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Though very loath to let thee so depart, Farewell Medea, easer of my heart. No toy Medea, tickl worser Fausta's head, Nor foolish fancy led me to these grou S, But nest business eggs my tre 'ing steps, To pass all dangers what so ere they be. I banished am Medea, I which erst Was Empress over all the triple world, Am banished now from palace and from pomp, But if the gods be fauou ers to me, Ere twenty days, I will revenged be. The cause ask you, a simple cause God woe : It neither treason, nor yet felony, But for because I blamed his foolishness. What folly quoth you? such as never yet Was herd or seen, since Phœbus first gan shine, You know how he was gathering in all haste, His men at arms, to set upon the troop Of proud Alphonsus, yea you well do know, How you and I did do the best we could, To make him show us in his drowsy dream, What afterwards should happen in his wars: Much talk he had, which now I have forgotten. But at the length, this surely was decreed, How that Alphonsus and Iphigina Should be conjoined in Juno's sacred rites, Which when I herd, as one that did despise, That such a traitor should be son to me, I did rebuke my husband Amuracke. And since my words could take no better place, My sword with help of all Amazons, Shall make him soon repent his foolishness. The gods forbid, that ere it happen so. And is there then no remedy for it? As though and oath can bridle so my mind, As that I worser re not break a thousand oaths, For to eschew the danger imminent. Speak good Medea, tell that way to me, And I will do it, what so ere it be. Iphigina, she say nought but truth, Fates must be followed in their joust decrees: And therefore setting all delays aside, Come let us weened unto Amazon, And gather up our forces out of hand. How so king Crocon, dost thou speak in jest? To prove if Faustam would lament his death? Or else hath any thing happened him amiss? Speak quickly Crocon what the cause might be, That thou dost utter forth these words to me? Iphigina, leave off these woeful tunes, It is not words can cure and ease this wound: But warlike swords, not tears, but sturdy spears: High Amuracke is prisoner to our foes. What then? think you that our Amazons Joined with the forces of the Turkish troop, Are not sufficient for to set him free? Yes daughter yes, I mean not for to sleep, Until he is free, or we him company keep. March on my mates. No worthy wight, first Faustam means to die, Before Alphonsus she will contrary. O sacred Prince, if that the salt-brine tears, Distilling down poor Faustas withered cheeks, Faustam does say, the Gods have been her friends To let her live to see Iphigina Bestowed so unto her hearts content.
Plot summary
Plot — Alphonsus, King of Aragon
Twenty years before the action, Alphonsus’ branch of the royal family of Aragon was dispossessed of the crown through the Duke of Milan’s treachery, and banished, along with their supporters. Now, a generation later, the usurping King is making war on Naples. Alphonsus poses as a common soldier and is recruited to King Belinus’ defending army; he makes the condition that he will unconditionally own anything he wins by fighting. In battle he kills the usurping King of Aragon, and King Belinus grudgingly gives him the crown; he then claims sovereignty over Naples. After rescuing a follower from beheading by Belinus, he conquers Italy and crowns his followers. Albinius, his oldest ally, is made King of Aragon in his place, while he pursues Belinus, who has fled to the court of the Great Turk Amurack. Amurack promises Belinus military help, and summons armies from throughout his wide dominions. Encouraged by the anxious Empress Fausta, the enchantress Medea seeks supernatural information about the coming wars, and it comes in a vision to the sleeping Amurack: defeat, captivity, then release through Alphonsus’ love for his daughter Iphigina, and the expulsion of paganism. When Fausta speaks against this, she and Iphigina are banished from the court; encouraged by Medea to accept the inevitable, they go to gather their Amazon troops. The prophecy is also overheard by the god Muhammad, who withdraws his support from Amurack, but encourages his pagan allies to attack Alphonsus; when they do, they are killed in battle. Then Amurack himself gives battle, and is captured. Alphonsus woos Iphigina on the battlefield, but is scornfully rejected. Later, in defeat, she offers herself to save her father’s life, and he rejects her in turn. Alphonsus’ father, having met the dispossessed Duke of Milan, learned of Alphonsus’ success, and killed his old enemy, presents himself at court. He encourages his son to accept Iphigina after all and brokers a peace, reluctantly accepted by Amurack, which fulfils the prophecy; Alphonsus returns to Naples as heir apparent to the Turkish Empire.