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And you mistress. Faith then I'll venture my charge among the rest. First by thy valour and the strength of arms, Porus the wealthy Aethiopian king, Does yield his crown and homage unto thee, Swearing by all my Gods whom I adore, To honour Duke Cleanthes while he live, And in his aid with twenty thousand men, Will always march gainst whom thou meanest to fight, We did my Lord and wonder at his courage As suddenly as lightning beauty wounds. Loves darts are swift as is the lightning fire. Why which loves Rhesus. Then may I freely Joy the Countess here. More then dead stocks would startle at such beauty, No great Cleanthes give her to my hand, Whose heart was first the subject of her graces. Thus have we trodden the sandy vales of Egypt, Adjoining to the plains of Alexan riam, Where proud king ` keeps his refidence, Securely trusting to his prophecies, Which hath foretold him many years ago, That if the young Arcadian Doricles, Should link in marriage with his lovely daughter. He then should conquer all our bordering , And make us subject to his tirrannie. Come let us march and brave him at the walls, If Porus live to wield his martial sword, His City walls shall not preserve him safe, But he shall die by Porus and his Friends. My Lord the offer had been to hie a grace for him For near did eye behold a fairer face. And which loves Bion
Plot summary
Plot — The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (Irus)
Before the start of the action, Queen Aegiale proposed an adulterous liaison with Cleanthes, but was rebuffed. She then engineered his unjust banishment, but now wants to find him to renew her advances. To that end, she consults the blind beggar and fortune-teller Irus. who recommends that she publish his image throughout Egypt and offer a reward for his apprehension. What she doesn't know is that Irus is himself Cleanthes in disguise. He is maintaining a series of separate identities, passing the time by simultaneously wooing Elimine and Psamathis, while awaiting the opportunity to return and claim the Egyptian crown. The girls also consult lrus about their love-lives , and he makes predictions designed to facilitate his maJ:"riage to them both: Elirnine marries honouJ:" in the person of'Count Hermes', Psamathis marries money in the person of 'Leon', a usurer. and their friend Martia marries status in the person of the Burgomaster of Alexandria, who is really lrus ' clownish brother. lrus then uses his different personas to cuckold himself. As Leon, he seizes a nobleman's property for defaulting on a loan, even though the debt has been repaid, and produces both Hermes and lrus as witnesses in support of his version of events. Egypt is without a male heir after an enchantress transformed King Ptolemy's son into a mandrake. Now he plans to marry his daughter against her will to Prince Doricles, thereby fulfilling a prophecy that such a marriage will enable Egypt to conquer the four neighbouring kingdoms. To forestall such an eventuality, the four respective kings take advantage of the absence of Egypt's greatest general, Cleanthes, and mount an invasion. In his persona as Count Hermes, Irus murders Doricles and then, as Leon, reports Hermes' death; to defraud his clients, he then has his brother report that Leon has committed suicide. The invading kings give battle, and Cleanthes is sought when things go badly. Ptolemy is killed in battle, but Cleanthes leads the Egyptians to victory and is elected king. He accepts the defeated kings' surrender and submission, but refuses to take their crowns; he further arranges for his 'widows' to marry two of them, and promises the others Egyptian brides too.