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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11909	Seneca his tenne tragedies, translated into Englysh; Tragedies. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Heywood, Jasper, 1535-1598.; Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614.; Studley, John, 1545?-1590?; T. N. (Thomas Nuce), d. 1617.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1581 (1581)	STC 22221; ESTC S117108	299,823	450

your subiectes all Ne. Our foes to slea a cheftaynes vertue call Se. A worthier vertue t is in countries syre His people to defend with sword and fyre Ne. It wel beseemes such aged wightes to teach Vnbridled springolles yong and not to preache Both to a man and prince of ryper yeares Se. May rather frolicke youthful bloud appeares To haue more neede of counsell wyse and graue Ne. This age sufficient reason ought to haue Se. That heauenly powers your doinges may allow Ne A madnes t' were to Gods for me to bow When I my selfe can make such Gods to be As Claudius now ycounted is we see Se. So much the more because so much you may Ne. Our power permittes vs all without denay Se. Geue slender trust to Fortunes flattring face She topsie turuy turnes her wheele apace Ne. A patch he is that knoweth not what he may Se. A Princes prayse I compted haue alway To do that same which with his honor stoode Not that which franticke fancy counteth good Ne. If that I were a meacocke or a slouch Each stubborne clubbish daw would make mee couch Se. And whom they hate with force they ouerquell Ne. Then dynt of sword the prince defendeth well Se. But fayth more sure defence doth seeme to mee Ne. Ful meete it is that Caesar dreaded be Se. More meete of subiectes for to be belou'd Ne. From subiects myndes feare must not be remou'd Se. What so by force of armes you do wringe out A grieuous worke it is to bring aboute Ne. Well hardly then our will let them obay Se. Will nothing then but that which wel you may Ne. We wil decree what we shall best suppose Se. What peoples voyce doth ioyntly bynd or lose Let that confirmed stand Ne. Swordes bloudy dynt Shal cause them else at me to take their hint Se. God sheeld and far that facte from you remoue Ne. What then why Senec do you that approue That we contemnde despysde and set at nought With finger put in hole ful wysely wrought Our bodies bloud to seeke should them abyde That they might vs sometyme destroy vnspyde Their natiue countrey boundes to banisht bee Nor Plautius brest nor Scillas eake we see Hath broke or camd whose cankred churlish yre Shapes bloudy freakes to quench our bodyes fyre And chiefly when these trayterous absent clounes Such wondrous fauour fynd in cityes bownes Which those same exiles lingring hope doth feede Suspected foes with sword we wil out weede And so Octauia shall that ioly dame Continue after them their bloudy game And wend that way her nowne whyte brother went Such hye mistrusted thinges must needes be bent Se. It is O Prince a worthy famous thing Amids redoubted Lordes alone to ring And wysely worke your countries prayse to saue And wel your selfe to captiue folke behaue From cruell brutish slaughter to abstayne And voyde of moode to wreake your angry payne And to the world a quiet calme to geue That al your age in peace their liues may liue This is a Princes prayse without al cryme This is the path to heauen wherby we clyme So is Augustus prince and father cald Of countrie first in starbright throne ystald Whom as a God in minsters we adorne Yet troublous fortune tossed him beforne A great while long on lands and ruffling seas Vntil his fathers foes he could appease And throught wars diuerse course could quel them quite To you did fortune yeelde her power and might And raynes of rule without all bloud and fight And to your beck both land and seas hath bent Grim deadly enuye daunted doth relent The Senate Lordes gaue place with free consent The battaylous route of knights with willing hartes That same decree from sager sires departes Vnto the lay mens choyse do well agree Your grace the spring of peace they count to bee And chosen Iudge and guyde of mortal stocke Your grace your countreys sacred syre doth rocke And rule with princely gorgeous tytle bright The cyrcled world in rundel wyse ydight Which mighty mounting name to keepe so great This noble citty Rome doth you entreat And doth commend vnto your royall grace Her liuely limmes in charge for your liues space Ne. The gyft of Gods it is as we discus That Rome with Senate sorte doth honor vs And that the feare of our displeasure great From cankred enuyous stomackes maketh sweat Both humble talke and supplications meeke And were not feare all these would be to seeke Vnweldy combrous cityes members ill That Prince and countrey both do seeke to spill To leaue alyue which swell and puffed bee Bycause of lynage great and high degre What madnes meere is it when as we may Euen with a word such freakes dispatch away Sir Brutus sterne his brawnes and armes did dight His soueraygne liege to slayne by force and might That erst had holpen him and geuen him health And had endued him with princely wealth In brunt of raging warre vndaunted out That vanquisht many people strong and stoute Prince Caesar matcht by great degrees of power To loue in stately chayre of starry bower By diu'lish citizens wicked wyle was slayne What store of bloudy stiffling streames on molde Did tatred Rome of her owne lims beholde He by his noble vertues worthy prayse Whō peoples common bruite to heauē doth raise August among the Gods ysayncted well How many noble breastes did he compel How many springoldes young and hoary heads Each where disperst to lig in molded heds How many men did he bereaue of breath Tofore proscript that were condemnd to death When for the griesly feare of deadly dart From propre home they were constraind to part And flye Octauius force and Lepidus might And not abyde sterne Marke Antonius sight Which then the ample world at once did guyde That into kingdomes three they did deuyde To dumpish sadded syres with heauy cheere Their childrens griesly cropped pates appeere Hong out beforne the Senates iudgement seate For each man to behold in open streate Ne durst they once lament their piteaus case Nor inward seeme to mourne to Claudius face The market stead with bloud from bodies spued And lothsome mattrie streames is all imbrued And quite throughout their faces foule arayed The piteous gubbes of bloud drop downe vnstayd Nor here did this same slaughterous bloudshed stay Phillyps Pharsalia gastly fieldes each day The cromming rauening foules and cruell beastes Long fed with gobbets bigge of manlye breastes Besyde all this the cost he scoured quite Of Sicill sea and ships to ware ydyght With force of armes did win and hauocke made Of propper subiectes slayne with his owne blade The rundle round of landes with mighty mayne Of noble Chieftaynes stroake reboyles agayne Antonius ouercome in Nauale fight To Egipt poastes in shippes preparde to flight Not looking long to liue nor hoping life Incesteous Egipt through Antonius wyfe That worthy Romayne princes bloud did sucke And couerd lye their ghostes with durty mucke Long wicked waged ciuil warre there stayed

decay What beggerly want and wayling hunger may Those villaines shal be sure to haue ech day Ah Prouender pricks that vile rebellious race Ne can they once our fauour well embrace Nor be content with peace in quiet state But broyling raumpe about with troubled gate Hereon with boldnesse straight hereon they flie With harebraind rashnesse hedlong by and by Well they must tamed be with heauy stroke And downe be kept with peise of weighty yoke That they with like attempt do not arise Nor once cast vp their deadly peasaunts eyes Against our louing spouses golden lookes First punish them sure then feare shal be their bookes To teache them at their Princes beck t' obay But see at hand whom fayth and vertue rare Lieuetenant chiefe of camps appointed thare THE FIFTE SCEANE Praefectus Nero THe vulgare peoples rash vnruly rage The slaughter of a fewe did sone asswage Which long with stode our valiant force in vain To tel your grace this newes I come againe Nero. And is this then ynough dost thou so well O souldiour marke what doth thy captaine tell Hast thou with held thy hand from bloudy yre Is this the due reuenge that we requyre Prae. The captaine guides of treason payd their hyre By desperate death of bloudy sword in fight The route which sought with flaming fyre to light Ner. Our royall Pallace great who would assigne Their Prince what he should doe and pull in fine Our mate from vs dissoluing wedlocke bandes Whose hardy slaunderous tongs wicked handes Hir princely grace reprochfully withstandes From due reuenge are they dismissed free Prae. Shall subiectes payne by griefe assigned bee Ner. It shall assigne which time shall neuer weare Prae. Which neither wrath may end nor yet your fear Nero. Shee shall appease our hie displeased minde Who fiyrst our wrath deserued due to finde Praef. Declare whose death your moode doth most require Let not my hande be stayde from your desire Ner. It seekes our sisters death and trayterous hed Prae. Those words through all my lims hath stiffnesse spred Opprest with griesty feare Ner: Vs to obay Stands thou in doubt Praef. On fayth why do you lay So great a fault Ner. Bycause thou sparedst our foe Praef. Deserues a woman to be termed so Nero. If treason she begin Prae. Is any man So sure that hit accuse of creason can Ner. The peoples rage Praef. Those madde vnweldye wights Who order could Ne. Who could stir vp their sprits Prae. No creature as I thincke Ner. A woman could In whome a mind Dame nature hath vpfould To mischiefe prone shee armed hath hir heart To hurt by wyles yet strength shee set apart Least shee vndaunted force with hir should beare But now hir slender power with doubting feare Is quickly quaylde or else with punishment Which hir condemned state to mischiefe bent To late doth ende away with graue aduise Vs with entreating seeke not to entyse Dispatch that we commaund on shipboorde horne Farre off to shore aloofe with dashing worne Commaund shee be that tunlike swelling brest At length in storming stomack may take rest THE SIXTE SCENE Chorus Octauia ALack the peoples bitter loue And dyre good will to many one Which when they hoysted sayles aboue With pleasaunt blastes it made to grone And caried them from quiet shore That faynting leaues them in the deepe And tumbling raging waters rore Cornelia piteous wretch did weepe And sore bewayle hir sonnes estate The peoples loue did vndoe them And wondrous fauour bred them hate Great worthy peeres of noble stem Of high renowne for vertues prayse In fayth and eloquence did pas Their stomacks stout their fame did rayse i th lawes eche one most excellent was And Scipio thee did Fortune yeelde Vnto lyke death and curssed wracke Whom neyther honours pompe coulde sheelde Nor fenced house thy foes keepe backe Moe to repeate although I coulde Pure present griefe forbiddeth sore Ere whyle to whom the people woulde Her Fathers antique Courte restore And Brothers wedlocke once againe Now weeping wringing hands poore wretch Vnto hir cruell deadly payne The armed souldiours doe hir fetch How safe doth pouerty lye content In thetched house safe shrouded there High raysed towers with blasts are bent Which often tymes them ouer beare Oct. Where pull you mee poore wretch alas Into what banisht exiles place Woulde Nero haue mee for to passe Or Fortune bids with frowning face If now with faynting strength quite coolde And with my broyles all wearied ceasse And longer lyfe shee graunt mee woolde If that shee worke for to increase My sorrowes great with deadly dart Why is she then so much my foe In country that I may not part And leaue my life before I goe But now no helpe of health I feele Alas I see my Brothers boate This is the same whose vaulted keele His Mother once did set a clote And now his piteous Sister I Excluded cleane from spousall place Shall be so caried by and by No force hath vertue in this case No Gods there be my woes to wrecke The griefly dreadfull drab Eryn Doth weld the worlde at nod and becke Who can lament my state wherein I am alas sufficientlie How can Aedon duely playne My smarting streames at beares that I Do shedde whose wings I would be fame If destnies would them graunt to weare Then would I leaue my mourning mates As swiftly fled as wings could beare Aud so auoyde these bloudy pates Then sitting sole in shirwood shirle And hanging sure by dandling twigge VVith plaintiue pipe I might out twarle My heauy tuned note so bigge Chor. The mortalt broode the destnies guide Themselues they nothing can assure That certainly doth stedfast bide VVhich our last day of life procure VVhere of we alwayes should beware Much daungerous chaunces for to try Vnto your troubled minde with care Now many saumples do applys Which your accursed court hath brought To holden you in all your broyle For what hath more your troubles wrought What doth against you sorer toyle Than fortune doth the first of all Agrippas childe brought forth to life Whome we Tyberius daughter call By lawe and eke Prince Caesars wife Of many sonnes a carefull dame I cannot chose but now recount Whose worthy glorious ample name Throughout the world doth much surmount So oft with belly bolne that bare Desyred fruicts and peaces pledge Ere long thou sufferedst exiles care Strypes chaines and boltes of yron wedge And mourning much which so did frame That death they causde thee to abyde So Liuia Drusus lucky name In male kinde babes did hedling slyde Into a cruell monstrous deede And death sore pearcing deadly dart Hir mothers fates doth Iulia speede To folow streight with all hir heart Who after longer wasted time With bloudy fauchion kene was slaine Although for no iust cause or crime Your mother eke that once did raigne Who then esteemd of Claudius well Did wisely weld his court at will And fruitfull was as you can tell What could not