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My Lord your sorrow and not my ambition Hath made me Judge to day, therefore attend The proof of your election, I came With purpose of a visit to your Master But now salute his hearse, and wear a title Of your Protector, in which name I gave command The prisoners should be sent for. That the Queen? She shows a much dejected Lady. Those the pretended Princes? Of comely presence both, what's he? Where is she? She must become a recluse And all her life with strict profession Of Chastity repair her blemished honour. Now to the Queen I have herd you with attention, and whereas To the Kings death (the unhappy cause of this Assembly) you have answered with denial Which you think fortified by the Queens Selves only accusation, I must tell you It frees you not, for though no manifest proofs Yet circumstances well examined make you The accidental causes of his murder. For the other partly of your offence I find not You have denied your gilded, but only use Qualification and excuse; your services In themselves high and honourable, allow you No privilege to offend, but give your black, faults A black die; then justly weighing your offence, you meet In equal gilded, for though you first conveid Away Pamela, his intention was Early as yours, and by the rules of justice The will stands for the act, both ravished Although not of the Ladies from themselves Yet from their parents and their country, which By all the Grecian Laws is paid with death. Thus then I must pronounce Daiphantas shall Be thrown from some high tower to mere his death, Palladius lose his head before Sunset The executioner shall be Dametas Which office of the common hangman he Shall for his whole life execute, a punishment For his neglect of duty. And thus proceed to sentence Having confessed, to spare your proof how much She hath offended, and example to all times We censure thus, she shall presently Be carried to prison where she may Have food but only to sustain her life Until her husbands burial, with whom In the same vault she shall be closed alive To keep his body company from which Her cruelty divorced his soul, What are their names? We do not dispute their titles here, they are Private persons, you may proceed. Choose whom you'll first accuse. What ic all this to the death of the old King? If this be all you have to say proceed To his confederate. Is this all? To him you call Dametas My son and Nephew are they living? My blessing and my tears you both divide. Witness with me, ye immortal powers this day I have done nothing, but what justice and Your native laws require, without the knowledge How near they were to my own blood, but since They are proved my Son and Nephew Endowed by nature richly, and how meriting The fame and love of all the world before This accident, I leave to your own thoughts, Beside these two I have no joys of life. But I have judged already and if right I have not wronged, unless the name Of child have power to altar sacred Justice You both must die, though when I speak your death It creeps upon my heart. Away with em. Sure I shannot live Long after them, and Gentlemen if I die Before I leave Arcadia let my ashes Mingle with theirs: Basilius alive, assist him Philonax. He breathes, what of joy run through me? Send for Gynecia and his daughters. Evarc us your old friend. My son My Nephew, prince of Thessaly Your trusty servant Your souls I see are married Let me present these princes to be your sons To his Chamber him gently
Plot summary
Plot — The Arcadia
King Basilius understands an oracle to have foretold that his daughters’ marriage will result in his death and the usurpation of his throne by a foreigner; it has also indicated that he will commit adultery with his own wife. In an effort to thwart any destiny, he has decided to keep the girls unmarried virgins; he leaves court, placing the kingdom under the rule of his deputy, Philanax, and lodges his elder daughter Pamela in the forest with Dametas. Pyrocles and Musidorus are amorously interested in Basilius’ daughters, Pamela and Philoclea, and come to Arcadia in disguise. Musidorus poses as a shepherd, takes a job under Dametas, and, to enable him to elope with Pamela, gets the family out of the way with a series of ruses: Dametas is told a story of buried gold, Miso of her husband’s philandering, and Mopsa of a wishing tree which will enable her to become whatever she wants. (She wants to be a queen, with no obligation to obey anyone.) Pyrocles, meanwhile, gets access to Philoclea by disguising himself as an Amazon, Zelmane, only to find that in his new identity he has attracted interest from Basilius. ‘Zelmane’ helps to quell a rebellion by the people of Arcadia, who are dissatisfied with Basilius’ retirement from government, then arranges an assignation with the King at a nearby cave. Queen Gynecia sees through Pyrocles’ disguise and falls for him herself. He arranges for Gynecia to take his place at the date with Basilius, and approaches Philoclea while they are away. Basilius meets Gynecia in the cave and so fulfils part of the oracle: he commits ‘adultery’ with his own wife. Realizing her identity and his folly, he swears constancy, and she gives him what she takes to be a love philtre—which causes him to pass out, apparently dead. The defeated rebels take refuge in the forest, and encounter Musidorus and Pamela. Despite Pamela’s insistence that he should fight and die with honour, Musidorus persuades the rebels to release them. When they realize Pamela’s identity, however, they suspect treason and take the couple to court in an attempt to purge their own crimes. Meanwhile Pyrocles and Philoclea are found asleep together by Dametas, who has come looking for the missing Pamela. Philanax is now faced with what appears to be a royal crime wave—a poisoner queen, and two princesses guilty of sexual misconduct—and, despite Pamela’s insistence that her father’s death makes her Queen of Arcadia, he has them all imprisoned. King Euarchus comes to visit…