soule ABEL about it Thou shalt know more anone Away be gone A miserable rogue and liues with cheese And has the wormes That was the cause indeed Why he came now He dealt with me in priuate To get a med'cine for 'hem SVB. And shall sir This workes FAC. A wife a wife for one on' vs my deare SVBTLE Wee 'll eene draw lots and he that failes shall haue The more in goods the other has in taile SVB. Rather the lesse For shee may be so light Shee may want graines FAC. I or be such a burden A man would scarse endure her for the whole SVB. Faith best let 's see her first and then determine FAC. Content But DOL must ha' no breath on 't SVB. Mum Away you to your SVRLY yonder catch him FAC. 'Pray god I ha' not stai'd too long SVB. I feare it Act III. Scene I. TRIBVLATION ANANIAS THese chastisements are common to the Saints And such rebukes we of the Separation Must beare with willing shoulders as the trialls Sent forth to tempt our frailties ANA. In pure zeale I doe not like the man He is a heathen And speakes the language of Canaan truely TRI. I thinke him a prophane person indeed ANA. He beares The visible marke of the Beast in his fore-head And for his Stone it is a worke of darknesse And with Philisophie blinds the eyes of man TRI. Good Brother we must bend vnto all meanes That may giue furtherance to the holy cause ANA. Which his cannot The sanctified cause Should haue a sanctified course TRI. Not alwaies necessary The children of perdition are oft-times Made instruments euen of the greatest workes Beside we should giue somewhat to mans nature The place he liues in still about the fire And fume of mettalls that intoxicate The braine of man and make him prone to passion Where haue you greater Atheists then your Cookes Or more prophane or cholerick then your Glasse-men More Antichristian then your Bell-founders What makes the Deuill so deuillish I would aske you Sathan our common enemie but his being Perpetually about the fire and boyling Brimstone and arsnike We must giue I say Vnto the motiues and the stirrers vp Of humours in the bloud It may be so When as the worke is done the stone is made This heate of his may turne into a zeale And stand vp for the beauteous discipline Against the menstruous cloth and ragg of Rome We must await his calling and the comming Of the good spirit You did fault t' vpbraid him With the Brethrens blessing of Heidelberg waighing What need we haue to hasten on the worke For the restoring of the silenc'd Saints Which ne'er will be but by the Philosophers stone And so a learned Elder one of Scotland Assur'd me Aurum potabile being The onely med'cine for the ciuill Magistrate T' incline him to a feeling of the cause And must be daily vs'd in the disease ANA. I haue not edified more truely by man Not since the beautifull light first shone on me And I am sad my zeale hath so offended TRI. Let vs call on him then ANA. The motion 's good And of the spirit I will knock first Peace be within Act III. Scene II. SVBTLE TRIBVLATION ANANIAS O Are you come 'T was time Your threescore minutes Were at the last thred you see and downe had gone Furnus acediae Turris circulatorius Lembeke Bolts-head Retort and Pellicane Had all beene cinders Wicked ANANIAS TRI. Sir be appeased he is come to humble Himselfe in spirit and to aske your patience If too mch zeale hath carried him aside From the due path SVB. This qualifies most Why thus it should be now you vnderstand Haue I discours'd so vnto you of our Stone And of the good that it shall bring your cause Shew'd you beside the mayne of hiring forces Abroad drawing the Hollanders your friends From th' Indies to serue you with all their fleete That euen the med'cinall vse shall make you a faction And party in the realme As put the case That some great man in state he haue the gout Why you but send three droppes of your Elixir You helpe him straight there you haue made a friend Another has the palsey or the dropsie He take of your incombustible stuffe Hee 's yong againe there you haue made a friend A Lady that is past the feate of body though not of minde and hath her face decay'd Beyond all cure of paintings you restore Withe the oyle of Talek there you haue made a friend And all her friends A lord that is a Leper A knight that has the bone-ache or a squire That hath both these you make 'hem smooth and sound With a bare fricace of your med'cine still You increase your friends TRI. I 't is very pregnant SVB. And then the turning of this Lawyers pewter To plate at Christ-masse ANA. Christ-tide I pray you SVB. Yet ANANIAS ANA. I haue done SVB. Or changing His parcell guilt to massie gold You cannot But raise you friends With all to be of power To pay an armie in the field to buy The king of France out of his realmes or Spaine Out of his Indies What can you not doe Against lords spirituall or temporall That shall oppone you TRI. Verily 't is true We may be temporall lords our selues I take it SVB. You may be any thing and leaue off to make Long-winded exercises or suck vp Your ha and hum in a tune I not denie But such as are not graced in a state May for their ends be aduerse in religion And get a tune to call the flock together For to say sooth a tune do's much with women And other phlegmatick people it is your bell ANA. Bells are prophane a tune may be religious SVB. No warning with you Then farewell my patience 'Slight it shall downe I will not be thus tortur'd TRI. I pray you sir SVB. All shall perish I haue spoke it TRI. Let me find grace sir in your eyes the man He stands corrected neither did his zeale But as your selfe allow a tune some-where Which now being to'ard the stone we shall not need SVB. No nor your holy vizard to winne widdowes To giue you legacies or make zealous wiues To rob their husbands for the common cause Nor take the start of bonds broke but one day And say they were forfeited by prouidence Nor shall you need ore-night to eate huge meales To celebrate your next daies fast the better The whilst the Brethren and the Sisters humbled Abate the stiffenesse of the flesh Nor cast Before your hungrie hearers scrupulous bones As whether a Christian may hawke or hunt Or whether Matrons of the holy assembly May lay their haire out or weare doublets Or haue that idoll Starch about their linnen ANA. It is indeed an idoll TRI. Mind him not sir I doe command thee spirit of zeale but trouble To peace within him Pray you sir goe on SVB. Nor shall you need to libell 'gainst the Prelates And shorten so your
where finding the lets he must encounter to be many hard in respect of the issue of Germanicus who were next in hope for the succession he deuiseth to make Tiberius selfe his meanes instill's into his eares many doubts and suspicions both against the Princes and their mother Agrippina which Caesar iealously hearkning to as couetously consenteth to their ruine and their friends In this time the better to mature and strengthen his designe he labours to marry Liuia and worketh with all his ingine to remoue Tiberius from the knowledge of publike businesse with allurements of a quiet and retyred life the latter of which Tiberius out of a pronenesse to lust and a desire to hide those vnnaturall pleasures which he could not so publikely practise embraceth the former inkindleth his feares and there giues him first cause of doubt or suspect toward Seianus Against whom he raiseth in priuate a new instrument one Sertorius Macro and by him vnder-worketh discouers the others counsells his meanes his ends sounds the affections of the Senators diuides distracts them at last when Seianus least looketh and is most secure with pretext of doing him an vn-wonted honour in the Senate he traines him from his guardes with one letter and in one day hath him suspected accused condemned and torne in pieces by the rage of the people The Persons of the Play TIBERIVS DRVSVS se NERO DRVSVS iu CALIGVLA ARRVNTIVS SILIVS SABINVS LEPIDVS CORDVS GALLVS REGVLVS TERENTIVS LACO EVDEMVS RVFVS SEIANVS LATIARIS VARRO MACRO COTTA AFER HATERIVS SANQVINIVS POMPONIVS POSTHVMVS TRIO MINVTIVS SATRIVS NATTA OPSIVS TRIBVNI AGRIPPINA LIVIA SOSIA PRAECONES FLAMEN TVBICINES NVNTIVS LICTORES MINISTRI TIBICINES SERVVS THE SCENE ROME SEIANVS Act. I. SABINVS SILIVS NATTA LATIARIS CORDVS SATRIVS ARRVNTIVS EVDEMVS HATERIVS c. HAile CAIVS SILIVS SIL. TITIVS SABINVS Haile Yo' are rarely met in court SAB. Therefore well met SIL. 'T is true Indeed this place is not our sphaere SAB. No SILIVS wee are no good inginers We want the fine arts their thriuing vse Should make vs grac'd or fauour'd of the times We haue no shift of faces no cleft tongues No soft and glutinous bodies that can sticke Like snailes on painted walls or on our brests Creepe vp to fall from that proud height to which We did by slauerie not by seruice clime We are no guilty men and then no great We haue nor place in court office in state That we can say we owe vnto our crimes We burne with no black secrets which can make Vs deare to the pale authors or liue fear'd Of their still waking iealosies to raise Our selues a fortune by subuerting theirs We stand not in the lines that doe aduance To that so courted point SIL. But yonder leane A paire that doe SAB. Good cousin LATIARIS SIL. SATRIVS SECVNDVS and PINNARIVS NATTA The great SEIANVS clients There be two Know more then honest councells whose close brests Were they rip'd vp to light it would be found A poore and idle sinne to which their trunkes Had not beene made fit organs These can lye Flatter and sweare forsweare depraue informe Smile and betray make guilty men then beg The forfeit liues to get the liuings cut Mens throates with whisprings sell to gaping sutors The emptie smoake that flyes about the Palace Laugh when their patron laughes sweat when he sweates Be hot and cold with him change euery moode Habit and garbe as often as he varies Obserue him as his watch obserues his clocke And true as turkise in the deare lords ring Looke well or ill with him ready to praise His lordship if he spit or but pisse faire Haue an indifferent stoole or breake winde well Nothing can scape their catch SAB. Alas these things Deserue no note confer'd with other vile And filthier flatteries that corrupt the times When not alone our gentries chiefe are faine To make their safety from such sordide acts But all our Consuls and no little part Of such as haue beene Praetors yea the most Of Senators that else not vse their voyces Fedarij Start vp in publique Senate and there striue Who shall propound most abiect things and base So much as oft TIBERIVS hath beene heard Leauing the court to crie Ô race of men Prepar'd for seruitude which shew'd that he Who least the publique liberty could like As loathly brook'd their flat seruilitie SIL. Well all is worthy of vs were it more Who with our ryots pride and ciuill hate Haue so prouok'd the iustice of the gods We that within these fourescore yeeres were borne Free equall lords of the triumphed world And knew no masters but affections To which betraying first our liberties We since became the slaues to one mans lusts And now to many euery ministring spie That will accuse and sweare is lord of you Of me of all our fortunes and our liues Our lookes are call'd to question and our wordes How innocent soeuer are made crimes We shall not shortly dare to tell our dreames Or thinke but 't will be reason SAB. Tyrannes artes Are to giue flatterers grace accusers power That those may seeme to kill whom they deuoure Now good CREMVTIVS CORDVS COR. Haile to your lordship NAT. They whisper Who 's that salutes your cousin LAT. 'T is one CORDVS A gentleman of Rome one that has writ Annal's of late they say and very well NAT. Annal's of what times LAT. I thinke of POMPEI'S And CAIVS CAESARS and so downe to these NAT. How stands h' affected to the present state Is he or Drusian or Germanican Or ours or neutrall LAT. I know him not so far NAT. Those times are somewhat queasie to be toucht Haue you or seene or heard part of his worke LAT. Not I he meanes they shall be publike shortly NAT. O. CORDVS do you cal him LAT. I SAB. But these our times Are not the same ARRVNTIVS ARR. Times the men The men are not the same 't is we are base Poore and degenerate from th' exalted streine Of our great fathers Where is now the soule Of god-like CATO he that durst be good When CAESAR durst be euill and had power As not to liue his slaue to dye his master Or where the constant BRVTVS that being proofe Against all charme of benefits did strike So braue a blow into the monsters heart That sought vnkindly to captiue his countrie O they are fled the light Those mightie spirits Lye rak'd vp with their ashes in their vrnes And not a sparke of their eternall fire Glowes in a present bosome All 's but blaze Flashes and smoke wherewith we labour so There 's nothing Romane in vs nothing good Gallant or great 'T is true that CORDVS say's Braue CASSIVS was the last of all that race SAB. Drusus passeth by Stand by lord DRVSVS HAT. Th' Emp'rours son giue place SIL. I like the prince well ARR. A riotous youth There 's little hope of him SAB. That fault his age Will as it growes correct Me thinkes he beares Himselfe each day more
SVB. How sir MAM. This gent'man you must beare withall I told you he had no faith SVR. And little hope sir But much lesse charitie should I gull my selfe SVB. Why what haue you obseru'd sir in our art Seemes so impossible SVR. But your whole worke no more That you should hatch gold in a fornace sir As they doe egges in Egypt SVB. Sir doe you Beleeue that egges are hatch'd so SVR. If I should SVB. Why I thinke that the greater miracle No egge but differs from a chicken more Then mettalls in themselues SVR. That cannot be The egg 's ordain'd by nature to that end And is a chicken in potentia SVB. The same we say of lead and other mettalls Which would be gold if they had time MAM. And that Our art doth furder SVB. I for 't were absurd To thinke that nature in the earth bred gold Perfect i' the instant Something went before There must be remote matter SVR. I what is that SVB. Mary we say MAM. I now it heats stand Father Pound him to dust SVB. It is of the one part A humide exhalation which we call Materia liquida or the vnctuous water On th' other part a certaine crasse and viscous Portion of earth both which concorporate Doe make the elementarie matter of gold Which is not yet propria materia But commune to all mettalls and all stones For where it is forsaken of that moysture And hath more drynesse it becomes a stone Where it retaines more of the humid fatnesse It turnes to sulphur or to quick-siluer Who are the parents of all other mettalls Nor can this remote matter sodainly Progresse so from extreme vnto extreme As to grow gold and leape ore all the meanes Nature doth first beget th' imperfect then Proceedes shee to the perfect Of that ayrie And oily water mercury is engendred Sulphure o' the fat and earthy part the one Which is the last supplying the place of male The other of the female in all mettalls Some doe beleeue hermaphrodeitie That both doe act and suffer But these two Make the rest ductile malleable extensiue And euen in gold they are for we doe find Seedes of them by our fire and gold in them And can produce the species of each mettall More perfect thence then nature doth in earth Beside who doth not see in daily practice Art can beget bees hornets beetles waspes Out of the carcasses and dung of creatures Yea scorpions of an herbe being ritely plac'd And these are liuing creatures far more perfect And excellent then mettalls MAM. Well said father Nay if he take you in hand sir with an argument Hee 'll bray you in a morter SVR. 'Pray you sir stay Rather then I 'll be brai'd sir I 'll beleeue That Alchemie is a pretty kind of game Somewhat like tricks o' the cards to cheat a man With charming SVB. Sir SVR. What else are all your termes Whereon no one o' your writers grees with other Of your elixir your lac virginis Your stone your med'cine and your chrysosperme Your sal your sulphur and your mercurie Your oyle of height your tree of life your bloud Your marchesite your tutie your magnesia Your toade your crow your dragon and your panthar Your sunne your moone your firmament your adrop Your lato azoch zernich chibrit heautarit And then your red man and your white woman With all your broths your menstrues and materialls Of pisse and egge-shells womens termes mans bloud Haire o' the head burnt clouts chalke merds and clay Poulder of bones scalings of iron glasse And worlds of other strange ingredients Would burst a man to name SVB. And all these nam'd Intending but one thing which art our writers Vs'd to obscure their art MAM. Sir so I told him Because the simple idiot should not learne it And make it vulgar SVB. Was not all the knowledge Of the Egyptians writ in mystick symboles Speake not the Scriptures oft in parables Are not the choisest fables of the Poets That were the fountaines and first springs of wisedome Wrapt in perplexed allegories MAM. I vrg'd that And clear'd to him that SISIPHVS was damn'd To roule the ceaslesse stone onely because He would haue made ours common Dol is seene Who is this SVB. God's precious What doe you meane Goe in good lady Let me intreat you Where 's this varlet FAC. Sir SVB. You very knaue doe you vse me thus FAC. Wherein sir SVB. Goe in and see you traitor Goe MAM. Who is it sir SVB. Nothing sir Nothing MAM. What 's the matter good sir I haue not seene you thus distemp'red Who is 't SVB. All arts haue still had sir their aduersaries But ours the most ignorant What now FAC. 'T was not m y fault sir shee would speake with you SVB. Would she sir Follow me MAM. Stay Lungs FAC. I dare not sir MAM. How 'Pray thee stay FAC. She 's mad sir and sent hether MAM. Stay man what is shee FAC. A lords sister sir Hee 'll be mad too MAM. I warrant thee Why sent hether FAC. Sir to be cur'd SVB. Why raskall FAC. Loe you Here sir MAM. 'Fore-god a BRADAMANTE a braue piece SVR. Hart this is a bawdy-house I 'll be burnt else MAM. O by this light no Doe not wrong him H 'is Too scrulous that way It is his vice No h 'is a rare physitian doe him right An excellent Paracelsian and has done Strange cures with minerall physicke He deales all With spirits he He will not heare a word Of GALEN or his tedious recipe's How now Lungs FAC. Softly sir speake softly I meant To ha' told your worship all This must not heare MAM. No he will not be gull'd let him alone FAC. Y' are very right sir shee is a most rare schollar And is gone mad with studying BRAVGHTONS workes If you but name a word touching the Hebrew Shee falls into her fit and will discourse So learnedly of genealogies As you would runne mad too to heare her sir MAM. How might one doe t' haue conference with her Lungs FAC. O diuers haue runne mad vpon the conference I doe not know sir I am sent in hast To fetch a violl SVR. Be not gull'd sir MAMMON MAM. Wherein 'Pray yee be patient SVR. Yes as you are And trust confederate knaues and bawdes and whores MAM. You are too foule beleeue it Come here Ulen One word FAC. I dare not in good faith MAM. Stay knaue FAC. H 'is extreme angrie that you saw her sir MAM. Drinke that What is shee when shee 's out of her fit FAC. O the most affablest creature sir so merry So pleasant shee 'll mount you vp like quick-siluer Ouer the helme and circulate like oyle A very vegetall discourse of state Of mathematiques bawdry any thing MAM. Is shee no way accessible no meanes No trick to giue a man a tast of her wit Or so Ulen FAC. I 'll come to you againe sir MAM. SVRLY I did not thinke one o' your breeding Would traduce personages of
VARGVNTEIVS LONGINVS CVRIVS LECCA BESTIA FVLVIVS GABINIVS To them _HAile LVCIVS CATILINE VAR. Haile noble SERGIVS LON. Haile PVB LENTVLâ¹ CVR. Haile the third CORNELIâ¹ LEC. CAIVS CETHEGVS HAILE CET. Haile sloth and words In steed of men and spirits CAT. Nay deare CAIVS CET. Are your eyes yet vnsee'ld Dare they looke day In the dull face CAT. Hee 's zealous for the'affaire And blames your tardy comming gentlemen CET. Vnlesse we had sold our selues to sleepe and ease And would be our slaues slaues CAT. Pray you forbeare CET. The north is not so starke and cold CAT. CETHEGVS BES. We shall redeeme all if your fire will let vs. CAT. You are too full of lightning noble CAIVS Boy see all doores be shut that none approch vs On this part of the house Goe you and bid The Priest he kill the slaue I mark'd last night And bring me of his bloud when I shall call him Till then wait all without VAR. How is 't AVTRONIVS AVT. LONGINVS LON. CVRIVS CVR. LECCA VAR. Feele you nothing LON. A strange vn-wonted horror doth inuade me I know not what it is LEC. The day goes back A darknesse coes ouer the place Or else my senses CVR. As at ATREVS feast FVL. Darknesse growes more and more LEN. The vestall flame I thinke be out GAB. What grone was that CET. Our phant'sies A grone of many people is heard under ground Another Strike fire out of our selues and force a day AVT. Againe it sounds BES. As all the citie gaue it CET. We feare what our selves faine VAR. What light is this A fiery light appeares CVR. Looke forth LEN. It still growes greater LEC. From whence comes it LON. A bloudy arme it is that holds a pine Lighted aboue the Capitoll and now It waues vnto vs CAT. Braue and omenous Our enterprise is seal'd CET. In spight of darknesse That would discountenance it Looke no more We loose time and our selues To what we came for Speake LVCIVS we attend you Cat Noblest Romanes If you were lesse or that your faith and vertue Did not hold good that title with your bloud I should not now vnprofitably spend My selfe in words or catch at empty hopes By ayrie wayes for solide certainties But since in many and the greatest dangers I still haue knowne you no lesse true then valiant And that I tast in you the same affections To will or nill to thinke things goode or bad Alike with me Which argues your firme friendship I dare the boldlier with you set on foot Or leade vnto this great and goodliest action What I haue thought of it afore you all Haue heard apart I then express'd my zeale Vnto the glorie now the neede enflames me When I fore-thinke the hard conditions Our states must vnder-goe except in time We doe redeeme our selues to libertie And breake the yron yoke forg'd for our necks For what lesse can we call it when we see The common-wealth engross'd so by a few The giants of the state that doe by turnes Enjoy her and defile her All the earth Her Kings and Tetrarchs are their tributaries People and nations pay them hourely stipends The riches of the world flowes to their coffers And not to Romes While but those few the rest How euer great we are honest and valiant Are hearded with the vulgar and so kept As we were onely bred to consume corne Or weare out wooll to drinke the cities water Vngrac'd without authoritie or marke Trembling beneath their rods to whom if all Were well in Rome We should come forth bright axes All places honors offices are theirs Or where they will conferre 'hem They leaue vs The dangers the repulses iudgements wants Which how long will you beare most valiant spirits Were we not better to fall once with vertue Then draw a wretched and dishonor'd breath To loose with shame when these mens pride will laugh I call the faith of gods and men to question The power is in our hands our bodies able Our mindes as strong o' th' contrary in them All things growne aged with their wealth and yeeres There wants but onely to beginne the businesse The issue is certaine CET. LON. On let vs goe on CVR. BES. Goe on braue SERGIVS CAT. It doth strike my soule And who can scape the stroke that hath a soule Or but the smallest aire of man within him To see them swell with treasure which they powre Out i' their riots eating drinking building I i' the sea planing of hills with valleyes And raysing vallies aboue hills whilst we Haue not to giue our bodies necessaries They ha' their change of houses mannors lordships We scarce a fire or poore houshold Lar They buy rare Atticke statues Tyrian hangings Ephesian pictures and Corinthian plate Attalicke garments and now new-found gemmes Since POMPEY went for Asia which they purchase At price of prouinces The riuer Phasis Cannot affoord 'hem fowle nor Lucrine lake Oysters enow Circei too is search'd To please the witty gluttony of a meale Their ancient habitations they neglect And set vp new then if the eccho like not In such a roome they pluck downe those build newer Alter them too and by all frantick wayes Vexe their wild wealth as they molest the people From whom they force it yet they cannot tame Or ouer-come their riches Not by making Bathes orchards fish-pooles letting in of seas Here and then there forcing 'hem out againe With mountaynous heaps for which the earth hath lost Most of her ribs as entrailes being now Wounded no lesse for marble then for gold We all this while like calme benum'd Spectators Sit till our seates doe cracke and doe not heare The thundring ruines whilst at home our wants Abroad our debts doe vrge vs our states daily Bending to bad our hopes to worse and what Is left but to be crush'd Wake wake braue friends And meet the libertie you oft haue wish'd for Behold renowne riches and glory court you Fortune holds out these to you as rewards Me thinkes though I were dumbe th' affaire it selfe The opportunity your needs and dangers With the braue spoile the warre brings should inuite you Vse me your generall or souldier neither My minde nor body shall be wanting to you And being Consul I not doubt t' effect All that you wish if trust not flatter me And you 'd not rather still be slaues then free CET. Free free LON. 'T is freedom CVR. Freedom we all stand for CAT. Why these are noble voyces Nothing wants then But that we take a solemne sacrament To strengthen our designe CET. And so to act it Differring hurts where powers are so prepar'd AVT. Yet ere we enter into open act With fauour 't were no losse if 't might be enquir'd What the condition of these armes would be VAR. I and the meanes to carry vs through CAT. How friends Thinke you that I would bid you graspe the winde Or call you to th' embracing of a cloud Put your knowne valures on
shall obserue their grauitie And their reseruednesse their many cautions Fitting their persons SEM. I doe wonder much That states and common-wealths employ not women To be Ambassadors sometimes we should Doe as good publike seruice and could make As honorable spies for so THVCIDIDES Calls all Ambassadors Are they come CETHEGVS CET. Doe you aske me Am I your scout or baud LEN. O CAIVS it is no such businesse CET. No What do's a woman at it then SEM. Good sir There are of vs can be as exquisite traytors As ere a male-conspirator of you all CET. I at smock-treason matron I beleeue you And if I were your husband but when I Trust to your cob-web-bosomes any other Let me there die a slie and feast you spider LEN. You are too sowre and harsh CETHEGVS CET. You Are kind and courtly I l'd be torne in pieces With wild HIPPOLYTVS nay proue the death Euery limbe ouer e're I l'd trust a woman With wind could I retaine it SEM. Sir They 'll be trusted With as good secrets yet as you haue any And carry'hem too as close and as conceal'd As you shall for your heart CET. I le not contend with you Either in tongue or carriage good CALIPSO LON. Th' ambassadors are come CET. Thanks to thee MERCVRY That so hast rescu'd me LEN. How now VOLTVRTIVS VOL. They doe desire some speech with you in priuate LEN. O! 't is about the prophecie belike And promise of the SIBYLLIS GAB. It may be SEM. Shun they to treat with me too GAB. No good lady You may partake I haue told 'hem who you are SEM. I should be loth to be left out and here too CET. Can these or such be any aides to vs Looke they as they were built to shake the world Or be a moment to our enterprise A thousand such as they are could not make One atome of our soules They should be men Worth heauens feare that looking vp but thus Would make IOVE stand vpon his guard and draw Himselfe within his thonder which amaz'd He should discharge in vaine and they vn-hurt Or if they were like CAPANEVS at Thebes They should hang dead vpon the highest spires And aske the second bolt to be throwne downe Why LENTVLVS talke you so long This time Had beene enough t' haue scatter'd all the starres T' haue quench'd the sunne and moone and made the world Despaire of day or any light but ours LEN. How doe you like this spirit In such men Mankind doth liue They are such soules as these That moue the world SEM. I though he beare me hard I yet mustdoe him right He is a spirit Of the right MARTIAN breed ALL. He is a MARS Would we had time to liue here and admire him LEN. Well I doe see you would preuent the Consul And I commend your care It was but reason To aske our lettters and we had prepar'd them Goe in and we will take an oath and seale 'hem You shall haue letters too to CATILINE To visite him i' the way and to confirme The association This our friend VOLTVRTIVS Shall goe along with you Tell our great generall That were readie here that LVCIVS BESTIA The Tribune is prouided of a speech To lay the enuie of the warre on CICERO That all but long for his approach and person And then you are made free-men as our selues CICERO FLACCVS POMTINIVS SANGA I cannot feare the warre but to succeed well Both for the honor of the cause and worth Of him that doth command For my colleague Being so ill affected with the gout Will not be able to be there in person And then PETREIVS his lieutenant must Of need take charge o' the armie who is much The better souldier hauing beene a Tribune Prefect Lieutenant Prator in the warre These thirtie yeeres so conuersant i' the armie As he knowes all the souldiers by their names FLA. They 'll fight then brauely with him POM. I and he Will lead 'hem on as brauely CIC. They'haue a foe Will aske their braueries whose necessities Will arme him like a furie But how euer I 'le trust it to the anage and the fortune of good PETREIVS who 's a worthy patriot METELLVS CELER with three legions too Will stop their course for Gallia How now FABIVS SAN. The traine hath taken You must instantly Dispose your guards vpon the Miluian bridge For by that way they meane to come CIC. Then thither POMTINIVS and FLACCVS I must pray you To lead that force you haue and seize them all Let not a person scape Th' ambassadors Will yeeld themselues If there be any tumult I le send you aide I in meane time will call LENTVLVS to me GABINIVS and CETHEGVS STATILIVS CEPARIVS and all these By seuerall messengers who no doubt will come Without sense or suspicion Prodigall men Feele not their owne stocke wasting When I haue 'hem I le place those guards vpon 'hem that they start not SAN. But what 'll you doe with SEMPRONIA CIC. A states anger Should not take knowledge eyther of fooles or women I do not know whether my ioy or care Ought to be greater that I haue discouer'd So foule a treason or must vndergoe The enuie of so many great mens fate But happen what there can I will be iust My fortune may forsake me not my vertue That shall goe with me and before me still And glad me doing well though I heare ill PRAETORS ALLOBROGES VOLTVRTIVS FLA. Stand who goes there ALL. We are th' ALLOBROGES And friends of Rome POM. If you be so then yeeld Your selues vnto the Praetors who in name Of the whole Senate and the people of Rome Yet till you cleare your selues charge you of practise Against the State VOL. Die friends and be not taken FLA. What voyce is that Downe with 'hem all ALL. We yeeld POM. What 's he stands out Kill him there VOL. Hold hold hold I yeeld vpon conditions FLA. We giue none To traytors strike him downe VOL. My name 's VOLTVRTIVS I know POMTINIVS POM. But he knowes not you While you stand out vpon these trayterous termes VOL. I 'le yeeld vpon the safety of my life POM. If it be forfeyted we cannot saue it VOL. Promise to doe your best I am not so guilty As many others I can name and will If you will grant me fauour POM All we can Is to deliuer you to the Consul Take him And thanke the gods that thus haue saued Rome CHORVS NOw do our eares before our eyes Like men in mists Discouer who 'ld the state surprise And who resists And as these clouds doe yeeld to light Now do we see Our thoughts of things how they did fight Which seem'd t' agree Of what strange pieces are we made Who nothing know But as new ayres our eares inuade Still censure so That now doe hope and now doe feare And now enuy And then doe hate and then loue deare But know not why Or if we doe it is so late As our