The Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron · chunk 19 of 37
Chapman, George · published 1608 · first performed or written 1608 [1607-1608] (Annals) tragedy · Children of the Queen's Revels T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi typicality 0.68 · 492 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T25: feare, kings, power, princes, lawes, loue, state, downe, honor, men.
Apply you all these sports so seriously? They first were from our serious acts devised, The best of which, are to the best but sports; (I mean by best, the greatest) for their ends, In men that serve them best, are their own pleasures. So, in those best men's services, their ends Are their own pleasures; pass. I vy't; I see't; And wonder at his frontless impudence; How speeds your Majesty? Well; the Duke instructs me With such grave lessons of mortality Forced out of our light sport; that if I lose, I cannot but speed well. Some idle talk. For courtship's sake, you know does not amiss. Would we might hear some of it. That you shall, I cast away a card now, makes me think, Of the deceased worthy King of Spain. What card was that? The King of hearts (my Lord) Whose name yields well the memory of that King, Who was indeed the worthy King of hearts, And had, both of his subjects hearts, and strangers, Much more than all the Kings of Christendom. He won them with his gold. He won them chiefly, With his so general Piety and justice: And as the little, yet great Macedon, Was said with his human philosophy, To teach the rapeful Hyrcans, marriage; And bring the barbarous Sogdians, to nourish, Not kill their aged Parents; as before, Th' incestuous Persians to reverence Their mothers, not to use them as their wives; The Indians to adore the Grecian Gods, The Scythians to inter, not eat their Parents; So he, with his divine Philosophy, (Which I may call his, since he chiefly used it) In Turkey, India, and through all the world, Expelled profane idolatry; and from earth, Raised temples to the highest: whom with the word, He could not win, he justly put to sword, He sought for gold, and Empire. 'twas Religion, And her full propagation that he sought; If gold had been his end, it had been hoarded, When he had fetched it in so many fleets: Which he spent not on Median Luxury, Banquets, and women; Calidonian wine, Nor dear Hyrcanian fishes, but employed it, To propagate his Empire; and his Empire Desired t'extend so, that he might withal, Extend Religion through it, and all nations, Reduce to one firm constitution, Of Piety, justice, and one public weal; To which end he made all his matchless subjects Make tents their castles, and their garrisons; True Catholics countrymen; and their allies, Heretics, strangers, and their enemies. There was in him the magnanimity. To temper your extreme applause (my Lord) Shorten, and answer all things in a word, The greatest commendation we can give To the remembrance of that King deceased; Is, that he spared not his own eldest son, But put him justly to a violent death, Because, he sought to trouble his estates. be't so? That bit (my Lord) upon my life, 'twas bitterly replied, and doth amaze him.
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Apply you all these sports so seriously? They first were from our serious acts deuis'd, The best of which, are to the best but sports; (I meane by best, the greatest) for their ends, In men that serue them best, are their owne pleasures. So, in those best mens seruices, their ends Are their owne pleasures; passe. I vy't; I see't; And wonder at his frontles impudence; How speedes your Maiestie? Well; the Duke instructs me With such graue lessons of mortallitie Forc't out of our light sport; that if I loose, I cannot but speed well. Some idle talke. For Courtship sake, you know does not amisse. Would we might heare some of it. That you shall, I cast away a card now, makes me thinke, Of the deceased worthy King of Spaine. What card was that? The King of hearts (my Lord) Whose name yeelds well the memorie of that King, Who was indeed the worthy King of hearts, And had, both of his subiects hearts, and strangers, Much more then all the Kings of Christendome. He wun them with his gold. He wun them chiefely, With his so generall Pietie and Iustice: And as the little, yet great Macedon, Was sayd with his humane philosophy, To teach the rapefull Hyrcans, mariage; And bring the barbarous Sogdians, to nourish, Not kill their aged Parents; as before, Th' incestuous Persians to reuerence Their mothers, not to vse them as their wiues; The Indians to adore the Grecian Gods, The Scythians to inter, not eate their Parents; So he, with his diuine Philosophy, (Which I may call his, since he chiefely vsd it) In Turky, India, and through all the world, Expell'd prophane idolatry; and from earth, Raisd temples to the highest: whom with the word, He could not winne, he iustly put to sword, He sought for gold, and Empire. Twas Religion, And her full propagation that he sought; If gold had beene his end, it had beene hoorded, When he had fetcht it in so many fleetes: Which he spent not on Median Luxurie, Banquets, and women; Calidonian wine, Nor deare Hyrcanian fishes▪ but emploid it, To propagate his Empire; and his Empire Desird t'extend so, that he might withall, Extend Religion through it, and all nations, Reduce to one firme constitution, Of Pietie, Iustice, and one publique weale; To which end he made all his matchles subiects Make tents their castles, and their garisons; True Catholikes contrimen; and their allies, Heretikes, strangers, and their enemies. There was in him the magnanimity. To temper your extreame applause (my Lord) Shorten, and answere all things in a word, The greatest commendation we can giue To the remembrance of that King deceast; Is, that he spar'd not his owne eldest sonne, But put him iustly to a violent death, Because, hee sought to trouble his estates. Ist so? That bit (my Lord) vpon my life, Twas bitterly replied, and doth amaze him.