MEDEA

Yes Calchas yes, your rest does now approach Medea means to trouble thee no more, When as thou hast fulfilled her mind this once. Go get thee hence to Pluto back again, And there inquire of the Destinies, How Amurack shall speed in these his wars: P use their books, and mark what is decreed By Jove himself, and all his fellow Gods: And when thou knowest the certainty thereof, By fleshless visions show it presently To Amuracke, in pain of penalty. Now peerless Princes I must needs be gone, My hast buns esse calls me from this place. There rests nought, but that you bear in mind, What Amuracke in this his fit does say. For mark what dreaming madam he does prate: Assure your self, that that shall be his fate. Faustam, what means this sudden flight of yours? Why do you leave your husbands princely Court, And all alone pass through these thickest groves, More fit to harbour brutish savage beasts, Then to receive so high a Queen as you? Although your credit would not stay your steps, From bending them into these daikish dens, Yet should the danger which is imminent, To every one which passes by these paths, Keep you at home with faith e Iphigina. What fool h toy hath tickled you to this? I greatly fear some hap hath hit amiss. I thought as much, when first from thickest leaves, I saw you trudging in such posting pace. But to the purpose, what may be the cause, Of this strnnge and sudden banishment? I hear you say so, but I greatly fear, Ere that your tale be brought unto and end, Yowl prove your self the author of the same: But pray be brief, what folly did your spouse? And how will you revenge your wrong on him? This is the cause then of your banishment, And now you go unto Amazon, To gather all your may dens in array, To set upon the migh j Amuracke? O foolish Queen, what meant you by this talk? Those pra king speeches have undone you all. Do you disdain to have that migh j Prince, I mean Alphonsus, counted for your son? I tell you Faustam, he is born to be, The ruler of a mighty Monarchy: I must confess the powers of Amuracke Be great, his confines stretch both far and near, Yet are they not the third partly of the lands, Which shall be ruled by Alphonsus hands, And yet you dame to call him son in law: But when you see his sharp and cutting sword Piercing the heart of this your gallant girl, Yowl curse the hour wherein you did denay, To join Alphonsus with Iphigina. Nay never pray, for it must happen so. No none but one, & that you have forsworn, Then as already you have well decreed, Pack to your country, and in readiness, Select the army of Amazons, When you have done, march with your female troop To Naples Town, to succour Amuracke, And so by marriage of Iphigina, You soon shall driven the danger clean away. In vain it is, to strive against the stream, Fates must be followed, and the gods decree Must needs take place in every kind of cause. Therefore fair maid, bridle these brutish thoughts, And learn to follow what the fates assign, When Saturn herd that Juppiter his son Should driven him headlong from his heavenly seat, Down to the bottom of the dark Auarne, He did command his mother presently, To do to death, the young and guiltless child: But what of that, the mother oathd in heart, For to commit so vile a massacre. Yea Jove did live, and as the fates did say, From heavenly seat, drove Saturn clean away. What did avail the Castle all of Steel, The which Acrisius caused to be made, To keep his daughter Danae clogged in? She was with child for all her Castles force, And by that child, Acrisius her sire, Was after slain, so did the fates require. A thousand examples, I could bring hereof. But Marble stones needs no colouring, And that which every one does know for truth, Needs no examples to confirm the same. That which the fates appoint must happen so, Though heavenly Jove, and all the Gods say no. Nay Amurack this is no time to jar, Although thy wife did in her frantic mood Use speeches which might better have be sparde, Yet do thou not judge the same time to be A season to requite that injury: More fits thee with all the wit thou hast, To call to mind which way thou mayest release Thy self, thy wife, and fair Iphigina, Forth of the power of stout Alphonsus hands. For well I wot, since first you breathed breath, You never were so nigh the snares of death. Now Amurack, our high and kingly seat, Your ro all sceptre, and your stately Crown, Your mighty Country, and your men at arms, Be conquered all, and can no succour bring. Put then no trust in these same paltry toys: But call to mind that thou a prisoner art: Clapped up in chains, whose life and death's depends Upon the hands of thy most mortal foe. Then take thou heed that what some ere he say, Thou dost not once presume for to gainsay. Then since thou dost disdain my good advise, Look to thy self, and if you fare amiss Remember that Medea counsel gave, Which might you safe from all those perils save. But Faustam you, as well you have begun, Beware you follow still your friends advise. If that Alphonsus do desire of thee To have your daughter for his wedded spouse, Beware you do not once the same gainsay: Unless with death he do your rashness pay. Why then farewell, but you Iphigina, Beware you do not oversqueamish wax, When as your mother gives her consent. Now have our charms fulfilled our minds full well, High Amurack is lulled fast a sleep, And doubt I not, but ere he wakes again, You shall perceive Medea did not gibe, When as she put this practice in your mind: Fit worthy Faustam at thy spouse his feet. Iphigina, fit thou on the other side: What ere you see be not aghast thereat, But bear in mind what Amurack does chat. Thou which Wertenberg wont in Agamemnon's days To utter forth Apollo's Oracles At sacred Delphos, Calchas I do mean, I charge thee come, all lingering set aside, Unless the penance you thereof abide. I conjure thee by Pluto's loathsome lake, By all the hags which harbour in the same, By stinking Stix, and filthy Flegeton, To come with speed, and truly to fulfil That which Medea to thee straight shall will.