My murther yet were less impiety. Must he be kill'd again that gave thee breath? Alaham. Leave off this mask; deceit is never wise; Calica. O twofold scorn! God be reveng'd for me. Yet since my father is destroy'd by thee, Add still more scorn, it sorrow multiplies. Alaham. Passions are learn'd, not born within the heart, That method keep: Order is quiet's art. Tell where he is: for look what love conceals, Pain out of nature's labyrinths reveals. Calica. This is reward which thou dost threaten me If terror thou wilt threaten, promise joys Alaham. Smart cools these boiling styles of vanity. The way is easy where the guide is love. Thy glorious pride of this unglorious deed Doth mischief ripe, and therefore falling, show. Alaham. Bodies have place, and blindness must be led Graves be the thrones of kings when they be dead. Calica. He was (unhappy) cause that thou art now; Thou art, ah wicked! cause that he is not, Alaham. Well, Sirs, go seek the dark and secret caves, The holy temples, sanctified cells, All parts wherein a living corpse may dwell. Calica. Seek him amongst the dead, you placed him there: Yet lose no pains, good souls, go not to hell; And, but to heaven, you may go everywhere. Guilty, with you, of his blood let me be, If any more I of my father know, Than that he is where you would have him go. Alaham. Tear up the vaults. Behold her agonies! Sorrow subtracts, and multiplies, the spirits; Care, and desire, do under anguish cease; Doubt curious is, affecting piety; Woe loves itself; fear from itself would fly. Do not these trembling motions witness bear, That all these protestations be of fear ? Calica. If aught be quick in me, move it with scorn ; Alaham. Confess in time. Revenge is merciless. Are vain in things impossible to do. Alaham. Tell yet where thou thy father last did see. First in perpetual night thou madʼst him go; Alaham. Bear her away: devise; add to the rack Calica. The flattering glass of power is others' pain. If sense there be with thee of hate, or love ; Accept these pains, whereof you feel no smart. King. What sound is this of Cælica's distress? Break me; I am the prison of thy thought: Time rusteth malice; rust wounds cruelly. King. Flatter thy wickedness; adorn thy rage; To wear a crown, tear up thy father's age. Kill not thy sister: it is lack of wit To do an ill that brings no good with it. Alaham. Go, lead them hence. Prepare the funeral. Hasten the sacrifice and pomp of woe. Where she did hide him, thither let them go. A Nuntius (or Messenger) relates to Alaham the manner of his Father's, Brother's, and Sister's deaths; and the popular discontents which followed. Alaham by the sudden working of Remorse is distracted, and imagines that he sees their Ghosts. ALAHAM. NUNTIUS. Nuntius. The first which burnt, as Cain* his next of kin, In blood your brother, and your prince in state, Drew wonder from men's hearts, brought horror in. This innocent, this soul too meek for sin, Yet made for others to do harm withal, With his self-pity tears drew tears from us; * The execution, to make it plausible to the people, is colored with the pretext, that the being burnt is a voluntary sacrifice of themselves by the victims at the funeral of Cain a bashaw and relative. His blood compassion had: his wrong stirr'd hate : Repiningly he goes unto his end : Strange visions rise; strange furies haunt the flame; People cry out, Echo repeats, his name. These words he spake, even breathing out his breath: Unhappy weakness! never innocent! "If in a crown, yet but an instrument. "People! observe; this fact may make you see, These words he spake. "Behold one that hath lost That, under worst, will hope for better state.' Grief roars aloud. Your sister yet remain'd; These mild words spake with looks to heaven bent. "O God! "Tis thou that suff'rest here, not we: "Wrong doth but like itself in working thus: "At thy will, Lord! revenge thyself, not us.” The fire straight upward bears the souls in breath : With shapes and figures like to that of Death, A voice cries out; CC revenge and liberty, "Princes, take heed; your glory is your care; Alaham. What change is this, that now I feel within ? Is it disease that works this fall of spirits? What thoughts be these that do my entrails tear? MUSTAPHA: A TRAGEDY. BY FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE. Rossa, Wife to Solyman, the Turkish Emperor, persuades her Husband, that Mustapha, his Son by a former Marriage, and Heir to his Crown, seeks his life: that she may make way, by the death of Mustapha, for the advancement of her own children, Zanger and Camena. Camena, the virtuous Daughter of Rossa, defends the Innocence of Mustapha, in a Conference which she holds with the Emperor. CAMENA. SOLYMAN. Cam. They that from youth do suck at fortune's breast And nurse their empty hearts with seeking higher, Like dropsy-fed, their thirst doth never rest; For still, by getting, they beget desire : Till thoughts, like wood, while they maintain the flame Of high desires, grow ashes in the same. But virtue! those that can behold thy beauties, |