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Be what you were born Sir. Great Sir, it's true, For Till you please to know, and be your self, And freely dare dispose of what's your own Without a warrant; we are falling meteors; And not fixed flarres. I never read it, My study lies not that way. Some of his forward pages Have robbed us of the honour. And as she were a fort, He would suddenly surprise, He measures her From the bases to the battlements. Who' so simple Only to doubt it? What if she now Calling to memory, how often we Have crossed her government, in revenge hath made Petition for our heads? Unmannerly swain. Most sacred Sir. It rather Madam Increases, then grows less. You have not yet Be Master of one hour of your whole life, Rouse your self, and let not Your pleasure be a copy of her will What is't to have the means To be magnificent, and not exercise The boundless virtue? And not once dating To look upon that majesty we now sleighted, Beyond our Hope's Come to the Temple. Here's strange fondness! Exeunt. Stand back. Show compassion Sir, Unto your self. Twice I herd him, Say false Eudoxiam, how much art thou Unworthy of these tears? then sighed, and straight Rores out Paulinus, was his gouty age To be preferred before my strength and youth? Then groaned again, so many ways expressing Th'afflictions of a tortured soul, that we Who wept in vain, or what we could not help, Were sharers in his sufferings. No pomp, Or glorious shows of royalty, rendering it Both loved, and terrible. Where as if The Emperor had espoused some neighbour Queen, Pulcheria with all her wisdom could not Keep her pre-eminence. He indeed is Much bound to her gracious favour. I will not come behind, Fallen what can fallen. It it fit that she, In her birth your vassal, should command the kn es Of such as should not bow but to your self? I will show my sell e By your sudden metamorphosis transformed From what I was. I'll second you, Begin, and when you please. It's fixed upon That stranger Lady. Will your Majesty Hear his rude language?
Plot summary
Plot — The Emperor of the East
Paulinus agrees to introduce Athenais at court: she wants to petition the virtuous Protectress Pulcheria after being cheated of her inheritance by her brothers. Pulcheria adopts her as a handmaiden and arranges for her to be converted to Christianity; she also catches-the eye of the Emperor, Theodosius. Urged by his eunuchs, Theodosius declares that his minority is at an end, and takes the reins of power from Pulcheria. She encouragés him to marry, but when he refuses the two diplomatic offers which are under consideration, she presents a third option: Athenais, whom he had been thinking of all along. The eunuchs suspect a stratagem to enable Puicheria to hang onte power by proxy. Theodosius disregards their warnings and insists on marrying as soon as Athenais has been baptised, which also entails her taking 2 new name, Eudoxia. He celebrates the wedding with extravagant largesse. Pulcheria asks the new Empress to use her influence to discourage her husband from prodigality, but Eudoxia contemptuously refuses. Theodosius grants Pulcheria a boon, and he seals it without troubling to find out what it contains. [t turns out to be a deed of gift, conferring ownership of Eudoxia. Pulcheria uses this to teach them beth a lesson, Eudoxia about pride and Theedosius about the dangers of being unwisely bountiful; she then destroys the deed and gives Theodosius back his wife. A countryman presents Theodosius with the gitt of a splendid apple. He in turn sends it to Eudoxia, whe in turn sends it to Paulinus, who is ill. Paulinus decides that only one man is worthy to eat so fine a truit: the Emperor. On receiving the apple back again, Theodosius suspects that Eudoxia and Paulinus are lovers. When questioned. Eudoxia swears that she has eaten the apple, whereupon Theodosius produces it intact. Feeling confirmed in his suspicions, he orders Philanax to have Paulinus killed. Pulcheria argues that Eudoxia is innecent. and Theodosius worries that he might have ordered an uniust execution. He visits the penitent Eudoxia disguised ss a friar, and hears her confession - but it is a confession of perjury, not adultery. It also emerges thal Paulinus was secretly a eunuch, unable to be a woman's lover even if he wanted to. Fortunately Philanax disobeyed his orders and kept Paulinus alive, so no harm has been done. and mutual forgiveness can be the order of the day.