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By all the Gods, Alcippus I do hate, And would do any thing to change my fate; Ought that were just and noble I dare do. Gal. Enough, Erminia, I must credit you, And will no other proof of it require, But that you'll now submit to my desire; Indeed, Erminia, you must grant my suit, Where Love and Honour calls, make no dispute.
SCENE I. The apartments of Alcippus. Enter Alcippus and Pisaro. Pis. 'Tis much, my Lord, you'll not be satisfy'd. Alcip. Friendship's too near a-kin to Love, Pisaro, To leave me any Peace, whilst in your Eyes I read Reserves, which 'tis not kind to hide; Come, prithee tell me what the quarrel was, And who 'twas with; thou shalt, my dear Pisaro. Pis.
Nay, prithee speak, Indeed I shall not be offended at it. Alcan. I know not why you should, Sir; She's where she ought, abed with young Alcippus. Phi. Thou speak'st thy real Thoughts. Alcan. Why should your Highness doubt it? Phi. By Heaven, there is no faith in Woman-kind; Alcander, dost thou know an honest Woman? Alcan. Many, Sir. Phi.
To move you, Sir, to spare Alcippus' Life. King. You are unjust, if you demand a Life Must fall a Sacrifice to Erminia's Ghost, That is a debt I have ingag'd to pay. Gal. Sir, if that Promise be already past, And that your Word be irrevocable, I vow I will not live a moment after him. King. How, Galatea! I'd rather hop'd you'd join'd Your Prayers with his. Gal.
Erminia, now that she has been joined in wedlock with Alcippus, guards herself carefully from the dauphin's passion, but when the general is obliged by his duties to leave for the camp Philander hopes to persuade her to yield to him. Alcippus, however, whose departure is a feint, returns secretly, leaving Pisaro to continue the journey alone.
Has he so reconcil'd you to him since I saw you last? This is not kind to me. Er. Oh, tell me not of kindness, where's Alcippus? Alcan. Madam, of whom do you demand Alcippus? Neither of us have seen him. Phi. Go, you are a Woman, a vain peevish Creature. Er. Sir, 'tis but just you should excuse my Fear, Alcippus is my Husband, and his Safety Ought to become my care. Phi. How, Erminia!
Alcip. No, then like the damn'd Ghost it follows me. Pis. Let Reason then approach it, and examine it. Alcip. Love is a surly and a lawless Devil, And will not answer Reason. I must encounter it some other way, For I will lay the Fiend. Pis. What would you have, Alcippus? Alcip. I'd have fair play, Pisaro.
Ours scorns the petty Spoils, and do prefer The Glory not the Interest of the War: But yet our Forces shall obliging prove, Imposing nought but Constancy in Love: That's all our Aim, and when we have, it too, We'll sacrifice it all to pleasure you. King, Mr. Westwood. Philander, his Son, betrothed to Erminia, Mr. Smith. Alcippus, Favourite, in love with Erminia, Mr. Betterton.
Discovers a Room hung with Black, a Hearse standing in it with Tapers round about it, Alcippus weeping at it, with Isillia, and other Women with long black Veils round about the Hearse. Isil. I humbly beg, my Lord, you would forbear. Alcip. Oh Isillia, Thou knowest not what vast Treasure this incloses, This sacred Pile; is there no Sorrow due to it? Alas, I bad her not farewel at parting.
More years may teach you better; the mean while, If you can't mend your Morals, mend your Style. The King of France to reward his favourite Alcippus, at the motion of prince Philander, gladly assents to his being created general in place of old Orgulius, who seeks to resign his office, and further on his royal word pledges the new-made commander, Erminia, Orgulius' daughter, in marriage.
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