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AGAR

in A Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates) — Daborne, Robert

Metadata

PlayA Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates)
AuthorDaborne, Robert
Year (catalogued)1612
First performance1610
Decade1610s
GenreTragedy
Play typeBoys Professional
CompanyUnknown
Speech prefix(es)Ag. | Agar.
Words757
Characters3892
Typicality0.35 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA19757
BritDrama no.1642
ClusterCluster 13 — Attendant courtiers & citizens

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Full speech

Speak freely, what think you of the newcome Cap taine, Voada? Out upon him puff-paste, he was spoiled in his infancy, ill-bied. Why? does Religion move any thing in the shapes of men? Three qualities? I pri'the tell they us Rabshake. How? eat up one-another? He's come. Thou powerful God of love, strike through Those awful darts of thine, whose burning heads (mine eyes Pierce through hearts of ye, melt frostiest breasts, Make all stoop to thy Deity. Now give thy art, No God but Cupid pities mortal's smart. He saw our eyes meet, no matter, may I cool my heat Let the world burn. Thy counsel Voada. It is so Voada, he hath made the slave my Jailer. You lose your self. What man? what beauty? I tell thee I am undone, Rabshake is made my overseer. Could you not entreat him stay his pace. I purpose not to take a courser of your choosing, lest I be jaded sir. He must necessarily be a man of deeds, he is of so few words. Without immodesty, may I question the reason you're so heavy sir? How's this? you see me light, true, to be in love With one so far disdainful. I have made exchange too, sold my liberty, To purchase base ingratitude, I am rejected Voads. Your business irrah? Vengeance seize him and them. Back sirrah, say we will expect them: you sir, attend your master his coming, see you give us notice on't. If I liked not his 30 thousand Ducats, better then's person, I would never strain my complexion for him. Nay more to entice me, this well stuffed purse He did enforce upon me, but it's your sin, So you have profit, all religious laws Must suffer violence, your wife be exposed Unto all undergoers. Nay, use your pleasure, you had best keep the gold To guild your shame with, I troe I would give it him, Tell him he must not think I am the woman He takes me for, if he will not believe you, Let him make trial with the ladder of ropes He vowed to climb my chamber with, this night, When, as it seems, he learned you were enforced To be in the Synagogue. If he have any wit it will I hope. By, all the rites you owe our sex, as you are men in force them partly. How dull a pace keeps time to lovers eyes, And yet to me how swift the nights black horse, Makes way to raise the morn, whose least of light Takes all my Hope's from me and damps me quite, Eleven and yet not come, he was not capable Of my quaint stratagem, or being possessed Of what he wanted, gold, contemns my love, It is no other Agar, he loathes thee, Men curse is, things forbid, still to pursue What's freely offered not to hold worth their view, Would unless my credulous ears deceive me, There one make towards my window, It's he who in this dead of night calls on my name. I hope you mean no wrong sir to me. You may adventure sir. Dear sir contain your self. Here's a vault leads to the common shower, it being low-water the sheets shall let you down to your escape. Dear sir adum nture it and save your life. Dear husband pardon me, I will confess, Pardon me sir, I know my life is forfeit To your joust anger, nor will I be the means To shed more blood, mine shall suffice alone, Since only one is wronged punish but one. The worst can be but death, I will not. Swear it by Abrahams dust, the ashes of our fore-fa the. I pray you sir fit down, a small banquet sir. Our desires equal your wishes sir. That Gentleman is very moving. I can conceal it no longer. I nea 'r shall have so fair occasion to speak my love again, you know my husbands watchful jealousy. Thou givest me a new life, I am thy Scholar. You saw the necessity of it sir. He is rid to the Goletto about taking in a common dity. You may see by his hair he is a man of hight Li for; he came over me with such violence I had not the heart to resist him. Have you forgotten your oaths sir? Villain, keep off, I say. Thou betraiest thy self slave, makest way to thine own destruction. I do confess my sin, I have wrongfully betrayed thee.

Plot summary

Plot — A Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates)
By a ruse, the pirate Ward takes prisoner two French merchants, Ferdinand and Albert. He attacks the ship taking Alizia to her bridegroom, Young Raymond, and kills her brother; she escapes by disguising herself as a ship-boy, Fidelio. Another pirate, Francisco, challenges him for the spoils; they engage in single combat, and ultimately agree to share the booty. During the fight, Ward’s men Gismund and Gallop mutiny and steal a ship, and make for Tunis, taking the disguised Alizia with them. Ward swears vengeance, seizes further prisoners, among them Alizia’s fiancé, and sells them into slavery in Tunis. Gallop makes his peace with Ward by pretending he was abducted, like ‘Fidelio’. The Turkish authorities in Tunis attempt to convert Ward to Islam. He is initially reluctant, but agrees when Voada offers herself as his wife; even so, he evades circumcision by putting an ape’s tail under the knife instead of his penis. He marries Voada as planned and gives her ‘Fidelio’ as her page; but in fact ‘Fidelio’ has been the object of her affections all along, and she has no sexual interest in Ward. ‘Fidelio’ agrees to sleep with her if she arranges for a particular slave to escape, claiming him to be a brother (though of course it is really Young Raymond). To evade the sexual part of the bargain, ‘Fidelio’ then makes an alternative arrangement with Ward, who agrees to help her, but then double-crosses her by telling his wife. Voada kills Raymond, thinking he is trying to rob her of ‘Fidelio’, then Alizia kills herself. Seeking revenge, Voada tries to attack Ward; she is slightly wounded when he defends himself, but exaggerates the injury in order to get him arrested. (The Tunisian authorities are uninterested in the murder of the two Christians.) Ward stabs himself, and dies cursing Turkish treachery. In the other plot, Gallop makes a date for sex with Agar. Her jealous husband Benwash allows the tryst to go ahead, since he needs definite proof of adultery if he is to end the marriage. Meanwhile, the reformed pirate Dansiker has been offered a pardon by the French King, but wishes to do something positive to redeem his past crimes, rather than passively accept forgiveness; so he plans to rid Tunis of its pirates by blowing up the town. Gallop keeps his date with Agar, but thieves steal his clothes and rope ladder while he is busy enjoying himself. The couple are disturbed by Dansiker’s explosion, which sets the house on fire, and Gallop has to escape in a state of…