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Full speech
Laelius, of force we must confess to thee, We wondered all, when as you did persuade Us to return unto the wars again, But since our marvel is increased much By these your words, which found of happiness, Therefore good Laelius make no tarrying, But soon unfold thy happy chance to us. Our chiefest friend, I hardly can believe, That he which made such bloody massacres Of stout Italians, can in any point Bear friendship to the country or the King. Alphonsus man, isle never persuaded be, That ere Alphonsus may survive again, Who with Carinus many years ago, Was said to wander in the stigian fields. What news is this, and is it very so? Is our Alphonsus yet in humane state, Whom all the world did judge for to be dead. Yet can I scarce give credit to the same. Give credit, yes, and since the Milan Duke, Hath broke his league of friendship, be he sure, E e Cynthia, the shining lamp of night, Does scale the heavens with her horned head, Both he and his shall very plainly see, The league is burst, that caused long the glee. Not so my Lord, for if our willing arms Have pleasured you so much, as you do say, We have done nought but that becomes us: For to defend our mighty sovereign. As for my partly, I count my labour small, Yea though it had be twice as much again, Since that Alphonsus does accept thereof.
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.