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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66563	Andronicus Comnenius a tragedy / by John Wilson.	Wilson, John, 1626-1696.	1664 (1664)	Wing W2912; ESTC R38666	51,224	93

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 pro●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 reason●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 Al●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 th● 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

engag'd Or if Sebastus fancy not to meet Augustus's Arts not yet Tiberius's cunning No no he 's nothing but a thick scul'd Stallion A very sot And such a sniveling coward 'T is favour to call him so Then courage Lords Challenge your birth-right be no more tame fools Dull heavy beasts so jaded from your spirits That Honour cannot spur you up Come Come Mind what you should 'T is now too late t' advise For Greece at present wants more hands than eyes Conto Why I still meant it La. We'd as good be lost In going through as lose our heads for nothing Du. Nay I 'll do what you will what you resolve To do do quickly Mar. Now you speak like men Come my Lords All 's well agen And for any thing that remains we shall better order it within Exeunt ACT. I. SCE. V. Enter Andronicus solus THus far 't is well and I return'd again To thank thee Greece nor have thy wrongs been sown On barren ground but such as shall repay The principal with its forbearance too I am a Prince who dares deny 't He breathes His last that answers no He damns his soul In that one negative There 's but a step 'Twixt me and the imperial Crown Nor shou'd That coward wear 't that dares not venture for 't Was this the reason my blind Mistris that You strook at me That thus you deal with all Fortune like butchers makes the fairest fall But stay I 'me still upon my feet and will Keep up my chin in spight of her if she Will not assist the world shall know I can Do it without her help nor shall she share A doit i' th' praise when I arriv'd at top Thus grasp my wish Yet say I were as flat As she could lay me at the lowest Ebb I would not yet give out 't were poor to fear Who is past hope he should be past dispair I 'll run the hazard then and if I fall What in me lies I 'll pluck all after me Nor leave behind me such a one that shall So much as mutter't No my very name Shall fright the world And make future times Fondly attempt my History but not reach it Who follow tead where men have trod before Who is example must be some thing more Exit ACT. II. SCE. I. Alarums as at the Sack of a Town Shouts within Enter Sebastus as in a fright SEb. Undon undon That ever Man should be Lost e're he dream't it Whither shall I run To hide my self Shout Hark They 've won the City Enter Alexius and Anna. Alex. What sudden noyse is this Seb. I'cannot tell Anna Who should tell then Seb They say Andronicus Has landed 30000 Horse and Foot And is now storming of the City Anna One would have thought you should have lookt to this Seb. Who would imagin Banishment a place To raise an Army Or suspect the Fleet Alex. No doubt but he 's well backt by some at home Anna. Too true I fear me Seb. Wil 't please your Majesty to get away E're 't be too late Alez No I have done no wrong Unless to wear a Crown may be call'd such Seb. You will do well enough who ever suffer To Anna Pray think on me Anna Yes I 'll remember you And if my word will do 't Seb. Do 't without doubt Anna I 'll have thee hang'd Thou coward Take thy Sword And if thou canst not find a man that loves thee So well as to dye by thy side yet go And thrust thy self amid's thy thickest foes It may deceive the world thy life 's not worth His pains that takes it from thee Alarum Shouts Seb. Hark! again The Palace is beset I've but one shift And if that fail me then good night to all Enter Andronicus as giving order to some within And. See that the Soldiers make no outrages Upon the Palace there are Frankes enough Within the City and good pillage too Set your guards round besure no great ones scape And if you take Sebastus bore his eyes out But see The Emperor I must to him Heaven Goes up to him and kneels and kisseth his feet Preserve your Majesty and confound your foes Alex. Cousin you 're well return'd and might have been As welcome with fewer followers however rise Give me thy hand and unto Heaven thy knee And Next that unto my Prince and do not think He riseth Deard Soveraign that I intend you hurt Although I knockt thus rudly all my aim Was to remove your wardship and I've don't And now you 're free free as the air you breath Make the experiment and if you doubt my faith Bid me return to banishment I 'm gon An. I know not why But I don't like his looks Aside Alex. Cousin I thank you and believe you too The Helm requires your help I cannot trust it Into a better hand But pray forget Those injuries my Father put upon you I am no otherwise entitled to 'um Than as I am his Son And. Had they been more I could have past 'um all yet never cancel'd That double tye of loyalty and blood 'T was not his fault but my unlucky fate To have my love misconstru'd Not the burthen That greiv'd me but the hand not banishment But that 't was caus'd by him However let Revenge sleep with his ashes I will pay All mine in service to your Majesty And to that end have I embark'd at present Alex. Pray let me see you often Farewel Exeunt Alex. Anna An. All happiness attend your Majesties Yes you shall see me I and feel me too E're you 're much elder Th' ast a double crime First that th' art Emperor next that Manuel gat thee Curst Manuel would thou liv'dst I 'de make the feel The weight of my Revenge I scorn to raze Thy monument or to ungrave thy dust I rather wish the rest of all my foes Entomb'd as fairly But thy Son thy Wife Thy friends or whatsoever may prop either I will destroy And make this Boy to know They 're Children trust a reconciled foe Enter Philo. How now what news have you dispos'd the Army Into good quarters Are the Lords well pleas'd Phil. Yes as success can make 'um and the People Call you the publick Father Scarce a house Without its bon-fire An. Then the ground-work's laid But prithee tell me for I must acknowledge Thy management how gat you this odd rabble Their tempers are more different than their faces 'T would puzle the Devil to suit 'um into pairs Phil. Oh Sir I 've t'ane more shapes than Proteus knew Been every thing to every man divided And subdivided 'um again most men Have their blind sides But these are blind on both An. But how didst pick 'um out Phil. He that will make Ought of the husband must begin with th'wife I 've dealt 'twixt bark and tree Turn'd Confessor And now and then held forth Talkt of ingoings And of outgoings So thin and body less That I was forc'd t'