Bell's English Classics Browning's Strafford A— -# i 1 » A 1 l\^I\l^ I s,im^r A Cornell University 9 Library The original of tliis bool< is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013443399 STRAFFORD. By B. H. HICKEY. Michael Villiees, Idealist, and other Poems. Smith, Elder & Co. Veese-Tales, Lyrics and Translations. Elkin Mathews. A Sculptor, and other Poems. Elkin Mathews. STRAFFORD: A TRAGEDY. BY ROBERT BROWNING. ,V Z " f- I, ) ■WITH KOIES AND PKEPAOE BY E. H. H I C K E Y, ADTHOB OF "MICHABL VILIIEES, IDEALIST, AWD OTHEK POEMS;" "TEBSE TALES, LTEICS, AHD THAHSLATIONS ; " "A SOULPTOK, AHD OTHEH POEMS." AND AN INTEODTJOTION BY SAMUEL E. GARDINER, LL.D., PROPESSOR or MODERN HISTORY, KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. SECOND EDITION, REFISED. LONDON : GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., CO VENT GARDEN AND NEW YORK. 1809 A^ I o^H-LfS" CHISVVICK PRESS :—u. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COUKT, CHANCERY LANE. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. It was in 1835 that Mr. Browning was introduced to Mac- ready the tragedian, and it was out of this acquaintance that the pi;oduction of " Strafford " came. Macready saw in " Paracelsus " the work of a true tragic poet, and sug- gested that Browning should write a play for him. Mac- ready wrote in his journal in 1836 : " Browning said that I had hit him by my performance of Othello, and I told him I hoped I should make the blood come. It would, indeed, be some recompense for the miseries, the humiliations, the heart-sickening disgusts which I have endured in my pro- fession, if by its exercise I had awakened a spirit of poetry whose influence would elevate, ennoble, and adorn our de- graded drama. May it be !" A little later, Macready said to Mr. Browning, " Write a play, Browning, and keep me from going to America ! " Mr. Browning replied, " Shall it be historical and English ? What do you say to a drama on Straiford? " In March, 1837, the play was put in rehearsal, and produced at Covent Garden Theatre on the 1st of May. To quote Mr. Edmund Gosse's account in " The Century " for December, 1881, from which I have taken the above details : — " It is time now to deny a statement that has been re- peated ad nauseam in every notice that professes to give VI PREFACE TO THE FIEST EDITION. an account of Mr. Browning's career. Whatever is said or not said, it is always remarked that his plays have ' faUed ' on the stage. In point of fact, the three plays which he has brought out have all succeeded, and have owed it to ■fortuitous circumstances that their tenure on the hoards has been comparatively short. ' Strafford ' was produced when the finances of Covent Garden Theatre were at their lowest ebb, and nothing was done to give dignity or splendour to the performance. ' Not a rag for the new tragedy,' said Mr. Osbaldiston. The King was taken by- Mr. Dale, who was stone-deaf, and who acted so badly that, as one of the critics said, it was a pity that the pit did not rise as one man and push him off the stage. All sorts of alterations were made in the text ; where the poet spoke of ' grave grey eyes,' the manager corrected it in rehearsal to 'black eyes.' But at last Macready appeared, in the second scene of the second act, in more than his wonted majesty, crossing and recrossing the stage like one of Vandyke's courtly personages come to life again, and Miss Helen Faucit threw such tenderness and passion into the part of Lady Carlisle as surpassed all that she had previously displayed of histrionic power. Under these circumstances, and in spite of the dull acting of Vandenhoff, who played Pym without any care or interest, the play was well received on the first night, and on the second night was applauded with enthusiasm by a crowded house. There was every expectation that the tragedy would have no less favourable a ' run ' than ' Ion ' had en- joyed, but after five nights, Vandenhoff suddenly with- drew, and though Elton volunteered to take his place, the financial condition of the theatre, in spite of the un- diminished popularity of the piece, put an end to its representation. ' ' When the play was rehearsing, Mr. Browning gave Mac- ready a lilt which he had composed for the children's song in PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. vii Act Y. His object was, he has told me, just to give the children a thing children would croon ; but the two little professed singers, Master and Miss Walker, preferred some- thing that should exhibit their powers more efiectually, and a regular song was substituted, scarcely, it will be thought, to the improvement of the play. By kind per- mission I print the original music. Andante. -=- i 53^ ^ t:^ H 33* O bell' an -da- re, Per barca in ma-re, Versola slentando e diminuendo. se-ra, Diprima- ve - rj, O beU'aa - da - re, O bell'an The text of this edition has been revised by Mr. Browning. There are a good many changes in the punctuation, and a few verbal alterations. By a printer's error, unfortunately not discovered in time, a comma at the end of line 54, Act I., Scene 1, has been replaced by a period.^ I am privileged to print a letter in which Lady Martin most kindly complies with my request that she should write a few lines on the character of Lady Carlisle, which she so beautifully rendered when the play was first produced : — " Ton ask me to write a few words about the character of Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle, as drawn by Mr. Browning in his play of ' Strafford.' That it is purely imaginary, he has told us himself in his preface. It is, therefore, not to be looked at in relation to any record of what the real Lady Carlisle was. It is drawn ' This has of course been set right in the second edition. — Ed. Vlll PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. SO firmly and clearly, that I feel it almost a wrong to my friend, Mr. Browning, to attempt to pnt my own idea of it into such words as one unaccustomed, like myself, to write on such things, can command. All I can say is, that I think Mr. Browning set himself a very difficult task in drawing a woman, full of lore and devotion to a man who, while he could not help being grateful for such devotion to his interests, and attracted by her charms as a woman, yet was so engrossed by personal and public interests, and the conflict with political adversaries, that he gives little or no sign of a reciprocal affection. There was great danger in working out this idea, and placing Lady Carlisle at a disadvantage ; — for little sympathy is shown for a woman who shows her love, and meets only the coldest return. But over this difficulty the poet has, I think, triumphed. Among the other characters, of whom so many are selfish, headstrong, weak, or wayward, she seems to me to stand out in striking colours, such are the clearness of her perceptions, the fearlessness of her courage, the depth and nobleness of her love. " I was a mere girl, and a novice on the stage, when the play was produced — but I remember well what struck me as the true note of Lady Carlisle's character, and how difficult I felt the task of trying to give it expression. But the soul of nobleness which shines throughout all her words and acts, helped me in a great measure through my anxious ordeal." The historical Lady Carlisle was the daughter of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. In 1639, she had been for three years a widow. Her husband was James, Lord Hay, created successively Viscount Doncaster and Earl of Carlisle. For a sketch of this strange woman, see Lodge's " Portraits of Illustrious Personages," &c., vol. v., in Bohn's Library. Sir Tobie Matthews' " character of the PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. IX most excellent Lady, Lucy, Countess of Carlisle," prefixed to a collection of letters, whicli Donne edited in 1660, is of sufficient interest to repay a careful perusal. Lodge has an engraving of her portrait by Vandyke. There is a younger portrait of her along with her sister, Dorothy, Countess of Leicester, at Bilton, near Rugby, a relic of the days when Addison lived there. "Waller's Saccharissa was her niece. In annotating this play I have had before me the pro- bable needs of students and the possible needs of teachers. Some time ago, when speaking of this play as a subject for study, a lady said to me, " how can a Trwdern worTc be studied ? What is there to say about it ? " This remark must have originated in a feeling that etymology and verbal points in general are the things to be considered in teaching English literature, and that where there is little to do in the way of hunting up obsolete words there is little to do in any way. It seems to me that " Strafford," offering much to the mere reader, offers greatly more to the student, and that the hours spent over it will not be regretted. I have tried to give help, as far as possible, by suggestion, and have therefore frequently used the form of questions, instead of merely appending notes. It has appeared to me that the special beauty of certain passages should not be " sign-posted," but that the poet should be left to speak for himself, as far as an annotated edition is concerned. I would suggest that the play should be read through, twice, if possible, before any use be made of the notes, and that the student should keep steadily in mind the necessity of considering the play as a whole. I shall take it as a kindness if any suggestions be sent to me, with a view to making a second edition, should the work be fortunate enough to reach one, more helpful than the first. X PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. I wish to express my very -warm thanks to Mr. Brown- ing for his readily given permission to issue this edition of " Strafford "; for his explanation of three or fonr passages — I being specially indebted to him for most of the note on V. 2, 40 ; and for his revision of the text. I have also to thank Dr. Abbott for some good hints, of which I have duly availed myself. I owe much grati- tude to Professor Hales for his careful reading of my notes, and for numerous valuable suggestions, nearly all of which I have endeavoured to carry out. Professor Gardiner knows, I hope, how much I feel indebted to him, not only for the writing of the Introduc- tion, but for most kind help in the arrangement of the historical notes. E. H. H. LoHDON, March, 1884. From Mr. Browning to Miss E. H. Hickey : 19, Wakwick Ckescent, W. February 15, 1884. Dear Miss Hicket, I have returned the proofs by post. Nothing can be better than your notes ; and, with a real wish to be of use, I read them carefully that I might detect never so tiny a fault, but I found none — unless (to show you how minutely I searched) it should be one that by " thriving in your contempt " I meant simply " while you despise them, and for all that, they thrive and are powerful to do you harm." The idiom you prefer — quite an autho- rized one — comes to much the same thing after all. . . . Tours affectionately, Robert Browning. INTRODUCTIOX. The reader of a play wliicli is founded on the facts of history may reasonably wisli to know how far the author has allowed himself to be bound by his knowledge of the actual course of events, and whether, if he has departed from it, it is possible to trace any principle in the variance. The present introduction is intended to give an answer to such a demand. When, at the age of twenty-five, Mr. Browning wrote " Strafford," Mr. Forster's life of that statesman had just been published. There was an intimate friendship between the poet and the biographer, and Mr. Browning thus found the materials which he needed brought easily within his reach. In a passage which rises far above Mr. Forster's ordinary level, the true theory of the identity of Strafford's life is set forth. (" British Statesmen," ii. 228) :— '' In one word, what it is desired to impress upon the reader, before the delineation of Wentworth in his after- years, is this — that he was consistent to himself through- out. I have always considered that much good wrath is thrown away upon what is usually called ' apostasy.' In the majority of cases if the circumstances are thoroughly Xll INTRODUCTION. examined it will be found that there has been ' no such thing.' The position on which the acute Roman thought fit to base his whole theory of Esthetics — "' Hamano capiti cervicem pictor eqninam Jungere si velit, et varias indiicere plumas, Undequc collatis membris, ut turpiter atram Deslnat in piseem mulier formosa siiperne Spectatum admissi risiim teneatis amici ? ' &c. — is of far wider application than to the exigencies of an art of poetrj ; and those who carry their researches into the moral nature of mankind, cannot do better than im- press upon their minds, at the outset, that in the regions they explore, they are to expect no monsters, no essentially discordant termination to any ' mulier formosa superne.' tP TP TV tt * * " Against all such conclusions I earnestly protest in the case of the remarkable personage whose ill-fated career we are now retracing. Let him be judged sternly, but in no unphilosophic spirit. In turning from the bright band of patriot brothers to the solitary Strafford — ' a star which dwelt apart,' we have to contemplate no extinguished splendour, razed and blotted from the book of life. Lustrous, indeed, as was the gathering of the lights in the political heaven of this great tinie, even that radiant cluster might have exulted in the accession of the ' comet beautiful and fierce,' which tarried awhile within its limits ere it ' dashed athwart with train of flame.' But it was governed by other laws than were owned by its golden associates, and — impelled by a contrary, yet no less irre- sistible force, than that which restrained them within their eternal orbits — it left them, never to ' float into that azure heaven again.' " Partly from want of sympathy with statesmen of INTRODUCTION. XIU Strafford's type, aud pirtlj from the lack of material whicli has since come to light, Mr. Forster did not succeed in constructing a biography which answered to the ex- pectations raised in these sentences. He enabled ns to see the zeal and energy of his hero, and he showed that the result was the establishment of a tyranny. To exhibit Strafford believing that he was establishing a reign of justice, and that he was even defending the English constitution against its assailants, was beyond his range. Is it too hazardous a conjecture to suppose that Mr. Browning was impelled to write " Strafford," not merely by his admiration for the man, but also from some desire to give a portraiture of him which would have the com- pleteness of an imaginative conception ? Whether it was so or not, there can be no doubt that the task which he undertook was one of extraordinary difficulty. The main interest of Strafford's career is political, and to write a political play " Non di, non homines, non concessere columnse." The interest of politics is mainly indirect. Strafford is impeached, not merely because he is hated, or because he has done evil things, but because he is expected to do more evil things, and because if he is not punished other people at some future time will not be easily deterred from doing other evil things. Such possibilities of future evil, which the historian is bound to consider, are, however, essentially undramatic. The poet can at most only avail himself of them as a background for the scenes in which the charac- ters or the passions of his personages are developed. Still less can he bring upon the stage personages who discuss the bearing and meaning of Acts of Parliament, as Pym and Strafford did in real life. XIV INTRODUCTION. We may be sure, therefore, that it was not by accident that Mr. Browning, in writing this play, decisively aban- doned all attempt to be historically accurate. Only here and there does anything in the course of the drama take place as it could have taken place at the actual Court of Charles I. Not merely are there frequent minor inac- curacies, but the very roots of the situation are untrue to fact. The real Strafford was far from opposing the war with the Scots at the time when the Short Parliament was summoned. To anyone who knows a,nything of the habits of Charles, the idea of Pym or his friends entering into colloquies with Strafford, and even bursting in unan- nounced into Charles's presence, is, from the historical point of view, simply ludicrous. So completely does the drama proceed irrespectively of historical truth, that the critic may dispense with the thankless task of pointing out discrepancies, where the writer plainly meant that there should be discrepancies. He will be better employed in asking what ends those discrepancies were intended to serve, and whether the neglect of truth of fact has resulted in the higher truth of character. There is not much difficulty in answering the first question. Prom the beginning to the end of the play the personal relations between the actors are exaggerated at the expense of the political. To make that dramatic which would otherwise not be dramatic, Mr. Browning has been utterly regardless even of historical probability. Whatever personal feeling may have entwined itself in the political attachment between Strafford and Charles, is strengthened till it becomes the very basis of Strafford's life, and the keynote of his character. Having thus brought out the moral qualities of his hero, it remained for Mr. Browning to impress his readers with Strafford's intellectual greatness. The historian who tries to do INTRODUCTION'. XT that will have much to say om his constitutional views and his Irish govei-nment, but a dramatist who tried to follow in such a path would only make himself ridiculous. Mr. Browning understood the force of the remark of the Greek philosopher that Homer makes us realize Helen's beauty most, by speaking of the impression which it made upon the old men who looked on her. Mr. Browning brings out Strafford's greatness by showing the impression which he made on Pym and Lady Carlisle. Mr. Browning took a hint from the old story, which pro- bably refers to a time in which Pym and Wentworth studied law together, that Pym and Strafford were once- intimate friends. In carrj'ing on Pym's feeling of admira- tion for Charles's minister to the days of the Short, and even of the Long Parliament, the dramatist has filled his play with scenes which are more hopelessly impossible than anything else in it ; but they all conduce to his main object, the creation of the impression about Strafford which he wished to convey. He pursues the same object in dealing with Lady Carlisle. What he needs is her admiration of Strafford, not Strafford's admiration of her. He takes care to show that she was not, as vulgar rumour supposed, Strafford's mistress. The impression of Strafford's great- ness is brought more completely home to the spectator or the reader, because of the effect which it produces upon on© who has given her heart without return. Having thus noted the means employed in creating the impression desired, we have still to ask, how far the im- pression is a correct one. On this point each reader must judge for himself. For myself, I can only say that, every time that I read the play, I feel more certain that Mr. Browning has seized the real Strafford, the man of critical brain, of rapid decision, and tender heart, who strove for the good of his nation without sympathy for the generation in which he lived. Charles too, with his faults perhaps XVI INTRODUCTION. exaggerated, is nevertheless the real Charles. Of Lady Carlisle we know too little to speak with anything like certainty, but, in spite of Mr. Browning's statement that his character of her is purely imaginary, there is a wonder- ful parallelism between the Lady Carlisle of the play and the less noble Lady Carlisle which history conjectures rather than describes. There is the same tendency to fix the heart upon the truly great man, and to labour for him without the requital of human affection, though in the play no part is played by that vanity which seems to have been the main motive with the real personage. On the other hand Pym is the most unsatisfactory, from a historical point of view, of the leading personages. It was perhaps necessary for dramatic purposes that he should appear to be larger-hearted than he was, but it imparts an unreality to his character. It must be remembered, how- ever, that the aim of the dramatist was to place Strafiord before the eyes of men, not to produce an exact representa- tion of the statesmen of the Long Parliament. S. E. G. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF STRAFFORD. I HAD for some time been engaged in a Poem of a very different nature, when induced to make the present attempt ; and am not without apprehension that my eagerness to freshen a jaded mind by diverting it to the healthy natures of a grand epoch, may have operated unfavourably on the represented play, which is one of Action in Character, rather than Character in Action. To remedy this, in some degree, considerable curtailment will be necessary, and, in a few instances, the supplying details not required, I sup- pose, by the mere reader. "While a trifling success would much gratify, failure will not wholly discourage me from another effort : experience is to come ; and earnest en- deavour may yet remove many disadvantages. The portraits are, I think, faithful ; and I am exceedingly fortunate in being able, in proof of this, to refer to the subtle and eloquent exposition of the characters of Eliot and Strafford, in the Lives of Eminent British Statesmen, now in the course of publication in Lardner's Cyclopaedia, by a writer' whom I am proud to call my friend ; and whose biographies of Hampden, Pym, and Vane, will, I am sure, fitly illustrate the present year — the Second Cen- tenary of the Trial concerning Ship-Money. My Carlisle, however, is purely imaginary : I at first sketched her ^ John Forster. 6 xviii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. singular likeness rougMy in, as suggested by Matthews and the memoir-writers — but it was too artificial, and the substituted outline is exclusively from Voitnre and Waller. The Italian boat-song in the last scene is from Redi's "Bacco," long since naturalized in the joyous and delicate version of Leigh Hunt. PERSONS. Chaeles I. Earl of Holland. Lord Sayilb. Sir Henry Vane. Wentwoeth, Viscount Wbntwoeth, Earl of Strafpoed. John Pym. John Hampden. The younger Vane. Denzil Hollis. Benjamin Rudtaed. Nathaniel Eibnnes. Earl of Loudon. Maxwell, Uslier of the Black Rod. Balfoue, Constable of the Tower. A Puritan. Queen Henrietta. LucT Pbect, Countess of Caelisle. Presbyterians, Scots Commissioners, Adherents of Straf- ford, Secretaries, Officers of the Court, &c. Two of StrafEord's Children. STRAFFORD ACT I. Scene I. A House near Whitehall, Hampden, Hollis, the youngei Vane, Rudyard, Fiennes and many of the Fresbyterian Farty . Loudon and other Scots Commissioners. Vaiie. I say, if he be here — Bjvd. (And he is here !) — Sol. For England's sake let every man be still Nor speak of him, so much as say his name, Till Pym rejoin us ! Rudyard ! Henry Vane ! One rash conclusion may decide our course 5 And with it England's fate — think — England's fate ! Hampden, for England's sake they should be still ! Yahe. Tou say so, Hollis ? Well, I must be still. It is indeed too bitter that one man, Any one man's mere presence, should suspend ic England's combined endeavour : little need To name him ! Itiid. For you are his brother, Hollis ! Hamp, Shame on you, Rudyard ! time to tell him that, When he forgets the Mother of us all. Bud. Do I forget her ? Hamp. Tou talk idle hate 15 Against her foe : is that so strange a thing ? Is hating Wentworth all the help she needs ? A Puritan. The Philistine strode, cursing as he went : But David — five smooth pebbles from the brook Within his scrip . . . Bud. Be you as still as David ! ic Fien. Here's Rudyard not ashamed to wag a tongue Stiff with ten years' disuse of Parliaments ; Why, when the last sat, Wentworth sat with us ! + B 2 STRAFFORD. Rud. Let's hope for news of them now -he retarns — He that was safe in Ireland, as we thought ! 2 — But I'll abide Pym's coming. Vane. Now, by Heaven, They may be cool who can, silent who will — Some have a gift that way ! Wentworth is here, Here, and the King's safe closeted with him Ere this. And when I think on all that's past 31 Since that man left us ; how his single arm Kolled the advancing good of England back And set the woeful past up in its place, Exalting Dagon where the Ark should be, — How that man has made firm the fickle King 3 (Hampden, I will speak out !) — in aught he feared To venture on before ; taught tyranny Her dismal trade, the use of all her tools, To ply the scourge yet screw the gag so close That strangled agony bleeds mute to death — 41 How he turns Ireland to a private stage For training infant viUanies, new ways Of wringing treasures out of tears and blood. Unheard oppressions nourished in the dark To try how much man's nature can endure 4 — If he dies under it, what harm ? if not. Why, one more trick is added to the rest Worth a King's knowing, and what Ireland bears England may learn to bear : — how all this while That man has set himself to one dear task, S' The bringing Charles to relish more and more Power, power without law, power and blood too, —Can I be still ? Hamp. For that you should be still. Vane. Oh Hampden, then and now ! The year he left us The People in full Parliament could wrest 5 The rights we claimed from the reluctant King ; And now, he'll find in an obscure small room A stealthy gathering of great-hearted men That take up England's cause : England is here ! Hamp. And who despairs of England ? Bud. That do I, 6. STRAFFORD. If Wentworth comes to rule her. I am sick To think her wretched masters, Hamilton, The muckworm Cottington, the maniac Laud, May yet be longed-for back again. I say, I do despair. Vatie. And Rudyard, I'll say this — Which all true men say after me, not loud But solemnly and as you 'd say a prayer ! This King, who treads our England underfoot. Has jast so much ... it may be fear or craft, As bids him pause at each fresh outrage ; friends, He needs some sterner hand to grasp his own. Some voice to ask, " Why shrink ? Am I not by ? " Now, one whom England loved for serving her, Found in his heart to say, " I know where best " The iron heel shall bruise her, for she leans " Upon me when you trample." Witness, you ! So Wentworth heartened Charles, so England fell. But inasmuch as life is hard to take Prom England . . . Many Voices. Go on. Vane ! 'T is well said. Vane ! Vane. Who has not so forgotten Runnymead ! — Voices. 'T is well and bravely spoken, Vane ! Go on I Vane. — There are some little signs of late she knows The ground no place for her. She glances round, Wentworth has dropped the hand, is gone his way On other service : what if she arise ? No ! the King beckons, and beside him stands The same bad man once more, with the same smile And the same gesture. Now shall England crouch, Or catch at us and rise ? Voices. The Renegade ! Haman ! Ahithophel ! Hamp. Gentlemen of the North, It was not thus the night your claims were urged. And we pronounced the League and Covenant, The cause of Scotland, England's cause as well : Vane there, sat motionless the whole night through. Vane. Hampden ! Fien. Stay, Vane ! 4 STRAFFORD. Lou. Be just and patient, Vane ! 95 YaMe. Mind how you counsel patience, Loudon ! you Have still a Parliament, and this your League To back it ; you are free in Scotland still : While we are brothers, hope 's for England yet. But know you wherefore Went worth comes ? to quench 100 This last of hopes ? that he brings war with him ? Know you the man's self ? what he dares ? Lou. We know, All know — 't is nothing new. Vane. And what's new, then, In calling for his life ? Why, Pym himself — You must have heard — ereWentworth dropped our cause loj He would see Pym first ; there were many laore Strong on the people's side and friends of his, Eliot that's dead, Rudyard and Hampden here, But for these Wentworth cared not ; only, Pym He would see — Pym and he were sworn, 'tis said, 110 To live and die together ; so, they met At Greenwich. Wentworth, you are sure, was long, Specious enough, the devil's argument Lost nothing on his lips ; he'd have Pym own A patriot could not play a purer part 115 Than follow in his track ; they two combined Might put down England. Well, Pym heard him out ; One glance — you know Pym's eye — one word was all : " Tou leave us, Wentworth ! while your head is on, " I'U not leave you." Samp. Has he left Wentworth, then ? 120- Has England lost him ? Will you let him speak, Or put your crude surmises in his mouth ? Away with this ! Will you have Pym or Vane ? Voices. Wait Pym's arrival ! Pym shall speak. Sanyp. Meanwhile Let Loudon read the Parliament's report 125 Prom Edinburgh : our last hope, as Vane says, Is in the stand it makes. Loudon ! Vane. ;N'o, no ! Silent I can be : not indifferent ! Hamp. Then each keep silence, praying God to spare STRAFFORD. 5 His anger, cast not England quite away 13a In this her visitation ! A Puritan. Seven years long The Midianite drove Israel into dens And caves. Till God sent forth a mighty man, Ptm enters. Even Gideon ! Pym. Wentworth's come : nor sickness, care, The ravaged body nor the ruined soul, 135 More than the winds and waves that beat his ship, Could keep him from the King. He has not reached Whitehall : they've hurried up a Council there To lose no time and find him work enough. Where's Loudon ? Your Scots' Parliament . . . Lou. Holds firm : 140 We were about to read reports. Pym. The King Has just dissolved your Parliament. Lou. and other Scots. Great God ! An oath-breaker ! Stand by us England, then ! Pym. The King's too sanguine ; doubtless Wentworth's here ; But stUl some little form might be kept up. 145 Hamp. Now speak, Vane! Rudyard,youhad muchtosay ! Hoi. The rumour's false, then . . . Pyin. Ay, the Court gives out His own concerns have brought him back : I know 'T is the King calls him. Wentworth supersedes The tribe of Cottingtons and Hamiltons, 150 Whose part is played ; there's talk enough, by this, — Merciful talk, the King thinks : time is now To turn the record's last and bloody leaf That, chronicling a nation's great despair. Tells they were long rebellious, and their lord 155 Indulgent, till, all kind expedients tried, He drew the sword on them and reigned in peace. Laud's laying his religion on the Scots Was the last gentle entry • the new page Shall run, the King thinks, " Wentworth thrust it down 160 6 STRAFFORD. At the sword's point." A Puritan. I'll do your bidding, Pym, England's and God's — one blow ! Pym. A goodly thing — We all say, friends, it is a goodly thing To right that England. Heaven grows dark above : Let's snatch one moment ere the thunder fall, 165 To say how well the English spirit comes out Beneath it ! All have done their best, indeed, From lion Eliot, that grand Englishman, To the least here : and who, the least one here. When she is saved (for her redemption dawns 170 Dimly, most dimly, but it dawns — it dawns) Who'd give at any price his hope away Of being named along with the Great Men ? We would not — no, we would not give that up ! Samp. And one name shall be dearer than all names. 175 When children, yet unborn, are taught that name After their fathers', — taught what matchless man . . . Pym. . . . Saved England ? What if Wentworth's should be still That name ? Bud. and others. We have just said it, Pym ! His death Saves her ! We said it — there's no way besides ! 180 I'll do God's bidding, Pym ! They struck down Joab And purged the land. Vane. No villanous striking-down ! Bud. No, a calm vengeance : let the whole land rise And shout for it. No Peltons ! Pym. Rudyard, no ! England rejects all Eeltons ; most of all 185 Since Wentworth . . . Hampden, say the trust again Of England in her servants ! — but I'll tbink Tou know me, all of you. Then, I'll believe. Spite of the past, Wentworth rejoins you, friends ! Vane and others. Wentworth ? Apostate ! Judas I Double-dyed 190 A traitor ! Is it Pym, indeed . . . Pym. Who says Yane never knew that Wentworth, loved that man, STRAFFORD. 7 Was used to stroll with him, arm locked in arm, Along the streets to see the people pass, And read in every island-countenance 195; Fresh argument for God against the King, — Never sat down, say, in the very house Where Eliot's brow grew broad with noble thoughts, (You've joined us, Hampden — HoUis, you as well,) And then left talking over Gracchus' death ... 200 Vane. To frame, we know it well, the choicest clause In the Petition of Right : he framed such clause One month before he took at the King's hand His Northern Presidency, which that Prayer Denounced. Fym. Too true ! Never more, never more zoj Walked we together ! Most alone I went. I have had friends — all here are fast my friends — But I shall never quite forget that friend. And yet it could not but be real in him ! You, Vane, — you, Rudyard, have no right to trust 210 To Wentworth : but can no one hope with me ? Hampden, will Wentworth dare shed English blood Like water ? Hamp. Ireland is Aceldama. Pym. WiU he turn Scotland to a hunting-ground To please the King, now that he knows the King ? 215 The People or the King ? and that Ejng — Charles ! Hamp. Pym, all here know you : you'll not set your heart On any baseless dream. But say one deed Of Wentworth's, since he left us . . . [Shouting ivithout. Vane. There ! he comes. And they shout for him ! Wentworth's at Whitehall, 22c The King embracing him, now, as we speak, And he, to be his match in courtesies,' Taking the whole war's risk upon himself. Now, while you tell ns here how changed he is ! Hear you ? Pym. And yet if 'tis a dream, no more, 22; That Wentworth chose their side, and brought the King To love it as though Laud had loved it- first. And the Queen after ; — that he led their cause 8 STRAFFORD. Calm to success, and kept it spotless through, So that our very eyes could look upon 230 The travail of our souls ; and close, content That violence, which something mars even right Which sanctions it, had taken ofE no grace From its serene regard. Only a dream ! Samp. We meet here to accomplish certain good 235 By obvious means, and keep tradition up Of free assemblages, else obsolete, In this poor chamber : nor without effect Has friend met friend to counsel and confirm. As, listening to the beats of England's heart, 240 We spoke its wants to Scotland's prompt reply By these her delegates. Remains alone That word grow deed, as with God's help it shall — But with the devil's hindrance, who doubts too ? Looked we or no that tyranny should turn 245 Her engines of oppression to their use ? Whereof, suppose the worst be Wentworth here — Shall we break off the tactics which succeed In drawing out our formidablest foe. Let bickering and disunion take their place ? 250 Or count his presence as our conquest's proof, And keep the old arms at their steady play ? Proceed to England's work ! Fiennes, read the list ! Fiennes. Ship-money is refused or fiercely paid In every county, save the northern parts 255 Where Wentworth's influence . . . ^Shouting. Vane. I, in England's name. Declare her work, this way, at end ! Till now. Up to this moment, peaceful strife was best. We English had free leave to think ; till now, We had the shadow of a Parliament 260 In Scotland. But all's changed : they change the first. They try brute-force for law, they, first of all . . . Voices. Good ! Talk enough ! The old true hearts with Vane ! Vane. Till we crush Wentworth for her, there's no act Serves England ! Voices. Vane for Ensland ! STRAFFORD. Pym. Pym should be 26; Something to England. I seek Wentworth, friends. Scene II.— WJiiiehall. Lady Carlisle and Wentwoeth. Went. And the King ? Lady Gar. Wentworth, lean on me ! Sit then ! I'll tell you all ; this horrible fatigue Will kill you. Went. No ; — or, Lucy, just your arm ; I'll not sit till I've cleared this up with him : After that, rest. The King ? Lady Car. Confides in you. j Went. Why ? or, why now ? — They have kind throats, the knaves ! Shout for me — they ! Lady Gar. Tou come so strangely soon : Yet we took measures to keep off the crowd. Did they shout for you ? Went. Wherefore should they not ? Does the King take such measures for himself ? 10 Beside, there's- such a dearth of malcontents, Tou say ! Lady Gar. I said but few dared carp at you. Went. At me ? at us, I hope ! The King and I ! He's surely not disposed to let me bear The fame away from him of these late deeds 15 In Ireland ? I am yet his instrument. Be it for well or ill ? He trusts me, too ! Lady Oar. The King, dear Wentworth, purposes, I said. To grant you, in the face of all the Court . . . Went. All the Court ! Evermore the Court about us ! 20 Savile and Holland, Hamilton and Vane About us, — then the King will grant me — what ? That he for once put these aside and say — " Tell me your whole mind, Wentworth ! " Lady Gar. You professed 10 STRAFFORD. Tou would be calm. Went. Lucy, and I am calm ! 2 How else shall I do all I come to do, — Broken, as you may see, body and mind. How shall I serve the King ? Time wastes meanwhile, Tou have not told me half. His footstep ! No. Quick, then, before I meet him, — I am calm — 31 Why does the King distrust me ? Ladki Oar. He does not Distrust you. Went. Lucy, you can help me ; you Have even seemed to care for me : one word ! Is it the Queen ? Lady Car. No, not the Queen : the party That poisons the Queen's ear, Savile and Holland. 3 Went. I know, I know : old Vane, too, he's one too ? Go on — and he's made Secretary. Well ? Or leave them out and go straight to the charge ; The charge ! Lady Gar. Oh, there's no charge, no precise charge ; Only they sneer, make light of — one may say, 4 Nibble at what you do. Went. I know ! but Lucy, I reckoned on you from the first ! — Go on ! Was sure could I once see this gentle friend When I arrived, she'd throw an hour away To help her . . . what am I ? LadAj Gar. Tou thought of me, 4 Dear Wentworth ? Went. But go on ! The party here ! Lad/y Gar. They do not think your Irish Government Of that surpassing value . . . Went. The one thing Of value ! The one service that the crown May count on ! All that keeps these very Vanes 5 In power, to vex me — not that they do vex, Only it might vex some to hear that service Decried, the sole support that 's left the King ! Lady Gar. So the Archbishop says. Went. Ah ? well, perhaps STRAFFOKD. 11 The only hand teld up in my defence SS May be old Land's ! These Hollands then, these Saviles Nibble ? They nibble ? — that 's the very word ! Lady Car. Tour profit in the Customs, Bristol says. Exceeds the due proportion : while the tax . . . Went. Enough ! 't is too unworthy, — I am not 60 So patient as I thought ! What 's Pym about ? Lady Gar. Pym ? Went. Pym and the People. Lady Gar. Oh, the Faction ! Extinct — of no account : there '11 never be Another Parliament. Went. Tell SavUe that ! Ton may know — (ay, you do — the creatures here 65 Never forget !) that in my earliest life I was not . . . much that I am now ! The King May take my word on points concerning Pym Before Lord Savile's, Lucy, or if not, I bid them ruin their wise selves, not me, 70 These Vanes and Hollands ! I '11 not be their tool Who might be Pym's friend yet. But there 's the King ! Where is he ? Lady Gar. Just apprised that you arrive. Went. And why not here to meet me ? I was told He sent for me, nay, longed for me. Lady Car. Because, — 75 He is now ... I think a Council's sitting now About this Scots affair. Went. A Council sits ? They have not taken a decided course Without me in the matter ? Lady Gar. I should say . . . Went. The war ? They cannot have agreed to that ? 80 Not the Scots' war ? — without consulting me — Me, that am here to show how rash it is. How easy to dispense with ? — Ah, you too Against me ! well, the King may tak« his time. — Forget it, Lucy ! Cares make peevish : mine 85 Weigh me (but 't is a secret) to my grave. 12 STKAFFOED. JJadAj Oar. For life or death I am your own, dear friend ! \_Goes out. Went. Heartless! but all are heartless here. Go now, Forsake the People ! — I did not forsake The People : they shall know it — when the King s Will trust me ! — who trusts all beside at once, "While I have not spoke Vane and Savile fair. And am not trusted : have but saved the throne : Have not picked up the Queen's glove prettily, And am not trusted. But he '11 see me now. 9 Weston is dead : the Queen 's half English now — • More English : one decisive word will brush These insects from . . . the step I know so well ! The King ! But now, to tell him . . . no — to ask What 's in me he distrusts : — or, best begin ic By proving that this frightful Scots affair Is just what I foretold. So much to say. And the flesh fails, now, and the time is come. And one false step no way to be repaired ! Ton were avenged, Pym, could you look on me. ic Ptm enters. Went. I little thought of you just then. Fym. No? I Think always of you, Wentworth. Went. The old voice ! I wait the King, sir. Pym. True — yon look so pale ! A Council sits within ; when that breaks up He '11 see you. Went. Sir, I thank you. Pym. Oh, thank Laud ! ii Tou know when Laud once gets. on Church affairs The case is desperate : he '11 not be long To-day : he only means to prove, to-day. We English all are mad to have a hand In butchering the Scots for serving God ii After their fathers' fashion : only that ! Went. Sir, keep your jests for those who relish them ! (Does he enjoy their confidence ?) 'Tis kind STRAFFORD. 13 To tell me what the Council does. Pym. Tou grudge That I should kaow it had resolved on war 120 Before you came ? No need : you shall have all The credit, trust me ! Went. Have the Council dared — They have not dared . . . that is — I know you not. Farewell, sir : times are changed. Pym. — Since we two met At Greenwich ? Yes : poor patriots though we be, '25 Tou cut a figure, makes some slight return For your exploits in Ireland ! Changed indeed. Could our friend Eliot look from out his grave ! Ah, Wentworth, one thing for acquaintance' sake. Just to decide a question; have you, now, 13' Felt your old self since you forsook us ? W&nt. Sir ! Pym. Spare me the gesture ! you misapprehend ! Think not I mean the advantage is with me. I was about to say that, for my part, I never quite held up my head since then — 1 3 S Was quite myself since then : for first, you see, I lost all credit after that event With those who recollect how sure I was Wentworth would outdo Eliot on our side. Forgive me : Savile, old Vane, Holland here, Eschew plain speaking : 'tis a trick I keep. '4° Went. How, when, where, Savile, Vane and Holland speak. Plainly or otherwise, would have my scorn. All of miy scorn, sir. . . . Pym. • . . Did not my poor thoughts. Claim somewhat ? Went. Keep your thoughts! believe the King 145 Mistrusts me for their prattle, all these Vanes And Saviles ! make your mind up, o' God's love. That I am discontented with the King ! Pym. Why, you may be : I should be, that I know, Were I Hke you. Went. Like me ? Pym. I care not much 15c 14 STEAFFOED. For titles : our friend- Eliot died no lord, Hampden 's no lord, and Savile is a lord ; But you care, since yon sold your soul for one. I can't think, therefore, your soul's purchaser Did well to laugh you to such utter scorn 155 When you twice prayed so humbly for its price. The thirty silver pieces . . . I should say, The Earldom you expected, still expect. And may. Tour letters were the movingest ! Console yourself : I 've borne him prayers jast now 160 From Scotland not to be oppressed by Land, Words moving in their way : he '11 pay, be sure, As much attention as to those you sent. Went. False, sir ! Who showed them you ? Suppose it so, The King did very well . . . nay, I was glad 165 When it was shown me : I refused, the first ! John Pym, you were my friend — forbear me once ! Pym. Oh, Wentworth, ancient brother of my soul. That all should come to this ! Went. Leave me ! Pym. My friend. Why should I leave you ? Went. To tell Rudyard this, 170 And Hampden this ! Pym. Whose faces once were bright At my approach, now sad with doubt and fear. Because I hope in you — yes, Wentworth, you Who never mean to ruin England — you Who shake ofB, with God's help, an obscene dream 175 In this Ezekiel chamber, where it crept Upon you first, and wake, yourself, your true And proper self, our Leader, England's chief. And Hampden's friend ! This is the proudest day ! Come, Wentworth ! Do not even see the King ! 180 The rough old room will seem itself again ! We '11 both go in together : you've not seen Hampden so long : come : and there's Fiennes : you '11 have •To know young Vane. This is the proudest day ! STRAFFORD. }l [The King enters. Wkntwoeth lets fall Ptm's hand. Oha. Arrived, my lord ? — This gentleman, we know, i8; Was your old friend. The Scots shall be informed What we determine for their happiness. [Ptm goes out. Yon have made haste, my lord. Went. Sir, I am come . . . Cha. To see an old familiar — nay, 'tis well ; Aid us with his experience; this Scots' League 19c And Covenant spreads too far, and we have proofs Their chiefs intrigue with France : the Paction, too, Whereof your friend there is the head and front, Abets them, — as he boasted, very like. Went. Sir, trust me ! but for this once, trust me, sir ! 195 Gha. What can you mean ? We^it. That you should trust me, sir 1 Oh — not for my sake ! but 't is sad, so sad That for distrusting me, you suffer — you. Whom I would die to serve : sii', do you think That I would die to serve you ? Gha. But rise, Wentworth ! 20a Went. What shall convince you ? What does Savile do To prove bim. . . Ah, one can't tear out one's heart And show it, how sincere a thing it is ! Gha. Have I not trusted you ? Went. Say aught but that ! There is my comfort, mark you : all will be 205 So different when you trust me — as you shall ! It has not been your fault, — I was away, Mistook, maligned, how was the King to know ? I am here, now — he means to trust me, now — All will go on so well ! Gha. Be sure I do — zio I 've heard that I should trust you : as you came, Your friend, the Countess, told me . . . Went. JNo, — hear nothing — Be told nothing about me ! — you 're not told Your right hand serves you, or your children love you ! 16 STRAFFORD. Oha. You love me, Wentworth : rise ! Went. I can speak now. 215 I have no right to hide the truth. 'T is I Can save yon : only I. Sir, what mnst be ? Gha. Since Land 's assured (the minutes are within) — Loath as I am to spill my subjects' blood . . . Went. That is, he '11 have a war : what 's done is done ! 220. Gha. TheyhaveintriguedwithErance; that's clear to Laud. Went. Has Laud suggested any way to meet The war's expense ? Gha. He 'd not decide so far Until you joined us. W&nt. Most considerate ! He 's certain they intrigue with France, thepe Scots ? 225 The People would be with us. Gha. Pym should know. Went. The People for us — were the People for us ! Sir, a great thought comes to reward your trust ; Summon a Parliament ! in Ireland first, Then here. Gha. In truth ? Went. That saves us ! that puts ofi 23c The war, gives time to right their grievances — To talk with Pym. I know the Faction, as Laud styles it, tutors Scotlatid : all their plans Suppose no Parliament : in calling one Ton take them by surprise. Produce the proofs 235 Of Scotland's treason ; then bid England help : Even Pym would not refuse. Gha. Tou would begin With Ireland ? Went. Take no care for that : that 's sure To prosper. Gha. Tou shall rule me. Tou were best Return at once : but take this ere you go ! 24 Now, do I trust you ? Tou 're an Earl : my friend Of friends : yes, while . . . Tou hear me not ! Went. Say it all o'er again — but once again : The first was for the music — once again ! Gha. Strafford, my friend, theremay have beenreports, 24 STRAFFORD. 1 ! Yain rumours. Henceforth touching Strafford is To touch the apple of my sight : why gaze So earnestly ? Went. I am grown young again, And foolish. What was it we spoke of ? Gha. Ireland, The Parliament, — Went. I may go when I will ? 2$' —Now? Oha. Are you tired so soon of us ? Went. My King ! But you will not so utterly abhor A Parliament ? I'd serve you any way. Olia. Tou said just now this was the only way. Went. Sir, I will serve you ! Cha. Strafford, spare yourself — 25 Tou are so sick, they tell me. Went. 'T is my soul That's well and prospers now. This Parliament — We'll summon it, the English one — I'll care For everything. Tou shall not need them much. Glia. If they prove restive . . . Went. I shall be with 3-0U. 26( Gha. Ere they assemble ? Went. I will come, or else Deposit this infirm humanity I' the dust. My whole heart stays with you, my King ! [As Wentwoeth goes otot the Queen enters Gha. That man must love me. Qtieen. Is it over then ? Why, he looks yellower than ever ! Well, 26 At least we shall not hear eternally Of service — services : he 's paid at least. Gha. Not done with : he engages to surpass All yet performed in Ireland. Queen. I had thought Nothing beyond was ever to be done. 27' The war, Charles — will he raise supplies enough ? Gha. We've hit on an expedient ; he . . . that is 18 STRAFFORD. I have advised ... we have decided on The calling — in Ireland — of a Parliament. Queen. O truly ! Tou agree to that ? Is that 275 The first fruit of his counsel ? But I guessed As much. Oha. This is too idle, Henriette ! I should know test. He will strain every nerve, And once a precedent established . . . Queen. Notice How sure he is of a long term of favour ! 28c He'll see the next, and the next after that ; No end to Parliaments ! Oha. Well, it is done. He talks 4t smoothly, doubtless. If, indeed, The Commons here . . . Queen, Here ! Tou will summon them Here ? "Wonld I were in France again to see 285 A King ! Cha. Bnt, Henriette . . . Queen. Oh, the Scots see clear ! Why should they bear your rule ? Oha. But listen, sweet ! Queen. Let Wentworth listen — you confide in him ! Oha. I do not, love, — I do not so confide ! The Parliament shall never trouble us 29c . . Nay, hear me ! I have schemes, such schemes : we'll buy The leaders off : without that, Wentworth's counsel Had ne'er prevailed on me. Perhaps I call it To have excuse for breaking it for ever, And whose will then the blame be ? See you not ? 29; Come, dearest ! — look, the little fairy now, That cannot reach my shoulder ! Dearest, come ! STRAFFORD. IJ ACT II. Scene I.— (As in Act I., Scene I.) The same party enters. Bud. Twelve subsidies ! Vane. Rudyard, do not laugh At least ! -BmcZ. True : Strafiord called the Parliament — 'Tis he should laugh ! A Puritan. Out of the serpent's root Comes forth a cockatrice. Fien. — A stinging one, If that's the Parliament : twelve subsidies ! j A stinging one ! but, brother, where's your word For Strafford's other nest-egg, the Scots' war ? The Puritan. His fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. Fien. Shall be ? It chips thes hell, man, — peeps abroad. Twelve subsidies ! — Why, how now, Yane ? Pud. Peace, Fiennes ! lo Fien. Ah ? — But he was not more a dupe than I, Or you, or any here, the day that Pym Returned with the good news. Look up, friend Vane ! We all believed that Strafford meant us well In summoning the Parliament. Hampden enters. Vane. ' Now, Hampden, 15 Clear me ! I would have leave to sleep again : I'd look the People in the face again : Clear me from having, from the first, hoped, dreamed Better of Strafford ! Hamp. Tou may grow one day A steadfast light to England, Henry Yane ! 20 Bud. Meantime, by flashes, I make shift to see. Strafford revived our Parliaments ; before. 20 STRAFFORD. War was but talked of ; there's an army, now • Still, we've a Parliament ! Poor Ireland bears Another wrench (she dies the hardest death !) — Why, speak of it in Parliament ! and lo, 'T is spoken, so console yourselves ! Fien. The jest ! We clamoured, I suppose, thus long, to win The privilege of laying on our backs A sorer burden than the King dares lay ! Bud. Mark now : we meet at length, complaints pour in Prom every county, all the land cries out On loans and levies, curses ship-money, Calls vengeance on the Star Chamber ; we lend An ear. " Ay, lend them all the ears you have !" Puts in the King ; " my subjects, as you find, "Are fretful, and conceive great things of you. " Just listen to them, friends; you 'II sanction me " The measures they most wince at, make them yours, " Instead of mine, I know : and, to begin, " They say my levies pinch them, — raise me straight " Twelve subsidies ! " Fien. All England cannot furnish Twelve subsidies ! Hoi. But Strafford, just returned From Ireland — what has he to do with that ? How could he speak his mind ? He left before The Parliament assembled. Pym, who knows Strafford . . . Brnd. Would I were sure we know ourselves ! What is for good, what bad, — who friend, who foe ! Sol. Do you count Parliaments no gain ? Bud. A gain ? While the King's creatures overbalance us ? — There's going on, beside, among ourselves A quiet, slow, but most effectual course Of buying over, sapping, leavening The lump till all is leaven. Glanville's gone. I'll put a case ; had not the Court declared That no sum short of just twelve subsidies Will be accepted by the King — our House, STEAFFORD. 21 1 say, would have consented to that ofier To let us buy off ship-money ! Sol. Most like, If, say, six subsidies will buy it ofP, 6q The House . . . Bud. Will grant them ! Hampden, do you hear ? Congratulate with me ! the King's the king, And gains his point at last — our own assent To that detested tax ! All's over, then ! There's no more taking refuge in this room, 65 Protesting, " Let the King do what he will, " We, England, are no party to our shame : " Our day will come ! " Congratulate with nie ! Ptm enters. Vane. Pym, Strafford called this Parliament, you say, But we'll not have our Parliaments like those 70 In Ireland, Pym ! Bud. Let him stand forth, your friend ! One doubtful act hides far too many sins ; It can be stretched no more, and, to my mind. Begins to drop from those it covered. Other Voices. Good ! Let him avow himself ! TSo fitter time ! 75 We wait thus long for you. Bud. Perhaps, too long ! Since nothing but the madness of the Court, In thus unmasking its designs at once. Has saved us from betraying England. Stay — This Parliament is Strafford's : let us vote 8q Our list of grievances too black by far To suffer talk of subsidies : or best. That ship-money's disposed of long ago By England : any vote that's broad enough : And then let Strafford, for the love of it, 85 Support his Parliament ! Vane. And vote as well ]S"o war to be with Scotland ! Hear you, Pym ? We'll vote, no war ! No part nor lot in it For England ! 22 STRAFFORD. Many Voices. Vote, no war ! Stop the new levies ! No Bishops' war ! At once ! When next we meet ! 90 Pym. Much more when next we meet ! Friends, which of you Since first the course of StrafBord was in doubt, Has fallen the most away in soul from me ? Vane. I sat apart, even now, uiider-€rod's eye, Pondering the words that should denounce you, Pym, 95 In presence of us all, as one at league With England's enemy. Pym. Ton are a good And gallant spirit, Henry. Take my hand And say you pardon me for all the pain Till now ! Strafford is wholly ours. Many Voices. Sure ? sure ? 100 Pym. Most sure : for Charles dissolves the Parliament While I speak here. — And I must speak, friends, now ! Strafford is ours. The King detects the change. Casts Strafford off for ever, and resumes His ancient path : no Parliament for us, 105 No Strafford for the King ! Come, all of you. To bid the King farewell, predict success To his Scot's expedition, and receive Strafford, our comrade now. The next will be Indeed a Parliament ! Vane. Forgive me, Pym ! no Voices. This looks like truth : Strafford can have, indeed. No choice. Pym. Friends, follow me ! He's with the King. Come, Hampden, and come, Rudyard, and come, Vane ! This is no sullen day for England, sirs ! Strafford shall tell you ! Voices. To Whitehall then ! Come! 115 STRAFFORD. 2i Scene II. — )VhiiehaU. Chaeles and Sxeaffoed. Oha. Strafiord ! Straf. Is it a dream ? my papers, here — Thus, as I left them, all the plans you found So happy — (look ! the track you pressed my hand For pointing out) — and in this very room. Over these very plans, you tell me, sir, j With the same face, too — tell me just one thing That ruins them ! How's this ? What may this mean ? Sir, who has done this ? Cha. StrafEord, who but I ? You bade me put the rest away : indeed Ton are alone. Straf. Alone, and like to be ! lo No fear, when some unworthy scheme grows ripe. Of those who hatched it, leaving me to loose The mischief on the world ! Laud hatches war, Falls to his prayers, and leaves the rest to me. And I'm alone. Gha. At least, you knew as much i j When first you undertook the war. Straf. My liege. Was this the way? I said, since Laud would lap A little blood, 't were best to hurry over The loathsome business, not to be whole months At slaughter — one blow, only one, then, peace, za Save for the dreams. I said, to please you both I'd lead an Irish army to the West, While in the South an English . . . but you look As though you had not told me fifty times 'T was a brave plan ! My army is all raised, 25 I am prepared to join it . . . Oha. Hear me, Strafford ! Straf. . . . When, for some little thing, my whole design Is set aside — (where is the wretched paper ?) I am to lead — (ay, here it is) — to lead 24 STRAFFORB. The English army : why ? Northumberland 30 That I appointed, chooses to he sick — Is frightened : and, meanwhile, who answers for The Irish Parliament ? or army, either ? Is this my plan ? Gha. So disrespectful, sir ? 8traf. My liege, do not believe it ! I am yours, 35 Tours ever : 'tis too late to think about : To the death, yours. Elsewhere, this untoward step Shall pass for mine ; the world shall think it mine. But here ! But here ! I am so seldom here, Seldom with you, my King ! I, soon to rush 40 Alone upon a giant in the dark ! ' Gha. My Strafford ! Straf. [examines papers awhile.'] " Seize the passes of the Tyne ! " But, sir, you see — see all I say is true ? My plan was sure to prosper, so, no cause To ask the Parliament for help ; whereas 45 We need them frightfully. Gha. Need the Parliament ? Straf. Now, for God's sake, sir, not one error more ! We can afford no error ; we draw, now, Upon our last resource : the Parliament Must help us ! Gha. I've undone you, Strafford ! Straf. Nay — 50 Nay — why despond, sir, 'tis not come to that ! I have not hurt you ? Sir, what have I said To hurt you ? I unsay it ! Don't despond ! Sir, do you turn from me ? Gha. My friend of friends ! Straf- We'll make a shift. Leave me the Parliament ! 5^ Help they us ne'er so little and I'll make Sufficient out of it. We'll speak them fair. They're sitting, that's one great thing ; that half gives Their sanction to us ; that's much : don't despond ! Why, let them keep their money, at the worst ! 6c The reputation of the People's help Is all we want : we'll make shift yet ! STRAFFORD. 26 ' Oha. Good StrafEovd ! Straf. But meantime, let the sum be ne'er so small They offer, we'll accept it : any sum — For the look of it : the least grant tells the Scots 6 s The Parliament is ours — their staunch ally Turned ours : that told, there's half the blow to strike ! What will the grant be ? What does Glanville think ? Gha. Alas ! Straf. My liege ? Gha. Strafford ! Straf. But answer me ! Have they ... surely not refused us half ? 70 Half the twelve subsidies? We never looked For all of them. How many do they give ? Cha. Ton have not heard . . . Straf. (What has he done ?) — Heard what ? But speak at once, sir, this grows terrible ! [27ie King continuing silent. Tou have dissolved them ! — I'll not leave this man. 75 Gha. 'T was old Vane's ill-judged vehemence. Straf. Old Vane ? Gha. He told them, just about to vote the half. That nothing short of all twelve subsidies Would serve our turn, or be accepted. Straf Vane ! Vane ! Who, sir, promised me that very Vane ... 80 God, to have it gone, quite gone from me. The one last hope — I that despair, my hope — That I should reach his heart one day, and cure All bitterness one day, be proud again And young again, care for the sunshine, too. S5 And never think of Eliot any more, — God, and to toil for this, go far for this. Get nearer, and still nearer, reach this heart And find Vane there ! \_Suddenly tailing up apapei; and continuing irith a forced calmness. Northumberland is sick ; Well, then, I take the army ■ Wilmot leads 90 The horse, and he, with Conway, must secure 26 STKAPFORD. The passes of the Tyne ; Ormond supplies My place in Ireland. Here, we'll try the City : If they refuse a loan — debase the coin And seize the bullion ! we've no other choice. 95 Herbert . . . And this while I am here ! with you ! And there are hosts such, hosts like Vane ! I go, And, I once gone, they '11 close around you, sir. When the least pique, pettiest mistrust, is sure To ruin me— and you along with me ! Do you see that ? And you along with me ! 100 — Sir, you '11 not ever listen to these men. And I away, fighting your battle ? Sir, If they — if She — charge me, no matter how — Say you, " At any time when he returns " His head is mine ! " Don't stop me there ! Tou know 105 My head is yours, but never stop me there ! Gha. Too shameful, Strafford ! Tou advised the war. And . . . Straf. I ! I ! that was never spoken with Till it was entered on ! That loathe the war ! That say it is the maddest, wickedest ... no Do you know, sir, I think within my heart, That you would say I did advise the war ; And if through your own weakness, or what's worse. These Scots, with God to help them, drive me back, Tou will not step between the raging People 115 And me, to say . . . I knew it ! from the first I knew it ! Never was so cold a heart ! Remember that I said it — that I never Believed you for a moment ! — And, you loved me ? Tou thought your perfidy profoundly hid 120 Because I could not share the whisperings With Vane, with Savile ? What, the face was masked ? I had the heart to see, sir ! Face of flesh. But heart of stone — of smooth cold frightful stone ! Ay, call them ! Shall I call for you ? The Scots 125 Goaded to madness ? Or the English — Eym — STRAFFORD. 27 Shall I call Pym, your subject ? Oh, you think I'll leave them in the dark about it all ? They shall not know you ? Hampden, Pym shall not ? Ptm, Hampden, Vane, etc., enter. [Dropping on Ms Icnee.] Thus favoured with your gracious countenance 130 What shall a rebel League avail against Tour servant, utterly and ever yours ? So, gentlemen, the King's not even left The privilege of bidding me farewell Who haste to save the People — that you style 135 Tour People — from the mercies of the Scots And Prance their friend ? [To Chaeles.] Pym's grave grey eyes are fixed Upon you, sir ! Tour pleasure, gentlemen ? Samp. The King dissolved us — 't is the King we seek. And not Lord Strafford. Straf. — Strafford, guilty too 140 Of counselling the measure. [To Charles.] (Hush . . . you know — Tou have forgotten — sir, I counselled it) A heinous matter, truly ! But the King Will yet see cause to thank me for a course Which now, perchance . . . (Sir, tell them so!) — he blames. 145 Well, choose some fitter tim^e to make your charge : I shall be with the Scots, you understand ? Then yelp at me ! Meanwhile, your Majesty Binds me, by this fresh token of your trust . . . [ Underthe pretence of an earnest farewell, Steaffoed co«(fMcis Chaeles to the door, in such a manner as to hide his agitation from, the rest ; as the King disappears, ilieij turn as by one impulse to Ptm, who has not changed his original posture of surprise. Samp. Leave we this arrogant strong wicked man ! 150 Vane and others. Hence, Pym ! Come out of this unworthy place ! 28 STB.AFFORD. To our old. room again ! He's gone. [STEiFFOBD, JMsf dbout tofollow the King, looks hack, Pym. Not gone ! [To Steaffoed.J Keep tryst ! tlie old appointment's made anew ■ Forget not we shall meet again ! Straf. So be it ! And if an army follows me ? Vane. His friends 155 Will entertain your army ! Pym. I'll not say Ton have misreckoned, Strafford : time shows. Perish Body and spirit ! Fool to feign a doubt, Pretend the scrupulous and nice reserve Of one whose prowess shall achieve the feat ! 160 What share have I in it ? Do I afiect To see no dismal sign above your head When God suspends his ruinous thunder there ? Strafford is doomed. Touch him no one of you ! [Pym, Hajipden, etc., go out. Straf. Pym, we shall meet again. Lady Carlisle enters. Ton here, child ? Lady Oar. Hush — 165 I know it all : hush, Strafford ! Straf. Ah ? you know ? Well. I shall make a sorry soldier, Lucy ! All knights begin their enterprise, we read. Under the best of auspices : 't is morn. The Lady girds his sword upon the Youth 17c (He 's always very young) — the trumpets sound. Cups pledge him, and, why, the King blesses him — Ton need not turn a page of the romance To learn the Dreadful Giant's fate. Indeed, We 've the fair Lady here ; but she apart, — 175 A poor man, rarely having handled lance. And rather old, weary, and far from sure His Squires are not the Giant's friends. All' s one : STRAFFORD. 29 Let Tis go forth ! Ladij Oar. Gro forth ? Straf. What matters it ? "We shall die gloriously — as the hook says. i8o Lady Gar. To Scotland ? not to Scotland ? Straf. Am I sick Like yonr good brother, brave Northumberland ? Beside, these walls seem falling on me. Lady Gar. Strafford, The wind that saps these walls can undermine Tour camp in Scotland, too. Whence creeps the wind ? 185 Have you no eyes except for Pym ? Look here ! A breed of silken creatures lurk and thrive In your contempt. You '11 vanquish Pym ? Old Vane Can vanquish you. And Yane you think to fly ? Rush on the Scots ! Do nobly ! Vane's slight sneer 19a Shall test success, adjust the praise, suggest The faint result : Vane's sneer shall reach you there. • — You do not listen ! Straf. Oh,— I give that up ! There 's fate in it : I give all here quite up. Care not what old Vane does or Holland does 195 Against me ! 'T is so idle to withstand ! In no case tell me what they do ! Lady Gar. But, Strafford . . . Straf. I want & little strife, beside ; real strife. This petty, palace-warfare does me harm : I shall feel better, fairly out of it. 200 Lady Gar. Why do you smile ? Straf. I got to fear them, child ! I could have torn his throat at first, old Vane's, As he leered at me on his stealthy way To the Queen's closet. Lord, one loses heart ! 205 I often found it in my heart to say, " Do not traduce me to her ! " Lady Gar. But the King . . . Straf. The King stood there, 't is not so long ago, — There ; and the whisper, Lucy, " Be my friend " Of friends ! " — my King ! I would have . . . Lady Car. ■ • • Died for him ? 30 STRAFFORD. Straf. Sworn him true, Lucy : I can die for him. 210 Lady Gar. Biit go not, Strafford ! But you must renounce This project on the Scots ! Die, wherefore die ? Charles never loved you. Straf. And he never will, He 's not of those who care the more for men That they 're unfortunate. Lady Gar. Then wherefore die 215 For such a master ? Straf. You that told me first How good he was — when I must leave true friends To find a truer friend ! — that drew me here Prom Ireland, — " I had but to show myself " And Charles would spurn Vane, Savile and the rest " — 220 Tou, child, to ask me this ? Lady Oar. (If he have set His heart abidingly on Charles !) Then, friend, I shall not see you any more. Straf. Yes, Lucy. There's one man here I have to meet. Lady Oa/r. (The King ! What way to save him from the King ? My soul — . 225 That lent from its own store the charmed disguise That clothes the King — he shall behold my soul !) Strafford,— I shall speak best if you '11 not gaze Upon me : I had never thought, indeed. To speak, but you would perish too, so sure ! 230 Could you but know what 't is to bear, my friend, One image stamped within you, turning blank The else imperial brilliance of your mind, — A weakness, but most precious, — ^like a flaw I' the diamond, which should shape forth some sweet face 235 Yet to create, and meanwhile treasured there Lest nature lose her gracious thought for ever ! Straf. When could it be ? no ! Yet . . . was it the day We waited in the anteroom, till Holland Should leave the presence-chamber ? Lady Gan What ? STRAFFORD. 31 Straf. —That I 240 Described to you my love for Chailes ? Lady Car. (Ah, no — One must not lure him from a love like that ! Oh, let him love the King and die ! 'T is past. I shall not serve him worse for that one brief And passionate hope, silent for ever now !) 245 And you are really bound for Scotland, then ? I wish you well : you must be very sure Of the King's faith, for Pym and all his crew Will not be idle — setting Vane aside ! Straf. If Pym is busy, — you may write of Pym. 250 Lady Oar. What need, since there's your King to take your part ? He may endure Yane's counsel ; but for Pym — Think you he '11 suffer Pym to . . . Straf. Child, your hair Is glossier than the Queen's ! Lady Gar. Is that to ask A curl of me ? Straf. Scotland — the weary way ! 255 Lady Car. Stay, let me fasten it. —A rival's, Strafford ? Straf. [_shoiomg the George.] Hehungit there : twine yours around it, child ! Lady Car. No — no — another time — I trifle so ! And there's a masque on foot. Farewell. The Court Is dull ; do something to enliven us 260 In Scotland : we expect it at your hands Straf. I shall not fail in Scotland. Lady Car. Prosper — if You'll think of me sometimes ! Straf. How think of him And not of you ? of you, the lingering streak (A golden one) in my good fortune's eve. 265 Lady Car. Strafford . . . Well, when the eve has its last streak The night has its first star. [She goes out. Straf. That voice of hers — 32 STRAPFORD. ToTi'd think she had a heart sometimes ! His voice Is soft too. Only God can save him now. Be Thou ahout his bed, about his"path ! 270 His path ! Where's England's path ? Diverging wide, And not to join again the track my foot Must follow — whither ? All that forlorn away Among the tombs ! Far — far — till . . . What, they do Then join again, these paths ? For, huge in the dusk, 275 There's — Pym to face ! Why then, I have a foe To close with, and a fight to fight at last Worthy my soul ! What, do they beard the King, And shall the King want Strafford at his need ? Am I not here ! Not in the market-place, 280 Pressed on by the rough artisans, so proud To catch a glance from Wentworth ! They lie down Hungry yet smile " Why, it must end some day : " Is he not watching for our sake ? " Not there ! But in Whitehall, the whited sepulchre, 285 The . . . Curse nothing to-night ! Only one name They'll curse in all those streets to-night. Whose fault ? Did I make kings ? set up the first, a man To represent the multitude, receive All love in right of them — supplant them so, 290 Until you love the man and not the king The man with the mild voice and mournful eyes Which send me forth. — To breast the bloody sea That sweeps before me : with one star for guide. Night has its first, supreme, forsaken star. 295 STRA.FFORD. 3." ACT III. Scene I. — Opposite Westminster Hall. Sir Henry Vane, Lord Savile, Lord Holland and others of the Comt Sir H. Vane. The Commons thrust you out ? SaviJe. And what kept you From sharing their civility ? Sir M. Vane. Kept me ? Fresh news from Scotland, sir ! worse than the last. If that may be. All 's up with Strafford there : Ifothing to bar the mad Scots marching hither i Next Lord's-day morning. That detained me, sir ! Well now, before they thrust you out, — go on, — Their Speaker — did the fellow Lenthal say All we set down for him ? Hoi. Not a word missed. Ere he began,, we entered, Savile, I, ic And Bristol and some more, with hope to breed A wholesome awe in the new Parliament. But such a gang of graceless ruffians, Yane, As glared at us ! Vane. So many ? Savile. Not a bench Without its complement of burly knaves ; 1 5 Tour hopeful son among them : Hampden leant Upon his shoulder — think of that ! Vane. I 'd think On Lenthal's speech, if I could get at it. Urged he, I ask, how grateful they should prove For this unlooked-for summons from the King ? 20 Hoi. Just as we drilled him. Vane. That the Scots will march On London ? Hoi. All; and made so much of it, A dozen subsidies at least seemed sure 34 STKAFFOKD. To follow, when . . . Vame. Well ? Sol. 'T is a strange thing, now ! I've a vague memory of a sort of sound, 25 A voice, a kind of vast unnatural voice — Pym, sir, was speaking ! Savile, help me out : What was it all ? Sav. Something about " a matter " — No, — " work for England." ilol. " England's great revenge " He talked of. Sav. How should I get used to Pym 30 More than yourselves ? Hoi. However that be, 'T was something with which we had nought to do, For we were " strangers " and 't was " England's work " — (All this while looking us straight in the face) In other words, our presence might be spared. 35 So, in the twinkling of an eye, before I settled to my mind what ugly brute Was likest to Pym just then, they yelled us out, Locked the doors after us, and here are we. Vane. Eliot's old method . . . 8av. Prithee, Vane, a truce 40 To Eliot and his times, and the great Duke, And how to manage Parliaments ! 'T was you Advised the Queen to summon this : why, Strafford (To do him justice) would not hear of it. Vane. Say rather, you have done the best of turns 45 To Strafford : he 's at York, we all know why. I would you had not set the Scots on Strafford Till Strafford put down Pym for us, my lord ! Sav. Was it I altered Strafford's plans ? did I . . . A Messenger enters. Mes. The Queen, my lords — she sends me : follow me 50 At once ; 't is very urgent ! She requires Tour counsel : something perilous and strange Occasions her command. Sav. We follow, friend ! STRAFFORD. Now, Vane ; — your Parliament will plague us all ! Vane. No Strafford here beside ! Sav. If you dare hint I had a hand in his betrayal, sir . . . Uol. Nay, find a fitter time for quarrels — Pym "Will overmatch the best of you : and, think, The Queen ! Vane. Come on, then : understand, I loathe Strafford as much as any — -but his use ! To keep off Pym, to screen a friend or two, I would we had reserved him yet awhile. Scene II. — Whitehall. The Qdben and Lady Carlisle. Qioeen. It cannot be. Ladij Gar. It is so. Queen. Why, the House Have hardly met. Lady Gar. They met for that. Queen. No, no ! Meet to impeach Lord Strafford ! 'T is a jest. Lady Gar. A bitter one. Queen. Consider ! 'T is the House We summoned so reluctantly, which nothing But the disastrous issue of the war Persuaded us to summon. They '11 wreak all Their spite on us, no doubt ; but the old way Is to begin by talk of grievances : They have their grievances to busy them. i^ Lady Gar. Pym has begun his speech. Queen. Where 's Vane ? — That is Pym will impeach Lord Strafford if he leaves His Presidency ; he 's at York, we know, Since the Scots beat him : why should he leave York ? Lady Gar. Because the King sent for him. Queen. Ah — but if i The King did send for him, he let him know 36 STRAFFOKD. We had been forced to call a Parliament — A step which Strafford, now I come to think, Was vehement against. Lady Gar. The policy Escaped him, of first striking Parliaments To earth, then setting them upon their feet And giving them a sword : but this is idle. Did the King send for Strafford ? He will come. Queen. And what am I to do ? Lady Gar. What do ? Fail, madam ! Be mined for his sake ! what matters how, So it but stand on record that you made An effort, only one ? Queen. The King away At Theobald's ! Lady Gar. Send for him at once : he must Dissolve the House. Queen. Wait till Yane finds the truth Of the report : then ... Lady Oar. — It will matter little What the King does. Strafford that lends his arm And breaks his heart for you ! Sir H. Yane enters. Yane. The Commons, madam, Are sitting with closed doors. A huge debate. No lack of noise ; but nothing, I should guess, Concerning Strafford : Pym has certainly Not spoken yet. Queen [To Lady Carlisle]. You hear ? Lady Oar. I do not hear That the King 's sent for ! 8irII. Vane. Savile will be able To tell you more. Holland enters. Queen. The last news, Holland ? Bol. Is raging like a fire. The whole House means To follow him together to Whitehall Pym STRAFFORD. 37 And force the King to give up Strafford. Queen-. Strafford ? Hoi. If they content themselves with Strafford ! Laud Is talked of, Cottington and Windebank too. Pym has not left out one of them — I would Tou heard Pym raging. Qtieen. Vane, go find the King ! 4.5 Tell the King, Vane, the People follow Pym To brave us at Whitehall ! SiViLB enters. Savile. Not to Whitehall— 'T is to the Lords they go : they seek redress On Strafford from his peers — the legal way. They call it. Queen. (Wait, Vane ! ) 8av. But the adage gives 50 Long life to threatened men. Strafford can save Himself so readily : at York, remember, In his own county : what has he to fear ? The Oommons only mean to frighten him Prom, leaving York. Surely, he will not come. 55 Queem,. Lucy, he will not come ! Lady Gar. Once more, the King Has sent for Strafford. He will come. Ya^ie. Oh doubtless ! And bring distruction with him : that 's his way. What but his coming spoilt all Conway's plan ? The King must take his counsel, choose his friends, 60 Be wholly ruled by him ! What 's the result ? The North that was to rise, Ireland to help, — What came of it ? In my poor mind, a fright Is no prodigious punishment. Lady Gar. A fright P Pym will fail worse than Strafford, if he thinks 65 To frighten him. [To the Queex]. You will not save him then ? 8av. When something like a charge is made, the King Will best know how to save him : and 't is clear, While Strafford suffers nothing by the matter, 38 STRAFFORD. The King may reap advantage : this in question, 70 No dinning you with ship-money complaints ! Queen [To Lady Carlisle]. If we dissolve them, who will pay the army ? Protect us from the insolent Scots ? Lady Gar. In truth, I know not, madam. Strafford's fate concerns me But little : you desired to learn what course 75 Would save him : I obey you. Vane. Notice, too, There can't be fairer ground for taking full Revenge — (Strafford's revengeful) — than he '11 have Against his old friend Pym. Queen. Why, he shall claim Vengeance on Pym ! Yane. And Strafford, who is he 80 To 'scape unscathed amid the accidents That harass all beside ? I, for my part, Should look for something of discomfiture Had the King trusted me so thoroughly And been so paid for i\. Hoi. He '11 keep at York : 85 All will blow over : he '11 return no worse, Humbled a little, thankful for a place Under as good a man. Oh, we '11 dispense With seeing Strafford for a month or two ! STEAFroED enters. Queen. You here ! Straf. The King sends for me, madam. Queen. Sir, 90 The King . . . Straf. An urgent matter that imports the King ! [To Lady Caelisle]. Why, Lucy, what 's in agitation now, That all this muttering and shrugging, see Begins at me ? They do not speak ! Lady Gar. 'T is welcome ! For we are proud of you — happy and proud 95 To have you with us, Strafford ! You were staunch At Durham: you did well there ! Had you not STRAFFORD. 39 Been stayed, you might have ... we said, even now, Our hope 's in you ! Sir H. Vane [_To Lady Caelisle]. The Queen would speak with you. Straf. Will one of you, his servants here, vouchsafe loo To signify my presence to the King ? Sav. An urgent matter ? Straf. None that touches you. Lord Savile ! Say, it were some treacherous Sly pitiful intriguing with the Scots — You would go free, at least ! (They half divine 105 My purpose !) Madam, shall I see the King ? The service I would render much concerns His welfare. Qjteem. But his Majesty, my lord, May not be here, may . . . Straf. Its importance, then, Must plead excuse for this withdrawal, madam, no And for the grief it gives Lord Savile here. Queen. [Who has been conversing withY athe and Holland. J The King will see you, sir ! [To Lady Caelislb.] Mark me : Pym's worst Is done by now : he has impeached the Earl, Or found the Earl too strong for him, by now. Let us not seem instructed ! We should work 115 No good to StrafEord, but deform ourselves With shame in the world's eye. [ToStraffobd.] His Majesty Has much to say with you. Straf. Time fleeting, too ! [To Lady Carlisle.] No means of getting them away ? And She— What does she whisper ? Does she know my purpose ? 120 What does she think of it ? Get them away ! Queen [To Lady Caklisle]. He comes to baffle Pym — he thinks the danger Far off : tell him no word of it ! a time For help will come ; we '11 not be wanting then. Keep him in play, Lucy — you, self-possessed 125 And calm ! [To Stbaffoed.] To spare your lordship some delay 40 STRAFFORD. I will myself acquaint the King. [To Lady Caelisle.] Beware ! [The Queen, Yane, Holland and Satile go out. Straf. She knows it ? Lady Gar. Tell me, Strafford ! Straf. Afterwards ! This moment's the great moment of all time. She knows my purpose ? Lady Gar. Thoroughly: just now 130 She hade me hide it from you. Straf. Quick, dear child, The whole o' the scheme ? Lady Gar. (Ah, he would learn if they Connive at Pym's procedure ! Could they but Have once apprised the King ! But there 's no time For falsehood, now.) Strafford, the whole is known. 135 Straf. Known and approved ? Lady Gar. Hardly discountenanced. Straf. And the King — say, the King consents as well ? Lady Gar. The King's not yet informed, but will not dare To interpose. Straf, What need to wait him, then ? He '11 sanction it ! I stayed, child, tell him, long ; 140 It vexed me to the soul — ^this waiting here. Tou know him, there 's no counting on the King. Tell him I waited long ! Lady Gar. (What can he mean ? Rejoice at the King's hoUowness ?) Straf. I knew They would be glad of it, — all over once, 145 I knew they would be glad : but he 'd contrive, The Queen and he, to mar, by helping it, An angel's making. Lady Gar. (Is he mad ?) Dear Strafford, Tou were not wont to look so happy. Straf. Sweet, I tried obedience thoroughly. I took 150 The King's wild plan : of course, ere I could reach My army, Conway ruined it. I drew The wrecks together, raised all heaven and earth. STRAFFORD. 41 And would have fought the Scots : the King at once Made truce with them. Then, Lucy, then, dear child, 155 God put it in my mind to love, serve, die For Charles, but never to obey him more ! While he endured their insolence at Eipon I fell on them at Durham. But you '11 tell The King I waited ? All the ante-room 160 Is filled with my adherents. Lady Car. Strafford — Strafford, What daring act is this you hint ? Straf. No, no ! 'T is here, not daring if you knew ! all here ! [^Draicing papers frovi his bi-east. Full proof, see, ample proof — does the Queen know I have such damning proof ? Bedford and Essex, 165 Brooke, Warwick, Savile (did you notice Savile ? The simper that I spoilt ?) Saye, Mandeville — Sold to the Scots, body and soul, by Pym ! Lady Car. Great heaven ! Straf. From Savile and his lords, to Pym And his losels, crushed ! — Pym shall not ward the blow 170 Nor Savile creep aside from it ! The Crew And the Cabal — I crush them ! Lady Car. And you go — Strafford, — and now you go ? — Straf. — About no work In the background, I promise you ! I go Straight to the House of Lords to claim these knaves. 175 Mainwaring ! Lady Gar. Stay — stay, Strafford ! Straf. She '11 return, The Queen — some little project of her own ! No time to lose : the King takes fright perhaps. Lady Gar. Pym's strong, remember ! Straf. Very strong, as fits The Faction's head — with no offence to Hampden, i8a Vane, Rudyard and my loving Hollis : one And all they lodge within the Tower to-night In just equality. Bryan ! Mainwaring ! [Afajn/ of his adherents enter. 42 STRAFFORD. The Peers debate just now (a lucky chance) On the Scots' war ; my visit 's opportune. 185 When all is over, Bryan, you proceed To Ireland : these dispatches, mark me, Bryan, Are for the Deputy, and these for Ormond : We want the arm.y here — my army, raised At such a cost, that should have done such good, 190 And was inactive all the time ! no matter. We '11 find a use for it. Willis ... or, no — you ! You, friend, make haste to Tork : bear this, at once . . , Or, — better stay for form's sake, see yourself The news you carry. Ton remain with me 195 To execute the Parliament's command, Mainwaring ! Help to seize these lesser knaves. Take care there 's no escaping at backdoors : I '11 not have one escape, mind me — not one ! I seem revengeful, Lucy ? Did you know 200 What these men dare ! Lady Gar. It is so much they dare ! Straf. I proved that long ago ; my turn is now. Keep sharp watch, Goring, on the citizens ! Observe who harbours any of the brood That scramble off : be sure they smart for it ! 205 Our coffers are but lean. And you, child, too. Shall have your task ; deliver this to Laud. Laud will not be the slowest in my praise : " Thorough " he '11 cry ! — Foolish, to be so glad ! This life is gay and glowing, after all : 210 'T is worth while, Lucy, having foes like mine Just for the bliss of crushing them. To-day Is worth the living for. Lady Gar. That reddening brow ? Tou seem . . . Straf. Well— do I not ? I would be well— I could not but be well on such a day ! 215 And, this day ended, 't is of slight import How long the ravaged frame subjects the soul In Strafford. Lady Gar. Noble Strafford ! STRAFFORD. 4E Sfraf. No farewell ! I'll see you anon, to-morrow — the first thing. — If She should come to stay me ! Lady Car. Go — 'tis nothing — 22c Only my heart that swells ; it has been thus Ere now : go, Strafford ! Sfraf. To-night, then, let it be. I must see Him : you, the next after Him. I '11 tell you how Pym looked. Follow me, friends ! You, gentlemen, shall see a sight this hour 225 To talk of all your lives. Close after me ! "My friend of friends!" [Steaffoed and the rest go out. Lady Gar. The King — ever the King ! No thought of one beside, whose little word Unveils the King to him — one word from me, Which yet I do not breathe ! Ah, have I spared 23c Strafford a pang, and shall I seek reward Beyond that memory ? Surely too, some way He is the better for my love. No, no — He would not look so joyous' — I '11 believe His very eye wonld never sparkle thus, 235 Had I not prayed for him this long, long while. Scene III. — The Antechamber of the Souse of Lords. Many of the Presbyterian Party. The adherents of Straitokd, etc. A Group of Presbyterians — 1. I tell you he struck Maxwell : Maxwell sought To stay the Earl : he struck him and passed on. 2. Fear as you may, keep a good countenance Before these rufflers. 3. Strafford here the first, With the great army at his back ! 4. No doubt. 5 I would Pym had made haste. That 's Bryan, hush — The gallant pointing. 4i STRAFFORD. Strafford's followers. — 1. Mark these worthies, now ! 2. A goodly gathering ! " Where the carcass is " There shall the eagles " — what's the rest ? 3. For eagles Say crows. A Presiyterian. Stand back, sirs ! One of Strafford's Followers. Are we in Geneva ? lo A Presbyterian. No, nor in Ireland ; we have leave to breathe. One of Strafford's Followers. Truly? Behold how privileged we be That serve " King Pym ! " There's Some-one at Whitehall Who skulks obscure ; but Pym stmts . . . The Presbyterian. Nearer. A Follower of Strafford. Higher, We look to see him. [To his companions.] I'm to have St. John 15 In charge ; was he among the knaves just now That followed Pym within there ? Another. The gaunt man Talking with Rudyard. Did the Earl expect Pym at his heels so fast ? I like it not. Maxwell enters. Another. Why, man, they rush into the net ! Here's Maxwell— 20 Ha, Maxwell ? How the brethren flock around The fellow ! Do you feel the Earl's hand yet Upon your shoulder. Maxwell ? Max. Gentlemen, Stand back ! a great thing passes here. A Follower of Strafford. [To Another.] The Earl Is at his work ! [_To M.] Say, Maxwell, what great thing ! 25 Speak out ! \_To a Presbyterian.] Friend, I've a kindness for you ! Friend, I've seen you with St. John : O stockishness ! Wear such a ruff, and never call to mind St. John's head in a charger ? How, the plague. Not laugh ? Another. Say, Maxwell, what great thing ! STRAFFORD. 45 Another. Nay, wait : 30 The jest will be to wait. First. And who's to bear These demure hypocrites ? You'd swear they came . . . Came . . . just as we come ! \_A Puritan enters hastilij and without ohserving Strafi oed's Followers. The Puritan. How goes on the work ? Has Pym . . . A follower of Strafford. The secret's out at last. Aha, The carrion's scented ! Welcome, crow the first ! 35 Gorge merrily, you with the blinking eye ! " King Pym has fallen ! " The Puritan. Pym ? A Strafford. Pym ! A Presbyterian. Only Pym ? Many of Strafford's Folloivers. No, brother, not Pym only; Vane as well, Rudyard as well, Hampden, St. John as well ! A Presiyterian. My mind misgives : can it be true ? Another. Lost ! Lost ! 40. A Strafford. Say we true, Maxwell ? The Puritan, Pride before destruction, A haughty spirit goeth before a fall. Many of Strafford's Followers. Ah now ! The very thing L A word in season ! A golden apple in a silver picture, To greet Pym as he passes ! [The doors at the hack begin to open, noise and light issuing. Max. Stand back, all ! 45 Many of the Preslytenrians. I hold with Pym ! And I ! Strafford's followers Now for the text ! He comes ! Quick ! The Puritan. How hath the oppressor ceased ! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked ! The sceptre of the rulers, he who smote The people in wrath with a continual stroke, 5° That ruled the nations in his anger — he 46 STRAFFORD. Is persecuted and none hindereth ! [The doors open, and Stbaffqbd issues in the greatest dis- order, and amid cries from within of "Void the House." Straf. Impeach, me ! Pym ! I never struck, I think, The felon on that calm insulting mouth When it proclaimed — Pym's mouth proclaimed me . . . God! 55 Was it a word, only a word that held The outrageous blood back on my heart — which beats ! Which beats ! Some one word — " Traitor," did he say. Bending that eye, brimful of bitter fire, Upon me ? Max. In the Commons' name, their servant 60 Demand's Lord Strafford's sword. Straf What did you say ? Maoi. The Commons bid me ask your lordship's sword. 8traf. Let us go forth : follow me, gentlemen ! Draw your swords too : cut any down that bar us. On the King's service ^ Maxwell, clear the way ! 65 \_The Presbtteeians prepare to dispute his passage. Straf. I stay : the King himself shall see me here. Tour tablets, fellow ! [To Mainwaring.] Give that to the King ! Tes, Maxwell, for the next half -hour, let be ! l^ay, you shall take my sword ! [Maxwell advances to take it. Or, no — Not that ! Their blood, perhaps, may wipe out all thus far, 70 All up to that — not that ! Why, friend, yon see When the King lays your head beneath my foot It will not pay for that. Go, all of you ! Max. I dare, my lord, to disobey ; none stir ! Straf. This gentle Maxwell ! — Do not touch him, Bryan 175 [To the Presbyterians.^ Whichever cur of you will carry this Escapes his fellow's fate. None saves his life ? None ? [Cries from, within of " Strafpoed." Slingsby, I've loved you at least : make haste ! Stab me ! I have not time to tell you why. Xou then, my Bryan ! Mainwaring, you then ! 80 Is it because I spoke so hastily At Allerton ? The King had vexed me. STRAFFORD. 47 [To the Presbyterians.] Yon ! — Not even you ? If I live over this, The King is sure to have your heads, you know ? But what if I can't live this minute through ? 85 Pym, who is there with his pursuing smile ! l_Louder cHes of " Steaffoed." The King ! I troubled him, stood in the way Of his negociations, was the one Great obstacle to peace, the Enemy Of Scotland : and he sent for me from York, 90 My safety guaranteed — ^having prepared A Parliament — I see ! And at Whitehall The Queen was whispering with Vane — I see The trap ! [Tearii^g off the George. I tread a gewgaw underfoot. And cast a memory from me. One stroke, now ! 95 [His own adherenisdisarmhivi. Renewed cries of "Stb,A.¥¥OUD." England ! I see thy arm in this and yield. Pray you now — Pym awaits me — pray you now ! [Steaffoed reaches the doors : they open wide. Hampden and a crowd discovered, and, at the bar, Pym standing apart. As Steaffoed Tcneels, the scene shuts. ACT IV. Scene I. — Whitehall. The KiKO, tJie Queen, Holms, Ladt Caklisle. (Vane, Holland, Sath-e, in the backgrouiid.) Lady Car. Answer them, Hollis, for his sake ! One word ! CTia. [roHoLLis.] You stand, silent and cold, as though I were Deceiving you — my friend, my playfellow Of other times. What wonder after all ? Just so, I dreamed my People loved me. Mol. Sir, 5 It is yourself that you deceive, not me. 48 STRAFFORD. You'll quit me comforted, your mind made up That, since you've talked thus mnch and grieved thus much, All you can do for Strafford has been done. Queen. If you kill StrafEord — (come, we grant you leave, lo Suppose) — Hoi. I may withdraw, sir ? Lady Gar. Hear them out ! 'T is the last chance for Strafford ! Hear them out ! Hoi. "If we kill Strafford" — on the eighteenth day Of Strafford's trial—" We ! " Cha. Pym, my good Hollis — Pym, I should say ! Hoi. Ah, true — sir, pardon me ! 15 Tou witness our proceedings every day ; But the screened gallery, I might have guessed. Admits of such a partial glimpse at us, Pym takes up all the room, shuts out the view. Still, on my honour, sir, the rest of the place 20 Is not unoccupied. The Commons sit — That's England ; Ireland sends, and Scotland too. Their representatives ; the Peers that judge Are easily distinguished : one remarks The People here and there : but the close curtain 25 Must hide so much ! Queen. Acquaint your insolent crew. This day the curtain shall be dashed aside ! It served a purpose. Hoi. Think ! This very day ? Ere Strafford rises to defend himself ? Cha. I will defend him, sir ! sanction the past 30 This day : it ever was my purpose. Rage At me, not Strafford ! Lady Gar. Nobly ! — will he not Do nobly ? Eol. Sir, you will do honestly ; And, for that deed, I too would be a king. Gha. Only, to do this now !^" deaf" (in your style) 35 " To subjects' prayers." — I must oppose them now. It seems their will the trial should proceed, — So palpably their will ! STRAFFORD. 49 Hol. Tou peril much, But it were no bright moment save for that. Strafford, your prime support, the sole roof-tree 40 That props this quaking House of Privilege, (Floods come, winds beat, and see — the treacherous sand !) Doubtless, if the mere putting forth an arm Could save him, you 'd save Strafford. Gha. And they dare Consummate calmly this great wrong ! No hope ? 45 This ineffaceable wrong ! No pity then ? Hol. No plague in store for perfidy ? — Farewell ! Tou called me, sir — [To Lady Carlisle.] you, lady, bade me come To save the Earl : I came, thank God for it, To learn how far such perfidy can go ! 50 Ton, sir, concert with me on saving him Who have just ruined Strafford ! Oha. I ? — and how ? Hol. Eighteen days long he throws, one after one, Pym's charges back : a blind moth-eaten law ! — He '11 break from it at last : and whom to thank ? 55 The mouse that gnawed the lion's net for him Got a good friend, — but he, the other mouse. That looked on while the lion freed himself Fared he so well, does any fable say ? Gha. What can you mean ? B.0I. Pym never could have proved 60 Strafford's design of bringing up the troops To force this kingdom to obedience : Vane — ■ Tour servant, not our friend — has proved it. Gha. Vane ? Hol. This day. Did Vane deliver up or no Those notes which, furnished by his son to Pym, Seal Strafford's fate ? 6; Gha. Sir, as I live, I know Nothing that Vane tas done ! What treason next ? I wash my hands of it. Vane, speak the truth ! Ask Vane himself ! fl'oZ. I will not speak to Vane Who speak to Pym and Hampden every day. /< 50 STRAFFORD. Queen. Speak to Vane's master then! What gain to him Were Strafford's death ? Hoi. ' Ha ? Strafiord cannot turn As yon, sir, sit there — bid yon forth, demand If every hateful act were not set down In his commission ? — whether you contrived 75 Or no, that all the violence should seem His work, the gentle ways — your own, — his part. To counteract the King's kind impulses — While . . . but you know what he could say ! And then He might produce, — mark, sir ! — a certain charge 80 To set the King's express command aside, If need were, and be blameless. He might add . . . Gha. Enough ! HbL — Who bade him break the Parliament, Find some pretext for setting up sword-law ! Que&n. Retire ! Oha. Once more, whatever Vane dared do, 85 I know not : he is rash, a fool — I know Nothing of Vane ! Kol. Well — I believe you. Sir, Believe me, in return, that . . . {Turning to Lady Caelislb]. Gentle lady. The few words I would say, the stones might hear Sooner than these, — I rather speak to you., 90 Ton, with the heart ! The question, trust me, takes' Another shape to-day : not, if the King Or England shall succumb, — but, who shall pay The forfeit, Strafford or his master. Sir, Ton loved me once : think on my Warning now ! 95 SJjoes out. Oha. On you and on your warning both ! — Carlisle ! That paper ! Queen. Bat consider ! Oha. Give it me ! There, signed — will that content you ? Do not speak ! You have betrayed me, Vane ! See ! any day, According to the tenor of that paper, 100 He bids your brother bring the army up, Strafiord shall head it and take full revenge. STRAFFORD. 61 Seek Strafford ! Let him have the same, before He rises to defend himself ! Queen. In truth ? That your shrewd HoUis should have worked a change 105 Like this ! You, late reluctant . . . Oha. Say, Carlisle, Your brother Percy brings the army up, Tails on the Parliament (I '11 think of you. My HoUis !) say, we plotted long — 't is mine. The scheme is mine, remember ! Say, I cursed no Vane's folly in your hearing ! If the Earl Does rise to do us shame, the fault shall lie "With you, Carlisle ! Lady Car. Nay, fear not me ! but still That 's a bright moment, sir, you throw away. Tear down the veil and save him ! Queen. Go, Carlisle ! 115 Ladtj Car. (I shall see Strafford — speak to him : my heart Must never beat so, then ! And if I tell The truth ? What 's gained by falsehood ? There they stand "Whose trade it is, whose life it is ! How vain To gild such rottenness ! Strafford shall know, 120 Thoroughly know them !) Queen. Trust to me ! [To Carlisle], Carlisle, You seem inclined, alone of all the Court, To serve poor Strafford : this bold plan of yours Merits much praise, and yet . . . Ladtj Gar. Time presses, madam. Queen. Yet — may it not be something premature ? 125 Strafford defends himself to- day — reserves Some wondrous effort, one may well suppose ! Lady Car. Aj, HoUis hints as much. Cha. "Why linger then ? Haste with the scheme — my scheme : I shall be there To watch his look. Tell him I watch his look ! 130 Queen. Stay, we '11 precede you ! Lady Car. At your pleasure. Cha. Say — Say, Yane is hardly ever at "Whitehall ! I shall be there, remember ! 62 STRAFFORD. Lady Car. Doubt me not. Cha. On our return, Carlisle, we wait you here ! Lady Gar. I '11 bring his answer. Sir, I follow you. 135 (Prove the King faithless, and I take away All Strafford cares to live for : let it be "T is the King's scheme ! My Straiffiord, I can save, Nay, I have saved you, yet am scarce content. Because my poor name will not cross your mind. 140 Strafford, how much I am unworthy you !) Scene II, — A passage adjoining Westminster Hall. Many groups of Spectators of the Trial. Officers of the Court, etc. 1st Spec. More crowd than ever ! Not know Hampden, man ? That 's he, by Pym, Pym that is speaking now. No, truly, if you look so high you '11 see Little enough of either ! 2nd Spec. Stay : Pym's arm Points like a prophet's rod. 3rd Spec. Ay, ay, we 've heard s Some pretty speaking : yet the Earl escapes. 4'th Spec. I fear it : just a foolish word or two About his children — and we see, forsooth, Not England's foe in Strafford, but the man Who, sick, half-blind . . . 2nd. Spec. "What 's that Pym's saying now 10 Which makes the curtains flutter ? look ! A hand Clutches them. Ah ! The King's hand ! bth Spec. I had thought Pym was not near so tall. What said he, friend ? 2nd Spec. " Nor is this way a novel way of blood," And the Earl turns as if to . . . look ! look ! 15 Many Spectators. There ! What aUs him ? no — he rallies, see — goes on And Strafford smiles. Strange ! An Officer. Haselrig ! STRAFFORD. 53 Many Spectators. Friend ? Friend ? The Officer. Lost, utterly lost : just when we looked for Pym To make a, stand against the ill effects Of the Earl's speech ! Is Haselrig without ? 20 Pym's message is to him. 3rd Spec. Now, said I true ? Will the Earl leave them yet at fault or no ? 1st Spec. Never believe it, man ! These notes of Vane's Kuin the Earl. 5th Spec. A brave end : not a whit Less firm, less Pym all over. Then, the trial 25 Is closed. No — Strafford means to speak again ? An Officer. Stand back, there ! 5th Spec. Why, the Earl is coming hither ! Before the court breaks up ! His brother, look, — You 'd say he 'd deprecated some fierce act In Strafford's mind just now. An Officer. Stand back, I say ; 30 2)((^ Spec. Who 's the veiled woman that he talks with ? Many Spectators. Hush — The Earl ! the Earl ! \_Evter Steaffoed, Slingsbt and other Secretaries, Hollis, Lady Caelisle, Maxwell, Balioue, etc. Strafford con- verses with Lady Carlisle. Hoi. So near the end ! Be patient — Return ! Straf. l_To his Secretaries]. Here — anywhere — or, 'tis freshest here ! To spend one's April here, the blossom-month ! 3 5 Set it down here ! {Thm arrange a table, papers, etc. So, Pym can quail, can cower Because I glance at him, yet more 's to do ? What 's to be answered, Slingsby ? Let us end ! [To Lady Caelisle.] Child, I refuse his offer; whatsoe'er It be ! Too late ! Tell me no word of him ! 40 'T is something, Hollis, I assure you that — To stand, sick as you are, some eighteen days 64 STRAFFORD. Fighting for life and fame against a pack Of very curs, that lie through thick and thin, Eat flesh and bread by wholesale, and can't say 45 " Strafiord " if it would take my life ! Lady Gar. Be moved ! Glance at the paper ! - Straf. Already at my heels ! Pym's faulting bloodhounds scent the track again. Peace, child ! Now, Slingsby ! [Messengers /rojji Lane and other of Stillffohd's Counsel within the Hall are coming and going during the Scene. Straf. [settinghimself to write and dictate.'] I shall beat you, Hollis : 50 Do you know that ? In spite of St. John's tricks, In spite of Pym — your Pym who shrank from me ! Eliot would have contrived it otherwise. [To a Messenger.] In truth ? This slip, tell Lane, contains as much 55 As I can call to mind about the matter, Eliot would have disdained . . . [Galling after the Messenger.] And RadclLffie, say. The only person who could answer Pym, Is safe in prison, just for that. Well, well ! It had not been recorded in that case, I baffled you. [To Lady Caelisle.] Nay, child, why look so grieved ? 60 All 's gained without the King ! Tou saw Pym quail ? What shall I do when they acquit me, think you, But tranquilly resume my task as though Nothing had intervened since I proposed To call that traitor to account ! Such tricks, 65 Trust me, shall not be played a second time. Not even against Laud, with his grey hair — Tour good work, Hollis ! Peace ! "To make amends, Tou, Lucy, shall be here when I impeach Pym and his fellows. Sol. Wherefore not protest 70. Against our whole proceeding, long ago ? STRAFFORD. 5 Why feel indignant now ? Why stand this while Enduring patiently ? Straf. Child, I '11 tell you— Ton, and not Pym — you, the slight graceful girl, Tall for a flowering lily, and not Hollis — 7 Why I stood patient ! I was fool enough To see the will of England in Pym's will ; To fear myself had wronged her, and to wait Her judgment : when, hehold in place of it . . . [To a Messenger who whispers.^ Tell Lane to answer no such question ! Law, — * I grapple with their law ! I'm here to try My actions by their standard, not my own ! Their law allowed that levy : what 's the rest To Pym, or Lane, any hut God and me ? Lady Car. The King 's so weak ! Secure this chance T 'T was Vane, 8 Never forget who furnished Pym the notes . . . Straf. Fit — very fit, those precious notes of Vane, To close the Trial worthily ! I feared Some spice of nobleness might linger yet And spoil the character of all the past. t Vane eased me . . and I will go back and say As much — to Pym, to England ! Follow me ! I have a word to say ! There, my defence Is done ! Stay ! why be proud r Why care, to own My gladness, my surprise ? — Nay, not surprise ! > Wherefore insist upon the little pride Of doing all myself, and sparing him The pain ? Child, say the triumph is my King's ! When Pym grew pale, and trembled, and sank down, One image was before me : could I fail ? n Child, care not for the past, so indistinct, Obscure — there's nothing to forgive in it 'T is so forgotten ! From this day begins A new life, founded on a new belief In Charles. Hoi. In Charles ? Eather believe in Pym ? i And here he comes in proof ! Appeal to Pym ! 56 STRATFORD. Say how unfair . . . Straf. To Pym ? I would say nothing ! I would not look upon Pym's face again. Lady Ga/r. Stay, let "me have to think I pressed your hand ! [Steaffokd and his friends go out. Enter Hampden and Yane. Yame. O Hampden, save the great misguided man ! no Plead Strafford's cause with Pym ! I have remarked He moved ho muscle when we all declaimed Against him : you had hut to hreathe — he turned Those cold calm eyes upon you. [Enter Ptm, ihe Solicitor- General St. John, the Managers of the Trial, Piennes, Rtjdtaed, etc. Biud. Horrible ! Till now all hearts were with you : I withdraw 1 1 s Por one. Too horible ! But we mistake Tour purpose, Pym : you cannot snatch away The last spar from the drowning man. Fien. He talks With St. John of it — see, how quietly ! [To other Pbbsbtterians.] Tou '11 join us ? StrafEord may deserve the worst : 120 But this new course is monstrous. Yane, take heart ! This Bill of his Attainder shall not have One true man's hand to it. Vane. Consider, Pym ! Confront your Bill, your own Bill : what is it ? Tou cannot catch the Earl on any charge, — 125 No man will say the law has hold of him On any charge ; and therefore you resolve To take the general sense on his desert, As though no law existed, and^we met To found one. Tou refer to Parliament 130 To speak its thought upon the abortive mass Of half-bome-out assertions, dubious hints Hereafter to be cleared, distortions — ay. And wild inventions. Every man is saved The task of fixing any single charge iji STEAFFOED. 67 On Strafford : he has but to see in him The enemy of England. Fym. A right scruple. I have heard some called England's enemy With less consideration. Vane. Pity me ! Indeed you made me think I was your friend ! 140 I who have murdered Strafford, how remove That memory from me ? Pyin. I absolve you, Vane. Take you no care for aught that you have done ! Yane. John Hampden, not this Bill ! Reject this Bill ! He staggers through the ordeal : let him go, 145 Strew no fresh fire before him ! Plead for us ! When Strafford spoke, your eyes were thick with tears ! namp. England speaks louder : who are we, to play The generous pardoner at her expense. Magnanimously waive advantages, 150 And, if he conquer us, applaud his skill ? Vane. He was your friend. Pijm. I have heard that before. Fieii. And England trusts you. Eamp. Shame be his, who turns The opportunity of serving her She trusts him with, to his own mean account — 155 Who would look nobly frank at her expense ! Fien. I never thought it could have come to this. Pym. But I have made myself familiar, Fiennes, With this one thought — have walked, and sat, and slept, This thought before me. I have done such things, 160 Being the chosen man that should destroy The traitor. Tou have taken up this thought To play with, for a gentle stimulant. To give a dignity to idler life By the dim prospect of emprise to come, 165 But ever with the softening, sure belief. That all would end some strange way right at last. Men. Had we made out some weightier charge ! Pym. You say That these are petty charges : can we come 68 STRAFFORD. To the real charge at all ? There he is safe 170 In tyranny's stronghold. Apostasy Is not a crime, treachery not a crime : The cheek hnms, the blood tingles, when you speak The words, but where 's the power to take revenge Upon them ? We must make occasion serve, — 175 The Oversight shall pay for the main sin That mocks us. Itrnd. But this unexampled course, This Bill ! Pym. By this, we roll the clouds away Of precedent and custom, and at once Bid the great beacon-light God sets in all, 180 The conscience of each bosom, shine upon The guilt of Strafiord : each man lay his hand Upon his breast, and judge ! Vane. I only see Strafford, nor pass his corpse for all beyond ! BmcL. and others. Forgive him ! He would join us, now he finds 185 What the King counts reward ! The pardon, too, Should be your own. Yourself should bear to Strafford The pardon of the Commons. Pym. Meet him ? StrafEord ? Have we to meet once more, then ? Be it so ! And yet the prophecy seemed half fulfilled 190. When, at the Trial, as he gazed, my youth, Our friendship, divers thoughts came back at once And left me, for a time ... 'T is very sad ! To-morrow we discuss the points of law With Lane — to-morrow ? Vane. Not before to-morrow — 195 So, time enough ! I knew you would relent ! Pym. The next day, Haselrig, you introduce The Bill of his Attainder. Pray for me ! STRAFFOED. 59 Scene DI Whitehall. The King. GTia. My loyal servant ! To defend himself Thus irresistibly, — withholding aught That seemed to implicate us ! "We have done Less gallantly by Strafford. Well, the future Must recompense the past. She tarries long. I understand you, Strafford, now ! The scheme — Carlisle's mad scheme — he '11 sanction it, I fear. For love of me. 'T was too precipitate : Before the army 's fairly on its march, He '11 be at large : no matter. Well, Carlisle ? Unter Ptm. Pym. Fear me not, sir : — my mission is to save. This time. Gha. To break thus on me ! Unannounced. Fym. It is of Strafford I would speak. Gha. No more Of Strafford ! I have heard too much from you. Pym. I spoke, sir, for the People ; will you hear A word upon my own account ? Gha. Of Strafford ? (So turns the tide already ? Have we tamed The insolent brawler ? — Strafford's eloquence Is swift in its effect.) Lord Strafford, sir, Has spoken for himself. Pym. Sufficiently. I would apprise you of the novel course The People take : the Trial fails. Gha. Yes, yes : We are aware, sir : for your part in it Means shall be found to thank you. Pym. Pray you, read 60 STRAFFORD. This schedule ! I would learn from your own mouth 25 - — (It is a matter much concerning me) — Whether, if two Estates of us concede The death of Strafford, on the grounds set forth Within that parchment, you, sir, can resolve To grant your own consent to it. This Bill 30 Is framed by me. If you determine, sir, That England's manifested will may guide Tour judgment, ere another week such will Shall manifest itself. If not, — I cast Aside the measure. Gha. Tou can hinder, then, 35 The introduction of this Bill ? Pym. I can. Gha. He is my friend, sir : I have wronged him : mark you, Had I not wronged him, this might be. Tou think. Because you hate the Earl . . . (turn not away, We know you hate him) — ^no one else could love 40 Strafford : but he has saved me, some affirm. Think of his pride ! And do you know one strange, One frightful thing ? We all have used the man As though a drudge of ours, with not a source Of happy thoughts except in us ; and yet 45 Strafford has wife and children, household cares, Just as if we had never been. Ah, sir, Tou are moved, even you, a solitary man Wed to your cause — to England, if you will ! 49 Pym. Tes— think, my soul — to England ! Draw not back P Gha. Prevent this Bill, sir ! All your course seems fair Till now. Why, in the end 't is I should sign The warrant for his death ! Tou have said much I ponder on ; I never meant, indeed, Strafford should serve me any more. I take 5; The Commons' counsel ; but this Bill is yours — Not worthy of its leader ; care not, sir, For that, however ! I will quite forget Tou named it to me. Tou are satisfied ? Tym. Listen to me, sir ! Eliot laid his hand, 6c Wasted and white, upon my forehead once ; STKAFFORD. 61 Wentworth — he 's gone now ! — has talked on, whole nightsp And I beside him ; Hampden loves me : sir, How can I breathe and not wish England well, And her King well ? 6 Cha. I thank you, sir, who leave That King his servant. Thanks, sir ! Pyn^- Let me speak ! — Who may not speak again ; whose spirit yearns For a cool night after this weary day : — Who would not have my soul turn sicker yet In a new task, more fatal, more august, ■;■■ More full of England's utter weal or woe. I thought, sir, could I find myself with you. After this Trial, alone, as man to man — I might say something, warn you, pray you, save — Mark me, King Charles, save you ! 7 But God must do it. Yet I warn you, sir — (With Strafford's faded eyes yet full on me) As you would have no deeper question moved — " How long the Many must endure the One — " Assure me, sir, if England give assent 8 To Strafford's death, you will not interfere ! Or CJia. God forsakes me. I am in a net And cannot move. Let all be as you say ! Unter Lady Caelislb. Lady Gar. He loves you — looking beautiful with joy Because yon sent me ! he would spare you all 8 The pain ! he never dreamed you would forsake Tour servant in the evil day — nay, see Xoiir scheme returned ! That generous heart of his ! He needs it not — or, needing it, disdains A course that might endanger you — ^you, sir, 9 Whom Strafford from his inmost soul . . . [_Seemg Ptm.] Well met ! No feaur for Strafford ! All that 's true and brave On your own side shall help us : we are now Stronger than ever. Ha — what, sir, is this ? €2 STRAFFORD. All is not well ! What parchment have yoa there ? 95 Pym. Sir, much is saved us both. Lady Oar. This Bill ! Your lip Whitens — you could not read one line to me Tour voice would falter so ! Pym. No recreant yet ! The great word went from England to my soul, And I arose. The end is very near. 100 Lady Gar. I am to save him ! All have shrunk besides ; 'T is only I am left. Heaven will make strong The hand now as the heart. Then let both die ! ACT V. Scene I. — Whitehall, HoLLis, Lady Caklisle. Sol. Tell the King, then ! Come in with me ! Lady Gar. Not so ! He must not hear till it succeeds. Hoi. Succeed ? No dream was half so vain — you 'd rescue Strafford And outwit Pym ! I cannot tell you . . . lady, The block pursues me, and the hideous show. 5 To-day ... is it to-day ? And all the while He 's sure of the King's pardon. 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