[ACT II, Scene 1]  

Alarum within, and then enterABDELMELEC, MULY MAHAMETSETH,

[ARGRED ZARIO,] ALSEPIUS BASSA, with Moors and Janizaries.

ABDELMELEC

   Now hath the sun disply’d his golden beams,

   And, dusky clouds dispersed,the welkin cleas,

   Wherein the twenty-colour’d rainbowshows.

   After this fight happy and fortunate,

   Wherein our Moors have lost the day,

   And victory, adorn’d with Fortune’s plumes,

   Alights on Abdelmelec’s glorious crest,

   Here find we time to breathe, and now begin

   To pay thy due and duties thou dost owe

   To heaven and earth, to gods and Amurath.

 

                                                       Sound trumpets.

 

   And now draw near, and haeven and earth give ear,

   Give ear nd record, heaven and earth with me;

   Ye lords of Barbary, heaken and attend,

   Hark to the words I speak, and vow Imake

   To plant the true succession of the crow:

   Lo, lords, in our royal to succeed,

   Our only brotherhere we do install,

   And by the name of Muly Mahamet Seth

   Intitle him true heir unto the crown.

   Ye gods of heaven gratulat this deed,

   That men on earth  may therewithstand content!

   Lo, thus my due and duty is done, I pay

   To heaven and earth, to gods and Amurath!

 

                                                        Sound trumpets

 

MULY MAHAMET SETH

   Renowned Bassa, to remunerat

   Thy worthiness and magnanimity,

   Behold, the noblest ladies of the land

   Bring present tokens of there gratitude.

 

                                 [Enter RUBIN ARCHES, her son, ABDIL RAYES and Ladies]

RUBIN ARCHES

   Rubin, that breathes but for revenge,

   Bassa, by this commends herself to thee,

   Resigns the token of her thankfulness:

   To AmurathThe god of earthy kings

   Doth Rubin give and sacrificeher son:

   Not with his father’s sword, his mother’s thanks,

   Doth Rubingive her son to Amurath.

ABDIL RAYES

   As Rubin gives her son, so we ourselves

   To Amurath give, and fall before his face.

   Bassa, wear thou the gold of Barbary,

   And glister like the palace of the sun,

   In honour of the deed that thou hast done.

 CALSEPIUS BASSA

   Wellworthy of the aid of Amurath

   Is Abdelmelec, and these noble dames,-

   Rubin, thy son Ishall ere long bestow,

   Where thou dost him bequeath in honour’s fee,

   On Amurathmighty Epreor of the East,

   That shall receive the imp of royal race

   With cheerful looks and gleams of princely grace.-

   This chosen gurd of Amurath’s Janizaries

         I leave to honour and attnd on thee,

   King of Fez , Emperor of Barbary;

   Muly Molocco, live and keep thy seat,

   In spite of fortune’s spite or enemies’s threats.-

   Ride, Bassa, now, bold Bassa, homward ride,

   As glorious as great Pompeyin his pride.

                                                            Exeunt omnes.