DON DE MENYSIS
. Capitaines, we have
raceived letters from the king,
That
with such signs and arsumantsof love
We
entertain the King of
Barbary,
That
marcheth toward Tanger with his men,
The
poor remainders of those that fled from Fez,
When
abdelmelec got the glorious day,
And
stall’d himself in his imperial throne.
FIRST CAPITAIN
Lord
governor, we are in readiness
To
welcome and his land by angry Amurath;
And
if the right rest in this lusty Moor,
Bearing
a princely heart unvanquishble,
A
noble resolution then it is
In
brave Sebastian our Christian king,
To
aid this Moor with his victooorious arms,
Thereby
to propagate religious truth,
And
plant his springing praise in Africa.
SECOND CAPITAIN
But
when arrivs this brave Sebastian,
To
knit his forces with this manly Moor,
That
both in one, and one in both, may join
In
this attampt of noble consequence?
Our
men of Tanger long to see their king,
Whose
princely fac that like the summer’s sun,
Glads
all these hither parts of Barbary.
DON DE MENYSIS
Capitains,
he cometh hitherward amain,
Top
and top-gallant, all in brave array:
The
six-and-twentieth day of June he left
The
bay of Lisbon, and with all his fleet
At
Cadiz happily he arrived in Spain
The
eight of July, tarrying for the aid
ThatPhilip
King of Spain had promised:
And
fifteen days he there remained aboard,
Expecting
when this panish force would come,
Nor
stept ashore, ashe were going still.
But
Spain, that meant and minded nothing less,
Pretends
a sudden fear and care to keep
His
own form Amurath’s fierce invasion,
And
to excuse his promise to our king;
For
which he storms as great Achilles erst.
Lying
for want of wind in Aulis’ gulf,
And
hoiseth up his sailes and anchors weighs,
And
hitherward he comes, and looks to meet
This
manly Moor whose case he undertakes,
Therfore
go we to welcome and receive,
With
cannon-shots nad shoutsof young and old,
This
fleet of Portugals and troops of Moors.
Eweunt.