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Andronicus Comnenius a tragedy / by John Wilson.
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Wilson, John, 1626-1696.
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ANDRONICUS COMNENIUS A Tragedy By JOHN WILSON Juvenal Sat. 13. Fatebere tandem Nec surdum nec Tiresiam quenquam esse Deorum At last you 'll find That Heav'n is neither deaf nor blind LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Mitre between the Middle-Temple Gate and Temple-Bar in Fleetstreet 1664. To my Friend A. B. IF ever you gave your self the divertisement of reading the Preface to my Comedy of the Cheats you may remember I did as good as proâ—est against Apologies and yet the case happens to be such at present that I find my self how unwilling soever engag'd to tread that path yet once agen To tell you how long since this Tragedy was first written or why it has not been since acted were but in effect to suspect your memory 'T is enough to me that you know both and I doubt not will be ready to do me right as you see occasion I pass it and according to our wonted freedom shall only speak a few words to the thing A Story of the Eastern Empire between the years 1179. and 1183 and such perhaps as might not be thought altogether unparalel to what our selves have seen were not the one but too fresh in our memories and the other too far remov'd from our knowlodge And now me thinks I hear you charging me with a Non bene conveniunt The Story of 3 or 4 years cramp'd into fewer hours And why not My design was a History and if I have kept the Connection I may reasonâ—bly presume I have observ'd enough Nay further if I have dealt with it as Procrustes with his guests lop'd some or stretch'd others be pleased to consider 't was for the same reason that I might the better fit unto my own moddel To be short if I have once agen made my thoughts legible and my self the subject of every mans opinion how weak soever be pleased to such cavils as you may chance to meet with to oppose this That notwithstanding I may have written some few Plays yet the Stage is the last thing I shall pretend to And therefore though possibly I could wish Ut placerent quas fecissem fabulas yet I was never so much in love with a full cry as to believe that all open'd alike or that the approbation of one wise man was not more worth than the noise of a multitude Let me not seem immodest if I close all with that of Plautus Virtute ambire oportet non favitoribus Sat habet favitorum semper qui recte facit Farewel Your c. J. Wilson Jan. 15th 1663. THE PERSONS Alexius Comnenius A Youth the Son and Successor of Manuel Comnenius Emperor of Constantinople Anna His Wife a Daughter of France afterwards married by Andronicus Maria Caesarissa Half sister to Alexius And Wife to Caesar an Italian Lord only mentioned but appears not Sebastus The Husband of Xene the Widdow of Manuel who by debauching the Emperor's Youth had got the management of Affairs Andronicus Comnenius A Prince of the bloud banisht by Manuel but being call'd home to counterpoise Sebastus usurps upon Alexius murders him and marries Anna. Manuel His Son Conto Admiral of the Gallies All of them together w th Maria Basilius a Bishop often mentioned but appears not of the Conspiracy to bring in Andronicus Constantinus Lords of the best extraction All of them together w th Maria Basilius a Bishop often mentioned but appears not of the Conspiracy to bring in Andronicus Ducas Lords of the best extraction All of them together w th Maria Basilius a Bishop often mentioned but appears not of the Conspiracy to bring in Andronicus Lapardas Lords of the best extraction All of them together w th Maria Basilius a Bishop often mentioned but appears not of the Conspiracy to bring in Andronicus Stephanus Captain of the Guard to Alâ—xius And afterwards to Andronicus All of them together w th Maria Basilius a Bishop often mentioned but appears not of the Conspiracy to bring in Andronicus Basilius President of the City Both Confidents to Andronicus All of them together w th Maria Basilius a Bishop often mentioned but appears not of the Conspiracy to bring in Andronicus Mamalus Secretary of State during the time of Manuel laid by by Sebastus Philo Andronicus's Zany Isaacius Angelus A Gentleman of the bloud a far off but living obscurely in a Monastery not taken notice of by Andronicus but the rest of the bloud being destroy'd he is in a Tumult set up against Andronicus and carries thâ— Empire Citizens Guards Servants Fiddlers The Scene CONSTANTINOPLE ANDRONICVS COMNENIVS A Tragedy ACT. I. SCE. I. Enter Lapardas Ducas Du. ' T Is strange and were 't not for that ready faith I owe your Lordship I had sooner taken Another Article to my Creed A Woman And yet so large a soul your Lordship 's merry La. Troth no she fixt me Ducas when I saw How she first took the question stated it Ran the whole matter and where danger offer'd Past it with such a careless scorn Believe me It made me wonder into what narrow crany My soul had crept Du. You 've such a knack at speeching You either find'um good or make 'um so Rack me no longer dearest Sir let 's have it La. And willingly we met you know the place Nor was th' appearance small And as in Councils There never was a fool at least that would Be thought so Ev'ry man let fly his bolt One offer'd this Another that The point Was common danger All agreed the thing But few the way of helping it that plague And mischief of great actions Let 's do better Had so unhing'd their souls until Maria Sum'd up their little all Told 'um th 'ad lost The question and 't was not their wel-being But being was the point not what Greece should be But whose it was and when they threw in doubts That thou hadst seen her how she blew 'um off Snufft at their scruples and is this quoth she The Lion in the way Can danger baulk Men once resolv'd Be that Bugbear mine I dare encounter it and act what e're You all dare think Du. 'T was a brave Virago A wonder of her Sex A Phoenix sure La. I you 'd have sworn it had you heard that world Of which this is but an imperfect Globe A wrong side of the hangings Du. But my Lord How was it relish'd Did not their seats grow warm La. No But they all lookt wistly one on t'other As who would say 't was true enough but yet Some passages might have been well forborn Du. What was the issue La. Why they all shook hands And by a general vote center'd in this That men and monies must be rais'd to break The present faction and themselves would do 't Next that Andronicus be invited home To head the forces which Maria pray'd Might be her part o' th' work which once agreed Sooner than thought they fell into their gears Each man subscrib'd his task