ow: but, Lords, when peace
Was purchas'd for you, and victorie brought home,
Where was your gratitude, who in your Coffers
Hoarded the rustic treasure which was due
To my unminded Father? he was glad
To live retir'd in want, in penurie,
Whilst you made feasts of surfeit, and forgot
Your debts to him: The sum of all is this,
You have been unthankfull to him; and I crave
The rigor of the Law against you all.
Cassilanes:
My Royal spirited daughter!
Erota:
_Annophel_
Thou art a worthy wench; let me embrace thee.
Annophel:
Lords, why do ye keep your seats? they are no places
For such as are offenders.
Possenne:
Though our ignorance
Of _Cassilanes_ engagements might asswage
Severity of justice, yet to shew
How no excuse should smooth a breach of Law,
I yield me to the trial of it.
Porphycio:
So must I:
Great Prince of _Cyprus_, you are left
The only Moderator in this difference;
295] And as you are a Prince be a Protector
To wofull _Candy_.
Philander:
What a Scene of miserie
Hath thine obdurate frowardness (old man)
Drawn on thy Countries bosom? and for that
Thy proud ambition could not mount so high
As to be stil'd thy Countries only Patron,
Thy malice hath descended to the depth
Of Hell, to be renowned in the Title
Of the destroyer? dost thou yet perceive
What curses all posterity will brand
Thy grave with? that at once hast rob'd this Kingdom
Of honour and of safety.
Erota:
Children yet unborn
Will stop their ears when thou art nam'd.
Arcanes:
The world will be too little to contain
The memorie of this detested deed;
The Furies will abhorr it.
Decius:
What the sword
Could not enforce, your peevish thirst of honour
(A brave, cold, weak, imaginarie fame)
Hath brought on _Candy: Candy_ groans, not these
That are to die.
Philander:
'Tis happiness enough
For them, that they shall not survive to see
The wounds wherewith thou stab'st the land that gave
Thee life and name.
Decius:
'Tis _Candy's_ wrack shall feel--
Cassilanes:
The mischief of your folly.
Porphycio Possenne:
_Annophel_--
Annophel:
I will not be entreated.
Cassilanes:
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