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Me thinks your power might have been greater far Over Achmetes, one addict to you By no less bound of duty, then the son Is to the father: Weel stay her leisure, Thanks gracious Prince, Your gentle pardon for my boldness Sir. Then I return you thanks Fortune hath wheeled me up above the stars, Under a Monarch I'll not fell my Hope's: Bold Selymus I'll second thy designs, And thou shalt Queen my daughter, that being done With mine own splendour I'll eclipse the Sun. I doubt as much. Young Selymus ha wronged our loyalty In his so slack proceedings; we were rash And indiscreetly-forward in consent, When we joined on to raise his government. Where? sweet Isaac do not tell him, That we were sending forth faith's latest breath. I shall adore him whilst I breath for this. Whom speak you General? And your salute, impardonably bold. This night at twelve of the clock? Experience speaks it true. Sweet doings. Urge him to no confession, till the rack Force from his closest thought unwilling truth, He shall be doomed for this notorious fact Unto continual pains, Hunger, oppression, want and slavery. Noble Prince adieu, Since thy frank deeds have printed in our hearts So true a pattern of thee, we will feed Our contemplation with thy memory. When thou art really departed, thus A better partly of thee shall stay with us. Bear this to Selymus with thy best care. Would I were fairly rid of all these cares, I looked for that; and therefore first shrank back, When Bajazet made choice of one to send On such a thankless errand as that was. Upon my life, the body of the slain Ambassador. And Sely S with him. What means this? Crowns make not Kings, nor can that glittering show Perfect thine honour, take another sign Of thy Imperial dignity, it's thine. That adds a Godlike grace unto thy brow, This binds endue honour, that prostrates every knee Before thy throne, then live, and may that arm Secure thy subjects from all foreign harm. When my weak strength, or wealth shall stretch so far, As to continue— And we the other. I think the devils fought for Bajazet And all the infernal hags; how could he else With a confused army, and half slain, Break the well-ordered ranks of a strong foe? We are quite dashed—undone. See thou prove faithful.
Plot summary
Plot — The Raging Turk, or Bajazet the Second
Bajazeth’s youngest son Corcutus has _ himself crowned Emperor, but quickly repents and resigns the crown to his father. Understanding Bajazeth to have promised him the succession, he retires to academic life. Bajazeth’s younger brother Zemes also covets the crown and plots with the King of Armenia to seize it. The Armenian army is mobilized, but routed by the Turks under Achmetes. In battle, Achmetes encounters Zemes and fights him; Zemes pretends to have been killed, then flees to Rome, where he takes refuge with Pope Alexander. Achmetes divorces his wife for adultery and so offends her father, the Pasha Isaac. Isaac tells Bajazeth that Achmetes negligently allowed Zemes to escape and then boasted of killing him. At a banquet, Bajazeth gives Achmetes a robe, which turns out to be black. In Turkish practice, giving a black robe signifies that the recipient is condemned to death without recourse to law, but Achmetes is rescued by the janissaries, who threaten Bajazeth and force him to rescind the sentence. Bajazeth fetches home the Turkish army to counter Achmetes’ control of the janissaries, and buys time by proposing a war with Rome for harbouring Zemes. In fact, he has written asking the Pope to kill Zemes, and Alexander has agreed to do so at a convenient time; he is spared the labour when Zemes drops dead of guilt. Meanwhile Bajazeth’s plans for war are opposed by two of his sons; he has them strangled and stabs Achmetes himself, but soon regrets the murders. Bajazeth’s son Selimus is ambitious and buys the pashas’ support for his plans to depose Bajazeth; he then leaves the court and goes to Tartary. Tired of the cares of state and the danger of assassination, Bajazeth declares his intention to abdicate in favour of one of his sons, and seeks the people’s opinion as to which they prefer. Privately he intends to give the crown to his second son, Achomates, and plots to dispose of the rivals: Mahomates must be murdered and Selimus killed in battle; Corcutus, ensconced in academe, is considered to be of no account. With Mahomates duly assassinated, Bajazeth proclaims Achomates his successor, but the people declare they will have no emperor but Bajazeth himself. With the ===== PAGE 21 ===== 1617 help of the King of Tartary, Selimus musters troops, declaring his objective to be the conquest of Hungary. His real intention is to attack Bajazeth. Father and son confront one another with their armies; Bajazeth is victorious, but Selimus regroups. Upon…