English drama; Kings and rulers -- Succession -- Drama; Love -- Drama; Sicily (Italy) -- Drama; Tragicomedy
King of Cecely
Arathusa, the Princesse.
Phylaster.
Pharamont, a Spanish Prince,
Leon, a Lord.
Gleremon} Two Noble Gentlemen
Trasilm }
Bellario a Page, Leon's daughter.
Callatea, a Lady of Honor.
Megra, another Lady.
A Waiting Gentlewoman.
Two Woodmen.
A Countrey Gallant.
An Old Captaine.
And Souldiers.
A Messenger.
B _omits_ the list of Persons Represented in the Play and also
_The Scene_, etc.1. 5. C--H] The persons presented are these,
viz. In A the play, down to I. 26 of p. 78, begins as follows]
_Actus_ I. _Scoen_. I.
_Enter at severall doores _Lord Lyon, Trasiline, _followes him_,
Clerimon _meetes them_.
TRASILINE.
Well ore tane my Lord.
LYON. Noble friend welcome, and see who encounters
us, honourable good _Clerimon_.
CLE. My good Lord _Lyon_, most happily met worthy
_Trasiline_,
Come gallants, what's the newes,
the season affoords us variety,
the novilsts of our time runnes on heapes,
to glut their itching eares with airie sounds,
trotting to'th burse; and in the Temple walke
with greater zeale to heare a novall lye,
than a pyous Anthum tho chanted by Cherubins.
TRANS. True Sir:
and holds set counsels, to vent their braine sicke opinions
with presagements what all states shall designe.
CLE. Thats as their intelligence serves.
LYON. And that shall serve as long as invention lastes,
there dreames they relate, as spoke from Oracles,
or if the gods should hold a synod, and make them their
secritaries, they will divine and prophecie too: but come
and speake your thoughts of the intended marriage with
the Spanish Prince. He is come you see, and bravely
entertainde.
TRAS. Hee is so, but not married yet.
CLE. But like to be, and shall have in dowry with the
Princesse this Kingdome of _Cycele_.
LEON. Soft and faire, there is more will forbid the baines,
then say amen to the marriage: though the King
usurped the Kingdome during the non-age of the
Prince _Phylaster_, hee must not thinke to bereave
him of it quite; hee is now come to yeares to claime
the Crowne.
TRA. And lose his head i' the asking.
LEON. A diadem worn by a headlesse King wold be
wonderous, _Phylaster_ is too weake in power.
CLE. He hath many friends.
LEON. And few helpers.
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