_Alon_. Hold--hold, my Prince.
_Osm_. Great Sir, what mean you? [_To_ Abd.
The Victory being yours, to give your Life away
On one so mad and desperate.
[_Their Parties draw_.
_Phil. Alonzo_, hold,
We two will be the Fate of this great Day.
_Abd_. And I’ll forego all I’ve already won,
And claim no Conquest; the whole heaps of Bodies,
Which this Right-hand has slain, declare me Victor.
_Phil_. No matter who’s the Victor; I have thee in my view,
And will not leave thee,
Till thou hast crown’d those Heaps, and made ‘em all
The glorious Trophies of my Victory--Come on, Sir.
_Alon_. You shall not fight thus single;
If you begin, by Heaven, we’ll all fall on.
_Phil_. Dost thou suspect my Power?
Oh, I am arm’d with more than compleat Steel,
The Justice of my Quarrel; when I look
Upon my Father’s Wrongs, my Brother’s Wounds,
My Mother’s Infamy, _Spain’s_ Misery,
I am all Fire; and yet I am too cold
To let out Blood enough for my Revenge:
--Therefore stir not a Sword on my side.
_Abd_. Nor on mine.
_They fight; both their Parties engage on either side; the
Scene draws off, and discovers both the Armies, which
all fall on and make the main Battel:_ Philip _prevails,
the_ Moors _give ground: Then the Scene closes to the
the Grove. Enter some_ Moors _flying in disorder_.
SCENE VI. _Changes to a Tent_.
_Enter_ Abdelazer, Roderigo, Osmin, Zarrack, _and some
others of his Party_.
_Rod_. Oh, fly, my Lord, fly, for the Day is lost.
_Abd_. There are three hundred and odd Days i’th Year,
And cannot we lose one? dismiss thy Fears,
They’ll make a Coward of thee.
_Osm_. Sir, all the noble _Spaniards_ have forsook you;
Your Soldiers faint, are round beset with Enemies,
Nor can you shun your Fate, but by your Flight.
_Abd_. I can--and must--in spite of Fate:
The Wheel of War shall turn about again,
And dash the Current of his Victories.--
This is the Tent I’ve pitched, at distance from the Armies,
To meet the Queen and Cardinal;
Charm’d with the Magick of Dissimulation,
I know by this h’as furl’d his Ensigns up,
And is become a tame and coward Ass.
[_A Retreat is sounded_.
--Hark--hark, ‘tis done: oh, my inchanting Engine!
--Dost thou not hear Retreat sounded?
_Rod_. Sure ‘tis impossible.
_Abd_. She has prevail’d--a Woman’s Tongue and Eyes
Are Forces stronger than Artilleries.
_Enter_ Queen, Cardinal, _Women, and Soldiers_.
--We are betray’d--
_Qu_. What means this Jealousy? lay by your Weapons.
And embrace--the sight of these beget Suspicion:
--_Abdelazer_, by my Birth he comes in peace;
Lord Cardinal, on my Honour so comes he.
_Abd_. Let him withdraw his Troops then.
_Qu_. They’re Guards for all our Safeties:
Give me your Hand, Prince Cardinal--thine, _Abdelazer_--
[_She brings them together, they embrace_.
This blest Accord I do behold with Joy.
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