the Country Gangeticus id est Indicus So Lucan speaking of the arrivall of the â—pring and of the Suns drying up of the winter fogs saith Et quas sentit Arabs quas Gangetica tellus Exhalat nubulas Phars l. 4. He doth exhale The fogs that India and Arabia feel It was as many write one of the four Rivers that bounded Paradise and the first mention'd in holy writ by the name of Pishcon or Phison Gen. 2. It was called Ganges from a King of Aethiopia of that name so saies Suidas It is very large in all its course Pliny lib. 6. cap. 18 makes the narrowest part of it to be eight miles over the broadest twenty and the depth more then 100. foot Arrianus in his History of Alexander assigneth the first place unto it making it excell Nilus which must be granted according unto later relations it doth at least in depth and breadth if not in length For the Magnitude of Nilus consisteth in the dimension of Longitude and is inconsiderable in the other what stream it maintaineth beyond Scyene or Asna and so forward unto its originall relations are very imperfect but below these places and farther removed from the head the current is but narrow and the History of the Turks relates that the Tartar horsemen of Selimus swam over the Nile from Cairo to meet forces of Tonombeius last Sultan of Aegypt more then the valiant Macedonians durst under take to do at Ganges though they had before done as much as the Tartars did at Nile in wading through Hydaspes up to their breasts with their harnesse on their backs to meet King Porus not so much deterr'd by the report of the Kings of the Gangarides and the Praesians on the other side ready to receive them with 80000. horse 200000. foot 8000. Chariots and 6000. Elephants for numbers were not terrible to them but gave hopes of the richer prey and brighter fame but they were dishartened to combate the waves understanding by the Countrymen that it was 32. furlongs over and 100. fadom deep So Plutarch somewhat differing from Pliny though their measure will admit an easie reconcilement With an impetuous tide it rages for which I must quote Lucan again who speaking of Caesars going to assault Corsinium a Town of the Peligni when L. Domitius the Governour had cut off the bridge of the River three miles from the Town makes him thus bravely encourage his Cohorts to passe it despising the petty difficulty and vaunting that hee would do if need were now he had begun the War what Alexander could not Non si tumido me gurgite Ganges Submoveat stabit jam flumine Caesar in ullo Post Rubiconis aquas equitum properate catervae Ite simul pedites ruiturum ascendite pontem Phars l. 2. I 'd ore though Ganges here row'd all his might Now Rubicon is past no rapid tide Shall Caesar stop on wing'd Troops like hail Follow brave Foot the sinking bridge assail A speech worthy Caesar. This River is by the Indians held so sacred as many of them drown themselves in it esteeming it efficacious to wash away their sins and the Princes whose dominions it washes exact great Tributes of such as bath in it well therefore might Lucan in the fore cited Verses meaning India say Qua colitur Ganges Where Ganges is ador'd Atlas is a mountaine in Mauritania now called Barbaria or the Country of Marisco towards the Gaditan streights and the west Ocean It was anciently called Adirim according to Martian Durim saith Solinus as also Anchisa and the Pillar of heaven by the inhabâ—tants being so high that a man cannot discern the top thereof It was called Atlas from a King of Mauritania of that name the Sonne of Jupiter and Clymene or of the Nymph Asie say the Poets others of Japet and Brother to Prometheus He having been advertized by the Oracle of Themis that the Sonne of Jupiter prophesied by Hercules should carry away golden Apples which grew in his Hesperian Hortyard inclosed the same with a mighty wall and committed it to the custody of a sleepless Serpent admitting no Forrainer into his confines and so being unhospitable unto Perseus the Sonne of Jupiter and Danae was at the sight of Medusas head turned into that Mountaine which carries that name on whose high shoulders the Starres are feigned to take their repose So Ovid in his Metamorphosis upon the fourth Book of which M. Sandys in his Mythologicall commentary observes that some alluding this to a History will have those apples flocks of large and beautifull sheep belonging to Atlas whose fleeces were of the colour of gold as because a River invironed those pastures they were said to be guarded by a Serpent or in that they were kept by one Ladon a churlish and inhumane shepheard or feigned perhaps of the store of gold wherewith Mauritania abounds digged up at the foot of that Mount the wakefull Dragon those restless cares which afflict the