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A57763	The birth of Merlin, or, The childe hath found his father as it hath been several times acted with great applause / written by William Shakespear and William Rowley.	Rowley, William, 1585?-1642?; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Birmingham Shakespeare Library.	1662 (1662)	Wing R2096; ESTC R7261	41,256	56

The DRAGON is your Emblem bear it bravely and so long live and ever happy styl'd Vter-Pendragon lawful King of Brittain Prince Thanks Edol we imbrace the name and title and in our Sheild and Standard shall the figure of a Red Dragon still be born before us to fright the bloody Saxons Oh my Aurelius sweet rest thy soul let thy disturbed spirit Expect revenge think what it would it hath The Dragon 's coming in his fiery wrath Exeunt ACT. 5. SCENE 1. Thunder then Musick Enter Ioan fearfully the Devil following her Ioan. HEnce thou black horror is thy lustful fire kindled agen not thy loud throated thunder nor thy adulterate infernal Musick shall e're bewitch me more oh too too much is past already Devil Why dost thou fly me I come a Lover to thee to imbrace and gently twine thy body in mine arms Ioan. Out thou Hell-hound Devil What hound so e're I be Fawning and sporting as I would with thee why should I not be stroakt and plaid withal will 't thou not thank the Lion might devour thee if he shall let thee pass Ioan. Yes thou art he free me and I le thank thee Devil Why whither wouldst I am at home with thee thou art mine own have we not charge of family together where is your son Ioan. Oh darkness cover me Devil There is a pride which thou hast won by me the mother of a fame shall never die Kings shall have need of written Chronicles to keep their names alive but Merlin none ages to ages shall like Sabalists Report the wonders of his name and glory While there are tongues and times to tell his story Ioan. Oh rot my memory before my flesh let him be called some hell or earth-bred monster that ne're had hapless woman for a mother sweet death deliver me hence from my sight why shouldst thou now appear I had no pride nor lustful thought about me to conjure and call thee to my ruine when as at first thy cursed person became visible Devil I am the same I was Ioan. But I am chang'd Devil Agen I le change thee to the same thou wert quench to my lust come forth by thunder led my Coajutors in the spoils of mortals Thunder Enter Spirit Claspe in your Ebon arms that prize of mine mount her as high as palled Hecate and on this rock I le stand to cast up fumes and darkness o're the blew fac'd firmament from Brittain and from Merlin I le remove her they ne're shall meet agen Ioan. Help me some saving hand if not too late I cry let mercy come Enter Merlin Mer. Stay you black slaves of night let loose your hold set her down safe or by th' infernal Stix I le binde you up with exorcisms so strong that all the black pentagoron of hell shall ne're release you save you selves and vanish Exit Spirit Devil Ha! What 's he Mer. The Childe has found his Father do you not know me Devil Merlin Ioan. Oh help me gentle son Mer. Fear not they shall not hurt you Devil Relievest thou her to disobey thy father Mer. Obedience is no lesson in your school nature and kind to her commands my duty the part that you begot was against kinde so all I ow to you is to be unkind Devil I le blast thee slave to death and on this rock stick thee an eternal Monument Mer. Ha ha thy powers too weak what art thou devil but an inferior lustful Incubus taking advantage of the wanton flesh wherewith thou dost beguile the ignorant put off the form of thy humanity and cral upon thy speckled belly serpent or I le unclasp the jaws of Achoron and fix thee ever in the local fire Devil Traitor to hell curse that I e're begot thee Mer. Thou didst beget thy scourge storm not nor stir the power of Merlins Art is all confirm'd in the Fates decretals I le ransack hell and make thy Thunder and Lighting in the Rock masters bow unto my spells thou first shall taste it Tenibrarum precis devitiarum infirorum Deus hunc Incubum in ignis eterni abisum accipite aut in hoc carcere tenebroso in sempeternum astringere mando the Rock incloses him So there beget earthquakes or some noisom damps for never shalt thou touch a woman more How chear you mother Ioan. Oh now my son is my deliverer yet I must name him with my deepest sorrow Alarum afar off Mer. Take comfort now past times are ne're recal'd I did foresee your mischief and prevent it hark how the sounds of war now call me hence to aid Pendragon that in battail stands against the Saxons from whose aid Merlin must not be absent leave this soyl and I le conduct you to a place retir'd which I by art have rais'd call'd Merlins Bower there shall you dwell with solitary sighs with grones and passions your companions to weep away this flesh you have offended with and leave all bare unto your aierial soul and when you die I will erect a Monument upon the verdant Plains of Salisbury no King shall have so high a sepulchre with pendulous stones that I will hang by art where neither Lime nor Morter shal be us'd a dark Enigma to the memory for none shall have the power to number them a place that I will hollow for your rest Where no Night-hag shall walk nor Ware-wolf tread Where Merlins Mother shall be sepulcher'd Exeunt Enter Donobert Gloster and Hermit Dono. Sincerely Gloster I have told you all My Daughters are both vow'd to Single Life and this day gone unto the Nunnery though I begot them to another end and fairly promis'd them in Marriage one to Earl Cador t'other to your son my worthy friend the Earl of Gloster Those lost I am lost they are lost all 's lost Answer me this then I st a sin to marry Hermit Oh no my Lord Dono. Go to then I le go no further with you I perswade you to no ill perswade you then that I perswade you well Gloster 'T will be a good Office in you sir Enter Cador and Edwin Dono. Which since they thus neglect my memory shall lose them now for ever See see the Noble Lords their promis'd Husbands had Fate so pleas'd you might have call'd me Father Edwin Those hopes are past my Lord for even this minute we saw them both enter the Monastery secluded from the world and men for ever Cador. 'T is both our griefs we cannot Sir but from the King take you the Times joy from us The Saxon King Ostorius slain and Octa fled that Woman-fury Queen Artesia is fast in hold and forc't to re-deliver London and Winchester which she had fortifi'd to Princely Vter lately styl'd Pendragon who now triumphantly is marching hither to be invested with the Brittain Crown Dono. The joy of this shall banish from my breast all thought that I was Father to two Children two stubborn Daughters that have left me thus Let my old arms embrace and

Castle here standing on the hill but I have sent a cry of hounds as violent as hunger to break his stony walls or if they fail We 'l send in wilde fire to dislodge him thence Or burn them all with flaming violence Exeunt Blazing Star appears Florish Tromp Enter Prince Vter Edol Cador Edwin Toclio with with Drum and Soldiers Prin. Look Edol still this fiery exalation shoots his frightful horrors on th' amazed world see in the beam that 'bout his flaming ring a Dragons head appears from out whose mouth two flaming flakes of fire stretch East and West Edol. And see from forth the body of the Star seven smaller blazing streams directly point on this affrighted kingdom Cador. 'T is a dreadful Meteor Edwin And doth portend strange fears Prince This is no Crown of Peace this angry fire hath something more to burn then Vortiger if it alone were pointed at his fall it would pull in his blasing Piramids and be appeas'd for Vortiger is dead Edol. These never come without their large effects Prince The will of heaven be done our sorrows this we want a mistick Pithon to expound this fiery Oracle Cador. Oh no my Lord you have the best that ever Brittain bred and durst I prophecy of your Prophet sir none like him shall succeed him Prince You mean Merlin Cador. True sir wonderous Merlin he met us in the way and did foretell the fortunes of this day successful to us Edwin He 's sure about the Camp send for him sir Cador. He told the bloody Vortiger his fate and truely too and if I could give faith to any Wizards skill it should be Merlin Enter Merlin and Clown Cador. And see my Lord as if to satisfie your Highness pleasure Merlin is come Prince See the Comet 's in his eye disturb him nor Edol. With what a piercing judgement he beholds it Mer. Whither will Heaven and Fate translate this Kingdom what revolutions rise and fall of Nations Is figur'd yonder in that Star that sings The change of Brittains State and death of Kings Ha! He 's dead already how swiftly mischief creeps Thy fatal end sweet Prince even Merlin weeps Prince He does foresee some evil his action shows it for e're he does expound he weeps the story Edol. There 's another weeps too Sirrah dost thou understand what thou lamentst for Clown No sir I am his Uncle and weep because my Cousin weeps flesh and blood cannot forbear Prince Gentle Merlin speak thy prophetick knowledge in explanation of this fiery horror from which we gather from thy mournful tears much sorrow and disaster in it Mer. 'T is true fair Prince but you must hear the rest with patience Mer. I vow I will tho' it portend my ruine Mer. There 's no such fear this brought the fiery fall of Vortiger and yet not him alone this day is faln a King more good the glory of our Land the milde and gentle sweet Aurelius Prince Our brother Edwin Forefend it heaven Mer. He at his Palace Royal sir at Winchester this day is dead and poison'd Cador. By whom Or what means Merlin Mer. By the Traiterous Saxons Edol. I ever fear'd as much that devil Ostorius and the damn'd witch Artesia sure has done it Prince Poison'd oh look further gentle Merlin behold the Star agen and do but finde revenge for me though it cost thousand lives and mine the foremost Mer. Comfort your self the heavens have given it fully all the portentious ills to you is told now hear a happy story sir from me to you and to your fair posterity Clown Me thinks I see something like a peel'd Oinon it makes me weep agen Mer. Be silent Uncle you 'l be forc't else Clown Can you not finde in the Star Cousin whether I can hold my tongue or no Edol. Yes I must cut it out Clown Phu you speak without book sir my Cousin Merlin knows Mer. True I must tie it up now speak your pleasure Uncle Clown Hum hum hum hum Mer. So so now observe my Lord and there behold above yon flame-hair'd beam that upward shoots appears a Dragons head out of whose mouth two streaming lights point their flame-feather'd darts contrary ways yet both shall have their aims Again behold from the ignifirent body seven splendant and illustrious rays are spred all speaking Heralds to this Brittain Isle and thus they are expounded The Dragons head is the Herogliphick that figures out your Princely self that here must reign a King those by-form'd fires that from the Dragons mouth shoot East and West emblem two Royal babes which shall proceed from you a son and daughter her pointed constellation Northwest bending Crowns Her a Queen in Ireland of whom first springs That Kingdoms Title to the Brittain Kings Clown Hum hum hum Mer. But of your Son thus Fate and Merlin tells all after times shall fill their Chronicles with fame of his renown whose warlike sword shall pass through fertile France and Germany nor shall his conjuring foot be forc't to stand till Romes Imperial Wreath hath crown'd his Fame with Monarch of the West from whose seven hills with Conquest and contributory Kings he back returns to inlarge the Brittain bounds his Heraldry adorn'd with thirteen Crowns Clown Hum hum hum Mer. He to the world shall add another Worthy and as a Loadstone for his prowess draw a train of Marshal Lovers to his Court It shall be then the best of Knight-hoods honor at Winchester to fill his Castle Hall and at his Royal Table sit and feast in warlike orders all their arms round hurl'd as if they meant to circumscribe the world he touches the Clowns mouth with his wand Clown Hum hum hum oh that I could speak a little Mer. I know your mind Uncle agen be silent strikes agen Prince Thou speakst of wonders Merlin prithee go on declare at full this Constellation Mer. Those seven beams pointing downward sir betoken the troubles of this Land which then shall meet with other Fate War and Dissension strives to make division till seven Kings agree to draw this Kingdom to a Hepterchy Prince Thine art hath made such proof that we believe thy words authentical be ever neer us my Prophet and the Guide of all my actions Mer. My service shall be faithful to your person and all my studies for my Countries safety Clown Hum hum hum Mer. Come you are releast sir Clown Cousin pray help me to my tongue agen you do not mean I shall be dumb still I hope Mer. Why hast thou not thy tongue Clown Ha! yes I feel it now I was so long dumb I could not well tell whether I spake or no Prince I' st thy advice we presently pursue the bloody Saxons that have slain my brother Mer. With your best speed my Lord Prosperity will keep you company Cador. Take then your Title with you Royal Prince 't will adde unto our strength Long live King Uter Edol. Put the Addition to 't that Heaven hath given you

call you Sons for by the Honor of my Fathers House I 'le part my estate most equally betwixt you Edwin Cador. Sir y' are most noble Flor. Tromp Enter Edol with Drum and Colours Oswold bearing the Standard Toclio the Sheild with the Red Dragon pictur'd in 'em two Bishops with the Crown Prince Vter Merlin Artesia bound Guard and Clown Prince Set up our Sheild and Standard noble Soldiers We have firm hope that tho' our Dragon sleep Merlin will us and our fair Kingdom keep Clown As his Uncle lives I warrant you Glost. Happy Restorer of the Brittains fame uprising Sun let us salute thy glory ride in a day perpetual about us and no night be in thy thrones zodiack why do we stay to binde those Princely browes with this Imperial Honor Prince Stay noble Gloster that monster first must be expel'd our eye or we shall take no joy in it Dono. If that be hindrance give her quick Judgement and send her hence to death she has long deserv'd it Edol. Let my Sentence stand for all take her hence and stake her carcase in the burning Sun till it be parcht and dry and then fley off her wicked skin and stuff the pelt with straw to be shown up and down at Fairs and Markets two pence a piece to see so foul a Monster will be a fair Monopoly and worth the begging Artes. Ha ha ha Edol. Dost laugh Erictho Artes. Yes at thy poor invention is there no better torturemonger Dono. Burn her to dust Artes. That 's a Phaenix death and glorious Edol. I that 's to good for her Prince Alive she shall be buried circled in a wall thou murdress of a King there starve to death Artes. Then I le starve death when he comes for his prey and i' th' mean time I le live upon your curses Edol I 't is diet good enough away with her Artes. With joy my best of wishes is before Thy brother's poison'd but I wanted more Exit Prince Why does our Prophet Merlin stand apart sadly observing these our Ceremonies and not applaud our joys with thy hid knowledge Let thy divining Art now satisfie some part of my desires for well I know 't is in thy power to show the full event that shall both end our Reign and Chronicle speak learned Merlin and resolve my feats whether by war we shall expel the Saxons or govern what we hold with beauteous peace in Wales and Brittain Mer. Long happiness attend Pendragons Reign what Heaven decrees fate hath no power to alter The Saxons sir will keep the ground they have and by supplying numbers still inccrease till Brittain be no more So please your Grace I will in visible apparitions present you Prophecies which shall concern Succeeding Princes which my Art shall raise Till men shall call these times the latter days Prince Do it my Merlin and Crown me with much joy and wonder Merlin strikes Hoeboys Enter a King in Armour his Sheild quarter'd with thirteen Crowns At the other door enter divers Princes who present their Crowns to him at his feet and do him homage then enters Death and strikes him he growing sick Crowns Constantine Exeunt Mer. This King my Lord presents your Royal Son who in his prime of years shall be so fortunate that thirteen several Princes shall present their several Crowns unto him and all Kings else shall so admire his fame and victories that they shall all be glad either through fear or love to do him homage But death who neither favors the weak nor valliant in the middest of all his glories soon shall seize him scarcely permitting him to appoint one in all his purchased Kingdoms to succeed him Prince Thanks to our Prophet for this so wish'd for satisfaction and hereby now we learn that always Fate must be observ'd what ever that decree All future times shall still record this Story Of Merlin's learned worth and Arthur's glory Exeunt Omnes FINIS