Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Prologue. No fained toy nor forged Tragedie, Gentles we here prejent vnto your view, But a moft lamentable biftorie Wbicb this lafi age acknowledged for true. Here Jhall you fee the wicked fonne purfue His wretched father with remorjlejfe fpigbt: And danted once, his force againe renue, Poyfon his father, kill his friends in fight. 10 You /hall behold him character in bloud, The image of an vnplacable King: And like afea or high refurging fioud, All obftant lets, downe with his fury fling. Wbicb if with patience of you /halbe beard, We baue the greatefl part of our reward. Exit. THE FIRST PART OF THE mofttyrannicallTragedieandraigneofSelimus, Emperour of the Turkes, and grandfather to him that now raigneth. Enter Baiazet Emperour of Turkie Muftaffa, Cherfeoly, and the Iannifaries. Baiazet. LEaue me my Lords vntill I call you foorth, For I am heauie and difconfolate. Exeunt dl but Baiazet. So Baiazet, now thou remainft alone, Vnrip the thoughts that harbour in thy breft, And eate thee vp, for arbiter heres none, That may difcrie the caufe of thy vnreft, Vnlefle thefe walles thy fecret thoughts declare, And Princes walles they fay, vnfaithfull are. Why thats the profit of great regiment, That all of vs are fubiect vnto feares, And this vaine mew and glorious intent, Priuie fufpition on each fcruple reares, I, though on all the world we make extent, From the South-pole vnto the Northren beares, And ftretch our raign from Eaft to Weftern more, Yet doubt and care are with vs euermore. Looke how the earth clad in her fommers pride, Embroydereth her mantle gorgioufly, With fragrant hearbes, and flowers gaily dide, A 3 Spreading Sc. i Spreading abroad her fpangled Tapiftrie: Yet vnder all a loathfome fnake doth hide. Such is our life, vnder Crowne...