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Scena prima.
Enter Duke; Trumpets and Drums sounding: Colours victoriously displaid: Field-Officers with Souldiers martially ordered in rank and fyle.Herald.
What a Majesty
Without all servile affectation
His personating presence cloath'd with state
And Princely posture seems to represent!
All.
Conquest and Affability contend
Which to his count'nance may pretend most right.
His Spirit's too evenly poiz'd to be transported
With the success of Fortune.—Let us hear him.
Duke.
Safely arriv'd, thanks to the Pow'rs above,
Here are we come: our Enemies subdu'd,
Our wrongs redrest, our Merchants satisfi'd;
No forreign force t'oppose us: thus has time
Crown'd our addresses with triumphant palms,
And by just War begot a thankful Peace.
All.
Long live Eugenio Sivils Governour.
Duke.
Our constant care shall gratifie your love.
Mean time, let these brave Souldiers sharers be
In our success: whom you and wee'r to hold
Such joynt Assistants in our Victories
As their redoubted prowess merits fame,
And competent rewards to recompense
Their noble Service: For believe it friends,
Never were hazards better seconded,
Nor by their valour to a period
Sooner reduc'd; so prosperous was our fight
In darkning those who took away our light.
Mean time, let these brave Souldiers sharers be
In our success: whom you and wee'r to hold
Such joynt Assistants in our Victories
As their redoubted prowess merits fame,
And competent rewards to recompense
Their noble Service: For believe it friends,
Never were hazards better seconded,
Sooner reduc'd; so prosperous was our fight
In darkning those who took away our light.
And having now compos'd these broils abroad,
We'r to look homeward and redress those wrongs
Which nestle in the Bosom of our State,
So much more dang'rous because Connivance
Has wrought them into Habits: These, we fear,
Pretend a Priviledge, because the face
Of Greatness gives them count'nance: but our Laws
Must be no Spider-webs to take small Flyes,
And let the great ones 'scape:—we have resolv'd
“Greatness shall be no subterfuge to Guilt.
This must we act with speed and closely too;
For Secrecy wing'd with Celerity
Be the two Wheels which mannage Moral States
And Martial actions: after short repose
These wee'l chastise: and by a due survey
As just Complaints shall be exhibited,
Measure our Censure to the Peccants Crime.
Nor must we spin out time: we have design'd
Our very next day for Aggrievances
Of Court and City; where our absence might
Admit, perchance, more freedom to offend.
“The onely way to salve a deep disease
“Is to give what may cure, not what may please.
Wherein delayes prove worst: “Artists apply
“Receipts, before distempers grow too high.
We'r to look homeward and redress those wrongs
Which nestle in the Bosom of our State,
So much more dang'rous because Connivance
Has wrought them into Habits: These, we fear,
Pretend a Priviledge, because the face
Of Greatness gives them count'nance: but our Laws
Must be no Spider-webs to take small Flyes,
And let the great ones 'scape:—we have resolv'd
“Greatness shall be no subterfuge to Guilt.
This must we act with speed and closely too;
For Secrecy wing'd with Celerity
Be the two Wheels which mannage Moral States
And Martial actions: after short repose
These wee'l chastise: and by a due survey
As just Complaints shall be exhibited,
Measure our Censure to the Peccants Crime.
Nor must we spin out time: we have design'd
Our very next day for Aggrievances
Of Court and City; where our absence might
Admit, perchance, more freedom to offend.
“The onely way to salve a deep disease
“Is to give what may cure, not what may please.
Wherein delayes prove worst: “Artists apply
“Receipts, before distempers grow too high.
Exit Tubis & Tympanis sonantibus; conspicuo Aulicorum & Stratiotum cœtu comitante.
All.
Under such Guardians may we live and dye.
Exeunt Plebei.
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