You will be quiet men, we may allow you Brought under their command; who, grown unSome lodgings in our garrets or out-houses :

useful, Your great looks cannot carry it.

Are less esteemed than beasts.-This you

have Cimb. The truth is,

practised, We've been bold with your wives, toyed with your Practised on us with rigour; this hath forced us daughters

To shake our heavy yokes off; and, if redress Leost. O my prophetic soul?

Of these just grievances be not granted us, Grac. Rifled your chests,

We'll right ourselves, and by strong hand defend Been busy with your wardrobes.

What we are now possessed of. Timag. Can we endure this!

Grac. And not leave Leost. O! my Cleora?

One house unfired. Grac. A caudle for the gentleman!

Cimb. Or throat uncut of those
He'll die of the pip else.

We have in our power,
Timog. Scorned too ! Are you turned stone? Pol. Nor will we fall alone;
Hold parley with our bondmen? Force our en- You shall buy us dearly.
trance,

Timag. O the gods !
Then, villains, expect-

Unheard of insolence ? Timol. Hold ! you wear men's shapes,

Timol. What are your demands ? And it, like men, you've reason, shew a cause Pis. A general pardon, first, for all offences That leads you to this desperate course, which Committed in your absence : Liberty must end

To all such as desire to make return In your destruction.

Into their countries; and to those that stay, Grac. That, as please the fates ;

A competence of land freely allotted But we vouchsafe.-Speak, captain.

To each man's proper use; no lord acknowledged; Timag. Hell and furies!

Lastly, with your consent, to chuse them wives Arch. Bayed by our own curs !

Out of

your

families. Cimb. Take heed you be not worried.

Timag. Let the city sink first. Pol. We are sharp set.

Leost. And ruin seize on all, ere we subscribe Cimb. And sudden.

To such conditions. Pis. Briefly thus then,

Arch. Carthage, though victorious,
Since I must speak for all.—Your tyranny

Could not have forced more from us.
Drew us from our obedience. Hlappy those times Leost. Scale the wall !
When lords were styled fathers of families, Capitulate after.
And not imperious masters! when they num- Timol. He that wins the top first,
bered

Shall wear a mural wreath.

[Ereunt. Their servants almost equal with their sons, Pis. Each to his place. [Flourish and arms. Or one degree beneath them; when their labours Or death or victory.—Charge them home, and Were cherished and rewarded, and a period

fear not. Set to their sufferings; when they did not press Their duties or their wills beyond the power

Enter TIMOLEON, ARCHIDAMUS, and Senators. And strength of their performance; all things Timol. We wrong ourselves, and we are justly ordered

punished, With such decorum, as wise law-makers, To deal with bondmen, as if we encountered From each well-governed private house, derived An equal enemy. The perfect model of a commonwealth.

Arch. They fight like devils; Humanity then lodged in the hearts of men, And run upon our swords, as if their breasts And thankful masters carefully provided Were proof beyond their armour. For creatures wanting reason. The noble horse, That in his fiery youth from his wide nostrils

Enter LEOSTHENES and TIMAGORAS. Neighed courage to his rider, and broke through Timag. Make a firm stand.Groves of opposed pikes, bearing his lord The slaves, not satisfied they've beat us off, Safe to triumphant victory, old or wounded, Prepare to sally forth, Was set at liberty, and freed from service. Timol. They are wild beasts, The Athenian mules, that from the quarry drew And to be tamed by policy.--Each man take Marble, hewed for the temples of the gods, A tough whip in his hand, such as you used The great work ended, were dismissed, and fed To punish them with as masters : In your looks At the public cost; nay, faithful dogs have found Carry severity and awe; 'twill frighten thein Their sepulchres; but man, to man more cruel, More than your weapons : Savage lions fly from Appoints no end to the sufferings of his slave; The sight of fire; and these that have forgot Snoe pride stepped in and riot, and overturned That duty you ne'er taught them with your swords, This goodly frame of concord, teaching masters When, unexpected, they behold those terrors To glory in the abuse of such as are

Advanced aloft, that they were made to shake at,

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'Twill force them to remember what they are, Drinking the bitter water of afflictions, And stoop to due obedience.

Made loathsome too by our continued fears,

Comfort's a stranger to us. Enter CIMBRIO, GRACULO, ond other Slaves.

Leost. Fears? Your sufferings, Arch. Here they come.

For which I am so overgone with grief, Cimb. Leave not a man alive: A wound is but I dare not ask, without compassionate tears, a flea-biting,

The villain's name, that robbed thee of thy hoTo what we suffered being slaves.

nour; Grac. O, my heart !

For being trained up in chastity's cold school, Cimbrio, what do we see? the whip! our masters! And taught by such a mistress as Cleora, Timag. Dare you rebel, slaves !

'Twere impious in me to think Timandra [Senators shake their whips, and they throw Fell with her own consent. awuy their weapons, and run off.

Timan. How mean you? Fell, sir ! Cimb. Mercy! mercy? where

I understand you not. Shall we hide us from their fury !

Leost. I would thou did'st not, Grac. Fly! they follow.

Or that I could not read upon thy face, Oh! we shall be tormented.

In blushing characters, the story of Timol. Enter with them,

Libidinous rape.--Confess it, for you stand not But yet forbear to kill them. Still remember Accountable for a sin, against whose strength They are part of your wealth; and being disarmed, Your overmatched innocence could make no reThere is no danger.

sitance, Arch. Let us first deliver

Under which odds I know Cleora fell too, Such as they have in fetters, and at leisure Heaven's help in vain invoked !-the amazed sun, Determine of their punishment.

Hiding his face behind a mask of clouds, Leost. Friend, to you

Not daring to look on it.-In her sufferings I leave the disposition of what's mine :

All sorrow's comprehended.—What Timandra, I cannot think I am safe without your sister. Or the city, has endured, her loss considered, She's only worth my thought: and till I see Deserves not to be named. What she has suffered I am on the rack,

Timan. Pray you, do not bring, sir, And furies my tormentors.

(Ereunt. In the chimeras of your jealous fears,

New monsters to altright us.
SCENE III.

Leost. 0 Timandra,

That I had faith enough but to believe thee! Enter PISANDEE and TIMANDRA.

I should receive it with a joy beyond Pis. I know I am pursued; nor would I fly, Assurance of Elysian shades hereafter, Although the ports were open, and a convoy Or all the blessings in this life a mother Ready to bring me off—The baseness of Could wish her children crowned with.—But I These villains, from the pride of all my hopes, Has thrown me to the bottomless abyss Credit impossibilities; yet I strive Of horror and despair. Had they stood firm, To find out that, whose knowledge is a curse, I could have bought Cleora's free consent And ignorance a blessing.–Come, discover With the safety of her father's life and brother's; What kind of look he had that forced thy lady, And forced Leosthenes to quit his claim, (Thy ravisher I will enquire at leisure) And kneel a suitor to me.

That when hereafter I behold a stranger Timan. You must not think

But near him in aspect, I may conclude What might have been, but what must now be (Though men and angels should proclaim him hopractised,

nest) And suddenly resolve.

Ile is a hell-bred villain. Pis. All my poor fortunes

Timan. You are unworthy Are at the stake, and I must run the hazard. To know she is preserved, preserved untainted. Unseen, convey ine to Cleora’s chamber; Sorrow (but ill bestowed) hath only made For, in her sight, if it were possible,

A rape upon her comforts in your absence. I would be apprehended.- Do not enquire

[Erit, and returns with Cleora. The reason why, but help me.

Come forth, dear madam,
Timan. Make haste-One knocks.

Lcost. Ha !
[Erit Pisander. Timan. Nay, she deserves

The bending of your heart, that to content you,
Enter LEOSTIIENES.

Ilas kept a vow, the breach of which a vestal Jove turn all to the+best!-You are welcome, sir. Though the infringing it had called upon her. Lcost. Thou gi'est it in a heavy tone.

A living funeral) must of force have shrunk at. Timan. Alas! sir,

No danger could compel her to dispense with We have so long ted on the bread of sorrow, Her cruel penance; though hot lust came armed

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To seize upon her; when one look or accent My utmost fortunes to him—but if noble,
Might have redeemed her.

In thankful duty study how to serve him :
Leost. Might? O do not shew me

Or, if of higher rank, erect him altars,
A beam of comfort, and straight take it from me. And as a god adore him.
- The means by which she was freed ?-Speak, Cleora. If that goodness
O speak quickly!

And noble temperance, the queen of virtues, Each minute of delay's an age of torment: Bridling rebellious passions (to whose sway 0! speak, Timandra!

Such as have conquered nations have lived slaves) Timan. Free her from the oath;

Did ever wing great minds to fly to heaven; Herself can best deliver it. (Takes off the scarf. He, that preserved mine honour, may hope boldlys Leost. O blest ottice !

To fill a seat among the gods, and shake off Never did galley-slave shake off his chains, Our frail corruption. Or look on his redemption from the oar,

Leost. Forward. With such true feeling of delight as now

Cleora. Or if ever
I find myself possessed of.—Now I behold The powers above did mask in human shapes,
True light indeed : For, since these fairest stars To teach mortality, not by cold precepts
(Covered with clouds of your determinate will) Forgot as soon as told, but by examples
Denied their influence to my optic sense,

To imitate their pureness, and draw near
The splendor of the sun appeared to me To their celestial natures--I believe
But as some little glimpse of his bright beams He's more than man.
Coovered into a dungeon, to remember

Leost. You do describe a wonder.
The dark inhabitants there how much they wanted. Cleora. Which will increase; when you shall the
Open these long-shut lips, and strike mine ears

derstand With music more harmonious than the spheres Ile was a lover. Yield in their heavenly motions: And, if ever Leost. Not yours, lady? A true submission for a crime acknowledged Cleora. Yes; May find a gracious hearing, teach your tongue, Loved me, Leosthenes; nay more, so doted, In the first sweet articulate sounds it utters, (If e'er affections scorning gross desires To ugn my wished-for pardon.

May without wrong be styled so) that he durst not Cleora. I forgive vou.

With an immodest syllable or look, Leos!. How greedily I receive this ! Stay, best In fear it might take from me, whom he made lady,

The object of his better part, discover And let me by degrees ascend the height

I was the saint he sued to. Of human happiness! All at once delivered, Leost. A rare temper! The torrent of my joys will overwhelm me ;- Cleora. I cannot speak it to the worth : All praise So, now a little more; and pray excuse me,

I can bestow upon it, will appear If, like a wanton epicure, I desire

Envious detraction. Not to rack you further, The pleasant taste these cares of comfort yield Yet make the miracle full; though, of all men, me,

He hated you, Leosthenes, as his rival ; Should not too soon be swallowed. Have you not So high yet prized he my content, that, knowing (Be your unspotted truth I do conjure you You were a man I favoured, he disdained not To answer truly) suffered in your honour, Against himself to serve you. (By force, I mean, for in your will I free you) Leost. You con eal still Since I lett Syracusa ?

To owner of these excellencies. Cleora. I restore

Cleora. 'Tis Marullo, This kiss, (so help me, goodness !) which I bor- My father's bondman. rowed

Leost. Ha, ha, ha! When I last saw you.

Cleora. Why do you laugh? Leosf. Miracle of virtue!

Leost. To hear the labouring mountain of your One pause morc, I beseech you :-I am like

praise
A man, whose vital spirit, consumed and wasted Delivered of a mouse.
With a long and tedious fever, unto whom

Cleora. The man deserves not
Too much of a strong cordial at once taken, This scorn, I do assure you.
Brings death, and not restores him. Yet I can- Leost. Do you call
not

What was his duty merit?
Fix here; but must enquire the man to whom Cleora. Yes, and place it
I stand indebted for a benefit,

As high in my esteem, as all the honours Which to requite at full, though in this hand Descended from your ancestors, or the glory, I grasped all scepters the world's empire bows to, which you may call your own, got in this action, Would leave me a poor bankrupt.-Name him, In which, I must confess, you have done nobly, lady;

And, I would add, as I desired ;-but that If of a mean estate, I'll gladly part with I fear 'twould make you proud.

my heart,

Leost. Why, lady, can you

They are all under guard; their fangs pared off: Be won to give allowance that your slave The wounds their insolence gave you, to be cured Should dare to love you?

With the balm of your revenge.
Cleora. The imınortal gods

Asot. And shall I be
Accept the meanest altars that are raised The thing I was born, my lord?
By pure devotion; and sometimes prefer

Timag. The same wise thing-
An ounce of frankincense, honey or milk, 'Slight, what a beast they have made thee!
Before whole hecatombs, or Sabæan gums,

Africk never Offered in ostentation.- Are you sick (Aside. Produced the like. Of your old disease? I'll fit you.

Asot. I think so.-Nor the land Leost. You seem moved.

Where apes and monkeys grow, like crabs and Cleora. Zealous, I grant, in the defence of walnuts virtue.

On the same tree. Not all the catalogue Why, good Leosthenes, though I endured Of conjurers or wise women, bound together, A penance for your sake above example, Could have so soon transformed me, as my rascal I have not so far sold myself, I take it,

Did with his whip; Not in outside only,
To be at your devotion, but I may

But in my own belief, I thought myself
Cherish desert in others, where I find it. As perfect a baboon-
How would you tyrannize, if you stood possessed Timag. An ass thou wert ever.
of

Asot. And would have given one leg, with all
That, which is only yours in expectation,
That now prescribe such hard conditions to me? For good security to have been a man
Leost. One kiss, and I am silenced.

After three lives, or one and twenty years, Cleora. I vouchsafe it;

Though I had died on crutches. Yet, I must tell you 'tis a favour that

Cleon. Never varlets Marullo, when I was his, not mine own, So triumphed o'er an old fat man I was famished. Durst not presume to ask: No; when the city Timag. Indeed you are fallen away. Bowed humbly to licentious rapes and lust, Asot. Three years of feeding And when I was, of men and gods forsaken, On cullises and jelly, though his cooks Delivered to his power, he did not press me Lard all he eats with marrow, or his doctors To grace him with one look or syllable,

Pour in his mouth restoratives as he sleeps, Or urged the dispensation of an oath,

Will not recover him. Made for your satisfaction—The poor wretch Timag. How now,

friend? Having related only his own sufferings,

Looks our Cleora lovely? And kissed my hand, which I could not deny him, Enter Leosthenes, and Dipuilus, with a Defending me from others, never since Solicited my favours.

guard. Leost. Pray you end ;

Leost. In my thoughts, sir. The story does not please me.

Timog. But why this guard? Cleora. Well, take heed

Diph. It is Timoleon's pleasure ; Of doubts and fears ;--for know, Leosthenes, The slaves have been examined, and confess, A greater injury cannot be offered

Their riot took beginning from your house; To innocent chastity than unjust suspicion. And the first mover of them to rebellion, I love Marullo's fair mind, not his person; Your slave Marullo. Let that secure you. And I here command you, Leost. Ha! I more than fearIf I have any power in you, to stand

Timag. They may search boldly.
Between him and all punishment, and oppose

Enter TIMANDRA.
His temperance to his folly; if you fail-
No more ; I will not threaten.

[Erit.

Timan. You are unmannered grooms Leost. What a bridge

To pry into my lady's private lodgings ; Of glass I walk upon, over a river

There's no Marullos there. Of certain ruin! Mine own weighty fears

Enter DIPHILUS with PISANDER. Cracking what should support me :-And those helps,

Timag. Now I suspect too; Which confidence yields to others, are from me Where found you him? Ravished by doubts and wilful jealousy. [Erit. Diph. Close hid in your sister's chamber. SCENE IV.

Timag. Is that the villain's sanctuary?

Leost. This confirms Enter TimagoRAS, Cleon, Asotus, CoRisca, All she delivered, false. and OLYMPIA.

Timag. But that I scorn Cleon. But are you sure we're safe?

To rust my sword in thy slavish blood, Timag. You nced not fear :

Thou now wert dead,

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Pis. He's more a slave than fortune
Or misery can make me, that insults
Upon unweaponed innocence.
Timag. Prate, you dog!

Pis. Curs snap at lions in the toil, whose lo oks
Frighted them, being free.

Timag. As a wild beast,
Drive him before you.

Pis. O divine Cíeora!
Leost. Darest thou presume to name her?

Pis. Yes, and love her :
And may say have deserved her.

Timag. Stop his mouth:
Load him with irons too.

(Exit guard with Pisand. Cleon. I am deadly sick

:

In all the spacious rooms of my vexed heart,
But is filled with Cleora : and the rape
She has done upon her honour, with my wrong,
The heavy burthen of my sorrow's song.

[Ereunt.

ACT V.

:

SCENE I.

His love is unrewarded. I confess,

Both have deserved me; yet of force I must be Enter ARCHIDAMUS and CleoRA.

Unjust to one-such is my destiny.
Arch. Thou art thine own disposer. Were his

Enter TIMANDRA.
honours
And glories centupled, (as I must confess, How now? whence Aow these tears?
Leosthenes is most worthy) yet I will not,

Timan. I have met, madam,
However I may counsel, force affection.

An object of such cruelty, as would force Cleora. It needs not, sir; I prize him to his A savage to compassion. worth,

Cleora. Speak'! What is it? Nay, love him truly; yet would not live slaved Timan. Men pity beasts of rapine, if overTo his jealous humours : since, by the hopes of matched, heaven,

Though baited for their pleasure : but these monAs I am free from violence, in a thought

sters, I am not guilty.

Upon a man that can make no resistance, Arch. 'Tis believed, Cleora ;

Are senseless in their tyranny. Let it be granted, And much the rather (our great gods be praised Marullo is a slave; he is still a man; for it),

A capital offender; yet in justice In that I find, beyond my hopes, no sign Not to be tortured, till the judge pronounce Of riot in my house, but all things ordered

His punishment. As if I had been present.

Cleora. Where is he? Cleora. May that move you

Timan. Dragged to prison To pity poor Marullo.

With more than barbarous violence; spurnied and Arch. 'Tis my purpose

spit on To do him all the good I can, Cleora :

By the insulting officers, his hands But this offence, being against the state, Pinioned behind his back; loaden with fetters; Must have a public trial. In the mean time, Yet, with a saint-like patience, he still offers Be careful of yourself, and stand engaged His face to their rude buffets. No further to Leosthenes, than you may,

Cleora. O my grieved soul ! Come off with honour : for, being once his wife, By whose command ? You are no more your own, nor mine, but must Timan. It seems, my lord your brother, Resolve to serve and suffer his commands, For he is a looker on : and it takes from And not dispute them'; ere it be too late, Honoured Leosthenes to suffer it, Consider it duly. I must to the senate. For his respects to you, whose name in vain

[Exit Arch. The grieved wretch loudly calls on. Cleora. I am much distracted; in Leosthenes Cleora. By Diana, I can find nothing justly to accuse,

'Tis base in both, and to their teeth I will tell But this excess of love, which I have studied

them To cure with more than common means; yet still That I am wronged in it. It grows upon him. And, if I may call

Timan. What will you do?

[As going forth. His sufferings merit, I stand bound to think on

Cleora. In person Marullo's dangers; though I save his life, Visit and comfort him.

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