in A Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates) — Daborne, Robert
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A Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates)
Author
Daborne, Robert
Year (catalogued)
1612
First performance
1610
Decade
1610s
Genre
Tragedy
Play type
Boys Professional
Company
Unknown
Speech prefix(es)
Fran. | Fra. | Fr. | Fr • n.
Words
1042
Characters
5526
Typicality
0.16 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A19757
BritDrama no.
1642
Cluster
Cluster 12 — Wooers, gallants & courtly love-talk
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Full speech
May I impute it to your ignorance In Marines actions, or the daring spirit, That bars my right in thy achieved prize. A little calmer sir, you are not now in Kenned, Crying herrings seven a penny, nay we have herd of you You can bawl well, you have served a prenticeship Unto the trade, affrighting of whole streets With your full Oyster voice. Poor fishers brat, that never didst aspire Above a mus e boat, that Wertenberg not born Unto a fortune above two cades of sprats, And those smoked in thy father's bedchamber That by a beggar in mere charity Being made drunk, steed of a mariner Wertenberg stole aboard, and being awake didst smell Worse then thy shell commodity at midsummer, That desperate through fear Wertenberg made a Captain, When to have be a shore again, thou wouldst have turned Swabber unto a Peterman. Thou barkest too much to bite. Give a charge there, say your prayers Knight, doom's day is nigh Flatter no more thy self, wilt thou deliver A moiety of thy prize up? Wilt thou yet yield me right? I do applaud thee, and that thou well mayest know All valor's not confined within thy breast I thus oppose thee, fortune shall have no share In what I conquer. Take it I dare thy let. Your love, I ask no more. You are too violent. Forbear I say, and let us turn our anger On the next passenger. Near doubt it sir, next prize we take forthwith We'll make to Tunis, mean time let revenge sleep Those tides most violent are, which winds back keep, The to ̄ gues of ravens are too mild to speak it, The very thought where of methinks should turn Your hair to quils of Porcupines, it's the denial Of your Redeemer Religion, Country, Of him that gave you being. If none of these move, let the example Of that contempt is thrown on runagates by these Turks themselves, at least move you To this slavery. Too fair a name to cloak so great a foe, This instant makes a trial of your virtue, Think on Ulysses constancy. Alas! how can he, being so near to hell? You have not mine, think it's heavens hand does stay you Against a men own soul, no oath can tie. You cast your eyes too much upon the flame Proves your destruction. As I from hence, so thou art thrust from joy, eternal joys. Will you yet hear me? yet heaven hath mercy. If none of these move, let the example Of that contempt is thrown on runagates by these Turks themselves, at least move you To this slavery. Alas! how can he, being so near to hell? You have not mine, think it's heavens hand does stay you Against a men own soul, no oath can tie. You cast your eyes too much upon the flame Proves your destruction. As I from hence, so thou art thrust from joy, eternal joys. Will you yet hear me? yet heaven hath mercy. This shows the greatest plague heaven keeps in store Falls, when a man is linked unto a whore. The worst your ears can hear, our ships You dazzle your own eyes, that villain Dansiker Hath grappled them and fled. What mean you sir? could you expect a good, A happiness from hell? she is a whore. You parcel haud, all usher, answer directly who it's bears a way the prize in your Mistress's raze, or Il'e spoil your footing, cut you off by the hammes. Il'e make you have needs of a Surgeon ere I have done with you. How do you know he is a Barber? This dog deludes us, Il'e tear thy throat out vil lain, unless e thou instantly name him she loves. Contain your self a while, this slave can speak One of her dialogues. Good. Jew, slave, dog. First repossess your self of your strong hold, I fear some treachery: the Governor With all the Janissaires of the town I met in their way thither. Were you entitled to no other gilded, How willing for you should my blood be spilled? Here sir, accept this poor relief Bootless alas distress recounts those errors To think what might have been cures, not the terror Of present suffering. You are too low dejected. Men that with sufferance their wrongs do bear Are held but weak, and States more oft for fear Then love unto the right, redress men's ils. Who stoutly down his enemies, malice kills, Who basely wounds himself. Stay see the strumpets love, Fidelio, Whither tends this? what passage, come you for him? Speak it. Wouldst have her kill her to. My soul to gage. Art thou the chief and guider of this Bark? Heaven stop mine ears from hearing thy dishonour. Upon my knees I do conjure you sir, Fell not your soul for such a vanity, As that which you term Beauty, eye-pleasing Idol, Should you with the renouncing of your God Taking the abhorred name of Turk upon you, Purchase a little shameful being here, your case Might be compared to his, who adjudged to death By his heads lose, should rave (stead of one stroke) To die a lingering torment on the rack. Even such would be your life, whose gilded each hour Would strike your conscious soul with terrors. Your passio ̄ does transport you, here comes her pander, One that knows all her secrets: examine him, If she stand clear, let my life answer it. Where shall I find this most unfortunate wretch? There is a partly in him called man, which we should pity How ere his merit stands, nor will I leave him, Though he hath left himself. See where he lies Best suiting with his Fortune's, could we our fate for know Men were as Gods, nor needs we have lain so low. How fare you brother? why with so sad and eye Do you behold me, that in your Misery's Bear equal partly? I saw him leave her now. How dost thou kow she loves him? Too fair a name to cloak so great a foe, This instant makes a trial of your virtue, Think on Ulysses constancy.
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…