The Scottish History of James the Fourth: 1598Greene, Robert
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The Scottish History of James the Fourth: 1598
Greene, Robert
Historical drama; James IV, King of Scotland, 1473-1513 -- Drama; Scotland -- History -- James IV, 1488-1513 -- Drama
_After a solemne seruice, enter from the widdowes house a seruice, _V. ii._
musical songs of marriages, or a maske, or what prettie
triumph you list, to them, Ateukin and Gnato._
_Ate._ What means this triumph frend? why are these feasts?
_Serui._ Faire _Ida_ sir, was marryed yesterday,
Vnto sir _Eustace_, and for that intent,
Wee feast and sport it thus to honour them:
And if you please, come in and take your part,
My Ladie is no niggard of her cheare. _Exit._
_Iaq._ _Monsigneur_, why be you so sadda, _fette bon chere fontre 2060
de ce monde_.
_Ateu._ What? was I borne to bee the scorne of kinne?
To gather feathers like to a hopper crowe,
And loose them in the height of all my pompe:
Accursed man now is my credite lost:
Where is my vowes I made vnto the king?
What shall become of mee, if hee shall heare,
That I haue causde him kill a vertuous Queene?
And hope in vaine for that which now is lost:
Where shall I hide my head? I knowe the heauens 2070
Are iust, and will reuenge: I know my sinnes
Exceede compare: should I proceed in this?
This _Eustace_ must a man be made away:
Oh were I dead, how happy should I bee?
_Iaq._ _Est ce donque a tell poynt vostre estat_, faith then
adeiu _Scotland_, adeiu _Signior Ateukin_, me will homa
to _France_, and no be hanged in a strange country. _Exit._
_Ateu._ Thou doest me good to leaue me thus alone,
That galling griefe and I may yoake in one:
Oh what are subtile meanes to clime on high? 2080
When euery fall swarmes with exceeding shame?
I promist _Idaes_ loue vnto the Prince,
But shee is lost, and I am false forsworne:
I practis’d _Dorotheas_ haplesse death,
And by this practise haue commenst a warre.
Oh cursed race of men that traficque guile,
And in the end, themselues and kings beguile:
A shamde to looke vpon my Prince againe:
A shamde of my suggestions and aduise:
A shamde of life: a shamde that I haue erde: 2090
Ile hide my selfe, expecting for my shame.
Thus God doth worke with those, that purschase fame
By flattery, and make their Prince their gaine. _Exeunt._
_Enter the King of England, Lord Percey, Samles, and others._ _V. iii._
_Arius._ Thus farre the English Peeres haue we displayde,
Our wauing Ensignes with a happy warre,
Thus neerely hath our furious rage reuengde,
My daughters death vpon the traiterous Scot,
And now before _Dambar_ our campe is pitcht,
Which if it yeeld not to our compremise, 2100
The place shall furrow where the pallace stood,
And furie shall enuy so high a power,
That mercie shall bee bannisht from our swords.
_Doug._ What seekes the English King?
_Arius._ Scot open those gates, and let me enter in,
Submit thy selfe and thine vnto my grace,
Or I will put each mothers sonne to death,
And lay this Cittie leuell with the ground.
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