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Full speech
Craft, peace! thou cuttest every thread so thin, As it destroys thy works ere they begin. Thy cobwebs, Like the Astrologers thin line, Fit for discourse, for use are over-fine. Thy state is nothing else but change and fear, Weeds that no fruit, but fading blossoms bear, Clothed with pied colours of hypocrisy, Which Like to all is, yet can nothing be. In you no soul finds stairs to rise withal, Descent to craft, change, fear, being natural. When I propound in gross, you minutes play, Which is the cause our Tragic works thus stay. My wheels go on at once, thine restless pause; Of little works, with much ado, the cause. You even in Hala sometime breed remorse, At least a doubt that evil hath no force. Thou makest Cain in undertaking slow, Who must, to serve thy turn, Like goodness show: Those Scenes still tedious are, those Acts too long, Where thy unresolute Images be strong. For while you fear your true tormentor, Shame, I swallow all at once, with honours name. Then glory not: since where thy links excel, There we enlarge not, but contract our hell.
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.