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Reason! You mar our Mars, by coveting Not to be equal with us, but our King. For though you now Like Roman Augurs be, Who, but your staff, have no true mystery; Yet do you strive to rule, add, or diminish; And idly so protract what we could finish. Else how could Alaham, or Hala stay So long; from making to our ends a way? Lustest open face this Age will easily bear, And hope here currant is to all, but fear. Wrong needs no veil, where times do tyrannise; And what, but lack of heart, is then unwise; Age hath descried those toys to be but name, Which in the world's youth did bear real fame; Justice, Religion, Honour, Humbleness; Shadows, which not well mixed, make beauty less. They help to smother, not enlarge our fire, By putting painted masks on men desire; And give time to unactive Theory, Which rage it self would not do, were it free. So that we, Circe -Like, change men to beasts, Which beasts turn men again: Too base a crest For us, that would quite banish doing well; And so at once change heaven and earth, to hell. In which course, who does well observe each partly, Shall find mankind to have so strange a heart; As being all ill, yet no one ill serves To work him to that mischief he deserves: Fear, hope, desire, love, courage being mixed So nicely in him, as none can be fixed. Which is our glory: as for every state To have a Tempter fitted, and a fate. A fear in Great men still, to loose their might; And in the mean, ambition infinite; Truth, in the witty held but as a notion; Honour, the Old men God; the Youths promotion. All which opposing powers, yet do agree To work corruption in humanity. Then on: This time is ours: What needs we haste? Since till time ends, our reign is sure to last.
Plot summary
Plot — Alaham
Before the start of the action, an oracle foretold that the kingdom’s security depended on the death of the King’s eldest son, Zophi; but the pashas, ruling during the King’s senility, merely banished him. Hala, wife of the younger son, Alaham, has had a series of affairs with pashas: first Muhammad, who was forced into exile as a result, then Cain. Seeking to secure his position, Alaham has recalled Muhammad, ===== PAGE 189 ===== 1600 but Muhammad has recalled Zophi in turn, cutting Alaham out of the succession. Hala seeks to make Cain king, and persuades him to murder Muhammad; but he changes his mind after Muhammad warns him of Alaham’s ambition: Cain will tell Alaham that Muhammad is dead, but in reality he will go into hiding. Meanwhile Alaham corrupts the guard, blinds his father and brother, and seizes power. When Cain tells him of Muhammad's death, he is sent for execution — if not for murder then for lying about it, as he is told when he tries to save himself. Alaham’s sister Caelica helps Zophi and their father to take sanctuary in the temple. Alaham has the city searched, finds Caelica, and arrests her. Her cries bring the old King out of hiding, and he too is arrested. The King, Caelica, and Zophi are all burned to death; as they die, their souls call out for vengeance. Seeking to avenge Cain’s death, Hala sends Alaham a poisoned robe, and plans to kill their son before his face, so that the other child, Cain’s bastard, will inherit the kingdom; but she mistakenly kills the wrong infant. The robe kills Alaham; Hala intends to kill herself too.