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my cause a trying, as I live, and
that before my own father. --Now fourscore take him for an old bawdy
magistrate, that stands like the picture of madam Justice, with a pair
of scales in his hand, to weigh lechery by ounces! [_Aside. _
_Alph. _ Well--but all this while, who is this colonel Hernando?
_Gom. _ He's the first begotten of Beelzebub, with a face as terrible
as Demogorgon. [LORENZO _peeps over_ ALPHONSO'S _Head,
and stares at_ GOMEZ.
No! I lie, I lie. He's a very proper handsome fellow! well
proportioned, and clean shaped, with a face like a cherubin.
_Ped. _ What, backward and forward, Gomez! dost thou hunt counter?
_Alph. _ Had this colonel any former design upon your wife? for, if
that be proved, you shall have justice.
_Gom. _ [_Aside. _] Now I dare speak,--let him look as dreadfully as he
will. --I say, sir, and I will prove it, that he had a lewd design upon
her body, and attempted to corrupt her honesty.
[LORENZO _lifts up his fist clenched at him. _
I confess my wife was as willing--as himself; and, I believe, 'twas
she corrupted him; for I have known him formerly a very civil and
modest person.
_Elv. _ You see, sir, he contradicts himself at every word; he's
plainly mad.
_Alph. _ Speak boldly, man! and say what thou wilt stand by: did he
strike thee?
_Gom. _ I will speak boldly; he struck me on the face before my own
threshold, that the very walls cried shame to him.
[LORENZO _holds up again. _
'Tis true, I gave him provocation, for the man's as peaceable a
gentleman as any is in all Spain.
_Dom. _ Now the truth comes out, in spite of him.
_Ped. _ I believe the friar has bewitched him.
_Alph. _ For my part, I see no wrong that has been offered him.
_Gom. _ How? no wrong? why, he ravished me, with the help of two
soldiers, carried me away _vi et armis,_ and would put me into a
plot against government. [LORENZO _holds up again. _
I confess, I never could endure the government, because it was
tyrannical; but my sides and shoulders are black and blue, as I can
strip and show the marks of them. [LORENZO _again. _
But that might happen, too, by a fall that I got yesterday upon the
pebbles. [_All laugh. _
_Dom. _ Fresh straw, and a dark chamber; a most manifest judgment!
there never comes better of railing against the church.
_Gom. _ Why, what will you have me say? I think you'll make me mad:
truth has been at my tongue's end this half hour, and I have not power
to bring it out, for fear of this bloody-minded colonel.
_Alph. _ What colonel?
_Gom. _ Why, my colonel--I mean my wife's colonel, that appears there
to me like my _malus genius_, terrifies me.
_Alph. _ [_Turning. _] Now you are mad indeed, Gomez; this is my son
Lorenzo.
_Gom. _ How? your son Lorenzo! it is impossible.
_Alph. _ As true as your wife Elvira is my daughter.
_Lor. _ What, have I taken all this pains about a sister?
_Gom. _ No, you have taken some about me; I am sure, if you are her
brother, my sides can show the tokens of our alliance.
_Alph. _ to _Lor. _ You know I put your sister into a nunnery, with a
strict command not to see you, for fear you should have wrought upon
her to have taken the habit, which was never my intention; and
consequently, I married her without your knowledge, that it might not
be in your power to prevent it.
_Elv. _ You see, brother, I had a natural affection to you.
_Lor. _ What a delicious harlot have I lost! Now, pox upon me, for
being so near a-kin to thee!
_Elv. _ However, we are both beholden to friar Dominick; the church is
an indulgent mother, she never fails to do her part.
_Dom. _ Heavens! what will become of me?
_Gom. _ Why, you are not like to trouble heaven; those fat guts were
never made for mounting.
_Lor. _ I shall make bold to disburden him of my hundred pistoles, to
make him the lighter for his journey: indeed, 'tis partly out of
conscience, that I may not be accessory to his breaking his vow of
poverty.
_Alph. _ I have no secular power to reward the pains you have taken
with my daughter; but I shall do it by proxy, friar: your bishop's my
friend, and is too honest to let such as you infect a cloister.
_Gom. _ Ay, do, father-in-law, let him be stript of his habit, and
disordered. --I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbit,
without his holy fur upon his back, that the world may once behold the
inside of a friar.
_Dom. _ Farewell, kind gentlemen; I give you all my blessing before I
go. --May your sisters, wives, and daughters, be so naturally lewd,
that they may have no occasion for a devil to tempt, or a friar to
pimp for them. [_Exeunt, with a rabble pushing him. _
_Enter_ TORRISMOND, LEONORA, BERTRAN, RAYMOND, TERESA, &c.
_Tor. _ He lives! he lives! my royal father lives!
Let every one partake the general joy.
Some angel with a golden trumpet sound,
King Sancho lives! and let the echoing skies
From pole to pole resound, king Sancho lives! --
Bertran, oh! no more my foe, but brother;
One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
_Bert. _ Bad men, when 'tis their interest, may do good.
I must confess, I counselled Sancho's murder;
And urged the queen by specious arguments:
But, still suspecting that her love was changed,
I spread abroad the rumour of his death,
To sound the very soul of her designs.
The event, you know, was answering to my fears;
She threw the odium of the fact on me,
And publicly avowed her love to you.
_Raym. _ Heaven guided all, to save the innocent.
_Bert. _ I plead no merit, but a bare forgiveness.
_Tor. _ Not only that, but favour. Sancho's life,
Whether by virtue or design preserved,
Claims all within my power.
_Leo. _ My prayers are heard;
And I have nothing farther to desire,
But Sancho's leave to authorise our marriage.
_Tor. _ Oh! fear not him! pity and he are one;
So merciful a king did never live;
Loth to revenge, and easy to forgive.
But let the bold conspirator beware,
For heaven makes princes its peculiar care. [_Exeunt. _
Footnotes:
1. Alluding to the common superstition, that the continuance of the
favours of fairies depends upon the receiver's secrecy:--"This is
fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up with it, keep it close;
home, home, the nearest way. We are lucky, boy, and, to be so
still, requires nothing but secrecy;" _Winter's Tale. _
2. A red cross, with the words, "Lord have mercy upon us," was placed,
during the great plague, upon the houses visited by the disease.
EPILOGUE.
BY A FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR'S.
There's none, I'm sure, who is a friend to love,
But will our Friar's character approve:
The ablest spark among you sometimes needs
Such pious help, for charitable deeds.
Our church, alas! (as Rome objects) does want
These ghostly comforts for the falling saint:
This gains them their whore-converts, and may be
One reason of the growth of popery.
So Mahomet's religion came in fashion,
By the large leave it gave to fornication.
Fear not the guilt, if you can pay for't well;
There is no Dives in the Roman Hell:
Gold opens the strait gate, and lets him in;
But want of money is a mortal sin.
For all besides you may discount to heaven,
And drop a bead to keep the tallies even.
How are men cozened still with shows of good!
The bawd's best mask is the grave friar's hood;
Though vice no more a clergyman displeases,
Than doctors can be thought to hate diseases.
'Tis by your living ill, that they live well,
By your debauches, their fat paunches swell.
'Tis a mock-war between the priest and devil;
When they think fit, they can be very civil.
As some, who did French counsels most advance,
To blind the world, have railed in print at France,
Thus do the clergy at your vices bawl,
That with more ease they may engross them all.
By damning yours, they do their own maintain;
A churchman's godliness is always gain:
Hence to their prince they will superior be;
And civil treason grows church loyalty.
They boast the gift of heaven is in their power;
Well may they give the god, they can devour!
Still to the sick and dead their claims they lay;
For 'tis on carrion that the vermin prey.
Nor have they less dominion on our life,
They trot the husband, and they pace the wife.
Rouse up, you cuckolds of the northern climes,
And learn from Sweden to prevent such crimes.
Unman the Friar, and leave the holy drone
To hum in his forsaken hive alone;
He'll work no honey, when his sting is gone.
Your wives and daughters soon will leave the cells,
When they have lost the sound of Aaron's bells.
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Title: The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18)
Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love
Author: John Dryden
Editor: Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Release Date: July 5, 2005 [EBook #16208]
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THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN,
NOW FIRST COLLECTED
_IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES. _
ILLUSTRATED
WITH NOTES,
HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,
AND
A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
BY
WALTER SCOTT, ESQ.
VOL. V.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
1808.
* * * * *
CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME FIFTH.
Amboyna; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants, a
Tragedy
Epistle Dedicatory to Lord Clifford of Chudleigh
The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man, an Opera
Epistle Dedicatory to her Royal Highness the Duchess
Preface. --The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry, and Poetic
Licence
Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy
Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Mulgrave
All for Love, or the World Well Lost, a Tragedy
Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Danby
Preface
* * * * *
AMBOYNA:
OR, THE
CRUELTIES OF THE DUTCH
TO THE
_ENGLISH MERCHANTS. _
A
TRAGEDY.
--_Manet altâ mente repostum. _
AMBOYNA.
The tragedy of Amboyna, as it was justly termed by the English of the
seventeenth century, was of itself too dreadful to be heightened by
the mimic horrors of the stage. The reader may be reminded, that by
three several treaties in the years 1613, 1615, and 1619, it was
agreed betwixt England and Holland, that the English should enjoy
one-third of the trade of the spice islands. For this purpose,
factories were established on behalf of the English East India Company
at the Molucca Islands, at Banda, and at Amboyna. At the latter island
the Dutch had a castle, with a garrison, both of Europeans and
natives. It has been always remarked, that the Dutchman, in his
eastern settlements, loses the mercantile probity of his European
character, while he retains its cold-blooded phlegm and avaricious
selfishness. Of this the Amboyna government gave a notable proof.
About the 11th of Feb. 1622, old stile, under pretence of a plot laid
between the English of the factory and some Japanese soldiers to seize
the castle, the former were arrested by the Dutch, and subjected to
the most horrible tortures, to extort confession of their pretended
guilt. Upon some they poured water into a cloth previously secured
round their necks and shoulders, until suffocation ensued; others were
tortured with lighted matches, and torches applied to the most tender
and sensible parts of the body. But I will not pollute my page with
this monstrous and disgusting detail. Upon confessions, inconsistent
with each other, with common sense and ordinary probability, extorted
also by torments of the mind or body, or both, Captain Gabriel
Towerson, and nine other English merchants of consideration, were
executed; and, to add insult to atrocity, the bloody cloth, on which
Towerson kneeled at his death, was put down to the account of the
English Company.
that before my own father. --Now fourscore take him for an old bawdy
magistrate, that stands like the picture of madam Justice, with a pair
of scales in his hand, to weigh lechery by ounces! [_Aside. _
_Alph. _ Well--but all this while, who is this colonel Hernando?
_Gom. _ He's the first begotten of Beelzebub, with a face as terrible
as Demogorgon. [LORENZO _peeps over_ ALPHONSO'S _Head,
and stares at_ GOMEZ.
No! I lie, I lie. He's a very proper handsome fellow! well
proportioned, and clean shaped, with a face like a cherubin.
_Ped. _ What, backward and forward, Gomez! dost thou hunt counter?
_Alph. _ Had this colonel any former design upon your wife? for, if
that be proved, you shall have justice.
_Gom. _ [_Aside. _] Now I dare speak,--let him look as dreadfully as he
will. --I say, sir, and I will prove it, that he had a lewd design upon
her body, and attempted to corrupt her honesty.
[LORENZO _lifts up his fist clenched at him. _
I confess my wife was as willing--as himself; and, I believe, 'twas
she corrupted him; for I have known him formerly a very civil and
modest person.
_Elv. _ You see, sir, he contradicts himself at every word; he's
plainly mad.
_Alph. _ Speak boldly, man! and say what thou wilt stand by: did he
strike thee?
_Gom. _ I will speak boldly; he struck me on the face before my own
threshold, that the very walls cried shame to him.
[LORENZO _holds up again. _
'Tis true, I gave him provocation, for the man's as peaceable a
gentleman as any is in all Spain.
_Dom. _ Now the truth comes out, in spite of him.
_Ped. _ I believe the friar has bewitched him.
_Alph. _ For my part, I see no wrong that has been offered him.
_Gom. _ How? no wrong? why, he ravished me, with the help of two
soldiers, carried me away _vi et armis,_ and would put me into a
plot against government. [LORENZO _holds up again. _
I confess, I never could endure the government, because it was
tyrannical; but my sides and shoulders are black and blue, as I can
strip and show the marks of them. [LORENZO _again. _
But that might happen, too, by a fall that I got yesterday upon the
pebbles. [_All laugh. _
_Dom. _ Fresh straw, and a dark chamber; a most manifest judgment!
there never comes better of railing against the church.
_Gom. _ Why, what will you have me say? I think you'll make me mad:
truth has been at my tongue's end this half hour, and I have not power
to bring it out, for fear of this bloody-minded colonel.
_Alph. _ What colonel?
_Gom. _ Why, my colonel--I mean my wife's colonel, that appears there
to me like my _malus genius_, terrifies me.
_Alph. _ [_Turning. _] Now you are mad indeed, Gomez; this is my son
Lorenzo.
_Gom. _ How? your son Lorenzo! it is impossible.
_Alph. _ As true as your wife Elvira is my daughter.
_Lor. _ What, have I taken all this pains about a sister?
_Gom. _ No, you have taken some about me; I am sure, if you are her
brother, my sides can show the tokens of our alliance.
_Alph. _ to _Lor. _ You know I put your sister into a nunnery, with a
strict command not to see you, for fear you should have wrought upon
her to have taken the habit, which was never my intention; and
consequently, I married her without your knowledge, that it might not
be in your power to prevent it.
_Elv. _ You see, brother, I had a natural affection to you.
_Lor. _ What a delicious harlot have I lost! Now, pox upon me, for
being so near a-kin to thee!
_Elv. _ However, we are both beholden to friar Dominick; the church is
an indulgent mother, she never fails to do her part.
_Dom. _ Heavens! what will become of me?
_Gom. _ Why, you are not like to trouble heaven; those fat guts were
never made for mounting.
_Lor. _ I shall make bold to disburden him of my hundred pistoles, to
make him the lighter for his journey: indeed, 'tis partly out of
conscience, that I may not be accessory to his breaking his vow of
poverty.
_Alph. _ I have no secular power to reward the pains you have taken
with my daughter; but I shall do it by proxy, friar: your bishop's my
friend, and is too honest to let such as you infect a cloister.
_Gom. _ Ay, do, father-in-law, let him be stript of his habit, and
disordered. --I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbit,
without his holy fur upon his back, that the world may once behold the
inside of a friar.
_Dom. _ Farewell, kind gentlemen; I give you all my blessing before I
go. --May your sisters, wives, and daughters, be so naturally lewd,
that they may have no occasion for a devil to tempt, or a friar to
pimp for them. [_Exeunt, with a rabble pushing him. _
_Enter_ TORRISMOND, LEONORA, BERTRAN, RAYMOND, TERESA, &c.
_Tor. _ He lives! he lives! my royal father lives!
Let every one partake the general joy.
Some angel with a golden trumpet sound,
King Sancho lives! and let the echoing skies
From pole to pole resound, king Sancho lives! --
Bertran, oh! no more my foe, but brother;
One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
_Bert. _ Bad men, when 'tis their interest, may do good.
I must confess, I counselled Sancho's murder;
And urged the queen by specious arguments:
But, still suspecting that her love was changed,
I spread abroad the rumour of his death,
To sound the very soul of her designs.
The event, you know, was answering to my fears;
She threw the odium of the fact on me,
And publicly avowed her love to you.
_Raym. _ Heaven guided all, to save the innocent.
_Bert. _ I plead no merit, but a bare forgiveness.
_Tor. _ Not only that, but favour. Sancho's life,
Whether by virtue or design preserved,
Claims all within my power.
_Leo. _ My prayers are heard;
And I have nothing farther to desire,
But Sancho's leave to authorise our marriage.
_Tor. _ Oh! fear not him! pity and he are one;
So merciful a king did never live;
Loth to revenge, and easy to forgive.
But let the bold conspirator beware,
For heaven makes princes its peculiar care. [_Exeunt. _
Footnotes:
1. Alluding to the common superstition, that the continuance of the
favours of fairies depends upon the receiver's secrecy:--"This is
fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up with it, keep it close;
home, home, the nearest way. We are lucky, boy, and, to be so
still, requires nothing but secrecy;" _Winter's Tale. _
2. A red cross, with the words, "Lord have mercy upon us," was placed,
during the great plague, upon the houses visited by the disease.
EPILOGUE.
BY A FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR'S.
There's none, I'm sure, who is a friend to love,
But will our Friar's character approve:
The ablest spark among you sometimes needs
Such pious help, for charitable deeds.
Our church, alas! (as Rome objects) does want
These ghostly comforts for the falling saint:
This gains them their whore-converts, and may be
One reason of the growth of popery.
So Mahomet's religion came in fashion,
By the large leave it gave to fornication.
Fear not the guilt, if you can pay for't well;
There is no Dives in the Roman Hell:
Gold opens the strait gate, and lets him in;
But want of money is a mortal sin.
For all besides you may discount to heaven,
And drop a bead to keep the tallies even.
How are men cozened still with shows of good!
The bawd's best mask is the grave friar's hood;
Though vice no more a clergyman displeases,
Than doctors can be thought to hate diseases.
'Tis by your living ill, that they live well,
By your debauches, their fat paunches swell.
'Tis a mock-war between the priest and devil;
When they think fit, they can be very civil.
As some, who did French counsels most advance,
To blind the world, have railed in print at France,
Thus do the clergy at your vices bawl,
That with more ease they may engross them all.
By damning yours, they do their own maintain;
A churchman's godliness is always gain:
Hence to their prince they will superior be;
And civil treason grows church loyalty.
They boast the gift of heaven is in their power;
Well may they give the god, they can devour!
Still to the sick and dead their claims they lay;
For 'tis on carrion that the vermin prey.
Nor have they less dominion on our life,
They trot the husband, and they pace the wife.
Rouse up, you cuckolds of the northern climes,
And learn from Sweden to prevent such crimes.
Unman the Friar, and leave the holy drone
To hum in his forsaken hive alone;
He'll work no honey, when his sting is gone.
Your wives and daughters soon will leave the cells,
When they have lost the sound of Aaron's bells.
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Title: The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18)
Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love
Author: John Dryden
Editor: Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Release Date: July 5, 2005 [EBook #16208]
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THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN,
NOW FIRST COLLECTED
_IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES. _
ILLUSTRATED
WITH NOTES,
HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,
AND
A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
BY
WALTER SCOTT, ESQ.
VOL. V.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
1808.
* * * * *
CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME FIFTH.
Amboyna; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants, a
Tragedy
Epistle Dedicatory to Lord Clifford of Chudleigh
The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man, an Opera
Epistle Dedicatory to her Royal Highness the Duchess
Preface. --The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry, and Poetic
Licence
Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy
Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Mulgrave
All for Love, or the World Well Lost, a Tragedy
Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Danby
Preface
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AMBOYNA:
OR, THE
CRUELTIES OF THE DUTCH
TO THE
_ENGLISH MERCHANTS. _
A
TRAGEDY.
--_Manet altâ mente repostum. _
AMBOYNA.
The tragedy of Amboyna, as it was justly termed by the English of the
seventeenth century, was of itself too dreadful to be heightened by
the mimic horrors of the stage. The reader may be reminded, that by
three several treaties in the years 1613, 1615, and 1619, it was
agreed betwixt England and Holland, that the English should enjoy
one-third of the trade of the spice islands. For this purpose,
factories were established on behalf of the English East India Company
at the Molucca Islands, at Banda, and at Amboyna. At the latter island
the Dutch had a castle, with a garrison, both of Europeans and
natives. It has been always remarked, that the Dutchman, in his
eastern settlements, loses the mercantile probity of his European
character, while he retains its cold-blooded phlegm and avaricious
selfishness. Of this the Amboyna government gave a notable proof.
About the 11th of Feb. 1622, old stile, under pretence of a plot laid
between the English of the factory and some Japanese soldiers to seize
the castle, the former were arrested by the Dutch, and subjected to
the most horrible tortures, to extort confession of their pretended
guilt. Upon some they poured water into a cloth previously secured
round their necks and shoulders, until suffocation ensued; others were
tortured with lighted matches, and torches applied to the most tender
and sensible parts of the body. But I will not pollute my page with
this monstrous and disgusting detail. Upon confessions, inconsistent
with each other, with common sense and ordinary probability, extorted
also by torments of the mind or body, or both, Captain Gabriel
Towerson, and nine other English merchants of consideration, were
executed; and, to add insult to atrocity, the bloody cloth, on which
Towerson kneeled at his death, was put down to the account of the
English Company.
