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A03189	The brazen age the first act containing, the death of the centaure Nessus, the second, the tragedy of Meleager: the third the tragedy of Iason and Medea. The fourth. Vulcans net the fifth. The labours and death of Hercules: written by Thomas Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1613 (1613)	STC 13310; ESTC S104054	44,355	84

Buls are discouered the Fleece hanging ouer them and the Dragon sleeping beneath them Medea with strange fiery-workes hangs aboue in the Aire in the strange habite of a Coniuresse Medea The hidden power of Earth Aire Water Fire Shall from this place to Iasons helpe conspire Fire withstand fire and magicke temper flame By my strong spels the sauadge monster's tame So that 's perform'd now take the Vipers teeth And sow them in the furrowed field of Mars Of which strange seed men ready arm'd must grow To assault Iason Already from beneath Their deadly pointed weapons gin to appeare And now their heads thus moulded in the earth Streight way shall teeme and hauing freed their fate The stalkes by which they grow all violently Pursue the valiant Greeke but by my sorcery I 'le turne their armed points against themselues And all these slaues that would on Iason flie shoutes Shall wound themselues and by sedition die Yet thriues the Greeke now kill the sleeping snake Which I haue charm'd and thence the Trophy take These shouts witnesse his conquest I le discend Heare Iasons feares and all my charmes take end Hercules Oetes how is this rich and pretious Fleece By Iasons sword repurchast and must turne Vnto the place whence Phrixus brought his Ramme Oetes That practise by your ruins I le preuent And sooner then with that returne to Greece Your slaughtered bodies leaue with this rich fleece Iason Since our aduenture is atchieu'd and done The prize is ours we ceize what we haue wone Oetes Enioy it Iason I admire thy worth Which as it hath exceeded admiration So must we needs applaud it Noble gentlemen Depart not Colchos ere your worths and valour We with some rich and worthy gifts present The conquest of our Buls and Dragons death Though we esteem'd them yet they sad vs not Since we behold the safety of this prince Enter our palace and your praise sownd hye Where you shall feast or all by treason dye Exeunt Absyr. I haue not seeene my sister to day I muse she hath not beene at this solemnity me thinkes she should not haue lost this triumph I haue a note to deliuer her from my father Here she comes Enter Medea Sister peruse this briefe you know the character It is my fathers This is all Exit She reads Medea Iason with his Argonauts this night must perish the fleece not be trāsported to Greece Medea your assistance This is my fathers plot to ouerthrow Prince Iason and the noble Argonauts Which I l'e preuent I know the King is sudden And if preuention be delay'd they dye I that haue ventured thus farre for a loue Euen to these arts that Nature would haue hid As dangerous and forbidden shall I now Vndoe what I haue done through womanish feare Paternall duty or for filiall loue No Iason thou art mine and my desire Shall wade with thee through bloud through seas through fire Enter Iason Iason Madam Medea My Lord I know what you would say Thinke now vpon your life the King my father Intends your ruine to redeeme the fleece And it repurchase with your tragicke deaths Therefore assemble all your Argonauts And let them in the silence of the night Lanch from the Colchian harbour I l'e associate you As Iasons bride Iason You are my patronesse And vnder you I triumph when the least Of all these graces I forget the Gods Reuenge on me my hated periury Must we then lanch this night you are my directresse And by your art I l'e manage all my actions Medea Then flye I l'e send to see your Argoe trim'd Rig'd and made tight night comes the time growes on Hye then aboord Iason I shall Exit Medea Now populous Greece Thanke vs not Iason for this conquer'd fleece Enter Oetes Oetes Medea we are rob'd despoil'd dishonored Our Fleece rap't hence we must not suffer it Since all our ominous fortunes it includes I am resolu'd Iason this night shall dye Medea Should he suruiue you might be held vnworthy The name of King my hand shall be as deepe As yours in his destruction Oetes A strong guard I will select and in the dead of night When they are sunke in Lethe set vpon them And kill them in their beds Medea I l'e second you And laue my stain'd hands in their reeking blouds That practise your dishonour Oetes Iason then dyes When he most hopes for this rich Colchian prize Exit Medea But ere the least of all these ils betide This Colchian strond shall with thy bloud be dy'd For Iason and his Argonauts I stand And will protect them with my art and hand Enter Iason with the Fleece and all the Greekes muffled Iason Madam Medea Leaue circumstance away Hoyse vp your sailes death and destruction Attends you on the shoare Iason You 'l follow Madam Exit Medea Instantly Blow gentle gales assist them winds and tide That I may Greece see liue Iasons bride Enter Absyrtus Absyr. How now sister so solitary Medea Oh happy met though it be late Absyrtus You must along with me Absyr. Whither pray Medea I l'e tell you as we walke This lad betweene me and all harme shall stand And if the King pursue vs with his Fleet His mangled limbes shall scattered in the way Worke our escape and the Kings speed delay Come brother Absyr. Any where with you sister exeunt Enter HOMER Hom. Let none to whom true Art is not deny'd Our monstrous Buls and magicke Snakes deride Some thinke this rich Fleece was a golden Booke The leaues of parchment or the skins of Rammes Which did include the Art of making gold By Chimicke skill and therfore rightly stild The Golden Fleece which to attaine and compasse Includes as many trauels mysteries Changes and Chymicke bodies fires and monsters As euer Iason could in Colchos meet The sages and the wise to keepe their Art From being vulgar yet to haue them tasted With appetite and longing giue those glosses And flourishes to shadow what they write Which might at once breed wonder and delight So did th' Aegyptians in the Arts best try'd In Hierogliphickes all their Science hide But to proceed the Argonauts are fled Whom the inrag'd Oetes doth pursue And being in sight Medea takes the head Of yong Absyrtus whom vnkinde she slue And all his other limbes strawes in the way Of the old father his pursute to stay The Shew In memory of this inhumane deed These Islands where his slaughtered limbes lye spred Were cal'd Absyrtides But we proceed With King Laomedon 'gainst whom are led The Argonauts Troy by Alcides rac'd Askes the next place and must in ranke be plac'd Enter Laomedon Priam Anchises Aeneas Hesione c. Lao. The Argonauts return'd Anchi. They are my Lord Lao. And landed Anchi. Landed Lao. Where Anchi. At Tenedos Lao. Could not those Colchian monsters in their bowels Bury the Greekes but must they all suruiue To threat vs with inuasion Speake Anchises March they towards Troy Anchis. In conduct of the

sprighly Heroes he at Colchos aimes Where the rich Fleece must publish their high fames Enter Deianeira and Lychas to her Hercules receiued with ioy after the presentment of some of his labours To them march in all the Argonauts Iason Telamon Atreus Castor Pollux Theseus c. Iason perswades Hercules to the aduenture hee leaues Deianeira and marcheth off with the Argonauts Imagine now these Princes vnder saile Stearing their course as farre as high-rear'd Troy Where King Laomedon doth much bewaile His daughter whom a Sea-whale must destroy Obserue this well for here begins the iarre Made Troy rack't after in a ten yeares warre Sownd Enter King Laomedon Anchifes yong Priam Aeneas Hesione bound with other Lords and Ladyes Laomed. Hesione this is thy last on earth Whose fortunes we may mourne though not preuent Would Troy whose walles I did attempt to reare Had nere growne higher then their ground-fils or In their foundation buried beene and lost Since their high structure must be thus maintain'd With bloud of our bright Ladyes Oh Hesione Th' onely remainder of these female dames Begot by vs I must be thy body To be the food of Neptunes monstrous Whale Priam Had you kept troth and promise with the Gods This had not chanc't You borrowed of the Priests Of Neptune and Apollo Sea and Sunne That quantity of gold which to this height And spacious compasse hath immur'd great Troy But the worke finish't you deny'd to pay The Priests their due for which inraged Neptune Assembled his high tides thinking to drowne Our lofty buildings and to ruine Troy But when the Moone by which the Seas are gouern'd Retir'd his waters by her powerfull wane He left behind him such infectious slime Which the Sunne poysoning by his persant beames They by their mutuall power rais'd a hot plague To slacke this hot pest Neptune made demand Monthly a Lady to be chus'd by lot To glut his huge Sea-monsters rauenous iawes The lot this day fell on Hesione Our beauteous sister Laom. Priam 't is too true Till now Laomedon nere knew his guilt Or thought the Gods could punish Hesio. Royall father Mourne not for me the Gods must be appeas'd And I in this am happy that my death Is made th' attonement 'tweene those angry powers And your afflicted people though my Innocence Neuer deseru'd such rigor from the Gods Come good Anchises binde me to this rocke And let my body glut th' insatiate fury Of angry Neptune and th' offended Sunne Anchis. A more vnwilling monster neuer past Anchises hand Laom. Now now the time drawes nye That my sweet childe by Neptunes whale must dye Priam The very thought of it swallowes my heart As deepe in sorrow as the monster can Bury my sister A great showt within Laom. Soft what clamor 's that Aeneas A stately ship well rig'd with swelling failes Enters the harbour bound by their report For Colchos but when they beheld the shores Couered with multitudes and spy'd from farre Your beauteous daughter fastned to the rocke They made to know the cause which certified One noble Greeke amongst these Heroes stands And offers to incounter Neptunes whale And free from death the bright Hesione Laom. Thou hast Aeneas quickned me from death And added to my date a second Age Admit them Enter Hercules Iason Castor Pollux Theseus and all the Argonauts Herc. 'T is told vs that thy name 's Laomedon And that thy beauteous daughter must this day Feed a sea-monster how wilt thou reward The man that shall incounter Neptunes whale Tugge with that fiend vpon thy populous strond And with my club sowse on his armed scales Hast thou not heard of Theban Hercules I that haue aw'd the earth and ransack't hell Will through the Ocean hunt the God of streames And chace him from the deepe Abismes below I l'e dare the Sea-god from his watery deepes If he take part with this Leuiathan Laom. Thy name and courage warlike Hercules Assures her life if thou wilt vndertake This hauty quest two milke white steeds the best Asia ere bred shall be thy valours prize Herc. We accept them keepe thy faith Laomedon If thou but break'st with Ioue-borne Hercules These marble structures built with virgins bloud I l'e raze euen with the earth When comes the monster Hesione Now now helpe Ioue A cry within Herc. I see him sweepe the sea 's along Blow riuers through his nostrils as he glides As if he meant to quench the Sunnes bright fire And bring a palped darknesse ore the earth He opes his iawes as if to swallow Troy And at one yawne whole thousands to destroy Lao. Fly flye into the Citty Exeunt the Troians Herc. Take along This beauteous Lady if he must haue pray In stead of her Alcides here will stay Iason The heartlesse Troians fly into the towne At fight of yon sea-diuell here wee 'l stand To wait the conquest of thy Iouiall hand Herc. Gramercy Iason see he comes in tempest I l'e meet him in a storme as violent And with one stroke which this right hand shall aime Ding him into th' abisse from whence he came Hercules kils the Sea-Monster the Troians on the walles the Greekes below Priam The monster 's slaine my beautuous sister freed Iason Be euer for this noble deed renown'd Let Asia speake thy praise Telam. The Argonauts Are glorifi'd by this victorious act Priam All Troy shall consecrate to Hercules Temples and Altars le ts descend and meet him Laom. Stay none presume to stirre wee 'l parly them First from the walles Herc. Why doth not Troy's King from those wals descend And since I haue redeem'd Hesione Present my trauels with two milke-white steeds The prize of my indeuours Lao. Hercules we owe thee none none will we tender thee Thou hast won thee honour a reward sufficient For thy attempt our gates are shut against thee Nor shall you enter you are Greekish spies And come to pry but where our land is weake Priam Oh royall father Laom. Peace boy Greekes away For imminent death attends on your delay Herc. The Sea nere bred a monster halfe so vile As this Land-fiend Darst threaten Hercules Would vniuersall Troy were in one frame That I might whelme it on thy cursed head And crowne thee in thy ruine Menace vs Laom. Depart our walles or we will fire your Argoe Lying in our harbour and preuent your purpose In the atchieuement of the golden fleece Herc. Laomedon I l'e tosse thee from thy walles Batter thy gates to shiuers with my Club Nor will I leaue these broad Scamander plaines Til thy aspiring Towers of Illium Lye leuell with the place on which we stand Iason Great Hercules th' aduenture fals to me Our voyage bent for Colchos not for Troy The golden fleece and not Laomedon Why should we hazard here our Argonauts Or spend our selues on accidentall wrongs Telam. Iason aduiseth well great Hercules We should dishonour him and th' expectation Greece hath of vs delude by this delay