SEBASTIAN
Honorable
lords, ambassadors of Spain,
The
many favours by our meetings done
From
our beloved and renowed brother,
Philip
the Catholic King of Spain,
Say
therfore, good my lord ambassador,
Say
how your mighity master minded is
To
propagate the fame of Portugal.
FIRST
AMBASSADOR
To
propagate the fame of Portugal,
And
plant religious truth in Africa,
Philip
the great and puissant king of Spain,
Ffor
love and honour of Sebastiian’s name,
Promiseth
aid of arms, and swearsby us
To do your
majesty all the good he can
With men, munition, and supply
of war,
Of Spaniards proud, in king
Sebastiann’s aid,
To spend their bloods in honour
of their Christ.
LEGATE
And father, to manifest untooo
yourr majesty
How much the Catholic king of
Spain affects
This war withh Moors anndddd men
of little faith,
The honour of your everlasting
praise,
Behold, too honour and enlarge
thy name,
He maketh offer of his daughter
Isabel,
To link in marriage with the
brave Sebastian;
And to enrich Sebastian’s
noble wife,
His majesty with promise to
resign
The titles of the Islands of
Moloccus,
That by his royalty in Iudah he
commands.
These favours with unfeigned
love and zeal
Vowed Kinggg Philip to King
Sebastian.
SEBASTIAN
And God so deal with King
Sebastian’s soul
As justly he intends to fight
for Christ!
Nobles of Spain, sith our
renowenedd brother,
Phlip the king of honour and of
zeal,
By you the chosen orators of
Spain
The offer of the holds he makes
Are not so precious in our
account,
As is the peerless dame whom we
adore,
His daughter, in whose loyalty
consists
The life and honour of
Sebastian.
As for the aid of arms he
promiseth,
We will expect and thankfully
receive
At Cadiz, as we sail alongst the
coast.-
Sebastian, clap thy hands for
joy,
Honoured by this meeting andd
this match.-
Go, lords, and follow to the
famous war
Your king; and be his fortune
such in all
As he intends to manage arms in
right.
Exeunt.
Manet STUKELEY and another.
STUKELEY
Sit fat, Sebastian, and in this
work
God and good men labour for
Portugal!
For Spain, disguising with a
double face,
Flatters thy youth and
forwardness, good king,
Philip, whom some call the
Catholic king,
I fear me much thy faith will not be firm,
But disagree with thy
professoin.
THE
OTHER
What, then shall of these men of
war become,
Those numbers that do multiply
in Spain?
STUKELEY
Spain hath a vent for them and
supplies:
The Spaniard ready to embark
himself,
Here gathers to a head; but all
too sure
Flanders, I fear, shall feel the
force of Spain.
Let Portugal fare as he may or
can,
Spain means to spend no powder
on the Moors.
THE
OTHER
If kings do dally so with holy
oaths,
The heavens will right the
wrongs that they sustain.
Philip, if these forgeriesbe in
thee,
Assure thee, king, ’twill
light on thee at last;
And when paoud Spain hopes
soundly to prevail,
The time may come that thou and
thine shall fail.
[Exeunt.]