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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36610	The conquest of Granada by the Spaniards in two parts : acted at the Theatre Royall / written by John Dryden ...; Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1672 (1672)	Wing D2256; ESTC R1594	110,703	208

non-sence who make it that he performs impossibilities they say that being a stranger he appeases two fighting factions when the Authority of their Lawful Soverign could not this is indeed the most improbable of all his actions but 't is far from being impossible Their King had made himself contemptible to his people as the History of Granada tells us and Almanzor though a stranger yet was already known to them by his gallantry in the Juego de toros his engagement on the weaker side and more especially by the character of his person and brave actions given by Abdalla just before and after all the greatness of the enterprize consisted onely in the daring for he had the Kings guards to second him but we have read both of Caesar and many other Generals who have not onely calm'd a Mutiny with a word but have presented themselves single before an Army of their enemies which upon sight of them has revolted from their own Leaders and come over to their trenches In the rest of Almanzors actions you see him for the most part victorious but the same fortune has constantly attended many Heroes who were not imaginary Yet you see it no Inheritance to him for in the first Part he is made a Prisoner and in the last defeated and not able to preserve the City from being taken If the History of the late Duke of Guise be true he hazarded more and perform'd not less in Naples than Almanzor is feign'd to have done in Granada I have been too tedious in this Apology but to make some satisfaction I will leave the rest of my Play expos'd to the Criticks without defence The concernment of it is wholly past from me and ought to be in them who have been favorable to it and are somewhat oblig'd to defend their own opinions That there are errors in it I deny not Aft opere in tanto fas est obrepere Somnum But I have already swept the stakes and with the common good fortune of prosperous Gamesters can be content to sit quietly to hear my fortune curst by some and my faults arraign'd by others and to suffer both without reply On Mr. Dryden's Play The Conquest of GRANADA TH' applause I gave among the foolish Croud Was not distinguish'd though I clap'd aloud Or if it had my judgment had been hid I clap'd for Company as others did Thence may be told the fortune of your Play Its goodness must be try'd another way Let 's judge it then and if we 've any skill Commend what 's good though we commend it ill There will be Praise enough yet not so much As if the world had never any such Ben Iohnson Beaumont Fletcher Shakespear are As well as you to have a Poets share You who write after have besides this Curse You must write better or you else write worse To equal only what was writ before Seems stoln or borrow'd from the former store Though blind as Homer all the Antients be 'T is on their shoulders like the Lame we see Then not to flatter th' Age nor flatter you Praises though less are greater when they 'r true You 'r equal to the best outdone by you Who had outdone themselves had they liv'd now Vaughan PROLOGUE to the First Part. Spoken by Mris. Ellen Guyn in a broad-brim'd hat and wast belt THis jeast was first of t'other houses making And five times try'd has never fail'd of taking For 't were a shame a Poet shoud be kill'd Vnder the shelter of so broad a shield This is that hat whose very sight did win yee To laugh and clap as though the Devil were in yee As then for Nokes so now I hope you 'l be So dull to laugh once more for love of me I 'll write a Play sayes one for I have got A broad-brim'd hat and wastbelt tow'rds a Plot. Sayes t'other I have one more large than that Thus they out-write each other with a hat The brims still grew with every Play they writ And grew so large they cover'd all the wit Hat was the Play 't was language wit and tale Like them that find Meat drink and cloth in Ale What dulness do these Mungrill-wits confess When all their hope is acting of a dress Thus two the best Comedians of the Age Must be worn out with being blocks o' th' Stage Like a young Girl who better things has known Beneath their Poets Impotence they groan See now what Charity it was to save They thought you lik'd what onely you forgave And brought you more dull sence dull sence much worse Than brisk gay Non-sence and the heavyer Curse They bring old Ir'n and glass upon the Stage To barter with the Indians of our Age. Still they write on and like great Authors show But 't is as Rowlers in wet gardens grow Heavy with dirt and gath'ring as they goe May none who have so little understood To like such trash presume to praise what 's good And may those drudges of the Stage whose fate Is damn'd dull farce more dully to translate Fall under that excise the State thinks fit To set on all French wares whose worst is wit French farce worn out at home is sent abroad And patch'd up here is made our English mode Hence forth let Poets ' ere allow'd to write Be search'd like Duellists before they fight For wheel-broad hats dull humour all that chasse Which makes you mourn and makes the Vulgar laugh For these in Playes are as unlawful Arms As in a Combat Coats of Mayle and Charms Persons Represented MEN. By Mahomet Boabdelin the last King of Granada Mr. Kynaston Prince Abdalla his Brother Mr. Lydall Abdelmelech chief of the Abencerrages Mr. Mohun Zulema chief of the Zegrys Mr. Harris Abenamar an old Abencerago Mr. Cartwright Selin an old Zegry Mr. Wintershall Ozmyn a brave young Abencerago son to Abenamar Mr. Beeston Hamet brother to Zulema a Zegry Mr. Watson Gomel a Zegry Mr. Powell Almanzor Mr. Hart. Ferdinand King of Spain Mr. Littlewood Duke of Arcos his General Mr. Bell. Don Alonzo d' Aguilar a Spanish Captain WOMEN By Almahide Queen of Granada Mrs. Ellen. Guyn Lyndaraxa Sister to Zulema a Zegry Lady Mrs. Marshall Benzayda daughter to Selin Mrs. Bowtell Esperanza slave to the Queen Mrs. Reeve Halyma slave to Lyndaraxa Mrs. Eastland Isabella Queen of Spain Mrs. Ieames Messengers Guards Attendants Men and Women The SCENE in Granada and the Christian Camp besieging it Almanzor and Almabide Or The CONQUEST OF Granada The First Part. Boabdelin Abenamar Abdelmelech Guards Boab. THus in the Triumphs of soft Peace I reign And from my Walls defy the Powr's of Spain With pomp and Sports my Love I celebrate While they keep distance attend my State Parent to her whose eyes my Soul inthrall To Aben. Whom I in hope already Father call Abenamar thy Youth these sports has known Of which thy age is now Spectator grown Judge-like thou sitst to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the