Chapter V: Part 5

_Ori._ 'Tis a common one;
Her answer was, having kiss'd none but him,
She thought it was a general disease
All men were subject to; but what infer you
From that my Lord?

_Gom._ Why, that this virtuous Lady
Had all her thoughts so fixed upon her Lord,
That she could find no spare time to sing praises
Of any other; nor would she imploy
Her husband (though perhaps in debt to years
As far as I am) for an instrument
To bring home younger men that might delight her
With their discourse, or--

_Ori._ What my Lord?

_Gom._ Their persons,
Or if I should speak plainer--

_Ori._ No it needs not,
You have said enough to make my innocence know
It is suspected.

_Gom._ You betray your self
To more than a suspition; could you else
To me that live in nothing but love to you
Make such a gross discovery, that your lust
Had sold that heart I thought mine, to _Miranda_?
Or rise to such a height in impudence,
As to presume to work my yielding weakness
To play for your bad ends, to my disgrace,
The Wittal, or the Pander?

_Ori._ Do not study
To print more wounds, (for that were tyranny)
Upon a heart that is pierced through already.

_Gom._ Thy heart? thou hast pierc'd through mine honor false one,
The honor of my house, fool that I was,
To give it up to the deceiving trust
Of wicked woman: for thy sake vild creature,
For all I have done well, in my life,
I have dig'd a grave, all buried in a wife;
For thee I have defi'd my constant Mistriss,
That never fail'd her servant, glorious war;
For thee, refus'd the fellowship of an Order
Which Princes, through all dangers, have been proud
To fetch as far as from _Jerusalem_:
And am I thus rewarded?

_Vel._ By all goodness,
You wrong my Lady, and deserve her not,
When you are at your best: repent your rashness,
'Twill show well in you.

_Abd._ Do, and ask her pardon.

_Ori._ No, I have liv'd too long, to have my faith
(My tri'd faith) call'd in question, and by him
That should know true affection is too tender
To suffer an unkind touch, without ruine;
Study ingratitude, all, from my example;
For to be thankful now, is to be false.
But be it so, let me dye, I see you wish it;
Yet dead for truth, and pities sake, report
What weapon you made choice of, when you kild me.

_Vel._ She faints.

_Abd._ What have ye done?

_Ori._ My last breath cannot
Be better spent, than to say I forgive you;
Nor is my death untimely, since with me
I take along, what might have been hereafter
In scorn delivered for the doubtful issue
Of a suspected mother.

_Vel._ Oh, she's gone.

_Abd._ For ever gone. Are you a man?

_Gom._ I grow here.

_Abd._ Open her mouth, and power this Cordial in it;
If any spark of life be unquench'd in her,
This will recover her.

_Vel._ 'Tis all in vain,
She's stiffe already: live I, and she dead?

_Gom._ How like a murtherer I stand! look up,
And hear me curse my self, or but behold
The vengeance I will take for't _Oriana_,
And then in peace forsake me: Jealousie,
Thou loathsome vomit of the fiends below,
What desperate hunger made me to receive thee
Into my heart, and soul? I'll let thee forth,
And so in death find ease; and does my fault then
Deserve no greater punishment? no, I'll live
To keep thee for a fury to torment me,
And make me know what hell is on the earth:
All joyes and hopes forsake me; all mens malice,
And all the plagues they can inflict, I wish it
Fall thick upon me: let my tears be laught at,
And may mine enemies smile to hear me groane;
And dead, may I be pitied of none. [_Exeunt._

_Scæna Tertia._

_Enter_ Collonna _and_ Lucinda.

_Luc._ Pray you Sir why was the Ordnance of the Fort
Discharg'd so sodainly?

_Col._ 'Twas the Governors pleasure,
In honor of the _Dane_, a custom us'd,
To speak a Soldiers welcome.

_Luc._ 'Tis a fit one:
But is my Master here too?

_Col._ Three days since.

_Luc._ Might I demand without offence, so much,
Is't pride in him (however now a slave)
That I am not admitted to his presence?

_Col._ His curtesie to you, and to mankind
May easily resolve you, he is free
From that poor vice which only empty men
Esteem a virtue.

_Luc._ What's the reason then,
As you imagine, Sir?

_Col._ Why I [will] tell you;
You are a woman of a tempting beauty,
And he, however virtuous, as a man
Subject to humane frailties; and how far
They may prevail upon him, should he see you,
He is not ignorant: and therefore chooses,
With care t'avoid the cause that may produce
Some strange effect, which will not well keep ranck
With the rare temperance, which is admired
In his life hitherto.

_Luc._ This much increases
My strong desire to see him.

_Col._ It should rather
Teach you to thank the Prophet that you worship,
That you are such a mans, who though he may
Do any thing which youth and heat of blood
Invites him to, yet dares not give way to them:
Your entertainment's Noble, and not like
Your present fortune; and if all those tears
Which made grief lovely in you, in the relation
Of the sad story, that forc'd me to weep too,
Your husbands hard fate were not counterfeit;
You should rejoyce that you have means to pay
A chast life to his memory, and bring to him
Those sweets, which while he liv'd, he could not tast of;
But if you wantonly bestow them on
Another man you offer violence
To him, though dead; and his griev'd spirit will suffer
For your immodest looseness.

_Luc._ Why, I hope, Sir,
My willingness to look on him, to whom
I owe my life and service, is no proof
Of any unchast purpose.

_Col._ So I wish too,
And in the confidence it is not, Lady,
I dare the better tell you he will see you
This night, in which by him I am commanded,
To bring you to his chamber, to what end
I easily should guess, were I _Miranda_;
And therefore, though I can yield little reason,
(But in a general love to womens goodness)
Why I should be so tender of your honor,
I willingly would bestow some counsail of you,
And would you follow it?

_Luc._ Let me first hear it,
And then I can resolve you.

_Col._ My advice then
Is, that you would not, (as most Ladies use
When they prepare themselves for such encounters)
Study to add, by artificial dressings
To native excellence; yours (without help)
But seen as it is now, would make a Hermit
Leave his deaths head, and change his after hopes
Of endless comforts for a few short minutes
Of present pleasures; to prevent which, Lady,
Practice to take away from your perfections,
And to preserve your chastity unstain'd,
The most deform'd shape that you can put on
To cloud your bodies fair gifts, or your minds,
(It being laboured to so chast an end)
Will prove the fairest ornament.

_Luc._ To take from
The workmanship of Heaven is an offence
As great, as to endeavor to add to it;
Of which, I'll not be guilty: Chastity
That lodges in deformity, appears rather
A mulct impos'd by nature, than a blessing;
And 'tis commendable only when it conquers,
Though nere so oft assaulted, in resistance:
For me, I'll therefore so dispose my self,
That if I hold out, it shall be with honor;
Or if I yield, _Miranda_ shall find something
To make him love his victory. [_Exit._

_Col._ With what cunning
This woman argues for her own damnation!
Nor should I hold it for a miracle,
Since they are all born _Sophisters_ to maintain
That lust is lawful, and the end and use
Of their creation: would I never had
Hop'd better of her; or could not believe,
Though seen the ruin, I must ever grieve. [_Exit._

_Scæna Quarta._

_Enter_ Miranda, Norandine, _Servants with Lights_.

_Mir._ I'll see you in your chamber. [_A Table out, two stools._

_Nor._ Pray ye no farther:
It is a ceremony I expect not,
I am no stranger here, I know my lodging,
An[d] have slept soundly there, when the _Turks_ Cannon
Playd thick upon't: O 'twas Royal Musick,
And to procure a sound sleep for a Souldier,
Worth forty of [y]our Fiddles. As you love me
Press it no farther.

_Mir._ You will overcome.
Wait on him carefully.

_Nor._ I have took since supper
A rouse or two too much, and by ----
It warms my blood.

_Mir._ You'll sleep the better for't.

_Nor._ ---- on't, I should, had but I a kind wench
To pull my Boot-hose off, and warm my night-cap,
There's no charm like it: I love old _Adams_ way;
Give me a diligent _Eve_, to wait towards bed-time,
Hang up your smooth chin page: and now I think on't,
Where is your _Turkish_ Prisoner?

_Mir._ In the Castle,
But yet I never saw her.

_Nor._ Fie upon you:
See her for shame; or hark ye, if you would
Perform the friends part to me, the friends part,
It being a fashion of the last edition,
Far from panderism, now send her to me;
You look strange on't, no entertainment's perfect
Without it on my word; no livery like it;
[I'll tell her, he lookes for it as duly
As for his fee;] there's no suit got without it,
Gold is an ass to't.

_Mir._ Go to bed, to bed.

_Nor._ Well, if she come, I doubt not to convert her,
If not, the sin lye on your head.
Good night. [_Exit_ Nor. _and Servants_.

_Enter_ Colonna _and_ Lucinda.

_Col._ There you shall find him Lady: you know what I have said,
And if you please you may make use.

_Luc._ No doubt Sir.

_[C]ol._ From hence I shall hear all.

_Mir._ Come hither young one.
Beshrew my heart: a handsome wench: come nearer,
A very handsome one: do not you grieve, Sweet,
You are a prisoner?

_Luc._ The loss of liberty
No doubt Sir, is a heavy and a sharp burden
To them that feel it truely: But your servant,
Your humble handmayd, never felt that rigor,
Thanks to that noble will: no want, no hunger,
(Companions still to slaves) no violence
Nor any unbeseeming act, we start at,
Have I yet [met] with; all content and goodness,
Civility, and sweetness of behaviour
Dwell round about me; therefore worthy Master,
I cannot say I grieve my liberty.

_Mir._ Do not you fancy me too cold a Soldier,
Too obstinate an enemy to youth,
That had so fair a jewel in my Cabinet,
And in so long a time, would nere look on it?

_Col._ What can she say now?

_Luc._ Sure I desir'd to see ye,
And with a longing wish.

_Col._ There's all her virtue.

_Luc._ Pursu'd that full desire to give ye thanks Sir,
The only Sacrifice I have left, and service,
For all the virtuous care you have kept me safe with.

_Col._ She holds well yet.

_Mir._ The pretty fool speaks finely:
Come sit down here.

_Luc._ O Sir, 'tis most unseemly.

_Mir._ I'll have it so: sit close, now tell me truly,
Did you ere love yet?

_Luc._ My years will answer that Sir.

_Mir._ And did you then love truly?

_Luc._ So I thought Sir.

_Mir._ Can ye love me so?

_Col._ Now!

_Luc._ With all my duty;
I were unworthy of those favors else,
You daily showre upon me.

_Mir._ What thinkst thou of me?

_Luc._ I think ye are a truly worthy Gentleman,
A pattern, and a pride to the age ye live in,
Sweet as the commendations all men give ye.

_Mir._ A pretty flattering rogue, dare ye kiss that sweet man
Ye speak so sweetly of? Come.

_Col._ Farewell virtue.

_Mir._ What hast thou got between thy lips? kiss once more.
Sure thou hast a spell there.

_Luc._ More than ere I knew Sir.

_Col._ All hopes go now.

_Mir._ I must tell you a thing in your ear, and you must hear me,
And hear me willingly, and grant me so too,
'Twill not be worth my asking else.

_Luc._ It must be
A very hard thing Sir, and from my power,
I shall deny your goodness.

_Mir._ 'Tis a good wench; I must lye with ye Lady.

_Luc._ 'Tis something strange:
For yet in all my life I knew no bedfellow.

_Mir._ You will quickly find that knowledge.

_Luc._ To what end Sir?

_Mir._ Art thou so innocent, thou canst not guess at it?
Did thy dreams never direct thee?

_Luc._ 'Faith none yet Sir.

_Mir._ I'll tell thee then: I would meet thy youth, and pleasure;
Give thee my youth for that, by heaven she fires me,
And teach thy fair white arms, like wanton Ivies
A thousand new embraces.

_Luc._ Is that all Sir?
And say I should try, may we not lie quietly?
Upon my conscience I could.

_Mir._ That's as we make it.

_Luc._ Grant that, that likes ye best, what would ye do, then?

_Mir._ What would I do? certainly I am no baby,
Nor brought up for a Nun; hark in thine ear.

_Luc._ Fie, fie, Sir.

_Mir._ I would get a brave boy on thee,
A warlike boy.

_Luc._ Sure we shall get ill Christians.

_Mir._ We'll mend 'em in the breeding then.

_Luc._ Sweet Master.

_Col._ Never belief in woman come near me more.

_Luc._ My best and noblest Sir, if a poor Virgin,
(For yet by ---- I am so) should chance so far
(Seeing your excellence, and able sweetness)
To forget her self, and slip into your bosome,
Or to your bed, out of a doting on ye,
Take it the best way; have you that cruel heart,
That murd'ring mind too?

_Mir._ Yes by my troth (sweet) have I,
To lie with her.

_Luc._ And do you think it well done?

_Mir._ That's as she'll think when 'tis done; come to bed wench,
For thou art so pretty, and so witty a companion,
We must not part to night.

_Luc._ Faith let me go Sir,
And think better on't.

_Mir._ Yfaith thou shalt not;
I warrant thee I'll think on't.

_Luc._ I have heard 'em say here,
You are a Maid too.

_Mir._ I am sure I am, wench,
If that will please thee.

_Luc._ I have seen a wonder,
And would you loose that for a little wantonness,
(Consider my sweet Master, like a man, now,)
For a few honied kisses, sleight embraces,
That glory of your youth that crown of sweetness?
Can ye deliver that unvalued treasure?
Would ye forsake, to seek your own dishonor,
What gone, no age recovers, nor repentance,
To a poor stranger?

_Col._ Hold there again, thou art perfect.

_Luc._ I know you do but try me.

_Mir._ And I know
I'll try you a great deal farther: prethee to bed;
I love thee, and so well: come kiss me once more;
Is a maiden-head ill bestow'd o'me?

_Luc._ What's this Sir?

_Mir._ Why, 'tis the badge (my Sweet) of that holy Order
I shortly must receive, the Cross of _Malta_.

_Luc._ What virtue has it?

_Mir._ All that we call virtuous.

_Luc._ Who gave it first?

_Mir._ He that gave all, to save us.

_Luc._ Why then 'tis holy too?

_Mir._ True sign of holiness,
The badge of all his Soldiers that profess him.

_Luc._ The badge of all his Soldiers that profess him,
Can 't save in dangers?

_Mir._ Yes.

_Luc._ In troubles comfort?

_Mir._ You say true, sweet.

_Luc._ In sicknes, restore health?

_Mir._ All this it can do.

_Luc._ Preserve from evils that afflict our frailties.

_Mir._ I hope she will be _Christian_: all these truly.

_Luc._ Why are you sick then, sick to death with lust?
In danger to be lost? no holy thought,
In all that heart, nothing but wandring frailties
Wild as the wind, and blind as death or ignorance,
Inhabit there.

_Mir._ Forgive me heaven, she says true.

_Luc._ Dare ye profess that badge, prophane that goodness?

_Col._ Thou hast redeem'd thy self again, most rarely.

_Luc._ That holiness and truth ye make me wonder at?
Blast all the bounty heaven gives, that remembrance.

_Col._ O excellent woman.

_Luc._ Fling it from ye quickly,
If ye be thus resolv'd; I see a virtue
Appear in't like a sword, both edges flaming
That will consume ye, and your thoughts, to ashes,
Let them profess it that are pure, and noble,
Gentle, and just of thought, that build the cross,
Not those that break it, by ---- if ye touch me,
Even in the act, I'll make that cross, and curse ye.

_Mir._ You shall not (fair) I did dissemble with ye,
And but to try your faith, I fashion'd all this:
Yet something you provokt me: this fair cross:
By me (if he but please to help, first gave it)
Shall nee'r be worn upon a heart corrupted;
Go to your rest, my modest, honest servant,
My fair, and virtuous maid, and sleep secure there,
For when you suffer, I forget this sign here.

_Col._ A man of men too: O most perfect Gentleman!

_Luc._ All sweet rest to you sir; I am half a _Christian_,
The other half, I'll pray for; then for you, Sir.

_Mir._ This is the fowlest play I'll shew, good night, sweet.

[_Exeunt._

_Actus Quartus. Scæna Prima._

_Enter_ Mountferrat _and_ Rocca.

_Mount._ The Sun's not set yet?

_Roc._ No Sir.

_Mount._ Would it were,
Never to rise again to light the world.
And yet, to what vain purpose do I wish it.
Since though I were inviron'd with thick mists,
Black as _Cymerian_ darkness, or my crimes,
There is that here, upon which as an anvile
Ten thousand hammers strike, and every spark
They force from it, to me's an other Sun
To light me to my shame?

_Roc._ Take hope, and comfort.

_Mount._ They are aides indeed, but yet as far from me,
As I from being innocent: this cave fashion'd
By provident nature, in this solid Rock
To be a den for beasts, alone, receives me,
And having prov'd an enemy to mankind,
All humane helps forsake me.

_Roc._ I'll nee'r leave you,
And wish you would call back that noble courage
That old invincible fortitude of yours
That us'd to shrink at nothing.

_Mount._ Then it did not.
But 'twas when I was honest; then in the height
Of all my happiness, of all my glories,
Of all delights, that made life pretious to me
I durst dye _Rocca_; death it self then to me
Was nothing terrible, because I knew,
The fame of a good Knight would ever live
Fresh on my memory; but since I fell
From my integrity, and dismis'd those guards,
Those strong assurances of innocence,
That constancy fled from me, and what's worse,
Now I am loathsome to my self; and life
A burthen to me, rack'd with sad remembrance
Of what I have done, and my present horrors
Unsufferable to me, tortur'd with despair
That I shall nee'r find mercy: hell about me,
Behind me, and before me, yet I dare not,
Still fearing worse, put off my wretched Being.

_Ent[e]r_ Abdella.

_Roc._ To see this would deter a doubtful man
From mischievous intents, much more the practice
Of what is wicked: here's the Moore, look up Sir,
Some ease may come from her.

_Mount._ New trouble rather,
And I expect it.

_Abd._ Who is this? _Mountferrat?_
Rise up for shame, and like a river dri'd up
With a long drought, from me, your bounteous Sea
Receive those tides of comfort that flow to you;
If ever I look[t] lovely: if desert.
Could ever challenge welcome; if revenge,
And unexpected wreak, were ever pleasing
Or could endear the giver of such blessings,
All these I come adorn'd with, and, as due,
Make challenge of those so long wish'd embraces
Which you (unkind) have hitherto deny'd me.

_Mount._ Why, what have you done for me?

_Abd._ Made _Gomera_
As truely miserable, as you thought him happy,
Could you wish more?

_Mount._ As if his sickness could
Recover me; the injuries I receiv'd
Were _Oriana's_.

_Abd._ She has paid dear for 'em,
She's dead.

_Mount._ How?

_Abd._ Dead; my hate could reach no farther:
Taking advantage of her in a swoon,
Under pretence to give a Cordial to her
I poyson'd her: what stupid dulness is this?
What you should entertain with sacrifice,
Can you receive so coldly?

_Mount._ Bloody deeds
Are grateful offerings, pleasing to the devill,
And thou, in thy black shape, and bla[c]ker actions
Being hels perfect character, art delighted
To do what I thought infinitely wicked,
Tremble to hear: thou hast, in this taen from me
All means to make amends with penitence,
To her wrong'd virtues, and dispoil'd me of
The poor remainder of that hope was left me,
For all I have already, or must suffer.

_Abd._ I did it for the best.

_Mount._ For thy worst ends,
And be assur'd but that, I think to kill thee
Would but prevent, what thy despair must force thee
To do unto thy self, and so to add to
Thy most assur'd damnation, thou wert dead now.
But get thee from my sight: and if lust of me
Did ever fire thee (love I cannot call it)
Leap down from those steep Rocks, or take advantage
Of the next tree to hang thy self, and then
I may laugh at it.

_Abd._ In the mean time
I must be bold, to do so much for you, ha, ha.

_Mount._ Why grinst thou, devil?

_Abd._ That 'tis in my power,
To punish thy ingratitude; I made trial
But how you stood affected, and since I know
I'm us'd only for a property,
I can, and will revenge it to the full.
For understand, in thy contempt of me,
Those hopes of _Oriana_, which I could
Have chang'd to certainties, are lost for ever.

_Mount._ Why, lives she?

_Abd._ Yes, but never to _Mountferrat_,
Although it is in me, with as much ease
To give her freely up to thy possession,
As to remove this rush; which yet despair of:
For by [my] much wrong'd love, flattery, nor threats,
Tears, prayers, nor vowes, shall ever win me to it:
So with my curse I leave thee.

_Mount._ Prethee stay,
Thou know'st I dote on thee, and yet thou art
So peevish, and perverse, so apt to take
Triffles unkindly from me.

_Abd._ To perswade me
To break my neck, to hang, then damn my self,
With you are trifles.

_Mount._ 'Twas my melancholy
That made me speak I know not what: forgive,
I will redeem my fault.

_Roc._ Believe him Lady.

_Mount._ A thousand times I will demand thy pardon,
And keep the reckoning on thy lips with kisses.

_Abd._ There's something else, that would prevail more with me.

_Mount._ Thou shalt have all thy wishes do but bless me
With means to satisfie my mad desires
For once in _Oriana_ and for ever
I am thine, only thine my best _Abdella_.

_Abd._ Were I assur'd of this, and that you would
Having enjoy'd her--

_Mount._ Any thing: make choice of
Thine own conditions.

_Abd._ Swear then, that perform'd,
(To free me from all doubts and fears hereafter)
To give me leave to kill her.

_Mount._ That our safety
Must of necessity urge us to.

_Abd._ Then know
It was not poyson, but a sleeping potion
Which she receiv'd; yet of sufficient strength
So to bind up her sences, that no sign
Of life appear'd in her: and thus thought dead,
In her best habit, as the custom is
You know in _Malta_, with all ceremonies
She's buried in her families monument,
In the Temple of St. _John_; I'll bring you thither,
Thus, as you are disguis'd; some six hours hence
The potion will leave working.

_Roc._ Let us haste then.

_Mount._ Be my good angel, guide me.

_Abd._ But remember,
You keep your Oath.

_Mount._ As I desire to prosper
In what I undertake.

_Abd._ I ask no more. [_Exeunt._

_Scæna Secunda._

_Enter_ Miranda, Norandine, _and_ Collonna.

_Col._ Here sir, I have got the Key; I borrow'd it
Of him that keeps the Church, the door is open.

_Mir._ Look to the horses then, and please the fellow.
After a few devotions, I'll retire.
Be not far off, there may be some use of ye,
Give me the light: come friend, a few good prayers
Were not bestow'd in vain now, even from you Sir.
Men that are bred in blood, have no way left 'em,
No bath, no purge, no time to wear it out
Or wash it off, but penitence, and prayer:
I am to take the order, and my youth
Loaden I must confess with many follies,
Circled and bound about with sins as many
As in the house of memory live figures.
My heart I'll open now, my faults confess,
And raise a new man, heaven, I hope, to a new life.

_Nor._ I have no great devotion, at this instant,
But for a prayer or two, I will not out Sir,
Hold up your finger, when you have pray'd enough.

_Mir._ Go you to that end.

_Nor._ I shall nee'r pray alone sure, I have been so us'd to
answer the Clerk: would I had a cushion, for I shall ne'r make
a good Hermit, and kneel till my knees are horn, these stones
are plaguy hard; where shall I begin now? for if I do not
observe a method, I shall be out presently.

_Ori._ Oh, oh.

_Nor._ What's that Sir? did ye hear?

_Mir._ Ha; to your prayers.

_Nor._ 'Twas here abouts, t'has put me clean aw[r]y now,
I shall nee'r get in again, ha, by Land,
And water, all children, and all women,
I there it was I left.

_Ori._ Oh, oh.

_Nor._ Never tell me Sir,
Here's something got amongst us.

_Mir._ I heard a groan:
A dismal one,--

_Ori._ Oh, oh.

_Nor._ Here, 'tis here Sir, 'tis here Sir;
A devil in the wall.

_Mir._ 'Tis some illusion
To fright us from devotion--

_Ori._ Oh, oh.

_Nor._ Why 'tis here,
The spirit of a huntesman choak'd with butter:
Here's a new tomb, new trickments too.

_Mir._ For certain,
This has not been three days here.

_Nor._ And a Tablet
With rimes upon't.

_Mir._ I prethee read 'em _Norandine_.

_Nor._ An Epi--and Epi--taff. I think 'tis, I 'tis taff, an Epitaff.
Upon the most excell, excell--lent--and.

_Mir._ Thou canst not read.

_Nor._ I have spoyl'd mine eyes with gunpowder.

_Mir._ An _Epitaph_ upon the most virtuous, and excellent Lady
The honor of Chastity, _Oriana_.

_Nor._ The grand masters sister: how a devil came she here?
When slipt she out o'th'way, the stone's but half upon her.

_Mir._ 'Tis a sodain change: certain the mischief

_Mountferrat_ offer'd to her broak her heart-strings.

_Nor._ Would he were here, I would be the clerk my self,
And by this little light, I would bury him alive here:
Here's no lamenting now.

_Ori._ Oh, oh.

_Nor._ There 'tis.

_Mir._ Sure from the monument, the very stone groanes for her.
Oh, dear Lady: blessing of women, virtue of thy sex;
How art thou set for ever, how stol'n from us.
Babling, and prating now converse with women.

_Nor._ Sir, it rises, it looks up. [_She rises up._

_Mir._ Heaven bless us.

_Nor._ It is in womans cloathes, it rises higher.

_Mir._ It looks about, and wonders, sure she lives Sir.
'Tis she, 'tis _Oriana_, 'tis that Lady.

_Nor._ Shall I go to her?

_Ori._ Where am I!

_Mir._ Stand still.

_Ori._ What place is this?

_Nor._ She is as live as I am.

_Ori._ What smell of earth, and rotten bones, what dark place?
Lord, whither am I carried?

_Nor._ How she stares,
And sets her eyes upon him.

_Mir._ How is't dear Lady?
Do you know me, how she shakes!

_Ori._ You are a man.

_Mir._ A man that honors you.

_Ori._ A cruel man,
Ye are all cruel: are you in your grave too?
For there's no trusting cruel man, above ground.

_Nor._ Byr'Lady that goes hard.

_Mir._ To do you service
And to restore ye to the joys you were in.

_Ori._ I was in joyes indeed, and hope--

_Mir._ She sinks again
Again she's gone; she's gone: gone as a shadow,
She sinks for ever, friend.

_Nor._ She is cold now,
She is certainly departed, I must cry too.

_Mir._ The blessed angels guide thee: put the stone too,
Beauty thou art gone to dust, goodness to ashes.

_Nor._ Pray take it well: we must all have our hours Sir.

_Mir._ I, thus we are; and all our painted glory,
A buble that a boy blows in to th' ayr,
And there it breaks.

_Nor._ I am glad ye sav'd her honor yet.

_Mir._ Would I had sav'd her life now too: oh heaven
For such a blessing, such a timely blessing
O friend, what dear content 'twould be, what story
To keep my name from worms!

_Ori._ Oh, oh.

_Nor._ She lives again.
'Twas but a trance.

_Mir._ Pray ye call my man in presently
Help with the stone first, oh she stirs again.
Oh call my man away.

_Nor._ I fly, I fly Sir.

_Mir._ Upon my knees O heaven, O heaven I thank thee.

_Enter_ Colonna, _and_ Norand.

The living heat steals into every member;
Come help the Coffin out softly, and sodainly;
Where is the Clerk?

_Col._ Drunk above he is sure Sir.

_Mir._ Sirrah, you must be secret.

_Col._ As your soul Sir.

_Mir._ Softly good friend, take her into your armes.

_Nor._ Put in the crust again.

_Mir._ And bring her out there when I am a horseback
My man, and I will tenderly conduct her
Unto the Fort; stay you, and watch what issue,
And what inquirie's for the body.

_Nor._ Well Sir.

_Mir._ And when ye have done, come back to me.

_Nor._ I will.

_Mir._ Softly, oh softly.

_Nor._ She grows warmer still Sir.

_Col._ What shall I do with the Key?

_Mir._ Thou canst not stir now,
Leave it ith'door, go get the horses ready. [_Exeunt._

_Enter_ Rocca, Mountferrat, Abdella, _with a dark Lanthorn_.

_Roc._ The door's already open, the Key in it.

_Mount._ What were those past by?

_Roc._ Some scout of Soldiers, I think.

_Mount._ It may well be so, for I saw their horses:
They saw not us I hope.

_Abd._ No, no, we were close,
Beside they were far off.

_Mount._ What time of night is't?

_Abd._ Much about twelve I think.

_Roc._ Let me go in first
For by the leaving open of the door here
There may be some body in the Church: give me the Lanthorne.

_Abd._ You'll love me now I hope.

_Mount._ Make that good to me
Your promise is engaged for.

_Abd._ Why she is there
Ready prepar'd, and much about this time
Life will look up again.

_Roc._ Come in all's sure,
Not a foot stirring, nor a tongue.

_Mount._ Heaven bless me,
I never enter'd with such unholy thoughts
This place before.

_Abd._ Ye are a fearful fool,
If men have appetites allow'd 'em,
And warm desires, are there not ends too for 'em?

_Mount._ Whether shall we carry her?

_Roc._ Why, to the bark, Sir,
I have provided one already waits us;
The wind stands wondrous fair too for our passage.

_A[b]d._ And there when ye have enjoy'd her, for ye have that liberty
Let me alone to send her to feed fishes:
I'll no more sighs for her.

_Mount._ Where is the monument?
Thou art sure she will awake about this time?

_Abd._ Most sure, if she be not knockt oth'head: give me the Lanthorn,
Here 'tis, how is this, the stone off?

_Roc._ I, and nothing
Within the monument, that's worse; no body
I am sure of that, nor sign of any here,
But an empty Coffin.

_Mount._ No Lady?

_Roc._ No, nor Lord Sir,
This Pye has been cut up before.

_Abd._ Either the Devil
Must do these tricks--

_Mount._ Or thou, damn'd one, worse;
Thou black swoln pitchy cloud, of all my afflictions:
Thou night hag, gotten when the bright Moon suffer'd:
Thou hell it self confin'd in flesh: what trick now?
Tell me, and tell me quickly what thy mischief
Has done with her, and to what end, and whether
Thou hast remov'd her body, or by this holy place
This Sword shall cut thee into thousand pieces,
A thousand thousand, strow thee ore the Temple
A sacrifice to thy black sire, the Devil.

_Ro[c]._ Tell him, you see he's angry.

_Abd._ Let him burst,
Neither his sword, nor anger do I shake at,
Nor will yield to feed his poor suspitions,
His idle jealousies, and mad dogs heats
One thought against my self: ye have done a brave deed;
A manly, and a valiant piece of Service:
When ye have kill'd me, reckon't amongst your Battels;
I am sorry ye are so poor, so weak a Gentleman,
Able to stand no fortune: I dispose of her?
My mischief make her away? a likely project,
I must play booty against my self, if any thing cross ye,
I am the devil, and the devils heir,
All plagues, all mischiefs.

_Mount._ Will ye leave and do yet?

_Ab._ I have done too much,
Far, far too much, for such a thankless fellow,
If I be devil, you created me;
I never knew those arts, nor bloody practises
(---- o'your cunning heart, that mine of mischief)
Before your flatteries won 'em into me.
Here did I leave her, leave her with that certainty
About this hour to wake again.

_Mount._ Where is she?
This is the last demand.

_Ab._ Did I now know it,
And were I sure, this were my latest minute,
I would not tell thee: strike, and then I'll curse thee:

_Roc._ I see a light, stand close, and leave your angers.
We all miscarry else.

_Enter_ Gomera, _Page with Torch_.

_Ab._ I am now careless.

_Mount._ Peace, prethee peace, sweet, peace, all friends.

_Abd._ Stand close then.

_Gom._ Wait there Boy, with the light, till I call to thee:
In darkness was my soul and sences clouded
When my fair Jewel fell, the night of jealousie,
In all her blackness drawn about my judgment:
No light was let into me, to distinguish
Betwixt my suddain anger and her honor,
A blind sad Pilgrimage shall be my pennance,
No comfort of the day will I look up at:
Far darker than my jealous Ignorance
Each place of my aboad shall be my prayers
No ceremonious lights shall set off more:
Bright Armes, and all that carry lustre, life,
Society, and solace, I forsake ye.
And were it not once more to see her beauties,
(For in her bed of death, she must be sweet still,)
And on her cold sad lips seal my repentance;
Thou child of heaven, fair light I could not miss thee.

_Mount._ I know the tongue, would I were out again,
I have done him too much wrong to look upon him.

_Ab._ There is no shifting now, boldness, and confidence
Must carry it now away: he is but one neither,
Naked as you are, of a strength far under.

_Mount._ But he has a cause above me.

_Ab._ That's as you handle it.

_Roc._ Peace: he may go again, and never see us.

_Gom._ I feel I weep apace, but where's the flood,
The torrent of my tears, to drown my fault in?
I would I could now, like a loaden cloud,
Begotten in the moist south, drop to nothing.
Give me the Torch, Boy.

_Roc._ Now he must discover us.

_Ab._ He has already, never hide your head
Be bold and brave, if we must dye together.

_Gom._ Who's there? what friend to sorrow? The Tomb wide open
The Stone off too? the body gone, by ----
Look to the door Boy: keep it fast, who are ye?
What sacrilegious villains? false _Mountferrat_,
The woolf to honor, has thy hellish hunger,
Brought thee to tear the body out oth'tomb too?
Has thy foul mind so far wrought on thee? ha,
Are you there too? nay, then I spie a villany
I never dream'd of yet, thou sinful usher
Bred from that rottenness, th[ou] bawd to mischief,
Do you blush through all your blackness? will not that hide it?

_Ab._ I cannot speak.

_Gom._ You are well met, with your dam, Sir,
Art thou a Knight? did ever on that sword,
The _Christian_ cause sit nobly? could that hand fight,
Guided by fame, and fortune? that heart inflame thee,
With virtuous fires of valor, to fall off,
Fall off so suddainly, and with such foulness,
As the false Angels did, from all their glory?
Thou art no Knight, honor thou never heard'st of,
Nor brave desires could ever build in that breast.
Treason, and tainted thoughts, are all the Gods
Thou worship'st, all the strength thou hadst, and fortune;
Thou didst things out of fear, and false heart, villain
Out of close traps and treacheries, they have raised thee.

_Mount._ Thou rav'st old man.

_Gom._ Before thou get'st off from me,
Hadst thou the glory of thy first fi[gh]ts on thee
Which thou hast basely lost, thy noblest fortunes,
And in their greatest lustres, I would make thee,
Before we part, confess, nay, kneel, and do it,
Nay, crying kneel, coldly, for mercy, crying:
Thou art the recreant'st Rogue, time ever nourished, stav'd,
Thou art a dog, I will make thee swear, a dog
A mangy Cur-dog; do you creep behind the Altar?
Look how it sweats, to shelter such a rascall;
First, with thy venemous tooth infect her chast life,
And then not dare to do; next, rob her rest,
Steal her dead body out oth'grave.

_Mount._ I have not.

_Gom._ Prethee come out, this is no place to quarrel in,
Valiant _Mountferrat_ come.

_Mount._ I will not stir.

_Gom._ Thou hast thy sword about thee,
That good sword, that never faill'd thee: prethee come,
We'll have but five stroaks for it; on, on Boy,
Here's one would fain be acquainted with thee,
Would wondrous fain cleave that Calves-head of yours Sir,
Come, prethee let's dispatch, the Moon shines finely:
Prethee be kill'd by me, thou wilt be hang'd else,
But it may be, thou long'st to be hang'd.

_Roc._ Out with him, Sir,
You shall have my sword too: when he's dispatch'd once,
We have the world before us.

_Gom._ Wilt thou walk fellow,
I never knew a Rogue, hang arse-ward so,
And such a desperate knave too.

_Ab._ Pray go with him,
Something I'll promise too.

_Mount._ You would be kill'd then?
No remedy; I see.

_Gom._ If thou dar'st do it?

_Mount._ Yes, now I dare; lead out, I'll follow presently
Under the Mount I'll meet ye.

_Gom._ Go before me,
I'll have ye in a string too.

_Mount._ As I am a Gentleman,
And by this holy place I will not fail thee,
Fear not, thou shalt be kill'd, take my word for it
I will not fail.

_Gom._ If thou scap'st thou hast Cats luck.
The Mount?

_Mount._ The same: make hast, I am there before else.

_Gom._ Go get ye home; now if he scape I am a Coward.

_Mount._ Well, now I am resolv'd, and he shall find it.

[_Exeunt._

_Scæna Tertia._

_Enter_ Miranda, Lucinda, Collonna.

_Mir._ How is it with the Lady?

_Luc._ Sir, as well
As it can be with one, who feeling knowes now
What is the curse the divine justice lay'd
On the first sinful woman.

_Mir._ Is she in travel?

_Luc._ Yes sir; and yet the troubles of her mind
Afflict her more, than what her body suffers,
For in the extremity of her pain, she cryes out,
Why am I here? Where is my Lord _Gomera_,
Then sometimes names _Miranda_, and then sighes,
As if to speak, what questionless she loves well,
If heard, mig[ht] do her injury.

_Col._ Heavens sweet mercy
Look gently on her.

_Mir._ Prethee tell her, my Prayers
Are present with her, and good wench provide
That she want nothing: what's thy name?

_Luc. Lucinda._

_Mir. Lucinda?_ there's a prosperous omen in it,
Be a _Lucinda_ to her, and bring word
That she is safe delivered of her burthen,
And thy reward's thy liberty: come _Collonna_,
We will go see how th'Engineer has mounted
The Cannon the great Master sent, be careful
To view the works, and learn the discipline
That is us'd here: I am to leave the world
And for your service, which I have found faithful,
The charge that's mine, if I have any power
Hereafter may concern you.

_Col._ I still find
A noble Master in you.

_Mir._ 'Tis but justice,
Thou do'st deserve it in thy care, and duty. [_Exeunt._

_Scæna Quarta._

_Enter_ Gomera, Mountferrat, Rocca, Abdella, _with a Pistol_.

_Gom._ Here's even ground, I'll stir no foot beyond it,
Before I have thy head.

_Mount._ Draw _Rocca_.

_Gom._ Coward,
Hath inward guilt, robb'd thee as well of courage
As honesty? that without odds thou dar'st not
Answer a single Enemy?

_Mount._ All advantage
That I can take, expect.

_Roc._ We know you are valiant,
Nor do we purpose to make farther trial
Of what you can do now: but to dispatch you.

_Mount._ And therefore fight, and pray together.

_Gom._ Villains,
Whose baseness, all disgraceful words made one,
Cannot express; so strong is the good cause
That seconds me, that you shall feel, with horror
To your proud hopes, what strength is in that arm,
Though old, that holds a sword made sharp by justice.

_Ab._ You come then here, to prate? [_Fight._

_Mount._ Help _Rocca_, now,
Or I am lost for ever; how comes this?
Are villany and weakness twyns?

_Roc._ I am gone too.

_Gom._ You shall not scape me, wretches.

_Ab._ I must do it,
All will go wrong else. [_Shoots him._

_[G]om._ Treacherous bloody woman,
What hast thou done?

_Ab._ Done a poor womans part,
And in an instant, what these men so long
Stood fooling for.

_Mount._ This ayd was unexpected,
I kiss thee for't.

_Roc._ His right arms only shot,
And that compell'd him to forsake his sword,
He's else unwounded.

_Mount._ Cut his throat.

_Ab._ Forbear.
Yet do not hope 'tis with intent to save thee.
But that thou mayst live to thy farther torment,
To see who triumphs over thee: come _Mountferrat_,
Here join thy foot to mine, and let our hearts
Meet with our hands, the contract that is made
And cemented with blood, as this of ours is,
Is a more holy sanction, and much surer,
Than all the superstitious ceremonies
You _Christians_ use.

_Enter_ Norandine.

_Roc._ Who's this?

_Mount._ Betray'd again?

_Nor._ By the report it made, and by the wind
The Pistol was discharg'd here.

_Gom. Norandine._
As ever thou lov'st valor, or wear'st Arms
To punish baseness, shew it.

_Nor._ O the devil,
_Gomera_ wounded, and my _Brache black beauty_
An actor in it?

_Ab._ If thou strik'st, I'll shoot thee.

_Nor._ How? fright me with your Pot-gun? what art thou?
Good heaven, the Rogue, the traytor rogue _Mountferrat_,
To swinge the nest of you, is a sport unlook'd for,
Hels ---- consume you.

_Mount._ As thou art a man,
I am wounded, give me time to answer thee.

_Gom._ Durst thou urge this? this hand can hold a sword yet.

_Nor._ Well done: to see this villain, makes my hurts
Bleed fresh again, but had I not a bone whole,
In such a cause I should do thus, thus Rascals.

_Enter Corporal and watch._

_Cor._ Disarm them, and shoot any that resists.

_Gom._ Hold Corporal; I am _Gomera_.

_Nor._ 'Tis well yet, that once in an age you can
Remember what you watch for: I had thought
You had again been making out your parties
For sucking piggs.
'Tis well: As you will answer
The contrary with your lives, see these forth coming.

_Cor._ That we shall do.

_Nor._ You bleed apace: good Soldiers
Go help him to a Surgeon.

_Roc._ Dare the worst,
And suffer like your self.

_Ab._ From me learn courage.

_Nor._ Now for _Miranda_, this news will be to him
As welcome as 'tis unexpected: Corporal,
There's something for thy care to night; my horse there. [_Exeunt._

_Actus Quintus. Scæna Prima._

_Enter_ Oriana, _and_ Lucinda.

_Ori._ How do's my Boy?

_Luc._ Oh, wondrous lusty Madam,
A little Knight already: you shall live
To see him toss a _Turk_.

_Ori._ Gentle _Lucinda_,
Much must I thank thee for thy care, and service.

_Enter_ Miranda, Norandine, Colonna.

And may I grow but strong to see _Valetta_,
My husband, and my brother, thou shalt find
I will not barely thank thee.

_Mir._ Look Captain, we must ride away this morning
The Auberge sits to day, and the great Master
Writes plainly, I must or deliver in
(The year expir'd) my probation weed,
Or take the Cloak: you likewise _Norandine_
For your full service, and your last assistance
In false _Mountferrats_ apprehension
Are here commanded to associate me; my twin in this high honor.

_Nor._ I'll none on't: do they think to bind me to live chast,
sober, and temperately, all days of my life? they may as soon
tye an _Englishman_ to live so; I shall be a sweet _Dane_, a
sweet Captain, go up and down drinking small beer, and swearing
_'ods neagues_, no, I'll live a Squire at Arms still, and do
thou so too; and thou beest wise: I have found the mystery now,
why the Gentlemen wear but three bars of the cross, and the
Knights the whole one.

_Mir._ Why Captain?

_Nor._ Marry Sir, to put us in remembrance, we are but three
quarters cross'd in our licence, and pleasures: but the poor
Knights cross'd altogether; the brothers at Arms, may yet meet
with their Sisters at Arms, now and then, in brotherly love;
but the poor Knights cannot get a Lady for love, nor money:
'tis not so in other Countries I wis, pray haste you, for I'll
along, and see what will come on't. [_Exit._

_Mir. Collonna_, provide strait, all necessaries
For this remove, the Lytter for the Lady,
And let _Lucinda_ bear her company,
You shall attend on me.

_Col._ With all my duties. [_Exit._

_Mir._ How fare you gracious Mistriss?

_Ori._ O _Miranda_.
You pleas'd to honor me with that fair title
When I was free, and could dispose my self;
But now, no smile, no word, no look, no touch
Can I impart to any, but as theft
From my _Gomera_, and who dares accept,
Is an usurper.

_Mir._ Leave us; I have touch'd thee,
(Thou fairer virtue, than thou'rt beautiful)
Hold but this test, so rich an ore was never

[_Altar ready, tapers and booke._

Tryed by the hand of man, on the vast earth:
Sit brightest _Oriana_, is it sin
Still to profess I love you, still to vow
I shall do ever? heaven my witness be,
'Tis not your eye, your cheek, your tongue, no part
That superficially doth snare young men,
Which has caught me; read over in your thoughts
The story that this man hath made of you,
And think upon his merit.

_Ori._ Only thought
Can comprehend it.

_Mir._ And can you be so
Cruel, thankless, to destroy his youth
That say'd your honor, gave you double life?
Your own, and your fair Infants? that when fortune
(The blind foe to all beauty, that is good,)
Bandied you from one hazard to another,
Was even heavens Messenger, by providence
Call'd to the Temple, to receive you there,
Into these Arms, to give ease to your throwes,
As if't had thunder'd; take thy due _Miranda_,
For she was thine; _Gomera_'s jealousie
Struck death unto thy heart; to him be dead,
And live to me, that gave thee second life:
Let me but now enjoy thee: Oh regard
The torturing fires of my affections.

_Ori._ Oh master them, _Miranda_, as I mine;
Who follows his desires, such tyrants serves
As will oppress him insupportably.
My flames, _Miranda_, rise as high as thine,
For I did love thee 'fore my marriage,
Yet would I now consent, or could I think
Thou wert in earnest, (which by all the souls
That have (for chastity) been sanctified
I cannot) in a moment I do know
Thou'ldst call fair temperance up to rule thy blood,
Thy eye was ever chaste, thy countenance too honest,
And all thy wooings was like Maidens talk;
Who yieldeth unto pleasures, and to lust
Is a poor captive, that in Golden Fetters
(And pretious (as he thinks) but holding gyves)
Frets out his life.

_Mir._ Find such another woman,
And take her for his labour, any man:

_Ori._ I was not worthy of thee, at my best,
Heaven knew I was not, I had had thee else;
Much less now gentle Sir; _Miranda_'s deeds
Have been as white as _Oriana_'s fame,
From the beginning to this point of time,
And shall we now begin to stain both thus?
Think on the legend which we two shall breed
Continuing as we are, for chastest dames
And boldest Soldiers to peruse and read,
I and read thorough, free from any act
To cause the modest cast the book away,
And the most honour'd Captain fold it up.

_Mir._ Fairest; let go my hand: my pulse beats thick,
And my mov'd blood, rides high in every vain,
Lord of thy self now, Soldier, and ever:
I would not for _Aleppo_, this frail Bark,
This bark of flesh, no better steers-man had
Than has _Mountferrat's_: may you kiss me, Lady?

_Ori._ No; though't be no essential injury,
It is a circumstance due to my Lord,
To none else: and my dearest friend, if hands
Playing together, kindle heat in you,
What may the game at Lips provoke unto?

_Mir._ Oh what a tongue is here! whil'st she doth teach
My heart to hate my fond unlawful love,
She talks me more in love, with love to her,
My fires she quencheth with her arguments,
But as she breathes 'em, they blow fresher fires.
Sit further: now my flame cools; Husband, Wife,
There is some holy mystery in those names
That sure the unmarried cannot understand.

_Ori._ Now thou art strait, and dost enamour me,
So far beyond a carnal earthly love;
My very soul doats on thee, and my spirits
Do embrace thine, my mind doth thy mind kiss,
And in this pure conjunction we enjoy
A heavenlier pleasure than if bodies met:
This, this is perfect love, the other short,
Yet languishing fruition, every Swain
And sweating Groom may clasp, but ours refin'd
Two in ten ages cannot reach unto;
Nor is our spiritual love, a barren joy,
For mark what blessed issue we'll beget,
Dearer than children to posterity,
A great example to mens continence,
And womens chastity, that is a child
More fair and comfortable, than any heir.

_Mir._ If all wives were but such, lust would not find
One corner to inhabit, sin would be
So strange, remission superfluous:
But one petition, I have done.

_Ori._ What (Sweet)?

_Mir._ To call me Lord, if the hard hand of death
Seize on _Gomera_ first.

_Ori._ Oh, much too worthy;
How much you undervalue your own price,
To give your unbought self, for a poor woman,
That has been once sold, us'd, and lost her show?
I am a garment worn, a vessel crack'd,
A _Zone_ unti'd, a Lilly trode upon,
A fragrant Flower cropt by another[s] hand,
My colour sully'd, and my odo[r] chang'd,
If when I was new blossom'd, I did fear
My self unworthy of _Miranda_'s spring:
Thus over-blown, and seeded, I am rather
Fit to adorn his Chimney, than his bed.

_Mir._ Rise miracle: save _Malta_, with thy virtue,
If words could make me proud, how has she spoke,
Yet I will try her to the very block:
Hard-hearted, and uncivil _Oriana_,
Ingrateful payer of my Industries,
That with a soft painted hypocrisie
Cozen'st, and jeer'st my perturbation,
Expect a witty, and a fell revenge:
My comfort is, all men will think thee false,
Beside thy Husband having been thus long
(On this occasion) in my Fort, and power.

_Enter_ Nor. Collonna, & Lucinda, _with a Child_.

I'll hear no more words: Captain, let's away
With all care see to her: and you _Lucinda_
Attend her diligently: she is a wonder.

_Nor._ Have you found she was well deliver'd:
What, had she a good Midwife, is all well?

_Mir._ You are merry _Norandine_.

_Luc._ Why weep you, Lady?

_Ori._ Take the poor Babe along.

_Col._ Madam, 'tis here.

_Ori._ Dissembling death, why didst thou let me live
To see this change, my greatest cause to grieve? [_Exeunt._

_Scæna Secunda._

_Enter_ Astorius, Castriot, Valetta, Gomera, Synnet, _Knights_,
_two Bishops_, Mountferrat _guarded by Corporal and Soldiers_,
Abdella, _a Gentleman with a Cloak, sword, and Spurrs_:
Gomera.

_Val._ A tender Husband hast thou shew'd thy self
My dearest brother, and thy memory
After my life in brazen Characters;
Shall monumentally be register'd
To ages consequent, till times running hand,
Beats back the world, to undistinguished _Chaos_,
And on the top of that thy name shall stand
Fresh, and without decay.