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How fares the King? Your grief's incurable, remember the will of your dead Lord, And be a good Executrix, fly from pursuing danger: And you Royal youths must seek some shelter to secure Your lives; away, 'tis all our Fates. You shall prevail. Take on some course disguise, what poverty is't But will be rich, being your lives protection. O Madam, these are but fruitless apprehensions, And savoureth not of that discreet virtue hath been ever in you: Your story hath been filled with Temperance, Care, and Patience, And all these forbid this barren Sacrifice, lose not your self In the great lose of your deer Husband, Alas Sir Hugh, little can you promise of safety there, For from fair Winifred, the only Daughter, and Heir To Dun-wallis, I have received too true intelligence; The Barbarous Roman have supplanted peace, Putting to sword, and torture all, that bear the Name of Christians: Nay, even the right Amphiabell Did hold is now so ruinate, I have not left One Subject to command. Much more of woe, the virtuous Maid her self Hath left off State, forsaken Royalty, And keeps a Court so solitary, as it seems Within a cry, follow, follow. More Like a Cloister, then a Royal Palace. Hark, our enemies pursue us, if we stay We must resolve for death. I come to strengthen you fair Winifred, so to continue I hope I need not, yet not so strictly to Virginity As to the Christian Faith; for Wedlock is and ordinance from Hea ven, Though Junior to the single purity In this chased Wedlock, does the Conquest win, She knows the tree forbid, it will not sin. You promised me no less. 'Tis wonderful! I need no more confirm ye beauteous Maid, My self isle task unto some dangerous end, I'll take disguise, and straight to Verolome And to the face of persecuting Albon Our friend and fellow Knight, isle tell his curse If he persist in Barbarous Cruelty, I'll throw my life in hazard, if I fallen, Tell Christians keep my true memorial. To that I leave thee most virtuous maid, O might it of Amphiabell be said; His good intendment had so happy end, To make a Christian of a bloody fiend, I come to try thee A bon. Thus we depart Lady. You cannot add unto the happiness Amphiabell hath found In honoured Albon, joint with my own Salvation, I desire your Partnership Christianity, which as a second means I have confirmed. He take your love for what I shall not needs I shall bestow where There is needs enough, with this memorial I leave you Sir. but this Emblem of a Christian, not as a thing material wail you, but for the strengthening of your memory, you shall At sighed of this still keep in mind, all those instructions I have Read to you; and verueous Lord, what in your power and greatness You may afford unto distressed Christians: be free in Charity. Trouble not your bosom, your end shall crown The bade that's passed, with a more full renown. Exit Amphi. Yes virtuous Lady. To death: Christians tire not till they be out of breath, Life labours here, at death the wage does come, Which Tyrants pay in Crowns of Martyrdom. Two, that will neither fly, nor resist your force. Yes. No, I will not; when I crave mercy, give it. None but the hests of heaven. Never. Caesar in greater triumph never was led. Eternity protect us to our end: Fight nobly then.
Plot summary
Plot — A Shoemaker a Gentleman
The Roman Emperors, Diocletian and Maximinus, bring an army to Britain to crush the Christians. Alured, the British King, is killed in battle. His sons, Eldred and Offa, change their identities and get themselves apprenticed to a shoemaker. They see their mother taken to prison after being captured on the battlefield; their sympathy for her plight impresses their new master. Alban is appointed to rule Britain and continue the persecution. Amphiabel comes from Wales and converts him to Christianity. Maximinus arrests Alban, and Amphiabel flees back to Wales, pursued by the Roman army. Meanwhile, the Welsh Queen Winifred, also converted by Amphiabel, asks her suitor Sir Hugh for a moratorium on his wooing efforts; when he completes the agreed period, however, she announces that she has given herself wholly to heaven and cannot marry him. One of the Romans pursuing Amphiabel mocks the power of Winifred’s holy well, and smears the water on his eyes; it blinds him. His sight is restored, but he ascribes the miracle to the pagan gods. Winifred and Amphiabel are both arrested and brought to see the martyrdom of Alban. Leodice, Maximinus’ daughter, becomes enamoured of her new shoemaker, Crispin, who is really Offa; she continually finds reasons to asks for new shoes and new fitting sessions. She offers to show him the image of his future wife in a magic mirror; but in fact it is an ordinary mirror, and he sees her reflection. He confides that he is not really base-born, but a disguised prince, and they are secretly married. The Romans are mustering an army to resist an invasion of the Empire by Goths and Vandals. Eldred volunteers, and the shoemaker employs Sir Hugh to fill his place. Eldred distinguishes himself in battle: he saves Diocletian’s life, takes back the eagle standard after it has been seized by the enemy, and captures the Vandal king Roderick. The barbarians are expelled, and Diocletian knights Eldred. Sir Hugh is arrested after he sees Winifred a prisoner and reviles the Roman gods. Alban and Amphiabel are tortured in an attempt to make them renounce Christianity, but they remain steadfast and are sent for execution; Alban becomes Britain’s first Christian martyr ~ but not the last. Winifred is allowed to choose the manner of her own execution; she opts to bleed to death. Sir Hugh is made to drink her blood, mixed with poison. He bequeaths his bones to the shoemakers who have come to support him, and declares that, since a prince has been a…