Actus
Primus
,
Scena
Prima
.
Amandus
,
Consolario
.
Cons.
SIr
,
do
not
grieve
,
it
is
the
chance
of
warre
,
Cheer
up
,
&
triumph
in
despight
of
fortune
,
What
fals
without
the
compasse
of
redresse
To
sorrow
for
,
argues
a
feeble
spirit
,
And
it
doth
nothing
suit
your
Princely
minde
Too
much
to
yeeld
to
passion
.
Amand.
I
confesse
,
Morall
Philosophy
doth
teach
as
much
,
And
you
have
given
me
precepts
,
read
me
lectures
Of
fickle
fortunes
mutability
,
How
madly
,
and
without
consideration
,
She
doth
conferre
her
favours
,
yet
my
sufferings
(
How
great
you
know
my
faithfull
Consolario
)
Are
of
that
nature
,
as
but
counterpoiz'd
In
equall
ballance
with
weake
humane
frailty
,
They
would
in
spite
of
my
resistance
weigh
me
Down
,
down
unto
she
ground
.
Cons.
How
noble
Prince
,
Your
passion
hath
unrectifi'd
your
minde
,
And
lead
you
into
errour
,
did
you
never
Read
and
believe
what
Scipio
Affricanus
Said
unto
some
commanders
of
his
army
?
That
he
did
shew
a
greater
magnanimity
In
mastering
the
affections
of
his
minde
,
Then
in
o'rethrowing
armies
,
conquering
kingdomes
.
Apply
this
noble
Roman
,
to
your selfe
,
Sweet
Prince
Amandus
,
what
although
your
state
Be
desperate
now
,
your
Country
almost
ruin'd
,
Your
army
fled
,
and
your
chiefe
City
strait
Besieg'd
by
these
Barbarians
,
if
you
can
Beare
with
a
constant
patience
what
the
will
Of
heaven
doth
lay
on
you
,
no
doubt
you
shall
Purchase
a
greater
glory
to
your selfe
By
manly
suffering
what
yon
cannot
helpe
,
Than
Geolon
the
Tartar
,
though
the
fates
Surrender
faire
Damascus
to
his
hands
.
Amand.
Why
should
the
partiall
fates
be
so
unjust
,
So
cruell
to
me
?
had
my
fortune
been
Good
as
my
right
,
the
lot
of
griefe
had
falne
Vpon
another
soile
:
and
thou
my
Country
,
My
dearest
Country
,
hadst
not
felt
these
wrongs
,
These
miseries
of
warre
thou
now
sustainest
;
The
carefull
husbandman
had
then
enjoy'd
His
harvest
to
himselfe
,
and
reap'd
the
fruits
Of
his
owne
labours
,
had
not
seene
his
house
Burnt
to
the
very
ground
,
his
Vineyards
spoil'd
,
His
fields
laid
waste
;
the
wofull
father
then
With
bleeding
heart
had
not
beheld
his
daughter
,
His
fairest
daughter
ravish'd
in
his
sight
,
And
his
chaste
wife
lye
prostituted
to
The
lust
of
common
souldiers
,
whilst
alas
He
stands
spectator
of
the
loathed
Scene
,
Whose
death
at
last
shuts
up
the
tragedy
:
These
things
had
never
hapned
if
my
cause
,
Had
been
consider'd
,
nor
this
stately
City
(
Whose
lofty
turrets
wrap
themselves
in
clouds
)
Had
never
been
begirt
thus
round
about
By
forraine
foes
.
Enter
a
Gentleman
with
a
letter
.
What
newes
bring
you
my
friend
?
Gent.
Sir
,
heavy
newes
,
this
letter
will
inform
you
Sent
from
the
Governour
,
which
to
bring
hither
In
a
disguised
shape
,
I
pass'd
the
guards
,
The
trenches
and
the
campe
of
Geolon
,
With
thousand
hazards
of
my
life
,
all
which
I
reckon
not
to
doe
my
Noble
Prince
,
My
Prince
Amandus
service
.
Amand.
You
are
welcome
,
And
we
congratulate
your
safe
arrivall
;
But
in
what
state
did
poore
Damascus
stand
When
you
departed
thence
?
how
victualled
?
How
furnished
with
ammunition
was
it
?
How
long
can
it
hold
out
?
first
I
will
heare
Your
sad
relation
ere
I
breake
the
seale
.
Gent.
O
Sir
,
I
'm
sorry
my
unworthy
mouth
Should
be
the
organ
to
convey
a
sound
Vnto
your
Princely
eares
,
so
harsh
as
this
,
So
dolefull
,
so
unpleasant
,
I
would
rather
Be
silent
in
a
story
of
such
woe
;
Yet
since
you
doe
command
me
,
know
my
Liege
The
City
is
distress'd
for
want
of
food
:
All
their
provision
is
consum'd
and
spent
,
And
nothing
left
for
to
sustaine
their
lives
.
These
two
moneths
have
they
fed
upon
the
flesh
Of
horses
,
dogs
,
and
cats
,
now
they
are
driven
To
such
an
exigent
,
as
they
begin
To
eate
sod
leather
,
yea
the
excrement
Of
men
and
beasts
,
and
which
is
more
,
their
flesh
,
Their
proper
flesh
:
this
day
within
Damascus
,
I
saw
a
sight
which
grieves
me
to
relate
,
It
did
appeare
so
horrid
,
't
was
a
woman
With
hunger
pin'd
▪
who
had
not
eat
a
bit
In
seven
dayes
space
of
any
sustenance
,
forc'd
with
her
knife
to
cut
her
infants
throat
That
suckt
upon
her
breast
,
to
satisfie
With
its
sweet
flesh
her
ravenous
appetite
:
And
for
the
ammunition
of
the
towne
▪
As
powder
,
bullets
,
match
,
and
such
materials
Of
warre
,
't
is
almost
spent
,
for
three
yeeres
siege
Cannot
but
empty
well
the
magazine
;
Yet
notwithstanding
all
this
misery
,
(
Such
as
the
like
I
thinke
was
never
heard
Or
seene
in
any
age
)
they
are
resolv'd
(
So
much
their
loyall
hearts
affect
their
Prince
)
Never
to
yeeld
the
towne
,
so
long
as
any
Survives
to
make
resistance
,
and
despise
All
quarter
,
all
reward
that
hath
been
offer'd
By
Geolon
the
Tartar
▪
Amand.
Consolario
,
Where
are
you
now
with
your
Philosophy
?
You
'r
gone
,
you
'r
gone
,
will
you
preach
patience
yet
To
wretched
me
your
pupill
?
can
you
open
Your
mouth
to
that
effect
in
such
a
deluge
,
In
such
an
inundation
of
my
woes
?
No
,
't
is
in
vaine
,
I
can
receive
no
comfort
:
Open
ye
watry
sluces
of
mine
eyes
,
And
let
out
teares
enough
to
drowne
my
heart
,
My
heart
that
's
gaul'd
for
poore
Damascus
sake
,
And
my
deere
friends
within
:
O
had
the
heavens
Showr'd
cataracts
upon
me
,
had
their
plagues
Drunke
up
my
moysture
,
till
my
shattered
bones
Had
crumbled
into
dust
,
had
I
excus'd
My
country
with
my
fall
,
my
peacefull
ashes
Had
fill'd
their
urne
in
silence
,
whereas
now
Even
life
is
tedious
.
Consol.
Sir
,
I
am
your
tutor
,
And
I
must
chide
you
though
you
are
my
Prince
,
When
I
perceive
you
erre
as
now
you
doe
Through
weakenesse
of
your
youth
▪
else
I
should
show
No
love
nor
duty
,
these
grey
haires
of
mine
,
Which
time
hath
turn'd
into
a
silver
hue
,
Know
something
of
the
world
,
and
my
experience
,
How ere
you
slight
it
,
hath
seene
many
changes
And
alterations
wrought
in
mighty
states
.
I
have
waded
through
the
various
passages
Of
a
long
life
,
and
therefore
can
instruct
Your
youth
in
the
right
way
,
if
you
but
lend
An
eare
unto
my
counsels
:
harke
my
sonne
,
I
'le
tell
you
plainely
,
you
degenerate
In
this
intemperance
of
your
griefe
,
From
the
brave
stock
of
your
progenitors
,
Your
royall
predecessors
;
fie
for
shame
,
Wrong
not
your
vertue
to
be
desperate
,
O
bury
not
in
the
forgetfull
grave
,
Nor
drown
in
this
Laethean
floud
your
glories
,
Your
former
glories
purchas'd
on
your
foes
By
your
so
oft
relieving
of
your
country
▪
Rowse
up
your
drowsie
spirits
,
and
mitigate
Your
swelling
passions
,
till
I
finde
a
way
,
A
way
to
cure
your
sorrowes
.
Amand.
Heaven
reward
thee
For
this
sweet
Balsom
thou
hast
powr'd
into
My
wounded
heart
,
your
words
have
eas'd
me
of
A
great
part
of
the
burthen
which
oppress'd
me
,
And
I
referre
me
wholly
to
your
wisedome
,
To
perfect
what
you
have
so
well
begun
;
Now
to
my
letter
,
here
's
sad
matter
sure
.
Opens
and
reads
the
letter
.
Sir
,
so
miserable
is
the
state
and
condition
of
the
towne
for
want
of
food
to
sustaine
us
(
as
this
bearer
can
more
particularly
informe
you
)
that
unlesse
we
have
speedy
reliefe
,
I
feare
Damascus
will
be
taken
in
upon
an
assault
,
for
our
men
are
so
weake
through
hunger
,
as
they
are
scarce
able
to
come
up
and
visit
the
breach
,
notwithstanding
we
are
resolved
rather
to
dye
there
,
then
surrender
:
so
much
we
preferre
your
good
before
our
own
safety
.
Amand.
Now
Consolario
,
what
will
you
advise
me
To
doe
in
this
extremity
of
fate
?
Harke
how
the
Ordnance
battereth
the
walles
Of
yond
faire
City
,
how
the
Muskettiers
Discharge
whole
volleyes
;
't
is
some
salley
sure
,
Made
by
the
brave
besieg'd
;
how
doe
I
talke
,
They
are
too
weake
,
too
feeble
to
attempt
it
,
Poore
hunger-sterv'd
soules
;
may
it
not
be
A
Mine
sprung
in
the
rampire
of
the
towne
,
And
an
assault
made
?
O
I
feare
't
is
so
,
My
minde
presageth
ill
,
mine
armes
,
sa
,
sa
,
I
'le
once
againe
attempt
for
to
relieve
it
,
Although
repulsed
last
.
Consolar.
Sir
,
't
is
in
vaine
,
They
are
too
strong
entrench'd
for
your
weake
power
To
make
an
entrance
,
had
you
not
experience
Too
sad
,
last
time
by
losse
of
your
owne
bloud
,
And
slaughter
of
your
men
,
what
folly
't
was
For
to
attempt
impossibilities
?
You
may
fall
on
,
and
loose
your selfe
and
souldiers
Vnnecessarily
,
and
to
no
purpose
:
But
this
yon
cannot
terme
true
fortitude
,
But
rather
rashnesse
and
temerity
;
For
't
is
a
policy
in
warre
,
sometimes
For
to
preserve
your
souldiers
,
as
it
is
At
other
times
to
put
them
upon
service
:
But
't
is
not
proper
now
,
stay
and
attend
The
sequell
of
this
businesse
.
Enter
a
Colonell
.
Colonell
,
Can
you
informe
the
Prince
what
did
occasion
The
shooting
that
we
heard
now
neer
the
town
:
Was
it
a
sally
,
or
a
triumph
made
By
the
Tartarians
for
their
good
successe
.
In
conquering
this
Kingdom
?
Colon
Neither
Sir
,
But
an
assault
alas
upon
Damascus
,
A
souldier
that
escap't
,
told
me
the
manner
,
And
thus
it
was
:
After
the
enemy
Had
sprung
their
Mine
,
which
levelled
the
rampire
,
And
made
a
breach
that
eight
might
march
in
front
:
They
did
assault
it
with
their
multitudes
,
And
furiously
fell
on
:
thrice
the
besieg'd
,
Though
hunger-sterv'd
,
repuls'd
them
,
thrice
they
were
Enforc'd
to
quit
the
breach
,
some
had
their
braines
Dash'd
out
with
stones
and
beames
,
others
with
flailes
Receiv'd
their
deaths
,
and
some
whose
limbs
were
rent
To
pieces
with
granadoes
,
but
at
length
,
Fresh
succours
from
the
quarters
comming
downe
,
And
Hydra-like
encreasing
,
they
prevail'd
,
When
all
our
men
were
slaine
in
the
defence
,
Before
they
entred
:
onely
this
poore
souldier
Escap't
whilst
they
were
pillaging
the
towne
,
From
whom
I
learnt
this
sad
intelligence
.
Amand.
Now
fortune
doe
thy
worst
,
and
if
thou
canst
,
Make
me
more
wretched
,
I
'le
no
longer
now
Flatter
thy
malice
;
since
mine
eyes
have
seene
The
finall
period
of
my
Countries
fate
.
Come
Consolario
,
thou
and
I
,
and
these
,
Will
travell
like
poore
pilgrims
through
the
world
,
For
I
am
weary
of
this
desolation
,
And
as
we
passe
through
this
and
to'ther
Realme
,
We
will
inquire
their
state
,
that
I
may
finde
,
If
possible
,
a
partner
in
my
griefe
.
Deere
Colonell
,
dismisse
that
little
Army
,
That
little
remnant
which
the
warres
hath
left
me
;
Bid
each
man
seeke
his
safety
where
he
can
,
And
tell
them
if
Amandus
ere
may
hope
To
see
a
change
of
fortune
,
and
enjoy
Hereafter
better
dayes
,
he
will
then
thinke
Vpon
their
faithfull
service
,
and
reward
them
,
When
all
these
gusts
of
sorrow
are
blowne
o're
,
In
ample
manner
.
Now
let
us
obey
Our
stars
,
and
follow
where
they
point
the
way
.
Exeunt
.
Rapinus
,
Praedarius
.
Rapin,
Brother
Praedarius
,
couldst
thou
not
finde
in
thy
heart
to
turne
Oratour
now
,
and
bestow
thy
best
Rhetorick
in
praise
of
our
most
noble
profession
.
Praedar.
If
my
education
,
friend
Rapinus
were
answerable
to
my
desire
,
I
should
write
whole
volumes
upon
that
subject
,
so
much
am
I
taken
with
it
.
Rapin,
How
right
you
jump
upon
my
humour
,
for
when
I
doe
reflect
with
judicious
eyes
upon
the
poor
state
and
condition
of
our
former
life
,
and
weigh
it
with
this
glorious
change
,
I
magnifie
my selfe
beyond
measure
for
entertaining
such
brave
sparks
of
honour
and
true
fortitude
in
my
breast
,
which
hath
kindled
my
affections
to
these
worthy
exploits
.
Praeda.
And
now
since
you
bring
that
into
our
remembrance
,
let
us
consider
what
poor
mechanick
rascals
we
were
,
under
what
slavery
we
lived
,
how
oppressed
by
hard
and
usurping
Land-lords
,
and
the
like
?
Rapin.
All
this
is
true
,
and
much
more
we
suffered
,
but
how
are
these
times
altered
since
?
how
doe
we
live
now
my
friend
?
nothing
inferiour
in
command
to
the
King
of
Arabia
himselfe
;
are
not
all
these
mountaines
ours
?
these
caves
and
forrests
ours
?
these
desarts
and
wildernesses
ours
?
are
we
not
safe
in
these
fortifications
from
the
greatest
powers
that
can
possibly
invade
?
we
need
not
now
feare
the
King
nor
his
imposts
,
he
shall
now
make
us
amends
,
and
pay
tribute
of
all
such
goods
as
passe
this
way
under
our
jurisdiction
.
Praedar.
Tribute
say
you
?
it
shall
be
tributus
totalis
,
not
a
part
,
but
all
shall
be
confiscated
to
our
use
:
all
travellers
whatsoever
,
whether
Arabians
,
Iewes
,
Turkes
,
Persians
or
Egyptians
,
whose
occasions
bring
them
hither
either
as
pilgrims
to
Maecha
,
or
as
convoyers
of
rich
merchandise
over
these
desarts
,
must
here
be
content
to
doe
homage
,
and
unload
their
commodities
to
enrich
the
brave
montaneers
.
Rapinus
How
commendable
therefore
is
this
course
of
〈◊〉
how
profitable
unto
us
,
as
when
wealth
and
rich
boote
is
as
it
were
every
day
offered
to
our
possession
,
nothing
is
required
from
us
but
a
little
valour
to
make
us
masters
of
infinite
treasures
.
Praedar.
And
what
care
we
though
they
brand
our
foreheads
with
the
names
of
robbers
,
theeves
,
out
lawes
,
rebels
,
renegados
,
and
such
like
,
whilst
we
live
rich
and
brave
and
enjoy
our
pleasures
.
Rapin.
True
,
but
wee
can
give
our selves
when
wee
list
other
attributes
,
taking
upon
us
the
glorious
name
of
souldiers
,
which
we
worthily
merit
in
exposing
our
lives
,
to
purchase
wealth
and
honour
,
to
so
many
hard
and
dangerous
enterprises
.
Praedar.
Rightly
spoken
,
for
confirmation
whereof
witnesse
so
many
skarres
upon
our
bodies
,
so
much
treasure
in
our
Caves
,
so
many
Captives
in
our
chaines
,
all
symboles
of
our
mighty
darings
.
Rapin.
But
I
marvell
wee
have
had
no
doings
today
,
will
there
be
no
Market
thinke
yee
?
no
travellers
?
no
carriages
?
no
Camels
,
no
Dromodaries
?
no
boote
?
it
was
not
wont
to
be
so
,
how
comes
this
change
in
the
name
of
Mahomet
,
what
is
the
clock
prethee
Praedarius
?
Praedar.
It
cannot
be
lesse
then
six
,
for
Apollo
hath
left
dallying
with
Aurorae
more
then
an
houre
agoe
.
Rapin.
By
Fermagant
this
is
strange
,
wee
were
wont
to
be
at
our
prey
assoone
as
they
at
their
play
,
how
comes
it
wee
heare
not
from
our
sentinels
wee
sent
out
to
discover
.
Praedar.
Harke
I
heare
them
comming
,
they
should
bring
good
newes
by
their
joyfull
acclamations
.
Enter
foure
or
five
of
the
theeves
with
shouts
and
cryes
.
Rapin.
What
newes
souldiers
,
are
there
any
travelers
stirring
this
morning
,
or
Caravanes
driving
over
the
mountaines
?
speake
quickly
,
wee
are
rusty
for
want
of
action
.
1
Theefe
.
Noble
Captaines
as
wee
sate
to
discover
the
plaine
,
from
the
top
of
yonder
mountaine
,
wee
might
perceive
to
descend
great
troopes
of
people
,
but
the
distance
of
the
place
suffered
us
not
to
discerne
whether
they
were
travellers
,
pilgrimes
,
or
marchants
.
Rapin.
Which
way
come
they
,
and
whether
doe
they
bend
their
course
?
2
It
should
seeme
they
come
from
Alexandria
,
and
are
travelling
towards
Ormus
,
for
they
take
that
way
.
Rapin.
Then
they
are
rich
without
question
;
courage
my
hearts
,
we
shall
bee
all
made
by
Mahomet
;
need
wee
animate
them
Praedarius
with
an
Oration
?
Praedar.
It
will
not
need
,
for
you
see
no
dulnesse
in
them
to
the
businesse
,
too
much
whetting
will
take
of
the
edge
of
their
courages
.
3
Captaine
Rapinus
.
4
Captaine
Praedarius
.
5
What
d'
ye
meane
to
delay
the
time
so
long
in
talke
,
and
let
this
rich
boore
in
the
meane
time
slippe
out
of
our
hands
.
Rapin.
T
is
well
consider'd
,
and
we
're
glad
you
are
So
forward
in
the
action
;
now
my
friends
Let
's
fall
one
bravley
,
thus
I
doe
dispose
you
;
Some
50.
shall
lie
close
in
ambuscado
Behind
the
thicket
that
's
within
the
valley
;
Discover
not
your selves
before
you
heare
Their
Cammels
passe
beyond
you
,
then
breake
forth
And
give
a
sudden
onset
;
fifty
more
Shall
be
obscurd
from
sight
behind
the
mountaine
That
lies
upon
the
right
hand
,
and
commanded
If
it
stand
with
the
liking
of
Praedarius
By
his
discreet
conduct
;
the
rest
with
me
Shall
guard
the
passage
o're
the
bridge
,
and
lie
Along
the
christall
River
,
which
so
gently
Glides
on
the
left
hand
by
the
mountaines
foote
.
There
is
no
other
passage
but
those
three
,
Which
thus
block'd
up
,
the
prey
must
needs
be
ours
;
Now
every
man
unto
his
charge
;
we
aime
in
our
attempts
at
nought
fo much as gaine
Exeunt
.
Enter
Rapinus
and
Praed
,
againe
with
their
rabble
of
theeves
,
and
the
boote
brought
in
in
bagges
.
Rapinus
.
Have
we
not
reason
my
masters
,
to
adore
the
deity
of
Fortune
,
for
still
favouring
our
attempts
,
sure
wee
are
much
indebted
to
that
goddesse
for
her
continuall
blessings
,
and
we
should
be
very
ungratefull
if
wee
did
not
acknowledge
it
.
Praedar.
Wee
are
in
a
double
manner
bound
to
her
courtesie
.
First
for
this
wealth
,
next
for
sending
such
a
cowardly
guard
to
convoy
it
,
for
had
they
behaved
themselves
valiantly
,
wee
had
not
beene
masters
of
our
prey
,
but
return'd
home
well
beaten
for
our
labours
.
Rapin.
But
no
more
of
this
,
I
am
glad
we
have
it
:
now
we
will
divide
it
equally
among
our selves
;
your
share
Praedarius
shall
be
the
Iewels
and
Plate
,
the
Money
,
Merchandize
and
other
commodities
shall
be
evenly
distributed
amongst
our
men
,
and
for
mine
owne
part
I
desire
nothing
but
the
faire
Lady
.
Praedar.
Ha
the
faire
Lady
I
must
not
condescend
to
that
,
she
is
my
prisoner
taken
by
my
owne
handes
,
and
therefore
belongs
to
mee
as
a
guerdon
of
my
valour
,
take
you
the
jewels
,
and
leave
me
the
Lady
.
Rapin.
By
Termagant
thou
art
a
villaine
,
and
shalt
not
live
an
houre
for
contradicting
my
will
.
They
both
draw
.
Give
up
all
claime
to
her
,
or
thy
life
Praedarius
.
Praedar.
Never
,
thou
shalt
write
that
resignement
with
thy
bloud
,
and
seale
it
with
thy
heart
.
Rapin.
Then
have
at
thee
—
they
fight
.
1
Forbeare
good
Captaine
Rapinus
.
2
Captaine
Praedarius
what
doe
you
meane
,
will
you
kill
one
another
for
a
woman
,
a
pox
on
her
,
let
her
bee
common
to
both
,
peculiar
to
neither
,
enjoy
her
alike
by
turnes
.
3
She
will
find
you
both
imployment
enough
I
'le
warrant
you
.
4
She
lookes
like
a
free
mettall'd
beast
that
will
not
faint
in
a
double
careere
.
5
When
you
have
spur'd
her
sufficiently
,
and
shee
begin
to
grow
dull
for
your
service
,
turne
her
over
to
us
that
we
may
back
her
.
Rapinus
She
shall
be
mine
,
and
who
dares
lay
claime
to
her
besides
,
forfets
his
life
.
Praedar
.
She
shall
bee
only
mine
maugre
the
devill
himselfe
.
1
Asswage
your
furies
(
I
beseech
you
)
and
let
mee
decide
the
businesse
betweene
you
,
since
you
both
claime
her
particularly
to
your selves
,
and
neither
will
yeeld
thereunto
,
referre
your selves
to
the
Ladies
owne
choice
,
and
bee
content
to
stand
to
her
election
.
Rapin.
I
am
content
—
I
know
I
am
the
properer
man
—
aside
.
Praedar.
I
subscribe
to
't
willingly
—
shee
must
needs
chuse
me
for
many
respects
,
whose
deserts
cannot
but
be
discerned
by
her
affectionate
eyes
—
aside
.
Rapin.
Methinkes
I
am
imbracing
her
dainety
body
already
,
whilst
thou
Praedarius
stand'st
as
an
envious
spectator
of
my
happinesse
.
Praedar.
Alas
poore
foole
how
thou
art
deceived
,
thou
imbracest
Ixion
like
but
a
cloud
in
thy
imagination
,
while
the
Lady
Iuno
the
true
substance
is
reserved
for
me
;
marke
thou
th'
event
to
thy
shame
Rapinus
.
Rapin.
I
come
Lucinda
,
thy
Rapinus
comes
To
court
thy
beautie
,
who
in
spite
of
fate
And
all
the
opposition
of
the
world
With
this
right
hand
will
guard
thee
,
though
a
troope
Or
armed
Fiends
stood
up
,
grant
me
but
Love
I
'le
hold
thee
then
though
rivalled
by
Iove
.
Exit
Rapinus
.
Praedar.
But
that
I
know
Lucinda
ne're
will
grant
When
she
perceives
Praedarius
rivals
him
Her
lovely
guardian
,
I
doe
see
her
eyes
Dart
amourous
glaunces
on
mee
,
and
her
hate
To
him
shall
be
discerned
in
his
fate
Exit
Praedarius
.
1
Theefe
This
is
good
they
are
gone
and
left
all
the
boote
behind
,
but
t
will
not
be
amisse
to
discover
if
the
coast
bee
cleere
or
no
.
Ha
,
ha
,
ha
,
they
are
gone
sheere
away
by
this
light
,
was
it
not
sport
camrades
to
see
them
fight
one
with
another
,
what
fooles
were
they
to
fall
out
in
that
manner
and
leave
this
unregarded
?
2
Let
them
still
disagree
so
,
wee
fare
the
better
for
't
,
if
this
occasion
had
not
happened
we
had
finger'd
but
a
little
share
of
this
wealth
,
I
can
tell
yee
.
3
This
bagge
is
mine
.
4
And
this
is
mine
.
1
But
where
is
my
part
then
?
2
And
mine
,
by
Mahomet
we
will
not
be
thus
used
.
1
This
is
good
y'faith
,
whilst
wee
are
talking
you
are
taking
,
my
masters
you
are
best
let
us
share
with
you
,
give
me
this
bagge
Sirrah
.
2
And
me
this
,
or
by
.
5.
T
is
in
vaine
to
strive
,
you
shall
get
nothing
that
way
but
blowes
,
doe
you
not
know
that
possession
is
a
maine
point
of
the
Law
.
1
Cheate
us
and
jeere
too
,
Rogues
our
partes
are
your
hearts
—
they
fall
together
by
the
cares
.
Rapinus
,
Praedarius
.
Praedar.
How
now
what
's
the
matter
here
,
fighting
about
the
prey
,
we
'll
have
you
all
hang'd
for
this
you
slaves
.
1
Thief
.
Good
Sirs
bee
patient
,
and
by
your
good
savours
,
let
me
tell
you
we
did
but
follow
your
example
,
and
we
know
t
is
a
chiefe
maxime
in
warre
that
Souldiers
are
bound
to
follow
their
Leaders
.
2
Besides
Sirs
our
quarrell
beares
a
better
colour
with
it
then
yours
,
being
for
gold
and
jewels
,
your's
but
for
a
prettie
Wench
,
pardon
our
sawcy
talkings
.
Rapin.
Well
for
this
time
wee
pardon
you
,
yet
because
you
shall
learne
next
how
to
behave
your selves
better
,
and
to
make
use
of
a
booty
when
t
is
offered
unto
you
,
wee
will
case
you
of
this
burthen
,
come
your
bags
,
Sir
your
bags
.
Praedar.
And
yours
Sir
,
dispatch
we
must
have
them
all
,
Henceforth
my
friends
agree
,
and
differ
not
In
the
division
of
your
boot
,
nor
give
The
world
occasion
to
traduce
our
fame
By
confirmation
of
this
proverb
old
,
When
theeves
fall
out
,
true
men
come
by
their
gold
.
Exeunt
.
Finis
.
Actus
primi
.
Actus
Secundus
,
Scena
Prima
.
Perseus
,
Embassadour
of
Aegypt
.
Perseus
WHat
should
I
think
my
Lord
of
this
delay
,
That
holds
so
long
the
Princesse
of
my
life
,
My
faire
Lucinda
from
me
,
doe
not
you
Measure
the
time
,
and
wonder
what
should
be
,
Th'
occasion
of
her
stay
?
me thinks
't
is
strange
!
Embas.
I
wonder
not
at
all
Prince
Perseus
,
Nor
scarce
expect
her
yet
,
for
but
consider
The
distance
of
these
kingdomes
,
and
the
tract
Of
ground
'twixt
Egypt
and
the
Persian
Realme
,
And
you
must
then
conclude
that
this
is
not
A
worke
of
three
dayes
journey
.
Pers.
Then
my
hopes
And
languishing
desires
to
see
my
love
Erre
in
the
computation
of
the
time
,
Fancying
three
dayes
three
yeeres
,
but
by
your
leave
,
Was
't
not
reported
in
this
Court
of
Persia
More
then
a
moneth
agone
that
she
was
ready
With
her
Egiptian
traine
to
take
her
journey
?
Emb.
'T
is
true
't
was
so
reported
,
yet
it
might
Be
a
false
rumour
,
grant
the
contrary
That
truth
and
it
concurr'd
,
yet
many
thinges
Happen
you
know
between
the
cup
and
the
lip
.
The
Princesse
then
might
have
been
indispos'd
To
health
and
sick
and
so
unapt
to
travell
,
Or
else
he
royall
Father
and
my
king
(
Which
heavens
defend
)
might
be
affected
with
His
old
disease
,
and
she
loath
to
depart
Before
he
had
recovered
better
state
;
Innumerable
other
thinges
might
happen
Which
now
I
cannot
thinke
of
,
but
suppose
She
had
at
home
no
let
or
interuption
,
Yet
must
they
passe
the
red
sea
,
or
be
forc'd
To
come
about
by
Istmus
overland
,
Then
travell
through
the
desarts
of
Arabia
,
Which
is
a
tedious
way
and
not
so
soone
To
be
o'recame
as
you
suppose
it
is
.
Perseus
.
It
may
be
so
,
my
Lord
Embassadour
,
These
are
the
reasons
or
such
like
as
these
,
But
my
Propheticall
my
Delphick
minde
Prompts
me
alas
unto
another
cause
More
probable
,
I
feare
that
glorious
Orbe
Where
my
faire
starre
moves
in
(
I
meane
your
land
,
)
Made
glorious
by
her
lustre
,
and
envied
By
all
the
neighbouring
kingdomes
round
about
,
Should
now
grow
proud
,
&
scorn
her
beams
should
grace
,
Besides
their
owne
,
another
Hemisphere
,
What
thinke
you
Sir
of
this
?
Embas.
It
cannot
be
Your
princely
minde
should
harbour
such
conceit
,
To
thinke
our
land
so
dull
,
as
not
to
see
The
greatnesse
of
this
empire
,
and
the
honour
Egypt
receives
to
match
with
Persia
;
But
I
interpret
otherwise
your
speech
Applying
it
unto
the
power
of
love
,
Whose
force
is
such
as
it
will
draw
a
man
Into
Poetick
raptures
,
Perse.
I
approve
Your
iudgment
in
the
art
,
when
I
but
name
Lucinda
,
that
bare
sound
strikes
heavenly
musick
Into
my
soule
,
and
makes
my
thoughts
harmonious
,
Each
sillable
therein
is
a
strong
charme
To
hould
me
in
the
labyrinth
of
love
;
Fairest
Lucinda
why
dost
thou
with-hould
The
day
so
long
,
and
suffer
Perseus
To
live
in
night
wanting
thy
wished
presence
,
till
thou
appeare
I
can
behould
no
sunne
No
beame
of
comfort
,
that
bright
wagoner
,
Who
doth
begin
his
progresse
in
the
East
And
ends
it
in
the
West
,
each
day
surrounding
The
compasse
of
this
lower
world
,
infuses
No
light
into
my
sences
,
for
he
stayes
To
borrow
some
of
them
;
bright
starre
appeare
.
Embass.
Now
Sir
I
see
love
hath
divinely
wrought
Vpon
your
inward
faculties
,
that
could
Beget
so
high
a
straine
as
you
have
us'd
In
admiration
of
the
lowd
obeict
;
Put
love
they
say
is
nurse
of
poetry
.
Pers.
I
thinke
no
lesse
for
for
ere
I
was
in
love
Before
Lucindas
beauty
kindled
had
A
sacred
fire
in
my
enflamed
brest
,
I
knew
not
what
it
was
to
poetize
,
But
now
I
'le
cloath
my
lines
in
sable
weedes
,
And
vent
my
thoughts
in
an
Elegiack
name
,
I
'le
sing
sad
songes
untill
my
mistresse
comes
For
to
inspire
me
better
;
O
I
cannot
Beare
with
her
absence
,
what
thinke
you
my
Lord
Is
she
upon
her
journey
that
I
may
My selfe
in
person
with
some
troopes
of
horse
Ride
forth
to
meete
her
on
the
way
as
farre
As
the
wild
deserts
of
Arabia
stretch
To
safe
conduct
her
hither
.
Embass.
Noble
Prince
I
doe
believe
she
wants
no
strong
convoy
To
guard
her
o're
the
mountaines
,
and
more
strength
Added
,
I
thinke
would
be
superfluous
,
For
sure
the
King
knowing
the
passage
well
How
dangerous
,
how
long
and
troublesome
Would
ne're
consent
she
should
goe
weakly
guarded
,
But
you
may
doe
your
pleasure
.
Enter
a
Messenger
in
haste
.
Pers.
Freind
,
what
newes
Bringst
thou
unto
the
Court
?
what
speakes
thy
face
Commixt
with
dust
and
sweat
?
Messeng.
Redouted
Prince
,
It
speakes
in
characters
a
story
which
Will
make
you
sad
to
heare
,
and
me
to
speake
,
Which
thus
I
reade
unto
you
,
our
faire
Princesse
,
The
beautifull
Lucinda
travelling
through
The
Country
of
Arabia
,
for
to
meet
Her
happinesse
in
Persia
with
a
guard
Of
some
few
horse
and
foot
,
was
set
upon
By
souldiers
,
what
they
were
I
doe
not
know
,
Their
number
was
ten
times
as
much
as
ours
,
Yet
we
so
long
resisted
as
we
could
,
Vntill
the
most
part
of
our
men
were
slaine
,
Then
some
were
forc'd
to
save
their
lives
by
flights
Some
three
or
four
,
no
more
of
which
small
number
I
write
my selfe
,
who
tooke
my
journey
hither
Alone
to
give
you
notice
what
befell
us
;
Let
not
my
newes
great
Prince
,
exclude
my
welcome
.
Embas.
But
what
befell
the
Princesse
all
this
while
,
Her
Ladies
and
attendance
?
Messen.
Taken
prisoners
By
two
that
seemed
to
command
the
rest
With
all
their
plate
and
jewels
.
Embas.
Know
you
not
In
what
part
of
that
fatall
soile
befell
This
sad
disaster
,
or
by
whom
't
was
done
?
Was
't
in
Arabia
faelix
,
or
desart
,
Or
Petrea
else
?
Messen.
'Faith
Sir
I
was
never
There
in
my
life
before
,
nor
did
I
then
Enquire
the
true
denomination
of
it
,
And
therefore
cannot
satisfie
you
in
The
thing
you
doe
demand
Embas.
But
you
can
tell
me
The
nature
of
the
place
and
Country
,
then
I
'le
satisfie
my selfe
:
was
't
sweet
and
lovely
,
Perfum'd
with
spices
and
rich
Frankincense
,
Or
was
't
a
rocky
soile
,
and
mountainous
,
Wilde
,
unfrequented
,
full
of
caves
and
dennes
,
Of
wood
and
desert
,
you
can
tell
me
this
?
Messen.
I
'm
sure
it
was
not
spicy
,
for
it
had
A
bitter
smacke
,
we
prov'd
it
to
our
cost
,
Some
never
could
digest
it
:
Frankincense
There
was
not
any
,
I
should
smell
it
then
:
Mountaines
I
saw
,
and
unfrequented
pathes
,
Resembling
well
a
desart
:
this
is
all
I
can
informe
you
of
by
circumstance
.
Perseus
.
How
's
this
?
am
I
awake
,
or
in
a
dreame
?
Dead
,
or
alive
?
what
Apoplex
was
that
Ty'd
all
this
while
my
tongue
from
breaking
forth
Into
wilde
exclamations
?
O
my
heart
!
My
better
part
,
Lucinda
prisoner
!
Heavens
what
a
sound
is
that
,
no
death
so
fatall
,
So
dolefull
to
my
thoughts
,
Lucinda
tane
By
theeves
and
out-lawes
,
worse
,
and
Perseus
Vncertaine
where
she
is
,
still
worse
and
worse
.
What
shall
I
doe
,
dye
?
that
were
to
no
purpose
,
And
leave
her
unredeemed
:
no
,
I
'le
first
Raise
a
great
Army
,
and
lay
waste
that
soyle
,
That
fatall
soyle
which
first
procur'd
my
woe
:
I
'le
cut
off
this
distinction
of
three
names
,
Arabia
faelix
,
Petraea
,
and
Deserta
,
And
bring
them
into
one
,
and
that
's
the
later
:
Cosmographers
shall
ne're
divide
the
land
Into
three
parts
,
Arithmeticians
neither
Shall
worke
it
as
a
fraction
,
but
entire
,
An
entire
number
,
term'd
by
all
deserta
:
The
Phaenix
shall
no
longer
harbour
there
,
Or
if
she
doe
,
we
will
destroy
the
Spices
Where
with
she
alwaies
built
her
funerall
pile
To
burne
her selfe
to
ashes
,
and
thereby
Hinder
a
second
birth
:
what
will
we
not
Doe
to
revenge
this
wrong
?
the
worst
of
ils
That
can
be
thought
of
is
not
bad
enough
For
to
afflict
that
Country
which
detaines
My
faire
Lucinda
from
me
:
I
haue
not
The
patience
to
dispatch
an
Embassage
And
to
expect
reply
:
I
'le
goe
my selfe
And
by
my
armies
march
,
my
cannons
mouth
,
My
trumpets
warlike
sound
,
my
beating
drum
,
The
King
shall
know
the
businesse
why
I
come
.
Exeunt
.
Amandus
,
Consolario
,
Colonell
,
Gentleman
.
Amand.
Then
you
dismiss'd
the
army
.
Colon.
As
I
was
Commanded
by
your
Highnesse
,
so
I
did
.
Amand.
But
did
you
tell
my
loving
friends
&
souldiers
,
That
in
this
gratefull
heart
of
poore
Amandus
,
Was
treasur'd
up
their
love
and
faithfull
service
,
Never
to
be
forgotten
.
Colon.
Sir
,
I
was
not
Wanting
in
the
least
part
of
my
commission
.
Amand.
How
did
they
take
my
leaving
them
,
and
this
my
separation
.
Colon.
At
the
first
unkindely
,
Because
you
would
not
take
them
as
a
guard
To
safe
conduct
your
person
,
yet
when
I
Enforc'd
your
love
by
binding
arguments
,
They
did
submit
unto
your
will
,
and
stood
No
longer
to
dispute
it
.
Amand.
Yet
their
hearts
Were
griev'd
I
make
no
question
,
for
their
losse
And
desperate
fortunes
.
Colon.
Not
so
much
my
Lord
For
their
owne
fortunes
,
as
for
yours
appear'd
they
Troubled
in
minde
,
for
when
I
drew
them
all
Into
a
Ring
,
and
told
your
minde
unto
them
,
From
every
common
souldiers
eye
,
gusht
forth
Rivers
of
teares
,
and
after
from
their
hearts
,
Brake
forth
these
exclamations
:
O
my
Prince
,
My
deerest
Prince
,
why
should
the
partiall
heavens
Deale
so
unjustly
with
thee
,
or
their
malice
Injure
thy
goodnesse
?
why
wilt
thou
depart
So
weakely
guarded
,
and
expose
thy selfe
Yet
longer
naked
to
the
stroke
of
fortune
?
Why
should
we
be
excluded
from
thy
presence
?
Yet
since
it
is
his
pleasure
,
wee
'l
no
longer
Dispute
the
reasons
why
,
but
yeeld
unto
it
:
Heavens
prove
propitious
,
let
his
smiling
stars
Shed
pleasing
influences
o're
his
head
,
And
guide
his
journey
,
let
the
froward
fates
See
and
repent
the
wrong
they
did
unto
him
,
And
recompence
his
losse
with
interest
For
all
his
sufferings
:
O
what
cause
have
we
To
grieve
for
him
,
for
ne're
in
any
age
,
Have
subjects
boasted
of
a
sweeter
Prince
.
Amand.
This
makes
me
melt
againe
,
and
to
deplore
Their
miserable
state
and
sad
condition
That
were
so
touch'd
with
mine
;
but
Consolario
,
What
desart
soile
is
this
,
that
so
well
suits
My
desart
minde
?
what
solitary
land
That
mockes
my
farre
more
solitary
heart
?
What
ayre
doe
we
now
breath
in
?
Consol.
Sir
,
this
Country
Is
term'd
the
desarts
of
Arabia
Where
we
now
travell
in
.
Amand.
Not
that
same
Country
.
So
famous
for
the
Phaenix
and
her
nest
,
And
for
that
second
Phaenix
,
rare
Phaenicia
,
(
Farre
more
to
be
admired
then
the
first
)
Th'
Arabian
Kings
faire
daughter
.
Consolar.
No
my
Lord
,
That
's
call'd
Arabia
Faelix
,
this
deserta
,
So
infamous
through
thefts
and
robberies
Committed
on
all
travellers
by
the
theeves
And
out-lawes
of
the
Country
,
who
frequent
These
Caves
and
Mountaines
,
this
and
th'
other
part
Make
but
one
kingdome
,
't
was
not
my
advice
You
came
this
way
,
you
know
I
told
you
of
The
danger
by
the
robbers
.
Amand.
Prethee
tell
me
What
should
they
rob
from
me
that
I
should
shun
them
?
What
have
I
left
that
I
should
feare
a
theefe
?
A
jewell
,
two
or
three
,
poor
paultry
toyes
To
loose
,
when
I
before
have
lost
a
kingdome
:
You
'l
say
they
'l
take
my
life
,
alas
they
will
not
Be
so
compassionate
to
ease
me
of
A
burthen
so
despised
,
under
which
I
faint
,
and
panting
breath
this
ayre
of
woe
.
Consol.
Nay
good
my
Lord
,
no
more
of
this
discourse
,
You
promis'd
once
a
manly
resolution
To
tugge
with
fortune
,
will
you
fall
againe
Into
relapse
of
griefe
,
and
sad
remembrance
?
How
poore
this
shewes
in
you
!
Amand.
Well
,
I
'le
forget
it
,
And
finde
some
other
talke
:
you
told
me
now
This
was
a
part
of
faire
Arabia
,
Termed
deserta
,
and
another
part
Hight
Faelix
,
there
's
another
yet
besides
,
Or
else
the
history
is
false
that
writes
it
,
How
name
you
that
?
Consol.
That
Sir
is
Petraea
,
So
call'd
of
Petra
,
the
chiefe
City
in
't
,
Or
else
because
't
is
rocky
.
Amand.
Which
of
these
Arabia
faelix
,
Petraea
or
deserta
Is
that
sweet
soyle
so
much
commended
for
Her
gummes
and
spices
,
odours
,
and
perfumes
?
I
'm
sure
it
is
not
this
.
Consol.
No
,
that
is
Faelix
,
And
rightly
beares
it
that
denomination
;
For
't
is
a
happy
Country
,
no
delight
But
flowes
abundant
there
,
embroydered
fields
,
Faire
meadowes
,
pleasant
groves
,
cleare
cristall
brooks
,
Sweet
lovely
Cities
,
gardens
diapred
All
o're
with
Flora's
richest
tapestry
,
Are
seene
there
all
the
yeere
,
continuall
spring
Dwels
in
that
coast
,
white
hoary
bearded
Hyems
,
Ne're
shakes
his
snowy
tresses
,
nor
his
frost
Nips
the
faire
flowers
that
beautifie
her
breast
,
Nor
boysterous
Boreas
with
his
winter
blasts
,
Shakes
her
faire
fruit
,
but
delicate
Favonius
Creeps
gently
o're
her
fields
with
flowry
breath
Creating
gummes
and
spices
;
sure
it
is
The
garden
of
the
world
;
the
Phaenix
else
Had
never
chose
that
place
above
all
other
To
recreate
her selfe
in
:
your
Damascus
Is
but
a
desart
if
compar'd
unto
it
.
Amand.
But
good
old
man
,
have
you
forgotten
that
,
Before
the
Tartar
did
invade
my
land
,
We
had
laid
downe
our
travell
there
to
see
The
much
admir'd
Phaenicia
,
when
the
sight
Of
this
faire
picture
did
captive
my
heart
:
What
motion
doe
I
feele
againe
within
me
,
To
blow
the
fire
rak'd
in
forgetfull
ashes
,
And
halfe
dead
in
Damascus
?
Enter
Praedarius
with
5
theeves
.
Praedar.
Stand
,
and
give
up
your
purses
,
or
your
lives
,
We
require
one
or
both
.
Amand.
Do'st
thou
not
see
us
Stand
with
our
swords
drawn
,
mine
I
thus
give
up
into
thy
body
,
—
kils
Praedarius
.
3
thiefe
What
shall
we
doe
?
our
Capt
kil'd
,
let
's
flye
.
Gent.
As
thou
hast
liv'd
with
him
,
so
shalt
thou
dy
And
serve
him
in
the
other
world
kils
the
third
thiefe
.
4
thiefe
.
But
I
Serv'd
him
for
feare
,
not
love
,
and
should
be
loath
To
wait
on
him
to
hell
on
such
a
journey
.
Colon.
Villaine
forsake
thy
master
,
that
thou
shalt
not
my
sword
shall
keepe
thee
in
thy
true
obedience
,
Killes
him
,
the
other
three
escape
to
Rapinus
.
Consolar.
Blessed
deliverance
!
we
have
cause
to
thanke
The
heavenly
powers
for
this
our
victory
,
And
preservation
.
Gentle
.
With
what
confidence
Of
good
successe
their
Captaine
gave
the
onset
?
But
when
the
Princes
conquering
sword
dispatch'd
him
How
soone
his
theeves
were
quel'd
.
Consolar.
Sweet
Prince
I
feare
More
stormes
for
in
this
clouded
Wildernesse
They
are
most
frequent
,
and
I
doubt
the
worst
Is
not
blowne
o're
,
let
's
therefore
hast
our
journey
To
shelter
us
in
safety
.
Amand.
I
'le
not
be
Averse
unto
good
counsell
though
I
value
This
life
at
a
lowe
rate
;
now
let
's
direct
Our
steppes
towards
that
happy
soile
you
spake
off
,
That
I
may
see
though
now
with
humbled
eyes
Phaenicia
faire
,
the
minion
of
the
skies
,
—
Exeunt
.
Enter
Rapinus
wounded
,
with
all
his
rabble
of
theeves
leading
in
betweene
them
Amandus
,
the
Collonell
and
gentleman
also
wounded
,
Consolario
following
after
weeping
,
then
enter
Lucinda
.
Rapinus
See
faire
Lucinda
mine
,
what
triumphs
we
Bring
to
adorne
thy
conquests
,
see
what
captives
Are
ready
here
to
waite
upon
thy
triumph
,
See
what
a
purple
flood
hath
issued
forth
From
these
two
gaping
wounds
which
I
receiv'd
To
bring
these
pretious
jewels
to
Lucinda
,
And
yet
she
kils
Rapinus
with
disdaine
,
Did
ere
your
eyes
see
fairer
?
Lucinda
Never
true
lie
,
And
I
beleeve
this
Kingdome
yeelds
none
such
,
They
speake
the
owner
some
great
personage
,
From
whom
did
you
extort
them
?
Rapin.
From
that
captive
Who
kill'd
Praedarius
and
thus
wounded
me
,
And
made
such
havocke
of
our
men
,
he
now
Shall
lie
in
durance
for
't
.
Lucinda
Heavens
what
a
wonder
,
What
an
Angellike
object
strikes
mine
eyes
,
In
masculine
appearance
!
—
aside
.
Were
you
Noble
These
jewels
were
a
ransome
to
redeeme
him
,
And
set
his
friends
and
him
at
liberty
At
least
to
barre
hard
usage
.
Rapin.
If
it
be
Your
pleasure
to
command
their
free
enlargement
,
I
seale
unto
it
,
for
faire
Lady
know
You
carry
such
divinity
about
you
As
it
converted
hath
and
almost
alter'd
(
I
speake
it
to
my
shame
)
my
former
nature
,
But
had
I
still
continued
as
my selfe
,
I
had
not
begg'd
this
favour
,
which
you
know
I
might
command
at
pleasure
.
Lucinda
You
are
angry
And
all
this
while
mistake
me
,
I
as
little
Desire
their
liberty
as
you
your selfe
,
But
I
would
have
them
us'd
in
gentler
manner
Then
other
prisoners
for
these
jewels
sake
,
Which
take
me
more
then
all
the
wealth
you
ere
Presented
me
withall
.
Rapin.
This
cheeres
me
yet
That
now
at
length
,
one
of
my
offerings
are
Accepted
by
my
goddesse
;
captives
kneele
And
reverence
her
deity
whose
breath
Hath
free'd
you
from
a
servitude
more
darke
Then
hell
it selfe
;
now
this
must
bee
your
prison
This
Cave
of
mine
,
till
we
determine
further
.
Lucind.
Would
I
might
be
his
jaylour
and
his
surgeon
,
Alas
,
his
wounds
bleed
—
aside
Sir
you
'll
loose
your
prisoners
Vnlesse
some
care
be
taken
for
their
wounds
,
Their
death
can
doe
no
service
,
first
I
'le
dresse
Your
hurts
,
and
then
for
pities
sake
apply
A
plaister
unto
theirs
.
Rapin.
Do
what
you
will
Lucinda
Your
wounds
are
deepe
Sir
—
dresses
him
.
Rapin.
I
beleeve
they
are
,
And
you
have
one
faire
Lady
too
wants
tenting
,
I
hope
one
day
to
search
it
and
returne
Your
courtesie
againe
in
a
kind
nature
.
—
aside
Lucind.
This
salve
will
cure
it
.
Rapin.
I
beleeve
no
lesse
,
There
is
great
vertue
in
't
deriv'd
from
you
.
Lucind.
Come
let
the
dresse
you
Sir
.
Amand.
Me
gentle
Lady
,
No
let
me
bleed
to
death
,
like
Seneca
Go
sleeping
to
my
grave
,
your
paines
were
ill
Bestow'd
on
one
that
's
weary
of
his
life
;
Shew
your
compassion
one
my
friends
,
and
then
You
shall
oblige
my
ashes
in
their
urne
To
blesse
your
bounty
.
Lucind.
I
'le
not
be
deny'd
,
Your
friends
I
care
for
too
—
sure
Laedas
swannes
Were
black
compar'd
to
this
more
whiter
skinne
,
No
silke
so
soft
—
aside
Now
I
have
done
with
you
.
As
I
have
beene
your
Surgeon
be
mine
too
,
Would
he
did
know
my
wound
—
all
aside
.
Amand.
To
speake
my
thankes
Would
come
to
short
by
farre
of
what
I
thinke
;
I
'm
sorry
Madam
your
so
pretious
salve
Should
wasted
be
on
such
a
wretch
as
I
,
It
better
were
reserv'd
for
nobler
uses
.
Lucind.
Now
Sir
you
must
receive
too
from
my
hand
,
This
plaister
and
your
cure
.
Colon.
I
kisse
those
hands
That
daigne
me
such
a
favour
—
dresses
him
.
Lucinda
.
You
must
feele
The
vertue
of
my
salve
too
.
Gentle
.
As
we
have
The
bounty
of
your
noble
disposition
,
For
both
our
humble
thankes
—
dresses
him
,
Rapin.
Come
have
you
done
,
You
dwell
too
long
there
and
neglect
a
cure
Worth
all
the
rest
,
Rapinus
heart
is
sick
,
And
craves
a
plaister
,
wounded
by
your
love
,
A
patient
in
your
care
to
be
preferr'd
Before
a
thousand
captives
.
Lucinda
.
May
be
so
,
But
yet
repent
not
charitable
workes
Vpon
the
poore
distress'd
,
if
gentle
nature
Move
not
your
heart
to
this
,
yet
let
the
thought
That
they
may
doe
good
service
in
your
warres
,
(
Since
you
your selfe
have
seene
the
valour
tri'd
)
Worke
that
effect
upon
you
.
Rapin.
You
plead
strongly
,
And
I
cannot
repugne
your
argument
;
But
are
all
Ladies
so
compassionate
And
pittifull
as
you
?
I
thinke
they
are
not
.
Lucinda
.
They
are
indeed
,
cur
sex
hates
cruelty
.
Rapin.
Then
you
should
hate
cruelty
in
love
.
Lucinda
.
That
's
in
another
nature
.
Rapin.
Come
sit
downe
,
How
long
have
you
professed
surgery
?
I
never
saw
you
practise
it
before
.
Lucinda
.
I
learnt
it
from
a
child
.
Rapin.
'T
is
a
fine
art
And
well
it
doth
become
a
Ladies
hand
Gentlie
to
touch
a
wound
,
but
I
forgate
To
aske
my
prisoners
what
and
when
they
were
,
And
to
what
place
they
travell'd
,
pray
demand
.
Lucind.
I
will
Sir
—
this
suites
well
with
my
desire
—
aside
Faire
Sir
may
I
request
to
know
your
state
,
Your
name
and
countrey
,
whence
you
come
and
where
Your
journey
lay
when
this
captivity
Befell
you
on
your
travell
?
Amand.
Courteous
Lady
,
You
first
demand
my
state
,
I
can
resolve
you
In
these
two
words
;
't
is
poore
and
miserable
,
Made
so
by
fortunes
malice
,
and
my
starres
.
My
name
I
humbly
crave
I
may
conceale
,
My
Country
is
Damascus
,
and
therein
As
in
a
booke
you
may
reade
out
my
story
;
Have
you
not
heard
the
fall
of
that
brave
City
?
Lucinda
Yes
,
and
the
fame
of
that
more
braver
Prince
Admir'd
Amandus
,
I
beleeve
you
have
Some
neere
relation
to
him
.
Amand.
Yes
,
in
fortune
I
have
indeed
,
for
I
suppose
our
sufferings
Are
much
alike
.
Lucinda
So
are
your
names
and
natures
;
I
make
no
question
,
if
they
were
reveal'd
,
But
I
have
found
enough
.
aside
.
Rapinus
He
will
not
tell
His
name
it
seemes
Lucind.
That
matters
not
at
all
,
I
gather
by
his
words
he
is
some
Knight
Of
sad
Damascus
,
or
some
kinsman
of
Th'
unfortunate
Amandus
.
Rapinus
Very
likely
,
But
we
spend
too
much
time
in
this
discourse
.
What
doe
I
meane
?
I
have
not
yet
given
order
To
put
out
sentinells
upon
the
hilles
For
to
discover
boote
;
come
will
you
walke
And
take
the
aire
a
little
?
prisoners
come
You
shall
receive
a
dram
too
and
no
more
But
to
prepare
your
stomackes
'gainst
the
time
,
I
'le
weane
you
from
it
.
Amand.
Weane
me
from
my
breath
Of
life
,
and
then
I
'le
thanke
thee
in
my
death
.
Exeunt
Enter
the
three
theeves
1
theefe
This
is
worse
and
worse
by
the
Almanack
.
2
theefe
Alkeron
,
foole
thou
wouldst
say
,
we
doe
not
use
to
sweare
in
that
phrase
.
3
theefe
Besides
,
there
is
no
sence
in
Almanacke
.
1
theefe
I
say
there
is
good
sence
and
meaning
in
't
,
if
you
had
the
wit
to
conceive
it
.
2
theefe
As
how
prethee
?
1
theefe
As
thus
,
grossum
caput
,
't
is
worse
and
worse
by
the
Almanacke
,
that
's
as
much
to
say
,
't
is
worse
with
us
this
yeere
then
't
was
the
yeere
before
.
3
theefe
'Faith
thou
sayest
true
,
thou
hast
opened
and
applyed
the
point
too
very
handsomely
,
I
commend
thy
wit
for
't
.
1
theefe
Besides
,
did
I
not
shift
an
oath
too
very
prettily
observe
my
religion
in
't
as
well
as
my
wit
.
2
theefe
I
thought
thou
hadst
sworne
.
3
theefe
And
so
did
I
by
the
Alkeron
.
1
theefe
But
to
our
first
discourse
before
you
interrupted
me
:
is
't
not
worse
and
worse
with
us
every
day
than
other
?
we
were
wont
to
have
some
feeling
of
the
gaine
,
as
well
as
of
the
paine
,
and
to
share
with
our
Captaines
,
now
we
must
be
contented
to
stand
to
his
courtesie
,
divell
share
him
for
it
.
2
theefe
We
lost
our
best
Captaine
when
we
lost
Praedarius
,
would
Rapinus
had
excus'd
him
,
we
should
had
better
dayes
then
.
3
theefe
What
fooles
were
we
to
save
his
life
,
when
hee
lay
at
the
mercy
of
the
stranger
,
I
repent
it
now
most
heartily
,
2
theefe
And
so
doe
I
,
but
had
we
knowne
he
would
reward
us
so
,
and
give
us
nothing
for
our
labours
,
he
should
have
gone
to
hell
for
me
,
I
would
never
have
staid
him
.
3
theefe
And
the
more
to
torment
his
Ghost
,
we
would
have
made
his
foe
and
conquerour
Captaine
in
his
place
.
1
theefe
If
he
continue
thus
dogged
,
we
may
doe
it
yet
by
some
tricke
or
other
,
let
him
not
too
much
provoke
us
.
2
theefe
All
his
minde
is
upon
the
wench
by
Mahomet
,
all
is
given
unto
her
,
nothing
unto
us
but
a
bastinado
now
and
then
,
shall
we
endur
't
?
3
theefe
And
yet
for
all
so
much
treasure
as
he
gives
her
,
of
my
conscience
she
gives
him
nothing
in
returne
thereof
,
no
not
so
much
as
her
maydenhead
.
1
theefe
Her
maydenhead
,
't
was
a
question
if
she
had
that
to
give
him
.
3
theefe
Then
not
a
vaulting
turne
,
not
one
single
career
,
not
a
foot
in
the
stirrop
,
or
terme
it
what
you
will
.
2
theefe
Nay
,
I
believe
scarse
a
drie
kisse
unlesse
by
force
.
1
theefe
Then
he
is
a
pretious
coxcombe
,
if
I
were
he
,
I
trow
she
should
give
me
a
dry
and
a
wet
kisse
too
by
her
leave
.
3
theefe
I
am
clean
out
of
charity
with
him
in
good
faith
.
2
theefe
And
so
are
we
all
for
his
hard
dealinges
.
1
theefe
But
we
must
smother
our
discontent
aswell
as
we
can
.
2
theefe
What
shall
we
doe
now
?
3
theefe
To
our
old
trade
,
to
watch
for
others
Profit
.
2
theefe
Come
let
's
away
then
,
we
shall
be
found
tardie
else
,
and
perchance
tould
so
much
by
a
dumbe
instrument
called
the
cudgell
.
1
theefe
Indeed
he
speakes
often
to
us
in
that
language
.
But
come
camrades
the
times
may
alter'd
be
,
When
we
shall
speake
that
speech
so
well
as
he
,
And
make
him
understand
us
when
we
call
,
As
he
doth
make
us
now
,
this
may
befall
.
Exeunt
.
Finis
Actus
secundi
.
Actus
Tertius
,
Scena
Prima
.
The
King
of
Arabia
,
Alecto
.
King
IN
midst
of
stormes
,
and
these
tumultuous
times
Of
warre
and
bloud
,
in
midst
of
troubled
seas
Of
forraigne
states
,
how
safety
doe
we
saile
And
steere
our
course
,
Alecto
,
in
a
calme
:
No
dusky
cloud
lowres
on
our
ship
of
state
,
No
windes
of
adverse
fortune
shake
our
peace
,
But
smile
and
gently
breathe
a
quiet
gale
:
Blest
starres
that
raign'd
at
our
nativity
,
Kinde
Planet
,
under
whose
sweet
influence
We
were
brought
forth
,
deere
fortune
that
confer'd
This
happinesse
upon
th'
Arabian
King
.
Alecto
It
cannot
be
deny'd
Sir
,
but
you
are
As
much
indebted
to
the
gods
for
favours
,
As
any
mortall
Prince
,
and
in
some
things
Enjoy
prerogatives
above
them
all
,
As
in
the
wealth
and
beauty
of
your
land
:
Your
subjects
love
,
your
peace
with
forraigne
Kings
That
are
your
neighbours
.
Lastly
,
in
this
point
,
Which
makes
you
more
admir'd
then
all
the
rest
,
In
having
such
a
daughter
,
who
for
vertue
And
beauty
both
cannot
be
paralel'd
By
any
other
Princesse
,
and
I
thinke
Hath
not
her
equall
in
the
world
besides
.
King
She
is
my
chiefest
joy
I
must
confesse
,
And
the
sole
staffe
of
my
declining
age
.
I
undervalue
farre
my
Crowne
beneath
her
,
My
gold
,
my
jewels
,
yea
although
I
were
Possess'd
of
the
worlds
vast
treasury
,
It
were
but
drosse
unto
my
darling
deere
,
My
deare
Phaenicia
,
all
my
care
and
study
Is
how
to
see
her
marryed
as
becomes
The
daughter
of
a
King
,
and
the
great
dower
Dame
nature
and
her
fortune
both
will
leave
her
.
Alecto
This
likes
me
not
,
I
'le
thwart
it
what
I
can
,
For
to
advance
my
love
and
proper
fortunes
.
—
aside
.
But
royall
Sir
,
have
you
proposed
yet
A
match
unto
the
Princesse
?
King
Yes
,
and
have
Shew'd
her
the
portraitures
of
divers
Princes
,
Of
Persia
,
of
Tartaria
,
of
Austria
,
Of
Egypt
,
Babylonia
,
and
the
rest
,
To
make
her
choice
,
but
yet
she
likes
not
any
.
Alecto
That
's
good
,
she
likes
a
substance
,
not
a
shadow
:
—
aside
.
This
makes
for
me
.
What
doth
she
then
object
An
't
please
your
royall
Majesty
?
King
That
she
's
Not
yet
dispos'd
to
marriage
,
pleading
youth
And
ignorance
in
what
doth
sute
a
Bride
.
Alect.
That
's
nothing
,
she
'l
be
soone
instructed
by
Her
husband
in
that
duty
.
King
Yet
I
will
not
Force
her
affection
;
she
desires
to
have
Two
yeeres
yet
added
to
her
age
,
before
She
would
determine
marriage
;
but
you
left
The
clause
imperfect
,
when
you
did
digresse
From
what
we
first
discours'd
,
and
fell
upon
The
praises
of
my
daughter
,
now
no
more
Of
this
,
but
enter
on
the
first
againe
;
What
was
it
nephew
?
Alecto
Sir
,
I
was
applauding
Your
happy
state
and
fortune
,
and
what
cause
You
had
to
thanke
the
gods
for
benefits
You
did
enjoy
above
all
other
Princes
,
Yet
to
the
end
you
might
not
thinke
your selfe
In
earthly
pleasures
absolutely
happy
,
And
so
grow
proud
,
there
lyes
a
barre
between
you
And
the
full
consummation
of
your
blisse
.
King
A
barre
,
what
is
't
?
it
shall
be
then
remov'd
,
And
the
way
cleer'd
.
Alecto
There
's
difficulty
in
't
:
I
meane
the
theeves
and
our
lawes
of
your
Country
,
Who
make
your
land
unfree
,
and
hold
by
force
The
third
part
of
Arabia
,
call'd deserta,
Who
rob
your selfe
and
subjects
of
their
goods
,
Vsurping
priviledges
,
and
exacting
Tributes
an
dues
of
every
passenger
,
Stranger
or
other
wise
that
travell
that
way
.
King
This
takes
away
much
from
my
true
content
,
(
I
must
confesse
)
and
troubles
me
the
more
,
Because
I
know
not
which
way
to
redresse
it
.
You
know
we
have
left
no
way
unattempted
,
To
drive
them
thence
,
yet
fail'd
in
our
desire
,
Because
of
their
retrait
into
the
mountaines
,
Which
for
our
army
is
inaccessible
.
Many
complaints
are
preferr'd
unto
us
,
Not
onely
by
our
subjects
,
but
by
others
Against
these
rebels
for
their
goods
extorted
,
Who
doe
demand
from
us
all
restitution
,
As
if
those
theeves
were
under
our
command
:
Yea
,
many
Kings
our
neighbours
have
dispatcht
Embassadours
about
it
to
our
Courts
Whose
Caravans
and
treasures
have
been
rob'd
,
Passing
the
desarts
by
these
mountaineers
,
Demanding
for
their
losse
,
full
satisfaction
,
Who
have
departed
hence
much
discontented
:
This
in
the
end
I
doubt
will
raise
a
warre
Between
us
,
and
disturbe
our
setled
peace
.
Enter
a
Lord
attendant
.
What
newes
with
you
?
Lord
Sir
,
there
's
a
Gentleman
Lately
return'd
from
travell
,
now
arriv'd
Vnto
the
Court
,
who
humbly
craues
to
have
Accesse
about
affaires
of
great
import
Which
doe
concerne
your
royall
Majesty
.
King
.
Admit
him
straight
,
we
'll
heare
the
businesse
.
Enter
the
Gentleman
.
We
understand
you
're
late
return'd
from
travell
,
From
what
parts
came
you
now
?
Gent.
From
Persia
Sir
.
King
.
What
have
you
to
deliver
?
Gent.
That
the
Persian
Is
marching
hither
with
a
mighty
army
To
fall
upon
your
Kingdome
,
from
the
Court
I
did
accompany
the
Campe
,
untill
I
learnt
the
certainty
of
their
designe
,
Then
in
the
night
I
left
them
,
and
with
speed
Rode
poast
to
warne
you
,
that
you
might
provide
Against
a
strong
invasion
.
King
.
But
where
did
you
Part
from
the
Persian
Army
?
Gentle
.
In
the
confines
Of
Babylonia
nere
faire
Euphrates
.
King
.
How
strong
are
they
?
Gentle
.
Their
Army
doth
amount
Vnto
a
hundred
thousand
foote
,
their
horse
Equals
that
number
bravely
equipag'd
And
furnish'd
for
the
warre
.
King
.
Who
doth
command
As
Generall
?
Gentle
.
Prince
Perseus
himselfe
.
Alecto
Could
you
not
understand
upon
what
grounds
They
built
their
discontent
and
rash
proceeding
?
Gent.
I
can
in
forme
you
nothing
of
the
cause
,
But
so
much
of
th'
effect
,
I
can
assure
you
,
Is
it
too
too
true
.
King
.
This
makes
me
not
a
little
To
wonder
at
the
strangenesse
of
the
thing
;
Who ever
heard
of
any
Prince
that
was
Invaded
by
his
foe
,
before
he
knew
What
his
pretence
was
,
and
the
cause
that
mov'd
him
To
enter
into
warre
;
I
cannot
guesse
The
reason
why
the
Persian
should
receive
Distast
,
and
therefore
am
incredulous
Almost
of
your
report
.
Gentle
.
Sir
I
could
wish
,
(
So
much
I
doe
preferre
my
King
and
Countrey
Before
my
life
)
I
might
be
prov'd
a
lyar
,
Although
I
suffer'd
for
it
,
rather
then
Behold
the
devastation
of
a
soile
So
sweet
as
faire
Arabia
;
but
alas
Your
royall
selfe
,
and
we
your
loyall
subjects
I
feare
too
soone
will
have
experience
of
The
truth
of
my
relation
,
and
perchance
Repent
too
late
your
incredulity
,
Grounded
upon
too
much
security
.
What
should
it
ought
advantage
me
to
lie
?
King
.
Vrge
it
no
more
,
we
do
beleeve
what
you
Have
told
us
is
a
truth
,
and
will
provide
Against
the
enemies
approaching
force
;
Sure
t
is
some
wronges
hath
caus'd
this
by
the
theeves
,
And
the
mad
hare
brain'd
Prince
hath
not
the
patience
(
It
seemes
)
for
to
acquainte
me
but
by
warre
,
And
violent
eruption
into
Armes
;
It
must
be
so
,
else
can
I
not
imagine
The
least
occasion
why
,
well
we
will
stand
Vpon
our
strongest
guard
to
keepe
our
land
.
Exeunt
.
Rapinus
,
Lucinda
.
Rapin.
In
troth
sweet
Lady
you
are
much
to
blame
Thus
to
deferre
my
pleasures
,
and
delude
My
longing
hopes
with
trifling
vaine
delaies
,
I
suffer
most
extremely
.
Lucinda
.
I
could
laugh
To
heare
you
talke
thus
;
are
you
so
impatient
,
You
that
are
borne
to
such
a
course
of
life
,
—
(
And
so
low
fortune
)
as
you
cannot
stay
A
moneth
or
two
to
waite
the
love
and
pleasure
Of
a
Kings
daughter
,
for
the
which
great
Princes
Have
su'd
,
and
serv'd
a
yeare
for
.
Rapin.
Are
you
then
Of
the
blood
royall
,
well
we
'll
mix
our
bloods
Together
,
so
shall
mine
be
royall
too
;
But
wherefore
did
you
tell
me
that
you
were
But
an
Aegyptian
Lady
?
Lucinda
.
And
in
that
I
did
not
lie
,
scarce
use
equivocation
For
Madam
is
a
title
that
's
apply'd
To
Queenes
sometimes
as
unto
common
Ladies
.
Rapin.
Why
did
you
keepe
me
in
this
ignorance
So
long
,
and
now
at
last
reveale
your selfe
?
Lucinda
.
To
awe
your
boldnesse
when
I
saw
it
grow
To
such
a
height
as
now
;
Sir
keepe
your
distance
.
Rapin.
High
words
indeed
seeming
to
have
a
kind
Of
reference
to
Majestie
;
but
tell
me
What
King
begat
you
?
Lucinda
.
Not
to
satisfie
Thy
proud
demand
,
but
make
thee
know
thy selfe
And
the
base
wrong
thou
dost
me
,
do
I
answer
Vnto
thy
question
:
understand
I
am
The
mighty
Souldans
daughter
and
his
heire
Sent
by
my
Father
to
be
married
to
The
Prince
of
Persia
,
when
thy
barbarous
troope
And
lawlesse
selfe
enforc'd
a
Rape
upon
me
,
For
which
thou
shalt
repent
,
unlesse
thou
doe
Make
speedy
restitution
of
myselfe
Vnspotted
in
my
honour
.
Rapin.
Not
such
haste
To
part
,
faire
Princesse
,
in
a
fit
of
choler
;
You
know
not
yet
my
humour
nor
I
yours
,
We
must
participate
each
others
nature
Before
we
can
resolve
in
coulder
bloud
.
Lucind.
Vncivill
groome
dost
thou
thinke
to
enjoy
me
?
I
'le
rather
prostitute
my
body
to
The
lust
of
a
deformed
Incubus
,
Or
ugly
Satire
,
then
retaine
one
thought
Of
thy
lewd
loath'd
embraces
Rapin.
That
's
because
You
're
told
they
're
active
in
the
art
of
vaulting
,
But
you
shall
find
me
Madame
so
dexterious
,
As
not
inferiour
to
them
in
that
kind
;
Try
my
performance
.
Lucinda
.
Thou
lascivious
man
Thou
bestiall
Goate
,
how
darst
thou
tainte
chast
eares
With
thy
infectious
breath
?
know
t
is
in
vaine
Further
to
urge
thy
lust
,
for
I
'm
resolv'd
To
runne
the
hazard
of
a
thousand
deaths
Rather
then
to
yeeld
unto
it
.
Rapin.
Foolish
woman
Thy
rage
or'e
comes
thy
wit
,
think'st
thou
this
way
To
worke
upon
me
?
dost
thou
not
perceive
Thou
art
my
prisoner
,
and
what
now
thou
hast
Is
all
my
gift
,
thy
life
,
thy
reputation
;
Thy
wealth
and
jewels
?
dost
not
see
when
I
Please
to
command
thee
to
give
up
those
things
Thou
hast
not
power
to
hold
them
feare
a
minute
?
And
yet
art
thou
so
inconsiderate
?
Dreame
not
,
nor
feed
this
foolish
fantasie
Within
your
minde
to
thinke
your
Father
can
Rescue
you
hence
,
or
your
betroathed
Lord
The
Persian
Prince
redeeme
you
from
my
cave
,
Although
they
came
with
greater
forces
far
Then
Xerxes
or
Darius
;
I
am
safer
Here
in
this
unfrequented
wildernesse
,
Thus
barracadoed
round
with
hils
and
mountaines
,
Then
they
in
all
their
strong
fortifications
,
Their
Forts
and
Castles
.
Lucind.
I
perceive
my
errour
,
And
therefore
must
a
little
temporize
To
prevent
outrage
.
—
aside
.
Sir
,
you
mov'd
your
lust
,
But
not
your
love
and
woo'd
me
in
a
phrase
That
fitter
were
to
be
apply'd
unto
,
A
common
whore
or
strumpet
,
then
a
Lady
,
Much
lesse
a
Princesse
,
this
I
must
confesse
Enflam'd
my
anger
,
and
enforc'd
me
to
Forget
my selfe
a
little
.
Rapin.
I
confesse
My
errour
too
,
and
crave
your
pardon
Lady
,
See
how
one
gentle
word
hath
mollifid
My
disposition
,
and
cleane
turn'd
the
streame
Of
my
full
bent
desire
to
be
possess'd
By
force
of
what
I
now
resolved
am
To
crave
by
faire
intreaty
in
the
way
Of
honest
marriage
.
Lucinda
.
Now
your
stile
is
good
,
And
tasteth
something
of
civility
,
Yet
I
desire
some
respite
to
give
answer
Vnto
your
sute
for
two
considerations
:
First
,
that
I
may
have
time
to
make
my
prayers
Vnto
the
shrine
of
holy
Mahomet
,
To
grant
a
dispensation
of
my
vow
Made
to
the
Persian
Prince
,
to
be
his
wife
:
Next
that
I
be
not
perjur'd
to
my selfe
,
To
loose
my
Virgin
girdle
,
ere
my
age
Hath
numbred
twenty
springs
to
reinvest
Our
naked
mother
earth
in
robes
of
greene
.
Rapin.
Why
did
you
make
,
pray
,
such
a
foolish
vow
To
stay
a
Maid
so
long
?
Lucind.
I
did
indeed
.
Rapin.
What
wants
now
of
the
time
?
Lucind.
But
a
bare
moneth
,
That
is
not
long
you
know
.
Rapin.
Well
,
I
'm
content
,
Though
my
desires
are
apt
to
climbe
the
tree
Iust
at
this
very
instant
,
and
to
taste
Your
dainty
maiden
fruit
,
but
love
is
sweeter
If
freely
granted
,
then
if
tane
by
force
,
Therefore
I
'le
stay
the
time
prefixt
,
and
not
Beyond
the
same
a
minute
,
see
you
doe
not
Longer
abuse
my
patience
,
if
you
doe
,
What
love
cannot
,
force
shall
constraine
you
to
:
Come
,
will
you
goe
?
—
Exit
Rapinus
.
Lucind.
I
must
stay
here
a
little
.
I
'le
wait
on
you
soon
;
heavens
in
what
narrow
straights
Wretched
Lucinda
have
thy
fates
confin'd
thee
?
In
what
amazed
labyrinth
of
love
Am
I
enclos'd
,
and
cannot
find
a
clue
To
guide
me
forth
,
no
light
,
no
salliport
?
I
love
my
fellow
prisoner
,
but
I
hate
The
theefe
Rapinus
,
how
I
shall
enjoy
The
one
,
and
handsomely
avoyd
the
other
.
A
womans
wit
alas
cannot
contrive
:
How
soone
I
have
forgot
the
Persian
Prince
?
How
soone
my selfe
?
my
eye
but
glanced
on
The
beauty
of
this
stranger
,
but
his
looke
,
His
high
commanding
looke
,
which
darted
forth
Majesticke
sparkes
,
captiv'd
my
yeelding
heart
:
He
is
though
shadowed
,
that
farre
fam'd
Amandus
,
Damascus
Prince
,
I
reade
the
characters
Of
majesty
deepe
stamped
in
his
brow
;
I
'le
vent
my
thoughts
unto
him
,
and
this
cave
Shall
helpe
me
to
his
love
,
or
to
my
grave
.
Enter
Sara
her
Mayd
.
Sara
what
wilt
thou
counsell
me
to
doe
in
the
thing
you
wot
of
?
Sara
I
have
told
you
my
opinion
already
.
Lucinda
But
can
a
woman
with
any
modesty
make
love
to
a
man
?
Sara
Puh
,
why
not
in
a
case
of
extremity
,
when
the
woman
is
hot
,
and
the
man
is
cold
in
the
businesse
?
Lucind.
But
if
I
should
commit
through
extreme
passion
such
a
folly
,
should
I
not
be
wondred
at
,
and
hated
amongst
women
for
giving
an
ill
example
to
the
world
?
Sara
Nothing
lesse
,
but
on
the
contrary
,
be
assur'd
you
shall
reape
from
them
infinite
love
and
thankes
for
laying
them
down
such
a
president
of
boldnesse
,
but
if
you
dispute
pro
&
con
,
thus
,
and
make
such
objections
,
you
shall
never
obtaine
your
desires
while
you
live
,
I
will
warrant
you
.
Lucinda
But
dost
thou
thinke
there
is
any
hope
of
speeding
in
my
suit
,
upon
notice
given
him
of
my
love
.
Sara
No
question
,
Madame
,
he
cannot
but
most
willingly
embrace
it
,
and
blesse
his
fortune
for
so
high
a
favour
.
Lucind.
Aye
me
Sara
,
I
feare
I
am
not
so
happy
,
my
stars
foretell
not
so
prosperous
an
Omen
:
though
I
have
by
signs
and
dumb
shewes
,
by
sighes
and
amorous
glances
told
him
my
affection
,
yet
seems
he
not
to
understand
that
language
,
but
as
insensible
of
my
paine
,
suffers
mee
to
languish
in
my
torment
.
Sara
I
would
faine
aske
your
Ladiship
one
question
,
if
I
might
be
so
bold
,
and
thereby
not
incurre
your
displeasure
.
Lucind.
Speake
thy
minde
freely
,
thou
shalt
give
me
no
offence
at
all
.
Sara
Taking
your
word
for
my
warrant
then
,
I
desire
to
know
if
you
be
in
earnest
or
in
jest
,
for
I
cannot
beleeve
you
should
so
soone
forget
the
great
Prince
of
Persia
,
and
doat
so
extremely
on
this
stranger
,
whose
ranke
and
quality
you
know
not
,
but
by
conjecture
.
Lucind.
Such
is
the
commanding
power
of
love
thou
seest
,
which
is
able
to
doe
more
impossible
matters
then
these
;
I
meane
sincerely
;
Neither
have
I
reason
to
repent
the
chance
.
Saera
No
,
suppose
he
be
that
poore
exiled
Prince
of
Damascus
,
is
he
to
be
compared
,
or
in
your
good
opinion
to
be
preferred
before
the
puissant
Persian
,
one
of
the
greatest
Monarchs
of
the
world
?
Lucind.
How
foolishly
thou
talkest
,
dost
thou
not
know
that
comparisons
are
odious
,
especially
in
love
matters
?
counsell
me
better
what
to
doe
,
or
keep
thy
thoughts
in
thine
owne
bosome
.
Sara
Madame
,
my
help
and
furtherance
shall
not
be
wanting
in
any
thing
wherein
I
can
doe
you
service
:
let
your
wit
contrive
the
way
according
to
your
desire
,
and
let
me
alone
to
put
it
in
execution
.
Lucind.
Then
what
if
I
sent
thee
to
him
with
a
letter
stuff'd
full
of
affection
,
would
not
that
be
a
pretty
way
to
cover
my
blushes
,
and
yet
discover
my
love
?
sure
it
would
,
what
thinkest
thou
Sara
?
Sara
I
cannot
but
approve
your
plot
exceedingly
Madame
,
for
if
there
be
then
any
fault
escaped
,
or
any
small
breach
of
maiden
modesty
made
,
it
shall
be
imputed
to
the
inke
and
paper
,
which
is
of
too
pale
a
colour
to
blush
.
Lucind.
It
shall
be
so
then
,
get
me
pen
,
inke
,
and
paper
presently
,
but
soft
,
he
comes
to
save
me
that
labour
,
I
am
arm'd
with
boldnesse
for
the
encounter
,
assist
me
,
Cupid
,
I
beseech
thee
.
Amandus
,
Consolario
,
Colonell
,
Gentleman
.
Amand.
Faire
Princesse
,
here
behold
before
your
eyes
;
Those
whom
your
courtesie
hath
made
your
slaves
:
I
meane
my
friends
and
me
,
whose
thanks
,
yea
lives
We
come
to
tender
to
you
,
but
alas
,
The
debt
we
owe
is
greater
,
and
the
summe
Not
to
be
answer'd
so
,
yet
we
beseech
you
Take
this
in
part
of
payment
,
which
we
offer
With
zealous
hearts
,
and
no
lesse
strong
devotion
,
And
though
we
cannot
cancell
your
great
bill
,
Impute
that
to
our
want
,
not
to
our
will
.
Lucind.
Most
courteous
Sir
,
if
through
my
means
you
have
Enjoy'd
the
benefit
of
any
thing
,
I
thanke
my
fates
that
made
me
an
instrument
Of
doing
so
much
good
:
you
shall
oblige
me
To
tell
me
,
since
I
cannot
tell
my selfe
What
thing
Lucinda
did
,
that
could
produce
So
strong
an
obligation
.
Amand.
You
impose
Too
great
a
taske
upon
me
,
for
weake
words
Cannot
expresse
it
full
;
Madame
,
we
owe
you
First
for
our
lives
,
then
for
our
liberties
,
For
curing
of
our
wounds
with
your
faire
hand
,
And
many
other
favours
great
besides
,
All
which
we
treasure
up
here
in
our
hearts
,
As
in
a
trusty
Cabinet
.
Lucinda
Sure
the
man
Seemes
of
so
gentle
nature
,
that
he
would
not
Be
so
unkinde
,
as
to
repell
the
suit
Of
a
poore
love-sicke
Lady
—
aside
.
Will
you
grant
me
One
boone
in
lieu
thereof
,
and
you
shall
make
me
A
ten-fold
satisfaction
.
Amand.
For
your
good
We
will
expose
our
lives
unto
all
hazards
,
For
we
account
them
yours
,
and
not
our
owne
,
Since
by
your
meanes
we
live
,
and
doe
enjoy
them
:
What
's
your
command
?
Lucinda
Sir
,
since
you
doe
acknowledge
You
owe
to
me
your
life
and
liberty
,
Your
cure
,
and
other
courtesies
besides
,
I
am
endanger'd
now
as
you
were
then
.
'T
is
now
my
turne
,
and
I
am
like
to
suffer
In
all
these
things
,
unlesse
your
gentle
nature
And
pitty
doe
relieve
me
.
Amand.
How
sweet
Lady
I
doe
beseech
you
comes
it
?
doth
the
theefe
Rapinus
dare
to
offer
violence
Vnto
your
chastity
,
or
threat
your
death
Vnlesse
you
yeeld
unto
him
?
I
will
soone
(
So
much
I
'm
oblig'd
unto
your
goodnesse
)
Finde
out
a
way
to
send
that
fiend
to
hell
,
Although
I
suffer
for
it
twenty
deaths
,
If
this
procure
your
feare
.
Lucinda
This
is
the
least
,
(
Although
I
know
not
well
how
to
avoid
him
)
Of
what
I
suffer
.
Amand.
Let
me
know
it
then
:
Your
life
and
liberty
endangered
?
In
need
too
of
a
cure
,
and
not
that
way
?
Strange
mystery
,
unfold
it
I
beseech
you
,
That
if
it
lye
in
my
poore
power
,
I
may
Make
knowne
how
much
I
love
and
honour
you
.
Lucinda
Sir
,
't
is
a
secret
,
and
requires
to
be
Spoken
to
you
in
private
all
alone
.
Should
I
not
be
unmannerly
to
crave
Your
friends
retirement
for
a
little
space
?
Consol.
Madame
,
there
needs
no
ceremony
in
Your
Ladiships
commands
to
us
your
vassals
.
Exeunt
.
Lucind.
Now
you
can
help
me
by
an
easie
way
Without
your
hurt
,
for
know
I
am
your
Patient
,
But
am
asham'd
to
lay
to
you
ope
my
wound
:
Imagine
in
what
nature
't
is
by
these
My
teares
,
my
blushes
,
my
abrupted
sighes
,
My
broken
speeches
,
my
dejected
eyes
,
My
strange
unwonted
passions
:
more
,
I
am
Your
prisoner
too
by
the
commanding
power
Of
all
subduing
love
,
now
't
is
in
you
To
cure
me
,
't
is
in
you
to
give
me
life
And
liberty
at
once
:
O
be
not
cruell
Faire
Prince
,
but
help
a
poor
distressed
Lady
,
Who
craves
but
love
,
and
in
that
suit
your
best
Construction
:
take
it
not
in
the
worst
sence
,
Nor
thinke
me
ought
immodest
,
though
I
have
Open'd
my
sore
which
was
procured
by
Your
most
majesticke
carriage
.
Amand.
Heavens
defend
So
great
a
Princesse
,
and
so
beautifull
,
Of
such
imperiall
fortunes
,
should
descend
So
low
in
thought
,
to
looke
on
such
a
wretch
As
I
am
,
being
the
map
of
misery
,
Griefes
Embleme
,
yea
the
tennis
ball
of
fortune
,
Toss'd
by
her
angry
Racket
evermore
Beneath
the
line
,
into
a
thousand
hazards
—
For
her
desport
,
I
love
you
better
Lady
Then
so
,
to
worke
your
downefall
,
and
should
ill
Requite
your
favours
that
way
:
you
that
may
For
beauty
,
birth
,
or
fortune
,
match
with
any
The
greatest
Prince
of
the
terrestriall
orbe
.
'T
were
sinne
in
me
not
to
be
pardoned
,
To
wrong
you
with
my
love
in
way
of
marriage
,
Who
can
assure
you
nothing
for
a
dower
But
sorrow
and
affliction
,
Lucind.
Sure
you
cannot
,
Although
you
would
,
conceale
your selfe
from
me
,
Whose
love
discerning
eyes
have
found
you
out
To
be
admir'd
Amandus
,
and
survey'd
Each
lineament
a
part
,
with
such
regard
As
Painters
use
in
limming
of
a
piece
,
You
'r
drawne
within
my
heart
,
from
head
to
foot
.
Amand.
I
grant
it
Madam
,
that
I
was
that
Prince
You
pleas'd
to
name
,
but
now
have
nothing
left
me
But
the
bare
title
,
but
that
ayery
name
,
Poore
eccho
of
Damascus
,
would
I
might
Loose
that
and
life
,
the
shadow
with
the
substance
,
Then
I
were
happy
,
but
my
fates
alas
I
feare
reserve
me
for
more
misery
.
If
possible
,
then
I
have
tasted
yet
:
Therefore
let
all
avoid
me
as
the
plague
,
Lest
they
should
be
infected
with
my
griefe
.
Lucind.
Doe
not
suppose
your
pleading
poverty
,
Or
ought
you
can
alledge
,
to
wrong
your selfe
,
Hath
power
to
turne
the
streame
of
my
affection
Another
way
then
now
it
holds
its
course
,
Or
to
repell
my
argument
of
love
:
No
,
no
,
the
plea
is
stronger
,
though
you
were
Poorer
then
Irui
(
I
invoke
as
witnesse
Of
this
my
vow
the
power
that
made
me
yours
)
Yet
would
I
rather
be
conjoyn'd
to
you
In
nuptiall
bands
,
then
be
the
wedded
wife
Of
any
other
Prince
,
although
he
were
Richer
then
Craesus
,
and
heaven
knowes
I
could
Content
me
better
in
this
prison
here
,
(
So
you
could
love
me
,
and
I
might
enjoy
you
)
Then
in
the
Persian
Palace
,
if
I
lye
,
Let
Cupid
shoot
you
with
a
leaden
dart
,
And
with
disdaine
kill
poore
Lucinda's
heart
.
Amandus
O
deerest
Princesse
,
take
deliberation
,
And
enter
into
thought
of
what
you
are
,
Of
what
I
am
,
and
what
the
Persian
is
.
Then
you
will
soone
call
home
these
wandring
thoughts
,
And
place
them
where
they
shall
be
worth
your
love
:
In
me
alas
they
cannot
,
for
although
I
had
not
lost
my
Country
,
though
my
kingdome
Had
still
beene
mine
,
and
though
I
now
enjoy'd
My
former
regall
dignities
and
state
,
Yet
should
I
count
my selfe
too
meane
by
farre
,
To
match
with
you
the
mighty
Souldans
heire
,
And
onely
daughter
,
now
I
scarce
deserve
To
wait
on
you
in
nature
of
your
servant
.
Lucinda
This
shall
not
serve
your
turne
,
these
vain
excuses
And
wrongfull
reasons
urg'd
against
your selfe
,
Shall
not
prevaile
at
all
:
the
more
you
strive
To
stop
the
current
of
my
swelling
passions
,
The
more
they
rage
within
this
breast
of
mine
,
And
in
the
end
will
overflow
and
breake
My
heart
if
you
prove
cruell
,
and
put
off
My
hopes
with
such
weake
shifts
and
poor
delayes
.
Come
,
grant
me
love
,
and
seale
it
with
a
kisse
As
an
assurance
.
Enter
Rapinus
listning
before
at
the
dore
.
Rapinus
.
What
is
this
I
heare
Spake
by
Lucinda
to
this
captive
slave
,
Come
grant
me
love
,
and
seale
with
a
kisse
As
an
assurance
?
well
I
'le
be
reveng'd
By
all
the
Pagan
gods
;
ignoble
strumpet
How
dar'st
thou
wrong
me
thus
,
and
in
my
Cave
To
court
my
prisoner
?
was
't
for
this
thou
did'st
Deny
my
suite
,
and
still
from
time
to
time
Delude
me
with
delay
,
that
thou
might'st
act
Thy
shame
,
and
make
me
pander
to
thy
lust
?
Base
Whore
was
this
thy
drift
?
for
this
abuse
I
'le
presently
enioy
thee
,
if
thou
yeeld
Without
constraint
,
I
'le
keepe
thee
to
my selfe
,
But
if
thou
strive
,
or
make
the
least
resistance
To
crosse
my
will
,
when
I
have
satisfi'd
My
lust
at
full
,
I
'le
put
the
o're
to
be
Vs'd
and
abus'd
by
every
common
souldier
;
Come
huswife
I
must
teach
you
true
obedience
.
Offers
to
ravish
her
.
Lucinda
.
Helpe
,
helpe
.
Amand.
Base
villaine
offer
her
no
wrong
,
But
turne
thee
upon
me
,
although
unarm'd
I
dare
thy
utmost
power
.
Rapin.
Then
thou
shalt
feele
The
fury
of
my
rage
,
have
at
thee
slave
.
Drawes
his
sword
and
assaults
him
,
Amand
.
defends
himselfe
with
a
stoole
,
and
at
last
closing
with
him
,
hath
him
at
this
mercy
.
Amand.
Now
I
will
dye
thy
sword
in
thy
own
bloud
,
Which
thou
didst
think
to
make
deepe
drunke
in
mine
.
Rapin.
O
stay
thy
hand
for
faire
Lucindas
sake
.
Ama.
That
hastes
thy
death
,
&
puts
me
in
remembrance
Thou
wouldst
have
ravish'd
her
.
Lucinda
.
Sir
let
him
dy
,
And
free
us
all
from
this
captivity
,
Never
a
better
time
then
now
to
doe
it
.
Amand.
Then
it
is
done
,
take
that
,
and
breath
thy
last
,
killes
him
.
Lucinda
.
Heroicke
Prince
now
shew
thy
pitty
on
me
,
And
as
thou
hast
releas'd
me
from
this
theefe
,
And
from
the
violence
of
loathed
lust
,
So
free
me
from
the
violence
of
love
By
taking
me
unto
thy
wedded
wife
:
I
will
refuse
no
danger
,
nay
no
death
To
beare
thee
company
,
live
here
or
travell
Throughout
the
world
,
I
'le
Lacquey
it
a foot
With
sweet
Amandus
;
can
you
be
so
hard
And
cruell
to
me
?
sure
when
Ladies
wooe
Hard
are
the
shiftes
love
doth
constraine
them
too
.
Amand.
No
more
of
this
sweet
Lady
till
we
have
Order'd
the
businesse
that
now
fals
upon
us
:
The
theeves
we
need
not
feare
,
for
I
have
them
Firmely
at
my
devotion
through
distast
And
discontent
they
did
receive
against
Rapinus
in
his
life
,
they
will
not
stirre
(
I
know
)
one
foot
in
his
revenge
,
but
rather
Render
me
thankes
for
acting
of
his
death
;
Come
let
us
goe
,
to
better
our
poore
state
We
must
confirme
these
men
yet
in
their
hate
.
Exeunt
.
Enter
the
three
theeves
.
1
But
my
masters
shall
wee
be
still
ridden
thus
,
and
undergoe
the
but
then
patiently
,
without
seeking
remedy
or
revenge
?
2
No
we
'll
suffer
it
no
longer
,
if
we
do
wee
shall
deserve
Mydas
eares
y'faith
.
3
And
Acteons
hornes
too
for
our
future
fortune
.
1
Then
wee
are
all
resolv'd
to
doe
our
best
to
dispatch
him
,
are
we
not
?
2
All
the
shame
of
the
world
befall
him
that
is
against
it
.
3
And
al
the
bastinadoes
that
do
grow
in
the
deserts
light
upon
him
▪
le
ts
devise
a
way
now
to
worke
our
revenge
,
will
you
study
the
plot
?
1
Since
you
referre
it
to
me
,
I
will
not
be
long
about
it
,
le
ts
release
the
stranger
,
give
him
armes
,
make
him
our
Captaine
,
and
cut
Rapinus
throat
;
how
like
you
this
?
2
Excellent
well
,
it
cannot
chuse
but
advantage
us
greatly
,
for
the
stranger
is
wonderfull
valiant
,
you
know
wee
had
costly
experience
of
it
,
and
he
seemes
of
a
generous
disposition
besides
,
that
would
not
forget
such
a
courtesie
.
3
This
wil
I
beleeve
,
so
oblige
his
gentle
nature
as
whatsoever
boote
we
take
,
he
will
not
trouble
himselfe
with
it
,
but
divide
it
freely
among
us
;
will
not
this
be
excellent
my
hearts
?
1
But
who
lies
here
all
this
while
weltring
in
his
owne
bloud
and
we
not
see
him
?
our
Captaine
Rapinus
,
t
is
hee
,
come
here
and
congratulate
his
death
,
2
Blessed
accident
!
3
This
befell
according
to
our
wishes
,
and
hath
sav'd
us
the
labour
to
put
our
designe
in
excution
.
1
Ha
Captaine
do
you
lie
there
y'faith
,
remember
how
often
you
gave
me
the
bastinado
,
I
could
now
be
reveng'd
upon
your
dead
carkasse
,
but
I
will
now
only
satisfie
my selfe
with
laughing
over
thy
body
,
ha
,
ha
,
ha
.
2
To
whom
are
we
bound
for
this
courtesie
,
I
marvell
,
I
cannot
imagine
to
whose
courage
to
impute
it
unlesse
to
the
strangers
.
3
T
is
he
,
it
can
be
no
other
,
he
shall
be
our
new
Captaine
for
the
deed
,
do
you
consent
to
it
?
1
By
all
meanes
we
approve
it
,
he
shall
have
his
act
presently
.
2
Come
let
us
find
him
out
,
and
know
how
the
businesse
pass'd
betweene
Rapinus
and
him
.
1
Agreed
,
and
offer
him
our
service
and
recive
his
commands
.
How
apt
a
Souldiers
mind
is
still
to
range
,
And
doth
desire
his
officers
to
change
,
2
But
stay
let
us
not
leave
Rapinus
body
lie
here
unburied
,
lend
me
your
hand
for
charities
sake
.
3
That
's
well
remembred
—
exeunt
with
the
body
.
Finis
Actus
tertij
.