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Edition: 10
Language: English
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE SPANISH TRAGEDIE ***
1587
Thomas Kyd
[Edited by John Matthews Manly, 1897. This electronic text is based on the
earliest extant edition, which is undated but was printed before 1618. Some
bracketed text is verbatim from Manly's edition. However, some bracketed text
is taken from alternate editions which Manly originally supplied in footnotes.
As the editor of this electronic edition, I have sometimes chosen the clearer
of two alternatives, sacrificing the specificity of Manly's footnoted edition
in favor of a text that has a better chance of being read and understood by a
modern audience. I have also excluded the insertions supposed to have been
written by Ben Johnson, as well as the additional dialogue from III.xiii and
IV.iii. Some alternate dialogue has been included as has been labeled as
such.]
At London
Printed by Edward Allde, for
Edward White
[DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
GHOST OF ANDREA |
REVENGE | the Chorus.
KING OF SPAIN.
VICEROY OF PORTUGAL.
DON CIPRIAN, duke of Castile.
HIERONIMO, knight-marshall of Spain.
BALTHAZAR, the Viceroy's son.
LORENZO, Don Ciprian's son [and Bel-imperia's brother].
HORATIO, Hieronimo's son.
ALEXANDRO |
VILLUPPO | lords of Portual.
PEDRINGANO, servant of Bel-imperia.
SERBERINE, servant of Balthazar.
Spanish General, Portuguese Embassador, Old Man, Painter Page,
Hangman, Citizens, Soldiers, Attendants, &c.
BEL-IMPERIA, Lorenzo's sister.
ISABELLA, Hieronimo's wife.
PAGE.
MESSENGER.
CHRISTOPHEL.
SERVANT.
SENEX (DON BAZULTO).
CITIZENS.
ACTVS PRIMVS.
[Prologue]
KING. Goe, let them march once more about these walles,
That staying them we may conferre and talke
With our braue prisoner and his double guard.
[Exit a MESSENGER.]
Enter againe.
HOR. But first my launce did put him from his horse.
Exeunt.
VICE. Then they haue slaine him for his fathers fault.
VILLUP. Then heare that truth which these mine eies have seene:
When both the armies were in battell ioyned.
Don Balthazar amidst the thickest troupes,
To winne renowme, did wondrous feats of armes;
Amongst the rest I saw him hand-to-hand
In single fight with their lord generall.
Till Alexandro, that heere counterfeits
Vnder the colour of a duteous freend,
Discharged a pistol at the princes back,
As though he would haue slaine their generall,
But therwithall Don Balthazar fell downe;
And when he fell, then we began to flie;
But, had he liued, the day had sure bene ours.
Exit VICE[ROY].
Exit.
[BEL-IMPERIA exits.]
Dooing as before.
Exeunt omnes.
[CHORUS.]
ACTUS SECUNDUS.
[ACT II. SCENE 1.]
PED. Signior.
Enter PEDRINGANO.
LOR. Let this be all that thou shall doe for me:
Be watchfull when and where these louers meete,
And giue me notice in some secret sort.
Exit PEDRINGANO.
Exeunt.
BALTHAZAR, aboue.
Exeunt.
Exit.
Exeunt.
[HORATIO's garden.]
Exit PED[RINGANO].
HOR. What means my loue?
HOR. Then thus begin our wars: put forth thy hand,
That it may combat with my ruder hand.
Exeunt.
Enter ISABELL.
[CHORUS.]
ACTUS TERTIUS.
[ACT III. SCENE 1.]
Enter EMBASSADOUR.
Exit VILLUPPO.
Exeunt.
Enter HIERONIMO.
A letter falleth.
Enter PEDRINGANO.
Now, Predringano!
Enter LORENZO.
HIERO. My lord.
[End of insertion.]
[End of insertion.]
Exit.
Exit PED[RINGANO].
Che le Ieron!
Enter PAGE.
PAGE. My lord.
Exit.
Exit.
[ACT III. SCENE 3.]
Enter SERBERINE.
PED. [aside] Heere comes the bird that I must ceaze vpon;
Now, Pedringano, or neuer play the man!
III WATCH. Come sir, you had bene better kept your bed
Then haue committed this misdeed so late.
Exeunt.
[Enter PAGE.]
But heeres the page. How now? what newes with thee?
LOR. Who?
PAGE. Pedringano.
Exit BALT[HAZAR].
LOR. Boy.
PAGE. My lord.
He writes vs heere
To stand good l[ord] and help him in distres.
Tell him I haue his letters, know his minde;
And what we may, let him assure him of.
Fellow, be gone; my boy shall follow thee.
Exit MES[SENGER].
[Aside] This works like waxe! Yet once more try thy wits. --
Boy, goe conuay this purse to Pedringano, --
Thou knowest the prison, -- closely giue it him,
And be aduisde that none here there-about.
Bid him be merry still, but secret;
And, though the marshall sessions be to-day,
Bid him not doubt of his deliuerie.
Tell him his pardon is already signde,
And thereon bid him boldely be resolued;
For, were he ready to be turned off, --
As tis my will the vttermost be tride, --
Thou with his pardon shalt attend him still.
Shew him this boxe, tell him his pardons int;
But opent not, and if thou louest thy life,
But let him wisely keepe his hopes vnknowne.
He shall not want while Don Lorenzo liues.
Away!
Exit PAGE.
Exit.
[A street.]
Exit.
DEPU. I, Pedrigano.
HANG. No remedie.
HANG. Alas, sir, you are a foot too low to reach it, and I
hope you will neuer grow so high while I am in office.
PED. Sirra, dost see yonder boy with the box in his
hand?
PED. Doost thou think to liue till his olde doublet will
make thee a new truss?
HANG. I, and that shall all they witnes that see you seale
it with a theeues name.
PED. Nay, nay, now I remember me, let them alone till
some other time; for now I haue no great need.
Exit HIERO[NIMO].
PED. Why, I?
HANG. As how?
HANG. Stand you on that? then you shall off with this.
Exeunt.
[HIERONIMO's house.]
Enter HIERONIMO.
HANG. O Lord, sir! God blesse you, sir! The man, sir, --
Petergade, sir: he that was so full of merie conceits --
HIERO. I, I!
Exit HANGMAN.
Exit.
[HIERONIMO's house.]
ISA. So that you say this hearb will purge the [eyes],
And this the head? ah! but none of them will purge the
hart!
No, thers no medicine left for my disease,
Nor any physick to recure the dead.
ISA. Why did I not giue you gownes and goodly things,
Bought you a wistle and a whipstalke too,
To be reuenged on their villanies?
Exeunt.
[ACT III. SCENE 9.]
BEL-IMPERIA at a window.
Enter [CHRISTOPHEL.]
Exeunt.
Exit PAGE.
BAL. I.
Enter BEL-IMPERIA.
BAL. Bel-imperia.
BAL. Whome?
BEL. Bel-imperia.
BEL. I, brother.
LOR. How?
BEL. As those
That, [when] they loue, are loath and feare to loose.
Exit.
Exeunt.
[A street.]
[End of insertion.]
I PORT. I, sir.
HIERO. Ha, ha, ha! why, ha, ha, ha! Farewell, good ha,
ha, ha!
Exit.
[Exeunt.]
This way Ile take; and this way comes the king,
HIERO. O! is he so?
EM. Now last, dread lord, heere hath his Highnes sent --
Although he send not that his sonne returne --
His ransome doe to Don Horatio.
HIERO. Nay, soft and faire; you shall not need to striue!
Needs must he goe that the diuels driue.
Exit.
Exeunt.
[HIERONIMO's house.]
A noise within.
Enter a SERVANT.
HIERO. Of batterie?
[BAZULTO]. I, sir.
Enter HIERONIMO.
Exeunt.
CASTILE. I go.
VICE. Go forth, Don Pedro, for they nephews sake,
And greet the Duke of Castile.
BEL. But not too fast, least heate and all be done.
I see my lord my father.
SER. Yonder.
Exeunt.
[CHORUS.]
Enter a Dumme-show.
Exeunt.
HIERO. I, my lord,
Such courting as, I promise you,
She hath my hart, but you, my lord, haue hers.
LOR. O, excellent!
BEL. But say, Hieronimo:
What then became of him that was the bashaw?
LOR. And I?
BEL. And I?
Exit.
Exit CAS[TILE].
Exit BALTHAZAR.
Exit HIERONIMO.
BALTHAZAR. [acting] Bashaw, that Rhodes is ours yeeld Heauens the honor
And holy Mahhomet, our sacred prophet!
And be thou grac't with euery excelence
That Soliman can giue or thou desire!
But thy desert in conquering Rhodes is lesse
Then in reseruing this faire Christian nimph,
Perseda, blisfull lamp of excellence,
Whose eies compell, like powerfull adamant,
The warlike heart of Soliman to wait.
Stab him.
Stab him.
Stab herselfe.
KING. Fetch forth the tortures! Traitor as thou art, Ile make thee tell!
HIERO. Indeed?
Thou maiest torment me as his wretched sonne
Hath done in murdring my Horatio;
But neuer shalt thou force me to reueale
The thing which I haue vowed inviolate.
And therefore, in despight of all thy threats,
Pleasde with their deaths, and easde with their reuenge,
First take my tung, and afterwards my hart!
VICE. Here; and aduise thee that thou write the troth, --
Look to my brother! saue Hieronimo!
[CHORUS.]
Exeunt.
FINIS.
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