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A DAY IN TURKEY;
O R,
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. C O M E D
/LEY,
(' B L I N ;
MESSRS. WOGAN, BVRNR, GRUEBER, , H.COLBERT, J . MOO RE, J . J O NES, -.es, M'ALLISTER, CORUET, AND
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M.UCC.XCII.
A DAY IN TURKEY;
O R,
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES,
COMEDY,
AS ACTED AT TKB
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Bv Mrs. COWLEY,
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I NTS have been thrown out, and the idea induftrioufly circulated, that the following comedy is tainted with politics. I proteft I know nothing about politicsj —
will Mifs Wolflonecraft forgive me
whofe book contains fuch a body of mind as I hardly ever met with— if I fay that politics are unfemlnine? I never in my life could attend to their difcuffion*
True Comedy has always been defined to be a pidure of life — a record of palling manners— a mirror to refled to fucceeding times the characfters and follies of the prefent. How then could I, pretcndinfr to be a comic poet, bring an emigrant A3 Frenchman
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Frenchman before the public at this day, and not make him hint at the events which had juft pafTed, or were then pafling in his native country ? A charader fo A?i'riiten would have been anomalous— the critics ought to have had no mercy on mc. It is A LA Greqjje who {peaks, not 1 ; nor can I be accountable for his feniiments. Such is my idea of tracing character ^ and were I to continue to write for the ftage, I fhould always govern myfelf by it.
The illiberal and y^^ fuggeflions con- cerning the politics of the comedy I could frankly forgive, had they not deprived it of the honour of a command. The palTages on which thofe mifreprcfentations were built, were on the fecond night omitted, but immediately afterwards re,, (lored-, and the Day. in Turkey leaves the prefs exactly as it has continued to be performed amidft the mod vivid and
uninterrupted plaudits or interrupted
only by the glitter of foft tears; a fpecies of applaufe not iefs flattering than the
fpontaneous
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fpontaneous laugh, or the voluntary coHL fion of hands.
Some of the performers in this comedy have played fo tranfcendently well, that their names deferve to be recorded; but to particularife any, when all have aimed at perfcdion, would be invidious.
H. COWLEY.
Feb. 17. 1792.
PROLOGUE.
SPOKEN BY MR. HARLE7.
J^^ O T from the prefent moment fprings our play, Th' events which gave it birth are paft away — Five glowing moons have chasM night's fliades from
earth, Since the war fled which gave our Drama birth. *' Not fmiling peace o'er Russia'/ nuide-fpread land *' IVav'd gently then, her fceptre of command, ** No I thoufands rujh'd at red amlit ion's cally *♦ With mad'ning rage to triumph-^or to fall. *' 'Twas then our female hard from BhlT tola's fbore
" IFas led hy fancy to the dijiant roar'^
'Twas then ihe faw. fweet virgins captives made» 'Twas then flie faw the cheek of beauty fade, Whilft the proud foldier in ignoble ciiains, Was from his country dragg'd to hoilile plains.
Thus was her bold Imagination fired When batile with its horrid train retired ; Yet, fure the ftory which flie then combin'd. Should not I , d.ar oblivion b' refign'd— No — let it lliil vour vatious paflions raife, And to have toucli'd them, oft', has been her praifcJ Trufting to candt jr, fhe folicits here, Your fmile of pleafure, or youi pity's tear ; For tho' the time is paft, the feeliivg true, She dedicates to nature, and to you !
Note. The lines diftinguifhed by italics arc from the pea
of Della Ckusca.
PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.
MEN.
IBRAHIM,
ORLOFF,
A LA GREQUE,
MUSTAPHA,
AZIM,
SELIM,
MULEY,
ISMAEL,
OLD MAN,
SON,
2d TURK,
Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. FARREN. Mr. FAWCET. Mr. MUNDEN.\ Mr. CUBIT. Mr. INCLEDON. Mr. M'CREADT. Mr. far let. Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. cross. Mr. EFATT,
MALE SLAVES, &c.
WOMEN.
ALEXINA, PAULINA, LAURETTA. FATLMA,
FEMALE SLAVES,
Mrs. pope.
Mrs. ESTEK.
Mrs. mattocks.
Mrs. martyr. :Mrs. FAWCET, Mrs. ^ i?OCir, and others.
DAY IN TURKEY.
ACT L
S C E N E I. A ForeJI.
In the Back Ground a Turkish Campi
Several Turks are feen at a Dijlance pajftn^ and repajjtng ivith Hajfei fame sf them look out from amidjl the Trees^ and then retire.
£«/f r P A u L I w A , precipUa tely. At the Bottom. ■ Pau.
W HERE— O, where fliall we'fly? [Locking round luildly.'] Brother — father— cornel We are driven from our cottage: we have no longer a home — let us run feme where to feek another. Enter OhM Man and Sojj. Son. Come father lean on me, and let us walk fafter, or we fliall be pick'd up by fome of the turban'd gentry. They are out a foraging; and they always confider chriftians as ufeful cattle. Let us fly.
B Father.
2 ADAY IK TURKEY, OR
Father. Fly! alas, with the load of leventy years upon my flioulders, liow hard a talk! We ih'Al never efcape them, child — Thou'It fee thy father murdered, and worfe luck than that will be thy fate.
Pau. Worfe luck than to be murdered .' I ftiould be glad to fee the day— What worfe c^n happen?
Old Man. Thou'It be made a flave, — flave to a Turk [cries] — I fliall fee thee in a vile Turk's fe- raglio, no better, as it were, than the handmaid of a Jew.
Pau. Well, I may out-live fuch a misfortune as that; but I never heard of out-living a throat cut- So, dear father, cheer up, and let us hurry on to the next village. Peter, take care of that bag — for it contains all we have in the world.
Son. Aye; and if it hadn't been for fome of our own foldiers, I had been a lotl man — They were fo kind as to ftrip our cottage yefterday, and left us no more than I can very conveniently move under,
Pau. Yes; and more than all that, they took away my very beft gown, and my new fur cap! [crying] yes; and he who took them.faid it was in friend (liip, for that otherwife my very beft gown and cap would certainly fall into the hands of the enemy.
Son. Yes; it was truly a very friendly action, «nd they perform'd it like gentlemen — No words, but their very looks were oaths, and the black eyebrows of one of them fpoke louder curfes than I ever heard between fifty Siberian boar-hunters [clajhingof fivords ijoith- outS\ There — theie! d'ye hear? Our friends are com- ing down upon us; and our enemies are at hand ! Come, let us run [voiih a loek" sf terror] — From friends and enemies, holy Michael, defend us!
(Exeunt.
[^Clajhing of fivorJs ; A la Gkv.qve enters running at to/>y tbenJfopSy looks back and /peaks.]
A LA Gb.. There it goes — There it goes! Nothing
can fave thee, my gallant mafter — This comes of your
reconnoitering — Had you not better have been in your
Ijfnt, quietly breaking your fajl, than here, breaking
3 the '
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the heads of the Turks— So, now he's difarm'd— WelJ,- nobody bid ye — 'cis all your own (auk— Now, how comely he looks with bis arms folded, and hrs fword in the hands of iha^ beetle brow'd Turk! Fardie! I feel now as great a man as my mafter.
Enter Ou'LOif, fur rounded by Turks.
MuLEY. Couiageous Ruffian, thou art oura! Could valour have faved ihee, captivity and you had never met — Your emprefs, we tiutl, has not many fuch
foldiers in the neighbouring camp. Come, droop
not, Sir, this is the fortune of war.
Orlop F. Had I been made your prlfoner, whilft on a poll of duty, I could have borne my lot — A foldier can fupport not only death, bur even flavery, when a fenfe of duty gives dignity to his chainsj but my chains are bafe ones, for 1 reconnoiter'd without command, and have loft my liberty without glory.
A LA Gr. Then / have loft my liberty too with- out glory, for I attended yQ\x without command, and HOW— Oix» ii (iidblfl 1 am valet de chambre to a Have!
Turk. Let not that affeft thee! The fortune of war, which has v/ounded your maftei's pride, ought to elate yours, for you are now his equal — both flaves alike.
A L.». Gr. lEr7^er/y] Are we fo? And has he no further right to command me, nor t-irearen me ? Kind Sir, tell me but that — tell me but that — I
Turk. None, none.
A LA Gr. Hum ! [Puts his hat on, takes out hh fnuff" boXy takes fnuff, then goes to his majler, and offers him his box.} Take a pinch, don't be fliy
Orloff. Scoundrel! [^Throws u/f the box -with his arm.]
A LA Gr. Nay, no hard names'—let us be ctvil to each other, as brother flaves ought to be — And now I think of it — Hark ye! I fuppofe your (laves take rank according to their ufcfulnefs.
Turk. Certain!/.
B 2 A LA
4 ADAT IN TUiKEY, OK.
A LA Gr. Well then, my mafter— I mean that man there, who was my mafter, can do no earthly thing but fight, whilfl I, on the contrary, am expert at feveral.
MuLEY. Your qualifications ?
A LA Gr, They are innumerable — I can fing you pretty little French airs, and Italian canzonettas — No man in Paris, Sir — for I have the honour to be a Frenchman — No man in Paris underftands the fcience of the powder-piifF better than myfelf — I can frize you in a tade beyond — Oh, what you are all Crops, I fee — fore fronts, and back fronts — Oh, thofe vile tur- bans, my genius will be loft amongft you, and a frizeur will be of no more ufe than an oyfter-woman. — • "Why, you look as though you had all been Icalp'd, and cover'd your crov/ns with your pillows.
Turk. Chriftian, our turbans are too elevated a fubjeiTt for your fporr.
A LA Gr. Dear Sir, [pointing to bis turban, and then 19 the ground] drop the fubjedt', it will be a proof of national tafte.
*y>ui.EY. Thy fpeech is licentious and empty ; but m a Frenchman we can pardon it — 'tis nationalTafte — However, if your boalled qualifications end here, it is probable, you will be a (IdVe as little dillinguilh'd as your mafter.
A LA Gr. Pardonnez moi! 1 can do thi*ngs he never thought of — You have heard the ftory of the hafket- maker amongft favages.'' I do not defpairof feeing my mafter my fervant yet — Courage, Monfieur leCompte! I'll neat you with great condelcenfion, depend on't, and endeavour to make you forget in -;!! things the diftance between us.
MuLEY. He feems too deeply abforb'd in melan- choly, to be roureu,j|(f^thy impertinence!
A LA Gr. Poor ""^cung man! Times are alter'd, to be furej and at piefent he's a little down in the mouth ; but he's lond of uiufic, cheer him with a Turkifh air — HelasJ all the air we have will be
Turkilh nov/,
^^Orloff.
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ORLorf. Ah no! forbear your mufic, and bring me your chains .' Drag me to your dungeons! The intelleflual bitternefs of this monient cannot be in- creafed by OK/icflr^circumliance.
A LA Gr. Chains and dungeons! Why fure the
ghoft of our dead baftille has not found its way hither
—Hey, Mellicurs! Have you lantern polls too, and
hanging MarquiiTes in this country?
Orloff. langri/y.] Pcce!
A LA Gr. Peace! That's h bold demand.— Your
Emprefs can't find it at the head of a hundred fhou-
fand men, and the moft fublime Grand feignior is
obliged to put on his night-cap without it, though
he Uas a million of thefe pretty Gentlemen to alfift
him — BefiJes, England has engrofi'd the commodity.-
Orloff. Come, Sir, let us nor loiter here— I
woukl have my fate deternnned, and my mifery com-
pleat. Alas! is it not already fo? Yes, my hesn has
been long the property of forrow, and it will nev-er
relinquilli its claims.
IViuLEY.^ I fliall lead you to the palace of the BaiTa Ibrahim? — it is in the neighbourhood oT yonder camp, which he commands, what your fate may then be, his humour dcermines.
A la Gr. J hen 1 hope we {hall catch him in a £OoJ humour, and what care I whether a 1 urk or a Ruffian has the honour to be my mafter ? Now you fee the misfortune of being born a Count! Had he loft no more than 1 have, he'd be as carelefs as I am —Come, brother flave — no ceremony, no ceremony, 1 bee.
lExeunt—A la Gp eql e pu//s back bis majier, and lualhs out before him^.
S C E N e:
A DAT 2N TURKEY, OR
SCENE II. Rocks.
[Etiter Peter — runs acrofs the Stage, is follo'w'dby Paulina Jhrieking — they go off — Tiuo Turks pur- fue them, and bring them hack.]
Turk. Stay, (lay, young ones! it is but manners to wait for your father — You fee he is hobbling up as faft as he can.
Pau. Aye, very true — Oh, Peter, how could we run away, and leave our father ?
Peter. Why, we only took care of number one, iind we have a right to do that all the world over. So we are captives now then, and (laves in downright earned?
Turk. Aye.
Pau. Look at my poor father! If your hearts were not harder than thofe very lOcks, yoa could never make a (lave of him.
Enter the Father, guarded hy /-loo Turks.
Father. O my dear children! Thofe flints which wound my feet aie not fo (haip as the wounds whicli gafli ray heart for yon.
Pau. There! — Do ye hear? O the miferies of- war! I wonder v/?.r is ever the faOiion — Pray, Sir,. ynh^t made the King or the Turks and our old Em- prefs agree to go to war together ?
Turk. To give brave foldiers an opportunity of running away with fuch pretty girls as you.
Pau. O iys on tl'cm ! I think if they were now to fee my father and brother Peter, and I, ia this con- dition, they'd be both ailiim'd of themfelves.
Peter. Afham'd of themfelves! Don't talk (o ign'r'ntly. — Excufe her, gentlemen, (lie knows nothing of the world. She thinks Kings and Empreffes are made of the fame fluff as other mortals.
Turk. [To the Father.] Come, Honefcy, cheer up! at the nex: village there is a waggon, into which
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you and your family (hall be put, and carried to the end of your fliort journey.
Pau. Laws! A waggon — whofe is it ?
Turk. It Hiall be your own for the prefent.
Pau. Our own! that's droll enough; fo we are made flaves in order to ride in our o-.vn carriage.
[Exeunf.
SCENE. The Gardens of the Baffa, decorated ivith Palmsy Fountains^ i^c. in the Eajiern flyle.
Enter Mustapha.
Mus. Where is flie? Where is llic? I don't fee her here — She's generally leaning on that fountain, looking like the nymph of the ftream, fwelling it with ' her tears.
AziM. [^without.'] But I fay no — do you mark me, I fay no —
Entering ivith tivo Slaves.
Mus. Then I fay yes, do ye mark me? What a bawlirg you make — What are you coming here for, hey ?
AziM. To look for that infoleni female flive, that Ruflian, that I may manage her a little.
Mus. You manage her! Your ill humour towards her is never to be fatiffied — You are as malicipus as you are high — Don't I know how to manage an obfti- uate female as well as you?
AziM. Ha, ha, ha! Ail the knowledge that nature coud contrive to pack into that little carcafe of thine wou'd be infufficient for fuch a purpofe — Manage an ob.linate female! The greateft generals in the world and the greateft tyr.mts have been foil'd at it — Leave her to me — 1 have djfcretion — IKe fhail be kept on bread and w-iter.
Mus, Mark his difcretion I Keep a pretty woman on bread and water to make her contented and kind.
AziM. 'Tis right, I'll maintain it to her teeth
for, 6r(l, ihe is a lluflian and a bear—
Mus.
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Mus. The beautiful Alexina, a Ruffian bear! Well^ fecondly?
AziM. She is a chriflian, a id thofe chriftians are the moft unnaturalift creatures in the world — Why, man, they betray their friends, and love their enemies, ha, ha!
Mus. Do they fo? Then ihe's no chriftfan — for as to loving her enemies, I have heard her fay to thy face, that ihe hates thee— So, let her be treated liks an honeft Turk.
AziM, So fhe fliall — an honeft Turk returns hate for hate, and fo, d'ye fee, her feaft fhali be a faft.
[Goes off at the top,
Mus. Take care of the orders I gave ye — When- cur mafter arrives, let no one be over bufy to fpeak of this Ruffian flave — if poffible, 1 would have him forget that flie is in the Haram.
Slaves. We fliall be careful. [£jrf««/ Slaves.
Enter AlexinA frotn the topy folloiu'dhy PiZiM.
Alex. Purfue me not, thou inexorable flave! You invade my retirement, you drive me from folitude, though folitude alone can mitigate my forrows.
Azim. Nonfenfe — Solitude and retirement! they were made for birds of night; owls may rejoice in them, but women fhould feek day-light.
Alex. Day-light gives me no joy. Through eleven weeks have I dragg'd on a torpid exiftcnce— See! (going to a tree) here is the fad regifter of my days of infelicity. iVJy bodkin on its tender rind hath^ mark'd the return of each awi'^/ZotuW Sabbath;— the wounds now but juft difcernible will deepen as the tree advances to maturity, and fpeak in another age, the miferies of Alexina.
[Takes up a folded paper from atnongft the Jhruhs» A p per! — poetry! ah, how drfcriptive of my own^ fenfations — which of my companions hath thus melo-r diouflj^ fung her forrows? \riadi\
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. 9
1 a poor captive feel each day
That flowly creeps with leaden pace,
Bleft freedom here ne'er lends her ray — Her bright ftcps here, we never trace.
Oh that wild on feme high mountain 1 could catch rhewiind'nng winds,
Or ftarting froni foine defert fountain. Emulate the bounding hinds !
The clouds thnt fwim in air's foft ocean,
Seem to fcorn my prilon tovv^ers, Zephyr's light ur.fetrer'd motion.
Deeper, heavier, makes my hours.
AziM. \_fnal(hing ihe paper from her hanJ,'] Such a wailing about freedom c.r.d liberty! why the chrillians in one of the northern iflands have eftablirti- ed a Have trade, and proved by aQ of parliament that freedom is no bleffine at all.
ivius. No, no, they have only proved that it doe» not fuit dark complexions. To luch a pretty creature as this, they'd think it a blefling \o gi^e eveiy hee- dbm — and take every freedom.
AziM. Come, come, be gay and happy, like the reft of the flaves. How (lands your mind to-dr.y towards a handfome Bafla? Our mafter is returning from the camp — The ceflTation of hoftilities will give \\\m a fhort leifure, which he will certainly devote to pleaftire and his haram.
Alex. Muftapha, do not let that unfeeling flaV9 talk to me~ thou haft humanity.
Mus. Would I couid adminifter to his difeafe, it IS a terrible opl! the love of talking is in hijn an abfolute frenzy ! To filence him is impoflible — but as I have power over him, 1 can oblige hin' lo retire-— Go!
AziM. Go ! What, (hall an infolent chriftian? —
Mus. Go, go !
Az iM. She (Kail repent, {ExiL
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Alex. Doth your niafter indeed return to-day ?
Mus. Yes; and all the women of hi> harain are preparing for his reception — they, half frantic with joy, wonder to behold your tears.
Alex, /am not a woman of his harani [ivilh difdi:tn 3
Mus. But, charming Alexina, can you hope longer to efcape? Today he will fee you. [Alexina Jiandi a moment as iho' Jlruck, then clafps her bands ivilh an adion of dejpair j then lurns.'\
Alex. OhMuftapha! behold a lowly fupplianf. \Kneeh'\ She is of no vulgar rank who thus kneels to you for proteftion.
Mus. For prote£tion ! I am myfelf a flave — Rile, dear lady.
Alex. IRi/ing] But thou haft power with thy inafter. Oh ! invent fome excufe — fay fomething 10 fave me from the interview.
Mus. I will confider — I — [mujic at a dijiance] Nay, if it muft be fo, conceal yourfelf at oncCj for I hear the niufic which announces his approach; and he will probably haften hither.
Alex. O miferable fpeed I I go — Muftapha, on thy eloquence depends my breath — The moments of my life are number'd by thy fuccefs — Prefs fearlefsly the caufe of virtue, and glow with the fainted fub-
jea.
Thus, tho* a flave, thy foul's high (late
Shall prove its origin divine, Soar far above thy wretched fate,
And o'er thy chains fublimely Hiine. [Exit.
Mus. Why, as to chaftity, and all that, which you make an orthodox article of, fweet one ! we Turks are a fort of diflcnters— a woman's virtue with us, is to CHARM, and her religion fKould be love.— • Ah, ha I here comes Ibrahim, and his whole haram His creed is love, and there is not a more ortho- dox man in the coutury.
Enter
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. Jl
Eftter Lav KETT A andYATlvik [hajlify.]
Laur. Ah! Muftapha, the BafTa is arrived full ■of triumph, full of willies, panting to behold Alexina —-What will become of her ? Where is flie?
Mus. She juft now run off on that fide, and I fhall run off on this — for I have iiot fettled what to fay about h6r, and Bassas and tygers are animals not made to be trifled with. [Exit.
Fat. Well, let that pretty melancholy fl^ve f^'cl as fhe pleafes— I, for my part, am half out of my wits, to think how happy we ihall be now the BalTa IS come back— we fliall have nothing but whim and entertainment. — Have you been looking at the new pavilion to day ? Lai;r. No.
^ Fat. O dear! itis almoft finiflied— The hang, ings are gold tiffue, and when our beautiful fofa, which we have been making for him is fet up, and the Baffa fees it all together, he will be tranfported — Do you not think fo? Hark 1 here he comes with all the enfigns of war at his heels.—O no— /% come firfl, I proteft— I'll ftand here, and take a view of the whole.
[^ march is phyd. Standard hearers advance €rj ; they are follotved by female Jlaves, -who dance'doijun the ft age to light mujic, and exit. The chormfmgert folleiu; female flanjes flrevoing fotvers from little bafkets fuecetd i the Bajja then appears at the top ivitb bis principal officers.]
Chorus. Selim, Laur. Fat. Iffc^
Hark! found the trumpet, breathe the flute,
And touch the foft melodious lute :
To heav'n let ev'ry grateful found afcend.
Thanks for our prince reftor'd.
Our lover, and our friend. Vidlorious hero ! blooming fage ! The fcourge and glory of our age !
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L.et rofeate pleafures round thy footfteps twine. And lead thee on to joy, And blefs thy rallant line I Vain breathes the trumpet and the flute. And loft the foft melodious lute. When, Ibrahim! thy praife they wou'd difplay. Sunk in the lofty theme, As twilight yields to day.'
Ibra. Enough of praife, and of triumph ! A fweeter triumph than your fongs can beftow, awaits nie — Where is the lovely Ruffian, who, tho' my cap- tive more than two moons, I have not yet beheld ?
AziM. We rejoice in cur lord's return, that her pride may be humbled. — The infoience of her car- riage, and the perverfenefs of her temper, are in- tolerable.
Ibra. Thou haft feen her, Muley,does flie juftify Azim's defcription }
MuLEY. She is referved, my lord, referved and melancholy — hut ftie is too gentle to be infolent.
A z I M. Muley knows her not — Canft thou believe It, mighty B.ifTa, the idea of furrend'fing her charms to thee, and of being raifed to the honour of thy notice, has never once foften'd her ill humour, nor abated her melancholy.
Ibra. Indeed! l^»griiy] Bring her to me in- ftanily — yes, inftanily bid her come to my prefence, and tell her — No — hold — 5 will receive her in myhall of audience, dazzle her with my greatnefs, and aftonifK her into love.
Laur. Ha, ha, ha ! Ha, ha, ha!
Ibra. Why that laugh, Lauretta ? ■ Laur. Ha, ha, ha 1 at your new Invention of aftonidiing people into love, — If you can contrive to do that, you will be the moft aftonifliing BaJ?}a'w ia all Turkey.
Ibra. How then ?
Laur. Grandeur and dignity to infpire love ! Ha, ha, ha! they may infpire your pretty captive with veneration and refpeft — but veneration and refpcCt is an atmofphere fo cold, that loves ftarves in It.
Ibra.
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Ibra. What then muft I do to touch her heart with love ?
Laur. Affe&. humility; not greatnefs. You mult become a fuppliant, before you can hope to be a viftor.
Ibra. Doft thou fpeak tiulh, my pretty Italian ? — Thy country is the country of love, and thou fhould'ft be an adept in the fcience.
Laur. Yes; I know the hitlory of the heart,^ and do aflure you, that you muft become the (lave of your captive, if you ever mean to tafte the lublime excefles of a mutual palhon.
AziM. \_conlemptuou/ly~\ Mutual paflion ! Sir, fhe is your flave, command \[qx\ Such bafenefs ma/ befit an Italian, but a muflulrian is more fenfible to his dignity.
Jbra. [ will hear you both further on thefubjeS: — The iron labour of the viav is for a few weeks fuf- pended — and during that ceffation, Pieafure ! I am thine. Prepare your banquets, compofe new delights, let every hour leem with frefh- invented joy?, till I forget the toils of the fanguinary field, and bathe my wounds with rofy-fingei'd love.
[Exit -with part of his train.
Fat. Well, he's in delightful fpirits — But how tlrange it is that the Rulhan flave fhou'd not have prefented herfelf to welcome her matter, and to give him an impreiTion of her charms.
Laur. Stranger if fiie had, when nothing fiightens her fo much as the idea of infpiring him with a piilfiou — I am inteieRed for her, and it is for tiiis reafon I iliall endeavour to make Ibrahim puifue a condu£t not ufual from a mighty mufTulman to his flave.
[Exit.
Fat. Hark ye, Azim! What makes your lovely countenance look fo grim, when we are all fb gay? I declare your glum face fuits the day as little as a black patch upon a gold robe-~Change it, man, change it! and don't be afraid of lofing any thing by \t, for you mull look carefully to pick up a wcrfe.
lExit.
C MULEY,
14 A DAT IN TURKEY, OR.
MuLEY. Azim, fined faw thee laft, I have trod the paths of glory — I have flumbered amidft the frofts of the night, 1 have toil'd amidft the ftreams of burn- ing day ; but I return and find thee the fame. — Witii tne all things have chang'd, but thou art unalter'd.— Thy temper, like the deep fliadowr of the foreft, is fomeu'mes chequer'd by the dart of the angry light- ning, but the ferene cheerfulnefs of the morning dwells not with thee.
Azim. Well, and what then ? If you like me not, thwart me not. There's room enough in Turkey for thee and for me. — Let the crow and the vulture reft on the fame tree ; but may thou and I live as far apart as the ftreams of Ilyilus, and the waters of the Bofphorus.
Selim. Surely thy evil difpofition muft be a fcourge to thy foul — it muft be afflitlion to thee.
SONG, Selim.
Ah ! teach thy breaft foft pity's throb,
And harmonize thy rueged mind, Ah? te-^ch thy lid foft pity's tear,
That gem of femiment refined, Could'ft thou nnce know the tender bllfs
The fyn patbizing bofom knows, When at meek forrow's facrcd touch,
Refponfive fadnefs round it flows-»- No more thy brow wou'd wear that frown.
Thy glance no more fo fternlydart, But joys would glitter in thy eye.
And peace cling gladly to thy heart.
END OF THE FIRST ACT,
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. IJ
ACT II.
SCENE An Apartment in the BassaV Palace,
IjiKAUlM JifcovereJ,/ealeJ under a Canopy ^ Officers and Siaves attending.
Enter Mo ley.
Ibra. ISAY, valiant Muley, where are your pci- foners ?
MuLEY Waiting at your threfliold for admittance.
Ibra Are they oF rank ?
MuLEY. I fufpeft one of them conceals his rank with the hopes of lowering his ranfom— the other is his fervant.
Jbra. Bring them before me. [^at^V Mulby.
Re enter MvLEV «u;;//50rloff aWA la Grbque.
IbrA. Who are you? Orloff, a foldier. Ibra. The enemy of our fatth. Ort.off. The enemy of thofe only who oppofe the interells of my fovereign — To chaftize them I this morning bo'e a fword v/hich your flaves won from me, hardly ! Let them confider it as the noblelt acquifition of the day
Ibra. Chriftian, this air of intrepidity, when
amidft the foldiers of the Rufliin camp, might have
fuited thy condition ; thou art now a fl-ave thyfelf,
acquire then that humility which becomes thy ftate.
Orloff. Difhonoura' le! I demnd my liberty.
A truce has been proclaim d, and
Ibra. Not till after thou wert captured ; thou
art. therefore, by the laws of arms, fairly our pri-
' C a loner.
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foner. — Give him the flave's habit, and fct him t» labour. Who art thou F
A LA Gr. Not a Ruffian, dear Sir, 'pon my ho- nour, nor the enemy of your faith j I believe it's a very genteel faith, and I have all the refpeQ in the woild for Turkilli gentlemen. — I never faw prettier hehav'd, prettier diefs'd people in my life — they have as much politenefs and good breeding as tho' ihey were my own counirymen.
Jbra. Of what country are thou ?
AlaGr. Oh, Paris, Sir, Paris. I triveil'd into Ruflia to poliili the brutes a little, and to give them fome ideas of the general equality of man j but my generofity has been loft ; — they ftill continue to be- lieve that a prince is more than a porter, and that a lord is a better gentleman than his flave- O, had they but been vvith me at "V^erfailles, when I help'd to turn thofe things topfey turvey there !
Ibra. Did you find them equally dull in other refped^s,
A LA Gr. Yes. Finding they would not learn liberty, I would have taught them dancing, but they feem'd as incapable of one bleffing as the other ; fo, now / am led a dance by this gentleman [turning ta his mafler] into your chains, in which, if I can but dance myfelf into your favour, I fl:iall think it the beft Jiep I ever took.
Ibra. The freedom of thy fpeech does not dif- pleafe me.
A LA Gr. Dear Sir, I am your moft obedient humble flave, ready to bow my head to your fandals, and to lick the duft from your beautiful feet.
Ibra, Ha, ha, ha !
A LA Gr. Ah, ah! — ^a ira ! — ^a ira ! [fffiriging]
Ibra. Go, take thy late mafter into thy protection, and fee if thou canft infpire him with thy own good humour j his chains will be the lighter.
A la Gr- Oh Sir, as to chains, 1 va'ue them not a rulh ; if it is your highncfs's fweet pleafure to load me with them, I Ihall be thankful for the honour, and dance C9 their clink— Blefs ye, Sir,
chaias
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chains were as natural t'other day to Frenchmen aa mother's milk.
1b R A. Take them away.
\_Exit Orlofp, a la Greque, l^c.
Ibra. ■ Well, Azim, where Is this lovely Ruffian?
Enter Aziw.
Azim. Mighty lord, thy fervant dares fcarce pro- nounce his errand. — She refufes to come.
Jbra. How!
Azim. 1 delivered your commands, T ordered her on pain of death to appear inftantly bcfoe you, yet fhe rti!l refuies. She talks of her ficred honour, and 1 know not whit.
Ibra. [Pdujing] Cold, — unimpanTon'd, — not ta be awed, — and a facred regard for her honour — Then, at length. 1 (\nA\ tafte the juy of overcoming resist- ance, [ivillr an adion of pleafure]
Azim. What means my l>rd i"
Ibra. 1 am fatiated, I aiii tired with the dull ac- quiefcence of our eaitein (laves, and rejoice that I Jiavc at length found one, who will teach me to hope and to Jeff air
Azim. Mi2;hty Baifa, fhe will have the infolence todefpife equally your threats and your love — Punifh- ment ought to be infl died.
Ibra, Beware how thou endeavoureft to weaken her hauteur I I will abate nothing of her inflexibility, I will be enamour'd of Icorn^, hec cruelty fhali be my triumph.
Enter Lauretta.
Azim. I fay then, my Lord, Ibra. What! am 1 to be oppofed — retire, flavef Laur. Why do you not ^o ? have you nor ieave to depart .'' Come, try tne frefh air, Goodnidn Whif- kers. {pulling him out by the Jit eve) 1 declare, my Lord, that bufy mtdling Have is not able to c induft an r.fFair of this fort— but, Sir, if you will follow my advice, I'll engage-—
C3 Ibra,
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Ibrv\. I'll follow no advice — My heart fpurns-at inJIruSlions, and equally contemns both your leffons and his—
LaIjr. Upon my word, he's advanc'dagreat wav in a fhbrt time— follow no advice ! lajide]
Ibra. There is a tranfport which I have never yet experienc'd, but which my foul longs to pofTels — Yes, my heart languifhes to remove the timid veil of coynefs, to foften by fweet degrees, the iae of chaftity, and to fee for once, referve facrificed at the altar of tendernefs ; tbefe^ cruel Love i are luxuries thou haft: never yet beftowed on me. [Exii.
Laur. So, fo! 'tis dangerous to give fome people a hint, Ifindig-I thought to have held the mafter-fpring, and to have managed him like a puppet j but prefto! he's out of fight before I knew I had loft him, and leaves his inftruQor groveling behind — I muft feek fome other field for my talents. 1 fee. [confiJerirg] Yes, I think, I think that may do — Muley, and the other four, with our little Muftapba — Yes, yes; with thefc half dozen, I'll weave a webb of amufement to crack the fides of a dozen gloomy harems with laughter — Mercy ! what a lleepy life wou'J our valiant BafTa and his damfels lead, but for iiiy talents at invention. [_Exi!.
SCENE rhe Garden.
Enter Mustapha, A21M, and Fatima.
Mus. All thy malice is not worth that, [fnappstig bisfngers.']
Fat. That's right, my little Muftapha, [patting him on the/houlder] don't mind him ; he's never happy, but when he's plaguing fomebody — What. has the pretty Rufliin done to you, that you fliould be fo fet on iDakipg her wretched?
Mus. 1 tell thee Alexina fhall not be made mifer- able whi.ft 1 have a hair in niy beard.
Fat. There, do you hear, Mr. Sour Chops ? I am fure if all the (laves who have the care of us, had your iU-.naiure, I bad rather Hnk down into the con- dition
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dition of a water-carrier, than live in a great man's harem.
AziM. I tell thee, that fliould {he become the favourite flave, thou will repent ihy blind prejudice— We fhall then all be in her power — tremble at her revenge.
Mus. Tremble thou, whofe perfecutions will make thee a proper objeft of her revenge — for me, what will fhe have to return me but offices of refpefl and kindnefs ? Go, go, thy turbulent fpirit makes thee hareful.
Voice {•tui thou t] Fatima! Fatinia !
Fat. I'll come inilantly — And you iliall come with me. [running up to Azimj Nay, 'tis in vain to refill, there is a dozen of us in the next walk, and we'll mou'.d you into a better temper'd monfter before we have done with you, 1 warrant. Selima! Bafca ! come and help me.
Mvs. Begone, I fay.
Fat. O, what you move, do you ? The creature^ is mended already. [Exit, dmg^ing out Azim.
Mus. So, my Lord Eafla, that hafty Itep, and that eager look proclaim thy errand — I know thou wilt catch the bird at laft; but 1 will keep the little flutterer fro;n thee as long as I can.
Enter Ibrahim, [fjajlily}.
Ibra. Where is the Rufllnn flave? the women tell me rtie fpends her hours in my guden, but I cannot fee her here, though her fragrant breath feems to falute me from the rofe trees, and her melodious voice from amidft the budies, where the painred fongrters pour forth their ftrains. Where is flie, MulVapha.?
Mus. I fav/ her awhile ago at the right there fomewhere, but m«y be flie*s at the left by this time 1 here's no guelFin^.
Ibra. Azim complains that flie is an infolentand fcofnful beauty, not gentle, nor complaifant in the leafl.
Mus,
«0 A DAYIWTURREY, OR
Mus. I'll follow the lead, and deftroy every w'lih he may have to behold her [aftde^ Ves, yes; as to infolence, ma'ch nie her fellow if you can — Blefs us, to fee the difference ! Why, my Lord, our liaftern beauties arc ib gentle, fo complying, they fcarcely give you time to wifli.
Jbra. I'hou fiy'ft right [fmiling]. Mus. Prcriy creatures! if a m;in does but look at them, they drop fke a ripe cherry Iioid the bough- No coldnefs, no difuain; but as to this proud Ruffian, it would l;e fdfier to march an army to St. Peieiiburgh, and whip the hmprefs through a keyhole into your baggage waggon, than to fubdue her perulence.
Ibra Dod tiiou ihink lo? Oh, evry wf)rd thou utrerell gives new ardor to my hopes, new impulles to my defires — 1 adore her.
Mus. Alack! alack* [nvith furprife]. Ibra. Oh, Multapha, my iniag>nation paints her till my heart grows firk with love! 1 fee the beauteous -/corner dart living lightnings from her eye, and her cheek glow ^vith chafte uifdainj 1 weep in anguifh at her feet, I implore her comp-.iffion — Melted with my love, yet ftill rigid and reierv'd, I behold the be- witching cot Aid in her foul — I triuii ph in the dif- covery, yet conce d my delight, ftill imploie, ftilf Gomplain, then feize fonie h ppy inftant, when her whole foul is touch d, and boaft a victory indeed!
Mus. What then — What <hen, my Lord, you are nor dilpleas'd at her haughtinefs ? Ibra. Difpleas'd! [f/ni/ing]. Mus. So. fo, fo! i have been driving on when I thought 1 had been pulling back; fpurring a mettfed courfer, and negletling the check rein [af:de^.
Ibra. Go on to paint her — pencil her in all her fifcinating pride, deck her in the coldnefs which dwells on the polar Alp ! My glowing foul fliall burn at the delcription, and blaze with the fiercenefs of newly tafted love.
Mus. Why, as to that — to be fure as to that, flie is as cold as the Alps, and all their fnow-balls — ihe
perfeftly
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perfeftly make's one's teeth chatter at her. — But then —
Ibra. What? [impatiently] then wh^X ? .
Mus. Why, if truth muft be fpoke, there is, after all, fomething oddifli about her.
Ibra, Oddim !
Mos. Why now, uiy Lord, look at ir.e— pray look at me — Ay, my Lord Bafla, examine nie well,
Ibra, To what puipofe?
Mus. Why, the ladies of your harem fay that this fame beautiful Ruffian is exceedingly like me.
Ibra. Ridiculous!
Mus. Particularly about the nofe. [Jhra. Jbeivs impatience] Nay, there are handfome likeneiTes, my Lord— -I don't fay but that fhe may be rather hand- fomer,
Ibra. Thou art mad.
Mus. Not that ever I faw the likenefs myftlf— except fomething in the fliape indeed — But there I have the advantage, for her right fhoulder, and her right ear, have too right an underftanding, they are always together. Then her hair, to be fure it may fuit fomc people, but according to my fancy, the colour is execrable.
Ibra. Wretch, wert thou a cbriftian, I fhou'd believe thee intoxicated with wine — Out I'll this in- ftant feek the charmer, and judge how far— [^o;«^ •/J.
Enter Selim on the appoftte ftde.
Selim. My Lord, a Mcflenger from the Diran"
Ibra. \jurm and Jlamps] * What fay'ft thou ?
Selim. A mefTage from the Divan with weighty difpatches.
Ibra. I wifh they had been aut/g^/jVr, that his fpeed might have been lefs — Let him wait and be re- ff e flied . iJlHl gsing"^
Selim. rie is onjer'd to hurry your reply, and to return without delay to the Sublioie Porte.
Ibra. Impoffible ! I fay — I — would the Sublime Tone were funk beneath their own lumber. [Exit,
Selim.
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Sblim. What is all this ? What does the vntl($ carry now?
Mus. [angri/y] Whims and oddities of all forts and colours — The humours of Bafias I find it is as impoffible to guefs at, as at the weight of moon- fliine.
Selim. See ! Alexina is weeping in that arbour.
Mus. Blefs her! And her cheeks through the {hining tear, look like carnation-s when they are firft Waflied in the dew of the morning. — Retire for a mo- ment* [Exit Selim,'
Enfer Alex, /rom an Me^ve.
Alex. O Mullapha ? I have witn?fs'd thy kind- nefs ircinbling and giateful — But, alas! what wiM it avail ? The darknefs of night hangs upon my ftJul— » Hope has forf.ken me !
Mus. Ay, that's becaufe you did not grafp her fall — Treat Hope a.s you would a favourite lover, Lady ! never lofe fight of it.
Alex. Thou art light!
Mus. Even (o is hope — as light as one of your own country re'n deer — and to carry on the compari- fon, if wMl whilk you like a reindeer over all the bitter fr ifts of liie: Buckle hone to. your flfi-lge, and you will travel over the tirefome wafte, difdaining the bUft, and fmiling at the tempeft.
Alex. O th?t I couUi felze her ! But how is it poflible within thefe walls? i hefe walls, the temple of loofe defires, the abode of a 'yrant and hiiflives? Muftapha! could'll thou eff ft my cfcipe?
Mus. There indeed, hope will give you the (lip— for I could as eafilv efcape into the air, and pluck a feather from the flying eigle, as help you in that, and to teil you the truth, my mailer will not much longer be dallied with.
Alex Dreadful words ! Thou canft not guefs at their weight— a tun fa'ing rock to crufh this worthlefs. frame, woold not,-— could not give me half the horror.
Mus, Ske frightens rae— her eye is wildf
Alex.
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Alex. I do fwear tothce, — thee! towhommjr fruitlcls vows were paid, never to forget that 1 am thine — never to fufFer the flighteft violation of our facred love. — This [draiving a dagger] is thy furety. To be ufed in that moment, when heav'n itfelf will approve the fuicide, when applauding angels will nerve my arm to (Irike the blow! and this vow, I call thee, heav'n, from thy higheft throne, to witnels and record ! [Exii.
Mus. By mv turban, I hardly know where I "ftand. Women of different countries have different fouls, I believe j and I am fure this is the firft time this fort of foul was ever in a harem [tvalis a little and c^njiders']. Come hither, Selim,
Enter Selim.
Mus. Go to the JanilT ry Heli, he has fent me notice, that he has captured fome flaves and other merchandize.^Te!! him 1 fliall be diredlly there, to look at his women and his velvets,
Selim. So! then we fliaii have fonie other females, fate wi'ling to plague us. I fwear of all the merchandize our tiaders deal in, that of women is the mu\\ troublefome and unprofitable — And our wife and puiffant Bafla is as nmch out in his chart of counfhip, as he would be in that of the inoon — • Why, lie's as melancholy as a moping Spaniard on the outfide of his mitlrefs's grate.
DUETTE. Selim /?«^ MusTAPHA.
Deuce take whining,
Pouting, pining, What jokes in all this pother,
If one wont do,
Nor let me woo, I'd fit me with another.
If blue tyts frown,
I'd turn to brown. Nor lofe an hour in lighing,
Shou'd A\ the fex
Conibine to vex, They'd ne'er fee me dying.
SCENE
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SCENE ^ luide Court luith feveral unfin'ijhtd Buildings.
[Slaves difcove/d at luork at a dijlance. T'wojlaves drl'ue ^arro-ws acrofs the ftogey and go off^folloioed by h. L\ Greqjue.]
A LA Gr. Aye, wheel away, comrades — wheel •away ! Hang me if / do though. I'll wheel no more of their rubbilTi. Let the BalTa dig his own dirt [o'verfetting the harrow]. Why, the fun here in Turkey feems to mind nothing but how to keep hini- feif warm {^ftating himfelf on the ground]. The poets talk of his being a coachman by trade ; but hang me if I don't believe he was a baker, and his oven is always hot. — I wifh he'd make acquaintance with a north v/ind now, for half an hour, or a good ftrong fouth vvefter. — Lud, lud! how I do long for a wind! If I was in Lapland, I'd buy all that the witches of that country have bottled up for ten years to come tfi figs'].
Blow, ye pretty little breezes, BuiUe, bullle midft the treefes.
Enter AzlM.
AziM. How now, you lazy boar! What are you feated for, and tuning your pipes in the middle of the day? — To work — to work, furah !
A LA Gs. Tuning my pipes! Why, I like to tune my pipes — and 1 don't like to work, good Mr. MulTuI- nian — I don't indeed .'
AziM. Then you fliall fiiiart, good Mr. Chriftiaii IJhaking his ivhifi.]
A LA Gr. What, would you take tlie trouble to beat me fuch a day as this? My dear Sir, the fatigue v/ou'd kill you — I can't be fo uncbriftian as to fuffer it [Jzim gives him a Jlroke]. Nay, if ^o« llrike, [getting up] I (land. — Pray, Sir, what may be your office in this place ?
^ AziM.
a
Azui. To keep you and your fellow- (laves to tlieirduty.
A LA Gr. And who keeps ^OM to your duty? AziM. Who? why, myfclf to be fure. A LA Gr. Then I think yourfelf is a very Hl-fa- vour'd fcoundrel, to oblige you to perform a duty fo diftreffing to your politenefs. AziM. You arean odd filh! A laGr. No, I am one of a pair — I have a twin-brother juft nice me.
AziM. The man who was taken with you ? AlaGr. No— he has not fuch good fortunes be's a Rufllan count, poor fellow ! and was my mafter, — Gad, I could make you laugh about him. AztM. Well!
A LA Gr. About two months ago, Mr. Slare- driver, he^-vas married. AziM. Well.'
A LA Gr. a pretty girl faith, and daughter to one of our great Rufllan boyards — a boyard ranks as a marquis did in France, and as a laird ftill does iB Scotland — I love to elucidate. AziM. Well!
A LA Gr. So, Sir, a few hours after the ceremony, before the fun was gone dov/n, and before the moon had thought about drelfing herfdf for the evening- Whip ! his pretty bride was gone. AziM. Where?
A LA Gr. That's the very thing he would get at, —Ma'am and he were walking like two doves in the boyard's garden, which garden was border'd by trees, which trees were border'd by the fea — Out fprin^s from the wood forty Turks with forty fabres, and forty pair of great monftrous whifkers, which Co frighfen'd the bride, that inftead of running away, flie fainted away, and ftaid there.
AziM. Hah, hah! then my countryn?en had a prize.
A LA Gr. That they had, worth two Jew'seyes,
Six of them hurried off with her to a Felucca, which
lay at the edge of the wood ; and all the reft employ'd
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my mailer. I fuppofe they v/ould have had him too, but the boyard, with a large party of triends, appear- ing at the top of a walk, they thought fit to make off with what they had. — Well, my mafter's bridal bed was, that night, the beach, where he (laid laving and beating hinifcif, as tho' he took hinifelf for one of the Tuikifh ravi fliers.
AziM, Ha, ha, ha! thy ftory is well — fo, all that night he walk'd in the garden — Oh, and the nightingales, 1 warrant, fung refponfes to his com- plaints, and the melancholy wood-dove cooed in fym- patheiic forrow. — It mull, have been very plealant,
A LA Gr. O, a pleafant night as could be; but it coft him a fortnight's lying in bed ; for a hifling hot fever laid hold of him ; and the dodlors, with all their rank and file of phials and boluHc-s, could hardly drive him out of his veins.
AziM. Well, now go to your labour [/xi'»W;V/^ bim round].
A LA Gr. O, iry dear domine, I hive not finifli'd yet. — I want to tell you how he join'd the army, to have nn opportunity of revenge, and how, in all the fkirmifhes we have had, he has drawn inore Turkifli blood than
AziM. Go I you are an idle rafcal, and would rather talk an hour than work a minute — Go, or I will dra.v fome of thy French blood to balance ac- counts with your mafter.
Ala G r. Sir, you are extremely polite ; the mod getleman-like. civil, courtly, wtU-behflv'd flave-dri- ver 1 have ever had the fendty to encounter [takes up the harrow'] My fervice to your Lady, Sir ! \,Azim lajhes him off".]
AziM. The time he mentions, about two monthrj is about the period when our Felucca landed Alexina, aijd^his account tallies exaftly with the account of the Tailors — Aye, it muft be fo-— Now, would it add lo her mifery to know that her hufband is fo near her ? I muft confider, and (he fliall either know it, or not, according to the effec* which I thirk it will produce. •»! know flie bates me, and let her look to it.
Enter
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Enter Orloff,
My good Lord Count, pray be fo good as to take this fpade in your hand — Dig you muft, and {hall — I have had the honour to bring down as noble fpirits as yours to the grindftone before now.
Orloff. InflitSt your puniOiments ! to ihofe I can fubmit, but rot to labour.
AziM. Why not ? Has Nature made any difllrc- tion between you and the reft of the flaves? Look at yourfelf. Sir ! — Your form, your limbs, your habit I are they in aught different from the reft ?
Orloff. [haughtily'\ Birth hasmadea diftirc- tion 1
AziM. That T deny — The plea of birth is of all others the moft fliadowy. There, at leaft, Nature has been fttidtly impartial: the fon of an Emprefs receives life on the fame terms with the fon of a peafant.
Orloff. Pride then, and Fortune, make diftinc- tions,
AziM. True- but Fortune has deferted you, and pray recommend it to your pr de to follow her, that you may, without trouble, attend to your bufinels.— Here ! take the fpade
Orloff. [fnatches the ffxide and firgs it downj There, if you dare again infult me, I'll huri i/jee there, and tread on thee.
AziM. Now, if the Baffa had not commanded me to be gen'le to him, I would have beaten him with thongs till his broken fpirit brought him to my feet for mercy: but if I can't bend it, I'H torture it. [a/tde] So, you think to mafter me, do ye ?
Orloff. I think not of thee.
AziM. No, I fuppofe — Ha, ha I — I fuppofe youc
pretty wife is
Orloff. My wife— my wife — Oh, art thou ap-
priz'd that I had a wife ? [A21M ^r;«jj Oh! ("peak.
to uie, tell me if thou know'ft her — Nay, turn not
from me ! — All the lineaments of thy face become-
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important — if thou wilt not fpeak to me, let me gaze on tbeniy and there gather my fate. . AziM. Well, gaze and gaze! Cnn'ft thou there read her ftory ? Doft thou know -whether Ihe breathes, and tukire ? Doft thou bthold thy lovely vrife trium- phant in a feraglio, or iubiniffive in a bathing houfe?
Orlopf. Oh, villain! monfter ! neither. By every glittering ftar in heaven, if fhe lives, fhe's chafte ! \ptiufes and Jirikes his forehead] Had 1 gold and jewels, I would pour the treafure at thyfttt, but mow have mercy on me— -Ob, 1 befeech thee, f«ll roe if Alcxijiu Uvea,
AziM. Ha, ha, ha! if Alexina lives! [laughs tigaiTtf then nualks Jloivly off. J
Orloff. Nay, thou fhalt not avoid me— I will purfue thee, kneel at thy feet, perform the moft menial offices, fo thou wilt tell me of my Alexina!
AaiM. ^turning] Now, where are the diftirrftious of thy bjrth? Do they prevent thy feeling like the vulgareft fon of Nature?
Orloff. Thou llialt chide long, if thou wilt at Jength fofteri the anguilli of my foul — Ob, hear me, hear me ! [Follotos him wt.
SNli> OF THE SECOND ACT.
ACT
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. 29
A C T IIL
SCENE I. "the Garden.
Enter Mustapha.
V_^OME along, I fay— Why. what do you lland there rof ? — O the difference of women f This is a- (lubborn one, I wiirrant i ei — Though llie faw me. pay down tne money ior her, llie has not the ieall no- tion that Ihe's a (lave— Well, if you won't come^ Madam, I'll fetch ye. — IGoes out and re- enters -wit^ Paulina, mnu-drefs'd.i
Pau. Law! how you hawl one — ' t 11 ye, I don't I'ke to walk here— Let me alone, iTrying to dijen- gage ber hand.\
ivlus. Come, come, Midam, none of your airs — You muft here be obedir^nt and civil — Come along. The Janil^iry of whom i oought you, told me you v/as a good natured, complaifant Cieature..
Pau.' Yes, but he was not fo rough ;.s you are j, he made me throw away my peafant wced^ and gave me all thele fine cbaths. bee this tiffany, all fpotted with iilver; loon at ibis beautiful turbaa — He gave, it me all !
Mus. Why, rhat was only to fet off your beauty,, that you might tetch a better price; but 1 b.)Ught you for your good humour only- Here is a Iweet. woman who pines and hghs till flie puts one in mmd of a myrtle bloflfom, nil palenefs and fragrmce.
Pau. [luitb qukknefs] What's, that to I ? Ifup-* pofe I fhall be pale and flagrant too, if I am to be kept down by you.
Mus. Who wants to keep you down? Behave yourfelf prettily, and you may live as merrily here as . fparrcxws upon a may-bufh. The gentle creature for D 3l whoiu:
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whom I bought ye, is your countrywoman, and I guefs''d you might divert her with your Jenjible prattle.
Pau. Ah, did you fo ? Why, you guefs'd as tho' it was your trade then — for I am the moft divertingeft. creature in our whole village, and if 1 could but fee my father, and brother Peter—
Mus. Well, if you behave difcreetly — I'll buy your father, and brother Peter —
Pau. Buy! buy! Why, you talk of buying us, as though we were bafkets of eggs, or bales of cotton.
Mus. Yes, it is the mode here — Every country has its fancies, and we are foJfond of liberty, that we always buy it up as a rarity.
Pau. What, did you buy all thofe ugly men that I fee at work yonder ?
Mus. Men! Make no miftakes, child — It would be death for a man to be feen here. None ever ven- ture a foot within thefe fhades.
Pau. No! why then do_yo« venture here .-'
Mus. O, as for me, 1 — I — hold your longue, [a«^r//)i] and make no iniperiinent inquiries.
Pau. But I lu///' make inquiries. What do all them there ugly men do here, 1 fiy ?
Mus. Why them there ugly men were bought to keep you pretty women in order.
Pau. In order! Why what controul have they over us .''
Mus. Oh, they are guards and fpies; and are now and then convenient at taking off a lady's head, or fuiting her neck with a bowftrir>g, v;hen the whim happens to ferze a great man, of amufin^, his feraglio v/ith a tragic gala.
Pau. Why, what wicked wi'etcTies you all are, then ! Get out of my fight, do ! You look fo ugly I can't bear ye, and if I was a great man, I'd firing you ail together upon a rope that fbou'd reach from here to Saint Peterlburgh.
Mus. Ah, you have a fpirit, I (<»e — Hark ye> bufTey \_feizes ber arm-]
Pau.
THE KUSSTAK SLATES. 5!
T&u. O, dear heart, do not look fo ferocious"! I really believe you are a female tyger.
Mus. Dread my claws then! See, here is the gentle creature for whom 1 bought thee — had (he had thy iuipertiiience, flie might have pined in foIi:udc for uie.
Enler Alexin a, [Najltlj.]
Alex Nay, but it is — Lnpofilble ! And yet it h fo ! Arc thou not Paulina, the daughter of my father's vaiTal, Petrowitz? — Alas! thou art. Unhappy girl ! what
Pau. Goodnefs, goodnefs ! If it is not the Lady Alexina, may I be vvhipt !
Alex. Dear Paulina, what dreadful defliny brought thee hither }
Pau. Deftiny do you call him ? [looking af Mujla- fha'\ Why, this place is all full of dreadful dedinies, I think. Some with b!ac(c whilkers, and lome with grey ones. Was it this little odd defliny who bought you too ?
Alex. Alas I thy queftion brings back fuch a rufh of forrow5 — Oh ! thou can"fl: not be ignorant that ! was torn from mv hufband within the very hour that made u e his, \'we(pf\ and dragg'd from blifs to flavery.
Pau. I did not know that you was here — but I am monflrous glad to meet you here — Ii is the luckieft tiling — J have always been in luck !
Mus. Yes, that compliment is a proof of it. You are vaftly lucky there ! Well, go on, and amufe Ii€r, child — I fhall enlarge your party prefently. \Goes out.]
Pau. The little body is as pert as though it was five fc<" high — Rut, for all him, I will fay, my dear lady, that I would not but have feen you here lor the bedgown 1 h.ive — Not even for this, though it is fo fine.
At.EX. Hah, Paulina ! I fear that this drefs Is the mark of thy difhonour — I fear thou an undone !
Pav.
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Pau. Undone indeed! I think we are both un- done ; to be biouglu into fuch an oJd, out-of- 1 he-way countiy as this — ha, hn, hi, ha. I have been here but an hour, and it feeins an hundfec — In one place a parcel of copper-colour crea ures, witnout tongues, pop cur, glaring with their fjwcer eyes, and if you want to talk and be a little fociable, ba, ba, ba, is all you can get — 1 believe they learnt their alphabet of the fheep — Then in another co;ner —
Alex [im/xitienily] Fray referve your obferva- tions — I have queilions to a(k, which tear my heart- ftrings to pronounce — Speak to me of OrlofF — Oh, my O.lofF! 8peak to ine of my parents. — Did they fupport the luoiiient which dragg'd me from them ?
Pau. Truly as bad as you cou'd willi — At lafl 't was faid that my Lord, the Ci.unr, went into the army, and the.ehe has play'd about him valiantly I I warrant he'll pay cheTuiks for robbing him of you, though, rn ly oe, they won't like his coin.
Alex Oh, preferve him thou, in whofe hand remains the fate of battles^!
Enter Must a p ha, iijith Lauretta.
Mus. Here, I have brought ye Lauretta ; die ii a girl of enrerprife, and I have a fancy which her in- tiiguing fpirit will biing to perfedion.
Alex Alas! how can flie ferve me? Can fhe reflore me to my country — to my hufband — ?
JVlus, Fear her not — riic has as many plots a& dimples; fo I leave ye together — Stand on one fide. \l^o FaU' lub'j is in his ivt/y.'}
Pau. Aye, on any fide but you r's, Mr. Deftiny [croj/ei] — I hope you and I fliall be always at contrary, fides.
Mus. So hope 1, Mifs Nimble Tongue! For iC you were always befide me, 1 fhould foon be befide niyfelf. [Exit.
Laur. Deir madam, look a little cheerfully— I. have a thought in my head — Hark ye, my dear [lo
Paulina]
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. ^^
Paulina^ — you are a Ruffian, I find— What foct of lovers do your countrymen make ?
Pau. How fliould 1 know? I never had but three —One was old enough to be my father, fo, 1 ufed l& kneel down and a(k his bleffing — So, one day, he gave me a curfe, and walked off. — The next was a fchooi- niafter, and he had fuch a trick of corredion, that, had 1 married him, I Hiould have been in confiant fear of the birch. — The third was a foldier — but as I neither liked to follow the camp, nor to live a widow bewitch'd, I made him beat hia march.
Laur. Brava! you difpos'd of them all like a girl of fpirit, and yet, I think, had the cafe been mine, 1 fliou'd have taken a march with the inldier — I do love tbldiers. — A regiment on its march always makes my heart fhiver to pieces amongfl: a thoufaiid Caefars and Alexanders. [To Alexina] has the Bafla feen you yet ?
Alex. He fent by Muley to command mc to iiis prefence, but I will firft rurti into 'he arms of deatlv.
Laur. Ha, ha, ha! fuch a lefoluiion in this country ! Rather rufh info the arms of de-ith, than into the arms of a handfome lover ! the notion is exotic — it is an ice plant of the North — ind our hot fun will wither its hoiours, depend on't.
Alex. [Sc9t-n/u//y.] Are you the friend who was to foothe my lorro^vs? Alas! where ilial! honour be ban$ur'J^ if tlie mouth ot woman caft on its con- tempt !
Laur. Ah, pardon my levity, for I mean to ferve you.
Alex. In you, the contented inhabitant of a feraglio, fuch a piof'anation maybe paidon'd j but alas ! in the work*., the grace of challity is fcarcely longer acknowledged ! 1 have beard the wife ai;d the daughter affix ridicule to the name. O virtue 1 where canftthou expefl worfliip, when th^' <peech of the matron and the virgin unhallows thy facred idea ?
Laur. I am not fo lod, but I can feel and //'/iWif you for your reproof j and as the firft fruits of it, I will labour for your efcape from a fuuaiion, which,
to
34 A DAY IN TURKEY, OK
to you, muft be mlfery indeed ! But, madam, we inufl confer alone — I intreai you to retire with me.
Alex. Alas! fo milerable is my fituation, that I am obliged to accept fervices from thofe whom the feelings of ray heact wou'd knpel me to iLun.
[Exit.
Laur, [Tt Paulina, who is following.] Ah! not fo quick, mifs ! Do you ftay here 'till I return- Stir nor, I charge you. [Exit.
Pau. Stay here, indeed! There is pretty good care taken that one fhou'dn't run away. The walls are as high as a cathedral, and fuch frightful looking oddities prowling about, that a moufe could not run trom one fhrub to another without obfervation— How they all ftare at me ! So I there's another of them — He looks rather better than the reft — but I ihall have nothing to fay to him. {.Regards her drefs.
Enter Ibrahim, foUovoed by Jlaves. He turns and fptaks to them nviih impatience.
Ibra. No more, no more of bulinefs. Let not a tliought of public duty here obtrude itfelf — I have already faciificed thofe hours to it, due to a dearer caufe. [The /la^ves retire.] And now for my re- ward ! Now will I feek the charming obdurate, not ever leave — Hah! Hie is there ! The lovely fugitive— I have found her — 1 h ive found her !
Pau. Heigho! what lliall I do with myfclf. I'll gather flowers for Ldy Alesina.
Ibra. \es, flie has a thoufand charms, and my heart is already in her chains. — How dared Ivluftapha deceive me ? He talked of deformity— her form is fymnietry itfelf, and her hair which he decried, is fit for the bow-ftrlngs of the god of love.
Pau. Hang this fliarp thorn, it has made my finger bleed.
Ibra. [Advancinir.] But you, charming Ruflian! flill moie barbarous, are born to make hearts bleed. [Pau. Mi at him attentively, then tojjes her head
fcornfuUj.
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. 35
fcornfully avjay] What a true piiflure they have given me of her fcoin ! Will jou not fpeak to me ?
Pau. [^Looks at him again.^^ 1 worvder at feme people.
Jbra. What doft thou fay? Oh, that mouth is too lovely to becloffd fo toon.
Pau. [Talking to her Jloivers.] You are very pretty, and you are very fwcet, but you are not com- plete yet — Good Mr. What-dye-cal! — reach me that flower that grows fo high.
Jbra. V\ i(h tranfport ! [prefsnts the Jloiver.'] iliall I arrange them for you?
Pau. Get along, do !
Jbra. Teach me to do fomething that may not difpleaie you.
Pau. Get out of my way, I fay.
Ibra. Do you know me ?
Pau. Not J, nor never defire to know ye — I wlili I was out of this v/retched place altogether, J know- that.
Ibra. It ftiall be the bufinefs of my life to make you happy in it.
Paij. You ! ha, ha, ha.
Ibra. You are furely unaccnair.ted v;!th ttiy rank, and my fituation.
Pau. No, no — 1 kiww th^t. — Do bold your non- fenfe.
Ibra. [IVith Jlfpleafure.'] Your hau^htinefs I was prepared to bow to, but I knew not how to meet your contempt.
Pau Don't begin to redden at me — I mind ye no more than I do this fallow leaf — There — fee — 1 blow it, and away it flies — go after it — there lies your v/ay.
Ibra. But not the attiadion — You bid me go, whilft your eyes chain me here.'
Pau. Then Pll fliut them — Theie — row how do you like me?
Ibra. In vain you fliut your eyes, unlefs you cou'd likewife hide that rofy mouth, thofe teeth, thofe features, that foFm! I could love you though you were blind.
Pau,
36 A D A Y IN TURKEY, OR.
Pau. Love ! What, can you love? Such a hard* liearted — Tuikijk — creature as you love ?
Ibra. Can i ? yes, to diftraClion ! It is not pof- fible for me to tell you hotu I could adore you — VVhole days wou'd be loft in gazing on your charms! I could hang on your breath like the humming-bird on the vapour of the rofe, and I fhould drink your glances, 'till my foul, fick with excefs of pleafure, would leave aie fcarce power to murmur forth my blifs.
Pau. Now, what can he mean by all that ? I be- lieve a bifhop could not talk liner ! [/^fide] I tell ye what, milter, you may make grand fpeeches about this and that; but 1 hate both you and your love ; and if ever you teize me with it any more, I'll make you repent, that I will [Zings'], t
SONG. PAULINA.
You think to talk of this and that, And keep me here in filly chat,
But I know, I know better. There clearly lies, kind Sir, your way, , Putfue It then T humbly pray,
And me you'll make your debtor.
Why, blefs my flars, it's very odd. That here upon this harralefs fod,
I cannot flay in quiet. But now you know fo clear my mind, Mayhap you'll leave me here behind.
The path feenas wide, pray try it.
Tbra. Charming fongdrefs! — I dare not purfue her. — How well fhe knows the power of love, to treat with difdain the m-in in whofe hands is her fate! Hah I would I fuffer her thus 'o leave me, but that at laft flie mujl be mine! Go then, lovely tyrant, indulge thy fcotn, and treat mc like an humble flave— A moment comes when thou flialt repay me ! [Exit.
Pau. [Ccming c/eivn] So I he's gone .'
3 Enter
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. 37
Enter Alexina, Mustapha, and Lauretta. Laur. H,ih ! fee what fvveet flowers I have ga- ther'd for you ! Why did you ftay fo long ? Alex. Oh, let me embrace thee! Pau. What, all this for the flowers ? Alex. No, for hope— for feft returning hope . Paulina, the powerful Baffa is thy flave— He loves thee — I have witncfled ybur interview, and blefs that fortune which has done for me in an inllant, what, by a train of auifices, we meant to have procured.
Mus. Ah, but, you little rogues, 'tis 1 that have done it, 'tis 1 that have brought about allthis, though like fonie other great at^ions, more is owing to chance than (kill. r r u c
Pau. Why, what have you done to be fo full or your brags i"
I^AUK. What, are vou n^t fenGble of your hap- pinefs? To have fubdued the henrt of one of the hand-fomefl:, and moft pcweriul men in the empire ?
Pau. Men! — What are you talking about .? — Oh then, that handfome man is not one of thoG" odious creatures who bowftring us? Laws ! how could 1 treat the gentleman f o ? Til run after him, and make ft up. [running off]
Alex, [folloiving and holding her] Stay ! or you undo me.
Pau. Well then, the next time I *ee him, Pi! fell him that Pm ainam'd of niyfellj and I'll try by all due civilities to appeafe his anger.
Alex. Oh, not for woilds — Still you will undo me, niy fate is in your hands.
Mls. Hark ye, my pretty maid, our HafTa, like all great men, has his fancies, he does not like too much honey on his bread. Pai;. Laws! Ha, ha, ha !
Laur. If you-wilh to tetain hi^ heart, you mud p'agueit — if you are tender vou'll lofe him.
Pau. Why, that's the way in my country too ; as
fnon as our ladies grow fond, their lovers grow cold j
foi all the world like ihe little Dutch painted man
£ and
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and woman in the weather box, when one pops out,
the other pops in — never in a mind.
Mus. Keep the leflbn m your mind, and you may
be a great lady — only take care not to begin your
pops too foon. You fee {he is apt,
Laur. O, as a parrot ! Come, my good girl, you
iTiall goto my chamber, and 1 will give you the pret-
tieft lefTon you ever yet leatnt — I'll teach you in half an hour all the arts of a fine lady, and you ihall be able to play on your lover as you wou'd on an harpfi- chord. The whole gamut of his mind fliall be in your pofleffion, and every note of it obedient to your wifti. Alex. Be attentive to her lefTcns, my dear Pau- lina ; perhaps my honour, and my felicity, depend on your fuccefs — O preferveyour own innocence, and.be the guaidian of mine I
Pau. Preferve my own innocence ? Ay, to be fure I will — for my father has re^d (o me in mmy a good book, which fays, that a woman, when flie lofes her innocence, lofes her charms, and that, like a faded rofe dfopt from the tree, the foot of eveiy pafTengc-r Vv-ill tread on her in her decay. O, who would lofe their innocence! My dear lady, why, your eyes look as blight again ^ they did when I fiA\ faw you.
Alex. It is bccaufe Hope hath (bed irs luftreon thcni. [Laur. U^ids o^pAUtiNA.] My heait is full ; my veins confefsa warmer fiow, and the bright- eft vifions glides before me. O, natuie! thou who haft nr.ide us cspable of fo much blifs, v>'hy is it thy decree that we fhall link in forrow .'' Why niuft our joys be fo often ilirivel'd by the cold touch of indu- rating DESPAIR ! [Exit.
Enter Seum an^ Fat i MA.
Fat. Selim, v/as not that the Ruffian flave who dfpar'ed as we er.ter'd f Surely it was, and with a look of plea fure ! —
Selim. Pleafure ! I am glad to hear it. I ain fjre her nK-Iancholy has thrown a gloon over the whole harem.
Fat.
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. 39
Fat. What an odd wliim it is in our niafler to grow fond of the t-'iinJ of a wom.ui! Did ever an/ tody hear of a wcni:in's min.-/ before as an objedl of paflion ?
Selim. I don't underfland It.
D U E T T E. Selim afiJ Faxima.
Giveme(vou) a femi'e fofc and kind,
Whofe joy 'twcu'd be ta pl-afe me (ye) ; . The bcaU'ics of hi't precious iv.ind.
Would neither charm nor teize me (}e^
Tbe dimpled cheeky and fparkllng eye;, To me {fo-'Ji) nrc lA-It and found fenfe -,
And better vvorih a lover's figh, Tli.in Hures of menf.d nonff^nfe
The touch of honied velvet Ilpg }« reafon and bright fcience, And he who at that fountairj dip?. May fcoin the /Vi'/jf's alliance-
tKT> OF THE THIRI-) ACT,
E 2 ACT
40 ^ DAYINTURICEV,
ACT IV.
SCENE \~A ^in^ran^le^On one Side of the Square is a "jery high Garden Wail; behind njuh'ub
are h^ard fieijuent Burjis of Laughter A la
Greque is feen moving from Place (9 Place, trying to peep through.
A La Greq^e.
JL>I E V I [, take the woikmen who buiit the wa'l .' Not a chink or cr.iiiiiy can t fiiul to fend in the thou- fai dh pirt of an eye-beam [laugh ivithin], 1 here the*' go again ! Oh, you Iweet tits you I I wifli 1 -was one amongft ye. [Enter a Turk and crops ] Hark ye, iVlr. Gravity ! Is there no gelling a peep at thefe jolly girls? 'iURK. No.
Ala Gr. What, are they ntw^r fuFer'd to be (cQn by a handfome Chriilian young felljw like me ? Turk. No.
A i,A Gr. WyQ thli k they'd t^ke it amifs if a rijan was to venture his neck over the wall, to get at them ?
Turk. No.
A LA Gr D'ye berieve the B; iTii would forgive fuch an fnnocent piece of curiofuy ? Turk. No.
A LA Gr. Fgad, you manage yqur words dif- creetly — Are you afraid your hock won't 1^1^ the winter, fliou'd you fpend too many thefe funnner months?
Turk. No.
A LA Gr. Well done, my boy? Since you are fo fond of t\\Q word, 1 II give ye a fo;ig on the fubjcft. '
S O N G,
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. 4^
SONG, A LA GRE(iUE.
A pretty gemman once I faw. TUe neighbours faid he ftudied law, When full of grief, In 's hand a brief,
A poor man canie, Good Sir, he cried, Flead onny fi^e.
The lawyer cnrelefs anfwer'd — No 1
A rich gown'd parfon wou'd you a(k To do a charitable talk For Tom and Sue, A couple true.
Who'd fain be tied. With eye elate, And ftrut of ftate.
The parfon/wr^anlwers—NoS
Should lab'ring honeft low-fed Dick, In fpite of ftarving, very fick Todoaor fend, By fome kind friend To beg advice j He ftraighi will lee No hope of fee, And ten to one he anfwers — Ne !
A Tenator you alk'd to vote, The dear red bock he knows by rote, His country's good He underftood
You had in view. But fhou'd he find No place defign'd. His bow polite you know, meins — Ko !
E 3 . To
^2 A DAY IN TURKEY, OR-
To a young beauty wou'd you kneel, And talk of all the pangs you feel : With eye alliance She'll l^eal a glance,
And blufhing figh, But lliou'd you prefs Her power to bleis. She'll whifper forth a trembling — No I
Turk. I like your fong.
AiA Gr- 1 like your praife.
Turk. And to reward ye, I'll (hew ye a place, where, by the lelp of' loofe bricks, and good clim-bing, I fometi.iies get a fquint at the girls ; — hough if it was known, 1 fhoutd never fquint on this fide paradife
again.
A LA Gr. Yo-o are an honed fellow, and 'lis pity you are a Turk — but it cin'r be heip'd, and 'risto be hoped a man may travel to heaven at la(l, rhough he never leaves the Country in which he wns fwaddled. —Come along ! Iburries him off^
SCENE II. The Garden.
Enter female Ziwjes, ftnging *>vl kefkoning to their . comf anions, ix;bo enter from 6f>ft,fite -wings all the vj.iy w/-. During the fong others enter, dancing to the mufic.
CHORUS — Of Female Slaves.
CwDC away ! come away i
Coinpariions fo gty ! Come away ! Come away !
Companions fo gay ! &c.
SONG, AND Chorus.
This is Freedom's p-^ecious baur. Welcome, -airy, fpoitive Mirrh .'
We'll enjoy thee whtKl we've pow'r, Gi'.e'to all lay whimfies bitth.
Let
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Let the crofs ones burft with fpite,
We'll ne'er heed their fhrugs or frowns,
Viiry ev'ry Iweet ileiiglit,
While biythe Joy our labour crowns.
CHORUS. Come away ! &c.
A LA Gr. f/» 9»i ihe top of the luall] Kah ! hah ! you little meny roa^ues, you'ie theie, are ye i
\jrbe ivomen Jhriek, and all gn off, except Lau r. and Fat i ma.
Laur. What audncity ! Prcfuming (live, do you know the confequence ot your temerity ?
A LA Gr, Yes, I can guels at it, that you are all fet a longing, and are ready to afk me to come down amongfl you.
Laur. You are impertinent. [f.)?/7.
Fat. Do y u hear, young man ? — '* you are im- pertinent''— Yes, you are an infolenr, ptefuming, au- dacious— Iweet /ellow, hang me if he is rot. [Exit.
A la Ga, Ah, you fweet little faucy jade, come unckr th? wall, and blow me a kif^ — You won't ! Why get along then, you ill-humour'd baggsges— Hr. h ! what, you look back, do you ? You'd better think on't, and turn — What, the grapes are four, aie they ? Ah, ah! I underftand you — this is a finepl.ce for the gypHes. h-m? v^e . if it is nnr — Thefe Tuiks ha\e a life on't— Such fine girls, and fuch fine gardens — Whu ! who comes here? This is another — Yes, yes, i'll turn Toik — Thcic's nothing like it, I ice.
Enter Paulina.
A LA G*. Haik ye, pretty maid — ccnie this way.
Pau- Gracious! where can that voice cone from ? I Tee nobody, [running nhtut]
A la (3p. I l^»y, you lit'le rogue, i!" — Why, how can this be ? It" ii\y eyes are my own eyes, and if her
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eyes are hers, It is Paulina, the daughter of old Fe- tiowirz.
Pa u . ^Clapping her hands.] As fure as that im- pudent head was once on the Hioulders of A la Gre- que; who ever thought of ieeirg it on the top of a Turkiili wall ? How came jou amongft them ? Did they buy you too ?
Ala Gr. Buy me ! No, I was tiken fighting In a little Ikirmifh, where 1 had only time to difarm half a dozen Turks, and kill a few Baffas; and now the cowardly rogu.s have fhut me up here, for fear I iliould do them furthei uiifchief — I believe they think 1 have a defign upon the crown.
Pau. Law! only think of it.
A LA Ga. Didn't you hear that the Grand Turk had ofFer'd a reward for my head ?
Pa u. Your head ! — Why, what could he do with it?
A LA Gr. Faith, I had no inclination to inquire, fo 1 took to my heels and carried it olf.
Pau. Then how came it there ? ipointing."]
A LA Gr. Didn't I tell ye that a whole army fet kipon me and my niaftcr, and brought us
Pau. Mercy.' is your mailer here, count Orlcff?
A LA Gr. Jshe? aye, lock'd up v/ithin the brazen
gates of this
Pau, Why, if ever 1 heard the like — Wirhin the fame gates is locked wp ln«ly Alexina, who was ftole from him by thefe odious Turks.
Ala Gr. She here too ! Whv, this place is like the fick lion's den, where all the beafts of the foreft aiTembied Together.
Voices I'wiihout] Help ! help ! here's a man talk- ing to one of the female Haves.
Ala Or. I'll prove ye a liar in your teeth \goet down].
Slaves enter.
\su. Where is the man lo whom you tnlked ?
Pau Mm! — Do men grow on the buflies inyour countiy ? ] here is no other v/ay of a man's finding hiuifelf i;j this garden, 1 fiincy.
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Ism. I heard his voice — Let us drag her before theUainu— Go you and fearch the gardens.
2. Slave. [Apart] Take cave what ye do — T his is the new (lave whom we were coniinandfd to treat with (o much refpefl — We (liall bring niilchitf on ourfelves — Her woid will go furthtr than ours as lung as file's in favour.
Is.M. I unt'erlhmd yon — [r«rw/'«£r] — I thought I heard the voite of a man, — but lounds deceive one —it might he a bullfinch ptrhr.ps— beg pardon for theniillake, lady. lExeunt Slaves.
Pau. a man a bullfinch, ha, h'^, ha ! Thcfe ftnpid creatures might bepenaaded, I dare fay, that a cat was a green fiipper. Well, how douVy things turn Out! *-LitcIe dees lady Alexina think h.-r hufband is fo near her, — fJiit ! A !a Greque ! A i.-; GrequeJ— [Looking toivafi^s ti^ Up if tbe ■xinI!]-^\\':\^\ he'a gone now— Wfll. Ml run and bl.-fs ^.ner wi:h the news, and then tnke one ir.or« Uflon for niy beh .v'our to the Bafl*a. — 1 fhall be able, af:cr that, to hehave at proudly as though my father were a rcbk- of tbe land— Let me fee — How is it to be a fine Isdy ? Firft, 1 mud difj^uife all the feelings of my hesrt— Fur how- can J do fo without telling hi*,- ? Vv eli, fine kdieS don't mind that.— Second, when he kneels I muil turn froii) him, or hum a tunc— thus — [hiims^ — Did you fpeak to me, Sir ?— And when the charming man — O Lord ! J fliall never do ir, as though I were us'd to ir— When he attempts to kifs me, I muft com- plain of his infolence, and walk away in this manner, \lVulksoJf fcornfully.]
S C E N F, The Buildings.
Enter AziM, ivith othtr Slaves.
A?. iM, Shall we ftand by each othtr, brothets ? Will you be laiihful ?
IsM. Aye, that we will ; we niufl do as you bid us — You aie over us. By allowing that, we gene- rally come ox'if him. [To ariQther.']
Aziw.
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AziM. V/ell then, you fee how the t^afe ftinds j fhe IS coine wonderfully into favour, ar>d v/lll, with- out doubt, be reven j'd on us, for the feveriiies Ihe receiv'd in our lord's abfence. The BafTa has juil nov/ threaten'd vengeance to all who difpleafe her. ^ Slave. Will if not difpleafe her then to be cjt mto a prifon ?
AztM. Tis likely it may — but what ia that fo us > We can, whenever v/e determine to do fo, connive at her efcapci and jf we aliov.' her to h-ave the palace, ilia'il readily pardon the prifon ; fo, iKe'il be gratified,: and we fnMl be flcreen'd.
Ism. Well, wc!ij let her be locked up as y.-u laid, and then p^rfujde him fTie h^s efcaped.
2d. Slave. We can dig d(H.rn part of an old will, and drop a ladder at the boitorn, and then ii-v>'.-n't be doubted.
AziM, Yes ; and that ohi tower vtill be a prop«r p^ace to confine her in; then, if need be^ (he can hereafter be produced, for I don't entirely approve of poifoning her.
Is.M. No, not at prefent — it mav be oiore con- venient hereafter— [tf; //».]— Where iliall we feizs her?
AziM. She is generally in the garden, and aloftfr — it will not be difficult if we watch for a moment when Muftapha is abfent.
Slave. Here's feme one coming
Azf M. Then let us difperfe feveral ways. People who have a plot in hand fliould never be feen together —A flight of crov/s always proclaims a carcafe.
[E;ieurtt Je'verally,
Enter Orloff foU<rweii hy A la Greque. Orloff. Purfue me not, thou contemptible wretch ! My forrows are too profound to be inter- rupted by referrtment at thy folly— Oh, moft inhuman fate! To know that my Alexina lives, to know that fiie exifts in this province, and not to knov/ ivkere — ■ My chains are become heavy indeed ! — They are in- fuppor table!
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A LA Gr. Let me life them for you, Sir — lean
make them jingle lighter.
Orloff. Begone, I fay?
A I A Gr. Well, I'll go— People often drive their good fortune from them, like you. I fhall only fay, as 1 was faying before, that this houfe has a garden, and that this garden has a wall.
Orloff. Oh, my charming bride ! could I but cheer thee by my voice, could I but lefien thy anguifli, by fpeaking to thee my «u>n.
A la^Gr Well, a lual! — What is a nvallto me ^
Orloff. Could I, each morning, when I greet its rays, behold but thee, I could bear to live even in this wretched {Vate, and every heavy night 1 could creep to my flraw pallet wi;h lefs defpondency, having firft received from thy fweet eyes, farewell !
A LA Gr. To be fure the wall is a high wall, and a ftrong wall j but it is hut a wail.
Orloff. If thou darell mention the wall again.
A la Gr. VVell, I won't then ; but was 1 to tell you, my" Lord, what that v/al! contains, I really believe you'd forgive all my f^ucinefs for ten years to come.
Prlcft. Surely thou haft a meanirg! What woiild'ft thoa fay ?
A LA Gr. a meaning! Aye, fuch a meaning!
Orloff. Oh, tiifle not !
A LA Gr. Vv'hy then, in two words, I have •cliiDbed the garden Vv'all,and vvhodo you think I faw in the garden — Who do you think ?
Orloff. Ohfpeak! \grafpirig his hand] Speak! my foul hangs upon thy v/ords — Coukrit thou but know what 1 feel !
A LA Gr. 7 hen. my Lords there, ns fure ;ts you Joft your bri<le on the day of iiiarri.Tge, there I faw the fair Paulina, daughter of old (.'etrowiiz.
Orloff. Oh! {drops^
A LA Gr. Men Dieu ! if the joy of that hcs been
too much \ox him, how wou'd he have borne it, if I
.had feen his wife? Vg^es to him] My Lord — my Lord!
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Why he's as pale as death — I dare not tell hhn now that Alexina is within a hundred yards of him.
Orloff. Bitter, bitter difappointnTent ! it has been si ftab to my heart — Barbarous vvi etch ! \j-ifingand Jeizing him] to raife and feed my hopes with fuch artful cruelty, and then — but why do I talk to thee ?
[Exit.
A LA Gr. So! what he is rt'//2z/./.ci/;/f</then ! Why if, he would but have had patience, I was juft going to tell hitii that his wife — but hang patience! 'tis a fcurvy virtue, and not fit for a gentleman. / have no patience to know there are fo many fine girls caged up here for that greedy Dog the BafPa. I'll try to pick a bone with him, though ; — and if I can once lay hold of one of his pullets, he fliall find it as difficult to get her out of my fangs, as it would be to snake a judge dance, or a biihop cut capers. \_Exit.
SCENE, The Prifon.
If^oices ore heard luithout, A^.v.xitiA Jhrieks.']
AxjM. [entering] Stop her irouth, an 1 drag her in. [Alexina is drag^'d in — her huir difise'veird.]
Alex. Monfteis! if ye are of the human race, defift — O drag me not from day, and from my hufband !
AziM. This is your habitation, Madam, make the beft of it.
Alex, At whofe command is it my habitation ? Wh*t is my crime ? You aft without the knowledge of your Lord — and if you do, doubt not his ven- geance ! O, it is not pofTible that he can authorize this cruelty !
AziM, Come, come. Madam, a few weeks fpent here will quiet you a little — Your torrows won't be half fo violent a fortnight hence as they are now — Let that comfort you.
Alex, A fortnight ! Oh, it Is an eternity! Death is. nothing to this. Draggd at fuch a moment from light, and health, and hope ! [running ivildly about] O, Aziiu, my husband is here— my husband is at hand !
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AziM. Then let him get ye out, if he can.
Alex. O, beft of men, hear me ! [kneeling] TcW him only that his Alexina is here, that he may walk round my prifon, that I may hear his (leps through the chinks of thef*; difnial walls, and my foul ilial! blefs thee.
AziM. Oh, you are mighty humble now; yet you know v/hat infolcnce I have borne from you.
Alex. I meant it not — Oh, forgive me, forgive me! Here, take this ling, let it purchafe my tbrgivc- nefs. Lri/ftjg] It is rich, but not half fo rich as ihail be thy reward, if thou wilt be my friend — if thou will pity me !
AziM. Well, I am fo far foften'd that I permit thee to ufe the apartment next to this — It has more air and light — I'll urlock it — its laft inhabitant had i; fourteen years, [ivhilji he goes to unhck it, Alexina <lafps her hand's, and fixes her eyes ivi/JIj] There! you fliall each day iiave your allowance of food re- gularly brought; but wheihet you are ever releafed or not, depends on yourfelf — Be patient ! That only can ferve you.
Alex.' Patient! Oh yes, Til try to be patient, though much I fear my brain will be diilurbed.
Azfm. Well, you'll be ditlurbed by nothing elfe — Your apartment will be quiet enough, whatever your brain niay be — Come, Madam. [Puts her itr, and Jhuts the door.] There, fhe'sfafe, and that makes us fafe. — Now, let us go and fix the rope-!ac!der, and then fwear flie has efcaped. Comrade.-! They talk of countries, where, what we have done, might be puniflied by tlie law — but ive fear no puniHiment V. hi!e we can deceive our niafter. \_Exeunty laughing.
KNT) OF THE FOURTH ACT.
ACT
DAY IN TURKEY, OS,
ACT V.
S C E N E,
A jpacious Apartment in the Harem. Enter Paulina, running from the 7op,
Pau. [Looking hack.] THE fweet man follows me dill. H.ih ! Lauretta little thinks the difiiculty 1 have had to behave to him as tho' I hated him — How hard it is when one (e.t5 a great gentleman, and fo handlonie withal, ready to die at one's feet, to be forced to be fnappifli arid ill natur'd — Laws! he's coming here — Which way fliall I run next? [Looking about.]
lBi<A. {Entering] Oh, fly me not — yet fly! Even tiie diftance y^u throw me at gives you a thou- land charms, and whilft it tortures, it bewitches me.
Pau. [Afscle] I do h'ke to hear him talk.
Ibra. Vou lu.ile I Ah, did you know the value of ihofe rofy fmiles, you would not beftow on me more than oae in a ihoufand hours — Each is worth a (iiadeiii.
Pau. I fuppofe you hope by all thrs to make me forget 1 am a cap.ive, and a flave [pretending to cry^ then turning a=ujay, laughing.]
Ib!ia. yoQ can be neither — It is I who ^vnyour fl ive— Vou hold the chains of my deftiny — Ha ! let me catch your tears !
Pau. I tell you once again, that I can never be happy here — I hate the life people lead in harems- All isdifmal, not even a window to the ftreet! No- z thing
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ih'mg to look at but trees, and fountains, and great whift.crs, and black flaves.
Ibra, Could I but have the tranfport to touch your heart, all thofe objeas would give you new ui>~ preirions— This hated harem would kern trantforai'd, and would become an enchanted p Ince of pleafure. Pau. But I tell you, 1 will ne'ver fuffer my heart to be touch'd.— It is very hard that I muft belie my tonfcieace fo, my ht^art leaps every time 1 look at him. [Jft^le'] .
Ibra. Who knows what perfcvenng, conilant love may do? You may at length be foften'd, at length— Oh rapture ! confefs the delicious p^in !
Pau. [/(//^^.] Hong to confefs it now, if I might fpeak out. .
Ibra. Moft charming creature, dtign but to look en me, fay only that I am not hnteful to you
Pau. Aye, that would be the trucft word I ever (poke [aftJe]. But I will fay that you are hateiul to me, and I do declare, if you ever fpeak to me about love again— 1— I don't know whnt n.ay be the cor- {^■quence— I muft get away, or all my fine ieflons v/ill be forgot [afiJe]. In that room yonder I fee ladies finging and playing ; but don't you come to us now, I charge yoa — 1 will not have you come, or i( you <1o come in half an hour, not a w^d {lo-jking hack]--- No, not one word about love. [Extt.
Ibra. Oh, if there is language in eyes, her woids are fnlfc— Her lips forbid my love, but her eye in- vites it — Charming fex ! who know how torn ke rc- fufal blifs ; and who can give delight even in deny ng ! flu!/ an hoi*r did (he banilh me— Oh, I'll fallow her inftantly — Every moment fpent where flie n not, is a moment not to be counted in my exiftence. [Goitsg ^Noife behituL] Ha ! what noife is thit ? {Puts his band 19 his fcymeler.'] The founds of violence in the bofom of my retirement !
Orloff. [H^ithout.] Bafe Haves, in vain you oppofe me ! Were your mafter furrour.ded by inftru- ments of torture, and miniflers of vengeance, I would
force my way. , .- .
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[Forcing in, Slaves endeanjmring to luithhoU him— (ifier thetn, MuLEY enters.
Iera. [Fiercely.] Yonr way! What, here? Thofe apartment?, chritlian, are ficreJ ; and did not 1 pay fonie regard to your fame as a Ibldier, and your rank in the Imperial army, by Mf.homet, your life's quick, ftream jliouUi pay me for the infult, ^ Orloff. Tailc not of life, diflionourable man 1 Rellore to me my bride—Reftore— -but canft thou le- llore her? Oh, canit thou reftore to me the spot- less angel, whom heaven's uioll facred ordinance made mine ?
Ibra. Wretches! allow a madman to invade my
retirement.
Orloff. Thy retirementjl Thy life, bafe Turk ! iTiall be invaded. No madman, but an injur'd huf- band liands before thee! Reltore her ! — Give her back to mechalle as that morn, when trembh'ng, blufhing from the altar, I led her to parental fields — That morn unbletT.
Iera. Slaves! fpeak, declare whom 'tis he means, or dread my vengeance — A fear hath feiz'd my foul, (hat curdles all my blood — Should it be fo — fpeak! [Furi9uJ]y ]
iVluLEY. Might;.' BaiTa ! We fear he means the lovely Ruffian, who adorns your harem.
Ibra. Ah ! livi/d/y] Is f!ie his lui/e? Chriilian, art thou x\\t hujharul o\' the beauteous llave 1 love ?
Orloff. Love I Dai'tl thou i^ive binh to fuch a phrafe ? Love ! Oh that the words had fcorpion's teeth to tear the throat which utters tbeut !
Is rA. -And art thou — O curil difcovery ! It is too trae — My heart tells ine it is frue, and ha-es thee for the convii5lion. Tear him from my prefence — 1 dread the energies of my own temper — tear him away, leil 1 iMou'd ilain luy honour v/ith the l^loodof her hufliand whom 1 adore.
ORr.oFF. I will not ilir — Give way to all your vengeince — 'Vengeance would now be uicrcy.
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Ibra. Amifl the agonies I fee ihee in, thou art my envy! She is thy wife, flie fuieiy loves ti-.ee, and pints to be reftor'd to thy arms— By what tmtures would I not purchafe with luch a blifs— Bear him off, I command— Yet hurt him not, but drag him from the harem.
Orloff. At your peril, flave?.
[They drag htm off".]
Ibra. And now, oh wretched Ibrahim ! what re- mains for thee ? A moment fince, the fruit of felicity bent down within thy reach ; the branches were, backn with happinefs, and thy joys bioom'd forth in tender bloffjms ; but a hurricane is come, the tree is torn up by the roots, and its fruits are devour'd by difappointment.
Turk. Mighty Lord I is not the beauteous flave within thy power?
Ibra. Wi:hin my power! No, fhe is removed from it for ever. As my flave, I have undoubted right over her ; but as the wife of another, flie is facred.
MuLEY. Then remove her from your prefence, and give her back to her adorning hulbind.
Ibra. Never! O virtue, in exatting that, thy commands are too rigorous. Never, never can 1 fend her from me — I will go this moment, and at her feet Oh, 1 dare not — If I fee her I am loft — All bar- riers, human and divine, wou'd fink before me — Beholding her within my grafp, and the dread of lofing her, would be a conflitt in which / ihou'd be loft, nnd)i)e would be undone ! T fly from her — I rear myfelf from the fweet enchantment — Oh wretched huft)and, I affume voluntarily the miferies I have beftow'd on thee I
[Goei off iJuiUly ; on the ftde oppofile that, at ixihich Pauhma ivent.]
Turk. Whit! runaway from the woman he loves, when {\u is in his power ! She is /'//, and I wou'd force her to make Hie hippy.
MuLBY. His generous fpirit would abhor the
de^dl What, though his ptfllons are hcadftrongas the
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nj'ghty north, which fliakes the pyramid fo its bafe, and hits the rooted forert frori) the embracing earth, yet Will REFLECTION like a celeftial minifter arrive, and Icourge from his foul eich fpot and fordid tint, that virtue ought to fcorn, or manhood blufn at.
{Exeunt, Enter Fatima and another Female Slave. Fat. Ah! this room is luckily empty. So, bring in theBafTa's feat — We'll fet it up here before it goe8 to the pavilion ; that we may judge of ir — Come, make hafte. S^fpeakingto thofe imthout]
[T'vjo or three bring in betvaeen them a light Jlool, on ivhlch is a 'whitej'attjn covering, ornamented -with fejioons ; another brings a Jmall ivhite fattin mattrnfs, trimm'd luitb gold fringe.] Fat. There, fet the flool juft there — Now put On the covering — Give me the mijicrafs — Tl)cre, do /ou fee how nicely it fits } Now biing the cartopy.
[Slaves bring in a canopy ornamented luith fef- toons, gold fringe, and tajfels.] Fix it jud here— There — that will do — Is it not pretty? [ivalks rdund it]
2d. Slave. It is delightful ! How charmed the BafTa will be when he fees it in his pavilion at fupper • and he will praife borh our indulhy and our lalte.
Fat. Mercy! what's that noile ? — Why — here comes that impudent flave who was hanging over the garden wall.
Enter feveral female Slaves haflily, folhived by A LA Cheque.
A LA Gr. My dear pretty littl7> creatures, why do you fly from me at this rare.? Grant nte one kifs to fave my life,— for 1 am famifh'd.
Fat. That kifs would (ojl thee thy life, Hiould it be known.
Ala Gr. Known .' [getting to a [mail dtjlance., end f pea king at rant] Madam I what do you take me. for? Do you think that I, Madam, am a man to
betray
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betray a lady's favours ? I, who have been well rec6iv'd by duchefl'es and marchionefi'es ?
Fat. {interrupting him] Uucheffes and Marchio- neffes! What are they ?
A LA Gr. [in his ufunl tone] They were a fort of female creatures, my dear, who once infelled Paris.
Fat. And where arc they now ?
A LA Gr. Now, my Iweet charmer, there is not ene in the country, 1 mean of tmtitr growth ^ and if the neighbouring nations do not now and then fend them one for a fample, a duchefs will be as rare an animal in France, as a crocodile. — You fweet fellow I [thrc.vinghis arm round ¥ at i\\ A ]
P'at. You bold fellow ! {breaking /torn hini'\ Why you are quite at your eafe.
A LA Gk. I always am; — and !'!{ fit down on this pretty feat, and be quite comfoitable.
Fat. You muftnot fit there — it is a feat made on purpofe for the Bafla. [Tixo or three endea'vour to prevent him.']
AlaGk. Well, can't you fancy OTf the BaiTa?
iSits.l
Enter J.auretta.
Laur. Mercy ! mercy ! What, a man amongft ye ? are ye all bewitched ?
A LA Gr. No ; they have only bewitched me— Ah ! you lively little rogue, {flying to her] — Come here, and fit down by me, and you fhall be my Baffa- efs. I like you beft of all.
. Laur. If you like your own life — Fly fwlfier than the light.
A LA Gr. {riftngl Wiibjor/any where.
Laur. Stranger, this is no place for gallantry, or for jefting ; are you not afra d of death ?
A LA Gr. Afraid of him? No — Death is an arif- tociate! and I am bound, as a Frenchmao, to hate him.
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AziM. [ijuttb/iut] Search every where, I fay — He muft be hereabout~I faw him arcend.—Conie this way.
Laur. There! Now your careleffnefs or your courage will be equally inefFeaual. Unhappy fbanger, you are on the threfliold of death.
[Ti/eJIaves clap their hands, andfeem agonized. ift. Slave. We too are loft ! A LA Gr. Not unlefs I zm found. What a dozen women without a trick to fave one man! Ah I I am fenfibie of my imprudence too late. VThroivs himjeif on bis knees, turning firjl to one, then to another.] Oh, fave me! fave me !
Laur. What fignifies your kneeling? — yet, it
Jh.i/i fignify— Lower ! [pujbinfr him] Lower ftili ! reft
on your hands— R-ach that covering — quick — quick!
[7 hey cover him luith the drapery, matirafsy
iffc. and place the canopy behind him.
AzJM. [IFithoui] Come this way then — here he
nil ft have entered. [Enters -with others.] Fly all
of ye — hide yourfelves — A man is fomewhcre in the
liarem.
Laur. And what are we to fly for ? Is a man a lyger, that we fliou'd be fo feared .' Who is he ?
AziM, The new French flave — Frenchmen, there is no being guarded againft. — They make free every where.
Laur. At leaft they have made themfelves free AT HOME ! and virho knows, but, at laft, the fpirit they have raifed may reach even to a Turkiin harem, and the rights of women be declared, as well as thofe of men.
AziM. Don't talk to me of the rights of women — you would do right to go and conceal yourfelves as I order'd ye— You, Ifmael, and Hafez go and fearch the inner apartments, I'll wait here, with the reft, lo intercept hiu), fhould he efcape ye.
[TtcQjIa'ves go off, Laur. o, we'll intercept him, never fear — you'd better follow the reft. iPuJbing lim ]
AzlM.
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A/AM. I clioofe to wait here, and I'll fit down, for I'm horribly tired.
Latjr. Pardon nie, Mr. Axi n — I am going to fit '-here myfelf, [Sils, on // /a Grequc]
A^^iM. 1 fuy /'il fit there, Mad.tni, To get up.
Laur. 1 wonder at your impertinence. Surel^f we may keep our feats, though we have luft our li- berties.
AziM. Ihave been walking ever fince fun life.
Laur. Then walk till it fets — Motion is heulih- ful.
AzjM. I fiiy I will fit down. — Give me the feat.
Laur. a fit-down I would give you with all my heart, and fuch a one as you jhould never forget • feut this feat you fl-iall not have.
AziM, Say you fo — I'll convince you in a moment.
[.Goes to Lauretta, and feizes her baud to full her up.
Ism. [IVitbout^ We have found hiir — We hnve found him — There is a door faften'd on the infidc— He muft be there.
AziM. Hah ! follow — follow — Now, we'll fiiew a Frenchman what liberty is in Turkey.
[Exit iv'tth the mate Jlaves. Lauretta rifes
A LA Gr. {Getting up toith the (onjering ahoui /•»'»,] That fellow is certainly defcended from Cer- berus, or an Englifh mafliff". My precious buiden, how fliall I thank you ! Juplrer, when loaded with Europa on his back, was not half {o nnich charmed with her, as I am with you. {Sh=ves ff>e/ik ivitleut.
Laur. Wade not an inflaiu — Thty are return- ing— Begone
A LA Gr. Well, j^ood bye then, and heav'n blefs ye all, and fend to each libekt v and a husbaniI
[They pujh him off.
2d. SLAvr. What a kind man he is! How happy rnuft Frenchwomen be to have fuch lovers for huf- band?.
Lau r. Y( s, my dear, they wou'd be fo ; but un- luckily hulbands/offf/ to be levers — Let us run and
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appeafe Az^m. you hear he is loud, and his vengeance may fall upon us— Hifte—haftel
r^T. I It m.ke no hafte about it. [Zoei/W roa«^ trrefdutefjf.] Hang n,e if I don't try to change a vvord or two with that agreeable Frenchman-I fliou'd iike to know a litiie or their cuftoms— Such an op- portunity cn't happen above cnce in cne's life-So, Monfieur Azm., ha, ha, ha ! What a fool he is now.
SCENE, The GarJtn.
Enttr Ibrahim from toioards the Top, thouphtfulh follo-w d at a Small Dtjlance by Uvvz^.—He fighi
vnJ!nnfT' • ^'r •' '"J^Lord, dare your flave offer yoticonlolation ?
JBRA. I can receive none.
MuLEY. J know that in affii'aions like your's there can be but one fupport, that is in virtue-there, my Lord- •
1b KA Vn!erruf>tir,g] Yes, I have tefoly'd '—She fliall be facred— her chaftity for ever inviolate .' and perhaps, ifighing] perhaps 1 may hereafter reftore her to her hii/band.
^r"/J'^w ^^^^^ '^''' ^^ ^ moment 0^ triumph to y^^M- When niagnanimity thus conquers affliaion. affl.aion miy be envied— Such a moment is the im- prumtuie of heaven on the purified heart— it is the exaltation of virtue.
Ibra. O virtue! when I can do that, thou may ft boaft a vidoiy indeed ! When I can refoke bo more to look on the fbft radiance of her eyes— VN hen J can refolve ro behold no more the natural and unartful graces that adorn her— When I fliail feek tho(e groves m vain for that dear form ; when I /h.ll lilten, and hear her voice no more — then, then, O VJftue I thou njay'ft ha/l thy aiumph. [/ifter a
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paufe ] Leave me, for night and folltude bed fait the colour of my mind. lExtunt.
Orloff appears at the top of the ivall, 'where
A laGreqoe had he/sre been feen^ and calls
to him.}
Orloff. Quick, pri'thee ! mount, and give me
the rope — O 1 thou ait as flow as if this moment were
not the moll precious of my lite ! As though this
garden did not contain my Alexina.
A LA Gr. [^pM^ring] Confider, I have but juft had one efcape, my Lord, and another efcape may efcape w^— There ; here's the rope, if you will be fo venturefome — but don't blame me if they fhould make you dangle at the end of it.
Orloff. [takes the end of the rope, and is let doivn] There ! Environ'd with dangers as I am, this moment is dear to me, and the firft, that for fucceed- ing months has given my benighted foul one gleam of comfort.
A LA Or. Well, my Lord, 1 leave ye to your comfort—! am off— The very moon over my head feems to fay, *' Sweet Monfieur A la Greque, your mafter is very little better than a lunatic; fo, take care ofyourfeif" — I am o^ [goes dotvn].
Okloff. Yeconfcious walks, which the feet of n^y Alexina have fo often prefs'd, ye bending trees, whofe boughs have given to her beauties your foft fhade ; ye fountains, whofe munrurs have fometimes luU'd her forrows to repofe, my full foul greets ye ! Hah I furely her voice floated on that paffing breeze —No— all is dill. That pading bieeze may bear upon it's wings a thoufand notes, but none like hers. O, thou pale moon, thou art not deck'd tonight in half thy glories ; limine brighter, put on thy mod fe- d-uetve rays, to tempt my angel from her fad retire- ment ! \So/t mufc at a difance,] Mufic in the gar- dens ! Near that fpot then I fliall not fail to find her
It is an abjuration her foul mud yield to, for her
foul is harmony. lExit. Muftc continues a fezv
bars.
Pau.
(>0 A DAY IN TURKEY,
Enter Paulina.
Pau. Where, where can ihe BafTa conceal him* felf ? 1 am tired with feeking him — Can he be offemJ- ed with me, that he flics me thus ? Alas! i feel f could not hear to offend him — Oh, no, J couU not ! [Enter Mustapha.J Ah, Mullapha, haft thou feen the SafTa?
Mus. Not I — I have been taken up in watching the motions of Azim, who, I am fure, has fome plot in hand, though I cannot divine what— Where is the gentle Alexina.
Pau. IPettr/hly] I don't know — I hav'n't feei her a great while.
Mus. N(;r I — ril go in queft of her — Should the, RafTa have feen .her, 1 wou!d not give a cockle fheli for our fchcme. [Goin^.] But what's the matter ? Why you look as difmally as a widow at the tuneral of her thirteenth hufband.
Pau. I can't find the Bafla — I have been looking for him 'till my eyes ache — He flies me now, he does indeed {.f'ghing].
Mus. Ay, ay, I underftand it — You would put too much honey on his bread, though J gave ye the caution — Yoti have been too kind to him.
Pau. l^ivit/j quicknefs] lam fure I have not.
Mus. Pho ! pho ! I know better — Have you not learnt, child, that fondnels is the moft cloying food in the world .'' Dafli your fweet fauce with acid, if you would not have it pall upon the palate.
Pau, [^■^n^>''b'] ^o ' '^'^ ths" — ^ was as crofs as I could poflibly be — 1 never treated a gentleman fo hard harted before. To be fure I muft fay, that at leaving him, I told him — I told him he might /e/Zsiu ine. [Confufed ]
Mus. Ay, there's the cafe — You ivited him to follow, and he in courferuns away. {Angrily^
Pau. Oh dear! [Takes out a fan to hide her tears.]
Mus. If I were a woman, wou'd / tell a man to fothvj me ? [Snatches her fan ^ This is the away you .
ihou'd
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Uiou'cJ rreat 'em — ** Keep your difcarce, Sir — how *' car, you be fo rude? Fie! my Lord, ic is quite " fhocking ! [^ery aJfeSeJ and extravagant tviih *' the motions of the jan.~] Oh, nionftrous! if you " come nearer 1 (liall tarnt ! I hare yoti now, I do in- " deed — I can't ponibly hear ye!" This, you fee, would be graceful and captivating [thranving mvay the/an.]
Pau. Graceful and capiivaring ! [IVi/bfurprife ] Mus. I tell ye, the women are all fools! and if the Iweet rogues knew wh.it they loft: by fubfticuting rouge for blufliing, and an unciaunied look for inodeft timidity, we fliould foon fee all their afFei^ions Iwal- low'd by one, and that would be the affectation of modefty. [Exit.
Pau. 1 bate affectation— For all be thinks he knows fo n-.uch, the next time 1*11 follow my own way— -I am fure I know as much of the matter as he does.
Re-enter Mustapha.
Mus. {.P^fpi^g 'f through the -wing.] Remem- ber the hint I gave you — If our mafter fliou'd fee your countrywoman, all your hopes are gone in a hurricane. You may as well attempt to catch a bufband with bird-lime as to catch him after that ; fo prevent it. [Exit,
Pau. How can I prevent it? Befides, Mr. Def- tiny, I have gocd reafon to think, that as far as the nntter of beauty goe?, I am not behind hand with flie — Alack a-day! no, no, he has hit upon it! — As fure as harveft i«« yellow. Lady Alexina has certainly fcen the BafTa, and he'll now be her adorer as he calls it — May be ihey are now together, and he is at her feet fighing, as he did to-day at mine-. — Oh, I cannot bear it — The fight wou'd crack my heart- rtiings! Now I do feel that I de.irly, dearly lo7e him — Oh mercy! he is here — he is here!
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Enlir luRAHiiM tmijtng; feeing Paulina, Jlarts.
Ibra. Oh Paulina,! ide thee, hide thee! At light of thee every refolution fades, ?• d t e altar of virtue feems to blaze no more ^^j^azrn^ nn htr /org]. Cruei . charmer !
Pau. Cruel ! Oh no, my heart melts to fee your diltrefb, and I am fure you have no occafion for it.
Ibra. Wl;y didft thou not at firft tell me thou wert another's! Why fuffer my heart to burn v/ith tumultuous love, to warte itdlf in glowing flamesj whiift thine beats only for anotiier.
Pau. What other ?
Pa'J. /injrs.
** Never 'till nOw I felt love's dr. rt
" Guel's who it' was th,t ftoie iny Jiearr, *' ^ I'vvas o.i!y you, if you'll believe me !" *
Ibra. O thou enchantrefs ! [^fariirg hntk.] Thou wife of O'hfF! ihou haft my foul in cr-ains — drag it not to pert irion !
Pau. Why llni Id yoo call me 'uji'fe 9/ Or/off ? Oh, forgive ine if I fpealc too plain — iVly heart, my whole heart is )0-ur's. You have awaken'd its full ttnder thouglr, and you ihull fill it to the laft ! There (an be no otlier.
Jura. Nay then, iarewel to every dread ! Tho* hell Aiou'dgape beneath my feet, I Jhrink rot — Rufii O/! my foul, AtMicHTY love! abf.rb each faculty and thoLght, for I am thine! — [lurairrg lo Vav,] — fir I ?ii!) thine! [Thioivs himfs If prone ; then rfes and dtifps her.] Tranfcendenc moment J O, llifs too cxquifite !
Orlof?. [Rujhes in] Bafe woman.' adulterous
villain I \^Prefthts ii dagger to iBR.AiiiM'i' hreaji.}
P/iULiNA Jhrieks and runs off,
* Thefe lines were Jntrodaced by Mrs. JSy?//?,— She fings ftenn t/ithoiit iiiftKumtnts, uhd they arc alvaya followed by rapturous aj^plaufe,
Z Ibra.
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Ibra. Hah ! [ivtejh the f'lgger'] niy life attack'd —Ho ! fltVes ! [Slavei rufl. 'n J torn ^various ivings.] Twice to-day ! Once in i ^e bofom of my harem, and now in the facred v.'uiks of riiy garden — Seize hi:n [to the Paves, ^ivhf) obey]. Thy death fliall expiate thy tiouble crime,
Orlo.ff. Doll thou thi.ik to give me terror : — I ■welcome dc-.th — I weicoiii- it 'niidll tortures !
'Iera, Chriftian, thou know'il me not ! VVhiift left to. myfelf, I coui<J coimnand myfelf ! My ardent palllons 1 could hold in chains, and fupprefs that love v.'hich honour could not fmQion — But thou ilialt know when thus oppos'd, I own no law but iwf// — drag hitn away. [Exit.
Orloff, Tyrant, I know that I iliall die; but the bitternefs of death is pall — To live after having feen my wife embrace thee, and cnibrac'd — Oh mad- nefs ! fpeedyour death, I tuili to meet it,
[Exeunt.
SCENE, 7 A: Pr:fon.
Enter Alexika thrtu^h the Flfit.
Alex. Surely this is the darkefl hour of the night! The dim light my foiiiary windov/ afforded has long been paft:, and gloom and filence every where prevail. No found, no fuorftep, no voice of foft confoling love, or weeping friendrtiip. Can 1 be her whom the beamy fioger'd morn, til! lately, ever lous'd to joy ? I, her who not a flicrt hour fince glow'd with deligiit — - whofe troubled (ky fdiciiy an>' freedom began to gild f Oh, the reverfe is too deep, too dirc-ful !
Voices [^ivithout] This way — make fure the outer g.tte.
Alex. Hah.' Haves and lights! perhips they come to end lYiy wretcbtxi beinc; — Ah ! niture llirinks Jit the idea, and whillf I almotl, dre^d to live, I {17 from death, by iyipulfe irrefil\iblc !
[Exit bfijlity through the flat.
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[Or LOFT is brought inly Jlaves'^
Slave. There, Sir! Here you muft ftay till otjr nialtcr h^th determineJ on ihe fort of death you are tfi die, for we have great variety in this country. The Wov/ftiing is the eafieil you can hope for. We'll leave you a lamp though, to iliew the apartii ents, and make your laft hours a little pleafant-^VVi/li your honour a good night. [Exeunt JJaves,
Orlo?f. May this hour of bitternef? be fTiort ! Here, on the fiinry earth J'ii pafs ir, and give to thee —defpaii' I the fleeting moments that remain.
['Thnivi hiHtfdf on ihe grounds
Alkxt?^' A enleys, fearful, from the fnt.
Alex. What wretch can he be, who, in ihjs dreary place, is the vifliin of tyranny and defpotifm ? [Adiiancing and looking ever him] By every facred power h is my hufoand.' OrlofF — [feizing his band} my Orloff I {^He (iarts up, thronxs her off, and flies to the Qppoftfe fide.] Doft thou diftruft thy fenfes .'' It is thy Alerina — thy v/retch'd— happy Alexina!
Orloff. Aftandon'd woman ! doft thou folio w? iitC to my prifon to infult my laft moments ? Or doft thoQ coine to ?.d:ninifl;er the bowl of death?
Alex. Heavens! what mean you.'' [rufhing iszvttrds him tuith of^ en arms.]
Orloff. Nay, touch me not — By heav'n, rather than be enfolded in thy adulterous embrace, I'll — draivs a dagger] O, my thoughts are defperate ! A'void me if thou woijld'ft live.
Ai.EX. Alas! r.ffl'(51ion has made hrm mad,
OrlOtF. Oh! \_fingj aivay the dagger.]
.Alex Cr if thou art not mad, to threaten death is neediefs. Be v/itnefs for me, ye celeftial fpirits, that I?ll not live an inflant to endure a hufband's bate — .'\ll other mirerie<; I've borne, bur this lat'l fubdues me. [fnatcbes up the dagger} Thcu accufeit me of
crimes
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Climes I Hiudder at— Oiloff, nn'aduhi'eTs would not daie 'his blow.
Ori.ou'. fpt'^g^ fovjjrirJ, and feizei her arm\ Die! Yes, thou ■Uiiht'l't lo u.e i but let my fate come firft — !• linoers not — its niiiiRers a-re at hany ! [gcz- inff tin her\ O, lia\i 1 not leef! tliee.ra his aTms, had I not h-ard ihy vow.s p'' never ending lave o the tyrant. Alex. [Interrupting la'^erly.] My vows! ah, my OrlotF, n be hi of raditnc? once- more breaks ifi on iiiyafflicled foui. I have never /f^/z the BniTa— Nay, look n-^t thus inciedur;)Us — (his dungeon proves it--»I am a piifonef hereas.weli as y.-.u, and was thi$ day brought hither.
Orloff.. {_Gazin^ luiidly ] Oh fefe, fpare me a TDOiuent! be ii(:s:ly daie 1 give way ro the overpower- in^ liiou.ht] yet it iKirii Ire fo! It was not thee, myheuvKnt w'h-^im I beheld in Ibrahiai's arnu — No, it was anot>ier,.and Alexina's pure!
• Alex. As pu^e as f.t that ("acted hour, when at the altar you receiv'd niy virgin vows ; and heaven is wit- ne!s th it this iorni has ne'er been pi'els'd in any arms bu' thine.
Orloff. CitJ^'ing her.'i. l'\\zr\ art thou dearer in thcte prir>n waifs, dearer in this thy Gidcd beauty, than when a blnze of chartns o'ferpovver'd |i.y fenfes-^^ bencaih the haughrc djntc whc-re fir;t i vvoo'd jhee. Alex. How nnuchlefs is the power of virtuous love! Having thu.-. T^tn thee, havin^Mhus once again been piefs'd to thy iund bolbai, 1 aiw ptepai'd lor death.
OfttoFF. Beho'd! they iiienn that we fhou'd die together — The nnniilers of dea'hare eftterin^.
[Goif7fr to^varfis the luing. Mus. \_l/i''ilhoui.] Make (sit the outer gute — brins; hiiii alon.^, \_F.nlering Slaves bring in .\z\m, in cb'tins ; they are JolloiV''fi hy I^auretta, Fati- MA, and fern ilei\ rutin JlaV'S hecvring torch->.] 1 thought wc llioald mck ycu ;it laft. 'I'tic im- iv/igs which y>>u have been To bulil\' fprcadiOj for a lother, have at length entangled thy It If.
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66 A DAY IN TURKEY, OR
Laur. Yes, my friend Azim ; I promis'd jou a
' fe: Joivn, and now I think you will have ir. Joy
joy to Alexina !
Mus. To Alexina and her lord. Orl«ff. Ah! what mean ye? A tide of blifs breaks in upon my foul, which j// I dare not yield to. ^
Laur. Fear not to truft it J Our mafter hath heard from Paulina your touching ftory, and hath fent U3 to condutft you to his prefence.
Mus Go, Madam! and make room for your peifecufor Azim ; — ie (hall take your place here. Alex. Fsrewel — farewel, ye dreary walls ! We
f.y to lighr, to liberty
Orloff. To love !
[Exii, leading Alexina, folh'wed by part of the fiaves.
Mus. [To y^zim.] Why you lonk a little (Irange; - — pray make ^x(iG, Sir ; you are as welcome as though .you were at hoine. [Boiving ludicroujy.]
Laur. Come, hoM up your head, man ! and look round'your now apittments. Ex^.n)ine the furniture — is it not elegant ! Look through its fpacious win- dows— ire yeu nor charm'd with the prolpecEt ? Thou ji or.flcr f to this dreary abode thou wouldfl have confign'd innocence and virtue.
Azim. O, that thofe Qurfed chains were off! — / to be imprifon'd in a dangeon \
Ivlus. Come, come — " a few weeks fpent here ** will quiet you a little." I have heard everything /ironi your accomplice there. " Your forrows won't " be half fo violent a fortnight hence, as they are " now — let that comfort ye" >xzi.\f. [Furicujly.] Dogs? Ivlrs. Be civil, and " I'll permit thee fo ufe the '' gpirtment i>€Xt to this — its iaft inhabi'ant had it -• fourrceii ycnrs," you know. iTauntingly,] Nay, ii i.v in Vc.!:) to ftruggle, 6r?i hinn in I [Exit.
[Slaves
THE RUSSIAN SLAVES. 6j
[Sla'ves drag AziM in \ the dtor isjrjut.]
Laur.. Ah! he's caught at laft. [Run; up to the door.] Good night, my pretty Azini. [He rattles his chains."] Good nighl — I'll give ye a friendly call once a month or fo, for the next ten years. [He rattles.] Farewel — pleafant fancies hang about foar dreams! [Exit; folloiued by tht Jlwvis lu'ith torches ^ AziM rattling his clMiins nvitbinJ]
SCENE, The Bajfa's Apartment.
Enter Ibrahim at top., hading Paulina.
Ibra. O, adored Paulina f what wonderful events are thefe ! Thou ot^j'/? be mine.' it is no crime to love thee. 1 have ihuggled againft a p.iflion which heaven had deteniiin'd to reward.
Pau. It blefles ivy heart to fee you fo happy ! And fhall my father and brother be relcas'd from flavery — fliall they ivitnefs my happinefs ?
Ibra. They Iliall partake it. Riches and honour await thofe fo de^r to thee. Lo ! they are here.
[The fat her and fon are introduced.
Pau. O, my dear father ! Peter ! what a day this has been ! Here am 1 going to be a great lady, and not the handmaid of a Jew, as you told me this morning. [To her father.]
Father. My dear child, \ cannot fpeak for joy. Say fomelhing for us to the Baffa — we fhrink before kim.
Alex. {Without.'] Haften !— O, mv OrlufT, let us haften to his prefence. [Entering J M'ghty Ibra- him, I no longer tremble to appear before thee; — in the prefence of my hufband, 1 dare to A/O/^' upon- thee, and to ilTc thy mercy.
Ibra. Mercy! how poor the word! 1 give ye inflant liberty, and in giving ye that, I give all, for ye love ! What then remains lo perfect your bliis!
Orloff.
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Orloff. Heareft thou, Ai.exina ? Ah! what founds — ihey ruf!\ upon my foul in tianfpoir,
Ibra. Valiant RuiRan, I eaibjace thee! The poniaiM you dircOed to my breaii;, hid it ent-tr'd there, would have pierc'd, a heart, which, nmidft the turbulencits of war, and the inf'aiuations of a court, has yet preCerv'd its own ntsPECTj — accept its friend fit! p!
Orlofi-. With earneflnefs unfpeakiihlcj and I return it with fuch gratitude and fervour, as becomes a foldier and a hufband.
Ikra. Suck charms, I could not have Vre'aela in- fcnfibly. [to /^/exinij] had I known them before Pau- lina engroifed my heart — but now, fhu heait can beat for her alone. Tc(*-morrow you fiiall heefconed to your camp, and I, to give that dignity to love, without which it finks intolowtft appetite^ will make this charmer mine, by facred rires.
Orloff. lllurtrious 7urk ! Love has tanght ihce to revere marriage, and mariiage fliall teach thte :o honour love.
A r.A Gr. Why what ups and downs there are in this world! My lord, [io Or:o^]\ am once again your mofi; duteous feiv.mt — lor felloiv Jlnves, 1 per- ceive we flv-fll be no longer — So theie goes my dig- nity ! J'll make a bold puili for a new one thf.iu.h.
Azim, 1 find pardon me, mv lord, [to Ihrahmt]
Aaim, I find, is out of place, will your iiiightinels beftow it on me, and inake me your principal flave- driver ? '
Ibra. [Laughirg.^ What woiddfl: thou do ? A laGr. Any ihing, and every thipg. I'd imi- tate the fmack of Azim? whip, and roll my eves as he doe% to frighten your tnale (laves, and trarsform myfcif into « faitin Icat, with a canopy over my head, to amufe your/ifwrt/f flavL-s.
Ibra. Transform thjfelf into a fatun feat, with a canopy river thy.herfd — .thou art bev.'ildeied. [To Alexinn-I I'lonounce, Madam, the fate of the P'O- fl'^ate flive, whofe villainy had ncaiiy brought about fuch difallrous evenls.-— Shall he penili ?
Alex.
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Alex. Ah, in this ^our of felicity, let nothing perilh but misfortune f Re the benevolent Muftapha rewarded, and let Azim have frank forgiveoefs.
Jbra. Charnung magnanimity! if it flows from your CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES, fuch do£lrines iiiulV be RioHT, nnd I will dofely ftudy tbem.
Alex. [Stepping forioard.] And may our errors have frank forgivenefs too ! Beflow on us your fa- vour, and m<!ke the e.4Y IN TURREY One of the bsppied of K'.vi happy feafoni
THE END.
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EPILOGUE.
WRITTEN BY MRS. COWLEY.
SPOKEN BY MRS. TOTZ.
E
rSCAP'D from Tui-key, and from prifoa free, Yet ftill a SLAVE you fliill behold in me; An Englifb (l^ve — (lave to your ev'ry pleafure, Seeking your plaudits as her richell ireafure.
Whilft thus you feaft with cheering praife my ear, 'For cur foft poet I confefs fame fear. Perhaps you'll fay, — " Two marriages for love ! " Thus ^ooX\^ fem(de pens for ever rove ; ** But give us, Madam, give us, real life, '* Who goes to Turkey pray, to fetch a wife?"
Critic ! a few months paft I wou'd allow Your comment juft, but not, Sir Surly, now ! YoT nov/ we know a prince can crofs the feas T' obtain a wife, a nation's hearts to pleafe. *' The age of chivalry" again returns. And love, with all its ancient fplendour burns ;
Yes
Tell the rapt Orator whofe magic pen
So late cha'.lifed the new found rights of men
Who feai'd that honour, courage, love were loil,
And Europe's glorias in the whirlwind toil;
Tell him " heroic enterprije' {hall Rill futvive,
And *' loyalty to fex" remain alive;
** The unhoughl grace of Ife'^ again we find.
And " proud fubmiffi'/n" fills the public mind ;
T'wards/i'fr, now borne to Hri tain's hr,ppycoaft—
A husband's honour, and a nation's boad.
^'Ju/l
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** 'Jiijl lighted on this orb the •vifon (hines
'* Scarce feems io touch," and as it moves, refines !
O, may llie long adorn this chofen ifle.
Where the beft gifts of fate unceafing fmile !
rx7u-.^^^ " lile the tTiorning J}ar" at v/ond'rous height.
She loars at length beyond this world and night.
Still may your bJeilin -s to her name be given,
V/hlle foft file fades into her native heaven !
Those who read will know, that in the above Epilogue 3.1! the paffages difVinguilhed by italics are taken from an efFiifion ir.fpircd Ly another roya4 lady; — agitating the lightning pen of a man who in his head is all reason, in his heart all sensation. A man whom folitki fciztd, and feems to have dragged reludflantly from iove. Let the women of future times weave to his memory the faireft gar- huids, and twine arnidft laurels and rofes the name of Burke.
INSTRUCTIONS for the SOPH.
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