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Plays distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. img: 1­a ismigg: :[ N1­/bA] sig: A2r ln 0001 THE ln 0002 RENEGADO, ln 0003 A TRAGICOMEDY. ln 0004 As it hath been often acted by the ln 0005 Queen’s Majesty’s servants, at ln 0006 the private Playhouse in ln 0007 Drury Lane. ln 0008 By PHILIP MASSINGER. ln 0009 LONDON, ln 0010 Printed by A. M. for John Waterson, ln 0011 and are to be sold at the Crown in ln 0012 Paul’s Churchyard. 1630. img: 2­a sig: A2v ln 0001 Dramatis Personae. The Actors’ names. ln 0002 ASAMBEG, Viceroy of Tunis. John Blanye. ln 0003 MUSTAPHA, Bashaw of Aleppo. John Sumner. ln 0004 VITELLI, A Gentleman of ln 0005 Venice disguised. Michael Bowier. ln 0006 FRANCISCO, A Jesuit. William Reignalds. ln 0007 ANTONIO GRIMALDI the ln 0008 Renegado. William Allen. ln 0009 CARAZIE an Eunuch. William Robins. ln 0010 GAZET servant to Vitelli. Edward Shakerley. ln 0011 AGA. ln 0012 CAPIAGA. ln 0013 MASTER. ln 0014 BOATSWAIN, ln 0015 SAILORS. ln 0016 JAILOR. ln 0017 3. TURKS. ln 0018 DONUSA, niece to AMURATH. Edward Rogers. ln 0019 PAULINA, Sister to Vitelli. Theo. Bourne. linm 0g0:2 20­b MANTO, servant to Donusa. sig: A3r ln 0001 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ln 0002 GEORGE HARDING, ln 0003 Baron Barkley, of Barkley Castle, ln 0004 and Knight of the Honorable ln 0005 Order of the BATH. ln 0006 My good Lord. ln 0007 TO be Honored for old Nobility, ln 0008 or Hereditary Titles is not alone ln 0009 proper to yourself, but to some ln 0010 few of your rank, who may challenge ln 0011 the like privilege with you: ln 0012 but in our age to vouchsafe (as you ln 0013 have often done) a ready hand to raise the ln 0014 dejected spirits of the contemned Sons of ln 0015 the Muses, Such as would not suffer the glorious ln 0016 fire of Poesy to be wholly extinguished, ln 0017 is so remarkable, and peculiar to your ln 0018 Lordship, that with a full vote, and suffrage ln 0019 it is acknowledged that the Patronage and ln 0020 Protection of the Dramatic Poem, is ln 0021 yours, and almost without a rival I despair ln 0022 not therefore, but that my ambition ln 0023 to present my service in this kind, may in ln 0024 your clemency meet with a gentle interpretation. ln 0025 Confirm it my good Lord in img: 3­a sig: A3v ln 0026 Your gracious acceptance of this trifle, in ln 0027 which if I were not confident there are ln 0028 some pieces worthy the perusal, it should ln 0029 have been taught an humbler flight, and ln 0030 the writer (Your Countryman) never ln 0031 yet made happy in your notice, and favor, ln 0032 had not made this an advocate to plead for ln 0033 his admission among such as are wholly, ln 0034 and sincerely devoted to your service. I may ln 0035 live to tender my humble thankfulness in ln 0036 some higher strain, and till then comfort ln 0037 myself with hope, that you descend from ln 0038 your height to receive. ln 0039 Your Honor’s ln 0040 Commanded Servant ln 0041 PHILIP MASSINGER img: 3­b sig: A4r ln 0001 To my Honored Friend, Master PHILIP ln 0002 MASSINGER, upon his RENEGADO. ln 0003 DAbblers in Poetry that only can, ln 0004 Court this weak Lady, or that Gentleman, ln 0005 with some loose wit in rhyme; ln 0006 others that fright the time. ln 0007 Into belief with mighty words, that tear ln 0008 a Passage through the ear; ln 0009 or Nicer men, ln 0010 That through a Perspective will see a Play, ln 0011 and use it the wrong way, ln 0012 (not worth thy Pen) ln 0013 Though all their Pride exalt ’em, cannot be ln 0014 Competent Judges of thy Lines or thee. ln 0015 I must confess I have no Public name ln 0016 To rescue judgement, no Poetic flame ln 0017 to dress thy Muse with Praise, ln 0018 and Phoebus his own Bays; ln 0019 Yet I commend this Poem, and dare tell ln 0020 the World I liked it well, ln 0021 and if there be ln 0022 A tribe, who in their Wisdoms dare accuse, ln 0023 this offspring of thy Muse, ln 0024 let them agree, ln 0025 Conspire one Comedy, and they will say ln 0026 ’Tis easier to Commend, than make a Play. linm 0g0:2 47­a JAMES SHIRLEY. sig: A4v ln 0001 To his worthy Friend Master PHILIP ln 0002 MASSINGER, on his Play, Called ln 0003 the RENEGADO. ln 0004 THE bosom of a friend cannot breathe forth ln 0005 A flattering phrase to speak the noble Worth ln 0006 Of him that hath lodged in his honest breast, ln 0007 So large a title: I among the rest ln 0008 That honor thee, do only seem to praise ln 0009 Wanting the flowers of Art, to deck that Bays ln 0010 Merit has crowned thy Temples with. Know friend ln 0011 Though there are some who merely do commend ln 0012 To live i’ th’ World’s opinion such as can ln 0013 Censure with Judgment, no such piece of Man, ln 0014 Makes up my spirit where desert does live, ln 0015 There will I plant my wonder, and there give ln 0016 My best endeavors, to build up his story ln 0017 That truly Merits. I did ever glory ln 0018 To behold Virtue rich, though cruel Fate ln 0019 In scornful malice does beat low their state ln 0020 That best deserve, when others that but know ln 0021 Only to scribble, and no more, oft grow ln 0022 Great in their favors, that would seem to be ln 0023 Patrons of Wit, and modest Poesy: ln 0024 Yet with your abler Friends, let me say this ln 0025 Many may strive to equal you, but miss ln 0026 Of your fair scope, this work of yours men may ln 0027 Throw in the face of envy, and then say ln 0028 To those that are in Great­men’s thoughts more blessed, ln 0029 Imitate this, And call that work your best. ln 0030 Yet Wise­men, in this, and too often, err ln 0031 When they their love before the work prefer, ln 0032 If I should say more, some may blame me for ’t ln 0033 Seeing your merits speak you, not report. linm 0g0:3 44­b DANIEL LAKYN. sig: B1r wln 0001 THE wln 0002 RENEGADO. wln 0003 The Scene Tunis. wln 0004 Actus primus. Scaena prima. wln 0005 Enter Vitelli and Gazet. wln 0006 Vitelli. wln 0007 YOu have hired a Shop then? wln 0008 Gazet. Yes sir, and our wares wln 0009 (Though brittle as a maidenhead at wln 0010 sixteen) wln 0011 Are safe unladen; not a Crystal cracked, wln 0012 Or China dish needs soldering; our choice wln 0013 Pictures wln 0014 As they came from the workman, without blemish, wln 0015 And I have studied speeches for each Piece, wln 0016 And in a thrifty tone to sell ’em off; wln 0017 Will swear by Mahamet, and Termagant, wln 0018 That this is Mistress to the great Duke of Florence, wln 0019 That Niece to old King Pippin, and a third wln 0020 An Austrian Princess by her Roman nose, wln 0021 Howe’er my conscience tells me they are figures wln 0022 Of Bawds, and common Courtesans in Venice. img: 5­a ismigg: :[ N5­/bA] [The opening A4v­B1r is duplicated in the EEBO image set.] ismigg: :[ N6­/aA] [The opening A4v­B1r is duplicated in the EEBO image set.] sig: B1v wln 0023 Vitelli You make no scruple of an oath then? wln 0024 Gazet Fie sir wln 0025 ’Tis out of my Indentures, I am bound there wln 0026 To swear for my Master’s profit as securely wln 0027 As your intelligencer must for his Prince, wln 0028 That sends him forth an honorable spy, wln 0029 To serve his purposes. And if it be lawful wln 0030 In a Christian shopkeeper to cheat his father, wln 0031 I cannot find but to abuse a Turk wln 0032 In the sale of our commodities, must be thought wln 0033 A meritorious work. wln 0034 Vitelli I wonder sirrah wln 0035 What’s your Religion? wln 0036 Gazet Troth to answer truly wln 0037 I would not be of one that should command me wln 0038 To feed upon poor John, when I see Pheasants wln 0039 And Partridges on the Table: nor do I like wln 0040 The other that allows us to eat flesh wln 0041 In the Lent though it be rotten, rather than be wln 0042 Thought superstitious, as your zealous Cobbler, wln 0043 And learned butcher Preach at Amsterdam wln 0044 Over a Hotchpotch. I would not be confined wln 0045 In my belief, when all your Sects, and sectaries wln 0046 Are grown of one opinion, if I like it wln 0047 I will profess myself, in the meantime wln 0048 Live I in England, Spain, France, Rome, Geneva. wln 0049 I am of that Country’s faith, wln 0050 Vitelli And what in Tunis, wln 0051 Will you turn Turk here? wln 0052 Gazet No! so I should lose wln 0053 A Collop of that part my Doll enjoined me wln 0054 To bring home as she left it; ’tis her venture, wln 0055 Nor dare I barter that commodity wln 0056 Without her special warrant. wln 0057 Vitelli You are a Knave sir, wln 0058 leaving your Roguery think upon my business, img: 6­b sig: B2r wln 0059 It is no time to fool now wln 0060 Remember where you are too! though this Mart time, wln 0061 We are allowed free trading, and with safety. wln 0062 Temper your tongue and meddle not with the Turks, wln 0063 Their manners, nor Religion. wln 0064 Gazet Take you heed sir wln 0065 What colors you wear. Not two hours since there Landed wln 0066 An English Pirate’s Whore with a green apron, wln 0067 And as she walked the streets, one of their Muftis wln 0068 We call them Priests at Venice, with a Razor wln 0069 Cuts it off Petticoat, Smock and all, and leaves her wln 0070 As naked as my Nail: the young Fry wondering wln 0071 What strange beast it should be. I ’scaped a scouring wln 0072 My Mistress’ Busk­point, of that forbidden color wln 0073 Then tied my codpiece, had it been discovered wln 0074 I had been caponed. wln 0075 Vitelli And had been well served; wln 0076 Haste to the Shop and set my Wares in order wln 0077 I will not long be absent? wln 0078 Gazet Though I strive sir wln 0079 To put off Melancholy, to which, you are ever wln 0080 Too much inclined, it shall not hinder me wln 0081 With my best care to serve you Exit Gazet. wln 0082 Enter Francisco. wln 0083 Vitelli I believe thee. wln 0084 O welcome sir, stay of my steps in this life, wln 0085 And guide to all my blessed hopes hereafter. wln 0086 What comforts sir? have your endeavors prospered? wln 0087 Have we tired Fortune’s malice with our sufferings? wln 0088 Is she at length after so many frowns wln 0089 Pleased to vouchsafe one cheerful look upon us? wln 0090 Francisco You give too much to fortune, and your passions, wln 0091 O’er which a wise man, if Religious, triumphs. wln 0092 That name fools worship, and those tyrants which wln 0093 We arm against our better part, our reason, wln 0094 May add, but never take from our afflictions: img: 7­a sig: B2v wln 0095 Vitelli. Sir as I am a sinful man, I can not wln 0096 But like one suffer. wln 0097 Francisco I exact not from you wln 0098 A fortitude insensible of calamity, wln 0099 To which the Saints themselves have bowed and shown wln 0100 They are made of flesh, and blood, all that I challenge wln 0101 Is manly patience. Will you that were trained up wln 0102 In a Religious School, where divine maxims wln 0103 Scorning comparison, with moral precepts wln 0104 Were daily taught you, bear your constancy’s trial wln 0105 Not like Vitelli, but a Village nurse wln 0106 With curses in your mouth: Tears in your eyes? wln 0107 How poorly it shows in you? wln 0108 Vitelli I am Schooled sir, wln 0109 And will hereafter to my utmost strength wln 0110 Study to be myself. wln 0111 Francisco So shall you find me wln 0112 Most ready to assist you; Neither have I wln 0113 Slept in your great occasions since I left you wln 0114 I have been at the Viceroy’s Court and pressed wln 0115 As far as they allow a Christian entrance. wln 0116 And something I have learnt that may concern wln 0117 The purpose of this journey. wln 0118 Vitelli Dear Sir what is it? wln 0119 Francisco By the command of Asambeg, the Viceroy: wln 0120 The City swells with barbarous Pomp and Pride wln 0121 For the entertainment of stout Mustapha wln 0122 The Bashaw of Aleppo, who in person wln 0123 Comes to receive the niece of Amurah wln 0124 The fair Donusa for his bride. wln 0125 Vitelli I find not wln 0126 How this may profit us. wln 0127 Francisco Pray you give me leave. wln 0128 Among the rest that wait upon the Viceroy, wln 0129 (Such as have under him command in Tunis.) wln 0130 Who as you have often heard are all false Pirates, img: 7­b sig: B3r wln 0131 I saw the shame of Venice and the scorn wln 0132 Of all good men: The perjured Renegado wln 0133 Antonio Grimaldi; wln 0134 Vitelli Ha! his name wln 0135 Is poison to me. wln 0136 Francisco Yet again? wln 0137 Vitelli I have done sir. wln 0138 Francisco This debauched villain: whom we ever thought, wln 0139 (After his impious scorn done in Saint Mark’s wln 0140 To me as I stood at the holy Altar) wln 0141 The thief that ravished your fair sister from you, wln 0142 The virtuous Paulina not long since, wln 0143 (As I am truly given to understand) wln 0144 Sold to the viceroy a fair Christian Virgin, wln 0145 On whom, maugre his fierce and cruel nature wln 0146 Asambeg dotes extremely. wln 0147 Vitelli ’Tis my sister wln 0148 It must be she, my better Angel tells me wln 0149 ’Tis poor Paulina. Farewell all disguises wln 0150 I’ll show in my revenge that I am Noble. wln 0151 Francisco You are not mad? wln 0152 Vitelli No sir, my virtuous anger wln 0153 Makes every vein an artery, I feel in me wln 0154 The strength of twenty men, and being armed wln 0155 With my good cause to wreak wronged innocence wln 0156 I dare alone run to the viceroy’s Court wln 0157 And with this Poniard before his face. wln 0158 Dig out Grimaldi’s heart. wln 0159 Francisco Is this Religious? wln 0160 Vitelli Would you have me tame now; Can I know wln 0161 my sister wln 0162 Mewed up in his Seraglio, and in danger wln 0163 Not alone to lose her honor, but her soul, wln 0164 The hell­bred Villain by too? that has sold both wln 0165 To black destruction, and not haste to send him wln 0166 To the Devil his tutor? to be patient now, img: 8­a sig: B3v wln 0167 Were in another name to play the Pander wln 0168 To the Viceroy’s loose embraces, and cry aim wln 0169 While he by force, or flattery compels her wln 0170 To yield her fair name up to his foul lust, wln 0171 And after turn Apostata to the faith wln 0172 That she was bred in. wln 0173 Francisco Do but give me hearing. wln 0174 And you shall soon grant how ridiculous wln 0175 This childish fury is. A wise man never wln 0176 Attempts impossibilities; ’tis as easy wln 0177 For any single arm to quell an Army. wln 0178 As to effect your wishes; we come hither wln 0179 To learn Paulina’s faith, and to redeem her, wln 0180 (Leave your revenge to heaven) I oft have told you wln 0181 Of a Relic that I gave her, which has power wln 0182 (If we may credit holy men’s traditions) wln 0183 To keep the owner free from violence: wln 0184 This on her breast she wears, and does preserve wln 0185 The virtue of it by her daily prayers. wln 0186 So if she fall not by her own consent wln 0187 Which it were sin to think: I fear no force. wln 0188 Be therefore patient, keep this borrowed shape wln 0189 Till time and opportunity present us wln 0190 With some fit means to see her, which performed, wln 0191 I’ll join with you in any desperate course wln 0192 For her delivery. wln 0193 Vitelli You have Charmed me sir wln 0194 And I obey in all things; Pray you pardon wln 0195 The weakness of my passion. wln 0196 Francisco And excuse it. wln 0197 Be cheerful man for know that good intents wln 0198 Are in the end Crowned with as fair events. wln 0199 Exeunt. img: 8­b sig: B4r wln 0200 Actus primus. Scaena secunda. wln 0201 Enter Donusa. Manto. Carazie. wln 0202 Donusa. Have you seen the Christian Captive, wln 0203 The great Bashaw is so enamored of? wln 0204 Manto. Yes an ’t please your Excellency wln 0205 I took a full view of her, when she was wln 0206 Presented to him. wln 0207 Donusa And is she such a wonder wln 0208 As ’tis reported? wln 0209 Manto She was drowned in tears then, wln 0210 Which took much from her beauty, yet in spite wln 0211 Of sorrow, she appeared the Mistress of wln 0212 Most rare perfections; and though low of stature, wln 0213 Her well proportioned limbs invite affection; wln 0214 And when she speaks, each syllable is music wln 0215 That does enchant the hearers. But your Highness wln 0216 That are not to be paralleled, I yet never wln 0217 Beheld her equal. wln 0218 Donusa. Come you flatter me, wln 0219 But I forgive it, we that are born great wln 0220 Seldom distaste our servants, though they give us wln 0221 More than we can pretend too. I have heard wln 0222 That Christian Ladies live with much more freedom wln 0223 Than such as are born here. Our jealous Turks wln 0224 Never permit their fair wives to be seen wln 0225 But at the public Bagnios, or the Mosques wln 0226 And even then veiled, and guarded. Thou Carazie wln 0227 Wert born in England, what’s the custom there wln 0228 Among your women? Come be free and merry wln 0229 I am no severe Mistress, nor hast thou met with wln 0230 A heavy bondage. wln 0231 Carazie Heavy? I was made lighter wln 0232 By two stone weight at least to be fit to serve you. img: 9­a sig: B4v wln 0233 But to your question Madam, women in England wln 0234 For the most part live like Queens. Your Country Ladies wln 0235 Have liberty to hawk, to hunt, to feast: wln 0236 To give free entertainment to all comers, wln 0237 To talk, to kiss, there’s no such thing known there wln 0238 As an Italian girdle. Your City Dame wln 0239 Without leave wears the breeches, has her husband wln 0240 At as much command as her Prentice, and if need be wln 0241 Can make him Cuckold by her Father’s Copy. wln 0242 Donusa. But your court Lady? wln 0243 Carazie She, I assure you Madam, wln 0244 Knows nothing but her will, must be allowed wln 0245 Her Footmen, her Caroche, her Ushers, her Pages, wln 0246 Her Doctor, Chaplains, and as I have heard wln 0247 They are grown of late so learned that they maintain wln 0248 A strange Position, which their Lords with all wln 0249 Their wit cannot confute. wln 0250 Donusa. What’s that I prithee? wln 0251 Carazie Marry that it is not only fit but lawful, wln 0252 Your Madam there, her much rest, and high feeding wln 0253 Duly considered, should to ease her husband wln 0254 Be allowed a private friend. They have drawn a Bill wln 0255 To this good purpose, and the next assembly wln 0256 Doubt not to pass it. wln 0257 Donusa We enjoy no more wln 0258 That are of the Ottoman race, though our Religion wln 0259 Allows all pleasure. I am dull, some Music wln 0260 Take my Chapines off. So, a lusty strain a Galliard. wln 0261 Who knocks there? wln 0262 Manto ’Tis the Bashaw of Aleppo wln 0263 Who humbly makes request he may present wln 0264 His service to you. wln 0265 Donusa Reach a chair. We must wln 0266 Receive him like ourself, and not depart with wln 0267 One piece of Ceremony, State, and greatness wln 0268 That may beget respect, and reverence img: 9­b sig: C1r wln 0269 In one that’s born our Vassal. Now admit him: wln 0270 Enter Mustapha, puts off his yellow Pantofles. wln 0271 Mustapha The place is sacred, and I am to Enter wln 0272 The room where she abides, with such devotion wln 0273 As Pilgrims pay at Mecca, when they visit wln 0274 The Tomb of our great Prophet. wln 0275 Donusa Rise, the sign The Eunuch takes up wln 0276 That we vouchsafe his presence. the Pantofles. wln 0277 Mustapha May those Powers wln 0278 That raised the Ottoman Empire, and still guard it, wln 0279 Reward your Highness for this gracious favor wln 0280 You throw upon your servant. It hath pleased wln 0281 The most invincible, mightiest Amurath wln 0282 (To speak his other titles would take from him) wln 0283 That in himself does comprehend all greatness, wln 0284 To make me the unworthy instrument wln 0285 Of his command. Receive divinest Lady Delivers a letter. wln 0286 This letter signed by his victorious hand, wln 0287 And made Authentic by the imperial Seal. wln 0288 There when you find me mentioned, far be it from you wln 0289 To think it my ambition to presume wln 0290 At such a happiness, which his powerful will wln 0291 From his great mind’s magnificence, not my merit wln 0292 Hath showered upon me. But if your consent wln 0293 Join with his good opinion and allowance wln 0294 To perfect what his favors have begun, wln 0295 I shall in my obsequiousness and duty wln 0296 Endeavor to prevent all just complaints, wln 0297 Which want of will to serve you, may call on me. wln 0298 Donusa His sacred Majesty writes here that your valor wln 0299 Against the Persian hath so won upon him wln 0300 That there’s no grace, or honor in his gift wln 0301 Of which he can imagine you unworthy. wln 0302 And what’s the greatest you can hope, or aim at, wln 0303 It is his pleasure you should be received wln 0304 Into his Royal Family, Provided img: 10­a sig: C1v wln 0305 For so far I am unconfined, that I wln 0306 Affect and like your person. I expect not wln 0307 The Ceremony which he uses in wln 0308 Bestowing of his Daughters, and his nieces. wln 0309 As that he should present you for my slave, wln 0310 To love you, if you pleased me: or deliver wln 0311 A Poniard on my least dislike to kill you. wln 0312 Such tyranny and pride agree not with wln 0313 My softer disposition. Let it suffice wln 0314 For my first answer, that thus far I grace you. Gives him wln 0315 Hereafter some time spent to make inquire her hand to wln 0316 Of the good parts, and faculties of your mind kiss wln 0317 You shall hear further from me. wln 0318 Mustapha Though all torments wln 0319 Really suffered, or in hell imagined wln 0320 By curious fiction, in one hour’s delay wln 0321 Are wholly comprehended: I confess wln 0322 That I stand bound in duty, not to check at wln 0323 Whatever you command, or please to impose wln 0324 For trial of my patience. wln 0325 Donusa Let us find wln 0326 Some other subject, too much of one Theme cloys me: wln 0327 Is ’t a full Mart: wln 0328 Mustapha A confluence of all nations wln 0329 Are met together? There’s variety too wln 0330 Of all that Merchant’s traffic for. wln 0331 Donusa I know not. wln 0332 I feel a Virgin’s longing to descend wln 0333 So far from mine own greatness, as to be wln 0334 Though not a buyer, yet a looker on wln 0335 Their strange commodities. wln 0336 Mustapha If without a train wln 0337 You dare be seen abroad? I’ll dismiss mine. wln 0338 And wait upon you as a common man, wln 0339 And satisfy your wishes. wln 0340 Donusa I embrace it. wln 0341 Provide my veil; and at the Postern Gate img: 10­b sig: C2r wln 0342 Convey us out unseen: I trouble you. wln 0343 Mustapha It is my happiness you deign to command me. wln 0344 Exeunt. wln 0345 Actus primus. Scaena tertia. wln 0346 A shop discovered, Gazet in it. wln 0347 Francisco, and Vitelli, walking by. wln 0348 Gazet What do you lack, your choice China dishes, wln 0349 your pure Venetian Crystal, of all sorts, of all neat and wln 0350 new fashions, from the mirror of the madam, to the private wln 0351 utensil of her chambermaid, and curious Pictures of wln 0352 the rarest beauties of Europa: what do you lack wln 0353 Gentlemen? wln 0354 Francisco Take heed I say, howe’er it may appear wln 0355 Impertinent, I must express my love: wln 0356 My advice, and counsel. You are young wln 0357 And may be tempted, and these Turkish Dames wln 0358 Like English mastiffs that increase their fierceness wln 0359 By being chained up, from the restraint of freedom wln 0360 If lust once fire their blood from a fair object wln 0361 Will run a course the fiends themselves would shake at wln 0362 To enjoy their wanton ends. wln 0363 Vitelli Sir, you mistake me wln 0364 I am too full of woe, to entertain wln 0365 One thought of pleasure: though all Europe’s Queens wln 0366 Kneeled at my feet, and Courted me: much less wln 0367 To mix with such; Whose difference of faith wln 0368 Must of necessity: (or I must grant wln 0369 Myself forgetful of all you have taught me) wln 0370 Strangle such base desires. wln 0371 Francisco Be constant in wln 0372 That resolution, I’ll abroad again, wln 0373 And learn as far as it is possible img: 11­a sig: C2v wln 0374 What may concern Paulina? Some two hours wln 0375 Shall bring me back. Exit Francisco. wln 0376 Vitelli All blessings wait upon you. wln 0377 Gazet Cold doings, Sir, a Mart do you call this? ’Slight wln 0378 A pudding wife, or a Witch with a thrum Cap wln 0379 That sells Ale under ground to such as come wln 0380 To know their Fortunes, in a dead Vacation wln 0381 Have ten to one more stirring. wln 0382 Vitelli We must be patient wln 0383 Gazet Your seller by retail ought to be angry wln 0384 But when he’s fingering money. wln 0385 Enter Grimaldi, Master, Boatswain, Sailors, Turks. wln 0386 Vitelli Here are company; wln 0387 Defend me my good Angel, I behold wln 0388 A Basilisk! wln 0389 Gazet What do you lack? what do you lack? pure wln 0390 China dishes, clear Crystal glasses, a dumb Mistress to wln 0391 make love to? What do you lack gentlemen? wln 0392 Grimaldi Thy Mother for a Bawd, or if thou hast wln 0393 A handsome one thy sister for a Whore, wln 0394 Without these do not tell me of your trash wln 0395 Or I shall spoil your Market. wln 0396 Vitelli — Old Grimaldi? wln 0397 Grimaldi Zounds wherefore do we put to Sea, or stand wln 0398 The Raging winds aloft, or piss upon wln 0399 The Foamy waves when they rage most? deride wln 0400 The thunder of the enemy’s shot, board boldly wln 0401 A Merchant’s ship for prize, though we behold wln 0402 The desperate Gunner ready to give fire wln 0403 And blow the deck up? Wherefore shake we off wln 0404 Those scrupulous rags of charity, and conscience, wln 0405 Invented only to keep Churchmen warm, wln 0406 Or feed the hungry months of famished beggars; wln 0407 But when we touch the shore to wallow in wln 0408 All sensual pleasures. wln 0409 Master. Ay but Noble Captain img: 11­b sig: C3r wln 0410 To spare a little for an after clap wln 0411 Were not improvidence. wln 0412 Grimaldi Hang consideration: wln 0413 When this is spent is not our ship the same? wln 0414 Our courage too the same to fetch in more? wln 0415 The earth where it is fertilest returns not wln 0416 More than three harvests, whilst the glorious Sun wln 0417 Posts through the Zodiac, and makes up the year: wln 0418 But the Sea, which is our Mother, (that embraceth wln 0419 Both the rich Indies in her outstretched arms) wln 0420 Yields every day a crop if we dare reap it. wln 0421 No, no my Mates, let Tradesmen think of thrift, wln 0422 And Usurers hoard up, let our expense wln 0423 Be as our comings in are without bounds: wln 0424 We are the Neptunes of the Ocean, wln 0425 And such as traffic, shall pay sacrifice wln 0426 Of their best lading; I’ll have this Canvas wln 0427 Your boy wears lined with Tissue, and the cates wln 0428 You taste, served up in gold; though we carouse wln 0429 The tears of Orphans in our Greekish wines, wln 0430 The sighs of undone Widows, paying for wln 0431 The music bought to cheer us; ravished Virgins wln 0432 To slavery sold for Coin to feed our riots, wln 0433 We will have no compunction. wln 0434 Gazet Do you hear sir, wln 0435 We have paid for our Ground? wln 0436 Grimaldi Hum. wln 0437 Gazet And hum too, wln 0438 For all your big words, get you further off, wln 0439 And hinder not the prospect of our shop wln 0440 Or — wln 0441 Grimaldi What will you do? wln 0442 Gazet Nothing sir, but pray wln 0443 Your worship to give me handsel. wln 0444 Grimaldi By the ears, wln 0445 Thus sir, by the ears. wln 0446 Master. Hold, hold. img: 12­a sig: C3v wln 0447 Vitelli You’ll still be prating. wln 0448 Grimaldi Come let’s be drunk? then each man to his whore, wln 0449 ’Slight how do you look, you had best go find a Corner wln 0450 To pray in, and repent. Do, do, and cry wln 0451 It will show fine in Pirates. Exit Grimaldi. wln 0452 Master. We must follow wln 0453 Or he will spend our shares; wln 0454 Boatswain. I fought for mine. wln 0455 Master. Nor am I so precise but I can drab too: wln 0456 We will not sit out for our parts, wln 0457 Boatswain Agreed. Exeunt Master, Boatswain, Sailors. wln 0458 Gazet The devil gnaw off his fingers, if he were wln 0459 In London among the clubs, up went his heels wln 0460 For striking of a Prentice. What do you lack, wln 0461 What do you lack gentlemen. wln 0462 1 Turk. I wonder how the Viceroy can endure wln 0463 The insolence of this fellow. wln 0464 2 Turk. He receives profit wln 0465 From the Prizes he brings in, and that excuses wln 0466 Whatever he commits? Ha, what are these! wln 0467 Enter Mustapha, Donusa, veiled. wln 0468 1 Turk They seem of rank and quality, observe ’em. wln 0469 Gazet What do you lack! see what you please to buy, wln 0470 Wares of all sorts most honorable Madonna. wln 0471 Vitelli Peace sirrah, make no noise, these are not people wln 0472 To be jested with. wln 0473 Donusa Is this the Christians’ custom wln 0474 In the venting their commodities. wln 0475 Mustapha Yes best Madam wln 0476 But you may please to keep your way, here’s nothing, wln 0477 But toys, and trifles, not worth your observing. wln 0478 Donusa Yes, for variety’s sake pray you show us, friends, wln 0479 The chiefest of your Wares. wln 0480 Vitelli Your Ladyship’s servant; wln 0481 And if in worth or Title you are more, wln 0482 My ignorance plead my pardon. img: 12­b sig: C4r wln 0483 Donusa. He speaks well. wln 0484 Vitelli Take down the looking glass: here is a mirror wln 0485 Steeled so exactly, neither taking from wln 0486 Nor flattering the object, it returns wln 0487 To the beholder, that Narcissus might wln 0488 (And never grow enamored of himself:) wln 0489 View his fair feature in ’t. wln 0490 Donusa. Poetical too! wln 0491 Vitelli Here China dishes to serve in a Banquet, wln 0492 Though the voluptuous Persian sat a guest. wln 0493 Here Crystal glasses, such as Ganymede wln 0494 Did fill with Nectar to the Thunderer wln 0495 When he drank to Alcides, and received him wln 0496 In the fellowship of the gods: true to the owners. wln 0497 Corinthian plate studded with Diamonds, wln 0498 Concealed oft deadly poison; This pure metal wln 0499 So innocent is, and faithful to the Mistress wln 0500 Or Master that possesses it: that rather wln 0501 Than hold one drop that’s venomous, of itself wln 0502 It flies in pieces, and deludes the Traitor. wln 0503 Donusa How movingly could this fellow treat upon wln 0504 A worthy subject, that finds such discourse wln 0505 To grace a trifle! wln 0506 Vitelli Here’s a Picture Madame wln 0507 The masterpiece of Michael Angelo, wln 0508 Our great Italian workman; here’s another wln 0509 So perfect at all parts that had Pygmalion wln 0510 Seen this, his prayers had been made to Venus, wln 0511 To have given it life, and his Carved ivory Image wln 0512 By poets ne’er remembered. They are indeed wln 0513 The rarest beauties of the Christian world wln 0514 And nowhere to be equalled. wln 0515 Donusa You are partial wln 0516 In the cause of those you favor I believe, wln 0517 I instantly could show you one, to theirs wln 0518 Not much inferior. wln 0519 Vitelli With your pardon Madam wln 0520 I am incredulous. img: 13­a sig: C4v wln 0521 Donusa Can you match me this! Unveils herself. wln 0522 Vitelli. What wonder look I on! I’ll search above wln 0523 And suddenly attend you. Exit Vitelli. wln 0524 Donusa Are you amazed wln 0525 I’ll bring you to yourself. Breaks the glasses. wln 0526 Mustapha Ha! what’s the matter! wln 0527 Gazet My master’s ware? We are undone! O strange! wln 0528 A Lady to turn roarer, and break glasses wln 0529 ’Tis time to shut up shop then. wln 0530 Mustapha You seem moved. wln 0531 If any Language of these Christian dogs wln 0532 Have called your anger on, in a frown show it wln 0533 And they are dead already. wln 0534 Donusa. The offense wln 0535 Looks not so far. The foolish paltry fellow wln 0536 Showed me some trifles, and demanded of me wln 0537 For what I valued at so many aspers, wln 0538 A thousand Ducats. I confess he moved me; wln 0539 Yet I should wrong myself should such a beggar wln 0540 Receive least loss from me. wln 0541 Mustapha Is it no more? wln 0542 Donusa No, I assure you. Bid him bring his bill wln 0543 Tomorrow to the Palace and inquire wln 0544 For one Donusa: wln 0545 That word gives him passage through all the guard; wln 0546 Say there he shall receive full satisfaction. wln 0547 Now when you please wln 0548 Mustapha I wait you. Exeunt Mustapha, Donusa, two Turks. wln 0549 1 Turk. We must not know them, let’s shift off and vanish. wln 0550 Gazet The Swine’s Pox overtake you, there’s a curse wln 0551 For a Turk that eats no Hog’s flesh. wln 0552 Vitelli Is she gone: wln 0553 Gazet. Yes you may see her handiwork. wln 0554 Vitelli No matter. wln 0555 Said she aught else? wln 0556 Gazet That you should wait upon her wln 0557 And there receive Court payment, and to pass img: 13­b sig: D1r wln 0558 The guards, she bids you only say you come wln 0559 To one Donusa. wln 0560 Vitelli How! remove the wares wln 0561 Do it without reply. The Sultan’s niece! wln 0562 I have heard among the Turks for any Lady wln 0563 To show her face bare, argues love, or speaks wln 0564 Her deadly hatred. What should I fear, my fortune wln 0565 Is sunk so low: there cannot fall upon me wln 0566 Aught worth my shunning. I will run the hazard: wln 0567 She may be a means to free distressed Paulina. wln 0568 Or if offended, at the worst, to die wln 0569 Is a full period to calamity. wln 0570 The end of the first act. wln 0571 Actus Secundus Scaena prima. wln 0572 Enter Carazie, Manto. wln 0573 Carazie In the name of wonder! Manto, what hath my Lady wln 0574 Done with herself since yesterday. wln 0575 Manto. I know not. wln 0576 Malicious men report we are all guided wln 0577 In our affections by a wandering Planet? wln 0578 But such a sudden change in such a person, wln 0579 May stand for an example to confirm wln 0580 Their false assertion. wln 0581 Carazie She’s now pettish, froward, wln 0582 Music, discourse, observance tedious to her. wln 0583 Manto. She slept not the last night: and yet prevented wln 0584 The rising Sun in being up before him. wln 0585 Called for a costly Bath, then willed the rooms wln 0586 Should be perfumed; Ransacked her Cabinets wln 0587 For her choice, and richest Jewels: and appears now wln 0588 Like Cynthia in full glory, waited on wln 0589 By the fairest of the Stars. wln 0590 Carazie Can you guess the reason, img: 14­a sig: D1v wln 0591 Why the Aga of the Janissaries, and he wln 0592 That guards the entrance of the inmost port wln 0593 Were called before her. wln 0594 Manto. They are both her creatures, wln 0595 And by her grace preferred, but I am ignorant wln 0596 To what purpose they were sent for. wln 0597 Enter Donusa. wln 0598 Carazie Here she comes. wln 0599 Full of sad thoughts: we must stand further off. wln 0600 What a frown was that! wln 0601 Manto. Forbear. wln 0602 Carazie I pity her. wln 0603 Donusa What Magic hath transformed me from myself? wln 0604 Where is my Virgin pride? How have I lost wln 0605 My boasted freedom? what new fire burns up wln 0606 My scorched entrails. What unknown desires wln 0607 Invade, and take possession of my soul; wln 0608 All virtuous objects vanished? Have I stood wln 0609 The shock of fierce temptations, stopped mine ears wln 0610 Against all Siren notes lust ever sung, wln 0611 To draw my bark of chastity (that with wonder wln 0612 Hath kept, a constant, and an honored course.) wln 0613 Into the gulf of a deserved ill fame? wln 0614 Now fall unpitied? And in a moment wln 0615 With mine own hands dig up a grave to bury wln 0616 The monumental heap of all my years, wln 0617 Employed in Noble actions? O my fate! wln 0618 But there is no resisting. I obey thee wln 0619 Imperious god of love, and willingly wln 0620 Put mine own Fetters on, to grace thy triumph; wln 0621 ’Twere therefore more than cruelty in thee wln 0622 To use me like a tyrant. What poor means wln 0623 Must I make use of now? And flatter such, wln 0624 To whom; till I betrayed my liberty, wln 0625 One gracious look of mine, would have erected wln 0626 An altar to my service. How now Manto? img: 14­b sig: D2r wln 0627 My ever­careful woman, and Carazie wln 0628 Thou hast been faithful too. wln 0629 Carazie I dare not call wln 0630 My life mine own since it is yours, but gladly wln 0631 Will part with it: when e’er you shall command me, wln 0632 And think I fall a Martyr, so my death wln 0633 May give life to your pleasures. wln 0634 Manto. But vouchsafe wln 0635 To let me understand what you desire wln 0636 Should be effected: I will undertake it wln 0637 And curse myself for Cowardice if I paused wln 0638 To ask a reason why. wln 0639 Donusa I am comforted, wln 0640 In the tender of your service, but shall be wln 0641 Confirmed in my full joys, in the performance wln 0642 Yet trust me: I will not impose upon you wln 0643 But what you stand engaged for, to a Mistress, wln 0644 (Such as I have been to you.) All I ask wln 0645 Is faith, and secrecy. wln 0646 Carazie Say but you doubt me, wln 0647 And to secure you I’ll cut out my tongue wln 0648 I am libbed in the breech already. wln 0649 Manto. Do not hinder wln 0650 Yourself by these delays. wln 0651 Donusa. Thus then I Whisper wln 0652 Mine own shame to you. — O that I should blush wln 0653 To speak what I so much desire to do! wln 0654 And further — Whispers, and uses vehement actions. wln 0655 Manto. Is this all. wln 0656 Donusa. Think it not base wln 0657 Although I know the office undergoes wln 0658 A course construction. wln 0659 Carazie Course? ’tis but procuring wln 0660 A smock employment, which has made more Knights, wln 0661 In a Country I could name, than twenty years wln 0662 Of service in the field. img: 15­a sig: D2v wln 0663 Donusa You have my ends. wln 0664 Manto. Which say you have arrived at, be not wanting wln 0665 To yourself, and fear not us. wln 0666 Carazie I know my burden wln 0667 I’ll bear it with delight, wln 0668 Manto. Talk not, but do. Exeunt Carazie, Manto. wln 0669 Donusa O Love what poor shifts thou dost force us to! wln 0670 Exit Donusa. wln 0671 Actus Secundus, Scaena Secunda. wln 0672 Enter Aga, Capiaga, Janissaries. wln 0673 Aga. She was ever our good Mistress, and our maker, wln 0674 And should we check at a little hazard for her, wln 0675 We were unthankful. wln 0676 Capiaga. I dare pawn my head, wln 0677 ’Tis some disguised Minion of the Court, wln 0678 Sent from great Amurath, to learn from her wln 0679 The Viceroy’s actions. wln 0680 Aga. That concerns not us: wln 0681 His fall may be our rise, whate’er he be wln 0682 He passes through my guards. wln 0683 Capiaga And mine, provided wln 0684 He give the word. wln 0685 Enter Vitelli. wln 0686 Vitelli To faint now being thus far, wln 0687 Would argue me of Cowardice. wln 0688 Aga. Stand: the word. wln 0689 Or being a Christian to press thus far, wln 0690 Forfeits thy life. wln 0691 Vitelli. Donusa. wln 0692 Aga. Pass in peace. Exeunt Aga, and Janissaries wln 0693 Vitelli What a privilege her name bears. wln 0694 ’Tis wonderous strange! img: 15­b sig: D3r wln 0695 (The Captain of the Janissaries,) If the great Officer wln 0696 The guardian of the inner port deny not. wln 0697 Capiaga Thy warrant: Speak, wln 0698 Or thou art dead. wln 0699 Vitelli Donusa. wln 0700 Capiaga. That protects thee, without fear, Enter. wln 0701 So: discharge the watch. Exit Vitelli, Capiaga. wln 0702 Actus Secundus Scaena tertia. wln 0703 Enter Carazie, Manto. wln 0704 Carazie Though he hath passed the Aga, and chief Porter wln 0705 This cannot be the man. wln 0706 Manto. By her description I am sure it is. wln 0707 Carazie O women, women! wln 0708 What are you? a great Lady dote upon wln 0709 A Haberdasher of small wares! wln 0710 Manto. Pish, thou hast none. wln 0711 Carazie No, if I had I might have served the turn: wln 0712 This ’tis to want munition when a man wln 0713 Should make a breach and Enter. Enter Vitelli. wln 0714 Manto. Sir, you are welcome: wln 0715 Think what ’tis to be happy and possess it. wln 0716 Carazie Perfume the Rooms there, and make way. wln 0717 Let Music with choice notes entertain the man, wln 0718 The Princess now purposes to honor. wln 0719 Vitelli I am ravished: Exeunt. wln 0720 Actus Secundus Scaena Quarta. wln 0721 A Table set forth, Jewels and Bags upon it: loud Music wln 0722 Enter Donusa, takes a chair, to her Carazie, Vitelli, Manto. wln 0723 Donusa, Sing o’er the Ditty, that I last composed img: 16­a sig: D3v wln 0724 Upon my Lovesick passion’s suit, your Voice wln 0725 To the Music that’s placed yonder, we shall hear you wln 0726 With more delight and pleasure. wln 0727 Carazie I obey you. Song. wln 0728 Vitelli Is not this Tempe, or the blessed shades, wln 0729 Where innocent Spirits reside? Or do I dream, wln 0730 And this a heavenly vision? Howsoever wln 0731 It is a sight too glorious to behold wln 0732 For such a wretch as I am. Stands amazed. wln 0733 Carazie He is daunted. wln 0734 Manto Speak to him Madam, cheer him up, or you wln 0735 Destroy what you have builded. wln 0736 Carazie Would I were furnished wln 0737 With his artillery, and if I stood wln 0738 Gaping as he does, hang me. wln 0739 Vitelli That I might ever dream thus. kneels. wln 0740 Donusa Banish amazement, wln 0741 You, wake; your debtor tells you so, your debtor, wln 0742 And to assure you that I am a substance wln 0743 And no aerial figure, thus I raise you. wln 0744 Why do you shake? My soft touch brings no Ague, wln 0745 No biting frost is in this palm: Nor are wln 0746 My looks like to the Gorgon’s head, that turn wln 0747 Men into Statues, rather they have power wln 0748 (Or I have been abused) where they bestow wln 0749 Their influence (let me prove it truth in you) wln 0750 To give to dead men motion. wln 0751 Vitelli Can this be? wln 0752 May I believe my senses? Dare I think wln 0753 I have a memory? Or that you are wln 0754 That excellent creature, that of late disdained not wln 0755 To look on my poor trifles. wln 0756 Donusa I am she. wln 0757 Vitelli The owner of that blessed name Donusa, wln 0758 Which like a potent charm, although pronounced wln 0759 By my profane, but much unworthier tongue, img: 16­b sig: D4r wln 0760 Hath brought me safe to this forbidden place, wln 0761 Where Christian yet ne’er trod. wln 0762 Donusa I am the same. wln 0763 Vitelli And to what end, great Lady pardon me, wln 0764 That I presume to ask, did your command wln 0765 Command me hither? or what am I? to whom wln 0766 You should vouchsafe your favors; nay, your angers? wln 0767 If any wild or uncollected speech wln 0768 Offensively delivered, or my doubt wln 0769 Of your unknown perfections, have displeased you, wln 0770 You wrong your indignation, to pronounce wln 0771 Yourself my sentence: to have seen you only, wln 0772 And to have touched that fortune­making hand, wln 0773 Will with delight weigh down all tortures, that wln 0774 A flinty hangman’s rage could execute, wln 0775 Or rigid tyranny command with pleasure. wln 0776 Donusa How the abundance of good flowing to thee, wln 0777 Is wronged in this simplicity: and these bounties wln 0778 Which all our Eastern Kings have kneeled in vain for, wln 0779 Do by thy ignorance, or wilful fear, wln 0780 Meet with a false construction. Christian, know wln 0781 (For till thou art mine by a nearer name, wln 0782 That title though abhorred here, takes not from wln 0783 Thy entertainment) that ’tis not the fashion wln 0784 Among the greatest and the fairest Dames, wln 0785 This Turkish Empire gladly owes, and bows to: wln 0786 To punish where there’s no offense, or nourish wln 0787 Displeasures against those, without whose mercy wln 0788 They part with all felicity. Prithee be wise, wln 0789 And gently understand me; Do not force her wln 0790 That ne’er knew aught but to command, not e’er read wln 0791 The elements of affection, but from such wln 0792 As gladly sued to her, in the infancy wln 0793 Of her new born desires, to be at once wln 0794 Importunate, and immodest. wln 0795 Vitelli Did I know. img: 17­a sig: D4v wln 0796 Great Lady your commands, or to what purpose wln 0797 This personated passion tends, (since ’twere wln 0798 A crime in me deserving death, to think wln 0799 It is your own: I should to make you sport wln 0800 Take any shape you please to impose upon me: wln 0801 And with joy strive to serve you. wln 0802 Donusa Sport? thou art cruel, wln 0803 If that thou canst interpret my descent, wln 0804 From my high birth and greatness? But to be wln 0805 A part in which I truly act myself. wln 0806 And I must hold thee for a dull spectator wln 0807 If it stir not affection, and invite wln 0808 Compassion for my sufferings. Be thou taught wln 0809 By my example, to make satisfaction wln 0810 For wrongs unjustly offered. Willingly wln 0811 I do confess my fault; I injured thee wln 0812 In some poor petty trifles; Thus I pay for wln 0813 The trespass I did to thee. Here receive wln 0814 These bags stuffed full of our imperial coin, wln 0815 Or if this payment be too light, take here wln 0816 These Gems for which the slavish Indian dives wln 0817 To the bottom of the Main? Or if thou scorn wln 0818 These as base dross (which take but common minds) wln 0819 But fancy any honor in my gift wln 0820 (Which is unbounded as the Sultan’s Power) wln 0821 And be possessed of ’t. wln 0822 Vitelli I am overwhelmed: wln 0823 With the weight of happiness you throw upon me. wln 0824 Nor can it fall in my imagination, wln 0825 What wrong I e’er have done you: and much less wln 0826 How like a Royal Merchant to return wln 0827 Your great magnificence. wln 0828 Donusa They are degrees, wln 0829 Not ends of my intended favors to thee. wln 0830 These seeds of bounty I yet scatter on wln 0831 A glebe I have not tried, but be thou thankful wln 0832 The harvest is to come. img: 17­b sig: E1r wln 0833 Vitelli What can be added wln 0834 To that which I already have received, wln 0835 I cannot comprehend. wln 0836 Donusa. The tender of wln 0837 Myself. Why dost thou start! and in that gift, wln 0838 Full restitution of that Virgin freedom wln 0839 Which thou hast robbed me of. Yet I profess wln 0840 I so far prize the lovely thief that stole it, wln 0841 That were it possible thou could’st restore wln 0842 What thou unwittingly hast ravished from me, wln 0843 I should refuse the present. wln 0844 Vitelli. How I shake wln 0845 In my constant resolution! and my flesh wln 0846 Rebellious to my better part now tells me, wln 0847 As if it were a strong defense of frailty. wln 0848 A Hermit in a desert trenched with prayers wln 0849 Could not resist this battery. wln 0850 Donusa Thou an Italian? wln 0851 Nay more I know ’t, a natural Venetian, wln 0852 Such as are Courtiers born to please fair Ladies, wln 0853 Yet come thus slowly on? wln 0854 Vitelli Excuse me Madam, wln 0855 What imputation soe’er the world wln 0856 Is pleased to lay upon us: in myself wln 0857 I am so innocent that I know not what ’tis wln 0858 That I should offer. wln 0859 Donusa. By instinct I’ll teach thee, wln 0860 And with such ease as love makes me to ask it. wln 0861 When a young Lady wrings you by the hand thus, wln 0862 Or with an amorous touch presses your foot wln 0863 Looks babies in your eyes, plays with your locks, wln 0864 Do not you find without a tutor’s help wln 0865 What ’tis she looks for. wln 0866 Vitelli. I am grown already wln 0867 Skilful in the mystery. wln 0868 Donusa Or if thus she kiss you, wln 0869 Then tastes your lips again. img: 18­a sig: E1v wln 0870 Vitelli That latter blow wln 0871 Has beat all chaste thoughts from me. wln 0872 Donusa Say she points to wln 0873 Some private room, the Sun beams never enters, wln 0874 Provoking dishes, passing by to heighten wln 0875 Declined appetite, active Music ushering wln 0876 Your fainting steps, the waiters too as born dumb, wln 0877 Not daring to look on you. Exit, inviting him to follow. wln 0878 Vitelli. Though the Devil wln 0879 Stood by, and roared, I follow: now I find wln 0880 That Virtue’s but a word, and no sure guard wln 0881 If set upon by beauty, and reward. Exeunt. wln 0882 Actus Secundus, Scaena Quinta. wln 0883 Enter Aga. Capiaga, Grimaldi, Master, Boatswain, etc. wln 0884 Aga. The Devils in him I think. wln 0885 Grimaldi Let him be damned too wln 0886 I’ll look on him though he stared as wild as hell, wln 0887 Nay I’ll go near to tell him to his teeth wln 0888 If he mends not suddenly, and proves more thankful, wln 0889 We do him too much service, were ’t not for shame now wln 0890 I could turn honest and forswear my trade, wln 0891 Which next to being trussed up at the main yard wln 0892 By some low country butterbox, I hate wln 0893 As deadly as I do fasting, or long grace wln 0894 When meat cools on the table. wln 0895 Capiaga But take heed, wln 0896 You know his violent nature. wln 0897 Grimaldi Let his Whores wln 0898 And Catamites, know ’t, I understand myself, wln 0899 And how unmanly ’tis to sit at home wln 0900 And rail at us, that run abroad all hazards: wln 0901 If every week we bring not home new pillage, wln 0902 For the fatting his Seraglio. Enter Asambeg, Mustapha. img: 18­b sig: E2r wln 0903 Aga. Here he comes. wln 0904 Capiaga How terrible he looks? wln 0905 Grimaldi To such as fear him: wln 0906 The viceroy Asambeg were he the Sultan’s self wln 0907 He will let us know a reason for his fury, wln 0908 Or we must take leave without his allowance wln 0909 To be merry with our ignorance. wln 0910 Asambeg Mahomet’s hell wln 0911 Light on you all, you crouch, and cringe now, where wln 0912 Was the terror of my just frowns, when you suffered wln 0913 Those thieves of Malta, almost in our harbor wln 0914 To board a ship, and bear her safely off, wln 0915 While you stood idle lookers on? wln 0916 Aga. The odds wln 0917 In the men and shipping, and the suddenness wln 0918 Of their departure yielding us no leisure wln 0919 To send forth others to relieve our own, wln 0920 Deterred us mighty Sir. wln 0921 Asambeg Deterred you cowards? wln 0922 How durst you only entertain the knowledge wln 0923 Of what fear was, but in the not performance wln 0924 Of our command? in me great Amurah spoke, wln 0925 My voice did echo to your ears his thunder, wln 0926 And willed you like so many Seaborn­Tritons, wln 0927 Armed only with the Trumpets of your courage, wln 0928 To swim up to her, and like Remoras. wln 0929 Hanging upon her keel, to stay her flight wln 0930 Till rescue sent from us, had fetched you off, wln 0931 You think you are safe now; who durst but dispute it wln 0932 Or make it questionable, if this moment wln 0933 I charged you from yon hanging cliff, that glasses wln 0934 His rugged forehead in the neighbor lake, wln 0935 To throw yourselves down headlong? or like faggots wln 0936 To fill the ditches of defended Forts, wln 0937 While on your backs we marched up to the breach wln 0938 Grimaldi That would not I. Asambeg Ha? wln 0939 Grimaldi Yet I dare as much img: 19­a sig: E2v wln 0940 As any of the Sultan’s boldest sons, wln 0941 (Whose heaven, and hell, hang on his frown, or smile,) wln 0942 His warlike Janissaries. wln 0943 Asambeg Add one syllable more wln 0944 Thou dost pronounce upon thyself a sentence wln 0945 That earthquake­like will swallow thee wln 0946 Grimaldi Let it open, wln 0947 I’ll stand the hazard, those contemned thieves wln 0948 Your fellow Pirates Sir, the bold Maltese wln 0949 Whom with your looks you think to quell, at Rhodes wln 0950 Laughed at great Soliman’s anger: and if treason wln 0951 Had not delivered them into his power, wln 0952 He had grown old in glory as in years. wln 0953 At that so fatal siege, or risen with shame wln 0954 His hopes, and threats deluded. wln 0955 Asambeg. Our great Prophet wln 0956 How have I lost my anger, and my Power! wln 0957 Grimaldi Find it and use it on thy flatterers: wln 0958 And not upon thy friends that dare speak truth, wln 0959 These Knights of Malta but a handful to wln 0960 Your armies that drink rivers up, have stood wln 0961 Your fury at the height, and with their crosses wln 0962 Struck pale your horned moons; These men of Malta wln 0963 Since I took pay from you, I have met and fought with. wln 0964 Upon advantage too. Yet to speak truth wln 0965 By the soul of honor, I have ever found them wln 0966 As provident to direct, and bold to do wln 0967 As any trained up in your discipline: wln 0968 Ravished from other nations. wln 0969 Mustapha I perceive wln 0970 The lightning in his fiery looks, the cloud wln 0971 Is broke already. wln 0972 Grimaldi Think not therefore sir, wln 0973 That you alone are Giants, and such Pygmies wln 0974 You war upon. wln 0975 Asambeg Villain I’ll make thee know wln 0976 Thou hast blasphemed the Ottoman power, and safer img: 19­b sig: E3r wln 0977 At noon day might have given fire to St Mark’s wln 0978 Your proud Venetian Temple. Seize upon him; wln 0979 I am not so near reconciled to him wln 0980 To bid him die: that were a benefit wln 0981 The dog’s unworthy of, to our use confiscate wln 0982 All that he stands possessed of: Let him taste wln 0983 The misery of want, and his vain riots wln 0984 Like to so many walking Ghosts affright him wln 0985 Where’re he sets his desperate foot. Who is ’t wln 0986 That does command you? wln 0987 Grimaldi Is this the reward wln 0988 For all my service, and the rape I made wln 0989 On fair Paulina. wln 0990 Asambeg Drag him hence, he dies wln 0991 That dallies but a minute. wln 0992 Boatswain What’s become Grimaldi dragged off, his wln 0993 Of our shares now Master. head covered. Exeunt wln 0994 Master Would he had been born dumb: Master and wln 0995 The beggar’s cure, patience is all that’s left us. Boatswain. wln 0996 Mustapha ’Twas but intemperance of speech, excuse him wln 0997 Let me prevail so far. Fame gives him out wln 0998 For a deserving fellow. wln 0999 Asambeg At Aleppo wln 1000 I durst not press you so far, give me leave wln 1001 To use my own will and command in Tunis wln 1002 And if you please my privacy. wln 1003 Mustapha I will see you wln 1004 When this high wind’s blown o’er. Exit Mustapha. wln 1005 Asambeg So shall you find me wln 1006 Ready to do you service. Rage now leave me wln 1007 Stern looks, and all the ceremonious forms wln 1008 Attending on dread Majesty, fly from wln 1009 Transformed Asambeg, why should I hug plucks out a wln 1010 So near my heart, what leads me to my prison? gilt key. wln 1011 Where she that is enthralled commands her keeper, wln 1012 And robs me of the fierceness I was born with. wln 1013 Stout men quake at my frowns, and in return img: 20­a sig: E3v wln 1014 I tremble at her softness. Base Grimaldi wln 1015 But only named Paulina, and the charm wln 1016 Had almost choked my fury ere I could wln 1017 Pronounce his sentence. Would when first I saw her wln 1018 Mine eyes had met with lightning, and in place wln 1019 Of hearing her enchanting tongue, the shrieks wln 1020 Of Mandrakes had made music to my slumbers, wln 1021 For now I only walk a loving dream wln 1022 And but to my dishonor never wake, wln 1023 And yet am blind, but when I see the object, wln 1024 And madly dote on it. Appear bright spark opens a door, wln 1025 Of all perfection: any simile Paulina discovered wln 1026 Borrowed from Diamonds, or the fairest stars comes forth. wln 1027 To help me to express, how dear I prize wln 1028 The unmatched graces, will rise up and chide me wln 1029 For poor detraction. wln 1030 Paulina I despise thy flatteries wln 1031 Thus spit at ’em, and scorn ’em, and being armed wln 1032 In the assurance of my innocent virtue wln 1033 I stamp upon all doubts, all fears, all tortures wln 1034 Thy barbarous cruelty, or what’s worse, thy dotage wln 1035 (The worthy parent of thy jealousy) wln 1036 Can shower upon me. wln 1037 Asambeg If these bitter taunts wln 1038 Ravish me from myself, and make me think wln 1039 My greedy ears receive Angelical sounds, wln 1040 How would this tongue tuned to a loving note wln 1041 Invade, and take possession of my soul wln 1042 Which then I durst not call mine own. wln 1043 Paulina Thou art false, wln 1044 Falser than thy religion. Do but think me wln 1045 Something above a beast; nay more, a monster, wln 1046 Would fright the Sun to look on, and then tell me wln 1047 If this base usage, can invite affection? wln 1048 If to be mewed up, and excluded from wln 1049 Human society; the use of pleasures; wln 1050 The necessary, not superfluous duties img: 20­b sig: E4r wln 1051 Of servants to discharge those offices, wln 1052 I blush to name. wln 1053 Asambeg Of servants? can you think wln 1054 That I that dare not trust the eye of Heaven wln 1055 To look upon your beauties, that deny wln 1056 Myself the happiness to touch your pureness wln 1057 Will e’er consent an Eunuch, or bought handmaid wln 1058 Shall once approach you? there is something in you wln 1059 That can work Miracles, or I am cozened, wln 1060 Dispose and alter sexes. To my wrong wln 1061 In spite of nature. I will be your nurse, wln 1062 Your woman, your physician, and your fool, wln 1063 Till with your free consent, which I have vowed wln 1064 Never to force, you grace me with a name wln 1065 That shall supply all these. wln 1066 Paulina What is ’t? wln 1067 Asambeg Your husband. wln 1068 Paulina My hangman when thou pleasest. wln 1069 Asambeg Thus I guard me, wln 1070 Against your further angers. Puts to the door wln 1071 Paulina Which shall reach thee and locks it. wln 1072 Though I were in the Center. wln 1073 Asambeg Such a spirit wln 1074 In such a small proportion I ne’er read of wln 1075 Which time must alter, ravish her I dare not wln 1076 The magic that she wears about her neck, wln 1077 I think defends her, this devotion paid wln 1078 To this sweet Saint, mistress of my sour pain wln 1079 ’Tis fit I take mine own rough shape again. Exit wln 1080 Asambeg. wln 1081 Actus Secundus, Scaena Sexta wln 1082 Enter Franciso, Gazet. wln 1083 Francisco I think he’s lost. wimlng :1 02814­a Gazet. ’Tis ten to one of that, sig: E4v wln 1085 I ne’er knew Citizen turn Courtier yet, wln 1086 But he lost his credit, though he saved himself wln 1087 Why, look you sir, there are so many lobbies, wln 1088 Out offices, and disputations here wln 1089 Behind these Turkish hangings, that a Christian wln 1090 Hardly gets off but circumcised. wln 1091 Francisco I am troubled Enter Vitelli, Carazie, Manto, wln 1092 Troubled exceedingly. Ha! what are these? wln 1093 Gazet One by his rich suit should be some french Ambassador wln 1094 For his train I think they are Turks. wln 1095 Francisco Peace, be not seen. wln 1096 Carazie You are now past all the guards, and undiscovered wln 1097 You may return. wln 1098 Vitelli There’s for your pains, forget not wln 1099 My humblest service to the best of Ladies. wln 1100 Manto. Deserve her favor sir, in making haste wln 1101 For a second entertainment. wln 1102 Vitelli Do not doubt me, Exeunt Carazie, Manto. wln 1103 I shall not live till then. wln 1104 Gazet The train is vanished wln 1105 They have done him some good office he’s so free wln 1106 And liberal of his gold. Ha, do I dream, wln 1107 Or is this mine own natural Master; wln 1108 Francisco ’Tis he, wln 1109 But strangely metamorphosed. You have made sir. wln 1110 A prosperous voyage, heaven grant it be honest, wln 1111 I shall rejoice then too. wln 1112 Gazet You make him blush wln 1113 To talk of honesty, you were but now wln 1114 In the giving vein, and may think of Gazet wln 1115 Your worship’s prentice. wln 1116 Vitelli There’s gold, be thou free too wln 1117 And Master of my shop, and all the wares wln 1118 We brought from Venice. wln 1119 Gazet Rivo then. wln 1120 Vitelli Dear sir wln 1121 This place affords not privacy for discourse img: 21­b sig: F1r wln 1122 But I can tell you wonders, my rich habit wln 1123 Deserves least admiration; there’s nothing wln 1124 That can fall in the compass of your wishes wln 1125 Though it were to redeem a thousand slaves wln 1126 From the Turkish galleys, or at home to erect wln 1127 Some pious work, to shame all Hospitals, wln 1128 But I am master of the means. wln 1129 Francisco ’Tis strange. wln 1130 Vitelli As I walk I’ll tell you more. wln 1131 Gazet Pray you a word Sir, wln 1132 And then I will put on. I have one boon more. wln 1133 Vitelli What is ’t? speak freely. wln 1134 Gazet Thus then, as I am Master wln 1135 Of your Shop, and wares, pray you help me to some trucking wln 1136 With your last she customer, though she crack my best piece wln 1137 I will endure it with patience. wln 1138 Vitelli Leave your prating. wln 1139 Gazet I may, you have been doing, we will do too. wln 1140 Francisco I am amazed, yet will nor blame, nor chide you, wln 1141 Till you inform me further. Yet must say wln 1142 They steer not the right course, nor traffic well, wln 1143 That seek a passage to reach Heaven, through Hell. wln 1144 Exeunt wln 1145 Actus Tertius. Scaena prima, wln 1146 Enter Donusa, Manto. wln 1147 Donusa. When said he, he would come again? wln 1148 Manto. He swore, wln 1149 Short Minutes should be tedious Ages to him, wln 1150 Until the tender of his second service, wln 1151 So much he seemed transported with the first. wln 1152 Donusa I am sure I was. I charge thee Manto tell me wln 1153 By all my favors, and my bounties truly img: 22­a sig: F1v wln 1154 Whether thou art a Virgin, or like me wln 1155 Hast forfeited that name. wln 1156 Manto. A Virgin Madam? wln 1157 At my years being a waiting­woman, and in Court too? wln 1158 That were miraculous. I so long since lost wln 1159 That barren burden, I almost forget wln 1160 That ever I was one. wln 1161 Donusa And could thy friends wln 1162 Read in thy face, thy maidenhead gone, that thou wln 1163 Hadst parted with it? wln 1164 Manto. No indeed. I passed wln 1165 For current many years after, till by fortune, wln 1166 Long and continued practice in the sport wln 1167 Blew up my deck, a husband then was found out wln 1168 By my indulgent father, and to the world wln 1169 All was made whole again. What need you fear then wln 1170 That at your pleasure may repair your honor wln 1171 Durst any envious, or malicious tongue, wln 1172 Presume to taint it? wln 1173 Donusa How now? wln 1174 Enter Carazie. wln 1175 Carazie Madam, the Bashaw wln 1176 Humbly desires access. wln 1177 Donusa If it had been wln 1178 My neat Italian, thou hadst met my wishes. wln 1179 Tell him we would be private. wln 1180 Carazie So I did, wln 1181 But he is much importunate. wln 1182 Manto. Best dispatch him wln 1183 His ling’ring here else will deter the other, wln 1184 From making his approach. wln 1185 Donusa His entertainment wln 1186 Shall not invite a second visit, go wln 1187 Say we are pleased. wln 1188 Enter Mustapha. wln 1189 Mustapha All happiness. wln 1190 Donusa Be sudden img: 22­b sig: F2r wln 1191 ’Twas saucy rudeness in you sir to press wln 1192 On my retirements, but ridiculous folly wln 1193 To waste the time that might be better spent wln 1194 In complemental wishes. wln 1195 Carazie There’s a cooling wln 1196 For his hot encounter. wln 1197 Donusa Come you here to stare? wln 1198 If you have lost your tongue, and use of speech, wln 1199 Resign your government, there’s a mute’s place void wln 1200 In my uncle’s Court I hear, and you may work me wln 1201 To write for your preferment. wln 1202 Mustapha This is strange! wln 1203 I know not Madam, what neglect of mine wln 1204 Has called this scorn upon me. wln 1205 Donusa To the purpose wln 1206 My will’s a reason, and we stand not bound wln 1207 To yield account to you. wln 1208 Mustapha Not of your angers, wln 1209 But with erected ears I should hear from you wln 1210 The story of your good opinion of me wln 1211 Confirmed by love, and favors. wln 1212 Donusa How deserved? wln 1213 I have considered you from head to foot, wln 1214 And can find nothing in that wainscot face, wln 1215 That can teach me to dote, nor am I taken wln 1216 With your grim aspect, or toadpool­like complexion, wln 1217 Those scars you glory in, I fear to look on; wln 1218 And had much rather hear a merry tale wln 1219 Then all your battles won with blood and sweat, wln 1220 Though you belch forth the stink too, in the service, wln 1221 And swear by your Mustachioes all is true. wln 1222 You are yet too rough for me, purge and take physic, wln 1223 Purchase perfumers, get me some French tailor, wln 1224 To new create you; the first shape you were made with wln 1225 Is quite worn out, let your barber wash your face too, wln 1226 You look yet like a bugbear to fright children, img: 23­a sig: F2v wln 1227 Till when I take my leave, wait me Carazie. Exeunt wln 1228 Mustapha Stay you my Lady’s Cabinet key. Donusa Carazie wln 1229 Manto How’s this sir? wln 1230 Mustapha Stay and stand quietly, or you shall fall else, wln 1231 Not to firk your belly up flounder like, but never wln 1232 To rise again. Offer but to unlock wln 1233 These doors that stop your fugitive tongue (observe me) wln 1234 And by my fury, I’ll fix there this bolt wln 1235 To bar thy speech forever. So, be safe now wln 1236 And but resolve me, not of what I doubt wln 1237 But bring assurance to a thing believed, wln 1238 Thou mak’st thyself a fortune, not depending wln 1239 On the uncertain favors of a Mistress, wln 1240 But art thyself one. I’ll not so far question wln 1241 My judgement, and observance, as to ask wln 1242 Why I am slighted, and contemned, but in wln 1243 Whose favor it is done. I that have read wln 1244 The copious volumes of all women’s falsehood, wln 1245 Commented on by the heart breaking groans wln 1246 Of abused lovers, all the doubts washed off wln 1247 With fruitless tears, the Spider’s cobweb veil wln 1248 Of arguments, alleged in their defense, wln 1249 Blown off with sighs of desperate men, and they wln 1250 Appearing in their full deformity: wln 1251 Know that some other hath displanted me, wln 1252 With her dishonor. Has she given it up? wln 1253 Confirm it in two syllables? wln 1254 Manto. She has. wln 1255 Mustapha I cherish thy confession thus, and thus, gives wln 1256 Be mine, again I court thee thus, and thus her jewels. wln 1257 Now prove but constant to my ends. wln 1258 Manto. By all — wln 1259 Mustapha Enough, I dare not doubt thee. O land Crocodiles wln 1260 Made of Egyptian slime, accursed women! wln 1261 But ’tis no time to rail: come my best Manto. Exeunt img: 23­b sig: F3r wln 1262 Actus tertius, Scaena Secunda. wln 1263 Enter Vitelli, Francisco. wln 1264 Vitelli Sir, as you are my confessor, you stand bound wln 1265 Not to reveal whatever I discover wln 1266 In that Religious way: nor dare I doubt you. wln 1267 Let it suffice, you have made me see my follies, wln 1268 And wrought perhaps compunction; For I would not wln 1269 Appear an Hypocrite. But when you impose wln 1270 A penance on me, beyond flesh, and blood wln 1271 To undergo: you must instruct me how wln 1272 To put off the condition of a man: wln 1273 Or if not pardon, at the least, excuse wln 1274 My disobedience. Yet despair not sir, wln 1275 For though I take mine own way, I shall do wln 1276 Something that may hereafter to my glory, wln 1277 Speak me your Scholar. wln 1278 Francisco I enjoin you not wln 1279 To go, but send. wln 1280 Vitelli That were a petty trial wln 1281 Not worth one so long taught, and exercised wln 1282 Under so grave a master. Reverend Francisco wln 1283 My friend, my father, in that word, my all; wln 1284 Rest confident, you shall hear something of me wln 1285 That will redeem me in your good opinion, wln 1286 Or judge me lost forever. Send Gazet wln 1287 (She shall give order that he may have entrance) wln 1288 To acquaint you with my fortunes. Exit Vitelli. wln 1289 Francisco Go and prosper, wln 1290 Holy Saints guide and strengthen thee. Howsoever wln 1291 As my endeavors are, so may they find wln 1292 Gracious acceptance. wln 1293 Enter Gazet, Grimaldi, in rags. wln 1294 Gazet Now you do not roar sir img: 24­a sig: F3v wln 1295 You speak not tempests, nor take ear­rent from wln 1296 A poor shopkeeper. Do you remember that sir, wln 1297 I wear your marks here still. wln 1298 Francisco Can this be possible? wln 1299 All wonders are not ceased then. wln 1300 Grimaldi Do, abuse me, wln 1301 Spit on me, spurn me, pull me by the nose, wln 1302 Thrust out these fiery eyes, that yesterday wln 1303 Would have looked thee dead. wln 1304 Graz. O save me sir. wln 1305 Grimaldi Fear nothing, wln 1306 I am tame, and quiet, there’s no wrong can force me wln 1307 To remember what I was. I have forgot, wln 1308 I e’er had ireful fierceness, a steeled heart, wln 1309 Insensible of compassion to others, wln 1310 Nor is it fit that I should think myself wln 1311 Worth mine own pity, Oh. wln 1312 Francisco Grows this dejection, wln 1313 From his disgrace do you say? wln 1314 Gazet Why he’s cashiered sir, wln 1315 His ships, his goods, his livery­punks confiscate, wln 1316 And there is such a punishment laid upon him, wln 1317 The miserable rogue must steal no more, wln 1318 Nor drink, nor drab. wln 1319 Francisco Does that torment him? wln 1320 Gazet. O Sir! wln 1321 Should the State take order to bar men of acres, wln 1322 From those two laudable recreations, wln 1323 Drinking, and whoring, how should Panders purchase, wln 1324 Or thrifty Whores build Hospitals? ’slid if I wln 1325 That since I am made free, may write myself, wln 1326 A City gallant, should forfeit two such charters wln 1327 I should be stoned to death, and ne’er be pitied, wln 1328 By the liveries of those companies. wln 1329 Francisco You’ll be whipped sir, wln 1330 If you bridle not your tongue. Haste to the Palace wln 1331 Your Master looks for you. wln 1332 Gazet My quondam Master, img: 24­b sig: F4r wln 1333 Rich sons forget they ever had poor fathers, wln 1334 In servants ’tis more pardonable; as a companion, wln 1335 Or so, I may consent, but is there hope sir, wln 1336 He has got me a good chapwoman? pray you write wln 1337 A word or two in my behalf. wln 1338 Francisco Out rascal. wln 1339 Gazet I feel some insurrections. wln 1340 Francisco Hence. wln 1341 Gazet I vanish. Exit Gazet. wln 1342 Grimaldi Why should I study a defense, or comfort? wln 1343 In whom black guilt, and misery if balanced, wln 1344 I know not which would turn the scale, look upward wln 1345 I dare not, for should it but be believed, wln 1346 That I (dyed deep in hell’s most horrid colors,) wln 1347 Should dare to hope for mercy, it would leave wln 1348 No check or feeling, in men innocent wln 1349 To catch at sins, the devil ne’er taught mankind yet, wln 1350 No, I must downward, downward, though repentance wln 1351 Could borrow all the glorious wings of grace, wln 1352 My mountainous weight of sins, would crack their pinions, wln 1353 And sink them to hell with me. wln 1354 Francisco Dreadful! hear me, wln 1355 Thou miserable man. wln 1356 Grimaldi Good sir deny not, wln 1357 But that there is no punishment beyond wln 1358 Damnation. Enter Master, Boatswain. wln 1359 Master. Yonder he is, I pity him. wln 1360 Boatswain Take comfort Captain, we live still to serve you, wln 1361 Grimaldi Serve me? I am a devil already, leave me, wln 1362 Stand further off, you are blasted else, I have heard wln 1363 Schoolmen affirm man’s body is composed wln 1364 Of the four elements, and as in league together wln 1365 They nourish life; So each of them affords wln 1366 Liberty to the soul, when it grows weary wln 1367 Of this fleshy prison. Which shall I make choice of? wln 1368 The fire? no (I shall feel that hereafter) wln 1369 The earth will not receive me. Should some whirlwind img: 25­a sig: F4v wln 1370 Snatch me into the air: and I hang there, wln 1371 Perpetual plagues would dwell upon the earth. wln 1372 And those superior bodies that pour down wln 1373 Their cheerful influence deny to pass it, wln 1374 Through those vast regions I have infected. wln 1375 The (Sea) Ay that is justice there, I plowed up wln 1376 Mischief as deep as Hell there: there I’ll hide wln 1377 This cursed lump of clay may it turn Rocks wln 1378 Where plummets weight could never reach the sands. wln 1379 And grind the ribs of all such barks as press wln 1380 The Ocean’s breast in my unlawful course. wln 1381 I haste then to thee, let thy ravenous womb wln 1382 Whom all things else deny, be now my tomb. Exit Grimaldi wln 1383 Master. Follow him and restrain him. wln 1384 Francisco Let this stand wln 1385 For an example to you. I’ll provide wln 1386 A lodging for him, and apply such cures wln 1387 To his wounded conscience, as heaven hath lent me. wln 1388 He’s now my second care: and my profession wln 1389 Binds me to teach the desperate to repent wln 1390 As far as to confirm the innocent. Exeunt. wln 1391 Actus tertius, Scaena tertia. wln 1392 Enter Asambeg, Mustapha, Aga, Capiaga. wln 1393 Asambeg. Your pleasure, wln 1394 Mustapha ’Twill exact your private ear, wln 1395 And when you have received it, you will think wln 1396 Too many know it. Exeunt Aga, Capiaga. wln 1397 Asambeg. Leave the room, but be wln 1398 Within our call. Now sir, what burning secret brings you wln 1399 (With which it seems you are turned Cinders) wln 1400 To quench in my advice, or power? wln 1401 Mustapha. The fire wln 1402 Will rather reach you. img: 25­b sig: G1r wln 1403 Asambeg Me? wln 1404 Mustapha And consume both, wln 1405 For ’tis impossible to be put out wln 1406 But with the blood of those that kindle it: wln 1407 And yet one vial of it is so precious, wln 1408 It being borrowed from the Ottoman spring, wln 1409 That better ’tis I think, both we should perish wln 1410 Then prove the desperate means that must restrain it, wln 1411 From spreading further. wln 1412 Asambeg To the point, and quickly. wln 1413 These winding circumstances in relations wln 1414 Seldom environ truth. wln 1415 Mustapha Truth Asambeg? wln 1416 Asambeg Truth Mustapha. I said it, and add more wln 1417 You touch upon a string that to my ear, wln 1418 Does sound Donusa. wln 1419 Mustapha You then understand wln 1420 Who ’tis I aim at. wln 1421 Asambeg Take heed Mustapha, wln 1422 Remember what she is, and whose we are; wln 1423 ’Tis her neglect perhaps, that you complain of, wln 1424 And should you practice to revenge her scorn, wln 1425 With any plot to taint her in her honor, wln 1426 Mustapha Hear me. wln 1427 Asambeg I will be heard first, there’s no tongue wln 1428 A subject owes, that shall out thunder mine. wln 1429 Mustapha Well take your way. wln 1430 Asambeg I then again repeat it wln 1431 If Mustapha dares with malicious breath wln 1432 (On jealous suppositions) presume wln 1433 To blast the blossom of Donusa’s Fame wln 1434 Because he is denied a happiness wln 1435 Which men of equal, nay of more desert, wln 1436 Have sued in vain for. wln 1437 Mustapha More? wln 1438 Asambeg More. ’Twas I spoke it, wln 1439 The Bashaw of Natolia and myself img: 26­a sig: G1v wln 1440 Were Rivals for her, either of us brought wln 1441 More Victories, more Trophies, to plead for us wln 1442 To our great Master, than you dare lay claim to, wln 1443 Yet still by his allowance she was left wln 1444 To her election, each of us owed nature wln 1445 As much for outward form, and inward worth wln 1446 To make way for us to her grace and favor, wln 1447 As you brought with you. We were heard, repulsed wln 1448 Yet thought it no dishonor to sit down, wln 1449 With the disgrace; if not to force affection, wln 1450 May merit such a name. wln 1451 Mustapha Have you done yet? wln 1452 Asambeg Be therefore more than sure the ground on which wln 1453 You raise your accusation, may admit wln 1454 No undermining of defense in her, wln 1455 For if with pregnant and apparent proofs wln 1456 Such as may force a judge, more than inclined wln 1457 Or partial in her cause to swear her guilty; wln 1458 You win not me to set off your belief, wln 1459 Neither our ancient friendship, nor the rites, wln 1460 Of sacred hospitality (to which wln 1461 I would not offer violence) shall protect you: wln 1462 Now when you please. wln 1463 Mustapha I will not dwell upon wln 1464 Much circumstance, yet cannot but profess wln 1465 With the assurance of a loyalty, wln 1466 Equal to yours, the reverence I owe, wln 1467 The Sultan, and all such his blood makes sacred; wln 1468 That there is not a vein of mine which yet is wln 1469 Unemptied in his service, but this moment wln 1470 Should freely open, so it might wash off wln 1471 The stains of her dishonor, could you think? wln 1472 Or though you saw it credit your own eyes? wln 1473 That she, the wonder and amazement of wln 1474 Her sex, the pride, and glory of the empire, wln 1475 That hath disdained you, slighted me, and boasted wln 1476 A frozen coldness which no appetite, img: 26­b sig: G2r wln 1477 Or height of blood could thaw, should now so far wln 1478 Be hurried with the violence of her lust, wln 1479 As in it burying her high birth and fame, wln 1480 Basely descend to fill a Christian’s arms wln 1481 And to him yield her Virgin honor up, wln 1482 Nay sue to him to take ’t. wln 1483 Asambeg A Christian? wln 1484 Mustapha Temper wln 1485 Your admiration: and what Christian think you? wln 1486 No Prince disguised; no man of mark, nor honor, wln 1487 No daring undertaker in our service, wln 1488 But one whose lips her foot should scorn to touch, wln 1489 A poor Mechanic­Pedlar. wln 1490 Asambeg He? wln 1491 Mustapha Nay more, wln 1492 Whom do you think she made her scout, nay bawd, wln 1493 To find him out but me? What place makes choice of wln 1494 To wallow in her foul and loathsome pleasures, wln 1495 But in the palace? Who the instruments wln 1496 Of close conveyance, but the captain of wln 1497 Your guard the Aga, and that man of trust wln 1498 The warden of the inmost port? I’ll prove this, wln 1499 And though I fail to show her in the act, wln 1500 Glued like a neighing Jennet to her Stallion, wln 1501 Your incredulity shall be convinced wln 1502 With proofs I blush to think on. wln 1503 Asambeg Never yet, wln 1504 This flesh felt such a fever, by the life wln 1505 And fortune of great Amurath, should our prophet wln 1506 (Whose name I bow to) in a vision speak this, wln 1507 ’Twould make me doubtful of my faith: lead on, wln 1508 And when my eyes, and ears, are like yours, guilty, wln 1509 My rage shall then appear, for I will do wln 1510 Something; but what, I am not yet determined. wln 1511 Exeunt. img: 27­a sig: G2v wln 1512 Actus Tertius, Scaena Quarta. wln 1513 Enter Carazie, Manto, Gazet. wln 1514 Carazie. They are private to their wishes, wln 1515 Manto Doubt it not. wln 1516 Gazet A pretty structure this! a court do you call it? wln 1517 Vaulted and arched: O here has been old jumbling wln 1518 Behind this arras. wln 1519 Carazie Prithee let’s have some sport, wln 1520 With this fresh Codshead. wln 1521 Manto. I am out of tune, wln 1522 But do as you please. My conscience! tush the hope wln 1523 Of liberty throws that burden off, wln 1524 I must go watch, and make discovery. Exit. wln 1525 Carazie He’s musing, wln 1526 And will talk to himself, he cannot hold, wln 1527 The poor fool’s ravished. wln 1528 Gazet. I am in my master’s clothes, wln 1529 They fit me to a hair too, let but any wln 1530 Indifferent gamester measure us inch, by inch, wln 1531 Or weigh us by the standard, I may pass wln 1532 I have been proved, and proved again, true metal. wln 1533 Carazie How he surveys himself. wln 1534 Gazet I have heard that some wln 1535 Have fooled themselves at Court into good fortunes, wln 1536 That never hoped to thrive by wit in the City, wln 1537 Or honesty in the Country. If I do not wln 1538 Make the best laugh at me, he weep for myself, wln 1539 If they give me hearing. ’Tis resolved I’ll try wln 1540 What may be done. By your favor sir, I pray you wln 1541 Were you born a Courtier? wln 1542 Carazie No sir, why do you ask? wln 1543 Gazet Because I thought that none could be preferred, img: 27­b sig: G3r wln 1544 But such as were begot there. wln 1545 Carazie O sir! many, and howsoe’er you are a Citizen born, wln 1546 Yet if your mother were a handsome woman, wln 1547 And ever longed to see a Masque at Court, wln 1548 It is an even lay but that you had wln 1549 A Courtier to your Father; and I think so; wln 1550 You bear yourself so sprightly. wln 1551 Gazet It may be, wln 1552 But pray you sir, had I such an itch upon me wln 1553 To change my copy, is there hope a place wln 1554 May be had here for money? wln 1555 Carazie Not without it wln 1556 That I dare warrant you. wln 1557 Gazet I have a pretty stock, wln 1558 And would not have my good parts undiscovered, wln 1559 What places of credit are there? wln 1560 Carazie There’s your Beglerbeg. wln 1561 Gazet By no means that, it comes too near the beggar wln 1562 And most prove so that come there. wln 1563 Carazie Or your Sanzacke. wln 1564 Gazet Sans­jack fie none of that. wln 1565 Carazie Your Chiaus. wln 1566 Gazet Nor that. wln 1567 Carazie Chief Gardener. wln 1568 Gazet Out upon ’t, wln 1569 ’Twill put me mind my Mother was an herb­woman, wln 1570 What is your place I pray you? wln 1571 Carazie Sir an Eunuch. wln 1572 Gazet An Eunuch! very fine, I’ faith, an Eunuch! wln 1573 And what are your employments? neat and easy. wln 1574 Carazie In the day I wait on my Lady when she eats, wln 1575 Carry her pantofles, bear up her train wln 1576 Sing her asleep at night, and when she pleases wln 1577 I am her bedfellow. wln 1578 Gazet How? her bedfellow, wln 1579 And lie with her? wln 1580 Carazie Yes, and lie with her. img: 28­a sig: G3v wln 1581 Gazet O rare! wln 1582 I’ll be an Eunuch, though I sell my shop for ’t wln 1583 And all my wares. wln 1584 Carazie It is but parting with wln 1585 A precious stone or two. I know the price on ’t. wln 1586 Gazet I’ll part with all my stones, and when I am wln 1587 An Eunuch, I’ll so toss and touse the Ladies; wln 1588 Pray you help me to a chapman. wln 1589 Carazie The court Surgeon wln 1590 Shall do you that favor. wln 1591 Gazet I am made! an Eunuch! Enter Manto. wln 1592 Manto. Carazie, quit the room. wln 1593 Carazie Come sir, we’ll treat of wln 1594 Your business further. wln 1595 Gazet Excellent! an Eunuch! Exeunt. wln 1596 Actus Tertius. Scaena Quinta. wln 1597 Enter Donusa, Vitelli. wln 1598 Vitelli, Leave me, or I am lost again, no prayers, wln 1599 No penitence, can redeem me. wln 1600 Donusa. Am I grown wln 1601 Old, or deformed since yesterday? wln 1602 Vitelli You are still, wln 1603 Although the sating of your lust hath sullied wln 1604 The immaculate whiteness of your Virgin beauties, wln 1605 Too fair for me to look on. And though pureness, wln 1606 The sword with which you ever fought, and conquered, wln 1607 Is ravished from you by unchaste desires, wln 1608 You are too strong for flesh and blood to treat with, wln 1609 Though iron grates were interposed between us, wln 1610 To warrant me from treason. wln 1611 Donusa. Whom do you fear? wln 1612 Vitelli That human frailty I took from my mother, img: 28­b sig: G4r wln 1613 That, as my youth increased, grew stronger on me, wln 1614 That still pursues me, and though once recovered wln 1615 In scorn of reason, and what’s more, religion, wln 1616 Again seeks to betray me. wln 1617 Donusa. If you mean sir, wln 1618 To my embraces, you turn rebel to wln 1619 The laws of nature, the great Queen, and Mother wln 1620 Of all productions, and deny allegiance. wln 1621 Where you stand bound to pay it. wln 1622 Vitelli I will stop wln 1623 Mine ears against these charms, which if Ulysses wln 1624 Could live again, and hear this second Siren, wln 1625 Though bound with Cables to his Mast, his Ship too wln 1626 Fastened with all her Anchors, this enchantment wln 1627 Would force him in despite of all resistance, wln 1628 To leap into the Sea, and follow her, wln 1629 Although destruction with outstretched arms, wln 1630 Stood ready to receive him. wln 1631 Donusa. Gentle sir, wln 1632 Though you deny to hear me, yet vouchsafe wln 1633 To look upon me. Though I use no language wln 1634 The grief for this unkind repulse, will print wln 1635 Such a dumb eloquence upon my face, wln 1636 As will not only plead, but prevail for me. wln 1637 Vitelli, I am a coward, I will see and hear you, wln 1638 The trial else is nothing, Nor the conquest, wln 1639 My temperance shall crown me with hereafter, wln 1640 Worthy to be remembered. Up my virtue wln 1641 And holy thoughts, and resolutions arm me, wln 1642 Against this fierce temptation; give me voice wln 1643 Tuned to a zealous anger to express wln 1644 At what an overvalue I have purchased, wln 1645 The wanton treasure of your Virgin bounties, wln 1646 That in their false fruition heap upon me wln 1647 Despair, and horror; that I could with that ease wln 1648 Redeem my forfeit innocence, or cast up wln 1649 The poison I received into my entrails, img: 29­a sig: G4v wln 1650 From the alluring cup of your enticements wln 1651 As now I do deliver back the price, returns the Casket. wln 1652 And salary of your lust: or thus unclothe me wln 1653 Of sin’s gay trappings, (the proud livery Throws off his wln 1654 Of wicked pleasure) which but worn, and heated cloak and wln 1655 With the fire of entertainment, and consent, doublet. wln 1656 Like to Alcides’ fatal shirt, tears off wln 1657 Our flesh, and reputation both together, wln 1658 Leaving our ulcerous follies bare, and open, wln 1659 To all malicious censure. wln 1660 Donusa You must grant, wln 1661 If you hold that a loss to you, mine equals, wln 1662 If not transcends it. If you then first tasted wln 1663 That poison as you call it, I brought with me wln 1664 A palate unacquainted with the relish wln 1665 Of those delights which most (as I have heard) wln 1666 Greedily swallow; and then the offense wln 1667 (If my opinion may be believed) wln 1668 Is not so great: howe’er, the wrong no more wln 1669 Than if Hippolitus and the Virgin Huntress, wln 1670 Should meet and kiss together. wln 1671 Vitelli What defenses wln 1672 Can lust raise to maintain a precipice Asambeg and wln 1673 To the Abyss of looseness? but affords not Mustapha above wln 1674 The least stair, or the fastening of one foot, wln 1675 To reascend that glorious height we fell from. wln 1676 Mustapha By Mahomet she courts him. wln 1677 Asambeg Nay kneels to him; wln 1678 Observe the scornful villain turns away too, wln 1679 As glorying in his conquest. wln 1680 Donusa Are you Marble? kneels wln 1681 If Christians have mothers, sure they share in wln 1682 The tigress’ fierceness, for if you were owner wln 1683 Of human pity, you could not endure wln 1684 A Princess to kneel to you, or look on wln 1685 These falling tears which hardest rocks would soften, wln 1686 And yet remain unmoved. Did you but give me img: 29­b sig: H1r wln 1687 A taste of happiness in your embraces wln 1688 That the remembrance of the sweetness of it wln 1689 Might leave perpetual bitterness behind it? wln 1690 Or showed me what it was to be a wife, wln 1691 To live a widow ever? wln 1692 Asambeg She has confessed it; Enter Capiaga, Aga, wln 1693 Seize on him villains. O the furies. with others. wln 1694 Donusa. How! Asambeg and Mustapha descend. wln 1695 Are we betrayed? wln 1696 Vitelli The better, I expected wln 1697 A Turkish Faith. wln 1698 Donusa Who am I that you dare this? wln 1699 ’Tis I that do command you to forbear wln 1700 A touch of violence. wln 1701 Aga. We already Madam wln 1702 Have satisfied your pleasure further than wln 1703 We know to answer it. wln 1704 Capiaga Would we were well off, wln 1705 We stand too far engaged I fear. wln 1706 Donusa For us? wln 1707 We’ll bring you safe off, who dares contradict wln 1708 What is our pleasure? Enter Asambeg, Mustapha. wln 1709 Asambeg Spurn the dog to prison, wln 1710 I’ll answer you anon. wln 1711 Vitelli What punishment wln 1712 Soe’er I undergo, I am still a Christian. Exeunt with Vitelli wln 1713 Donusa What bold presumption’s this? under what law wln 1714 Am I to fall that set my foot upon wln 1715 Your Statutes and decrees? wln 1716 Mustapha The crime committed wln 1717 Our Alcoran calls death. wln 1718 Donusa Tush, who is here wln 1719 That is not Amurath’s slave, and so unfit wln 1720 To sit a judge upon his blood? wln 1721 Asambeg You have lost wln 1722 And shamed the privilege of it, robbed me too wln 1723 Of my soul, my understanding to behold img: 30­a sig: H1v wln 1724 Your base unworthy fall, from your high virtue. wln 1725 Donusa I do appeal to Amurath. wln 1726 Asambeg We will offer wln 1727 No violence to your person, till we know wln 1728 His sacred pleasure, till when under guard wln 1729 You shall continue here. wln 1730 Donusa. Shall? wln 1731 Asambeg I have said it. The Guard leads off Donusa. wln 1732 Donusa We shall remember this. wln 1733 Asambeg It ill becomes wln 1734 Such as are guilty to deliver threats wln 1735 Against the innocent. I could tear this flesh now, wln 1736 But ’tis in vain, nor must I talk but do: wln 1737 Provide a well made galley for Constantinople, wln 1738 Such sad news never came to our great Master; wln 1739 As he directs, we must proceed, and know wln 1740 No will but his, to whom what’s ours we owe. wln 1741 Exeunt. wln 1742 The end of the third Act. wln 1743 Actus Quartus, Scaena Prima. wln 1744 Enter Master, Boatswain. wln 1745 Master. He does begin to eat? wln 1746 Boatswain A little, Master, wln 1747 But our best hope for his recovery, is that wln 1748 His raving leaves him, and those dreadful words, wln 1749 Damnation, and despair, with which he ever wln 1750 Ended all his discourses are forgotten. wln 1751 Master This stranger is a most religious man sure, wln 1752 And I am doubtful whether his charity, wln 1753 In the relieving of our wants, or care wln 1754 To cure the wounded conscience of Grimaldi, img: 30­b sig: H2r wln 1755 Deserves more admiration. wln 1756 Boatswain Can you guess wln 1757 What the reason should be that we never mention wln 1758 The Church, or the high Altar, but his melancholy wln 1759 Grows, and increases on him? wln 1760 Master I have heard him wln 1761 (When he gloried to profess himself an Atheist,) wln 1762 Talk often and with much delight and boasting, wln 1763 Of a rude prank he did ere he turned Pirate, wln 1764 The memory of which, as it appears, wln 1765 Lies heavy on him. wln 1766 Boatswain Pray you let me understand it. wln 1767 Master Upon a solemn day when the whole City wln 1768 Joined in devotion, and with barefoot steps wln 1769 Passed to Saint Mark’s, the Duke and the whole Signiory, wln 1770 Helping to perfect the Religious pomp, wln 1771 With which they were received; when all men else wln 1772 Were full of tears, and groaned beneath the weight wln 1773 Of past offenses (of whose heavy burden wln 1774 They came to be absolved and freed,) our Captain, wln 1775 Whether in scorn of those so pious rites wln 1776 He had no feeling of, or else drawn to it wln 1777 Out of a wanton irreligious madness, wln 1778 (I know not which) ran to the holy man, wln 1779 As he was of doing the work of grace, wln 1780 And snatching from his hands the sanctified means wln 1781 Dashed it upon the pavement. wln 1782 Boatswain How escaped he? wln 1783 It being a deed deserving death with torture. wln 1784 Master The general amazement of the people wln 1785 Gave him leave to quit the Temple, and a Gondola, wln 1786 (Prepared it seems before) brought him aboard, wln 1787 Since which he ne’er saw Venice. The remembrance wln 1788 Of this, it seems, torments him; aggravated wln 1789 With a strong belief he cannot receive pardon wln 1790 For this foul fact, but from his hands against whom wln 1791 It was committed. img: 31­a sig: H2v wln 1792 Boatswain And what course intends wln 1793 His heavenly Physician, reverend Francisco, wln 1794 To beat down this opinion. wln 1795 Master He promised wln 1796 To use some holy and religious fineness, wln 1797 To this good end, and in the meantime charged me wln 1798 To keep him dark, and to admit no visitants wln 1799 But on no terms to cross him. Here he comes. wln 1800 Enter Grimaldi, with wln 1801 a Book. wln 1802 Grimaldi For theft! he that restores treble the value, wln 1803 Makes satisfaction, and for want of means wln 1804 To do so, as a slave must serve it out wln 1805 Till he hath made full payment. There’s hope left here wln 1806 O with what willingness would I give up wln 1807 My liberty to those that I have pillaged wln 1808 And wish the numbers of my years though wasted wln 1809 In the most sordid slavery might equal wln 1810 The rapines I have made, till with one voice wln 1811 My patient sufferings, might exact from my wln 1812 Most cruel creditors, a full remission, wln 1813 An eye’s loss with an eye, limbs with a limb, wln 1814 A sad accompt! yet to find peace within here, wln 1815 Though all such as I have maimed, and dismembered wln 1816 In drunken quarrels, or o’ercome with rage wln 1817 When they were given up to my power, stood here now wln 1818 And cried for restitution; to appease ’em, wln 1819 I would do a bloody justice on myself; wln 1820 Pull out these eyes that guided me to ravish wln 1821 Their sight from others; lop these legs that bore me wln 1822 To barbarous violence, with this hand cut off wln 1823 This instrument of wrong, till naught were left me wln 1824 But this poor bleeding limbless trunk, which gladly img: 31­b sig: H3r wln 1825 I would divide among them. wln 1826 Ha! what think I wln 1827 Of petty forfeitures, in this reverend habit, wln 1828 (All that I am turned into eyes) I look on wln 1829 A deed of mine so fiendlike, that repentance, wln 1830 Though with my tears I taught the sea new tides, wln 1831 Can never wash off; all my thefts, my rapes wln 1832 Are venial trespasses compared to what wln 1833 I offered to that shape, and in a place too wln 1834 Where I stood bound to kneel to ’t. kneels wln 1835 Enter Francisco in a Cope wln 1836 like a Bishop. wln 1837 Francisco ’Tis forgiven, wln 1838 I with his tongue (whom in these sacred vestments wln 1839 With impure hands thou didst offend) pronounce it, wln 1840 I bring peace to thee, see that thou deserve it wln 1841 In thy fair life hereafter. wln 1842 Grimaldi Can it be! wln 1843 Dare I believe this vision, or hope wln 1844 A pardon e’er may find me? wln 1845 Francisco Purchase it wln 1846 By zealous undertakings, and no more wln 1847 ’Twill be remembered. wln 1848 Grimaldi What celestial balm wln 1849 I feel now poured into my wounded conscience? wln 1850 What penance is there I’ll not undergo wln 1851 Though ne’er so sharp and rugged, with more pleasure wln 1852 Than flesh and blood ere tasted, show me true sorrow, wln 1853 Armed with an iron whip, and I will meet wln 1854 The stripes she brings along with her, as if wln 1855 They were the gentle touches of a hand, wln 1856 That comes to cure me. Can good deeds redeem me? wln 1857 I will rise up a wonder to the world, wln 1858 When I have given strong proofs how I am altered, img: 32­a sig: H3v wln 1859 I that have sold such as professed the Faith, wln 1860 That I was born in, to captivity, wln 1861 Will make their number equal, that I shall wln 1862 Deliver from the oar; and win as many wln 1863 By the clearness of my actions, to look on wln 1864 Their misbelief, and loathe it. I will be wln 1865 A convoy for all Merchants: and thought worthy wln 1866 To be reported to the world hereafter, wln 1867 The child of your devotion, nursed up wln 1868 And made strong by your charity, to break through wln 1869 All dangers Hell can bring forth to oppose me; wln 1870 Nor am I though my fortunes were thought desperate, wln 1871 Now you have reconciled me to myself, wln 1872 So void of worldly means, but in despite wln 1873 Of the proud Viceroys, wrongs I can do something wln 1874 To witness of my change; when you please try me, wln 1875 And I will perfect what you shall enjoin me, wln 1876 Or fall a joyful Martyr. wln 1877 Francisco You will reap wln 1878 The comfort of it, live yet undiscovered, wln 1879 And with your holy meditations strengthen wln 1880 Your Christian resolution, ere long wln 1881 You shall hear further from me. wln 1882 Grimaldi I’ll attend Exit Francisco. wln 1883 All your commands with patience; come my Mates, wln 1884 I hitherto have lived an ill example, wln 1885 And as your Captain lead you on to mischief, wln 1886 But now will truly labor, that good men wln 1887 May say hereafter of me to my glory, wln 1888 Let but my power and means, hand with my will, wln 1889 His good endeavors, did weigh down his ill. wln 1890 Exeunt Grimaldi, Master, Boatswain. wln 1891 Enter Francisco. wln 1892 Francisco This penitence is not counterfeit, howsoever wln 1893 Good actions are in themselves rewarded, wln 1894 My travails to meet with a double crown, wln 1895 If that Vitelli come off safe, and prove img: 32­b sig: H4r wln 1896 Himself the Master of his wild affections, Enter Gazet wln 1897 O I shall have intelligence, how now Gazet, wln 1898 Why these sad looks and tears? wln 1899 Gazet Tears sir? I have lost wln 1900 My worthy Master, your rich heir seems to mourn for wln 1901 A miserable father, your young widow wln 1902 Following a bedrid husband to his grave, wln 1903 Would have her neighbors think she cries, and roars, wln 1904 That she must part with such a goodman do nothing, wln 1905 When ’tis because he stays so long above ground, wln 1906 And hinders a rich suitor: all is come out sir, wln 1907 We are smoked for being coney­catchers, my master wln 1908 Is put in prison, his she customer wln 1909 Is under guard too, these are things to weep for; wln 1910 But mine own loss considered, and what a fortune wln 1911 I have, as they say, snatched out of my chops, wln 1912 Would make a man run mad. wln 1913 Francisco I scarce have leisure, wln 1914 I am so wholly taken up with sorrow, wln 1915 For my loved pupil to inquire thy fate, wln 1916 Yet I will hear it. wln 1917 Gazet Why sir, I had bought a place, wln 1918 A place of credit too, and had gone through with it wln 1919 I should have been made an Eunuch, there was honor, wln 1920 For a late poor prentice, when upon the sudden wln 1921 There was such a hurlyburly in the Court, wln 1922 That I was glad to run away and carry wln 1923 The price of my office with me. wln 1924 Francisco Is that all? wln 1925 You have made a saving voyage, we must think now, wln 1926 Though not to free, to comfort sad Vitelli, wln 1927 My grieved soul suffers for him. wln 1928 Gazet. I am sad too; wln 1929 But had I been an Eunuch wln 1930 Francisco Think not on it. wln 1931 Exeunt. img: 33­a sig: H4v wln 1932 Actus Quartus, Scaena Secunda. wln 1933 Enter Asambeg. unlocks the door, wln 1934 leads forth Paulina. wln 1935 Asambeg Be your own guard; obsequiousness, and service wln 1936 Shall win you to be mine. Of all restraint wln 1937 Forever take your leave, no threats shall awe you, wln 1938 No jealous doubts of mine disturb your freedom, wln 1939 No feed spies, wait upon your steps, your virtue wln 1940 And due consideration in yourself, wln 1941 Of what is Noble, are the faithful helps wln 1942 I leave you as supporters to defend you, wln 1943 From falling basely. wln 1944 Paulina This is wondrous strange wln 1945 Whence flows this alteration? wln 1946 Asambeg From true judgement, wln 1947 And strong assurance, neither grates of iron, wln 1948 Hemmed in with walls of brass, strict guards, high birth, wln 1949 The forfeiture of Honor, nor the fear wln 1950 Of infamy, or punishment, can stay wln 1951 A woman slaved to appetite from being wln 1952 False, and unworthy. wln 1953 Paulina You are grown Satirical wln 1954 Against our sex, why sir I durst produce wln 1955 Myself in our defense, and from you challenge wln 1956 A testimony not to be denied, wln 1957 All fall not under this unequal censure, wln 1958 I that have stood your flatteries, your threats wln 1959 Bore up against your fierce temptations; scorned wln 1960 The cruel means you practiced to supplant me, wln 1961 Having no arms to help me, to hold out wln 1962 But love of piety, and constant goodness, wln 1963 If you are unconfirmed, dare again boldly img: 33­b sig: I1r wln 1964 Enter into the lists, and combat with wln 1965 All opposites man’s malice can bring forth wln 1966 To shake me in my chastity built upon wln 1967 The rock of my religion. wln 1968 Asambeg I do wish wln 1969 I could believe you, but when I shall show you wln 1970 A most incredible example of wln 1971 Your frailty in a Princess, sued and sought to wln 1972 By men of worth, of rank, of eminence; courted wln 1973 By happiness itself, and her cold temper wln 1974 Approved by many years; yet she to fall, wln 1975 Fall from herself, her glories, nay her safety, wln 1976 Into a gulf of shame, and black despair, wln 1977 I think you’ll doubt yourself, or in beholding wln 1978 Her punishment forever be deterred wln 1979 From yielding basely. wln 1980 Paulina I would see this wonder; wln 1981 ’Tis sir my first petition. wln 1982 Asambeg And thus granted; wln 1983 Above you shall observe all. Paulina steps aside. Enter Mustapha wln 1984 Mustapha Sir I sought you wln 1985 And must relate a wonder, since I studied wln 1986 And knew what man was, I was never witness wln 1987 Of such invincible fortitude as this Christian wln 1988 Shows in his sufferings, all the torments that wln 1989 We could present him with to fright his constancy wln 1990 Confirmed, not shook it; and those heavy chains wln 1991 That eat into his flesh, appeared to him wln 1992 Like bracelets made of some loved mistress hairs wln 1993 We kiss in the remembrance of her favors. wln 1994 I am strangely taken with it, and have lost wln 1995 Much of my fury. wln 1996 Asambeg Had he suffered poorly wln 1997 It had called on my contempt, but manly patience wln 1998 And all commanding virtue, wins upon wln 1999 An enemy. I shall think upon him, ha! Enter Aga with wln 2000 So soon returned? this speed pleads in excuse a black box. img: 34­a sig: I1v wln 2001 Of your late fault, which I no more remember. wln 2002 What’s the grand Signior’s pleasure? wln 2003 Aga. ’Tis enclosed here wln 2004 The box too, that contains it, may inform you wln 2005 How he stands affected: I am trusted with wln 2006 Nothing but this, on forfeit of your head wln 2007 She must have a speedy trial. wln 2008 Asambeg Bring her in wln 2009 In black as to her funeral, ’tis the color wln 2010 Her fault wills her to wear, and which, in justice wln 2011 I dare not pity, sit and take your place, wln 2012 However in her life she has degenerated wln 2013 May she die nobly, and in that confirm wln 2014 Her greatness, and high blood. wln 2015 A solemn music. A guard. The Aga, and Capiaga, wln 2016 leading in Donusa in black, her train borne wln 2017 up by Carazie, and Manto. wln 2018 Mustapha I now could melt; wln 2019 But soft compassion leave me. wln 2020 Francisco I am affrighted wln 2021 With this dismal preparation. Should the enjoying wln 2022 Of loose desires find ever such conclusions, wln 2023 All Women would be Vestals. wln 2024 Donusa That you clothe me wln 2025 In this sad livery of death, assures me wln 2026 Your sentence is gone out before, and I wln 2027 Too late am called, for, in my guilty cause wln 2028 To use qualification, or excuse — wln 2029 Yet must I not part so with mine own strengths, wln 2030 But borrow from my modesty boldness, to wln 2031 Inquire by whose authority you sit wln 2032 My judges, and whose warrant digs my grave wln 2033 In the frowns you dart against my life? wln 2034 Asambeg See here wln 2035 This fatal sign, and warrant this brought to img: 34­b sig: I2r wln 2036 A General fighting in the head of his wln 2037 Victorious troops, ravishes from his hand wln 2038 His even then conquering sword; this shown unto wln 2039 The Sultan’s brothers, or his sons, delivers wln 2040 His deadly anger, and all hopes laid by wln 2041 Commands them to prepare themselves for heaven. wln 2042 Which would stand with the quiet of your soul wln 2043 To think upon, and imitate. wln 2044 Donusa. Give me leave wln 2045 A little to complain, first of the hard wln 2046 Condition of my fortune, which may move you wln 2047 Though not to rise up intercessors for me wln 2048 (Yet in remembrance of my former life, wln 2049 This being the first spot, tainting mine honor) wln 2050 To be the means to bring me to his presence; wln 2051 And thou I doubt not, but I could allege wln 2052 Such reasons in mine own defense, or plead wln 2053 So humbly (my tears helping) that it should wln 2054 Awake his sleeping pity. wln 2055 Asambeg ’Tis in vain. wln 2056 If you have aught to say you shall have hearing, wln 2057 And in me think him present. wln 2058 Donusa. I would thus then wln 2059 First kneel, and kiss his feet, and after tell him wln 2060 How long I had been his darling, what delight wln 2061 My infant years afforded him; how dear wln 2062 He prized his sister, in both bloods, my mother; wln 2063 That she like him had frailty, that to me wln 2064 Descends as an inheritance, then conjure him wln 2065 By her blessed ashes, and his father’s soul, wln 2066 The sword that rides upon his thigh, his right hand wln 2067 Holding the Scepter and the Ottoman fortune, wln 2068 To have compassion on me. wln 2069 Asambeg But suppose wln 2070 (As I am sure) he would be deaf, what then wln 2071 Could you infer? wln 2072 Donusa. I then would thus rise up, img: 35­a sig: I2v wln 2073 And to his teeth tell him he was a tyrant, wln 2074 A most voluptuous, and insatiable Epicure wln 2075 In his own pleasures: which he hugs so dearly, wln 2076 As proper, and peculiar to himself, wln 2077 That he denies a moderate lawful use wln 2078 Of all delight to others. And to thee wln 2079 Unequal judge I speak as much, and charge thee wln 2080 But with impartial eyes to look into wln 2081 Thyself, and then consider with what justice wln 2082 Thou canst pronounce my sentence. Unkind nature, wln 2083 To make weak women servants, proud men Masters wln 2084 Indulgent Mahomet, do thy bloody laws wln 2085 Call my embraces with a Christian, death? wln 2086 Having my heat and May of youth to plead wln 2087 In my excuse? and yet want power to punish wln 2088 These that with scorn break through thy Cobweb edicts wln 2089 And laugh at thy decrees? to tame their lusts wln 2090 There’s no religious bit, let her be fair wln 2091 And pleasing to the eye, though Persian, Moor, wln 2092 Idolatress, Turk, or Christian, you are privileged wln 2093 And freely may enjoy her. At this instant wln 2094 I know, unjust man, thou hast in thy power wln 2095 A lovely Christian Virgin; thy offense wln 2096 Equal, if not transcending mine, why then wln 2097 We being both guilty dost thou not descend wln 2098 From that usurped Tribunal and with me wln 2099 Walk hand in hand to death? wln 2100 Asambeg She raves, and we wln 2101 Lose time to hear her: read the Law, wln 2102 Donusa. Do, do, wln 2103 I stand resolved to suffer. wln 2104 Asambeg If any Virgin of what degree or quality soever, wln 2105 born a natural Turk, shall be convicted of corporal wln 2106 looseness, and incontinence, with any Christian, she is by wln 2107 the decree of our great Prophet Mahomet to lose her wln 2108 head. wln 2109 Asambeg Mark that, then tax our justice. img: 35­b sig: I3r wln 2110 Aga. Ever provided that if she, the said offender, by wln 2111 any reasons, arguments or persuasion, can win and prevail wln 2112 with the said Christian offending with her, to alter his wln 2113 religion, and marry her, that then the winning of a soul to wln 2114 the Mahometan sect, shall acquit her from all shame, disgrace wln 2115 and punishment whatsoever. wln 2116 Donusa I lay hold on that clause and challenge from you wln 2117 The privilege of the Law. wln 2118 Mustapha What will you do? wln 2119 Donusa Grant me access and means, I’ll undertake wln 2120 To turn this Christian Turk, and marry him: wln 2121 This trial you cannot deny. wln 2122 Mustapha O base! wln 2123 Can fear to die make you descend so low wln 2124 From your high birth, and brand the Ottoman line wln 2125 With such a mark of infamy? wln 2126 Asambeg This is worse wln 2127 Than the parting with your honor, better suffer wln 2128 Ten thousand deaths, and without hope to have wln 2129 A place in our great Prophet’s Paradise, wln 2130 Than have an act to after times remembered wln 2131 So foul as this is. wln 2132 Mustapha Cheer your spirits Madam, wln 2133 To die is nothing, ’tis but parting with wln 2134 A mountain of vexations. wln 2135 Asambeg Think of your honor; wln 2136 In dying nobly you make satisfaction wln 2137 For your offense, and you shall live a story wln 2138 Of bold Heroic courage. wln 2139 Donusa You shall not fool me wln 2140 Out of my life, I claim the Law and sue for wln 2141 A speedy trial; if I fail, you may wln 2142 Determine of me as you please. wln 2143 Asambeg Base woman! wln 2144 But use thy ways, and see thou prosper in ’em wln 2145 For if thou fall again into my power wln 2146 Thou shalt in vain after a thousand tortures img: 36­a sig: I3v wln 2147 Cry out, for death, that death which now thou fliest from wln 2148 Unloose the prisoner’s chains, go lead her on wln 2149 To try the Magic of her tongue; I follow: wln 2150 I am on the rack, descend my best Paulina. wln 2151 Actus Quartus. Scaena Tertia. wln 2152 Enter Franciso, Jailor. wln 2153 Francisco I come not empty handed, I will purchase wln 2154 Your favor at what rate you please. There’s gold. wln 2155 Jailor, ’Tis the best oratory. I will hazard wln 2156 A check for your content below there? wln 2157 Vitelli, Welcome. Vitelli under the Stage. wln 2158 Art thou the happy messenger that brings me wln 2159 News of my death? wln 2160 Jailor Your hand. Vitelli plucked up. wln 2161 Francisco Now if you please, wln 2162 A little privacy. wln 2163 Jailor You have bought it sir, wln 2164 Enjoy it freely. Exit Jailor. wln 2165 Francisco O my dearest pupil, wln 2166 Witness these tears of joy, I never saw you wln 2167 Till now look lovely; nor durst I e’er glory wln 2168 In the mind of any man I had built up wln 2169 With the hands of virtuous, and religious precepts, wln 2170 Till this glad minute. Now you have made good wln 2171 My expectation of you. By my order, wln 2172 All Roman Caesars, that led kings in chains wln 2173 Fast bound to their triumphant chariots, if wln 2174 Compared with that true glory, and full luster wln 2175 You now appear in, all their boasted honors wln 2176 Purchased with blood, and wrong, would lose their names wln 2177 And be no more remembered. wln 2178 Vitelli, This applause img: 36­b sig: I4r wln 2179 Confirmed in your allowance joys me more, wln 2180 Than if a thousand full crammed Theaters wln 2181 Should clap their eager hands to witness that wln 2182 The Scene I act did please, and they admire it. wln 2183 But these are (father) but beginnings, not wln 2184 The ends of my high aims. I grant to have mastered wln 2185 The rebel appetite of flesh and blood wln 2186 Was far above my strength; and still owe for it wln 2187 To that great power that lent it. But when I wln 2188 Shall make ’t apparent, the grim looks of death wln 2189 Affright me not, and that I can put off wln 2190 The fond desire of life (that like a garment wln 2191 Covers, and clothes our frailty) hastening to wln 2192 My Martyrdom, as to a heavenly banquet, wln 2193 To which I was a choice invited guest. wln 2194 Then you may boldly say, you did not plow wln 2195 Or trust the barren, and ungrateful sands wln 2196 With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. wln 2197 Francisco You do instruct your teacher. Let the Sun wln 2198 Of your clear life (that lends to good men light) wln 2199 But set as gloriously, as it did rise, wln 2200 Though sometimes clouded) you may write nil ultra wln 2201 To human wishes. wln 2202 Vitelli I have almost gained wln 2203 The end of the race, and will not faint, or tire now. wln 2204 Enter Aga and Jailer. wln 2205 Aga. Sir by your leave (nay stay not) I bring comfort; wln 2206 The Viceroy taken with the constant bearing wln 2207 Of your afflictions, and presuming to wln 2208 You will not change your temper, does command wln 2209 Your irons should be ta’en off. Now arm yourself wln 2210 With your old resolution, suddenly the chain taken off. wln 2211 You shall be visited, you must leave the room too wln 2212 And do it without reply. wln 2213 Francisco There’s no contending, wln 2214 Be still thyself my son. Exit Francisco. wln 2215 Vitelli ’Tis not in man Enter Donusa Asambeg Mustapha Paulina img: 37­a sig: I4v wln 2216 To change or alter me. wln 2217 Paulina Whom do I look on? wln 2218 My brother? ’tis he! but no more my tongue, wln 2219 Thou wilt betray all. wln 2220 Asambeg Let us hear this temptress, wln 2221 The fellow looks as he would stop his ears wln 2222 Against her powerful spells. wln 2223 Paulina He is undone else. wln 2224 Vitelli I’ll stand th’ encounter, charge me home. wln 2225 Donusa I come sir, bows herself. wln 2226 A beggar to you, and doubt not to find wln 2227 A good man’s charity, which if you deny, wln 2228 You are cruel to yourself, a crime, a wiseman wln 2229 (And such I hold you) would not willingly wln 2230 Be guilty of, nor let it find less welcome wln 2231 Though I (a creature you contemn) now show you wln 2232 The way to certain happiness, nor think it wln 2233 Imaginary, or fantastical, wln 2234 And so not worth th’ acquiring, in respect wln 2235 The passage to it is nor rough nor thorny; wln 2236 No steep hills in the way which you must climb up; wln 2237 No monsters to be conquered; no enchantments wln 2238 To be dissolved by countercharms, before wln 2239 You take possession of it. wln 2240 Vitelli What strong poison wln 2241 Is wrapped up in these sugared pills? wln 2242 Donusa My suit is wln 2243 That you would quit your shoulders of a burden wln 2244 Under whose ponderous weight you wilfully wln 2245 Have too long groaned, to cast those fetters off, wln 2246 With which with your own hands you chain your freedom wln 2247 Forsake a severe, nay imperious mistress, wln 2248 Whose service does exact perpetual cares, wln 2249 Watchings, and troubles, and give entertainment wln 2250 To one that courts you, whose least favors are wln 2251 Variety, and choice of all delights wln 2252 Mankind is capable of. img: 37­b sig: K1r wln 2253 Vitelli You speak in riddles. wln 2254 What burden, or what mistress? or what fetters? wln 2255 Are those you point at? wln 2256 Donusa Those which your religion, wln 2257 The mistress you too long have served, compels you wln 2258 To bear with slave­like patience. wln 2259 Vitelli Ha! wln 2260 Paulina How bravely wln 2261 That virtuous anger shows! wln 2262 Donusa Be wise, and weigh wln 2263 The prosperous success of things, if blessings wln 2264 Are donatives from Heaven (which you must grant wln 2265 Were blasphemy to question) and that wln 2266 They are called down, and poured on such as are wln 2267 Most gracious with the great disposer of ’em, wln 2268 Look on our flourishing Empire; if the splendor, wln 2269 The Majesty, and glory of it dim not wln 2270 Your feeble sight; and then turn back, and see wln 2271 The narrow bounds of yours, yet that poor remnant wln 2272 Rent in as many factions, and opinions, wln 2273 As you have petty kingdoms, and then if wln 2274 You are not obstinate against truth and reason, wln 2275 You must confess the Deity you worship wln 2276 Wants care, or power to help you. wln 2277 Paulina Hold out now wln 2278 And then thou art victorious. wln 2279 Asambeg How he eyes her! wln 2280 Mustapha As if he would look through her wln 2281 Asambeg His eyes flame too, wln 2282 As threatening violence. wln 2283 Vitelli But that I know wln 2284 The Devil thy Tutor fills each part about thee, wln 2285 And that I cannot play the exorcist wln 2286 To dispossess thee, unless I should tear wln 2287 Thy body limb by limb, and throw it to wln 2288 The furies that expect it, I would now wln 2289 Pluck out that wicked tongue, that hath blasphemed img: 38­a sig: K1v wln 2290 That great omnipotency at whose nod wln 2291 The fabric of the World shakes. Dare you bring wln 2292 Your juggling Prophet in comparison with wln 2293 That most inscrutable, and infinite essence wln 2294 That made this all, and comprehends his work? wln 2295 The place is too profane to mention him wln 2296 Whose only name is sacred. O Donusa! wln 2297 How much in my compassion I suffer, wln 2298 That thou, on whom this most excelling form wln 2299 And faculties of discourse, beyond a woman, wln 2300 Were by his liberal gift conferred, shouldst still wln 2301 Remain in ignorance of him that gave it? wln 2302 I will not foul my mouth to speak the Sorceries wln 2303 Of your seducer, his base birth, his whoredoms, wln 2304 His strange impostures; nor deliver how wln 2305 He taught a Pigeon to feed in his ear, wln 2306 Then made his credulous followers believe wln 2307 It was an Angel that instructed him wln 2308 In the framing of his Alcoran. Pray you mark me. wln 2309 Asambeg These words are death, were he in naught else guilty. wln 2310 Vitelli. Your intent to win me wln 2311 To be of your belief proceeded from wln 2312 Your fear to die. Can there be strength in that wln 2313 Religion, that suffers us to tremble wln 2314 At that which every day, nay hour we haste to? wln 2315 Donusa This is unanswerable and there’s something tells me wln 2316 I err in my opinion. wln 2317 Vitelli. Cherish it wln 2318 It is a Heavenly prompter, entertain wln 2319 This holy motion, and wear on your forehead wln 2320 The Sacred badge he arms His servants with, wln 2321 You shall, like me, with scorn look down upon wln 2322 All engines tyranny can advance to batter wln 2323 Your constant resolution. Then you shall wln 2324 Look truly fair, when your mind’s pureness answers wln 2325 Your outward beauties. wln 2326 Donusa. I came here to take you, img: 38­b sig: K2r wln 2327 But I perceive a yielding in myself wln 2328 To be your prisoner. wln 2329 Vitelli, ’Tis an overthrow wln 2330 That will outshine all victories. O Donusa, wln 2331 Die in my faith like me, and ’tis a marriage wln 2332 At which celestial Angels shall be waiters, wln 2333 And such as have been Sainted welcome us, wln 2334 Are you confirmed? wln 2335 Donusa I would be; but the means wln 2336 That may assure me? wln 2337 Vitelli, Heaven is merciful, wln 2338 And will not suffer you to want a man, wln 2339 To do that sacred office, build upon it. wln 2340 Donusa Then thus I spit at Mahomet. wln 2341 Asambeg Stop her mouth: wln 2342 In death to turn Apostata! I’ll not hear wln 2343 One syllable from any; wretched creature! wln 2344 With the next rising Sun prepare to die. wln 2345 Yet Christian, in reward of thy brave courage, wln 2346 Be thy faith right, or wrong, receive this favor. wln 2347 In person I’ll attend thee to thy death, wln 2348 And boldly challenge all that I can give wln 2349 But what’s not in my grant, which is to live. Exeunt. wln 2350 The end of the fourth Act wln 2351 Actus Quintus, Scaena Prima. wln 2352 Enter Vitelli, Francisco. wln 2353 Francisco You are wondrous brave, and jocund. wln 2354 Vitelli. Welcome Father. wln 2355 Should I spare cost, or not wear cheerful looks wln 2356 Upon my wedding day, it were ominous wln 2357 And showed I did repent it, which I dare not, wln 2358 It being a marriage, howsoever sad img: 39­a sig: K2v wln 2359 In the first ceremonies that confirm it, wln 2360 That will forever arm me against fears, wln 2361 Repentance, doubts, or jealousies, and bring wln 2362 Perpetual comforts, peace of mind, and quiet wln 2363 To the glad couple. wln 2364 Francisco I well understand you; wln 2365 And my full joy to see you so resolved wln 2366 Weak words cannot express. What is the hour wln 2367 Designed for this solemnity? wln 2368 Vitelli The sixth, wln 2369 Something before the setting of the Sun wln 2370 We take our last leave of his fading light, wln 2371 And with our souls’ eyes seek for beams eternal, wln 2372 Yet there’s one scruple with which I am much wln 2373 Perplexed, and troubled, which I know you can wln 2374 Resolve me of. wln 2375 Francisco What is ’t? wln 2376 Vitelli. This sir, my Bride wln 2377 Whom I first courted, and then won (not with wln 2378 Loose lays, poor flatteries, apish compliments, wln 2379 But Sacred, and Religious zeal) yet wants wln 2380 The holy badge that should proclaim her fit wln 2381 For these Celestial Nuptials; willing she is, wln 2382 I know, to wear it, as the choicest jewel wln 2383 On her fair forehead; but to you, that well wln 2384 Could do that work of Grace, I know the Viceroy wln 2385 Will never grant access. Now in a case wln 2386 Of this necessity, I would gladly learn, wln 2387 Whether in me a layman, without orders, wln 2388 It may not be religious, and lawful wln 2389 As we go to our deaths to do that office? wln 2390 Francisco A question in itself, with much ease answered; wln 2391 Midwives upon necessity perform it, wln 2392 And Knights that in the Holy­Land fought for wln 2393 The freedom of Jerusalem, when full wln 2394 Of sweat, and enemies’ blood, have made their Helmets wln 2395 The fount, out of which with their holy hands img: 39­b sig: K3r wln 2396 They drew that heavenly liquor, ’twas was approved then wln 2397 By the Holy Church, nor must I think it now wln 2398 In you a work less pious. wln 2399 Vitelli You confirm me, wln 2400 I will find a way to do it. In the meantime wln 2401 Your holy vows assist me. wln 2402 Francisco They shall ever wln 2403 Be present with you. wln 2404 Vitelli You shall see me act wln 2405 This last Scene to the life. wln 2406 Francisco And though now fall, wln 2407 Rise a blessed Martyr. wln 2408 Vitelli That’s my end, my all. Exeunt. wln 2409 Actus Quintus, Scaena Secunda. wln 2410 Enter Grimaldi, Master, Boatswain, Sailors. wln 2411 Boatswain Sir, if you slip this opportunity, wln 2412 Never expect the like. wln 2413 Master With as much ease now wln 2414 We may steal the ship out of the harbor, Captain, wln 2415 As ever Gallants in a wanton bravery wln 2416 Have set upon a drunken Constable, wln 2417 And bore him from a sleepy rug­gowned watch: wln 2418 Be therefore wise. wln 2419 Grimaldi I must be honest too wln 2420 And you shall wear that shape, you shall observe me, wln 2421 If that you purpose to continue mine, wln 2422 Think you ingratitude can be the parent wln 2423 To our unfeigned repentance? do I owe wln 2424 A peace within here, Kingdoms could not purchase, wln 2425 To my religious creditor, to leave him wln 2426 Open to danger, the great benefit wln 2427 Never remembered? no, though in her bottom. wln 2428 We could stow up the tribute of the Turk, img: 40­a sig: K3v wln 2429 Nay, grant the passage safe too: I will never wln 2430 Consent to weigh an Anchor up, till he, wln 2431 That only must, commands it. wln 2432 Boatswain This Religion wln 2433 Will keep us slaves and Beggars. wln 2434 Master The Fiend prompts me wln 2435 To change my copy: Plague upon ’t, we are Seamen, wln 2436 What have we to do with ’t, but for a snatch, or so, wln 2437 At the end of a long Lent? wln 2438 Boatswain Mum, see who is here? Enter Francisco. wln 2439 Grimaldi My Father! wln 2440 Francisco My good convert. I am full wln 2441 Of serious business which denies me leave wln 2442 To hold long conference with you: Only thus much wln 2443 Briefly receive; a day, or two, at the most wln 2444 Shall make me fit to take my leave of Tunis, wln 2445 Or give me lost forever. wln 2446 Grimaldi Days, nor years, wln 2447 Provided, that my stay may do you service, wln 2448 But to me shall be minutes. wln 2449 Francisco I much thank you: wln 2450 In this small scroll you may in private read wln 2451 What my intents are, and as they grow ripe wln 2452 I will instruct you further. In the meantime wln 2453 Borrow your late distracted looks, and gesture; wln 2454 The more dejected you appear, the less wln 2455 The Viceroy must suspect you. wln 2456 Grimaldi I am nothing, wln 2457 But what you please to have me be. wln 2458 Francisco Farewell sir, wln 2459 Be cheerful Master, something we will do wln 2460 That shall reward itself in the performance, wln 2461 And that’s true prize indeed. wln 2462 Master I am obedient. Exeunt. Grimaldi. wln 2463 Boatswain And I, there’s no contending. Master Boatswain. wln 2464 Francisco Peace to you all. wln 2465 Prosper thou great Existence my endeavors, img: 40­b sig: K4r wln 2466 As they religiously are undertaken, wln 2467 And distant equally from servile gain, Enter Paulina Carazie. wln 2468 Or glorious ostentation. I am heard and Manto. wln 2469 In this blessed opportunity, which in vain wln 2470 I long have waited for. I must show myself. wln 2471 O she has found me. Now if she prove right wln 2472 All hope will not forsake us. wln 2473 Paulina Farther off, wln 2474 And in that distance know your duties too. wln 2475 You were bestowed on me as slaves to serve me wln 2476 And not as spies to pry into my actions, wln 2477 And after to betray me. You shall find wln 2478 If any look of mine be unobserved, wln 2479 I am not ignorant of a mistress power, wln 2480 And from whom I receive it. wln 2481 Carazie Note this, Manto. wln 2482 The pride, and scorn, with which she entertains us wln 2483 Now we are made hers by the Viceroy’s gift. wln 2484 Our sweet conditioned princess, fair Donusa, wln 2485 Rest in her death wait on her, never used us wln 2486 With such contempt. I would he had sent me wln 2487 To the Galleys, or the Gallows, when he gave me wln 2488 To this proud little devil. wln 2489 Manto. I expect wln 2490 All tyrannous usage, but I must be patient; wln 2491 And though ten times a day, she tears these locks, wln 2492 Or makes this face her footstool, ’tis but justice. wln 2493 Paulina ’Tis a true story of my fortunes, father, wln 2494 My chastity preserved by miracle, wln 2495 Or your devotions for me; and believe it, wln 2496 What outward pride soe’er I counterfeit, wln 2497 Or state to these appointed to attend me, wln 2498 I am not in my disposition altered, wln 2499 But still your humble daughter and share with you wln 2500 In my poor brother’s sufferings, all hell’s torments wln 2501 Revenge it on accursed Grimaldi’s soul wln 2502 That in his rape of me gave a beginning img: 41­a sig: K4v wln 2503 To all the miseries that since have followed wln 2504 Be charitable, and forgive him gentle daughter; wln 2505 He’s a changed man, and may redeem his fault wln 2506 In his fair life hereafter. You must bear too wln 2507 Your forced captivity (for ’tis no better, wln 2508 Though you wear golden fetters) and of him, wln 2509 Whom death affrights not, learn to hold out nobly. wln 2510 Paulina You are still the same good counselor. wln 2511 Francisco And who knows wln 2512 (Since what above is purposed, is inscrutable) wln 2513 But that the Viceroy’s extreme dotage on you wln 2514 May be the parent of a happier birth wln 2515 Than yet our hopes dare fashion. Longer conference wln 2516 May prove unsafe for you, and me, however wln 2517 Perhaps for trial he allows you freedom. delivers a wln 2518 From this learn therefore what you must attempt, paper. wln 2519 Though with the hazard of yourself, heaven guard you, wln 2520 And give Vitelli patience, then I doubt not wln 2521 But he will have a glorious day since some wln 2522 Hold truly, such as suffer, overcome. Exeunt. wln 2523 Actus Quintus, Scaena Tertia. wln 2524 Enter Asambeg, Mustapha, Aga, Capiaga. wln 2525 Asambeg What we commanded, see performed, and fail not wln 2526 In all things to be punctual. wln 2527 Aga. We shall sir. Exeunt Aga, Capiaga. wln 2528 Mustapha ’Tis strange that you should use such circumstance wln 2529 To a delinquent of so mean condition. wln 2530 Asambeg Had he appeared in a more sordid shape wln 2531 Than disguised greatness ever deigned to mask in, wln 2532 The gallant bearing of his present fortune wln 2533 Aloud proclaims him noble. wln 2534 Musta If you doubt him, wln 2535 To be a man built up for great employments, img: 41­b sig: L1r wln 2536 And as a cunning spy sent to explore wln 2537 The City’s strength, or weakness, you by torture wln 2538 May force him to discover it. wln 2539 Asambeg That were base; wln 2540 Nor dare I do such injury to Virtue wln 2541 And bold assured courage, neither can I wln 2542 Be won to think, but if I should attempt it, wln 2543 I shoot against the Moon. He that hath stood wln 2544 The roughest battery, that captivity wln 2545 Could ever bring to shake a constant temper, wln 2546 Despised the fawnings of a future greatness, wln 2547 By beauty in her full perfection tendered; wln 2548 That hears of death as of a quiet slumber, wln 2549 And from the surplusage of his own firmness wln 2550 Can spare enough of fortitude, to assure wln 2551 A feeble woman; will now, Mustapha wln 2552 Be altered in his soul for any torments wln 2553 We can afflict his body with? wln 2554 Mustapha Do your pleasure, wln 2555 I only offered you a friend’s advice, wln 2556 But without gall, or envy to the man wln 2557 That is to suffer. But what do you determine wln 2558 Of poor Grimaldi? the disgrace called on him wln 2559 I hear has ran him mad. wln 2560 Asambeg There weigh the difference wln 2561 In the true temper of their minds. The one, wln 2562 A Pirate sold to mischiefs, rapes, and all wln 2563 That make a slave relentless, and obdurate; wln 2564 Yet of himself wanting the inward strengths wln 2565 That should defend him, sinks beneath compassion wln 2566 Or pity of a man; where as this merchant, wln 2567 Acquainted only with a civil life, wln 2568 Armed in himself; entrenched, and fortified wln 2569 With his own virtue, valuing life and death, wln 2570 At the same price, poorly does not invite wln 2571 A favor, but commands us do him right, wln 2572 Which unto him, and her (we both once honored img: 42­a sig: L1v wln 2573 As a just debt I gladly pay ’em; they enter, wln 2574 Now sit we equal hearers. wln 2575 A dreadful music, at one door; wln 2576 The Aga, Janissaries, Vitelli, Francisco, Gazet: at the other, wln 2577 Donusa, Paulina, Carazie, Manto. wln 2578 Mustapha I shall hear wln 2579 And see, sir, without passion, my wrongs arm me. wln 2580 Vitelli A joyful preparation! To whose bounty wln 2581 Owe we our thanks for gracing thus our Hymen? wln 2582 The notes though dreadful to the ear, sound here wln 2583 As our Epithalamium were sung wln 2584 By a Celestial choir, and a full Chorus wln 2585 Assured us future happiness. These that lead me wln 2586 Gaze not with wanton eyes upon my bride, wln 2587 Nor for their service are repaid by me wln 2588 With jealousies, or fears; nor do they envy wln 2589 My passage to those pleasures from which death wln 2590 Cannot deter me. Great sir pardon me; wln 2591 Imagination of the joys I haste to, wln 2592 Made me forget my duty, but the form wln 2593 And ceremony past, I will attend you, wln 2594 And with our constant resolution feast you, wln 2595 Not with course cates, forgot as soon as tasted, wln 2596 But such as shall, while you have memory, wln 2597 Be pleasing to the palate. wln 2598 Francisco Be not lost wln 2599 In what you purpose. Exit Francisco. wln 2600 Gazet Call you this a marriage? wln 2601 It differs little from hanging, I cry at it. wln 2602 Vitelli See where my bride appears! in what full luster? wln 2603 As if the Virgins that bear up her train, wln 2604 Had long contended to receive an honor wln 2605 Above their births, in doing her this service. wln 2606 Nor comes she fearful to meet those delights, wln 2607 Which once passed o’er, immortal pleasures follow. wln 2608 I need not therefore comfort, or encourage img: 42­b sig: L2r wln 2609 Her forward steps, and I should offer wrong wln 2610 To her mind’s fortitude, should I but ask wln 2611 How she can brook the rough high­going Sea, wln 2612 Over whose foamy back our ship well rigged wln 2613 With hope and strong assurance must transport us. wln 2614 Nor will I tell her when we reach the Haven wln 2615 (Which tempests shall not hinder) what loud welcome wln 2616 Shall entertain us; nor commend the place, wln 2617 To tell whose least perfection would strike dumb wln 2618 The eloquence of all boasted in story, wln 2619 Though joined together. wln 2620 Donusa ’Tis enough my dearest; wln 2621 I dare not doubt you, as your humble shadow wln 2622 Lead where you please, I follow. wln 2623 Vitelli. One suit sir, wln 2624 And willingly I cease to be a beggar, wln 2625 And that you may with more security hear it, wln 2626 Know ’tis not life I’ll ask, nor to defer wln 2627 Our deaths, but a few minutes. wln 2628 Asambeg Speak, ’tis granted. wln 2629 Vitelli We being now to take our latest leave wln 2630 And grown of one belief, I do desire wln 2631 I may have your allowance to perform it wln 2632 But in the fashion which we Christians use wln 2633 Upon the like occasions. wln 2634 Asambeg ’Tis allowed of. wln 2635 Vitelli My service; haste Gazet to the next spring, wln 2636 And bring me of it. wln 2637 Gazet. Would I could as well wln 2638 Fetch you a pardon, I would not run but fly, wln 2639 And be here in a moment. wln 2640 Mustapha What’s the mystery wln 2641 Of this? discover it? wln 2642 Vitelli Great sir, I’ll tell you, wln 2643 Each country hath it’s own peculiar rites, wln 2644 Some when they are to die drink store of wine, wln 2645 Which poured in liberally does oft beget img: 43­a sig: L2v wln 2646 A bastard valor, with which armed, they bear wln 2647 The not to be declined charge of death wln 2648 With less fear, and astonishment; Others take wln 2649 Drugs to procure a heavy sleep, that so wln 2650 They may insensibly receive the means wln 2651 That casts them in an everlasting slumber; wln 2652 Others — O welcome. Enter Gazet with water. wln 2653 Vitelli. Now the use of yours? wln 2654 The clearness of this is a perfect sign wln 2655 Of innocence, and as this washes off wln 2656 Stains, and pollutions from the things we wear, wln 2657 Thrown thus upon the forehead, it hath power wln 2658 To purge those spots that cleave upon the mind, Throws wln 2659 If thankfully received. it on her face. wln 2660 Asambeg ’Tis a strange custom! wln 2661 Vitelli How do you entertain it my Donusa? wln 2662 Feel you no alteration? No new motives? wln 2663 No unexpected aids that may confirm you wln 2664 In that to which you were inclined before? wln 2665 Donusa I am another woman, till this minute wln 2666 I never lived, nor durst think how to die. wln 2667 How long have I been blind? Yet on the sudden, wln 2668 By this blest means I feel the films of error wln 2669 Ta’en from my soul’s eyes. O divine Physician, wln 2670 That hast bestowed a sight on me, which death, wln 2671 Though ready to embrace me in his arms, wln 2672 Cannot take from me. Let me kiss the hand wln 2673 That did this miracle, and seal my thanks wln 2674 Upon those Lips from whence these sweet words vanished wln 2675 That freed me from the cruelest of prisons, wln 2676 Blind ignorance, and misbelief: false Prophet, wln 2677 Impostor Mahomet. wln 2678 Asambeg I’ll hear no more; wln 2679 You do abuse my favors, sever ’em: wln 2680 Wretch if thou hadst another life to lose, wln 2681 This Blasphemy deserved it, instantly wln 2682 Carry them to their deaths. img: 43­b sig: L3r wln 2683 Vitelli. We part now, blest one, wln 2684 To meet hereafter in a Kingdom, where wln 2685 Hell’s malice shall not reach us. wln 2686 Paulina Ha, ha, ha. wln 2687 Asambeg What means my Mistress? wln 2688 Paulina Who can hold her spleen, wln 2689 When such ridiculous follies are presented, wln 2690 The Scene too made religion: Oh my Lord, wln 2691 How from one cause two contrary effects wln 2692 Spring up upon the sudden. wln 2693 Asambeg This is strange. wln 2694 Paulina That which hath fooled her in her death, wln 2695 Wins me, That hitherto have barred myself from pleasure, wln 2696 To live in all delight. wln 2697 Asambeg There’s Music in this. wln 2698 Paulina I now will run as fiercely to your arms wln 2699 As ever longing woman did, borne high wln 2700 On the swift wings of appetite. wln 2701 Vitelli O Devil! wln 2702 Paulina Nay more, for there shall be no odds betwixt us, wln 2703 I will turn Turk. wln 2704 Gazet. Most of your tribe do so wln 2705 When they begin in whore. Aside. wln 2706 Asambeg You are serious Lady? wln 2707 Paulina Serious? but satisfy me in a suit wln 2708 That to the world may witness that I have wln 2709 Some power upon you, and tomorrow challenge wln 2710 Whatever’s in my gift, for I will be wln 2711 At your dispose. wln 2712 Gazet. That’s ever the subscription wln 2713 To a damned whore’s false Epistle. Aside wln 2714 Asambeg Ask this hand, wln 2715 Or if thou wilt, the heads of these. I am rapt wln 2716 Beyond myself with joy, speak, speak, what is it? wln 2717 Paulina But twelve short hours reprieve for this base couple. wln 2718 Asambeg The reason, since you hate them? img: 44­a sig: L3v wln 2719 Paulina That I may wln 2720 Have time to triumph o’er this wretched woman: wln 2721 I’ll be myself her guardian. I will feast, wln 2722 Adorned in her choice and richest Jewels, wln 2723 Commit him to what guards you please. Grant this, wln 2724 I am no more mine own, but yours. wln 2725 Asambeg Enjoy it; wln 2726 Repine at it who dares: bear him safe off wln 2727 To the black Tower, but give him all things useful, wln 2728 The contrary was not in your request. wln 2729 Paulina I do contemn him. wln 2730 Donusa Peace in death denied me? wln 2731 Paulina Thou shalt not go in liberty to thy grave, wln 2732 For one night a Sultana is my slave. wln 2733 Mustapha A terrible little tyranness. wln 2734 Asambeg No more; wln 2735 Her will shall be a law. Till now ne’er happy. Exeunt. wln 2736 Actus Quintus, Scaena quarta. wln 2737 Enter Francisco Grimaldi Master Boatswain and Sailors wln 2738 Grimaldi Sir, all things are in readiness, the Turks wln 2739 That seized upon my Ship stowed under hatches, wln 2740 My men resolved, and cheerful. Use but means wln 2741 To get out of the Ports, we will be ready wln 2742 To bring you aboard, and then (heaven be but pleased) wln 2743 This for the Viceroy’s fleet. wln 2744 Francisco Discharge your parts, wln 2745 In mine I’ll not be wanting; fear not Master, wln 2746 Something will come along to fraught your Bark, wln 2747 That you will have just cause to say you never wln 2748 Made such a Voyage. wln 2749 Master We will stand the hazard. wln 2750 Francisco What’s the best hour? img: 44­b sig: L4r wln 2751 Boatswain After the second watch. wln 2752 Francisco Enough; each to his charge. wln 2753 Grimaldi We will be careful. Exeunt. wln 2754 Actus Quintus, Scaena quinta. wln 2755 Enter Paulina, Donusa, Carazie, Manto. wln 2756 Paulina Sit Madam, it is fit that I attend you; wln 2757 And pardon, I beseech you, my rude language, wln 2758 To which the sooner you will be invited, wln 2759 When you shall understand, no way was left me wln 2760 To free you from a present execution, wln 2761 But by my personating that, which never wln 2762 My nature was acquainted with. wln 2763 Donusa I believe you. wln 2764 Paulina You will when you shall understand, I may wln 2765 Receive the honor to be known unto you wln 2766 By a nearer name. And not to wrack you further, wln 2767 The man you please to favor is my brother, wln 2768 No Merchant, Madam, but a Gentleman wln 2769 Of the best rank in Venice. wln 2770 Donusa I rejoice in ’t wln 2771 But what’s this to his freedom? for myself, wln 2772 Were he well off, I were secure. wln 2773 Paulina I have wln 2774 A present means, not plotted by myself, wln 2775 But a religious man, my confessor, wln 2776 That may preserve all, if we had a servant wln 2777 Whose faith we might rely on. wln 2778 Donusa She that’s now wln 2779 Your slave was once mine, had I twenty lives wln 2780 I durst commit them to her trust. wln 2781 Manto. O Madam, img: 45­a sig: L4v wln 2782 I have been false, forgive me. I’ll redeem it wln 2783 By any thing however desperate wln 2784 You please to impose upon me. wln 2785 Paulina Troth these tears wln 2786 I think cannot be counterfeit, I believe her, wln 2787 And if you please will try her. wln 2788 Donusa. At your peril; wln 2789 There is no further danger can look towards me. wln 2790 Paulina This only then, canst thou use means to carry wln 2791 This bake­meat to Vitelli? wln 2792 Manto. With much ease, wln 2793 I am familiar with the guard; beside, wln 2794 It being known it was I that betrayed, wln 2795 My entrance hardly will of them be questioned? wln 2796 Paulina About it then, say that it was sent to him wln 2797 From his Donusa, bid him search the midst of ’t wln 2798 He there shall find a cordial. wln 2799 Manto, What I do wln 2800 Shall speak my care and faith. Exit Manto. wln 2801 Donusa Good fortune with thee. wln 2802 Paulina You cannot eat. wln 2803 Donusa The time we thus abuse wln 2804 We might employ much better. wln 2805 Paulina I am glad wln 2806 To hear this from you. As for you Carazie, wln 2807 If your intents do prosper, make choice whither wln 2808 You’ll steal away with your two Mistresses wln 2809 Or take your fortune. wln 2810 Carazie I’ll be gelded twice first; wln 2811 Hang him that stays behind. wln 2812 Paulina I wait you Madam, wln 2813 Were but my brother off, by the command wln 2814 Of the doting Viceroy there’s no guard dare stay me. wln 2815 And I will safely bring you to the place wln 2816 Where we must expect him. wln 2817 Donusa Heaven be gracious to us. Exeunt. img: 45­b sig: M1r wln 2818 Actus Quintus, Scaena Sexta wln 2819 Enter Vitelli, Aga, and a Guard. wln 2820 Vitelli Paulina to fall off thus? ’tis to me wln 2821 More terrible than death, and like an earthquake wln 2822 Totters this walking building (such I am) wln 2823 And in my sudden ruin would prevent, wln 2824 By choking up at once my vital spirits, wln 2825 This pompous preparation for my death. wln 2826 But I am lost; that good man, good Francisco wln 2827 Delivered me a paper which till now wln 2828 I wanted leisure to peruse. reads the paper. wln 2829 Aga. This Christian wln 2830 Fears not, it seems, the near approaching Sun wln 2831 Whose second rise He never must salute. Enter Manto. wln 2832 1. Guard Who’s that? with the Baked­meat. wln 2833 2. Guard Stand. wln 2834 Aga. Manto. wln 2835 Manto. Here’s the Viceroy’s ring wln 2836 Gives warrant to my entrance, yet you may wln 2837 Partake of any thing I shall deliver; wln 2838 ’Tis but a present to a dying man wln 2839 Sent from the princess that must suffer with him. wln 2840 Aga. Use your own freedom. wln 2841 Manto. I would not disturb wln 2842 This his last contemplation. wln 2843 Vitelli O ’tis well! wln 2844 He has restored all, and I at peace again wln 2845 With my Paulina. wln 2846 Manto. Sir, the sad Donusa wln 2847 Grieved for your sufferings, more than for her own, wln 2848 Knowing the long and tedious pilgrimage wln 2849 You are to take, presents you with this cordial, img: 46­a sig: M1v wln 2850 Which privately she wishes you should taste of, wln 2851 And search the middle part, where you shall find wln 2852 Something that hath the operation, to wln 2853 Make death look lovely. wln 2854 Vitelli. I will not dispute wln 2855 What she commands but serve it. Exit Vitelli. wln 2856 Aga. Prithee Manto wln 2857 How hath the unfortunate Princess spent this night wln 2858 Under her proud new mistress? wln 2859 Manto. With such patience wln 2860 As it o’ercomes the other’s insolence wln 2861 Nay triumphs o’er her pride. My much haste now wln 2862 Commands me hence, but the sad Tragedy past, wln 2863 I’ll give you satisfaction to the full wln 2864 Of all hath passed, and a true character wln 2865 Of the proud Christian’s nature. Exit Manto. wln 2866 Aga. Break the watch up, wln 2867 What should we fear in the midst of our own strengths? wln 2868 ’Tis but the Bashaw’s jealousy. Farewell soldiers. Exeunt. wln 2869 Actus quintus. Scaena Septima. wln 2870 Enter Vitelli, With the baked­meats, Above. wln 2871 Vitelli. There’s something more in this then means to cloy wln 2872 A hungry appetite, which I must discover. wln 2873 She, willed me search the midst. Thus, thus I pierce it: wln 2874 Ha! what is this? a scroll bound up in packthread? wln 2875 What may the mystery be? The Scroll. wln 2876 Son, let down this packthread, at the West window wln 2877 of the Castle. By it you shall draw up a Ladder of wln 2878 ropes, by which you may descend, your dearest Donusa wln 2879 with the rest of your friends, below attend you. Heaven wln 2880 prosper you. Francisco. wimlng :2 84861­b O best of men! he that gives up himself sig: M2r wln 2882 To a true religious friend, leans not upon wln 2883 A false deceiving reed, but boldly builds wln 2884 Upon a rock, which now with joy I find wln 2885 In reverend Francisco. Whose good vows, wln 2886 Labors, and watchings in my hoped­for freedom wln 2887 Appear a pious miracle. I come, wln 2888 I come, good man, with confidence, though the descent wln 2889 Were steep as hell, I know I cannot slide wln 2890 Being called down, by such a faithful guide. Exit Vitelli. wln 2891 Actus Quintus, Scaena Ultima. wln 2892 Asambeg, Mustapha, Janissaries. wln 2893 Asambeg Excuse me Mustapha, though this night to me wln 2894 Appear as tedious as that treble one wln 2895 Was to the world, when Jove on fair Alcmena wln 2896 Begot Alcides. Were you to encounter wln 2897 Those ravishing pleasures, which the slow paced hours wln 2898 (To me they are such) bar me from, you would wln 2899 With your continued wishes strive to imp wln 2900 New feathers to the broken wings of Time wln 2901 And chide the amorous Sun, for too long dalliance wln 2902 In Thetis watery bosom. wln 2903 Mustapha You are too violent wln 2904 In your desires, of which you are yet uncertain wln 2905 Having no more assurance to enjoy ’em wln 2906 Then a weak woman’s promise, on which wisemen wln 2907 Faintly rely. wln 2908 Asambeg Tush she is made of truth wln 2909 And what she says she will do, holds as firm. The wln 2910 As laws in brass that know no change, what’s this? chamber wln 2911 Some new prize brought in sure. Why are thy looks shot off. wln 2912 So ghastly. Villain speak. Enter Aga. wln 2913 Aga. Great sir hear me img: 47­a sig: M2v wln 2914 Then after kill me, we are all betrayed, wln 2915 The false Grimaldi sunk in your disgrace wln 2916 With his confederates, have seized his ship wln 2917 And those that guarded it stowed under hatches wln 2918 With him the condemned Princess, and the Merchant wln 2919 That with a ladder made of ropes descended wln 2920 From the black Tower in which he was enclosed, wln 2921 And your fair mistress, wln 2922 Asambeg Ha! wln 2923 Aga. With all their train wln 2924 And choicest jewels are gone safe aboard, wln 2925 Their sails spread forth and with a fore­gale wln 2926 Leaving our coast, in scorn of all pursuit wln 2927 As a farewell they showed a broadside to us. wln 2928 Asambeg No more. wln 2929 Mustapha Now note your confidence. wln 2930 Asambeg No more. wln 2931 O my credulity! I am too full wln 2932 Of grief, and rage to speak. Dull, heavy fool wln 2933 Worthy of all the tortures that the frown wln 2934 Of thy incensed Master can throw on thee wln 2935 Without one man’s compassion, I will hide wln 2936 This head among the deserts, or some cave wln 2937 Filled with my shame and me, where I alone wln 2938 May die without a partner in my moan. wln 2939 Exeunt.

wimlng :2 94470­b FINIS. sig: [N/A] Textual Notes

1. 23 (2­b) : The regularized reading in is supplied for the original [◇]. 2. 24 (2­b) : The regularized reading inter is supplied for the original in[***]. 3. 25 (2­b) : The regularized reading Lord is supplied for the original Lo[**]. 4. 25 (2­b) : The regularized reading in is supplied for the original [◇]. 5. 520 (12­b) : The regularized reading incredulous is amended from the original incredculous. 6. 937 (18­b) : The regularized reading breach is supplied for the original breac[*]. 7. 994 (19­b) : Modern edition attributes this speach to the boat Master; this solves problem of Mustapha talking twice in a row and saying "us" in relation to the pirates. 8. 996 (19­b) : Ambiguous speech prefix, likely Mustapha, but possibly the Master. 9. 1305 (24­a) : The regularized reading Grimaldi is supplied for the original G[*]i.. 10. 2217 (37­a) : The regularized reading Whom is supplied for the original Wh[*]m.