may yet owe you more Mar. Divinest Lovers 'bove the praise of breath So much you scorn'd to joyne by lesse than Death By which emission you so much enjoy As one another would but seem a toy Accept this tribute and our souls inspire So farre tow'rds your example as desire Gem. Illustrious Lights of honour and of Love We but your shaddowes are that shine above Vouchsafe t' obtaine that we as shaddowes do May be admitted too to follow you Gen. Blessed souls that coppied Heaven here so Together as each other not to know I find these marks which Paradise imply As gain of sight and losse of memory This scruple onely now doth here remaine That I cannot from wishing yet refraine If it were ment this Heavenly residence Should but refine and not extinguish sence Let it my grosser spirits so refine As my undarken'd soul may through them shine The Fifth Act. After the Ceremony of the Toomb Genorio stayes alone Gen. ME-thinks I find my mind on wing loose from my senses which like limed twigs held it till now It is so light and so ascensive now it meanes to work it selfe above Martiroes I am already so farre towards it as the beliefe that I did never love till now O how I was deceived while I conceived that Love was so Materiall it could be touched and grasp't I find it an undepending ayrinesse that both supports and fills it selfe and is to be felt by what it nourisheth no more then aire whose virtue onely we discerne I knew before all I could have I am so farre above that now I cannot suppose what I can hope and yet am better pleased with this this inoffensive purity of my love emboldens me to shew it to Bellesa and in humility to her it shall ask somewhat of her as begging is the onely Present impotency hath to make to power and it shall be so far from being sensuall it shall be nothing but beliefe Enter Bellesa Bel. Your sadnesse seemes so welcome to you as I may excuse the interruption of it Gen. You are so farre from interruption of it Madam as you bring the cause along with you Bel. Have you not yet forgiven my curiousity to see the Picture are you of Martiroes mind Gen. Why she 's an Angell even in the knowledge of mens thoughts I what Madam do you think I am of Martiâ—oes mind Bel. In keeping your love invisible and therefore are displeased that we saw so much as the shaddow of it Gen. I am not of his mind in that I would shew mine because 't is such a wonder 't will not else be believed and as wonders Madam hardlyobtaine that so mine shall pretend to no more Bel. Do you pretend Genorio to be a friend unto the Prince and will make the Loving Fidamira a wonder in any body Gen. Yes Madam that were a greater after having seen you then that which I shall tell you Bel. I have onely leisure now to tell you Genorio that in revenge of this flattery I will accuse you of it to your friend Moramente who loves the Prince so much aâ— he will chide you for it I am now going into a privacy I must desire to leave you Gen. I am so cursed Madam as truth seemes dis-lustred by my bringing it I never committed sinne enough against another to be equall to this punishment As He goes out He sayes of leaving you To what am I transform'd when the name Fidamira is a torture to me Bellesa alone Bel. Sure Mâ—ramente hath imploy'd his friend Genorio to save him the shame of speaking for himselfe Genorio speaks so boldly it must needs be for another I need not be so shie of this my thoughâ—fullnesse since all the virtues they should fix upon are here objected to them in Moramants carriage Love and honour bent by humility into a lovely Arch on which my thoughts may safely passe on towards his person which when I consider I find it such as scarce needs humility to recommend it His Fate hath so directed him to me as he hath had a reall sence of my misfortune and his destiny hath been so kind to him in that as to indebt me some pitty to him as my selfe and the reviving of Saphira though it be by Bellâ—sa's death t' will not be welcome to him Me-thinks my thoâ—ghts would take aire a little to refresh themselves That Infant love that 's come to visit them would carry them abroad with him they shall go with him and be so civill as to entertaine him with musick Presse me no more kind love I will confesse And tell you all nay rather more than lesse So you will promise me when I have told you then Not to bring mâ— to witnesse it to men Though thusy ' are strong enough to make me speak Help't out by virgin-shame you 'le be too weak If I find thus I may be safely free Best by this freedom I engag'd may be I find a glowing heat that turnes red hot My heart but yet it doth not flame a jot It doth but yet to such a colour turne It seemes to me rather to blush than burne You would perswade me that that flaming light Rising will change this colour into white I would fain know if this whites inference Pretend pale guilt or candid innocence If you you will tell me which without deceit I will allow you light as well as heat Then take you care of me a meanâ— so rare Bâ—twixt mens vanity and their dispaire I finde so gentle drowsinesse flow o're my senses as if my thoughts had wearied them in carrying them thus farr and my thoughts are so innocent they do not oppose the rest my senses ask She falls a sleep And Moramente enters to her Mor. Was it the rapture my soule was allwayes in when she contemplates the divine Bellesa that did present her voyce unto me here in heaven Sure it was her soul uselesse now unto her body is gon to He sees her here lie sleeping and stands wondering visit heaven and did salute the Angels with a song Let sleep no more be called death's Image here is an animation of it Sure all the life that sleep takes from the rest of the world he hath brought hither and lives here Methinks I should be innocent too now Sure had I but even an ill coloured thought her soul that is in heaven would know it and come back to awake her with the alarum I will stay at this distance still and only take this advantage now to wonder Neerer her thus parted from her soule then I can do united he goes to step toward her Doth the ground move to carry me neerer then my soul durst goe T is true I find it is the earthlynesse about me moves me neerer then my reverence should keep me Methinks I am so neere her now as I all soul my body by whose carriage it was brought is now recoyl'd and my spirit is now shot out upon Bellesa And thus all
love without a declination of my selfe Martiro Love Madam appropriates what it joynes unto it selfe and doe you think a partner in the soverainty of your selfe were not halfe a deposition Gem. This insensiblenesse you counsell Martiro is rather an admission to equality leaving all hearts free and Bellesa's can be no more it selfe T is an enlargement of her soveraignty to take homage from such hearts as shall bow down to offer it If you will give selfe-love Martiro the empire that women should glory in how limited will that be when they shall have no subject but themselves All I counsell the Queen is that she would know her selfe too For beauty sees it selfe best by the rereflexes that it makes on objects whereon it shines Mar. A heart that looks at first for so much from the Queen as an acknowledgment sets too high a price upon it Should every meanest subject pretend to have his name known to his Soveraign because he is what he should be It must be some eminent service must allow him that pretence for a reward And the soveraignty of love is distanced more from the approach of any subject to it No blood qualities nor no fortune rayseth neerer then the common prostituted crowde All are commons in an equall slavery and the pretention to advantage is rebellion Bel. Therefore Gemella the Queen is not obliged to look so low as even the knowledge of any of her Subjects till their services not their subjection challenge it and then the taking notice of it is all she should give Bellesa This an Empire you have found for your Mistresse Martiro and 't is a spacious one 't is all ayre your thoughts are not subject to any thing sure so low as earth Gemella I dare say Madam his Mistresse who e're she be reacheth not so neer divinity in any of his exaltations of her as you do in this humility Mar. You have exalted Madam my Mistress higher then e're my thoughts could set her the taking of her Name into your mouth I beleeve she is so much worthier than even my Imaginations of her as even the noblest of your thoughts cannot exceed her I am glad Madam to hear that miracles are not ceased it lessens much the wonder the being made for you Bellesa You are in such a transcendent height above all sense Martiro as me-thinks miracles should not amaze you Come Gemella we must prepare our selves for the funeral Ceremonies of the Foundresse and the Prince Gemella I 'le waite on you Madam But shall I carry him no comfort not so much as an ambiguous word Bellesa You see Gemella I have so little confidence in men I dare not trust Martiâ—oes counsell that ought to be the most unsuspected as my antient friend Gem. If I can make something out of this nothing Madam you cannot be offended Mar. I must flye to silence to collect an admiration great enough for this miracle I hear Enter the King Exeunt King As dying men whose spirits having run out their course are now so out of breath they can scarce carry the soul one step farther yet sometime as she is going out of them refreshed with some strong cordiall the spirits rise againe and hold her there a while Like lamps exspiring when they shut their eyes given but a drop of oyâ—e dart forth an instant flash and live a while not by that life that they had left but did receive anew This was my case My spirits had scarce so much motion left as panting when they received this Cordiall this so soveraign remedy as it hath recovered a King whose disease it was before the being so I find more then a reflection of my spirits in change of them into a youthfullnesse I am already grown better then he that ministred this cure Basilino by as much as I Love Fidamira more then he I thinke on Fidamira now onely by the sense of your afflictions for her which if He reads iâ— Basilinoe's Letter you had forgot I should once more think of her to rejoyce at your forgetting her and never more Now Fidamira I am free to think of thee which I doe fully I will forget even that which is so hard to doe my age I cannot be so old I have been all this while in wardship to my Son he hath till now disposed of my love I am to dâ—y but come of years and now my passions come into my own hands which I will all bestow on Fidamira This from Basilino must imply that some successe hath so possest his thoughts as the remembrance of his sufferings cannot get so much as one and onely my affliction now can make him think that he is capable of any he hath such superfluities of joyes as I am fed out of his waste I find my body and my soul so reconcil'd the one offers curiosity the other strength to satisfie it A visit to the Shepheards Paradise is a design worthy the newnesse of my thoughts the election of their Queen is now within three or four dayes and I have heard of such eminent beauty there that it will be the greatest right I can doe Fidamira to carry her memory thither to dislustrate even their faces I 'le aske no more of love but being thus kind He would conforme my body to my mind Exit King Enter the Society to the Ceremony and after other ceremonyes past Votario approacheth the Tomb. Votorio ADmired payr whose wonders did perplex All judgement to decide to either sex Advantage so each chose to live alone Left joyning so the one might th' other own And so you both did one another love Too well to be but one untill above Meeting you were ordain'd to be but one And now shine in a constellation Vouchsafe that by your sacred influence We may be drawn to follow you from hence Bellesa Peace wait upon your soules which seem â— ' hav ' been Such as you dyed but for reward not sin Our virtues here even in their best extent Are but erected for your monument Pantamora Fair parallels whose souls so purely met It seems that they your bodyes did forget Each being more then all the world forbore The having one another to have more So short of you our imitation stayes As we can hardly reach you with our praise Mor. Wonder of women on whose chastity Hâ—â—ven hath bestow'd such a posterity As is a self perpetuation Without the help of propagation We thus your Children in our yearly taske Come here to leave our prayers and blessing ask Cam. Rest glorious couple in that greater blisse You went to take when you did leave us this Be pleas'd your virtues back to us to send Now they have brought you to your journey's end Mel. You that were such your virtues ask't no lesse Reward from Heaven than all the world to blesse Even after you were gone so did entice The Gods to let you make a Paradise For mortalls which your virtues still implore That following you we
spirit I may touch her and not be felt Therefore thus all my soul abstracted shall fall upon her hand to do it reverence My spirit hath found a body in He kisseth her hand this touch and such a one as it cannot contain from venturing to lose it selfe to touch but this againe he kisseth her hand againe and she begins to stirr I was afraid the least mixture of a body would disquiet hers by that a version she hath to all the first spirituall touch moved her to note then severall ayres that joyne move one another Never was so much fear in any body without the will of flying it T is but just my body thus refined should be stayed here now to expect its sentence Bel. My soul's centinells kept not so ill watch as not to rise up against this attempt upon them I should be glad to find some body else here Moramente to whom to impute this insolence which is so great as it allmost justifies you to me for not having been the committer of it Was it not sombody that 's fled I can hardly think any body durst do this and stay till I did wake to punish it Mor. No Madam he is so farr from flying as he is stayd here to glory in it My spirit that was innocent that fled for feare of being suspected and I remain all body here exposed to your displeasure And if you 'le give me leave to call back my soul with suspition of it that shall begg punishment for this offender And you shall reward her innocence in parting from this guilt that was about her And you may punish this body opportunely now For life sure was never so deare to it as now it 's so affected with its crime And do it quickly Madam while your power will allow it that my soul may leave you in this world what it hath so much wished to see you continue in the quality of Queen Bel. T is a new insolence this punishment you aske that I should descend so low as but think upon your body I shall think your minde lesse worthy then I did and so much I shall not think it very sensible of its declination in my thoughts Mor. Mistake not Madam the only thing in this world impossible to you is the guiltinesse of my mind T is not in my power to be so complacent unto you as to afford iâ— you Your ill opinion of it may lie so heavy on its innocence as to bow it out of its own frame But even then It will become an arch tryumphant whose very incurvation will become a beauty as it was made so by thâ— weight you laid upon it And the more you presse iâ— you shall make it but the stronger still to beare all youâ— will Bel. Why this excuse adds still unto your fault If your mind was innocent it seemes you did it but by chance and had no minde to it when you did it And I can leâ—â— forgive this prophanation of my selfe than an intended insolence which passion doth some way excuse when it doth avow Mor O Madame you have found so refined a torture as it reacheth to my soul which I call'd innocent foâ— having been so wholly and so purely fix't upon your hand as it is there and therefore innocent that which is once there and is removed I did think worthy of such a punishment as even your displeasure Bel. Why your insolence inlargeth it self still Moramente you would have me displeased because it was no greater that it lasted not longer and would put your soul into my hands but by the delivery of your body Mor. You can put me to no greater torment then this willing mis-understanding me you would make me criminal for being but mortall because my soul is carried but by my flesh and bloud nothing but this despaire could make me so insolent as to wish my body and my soul might once meet again where the one remaines though after that they parted with mortality Bellesa Now I understand truly your crime you shall not have so much favour as my delivery of the sentence Gâ—mella shall deliver 't you till then see me no more Mor. The sentence cannot be so cruell but the having it will be a mittigation for this suspension is the execution Enter Genorio sadly Mor. What sadnesse is this Genorio that diverts even mine as to take notice of it Gen. The joyes I owe you Moramente may justifie this sorrow Is not this a strange curse Mor. So strange a one I understand it not Gen. Had I not had already the joy of all your trust it could not so afflict me the not being trusted now with such a joy of yours as all the society beleeves and I have no other reason to doubt but your not having told it me Moramente My curse is so malignant it infects thee for being my friend and it is much now Genorio for me to say that I have any sense left for thy unjust affliction I had no ease left but the beliefe that I had made thee happy and thy mistake is never come to robbe me even of that Gen. It would be as hard for me Moramente to find a cause for the least of your benefits as 't is to repeate them all they began so much before my memory as I must trust report for that and what I know may warrant my beliefe of that you saved my life when my Infant-innocence was guilt to you as it was cursed to be born your enemy The education you gave was such as might make my life worthie your owning since after having given me so much wealth and honour as an accession unto that could expect no more sense of it Then as if you did study my blessing in making you some return you have given me the disposing of your life and the treasure of your trust such a gift as but by keeping it I might make you a retribution but you take it away without a dailie addition to it I have repeated this to you which is too much for you to remember that you may see I am thus far towards the deserving this as the accounting all this is a curse if the only means of gratitude which I have left the joying in your joyes be but suspended from me Mor. Thou art too partial to me Genorio to beleeve me in my miserie which if I have not let thee know 't has been for fear thy misbielefe should adde to it but now I find even that misfortune which I only thought I could avoid thy distrust is fallen on me Genorio I shall easily MORAMENTE beleeve you as miserable as you would have me if you were capable of any loved by BELLESA as they say you are Moramente Though I had tendernesse enough Genorio to be sensible of thy distrust as thy affliction I have no sense left for this thy scorn because 't is mine Gen. Pardon my duty Sir that did believe there could not have been guessed
infancy was smoothered in that crowd of death Pamlona did sink under taken by assault some twenty years ago by this king of Castile That there could be so little providence in fate as to preserve this and cast him away Some souldier in whose bloody hands this spoyle remained must have sold it to this young man His years will not allow him the honor to have bought it with a drop of blood I will go rest me left my spirits faint under the weight of misery they must bring for their pretence of ease Exit Romero Enter Bonorio Bo. I have lost the King strangely at the entry of the Temple he took another waie but he cannot be straied farr hence Enter the King King I have watched my feares all night lest while my reason was a sleepe they might have got the advantage of a dreame to fright me from my trust of Basilino And methinks this mornings light shoots such a chearfull clearnesse into me as my presaging thoughts do smile on one another Well mett Bonorio Since I have lost you I have found such a miracle as the surprise of would have killed you with joy This company must deferre your knowledg of it Let us stand by a while Enter Bellesa Gemella Bel. What do women say Gemella for discovery of their loves Gem. As the humors are Madam some say all they thinke and yet thinke all they can too little Others say no more then what just will serve a man to guesse at what they thinke Bel. Sure that is best Gemella For so women retaine a power of rewarding modesty and punishing presumption Which is so easily don as by saying nothing But what say you Gemella of Genorio's passion that is so bold as to fly to me for sanctuary I had thought friendship had been the highest passion Beleeving that Moraments greifes running through Genorio had left this sad tincture on him Is there no friendship so bold Gemella as to admitt a rivall to the trust of emulous desires Gem. Passion Madam is so shie of all things as it scatters our thoughts abroad upon all aproaches can be made to it And is so farr from admitting any body as it is afrayd even of its own shaddowes doubt and suspition which it never shines but it will make But I wonder most that Genorio in so desperate a passion should seek a reason for your will though it be to neglect him Perfect humility bows into it self and finds reason there to justifie its adoration by an incapacity of a fault in her it is devoted to Bel. And sure Humility is incouraged so as by finding this reason it leaves neglect lesse reason then it had before but what reason doth Genorio's wildnesse prey upon Gemella My innocence which his suspition seiseth on and disfigures with the imputation of malice which I am so far from as even his provocation can bring me no neerer it then joying in Moraments fortune Bel. Sure he is in a desperate condition Bellesa that is so farre from knowing the cause of his ill as the ascription of it to thy malice I wonder that the flaming vertue of thy soul that lightens through these cloâ—ds doth not dispel them quite and leave your body a fair sky where it may shine Here is a stranger you shall to day here my story which if my person could spare all this while it may well expect improvement in your estimation by that addition to your knowledge Gem. If I could make you Madam as full returne of all your favours as I can do of your story I should owe you nothing Bel. Are you he Sir that demandeth audience for your pretence King No Madam it was my curiosity lead me hither and I have been so well paid for following it as I beleeve the vertue of this place must needs be miraculous for devotion since it is so propitious to curiosity The first instant I arrived I was made happier then I dare tell Bel. I wish it may afford you that happinesse to the telling of it King The seeing you Madam is a happinesse above relation Gem. This is the Queeen Sir she is now going to give audience to a new pretenderbe you there and bring your promise entire with you King O Fidamira I have already seen Moramente and Genorio and have looked upon them keâ—ping my promise unto thee between them and they have not discovered me Gem. The audience will be within this houre and the election presently after Then my promise shall make you a full return for this your patience King This Queen is a strange 〈◊〉 why may not I be so compleatly happy as to have 〈◊〉 Son in love with her â—hey are all â—uspicious thoughts that fancy me to day I will let my beliefe anticipate paâ—t of this joy left all at once be too much for my senses to support would not you bâ— content Bonorio to be 〈◊〉 find your daughter that 〈◊〉 were that Moore you saw speake with me Bâ—no A father that loves a chilâ— as I do Fidâ—mira had rather mourn for her death thâ—n see her mourn in such a life King You speake as if you were in love with her I will keepe thy fondnesse no longer in pain Thâ—â— Moore is Fidamira thus disguised Basilino and Agenor arâ— both here too I am bound to secresie while that Fidamira shall release me and so I ingage you Let 's set forward to the audience in the mean time I will tell you my strange discovery of Fidamira Bonorio This is a joy Sir becomes your delivery as the greatest blessing I can value the seeing you so pleased O why did nature suffer love to know Oâ—ly this secret hid from all below Why should not nature tell her stâ—aâ—th Then suffer love to curse her self What hope hath he to ease a hidden pain Where it is lesse to suffer than complain Exeunt Enter Martiro Mar. Sure even imagination hath a verticall point from whence it must decline mine hath touch't that and now it stops again nor doth it charge Bellesa with a declination to say it follows her but accuseth its self of a rapture that carried her along with it I have been guilty all this while of treason to her of parting her body and her soul which sure heaven united for no lesse a miracle then the propagation of them on earth My fancy had restrained her to the being one her selfe her disposing of her self will make more such as her selfe and so exceed even my fancy And now I find it was a suppression not an exaltation of her to beleeve there could be any thing impossible to her which I confesse I did beleeve her loving was Moramente who was most concern'd by my opinion hath already begun to correct it by his scorn of my counsell which I gave him as boldly as if Bellesa had been no where but in my fancie I will allot no lesse then all my life for recantation and pay this blessed place all that for my