BAJAZETH

Princess our ardor is already fired, Yet with no violent temerity; Such as might fear it's short and soon decaying Thy virtue seems so to exceed thy Sex, And wisdom so far to outpace thy years, That, surely (Ptincesse) soon maturity, Argues in them, hidden Divinity. Expected ( Hymen ) here hath bound our hands, And hearts, with everlasting ligaments Fortunate both we are, and have one bliss The want of which for ever does infect, With anxious cares the sweets of marriage Beds: Our Parents benediction and consent, They are the truest Hymen's, and should be To children the best marriage Deity. Thus then attended with such sacred charms Our last day of content shall never come; Till we must partly by unresisted doom, With a pleased error we will age beguile, All stars on us, and aequal yoke must smile. Oh easy powers, to give's all at first, But in their lose they make us most accursed. Why (Lords) we have a Brother Who, as in the same blood he tocke a share, So let him bear his partly in Government: Oh happy Bajazet that he was born To be a King when thou was Counseller. Call in our Brother cup, B other, I could have wished we might have met At time S of better greeting! Our father hath Bequeathed to the Grave these ashes, to us his State. No have we leisure (yet) to mourn for him Broth , you k owe our state hath made a Law, That, he that sits in a Majestic Chair, Must not endure the next succeeding heir. Why (Lords!) is Am rath so light a weight? Is this the Trunk oth' TO rkish Emperor? O what a heap of thoughts are come to nought What a light weight is he unto six men Who durst stand under Ossa, and sustain it: Brother you must not now stand to upbraid; They which do fear the vulgars murmuring tongue, Must also fear th'authority of a King; For rulers mu to esteem it happiness That with their government they can hate suppress: They with too faint a hand the Sceptres sway, Who regard love, or what the people say: To Kindred we must quite put off respect, When it's so near it may our Crown affect.