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Since Faustam wills, and fates do so command, Iphigina will never it withstand. O hapless hap, o dire and cruel fate! What injury hath Amuracke my sire Done to the Gods, which now I know are wrath? Although unjustly and without a cause. For well I wot, not any other king Which now does live, or since the world begun Did sway a sceptre, had a greater care To please the Gods, then mighty Amuracke. And for to quite our father's great good will, Seek they thu basely all his fame to spill. How now Alphonsus, you which never yet Could meet your equal in the feats of arms, How haps it now that in such sudden sort You fly the presence of a silly maid? What have you found mine arm of such a force, As that you think your body ouerweake For to withstand the fury of my blows? Or do you else disdain to fight with me: For staining of your high nobility? I thought as much when first I came to wars, Your noble acts were fitter to be writ Within the Tables of dame Venus sun, Then in God Mars his warlike registers. When as your Lords are hacking helm es abroad, And make their spears to shiver in the air, Your mind is busied in found Cupid's toys. Come on I faith, isle teach you for to know We came to fight, and not to love I trow. Alphonsus bride? nay villain do not think That fame or riches can so rule my thoughts, As for to make me love and fancy him Whom I do hate, and in such sort despise, As if my death could bring to pass his baine: I would not long from Pluto's port remain. I'll rather die then ever that shall hap. The Gods forbid that ere I should gainsay That which Medea bids me to obey. Thanks mighty Prince, no curioser isle be, Then does become a maid of my degree. No worthy sir, I have not it forgotten, But Cupid cannot enter in the breast, Where Mars before had took possession: That was no time to talk of Venus games, When all our fellows were pressed in the wars. I if the high Alphonsus could vouchsafe To entertain me as his wedded spouse. Pardon deer Lord, the world goes very hard, When women kind are forced for to woo, If that your son had loved me so well, Why did he not inform me of the same? So shall we soon eschew Caribdis lake, And headlong fallen to Sulla's greedy gulf, I vowed before, and now do vow again: Before I wed Alphonsus, I'll be slain.
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.